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

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THE CORSICANA SEMI-WEEKLY LIGHT Texas Friday, October 12, 1962 ACROSS 1. Asian wild sheep 7. Heartbeat 12. Cause 13. Vociferously 14.

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Rubber tree 9. Behold 10. ment 11. Bib. country 15.

Thicken 18. Principal 19. Gone 20. Help 21. Haggard 22.

Eur. forage plant 24. Flounder 25. Work unit 26. Turf 28.

Study 32. Judge 33. Incident 34. Swine 35. Dash 37.

Smallest integer 38.To 39. Win 41. Off the 42. Exclamation MUCH ENTERTAINMENT DUE STUDENTS AND EXES AT NJC'S HOMECOMING Royal entertainment has been promised for students and exes joining efforts and numbers in plans for the Sixteenth Annual Homecoming, October 19-20. Much of the interest of the student body is centered in the selection of a Homecoming Queen from nominees brought forward by campus organizations.

Their beauty will enliven the campus balloting for a favorite, a downtown parade on the afternoon of homecoming Saturday and the evening game with the Cisco Junior College Wranglers. Dance At Armory For the post-game dance Jer ry Orchestra, out of Dallas, will be on the dais of the National Guard Armory. Grady Barnes, drummer par excellence, will be a featured entertainer. The Press Club is Report of Condition of The First State Bank of Rice, Navarro County, Texas, at the close of business on Sept. 28th, 1962.

State Bank No. 1651 Federal Reserve District No. 11 ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, cash items in process of collection 177,265.72 United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed Loans and discounts (including $4,990.39 overdrafts) Bank premises owned $1.00, furniture and fixtures $1.00 216,721.91 TOTAL ASSETS 454,522.24 LIABILITIES Demand Deposits of individuals, partnerships and corporations 343,082.37 Time and savings deposits of individu-, als, partnerships, and corporations 39,700.00 Deposits of United States Govenment (including postal savings) 2,663.76 TOTAL DEPOSITS 386,046.13 (a) Total demand deposits 346,346.13 (b) Total time and savings deposits 39,700.00 TOTAL LIABILITIES 386,046.13 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital: (a) Common stock, total par value $100.00 Surplus Undivided profits CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 25.000.00 21 000.00 22,476.11 68,476.11 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 454,522.24 S. B. South, Cashier of the above-named bank do solemnly swear that this report of condition (including the information below and on the reverse side hereof) is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

S. B. SOUTH CASHIER CORRECT ATTEST Ted P. Red, J. K.

Bradley, J. E. (SEAL) State of Texas, County of Navarro, ss: Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of October, 1962, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank. ROLAND R. JOHNSTON Notary Public.

My commission expires June 1, sponsoring the big affair. The armory event will be the second dance of the weekend, for the Monarchs, campus combo, will play for the bonfire dance on the Friday preceding. NJC Cheer Leaders will be host group for the peppy SUB event. The match that touches off the traditional bonfire will spark the whole weekend of activities. Lynn Cooper and Johnny Coker, president and vice-president respectively, are in charge of freshmen fire-makers.

Already their brigade is at work to collect the rubbish that will pyramid into a welcoming beacon for the event. Vigilance will be the freshmen watchword through Thursday and Friday while the bonfire pile grows, and guards will be on duty at the traditional site behind the dormitory. Exes Invited The Ex-Students Association posted mail in bulk the past weekend. Letters were sent to about 1,400 former students to inform them about the schedule and the plan of reservation for a Saturday dinner at 5 p.m. in the Cactus Room, Navarro Hotel.

Preparations are being made for approximately 140 at the annual affair, but the number is expected to increase for the game with Cisco Junior College and the dance afterward. New Officers will be elected by ballot at the dinner and introduced by the president, Bill C. Dempsey. The Outstanding Ex-Student of the Year will be announced by a committee composed principally of teachers associated with the college since its beginning. Dr.

Ben Jones, college president, will be a member of the award committee and will be the welcoming speaker at the dinner. Dean Gaston Gooch will be a program participant, and W. B. Herrington, student adviser, will co-ordinate plans of the exes with those of campus personnel. Present plans are for a twofold registration at the Navarro Hotel hospitality room and at the college where Phi Theta Kappa honor society will entertain with a coffee, 1 to 2:30 p.m.

