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ENNIS. ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1964
VOL. XXXIX NO. 38
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ROWS HER CHILDREN—Going virtually unnoticed, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy rows her chil-
dren, Caroline and John, Jr., in a boat on Central Park Lake, New York. The family plans
to maintain a residence in New York.
At Schreiner Inst. —
Fred A. Newton,
Ennis, Promoted
To Cadet Capf. -
Fred Ancel Newton of Ennis
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Newton
of this city, has been promoted
from first lieutenant to captain
of the Cadet Corps at Sehrei-
ner Institute.
This announcement was made
(today by the Military Affairs
Committee of the Kerrville in-
stitute by Col. J. 0. Younts Jr..
PMS.
Captain Newton is of Schrei-
* ner Band Company.
Attractive Scene On Main-
Frank's Towne
A.
Opens in Oct.
Kt."
LOC
Marusak Gaining
Ph.D Degree on
Fellowship Plan
An Ennis area resident is one
of 130 graduate students from
24 states who have been award-
ed fellowships to the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville for
graduate study work during the
1964-65 school year.
Alex L. Marusak, Route 1, En-
nis, who received his BA in phy-
sics from the University of Dal-
las in 1963, will be a candidate
for his Ph.D. degree under
a National Science Foundation
Cooperative Graduate Fellow-
ship.
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II Koao DIS
Voters of Road Dist. 16, the vote: TP&L Assembly Room.
For 465. The next step will be for the
Against 227. County Commissioners Court to
Thus the total was 692. The make the routine canvass of the
provement bonds, thus inaugu- election carried by four votes, election, expected to take place
local district, yesterday authoriz-
ed by election the issuance of
$500,000 in road right-of-way im-
rating an extensive package pro- Nearly half the votes were cast at an early date.
gram for the area. from mid-afternoon until 7 o’- Then the State Highway Com-
Two - thirds majority was re- clock closing time. All balloting mission will be advised that the
quired to carry the election. The of the district took place at the bond issue carried and that the
Voted
0. 16
Charges Filed
In County Court
In Fatal Wreck
Charges of negligent homicide
have been filed in Ellis County
Court as the result of a traffic
accident which took the lives of
two young women from Ennis.
The charges were filed
against Harold B. Watkins of
Arlington, driver of a car in-
. volved in a collision on Aug. 10
which took the lives of Miss Lin-
da Bigham and Miss Billie Sue
Duke.
The headon collision occurred
on U.S. 287 near Kirven Gin, be-
tween Reagor Springs and Ennis.
With good progress being
made, it is anticipated that the
handsome new home for Frank’s
Jewelry & Appliances, at 113
North Main and known as
Frank’s Towne, will be ready for
formal opening Thursday, Octo-
ber 15.
Situated the first door south
of K. Wolens, the establishment,
all levels totaled, will have 6,000
square feet of floor space.
Sgt. Lowe Sent
Into This Area
On Recruit Duty
* Sgt. E. G. Lowe, U. S. Army
recruiting service has been as-
signed to this area, having been
transferred from south Texas.
Sgt. Lowe will have headquar-
ters in Corsicana and will be in
R. L. Hammonds,
After Discharge,
To Attend NJC
HM 3 Robert Lee Hammonds,
stationed in Hawaii, is receiving
an early discharge, arriving in
California today, to receive his
discharge so that he may attend
Navarro Junior College. He is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Hammonds, Route 1, Ennis.
Ennis and Waxahachie on
Thursday of each week for re-
cruiting and career counseling.
In Ennis, he will be at the Se-
lective Service board office at
9 a.m. and he will be available
at the Waxahachie post office at
11 a.m.
Sgt. Lowe has 18% years of
Army service and has been in
recruiting and Army career
counseling for 10 years. He said
he is here to help the commun-
ity in any way he can in any
phase of community develop-
ment and is available for speak-
ing engagements.
Sgt. Lowe said he stresses
the need for education in Army
service as well as in any other
career and that he encourages
young people to stay in high
school.
Vo-Ed Would Hit Tex. Drop-Out
Problem, Declares Satterwhite
" State Rep. W. T .“Bill” Satter-
white of Ennis pointed out to
the Ellis County Youth Commit-
tee, meeting in Waxahachie, the
y attack that vocational education
would level at the worrisome
Schools drop-out problem.
