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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR MONDAY, AL'GL'ST 9, 19T6 PAGE 12 Mrs. Marie Robinson BUSY DAY ON TAP OBITUARIES 'Family Fun Night' Set At Marion County Fair Harold Dorney Dies; Services Wednesday Services for Harold J. Dorney, 23, 3145 Normandy Drive, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in Farley West Morris Street Chapel and at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Assumption Catholic Church, of which he was a member.

Burial will be in Floral Park tery. He died Saturday after being shocked electrically and falling from a tree at the rear of his home. Mr. Dorney had climbed a tree in his backyard, about 5 p.m. Saturday to cut away branches rubbing against a high-voltage electric line, according to a famiy member.

His wife, Mrs. Aleta V. Dorney, said she saw him fall from the tree. A Marion County rescue unit was called, but Mr. Dorney died without regaining consciousness.

He was a sales and route manager for Indiana Oxygen Company and a Vietnam War Marine Corps veteran. Survivors, in addition to his widow, include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Dorney of Indianapolis. Indiana Deaths Bicknell Earl Anderson, 82.

Bloomington S. Fred Lawson, 71; Pfc. Tony Prince, 18. Brownsburg Earl R. Harris, 73.

Glenwood Cosby Coyle, 47. Greensburg David O. Stuart, 69. Knightstown Walter Harrold, 88; Earl E. Mummert, 62.

Otterbein-Mrs. John R. (Mary Switzer, 70. Raub James A. Plunkett, 24.

Richmond Mrs. Paul (Lois) Chav-ers, 49; Mrs. Joseph (Allien) Heng-stler, 74; Charles Miller 38. Shelbyville Dr. Robert A.

Major, 68. Vineennes Mrs. Mattie A. Rumer, 90, widow of James Rumer. Wilkinson Mrs.

Russell (Julia) Addison. 76. Mrs. Vol Dickman Mrs. Val (Norma Dickman, 65, 67 North Warman Avenue, died yesterday at Community Hospital.

She was born at Edinburg, and had lived here 40 years. Mrs. Dickman was a plant protection employe at Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors Corporation three years, and was a tutor for the Indianapolis School System two years. She was a member of Washington Street United Methodist Church. Services will be held at 10 a.m.

Wednesday at Conkle Speedway Funeral Home, with burial at Forest Lawn Memory Gardens. Survivors, in addition to her husband, include three sons, Val J. Dickman of Carmel and Theodore R. Dickman and Rodney A. Mc-Fadden, both of Indianapolis; and two daughters, Mrs.

Karen A. Gahimer of Chicago, 111., and Mrs. Julie K. Price of Indianapolis. Mrs.

Dora Tasicli Mrs. Dora (Dragina) Tasich, 73, Brownsburg. formerly of Indianapolis, died yesterday in her home. A native of Gotousa. Yugoslavia, she had lived in Indianapolis 50 years before moving to Brownsburg three years ago.

She was a member of St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church in Indianapolis. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the church, with burial in Floral Park Cemetery. Friends may call after 1 p.m.

today in Stevens Chapel of the Flowers. She was the widow of Velko Tasich. Memorial contributions may be made to the church. Survivors include three sons, Chester Tasich of Indianapolis, Michael Tasich of Franklin and Marco Tasich of Brownsburg, and two daughters, Mrs. Sofia Cvetkovich of Brownsburg and Mrs.

Mary Fields of Indianapolis. John J. O'Gara John J. O'Gara, 64, a lifelong Indianapolis resident, died yesterday at home. He was a tool maker for Western Electric Company Inc.

20 years, retiring in 1970. Mr. O'Gara was a member of Little Flower Catholic Church, Fatima Council of Knights of Columbus, Indianapolis Old Timers Club and was active in city-wide Softball and Little Leagues. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Shirley Brothers Drexel Chapel and at 1J a.m.

Wednesday at Little Flower church, with burial at Holy Cross Cemetery. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Bel-va O'Gara, and his mother, Mrs. Bridg hi: -V (Star Photo By Jeff Attebarry) LOUISE COLE (LEFT) AND DAUGHTER, CINDY, TAKE MIDWAY RIDE Spun Around On "Scat" Yesterday During Marion County Fair participate in the 4-H Sheep Show. They can exhibit a maximum of four ewes and a maximum of two wethers.

