Stamford American and The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1963 Page: 1 of 14
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Dog Vaccinations
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Efforts
7 By VERM STEWART
An alert ham radio
Hgty-xVfK*
operator
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have overcome language bar-
, fiers and iiitemjlUonAl comrruuv
lt StloriS ttlffic ulUr's to supply
tnedicine to a woman In Uru-
guay with a soi ious eye disease.
ft all began more than three
numthi ago on Dec. 11. Klva P,
Mooted
-video, Uruguay aimed her ania-
tuer radio transmitting .set to-
ward the United States and
called for s'Lions Club in this
Country to send some medicine
for Mrs. Joseflba Hernandez de
Curse 1, who suffers from glau-
coma.
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la his home at- 702 Vandcrb I
in Stamford, .picked up the
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ting the medicine and transfer-
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Or. David Ballard;
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vaccinations. Dogs will be
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ie“ vaccinations will, rumraototle* to.loom Uowrty
commodities for
v.77 -
be $2 each and the immunity
sgairfst rabies lasts about tote
year., • x
Arrest Clears
-Up 4 Break-ins
A 32-year-old Stamford man
has been charged . with four
biirglarics cpmmiiietf Lei e in rp-
v caL.ttceka^and police -have “re-
<WV£r"L“1W11 die merchan-
dise taken in the ci lines.
during the month of February.
This figure la- slightly larger
••bin that toe January and la
tl»e largest to date.
court h;f\
!!!!L‘l^L‘n!rt‘Me w,th * cr“ big aid. it U not unusual to nil*
leal f»iWill (ia»e mM eeflia apfout ot somr limi iw the end
With »nv mivpt- TV,,- nrX.,-1 . . .*0"T l,eTO* ■w ®* fOd
far less than the numbae secclv-
wlth any anawwXtliypsatouieit
dry spell and curtailment of
Rev. Southerland Starts
Mission Trip Wednesday.
t»f the month.
R. SJ. Palmer has been em-
ployed by the county to act n*
lupeni^or for tbu totdtidMiltoa- .•-
Orthese roods and he has five t{
employees. A building has been
rented at the northeast corner
of the square In Anson and the
_Bev. Jack Southerland, pas-
tor of the First BaptUt Church
will leave Dallas next Wcdnes-
r w a jmtr-
.4^§y °*» **»» nm leg'or a jour-
gsg^>aL453aaLi?gaa!« ***.*^«>
SB 'i wie%,
Tom:s Restaurant and Harrl-
son-Mic-kler Grain Co.
"W^W^hafsr "reedvwrd ftc
eluded
radio, record
ami'Japan.
He wTll he participating In the
liapUrt Mvav, LUe Move-
"i«il and will do evangelistic
items taken from the other two
estaUDshments.'
senior student at Baylor tTnl-ibcr^ foUr d*y* * month; 0*e
”U,W« ■n'urru BI nayinr Urll*
versity will flB the pglplt March f,r*t Wetlnesday and Thursday
%1 mill 111* fdlirllt a u a n#(
31 zss -v*|
Dr, Zanc Mason, professor of
history at- Ha rdtTr-Stmrn onr Uni
and Die fourth Wednesday and
Thursday of each month.
At present tlmrrlT rom*
J “ ‘ « sal Ulll-oi III limriM Uni* f'” *•»"» 9 ••
«waM«tewflour;-----------
■ nii'loitu A ....it 4 _. ... Aht <thu on 41 hr - - mllaarf totomod
lervTces on April f and will
prehch at the morning service
Apcft Adb -^tou-avoniwg sewtee
will be given by the choir.
■l£.yai. and the south will_bc!
.working in the Pltillipiiic IslandiJ2^
April
C)ub of Colonia, Uruguay.
After telling the club about
__ request for medicine, Mr.
Moore foliowpd through with the
project. He found out from C.
E. Bunk ley, total pharmacist.
norm
Where It All Started—
Norris Russell, left, and L. G. Moore are shown at Russell’s radio set where
the request for medicine was received.
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..——
the drug, phospholine loiilde,
TJie drug company wrote bark
stating that a prescription would
be necessary before the order
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OT fhe CntbnTa IJons Club;
it presented a problem, since it
was written in Spanish.
