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Ha rvey G.Rust
Co?r§ox^io^§rvlcs 4 s'
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(The Hunts Batin Nerve
DV THB «7lh YEAR
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE
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K\MS, TEXAS. Till KS!»\V, MARI II 21, I»3S
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NO, 7a
Texas Briefs
Trial Goss On After
Mistrial Threatened
DALLAS, Tex. (UP) — The
murder trial of former Dallas
deputy constable Harold H.
Rhoden is continuing in Tyler
this morning. A mis trial was
threatened for a time yesterday
after the death of a juror’s rela-
tive. However, Judge Otis Dun-
•gan conferred with lawyers on
both sides and ordered the trial
continued after excusing the
furor, Mrs. Lois Tucker. Rhoden
Is charged with murder in con-
nection with the death of Ar-
cadia Park mechanic Joseph
Lawrence Booth in January,
1957.
Private Presley Rolls
Toward Fort Hood Rocks
PORT CHAFFEE, Ark. (UP)
—Elvis Presley is looking for-
ward to coming to Texas for
eight weeks of basic training.
Plain Private Presley will train
with the rough and tough Second
Armored Division at Fort Hood
The rock and roll singer is to
leave Fort Chaffee today for Ft.
Hood.
Former Dallas Banker
To Be Buried Today
DALLAS.—Edgar L. Flippen
who was a former chairman of
the board of the First National
Bank here has died. The 82-
year-old Flippen died yesterday
in a Dallas hospital after a long
illness. Funeral services wil be
it 4 o'clock this afternoon at St
Matthew’s Cathedral in Dallas.
Burial will be in Oakland Ceme-
tery.
Negro Student Receives
Highest Honors in Weslaco
WESLACO.—A Negro high
eehool student has been voted as
the most popular boy at Weslaco
High School in South Texas. He
is Leon Jackson, a 17-year-old
6enior. He played halfback on
the football team and is a mem-
ber of the Key Club.
Closer Tornado Studies
Revealed by Meteorologist
KANSAS CITY, (UP) — The
American Meteorological Society I
heard reports of advances in the
Etudy of tornadoes at its 164th
meeting yesterday in Kansas
City. Research Metorologist
Charles Chappel of the Kansas
City Weather Bureau says new
techniques permit closer pin-
pointing of both location and
time of probable development
of tornadoe activity. Chappel
says a refined radar device now
in use will detect tornadoes at
a distance of 60 to 70 miles. One
such machine now is in opera-
tion at Wichita Falls and will be
moved to Wichita, Kansas, as
the tornado season develops.
Construction Permit
Granted El Paso Natural
EL PASO.—The Federal Pow-
er Commission in Washington
has granted El Paso Natural Gas
Company authority to construct
$138,500,000 worth of pipelines
in Arizona and California.
Rev. Ralph Reasor
Speaks to Lions
Ennis has a wonderful setup
to take care of the local needy
in it's Comurvity Trust", Rev.
Ralph Reason told members of
the Lions Club Wednesday at
their noon luncheon meeting
at the Community Center.
The Ennis Pastor’s Association
has a fund to provide for tran-
sients who need help, he stated
This fund is provided through
an offering given at the Union
Thanksgiving service each year
Principles used to guide the
pastors are never to give cash,
get transients through Ennis,
ahow kindness and love to them.
but be firm and talk to them
about chriatianity. he continued
He told of several incidents
that had happened here in the
Nat several years
Walter B. Rider, program
chairman for the day. introduced
iha sneaker.
w't*<Bill( Sattfrwhite wa*
iMi •* oh—up R mm t
jjm ■} jg saw * leww1***
Senior Class Presents Si
Play Friday
am
BARBARA ,VOOT!'.\
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BOBBY WlLJIOlTE
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joe neal McClendon
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BIRDIISSIA REEL
yjfea
EDNA ANN M(’MURRAY
and
M AN BLAC KWOOD
County
Purebred Livestock \s.\o.iaUon
will meet Tuesday night, April
| 1 at 7:45 o’clock in the County
1 Court room il has been announc-
' George Washington Slept t‘t* ^>' ^ 1-ove. President of
Here,'’ KHS senior class play for j * He Association and John Me*
’58. is ready for presentation to! Elroy. Secy, and Irons,
the public "Friday at 8 p m. ini This, the first meeting of the
San Jacinto Auditorium. ! year, will be a very important
Reserve seat tickets may be: business meeting it was stated,
obtained from the office of K. 1* Committees for the years work
Campbell at the high school with will be announced, a date for the
genera) admission tickets avail fall show will be set and plans
able at the door. , for the Rodeo ami other activiti-
Cuban Rebels Seized
Off Texas Gulf Coast
Bulganin Resigns;
Khrushchev Put In
Mrs. Karl Norton, director,
slates that “audience response
from previews have been favor
able.”
