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4fltoda Uaila -A HOME-OWNED INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING THE PEOPLE 59 YEARS- VOLUME LX UN1IED PRESS INTERNATIONAL WIRE SERVICE MEXIA, OCTOBER 16, 1958 NEA COMPLETE FEATURE SERVICE NUMBER 244 ONE OF THE The U. S. Chamber of Commerce has declared Oct. 18 as "Sweetest Day," and ready lo welcome it is sweet and lovely ShreVe Huggins, above, posing amid the sweet blossoms at Cypress Gardens, Fla. TODAY'S THOUGHT And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is Kings 17:24.

we have in use of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. Mid-week services will be held tonight at 7 o'clock at the Titus Street Missionary Baptist Church with song and prayer services and Bible study. Rev. J. P.

McLemore, as-, sociate pastor of the church, will be teaching "God's Judge- ment of the Jew." The Mexia Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Chamber of Commerce office. President Tom Cameron stated that main item on the agenda was to decide whether or not to continue the practice of holding two rodeos each year or just one rodeo High School Honor Roll Announced The first six-weeks honor roll for Mexia High School was announced today with 11 seniors, seven juniors, seven sophomores, one freshman and one junior high student listed. Seniors included Ina Cooper, Dolly Pinson, Marlis Ellis; Joy Bates, Gladys Fisher, Marcella Parsons, Ann Pendleton, Joe Edd New, Bob Tyus, Don Foley, and Bill Crider. Juniors were Ann Beene, Royce Isham, Robert Goodman. Jimmy Fulwiler, Jerry Walker, Margaret Stubbs, and Judy Trotter.

Among the sophomore students winning a place on the roll were Francell Crider, Leith Taylor, Reed Jackson, Bonnie Blankenship, Judy Kennedy, Martha Hudson and Bill Matthews. Charlotte Peeples was the lone freshman student to get honor roll recognition and Larry Miles was the single junior high school honor student. To be eligible for the honor roll, a student must have all A's and B's. No grades are acceptable, Gilbert Smith, High School principal said Mrs. Eisenhower To Christen First US Commercial Jet WASHINGTON (UPI) Mrs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower will christen the nation's first commercial jet transport, the Pan American World Airways clipper America, in colorful Grande Continues In "THIS IS WHERE I 11 -month-old; David Wright is too young to know it, he lives and plays In a very strange house. David and his parents are the. of a living laboratory in Urbana, 111. His daddy, scientist Richard Wright of the University of Illinois, helps 'direct a research project on how best to heat or cool a home.

Their $40,000 "test tube" house includes every torm of current'home construction in its design. Eight miles' of Wire connect 475 temperature-measuring locations with a central control system, where David is standing above. The bouse was built by the National Warm Heating and Air Conditioning Association. High School Teachers To Attend English Clinic with three ances. nightly perform- The Mexia Junior High football team will play the Teague Junior team here this afternoon at 4:30 at Cat Field.

Admission to the game will be 25 adults and 10 cents pre-inaugural flight ceremonies today at Washington National Airport. The first Lady will smash a bottle of water, collected from the'seven seas, across the nose of Pan Am's giant Boeing 707121 jet shortly after 4 p.m Three hours later the America will leave for Baltimore's Friendship International Airport for a flight to the Brussels World's Fair that will open the jet age under the American flag. About 50 government officials and press executives will be aboard. The airline's first commercial jet flight with paying passengers is scheduled for Oct. 26 when daily service between New York, Paris and Rome will be inaugurated.

Jet clippers will start serving London on. a daily basis Nov: 16 and jets will be assigned to other PAA routes at later dates. The 575-mile per-hour Boe- Five' Mexia High School English teachers will be among teachers from many Texas high schools to attend the 1958 English workshop tomorrow in Austin. The meeting at McCallum High School at'5600 Sunshine Drive, will get' underway at 9 a.m. and will end at 3 p.m.

