I Saturday, October 9, 1999 THE MONITOR, McAllen, Texas DEATH NOTICES McALLEN Funeral services for Simon George Marina, 75, who died at his McAllen home Oct. 7, 1999, are pending with Mont MetaRestlawn Cox Funeral Home in Harlingen. FUNERALS TODAY MISSION Funeral Mass for Jose Cruz will be held at 10 a.m. today, Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, at San Martin Catholic Church in Alton.
Burial will follow at 11 a.m. at Catholic Cemetery in Mission, under the direction of Rivera Funeral Home in Mission. SAN JUAN Funeral service for Oscar Aranda will be held at 10 a.m. today, Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, at St.
John the Baptist Catholic Parish in San Juan. Burial will follow at San Juan Cemetery, under the direction of Memorial Funeral Home in San Juan. MISSION Funeral service for Maria Vanancia Galicia will be held today, Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Burial will follow at Valle De Los Cerdos in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, under the direction of Memorial Funeral Home in San Juan.
McALLEN Funeral services for Judaka W. Massey will be held at 10 a.m. today, Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, at Kreidler Funeral Home on North 10th Street. Burial will follow at Roselawn Cemetery, under the direction of Kreidler Funeral Home Inc.
in McAllen. OBI OBITUARIES McALLEN Memorial service for Robert Allen Tisdale will be held at 10 a.m. today, Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, at Christian Fellowship Church in McAllen. McALLEN Memorial service for Margaret Louise Wright will be held at 10:30 a.m.
today, Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, at Lazy Palms Clubhouse, under the direction of Skinner Silva Funeral Home in Edinburg. OBITUARIES MARJORIE WILLIAMS MILLER AUSTIN Marjorie Williams Miller, age 96, died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1 1999. She was born on May 15, 1903, in Earlham, Iowa, to Alvin A.
and Minnie Williams. She was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Sam L. Miller of McAllen; her sisters, Zella Miller of Austin and Oleva Bugge of McAllen; and her brother, Myron Williams of Adel, Iowa. She shared a unique and special relationship with her sister Zella, as the two sisters were married to brothers, Banks and Sam Miller. In 1917, her father sold his farm in lowa and moved his entire family to the Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Marjorie graduated from Pharr-San Juan High School in 1921, and attended Mary Hardin Baylor College in Belton, Texas. In her family history, she described how she met a young Texan, Sam Miller, through the Christian Endeavor Group at the San Juan Peoples Church. The couple courted and then married on April 2, 1924. A longtime resident of McAllen, she was active in civic, social, church and community activities. She served as president of the McAllen Literary Club, McAllen Garden Club and also the McAllen City Federation of Clubs.
In the 1930s, she and her husband donated 100 acres of land for the first airport in McAllen. Today, it is still named the McAllen-Miller International Airport. In September 1993, she was an honored guest at the dedication of the new McAllenMiller International Airport Passenger Terminal. In 1937, she and her husband built an Austin Stone Tudor-style home in McAllen, located at 707 North 15th St. Today, the home is certified by the Texas Historical Commission and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Her family and friends remember many happy and special occasions that were celebrated in this home, as she was a most gracious hostess. One such happy occasion was the marriage reception of their only child, a daughter, Barbara Lynn Miller, and her husband, Albert F. Wallace Jr. Midge, as she was known to all her family and friends, moved to Austin in November 1977, to be close to her family and grandchildren. A lifelong Methodist, she transferred her membership from First United Methodist Church in McAllen, where she was a member for 40 years, to St.
John's United Methodist Church in Austin. As a strong Christian, she was a faithful' member of the Friendship Class and. the Naomi Ruth Circle. Midge's love of cooking resulted in many special recipes, which have become traditions for special family occasions and holidays. She was an avid bridge player and sports enthusiast.
Her extensive travels with her husband and friends are documented in dozens of detailed scrapbooks, which will be cherished keepsakes for future generations. She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Miller Wallace, and son-inlaw, Albert Wallace; her grandson, Gregg Wallace; and her granddaughter, Laura Wallace Peirce, and her husband, Larry Peirce, all of Austin; nephew, Banks L. Miller Jr. of Austin; nieces, Janie Hinkle of McAllen, and Nancy Fisher Van Ann of Alexandria, Minnesota; and numerous grandnieces and grandnephews. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m.
