Bike parade! Due to a change in rules, adults may now enter the patriotic bicycle parade Friday, announces Mrs. Max Simpson, in charge of that portion of the special day-long slate of July 4 activities. Only riders aged 14 or under will be eligible for the $25 savings bond to be awarded the winner of the contest, however. Mrs. Simpson noted that the change was made to encourage all residents, no matter what age, to participate in the event.
Atnericos Temperatures AUDITORIUM be provided for all in attendance. A bicycle parade from the courthouse square to Getzendaner Memorial Park will begin at 10 a.m. and is open to all residents of the city. Riders 14 years of age and under will compete for a $25 U.S. Savings Bond, with the prize to go to the bicycle best decorated in a patriotic theme.
Prior to the rededication, the Southwestern Assemblies of God College brass ensemble at 10:45 a.m. will present several patriotic selections at the auditorium. Marvin E. Singleton Jr. will serve as master of ceremonies at the 11 a.m.
dedication with Mayor W. H. Larkin slated to give the welcoming address. Mrs. Vera Taylor will give the invocation with lyrics and music by Mrs.
Mary Lou Cooke Burkett. Lynn Griffith will introduce the special guests with Dr. Connally to be introduced by Mrs. Josephine Ruskin. The Rev.
John McCord, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, will close the ceremony with the benediction. An old-fashioned family picnic will follow the rededication at 12 noon. Residents are asked to bring their own basket lunches, although limited concessions will be available. service clubs of Waxahachie will then invite all residents to wet their whistles and curl their tongues for the 1:30 p.m. seed-spitting contest and watermelon feast.
The clubs will provide the watermelons. At 2 p.m., the Theater Group will present, the Good Old Days of inside the historical auditorium. The group is comprised of local residents and members of the Waxahachie High School Junior Historians. Director of the Community Development Craig Johnson reminds local residents there will be no smoking inside the building. Many games and events are scheduled for the remainder of the afternoon under the sponsorship of the local YMCA.
The games will begin at 2:45 p.m. and are open to the public. Patriotic colors will fill the sky over the park when red, white and blue balloons filled with helium are released to see which one will travel the greatest distance. Participating individuals will have their names attached to the balloons inside plastic bags. A note inside each balloon will ask the persons finding it to return the slip of paper to the Waxahachie YMCA with thier names, addresses, dates and approximate locations where the balloons were found.
No Vinton street CANONSBURG, Pa. (UPI) Singer Bobby Vinton will have to look elsewhere for someone to name a street after him The borough council in this southwestern Pennsylvania community has bowed to public pressure. Residents of Smith Street appeared before the council and asked for time to air their opposition to the name chapge. A petition opposing the change was given to council president Joseph Cavasina. 0 (Continued from Page One) Two nets will be erected in the park for volleyball players and a match, similar to miniature golf, will be held.
Other events will include sack races, potato relays and tugs of war. TTiose with the delicate touch might like to try their luck at the egg toss, where a yolk in the hand always bows down to the unbroken egg. If raw eggs are not appealing, residents might want to opt for frisbee golf, dodge ball and the trampoline program. 8 United Prass Intarnatlonal City HI Lo Pep Albuquerque pc 91 65 39 Asheville 85 60 Atlanta pc 8166 Birmingham pc 8869 97 Boston 78 69 Charleston Cc 86 72 Charlotte 87 66 Cheyenne pc 85 57 Chicago 8478 Cleveland pc 86 64 Columbus pc 91 65 Dallas pc 91 72 44 Denver 92 62 Des Moines i 8971 Detroit 8868 El Paso pc 9S65 Hartford 7070 Honolulu 86 74 Houston 86 76 .21 litdianapolls 9164 Jackson Miss PC 91 72 Jacksonville 8766 Kansas City hz 91 72 Las Vegas 10172 Little Hock pc 94 71 Los Angeles 80 60 Louisville pc 92 69 Memphis pc 9373 Miami Beach pc 8175 .02 Milwaukee pc 87 72 Minneapolis pc 8977 Nashville pc 92 70 New Orleans 86 71 53 New York pc 8773 Oklahoma CityPC 88 69 01 Omaha 91 65 Philadelphia 89 70 Phoenix 105 85 Pittsburgh pc 85 64 Portland Me 76 59 Portland Ore cy 68 56 Providence 81 64 St. Louis hz 90 68 Salt Lake CityPC 97 69 San Diego pc 73 62 San Francisco pc 6052 San Juan pc 89 80 Seattle 70 54 02 Spokane 86 59 Tampa 8971 Washington pc 91 72 Wichita pc 86 68 4-H youths taught calf roping skill Two Ellis County 4-H Club youths attended the recent state 4-H calf roping school in Stephenville.
They are Robert Goodloe of Red Oak and Curtis Gage of Italy. Purpose of the school was to teach the youths the basic fundamentals of calf roping. Other things taught were proper care of the roping horse, selecting ropes, hauling a roping horse and roping equipment. Each participant was given individual instruction on proper handling techniques of a rope, throwing a rope and flanking and tying a calf. It was stated that the two county youths will help in teaching other the fundamentals of calf roping at a 4-H roping school to be held in Ellis County during August.
Area youths interested in attending the school should contact the county extension office in the county courthouse, it was announced today. The school will be open to any youth from the ages of 9 to 19 regardless of race, color, creed or, national origin. i PROTEST Washington, citizens of India living in the United States gathered in front of the Embassy of India and placed petitions protesting steps by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to jail hundreds of political dissenters, restrict the rights of Indian citizens and censure the Indian press. Indians bury dead in private OGLALA, S.D. (UPI) The mourning Indians were determined to bury their dead in private.
