The Navasota Examiner and Grimes County Review (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1961 Page: 1 of 14
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first six months of 1961 some
pany of Houston.
A separate contract will be
a saving of more than $10,000
6 p.m. when the Navasota City
let for extending water and sew-
105, across the street from the
January through June this year
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r’hoto By Dan Daniels
VICTIMS REMOVED FROM LIGHT PLANE
Investigators found a wing.
By Bob Whitten
Dr. M. E. Parker, age 81, one
Navasota City limits.
500 Is Civic Club
then he’ll get that heeded medi-
September.
his father when he was three-
fin
four
Dr. Parker was born on July
f
to December.
Credited
with
saving
the
an
Worbington and Tim Burns.
1 street.
rains’ stopped,
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thanks to the rains, but low.
The agent said the inifesta.
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Air Crash At Carlos Kills
Bryan Police Chief, Aide
Dr. M. E. Parker
Dies, End Of Era
2 Men Burned In
Butane Gas Blast
are Terrell Buchanan and chil-
dren, Bez and Ellen, of Silsbee. J
First Baptist Here
To Host Creath-
attended
school.
the
have
stead and Marshall Emory Par-
ker. He was a member of the
“Pastures
greener,
all on the same farm.
"We have a few boll
of controlling the insects."
Mr. Walters thinks it’s time
of State Highway 6 and one
block south of State Highway
Ida Teacher
To Accept Position
At North Zulch
Luther T. Bunts
Luther T. Burris
Named Head Grid
Coach At Iola
AFTER MORE THAN three hours of rescue
efforts, the wreckage of the single engine
Cessna 120 in whih two Bryan police officers
died Wednesday at 11:33 am. gives up its
victims. Bryan Police Chief Lawrence L Mar-
They were treated by a Nava-
sota doctor and released.
Seven members of the Nava-
sota Fire Department rushed to
7.80 inches over the 1960 figure
for the same period.
Mrs. Wallace Bosse
Is $20 Silver
Harvest Winner
And Srimes County Review
grandchildren.
The body laid in state at the
First Methodist Church of An-
derson from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Friday, June 30.
tin and Traffic Sergeant Richard K. McDaniel
died instantly when their plane plunged to
earth near Carlos. Cause of the crash has not
been determined.
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Sincerely,
E. H. Crouch
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that long,” he told reporters,
“I was about gone," He worked
County Crop Outlook Good
Despite Rain And Insects
diameter at the base of the
steeple and a switch which
exploded just inside the east
entrance on the ground floor.
The lightning apparently
electrified the aU metal roof,
followed a downspout down
ball coach at Iola High School
for the 1961-62 school term.
testified that they saw the plane
in trouble. Mr. Smith said the
.plane began spinning down.
Mr. Hicks said he saw some-
thing float down from the plane
before it crashed. He was driv-
ing south of F-M 244 with a
group of youngsters who had
A record June rainfall, com-
bined with an unusually wet
February, has pushed the total
playground. ———-
The bid of 829,750 represents
frequently referred to that year
as his roughest. 13, 1879, the son of Date Grin.
“After staying in the saddle
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to a piece of conduit loading
to the switch.
wook camo the lollowing letter
from the Rev. K. H Crouch, pas-
tee of the' Memorial Baptist
Church of Navasota, who with
his wife and daughter. Mrs. Da-
vid Tines of Crane. Towns and
her three children, made the 5-
075-mile uneventful trip up the
Alcan Highway:
plosion of the larger tank were
Firemen Garvin Wright, Hanni-
bal Wilson, Fred Voelter, Grov-
er Mitchell, Victor Stolz, P. V.
Although born In Somerset, performed at times on kitchen
Ky. In 1879, Dr. Parker spent tables and in pastures, depend-
most of his life in Texas. mov-1 ing on the situation.
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Mrs. Evelyn Corley, homemak-
ing teacher at Iola, has resign-
ed her position there to accept
a teaching position in the North
Zulch High School, it was an-
nounced today by Truman Is-
bell, Iola superintendent.
