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Attend Ellis Countys Livestock Show And Rodeo Now Underway TOje year in waxahachie 3Ugf)t IF YOU MISS YOUR PAPER 1660, The Dally Lignt, and a paper will be delivered to door If you call between 6 and 7 p.m., cr before 9:30 Sunday morning. WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1955 Rising Rapidly FIVr-CENTS PER COPY NO. 64 Second Performance Of Rodeo Named Is Schedule Tonight an- or, this afternoon. Finals of The public is invited to attend the able. Box seat tickets cost $2 with nual Lilts County rodeo will be the cutting horse contest is slated sale and help the junior exhibitors four seats to a box.

General ad- fhl rLteo evening at the rodeo. in the sale. mission ducats cost $1.20 for adults the rodeo aiena at the livestock On tap for tomorrow afternoon Tickets to rodeo per- and 60 cents for children- the howgrounns w.th the third and will be the boys auction sale of formanee and to the Saturdav general admission tickets are on, final performance for fat lambs, fat steers and poultry. night performance are still sale at local drug stores. Approximately 1,000 persons attended the opening night performance la-t night and thrilled to the events scheduled.

There were spills during the evening but none of the pei formers was injured. There were two fast times re- Show Schedule i near the waterfront in and Tampico, Mexico, fol- da'i jaunt through the city. Large building at right is a customs warehouse ate's from the Panuco River sfiil rising rapidly, moved assumed dead, and countless hundreds Friday 4 p. m. Second go-round of open -utting horse contest.

8 p. m. Second performance of corded in the bulldogging event rodeo, with Neal Gay of Dallas winning th a time of 3.4 seconds and Saturday Warner Leatherman of Waxaha- cltle was second with 3.5 seconds. 1 P- Boys aucti.n sale. Frank Wallace was third with 5.8 seconds.

In the calf-roping event Lee Sheep And Swine Show Winners Announced evacuated when flood have died in storm 370 are i (nr ublication Of Resumed In Free Press Argentina Tuggman wa- first with 13 seconds and Bobby was second with 158 Marie Way land and ria Coleman. with times of 18 8 seconds. tied for first place the ladies barrel race. parade was held through the district at 5 o'clock yesterday aitern on and another arade is scheduled for the same time Saturday afternoon. Those w.shing to participate in the rodeo parade are asked to meet at 4:30 p.

m. Saturday at the rodeo grounds. Meanwhile the second day of the 3 p. m. Rodeo parade through Duroe this morning in the judging business district.

8 p. m. Final rodeo preform ance. kzen. tduardo Lonardi has been named to nead The new govern- county menr ot Argentina, according to an oTTicial announcement over the state radio Wednes- Carder Nominated For One Of 10 Top oung Men Films on fishing in South Aimer.

a were shown last night at the Junior Chamber cf Commerce meeting at the Texas Power and ja! Ellis ounty Live- Light company auditorium. featured the iudsinc I In a business meeting the Waxahachie Jaycees nominated Charles Carder as their candidate for one Jerry Edmondson of Waxaha- Billy Collier, assistant chie showed the grand champion agent of Kaufman County Swine Show of the swine show at the Ellis Duroe (sow pig under 6 months) County livestock show. Duane Jerry Edmondson of Wax- Argentine rebels won an Wilson of Ennis had the reserve ahachie; second, Mike Watson of unconditional surrender from champion. Ennis; third. Ernest Reynolds of ruling generals who took over In the sheep show Steve Ham- Italy; fourth, Wayne Wilson of mack of Ferris had the champion Ennis; fifth, Aaron Saylors of rom Juan fat lamb while Merle Ann and Milford; sixth, Gerald Kuyken- Heron- John Hamack of Ferris had the dall of Midlothian, reserve champion.

Steve Hammack Duroe (sow pig 6-12 months) had the champion Hampshire ewe First, Clayton Allen of Waxaha- for ewes under one year while chie; second, James Gilley of W. L. Green of Waxahachie had Mertens; third, Sammy Herring- the champion and reserve cham- ton; fourth. George Janicek of Delaine ewes. Ennis; fifth, Darrell Sibley' of A.

of Waxahachie had Ennis, the grand champion Yorkshire as Duroe over 12 months) well as the reserve champion. First, Duane Wilson of Ennis: Garv Hambrick of Milford had the atpfm tm grand champion Hampshire and SHEEP and SWINE Page 6 Eduardo Lonardi Edsel Gerron had the reserve New President Promises Changes In Argentina I-M tp.tal al Resident's iher-ln-Law In Waco COOL FRONT IS MOV INC OV ER STATE I VITI PRESS sheep and sune this morning and the judging this aft moon A quarter horse contest is scheduled fi 3 and the next of the open cutting horse contest scheduled for 4 Two Directors For Children's Home Announced hampion. Billy Wheatley of Waxahachie had the grand champion Poland of the 10 outstanding young men in the nation. Burvin Smith reported on the rganization for the Community Chest fund campaign to be held here on Oct. IT; the Jaycees are in charge of the ie- sident -ection drive.

