Stamford American and The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1963 Page: 1 of 10
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An all-star team selected
from four Junior Leaguy squads
will play Plrst Baptist Church
Friday night la s special ex-
hibition game to raise funds to Jones
OSee related
Sweetwater tournament as well
as the exhibitlqn game Friday
night. They are Runny Jenkins,
Theodore Ouerr
story elsewhere
send the BapiM-.team to the
The Baptists won the Junior
League Championship and the
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come by smoke Monday while I
fighting a fire that heavily dam-
aged the G. B. McClellan home
at 805 South Swenson.
F. A. Dickerson entered Stain-
tj and Ronny tod Memorial Hospital after
the fir* was brought under con-
trol He remained in (he hospf-
ving* Argument
right to represent Stamford In |PhotOOr MOVPS
the regional meet by compiling I * I,WW£ 1TIU¥CB
an 8-4 record during the regular
season. _ j__ " •
Monday night's game will get
underway at 8:30 p. m. at Wen
deborn Field. A fqtl Seven inn,
lag contest wtU be played. -
Four players have been selec-
ted from each of the. other four
Junior League teams.
[...'‘We are trying to get out as
a crowd as possible for
To Other Side
Of The Camera
Sweetwater
Tuesday.
An employee of West Testa
Utilities, Dickerson was suffer-
ing from smoke Inhalation and
heat exhaustion, according to
Fire Chief Dick Rowland.-------
By VERN STEWART
John L. Blacks lock, veteran
Stamford photographer, has
been finding himself on the oth-
er side of the camera for the
The stubborn blaze was of the
unspectacular variety. Firemen
had difficulty finding the blaze.
Chief Rowland explained that
the fire waa mostly confined to
the roof and several layer* of
ceiling In the htgh-roofed struc-
ture. ..........
said Bob
ger than
Exec
No admission will be charged,
but donations will be taken at
the gate, with all proceeds go-
[in* for .the JSweetwater trip. A
public address system and an-
nouncer will be furnished, by the
for the all-
I star squad and the teams they
represent gre;
Vpts — Ruben Gonzales. Pat
Green. Raymond Cedillo and
Eddie Harvey.
Rotary — Danny Harvey,
Joney Diaz, Gilbert Escobedo
and Jerry Jolsom.
Exchange Club— Bob Isbell,
Tracy Sublett, Bobby Andfrson
and Don Cobb.
Lueders — Louis Hernandez.
Richard Barnes. Dann? Dillard
Tsvttna urcfR.
Firs* Baptist picked up three
pitchers from the league that
wrlll play for the champs in the
is had* inf
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graph the past few days at
Firemen at Work-1
ntrrlaT
manual laBor wTierttr
A disagreement between the
construction company handling
the street paving contract and
>n ’engineering firm hired by
Chy of Stamford was resolved
Friday afternoon at the regular
meeting of the Stamford City’
Bfc’r < - 1 .rtTwiiyi-.-fft t
representatives of both par-
ties met to a 45-mlnute caucus
with city councilman in a closed
door session prior to opening of
the regular council meeting.
Although council members de-
clined .to reveal minute partlcu-
Jars_of the ^ls§grfeiueut, h «p-
.....ifiy arose from some cor-
rective work required by the en-
gineering firm of Frees and
Nichols. Representatives of R.
B. Bowden Construction Co.
the paving contractor, claimed
the corrective work was caused
by engineering errors and that
the Bowden TtompiMJ* should be
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der which will Include the final
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13 blocks of paving to be in-
cluded to the current program.
City Manager Harry Steenson
asked Mr. Austin if the Bowdwi
company could briK more
equipment into"Siamforil to
Us second annual carnival on
the downtown square, and
ggreed to take back some prop-
erty at Lake Stamforg Cram —
t],tbe toato PuH»- B=>*nd. ■-’***•*'
, The Parks Board had been to
"g*®! ‘T S*?5®*?6: ***** moM, toe
““ ‘ ““ ~ known a« Lake Stamford State
Park. It was returned to the city
to conjunction with a stale-wide
movement by the Parka Board
to return the state-ownad prop-
ing 'and other work that must
be completed before actual pav-
ing is started.
"Wc will have several pieces
of additional equipment here
paving gome -of -the first 30
blocks included to the program
within the next two weeks,
Austin said. .
A Bowden construction crow
currently finishing a project to
another city will »*■ brought lo
Stamford in about one week, Mr.
Austin explained.
attended the Professional Photo-
graphers of American Conven-
tion in Dallas.
