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November 19, 1926

Judge Wilson Suspends Sentence on Banker

By Walter Humphrey

United States District Court Thursday afternoon recognized the fallibility of a man's judgement and William Echols will have another chance to make good.

The two-year sentence given Echols on his plea of guilty for embezzlement of $7,155.14 from the First National Bank was suspended by Judge James C. Wilson.

Five witnesses had testified to Echols' previously good character.

Echols had never been arrested on the charge. He had reported to officers of his bank that he had been "kiting" sums of money over a period of a year and a half which he was head of the bank's collection department.

Backed by Prosecutors

The story that brought Echols a chance to come back wasn't just a story. Even the government attorneys backed it up and spoke highly of the actions of the defendant since his trouble.

It is the ancient story of the man who took sums of money intrusted [sic] to him and converted them to his private use because he was sure he could pay it all back. Theft was not the intent-tho intent means nothing to the law.

Sells Home and Car.

Echols has sold his home, his car, has disposed of all his securities, all tangible property. Already he has paid back almost half the sum. But a few hours after his confession to Walter Wallerich, assistant cashier, Echols voluntarily made arrangement with a bondiing [sic] company for the payment of the shortage.

A wife and two children sat within the rail at the courtroom, trying to wash away with their tears the vision of a prison cell.

When Attorney Clyde Eastus finished his plea for the court's mercy and after Echols had given a brief, broken statement of his own guilt, there was not a man or woman in the courtroom who would not have done as Judge Wilson did.

"Two years-and I suspend the sentence," he said.

Echols will make good.

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November 25, 1930

W. H. Anderson, 1511 Aston, obtained a permit for a brick veneer house to cost $5,000, and C. L. Hudgins, 2629 Bomar, for a brick veneer duplex costing $3,000.

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June 30, 1933

FAIRY HOME STYLE HAMS

(Ready to Server)

Order Them by Name. The Most Delicious Hams You Have Ever Tasted. These Dealers Have Them for You . . . Others Can Get Them--

W. H. Anderson

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MADE IN FORT WORTH

by

Ft. Worth Packing Co.

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December 19, 1933

Funeral Services for Echols Will Be Held This Afternoon

W. W. Echols, salesman in Fort Worth for nearly 14 years, died his home 1517 Alston Avenue, at 4:15 a. m. today. He had been ill a year.

Funeral services were to be held at 3 p. m. today Spelman-Secrest-Weiler Funeral Home, with Dr. J. Frank Norris officiating. Burial will be in Roscoe.

Mr. Echols had been connected with the American Seed Company for the last two years.

Born is Rock Creek, Ark., he came to Texas when 6 years old. He lived in Waxahachie, Italy, Roscoe and Snyder before coming to Fort Worth. He was a former deacon in the First Baptist Church, a Shriner and member of Masonic lodge No. 148.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Della Echols; one daughter, Miss Avanell Echols; two sons, William and Edwin Echols; three brothers, E. O. Echols, of Fort Worth; J. O. Echols, Del Rio, and Jim W. Echols, Clovis, N. M.; and six sisters, Mrs. A. J. Kemp, Clovis; Mrs. J. R. Coker, Westbrook; Mrs. Clarence Thomas, Kingsville; Mrs. H. H. Copeland, Abilene; Mrs. Deck Ward, Amity, Ark.; and Mrs. Lindsay Dennis, Olton, Texas.

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March 28, 1935

Messrs. and Mmes. J. Talmadge Wood and Wayne Cason, who were married at a double wedding Thursday evening, are making their home in Fort Worth.

Mrs. Wood is the former Miss Adeline Standifer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Standifer, 402 South Adams St. Mrs. Cason is the former Miss Avinelle Echols, daughter of Mrs. W. W. Echols, 1517 Alston Ave.

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May 21, 1938

The section "Introducing Paschal Graduates--the City's Largest Senior Class" includes a listing for "William Echols".

Dr. Harry Spencer Will Deliver Sermon At High School Baccalaureate Services

Fort Worth's largest senior high school graduating class will receive diplomas at the Will Rogers memorial Auditorium at 8 p. m. Thursday, June 2. It is the class from Paschal, which has 461 candidates for diplomas.

Baccalaureate services will be in the school auditorium at 11 a. m. Sunday, May 29, with Dr. Harry Lee Spencer, pastor of College Avenue Baptist Church, delivering the sermon.

Candidates for graduation are:

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William Echols

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March 3, 1943

Alpha-Lambda Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority entertained last night at Carter's Cafeteria for the president, Miss Ruby Lowry, bridge-elect of Corp. O. B. Carter.

