Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL 82—NUMBER 20
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FRED O, TAYLOR has recent-
ly been named Chief Deputy
Sherifif at Big Spring in Howard
County after, a big shakeup in
the department. Fred is well
known here having been reared
In Mt. Vernon. His mother, Mrs.
E. G. Taylor, still lives here.
Fred Hogan Buys
Phil Campbell
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thought
Springs.
Paseengera on the bus did not '
District the past six years, who
retired last year. Will preach at
the First Methodist Church of
Vofnon newt Sunday morning,
r. Baker has been an out»
standing leader in the Methodist
Church for * number of years,
having served some of the lead-
to attend ,n< churches of the North Texas
Conference, and District Superin-
tendent of the Greenville, Sher-
man and Dallas Districts.
The Standard Bearer Class of
the First Methodirt Church of
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west, seemed to run off the pavw^
football scouts and coaches are
concerned within the paat week.
Dr. Harrison Baker
To Speak At
Methodist Church
Dr. W. Harrison Baker of Dal-
las, who was District Superin-
Mt Vernon Littl
Timers to MeeH’
Winnsboro Here •• Motor
The Ml. Vereen Uttte Tigers
>ho are playing Mt. Pleasant on
3Cli&
L Vernon, brings his
snnection wtth the
elebratlon of the eh
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Tig^Will Meet
Three Conference
Foes During Week
The Mt. Vernon Tigers will
meet conference Toes during the
next week as the second round
of district play nears its climax.
>T»WaWgere Will travel Ito Sul-
phur Springs on Friday night,
February 3 to take on the Wild-
cats who were the only other
team besides Mt. Vernon to score
more than 400 points during the
first round of pl'ay. Both iteams
are undefeated in second half
play with Mt. Vernon having rack-
ed up a win o?er Mt. Pleasant,
the only team to defeat the Tigers
in the first half.
Pittsburg will come to Mt. Ver-
non on Monday night, February
6 and the Tigers will be favored
in this game even though - the
Pirates have shown improvement
which was evident in their win
over Winnsboro last Friday night.
Mt. Vernon school officials an-
nounced this week that Monday
has been deaig stated as parents
night and a space in the stands
is being reserved for the par-
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Former ML Vernon
Methodist Pastor
Dies in Dallas
Rev. Charles Stanford Wilhite,
pastor of Ervay Street "Methodist
Church in Dallas, land a former
Mt. Vernon postor, was buried
Saturday, January 28, in Laurel
Land Cemetery in Ft. Worth af-
ter 10:30 a.m. services in his
church.
Reverend Wilhite, 62, of 5622
Swiss, died Thursday in a Dallas
hospital after a heart attack. He
had been ill seven weeks.
Pastor at Ervay Street Methp-
Hee PASTOR on Page 8
High School Students
To Present Panel
Discussion at P-TA
The Mt, Vernon P-TA will
meet Wednesday, February 8 at
3:00 p.m. in the school cafeteria.'.
Miss Irene Biunion will have
charge of the program which will
be rendered by members of the
high school student body. These
rtudeuts will give a round table
jump shots from close-in. Stln-
sbn hit six field goals and six
(free throws for a game total of
18 points. .y v
Hoc SWEEP on Page 8
in the county which
short of two full years.
The second within tbel
popular place as tar as college
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srned within the past week.
■eeenUtivae of\ the athletic th(a meeting
rtmenta from every South-
Conference School and one
I coach. Bear Bryant of Texas
f have been hero in an a
Youth Council
Sets Community
Wide Rally, Feb. 15
Rev. Lawrence Bridges, chair-
man of the Mt. 'Vernon- Youth.
Council, announced this week that
arrangements have been complet-
ed- to bring two prominent youth
workers here on February 15 to1
discuss plans for work in Mt. Ver-
non at a community-wide rally
which will be held in* the high
school auditorium at 7:45 p.m.
Truman Stanley of Terrell, wto
has been prominent in the de-
velopment of that city's youth
program w;lll tell the group of the
work that is being done there.
J. H. Compton of Navarro
County will be the other speaker.
He has also had considerable ex-
perience In yViUth work and at- ’
tended North Texas State Teach
ere College
tttWHriT atl
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by their wives.
Bridges urged all parents of
teenagers and other interested
persons to attend the rally and
take part in the discussion.
Arrangements have been made
with the Central Christian.
Church, First Baptist Church and
First Methodist Church to hold
prayer eervicO barly on this date
so those wishing to attend the
rally may do so.
student-teacher relationship and
delinquencies. ».
1 Nancy Colley, Elva Kay High-
1 tower and Margie Dickson.
