The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1958 Page: 1 of 4
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The Kerens Tribune
SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR
As We Were
Saying,.,
By The Editor
SH5H5S5H5H5HSESH5HSZ5S5HS2SSSHSH525E55SE5HSH5Z51
We received a very good fish
story this week from our Rural
Shade correspondent, Inez How-
ell. It was so good, we think,
that we confiscated it for this
spot.
Seems a certain resident of
Rural Shade went fishing last
'week. Right away he caught
three fish. Two were real beau-
ties and the other somewhat
smaller. The largest somehow got
off the stringing line while he
was staked out. Along about the
time he discovered his loss, he
hung a real whopper on his line
but the reel got caught on some
trash and he lost it.
As Inez says, he came home
real sick. But he still had the
fairly large size fish and the
smaller one. And then he dis-
covered that his dog was eating
the largest one. So he was left
with the smallest and from the
latest reports, his fishing days
are over for a while.
We don’t know who the fisher-
man is. Maybe we’ll get the name
in next week’s Rural Shade news.
★ ★ ★
And this reminds us of another
fish story. Seems a man who
runs a fish market down in Gal-
veston was out fishing about
four years ago and dropped his
glasses overboard accidentally.
They immediately sank into the
Gulf. Last week he was busy
cleaning a big snapper when his
knife struck something hard*
You guessed it, it was his thumb.
★ ★ ★
If anybody sees Ollie D. Mul-
lins this week-end would you
tell him you saw his name in
The Tribune.
KERENS, NAVARRO COUNTY, TEXAS, MAY 23, 1958
Annual Clean-up Campaign
Progressing In Kerens
Clean up time in Kerens is hit-
ting its peak this week. Under
supervision of Mrs. E. H. Gray,
the public area in front of the
Reese Lumber Company has
been beautified and the spray-
Marlin Earley Suffers
Broken Leg Saturday
Marlin Earley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alton Earley, suffered a
broken leg last Saturday after-
noon. He was taken to Memorial
Hospital for surgery.
Young Earley was helping
haul hay in Elm Flat. He was
riding on top of a load of hay
when the truck went under a
power line and he was thrown
to the ground. Besides the bro-
ken leg, he was suffering from
'other bruises and shock.
Mr. and Mrs. George Lonon
'of Grand Prairie are the proud
parents of a baby son born last
Friday morning, May 16 at the
Memorial Hospital in Corsicana.
The young man weighed six
pounds and one ounce at birth
and the name of George Neal
has been chosen,. The grandpar-
ents are Mr. and Mrs. V. A.
Lonon of Powell and Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. McCord of Kerens.
Mrs. Eddie Smith is a great
grandmother.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Martin of
Killeen, Texas are the proud
parents of a baby daughter bom
Friday, May 16. This young lady
weighed seven pounds at birth
and the name of Tami Ana has
been chosen. The grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Baker
of Waco. Mrs. Martin will be
remembered here by her friends
as Annazell Baker.
Chamber Directors
Meet Monday
The Directors of the Chamber
of Commerce met in special ses-
sion Monday night, presided over
by Mr. A. G. Godley, vice presi-
dent. The main transaction at
this meeting was the counting of
the votes on the highly contro-
versial and much discussed ques-
tion, “Should the Chamber of
Commerce continue to subsidize
the Kerens Hour, or should the
Kerens Hour operate as a pri-
vate enterprise" Out of a pos-
sible 90 members approximately
50 members cared to express an
opinion. Out of this 50, about
ten to fifteen use this method
of advertising to further their
business interests. The Kerens
Hour received approval by a
landslide of seven against to 43
for.
At the next regular meeting
the business upper-most on the
agenda is the election of a new
president and one new director.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Jeffie Baltzegar ................May 23
Lyn Holloway ....................May 24
Mrs. Harold Jennings .. ...May 24
'Ann Whorton ........ May 25
Sue Horn ............................May 25
LeRoy Reed ........................May 25
Mrs. C. C. Speed ................May 26
Joe Arnett ..........................May 26
Georgia Kay Bain ______________May 26
Mrs. Belle Bobbitt............May 27
'SENIOR GIRLS ON THE GO
Senior girls are enjoying a
.merry-go-round of parties these
days. Mary Lou Howell is en-
tertaining with a Coke party to-
day (Friday) and Wanda Moore
is bidding farewell to her girl
friends with a slumber party to-
nia-ht.
