Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light from Corsicana, Texas • Page 12

JOURNEY Mo IICHT FIRST NATIONAL BANK rep skies of ontana THE CORSICANA, TEXAS, SEMI-WEEKLY LIGHT, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1953 Navcirro Students Speech Wismers Two Navarro Junior College speakers won honors Friday In the Junior College speech meet held at the Temple Junior College, M. S. Cook, director, announced Saturday. Roy Williams won second place in extempore speech and Don Pevehouse won second place in oratory. Several other Navarro participated.

Methodist Church Lay Leaders Are Nominated Friday 'Recreation And Beautification Project At Kerens Two Completions In South Kerens Woodbine Field The annual banquet-session of the Corsicana District of Methodists was held Friday night at the Eleventh Avenue Methodist church with approximately 50 laymen and pastors present. Horace Hayes, district lay leader, presided. A turkey banquet was served by women of the church. Rev. Cecil Taylor, host pastor, directed a musical program.

Dr. D. A. Chisholm, district superintendent, and Gaston T. Gooch, First Methodist layman, spoke on various aspects of the layman's work in the district.

A question and answer period was conducted at the conclusion of the program. Those re-nominated, to be confirmed at the annual conference in Fort Worth during June, include: Horace Haye, Eleventh Avenue Methodist church, district lay leader; H. O. Whitehurst, Groesbeck; J. O.

Sessions. Kerens; Gaston Gooch, Corsicana and R. C. Smith, Blooming Grove, zone leaders. KERENS, April civic activity committee of the Kerens Chamber of Commerce has started a twin-project of beautifi- cation and youth activity and recreation.

The old city park is being clean- ed by the group in co-operation with the Kerens Garden Club and the Pioneer Literary Club. The1 two groups are beautifying portions of th-e park not used for recreational purposes. An 18-hole miniature golf course is under construction and the old tennis courts are being reworked and hard-surfaced. Lights will be provided for night use of the area. Local citizens have purchased bonds, bearing no interest and ma- turing at no specified time, to provide the necessary funds for the work.

The bonds are payable from receipts of concessions operated by the civic activity committee. The plan is to complete the recreational facilities by May 1 but the beautification project will con tinue throughout the summer. Much of the work of clearing and building the golf course and courts is being done by high school boys and interested citizens. Thi civic activities committee composed of Bert Inmon and R. Hilliard, co-chairmen; Joe Arnett.

Stafford Cunningham, W. L. Bain C. L. Reed and H.

J. Newsom. Official completion reports have been filed with the Railroad Commission on two recently-completed Woodbine oil wells in the South Kerens field. Humble No. 2 Naomi Davidson Blaize in the William Love survey pumped 153.73 barrels of oil in 24 hours potential test, with 210-1 gas-oil ratio and .1 of 1 per cent water.

Pay was topped at 3,391 feet and casing perforated to 3,398 feet. Total depth was 3,445 feet. Texas No. 1 W. M.

Montgomery in the E. Powers survey pumped 176.98 barrels of fluid, for a net of 53.02 barrels of oil. Pay was topped at 3.412 feet, pipe set to 3.464 and plugged back to 3,443 feet. Guy Wood et al of Corsicana has purchased the Hallie Summitt 93 acre lease in the E. S.

Campbell survey, Corsicana Shallow field, seven miles northeast of Corsicana from C. M. Copeland. They will drill the No. 7 Hallie Summitt 50 feet north of No.

2. Wells 1 to 6 produce from the Wolf City sand arouhd 800 feet. Sidney H. Gottlieb and others of Corsicana will drill the No. 1 Alexander Heirs.

Frankie Freedman and Byron Cheney Estate, on 16.5 acres of the J. Peoples survey, one-eighth of a mile southeast of Corsicana, to 1,250 feet, starting April 22. It is located 480 feet northwest of Coffield and No. 2 Byron Cheney Estate produ-1 cer. Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.

m. in Athens for Mrs. G. W. Whitworth, 75, who died at Memorial hosptial here Friday, She resided in the Mill Run in Henderson county and had been ill three months.

Burial was in Malakoff. Surviving are her husband, Mill Run; two sons. M. L. Whitworth and D.

W. Whitworth, both of Houston; four daughters, Mrs Mary Honeycutt, Houston; Mrs. David Reeve and Mrs. Oleta Knott, both of Rice; and Mrs. E.