Attending from Mexia will be Mrs. Lucy Byers, Miss Oma Campbell, Donald Moore, Mrs. Maurice McGee and Tom for students. The Mexia Kittens will journey to Teague tonight to meet the Lion team. The game will start at 7:30 in Teague and will be the second meeting between these clubs this year.

The teams fought to a 6-6 deadlock in the first game of the season and both teams have showed improvement since then. The Kittens have one victory, two losses and one tie on their record this year. They defeated the Cameron team and lost to the strong Wortham A team and the Ccnterville A team. The people of Teague and surrounding towns will be giv- an opportunity to visit the homes in Teague when they are opened in a Parade of Homes Sunday, November 9. The Parade of Homes is being sponsored by The Teague Public Library and Teague Chamber of Commerce.

Miss Etta Drumwright is working on the preparation of the Parade of Homes. Bibles are needed by students of Mexia State School. Anyone who has a Bible in good condition and wishes to donate it may send it to Chaplain W. B. Hammond at the State School, or phone Mrs.

Ben Powell at the State School and she will pick it up. Phone GY6-2821. Travis Lodge No. 20 Knights of Pythias will meet tonight at 7:30. All officers and members of the lodge are urged to be present.

ing 707-121 jets will fly from New York to Paris in seven hours, to Rome in eight hours and 50 minutes, and to London in six and a half hours at no increase in current Pan American fares. They will have two classes, economy and de luxe. The round trip fares to Paris will be $489.60 and $909 to Rome, $591.50 and $1,041.50, and to London $453.60 and $873. TOO MUCH SWEETS FOR ZOO ANIMALS NEW YORK (UPI) Magistrate A. Lawrence Acquavella Wednesday ordered Miss Yetta Klausner to stay away from the Central Park Zoo.

Zoo officials complained that she was throwing their orangutan Katy off her diet with offerings of cupcakes, French pastry and chocolate bars. Former Limestone County Resident Dies In Fort Worth Granville F. Vinsant, 61, a former resident of Limestone County, died yesterday at Fort Worth Hospital. Funeral services were scheduled for 4 p.m. today at Shannon's Funeral Chapel Fort Worth, and burial was to be in Fort Worth.

Vinsant was born in Limestone County in 1897. He at tended school at Big Hill Com munity. Vinsant lived in Waco from 1920-1935. He was chief engineer for the Swift Packing Fort Worth, at the time of his death. He was affiliated with the Methodist Church.

Survivors include Mrs. Vinsant, Fort Worth, one son, Jack Vinsant, Fort Worth, his mother, Mrs. Wallace Vinsant, of Waco, five sisters, Mrs. Irene Daniels, Mrs. Keran Charles, and Mrs.

Ruth Dove, all of Waco, Mrs. Ethel Rhodes, Dallas, and Mrs. Ester Mitchell of Temple, one brother, Roy C. Vinsant, Oklahoma City, and three grandchildren. Okayed By Committee AUSTIN (UPI) The Hale-Aiken school study committee has reversed its earlier stand on federal aid to current vocational education, milk and school lunch programs, and endorsed the programs.

The vote of approval came Wednesday as the committee endorsed a school program estimated to cost more than 104 million dollars above current spending. The committee also recommended that the school year be extended to at least nine and one-half months, and possibly 10 months. The committee voted 11-8 to approve a proposal by Ed Ray, executive editor of the San Antonio Express and News expressing approval of the present federal aid programs. Last month the committee voted 9-6 the other way around. Ray told his fellow members "there is strong feeling among public opinion of this state that the Halc-Aikin committee is wrong." He was referring to its position last month.

Debate was heated on the to the committee's school financial report. The report was one of four approved by the group for submission to MISSION, Tex. (UPI) The raging Rio Grande, ignoring predictions of a crest in the Lower Valley, kept rising today, washing into three small Texas towns north of Mission and sending more water into hard-hit Mexican farmlands. Seventy-five persons left the little town of Los Ebanos by mid-morning and Roy Berry, head of the Los Ebanos Immigration Office, prepared to creased 4,500 cubic feet a second to 35,000 cubic feet Wednesday night, adding more water to the rampaging river. At Brownsville, farther downstream, the city was watching and waiting.

