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ENNIS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 1957
SIX PAGES—FIVE CENTS
NO. 109
Texas Prison System Now
Deportment of Corrections
AUSTIN, Tex. (UP).—The
Texas Prison System now is
known as The Texas Department
of Correction, under one of 51
legislative bills signed into law
by Governor Daniel. Another of
the measures signed gives
health officers authority to is-
sue bat killing permits. It pre-
viously has been illegal to kill
bats in Texas under any condi-
tions.
Many River Dwellers Refuse
To Leave Threatened Homes
ANGLETON. Tex. (UP).—
Many river-dwellers in flood-
stricken Brazoria County have
refused to listen to warnings to
leave their homes. Brackish,
muddy waters of the swollen
Brazos River have spilled out
over nearly 100 square miles of
rich crop land on either side of
the winding river. But most of
the wrater is expected to run off
into the Gulf of Mexico today.
Nearly 100 families, all Negro
and with anywhere from two to
nine children, have been taken
from the flooded lowlands since
the flood waters began rising on
Sunday. Many others have re-
fused to leave—however
Former Bank Executive
fined by Federal Judge
DALLAS. Tex. (UP). — A
federal judge has fined a former
Dallas bank executive $1000 and
given him a six-month proba-
tionary sentence. The fine and
sentence was levied against 55-
year-old Jack William Hudgins
on a plea of guilty to six counts
of embezzlement from the
American Bank & Trust Com-
pany, Dallas. He was an execu-
tive vice president of the organ-
ization.
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$100,000 MISTAKE—Jockey Willie Shoemaker reads account
of his - $100,000 mistake” during the running of the Ken-
tucky Derby in a racing form in his hotel room in Dallas.
Shoemaker, aboard Gallant Man. mistook the 16th pole for
the finish line and eased up on his mount. The momentary
lapse let Iron Liege go under the wire first by a nose. Track
stewarts at Churchills Downs set Shoemaker down for 15
days for his misjudgment of the finish line.
Band’s
Concert Set Thursday
The Junior Band of the Ennis tv, Margaret Dent, Billy Sam
Public Schools will be presented
in its spring concert at San Ja-
cinto Audiorium on Thursday.
McCormack.
Nancy Ruth Evans. Freddy
Durward Baker, Sandra Crews,
The program consisting of, Alice Schwalbe, Leah Findley,
marches, tone poems, an over-j Nancy Burton, Jeannine Wliit-
ture. waltz, ballad and a novel-j acre, Nancy Nowlin, Cecile Tol-
ty number will begin at 8 p.m.Jleson. Joan Simpson. Sylvia
The general public is invited to i Young.
Lake Dallas, Garza - Little
Elm Consolidation Due Soon
FORT WORTH. Tex. (UP). —
The Army District of Engineers! attend. , .... .
office here says it expects to be-! jn lieu of intermissions, spe-| . ™Uie Ann Holland. Tomy
gin within two weeks on con-; cial selections will be presented j ^ete^ . 0Vt°L’ Jtlf „ *aV
solidating Lake Dallas and Gar-! by two first-division winning en-J ™ond ,Tudy , C.° ard'
za-Little Elm reservoir into one j sembles from the Ennis High j ^ortman and Jannan
big lake. Bids will be opened on School Band. I owell.
Friday for an excavation job to. Personnel of the junior band,
breach the present Lake Dallas' directed by Ivan Goodwin is as
dam. A 500-foot w-ide section of follows:
the dam will be opened to per-. Flutes: Nancy King. N a n c y I McCormack. Jimmie Pavelka.
mit waters of the two lakes to iTelfair. Molly Collins. Gay Reed. J Johnny Flippen and Tom
Saxaphones: Larry Shelton,
Jessie Maldonado, Juanita Bask-
in, Martha McCall, Charles
converge.
Clements.
Cornets: John Findley. Elaine
McCollum, Patricia Cravens,
Signa Satterfield, Joan Davis.
Carol McCormack and Synda
Watson.
Clarinets: Carol McBraver,
Sue Ann Donnell, Patricia Delores Maldonado, Sam Gray,
Evarls, Sally Anderson, Gale M|ro Pavelka, Miles Strunc,
Shane Kelley. Jo Ann Cribbs,
Billy Boyte, Barbara Stolusky.
