The Palmer Rustler (Palmer, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1956 Page: 3 of 6
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ON HONEYMOON Dolois Faulkner, beautiful 1955 Maid
of Cotton, and Max Boydston, former University of Oklahoma
all-America end. are honeymooning after a surprise week-
end wedding in Sallisaw, Okla. Boydston played pro football
•with Chicago Cardinals last year.
Monday Deadline Set
For Swimming Classes
Ennis Delegates
Attending SPJST
Convention
.Toe B. Hejny, financial secre-
tary of SPJST Lodge 135, and
Frank A. Laznovsky. treasurer,
are attending a state convention
of the order now in session at
Temple.
The state organization is
known as the Slovanic Benevo-
lent Order of the State of Texas.
Mrs. Frances Kudrna. resident
of Ennis and member of SPJST
Lodge 84 of Dallas, opened the
convention program Monday
morning by singing the Ameri-
can National Anthem.
Young ladies from the Ennis
Sokol who participated in a pre-
convention program in Temple
on Sunday were Misses Sylvia
Laznovsky, Libie Vrla and Vlasta
Laznovsky.
Wesley Tupy is president of
the SPJST Lodge 135.
Other officers, in addition to
Hejny and Laznovsky. are Ru-
dolph Hrncir, vice president;
Mary A. Laznovsky, recording
secretary; Alene Skrivanek, re-
porter and Mary A. Laznovsky,
organizer.
the Ennis lodge was organized
in 1917. Meetings are held at
Sokol Hall on the second Sunday
of each month. Membership in-
cludes 121 adults and 21 juve-
niles.
A library of approximately
1,250 volumes is maintained
jointly by the SPJST and the
Sokol. SPJST President Tupy. is
librarian. Library boks are avail-
able to non-members at a mini-
mum fee.
The financial secretary of the
local lodge, Hejny, is SPJST or-
ganizer for the northern part
of Texas.
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FOUR FOR FIVE—Mickey Mantle, loft. Yankee cenlerfielder and home-run king, gives the
four-sign after hitting four for five in the Yankees game with Athletics at Kansas City, while
left fielder Norm Siebern, right, indicates with two fingers number of home runs he hit in
game. Center, is Yankee pitcher Johnny Knocks who won his 10th game, 9-3.
Swimming classes at the Opti-
mist Club swimming pool will be
closed after Monday, July 2, Jim
McCoy, co-manager and swim-
ming instructor, announced
day.
Tw5£group classes are held
every-day at 8 a m. and 8 a m.
Private classes begin at 10 a m
Hpheaar, these will be open for
new fSpils until the end of July.
Life Star Gas
Replacing Main
Along Preston
The pool is managed by Jude
Smith, history teacher and bas-
ketball coach at Ennis High
School, and Jim McCoy, princi-
to-1 pal of both Alamo and Travis
| Elementary schools and junior
high coach.
Miss F'llen Fowler, sophomore
at Ennis High School, assists
both in the office and concession
stand, as well as helping McCoy
and Smith with swimming in-
struction. ■
Lobe Star Gas Company crews
started hist week on a major re-
placement of gas pipe in t h e
Tower Hill area.
• J. :W. Branscome. Ennis dis-
trict^manager for the firm said
the project is expected to take
about three weeks to complete.
A total of 2.300 feet of four-
inch gas main is being replaced.
The ‘ line runs down Preston
Street from near Gilmer Street
to beyond Lake Street.
The line currently in use
runs under the pavement on
Preston Street. The old line will
be left in tact. The rew replace-
ment is being laid along t h e
parkway on the east side of the
street.
This is being done in order to
keep from having to
the street.
However, he pointed out, it
will be 'necessary to cross t h e
street in 23 places in order to
provide : service connections lo
homes on the west side of Pres-
ton Street.
Branscome said the pipe being
replaced.is now deteriorated and
leaking^ It has been in service
about twenty years. He said it
is being, replaced in order to
avoid frequent repairs to the
line.