The river rose .05 of a foot to 17.80 early today. Pat McLaughlin, superintendent of schools at La Joya, said he had offered all school facilities to flood refugees. move out records as the water lapped closer. Six families moved into the school building at Abrams, where water covered the main street. About 100 persons from the western part of Penitas, left their homes for a hill in the center of town.

An expected flood crest in Rio Grande City failed to materialize as the river, fed by the local rains and increased releases from Falcon Dam, continued to rise. John Sellcck, chief hydro- garpher at McAllen said he Two families spent the night in the La Joya gymnasium Wednesday night and more are expected. At Rcynosa, Mexico, Wednesday heavy rains collected behind a levee which had been built to keep out floodwaters from the Rio Grande. There was no way for the water to escape into the river and it rose two feet high in houses and forced some 500 residents to move into schools and homes on higher ground. City officials in Rcynosa said permanent housing for the lameron.

The morning SUSPECT Atlanta, police are holding Wallace H. Allen as a suspect in the bombing of the Jewish-Temple in Atlanta. Police said they found anti-Semitic, literature and penciled drawings of the Nazi swastika in Allen's home. did not know when to expect the crest. An estimated 5 OOO persons on both sides of the river have been forced out of their homes.

The Falcon release was in- session will include registration and a cof-, fee hour from followed ay the program witn Dr. Leq presiding, and a luncheon at 12:40 at the Hitching Post, 1011 Lamar Blvd. The theme of the morning session is "Accent on Intellect, a Better English Program for our Best Students." J. G. Perkins, principal of Brykerwoods Elementary Mary High Schood, Austin, Mrs.

Wood Dawson, Waco School, and Dr. E. T. Bowden, University of Txas are the scheduled speakers. The afternoon session will have Dr.

Elizabeth Wilson, curriculum coordinator, Dallas Public Schools Dallas, followed by a question and answer period. Mexia teachers plan to bid for the next English Workshop to be held in Mexia, Cameron said. local Hale-Aikin committees drafting, final recommendations to the legislature which convenes next January. The committee also approved reports on teacher supply, school programs and schooj construction. Under the nine and one-half month school year overall costs would rise from some 349 million-dollars per year for the pre'sent nine-month year to more than 461 million dollars, taking into account the local share of educational costs.

Costs for a 10-month school year were not predicted. The committee recommended a minimum nine and one- half month school year with local option for a 10-month year. The committee recommended minimum teacher pay scale of $4,000 for a 10-month year, and $3,800 minimum fot nine and one-half month year. Present minimum scale for the existing nine-month year is $3,204. Premier De Gaulle Wins Test With Group In Algeria ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) Charles de Gaulle won a test of power with the die-hard rightwing Algerian 1 Public Safety Committee today.

The committee cancelled a general strike call and a scher duled protest demonstration failed to develop. The committee, after five of its members conferred with French Supreme Commarider Gen. Raoul Salan, voted 13-10 to cancel its call for a general strike to protest De Gaulle's orders for wide open Algerian elections. Business continued normally. Both the strike and the scheduled demonstration had New Ford Models To Go On Display Here Tomorrow refugees will be sought if they don't want to move back behind the levee.

Rains of 4.5 inches at Elsa forced almost 200 persons to leave their homes. Another 200 had to flee in the face of accumulating water from drench-- ing downpours at Matamoros, Mexico, across the river from Brownsville. At Brownsville itself, the river was not expected to rise above flood stage until the end of the week. However, a division chan-. Ford for 1959 will go on dis- ne completed Tuesday near at Dick Scott Sales and Mission which was intended to play Service tomorrow, for its first Mexia showing.

