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I THE MUNCIE STAR, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1982 Actor Stanley Holloway Dies; My Fair Lady's 'Mr. Doolittle' Deaths and Funerals LONDON (UPI) Stanley Hollo-way, the lovable Cockney actor who became an overnight success at age 66 as Mr. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, singing With a -Little Bit of Luck and Get Me to the I Church on Time, died Saturday. He was si. Holloway, who began his show business career at the same time Charlie Chaplin was making his name in HOLLOWAY Born Oct.

1, 1890, in London, the son of a law clerk, he had a typically strict Victorian education and was delighted when his school shut down when he was 12 and he was able to work in the fish market. By 14 he was soloist in a choir and, still in his teens, in vaudeville entertainments at seaside resorts. His 1 ambition then was to sing in opera and he saved all the money he could to that end. By 1913 he had enough in the bank to take lessons in Milan, but after a few months the outbreak of World War I sent him back to Britain where he enlisted as a private in the infantry. He ended the war a lieutenant.

In 1920, Holloway and nine other young performers wrote and played in a revue now celebrated in theatrical annals, The Co-optimists. It ran a phenomenal six years. He then became a star in the peculiarly British Christmas stage mixture of fantasy, vulgarity and fairy tale known as pantomime. Holloway broke into films in 1921 and was a featured player in some of the gems of the golden age of British screen comedy: The Lavender Hill Mob, Passport to Pimlico, and The Titfield Thunderbolt. He spent World War II in review and pantomime and, when peace returned, he was offered more serious roles such as first gravedigger in Hamlet a role he repeated in the Laurence Olivier film of 1948.

Holloway first performed on television in the 1930s when it was still experimental and in 1960 played Poo-Bah in The Mikado tor NBC. His own ABC-TV series Our Man Higgins, in which he played an English butler, premiered in October 1962 to good reviews for the star but criticism for the scripts. One of his last assignments on stage was at the Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth in 1980. Holloway was twice married. His second wife was Violet Marion Lane.

They had one son, Julian. the British music halls, had been under treatment at a nursing home in Littlehampton, south of London for 10 days, a spokeswoman said. She gave no cause of death. Before international fame came with the original Broadway and movie versions of the musical My. Fair Lady, Holloway had already spent half a century on the boards as a song-and-dance man, comedian, straight actor, and reciting what became his speciality monologues in a dead-pan voice.

My Fair Lady, in which Holloway played a lusty representative of the "undeserving poor," gave him what he described as a "wonderful Indian summer" to his career. Holloway was once asked to look back over his life from his first job as office boy in London's Billingsgate fish market, and choose the turning point. "That must have been 1954, when absolutely out of the blue I was asked by the Royal Shakespeare Company to tour America with them, playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. "From that American tour came the part of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady and from then on, well, just let's say I was able to pick and choose my parts and that was very pleasant at my age." If My Fair Lady gave Holloway the greatest break of his life, Holloway in turn brought to the role of Doolittle a vast treasury of experience. SECTION D-PAGE 3 Malcolm Moos Dies; Speechwriter for Ike By GLENN FOWLER 1982 N.V.

Timet Newi Service Malcolm C. Moos, a political scientist who wrote speeches for President Eisenhower and later headed the University of Minnesota for seven years, was found dead Thursday in his lakeside cabin in Hackensack, Minn. He was 65 years old. Moos had lived since last year in the cabin on Ten Mile Lake, 200 miles north of Minneapolis, where he wrote and did research in academic affairs. He apparently died in his sleep Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, family members said.

When he failed to appear as expected on Wednesday at the home of his sister in Minneapolis, and when lakeside neighbors were unable to reach him, the Cass County sheriff's office was notified. Moos, who was alone with his dog in the cabin, was found in bed. Family members said he had apparently been in good health. Moos, who was known to friends and associates as Mac, was long active in politics. He described himself as an adherent of "left-wing Republicanism." In 1978 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination to the U.S.

Senate to succeed Muriel Humphrey, who was named to the seat when her husband, Hubert, died. Moos joined the Eisenhower staff in 1957 after teaching political science at Johns Hopkins University for 15 years. He returned to academic life when the Eisenhower administration ended and in 1967 was named president of the University of Minnesota. Later he served one-year terms as president of the Fund for the Republic and of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Malcolm Charles Moos was born into a political family in St.

