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PAGE EIGHTEEN - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Thurs., Jan. 3,1974 Obituaries Tex Ritter Diies, Fife Calls Mo^e Shots Country Music Star • \ NASHVILLE, Term. (UPI)<- 1929, was active until his death. TODAY ' PHNOM PENH (UPI) - 82mni mortar fire and 13 rounds today. " Katherine Mankey Dies Singing cowboy Tex Ritter, He was prosperous in his 9:43 a.m. — Electrical Rebel forces slammed seven ' A sharp encounter, between whose recording of '".High later years; continuing his problem at 137 Branford St. of 107mm rocket fire 122mm rockets into the heart of South Vietnamese infantrymen, Manchestet^A City of Village Charm Noon" became a Western career and launching a chain of (smell of smoke) (Town). Wednesday against l8 govern crowded Phnom Penh today, ment military positions- in the and Communist forces I'lUCK: F ir i KKIN CKINTS Hiking in California classic, died of a massive heart restaurants. In- 1970, he un striking a crowded Refugee Mekong Delta of South Viet Wednesday, haita mile south of attack Wednesday night while successfully .challenged. Sen. Katherine Cutts Mankey, 23, search and rescue team from center and a military hospital. nam, killing , five government Ben Cat district town, 25 miles MANCHESTER, Conn., FRIDAY, JAN. 4, 1974 - VOL. XCIII, No. 80 visiting a frie ^ in the Davidson Bill Brock for the Republican of Glastonbury.died of exposure San Bernardino County. Police reported at least four troops and wounding 14 others, north of Saigon, killed three. County Jaiy senatorial nomination from Miss Mankey had reportedly persons killed 18 wounded. It the Saigon high Command said Communist troops and five Wednesday while hiking in the A veter^ of 85 mdVj^s, 78 of Tennessee. , snow-covered San Bernardino gone hiking in the mountains Meskill Visits marked the second consecutive government soldiers. thern Westerns, and a Last month he visited, the Mountains about 75.miles east with a young male friend.- She day of guerrilla rocket attacks i n ' ' Directors Hear Storm Reports career that, touched' White House and presented Town Tuesday ^ of Los Angeles. became exhausted in the six- on the capital. , , decades, Ritter, was President Nixon with a tribute Gov. Thomas Meskill will be She was the daughter ot,.Mr. degree weather, and the man The attacks came 19 hours Lathar "Jack’’ Watkins,, a^ album from the Country Music and Mrs. Richard G. Mankey of left her to seekvhelp. in Manchester for several hours after rebel gunners lobbed six parently an employe, when he ’ isociation in which he read 267 Hubbard St., Glastonbury. Her body was found at an Tuesday and will make several 105mm artillery rounds from a was stricken. He'died at a.local portions of I^ixon’s speeches. appearances. Her iather is head, of the elevation of more than 5,000 captured American howitzer hospital a short time later. Ritter was one of the original At 10 a.m. he will speak at a / V 4 V l > Manchester architectural firm feet, near a section of the into a squatters area on the “He was sitting here laughing six members of the Country of Mankey Associates. mountains known as Forge Manchester High School stu northern fringes of the capital. and talking about getting this Music Hall of Fame, highest Miss Mankey was a senior Creek. A helicopter took the dent assembly in Bailey One person was killed and FUNERAL HOME man out on bond and all of a honor in the industry, and was a English major at Pomona body to the Redlands (Calif.) Auditorium. In addition to a nine -others were wounded in hstabliahed 1874-Three Ge'rierationa of Service sudden he just slumpeH over in past president of the Country Country Hospital. brief talk; he will conduct a the artillery attacks late 142 East Center Street, Manchester 646-5310 College in Claremont, Calif., his chair,’’ said Police Lt. John Music Association. and reportedly was scheduled Miss Mankey, a 1968 graduate question-and-answer session. Wednesday night. At Meeting Brewer. Ritter was born Maurice At about 11:15, he will visit I to graduate next month. of Glastonbury High School, • The attacks, were believed to SOL R. COHEN Services are scheduled Woodward Ritter in Panola The Manchester -Herald and be part of the predicted rebel report on .ice storm week and Her body was found at 6:55 attended Ithaca (N.Y.) College Herald Reporter it was noted that the explain procedures for igniting Friday at the First County, Tex., Jan. 12, 1906. His will tour the plant. dry-seasoh offensive. Fighting its aftermath, the meeting’was a.m. Wednesday by a sheriff’s from 1968 to 1970, when she, The key word to -Republican Town Committee gas furnaces during similar Presbyterian Church with father raised cotton and cattle At noon, he will attend a across the country has in attended by the