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THE DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Friday, May 19, 1978
Friday, n
Grand jury
re-indicts Ott
for capital murder
Gregory Arthur Ott, 27, was re-indicted
by the Denton County Grand Jury for
capital murder yesterday, with changes
primarily aimed at tactics expected in
Ott’s upcoming trial May 30, according to
County-District Attorney Jerry Cobb.
Ott is accused of capital murder in the
shooting death Feb. 20 of Texas Ranger
Bob Doherty.
In the new indictment, the charge
identifies Doherty only as a peace officer
who was acting in “lawful discharge of his
duty,” Cobb said. The prior indictment ‘
identified him as a Texas Ranger involved
in a marijuana raid when the shooting
occurred.
Under the Texas capital murder statute,
murder of a peace officer acting in the
lawful discharge of an official duty is
identified as a capital felony.
Cobb said he delayed submission of the
. case to the grand jury for re-indictment.
pending an appellate court ruling on a
motion to allow bond for Ott, who had been
held without bond since his arrest Feb. 20.
A re-indictment before the appellate ruling
would have made the motion and ruling
moot, Cobb said.
The appellate court recently upheld the
trial court's denial of bond, and Judge Bob
Scofield yesterday again denied bond on
the new indictment
Hal Jackson, co-defense counsel for Ott.
said another motion for bond would be
filed, and defense counsel also may re-file
a number of pre-trial motions already
submitted to the court.
Scofield said the re-indictment will
cause no delay in the trial schedule,
however, and set it again to open at 9:30
a.m. May 30.
The grand jury also returned two in-
dictments resulting from arrests made by
federal Drug Enforcement Administration
agents for delivery of cocaine last month,
one naming David Collyer Wright on a
charge of delivery of a controlled sub-
stance, cocaine, and a second true bill
naming Wright and Thomas Alexander
Spencer for delivery of cocaine.
Other indictments issued named:
—Ronnie Clarence Gaskins, 22, of
Lawton, Okla., theft over $200.
—Eddie D. Gilbert, 26, of Denton,
burglary of a vehicle.
—Richard Mark Stoddard, 21, of
Roanoke, burglary of a habitation.
—Burton Wesley Childers, 21, of Denton,
possession of a prohibited weapon, a
sawed-off shotgun
—Max K. Lipscomb, 37, aggravated
rape.
—Jack Phillip Glover, 18, of Lewisville,
attempted burglary of a habitation.
—Leslie Dodson, 49, of Dallas, theft over
$200.------------------------_
—Dale R. Baranowski, 26, of Garland,
Philip E. Norton, 24. of Garland, and Jesse
R. Scott. 20. of Bloomfield, Iowa, all
named on one true bill charging burglary
of a building.
—Karen June Aikens, 28, of Archer City,
forgery
—Michael Ray Perryman, 18, of Denton,
burglary of a building.
—David F. Sweeney of Denton, credit
card abuse. -e
—Michael Wayne Johnson, 24, and
Patricia Ann Johnson, 18, both of Denton,
criminal mischief over $200.
Other re-indictments returned named:
—Marissa Ann Kramer, 21, Timothy
Lane Jaquess, Robert Edward Bradshaw.
23, and Deborah Ann Vest, 23, all of
Denton, charged with delivery of
marijuana; and Ada Wilson, 27, and Glenn
Crochett, 24. both of Denton, charged with
aggravated robbery. -
Friday
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Robert M. Barm Jr.
Funeral services for
Robert Monroe Barns Jr.,
native Dentonite and
member of a longtime
Denton family, were held
Wednesday at the First
Christian Church.
Officiating were the Revs.
Charles Sanders and
Raymond J. Fancher. Burial
was at Roselawn Memorial
Park, with Robert H.
Caldwell Jr., Johnny Glenn,
Bill Hudson, Ernest A.
McCray, C. C. Nolen, Homer
C. Reese, Pat Waddle and
|| Services held
EARLINE PRICE, 61, of
3310 N. Bonnie Brae, funeral
services were held Tuesday
at the Schmitz-Floyd-
Hamlett Funeral Home
Chapel, conducted by the
g Rev. Lester Singleton.
" Burial was at Roselawn
Memorial Park, with Leroy
Barber, Floyd Gresham.