Scheduled to be shown by Scott are the Custom "300" 4- door, sedan, the Fairlane "500" 4-door sedan, the Country Sedan 4-door station wagon, and the 2-door hardtop Fairlane "500." As an added attraction to Ford enthusiasts, a $25.00 door prize will be given to the winner of a drawing. Anyone who comes to sec the Ford may sign a card and drop it into a box Later after all cards arc in a drawing will be held to select the winner. The winner does not have to be present to win. been banned by Salan. The committee did not spe- cifally cancel the demonstration, but the 3 p.m.

deadline for a mass meeting in the square before government house passed with no signs of a mass meeting. SOVIET UNIOM CONDUCTS NUCLEAR WEAPdN'TEST Russia has tested another-nuclear weapon with a "large yield" at its atomic weapons testing grounds north of the arctic circle, the Atomic Energy Commission announced late Wednesday. Texas National Guard History Is Discussed Little Change U. S. Weather Bureau forecast for Mexia and North Central Texas: Partly cloudy with little change in temperatures through tomorrow.

Low expected tonight near 56 degrees and high tomorrow near 82 degrees. Brigadier General Williaml H. Martin, assistant Adjutant leneral of Texas, was princi- speaker last night at Unit Day'activities for the local unit of the National Guard. General Martin gave a brief jundown of the history of the 143rd Infantry Regiment and on the part Company 3 had played. The speaker pointed out that the regiment was organized in 1917.

General Martin followed the period of service of the group along the Mexican border and through World Wai- I in France. He also mentioned the peacetime duties of the unit from 1918 until 1940 at which time it was recalled to active duty. The general discussed the history of the famous 36th Division of which the local unit was a part. The speaker discussed the role of the National Guardsmen in the army of the future and said that this role would be to serve in any capacity in which the National Guard might be needed, either in act- Plans To Re-Open Arkansas Schools Suffer Setback ST. LOUIS, Mo.

(UPI) Plans to open Little Rock, high schools as private segregated-institutions suffered another, setback a three- man S. appellate, court here indefinitely extended a restraining order barring such action. The court Wednesday charged that proposals to lease Little Rock's four high schools were "for the purpose apparently of nullifying racial integration." In extending the current restraining order, the court said it was acting to "prevent irreparable injury to the educational integration rights" of Negro students involved. Until such time as it hands down a written opinion on an appeal by 'the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to prevent leasing of tlie schools, the court's educe the river level at irownsville appeared to be ess successful Wednesday than lad been hoped. Officials said they may dynamite two more places near he inlet if it doesn't take in jnough water, which was moving slowly through the channel.

The wide ditch wus also causing some small flooding across two roads south of Three days ago Ciudad Camargo Mexico, across from Rio Grande City, Was evacuated except for police and city officials when the Rio Grande threatened the community. In addition to Ford engines that have been engineered foi greater fuel economy, Ford of fers quality-designed construe tion and a new, lighter Ford omatic transmission with 101 fewer parts than in 1958, O. Wright, Ford Division gen oral manager, said. Ford line includes 17 models ranging from the Custom through the six station wagon models, to the Fairlancs and Fairlane All '59 Fords will be on a 118-inch wheel base and will have an over-all length of 208 inches. Windshield urea has been increased 280 square inches, or 29 per cent over 1958 Ford models.

Ford engineers have improved the riding qualities for the '59 Ford with a link-type, rubber bushed ride stabilizer to reduce road shock, and re- calibrated shock absorbers foi a smotthcr, easier ride, Wright reported. Ford engines will include a 223 cu. in. six cylinder, 292-cu in. V-8, 332 cu.

in. V-8, and the 352 cu. in. V-8. The compression ratios foi the four engines are 8.4:1, 8.8:1 8.9:1, and 9.6:1.