Due to Mrs. Corley's resigna-
tion, Mr. Isbell said a vacancy
now exists in the Iola school
system.
mately 500. ----------
The next regular meeting will o the college baseball team at
be the reassembly luncheon in Nacogdoches for two years.
Howard Pool Co. __
$29,750 City Contract
are generally doing a good job nally and son of • Beaumont
were here fdf the week end with
Mr. and Mrs. Holly Downs.
• Edgsr Jones has returned to
his home in Houston after' a
State To Spend $371,768
On Highway 90 Construction
Members of the Creath-Brazos
Brotherhood will meet at the
First Baptist Church here Thurs-
day night, July 13, at 7 p.m.
Supper will be served by the
Brotherhood of the First Baptist
Church with S. R. Buchanan in
charge.
Speaker for the evening will
be Dr. Richard Pom, pastor of
I the First Baptist Church of Bry- ’
an.
years in high school football,
baseball and basketball and
was selected for the all district
football team during his junior
and senior years.
He holds a bachelor of science
Mrs. Bess Parker of Anderson;
two sons, Marshall E. Parker
of Houston and Robert Franklin
Timely
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chants. The drawings are held
each Saturday at 3 p.m. at I
is in pretty bad
now for the same
, of Houston._________ . At last count, back in August
euumumumuuuuumuumuuummmuummumummumumuumm of 1959, he had delivered 2,952
to go out to see about a per-
son. and never turning an in-
dividual away. Explaining this,
the doctor once said, “If a man
doesn’t have the money to pay
for medicine and he needs it.
grandchildren and two great
------ First Methodist Church of An-
the area around Anderson dur derson. the Orphans Friend
ing the epidemic by himself । Lodge #17, A. F. A A. M. of
for four months, from September Anderson. Jerusalem Chapter #
to December.___________________| (Continued on Back Page)
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NAVASOTA, GAMES CoUNTr, TEXAS.
■ INI Rainfal For
H First 6 Months Is
2228 Record 29.9 Inches
way for a month to six weeks,”
Walters said. "As generally the
pattern, infestation is fairly low
along the upland farms but is
normally high in the bottom
areas."
truck and preventing
. ... — — -------- land cotton
tion might be as low as 5 per.shape right
cent on a hill and as high as reason."
50 per cent in a lowland area—
The victims had Just complet-
ed the transfer of gas from the
Lions Club members are con-,
fronted with a problem. Each
year they contribute a certain
amount on their delegate's ex-
penses to the International Con-
vention. Next year it will be
held at Nice, France on the
Mediterrean Coast with a Swe-
-dish President presiding. This
being In the famed Riviera area
there should be no shortage of
candidates for the trip, but the
expense item will.be a new hill
to climb, President Ed Mickan,
who with his family attended
the recent International Conven-
tion at Atlantic City, New Jer-
sey, told his fellow club mem-
bers Monday night that 25,000
Lions, representing 112 differ-
ent countries, were in attend-
ance.
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but ruled out the theory of
an explosion. Mr. Smith, first
to discover the wreckage, found
the engine still hot on the
shattered plane which fell on
the Reed McDonald farm. The
aircraft fell on and killed a
eral sets of twins. down so tight that I can’t kick
When Dr. Parker first came it off, well. I guess you cin
to Anderaori in 1914 he made t callLme retired."______________
all of his calls on horseback., Survivors Include his wife,
He said he couldn’t use a bug- ' "
gy because the stumps were
too high. "There were right-of-
ways," he would say, "but, they
were just not made for ve-
hicles."
Devoted to his profession, the
doctor went for as much as 36
hours without sleep during the
big flu epidemic of 1918. He
Luther Troy Burris, former
assistant football coach, head
basebail coach and high school
mathematics instructor at Grove-
ton, has been named head foot.
and get the lid screwed
Medical authorities said the large to the small tank,
two Negro men, both employees P—"‘-J --- —4-
of Mr. Batts, were burned
slightly on the face and arms.
drawing are available at no ob-'
exr ligation from any one of the
the scene and managed to con-
fine the blaze to a small but-
ane storage tank on a truck
which was parked about 100
feet from a much larger ground-
type tank.
