The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 10, 1955 Page: 1 of 4
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urtham Journal
MARCH
NUMBER 45.
LER
OW'
AFTER A VERY BRIEF and
iId cold spell, spring has again
t.tled on OUR TOWN and ev
busy gardening and
lanting in their yards. The rrd-
tid is open as are the japonlca
nd jonquil, the grass is beauti-
lly green, keeping everyone
usy with lawn mewing Chil-
ren are happily carrying flowers] T’l'e Wortham Bulldogs are
!o their teacher and some of them 'he process of sharpening their
re already going barefoot, batting eyes, loosening up their
■ throwing arms and generally* gob
m WE ARE SO SORRY that ouriting conditioned for some fast
!°od friend Sadie Stubbs is con- competition in the “national pas-
'ned to bed with a broken leg | time" -baseball.
Double Round-Robin
And Playoff For
Eight-Team District
adie rushed home at noon last
fednesdav to get sortie freshman
apers and in her haste, she fell
ut the back door of her home,
it a concrete block and suffered
very painful break in her left
eg just below the knee. When
r. Sneed h Id her that she w mid
ave to stnv off of it for at least
hree months, it was nlmns; more
han she culd bear and she kep’
aylng that -he just couldn't he-
re ve it. She
•noueh when we visited her at
he Navarro C’linu M nday, h"w
ver. Her room warlike a fl >wer
garden—so rran.v lovrlv flowers
Svervone will miss Sadie in OUR
OWN; and we will lx- glad
Coach Stooksherrv announced
this week that the district race
will begin o>i March 29 and the
playoff at 'he conclusion of the
di'tnc* cha.se w ..! begin on Apjil
26
W ctham w.l' be a member of
an eight-team district which will
be divided into two- four team
/ones Tile we -1 Zone will he
made tip of Richland. Frost. Daw-
seemed cheerfulR"VTld W"rth:,m Thl'
' will he . romp.-s.-d nf Mildred.
Kerens, R:c- and Cavuga
The schedu'e wii he -et Up as
"a fTo'tiMe f'mnd'd'ohtp ""vrm—trf^
rcavoff involving 'he two top
• •
vfwhen she can return to her home.
THIS IS PUBLIC School. Week
4ir» Texas and everyone in
fcchool district, whether <>r
Si-ou have a child in schoi
teams from each zone.
Wortham will be forced to
field a team that is very short
on experience, Probably the
our I greatest handicap facing Coach
not i Stooksbcrrv will be that f fmd-
is1 mg a catcher to replace all-di'-
sit the Wortham School trirt Henrv Orizzard. w ho grad-
this week There are uated last year Another gap in
the line-up n in the pitching po-
sition Last year’s starting p teher,
Iwi-nard Hosea. did not return to
■x»'.h...,i.-Uux.-y»*ar------------------------
Returning from last year’s
purged to
isometime
Jjust two days left if you
haven't Deep— go today
County Goes Over
Top for Second
Straight Year
The final tabulation of Free-
done County March of Diml'S
campaign shows a total of $5,-
799.60 was raised during the Jan-
uary drive. Last year a total of
$5 ,121) 77 was raised, so once
again thy citiz.ens of Freestone
County have gone-over the top
The director of the March of
Dimes for Freestone County, Mrs.
J R, Dobbs, Jr,, wishes to thank
everyone who had any part in
any way to make the drive a
success Everyone has worked
hard and it is greatly appreci-
ated
Following is a ii't of the com-
munities and their directors, with
the amount each contributed:
Butler 5 29 92
Mm M M Wood, duector.
C Ui n (In 12 55
Mrs. J Alderman, director
j Dew 170 02
Mr J Car! Junes, director
D'.nie 136.00
M: Mart- W-tal. dir- o' - I
Fairfield 1,769.361
Mr- O B Utley, Jr. dircc'or
Freestone 60 01
Me- Myrtle Shaddux. diree'or.l
Ki-vir.
