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EMPIRE Vol. 68, No. 86—TRIBUNE Vol. 88, No. 80.
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1947 -
EIGHTEEN PAGES. Vol. 77. No, 18
WINS FIRST AT BATTLE OF FLOWERS FIESTA
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the second consecutive year in the annual Battle of Flowers band contest at San Antonio last
week. Both the Band and the Crack Company marched in full dress uniform in the five-mile
Battle of Flowers parade Friday afternoon.
COUNTY PEANUT
PRICES PEG6ED
AT 90 PERCENT
Erath Farmers Assured Of
Good Returns for ’47 Crop
As UJ3. Announces Support
The farm price of • 1947-crop
farmers stock peanuts will be sup-
ported at 90 percent of parity as
of July 16, 1947, the beginning of
the marketing year, according to
an announcement made recently by
the Production and Marketing Ad-
ministration division of the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture.
Prices will be supported by Com-
modity Credit Corporation loans
and purchases, it was stated. Pur-
chase and loan values by type,
sound mature kernel content, and
quality, based on historical differ-
ences in value, will be announced
afted the July parity price has
been determined.
Loan Deadline Set
Loans will be available to pro-
ducers until January 31, 1948, and
purchases will be made from pro-
ducers until June 30, 10*8. Offi-
cials stated that purchases wi]J be
made only to maintain prices or to
provide markets. It is expected
that any purchases will be made
through peanut grower cooperative
associations located at Frank-
lin, Ga., Camilla, Ga., and Gorman,
Texas, according to the announce-
ment.
The 1947 crop-support j..“>gram
essentially is the same as the
1946 program. Since Erath county
is a heavy producing peanut cen-
ter, government support of the
surrent year’s crop assures pro-
ducers here of good prices for
thbir peanuts again this season.
Singing at Morgan Mill
A singing will be held at the
Methodist church at Morgan Mill
Sunday night. May 4, at 8 o’clock.
The Stamp*-Baxter Quartet of
Dallas, fend the Louis National
Quartet of Fort Worth will be
among the quartets who will take
part in the program. The gather-
ing will be under the direction of
Mr. Johnny Herring and the pub-
lic is invited to attend.
I’ll Tett the
WORLD
f JNDER the heading, “Let’s Build
It Ourselves and Own It Our-
selves,” William R. Roge, Dallas
banker, brought out many sound
thoughts concerning Texas indus-
try- *t 1* • topic that every town
and county In the Southwest has
been talking about for the past two
or three years but so far there
has been very little done about it.
The Empire-Tribune reprints what
Mr. Hogs has to say because it
can be applied in so many ways
to Stephenville and Erath county.
His story follows:
By WM. R. HOGE
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'TEXAS needs more Industry, and
x it ought to be Industry owned
by Texans themselves. The State’s
need for additional industries —
and especially diversified small In-
dustries — is basic. It is a need
that must be met if Texas is to ob-
tain the kind of balanced economy
necessary for sound and longtime
prosperity. True enough Texas is
prosperous to day. But it may as
well be recognised that our present
prosperity Is Hue largely to two
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Plans Complete for Parents’
Day Program at J. T. A. C.
Scout Pet Show To
Open With Parade
A parade Saturday afternoon at
2 o’clock will open the chidren’s
pet show, sponsored by local Cub
Scouts in an effort to raise funds
with which to carry on their ac-
tivities, to be held in the livestock
building at the city park.
The parade will leave the park
promptly at 2 o’clock, circling the
public square and returning to the
livestock shed. Mayor Henry Clerk
and the Stephenville High School
Band will lead the proceasion and
tentative plans are for a fire truck
to follow the band- Cub Scouta,
Boy Scouta and “every boy and
girl in Erath county who will
march” will follow in the above or-
der. An effort also is being made
to include a bicycle group.
The main gates will open at 2:80
p.m. for the show, which will con-
tinue until 9:30 p.m. A band con-
cert and program will be present-
ed, beginning at 8:00 o’clock when
the band will play several selec-
tions and local talent, including E.
T. Wyatt Jr. and his magician's
act, will be presented. Any child
or person who can sing, perform
acrobatic stunts or otherwise en-
tertain is requested to notify J.
W. Heffington, general chairman
of show arrangements, at tele-
phone 311^and offer to partici-
pate in this phase of the program.
Entry Hours Are Set
Any boy or girl in Erath county
is eligible to enter as many aa
three pets, with a mother pet
which has several young to be
counted only as one entry. All pets
are to be brought to the city park
between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Satur-
day. Pens, coops, cages and stalls
will be provided for all entries in a
manner best designed to avoid
confusion. A judging committee
will be selected to award prizes to
children who enter the winning
pets..