Oct. 8, 1999, at St. John's United Methodist Church, 2140 WACO INVESTIGATION Documents provide detailed glimpse of operation By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT The Associated Press WASHINGTON FBI supervisors sought to reward the tactical agents on the ground during the deadly 1993 Waco siege, proposing medals and "substantial cash incentive awards" for members of the bureau's elite Hostage Rescue Team, recently released internal documents show. The documents are silent on the outcome of the request to reward agents who fired tear gas into the Branch Davidians' home, manned sniper positions and drove tanks. But former FBI deputy assistant director Danny Coulson, the founding commander of the HRT and one of the top officials overseeing the Waco operation, said Friday neither medals nor bonuses were handed out.
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Alley officiating. Burial will I be at Roselawn Cemetery in McAllen on Monday, Oct. 11, 1999 at 10 a.m., officiated by First United Methodist Church. Pallbearers are Scott Fisher, Steve Fisher, George (Chip) Hinkle Montgomery Miller and Banks Miller III, all grandnephews of the deceased. In lieu of flowers, those wishing to do so may make memorial contributions to St.
John's United Methodist Church, 2140 Allandale Road, Austin, Texas 78756. The arrangements were handled by Weed-Corley Fish Funeral Home, 3125 N. Lamar, 452-8811. GUSTAVO DAVILA HOUSTON Gustavo Davila, 54, entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1999, at Northwest Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Davila HEALTH STATER was employed as a forklift operator at Nabisco Warehouse. Mr. Davila is survived by his loving wife, Gloria G. Davila Houston; his loving children, a son, Gustavo Davila Jr.
of La Joya; two step-sons, Eddie Garza and Saul Garza, both of Weslaco; and three daughters, Liza Davila and Noreen Davila, both of Michiga, and Monica Davila of Utah; his loving mother, Maria G. Davila of Hidalgo; two sisters, Esther (Rudy) Obregon and Maria Irene Davila of Hidalgo; and four grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Juan Davila; Rudy Obregon, Eddie Garza, Ruben Davila, Mario Davila and Carlos Garcia. Honorary pallbearers will be Abel Garza, George Medina, Saul Rojas, Benito Uribe, Orlando Rodriguez, Bill Payne and Juan Lugo. Viewing and visitation were 3-9 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 8, 1999, with a 7 p.m. rosary. A Mass will be cele-' brated at 10 a.m.. today, Saturday, Oct.
9, 1999, at Sacred Heart in Hidalgo. Burial will follow at Hidalgo City Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Ceballos Funeral Home in McAllen. NOTICE: Death notices and funeral announcements are provided, free of charge by The Monitor as a public service. For families who.
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297. received nothing," Coulson said. The FBI documents, which were recently turned over to investigators probing the bureau's conduct during the 51-day Waco standoff, show the extensive effort to honor the agents' "brave and selfless actions." One 13-page memo recommended the entire Hostage Rescue Team for the FBI Shield of Bravery, with individual commendations for agents who left their tank during the siege's fiery end to save a Davidian woman caught in the burning building. Another memo proposed financial rewards for the HRT agents to recognize "their exceptional and exemplary individual efforts." Said Coulson: "We tend to want to. demonize every FBI agent who was there (but) the American public needs to remember that agents did risk their In recent weeks, the government's conduct at Waco has come under renewed scrutiny with the FBI's belated admission that its agents fired potentially incendiary tear-gas canisters in the hours before flames consumed the Davidians' retreat.
Sect leader David Koresh and some 80 followers died April 19, 1993. Thousands of pages of internal documents turned over to investigators offer the most detailed glimpse yet of the FBI's inner workings at Waco. The documents are a mix of the serious and the mundane, covering the evolving final-day tactical plan and daily intelligence reports to a local hotel's invitation to agents for a free Easter brunch as a "change of pace for you." The records outline the evolution of the FBI's rules of engagement for the final assault, dictating under what conditions agents could use deadly force. Several proposals were drafted, three of which would have permitted agents to use deadly force against unarmed Branch Davidians if they approached "friendly" positions and failed to respond to agents' commands. The FBI has long denied that its agents fired any shots during the siege, and bureau officials stressed Friday that the final rules of engagement did not permit deadly force against unarmed Davidians.
