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The Waco News-Tribune from Waco, Texas • Page 12

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fflaro Texas Friday, September 5, 1952 Hico Women Entertain Guests at Bridge Party Hillsboro Classes Out For Cotton Picking HICO, Sept. 4 Mil-1 HILLSBORO, Sept. 4 burn I. Knudson entertained two Hillsboro schools opened their tables of bridge nt re-! 1952-53 session Monday, with the centlv. Mrs.

Truman E. Roberts exception of Peabody Negro School v. which started earlier in the year, was high score winner, and ancj now on a gix-week vaca- Odis Petsick won second hieh. tjon to pprmit pupils to assist in guests were Mrs. Harry- jcotton picking.

Most schools over from active the county are also opening Wood Family Leaves Hico Phone Office Hill Com Arriving HILLSBORO. Sept. 4 Samples of corn raised by farmers entering the Chamber of Commerce annual Corn Contest are beginning to arrive at Chamber of Commerce headquarters at an increasing rate. County Agent Clark stated this week. HICO.

Sept. 4 35 years as manager of the Gulf Calvert Olliatl 9 1 States Telephone Company in Hico, Former Fort Hood Soldier Permits nt.es for W. R. Grimes. 69.

who; I ninomn I tliM Tuwday In a Temple hos-1 Is Held 36 Hours by Reds CAMERON, Sept. 4 (SPL) Hudson, Mrs. Ray Painter, Mrs. S. E.

Blair Mrs. May Bates, week, and Mrs. H. V. Hedges.

Miss Fannie Wood has retired service. this Visit Our "Fun Shop to Chow From GABES A nut In Disi 1-2712 tell about when he re- Recent ill birthday recently. Attending the turns from Germany. nsrtv wptp her I I who trained at Hood health iPri to her resignation as her gon and with the First Quartermaster Bat- manager, but she will continue as Mrs and Mrs. T.

W. Garrett an advisor to the company. of Waller, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed For the first time in 50 years Mrs.

Ruth Cassidy, no member the Wood family is FORT HOOD, Sept. 4 lease that they had been arrested A former Hood soldier, Pfc. Ar- for speeding in retaliation for the nold P. Swenson, will have more arrest of a Soviet lieutenant col- diilton Lari Injured onpj on a rnilar charge in the American Zone. Swenson, wrote his father emple pital were held today at Hewett Funeral Home here with Urban A.

Schultz and Chaplain permits here took an John B. Duncan officiating. Burial other hike last week with a total than his share of international in- was at Hillcrest Cemetery. In Rocket Accident in Sept. 4 of $15,875 reported by the city secretary, Mrs.

Neomi Needham. Two houses of the 15 allocated for this area by the Federal Housing Administration are being con- Port Arthur that previous mis- Olive learned that her structed by G. E. Chandler sions had takpn him lri() miles son. Pvt.

David Pierce who is in struction Comr Bryan Couple Is Back From Trip to Ecuador BRYAN, 4 and duty at thP local officP- our Funeral Services For all of Houston. Mrs. J. M. Jones returned to their home in Bryan this week after 15 months in Ecuador, South America.

with headquarters at Quito. Wood sisters, daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. J.

Wood, pioneer settlers of old Hico who moved with the town to its present loca- Wayne E. Lee the Removal of Law to 203 Professional Bldg. Phone 8-5802 is with the berf cattle and tion in 1880, have worked in this sheep research department of Texasv A. and M. College Experiment Station.

He has on leave of absence Mrs. J. E. Gann Held TEMPLE, Sept. 4 neral services were held today for Mrs.

J. E. Gann. 55, who died of a heart attack at her Roger home from his duties at the college and i vears. served as a spned specialist with frico High School one Fridav night the Food and Agriculture Organ- in 1002 and was at work the fol- office at various times during the past half century.

Miss Fannie experience Wednesday, in the telephone business totals 41 RjtPS VVf.re conducted bv Rev. O. She was graduated from j. Fritz at Skinner Funeral Home at Rogers with burial at Val Verde vision before leaving for overseas in July, was identified by the Army last week as one of a trio of American soldiers arrested Aug. 15 in the Soviet Zone of East Germany and held 36 hours on spy charges.

