The Navasota Examiner and Grimes County Review (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1954 Page: 1 of 12
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VOLUME 59
NUMBER 47
NAVASOTA, oram SoUMI.TEXAS, THUASPAY, UGUST 12. 1954 •
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heen collected from the lc tax
on a
firms lost two small ra-
Navasota Will Get
Mail By Truck Line
$
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iny.
t Sei
School Board
that of the two Southern Pacific ton at 7:30 p.m.
passenger
Magnolia Pump
belleved to have occurred.
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at his Navasota residence.
holder in the Immediate area
places. L. « Clancy, plant man
"cn, +nla Wm r.an in that La
will remain In Richards until
Friendship Center
Beaumont and the oil is pumped
(Continued to back page)
A
will be open on Friday. SatOr-1 ceived her BBA degree. Mias
day and Sunday afternoons dur Lewis is a member of the Bap-
in a recent business transac-
The new speech and English
Conveniences will include two
be
San Marcos and is doing work on
room.
borough. Few Brewster and Al
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hrst program
Hd for elim-
An interesting parking meter withdrawn.
their
Navasota eight ■ month • old
heifers.
He
Min. Ratn
ing that period have proved this
ineer
to set up the program for the
petent judges therefor.
The City Commission. In ses- the amount and manner of use.
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Schroeder recently poured a new
Hall on Tenth street.
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lie Houston.
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Gulf States Lowers
Commercial Rates
Mr. and Mrs. L. R Marr who
have announced that they will
retain the same employees and
will change the firm name to
rate which the State set to re-
tire their 60 per cent road debt
assumed in 1930. At this time a
bond assumption act was passed
adj
for
year. The prepared release stat-
ed that this action was taken in
Thousands of “Bargain Day"
items will be advertised in a
Sample Copy. Shoppers’ Edition
of the Examiner Review which
further notice. --
The reason that was given for
record player with Spanish rec Pasadena. He is a graduate of
ords. reading room and writing Southwest Texas State College at
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
due to the recent unauthorized
appointments.
The Board instructed the new
County dairymen now have this
program in operation.
art. Pat Griffith, Roy S Weaver,
Jr. and C. W. Lucas
Funeral Services
Held Monday For
W.K.Quhn.65
Cleveland Man
Opens Cottonwood
Sow Mill Here /
and a new concrete sidewalk in
front of the business.
Absentee Voting
Underway; Ends
August 24
tments in the electric rate
•neral service will mean a
saving of approximately
Clyde Pederson.
J The new business is located in
'I the building formerly occupied
74.5
73.0 .
722
76.9 .
75 2
73.4
UM or Enenn KeP- Mr*, novo
busy looking up an odd num-
bered radio tube while the others 1
examined the radios.
Miss Alma Otto, who lives at
the end of Brosig avenue on the
Piedmont road, made an inter-
City Attorney W T. car.
and. Attorney Coulter Bids from the Navasota Auto
direct bypassing the small sta-
tions. • ■
whereas the lowest cost previ-
ously was 1.7 cents a kwhr.
Shop lifting is rapidly becom-
ing a fad in Navasota. The two
victims this week were Gene
Sanders Lack's Associate Store
at the corner of Washington’
avenue and Railroad street and
Charles Noto’s Home Radio &
; —t»“
.can earn a rate of 15 cents per
kwhr for a portion of his use
and would like to have an ad in
this issue. please call 5-6484 and
a representative from our office
will cal) to pick up your copy.
sions Friday night, passed on
first reading a request from the
Gulf States Utilities Company
asking for a rate decrease for
commercial customers.
According to GSU officials the
School Board Monday night vot-. “ahlwmnd that
outs for positions of assistant
• drum major and majorettes In
1 the high school for the coming
reer as editor and publisher -g______ -
the Bryan Daily Eagle. jed in the Examiner last week. been adjusted May 1.
life. He operated the W. K Quinn '
drug store prior to his death. I
Quinn of Navasota and Harnett
Quinn of El Paso: one grand-
child. Avis Eleanor Grimes
Honorary pallbearers were Dr.'
S. D. COIeman. Dr. H. L Stewart. I
Dr. E T. Ketchum. Dr. H. E.
