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Texas Soldier Revives
Nearly Drowned Japanese
YOKOHAMA, Japan. — A Texas
soldier who completed a first-aid
course only two weeks ago has re-
vived a nearly drowned Japanese
with artificial respiration here Pfc.
Jesse C. Pent, son of Mrs. Vivien
Dent of Kilgore, Texas has been
credited with savin? the life of
Shironutru Slugehisa, cook aboard
a Yokohama port tugboat.
Lint Quality Preservation
Goal Of Cotton Industry
COLLEGE STATION-A cam-
paign aimed at lint quality preser-
vation is being pushed by the cotton
industry. The ninth annual Belt-
wide Cotton Mechanization Con-
ference here will be in a talk today
by J. Ritchie Smith of the National
Cotton Council In Memphis, Term.,
that it is a four - phase program.
One phase of the, program deals
with quality preservation prior to
ginning, another with quality pres-
ervation during ginning, a third with
developing a better bale package,
and the fourth with better quality
evaluation in buying and selling.
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CONFER—Half brothers, J. W. Milam, center, and Roy Bryant confer with their at-
torney, Sidney Carlton, left, on kidnaping and murder charge in connection with the
slaying of Emmett. Till, 14-year-old Chicago Negro in Sumner, Miss. The pair pleaded
innocent to charge. 'Fill is supposed to have “wolf-whistled” at Bryant’s wife. (NBA
Telephoto)
AT THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING:
Pro-Vice Mayor Investigates
Isle Police Commissioner
GALVESTON. - Mayor George,
Roy Clough of Galveston says he us
“investigating" Police Commis-
sioner Walter Johnston and that
Johnston is trying "desperately to
stop me." Clough has charged that
Johnston ... his arch political foe,
"has gone to the city's racketeers
in an effort to raise money to fi-
lm nee a recall action against the
mayor." Clough says "three of those
approached told me personally that
they refused to join the, effort. They
said, too. they wouldn't give a
nickel to remove me from office but
they'd pitch in $500 apiece to get
Johnston out.” Clough, elected last
May, hits been at odds with John-
ston over a program for "open, but
clean" vice and gambling in this
resort island.
Increase In White
Students Reported
Enrollment in Ennis’ white lover last year’s enrollment of 1,-
sehools has shown a increase over I 403.
last year while enrollment in the I To date, the enrollment in the
j colored schools is slightly less than I Negro Schools stands at 395, slight-
' last year’s figure, Superintendent J. ! ly less than last year's figure oi 436,
F. Gardner told members of the he reported.
Superintendent
board of education at their meet-
ing Wednesday afternoon.
Enrollment Figures
Gardner told
members of the board that the En-
nis Public Schools had had the best
Of this year’s total enrollment of { opening he had ever seen
1,918, Gardner said 1.532 are in the Gardner said a fine spirit of co-i
white schools, showing an increase | operation was noticeable in both the |
Ennis Southern Pacific Employees Open
1955 Community Chest Fund Campaign
Apartment Blast Victim
Dies in Houston Hospital
HOUSTON — One person lias
been killed in a explosion here that
gutted a modernistic apartment and
blew one of its occupants through
the floor into a room below. James
Runge, 26, oilfield engineer who
was blown through the flooring,
died in St. Joseph's Hospital last
night without regaining con-
sciousness. Harold Davenport, a
fellow engineer who shared the a-
partment with Runge, is hospit-
alized with serious burns on hands,
anus and feet. He managed to run
unaided from the building apart-
ment after the explosion e;trly yes-
terday. Fire investigators say they
have learned "nothing new" about
the fatal blast. They theorize it was
caused by gas escaping from an ac-
cidentally opened jet.
Negro College Chooses
Not To Desegregate
HOUSTON—Six non-Negro stu-
dents have been denied admission
to Tpxas Southern University here,
me of the South's largest Negro
schools. Directors of the university
voted yesterday 5- to-1 to refuse ad-
missiin to non - Negroes. The one
dissenting ballot was cast by C»
L. Allen of Dallas, n member of the
board. Mark H. Hannah Jr , who is
chairman of the board, says action
on the question of admitting the
six non-Negroes students—one of
whom is Japanese .has been defer-
red for further study.
Fort Worth Drops Plans
To Tap Brazos River
FORT WORTH. — Fort Worth
WnX^r Superintendent Uel Si op-
iums says the city’s water depart-
ment has dropped plans to get an
emergency water supply from the
Brazos River. However, he adds that
they can be picked up "with less
than a week's notice" if they arc
needed.
