Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 3, 1974 Page: 1 of 24
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THE HOME OF
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SERVING ALL Of ERATH COUNTY And Parts of Hood. Somervell Bosque. Hamilton. Comanche. Fastland, and Palo Pinto Counties
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Vol. 105. No. 29
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No Polio Cases in 73
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stable or fence and shed their skin.
Following the nymphal molt, the adult
stage is present. The adult stage does
not feed and is not found on the animals
The 4-H Horse Club meeting will be
held at the Tarleton Agriculture
Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on Monday.
dress and sportswear outfit. The Little
Miss" division will consist of modeling a
The Oakdale Quilting Club will
meet Tuesday with Mrs J F Dee
Lowe. All members and friends are
invited to attend this all day affair.
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get on with the nation's business."
The senator said Nixon's new budget
would be a deficit budget, featuring
person and 25 per cent coinsurance up
to a maximum liability of $1,500.
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The eggs hatch and the seed ticks"
then attach to the animals to feed and
complete another life cycle.
Effective tick control can be econo.
was licensed in 1961.
Peavy said during the epidemic years
The Stephenville Senior Citizens
Center will host a singing at 2:00
p.m. Sunday afternoon at the center,
164 East College Street.
school in Erath County. The contest,
which is opened to any elementary
school boy is scheduled for Feb-
ruary 16.
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questions that you may have.
All proceeds from the pageant will go
to charity.
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Sunday, February 3, 1974
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Coming Events
The Stephenville Sportsman's Club
will meet in the TSU Gymnasium,
Monday at 7:00 p.m. A film entitled
"Hunting in Mozambique" will be
shown.
beginner's lessons this Tuesday night
at 8:00 p.m. at the City Recreation
Hall _____________________
Entry blanks for the Paas, Dribble
and Shoot Contest sponsored by the
Optimist Club of Stephenville will be
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SIDE-BY-SIDE - There were no injuries in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of
U J. 377 South Loop and FM 2157 about 2:20 p.m. Friday when a westbound pickup and a
southbound truck smashed together. The pickup, driven by Mrs. Connie Wilson
Franklin, and a truck, driven by Edwin Earl Claunch, caused no injuries to him or to
Mrs. Franklin's two children. Mary, 11, and Raymond. 4.
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READYING FOR SHOW-David Larner and his steer "Big Bob" are preparing for the
annual Erath County Junior Livestock Show to be held March 17-18. David, who weighs
about 60 pounds, has his hands full with the 600 pound steer he is readying for the show.
David is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Larner. Future Farmers of American and 4-H
Club members throughout Erath County are readying stock for the annual show.
Dr. Gaston Foote
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To Speak Monday
At Dublin Church
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declaration in his State of the Union
address that he had no intention of
resigning and would do the job he was
elected to do.
Your president is on the right track and
he has got the right instincts on domestic
and international affairs," Tower said.
Tower assured the committee that Nixon
"can focus on problems confronting this
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The plan being prepared for submis- amount of medical expenses which
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS 76401
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But Kenneth R. Cole, assistant to the
president for domestic affairs, and
James H. Cavanaugh, associate director
of the President's Domestic Council,
told a small group of writers that the
decision had been made within 24 hours
of Weinberger's statement not to seek
the new tax,------------.:—-
They said Treasury will seek two
The Erath County Health Department for polio, such as 1949-51, as many as
has set up Free Immunization Clinic for 250 caaes of paralytic polio were
Stephenville, surrounding towns and reported in a week.
