The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 191, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 14, 1954 Page: 1 of 4
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Harvey G. Rust
Microfilm Service
Co* Box 8066
Dallasf Texas
L Sales
e/ *- BNNI9 QUOTES — “
MAYOR JACK M. KAY. discuss-
ing harmful comic books, said
"Usually when Peeping Toms, sex
offenders und the like are arrested
they huve objectionuble literature
In their pockets.”
THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD ittiVU iED T\J YOUR INTfciRfeSlS AND TO TI1L tsNNIo A REA
WIITIIKI roiioiflf
Fair and not, Saturday and luii*
c'..i\ HI tli each afternoon arcWin I
100 degrees Low Saturday night in
upper Ws.
IN THE 63rd YEAR
NEA TELEPHOTO—FULL LEASED UNITED PRESS WIRE
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1954
NO. 191
I
ENNIS
Echoes
f By Casey
ft
Texas Heat Wave
Continues As Cool
Front Is Broken
By Uuited Press
A cool front that held a slight1
, h<.pe of denting the heat wuve in j
• Texas has broken tip und moved'
buck, to, the north. |
...... . _ . _ The front had dipped ihto the I
laid by the sponsoring Ennis Trap • T PanlwU{lIe as tar uS Amarillo I
ft till f im (' lull fi-kt* thn Amine
“The Lords Prayer contains
the sum total of religion and
morals.” —(Wellington).
Ruther elaborate plans are being
three days u:fo, and for a while
held its position over that area,
however, la t night it started dis-
it
and Gun Club for the August 28
BB-gun shoot here. That’s fine—
thLs interest In a wholesome project
lor the small try. It s a nice thing seating and by this morning
o do and its well that, ttom time poetically hud disappeared. i
to time, we let the youngsters know E1 Paso hnd u raln ahower last I
that we re Interested in them. rigrht and at midnight had meu- !
their welfare, und their entertain- * suled io-hundreths' of an inch, j
Otherwise, the state Ls mostly clear
this morning with temperatures >
mostly in the upper 70's and lower'
80s. No relief from the heat is in1
sh’.ht*
Early mommy lows Included 65 at i
Dalhart one end of the list and BP
ui Dallas at the other end. Others j
, included 73 at Lufkin, 74 ut Lub- j
j bock and El Pasg. 77 at Amarillo,
73 at San Antonio, 79 at Browns- j
ville, Tyler, and Austin, 83 at Gal- i
veston, and 84 at Wichita Falls
Henry Horae Committee for Decent
Heads Loral
Jr. Optimists Literature at Work
ment.
“A husband,” says P. H. Ray-
mond, “is a man who sticks by
his wife through all his
troubles.”
Do you "carve your- tombstone
by chiseling traffic?"
Safety agencies weren’t Just
beating their gums in Farm and
Ranch Safely Week. Know
what? The number of fatal ac-
cidents to farmworkers is
greater than to those engaged
In other occupations in the na-
tion. Last year 3,800 rural resi-
dents of the U.S.A died from ac-
cidents and another 320,000 suf-
fered injuries, many of which
were disabling. See what we
mean?
Services Held
For Mrs. Hunter
Says Crazy Flight
Won a Future Wife
Lobdon, England, Aug. 14 <UPi.
' —Gene Thompson of Lubbock told a
London newspaper today his crazy
flight under two Thames River
BACK HK GOES—Roger “The Terrible” Touhy i.s frisk-
ed by police officer at Stateville Penitentiary, Joliet,
111., where he was returned Thursday after 45) hours of
freedom from kidnap sentence of which he has served
21 years. Touhy was returned to prison when U.S. Court
of Appeals acted on petition filed by state of Illinois.
(NEA Telephoto)
Hey, Kids: Want to Get in This Shoot?
