0 20 The News and Observer, Raleigh, C. Monday, December 30, Deaths and Funerals HENRY A. TUTOR LONNIE P. HARE Henry Avery Tutor, 62. of KENLY Lonnie Paskell 4101 Reavis died Sunday.
82, died Saturday. FunerFuneral 10 a.m. Tuesday, al 2:30 p.m. Monday, Grizzard Mitchell Funeral Home chapel. Funeral Chapel.
Burial, Oak Burial, Montlawn Memorial Grove Presbyterian Church Park. cemetery, Middlesex. Surviving: brothers, P. H. Surviving: widow, Mrs.
Beaand A. J. Tutor of Raleigh; sis- trice Langdon Hare; sons, Roy ters, Mrs. Alda T. Dickens and B.
of Middlesex and Lonnie P. Mrs. Rachel Dickinson of (Pat) Hare Jr. of Kenly; stepRaleigh, Mrs. Lois Denning of sons, Maj.
Fred of Aberdeen, Jacksonville. and Don Stephenson of Family at funeral home 7 to 9 Raleigh; daughters, Miss p.m. today. Doris Hare of Smithfield and Mrs. Jo Ann Carroll of BaltiMRS.
CLARA N. PREDDY more, stepdaughters, GREENSBORO Mrs. Mrs. Howard Creech and Miss Clara Noah Preddy, 81, died Bill Creech of Smithfield; Sunday. Funeral 11 a.m.
Tues- brother, Edgar Hare of Kenly; day, Lambeth-Troxler Funeral sister, Mrs. Bersie Glover of Home. Burial, Forest Lawn Middlesex; 10 grandchildren; Cemetery. nine great-grandchildren. Surviving: daughter, Mrs.
Rigdon Harris of Raleigh; three grandchildren; three WILLIAM R. HART FUQUAY-VARINA Willigreat-grandchildren. am Robert Hart, 92, retired contractor, formerly of FRANK W. HOOK Raleigh, died Sunday. Funeral Funeral for Frank Walter 3 p.m.
Monday, Gray Funeral Hook, 72, of 2714 Anderson Home. Burial, Montlawn MeDrive, who died Saturday, 2 morial Park. p.m. today, Brown-Wynne Fu- Surviving: daughters, Mrs. neral Home, St.
Mary's Street. Clem Campbell of Hamlet, Montlawm Memorial Mrs. Joe J. Fyne Jr. of RichBurial, Park.
mond, Mrs. Janice Price of Raleigh; of MRS. ALICE. C. BOYLE.
Raleigh; 16 grandchildren; 11 Mr. Alice Coleman Boyle, widow of William R. Boyle, great-grandchildren; a greatgreat-grandchild. died Friday. Funeral mass 11 Family at 4115 Laurel Ridge a.m.
Tuesday, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Buri- Drive in Raleigh. Church. al, Montlawn Memorial Park. Rosary 8 p.m. today, Mitch- JAMES G.
ALLEN ell Funeral Home. DUNN James Giddeon Allen, 72, retired farmer, died ISAAC PENNY Isaac Penny, 80, of 308 Bledsoe died Saturday. Funeral noon Tuesday, Woodland Chapel Baptist Church in Wake Forest. Burial, National Cemetery. Surviving: widow, Mrs.
Ruby Penny of Raleigh; daughters, Mrs. Mozelle Turner of Burlington, Mrs. Bernie Dunn, Mrs. Elizabeth Bryant and Mrs. Ruby Banks of Raleigh and Mrs.
Nicie Bobbitt of Boston, sons, Charlie of Wake Forest, William of Williamsburg, Hubert of Durham, Prince of Cary and Samuel and Otha Penny of Boston; sister, Mrs. Martha O'Neal of Raleigh; brother, Clyde Penny of Raleigh; grandchildren; five grandchildren LONNIE G. RADFORD LOUISBURG Lonnie Graham Radford, 68, retired logger, died Sunday. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday, Centerville Baptist Church, Centerville, Burial, church cemetery.
