The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1962 Page: 3 of 10
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good will in the past. Eagerly we look forward to servo g you in the future.
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TOWLE
STEALING
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Brazoria County was list-
ed as a •’Three Star County”
in rhe annual survey made
by the East Texas Chamber
of Commerce Tax Survey
Committee, Commissioners
Court has been told.
The report awarded
•’stars” to frazoria County
on the basis of:
--All funds being
cash basis
Alv.n Student
!<; Bricks”
^ine Arts
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— Three-Star County —
--Net debt per capita being
at or beiow state average
--Collection of 95 per cent
of current taxes, and/or 100
per cent of delinquent Taxes.
Five stars may be award-
ed to a county on the basis
of this survey. Brazoria i
County failed to receive its i
stars on the basis of operat-
ing within its budget 'some I
supplements having been
necessary); and lhe tax bur-
den or cost per capita.
County Judge ? Iton Arnold
pointed out that the rating
is arrived at by an average
of all Texas counties.
..USE YOUR
CHRISTMAS BONUS
FOR
Complete the old . . . begin the new Towle Sterling service.
Your investment in Towle is timely and timeless—a purchase
that acids elegance and enjoyment to those ' special occasion"
table settings.
Raes Settlers. <ram $17.55 Tea Smooi, tram tt.lt
Serving elects, from gs 00
Ben Huser Jeweler
on a
| ^SWANSON’S RADIO &
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A COMPLETE LINE OF
Instruments •fa Accessories ,
^Radios Recorders Phonos & Records’’
We Specialize In Music I
Reliable Home Town Service
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Miss Much Is
Phi Beta Kappa
Initiate At Rice
Miss Kathleen Much, |
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Much Jr. of Houston,
was instal'ed Friday as a '
member of the Phi Beta
Kappa national honor so-
ciety. The impressive cere-
mony took place in the Fon-
dren Library at the Rice
University.
Miss Much is one of rhe
top 10 sutdents at Rice to
receive this honor for su-
perior achievement in li-
beral arts, one of the high- ‘
est scholastic awards made.
The granddaughter of Mrs.
Fred Much of Alvin, she
has visited often here. She
is a senior, majoring in
English and French, and is
20 years old.
Miss Much is a graduate
of Lamar High School in
Houston, where she won the
honor of being named a Na-
tional Merit Scholar.
• born of Alvin and a sopho-
, more at Trinity College in
Hartfor, Conn., is a member
I of a student drive to sell
symbolic bricks over the
holidays to raise funds for
the construction of a Fine ,
Arts Center on the campus.
Mr. Wellborn will solicit
the gfts from relatives, ;
famil) and friends interested
in the arts and education.
The donations are in the form |
of symbolic bricks at J5 each
which is the cost of a cart-
load of real bricks. The |
studen*-organized and ini-
tiated project to aid the col-
lege in raising funds for the
proposed $1,600,000 Arts
Center has resulted in near-
ly all of Trinity’s 1,046 un-
dergraduates pledging to sell
bricks over the Christmas
recess.
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MRS. FISHER DECORATES TREE
A Pin Oak Beauty
There was $85
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Fisher's Holiday House
Thmas Llewellyn White,
20, of Alvin lost control of
his car on Second Street at
Dumble Street about 10:30
a. m. Tuesday. The car
plunged through Cliff John-
son's fence, doing about $200
worth of damage. The car
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Bailey was charged with
failure to yield right-of-way.
“Outbreak’* Of Minor
Wrecks IsReportedHere
A rash of minor accidents
this week have kept local
police busy, reported Police
Sgt. Smokey Merchant.
The first of the wrecks
occurred shortly after 5 p. I
m. Monday when Mrs. Ben-
ton B. Brown and Ernest H.
Williams collided at the in-
tersection of Blum and Tay-
lor Streets. There was an
estimated damage of $485
to the Brown car and $785
to the Williams car.
charges were filed.
About 6 p.m. that date,
there was a three-car pile-
up at North Highway 35 and
Old Galveston Road. James
P. Peirsol. 46. was going
north on Highway 35. He
struck a car driven by John
L. Bailey. 39. of Pasadena
as Bailey tried to make a
left turn from the right
shoulder. The impact threw
Pelrsol s car intoonedriven
by Randolph F. Cockran, 68.
of Alvin. —- — •“
damage to
and $400
Bailey car.
Beta Sigma Phi
Has Meeting
Mrs. Lawrence McGiness
presided it the meeting of
the Nu >ji chapter of the
Be-a Sigmla Phi, which was
held in rile home of Mrs.
h I Warren j. Stanton. Mrs.
George Martin
I co-hostesj|.
After special reports were
| given, nevir members were
i assigned to programs and
I to help sefve on the service
I project cjf helping Latin
• American school children,
i Plans werb told of the pro-
' gram for the Christmas
party arid banquet for
, couples.
Mrs. Ben Jernigan and
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had about $500 in damages.
White was charged with un-
safe speed.
Delbert W. Robinson. 37,
of Alvin and Mrs. Helen
Garza, 30. of Alvtn collid-
ed about 4 30 p.m. Tuesday
at Highway 35 near Blum
Street, doing about $45dam-
age to the Robinson car and
$300 damage to the Garza
car.
Mrs. Garza was charged
with following too closely
and having no operator's li-
cense after the rear-end col-
lision was investigated.
