The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 149, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1953 Page: 8 of 62
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O A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
C-A Abilene, Texm, Sunday Morning, Jan. 4, IBM
TOWN NEWS
Collegians Return to Classes;
Square Dance Course to Open
Classes for students st the three
Abilene colleges ere scheduled
to be resumed this week.
Hardin-Simmons University stu-
di its will begin attending classes
again at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 5.
St dents st this school began their
Cl ristmas vacation at noon Dec.
20
bilene Christian College classes
will be relumed at 8 a.m. Tues:
# Dec. 17
r, Jan. 6. Classes at ACC were
missed at 12:30 p.m. Wednes-
Christmas vacation at McMurry
Co lege ends with the resuming
of classes at S a.m. Monday Jan.
5. Vacation began at noon Friday,
Dec 19 All dormitories at Mc-
Murry open at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Second Dance Class
1 series of weekly square dance
lessons will begin Tuesday, Jan.
1* at 8 p. m. in the Womens
13 at 8 p. m. in the “IomE
Biding at Fair Park. The classes
will be held each Tuesday for 10
"E’b. Lasseter, city recreation
director, said the city recreation
department win sponsor the class
es which will be taught by Wood
row Golleher. The instructor has
taught square dancing in the Abt-
Jese YMCA several years.
Basic fundamentals of square
dancing win be taught. Admission
will be 50 cents a night. The ad-
mission to necessary to cover SA
menses although the activity will
be on a non-profit basis, Lasseter
"‘Mpular demand prompted the
decision to start the new class.
Recently a similar class of 80 mem.
bers was concluded.
A local established square dance
group has affiliated with the
Recreation Department. The new
group became known as the City
Recreation Department Whirlaway
Club.
including scarlet fever, with seven
cases reported.
Others were: influenta, six;
mumps, five; chicken pox, two;
syphilis, two: measles, one; and
amoebiasis, one.
Daughter Born
Mr. and Mra. Joe Laird of Mar-
low, Okla., former Abilene resi-
dents. have announced the birth of
a girl born Saturday in Oklahoma.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Laird attended
Abilene Christian College. He to
minister of the Church of Christ
in Marlow. She to the former Har-
riette Rogers.
Maternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Rogers, 701 East
Notrh 13th St. here. Paternal grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. James
E. Laird of Athens, Ga.
Venison Feed Set
Abilene Masonic Lodge 559 will
hold its annual ventoon feed Tues-
day night at 8 o’clock at the Ma-
sonic Temple. 1265% North Second
St.
The meat will be furnished from
deer killed by lodge members. This
win make the sixth year the feed
has been held here.
All E. A., F. C and Master Ma-
sons and their families are invited,
J. M. Martin, program chairman,
said. He urged an Master Masons
who are living in Abilene and
are not members of the local lodge
to be present for the dinner. His
invitation woa extended also to
members of lodges in the 75th Dis-
trict.
A program has been planned for
the night
BUNDLES FOR KOREA—These persons have helped to collecting clothing, medicine and
dried milk for distribution in Korea. Sixty packages were mailed Friday. Workers on the
project are from left to right, Mrs. A John, 0. A. Rhodes, Gene Moore, and J. C. Goldsmith.
(Staff Photo) _____________________________
Abilenians Send Garments,
Medicine to Korea Needy
Nursing Talk Set
civil defense nursing will be dis-
cussed by Mrs. Beulah Miles. *
Louis, field representative of the
American Red Cross, at s p. m.
“ursday at the Hendrick Hospital
School of Nursing. .__
She will address the alumni as
sociation of the school in the west
classroom, Mrs. Frazer Edmonds
association secretary, announced.
District 15 of the Texas Graduate
Nurse Association has been invited
to attend the monthly meeting.
24 Disease Cases
Fort Bliss Captain
Killed in Collision
CORTEZ, Colo., Jan. 3 in—Capt
Kenneth a. Scrivener, 24, stationed
with the U. S. Army at Fort Bliss,
Tex., died today when his ear and
i track collided 14 miles northwest
of here. .
