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Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light from Corsicana, Texas • Page 6

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THE CORSICANA, SEMI-WEEKLY LIGHT Corsicana, Tuesday, January 2, 1062 SLN I'liINt M. Molly Anne McNutt will carry a royal family heritage as Ysleta Sun Princess in the 27th annual Sun Carnival celebration, traditionally observed at the New Year, in El Paso. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack S.

McNutt of Ysleta. Her mother, the former Miss Elizabeth Duncan, was the first Sun Princess representing Ysleta in El Paso earliest Sun Carnival activities. Miss McNutt, selected by the Lower Valley Women's Club, Vsleta Club and civic club members in the area, is a graduate of Ysleta High school. She attends Texas Western College and is a member of Delta Delta Delta. Her father is a former Corsicanan.

Hew Woodbine Test Planned Near Southwestern Hydrocarbon Company, Corsicana, has filed application to drill a wildcat Woodbine test near Navarro. The No. 1 Lizzie Goldman, to be spotted on a 96-acre tract, in John Lockhart survey, 1.5 mile west of the Navarro town- site, will be carried to production or to 3,600 feet Well location is 660 feet from the north and 330 from the east lines of the lease and the survey. SON IS BORN City Judge and Mrs. Glenn Stewart have announced the birth of a.

son, Jeffery Glenn, at Memorial hospital Thursday at 3:04 a.m. He weighed seven pounds and two ounces. Run Want Ads Brin" Results Final Riies For Mrs. Gauli Held Monday Funeral services for Mrs. W.

A. Gault, of Electra, sister of Mrs J. Miles, "'ho died Saturday in Wichita Falls, were held from the First Baptist church in Copperas Cove Monday at 2:30 p.m. Burial was in Copperas Cove. A previous funeral was held Sunday at Electra.

Mrs. Miles and her son, Basil 1'oe, went to Electra Saturday on receipt of the message, Others attending the rites at Cove Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Weems, I Mr. and Mrs.

Merle Posey of Mrs. Bazil Coe and and Mrs. Travis Coe. Open House At Powell Sunday An open house eggnog party was held Sunday by Mrs. Pearl Emerson, Miss Euphemia Richey and Miss Harriet Emerson at 'their farms in Powell and tended by a number of fruests.

Decorations emphasized holly and other native flowers of the farms. Guests from Corsicana and Navarro county were Mr. and Mrs. W. D.

Wyatt, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Garrity, Mr.

and Mrs. A. G. Elliott, Oscar Dockum, Mrs. Myrtle Dockum, Edward F.

Hearn. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Statham, Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Guvsizk. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mrs. Lillian Jackson, i Mr.

and Mrs. George Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gray. Mr and Mrs.

Claude White, Mr. and I Mrs. H. W. George.

Mr. and Mrs. Pete Ray, Mr and Mrs. Paul Sloan. Harrison Burke.

A Mitchell, Miss Helen Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. Neal Haynie, Mr. and Mrs. C.

A. Andrews. Judge and Mrs. James Sewell. Mr.

and Mrs. Aaron Buie. Mr. and Mrs, Andrews. Mrs.

Onita Barlow and Miss Loreta Gaillard. Among those from other plac es were Miss Anne Lafferty Wagner and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Read of New York City, and Mr. and Mrs.

Glenn Rogers of Grand Prairie. ROTARIANS mu H0MOR ELEVEM Navarro Junior College giid- ders, co-champions of the Texas Junior College Conference, will be recognized by the Corsicana Rotary Club at their annual grid banquet Tuesday night. The occasion, a 7 p.m. meeting in the Collins Junior High cafetorium, will honor the Bulldogs, who tied with Cisco J.C. for the conference title in the 1961 season.

James Jeffrey, well-known athletic figure in Texas, will be the main speaker at the event. Ronald Roberts Here Friday Ronald Roberts of Hillsboro, member of the Texas Legislature from Hill county, was a Navarro county visitor Friday. Navarro and Hill counties have been put in the same representative district, effective in 1962. Roberts is a candidate for the combined district. Free Shots Low Holiday activities was credited with the low attendance Friday at the weekly free immunization clinic conducted by the Corsicana-Navarro Health Department.