W. Ryan. Fasadena; three brothers, John Hughes San Antonio: Fred Hughes, Bryan, and Will Hughes, Cameron; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Fikes, Cameron; 16 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Barry HD Club Aids Cancer Fund A contribution to the Cancor Drive was made at the of the Barrv Home Demonstration Club Thursday.

Mrs. Herbert Bush was hostess, and Mrs. L. C. Boa- well presided.

Mrs. Fay Varnell was leader for a recreational period in which shrub identifihaticn was featured. The game lent emphasis to a program demonstration about shrubs and work on a herbarium led by Mrs. John Robinson and Miss Varnell. Red roses were used in decorating.

Punch and cookies were served to 13 members. The club will meet May 7 at 2 p. m. in the heme of Mrs. D.

Hale. Top Disease List The weekly communicable disease report compiled by the staff of the Corsicana-Navarro County Health Department shows 58 cases during the week ending Saturday. Measles led the list with 29 cases reported, followed by influenza with 16 cases. There were 2 cases of strep throat, 1 typhoid: 1 venereal, 2 and 7 chicken pox. ALFALFA FIESTA ENTRY KERENS, April LaMarylis Graves, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Floyd Graves has been selected by members of the Kerens American Lc ion po to represent Kerens at the Alfalfa Fiesta to be held at Hearne by the Hearne Chamber of Commerce May 14. Miss Graves will be a Duchess at this event and she has chosen Weldon Crowley as her escort. Dawson Bulldogs Retain West Zone Lead In 29-B Taylor Stucllu i'Jioli MRS. HOWARD MINYARD TO WED IN JUNE Mr.

and Mrs. A. S. Nagy, 1800 West Fifth avenue have announced the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Miss Andra Nagy, to Ror.ald Terry Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs.

W. T. Miller of Navarro. The nuptial rites will be read Saturday evening, June 27, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception with the Very Rev. Msgr.

V. Graffec officiating. Now attending Navarro Junior College, the bride-to-be is a graduate of Corsicana High School. Her fiance was graduated from Mildred High School. (Photo by Boyce Martin, Jr.) Chairmen Named For Livestock, Swine Division Dawson maintained its west zone baseball stranglehold Thursday with a 6-4 win over Rice, as all teams moved up their games one day to avoid conflict with the county meet at Navarro Junior College Friday.

Wortharr defeated Emhouse 7-5 in Wortham, and Frost swamped Richland 22-5 in Frost, in other west zone baseball games in District 20-B. Mildred decisioned Cayuga Thursday 8-6 in Cayuga, in the only east zone game of the week. State Home-Cavuga gaire was postponed because of showers. Tuesday Is the final day of regular round-robin play in the district. Two games between State Home and Cayuga anei between Wortham and been postponed and must be played before final standings can be set up.

Chairmen for the livestock and swine divisions of the 1953 Corsicana Livestock and Agriculture Show were named at a meeting Friday at the Chamber of Commerce. County Agent Tom Prater presided at the meeeting in which the group discussed divisions and prizes to be included in this show. The respective divisions will set up their respective rules and premiums. May 10 was set as the deadline for the division chairmen to have their divisions worked up for the fair catalog. Divisions and chairmen named Included: of replacement heifers and open class.

Maurice Burnett, chairman; club steer show. Bob Gray, chairman; dairy cattle division, Stokes Armstrong, chairman; boys and dairy show, James Cummins, chairman; junior livestock and dairy judging contest, Ralph Page, chairman: swine division, Cecil Parker, chairman; and club steer auction. H. Stroube, chairman. Attending the meeting were Bobby Gray.

John Finch, Stokes Armstrong. Bobby Robinson of Mildred, Frances Max Watts and Jesse Raines of Frost, James Cummins, Cecil Parker, Maurice Burnett, Richard Gary, Roy Cloud, Prater, R. Knight, chamber manager, and Mrs. Elizabeth Logan, chamber secretary. TIL Literary Events And Volley Ball Competition Completed At NJC and SH ment of ranunculi, stock and carnations in varying shades of pink, fianaed by ivory tapers, encircled at the base with the chosen blossoms.