Garth Hodge, Ronny Colvin,
ICC Continuing Hearing
On Valley Bus Service
HARLINGEN. Tex. (UP).
Testimony continues here today March banks. Lora Jayn Blount,
on an application by Southwest- Nancy Handerson and Glenda
ern Greyhound to provide Rio! Minor.
Grande Valley bus service. The! Kay Gibbons, Marian Joly,j Gail McDaniel, Elizabeth Crow,
application is being opposed by Barbara Barkley, Patsy Parker, Charles Honza, Lawrence Shue,
Continental Union Trailways— Mary Jane Schw albe. Frances Jo j and Don Pruitt,
which presently serves the Val-! Alexander. Shirley Collier,
iey. i lie iiuaring ueing ileiu by unn * live, nuin ia’n uunei-
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Charles A. Vaughn EMfcCounty
Dies of Heart Attack! 4-HTeams Win
In District Meet
French Horns Mary Nell Ma-
loney. Billy Kink, Mary Gayle
Doyle and Annette Roberson.
Charles Arthur Vaughn. 41.
veteran of World War II, died of
a heart attack at 1 o’clock this
Trombones: Don Williams.
Brent. Baldridge, Kenny Hasko-
vee, Edwin Peel, Betty Ekholm,
Ray Kallus, Mike Bryant, Mike
Stewart and Gary Winston
Dippcry.
Baritone: Bob Cave; Basses;
Larry Mansfield and Harold
Rider on Area
Development
Workshop Panel
Walter B. Rider, president of
the Ennis State Bank, will be
a guest speaker on the program
of an area development work-
shop sponsored by the Texas
Power and Light. Company in
Mineral Wells Thursday.
Rider was chairman of the
Ennis Chamber of Commerce in-
dustrial Committee which led
Ennis through one of the great-
est years of industrial expansion
in the town's 85-year history in
1956
His activities which played a
heavy role in obtaining for Ennis
industrial investment of more
than $6,000,000 in new plant
facilities here led to his receipt
of the Lions Club “Outstanding
Ennis Citizen of 1956” award.
Rider’s topic on the program
will be “Why an Industrial
Team?’’ He will appear on the
program with outstanding area
and community leaders.
The workshop in Mineral
Wells is the last in a series of
four identical conferences pre
sented in each of Texas Power
and Light Company’s four divis-
ions. Previous workshops have
been held in Waco, Sherman,
and Tyler.
The workshops are provided
as a means of exchanging in
formation which will assist towns
in community development to
be attractive for business and
industrial growth and to ex
plain important phases in indus-
trial development.
Bassett Watson, vice president
of the Texas Power and Light
Company, w'ill outline the ob-
jectives of the workshop which
will get underway at 1:30 p m
Among other speakers will be
Stanley A Arbmgast, assistant
director of the Bureau of Busi-
ness Research of the University
of Texas, who will discuss Land
use.
E. H. McElroy Jr director of
the TP&L area development di-
vision will explain aids available
to industrial development teams,
and Stan Shively, manager of
community development for the
firm will serve as moderator.
Leaders in industrial endea-
vors in Tyler and Wylie will
also appear on the program.
A group of Ennis men inter-
ested in these phases of Ennis
Chamber of Commerce work
will attend the Mineral Wells
workshop.
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BELLY LANDING—Chicago Cubs’ Jim Bulger loses Ins cap as lie belly-slides safely into
third base as New York Giants shortstop Daryl Spencer tries for tag after taking throw
from catcher Wes VVestrum Action came in 6tli frame of Cub-Giants game at the Polo
Grounds after two Cubs tallied. Two spectators and umpire Hal Dixon watch play. Cubs won,
6-2.
150 Hear Walser
At Awards Banquet
Waxahachie
Minister Conducts
Gospel Meeting
Jack Frost, minister of t h e
College Street Church of Christ
in Waxahachie, is conducting
the gospel meeting now in prog-
ress at the Ennis Avenue
Church of Christ,
Lon O. Good rum. minister of
the local church, said that serv-
ices are being held each evening
at. 7:30.
Paul H Walser of Temple, act-
ing state conservationist of the
United States Soil Conservation
Service, addressed a gathering
of 150 local fanners and busi-
nessmen who gathered at Ennis
High School Tuesday night to
see four men of this community
honored at the Second Annual
Soil Conservation Awards Ban-
quet of the Ennis Chamber of
Commerce.