Paul. His father, Charles, a follower of Theodore Roosevelt, managed several successful Republican campaigns in Minnesota and was rewarded by being named postmaster of St. Paul in the long Republican reign in Washington between the first World War and Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. After taking bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota, the son went to the University of California for his doctorate.

He taught at the Universities of Alabama and of Wyoming before going to Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor. He was a full professor there when he was tapped for the White House job by Sherman Adams, President Eisenhower's chief of staff. Dad Sues Country Singer BEAUMONT, Texas (UPI) Country-western singer Johnny Lee and Us magazine are targets of a $2 million libel suit by Lee's father because of an Us interview that said Lee's father deserted him as a baby, court records showed Friday. Lee, 35, appeared in the movie Urban Cowboy and recorded the popular song, Looking for Love. He performs regularly at Gilley's Club and has his own Johnny Lee's Club in Pasadena near Houston.

West Jay Honor Roll DUNKIRK, Ind. West Jay Junior High School officials have released student honor roll lists for the third six-weeks grading period. A-and-B Honor Roll Eighth grade: Anna Bennett, Misty Bilbrey, Valarie Brenner, Lana Garr, Lisa Landon, Dee Reed, Steve Schwieterman, Michelle Shrack, Jeremy Rife, Duane Simons, Shawn Smith, Gina Stigleman, Lisa Vincent, Sharon Walsmith. Seventh grade: Melaney Bartlett, Jon Bennett, Melodie Blumenhorst, Frank Boles, Gary Brown, Michelle Burris, Krista Byers, Tiffany Chalfant, Brenda Chapman, Rachael Coffman, Ryan Cox, Roger Davenport, Tracy Davis, Lori Dean, Janice Donathan, Michele Draper, Larry Dull, Deanna Ford, Christy Garringer, Stacy Pegg, Julie Penrod, Karia Rector. Deposed King of Sikkim, 58; Himalayan Burial Is Planned James N.

Livieratos Succumbs in Arizona James Nicholas Livieratos, 58, Tucson, died there unexpectedly Friday. Livieratos was born in Muncie and lived in Tucson the last 33 years. A graduate of the University of Arizona, he was employed in the Tucson school system and was active in community theater. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, Tucson; a son, Michael, Pacific Groves, a daughter, Nichole, Atlanta, a sister, Mrs. George Stratigos, South Bend; his mother, Mrs.

Nicholas Livieratos, Muncie; one niece and two nephews. Services are at 4:30 p.m. Monday at St. Phillips Episcopal Church in Tuscon. Memorials can be made to Invisible Theater Fund in memory of James Livieratos.

Thomas Burl Durman, 75, Dies; Chrysler Retiree NEW CASTLE, Ind. Thomas Burl Durman, 75, R.R.I, died Saturday morning enroute to the Henry County Hospital following an illness of several months. Mr. Durman was married in Selma, to Marjorie J. Stone and would have celebrated his 53rd wedding anniversary Feb.

19. Besides his wife, survivors include a sister, Miss Winifred Durman of Muncie: a daughter, Mrs. Jack (Joyce) Whitfield of Forks. two sons, Thomas of Crawfordsville, and John of Kokomo, 10 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. He was born Nov.

2, 1906 in Muncie. the son of Byron and Pharaba Durman. He was a resident of New Castle since 1934 and retired from Chrysler Corp. in 1967 after 35 years. He was a member of UAW Local 371.

Friends may call at the Macer Funeral Home 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Monday. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with Rev. Larry Buford officiating.

Burial will follow in South Mound Cemetery. Donald Duane Ross, 52; Former Muncie Resident Donald Duane Ross, 52, formerly of Muncie, died Saturday morning in Poway, Calif. He was a 1947 graduate of Dunkirk High School, attended Ball State University and was a graduate of Western Michigan University. Survivors include his wife, Dawn; three daughters, Mrs. Kathryn Parkham, San Diego, and Mary and Karen, both at home; one son, Michael Ross of El Cajon, two stepchildren; two grandchildren; his mother, Mrs.

Virgie Estes, Dunkirk; three sisters, Mrs. John (Betty) Hough, Yorktown, Mrs. Richard (Vivian) Hoover, Pendleton, and Mrs. Bernard (Ina) Shrack, Dunkirk, and one brother, Oral Ross Dunkirk. Services are pending at Poway-Bernardo Mortuary, Poway, Calif.

