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New Record For City
Poll Taxes Set Here
FFA Banquel
Slated Here
3rd Petit Jury
List Announced
Land Acquired
For Church
Settlement
Ends Trial
Local Woman's
Father Dies
CITY POLICE MAY TRADE
CAR FOR TRACK SHOES
A new record for city poll tax
payments had already been es-
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Graveside Rites Set
’or Newman Infant
The event will be held at Alps
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and several hundred more were
expected before the 5 p.m. dead-
line.
At noon Thursday approxi-
mately 1150 had paid city poll
taxes, according to Lynch Har-
per at City Hall. This is better
than 200 more than any previous
year in Mount Pleasant history.
County poll taxes also appear-
ed heading near a record num-
ber.
Citizens were lined three or
four deep at times in both the
county and city tax offices to
pay the poll tax.
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Lone Star Farmer certificates
will be presented and those from
the local chapter to receive one
are Garry Taylor, Marshall
Hensley, Douglas Grissom, Le-
roy Allen, Aubrey Roberts, Mi-
chael Hall, Wayne Garretson,
Thomas Alexander, Don Milam,
Dwayne Horton, Doug Blackard
and Gerry Alexander.
Nominees for area president
are Ernest Paul Pewitt from
Paul Pewitt School; Stanley
Odell from Maud High School;
Ernest McAnally from Mount
Pleasant High School; Larry
Haley of Hughes Springs High
School; and Jack Henry from
Redwater School.
Members of the local talent
team to be on the program are
Skip Richardson, Wayne Gar-
retson, Johnny Wilson, Jimmy
Taylor and Steve Patrick.
Chapter sweethearts will also
be presented with Karen Ken-
nedy as representative of the
Park Board to Meet
The City of Mount Pleasant's
Park Board will meet Friday hi
10 am in the city cuncil room
at Cify Hall.
“Anyone who has a suggestion
that he or-she would like to put
before the board is invited to
attend," the board said
W Dan Latimer is chairman
truck approaching them on the
unnamed road beyond Cedar
Street.
They attempted to block the
road with Greeny’s sheriff de-
partment patrol car but the
pickup truck merely veered
off into the ditch and proceed-
ed on around.
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A graduate, guidance course—
Guidance 514—will be offered
at Talco School. Registration
will be Monday night at 7 o‘-
clock at the school.
James Hudson
Speaker at
Rotary Club
More and more people are
buying stocks today, with the
result there are ever 17 million
shareholders, James R. Hudson
told the Rotary Club Tuesday at
Alps Cafe.
Hudson is employed in the re-
search department of Eppler,
Guerin and Turner, Inc., invest-
ment bankers in Dallas.
No stock is offered by his com-
pany until it has been thorough-
ly researched, Hudson said. In
addition to its own resources, the
firm is correspondent with a
New York company which has
an extensive research depart-
ment.
There are about 80 stocks on
the master list which his com-
pany follows closely, he said.
Contrary to what some may •be-
lieve. the company does not pay
undue attention to the price of
stocks it recommends.
A stock is not added to the
master list until it has been
studied carefully, often for as
long as two years. He said where
once the successful business man
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ponied success from a one-day
poll tax sale at four local super-
markets. Jaycees sold 223 coun-
ty poll taxes and 184 city re-
ceipts from booths operated in
the stores.
Highest number of city poll
taxes on record was 950 mu rd
last year. In 1961 there were 845
and 886 in I960.____
The big rise in city poll tax
payments has been attributed
to an estimtaed additional 400
families added to the city in a
Dec. 27 annexation.
New Highways, New Businesses
KEY TO MYSTERY—Melissa Roenspies the _21-month-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David F. Roenspies of Mil-
waukee, suffered an unexplained choking spell last •
Saturday. An abdomihal operation disclosed she had
swallowed the key shown on her pillow. Melisso is re*
covering satisfactorily. (AP Wirephoto.)
Thursday, Feb. 7 in the agri-
culture building at the high
school. ,
The meeting begins at 6:30
n.m., according to President Jim
Mehaffey.
