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Walter Countg
Box 788
Rulo* Texas 79547
The Rule Review And
The Rochester Reporter
'STRIVING TO SERVE ITS READERS WITHOUT PREJUDICE'’
Volume 47
Rochester, Haskell County, Texas 79544, Thursday, February 27, 1969
10c Per Copy
Number 47
Schools To Observe Public
Schools Week March 3rd-7th
Easterlings Take Over
Tanner Grocery Monday
RULE - Texas Public Schools
Week has been designated as
March 3rd through 7th this year
and marks the 115th birthday of
Texas Education on a full pub-
lic level. The Texas Public
Schools Week movement was
started and has been sponsored
by the Masonic Lodges of Tex-
as, in the interest of continuing
public educational opportuni-
ties.
According to Connor Horton,
superintendent, Rule School will
observe Public Schools Week
at this designated time and the
parents, relatives and friends
of the students are urged to
attend a program that will be
held in the school auditorium
at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 5.
Royce Adkins, District Attor-
ney, will be principal speaker
on the subject, “Respect For
Lav/ and Order”. Law enforce-
ment officers, Sgt. Frank Jircik
with the Department of Public
Safety and in charge of five
counties, Garth Garrett, Has-
kell County sheriff, and Sonny
Pittcock, constable and city
marshall, will be introduced
and their duties as officers will
be explained.
Following the program in the
auditorium the public is invited
to the old gymnasium where a
program will be presented by
the students in grades one
through five.
Make a special effort to at-
tend the programs and your visit
will be a rewarding experience
as well as an enlightening one,
and will give you a chance to
show your appreciation of the
Texas Public Schools System.
Make it a point to “go back to
school” March 3rd through 7th„
Ifou’il be glad you did!
ROCHESTER - You are in-
vited to attend Open House, a
program and meal at the cafe-
teria next week, March 3 thru
7 at the Rochester Public
Schools.
It’s Public Schools Week in
Texas and many schools will
be giving a program to cele-
brate this week.
Community schools once
again urge parents and all in-
terested citizens to visit our
public schools during Public
Schools Week, March 3 through
7. Parents, particularly, are
invited to visit their children's
classrooms. This will be an ad-
vantage to both them and the
boys and girls.
It is an opportunity to ob-
serve first hand the progress
Texas education has made and
the benefits it is passing to Tex-
as children. Teachers and ad-
ministrators are eager to an-
swer any questions about our
schools. They can introduce
you to the newest teaching tech-
niques, as well as offer infor-
mation about the functions of the
community schools. Your visit
ant responsibility. You will be
welcomed and offered a day in
the life of your child. So make
a date to attend the program
and Open House at the Roches-
ter Schools, on the date the
program. Open House and ap-
pointed day to eat with your
child.
The Rochester Open House
will be Thursday night, March
6, beginning at 6:30 p.m. and
continuing until 8 p.m. when
the program will start in the
auditorium. Each room will
welcome you and show some of
the work that has been carried
on by the student in that room.
Everyone, whether parents,
grandparents, or just interest-
ed persons are welcome to
come and view not only the work
done by their children, but also
view the work in all the grades.
At 8 p.m, the program -with
many, many children involved
will get underway. This year
the program will be on “Pa-
triotism and will be well worth
your time to see.
Even the most patriotic of
us can learn from a child just
See PUBLIC SCHOOL, Page 2
RULE - “One of the most en-
couraging experiences in edu-
cation I have had in several
years”, quoted Mr. Connor
Horton, Rule Superintendent,
“was when some fifty students
enrolled in the Adult Basic
Education classes, Monday
. - night.
Chambers And Roberson In
Finals In Oratorial Contest
STAMFORD — Names of 9
finalists in the oratorical con-
test sponsored by Stamford
Electric Cooperative were an-
nounced this week by Darryl
Schoonmaker, Member Ser-
vices Director. The finals will
be held Monday night, March 3,
1969, in the Stamford High
School Auditorium, beginningat
7:00 p.m., with the general pub-
lic invited. Refreshments will
be served immediately follow-
ing the contest.
