Stamford American and The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1964 Page: 1 of 14
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AND THE-STAMFORD LEADER
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BRAKE SERVICE
WHEEL ALIGNMENT
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Second!
Basketball Chase
The- Stamford Bulldoes found
themselves ia second nlace
drain when the du«t settled on
HD t m
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Chase with Corporation
night. - *
Ballinger’* Bearcats Vere the
$**
Wednesday morning.
- ... ------- ----— Plan* for a cd¢ra
''J'WTffflS In ffte seanm finale. ierfsale Were announced
♦he Bulldogs rung up a 7*85
tHctorv which left them with a
. fit -aarpougb-a. so .that aU. ha
ductlble.
The corporation will he per-
dlrectors to serve as original solved, any unused funds would
tual, 'but if U were ever dtiw **• starting opt to make
It was the second runner-up
finish for the Bulldogs dtiHni
the 196J-S4 sport* season. Thev
finished in a ♦hcee-wav tie for
- second in the football chase dur-
ing the 1963 searon.
, The Bulldogs, trok the lead
from the start Friday night amt
never trailed, at Teach Don
Edwards substituted liberally
throughout the game.
Roger Hughes’ 17 poln‘s top-
ped the winners, Roy Peterson
scored 19 for Ballinger.
Stamford also won the B
no
These 10 athletes were the front line troops in Stamford’* recently- completed
basketball season in whfch the Bulldojrs posted a 7-3 league marts and took sec-
ond place in the district. Around the semi-circle left to right are Harold Bred-
thauer, Mark Holcomb. Kenneth Cumpton.David Grissom. Roger Hughes, Max
Jones, Stephen Haterius, Randy Samuels, Don Taylor and Larry Jones.
'■ ‘ —Photo by Blackstock Studio
with Jimmy Doan
winners with 11
Accidental Sounding Causes Concern—
Civil Defense Officials Warn
Telephoners After Siren Alert
game 52-4!
peeing the
points. '
Winters knocked off the An«nn
Tiger* in the lest game of the
kcamm. but the Tigers still
reigned as dls'nct champs with
a 9-1 mark. Haskell eomp'led a
5-5 mark for third pljce, Win-
ers was 4-6 and finished four h.
Hamlin's 3-7 and Ballinger'*
?-S marks earned fifth and rixth
places respectively.
By VERN STEWART » 2. At least six false fire
Public reaction to accidental alarms were tripped when M>e
sounding cf the civil defense
siren on Feb 12 is causing con-
cern among Standard civil de-
fense officials.
The giant warning siren
Tnountcd atop the high school
gvmnaslunt was ccridentallv set
Pif by ,-n fault In the mechan-
ism's wiring. ’
The liouiuh waned ic* el v set
off a wove of -all* to the fire
department. police department,
tliidio Wolion KDWT Kinney
ohooe caller* dialed the num-
ber St ritv hall which is used to
report fires only.
3. Telephones at the radio
•tation were Ued up so that the
tire deoartment couldn't gel
word tothc station so the an-
nouncer could explain that there
fjas no danger and that Utc
tallv
4. Everyone
at the flrp *♦*-
Funeral Home and to the home !,on 'T'w *» *»“** «“***•
of Henrv Kino——»n emergency
telephone numbers.
Thejtctlon on ihe part of per-
ron* making the telcDhone calls
caused, these xttunttBHsT
1 All emergency telephones
used to coordinate the local
c'vjl demise effort were Ued
up and thus put out of service
by the calls from inquiring ett-
i/ens
ing the telephone that thev
wouldn't have been able to per-
form t^eir assigned duties if
a true emergency had occured.
To too off the entire situation
the Mgnal sounded bv the -uiiltv
able anytime there is threaten-
ing weather or other impending
danger. The station will be in
direct contact with the civil de-
fense officials. The best wav to
keep posted on storm condi-
tions after a siren alert has been
sounded i* to listen to the Stam-
ford rad<o station, wh'ch will
he on the air during such
e’ucrgcBcIo* even if it eufnea
after regular broadcast hours
Tim best wav to kilt Stam-
ford’s mil defense wnmtng sys-
tem i« to try to telephone the
fire station or radio station
w*>eu one hoars the warning
signal.