•Sunday’* Port Worth Star
____________ Telegram carried a three-col-
game '4*e8***5- ^ ^*%i#**!
Players selected for the all- lookln* over *om* Phonography
samples.
Attending Seminar Course
Patsy Baugh has gone t$j„Bay-
lor University this week to
participate to the college semi-
nar course offered freshman
students.
Patsy's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Baugh. Jr., will go to Wa-
co on the weekend for the spe-
cial meetings planned for par:
ents of freshman students.
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Tuesday’s Dallas Morning
News had a photo of the Stam-
ford photographer viewing the
Lunar Excursion Model of a ro-
bot designed to land on the
moon. Shown in the picture with
Mr. Blackstock were Percy But-
ler of London, president of the
Institute of British Photogra-
phers and Karen Kopseng of
Bismarck, N. D., Miss Rocky
Mountain Professional Photog-
rapher of 1863
The seme
picked up and transmitted via
Associated Press wirephot© ser-
vice. and Wednesday morning
the aame shot appeared in the
Abilene Reporter-News.
Just how Mr. Blackstock man-
aged to get photographed so
much remains something of a
mystery. One could surmise that
> after all those year* on the
focusing side of the camera he
learned stone dandy techniques
for manuevering over to the
grinning side of the camera.
and water damage. Mr. Row-
land said the McClellan's loss
was partially covered by inaur-
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For C. R. Short
Held Here Sunday
NoveL Baize,
photograph was Tuxedo
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 3 p. m. for C. R.
Short, 72. Mr. Short died at his
home at 9:25 p. m. Friday, fol-
lowing An illness of three years.
Services were held in the
Orient Street Church of Christ,
with J. B. Lamb, minister, and
Fund Drive
d>ttag Set Meeting
In Two Leagues—
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Playoffs Will Pick
Champions Mqnday
Winner* of the Freshman, these two leagues for
League and Pee Wee League/season,
playoff* will be decided Mon-
ftnat action tn Wee League in regular season
3 Stamford Ag
Students Earn -
Top State Honor
Threg third-year vocational
agriculture students of Stamford
High School received Lone Star
Farmer Degrees at the State
FFA Convention last Thursday
night at Lubbock.
. Receiving the highest state de-
gree were Eddie Jones, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Davif Jones;
Johnnie Riddle, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Riddle and Gary
Muehlstein, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmy Muehlstein.
Jones earned the Lone Star
Degree through an outstanding
ibeef cattle program. Riddle's
'projects included beef cattle,
cotton, ensilage and mllo pro-
duction, and Muehlstein’* proj-
ect program included dairy'cat-
tle, poultry, cotton, milo and
Wheat production.
All three youths will be sen-
ior students to Stamford High
Reboot this fall and have com-
pleted three years of vocational
agriculture training. * i.
Representing the Stamford
FFA Chapter at the state con-
vention were Muehlstein. Rid-
dle. Ronal-D. Meador and Mike
Jones, accompanlsd by Chapter
Advisor Weldon Holbrook*
Lone Star Fanner Degress
were awarded to 887 vocational
students from
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Lone Star Farm or
night.
The Giants topped
the 1983
■Til
the fee
Yankees in
the schedule
play, beating the
the final games of
for a 94 mark.
Pirates were on top when the
Freshman League regular sche-
dule ended July 18. with a rec-
ord of 9% wins. Only blot on
their record for the season was
a tie game played earlier In the
season.
In playoff action Tuesday
night,. the Pirates nailed the
Cardinals 74 and the Cubs shut
out the Brave* 9-0. Tonight, the
Colts and Bears will toy to elim-
inate each other.
The Orioles, • who finished
third in the regular season ac-
tion, surprised the Giants 124
Tuesday night and the Red Sox
were declared winners by de-
fault over the Tigers when the
Utter team was unable to field
ehou0i players. k
Final standings for the three
leagues during the regular sea-
|on:
JUNIOR LEAGUE
Won Lost Pet
Baptists T 8 4
Rotary I I
Exchange t 9
. Lueders 5 7
Vets .5 7
Pee WEB LEAGUE
%
500
,«1B
.419
Giant*
Yankees
Oriole*
Red Sox
Wow
•
7*
9
514
Lost
S
414
9
814
Tigers
FRESHMAN
t
Wen
N
Lost
Pirates
914
14
' gftllbs
T14
214
Mqpi,
7
1
4
9
Colts i .
a ;
*' t*
Boars „
i
10
*v
Pet
.747
.823
J00
.457
.119
.750
.700
.400
BurUl was in Highland Memo-
rial Cemetery under the direc-
tion of Kinney Funeral Home.