Selling of this Tart comedy is
a farm house in Pennsylvania,
the plot centers around efforts
to make the place livable.
The following five members
of the ra>! a re pictured today,
completing a cast of seventeen
seniors: Birdessia Reel. Bobby
Wilhoite. Judy Martin, Barbara
Wooten and Joe Neal McClend-
on.
Miss Reel plays the part of
Rena Iodic. the sophistle.ited j
actress who is bored to be per -|
forming in country summer tlm-i
aler.
Wilhoite portrays her hand
some husband, Clayton Evans, j
who has a way with girls and im-
mediately attracts the attention
of Madge, the Fuller’s daughter.
Week end gue-1 > who invade
the Fulli r hull ehold include
Dwain Wilson mot pictured), a . •
Tommy Hughes, Barbara Woo!
en, and Joe Neal McClendon
Barbara, as Miss Wilcox adds j
mystery to the play by never!
speaking Miss Martin plays Sue *
Barrington, and is disgusted
when it rains all weekend, bill '
soon finds other aimi ements. !
McClendon, as Leggett Frazer, ;
is another amazed guest w h o j
comes for a weekend of tennis j
and swimming, but finds only j
disappointments. *
Rounding out the east are
James Finch and Jay no L a rn b
i not pi ct tiled l. .lutne -. ;i, the!
luud boiled Mr. Prescott. chum* j
not only I he brook, but the very ;
road that leads to the house.!
Jayne plays the elderly Mm I
; Douglas who ancestor-; have Rv-1
, i i in this neighborhood since;
the Revolution.
Fire Destroys Building
Corpus Christi Campus
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. (UP)
.......A fire early this morning de-
stroyed a two-story frame build-
ing on the University of Corpus
Christi campus The building was
a converted Navy barracks and
housed several practice teach
ing rooms and other classrooms.
The fire was believed to have
started in a kitchen which for-
merly was used in home econo-
mies classes. There was no im-
mediate estimate of damage.
es will be discussed. A final re-
port on the 1958 membership
drive will also be given by J.
II Sims, Chairman of that drive.
A lull attendance of all direc-
tors and other interested mem-
bers is urged by the officials,
and suggestions for the coming
show and rodeo will be welcome.
Colder Weather
Predicted Here
By l NiTED PRESS
A cold front has brought Hum-
def'-tonus to northwest Texas
and dumped a mixture of snow,
hail, ram and fog along with
lightning and thunder Snow,
hail and ram fell at Vega, half
way between Amarillo and the
New Mexico border, during I he
night Howc\or. a temperature
of 37 degrees let the snow and
had melt almost as soon as il
hit.
The cold front has pushed into
North Central Texas and scatter-
ed light showers are falling in
this region. Earlier, lightning
cracked and thunder boomed
over the Panhandle. A bolt
struck a micro.wave unit at (he
transmitter of Station KVIT. TV.
five miles north of Amarillo and
knocked 1he station out last
night. Amarillo reported .31 of
an inch of rain. Dalhart had 13
Childress .27. Claude .56 and
Wichita Falls .07.
Forecasters say considerable
cloudiness and mild temperatur-
es, will) some scattered shower:
will continue over the slate
through tomorrow. The excep-
tion will tie Irani the Pecos Val-
ley westward where skies are
clear this morning.
Ennis Residents
Cousin's Burial
Mr. and Mrs P V. Vainly-
griff, of Ennis and Mr and Mrs.
J. N. Wo nicy, of Palmer were
in Dallas today to attend the
funeral and burial for Bob Har-
ris a cousin of Mines. Vandy-
griff and Woolev.
