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Betty WilsonCrownedSchool BeautyBetty Wilson was crowned All School Beauty at the LMHS beauty pageant Mar. 24. Betty was chosen from a group of 25 semi-finalists and ten finalists in the live contest.Other finalists were Pam Bi-nar, Pat Clements, Vicki Parker, Dorinda Ponder, Phyllis Rash.7 *.Alicia Stevens, Ronnie Stevens, Laurel Tuttoilmondo, and Patricia Villarreal.The Beauty Queen was honored in the finale with a dozen, red roses presented by littleMiss Ruth Anne Radler.All finalists will be featured in the yearbook.Anthony Sabatino was master of ceremonies.Entertainment included vocalsolos by Miss Katherine Baker and Harry Monych, a toe dance by Miss Gail Kennard, a humorous reading by Fred Zimmerman, a polka by Miss Sarah Bel-vin and Troy Green, and a tumbling act by girls in junior high physical education classes.Miss Sylvia Granberry was accompanist for the vocal numbers and Miss Patti Rogers provided background music.Judges were Rkhard. Little, Miss Betty Wright, and Mrs. Camille Nickels.Scout BanquetHeld At ChurchThe theme of the Blue and Gold Banquet of Cub Scout Pack 280 held at the First MethodistChurch was “The Parade of Presidents”.Rev. J. Heflin led the invocation. Following the dinner, Mrs.-Paul Bergan performed featsof magic to the enjoyment of all.Cubmaster Frank Bales introduced Mrs. A. Stevens and her new Den No. 5. The boys of this den are Steven Tholen, Pat Stripling, Greg Hathaway, Dan Gilliam, Jimmy Dobbie and Bruce Stevens.• . oAwards were received by the following Cubs; Gary Erwin,Richard Kissinger, Jerry Hark-rider, Ronnie Vyvial, Mike Wiggins, Eddie Barron, Jay Welch, Bobbie Proch, Lee Wilson, David Schnaufer.Matt Bales, George Siems, Chuck Andres, Walter Feigle, Mark Jud, Penny Pennington, John Stevens, Barry Bales, Randy Williamson, Ronnie Reesby. Steven Tholen, Pat Stripling, Hathaway, Don Gilliam and .Timmv Dobbie.GregNeighborhood Commissioner,gave the closing.I1Marjorie Hamilton Justice AndTwo Companions Are Arrested:•' -t •Another chapter in the bizzare life of the Southwest's most* • :notorious w6man, is being written this week with the aid of the*!La AAarque poiice department. ;-Alert La AAarque police Sunday night picked up a woman and her two companions. • *The woman was identified as Margie Lee Hamilton Fairris Rofc-inson-Zeglen Justice, sister of the notorious badmen, Raymond and Floyd Hamilton, and mother of a man who was executed in Oklahoma for killing a policeman and another man who is now serving a life term in Huntsville, and who had herself killed threemen.Players NamedNationalNew players on teams of the La Marque Little League, National League have been announced by team manager,s after a meeting held last Thursday night at the Bank of the Mainland.They are Hudler Moore Giants: .Jack Neuner, Donnie Schalk, Johnny Mitchell, Wayne Vyvial,Larry Bedard. David Mitchell and Ivan Kopec-key. Team managers are Richard Russell and Jack Neuner.Harvel Service Station Reds: John Bedford, Floyd Rose, David Bedford, Clay Givens, Leo Mc-Danial. Team managers are Jim Sheppard and Bill Ferguson.Carbide Cardinals: ShermanIrish, Frank Oldag, RodneyJones, Ray Reznick, Gerald Reed. Team managers are T. O.Youes and C. J. Muir.Kelso Braves: Mike Sparks, Sammy Farler, Tommy Romano, Jimmy Hayland, Johnny Harris, Charles Trahan. Team managers are Howard Ohlund andElvon Vidrine.Curtis Dodgers: Mark Skyiepal, Rip Hirsch, Timmy Pokluda, Richard Crabtree, Ronnie Stevenson, Jimmy Bratsen. Teammanagers are Don Kirkland and A. G. Hirsch.La Marque Pharmacy Pirates:Jerry Tullos, Billy Yeager, MikeGillaspia, Greg Mazzantini, Patrick Pesek, Blair Moore. Team manager is J. L. Ransom.There is a total of 35 boys signed on teams, according toElvon Vidrine, publicity chairman.Herman To Speak At NOMA MeetingNatalie Herman will presentthe program at the next meeting of the National Office Management Association, Galveston County Chapter, this