The Palmer Rustler (Palmer, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1956 Page: 2 of 8
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- TW f>UMFR Rr*TI.rR-Thursday vtar.h 19'fi
Citizens Sought Firm:
Big Announcement
No Surprise in Ennis
York by the Flintkote Company
etmoerning the location of a large
; ant in Fniil* conics as no sui-
pi isc to many Ennisitcs.
Many local business, civic and
industrial leaders have* been en-
raped for several months in a con-
ceited effort to show Flinkote of-
ficials Enms is the perfect site for
tin* mulii-rnillion dollar Texas
bint planned by the company.
Th< aplended cooperation of so,
many Enms busineasmon with each
ether, their chamber of commerce
.nicl Flintkote was one of the mam
< a sot is the company selected Ermis
• <•: ns many competitors for the
Plant, H L, Evans vice-president,
. aid m New Jersey during a long-
distance telephone conversation
vc .Mi a r eporter of The Ennis Daily
Niw.
tion.
Alter spending mos* of the day
ironing out small details, Steno-
graphers Ouen Satterfield and Mv.;.
Raymond Jones were called in to
h’Ip prepare papers and Flintkote
siuned w* n» the local tear .
Today':. announcement dinraxc -
months of negetis-i<-i.s winch had
an i.sed ih< interest of practically
all of Ennis' citizens in the process.
That's why th< announcement
comes as no surprise to must Ennr-
sites.
Youth Fair Prizes Revealed
A prize of $250 for
champion and $200 for the reserve
champion have been provided for
the grand the rems ered show heifer $1Q for the lrhl pn/r for sows
Davis Oil Company is provi^,.
will receive a $50
States Saving Bond donated by the
fa, calves in the April 2 Youth Fair -
the annual Ennis Chamber of Ju*'n ■ 1 *' “
Commerce sponsored animal and anc* and ■ 1I1C ‘ '
Pr zes for females under fifteen
$25, Ben Frank*
with.
VVRONC STATION All was quiet at 2 a.m. in Mrs. C. W. Owen's lam.drv luK.Uon
1,1 },"uslo.n’ a^einbJe crash awakened her. She yelled: “Wake up, daddy, there’s
a car m the house, hnver Sam (.entry sleepily explained he must have fallen asleep
at the wiuel and the car crashed through a wall.
poultry show for Future Farmers |
of America, Future Homemakers of months are first
America and 4-H Club members of lin S ore; second, $20. Lone St.u
the area. Donors of the two prizes 1 Laundry: third, $15. Western Auto
are the Citizens National Bank and Store: fourth. $10, Jack Oates and
the Pla,iters Cotton Oil Mill. J Ray Adams of Palmer .
The two runners-up will receive Prizes for females over fifteen
$125 each, donated by the Ennis months are first. $25. M J. Stunner,
Tag «Sr Salesbook Company and the, second. $2U, Kirkpatrick Oin: thiid,
rtn-on oin Company. $15, Doyle Rcddc" of Pain.tr,
HEAVY FAT CALVES fourth. $10, L. C. Roberts.
Other prizes provided for fat REGISTERED DAIRY ANIMALS
calves in the heavy d.vision are; The exit bitor of the grand cham-
‘hird., $100. Commercial State Batik | pion dairv femaie will receive a $50
bond provided by the Ennis Motor
Kiwanis Slate
Amateur Show
Ennis’ negotiations with Flint-
u* fur the plant started in Jan-
uary. It was then that Chamber of
( »mn,e:ce Manager Jack McKay
■vituti from Roy Switzer, indus-
; iai agent of Southern Pacific,
that the big firm was looking for
.. Texas sue fur the construction
i . ;. i a plant.
McKay called Evans, who was in
Dallas at the time, but found that
M.ntk *• execuive was leaving
to: New York. Evans asked Mc-
Ka, to write hi company sending
.n:urination on Ennis.
After the initial deta.ls had bee-n
lit, many jKusons cooperated in
or mg and presenting detailed
: -to-date data at the request ol
'lie company.
Included were current labor sur-
•> for E. J Wooer Jr., the firm’s
personnel director, compiled with
the assistance of Texas Employ-
ment Commission and local firms.
Complete engineering details on
the proposed site were presented
to Clue: Engineer H R. Zinn
through the cooperation of Texas
Pozt r and Light Company, Lone
•Ptai Gas. the City of Emus. Sou-
Murn Pacific and many others.
