Mexia Black Cat cagers host Athens in season opener
Mexia Black Cat basketball opens against Athens with both A and B games. Expected starting five includes four players 6 feet 2 inches or taller and three all district returnees. Walton Samford Coslin stand 6-2 or taller, Foley 6-2, Marrs 5-10. Admission 25 cents students and 50 cents adults. Bi Stone dinner Dec 4 at Ross Avenue Cafeteria tickets $1.50 from boosters. Chena Gill strap to speak.
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Mexia Black Cat Cagers
Athens
Lloyd Wasserman
Buddy Walton
Don Foley
John William Samford
Bobby Joe Coslin
Walton
Samford
Coslin
Fairoaks
Foley
Woody Marrs
Letterman
Bi-Stone
Ross Avenue
Black Cat Booster Club
Pearson Saltsman
A. N. Little
J.A. Schnable
Bill Sheridan
Claude (Chena) Gillstrap
Arlington Junior
France voters crush Communist party in runoff parliament vote
In a nationwide runoff, Premier Charles de Gaulle solidified power as the Communist Party collapsed. Notable losses include former premiers Mendes France Laniel and Daladier, with De Gaulle projected to lead a strong majority after the successive elections.
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UPI
Charles de Gaulle
France
Communist Party
Mer
Fourth Republic
de Gaulle
Algeria
Edgar, Faure
Paul Ramadier
Pierre Mendes-France
Joseph Laniel
Edouard Daladier
Jacques Duclos
Jeannette Vermeersch
Maurice Thorez
Thorez
Funeral Services Held Today for Frank Lansford
Funeral services were held at Lost Prairie Baptist Church for Frank Lansford 62 of Linton native of Limestone County who died Friday at his Sinton home. Burial followed at Lost Prairie Cemetery. Lansford oilfield worker affiliated with Baptist Church survived by wife, four daughters, two sisters, one brother and nine grandchildren.
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Groesbeck
Spl
Lost Prairie
Ben Stohler
F. M. Berry
Sinton
Shelton Funeral Home
High Willow
John Demko
J. L. Huffman
Corpus Christi
G. R. Sturtz
B. J. Chmura
Oak Harbor
Wash
Elvis Promoted To PFC Amid Thanksgiving Controversy
In Germany Elvis Presley earns a private first class stripe after being promoted during a Thanksgiving dinner. An inquest into a baby's accidental death blamed a family cat for suffocation, while coroner A P Cogswell recorded the verdict. Separately, German settlers opened America’s first kindergarten in Columbus Ohio in 1838.
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Grafenwoehr
Germany
UPI
Elvis
Presley
Turkey
Ace
United Press International
Hendon
England
Joyce Evans
A. P. Cogswell
America
Columbus
Ohio
Limestone Rat Control Demonstrations Slated
County Farm Bureau announces a series of rat control demonstrations in Limestone County, December 9 to 11. Events include talks by officials, live demonstrations at multiple sites near Kosse, Thornton, Coolidge, and Texias, with practical methods using Warfarin and water soluble Pivalyn. Non members welcome. cost 30 cents per 5 pound bag and 25 cents per water treatment package.
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Waco Highway
Prairie Hill
Aliie Moss
Kosse
Stell Waldrop
Taylor
J. T. Archer
Victoria
Thornton
Hubert A. Wiley
Elmer Rinehart
Coolidge
Oloom
McReynolds
Hancock's
Farm Bureau
Afl
Levis
Thompson
Tehuacana Native Wins National Farm Bureau Radio Award
Tehuacana native Roddy Peeples 26 receives one of two top American Farm Bureau Federation awards for community service to agriculture. Presented in Chicago at the National Association of Television and Radio Farm Directors meeting. Peeples is Farm Director at KGNO Dodge City Kansas and formerly Ada Oklahoma. He graduated Mexia High School 1949 and Texas A&M 1953.