The sheep showmanship contest will be held later tonight. Another event for 4-H'ers is the beginning of the Capitol City Horseshoe Tournament. Participants can enter the contest between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily through Friday.

Trophies will be awarded for first and second-place winners. The fair, at 7300 East Troy Avenue, continues through Sunday. Services for Mrs. Marie Katherine Robinson, 88, 102 King Arthur Drive, Franklin, will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in G.

H. Herrmann Madison Avenue Funeral Home. She died Sat urday in Johnson County Hospital at Franklin. A native of Germany, Mrs. Robinson had lived at Franklin the last two and a half years.

She was a member of Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, and was a Little Red Door Volunteer. She was the widow of T. Earl Robinson. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Anne Morse of Indianapolis; two sons, Herman Kroh of Pebble Beach, and Karl Kroh of Trenton, N.J.; and two stepdaughters, Mrs.

June Wieger of Neptune, N.J., and Mrs. Jessie Johnson of Heightstown, N.J. Clarence W. Gentry Clarence W. Gentry, 60, R.R.

2, Indianapolis, a tool grinder, died yesterday at Methodist Hospital. A lifelong Indianapolis resident, he was employed at Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors Corporation the last 28 years. Mr. Gentry was a member of Bridgeport Baptist Church, and served as a deacon, treasurer and Sunday School teacher there. Services will be held at 1 p.m.

Wednesday in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home, with burial in Floral Park Cemetery. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Elsie M. Gentry, and five sons, Clarence W. Charles Byron E.

and Larry A. Gentry of Indianapolis, and Richard E. Gentry of Chanute AFB, 111. Mrs. Albert Grigley Services for Mrs.

Albert J. (Mary Alice) Grigley, 48, 2843 Falcon Drive, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in New Liberty Baptist Church, of which she was a member, with burial in Floral Park Cemetery. She died Friday at home. A native of Beaver Dam, Mrs.

Grigley had lived here 31 years. She was a member of the church's nurses aid society. Survivors, in addition to her husband, include a son, Albert J. Grigley a daughter, Mrs. Lana Joyce Parks, both of Indianapolis, and her mother, Mrs.

William Givens of Beaver Dam, Ky. Dr. Norris presented them with commemorative Bicentennial prints by Kanwal P. Singh. Those honored were: Kenneth E.

Kent, John L. Krauss, Dr. Glen E. Mayor Hudnut, Richard G. Luear, Governor Otis Bowen, John T.

Sutton. Mrs. Mary Kay Snodqrau, J. Russell Towniend Michael B.Cracraft, Mrs. Kenneth Hauck.

Robert G. Moorehead, James S. Whitfield, Merritt W. Charles E. Parrott, Frank J.

wemhoff, Mrs. Charlent Hillman, and Mrs. Arthur W. Banta. Robert D.

Hammer, Rabbi Murray Saltiman, Boris E. Meditcb, Dr. Robert W. Brides, Slate Senator John M. John D.

Phelan, Miss Jo-Anne Smithmeyer, Joseph Briqandi, James E. Browning, Allen Day. James Olson, Eugene V. McPherson of St. Louis, Me.

After Behi" Hit tives in the 1100 block of South Bradley Avenue, according to police. Patrolman Lloyd L. Thomas said Combs, riding the bicycle south on Grant Avenue, disregarded a stop sign and entered the intersection with Washington Street. Thomas said a westbound car on Washington narrowly missed the bicyclist, who was then struck by an eastbound auto. Combs was thrown against the car window.

The car was driven by Russell L. Waterman 34, 7807 Cottonwood Drive, according to police. No charges were filed. Thermometer Registers Neiv Loiv For City The temperature dipped to a low temperature set in 1904 and 1972. The normal low Is 64 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

Yesterday's high was 79, and the forecast for today and tomorrow is for readings in the low 80s, dipping again into the mid-50s during the early morning and late evening hours. Mrs. Elmer Ewing Services for Mrs. Elmer A. (Alma Ewing, 51, 4317 Hoyt Avenue, will be held -at 1 p.m.

Tuesday in Shirley Brothers Irving Hill Chapel, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. She died Saturday in Methodist Hospital. A native of Bloomfield, Mrs. Ewing had lived here 32 years and was employed 29 years by RCA Corporation's Plastics Division. She was a member of Burge Terrace Baptist Church and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at RCA.