Parents are jirged U _
j and take part in the
discussion with the Student pan-
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ys eaa buy H gallon of Home.
tie geniwd milk for 8» eenl M j
BILL SEABAUGH and SUB
SOUTHERLAND, the officials for
the Mt. Pleartuit-Mt. Vernon
basketball game played in Mt.
Vernon last Friday night really
‘ did a swell job of officiating and
one of them remarked after the
game that it v*as the best be-
haved crowds Ithey had called a
game before in some time. He
, also complimented the sportsman-
ship shown by players and fans
from both towns.
The gym was filled to overflow-
ing with an estimated 1100 fans
with the gate receipts amounting
to more than *300 after the of-
ficials had been paid. It was
i the largest crowd to witness a
basketball game in the local gym
this year.
The of/icials naturally missed
some fouls on each side but very
few “boos” were heard through-
out the entire game. This was
» quite different from the night
the two Iteams met in Mt. Pleas-
ant th« previous week.
A total of 22 fouls were called
on the Mt Vernon team and 23
were called on the Mt. Pleasant
team wtth one Mt. Vernon boy
receiving the legal limit and two' Aiecuesion oiustudent-parent aad
Mt Pleasant boys receiving the
limit. , '
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a member of the Bap-
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Tigers Sweep Aside
been owned and operated th* post
few months by Finky Moore.
Mr. Ethridge, a registered
pharmacist, took over manage-
ment of the store on Monday and
was planning to move his family
here this week. Mr. HKhridge
owned and operated a drug store
at Crosby, Texas previous to going
to Dawson.
Rev. and Mrs. EsteW plan to
move to Mt. Vernon within th*
next 90 day*. At present Rav.
Estes I* pastor of the First Bap-U
tist Church tit Dawson.
Mr. and Mr*. Ethridge plan to
live in a house on East Main street
which belongs to Hal Scott. They
have four children, Melba Ann, •. .
Mary Jane. 6, Johnny, 214, aad
Alice Pearl, 1. The Ethridge fam-
ily ar* members of the I
Chureh.
Mr. Ethridge said some ci
•re planned tor tbs drug
but none in the immediate f
a string of deathlee* trattlo day* .
period was Naitban Blinker who
died at Franklin County Hospital
csived in an accident Thanksgiv-
George Castle,
Dies in Dallas
George Dalton Castle, It, of
Saltillo, died Monday morning at
8 o’clock in a Dallas hosptthl. A
native of Ptakton, Mr. Cpstle had
lived in Saltillo for the paat 38
years.
He was
tist Church.
Funeral rite* werd- conducted '
Tuesday afternoon at Greenwood.
Burial was *at Pleasant Hill.
M]-. Castle is survived by his
widow and five daughters, Mrs.
Gertrude Fuller of Sali'illo, Mrs.
Mieta Robertson of Winnsbofo,
and Mrs. Mozell McClung, Mrs.
Ethel Berry, and Mrs. Marjorie
Miller, all of Dallas; three sons.
Aubrey of Saltillo, Horace of
Como, and Pete of Dallas; one sis-
ter, Mrs. Minnie Jenkin* of Sul-
phur Springs.
Mrs. Cattaneo
Buried at Glade
Springs Saturday
Mrs. Geneva Cattaneo, 35, died
in a Houston hospital, Thursday,
January 26.
Funeral services were held at
2 p.m. Saturday at. the Dainger-
field First Baptist Church, of
which Mrs. Cattaneo was a mem-
ber. The pastor, the Rev. L. E,
Lamb officiated^ Bi^rial was in
the Glade Springs. Cemetery.
Mrs. Cattaneo is /survived by
her husband, Willie Cattaneo,
ed up a win over Mt. Pleasant, the
three small daughters, Marilyn
Cattaneo, Carolyn Cattaneo and
Cheryl Ann Cattaneo, all of Dain-
gerfield; her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie (Padgett of Mt. Ver-
non; six sisters, Mrs. Llano White
and Mrs. Edward Hall of Dallas,
Mrs. Opal Godwin and Mrs. Pat
Scott of Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Lester
Draper of Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. W.
H. Wheeler of Tyler; three bro-
thers, J. R. Padgett of Dallas, C.
L. Padgett Jr., of Pittsburg and
E. L. Padgett ef Mt. Vernon.
Le.nde,n.t the Da!!“ Northeast the Ioeai tonight (Thurs-
day) will also meet Winaeboro on
th* tocabcourt Monday ntght, Feb-
ruary 6 L
In th* first round of play In
tt* district the Junior High boys
defeated the Winnsboro «uisM«
52 to-15 and the Grad* school
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on December 5 from injuries re^
/•aIva/I ivt n«
Ing Day. which occurred approxi-
mately 100 yards from tl»« seen*
of the Sunday morning accident.
