Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1954 Page: 1 of 20
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VOLUME 73
LIVINGSTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1954
NUMBER H
Blaze At Central Baptist Church
Thursday Causes Heavy Damage
FIRE AT THE CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH is believed to have smarted in this
cloak room shown above. Damage was heaviest here, but smoke and heat seeped
into the sanctuary and caused considerable damage. In the picture at the right, the
'ruined grand piano just to the left .of the choir box is shown. Damage was first
set at about $50,000, but it was learned later that this early estimate w^s too low. A
more correct estimate had not been made at pwaw time, -l’htdos by Pittey woods.
5 Indictments
By Grand Jury
Five true bills of felony grade
were returned by the November. |
term grand jury which made iN
report Friday, Dec’. 17.
The report said: "We have
been in session a' total of five
days; our door bailiff has la-
bored five, days; and our riding
bail if/ has labored 10 days. We
have returned five true bills of*
felony grade; have returned 17
no bills; have passed three mat-
ters to the next grand jury; .and
have passed three matters to
county court. This disposes of all
matters pending before us . . .
“We have examined the court-
house and jail and find same to
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be in clean and fair condition.”’
The report was signed by John
CJ Alson. foreman, and W. A.
McCartney, secretary.
Assembly of God
Church Holiday
Youth Revival
' Officers Eiecfed i Hearings on County Budget Adoption
At Meeting of FMA For 1955 Due At Courthouse Monday
The’ last of 21 officers of the
Polk County Farmers’ Marketing
I Association for the coming year
were elected at a meeting in the
A public hearing on the 1955
budget for Polk County will be
held in the Commissioners' Court
room on the second floor of the
city hall Tuesday December 14. [courthouse at 10 a. m. Monday,-
Clayton Malone was elected December 27«-
was
^resident. ’ succeeding A. B.
Hooks who wished to step down,
but who was named as’vice-
president.
The 18 directors are A. B,
Hooks. Clayton Malone, W Q.
Parrish, Louis Gerlaeh, Howard
Daniels. Elbert Griffin. Hugh
Black. J. B. Morrison, H. D. Al-
ston, C. M. Peacock, Jerry Smith,
Jr., John W. Hoffman, L A. Gib
son. Jack Jackson, B: C. Lively,
Frank Gilbert, T W. Beckworth
and L. L. Schrader.
It was brought out at,the meet-
ing that the Association showed
Margie Nickell
| First Assembly of God Church, _____
of Livingston will hold a Holiday to anyone in view of the heavy 1, 1955
The budget, which has been
orepared by County Auditor E.
L. Hinson and filed with County
Clerk J. H. McKee. Is based on an
estimated $402,378.00 in receipts,
with an estimator$394,263 00 in
expenditures.
Thus, If the county is able to
adhere to the budget, a surplus
of $8,115.00 will exist at the
end of 1955.
No money was set aside in the
budget for deficit operation of
the county hospital system since
the court has ordered the Corri-
a loss of $723.12 for last year,
but that this was not surprising j^®n hospital to close on January
WJ J |J •. * n , Youth Revival beginning.'Sunday expense of getting organized anil———-; *
rNCCQ Hospital Deo. i December 26th. and continuing into operation in the first year. Carol Singing And
The budget lists estimated as
sessed valuations in the countyians, their Rotary
at $19 tnillion, with the tax rate gpests — attended
remaining at 85 cents per $100 Christmas party of the
assessed valuation Club Monday night in the High
The 85 cent tax rate Is broken ^°hool cafeteria In Livingston.
Fire of undetermined origin
caused heavy damage to the
Central Baptist Church in Uv-
ingston early Thursday night.
Dec. 16.
Damage was firsj estimated at
$50,000 but this figure was
dropped as smoke and heat daa-
age was heavier than first esti-
mated. Final- figure,on the dun-
age was not available at press
time
The loss wiir be partially off -
set by insurance.
The fire was discovered by
Mrs Nell Ppters and Mrs. Roy
Wiggins The two were talking
at Mrs. Peter’s residence aeroas
the street from the church when
Mrs. Peters saw the smoke from
the blaze.
