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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1955
Page
1
Community column highlights R. B. anniversary sale at Cunningham Gulf Station with Don Reed seeking local business. Mentions fishing tales by Jim Whiskers King and a poetry snippet, plus a note about a municipal pool construction and a summary of Eisenhower’s State of the Union address emphasizing peace freedom and opportunity.
Parker had been confined to bed for part of the past week and was listed as improving on Wednesday and able to resume activities.
Mr and Mrs Roy Borden were in visitors Tuesday and Wednesday, joining relatives for a short call.
A Sunday night crash on Highway 83 fourteen miles north of Junction killed Capt. Anthony T. Lorente, 32, of Goodfellow AFB San Angelo. His 1952 Mercury convertible rolled over thirty times before he died at the scene. Lorente, a Michigan native, was alone and the body was moved to Hodges Funeral Home as Goodfellow officials arrived the same night.
Norma Carrigan was hospitalized Sunday for injuries from a traffic crash on State Highway 27 Kerr County 22 miles southeast of Junction. Eight stitches closed a deep cut on her left arm while X rays checked a chest injury. The 1949 Buick driven by Harold Edward Person carried Carrigan and Johnny Brown who escaped injury. Patrolman Sikes investigated.
R D Borden reports the Kimble County Boy Scout Fund Drive raised 1441.50. Funds go to the Concho Valley Council for allocation per the published budget and other developing needs. The council HQ is in San Angelo, with Borden as drive chair and B L Smith as longtime vice president.
Improvements completed were reported and plans for more in the cemetery were approved at the Cemetery Aid Society meeting held at Mrs. T. B. Phillips home. Committee members reported water mains laid and a sprayer bought and in use. The west cemetery section will be divided into lots once survey work is done. Dues for 1955 were urged as payable. Fourteen members attended.
Mrs Jim Weaver and daughter Jimmie Lou were weekend guests in the Frank Patterson home. Mrs Gene C Weaver and Jim Frank returned to Uvalde with them for a week’s visit.
Absentee voting for a mayor and two aldermen to two-year terms begins March 16 and runs to April 1 at City Hall. The April 5 election will be held in the courthouse with H. G. Hubert presiding. Three mayoral candidates and four alderman candidates have filed.
March 19 through April 2 marks the annual Red Cross Fund Drive chaired by Astor Wallace. W. W. Leamons is chapter chairman and Mrs. Chevis Wyatt serves as secretary treasurer and public information chair.
Public invited to hear Coke Stevenson speak in observance of Texas Public School Week at the high school at 10:00 a.m. An after speech one act play will be presented under Mrs. Marvin Blackburn. The public is urged to attend.
New officers were elected at a Monday meeting and took office Tuesday. Re elected chief and first and second assistants are LaRue Newby, Earl Ashley and Loyd Williamson. Victor Loeffler is president with Tom Webb and Gwyn House as VP s. Aubrey Fife is secretary and Milton Cavaness treasurer assisted by reporters and recorders.
The annual father and son Cub Kite Contest is scheduled for March 26 at 3 30 p m on the Scout Grounds. Ribbons will be awarded in four divisions small large beautiful and original with a high flying ribbon for all entrants. A picnic supper will follow and each family brings a basket. The contest plans were made at a round table Monday night and the Home of Cubmaster Vernon Jones is set for the April 4 meeting at 7 30 p m with all leaders urged to attend.
A fashion program is planned at the Cactus Club meeting to be held Wednesday at the home of Mrs. R D Kothmann. Hostesses named are Mmes Kothmann Sherman Rimes G W Landers and Fred Mudge. The business session starts at 3 p.m.
Miss Theola Hunger came home from the University of Texas for the weekend.
Funeral services for Dr J W Fussell 86 former London physician and pharmacist were held at London Community Hall with Rev Walter Leamons officiating. Burial followed in London cemetery. Fussell died in Kerrville at his daughter's home and had lived with them since his wife’s death in 1952. He was born in Iuka Mississippi on November 2 1868 and left survivors include a son a daughter and two grandchildren.