When telegraph, telephone and
air mail communications between
Texas and New York reached a
crescendo in mid-February, Charn-
: *•: of Commerce President Noel
peers and other chamber leaders
was time to send a del-
t-tion to New York to confer per-
i naily with Flintkote executives.,
Many firms and individuals co-
. ,'erakfcd with the City of Ennis and
the- Chamber of Commerce in spon-
rmg the trip to New York. As an
aded measure. a number of En-
Plans are underwav foi the an-
nual Kiwanis Amateur Night.
The product;, n will be presented
r, May 4 at San J. in'. Auditor-
ium.
Flintkote Operation
International in Scope
Flir.tk*
Applca:ions are'now Doing taken
f. r participation and must be it- °* Knn->
u'i'-id by tuc commutee by April
T The try-Ait dat*. will be an-
nounced after all appiu aliens have
been rect:ved
Rehe.rs.il f. r tin final produc-
tion. 'after applicants have been
uppr ved, will U- May 1.
Applications should be sent to
the Eni-i- Kiwanis Club with com-
; life information. Ar. application
blank appears elsewhere in the
N ws
..■ the newest member
industrial family by vir-
tue of r S20,000.u00 program in-
volving the expansion of produc-
tion :acihties. new products, and
the acquisition of new business.
The huge c mjjany has plant
areas located to serve the main
geographical sections of the United
States and Canada which represent in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago
Tnc December 31. 1955 balance c.ucts are used in construction
sheet of the Flintkote Company work, the automotive industry and
showed total current assets of $37.- many other processing and manu-
017.077 compared with total cur- facturing fields. These adhesives
rent liabilities of $10,446,876. are produced at plants located in
Philadelphia, Whippany, N. J., and
The company *iaintauis execu- Toronto. Canada. Other Flintkote
v° lctf a oc kc eller Plaza iitjUld Products plants also produce
in NtA ^01k- mstrict MX** are 1 adhesive products.
of Palmer and Guy Henry: fourth.
$75. Safeway Stoles: fifth. $50. Todd
Implement Company; sixth. $50,
Murmunill Corporation of Ferris;
seventh. $50, Kirvin Gin: eighth,
j $50. Thomas and Poff and Robert
I Muirhead; ninth. $50, Lone Star
j Gas Company; tenth. $50, Ellis
I County Purebred Livestock Associa-
I tion; eleventh. $60. W. W. Odom
and Elmer Doherty; twelfth. $50,
| Ennis Wholesale Grocery and Sani-
; tary Grocery of Palmer, thirteenth,
j $50, Slayton Insurance and Ennis
Lumber Company.
Other prizes provided for fat cal-
| ves in the light division are third,
5100, Ennis Feed and Seed and Ell.s
County Gin of Palmer; fourth $75.
United Publishing Company; fifth.
$50, W. D. Arden Insurance Com-
pany; sixth. $50. Leggett and Platt
Company; seventh. $50. Merchants
and Planters Gin of Palmer: eighth,
$50. Southwestern ,8011 Telephone
J. C. Carter
Says American’s
Future Bright
a plant . uci property investment of
approxnr.ately $60.000.000.
The firm'.' new facilities planned
for Ennis will strengthen the
c .r.pany in its already well-estab-
lished posit km m the rapidly ex- '
pondm*. Southwest market.
Heights, Denver. Detroit. East Ru-
Company; ninth, $50, Thompson i
Cafe and J. W. Sodders; tenth, $50. J pnZi‘ ,s $0
, . Evarts Furn.ture and Ennis Tractor •
le.t ls a ouaic ingDdient in many company; eleventh. $50. J. A Pen-
Company. Woody's Service Station.
Davis and Collins Drug Store and
H and H Hardware Company.
Other pit zes for Jersey cows are
first. $20. Southern Auto, Floyd's
Service Station and Maurice Smith
Station; second $15. Jack's Feed
and Seed; third, $10. Ennis Pharm-
acy and Red Moon Petroleum;
fourth. $5. Pollan Furniture Com-
pany.
O'her prizes tor jersey bulls are
first. $20: .second, $15; third. $10.
j fourth, $5.