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susceptiability to disease. When inspect-
ing the ear, the producer will often
times notice the large females present
in the ear after they have consumed
several blood meals. These ticks can
also infest horses, dogs, sheep and other
. ____________ _________... _____farm animals. This tick may live in the
Area Extension Entomologist, Dr. reports ticks to be blood-sucking ear from one to seven months. The ears
Clifford Hoelscher, reports that these parasites that can cause losses to cattle may be almost filled with ticks during
soft ticks attach deep within the ears of through loss of blood, weakened certain times which range in size up to
livestock and cause intense irritation, condition, nutritional disorders, reduced one-third of an inch in length. After
Accumulation of wax and excretion can feed coversion efficiency and increased feeding period in the animal's ear, the
fullfed nymph which have the skin
ype-T" coverd. with short heavy peglike hairs Free Immunization Clinic
leave the host, crawl into cracks in the
This is an official preliminary pageant
to the World's Our little Miss
Pageant", which is the world's largest,
oldest, and most respected children's
beauty and talent competition, a youth
Tax for Insurance Program
WASHINGTON AP - President Nixon other medically related tax changes below what the average insured person
has rejected the idea of taxing which would bring in an additional $1.1 now pays. Cavanugh pointed out that
American workers an additional $3.8 billion in revenues. Under current plans, mhany policies pay full costs while the
billion to help finance his new national the individual taxpayer's $150 maximum administration's proposed basic plan
health insurance plan, according to two deducation for health insurance prem- would require a $150 deductible for each
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The Stephenville Flutterwheel’s
Square Dance Club will start
to Nixon's
every elementary
He Tells Texas Republicans
AUSTIN. Tex. AP -Senator John Tower,- country and, contrary to what the media
R.-Tex . told GOP party leaders Saturday would have you believe, we are not so
' they should stand up for President Nixon preoccupied in Washington that we can’t
a , in his hour of travail."
’ Tower told the State Republican
gfi Executive Committee he and other
Livestock producers in Erath County cause frequent infections. Tick infesta-
are urged to inspect their livestock for tions result in a general loss in thrift
increasing infestations of spinose ear- and vigor in the animals. Animals are
ticks. Recent checks of cattie by County stressed during winter conditions be-
Extension Agent, Richard. Gary, have cause of poor grazing and low nutrition,
indicated ear-tick populations are in- which creates an extra burden on the
creasing in many areas. animal's defense to ticks. Dr. Hoelscher
sion to Congress this week will instead would have to be borne out of pocket
rely upon growth of the economy and a without tax deduction would be boosted The major unresolved point in the
heavier cash flow into the Treasury to from the present 3 per cent to 5 per President's plan is how the government
cover the added cost of $5.8 billion in cent of adjusted gross income, should help small employers to be
federal funds, they said. The administration's plan, carrying a phased in without putting them out of
in another major change, the price tag of nearly $40 billion, would not business or discouraging them from
| administration has decided to require take full effect until 1977. hiring low-income persons. —
| employers to pay only two-thirds of the With employers paying two thirds of He said that health-care cost controls
t premium for employes' health insur- premiums, the single worker would pay will be handled through a mechanism J
—ance. _ ——— about $6.25 a month as his share and similar to the present Cost of Living
The Department of Health. Education the family man about $17.33 a month. Council regulations plus state activities
and Welfare had recommended employ- Although the figures are slightly under broad federal guidelines,
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The Selden Triangle Club will meet
Tuesday night at 7:30. The program
will be a community singing.
Everyone is invited.
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available at
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HAlTS
rural areas to be held at Chamberlin
foompom.m to" a.m and from Sarah Miller Runs .____
esmondoutinic " be Mareh 11 at Fer Justice Office
DPT. DT, Measles. Rubella, and Polio. Miller (no relation) has announced
Previous shot records should be brought that she will be a candidate in the May
to the clink in to determine what 4 Defocratic Party Primary Election
immunizations are needed, for the office of Justice of the Peace.
"I have been working in the office for
two years, doing the work that needs to
be done, and I feel that this experience
will qualify me for this position," Mrs.
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mica lly accomplished with sprays, dips,
or individual ear treatments. Materials
for ear tick control include Co-Ral,
Lindane, Malathion, Ronnel and Toxa-
phene. Dr. Hoelscher emphasizes that
the producer shoudl carefully read the
label and direct particular attention to
tcuations and restrictions given on the prA Manic Tanocrav
label before applying a treatment. Note I IU mtXlQ I UCdUdJ
the application-slaughter interval as .
dearly stated on the label or The P.T.O. of Central Elementary Miller said.
restrictions given for applying these School will meet Tuesday at 3:20 in the Mrs. Miller, whose husband R. Ben
treatments to dairy animato. Complete school auditorium. Music will be Miller to a stock farmer, has two
.MUSEUM ACCESSIONS - This Jodie Boren watercolor of the Historical House information on control of all livestock presented by the first grade under the children. Bill and Kathy •
Museum was placed I* the Historicat House by Dr. C. Richard King, professor of pests is available M the Obunty direction of Mbs Virginia Bond, and She has boon an Erath County
Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Boren’s work is well known in the Extension Office in Stephenville Your Shirley Meier’s Stephenville Starlettes resident 11 years.
