The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 245, Ed. 1 Monday, October 18, 1971 Page: 1 of 8
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IN THE SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE
ENNIS, TEXAS 75119
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1971
EIGHT PAGES-TEN CENTS
NO. 245
New Ground Fight
Erupts in Vie
r
LITTLEST RIDER (isn't she a honey?) in the Ennis Riding Club's successful Ennis Municipal Hospital heart-
monitoring benefit Play Day Saturday. . . a barrel-racer, no less: Paula McDougald, who will be 3 years old
Nov. 19. She's the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. McDougald of Kaufman, and is the only grandchild of Jack
Bishop, president of the Kaufman Riding Club.
NNIS
••••••
CHOES
By Casey
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
New Senate
Dist.Due for
■ Next 10 Yrs.
, The new 9th State Senatorial
Dist.- which is due to include
a Ellis, Navarro, Limestone and
a the southern and eastern sec-
tions of Dallas County- would be
Auxiliary Deeply Grateful
Ennis Riding Club's Event
:or Hospt. Device Success
Itributed by Ennis firms and entrys, and Mrs. Tolar
The Ennis Riding Club board Dallas and Fort Worth presented Ennis Riding Club
of directors, meeting in the CNB wholesale firms and were saic
Community Room this morning to be among the most handsome
“Sow an act and you reap a with Hospital Administrator ever awarded in this area.
habit; sow a habit and you reap Ron Hudspeth, Mrs. Vera Tolar, Among those receiving
a character' sow a character, president of the Hospital special trophies were the
and you reap a destiny.”- Auxiliary, and Mrs. D.A. St. colorful Pickett Pivot Setting
Boardman. Clair, Auxiliary treasurer, group who set the pivots - .
figured the proceeds from the Saturday night; Mr. Hudspecth toward the highly successful
********* Riding Club Play Day, staged awarded Gray’s Prairie Club
expected to continue, according
to wire reports, for the next ten
years, until the 1980 census;
that is, unless legislators or
courts make alterations.
House redistricting is to be |
taken up next, it was noted.
The foregoing plan was ap-
proved by the Legislative
Redistricting board. In the new "
district would be such towns as
Garland, Sunnyvale, Pleasant
Grove, Mesquite, Seagoville,
Hutchins, Lancaster and De
Soto. There appears to be an
open field for senator.
Liberty
Award
President Terry a large trophy, . Cinric
from the Auxiliary in ap- TO. dims
preciation of the club for. , :
holding the Play Day benefit. Seguin's Joe B Sims, East
Mrs Tolar, in behalf of the Ellis County-ex, a special ---
Auxiliary, thanked everyone for columnist for The Gazette, has - -
every contribution made received the “Liberty Award .
of the Congress of Freedom,
Play Day benefit, this morning Inc. s
at the meeting.
Hearty congratulations to the Saturday night at the Ennis trophy for having the most
Ennis Riding Club on the Club Arena.
whopperoo of a Play Day they The proceeds amounted to
staged Saturday night for a $1,036.67 and Riding Club
really fine purpose. As you may President E.A. Terrv presented
know, proceeds went to the a check of that amount to Mrs.
purchase of heart-monitoring Tolar, president of the Hospital
equipment for Ennis Municipal Auziliary, which is sponsoring
Hospital, certainly a most the purchase of the heart
worthy cause. The Ennis monitor system for the local
Hospital Auxiliary, which hospital.
worked hand-in-glove with the The Riding Club board of united Fund Campaign is Mrs.
ERC, also is delighted with the directors present were Mr. W.I. Rabe Sr. She is an. family started. The United
big project- in which Hospital Terry, president; R.E. Turner esteemed case worker for the
Administrator Ron Hudspeth Sr., vice president; Mrs. James Community Trust. There are
said Saturday he concurs en- Turner, secretary-treasurer; approximately thriteen
UF Participating Agcy.
Community Trust
MRS. W.I. RABE SR.
CASE WORKER
A very active member of the
a man is disabled and can not
work, and the family has no
income, Mrs. Rabe steps in.
Also, in the case of fire, the
campaign helps in getting the
Announcement of their an-
nual awards were made
recently during a special
banquet at Amarillo.
The Congress’ man-of-the-
year award went to J.C.
Phillips, editor of the Borger
News-Herald. Phillips is well
known for his patriotic and anti-
communist crusades.
SAIGON - New ground
fighting erupted today on the
South Vietnamese - Cambodian
border. And military
spokesmen also report a
weekend battle 33 miles North
of Saigon. Government
spokesmen say 200
paratroopers clashed with a
large enemy force and killed 29
of them near the border.