Prizes of $29. $15. $10 and $5 have
: been provide 1 for first, second,
j third and fourth whiners for Jerseys
1 mufti' one year and also Jerseys
over one year.
fat I-AMItS
The first place winner in the f.tt
lambs divis on will receive Slo From
the Na ional Gar.v.e. Si eoud prize
in this division is $7 50 and th.rd
:hiiford. N. J.; Lockport, N. Y.; Los * lllUitt>te products and the com- ny and Son and C. R. Anthony
pany maintains its owm felt nulls company; twelfth. $50. Bob Osborn
Rites to Be Held
For Baby Ray
Angeles. Meridian, Miss.: New Or-
leans. Philadelphia, Portland. Ore-
gon, Salt Lake City. San Francisco,
Seattle. Waco. Washington, D. C.;
Whippany, N. J.; London. Montreal
Toronto. Hilo. T. H.; and Honolulu.
Its operating subsidiaries in-
clude the Flintkote Company of
Canada Limited,
At Little Feny, N. J., Lockport, N
Y.. Mt. Carmel, 111., New Orleans
and Los Angeles.
Flintkote, a pioneer in the resi-
lient tile industry, has floor and
wall manufacturing plants in
and Harry J. Stone; thirteenth. $50,
Ed Keever, Deacon Grain Company,
and Wm. Cameron and Company.
REGISTERED SHOW HEIFERS
Tiie grand champion female in
Pre-Easter Service
J. C. Carter. Southern Pacific Funeral sendees for Terry Wayne j
executive assist a net lor public re- H.»y. infant
lations, told an audience of 200
Chicago Heights, New Orleans. Los
Flintkote Mines i Angeks and Toronto, Canada.
Limited, the Patent and Licensing Special products used by auto-, - ,
Corporation. Industrial Asphalts nmbile manufacturers are produced ThGITI© AnnOUHCGCl
Company, Limited, and Flintkote b>’ Flintkote at Lockport, N. J. D -- . ..
France S. A. R. L. ; Paper board products are manu- DV /VlGthOClfSlS
Raw materials that go into the1 fact,uretl at LfiS Angeles and San "The Deeper Meaning of The
,,. nf _ | manufacture of Flintkote products Lfcandro* California. ; cross of Christ" will be the general
and -Mrs. I . .....Flintkote has plants producing j theme for the sermons at special
HOGS
The PI.!/.: Thea’er h.i: pr >v ided !
a $25 bond for the grand champion I
female lug
The Barron Br.ck Company has j
provided prizes of $10, $7.50 and S5
for the first, second and third
place winners for both gilts under
six months and gilts from six
months to one year.
Dr. R E. Erisman is providing
$10 for the first prize for sows with
litters; Burford Drug is donating
S7.50 fur the second prize; Dr. Eris-
man is donating $5 for third prize.
out litters; Layton Appliance is I)ro.
viding $7.50 ftu- second place, dUVj
Oil Is providing $5 for third prJZf
fat barrows
The Texas Power & Light Com.
pany has provided prizes fur f a!
barrows including $25 for first, $15
for second and $10 for each of th»
other w-nner* through eighth
POULTRY
North Feed & Seed Company
donating prize money or broilers
including $20, 15. $10 and $5 f0r
first, second, third and fourth 1.1.
for broilers, five to a pen w,th no
broiler weighing less than
pounds.
PRIZE RIBBONS
L & S Ranch is provid.n** $r,o ;jr
prize ribbons.
Crumley Hardware Company
donating ribbons for best showman!
ship in dairy and beef atuin.il Jiv,.
sions.
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
Other contributors to tin.*
are Nelli Bottling Company GUur.
anty Maidet and Grocery. Kend,,;;
Furniture Comiiany, Home Lutker
Company. Joe Kuchar. Allei. yur.
niture Company. Roy Watson 0:
Palmer, A. M Goodwvn and
Ne ey's Cafe.
According to Gerald Tolleson
general chairman for the shuw-
| no prizes wil be awarded in classe.s
j where there are less than three
| entries.
Ribbons will be given to all prize
w.liners through fourth place
The order of the sale will be
1 calves, fat lambs, fat barrows ana
t broilers.
Tlu* show will be held at the En-
nis Livestock Commission building
1 on Highway 3 4. east of Emus.
Judging will begin at 9 am
POLITICAL
Announcements
at the Ennis Business and Pries-
cior.al Club’s annual public affairs
banquet last night that the econo-
mu fuiuic- 01 the United States is
brighter than it has ever been.
