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I.eader Volume 57, Number 16—American Volume 35, Number 3!)
STAMFORD, JONES COUNTY, 'SEXASV NO VEMBER 27. 1368
$2.50 Per Year—SINGLE COPY, TEN CENTS
Santa To Pay First
Visit Here Saturday
C;aco Loboes Have Perfect Record—
Boasting a season record of 10 wins to no losses, the Cisco Loboes will be Running
for their first-regional .win since-the Texas Interscholastic League was formed. Not
since the days of the old Oil Belt boom have they come up wit ha team of the calibre
which Coach Zack Henderson has this year. Pictured above is the startyig offensive,
lineup. Shown left to right are Billy Hammer, isf; Joe Tom Johnson,, 173; Gerald
Darr, 163; Johnny Bdb Richardson, 152; Wayne Brown, 167; Weaver Calloway,
172;-and John Adams, 162; back row, Randall Hess, 165; Delbert Schaefer, 137;
Duane Hale, 165; and Benton Porter, 135, Hess is alLdistrict and is the highest
scorer in the area. At right (No. 41) is Schaefer, the jxibo quarterback. He is a
junior and has developed considerably as the season advanced. He4s.a good passer.
At extreme right is Jackie Qualls, a defensive starter. Qualls is listed as weighing
221 pounds. He, too is a junior. (Photos courtesy Cisco Tress)
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n Be Seen in Action
■ Santa Claus will arrive at 1
P.M. Saturday for anaqal
visit to the boys and girls of
iht.s ,avu. *
He will- be on hand five
days, each Saturday for the
next four weeks and Christ-
Man Remains
In Hospital
Following Wreck
Two cars collided on West
Mcllarg avenue Wednesday
morning, with three of the
'four persons escaping injury.
J. W. Wheeler, driver , of a
car. traveling, south of West
Mcllarg, remained in the
Stamford Sanitarium lor ex-
amination and treatment. His
wife, who was shaken up, went
by the hospital and then re-
turned home.
The other car, traveling
west, was driven by Erasma
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mns eve afternoon from 1 to
5 P.M.
Santa will ride into town a-
top •< f the big red fire truck.
He will visit in the stores from
1 to 3, then tie host athls lit-
tle Santa house on tfie soilth-
east corner of the post office
luwn to all the youngsters
from 1 to 10 years of age.
The little one from I to 6
years of age are Incited to'
come In from JS to 4 anil the
T to 10 year olds from 4 to
5 P. M.
Santa will be anxious to
hear all the wishes of the "chil-
dren and will have plenty of
candy to glve'hia guests.
Parents are asked to accom-
pany the smaller children In
order that they may not be
pushed around or overlooked.
Stamford stores will be In
festive, holiday dress both In-
side and out for the. Christmas
opening in the city. Christmas
lights will pe turned on a-
round the square Saturday tor
the first time this season.
dogs and
the Cisco
slay after
Abilene’s Fair Park stadium
for the regional title, fans hot
only will, see two high-scoring
teams In action but they will
.Loboes Js wat<;h . two oMhe
kjew^+rr- Aesf-Ctos bnthram
iR be-able .-tTrfow=tcores. UnUke tlre Bu/l-
twllcarrir
work. ’ »
Like the Bulldogs. Cisco has
convincingly won all its games
this year, holding opponents
City Gets $8,000
Xo^laKe Survey
Of House Needs
Public Hotnrfng- Administration has authorized
“$8,000 planning funds for 40 new |ow rent homes” in
Stamford, according to a telegram received Tuesday
morning by Mayor W. B. Harrison.
The telegram came from Lyndon B. Johnson and
Omar Burleson, who said they were Mpleased to advise”
the authorization.
This money represents a preliminary. loan to the
. Local Housing Authority for further study of the new!
fdr low rent houses ^Stamford, J. L, Hill, chairman of
the local. Housing Authority,'explained.