Southwest.“Boren‛s work to well known in this area and throughout Texas. Dr. King’s free copy of publication MP691, will perform. During the business Mrs. Miller earned a B.S. degree from
generosity in placing this painting in the museum to deeply appreclated by every Suggestions for Controlling External
citizen of Stephenville and especially by the members of the museum," nccording to Parasites of Livestock and Poultry", is
Li Dr. Bob Walker, president of the museum board. nusu. asann available.
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Republican congressmen had talked with
"eq, Nixon for two hours Friday.
I'm convinced he intends to do
precisely what lie said he would do,"
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AUSTIN, Tex. AP - In 1973-for the development program designed to give 1
first time in history-no paralytic polio recognition and ambition to children,
cases were reported in Texas, says Dr There will be a meeting Friday night
James Peavy, state health commission- at the Farmer’s First National Bank’s
er. Patio Room for mothers intersted in
Polio has been on the decline. Peavy entering their child in the contest. There -
noted, since the Salk vaccine went into will be representatives from the Alpha
general use in 1955 and the oral vaccine Gamma Phi Sorority to answer any
Little Miss Pageant Set March 16
The Alpha Gamma Pi Chapter of Beta party dress. sportswear outfit, and "2
Sigma Phi of Stephenville will sponsor talent
an official preliminary Our Little Local winners will receive official
Miss" Children’s Pageant at the Our Little Miss" trophy statuettes,
Stephenville Senior High Auditorium on certificates, crowns, banners and their
March 16. State Entry Fee to the 'Our Little
The pageant will consist of two Miss" State Pageant First and second
different divisions. Little Miss" for runner-up and talent winner will receive
girls ages 7-12 and Miss 1 a Petite", a trophy statuette and ertificate, with
for girls, ages 3-6. The Miss LaPetite" the talent winner also being able to
division will consist of modeling a partv compete at the state pageant.
increasing to 75 per cent after three
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HEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger
had told newmen Thursday that, while
the health insurance bill was considered
| not to be "the proper vehicle" for a tax
boost. Treasury would seek legislation
taxing employers' premium contribution
as earned income for employes.
This, he said, would bring in an
additional $3.8 billion.
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Dr Gaston Foote, well known writer
and lecturer, will be the speaker
Monday night when the Erath Baptist
Brotherhood meets at the First Baptist
Church in Dublin
The meeting will open at 7:00 pm.
with a Mulligan Stew dinner, served by
the host church
The Stephenville High School Fellow-
ship of Christian Athletes will provide
special music. for the evening. Coach
Dennis Tomlin and Mike Morton direct
the athletes
Dr. Foote, for 20 years pastor of the
First Methodist Church in Fort Worth,
is the author of Living in Four
Dimensions' 1953 Footnotes’ 1956:
The Transformation Of The Twelve" _
1958: The World's Vagabonds' 1962:
How God Helps 1966. Out Of Their
Own Mouths" 1967. —
don 1949: Guatemala 1956; Guest
preacher U.S. Air Force, Okinawa,
Japan. .England. Bresident Conference
Board of Missions 1952-56. Member
General Board, of Social Concerns
1968-1972. Editorial Writer, Fort Worth
Star Telegrar since 1952. Distinguished
Alumns of Southern Methodist Univer-
sity. 1966
He belongs to the Fort Worth Knife
and Fork Club > President 1955), the
Rotary Club and the Masons.
Two busey will leave the Stephenville
Baptist Church at 6:30 Monday evening
to take men from Stephenville to the
meeting.
Dr Foote's other. activities include F
Delegate Jurisdictional Conferenee since
1948. Delegate General Conference 1952,
1964. 1968. 1970. Delegate World
Methodist Conference. London 1966, -1
Deriver 1971, Exchange preacher, Lon- I
•dramatic increases" for national
defense.
"National defense is our number one
priority," Tower said. “We can't place a
dollar value on the security of the people of
the United States of America."
Tower also said “economic controls are
going off." Tower said Nixon did not want
controls, but "if he had not gone ahead
with economic controls, the Congress
would have mandated something worse."
American housewives still get a better
deal at grocery stores here “than
anywhere else in the world," Tower said
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