Survivors, in addition to her husband, include two sons, Scott C. and Robert Allen Ewing, both of Indianapolis, and five daughters, Mrs. Pamela Strohm of Round Lake, 111., Mrs. Sherry Eaker of Indianapolis, Mrs. Patty Stearley of Ft.

Wayne and Mrs. Cheryl Walters and Mrs. Lorrissa Hargrave, both of St. Petersburg, Fla. George D.

Herin George D. Herin, 83, 6625 East 75th Street, a retired mail carrier, died yesterday in Cold Spring Road Veterans Administration Hospital. Before retiring in 1960. Mr. Herin worked for the United States Postal Service 37 years.

He was a member of the National Associations of Letter Carriers. He was born near Madison and had lived in Indianapolis 50 years. He served in the Army in France during World War I. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Flanner and Buchanan Broad Ripple Mortuary, with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Carrie V. Herin; three sons, Robert W. Herin of Indianapolis, Richard L. Herin of Diamond Bar, and James G.

Herin of Huntington Beach, and a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Frazier of Pendleton. Norman Carroll Mrs. Norman (Emma Carroll, 67, 3425 Forest Manor Avenue, secretary for Acme Sewer Cleaning Company 10 years, retiring in 1974, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital. A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, Mrs.

Carroll was a member of St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church and the church's Altar Society. Half-Century Club. Legion of Mary and Mission Sewing Circle. Services will be held at 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday in Harry W. Moore Arlington Chapel and 10 a.m. in the church. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.

Surviving, besides her husband, are three daughters, Mrs. Patricia A. Elkin. Mrs. Mary Jo Ray and Mrs.

Carolyn Sue Anderson, and a son, John J. Carroll, all of Indianapolis. Mrs. Sophia Hanrahan Services for Mrs. Sophia W.

Hanra-han. 85. Indianapolis, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in G. H.

Herrmann Madison Avenue Funeral Home, with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. She died Saturday in a local nursing home. Mrs. Hanrahan was the widow of Thomas Hanrahan and a lifelong resident of Indianapolis. She had been a sales clerk 15 years for the Collegiate Shop, retiring in 1956.

She was a member of St. John United Church of Christ and the Afternoon Circle. Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Leona Nevil of Indianapolis. Mrs.

Willy Marriage Mrs. Willy (Nancy Howery Mason) Harriage, 58, Buena Park. formerly of Indianapolis, died yesterday in her home. She had been a resident of Indianapolis and Shelbyville many years before moving to California. Services are pending in Forest Lawn Funeral Home at Cypress, with burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery at Cypress.

Survivors include her husband and two daughters, Misses Barbara and Peggy Harriage. Mrs. Bessie Stewart Bloomington, Ind. Mrs. Bessie C.

Stewart, 81, Bloomington, an Indianapolis resident most of her life, died yesterday in Bloomington Hospital. She was a native of Kirksville. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Day Mortuary Chapel, with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. Survivors include her son, Roger Stewart of Bloomington, and her daughter, Mrs.

Maxine Bender of Indianapolis. Entertainment and fun will highlight one of the busier days of the 1976 Marion County Fair, which today enters its fifth day of the 11-day run. As part of the Bicentennial activities, an Old Fashioned 4-H Family Fun Night is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. at the Pony Track where special contests, such as watermelon eating, water-, melon seed spitting, sack races, nail driving and rope pulling will be held. FOR THE OLDER audience, three local gospel musical groups will perform at the Senior Citizens tent.

Entertain ment geared for people 60 and over is planned nightly today, tomorrow, Thurs day and Friday. Wednesday will be Senior Citizens Day with a variety of activities scheduled during the day. The thrills of a western rodeo will be on view at the North Grandstand. with bull riding and bulldogging among the events. The rodeo will be back tomorrow night.

WTTV will telecast five live shows from the county fairgrounds Coliseum during the morning and afternoon hours. The television station plans to broadcast from the fair through Wednes day. IN OTHER activities today, more than 40 4-H members are expected to Certificate Of Merit Awarded To City's Bicentennial Chairman Today At The Fair et O'Gara of Indianapolis. Youree P. Potter Services for Youree P.

Potter, 70, 2475 South Delaware Street, will be held at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in G. H. Herr-. mann South East Street Funeral Home with entombment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

He died Saturday at home. A native of Bowling Green, and a resident here 50 years, he had been enployed 43 years by Eli Lilly retiring as a supervisor. He was a Ken-lucky Colonel. Surviving are a son. Jon Potter of Indianapolis and his stepmother, Mrs.

