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Lamar State College
To Hold Hearinq for Negroes
BEAUMONT -Tlu* president of
Lamar State College of Technology
the school’s board of regents
will hold a hearing August 23 for
seven Negroes seeking admittance
to the Beaumont school. In the
meantime, says Dr. F L McDonald,
he has no instructions from the re-
gents on changing Lamar Tech’s
policy of admitting only white stu-
dents. The college, will not accept
any applications from Negro stu-
dents, the Lamar Tech president
adds, until he receives instructions
to that effect.
Santa Fe Railway
Gives Woman Reward
ALPINE.—An Alpine woman who
drove 27 miles from her father's
tana near Hovey into Alpine to
warn railroad officials of damaged
tracks has been given a $100 award
bv the Scuta Fe Raiyway. The tracks
were damaged near Hovey by a
crashing jet plane on June 1. Mrs.
Dixie McGill Davis, mother of a 5-
year-old son, saw a cloud of smoke
near the tracks as she visited her
father’s farm. She investigated,
found the abandoned jet wreckage |
on the tracks, drove 27 miles into
Alpine to tell railroad officials about
it and enable them to warn a freight
train that was operating over that
section of tracks.
Father of Six Charged In
Murder of Fother of Four
N A COG DOC HES — A 30-vf or- old
truck driver who is the father of
six children faces charges here of
murdering another father of four
children. Nacogdoches Sheriff B. M.
Mtloek says the truck driver, E. J.
M o n t e s has been with
Monday night's fatal shoting of Wil-
liam Louis Phillips. 33 Phillips, fa-
ther of three boys and a girl, was
shot on a dirt road near the out-
skirts of Nacogdoches The sheriff
says Montes had met Mrs. Phillips
find one of her children earlier
Monday at the site of the murder.
Phillips was shot—the officer adds,
as he advanced on Montes with a
stick
One Killed in Second
San Antonio Jail Riot
BAN ANTONIO —San Antonio’s
sheriff, who stopped a prison riot
with a brazing pistol last night,
says the uprising occurred because
the inmates were given too many
concessions when they rioted last
week. One prisoner was killed in
the second riot in the Bexar Coun-
tv jail within a week. Two others
were wounded in last night’s brief
outburst. The, prisoner killed, last
night was identified at Rudolfo Es-
cobedo, a 27-year-old convicted
tthlef Pastrmo Galvino and Ro-
dolfo Reyes were shot in their legs.
Texas Christian Names New
Director of Development
FOR T WORTH. — Dr. O. Jamtvs
Sowell, now regional manager o f
the Wells organizations in Los An-
geles. will take over as, executive
director of development at TCU on
September 1. The appointment was
announced today by TCU President
M. E. Sadler. Sowell’s job will be to
co-ordinate and head TCU develop-
ment programs and work with tlie
ji»*w region-wide development board
now bemg organized. Dr. Sowell, or-
dained a* disciples minister in 1923.
has Dad a long and successful ca-
reer n the ministry.
Houston Councilmen
Still Trying to Impeach Mayor
HOUSTON—The Houston city
councilmen who are still trying to
Impeach Mayor Roy Hefhelnz say
they plan to hold his "trial next
week," despite the mayor's pledge
that he will go to court again to
thwart them. The councilmen have
lodged eight charges against. Hof-
heinz. They include: "Misconduct,
inabilty and willful neglect” in of-
fice. The council, which tried un-
successfully last month to suspend
Hofhenz pending a hearing on the
impeachment attempt, now has
scheduled an impeachment hearing
next Tuesday. The mayor of the
South’s largest city meantime ap-
pears un worried. Says Hofheinz:
-I’ll be mayor next Tuesday.”
Texas Rangers Moving
Out Of Duval County
SAN DIEGO.-The Texas Rangers
announced today they were closing
their San Diego station, located one
block from the Duval County court-
house, as an economy move. Rangers
used the San Diego headquarters
duping extensive investigation of
George, Parr's Duval Baliwick. Texas
Ranger Captain A. Y. Allee said
that the future Ranger operations in
Duval County would be handled
from Alice, 10 miles to the west.
