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Abilene Reporter-News July 6, 1992 For the Record Obituaries Henry E. Boiles Henry E. Boiles, 78, of 2056 Anson died Sunday at a local hospital. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Potosi Cemetery with the Rev, Jim Mosley officiating, directed by Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home, 542 Hickory.

Mr. Boiles was born in Stephens County near Ranger. He attended school in the New Hope community, northwest of Abilene. For several years, he worked as a John Deere mechanic and also for Abilene Sash and Door, Rose Construction, Jake Cagle's Service Stations and 'Aileen's Clothing Manufacturer. He was a Baptist.

Survivors include his wife, Lelia P. Boiles of Abilene; a son, Doyle Boiles of Abilene; two daughters, Loretta Wright of Longview and Delores Boiles of Abilene; four sisters, Bertha Ford and Verna Lee Jones, both of Midland, and Naomia Hollingshead and Opal Long, both of Colorado City; two brothers, Elmer Boiles of Robert Lee and Albert of Abilene; five grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Anna Lankford Anna Lankford, 86, of Abilene, died Sunday in Houston. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Elmwood Memorial Park with Rev.

Donald HunHome, 5701 U.S. Highway 277 South. gerford officiating, directed by Elliott Hamil Funeral Mrs. Lankford was born in Ballinger and had lived in Abilene for 50 years. She was the widow of A.B.

Lankford. She is survived by a daughter, Patsy "Hub" Lankford of Houston. Willie Mae Mizell SWEETWATER Willie Mae Mizell, 90, died Saturday at a local hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at McCoy Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with the Rev.

Lane Boyd officiating. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Mrs. Mizell was born in Fisher County and had been a resident of Sweetwater since 1920. She had been a member of the Sweetwater Garden Club, Self Culture Club, First United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women.

She was the widow of D.M. Mizell. Survivors include three daughters, Almeta Young of Hamlin, Jackie Underwood of Lubbock and Dale Marie Springer of Salado; a sister, Jane Miller. of Abilene; five grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. Charlie W.

Adams ROTAN Charlie W. Adams, 72, died Sunday in a Big Spring hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Weathersbee Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Phillip Goodrum officiating.

Burial will be in the Rotan Cemetery. Mr. Adams was Fisher County. He had lived in Scurry and Stonewall counties most of his life until moving to Big Spring this past year. A veteran of World War II, he had served in the U.S.

Army. He had worked in the oil fields and was a carpenter. Survivors include four sisters, Louise Johnson of Abilene, Doris Metcalf of Tulia, Maurene Lay of Odessa and Ruby Neves of Snyder; two brothers, Gerald Adams of Midland and Herman Adams of San Marcos; and several nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to the Abilene State School. Area deaths SANTA ANNA Jean (Mrs.

Lester) Bowman, 83, died Friday in a San Antonio nursing home. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today in the Santa Anna Cemetery, directed by Henderson Fu- neral Home. SWEETWATER Alfonso "Ponchie" Gutierrez 44, died Sunday in an Andrews hospital. Services are pending with McCoy Funeral Home.

SWEETWATER Danny Lee Stevens, 43, died Sunday in Ruidoso, N.M. Services are pending with McCoy Funeral Home. AVOCA Marcella Little, 69, died Sunday at her home. Services are pending with Kinney Funeral Home of Stamford. ROTAN Jewell Cummings, 91, died Saturday in a Snyder convalescent center.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today in the Roby Cemetery, directed by Weathersbee Funeral Home. COLEMAN Opal Jameson Worley, 78, died Sunday in a San Antonio hospital. Services are pending with Stevens Funeral Home. GUSTINE Jack Witten, 89, died Sunday in a De Leon hospital.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Comanche Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in the Union Cemetery. SEYMOUR Abraham Lincoln Blankenship, 79, died Saturday in a Wichita Falls hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m.