Erna Potter of Bowling Green, Ky. Howard Ellis Howard (Hobo) Ellis, 55, 2843 North Delaware Street, a bellhop at Station Hotel, 250 South Meridian Street, the last 20 years, died yesterday at West 10th Street Veterans Administration Hospital. A native of Lafayette, he had lived here 53 years. Mr. EHis was a World War II Army veteran.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Summers North East Funeral Chapel, with burial in New Crown Cemetery. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Arietta Ellis, and a son, Richard G. Ellis of Indianapolis.

German Allen Services for German Allen, 74 2614 Harding Street, will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Williams Funeral Home, with burial in Floral Park Cemetery. He died Saturday in a local nursing home. A native of Brownsville, and a resident here 55 years, Mr. Allen was a retired self-employed truck driver.

Surviving are two sons, Richard and Lee Allen, and a daughter, Mrs. Jeanette Simmons, all of Los Angeles, Calif. 6:30 a.m. RFD 4 Farm Program, Coliseum (live WTTV telecast) 7:30 a.m. Janie Show, Coliseum (live WTTV telecast) 9 a.m.

4-H Sheep Show, Sheep Barn 10 a.m. -6 p.m. 4-H Horseshoe Tournament 11 a.m. Open Class Sheep Show, Sheep Barn 11 a.m. Mary Jane Popp Show, Coliseum (live WTTV telecast) Noon-Cowboy Bob Show, Coliseum (live WTTV telecast) Noon Midway Open 1 p.m.

4-H Cat Show, Coliseum 3:30 p.m. Peggy's World Show, Coliseum (live WTTV telecast) 4 p.m. 4-H Horse and Pony Junior and Senior English Classes, Pony Track 7 p.m. Rodeo, North Grandstand 7 p.m. 4-H Creative Dramatics, Girls Building 7 p.m.

4-H Sheep Showmanship Contest, Sheep Barn 7 p.m.-Senior Citizens Entertainment, Senior Citizens Tent 7:30 p.m.-Old-Fashioned 4-H Fun Night Contest, Pony Track 8 p.m.-Open Class Sheep Show, Sheep Barn 8:30 p.m.-4-H Horse and Pony Color Guard Competition, Pony Track II atelier Marries Gary Schoolteacher STAR STATE REPORT Boonville, Mo. Gary (Ind.) Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, 43, married a IB-year-old Gary schoolteacher here yesterday. Jim Holland, deputy mayor of Gary, said Hatcher had known Ruth Ellen Howies for "quite some time." She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Rowles of Boonville. The marriage ceremony was conducted in Morgan Street 'Baptist Church. Holland said the mayor would not return to Gary for a couple of weeks. Inches Slimmer Yrinled Pattern i 0' 4768 102-182 It's the vibrant seaming of the bodice that dramatizes and enhances the INCHES SLIMMER effect. Choose shantung, linen, knits for this style.

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Sew-Plus-Knit Book, $1.25. Instant Money Crafts, Instant Sewing Books, $1. Instant Fashion Book, $1, The chairman of the Indianapolis Bicentennial Committee, Dr. Max S. Norris, was awarded a certificate of merit and key to the city pin yesterday by Mayor William H.

Hudnut. The award, presented at a party in Dr. Norris' home, 8899 Pickwick Drive, was for his outstanding service as chairman of the committee. Thirty other volunteers also were honored for helping Indianapolis celebrate the country's 200th anniversary. RicvcJist, 17, Dies A 17-year-old bicyclist was struck by an auto and injured fatally yesterday in the 4100 block of East Washington Street, police said.

Paul J. Combs of Manchester, died at 8:40 p.m. in Wishard Memorial Hospital of head and internal injuries. The accident occurerd at 4:55 p.m. The youth was visiting with rela- Jndianapolis Dancer Miss Nude America STAR STATE REPORT Roselawn, Ind.

Susan Butner, 23, of Indiagapolis, an exotic dancer who performs under the name of Chelsea Daye, was named Miss Nude America late Saturday in the eighth annual contest at the Naked City nudist camp near here. George Moore, an actor from Chicago, was selected Mr. Nude America. Miss Butner, a blond who stands 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 102 pounds, won $500 after exhibiting her 35-23-36 frame before 4,000 spectators and the judges. (However, there is no huge inflow of heroin, Ruhl said.