Plans Are Advancing Rapidly on
Small Fry BB-Gun Event Aug. 28
A Junior Optimist Club was or- ;
ganlzed here last night with Henry
I Heine a.s president, according to a
I repert ■ from Frank Cooper, mem-
ber of the, Optimist Club and chair-
jman in charge of the Junior club
. project.
i Other officers of the Junior club
are—J. L. Rubers, first vice presi-
dent; Bill McLelland, second vie.11
'preside,it; Kenneth W. Roberts,
secretary; Thomas W. Vvers. treas-
urer; and Jimmy Ray, aergeunt-at- '
j arms.
Mr Ccoper reported twenty-five
i boy* present at the meeting which
was held ut the TP&L Co Building
land stated that the first regular
meeting of the club will be held
,on August 24. with the time and
| meeting place to be announced la-
1 ter, Committees who will carry on
j the club work will be apolnted at
the August 24 meeting, he said.
HOME-TOWNERS
Sketches in Words
and Pictures
(A Series Concern ini; Ennis Citizen*}
Harry J. McBrierty
Hurry J.' McBrierty, who next,
y, ;ir will hate been with the Run:
Tug thirty years, is a native ■ uf
Canada, but who came to the USA
at such n tender age this country,
has been home to him as long as ha
can remember.
Born at St. Joltn. New Bruns- \
wick, hr fame with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry McBrierty, to the
United States when he was less
than four years old. The family lo-
. i Mr. Cooper explained that the i rated at Lubee, Me., and it was
venture won him a future wife.
The London Daily Express said;!
that Thompson informed it in u j
!
APPLICATION FOR BB GUN
SHOOT
:
Name ..........
I
Address
t
!
Phone^,--------------——
I
Apre Boy
Girl
there Mr. McBrierty went through
the grammar -schools and high
school.
The first mechanical skill he fol-
lowed as a vocation, for a while,
terested in the organization, he said. | was electroplating. Then he became
Junior Optimist activities will in- a machinist und tool-die specialist,
elude football, baseball and boxing Asked if he learned his trade
and there will be classes in craft from his father, he said:
1 work for boys who do not go in for i "No. My dad wasn’t mechanical. I hobby Is hunting and fishing. How
1 Enn:s club is one of more than 700
Junior Optimist Clubs in the United
States and Canada. The Ennis club
i Is open to all local boys, age nine
| through fifteen years, who are in-
J! the sports, Mr. Cooper said.
I
]!
1 suppose, though, my having to fix
things in the way of machinery my-
j Launching an informative cam-
paign with a current goal of elimi-
nation of objectionable comic books,
' the Ennli committee for decent
literature met Friday night at the
Texas Fire Building conference
room.
The Business <fc Professional
Women’s Club is sponsor of this
movement and the gathering in the
i Friday evening session consisted of
1 representatives the B&FW had re-
i quested of various local orgariixa-
, tions and institutions. The steering
j committee from tho B&RW con-
sults of Mrs. Harry J. Stone, chair-
man: Mrs. Byrne II. Cooke and
Mrs. V. F,. Manning. (
Thus for the committee for decent
t literature consists of representa-
j fives of the following: Bd&PW,
P-TA Opti-Mr St John Mother*
; Club. Amercan Legion Auxiliary.
Lions. Kiwanis. Optimists. Pastors
Association. Mayor Jack McKay.
Ennis Daily News.
