Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 7, 1964 Page: 1 of 10
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Number 44
Burleson. Johnson County, Texas — Oc tober 7, 1964
Volume 5
Elks Beat Old Foe For
on
First Time Friday
Last IFeeJj
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Professional Modeling Instructor
To Bring Ten Beautiful Models
f
former fashion mode!.
SEE PG. 6 FOR
HOMECOMING
SCHEDULE
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cordially invited to attend the dinnei and
Ereel will
BURL ESON
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Neal Ratcliff
Passed Away
Miss Hermine Tobolowsky To
Speak on Equal Legal Rights
Ercel Lewis to Compete in
Houston Calf Scramble
native of
attended
building contrac
building homes in
I the time of his ill-
belonged to the Mc-
Church,
to
the
the
Show
w Hl
School.
as
we
an
kind
will work the
Saturday. K©
door-to-door in an at
ticket
36-0.
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Elks
Tiger
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kick-o
Band Boosters To Serve Dinner
After Homecoming Parade Oct. 16
VETERANS OF WORLD
WAR I AND AUXILIARY
TO HAVE MEETING
a
was
at
He
car
■
All Veterans, their wives and
.......I Veterans are
o attend, announced <>.
Johnston. Sr., Vice Com-
mander, 6th District.
Neal
away in
SEPTEMBER RAINFALL
TOTALED 6.62 INCHES
Rainfall during September
totaled 6.62 inches according to
Gus Bransom, bringing our
rainfall for the year up to 25.67
inches, or about normal number
of inches, though much of it
has fallen since August 15.
The first rain in September
was recorded by Mr. Bransom
on the 6th, with rain falling 11
Charles other days of the month
| The group w ill stat t seiving
Livestock at 5 p.m. anil continue until
] 6:30 pm with all proceeds to
1'6
nigh’, Friday. < •>
iourn •} to
their scomd <h
All district game
been moved up to
so let’s all
help cheer the
k
Funeral and burial services
were held Monday, October 5,
in Houston for Mrs. Gerald A.
(Mary Lou) Davis, 57, who was
killed last Wednesday in a
accident in Houston.
Mrs. Davis, a native of Al-
varado, was a daughter of Mrs.
Brooks Thompson and the late
Mr. Thompson, of Highway 81,
north of Burleson. Besides her
mother she is survived by her
husband, Gerald A. Davis, na-
tive of Cleburne; two sons,
Gerald B. Davis. Teheran, Iran,
and James A. Davis, Houston;
two sisters. Mrs. George Mann,
Houston. and Mrs
represent the t
Houston Calf
to the Houston com-
America I petition in F ebruary.
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Daughter of Mrs. B. Thompson
Killed In Car Accident Sept. 30
Evans, Dallas; two brothers,
Sidney Thompson, Alvarado,
and John Dallas Thompson,
Fort Worth; and six grandchil-
dren.
along. Robert
•he ball n
to i nd all the
the ni'.'ht,
against
Man-field 0.
The only score of the second
quarter came on a pass from
Summers to Mike Fortenberry,
good for 15 yards. This pass
whs tipped by a Mansfield back
into the hands of the running
Fortenberry who never broke
-tride until crossing th«* goal
Again the try for extra points
fulled and half time was a 18-0
Following the half. Mansfield
to drove down the field making
dent of the Dallas club, she
served the Texas Federation
of B & PW Clubs as Legal
Adviser, Chairman of Women
in Government, Program Co-
ordinator, Expansion Chairman,
member of the Legislative
Steering Committee, First Vice
President and President. She is
now State Legislative Chair-
man. She served three terms on
the Board of Directors of the
National Federation of B & PW
Clubs. She wrote the Legal Dis-
criminations pamphlet, the
Homestead pamphlet, the Equal
Legal Rights pamphlet and the
For Men Only pamphlet, which
the Texas Federation has pub-
lished. She is a member of the
Texas Bar Associatio; Kappa
Beta Pi legal society; member
of the Board\of Directors of
Texas Safety Association; mem-
ber of Women's^ Division of
U. S. Savings BonXCampaign;
honorary member ofiFelta Kap-
pa Gamma; and listed in Who’s
ho of American Women.
of Texas
Here For Free Fashion Show
th. ti.e Elks
fol
game.
times have
-tait at 7:30 p.m.,
be on time to
I mighty Elks on
Miss Tobolowsky, a
San Antonio, Tex.,
Incarnate Word College Trinity
University, and received LLB
degree from University of Ter-
ns School of Law. She joined
B & PW in San Antonio in
1M5 and served as chairman
of various committees and as
First Vice-President. She af-
filiated with the B & PW Club
of Dallas, Inc., in 1951 when
she transferred from the San
Antonio Club. A past presi-
Free Barbecue Dinner Preceeds
Auction Sale At Crowley Sat.
