The Mexia Daily News from Mexia, Texas • Page 1

The OWNED INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING Daily THE PEOPLE 59 YEARS- News WIRE SERVICE MEXIA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1958 NEA COMPLETE FEATURE SERVICE NUMBER 262 LX UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL I RI STOME FOOTPRINTS TODAY'S THOUGHT If ye will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall both ye and also. the king that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God.I Samuel 12:14. The virtue of Paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. -J.

C. Hare. George Stubbs of Wortham in Brown Hospital here receiving treatment following recent heart attack. Mexia American Legion Auxiliary urges that wear a memorial poppy in honof American war dead, also giving to victims of war still within reach of human aid. Buddy Poppy Day will observed here Saturday.

About; 2,000 paper poppies will be distributed on Mexia Streets, according to Mrs. A. W. Bonner, president of the Mexia' Ameican Legion Auxiliary, Nowlin Unit No. 124.

Mrs. Cantrell is chairman for the Mexia sale. 9 Twenty-two men were nominated to deacon, posts last! night in a church conference the First Baptist Church here. Questionnaires will mailed to those nominated, and from the group, the present deacons will select those names be placed on the ballot. Final approval of candidates will come in voting on the First Wednesday in December.

Billy Stewart, native Groesbeck, has named Chief of Police in Groesbeck replace Roy Hand who resign-! ed September 1 to accept a sition with the Mexia State, School. Mr. and Mrs. were living in Oklahoma City when he accepted the Grocsbeck position. Stewart is the son of Mrs.

John Stewart of Grocsbeck and his wife is the former Miss Juanita Horton of Mexia. The Mexia 'Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting scheduled for tonight has been postponed until next Thursday night because of conflicting activities, according, to President Tom The organization will meet at 7:30 November 13 in the Chamber Commerce office. Highway safety will be cussed tonight by Sergcant Bill Cooksey of the Texas partment of Safety of Waco a mecting in the Forest Glade school. The meeting will underway at 8 o'clock, according to Mrs. Claude Gore, gram chairman.

Laws concerning school safety will be stressed during the program. Mexia's Knights, of Pythias, Travis 20 will tonight at 7:30 at Castle Mexia junior high football team will entertain the little Trojans here at 5:30 today at Black Cat Field. 7:30, the Black will play the West squad. Coolidge Resident Elected To Head Watershed Group The Upper Navasota Watershed Association was zed recently with Smith of Coolidge elected chairman and R. D.

Howell of Mount Calm is will The Upper Navasota include territory drained by the Navasola River upstream from Fort Parker Lake in both Limestone and Hill Counties. The river originates in Hill County. Federal assistance will be sought from the State Soil Conservation Board at Temple. Land owners of eastern Hill and western Navarro Counties met recently in Malone to discuss plans for a dam on the Upper Richland Creek watershed, including Pecan, Cottonwood, Ash and White Rock Creeks, all tributaries of Richland Creek. Fifty-seven dams are planned on Richland Creek and its tributaries above the Navarro Mills big dam site.

The a Soil Conservation District is sponsoring the Association. The U. S. Military Academy at West Point was established in 4802. Championship Hunt Scheduled Here 7-8 Coon hunting enthusiasts from all over: Texas and the Southwest, are expected here for the Texas State Championship coon hunt to be held at Fort Parker State Park, Friday and Saturday.

Nov. 7-8. Hunters are expected to begin arriving here today. Warmup hunts for the visiting hunters will get preliminary activitics underway tonight, but the actual contests will, begin Friday night. The hunt in its phases, will be governed by the United Kennel Club's rules.

A bench show will be held at p.m.,. Saturday, with both registered and grade dogs competing. The famous "Coon 'in the Log" contest will be; held at 11 a.m., Saturday. Large trophies are to be awarded in to the four top, scoring and dogs both classes. the registered grade The hunt will be sponsored by the Texas State Coon Hunters Association.

Associa1 lion officers are President, W. N. Wittie, Dallas, Vice-President, Joe B. McMaine, of Elgin and Secretary Wanda McMaine, Elgin. W.

L. Santerre, Dallas, is chairman of the bench, and Master of Hounds is Alvin Leuck, of Holland, Tex. The Mexia unit of the Texas Coon Hunters Association invites anyone who is interested in the to come, out. Invitations are extended especially to the bench show, and "Coon In The Log;" contests Saturday. are using the facilities of the group camp at Fort Parker, throughout the hunt, and cafe will be set up in the dining hall for the convenience of hunters' and visitors it has (been announced.