Alveretta Webster, 79; Owned Dunkirk Launderette DUNKIRK, Ind. Alveretta Webster, 79, 109'2 S. Main died Saturday in Ball Hospital, Muncie, after a brief illness. She was born in Hoopeston. 111., the daughter of Tom and Dora Smith.

She had been the owner and operator of the Dunkirk Launderette since 1958. Surviving are a son, Orley Webster, Muncie; a daughter, Patricia Travis, Albany; a sister, Leta Pearson, St. Petersburg, two grandchildren, and three great-grandchilaren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Whetsel Funeral Home with Rev.

Charles Elam officiating. Entombment will be Gardens of Memory. Muncie. Calling hours at the funeral home are 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Monday.

Memorials may be sent to the Indiana Diabetes Association. Dorothy L. Craig Dorothy L. Craig, 51, 2826 Meeker died Saturday in Ball Hospital after an extended illness. She was a native of Lebanon, and had lived most of her life in Muncie.

She attended Muncie schools and was an employee of Ontario Corp. in the early 1970s. Surviving are her husband, Bill; two daughters, Mrs. Pamela Daugherty, Eaton, and Mrs. Brenda Edwards, Muncie; four brothers.

Eastland Mikel, Akron, Ohio, Virgil Mikel, Parker City, Raymond Mikel, Farmland, and Donald Mikel, Muncie; three sisters, Mrs. Ruby Fitzgerald, Mrs. Marcella Davenport and Mrs. Evelyn Gibson, all of Muncie, and three grandchildren. Private services will be held for the family.

Burial will be in Thompson Cemetery. Gaston. There are no public calling hours. Parson Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Joseph C.

Myers, 85 NEW CASTLE, Ind. Joseph C. Myers, 85, R.R. 1, Straughn, died Saturday in New Castle Healthcare Center after a sudden illness. He was born in Wayne County and was a farmer in Henry County.

Mr. Myers was a member of Henry County Farm Bureau. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Kenneth (Mary) Lukens, Pendleton; two nieces, one nephew and several cousins. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Tuesday in Main and Frame Funeral Home, New Castle, with Pastor David Wolfe officiating. Burial will be in Brick Cemetery, Hagerstown. Friends may call 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Monday in the funeral home. Paul Denney, 58 NEW CASTLE, Ind.

Paul J. Denney, 58, 1325 died Saturday in Henry County Hospital. Arrangements are pending at Main and Frame Funeral Home. Lewis M. Brees, Charter Member of Legion Post Lewis M.

Brees, 90, formerly of 910 E. 26th more recently a resident of Fountainview Place, died Saturday in Ball Hospital. He was born in Muncie, the son of William and Margaret Shafer Brees, attended the city schools and spent most of his life in this community. He served in the Army during World War I. Mr.

Brees was employed at Durham Manufacturing Co. 15 years before his retirement. He previously worked 25 years at M.L. Meeks and Sons. He was one of the few surviving charter members of Delaware Post 19, American Legion, and was a member of Eastern Indiana Rose Society and Civic Garden Club.

He traveled extensively with the Bob Braun 50-50 Club and appeared on the Cincinnati-originated Bob Braun television show numerous times. He also was a member of the Cincinnati Reds Booster Club and regularly attended the Alpha Center. Surviving are several nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Kenneth (Sally) Stong, Muncie; Harold Harrington, Anderson, and Mrs. Helen Neal and Charles Harrington, both of Oakland, Calif.

Services will be in Meeks Mortuary at 1:30 p.m. Monday, with Rev. Roy Neal officiating. Interment will be in Elm Ridge. Friends may call at the mortuary 2-5 p.m.

today and any time before services Monday. Bruce G. Main Dies; Was Farmland Native FARMLAND, Ind. Bruce G. Main.

48, of East Williams Street, died Friday in Ball Hospital, Muncie, after a sudden illness. He was a lifelong resident of Farmland and was a 1952 graduate of Farmland High School. Mr. Main retired from Delco Battery, Muncie, in 1979 after 27 years of service. He was a member of Farmland Lodge 308.

of which he was a past master; Order of the Eastern Star of Farmland and a member and officer of the Muncie Dog Obedience Club. Mr. Main was also a member of the Delco Sympathy Club and past member of the Farmland Volunteer Fire Department. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; two daughters, Mrs. Bill (Linda) Swanson, Juneau, Alaska, and Mrs.