During the entire storm sea-
•om 1 as* year, the warning
siren dkl not bnvc to be sound
siren was not a warning den-djed a single timfe. U weather
at all, but rather the ''iill-rlcar."
A storm warning signal is *
ris'n® and falling sound pro. (he siren, civil defense officials
“ and the entire system is call-
ed into duty several times.
uoo* In eveles. this might be
one of these bad years when
Lofton Pickin’
duped bv * he siren. On F«b. 12
the siren blew in a lone steadv
blast wMrh is used tn times of
c*nerernmv to notify the puhlic
♦hat all denger is past.
»♦
•he clv‘1 d-fen^e waning svs- T.if»nS lyfldies Nflrht
'em. bo'h r-xDres*e<J dcm> con-
cern over the public’s reaction
♦he accidental siren blast
which lasted for about eight
minutes.
The siren sound rnme while
the Skies were hcavilv overcast
a I'ght rsinshower was In
storm season ap-
•.’•n«/-htnff, the civil defense of-
fielals were upset bv Ihe obvious
Indication that a sizable portion
| ct the population has forgotten
I what the warping sounds reran,
and what to do If and when they
hear the warning.
Radio Station KMVT wPl
broadcast nil information avail-
Lowell E. Wofford, 47
Dies Monday in,Hospital
i*
Funeral service^ were con-
ducted Tuesday afternoon in
Orient Street Church ot Christ
for Lowell E. Wofford. 47. a
na lve of Jones County who was
active in Stamford business
Circles.
Mr. Wofford died Monday if
4: It a.m. in Stamford Memorial
Hr had been ill for the past
three weekr and had. been In
falling‘WaTth for the na«* vear.
At the time of his death he was
owner of Wofford Motor Co. m
£ amford. _________
He had been actly^ in the
grain elevator business, truck-
lug and had owned service
.stations in Stamford and Rule
friar to purchjtging the Chrys-
lei-Plymouth agency m 1982
A member dime Orient Street
Cliurch of dtriri. Mr. Wofford
was «crvl*ir as a deacon io
1935. " -
J. B. Lamb, minister of the
Orient Street Church of Christ
olfieixted at the funcrR ser-
vices. Burial was in Highland
Memorial Cemctary under di-
rcction of Kinney Funeral Homo.
Survivor* Include his wife of
Stamford: one son, Dale of
Stamford: hi* parents, Mr. aud
Mr*. J. J. Wofford of Stam-
ford; one slater. Mr* R. O.
Gibson of SUmfavd; two hraih-- J5?.: --------
No BUs were returned in the
(ollowtnc cases:
era. J, J. Wofford of Blythe/
Calif., Vernon Wofford of Stam-
ford and two grandchildren.
Pallbearers were elder* and
deacons of the Orient Street
Church of Christ ,
NEW MINISTER
-crrelation ^at the time
of hi* death He also was iw| Jim Strait formerly of Ra'llff
1 member of Stamford Liana’ City, Okla , ia the new minister
Club He gfas born Jan. 28. | of the Church of Christ at Asper-
lif Stamford and married Betty moot He la a graduate of Abb
i wiiiici uf Stamford Nov. t, | lene Christian College.
“The Cot‘on Picker* “ a ew-
criv grouT) from Rule
Provided the e**»«et*|e-»ent for
s Lions Club ladle* o'rbt Tucs-
rlav evening at the Cliff Hottae
Restaurant. >
Seven housewives who gained
rcg'onxl prorninenoo h\> »»w nr
Ing or the "'♦arch of Dime* T-'e-
thon In Abilene apo**rcd after
the meal was served and ure-
*ented their version cf several
songs. Thev alao imked fun at
-everal Lions and wive* pre-
sent.
Member? of the croup ar**
Mrs. James IJale. Mr*. Jack
Vi’ilcox, Mrs. Malcolm Herten-
♦Mirger. Mrs. Sam Turner. Mrs.
Richard Mathias. Mr*. B»*ddv
Bishop artd Mr*. Speedy Smith.
Person/* Are
Indicted by Jury
Five presons were Indicted for
fekmv offense* by a 104th Dis-
trict Court grand lury during a
onc-day session Feb. 1£.