The event will provide an opportunity for exes to visit an Oriental Art Exhibit, on circuit from the New York Museum of Fine Arts, and also to view the new IBM department of the school. They will view plans for the Frank Neal Drane Hall of Science and be informed about other expansion plans of the school. From the campus the exes will go to the parade point of origin, Third avenue at Main street. After the dinner hour the students will merge their plans with those of students. Is Hal Winner At State Fair Mrs.

J. E. Mills, Corsicana, a member of the Mildred-Eureka Home Demonstration club, was awarded second place in the hat contest at the Dallas State Fair Wednesday. Mrs. entry was a cocktail hat, which she modeled.

There were between 70 and 80 hats in the contest, in various categories. This is the fifth year the contest has been held. It is sponsored by the State Fair Association and is held in the Building. Accompanying Mrs. Mills and enjoying the day at the fair were Mmes.

Hubert Eider, Curtis Chandler, Roy Gowan, R. V. Gonten, all of the Mildred- Eureka club, and Mrs. B. P.

Anderson of Corsicana. Clay Fluker Is Transferred To Harlingen Post Clay Fluker, manager of the Palace Theatre, is being transferred by Interstate Theatres to Harlingen where he will be manager of three theatres in Harlingen and one in Mercedes. He was succeeded here Wednesday by Brad Rushing of Amarillo. Clay will not go to the Valley until next week, but will be with the new manager here several days. Rushing was reared at Brownwood and graduated from Howard Payne College.

He comes here from the Esquire Theartre in Amarillo and was relief manager here last summer during vacation time. Fluker. reared in Corsicana, has been with the theatre here 22 years and has been manager for the past six years. His family consists of Mrs. Fluker, two daughters, Joanne and Vickie, and a son, Larry.

Mail Parcels Overseas Early Post office department officials have issued a reminder to the public that the period of Nov. 1-20 has been designated for the mailing of Christmas parcels by surface transportation to members of the armed force overseas. For airmail, the period is Dec. 1 through 10. Greeting cards should be mailed within the period designated for parcels if they are to have a reasonable expectation of deilvery prior to Christmas.

The term includes all personnel of the military, members of their families and authorized U.S. civilians overseas who receive their mail ihrough APO, New York, N.Y., San Francisco, or Seattle, or Fleet Post Office, New York, San Francisco or Seattle, or through Navy Post Office, c-o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash. All articles should be packed in boxes of wood, metal, solid fiberboard, or strong, double faced corrugated fiberboard. All fiberboard packages should be securely wrapped in heavy paper which materially strengthens the packages, and each box should be well tied with strong cord. Sufficient cushioning material should be used to prevent any loose rattling of the contents.

Information about postage fees to specific destinatons may be obtained at the mailing window of any post office. Hold Services Auto Victim Funeral services for Manuel Anderson, 44, of Houston, killed Monday night in an auto accident near Centerville, were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Corley Chapel. The rites were conducted by Rev. Bruce Hibbitt, pastor of the Missionary Baptist church Burial was in the Hamilton cemetery.

He was a native of Pursley. Joe Turner of Dallas, passenger in the car with Anderson, was critically injured. Surviving are his wife, Houston; three sons, C. W. and L.

B. Anderson, both of Houston, and Jackie Kreiger, Amarillo; daughter, Mrs. J. C. Durrance, Fort Worth; parents, Mr.

and Mrs. B. Anderson, Corsicana; a brother, P. C. Anderson, Fort Worth; five grandchildren, and other relatives.

Pallbearers were Robert Anderson, Ronald Anderson, Jerry Anderson, Doyle Anderson, Harold Anderson and Basil Herod. Elect Officers ForDawsonFFA DAWSON, Oct. (Spl) Dawson Future Farmers of America elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Sammy Montgomery, president; Curtis Slater, vice president; Ivan Webb, secretary; Leslie Farmer, treasurer; Larry Prater, reporter; Donnie Chasteen, sentinel; W. J. Moore, vocational agriculture teacher, adviser.

