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(Drr Carrollton Chrnnirlr
“SERVING CARROLLTON, FARMERS BRANCH, NORTHWEST DALLAS COUNTY SINCE 1904"
—Commended, by East Texas Chamber of Commerce for Outstanding Community Service—
VOLUME: 53RD YEAR
CARROLLTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1957
No. 10
TIME MAGAZINE SAYS-
Weekly Newspapers, Fastest-Growing in
II. S., Show Increasing Economic Vitality
TOP ALL OTHER PUBLICATIONS
IN CIRCULATION GAIN
NATIONAL MAGAZINE WRITES
NEW YORK—(Spl.) — Weekly
newspapers today arc the fastest-
growing publications in the U. S.,
Time Magazine says in a special
report in the current (Feb. 4) issue
out this week.
“Metropolitan newsmen who
daydream of retiring to a country
paper have long viewed weeklies
more as a rural retreat than as an
influential segment of the press,”
Time says. “But with the swift
growth of suburbs and small towns
since World War II, weeklies have
largely shed their cracker-barrel
ways, developed sophistication and
a new sense of mission.”
Editorial Vitality
Weekly Newspaper Representa-
tives, Inc. last week reported that
8,478 weeklies in the U. S. in 1956
reached a paid circulation peak of
18,529,199, up 6.5% over 1955
Estimated gain for the 1,700
dailies (total circulation more than
56 million): about 2% gain. Adver
Using in weeklies increased 1.2%
to a record $112 million; this in-
cludes a 30% jump to $25 million
in national ads since 1954 against
an estimated 10% gain for dailies.
“The weeklies’ resurgence tc
fleets editorial as well as economic
vitality,” Time says. "In addition
to relaying the back-fence chit-
chat on which weeklies have tra
ditionally thrived, the papers are
the only interpreters and watch-
dogs of local governments in hun
dreds of U. S. communiUes, whose
problems, aims and achievements
go largely unrecorded in the
metropolitan press.”
According to one editor, weekly
newspapers “are giving back the
home town” to suburbanites who
have lost contact with community
responsibilities. In many areas,
fast-growing suburbs have pro-
duced weekly and semi-weekly
chains that are as slick in appear-
ance and informative in content as
their city cousins.
“Even outside metropolitan
areas,” says Time, “most small-
town weeklies have thrown out
the smudgy type and bumpkin
prose that once characterized the
PFC THOMAS C. VANCE IS
STATIONED IN KOREA
U. S. FORCES, Korea (AHTNC)
—Army I’FC Thomas C. Vance,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J, Vance,
Route 1, Carrollton, is a member
of the 7th Infantry Division in
Korea.
Vance, a clerk in Service Com-
pany of the division's 32d Regi-
ment, entered the Army on Octo-
ber 1955 and completed basic
training at Fort Ord.
The 22-year o!d soldier attended
Texas Technological College, I.ub
bock.
It takes only the toot of an auto-
mobile horn to make an outdoor
girl out of an indoor girl.
vceklv press, now run staff-writ-
‘rn stories and editorials instead
of the boiler-plate and canned
sermons that once crammed coun-
try papers. Lured out of the cities
by the prospect -of editorial and
economic independence, trained
newsmen in increasing numbers
ire bringing professional stand-
ards to weekly newspapering.”
Crusading Spirit
Though once renowned for their
‘imidity, many weeklies have de
vcloped the crusading spirit that
has vanished from many a fat-cat
daily, Time notes. “In the South,
many weeklies have consistently
taken a more liberal stand than
the region’s big dailies on the
touchy desegregation issue____
"Since weeklies are closer than
dailies to readers and advertisers
and more vulnerable to the pres-
sure of advertisers, they are often
hit by economic boycott*. But few
editors cave in under such threats
—or worse. In Granite City, 111.,
after Editor Cornelius E. Town-
send had waged an editorial cam-
paign against organized gambling
in the community, a hoodlum re-
cently emptied his revolver into
Townsend's Press-Record office.
Echoing many a fighting editor
before him, Townsend said: ‘Maybe
they’ll scare hell out of me some-
day and I’ll quit. But I don't
think so’.”
SCHOOL MENU
CARROLLTON INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL DISTRICT
(The following menu applies
for the coming school week.