He said the move had the approval
of Dist. Atty. Satn Burris.
Qulnk, easv loans made on rash
value of life insurance poUriM. Low
rates Member of FDIC. ENNIS
STATE BANK.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE
Bale Prize
Up To
$460
Wade Middleton, chairman of the
Emus Chamber of Commerce first
bale committee, has announced that
four more contrfoutors have been
added to the list of Ennis businesses
and individuals who have contribu-
ted to the prize money for the pro-
ducer of the first bale of cotton for
1955.
The latest contributors are Ennis
Lumber Company, Whiteside and
Mizellc, Felcman’s and the Safeway
Store.
Cash ana merchandise amounting
to more than $4til) will be presented
to Frank A .Laznovsky by Dr. J. R,
Jeter, president of the Chamber of
Commerce.
The presentation will be made at
10 a.m. Saturday when Laznovsky’s
cotton will be held at auction in
front of the Citizens National
Bank.
ENNIS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1955
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U. S. To Fire
‘Moon-Rocket’
60 Miles High
WASHINGTON. D. C 'UPi —The
United States is shooting for the
moon. It plans to fire a rocket ex-
pected to produce a ball of light
equal to a full moon at twilight. The
sodium vapir rocket will be shot 60
miles into the skies over New Mex-
ico.
An official of the Naval Research
Laboratory here confirmed the ex-
periment. It was announced after
a scientist had disclosed the project
in London.
Navy Scientist Dr. Horner Newell
said the sodium moon project may
supply important information for
the man-made earth satellite ve-
hicle which the United States hoes
to launch in 1957.
The London rocket expert said the
sodium rocket probably will be shot
into the heavens this September.
But Dr. Newell says he is uncertain
about the timing.
Newell says it is hoped the ex-
periment will clear up some of the
mysteries about a layer of sodium
which scientists believe hovers 60
miles about the earth.
Two Fort Worth Youths
Burn to Death in Car
FORT WORTH -Two Fort Worth
youth’s, one of them a soldier home
on leave, burned to death last night
in a crash between two automobiles
near Eagle Mountain Lake. Three
after persons were hurt in tne crasn
near here. Killed were Pfc. Bobby
Y. Campbell, 18. who was stationed
at Fort Bliss in El Paso .and Wil-
liam Lewis Sewall 16. Both were
trapped m their automobile which
was set afire by a ruptured gasoline
tank.
Imp
.MYSTERY SOLVE!)—The mystery of jrarden hose dis-
appearing into the ground all over the United States was
solved Monday in San Francisco when anti-Communist
Chinese Binpy Yirnm appeared out of the excavation for
a section of the City’s new freeway bearing coils of fresh-
ly laundered garden hose. Asked to comment on his
stranyre mission, Yimm replied: “HTAOIN SHRDLl.”
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Community Choir Gains Final Stages
Of Preparations For Aug. 18 Concert
Ennis Schools Open
On September 6th
Two a week rehearsals for the
Ennis Community choir were an
nounccd this week by Mrs. Frank
J. Baker, co-director, as the musi-
cal group moves into the final
stages 01 its preparation for their
concert on August. .18.
Mrs. Baker has asked all choir
members to attend the rehearsal
tomorrow night at 7:30 at the
Federal Inmate
Returns To Ennis
To Address Kiwanis
The Kiwanis Club meets for
luncheon at Lakeside Country
Club at noon on Thursday.
The program will include a talk
by an inmate of the Seagoville
Correctional Institution and a song
by Mrs. Frank Baker.
T A Vines and J. C. McCrary
are in charge of the Kiwanis
ptogrums for August.
The speaker, will give his views
on the problem of juvenile delin-
quency.
He recently spoke to the Lions
Club, saying that it was only a "hop
and a junn>" from his first brush
with the law at the age of eleven
to Ins adult life of crime which
has resulted in repeated convic-
tions and terms in prison. He
stiessed the psychological aspects
of the problem.