Mrs. Stone, who presided, said:
-Mayor McKay, when he *Poke
before our club some weeks ago,
told of the bad Influence the *rong
kind of literature has on young
; minds especially, and suggested that
we appeal to merchants handling
to refuse to sell th»
Fill out and turn in to Buddie Davis Insurance
or Joe Sodders Chevrolet Company
cablegram from the S.S. Atlantic {!_________________________________________________________________.. j I Xmeilcan
'that, "you may announce our en-i
,■ Committee for the Ennis Trap Cawley, minister F. L. Cox. Miller
Hunter were held at Keever Chapel Bag* ment i „ p..u,„„ lt,H , . ct„..t 1
at 4 p.m. Friday with Horace Bus- Th" 25-feag-oW Thompson set, & Gun Club BB Gun Shqgt to be powtl> -*ld J- A- St™1’
by .minister of the Church of Britain a twitter by scooting a small I held AUgtiai io nUie been set up. The coin drinks will ire taken care
Christ of Fort Worth officiating. unlt:d plant* under the bridges. Hurley Schoeps, Jr. is chairman,0* by C. B Boar land and Randall imtis
assisted by Melvin Wise minister scurrying back to the landing field | of the range committee and on his' Hunter. Operation, safety and prU-
of the Church of Christ of Da Hus and sailing for home before the law i committee arc the Rev. W. J. Me- 08 wU1 be under tile chairmanship
Mn fZt SLd eaS’ Tlmrsdav could catch, him, I-------------—--------! of Buddy Davis, with Joe Sodders. Im.
He claimed by radio-telephone
All-Time High
jj For Advertising
ever, he enjoys all sorts of out
door sports, His favorite to spectate comic books
self'may have led to my taking up! nowadays perhaps Is football. "we^b^Snly
though lie likes baseball and play-1 olow ^ J
id it all through high school.
On Feb. 9, 1932, he married Miss
Frances Herren of Ennis. They
Funeral services for Mrs. Js B.
New York, N.Y., Aug. 14 (UP).—
advertisers spent an all-, „ , „ . .
time high of seven-billion-809-mil-! Tnt: tw0 5’ears.h,tsr:.linc
i the trade.”
’ Back In 1923. Mr. McBrierty came
i to Texas. His original plan was to
i work in Dallas a while, then, per-
I haps, go with an oil company in
1 Mexico.
Instead, he came to the
don't think
our friends and neighbors, the mer-
chants, want to sell any sort of
publications which are dumaglng to
. , .... , . the boys and girls, but in some In-
\VC‘ e"™™ v ' A 1 stances they are busy running their
uatc of THCW, who is now in the . . . .. . __—
’ Ennis;®«‘" °r Congressman Olln E.! portunity to carefully check up on
.....„ ...... .....____________ _____1 i the material which appears In dp
lion dollars for national and local |^th the firm here ever since. This
advertising in 1953.
ink report* that na-
tional advertising expenditures to-
taled four-billion-526-mlllton dol-
58 per cent of the total.
large company has a great many
machines, some of them quite com-
plicated. and he has found ample
opportunity to follow his craft.
Mr. McBrierty is a member of
Holy Redeemer Catholic Church.
morning ut the home of
Jack Hunter, in Dallas.
Burial was In
near Mansfield.
Those who served
Voting Privilege *
Of Servicemen Ai
Told by Shepperd *|
her son? i
i an doable he did it because his girl,
TT , 'Helen Brown, also of Lubbock—ask-( •
Hudson cemetery ieci hlm to He sald he was so much j Of Servicemen Are
: In love will Helen he couidn*t ye- i
pallbearers; fuge $ , * » -Ur
were .Selma Rains, Marvin Layton, A[ first,t„^en mdde it plain she
J°ne;S-' J* T’ thought Thompson was a Mob. but I
then things moved fast. j • |
Thompson's cable said Helen was j
extremely angry at the commotion
but finally relented. He, told the
London newspaper: "You may an-
nounce our engagement. Date to be
decided later.” ^ ;
Major Christopher Draper said in cording to a ruling by Attorney
Austin Aug 1°__Texus scien- I London he’ll welcome an invitation i General John Ben Shepperd.
'to Texas to meet young Thompson.1
Draper is the 62-year-old English-
' plies to any person who is now on
member
| Bob Dittberner and Hubert Marcia; This is a gain of 10.5 per cent ,m>r | Lakeside Country Club and Ennis i “and have faith In its future as a
i assisting. ; 1952. Local advertising rose 7.3 P*r 1 Trap and Oun ClCib. His t ombihed good Town— and a growing town."