In announcing the names and Fu- home addresses of the three for the first time, the Army said that Swenson, from Port Arthur, and two officers involved in the ization of United Nations in South America. Helm-Sless Wedding Rites Are Read in Coryell City CRAWFORD, Sept. 4 (SPL) Miss Irene Sless, daughter of Mrs. Frank Sless. became the of Irving Helm, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Helm of Coryell City, in a twilight ceremony at St. John Cemetorv Mrs. Gann was born in Athens and was married at, Holland in lowing Monday for the Hico Telephone Company, where she remained six years. Then after de- Shp had livpd in CentraI voting several years to other em- Texas most of her life, ployment, including the manage- Survivors are her husband- three ment of a business of her own, she sons, J.

E. Gann Jr of Temple accepted a position with the Gulf Nathan Gann of Canadian and La- States on May 22, Gann of Austin; four daugh- Eight months of her iirst year ters. Mrs. Joe Baga and Mrs Wes- were spent in the Tyler office. 1 ley Tharp of Austin.

Mrs. Joe Gal- after which she returned to Hico lawav of Texas Citv and Mrs to become manager. A native of, a tionev of Belton; five brothers has always lived here Boh Rosser of Brownsville. Atlas Lutheran Church in Coryell City the exception of in of her Rosser of Temple, O. Alec and recently, with Rev.

Louis' Kramer which were spent in Ernie, all of Belton; two sisters officiating. 4 Mri Annie Cawtheran and Mrs! Attendants were Miss Mildred The Gulf Spates Company hon- Helm, sister of the groom, and Ben- I Wood family for its scrv- nie Schraedor. A reception was 1 ices with the dedication of a room i held at the home of the bride fol- at Hico Hospital at the formal I lowing the ceremony. Mrs. Helm opening of the hospital in 1946.

attended school at Osage and! Crawford High School. Mr. and Aavarro I MA I no Mrs. Helm are making their home i-i near Coryell Citv. Ke-hlectcu for lVoJ Haynes of Belton; and 20 grandchildren.

incident, Lt. Col. Gerald H. Duin of New Ulm. and Capt.

William R. Croucher of Baltimore. will probably be recalled to the United States. Recall Demanded Thp demand that the trio he recalled was made by Russia alter circumstances surrounding the puzzling Soviet act came to light two weeks ago. Army sources stated that the United States will have to bow to the Russian The trio, members of a U.

S. military mission with Soviet occupation forces in Potsdam, were seized by the Russians on chargee they tried to on a Soviet sions had taken him 150 miles into the Russian Zone and that it Jokyo, Japan, received facia! burns took them a week and a half to from a rocket flare which ex- obtain passes from the Reds to ploded as he was unloading freight, enter the zone on one occasion. informed him that he was selected Corsicana Classes Split for the mission about four weeks ago. Pending INew Building Flown to Germany CORSICANA, Sept. 4 He and other soldiers were seventh grade in Fannin Eleme- flown to Berlin from a replace- ary School this year will attend ment.

center in Germany. After classes at the Sam Houston School, three days of interviews, the two h. Norwood, superintendent, other applicants were returned and has announced Swenson was selected for the job Children in the Fannin district, of driving the staff car for the loeated in North Corsicana, will 14-man military mission. attend classes in nearby churches. Army headquarters at Heidel- 1 A new building is to be erected in berg said that no final decision that area to replace one con- had been on Russian Gcner- demned as unsafe last spring.

a I A A struction Company for $6,000 each. C. L. Zarosky is rebuilding a house for $3,500. Harmon Kelly is doing a repair job for $375 to complete the permits for the week.

TRIASES! i Abdominal "nppnrti Wheel Crntrhea I Drug Sit FRANKLIN al Vassily demand for recall of the men. An informed source, however, said all the Americans woula adhere. Failure to do so, it added, would probably result in the Russians taking away interzone passes mission members need to travel through the East Zone to their headquarters in Potsdam, 18 miles southwest of Berlin. father, owner of an auto supply store in Port. Arthur Classes in the Corsicana system begin Monday, Sept.

