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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
IN THE tfttli YEAH
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Slot* Official Urges
County Help on R-O-W
SAN ANTONIO. Tex tl Pi
Stele Highway Commissioner
Marshall Formby says state ami
county officials will have to
work ‘'.shoulder to shoulder
if Texas is to solve highway
right-of-way buying problems j
Formby spoke tins morning In'- j
fore the Texas County Judge* i
and Comissloners Association's
annual meeting here He said
the state sees a possible solution i
for the purchase of the reinamd !
cr of the right-of-way on the 2,-1
900 miles interstate system in,
Texas, because the federal gov- j
ernment will put up !X) per cent !
of the money. Hut he added ,
"We still need hundreds of
miles of new right-of-way for
our truck lin<, system in Tex-
as.”
Tax as Voters Approve
Amendment, 8 to 1
DALLAS. Tex (UP) - The
Texas Election Bureau reports
that voters Tuesday approved a
proposed welfare amendment to
the State Constitution by a mar
bin about 8-1. With 182 counties
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Light Freeze Due Here
Before Friday Morning
(NKA Telephoto)
SOI Til POLK LANDING—A Navy RID Skytram is shown landing at the South Pole In one of
fust pictures released by the Navy of South Pole Kxpedition Seven nu mbers of the expedition,
led by Hear Adin George .) Dtifek. made the landing The men weie first to set ftH»t on the Pole
since t apt Robert f alcon Scott of Britain and his party arrived there in 1012
Wit.
Alumni Sponsor Project:
Students at Palmer
Get Round of Shots
A free
for approval and only
against Because of th(, one-
sideness of the count, the TEB
says it will Issue no further ro-
ports.
Mail Fraud Trial
Of George Parr
Almost Stalls
HOUSTON. Tex (UP)-The
mail fraud trial of South Texas
Political Boss George Parr and !
eight associates, aheadv pronus
Ing to bo a marathon affair. |
almost ground to a complete ,
halt at Houston today.
Defense Attorney Percy Fore-
man. whose numerous objections j
in six days of testimony hav«
reduced progress of the trial to |
a snail's pace, attacked photo-
stattc copies of records, he want-
ed the originals introduced
The records are those of do J
posit slips from Parr’s former |
Texas State Bank of Alice Unit-
ed States Attorney Malcolm Wil- j
key attempted to Introduce the j
photostats in evidence '
Foreman objected and Federal I
Judge Allan B Hannay sent th<
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Low Near 30
Forecast For
Fnnis Area
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preventive medicine physician who is serving as pre.v; last of which will Ixi on May 15,
heard from-87 complete, the I Pr"«rfm, ./"r l>almor,1 public | Wen, of the alumni association.! 1957
count last night stood at 114.758] school children, from the first broupht his staff of nurses tot The rust project to come out
13 B42 through the twelfth grades is| Palmer on Wednesday to ad- j 1)f n.C(.„, reactivation of tho ! h,rv"out while W-Ukev'esoi-,.ne.1
I the second project which has .......... immunization against j a|ulnm was a scholarship prog- 17 “ wultty «*P“ineo
come out of the reactivation of , .small pox. poliomyelitis, dip- ram U1j|, j)r pajy antj Aubrey
the Palmer High School Alumni j theria, whooping cough and teta-1 ,joneS nf Beaumont each donat-
Association in October. | mis, with the combined diphthe-j j„g annual four-year college
Dr. Jack Daly. Fort Worth | ria, whooping cough and tetanus
Will OITOSI
his new contei e
continue to op
(tuition ol any
also announced
to .ill coin opts
(N K.\ Telephoto)
NI \\ lOlU’FS l’ie nli-nt li.eulioWei told
u e in \\ ,i. hingtoll th.it t In I lilted Slates would
•use. through the t iwtcd Nations, the intro
new loiti1 in the Middle Bast I lie President
Hu , ,i,r , use ut 11uve in Hungary as contrary
d right and justice in (lie world.
Murder Charges Re-filed
In Kaufman County
Kaufman, rex (i;pt
Charges of murder and assault 1
to murder originally filed
against Frit Kokcn Lang have
been re-filed at Kaufman
against Ferdinand Henry Cain,
the real name of the he whisk-
ered gunman. Cain is charged
with murdering and trying to
murder Kaufman County Sher-
iff James Becker. He is accused
of killing the Negro farmer
Saturday night and of wound-
ing Becker when Becker tried
to capture him Sunday. Sheriff
Christmas Seals
Mailed To 6,000
Ellis Countians
Tli,, annual Christmas Seal
imnnunization restricted to
children of 12 years of ago and
younger.
