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Brownsville.—Mbs Marie Me-
Cutcheon • of Dallas has been in-
stalled by Judge Sara T. Hughes
of Dallas as president of the Texas
Federation of Business and Profes-
sional Women’s Clubs.
Miss McCutcheon succeeds Miss
Aline McKenzie of Kingsville. Miss
Marguerite Rawalt of Washington.
D.C., the national president, was
present for yesterdays installation
which ended the annual state meet-
ing of the group.
More than one-thousand delegates
from throughout Texas attended the
convention.
Houston—A two-year-old Hous-
ton boy whose curiosity got the best
of him is in critical condition at a
hospital after sticking his right
arm into a grinding, ice-crushing
machine.
The boy, Christopher Homer
Skeen, lost his arm and part of his
right shoulder in the machine. In
addition, his chest was punctured,
causing a lung to collapse.
The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry T. Skeen of Houston, walked
up to an ice truck parked near his
home yesterday and out of curi-
osity stuck his arm into the ice-
crusher, which was left in opera-
tion.
The driver of the ice truck, R. C.
Barringer, who was inside an estab-
lishment making a delivery, heard
the boy’s screams and ran outside
to see him dangling from the ma-
chine.
Barringer told officers later that
he quickly reversed the gears on the
machine, but by that time the
boy’s arm and part of his shoulder
had been munched off by the grind-
ing teeth of the crusher.
Dallas.—Funeral services will be
held at 11 a m. tomorrow for Dr.
David Lefkowitz, rabbi emeritus of
Temple Einanu-El until his death
yesterday in a Dallas hospital.
Burial will follow for the 80-year-
old Jewish leader and lecturer in
Emanu-El Cemetery. Doctor Lef-
kowsky was the author of the book
‘Medicine For A Sick World.” and
lectured in the School of Theology
at Southern Methodist University.
He was born in Presov. Austria-
Hungary, but migrated as a four-
year-old child with his mother to
the United States after the death
of his father. He attended school
and college in New York and moved
to Dallas in 1920.
During his tenure in Dallas, he
has held office as president of the
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REPORTED IN AGREEMENT—Yugoslavia’s Marshal Tito, right, looks on as his
wife greets Soviet Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at a reception
given by Tito for his Russian guests at the White Palace in Belgrade. The Russian-
Yugoslav talks to bring about a resumption of normal relations between the two Com-
munist countries neared an end with reported general agreement Wednesday. (NEA
Telephoto)
A&M Sewerage School
Opens In Ennis Tonight
A number of city water and sew-
Action Deferred On
Bids For Painting
Of Courthouse
Action on bids for painting the
interior of the Ellis County Court-
house has been deferred until next
Friday’s meeting of the Commis-
sioners Court.
Four bids on the job were opened
last Friday, but action will be de-
layed to give the court time to study
the bids. County Judge Milton
Hartsfield said.
A tax evaluation hearing by the
Court, which is also the board of
equalization was held Friday. Judge
Hartsfield announced that the as-
sessed valuation of Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company was rais-
ed from $487,000 to $511,000 for this
year's tax roll. He stated the in-
crease was due to the establishment
of dial systems in Ennis, Italy and
Midlothian.
Bids on asphalt and crushed rock
for hot topping work on county
Central Conference of Am„|car,roaSs were „coepted Frlday, judge
Habbls, vice president of the World (,e,d sald
Union for Progressive Judaism, and
as a member of the executive board
of the union of the American He-
brew Congregation.
Browmvood.—Seventy-seven-year-
old Charles W. Lehmberg, a well-
known Texas county farm agent for
27 years, has died of a heart at-
tack in his Brownwood home.
Funeral services will be held at
10 a m. tomorrow in Brownwood.
Lehmberg. who died last night,
served as Brown County agent from
1933 until his retirement in 1946.
Prior to that time he had been
county agent at Runnels and Wil-
son Counties. Since his retirement,
he had been associated with irriga-
tion equipment companies.