Ray (Jenny) Rockhill, one son, Glenn Main, Chesterfield; one brother, James S. Main, Farmland; one sister, Mrs. Don (Sandy) Woods, Fort Lauderdale, and four grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Thornburg Funeral Home, west of Farmland.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Maxville. Friends may call 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. today in the funeral home. Masonic services will be at 7:30 p.m. today in the funeral home.

John R. Stanley, 41, Dies; Ex-Muncie Paving Worker HAGERSTOWN, Ind. John R. Stanley. 41, R.R.

1, died Saturday morning at Ball Hospital in Muncie. He was a native of Hagerstown and had lived in Yorktown from 1964 to 1974 during the time he was employed by Muncie Paving. Mr. Stanley was employed as an equipment operator by Wayne Asphalt of Fort Wayne. Survivors include his mother, June Stanley Davis, and his stepfather, Eldon Davis, R.R.

2, Hagerstown, and two stepbrothers, Tom Davis of Hayward, and Don Davis of Richmond, Ind. Services are scheduled at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Culberson Funeral Home with Rev. Donald R. Scott officiating.

Burial will be in the Brick Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home 6-9 p.m. Monday and before the services Tuesday. Warren T. Lammotte Winchester Barber WINCHESTER, Ind.

Warren T. Lammotte, 60. 602 S. Meridian died Friday in Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, after an extended illness. He was a retired barber and was a member of the American Legion.

He was a veteran of World War II. Surviving are his mother, Nora Watt, Winchester; his wife, Rosalie; four daughters, Lenora Pitzer and Linda Shoop, both of Winchester, Deana Sloan, Farmland, and Peggy Malicoat, Fountain City; two sons, Warren Winchester, and Lawrence, Bakersfield, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Private services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday in Walker Funeral Home here with Rev. Clarence Hildreth officiating.

Burial will be in Fountain Park Cemetery. There are no calling hours. Lois Farling Jobe Dies; Was Formerly of Muncie Lois Farling Jobe, formerly of Muncie, died Saturday in Dayton, Ohio. She graduated from Central High School in 1940 and moved to Dayton in 1943. Surviving are her husband, Wayne Jobe: three sisters, Beverly Minton, Dayton, and Joyce Richards and Sandra Green, both of New Port Richey, one brother Gary Tremaine, Dayton; one son, Ronald Kendall; one daughter, Debbie; her stepfather, Clyde Tremaine; seven grandchildren; and two stepsons, Wayne Jobe Texas, and Jimmy Jobe, Kettering, Ohio.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Tobias Funeral Home, Dayton. Burial will be in David Cemetery, Dayton. Friends may call 2-5 p.m. today in the funeral home.

Mullinix Rites Monday Services for James G. Mullinix, 74, 220 N. Hodson will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Jennings Funeral Home, Jamestown, with Rev. James O.

McCowan officiating. Burial will be in Andy Smith Cemetery, Manson, Tenn. Friends may call after 3 p.m. today in the funeral home. Mr.

Mullinix died Friday in Ball Hospital after an extended illness. There are no local calling hours. Classified Display Classified Display LARGE CONSTRUCTION AUCTION FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1982 FAIRFIELD, OHIO Crawler Loaders, Crawler Dozers, Backhoes, Dozers, Excavators, Truck Cranes, Cranes, and much more equipment items too numerous to mention. FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTIVE BROCHURE, CALL 402-397-9959. UNITED AUCTIONEERS, INC.

8990 W. DODGE SUITE 315 OMAHA, NEBRASKA 68114 Born on April 4, 1923, Palden was the second son of Tashi Namgyal. Namgayal's elder brother was reared for the throne, but he was killed in 1941 while serving as an officer in Britain's Royal Air Force. The younger son, who had been studying to become a monk, was summoned from the monastery and groomed to become king. In 1950, three years after India became independent of Britain.