Government losses were put at
seven killed and 20 wounded.
Some 400 enemy troops and 700
South Vienamesee were in-
volved in an all-day battle
Saturday near Saigon. The
South Vietnamese say a body
count showed 29 of the enemy
and 19 government troops killed
with eleven government
soldiers wounded.
A half-dozen American B-52's
dropped 350 tons of explosives
only one and one-half miles
South of the American fire base
“Pace” near the border. The
strikes were aimed at enemy
" bunkers and anti-aircraft sites.
. U.S. bombers also flew raids in
Cambodia, but their number is
3 never announced by the U.S.
e military command.
U.S. spokesmen announced
the 68th protective reaction
strike this year inside North
. Vietnam. They say an Air Force
105 escorting_B-52’s bombing
in Laos streaked into North
Vietnam and fired one missile
at a radar site 52 miles North of
the Demilitarized Zone. Results
of the strike are not known.
Meanwhile, the U.S. com-
mand says American troop
strength in South Vietnam
dropped another 4,000 men last
week to total of 206,000. It marks
the lowest total since January,
1966.
LESTER JORDAN, native Ellis Countian, vice-
president of United Publishing Co. here, who was
signally honored by being chosen.as the Waxaha-
chie High School grad for the WHS Hall of Fame,
and Mrs. Jordan. His selection was revealed at the
WHS Alumni annual reunion-banquet at Brookside
Inn Saturday night, and he was presented a hand-
some plaque.
thusiastically.
********
TODAY’S CHUCKLES
The teacher wrote on
blackboard: “I ain’t had no fun
all summer.” Then she asked a
youngster in the front row,
"Harry, what should I do to
correct that?”
“Mebbe—get a boyfriend?”
he suggested helpfully.
*********
HONG KONG - A U.S. civil
rights leader says tension is so
great between American
soldiers and South Vietnamese
that fighting could break out
between them. Hosea Williams
is the National Program
Director of the Southern
Christian Leadership Con-
ference. He made the state
following a 17-day visit to South
Vietnam and four weeks in Red
China.
Williams says that in South
Vietnam he looked into racial
discrimination in the military,
drugs, babies fathered by
American soldiers and GI’s
absent without leave.
The “Liberty Award” ■ ■ I J 1
Fund Campaign can buv goods presented to Sims read: Lester Jordan Announced
secretarv-treasurer- -such as linens and furniture for "Joe B. Sims has performed r
James Turner, arena director; organizations in the United MA Wane Ande ouf I the usnanafucvterestore Chosen to Waxa Hall of
Mrs. Carrel Frazier and Travis Fund Campaign. Some of the person or family is actually in individual freedom and states’ .. _
^“nd eighty-atx ^^^ -----nmTEETS*S^ Fame at WHS Banquet
handsome trophies were Army, Community Trust, and need of some type of medicine, that future generations mav i
she ^“ — = . === s ===== - “
zation, helping people is a very The United Fund Campaign can the 1922 Waxahachie High
important factor. Mrs. Rabe is spend $2,700 per year; Sanod graduating class was
always there to receive a call or therefore, they can not pay for The Congress of Freedom is a 000 812006as
visit when someone or some medical bills or doctor bills, but 20-year-old organization made BCE - P A1 °
family is in need of help. The they do as much for these up largely of leaders in a wame the Kx-btudents Assn.
United Fund Campaign aids in people as they possibly can. variety of conservative banquet at Brookside inn
getting food for the family or Mrs. Rabe is permitted to help patriotic groups dedicated “to Saturday night,
person in need, paying for people for three miles out of the defense of Constitutional Barney J. Wray, past
utilities, in case of unem- Ennis.- Dee Ann Grammer, government and liberty under president of the association,
ployment, fire, and other EHS Journalism. the law.” presided at the induction por-
disadvantages. For instance, if________________________________________________________________tion of the banquet.
Mr. Jordan, who formally
retired from his duties at SMU
on July 1, 1969, is serving in a
post retirement capacity as
special assistant in the SMU
athletic department.
He entered the first grade of
oublic school at old Central
Ward in 1911 and when he
dedicated the 1946 SMU year-
book to him.
In 1942 Mr. Jordan started
Pfc. Terry
goes to 101st
Airborne
We feel that we should
reiterate City Marshal Obie Army Private First Class
Freeman’s warning to Paul W. Terry, 21, son of Early
motorists that to be within the Terry, 501 Hardy Ave., Ennis,
law they must not only stop recently was assigned to the
their cars when they come upon 101st Airborne Division (Air-
a school bus loading or
unloading its cargo of boys and
girls, but remain stopped until
the bus moves. This is
something comparatively new
but a mighty wise legal step.