Laredo. — Four-hundred-and-50-
delegates to the 17th annual con-
vention of the Texas Chapter of
Disabled American Veterans have
selected Galveston as the site for
their 1956 convention.
The site was picked yesterday at
the end of the DAV convention In
Laredo.
Joseph M. Earley of San Antonio
was installed as the new state com-
mander.
Former Ennis Pastor
Honored in Dallas
erage department employees from
various cities and towns in this area
are expected to be in Ennis tonight
for the opening of a sewerage
school.
The school, to be conducted by
the Engineering Extension Service
of the Texas A&M College System
in cooperation with the State Board
of Sanitary Engineers, will open at
the Agriculture Building of Ennis
High School at 7:30 tonight.
I. N. Ronhovde of the A&M Col-
lege System will be the instructor
in the course covering sewerage
works operation.
" The course is under the Joint
Brownsville.—A 21-year-old wom-
an was found stabbed to death In
her home in the Lantana commun-
ity of Cameron County early today.
Her two children were sleeping
nearby. Chief Deputy Sheriff Bill
Gatliff said the victim, Mrs. Doris
Atkinson had apparently been dead
several hours. She had been attack-
ed with a large machete-type knife.
Deputy Gatliff said there were
seven wounds on the body—and ft
sheet was tied around Mrs. Atkin-
son’s neck. The chief deputy re-
ported officers were conferring
with police in Matamoros, Mexico
Just across the Rio Grande from
US 75 Pipe Removal
Job by City Is
Nearing Completion
The City of Ennis is now in the
last stage of work removing pipes
along the right of way for the new
four-lane Highway 75 through En-
nis. Buster Floyd, city water sup-
erintendent, said today. The work
will be completed this week, he add-
ed.
All utility lines are being moved
back to make way for the widening
roadway.
The highway construction job was
awarded to the Uvalde Construction
Company of Dallas and work on
the highway is expected to start
about July 15, Floyd said.
m
THE REV. DEAN HARRISON
The Rev. Dean Harrison, formerly
pastor of the First Christian Church
of Ennis, was honored in Dallas on
Sunday when members of the con-
gregation of the Rosemont Chris-
tian Church honored him and his
family at a reception in celebration
of his tenth anniversary as pastor.
Mrs. Harrison is the former Miss
Lynette Henderson of Ennis.
Mr. Harrison received his train-
ing at TCU in Fort Worth and the
University of Chicago, 111. He ser-
ved as pastor of churches in Ennis
and Pecos before coming here.
During his 10 - year pastorate.
Rosemont has grown from a mem-
bership of 405 to 1,060 and Sunday
school attendance has tripled.
In addition to his pastoral duties.
Mr. Harrison is currently serving
Brownsville in an effort to locate as state chairman for adult work
the dead woman’s husband. Antonio
Atkinson, 35. He said the husband’s
movement had been traced to San
Benito. Texas whese he abandoned
his pickup truck during the night
and took a taxicab to Matamoors.
Officers could find no immediate
motive for the killing.
Finance ycur new car purchase at
this bank and make three friends—
the bank, the insurance agent, the
dealer. Handle tlinmfh a finance
company and yoa make one friend—
the dealer. ENNIS STATE BANK.
among the Disciples of Christ is
a member of the board arid admin-
slons chairman of the Juliette
Fowler Homes, secretary of the
Oak Cliff YMCA board of man-
agers. and a member of the social
action commission of the state con-
vention of Christian Churches.
Mr. Harrison has also served
the Greater Dallas Council of
Churches, the Oak Cliff Lions Club,
the Oak Cliff Pastors’ Association
and the Dallas Christian Ministers'
Asociation.
Henry Lee Willis
Dies at Age 85
Henry Lee Willis, 85. a former
resident of Ennis, who was making
his home at 1205 NW 16th Street
in .Fort Worth, died in Fort Worth
Sunday night. He was a retired
farmer and night watchman and
had lived in Fort Worth for 11 years.
His parents were the late Mr. and
Mrs. John C. Willis of Ennis and
he is an uncle of Arthur Creech,
Mrs. G. L. Jones and Mrs. John
Barnes.