The PHA had approved Stamford for 40 units. Ap-
-—plication had been for 60. The study, under the direetiow-
-hurt
a
trlct End John Adams has an
injured leg. Joe Tom.Johnson,
a tackle, also is not up to par.
Tickets went on sale at the
have a clean record, boasting ^tTo CTranbury game an
a 10-0 slate for year—plus the
43-0 win in the bi district a-
gainst Granbury. The Bull-
dogs lost an early-seasOh tilt
,o AAA Sweetwater, 32 0. Last
^Ujeek, the local lads ended
F’erryton’s dreams with a 34-14
victory.
Bed-headed Halfback Ran-
dall Hess is the Cisco boy
.fans will be watching. lfmi
easily leads this area as top
scorer, having acrounled for
25 touchdown and 9 extra
points. He has carried the
ball for more tlian 1000
yards during the rcgulur
season.
On the other hand, Stam-
ford s Donald Davis will have
his share of rooters. While
not accounting for as many
touchdowns as Hess, Donald’s
record is impressive. In re-
gular season play, he has scor-
ed 96 points and carried^for
1,35.3 yards.
Davis shined brightly, in the
game last week at Childress,
scoring four touchdowns and
test With Rut minor bruises.
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for Christmas buying and both
staple articles and gilt mer-
chandise are ready for the
customers. t
Christmas lights will be
turned on Saturday for the
first time for this season.
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Dr. J. B. Holt
Will Speak at
St. John’s Revival
Revival services will begin
Sunday morning, November
30, at St. John’s Methodist
Church -and will continue “
through Wednesday evening,
December 3. Services nightly
will be ait f p.m. on Sunday
evening, and at 7;20 p.m. for
the weeknight services. The
Adult Choir will sing at the.
evening services.
Three . weekday morning
services will be held. On Mon-
day
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high school., here -Tuesday
ieijuartefBack club' met That
night, more than 500 had been
sold, 'fhe school has received
1600 reserved seats.
Game time is 2 o'clock.
Man Receives Broken Leg
In UnusualAuto Accident
- Two sections of oilfield pipe
brrtfcp away from a passing
truck and struck a vehicle go-
ing in the opposite direction
injuring a passenger south of
Sagerton Wednesday,- ‘Novem-
ber 19. .
Manuel Ix>poz, a 43 year old
Area Resident -
For Many Years
pies at Merkel
Milton,E. Smith, age 95, who
accounting fqr 246^ards from ^lllt| ^‘ ^ ^,arn'
scrimmage. He aiso intercept-4’®'fas X, rani<l ,n
ed two passes, threw one that Texas -from Mississippi as a
Was good for 47 yards and re- ?tna11 Wednesday at
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rovmM ftn
Taken by aml targe. the Cfcl H? ^ ^lHur V*« H”,m;
t.i>t burkfiold ln Merkel, which he entered
on December 27, 1955. He suf-
c-o team has a
that bean watehing. Their ...
line, according to'those who XX « ^okc a week before
his death.
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of the. Local Housing Authority, will be made to deter-
mine if more are needed, Hill said. ^
This will assure the getting to the final approval
in a short time and when that is settled other considers-! JJ!” e teen " hem in action, is
tions will be taken up. These will include the location j not of the-same quality. They I ,lp wa* an uP°le of ^um
of. the units, the various facilities and other prelimi-.ha'p Sf,me heavy boys, indud- n'fm- Thur*
* Ing three at 180 pounds and a Funeral was set lor tpuis-
....... . .... .. defensive tackle who tips the fl-y 10 am. at the First
. —4sfc^4H4t4efpate^,hat everything Alll halt; ciy.-llali/.cd 1 (j<‘arn al anywlu-re !i(<m ZtX) bi Baptist GliUi- It li» Iw1 ' 'imlui l-
befdre the end of the fiscal year (June 30) and that j 220 ' • ed by ftev Jack Southerland,
actual construction Will begin by next summer,” Hill In Stamford’s favor h 1^°' pastor of the •Hask»*|,‘ hurt‘
I the fact that they are used ’
to being under pressure.
laborer from Corpus Christ!,
was admitted to the Stamford
Sanitarium with a broken
right leg and other injuries.