Indicted were:
Jhn P Logsdon. 54. of AM-
lene. John A. Luna. 33, of Abi-
lene and John Albert lAindgrcn
ef. J ne* Countv. for second of-
fense driving while intoxteated.
Grady C. Lewis, aae and ad-
dress not listed, ca'tte theft.
Aubrey McNabb. 20, of Hous-
John Lopes, check swindling.
Hershel Rober son, Weather-
ford, theft hy fnlao jprrti xi Carl
>rd. bufgl
Pruitt, Stem ford.
rgUry.
Mr and Mi 3. Lari Kcese went
to Dallas F’ /Jay, and. on to
Greenville where they vl*Prl
with Mr and Mrs. Fey Roto-
mers. They »| ?r.t the weekend
tktth their acr., Stanley ar.d
family in Doiuaoo.
Trials Are Set
Monday for Six
Killing Suspects
—Six local yo*»*ha chrvged with
bca‘’ig a 55-vear-old farm
worker to death in a cotton vln
labor camp in November lPCI
will go on trial at 9 a.m. Mon-
oar lit J»*d“e Owen Thomas'
104th Dlctrict Court.
"ascs of all siA dclendcrta
_ of 'be
lion. No in<Prn*ion h*s
hc'-n viven a* to wh»eh of the
(Icfcodgnts will bo tried first.
Defendants are Jessie Cedilla
17; Selcdonto Delgado. 18; Ray-
mond Cedillo, 17: Joe Lrne*. 17;
John Macins, 15 and Rs.vmon
Gallardo, 18. Macias Is from
Sagerion and the others are
from SUmford.
The youths are charged in the
beafitfg death of Antonio Meza,
55. who died Nov. 10 In tabor
(-.imp headquarters of Farmers
Co-op Gin.
Old Glory MOD
Drive Near End
The annual March of Dime*
Drive has about been complet-
ed in the Old Glory community
The drive this year has been
largely In the hands of teen-
agers. Judy White la County
TAP chairman and Carnlvn Kin-
der ia director for the Old Glory
community!
On Wednesday. Feb. 12. Mrs
Bernice White aud Judy Whit 4
hosted a toffee for the March of
Dimes In their home. They were
assisted by members of the Old
Glory 4-H girls and Other ladies
•f the community.
Amount collected thus far ha*
been $127.25.
There’s still time for contri-
butions to this most worthy
cauae. Please help the MOD.
Incorporators were namOd when
4$ bu I sines A knd' civle-^fcidor*
\oted ♦© organize the corpor-
ation.
The Industrial Foundation will
have a 8100,000 capital base.
Stock will be sold locally tor
$100 per share and eqch stock-
holder will have one vote in the
corporation regardless of the
number of shares he may own.
The concentrated s'.ock sale
drive will have a goal of $25,00(1
Remainder to the 8100,000 will
raised in sale of revenue bonds
when an industrial prospect
needs financing.
Charter will lie fur a non-pro-
They Call It
Benefit Basketball
Young men are always ready
and old men .sometimes forget
their limits'ion*.
With this adage to guide them,
the senior boys will play the
men faculty members in a liene-
fit basketball game . Thursday
night at Bulldog Gymnasium.
Admission of 50 cents per pec-
*on will go to the senior class
The game will begin at 7:30
p,m. ----:—_—L——«*_
Faculty members claim they
have 'never come out on the
short end ofthe score in one of
these annual -events.
Strategy of the teacher* is ex-
pected fo Involve extremely lib-
eral substitution.
County Meeting
On Cotton Set
There Will be a meetlnv on
prc-emergvncv weed control in
cotton, insert control, mechani-
cal harvesting and ginning for
grade, cotton disease* and other
cul urul Mrnctice* relating bo
cotton production In the county
agent's office feb 25.
The inerting will begin a' 1:30
n.m'. and will bo presented b>
Fred Elliott, cotton work apecia-
flat; B. G. Reeve* cotton gln-
ing and mechanization specia-
list and Dr. R. W. Berry, urea
plant pathologist. aU from the
Texan A&M University Exten-
sion Service.