Juniors in a traditional ges-
ture, entertained the Seniors
With a picnic supper at Dodd’s
Lake last Friday. Swimming was
enjoyed by the group.
T.E.L. Class Meets
In Washburn Home
The T.E.L. Sunday School
Class of the First Baptist
Church met Tuesday afternoon
in the home of Mrs. Virgie
Washburn with Mrs. F. E. Mc-
Cown assisting in the hostess du-
ties. Mrs. W. W. Hemphill, the
president, presided over the bus-
iness session. The meeting open-
ed with a group son, “Let Oth-
ers See Jesus in You’’ which was
followed with prayer by Mrs.
Adah Queen. Mrs. C, W. Tramel
read Psalm 125 for the devo-
tional. The minutes of the prev-
ious meeting were read and
adopted. Mrs. H. N. Harris the
treasurer being absent, sent in
her report which showed a bal-
ance of $10 and a love offering
was taken, among the members
amounting to $5.90. It was voted
to change the meeting hour from
3:00 to 3:30 in the afternoon.
There were 13 members and
four visitors present. The visi-
tors were Mines. J. O. Sessions,
J. W. Scarbrough, F. E. Mc-
Cown and Adah Queen. The clos-
ing prayer was given by Mrs.
Frank Etheredge. Mrs. J. S.
Smith led in the social hour with
a Bible Quiz which was very
interesting and also read a poem
entitled “The Compassion of
Christ." The hostesses served re-
freshments of ice cream, cake
and punch to the members and
visitors.
ing campaign, which is gaining
momentum each day, has got-
ten under way.
Joe Sheppard and W. L. Bain
have set the tempo on Main
Street by beautifying the fronts
'of their buildings with fresh
jpaint. Other property owners are
urged to follow suit by repair-
ing rotten lumber on awnings
and painting the fronts of their
buildings. There are several
buildings on, Main owned by out-
of-town owners.
Citizens of this community
cannot expect persons who are
not forced to look at unlovely
property on our Main street to
get very interested in, the an-
nual clean-up, but fellow citi-
zens can expect that home town
people will take an interest in
property they have obtained for
their own purposes.
The people in Goodlow Park
have asked for spraying. If
enough of these citizens will
help with the expense, plans are
being made to do this part of
town also.
Both the down-town and ' city-
wide drive for spraying has been
receiving excellent cooperation.
Those who have not contributed
are urged to do so, because a
neighbor cannot be expected to
carry his own obligation plus
that of the next-door citizen.
Cooperation is a long word
and a hard word, but with the
help of every responsible citi-
zen, we can have a town to bo
proud of!
Last Rites Monday
For Mrs. Sallie Inmon
Mrs. Sallie Inmon, long-time
resident of Kerens died at Car-
rollton Monday. She was the
wife of the late O. J. Inmon who
died in July, 1947. She was 73.
Funeral services were held
from the First Baptist Church
in Kerens at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Dr. Fred White, the pastor of
her church at Carrollton con-
ducted the rites.
Interment was in the Long
Prairie Cemetery.
Surviving here are one daugh-
ter, with whom she had made
her home for the past several
years, Mrs. Bertice Lovelace of
Carrollton; two sons, Herman
Inmon, Dallas, Garland Inmon,
El Paso; five grandchildren and
three great grandchildren and
other relatives.
Nephews were pallbearers.
Baccalaureate Services Sunday
For 1958 Graduating Class
CITIZENS
OF THE
WEEK
Berry-Franklin Vows 1
Exchanged Tuesday
Miss Carolyn Berry and Billy
Franklin, were united in mar-
riage Tuesday evening at 7:30
o’clock at the home of the bride-
groom’s parents. The bride is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Berry of Kerens and the bride-
groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Franklin of Malakoff.
Mr. Franklin, who is an, Air-
man Third Class, stationed at
Eglin Air Force Base in Florida
will return to his base in a few
days and Mrs. Franklin will join
him in a few weeks.
Both attended Kerens High
School.