Scrums amt vaccine.-, are be
mg furnished free of charge by
the Statc Health Department
and Dr. Daly is donating li i s
services and those of his staff
Dr
scholarships to future grad-
uates who plan careers as class-
room teachers.
The alumni meeting in Octob-
er attracted 1(H) Palmer high
graduates from over the state.
Officers elected in addition to
Dr. Daly were Durwood Smith
T> , , , . . . , .of Palmer, vice president; Mrs.
I)jly has scheduled five Aubrey Jones of Beaumont, re-
additional visits to Palmer, the cording secretary; Mrs. James
Smackover Test
Troubles Remedied
Sale was launched by the Kills
County Tuberculosis Association
when more than 6,000 letters
and enclosed seals wer0 placed
in tlie mail Wednesday. i .
Munscy Bass, ica] sale chair-'111 NQVQrrO County
man. and Mrs Archie Hobson, f Circulation troubles in the
executive director of the as.so- Smackover tests for oil in Navar-
Bill Decker of Dallas County i c*a(*on- sa|d the directors and ro County had been remedied by
helped capture Cain. Cain was! m<’mhei s of the Junior Service j Wednesday morning
' !■•’?“«<■ <>f Waxahachl^ assemb- Thp Wcdnt>sday rop„rl WM
led all the material and prepar-
ed the letters and seals for mail-
ing
A mass chest x-ray is on,, of
the annual projects of the asso-
ciation
wounded in three fingers in the;
gun battle and they were ampu-j
tnted in Dallas
Wester of Palmer, correspond-
ing secretary; Miss Katherine
Schwartz of Palmer, treasurer,
and Mrs Lester Epps of Palmer,
report or.
A constitution and by-laws
were adopted and dues were set
at $1 annually, payable to Miss
Schwartz.
that the original deposit slips
were in the files of the Texas
Court of Criminal Ap|>calx in
Austin which refused to release
tbcin on an ordinary sub pen a
Judge Hannay agreed with
Foreman that to admit the photo-
stats instead of the originals
might constitute a ‘ grave error"
in the proceedings. He agreed
Rev. Howell Tells Lions
English French Wrong
The Rev. Maggard
Howell, that this principle holds true in
to issue a special order to bring j superintendent of the Waxalia 'mans private relationships and
the Appeals Courts records Into chic District. Methodist Church 'in international relationships ho
the federal court here slanted Ins talk on l.inni in to tween nation.-
WiJkcy tried to dictate an or-j ward the present < 11 us in world i The speakei said he thought
d«r only after WUkey handed affair* when he appealed a> the United States government
it to him in proper form and [ guest speaker at the luncheon did the right thing in refusing | South rex;
Foreman had an opportunity to l meeting of the Knius Lion-Club to condone the aggression mi muling tli
Child Killed, Family Injured
In Gasoline Stove Explosion
LAMESA. Tex (UP) A gaso- j
line stove blew up today in the ,
home of Simon Herrera, killing
one of his children and critical-)
ly burned three other children,
and his wife. Herrera was at |
work in Odessa when the stove ■
exploded, setting his home on j
fire—and he escaped being
burned. The homt, is on t h c |
Huddleston farm near Flower!
drove, 15 miles south of Lamc-|
Governor Designates
Christmas Seal Days
AUSTIN. Tex (UP).—Gover-
nor Allan Shivers has designat-
ed the period from now until
December 24 as "Christmas Seal
Days” in Texas. He called upon
all Texans to "make a sound
investment in health and hap-
and
HUNTERS—See Buddie
for Trip Insurance.
Davis
that circulation had been re-
stored and that the well was
drilling ahead at 6,787 feet in
llie Travis Peak formation with
no show of oil.