Mr. Moore took the letter to
"vai—fdafew
Elva de Testa, the woman in
Montevideo who first sent the
MV iTvuuaoai aT until t; til IT Ul Uvl I
could be filled! Moore Immedl- j hi*h school Spanish teacher
Mrs. J. N. WHson who trans-
lated it.
v ately wrote the president of th«
Colonia—Club MiuucaJing_____the,
necessary prescription.
“While waiting for the- an
Qoing back to the druggist
i-l for the medication, Moore
Bwtrc to this letter, I made in-; learned it u asn't in stock so
quiries of mg doctor to tteter-! there was more delay wlrtle the
mine if there were mcdlpal rra-1 phospholine iodide was ordered
sons for not sending the medi-
cine. He thought it was a won-
derful gesture on me claim
part," MOdre Sgyr:------------
The IAons Club president also
checked With .the Post Office
Department and was told thwt
the department had no regula-
tion prohibiting the shipment of
medicine to Uruguay.
Mow York City »up-
the Stimford Lions Cluh.
"We have received normally
the medicine sent by you. The
sick one in need of it ts now
bound by the same gratitude
to the international brotherhood
of the Lions which/ your club
has reaffirmed magnificently
Jn this opportunity,” wrote
Santiago Fernandez
secretary of the Colonia Lions
Club-
+-~ 'hr whatever form, even
without dealing with us person-, ford
flly. the members of the Lions
Stamford may be sore ______ ______________, ........
in this point of South America via his powerful radio set, none
m -vurrmry w r ‘ K6bTK<‘rTa^ ~a 'other
district court.
Stxui.ford police also reported
that six guns taken from Hus-
ton Hantaan* last Dec. 31. have
been found under a vacant
house.
t
H'n»c vacant house is owned by
- Th404ow.--GMe.eeru, totWr nf (»
seeing trip.*
Carson C. Huff
message for help. Mr. Russell,!110 B,r£*“i have been made in
the-Stamford ham who received connc< l on " ll*1 thi* **r*m<?- *-B<f
her message-, said he knew only
that her call letters are CX7AI*.
Mr. Russell has been a ham
radio operator lor the past four
wrote years. He has had convcrsa-
Ncvet, (iqn, with persons as far away
as Capetown, South Africa; Ja-
leave Dallas
Francisco. They will then Jour-
ney to Manila for a two-day
orientation period before start
tog work in the field.
two Baptist .churches in that
area. He will work through an
inierpieter.
Police Chief B. Q. Cooper said
no arrests have been made In
that the 32-ycar-oJd suspect has
denied taking part in this
break-in.
-from a
plier.
“'FlngUy bit January fR the
mrcttclne'-wffr air
Colonia, Uruguay. Then there
Was another delay while the to- of relying upon a brotherhood
cal club waited for a reply of ideals, and spirit of service
from -their Uruguay colleague*, prlilch we are anxlogs to per-
The thank-you letter from the feet with the aim "at every mo-
Coloiua Lions was a fitting re-1 ment of increasing the prestige
Train Accident
“s,r Derails 5 Cars
Although Russell has had
has been more significant nor
more valuable to American**
image abroad than the one he
received last December 11 from
Montevideo, Uruguay.
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City Again Faces Knotty Problem
, - .... ' 7 11 * "r' 1 *rrni Ifw.'psi*1 . 7. try-" W- 7:’." 7 r~"f y " *
Of Financing Patrolman for Lake
A ♦'■••n derailment Monday
rtmversathm*- morniu« at Uawtoy has been
blamed on a switch that had
been tempered with, according
to T. D. McKinney. Stamford
ngpnt for the Burlington rail-
road. »1.„
The mishap occurred at 7:50
n. m. Monday when four ears
of a jStimford-bound freight
train -Were derailed. The de-
railment occurred at the west
switch in Hawley! The train s
diesel engine and four cars
were, derailed when they were
switched onto a side track.
The wreckage blocked thA
Abilrnc-to-Wichlta Falls rail
Mne- mrt+i after midnight when
Patrolling of Lake STbmford, that will be needed. Chief
—-fllat old bugaboo that has j Cooper has talked with patrol
haunted Stamford city fathers
ever since the lake was opened
—again is getting a lot of at-
tention.