They took Joseph Stuntz, 24, to his grave Wednesday and, at gunpoint, turned away newsmen trying to cover the event near Oglala. There also were unconfirmed reports the Indians had confiscated television film. Stuntz, of Washington state, was killed in a gunfight that broke out following what authorities called the ambush- execution of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. The agents were shot to death as they attempted to serve a warrant at a house in this village on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation. FBI sources said the agency had given up searching the gully cut 3,000 square mile reservation for 16 men they believed were involved in the slayings.
An armored personnel carrier was removed from the village of Pine Ridge Tuesday night. An FBI spokesman in Washington said the bureau was not pulling out of the reservation but was shifting some of its force to Rushville, about 20 miles to the south. He said FBI personnel had been working a building where the temperature reached 109 degrees. They moved them down the road. We were not pulling Hobart Horse, one of the four Indians named in the warrants the slain agents were trying to serve, turned himself in to federal authorities at Rapid City, S.D., Tuesday.
One of the four wanted for assault and kidnaping on the reservation is now still at large Theodore Eagle, the man Coler and Williams were looking for when they came to Oglala. Kendell Cumming, Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent at Pine Ridge, responding angrily to charges he hobbled the FBI in its battle last' Thursday with the Indians. Groner Morton 315 W. REEVES New Car Sales Used Car Sales lm Jefferson) 7 T. MORTON JR.
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Between races, driver Robert J. Bommarito of Huntington Beach, loans his car to Air Force recruiters for use as a display promoting jobs for the military. Rains stop but fields now in 2 states Deaths and Funerals Grimmett services conducted MANSFIELD Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Mathis Grimmett, 96, were held today in the First Baptist Church of Mansfield. Burial was in Mansfield Cemetery under the direction of Blessing-Mclnnis Funeral Home.
Mrs. Grimmett was born Jan. 5, 1879, at Cleburne. She died Tuesday at Mansfield. Survivors include 4 daughters, Mrs.
Maude McVean of Mansfield and formerly of Waxahachie, Mrs. Jewell Rawdon and Mrs. Pearl Rawdon, both of Mansfield, and Mrs. Lola Mae Gaither of Fort Worth; a sister, Mrs. Birtie McCoy of Broken Arrow, 5 grandchildren, 13 grandchildren and 1 great- great-grandchild.
FARGO, N.D. (UPI) The rains have stopped, but the bountiful Red River Valley is under water and even veteran farmers say they remember when seen worse. More than a foot of rain fell in the agricultural region of Minnesota and North Dakota during the past week, turning fields into forcing perons from their homes and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and crop losses. is the worst ever said Frank Thompson, 61, of Baker, Minn. Thompson has only a few dry acres left of a 350-acre potato crop he planted this spring.
a hell of a lot he said. even get to town. The bridges are all washed Many roads were washed out or submerged by floodwaters and persons able to tour the hardest hit areas by air described chains of lakes where fields should be. of the farmland is one big ocean with white caps on farm fields under two or three feet of a spokesman for the Minnesota Agriculture Department said. farmers harvest a North Dakota Gov.
Arthur Link and Minnesota Gov. Wendell Anderson have toured the flooded areas and both said they would ask President Ford to designate the hardest hit counties as disaster areas. told me they lived in the valley all their lives and never saw such Link said. Agricultural officials were Burglars take two saddles, four blankets More than a dozen items were reported stolen Wednesday in the burglary of a horse trailer at the James Turner residence in Garrett, county officials said today. Items missing include two saddles, four blankets and pads, four bridles, four nylon lead ropes and two pairs of bull- riding spurs, reports list.
Officers said someone forced their way into the trailer within the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday while it was parked at the Turner house. No suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident. BRIDES WHY NOT HA VF THF BF ST IN WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY 14 Color Phoios TAKEN AT YOUR Wf ODIN SEL CT ROM 25 10 PROui 69 TOT A I COST We h.ive Timited open, irst Come Basis On ly HURRY OF IT EXPIRE SOON 311 PHOTOGRAPHE RS co estimating sugar beet losses in the valley, often called the and its No.
1 sugar beet producer, at $120 million, which was expected boost the price of sugar. Damage to potatoes, wheat, com, rye, sunflower seeds and beans in about eight Minnesota counties and seven North Dakota counties was expected to push the total crop loss figure to several hundred million dollars. In the aftermath, farmers and other residents were sand- Six youths in state horse show Six Ellis County youths will compete at the state 4-H horse show in Fort Worth on July 2326, Bob Bailey, assistant county agent, disclosed today. He listed the youths as Chris Cole, Stephanie Watts, Debbie Langley, Debra Watts, Tammie Watts and Peggy Spalding. The group plus five other Ellis County ouths competed at the District IV 4-H horse show at Denton Saturday.
Chris Cole exhibited the champion gelding of the show and was sixth in the western pleasure and sixth in the western horsemanship class. Debbie Langley had the first place grade gelding and was third in the barrel race. Stephanie Watts exhibited the ninth place registered gelding and was second in the barrel race while Jackie Estes had the eighth place grade mare. Joni Crouch exhibited the fourth place grade mare, Jeana Lee Wakeland showed the fourth place registered mare, Bobbie Sue Patrick showed the fourth place gelding, and Tammie Watts was sixth in reining. Other exhibitors were Peggy Spalding, Kim Glenn and Kaysie Atkinson.
bagging and building dikes in an effort to save what was left. The Maple, Sheyenne and Red rivers were expected to crest today, with the Red reaching 32.5 feet here, 15.5 feet above flood stage. Clean Up America For Our 200th Birthday johnny Cantaloupe 59 ea. Correction of Wednesday, July 2, ad. W-.
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