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Sales Co* P.O.Box 8066
THE ENNIS WEEKLY LOCAL
ONK DOLLAR PER ANNUM
C. F. Moser
Re-elected Head
Of Hospital Board
C F. Moser was re-clooted chair-1
man of the Ennis Municipal board
Monday night.
Charles J Nov.v was re-elected
vice-chairman and Dan Bus was
re-elected secret ry as the board
met in a three-hour session at the .
hospital dining room.
The meeting was the first regular |
session ol tin board recently ap-
pointed by the City Commission
with tin. authority to administer
the hospital. Previously, tin; board
had served in an advisory capacity, j
Principal business discussed was i
■the hospital budget for tin* coming
fiscal year. A preliminary study
.was begun and discussion centered
around methods to be used for
estimating income and expenditur-
es for the period covered.
Bill Huh r Jr. and J. W. Brans-
come, a committee appointed to
supervise the planning ol the bud-
get, were instructed to have pro-
posed forms lor the budget study
duplicated in order that work can
commcnse.
The accounting system presently
in use was discussed at length.
S J. Stanley of Stanley Supply
Company, Dallas, met with the
(board to discuss the status of an
\ordei? for lieptacement 'bed-ends
lor 111 units damaged in transit.
The board approved the appoint- 1
nicnt <>! Mrs. It. T. Echols as su-
perinti ndent on a temporary basis
until such time us a permanent ap-
pointment is made by the board. ■
Hospital Manager Dudley Gate- ,
wood wa instructed to transfer a
tool slu d used during the con-1
st,ruction ol Memorial Annex to the
City Water Department.
Club’s First Event
Draws Big Crowd
'I in* Ennis Hiding and Roping
Club’s first event was >n exhibition
at the club arena in Garrett Sun-
day afternoon.
B. C. Hoover, club president,
said approximately 1*00 persons wit-
nessed the informal contest par-
ticipated m by members.
Billy Campbell of Garrett won a
ribbon scramble for the children
Hoover announced that there
wmild he :» culled meeting of the
club members ; City Hall at 7 p.m,
Tuesday, to (list us., plans for a pro-
posed matt lied roping, event in
tA pi il.
Two Minor Traffic
Accidents In City
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KNNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1956
VOL. XXXI NO. 11
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New Boy Scout
Troop For Ennis
Brins Organized
R ■ • ■ ei. eat t \ kets lor the
lu m-, High .School Junior Clas.-.
I * :.!• e bi . n pi .red • il sale at
ti:" high school principals office.
You Can’t Kiss Caroline, a com-
ic! •. in three acts, has been selected
.i Hu pl.t, to be picsented in San
J.ieinto Auditorium at ft pin Fri-
day.
A >'■. mat :/a!ion of a story by
M; ur- on D.ilv author ot Seven-
II < nth Summer, You Can’t Kiss
C .1- .pin is i delightful story of
:< ion,sure and hoartaeiu* as
ex pi • a need h\ teenagers, according
to Jerrj Reynolds who directs the
pity.
IP . nold said the class is very
Orbie Reynolds
Dies al Age 53
<i ei I\ i in Revnoiil. .»;f, died
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EHS Junior Class Play
Tickets Placed On Sale
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enthusiastic after tin* dress re-
lnarsal, held Monday night.
Student director ol the play is
Charles Jlaskovee. He is assisted
by Gail Da.vis and Robbie Jean
Little. Other members of the Jun-
ior class are serving on special
committees.
The play is based on the story
of a new girl in East Bud High
School who is quite different from
the other girls of the teenage set
NV are fly she receives immediat e
attention from the boys until they
discover her hobby is being a nat-
uralist. Bln* however, is rather sur-
prised to learn that Joe Morrell,
tin* captain of tin* l'ooiball team,)
shares her interests in the out-of .
doors. On a I el .Joe make, a date j
with Caroline and lmds her to be)
a very likable person Suzic, Caio-
lines small sister hold , tin key j
to the .secrecy of the bet A quick
itii ti <d event.-' bring.. th" play to
a happy ending.