Girl Scouts celebrated their 43rd anniversary by planting trees at the Scout House and displaying work in downtown windows. They attended six local churches and presented an international friendship program to Rotary, the American Legion Auxiliary, Lions Club, and a Men's Bible Class. Each troop collected one penny per year of age for a Check-Po project to aid Korean schoolchildren with supplies and lunch items.
Junction Public Schools will observe a holiday Friday March 11. Sherman Rimes, the high school principal, notes Concluding Public Schools Week and says local teachers will attend a Texas State Teachers Association meeting in San Antonio.
May 15 was set for Soil Stewardship Sunday at the Upper Llanos Soil Conservation District board meeting in the courthouse. Pastors W W Leamons B W Mantooth and A C Peterson assisted planning a May conservation tour. Afterward, supervisors joined the Kimble County Agricultural Committee to discuss the 1956 ACP National Program with W C Oliver F C Hodges and Hardin Tobin present.
Postmaster A. D. Kindrick announced a March 20 1955 meeting in Junction for 175 postmasters of the 21st Congressional District. A noon dinner social period for registration and refreshments precedes church time. the main session will be in the district courtroom in the afternoon.
Emergency assistance from the Farmers Home Administration aided farmers in six counties served from Fredericksburg. A total of 1134 hay applications were approved for 23 000 tons and 5189 grain applications for 93 276 590 pounds. If converted to purchases the grain would save farmers 932 765 dollars. Forty five applicants were rejected for not meeting legal classifications.
Miss Mary Ella Morehead a San Angelo professional Girl Scout worker and local scouts under Mrs. Marshall McCleary presented an international friendship program at the Lions Club meeting Tuesday. Alton Mason chaired and Vernon Jones presided over the session.
Pierce A. Dynamite Hoggett was elected vice-president of the Harris Blair Literary Society at Southwest Texas State Teachers College. The announcement notes his recent election and role within the college literary group.
Wool growers selling after April 1 will qualify for incentive payments under the 1954 National Wool Act. Aubrey Hill of Kimble County explains the program sets a 62 cent per pound incentive price and payments depend on national average prices and individual sales records. Payments start after the 1955 clip is marketed, expected by summer 1956.
Leon R. Powell an honorary local fire chief was selected by the Hill Country Firemen's Association as their candidate for fourth vice president of the State Firemen's Association. Campaign plans were made at a Sunday Eden meeting attended by Junction officials. The state meeting will be held June 14 to 16 in Dallas.
The second grade will present a skit at the P T A meeting on Monday March 14 at 7 30 p m The W airl Scouts will also present their program Fourth grade mothers host social hour after the program and hold a business session.
Ola Mae Itz of Kimble County 4-H showed the grand champion Delaine ram in the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. She also captured first in yearling Delaine and top group, while Millard Bennett placed in several Delaine and Rambouillet classes.
Holly E. Rees, field representative from the San Angelo social security office, will be in Junction next Thursday afternoon in the county courtroom at 2 p.m. to assist local people with social security problems.
Mr and Mrs Jack Sykes returned last week from Alpine where they visited Mr and Mrs J H Watson and Jimmy and Jody Mrs J O Wright accompanied them to Ft Stockton where she visited Mr and Mrs Cameron Wright and Odie and Mickey
Girl Scouts led a program on international friendship during the Men’s Bible Class session led by Walter W. Leamons. About 60 attended with previous week’s speaker Jimmy Bissett addressing 48 including visitors.
Daedalians and guests gather at Stevenson Ranch March 17 at 3 p.m. Mrs. M. E. Worrell is guest speaker with La Junta Club members present. Hostesses are Mrs. Stevenson Mrs. Hooks Carlton Massie and James P. Rieck. A shower collects spring clothing for the needy.
The Kimble County Girl Scout Committee set an annual finance drive for September at the Scout House with seven members present. A sweet sale is planned for May 7 and a San Angelo professional worker met with the group.
An unclear line of text mentions Mrs Howard One Mana on the 13th Wednesday and a home event in Shamroe with her mother. The fragment references a payment hall and names Mrs P and an action, but details are fragmentary and unclear.
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