Parker of Tulsa, Okla.;
vacation Bible
, Dr Parker, better known at! cine and doctoring from me —
Cohere with faia in maste Anderson as "one of the finest regardless of his appearance,
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rainfall in the area for
KiwaniansGive
$300 To Library
Building Fund
In session last Thursday night
at the home ot Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Purcell, 317 Wood Street,
Kiwanis Club directors voted to
give 8300 to the Grimes County
Library building fund.
This is a portion of the pro-
ceeds from the recent Kiwanis
Radio Auction.
A special committee compos-
ed of J. H. McDonald, George
Franks and Wm. Albert Miller
was appointed by President Per-
cy Iles to formulate tentative
plans for the Kiwanis scholar-
ship fund. The latter will be for
some deserving Navasota High
School graduate and will be fi-
nanced by proceeds from the
Kiwanis Radio Auction.
The Kiwanis directors also
approved 320 for the colored
Little League program.
• Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Wagner
and son, Justin, and Mr. and
Mrs. Wesley Pyor of Katy spent
July 4th with Mr. and Mrs. V.
i V. Bryant.
• Bonny Curry, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Curry, has re-
turned after a three weeks va-
l cation at Camp Val Verde west
of Waco.
• Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Nun-
totaled 29.90 inches as compared
to 22.10 inches for 1960.
The 1961 figure amounts to
1.61 inches more than the total
for the same period in 1959
which was 28.29 inches. Total
rainfall in 1958 was 21.51
Ike David Williams and Nor-
ris Williams of Navasota suf-
fered minor burns at 6:45 a.m.
Thursday when a small butane
gas storage tank exploded at
the Joe Batts place, about 6
miles south of Navasota on
Highway 6.
the Construction of a new swim- of 829,750 to Howard Pool Cem- which is located one block east School
ming pool for use of colored res-. —— -- - - ------ - - "
idents was assured Monday at
seldom been
100-yards east of farm-to-mar-
ket road 224, some 3 miles north
of Carlos.
Both men were dead when
Grimes County Deputy Sheriff
John Darby of Iola reached the
scene. Darby identified the
victims at the crash site from
papers found on their bodies.
William P. Keown, owner of
the Keown Flying Service at
A light plane crash 30-mJ les
north of Navasota near Carlos
at 11:33 a.m. Wednesday of last
week killed Bryan Police Chief
Lawrence L. Martin, 54, and one
of his officers, traffic Sgt.
Richard K. McDaniel, 28.
Wreckage of the maroon and
-aluminum Cessna 120 was dis-
covered in a wooded area about
in addition to his regular
medical duties, Dr. Parker serv-
ed as Grimes County health of-
ficer for some 30 years.
He had never retired, saying.
"When they put me in that cof- .
of the last of the old-time
"horse and buggy" doctors, died
quietly at his home in Ander-
son.
________y gen-
eral with most areas receiving
from 7 to 1* inches during the
past two weeks.
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Forty-seven years of outstand-1 He had an unblemished re-
ing medical service to residents cord as a doctor, never failing
of Grimes County came to an
end at 8:05 a.m. Thursday when
“Poisoning for boll Weevils | two to three weeks and farmers
and bollworms has been under-
Big winner Saturday at 3 p.m.
at the Silver Harvest Day draw-
ing in front of Radio Station
KWBC was Mrs. Wallace Boose
of Navasota.
Mrs. Bosse drew a fag worth
5 per cent of the 3400 Silver
Harvest pot, or 320 in Silver
Harvest money.
Entry tickets for the weekly
KWBC studios on Railroad
Also included will be the pav- A "“radute“ ser" L
from Grassy Creek north u faers I School, Mr* Burris Fthara ileh
from Grassy Creek north to the
The agent pointed out that
wet weather conditions greatly
. .. . worms aid the boil weevil and boll
coming along now, he said, worm. Rains over the county,
but we dont expect them to he said, have been fahly
be much more of a problem —*
than in previous years. Cotton
plants have been blooming for
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a-
visit of several days with his
mother, Mrs. Dwight Platner.
• Donna Kay Hughes of Bryan
is visiting Ruth Ann Moore and
Marilyn Moore is in Bryan with
Sue Hughes.