John White Tours
Drouth and Flood Area
AUSTTN. — Agriculture Commis-
sioner John White has left on a
one-day aerial inspection of drouth
and flood conditions in South Tex-
as. White, traveling by private plane
will fly a circular route to Corpus
Christi, Brownsville, Laredo and
San Antonio. The commissioner
sought "first hand Information" on
South Texas weather conditions
prior to making recommendations
to the, USDA on passible emergency
aid.
! The Southern Pacific employees
j got their 1.955 Ennis Community
j Chest fund campaign under way
today, ahead of the. special gifts
campaign which starts on Tuesday,
September 13, and the general so-
90 per cent i,s used locally he said, j
Only small allotments are made to j
two or three organizations outside j
the community, he stated.
Alver.son told the railroad cm- !
, licit at ion which starts on Wcdne.s- j payees that their enthusiastic re-
Jday, September 14 spouse to the eall to help with the I
Approximately 30 Southern Pa- ciu’sL solicitation would undoubt- ■
j ciflc employees met for the kick- odly iS,)ark lhc cntuc drive. I
I off breakfast at The Steak House at
7:30 a.m. Hickman said that, as a member I
Roy W. Hickman, the HP's assist- ! of the community, he felt, a respon-
' ant superintendent, is general j sibility to the community and that, I
j chairman for the campaign and S. as {l director of the Chest, he also |
: A Findley, chief dispatcher is firm felt a responsibility to the chest.
C. W. MeCaskill was among the
representatives of the railroad bro-
therhoods w ho asked for coopera-
! chairman for the campaign,
j J. L. Bait Jr. and E. R Kcn-
I ned.v. public relations representa-
! tives from the Southern Pacific I tion in supporting the Chest.
I offices m Houston, were here to as- \ , ,
isist with preparations for the. drive. Bart' offr,^t suggestions (m the
i Dwight, A Iverson and W C Fit/,- ' ,"ochanics "J dr‘w- biW'd ^ :
geraki, co-chairmen for the general
Community Chest drive in Ennis,
were guests ;(t the breakfast.
Alverson stressed the fact that,
m Ennis, there, are no administra-
tive costs in connection with the : tribtitor had the right to designate j
functioning of the Community j tlio Chest, agencies to which lie.
Chest. All work is done by volun- | wished lii.s donation allocated, hr1
teers. he said. j cj|d 110f recommend such designa- !
! Of the chest, funds, 85 per cent, to . j0(|
13 years of experience in Chest
participation as railroad employee.
"Let’s stress t,ho payroll deduc-
tion plan," he said.
Bart said Mud. while every eon-
student body and the faculty.
The board elected Mrs. Robert
Norvell of Corsicana, formerly a
teacher in the Daw.,on Public
Schools, to teach the fifth grade in
the Alamo School, thus completing
the faculty roster.
Set Tax Rale
The annual scnooi tax rate was
set at $1.50, the same as for last
year. It was explained that $1.00 is
allocated for maintenance and $.60
for retirement of bonds.
Financial StaUmeol
A financial statement read at the
meeting showed a balance of $8.-
902.72 in the State and County
Fund; $37,116 49 in the Local
Maintenance Fund; $4,549 47 in the
Sinking Fund; investments in the
amount of $54.998 64 in the Securi-
ties Fund; $909 27 in the, Trans-
portation Fund. $463.74 in the
Athletic Fund and no balance in
the Building Fund.
Meals Served
A report on meals served to stu-
dents and tcarhers, showed total
of 425 for the, High School cafe-
teria on Wednesday and 165 for the
Travis cafeteria.
I,ease Garrett Building
The board agreed to lease t h o
Garrett, School Building to the En-
nis Tag A: Sik'.shook Company for
another five years.
Open House
Gardner urged the board mem-
bers to attend the open house and
P-TA installation m the new Wil-
liam R Travis School Building on
Tue.-day evening, September 13.
200 Expected Here
For LC Convention
Guy Smith Dies
At His Home Here
Guy Smith, a retired farmer from
the Brisotl-Palmer area, died at. his
home at 404 East Baylor Street this
morning. He was past ninety years
of age.
Funeral arrangements with the
J. E. Kecver Mortuary are pending
the arrival of his sons, Floyd Smith
of Denisin, Guy Smith of Salt Dike
City. Utah and Emory Smith of
Los Angeles, Calif.
Veteran Fireman
PORTLAND. Me. (UPL — Al-
bert <Doc> Chase, 70, hasn’t mitred
an alarm in 52 years with the five
department here. Chase became a
firefighter when he was 17. He’s
served under seven chiefs.
