Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 24, 1958 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 76
LIVINGSTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1958
NUMBER 32
Another fine Livingston man
has taken that step which is
very hard to take, that Is,
taking the lead in getting some
community project begun and
completed.
Early this year, the Polk
County Chamber of Commerce
asked if there was anyone
willing to take the job of
building new grandstands at
the fair ground rodeo arena
and having them completed in
time for the annual FFA stock
show and rodeo this year.
Well, the stock show has
come and gone, one of the
most successful ever staged In
the history of the show, and
fans at the rodeo had the new
grandstands as an added com-
fort, making the rodeo even
better than usual.
Newman Haynes, who said
he would do his best to get
the Job done in time for the
show, fulfilled his agreement
with the chamber and has
planned and overseen (this
is the wrong word since every-
one knows that Newman did
his share of the work and
more) the construction of the
stands which have added so
much to the beauty and the
convenience of the fair
grounds.
In talking with Newman the
other day he stated to me,
"Now Joe, when you put
something In the paper about
. the grandstands at the fair
grounds be sure you don't
mention my name. I didn’t
do anything that needs men-
tioning. The boys who turned
out to do the work are the
ones who should get all the
credit. I Just happened to be
available to help and only did
my part. I don’t want anything
said about me."
This was not the statement
of a man who was asking in
a round about way for publi-
, city as is the case In most
such instances, but was the
sincere feelings of a man that
this whole area appreciates
more than he can ever know
and more tjhan will ever be
shown hlntr.
However, Newman, In talk-
ing with some of the ‘“boys”
who put' in time out at the
' fair grounds. I feel, as they
do, that you are due much
credit for your fine, unselfish
contribution to Livingston’s
betterment.
There is nothing more
wholesome nor necessary to a
in
interested
to
take an Interest in seeing it
bettered.
Newman Haynes is such a
man.
And at this time Newntan,
I, along with other citizens
of this town want to express
our deep appreciation to you
for this fine work you have
done.
* * *
One of the biggest and most
successful parades ever held
In Livingston ln\ connection
with the IVInity-Neches FFA
Livestock Show and, Rodeo .
unreeled here Thursday after-
noon.
This parade began one. of
® the biggest and most success-
ful FFA shows ever held (here
also.
And attending this big pa-
rade and big stock show were
some of the most snow cone
hungry people you ever saw
In your life.
President Don *L. Strickland
got together a group Of the
Livingston Rotarians, a snow
cone machine, a pickup, sev-
eral gallons of syrup and
* many pounds* of Ice, and the
group, sold somewhere In the
neighborhood of 950 snow
cones during the afternoon
and evening.
From the time President
Don, Putt Watson. Chester
Dean, Newman Haynes, James
Eubank, Frank GaUaway, C.
M. Owens and this editor be-
gan selling the oones shortly
before the parade at 5 pan. t
until the business was forced
to shut down on account of s
'. sail out of the syrup, ice sad
cups at around 10 p.m. there
was little time for gold brick-
ing.
The Rotarians used the
money from the sale of the
snow cones to reduce their
indebtedness incurred When
the Polk County Youth Cen-
ter, Inc„ was started some
two years^sgo. The total re-
ceipts were adequate to com-
pletely erase the indebted-
ness which was much more
than had even been hoped for.
* Don said to express appre-
ciation of the Livingston Ro-
• tary Clqb to all who helped
make this venture a success
during the FFA show and to
all who have been so generous
with their time and support
In the put.
f Band Show '58 To
Be Staged Tonight
'Curtain at Eight”, played by Thirty-seven new costumes have
OF STOCK SHOW — Norman AeufPs Grand Champion Fat Steer brought him a total of $505.75 at the auction climaxing the 13th annual
Trinity-Neches FFA Livestock 8how and Rodeo. The steer, purchased at $59.50 per hundred by Hooks Super Market, weighed 850 pounds. Norman is a member of
the Goodrich FFA Chapter aW Is shown above with A. B. Hooks, the purchaser. — Plneywoods Photo
Norman AcuffsfatSteor Largest Crowd FFA Show Auction Brings
Named Grand Champion
A total of 153 entries were ex-
hibited in the Trinity-Neches Live-
stock Show held at the Polk
County Fairgrounds, on April 17
and 18.