ONLY ONE FROM TEXAS- Republican Congressman Bruce Alger of Dallas receives a congratulatory kiss from his wife, Lynn, loft, and his 14-year-old daughter Jill after being re-elected to a third term. Alger is the only Republican Congressman from Texas, a predominately Democratic State. Missing Cuban Plane Is Believed Hijacked HAVANA (UPI) A Cuban airliner carrying 29 persons, including an American and 10 women, was missing today over rebel-ridden eastern Cuba, and there were strong indications it was hijacked the insurgents. Four unidentified men whol boarded the twin-engined DC3 in Manzanillo were believed to be rebel agents like those who have stolen two other Cuban airliners in little more than two weeks. One of the stolen planes crashed in Nipe Bay, killing 7 Americans and 10 Cubans.

The missing plane was flying from Havana to Santiago! on a route including intermediate stops. It left Manzanillo at 4:29 p.m. Wednesday on a half-hour hop to and has not been seen since. The lone American aboard, Robert Montgomery (hometown unknown) was believed to be a sailor on the way to the U.S. Navy's big Guantanato basc.

The U. S. government is taking increasingly sharp interest in the rebel's plan ing tactics because of the threat to American lives. U.S. Navy divers recovered the bodies of 8 of the 17 Nipe victims Wednsday night, and U.

S. investigators have been ordered to look into the crash. The identity of the Nipe hi- Husband Of Former Resident Dies In Dallas Tuesday Funcral services for Louis Levy, husband of a former Mexia resident, were held Wednesday in Dallas at o'clock in the George A. Brewer Chapel. He died Tuesday after long illness.

Survivors are his wife, 5317 East Side, Dallas, who was the former Miss Mattie Lewis of Mexia, daughter of a pioneer Mexia doctor; and one sister. Miss Kate Levy, Dallas. Dr. Robert E. Goodrich and Dr.

Gid J. Bryan officiated, and entombment was at the Hillerest. Mausoleum. Nathan Hale was executed las a spy on Sept. 22, 1776.

Co Congressional Leaders Laying Out New Plans Buddy Marberry Signs Contract With Pittsburgh Fred (Buddy) Marberry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marberry, of Mexia, has signed, a 1959 contract to play baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates' San Angelo, Texas, farm club. The 21-year-old Marberry is a pitcher and shortstop and has been playing for the Baylor Bears since graduating from Mexia High School in 1955., Buddy, 6-1, and 180 pounds, hits and throws right handed. The elder Marberry pitched 14 years in the major leagues with Washington and Detroit in the American League and with the New York Giants in the National League.

He retired after the 1936 season. Police Department Collects $764.55. During Past Month A total of 227 fines amounting to $764.55 were collected during October by the Mexia! Police Department, according to City Manager Howard Mace. The Department collected (179 parking meter violation fines for a total of $95.50 and 48 regular fines for $669.05. Distribution of regular police fines collected in Mexia the past month include specding, 13; drunkenness, 10; and disturbance, 10.

Other regular fines include affray, four; no driver's license, three; running stop sign, three; abusive language, two; indecent exposure, one; drunk in car, one and illegal parking, one. Police Department col(lected $699.30 during September with $607.05 being for regular police fines and $92.25 for parking meter fines. During September 176 meter fines and 41 regular fines were collected for a total of 217 fines. WATER CONFERENCE SET IN SAN ANTONIO SAN ANTONIO (UPI) The second annual Irrigation Conference to be held here Nov. 20-21, is expected to draw water authorities from five states Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Colorado and California.

FOO SALt ALT UND CONGRESSMAN was established positively Wednesday night, when the body of one of the victims was found to be clad in the green fatigues affected by the rebels. A cartridge belt carrying a holster for a .45 automatic was strapped around the rebel's as was a bandolier conStaining .45 caliber ammunition. The butt of a broken .30 caliber rifle was found near the CLAIMS VICTORY -Dr. Dale Alford, opposing Rep. Brooks Hays of Arkansas as a write- -in candidate, has claimed victory in his bid for Congress.

