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a a a a a a a a The -A HOME-OWNED Mexia INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER News SERVING PEOPLE YEARSVOLUME LX UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL WIRE SERVICE MEXIA, TEXAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1958 NEA COMPLETE FEATURE SERVICE Army Rocket Too Slow, Off Course For Moon WASHINGTON (UPI) An Army lunar probe robot, too slow and too off -course to reach the moon, roared upward Saturday toward an esti-(moon's Friends of Library Planning Meeting Slated For Monday the endorsement of the City Commission and the City Manlager, Howard F. Mace. Lights Go On Here The long-awaited mercury vapor lights have been turned on in Mexia. The 20,000 lumen lamps will give out approximately five times more illumination than the old lighting. Fourteen lights have been installed on the overpass from Denton, to Sherman streets, they were turned on last night for the first time.

About a week was required to install the new lights according to Tom Anderson, manager of Southwestern Electric Service Company, here. The city has installed the lights as an periment to see how much more light can be obtained and with possible future plans for extending the lights into the city. A meeting is scheduled for 7:30 at Gibbs Memorial Library, Mexia, to discuss formation of Friends of the Library Association here Monday evening. Robert E. Lee, director of extension of Texas State Libraries, will bee principal speaker, and will discuss plans for setting up an organization here.

Many similar organizations are in operation now over the state. The meeting here is to be conducted by the Mexia Library Board. Mrs. Don S. Caldwell, Sr.

is president. of An organization of Friends the Library has received Mystery Shopper Contest Prizes Put On Display Prizes from 14 firms for the person who identifies the Mystery Shopper are now on display the Hi-Fi Music Shop on Commerce Street. Additional prizes and firms participating in the annual contest will be listed cach day. Today's jingle for the mystery shopper is: five foot two, But eyes of blue. Chances are The shopper knows you." Prizes placed on display 10- day include: pint Kem Mexia Paint and Wallpaper gallon ribbon cane syrup, Reynolds Food Store; rainbow glass bottle, Corner Book Store, four cartons Coca Cola, Mexia Coca Cola steak dinner, Western Grill; oil change, Brotherton Service Station; and hat, Sinclair's.

Also blanket, J. C. Penney's; box deodorizer, Babcock's; electric White Auto Supply; set of dishes, Perry Bros. No. bed spread, K.

Wolens; plastic waste basket, Eubank's Hardware; and shirt, Jacob's Department Store. The person who identifies the mystery shopper must have a sales slip dated that day from one of the participaling firms and identitication must be made in a participating business. WARSAW (UPI) Po- land and East Germany have signed a trade protocol for 1959 under which Poland agreed to increase East German machinery imports 30 per cent. Poland will export food. coal, lignite and some machinery to East Germany.

Poland will get raw materials, motoreyele, automobiles, bicycles and various kinds of machiney! from East Germany. RITES ARE SCHEDULED SUNDAY FOR NEGRO are expected to attend.o boys move up in the line to talk to Mr. Claus. (Mexia Daily News Photo.) -(mated peak altitude of miles. This would be about a quarter of the distance to the orbit and far less than the altitude of 79,000 miles reached by the Air Force Pio(neer I in October.

Scientists said the Army rocket, dubbed Pioneer III, would reach its peak altitude about 8 p.m. Saturday. Launched at 12:45 a.m. at Cape Canaveral, the goldplated robot eight hours later had reached an altitude of more than 42,000 miles and was still zooming upward at more than 3,700 miles an hour. Dr.

William H. Pickering, director of the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told news conference that the robot will fall back to earth and will strike the atmosphere and burn up at about 3 p.m. Sunday. Pickering would not predict where the probe would enter the atmosphere. But Dr.

Wernher von Braun, the Army's chief missile scientist, made rough estimate that it would plunge into the air "in the of Madagascar." The total flight. time will be about 38 hours, compared to hours for the Air Force's Pioncer I. The Army lunar rocket actually broke through the atmosphere at a greater speed than Pioneer I 24,057 an hour compared with 23,450 for the Air Force rocket. But Pioneer III was more than three degrees low in its expected trajectory, which should have been 68 degrees from the vertical, whereas Pioneer I was high from approximately the same intendcd path. The Army's robot therefore lost more of its speed to the carth's gravity.