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EXCUSED—Sen. Walter F. George is shown as he packed
his briefcase at his Washington office Monday and pre-
pared to leave for home. The 77-vear-old Georgia Demo-
crat, dean of the Senate- its President Pro Tern and chair-
man of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, asked
permission to he excused from remainder of Senate’s ses-
sions, and as he moved toward the door, Senator after
Senator rose to pay tribute to him. (NKA Telephoto)
First Methodist Church Parlor.
Publicity pictures of the group
will be taken at the practice ses-
sion. she explained.
Ladies were asked to wear a
solid colored dark skirt, navy or
black t possible, while men mem-
bers of the choir were asked to
wear solid colored slacks, blue or
black u possible, and white shirts
with dark ties to tomorow night’s
rehearsal.
The choir has scheduled rehear-
sals each Tuesday and Thursday
night until August 18 concert. All
rehearsals will be held at the First
Methodist Church.
The concert ol the 100-voice
choir will be staged outdoors in
Lion Stadium. iA special band shell
will be erected for use of the choir.
The program will benefit the
Ennis Community Center building-
fund.
Young Farmers
To See Films
At Picnic Tonight
Murray Cox, farm director f o r
Radio Station WFAA in Dallas, will
show his latest tour picture,s at a
picnic ami basket supper of the El-
lis County Yeung Farmers Fellow-
ship Club tonight.
The meeting will be held on the
Billy Banks farm on the Howard
Road at 7 pan. tonight. Luther Eu-
bank. president of the club an-
nounced.
All members, their families, and
friends are invited.
Bible-Land Visitor
To Speak Tonight
At Ennis Church
Calvin W. Wilson. Marion, Iowa
will be the guest speaker at the En-
ins Avenue Church of Christ at 8:00
o'clock. During World War II. Capt.
Wilson traveled extensively in for-
eign nations, touching points in Eu-
rope. Africa and Asia.
While stationed in Teheren and
Abadan. Persia, he made tours in
India. Persia and Palestine. During
his sojourn in Palestine he visited
places ol interest, to Bible reading
people, including Jerusalem. Beth-
lehem, the Sea of Galilee and Tel
Aviv i ancient Joppa*.
He has repared notes on these
and other places. His lecture, which
is entitled "The Middle East." has
been delivered on numerous oc-
casions. The people of Ennis are
cordially invited to hear Capt. Wil-
son this evening, Frank Cox, min-
ister, stated.
Three Candidates
Get IOOF Degree
Three candidates received the
IOOF Initiatory degree at the
meeting of Ennis Lodge 227 last
night. George Collins, noble grand,
announced today.
They were A A. Brown. J. B.
Patterson and E, C. Story.
Tuesday. September 6—the day
after Labor Day—will be the day
classes begin for students of the
Ennis Independent School District,
Supt. J. F. Gardner announced to-
day.
The opening of school will b e
preceded by a faculty meeting on
September 5 and registration for
students in some classes, Gardner
stated. ’
Ennis High School seniors will
register on Tuesday, August 30. fol-
lowed by the juniors on Wednesday,
August 31.
Thursday, September 1, has been
set as registration day for sopho-
mores whil'd freshmen will register
Friday. September 2, the superin-
tendent announced.
First and second graders at Ala-
mo and San Jacinto schools will
be registered on Friday, Septem-
ber 2. Other students in these
schools as well as all students of
David Crockett School, George
Washington Carver High School and
Doris Miller School will register on
Tuesday. September 6.
Msgr. V. P. Micola said that regi-
stration and class opening dates for
students in the St. John parochial
school system would be announced
later this week.
Superintendent Gardner said that
interior painting and other repairs
to school buildngs wrere now being
completed to make the buildings
ready for classes in the. fall.
He stated the new building on
the campus of Alamo School would
be used by two classes each of the
first, second and third grades. One
fourth grade class will also be
housed in the new building. Other
classes at Alamo School will con-
tinue to use the old building.
Weather
Mostly cloudy with occasional
showers this afternoon and to-
night. Not so warm this after-
noon. Tomorrow partly eloudy,
widely scattered afternoon thun-
dershowers. High this afternoon
trpprr 80's, low tonight middle
70’s. High tomorrow lower 90’s.
Near
Here
Joe Sratnek says he lias oil on
liis 203 acre farm I'., miles south-
west of Bardwell. but he won’t
know how much until tomorrow.
