The Ennis Weekly Local (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1968 Page: 1 of 4
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ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS 75119, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1968
Angie Epting, Granddaughter Dr. A. L. Thomas,
On "Worldventure," as Climax to Her Diploma
Miss Angie Epting, who says Lt. and Mrs. Jimmy Threlkeld f Books on Russia, Pakistan, China
she inherited her “itchy feet” for three days of touring in Ja-
from her late grandmother
pan. The Threlkelds are on vaca-
Thomas, visited her grandfather, tion in Japan while he is sta-
Dr. A. L. Thomas, here, recently
on the first lap of her trip
“around the world in 80 days.”
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Epting of Athens, Ga.,
she is among the 16 young peo-
ple, aged 20-23, who comprise
the “Osborne Worldventure ’68.”
Phil Osborne of Atlanta, Ga.,
‘ widely-known tour organizer and
guide, is leading the tour which
offically began June 21 in Ha-
waii and the next stop was Tok-
yo. But Miss Epting started her
tour right here in Ennis, flying
here from Georgia to visit her
grandfather, aunts and cousins
a few days and from here she
flew- to San Francisco to visit
college friends a few days before
meeting the group in Hawaii.
From Hawaii they will go to
Tokyo where they will be join-
ed by two friends of Athens, Ga.,
tioned at Okinawa.
What began after a skiing col-
lision between Miss Epting and
Mr. Osborne catapulted her into
the whirlwind of travel, as on a
skiing weekend at Beech Moun-
tain, N. C., she literally ran into
Mr. Osborne on the slopes and
later learned of his worldwide
tour plans. Then she convinced
her parents that these days
every girl must travel around
the world. Before her trip she
said “if something were to hap-
pen to cancel the trip, I’ve had
more fun than ever planning,
reading about countries I will
visit and studying about the peo-
ple I will see.”
A June graduate of the Uni-
versity of Georgia with a degree
in geography, she calls this trip
“the climax to my diploma.”
Distinguished Service in Viet ---
Commendation Medal
To Sp-4 David Wood
SP/4 David E. Wood, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wood, 904 S.
Chatfield, has been awarded the
Army Commendation Medal, for
“distinguishing himself by ex- |
ceptionally meritorious service
in support of Allied counter- |
insurgency operations in the
Republic of South Vietnam.”
By direction of the Secretary
of the Army the Commendation I
Medal was presented to SP/4
Wood, the citation pointing out: 1
"During the period March 4,
1968 to April 5, 1963, he astute-
ly surmounted extremely ad- ,
verse conditions to obtain con- |
sistenly superior results.
Through diligence and determ-
ination, he invariably accom-
plished every task with dispatch
and efficiency. His unrelenting
loyalty, initiative and persever-
ance brought him wide acclaim
and inspired others to strive for
maximum achievement. Self-
lessly working long and ardous
hours, he has contributed signi-
ficantly to the success of the
Allied effort .His commendable
performance was in keeping the
finest traditions of the military
service and reflects distinct
credit upon himiself and the US
Army."
SP/4 DAVID E. WOOD
SP/4 Wood has been in the
service nearly two years and is
engaged in office work and
guard duty in Vietnam. He ex-
pects to be home Thanksgiving.
He is a 1964 graduate of Ennis
High School, attended Navarro
Junior College and the Univer-
sity of Texas and was employed
for some time at Hesser Drug
Store here.
VOL. 43 NO. 27
and a course in East Asian geo-
graphy were part of her selected
curriculum this spring.
Her itinerary includes, besides
Hawaii and Japan, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, Cambodia, Thailand, Ne-
pal, India, Afganistan, Vale of
Kashmir, Pakistan, Iran, Leban-
on, Vienna, Greece, USSR, Lon-
don, Paris, Switzerland.
Highlights will be a tour of the
Greek Isles and a special two
week stay in Berlin and Russia.
And then it’s on to Paris, Lon-
don and, finally, to Switzerland
where Miss Epting and her ski-
ing prowess will find special de-
light. She vowed to buy a pair
of Swiss skiis, “even if I have to
carry them over my shoulders
until I get back home.”
She expressed a sincere de-
sire before leaving to be a sort
of American ambassador. “It’s
really frightening when you
think about what people across
the world think about Ameri-
C. Wesbrook,
Ex-Resident of
Crisp, Is Dead
Clifford Wesbrook, 67,
of
Houston, formerly of Crisp, pass-
ed away in Houston on Tuesday.
