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RIGHT-JUSTI
ITS YOUR NEWSPAPER
December 29, 1983
VOLUME Ml/04/38
SAN ANTONIO REGISTER
und dead
Elderly woman
dies in lire
An 84 u« old himmd
who had lived in Her
F.aal Side home lor
more than 50 yean,
died Friday ni(hl when
iter nmH house caught
• Aft.
Dora Uwis, BUI Vir
ginia. died from burn*
•lie nceiwd »Im ike
clothe* die was wear
MIC raught lire from*
tpac* Healer while die
was lying on a couch.
Da* id Jone* ol HK»
\nderaun, a neighbor.
ml
mm af
tar 6iS0 pm. and ran to
I be Hack door lo save
Mri Inik
-I lucked Mike Hack
door and I could tee ber
rra«ling, all in flame*.
I couldn't get In
w*a Ub
Met. Mairu* K.ian*, the
victim's brother, arrived
at I he house while it
•till
"I uaualh rotne ky
fWtti. "■
Search for
suspect continues
Police are still looking
for clue* in the beating
.death of a popular
Memorial High School
teacher whose nude
body was found inside
his ransacked apartment
this week
■ The body of Charles
Taylor, 41, was discover-
ed by his mother short
ly after noon inside his
locked apartment near
◦lurckiU High School
The victim's 1976
Grand Prix with person
alized license plates,
"Chuck 9" is still miss
Police said the victim's
ill,#
t
,1
-' ■ ->.!
rocks
anal attefco at a window,
but be wn rkokad by
i be triad lo
hoo»e a aae
ond time.
Hut I on O'Neal, ano
I ber man, saw the fire as
he got off the bus. He
ran to tkt Home, where
He triad lo |p Ho the
I
or twice a weak,"
said. "Everybody
this rommmdlv
Mr*. Ik»ra," jones said.
"Everyone
oid for every
Damage wm
at $25,000 to the house
and M.000 to the con
tenia.
Service* for Mrs. Lewis
wdl be beta at 2 p.m.
Friday Dec. 30 at Ml.
/ion First Baptist
Church with the Rev C.
W. Mack officiating in
ferment will be Hi South
em Memorial « Park.
Arrangements unoer lite
direction of the Lewk
Funeral Home.
Charles Taylor
lor bad worked at Mem
y^MCial educat
know am
David HiS, a former Higklands High School
for the Los Angelas Rams Monday against
Ms college Hall at Texas A A I, H the brother of J
foe CBS. Hill is shown iHlh George F
DPS topper
kills S.A. man
Rev. John Westbrook
dies in Houston
Rev. John Wcalbrooh
*% Noted minster John
Hill Weatbrook, pastor
of Antiock Missionary
Baptist Church in Hou
st«Hi, died from «n
decedent'• church is be
ing renovated.
A native of Grumbeck,
Hie county seat of lime
stone Count), West-
brook, in 1966, became
the first IRack to play
varsity football at Bay
lor University and ll*
first Black foot kail pla
yer in tke Southwest
(Conference
He once wrote he wm
miserable and lonely at
Baylor He mid it wm
the IMlle things that
atone deeply -the Miine
A San
wm shot to death by a
Department of Puolir
Safety trooper after
He wm slopped for Dm
Hag While Intoxicated
near Conaaies, Saturday
night.
Michael Dugal, a nupea-
viaor for the City of
brook attended Drary
College, a Baplial instit-
ution in Springfield, Mp
and Midwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary. *
lie served as a consul-
tant for the Nashville,
Trnn.-hased Southern
Baptist Sunday School
Board. He was an assist
ant football coach at
Florida State University
at tke age of 36
i West rook « the
tber of Dr. Robert
brook of S |
Rial rite, for Waat-
urooh wefa beW IWv
day from MtrSbd Bip|
flat Church
lie saM, "As the first
Black athlete at Bay-
htr, I realized I bad to
set a good «*\ainf4e for
the Mark guys who
ndd riNnr after me."
iik .
as well in Ike
room as he did on the
football field.