• Recent visitors in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Dan
ford were Mrs. J. F. Carroll,
Miss Willie V. Carroll. Miss
Hazel Bechtoldt and Miss An-
na Marie DuPerler all of Beau-
mont.
A contract for 3.1 miles of
construction along State High-
way 90 in Grimes County has
been awarded to a Bryan firm,
it was announced today by Joe
Piccolo, resident engineer for the
State Highway Department in
Navasota.
The State Highway Commis-
sion at Austin accepted a low
bid of 8371,768 on the project
from R. B. Butler, Inc. of Bryan.
Culverts and bridges will be
widened and approaches will be
improved from Anderson to the
Madison County line, a span of
just under 30 miles.
C. B. Thames, District High-
way engineer at Bryan, estimat-
ed the job to be completed in
200 working days. Mr. Piccolo
will be in active charge of the
project while it is under con-
struction. . -
Highway 6
According to Piccolo, plans for
Improvements along State High-
way 6, from a point at Grassy
Creek South of Navasota to. the
Waller County line, are com-
plete.
“Right-of-way negotiations are
still being conducted but we
have our sights set on an Oc-
tober letting date," added Mr.
Piccolo.
The engineer said plans call
for a four-lane, divided highway
whidh, -will use the predent
roadway for the southbound
lane with construction of a
completely new road for the
northbound lane.
new bid includes construction of
the swimming pool complete
with filter system and adjoin*
ing bath house.
Roy Hollman, general mana-
ger; and Eldee Park, Jr., engi-
neer for the Howard Pool Com-
pany, said that they would be-
gin work- Wednesday morning, ,
July 5, and that the pool should
be completed and ready for use
within thirty days.
By prior agreement the pool
will be operated by the Nava-
sota Independent School Dis-
trict
Howard Tellepsen of Houston
owns 51 per cent of The How-
ard Pool Company. Mr. Holiman -
owns 49 per cent of the stock.
Last year, Howard Pool
Company built 166 swimming
pools. Thus ■ far this year the
firm has completed 122 pools
and has 26 others under con-
struction.
In other business, the Com-
missioners approved a taxicab
operator’s license for Roy Brown,
effective July 1. Mr. Brown is
in the process of buying the
City Cab Company.
The Commissioners also voted
to send three Navasota firemen
to the annual Firemen’s School
which will be held on the cam-
pus of Texas AAM College July
23-28. The city will receive a 5
per cent credit on its Insurance
key rate provided the Fire Mar-
shal and three members of the
fire department attend.
Coulter Field at Bryan, said tip some distance away in a
Chief Martin had rented the small lake owned by Mr Smith
sleek, two-place aircraft to
“fly a little while.” Keown said
deer.
Chief Martin’s tragic flight
marked the end of a long fly-
ing record in, military and
civilian aircraft. A retired Air
Force Colonel, Martin took over
the job of Bryan Police Chief
on Nov. 1, 1959. Both he and
Mrs. Martin were licensed pilots'
and regularly took summer I
vacation flying tours.
Prior to his retirement with
the Air Force in which he
served 28 years, he was group
commander at James Conally
Air Force Base at Waco. He
also served as commander of
heavy B29 bombers.
At the time of the crash, Mr.
Martin's wife was in the Bryan
Hospital recovering from an
operation. Doctors said Mrs.
Martin would not be released
until the following week.
Besides his wife, Martin is,
survived by a daughter, Mrs.
George Wills of Madison, Wis.
Funeral services for Chief
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BIBLE VERSE
Ask of Me, and I shall give
thee the heathen for thine in-
heritance, and the uttermost
part of the earth for thy pos-
sessign. (Ps. 2:8).
Excessive rainfall, boll wee-
vils, boll worms and grasshop
pers have lined up for one mas-
sive offensive against Grimes
County’s 1961 cotton crop.
Grimes County Agent Henry
Walters said Monday that
grasshoppers > infestation is
as bad as it has been
for many*- years, but has not
reached the alarming propor-
tions that it has nearby Brazos
and Washington Counties.