The well is known as the Tex-
as Company's Sma< kovei No 1
Kdcns, ls north ol Navarro
Dam Dedication Slated
Tuesday at Midlothian
The first of 21) dams planned A B Jolley, agricultural direc-
hy the United States Soil Con-'tor of KRLD and The Times
servation Service in a compre-i Herald, anil 1, M True, presi-
hensivc program of soil and wa- dent and manager of the* Mag-
tcr conservation and upstream nolia Pipeline Co , all of I) a I-
prevention on Mountain Cre«*k las; Marvin C Nichols, Texas
will be dedicated at 2 p in ! Water Meson roes committee-
Tuesday at Midlothian. I man and Bill Durham farm edi-
The ceremonies will be held, tot of The Star Telegram, both
at the north end of the dam on | of Fort Worth: A C. Spencer.
Weather Ideal
For Opening
Of Deer Season
AUSTIN. Tex. (UP).—Idea!
cool weather with mor«, of the
same over the weekend was
forecast today as sportsmen pre-
pared for th0 opening tomorrow
of Texas’ annual deer season.
Predictions called for cold,
near freezing temperatures, in
the main whitetail ranges of the
Hill Country.
in a long-range forecast, the
Weather Bureau said the chill
readings will probably be sus-
tained over Saturday and Sun-
day when the bulk of the hunt-
ers are expected in the field
Shooting hours under Texas'
| general big game law are from
j one-half hour before sunrise to
' one-half hour after sunset. Limit
! under the general law is t w o
! buck deer.
object to It. I at the 'Texas Power and Light
Testimony was allowed to con Building on Wednesday
tinue on other matters not per- j Taking his cue from the let
tainlng to the records in ques tors in the word "Lions." (lie
tion, which, Wllkey said, were I Rev Mi Howell said the I." i
used as evidence against D C. I for LiIhtIv. "I" for intelligence,
Chapa, one of the current defen-; and ONS" for Our Nation s
dants, when he was tried in a Safety
state court at Fort Stockton ear-1 Mr nOW(.|i sai)| there are two
lier this year. viewpoints toward life, that ol
Chapa was convicted and haS|t,M. ( I,.(|lt(M and that of the deb-
tor
lie declared th.it the mi in with
th«“ creditor point of vu w who
Ih Iii vc that lift owi him e\t i)
thing, will be a slave to lib*
If Americans believe flu' they
are in ■ le l.t to (hut and \men< a
tIn y will l>e living then Itv< . in
liber l y and f i eedoni In si
The only u av to lie tree i to
tie - lid adilui '
appealed the conviction
In testimony yesterday, a
school census taker testified that
he never saw checks on which
his signature had been used for
endorsement.
The witness, Francisco San-
chez of Alice, said he took a
school census in March, U)51,
in the Benavides School Dktiiet.
and was paid only In cash for Ins 0|>(.y t|H. j;ivv
work.
lh*' Fast t»\ her friend.s, Kngland.
I'l.uiee and luael
'The speaker said there has
been so mm h piopoganda in tins
country that lie (ears that Atni'ii-
i .ms cannot look at the problem
oliject ividy
Hr told of a visit to the Middle
Ka-t and of conditions which tie
observed, including the plight
ol K),000 Arab refugees held in
a detent ion camp on the Dead
Sea and living in unthinkable
poverty.
T riglaud and France do not
have tlie right to disobey the law
tin
Jerry Vestal
Hit By Auto
On Highway 34
, , , US Highway 287—threp miles
pincss by buying and US,TJ*> | west of Midlothian, unless there
C hristmas Seals dunng the hull* i Js rajn or grounds. Jack
day season. | Anderson, president of the
ML Creek Watershed Associa-
J tion announced
I If it is wet. the program will
Jerry Lyn Vestal, 18, is ri j>or1-
»“d to Ixj resting comfortably at
, Ennis Municipal Hospital after
, „,MllI ,, v, , , , However, severalOnjing siruck by an automobile
executive director of thp Texas I are,as hav,c varyin« regulations as h(, rodc hh blcych near Ins
State Conservation Board. Tern-1 •spor,smpn were urged tojhome on Highway 34. approx.
an(1 .......i»c .......iJ check local game laws. The'
Navy Tightens
Pacific Defenses
PEARL HARBOR Hawaii d 'Pi
I ('ornbat r*-.uly I S w a 1 sin p -
ai» g.U hei mg at IN nl tl.ii hoi 1
par1 id .1 In fen I)cpartin. nt
i(|» r to t iglili n up I In- n.ition
(h fi n .< liiglit <i> ,t 1 o\* * r 1 In 1 1
ci in ri 1 and an an >i aft tan in
air cad v have at i ived at t lie
I law mall l).i ,i' and three mol e
1 ci f I lii - w* |e expected
Am
Id and of humanity,!