Rep. Satterwhite told the com-
mittee of the various hearings
held by a state committee con-
cerning. higher education in
Texas. The group, he said, has
staged five meetings throughout
the state thus far.
From all testimony presented
at these hearings, vocational
education seems to be an an-
swer to the large dropout prob-
lem. Most dropouts occur be-
tween the seventh and tenth
grades.
Three major dropout causes
were listed at Thursday’s ses-
sion as environment, economic
status and inability to learn. Mr.
Felty informed the group that
“ some of the dropouts came from
homes where the parents had
dropped out of school.
Rep. Satterwhtie cited prob-
lems in relation to the estab-
lishments of vocational training.
He listed some of who’s going to
teach the courses, how can the
Texas Education Agency rate
the welding teachers ,etc., what
kind of high school degrees for
the vocational high school and
who would foot the bill for an
area school.
The representative ’suggested
the committee gather informa-
tion concerning the situation in
Ellis County and the selling of
the people on the program.
The Rev. Robert E. Young,
chairman, took up the matter of
a teen-age code. Copies of a
Tulsa, Okla., code were given to
committee members and James
Philpot of the county extension
service had codes from other
teen - agers.
Committee members believed
that teen-agers should help in
the writing of the code. It was
suggested getting 50 youths of
around the county together to
discuss the need for such a code
in the county.
Mr. Philpot said question-
nairies could be reproduced and
distributed to teen-agers for
them to fill out without signing
their names.
In addition to the Rev. Mr.
Young and Mr. Philpot, other
committee members present
were Mrs. Louis Kudrna of En
nis, Miss Ann Holvecek of Midlo-
thian, Bill Pearman and Ken
Flagler, both of Waxahachie,
and Miss Kathy Jones of the
extension service.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Novotny,
owners, have announced that
Onis Bo) Lisman, well-known
Ennis citizen, will be manager
continuing in the position he
now holds with the firm.
The building has been com-
pletely redesigned and remod-
eled, and contains four levels.
Quite striking, the entrance
will be Cape Cod design, gabled
and with shingle-roof, a large
bay window in front, with small-
er display windows beyond each
of the two glass doors-flanking
the bay. Prevailing decorative
colors of the store will be an-
tique and gold.
Immediately inside will be the
jewelry and gift department, fin-
ished early American, antique
white walls and blue carpeting.
Stairs to the right will lead to
the second-floor furniture de-
partment. A fourth of the way
back from the entrance will be
a short flight of stairs to the ap-
pliance, TV and stereo depart-
ment. Downstairs will be a 100-
foot deep basement, shop and
warehouse.
Goal of the owners is to make
the store outstanding in appear-
ance, size and efficiency.
Mr. and Mrs. Novotny, who
have been in business here ten
years, have announced the lines
they will handle as follow:
Appliances—Norge, Westing-
house; TV — Stereo — Radio —
Sylvania, Westinghouse, Telefun-
ken, Sony; jewelry—Keepsake
diamonds, Star of Africa dia-
monds Delta pearls, charms by
Teens and Layton; Watches -—
Elgin, Hamilton, Sheffield; cen-
tral heating—Lennox and West-
inghouse; Air Conditioning—
Carrier, Norge, Westinghouse,
Housemans, Westinghouse..
Gifts—Specializing in Early
American gifts and accessories
by Woodcraftery and Maleck.
West Virginia Glass Co.; Furni-
ture— Haywood, W a k e f i e 1 d,
Yorktown, J. P. Awalt; lamps,
pictures.
Rural Carriers
To Distribute
Acreage Cards
Postmaster C. 0. Unstead an-
nounced today that rural mail
carriers will begin distributing
1964 Acreage Survey Cards to
patrons on their routes about
September 12.
The Post Office Department
assists USDA in making this
survey each year. These re-
ports, directly from farmers, are
the basis for official estimates
for Texas acreage of all crops
harvested in 1964.
To be sure this community is
well represented in the survey,
Postmaster Onstead urges each
patron receiving a card to fill
it out and return it to his mail
box.
