18 Dec 1962
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Newspaper
Mexia Daily News
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1962
Page
1
Readers share holiday wishes from Mexia families, detailing lists for Santa including toys like a farm set French mortar gun Ken dolls and trains. The letters mention multiple children ages four to seven along with requests for clothing, pets, and surprises, with families planning to leave cookies and milk.
A fragmentary note from LaWanda te Winn West Maem records a three year old requesting a big red wagon a talking Bugs Bunny a football and some clothes and shoes. The address listed is 208 West Milam.
Landowners in the Christmas Creek and Upper Navasota River watershed show interest in an upstream water conservation and flood prevention program offered by the Soil Conservation Service. A Prairie Hill school meeting moderated by Rufus Peoples of Tehuacana featured a panel including Dan Dove county judge elect Dick Long M J Spears and Logan Crews of the Soil Conservation Service.
Glenn Little and Althea Little were named Outstanding 4-H Club Boy and Girl for the year at the Limestone County Achievement Program held at Fort Parker State Park. The Gold Star Award requires youths over 14 with three years of club work.
Tommy Crutcher was named most valuable player on Texas Christian's football team at the annual Fort Worth dinner. Sonny Gibbs was named most conscientious player and Ben Nix the best downfield blocker. Thirty six lettersmen were announced with only eight seniors.
Funeral services for Warren Conner 62 a Limestone County native and former Mexia resident are scheduled Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Antioch Baptist Church with burial in Mexia Negro cemetery. The article notes John Stevens once credited for Panama Canal groundwork remarks on early project maladies.
Universal unveils two distinct year end films To Kill a Mockingbird and Freud Both offer craftsmanship and depth rather than light comedies Mockingbird adapts Harper Lee novel with Gregory Peck Mary Badham and Phillip Alford in lead roles while Freud explores psychological biographical territory with John Huston Montgomery Clift and Susannah York delivering standout performances The pair may not draw big box office but are worthy serious productions.
Mr and Mrs Jack McKenzie of Corpus Christi visited friends in Mexta Monday. Mrs L C Cooksey hosted weekend guests including her son and daughter in law L C Cooksey Jr Coy and Tommy of Angleton and daughter Ruby Kisling of Houston. The Choksey family held their Christmas dinner Sunday. Mrs Frank Beeson of Corsican is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J A James who will accompany her to Lake Chautes Louisiana for Christmas with Mr and Mrs Clifford Tate.
Gov. Price Daniel urged local peace officers in Austin to intensify enforcement during the holidays against excessive speeders and drivers who drink. The appeal targets safer roads amid seasonal travel.
The Limestone County School Board sold the Thornton Negro School grounds to Ron nie Jones with one half of the mineral rights reserved for the district. The board redefined Groesbeck District boundaries to include Oletha District. Two old county buses sold for 590 dollars. December expenses approved at 127.20 and Textbook Selection Committee named Melva Harvey and Mrs. W D Hancock.
Picola Wedgeworth is assigned homemaking texts while Leslie Matthews and Walter Cotton face algebra I TI and physics for Horace Shefield and B S Ellis Jr high schools in the Texas history program for seventh grade.
A mother Ethel Louise Stiffilmire and her 17 month old daughter Terry were killed in a car truck collision in Chambers County on Friday. A report from Beaumont AP notes the crash details remain under investigation.
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