Surviving: widow, Mrs. Ida Z. Radford: daughter, Mrs. Flora Collins of Portsmouth, son. Lonnie W.
Radford of Henderson: brothers, Dolan of Louisburg, Maynard of Creedmoor and H. C. Radford Jr. of Raleigh; sisters, Mrs. Mollie Gupton of Butner, Mrs.
Myrtle Gupton, Mrs. Virginia Gupton, Mrs. Belvie Denton and Mrs. Grace Radford of Wood; six grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren. MRS.
RUBY J. WRENCH GODWIN Mrs. Ruby Jackson Wrench, 64, died Sunday. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday, Baptist Chapel Church.
Burial, church cemetery. Surviving: widower, Hughie Campbell Wrench; daughters, Mrs. Janie Tew of Godwin, Mrs. Milly Kilpatrick of Brevard and Mrs. Lou Autry of Fayetteville: son, Hughie L.
Wrench of Wendell: seven grandchildren. Family at Butler Funeral Home, Roseboro, 7-9 p.m. Monday. MISS LILLIE A. GAY YOUNGSVILLE Miss Lillie Ada Gay, 85, died Sunday.
Funeral 11 a.m. Tuesday, Willis Funeral chapel, Wake Forest. Burial, Youngsville Cemetery. Surviving: sisters, Mrs. Flossie Hoyle of Youngsville and Mrs.
Birtcha Duke of Zebulon; brother, Royall Gay of Chicago, Ill. Family at the funeral home 7 to 9 p.m. Monday. MRS. MARY S.
RICHARDSON The family of Mrs. Mary S. Richardson of La Grange who died Sunday requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to La Grange Christian Church. JEFF CHAMBLEE FLORIST GIFTS "Express your thoughts with Flowers" GATEWAY PLAZA 833-5307 Mitchell Funeral Home Schedule of services: Mrs. Alice C.
Boyle Tuesday 11 A.M. Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church Montiawn Memorial Park Henry A. Tutor Tuesdey, 10 A.M. Mitchell Funeral Home Chapel Montlawn Memorial Park "The Home Of Friendly Service' 600 St. Mary's St.
833-8678 Hitchhiker Is Slain In N.C. GREENSBORO (AP) An 18-year-old hitchhiker from Danville, en route to a rock concert in Greensboro, was shot and stabbed to death Sunday night. The youth, Robert A. Waller III, and another teenager from Danville, Kent Douglas Wells, 16, had been picked up by a motorist and robbed of about $15, police said. Capt.
Jim Worrell of the Guilford County Sheriff's Department said the slaying occurred on a dirt road in a deserted wooded area near Greensboro. He said Waller appeared to have been shot twice with a caliber pistol and stabbed several times. One of the wounds was near the heart, he added. Worrell quoted Wells as saying he and Waller were picked up about 10 miles north of Reidsvile by a man who drove them to the area of the slaying under the pretense he was going to pick up his girlfriend. some point, according to Worrell, there was a fight, and Wells ran to a nearby house and called the sheriff's department.
The man who picked up the youths was described as about 22 years old, five-feet-eight to five-feet-10, 180 to 200 pounds, and with brown shoulder length hair and a mustache. He was driving a Chevrolet Impala of 1966 to 1970. Auto Firm To Quit Production LONDON (AP) Britain's Aston Martin company, manufacturer of world-famed sports cars, announced it is ceasing production and will go into voluntary liquidation. Chairman William Wilson said the company could not raise $2.3 million needed to keep going, even though it has orders worth twice that amount. The crash means 500 skilled workers in the company's Buckinghamshire County plant will lose their jobs.
Aston Martin has been hit by cash problems during recent months and there also have been reports of a decline in orders for the firm's gasolinehungry autos like the V-8 Lagonda Luxury. Wilson told newsmen he will ask that a receiver be appointed as soon as possible. At the beginning of 1974 Aston Martin asked the government for a loan of $1.65 million but the request was turned down. The first Aston Martin was built in 1913. It took its name from Lionel Martin, the company founder, and the Aston Clinton hill climb on which the car scored major successes.