Robert Erwin, Slick Smith,
Fred Madewell and Oren
ROBERT M. BARNS
Doug Yett serving as
pallbearers. Honorary Burial will be at Van Alstyne
pallbearers were all Cemetery.
members of the Hi-Noon Mr. Wilson was born in
Lions Club.
Mr Barns was a graduate
of Denton High School and
attended North Texas State
University and Southern
Methodist University, where
he was a member of the
tennis team. After service in
the U.S. Navy Air Corps, he
was employed by the
Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas, cashier of Midland
National Bank. vice
president of Andrews State
Bank and president of
Weslaco State Bank in 1968
he returned to Denton and
opened Barns Machine and
Office Supply Co. He
married Dr. Jessie W
Bateman Feb. 24, 1974, in
Denton.
He was a 32nd Degree
Mason, a member of the
First Christian Church, a
member of the Hi-Noon
Lions Club, and a member of
the Denton Country Club
Survivors include his wife.
Dr Jessie W Bateman-
Barns, two brothers, Fred
Barns of Decatur and Joe
Barns of Denton; and five
sisters, Gladys Lawhon.
Mary Ann Coffman, Helen
Hall, Betty Gray and
Eleanor Barns, all of Den-
ton.
Memorials for the Lions
Club Crippled Children's
Camp in Kerrville, should be
mailed to Hi Noon Lions
Club, PO Box 435. Denton,
Texas, 76201
William E. Strickland
Funeral services for
Van Alstyne May 8,1904, and
died Saturday at Baylor
Hospital. He attended public
schools in Van Alstyne, then
moved to Pilot Point, where
he married Louise Ervin in
1934. He was a member of
the County Line Baptist
Church.
Survivors include his wife,
Louise Wilson, of Pilot
Point; two sons, Earl Jay
Wilson of Lancaster, Calif.,
and Fred Lee Wilson of
Lafayette. La.; three
grandchildren, and two
nieces.
The family will be at
People's Funeral Home from
7 to 8 p.m. Friday to receive
friends.
Jack R. Thompson
FRISCO — Funeral ser-
vices will be held at 3 p m
Sunday for Jack R. Thomp-
son, who died Thursday at
Presbyterian Hospital in
Dallas..
The Rev Bill Tinsley will
officiate the services, to be
held at Pemberton Funeral
Home Chapel, with burial to
follow at Baccus Cemetery
Mr Thompson was born
Oct. 17, 1925, in Sumner, and
married Mary Alice White in
1947. He was a member of
the Springwood Baptist
Church in Houston
Campbell serving as
pallbearers
JEFF HAWK, 67, of 2026
Bowling Green, funeral
services were held Thursday
at the Schmitz-Floyd-
Hamlett Funeral Home
Chapel, conducted by Doyle
Goodspeed. Rowe Meador
and Perry Hall. Burial was
at Swisher Cemetery
Pallbearers were Cecil
Hawk, Marvin Ellis, Wallace
Lynch, Leo Lynch, Delbert
Hacker and Winston Far-
mer.
MABEL HATHAWAY. 84.
of Commerce, funeral
services were to be held
friday at W.Y. Goff Funeral
Chapel in Commerce, the
Rev. Charles Sanders of-
ficiating. Burial was at
Rosemound Cemetery Mrs.
Hathaway died Wednesday
in the Beaumont Nursing
Home, where she was a
resident for the past two
years.
MILDRED DUNN, 72, of
San Antonio, private funeral
services were held Wed-
nesday in San Antonio with
cremation following. She
was the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs L T Fox of
Denton and is survived by
her sisters, Mrs. Mary
Paschall of Denton and Mrs.
Nan Brannon of San Antonio.
Wreck
kills 1,
injures 3
Barbara Crampton, 29, of
The Colony was killed and
another Colony woman,
Sherry Lee Tucker, 29, was
critically injured in a two-
car collision last night on FM
2281 just south of FM 544,
according to Department of
Public 'Safety reports.
Mrs. Tucker's husband.
Larry Eugene Tucker, 30,
and 9-year-old daughter,
Connie Rene, also sustained
serious injuries but were
reported in fair condition
this morning at Lewisville
Memorial Hospital
Ms. Crampton was
pronounced dead on arrival
at Lewisville Memorial
Hospital following the 8 p.m.
collision
Mrs. Tucker, who
sustained extensive head
injuries and multiple
lacerations, was taken to the
Lewisville hospital and
transferred to Parkland
Hospital in Dallas, where she
was undergoing surgery this
morning.