Fort Worth Pastor
Guest Speaker
For Methodists
Dr. Gaston Foote, pastor of the,
First Methodist Church, Fort Worth
will be the guest speaker at a dis-
trict stewardship meeting to be held
In Waxahachie at the First Meth-
odist Church tonight at 7:30 p.m.
"We feel very fortunate in hav-
ing Dr, Foole speak to us on "Our
Christian Stewardship For All of
Life.' ” District Lay Leader C. O.
Miller announced this week. Dr.
Foote Is one of the most Impres-
sive and lmplritational speakers In
this area and Is well known
throughout Methodism. His ex-
perience has reached to the far
corners of the world.
"This is the first of a series of
three meetings that will be held
during this church year on stew-
ardship. We are particularly Inter-
ested In every person charged with
any special responsibility in the
Methodist Church to be present at
this meeting," Miller stated.
I'tnrlley announced 1.1 ir a turn Hit-
men I of C. A Parsons as treasurer
for Hie funds collected from the
SP employees during the campaign
and said that either lie or Parsons
would be on duty to receive contri-
butions at. the dispatchers office
"any time of day or night."
Collections will be deposited in
the office safe before being turned
over to Alverson or Fitzgerald, he
said.
Mrs. M. R Moseley was on hand
to tell how money from the Com-
munity C'hest had actually saved
lives in Ennis, and how children
had been able to go to school be-
cause they had received clothes
from tire Community Trust a chest
agency.
Mi's. Moseley, who does volunteer
work for the Trust, said some lo-
cal families have become self sup-
porting after being helped over dif-
ficult times by the Trust funds.
New Corsicana
Firm Capitalized
At $500,000
AUSTIN, Tex <UPi.—Chartering
of the Chattanooga Glass Company,
Texas division of Corsicana., with a
capitalization of $509,000 has been
announced by Secretary of State A
M. Muldrow. Incorporators have
bce,n listed as A S Abernathy, J.
C. Evans and L R Dawson
Weather
Emus and vicinity -Fair through
tomorrow. High both afternoons
middle 90s; Lowest tonight upper
60s.
USDA Forecasts
Texas Cotton Yield
At 278 Lbs. Acre
AUSTIN. Tex (UPu—The United
States Department of Agriculture
here lias forecast a Texas cotton
crop yield this year of 278 pounds
per acre.
The USDA has lowered its esti-
mate of cotton production for Tex-
as to 3,850.000 bales Hs of Septem-
ber 1, compare,d to 3,IKK),000 bales
estimated on August 1 and 1954 ac-
tual production of 3,940,000 bales.
The bumper yield forecast this
Ve« compares Lj 245 punds per acre
last, year and 325 pounds per acre
for the 1886 crop.
The USDA says the moderate de-
cline from the August 1 forecast
resulted from deterioration in some
areas which more than offset, larg-
er crops indicated in other districts.
Irrigated cotton in the High Plains
and Trans-Pecos counties made good
developments even though some
acreage was late and "very good"
yields should be realized, according
to the USDA
Yields in southeastern and south
central counties are exceeding pre-
harvest. expectations, especially in
the Upper Coastal area where record
yields are being ralizd.
Insects Take Toll In This Area
! Rut prospects declined in Central
and yiorthern Biackland counties
t as insects took their toll of the
j crop Showery weather reduced the
! effect of control measures in those
j counties, the USDA reported.
Irrigated cotton in the Lower Rio
| Grande Valley produced the well.
! but dry-land cotton there was poor
j and gainings were a little lower
j ttyirj expectations.
1 The sharpest, reduction in the crop
; estimate from a month ago came in
j dry-land areas of the northwest,
j where little effective rainfall was
received.
Texas giunings as of September
1 totaled 894.945 bales, compared to
1,019,408 bales at the same tune in
1954 and 712,843 bales m 1953. lower
giunings were due largely to the
ci0)i m the Coastal Bend area.
Crisp Man First
To Enter Stock
In Purebred Show
W K Mohican Jr. of Crisp is the
first to enter cattle fur the Ellis
County Purebred Livestock Show to
be held m Waxahachie, September
22-24, Charles Huff, secretary ol
the purebred association, has an-
ti< >ui wed
Mullicau's entry of four Polled
Herefords was m the beef cattle
j division
Huff stated that, September 15 is
t.liP rlnuHli im f nr PntriPt: gnH tlia!
i in list aurompany t.hr entriw;.
; A rodeo will be held each night
j of the show.