it
day is dawning in
nd t he wail Id can see
n a is no longer put
• , gilt ori I he side of
1, he said I
a nt , mor e Territory
n. to hold on to the
i ■; w ! 11 < i 1 - iie nas no
pi kei added.
n, 1 en 1 arks were an
an inti lligi nt view
inUdiigence in the
I and the w ill ol the
Parti an mint Insured up to $10,-
(I-Ml hy 1 ederal Deposit Insur-
11 nee Corporation. Knnix Slut
Hank
t I
to partly
a and west
on.11 hiii :n :o>s Texas it inni-
morning from Sulphur Springs
to VV. . 0 and Junction It was
nun in:; m ail beast ward and was
expected to clear the Texas
coa t hy night fall
S. altering bowers and thund-
’ showers fell along the upper
Texas Coast and northward
through Hast Texas ahead of
tig. front with clearing wea-
ther back of it
A downpour of 2 60 inches of
war in ram Hooded eight Hous-
ton underpasses and slowed
Iralfie to a crawl last night and
early today.
While the low in Fnnis in the
morning is expected to he in the
\iunitv of 30 degrees and temp-
eratures will drop to th free",
"g mark over much of North
Central and West Texas, fore-
casters say a hard freeze is in
prospest for tli,, Panhandle and
South Plains The low in Dalhart
in the Panhandle last night was
a freezing 24.
Meanwhile. Kingsville in
Wednesday wax re-
nal urn's high read-
ing of MM degrees The highest
low’ in tli(, state this morning
was at Brownsville in tho Lower
Rio C.randlo Valley with 73 do*
grees
Southerly winds of 20 to r.O
miles an hour along the G u 1 f
( oast will shift to northerly to-
night when the front moves in
and small craft warnings were
hoisted a( daybreak along the
'Texas Coast
The cold front moving
through Texas today marks the
edge of a cold an mass j sociat-
ed wph a large high pressure
area centered ovvr Wyoming
The front at noon today ex-
tended from Dubuque, la to >0
miles west of St. Louis, to 20
miles west of Texarkana to 10
mil* , .soutbras' of College Sta-
tion to flit miles south ol D*.'l
Rio.
Tim- s* .iMi it’ll thundershow-
ers ahead nf the front extended
fi><•'• i i Cm ihc Suutheas' lexas
non)e 1 1 ward into I n d 1 1 n 1.
K.iiij and driz/'e fell over Iowa
oul Sou' horn Wisconsin and
sleet m t ppm Michigan.
li mowed today from We.st
Centi 11 Kansas northward
111 re 111' 11 tl Dakota'-, Minnesota
and Northern Wisconsin.
Requiem Mass Said
For Miss Spaniel
pie, and Rufus Peoples, presi*. , , „ ,, .-------^ — ...... ..
dent Of the p,n Oak Creek Wa- ma‘n army of,ll,)ntcr^ W|M movt‘: Steak House, around 4 45
ont0 private leases, but a small
4,126 Texans Enter
Armed Forces During Month
AUSTIN. Tex (UP)—The
State Selective Service Head-
quarters reports a total of 4.126
Texans entered the armed for-
ces while 3.850 were leaving ac* I address
live duty during October. State ‘
tershed Association. Tohuacana
The Midlothian Chamber of
Commerce will honor the speak
of the
p m
Church at Midlothian.
Jim Wright of Weatherford
congressman of tig, )2'h Dis-
trict. will give the principal
He will be introduced
nr.fl Director Colonel Morns | «, IoMc-kc
s. Schwartz says only 848 Tex- [h ,)|SfrR.t c
*»* «“««l «•* mllilary forccs! ' N. II Smith Temple, .tale
conservationist of the It s SCS.
through the draft boards. The
rest went Into uniform "hy en-
listment or other voluntary
means,” he says.
Wtathor
Fair this afternoon
through tomorrow Colder
tonight. Highest this after-
noon in middle 50's—low-
est tonight near 30: highest
tomorrow around 50. North-
erly winds 20 to 25 miles
per hour, diminishing to-
morrow.
be held in the First Methodist | ers with a noon luncheon at the
I Midlothian Civic Center.