at Calvary Baptist Church. Burial will be in I.0.0.F. Cemetery, directed by Archer Funeral Home. BIG SPRING David McVea, 24, died Thursday night in an auto accident near Sterling City. Services will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at Myers Smith Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Olive Memorial Park. CISCO Henry Franklin Rice, 90, died Sunday in a Gorman nursing home. Services are pending with Kimbrough Funeral Home. CISCO Ruby "Susan" Parrish, 48, died Friday at her home.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Cisco Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Gunsight Cemetery. SEYMOUR Delma Hailey Robertson, 85, died Sunday in a local hospital. Services will be at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday at the Red Springs Baptist Church. Burial will be in Henson Cemetery, directed by Seymour Memorial Funeral Home. ROCHESTER Helen L. Neely, 70, died Saturday in an Abilene hospital. Services will be at 3 p.m.

Tuesday in the Rochester Church of Christ. Burial will be in Rochester Cemetery, directed by Smith Funeral Home. 70. Funerals today Jessie Mae Hall, 78, 10 a.m. in the Greenleaf Cemetery in Brownwood, directed by Elliott- Hamil Funeral Home, 542 Hickory.

CLYDE V.H. "Pete" Scott, 70, 2 p.m. at the Bailey Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Dudley Cemetery. HOUSTON Pauline Craig Ashton, 90, 2 p.m. at the Greenleaf Cemetery, in Brownwood, directed by Earthman Chapel.

BALLINGER Opal Lucille Walker, 87, 2 p.m. at Rains-Seale Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Eden City Cemetery. COMANCHE Mary Elizabeth Franklin, 64, 2 p.m. in the Union Cemetery in Gustine, directed by Hall Chaney Funeral Home. CROSS PLAINS Candace Helen Wood, 91, 2:30 p.m.

at Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel; burial in the Ross Cemetery in Baird. ROBY Thelma Parker, 92, 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Roby; burial in Roby Cemetery directed by Weathersbee Funeral Home. COLEMAN Bertha Clark, 76, 10 a.m. at Walker Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Silver Valley Cemetery.

Fire calls These were the calls provided by the Abilene Fire Department. Saturday: 6:13 p.m. Firefighters extinguished a brush fire on Country Road 123. 6:17 p.m. Paramedics took someone with a very high fever in the 1300 block of Cypress to the hospital.

7:48 p.m. Firefighters extinguished a grass fire on FM 200. 9:21 p.m. Firefighters extinguished a grass blaze on East Interstate 20. 10:11 p.m.

Firefighters extinguished a grass fire in the 1500 block of North 10th. 10:56 p.m. Firefighters extinguished a vehicle fire in the 1600 block of South 11th. 11:03 p.m. Firefighters extinguished a brush fire in the 3200 block of Heritage.

11:50 p.m. Paramedics took two victims of a major car accident in the 6800 block of Highway 80 to the hospital. Sunday: 12:10 a.m. Firefighters extinguished a grass fire in the 300 block of Washington. 12:32 a.m.

Firefighters extinguished a grass fire in Tye off of Highway 70. 1:01 a.m. Firefighters extinguished hay bales that caught on fire on Potosi Road. 1:13 a.m. Firefighters extinguished a dumpster fire in the 200 block of Ruidosa.

3:59 a.m. Paramedics took an assault victim in the 1700 block of Sandefer to the hospital. 4:03 03 a.m. Paramedics took a seizure victim in the 1 1100 block of Locust to the hospital. 10:17 a.m.

Paramedics took an infant suffering from seizures in the 400 block of Cockerell to the hospital. 10:17 a.m. Firefighters extinguished a house fire in the 800 block of Jefferson. The fire was contained in one room and was caused by an electrical circuit overload. 3:49 p.m.

Firefighters extinguished a grass fire in Potosi. Diaries of Goebbels found in Moscow: Hitler cheered as Jews are attacked LONDON (AP) The first complete copy of the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister to Hitler, show the two men rejoicing in attacks on Jews, a newspaper reported on Sunday. A German historian discovered the diaries a few weeks ago in the Central Government Archives in Moscow. Vladimir Kozlov, deputy chairman of the Russian Archive Committee, has confirmed the journals are genuine. The Sunday Times said it will begin serializing parts of the diaries on July 12.