The Fifth Annual Harvest Festival nt the Crowley
Methodist Church will be conducted Saturday. October Hi.
and will be started off at 11:3 0a.m. with a free barbecue
dinner, followed by an Auction Sale of livestock, paintings,
ceramics, needlework, home-baked cakes, pies and many valu-
able items.
The sale will lie conducted by Gregg Loftis, well ^nown
auctioneer, who has'served in this capacity since the sale
started.
Everyone is cordially invited to attend the dinner and
have fun and entertainment at the sale. There will be main
Lord’s Acre Items that you may wish to bid on yourself.
M'sa Hermine Tobolowsky
will speak on Equal Legal
Rights at the Nola Dunn Ele-
mentary School on October 12
rat 7:30 p.m. The Burleson
Business and Professional Wom-
ens Club is sponsoring Miss
Tobolowsky’s address and all in-
terested people are invited to
attend. Students interested in
civics, men and women who are
not fully versed on Texas Law
are especially invited to attend.
There is no admission charge.
The Burleson 80-Lb. football
team won over the Fort \\ orth
Southside Tigers 36-0. The
i score at halftime wa- 1 1-0,
i s pa tcher
yr
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will be helpful to not
Band Boosters Club,
the community as well.
off a debt that
nghtfully all of ours.
WILL SELL TICKETS
HOUSE TO HOUSE
Band students
entire town next
ing from
tempt to sell everyone a
to the dmner Be courteous to
the boys and girls they have
a hard job to do. and are sim
I ply trying to help a E©©<1 r»UM“
urged to be used to help pay tor the band
uniforms, which tde Band Boos-
ters have bought, and owe quite
a bit on them yet. Your patron
age of this dinner is really need-
ed. and
only the
but to
in helping pay
raise and show their livestock, be required to show his calf at |
Ercel Lewis was selected to rep-1 the 1966 Houston I...-------
resent the Chapter Ercel will
three iii-' down* before tiring
held lor downs on the B uleson
26 \ard hne Sumin. r-
four and Fortenberry.
*ti ong. broke oil
tour tackles to
osco re firry
punt on tin' next series. Sum
| mers returned the punt to the
| Mansfield 15 yard line I red
| Bi own dove into the line for
four yards and then it was Sum-
mer*. -nine sung, second verse
l oity <>ne yards to paydirt.
Three offensive plays no
first downs—and twelve points
on the scoreboard Again the
I try for extra points was good
I so the score at the end of the
first quarter wa- Burleson 12.
1 r;..i.i n
The Sixth District
Veteran* of World War 1 and I
their auxiliary are looking for-1
ward to their district conven
tion in the Legion Hall. Cle-
burne, lex.. October 11. begin-
ning at 10 a. m.
They are expecting some in-
teresting messages from Oscar
Davis, Department Chaplain;
Roger Q. Evans, Past Depart
merit Commander; and Judge
Sam Johnson of Hillsboro.
i... . . „-. —.....
| widows of WW1
i invited t 1
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PANTHERS WIN 36-11
Ratcliff, 49. passed
a Dallas hospital Sep-
tember 28. He had been ill fur
sometime.
He was
tor and
Hurst i
nesa.
thodist Church, the Masonic
-Lodge and was a shriner
Survivors are his wife, three
sons, Donald, Jack and C W.,
hII of 200 Sumrnercrest in Bur-
leson.