Mrs J R S«->s|ons, d
St Elmo **54 00
Mrs, M D Anderson, dire-' r
Sim -h< iro 11.50
Mrs W C tv Whirrs, dt-ee' r
Street man 147 73
Mrs Will Roberts direct
Tea true
Mrs Job
W ir!burn
Spiritual Life Crusade
At Methodist Church
Will Start March 16
$500 QUOTA SET
FOR WORTHAM IN
RED CROSS DRIVE
Miss Ellen Vickery, Teague,
County Red Cross Chairman,
has allotted Wortham a $500
quota for the 1955 Red Cross
Drive. A chairman for Wortham
has not been secured and all
necessary material is at the
First National Bank. M. C.
Strange, president of the b^jrjjk
urges that someone volunteer
for this worthy job.
DR. FRANK L. TURNER
Rev Frank I. Turner, Jr., pas-
tor i f the First Methodist Chifrch,
announced this week that his
congregation would engage in
their Spiritual Life Crusade on
Wednesday evening, March 16,
through Sunday. March 27, with
services each morning at 7:30 and
7 90 Dr
37 815 !_v
t»lurner
THE FIRST Methodist Cnurch
_is being redecorated this week.
The auditorium is being painted
'and the grounds are being re-
$landscaped The'large trees have
4 been cut down and new ones are
|to be planted
THE SHALLOW oil te*t on the
R M Wilson tract last week, the
’ t third one, in fact, showed salt
I water and was abandoned There
are still a lot of wells being
|drilled near Wortham and more
are-being planned We will not
give up' There will be more oil
in and around OUR TOWN'
READ THIS the other day and
f wondered if it applied to OUR
TOWN:
A government income tax in
-quad will be Jon R Jonc '. Puiun
Calamo, Fa* Henrv. Truman A!
bn. Venn- Miehads and D W
L'nch
Other members of -he present
squad arc Larrv Jores, Gene
eAto1 Bennett. Ruben
Fletcs. Charles Eh-tes, Ted Lucas,
Eueene Stubh-' Fenlev Mngness
Maries Pace. Mack Butler. La-
nier Foster. Tommy Sandlin, Bill
LcFcvre and Outh -r Pace
f Ft Wurth wi^ C"nduct stated
the meeting Wortham people will
l remember him for the great
meeting conducted in this Oiureh
j a year ago.
Dr Turner was for some years
In pastor in this conference where
a 600 00 h‘>ld important pastorates, in-
Adktns dime'e- 1 eluding Hamilton, Cisco. Rallin-
68ft 61V ger and churches in Ft Worth.
Mrs W A r-w,w. d:
Yi-ling
Mrs Ashlev Sanders.
TTuT-7 'ff'“-----—
Mrs Frank Bragg, director
, c.,,r pie was f' r four years president
317l!.uf MeMurrv College and under
direct
h;s leadership, the school en-
4*ft■ p<■ v>-d — marheri—vlvsnr*| b*s*h—ft*
e a drmically
Financial Report
Given for 1954
Football Season
1955 Bulldogs To Be
One Best Equipped
Teams in Cen-Tex
For the first time in a number
of years Wortham's football gate
receipts more than matched the
expenses of the game in 1954.
One reason for the financial suc-
cess of the 1954 season was the
fact that the Bulldogs partici-
pated in bi-district play-off.
fvupwiicLuwUuU. -Claytun Oakes
week that the to'al
gate receipts amounted to $ 1. -
796 95. Listed among the major-
expense items were the following:
Officials and expenses for dis-
trict games, $330 60; game guar-
antees to visiting teams, $40,3.65;
cost of letter jackets, equipment,
insurance, laundrv and state- and
district fees, $806,52
New uniforms were purchased
late in the season and these were
partly paid for bv a $220 dona-
tion from th,. . Wnrthum Ev-Slu-
Polio Vaccine To Be
Given Worthami
1st, 2nd Graders
Senior Class Play
Makes Big Hit
Last Friday evening the Senior
Class of the Wortham High School
presented a comedy in three acts
entitled “A Boy Named-Beulah,”
with Hat Henry portraying "The
Boy." The entire Senior Class
was featured in the cast and
their pcVformance was a credit
to their sponsor and director, Mrs.
