The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 198, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 22, 1971 Page: 1 of 8
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IN THE SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE
ENNIS, TEXAS 75119
SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1971
EIGHT PAGES-TEN CENTS
NO. 198
Mon. Ushers New
St. John Set
□J
NNIS
CHOES
By Casey
Back to School--
St. John Parochial Schools
are ready to open.
Both the high school and the
elementary departments will
start the new year Monday,
Aug. 23.
This year’s registration, held
a week ago Sunday, disclosed no
comparable decrease or in-
crease, in enrollment over
previous years, school
authorities state.
This past week, Aug. 16-20,
have been in-service days for
the entire faculty. School
Authorites stated that Monday
all programs are arranged for
an entire class day.
Also, buses will run as usual.
“Miss Emma” as Miss
Emma Sims was fondly known
by many of her friends began
with the Ennis Daily News back
when the late G.G. Dunkerley
owned the paper, before he sold
it and went in the Tag business, E
and she continued with the .:
paper after the late Chester
Nowlin purchased controlling -
interest in it and she and Lester g
Jordan also became stock t
holders. During those days she a
served as society editor, .
reporter and in various a
irong Anticipated
-School Fete Today
........................—-—-—• - •
Ennis School Supt. Forrest E.
Watson has issued an invitation
to the public to attend Sunday’s
dedication of the Area
Vocational School. The time for
the ceremonies is 2:30.
TOP PIC-Shown at her desk is Mrs. Mary Roberts.
This year Mrs. Roberts' duties will be filled with
keeping the lunchroom business affairs. MIDDLE—
Pictured "checking it out" by phone is Mrs. Aileen
Ingram. A new member of the Ennis staff, Mrs.
Ingram is Lunchroom supervisor. LOWER PIC-
Ready to sell you a season football ticket is Mrs.
Bobby Hay. This will be only one of Mrs. Hay's
new duties as she begins work in the move from
secretary to managing the activity fund at Ennis
High School.
Middle School Pupils to
Report Cafeteria Mon.
Middle School Principal
Millard Owens has reminded all
p students enrolled in that school
athat they are to report to the
school cafeteria by 8:30 Monday
MINOR ACCIDENT
OCCURS HERE
morning, August 23.
In the cafeteria the students
will receive schedules,
homeroom information, and
other important an-
nouncements.
When this orientation is
concluded, the pupils will be
going to classes.
A minor traffic accident in
which no one was injured and
property damages were not
extensive occurred yesterday
on NE Main, cars involved
being those of Mrs. Arlene
Dozier and Miss Annette Vrana.
The accident was investigated
by Officer Donaldson.
WEATHER
Clear to partly cloudy and
warm through Sunday.
EBF Strike
Meet Topic at
Dallas Wed.
The strike against Ennis
Business Forms by Printing
Specialties Union No. 439 will be
the topic of union and
management at the Federal
Mediator’s office in Dallas next
Wednesday. The Strike began
April 20, this year.
0
JessePriceto
Be Candidate
For Congress
Ennis-ex Dallas Councilman
Jesse Price will resign from the
City Council Feb. 24 to file as a
Democratic candidate for the
24th district congressional seat.
Price also said he is selling
his home in Pleasant Grove-
the power base of his previous
political successes— and will
move into the 24th district,
probably to Oak Cliff.
I’ve always known I would
have to resign from the council
to run for Congress, because of
(provisions in) the City Char-
ter,” he said.
Jr. Hi Adds
Foreign
Language
If advances in com-
munications and travel con-
tinue at their present pace, the
day will soon arrive when
citizens must have a working
knowledge of foreign languages
in order to adapt to a world in
which traveling great distances
in a very short time will be
possible. According to principal
L.P. Griffis, Ennis Junior High
-School has expanded its
curriculm to provide foreign
language training. French and
Spanish courses are now offered
to eighth graders this August.
capacities; then she continued 1
with the paper after Weldon 1
Nowlin, also a stock holder, I
succeded his father as publisher |
upon his father’s death, serving %
as accountant of the Company’s
interests; then Charles E.
Gentry succeeded Weldon, ,
Nowlin as publisher upon
Weldon’s death and she con- 1
tinued with the company 1
keeping its records and serving
as secretary-treasurer of the i
company. She was active in
these capacities until she
received a broken hip about a
year and a half ago. .. So really
she had been with the News a
longer period than any one else.
