The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 307, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 31, 1955 Page: 1 of 4
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ENNIS, TEXAS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1955
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No. 307
teirfortunr
Seems To Frown
On Baylor Bears
•Dallas, t<x, <up>. — Dame
Fortune is t reat ins? Baylor's basket -
bull team with the same disdain
she did the school's football lesions,
She struck, hard at Coach George
Sauer's grid hopefuls on the eve
Of fall training when Star Quarter- j
back Doyle Traylor fractured a leg j
in a scrimmage with his home town
high school team.
The Bears, who had been touted
a'- I'ke/y championship material, j
never quite made the grade without
Traylor at.d ill-luck beset the
squad even more when Sauer had
to dismiss the entire middle of his
line in a disciplinary move over
t’ lining rule violations.
Came basketball season and
Coach Bill Henderson's five w a s
listed as a .source challenge for
SMI? Southwest Conference title-
mainly because of the presence of
Jerry Mallett. a sensation as a sop-
1 -mine when he won all-conference
honors.
Mallett suffered a badly-sprained
thumb in mid-November workouts
and had to play Baylor's first came
with a hand in a cast. Then, a
calcium deposit formed on t h e
'thumb to further hinder the six
tout, five inch junior’s effectiveness
Mallett. who led the conference
in rebounds last year with an aver-
age of 15 and a one game high of
117 and ranked fourth with a 1912
point average in scoring, made a
feeble stab at playing through the
Bears' first six games of the sea-
lin', :> half-dead 1 and led to a
slum!> in j his scoring to 13 points
per game and his rebounding fell
off accordingly.
As a result, Henderson's team won
only our game of the six—a 02-57
vicforvy over Oregon State.
Henderson gave Mallett a rest for |
the next two games, naturally Bay-
lor proceeded to drop those as well
to go into the current Conference
pre-season tournrtment at Houston
with a 1-7 record. Mallett was in-
serted apnugly into the tournament
open aeuinst Southern California,
btit his hand was still taped and he
was of little use as the Bears drop-
ped their eighth came. His presence
alone helps some bolster the spirit
of the Bears, but unless they can
get a full-time use and par per-
form.'! m e from their su
will r.evi-v become a title contender
this sc.-moii.
We have to have his shootin.:."
says IP ndc- -eu. “We can't scare
anybody without him,"
Notary Public
Bonds Made By
US Trust Cancelled
Two Kill County notary publics,
both in Ferris, have been notified
that their notary public bends made
by the U. S. Trust «Y Guaranty Co.
of Waco, now in receivership, have
been ran.'"led atccrJutg to. .,n **»-
nouna itifut from Charles C. Huff,
countv clerk at Waxahachie.
Huff stated that a check of his
records revealed that only two such
bends in the county had been made
by the defunct company. These were
canceled as of December 22, he stal-
l'd.
Neither ol the affected notaries
can notarize any papers until new
bonds have been fill'd with flic
county clerk Huff said.
Let Us Take the Baby
It’s time to rest, OM Year. ^
We’ll take the Baby for you.
He’ll be raised on—
tomorrows.
He’ll be nurtured on—
S*>____ _ -------
HOPE—hope that we’ve profited from the yesterdays.
He’ll be brought up in the hope of—
CHARITY—charity from you when we err.
Please trust us with the little New Year
We’ll do our best with the Baby.
VIRGINIA DUFF ANNOUNCES
CANDIDACY FOR RE-ELECTION
Miss Virginia D.::! of Fc-i- to-
day authorized The Ennis Dm y
Baylor1 News to announce her candidacy for
tender reclccticn as Elli County's ropre-
scuta five m
the Texas legi
slat urc.
Miss Duff
will t> • Meki:
;:g her
Pair?) term
in the House e
if Rip-
re natives
Duruig th ■ pi
V. S(‘S-
S'."". ' erv
u(l < ry\.t:::» m
of til:'
llo'i P n:’ ■;
lit ..ir.c C’i mtir.t
’ i." a n d
W . (. f f,
c" members of
a spec-
i..l house co
imuttre to investigate
iii(' vGrr-.us
lend sr-iiiaial
111 lie" MU
trim s*.;u
,• rvi'd
Whcn purchasing household ap-
pliances see us for assistance in fi-
nancing. Low hank rates, con-
venient terms, M c in b t r of FDIC.