It is published by this news-
paper as a public service in co-
operation with local school of-
ficials):
(Menus are subject to change)
MONDAY
Texas Goulash
Mixed Greens
Rutabaga
Bread or Cornbread
Cake Square
Milk
• • •
TUESDAY
Beef Fricassee
Mashed Potatoes
Tossed Green Salad
Hot Rolls
Rice Pudding
Milk
* * *
WEDNESDAY
Turkey—Dressing
Cranberry Sauce
Green Beans
Bread
Fruit Jello
Milk
• • •
THURSDAY
Tamali Pie
Seasoned Dried Beans
Raw Vegetable Salad
Bread
Fruit Cobbler
Milk
• • •
FRIDAY
Hamburgers
Buttered Potatoes
Lettuce Tomato Salad
Ice Cream
Milk
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Money may talk, but the amount
most of us handle barely speaks
above a whisper.
-o-
The fellow who sponges his way
through life merely soaks up the
fruits of other’s labor.
CARROLLTON DAY FRIDAY, FEB. 1
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LOTS OF COLOR —Brilliant
specialty acts and wild action
will feature the rodeo of the
Southwestern Exposition and
Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth,
Jan. 25 through Feb. 3. Shown
are the Colorado Westemaires,
30-m ember precision team,
(top); Lynn Randall and her
superb dancing horse, Top Hat,
(middle left); Clown Goldie
Carlton disappearing into a
barrel (middle right), and a
typical bit of rodeo excitement.
Lutherans Purchase
Area Church Site
A four-and-one half acre site
was purchased January 8 by the
members of Holy Cross Lutheran
Church for a future church and
grade school. The property is lo-
cated on the west side of Marsh
Lane about three blocks south of
Forest Lane.
The site was selected by the
property committee and approved
by the congregation because of its
central location for the congrega-
tion which has members in Car-
rollton, Farmers Branch and Wal-
nut Hill.
A building committee composed
of Tom Dye, Wray Hamil, Harry
Kempe, Erwin Schulze and A1
Teinert are now in the process of
selecting an architect and plan-
ning for the first unit to be started
in April.
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
was officially organized on the
28th of October, 1956. Sixteen
voting members read, approved
and formally adopted the consti-
tution. This offically marked the
organization of one of the three
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Missions begun in Greater Dallas
this past summer.
On the following Thursday eve-
ning under the guidance of the
Rev. A. O. Rast, Executive Secre-
tary of Missions for the Texas
District of the Lutheran Church-
Missouri Synod, the new congre-
gation elected its first officers.
Officers
Those elected were Ray Stevens,
president; Ralph Burgess, vice-
president; James Jackson, secre-
tary; Fred Young, treasurer;
board of elders: Otto Hackbarth,
Fred Symmank, and Mr. Teinert;
board of trustees: Mr. Kempe,
Edgar Noack and Russell Skam-
fer; board of Christian education:
Mr. Hamil, Mr. Schulze and Carl
Turska; board of stewardship: Mr.
Burgess, Mr. Noack and Leslie
Radtke; board of evangelism: Nor-
man Krey, Leonard Marx and Mr.
Turska. Mr. Symmank was elected
superintendent of the Sunday
school. Since that time the James
Jacksons have moved away and
Woodrow Ede was elected secre-
tary.
Holy Cross congregation today
has 110 baptized members. They
are presently holding services on
the second floor of the former
masonic hall at the corner of Val-
ley View and Denton Road in
downtown Farmers Branch. Be-
cause of insufficient space Sunday
school classes are also being con-
ducted in the Tower Beauty Salon
nearby.
The church holds Sunday School
services at 9:00 a m. and worship
services at 10:15 a m. L. W. Ry-
nearson is pastor.
Area Land Donated
For County Roads
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH NEWS
By The Church Reporter
Last Sunday in spite of the bad
weather, our church enjoyed the
presence and power of God in the
services. There was one profession
of faith and two men made rededi-
cation of their lives to the Lord.
We feel that those who pay the
price to be faithful are doubly
blessed when some small sacrifice
is involved.
• • •
Last week 20 of our fine inter-
mediate boys and girls went out
visiting with an equally fine group
of adults. While some people are
having problems keeping their
youngsters out of jail, we believe
in keeping them busy doing the
right thing in a positive program
of service to the Lord.