Springs, und Cornelius Jones, also*
Hughes
Hospital News
From Jan. 26 to Feb. 2
ADMIHAIONH
gbellie Davis. City.
, /«*si« Maple*, City.
Addle Stanley, Rt. 1, Talco.
Hansel Cooper, City.
Tim Burns, City.
, Anq Morris, City.
Birdie Ward, City.
Jim Poole, City. ' '
Mildred Carglle, Ctty.
IHKM3S8AIA
Tom. Jackson. Oden A. Baker,
Mary Stinson, Jessie Maples, Ad-
die Stanley, Tim Burns, Ann
Morris. • . . > '
The hospital staff expresses
their sincere appreciation for the
many nice gifts received ths past
wsdk.
Two Conference Foes Mrs. Dallas Black
Mrs. Annie Black died Satur-
day. January 28, at ft00 a.m. in.
the M & s Hospital at Pittsburg
after an exltended illness.
Funeral services were held Sun-
day afternoon at Bethel by Minis-
ters H. B. Cash and H. L. Rey-
nolds with burial in the Bethel
Cemetery.
Mrs. Biack was born and rear-
ed in Franklin County. She was
67 years of age at th* time of
her death.
She
the Church of Christ, * highly re*
spected eitisen and was loved by
all who knew her.
Beside* her husband she is sur-
vived by eight children, Mrs. Lois
Munn, 'faico; Mrs. Laudie Seay,
Mt. Vernon; Mrs. Trudy Bicker-
staff. Simpsonville; Mrs. Edith
English, Sherman; Loyd *Black,
Scroggins; Duard Black, Crane;
Denzll Black. Newsome; and Cloy
G. Black, Shreveport, La.; eight-
een gnandcbildren and one great
grandchild; one sister, Mr*. Dora
Haye* and a number of other re-
latives.
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In th? top photo SherMf JVB. Tittle looks over the wrecked 1 95 5 CHd^rolet where two negroes,
Eddie G. Jissmerson and Cornelius Jone* died in a collision with a Greyhound but about/3:30 Sun-
day morniisg. The cur was dragged apjirOxfmaYely’BO feet by the bus and the engine of lhe car was
lodged under the rear of the bus about SO feet from where the car stopped. "Photo al lower left
shows bus driver Milton 0. Tohlak and Highway Patrolman Jay Maye* as they look oser the dam-
aged front of the bus. Lower right hand photo shows Deputy 8heri5f R. S. McGill and BMly Frank
Grooms as they assist passengers a* they get ottt of the bus through an emergency exit.
The Mt. Vernon Tigers swept
aside two conference opponents
during the past week to run their
"second half record to three win*
and no losses. -i,
The first vidtim of the local
five was Mt. Pleasant, who fell
before the Tiger*, 73 to 58 last
Friday night in the local gym.
Ml. Vernon *dropped Commerce
72 to 61 on the local court Tues-
day night for the second win ofr
the week. The visiting Commerce
team displayed lots pf hustle but
were outscored five point* in the
iPlret half and six point* in the.
second half.
The Tigers had a field night in
the scoring department against
Mt. Pleasant a* Don Meredith and
Jerrell Bryant dach hit nine times
from the field, but Meredith hit
five from the free throw line com-
pared tq Bryant’s three to move
ahead in the scoring department
23 to >1.
Meredith had four personal,
fouls at the half and Bryant ob-
tained four early in the ^faird
quarter, so as a precaution, theX
both sat on the bench for more'
than * full quarter.
John Stinson displayed his
maneuvering ability which enabl-
ed him to drlbbl^in for four
the (front part of the car, dragging
it back along th* ehoulder of the
highway approximately 60 feet.
Th* bus swerved to th* right und
came to a stop against a shoulder
of the roadway and a fence.
The engine of th* car was lodg-
ed unds? th* rear of the
about to feet from where
wrecked ear stopped.
All of the passenger* ree
minor cuts and bruises buit
released from Franklin C<
Hospital after emergency '1
ment. Ni«* member* of o»e
lly were passengers on the
They weret William C. Breta
SO, 133 Boult
Sfk’orW
McClain. 14?1
Elisabeth ~
Anetta V - ____-r-x
daughter, Beverly Ann Brow*, 8,
* daughter, William Clyde Brow*.
Jr., 18. a son. William EdwarB I
Brown, 7 month, a son.
The other (three passenger* em
the bus were: L. L. Barron, >084
Grand Ave.. Dallas; Jamee P. >
Breu, 154 6 Johns Court, Sheboy-
gan, Wisconsin; and Joe lAram
Shafer, 17, route 9, Box 81, T*«t-
arkana, Arkansas.
Greyhound Lines sent .a special
bus to Mt. Vernon which picked
the passenger* up about 8:00 a.m.