A total of 31 inoculations were given: 17 Salk polio and 14 combination diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus shots. Cut-to-Slemlerize PRINTED PATTERN IN THE SERVICE A-2C Herbert Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hoffman, 1800 West Eleventh avenue, Corsicana, recently spent five days leave with his parents. Airman Hoffman is stationed at Perrin Air Force Base where he is an electrical power production specialist and diesel mechanic Barry NEW YE Aft "1562 is the YEAR for YOU" SAVE IT STITCHING TIME AGAIN AND PRICES ARE COUNTED DOWN" ALL WOOLS 72 PRICE Nylon NET Yd.

All Hat Price Accessories 2 PURE SILK Reg. $2.98 Yd. vO COTTON Yd PRINTS Yds 88 LARGE GROUP DRIP DRY COTTONS Values YD. SALE STARTS JAN. 3 Thru Saturday, 8ih £ew'N Sew YOUR ONE STOP SEWING 102 North Beaton St.

Dial TR2-131 NCE ENGAGEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Merrell of Dawson announce the engagement of their daughter. Barbara, to Larry Joe Threadgill. son of Mr.

and Mrs. O. R. Threadgill of Glen Rose. Miss Merrell is a graduate of Navarro Junior College and member of Phi Theta.

Kappa and is a senior in Sam Houston State Teachers College and member of Kappa Delta sorority. The brid groom-to-be is a 1961 Sam Houston graduate and is stationed with the 49th Armored Division at Fort Polk, La. He is a member of Delta Delta Tau fraternity. Y-Church Loop, Class Meets Open This Week January and basketball, al most synonymous terms, arrive this week in Corsicana and Na- carro county. As classes resume in the.

schoosls and athletic workouts get moving again, the thump- thump sport will awaken from its holiday nap and take over its rightful place in this locality. The only games carded in Corsicana thin week are not high school or collegp hut adult In variety. The distinction to the adult, da- visinn of the hurch f.eague, which opens its 1962 season with a three game card Thursday night oil the VMCA court. All six teams see competition Ihe first night, First Baptist playing Memorial Baptist in the opener; First Methodist playing Catholic in Ihe 7:30 encounter; and North Side Baptist playing Roane-Central Baptist in the 8:30 nightcap. District 8-AAA of the Interscholastic League swings into league play Tuesday night, Jan.

2, but it affect Corsicana's member of (hat loop, Bill Tigers. They have an open date that night. However, the Felines have seeti plenty of holiday practice, and they will be as ready as possible by Friday night, which sees them in Mesquite for their opening conference matching. Two Tourneys The. Class schools wait another week before beginning their loop competition, hut in the meantime they get together in tournament action this week in the final tune-up round.

There arc two of these tournaments, a. major and a minor one. The major event is the Frost Invitational, one of the outstanding events of the basketball year for quite a while now. It gets under way Thursday night. The Mildred event opens Thursday night and brings four schools into competition, with a boys and a girls team in each.

Mildred, Kerens. Mt. Calm and Richland are involved in the play. As of this moment, Navarro Junior College has no games scheduled this week. The regular schedule calls for Al Carmichael's quintet to open holiday play Monday, Jan.

8 here against Jacksonville Baptist, a non conference foe. There is an outside possibility that a weather-post- pooned meeting with Cisco will he played later this week, hut Carmichael has not yet opened discussions along this line with the Cisco coach. Carmichael will call his Bulldogs back into practice session Tuesday afternoon. It has been a long layoff for the Bulldogs, who played their last game Dec. 12 in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.

be almost like starting over from speculates Carmichael. were getting: along pretty good there until the holidays came along. Maybe we can get back into that condition sooner this On the junior high school scene, both Corsicana teams open up in Big Eight circuit play, hoth away from home. Thursday night the Collins Cougars visit Terrell and the Drane Panthers are off to Buckner Home. ANNOUNCE ARRIVAL Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas L. Horn announce the arrival of a son, Larry Thomas, borr Friday, Dec. 29, at Memorial Hospital. The new arrival weighed six pounds, five ounces.

Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Coffey of Ennis.

Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Horn of Corsicana.

Great- grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hambright of Wichita Falls; Mrs.

R. L. Thornton of Vernon and Mrs. J. W.

Hobbs of Ferris. The first known photograph of a living person was made in 1839. A study by Daguerre, it a Parisian gentleman getting a shoeshine at a street stand. BARRY, Jan. 1 (Spl) Visitors in the J.