Workers Fighting To Reach Crashed Globemaster Plane CHRISTCHURCH, N. Z. UPI) Rescue workers fought 40 beiow zero cold today reach -the side of a giant U.S. Air Force globemaster ransport plane that crashed in the antarctic wastes. Six of the 13 men on board were killed, and "several" of the seven survivors were reported critically injured.

The plane crashed early today (last night U. S. time) as it was attempting a supply air drop to a U.S.-Ncw Zealand base at Camp Hallctt. In the crash, a load of lumber on board apparently shifted position on impact and smashed into the men on the cargo deck of the big C124. Emergency SOS signals were sent out automatically by a battery-powered radio on the wrecked plane, and air and overland rescue efforts started at once.

Former Resident Gives Concert In Huntsville John Haynie, a former rcsi- Mark Kinsley, is director oi ual warfare or in peace-time duties. The peace-time duties include type of disaster. General Martin also stated that the Adjutant General's office had assurances that the National Guard would maintain a strength of 400,000 men with some 20,015 of the men being in Texas National Guard Units. Among platform guests at last night's activities were four former Commander's of Company, Ray Purcell, Lewis Wadle, Charles Barker and John E. Lee.

The Mexia Black Cat Band provided music for the ceremonies held in the City Auditorium and played 10 songs. Open house was held at the extension holds. Some observers thought judges would make their final ruling in- two weeks to 1 a month, either.giving a final decision in the case or it back to an Arkansas district judge who earlier claimed it was not within his jurisdiction. PRAGUE ARCHBISHOP IS SERIOUSLY ILL VIENNA (UPI) Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague Roman Catholic primate Czechoslovakia, today was reported seriously ill in a pri.soi hospital at Ceske Budejovicc Budweis in southern Bohemia The anti-Communist ncwspap ur Videnske Svobodne reported the prelate had a cir at armory following the program culatory ailment after an i and weajjons were on display, tack of pneumonia, POSITIVE PROOF that the "under canvas circus" is still very much a part of "the American way of life" will be furnished residents of Mexia and vicinity on Saturday. October 25.

afternoon and night, wh'en Al G. Kelly and Miller the Nation's largest circus erects its fabulous "tented city" at the City Park grounds. Contrary lo the recent erroneous rumors'that the American public has considered the "Big Top Circus" as "passe." The administrative staff of America's largest Circus reveal that during the previous year's lour, overwhelming success was registered at a majority of the 225 communities visited on their entire itinerary, with overflowing crowds to greet the real old fashioned traditional circus under the "Big Top." A standing invilation is extended the "children of all ages" to visit the showgrounds and witness the unloading, feeding, and watering the many animals, also the bewildering precision-timed erection of the "canvas city." For the past quarter of a century this huge institution has found favor with both press and public alike over the entire North American continent including the U. Canada and Old Mexico. Undoubtedly this will mark the first appearance of a big circus here in many years.

dent of Mexia, and Mrs. Haynie, recently gave a musical concert at Sam Houston State College in Haynie began his initial studies on the trumpet with Robert L. Maddox, band director, while attending school in Mexia. He later attended Texas Tech and the University of Illinois. He studied with Hasell Sexton and received the degrees of B.

S. and M. S. in Music from the University of Illinois. Haynie has held the position of Assistant Professor of Music at North Texas State College in Denton for the pasl nine years, teaching trumpet and brass pedagogy.

The former resident of Mexia has appeared as trumpet soloist through the United States and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator. He is a mem ber of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Pi Kappa Lambda. Mrs. Haynie received her M. degree from the University of Illinois where her father ands.

While at Illinois, she played irst flute with the University Band and Symphony Orchestra and was awarded the highest scholastic award, the Bronze Tablet, for being in the upper one per cent of her class. She a member of Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Alpha Iota and Pi Kappa Lambda. Haynie played the trumpet, and was accompanied by Mrs. rtaynie on the piano at the musical program at Sam This program represented the gamut of literature for the trumpet. I HI jNaoof by Miller A old tolls it looks like anything his throws at him turns out lo a ingmis.il,..