! Applications have been coming in cent t0 *32183.000,000. — —----------
daily. However, all boys and girls A breakdown of the total expendl- C’ > *j
tlnoutyli tht age of 13 are asked to ; lure bV media was
Austin ami,Joe Shebesta Jr.
Substantial Sums
For Polio Research
Are Sent to Texas
tlsts have received a total of $500 -
261.53 in March of Dimes fi-. , „ _ „ , .
'man who flew a small plane under |
nanced research giants fm the fight Thames River bridges last vear i extended active duty os
against polio, the National Founda- ’ of any ol the reserve components of
Hm. fnv Tnfomiip Pnrniv«iis in- Dnipc.r was rather astonished by ' / '
2 Pa.aljsis an Thom <s f t llke t0 con. | the Armed Forces, a selective ser-
nounced. gratulate him on being alive.” ! vice drufte<?’ “ mer,lber of Nat‘
The grants have financed) re,- i _________
search, studies into the, after effects . .
of i»lio, studies in medical care 0f'C©ramiC Fllt©r
polio patients and education of
follows: |
hi their application as quickly l Newspapers. .$2,644,000,000, up 7 per
as possible. The deadline for ap- j f0111 from 1952; radio, 640-and-a- j
Austin. Aug. 14_Former mem- plications is Monday. August 23. | half-million dollars,,up 4.1 per cent;
bers of the Armed Forces, the U. i An exhibition of trap shooting | television, 610-million 500-thousand. (
S. Maritime Service or the U. fe. j and a lesson on safety will be held up 8.4 per cent; direct mall, one-|
Merchant Marine who have seen] during the shoot. A display of dif-j billion 99-million, up 7.3 per cent;
active duty within the last 18 nion- j lerent fire arms will be set up for business papers, 305-mlLion dollars,:
ths are entitled to vote In the Aug- view by the people present. up 8.2 per cent; outdoor. 170-mil- J
ust 28 rur.-off primary without „ . , . . hon dollars, up 8 8 per cent; and
. . .v, . Youngsters are again reminded
the payment of the poll tax, ac- . _ „ „
* that the Ennis Trap & Oun Club
will furnish the BB’s and targets
for the shoot free of charge.
Shepperd said the waiver also ap- j -----
Mon. Starts
Polio Fund
Special
Drive
i miscellaneous, up 9 per rent at one-
billion 535-million.
j ional Guard, the U. S. Maritime
] Service or the U. S. Merchant Mhr-
I ine.
. . .. r i- . Cloak and Dagger
Aviation Era Ends Angle Reported in
With Last of B-26s off icer Murder
PSriSiJ'Si I r'“"i™ “S ££s5
, nnf«Sr^„ i Bm,,y and Uiey ll eliminate them ”
resides at 802 b Dallas Street. t ^ around copl^
"We have thoroughly enjoyed liv-, o[ a llst of good and bad comic
ing in Ennis.” said Mr McBrierty, I c.ompned by a committee of
ninety reviewers, headed by tht
Rev. Jessie L. Murrell, pastor of thk
; First Methodist Church of Coving-
ton. Ky. It listed 384. Over a hun-
I dred and fifty were labeled "No ob-
! Jection.” Other* were classified a*
| "Some objection.” ’’Objectionable”
and “Very objectionable.” Mrs.
i Cooke hnd u printed list, also, her*,
having been the result of screening
by a Catholic committee.
"Jt ls our pliln.” said Mrs. Stone,
The special March of Dimes cam- In announcing the campaign Mr. "to get lists in the hands of local
paign gets under way here Mon-; Hehween pointed out that while the comic book dealers and into as
day. The coin containers will be set I Ellis County Chapter is not short I many homes as possible; also we
out about tewn then by Boy Scouts i this year, ’it should take an ad-J expect to supply the ministry, the
and coin-fokler mailers are being j vantage of the opportunity to do
sent out to postoffice boxtaoldcftt. j good deed in return,”
Ennis people, during an August,
emergency polio campaign; will
have on opportunity to aid the Na-
tional Polio Foundation for money
needed for research and vaccine
and further .patient tredUmcnt over '
the nation.