Conservation Awards, spon-
sored by The Ennis Daily News,
were presented for outstanding
conservation work in the Ennis
area during 1956.
Lester Epps of Palmer receiv-1 engraved pluqu
ed the Conservation Farm Lead-
er Award for outstanding work
not only on his own place but
in helping influence others to
develop sound conservation prac-
tices on their farms
Jim Brazier of Ensign who was
unable to attend because of ill
ness was announced as winner i while in the last 15 years 25,
of the award for the outstand-
ing Conservation Farmer ol 1956
in the Ennis Area
Frank Petr of Creechville was
awarded the Comeback Conser-
vation Farmer of the year award
for his successful conversion of
000,000 acres or seven per cent
of the cultivated land in this
country lias been lost to agricul-
ture by conversion to other uses
or by loss to errosion processes.
He said that five-sixth of the
greater output needed to supply
Alice's Beauty Shop
Ennis Newest Firm
Ennis newest business opens
its doors today. It is Alice’s
Beauty Shop, owned and oper-
ated by Mrs J W. Sknvanck
Mrs. Skrivanek is a graduate of
Neilson-Henri Beauty College in
Dallas. A modern building has
been erected at 9ui K Avenue
to house the business and all
new equipment has been instal-
led.
an old cotton farm to new uses I the demand will have to come
in grasses and cattle I from greater productivity and
Dan Bus of Ennis was pre- greater efficiency in farming,
sented the Non Fanner Censor* Walser discussed several cur-
vatiomst award for 1956 for his rent serious problems facing the
efforts through the newspaper farmers of this country and told
to promote conservation work ) the gathering that greater soil |
Charles Gentry, manager of and water conservation is a great
The Ennis Daily News presented i part of the answer in working
es to tlie winners.! them out
who were selected by a commit i He warned tint water in Tex-
tee of judges named by the agri- as is going to be very precious
culture committee of the Ennis to us in the future.
Chamber of Commerce. Donald “We cannot afford to have wa-
Booth, Fnms High School agri-, j(*r .storage reservoirs filled with
culture teacher interviewed 1 he j sediment.” he told the group in
winners. I stressing the need for upstream
Walser. in Ins address on the|||()0(j prevention measures on
topic of ’ What Does the Future ’ nu. farms.
Dry Weather
In Region
Aids Outbreaks
By UNITED PRESS
Crackling, orange flames—
some tree-top high—are roaring
through several Eastern states.
It’s the worst forest fire
menace New' England has had in
10 years. Many New York for*
ests are tinder dry—and the siU
uation is critical in Wisconsin.
In Massachusetts, a jet plane
crashed at Otis Air Force Base—
killing the pilot and setting fire
i to woods at the end of the run*
| wav.
Three units of the Mas,sachu*
j setts National Guard were
j mobolized to battle an epidemic
of forest fires—burning up
‘more than 1,000 acres at Man*
( Chester, Sudbury, Fall River,
j West Boylston, and other com*
| mumties.
The state has had virtually no
J rain for one month. Governor
Foster Furcolo hinted he will
I declare a state of e m e f*
gem y if the situation gets wforse.
Fires also roared out of con*
Urol in parts of Maine, Vermont
| and New Hampshire.
The State Conservation De*
partment in New York said a po-
i tentiallv serious brush fire had
broken out on Long Lsland. In
less than two weeks—34 fires
have burned tnone than 7400
! acres in New York State.
j The forest fire danger still is
! critical in Wisconsin. Three maj-
or fires burned 4,000 acres of
| timber yesterday.
'Flic most tragic note cam®
from Columbus, Ohio. Five chil-
dren were killed in a fire in
their wooded house.
