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The Ennis Daily News
It Takes One to Know One
ms
BACK TO SCHOOL -
President—Manager___________
Editor ....................
Associate Editor ....................
. E-THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS-
Founded in 1891
WITH
For Those Ennis Fightin’ Lions
As we talked with President Ted Largent
of the Ennis Lionbackers about the current
push to put all members possible on the
roster, we were impressed by his and the
club’s enthusiasm. to bring this about.
Every year, of course, there is a drive
for this support for the athletics program,
but especially is it given impetus, come
autumn.
That’s for the very good reason that
football comes leaping on the exciting
... Charles E. Gentry
.. Floyd W. Casebolt
............Fay Casebolt
Friday, August 8, 1969
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scene in September. Well, September is just
around the well known corner, NOW.
Moreover, as Mr. Largent emphasizes, the
first game is September 12.
His logic is good about this, for it gives
the team and coaches a real charge to
know that the Lionbackers are “coming on
strong.
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If you haven’t joined, all you have to
do is contact any member of the Lionback-
ers, pay the dues and get your member-
ship card. Don’t neglect it.
MME
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Men’s 2-Suiter
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DAdl Alasam Christ, with Bro. Marvin Walker of Dallas spent Saturday with
D1T916 of Dallas, preaching each even- her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nor-
ing. man Edwards.
A series of services were held Mr Ernact White 1
last week at the Church of Tom Bennett Corsicana real ited relatives in ArkaMsaS Tast
estate dealer, has bought land week
- east of this community, and Mrs. Lola Sparkman is at pre-
1 sponsoring a development plan, sent, a patient in Ferris (Brook-
selling plots or an acreage to in- haven) Nursing Home.
terested individuals Melisss and "Wes," children
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V. C. Bruggese has received of Dr and Mrs. John W. Dorman
the service award, amond others, of Dallas, are visiting their
from Dallas Fire Department, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Har
where he has worked for fifteen yer Dorman
years Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moore
Mr and Mrs. Carl Amundson of Odessa spent most of the
formerly of Dallas have built a weekend with Mr .and Mrs. E.
lovely new brick home, on their M. Moore.
farm near here.
The Ennis Daily News
IN THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
Owned and published daily except dividuals. Any erroneous reflection
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Company, Inc., which also publishes reputation of any person, firl. or
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TLA C Palmer Rustler. Dr. Gene Nowlin, the columns of this paper will be
I NCITYUONAouU Chairman of the board; Charles E. glad and duly corrected upon being
. omreaben Gentry, President and Manager. brought to the publisher’s attention
By DREW ARSON Entered at the Post Office in En-SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By DREW PEARSON knew where he was going—he courage or his reason to dis- nis, Texas as second class mail mat. By Carrier In City:
The Meryr-Go-Round had been there many times be- believe this part of the story. ter under the Act of Congress of One Year ............................$18.0.
fore. . POLITICAL PANIC : March 3, 1879. Six Months................................$9.bu
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8.—The JFK HIDEOUT Exhausted, he lay in t h e Office 213 North Dallas Street, One Month ........................$1.5
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, collect his thoughts. Despite his Al communications of business in Ellis County, One Year ... $9.0
,.. vusy Vu tuse secuweu weqcua at t aa e emotional trauma—there is and items of news should be ad. One Month .................................$1.00
— .....— ------.cu Kennedy end of Dyke Road He used a reaeson to believe his panic was dressed to the company—not to in- Outside County ..................$1.20
Nhome in Arkansas and Mary Jo Kopechne hurtled section of the beach owned by largely pjolitical. He was the -
on Monday, after visiting their off Dyke Bridge into Po u cha New Hampshire’s late Governor last of the Kennedy Brothers,
sister, Mrs. Ann Moore, and Mr. Pond. As a shocked world Robert P. Bass who, although He had picked up the standard
Moore for a few days, learned, only Kennedy emerged a staunch Republican was close of his fallen brothers. Was it
Mrs. Allan (Marie) Rowaldt from the murky water. to the Kennedy’s. inis son aM to end in the forbidding wa-
and children of Robert Lee, near The Senator has brought abso- Perkins Bass served in Con- ters of. Poucha Pond?
