Indians open 1957 season with Jacksonville upset
Grand Saline's Indians opened the 1957 football season with an 18-0 home victory over Jacksonville Indians of 7-AAA at Persons Stadium. Key plays featured Carlisle to Whatley for 41 yards and Tommy Chambless, Tommy Lawrence, and Carlisle scoring as the defense stifled the visitors and held the shutout.
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Grand Saline
Indians
Persons Stadium
Jacksonville Indians
Jacksonville
Allen Carlisle
Jackie Whatley
Larry Chambless
Tommy Anders
Eddie Ballard
Chambless
Tommy Lawrence
Anders
Cecil Carter’s Texas Ingenuity Brings Food Home
Cecil Carter, stationed in Warwick Virginia, rents a trailer at Grand Saline to haul a food freezer filled with Texas beef and ham. He plans to sleep in Little Rock Arkansas to keep the load frozen and reach Virginia with its preserved groceries intact.
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Cecil Carter
Warwick
Grand Saline
Carter
Virginia
Little Rock
Ark
Deans Celebrate 45th Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Doug Dean observed their 45th wedding anniversary last week with a quiet at home celebration as Mrs Dean has been ill for some time.
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Doug Dean
Roy Jackson
Dot Jennings
Coy Davises
Colliers, Paul
Teal’s
Claudie Smith’s
A&p
Tom Thumb’s
Rey Jackson
Mr. Davis
Melon Won By Mary Had Wonderful Flavor
Mary Elliott won a 100 pound watermelon donated by Jack Long in Oklahoma to aid the Williams fund. Mrs Elliott praised the melon’s splendid flavor and the event raised 20.90 for the cause through donors’ generosity.
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Mary
Mary Elliott
Sea Office
Jack Long
Oklahoma
Williams
Leo Morris Celebrates 16th Year in Grand Saline Shoe Shine Trade
Leo Morris of Grand Saline marks 16 years in the shoe shining business on Sept 18. He has shined shoes in four local shops and once in New York, earning tips varied from nothing to 100 dollars. Morris, a Nazarene, donates ten percent to his church and plans to continue shining for about 18 more years. He married locally, has a four year old son Gordon, and owns a home in Polo Town.
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Leo Morris
Grand Saline
Morris
Joe Bailey
Neely Wright
George Smith
Nations
Pope
New York
Kirby Shirley
van Zandt County
Leo
Gordon
The
Nazarene Church
Polo Town
Lions Plan Clean Up Drive And City Improvements
The report notes the Lions look ahead to organizing a cleanup drive and city improvements. It commends Manu el De La Rosa for his directing of a Friday night performance at Persons Field. It highlights Grand Saline Cleaning Shops and band uniform alterations due to smaller member sizes and under classmen.
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Persons Field
Manuel de la Rosa
Grand Saline
Lions Club
J. E. Persons
Woodside
Willis Roberson
Safety in football highlighted by state athletics director
In Grand Saline Texas the school system reviews sports safety as Rhea Williams, State Athletic Director, cites national figures showing football fatalities at about 1.1 per 100 000 and argues supervised programs are safer than unsupervised gambling into risky activities. He notes Texas had 907 League football participants last year across 1000 schools and about 60 000 boys in A teams.
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Grand Saline
Guy C. Pryor
Rhea Williams
Guy Pryor
Texas
Guy
National Safety Council
Revival at Nazarene Church Opens Next Sunday
Revival services begin at the Church of the Nazarene here next Sunday and run through Oct. 2. Evanglist Rev. D. C. Van Slyke of Nampa Idaho will preach. His story recounts a morphine addiction and a doctor declared hopeless, then a conversion that brought him faith and hope.
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Church of the Nazarene
D. C. van Slyke
Nampa
Idaho
van Slyke
Invitation Wasted If Not Delivered
Mrs. Clay the post master urges mothers to include correct addresses and the parent’s name on invites for children’s parties. Without proper addressing Susie may not receive the invitation and the host may be left “mad” at the postman.
News Hires Local Lab For Paper Distribution
Ronnie Painter, 14, signed up to deliver Dallas Morning News papers in Grand Saline. The ninth grader, son of Mr and Mrs L O Painter, was interviewed last week and will begin in the early morning route.
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News
Ronnie Painter
Dallas Morning News
Ronnie
Grand Saline
L. O. Painter
Chaney to Speak at Lawrence Springs Church
Rev. Clayton Chaney of Canton will be guest speaker at Lawrence Springs Baptist Church Saturday night, with services set for 7 30. Public invited. Also noting Lewiston Idaho hosts the world’s largest lumber mill.
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Clayton Chaney
Canton
Lawrence Springs Baptist Church
Albert Harvey
Lewiston
Idaho
Pictured Families in School Group Portraits Across Rows
The article lists numerous children and grandchildren of local families in multi row captions. Names include Aly Wal lace Pearce Dickerson Owens Horton Murphy Fisher Lovett Dorough Curtis Daniels Fritz Wheeler Jones Reid Sallings Rodgers Bates Green Williams Furrh Gaskey Rogers Tipps and others.
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Danny Lee Owens
Arthur Owens
Kenneth Donald Horton Jr
Marie Horton
Sue Murphy
Billy Ray Murphy
Douglas Fisher
Jimmy Fisher
Mark Green
C. E. Green
Susan Dianne Williams
Suzette Rene Williams
E. D. Williams
Mike Furrh
Elmer C. Furrh
Carolyn June Gaskey
Brenda
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GSHL
Carlisle
Lawrence
Lee Indians
John Wheeler
Hoot” Smith
Kenneth Burns
Rhea H. Williams
Faye Fowler
Pounding
Dren
C. Chaney
Lawrence Springs
Aly Wal
Ann
Malcolm Pearce
Ed Pearce
David and
Dixie Dickerson
E. Dickerson
Vickie Lynn
Sylvia Fisher
Linda Fisher
W. R. Fisher
LeAnn Lovett
Billy Lovett
B. J. Dorough
Larry Moore
R. C
Tamera Wheeler
Barbara Wheeler
Teri Jones
Mike Jones
D. R. Jones
Pam Reid
Debbie Reid
Vickie Sallings
Eric Lane
Earl Rodgers
E. E. Rodgers
Melka Jean Bates
Mrs
J. A. Bates
Joyce Gaskey
James Gaskey
Michael Odell Rogers
Odell Rogers
Carolyn Tipps
Ken
Neth Tipps
C. EB. Tipps
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