Old Olds
j CAMBRIDGE. Mass. HFi.—
S*eve Torre, 75-year-old garage-
I Iran, says his 19<’l OldnrAffile
J will still lut 25 miles per hour on a
] straight road. "It, seems as though
. you're going much faster," he
j said, "because the car has no wind-
I shield "
BRINGS DOWN HOUSE—Mias Texas (June Prichard)
stole the show in annual Miss America parade on a bor-
rowed horse. The Seymour, Texas, beaiTty brought down
t.he house when she rode a Palomino down the famed
Atlantic City boardwalk. (NEA Telephoto)
Sunbeam's Sunset
Scheduled Sunday
Pvt. Joe W. Glaspy
Selected to Serve As
Colonel's Orderly
FORT ORD, Calif <»pl>—Private
Joe W. Glaspy, 25, of Ennis has
been selected as colonel’s orderly.
Announcement was made in a
special congratulatory message
frtim Colonel Franklin R. Silbert,
commanding officer of the 20th
Infantry Regiment.
Private Glaspy was chosen for
his outstanding appearance, know-
ledge of General Orders and Chain
of Command.
His wife, Mary Nell, resides at
#01 North Main Street in Enuls.
Southern Pacific’s Sunbeams will
make their last runs through Ennis
Sunday.
This word from H. H. Gray,
Houston, passenger traffic inana
ger for the railroad, was received
in a telegram by E. Morgan, Ennis
agent for the T&NO.
The trains, numbers 13 and 14,
will Ik* discontinued effective with
the last departures from both
Houston and Dallas on September
11.
The train leaves Houston on its
northbound tup at B:20 a.m., leav-
es Ennis at 12:02 p.m. and arrives
in Dallas at 12:45 pm
On the return trip to Houston,
the Sunbeam leaves Dallas at 5
p.m. and Ennis at 5:40 pan. to ar-
rivr in Houston at 9:25 pin.
Discontinuation of the Sunbeam
schedule was authorized by the
Railroad Commission of Texas on
September 6, following a hearing
Mrs. Crawford Dies;
Formerly Of Ennis
Mrs S P Crawford of Dallas,
formerly a resident of Emils, died
in :i JJmjKtnil ho^pltE! SlitUTClliy
the age of 78
Mrs Crawford was the former
Miss Fannie Feagms of Crisp
She made her home in Ennis for
a number of years
Survivors include two sons, Clyde
Crawford of Houston and Lonnie
Crawford of Pasadena. Also .surviv-
ing are several grandchildren.
Burial was in Olney
U. S. Army Admits
Mistake In Charge
Against Professor j
WASHINGTON, I) C (UP' — |
The Army admits it made a mistake
in charging that Wayne University :
Professor Alfred Kelly supported a I
subversive organization. Kelly had |
testified that lie actually had
helped boot a subversive organiza-
tion of the Wayne campus.
The Army had named Kelly as a !
contributor and supporter of an 1
outfit known as American Youth j
For Democracy. The charge was in J
a list of allegations against Sanford
Wsixer of Detroit. Waxer was denied
an honorable discharge from the i
Army on security grounds. One of j
the charges against Waxer was that j
he had associated w ith Kelly, a his-
tory professor.
Kelly told Senate investigators
he actually had helped tn having}
the American Youth For Democracy
organization thrown off the campus
in 1947.
at Hea rne on July 19.
After the last run of the Sun-
beam streamliner Sunday, the only
passenger trains operating through
Ennis will be the overnight Owls
between Dallas and Houston.
The southbound train leaves En-
nis for Houston at 12:17 am. while
the train for Dallas is sche-
duled to depart from Ennis at
5;20 am.
Californian
Added As
Guest Speaker
Addition of J. Stanley Lewis of
Burbank, California as a speaker
for the Dishtrlct 1 Letter Carriers
Convention here Saturday night
was announced today by C. O.
(Skip) Onstead, local convention
chalman.
The Californian ts a member of
the board of laws for the National
Association of Letter Carriers.
Congressman John Dowdy, Ath-
ens. representative of the seventh
distict and member of the Houst
Post Office and Civil Service Com-
mittee, will be the principal speaker
as announced earlier.
Preparations for a delegate and
guest list numbering up to 200 are
being made, Onstead reported.
In addition to delegates from all
over the first district of the Texas
State Association of Letter Carriers,
which contains a large portion of
the state from Ellis County to the
Gulf Coast, visitors from other
points are expected.
Delegations from Amarillo. Lub-
bock, Wichita Falls, Paris, Dallas,
San Antonio, Fort Worth, and
Grand Prairie have made arrange-
ments to be present in addition to
those from the district, Onstead
reported.
All state officers, except one from
El Paso, have stated they w1U be
present and all officers of the
ladies auxiliary are expected to be
present, Onstead stated.