The funeral service will be
held at 2 p.m. on Thursday in the
Keever Chapel with the Rev.
Hoyt. M. Hefner officiating. In-
terment will be in the Crisp
Cemetery.
Mr. Wesbrook was born in
Crisp on December 27, 1900. He
was married to Miss Edith Mc-
Lemore of Crisp in 1920 and
they lived in Crisp and Ennis
until about thirty years ago
when they went to Houston. Mr.
Wesbrook was a retired long
shoreman. He was a member of
the Baptist Church, the East
Gate Masonic Lodge No. 1153 of
Houston and the I.L.A. No. 1231.
Surviving him are his wife,
two sons Clifford Wesbrook, Jr.
of Channel View and I. T. Wes-
brook of Houston; one daughter
Mrs. Bobbie Ward of Houston;
eight grandchildren; six great,
grandchildren; and two sisters,
one of whom is Mrs. Bessie Cagle
of Crisp.
BACK FROM
PLANE TRIP
TO EUROPE
Mrs. Cecil Tolleson, Mrs. Dick
Betts, Mrs. Clifton Burnett and
Mrs. Dan Tucker have returned
from Europe, having taken an
American Express Travel Agen-
cy tour.
Visit in Cleburne
Mrs. Vera Tolar spent the
fourth with her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Willie V. Carter of Cle-
burns. i
Mrs. J. G. Ewing
Funeral Services
Sat. Morning
The funeral service for Mrs.
J. Grady Ewing, 54, of Red Oak,
sister of Mrs. C. L. McCaw and
Mrs. Glyn Stokes, was held at
10 a.m. Saturday in the Keever
Chapel with the Rev. Carl Bilder-
back, pastor of the Baylor Bap-
tist Church, officiating. Inter-
ment was in the Myrtle Ceme-
tery with the following serving
as pallbearers: J. H. Irwin,
George Hardin, Bill Hale, Char-
les King, Howard Brittain, all of
Dallas and Noel Dowdy of Red
Oak.
Mrs. Ewing, formerly Emma
Laura Ayers passed away on
Thursday in 'St. Paul’s Hospital
in Dallas. She was born in Mt.
Selman, Texas on January 31,
1914, the daughter of John and
Hattie Smith Ayers. She was
reared there and also lived in
Terrell and Dallas where she was
a clerk in the office of the S.P.-
R.R. On March 6, 1946 she was
married to J. Grady Ewing and
they made their home on Rt. No.
1, Red Oak. She was a member
of the Baptist Church and B. of
R. C.
Surviving here are her hus-
band, one daughter Mrs. LaAnn
Campbell of Dallas; two grand-
children; and three sisters, Mrs.
C. L. McCaw, Mrs. Glynn Stokes,
both of Ennis and Mrs. M. W.
Kring of Abilene.
Ben St. Clair
Dies Here This
Afternoon
Ben St. Clair, 86, died at 1
p.m. today in Ennis Municipal
Hospital.
He was born April 5, 1882, in
Cherokee County, Alabama, and
moved to the Byrd community in
1904, and lived there until 1955.
At that time he moved to Bris-
tol.
He was a retired farmer and
had made his home with his sis-
ter, Mrs. Berta Venable of Bris-
tol, since 1909-
Survivors are his one sister,
Mrs. Venable; 4 brothers, D. A.
St. Clair, Ennis; Elbert St. Clair,
Milford; M. St. Clair, Houston;
Homer St. Clair, Rt. 4, Ennis, a
cans, especially after the past
few weeks. I hope I can somehow number of nephews and nreces.
give them a better picture of
what America is all about.”
Miss Epting will be back home
in Athens Sept. 4.
HERE FROM
MISSOURI
Guests in the homes of Mr.
and Mrs. R. F. Rickert, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Rickert Jr. and Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Rickert are R. F.
Rickert’s sisters, Mrs. Lennie
Cole, Mrs. Kate Sparling and
Mrs. Leva Williams, and his bro-
ther-in-law, John Davis, all of
Kansas City, Mo. Another bro-
ther, John Rickert of Kansas
City has been visting here for
about a month and will remain
for a longer visit.