In 1959 the company won the world sports car championship but four years later it withdrew from racing. Split Rail Blamed in Derailment THOMPSONTOWN, Pa. (AP) Penn Central officials say a split rail caused the derailment of a 17-car Amtrak passenger liner, resulting in minor injuries to 56 persons. The Broadway Limited with 435 passengers was en route from Chicago to New York when the mishap occurred Saturday morning about 40 miles northwest of Harrisburg. A railroad spokesman said the top of part of the track was split vertically, causing 13 cars to slip off the rail as the train was rounding a curve.
Hospital officials said 36 persons were treated for minor scrapes and bruises at Lewistown Hospital and 20 persons were treated at Polyclinic Hospital in Harrisburg. JAMES L. GENTRY ROXBORO James Larkin Gentry, 39, refrigerator repairman. died Sunday. Funeral 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Allensville United Methodist Church, Allensville. Burial, church cemetery. Surviving: son, Kenneth Gentry of Durham; daughter, Miss Christine Marie Gentry of Durham; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde P.
Gentry of Roxboro; brothers, Clyde P. Jr. of Bel Air, Dr. Karl Ray of Greensboro, John Donald of Roxboro and Jerry Grey Gentry of Atlanta, Ga. MRS.
NINA D. STROTHER OXFORD Mrs. Nina Duke Strother, 67, died Sunday. Funeral 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oxford United Methodist Church.
Burial, Elmwood Cemetery. Surviving: widower, E. V. Strother; daughters, Mrs. B.
B. Leonard of Danville, and Mrs. Robert O'Brien of Durham; son. E. V.
Strother Jr. of Oxford; sisters, Mrs. Glenn Brock of Linden and Mrs. L. L.
Felter of Chester, eight grandchildren. Wounded Man In Critical Condition A Raleigh man wounded Saturday night in a shooting on Mid-Pine Road south of the city was listed in critical condition Sunday night in Wake Memorial Hospital's intensive care unit. The injured man, Henry Jones underwent surgery Saturday night. Wake Deputy Sheriff J. W.
Anthony said Jones was shot in his left hand and left chest with a rifle. Alfred Lee Hogan, 33, of MidPine Road, Rt. 4, Raleigh, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflict serious bodily injury. Hogan is charged with assaulting Jones, of 911 E. Martin Saturday night in the home of Hogan's boss, Fred Lynnwood Guill, who operates a junked-car lot at his house on Mid-Pine Road.
Hogan was also charged with assault on a woman when he allegedly fired at and missed Anna Faison Lyons of 900 Harp Terrace, in the same incident. was held in Wake Hogan, County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bond for each charge. Mary Livingstone, left, and daughter, Joan Blumofe, right at funeral Benny's Final Tribute Has Star Star-Studded Cast LOS ANGELES (AP). "'He was a national treasure," Bob Hope remarked of Jack Benny as the famous figures of the entertainment world gathered in old Hollywood fashion to pay a final tribute Sunday to the gentle, self effacing comedian who died Thursday night. About 350 persons crowded into the Hillside Memorial Park Chapel in suburban Culver City for the service while 2.000 others stood behind police lines outside in the late December sunshine and heard Hope's eulogy, Hebrew prayers and a brief, tearful Rebel Troops Hold Hostages Despite Pact VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) The government has reached agreement with rebel troops holding 19 Americans hostage in a northwest provincial capital, sources said Sunday.