The newspaper said they include Goebbels' account of the outbreak of war in 1939, the purge of "unreliable" Nazis in the "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler's reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the failed plot to kill him. In one passage, Goebbels rejoices in Kristallnacht, the night in November 1938 when many Jewish homes and businesses were attacked, The Sunday Times said. "The sky is blood red the synagogue is burning. Bravo! Bravo!" he wrote. Goebbels also describes giving Hitler the first news of demonstrations against Jews in Berlin: "He (Hitler) decrees the demonstrations should go ahead.

It is time the Jews felt the wrath of the people. That's right. I give the instruction to the police and the party." The next day, according to The Sunday Times, he records telling the German leader of his success: "The action itself has gone off perfectly. 100 dead. But no German property damaged." Meanwhile, police on Saturday arrested rive protesters during scuffles outside a meeting addressed by David Irving, a controversial historian contracted to transcribe the diaries for The Sunday Times.

Reprints Back issues of the newspaper are available from the circulation department at single-copy cost. Call 673-4271, Ext. 251. Reprints of photographs appearing in the newspaper are available from the photography department. Black and white rates are $5 for a 5x7 print and $7 for an 8x10.

Color rates are $8.50 for a 5x7 and $10.50 for an 8x10. Prints are not for reproduction. Call 673-4271, Ext. 799. Summit leaders go to work; Russia and IMF agree on aid MUNICH, Germany (AP) Leaders of the world's richest nations gathered Sunday for their 18th annual economic summit as negotiators for Russia and the International Monetary Fund cleared a major obstacle holding up billions of dollars in Western aid for Moscow.

The breakthrough set the stage for a more harmonious session when Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets Wednesday with President Bush and the leaders of the other summit countries Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Italy. Yeltsin's appearance was expected to dominate the 18th annual economic summit although other issues ranging from a feeble world economy and stalled global trade talks to a bloody civil war in the Yugoslavia were certain to compete for attention. Bush was one of the last leaders to arrive in Munich, stopping first for an emotional visit to Poland, where he told flag -waving crowds to persevere in their economic reform efforts despite short-term hardships. "Poland's time of trial is not caused by private enterprise, but by the stubborn legacy of four decades of communist misrule," Bush said. "Make no mistake: the path you have chosen is the right path." Once in Munich, Bush wasted no time getting about the business of the summit, holding a working dinner with French President Francois Mitterrand.

At the conclusion of the dinner, French officials reported no specific breakthroughs in the impasse between the United States and France over farm subsidies and said Bush and Mitterrand had discussed the issue for only 10 minutes. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the summit host, said in a television interview that he did not expect the three days of talks to make any major progress on trade. French officials, speaking on grounds of anonymity, said that Bush and Mitterrand spent most of the evening discussing plans for creating a French-German military corps whose formation the U.S. government fears would undermine the role of NATO. Mitterrand's government is seen by the United States as the chief roadblock to a successful conclusion of talks aimed at liberalizing world trade because of its objections to cutting farm subsidies.

The summit was to begin Monday at a former royal palace in the center of this 800-year-old city. Security was extremely tight as the city put 9,000 police officers on patrol and took other precautions to avoid the terrorism that marred Munich's last moment in the world spotlight, the 1972 summer Olympics. Just as last year's summit in London was dominated by the first ever appearance of a communist leader, then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, at capitalism's most exclusive gathering, this year's summit was preoccupied with how the West should respond to Yeltsin. Bush and Kohl announced in April a $24 billion Western aid package. However, much of that money was contingent on Russia receiving approval from the IMF for its economic reform efforts.

Town running scared: Maharishi eyes base for Transcendental RANTOUL, Ill. (AP) Civic leaders have been praying for a solution to an economic crisis expected after Chanute Air Force Base closes. But they aren't sending out the Welcome Wagon for Maharishi Mahash Yogi. Maharishi International University, an arm of the Transcendental Meditation movement, has applied with the Defense Department to turn the base into a university and conference center for followers of the guru. The Pentagon is closing the base next year and this community of 20,000 in east-central Illinois has been searching frantically for something to replace the huge economic input of the base's 12,000 workers.