Branscome said the new line
is expected to last about “to or
50 years. Mill-wrapped pipe un
der cathode protection against I uerKS
electrolysis is being used—he
He said electrolysis is t h e
cause of pipe deterioration
The job is under the super
There arc three lifeguards on
duty at all times and jhe acti-
vities around the pool arfe care-
fully supervised.
Mrs. Ann Bohannan is the
oldest member of one of the
swimming classes and her four-
vear-old daughter and Caron Sue
Marshall are the youngest mem-
bers of the class. Mrs. Bohannan.
who had never learned to swim,
is now able to cross and re-
cross the pool and to dive.
McCoy declares that the hard-
est thing a pupil has to learn is
to get his feet off the bottom.
Next, is to get him to put his
face under the water.
Group classes cost $15,
plus admission t" the pool. Pri-
vate lessons are $2 an hour. Ad-
mission to the pool is 15 cents,
25 cents, and 35 cents.
“And we guarantee you to
swim," McCoy promised.
The Optimist Pool is not a
profit-making undertaking, but
just about breaks even as far as
tear into expenses are concerned. Some-
i times in the past, however, the
club has had to underwrite ex-
penses when income was not
sufficient.
Two Ennis Children
Polio Patients
At Parkland
Two of the three reported El-
lis County polio cases are pati-
i ents at Parkland Hospital in Dal-
, las. All polio cases in Ellis Conn-
} tv so far this year have been in
i Ennis.
Hospitalized in Dallas are
j Senie Rosetta Estes, ten-month-
! old white infant, and Betty Joyce
j Steptoe, six-year-old Negro girl,
i The second of three children
; striken, two-year-old Shirley
Cripps, a Negro child, died soon
after being stricken with bulbar
polio.
A Palmer man was reported
to have contracted polio, but It
was later learned that this was a
“mis-diagnosis", Dr. John G.
Compton, county health officer,
reported.
W. R. Schween. Ennis, county
chairman of the National Foun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis,
stated that none of the children
striken had received inocula-
tions with Salk polio vaccine.
However, after the local children
were striken. the vaccine was
administered to children in Car-
ver Courts and in the Fairview
addition.
The Foundation is sponsoring
the Steptoe child at Parkland
Hospital, and the condition of
both patients is reported as satis-
factory.
Optimist & Opti-Mrs
Installation Thursday
Thursday, June 28, 1858
H. H. Lummus
Gets State Post
In Railway Clerks
H. II. Lummus, Southern Pa-
cific employee in Ennis, has
been elected to serve on the
board of trustees of the state
legislative committee of the
Brotherhood of the Railway
j Lummus was elected to serve
jas a trustee for two years at a
meeting of the state legislative
committee in Dallas on Sunday.
jHc was one of five men chosen
Vision of Carl Owens. Lone Star Ho serve.
* - He attended the meeting as a
representative from the Dallas
Austin Division of Railway
Four-door sedans were t h e
most popular bod ystyle with
auto buyers in 1955 and account-
ed for 38.4 per cent of the sales.
Trucks parked for any length
of time in Glacier National Park
must* be fenced in with wire.
Porcupines lost the taste of sny-
thetic rubber tires.
Billy Joe Gray
Burial at Bardwell
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at Keever
Chapel for Billy Joe Gray, 23,
who died suddenly Monday after-
noon at his home in Aledo.
Born in Rankin on November
9. 1932. lie had made his home
recently in Aledo after two years
service in the armed forces. His
father was the late C. C. Gray
of Rankin.
Burial was at Elm Branch in
Bardwell.
Pallbearers were Jack Good-
wyn, Alex Hodge. Raymond Ros-
well. Billy Brannon. H. M. Good-
wyn and Owen J Anthony.
Sgt. Washburn
Dies in El Paso
Sgt C. A. Washburn, whose
widow is tlie former Miss Hazel
Jones of Ennis, died at William
Beaumont Hospital in El Paso on
Tuesday after a long illness.
Sgt. Washburn was stationed
with the U. S. Army at Fort
Bliss. The Washburn home is at
8807 Mt Elbert Road. El Paso.
He was a native of Corsicana.
Survivors in addition to his
widow include his father a n d
one sister, both of Corsicana.