A hospital spokesman
declined to define her con-
dition until completion of the
surgery
Her daughter also un-
derwent surgery for ab-
dominal injuries at
Lewisville Memorial, the
DPS investigating officer
said.
The collision occurred
when Ms. Crampton's
vehicle apparently went out
of control, veered into a ditch
and then back across the
center stripe into oncoming
traffic, and was struck
broadside by the other car.
the trooper said.
Willingham
gets prison
ANNIE LUCILLE - 1,
BLAKE, 63, of 1309 Mozingo, for robbery
funeral services were held a
the Enon Baptist Church in
Big Spring Hill, Miss.,
Thursday, and burial was at
Big Spring Hill Cemetery.
Schmitz-Floyd-Hamlett
Jimmy Ray Willingham
Jr. was sentenced to five
years in the Texas Depart-
He is survived by his wife,
Mary Thompson of Frisco:
two sons, Douglas White 1 Funeral Home
Thompson and Mark Home
Stephen Thompson, both of
Frisco; one daughter, Tracy
Autwell of Carrollton; and
three sisters
The family will be at their
home. Route 2. Frisco, for
visitation.
Dorothy L. Rhodes
LEWISVILLE - Funeral
services for Dorothy Lee
Rhodes were to be held at 2
pm. Friday at the First
Baptist Church in Lewisville,
to be conducted by the Rev
Dr. Gilbert Callaway. Burial
was in charge
of the arrangements.
Grant funds Channel 2 planning
Continued from Page One
on Channel 2. Arts leaders in the
community will be involved in future
planning efforts, he said.
While grant money is helping
Channel 2 take its first steps, the FCC
has the final word on the effort to keep
Channel 2 in Denton and bring
educational television to the city.
Since August the Denton Channel
Two Foundation, Inc., (DCTF) a non-
profit corporation trying to activate
Channel 2 in Denton, has waited for a
ruling from the commission. Also
awaiting a ruling have been officials of
the Public Communication Foundation
of North Texas, owners of KERA-TV,
Channel 13, in Dallas and applicants for
control of Channel 2.
DCTF directors earlier this year
hired Schwarzwalder — an organizer
and first manager of the nation’s first
noncommercial, educational television
station and a recognized authority in
educational television — to direct the
local bid for Channel 2.
While working to get the station
operational with a belief, “I just don't
see them (FCC) taking this station
away from a city where it has already
been allocated." Schwarzwalder is also
promoting Channel 2 and recounting
the plusses of educational television.
In a noon address to the Denton
Rotary Club yesterday, he said, “We
know an educated and informed people
is essential to the survival of our
government and our society ...
Educational television is one more way
and a very good way, in some cases the
best way we have, of fulfilling our
responsibility that we do have an in-
formed and educated society.”
No estimate
on damage
Continued From Page 1
adding he thinks “there are more
positive ways for students to express
their springtime enthusiasm."
McGee said he had received no
estimate of the damage and could not
say if disciplinary action would be
taken against any students “until I talk
with Mr. (Principal Ivan) Glasscock."
Student reactions ranged from "I
think it's disgusting,” to “I think it's
neat, of course it does look like a rub-
bish dump."
the blotter
Two teen-agers, reported
runaways from Bootstrap
Ranch, are suspects in the
theft of a pickup at Marshall
Creek Park, according to
sheriff's office reports
Two fishermen in a boat
some 50 feet off shore told
deputies they saw the brake z
lights on their green 1974
Chevrolet pickup go on, and
then the pickup was driven
off at about 11 last night
Stereo components, two
television sets, two antique
clocks and camera equip-
ment were taken in a
burglary of a residence at
Route 1, Ponder, deputies
said.
apparently not seriously. The owner of a house in the
according to Denton police 500 block of Industrial told
reports, when a .38 special police she found three
his roommate was “playing
with" went off.
The owner of a house in the
men
taking the aluminum siding
off of the house yesterday,
and was told by the men they
Operators of a nursery on had gotten permission from
U.S. 380 reported an alleged the city to remove the siding
fraud to police, after a man After a check with city
who had contracted to pave a employees, who were ap-
parking lot received a $100 parently unaware of any
advance and a $1,000 check such "permission," she
for the work and then did not reported the incident to
police reports said police.