• • *
The Training Union workers
meeting was wonderful this week,
as the director, John Boyd, chal-
lenged the Training Union to ac-
cept a new plan of work for the
council meetings. Each union rep
resented planned mission projects,
visitation programs, interesting
program variations for the Sunday
evening meetings, socials, and
Bible drills for the month of Feb-
ruary. The annual sweetheart ban-
quet for the young people of our
church was also planned for
February 14.
m m •
Dr. Fred White announces the
sermons subjects for this week:
Morning—“The Holy Spirit's Min-
istry to the Believer”; evening
“Once Saved Always Saved.” If
you do not have a church home
here, the First Baptist Church
invites you to come and worship
with us. We have a class in Sun-
day School for every age from in-
fancy up; a union for every age;
and many special activities for the
youth in missionary-activities and
choirs for all ages.
Mj Neighbors
u
“Yes, sir, boy. You cer-
tainly won that argument
with your wife!"
Commissioners Cpurt last week
accepted seven donations totaling
5.90 acres of land for right-of-way
use in Dallas County.
Four donations were for right-
of-way along Perry Road in Com-
missioner Lynn Lawther’s Dis-
trict 1 here.
They included 1.15 acres from
the City of Carrollton, .08 of an
acre from Ralph H. Davis, .55 of
an acre from Mercantile National
Bank of Dallas and 1.68 acres from
the Rancho Oil Company.
Mrs. Mary Hassell Sanders do-
nated two tracts of land—1.07
acres along Coppell-Carrollton
Road and 1.22 acres along Sanders
Loop, both located in Commis-
sioner Lawther’s District 1.
Dallas Power & Light Company
donated 1.15 acres along Sanders
Ix>op.
The court also approved five
name changes on roads located
near Coppell in the northwest part
of the county in order to facilitate
the routing of school buses, mail
and other deliveries:
1— Belt Line Road, from Garza
■Road to Denton Tap Road, will
become Denton Road No. 230.
2— Belt Line Road, from Garza
south and east to Coppell-Carroll-
ton Road at Denton Tap Road, will
become Coppell Road No 260.
3— Garza Road, from Thweatt
Road to Belt Line Road, will be-
come Denton Road No. 230.
4— Garza Road, from Thweatt
Road to the Denton County line,
will become Coppell Road No. 260
5— Coppell-Carrollton Road, from
Denton Tap Road at Belt Line
Road to U. S. Highway 77, will be-
come Belt Line Road No. 348
CAMP FIRE NEWS
(A Community Chat* Agency)
MA-NE-KI GROUP MEETS
The Ma-nc-ki group met at Mrs.
Roseler's house.
The president called the meet-
ing to order. We repeated the
Trail Seeker's desire, the Wood
Gatherer’s desire and the Camp
Fire Girl’s prayer. Then the re-
freshments were served. They
were cookies, taffy and soft drinks.
The hostess was Barbara Sprague.
The hostess next week will be
Sandra Stringfellow.
We worked on our place cards
for our Valentine dinner.
BARBARA SPRAGUE
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The Atlantic entrance of Pana-
ma Canal is 27 miles weBt of the
Pacific entrance.
METHODIST NEWS
By Church Reporter
Are you financially responsible
for damage your automobile may
cause? M. L. COKER INSURANCE
AGENCY insures you for your
Liability.—(Adv.)
A leadership school for all
workers of the Church School was
held Jan. 23 in the educational
building with Mrs. Andrew Ash-
burn conducting the class for the
workers of the children’s depart-
ment.
Rev. Casad conducted the class
for the youth leaders. This group
discussed plans for establishing a
youth council, which would plan
all youth activities of the church.
It was decided that each youth
group would have planning meet-
ings to set forth their programs
for each Sunday evening.
Mrs. Hamlyn Morgan, Jr., led
the discussion in the adult depart-
ment and reported on the adult
convocation which she attended
three days in November at the
First Methodist Church in Fort
Worth. Ways and means of increas-
ing interest and enthusiasm in all
departments were the main issues
of discussion here.
• » «
Mrs. Jack Blanton was elected
Chairman of the Board of Educa-
tion. Mrs. Blanton is the leader of
the Intermediate Youth Fellowship
group.
• • •
Our special music for Sunday
evening was brought by the Sum-
ner sisters, Carolyn, Susie and
Patti, who sang “Teach Me to
Pray.” John Fletcher will be the
featured soloist next Sunday
morning. We appreciate all those
who have had any part in bring-
ing special music to our services.