ENNIS STATE BANK.
City Commission
Meeting Postponed
Citv Sectary M. B. M.r- ley an-
nounced today that the regular
meetitt of the Ennis City Commi -
sum which would normally be held
at 2 p.m. on Monday afternoon. Jan.
2 has been postponed until 2 p.m. on
Thursday. Jan. 5.
The meeting is being po-ep-gvd
•» accordance with the general ob-
servance of January 2 as a h lid iv
in Ennis. M c-'.‘lev s:i. i.
Quick, easy loans made on rash
value of life insurance policies. Low
rales Member oi FDIC. I’NMS
stAtm bank
MISS VIRGINIA m i l
. , To S'1 k Re-Election
Soviet Premier Bulganin
Says H-Bomb War Possible
St at
: I)
SP Capital
improvements
Set Record In ’55
Consolation
By Liom In
Title Won
West Meet
The Ennis Liens took two gam's
Friday to capture the consolation
title of the W> o Invitational Bas-
ketball T'.urnnrr.ent. Emils' Jimmy
II bip felt in the future.'i'Gilmort' :,1;'*rP:i 0:1 •'Ui-tcmrnxi
reported in ,
"....... at Miuwav til-43 for
rn Pacific made a record
SI 17.000.000 for capital im-
• during 1955 and laun-
mai nograms whose gre.tt-
D J Russell, pivsir
a yiui (•■ui review made public here;
by B >. Sines, executive vice presi- \
•it r.' ol the railroad's lines in Texas
iloci Louisiana,
In addition, the railroad cutrin- j
.. oi inrx.rta;it projects started last ;
among them the $7.000 000;
alt: a-modren classification yard!
mar Houston. to be completed ini
Februarv.
I ooking. t i 1956. Russell eommen- !
ted that SP ex poets traffic improve- |
me. t - • eomuar.tble *r) the good !
I
volume enjoyed by our lines in
1955."
He reviewed these major 1955 de- j
velopments: A .start on installing j
remote control devices to increase
; a parity of 114 miles of line in Sou- !
thern California; completion of 884
miles cf pipeline to carry refined j
petroleum into Arizona from Texas j
and California; and deliveries of .
2,948 freight ears and 169 diesel ;
locomotive units .
He pointed cut that the later de- I
liveries chiefy include year’s orders 1
and only a small portion of 1955's
over all orders for 14.725 freight
cars, for about $124,009,001 and 186
diextl units for another $34,000,-
000.
Masonic Lodges
Schedule Watch
Niiaht Services
ment team.
The Lion me
Rundi-Emmert
Buy Taxi Service
From Goldens
Ruben Bunch and D. D. Emmert.
have announced the purchase of
the Golden Taxi Service from Char-
lie Golden and his son. Billy F.
Goldi r. The business, which has
been in rr:»7ence for nine years,
will continue to operate from the
same headquarters, at the Conti-
nent :iT But* Station. 107 West,Brown
St., according to an announcement
from the new owners, who stated
that a fleet of four cars will be in
sr: vice.
the consolation crown after troune-
, iny Mexia. 58-36 in the .semi-finals.
The Lions played smoothly, vvin-
i ning each game with ease. T h e
comfortable margins maintained by
! the Lions gave Coach Jude Smith
! an opportunity to give his bench
I valuable playing experience.
Grocsbt'ck eked out La Vega f.cr
I the tourney title,
i Ennis led all the wav in both
j games. Against Midway, Jimmy
| Gilmore poured in 27 points. David
Knize contributed 13 and Harris
i Connell added twelve.
•Russia has placed a damper on
| the spirits of everyone planning a
Nt v Year’s Eve celebration tonight.
S vie' Premier Bulganin says
hydrogen bomb war is possible—
i even though both East and West
jrrented by man. Bulganin makes
i the statement in replying to ques-
i hens put to him by the American
I Telenews TV Company.
feat earli'T in the season. j The Soviet premier expressed
Then th'> Lions swing into district j pope for peace. But he warmed: “It
eomprition against the Waxahachie is wrong to assert, that inasmuch as
Indians in the Bravos' camp on J ,n. I East and West oossess hydrogen
r weapons, the possibility ol a ther-
monuclear <cr Hydrogen) war is
.athomablcaFv cxcl. fled.” He said
! such er.! miens can lull supporter*
j of peace into a false sense of se-
| curity. 1
Creditors Seek Recovery
From Insurance Firm
AUSTIN. Tex. 'UP
He blamed the Western nations—
^ v;j ,t without mentioning them by name.