.Junior e];i.'..> members who will;
sp|tear in Me ' iat are 1 osbet i
MoiiIs a Via Eat d Chuck Mli lit/
Milt I i di (’oil.ii d a . .Joimn.i
hi Cla* H-.t.i : . i W di* I la • d
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750 Attend
Open House
At Grade Schools
Approximately 750 person* at-
tended open house at the Alamo
and William ,B Travis Schools Fri-
day nigJit, according to a report
from j. W. McCoy, principal ut the
schools.
The Friday night event was the
last in a series planned locally for
the celebration of Texas Public
Schools Week.
O A. Pederson. principal of Ennis
High School; E. R. Kelly, principal
of David Crockett School, and Mrs.
W. C, Lamb, principal at San Ja-
cinto S Ivool, reported that 1,000
persons vilsted their schools at a
joint open house Tuesday evenln.
Peder.vm reported that two mem-
bers of tin* EHS graduating class of
1800 regis en d for tin* oixm house
in this building They were John P.
Boren and Mrs. (», K Hickox.
One metubzer of the class of 1000
who registered was Mrs. Fred A.
Now ton Sr.
The class with the largest ropro-
sentation was that ol -192G, with
six members registered.
Those registering at the high
school Included one person from
Germany. .States represented in
addi’toti to Texas included Arkan-
sas, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, Ok-
lahoma, Louisiana and Nebraska,
Exhibits placed in downtown win-
dows for the purjxwie of creating in-
terest in the observance of the so-
cial school week included one by
the Dramatic Club in The Pink
Tilo.vsom .Shop, exhibits by the Pho-
tography and Homemaking Clubs
in a window at Thomas and Gil-
pin’s, one by tiie Pen, Pencil and
Brush Club at the People’s Finance
Company, one by the Leathercraft
Club at Roorbach’s Piamaey, one
by the La in Club at Manning’s
Cleaning Shop, one by the History
Club at the Klin us State Bank, one
by the Teenage Book Club at the
Bourland Flower Shop and one by
the Agriculture Clubs at North f eed
and Seed Company.
School officials have reported
that they were more than pleased
Wi‘h the res|K>nse to their Invita-
tions to tiie public.
Police Off Probation
As Tickets Increase
A one - week probation term for i
the Ennis Police Department end- '
e-J 'Thursday afternoon when City
Marshall M G Swafford and mem- !
hers of the pillce force reported to
the cry commission that 53 traffic
tickets representing minimum fines
of $10 had been handed out since
the department was called on the '
carpet by Mayor Pro-Te.tn O. I. ,
Hindman at a meeting of the com-)
mission on Thursday, March 1. At |
least two of the tickets issued will !
draw fines id $20. it was reported, j
Hindman pointed out utr to ’lu* !
policemen that tickets issued during ■
tiie past, week represented more mi
fines than was collected during ’lie
whole month ol Fobruary, and said
tiiat at the present rate tiie de
partment would more than pay for
Itself, but explained that the de-
partment was not exfiectcd to re-
main on a paying basis. When
speeding on the streets of Ennis
has been stopped we won't expect
you to continue to issue tickets at
this ra e. he said.
Hindman told the men the .proba-
tion w;is off,
"You tell own have proved you
can do it." lie said.
He likened a policeman under his
system to a man working on a com-
mission.
T am going to cheek regularly,”
he stated
lie said "here’s the pay-off for
you all; "you know you can do it
and if you continue this thing we
are going to reeommend that you
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GOOD-WILL FLIGHT Nine I'rotestunl church leaders
of the National Council of Churches prepare to board a
plane at New Yolk’s International Airport bo fly to Mos-
cow for an I I-day visit. Their mission is to strengthen
the “spiritual fellowship" between Christian leaders of
the United States and Soviet Russia.
fellows working 12 hour* a day get
some more money.”
Hindman said Superintendent W.
J. Dam reported that telephone
call* were being received at Ennis
High School from persons who are
pieawxl with the decrease in speed-
ing around the school property since
the .policemen have been work.eg
on a regular schedule of pa rol
duty which Hindman set up at the
last meeting of the commission.
Friday night, Hindman said, is
the worst night for speeding on
the west side of town.