C. Robison home recently were Mr, and Mrs Alvis Bourland and family of McGregor; Mr. and Mrs. Buell Robison, Mr. and Mrs.

Don Mahaley and family, and Mrs. Bes sie Griffin of Waco. Mrs. James Ragsdale, Sangie and Davey of Fort Worth arc visiting Mrs. parents Mr.

and Mrs. A. M. Russell, and Mr. and Mrs.

W. D. Ragsdale. Mr. and Mrs.

Lowell Reed Joe and Jerry. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Massengale. Mr.

and Mrs. Leone Reed, Mr. and Mrs Slvin Reed, Becky and Sandra Corsicana, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. H.

L. Reid Sunday. Mr. andMrs. J.

E. Varnell of Italy and Jack Varnell of New Orleans, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Varnell and family of Arlington visited Mr. and Mrs.

Leo Price Monday. Mrs. J. L. Kemp and Mrs.

Crockett Tyler and daughter Karen Ann of Milford visited Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Varnell and Mike Thursday.

The Lowell Reed family visited the Edwards family of Midlothian Christmas Day. Mrs. Albert Bell returned home Sunday from San Angelo. Mr. and Mrs.

G. W. Watson and Calvin visited Mr. and Mrs. William Poteet of San Angelo over the weekend.

Mrs. Lucy Bingham of Dallas visited her sister, Mr. and Mrs. G. W.

Watson Thursday. Mrs. Lillie Higginbotham of Abilene spent the weekend with Mrs. Gladys Higginbotham and mother. Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Travis and family of Fort Worth spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. M. S.

McDonald. Su- Want Ads Bring Results Leland O. Lusks Plan To Observe 50th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Leland Lusk will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday witn a reception from 2 to 5 p.m.

at their home. 2418 Sharon, Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. Lusk were married in Rice in 1932 and moved from Ennis to Dallas in 1953. The reception i being given by their children, Thurman Lusk of Linden, and Mrs.

A. W. Waggoner and Mrs. J. D.

Splawn, both of Dallas. Sun Want Ads Bring Results Phone Your Want Ads to TR4-4764 County History Society To Meet Original land grants in this area will be described by Alva Taylor when the Navarro county Historical soci' meets Monday, Jan. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Civic Room, First National Bank building. Round table discussion of means to promote the growth of the organization will follow.

Carl MiruJ will preside. Flathtcry for sunny days ahead! We nominate this softly draped neckline with a tabbed bow as one of the prettiest for sizes. Skirt is so slimming. Printed Pattern 4936: Half! Sizes 14 1-2, 16 1-2, 18 1-2, 20 1-2, 22 1-2, 24 1-2. Size 16 1-2 requires 3 3-4 yards 35-inch fabric.

Send FIFTY CENTS in coin." I for this 10 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Anne Adams, care of Corsicana Daily Sun, Pattern 243 West 17th New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly, NAME, A I) with ZONE, SIZE anj STYLE NUMBER. SPECIAL Spring-Summer Pattern now! More 100 sparkling sport, day, dance, work, travel.

All sizes! Send 35c. Starts Thursday See HUBBY CHECKER Po The Twist in ------PLUS------ FRANK SINATRA BURT LANCASTER Here To jC Capri Starts Thursday THE MOST TALKED ABOUT MOST SHO( KED ABOUT PICTURE OF OUR NOW to THURS. jeRwr lewKi EfffiaND I CRASHES HOLLYWOOD -WITH A MILLION! HOWLS BRIAN DONIEVY HOWARD McNEAR DICK WESSON ERNEST DGIUCKSHW I JERRY LEWIS JERRY LEWIS BILL RiCHMONO knmwtim WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE OF MATTRESSES Not Since Litile George Hit the Tree Have Cuts Been So Drastic! I K- Vi I i 4 1- A 4 si 7 5 28 88 Values Up To $79.50 a Want Ad and Convert into Cash Dial TR4-4764. 00 Down oo Per Week 88 NO CARRYING CHARGE Sales Service Navarro County Tractor Co. Ml E.

3rd Ave Dial IR4 5312 MILES Furniture Cc. 4th At Beaton Central Texas Largest Furniture Store 3rd At Beaton.

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