Mrs. Wiggins called in the
alarm. This was about 5:30 p. n.
By 6:30 p. m. the damage was
done and 'the Volunteer Fire
Department had extinguished
the blaze.
The fire Is believed to have
started In a cloak room In the
rear of the church behind the
sanemry
Mr* Kenneth Kennedy, church
secretary, said she went through
the room In w’hich the closet is
located about 10 minutes before
five, and’ that she noticed no
suspicion of a blaze
The church’s education build-
ing and parsonage were undam-
... .. . „. „ . aged The lost addition to the
“*h LTSS200.IW church pi,,,,, m.do
Rotarians Hold -
Christmas Party
Anns, and ftnjy two y„ars aR0 •
the annual, < if t-
Wolher, pastor,. W '• -
was attending a
board meeting of the East Texas
Baptist College when notified of -
„ . L)r. V, E.
R” ar>’ the church.
down among the various funds Choyee Allison, assistant sales ^he fire.
as follows: manager for- Humble Oil and j, wa* f|rst thought that the
Operating Funds: jury, 10 R*’Uning Company, was speaker. I congregation would have to find
cents; road and bridge, 15 cents; | 'Allison mentioned several another place to worship because
road and bridge special fund, |*"guideposts." such as loVe. play, of the damage but members per-
S cents; general fund, 25 cents; work and worship, by whjch peo- formed a Herculean task in
permanent improvement fund, 8 pie could live happier live. !cleaning up and services were
cents (Total of 66 cents.i 1 Christmas music was provided in the church the following
Interest and sinking fund: road by Mrs. Wylie Peebles at the Sunday.-
piano and Miss Patricia
in a h“s|,llal 1^™ EyanSkfini bt^Margle
bed can get same by contacting j Nlcke„ of Lovillg
Mrs. Bill Watson at the We-Ask i Services each evening at 7:30
Un Drive in in Livingston. p m.
and bridge warrants, 7 cents;
Polk County Hospital bonds, 12
cents. (Total of 19 cents.)
Each of the four road precincts
in the county has been allotdd
an equal share of the estimated
$90,000 the road and bridge fund
will receive, or $16,250
An overdraft of $20,(XX) is an
tleipated in the road and bridge
fund on January 1, 1955.
Pritch
ard and Miss Ann Peebles adept
ly doing the vocalizing.
Christmas gifts were ex-,
changed following the comple-1
tlon of the program.
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Scripture Selection
the county’s bond and time war-
Chamber of Commerce News
By w. A. McCARTNEY, Manager
This will be the last time Jhat
this column will appear in the
Polk (County Enterprise this year,
and I’want to thank the many
people that have helped me in
Vloing my work and who have
been so tolerant of my mistakes.'
1 As you all know, my past
training has been in the field
of selling, and I have, had to
adjust myself to this type of
work. My goal has been' to make
our town a better place to live
in and with you people working
so hard to help me it has not
btspn a very hard taSH. Many of
you have spent hours'of hard
work on civic projects, Little
Leaguers, Girl Scouts, Boy
Scouts and don’t forget the help
on our Homecoming. Many of
you have spent hours keeping
your yards and home beautiful
and last night I drove around
our town and admired the Xmas
decorations pnd lighting that
you have put up.
To me, the above mentioned
things plus many others that
I have not mentioned make our
town a great town.
Your Chamber of Commerce
directors have given me a leave
A meeting will be held by thelQjOral Eucharist
board of directors at 7 p. m: in „ , _v
fhe city halj on January 11 to ^erVlCCS Friday
make definite-plans for the As-| Sl Luke’s Episcopal Chuft'h 1 rant indebtedness,
sociation s operations in 1955. . . ..... „
All farmers „nrl ofher Intere*.-I* * ~TO| *to?n* b'*,J *"« '**• '«
ed persons are urged to attend ninR at 10:30 P- m Friday with i sued bonds and warrants total
Scripture selections for the
month of December were made
by Dr Vaster Wol her, pastor of
the Central Baptist Church, Liv-
ingston. V
"And the angel said unto
The Indian Baptist Church will them. Fear not: for, behold, I
celebrate Christmas with a spe ; bring you good tidings of great
Christmas program on J joy which shall be to all peo>
Christmas ^Program
At Indian Church
An interesting item contained.