Ernest Jones.
A large audience was present
to enjoy th" humorous and excit-
ing story as presented by the
class.
Mary Nell Hilton acted as em-
cee for the occasion and Patsy
Eddy presented a gift to Mrs.
Jones.
too
-IS
55.
ni-
the local city andejuaawtSrtTa de
sire tosgc Jkhr^ffirrh The clergy-
Ijja»T^5eaming with unconcealed
"pleasure at hearing this request
Afrom a government representa-
tive. readily agreed. After the in-
yspection the proud Reverend
turned to the inspector and asked
f what he thought of it.
"Frankly, I’m a bit disappoint-
ed,” said the inspector.
The clergyman, quite taken a-
■1 back by this remark, naturally
asked the reason.
"Well.” said the government
i man, "after looking at the re-
\r ports on the income tax papers
"J of your parishoners and the huge
*, gifts they claim to your church,
f I had come to the conclusion that
J the aisles must be paved with
| gold.”
DID YOU SEE the two "fer-
| riners” in OUR TOWN over the
A week end? Kenneth Butler and
.Robert Boyd certainly looked
like they oame from the deep
country somewhere what with
those beards. Guess they just got
out of Huntsville—-must be some
sort of celebration at Sam Hous-
&' ton.
Contesf Launched At
Grade School To
Stimulate Attendance-
/\ government income iax in-
ippoctor visited the clergyman .jit *»^BT<l‘***wortham Grade
School
students are competing by class-
es for the best attendance record
in their building during the
month of March 7 to April 1.
Based on percentage of attend-
ance, the contest will find the
members of the first eight grades
competing for the best mark At
the present time there are 168
students enrolled in the grade
school with a faculty of eight
teachers.
With the continued co-operation
of students and parents alike, it
is felt that the present number
of teachers will be retained next
year Any large degree of ab-
sences would probably mean the
loss of a teacher next year.
TOTAL
Mr- A J Emmons turned in
$1*7 76 from Mt Zion, but it was
included m the Fan-field total.
Telephone Compony
Supplies Study Kit
For Grade School
An interesting study kit is be-
ing used by the students of the
Wortham Grade Si
I i i nl Iiiiiii Till IiTT'Hi it fur-
5albv Southwest
by Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company, consists of
two dial telephones, classroom
booklets, a 20-minute color film
and a film strip.
The material is designed to
give instruction in the proper
usage of the dial system, how to
use the telephone directory and
leads to a study of telephone
manners.
The color film. “Adventures
in Telezonia,” presents in -an
amusing vein the correct tele-
phone usages and features the
Bill Baird Marionettes,
nnncallv and
------' Resigning the presidenev of
$7,799 63 M.'Miirry, he entered the field of
evangelism and was appointed a
general evangelist of the Meth-
odist Church In the dozen years
he has been thus encaged, he has
conducted almost 266 meetings
•hrouehnut th'e Southwest. These
meetings have resulted in al-
most 3,666 conversions and addi-
tions while other thousands have
reconsecrated their lives to Christ
at the altar of the church Evcrv-
\vh"re h" ha- iju»***- Las'
ginpW-ffT'"? 'Pi- i'u.,1 uplift •Tfio
ncopfc' of Wortham and- surround-
ing territory art- urged to attend
the'e. great inspirational services
dents Association.
Mr, Oakes declared that the
1955 Bulldog football team will
be one of the bed equipped
teams in the Central Texas area.
The only equipment that will
have to he purchased next fall
will be football shoes.