Pickering said the Army 1'0-' bot's instruments are working perfectly, and that signals are being received both in Puerto Rico and at the Army's new Goldstone tracking station (California's Mojave Desert. He said the probe therefore should provide excellent information about the deadly band of radiation that its pound instrument payload was chiefly designed to measure. He added that Prof. James A. Van Allen of the University of Iowa, who discovered the radiation belt and designed the new instruments, is "very satisfied" with the telemetry signals being received.

Pickering pointed out that Pioneer III's batteries were designed to last 75 hours, and that reception of information from the robot therefore should be good throughout its flight. Warmer U.S. Weather Bureau fore. cast for Mexia and North Central Texas: Clear to partly cloudy with little change in temperature. Low tonight near 32 degrees and high tomorrow near 58 degrees.

FOR KUYAVA FUND-Sam Sunday, left, hands a check 10 Bill Fulwiler, chairman of the Kenneth Kuyava Fund, Friday, The check contains the total amount of money earlier given young Sunday by The Sam Sunday Fan Club. (Mexia Daily News Photo.) NUMBER 287 BI STOME FOOTPRATS TODAY'S THOUGHT false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. -Proverbs 6:19. Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself. Thomas Carlyle.

"For the Healing a of the Naservices. Her subject will be tions." Ladies of the church will have charge of the program and there will be an allwoman choir. The Rev. Turpin, pastor of the church, will deliver the regular message Sunday night. The Church committee of the First Christian Church will meet Monday night at 7 o'clock in the church and the official board will meet at 7:30 in the church, according the Rev.

Turpin. of the First Baptist Church, the Rev. Gordon Bays. will deliver both sermons Sunday. The morning sermon which begins at 11 o'clock will be "Satisfaction of Our Deepest Longings," and the evening worship at 7:30 will be "Contemporary and Christian Eth-1 ics." There will be a deacon's meeting Sunday afternoon al 5:30 and Training Union is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

Sunday. Tuesday morning at the WMU wil have a Mission Study at the church. The regular monthly church conference is slated for next Wednesday evening at 7:30 at the church. Women's Day will be observed Sunday at the First Christian Church and Mrs. Cecil Barnett of Oletha and a member of the local church will be speaker during the morning Sunday School at the Northside Baptist Church will gin at 9:45 a.m.

with the morning service to follow at 11 o'clock. Pastor of the church, the Rev, L. A. Morgan will. deliver the message, "Is Death the End?" at the morning service.

Sunday evening at 6:30 Training union will be held and at 7:30 a special service will begin with the Lottie Moon Christmas offering to be followed by an interesting film. Monday at 7:00 p.m. the WMU will meet at the church and Friday at 4:30 p.m. the Girl's Auxiliary will have a meeting at the church. The Assembly of God Church of Mexia has purchascd the Wortham Assembly of God Church biulding and will move the building to Mexia to be used as a Sunday School annex.

The Rev. Homer Tarkington, pastor of the local church, said that the building will be completely remodeled and paritioned into Sunday School rOomAS and a Christ Ambassador's Hall. Tarkington will deliver both sermons Sunday and his sermon title Sunday morning will be, "What Kind of Manners Do You Have?" The Christ Ambassadors and the Women's Missionary Council will mect at the church at and the regular evening worship services will begin at 7:30. The Womens' Society of Christian Service of the First Methodist Church will meet Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the parlor of the Children's Building for their annual Christmas Party. The official board of the church will meet Monday night at 7 o'clock in the old church and also at 7 p.m., Monday the young men of the church will meet! in the Childrens' Building par- lor to organize a new circle of the WSCS.

The nursery will be open. The Methodist Youth Fel-1, lowship will go to Corsicana Monday night for the annual district banquet to be held at 7:00 o'clock in the Collins Junioh High School. The Junior Choir will meet for at 5 p.m. Wednesday a and the Adult Choir will rehearse at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The Progressive Sunday school class will have their annual Christmas party Thursday night at 7 o'clock at the Western Grill. The Church Council of the Point Enterprise Baptist Church will meet Sunday at 12 noon in the Fellowship hall. Lunch will be served and then a business mecting will be held. Only regular meetings: are scheduled throughout the remainder of the week for the church. Sunday School will begin 9:45 at the First Presbyterian, Church.

Dr. Frank M. Taylor, See FOOTPRINTS Page 84 FIRST PLACE WINNER--First place was awarded the float entry of Mrs. Willard Bennett's Kindergarten class in the Mexia Christmas Parade Friday. On the float are Mrs.