Billowing pink malines cascaded gracefully over the central arrangement to complete the bridal decor. Miss Mary up Shell presided at the white satin-iced, wedding ring cake, Mrs. Ed Blackburn, dispensed punch, Mrs. Sam Roberts had charge of the book, and Miss Drue McCormick assisted in the dining room. When the couple left for a wedding trip to New' Orleans, the bride was wearing a nutmeg silk shantung dress with an ivory wool stole flecked with gold threads, a harmonizing flower and rhinestone hat, matching shoes and bag, and a corsage of brown orchids.

The bride was graduated from Corsicana High School, attended University of Texas, and served for one year as a laboratory tech- nician. The bridegroom was graduated from Corsicana High School and A. and M. and returned recently from one year's service with the U. S.

Armed Forces in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Minyard will make their home in Midland where he will be an employe of the Magnolia Pi troleum Company. Out-of-Town Out-of-town guests at the wedding were Walter Scott, Ed and Scott Mather of Houston; Mr.

and! Mrs. Bailey E. Smith of Hender- son; Robert Smith of Miss Estelle Minyard and Robert Barnes of Dallas. Korean Veteran Heturns Home Pfc. C.

R. Black, 21, son of Mr. nd Mrs. Bill Black, 1506 vvelfth avenue, was discharged om the U. S.

Army April 10 and as returned home. Pfc. Black spent 12 months on ctive duty in Korea and was on he firing line 67 times, it was tated. Thurs. Fri.

Sat Brand New! Former Dawson Resident Dies DAWSON, April Funeral services for Ben F. Matthews, 52, Lancaster, who died in Methodist Hospital, Dallas, Thursday night following a heart attack, were held Saturday at 2 p. nr. from First Methodist church. Burial was in the Dawson cemetery.

The rites were conducted by Dr. McRee of Waco, Rev. A. T. Mays of Lancaster, and Rev.

Burt Gillis, pastor of First Methodist church here. A native of Dawson. Matthews operated a drug store here for 27 years and moved to Waco a few years ago. He moved to Lancaser last week. Surviving are his wife of Lan- aster; two daughters, Mrs.

Jack Vaugh, Wichita Falls, and Mrs. P. D. Duke, Dallas; two grandchildren: a brother, Ernest Mathews, Dawson; two sisters, Mrs. Laughlin, Lorena.

and Mrs. R. Wimpish, Arlington, and relatives. Wlofe Funeral Home directed. Crippled Children Activities Listed Activities of Mrs.

Grantham, executive secretary of the Navarro County Society for Crippled Children, included trips to Waco and Dallas during the past week. Mrs. Grantham was in Waco Tuesday to place three patients in Dr. Herbert Clinic. She was in Dallas Wednesday to place one patient in Children's Medical Center, and In Dallas Thursday to place two patients in Medical Center.

Thursday and Friday 3 THRILL FEATURES Oak Valley HD Club Holds Meet Ferrell Home Mrs. Ora Britton Services Friday The home of Mrs. G. H. Ferrell abloom with multicolored irises when the Oak Valley Home Demonstration Club met in regular session April 9th at 2 P.

M. The meeting was called to order by Mrs. A. C. Cox, and "Follow the and of were sung, with Mrs.

C. J. Colp at the piano, and Mrs. Ferrell as song leader, Mrs. Norman Chambers led the Club Prayer, and minutes of last, meeting were read by Mrs.

Lloyd Cox. In answer to roll call, members reported the name of a beautiful blooming shrub in their yards. Mrs. J. T.

Bryson, mother of Mrs. John Howell, was welcomed as a guest. Flora! Demonstration Mmes. A. A.

Daniel and Norman Chambers gave a demonstration of flower arrangements and reported on the Denton and Corsicana flower arrangement schools that they had attended recently. The featured flower arrangements included a half-moon arrangement of white iris and double bridal W'reath; a pink tarlaton fan tipped silver and studded with bluebonnets (the latter was a reproduction of one that Mrs. R. R. Range designed at the recent flower arrangement school at the REA a garland of pansies and daffodils, suggested as decor for the edge of a banquet table, and a balanced board arrangement of Tvvracantha foliage and scarlet red roses.

Recreational Period For the recreational period, Mrs. A. S. Fulton conducted a hilarious Question and Answer Game. During the social interlude, the hostess serevd home-made banana ice cream, cookies, nuts and mints The next meeting will be hetti at the home of Mrs.

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