Miss Lowry will leave next week for Colorado Springs where the couple will be married. He is being transferred there from Fort Belvoir, Va.

Dinner guests were Mmes. Leon Whitner, W. W. Echols and Misses Dale Mitchell, June Hagin, Mary Louise Rowell, Virginia Gillespie, Marganne Didier, Mary Nolan and Gloria Oldham. A gift of linen was presented to Miss Lowry.

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June 29, 1943

27 Slated to Leave July 1 for Wolters Induction Center

The men registered with Selective Service Board No. 2, who will report to Camp Wolters July 1 for military duty, were announced today.

They are: Norman C. Adelberg, 1103 Eighth Ave. John E. White, 900 Sixth Ave. Edwin E. Wyatt Jr., 1019 Southland Walter E. Wilkerson Jr., 1305 E. Morphy James F. Stuart Jr., 909 Hemphill Nolan D. Lovell, 922 Alston. William W. Echols, 2205 Lipscomb

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August 28, 1943

Andersons Begin 54th Year of Married Life

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Anderson, 1504 Fifth Ave., began their 54th year of married life today, dwelling on memories of their wedding at Cedar Gap, 15 miles south of Abilene, in 1850.

The couple--he is 74 and she is 69--took little notice of the anniversary yesterday. Mrs. Anderson celebrated at home while her husband "worked at the store all day as usual." Mr. Anderson has been in the grocery business 42 years. "We are too old far partying," Mrs. Anderson commented.

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April 12, 1944

Speakers scheduled for the two-day session include State Sen. Jesse Martin, Mr. Yeargan, Mr. Dill, J. T. Ryan, High Point, N. C., secretary of the Southern Furniture Mfgrs. Assn,; W. H. Anderson, Dallas; Clark B. Kelsey, Chicago, advertising counsel; W. M, Woltman, Houston, president of the Houston Retail Furniture Dealers Assn. and state associate director; O. W. Clement, Dallas, stove rationing official; Frank C. smith, Houston Natl. Gas Corp. president; Jack Hand, Chicago, editor of the National Furniture Review; Ed W. o'Connell, Chicago, president of the Natl. Wholesale Furniture Salesmen's Assn.;

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April 13, 1944

Other speakers at the opening session this morning included H. E. Dill, Dallas, executive secretary of the association, J. T. Ryan, High Point, N. C., secretary of the Southern Furniture Mfgrs. Assn., Clark B. Kelsey, Chicago, advertising counsel for the industry, and W. H. Anderson, Dallas dealer.

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December 21, 1944

The title mistakenly refers to William Henry Anderson as "William H. Henderson" but this is corrected in the text.

Snyder Burial for William H. Henderson

The body of William H. Anderson, retired West Texas merchant, will be sent to Snyder for burial following funeral services at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow at Cause-Ware Chapel. Mr. Anderson, who died last night, was 75.

Prior to 1907, Mr. Anderson operated mercantile stores in Roscoe, Loraine and Hermleigh, and in Snyder from 1907 to 1921. He came to Fort Worth 24 years ago and operated grocery stores until his retirement a year ago. He lived at 1504 Fifth Ave.

Mr. Anderson often recalled his youth in Abilene and the job he had operating a street sprinkler for $25 a month. Survivors are his wife; a son, E. W. Anderson; a daughter, Mrs. Della Echols, both of Fort Worth; two brothers and two sisters.

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December 22, 1944

WILLIAM H. ANDERSON

The body of Mr. Anderson, 75, retired West Texas merchant, was sent to Snyder for burial today after funeral services at 9:30 a. m. at Gause-Ware Chapel. Mr. Anderson, who lived at 1504 Fifth Ave., died here Wednesday.

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November 28, 1945

1st Lt. Raymond G. Lowry, husband of Mrs. Martha R. Lowry, 4212 Ave. J and now visiting in Houston and son of Mrs. R. E. Lowry, 1924 College, who has been listed as missing since failing to return from a flight over Burma July 14, 1944, has now been listed as officially dead, according to a War Dept. message received by his family.

Besides the wife and mother, he is survived by three sisters, Mmes. William W. Echols, A. M. Bennett and O. B. Carter. Memorial services will be held Sunday at 7:30 p. m. in College Ave. Baptist Church.

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September 4, 1947

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Rh Babe, Who Got New Blood Supply at Birth, is Healthy Now

Borrowed Blood in his vein, doesn't keep W. W. (Bill) Echols III from being a healthy baby. The month-old child, whose blood was replaced at birth with blood from a blood bank, is shown with his mother. He is an "Rh factor baby."

