The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 185, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1956 Page: 2 of 32
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2 A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Wednesday Morning, December 19, 1956
POSTMASTER SAYS
Post Office Due
Top Load Today
a | Craig Douglas of Crane; six class at the First Christian Church in Trinity Memorial Park. Whooping Sion
Man Who Located | daughters, Mrs V R Burnes of here forover 25 years. * Sury ivors include his wife: twol'P 9
------„---1 I * Lala * * sons, Gus of Lamesa and E F. MEXICO CITY. Dec. 18 -
of Odessa; four daughters. Mrs Mexico's international auto show
Floyd Reeves of Carlsbad, N. M., - -----" 4 -
Mrs. O. L Jamison and Mrs. Joe
B. Masters, both of Big Spring,
and Mrs. W N Reese of Andrews:
two sisters Mrs. Jack Haney of
Snyder and Mrs. Jim Coats of Lov-
ington N. M., 15 grandchildren 22
great-grandchildren.
First Permian Well
Buried at (-City
COLORADO CITY, Nov 18
(RNS) — Funeral services for Mil
Abilene, Mrs. E. L. Cowan and Funeral will be held at 4 p.m.
Mrs B A. Rains, both of Big Thursday to Nalley-Pickle Funer-
Spring, Mrs. P. A Rogers of Dal-al Home Chapel The Rev. Clyde
las, Mrs J. A. Morri’s of Boerne Nichols, pastor of the First
and Mis. W. R. Mulroy Jr. of Christian Church, will officiate.
Waco. and nine grandchildren. 1 Burial will be to city cemetery
--—--------------------; Survivors include her husband;
ton Walt Collier, 76, of Colorado
City were held Tuesday morning
at the Kiker and Son Chapel Bur-
ial was in the Colorado City Ceme-
Heart Attack
a sister, Mrs. N. L Smitham of
t Eastland, and one brother, C. 1.
Webster of Waco.
tery. He died at his home here
Kills Big Spring
Woman, Age 74
opening next month will be ad
vertised by a whopping neon sign
three stories high and 2' blocks
long
The rules of golf will remain the
same in 1957, reports the United
States Golf Association.
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Peter Ragsdale, 79,
Dies at Big Spring
With a new handling record al-iceived Monday, the top day so Monday
ready set. “Abilene postoffice per-far in 1956, recorded 163,830 piec- Collier was an early day team-
sonnel is all set for what may be es of mail , ster, who unwittingly triggered off Day SEiae, we. * Qus
the peak day for incoming mail. In the parcel post department, the oil development of Wot Texas. Mrs Jennie Webster Purser 74, BIG SPRING Dec 18 (RNS) -
both letter and parce. post. Wed-Dec. 14 set a record with 5,288 An oil man, obligated to drill a resident of Big Spring since 1914, Peter Madison Ragsdale, 79, resi-
nesday. packages handled locally Peak wildcat on a lease Northwest of died at 6:40 p.m. Tuesday in a 1c ’ ’ "
Abilenians set a new mail rec- movement in 1955 was a total of Westbrook, told Collier to pick a cal hospital. She suffered a heart
ord Monday, sending 202.300 ‘piec-5,096 packages handled on Dec 20. spot to give a neighboring rancher attack in front of her home and
es of letter mail through cancel- However. Wednesday is expect- an offset. ===== died about an hour later in the ______________-.---.
ling machines at the post office ed to bring the peak parcel post Collier had said that the whole hospital. She had been in failing Montgomery, Ala He had been in
The old record was Dec 19, load this year.____-, prairie was a sea of mud and that health. : * * — ------
1955, high day of last year's Grant has urged Abilenians to it took two days to get a wagon Mrs. Purser was born Nov 5.
Christmas mail rush-when 179,600 try to arrange to have someone road in to the general are. Then 1882, at Marquez and married____... —. -----------------
pieces of letter mail were cancel-at home during the next few days he has said, "I found the corner Frank M Purser Aug. 25. 1904, at He was married to Zora Mae
led, _______to receive the parcel post mail of the lease and stepped off 155 Walnut Springs The couple resid-Bohannon on Dec 27, 1897, at Dal-
Postmaster Clyde Grant said He pointed out that if no one is yards and drove a stob.” Led at 433 Hillside Dr. here. las. =====__
Tuesday that he believed the peak home, the panels are returned to The well drilled there was the She was tax assessor-collector Funeral will be held at 3:30 p.m
day for incoming letter mail and the post office and have to be pick- Underwriter’s T & P Number 1, for the Big Spring Independent Wednesday at Nalley-Pickle Fu-
•ter. who unwittingly triggered off
BIG SPRING. Dec. 18 (RNS)
> dent of Big Spring about 14 years
died at 11:40 a m Tuesday at his
home here
He was born Dec. J. 1877, in
ill health about two years.______.