"Pastures are in especially
good shape; cotton prospects,
with the exception of lowland
areas, are generally good; and
the corn crop seems, for the
present, excellent." 1
babies to proud parents in
Grimes County, including sev-
Brazos Brotherhood PBbynkion chre
Steeple Sunday.
A lightning bolt out of the
blue hit the base of the
Presbyterian Church steeple
Sunday at 5:45 with a nerve
rattling crash which shook
the entire neighborhood. The
only damage was a hole ap-
proximately six inches in
Anchorage, Alaska
June 30, 1961
; Examiner-Review
Navasota, Texas
Dear Bob:.
We arrived yesterday after 15
days of driving 5.075 miles. We
visited relatives and friends in
New Mexico, Idaho and Utah.
We have enjoyed a wonderful
trip. We attended an Indian
dance in Colorado one night,
(but don't let my Memorial peo-
pie know about it.) We have not
needed the air conditioner in the
car since we left Texas. We
have seen snow on the moun-
tains for the last nine days and
one time we stopped and made
snow balls. Yesterday we saw
three moose, two big ones and
one baby one, near the road
side.
Near Whitehorse, Yukon, ter-
ritory’ we had to delay half a
day while a bridge was being
repaired after a heavy rain. The
only car delay we had was two
flats one afternoon, but we
loot only a few minutes. (The
only car trouble on trip.)
Our Falcon station wagon
with its unique sleeping ar-
rangement has attracted the at-
tention of many campers in all
the states we have come
through.
Two nights we have slept in
motels where we could get warm
baths for the mountain streams
did not encourage open air
bathing.
We hope to be home the first
of August.
the chief took-off from the field
at 11 a.m.
Wilson Jarvis of Iola noticed
the plane, apparently in trouble,
at about 11:25 a.m. He said,
"It looked like he was trying
to race up the motor, but it
wouldn't pick up — then it
cut out completely."
Two other witnesses, B. B.
Hicks, who farms in the nearby
Keith community, and Weyman
Smith, a rancher of Iola, also
Membership Goal _ cm,.............
Mrs. W. E. Gibson, newly up the membership to approxi- where he was active in football,
elected Civic Club president, an-
nounced today that the organi-
zation’s 1961-62 membership
drive will get underway Thurs-
day, July 6.
Ward chairmen are Mrs.
George Franks, Miss Trannie
Francklow, Mrs. Ben Blalock,
Mrs. Norton Rainey and Mrs.
Johnny Webb.
Mrs. P. J. Iles, vice-president,
has requested that those who
would like to pay their dues of
81.00 to call her at home TA
5-3138 and that she would be
happy to pick it up.
Goal of the drive is to build
Whitten Elected
Secretary Texas
Press Association
Bob Whitten, co-owner and
manager of the Navasota Ex-
aminer and Radio Station KWBC,
was elected secretary-treasurer
of the Texas Press Association
at the recent 82nd annual con-
vention held at the Baker Hotel
in Dallas.
Victor R. Fain, publisher of
the Nacogdoches Dally Sentinel,
was elected president tor the
ensuing year and George Baker,
owner and publisher of the Fort
Stockton Pioneer, was elected
vice-president
New directors elected were W.
B. Crossley, owner and publish-
er of the Madisonville Meteor,
and James Roberts, co-publish-
er of the Andrews County News.
More than 400 newspaper men
and women from all over Texas
attended the convention.
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berwicek Sales Co.
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The totals by month, along
with the yearly averages for
this area, are as follows:
Avg. 1960 1961
Jan. ........... 3.88 2.47 5.74
Feb. ........... 2.71 4.31 7.30
Mar................... 2.77 1.00 1.50
Apf. 3.87 1.62 2.34
May .................... 2.80 2.92
June ................ 3.35 9.90 10.10
Totals .... 21.25 22.10 29.90
President of the Creath-Brazos
Association Brotherhood is ’ Bert
Hansen of Navasota.
Personals
•. Visiting Thursday with-Mrs.
J. I. Adair were her niece, Mrs.
William Suter of Brenham- and
her sister-ih-law, Mrs. D. G.
Adair of Austin.
• Guests this week in the home
of Dr. and Mrs. M. Hansen and
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Buchanan
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