However, the agreement had not been implemented by Sunday night and the Americans, including a pregnant woman and several small children, were still being held under virtual house arrest in Ban Houei Sai, a Mekong River outpost 240 miles northwest of Vientiane. Ban Houei Sai was seized Tuesday by about 100 rebel soldiers who demanded the town be declared politically neutral and the government repeal the opium law, which makes it illegal to cultivate opium for sale and stipulates that only the head of a household may cultivate it for family consumption. No details of the agreement were immediately available, but the sources said it was likely allegedly corrupt officials in the area would be replaced and rebel troops would withdraw from the town and return to their former positions. John A. Huxtable, area coordinator for the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), his wife Margaret, their daughter Hatsady, 5, and son Sisawath, 4. Other USAID officials were William W. Sage, a refugee relief worker; Wayne Johnson, also a refugee relief worker, and his wife Thavy; Gary E. Alex, an agricultural specialist; James R. Bowman, agricultural specialist, and Raymond Boone.
Mrs. Andie Linn, wife of International Voluntary Services Director James Linn, her daughters Latala, 3, and Amphaiphon, 5. Other Americans were Miss Karen Smith, a nurse at the U.S. Embassy medical unit in Vientiane, and the Rev. Jerry Torgerson, a missionary, his wife Rose, daughters Jenny, 10, and Jill, and son Jeffrey, 2.
Retired N. Y. Society Editor Dies at 77 NEW YORK (UPI) Julia McCarthy, society editor of the New York Daily News for 25 years, died Sunday at Lenox Hill Hospital after a short illness. She was 77. Miss McCarthy, who covered the doings of high society under her own name or that of "Nancy Randolph," retired as society editor on Jan.
1, 1972, after a four decade career. She joined The News in 1933 after working briefly for two Chicago papers, The Tribune and The Herald Examiner, and for the New York Evening Journal and the Sunday World. In 1946 she became Society Editor at The News -taking the non-de-plume "Nancy Randolph" by which five previous society editors had been known. Heavens Offer Relativity a Lift New York Times News Service DALLAS It is believed that, for the first time, an object has been found whose flight through space is strongly controlled by the general theory of relativity. The only other astronomical body observed to be under such control is the planet Mercury, and the effective relativity on its orbit is very subtle.
In the case of the new object, the effect appears to be times more marked. However, the calculations remain tentative. The effect is related to that which causes time to slow down in the presence of a very strong gravity field. It influences the orbital flight of Mercury because, being the innermost planet, Mercury lies within a strong region of the sun's gravity. Because of the relativity effect, the very point in the planet's orbit when it is nearest the sun, the perihelion, drifts slowly around the sun in a manner that cannot be explained by the classic laws of planetary motion.
Accounting for it was one of the first triumphs of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Uncertainties Persist Until now, however, there has not been an example of this effect sufficiently marked to provide a more precise test of the theory. Such a test should become possible once uncertainties have been resolved concerning other factors that might affect the orbit of the recently discovered object. This object is the first pulsar to be discovered in orbit around another body. It was discovered several months ago in the direction of the constellation Aquila during a systematic survey of the sky by astronomers from the University, of Massachusetts using the giant radio antenna at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Pulsars are believed to be neutron stars the extremely dense residues of collapsed stars spinning at very high rates and emitting radio pulses with each rotation. On Friday, Dr. Joseph H. Taylor, who made the discovery with Russell Hulse, reported on subsequent monitoring of this object to the conference on astrophysics here. It seems to be locked in an extremely powerful gravitational embrace with another very dense and invisible object with which it is "waltzing" through space.
Its discovery aroused hope that its motion around the companion might shed light on relativity theory. Taylor said that, in fact, the orbit seemed to be strongly influenced by this effect. The point of its closest approach to the companion is drifting at a rate of four degrees a year 32,000 times faster than Mercu- ry. Dr. Kenneth Brecher of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had predicted that this effect must be at least two degrees per year.
Taylor and others cautioned, however, that while other possibilities seemed less plausible, they had not yet been eliminated. Sunday. Funeral 3 p.m. Tuesday, Gospel Tabernacle Church. Burial, Devotional Gardens.
Surviving: widow, Mrs. Mattie Belle Allen; sons, Preston of Raleigh and James N. Allen of Benson; daughters, Mrs. Betty Olsen of Dunn and Mrs. Magdalene Jones of Raleigh; brother, Gilbert Allen of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; sisters, Mrs.