605
wo
100.3
hour for the first 200 kwhr. In
the third step. 1400 instead of
3,300 kwhr, are billed at 3.5
cents and the additional kwhr
at 2.8 cents instead of 2 9 cents
as formerly. Under specified load
factor conditions the customer
at an earlier meeting to lift the
ordinance which forbids the un-
loading of large transports at
service stations within the city
limits. The representatives ex-
pressed their viewpoints and it
was the opinion of the group
that it would be better If the
been eliminated.
Overhead storage, better fire
Legionnaires Here
To Elect Officers
Friday Night -
PresbyteriansWM
Have Family Night
Supper, August 11
The first of a series of Family
A native of Grimes County, Mr.
dios apparently to the same per-
son or persons just before clos-
ing time Monday afternoon. The
description, in both instances,
tallies almost perfectly-
Mr. Sanders and his mother,
Mrs. Mary Sanders, were on duty
at Lock’s when the theft of\one
portable radio and one small
electric table model radio, rep
sioners Court meeting in Ander-
son Monday.
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WEATHER
Readme taken each morning at f •1
cording to an announcement by
Postmaster Bert Hansen.
: The truck, carrying all classes
of mail, will leave Houston at
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date yea at bis office in the
courthouse at Anderson. Every
vote will count in the “red hot*
. gubematorial race between Gov-
emor Allan Shivers and Judge
Ralph W. Yarborough. Grimes
County election returns will be
received here at the Exominer-
Review office. They will be a-
nounced over a public address
system and posted on a black-
board in front of the office on
Rallzoad street
provement or
। lateral roads 01
The court set
his masters degree Mr Cole is
a member of the Episcopal
, a . — / 2
For Revised Estimate
F86 Jets Engage Enemy
In Mock Raid At Shiro
employees will be leaving for
Illinois, Oklahoma and other
house on Railroad street.
Mr. Haynie said that they are
now open for business and will
welcome all their old and new
friends. Mr. Haynie previously
bought cotton at Richards.
who bought the business six
years ago from Ray Dishongh of
Cleveland, has not announced
his plans for the future except
that he will continue to operate
his farming Interests and make
For the first time in history, his home here. Mrs. Hughes
the Examiner-Review will pub willycontinue with the store for
lish. a smple copy, shoppers' a while to assist the new own-
Appliance Company at 110 E.
McAlpine
Marr’s Super Market. Hughes.
rooms, drinking fountain, teacher will
for precaing 24 houra.
Max.
county will receive $16,007.80
during 1955 which is the sur-
plus over and above the amount
needed to meet the bond pay-
ment. It must bemused for im-
i inating this disease in
Jr. and Ardeen Piper.
School Board
Votes Tryouts
For Majorettes
Bill Cole of
held at the courthouse in An-
derson.
In 1953 dairymen were given
five years to rid their herds of
this disease in order to produce
grade A milk. Dr. Patterson told
by Shaw Drug. Clyde will oper-
ate the Central Drug and his
brother, Charles, will operate Pe-
derson Drug tor the time being.
Central Drug will have a foun-
tain. drugs, cosmetics, and a
line of drug store goods such as
baby equipment,games and toys.
“No date has been set tor the
formal opening but we hope to
get straight in time to do some
to secure
representative from
-MirofiigScrt8c X S V s C .
Box 8066
proof envelope is printed this in-
formation: “Sorry, you have,
overparked. The charge for this
overtime is 25c if paid within 24
hours. If not paid within 24
hours, the tharps is $1.00. You
may pay this by placing 25e in
this envelope and depositing it
in any of the courtesy boxes lo-
noted on or near the meter post
Note, a -eharge of 24c is made
and additional notice is issued
for each additional hour of
overtime parking.
Cong. John Dowdy writes that
he still has open one nomina-
tion each to the Military Aca-
demy at West Point and to the
Naval Academy at Annapolis,
and several alternate positions:
also a few more nominations to.
take the competitive examina-
tion for the new Air Force Aca-
demy. All of these .are for en-
trance in July, 1953: If you are
interested, contact Cong. Dowdy
right away.
I We are quite proud of a letter
receiwed last weak from Mrs.
I Lee J. Rountree, managing edi-
Iter of the Bryan Daily Eagle.
I The body of the letter follows:
"Please send me a copy of you.