The convention will be held at
Fellowship Hall of the Tabernacle
Baptist Church here.
Registration will start at §;30
p.m. A banquet at 7:30 pm. will be
followed by a business session.
American Legion
Ennis Man’s Mother And Auxiliary
Succumbs To Heat Installation Tonight
Mrs. Odn Bohanoti. mother of A.
L. Bohn non. died in Hollywood,
Call)., on Tuesday. She was 83 years
of (IgA.
Death whs attributed to the cur-
rent extreme heat In that area.
Survivors in addition to her son
are three other wins, C. P. Boha-
non and Loyd Bohanoti, both o f
Hollywood, and Fred Bohanon of
Burbank, Calif.; four daughters,
Mrs Gus Webber, Mrs. George
Dansby and Mrs. Datnen Holdexige,
all of Hollywood, and Mrs. Alfred
Hartman of San Antonio, 18
grandchildren and 25 great grand-
children.
Funeral sendees were held m
Glendale, Calif. this morning
Joint installation ceremonies for
the, new- officers of the American
Legion ChLsm-Landers Post and tha
Ladies Auxiliary will be held at 3
o'clock tonight at American Legion
Home.
District Commander B .Y. Ham-
J mer of Hillsboro will be installing
j officer for the Legion while Mrs.
| Hammer, past district president,
I will install auxiliary officers.
Mr. and Mrs. Hammer will be
honored with a dinner by officers
| of the local post at 6:30 p.m. at the
Steak House
Quirk, easy loans made on cash
vaiue of life insurance policies. Low
{ ales. Member »« FD5C. ENNIS
(T ATP RANK
Two Creeks Flood South Texas Town
In Aftermath of Hurricane Gladys
PIEFACE—“It’s the berries,”
bottom of one of the blueberry
in the pic-eating contest of the
says Paul Poteat, after hitting
pies which put him out in fiont
Washington. D.C., Boys’ Club.
When purchasing household ap-
pliances see us for assistance in fi-
nancing. Low bank rates, conven-
ient terms. Member of FD1C. EN-
NIS STATE BANK.
Bv UNITED PRESS
Two creeks have burst over then-
banks in Falfurrias and flooded
more, than 25 blocks of the South
Texas town with a*s much as 12 feet
of water.
A sudden early • morning storm
that poured eight inches of rain
Into the Lower Rio Grande Valley
has flooded downtown Raymond-
ville
No rain has fallen at Falfurrias
since last night.. However, the, Brooks
County town of 6.700 population
has been drenched with at least 12
mcr.cs ol rain since early Tuesday.
Water coursed into the town today
when the swollen Cibolo and Palo
Blanco Creeks pushed out of their
banks. 1
Manuel Lunoff Jr., who is Brooks
County chief deputy sheriff, says:
::The La Colonial section in the
northern part of the town is com-
pletely flooded and there are about
25 blocks there. If we keep getting
moro water, it's going to be really
bad."
Lunoff says the d e p t h of the
floodwater varies from a few inches
to 19 or 12 feet
20-30 Square Mile Hooded
Water that flooded a 20-1 n-30-
square mile area of Corpus Christi
Is receding.
However, the storms created in
South Texas and 111 the, Gulf of
Mexico by tropical storms Gladys
before It died in the interior of
Mexico triggered more hard rain as
it marched south out of Texas.
j A* Raymondville, the downtown
; section was flooded with four feet
j of water at mid-morning. The
Willacy County court house Is sur-
j rounded by water.
1 Willacy County Deputy Sheriff
| Gilbert Tamez says “lots of water"
also is standing on streets of Lyford
| and Sebastian following the early-
i morning, five - hour Lower R!o
j Grande Valley rainstorm that was
; concentrated In Willacy County.
"1 unsiderable Damage"
I he State Highway Department
has reported from Austin that
uann:y>;' to loads in riie VaH®v ir.d
j u the Fallurruts «utility, but that
all highways arc p.tssble. Seven
highways had water over them tlus
! morning
Flood conditions closed schools
1 today 111 Rio H '.ul* . where an esti-
mated s;x inches cf rain fell. liar-
i lin-u p gut from three to five m-
! ches of moisture.
At Falfurrias, Lunoff say& there
has been no format evacuations of
familiies and no emergency shelters
] set up so far. However, many fami-
lies. he said could not estimate the
exact number have, moved to higher
ground.
The Brooks County chief deputy
said "there’s more water in t h e
eastern part of town, too and it's
still coming.
He says a bridge on State High-
way 285, about five miles west of
Falfurrias has been weakened by
using water and a washout is now
threatened.
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