The session will not be a din-
ner meeting, Mehaffey said, add-
ing the organization had recent- '
ly voted to hold- two night meet-
ings each month instead of one
breakfast session and one even-
ing meeting
The Junior Chamber of Com-
merce meets on the first and
third Thursdays.
Jaycees (o Meet Feb. 7
Mount Pleasant Jaycees will
hold their next meeting on
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night, offering winter-tired resi-
dents no immediate relief.
Forecasters said drizzling
rain was likely tonight, making
another ice threat probable.
At 1 p.m., the temperature in
downtown Mount Pleasant was
31 degrees and it appeared the
mercury might inch past the
freezing point during the after-
noon.
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VOL. 83
Wagner Says
Progress in
Roper Strike
Mw YORK I—Mayor Rob-
ert F. Wagner today reported
progress toward settling the
city's 55-day newspaper black-
out after an extraordinary 18-
hour City Hall negotiating ses-
sion
But he said “The patties are
still a long way from settling
this dispute."
County Tax Assessor-Collector
Wallace R. Fields said approxi-
mately 2350 poll taxes had been
issued by his office up until
noon. In the last “off-year" for
elections, 2700 bought county
poll taxes. There were about
4800 last year when county and
state primaries were held.
—rMossrjumped out of the car
and gave chase before the
truck got up a full head of
steam, yanked its driver to
the pavement, held him for
Greeny, then set sail after the
driverless truck.
The man, a Titus Countian,
was jailed and charges for
• DWI, second offense, were be-
ing prepared Thursday morn-
ing.
Before the arrest, several
calls had been received by of-
ficers about the man, who re-
portedly drove into a front
yard and damaged a utility
pole.
One of the callers himself
was helping police locate the
pickup and to cap the unusual
night, the well-meaning citizen
attempted to chase the truck
whenMss was driving it to
the jail afterwards
Lookout for the man began
about dark and the capture
came mound midnight
Frank Lee Files for
City Council Seat
A second candidate has filed
for a City Council seat.
Frank Lee, operator of a
Mount Pleasant auto alignment
service, filed for a place an the
April 2 ballot Thursday morn-
ing. according to Mrs. Tom B.
Coker, city secretary.
Tuesday John Mason became
the first to file for a councils
man's post.
The third petit jury list for
76th District Court was released
Thursday by District Clerk Allen
LaPrade.
Those to report for possible
jury service Monday at 9 a.m
are- ,
Olan Patrick. James Johnson.
Ted Parham, W. R Shaw. Julius
Wofford, Emma Sanches, Char-
les Black, T C Walker Jr . Web-
ber Beall, Clifton Owsley. Ger
aid P. Stansell, Ray G. Jones,
Glenn P Wright, Mrs Morris,
Stephens, James Chopel, L. J
Kirby;
Also Roy Merritt, Rex Kid-
well, Claude E. Allen, Jerry Ti-
gert, E O Rushing. Robert 1,
Sypert, C V Blodgett, Sam Ro
per. Jerry Steele. Hal Mazzare,
B. C. Vaught, Ellis E Rutland,
RrTiy MIKhI « Virgil i iFiutm,
Glynn Jackson. Mrs R T Ful
ler, Billy Hammonds. Bobby
Stevhenson, Dan Wilbanks;
Also Harold Darling. Mrs. C.
A Tosh. Arthur Craig. Milton
Marshall, W W Trylor, John-
nie . Thomas, Ronnie Gaines,
George Austin. Mrs. J. O. Free-
man. Tolbert Rhea. Mrs John
H. HaU, Fred Bright Sr , Lloyd
Gauntt, Baxter Moore and Joe
R. Edwards.
Don't be surprised if the
Mount Pleasant Police De-
partment buys a pair of track
shoes for Patrolman John
Moss and sells one of its pa-
trol cars.
Moss, the patrolman who
outran a pickup truck last
weekend to capture a drunken
driving suspect, put his fleet
feet into-high gear again Wed-
' nesday to win another race
with horsepower. *
Here's the latest map vs. car
episode, as told by officers:
Moss and Deputy Sheriff
Douglas Greeney, patrolling
southeast Mount Pleasant for
the suspect, saw his pickup
$3
Ushers and striking printers had
been settled.
