The Palmer Rustler (Palmer, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1969 Page: 3 of 4
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Thursday, August 14, 1965 THE PALMER RUSTLER
Lennon Sisters’ _ ■■
Father Is Shot Pizza House Here
To Death in LA. ।
: aAHIETAA
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The I £ DEGE ULLAGE
father of the singing Lennon ■ 4 •
Sisters was shot and killed Tues- The Pizza House on S. Hwy. business late this afternoon.
day after a struggle with a man 75 south was gutted by fire that The amount of loss had not
at the suburban golf course broke out about 9:40 a.m. today been estimated, as the Dancers
where he worked as a pro, po- from causes undetermined. The were in Mexia today.
lice reported, blaze started in a storeroom, ac- In other action, Chief Day
Witnesses told officers that cording to Chief D. D. Day, said that a call had just come in
William Lennon, 51, was slain The chief stated that the build- this afternoon for the fire de-
by a man with a rifle who then ing is owned by Mr .and Mrs. partment to assist in a case o a
fled. Dewey Dancer, who has been little boy swallowing a top and
A little later, officers arrest- operating the cafe and are mov- choking on it at 700 E. Tyler
ed a man for questioning at a ing to Mexia, and an employee (at press time) and that a unit
market, was to have opened the place for was being sent there.
Lennon’s four oldest daugh-
ters began singing on the Law-
rence Welk television show as
children and grew to womanhood
while working with the band-
leader. All now are married.
They have continued their act as
a separate since leaving Welk in
December.
Police said witnesses saw Len-
non struggling in the parking
lot near a driving range with
another man with a rifle. When f dl f aanderc
Lennon broke away and ran, 1o€9 109
officers said, the other man shot For Classroom
him, knocking him down, then ,
came up and fired twice more Profs, to Meet
into him. T a Ave A€ lnpo classroom
Nightinga e of Los Angeles; (Top Row)the first three names unavail-
able; the next one is Mrs. Adolf Janecka; Mr. Kebrle of Czechoslo-
vakia and George Skotak. Mrs. Navratil, a visitor from Czechoslo-
vakia, is one of those unidentified. They brought cookies, and. pastries
which they had made, served them at the home, and left many boxes
of the homemade goodies for the residents to eat later.. They were
conducted on a tour of the home. This was upon their arrival and
after their visit to the home they joined the car loads of other mem-
bers who came to Ennis to the Sewing Circle’s meeting here: for the
luncheon festivities. Three in the party were visitors from Czechoslo-
vakia.
THE CZECH WOMEN’S CIRCLE of Dallas and their guests, who came
by bus to meet for lunch and other festivities with the Ennis Czech
Sewing Circle, are pictured above on their much appreciated visit with
. residents of Ennis Nursing Home. They are left to right: (Front Row)
Mrs. George Skotak, Mrs. Huzvecka, Miss Agnes Houdek, Mrs. Mary
Petrick, Mrs. Joe Valcek; (Second Row)—the first man’s name was not
I available; the second one is probably Mrs. Hoffman, the third is
Mrs. Morris Namec, Mrs. John Ozymy, Mrs. Carrie Kebrle, Mrs. Tillie
Janecek, Mrs. Frank Stransky, Mrs. Noska, Miss Prekrel, Mrs. Will
Nesuda, the next name was not available, and the next is Miss Ella
Col. Kristoferson, LTC Emig to I
Be Here on Lake Bardwell Visit
Col. R. S. Kristoferson, Dis- On Thursday, August 14, he
trict Engineer of the Fort Worth will visit Waco, Belton, and Still-
Army Engineer District, will house Hollow Reservoirs,
visit six of the district’s 17 On Friday, August 15, he will
reservoirs on Thursday and Fri- visit Whitney, Navarro Mills,
day August 14 and 15. and Bardwell Reservoirs.
In addition to visiting and in-
specting the dams and recrea-
tional facilities, Col. Kristoferson
is introducing LTC Harvey E.