Funeral services were to b e
held at the Roadhaver Funeral
Home in El Paso at 2 p.m. today.
Burial was to he in El Paso.
St. Joseph's
Cemetery Ass'n
Slates Meeting
The St. Joseph’s Cemetery As-
sociation will meet at 7 30 p.m
Wednesday at the St. John
School Gymnasium.
All who have lots or grave
space at St. Joseph’s Cemetery
are invited to attend the meet-
ing. at which plans will tie for-
mulated toward caring for the
cemetery.
A female fish deposits thous-
ands and even hundreds of
thousands of eggs.
Rv DENNY CRALI E
■ SMI' Journalism Student
Installation ceremonies will be
held for the in-coming officers
of the Optimist and Opti-Mrs.
clubs of Ennis, at a banquet
Thursday, June 28 at 7:30 p.m.
at the Community Center.
Master of ceremonies for the
program will be Jack McKay, \
wlio will introduce Carl R. Jones
(he one to give the invocation.;
After tho dinner, guests will be
introduced by Fred L. Wilson.
McKay will then introduce Id.
Gov. Charles E. Ilarkley, in-com-
ing governor of District VII, Op-
timist International, who will
install the local officers of
both the Opti-Mrs. and the Op-
timist Clubs.
Dinner, which will bo cooked
by a committee from both clubs,
will consist of charcoal broiled
steaks, salad, baked potatoes,
iced tea and pie. Everything will
be served in buffet style
Mrs. Arnold Sebastian a n d
Mrs. Frank Cooper are on the
decorating committee.
Manuel Lee Harris
Dies at Age 83
Manuel Lee Harris, 83. former
resident of Ellis County died
this morning at lus home, 7(>U’>
Redbud Drive, Dallas.
Harris, a. retired farmer, was
born m Ripley; Sliss., and came
Presentation of the presi-ito Texas in 1891. He lived near
dent’s pins by Jack Poff will! Bristol and Kerns before going
precede the address. which will to Fort Worth in 1949 He bad
be given by the Rev. Lee Hargis, j made his home in Dallas since
Christian : 1953.
pastor of the First
Church. : f i j j
Opti-Mrs. officers being instal-
led .are: Mrs. Jack Poff, presi-
dent; Mrs. Seth Williams, vici
president; Mrs. Arnold Sebas-
tian, secretary-treasurer; Mrs.
Eugene Venable, director.
Taking office for the Opti-
mists will be: Jack Poff, presi-
dent; Charlie Muirhead, Jack
McKay, Arnold Sebastian, vice
presidents; Raymond Krulilek,
secretary-treasurer New m e m- I r-hil<Irf*n.
hers to the board of directors j Funeral
are Albin Vavra. Seth Williams
and Dick Letts. Hold-over mem-
bers on the board are Willie Hol-
ey. Robert Muirhead, and Eu-
gene Venable.
I In 1908 lie was married to
I Miss Annah Ketner of Kerris,
j Survivors include lus wife;
: foili otis. Albert Harris of Ter
1 roll. Hill Harris of Wills Point,
j Hardy Harris of Dallas and A.
| Harris of Garland; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Bradley Taylor of Wa-
1 xabaclne, and Mrs. Aline Deal
| of Dallas; one sister, Mrs, Dan
j Kunnup of Dallas; 17 grand-
children and 15 great grand-
Price Daniel
To Visit Ennis
Price Daniel, candidate for
governor, will make a brief visit
in Ennis, Saturday at 9.30 a.m.,
according to Len Gehrig, chair-
man of Daniel’s campaign for
Eastern Ellis County. Daniel will
be at the Community Center for
about thirty minutes.
Daniel will speak for a few
minutes and meet all those who
would like to come down. Coffee
will be served.
Coming here from Hillsboro,
where Daniel and his family will
breakfast, he will then stop for
a short visit in Italy before mak-
ing the scheduled stop in Ennis.
After leaving here, he will go on
to Waxahaehie.
Daniel will be accompanied by
his wife and four children, who
are makinug the tour with him.