Rural mail carriers working
on this project are: W. F. Mulk-
ey, Route 1; H. A. Lemmon,
Route 2; Keith Mulkey, Route 3;
M. A. Pavelka, Route 4.
Henry Moucka’s
Rites Are Held
Funeral Mass for
Henry Moucka was held at 4
p.m. Sunday at Bunch Funeral
Chapel, with Rev. Henry Drozd
as the officiant. Interment fol-
lowed in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Joe John
Galetka, Willie Holey, Victor
Pochabradsky, Eric H o n z a,
Ralph Rumbo,. J. T Little, Al-
fred Stevens, Frank Valek.
Mr. Moucka is survived by his
wife, a son, Marvin Moucka, En-
nis; two daughters, Mrs. Marvin
Adams, Duncanville, and Miss
Claudia Ann Moucka of the
home address, and a grandson;
his father, Charles Moucka, En-
nis; three brothers, Leslie and
Emil Moucka, Ennis; Bob Mouc-
ka, Dallas; a sister, Mrs. G. L.
Good, Big Spring.
DA
RIDES ELEPHANT—Beth Ann Bass, left and Alwyn Cox ride
on the Crichton for Governor, elephant at the opening of the
State Republican Convention in Austin, Tex. Both girls are
from Houston and on the Crichton staff.
Ennis Men High Officers -
Water
stems
Dr. Rex Hulsey
Is Named Health
Officer for EC
Dr. Rex. S. Hulsey, of Waxa-
chie was appointed : county
health officer for Ellis County
by the Ellis County Commission-
ers Court. He succeeds Dr. W. H.
Lindsey, resigned.
Members of the court decided
to discontinue the use of t h e
Ennis city jail for care of coun-
ty prisoners because of the
lack of facilities for feeding
prisoners and segregating ju-
veniles and also because of the
lack of medical care.
Tt is dangerous to lock u p
a drunk unless you have care
for h im,” Commissioner
“Tubby” Wimbish said.
It was brought out that the
practice has been for the coun-
ty to pay the City of Ennis $100
a year for use of the jail- not
including feeding of prisoners.
In answer to a request for a
MRS. JOLY'S
SISTER DIES
Miss Mattie Lou Teague, 6145
Prospect, Dallas, sister of Mrs.
James Joly, died in a Houston
Hospital Sunday, after a long
illness.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Rudolph
Chapel of the Chimes. Burial
also will be in Hillcrest Ceme-
tery in that city.
Survivors include her mother,
Mrs. L. F. Teague, Rosser, Tex.,
a brother, James L. Teague,
Houston; 2 sisters, Mrs. Richard
Smith, Vanderbilt, Tex.; and
Mrs. Joly of Ennis.
She was employed in the de-
signing department of Lorch
Westway, Dallas.
She was a member of St. An-
drews Presbyterian Church in
Dallas.
HERE FROM CALIF.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bell of Sac-
ramento, Calif., are visiting his
mother, Mrs. C. E. Gray.
Recipient ASC
Scholarship Garth
Hodge Enrolling
Garth Hodge, who goes to Ar-
lington State College this fall
on a Lee House scholarship for
board and lodging at the Lee
House Dormitory, an off-campus
dorm, was high boy scholastical-
ly in the Ennis High School
Senior Class of 1964.
Garth, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
G. (Buck) Hodge, has been active
in various spheres during his
high school career. He was a
member of Ennis High Band
four years; a member of the Stu-
dent Council 4 years, president
of the National Honor Society
his senior year; Boys State his
junior year, a member of the
Mixed Chorus, student Kiwanian
his senior year, won the math
award freshman and senior
years, and was a member of the
Spanish Club, and served as
English assistant for Mrs. Vera
Norton.
He went to Arlington today to
register for the new school year.
funds will be forthcoming for
the district’s portion of the pro-
ject. The Citizens Road Commit-
tees has pointed out state and
Federal funds of $8% million will
go into the project.
Proposals for the improve-
ments, as presented to the State
Highway Commission in Austin
—which approved the package
program—include:
Purchase of twenty feet addi-
tional right-of-way on State High-
way 34 from Road District 16
West line to Clay Street in the
City of Ennis, this road to coor-
dinate with the new causeway
now under construction across
Lake Bardwell, Highway 34 is to
be built up to standards that
will carry a large amount of traf-
fic to be generated by the con-
struction of the lake.