Cloyce Eskridge gave the Jay- r- Maniacal Slayer Kills Musician, ounds Woman Gen. officially takes over the government of Argentina Friday under Spartan conditions and with a promise to render mer President Juan D. Peron harmless. The handsome 39-year-old provisional president, a retired major- general who became of the liberating flies here from Cordoba, his provincial capital, to a flag draped but heavi- He 42 ar men have been a Id of Healing rd of directors. Rev.

board chairman, an- morning. Dr. Pierce P. Brooks, alias businessman, and Bate- Waxahachie. t- the president of a organiza- has a -trong interest Rev.

Bates, pres- local insurance a minister cf God Church in years. He has home niesions se- the A-'Cmblies of God is well-known by mber- of that denom-1 and Dennis Almond of Waxahachie had the reserve champion. Here are the results of this judging in the swine and sheep show: and Gene Ray Beckham t.Stev(* hammack of Ferris had guarded iuuTnder'a state asked for a donation for and th" vin orS oi' 8 tion Br a project spun- champion was showed by wounded the latteFs and Merle Ann and John Hammack of du I led the streets Ferris. Third and fourth place woman companion on a lonely entries were showed by Fred Hu-kerson of Ferris; fihh-Joe b()d th musician, chanting Poss of Palmer; sixth and eighth Hubert Hahn a former canting Peron ha- and Jureta Whitfill of Alma and i JV fizwa tormer mem long live it bcr of tne Kansas City Svmphonv, Tho seventh and mnth-Lamelle Whit- on a roadside in suburban Xdams smTw nJL thLe fill of Alma. county shortly after 9 a.m.

cst I Quarters Hampshire Ewe (Lnder 1- Frida ab(JUt six h()urs after he of the once all-powerful Steve Hammack of Ferns, cham- was reported shot bv a voung gun. fu.e's the w. L. Green of Mm Wdnaped his late Waxahachie had the champion and woman companion, Miss champion. Joyce Danielson.

25, bleeding from FlIHGrdl SCfVlCGS by the national Junior of Commerce to aid the ided from the Communists Viet-Nam. Morris Head pre-id1-'! business meeting. at the Death Toll Rises As Flood Vfc aters in expectation of i new outbreaks such as those of urban road early Friday. if A Denver detective sergeant I ghl when mnlian crowds surged through the streets president and te wife, Eva, to the street. To 1 -Mir ruli-ntiiiU he Nand had he had a- cut id 1912 Giants.

The Weather He anr. ar-old l) pm J. I. Cornwell Presents Program At Optimist Club rt Worth area i by mid-i UAi ias- iav niflV IT 7 on uth ward to line fr Wa early Sat da tq San IV, Angelo Brou nuooii Brown wood ref PCI Oro leasuring up t5.2 es and aus ng creeks to low in i county ar id streetsin some ty to run gutter- Lake f-t AMA HO mi municipal hI es in tfl te state. a foot and a half fiurn the pavy rains and wa- top the spillwayat dawn.

Water kely will gu ove in the the spill tway la- A few families in som ly- ig sections of rownwood moved Chi! day arrangt Coe announced also thi: the children from me will enroll Month? public Supt. T. C. Wilemon ha- 1 to pick six high school and 39 grade school children. Consti uction a new and modem gymnasium will begin soon at the located north of Waxa- Rev.

Coe stated. In addi- concrete for a large swimming po has been donated and this will be completed as soon a- Begin To Recede TAMPICO. Mex. The death toll from Hurricane Hilda reached 294 Friday as waters began to recede, but at least 370 other persons were still missing and presumed dead. Herbert M.

Williams, an American cattle rancher who lives in Tampico, said it is possible the dead will reach into the thousands. Williams flew his over the vast dev reported that tiny villages that Judge for the sheep show was a small- calber bullet wound in the shoulder, had halted a switch-en- i gine crew in the northeast Denver industrial area earlier to report the kidnap-shocting. Miss Danielson, reported in good condition despite her wound, told Funeral services will be held Seventeen cars of a Southern and Hahn "ere kid- Saturday morning at 9 a. m. in SP Freight Train Derailed At Ennis Scheduled For Bardwell Resident Pacific freight train were derailed at by a slightly- St.