"Herk" Emig, the new deputy
district engineer, to the district,
jLeaders of local, classroom He will also be accompanied
The gunman drove away and teachers associations from' by Ray Rauder, Chief of Opera-
was pursued for a time by a wit- across the state will gather in tions, and Bob Craft, chief,
ness, who lost him. The course .Austin August 7-9 for the sev- Technical Liaison Officer,
is in Venice, Calif. €nth annual leadership confer- LTC. Emig reported for duty
The gunman was identified ence of Tex(as Classroom Teach- July 31 as the new Deputy Dis-
as white, about 6 feet, with a ers Assn. trict Engineer of the Fort Worth
goatee and wearing a green Conference delegates will be District, U. S. Army Corps of
sweater and blue pants, briefed on association plans for Engineers.
The singing sisters are Dianne, the coming year. Committee re- He is a native of Williamsport,
29, Peggy, 28, Janet, 22, and ports will inform conferees on Pennsylvania. He served 212
Kathy, 25. Lennon had seven association work in legislation years jn the Navy during World
other children, teacher education and profes- War II and was discharged in
■ he
o J Mrs. A. H. Lewis had as visi- Johnson. Their daughter and other relatives.He was accom-
HATWO NOWS tors her cousin, Mrs. Mable family, Mr. and Mrs- Glenn panied to the air port in Dallas
: Cruise of Ferris her children Tuttle of Kansas are also visitors Monday by his sister and hus-
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Pritchett and grandchildren, Mrs. Rich- in the Johnson home, band Rev. and Mrs. Wesley How-
and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. ard Kouba of Grand Prairie— Mrs. G. W. Grammer had as ard, and his mother Mrs. Pierce
Charles Gundiff and son, Mrs. Morris Collwell, Ennis; her Sunday dinner guests her Snipes. Visitors in the Snipes
Lennon was a milkman, sing- sional standards, teacher per- June 1946.
ing tenor in a professional quar- sonal services- curriculum, pro- He attended Pennsylvania
tet, when his boss heard the gram, professional and responsi-
daughters sing and got them bilities, professional consulta- State University receiving a in
some singing dates with service tion, and public and profession- in Ind nBu serins a
11951; Texas A&M to receive a
clubs. This led to an audition al relations. Engineering in 1956:
with Welk, andthe girls were on LETAa TIMOberlaltea keprewaent or and Texas University from1956
-. . Decision Dynamics of Austin. to 1958 where he received his
Lennon quit handling his As part of the conference— Master of Science Degree in
daughters’ act about four years the Texas directors of the Na- Civil Engineering while working
ago. The girls have their own tional Education Assn. will on the ROTC staff. He continu-
series coming up on television, sponsor a luncheon on Friday ed his military career in 1951
August 8. Conferees will be when he was commissioned
briefed on the recent NEA con- while attending Pennsylvania
vention in Philadelphia with State. He subsequently served
special emphasis being placed at Fort Bliss in El Paso; Fort
on the proposed revision of the Belvoir, Virginia; Germany; and
NEA constitution, then returned to Fort Belvoir
Miss LaVerne B. Wong of for advanced engineering cours-
Waco, president of the 48,000 es.
member teachers organization
* ■ In 1959, he was assigned to
Courthouse
News
COUNTY CLERK
Marriage Licenses
RSm vh503 .*- Fw
Susan Boon to
A Enter Maryland
Roger Alan Nichols, Maryland,
and Miss Margaret Rachel Hent- Iiniclr
on, Waxahachie. . . Pnersiy
Miss Susan Boon, fourth high
Jesse Rodriguez Reyna, Dal- graduate at Ennis High School will preside at the three-day
las, and Mrs. Mary Vess Gray, in May, has been accepted at meet. Hiss Wong will be assist- the District Early Warning Sys-
Maryland University University ed by TICTA President-e le c t tem in Greenland. Upon his re-
Park, Hyattsville, Md. - Oather Raynes of Dallas. . turn to the States in 1960, he
Ronald Sterling Werner, Max- TICTA is a state-wide organi- was stationed at Fort Devens,
ahachie, and Miss June Diane
Malaer, Waxahachie.