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Roddy Peeples
Rufus Peeples
Tehuacana
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago
National Association of Television and Radio Farm Directors
Peeples
Radio
KGNO
Dodge City
Kan
Rites Set For Mexia Resident Mrs Bradshaw
Funeral services are scheduled for 10 o clock tomorrow morning at the First Methodist Church in Mexia for Mrs Ethel L Bradshaw 66 a longtime resident who died Saturday afternoon in a Corsicana hospital Burial will be in Mexia City Cemetery Mrs Bradshaw born July 22 1892 in Sioux City Iowa had lived in Mexia since 1922 She was affiliated with the First Methodist Church of Mexia The Rev Cecil Ellis will officiate with the Riddle Funeral Home in charge Survivors include two daughters five sons two brothers and three sisters and nine grandchildren Pallbearers include W R Radford Charles Turner J H Neese Charles Ingram Thurman Kerry Billy Beaver John C Tucker 61 of Dallas and longtime Wor tham resident died Sunday in a Dallas Veterans Hospital Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery Dallas Survivors include his wife Lola M Tucker one son Robert C Tucker three brothers and two sisters and two grandchildren
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First’ Methodist
Mexia
Ethel L. Bradshaw
Mexia City
Corsicana Hospital
Sioux City
Iowa
Bradshaw
First Methodist Church of
Cecil Ellis
Mexia First Methodist Church
Withi Riddle Funeral Home
C. G. Prather
John Henry
Arcanum
Ohio
Byron Bradshaw
Jacksonville
Fla
Orville Lee Bradshaw
Alamogordo
Clifford A. Bradshaw
San Diego
Calif
Robert P. Bradshaw
Lubbock
Jackie N. Bradshaw
Lake Jackson
California
W. R. Radford
Charles
Turner
J. H. Neese
Charles O'Clock
Tyler Street
Ingram
Thurman Kerry
Methodist Church
Dallas
Billy Beaver
John C. Tucker
Wortham
Grove Hill Cemetery
Tucker
Veterans’ Hospital
Jeff Tucker
Lewis M. Stuckey
Tyler Street Methodist Church
Lamar and Smith Funeral Home
Lola M. Tucker
Robert C.,tucker
Walter Tucker
Fabens
R. L. Tucker
Jim Tucker
Houston
Annie Cleere
Mart
A. C. Montandon
Austin
American car design condemned as vulgar and monotonous
UPI reports Henry Cheyfuss, designer, criticizes American automobiles as vulgar and dull likening them to a brassy blonde. In Berlin, Soviet writer Alexander Tshevshivili fled to West Berlin from East Berlin amid an authors conference, per B Z newspaper.
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London
UPI
U.si
Henry, Cheyfuss
Scope
West Berlin
Berlin
Alexander Tshevshivili
B. Z
Tshevshivili
East Berlin
Mexia Area Forecast Sees Rain This Afternoon
Partly cloudy conditions give way to occasional rain this afternoon and tonight for Mexia and North Central Texas. Tonight’s low around 43, tomorrow’s high near 58. Last night’s low was 45, yesterday’s high 56. Mexia recorded two tenths inch of rain.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Mexia
Texas
Thanksgiving Holiday Toll Tops 560 Lives Across Nation
United Press International reports 560 deaths during the four day Thanksgiving period due to traffic fires plane crashes and accidents. New York leads traffic fatalities with 28 while Rhode Island Nevada and Alaska report perfect road records. A severe storm spread snow sleet and record cold from the Southwest to the East causing highway closures and rescues.
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lIn
New York
Alabama
California
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Rhode Island
Nevada
Alaska
National Safety Council
Mountainburg
Ark
Salt Lake City
Utah
Midwest
Rochester
N. Y
International Falls
Minn
Gulf States
Hi Nabor Olin Miller
A fragmented line of text mentions Nabor Olin Miller and suggests societal contrasts. The readable portions imply a reflection on knowledge of how others live and public suspicion. No clear event or date is present.
Bounty on Skunks in Marin County Fails to Pay Off
Marin County offered a one dollar bounty for skunk and raccoon tails to curb pests. After 38 tails were collected, Agricultural Commissioner Thomas W. Peryam questioned the program’s value as claimants repeatedly visited his office with tails and the office was blocked at times.
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San Rafael
Calif
UPI
Marin County
Thomas W. Peryam
Tass Blasts French Elections as Unjust System
The Soviet news agency Tass condemned the French elections, saying the Communist party was crushed by an unjust anti democratic system. It framed the defeat as a result of flaws in France s electoral structure.
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Moscow
UPD
Tass
Communist Party
Limestone County Native Buried in New Mexico
Mrs. Mertie Bailey 63 of Portales formerly of Limestone County died Thursday in a Portales hospital. Final rites held Saturday in Portales with burial at Mission Garden of Memories, Clovis. Survived by three sons Herman Bailey Justin Wilson Bailey Washington DC Clifton Bailey Carlsbad NM. four sisters. one brother. six grandchildren.
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Portales
New Mexico
Mertie Bailey
Limestone County
Mission Garden of Memories
Clovis
N. M
Bailey
Horn Hill
D. H. Eacly
Charlie Bailey
Herman Bailey
Justin
Wilson Bailey
Washington, D. C
Clifton Bailey
Carlsbad
O. D. Vickers
Grady Wakefield
Denver Cox
Alamogordo
Clyde Lewis
Tehuacana
Leonard Eady l
Frankfurter Improves After Mild Heart Trouble
Justice Felix Frankfurter made good progress in recovery from a mild heart disturbance at George Washington University Hospital. Doctors said he was resting comfortably and that there had been no negative changes, with indications of improvement.
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