Other survivors include one bro-
ther, Arthur Willis of Fort Worth.
Funeral services will be held at
Shannon's Memorial Chapel in Fort
Worth at 10 a m. Tuesday.
Burial under the direction of the
J. E. Keever Mortuary will be in
Myrtle Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Tues-
day.
sponsorship of the City of Ennis,
the Bluckiand Water and Sevyerqge
Association, and the State Depart-
ment of Health.
The schedule pf classes will be de-
termined tonight. Classes will pro-
bably be held three nights a week
for two weeks, Buster Floyd, water
superintendent of the City of Ennis,
said.
Eligible persons who satisfactori-
ly complete the course will receive
20 hours credit toward requirements
for certification under the Texas
Sanitary Law on 1845.
QUIET WEEKEND
CITY;
VIOLENT ONE IN STATE
C-C Ag Committee
To Discuss Plans
For Brush Show
Plans for a brush control demon-
stration to be held next month will
be discussed at a meeting of the
Agriculture Committee of the En-
nis Chamber of Commerce Thurs-
day.
The meeting will be held at 9 a m
at the Western Cafe, Agriculture
Committee Chairman J. T. Austin
stated today.
Also discussed will be the Land-
ldkd-Teaiaut Clinio, scheduled foi
August.
Brush control demonstration co-
chairmen are Donald Booth and H
T. Lester.
Joe Baldridge is chairman for the
Landlord-Tenant Clinic.
Air Conditioner:
Causes Fire Alarm
Here Saturday
A window-airconditioner fire was
responsible for the fire alarm Sat-
urday.
The Ennis Fire Department was
called to the residence of Mrs. A. U.
Hefner, 205 East Ennis Avenue, at
12:45 p.m. Saturday when an air-
conditioner unit in a bedroom
caught fire. No damage to the house
resulted.
The Fire Department dispatched
two pieces of equipment to the
scene. The firemen disconnected tlie
unit to put out the electrical fire.
Degree Work And
Election of Officers
Planned by I00F
Conferring of the second and
third degree and election of officers
for the, ensuing term will highlight
a meeting of the Ennis IOOF Lodge
227 at 8 p.m. Tuesday night. J. B.
Black Ja., noble grand announced
today.
All members and visitors are in-
vited to be present to help with the
work, G. A. Nelson, recording secre-
tary stated. Refreshments will be
served,
The election of officers will follow
the degree work. The place of the
meeting was announced as ioe>* s.
Dallas St.
City Commission
Moot Held Today
A meeting of the City Commis-
sion was scheduled for 2 p.m. this
afternoon at the mayor’s office in
City Hall. Items on the agenda in-
cluded the first reading of the pro-
posed city budget and the second
reading of the telephone ordinance.
HOT NEWS—Unidentified Atlantic City, N.J., reporter
risks ;i singeing as he phones in his story of leveling of
the Ostend Hotel by fire from a phone booth which is
almost cut off by flames (note smoke, right foreground).
Five persons were injured during course of the $200,000
blaze. (NEA Telephoto)
Ennis and Seven Other Texas Cities
Among 137 Entries in Contest
Deputy Sheriff Baker
At Summer Army Comp
Deputy Sheriff Melvin Baker left
Saturday for Fort Beivolr, Va . for
a two-week summer Army camp
Baker, a first sergeant, is u member
of the railroad battalion reserve.
New York. N Y. t8pl>.~ Eight
Texas communities are among a
record 137 entries from 39 states in
the annual All-America Cities
Awards competition sponsored by
the National Municipal League and
Look Magazine, It was announced
today. This is the greatest number
of entries since the contest was in-
augurated in 1949, atui exceeds the
1954 total by 21.
The eight Texas communities are
Baytown, El Campo, Ennis, Gutes-
ville, Grandview, Kerrville, McAllen
and Nacogdoches.
Ban Antonio, Texas, has been
twice honored, having received an
All-America City Award in both
the 1951 and 1949 competitions.