“From the Western boundary
of Road District 16 through the
city limits of Italy, the purchase
of additional right-of-way is to
be financed through County
Warrants issued and sold with
cash on hand in this road dis-
trict, so a bond election will not
be needed at present.”
The rebuilding and straighten-
ing of farm-to-market road 85
from South of Ennis to Hopewell
School, as this road is in bad
condition and is the main feeder
road from Ennis to Cedar Creek
Lake and across Porter’s Bluff
Bridge which was constructed to
bring East Texas traffic to mar-
ket to Fort Worth and West. As
of this date this purpose has not
been utilized. A 120-foot right-
of-way to bring this road up to
present day traffic standards is
proposed.
That the West approach of
287 to and from the vicinity of
: the Knights of Columbus Hall
West of Ennis to Clay Street in
Ennis be rebuilt and modernized
with four lanes of traffic plan-
ned.
That Highway 34 from Busi-
ness Route 75 to Interstate 45 be
rebuilt and four laned to care
for the increased traffic in this
area.
That right-of-way be purchas-
ed from the West city limits of
Ennis to the Western boundary
line of Road District 16 on High-
way 287 to make this a four
laned highway as this is the main
route between Houston and Fort
Worth and East Texas and Fort
Worth.
That right-of-way be purchas-
ed for a four lane loop South of
Ennis to connect with Highway
287 and Interstate 45 some-
where in the vicinity of Farm-to-
Market 85’s intersection with In-
terstate 45.
Chairman Jack Hobbs of the
Citizens Good Roads Committee
stated that he was delighted that
the election carried and that the
assistance of many in getting
the highway improvement mes-
sage to the people was greatly
appreciated, these sentiments be-
ing echoed by Chamber of Com-
merce President W. R. Schween
and Manager Jack McKay, the
chamber having led in the pre-
liminary work of the project.
Road District 16 is to pay half
the cost of the right-of-way for
the state and Federal highways;
all of the right-of-way cost for
Farm Road 85.
raise in pay from Paul Graf-
ton, justice of the peace in En-
nis, the court agreed to ask
the attorney general for any
recent ruling that would allow
for an increase.
it 2 Area Sites
Two area communities are
readying for water system ser-
vices in their own localities.
Some 169 farm and rural
families of Boyce, Ellis County,
soon will be served by a modern
water system for the first time
because of a $209,000 soil and
water association loan made by
the United States Department of
Agriculture’s Farmers Home Ad-
ministration to finance a com-
munity water system.
Funds for this loan are pro-
vided on an insured basis by the
Waxahachie Bank and Trust
Company. The loan is to be re-
Monsanto Buys
BeeKay Plants
In 4 Towns
Monsanto Chemical
Com-
pany’s Agricultural Division to-
day confirmed purchase of the
four BeeKay Soil Improvement
fertilizer plants, including the
one at Ennis.
Referred to by Monsanto as
Monsanto Agricultural Centers,
Inc., the plants will continue to
operate exactly as before, ac-
cording to Gerald Almond, who
has been named manager of the
local facility.
The local plant is located at
1003 S. Kaufman and provides
growers in this area with custom
blended dry fertilizers in both
bulk and bagged form. Ammo-
nium nitrate, phosphate and po-
tash materials are also avail-
able. In addition, the Center will
handle pesticide products.
As in the past, farmers will be
able to secure all standard grad-
paid over a period of 40 years.
The corporation will be contri-
buting $7,845 toward the con-
struction of the system. The pre-
sent sources of water in the com-
munity are totally inadequate
and are subject to contamina-
tion. The proposed system will
consist of a deep well, pumping
facilities, controls and distribu-
tion lines, meters, and a 90,000
gallon capacity storage tank.
The system will have 210,400
feet of pipe line. The corpora-
tion set the minimum water rate
at $7.00 for the first 3,000 gal-
lons of water. In addition to serv-
ing rural residents in the area,
the system will also serve one
church and 4 business establish-
ments.
