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Corsicana Daily Sun from Corsicana, Texas • Page 2

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TWO THE CORSICANA, (TEXAS) DAILY SUN. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1955 IOOF Installs New Officials At Joint Ceremonies Joint installation ceremonies featured with colorful drills and pageantry were held Tuesday night in'the IOOF Hall as Home Hebekah Lodge No. 128 and Cor- Eicana Lodge No. 63, IOOF, inducted their officers and their staffs for the ensuing term. Refreshments were served following the program.

A special cjrill by the Rebekali team highlighted the program and short talks were given by of fleet 3 and members. Miss Sarah McMullan was soloist for the drill performance with Mrs. Gertrude Thompson as pianist. Mary Ann Worthy was pressnt- ed in a tap and toe (lance feature whilo Mrs. Jewell Walker appeared in two well-received readings.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Merrell, worthy matron and worthy patron, respectively, of the Masonic lodge, were visitors. The installing staff included H. J.

Bryant, district deputy grand master, and Eula Garner, district deputy Rebkah president; W. A. Chaffee and Llda Foster, marshals; Nolan Barker and Clara Rascoe, wardens; John Arnett and Lottie Wilson, chaplains; O. C.Tra- vis and Oma Hagler, treasurers; John Garner and Lurene Green, secretaries; and Sims Hagler and Edele Bryant, inside guardians. Home Rebekah Lodge No.

Nell Gay, noble grand; Carmen Dempsey, vice grand; Fayc Johnson, warden; Inez Compton, conductor; Alvis Mathis, inside guardian; Estelle Tucker, outside guardian; Lurene Green, right supporter, noble grand; Alberta Fortner, left supporter, noble grand; Grace Bailey, chaplain; Clara Gowan, right supporter, chaplain; Ettie Mae Atkeisson, left supporter, chaplain; Oma Hagler, right supporter, vice grand; Sue Phillips, left supporter, vice grand; Jean Sullivan, U.S. flag bearer; Georgia Ray, Texas flag bearer; Laura Spain, Rebekah flag bearer; Mary Jones and Faye Grimes, altar bearers; Mary Estell, reporter; Annie Whitten, financial secretary; Dorothy JfcPherson, recording secretary; Beulah Dickson, musician, and Katherlne Chambliss, treasurer. Corsicana Lodge No. 63, IOOF-- D. T.

Ray, noble grand; Cecil Melton, vice grand; J. W. Dunlap, warden; Jack Russell, conductor; John Garner, inside Sims Hagler, outside guardian and treasurer; Rex Peddy, right supporter, noble grand; Glenn Owens, left supporter, noble grand; Roy Greer, right scene supporter; Claude C. Rogers, left scene supporter; Wilford White, chaplain; J. I.

Ellett, secretary; C. W. Lunn, right supporter, vice grand; Nolan Barker, left supporter, vice First MeOwdist Official Board Given Reports Fifty-four members of the Official Board of the First Methodist church attended the January fneet- ing in the Education building Tuesday evening. W. P.

McCammon, chairman of a special committee, reported pews in the former Third Avenue Presbyterian church were available and the Board voted to purchase them to increase the seating capacity and replace chairs now utilized in the west wing of the Sanctuary. Ray Waller reported a "fill the pews at night services" campaign will be inaugurated soon and each Sunday evening 20 Stewards will be named to fill that many pews. Rev. Ray L. Starnes, associate pastor and young people's director, told of the three nights training school for Church School workers and the three day Bible conference in February.

Mitchell Boyd, chairman, reported on the Church School program. H. R. Stroube made a brief report on the Church expansion program and L. I.

Griffin on work being done in the Educational Building. Rev. John Wesley Ford, pastor, gave a resume on tn.c various church activities through Easter, calling attention to the Church A tendance Crusade under way, Fan ily Night services during the nex six weeks, pre-Easter meeting Good Friday and Easter service Elbert Walker discussed th Men's Dinner Club banquet-pro gram Thursday, January 20. Gaston Gooch, finance committe told of tho commission on flnanc meeting earlier in the evening Each steward was provided a nancial statement on church actlv; ties. Richlcmd FFA On Field Trip The Rich land FFA Chapter Alon- day went on a field trip that included a demonstration on killing and cutting up a hog.

The demonstration was on a hog belonging to Billy Jack Glass, chapter member. H. H. Davis, vocational teacher, was the instructor. Livestock Clinics Planned Friday Livestock clinics will be held in Emhouse and Richland.