He is still in the hospital for
treatment.
— H4s-noo.-Roehen, ago^d, was
treated -for a bump on his
head and released.
The two were brought to
the hospital by the Kinney
Funeral Home ambularu-e.
The accident occurred about
Stamford dty police are In-
vestigating the accident Both
cars were badly damaged.
Of Rotary Chib
Even In proapfrity we need
the humbling effect of seeing
what ‘ we have land from
whence It came, Eugene Brew-
er, minister of Orient Street
Church of Christ," said Tues-
Tom~Br~iiinllh Of Mamfowl [day InjtThgnksglvlng day ad-
58, lost his right elbow in a dress befoiythc-Stamforrt ROr
freak discharge, of a gpn Sat-
Stamford Man
Shot in Elbow
road 1661 about 2.7 miles
south of SagertonA Wise and
Steadman prilling Company
truck, driven by Bee Walker,
33, of Wichita Falls, was
Traveling south out of Sager
ton and as it approached a
curve the pipe shiftpd, break-
-mg—it*—holding chain—*ndr
urday morning ort his way to
a deer lease.
.It will probably be eight or
ten days before it can be de-
termined whether his arm can
be saved, according to reports
in Fort Worth where he is a
patient.
Mrs. Smith Jind daughter,
Mrs. J. Roy Johnson, are In
Fort Worth with .him.
Smith was with a cousin and
6:45 p.m. on Farm-to-Market Utwo other men and the party
vtfas en route to a deer lease.
The accidental discharge of
a deer rifle struck Smith at
the elbow of the right arm,
which was resting on the back
seat.
The rifle had been placed be
tween Smith and another man,
txiln t In it toward "th(* ~tTHch of
swinging the pipe Into Lopez's ’ the car ,but had not believed
bob’all truck going north, ac | to have been loaded. The car
cording to Highway patrolman i was traveling down the high-
Tommy Woods' who investi j way and was about two miles
gated the accident. ] north of Mineral Wells when
The pipe hit the cab and the accident occurred. .
left front of the Lopez vehicle Smith was taken first to a
before rolling into a barrow j Mineral Wells hospital, but
flitch_. ! was sent from there by am-.
Lopez's brother, riding with jhulance to Fort Worth._
him, and Walker were not
Bob Dickenson Crawls Under
House To Kill Big Rattler
.....
Bob Dickenson, armed with
. a spotlight on a portable bat-
tery and a 410 shotgun, went
under the J. W. Simpson house
and came-out with a dead rat-
tle snake Friday morning, ~ _
, Dickenson also took with
him a long snare with a loop
on the end of a stick with
which he brought the snake
out from under the house.
Dickenson aimed at the
snake's head and hit the head,
the middle and the tail in one
telling Wow. Yf
The Make was three and a
half feet long and had eight
' rattles . '
The rattles were what gave
. him sway. v
_Mr. and Mrs. Simpson had
been hearing the rattling un
der the house for about a
week. They had c«U£ht a
glimpse of him, too. _______
They called dty hall and
to see whet could be jlone
about It ■
Dickeneon had almost given
up finding the snake when he
picked’ up the sight of the
colled snake under the comer
of the garage.
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They have been In the play-
offs four times since 1952,
; losing In 1952 to Terrell in
the semifinals; to l*hllllps In
1953 ln the regional, then
wrapped up two successive
state championships In ’55
and ’56.
Last week was the first
tlihe Cisco had txsn'in bi^-dis-
trict “play since 1925. Like
First Baptist Chyr< h. Bur ial
was to be in Highland eeme-
terA with Kinney Funeral
Home in charge.
Mr. Smith was born in Miss-
issippi October H, 1863. He was
a Baptist.
He is survived by a brother.