At a rfpent meeting of the
council lb was agreed an of-
ficer would be placed on the
lake with this officer working
under Police Chiel B. Qf Coop-
er. At that time April 1 was
suggested as starting date.
Much discussion has taken
place as to type of equipment
■f
officers on other lakes and in-
formation has been obtained
from state game wardens. An
this has added to the confusion.
It has been brought out that
a medium size boat—say 14 to
15 feet, is needed- for patrolling
j>ut that when the lake is rough
—wheh emeFgenjeies most ffltrly
would occur—a much larger
boat would be needed.
Councilman Wade Watts at a
meeting last month of the enun-
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CC Committee Considers
Baseball Finance Task
I
meeting of the chamber of
co&_
was scheduled for Wednesday
afternoon to attack the problem
af-tow-to ftoanee-4ke -summer
a4x
youth program this season.
Also on the agogrta^Bw the
meeting was the election of a
board of directors- ;r,g-
Current members of the hoard
of .directors are Roy Weak*,
general manager; Sam Baize,
Bill McClellan. Vernon Lov-
vorn and 1. O. Hughes._____ a—J
Organisational work for the
summer baseball program has
been underway for about two
weeks, and managers hive been
tegdtlvety named for -nil ’the
teams.
- The Wednesday afternoon
meeting was also scheduled to
The Ji'cctors previously voted
to set the age limit for partfrL
potion in the Pee Wee Leagues
so that tU youngsters who
participate to this league must
be seven on or before June I of
-this year. j >, X
Player agreements and Insur-
ance must be completed by May
15. and no boy will be permitted
to play an the program unless
be signed
their
and paid his Fhsur*nee.
The managers and
teams;
pm*-wE*-t**vi!rtrTr~'nr' '■
'Yankees—Jerry Jdnes. L. E.
Johnson;-Orioles. Dewey Stubbs
and Joe'CKment; Giants, Ray-
mond IfUschcr; Tigers, John
Dickey and J.X. Waggoner. Red
Sox, Lynn Gillespie, Pete>Vaai
quez and Max Astin.
FRESHMAN LEAGUE
Pirstee, Joaeph High and Roy
Weaks: Braves, L. D. Jones;
Colt* H
Don
^ B. Da
Joe Astta and’
Ban; Luederg
JUNIOR LEAOUB
- Evchange. Bob Vines; Rotary,
f A. Rnssell; Vets. Car! Griggs-
First Baptist, Don Bailey and
Vernon Lovvorn.
SENIOR UEAGUE
Stamford. Da tils Jones. "T
cil |jointed* on! that cost of
opi>ra(lng the larger boat and
the motor that would be needed
would be almost prohibitive.
Mayor ft. R. Kelley expressed
the opinion- Friday that the
city might better ease into the
program, buying a smaller boat
with 40 horsepower motor. "If
our experience shows that this
U not adequate, then we ran
trade this in, on larger equip
ment," he 'skid. */
Councilman L. E. Million Jr.,
then threw a hitch In the dls-
den Lowery, who will patrol the
lake gome this summer, sug-
gested particularly that the
city change its spacing regula-
tion on trot lines. State law
says hooks ran be three feet
j apart but the city ordinanre
restricts them to a four-foot
spacing.
When the lake first opened,
the city had an ordinance re-
quiring boat owner* to have a
city boat license. When - the
Mate boat licensing law was
it
,.X.r ~ xvr-r «****«*»«*»-•« to e\>FnCellze*'to4
meal, dry milk, rolled wheat,
rice, pinto beans, butter,
uul- Putter. cJuM-xe. larrt
canned meat. With the
t‘vw« veiSfft Mhvae------
latter three are purchased fcy
the fe«h*rai yovernuumt.—
crusade workers from this area !!“* -ch*tob*n faith.” Jtev.
and throughout the state, will I Southcrland “a»d. "This is a
leave Dallas and fly to San “°uM*v4n* rather than a sight-
■■■■■ ■ —iwgwoi 1 ^
In Santa Anna
After hia work Is complete.1 - ttoic^wSr^ JOTes^wmy
llnMfi ...ill I Ji__S a • _ ' *
there, Rev. Southerland
■continue to Hong Kong. .
mo«a and Tokvo sneak to- In
vurtou* churches,' and misHtong.