Joyce
Claytc
COKE PARTY
Mrs. Jack Reed entertained for
her daughter, Donna, Saturday
'morning with a Coke party at
her home. Donna and 10 of the
young ladies of the graduating
class attended. Miniature Coke
cartons in the chosen colors of
green and white served as fav-
ors. Ritz crackers with pineapple
and cheese spread and brownies
‘were served the guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Trent and
Mrs. F. S. Quinn visited the
Charles Hughes in Rural Shade
Sunday.
The Citizens of the Week this
week are Joyce Bain and Clay-
ton Holiman.
Joyce is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Bain, Jr. She is
a junior in high school and has
'been class secretary for three
years. This year Joyce was a
majorette who marched in front
of the band during football sea-
son, won a first place in twirl-
ing, and played first clarinet
during concert season. Next year
she will be the drum majorette
in charge of the band during
football season. Joyce is very
well-known and is liked by all
who know her.
Clayton is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roe Holiman of Rural
Shade. He is a sophomore and a
member of the F.F.A. club. He
has been president of his class
for two consecutive years an,d
has done fine work in the field.
Clayton is popular because of
his winning personality.
JUNIOR HIGH
CITIZENS OF WEEK
The Junior High Citizens of
this week are Earnest Scruggs
and Bonnie Warren.
Earnest is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Scruggs of Kerens
and is in the 7th grade. He has
interest in school activities and
is well liked on the campus. He
also played football on the Ju-
nior High football tern.
Bonnie is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Warren of Ker-
ens and is in the 8th grade. She
was a cheer-leader for the Ju-
nior High football team and is
active in all school interests.
She is known and well liked on
the campus.
Majorettes Named
For 1958-59 Year
Kerens High School’s Major-
ettes, Cheerleaders and Kernettes
were selected Monday for the
1958-59 school year.
They are as follows: Major-
ettes, Katha Henderson, Wanda
Huggins; Cheerleaders, Janie
Huggins, Linda Brown,; Kernettes
Brenda Andrews, Sammie Fergu-
son,, Janet Duncan, Bonnie War-
ren, Marsha Smotherman, Peg-
gy Chandler; Alternates Brenda
Schultz, Barbara Davis and Gra-
de Jock.
This group of young ladies
will represent Kerens as cheer-
leaders for athletic events.
PERSONALS
Mr. Waymon Griffin and sons
Drayton an,d Ken of New Lon-
don and Mr. and Mrs. Jim John-
son of Waco spent the week-end
With Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Mills.
Sunday visitors in the Mills home
Were Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Snow-
den and children of Dallas.
“Tweet” Morris Wins
Essay Prize In
Freedom Foundation
The Lackland Air Force Base
“Talespinner”, weekly newspaper
of the San Antonio base had as
its editorial last week an article
Written by M-Sgt. Phillip W.
Morris. Sgt. Morris will be ^re-
membered in Kerens as “Tweet"
where he graduated from Ker-
ens High School. The editorial
was a prize-winner in, the recent
Freedoms Foundation contests.
The author is assigned to the
3700th Peronnnel Processing
Squadron.
The title of the article is “My
Task—Protecting America’s Free-
dom.’’ Below are excerpts from
the article:
“To say, in the beginning, that
protecting America’s freedom is
a task, is to me not quite ac-
curate.
“To me it is first and fore-
most a privilege, secondly a
right, and last a duty. It has
oc cured to me that one of the
'ironies of our time is the fail-
ure of the military mind to cor-
rectly evaluate our own indi-
vidual contribution to the flow
of human, progress in our task
of protecting America’s freedom.
“The supreme purpose of his-
tory is the progress of mankind,
the kind of progress that has to
do with the achievement of hu-
man freedom, for personal free-
dom, is an indispensable condi-
tion . for any human achieve-
ment. Civilizations destiny de-
pends on our response to the
challenge of our times. That
'challenge as world leader, is to
accept the responsibility to in-
sure the realization of the age-
old ideal of human, freedom for
all the earth’s peoples.
“With this vision in view, we
advance, secure in the knowledge
that devotion to a task for an
ideal beyond our own personal
desires, like virtue and morality,
will be its own reward.
“If through such devotion, we
do a little good in advancing the
cause of human freedom, it will
have been our best work.”