Funeral services were held
at Owens Brumley Funeral
Home with interment in Laura
Land
when absentee balloting
Hughes’ office in the High
Burleson 26,
Mansfield 0
By BOB RUSHING
For the first tune evei
Burleson Elks defeated
Man-fie Id Tigers in
This was accomplished
Stadium last Friday night with
the score reading: Elks
ligers 0
Mansfield received the open-
ing kick-off, but the Burleson
defenses held and the ball went
over to the Elks on their own
38 yard line. On the first play
from scrimmage for the Elk of-
fensive team. Jimmy Summers
came around left end, stutter-
stepped through the secondary
and out i m ed everyone to the
goal line. Try for extra points
was no good
The Tigers managed one first
'down before being forced t-
The community
I make plans now to take the en-
tire family to the high school
cafeteria for dmner after the
Homecoming Parade October
16. The delicious dinner will be
i served by the Band B< mate is
I Club, who promises this year.
1 generous servings will he put
I If Ercel should win in’Febru on each plate. The menu will
ary he will receive a cash prize consist of your choice of bar «
of $150 00 which he will spend j beetle beef, baked ham or fried
' on a beef heifer of hi- choice | fish, slaw o rpotato salad, beans.
He is required to submit month- onions bread, coffee or tea
ly reports on the progress of I Adults will be charged $1.00
his calf to the Houston Live- with children undei 12 paying
ABSENTEE VOTING IN SUPERINTENDENT S OFF1C E
Absentee voting in the $700J>U U0 Schoolhouse bond election u> be held October 1
in the cafeteria at the Nola Dune elemental y -chool, wdi be conducted in the oft lie ut
the superintendent of schools in the Burleson High School.
Ballots are available until I day* proceeding the election,
cease. Remember, voting may be lone at Supt J. L
over
Tigers
halftime
with Monty Finstad making the
points.
Coming back- in the second
half, the third*^ quarter went
scoreless. But in the fourth
the Panthers went wild. With
Finstad. Channey and Minor
making the touchdown and the
extra points were made by Fin-
stad and Rogers.
The Panthers play here Oc-
tober 11. at 7:30 p.m. against
the Wedgewood Blue Raiders.
Let’* back these little football
players of the coming years.
A Free Fashion Show , directed by Miss Pa nulla
instructor of the Wendy Ward Charm School of Fort orth
will bring to Burleson next Tuesday night, ten beautiful
girls, members of the “Paceseter” hoard of Montgomery
Ward & Company, to pi esent a fashion show- that should in-
terest everyone in our community, and it is free. C ost ot
the show is being absorbed by the large department store
in cooperation with our local P-TA.
The Pacesetters are an advisory group of teen-age girls
that arc directed by Miss Locke, a former fashion mode,
who instructs these high s c h o o I students from different
schools, in complexion care, modeling, poise fashion nfrht-
ness anil figure control. In addition to the Pacc^tters. i ix
poised and attractive teachers from the Bui leson School Dis-
trict will be featured, modeling the latest in fall and win
ter fashions from Montgomery Ward Co.'n>‘a(n?nr(^*
ers are- Mmes. Clare Turner. Mary Smith. Carolyn Keri,
Donna Volkman, Beth Sowell and Nancy Porter
The show will be presented at the Nola Dunn elemen-
tary school auditorium at 7 .30 p.m. n‘‘xt Tu'R?ay X
the auditorium will sent nnly approximately 400
suggest that you go early to get your seat, as no doubt
overflowing crowd will attend, to see the first of this
of show to be brought to Burleson.
The Burleson Chapter of the i be -ent
Future Farmers of America!
held its first meeting Thursday,]
September 30. The chief reason ]
for the meeting was to select .
a member
chapter in
Scramble.
This scramble is held annual-
ly to encourage farm youth to stock Commission. He will also] 75c.
.nnd>
t inmn-
VelJ Htiong, broke >illt ot at
least lour tackles to go 76
yards t o.<n ore Ferry Ma-’< i
di<i n gieat job l.liH-kiiig ••> help
M.k< .none. Robert Mor. head
toot •>)<■ hall n for two more
point to i nd all the - oi i ng
i <>r tile b r.'ht, the 1 lk-
1'1.>ys against 67 f<n
. the Elk* had eight
Man -firld. and
wa« 88 pii'-ing.
a total < f 381
against the Tigers 126 pa—mg.
711 rush',' g and totaI of
Tor. Ol row
t'.'mr ’•
Bo-well
trict
t h e
the
football.
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Elks
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Deering, R. G. K. Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 7, 1964, newspaper, October 7, 1964; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1242482/m1/1/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.