Board of Direc transferred to Pomona College. Manchester’s problems during has a meeting scheduled the emergencies. burial Monday in Nederland, on a spread settled by his luncheon meeting of the creased considerably since the tors, department heads. Civil Tex. (kkKMTULATIIlNS the ice-storm emergency is same night. Republican Town Weiss, in his report, said, grandfather when Texa^ still Kiwanis Club at the Manchester monsoon season ended in "copirhunication” — the lack of Defense personnel, represen Director Vivian Ferguson sSid, ' HELCO failed totally to es "He was a giant in the in ■was part of Mexico. Country Club. Here, too, he will December. There have been tative of utilities, and others. it. Us breakdown and its inac "This (the ice storm review timate the true damaged and to 'M r s . .Alhert Flucki^er Sr. Ralph K. Lauritzcn dustry and we will certainly Ritter is survived by his speak briefly and then answer three attacks against the-city curacies. ^ > It was a quiet, orderly meeting) is more important.” communicate it to the people.” ELLINOTON — Mrs. Minnie Ralph E. Laurilzen, 57,'Of 819 miss him," said fellow singer widow, Dorothy F’ay, whom he -all questions. since Dec. 30. meeting — without acrimony or To The That was the concensus To be invited to attend next He said his remarks were no Fluckigerj 79, of 26 Fairview Center St. died this morning at Roy Acuff. V married in 1941, and two sons, In Saigon, Comrnunist forces recriminations. reached by those attending a Wednesday’s meeting will be reflection on any one in Ave. died this morning at Newington Veterans Hospital. Ritter, who got his John, an actor, and Thomas, a fired 151 rounds of 61mm and A special meeting for the Manchester Chapter critique Thursday night on the HELCO President Joseph R, dividual, "certainly not Charlie Rockvjlle General Hospital. Mr. Lauritzen was born Oct. professional start singing on a iaw student. public is scheduled for next emergency. Chaired by Town McCormick, or some other top. Hoffman (manager of the She was the wife of Albert 8, 1919 ,in Manchester and had Houston. Tex., radio station in Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in American Association Manager Robert Weiss, who HELCO official. A represent Manchester office of HELCO), Fluckiger Sr. lived here all his life. During Bailey Auditorium of State Welfare Spends Record presented a printed and oral tative of Connecticut Natural who was as much in the dark as Mrs. Fluckiger was born in World War II, he served with of Retlced Persons Manchester High School. When Gas also will be invited — to • anyone else. Fairbury, 111., and had lived in the U.S. Army Engineer Corps. He had been employed for 20 $111 Million on Health Care "The fault,” he said, , “lay Ellington For many years. She (AARP) with the higher echelon.” years as a body and repair man was a member of the Apostolic Weiss, said it isn’t true that Christian Church. ,. ' at Manchester Motors before he The State Welfare Depart who received more than $20,000. Which Will Receive Vernon Teen Center Chamber, Launches Gas HELCO's Manchester crews She is also survived by 7 sons, retired-in 1969 because of ill ment reports a record $111.3 for the calendar year 1972: Its Charter health. '• million paid for welfare Optometrists, Allen M. were pulled out of town to ser Werner Fluckiger of Ellington vice other areas. ! Survivors are, two brothers, To Open Next Week recipients’ medical care in the Goldstein, Tolland, $20,622.30. January 9th... Consumer Aid Program who is owner of Randall’s HELCO Official Discusses Ice Storm "All crews normally assigned Benjamin Magowan of last fiscal year. PharmacieSi Vincent’s Phar * _____________________________ “ Stationary at Vernon Circle, A consumer-gasoline As Clark outlined t]ie to Manchester were in town, ac Manchester and Frederick, The Vernon Teen Center, Rt. opinion that Ihe Teen Center The total was $9 million macy, Rockville, $44,362.29 and in question is in violation of Robert Fluckiger of Storrs who Charles Hoffman, manager of the Manchester office of assistance program was program, it would encourage cording to HELCO,” he said. Lauritzen of Miami, Fla.; two 30, which has been open off and was wanted. higher than the 1971-72 fiscal Terry Drugs, South Windsor, Defense members and utility company representatives. state or federal regulations, it is a well-known area-auc-. HELCO, speaks at review of “ice storm week,” held launched today by the Greater Manchester residents to con “Two engineers were at the tioneer, John S. Fluckiger of sisters, Mrs.. Mildred D'eCandia on over the past three or. four The Town Council, on request year. $22,275.05. “Putting all power lines underground isTieyohd HELCO’s Manchester Chamber of would therefore be the respon Thursday night in the Municipal Building.