In the Fat Steer division, 21
fat steers were shown with Nor-
man Acuff of the Goodrich FFA
Chapter showing the Grand
Champion Steer. His 850 pound
champion brought $59.50 per hun-
dred weight for a total of $505.75
Goodrich Seniors,
Juniors To Stage
Play Next Friday
On May 2 the Junior and Sen-
ior classes of . Goodrich High
School combine their- efforts to
present a chilly mystery comedy
in three acts entitled, "Absolute-
ly Murder" in the High School
auditorium at 8 p.m.
The cast is made up of Johnnie
Hammett, Marcia Cole, Mert Y’-
Barbo, Janette Holliday, Patsy
Steagall, Wanda Rash, Patricia
Haley, Deloris Mitchamore, Kath-
ryn White, Jimmy Moffett, B. J.
Cole, Sidney Taylor, Jud$on Wil-
liams, and Ray Lowe.
A body, which doesn’t seem to
stfiy dead, is found in an old
chest in an abandoned gun pour-
der factory, and from there on
there’s plenty of chilly trouble.
The audience will alternately be
dunked in screams of suspense and
laughter. Aunty Bess, not know-
ing that the old mill Is the scene
bought by Hooks Super Market.
The Reserve Champion of the fat
steer division was shown by John
Cassity of the Livingston FFA
chapter and sold for $382.50 for
this 785 pound steer to the First
State Bank.
Other boys showing in the Fat
Steer division were Johnny Myers,
James Nelson, Jimmy Stephens,
and James Myers- with blue rib
bons; Joe Clifton, Billy Watson,
Gregory Wilkinson, Dan Hopson,
Kicky Peebles, Kenneth Nettles,
and Bobby Tharp, showed red rib-
bon steers. All of the boys are
from the Livingston FFA chapter.
Johnny Moffett with a blue and
Marvin Taylor with a white were
entries from the Goodrich FFA
chapter. Bill Traylor with a white
and James Wojcik with a white
were entered from, the New Wa;
verly FFA chapter. • •
One boy from the Leggett FFA
chapter, Clyde Smith, entered and
won a red ribbon. Two boys from
the Corrigan FFA 'chapter won red
ribbons. John Ray Lowe and Wil-
liam Morrison, Trigger Moore of
the Polk County 4-H Club receiv-
(See FFA SHOW, Page 2)
Satellites, Space
Travel Are Topics
At Lions Club Meet
Dr. H. E. Abbott, head of the
Chemistry Department at Stephen
F. Austin College, was guest spea-
, , . . , . ker before the Lions Club’s noon
to*™ xestod.y. Dr, Abbotfi
and remodel it into a house, and
this gives her pretty niece, Kate,
and her rival boy friends, Sky and
Lane, plenty of trouble, both in
courting and detective work.
subject was space travel.
He explained the principals of
operation and function of rocket
ships and also the many problems
The arrival of a strange Doctor
Hooker and three nlt-witted girls wlth before 8 88181,116 00111(1 **
oh their way to an asylum further
complicates matters. The search
begins for the murderer, even
though the corpse is still wander-
ing around the mill in the dark.
The search brings some terrify-
ing moments but the murderer is
finally caught..
Which boy friend does Kate
marry, Who is the murderer? What
happens to the walking corpse?
See it all at & p.m. In the Good-
rich auditorium on Friday night,
May 2.
Notice!
The Cub Scout Pack meeting
will be held Thursday night, April
24, at 7 o’clock at the City Hall.
All parents of the Cubs are
urged to attend.
put into orbit around the earth
Dr. Abbott Is very informed bn
the subject Of space travel and is
in great demand as a speaker on
this subject , • '
Program chairman L. C. (Sandy)
Moore Arranged for Dr. Abbott
to bring this timely and interest-
ing talk to the Lions Club.