Sikkim agreed to become a protectorate of India and allow the New Delhi government to handle external relations, defense, communications and currency. In 1963, after the death of his first wife, Namgyal married Miss Cooke, a young New York socialite he met when she visited Sikkim with a group of her Sarah Lawrence College classmates. It was a fairytale affair, with honored guests riding on elephants into what decades earlier had still been a "forbidden kingdom." A year after the wedding, Namgyal's father died and he became the chogyal. Prompted partly by his wife, he sought to make Sikkim more independent of India, which used the protectorate as a buffer against neighboring China. But India resisted any such moves and opposition against the king grew, with some leaders accusing his wife of trying to expand U.S.

influence in Sikkim. On his 50th birthday, in 1973, thousands marched through the streets of Gangtok, the capital, demanding democratic reforms. Since 1979, Namgyal had been permitted to enter and leave the country at will, but not travel freely in Sikkim. Sharp's Office Schedule Listed Tenth District Rep. Phil Sharp's mobile office will visit 17 communities in Blackford, Delaware, Jay, Madison, Randolph, Wayne, and Wells counties this week.

Although Sharp will be in Washington, a member of his staff will be available to take comments on issues now pending before Congress or listen to specific problems people might have with a federal agency. The schedule: Monday, Feb. 1 p.m., Gaston In the downtown area; 3-4 p.m., Summitville on Main Street. Tuesday, Feb. 2 a.m., Selma near the post office; 11:45 a.m.-l:15 p.m., Farmland at the senior citizen nutrition site at Lions Club Park; p.m., Winchester on north side of the Randolph County Courthouse.

Wednesday, Feb, 3 a.m., PennvUle on Ind. 1 in the business area; p.m., Bluff ton on east side of the Wells County Courthouse; p.m., Ossian in the business district. Thursday, Feb. 4 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Richmond at Richmond Square Mall, U.S. 40 east; p.m., Liberty on north side of the Union County Courthouse; p.m., Dublin on U.S.

40 in the downtown area. Friday, Feb. 5 p.m., Dunkirk In the downtown area; p.m., Montpe-lier at Huntington and Main streets; 4-5 p.m., Hartford City at the shopping center at north edge of town. Saturday, Feb. 6 a.m., Mun-cie at Southway Plaza Shopping Center; 11 :30 a.m.-l p.m., uncle at Meadows Shopping Center; p.m., Muncie at Northwest Plaza Shopping Center.

NEW YORK (UPI) The royal family of Sikkim Saturday mourned the death of their deposed king and ordered his body specially prepared for a Buddhist funeral in his Himalayan homeland. King Palden Thondup Namgyal. who died Friday at 58, was to be flown to India Saturday and then on to Sikkim where he once ruled by divine right, said Namgyal's son-in-law, Simon Abrahams. A special coffin was ordered constructed for the Namgyal. so he could sit in a lotus position in adherence to Buddhist tradition.

Abrahams said he, four of the king's children and a Buddhist priest would accompany the special coffin, He said Namgyal's former wife, New York socialite Hope Cooke, would not make the trip. Namgyal died Friday from complications following surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he had been reported undergoing treatment for cancer of the lung and neck since September. Namgyal was the last chogyal of Sikkim, a kingdom on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas between Nepal and Bhutan and bounded on north by Chinese-occupied Tibet. He ruled for 13 years before being forced to relinquish power and his kingdom was annexed by India in 1975 after a period of anti-monarchist opposition. In 1978, his American wife divorced him.

Ulysses F. Rible Was Architect of LA Landmarks SAN DIEGO (UPI) Ulysses F. Rible, 77, a retired architect who helped the landmark Los Angeles City Hall, has died in a San Diego hospital. Rible, who lived near San Diego, was educated at University of Southern California and worked for a firm that designed several Los Angeles landmarks, including the downtown Federal Building and the Griffith Park Observatory. But it was the 28-story Los Angeles City Hall that was to become the symbol of the city.

From 1928 until the mid-1960s, the colonnaded, monumental structure was the tallest building in the city. The electic, tile-roofed building is a mixture of Italian, Hispanic and Byzantine architecture, with an innovative pyramid tower-top. Rible later was a partner in the Los Angeles-based architectural firm of Allison, Rible, Robinson Ziegler. His firm was the consulting architect for UC Riverside and the California State University at Northridge. The firm also served as master planners of the California Polytechnic University campuses at Pomona and San Luis Obispo.

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