"This trip was originally
planned as a Japan evangelistic
crusade, but rail* from areas
throughout Asia continued to
come to until the rruaadc wax
expanded to to elude matt of
h*ia;" Rrv. Southerland said.
The evangeUMic teams will be
working in Japan, Korea, Oki-
nawa. Hong ftong and omrr
countries.
The project is a cooperative
movenmem by the Texas Bap-
tist Convention, the Foreign
Mission Board ahd the. Japan
Baptist Convention. It will re-
quire live weeks to complete.
During his absence, the First
Baptist pulpit will he filled by
visiting preachers. Douglas
Beggs, a Stamford native and a
I"
V
will) died at 6. p. m. -Tuesdav in a
For-j Santa Anna hospital, where he
hud been a patient tor five
weeks.
Mr Hgff was a retired larm-
or and ltved at 714 b. Anson
Slreet.
Born October 21. 1883 in
Trenton. Term., ho married Miss
Mary Ferguson January- 8. 1920.
He came to Jones County in
191(>.
Funeral arrangement!, are in-
rrtmptrte 'at' Ktoftoy Punm^r^~S,,rP♦t,"
Home at this time. 7 -
Survivors Include his wife of
Stamford; live sons, Aubrey of
Big Spring, Orville of San Pab-
lo, Calif,, Matvjn, who-{a in
the Army stationed in Virginia.
IIhr)r>v msL Tiilaa r\id* * .oj
Harley
Wayne of
ter. Mrs,
N. M.. 15 gi aiuichlUln-if and
one great-grandchild.
toXTulsa. Okla , and
>f Pleburttr; one dangh-
i, Liis Bruce of nobhs.
•; 7: --r '-JitemzSri."5rf»“ -
—iiw mi '** '1 1Am ■
paring the packaue* for dlsiri-
hutbm ajuI to the diktributton it-
self. said there Is a large mim-
her of Latin Americans and N«»-
groe* receiving aid wtth proh-
>ibly the Latins h* the majority.
Some families have as many as
15 children.
-A7^ss^^asi
•sme of the smaller families
come just ohfe a“ month.—You
really would be. surprised at
how conscientious most of these
people are'," Smith said. "They
usually tell you when they have
a Job and will no longer call
for the f«od Itrms.”
State and federal regulations
spell out who are eligible to
receive the help. Persons on
the old age assistance roils al-
most automatically qualify. Mr.
Palmer review* the weeds of
others eftrr they have been In-
terviewed by Mrs. Mary Jane
Devancv who also serves the
center as bookkeeper.
Commodities 1 ere
stored at Brownwood and each
county must help bear the cost
of storage Two trucks are sent
to that point once a month to
bring the items to Anson. For
the most part, they are re-
packaged. Cheese comes to
large bars and must he cut.- —
The items are stacked high
the tracks were finally cleared.
School Music Groups
Will Particioate
In League Events
Ivy’s Serviee Station’s
Opening Is Scheduled
rrrrs- ms k?
out the matter of paying, for
keeping the officer on the lake.
"I was of the opinion that plac-
ing an officer on the lake was
tied in with a plan of raising
money to finance the , pro-
gram "
Several months ago the city
had obtained copies of the or-
dinances In effect to other
towns. Most-takes .have what
they trrm-a “-ivei t'atkvual per-
mit" whether for fishing or
skiing.
.-&^sWfi£srsgl
used the lake ahoqy. t arry the
burden. At Sweetwatfr. It was
brought out. at charge of 50
cent# per person per day Is
made. Fop a weekend. Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, this
charge h *1.25% Charge for
families Is $1.00 per day 4r
M.SB for a weekend
City of Stamford then passed
a * l»at inspection ordinance,
providing that all boats operat-
ing on the lake must be In-
spected annually. A number of
camp operators protested this
ordinance and obtained a tem-
porary restraining order against
Its enforcement - - 1' '■■■■. *!'
Through City Attorney Jack
Watson, the ttty fought this
question to the Texas Supreme
Two Interscholastic League
music events are on the ralrn-
dar of Stamford High School
(his weekend Friday will see Wr
E. Mayes, school music instruc-
tor. take a group to Ran Angelo,
and on Saturday another to AW-
lene.