Mr. Ragsdale, a retired farmer
came to Big Spring from Lamesa.
russnsabtes—ue J.a said P* pointed out that if no one is yards and-drove a stob.” ad at 433 Hillside Dr. here.
Tuesday that he believed the peak home, the parcels are returned to The well drilled there was the She was tax assessor-collector
parcel post mail will be Wednes- ed up by the addressee Returning discovery well of the Westbrook School District from 1926 to 1953. neral Home Chapel. The Rev. C.
day. the parcels to the office doubles field and the Permian Basin. She retired from that office in W. Parmenter, pastor of the Wes-
Incoming letter mail in 1955 hit the work of the staff. Grant said. Collier was active for several 1953.
a peak on Dec 16 when 191,166 The wintry weather isn’t inter-years an an oilfield contractor, but Mrs. Purser was a member of,
pieces of first class mail were re fering with mail deliveries. Grant had been retired for some time, the Eastern Star Lodge at Brown- ber, will officiate, assisted by Dr.
” emphasized. wood, the Woodmen of the World P. D 0 Brien pastor of the First
Parcel post only was delivered daughters, Mrs Tom Marsh or Circle, and taught * Sunday school Baptist Church. Burial will L
in Abilene last Sunday and Grant Sweetwater, and—Mrs Woodrow
said he hopes Sunday letter mail Crabtree of Colorado City, one sis-
deliveries will not be necessary, ter, Mrs. W D Green of Loraine.
Grant Mid the post office won’t and four grandchildren.
know until Saturday whether a -----------------------------------------------
Sunday mail delivery will be
Big Spring Man,
H. N. Bordner, Dies
ley Memorial Methodist Church, of
which Mr. Ragsdale was a mem-
be
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DAY OR NIGHT
DIAL-OR 2-2881
ABILENE, TEXAS
necessary.
So far. mail deliveries have been
successfully handled in one de-,
livery per day.
ACME 1
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• LINOLEUM ~ • WALLPAPER
WINDOW GLASS INSTALLED
New Zealand’s kiwi bird is flight- BIG SPRING, Dec IS (RNS)-
less, tailless. But, a four-pound Harvey Nelson Bordner. 82. died
kiwi can lay a one-pound egg. at 3:10 am. Tuesday in a hos
----------------------====== pital here. He had been in ill
< health about three years. 1
Mr Bordner was born Oct. 25.
|1874, in Wayne, Ohio.
| He retired last September as an
employe of the Eastland Oil Co.
He was a resident of the Chalk
community south of here about 14
years before moving to Big Spring
1 about three months ago.
| Rosary service will be held at
7:30 p.m. Thursday in Nalley-Piek-
le Funeral Home Chapel. Funeral
mass will be said at 10 am. Fri-
day at St Thomas Catholic
Church here with Father William
J. Moore officiating. Burial will be
in City Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Nel-
lie; one daughter, Mrs. R J.
Cramer of Herbert: two brothers,
E L. of Colorado Springs, Colo.,
and Floyd of Ashville, N. C. and
two grandsons.
Abilene Builders ubbly
1182 NORTH 3rd St. DIAL OR 4-8553
ALL L. A. IVEY TURKEYS ARE
pan fed so that you know that each one is fat and fender..
Each one it home dressed, to that you know that it it at
clean at possible.
don’t tay ‘‘give me a turkey," tay "give me an L. A, Ivey Turkey"
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ABILENE, TEXAS
Kit Douglas Riles
Scheduled Today
’ COLEMAN. Dec 18 - Funeral
will be held at 2 p m Wednesday
at the First Methodist Church at
Elkhart for Kit Carson Doug!;-,
former Coleman County farmer
who died nt 2:55 a m Tuesday at
Elkhart He was 67,
Burial will be in Pilgrim Ceme-
tery with Hassell Foster Funeral
Home of Palestine in charge
Mr. Douglas lived at Trickham
and Santa Anna for 24 years. He
moved to Elkhart near Palestine
in 1948. --------------1
Surviving are his wife; three
sons, Leslie Douglas of Abilene
Ralph Douglas of Big Spring and
Co-op
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 185, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1956, newspaper, December 19, 1956; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1654316/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.