Concessions will be in charge of
the Cub Scouts. Cold drinks and
other refreshments will be avail-
able.
All boys and girls under 16 years
Three Erath 4-H
Club Boys Given
300 Chicks Each
Nine hundred White Leghorn
baby chicks were received Tues-
day by County Agent G. D. Ever-
ett for three 4-H Club boys who
have poultry for their 1947 pro-
jecta. These boys are Carl Frank
Chapman, Route 2, Stephenville;
Carroll Wood, Route 3, Stephen-
ville, and Jakie Laughlin, Morgan
Mill. Each of these boys received
300 baby chicka and had their
brooders and brooder-houses ready
when the chicks arrived.
Sears-Roebuck is sponsoring a
contest in 27 counties among 4-H
Club boys. Three boys from each
county receive either 300 baby
chicks or 60 baby turkeys and
Erath was -one of the counties of
District 8 selected.
Commercial hatcheries in Texas
produced 12,000,000 chicks during
March, according to the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics. This was
six percent below the chick output
for March, 1946, and eight percent
below the 1941-1945 average. Ac-
cording to all reports, the chick
preduction here in Erath county
has been below the average this
year, although the local hatcher-
ies intend 'to hatch later than us-
ual.
Thera wars 246 hatcheries show-
ing a decrease of 26 percent in
turkey poults in March, 1947, over
March, 1946, and 27 percent fewer
turkey eggs ware In incubators on
April 1 than a year ago, the Bu-
reau of Agricultural Economics re-
port stated,
The fu:
REECIE R. JONES
BUYS N. HALF OF
NEBLETT BLOCK
Plans Later to Erect New
And Modern Structure for
Chevrolet* and Implement*
Reecie R. Jones, head of the Ste-
phenville Motor Co., the local
Chevrolet agency, for the last 16
i, which placed first fur years, Monday announced the pur-
chase of the north half of the Neb-
let block.
The tract, 104 feo£ by 208 feet, is
located directly South of the pres-
ent quarters of the motor company
which plans to use the additional
space in the sale of automobiles,
implements and other departments
of the concern.
Amount of the consideration was
not announced, but it is known to
be one of the major real estate
transactions negotiated thus far
during the current year.
Plans are eventually to improve
the property with a modern motor
company business building.
Also Handles Implements
The Stephenville Motor Com-
pany has enjoyed a steady growth
over the years and it became nec-
essary to secure additional room
for further expansion of the busi-
ness. The firm not only will handle
the sales and service of Chevro-
let cars and trucks, and the sale
and installation of parts for them,
but it also will deal extensively
in the J. I, Case line of implements
and parts.
The property sold has been in
the Neblett family for more than
40 years. Although never improv-
ed, there are a few structures on
the tract which Jones later plans
of age will be admitted free to
the show, but a small admission
will be charged persons over that
nds deri
erived will be us-
ed to pay the expenses incident to
iw
iow and any sur-
go into an operating fund
putting on the
plus will go into an operating 1
for the Stephenville Cub Peck.
In urging a large attendance,
Rev. ■ L. P. Parker, Cubmaster,
■aid: “All parents and friends of
children are invited and urged to
co-operate in this great county-
wide enterprise and help put it
over in a big way”.
J-TAC IS JUDGED
BEST IN STATE
The J-Tac, student newspaper
publication of John Tarleton Col-
lege, was judged the best junior
college newspaper in the state on
Friday in the annual journalism
contest of the Texas Intercollegiate
Press Association at Alpine. The
announcement was made at the
annual awards dinner at Sul Ross
College.
In the individual awards, Martha
Hill, John Tarleton, placed first in
the advertisement division.
Delegates from 16 colleges at-
tended the two-day meet and heard
addresses by Charles A. Guy pub-
lisher of the Lubbock Avalanche-
Journal, and John L. iMcCarty of
the Amarillo Globe-Newt. On
opening night, the group went to
the McDonald Observatory on an
inspection tour.
Official delegates from Tarleton
were Rosemary Colborn, editor of
The J-Tac; George Hendrick, as-
socaite editor, and Posy Hickok.
Unofficial delegates who also made
the trip were Aubrey Woolsey and
Nell Cark. J. A. Hart, director
of publicity at Tarleton and spon-
sor of The J-Tac, accompanied the
group.
