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27-year-old Mrs. Charles Benefield of Tye, Texas, near Abilene, is mother of a new- born boy this evening...by emergencyjdelivery. The ~father--a gas station attendant-- said he returned home from his job about 7 a.m. today and found his wife, Gwen, lying on the bed with their new son. Mrs. B n field said she had performed the -entire delivery by herself starting about 4I a.m. There was no telephone in the house. The couple' s oldest child, a 3-year-old girl, helped her mother. A second girl slept through the. Both mother and. irst new brother are doing well in an Abilene hsia