Otto John Spent
Busy Time in U.S.
Before Curtained
' professional personnel needed to
care, for the polio patient. Research
Work in polio in Texas has been
carried on by the University of
Texas units at Galveston and Dal-
Vital Device in
Cancer Research
New York. Aug. 14 (UP)
A ceramic filter that contains 8.-
Vienna, Austria. Aug. 14 <UPL~~
, ... ^ . The, death of a young Britinh of-
Fort Worth. Aug. 14 (UI >. An , fjcer has turned into a cloak and
| The Texas Constitution prohibits aviation era Is to end ^d^y ^etT ! dagger case here.
members of the “regular” military wh811 lde Alr I’oice accepts delivery ( intelligence agents of three na-
' establishments from voting. , oi ^ts last propellor-driven bomber tlona are trying to" solve, the my-
Sheonerd'siw«mioi»6carj4erlCOnt nCn a 1 m 8tei l°us death of the officer. He was enormoUH load being carried on by; Surtain last July 20.
snepperasiweapop earner. found with his head smashed to a' t| Nationn, Foundation, we con- A check by the United
The B-36 is a 10-engine ntovy ,n „ black-out Austrian rail-
P-TA, service clubs and others In-
terested. as soon as we get enough
lists to serve such u purpose.”
The committee pointed out that
while it is urged that a considerable
number of comic books be taken off
the shelves here, at the same time
the llst show* a lengthy urray of
periodicals that elicit no objection.
"We know our merchants are In-
Voters covered by
ruling are not lequLred to accom-
liw. Crippled ChUdren’s Hospital ut 000 00o holes per square Inch is a' P««y their application for an ab- bomber with a 42-ton bomb capa- tJ,”inel
Marlin. Texas Scottish Rite Hos-
pital for Crippled Children at Dal-
las, Baylor University at Houston,
Jefferson Davis Hospital at Hous-
The body of the officer. Identified , achwew,i chalrmAn of
vital device in cancer research 1 sentee ballot by either a poll tax city. It is now Ls the Strategic Air
«.n. i I sr11; m a rssr rr i *^d *tr'w,lh a,“h'r 1
tM-spuavuty wo.ici jin ceramic filters with incrediblei ---------- iVa*r. . Amencai wavai Caui. Eugene
Iniportant^role in nZnJr* of the<e!*- ’ .......... ’.................1 K9'rP WaK f0Und “ AU,ilrl,,,,
fight against polio, a Foundation filten.
“The
, Washington. Aug. 14 iUP>--For*( — ......T------—
"In 1950 the Ellis County Chap-iner West German Security Chief terested in the welfare of our boy*
ter received n grant of $2 000. This Otto John spent n busy five weeks j and girls,” vald Mrs. Stone, "and
was never paid back and w ill never j in the, United States shortly before j wt. think that when they are sup-
be required to be; however, with the i his disappearance behind the Iron j pped with this Information thfy
I will not hesitate to do their part in
Press j the youngsters’ protection.”
aider it a privilege to help in this show., that John was in the United A number ol articles on thin topic,
i humanitarian project,” W. R. | States as n guest of government I to "’be presented as a public service,
ipokesman declared.
most fundamental cancer
Three new roses have won the T,’at y°u can
coveted All-America award for 1R55 ^vt.‘‘R for
County chapters of the National { ^aiTh tC{J involvPS the creation hvhrS’ tl $2°:°° fwr ih* *** year then
i- r,r 5*ss&.\nr.. ~ ^ “•
conducting an Emergency March of . . ... I **• --- -
DAVIS INSURANCE AGENCY.
conducting
Dimes August 16 through 31.
The Foundation entcre.-t 1954 with
l A great deal of this work is being
(done at the National Cancer Insti-!
a — - to carry on the | T&XS? I
prognuns of aid to polio pntient*. {thp lMtitute ahlp8 lhese cancer cells I
research and educa ion, am u* t0 laboratories where othar scien-1
railroad tunnel four years ago Karp
wras a friend of businessman Robert
Vogeler .who was In a. prison In
Communist Hungary at the time.