Centennial Edition, which I wish
Ito file in our historical room in
the Carnegie Library. It certain-
lly was an excellent issue and I
I feel sure was appreciated by
•—A_a BP Af.n DanamAuaa hem AM
maGnYe •IS• HOHMHee HM vB
Hjoyed a long and distinguished
County To Get Surplus Money Mhapldteen
For Lateral Road Improvements Monday Afternoon
8 /
. Grimes County will receive
$16,057.80 from the State to > be
used for construction or im-
proving lateral roads according
to action taken at the Commis-
q
J. O. Whitten, the elder mem-
her of our firm, who has always
harbored a secret love foe trains,
took off long enough Tuesday
morning to give his grandchil-
dren a parsenger train ride to
College Stattea. His action was
prompted by the fact that the
Southern Pacific Hustler. operat-
ing between Houston and Dallas.
Is making Ite last ran today and
after today them will be no day-
light pdssenger trains through
Navasota. All of whien reminds
us that the passener train as
a mode of transportation to rap-
idly disappearing from the Amer
loan scene, giving way to the
more popular bus, private auto,
mobile and airplane.
SINGLE COPY 10c
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Master Cleaners
Installs $8,000 Worth
Of New Equipment
Hubert Schroeder, owner and
manager of Master Cleaners, 119
Railroad street, last week-end in-
stalled more than $8,000 worth
of new equipment which will
make it possible tor the firm to
do a much more efficient job of
cleaning a larger volume of
clothes. Included in the new in-
stallation are two extractofs, one *
cleaning fluid still, one filter,
and two storage tanks. Mr.
Closed Sunday
Richards received a big blow
at midnight Sunday when the
Magnolia pump station closed
down. Mrs. Cornelia Garvin, Ex-
aminer-Review correspondent at
Richards, said that this shut
down will result in approxi
mately 15 families leaving their
town, which to located 20 miles
east of Navasota.
The pump station has been in
operation there for about 41
years. Edwin Keisler plans to
which relieved the counties of a assumed about 60 per cent of
considerable portion of their road the total road debt.
At the outset this tax would
Uhe Nauasola
_____ . And Grimas County Reviow_____________--______' ... ___________.
protection and Improved pres
sure throughout the residential
area were cited as primary ob
jectives of the improvement
program.____________________________________________
Withdraws Request
Representatives from the bulk
gasoline agencies were present
at the meeting to discuss the
esting discovery in her chicken
yard the other morning. One of ,___________.------ -------
her hens laid an unusually large the ballot. The name of Lloyd W.
egg. On the inside, she found , Davidson, candidate for Court of
another egg complete with shell, j Criminal Appeals judge appears
------ on the ballpt. His opponent has
the group that the
he could recommei
first step has been reduced from business Saturday,” Clyde said.
5 25 to 52 cents per kilowatt-J i ”
Night suppers will be held at
the First Presbyterian Church
Wednesday night. August 18,, at BIBLE VERSE
6:30 o’clock. Every member of , mew uI •
•promo the congregation to urged to be JbeLnrd knows the way of Leigh American Lugis zul
present to meet the new pastor, the righteouse.sbut the.Way-0 , will be elected at the reg- l
the Rev. Merrill ProudfoOt, who the. wicked shall perish. Ps -la- mnnthlu memtine E-ldau
will begin, his work here the yersion, Na
first of October. , uonal Counci ot Churehes ot Chea 1
envelope was brought to our
desk this week from Rusk. Tex-
as by a local resident who had
been visiting in that city. On
the outside of the moisture-
tryouts and
Saturday, August 28.
Highlight of the election is the
gubernatorial race between Allan |
Shivers and Ralph W. Yar-1
j- Representatives, present were , ,
jlar .monthly meeting Friday Bonham. T. J. Haynie, Bobby concrete floor for the ehop area
' night at the American Legion 1 Curry. Tommy Godbold and Les-
Timely
I OPICS
By Bob Whitton
Members of the
— ... were Thelma Hunter, teacher at
. .A .new industry for Navasota George W. Carver who resign-
herds is to-xaccinate. four to is .the moderncottonwood ed to accept " teaching position
~ ---h heiate mill whieh W. E. Walker recent in Dallas and that of Gus T
ly moved in and now has in Poole, Carver agriculture teach-
operation Just south ot J. C. er
calves properly vaccinated dur Swanson’s Campfire Charcoal o
will be published next week with .
the regular issue. Every box- stay in Richards but the other
To fhe company the adjustment
will represent a reduction of 2.7
per cent in revenu from cus-
tomers in this classification
based upon the level of w es-
timated for the coming year.
In the adjusted rate, desig-
noted as Schedule 301 T, the
The annual Navasota twirling
; school will be held next week.