„ „ ,luvn Ellis County teams set a
morning at his home near Gar- (’orfl county in the dis-IWall
rett trict elimination contests held at I Percussion: Kay Kallus, Mar-
former'TugdracrFlorence" RUcy! ■A 0?Csix entries in the eon-j Kiddta
whom he married December 23, tests. Ellis County had five plac- Munn-
1953; also his mother. Mrs. Lee mg in the events, three being j j.;nnjs School Band
Vaughn of Tulsa, Okla. and a I first place winners. These teams ensembles to be presented are a
brother. Lee Vaughn. Oklahoma will compete in the state 4-H darinet quartet composed of
City. Club Roundup in June at Col-; i)onna Ozymy, Phyllis Todd, Lin-
Vaughn was born April 22. lege Station
1816 in Lawrenceburgh, Ind., First place teams were listed
son of Lee and Lottie Vaughn, as follows: Dairy-Linda Nelson! Charles Haskovec, Bobby Pecot,
He moved to Eufala, Okla. w'ith of Waxahachie and Paul Tate of Doris Parker, Ray Telfair, Troy
his parents when he was an in-. Forreston; Vegetable Produc-j Osborn and Joe David Burleson.
fant and later to Tulsa. He en-|tion—Georgia i’atek and Lorinej ___
tered the service in 1942 and Drozd, both of Ennis; and Soil
served overseas; also in the Ko- ;and Water Conservation- Jimmy
rean War. He received his dis-i and David Stiles, both of Mid-
charge two years ago. lot Ilian
Funeral arrangements with Others placing at the district f* I I J
the J. E. Kecver Mortuary a r e contests included the electric | Wit COflOfy ISlOnCIS
da Haskovec. and Donna Dixon
and a brass sextet made up of
Mayflower II
Now 320 Miles
pending.
W0Oth»r
ENNIS AND VICINITY
Scattered light showers.
High in upper 70s. tonight.
Occasional showers with low
in lower 60s. Tomorrow
scattered thundershowers,
with high in upper 70s. Sou-
therly winds 15 to 20 miles
per hour.
team composed of Ben Reed i LONDON. Eng. (UP).—Here’s
| Goodwyn and John Goodwyn. the latest entry from the log of
both of Kankm. second place; the good ship Mayflower II. Cap-
| vegetable preparation, third j tain Alan Villiers reports that
1 place Joellyn Ellis of Mavpcarl j his replica of the original Pil*
and Nella Faye Reed of 'iidlo* grim ship is now 320 miles
; thian. I southwest of the Canary Islands,
I Five Italy boys participated in making 61- knots. Villiers radio*
| the share-the-fun contest. They ed that his ship covered 1 1 0
are Jackie Bumpus. Douglas miles in the 24 hours ending
Chambers. Charles Rollins. John noon yesterday on the voyage to
Goodman, and J. L. Cannon. Plymouth, Mas*
Officers Solve Long
Series of Burglaries
Two Ennis Negro men are be-
ing held in Fill is County Jail in
connection with a series of bur-
glaries at Red Moon Petroleum
Company here which extended
over a period of some two years.
Ellis County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment authorities report that they
have in possession 39 tires, three
batteries, two boxes of spark
plugs, and three cases of oil re-
covered when the ease was
cracked.
Police Crackdown Credited
With Drop in Accidents
VICTORIA. Tex (UP).—Au-
thorities in Victoria credit a po-
lice crackdown for a sharp drop
in traffic accidents last month
An all-out crackdown on traffic
violators began last month and
the accident rate dropped from
an all-time record of 86 in
March to 61 last month Police
say they intend to keep a sharp
eye on traffic in Victoria to try
and hold tiie accident rale down.
Sheriff's officers said that one
of the local Negroes, a former
employee of the victimized firm,
confessed possessing a key to
the building by w hich he entered
the business many times to re-
move merchandise.
Sheriff’s officers said he told
them the burglaries were staged
at about 5 o'clock m the morn-
ing.
The other Negro, who was a
taxi driver, then took the stolen
merchandise and sold it, the of-
ficers related.
After a burglary at the firm
on April 12, the Ellis County
Sheriff's Department and the
Ennis Police Department con-
ducted to check to see if any
merchandise meeting the des-
cription of the stolen goods had
been purchased locally. Finding
some of the goods at a local
garage enabled the officers to
trace it back through three or
four hands to solve the case,
the officers reported.
Hold in Store for Agriculture?”
emphasized that the I'arrnei of
tomorrow must he a conserva-
tion farmer.
The veteran s»»11 conservation
official declared that the day of
the “hit <u miss exploitive tar-
met” is rapidly coming to an
end
The farmer of tomorrow will
ju'cj'^sarilv he a better business
man than his tat her before him,
a better scientist, and thereby
a Better fanner, he told Ins
audience.