Lions Club president Allen
Peebles reminded all members
that next Wednesday (April 30)
instead of meeting at Buford’s at
noon, a stag party will be held at
Iijgram Pace’s Club house, locat-
ed approximately one mile from
town on the Old Woodville Road.
The meeting will start at 6:30 and
all members are urged to; attend.
Ever Sees '58
FFA Rodeo
The largest crowd ever to wit-
ness ai Trinity-Neches FFA Live-
stock Show Rodeo was on hand
Thursday night, April 17-; to see
Goodrich FFA chapter win the
Forestry contest and the Shepherd
chapter the rodeo. -
In the Forestry contests Good-
rich placed first in the log sawing
with Sidney Taylor and Jewel
Christoff. Corrigan placed second
in the Forestry contest and also
second in the log sawing. Marvin
Taylor of Goodrich won in the
log chopping with Jerry Ward of
Shepherd in second place. James
Cosby of Corrigan won the greased
pole climbing with Dennyo Liliji-
quist of Polk County 4-H in sec-
ond. Banners were awarded Good-
rich and Corrigan for first and
second place winners.
Shepherd won the first place
banner in the rodeo contests and
Livingston took second. Two pew
events in the rodeo, the goose race
and goat sacking provided the
crowd with plenty of laughs plus
the tiedown calf roping w-here on-
ly one boy, Raymond Black, caught
a calf and then put up a battle
of better than two minutes before
he could get the big chlf dowp.
■ Miss Patty Mitchell of Beau-
mont delighted the crowd with her
trick horse “Trigger”.
The Shepherd -rodeo team mem-
bers Were R. L. Crowson, Jesse
Schrader and Lindon Gilbert. The
second place Livingston team
(See FFA RODEO, Page 6)
Total Of $8,220 To Boys
The annual Trinity-Neches FFA
District Livestock Show Auction
sale held at the Livingston Auc-
tion barn on April 18, at 2:30 p.
m. netted the FFA and 4-H Club
boys $8220.90 to make it the lar-
gest sale in the show history.
The Livestock Auction sale was
under the direction of Wando Tay-
lor, with Mr. W. E. Gibson ^assist-
ing. Burrell Rowe was in top
form as auctioneer as he sold Nor-
man, Acuff’s Grand Champion
steer to Hooks Super Market for
$59.50 per hundred. John Cassity’s
reserve Champion steer was sold
to the First State Rank for $50.00
per cwt. J. B. Cook bought Kent
Avery’s grand champion barrow
for $71.00. Stewart Drug bought
the highest priced barrow of the
sale paying $80.00 for Corky
Cochran’s duroc barrow. Roland’s
Barbecue bought the Champion
Capon for $20.00 and Forrest Mo-
tor1 Company of Corrigah bought
the Champion pen of broilers for
$35.00’. Watson’s Drive Inn paid
$37.50 for Billy-Watson’s pen of
five broilers. ■
The other steer buyers were
Livingston Grain and Grocery,
Kenneth Kenuedy, J. N. Owen, Dr.
T. L. Gahindr/ B. A. Glover,
Charlie Franklin, Jim Freeman
and R. A. Smith, Livingston Jew-
elry Co., Jackson’s Farm and Elec-
tric, Sam Houston Electric Co-
operative, Carter Lumber Co., J.
W. Cochran and Co., Cecil Holli-
day and several other Goodrich
men whose names were not put
on the sales ticket, Windham and
(See FFA AUCTION, Page 6)
Singing At East
Tempe Sunday
Singing will be held Sunday
afternoon for their -regular sing-
ing held each month on the 4th
Sunday at the East Tempe Bap-
tist Church.
We welcome piano players as
well as all singers and visitors.
Flower Show!
The annual flower show of the
Polk County Garden Club will b«t
held in the Fellowship Hall of
the Central Baptist Church Sat-
urday, May 3, from 2 to 7 p.m.