J Pastor Represents
Wortham Baptists
. At State Convention
The State Baptist Training Un-
[ ion Conference which convened
in El Paso on Thursday and Fri-
day of last week was attended by
representatives from all sections
[ of the state. Rev. and Mrs. E. P
Coe of Wortham attended the
conference in company with Mr
and Mrs Lester Mctullough of
Mexia and L. C. Hester of Tyler.
This was a program planning
(conference of the Training Un-
lion and plans for the next con-
Iference to meet In Corsicana on
I June 17 were formulated.
Clarence Lucas of Dallas spent
[the week ehd with his parents
IMr. and Mrs. George Lucas.
Three from Wortham
Make Dean's List
At Navarro Jr. College
Myra R Brown, Sylvia Tackett
and Glenn McCommon, Jr., all
of Wortham were named in the
recently released Dean’s List of
Navarro Junior College. Miss
Brown and Miss Tackett were
in the top 34 students, and Mc-
Common was in the top 79.
The Dean’s List is issued after
the close of each semester to of-
ficially commend those students
whose grades were above "B”
average. To be listed by the Dean,
a student must be taking at least
12 hours of work, disregarding
required physical training.
Executive Board
Of P.-T. A. to Meet
Thursday at 2:30
The Executive Board of the
P.-T. A. will meet at 2:30 p.m.
Thursday afternoon, March 10,
at the high school. All officers
and committee chairmen are
urged to attend.
The regular March meeting of
the P.-T. A. will be at 3:30 with
Supt. Clayton Oak?s In charge
of the program.
I
Streetman Sailor
Participated In
Tachen Evacuation
HONG KONG (FHTNC)—Jas.
E Compton, seaman, USN, son
of Mr and Mrs. Irby L. Comp-
ton of Streetman, is aboard the
heavy chuiser USS Pittsburgh
which recently visited here aftei
participating in the successful
evacuation of the Tachen Islands
The Pittsburgh, a unit of the
Seventh Fleet, was at Fukuoka
Japan for liberty when the order
came for her to join other units
for the evacuation.
Freestone County
Negro Teachers Hold
Curriculum Workshop
The Freestone County Negro
Teachers Association will hold
its spring cirriculum workshop
Wednesday, March 16, at J. A.
Brooks Elementary School, be-
ginning at 3:00 p.m The evening
session will begin at 7:00 p.m. at
the Brooks School.
We have been fortunate in se-
curing the following consultants
from the Texas Education Agen-
cy at Austin: Mr, J. B Rutland,
elementary i Mr. W. D Thompson,
high school; Mrs Hannah Hoff
Brown, home and family life ed-
ucation; Mr. George Hurt and
Mr, Robert A. Manirc, agricul-
ture education; Mr. H E Robin-
son, education for the handicap-
ped child, and Mr. Odis Turner,
pupil personnel.
The public is invited to attend
any section of the workshop.
Nominations in Order
For Mother of Year
Mrs. Van Hoow Stubbs, Texas
chairman of the American Mo-
ther’s Committee, has announced
that nominations for the Texas
Mother of the Year will be ac-
cepted until March 15.
Any organization or individual
may nominate someone for the
honor by writing in about the
qualifications of their particular
mother, including her children
Nomination blanks may bo se-
cured from Mrs Stubbs.
Last vear’s Mother was Mrs
Rolla C. Vestal of Whitewrigh
and Mrs. S. E Tucker of Wor-
tham was accorded the honor in
1953.
Marian Keeling of Kilgore was
In Wortham Friday.
Mrs. George Stubbs
Breaks Leg in Fall
Friends of Mrs, George Stubbs
are sorry to know that she will
be unable to teach any more this
year. Mrs. Stubbs fell at her
home last Wednesday and broke
her leg just below the knee and
will be in the Navarro Clinic in
Corsicana for several weeks.
Mrs. Stubbs is the F.nglish
teacher and librarian in our
school and losing her at this
time is indeed unfortunate. Mrs
Gaskill Moody is teaching in her
place at the present time.