Daniel’s wife, who was the for-
mer Jean Houston Baldwin of
Houston, is a great-great-grand-
daughter of General Sam Hous-
ton.
Their children are Price Jr.,
15; Jean, 13; Houston Lee, 10;
and John Baldwin, 8.
Winston Churchill
Arrested in Texas
BRKNHAM. Tex. (UP). —
The State Highway Patrol ar-
rested Winston Churchill here
today on a charge of being
overweight. But before wc go
any further—it wasn’t the
British statesman.
'Fliis Churchill... a driver
for a truck firm, was ticketed
for carrying an over-gross
weight load and for not hav-
ing a Railroad Commission
permit.
It cost the driver $78 fine
in justice court.
Kaufman County
Crash Victim
Korea Ace
KAUFMAN, Tex. (UP).—A 27-
year-old Fort Worth test pilot
and Korean jet ace has been
killed in the crash of his Shoot-
ing Star fighter plant near
here. Dead is First Lt. Ira Por-
ter.
Porter was piloting an air Na-
tional Guard jet on a simulated
interceptor mission when he
crashed in the southwest part of
Kaufman County. Another air.
Guardsman. Lt. John McLaugh-
lin, 27, of Irving—says he and
Porter were engaged in simu-
lated combat at 20.000 feet
shortly before the crash.
McLaughlin said Porter radi-
oed at 5,000 feet that he w a s
breaking off the engagement.
McLaughlin said that Porter’s
plane then went into a dive and
crashed.
Porter had been test pilot for
TEMCO for about one month.
He had 2,500 hours of flying
lime, some 2,000 of this in jets.
As a flier with the U.N. forces In
the Korean conflict—he was
credited with shooting down six
Communist MiG’s—which made
him an acc.
His decorations included the
Korean Service Medal, the tT.N.
Medal, an Air Medal with 10 Oak
Leaf Clusters, and the Silver
Star.
His place was based at Hen-
sley Field in Dallas. He was a
pilot in the 181st Fighter Scjtiad*
ron.
America’s Amazonia is the West-
ern Hemisphere’s smallest mem-
ber of the monkey family. Full-
grown specimens weigh only
three to five ounces.
From where I sit *. by Joe Marsh
Junior Gets
"Pinned" Down
services ;\t the Bris-
tol Baptist Church are scheduled
for 2 p.m. Thursday.
Burial under the direction of
Bunch Kmmert Funeral Home
will be in the Bristol Cemetery.
Junior Baker and friends are
ntt set for their cirrus. Look for
their ndvorlisemcirU on neigh-
borhood trees.
The kids have had problems in
stairing the event. The bisrsrest
was the admission fee. Junior
wanted to charge five renta, Mrs.
baker thought it would be much
nicer if they charted five pint.
So Junior held a meeting with
his Directors-then told hia
mother they’d taken her advice.
The ads now read: Giant Cirrus
in Maker’s Backyard. Admission
Km; Pins Pi.us Five Cents Tax-
From where I alt, that*i I
example of i mighty iMpovttM
point— if you want things to tWl
out your way, then yon hid belttf
let the other fellow kite kit
choice, too. For instance, if yon*
taste should happen to ron ti,
aay. ked tea ... then y*n own II
to yournrlf to see that tkate who
prefer beer, buttermilk or whot-
have-you get to enjoy thefr fn-
vorite beverages, too. After lit
torn about’* fair play.
flee,
Copyright, 1936, United States Brevets FdttfidaiU*
!Gas Company foreman.
Clements Warns
City Lake Water
Supply Short
Water Commissioner W. Har-
old Clements said this morning
that he was concerned about the
amount of lake water which is
’being wasted by filurc of resi-
dents to watch tlieir lawn sprink-
lers.
Clements said iic had noticed
water running down the streets
and that the city doesn’t have
any lake water to waste.
' At tflis time, there is enough
jhike water to last about two
month*, but if the citizens are
not conservative the supply
might fioLbst that long 'yithout
rain, the commissioner said.
Clerks Lodge 997.
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The Palmer Rustler (Palmer, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1956, newspaper, June 28, 1956; Palmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth801282/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.