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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1963
Page
5
Safety Education Officer Floyd Tippit notes that traffic crashes have caused large losses, citing 1962 Texas economic damage of 387 million dollars. He compares the cost to a football field laid with multiple currency layers and silver dollars to illustrate the toll.
Principal M. D. Barclay says all children who turn six before September and enter school this fall may register May 9. Registration starts at 1 30 p m in the school cafeteria with first grade pupils dismissed early. Bring birth certificate and smallpox inoculation statement.
Mr and Mrs J W Perry announce granddaughter Katherine Ann Ford born April 26 in Austin. Grandparents William G Ford of Navasota. Mr and Mrs Johnny Beaty announce daughter Anna Coleen born April 24 in Bryan. Grandparents Macom Hornsby Hearne and Anna Beaty Aleppo Syria. Mrs J D Allen Hearne is great grandmother. Mr and Mrs David S Bates welcomed son David Sanders Bates Jr born April 19. Sue Ellen Shanks born April 20 to Mr and Mrs R E Shanks. On April 28 daughter Terry Lynn born to Mr and Mrs B R Gingerich in local hospital.
Cub Scout Pack 42 met April 25 at East Side Cafetorium with Cubmaster Charles Stasny presiding. Den 7 opened with a magic show by Jimmy Aalen and David Boedeker assisting. ADVANCEMENT awards went to Willard Johnson bear, George Pharig Jr. and Tracy Varvel silver arrow under wolf. Den 2, Den 1, Den 6 led games including Butterfingers, Pillow Relay, Newspaper Relay. Webelos Den chose Tug-O-War and won the cubby attendance award. Den 7 closed with America.
Mrs Wallace McGrew who had major surgery at a Marlin hospital is steadily improving. Lawrence Brady has been treated in a Marlin hospital the past week and is in satisfactory condition. U S Marine Cpl James R Theis son of Mr and Mrs A R Theis is ill with infectious hepatitis at the U S Army Hospital Ryukyu Islands APO 331 San Francisco.
Mrs. H. P. Moss hosted a weekend gathering with her sons C. R. Moss and family from Pasadena, R. H. Moss and family from Dallas, and sister-in-law H. W. Peyton with son Timmy from Waco.
Don Watson was named defensive backfield coach for the University of South Carolina last week by athletic director Marvin Bass. A Franklin native, he starred for Franklin High and at A&M College under Bear Bryant, later coaching defensive backs at Virginia Tech, Houston, and Tulane before joining South Carolina.
Mrs. L. T. Hughes and Mack Hoyt attended funeral services for her uncle, Edgar Isaacs, in Waco on Wednesday. Isaacs, in his nineties, died in Waco on Tuesday. Interment was at 32 cemetery in Lott.
Former Hearnites Mr. and Mrs. Houston Young, now of Baytown, were at home in Hearne for the weekend and returned to Baytown on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Maris and family of Corsicana visited relatives and friends in Franklin during the weekend. Mr. Maris and daughter Marsha drove to Hearne to visit friends Sunday.
Saturday evening visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Wilson included Maj Ira Gunn of Walter Reed Research Laboratories in Washington DC and Capt Nellie Grant of Brooke Hospital in San Antonio. Mrs. Wilson accompanied Maj Gunn to Dallas Tuesday where she flew to Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Nickelson of Port Arthur and recently of Hearne visited this week as guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Cornelius. They also called on his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Nickelson at New Baden.
The 40th annual National Music Week will be observed May 5 to 12 by the Hearne Music Lovers Club and the Junior Music Lovers Club. Also noted are local youth milestones in Scouting Tau Beta Pi and Taylor High School salutatorian Diana Barron, plus a county machinery vandalism report and a tractor wedged between trees leading to a tree felling.
Mr and Mrs E R Vaughan spent Tuesday with Mrs Vaughan s brother J C Wickerson at Port Arthur. Mrs Carroll Green and her daughters Valerie and Lynette Green of Cameron visited in the Jack Stidham home Friday evening. Mrs Green also visited Eddy Anderson s home while here.
Tom Nesmith, all around World Champion Cowboy of 1962, will appear in Hearne for the second RCA World Championship Rodeo on June 20 21 22. Nesmith, strong in bulldogging and calf roping, is in second place for this year as Reynolds of Kissimmee Florida produces the event during Hearne Western Week.
Robertson County Court House News lists marriage licenses for Herbert Lee Cooper and Susie Marie Davis and Ernest Sapp and Patricia Anne Buchanan. The report also records new vehicle registrations in Hearne and nearby areas including Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, and Ford models with names such as R. H. Guyton, E. F. Klawetter, J. M. Huffington, Bill Turpin, J. B. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Nicke Daleo, Ray Gustine, Thelma Horelica, Walter A. Johnson, Nettie Stricklin, James W. Starkey, Mason C. Cloud Jr., George L. Teetes, Jimmy F. Payne, Joe Reistino, Lucille Evans, Ervin L. Pettit, W. i L. Ayers, Marshall Wallace Jr., and W. D. Henderson. The entries place many residents in Hearne for car registrations with multiple makes noted.
Mr and Mrs Edwin R Vaughan traveled to Silsbee on Tuesday to attend the funeral services for Carl Jones a retired school teacher He was brother in law to Mrs M L Hamilton of Kilgore formerly of Hearne and visited here frequently years ago.
Several small ads from a Texas paper list pure bred seal point Siamese kittens for ten dollars each and a young man wanted for permanent ranch work with contact Larry Smith at Flying V Ranch. Also offered are freezer calves, leather hand tool net, two Dewalt cut off saws, a Wallace table saw, used room aize refrigerated air conditioners, used TVs and fridges, plus 12 Angus heifers and an Angus bull listed by Eo M Herod. An eighth annual Central Texas Swine Bale sale is announced for May 11 at Heart Texans Fairgrounds with top meat hogs from Texas breeders.
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