Adviser Moore and 33 boys went to the State Fair Saturday and eight boys participated in the annual grass judging contest four freshmen and four sophomores. The freshman team was Bonner French, James Almond, James Orler and Sammy W'ard who scored 384 points for their first contest. The sophomore team composed of Larry Prater, Sammy Montgormery, and Ivan Webb and Otis Cannon, alternate, scoring 864 points. Twelve of the boys saw the Air Force Academy-SMU football game. Loyd Longino Fatally Hurt Loyd E.

Longino, 34, formerly of Navarro Junior College, football player, was accidentally killed in Vancouver, last Friday while working with Bauer Bros. Co. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at South Charleston, Ohio. Longino was a 1946 graduate of Waxahachie High School and attended Navarro Junior College.

Among his survivors are a son, Greg Longino, aged 7, of Corsicana. BLOND IE WISHING 6 8 S5 3 6 2 8 4 5 7 3 F5TYA A 1 2 6 4 6 8" VO I ID 635 4 63 5 2 1 1 VI LG 4 5 3 6 7 4 6 6 2 AA AI PL 5 i 46 3 5 2 6 4 3 oLESPT ICU i 5 4 a 3 DR WO I A A I 74 6 3 2 1 4 6 3 Nh 3 TTERE is a pleasant little game that will give you a message every day. It is a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. If the number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4.

If the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the Upper left-hand comer of the rectangle and check every of your key numbers, left to right. Then read the message the letters under the checked figures give you. 1963; by WlUlm J.

Miller. DiattibuUd by Slag Features Syndicate, Inc Tax Payments Begin Monday At Courthouse Payment of taxes, including poll taxes for 1963, got under way at the Navarro county tax office Monday and Mrs. Ethel Still, assessor-collector, urged the citizenry to avoiJ. the late rush and make the payments early. Three per cent discount is allowed on ad valorem taxes paid in October.

According to Mrs. Still, there was no rush but some payments were made during the day. Monday also was the day when the tax office starting issuing exemption slips to those eligible to receive them. Deadline for paying the poll tax is Jan. 31, 1963.

Deadline for paying persona! and property taxes is the same date. Starting Feb. 1, 1963, a penalty will be added. IN THE 1 SERVICE Army Staff Sergeant Louis Carson, 31, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Morris Carson, Route 1, Frost, completed the two-week aid transportability course at The Transportation School, Fort Eustis, Sept. 28. He entered the Army in January, 1953. -Try a Want Ad and Convert It into Cash Dial TR 4-4764. Hylas H.

Cade, Jr. of Malakoff has been promoted to captain in the United States Air Force. Capt. Cade, a KC-97 aircraft commander in the 310th A i Refueling Squadron at Schilling AFB, Kan. is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. H. H. Cade of Malakoff. A graduate of Malakoff High School, he entered the service in April, 1958.

Marine Curtis W. Moody, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.

Moody, Route 1, Corsicana, took part recently in a surprise test to evaluate the ability of the First Battalion, First Marine Regi ment, at Camp Pendleton, Calif. The battalion, reinforced with artillery, reconnaissance, antitank, amphibious tractors and medical units, made an amphibious assault on Camp beaches. 14 Teachers To Waco Workshop Fourteen English teachers from Corsicana public schools will attend a District 10, Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA), workshop at Richfield high school in W'aco Friday. Directions in Teaching will be the theme. Various methods of teaching, such as block teaching and team teaching, will be studied.

Regular and substitute teachers will fill in for the 14 for the day. Scheduled to attend are: Corsicana High School Mrs. Elizabeth Slater, Miss Erma Weidmann, Miss Inez Stanley, Miss Deloris Hale and Miss Bobbie Stevens. Drane Junior High Mrs. Ella Fultun, Mrs.

Eleanor Rutledge, Mrs. Margaret Huffman, Mrs. Virginia Braselton, Mrs. Clyde Murray and Spencer Oleson. Collins Junior High Miss Julia Kiber, Mrs.

Neoma Allen and Miss Charlotte Evans. Hold Services Hugh Pollard Hugh Pollard. 67, formerly of Corsicana, died Sept, 27 in Page, Arizona. Funeral services were held Monday, Oct. 1 at 10 a.m from the First Christian church at Page.