The subject, “A Youth Looks
at His (or Her) Community”,
a creative type speech based on
their community needs and as-
sets. Winners for final consid-
eration are:
Lycia King and David Lang-
ford of Anson; Carleen Bear-
den and Theo Smith of Lueders-
Avoca; Martha Chambers and
Edwin Roberson of Rochester;
Regina Letz of Old Glory; Sue
Wilkinson of Haskell; Lloyd
Taylor of Stamford.
From the group of finalists,
a boy and a girl will be se-
lected as winners of an all ex-
pense-paid trip to Washington,
D. C., with the Texas Electric
Cooperative Youth Tour in June,
Schoonmaker said.
Judges for the finals will be
Danny Doan, Member Services
Director of Tavlor Electric Co-
operative, Merkel, Milburn
Wink, Vocational Agriculture
Teacher of Hamlin, and Jamie
Clayton, Farm Editor of the
Abilene Reporter News.
During four days in the na-
tion's capitol city, the young
people will visit various gov-
ernmental agencies and sites
of historical significance. They
also will visit the headquarters
of the National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association, na-
tional service organization for
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. May and
Randy spent Sunday in Abilene
and visited their daughter, Su-
san, a student at McMurry Col-
lege. *****
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Barbee
of Tarleton State College spent
from Friday night until Sunday
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James R. Barbee and family.
**** sfc
Mr. and Mrs. Don Thomas and
family spent the weekend with
her sister, Mr. and Mrs. Rex
Browning and family in Mineral
Wells. They celebrated Mrs.
Thomas’ birthday on Sunday.
MARTHA NELL CHAMBERS
EDWIN ROBERSON'
about 1,000 electric coopera-
tives across the nation. Each of
the Youth Tour participants will
be given a set of colored slides
showing highlights of the Wash-
ington Trip, Schoonmaker said.
It is expected that the young
people will use the slides in re-
porting highlights of their Youth
Tour experiences to local
groups such as youth groups,
service clubs, church groups,
farm groups, or any organiza-
tion desiring an interesting pro-
gram for its meeting.
*****
* Coming Event
ROCHESTER — Texas Garden
Clubs, Inc., District VIII, annual
Spring Convention will be held
at the Sweetwater Country Club
in Sweetwater on March 4,1969.
“Flowers Can” will be the
theme for the convention. Reg-
istration will be from 8:30 to
9:30 a.m.
ROCHESTER - Mr, and Mrs.
Bobby James Easterling, moved
here Wednesday and are new
owners of the Pete Tanner Gro-
cery Store. The Easterlings
will assume duties at the store
Monday, March 3. Mr. Tanner
however plans to be around for
a few days to help them get
acquainted and organized.
Mr. Tanner, who has been in
the grocery business in Roches-
ter for many years, has no
definite plans except to rest
awhile before any other plans
are made.
Mr. Easterling was born and
reared in Avoca and graduated
from there in 1946. He has al-
to a public school is a pleas-
Adult Education Classes
Began At Rule Monday
Two level classes will meet
again Thursday night and will
meet twice weekly on Monday
and Tuesday nights for fourteen
weeks this school year.
People can still enroll at any-
time. The courses and material
will be free.
j Mgi-prials will also he avail-
able to review for tests to be
taken at a test center to re-
ceive a diploma from the Texas
Education Agency if a certain
score is made.
Mr. Bobby Moore, Rule grade
school principal and Mrs. Con-
nor Horton have been employed
as teachers.
*****
Nicky Reid
On Dean's
Honor Roll
ROCHESTER — Nicky Reid of
West Texas State University
was named to the Dean's Honor
Roll for the Fall semester.
To make this list Nicky must
have carried at least 12 hours
and had a 2.5 average out of a
possible 3 point system. Nicky-
had a 2.8. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Manford Reid of
Rochester and a sophomore stu-
dent at West Texas.
*****
Susan May
Named To
Dean's List
RULE — Susan May, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Amos David
May Sr., of Rule, has been
named to the Dean’s List for the
fall semester at McMurry Col-
lege in Abilene.
To qualify for inclusion on the
Dean’s List, a student must have
completed 12 or more semester
hours with a grade point of 3.5
or better. Susan qualified with a
3.6 grade point average on a 4
point system with 15 semester
hours.