/. T. Mays & Co. Is
Announcing Annual
Sale for Ten Days
Starting this morning, May 2, at
8:30 o’clock, and continuing
through Tuesday, May 18, the J.
T. Mays A Co. store here will con-
duct a drastic price-reduction sale.
Although this Is an annual event,
the firm this year is announcing
a big cut in prices in order to make
room for more merchandise.
Offering a multitude of special
bargains throughout the store, J.
T. Mays, owner and manager, is
advising that patrons take advan-
tage of this unusual sale to make
selections for Mothers’ Day gifts.
As an added inducement to the
public to visit the store end see
for themselves the numerous bar-
gains being offered during this
sale, five valuable prises will be
given away on Tuesday, May 18, at
4 p.m. It is not necessary to buy
anything to be eligible to receive
one of these awards, which are a
Bendix radio, a Sunbeam automa-
tic poiAup toaster, e fluorescent
table lamp, a 20-piece set of Cali-
fornia dinnerwsre, and 10 phono-
graph records.
As much as one-third of the for-
mer price is being taken off for
such things as throw rugs, luggage
and lamps, and many other speeial
bargains are being offered during
this 10-day sale.
Patrons are invited to use the
firm’s lay-away plan, and terms
can easily be arranged.
Leroy Ayeock of Guaymas So-
nora, Mexico has written his mo-
ther, Mrs. Mattie Ayeoek, of hie
promotion to consular assistant.
to clear away In preparation for
the construction of the large busi-
ness building contemplated.
Jones has Deen active in the ci-
vic and church life of the commun-
ity for many years. He is a mem-
ber of the Lions Club, the Cham-
ber of Commerce, served six years
as alderman on the City Council,
is chairman of the board of stew-
ards of the local First Methodist
Church, and has participated in
other activities in the city.
The Skeleton Walks
To Be Presented By
SHS Sophomore Class
The sophomore class of the St*
phenville High School will present
a mystery-comedy entitled, “The
Skeleton Walks." The royalty story
was written by Felicia Metcalfe,
and will be presented at the High
School auditorium Thursday night,
May 8, at 8 p.m.
The play is centered around a
mysterious old house which is
claimed by two different people.
Strange things begin to happen
one rainy night Circumstances are
complicated by a morbid anatomist
who sees others with an eye for
suitable bones to complete a skele-
ton.
The cast includes Nancy Howell,
Darlene Luttrall, Wanda Pittman,
Sammie Powers, Gwynta Scott,
Naomi Gibson, Ray Graves, Phillip
Ogan, Darrell Sullivan ar.d Bill
Fanning. The sophomore class
sponsors are Mrs. Frances Holt
and C. B. Troup.
Asks Newspaper
Aid in Locating
Young Daughter
Aid of the Empire-Tribune and
some of the state’s leading daily
newspapers is being solicited this
week by parents of Magdalen Mar-
tini, 14, who disappeared from
the convent school in Dallas and
has not been heard from since
March IQ. She had been attending
school for 10 months.
When last seen she had on a
red sweater and black skirt and
was wearing ear studs with white
sets. The girl, who formerly at-
tended school in Stephenville, has
dark brown hair, large brown eyes
and an olive complexion and may
be identified by a noticeable scar
on the left leg. She is five feet and
five inches tall and weighs approx-
imately 120 or 126 pounds.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Martini, whose home is
two and a half miles northeast of
Stephenville. The parents believe
the girl may be in Dallas, Fort
Worth, San Antdnio or Wichita
Falls. Anyone knowing her where-
abouts may write Mrs. Mary Mar-
tini, General Delivery, Stephenville
or telephone or wire the sheriff’s
office, Stephenville.
Annual Event Expected to Attract
Large Crowd from Wide Area
Hundreds of parents, ex-students
aad relatives and friends of stu-
dents of John Tarleton College are
expected on the campus this week-
end when the annual Parents’ Day
and Ex-Students’ Reunion will be
held with special programs plan-
ned both Sunday morning and Sun-
day afternoon.
Minter Gro. & Mkt.
Announces Sale On
Store-Wide Basis
The George Minter Grocery and
Market this week is announcing a
store-wide sale in both their gro-
cery and market departments, with
special prices being offered on
ew structures on large number of choice items.
Among the merchandise offered
are numerous Swift & Co. pro-
ducts, and G. T. Gleaton, sales
man for that company, co-operated
with the Stephenville concern In
making these products available
for this special sale.
■Also featured are baby foods,
in keeping with National Baby
Week April 26-May 3. The George
Minter Grocery and Market has a
complete line of baby foods, as
well as all staple groceries and
market supplies.