He was an employee of the
W. C. Carr Production Co. and
had lived here nine years.
Mr. Short was born Feb. 18,
1891 in Indiana and married
Cecile* Patterson October 9,
1947. He was • member of the
Orient Street Church of Christ.
Survivors include his wife;
three daughters, Lynn of Stam-
ford, Mrs. Arthur Grubb of In-
dependence, Ind., and Mrs. Her-
bert Miller of Glezen, Ind.; a
stepdaughter, Mrs. Coy Jen-
nings of LaWtoff. Okla: 13
grandchildren, and six great
grandchildren.
•w>iy jmt.m*
City Signs Pact
To S..p|*^Water
Xoepp.
ted the engineering firm
A contract was signed Friday
between the Sagerton Water
Supply Corporation and City of
Stamford, paving the way for
construction of a pipeline that
will transport iiltered water
Rule Cemetery
Buys Additional
Acre of Land
The Rule Cemetery Associa-
tion has purchased an acre of
additional land o* the west <Me
of the present Rule Cemetery
tn order to make the cemetery
larger and it 1* also, being plan-
ned to make this addition, as
well as the additional footage
on the south side, into a perpet-
ual care cemetery.
The money used to buy the
land has been borrowed from
the Chamber of Commerce, and
will be paid back by individuals
who desire to make a contribu-
tion.
The Rule Chamber of Com-
merce held Us regular meet-
ing last Tuesday night in the
Bine Bonnet Cafe.
Among other buslnesg plans.
It was decided to have a Dollar
Day or some similar program
for Rule in' Hie near future.
Under the direction of the
new president, A. R. Eaton, a
Membership Drive to now in
progress.
United Fund Council of the
Stamford Chamber of Com-
merce will get down to specifics
at a breakfast session next Wed-
nesday, July 31, starting at 8:89
a. m. at Nat’s Restaurant.
Committee chairman will give
an outline report of plans form-
ulated for each chairman's
particular phase of the comm-
unity-wide fund raising project.
The fund drive is expected to
be kicked-off around October 1,
A tentative schedule for fund
raising activities and a tenative
budget Including what agencies
will participate and what por-
tions each will receive has been
compiled.
Herschcl Kelley, chairman of
the drive, said Stamford’s com-
munity goal will be more than
*11,000.
Officials of the drlv^ are Jim
West, director general, F. E.
Upshaw hiidaat isri Jimaw. W.
T. Stovall, advance gifta, Roy
Craig and Bob Vritchard, publi-
city and promotion, and drive
chairman Kelley. m
Summer Hours
Set By Library
The Stamford Carnegie Lib-
rary has just received a ship-
ment of new books for all ages.
Included fat the books are tti*
new edtttona of Robert's Rules
of Order* and Good Housekeep-
ing C omplete Wedding Guide,
hours
for the library
eleven In the
one to four to the
afternoon, Tuesday through Sat-
urday. '“) ' .v;j i
■' The library to closed aQ day
ob Mondays.,
Fabric Shop Is
Newest Business
Two Stamford women have
opened a piece goods store in
the Loveless Building oo West
Hamilton Street.
Mrs. Edgar Quade and Mrs.
L. R. Hollabaugh are owners of
the new business, which will be
known ag ..'.'The Fabric Shop."-
Mrs. Hollabaugh will be man-
ager of the store She has 15
years experience in women's
wear and piece good* merchan-
dising.
The store will handle a wide
assortment of piece goods and
will also have Mrs. Pat Sltton
employed as seamstress to pro-
duce finished garments.
from Stamford to more than 100
customers In the Sagerton area.
City council unamiously
passed a resolution authorising
Mayor R. R. Kelley to sign the
document. The resolution was
presented to the council by
Henry Andrews, attorney for the
Sagerton corporation.
Mayor Kelley and A. C. KnIp-
hug of Sagerton affixed their
signatures to the document Im-
mediately following the session
Ifld the long period of negotiat-
ing waa finally completed.
Under terms of the contract,
the Sagerton group will
chase ■ minimum of 380,000 gal-
lons of water per month from
Stamford at the rate of 30 cents
per thousand gallons.
Members of the corporation
expect construction of the wa-
ter system from Sagerton to a
point west of Stamford near the
Stamford Cotton Oil Mill to be-
gin sometime in September.