He told the gathering at Taber -
. nade Bap.-st Church * Fellowship
Hall that there- is an industrial
"growth ne-ver before equally and
that the trend toward new con-
struction is 80 per cent to the South
and Southwest.
He warned the communities that
Atwell Ray are scheduled to be-
held at Bauch-Eminent Chape! at
2 p.m. Sunday.
The infant vvas barn at Ennis
Mum. :pai Hospital this morning.
Buri.d will be in Myrtle Ceme-
Joe Laza Takes
Training Course
uuaus ait* ui\ctsuu?u.
koteJ^retenUy has four mo-
lai^^toP*1hfl productibi#and
come from many parts of the world. ... . - - - - ____________ -- ......
Tliese selected materials—asplialt lCpup asphaltic products in many; pre-Easter srv.ces a*, the First
libers, cement and other ingredients dl*lerent Parls of United States, ‘ Methodist Ch’lch beginning at 7:30
are processed into finished goods i ^aua,c*a anc* *n Great Britian. I p in. tonight and continuing
The company has recently ac-1 through Friday night,
quned for cash the Insulrock Corp- The sacrament of the Lord's S-:p-
oiauon which lias plants in Linden, per will be adminustered tallowing
N. J., and Richmond, Va. Insul- j the Good Friday service,
rock is a unique acoustical, insula- j Two identical services w.ll be
ting, fireproof building material, held Easter morning, at 8:30 am
Sales of Insulrock Corporation were
running at an annual rate of ap-
proximately $6,000,000 at the time
of the purchase.
Flintkote’s last annual statement
to shareholders showed that 1955
j in the film's many plants.
Manufacturing locations, as well
as products are diversified
Flintko
i dem pi
; disk ributllti "i pt asbestos-cement
products including siding, roofing
and flat sheets. These are located
■ at East Rrutherford. N. J., Chicago
! Heights. Nenv Orleans and San
i Bernardino, California.
and at 10:50 am
Mrs. Anna Lee Fink w.ll direct
the special Eas^r music.
the common 3ood'
bound .n
Gated.
Carter was introduced by S. A.
Findley. Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi, and one at Hilo, Hawaii.
The Meridian mill, located near the
Flintkote forest, used wood fiber
its manufacturing, while the
m
Phil T.dd said that Joe Laza
P>esidfnt voG Sneers '’itrr.d-v*H ts the second member of his Service tT , 7,' '
r.i.sic n- .-aj -jpet.., ....roauceJ _, . JI1I0 plant utilizesthebagasseresi-
itpre^enutnes of Enins’ various
industr.es and members of the
chamber of commerce industrial
committer. who were guests of
BAiPW for the occasion.
the
Dt-partnitr.t *0 attend tire new
Center, and that he plans to make due oI iligar cane processing,
he training a continuous practice The company alvj produces a
so ‘hat his customers may be better diversified line of industrial ad-
served. hesivts and cements. These pro-
Eugene Bates, 34,
Dies at His Home
Eun'-- f. B:--Uy 34. d.ed at his
home on Rouy 2 at 11:30 pin
Tuesday after a snort illness.
Jit was bon: March 15, 1922 at
lived near Ennis all
La* ht
Lev.
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111-
s through .
. and 8P
Swft/yfr. ,n
the fullest with
ihout the nego-
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b> tfieir u i -
the day to it -
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u.tv- Cummu>-
K»*t.a .1, City
Floyd
t U* HIMU J
• hnuthern Fs
czett anc
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• :: vivnrs inrlnd* h parent ,
nd Mr C S Bate. M Frinls:
b: F: neia Bute; and
• • B-'• J Flu s. Fioyd Bates
Dai: jod J. ’lies Bate. of
\ . M WiKn
H • : arm 1";.,. ,e, Mrs
L M-a of Ji: M: Afjis
t:e> of Pabi.i: and M\ Leroy».
•va Bate:, and
all of DalLts
nf is his * ran dime
M Bates A Enin
,^< es st tiie Pen’e-
in Em s will be -
h .rent id M.v g<
M a I> roUi.v hate;
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•her, Mrs I
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cos-isl Ohm
10 am Ti.<. susy
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_______ ________ „ Joe Laza of Todd Pontiac Co.
businessmen sem telegrams ad- 1 and do noc advan-' has just completed an intensive, F , roofimr niants nro I" --------------- -------- —
c mdiviaual inviutions to Flint- of.l, l,he ^ three day course in the latest ser- • ^ ' net reached S100 995.992 for a
.- to locate here. which will piesent themselves with- vice lechniques and lheory on 1956 ! ” shingles new record, compared with $94..
iVaitAr b Fid,- PH v~v*r »nn 111 the next ^ ***** ^U1 find air conditioning at the' General! and T-1 roofing. These aie touted 804.706 in 1954.
themselves out of the race as com- M,t0;,s Trammc Center m Garland,
nvumties go.