After earning hi- Her-
at die
In 1974, he Her
pastor of True Vine
Baptist Church in Tyler.
made a bid for I
enant governor's
aim a
a four
Westbdfofc took
the pastorate at
Houston^ ••West Mack
(.hurt I|. lb "
1978.
He H wrvivad by tin
wife, Mr*. Paubtte West
nc«Mik, four children
And a host of relative*
• riPiiWni
Kkby, wm pronounced
dead at Ihe scene by a
Gonatales Justice of Ihe
Peace.
The shooting occurred
in the Conaaies Sheriffs
office where Dugat had
been given a breather I iz
er test, according to re
ports.
The officers said he
told Dugat he would
have lo stay in jail be
cauae he arm legally in
loxkated.
The officer, Skip
Traeger, said Ihe man
began Rgbting him. Dur
ing the scuffle, the vie
tun wm shot twice in
the cheat.
Traeger wm treated
at a local hospital for
neck, eye, chest and
other usuries
Dugat wm' stopped
about 2.5 miles East or
fiomah on Highwav
90 A at 8:30 pm.
DPS, Texas Rangern
and the Gunaalm SHer
iffa Office n investigat
it is San Antonio, celebrates after he made a
Dallas Cowboys. The Rama won 24-17. Hid, who
IIill, who played for the Greenbay Packers and
r after tke TD catch.
Ivy Preacher wis
succumbs
Well-known San An
Ionian, Mrs Mary
Preacher, the wife of
Ihe late Dr M. L. Pre
acher, succumbed in
Pensacola, "Ha on
Christina* Eve
Final riles are sehedul
ed for 10 am Saturday
from St. Paul United
Methodist Church with
Rev. Hector Grant,
officiating
Los Angeles-Maury
Wills, who set a record
for stolen bases with the
L.A. Dodgers in 1962,
wm arrested for driving
a stolen car ami posses-
ion of cocaine, accord -
iaag to police Capt. John
held at 7
Friday at Lewie Funeral
1:30 p.m.
officiating.
Wills, 51, was spotted
driving an Audi 4000
when a patrolman no
ticed a broken window
in the car,"' police said.
The officer ran the li-
cenae plate and the com
puter system said it wm
stolen from nearby
(Lake wood.)
After the stop, the of-
ficer observed in plain
view a six-inch glass vial
with a white substance.
It wm field-tested posit-
ive for cocaine.
Wills wm released from
jail on S1,500 bond.
the
covery. Taylor's nude
body wm found sprawl
ed beside his bed.
"He appears to have
been dead for 24 to 36
hours," said Det. A1
lipus The officer said
the victim's mother be
came concern when her
son didn't come to her
home on Christmas and
she had not heard from
him
Taylor lived in the De-
vonshire Complex,
11843 Braesview St.
Police mid the victim'a
apartment had been ran
sacked, but the offioer
couldn't my if robbery
wm the motive for the
lulling.
Taylir lived in the a
part meat for a couple
of years
Edgewood School Die
trict Superintendent
"He wm weQ liked ky
everybody, tke faculty,
the staff and the stu-
dents," Memorial prin
cipai Joe Santjhet mid.
Sanchez said Taylor
wm a student council
sponsor who wm active
in many projects, includ-
ing the school's Great
American Smokeout
program, the district's
Excellence in Edgewood
Project and in holiday
activities to gather food
for the needy.
"He wm very cooper-
ative, an exceVent teach'
er He wm very enthusi-
astic," the principal mid
Service will be held on
Thursday, at 10 a.m.
from St. Benedict Catho-
lic Church, interment in
Ihe Meadow law n
Memorial Park under Ihe
directiona of the
■
Friday ia Ihe last day
to a|*ly for afire figM-
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