Walser pointed out that tic
population ol the country is
soaring to unpredicted heights
William Ritchey
Dies Tuesday
William Arnold Ritchey, 63,
retired Southern Pacific em-
ployee. died of a heart attack
Tuesday afternoon while f,n a
visit in Dallas
Ritchey was horn June 25
1893 ami had lived here all his
life. He was employed in the ear
lie pair department of the SP
unit until Ins retirement on ac-
count of ill health
Surviving are three sister.-..
Mrs. Will Burns. Italy: Mrs El-
mer Hcarne. Pasadena, ( aid.
and Mrs George Wheeler of Ac.
ington; and one brother, J, I«
Ritchey, Ennis.
His parents were George and
Eva Ritchey. His mother died
here in 1924 and his father died
in 1935.
Ritchey was a member of the
Assembly of God Church, the
Masonic Lodge and the Wood-
men of the World Lodge
Funeral services will fie held
at 2 p m Sunday in the Keever
Chapel and burial will be in
Myrtle Cemetery with t h e
Masonic service.
Pat < ai pouter. Emus SC’S
! work unit conservationist, who
, served as master of ceremonies,
1 mtinduced llie speaker
The invocation was given by
II I Lester, chairman ol the En-
| ms Chamber ol <’onunerce agri-
, culture committee and head of
the agriculture department at
Ennis High School.
The banquet this year was
sponsored by Ennis ’lag and
Salesbook Company W I Rube,
Garland Smith. C E Rube, Ela
Kevu , Cotton Company Buddie
Davis. Southern Auto Store. Guy
Henry, Howard McClain, John-
stons 1 ne Johnnie Evarts, Jess
Eekar Western Auto Store. Mar-
shall Shelton and Burden Imple-
ment Company, all of Ennis,
Jack Ritchie, T M Harper and
Barron Brick Company, all of
palmer; and Don St mope of
Waxahachie.
Two Conroe Men Found
Dead in Wrecked Vehicle
FREDERICKSBURG. T e x
11’I’>. —-Two Conroe men were
found dead in then wrecked car
I uesday near here The Highway
Patrol identified them a-. Ray-
mond D Doughartv, about 3 5
and Charles May, about 30. The
I’atrul says their car apparently
ran oft the road about 1 a m.
and Int a tree but the bodies
were not discovered until 8 a m.
NE\ Eli MISSED IT
OMAHA. Neb H P' - Mrs.
Allen Mercer didn t realize her
home was burglarized until two
months after it happened when
police returned the loot. A cash
box containing many books and
papers was found in an alley
From the contents police esti-
mated the box had been stolen
about two months ago.
EHS Soloists
And Ensembles
et Top Rating
ri
Ennis High School Band mem.
bers among first division rating
medalists in the regional band
contest at Baylor University last
Friday were announced today
by Ivan Goodwin, director of tho
band.
First division soloists from
Ennis were Nancy King, flute;
Nancy Telfair, flute; Donn®
Dixitii clarinet Dolores Jordan,
clarinet Lucy McBriertv, oboe;
Jmlv Martin, bassoon; and John
Findley, cornet.
Four Iinni-. High Band ensent*
hies were awarded fir->t division
ratings.
Due was ,i flute quartet com*
posed of Nancv King. Nancy Tel*
fair Patsy Hough and Edna An*
ne McMurray.
Two Enni> High School Band
clarinet quartets were rated in
the top division.
One was composed of Donna
o/.vmy Phyllis Todd. Linda
Haskovec and Donna Dixon.
Sally Anderson, Lora Jayn
Blount Donna McCord and Gain
Marefibanks made up the other,
A first division brass sextet
from Ennis was made up of
Charles Haskovec, Bobby Pecot,
Doris Parker Ray Telfair Jr.t
Troy Osborn and Joe David Bur*
lcson.
Lawyer Who Led Fight
For Texas City Survivors Dies
GALVESTON, Tex. (UP».—
Itw lawyer who led the fight
to reimburse victims of the
Texas City explosion 10 years
ago is dead in Galveston. He was
48-year-old Russell H. Markwell,
who was one of the state’s bet*
tor known trial lawyers. He was
president of the Galveston
County Bar Association. Mark-
well sparked the congressional
action which permitted disaster
relief payments to victims of tho
Texas City disaster.
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