evening at the Sea Horse Club, Galveston.The social hour will begin at G:30; followed by dinner at 7.The program on “Office Etiquette and Decorum” will start at 8.MEMBERS OF THE executive committee of Lamar PTA whohave served this year are, front row, left to right: AArs. Robert Smith, AArs. L. D. Ward, AArs. Nick Mazzantini, Ms. R. N. Barron, Mrs. Stoy Baucom, AArs. R. J. Fowles, president; Mrs. J. G. Welch, Mrs. W. H. Dunten Mrs. E. C. McDanald; back row, left to right: L. P. Warren, principal; Mrs. E. M. Werner, Mrs. H. J. Ober, AArs. J. S. Karbowski, Mrs. A. S. Rich, Mrs. J. H. Barrett and Mrs. James Paschel. Not present were Mrs. C. A. McLaren,Mrs. Earl Warren, Jr., Mrs. D. V. Yeager, Mrs. Vincent Guzzie,Mr. and Mrs. S. Jasinski, Mrs. J. Tamburine, Mrs. Floyd Rose, Mrs. A. Cantrell, Miss Norma Luedeman, and Mrs. C. K.Fleming.The men were two ex-convicts*! .. ■ j .»;•John Beeler, 46, who gave hisaddress as 15 Surf side Motel, and Samuel Cooper, 43, No.Crockett Courts, Galveston.Hearing for the trio will be heard in Justice of the Peace J. P. Reddell’s court at .2 p.m.Thursday. They are being heldin the La Marque citv tail, two in lieu of $10,000 bond and the third, Beeler on $15,000 bet on a narcotics andpossession charge.The story seems endless., asit continues to unfold.Texas Rangers and police both have a “hold” ..iQij them and in the event they rfiadbond here they would stillbe held for the other law agencies.Stop Near Wye . i~'''About 3 a.m. Sunday police officers Wayne Stroud, BillGassoway and Johnny .Qdomwere cruising near the Texasa - ei®£with defective headlights which was also occupying two lanes.When the car was stopped. Cooper threw a package uhdeifthe car. This was retrieved,and found to contain five marijuana cigarettes and an ounce of bulk marijunna.The officers recognized the two men as ex-convicts and tookthe three to the police stationwhere the car was searched.“The car had two pistols in the glove compartment,” said Police Chief H. G. Whitmire, “and about a hundred various automobile keys, burglary equipment including hammers, files, saws, drills, masking tape,'batteries, wires, some credit cards which didn’t belong to them,and some barbiturates. .Use Credit CardThe La Marque police immediately went to work with otherlaw agencies and Tuesday morning it was learned that one of the credit cards had been taken► f-from an automobile in Mindeh, La., and that mofe than in charges had been registered against it.They also had two sets of automobile licenses in their car, one from Texas and one from Louisiana. The Texas tags were identified as having been taken from a stolen automobile'lastyear.A charge will be filed in county court for the possessionof firearms, and it will be a felony because the state law provides for this charge for anyex-convict.The only occupant of the car who resisted arrest was a vicious Weimaraner dog, which was parolled to Dr. John Nolte, veterinarian.4Chief Whitmeyer said Cooper had just recently been releasedfrom the penitentiary on a marijuana offense.Magazine Feature The April Ture Police magazine, has a feature story aboutMargie Justice entitled “The Strange Life and Loves of Texas’ Kiss-of-Death Queen.”“She and her brothers came out of the West Dallas slums at a time when the nation’s economy was thinner than a pauper’spockelbook and the country’s morals were bankrupt,” themagazine story says, “It was the period of the gangster, the bank robber, the killer. A take-it-any-way-you-ean-get-it era.“It is doubtful that this kiss-of-death queen niche in the heirarchy of Southwestern bad-woraen will ever be determined, but not since the days of Cattle Annie and Little Breeches, Rose Cimarron and Belle Starr has a woman captured the imagination of the police and the public sis^______ . ^ vlt;(Continued on Classified Page)
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La Marque, Texas, US
Wed, Mar 28, 1962
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