Bunday mornng.
The bodies of the negroes were
taken to Turner Brothers Fu-
neral Home In Mt. Pleasant by a*
M. L. Edward* A Co. ambulanom
Crescent Drug Sold
To Two Men Froijg
Dawson, Texas
Announcement was made Me
this week of the eal* of the Crte-
cent Drug Store, here, to T. B.
Ethridge and Rev. W. 0. Estes,
both of Dawson. The store US
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We have received a report that
( two high schools in Texas, New
’. ’ Diana and Haskell, have been
mispended recently from the Tex-
SU» Interscholaatic League for mis-
■’^^^reatmenit of officials at Athletic
Hg&aL, cvntests. We can understand why
■ can happen, but it also in-
dicates that fans at our high
■ school sporting events had better
I be more careful of what they say
z and do regarding the officials,
' even (though they feel a bad de-
cision has been made. In most
I cases, the officials are calling the
game the way they qee it.
Mt. Vernon and Mt. Pleasant
fans and players a>e to be com-
mended for their behavior when
the two teams met here last Fri-
day night and behavior of this
cannot be ground* for any
such action as was taken against
New Diana and Haskell. See you
-at the games, but let’s not take
it out on the poor officials.
decision. t » .
DID YOU KNOW tbet 70*
can buy Hwaas Dow* better-
scotch, white, yellow or Dev-
il's food cake mix for 10
oeBte with the purchaae of
f^^<X"SX2^5S
FRED HOGAN
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Hogan announced this
week that he had purchased the
Phil Campbell interest in the
firm of Hogan and Campbell and
it would be known tn the^twture
1 otor Company.
Mr. Hogan Mid he planned to
continue m ddhftfi for Pontiac
automobile*, GMC truck*. Good
Year tire* and Hot Point appli-
ances, He said he would continue
<0 offer th* same high class of
service tbdf th* fitm has given
in the p**t.
The firm ha* operated for the
past several years as a partner-
boys dropped- a’ close g* to" 2» w,th, M5 Hogan as th* man-
ager and he said no changes
in th* operation were planned tor
the immediate dutuf*.
B FRIDAY
B. Copeland
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pX, Hentnn ®|rttr-Wralh
~ . i , TTXAS) THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2, 1^56 ON THE BROADWAY OF AM!
Two Die In Bus-Car Accident
Near Here Sunday Morning
Two negroes were killed and | Which the negroes were riding .County’s first and second fatlink
12 peaesagers and the driver of I collided about two mile* east for 1554 and the fourth within
a Deilas to Memphis Greyhound lof Mt. Vernon on Highway <7 a 90-day perod. Geraldine Ruth-
bus received minor injuries wheal about 1:3b Sunday morning. lerford was killed in an accident
*n< * Chevrolet 1J5 | T.he death* Were Franklin |en Bunday, Odtober 30 to break
Is Theie A Public Need
For Passenger Trains?
That i* the question that will be asked and we hope ans-
wered at the opening of the continuation of a public hearing
in the district court room in Mt. Pleasant next- Tuesday morn-
The question itself is misleading for the word passenger
t means, a person who rides, in this case a train, and therefore
does not take into consideration the many other services render-
ed for which towns along the route of the Cotton Belt depend,
ing at 10:00 a.m.
It is the only railway mail, and express service that many
•of the towns have. Cut this off and you cut off their life line.
It will slow down the movement of goods and therefore curtail
business and this area cannot afford the loss of any business.
The railroad says it is losing money on its passenger serv-
ice and offers figures to prove its point, but admits its
overall operation is showing a profit.
Many other businesses operate.at a loss on a portion of
their operation but they know that if they cut out the service
are losing money that it will hurt the other
departments of their business.
Newspapers, radio and television stations offer you news
and entertainment from which no prpfit is derived but know
that without it they cannot continue to operate for they would
have no readers, listeners or viewers.
, Service stations furnish you with water for your car, clean
your windshield and many other services from which they de-
rive no profit but they can’t quit giving it, for if they did, soon
they would have no customers.
< -The-towns can’t afford to be without this service and we
don’t think the Cotton Belt can afford to operate without it,
that is if they want to continue to operate at all.
The help of every person that is interested in Mt. Vernon
is needed and you can help most by being present for the hear-
ing in Mt. Pleasant next Tuesday at 10:00 a.m.
know what had happened until it
came to a etop.
According to Milton C. Toniek.
Dallas, driver of th* bne. th* wet-
dent occurred when th* right
wheel* of the Chevrolet, traveling
ment and a* the driver attenteteB
to pull the car back on th* pave-
ment, it awerved across the high-
way Into the path of the tew.
Th* bus evidently passed over
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