• • •
Rev. Casad will speak Sunday
morning to the adult classes of our
Church School on “Evangelism—
As It Pertains to the Adult Depart-
ment.”
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MISS JOANNE MILLER WEDS
REV. CHARLES McDANIEL
IN DALLAS CEREMONY
Miss Joanne Miller, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Miller, 2634
Aleo, Dallas, became the bride of
Rev. Charles A. McDaniel Satur-
day night, Jan. 19, in a ceremony
performed in Embrey Hall of First
Baptist Church, Dallas.
The Rev. Neal T. Jones of Green-
ville heard the wedding promises
following music by Mrs. Roy Tice,
Jr. of Fort Worth and James W.
Lyons of Garland.
Given in marriage by her fa-
ther, the bride wore a gown of
Chantilly lace designed with a
stand-up collar and full skirt of
satin and tulle. Her fingertip-
length veil of tulle was caught to
a tiara of seed pearls and she car-
ried a white rose bouquet.
Mrs. W. K. Dooley was her sis-
ter’s matron of honor. Bridesmaid
was Miss Joann Oakey, E. L. Mc-
Daniel, Jr. of Garland, attended
his brother as beM man. Mike Mil-
ler, brother of the bride, was
groomsman. Jon Ryan of Houston
and Bob Clark of St. Louis, Mo.,
seated guests.
Members of the house party for
the reception in Grace Parlor at
the church were Miss Frances
White of Fort Worth and Mmes.
W. E. Alexander, E. R. Elliott and
O. D. Miller.
The bride is a graduate of Sun-
set High School, Dallas. Her hus-
band, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
McDaniel of Garland, was grad-
uated from Garland High School
and Baylor University. Both are
students at Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Fort
Worth. The couple will live in
Dallas.
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REEDER ROAD BAPTIST NEWS
By The Church Reporter
What peace is in our soul when
we have the presence of the Lord
with us. Each Sunday brings new
blessings to the Reeder Road Bap-
tist Church. In spite of the cold
front, our Sunday School attend-
ance was 100 last Sunday.
Victory is the aim in our Sunday
School. You can see that the word
victory has seven letters; so for
the next seven consecutive Sun-
days we want 125 in Sunday
School; each Sunday we hang up
one letter of this word. Your
presence this Sunday will make us
very happy and we believe too
that you do not want to miss the
joy of having victory at the Lord’s
house. To the members and visi-
tors alike we want to say, don’t
miss any part of these victory
days.
Funeral Services Held
For Oliver F. Godfrey
IN MEMORY OF
OLIVER GODFREY
God has not promised
That all will be,
Sunshine and flowers for you
and me.
When the “Death Angel" came
And visited your home,
And carried your loved one
Across the foam.
Over the hills and high in
the blue,
He took him to Heaven,
to await for you.
His body was sick
And wracked with pain,
But up there, he is living
again.
The flower that bloomed
so fragrant here,
Is even more fragrant,
with the Saviour there.
Death is not final,
It is not the end,
It is only the beginning
Of life again.
Heaven is rejoicing,
It is even more fair,
You now have an interest,
Your loved one is there.
No, never again will there be
any pain,
For up there in Heaven,
he lives again.
—MARCELLA STEPHENS
CUB SCOUT NEWS
By CUB Reporter
TO SPONSOR CHILI SUPPER
Pack 121 monthly pack meeting
was held Tuesday night, January
22, in the grade school cafetorium
with Cubmaster Carl Montgomery
in charge.
Den 1 had the opening exercise
followed by songs from dens 1, 2
and 3. Dens 4, 5 and 6 gave skits
about the “Out Space”, which was
studied the past month by each
Cub.
Feb. 10 is Scout Sunday, and
each Scout is urged to attend
services at the Methodist Church,
which will be held in the high
school auditorium.
A chili supper will be sponsored
by the Scouts in the grade school
cafetorium Friday, Feb. 8, 6 to 8
p.m. Price of tickets are 50c each,
which are being sold J>y the
Scouts. All tickets must be pur-
chased before 6 p.m. on Friday,
Feb. 8, in order to be eligible for
the drawing of prizes
Proceeds will be used for financ-
ing the Scouts the coming year.
Carrollton businessman Oliver
Francis Godfrey, 61, died Tuesday
morning in his home here follow-
ing a long illness. He was a resi-
dent here since 1913.