He said that no city can stand "The best way to learn is to do",
still. "You either go backward or This is the basic premise for all
forward. Carter declared trainin'-; in these modern Centers.
"When chambers of commerce's The best equipment, and specially f°rd- Chicago Heights and Culver
spend mor.ev to bring in new in- trained instructors make these the j City, California,
dustries and new businesses they finest automotive mechanical Flintkote lias two large insula-
aic doing something that wall re- schools in the world, according to board mills—one at Meridian,
Todd Pontiac Co., local Pontiac
dealer.
*i2LL YOUR CAR An Ennis Dally
Walter B Rider, Ed Keever, and
Ja k McKay, who represented En-
.. in New York, returned enthu-
Mastic ove the city’s prospects lor
unng the industry.
Communications with Flintkote
ntinued until March 12. when
Howard Hadigian. Flintkote civil
i ngineer. arrived for a personal
ok at the rite Confident he would
uie what he would find here, the
Luma Cliambei- of Ccciunerce pro-
■ iced him with a car to enable
...ti to go where he chose and see1
vvhat he wished to see.
On Wednesday. March 14. George
Mi Kenzie, vice president and sec-
retary. and H. L Evans, vice presi-
••nt, joined Hadogian here.
\ team of business and indu.s-
al leaders capable of answering
c lest ions in which trie Flintkote
Company had <-xpre,v.ta interest
were selected to meet with the
.-.itmg executr.es.
Iiialudt-d were such men as
(’.lumber President Speers. RaJ-
>.id superintendent F. E Hotter.
1 i ir trial Leaders Gamer Dunker-
I G. Moore, and Harry Com
’ll Financial Leaders Walter B
i .«nd Cecil T >lleson Business
i'..dc hi Keever and W. W
'' vn, Inturanceman Chug Slav-
i and Attorm y George P Hi;.,.
5. i pnwi;! wen Texas Pcrwt:
. 'an: Vice Pm;
at Ea't Rutherford. Chicago
Fleights, New Orleans, Los Angeles
and Portland, Oregon.
Insulated siding plants are op-
erated by Flintkote in East Ruther-
TRY IT It’s really easy to sell the
things you no longer need to some-
one who does need them. A Classi-
fied Ad in The Ennis Daily News
will do it. Phone TR5-380I.
Classified Ads
FOR SALE: '52 model "B" John
Deere tractor with two row cultiva-
tors only. Tvv i 2-bale trailers. One
8-cii.sk John Deere one way plow.
See Mrs. Freddie Maddux or J Q
Schwartz. Palmer, Tex.
Ruth Berry, world's finest water
pumps. No priming Won't freeze
and break If water supply is ex-
hausted will cut off air, HARRY J
STONE. Ennis, Tex.
STRAYED: One Holstein heifer a-
lxmt 400 pounds from Latimer
Farm. Rockett.
The following announcements art
authorized by the candidates whose
names are listed below and are
made subject to the action of the
Democratic primary July 28, 1956;
STATE REPRESENTATIVE:
Virginia Duff. (Re-Election).
SHERIFF:
Burl While, iRe-Election*.
Wayne McCollum.
TAX ASSESSOR-t'OLLEt TOR:
Homer Tanner.
A Dupree Davis.
W. C. Ralston. <Re-Electioni.
(CITY OFFICES)
SI KELT l OMMISStOl.NhK:
J. F. (Jim) Lay toil
H A. Stockton
R D. Harcrow
C. C. iBud* Patton
water COMMIISSIO.VFR. ..
W. Harold Clements
MAYOR:
C. W. Brown
J. C. Rooker
ENNIS IND. SCHOOL DISTRICT
SCHOOL TRUSTEES:
Dr. R. E. Erisman
Dr. Walter P. McCall
Dr E. A Reel
The Biggest Trade In Ever Offered In One Of The Finest
Ranges Ever Built. Features That Just Can’t Be Beat.
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