Funeral services will be at
4 p.m. Thursday at Bunch Fu-
neral Chapel, with burial to fol-
low in Elm Branch Cemetery
near Bardwell.
W. C. Roye Is
Taken by Death
This Afternoon
W. C. Roye died early this aft-
ernoon in Ennis Nursing Home.
Arrangements are pending
with J- E. Keever Mortuary.
3d Ellis 4H Horse
Show Plans Ready
Arrangements are complete
for the third Ellis County 4-H
Quarter Horse Show, to be held
at 10 a.m. Saturday at the rodeo
arena in Waxahachie.
A Billy Cook trophy saddle
will be given the all-around
champion quarter horse Satur-
day, officials said. To be eligible
for this honor, a horse must be
shown in halter and at least two
performance classes.
There will be classes for stal-
lions, mares and geldings. In
quarter horse performance,
there will be junior western
pleasure, senior western pleas-
ure, junior quarter horse rein-
ing, senior quarter horse rein-
ing, junior and senior quarter
horse barrel races, pole bend-
ing, junior and senior quarter
horse roping, junior and senior
quarter horse cutting events and
an open cutting class.
George Garrett of Plano will
be the judge. Willard Davis of
Waxahachie is the manager and
Jim Bynum of Waxahachie is
the assistant manager.
Ring stewards will be David
Lewis and Billy Tom Splawn
and Juan Davis will be the sec-
retary. Frances Jo Kudrna and
Martha Witten will be assistant
secretaries.
Joyce Gerron and Cindy Wit-
ten will serve as timekeepers
while Jack Bardwell, Craig Cur-
ry and Corky Redden will be in
charge of livestock. Debbie
Johnson and Kay Lowry will
have charge of the trophies and
Monica Davis and Debbie Low-
ry will handle the concessions.
The show is approved by the
American Quarter Horse Asso-
ciation.
TOP TRIO at the recent rollicking SPJST Youth District
Achievement Day festivities at National Hall here:
(L to R) State President-Elect Nick Morris of West; Mrs.
Alvin Nesuda of Ennis, district youth director, and Louis
Kudrna, local SPJST president. They are energetic and
resourceful and given credit for much of the success
of the affair.
Ex-Ennis Couple
Killed in Wreck
Funeral services will be held on crash occurring at 4 a.m. Sat-
at Abilene at 3 p.m. Tuesday for
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Owens,
respectively 44 and 41 years of
age, of Abilene, former residents
of Ennis, who died in an automo-
bile accident.
The fatal accident was a head-
urday on US 183 about a mile
south of O’Brien, Tex.
Mrs. Owens was dead on arri-
val at Knox City Hospital and
Mr. Owens died there minutes
later.
Investigators stated that the
driver of the second vehicle was
Daniel Espinoza, 31, of Knox
City, who suffered a broken jaw
and a broken shoulder.
Bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Owens
are at Elliott Funeral Home in
Abilene.
Mrs. Owens was a niece of
Mrs. C. S. Barker of Ennis, and
was a daughter of Charlie Bowen
and Mrs. Letha Bowen of Abi-
lene, who formerly lived here.
Mrs. Louise Hawkins of Ennis,
also a relative, went to Abilene
today to attend tomorrow’s ser-
vices for Mr. and Mrs. Owens.
MIKE CATERO
Mike Catero
Enters Business
In This City
Mike Catero and family—his
wife, the former Linda Odom,
and daughter, 10 - months - old
Tonya—have chosen Ennis as
their home, and will reside at
2306 Linda Dr.
Mr. Catero, 25, has entered
business with Woodrow W.
Odom, well-known real estate
developer, his father-in-law, and
previously had given extensive
study to the real estate busi-
ness, a vocation he followed pre-
viously in Colorado.
He was graduated from Tex-
as Tech, with major in interna-
tional relations and minor in
math, in 1967. Subsequently the
Cateros moved to Denver, Colo.,
where he was with the Colorado
City Real Estate Company and
took ten weeks’ study in Colo-
Former Ennis
Girl’s Husband
Gets Master’s
Myron 0. Knudson, 475 Web-
ster Street, Needham Heights,
Mass., husband of the former
Doris M. Parker, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl D. Parker of En-
nis, has received the Master of
Science in Civil Engineering
(Sanitary) from Northeastern
University, Boston, Mass. Grad-
uation exercises were held at
Boston Garden June 16. He
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Oran
Knudson of Hamilton.