The firm is one of the pioneer in-
dependent food stores in Stephen
ville and the sale announced in this
week’s advertisement is in line
with the policy of the concern of
giving their patrons quality mer
chandise at the lowest possible pri-
ces. '
Housed in a modern building just
off the square on East Washing-
ton Street, both the grocery and
the market departments are clean
and modern in every respect.
Trained and courteous employees
assist the patrons with their pin-
chases. _
Rainfall This Year
Nearly Five Inches
Less Than in 1946
Weekend precipitation totaled
.40 of an inch, the Farmers-Pirst
National Bank reported, bringing
the total rainfall for April to 2.86
inches, as compared with 1.61 in-
ches of moisture recorded during
April of last year.
Rainfall for the flrat four montha
of 1947 lacks almost five inches
of being aa much as was received
during the Same period in 1946,
when the total was 18.01 inches.
So far, through April 80, only 8.27
Inches have been recorded.
This year, by months, the precip-
itation has been: January, 2.21;
February, .48; Mareh, 8.28; April,
2.36; total, 8.27 inches. Last year,
during the same months, the mois-
ture totals were: January, 8.78;
February, 2.87; March, 3.80; April
I. 61; total, 18.01 inches.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kay and
children, Mary Anita and Linda, of
Alpine, visited here Thursday night
and Friday with his mother, Mrs.
J. P. Kay, 957 West McNeill St,
while en route to see his sister
and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mra.
C. R. Ayers, in Fort Worth, dur-
ing the serious illness of Mr. Ay-
ers. Mr, Kay, formerly of Stepn-
envilly, now la In the insurance and
real estate business at Alpine.
Special Invitation Is
Extended to SHS
Girls to Hospital Day
A special invitation to the Ste-
phenville High School senior girls
to attend an open house in St.
Joseph's Hospital in Fort Worth
from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, May
10, was extended recently.
The open house will be in cele-
bration of National Hospital Day
which is May 12, the anniversary
of the birth of Florence Nighting-
ale, the English nurse who focus-
ed attention on the need for im-
proved nursing and hospital ser-
vice during the Crimean War.
The public is also invited to at-
tend the open house, but potential
nurses will be given special atten-
tion, and will be taken on a tour
of the hospital.
DR. TROTTER
Ide P. Trotter, director of the
state extension service at Texas
AAM College.. will be the guest
speaker at tne morning service,
which will be held in the main
auditorium at the college from
10:40 e.m. until 12 o’clock noon.
Dr. Trotter has served with the
extension service at ARM since
1944 and was head of the depart-
ment of agronomy there for eight
GOODYEAR HAS
NEW MANAGER
R. D. Rawson of Dallas is in
Stephenville where he has taken
over the management and opera-
tion of the Goodyear Service
Stores which opened in this city
January 1, 1944. He succeed* Mil-
ton Cox, who is retiring to enter
business here for himself.
Rawson has been a member of
the Goodyear Service Stores per-
sonnel for several years but his
service was interrupted during
the war when he was engaged in
technical defense work in Dallas.
He came from Tyler to Dallas,
where his family is making their
horn* until suitable quarters can
be located for them in Stephen-
ville.
Has Two Associates
Associated with Rawson at the
>dyi
Mo
will assis
and operation of the concern In
Goodyear Service Stores will be T.
A. Morris and W. T. Morris, who
ssisi him in the management
this city.
Cox Tuesday expressed his ap-
preciation for the business given
the store during his management,
when sales reached a volume con-
sidered very satisfactory for towns
of equal population. In fact, the
Stephenville concern is considered
one of the leading stores in the
Goodyear chain.
In regard to his new field of en-
deavor, Cox will have a definite
statement to make at a later date.
Weatherford Buys Barrack*
The Weatherford city schools re-
cently purchased fourteen buildings
from the U. S. Army, Superinten-
dent L. B. Wilson has announced,
some of them at Camp Fannin near
Tvler and some at Heame, Texas.
The purchase included 10 barracks
buildings, two camp supply build-
ings and two latrine buildings.—
The Weatherford Democrat.
Amendment W ould
Benefit Tarleton
John Tarleton College stands to
benefit if an amendment which will
be put to a vote of the people next
August 23 receives a favorable bal-
lot. The Texas legislature has
approved a bill providing maans of
financing $60,000,000 of construc-
tion at the State’s colleges. A vote
of 110 to 28 ordered the special
election on the date specified.