Bennett, at right, and 20 children in the choir. On the back was a manger scene and several other children. (Mexia Daily News Photo.) Informed Sources Disclose U.S. Alerts Tanks And Infantrymen en BERLIN (UPI) Inform-1 ed sources today disclosed the U. S.

Army alerted a force of tanks and infantrymen last month to go to the rescue of a military truck convoy detained lat a checkpoint outside West Berlin by Soviet border The sources said an advance force of three tanks was on its way to the checkpoint when the Soviets released the three trucks and their soldier-drivtolers. The alert was said to emphasize the U. S. determination to uphold its occupation rights in isolated West Berlin and protect: the lifelines linking it to the West. According to the sources, the combat-ready force was alerted and told to stand by for possible action when armed Soviet guards held up the threetruck convoy at the Babelsberg checkpoint 'outside Berlin, on Kindergarten Float Judged First Place Float entries from Mrs.

Bennett's Kindergarten, the CalBaptist Church, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce, won, first, second and third places respectively in the Christmas parade here Friday. Winning floats were awarded $25, $15 and $10 cash prizes by the Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the contest. First place float depicted a manger scene in back, and a group of children from Mrs. Bennett's class rode the float 359 Men Tabbed For January Draft AUSTIN (Spl) The state quota for Texas draft boards in January calls for 359 men, Colonel Morris S. Sch-1 wartz, state Selective Service director, announced Wednesday.

The state's January call of 359 compares with a quota of December, previously announced. The January call is state's share of a national quota of 9,000 men, all for the Army. The state director of Selective Service said that, as a result of the drop in the quota, there would be no preinduction mental and physical examinations in January. Local board quotas for the January induction are scheduled to be mailed by state Selective Service headquarters Wednesday. filled with men who are The January quota will bel least 22 years old on January with the exception of volunteers or delinquents, who may be younger.

The January induction quota is the lowest monthly call on Texas December 1957, when the call was for 340. Monthly quotas for the state in 1958 were: January 493, February 641, March 660, April 679, May 677, June 519, July 538, August 539, September 573, October 564, November 556, and December 462. SHOPPING 15 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS A READ OUR ADS the 110-mile highway to West Germany on Nov. 14. The Soviets refused to permit the convoy to proceed to West Germany unless the driv-! ers submitted to a search the trucks.

The drivers refused. According to the sources, Maj. Gen. Barksdale Hamlett, American commandant in BerJin, ordered a task force ed to push from West Berlin through one mile of East German territory to the checkpoint to free the soldiers if necessary. But first the Americans sent Findlay Burns, American mission political adviser, to Soviet headquarters in the East Berlin district of Karlshorst 1o demand Burns' the mission'" convoy's succeeded! and the convoy was released after nearly nine hours to return to West Berlin.

A U. S. Army spokesman said "We can neither confirm nor deny the report." Another spokesman said: "We have alerts all the time. Sometimes tanks are alerted and sometimes infantry, and sometimes both together. If there was such an alert on Nov.

14, it could have been a coincidence." Chancellor Konrad Adenauer flew back to Bonn today after indicating that his government is at odds with its Western Allies on means of settling the Berlin crisis. Marriage Licenses And Divorces Show Large Decrease GROESBECK (Spl) Both marriage licenses issued and divorce suits filed in November in Limestone County showed a decrease from the previous months. Twelve marriage licenses were issued during November as to 19 issued October. Three divorce suits were filed in the county during November as compared to seven the previous month. Marriage licenses were ucd to Lawrence Williams and Jacqueline Brooks, Sam Albert Dudley Jr.

and Helen Weber, Albert Cook and Opal Hayes, Milford Smith and Odessa Jones, Billy Douglas Spruill and Barbara Nell Sickies and to Billy Ray Walton and Anna Cornelia Jorgins. Licenses were also issued to Cliff Canady and Johnnie Ruth Bush, John Philip Cottingim and Georgene Schuh, Bruce Aaron and Katherine Geneva McGee, Virgil Issac Nelson and Addie Etta Dees, Connie Mack Hancook and Greta Altha McClinton and to Bobby Martin Dickerson and Virginia Lee Abbott. Divorce suits filed during the month were Mary Martin vs. David E. Martin, Charles Ray Wootonn VS.

Beatrice Wootonn and Cecil J. Black vs. Effie Black. Hi Nador by Olin Miller mighty rare that it costs a person 'anything to smile, as he nearly always gits a Sam Sunday Gives Own Fund To Help Kuyava dressed in choir costumes. They sang Christmas songs during the parade.