Harris, 23, ol Abilene died
Tuesday.
j MOSCOW. Russia. (UP) Ni
k it a Khrushchev has purged an*
[other rival and gathered the
Irene- of supreme power into Ins
Own hands
j The Communist Party boss
sat u il h bowed head Hus morn
: ing while the Soviet Parliament
j on ted I retnier Bulganin, and
| then named Khrushchev to re
! place him by acclamation.
I American officials say this
gives him a “terrific concent ra-
; tiOn of pou ci t hat could prove
I dan:’,(.'foils to the West Presi-
dent Eisenhower had no com
! men!
I Khru.sln hev now has the so
; promo authority held by Sialm,
I who also ruled as both Premier
arid as first secretary of the
; Communist Party.
I The dramatic acquisition of
'the dictator's mantle was ac-
complished oi full view ol the
we: Id and the victim Bulganin
| who mu-,1 have known he w a s
out w lii'ii I he decision was made
in a secret party meeting yestcr
day went through the formal
i ity ol submitting his resigna
I lion to t he newly-elected Parlia-
ment as required by Soviet law
i Me smiled when it was accept-
ed and President Voroshilov
j rose to nominate “an outstand
ing statesman in the Commu
mst parly and the Soviet Gov
eminent
There was an audible gasp
Riding and Roping
Club Meeting
Set For Tonight
The Ennis Riding and Roping
flub will meet tonight at tin1
( iiv Hall at 7 30
The club has been inactive
during the winter months and
I w ill plan I lie summer activities
at tonight's meeting, reports Er
[ nest M erry, secret ary-t reasurer
j Bob Walker of Garret! is the
I president of the club.
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Suit Filed Against
Four Big Dallas Dairies
f v A i i a c * . 11 r k.. 11 „
i//a 1*\ »t \ .?>.*■■■“*“/% mnan a'tii iti.’*
dairyman h,1s filed a suit I o r
($160,000 against four big Dal
las dairies. The small operator
j is Questm Bushy who claims the
big dairies drove him out of
i buxines with a price war.
I when Khrushchev's name was,
called then 1 373 deputies!
!stormed to their feet to rub
her stamp the victory Khrush j
cht'v had engineered
SALES PITCH BEGINS
Communist Boss Khrushchev
hit the streets with a sales pitch
this morning lust about the tune)
he took over from Premier Bui
gam n
In an interview published in j
The Journal of Commerce, he of-
fered the Coifed States a way to
to end hoth the recession and
I hi* 1 lire i! ot w .ir Khru du hev >
cure full Vincru.m trade with
Russia Trade, he •kbit would
eliminate the need for di.xurma
meat talk - and make grass gi
ini the Western airfields now
vigilant against the Soviet
Hiie.it In a word Khrushchev
said trade would produce
“peaceful coexistence,”
Boy Hospitalized
After Car Crash
Dunherley Named Advisor
For Hoover Report Group
Garner Dunkerley, Jr., presi-
dent of the Ennis Tag & Sales-
book Co., has accepted appoint-
ment to the State Advisory
Board of the Texas Citizens Com-
mittee for the Hoover Report. P.
B. (Jack) Garrett of Dallas. State
Chairman, announced today.
The State Advisory Board
composed of business and civic
1 eaders 1 hroughou t t he st ate, will
work with the national Citizens
Committee for the Hoover Re-
in view of recent world events,
calls attention to the urgent
need for passage of these re-
maining recommendations to get
maximum effectiveness from
every tax dollar, according to
Mr. Garrett and his three state
co-chairmen, B E. Godfrey of
Fort. Worth, Sydnor Oden of
Houston and Elmer A. Inttmar
of San Antonio
Tangible savings resulting
since the first Hoover Commix*
Congressional sessions, it will
be possible to effect even more
billions in savings, the state.
(hairman added.