After another week of hard
work of final exams and other
incidentals that go with gradu-
tion, another school year will
come to a close Friday, May 30.
Baccalaureate services will be
held at the High School Audi-
trium, beginning at 5:00 p.m.,
with Rev. Darrell Evenson, of the
Powell Baptist Church delivering
the message.
Commencement exercises will
be Friday, May 30 in the school
auditorium. Honor students will
be announced in next week’s
Tribune.
There are 25 graduates in the
1958 senior class, ,12 boys an,d
13 girls. They are:
Wanda Combs, Rita Drain, Wan-
za Henderson, Mary Keele How-
ell, Linda Kay Kyser, Barbara
Lowe, Wanda Moore, Glenda
Morgan, Marjorie Miller Pate,
Vivian Christene Perry, Donna
iReed, Martha Sloan, Janice Ann
Tomlinson.
William Bain, Jr., Charles
Marvin Cloud, William H. Cook,
Milton Cordell, Jerry Crofut,
Marvin Henderson, Bud Hoffer,
Jack Kilpatric, Kenneth Kimes,
Edward McNeese, Beauford Ray
Thomason and Ivan Vernon.
Following is a complete bac-
calaureate program:
BACCALAUREATE SERVICE
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
MAY 25, 1958
5:00 P.M.
Processional—“March Romaine"................
High School Band
Invocation........................................................................jy/[r>
Gounod
B. Tomlinson
Doxology...................................................................................................Leidzen
High School Band
Scripture Reading..........................................................Mr. J. B. Tomlinson
“Thanks be to God”..............................................................................Dickson
High School Chorus
Sermon......................................................................—Rev. Darrell Evenson
“Jesus, Joy of Man’s Desiring”...................................................j. g. Bacfe
High School Band
Benediction ..............................................................................Rita Drain
Mrs. Will Sullivan’s mother,
Mrs. Nanny Casebolt, has re-
turned from the hospital. Her
son,, Clyde Casebolt of Webb
City, Missouri, is here for an
extended visit.
Mrs. Henry Dooley of Green-
ville and Mrs. Dixie Ray of
Breckenridge visited the W. G.
Johnsons Friday night.
Rev. and Mrs. Garland McKee
are attending the Baptist Con-
vention in Houston,.
Mrs. H. H. Trent and Mrs. J.
F. McSween visited friends in
Trinidad Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Bain were
in Fort Worth last week-end at-
tending the wedding of Mrs.
Bain’s sister, Kay.
Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Berry
of Dawson visited Mrs. Leona
Anderson and Logan Sunday.
Mrs. Hewlitt Willeford,, who has
been With her son, Lewis, in
Hollywood, California, is now
back home.
The O. R. Spurlocks attended
the wedding of Miss Pat Gray
and Marvin Wheatley in Sherman
last week-end.
Mrs. Bert Washburn and Mrs.
I. R. Mitchell of Dallas left Sun-
day for Corpus Christi where
they will visit Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Ferrell and family.
Mary-Martha Class
Meets Monday
The Mary-Martha Circle of the
Presbyterian Church met Monday
afternoon in the home of Mrs.
P. N. Stockton with nine mem-
bers present. Mrs. Fred Jennings
led the opening prayer and was
the leader of the Bible study,
1‘Meet Dr. Luke" bringing out
in this lesson Luke and the Gen-
tiles. Bible passages were read
and discussed that revealed Jesus
interest in people other than
those of his own nationality.
At the close of the lesson the
hostess served lime sherbet and
cookies.
ATTENDS LEGION MEET
Joe Daniel, Adjutant of Post
307, Kerens American Legion,
was principal speaker Sunday
morning at the 7th District Con-
vention in Athens. Accompanying
Mr. Daniel was his wife, A1 Kin-
del and Hugh Sheppard.
C. W. Pease and Charles Har-
rison were over for the afternoon
session.
Mr. and Mrs. Ishmal McClure
and family of Mt. Enterprise
spent Saturday night and Sun-
day with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Johnston.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy G. Tra-
mel and children of Corsicana
visited Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Tramel last Sunday.