In a freak accident about
11:45 a.m. Wednesday, minor
damage was done to cars
owned by Raymond V. Her-
nandez. 61. of Alvin and Wes-
ley Toley Wright. 70. of
Alvin. Police said the Her-
nandez car, with Hernandez
at the wheel, was being tow-
ed backward down the street
when the tow chain broke and
the car went out of control,
crossing the street back-
wards and striking the
Wright vehicle. There was
about $30 or $35 damage to
each of the cars.
Hernandez was ch/.rged
with failure to yield right-
of -way.
Another rear-end col-
lision took place about 8
p.m. Friday when Floyd R.
O'Brien, 23. of Galveston
stopped for traffic on High-
Mrs. Phillip Hoover pre-
sented the; program “Your
: Conversation”.
The 2«! members
changed gifts
Christmas tree.
Flaming date nut roll with
whipped cream, punch, and
' coffee werb served from the
1 refreshment table which was
laid with a red net cloth
featuring Christmas lights
at the h£m. The center-
piece was' a century plant
bloom and a statuette of
the Virgin Mary.
Cub Pclck Has
ChristiTias Fete
Cub Sctiut Pack 487 held
I its annual Christmas party
Dec. 18 ill the basement of
the old Methodist Church
building.
Don An< rews ledthegroup
in singing Christmas carols,
and Cubmaster Homer Jean
Moore tiresided. Cubs
brought forward gifts of food
to be turijed over to the Al-
vin Chamber of Commerce
for distribution to needy
families, and decorated the
"penny tree" with garlands
of shiny pennies to assist
in Scouting in under-privi-
leged countries.
way 35 ai House Street and
his car Was struck by one
driven bit Dorsey P. Hol-
land, 36. bf Alta Loma. Es-
timated damage was $300
to the O'prien car and $350
to the Holland car. Hol-
land was charged with fol-
lowing tob closely.
Manue Vega Cantu. 33.
of Pearland was charged with
failure td yield right-of-way
about 5 ;>.m. Saturday when
his auto j collided with one
driven by James Edward
Parker jr., 25, of Pasadena
at North;Gordon and Willis
Streets. |
Cantu iwas making a left
turn onto: Gordon Street when
the acc ident took place.
There ws|s about $40 damage
to his calr and $125 damage
to the Parker car.
Two rrlen received minor
injuries Ibout 3 p.m. Sunday
when a <|ar driven by Les-
ter Ray' Alexander, 21, of
Alvin failed to make a turn
at Newnlan Drive and Sec-
ond Street, and plunged into
an emba:|kment, Alexander
had minpr injuries and a
passenger in his car. Law-
rence Lto Williams, 22, al-
so of Aljvin, was taken to
Alvin Memorial Hospital by
Martin ambulance with min-
or injuries, the police re-
port showed.
Alexander was charged
with unsafe speed.
Charles Lynn Dodge, 20.
of Lake Jackson was charg-
ed with following too closely
after his car hit the back
of an autti driven by Thomas
Wayne Stiansel, 18, of Alvin
at South Gordon and George
Streets. The accident oc-
curred a lout 8:30 p.m. Sun-
day.
There was about $325
damage t-> the Dodge car and
$125 daniage to the Stansel
car.
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When MeJls Arc Served
FOR INFORMATION
CALL --OL 8-3348
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Girl Scouts To
Earn Skating
Badge Soon
Girl Scour Troop Eight
will go ro rhe Arcola Skat-
ing Rink each Friday for
12 weeks for instruction and
practice in skating. Girls
completing rhe course will
rec* ive their skating badge-.
Mrs. W. L. Childress L
| the ’ roop leader.
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The "snaw" really is a
bushel of IBM card punch-
ings that b anket an almost
nine by 16 foot village in
the Fisher's den. The shoe
box town with its church,
hotel and a variety of resi-
dences is built near amoun-
Chcken Dinners
Family Style
$1.50
Children $1.00
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30 ga.lon aquarium.
The elementary school,
high school and school
admiristration building are
clues to what the Fishers
do when they aren’t involved
in city planning. Mrs. Fish-
er teaches sixth grade lan-
guage arts in the Alvin In-
dependent School district and
her husband teaches sixth
grade atPasadena’sGarfield
School.
Working with an old lad-
der, 500 feet of small in-
sulated wire, a 45-year-old
toy train and other untradi-
tional materials, the couple
assembled the village in
about two weeks. Although
they usually "decorate quite
a bit” at Christmas, Mrs.
’ Fisher said the community
is their first really big pro-
ject.
“He did most of it, but I
helped with the tree,” she
i said. •'We’re really do-it-
yourself people.”
The tree, which forms a
background for the com-
_ munity, is a nine-foot-tail
pin oak covered with 10
pouncs of cotton and glitter-
ing ornaments. At the foot
of it a commuter train tra-
vels from the railroad sta-
tion to the airport and moun-
tain lake, and the town’stiny
k residents seem to be walk-
I mg or driving down lighted
streets to the church and the
three-story Sleepwell Hotel.
Other people are in the city
park with its lighted water
fountain.
Teachers from Pasadena
and Alvin, neighbors and
even strangers come to see
the tree, eat Christmas
cookies and listen to the
Fishers play organ-piano
duets.
“We don’t have many dull
moments.” Mrs. Fisher
said.
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of Community Public
extend Holiday best wishes to everyone.
usual throughout
home and lighten
E’;y you enjoy the best of everything
- l^ew Year—including more y-
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This Bank
and be closed Tuesday January I, 1963 ( NEW
governed accordingly in transacting their business
as a Legal Holiday,
NOTICE
will observe
YEARS DAY ) Our customers ore requested to be
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Bowen, A. E. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1962, newspaper, December 27, 1962; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1245615/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.