Susan is enrolled as a second
semester freshman student at
the Abilene college with 17 se-
mester hours majoirng in ele-
mentary education. She was sal-
utatorian of the 1968 graduating
class of Rule High School.
Mr. and Mrs. Travis Fore of
Lubbock and Mr. and Mrs. H.
L. Matheny of Bayard, N. M.
spent Sunday with Mrs. Myrtle
Cooper and other relatives.
*****
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cooper of
Childress spent the weekend
with Mrs. Myrtle Cooper and
Mrs. D. W. Hamilton.
* MRS. GENE TONN
Mrs. Gene Tonn
Retires As Sec.
Of Farm Bureau
Mrs. Gene Tonn is retiring
as secretary of the Haskell
County Farm Bureau effective
March 1, I|.969, this^aper wav'
advised this week.
Her retirement ends service
with the local organization of
19 years and 3 months, which
we were told is the longest
service record of any County-
Farm Bureau Secretary in the
state.
After serving under 12 dif-
ferent presidents and the var-
ious directors during the years,
Mrs. Tonn expressed her ap-
preciation to all of them for
their cooperation and consid-
eration. She advised it has been
a gratifying pleasure and ex-
perience to serve the many-
fine members of the local or-
ganization which she will never
forget. Mildred and Gene ex-
pect to do some traveling before
they retire to their rocking
chairs they said.
At a party in her honor Sat-
urday, Feb. 22, Mrs. Tonn re-
ceived a plaque of appreciation
from the Farm Bureau office
in Waco and an engraved brace-
let and service pin from the
local board of directors and em-
ployees of the Haskell office.
Mrs. Marie (L. B.) Ivey will
take over the duties as secre-
tary.
*****
O'Brien Slates
Election Apr. 5
Mayor L. A. Covey of O’Brien
has called the city election for
Saturday, April 5, according to
City Secretary Ikie Ray.
Purpose of the election will
be to elect a mayor and two
councilmen. Terms expiring
this year are those of Mayor
Covey and Councilmen Charles
Casillas and Johnny Reid. Hold-
over members of the council
are Paul Wissel, Don Whitley,
and Chris Jiminez.
Mr. Ray said that the city
and school elections would be
held jointly again this year
and voting will be done at the
Carney Rural Schools from 8:00
a.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Anyone desiring to run for the
city election may sign up at
the O’Brien City Hall and those
who would like to run for school
trustee may pick up an appli-
cation at Superintendent Char-
les Thorn’s office.
School trustees whose terms
expire this year are Coy He-
witt, Eddie Adkins, and Clyde
Covey. All three incumbents
have signed for re-election.
Holdover members are S. J.
Reeves, Jr., Ivan Rowan, Clau-
dale Barnard, and Milton Ro -
wan.
Deadline for filing in both
elections is March 5. )T
ways worked for Safeway and
Shoprite Incorporative since his
graduation except for 1951 and
1952 when he v/as serving in the
Armed Services. He has been a
member of the Kiowanas for
several years.
He married the former Joyce
Sanders of Stamford inl954and
they have four children, Jana,
age 12; Carla, 11; Bobbie
James, 7 and Mark, 6.
Mrs. Easterling’s brother,
Ray Gene Sanders will be mak-
ing his home with them. He
will be remembered around
O’Brien as he taught in the
Public Schools in O’Brien for
about seven years. The family
is moving here from Luling,
Texas.
According to reports here,
there will be several new pol-
icies at the store, one of them
being a strictly all cash basis,
however, there will be no change
in the delivery service. Your
groceries will be delivered to
your house as they have been
in the past, if need be.
Mr. and Mrs. Easterling in-
vite you to come in and get ac-
quainted with them next week
and in the future weeks. They
are looking forward to serving
you.
They will be making their
home in the Jones house on the
Rule and Rochester Highway.