Hindman told the men on the po-
lice force that "nothing personal
was meant by the remarks made
last week ”
The commission voted to charge
off $124.30 in bad accounts mi he
water arid sewer department books.
It was reported that most, of the
persons involved over a long peri-
od of time fiad been unsueH-sful.
Jt was explained that m ord* r to
connect with the city water a u d
sewerage systems again, it would
be necessary for any of the prison.
Involved to .pay the old bills.
TO RIJN WATER LINE
An expenditure of $5,000 for an
8-inch lake water line to the oi.ns
Furniture Manufacturing Company
to be located on the industrial site
In North Ennis was authorized, with
the money to be borrowed from
the Ennis State Bank and repaid m
monthly installments ol $.500.
It was explained that the li:i*•
would be necessary to main’,a n
sufficient pressure for the company’s
sprinkler system for fire protn -
turn and that the city was commit-
ted t<j provide this service.
The commiaaion also voted th t
the street department pay $750 into
the water department account l a
half interest In a truck which the
two departments have been using
Jointly.
But Bus Plays Out:
WON'T HAVE
TO SAVE PENNIES
Mrs Fred Wilson, teacher at
William B. Travis School, didn’t
know that V C. Spencer, mau-
aiier of Safeway Stores here
was in the building when she
mentioned to Public School
Week Visitors that her class
laid a club whose members
each contributed five cents a
week toward the purchase of
encyclopedias from Ins store i
They had seven Impressed.
Spencer stated t. ha * he would
b iv tin* other 13 book., for the
Ennis High Band
Members Win Firsts
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BLUE BONNET
BARN DANCE
SET FOR FESTIVAL
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Despite the incommien <• of a
bus breakdown, munbeis of Hit* |
Ennis High School Band came
through with flying colors in tin
Dallas County Musi" festival Fii-j
day at SMU.
Six Klinus oloisUs i ml two en
w "ible.N won lul l diVLlou ra’in:*,
in individual coni|x i it ion ’lb •■
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H. B, Stdller, 75,
Dies Here i otuiy
two buses euiryinx tlie Emus i>and
In iki down in South Dallas due to
buim (to it wiring. The students
wen* toned to double up in one
he for the iainainder of the trip.
When mechanics railed from
Em. . a ie unable u> make im-
:,k lia’i M paits t" tin* stalled Vnu.
tla- "If "! ou.s made two tllps to
• 'iii tin band members home in
Die ahriiu.'in.
N.iii m be i of tiie band re
n. "Ir 'i :i I )ullas l*’i iclay nl.d.l t i
11 i , . n Hi* Ml -1 ' ..t ival B iml eon.
(I n 'i d li Mali i< ' M Vd"W. direr
i'n a tl.r Nfortii I'exaii bUite
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Damage Suit
Filed as Result
Of Ennis Wreck
A chunuge suit seeking $30,875
hits been filed by two Hopkins
County residents against an KID;;
County man as a result of a traffic
accident In Ennis last October •>,
according to recorua of District
Clerk Jake Talley.
Plaintiffs are W. T. Allen and
William Allen, u minor, while the
defendant is Andy Buchanan. Th1*
plainiffs seek damages for personal
injuries, medical expenses and
damage hj their automobile.
In the petition, the plaintiff
leged that the defendant was in ,. -
gent in that he failed to keep i
proper lookout, failed to keep
automobile under proper e i. I
I lailisi to yield the rigid !
operated the car at a in
at d exeessive rate of s,n» I
in gligent as to a :i i”< ' v
us lie drove foGer titan •*
per hour nuide Di*
Anthony Drive
Baptist Revival
Starts Sunday
Midlothian
Mayor Candidate
Unopposed In Race
St. John’s and Holy Redeemer
Parishes To Be Combined April 6
cj!;o Water Line
insiuilation
Now Underway
(iricM'tilMH k Riles
Arc HHd Herr
Funeral Services
For Mrs. Archer
Mrs. R T.
Heed , Nursinn
Wildcat Drilling
Down 400 Feet
Ml lit I lit IM M l»x \t III v| I I
lil.lt >1 I $111
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