14 Aug 1959
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Newspaper
Waco News Citizen
Location
Waco, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1959
Page
1
Local column extols Madison Clement as mayor potential, questions ethics of bank directors, and reflects on Waco leaders. It discusses traffic signs, lake growth, and new laws, plus parade of homes, city hall hours, and public safety efforts with Herbert Lanier.
The bulletin lists venues in downtown Waco and Austin showcasing defense and space related displays. It highlights Baylor projects including computer and nuclear counting devices and a natural history exhibit from the museum. Military missiles such as Honest John, Sidewinder, and Nike Ajax are shown from Fort Hood, Cannon AFB, and Fort Bliss.
The Fort Sam Houston Band will perform street concerts at 11 am 2 pm and 4 pm on Friday and Saturday in the 400 block of Austin. Baylor mingle wood bowl concert is Friday at 8 30 pm. An Army Recruiting educational exhibit and a scholarship fundraiser registration run all day at any DWU store for $495 in the name of anyone under 21.
District Senior Teenage League elimination round heats in Waco included teams from Victoria Grand Prairie Texas City and Airport Optimist of Houston with San Angelo and Celburne scheduled in the 6 pm match and Gatesville Neeley Inc of Waco in the 8 pm game. Final runoff matches to crown champions were set for today and tomorrow following a Roosevelt Hotel breakfast gathering as the event proceeds under single elimination.
Attorney George Nokes announced Lake Air Development Co will buy 243 acres west of the Heart O Texas Coliseum for a mixed use project. A 20 acre Bosque Blvd shopping center is planned with 600 new residents in middle and upper income brackets. Extension of Cobb Drive to Highway 6 is proposed as part of the bond program.
Baylor University offers an In Service Institute for high school and junior high science teachers starting Sept 17. The first year focuses on biology with NSF sponsorship and Baylor facilities. Dr. Fannie Hurst will teach. credits apply toward a Baylor master’s degree. Thirty teachers receive $50 tuition grants and travel allowances up to seven cents a mile.
A Federal Hearing Examiner ordered Wray Wible of Sherman, Texas, to pay 1966.73 in liquidated damages for underpaying 55 employees on a US government contract. Overtime owed to 16 workers at a Pottsboro rock crusher plant and 39 truck drivers serving the DenVen Dam and Lake Texoma area comprise the total.
You can own 4 new 1959 English Fords for only 200 dollars down and 45 dollars a month. See Bill Kemp and Marstaller Motors at 32000 Speight and Hiway 6, your Lincoln Mercury Edsel authorized dealer. Open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every night with Plaza contact numbers.
Two missiles with propellers were displayed on the detectives floor at city hall. They likely came from the National Guard Armory warehouse around July 4. Charges were filed against 17 year old Robert Charles Mueller of Route 3 in Justice Raymond Moromino's court by Assistant District Attorney Don Hall.
Texas Highway Department says Texas Engineering Service Company of Dallas won the FM 2491 job from Loop 242 east of Waco to Elk, a 5.4 mile stretch. Work begins around Aug 17, 1959 with 150 working days, flare and barrier signs to aid traffic. Walter E Ruff Sr, resident engineer in Waco, will oversee.
Thirteen teenagers attacked clerks at a 7 11 on South Lith and Clay Avenue using battery cables and blunt instruments. One clerk sustained severe head lacerations but stayed on the job after treatment. Nine suspects have been caught. probation officers seek to separate the group to break up the gang.
Freda arrived in Waco yesterday afternoon by air from Kodiak Alaska. She goes to the home of Miss Marie Cousins at 3501 Windsor Avenue. Miss Cousins sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs R E Templeton left Alaska by boat for Seattle and will drive to Waco. Templeton left Waco in 194% and plans to live near Waco. Freda will live in Texas with her new owners for a time.
Three ex-convicts, Greene, Hardy, and Ross, were returned to Centerville to face burglary and dope charges after a pursuit that traced morphine and needles to a Glenora Courts cabin in East Waco. Detectives Wiley Stem Sr. and Guy Akard led the investigation with local officers and State Ranger Johnny Krum assisting.
Madison Clement mayor of Waco has been elected director of First National Bank. Clement, partner-manager of Clement Grain Company in East Waco, serves on the city council since 1956 and chairs Grain Dealers Association. He also directs Texas Central Railroad and participates in Waco Rotary and Chamber of Commerce.
The U S Civil Service Commission announces exams for a plasterer at 2.19 dollars per hour and an assistant laundry superintendent at 2.24 dollars per hour for the Veterans Training Center in Temple. Information and applications available at the post office.
A rare offer for a single 1959 Lincoln Mercury or Edsel English Ford demonstrator. Buyers are told only one example remains for purchase with state taxes to be added next month.
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