The House of Representatives
passed on March 6 a budgeting
bill providing annual revenue
of spending arid insuring tighter
Congressional control of the na-
tional pur e one of the major
recommendations of the Hoover
C ommission and one of the god *
of the Citizens Committee for
port to induce Congress to
pass
iion s report, how total $7
bit-
tdufi congressional se
soon
the remaining rccommendat
ions
bon and yet it i*. estimated
that
The
other four
proposal
of the bipartisan Hoover (
*om-
in the remaining recomnn
•nda
w tin fi
the Citi/enM
Commit Hu
mission These recommendai
ions
tions to come before the pr»
•sift'd
ernpha
w/( in It* ci
irreiit cam
seek t*> promote greater
ciency and reduce waste
effj
and
Scout Training
the f)«
would • 1 * e
■part merit of
tablish for
Defense u
mmm
Jl I>A M \RTIN
H. B. Zachary Company
Lands Air Base Contract
WASHINGTON (UP) - The
Army has awarded a San An-
tonio firm H P* /..■ h.i’ - Cupa*
party a two mtIMon dolter con-
tract Tor «war*. ia
w#,ife. c :||| lopcf i§r
m n
ope
Set Here Friday
ie public with the j
J the Hoover Rep
Mo'll rage cals zenit to .
litem Ii.i bee
,t pi
PIV f
nent top
l#erw>nncl
Cars driven by Mrs One Get
ron, of Route Three, and Mrs.
Earl Mutlin. ot Route One, were
iii collision at -I 20 Wednesday
afternoon 111 the i oi lier of Dal
las Street and Ennis Avenue
Jerry Gerron, l<) year old
son ot the driver of one ol the
automobiles was hospitalized af-
ter injuries received in the ac*
! cident diagnosed as a broken
j collar bone.
Inite reports from the hos-
pital, according to Grady f’ribhs,
investigating officer, indicate
that the young boy rested f.urlv
well Wednesday night lie was
j scheduled to go to Houston En-
jday for treatment lor a
I previous illness. According to
| (Tibbs, he will he able to make
i I he trip to the M D Atulcrson
j Hospital, as scheduled, leaving
j very early Friday morning
! Also ieceiving mjui ies iri tlie
accident, but not requiring hos
pitali/.alion, were Mrs Gerron,
McCuller Services
Held Today
: Services were held at 2 p m
today in Keever f'tuipel lor
Pleasy Mrl'uller, 57 who died
Tuesday m the Veteran's Hos
pital at. McKinney Rev North ol
Taleo officiated and Rev Ralph
Reason assisted, with burial m
Myrtle Cemetery,
i Mcf'uller who was taken to
the hospital in McKinney on
/March 20, had just moved hr-.
I family from Taleo to Kurus to
reside wifh a daughter, Mrs
jLucky Parks, in tie- (r.b Grove
i community.
Born in Frank bn. County No
; vernbwr 30. 1000 he was reared
in the Ml Vernon area July 2'*
1032 he married Miss Suae
Easley of his home community
For many years they have re
sided in Taleo, where MrCullar
was water superintendent until
lus ill health forced him to re-
I sign
' He was a veteran of World
War I and a member of the
American I#egion arel the Taleo
Bapti J ( bun h
Survivors include his wife
one son Robbie of Mount V* r
non two daughters, Mr Parks
of Emus and Miss Evelyn Mr
Collar who has just moved wdt;
Tier family to Ennis
Pallbearer* wen Don Bailew
Billy \tile.s John Pereival
< tiarles Gentry. Eugene Wil-
liams and ( harden W lii.irn-
Joyne and Hubby Serve
A$ Buccaneer Days Judgev
( OMPt S ('HRISII Tee <t P
Movie -tar Ja>ne M..r. lo-bt
and huvtiMd Mekev Hargitay
will verve a* lodge- in the Bu<
hi ni
ocnired when
ked from the
Avenue, and
I’endef "I the
Mis Gerron
, -.ill fei mg hrui'»e.s about t lie arm
j and a younger daughter ol He
j Gen on i, w le» t et ell
«•". over an eye
the accident ocnit
| Mi s. Mii11111 h.e
j curt) on Emui
struck the front
: ear driven by
She had jiiNt 1 urued on to Ennis
' Avenue from Dallas Street
Apinoximah'ly $850 damage
wax done to the Gerron automo
bile, and ahoiil $175 damage was
done tot he MiiIIiii car
| Charley M. Dixon
Funeral Today
Service-, were hell at 2 pm
i today for Charley Monroe Dixon,
88, who rlied Wedfie atay itmrri
im.', id the hottm of .i daughter,
| Mis J W c|,r i,n,m of Houle
I lire*' Rev It I * ( amphe)I of
Dalia.-v ol frejated a* l lie sei vit es
lat Bum h T uiiei al Horne, with
! bur ial in T Irn < dove ( Vrnrlery.