The bureau's longstanding policy, which permits agents to use deadly force in self-defense or defense of another, applied on April 19, FBI spokesman Tron Brekke said. "It would not be unusual, during the deliberation process, to consider various options," Brekke said of the earlier drafts. On-scene commanders were worried by reports that Davidians might come out with explosives strapped to their bodies. ATHLETICS Dallas still a part of Tex tradition DALLAS More than 70,000 football fans will descend on Dallas for Saturday's annual Texas-Oklahoma game, ready to spend millions of dollars on hotel rooms, food, booze and travel. Some, citing the game's economic impact, have pushed for the game to McAllen Memorial Monuments Bronze or Granite Markers Felix Garza, Jr.
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through," Rollins said. "I am Blaine Rollins, 32, of Denver won excited now to have a piece of one Armstrong's jersey with a bid of the most inspiring sporting $20,500 in an internet auction that achievements of my time." lasted for 22 days, the same duration Armstrong, 27, learned in 1996 as the world famous race. that he had testicular cancer, which The auction benefitted the Lance spread to his bones and brain. He Armstrong Foundation which is underwent aggressive chemotherdedicated to fighting urological can- apy and three operations and in cer. February 1997 was cancer-free.
Rollins was diagnosed with testic- Armstrong became the second ular cancer in April 1998, and American to win the race July 25. be held in Norman, and Austin on a home-and-home basis. But different surveys have shown that four out of five people want the game to remain at the Cotton Bowl on the grounds of the State Fair of Texas. In 1997, University of Oklahoma regents voted to keep the game in Dallas until at least 2006. The 10-year extension, which included options to terminate the agreement after this year or after 2002, also allows Cotton Bowl officials to secure more sponsors.
OU officials have said corporate sponsorship resulted in more than $100,000 to each school in 1996. Texas alumni say both schools benefit from the history of the event and ultimately end up raising substantial scholarship money from pre-game events scheduled in Dallas. The Texas Exes expect to take in about $100,000 for its scholarship fund from street parties, pep rallies and a golf tournament. VALLEY NOTES Most offfices open on holiday Most local government offices will be open Monday, Columbus Day. In McAllen, city offices will be open normal hours, from 7:30 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. In Edinburg and Mission, city offices will be open as usual from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pharr and Weslaco municipal offices also will be open. Federal, state and Hidalgo County offices, however will be closed on Monday and reopen during normal hours on Tuesday.
Most banks will also be closed on Monday. Man arrested for selling alcohol from his home SAN JUAN A 73-year-old San Juan man was arrested early Friday morning and charged with selling alcohol out of his home. GOVERNMENT Bush fills out task force membership The Monitor Daniel De Los Santos was arraigned Friday and charged with selling alcohol without a permit and possession of alcohol with intent to sell, according to the San Juan Police Department. Police said he was transported to the Hidalgo County Jail and did not post bond. The amount of bond was not available Friday evening.
Police received reports of heavy traffic in the neighborhood and arrested De Los Santos at his home on the 200 block of East Fourth Street shortly after 1 a.m. Friday, police officials said. Officers confiscated two bottles of rum and "a lot" of beer. Police did not know how long De Los Santos had used his home as a neighborhood convenience store, but officials did say he "was doing it for some time." Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission assisted the San Juan Police Department in the arrest. By JIM VERTUNO The Associated Press AUSTIN Gov.
George W. Bush on Friday appointed the final three members of a task force that will examine the problem of Texans who lack health insurance. The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination appointed a doctor, a hospital chief executive and the founder of a conservative think tank to the nine-member task force created by this year's Legislature to prepare recommendations for lawmakers to consider in their 2001 session. State Democratic Party chairman Molly Beth Malcolm said earlier this week that Bush was moving too slowly in making the appointments. "The people of Texas should not have to take a back seat to the governor's higher ambitions," Malcolm said.
Bush was campaigning in Florida on Friday. His gubernatorial spokeswoman, Linda Edwards, said the office had chosen the candidates several days ago but needed time for final approval and notification. "The task force will have plenty of time to produce a quality report for the Legislature," Edwards said. The Bush appointees are: Nancy Wilson Dickey, a medical doctor from College Station. She is program director of the Family Practice Residency of the Brazos Valley and a professor at Texas University's department of family and community medicine.
Boone Powell Jr. of Dallas. He is president and chief executive officer. of the Baylor Health Care System and Baylor University Medical Center. John C.
Goodman of Dallas. Goodman founded the conservative think tank National Center for Policy Analysis and is a former director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the University of Dallas..