Margaret Hall Cited
By Wichita Falls Club
Miss Margaret Hall of Wichita
Fallas, sister of Herman Hall of
Kerens, was honored by the Al-
trusa Club of Wichita Falls at
their annual club recognition
dinner May 21. Ten other well-
known Wichita Falls civic, reli-
gious, cultural and business lead-
ers were also honored.
Miss Hall was cited for person-
ally raising funds with which to
conduct an English orientation
course last summer for Latin
American children prior to. their
'enrolling in the first grade.
Dr. Travis White, president-of
Midwestern University made the
presentation.
Miss Hall is executive secre-
tary of the Wichita County T.B.
Association.
“Kid Party” Given
For Eighth Grade
The members of the Eighth
Grade graduating class were en-
tertained Tuesday afternoon with
a “Kid Party" on the lawn of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bain, Jr.
(from 5:30 to 7:30. Each guest
came dressed in a “kiddie” cos-
tume, .consisting of short pants,
short skirts, hair ribbons, etc.
After many interesting and
enjoyable “kid” games, led, by
Mrs. Vernon and Mrs. Sessions,
each boy and girl modeled his
costume and then voted for the
boy and girl dressed the cutest.
'The winners were Wanda Hug-
gins and Keith Fields and each
was presented a giant sized
sucker.
Each guest helped himself to
a sack lunch and bottled drinks.
Favors were bubble gum, suck-
ers and a pocket comb.
The mothers assisting Mrs.
Bain with the hostess duties
were Mmes. Lewis Vernon, Wel-
don Kerley, Forrest Huggins,
Paul West, Howard Coates, Doc
Fields, Aubrey Earley and Bud-
die Sessions.
The sponsors present were
Miss Eloise Johnston and Mr.
and Mrs. Neal McCord.
Mrs. August Hill and Mrs.
George Howell left for Mt.
Pleasant Thursday. They will at-
tend Tony’s recital and spend
the week-end.
Mrs. Sam Crowley returned
last week-end after a 10-day
visit with her daughter and fam-
ily, Mr. and Mrs. A1 DeAngelo
in New York. Mrs. DeAngelo,
the former Christine Crowley,
has been ill but is much im-
proved.
Mrs. E. K. Howell
To Head Local P-TA
For Next Year
The Kerens Parent-Teacher#*
Association met Tuesday after-
noon with Mrs. Finis McCluney
presiding over the business ses-
sion. Mrs. McCluney reviewed the
Association’s efforts during the
last year, pointing out the pur-
chase of the opaque machine, the
reading machine and the Science
Kit for the use of community
children, as tangible evidence of
a successful year.
Mrs. Roland Shelton’s fourth
grade entertained the parents
during the school hour, immed-
iately preceding the meeting.
Under the direction of the band
director, Mr. M. F. Fialho, a
quintet of musicians entertained
with a recital featuring horns.
The entire fourth grade sang
several songs to round out a de-
lightful musical interlude. Mrs.
D. C. Rea accompanied the
group.
Mrs. Clista Geyer presided at
the installation of new officers,
Presiding next year will be Mrs.
E. K. Howell. First Vice Presi-
dents will be Mrs. Glenn May,
Mrs. Hardy Mayo and Mrs. B,
P. Berry, with Ms. Wayne Kit-
tley and Mrs. W. C. Lassiter
acting as Secretary and Treas-
urer, respectively.
The Hospitality Committee for
this year, consisting of Mrs,
Homer Bobbitt, Mrs. Morgan
Lowe and Mrs. Weston Wallace
served punch and cookies to the
33 members registering.
Room count was as follows;
First grade, 5; second grade, 5;
third grade, 4; fourth grade 19 j
fifth grade 2; sivth grade 3; sev-
enth gade 4; and 8th gade 1.
LOCAL GIRLS ON TV
Two Kerens girls who art
former students at Kerens High,
were presented over KWTX-TV
in Waco last week.
The Black Notes, a girls sex-
tette composed of Ann Massey,
Lynda Bruner, Linda Holdar,
Wanda Carruth, Sheila Wilkes
and Lorraine Eggebreckt were
presented on the Waco TV sta-
tion last Thursday afternoon.
“Circus Time” a Waco High
School presentation, brought to
the citizens of central Texas a
30-minute show of high school
talent.
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