All cotton farmers and other*
Interested arc Invited to atttend
he handed ever to City of Stam-
— „ mrr 1
Bird. Attorney H. G7 AH«rcvstT,,rf ‘,,r n<^ indu*Tfy.Ti Chair-
morcc's Industrial committee.
Jr., explained that such a clause
In" the charier 1*
necessary «
erder to make stock tax deducti-
ble.
Named as directors and In
corpora 'r.rs wtM-e A. M. G.
Swenaon: H. O. Andrews. W. T.
Stovall, Iterachd. Kelley, A. C-
llumphrey, Russell Crownovcr,
Curtis Jolinson. L. E. Loveless
rnd Roland Kelley.
Herschel Kelley will head the
stock sale drive.
Johnson will *erve as chair-
man until the first stockholder*''
meeting.
Purpose of the corporation
will be to assure that tund* will
be available to finance buildings
and proper'y for industrial pros-
pects seeking to locate in Stam-
ford.
All money spent by the
Industrial Foundation will be
done so on a strictly business
h a s I *, with lease" contracts
rigred before any f I n a n c la 1
prrangem'-nt* are made. No
now industries will receive gift
fundk for any reason.
Discussions at meetings of the
Industrial group so far have
brought. - out that those,
dual* and firms that would
benefit meat directly from In-
dustrial expansion here will be
looked to lor a large portion of
Ihe 825.0U0. But everyone in the
community will benefit indirect-
ly because Industrial develop-
ment would make for general
improvement {in the com-
munity.
A. C. Humphrey, a member
of the ilmancc subcommittee
'hat leedinmended setting up
the cerprk-adon With *25.000 in
* — - ^AlA i _ Mr-,** • ..
n present
tor the Wednesday morning
meeting that before they voted
man fohnson said.
“We will first look after what
Industry we already have here
land will not try in bring in new
ones that will conflict with
those we already havg. ,
Trip to Mexico
Ends in Arrest
Alton Boat, 21. of Btamford
Is in Jones County Jail at An-
um where- he face* charges of
car theft in connection with a
trip to Ciudad Afuna, Mexico
lust weekend.
West is charged w«th theft
of an auto from Itargua Used
Car, lot on the Anson Highway
which wxs allegedly taketf Fri-
day night.
He was 0oprrhended and re-
turned to Jones County Mon-
day afternoon, when the theft
charges were filed.
New Lions Club
Being Organized
For Rule Area :
A Lions Chib at Rule ia be'ng
organized under sponsorship of
Hit- StrmliuJ Uons Cluti.
Nine members of the Stam-
ford ”lub went to il'ijc Mnnd«\
night and met with 15 ci tzens ot
'be Rule area. The Rule resi-
dent* voted to organize a Uons
Club and named Tom Kutch,
P'Fsident and Ed Fouts as sec-
retary. All 15 men from Rule
present at the meeting were
Mgoed as charter member*
A second meeting will be held
next week, when the remainder
of the club'* charier members
will be atgned.
Members of the Stamford
Lions Club who made the trio
to Rule were Charles Henry. H.
H. Corley, F. N. Bailey, Don
Fo»ter L. G. Mocr*. W, II.
Trice, D. T. Kori*. Lawrence
Crider and BUI Lonttley.
Also attending the mootin'!
were Tom Kirkland, state sec-
retary; Charles Davis, district
governor fom Wtehi'a Falls
Pete Shot well and G. H. f Jpnan.
Iioth of Abilene and L. h. Mc-
Bride and L C. Clifton both of
Hamlin.
deep’
Uttie money will ba ,
lo their p«h«, for Ihol
u*nvv 1, wi.-,*>- «sMsa.fM*nr.w* Vet..v».y e Jno a
portion of the stock.
sure that fund* are made avail-
able to provide necessary (acil-
Tbe-4nd>w4ri»KF.mn*t«tion wHl
work with the Chamlwr of Comi
The Chamber group wtU still
hflYfc the responsibility for JJTO-
rnoting new industry, wrl b the
Foundation waiting In the back-
ground to help any industry,
that exnrcsaea an interest In
Stamford.
Owvetors will meet - Monday
morning to map Addi tonal plans
for the financial dri\e.