Classes will be from 9 until
, 11:30 a.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. Mon-
i day through Friday with a spe-
cial exhibition at the City Park
Saturday at 6 p.m.
. Entrance fee will be $10.04
Instructors will be Barbara M
Daniel. Mary Stewart Thomas,
Carolyn Barrett, Patricia Stolz,
Eula Clare Moore. Margaret Har-
dy, Jerry Stone and Kay Grice.
Church.
The board accepted the resig-
nation of William L. Guthrie
who resigned to accept a posi-
tion with radio station KORA at
Bryar /
Other resignations accepted
Shoppers'Edition
Will Feature
feed M. Scott, candidates for Su- n . m 5
preme Court. place #1. complete Bargain Dav
provements. His original figures request made by Vern Bonham
Included items which have
Services were held from the and silver spurs awarded for saddle brone and bareback teens ed high honors from both the
anel ef the John r Scott Fu. —e=t- • rodeo tariff 1 tee nr sib« years, has been State and Federal governments
neral Home with the Rev. A. H a consistent Wlnaoe in youth rodeos throuqhout the state. NeSte for his outstanding Job as civil
^S5y. prientin charee contly went to the state in *• "A tractor driving —
St. HAul S F-plScOpal K nuren. oi a_ g4,qq pAg4, ommn-mge
iidaticE: Burial was in the Oak “ —— School Board -
ms me 5 Baptists To Dedicate Beefs Two
HS Teachers
New officers of the J. Willie ordinance was not lifted. Mr
i Legion Post Bonham withdrew his request. ’
.... —. .... ... ot sight before the sound reach-
11 20 p.m. Saturday August 7, received recently at the National Youth Hedno held at Hallett-ed my ears," McBride added
---—-------------- "---------1--" belt buekles Capt. McBride recently receiv-
will receive a copy. Reservations
for advertising space in this to- -
sue are being made well in ad- ager, told Mrs. Garvin that he
vance of the publication date. " "i " ‘
If you have not been contacted
The City Commission Friday
night heard a preliminary re-
port from J. Thomas Kelley,
consulting engineer of Houston,
who has been making a survey
of the .Navasota water system.
The Commissioners asked Mr
Kelley to make another esti-
mate of the recommended Im-
j theory. Places where this pro-
' gram has been used only 5 per
ent of the calves have shown
। up with bangs disease. Ing to buy his timber locall.
According to County Agent The mill has approximately six
fairness to all parties concerned Henry Walters some Grimes1 . .
supeonanhas martite rosigna: MAvoqunndoneanught",
"------ - 15" Mrs. Allye Margaret Grimes of
La Marque; one son. Major,
Charles Quinn of Navasota; two
High School; Gust. Poole, voca- AntrhMnnaFMH. stss o
McDonald. u.™ -—nu-, —
and Brazos county. to a speciai committee
The motion asks that the. which was instructed to inves.
Commission listen . tigate prices of the more eco-
showing the railroad to be re: nomical six cylinder models,
calving more revenue from the Board members present were
trains now than when the mo: Dan Webber, president; L.‘P.., -------
twonysaiscagtinuenawasumode Dyer,mecretaly; Dr, suw- charruokthedohnEssott’unaingrvent
a discontinuance date to be de-
layed until September 15.
The general faculty meeting _____ —___
for the Navasota teachers and This to the second
high school registration will be tional" rate adjustment' made
Tuesday. September 7, instead at by the company this year, the
September 5 as erroneously stat- residential service rate having
trains which were According to Mr. Hansen Nav- j
l effective today, ac- asota wil make up a pouch for _ r n
Hearne and Dallas on the north- VOTAK 10 KlIV
bound truck and a pouch for "Y •J
Houston on the southbound:
Automobile
D1Ins, T
3 punerMonaayetor"whghtlkat MATOMALALE-AOUND Dreri-ymneanen
Patrick Quihn, 65, who died at of Mr. and Mr J C Dyor ofINavanota p98es with thesaddle.he
band director, John R. Bankston, tve a A____I .
M CmityAsks Eng
factory. The first mill shipment «.1 e a a
'z Sit Twirling School
Eacture of boxes. Walker is try- j Will Be Held
employees at the site and a full I H.r WaaL
timber cutting crew in the IldC IVEl WEER
woods: ,
bond payments.