Several others, he said, had
been declared “by the parties
to be readily susceptible of set-
Clement"
The mayor said two critical is-
sues remained unsolved. He did
not Identify them, nor did he
specify which issues had been
settled
Temperature
Sub Freezing
For 5th Day
The current dose of Old Man
Winter, which hasn’t allowed the
temperature to rise above the
freezing point in five days, level-
ed an icy blast at Mount Pleas-
ant and Titus County Friday af-
ternoon.
A freezing drizzle glazed
streets, sidewalks and highways
and virtually brought travel to
a halt—both by automobile and
by foot. ' _-t
At least five traffic accidents
were blamed on ice-slick pave-
ment while scores of citizens suf-
fered broken bones and other in-
juries in falls.
Fortunately, none of the ice-
caused accidents resulted in in-
juries and only damage to the
vehicles reported.
Mount Pleasant'! three hospi-
tals reported scores of patients
Friday and Saturday who had
slipped and fallen. Some remain-
ed hospitlized and others receiv-
ed emergency room treatment
and were dismissed
Another cold front was due in-
to northeast Texas Monday
APARTMENT BUILDING GOES UP
. . . one of several projects along new highways
HAND 'n HAND PROGRESS
Funeral services for Hersha
C. Hytcheson were held Thurs-
day afternoon at 4 o’clock at
the Mobberly Avenue Baptist
Church in Longview. Burial was
in a Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Hutcheson, father of Mrs.
Charles Faircloth, died Wed-
nesday in a Longview hospital
from injuries suffered in an auto
accident Jan. 15.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.,
Gracie Hutcheson, Longview;
two sons, H. H. Hutcheson and
W. T. Hutchison, both of Long-
view; 11 daughters, Misses Jane
Hutcheson, June Hutcheson, Gail
Hutcheson, Helen Hutcheson, all
of Longview: Mrs. Bobby Ram
sey, Mrs: Horace Beard. Mrs.
Eddie Stanley, all of Longview;
Mrs. Charles Faircloth, Mount
Pleasant; Mrs. Ray Williams,
Baytown; Mrs. Pim Heitman,
Germany; Mrs. James Ross,
Houston; his mother, Mrs. W.
F. Hutcheson, Monday, Texas;
ten grandchildren; one brother,
Douglas Hutcheson, San An-
tonio; three sisters, Mrs. L. C.
Guinn, Knox City, Texas; Mrs
Freddie Morrow, Monday; and
Mrs. Bill Henderson, El Paso
Negro Greene
Rejected at
Ole Miss Today
OXFORD, Miss. tm — Negro
James H. Meredith went through
the lengthy process of register-
ing for his second semester at
the University of Mississippi to-
day.
At the same time, the univers-
sity turned away another Negro
who appeared at the registrar’s
office.
There were no incidents. Mili-
tary policemen and campus po-
lice kept a watchful guard over
the campus.
The second Negro to try to en-
roll, Dewey Roosevelt Greene.
22, of Greenwood. Miss., appear-
ed on the campus shortly be-
fore noon and went to the reg-
istrar’s office.
Registrar Robert Ellis said he
turned Greene away for the
same reason he rejected his ear-
lier written application—that he
was unqualified.
struction of a Texaco station at
the corner of Madison and Fer-
guson road sometime this spring.
Other new business plans
probably will be forthcoming.
The first step of providing
four-lane entrances on High-
ways 271 and 49 from the south
and southeast has been virtual-
ly completed.
Contractors were unable due
to bad weather to put down
asphalt on the portion of Feign
son Road to West 1st street be-
fore an October Highway De-
partment. deadline No asphalt
paving is done during the Win-
ter months
That link is under contract to
the Austin Bridge Company and
process, which brings the need
for a company such as his.
The investor, he said Is, us-
ually seeking security, growth
and income when he buys a
stock. He mentioned only two
by name: Russell Stover can-
dies, which has prospered since
being added to the master list
in December 1961; and Gillette,
which faces a problem in a new
stainless steel blade. After
study, his firm has decided to
hold, not sell,' Gillette stock.
Hudson was introduced by W.