Mrs. Ruth Holton, Mrs. F C.
Ward, John P Stubbs, Herbert
Arch Burleson, H. C. Boyd, Clyde
Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. Gussic Weav-
er and Mr and Mrs Ted Weaver,
Mr. and Mrs. W A. Posey, Mr.
and Mrs. F P Simmons and Cyn-I areas of mathematics, the univer-
thia attended the auction sale atlsal “language”„or symbolism used
the Hill Hereford Farm in Fair-1 to record and give meaning to
field last Thursday, I scientific activities.
A
Texas Draft Quota
For April Is Set
At 432 for Army
ALISTIN.—Tlie state draft quo,
la for April is 4,92 men for the
Army, Brigadier General Paul L.
Wakefield, State Selective Serv-
ice Director, said.
This is the Texas share of
national quota of 8.000 men.
The state draft headquarters is
currently figuring breakdown, of
the April quota for 137 draft
boards and plans to mail these
local board quotas by March 8,
The April quota of 432 com
pares with a March quota of 584
and a February quota of 597.
There will be no men called
irn for pre-induction mental and
physical examinations in April
Gen Wakefield said With calls
no higher than they are. he said
he doubted if any examinations
would be held before June or
July.
With the exception of volun-
teers, ,thr April call will be filled
only with registrants who on
April 1 are at least 20 years and
one month of age.
The average age of men now
being inducted in Texas is past
21, Draft hoard quotas are being
filled to a great extent with vol-
unteers. Gen. Wakefield said, and
many of these volunteers are un-
der the ago of 20.
Navarro-Hill
Soil Conservation
Notes
Volunteers Needed
To Assist With
The Program
m.
Mrs. Foster Granted
Director's License
Mrs, Rill Foster has been no-
tified by the State Board of Mor-
tician Examiners that she has
hoen granted a funeral director’s
license,
Mrs. Foster took the funeral
director’s examination at the Bak-
er Hotel in Dallas Jan. 18 and
she received her license last week.
$10,600 GRANT MADE TO
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
AUSTIN.—Dr. H. S. Vandiver
of the University of Texas has
received a $10,600 National Sci-
ence Foundation grant for new
fundamental mathematical stud-
ies. Such studies have led to
basic improvements in many
After April 1, the
Evaluation report will be givt
by the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
Preliminary reports 'indicate
that the vaccine has prevented
all paralytic bulbar polio, there-
fore the National Polio Founda-
tion is offering this vaccine free
to all first and second graders
sometime after April 1. «*
Dr. Pomeroy will donate his
time and equipment to this wor-
thy eau.se and the parents of the
children involved will have to
give their written consent. Vol-
unteers will be needed to assist
in this health program and Mrs
Herbert Strunk, chairman of
health for the local P.-T. A., will
be glad to welcome those . who
wNh to help.
In addition to this, the va.tcine
will be available to the public
through your local doctor.
With an acreage reduction in
cotton in the Soil Conservation
Districts in the area, farmers are
faced with the need of planting
other crops on these "diverted”
acres. Th;s, ran afford an excel-
1ent opportunity tn yi"w mips
in rotation that will improve soil
conditions and help control eros-
ion as well as provide grazing,
hay and cash returns.
>ftnme of these cyops include
spring planted "’"legumes as Hu-
bam clover and cowpens, Some
spring planted grasses that are
adapted to this area are King
Ranch Bluestcm. weeping love
grass and sideoats grama. As for
field crops, there are grain sor-
ghums, __,av.Tje*t-.....^oFghtmrr.'.....“Sudan
"grass, flax and millet.
Hubam clover is an excellent
crop for grazing a-, will a
soil conditioner. The seed crop
affords good cash returns. Swee‘
clovers are adapted to the black-
lands of the {yea. With its derm
tap root, Hubam will epen up
tight, run-together soils and more
water can be absorbed and stored
for future use by other crops
that follow. Humus is put back in
the soil. Nitrogen is added.