Alford, a ber of the Little Rock School Board and a segregationist, claimed victory on the basis of nearly official returns. Alford's wife helps him claim victory raising his arm. (NEA). MEXIA UNITED FUND $15.000.00 $14,500.00 $14.000.00 $13,500.00 $13,000.00 $12,500.00 $12,000.00 $11,500.00 $11,000.00 $10,500.00 $10,000.00 $9,500.00 $9,000.00 $8,500.00 $8,000.00 $7,500.00 $7,000.00 $6,500.00 $6,000.00 $5,500.00 $5,000.00 $4.500.00 $4,000.00 $3,500.00 $3,000.00 $2,500.90 $2,000.00 $1500.00 $1,000 $500.00 Local Council Visits Special Education Classes In Waco Some thirteen women including teachers at the Mexial School, and local members of the Mexia Council for Retarded Children yesterday; visited schools in Waco where special classes are being conducted for Waco's retarded children. The Mexia group were guests! of the Waco Council for Retarded Children.

The group visited special education classes, some sponsored by the Waco Council, at the First Baptist Church, and workshop, two classes in the Brooks Ave. School, and classes in the West Junior High School at Waco. The women were luncheon guests of Mrs. O. Youngblood.

The purpose of the visits was to observe a normal class operation conducted in these special classes, and to gain new ideas while exchanging others, on the education of retarded children, Mrs. Joe Wilson reported. "We observed the children in their normal education procedures, observing what methods teaching are being! used there," she said. Thomas Jefferson was called the pen, Patrick Henry the tongue and George Washington the sword of the American Revolution. a VICTOR Mrs.

Nelson A. Rockefeller looks proudly her husband, 'coffee cup in hand acknowledging a greeting during a victory party at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York. Rockefeller, seeking his first elective office, defeated Democratic Gov. Avorell Harriman by a smashing half-million. votes.

T- Patcher Inspection Slated Tomorrow Night The annual Federal tion of the Mexia National Guard, Company 143rd fantry Regiment of the 36th Infantry Division will be held tomorrow in the local armory. The inspection will be made by Fourth Army Lt. Col. Preston of Fort Sam Houston in Funeral Services Held In Teague For Albert Terry TEAGUE (Spl) Funeral services were held in Teague Wednesday for Albert Frank Terry, 75. Burial was in Driver Cemetcry near Teague.

Mr. Terry died Tuesday at his home in Teague. The Rev. R. L.

Ryburn and the Rev. R. V. Silvertooth officiated with Ham Brothers Funcral Home of Teague in charge of arrangements. Survivors include two sons, Austin Terry and Beasley Terry, both of Teague; one dauIghter, Mrs.

Vernon Finley of Teague; one sister, Mrs. Jennie Beasley of Teague; and cight grandchildren. San Antonio. Friday afternoon Colonel WASHINGTON (UPI) Congressional leaders were laying out for the heavily Democratic 86th Congress today program of housing, farm, lareform and economic legislation for which they believe voters spoke in Tuesday's landslide clection. Speaker Sam Rayburn rejected President Eisenhower's "radical" label for the new Congress, said it was Eisenhower himself who had turned to be history's big spender and promised for the new Congress a constructive course geared to the country's best interests.

In a telephone interview from his home at Bonham, the veteran Democratic leader said Tuesday's ballotin which Democrats ad13 Senate seats and at least House seats to the majoritics they already held in both (houses--stacked up as a protest against recession, high prices and the Benson farm program, and that it reflected also general disappointment in the leadership of President Eisenhow- is or B. at to Although no formal legislative goals have as yet been set for the new Congress Rayburn forccast passage of: -A housing bill, its details still to be worked out, but presumably to embody key slum clearance and college housing loan features of a Democratic measure which the House this year failed to pass. -A new Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill or something along its lines to combat rackas exposed in some unions by Senate investigators. Although such a bill was passed by the Senate in the 85th Congress the House turned down. -Farm legislation "to straighten out some of the kinks" (in the Benson farm program, dissatisfaction with which apparently was a factor in eleclion of a number of Democratmembers from farm districts that previously were Republican.

Rayburn said also he will House Ways Mcans Committee. to study the tax for loopholes and remedied. inequitlies that ought to be He ruled out prospects of general tax cut however and said a tax boost is not in the cards either. It was learned that Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson who with Rayburn will exercise firm leadership of the new Congress will announce in a Texas speech Friday a more detailed listing of legislative goals for the coming session. Little Change U.S.