Sramek is financing his ven-
ture himself.
He hired a Hous.on drilling
company to drill .«i 695 feet on a
location made by Joe Spaniel of
Ennis, who Sramek says is the
‘best man in the whole coun-
try." lie says Spaniel made the
location by his own score' procesv
md told them how deep to drill.
They spudded in a week ago
end closed down Monday.
Tin* well has been shot with
icid and Sramek says it will bt
pu, cn a pump Thursday.
There is oil on the slush pit
and Sramek says there was a
good showing of oil from the well
during the drilling.
Sramek. who came to Ellis
County in 1914 from Czechoslo-
vakia, bought the farm in 1940.
lie says if he has an oil well,
it will he the first in Ellis
County, however, that is d i s-
puted by some who claim .here
are several small wells in the
la-la nd Community which are in
Ellis County, just over the Na-
varra County line.
Sramek has not leased any of
his land.
The big question: "Does Joe
Sramek have oil in paying quan-
tity?" will be answered tomor-
row !
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IIA1MMNESS COMES HOME—Happiness came to the home of Mrs. Mary Baumer of
Lew isburp:. Pa., Monday when it was announced Red China would t ree 11 l\S. airmen
held for alleged spying. Mrs. Baumer’s son, Maj, William l.aumer, is among those to be
released. Joining Mrs. Baumer in happy celebration are, left, to right: Mrs. Jeanne Hen-
dricks. the Major’s sister; Patty Foust, a niece; Mrs. Baumer, and Baihy Dee Hen-
dricks, a niece. (NKA Telephoto)
Highway Widening
Adds $3,000 Payroll
Great Increase
In Boll Weevils
Noted In Area
Boll weevils increased greatly dur-
ing the past week and migration be-
gan . over much of North Central
Texas, according to an extension
Service report on the cotton insect
situation In Texas.
Unusually high infestations were,
reported from Kaufman. Ellis, Fan-
nin, Lamar, Rockwall and Dallas
Counties.
Boll worm activity increased in
most fields that were fruiting and
succulent with heavy infestations
reported from Ellis. Fannin, Lamar.
Rockwall, Delta and Cooke Coun-
ties.
The Highway 75 widening project
is actually under way in Ennis and,
according to the contract between
the Texas Highway department
and the Uvalde Construction Com-
pany of Dallas, it will be completed
within tlie next 133 warking days.
(Approximately 38 men are now
working on the laying of 6500 feet
of concrete drainage pipe from a
point 1 16 of a mile north of the
city limits to a point 3 10 o! a mile
south of the city limits. Tlie pipe
varies from 18 inches in diameter
at the north end of the line to
a 39-inch storm sewer at the
southern end.
Walter Pinegar, in charge of tin-
laying of the line, said approxi-
mately one half of the employees
on the job are local men.
J. S. Murph, assistant superin-
tendent, said the weekly payroll,
figured roughly, amounts to $3,000.
$47,500 Damage
Suit Filed In
District Court
A $47,500 damage suit has been
filed in district, court, records <> f
District Clerk Jake Talley indicate.
The suit arises out of a traffic
accident on Highway 287. four miles
east cf Waxahaehie on May 10.
Plaintiff is T. C. Pierce of Jeffer-
son County while the defendants are
Bailey Transportation Company,
Frederick Tilden Aylor and Richard
Fain Taylor. The latter is of Fort
Worth. The other defendants are
from Harirs County.
Tlie plaintiff's petition alleges
that Taylor was tlie driver if a
car which crashed into a wrecker
owned by the defendant firm and
driven by Aylor.
The plaintiff further alleges that
negligence on the part of the truck
driver and Taylor caused Pierce to
crash into the vehicle. The plain-
tiff claimed the defendants were
negligent as they failed to put out
flares, failed to remove the vehicles
from the, roadway and failed to
have a flagman warm him that the
vehicles had not been removed.
Temporary headquarters for tlie
job have been set on the Ennis
Compress property adjacent to the
right-of-way, with R. M. Bowden
superintendent, for the construc-
tion company in charge.