A group of Sagerton area
residents, facing up to the prob-
lem of faltering water supplies,
formed the Sagerton Water
Corporation early this year and
obtained a loan from tbe Farm-
ers Home- Administration to fi-
nance the pipeline.
The loan to for a 40-year per-
iod, so the contract governing
sale of water from Stamford tp
the group also bad to be for 40
yearg. But the contract contains
an "escalator clause" permitt-
ing City of Stamford to raise
the uriee of water to tbe Sager-
ton Corporation on the same be-
sts that it raises rates to Us
other customers.
The contract also provides
that In case oh future water
shortage* occurring at Lake
Stamford. City., of Stamford
would pro-rate dig amount of
water available, with the Sager-
tbn users.
lare. Carden repress*
Chamber of Commerce to stage
within a week, and hope to-be erty to the mootcipality that or*
Uuuillv domiud a ui iW *ute
agency. jjt.
Don Kcvell representing the
Stamford Junior Chamber of
Commerce, appeared before the
council on behplf of the saant-
val. which win be coodweted
during either the laat wepk el
September or the first week of
the carnival
in the
discussion that took place dur-
ing the open council session.
The-engine artog-Hrm bod re-
fused to bond the Bowden Com-
pany until the correct I
Mr. Carden told the council that
following a private discussion
between representatives of the
two rirms, an agreement had
been reached and the engineer-
ing firm would approve the
Bowden company for Issuance
of the fifth and final work or-
Raymond Scott
Funeral Rites
Held Saturday
Funeral aervlces for Ray-
p"im«nd <lud' ScolL 41* of Lue-
ders were held Saturday In Lue-
ders Baptist Church. Mr. Scott
died Thursday morning in the
Veterans Administration Hospi-
tal In Big Spring.
A life-long resident of Lue-
ders, Mr. Scott was a member
of Lueders Baptist Church. He
was a naval veteran of World
Wac 11. He was born February
19. 1922 In Wise Count}.
• Rev. Louis Marfcwood. pastor
of Lueders Baptist Church offi-
ciated. Burial was In l*ucders
the
on- new pavement and prevent
It from being swept to the gut-
ters by_day»tmday traffic.
' In other business, the council
jiu^l "Ul. ■wq
asked that tie Jaycees consult
Police Chief
downtown traffic
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gave permission for the Junior • during the four-day event.
razilian Farm Leaders
Study County Agriculture
Six agricultural leaders from
Brazil toured several Jooes
County farpts and ranches last
week.
County Agent Kirby Clayton
was host for the group and led
a tour to the M. D. Harvey
Ranch near Nugent, the Hen-
r tour in tint 2
E, V. ou<m farm In the Erteks-
dakl Community and the T. N.
Lambert farm in the Hamby
Community. ______
The visit w*« part of an ex-
tensive twtkmonth program
which includes visits of two
week. In Texas, one week in
V^prUU, three days at tbe Ten-
nessee# Valley Authority elec-
tric generation factlittof. two
weeks id Washington D. C., one
week in Puerto Rieo, one
la
ta Rick. |
The aix Brazilian visitor* ar«
state directors of agriculture
extension and farm credit do-
according to the Jones
agent.
The Rratlllan guests were
Muuriclo Carmurra. Uvio Aim-
rid 0, Bento Dias. A. C. Ptdrei-
sa. Caustino Alluguerue and
Mello J. Moreiade. The group
traveled to Hallmae! Thumlay
-rrTiauter•as
Department of Agriculture at
Waahingtan. Calvin Reece df
Cortege Station and Mr. Clay-
ton.
Central Christian^/
-d -^Church Names 9
Freeman Pastor
Cemetery under direction oftpartment of Brazil.
Kinney Funeral Home of Stam-
ford.
Survivors Include the parents,
Mr. im( Mr*. John W. Scott of
Lueders and one sister. Mrs.
Curley Arnold of Merkel.
T
Oliver Street VBS
Start# July 29
Vacation Bible School wlU be
held at Oliver Street Church of
Christ July 29 through August
2.
Dale King Is director and
classes will be held for nursery
through high school students.
Anyone desiring transporta-
tion may call PR 3-3835 or PR
3-3740. T* -—
Municipal Leaders
Meet Here Today
8tamfbrd will boat the quar-
terly meeting of District 8 Tex-
as Municipal League this after-
noon In the council: meeting
room at City Ball.
The business session will get
underway at 1:20 p. m Some
representatives are
Thursday morning for a
and lunch prior to official ’•pen-
lag of the meeting
Buster Fuller city manager of
Sweetwater la in charge of the
pfogrgm. .