*****
VYING FOR BI-DISTRICT are the Rochester Steerettes who invite each and everyone
of you to come to Aspermont, Monday night at 8 p.m. and see the Trent-Rochester Bi-Dis-
trict game. From left, back row, are Jeanie Haney, manager, Carolyn Greenwood, Cinda
Sherley, Sherry Tibbets, Ann Hicks and Wanda Strickland. These five serve as captains
since they are the juniors and* ^p^ors. Front row, from left, Janay Tibbets, Kay New-
som, Louise Byrd, Darra HeadstTeam, Nancy English, Pam Speck and Lonetta Strickland.
Rita Holmes was not available for the picture and Janice Roberson, scorekeeper was not
available.
Steerettes Play BI-District
Game With Trent Mon. 8 P.M
ROCHESTER — The Roches-
ter High School Steerettes will
play Trent at 8 p.m. Monday
night, March 3 at Aspermont
for Bi-District. The girls are
expecting a hard game as the
Trent team has a good record
in district play, same as the
Steerettes. They have several
tall girls on their team and the
Rochester girls are going to
have a hard time rebounding off
of them. But if the girls really
get down to this game of basket-
ball like they have played in the
past they can come home with a
victory under their belt and a
Bi-District title. They played
Former Resident, Ben H.
Bristow Buried Here Sat.
LINDA GREEN
Linda Green
Makes Dean's
List At McM
RULE -Linda Darlene Green,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Worth
Green of Rule, has been named
to the Dean's List for the fall
semester at McMurry College
in Abilene.
To qualify for inclusion on
the Dean’s List a student must
have completed 12 or more se-
mester hours with a grade point
average of 3.5 or better. Linda
acquired a 3.692 grade point
average on a 4 point system and
is classified in the top 10% of
the student body at McMurry.
Linda is a second semester
sophomore student at the Abi-
lene college with 16 hours, ma-
joring in secondary education.
Her activities at McMurry in-
clude Delta Beta Epsilon social
club.
She graduated from Rule High
School in 1967 and was the class
salutatorian.
*****
Fashion Show
And Luncheon
On March 8
jv ROCHESTER - The Progres-
sive Study Club of Haskell is
sponsoring a “Miss Texas”
scholarship fund benefit, March
8, 12:30 p.m. at the Haskell
Country Club. Fashion arrange-
ments are by Lane-Felker of
Haskell, with informal modeling
of fashions for anyone between
young teens and matrons. A sal-
ad luncheon will be catered by
Felker’s Restaurant. Musical
entertainment will come from
the “Scarleteens”, a lovely
singing group of 8th graders.
Reservations can be made now,
with tickets available at a booth
serviced by club members in
the Lane-Felker establishment.
Phone reservations can also be
made with any club member or
with Mrs. Ira Hester, 864-3060.
Space accommodations at the
Haskell Country Club are limit-
ed, so reservations should be
made early.
RULE — Funeral for Benja-
min Hayes Bristow, 78, was
held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb-
ruary 22, 1969, in Sweet Home
Baptist Church, the Rev. Jack
Key, pastor, officiating. Burial
was in Rule Cemetery under
direction of Pinkard Funeral
Home.
Mr. Bristow, former Rule
resident, died at 7:45 p.m.
Wednesday in St. Anthony Hos-
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Sidney Smart
Slightly Hurt
In Flip Over
ROCHESTER - Sid Smart,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert
Smart was slightly injured Sat-
urday night about 11 p.m. when
he lost control of his car right
after rounding the curve near
the Gene Muhle house on the
highway between Rochester and
Rule.
Smart said he ran into the fog
and slick highway and somehow
lost control. His car flipped
over one complete time, butSid
managed to ride it down all the
way. He spent Saturday night in
the Knox County Hospital under
observation but was released
Sunday. He was back in school
Monday. He was bruised and
sore all over but otherwise was
not seriously injured. The car
was damaged extensively.
*****
O’Brien Seaman
Completes Tour
(D0345) SAN DIEGO (FHTNC)
Feb. 14 - Airman Apprentice
Lewis L. Davis, USN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard M. Davis of
Route 1, O’Brien, Tex. returned
to San Diego, California aboard
the attack aircraft carrier USS
Constellation. The carrier has
just completed its fourth tour of
combat duty off the coast of
South Vietnam.