in the budget is the amount of j Christinas night. December 25, at! pie.”
|7 .p. rfi Everyone is invited tg "For unto you is born this day
of absence in January to go to
the hospital for a complete check
tip. This I am also very- grateful
for, and I hope to be back on
the job as good as, new by the
last of January.
I haven’t made my New Year
resolutions yet, but one I know
for sure will ,be to be ever
grateful to all of you for making
my year so pleasant, and now
may I wish you a. very Merry
Christmas land, many Happy.
years ahead.
TEMPERATURES j
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Temperatures for the week of j
December 14-20 were reported by
local weatherman, A. W. Orr, as
follows: •
Date Highest Lowest
December 14 55 30
December 15 ....... 67 31
December 16 _—_66 33
December 17 . 72 36
December 18 ---- 50 36
December 19 ----61 35
Dv^ember 20 ... 63 34
Rainfall so far this year has
totaled 32 Inches, said Orr. as
compared to a normal rainfall
of, 45 inches.
this important meetihg. The Choral Eucharist service at 11:00
growth and success of the FMA; p. m.
will mean increased prosperity! The public is cordially invited
to the county as a whole. ' to attend.
Ing. $815,965.62, and, as of July
31, 1954, had retired $509,977.08
of these leaving on that date an
' Indebtedness of $305,988.54.
attend the program, which will in the city of David a Saviour,
-have all Indian young people1'inqwhich is Christ the Lord," Luke
; ipj east. ( 2:10-11. 1
Building of Youth Recreation Center
In Near Future Planned in Livingston
/ Erection of a hutlding In Liv-i
ingston in the near future fori
use, .as a .recreation center for 1
project is still in the planning
stage.
Tentative plans for the make-
up of a edmrjiittee to carry the
plan to completion include
Hawkins as chairman, one other
Rotarian, a Lion connected with
the school to represent the
school, another member appoin-
ted by the Chamber of Com-
merce, another from the school
tarians, a club have accepted.{’student body (probably a mem
the responsibility of raising the bet of if).-elective Student Coun-
money from as many sources1 ell), and a minister to rep re
ns possible. | sent -the churches.
The idea for the building of | This wil1 provide the commit-
recreation center
the youth of ' Livingston -eems
assured following action i f Liv-
•neston’s two civic clubs, the
Rotary and the Lions.
The Lions generously donated
the site on Cemetery Hill where
they had in the past poured con-
crete tennis courts, and the Ko-
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THESE FIGHTING LE0PARD8 of Dnnb&r High School will meet the College Sta-
tion team at 7 p. m. Thursday in College Station- in a game to determine the
state champions of Claae A football If the Leopards win, it will be their second
consecutive state title. -Photo by Piaeywoode.
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a crude but sturdy, recreation
center was put before the Ro-
tary Club by Rotarian Otto
Hawkins at the club’s meetihg
last Thursday.
He outlined his idea of erect-
ing the biiitding and asked the
club members to express their
opinions on the idea, and also
on the idea of the club under-
taking to raise the money.
„ . . tlons from anyone interested In
Unanimous approval was glv- j contributing to the welfare of
en to the idea. youth* may contribute to Haw-
Just how much money will be kins or any member of the corn-
needed to build the center is mitteC which will be pmrl at
not definitely known. The entire a later date.
tee with a representative cross-
section of organizations inter-
ested in the youth.
Hawkins has emphasized that
he has in mind a rough build-
ing that could not be damaged
hy the rough play of energetic
teen-agers. . 9
Actually, the building of the
center is more or leas of a com-
munity project, and contrlbw-
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Lewis, John W. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1954, newspaper, December 23, 1954; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth762270/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.