Two persons were taken
into custody for shoplifting
yesterday, after they
allegedly left a local discount
store with items not paid for
A man, 65, was accused of
concealing three fishing
lures and leaving the store,
and a 20-year-old woman
allegedly left the building
with a bathing suit and beach
robe in her purse, police
reports said.
Stock Market
William Everett Strickland.
49, who died Friday morning
at his home in Frisco, will be
held at 2 p.m. Saturday at
the Schmitz-Floyd-Hamlett
Funeral Home Chapel
Burial will be at Roselawn
Memorial Park.
Mr. Strickland was born in
Denton County Nov. 30. 1928,
and married Lear Von Dean
April 19, 1949, in Celina He
was a veteran of the Korean
EARLINE NAOMI
PRICE, 61. funeral services
were held Tuesday at the
Schmitz-Floyd-Hamlett
Funeral Home Chapel The
Rev. Lester Singleton of-
ficiated the services, and
burial was at Roselawn
Memorial Park Pallbearers
were Leroy Barber, Floyd
Gresham, Robert Erwin,
Slick Smith, Fred Madewell
and Oren Campbell
War and was a member of was to be at McCurley
the University Baptist Cemetery.
Church in Denton. He was a Mrs. Rhodes was born Oct
photo engraver, employed 8. 1922. in McKinney, and she
by Blanks Engraving Co. of died Wednesday at a Dallas
Dallas, at the time of his hospital.
death. She is survived by her
Survivors include his wife, husband, Richard Rhodes, of
Lear Strickland, of Frisco; Dallas; four sons. Charles
his mother, Nellie Strickland
of Little Elm; two sons.
Ronald Strickland of
Crossroads, and William
Everett Strickland Jr of The
Colony; one daughter, Gossett of Dallas; a brother,
Shirley Redfearn of Aubrey Otis James of Tampa, Fla.;
one brother, Donald Ray and seven grandchildren.
Strickland of Frisco; and Lucas-Halden Funeral
two grandchildren. Home is in charge of the
The family will be at the arrangements.
funeral home from 7 to 9
p.m. Friday for visitation.
SANGER - Funeral
Dee Wilson _ services for Emma Alice
Funeral services for Dee Hammons of Pilot Point.
Wilson, 74. of Pilot Point, will formerly of Sanger, are
be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at pending with the Coker
the County Line Baptist Funeral Home
Church in Pilot Point, of- Mrs. Hammons died
ficiated by the Revs Edward Thursday at a Dallas
Thompson and J. L. Crane. hospital.
CHARLES SCOTT WOOD,
50, of Bridgeport, funeral
services were held Wed-
nesday at the First Baptist
Church of Bridgeport, of-
ficiated by the Rev Hal
Kincade. Burial was at East
Bridgeport Cemetery, under
the direction of the Hawkins
Rhodes, Rodney Gossett and Funeral Home. Pallbearers
Bill Gossett, all of were Al McCaleb, Glenn
Lewisville, and Eddie Romines, Wayne Mash,
Gossett of Dallas; one Chris Funk, Gale Stowe and
daughter, Anita Susan Bobby Rodriques.
ment of corrections
yesterday by a jury that
convicted him Thursday of
aggravated robbery.
Willingham was found
guilty of a robbery attempt
Dec 8 at the Piggly Wiggly
grocery store on East
McKinney Street.
The defendant, another
manwho is a co-defendant in
the case, and a woman
waited outside the store
while another woman en-
tered the building for the
holdup attempt, according to
witnesses' testimony during
the trial The woman was
disarmed and arrested in-
side the store by Deputy
Sheriff Bill Powell
Three men, all 18 years
old, were arrested yesterday
evening after they allegedly
were seen beginning a
marijuana garden on a creek
bank north of Gribble
Springs, deputies said
Officers were in the area
on a burglary investigation,
according to Capt Dwight
Crawford, who said he
stopped to talk to the three
men and subsequently
confiscated a box of ger-
minating marijuana seeds.
The three men were later
released on $1,000 bond each
Some $10 in cash was taken
from a change box at Mabes
Flea Market in Roanoke by
burglars who broke out a
window to gain entry to the
building, according to
sheriff’s office reports.