Thus “Miss Emma” as she
was known by most everybody
in this area, was well known
here. She was also well-known I
in the Crisp area, where she and |
her brothers and sisters grew |
up. We’ve heard her say that |
when she was real young she
worked in her father’s store at
Crisp. Just older than she were
the twins, Richard and Ruby |
(Ruby is deaceased) after her |
came Walter; Katy Foster |
(Mrs. Randolph) now of Austin;
Ernest John (deceased) Ruth
Mims (Mrs. R.B.), Mrs. Edna
Earl Farris, Mrs. Evelyn
Goble, Col. Kenneth P. Sims
and Jimmie White (Mrs. R.B.)
of Galveston.
As the mother of the family
died while the younger ones
were small, Miss Emma always
looked after her brood of
younger sisters and brothers
and when they married and had
children she did the same for
the grandchildren. .. So she has
manyclose relatives as well as
friends to miss her.
**••*
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Dedicatory speaker for the
program is the State Senator
J.P. Word of District 12, Sen.
Word is one of the outstanding
legislators in the state.
• Following the dedication, there
will be refreshments and guided
a tours of the facility. The Ennis
High School Band will be there
■ to play.
■ Heading the faculty of the
M Vocational School is Dr. Her-
schel Lester as Supervisor.
Vocational counselor is Jesse
Wood. Other teachers and their
courses include Ronnie Martin,
CVAE; Mrs. Eugenia Booher,
Voc. Office Education; Mrs.
Phoebe Denney, Vocational
Homemaking; George Gar-
denhire, Distributive
Education; Louie Hall,
Distributive Education; Billy
Percival, Metal Trades; Edsel
Paken, CVAE; William
Witherspoon, Building Trades;
Swep Rodgers, Drafting; Lewis
Jeanis, ICT Coordinator; Miles
Strunc, CVAE printing; and
Calvin Williamson, Auto
Mechanics.
“Sunday is the core of our
Previously only high school civilization, dedicated
students were elegible for thought and reverence.”
foreign language studies. These *****
courses are of an introductory
nature. The eighth grade pupils
to
Much of the material in this
will acquire a good background interesting school issue was
for going into French I or prepared by Jane Griffis and
Spanish I in High School, Our response is: Thanks,
Teaching French will be Jack gracious and capable lady! As
Davis and the Spanish teacher you perhaps know, she’s
is Mrs. Pat (Norris) Lipscomb, communications director for the
Ennis School System.. . We feel
that school news is always
absorbing and helpful to our
people. (Save this issue and
read it carefully.)
82 Enrolled,
Kindergarten;
By '77-400
In 1971 there are 82 pupils "A man hopes his lean years
enrolled in Kindergarten. Based are behind him; a woman, that
on a 5 per cent projection of hers are ahead,
increased enrollment, by 1977
there will be more than 400 in
Kindergarten in the Ennis Speaking of school: Be
School District. double-certain to come out
By 1977 the Ennis Public for the Area Vocational School
Schools must provide by law for Dedicatory and then treat
the enrollment of all 5-year-old yourself to a tour through it.
children. The Texas legislature you’ll want to hear Sen. J.P.
in House Bill 230 established Word’s address and see the
provision for kindergarten on a equipment for teaching at Vo-
“phased” basis.
Paid to See Game
School, also get acquainted with
the staff. Jot it down in your
mind as a Sunday after noon
“must.”
*****
ening Mon. Schools
istrict Up 299
The Ennis Public School
System Friday evening had
reached an enrollment of 3,613.
This is an enrollment of 299
over last year’s according to
Supt, Forrest Watson.
“Our faculty,” said Mr.
Watson, “is now complete.
“With the exception of in-
PREP FOR SCHOOL
TOP PICTURED: left to right are Melvin Merritt,
attendance officer for Ennis Public Schools and
High School Principal Harlan J. Dauphin as they
work adding the redwood seats and backs to the
benches which have been added to the campus.
MIDDLE: Ennis Junior High Principal L. P. Griffis
looks over computer schedules. LOWER: New to
the Ennis Junior High faculty are Miss Sylvia
Guerra and Mrs. Diane Drewery. These ladies teach
homemaking.
i School Board Adopts
I New Budget and Sets
| Date Consider Bonds
I The Ennis Independent went into some detail con-
School Dist. Board of Education cerning details of their
Friday night, at a public respective budgets and Messrs,
hearing, adopted a $2,193,726 Goodwin and Coates explained
budget and set Aug. 26 as the the necessity of funds for their
1 date for amendment of the 1970- departments.