Catholic Church. Ennis, late Thursday night at Ennis but 20 to 2o years for Joe Honza Sr. age 59, who none of the' train crew was in- If a JTi, Thursda-V in a iured ear ourslde a rooming house where Dallas hospital. Mr. Honza was a.

about p.m. Thurs- lifelong resident of the Bardwell Bud Griffin local Southern day night. community where he was engaged is private plane Pariuc agent, identified the tram He torced the coupie to i in farming. restated area and as 257 "--sch was enroute to Ennis around for more than four urs Rosary will be said tonight at that Hearne. The derailment before halting the car on a county seven-thirty in the Bunch-Emmert dotted the terrain are no occurred at south Ennis at the road where he fatally shot Hahn Funeral Home in Ennis.

Officiat- longer there, completely washed compress when one of the box- and wounder Miss Danielson as log will be Msgr. V. P. Mieola of away no sign of life. farL developed a box" at she struggled to escape.

Ennis and Rev. Wesley Pechal of First estimates of material dam- P- m- Thursday, ages in the Tampico area totaled Derailment of the 17 freight 8120 million. The government-own- cars blocked the Southern ed oil industry said its in-talla- main line but a by-pass line was ble so that the pool will be ready tions suffered damages estimated laid around the wreck scene and use next spring. at $20 million. rail traffic was continuing Heat Wave Lingers In South an hai texa day n.ght thundershow- in extreme much 11 re-.

Moderate winds J. Irvin Cornwell read th of from his autograph copy the book to members of the Optimist Club Friday at their luncheon meeting held in Hilltop Cafe. The highly humorous story, written by Harry Stillwell Ed- waids of describes in with on higher ground Story as water ran curb-deepin streets front of their homes. Three Closed tral coast, letter form thewanderings of Negro slave seeking his Three bridges ver Adams Creek I running through the western part of town Closed to traffic. The city received an official three inches and cl udv skies threatened to1 drop even more.

Some parts of! Record Breaking Summer Officially Ends As Cooler Weather Spreads Over Nation By UNITED PRESS The summer of 1955, which will Officially, summer wa out and fall was to begin at exactly 1:42 p.m. cst. This was the a Separated fr his folk. 1 the confusion of the i 1 Wat nikbt and Eneas wanders over the nation de a termined to be reuniied with them HSXAS ci In his custody is the uay to part- the city received amounts ranging stand on the record books as one moment of autumnal equinox, of the hottest in the his- when the center of the sun is di fr four to 5.2 inches. Front Movcti Slowly Early Friday the front was just past Wichita Falls, extending west- I tory, ended A heat wave was still hanging rectly over the equator.

follow ing the shooting of her husband, W. H. Turner, in the abdomen late Thursday afternoon at their residence, it was announced 'this morning at the office. She is charged with assault to mur- I der. Officers disclosed that Mr.

Turner is in a Fort Worth hospital in to bow in the general directi of Central fair condition. According to a American Friday. Tempteratures in this country- dropped into the 30s and 40s in the Northern Great Plains, Abbott. Interment will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Ennis.

Survivors include five sons, Joe Adolph. Lawrence and Jerry, all of Ennis, and Leo J. of Fort Worth; four daughters, Miss Adell Honza, Mrs. Joe S. iPatak and Miss Rose Ann of Ennis, and Sister Mary Ann Honza of Har- Britten has been released on bond frtiii.tiinrr v.

trank, Wesley, and tllie of Woman Charged In Shooting Of Husband Thursday Mrs. Gertrude Turner, 56, Ennis; three sisters, Mrs. Richard Krajca, Mrs. Frank Trpak and Mrs. Willie Kriska, of Ennis; and six grandchildren.

statement given county officials, Mrs. Turner said the shooting occurred during a scuffle for the gun, a pistol. It was indicated that the shoot- 25 Years Ago From The Files ot The Waxahachie Daily Light Most the was appro- northern New England, and upper the outgrowth of a quar- rifltolv onn 1 fnr tho hooinnirttr nf l'0l. Sept. 23, 1930 'The YWCA executive board will sh through Saturday.

Scat- i priately cool for the beginning of i York Hmw rain hit in the ward to south of Lubbock. It was in the South. But fall got off fall, with brisk Canadian air knif- 1 Deputies Walter Parks and Mel-! meet with Mrs. Pick Harbin at moving slowly, but forecasters to a blustery sta.t in Canada, ing as far south as the Texas Pan- ra nation, oui Baker investigated the shoot- 1:30 Thursday afternoon which is traditionally used at said it looks as if it will penetrate here the worst autumn snow handle. ing Rush Springs, with two ing as did Midlothian Constable All members are urged tc lev Plains fi Fr id; lnd thundershowers ry 3 tban they storm in eked high-; Heat Continues in South I inches of rain in two urs and Perry Ad ay while Chief Deputy to be pre- and Judge Charges Ar THE Marohman THEATRES today Jury In Pecos YiM to the story, Eneas an ives originally expected, jy and with the cup during the NuukB lWard Saturdav of the longest ight and Soulh Plains dauShter- Rex Shelt presided at the lI'e store business meeting preceding the the item program.