The theme of the show will be
“The Hit Parade,” arrangements
representing the' titles of songs.
There will also be a horticulture
division.
The invitation division is for
guest entries, including florists,
garden clubs, individual guests
and junior entries. This division
will not be judged for competition.
Those wishing to enter are cor-
dially Invited to.
Mrs. Earl Leggett is chairman
of the flower show.
Big Sandy Cemetery
Homecoming Set
The Big Sandy cemetery home-,
coming will be held next Sunday,
April 27. ”
Come one and all and bring a
basket lunch and enjoy the fel-
George Harrell Wins Polk County
Spelling Bee; To Regionals May 10
AMMITCMW W1UIUJ
George Harrell, fifth grade stu-
dent of Mrs. W. A. Jones in the
Livingston Elementary School,
speled down all the other'contest-
ants in the Polk County Spelling
Bee in the Livingston Elementary
School auditoriiim Monday after-
noon, thereby gaining the privi-
lege of representing the county in
the regional finals in Houston
May 10,,
George was one of the six con-
testants from schools over the
county including Moscow, Cam-
den, Goodrich, Leggett, Livingston
Junior High and Livingston Ele-
mentary. The contest, sponsored
locally by the Polk County Enter-
prise and the Livingston Rotary
Club, and in this region by the
(See SPELLING BEE, Page 6)
«■ -..... • ■•••
the Livingston High School Con-
cert Band, will open the curtain
at eight tonight, at the High School
auditorium, oh what- is advertised
to be the most lavish musical
show ever staged in Livingston.
Bill Scantlin promises that.the
music will surpass the 'Splendid
program last year, and the Band
Boosters promise that no local
production has exhibited the spec-
tacular lighting effects to be seen
tonight. Some additional lights
have been purchased by the Boost-
ers and some by the school, but in
addition to these, lights are being
rented that ,are used for Music'
Hall productions in Houston.
Dr. Vance Resigns
Al First Baptist
Church, Livingston
Dr. R. C. Vance
Dr. R. C. Vance, who has serv-
ed pastor of the First Baptist
Church here in Livingston for the
past five years and nine months,
has accepted ■ the First Baptist
Church of Ferris.
His last service in Livingston
as pastor Will be Sunday, April
27. Then he and his family will
be moving Tuesday, April 29.
Under the ministry of Bro.
Vance the church has made many
forward steps. They have increas-
ed their property valuation ap-
proximately $30,000.00 and have
received 264 additions to the
church. The attendance has nearly
doubled. Besides the work as pas-
tbr\ Dr. Vance has been writing
the Teachers Sunday School les-
sons for the Junior and Interme-
diate ages for the Churches of the
North American baptist Associa-
tion. He is a member of the For-
eign Missions Committee and the
State Mission Board. He is a
Trustee of the Baptist Book Cen-
ter in Dallas, Chairman of the
Publicity Committee' for fhe Bap-
tist Missionary Association of Tex-
as, and is also president of the Ex-
students Association of Jackson-
ville College.
Dr. Vance will take up hiS1 du-
ties as pastor with the church in
Ferris Sunday, May 1. No one
has been named to the pastorate”
of the First Baptist Church here.
The church here wishes for Bro.
Vance and his family, well as they
go to their new field of labor.
First Baptist To
Serve Lunch At
Church Sunday
The; WMA of the First Baptist
Church of Livingston is sponsoring
a farewell basket diner at the
church dining room Sunday, April
27, in honor of Dr. and Mrs. R.
C. Vance and son Chuck, as this
is the last Sunday for Dr. Vance
here as pastorate of the. church.
All members are invited to come
and bring your lunch. All churches
of the Polk County Association
are invited "to attend. Also, all
their friends are invited to come
regardless of what church you may
attend.