While the project is primarily a
widening job, some of tlie present
pavement will be torn out for the
laying of pipes across the high-
way. Also to lie torn out and re
Chief lie Wants Out
srOUX FALLS. S.
Minnehaha County
kept a wary eye on an
oner who believed in
l.is name They said
Mkk'-s Room for Them
out ol another South
five times
D.—(UP*.—
authorities
Indian pris-
living up to
that Adam
and broken
Dakota jail
Copper Care
A little denatured alcohol applied
with a brush will remove stubborn
tobaco stains from copper or brass
ashtrays. Rinse in Dot water after
cleaning.
When purchasing household ap-
pliances see tis for assistance In fi-
nancing. Low bank rates, conven-
ient terms. Member of FDIC. EN-
NIS STATE BANK.
Mrs. Cecil Perrin
Dies In Dallas
Mrs. Cecil Perrin, formerly of
Ennis, died at Parkland Hospital in
Dallas this morning. While her
health had been poor for a long
time. Mrs. Pi’l l in's current illness
was of only a week’s duration.
She was born in Corsicana and
lived in and near Ennis after her
marriage in 1925. She had been
u resident of Dallas for a number
of years.
Survivors include her husband:
two sons. Lucky Lee Perrin and
Merlan Perrin, botli of Dallas: two
brothers nnd three sisters.
Funeral arrangements with the
J. E. Keever Mortuary are in-
complete.
Burial will be in Myrtle Ceme-
tery.
Fire Threatens
To Destroy
Tarrant Co. Town
AZLE. Tex.—A fire that raged for
morq than two hours early today
threatened for a time to wipe out
the business district of the Tarrant
County town of Azle.
It destroyed the Gulf Service Sta-
tion and cafe on the southwest side
of Highway 199—leaving only two
walls standing, be,fore firemen from
communites brought it under con-
trol. O. H. Robertson, owner of the
All-Night Cafe, first discovered the
fire at 2:20 a.m. Azie firemen were
re-lnforced after the alarm by fire
companies from Lake Worth, White
Settlement, W e a t h e r f o r d and
Springtown.
There was constant danger the
service station's underground gaso-
line, storage tank would explode But
firemen managed to keep it cooled
with water while protecting a near-
by lumber yard.
Thirty-Seven
Marriage Licenses
Issued During July
Thirty - seven marriage licenses
were Issued in Ellis County during
July, according to the records of
County Clerk Charles Huff. District
Clerk Jake Talley’s records indicate
that 15 divorce suits were filed dur-
ing the month.
placed are some bad spots in the
existing pavement, excluding that
from East Avenue to Decatur.
The clearing of trees to make
way for the six lane highway be-
gan today, Bowden said. The high-
way will be 64 feet wide.
M. ,M. Watkins, resident engineer
fur the highway department in
Waxahaehie and .J C. Hallobough,
chief inspector, who jure on the Jcfb
here said the highway department
would construct fourMam facilities
from the point one mile north of
Ennis, where the Highway 75 Ex-
pressway is to stop, to the point
1 10 of a mile north of the city
limits where through-town routes
end
Native of Ennis
Receives Doctorate
At Oklahoma A&M
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JOHN \Y COLEMAN
... Receives Degree
In the summer convocation which
will be hild at Oklahoma A&M Col*
lege. Stillwater. August 6,
1955. 9 a.m the doctor of education
degree will be conferred on John
W Coleman, administrative dean,
Oklahoma school of religion, Lang-
ston, Okta.
The graduu'n's a-eas of concen-
tration were history and philosophy*
his dissertation was concerned with
developing an educational program
for the training of pastors, director#
of religious education and profes-
sional church teachers.
The Rev. Mr. Coleman is a pro-
duct of the public schools of EnnlSt
a graduate of Buhop College. Mar-
shall Texas and holds the mastef
of arts degree from Oklahoma A&M
College. Since. 1944. he has served
on the faculty of the Oklahoma
School cf Religion, and since 1061*
he has filed the combined positions
of administrative dean at the OUa-
homa School of Religion and chap-
fa,n and instructor at LsngStoQ
University.
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