*********
mobile) at Camp Evans,
Vietnam.
PFC. Terry is a field wireman
in headquarters company of the
Division’s 3rd Brigade.
He entered the Army in April
of this year and was last
stationed at Fort Ord, Calif.
publicizing intercollegiate
sports at SMU and in 1945 he
joined the athletic department
as business manager of
athletics. He was prominent in
the College Sports Information
Directors of America and has
received a professional award
from that group. Mr. Jordan
originated the All-America
Academic Football team.
While in Waxahachie, the new
Hall of Fame member was a
ruling elder in the Central
Presbyterian Church, an officer
in both the Masonic Blue Lodge
and the Lions Club and he
Tell your friends you think
might be interested, about the
availability of adult courses at
the new Area Vocational School
If information is desired, tell
them to drop by the school and
the authorities there will be
only too glad to explain.
Youngest Senator
Rush Dew Holt of West
Virginia was the youngest
man ever elected to the U.S.
Senate. He was elected in
1934 at the age of 29 but
could not take office until
his 30th birthday.
was in WHS from 1918-1922, Mr.
Jordan was a leading student.
He was the editor of the 1921-22
Waxa Beacon and was an of-
ficer of the Erisophian Society, ■
the Press Club and the 1922
Cotton Boll annual staff. After
graduation, he attended Trinity
University at Waxahachie. He
has performed many services to
Trinity and was the first person
became one of the founders of
the Ellis County Historical
Society.
He is the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Alex J. Jordan and
married the former Miss
Katherine Clark, a 1927
graduate of WHS. The couple
has three sons, Bill, Floyd
Nowlin and Samuel Jordan, and
four grandchildren.
Steve Chapman was elected
See LESTER Page 8
MARKED MAN since the
inmate rebellion at New
York’s Attica state prison.
Correction Commissioner
Russell G. Oswald has en-
countered bombings at his
offices and threats to his
safety at his home.
to receive the college’s . IASNC I ID DEDADTC
Distinguished Alumni award. LIONS CLUB REFON I •
Ave. Church of Christ
Sells Present Building;
To Erect at New Site
Baldridge and Gilmer.
Avenue Church of Christ has It will be a handsome brick
sold its presently occupied facility. Detailed plans,
c^ch property on West Ennis however, have not been com-
Avenue to a large retail mer- pleted.
chandising concern, which is to An estimate of the time
-announce its arrangements for required for construction, of
locating here presently, course, could not be given, but it
Quite soon the church is to was known occupancy would
start building on its attractive not be possible until some time
grounds at the corner of W. in 1972.
THE APACHE BELLES PRECISION Dance Drill Team of Tyler Junior Coll-
ege include 2 Ennis beauties. Left- Cynthia Hart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Hart, 1208 Crestridge Drive, Ennis; right- Barbara Parma, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Alex A. Parma, 1710 Lexington Court, Ennis. Both graduates of
Ennis High School in May, 1971, they were selected to Apache Belles, after
6 weeks competitive training session during the summer. In addition to regu-
lar appearances at Tyler College sports events and the annual Tyler Rose
Festival, Belles are scheduled to perform in Chicago, Illinois and Dallas, at
professional football games later this year and in the Super Bowl in New
Orleans early next year.
Mr. Jordan took graduate
work at Northwestern
University and received his
master’s degree there in
journalism in 1927.' He did
further study at the University
of Wisconsin.
Mr. Jordan returned to
Waxahachie in 1927 and served
as sports editor of the Daily
Light for several years and
headed the Trinity journalism
department. In 1936 Mr. Jordan
joined the faculty of SMU as
head of its journalism depart-
ment. He taught various sub-
jects and in 1946 the students
Mops, Brooms
Bring 1
The Ennis Day Lions an-
nounced that the week-end
annual Mop and Broom Sale
had wound up successfully,
despite the showers.
The figure was $1,621.
“That lacks only $10 of being
as much as we ran last year,
although we had to work in the
rain,” said Vice-President Ron
,621
Davis, in charge of projects.
The money earned goes to
civic projects of the service
club.
V-P Davis and Chairman
Mike Catero stated that they
were deeply grateful to all who
had assisted with the chore
itself and to a generous public
who supported it.
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Casebolt, Floyd W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 245, Ed. 1 Monday, October 18, 1971, newspaper, October 18, 1971; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1689928/m1/1/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ennis Public Library.