In the Frlda^ competition will
be the Junior High Girl* Chor-
us, the Senior High Girl* Chor-
us and the High School Mhte.l
Chorus. These groups will eaW.
pete In both singing and sight
reading. Thej; w|J1 make the
trip in a school bus
j At McMurry College In Ahl-
leoe Saturday members of the
local band wlU compete as solo-
ists and In ensembles There
will he about 17 or II students
In this group.
J. H. Ivy. who has been to
the service station business In
Stamford since 1948, is having
grand opening at hi* new El
Paso Station at 302 N. Swenson
this week.
The grand qpenlng celebra-
tion will be Saturday, March 23.
A free buffet serving set will
bo given to eaeh customer who
fills up his gas tank with eight
gallon* or more on this day.
Free gift* during the grand
torn (luring the three dav* can
register for a Polaroid Camera
kit that will be given twu in
at $ o'clock March 23. ‘niose
who register do not have.to be
present to wifi.
JNtr. Ivy has been * Stamford
resident since 1919. Duri/tg hia
15-year career a* a service sta-
tion operator, he ha* always
operated a 24-hour station. Dur-
ing those 15 years, he can re-
call having his stations
opening will Include, key rings. I only two hour* for funera
iollypops, calendars and litter-
bags. Free coffee will also be
served a
.IT1
His new station. Ivy** F,1 Pa-
so Service, will also be open 24
hour* a day and Mr. Ivy- will
Everyone who visits the sta- • he both owner and operator.
on counters in the building. The
recipients file bv a point where
iheir card Js checked and then
their order is filled as tbry
moved along, not unlike a cafe-
teria.
Each person in a family Is
allocated a can of mfiat per
motith, two pounds of rice,
two*pounds of pinto beans, a
pound <>f butter and so on. Be-
es uSiV the floor come* only in
10-pohnd sacks, two persons re-
ceive a sack of flour per month.
New Pastor for
Trinity Baptists
Rev, Tempto l**wla. former
pastor of Bit* Avoca Baptist
Church, has accepted the t>av-
torate of Trinity Hapt^Wt Church
of Stamford The Rev Mr. Lew-
is to be moved here Thursday
from Plainview where he has
been serving the Emmanuel
tint Church.
=fX
cWy ordinance was not in con-
flict with the state law and die-
solved the Injunction.
J. R. McDaniel -was hired as
lake officer by the city In Au-
gust of 1958. A new boat license
ordinance became effective at
that "time. For the next 12
months, the city received 97.-
i.w • or a weenenq. . 7
An annual'permit for a fajn- TiWBBr Beense fees
lob*, ts *5 90 at JhvMtwater
to
t
charges
but took no action.
It was agreed that rules and
regulations governing tty lake
need to be studied with a view
to making a few changes so
that they coincided better with
cxslstlng state law. Game War-
Three Charged
Passing -
Bogus $20 Bills
, i
' A~X
WUftltlK,,,,
d±
A
mil
I
eatSSs-rj. jfc—^ssas*
At the end of this period, the
licenee . ordinance hod to be to-Fort Worth.
changed to the boat inspection
The . council agreed, these., ordinance and the revenue fell D
a were nominal and fair off rapidly after the Injunction
we* obtained by the camp own
era. From Oct. 1, 1969 until
Sept 30. 1980, revenue totalled
but 91,091.95 Mr. McDanlel’e
term as lake officer was termi-
nated 4n July of 1990 and there
haa been no officer since.
Two Stamford men were In
Fort Worth Monday where thev
had been subpoenaed In federal
court as witne*sea.Jn a trial of
men charged with passing coun-
terfeit money. Three men last
August lett a trail n( tx>vus i n
tods from Mineral Wells, to
Stamford, to Oklahoma and then
Bill
I IV.
Wed-
Longlev of Loncleys
w In Grocery, and JohsfcJL
I* Cf First National Bank
were dismissed without testify-
ing. One of tty bad bills was
spent at Longley’a store% and
two more ended up et die bank.
Charged with the offense ere
Harold Bulger, Marlin Flceaer
and Marvin Carllle.
M-
Grand Opening Planned—
•vent
Ivy’g El Paso Station will ti*v« its grand opening this Saturday. Th* v,Hi
offer* free gift# and prizes. Located at 802 N. Swenson, the business ia owned
and operated by J. Ivy.
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