Military graveside services were conducted by the American Legion. Pollard had resided at Page for five years and w-as a security guard for Merritt-Chapman and Scott. Prior to that time, he was a cook at Lake Mohave for four years. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy; a son, Hugh Edward; and two daughters, Dorothy Ann and Linda Susan, all of Page; two sisters, Mrs. W.

S. Gordon and Mrs. Joe Riley, both of Dallas; a brother, Roland Pollard, Lubbock, and other relatives. Pollard was active in the Johnson-Wiggins Post No. 22, American Legion post here, and was connected with the Collin Street Bakery for many years.

Sun Want Ads Bring Results. Mrs. Crawford Is 00 Recently Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hood of Naivarro entertained with birthday dinner recently in compliment to Mrs.

mother, Mrs. Nora Crawford, Corsicana, who was celebrating her eightieth birthday. Guests participating in the celebration were Mrs. Essie Cox and son, Scooter Cox, and Mr and Mrs. Richard Sikes and sons, all of Marshall; Mr.

and Mrs. W. L. Crawford, Palestine; Mr. and Mrs.

Newburn Crawford and family, Houston; Mr. and Mrs. Billie Hood, Na varro; Mr. and Mrs. Neal Crawford and Mrs.

Edith Crawford, Corsicana. Ernest Gorden Kites Thursday Ernest V. Gorden, 55, of Panhandle, formerly of Blooming Grove, died of a heart attack at Panhandle Monday morning. I Funeral services were held at Panhandle Thursday at I Surviving are his wife, Mrs. B.

Gorden, Panhandle; sons, T. V. and Ernest Gorden, California; James Gorden, El Campo; Bobbie Gorden, U.S. Armed Forces, Germany; Jackie Gorden, Panhandle; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Boyles, Panhandle; six brothers, Billy D.

Gorden, Corsicana; Elton Gorden, Waco; John, Ray Dean and Raymond D. Gorden, all of Dallas; Fred Gorden, Lubbock; six sisters, Mrs. Ethel Saunders, Frost; Mrs. Daisy Scruggs, Purdon; Mrs. Maxine Blancet, Stam ford; Mrs.

Beatrice Taylor, California; Mrs. Geneva Bingham, San Angelo, and Mrs. W. B. Dawson, Oklahoma; several grandchildren, and a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Rev. Cox Speaks In Longview The Rev. Alex Cox, pastor of First Christian Church here, will participate in a consultation on at a meeting at the First Christian Church in Longview Oct. 13. Outreach is a term used by the Disciples on Christ to express generally the total church program, with particular emphasis on missionary causes.

This will be among six of ten statewide consulations, sponsored by the Texas Board of Christian Churches, to be held in October. Three will be conducted in early November. The Rev. Mr. Cox will be in charge of stewardship at the Longview consultation.

The following day the same team will meet in the Stevens Park Christian Church in Dallas. NJC Students Win Honors At Press Meeting Navarro was one of the junior colleges to receive honors Monday in contests of the Texas Junior College Press Association at College Station. Two from NJC were winners in the selected McGraw of Blooming Grove, news story; and Ann Elliott of Corsicana, editorial. Both are staff members of NJC student newspaper. Junior colleges from throughout the state entered the contests.

Other honors went to Kilgore Del Mar, San Angelo, Tyler, San Antonio and Odessa. Six Principals At Conferences Six principals in Corsicana public schools will attend two separate conferences Oct. 14-16. R. A.

Armistead, H. C. Allen and Jim Compton, principals of Corsicana High and Drane and Collins Junior highs, respectively, will attend the state convention of the Texas Association of Secondary Principals in Houston starting Sunday. E. L.

Washington, Harlon R. Powell and Ezra L. Carroll, principals of Jackson High and Jackson and Lincoln arles, respectively, will attend the state convention of the Tex- Principals Association in Corpus Christi starting Sunday. Sun Want Ads Bring Results, Your Want Ada to TR 4-4764. STiBBS Aivn Ip sWEf ONLV-- understand -TIME: KITTY FOOD' p.o\W<3S VOll A message TT-'O 'S 1 GfCfgc Acftnu CUSTOMER y.p 11 4 N'T 1 THE SMI CAN YOG WE ME ANY REASON WE NOT GO TO THE..

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