The usual amount of heroin confiscated here can be measured in ounces. It is rarely more than a pound, Ruhl said. (This is in contrast to cities such as Chicago, where as much as 10 to 20 pounds have been confiscated in a single arrest, the DEA chief said. (RUHL CONFIRMED thaf heroin dealers here get the illegal "brown sugar" from sources in Chicago, California, Texas and Mexico. (He said he could not determine how many heroin addicts there are in the city, pointing out that any answer would be only "an educated guess." (Ruhl did say, however, there are 300 heroin addicts in the methadone treatment program conducted by the Community Services Addiction Agency.) THE DISTRIBUTION of brown heroin into the Midwest has become so frequent that some cities, such as Detroit, occasionally send their squads of narcotics agents to the border and even into Mexico in attempts to apprehend dope traffickers.

Sease, R. E. Smith. Mutz, and THE MEXICAN CONNECTION Sugar' Heroin Floods Midwest, East Coast Cities 'Brown- By NICHOLAS I. CHKISS (i The Los Angeles Times Laredo, Tex.

A new and illicit industry is thriving south of the border. Since the early 1970s, when a massive American enforcement effort began to dry up opium poppy production in Turkey and the Far East, Mexico has emerged as the main source of heroin flooding into the U.S. through 24 ports of entry along the border between the two countries. U.S. narcotics agents report that a major portion of this burgeoning heroin traffic is aimed at markets in the Midwest, East and Northeast.

ONE INDICATION of the vast increase in the use of the so-c ailed "brown sugar" the brownish Mexican heroin is the gain in addicts being experienced by a number nf American cities. For example, 10 yci.rs ayo San Antonio had about 1.000 known d-u? addicts. Today it has at least 5.0'!0. The smugglers try to move the dope into the Midwest and Northeast (This is the second of a two-part series dealing with the nation's new narcotics menace the rapidly increasing flow of Mexican heroin into the United States.) as soon as they can. The farther and faster it gets from the border, the harder it is to detect.

IN NEW YORK CITY, a police department spokesman said that 60 per cent of the heroin on Manhattan streets is Mexican heroin. In Chicago, Lt. William Mahoney, head of the police narcotics section, said: "In 1973, if we got five pounds of heroin a year, we had a good year." But his officers recently confiscated 14 pounds of "brown sugar" in the spare tire of a car driven by four men from the Texas-Mexico border area. And three days earlier, Mahoney said, his men confiscated six pounds being transported on a street. (THERE IS NO doubt Mexican heroin has made its way to Indianapolis, according to Gayle E.

Ruhl, agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration office here. William M. Kline, the chief DEA man in a 20-county area around San Antonio, has about 25 agents working to intercept the flow of drugs, principally brown heroin. The DEA pays at least $100,000 annually to informers in this area. It has been criticized for failing to apprehend the heroin hierarchy while concentrating on the couriers, or "mules," to run up arrest numbers.

ONE AGENT admitted that officers usually know who 80 per cent of the dealers are, but said it is exceedingly difficult to catdh them. "They seldom handle the brown heroin themselves," he noted. The brown heroin traffic creates another problem besides addiction. There is a growing concern about the guns-for-uope trade along the border. MEXICO IS believed to have between 20,000 and 28,000 acres of illegal opium poppy fields.

The Mexican government claimed early this year that 18.500 acres had been destroyed by herbicides. But poppy crops are easily replaced. The Mexican poppy fields are vir tually inaccessible. Some are assault almost daily by the American-built helicopters given to the Mexican government. The poppy fields are scattered through 375,000 square miles of mountains in the Sierra Madre.

U.S' and Mexican drug agents know that one of the largest opium-producing areas is around the municipality of Cosala in the northwestern state of Sinalda. There are heroin laboratories in nearby Culiacan. OTHER LABORATORIES are in Mexico City and Guadalajara. The latter city "is becoming another old-style Chicago," mainly because of the heroin traffic, according to Inspector Jack Hutton of the San Antonio police. The sticky balls of opium are smuggled to the labs by bush planes operating from hidden airstrips or transported by mules along mountain Mexican army troops and federal police try to patrol the mountainous region, but with little luck, and there is a constant shoot-to-kill struggle between dope dealers and the police and troops..

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