There will be a farewell party
with open house at the parsonage
from 4 until 6 o’clock Sunday ; af-
ternoon. The public is invited to
come and wish the Vances well
as they go to a new field of labor.
been made for the show. These
costumes will be added to the cos-
tume, wardrobe of the Band, to bej
restyled arid reused ip f_tura
years, which will enable next
year's show to be produced at
much less cost. However, although
the profits from the show \yll be
used on the uniform indebtedness,
making money is not the primary
purpose of the show. The show is
staged to give the band students
opportunities and exijeriences that
are available in no other activity
in Livingston. Students learn to
cooperate for the group effect. All
personnel is from the band. Each
student is invited to audition for
a spot in the latter half of the
show, which features songs,"dan-
ces and novelties, accompanied by
either the 16-piece Stage Band or
the 6-piece Dixieland Jazz Band.
Costumes this year are more
lavish than are usually seen out-
side professional theatre groups,
and are coordinated with the mu-
sic and lights for added effective-
ness. Mrs. Eck Richardson has
worked closely with the students,
the director and the mothers in
planning costumes. She has also
been choreographer for the show.
Whatever your musical taste, ei-
ther the 85 piece Concert Band,
with its brilliant show music, thq
smoothly swinging stage band, or
the red hot Dixieland jazz group
are certain to have you wishing
for more. Even a bit of Rock and
Roll will be offered by the con-
testwinning trio, Mack Smith, Ar-
nold Oliver and Freddy Duff.
Kathy Bone, Drum Major of the
band, will do the solo vocal for
“Stormy Weather” and the male
Vocal trio so in demand, Harold
McCormick, Ferral Chessher and
John Earl Peebles, will have a
spot. The chorus girls have sche-
duled an original modern dance
to "Steam Heat”, a strikingly cos-
tumed “CanCan” number, and an
unusual routine to the haunting
strains of "In a Persian Market.”
"The March of the Ill-Assorted
Guards” is a cleverly executed
comic drill, costumed to accent the
theme. To take full advantage of
the iblack lights purchased t(o
bring out the full beauty of the
“CanCan" number, another spe-
cialty blackout is scheduled,
"Them There Eyes”. It may steal
the show. A novelty tap, instru-
mental and vocal solo spots, all
vividly and strikingly costumed
and lighted, will round out an eve-
ning of delightful and beautiful
entertainment that you will long
remember. .
If you haven’t bought tickets,
band students are selling them,
and Band Booster president, Ches-
ter Dean, has set up a downtown
ticket .office at United Gas.
George Harrell
Oats Cemetery
Working April 26
j The Oats Cemetery, two and a
half miles East of Leggett, will
have a working Saturday, April 26’.
All interested parties are urged
attend and bring basket lunch
necessary tools.
Livingston Schools
Receive George
Washington Medal
The Livingston school was
among.seven schools .in Texas to
receive the Freedoms Award, spon-
sored by Freedoms Foundation at
Valley Forge, Penn.'
This award was recently made
over KTRKTV to Faculty Spon-
sor Mrs. Gladys Stewart, and
Supt. C. M. Owens. The presenta-
tion was made by Dr. Kenneth
D. Wells, president of the Foun-
dation. >
Freedoms Foundation at Valley
Forge is non-profit, non-political,
non-sectarian, and has as its pur-
pose to seek out and award those
Americans who are doing outstand-
ing work, in their own ways,, to
further an understanding of the
true fundamentals of our free way
of life.
In the Foundation’s 1957 pro-
gram, rtiore than eleven tons of
manuscripts, photographs, record-
ings, filjns, displays, arid other
documentary- materials were- sub-
mitted for awards consideration.
Recipients were chosen by a dis-
tinguished .awards jury of state
supreme court jurists and execu-
tive officers of patriotic and mili-
tary organizations and service
clubs. Dr. M. E. Sadler, president
of TCU, was chairman. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower is honor-
ary chairman, and Hon. Herbert
Hoover is honorary president.
Rotary Anns Meet
Monday At 7 P.M.
The Rotary Ann Club will meet
Monday night, April 28, at 1
o’clock in the home pf Mrs. Mae
Meece.
Co-hostess, will be Florence Al-
exander, Etta Dean and Annie
Ruth Seamans.
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