Blake, of Dallas were Saturday Mrs. Dillie Purciful of Ennis; sister, Mrs. Nora Balthnop. home Sunday were—Rev. and
afternoon visitors of Mrs. W. W. Roy Lewis and family of Bristol, Mrs. N. Stacks and Mrs. Da- Mns- Wesley Howard two chil-
Gilmore and family- Kay Lewis and family of DeSoto reene Ramsey visited Mrs. dren, Clay and Wesley III of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lowry Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Jelly Lewis stacks sisters, Mis Ona D avis Frost; Mr. and Mrs. Albert
and Mrs. J., B. Lowry Jr. and and family of Ennis, and Miss Nettie Davis - in t h e Snipes and daughter, Miss Tom-
children, Sandra Joe and Tam- Mr. and Mrs. Grover Howard Ennis Nursing Home Wednes- my Lee, Mis. 0. L. Stewart,Ella
mie were in Waxahachie on 1 .Jane and Fred Anderson Ennis.
*T had as; visitors, their grand-day. -.
Tuesday, and visited Mrs. Low daughter, her, husband and two Rev. and Mrs. Allen Goss and Mr. and Mrs. Rhoten Cashion
ry s mother, - 1 tt .children, Mr- and Mrs. Kenneth two children (Mr. Goss is pastor and Grady had as Tuesday dm-
all in Renfro Nursing Home. Riggins from Dallas and Mr. and of the Methodist Church) were ner guests Mrs. W. E. Boren of Seagoville.
Mr. and Mrs- Willie Fowler Mrs. Q J. Hayes. Grover How- the recipients of a surprise Ennis and Mrs. G. W. Grammer,
have had as visitors- his brother ard is improving after two pounding at the church Friday Mr. and Mrs- Jesse German . . .
Connie, Fowler or Lubbock. months confinement * to - “■?:.& Maimer, waxaliaehic une MME # BDomlMale been time conoposea oaolely t^z as-a hNerettveaf a
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21 ybTaci from - Bardwell-Mr and Mrs pital for three weeks returned man, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lee Calvin Alexander Parks Jr., through orientation and register- ----------=----ate, Office of NASA support.
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brother and wife Mr and Mrs Mrs. Ben Junkin, Mrs. J. B. (Bob Bruce had major surgery wopent visitors her tend Prince George Community 0 ,uah hot chusetts. From June 1968 to
E. s Forston; has sister and Lowry Sr. in Memorial Hospital in Corsi- ter: Mrs. ^g Green Joe Edd Harris, ^Avalon, and Junior College, there, before be he will That was his response June 1969t he was with the Mil-
husband, Mr. and Brs. B. F. Mrs. Mable Rober y.■ His condition is ne- Mrs. W. A. Reynolds attended Miss Dorothy ^ Randle, Ava- ing accepted in the four-year seasonask 1 E will come out itary Assistance Command in
Johnson of Dallas and Mr. and honored on her birthday Sunday ported satisfactory. Mrs. Bruce funeral services for her sister- Ion. Maryland U., which takes only when asked i his aS arm Vietnam.
Mrs. 0. H. Williams of Ennis, with a dinner in the home of is staying in Corsicana to be Mrs Almebina Ratliff of Henry Earl Witherspoon, high scholastic students from of retirement Dainrul shoulder He and his wife, the former
Mrs. Mable Robertson and Mrs. her daughter, Mrs. Elois Pool of near himTyler Monday. She also visited Ferris, and Miss Danise lleene out-of-state, geitsi he forced Drysdaletothe DeEtta Rice of Williamsport,
Becky Cryer and daughter; Ennis. Those present were her Rev. and Mrs. Bill Oliver aie her son and family, Mr. and Newton, Grand Prairie. --------------------sidelines at the age of 33. Pennsylvania, and their son,
Susan, son and family, Mr. and Mrs. on vacation. The Rev- Joe Da Mrs George Reynolds of Ennis FIGHTING BREAKS OUT sidelines at the Gregg, 15, and daughter, Cyn-
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mother Mrs Maggie Martin. Booher, Waxahachie and Mrs. and three daughters, Sonja, Le- Mr. and Mrs. Don Capehart Ronnie Wayne Wright, Waxa-
Mr and Mrs Joe Patak had Joe Pool of Ennis. itia and Stacie of Garland were and two children of Ennis spent hachie, and Wanda Diann Miller,
as ’visitors her sister, Sister . Buddy Odom of Dallas was Sunday guests of his parents, the weekend in their home in Red Oak. .