Mr. Knudson received the
Bachelor of Science in Civil En-
gineering Degree from the Uni-
versity of Texas in June, 1962.
He served as a commissioned of-
ficer in the U. S. Public Health
Service from July, 1962, until
July, 1966, and since July, 1966,
has been employed by the Fed-
eral Water Pollution Control Ad-
ministration, U. S. Dept, of the
Interior. His position is chief,
field operations, at the New Eng-
land Water Quality Management
Center, Needham, Mass.
rado Real Estate Law. Mr.
Catero had had considerable sal-
es experience in off-hours, while
in college.
The Cateros were married
May 27, 19'66, here in Ennis;
they were collegemates at Tex-
as Tech and the romance began
there.
Mr. Catero’s work here will
involve various aspects of the
real estate business, which will
include house building, and sel-
ling, as well as farm and busi-
ness properties.
He will office at Odom De-
velopment Company, 511 Casa
Linda. The Cateros plan to at-
tend the First United Methodist
Church, where Mrs. Catero is
already a member. They expect
to be active in community life,
and both expressed pleasure ov-
er having chosen this growing
and progressive town as their
home.
SURVIVE ACCIDENT
LONGVIEW, Washington —
About 200 persons are report-
ed to have survived the collapse
of a footbridge at Longview, in
Washington State.
Maj. Peacock
Finishes Course
At Fort Sam
Army Major James L. Pea-
cock, son of Mrs. J. 0. Pea-
cock, 808 W. Lampasas, Ennis,
and the late Mr. Peacock, com-
pleted a 39-week Health Care
Administration Course, June 21
at the Army Medical Field Serv-
ice School, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas.
The course provides selected
commissioned officers of t h e
Army Medical Service with the
knowledge needed to direct and
supervise administrative activi-
ties in Army hospitals.
Areas of instruction include
hospital organization and man-
agement., medical economics,
personnel and supply manage-
ment, planning and construction
of medical facilities, and medi-
cal records and reports.
Major Peacock entered the
Army in June, 1059, and was
last stationed in Vietnam.
Major Peacock received h i s
IBS degree in 1958 from Lamar
State College of Technology,
Beaumont, and his ME degree
in 1963 from Texas A&M Uni-
versity, College Station.
Before entering the Army,
Major Peacock was employed as
an instructor at Texas A&M Uni-
versity.
CHARLES BREDEN JR.
Airman, Family in
Visit Relatives
This Community
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Breden
and children, A/1-c Charles Bre-
den Jr., Robert and Stephen
Breden of Bethalto, 111., are visit-
ing Mrs. Breden’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Vrla. Also guests
in the Vrla home yesterday were
their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. August Beran and
children, Milton, Thomas and
Catherine, of Dallas, Miss Kath-
leen Vrla and her brother, Dan-
ny, of Dallas, were also guests
yesterday of their grandparents
the Vrlas.
Airman Breden is on leave
from Ellsworth Air Force Base
near Rapid City, S. D., where he
is taking his training in civil en-
gineering. Prior to entering the
service a year ago, he attended
Southern Illinois University in
Edwardsville, Ill.
ED MUNNS’ STOLEN
CAR STILL MISSING
The 1963 Oldsmobile of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Munn,stolen at
night from its parking place at
their home nearly a week ago
is still missing. The car was
rolled out of the driveway and
some distance into the street,
before the motor was started, to
drive it away.
Ennis Woman’s Brother and His
Wife Die of Traffic Accident
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vineyard
returned Sunday from Bells,
where they attended the double
funeral service for her brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Elbert Jernigan of Bells,
held Saturday at the First
Methodist Church there.
Mrs. Jernigan was killed in-
stantly in an auto-truck accident
at Pearsall and Mr. Jernigan
died three days later of injuries
in the accident. The truck driv-
er apparently dozed and h i s
truck struck the side of the car
owned by Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Sears of Bells, with whom the
Jernigans were vacationing. Mr.
Sears was also killed instantly
in the accident. Mrs. Sears was
thrown from the car but
is now recovering satisfactorily,
in a Sherman hospital, of a
slight concussion and injured
vertebrae.
Mr. and Mrs. Jernigan are
survived by three married
daughters and five grandchil-
dren.
Besides his wife, Mr. Sears is
survived by two grown sons.
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