I! was by far the best game of
the season for the Lions who have
shown amazing development as the
season has progressed.
Ennis breezed by Mexia for the
58-36 victory. David Knize led the
Lions to their victory over the Black
Cats, secring 21 points.
Harris Connell tallied ten a n d . .... ,
Jimmy Gilmore and Billy Glaspv | s0 nam,?d Usiendsmts an’ banks and
each scored eigth. j suiety companies t
The Lions will now journey to j With thp company
Milford on January 3 to seek to '
even the score with the strong Bull-
dog team which handed them de- likewise are named in the suit
for the nuclear deadlock. He said
is rn file in district rourr here. It j that no solution to a ban on nu-
seeks to recover same $5.090.000 for i ^eui weapons has been found b€-
! cans? of what he called “the un-
crcditors of the ' ol lapsed General j willingness of some powers."
American Casualty Company of San (
NO COMMENT
suit was filed by Tex- , Secretary of State Dulles refused
warning that a nuclear warfare re-
mains a real possibility.
When newsmen advised the sec-
retary of the Soviet premier’s re-
marks, he said he wanted to give the
statement careful study before giving
his reaction.
Antonio. T’m
as insurance Liquidator. It. names
the officers and directors of the
defunct company as defendants. Al-
did business
Four employes
of the State Insurance department
Nine Constitutional Amendments
To Be Submitted To Tex, Voters In ’%
T
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V ixalvv.vh'i Masonc.' Li.ec ■
90
Will
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servin’, a*
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many yr.n
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Sehoc's com-
at its that her
lrusle ture has
. ,»*. ■ iv: the >t ite hospi-
Ah" say> that she ha<
■erv hospital and special
the system
:fl i- a graduate of Tri-
;‘y Waxahachie. and
school of law.
-:a:ul junior warden of the M st ,
Worse.")! ii Grand lodge of Texas
will be tlic featured speaker.
The Master Mason’s degree will
be oe;.fiord on one candidate by a
mem' team from Tarrant I,cage
942.
Ila annual observance will start
with registration and a reception at
6 p tn.
Dinner vvil be served from 6:39
p.m. until 7:45 p.m. and th? lodge
meeting will open at 8 p.m.
An hour of fellowship is sched-
uled for 10:30 p.m.
Roundtable talks will precede the
■losing of the meeting at midnight
January 31
Deadline For City
Tax Payments
January 31 v ill be the last day
■ u v hieh Ennis property owners
may pay their city property tax
w ithout penalty, according to M. B.
Moseley, city secretary.
AGGRESSOR ALL THE WAY!
“Enemy” forces in Army maneu-
vers, known as Aggressors, have a
way of writing their own regula-
tions, even as applies to haircuts.
Here Specialist Third Class Waldo
Williams of Rockwell City, Iowa,
gets a trim along the lines of an
Aggressor helmet worn here by
the “barber,” Private First Class
Donald Henderson, San Antonio.
Austin. Texas <UP> Nine propos- j
e'ci changes to the State Consitution !
will be submitted to Texas voters j
in 1956. including one which calls
for doubling the viierans land pro-{
gram to 200-million dollars.
The nine proposals were submitt-
ed by the legislature which adjourn-
ed lasl June, and will be voted on
as part ol the general election bal-
let on November 6th. 1956
The l()0-mill:on-d"!lnr vote: a ns
1 :id program would be doubled by
proposed ciur tituttonal amend-
ment which also would : vamp-the
three-member land board.
The board, now composed of the
.and commis.-ioner. attorney general
and governor, would be changed to
include the land commissioner and
two persons named by the governor.