Mary Ann Honza of. Fredericks- a weekend visitor of his father, Mr. and Mrs. Rhoten Cashion Bardwell known as the Grant Marvin Ray May, Grandview,
burg: her brother Jerry Honza parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Y. and Grady. Bardwell, and Mrs. Catherine Jeweldine
and three children, Teresa, Jer- Odom, Howard, Mr. and Mrs. John Snipes of Mrs. A. C. Marchbanks of Funk, Maypearl. . f ■
Jr. and Jackie of Ennis. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Dyess, DeSoto were guests of Mr. nad Nash is spending this week with Robert Allen Dulworth, Red
: Mr. and Mrs Anton Janousek Oak Grove Road visited her Mrs- Pierce Snipes and Ralph her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. Oak, an(i Miss Netia Joy Eves,
and son of Dallas visited Mrs. sister, Mrs. Shirley J o n e s of Saturday night. . and Mrs. W. D. Bozek, Lake Red Oak.
W W Gilmore and family on Farmers Branch Sunday after- Mr. and Mrs. Homer St. Clair Bardwel. --------------------——-
Sunday ' ' : : noon. of Byrd visited his brother and--— FIRST WORKOUT
Mrs. Billy Gleen and, daughter . , Mr- and Mrs. Earl Waldrop wife, Mr. and Mrs. Ebb St. Slair BAN MEET, MARCHES WITH BILLS
Diane of Waxahachie visited her visited their daughter and fam- of Milford Sunday afternoon. Londonderry—A ban on out- pro football’s hottest rookie
mother, Mrs. Nettie Pearcy and ily Mr. and Mrs. Gary Koons in Mr. and Mrs. Leo Venable door meetings and marches is prospect of 1969—All American
granddaughter, Miss Vicky Fort Worth Monday. week end visitors were her fa- jn effect in northern Ireland as Back 0. J. Simpson will have his
Smith, Monday. - % Mrs.- Ora Prater of Dallas— ther, C. S. Baker of Avalon the Belfast government moves first pro football workout today
Joe Lee Hargus, 4 of Garland sister of Mrs. 0. L. Sirplus was her nephew, Mr. and Mrs- Mar- to head off religious disorders, with the Buffalo Bills,
visited his parents Mr and Mrs. in Ennis hospital a few days last shal Baker and daughter, Delbby —------——--,—-—-------:—
mad Hargus Thursday. * week far observation. • of Seagoville, her nephews- FeT X T
Miss Janet Salik of. Ennis : Mrs. Blake Poarch of Ferris Mark Miles andMichael and pa rarele Saren me* 1 AV
and Ralph Snipes and Mrs. Lois visited her son and daughter-in- Nancy Baker of Martinburg, W. EEATES AW 1 A
Hollabaugh were guests in the law .Mr., and Mrs, A. B. Poarch Va.BARS -, CA W 4 e
. State Fair Oct. 5
E. Hayes Waxahachie Friday. days visit. 1 ' . Mrs- D. H. Green had as her Ennis Day at the State Fair of nis queen, and she will also
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boswell Mr. and Mrs. John R. M a n- visitors Sunday her Sman " Texas will be observed Sunday, represent Ennis on East Texas
are visiting her daughter, Mr- ning and two sons, Keith and son and wife, Mr- and - IS T- Oct. 5, the sponsoring Chamber Day at the fair. (Further details
and Mrs. A. E. Williams in Dal- Terry of Duncanville and Mr. ly Wayne o oc o ichar dsor of Commerce has announced. are given in another item today.)
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week end in M H G days this past week in Dallas (Norfolk, Va., after a ten d a y of Ennis Mayor Charles R. Fal- they are finalized, according to
sisters. MTd and AM MH Clyde in home & her sister and bro- furlough spent with his parents le" and the late Mrs. Fallen, will President Johnny Henry and
and Dr a * 9 ther-in-lar Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Snipes and represent this community as In- Mgr. Jack McKay. ------
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