O. Robertson Lon Rates was
program chairman. Jimmy Jon-
es of Tyler and Charles Lowry
of Mount Vernon were visiting
Rotarians.
said he probably will begin con- work will resume sometime in
March, according to J. H. Craw-
Monday mouning’e low wee 1
A low of 16 was recorded Sat-
urday morning and Sunday's low
was 11. The mercury rose to 31
Saturday but halted at 27 Sun-
day afternoon.
One of the most seriously hurt
in a fall Saturday was Mrs. O.
R Blackburn, 504 W 4th, who
suffered a broken hip. She re-
portedly was taking her husband
to a local doctor when she fell
in front of his office.
Mrs. Fred Blackard, Route 4,
suffered a broken arm in a fall
and Gilbert Fry, Route 5, was
See TEMPERATURE—Page 7
Complaints for Giving
Worthless Check Filed
Three complaints for giving
worthless checks were filed iff
7611) District Court Tuesday
naming Mrs P. N. Massey.
The comvlaints allege three
checks, each for $20 or more,
were given in local supermar
kets recently
Two men were fined 615 each
in Corporation Court for fight
ing. They were arrested by city-
police Mondav afternoon in the
400 block of Highway 67. West.
Two arrests also were made for
>• vpnlonrogg
Anoul of court settlement for
’6000 was agreed upon Monday
afternoon by attorneys in a civil
lamage suit which had been in
rial since Thursday.
The settlement was madeto .
R. L. .Searcy, Mount Pleasant
Negro, plaintiff in a suit against
H. E. Spann and Co., Inc , also
if Mount Pleasant.
The suit grew out of an acci-
tent June 8, 1962 in which
earcy's car was involved in a
ollision on Highway 271, South,
vith a truck owned by the firm.'
At'orneys for the plaintiff was
3ascom Perkins. Dick Grain-
’er of Tyler and T. R Florey
‘r renresented the defendant.
ford, Highway Department resi-
dent engineer.
Earth moving and construc-
tion of culverts is well under-
way on the second stage of the
bypassproject, which will be a
four-lane divided highway from
the business route north to In-
terstate 30. This highway work
is under, contract to Sira and
Payne Construction Company
and is hoped to be open to traf
fic this summer.
The third link, connecting
with Highway 271, North, is still
in the planning stage arid it is
hoped right-of-way purchase
will be started later this year
Bids for tne first portion of
Interstate 30 in Titus County
will be opened by the Highway
Department Feb. 16. A con-
tract calling (or 9.623 miles from
the Franklin County line' to the
Highway 271 interchange is to
be awarded, thus the federal
highway program will lie under
construction within the year..
The new Highways and new
•businesses present a picture of
change and progress for Mount
Pleasant . . . But then Mount
Pleasant hasn’t earned its repu-
tation for forging forward by
standing still.
Palmer Poteet.
Mount Pleasant will host area
Future Farmers of America
Chapters at their annual banquet
Wednesday night at the Alps.
had time to do his own research.
Mount Pleasant Jaycees’Ye- today ho is too busy for this
Hlit. pleasant Limes RReniew
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Back in the days of the Old
West, a town followed the rail-
roads.
Nowadays, new businesses fol-
low new highways and a vivid
portrayal of this is seen as Mount
Pleasant moves forward with the
Highway 271 bypass project.
Although the entire new high-
way route is about about one-
fourth finished, new businesses
are beginning to follow its cour-
se. " •
Some arc almost completed,
others on the drawing boards.
The first phase of the highway
work has joined Highway 49 with
the Highway 67 Business Spur.
The second link will be from
the business spur north to the
site of Interstate 30 and the
third element, still in the plan-
ning stage will be from that
point to connect with the .pre-
sent 271 about taree miles forth
of town.
In between cold snaps, there’s
a hum of hammers along the
new four-lane South Jefferson
Street where modern service
stations, a drive-in grocery and
an apartment building arc go-
ing up.
A tentative March 1 date has
been set for completion of a
combination drive-in grocery and
service station being built by
Billy Jackson in the 1500 block
of South Jefferson. Lease ar-
rangements are being made for
both, he said.
A new Fina station in the 800
block is also expected to open
sometime.in March.
March 1 aiso has been an-
nounced as the completig. date
for a 12-unit $35,000 apartment
building between West Cross
and Holland Streets.