The contest is conducted to honor
cities, towns or Villages which have
THREE ENNIS GIRLS GOING
TO BLUEBONNET STATE
. Three Ennis girl* who will attend
the American Legion Auxiliary's
1955 Girls State on the University
of Texas are Jean Smith, Connie
Whitlock and Linda, Thornton.
The kii-is were to leave Dallas for (member. She was a member of
Interurban Exes
Honor Late S. Polk
At McKinney Picnic
The late Sam Polk of Ennis was
one of 13 former employees of the
old Texas Electric Railway and
North Texas Traction Company
employees whose memory was hon-
ored at the fourth annual Inter-
urban Picnic at McKinney on Sun-
day. The 13 employees honored at
the memorial service which closed
the day’s celebration on a somber
note were those w’ho had died dur-
ing the past year.
DAVIDSON GROVE
MEETS TUESDAY
Davidson Grove 88, Woodmen
Circle will meet at the Woodmen
Hell at 18:88 a m Tuesday for the
regular monthly all-day social and
business sessions.
Austin this morning. They are being
sponsored by the, local American
Legion Auxiliary unit aiul the Busi-
ness and Professional Women’s
Club. All three of the girl* will be
seniors at Ennis High School next
year.
Miss Smith is the daughter of
Mr and Mrs. Maurice Smith of 205
East Brown St. She ha* been a
cheer leader for three years and
will be captain of the cheer lead-
ers in 1955-56. She was named cliss
John Zabojnik, 91,
Dies at His Home
Funeral services for John Zaboj-
nik, 91, were held at the 8t. John
Church this morning.
Zubojnik. a retired farmer, died
Saturday afternoon at his home
near Alma. He was born in Czech-
oslovakia and had made hi* home
in Ellis County for 41 years. He was
married in Chechoslovakia to Mias
Frances Pavlacka. Htft wife died
here in 1952.
Survivor* include two son*. John
R. Zabojnik and Louis Zabojnik.
and three daughters, Mrs. Joe
Mikel, Mrs. Louis Holy and Mrs.
Frank Doiezahk, all of Ennis. Also
surviving are 26 grandchildren and
28 great grandchildren.
Rosary was said at the J. E. Kee-
ver Mortuary on 8unday evening.
Burial was in the 8t. Joseph
Cemetery .
The pallbearers were Theodore
Holy, Bob L. Mtfcel, Jo« W. Mikel,
John F Mikel, Victor Zabojnik and
Emil Zabojnik.
favorite in her freshman and aopo-
more years and, ha* also been nam-
ed friendliest member of her cla.v>.
She is a two-year homemalung club
member and a one-year choral club
the
cast in the junior play.
Offices she has held include presi-
dency of the Methodist Youth Fel-
lowship and song leader of t. Ji e
Wuxahachie sub-dtttrict in the
Methodist Youth Fellowship. She
has also served as secretary of her
Sunday sifiool class, freshman
homeroom m g etary. sophonuim
homeroom salesman, Junior home-
room stcretary.
Miss WhitloOk L* the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Whitlock of 509
West Linden St.
Bhe has been a twirler in the
high school band for three years.
She won a Parent-Teacher A.-.-o-
ciation citizenship award this yvar
and has fserved on the student
council for two years She was a
member of the cast In the Junior
play and a dramatic club and a
homemaking club officer.
Office* she has held Include
freshman homeroom president; sop-
homore homeroom president; Junior
homeroom vice president.; secretary
of the local Methodist Youth Fel-
Lions vs. Optimists Tonight;
One Bleacher Roody for Use
The Lions go against the Opti-
mists in the Ennis Little League this
evening. 1 lie. game will start at 6
p.m. at SP Field. One of the bleach-
ers at the field lia* been completed
and will be ready for use by the
fans this evening.
C^npwt ear setsuMli b«| rates
with finance eompaay and save
money. Member PDIC. ENNIS
•CATE BANK.
lowship and vice president of her
Sunday school class
Miss Thornton is the daughter of
Mr and Mrs. Daniel Platek of 1006
South Kuufman St.