Officers of the association are:
Clifford 0. Nash, president, Rt.
3, Waxahachie; E. G. Shaw, sec-
retary-treasurer, Rt. 3. Waxaha-
chie; Mike Dunkerley, vice-presi-
dent, Ennis.
The water system will serve
all of the Boyce community and
part of the Ike and Reagor
Springs communities. Availabili-
ty of water will enable the resi-
dents to install bathroom faci-
lities and generally raise their
living standard. Soil and Water
Association loans are available to
organizations operating on a non-
profit basis such as water dis-
tricts and non-profit corpora-
tion. Small rural towns and rural
areas also are eligible.
Mr. Grafton is now paid on a
fee basis. His maximum pay is
$5800 a year—but he makes
that much only if he earns it,
it was pointed out.
Mr. Grafton told the court
that he had already earned his
maximum for this year under
the present set up. He said he
had turned in a total of $24,960
to the county through August 30
and expected to turn in more
than $40,000 before the end of
the year.
August reports from justices
of the peace over the county
show that Judge Grafton
led with 146 cases handled and
$3,244.60 in fines and court
costs turned in to the county.
J. E. McWhorter, Precinct 1,
Place 1, Waxahachie, followed
with 108 cases and $1,639 turn-
ed in.
The court ordered the county
attorney to file condemnation
proceedings for flowage ease-
ment on five acres of land on
Onion Creek owned by A. E.
Ramsey of Ennis. The easement
is for a Soil Conservation Serv-
ice channel improvement pro-
gram on the creek.
Congressman Olin E. Teague
es of fertilizer, especially manu- today wired the Ennis Daily
factured plant foods to match News as follows:
the exact needs of their soil and
direct application materials, such
as Monsanto’s E-2 ammonium ni-
trate.
Application services are avail-
able at the plant, including 4-ton
bulk spreaders and 1-ton “tote”
boxes that quickly, easily load
bulk fertilizer into planters.
Purchase of the four BeeKay
plants by Monsanto gives the
company a further opportunity
to provide an expanding line of
agricultural products and servic-
es direct to farmers.
Mr. Almand added that, while
in St. Louis recently for special
agricultural training, he learn-
ed that Monsanto is establishing
retail outlets in many sections
of the country to “maintain
“Have just been advised the
Farmers Home Administration is
approving a loan of $145,000 to
Telico Water Supply Corp., a
non-profit group of 109 farms
and rural farm homes in the
communities of Telico, Crisp and
Creechville, to finance a rural
community water distributing
system.
“Present sources are totally in-
adequate and subject to contami-
nation.
“The water is to be purchased
from the City of Ennis and piped
to rural homes by the corpora-
tion.
“President of the group is
Leo Kirkpatrick of Ennis.
Anticipate TB
Tests Soon for
Ellis Students
The Ellis County Medical So-
ciety hopes to begin a program
within a month whereby tuber-
culin skin tests and immuniza-
tion against diptheria, tetanus
and whooping cough will be of-
fered free of charge to every
first grade student in the coun-
ty who desires it, accordingg to
Dr. J. R. Jeter.
Oral polio immunization will
also be offered to those who
have not been immunized and
want it, Dr. Jeter said.
Superintendents of schools are
now being contacted in order to
determine the number of first
graders in the various schools,
he stated.
GUESTS FROM A&M
Bill Jett had as guests in the
home of his mother, Mrs. W. H.
Jett, and sister, Rebecca, two
college-mates, of his from A&M
University, Don Donkervoet of
New Jersey, Vic Harvey, Beau-
mont.
N. D. BRANTON'S
BURIAL HELD
Funeral services for N. D.
Branton, 63, were held Friday
at the McDade Baptist Church
with burial in the McDade Ceme-
tery.
Mr. Branton died suddenly
Wednesday afternoon in Austin
at the home of his daughter with
whom he had lived for the past
nine years.
Survivors are his father and
stepmother Mr. and Mrs. Edd
Branton, Elgin; two daughters,
Mrs. Vernon Smith, Austin, and
Mrs. Raymond Chancellor, Mid-
land; two sons H. L. Branton,
Convent La., and T. J. Branton,
Ennis; 13 grandchildren, five
great grandchildren.
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