/Grimes County had a heavy | not pay the State’s part so the
road bond debt and when the i county paid their part and the
State took over the county j State's. The one rent tax later
. - ( . a roads, namely highway 90 and/produced enough revenue to pay
This money to surplus that has highway 6,. they- agreed to pay, the State's portion of the debt
— --------- “ - percentage basis, for each and leave a surplus.
issue in proportion to the amount This surplus was re distributed
of money that had been spent to the counties to pay on their
on county roads taken over by portion of the remaining debt,
the State. The State at this time The major portion of a total
------s--------------e--i bond debt of $1,803,000 has been
: paid by Grimes Cunty. The
At the outset of the meeting
__ , , Am a there was some discussion of a
T. J. Haynie Named ■ ruling handed down Prsyiously
■ • •9 “VW--KV io IHe €-HE- EnaE ine Scn0OI
New Grimes County !S“ Sr gwimmihe
the shut dorm was that a larger | "V•‘ y-I--MV-.J lessons No further action was
Une now runs from Corsicana to' f nf f nrarAAr taken on this matter.
• or • VIE-I tnsorwiam Guthrie, who
I T. J. Haynie, Magnolia Petro- was recently elected English
leum Company agent here since and speech, teacher at Navaanta
January 1, 1953, has been named
a director of the Grimes County
— Navasota; two brothers. J. M
_______Automobile
Announcement that the two'
day time Southern Pacafic trains in regular monthly session is__
_ _ woud.be discontinued today to i Monday night, the Navasota Oneof them kept Mrs. Noto
z.i2.. ADZ.LI. made in an advertisement which ! School Board voted unanimous/ " -
3Taron AT KiCnaros appears in this issue Authority ly to buy an automobile for the
M to discontinue the schedule was Navasota Public School system
granted July 29 by the Texas in the discustoon it was brought
Railroad Commission. 'out that the saving on mileage
A formal motion for a rehear- > paid out for use at private care
ing on the discontinuance of the i would, over a three year period,
trains has been sent to Austin pay the purchase price of a new
by Bryan City Attorney W T. i car.
Chamber of Commerce, B I L 11 L
Mr. Haynie, who served as Kaiph Mughes
Magnolia agent at Richards pri- . eguI
or to moving here, succeeds W Sels Grocery
A. Waddell, former J. C. Penney “ X" XX"" -
County Clerk's office will be at who recenty moved to To L R. Mar
the City Hall August 17, 19 and
24 to accept absentee ballots for 4 ... _ _______ _____________
the second Democratic primary. Haynie has been associated with tion, Mr and Mrs Ralph Hughes
Absentee voting ends Tues- the Magnolia Petroleum Com- sold Hughes’ Super Market to
day. August 24. The primary pany for the past 34 years,
run-off election to scheduled far t
construction- of' resenting a total retail value of
264 45 to believed to have oc-
____________ —ptember 13 as curred. There were three Negro
Star route mail service be- 8:30 a.m. and arrive in Dallas the date for the annual budget women..and one, Negro, man.ln
tween Dallas and Houston will at 6:30 p.m., it will leave Dallas > hearing , i the store a ‘ hetimea1 qoking
be started Saturday to replace at 9:30 a.m. and arrive in Hous- a. . C .--- department otThe More j
iba. Margaret Noto was alone
at the time the theft occurred
at the Home Radio & Appliance
Company where the loss of two
small table model radios repre-
senting a retail value of $64 90.
There were three Negro women
in the store at the time the theft
- Two high school teachers were
—".m
HAmmeammmAma 1^1/4 . a ... . MiSS Elynor u. IeWS of Alter
Dairymen I old its kind, in Navasota, will be was employed to tench commer.
D 0 ne,, dedicated at 2p.m. Friday at the' cial work. She win replace Mrs.
Bangs Disease old First National Bank bulid- 1 M.sulivan. Miss Lewis to a
A l lh to a 4_ D* graduate of Baylor University.