J. L. Smith of Wichita Falls;
three nephews, Sam Crawford
of Stamfotd,"*J. M. Crawford
of Haskell; Raymond of Braw-
ley, Calif., and two nieces,
Two Teachers
Elected Here
Sister Dies
tary club.
Special guests of the club
were members of Lueders
High School six-man football
squad, winners of their dis-
trict. They were Introduced by
Coach John Hayton who men-
from Harris Memorial hospital Boned that W- was-bis-fiwt
year coaching six man foot-
ball and the first year for
the school. The Lueders boys
lost In the bi-dlstrlct. playoff
to Weinert.
Mr. Brewer said that Chris-
tianity was the grammar of
living and he pointed out the
need for examining ourselves.
“Study the first person,he
said. "Be cartful in speaking
of the other person.” - t- -
"was
Then He said that it
necessary to live in the singU;
lar number. "We must live
evtry duty br ttw* present
tense do imporfanT TTTTTVB first I
"We must stand for the right}]
thing in the active voice we
must stand for truth," he de-
clared.
Mr,s. Mahood Will
Speak to P-TAr--------
Fourlh grade classes will
present the program for the
OJiver Street Parent-Teachers
Association meeting Tuesday,
Decrmtx’i 2
The meeting will be at the
Oliver Street cafetorium, be-
'■4?
Larry Wartes at Stamford, j Mrs Mamie McBeath of Ther
this is_the first year ^or 1 rrropoiis, Wyo., and Mrs. Gem
Zack Henderson as head, Youn{; 0{ Kema.
coach at Cisco. However. pallbearers for the funeral
Wartes had "The benefit of (q p,. Weaver Medlin,
working under Coach Gordon Byron Lewis and Bernard
Wood when the Bulldogs, won ! Bulft of Stamford; Ed FouU.
the state title two times.
All the bulldogs ffppear to
he in good shapr^4t>p,,the Sat-
urday encounter, having em
erged from the Pefrytpn con-
Walter Rogers
Jones of Haskell.
and David
Gins Running
4. a" *
Around Clock
Harriapjj Named
All-Ce^ierence
Hardin-
was
Dr. Q J1. MUUcan b
Simmons university,
-TTuu^sgiving service at^S^.
John’s Methodist Churrh^f
Wednesday night.
Tor the second successive
year, Stamford’s Boh Harri
son has been named Big Eight
All Conference </entrV He was
! the unanimous chdiee l^ast
Cotton harvest Is at fall year. Harrison, playing with
tilt with gin* running a- Oklahoma Sooners, made seve
round- the clock. Total of fal All America tcarps. He is a
5,275 hale* of tMs semnou’s. graduate of Stamford
crop had been ginned up to schodl and is the-son of Mr-
2 p.m. Wednesday.......■* ]and Mrs R. L Harrison.
TtRaJ glnntag' of the paM
week reached 1,428 bales.
Ohuttng had reached 3542
last.year.
Mrs. J. M. Anderson of Lub-
bock. sister of Mrs. Steve Ben
nett, died Tuesday at 6 a m. .
Mrs. Bennett and her sister,
, Mrs. Gone Pickard of Albany, ginning at 7 30 p.m. Mrs
TN»„ leat her, (or Slumlord! w-n. » U.bbm-1. Wedne^y DeW^ Slabb,. pre.ldenl, wUI
for the funeral which was‘ preside Mrs. R. r.
held at 2 p.m. will be the speaker.
High school were elected at a
called meeting of the hoard of
education Tuesday night. Supt.
L. W. Johnson announced.
T^ho meeting was called to
approve the auditor’s report
for the 1957-58 term.
.Johnny Howerton, wRo
holds his Master’s degree from
Hardin Simmons University,
was elected as.-hjatpry teacher
to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignatiqp of Dan Bald-
win. J >
Mrs. Roland Kelley was elect-
ed to teach tenth grade Eng
llsh. taking the place of Mrs.
Baldwin, who also resigned.
Mahood
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Tuesday and Wednesday wiU
be;at 10 —„.L.'