San Angelo, visited during the ultely no pressure upon those gress with JFK.In this state, he conceived a
weekend with her parents, Mr. who played a part in the night While JFKwas recovering preposterous, absunb ideae. He
and Mrs. O. H. Bentley. mare to support his account of -0 . would ask his cousin—Joe Gar-
= the tragedy. But their loyalty to from a serious back operation gan- to take the rap for him.
* Kennedy is so fiecre that they in 1955—his doctors prescribed Gargan had always been there •
2 will back up his story to the swimming as part of his therapy: when the Kennedys’needed
i last dotted "i." This column can Sensitive about the vivid scars him. Although a lawyer — he
1 state categorically, however — on his back and the heavy, was made a handyman who ran
1 that he didn’t tell the whole steel-framed corset he had to errands and attended to arran-
1 truth. wear—Kennedy used the seclud- gemenst for the Kennedys.
4 Some of the girls who attend- ed Bass family beach. The Ken- So while Mary Jo lay at the
• ed the cookout preceding th e nedy compound at Hyannis bottom of Poucha Pond—the
- tragedy have turned down fab- Port was too open to public pry- Senator walked back to the va-
ulous financial offers for their ing. cation cottage—passing four
stories. Kennedy hasn’t asked . houses on his way some with
them to keep silent; they have As President, • Kennedy con- their lights burning- all con-
been left on their honor. Y e t tinued to use the Chappaquid- taining telephones.
not one of them has sold out. dick Beach. He was frequently At the cottage, he summoned
In the strictest of privacy— accompanied by members of his Gargan and another trusted in-
however intimates have let family, including his kid bro- timate-Paul Markham — a for-
the € the ther—Teddy. mer US attorney for Massachu-
Dag we have now been able to Dyke Bridge is narrow- setts. Gargangrimly said he
piece together from the most wooden and humped in t h e would admit driving the car
Reliable sources essentially what middle—with noguardrails. The three men then returned
happened that tersible niont Some 200 yards beyond it is to the scene of the disaster to
Dpene C 1 the beach where Teddy was tak- make certain that Gargan would
At the carefree cookout Sen. ing Mary Jo Kopechne.-) 7 6 be totally familiar with the cir-
Kennedy did his share of drink-rictone surrounding
ing, but intimates insist he He hit the bridge at about 20 curnstances
wasn’t drunk. He invited pretty, miles per hour too fast for saf- : tress entirely possible that
Mary Jo to join him for a mid- ety—and shot off the right side aarielumnand Gargan attempted
might swim—and they set out of the bridge without skidding. M retrieve the purt’s body" as
on a nocturnal adventure not The car’s undercarriage gouged ouroed claimed in his second
unconnon on Martha’s Vineyard. the planking as it went over statement. After rehearsing the
Nor are these summer night board flipped and plopped bot- the accident the
swims necessarily viewed as tom-up into the cold, swiftly details of thethesreenientsthe
evidence of immoral conduct., moving tidal water. .. Kennedy returned to his hotel
The Senator and the B 1 Somehow the Senator manag- in Edgartown—allegedly swim-
ed to struggle free and rise to ming the treacherous channel
the surface. He then made re- between the islands. Gargan and
peated attempts to rescue Mary Mahkham apparently went back
Jo, without success. No o n e to the cottage.
knows Ted Kennedy doubts his In the cold light of dawn-
1 -XX-X Kennedy decided to face th e
consequences himself—and he i
filed his terse statement with .
the Edgartown police at 10 a.m.
He then repaired to the Ken-
nedy compound in Hyannis
Port where—cloistered with
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Wil
Mrs. Elmer (Pauline) Embry lis and daughters, Jan, Ann, and
Robbi of Victoria visited briefly
_ with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
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Noble Willis and Mr .and Mrs.
George Wickliffe on Friday en-
route to a trip through the
Southern States to Washington, truth is beginning to leak out as
D. C. to what really happened on Kennedy, had often sunbathed
MM DAT a that black Friday night—July on the secluded beach at t h e
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Smith, re- 18__when Sen Ted
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Chappaquiddick Island. As they
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end toward the Edgartown fer-
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onto Dyke Road—a dirt road
that leads only to a beach. He
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Casebolt, Floyd W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 188, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1969, newspaper, August 8, 1969; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1677798/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ennis Public Library.