Stic is well known for her per-
formance on talent programs for
school and civic organizations, and
as a pep rally leader. She is also a
member of the high school student
council. She hu.s served her home-
rooms as vice president, secretary
and reporter.
She has been active in the home-
making club and the choral club,
has served os president of her Sun-
day school class In the Tabernacle
Baptist Church, has had a part in
the Junior play and has appeared
on three TV programs
Walter Ramsey, 63,
Dies at Mart
Walter Ramsey, 63. formerly of
Ennis, died Friday morning at his
home in Mart where he was a land-
owner and a building contractor He
had made his home in Mart more
than 30 years.
Ramsey was the son of the late
Mr und Mrs Will Ramsey. He was
born in Oklahoma and was reared
in and near Ennis.
fiurvlvors include his wife; one
son. 8/8gt. Bruce Ramsey, station-
ed with the United States Army in
Kansas; one daughter, Mrs Lester
Sealy of Beaumont, and five grand-
children; also three brothers and
two sisters.
Ennis relatives include a niece.
Mrs. T W. Murphy, and three cou-
sins. A E Ramsey, Mrs J. C Allen
and Mrs. O. A. Maxwell. Willie
Forston ofiBardwell is also a cousin.
Funeral services were held in
Mart Sunday afternoon Burial was
there.
done an outstanding Job in solving
local problem* through intelligent,
concerted citizen action.
In each contesting community,
aroused citizens have tackled some
pressing local problem such as the
need for a new hospital or school,
the necessity for a more modern
form of government, or the demand
that corrupt or Incompetent offi-
cials be replaced. The Jury will se-
lect those communities whose ac-
complishments are considered great-
est.
A screening committee will narrow
the entries to 22 finalist* whose rep-
resentatives will be invited to ap-
pear before a Jury of experts on
governmental affairs and prominent
civic leaders at the 6lst Annual Na-
tional Conference on Government
of the National Municipal League,
in Seattle, Wush.. July 24-27. The
eleven winners selected for All-
America Cities Awards will be an-
nounced early next year.
Dr. George H. Gallup, president
of the National Municipal League
and director of the American Insti-
tute of Public Opinion will be fore-
man of the 12-member Jury for the
fourth successive year.
In addition to Dr. Gallup, the fol-
lowing will serve on the Jury: John
B, Gage, former mayor, Kansas
City, Ewart W Goodwin, rormer
president. San Diego Chamber of
Commerce; Thomas Graham, presi-
dent, The Bankers Bond Company,
Louisville, Kentucky; Mrs. Ruby C.
Grant, president, Washington Fed-
eration of Business and Professional
Women’s Clubs; Jack Kroll, direc-
tor, Political Action Committee,
CIO; Harry J Krusz, manager of
Internal Affairs. Chamber of Com-
merce of the United Stutes; Mrs.
Carol E. Miller, recording secre-
tary, General Federation of Womens
Clubs; Vernon C. Myers, publisher,
Look Magazine; James M Osborn,
research associate, Yale University;
Mrs. Ralph W. Rasmussen. League
of Women Voters, Portland, Ore-
gon; Dr Henry Schmitz, president.
University of Washington.
Ennis Little League
Meeting to Arrange
Rides to Ft. Worth
A meeting of Little League. Inc.,
and tiie boys playing In the Emus
Little League has been called for
8:30 p.m. Tuesday. League President
A. S. McLeUand has called the
meeting, to be held at the Texas
Fire Building Conference Room, to
make final arrangement for trans-
portation to Fort Worth Wednes-
day. Tlie, Ennis players will attend
‘‘Little l/eague Night” as guests of
the Fort Worth Cats Wednesday
night.
Weather
Fair and mlM through tomorrow—
with highest temperature this after-
noon and tomorrow afternoon in
the upper M* and the lowest tonight
in the middle Me.
Waxahachie Man
And Sister-in-Law
Killed in Crash
A violent Texa.v weekend con-
trasted with reports of an “un-
usually quite” weekend in Ennis.
Cfty Marshall M. G. Swafford re-
ported the lightest week-end in En-
nis in a long time while no acci-
dent* reported and no arrests made.