; near Mahank
1 i.mui was born In i ember 26.
| 1361) in i <an tl ind Alabama
hut moved to Texas as an in
fan! Hi f irmly 11r si setHe*| a
round Milfoid arid he had lived
in and near Ennis since Dial.
II me.
i Inf Hbf) I >i vm mar r md t lie
former Salhe Johnson, in Ennis
Mr Dixon died in P)I2.
Survivor include one son.
M ir vin M I)ixon Enm Hiree
daughters, Mrs ('hrisuan Mr-
j E L, Southard of Avalon, and
,M i s. I D Ray, of lieu., a ho
j 22 gr iii4' h Id: en arel 13 great
grand* hildren
Pallbearers wer<* Ereddte 1
BROW NSVU.LK lex tUP).~*
\ Coast Guard * ulter rammed a
Nn.iraguan freighter loaded
with guns and ammunition off
tin' Texas Gulf Goa t from Pori
Isabel today V IS boarding
, party seized 38 Cuban Rebels.
A I lie cat go of t he freighter in*
cltuled all kinds of U-S military
ff \ rifles arid machine guns, and
j (here were some reports that
artillery was on board. The
Rebels were all put m jail at.
Brownsville for violating thu
\i m , Export A* l
The ft eighter was the El Or-
ion | wo of the .hi men
were saul to be Nicaraguans.
But they, like I he others, wore
Rebel uniforms 'They said they
were headed for Cuba to deliver,
the arms to Rebel Leader Fidel
< ’asi t o
Eight of the Rebels were cap-
tains ’Their leader was 31 year*
oil Xrttaldo Barron, and the
grmqi included Hie Reverend
Vgnacio Mosqueda, their Proten*
taut Cb ijii.tin Both Barron and
Mo-queda lutlprly denounced
i utian President Fulgem to Ba-
li -.ta
We are ready to die for free-
dom The I u I that we were stop-
ped here does not mean the end
of our journey, Barron said.
1 haf)l,t.l,it M" qim.d » said all
leligiow • faiths in Cuba have
(omed together to week freedom,
Batista burned our ehiirchc^
and all n ligious faiths are ready
to light him he said
Barron said they had sailed
last night from a port in Mcxicu
ne.ti Mai amor ox, just across the
Rio Grande from Brownsville,
Bill lie refused to say where
they bough! Lite guns ami ammu-
nition.
1 bxon
Mill
fori
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miy
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and
Ray
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Old
son * <i
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taxed
Dix-
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a
rneirih*
r of
! hi
first Baptist < hup h ol Tmii
• ’oa .l Guai d inter1, opted the
; Ideighter five to eight, miles off
Brownsville ami when il refused
I to stop, rammed il one of the
Rebel* .aid he was afraid the
ship would blow up when it was
rammed by the out ter.
Friday Night Set
As Ennis Night
At Home Show
I relay evening has been
do ign ited ;ii Ennis Night, at
He* Dallas Horn*' Show, at Fair
Park through Sundry, fai k Ajtc;„
Kav manager of the Ennis
Chamber of Commerce annua*
( >. d today!
Exhibitors (ourfexy tickets
are now avadai.le at Idle C lit ru-
ber md mav be tailed for by
at! •» h» d re ad11 nt who w . she* to
iticjol the show These iickets
wot It 2a onti ■>, be ex- hanged
for id mis ton tickets into the
Homo Show
No vjniuad plans are bi»intf
made foe Ennis evening hut a
la: a- t roWd fl mil Efim-, IN ex-
! e 11-I o a He ml, McKay dales.,..
(.1 I S I s f ROM lilt I.SBORO
Mr md Mrs I M Boone amt
daugho-r of Ililliboro were re*
! .-nt an -C of Mr and M r »,
S’aub v \i,wood
Final Lenten Services Set
For St. Thomas Episcopal Church
ampieied tor Father
resident priest of
to ofticiaie at the
mug . ervices Time
vice and Holy Com.
scheduled to be at
st. Tiioma* Epi.sco-
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