If the school's application is accepted, it could qualify under rules designed to encourage use of abandoned bases for educational purposes or other public benefit. Maharishi International could get the 2,500 acres, including golf course, bowling alley and nearly 300 buildings, for free. "It's maddening, totally maddening," said Mayor Katy Podagrosi. Podagrosi and other city leaders say turning the base over to Maharishi International would make it a self-contained operation that would provide nothing to the community. As an educational institution, the Maharishi's school would pay no property tax, unlike factories and small businesses Rantoul had hoped to attract.

But Robert Oates, spokesman for the school's main campus in Fairfield, Iowa, said the university community would be an asset to the economy. He said a university would be "the single best thing that could happen" to Rantoul. Thousands of Transcendental Meditation adherents have moved to Iowa to be close to the university there, he said. "We're not in sandals and robes and long hair," he said. "We're clean-cut, well-dressed.

We meditate, but we don't live some odd lifestyle." The guru, who lives in the Netherlands, has been active in the United States since the 1960s. He teaches that four hours of daily meditation and chanting can create world peace and reverse the aging process, among other things. Podagrosi said the federal govrious consideration to the appliernment appears to be giving secation. She said she sent outraged letters to the Pentagon, but got a reply from David Cannan, director of the Air Force Base Disposal Agency, noting that he must consider "all reasonable alternatives for reuse" of the base. Goodwill trailer burns; furniture, clothing destroyed to on it AST Associated Press Alien Museum Glen Davis, Max Littell and Walter Haut have announced plans for a UFO museum in Roswell, scene of one of the first Unidentified Flying Objects reports 45 years ago.

Haut, then an Army Air corps spokesman, issued a news release detailing the crash of a flying disc. The Army said it was a weather balloon. Fireworks spark blaze that covers 120 acres SAN ANTONIO (AP) Eleven fire units spent much of Sunday battling a multi-alarm blaze one official said was caused by fireworks. About 120 acres of brushy field in Northeast Bexar County were charred. Flames came as close as 100 yards to one subdivision.

Two firefighters were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion. Homeowners were not evacuated, but many in the Estates of Encino Park hosed down their lawns and roofs. A dumpster fire spread to the Abilene Goodwill Industries' trailer at 1246 Pine St. Sunday night, destroying all the clothes and furniture inside. Fire investigator Dennis Haas said he did not believe that the person who set the trash receptacle on fire intended to set the trailer on fire.

At presstime he did not know what started the fire, but he did say he spoke with a woman about two people she had seen in the alley. He said, however, that she was unable to supply a really good description of them. The fire was reported by an Abilene police patrolman. But Doc Farley of the National Wrecker Service had already discovered the blaze and was able to move the trailer out of the way so that the Goodwill building wouldn't catch on fire, fire district chief Ken Nichols said. Nichols said that it took about 20 minutes to extinguish the initial blaze once it was called in around 19 p.m.

However, flames would occasionally flare up because the firefighters were unable to get water on smoldering hot spots in the furniture upholstery. Haas said it would take the firefighters several hours to pick through all of the articles in the trailer to make sure it wouldn't catch on fire again. Haas said that there are no suspects. Prison 'disturbance' reported; at least 2 hurt at Leavenworth LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) A disturbance was reported Sunday night at a maximum-security federal prison.

One official confirmed there were injuries, but no other details were available. Sirens sounded, and police barricaded four blocks in front of the prison, which has nearly 1,700 inmates in its maximum-security unit. Prison officials refused to comment. A man who answered the telephone in the prison office told The Associated Press to call Monday for details. "It's a disturbance," said Frank Emma, a supervisor at the U.S.

Marshal's office in Kansas City, "Some people have gotten hurt." Cushing Memorial Hospital was treating two injured people, a hospital spokeswoman said..

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