Your County ASC office or the
local SCS office can supply you
with information on government
payments for different eligible
crops.
Farm ponds have bepn com-
pleted on following farms: T. E.
Gilbert, Cloman Calame, W C.
Gunn, Jr., O E. Michael, P. N.
Price, L C. Ransom and A. E.
Gaddy.
One mile of terraces were com-
pleted on the West Ranch.
Headache Is Often
Man's Best Friend,
Says Health Officer
Bavlor Professor Aids
In School Evaluation
Dr C. G Strickland, Professor
of Education at Baylor Univer
sitv, attended meetings of the
white and colored faculties of
the Wortham Public Schools last
Monday to assist in the evaluation
of the instructional program in
the Wortham Schools.
Dr. Strickland is serving as
consultant for the Tevas Educa-
tion Agency on the problem of
evaluating the instructional pro-
grams of all the accredited schools
in Texas.
Local People Attend
Meeting in Ft. Worth
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Cooper
and Mr. and Mrs. H P. Bounds
of Wortham and Mr. and Mrs.
Franklin Wilson of Burnett at-
tended the Annual District Man-
ager’s meeting of the National
Farm T.ife Insurance Company
in Ft Worth this week.
Mr. Cooper is agency supervis-
or for the company and Mr.
Bounds and Mr Wilson ary dis-
trict managers.
—AUSTIN.—-A man’s best friend...
can often be his headache, ac-
cording to Dr. Henry A. Holle,
State Health Officer. This is hard
to believe when your head P
throbbing with pain, but the
truth is that a headache is most
often nature’s signal that all i:
not right in vour little world.
That's because a headache P
not an ailment itself, but a symp
tom of something else. That some
thing else may be- as -uli'utftf_
"P'f'nbTem as too much food and
excitement the night, beforo; i'
may, on the other hand, be f
serious threat to bodily health
In either case, it is a warninr
that you should act immediatelv
in the one case by slowing dowr
the tempa of your social life, ir
the other by seeking the advice, of
your physician.
Headaches can bo caused bv
fatigue, by infection, by allergy,
by an injur or by emotional dis-
turbance. Hut all of them fall
into three categories: Mechanical,
toxic and functional.
A headache from eyestrain,
overwork or inflammation of the
sinuses is a mechanical one; head-
ache caused by too much acid in
the body, bv constipation, bv
ovor-indulgeneo in alcohol, bv in
haling certain gas fumes, all o'
which slow up the blood circu-
lation, are toxic headaches. Func-
tional headaches include the oft-
mentioned migrane and those
caused bv high blood pressure
Most headaches need not cause
over-alarm. If they occur infre-
quently, the trouble is often the
"morning after” type, wbirP
should, of curse call for the oh
vinus remedy — eliminate 'h'
night before. Or is vour off "*' or
hodroom improperly ventilated"
That could be the cause of
trouble.
If headaches ' recur frequco*’-
and under the same condi'io-
and in fhe same areas of the h-'" ’
hoed the danger signal your o"-
bndv is giving you. Consult y~“
physician And don’t lean ____
heavily on the support of a*"'1
and similar patent rcm»d;'
Their aid is onlv tempora'"-
hest and does .nothing to af'"'
the real seat o*f your trouble.....~~~
Funeral Services
For Mrs. Cruz
Held in Houston
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Johnpon' vis-
ited relatives in Ft, Worjh Sun-
day. ’ j
Funeral services for Mrs. Ca.‘h
erine Cruz^J®®, daughter o' ~
pioneer fadWT of Wortham.
and Mrs. W.Y, Allen, were held
in Houston last week.
Mrs. Cruz died Monday at h"r
home in Houston. She retired in
1940 after leading a very busy
life' as a musician, amateur arch-
aelogist, librarian and mother.
She was a niece of the l»l
Mrs. R. Y. Chancellor.
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