Another trp proposal would bro-
den the scope ol the teacher retire-
ment system. It adopted 1 v tlv
voters it would open the way to
100-doilars-per month minimum re-
tirement benefits after 20 years of
Davidson Grove
Will Meet
Tuesday Afternoon
Davidson Grove 89 Woodmen’s
Curie will observe the Now Year
with a regular meeting at Wood-
man Hall. Tuesday. January 3 at
115 p. m.
Mrs, Clyde Dent, president, will
preside.
service.
Other proposals to be voted on
next November 6th would: broaden
scope of Investment of the Univer-
sity permanen* fund, hared by the
University of T.-xas and Texas A,
and M . to allow nu.u -’men! in com-
mon stocks rhe plan also would
add Lamar Tech at Beaumont, and
Tcxu- Sen? hem Ui: • r itv it II
a is-
B nidi;
I unci It
Pe
Fund.
The newsmen then tokl Dulles
that Bulganin also had expressed
hope for peace in the New Year.
Said the secretary with a smile: “we
can join him in that—I’m glad
h .said something we can agree
with.”
Bulganin and Soviet Boss NilciU
Khdushchev may have more to say
I tonight. The Kremlin is throwing
| a New Year’s Eve party—and west-
ern diplomats are invited. It’s the
! first time foreign envoys have been
i asked to attend.
Between sips of champagne and
bites of caviar,, some informal in-
ternational conferences undoubt -
| ctlly will take place, perhaps under
1 th yolka, the Soviet equivalent of a
Christmas tree Western diplomats
, are expected to ask the Soviet lead-
ers w hat, has has.”) mod the Gen-
• va spirit And they also will try to
1 find out what lace Russian lead-
J ers will wear in t.he nev. year—the
smile of Geneva or the grim face of
! cold war.
Another proposal would permit
waiver of jury trials in lunacy cases. 1
Another would allow the lagisla- j
lure to pay persons sen:, to prison
for crime-, which it is latrit deter-,
rained they did not commit.
One would authorize a program I
of state assistance to totally and
permanently disabled persons.
The other three proposals would:
Allow judges to deny bail to per-
sons ind’cted for a felony who
have been previously convicted of i
two felonies, and required that, trial 1
lie held within GO days.
Permit county commissioners i
courts to reallocate constitutional
funds within the present 80-eent
tax limit, on an annual basis.
Revise the constitutional oath oi j
office, which at present prescribes;
the same oath for both electives and ;
appointive:! state officials.
BEHIND IKE
The administration and Congress
arc solidly behind President Eisen-
hower’s firm stand on the Soviet
satellites.
The Ptesuient yesterday a n-
nntiiu *i that the United States will
continue its "peaceful purposes, to
i. tih(»rry and iustice tor the
i, pores* o.l pei.phs of the world.” He
«a-d their "peaceful liberation, will
continue : > be a major goal of U.
S I'm eiiui P hey
Mr. Eisenhower’s statement was
Cans'an., message he and other
top a in.m.strution officials beamed
in rcplv tq. a Soviet attack on the
behind the Iron Curtain. Soviet
told th.i' Soviet Parliament Thurs-
day tu.it these messages—also call-
ing f . liberation of the satellites—
»rpresented "crude interfemce” in
th > aft.I'.rs cf the East European
poples.
1955 Was A Year Of Growth And BuiHins In Ennis
It was a great year lor Ennis,
1955. It was a year great in its a-
ehievemont nnd still bigger in the
foundation it laid for progress in
1956.
Notable acamplishment; took
place1 at a pace so rapid at to seem
almost commonplace
It wv, a year ol building and it
was a year of planning for future
growth.
The fruits of much of 1956A labor
will be harvested early in 1956
The bea'lltltul ntwv Memorial An*
m'x to Ennis Municipal Hospital
will soon be dedicated. Final plans
for tlie hospital wing wore approved
nt a joint meeting of the hospital
board and the city ciftvnilsslon on
January 6 Construction started In
April,
I Officers of the Ennis Community
I Conti r Association promise to have
the building in use by February 15
was pressed tv'ar
I alter th ' st riel urr
| completion in 195."
A charter commission was
j by voters. It drafted a proposed
Icily charter which will be submiti ;
ed to the voters on January 24.