The Karp case never has been sol-
ved.
SAVINGS BOND SALES
IN 7 MONTMS OF 1954
HIGHEST IN 9 YEARS
Prices Raised On
Potatoes In Russia
new front of polio prevention.
The March of
lists do research to find out what
, Dime.1; last Jan_ : make.*; the cells grow or why they!
uary, although the greatest in his- rton>t
tory. fell some $20,000,000 short of j ______
the need. The deficit poses a severe’ . . j
threat to JLlte program of providing |g Killed; 26 Injured J
financial aid to polio patients, and ■ .
therefore the, serious status of the 1 When BUS CrOSHeS i
polio program will be presented to | . ’
the people in an emergency cam-j ||*| Southeast FfOnCS
i Rails, France, Aug. 14 (UP*.—A
March Of Dimes research grant, h , excursion In France has
in Texas have been made over a cnded traR,^v
15-year per od. Of the $5«0-26L53 A bm.load of youngsters was
total, morp, a. i $ * j driving through the mountains near'
search projects still under way. j AubMlftR w Southea5t France.
| Brakes fulled as the bus headed ,
down a motintuinslde. It careened
Railroad Job Situation along the road until It came to a'
Worst Since Early 30s, 1 curve. The bus hurtled Into space—
B. of R.T. Chief Says then dropped 100 feet Into the;
Fort Worth. Aug. 14 (UP).—The Ardeche River.
Job situation In the railroad In-1 Eighteen persons were kiled. f
dug try is the worst since the early ’ Twenty-six have been Injured—'
1030’r. That's the word from the nine of them critically.
president of the Brotherhood of j--»-
RaWgoad TrAlsunen—W. P. Ken- Too Long
nedy. Kennedy was here to address: LEWISTON. Ida. — (UP».—The!
the Texa* State Association of j long arm ol the law reached out a
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, little too far. Patrolman Charles
His home, 1* in Cleveland, O. Ken-. Straight sold his outstretched left
nedy believes the situation will as he i arm was struck and numbed by a ,
puts It, “|et worse before it lm-1 pawing auto as he was directing
proves." I traffic. *
Fort Worth Man
Says Hitchhikers
Stole His Truck
the Kills. agencies. will appear in the News in the next
: During his visit, lie, was a guest of jrcw W(?egK
honor at a private dinner given by | ________-
Central Intelligence Chief Allen
Dulles. He whs introduced to FBI
t il ei J Edgar Hoover ami iaken or,
a tour of FBT offices. And he, talk-
ed with many officials in the State Bv United Press
Sales and Defense Departments. j soviet Russia has raised the pries
But officials doubt that John 0, potatoes, fruit and fresh veg-
birked up tiny security or intolli-1 etables.
teener information that would be, ,^nd western sources say the *c-
of value to the Communists. t,OI1 *bows that Russia and her
------------ — {satellite nations lace a food slvort-
ftiiN Hide j c,ye.
PROVIDENCE, R. I —*<UP) —j The Soviet Council of Minister*
July sale* of the two series $393 - 'Hie United Transit Company takes ,tld central Committee of the
047,000 were also the best for that bor*d hus-ruu a (Mints on mystery j Communist Party says only that
month in nine years. 6 per cent Th* service provides j the acWon was taken a* an irveen-
i f,0-mlle round-trip rides to unan-, tjv<1 to farmers to grow and ship
Washington, DC., Aug 14,-
of Series E and H Savings Ronds
during the first seven months of
1954, totalling *2.909,507.000 were
the highest for the .January-July
period of any year since wartime
1945.
above last July’s and nearly 25 per
need painting, repairing? !