Herbert Davis, vocational agriculture teacher of these two schools, has announced. The Emhouse clinic will he held at the John Palos (Bar Ranch), sponsored by the Emhouse Future Farmers of America club. The Richland clinic will be at the Clovis Keeling place on Farm Highway 1304 Friday at 1 p. m. John Morris, Fort Worth, will be he the demonstrator.

He represents Franklin Serum Company. The purpose of the clinics la to demonstrate the best and safest methods used in animal health the best results relative to injury, shock, infection, hemorrhage, etc. In approximately two hours more than 50 different Items I and methods of dehorning, cas- trating vaccinating and worming will shown. The problems of bloat, scours, pneumonia, pink eye, blackleg, parasites, will be discussed. To Assist Savings Program The Corsicana Business and Professional Women's Club has pledged its help in expanding the U.

S. Treasury Department's School Savings program in Corsicana, according to Miss Ros a George White, president. Members voted at a recent meeting: to adopt the project for the 1954-1955 club year, working with the Navarro County Savings Bonds Committee and local school authorities. B. L.

Sanders, president of the First National Bank, is the Navarro County Bonds committee chairman. Other national women's Legion Auxiliary, Daughters of the American Revolution, General Federation of Women's Clubs and National Congress of Parents and have accepted leadership in backing of this project across the country. PASTOR NOT WORRIED RACINE, Wis. Someone stole a stack of religious books from St. John's Church in Racine, but the pastor said he is not worried.

Father Joseph Macek told police: "If he reads the books, he'll return them." AUDITORIUM STARTED (JP) Was broken today for the downtown auditorium Dallas has been talking about for 28 years. Dawson Bank In Annual Meeting Winfred Berry was added to the board of directors of the First tional Bank at Dawson Tuesday morning at the annual stock-holders meeting. Berry takes the place of O. Weaver who died last July. The stockholders declared the customary 15 per cent dividend and re-electod the following directors; C.

M. Newton, C. M. Newton, B. L.

Sanders and J. F. Smith. Officers re-elected are C. M.

Newton, president and chairman of the board; C. M. Newton, Jr. vice president; J. F.

Smith, vice president; and J. E. Davis, cashier. This Southwest Navarro county bank has a capital of $50,000, a surplus of $50,000, individed profits of $31,321.47. reserved for taxes reserved for dividends reserved for contingents $50,000 and deposits $1,080,001.73 as rendered to the comptroller of the currency at.

the close of business, December 31, Coolidge Bank Renames Sanders B. L. Sanders of Corsicana was re-elected as a director and also as president of the First National Bank in Coolidge. Limestone county. Tuesday morning at the annual stock-holders meeting.

The stockholders declared a 10 per cent dividend. This institution has deposits of approximately $1,000,000. Directors re-elected by the Coolidge bank in addition to Sanders arc A. A. Davis, .7.

L. Bell, J. A. Wallace and Roy Ward. Other officers are J.

H. Weatherby, vice president; W. J. Sellers, cashier, and J. N.

Barron, assistant cashier. TRAPl'KP BY OWN LAW MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. A court hearing for State Representative Al Otto of St. Paul, charged with violating the Minnesota Liquor Fair Trade Price Act, was postponed until May 10. Boyle'a Column By SAUI- FETT (For Hal Boyle) NEW YORK UP) It was one of those fights.

As always in such fights, he imagined they had not really been married the last 15 years. Helen and Tim were someone else's kids. He really was still a gay young bachelor, with lots of girls and flashy cars and places to go and bright, crisp things to say. It further irritated him that the bottom drawer of his basement desk wouldn't shut tight and he coulrt see why. She had crammed in the big cardboard box she kept the odd check stubs in.

Stubs all the way ba.ck, 13 or 14 years. Her check stubs in his desk. Well, all right, their stubs. Still it was her mania to save everyhing in sight, not his. Could Start Argument The first stub he saw was only a month old.

and Apparels, $54. He could, he thought, rush back up to the kitchen and deliver a stringing denouncement of frivolous shoppers. But then she would produce incontrovertible evidence the kids really needed those new winter coats. He turned the box over and began among the oldest stubs. March 12, 1940 art lessons.

$14. Hers. April 9, 1040, sofa, SI75. The sofa was now beside him, in the basement. Nov.

24, 1940 sculpture lessons, $18. Hers. "After all, a wife needs to feel productive, too." Apt. rent, $47, month after month. Then $54, then $62.

Feb. 12, 1941 beer, $28.50. What, $28.50 for beer! But then he remembered and relaxed. It was his going- away party. The next morning he was at Fort Dix.