His wife. Shirlee, 25, was hos-
pitalized nt Cortes with s broken
left arm and lacerations. Homer
H. Smith, 44, of El Paso, Tex.
driver of the track, wss not in-
jured._____________.A
Kilgore Deposits Up
Sixty packages of clothing and
medicine were mailed to Korea
Friday from Abilene.
That ended a campaign by a
committee of three Abilene women
to collect goods for refugees and
the needy in Korea.
Mrs. A. John, chairman of the
committee which included Mrs. Joe
Batia and Mrs. Gene Moore, said
the packages averaged 22 pounds.
“It was mostly clothing, over-
coats, men’s suits and women’s
coats,” Mrs. John said, adding that
six cartons of medicine were In-
cluded.
The packages were shipped to
“Dr. N. A. Bryan, Pusan, Korea"
and will be distributed by the
United Nations Civil Assistance
Command, Korea, which la the or-
ganization handling aid to the
masses of needy civilians in South
Postage, which totaled more
credit, ton, to an those people have
helped by contributing clothing.
Included with a shipment made
early In December, Friday’s ship-
ment made a total of about 1,600
pounds of goods sent to Koera, she
said.
A new organization, the Amer-
ican Relief for Korea, to now plan-
ning a nationwide clothing cam-
paign to be held during the spring
of 1953. Mrs. John said she had
received a letter from the organ-
isation saying that an ARK com-
mittee will be organized in Abilene
and asking for her help.
She said a drive to collect cloth-
tag for Korea will also atari at
Hardin-Simmons University Mon-
day._____________________________
New Year’s Baby
Funeral at Irving
For Ex-Abilenian
Funeral for Mrs W. A. Harri-
ann, 27, former Abilenian who died
unexpectedly Tuesday in Sedro
Woolley, Wash., will bs conducted
Tuesday at Irving, Tex.
Mrs. Harrison, the former Doro-
thy Osborne, and her husband both
attended Abileno Christian College.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. P K. Osborns of Irving and
hie parents are Mr. and Mra. Ro-
bert S. Harrison, 857 EN 15th St.,
Abilene.
Mrs. Harrison sold Saturday that
she has not yet received details
of the unexpected death of her
daughter-in-law. The body to ex-
pected to arrive at Irving Monday
by train..
Survivors, besides her husband
and her parents, Include three chil-
dren, Jimmy, 5, Bobby, 3, and
Lola Marie, 16 months; one slater,
Mrs. Wanda Hollingshead of Gi-
rard and two brothers, Walter
Osburne of Dallas and Tom Oa-
borae of Phoenix, Ariz.,
The Sues Csnsl is about 100 mil-
es long.
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Singing Convention
Set at Ovalo Today
The Taylor County singing con-
vention will be held Sunday st
2 p.m. st the Baptist Church to
Ovslo.
.Recently-published song books
will be used.
Special groups which have been
invited and expected to attend in-
cude the Briggs Children Quar-
tet, Corinth Baptist Church Ladles
Quartet, Adams Quartet and the
Abilene Stamps Quartet, all of
Abilene. Others include quartets
from Lawn, Dudley, Roscoe and
San Angelo. Also expected to at-
tend are the Moselle Girls Quar-
tet from Coleman County, plus
the Stewart Duet and the Stamp-
ettes Girls Trio of Abilene.
The public to invited to attend.
Convention officers include Bill
Smothers, president; Silas Clark,
vice president; and Henry McCoy,
secretary. All are from Abilene.
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STAMFORD, Jan. 2—(RNS)-
Only New Year's baby born in
Stamford was David Bryaon Clark,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bry-
son Clark, born at the Stamford
Sanitarium Jan. 1 at 10:55 a.m. He
weighed six pounds, 11 ounces. His
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 149, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1953, newspaper, January 4, 1953; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1652249/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.