The Calvary Baptist Church entry, second-place winner, pictured part of the Christmas Story using Shepherds, sheep and Angels and the Christmas Third-place winner, the Jaycec float used the "Happy Holiday" theme. The float was decorated with a hung with stockings, an open Bible and a rocking chair, portraying the "Night Before Christmas." Out of town judges selected the winning floats from eight entries. Other entries included the First Baptist church, Junior Friday Club, First Presbyterian Church, Rotary (Club and the Mexia High schfool Student Council. The Mexia a Black Cat Band fled the parade and the Dunbar High School Band marched. Starting at First Methodist Church, the parade went Commerce Street to Belknap, down Belknap 1o Main Street and up Main to the City Hall where it dispersed.

Following the Santa Claus was on hand at the City Hall to hear children's requests for. Christmas, and he candy to the white children. Saturday morning he was at the Mexia State School to visit with the children and distribute candy. He also gave candy to the Negro children at Dunbar High School Saturday morning. Christmas Banquet For Youth Slated At Corsicana The annual Christmas for the Methodist youth of the Corsicana District be held at 7 p.m., Dec.

8, at the Jim Collins Junior High School in Corsicana. Barbecued chicken will be served. The Rev. Don Goodwin, exstudent of Harvard, will be guest speaker. He is a former pastor of the Methodist church (at Chatfield.

At present he is pastor of the Little River Methodist scheduled Church. to be His "Put subject Christ is In Christmas." A surprise is planned for the youth, according to Pat Clendenin, district president. Reservations should be in as soon possible Clendenin said. as no reservations will, be accepted after Sunday, Dec. 7.

Ticket price is $925. Approximately 200 adult legaciers are expected to attend.o By BILL SHERIDAN Sam Sunday, a quiet unassuming teen aged sophomore student, gave one Christmas gift a little early Friday but its recipient, Kenneth Kuyava didn't mind. Young Sunday, handed a check to Bill Fulwiler, chairin man of the Kenneth Kuyava, Fund in Mexia. The presented total amount of money to the cent, orginally 13-1 given Sunday by al group of Mexia citizens, members of the Sam Sunday Fan Club. It all began about the time of the Mexia-Teague football game when a couple of friends of the high school band drummor and saxaphonist organized the club to get funds to buy a drum for Sam.

Sunday hit upon the idea last week that his contribution for the fund would be needed more than would need a drum, and he simply wrote out the check and added his contribution to the others. Twenty-three Black Cat Band Students were in Marlin Saturday for the Band and All-State Band tryouts and examinations for band students for Region III. Young Kenneth Kuyava would have been there too, but for a recent auto accident that confined him to a hospital bedpossibly for several months, maybe even a year. Mexia Band Director Joe T. Hancy said he believed the 16- er would have had an lent chance to make All-Region Band could he have gone.

Instead, he is bedfast in Hillcrest Hospital with a badly injured leg awaiting either surgery skin grafting before the in his leg can. be reset. Another group of persons hore have made up their minds to help the boy through paying some of the costs of his hospi-. talization and costs of the long weeks of rehabilitation that will come after his leg is healed. The Kenneth Kuyava fund was organized here recently by Bill Fulwiler, Pearson Saltsman, Raymond Dillard, Alton Bowen, Mrs.

John Bennett and Jack Ross to get some moncy for the Kuyava cause. The boy has been cared for by his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Timberlake of Mexia, but they cannot pay all the costs of rehabilitation and hospitalization. A group hospitalization policy will pay some $7.50 a day on hospital room costs, but much more is needed to cover the future anticipated costs.

Thus the fund was Organized. One has or. touch touched it not carried System to touch poison ivy, something that has to get poisoned. It is in the air as a gas Touch System I year old first chair flute play- for fumes. SANIA.

WILL YOU BRING ME -A large group of little chudren were on hand at; the City Hall in Mexia Friday, following the Christmas Parade, when the jolly old man in red arrived to pass out candy among them and to hear their Christmas gift requests. One little boy. foreground, seems particularly glad to tell Santa his wishes, while two boys move up in the line to talk to Mr. Claus. (Mexia Daily News Photo.) Final rites will be held Sunday al 2:30 p.lu.

in the St. John A.M.E. Church for Quilla Whipps, Mexia Negro wOman. Burial will be in the Grove Island Cemetery. The native of Freestone County died in a Mexia.