The preacher for the revi-
val services will be Dr. J. B.
Holt, pMtor of Knox Memo-
rial - Church, Manila, Philip-
pine Islands. JDr. Holt fs cur.
rently teaching, on a year's
furlough, at Perklna School o<
Theology SMU. Dallas. He tgas
bom U( Abilene and la a
uate .~tr
and Perkins School of Theolo-
gy. His wife was formerly
Margaret Ann Buster of Stam-
ford.
Dr. Holt was executive sec-
retary of the Board of Educa-
tion of.the Central Texas Cori-
ferer« g; youth -director ef the
•Confer'nee, and a pastor be-
fore going ten yoars ago/to
the Philippines as pastor of
the Knox Memorial Church.
Dr. Holt’s sermon titles f .»
sermons this Buuday, "Beyond
These Walls" e.tJ "New Be-
ginnings," indicate the mis-
sionary and evangelistic* theme
of preaching that he will dp
for the four days and nights
at the Stamford . Methodist
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Skin Is Grafted
On Bumed Child
Four-year-old Bunny Tel
chelrrian underwent skin graft
Thursday / morning at the
Stamford Sanitarium wheVc
jihe has been a patient since
Hjfch she suffered extensive second
»nfl third degree burns over
much of her -body nearly a
DK. J. B. HOLT
Disrict Attorney Will Bo-Speaker ^
For B&PW Club Silver Anniversary
Mrs. Cad Sims of Stamford
!s receiving medicql treatment
at the Stamford Sanitarium. '
mains serious. She is the
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Jess
jTetchelman of this city.
The public Affairs commit-
tee U In "rinarge of the ban-
quet with ifene Stewart as
general chairman. Banquet
committees have been set up
with the various members of
the Public" Affairs committee
serving as chairmen.
The invitation committee is
comjxised of Mrs. Ophelia
Reed, ^chairman; Mmes. pan
annh'ersary celt- S m*l t h, Mildred Williams,
Neoma Timberlakc and Olive
MeDoUgle.
Decoration committee is
Billie Boshcr chairman, Mmes.
D. Hasson' G. Kinney, Ona
High. A. C. Berry. W. T. Gam-
bijl and Sarah Hugspeth and
Silver anniversary dinner of
the Business and Professional
wntfiim’irChib wtii be held at
the Stamford Country Club on
December 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Speaker will bo Royce Ad-
kins, district attorney of the
39th district, of Haskell.
BAPW Clubs of Haskell,
Hamlin and Abilene are being
invited to jfoin the Stamford
club In Its
brat ion. "
Presidents of Stamford serv-
ice clubs and women's clubs of
the Woman’s Forum will bo
’special guests.
Both men and women are
Invited to Join the celebra-
tion of the anniversary of. Thirley Thane.
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the club and attend the din
ner. Rtatiw are $1.75 each.
tsmih H»- Hit eortdUKm -re' Baaarvgnoilt 4WR M BUi Gay, Du4Isy Duncan, Ad-
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made by December T with
Mntt Dudley Duncan or Mrs.
Cheater Yeatta. - >
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Menu end reservation: Mrs
W. H, Little, chairman, Mmes.
die Mae Kennedy, Modeaaa
Bell, Chester Yeatta and J. H.
Kinney.
Program committee: Irens
Stewart, chairman. Mmes.
Homer Scott, Carney Moritz,
Jewql Austin, Atha Allen, J.
R. McDaniel and Edna Cut
lum.
. Hospitality: Mrs. L. B. Mc-
Neil, cahirman, Vera Meador,
Rozella V.eazey, Irene Parker,
Mmes. Reta CulbreAtJi and Eu-
gene Brewer. < ,
Publicity: Mrs: C. D. Dick-
enson, chalrmbh; Mmes.' BT Ql ’
Cooper. W. C. Taylor. E.
Wofford. Frank Turner and
Betsy Thornton.
Joe Meridfeth
New President
V JoSt MerMeth has been Moot*
1 -of the
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