Unofficial reports have been re-
ceived that one or two minor ear
accidents occurred on highways in
the Ennis area—-over the weekend
but. due to a. district meeting of the
Texas Highway Patrol today, local
patrolmen could not be reached to
verify the reports.
The Binis Municipal Hospital re-
port* that Mrs. Nora Shook. Ennis,
is a patient there following an au-
tomobile accident Saturday.
Her condition is rejxnted as
•’good.”
WAXAHACHIE MAN
James Oliver Rosamond. 52,
Waxuhuchie automobile agency
owner, and Mrs. Windfield Rosa-
mond. 44, his sister-in-law and an
employee of Neiman-Marcus Com-
pany of Dallas, were killed Satur-
day night when the car in which
they were occupants over-turned
on u rain-slick highway nine miles
south of Waxahachie.
Windfield Rosamond, brother and
husband of the victims, was Injur-
ed.
James Rosamond was an em-
ployee of the Ford Motor Company
In Dallas for 16 years before secur-
ing the agency in Waxahachie in
1947. A graduate of, Baylor Univer-
sity, lie was a Mason, member of
Hella Temple Shrine of Dallas and
a member of the Lions Club.
Mrs. Rosamond was a member of
Junius Heights Baptist Church of
Dullas and a graduate of Woodrow
Wilson High School in Dallas.
OVER THE STATE
Elsewhere in Texas, a United
Press survey shows that weekend
violence claimed the live* of at
least 22 persons, with 10 deaths re-
ported In tlie Houston area alone.
Four persons died In automobile
accidents in the Houston vicinity,
three were drowned, one wo* ■met—--
dentally electrocuted, and a man
shot his woman companion to death
and then committed suicidt.
A least six other traffic deaths
were reported over the state during
the weekend—thre persons were
drowned, and another homicide-
suicide Qase was reported at Fort
Worth.
One of the latest automobile fa-
talities occurred near Irving early
morning when C Evans, 17, of
Smithfield was killed when his car
hit a bridge approach on State
Highway 114.
Johnny S. Smith J 22, of Houston
wrH* killed early this morning when
his car overturned one mile south
of Spring Creek on US 75.
In Houston. Thomas Irvin Reed,
42, was killed yesterday afternoon
when the auto in which he was rid-
ing plunged off the Gull Freeway
ami roiled over into a bayou.
Fran* W Slac k. 17, of Channelview,
Texa* died Saturday night from
head injuries suffered Friday night
in a 2-car crash at Highlands, Tex-
as. Oscar L Bell. 55. of Houston died
Suturday night when his automobile
hit the rear of u hay truck on a
rain-slick highway near Soguin.
Victor Ramirez, lb. of Houston
drowned yesterday afternoon in
Lake Houston Patrick C Borup, 25,
of Houston drowned wfule on a
fishing trip Saturday night near
Houston.
James E Walker, also of Houston,
drowned yesterday afternoon while
trying to save an 8-year-old boy. in
Galveston Bav The boy wras rescued.
Joe Htynandez, 22. of Houstou
was accidentally electrocuted yester-
day morning when a pipe he was
helping to load on a truck came in
contract with a 7.200 volt power
fine.
A Fort Worth user car dealer,
Johnny Burgoon. 50. was killed when
he was hit by a car yesterday as he
stepped onto a farm to market road
13 miles north of Whitley in Hill
County The highway patrol says
he apparently had stepped from hi*
car to exchange driving with a
companion, Billy Burns .
A San Anonlo airman, Roy Love
Jr. 24, of Randolph Air Base—was
killed when a car in which he and
two other airmen were riding side-
swTped a truck loaded with water-
melons near New Braunfels last
night.
A mother and her daughter, Mrs.
J. U. Norrell and Mary Helen Nor-
nell were k.lle<1 in an uutomobilft
accident 11 miles south of Paris.
Mrs Norrell’s husband died In s
Dallas hospital less than a month
ago The Norrell* lived In Dallas,
but were former residents. .
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