Champions Enter
Regional Monday
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First Baptist Church. Cham- Jones, Exchange,
ptons of the Junior League will, Regular members of the First
(day their first game in region-1 Baptist team are Norman Pag*,
al competition Monday night, c,tc|,ar; Willi* WaidweU, pltch-
July 29. in Sweetwater at 9:45 Ug. Harrison Cote, first boa*:
P m. i I Tommy Weaver, first base and
The Baptiste topped the Jun- 5-toeond V* so; Bill Box
tor league with a season rec-
ord of eight wins and four loss-
es. The Stamford nine will tan-
gle with the winners of the Cis-
co Tri-County Area.
Other teams In the Sweetwa-
ter tournament will be Big
Spring, Sweetwater. Floy dad a
and Eaatland. Winner of
base and outfield: Dario Martin-
os, shortstop; Russ Russell,
third base; Dwaln Nauart. util-
ity; Joey Lawson, outfield: Mike
Graham, outfield and Jim Lov-
vorn. outfield. >
Jerry Jones Is assistant man-
ager of the championship team
tournament wtB advance to the
state tournament. The tourna-
ment will be in session July 29,
90 and 31. ’
Coached by Vernon Lovvorn,
the First Baptist Team was par-
mined to pick up three pitchers
from the other four teams tn
the Junior League to take to tbe
Sweetwater tournament. - ,
Pitchers selected and their
regular season foam* -are Ron-
ny Jenkins. Fote; Theodore
Guerrero, Rotary and Roeny
the *nd Wayne Page ha* served
hat hoy throughout the season
The 14-man squad will meet
an aggregation of all-stars
picked from the other four
teams for an exhibition game
Friday night starting at 8:10 at
Wendeborn Field.
Although So admission will bo
charged, proceeds from free-will
donations given at the gata wtO
bo Rood to help pay expenses of
First Baptist team
Regional
I Monday night.
to the
Members of the tour are in-
terested tn studying public ad-
ministration, extension organi-
zation and farm credit organi-
zations.
They also Indicated an Interest
In how the state's extension pro-
gram is coordinated with other
state and federal program* and
private enterprise and especial-
ly farm and ranch operations.
Rev. Robert David Frpoman
has accepted the pastorate of
Central Christian Church and
wlU move to Stamford early hi
Baptist Laymen,
Pastor Will Go
To District Rally
A delegation from First Bap-
tist Church. Including the pas-
tor Rev. Jack Southerland and
several laymen, will attend the
annual rally of the District 17
Baptist Brotherhood at Hardln-
Simmon* University July 28.
Dr. James H. Landes, presi-
dent of Herdto-Binun<m*r will
deliver two addresses.
Between 700 and 1.000 men
pre expected to attend the rally.
The program will begin at 2:80
p. m. in the H-BU Chapel-Au-
ditorium.
Rev. Lewi* Markwood of Lue-
ders wlU present a demonstra-
tion by n group of Royal Am-
besKador* on campcraft as purl
of the' program
Baptist District 17 round's to
be represented at the rally are
Knox, Kent, Stonewall, Haskell,
Fisher. Jooes, Shackelford, Ste-
phens, Eaatland, Callahan, No-
lan and Taylor.
Auto Race Film Is
Slated by Jaycees
A Him story of the Indteoepo-
U* 509 Auto Race will be the
program thi* Thursday it
noon mooting *f the Stem
Junior Chamber of Com
The Him has
through the efforts of
You
wW
If, b»ter-el
pre.lde f«
today's
• ,T“
Rev. Freeman received his BA
degree from Tehee ’ CVtoB—
University In 1*90. He Will re-
ceive hie BD from BHte College
of the Bible, TCU in January Of
1994.
jRev Freeman will be or-
dained on Sept. I.
Christian Church,
with elders of Central Christian
Church taking part in the ser-
vice. He has served a* Youth
Director and Associate Minister
at the Riverside church, which
wa* hi* home congregation for
the past throe years.
While attending TCU. Rev.
Freeman was vice-president of
the Student Congress la 1899,
president of Delta Tau Delta In
1909, elected the outstanding
Congressman In 1999 and De-
ceived a freshman tetter la foot-
ball tn 1969.
Ho la d native of FL Worth
and his wife. Sandra Am, has
lived in Fort Worth for the past
17 years, being a native of Dal-
las. Mrs. Freeman has been
employed at Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company for the poet
three yean.
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