While deployed, Constella-
tion's Carrier Air Wing 14
launched 6,574 combat sorties
and 4,089 support missions over
Vietnam. Its total estimate of
damage of destruction to enemy
targets included 424 trucks, 461
supply barges, 31 bridges, 27
anti-aircraft sites, and a 16
mile petroleum pipeline.
Coahoma at Jayton in a warm-up
game Monday night in a double
header. Rochester was victor-
ious 61-55. Wanda Strickland
was high with 22 for the winners
and Sandra Gross of Coahoma
had 22.
They will play Jayton at As-
permont Friday night in a final
warm-up game before Bi-Dis-
trict. This game will be played
at 7:30 p.m.
The Steerettes are made up o|
vgroup of giris who have’
hard and deserve to win. Shefry
Tibbets, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lesley Tibbets is a sen-
ior forward who about halfway
wishes she was a freshman
again when it comes to giving
up basketball. She hits the bas-
ket well from either the inside
or outside and will be striving in
the Bi-District game with Trent
to win so as to prolong this bas-
ketball season. Her main menu
now is basketball served with all
the trimmings.
Wanda Strickland, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Iva Strickland is
a junior forward whose powers
under the net always count in
points. She has a good point
average and will be looking for-
ward to next year with great
anticipation. The coveted points
tha Turner of Donna. See STEERETTES, Page 2
Ray Fulenwider To Speak
At CofC Banquet Mar. 18
pital in Amarillo after a lengthy
illness.
Born September 30, 1890, in
Truby, he was married August
7, 1910, to Zona Bell Arnold in
Jud. She preceded him in death
in 1965. He was a retired farm-
er, and was a resident of Rule
60 years prior to moving to
Amarillo three years ago. He
was a member of Sweet Home
Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons,
Jack and Donald Wayne, both of
Amarillo; two daughters, Mrs.
Arch McGinley of Glenwood
Springs, Colo., and Mrs. N. M.
Clark of Ackerley; two grand-
children; one sister, Mrs.Ber-
RULE — Rule Chamber of
Commerce will elect officers
for the coming year at a regu-
lar meeting at 7 p.m. Thurs-
day, February 27 at the Blue-
bonnet Cafeteria, who will be
presented at the annual ban-
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Give To The
Heart Fund
RULE - Final steps for dona-
tions to the Heart Fund Drive
are underway this week for the
Rule community, according to
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Norman,
community chairmen.
Medical advances are made
possible by contributions to the
American Heart Association
through the Heart Fund Drive
each year in February, nation-
ally known as the Heart Month.
By donations to the Heart Fund
you help your heart and the
hearts you love by supporting
vital research, education and
community service programs of
your Heart Association.
Volunteers working on their
respective streets this week
are Mmes. Clarence Ray, A. R.
Eaton, Elmer Landreth, Tru-
man Barbee, Jerry Hadaway,
Roy Foster, A. V. Townsend,
Malcolm Herttenberger, Har-
old Woods and Myrtle Hunt. W.
V. Almond is in charge of the
business district. Each worker
will be wearing identification
quet set for March 18 at the
school cafeteria.
Speaker for the banquet will
be Ray Fulenwider, former Ele-
mentary Principal and Science
teacher at Rule school for seven
years and whom is well known
over the area. Fulenwider be-
came an education director of
the Lubbock Church of Christ in
July, 1968.
Awards will be presented to
the Outstanding Man and Woman
of the Year in this area.
Harold Woods, president, will
be master of ceremonies.
*****
Rites Monday
For A. L. Blair
Funeral services for A. L.
Blair, 74, long time Haskell
County resident, were held at
2 p.m. Monday in Trinity Bap-
tist Church with the Rev. Jesse
Jones, retired Baptist minis-
ter, officiating. Burial was in
Willow Cemetery under the di-
rection of Holden-Me Cauley
Funeral Home.
Mr. Blair died at 12:10 a.m.
Sunday in Haskell Memorial
Hospital where he had been a
patient one week. He was the
brother of Ira Blair of Roches-
ter.
Born Dec. 24, 1894, in Honey
Grove, he came to Haskell
County in 1912 with his par-
ents. He married Alma Minnie
Rueffer, July 19, 1918, at Has-
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