71 budget and discussion of a Messrs. Goodwin and Coates
proposed bond issue for'a new explained that parents buy the
junior high and elementary first instrument for their
school. children. They demonstrated
The budget for the past year several horns, some of them
was considerably more, huge, which the band owns, in
$2,357,241. Asked the reason for the system which is similar to
the difference, Supt. Forrest E. that of other schools. The three
Watson said that “we were men have been quite successful
building a Vocational Building and Supt. Watson told of the
last year and weren’t building growth both departments have
anything this year.” Budget been enjoying.
| items of special interest in-
cluded: total revenue for the The meeting was presided
year, $2,212,755; total in- over by President Jimmie
struction, $1,639,752; total at- Donnell and other of the board
tendance service, $9,532; total present were Jerry McCarty,
health service $7,625; total pupil Carl Jones, Ted Largent, Dr.
transportation, $44,250; total Raymond Cook, Dr. Fred
operation of plant, $139,000; Smith, W.C. Watts Jr.; and
total maintenance of plant, other officials, Assistant Supts.
$29,600; total fixed charges,’ Lonnie Renfro, Don Walker;
$12,060; a total student body Dirs. Goodwin and Coates and
activities, $13,500; furniture and Athletics Dir. Don Berry,
equipment, $28,000; ex-
penditures on bonds and loans, Continuance of membership
• $202,047; total expenditures, in the Texas School Board Assn.
$2 193 726. was voted at $150; also sub-
Ennis Band Director Ivan scription was taken, at $8,400,
Goodwin and assistant, Dale Y. for Education Service Center
Coates, and Athletics Director fees for audio visual, computer
Don Berry were present and See SCHOOL BOARD page 8
Nat l Honor Soc.
Buys Fans
SCHOOL STARTERS
TOMORROW(Monday) will not
go to the .this school but will
go to six public school buildings
here and two parochial school
. buildings- Ennis High, Ennis
Junior High, Middle School,
Stephen F. Austin Elementary,
Sam Houston Elementary and
William B. Travis Elementary
for the public schools, and St.
John Grade School and St. John
High School. Also there is the
new Area Vocational School
Building which is to be
dedicated at 2:30 p.m. Sunday
(today) and there have been
additions to the above listed
schools such as the “open area”
wing just completed at Austin
On July 30, 1859. baseball
fans were charged an admis-
LMOSpectators paid so cents All should co-operate with the PICTURED is George Solis who
each to see Brooklyn play city in its effort to clear the reaches French and Spanish in
New York. community of mosquitoes, by Ennis High School. The big
“seeking and destroying” smile is for the NHS-provided
breeding places for the pesky fan.
little pests” Many rooms in Ennis High
-----------------------School will long appreciate the
Two Republicans thoughtfulness of the National
President Franklin D. Honor Society who provided
Roosevelt’s cabinet included fans. The fans were purchased
two Republicans—Henry L. just about the time school was
Stimson, secretary of war, out in M 1971 Harlin
who had been President Her- . MayMr. Harun
| Elementary where five classes
0 of first grade students- up to 150
a pupils- will meet in small and
large groups with one or more
of their five regular teachers,
stallation of some equipment, bert Hoover’s secretary of auphin, High School principal,
things were in good shape prior state: and Frank Knox, sec- has marked the fans, placed
to Saturday for opening, retary of the Navy, Republi- them in the rooms, and the
However, we worked Saturday can candidate for vice-presi- teachers have enjoyed working
to take care of these details.” dent in 1936. in their rooms.
permitting pupils to progress at
their own speed and specialize
in areas which interest them
most. But if they’d been living
back in the Victorian era all the
public school children would
have attended the same school-
the frame building pictured
here with the big bell in its bell
tower that rang each school
morning to notify the kids that it
was school time. Mrs. Elizabeth
Hickox was graduated from this
high school in 1899 and Mrs.
Fred A. Newton in 1900. The
1899 and was sent to Mrs. Lena: Thought you might like
Newton by Mrs. Lee Blakey, the the etching of your old Alma
former Mamie Bennett who was Mater- our place cards for our
graduated from this high school party in June. A very merry
n
8 9
She resided here in the home of
her uncle and aunt, Dr. and
Mrs. J.C. Loggins. She wrote
the following Christmas note to
Mrs. Newton some time after
picture here was on a place their shcool days in the above
card for a reunion o the class of
building which follows: “Dear ago.
Christmas and a happy New
Year to you and yours. Love,
Mamie.” The building above
was torn down to make way for
the present Ennis High building
construction on which was
completed in 1916- 55 years
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Casebolt, Floyd W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 198, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 22, 1971, newspaper, August 22, 1971; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1689872/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ennis Public Library.