Weather Bureau forecast for Mexia and North Central Texas: Cloudy to partly cloudy and a little cooler tonight. Friday partly cloudy and mild. Low tonight near 46 and the high tomorrow 70. Last night's low was 53 and terday's high 73. Preston will check the Mexialic armory, administrative records, supply records and maintenlance of the supply room, Tomorrow night he will and building.

spect the men of the company in ranks and will also inspect the training program. Last year the Mexia unit received an excellent rating and the previous ycar a superior rating, the highest given. Seventy-four enlisted men and four officers of the local unit are to be present for tomorrow night's inspection. All members of the company at are 6:30 to report to armory tomorrow afternoon. Mexia city officials will give a dinner tomorrow at 6 p.m.

in the J- Cafe for the inspecting officer and battalion staff officers. The Mexia unit recently received a superior rating on the annual inventory of supplics. This is the highest rating that can be given. Captain Thomas W. Cameron is commanding officer of the Mexia unit.

Tuberculosis has afflicted mankind as far back as re'corded history goes. 81 Persons Move To Mexia Eighty-one new residents are making their home in Mexia, according to the latest report from the Mexia Welcome Service. Thirty-two of the new residents are adults, 23 are boys and the remaining 26 are girls. Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth Shearer and three sons are living at 306 North Red River after moving from Bakersfield, Calif. He is employed by Roy Crook Tire and Battery. The Shearers are affiliated with the Church of Christ and expect to be permanent residents. Living' at 1305 Belknap are Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Fisher, two sons and daughter. They moved here from Gatesville and expect to make their home here permanently. The Fish- ers are affiliated with the sembly of God Church and he is a self-employed carpenter. New residents at 406 South! Belknap are Mr. and Mrs.

J. E. Cox, who moved from Talco. He is retired from Humble Pipeline. They arc members the Methodist Church and expect to be permanent residents.

Moving to 304 South Belk-nine nap from Houston were Mr. and Mry. A. L. Roundiree, four sons and four daughters.

Members of the Church of Christ, they will make Mex- it a B. body. NOTE residence. expects to be here three ia their permanent Roundtree is a self-employed months. The Lights are memcarpenter.

bers of the Baptist Church The Rev. and Mrs. L. A. and moved here from Temple.

after Morgan are here from Hub- Former residents of Sabinal living at 731 Alice moving bard. He is pastor of the Nor- are Mr. and Mrs. A. B.

Taylor thside Baptist Church and and two sons. Members of the they expect to be permanent Baptist Church, they live on residents. the Grosbeck Road and exMr. and Mrs. T.

P. Crews pect to be permanent Mexia and their sons and four dau-residents. He is employed by ghters moved from Texas City the Texas State Parks Board. and live on the Worthum Road. Mr.

and Mrs. Rex Broch, and He is employed as a mechanic son and one daughter, are livin Wortham. Affiliated at 307 S. Red River after the Baptist Church, they also moving to Mexia from Brady. expect to be permanent resi- Broch is employed by Scago dents, Construction and expects to Mr.

and Mrs. Claudell Scott live here six months. They are live at Simmons Court after affiliated with the moving here from Corsicana. Church. Employed by Uvalde Construe- Mr.

and Mrs. Boyd Pryor As-Ition, he expects 10 be here four months. They are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs.

A. J. Red, son and daughter moved here from Baytown and are also living in Simmons Court. He is employed by D. P.

Frost Construelion. The Reds are affiliated, with the Jehovah Witnesses Church and expect to live here months, Also living at Simmons Court are Mr. and Mrs. Melvin D. Light, their son and two daughters.

Ho is employed the Shilling Construction and moved here from Texarkana and expect to live in Mexia one year. They live at 716 S. McKinney and are members of the Methodist Church. He owns a truck and is self-employed. Moving from Cleburne to Simmons Court here were Mr.

and Mrs. R. D. Scarcy and their two sons and two daughtors. Employed by the DepartAment of Interior U.

S. Geological Survey, Searcy expects to live here six weeks. They are affiliated with the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs.

O. L. Alewine and four daughters are living at 404 South Red River after moving to from Lubbock. The Alewines are affiliated with the Christian Church and expect to be permanent residents of Mexia. moved here from Waco and live at 801 South Bonham.

He is employed by Safcway. Expecting to be permanent residents, they are members of the Baptist Church. Living at 306 S. Belknap are Mr. and Mrs.

Gilbert Chapa, three sons and five daughters after moving here from Corpus Christi. They expect to live here eight months and are affiliated with the Catholic Church. Chapa is employed by Seago Construction. Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. McBride, two sons and two daughters! Hi by Olin Miller You had better brace yourself insult body says he's going to be perfectly frank with you 1.