More construction is due to
begin when the weather becomes
more agreeable.
A Gulf service station is to
be built on the southeast corner
of the Highway 271-Highway 49
intersection.
Joel Steed, Mount Pleasant
Ford dealer, will build a new
building in the 200 block of High*
way 49, West—which becomes
Ferguson Road. Steed is expect-
ed to announce plans for the
building to be on the south side
of the road, in the near future
C E. (Pete i Gaddis, who owns
a five-acre tract on the north
side between the Cotton Belt
rnilrnad and Arizona streets
Land has been purchased on
East 1st Street for a new build-
ing for St. Michael's Catholic
Church, according to the Rev.
Vincent Spina.
The church site is located on
the north side of East 1st in
the 1300 block between Denman
and Cecelia Streets. The prop-
erty consists of about six acres.
No immediate plans for build-
ing have been announced.
The project is expected to cost
about 150,000 and the Catholic
Extension Society will share in
the construction expense, the
Rev. Spina said.
Serving on the building com-
mittee are James Frazier, Bill
Koen, George Logan, H. H. Cul-
ver, John Hahn, Jack Forbing,
Vincent Lightfoot, Matthew
Broom, Barry Blevins and Dr.
L. T. Barron.
Marvin Floyd
Dies Thursday
Marvin Ellie Floyd, a Winfield
resident, died at 6:30 - p.m
Thursday at his home. He was
born July 17, 1904 in Franklin
County. ______________' _
He is survived by two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Joyce Calloway, Lees
burg; Mrs. Bobby Brown, Win-
field; two sons, Virgil R. Floyd,
Winfield; and Jimmy Frank
Floyd, Winfield; 13 grandchil-
drcnu four half-sisters and one
half-brother. Jake Maxton,
Mount Vernon.
Services were held Saturday
at 2 p.m. at Smith-Bates Fune-
ral Chapel and burial was in
Winfield Cemetery. Officiating
ministers were the Rev. John
___ Wagner, said several issues in
the controversy between pub-
Former Talco
Resident Dies
Aaron Smith, former Talco
resident, died Wednesday after-
noon about 4 p.m. in an accident
at Bridgeport, Texas. He was
born Ort. 27, 1922 in Fnanklin
County.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
WHHlieMaud Smith, Dallas; three
sons; one daughter; his mother,
Mrs J. W. Smith, Talco; three
sisters, Mrs. Bob Williams,
Mount Pleasant; Mrs. Nina
Steele, Dickerson, Texas; Mr’s,
Mary Schrimpshere, Dallas; two
brothers. Bill Smith, - Mount
Pleasant; and Larkus Smith,
Talcc. —
Services will be held t 2:30
Friday afternoon at Dudley
Hughes Funeral Home in Dallas
with burial in a Dallas Ceme-
Cargile Suffers
3 Heart Attacks
Julian Cargile, 506 W. 6th St ,
remained in critical condition
Thursday at M&aS Hospital, in
Pittsburg where he was taken
last Friday after being stricken
while-driving on a country road
near there.
According to information avail-
able here, he suffered three at-
tacks within a . comparatively
short period of time. The first
struck 'while he was driving,
causing his car to take to a
ditch. He regained conscious-
ness after this seizure and a
passerby took him to Pittsburg
for treatment.-------
En route to Pittsburg he suf-
fered a second heart attak, and
after reaching the hospital, he
suffered a third, Mrs. Cargile
(aid Thursday
He spent a restless night
Wednesday, she said, and is
allowed no visitors. He is kept
under an oxygen tent part of
the time Thursday his physieian
said he is progressing in the
normal pattern.
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Graveside services for the in-
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Newman of Waco were held
‘Vednesday afternoon at 2 p.m.
t the Gladewater Cemefery
The infant was born Sunday and
lied Tuesday morning in a Wa-
n hospital.
Surviving are his parents of
Waeo; grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Marshall Redfearn of
Mount Pleasant; and Mrs. tom- '
mie Newman, Mount Plyasant.——-
Banquet Slated
.The Chamber of Commerce
agriculture committee again
will sponsor a banquet for con-
signors of the Northeast Texas
Hereford Association's annual__________
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