I TRANSPORTATION
The new year wnil start with En- I
nis looking forward to the start oi
construction on the new Highway 75 j
expressway to th Dallas County!
line and the construction ol a new
bridge over the Trinity River at
Porter's Bluff which will open a !
new traffic artery through Ennis, j
The new year will find Ennis look- :
lug back upon 1955 as the year I hat I
nui'.mfiean! six lane through-
fare w > , built to carry Highway 75
through the city.
The year 1955 was also a year ol
nprovement in rail and truck frei-
'■>: service to Ennis, uf notable
d improvements, tne addition
deluxe (eqipiiment on bu
. and the loss of the Sun-
beam, >\i made its final runs on
Septfcmb
The year t. d the Ennis Cham -
ber of Commerce making applica-
tion for helicopter service.
INIH’STRY
Ennis looked to industrial growth
i;i 1Jj5 The Airloy plant wlilch si-
tii'd up for an Ennis location on
duly 1 i will go into production early
m 1956, others among Ennis, more
ban 20 industries experienced a
.ear of growth as typified by the
15,000 square foot expansion to
Leggett and Platt’s plant.
Work was started toward the es-
tablishment of a permnnet incor-
porat'd industrial foundation.
DIAL TELEPHONES
A look at 1955 without noting
that was the year Ennis received
dial telephone service would be
incomplete. The service started at
It) p. m. on January 15 from a
beautiful new exchange building at
the corner of Crockett and McKin-
ney.
BUILDING |
The year was a year of building
on all fronts. Many beautiful new
homes have risen in all sections of
the city.
The "New
wing to the
Horn? fo.' th:
the spring, ce
3 tile baths,
room, ambul
room and hr:
The Knitth
a new honu
i n Ttlghw a'
Hope" convclescent
1C OF and Rebekah
■ Aged was opened in
mplste with 17 rooms,
a doctor’s consolation
i nee dock, reeiption
'/eway.
•s of Columbus built
for their organization
237 West.
The Auth '.'.y Drive Missionary
| Baptist Chinch was organized on
August 11 and by December sorvi-
j ces V‘, tv bvin ■ held in its new build-
ing.
j l!u> beautiful new William B
| Travis school building opened its
j doors to classes with the start of
i the full semester.
In the business world, perhaps
the most notable event wa> the con-
struction nnd opening of the Ennis
Livestock Commission’s new auct-
ion barn and the subsequent open-
ings of the steak House and Burden
Impiement Company.
The f.rst auction in the new auct-
ion plant, said to be one of North
Texas’ finest was held on April 19
and the scope of the operation cap
be judged by the 4.000 head of live-
stock report 1\ sold for around
$325,000 at the first lour auctions
alone.
KLl EBONNET TRAILS
The year 1956 also saw growth in
the fame of Ennis’ Bluebonnet Tra-
ils More than 10.000 visitors from
15 states and Mexico registered dur-
ing the first weekend and the first
.ample to register on Saturday. April
16 were Mr. and Mr-, Jame* F. Sul-
livan of Omaha N' bra-ka.
Practically all cl Ennis’ annual
• vents experienced growth. The an-
nual Youth Livestock Show paid a
record of more than >J,000 in pre-
miums and sale.- E ah: v-fivc young
exhibitors showed 105 head ol live-
stock and 22 eoop> of broder*.
New events were allied tn the
annual mno. such a the Chamber
of Commerce's thv annual Easter
Parade in wh. h more than 100 chil-
dren marched
SALK VACCINE
Ennis joined the nation in a his-
tory-making operil when the first
Salk Polio Vaccine shots were given i cause of it.
Emus youngsters on April 20.1965-
Al o on the health front, a con-
cent rail campaign was luunched
in 1955 to rid the city of unsanitary
outdoor toilet facilities and the cam-
j paign comitiues as Father Time
turns a new leaf. In connection,
1 many silver lines were extended and
| a new hf; section authorized.
I'hc \ rar saw the introduction of
Little League Baseball and Pee Wee
football to Ennis.
Many, many other noteworthy
events made news in Ennis in 1966.
! such as the visit of Vladimir Mat-
i shevich, w ho is now Russia’s chief
agricultural official, to Ennfs on
! August 5.
j This was a big year in Ennis and
: 1956 promises to be even digger too-
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Bus, Daniel W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 307, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 31, 1955, newspaper, December 31, 1955; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth786066/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.