Nellie Lloyd, Modell Earnshaw and Mrs. Marcelle Wilson of Erwin and Mrs. Gaylenia Benton of Florida; 12 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. Family at Skinner and Drew Funeral Home 7 to 9 p.m. Monday.
ROY L. DAWKINS SANFORD Roy Lee Dawkins, 26, accounting clerk, died Saturday. Funeral 4 p.m. Monday, Miller Funeral Home. Burial, Zion Christian Church cemetery.
Surviving: mother, Mrs. Grace Frye Baker of Sanford: brothers, Jim L. of Sanford, Lloyd of Wilmington, Alex of Pensacola, Fla. and John E. Dawkins of San Fernando, sisters.
Mrs. John McCall of Sanford, Mrs. Sherwood Wicker of Hartsville, S. and Mrs. Z.
R. Hames of Lenoir. EUGENE ET. FAUCETTE OXFORD Eugene T. Faucette.
78, retired farmer, died Saturday. Funeral 3:30 p.m. Monday, Currin and Gentry Funeral Home. Burial, Meadowview Memorial Park. Surviving: widow, Mrs.
Lela Hobgood Faucette; daughters, Mrs. Helen Jones of Oxford, Mrs. Virginia Grissom Tant, Mrs. Margaret Clark and Mrs. Faye Finch of Durham; son, Gene Taylor Faucette of South Boston.
sister, Mrs. Mattie Jackson of Oxford: eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Other Deaths MRS. MATTIE HUNT, 65, Maxton. NATHANIEL B.
PARKER, 84, Roxboro. MRS. PEARL T. BELL, 82, Currie. JOHN W.
QUINN 58, Seven Springs. MRS. SUSIE G. FULLER, 87, Louisburg. CLAUDE C.
WILLIAMS, 73, Roanoke Rapids. MRS. MARGARET L. LEWIS, 85, Beaufort. SAM BELL.
74. Snow Hill. MISS MARY A. LANCASTER, 75, Parkton. JEFF I.
(DODGER) GARNER, 57, Morehead City. MRS. FLORA M. VARNEDOE, 79, Aberdeen. LENWOOD R.
STEWART, 21, Broadway. LIVEOUS H. FAIRCLOTH, 64, Roseboro. MRS. MAY L.
HARRIS, 73, Aurelian Springs. NOAH H. (BUD) PHIPPS, 43, La Grange. MRS. CECIL F.
BUTTS, 86, Roanoke Rapids. MRS. IRENE D. JOHNSON, 78. Pendleton.
GEORGE E. TART, 60, Rt. 2. Dunn. MRS.
WOODIE Z. HOOPER, 81, Cullowhee. HOWELL T. HORNE, 92. Richlands.
JESSE M. (JACK) PERRY 59, Maury. MRS. SYBLE S. ROUGHTON, 59, Columbia.
MRS. MARY S. RICHARDSON. 99. La Grange.
MRS. JANIE T. ATWATER. 62, Greensboro. tribute by Benny's closest friend, George Burns.
But it was an orderly crowd by Hollywood standards and the most star-filled in recent memory, reflecting the film community's respect for Benny, who died of cancer of the pancreas at 80. Hope began by quoting a message to Benny's widow, Mary Livingstone, from President Ford and his family. His usual composure shaken, Hope remarked, "Last Thursday night, the world lost someone it loved very much But the void that is left is quickly filled with happy Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple where Benny worshipped, intoned the 23rd Psalm and the Mourner's Kaddish and introduced Burns. The gravel-voiced comedian seemed bowed by his 78 years and said haltingly, "I don't know whether I'll be able to do this, but I told Mary I'd try." Burns continued in a low, faltering voice: "You all knew Jack.