Born in Indianapolis, Ind. in
1922, Mr. Godfrey entered the dry
goods business here and in the
same year, married the former
Miss Bernice Kirksey.
Mr. Godfrey was a member of
the First Methodist Church in Car-
rollton. He was a veteran of World
War I and was in ill health for
many years as a result of his being
gassed in combat.
Funeral services were held at
3:00 p.m. Wednesday at the First
Baptist Church, with the Rev.
Robert Ridley of the Trinity
Methodist Church in Dallas offi-
ciating. Burial was in Frankford
Cemetery with Rhoton Funeral
Home in charge of burial.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Bernice Godfrey; sons, Abe and
Kirk Godfrey; a brother, Thurman
Godfrey of Lusk, Wyo.; two sisters,
Mrs. Robert I. Orr of Albuquerque,
N. M., and Mrs. Rulia McNutt of
Colorado Springs, Colo., and two
grandchildren.
Pallbearers were E. H. Bishop,
G. E. Francis, John Lowrey, Henry
Perry, Leon Weatherly, A. L. Cun-
ningham, Joe Stout, and Bill
Thompson.
Business Houses Close
Out of respect to Mr. Godfrey,
most Carrollton business houses
were closed from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday during funeral serv-
ices.
YOUNG'S FOODS TAKE
FIRST PLACE IN TOURNEY
The local men’s basketball
team, “Young’s Foods” won the
third annual Men’s Independent
Cage tournament held last week
in the local high school gym.
Young’s downed Massond Seat
Covers (Richardson) in the finals
65-61, after defeating General
Motors 92-78 and Red Oak 78 60
in previous games.
Dave Parkins had 27 points for
Young's in the General Motors
game and also led the locals in
the Red Oak and Massond games
with 21 and 14 points. *
Bethel Elledge and Dutch Harri-
son had 12 and 10 points in the
championship game.
The locals led Massond 35-31 at
the half and maintained that mar-
gin till the end.
For the locals, Parkins and
Jerry Young made the All-Tourna-
ment team.
The Independents will resume
league play this Thursday at Fair
Park when they take on Wade
Furniture at 8:30.
The three victories this week
raised Young's season record to
11 wins and 3 losses.
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Home is the place where char-
acter, lives and bodies are built.
AREA BAPTISTS SET
TRAINING SCHOOL
DICK S. LOWREY, JR.
TAKES PART IN
"OPERATION SKI-JUMP"
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (FHTNC)—
Dick S. Lowrey, Jr., personnel man
seaman apprentice, USN, of Car-
rollton abroad the attack trans-
port USS Bayfield, participated
in “Operation Ski-Jump,” the
year’s biggest Pacific naval train-
ing exercise which ended January
25.
More than 20,000 Navy men and
30,000 Marines took part in the
18-day maneuver, the sea phase of
which ended with an amphibious
assault landing at Camp Pendle-
ton, Calif., Jan. 17. Marine troops
maneuvered ashore until Jan. 23.
Warships added a realistic
“softening up” phase to the opera-
tion by shelling San Clemente
Island. Carrier based planes, and
planes of the 3rd Marine Aircraft
Wing based at El Toro and Mo-
jave, Calif., provided air support
and cover for the task force.
The exercise was based on a
simulated situation in which south-
ern California had been invaded
and conquered by an aggressor
nation.
Seven Baptist churches in this
area are participating in a Centra!
Training School to be hold Feb.
18-22 at the First Baptist Church
in Farmers Branch.
A goal of 457 registrants has
been set for Sunday School mem-
bers and workers from the First
Baptist Church of Carrollton, Ad-
dison, Farmers Branch and Cop-
pell, and the Valley View, Field
City and Valwood Park churches.
Seventeen classes for adults and
children from three years old up
will be taught by leaders from the
various churches. A nursery will
be open for smaller children.
Dean of the school will be Ray
Hand from the Coppell Baptist
Church. Don Wiley from the First
Baptist in Carrollton will be music
director; Carl Matthews of the
Valwood Park Church is publicity
chairman; Weldon Hedrick of the
Farmers Branch First Baptist is
book manager, and Glen Odom of
Carrollton’s First Baptist is gen-
eral secretary.
A kick-off banquet will be held
Feb. 1 in the Foods Building at
Fair Park for the almost 200
churches in the Dallas Baptist As-
sociation. Local Training School
leaders and others from the area
will attend.
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