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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1956
Page
5
Texas 1955 agricultural report shows seven million crops raised, down seven percent from 1954. Pecans and peaches suffered from freezes while cotton yields climb to 4,025,000 bales, rice and corn record high per acre, and potato and alfalfa seed outputs set new marks.
Members of the Boy Scout Town Committee met to outline plans for the Scout Hut including repainting inside and out a twelve foot extension divided into two patrol meeting rooms and added attic storage. Scoutmaster Clifford Wiese said the expansion would suit Troop 334. Scouting groups may arrange use with custodian AL Behrens.
Rev. John Louis Morkovsky longtime San Antonio archdiocese schools chief named by Pope Pius XII as auxiliary bishop of Amarillo and titular Bishop of Hieron. He will serve under Archbishop Laurence FitzSimon with duties to be confirmed. Morkovsky, 46, from Praha Fayette County, also led Legion of Decency 1945 to 1953 and is brother to A J Morkovsky and others.
One of the largest groups ever to attend a Club Montezuma dance gathered Saturday night for a New Year’s Eve party. Jodie Braden and His Orchestra provided dancing music while Neal Campbell, former band member and former local high school director, joined in for the gala. Over eighty couples attended the event.
Regional notice describes free tickets for EDGAR BARING to see One Desire starring Anne Baxter Rock Hudson and Julie Adams at Rice Theatre on January 5 and 6. The text also lists Christmas weekend visitors including the Elkins and Hutchings families and others visiting Mrs. W. C. Elkins from Houston and Memphis, Texas.
Mrs. R H Sales visited Ardmore Oklahoma with her sister and husband returning with her father D B Bradshaw who will stay months. The Thorsons hosted the Croes family and four Houston visitors. Karns City and San Antonio guests joined the Joneses for holidays. Sandra Gosney heads to Tulsa to live. visites by Morris Sales Paris Texas and Oscar Dozier Perry Oklahoma. Southwest Conference basketball in Houston featured Ace Williams John Jones and Jeff Lay. Neal Campbell and sons joined New Year Eve Dance for Club Montezuma.
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