What can I tell you about him that you don't already know? I knew him for 55 years and I consider myself very fortunate, very special because of it. I can't imagine my life without him. I'm going to miss him." Most of Benny's peers in the Hollywood comedy world sat in the glass-sided chapel Milton Berle, George Jessel, Andy Griffith. Danny Thomas, Edgar Bergen, Johnny Carson, Jack Carter, Groucho Marx. Film stars included James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Rosalind Russell, Frank Sinatra, Jack Lemmon, Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Merle Oberon, Cesar Romero, Goldie Hawn, Candice Bergen, Dinah Shore and Robert Stack.
The political world was represented by California Gov. Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy; U.S. Sen. John Tunney, former U.S. Sen.
George Murphy, and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. The members of Benny's radio and television casts were there Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Ernie "Rochester" Anderson, Mel Blanc. The services were simple and brief, in keeping with Benny's style and sense of timing. The closed casket was covered with fern and gardenias, and bowers of floral display lined the back wall of the chapel. Woman Priest Named to Post SYRACUSE, N.Y.
(AP) One of the 11 women ordained as Episcopal priests last summer, the Rev. Betty Schiess, has been named an associate pastor of a parish in her home diocese here. She becomes the first of the women ordained in the controversial service to receive a regular position as a priest. "I didn't think I'd be this excited but it feels just great," she said Saturday in an interview. "They really need me.
I'm delighted at the authentic nature of the whole thing." The post was extended to the Rev. Mrs. Schiess, 50, by the vestry Grace Church, an city parish where she has been a member for many years. "We've supported her all the way through this and we wanted to call her to this position," the junior warden, Loomis Goode, said. Members of the parish overwhelmingly supported the action, he said.
She is to aid the rector in his duties and occasionally substitute for him in performing priestly functions such as celebrating Holy Communion, the vestry said. Informed of the action, Bishop Ned Cole of Syracuse sent a letter to the parish rector, the Rev. Walter Welsh, saying the Rev. Mrs. Schiess "is not recognized as a priest by the bishop and therefore is not licensed to officiate." The parish went ahead with its plans, however.
A parish vestry calls its ministers, but in normal Episcopal practice it acts with the approval of the bishop. "Certainly we listen to the bishop and take his recommendations very seriously, but parishes often call someone not recommended," Goode said. "As I understand it, a parish is autonomous in this respect." Neither Bishop Cole nor the Rev. Mr. Welsh could be reached for comment.
The ordinations of the 11 women by three bishops in Philadelphia last July 29 have been ruled invalid by the demonomination's House of Bishops. FOR ISRAELI ARSENAL An Israeli Air Force ground crew takes delivery of a U. Firebee pilotless drone. Pilotless aircraft carried out a variety of missions during the October New River Supporters To Meet The Associated Press The Izaak Walton League, a sportsmen's association, has scheduled a meeting in Raleigh on Saturday to form an organization designed to preserve the New River as a free-flowing stream. Edmund L.
Adams of Sparta, president of the league's New River chapter, said the proposed organization would seek passage of state and federal legislation that would place the Western North Carolina river in the wild and scenic rivers system. An effort by the state of North Carolina to block immediate construction of two dams on the river by the Appalachian Power Co. will be heard in U.S. Middle District Court in Greensboro today. The state is seeking an injunction that would give the General Assembly time to act on the proposal to include the river in the state scenic rivers system.
Legislation that would have placed the river in the national scenic rivers system has passed the U.S. Senate but died in the U.S. House. Appalachian Power plans to construct two dams on the river as part of a hydroelectric project. Suit Filed In Air Death HOUSTON (UPI) The survivors of a Beaumont man, who was pulled out the broken window of an airplane flying over New Mexico, has filed a $3.7 million suit against National Airlines, Inc.
The suit also lists McDonnell Douglas Aircraft General Electric and Lockheed Aircraft Co. as defendants. The suit, filed in federal district court, said G. F. Gardner, 45, was pulled out of a broken window while enroute from Houston to San Francisco Nov.
3, 1973. The accident occurred when an engine near the wing of the plane exploded and flying debris broke the window where Gardner was sitting, witnesses said. United Press International 1973 war, and are today an integral part of the Israeli Air Force, according to the latest Israeli "Air Force Journal.".