Barney Wray gave the invocation and Bud Griffin led the pledge of allegiance to the flag. 1 Four Club vfOW 311 1 Tldl ley Kelningham, J. H. Morris Vaughan and Carroll Todd! attended the meeting and an- District nounced the Lions Minstrel to be' Judge I Bartlett read his held next Thursday and Friday, charge to the jury Friday in the The Optimists voted to buy $751 Raymond McGowan murder worth of tickets and to distribute triaI and fma! arguments got un- tem to the members for resale. Officials again hsked for help at the concession stands at the rodeo which will be presented tonight i and Saturday night.

ways in southern Alberta. At The Texas HAisT of Janies eden Dean At The Ritz arshall At ThC W0HTH-' OF TALS- un Tony Curtis der way shortly before noon. The 49-year-old Dallas horse trainer is being tried for the murder of his estranged blonde wife, McGowan, in a Waco motel last July 10. But summer heat stayed on in Carnegiei ()kla with thr the Gulf States and Southwest desert. Highs of 99 were registere Thursday at Yuma.

anil Needles, and temperatures w-ere in the 90s as far rth as southern Illinois and Indiana. In Alberta, meanwhile, nearly five and a half inces of snow block- ed highways and halted traffic in and around The snow was nis, was injured shortly after noon by 20-mile per hour today when boar hogs attack-; and er were knock ed the youth who was trying to 1..... separate the fighting Duroe hogs at the Ellis C.unty livestock show. According to reports of the inci- Youth Attacked By Two Hogs Today At EC Livestock Show Ray-mond Tivjacek. route 5, En- i in three hours.

ee inches 1 Wallace McDonald took the statement. ed down in nearby areas. At least one death was blamed on the stcrm. County HD Agent To Be Fair Judge Next week will be a busy week for Miss Mary Cothran, county home demonstration agent, and her assistant, Mrs. Ann Sonner.

On Monday Miss Cothran will go to Corsicana where she will be Week-Day Bible In other activity, two 18-year- Soho 1, held annually while punlic old Mexicans have been charged educational institutions are in pro- wit burglary of a private resi- gress here, will open next Wednes- dence at nighttime. The two are day accused cf the burglary of the Pic- kens Keplinger residence west of S. Agee was in Dallas Wed- town; officers said the merchan-1 dise taken in the burglary was re- I covered. The two youths were ar- Beulah Seay spent the rested as they walked west on U. end in Waco visiting her S.

287. ter, who is working for the Singer A white man, ho was charged Sewing Machine with being drunk, paid a fine and; Also shot to death at the same Sanitarium for treatment. judge at the Navarro County fair, was released, it was announced at: A. E. Walker is in Br.

Far to the south, a new hurri- On Wednesday Miss Cothran and the department today an tbis week holding a dent, the two hogs attacked the chuJrntd through the Carib- Mrs Sonner will go to Denton for: City officers were called -------bean and the death toll of Hur- an all-day meeting and on Thurs- Griffin at 1:45 this morn-; Walker left this morning ricane Hilda continued to rise. day the two will go to Waco to I ing when a Negro man broke in- Ao enter the State Medical College New Hurricane Builds I be judges in the Heart to the house there. Officers were in Galveston, his second year The new hurricane, dubbed Jan -1 fair. to find the man at et, was only a little more than a i day old, but already carried 115- Three big nights of "The committee of the South Ennis boy as he tried to separate them and ripped his left leg open between the ankle and the knee. He was taken to the Waxahachie Connn0 oon a time as Bobby Royce Darby, 21, Trojacek is the owner cf one of mile-per-hour winds.

In rammed ment. Ellis County Livestock Show Remember the dates Sept. 22-23-24. Ward P. T.

A. is asked to meet fest the Lions MinistreL Arlington. McGowan will be, (he hogs. He is the son of Mr. through the sparesely-populated I and Rodeo Rudolph Funeral; The annual Rodeo and Livestock, Thursday afternoon at 3 at (adv.) tried later on this murder charge.

and Mrs. Tony Trojacek. Islands and was headed Home. (adv.) i Show in Waxahachie. the South Ward.

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