Th
is designated Detention I) a m
No 10 Those who provided
easements for the structure
were Tom D. Watson and G. W
Brown. Midlothian, Mrs. Nettie
' Mae Burks and R. W. Swinson,
Dallas. Magnolia Pipeline Com-
pany. Dallas Hill County Elec-
tric Cooperative, Itasca, and the
Kills County Commissioners’
I Court
I Landowners and others invol-
ved have already provided the
necessary easements on 20 of
20 sites
Two other structures, located
J on the Soap Creek tributary
1 have been approved for con
struct ion.
Recent rams have provided
water behind the darn to be ded-
mately one mile east
Steak 1
Wednesday.
Highway Patrolman James K
Vaught who investigated the a^
cident said young Vestal, son
structure to be dedicated! son Coun,“*s' Thcsc hunters of Mr. and Mrs II. T. Vestal, was
will harvest surplus whitetails,)riding west, looking into the
and excess does will be taken:sun, and apparently did 1 nt see
during a .special .season later in the automobile driven hy Josetdi
the fall.
number of sportsmen will par-
ticipate in public hunts opening
tomorrow on wildlife manage-
ment areas In Kerr and Andcr-
Fi iner
i]
services for Miss
B!fi nor
Sp
imei were held at
• ■ .. S(
. V,,
hn Catholic Church
‘ W.-dnesi
11>
morning with t h 0
Rev Jo
McCallum as cole-
bi inf t
r t
he requiem mass.
&
M.
at Knni9
Monday
will explain the program up-
stream flood prevention and
soil and water conservation.
A. T. Vandiver, of Burleson,
supervisor of the Dalworth Soil
Conservation District will ex-
tend the welcome, Rev. Hugh
Jeffers, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in Midlo-
thian will give the invocation.
Among dignitaries who have
accepted invitations to attend
arc Ben H Carpenter president.
15 Kirkland Jr of Tyler
The boy made a left turn to
go into the driveway at Ins home
and ran into Kirkland's ear, ac-
cording to the patrolman s re
port.
The bicycle was demolished
a , , and the bov was knocked, or car-
(lowntovu, Ilonv^KK, Tin‘aier rjpd #bnu, m
Worth of *75 last night He j T|,c drlvfr thc c„ accom.
then fled on fool panlod thc Occident victim to thc
I he name of the picture now j s . .
showing." You Can t Run Awa> According to reports, an X-
rom__ray examination revealed that
Cross-Eyed Bandit
Misses Marquee
FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP)-
A cross-eyed bandit robbed the
| ol the ImuLy liivti AuliiuiUy, icatui luc.djy.
Be flnanHally Independent »br boy had a broken, or cracked
Start aeeonnt now. Special f,f1Har bone and a broken, or
bank by mall serrlce available, cracked wrist. The boy is also
Member of FDIC. F«nla State reported to ho suffering from
Balk, | back yuiuj ami a iwollcu loot.
"HOT’* COBALT—Protected by a lead shir Id, Corporal Bebrrt K.
Kernsrn of /.umbrota. >1inn4 nv* the radiation to calibrate a
C,i i*» r loimtiT. ll<‘ Is ,'M Instructor In tlir It AIllVC eour«r at tha
Army S1-n.1l ( Hr bool. I ort Goriloo. a. "RADIAC" Dual
"filiation dctiction, IJenUlication and coniputation.**
Burmi under the directuin of
, ’h)' B irifh Funcr.il Home was in
s; Josfph Cemetery with Joe
| Spaniel of W ixahni hie. Ray-
I I'l'ind \ Ik 1 »f Houston. Louis
t \1 n h of I) ill.is ami Milton Span-
<1. Ji'hnny Spaniel jrid Georg®
‘ Taraba all 1 #f Fnnis, serving as
I pallbearers.
Five Ton Sl«amroll«r
' Stolen in San Antonio
, SAN ANTONIO. Tc . (UP),^.
1 \ five ton orange colored ytcam*
I roller was stolen from a road
1 ’onstruction inb in Northwest
* san Antonio early tinlay. Resi-
, Jfr»ts of the area said they saw
; w<> men in .1 truck pulling Um
i roller behind it about dawn.
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Bus, Daniel W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 272, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1956, newspaper, November 15, 1956; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth786186/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.