8. Army American spokesmen in Berlin said the charges I said he be glad to see his a lot of son return home but don't want The three Americans said the to see the Russians push him Russians told them on their re- THE SALVATION ARMY Needs Your Discarded Bedding Newspapers Clothing Shoes Magazines To Distribute to the NEEDY! Take them to Perot Citadel, Fourth and Webster, or dial 4-2781 for pickup. FURMAN C. NUNLEY Special Representative TEXAS LIFE INSURANCE CO. Ph.

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PARIS HATS 128 N. Sixth St. A Few Doors North of the Orpheum CORSICANA. Sept. 4 (SPL) The three-man committee that administered the Agricultural Conservation program in 1952 will be in charge in 1953.

Farmers reelected Elmer D.Smith, Navarro, chairman; George Ward, Blooming Grove, and W. P. Thorpe, Chatfield, at the annual convention Friday. Californian EnJs Hill i Starts for Home HILLSBORO, Sept. 4 Mrs.

Alta Turk Everett, singer, writer, teacher and lecturer of Los Angeles, who has been visiting relatives and friends in Hillsboro for the past week, left Monday to return to Los Angeles, by way of Amarillo. wrherc she will visit former students and friends. Mrs. Everett, horn In Hillsboro, I has been living in California for the past 16 years. She Is married to Earl A.

Everett, a Los Angeles attorney. Former Chill on Girl Ts Married at Fort CHILTON. Sept. 4 Gilbert Smith of Fort Hood, daughter of Maj. and Mrs.

Gilbert Smith, became the bride of William Walker Cantrell of Houston in a ceremony performed at the Fifth Street Chapel at Fort Hood Saturday evening. The bride formerly lived in Chilton where her father was a doctor. Attending the wedding from Chilton were Mrs. Stewart Adams and Mrs. C.

B. Adams and son. Temple Postal Receipts Show Jump During August TEMPLE. Sept. 4 receipts in Temple lumped 18 per cent in August over the seme month last year.

Mrs. Opal Roberson. postmaster, said and her records showed: August. 1952. August, 1951, For the first eight months of the vear postal receipts here hit $189.815.99 against only $161.609.03 during the same period last year.

Those figures indicate postal business this year has averaged $3.500 a month better than it did last year. William F. Miller. 73, Ruried al Marlin MARLIN, Sent. 4 Frank Miller.

73. died in a Marlin hospital Tuesday night following hospitalization for a heart ailment. He was horn at Hearne and engaged in farming until about two years ago when he retired. The family moved to the Cedar Springs community in Falls County in 1921. Funeral services were held today from the Adams Funeral Home chapel at Marlin, with Rev.

Forest Dudley and Rev. P. Brown officiating. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery. He is survived hv his widow at Cedar Sprines; three daughters, Mrs.

Ira G. Green of Temple, Mrs. D. Cloer of Rosebud, and Mrs. C.

A. Downs of Otto; 15 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren, and four step-children. Last 3 Big Days! Shop Thursday And Saturday Night Until Saturday, Sept. Hrs. Noon to 2 P.

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6, 12 Noon to 2 P. M.j Leave Your Car With Us on Your Way to Work! 1. One of our courteous station attendants will drive you to work, and bring your car back to Sears or deliver it to your home. 2. Expert workmen will mount your tires, install seat covers, batteries or whatever your auto needs may be.

3. At specified time your car will be returned to you at work or to your home! THIS SERVICE RENDERED TO ALL SEARS AUTOMOTIVE CUSTOMERS! 4-Star Quality SARAN PLASTIC COVERS 28 88 or 4-Door A 4-Star Feature Sold Only by Sears Our Best Quality Tailored for 1949-52 Model Cars NEW Quilted Plastic Extends Down Back of Front Backrest Made of SARAN for Complete Durability, Ease of Cleaning New Stripe Patterns, New Dobby Patterns, New Utility Pocket Regularly 22.95 Save! Saran Plastic Seat Covers Only Quilted Plastic at Top of Backrest for Luxurious Beauty Heavy SARAN Woven Plastic for Long Wear, Sung Fit Priced Dollars Lower Than Comparable Quality Elsewhere Beautiful Designs in All Colors, in Many Patterns Shop at Sears in Cool Comfort While pert Workmen Install Your Seat Covers at No Extra Charge! 'SEARS 516 N. 18th WACO Dial 4-3531 Oprn Daily 9:30 A. M. to P.

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