The Waxahachie Daily Light from Waxahachie, Texas • Page 1

GOOD MORNING HW SE: 'NS Ml 1 F1 A TOOAV Saturday rain said area box 45436 Dalla Tx, 75223 CHECK PLANS These three people are checking the plans for one of the homes to be featured in the second annual Waxahachie Home Show to be held May 14-29. The trio includes Tommy Morrison, partner In M8.W Builders, Tom Crabb, vice president of Indian Hills Development Co. and Mrs. Chloe Chaddick, secretary of Waxahachie Homebuilders Assn. They are shown at 204 Sage Brush In Indian Hills Addition.

(Staff Photo.) Young Italy boy killed Friday while playing near Milford A 13-month-old Ellis County boy is the latest traffic fatality. The victim was identified by Highway Patrolman Winifred Morgan as Aaron Thomas Janek, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Janek of Route 2, Italy. It was related the accident involving the child and an automobile occurred at 5:50 p.m.

Friday on a gravel road 1.3 miles north of Milford. The patrolman said the child was playing in the road when the car driven by Theodore Wallace of Italy struck the boy. The patrolman said the driver, who was Thirty-five homes will be featured in the second annual Waxahachie Home Show Area Shriners to march in polka parade Waxahachie Shriners will participate in the Polka Festival parade at Ennis Saturday morning, Roy Guest, president of the Ellis County Shriners Club, has announced. They are to wear their red fezzes, white shirts (either short or long sleeve) and no ties nor jackets. The Shriners are to assemble at 9 a.m.

Saturday at the Safeway parking lot at Ennis. Mr. Guest also stated a Shrine Club float will be in the parade. Seven marching units from the Hella Temple Shrine in Dallas will march in the parade and also appearing wilL.be' the Hella Temple clowns. heading towards Italy, able to stop in time to avoid hitting the boy.

The victim was taken to Grant and Buie Hospital at Hillsboro where a Hillsboro justice of the peace pronounced him dead. An accident, which left three Midlothian residents complaining of possible whiplash injuries, occurred Saturday at 10:50 a.m. 3 miles west of Waxahachie on U.S. 287. A car driven by Edward Worsham of Midlothian and a vehicle driven by Jon Monreal of Ennis collided with Worsham and two of his passengers, Lottie Worsham which will be held May 14-29, it was noted Saturday by the Waxahachie Home Builders Assn.

The houses will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the weekends May 14-29 but the developments will be open daily so area residents can view the homes built or being built. The homes will be shown in various stages of construction, a spokesman stated. Those which will be shown are in the Country Club Village, Indian Hills Addition, Northgate sub-division, Royal Park Manor and I Short Additions.

Prices of the homes will range from $25,000 to $100,000. Association officials have announced that a free trip to Acapulco, Mexico, will be awarded during the Home Show here. The trip is being awarded by the Waxahachie Chamber of Commerce. The trip will include three nights and four days at the Condessa del Mar Hotel. and Velda Worsham complaining of possible injuries.

They were not taken to a hospital at that time. The highway patrol reported that damage was minimal. Another accident took place south of Ennis on IH 45 at 12:15 p.m. Saturday, when vehicles driven by Ezekiel HUJ of Oklahoma City and Elsie Henderson of Dallas collided. There were no reported injuries.

McManus caught HOUSTON (UPI) A murder defendant who apparently tried to fool authorities into thinking he had been kidnaped or killed was found hiding In a Jacksonville Beach, motel Saturday and returned to Texas to continue his Interrupted trial. Vernon McManus, 33, who had been free on bond for eight months in a Baytown, murder case, disappeared last Sunday, leaving a bloodszneared car abandoned on a dirt road north of Baytown. Lone Star rodeo plans two shows here May 7-8 A Lone Star rodeo will be held Saturday and Sunday, May 7-8 at the rodeo arena on the Howard Road at Waxahachie, it was announced Saturday. On Saturday the rodeo will be held at 3 p.m. On Sunday, May 8, the rodeo wtR start at 1:30 p.m.

The rodeo is sponsored by the County Junior Rodeo and will feature high school students. The Junior Rodeo Is a nonprofit organization, it was noted. Home show to feature 35 new residences Moisture measures .97 inch Rain which measured almost an inch in the Waxahachie area Friday night and Saturday was termed a "lifesaver" by agriculture people. More rainfall is in prospect for the area Sunday. Waxahachie recorded .07 of an inch of moisture Friday night and then added .9 of an inch during Saturday morning and afternoon for a total of .97 inch, Midlothian had .7 of an inch of moisture and Boyce recorded a half-inch of rain.

In the Boyce area the moisture was needed on the hay crop and for the gardens. The precipitation broke up the hard crust on the ground from recent rains. While the rain was good for the land, flowers, the crops and the gardens, it welcomed at Richards Park Friday night where the Waxahachie Indians entertained the Lancasters Tigers. The grandstand, which lost its roof several years ago, offered no protection to fans who had to rely on umbrellas, raincoats of whatever to keep from getting soaked. The game was played, many viewed the diamond action from underneath the grandstand and best of all the Indians won a 9-1 decision.

The low Saturday morning was 63 degrees. The forecast for Sunday calls for a chance of thunderstorms with the probability of precipitation being 30 per cent. Severe thunderstorms, brought into the state by warm southerly moisture from the Gulf, pounded deep South Texas Saturday, dumping hail and heavy rain on the area. A thunderstorm at Brownsville produced golf ball sized hail and flash flooding. Corpus Christi received 4.17 inches of rain in thunderstorms that warranted special marine warnings further up the coast.

No damage was reported in the violent weather. Severe weather warnings also were issued for Stephens County in North Central Texas as the system moved north and east through the state. During the day, rain fell in a wide area of East and Central Texas. The rest of the state reported fair or partly cloudy skies. Mother's Day gifts Next Sunday is Mother's Day in the United States.

Area residents who are undecided as yet what to buy their mothers for their day should check the advertisements in today's Daily Light. The merchants of Waxahachie have many gift suggestions in their advertisements in different price rangers. Check the ads, then shop in Waxahachie. Hospital week slated May 8-14 May 8-14 will be a time for W.C. Tenery Community Hospital to spotlight services it provides all year.

The period has been designated National Hospital Week throughout the country. theme, Put the Care in Health salutes hospital people for preserving the old-fashioned quality of caring while providing the most modern medical according to Scott Six, Administrator. Several activities will be conducted prior to and during National Hospital Week to illustrate the theme, provide public education, and recognize hospital employes. National Hospital Week is an annual observance sponsored by the American Hospital Association and its 7,000 members to give people an opportunity to learn more about the hospitals in their community. RIDE IN PARADE District officials of Veterans of Foreign Wars rode in the Loyalty Day parade held Saturday afternoon in the downtown area of Waxahachie.

In the top car was W.H. Ruckman, district commander, while Mrs. Violet Billings, district 3 president of the Ladies Auxiliary rode in the car in the bottom picture. Although the parade was held Saturday, Loyalty Day it the first day of May and the occasion will be noted In a program at the VFW Post, (Staff Photo.) PERFORM AT MUSIC FESTIVAL This group of musicans, including the O'Daniel family, performed Saturday night at the Waxahachie Open Road Country Music Festival at Chautauqua Auditorium. The crowd was approximately 300 persons.

The group includes Larry Scott and George Upmore, fiddle players, Mike O'Daniel and Buck O'Daniel, guitar players, Aubrey Coker, bass player, Steve Austin and Marcia O'Daniel Reed, singers. (Staff Photo.).