By Mary Crutcher

One-month-old Bill Echols is living on borrowed blood. And, he is doing all the good too.

His own blood-at least 75 percent of it- was drained from his body at birth.

As it was drained, it was replaced with blood from Methodist Hospital's blood bank.

The process, which involved the use of special tubing ordered for that purpose, took about two hours.

Reason for Bill's rather unique entry into the world is that he is an "Rh factor baby."

New Technique

He's believed to be the first infant delivered by the relatively new technique in Forth Worth. It was the result of planning that began when his mother first visited her obstetrician last February.

The baby's father, W. W. Echols Jr., an architectural draftsman, and his mother have conflicting bloods. Mr. Echols has Rh factor positive, and Mrs. Echols has Rh factor negative.

The fact that the parents have conflicting blood is not alarming in the event of first babies or if the person with Rh negative blood has never had a transfusion.

But in the case of Bill's parents, of 2501 Sixth Ave., the outlook was not bright. Their first child, a son too, was born dead Jan. 10, 1946.

Dates Back to '38

Doctors believe the cause dates back to 1938, when Mrs. Echols was stricken with a Streptococcus infection of the throat. It was necessary for her to have a blood transfusion.

At that time, transfusions were given with only blood types taken-doctors didn't know about the Rh factor, or a condition of the blood so called because it was first found in Rhesus monkeys.

Now it is known that 85 percent of the people in America are Rh positive (or have a condition in the blood stream called the Rh factor). Fifteen per cent are Rh negative-or lack that condition.

Mrs. Echols, an Rh negative, apparently was given a transfusion from a person with Rh positive.

Explaining the Rh factor, a doctor said that persons who are Rh positive don't have to worry about birth conflicts in transfusions or childbirth. If they are Rh positive, they can take either Rh positive or Rh negative blood.

How It Happens

But if they are negative and take an Rh positive transfusion, the lack of the Rh factor in their blood causes the blood to build up antibodies.

Antibodies in an Rh negative person might eventually cause death if given many transfusions of Rh

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(Starts on Page 1) positive blood. They would eventually tear down the kidneys.

An Rh negative father and an Rh negative mother will produce an Rh negative baby, and have nothing to worry about.

But when a man with Rh positive and a woman with Rh negative are to become parents, their doctor begins to go into the woman's history to see if she's had transfusions and reactions from them.

In a case like that here's what can happen: If the baby is Rh positive and some of the blood cells from the baby should work their way through the placenta and get into the mother's blood stream, it causes the mother to build up antibodies.

The doctor compared it with forces from one country invading another and the resulting battle.

"The antibodies have a tendency to tear down the positive cells," he said.

Just as the cells from the baby can get in the mother's blood stream, the antibodies can work their way into the baby's blood and start tearing it down.

During the last two or three months of the mother's pregnancy, the doctor takes tests at regular intervals to determine the concentration of antibodies in her blood stream.

If she has no antibodies, he knows that the baby is either a Rh negative or that there has been no exchange of blood.

If the antibody determination starts upwards (or increases) the doctor knows the prognosis for the baby isn't so good. Ten the pregnancy must be interrupted by a Caesarian operation.

Such was the case of Mrs. Echols. Increase of antibodies plus the fact that the obstetrician heard faint murmurs in the infant's heart brought about the Caesarian birth five weeks premature.

he doctor had been having specimens of the blood checked at Terrell Laboratories here and by some Dr. Phillip Levine with the Ortho Research Foundation in Raritan, N. J., which renders the service for doctors.

He consulted on the case with Dr. Joseph M. Hill, director of the William Buchanan Blood Center of Baylor University Hospital, Dallas, well informed on the Rh factor as the result of extensive research.

On the basis of a test made by the New Jersey doctor last May, fear for a successful delivery was expressed.

Naturally the doctors didn't give up. The obstetrician and a pediatrician worked together closely. They had Rh negative blood from the blood bank ready.

As soon as the Caesarean was completed, the pediatrician started work on the baby. With special equipment, he drew the baby's blood from his body slowly and replaced it just as slowly with the blood from the blood bank.

Bill, who has been formally named William W. Echols III, weighted in at four pounds, 15 ounces.

Born Aug. 10, he stayed in the hospital's premature baby ward until Aug. 30.

At home with his parents now, he weights five pounds, 13 ounces. His color is as good as any baby's. His doctors say he's as healthy as any premature baby.

His mother is the former Katie Lowry. His grandparents are Mrs. R. E. Lowry, 800 W. Morphy and Mrs. Della Echols, 1504 Fifth Ave.

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