Deputies were also notified
of the loss of a portable
scaffold, valued at $400, from
a residential building site at
Cross Timbers Estates on
FM 407.
NEW YORK
STOCK EXCHANGE
Selected tabulation of stock
prices as of 10:00 a.m. New York
time today as quoted by Alan
Weiss of Paine, Webber, Jackson
and Curtis of Dallas Figures
include last sale and change
from previous day’s close
Amerace Esna
American Motors
Amer Tel & Tel
Bethlehem Steel
Braniff
Brown Group
Brown & Sharpe ____......
Church's Fr. Chick. 415s dn Te
Comm Pub Serv. 20 dn %
Dr Pepper
Eastman Kodak
Enis Bus Fms.
Ensearch
Exxon
ist City Bkshares
1st I nt'I Bkshares
Ford
General Electric
General Mills
General Motors
General Tel
23% up 38
4%8 up Ve
6234 up Ve
24% unch
13’4 dr %
28% unch
17% unch
- dn %
17% unch
534s up ■«
14%s up %
(23V dn %
47% dn %
37 unch
42% dn Ve
49′8 dn 1‘s
5338 up %
31% unch
61V2 dn V2
2878 unch
SAVE ON HEATING
AND COOLING BILLS
LET US INSTALL
STORM WINDOWS
AND DOORS
IN YOUR HOME
GENE GOHLKE
Building Products
406 Boll Ave. 382-1502
A man was injured, but
Gulf Oil
IBM
Int'l Harv.
Josten’s
Kroger
LTV
More Tx Corp.
Mobil Oil Corp
Pacific Lumber
JC Penney
Pepsico
Repub. Of Tex.
Rockwell Int'l
aw dn w
M4W dn W
34W up %
2912 up W
33% dn W
SW up W
29 % up W
64 unch
45V2 dn W
37’3 up W
31V2 dn w
36% unch
33W unch
41W dn W
Safeway ..
St. Regis Paper Co. 2912 dr
Sears ——
Southland Corp.
S. w Bkshares
Texaco
Texas Industries
aw
24%edn W
27% unch
aw up w
____24% unch
zekas USeS 26 up 4
Texas instruments BO up w
Texas Utilities 19% unch
Union Oil of Calif sial unci
U.S. Steel 29% unch
Zales Jewelry 17 an w
OVER THE-
COUNTER STOCKS
Quotations from the National
Association of Securities Dealers
are representative interdealer
prices as of 10 00 a m New York
time Interdealer market change
throughout retail markup, mark,
down and commissions.
Justin Industries 27 27%
Moore Corp. 32 3234
Morrison Inc 12V2 13
N. Western Nat’l Life 247s MM
PACCAR Corp. 53% 549
Repof Texas Corp 11% 11%
Southwestern Life 194 20
Dow Jones Average
. 10:00 a.m. New York time
30 industries 849.01 dn 1.99
20 Tran-
sortation 229.50 dn 1.40
15 Utilities 103.99 dn .10
London Gold 178.80 up 1.30
Today’s Volume 10 10:00 a.m.,
10,790,000 shares.
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INSURANCE
SALUTES
Gerald P. Flanagan, D. O.,
of Denton, who assumed the presidency of the
1 000-member Texas Osteopathic Medical
Association (TOMA) during the organization's state
convention May 4-6.
RICHARD CLEM, of
Flower Mound, funeral
services were held Wed-
nesday at the First
Assembly of God Church in
Lewisville, officiated by the
Rev. Carl Lambert. Burial
was at Crown HiU Cemetery,
under the direction of the
Lucas-Halden Funeral
Home Pallbearers included
R. C. Cummings, James
Lampkin, J W Dooley, Lee
Gilbert, S M Sims, Stanley
Hidgon. Don Toten and C. L
Whitt.
Correction
CHICAGO (AP) - An
Associated Press story,
based on the findings of a
University of Illinois
professor. Dr Robert Hoeft,
incorrectly said that
"Genesis Two" was among
soil additives that have been
found useless.
Hoeft, a professor of soil
fertility at Champaign, said
he has not tested a new
formula for the product. He
said his tests on an old for-
mula of "Genesis Two"
showed its ingredients were
ineffective as an additive to
improve soil.
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