Would he ever make and for the next four years, she signed al the checks. Sweater, extra warm, $10.20. Had it reached him in Africa or Italy? Xmas package, $14.40. Where had he devoured it, in Naples or Rome? Feb. 23, 1945 T- Obstetrician Helen, $100.

"Of course. I know she's breathing. Just thought I'd check the crib covers." Jan. 12, 1946, Helen's stroller, $15.89. Jan.

29, 1946. washing machine, $210. April 12, 1947, sofa, $278. May 15, 1947, drugs, $8.98. March 24, 1948, new set of dishes.

$29. May 3, 1948, sewing machine, $110. what happened to the art lessons? Without knowing why, he smiled. He was now completely comfortable in the old chair he used to complain about. Oct.

19. 1948 Helen's tonsils, $50. "I should have stayed the night with her In the hospital. I'll never forget her eyes when I walked out." Nov. 3, 1948 down payment, house, "My pen shook when I signed it.

It felt like I was being led down an endless corridor with a million doors, each marked "mortgage payment due." Then It came to him that actually he had been a gay bachelor, that there were very few that the only car was a broken-down model that the conversation usually was desperately wooden. He paused over the check stubs and slowly returned them to his desk drawer. He walked back up to tlie kitchen where she was just finishing up. He kissed her on the back of the neck. She said, "What's that for?" He said, "none of your business," and kissed her again.

SUICIDE IS RULED TEXAS man who telephoned his wife, "I can't stop drinking and I can't continue like this" later was found shot to death in his auto. Suicide was ruled In the death of George Hedges, 41. A pistol was beneath the body. FORMOSA POLICE DUPED TAIPEH, young Chinese arrested on the (treetfl here at 3 a. m.

convinced the spector at a police station that he wasn't a thief but merely a playboy. He was allowed to leave. Police now are looking for him again the raincoat missing from the station. Tor Photographs Studio Taylor 107 W. 7th Ave.

Phone 4-4568 INVENTORY PADS LEDGERS, BINDERS FILING SUPPLIES 214 N. Main St. Ill Wdt CoIUn Strttt SALE DRESSES SUITS HATS SWEATERS BAGS SKIRTS BLOUSES JEWELRY SCARFS BELTS All Sales Final Dr. Shamburger Dallas Speaker Dr. W.

M. Shamburger, Firs Baptist pastor, will be one of th speakers at the Texas Baptls Evangelism conference in the Firs Baptist church in Dallas, Jan. 17 19. More than 5,000 Baptist pastors missionaries and lay people in the Central portion of Texas are ex pectcd to attend this conference It is one of three being held in Texas during January in prepara tion for the Southern Baptist slmu Haneous revival crusades to b( held in March and April in rnosi of the 29,500 Southern Baptist churches. There will be representatives from 1902 Baptist churches in this area.

Other speakers at the Dallas conference include Dr. James W. Middlelon, Shrcveporl, Dr. Elwin L. Sklles, Abilene; Dr.

William Jester, Houston; Dr. James H. Lancles. Wichita Falls; Dr. E.

S. James. Rpv. J. Woodrow Fuller, Dr.

C. Y. Dossey, Dr. Wallace Bassett, and Dr. Forrest Freezor, all of Dallas.

Also Rev. John M. Wright, Port Arthur; Rev. Warren Walker, Corpus Rev. Allen Webb, Bay City; Dr.

W. R. Petti- Brew, Louisville, Dr. W. Fred Swank and Dr.

Robert E. Taylor, both of Fort Worth; Rev. Warren C. Hultgron. Corpus Rev.

B. N. Ramsey. Denison; Dr. R.

C. Lee, Memphis, Rev. Newman Me Larry, Marshall; and Rev. W. L.

Shuttlesworth. Tyler. Dr. Shamburgfr will speak Tuesday nighi, Jan. 18, on the subject "The Conservation Plan." JANE RUSSELL HOME LOS AJVGELES Actress Jane Russell, appearing tired, arrived Tuesday night after four months in Europe, where she made 1 Quality Furniture At A Budget Price! DOUBLE DRESSER Shelf Bed With Hi Fool Something Beautiful and Differentl Chinchilla Walnut with Gleaming Brass Pulls- Plate Glass Mirror Center Drawer Guided DuPont Dulux Finish Night Stand $24.50 DOUBLE DRESSER Shelf Bed as shown In Modern Silver Grey Silver Drawer Pulls Dust Proof Drawers DuPont Dulux Nitc Stand $24.50 No Interest No Carrying Charge! TEKELL FURNITURE COMPANY 305-9 N.

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