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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
1
A late delivery option to San Antonio via six o clock post office dispatch is announced. The issue features a Texas Railroad Commission letter clarifying heating value and costs of butane and natural gas, plus tributes to high school graduates and local civic thoughts on education, health, and civil rights.
The Daedalian Study Club will meet this afternoon at Isaack's instead of the home of Mrs. J. P. Rieck. Hostess Mrs. Gus Witting announced the starting time remains 3 p.m.
S. A. Kerley named director of the A and M Adjunct with Clay George as camp counselor for the fifth summer term beginning June 5. Kerley, returning after three summers, will lead through the six week session as students arrive June 5. Ransdell, acting Dean since 1951, becomes acting Dean of the Basic Division as Kerley and George visit College Station.
Cecil Mansfield will award diplomas to eight London graduates at a joint ceremony for London High and Grade Schools in the London Community Hall Friday evening. Judge Walter W. Leamons will deliver the commencement address with Supt. O. L. Turner presenting special awards.
A general clean up of Bear Creek Cemetery is set for Memorial Day Monday May 30. Community volunteers are urged to come early bring tools and a basket lunch to finish by a noontime picnic. All local residents with ties to the cemetery are encouraged to assist.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Farmer departed Tuesday for Houston, signaling a planned trip or visit to the city.
John A. Long will present certificates of promotion to 48 eighth grade students in graduation exercises in the high school auditorium. The event will begin Tuesday morning at 10:00 o'clock.
Seventeen girls will receive certificates and thirty one boys will receive diplomas. The program includes processional introductions by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Albert W. Searcy, awards from WOW and American Legion, main address by Vernon Jones, and a benediction by Seamons. Reports cards available from teachers before the program.
Rev. E L Strickland of the Presbyterian church will deliver the sermon to forty high school graduates in the high school auditorium Sunday at 8:00 pm. Walter W Leamons of the Church of Christ will read the Scripture. Invoca tion by Rev C W Schaefer Pentecostal minister. Benediction by Rev B W Mantooth Baptist pastor. High school choir to sing with Mrs R D Rothmann at the piano. Town custom allows churches to dismiss or shift evening services to attend the baccalaureate.
Rev O L Turner Baptist evangelist and London School superintendent preached the London High School baccalaureate in the London Baptist Church Sunday at 3 00 pm. Rev Ernest Edwards read Scripture and led benediction while Rev Louis Pearl gave the invocation. Alice Dayton and Billy Fletcher sang with Mrs Ellis Brown accompanying. The congregation sang two hymns.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Borden with Mrs. W. E. Allen and Mrs. R. R. Spiller depart this morning to attend Lee Borden’s senior piano recital tonight. They will return tomorrow, and Lee will come home next week.
The Junction Natural Gas Company won city council approval in a special meeting after presenting evidence of financial ability to build the gas system. Houston backers Cockburn Oil Company and Columbia Bond and Trust Company provide backing and assets details.
Nineteen Kimble County leaders sent a telegram to state lawmakers urging a two cent gasoline tax increase. The message targeted Senator Carlos Ashley Representative Joe Burkett Jr and Senator Weinert, stressing Kimble’s highway needs and the county lacking rail service. The telegram argues the tax would help Texas match federal funds and benefit Kimble County.
Rainfall spread across the county with thunder showers lifting hopes for ending drought. Reports from London Ivy and Rust ranch areas show heavy rains and flooding in Gentry Creek and Llanos as gauges record totals around 2.57 inches for May 7 to May 17 and scattered showers continue in western regions.
Forty Junction High School seniors will graduate Tuesday evening in the auditorium with diplomas presented by Tom mie Marr president of the Board of Trustees after a commencement address by State Senator Carlos Ashley. The program includes valedictory by Lola Seamons and salutatory by Edward Rothmann, with awards for American History and American Legion.
May 28 has been designated Poppy Day in Junction by the local American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs Sy Fpley, president, announced the plans with Mrs Francis A. Long Line as chairman and the Girl Scouts as helpers. Crepe paper poppies are made by disabled veterans at the VA Hospital and will be sold all day at Brewster's Boot Shop and the Texan Theatre with a door to door canvass planned.
A Webelos ceremony for Cubs will be held at the Scout grounds on Thursday evening May 26 at 7 30 p m. Explorers will present Webelos awards and other honors will be given by Cubmaster Vernon Jones.
Mrs Edna Prosise and Kathy Edwards of Eden visited Sunday at the Frank Billo ranch, spending time with Mr and Mrs Billo.
J A Liverman born June 9 1874 helps with rock work on a rear rest room and store house for Pentecostal Church of which he is a member. He donates labor and has lived in Junction since 1929 after moving from McCulloch County. He married, widowed in 1951 and has 14 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.
Dr. J E Wiedeman says five children bitten by an escaped pet squirrel may receive rabies shots if desired. Health dept in Austin advised vaccination optional though rabies present in squirrels occasionally. Dog killed the suspected bite animal. its mate remains in a cage and healthy.
Cpl Gene C Weaver of Company M 16th Regiment First Infantry Division recently took part in a field training exercise in Germany. He has been overseas since March 1954. His wife and son live here with her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Patterson.
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