Cancer KV Rarteri Center for Latin Ameri Waco, and will receive her mas-
_ Vuu--M •J SM can migrant laborers, will be ter of economics degree there
Thompson Willie Farquhar. I _ _ w .2..i0. co- sponsored by the First Bap this month She was an honor
Mace Elliott. Dr. John Marsh. Dr. e: M. Patterson. vetesina tist W.M.U, and Brotherhood. It graduate in 1953, when she re-
Jr. of Bryan. Dr. L. J. Goree, Dr rian with the A. A M College will be open on Friday. SatOr- I ceived her BBA degree. Mias
H. H. Madeley. Dr. H. E Schulze Extension Service, told Gripies day and Sunday afternoons dur Lewis to a member ot the Bap-
Dr R. A. Johnson. Dr. R F. Chap County dairymen Monday night, ing the cotton harvest season tist Church
pell and all his friends, that bangs disease is definitely/ C:----------- inelud- * Th----* —' Fneleh
Active pallbears were Douglas chusedml, and that U rest
Neal. Allen Rice of Baytown. Dr. cansd "Ydentiriedm by a bl xal
Marius Hansen. Gene Sanders, tan DS identied h “repur
Robert Nemir, E. O. Perry, Jr.. Kestte,ThisWas the. ezuiar
Latham Boone, Jr.. R. A. Patout, 1 countty Dairymen's Association
edition next week along with ers.
the regular Thursday issue. A ′ ______^<> ... ......
copy of this particular issue will AI..I. n. J_____
go to every box holder in the I IVde Federson
immediate trade territory. Ad- “J" ■
vertising space reservations are Tn nara
being made well in advance; so |Q VPCTdIC —
if you have not been contacted r a m e,
please call 5 6484 A representa- | entral Drunr Ktarp
tive from our office will call to VvuuuIGI •I UV •IVI V
pick up your copy.
--------------j-------------— Work is continuing this week
on the Central Drug Store, which
will be owned and operated by
A mock air raid at Shiro Tues-
day night and early Wednesday
morning kept residents of that
community on needles and pine.
Capt. Jack McBride, United
States civil defense administra-
tor for this area, at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday informed the United
States Air Force that the nemy
had taken over his airport at
Shiro. Thirty-three minutes later
at 8:03 p.m., the first wave at a
F86F fighter jets, flying at the
speed of 600 miles per hour,
from the Air Force Base at
Alexandria, La. were over his
airport at Shiro The pilots had
not been alerted prior to Me-
Bride's emergency call.
Capt. McBride had high praise
for the Navasota telephone oper-
ator who connected him with
the area civil defense headquar-
ters in lees than one minute. ’
‘The amazing thing to that
the pilots did an excellent job
of pin pointing McBride Airport
200 miles away at night going at
a speed of 600 mites per hour."
McBride said ____
Another objective of the F86F
jets-was that of finding and de-
stroying a large enemy convoy
operating under the cover eg
darkness somewhere between
Shiro And Alexandria, La.
The last jets left Alexandria
at 4:30 a.m. and arrived at Shi-
ro at 4:48 a.m.
According to Capt. McBride
"several farm hands of the area
jumped in their automobiles and
took ott for the deep woods
when they heard that Shiro waa
under attack.”
Some of the Jets came out of
power dives on the field at an
estimated 800 to 1000 mites per
hour. “The planes were out
$127,500 to fifteen thousand
Texas commercial customers.
The action to in line with the
company's long established pol-
icy of. voluntarily lowering the
cost of service to promote great-
er use whenever conditions jus-
tify.
The amount saved by indi-
yidual customers will vary with
CORRECTION / '
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T. J. Haynie, Son
Open Cotton Office
At Barry Warehouse
T. J. Haynie and son, T. J.
Haynie, Jr. announced this week
that they have opened a cotton
buying office at the Barry Ware-
Several hundred Braceros, the
vanguard of many more to
come, are expected this week-
end to help harvest the 1954 cot-
l ton crop. For the first time, Nav-
asota will be prepared to ac-
commodate these migrant Latin-
American laborers. Jas. F. Mar-
tin, chairman of the special
committee, and Marshall Croft,
Chamber of Commerce manager,
have been busy this past week
fitting out Martin’s Park as a
migrant laborers’ camp, Here-
tofore. many of them have been
forced to make their headquar.
I ters at Bryan. Shower baths and
sanitary facilities for men and
women have been added to meet
government requirements. An-
other addition this year will be
the Friendship Center which will
f be operated by the First Baptist
Church in the old First National
b Bank bunlding
U there to any possibility that
you will be out of town Satur-
day. August 28. the date at the
second primary- please don't hes- i
itate te cast an ahosates ballot
now. County Clerk L. S. Stamp-
toy wil be happy to accommo- 1
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Whitten, Bob. The Navasota Examiner and Grimes County Review (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1954, newspaper, August 12, 1954; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1445833/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Navasota Public Library.