Motherly Concern—
The proud mother In content to let her twin lamba
keep the foreground to themselves, but the wants
to be sure they don’t get too far away. M’ke Jones
displays the lambs for the camera’s benefit. The
second-year FFA student says heiPnjoys his woric
wjth sheep best. He also has cattlA swine and hor-
ses as FFA fttoirvu. Additional FFA ataak* and
pictures are In Section B.
Linda Marie Bohannan
Dies in Houston Hospital
Funeral services will be con-
ductvd Thi.i-. .i\ at 2 p. m. In
the Assembly of God Church
for Linda Marie ilohannan, 14,
who died Tuesday in a Hqmioa
hospital following a long IHnesv
She had been icriouslv ill In
the Houstr.n ho*pf*al for thf*
past two weeks and I ad suffered
from leukemia
Rev. A. R. Mono, pastor of
the Stamford Assembly of God
Church, will officiate, a**i«t< 4
by Rev. D. A. Watson, frrmi-c
pastor of the chuirh who snw
lives at Mor on.
Burial will be Highland Memo-
rial Cemetery under direct*mi
of Kinney Funerol Hunt.,
Born May S. 194** la Stamford
Linda Marie had lived here all
Survivor* include hrr parent*.
Mr. and Mrs. W E. Bohannon
uf S*amford; two sister*. Joy
Vvonnc, and Ruby Aim'of the
hnmb and iter grandpaicnts. Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie Fuxtnn of
Stamford. t *
Lions Set Auction
Sale Here Saturday
Stamford Lions Club will
*|4inror a public auction Satur-
day. beginning at 1:80 p m. at
138 We«1 McHarg.
All kind* of new ard kNi
meiThandiae will be auctioned
off bv auctioneer* cot. Joe Lim-
ber Ige. She was a member of' raster and Col. Bill Uenn's. The
the Assembly of God t hurch She
attended reboot here until *b>Mit
twr years ago when the dleea**
Uena are arcepthig donation*
of new and used merefcandi'c*.
or will sell any sueh .norchan-
NTINE
Baptist Sweethearts—
,' v . . S”*. i *■ i • u * ***. v L M ■■ ' f t l«
H«v. Jack Southerland crowns Beatrice McCoy as queen while, King Larry
Jones looks on..Activities took place.at the annual Sweetheart Banquet at
First .Baptist Church Saturday Night. .—- —Photo by Rector Studio
made school attendance Impm-1 use on a commission basis,
vible. j I'roeeed# from the aaV? wUi fo
---------------1 'or equipment at Stamford
set • * j Mr-mortal Hospital and for other
IVllSSlOnarV IS community improvement pro>
" lerta.
Guest Speaker at
Church’s Banquet
"Our World TM*v" was the
♦oolc for David Gatewood's talk
when he addressed the annual
banquet fer Jun'or hl*h rlnsaea
of Orient Street O irch of Christ
‘Friday night at the Cliff House
Restaurant. ’
The yrune missionary and **n-
dent at Abilene Christifn CoL
lege used Abrr.ham Lincoln n*
ar example of a life dedicated
to serving other*. Hr encourag-
ed class member* and their
guest* to set Utr'r goals high
and then be willing to moke
sacrifices to attain lho*< goa.s.
.Tbiuw of thr buyKjUfft yn
('moonlight and rcses.'' whicl.
was carried cul with gold moon-
shaped crescents and pink
roses. .
included on the program wa*
a piano solo 4 Valse-Impromp-
♦u" bv Genia Redding. T1»t
heme song, “Moonlight and
Rone*" was sung by a group
consist‘ne of Genia Redding
Mary Beth Fdaitfgy, f'«an Yonnf.
Vance Procter and Griffin High
Invocation was Riven bv Dus-
ter Redding and benediction bv
J. B. Lamb, who elan served a*
master of ceremonies. -
Johnny Massey, a junior stu-
dent at Stamford High School,
earned a place in tho Ail-State
Band by being Judged top bass
player hi Region II. The sun of
Mr and Mr*. J. L. Maaaey.
Johnny and fellow m«-mb#r* of -
the AU-State Band performed
(nr the Texas Music Kdocaigi -
State Convention held in Houa-
ton Feb. 6-8.
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