WFort WorthT Aug 14 <UP(,—A ' cent above those of July. 1963. ' ,;‘;Ur’c*‘d polMU ot
! Fort. Worth man has rejwrted to the I Rales of the two series m the ||0U<.P
Oklahoma Highway Patrol tha.t he seven months exceeded redemptions |/Pt u
was robbed by two hitch-hikers of by *203,306.000 For the coin pond- rut**, easy
his knife and pickup Friday. Joe i lng period of 1953 wiles .exceeded ENNIS STATE HANK.
Brathears of Carswell Air Force j redemptions by *172,709,000. and In
Base told officers he, picked up the the corresponding 1952 parlod re-
demptions exceeded sales by *445,-
836,000
more food to th< markets.
However, the [trice boat re verm
SislS Xei:r i
: ot plenty.
j two men at Gainesville. Tex. H e
sa.ld they pdlled knives on him and
: rorced him to drive them to a point
three miles south of Moore, Okla .
on US Highway 77. Brashears said
The cash value of E and H bond1
outstanding was *37^97,000,000 a'
(the men then forced him from the] Hie end of July, a hew high n- ord.
I truck and relieved him of his The amount of matured E bonds
I money before driving away In the being retained by their owners un-
l direction of Oklahoma City. Moore der the automatic extension option , ton Street, between OUmer and
North Preston Paving in the Balance;
Issue Be Decided Wednesday Night
Reixirting on a meeting with is now primarily a matter of getting
(wners of property on North Pres- their checks and gathering up k
a few ioo*e ends.
Is about nine miles south of Okla-
homa City.
'W'..:' .. + % v .
(X)D*a SMUGGLER—Rev. Basil Malof who calls him-
self "God’s Smufrffler”, displays for newsmen in Boston
one of the Bibles printed in Russian which he is smujf-
Kling across Russian border in ways known only to him-
self and his backers. Rev. M»k>f has pieced 88,000 Bibles
in Russia to date. He plans to print 1,000,000 Bibles and
6,000,000 New Testaments, all in the Russian language.
(NEA telephoto). . .
remained at about 75 per cent of
the total mnturity value to date.
Said Earl O Shrew, national di-
rector of the Treasury's Havings
Bonds offer u fine investment und
a safe and sure way to save."
Lake Street. Cemmif,., loner
Howeve,*-, there are still several
persons who have nut been contact-
mond Fallen said this morning that ed or have not folded whether
not they will co-operate In the pa'
th" outlook for a new paving Job
1? hopeful , mg plan, Mr. Fallen said, explain-
A number of Interested persona mg that exactly how many will co-
met with the commissioner at the operate will be known when the
------ CRy Hall laat night and appointed I commit tee reports back to him
Old Mule a committee of five to contact the Wednesday evening.
•SHELBY, Miss — (UPi— D. N other* along route .Those serving Th# commissioner explained fur-
Rav has a mule that is 44 years old. on the committee are Mrs. H. 0.1 ther that all check* being received
the equivalent of about 126 years joe ]^n(U*0r, Robert Muirhead, now are being held and that non*
for a human ; c T McNeil and Phil Todd. wilt be cashed until it has been de/l-
Mr. Fallen said moat of the prop- nltely decided to pave thi street. It
Little Damage From
Local Grass Fires
Fire Chief Hugh Fitzgerald re-
ported this morning that the local
fire department made two runs to
; grass fires Friday afternoon.
One of the caUa was from East
Freeman Street and one was from uu_|nf a new p*,.? UN Ph. f[. ‘ w rnwu i*in moni oi me prop* nneiy aectaeu to pave me auwwt. »
j the 100 block on West Tyler Street, bank rap^,i conven- erty have already expressed j is necemry, however, to collect tig*
1 No appreciable damage resulted teraa. Member »f 'FBI V. their willingness to go along with: checks before a decision U mode, ty
from either fin, the chief said. , ENNIS STATE BANK. itbe paving proposition and ttyt It'sold.
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Casebolt, Floyd. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 191, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 14, 1954, newspaper, August 14, 1954; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth782512/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.