Under the proposal, e special
tax of five cents on the hundred
dollar valuation would be levied to
provide revenue against which 14
state colleges could issue an esti-
mated $45,000,000 in bonds during
the next 30 years.
Low-Iaterast Bonds
The colleges would be permitted
to issue 10-year bonds at a rate
of interest not exceeding three per-
cent during each of the three per-
iods of the 30-year life of the plan.
An estimated $16,000,000 would be
available for construction during
each 10-year period.
vm!i
d, '
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state coll<
ng of each decen-
the state comptroller
At the bei
nial period,
would apportion proceeds to the
lieges on the basis of stu-
dent enrollment. Initially, Tarle-
ton’■ percentage share would be
5.72107.
The amendment would be self-
enacting upon approval by the peo-
ple with the initial tax to be levied
next January 1st. No other state
funds cquld be provided the schools
for construction purposes during
the life of the pi
yean prior to that Born in Ten-
nessee, Dr. Trotter received a B.
A. degree in liberal arte from
Mississippi College and a B. 8. in
agriculture and a M. S. at Missis-
sippi AAM. He later received his
Pn.D. in agronomy from the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin. He was also
agronomist at Mississippi College
of Agriculture from 1923 to 1986.
During World War I he rose from
the rank of privata to that of
second-lieutenant. Dr. Trotter has
written several agricultural pub-
lications, and is a member of sev-
eral professional associations.
During the noon hour, lunch will
be available to gueats at the col-
lege cafeteria for those who wish
to buy their lunch on the campus.
Will Discuss Stadium
Tarleton ex-studenta will hold a
meeting in the mein auditorium
Sunday afternoon, starting at 1
o'clock, during which they will
transact business pertaining 10 the
proposed memorial stadium at the
college. The association adopted
the project at its meeting lest
year, but plane, of a necessity,
have been delayed.
From 1:46 p.m. until 4 o’clock,
parents and others have a special
invitation to have e eup of tee with
the faculty in the heeae economies
building and to raat and relax in
the recreation hall, visiting with
faculty members there. Open
house will be held, during this
period, in the departments of mu-
sic, agriculture, biology, engineer-
ing and chemistry end in the col-
lege library.
At 2
nual
. Rodeo at 2 p.m.
2 p.m. Sunday, the second an-
All-Tarlaton Rodeo will be
held at the city park arena, spon- .
sored by the William E. Dyes*
American Legion Post. John Tar-
leton College. A performance is
to be held Saturday afternoon, al-
so, at the seme hour aad at the
same place as the Sunday reded.''
Twelve events, with approximate-
ly 60 Tarleton boys and girl* ee
contestants, are scheduled? Many
of these students have been com-
peting in rodeo* for several yean
and are said to be skilled in the
various events.
On the program will be Includ-
ed bareback bronc-riding, bull-rid-
ing, calf-roping, wild cow-milking
end the “mad scramble”, as well aa
several specialty acts. Anothsr
feature of the Sunday afternoon
performance will be an event in
which wild Brahma cows will be
turned loose in the arena with mo-
ney tied to their horns—and It
will be anyone’s privilege to get
it off. Stock for the rodeo is being
furnished by Cullen Robinson of
Weatherford.
Two interesting cowgirls' con-
tests, only recently introduced to
the rodeo world, are girls’ goat-ty-
ing and girls’ cow-milking, which
will be on the Tarleton Rodeo pro-
gram. Martha Dobson, of Talpa,
■who recently placed In two events
at the H-SU rodeo, will be enter-
ed in the girls’ contests.
Queen to be Crowned
Climaxing the program will be
the Tarleton Revue on Hays Fisld
at 6 p.m., featuring the coronation
of the queen and a program pre-
sented to her by the departments
of music, physical education and
military science. The queen, whose
identity is not divulged until her
appearance for the ceremony, will
be attended by nine duchesses.
The Tarleton Revue is a pageant
depicting present activities by stu-
dents of the college in honor of the
visiting parents and ex-students.
Miss May Jones is general chair-,
man of the pageant committee. \
Other committee chairmen are
Miss Laura Fellman, girls’ pag-
eant activitiee; Col. G. L. Schmidt,
military activities; Donald Mor-
ton, music; Marshall Hughes,
sound equipment; Gerald Fanning,
stage direction, and Baker Conger
master of ceremonies.
The cadet corps will present en
honorary drill, followed by a re-
treat parade, and the program will
he concluded with the departure of
the “Queen of May".
Operetta Will Be
Given Monday Night
In Ward Auditorium
A capacity audience is expected
to see the musical comedy, “Magic
Bean 8talk”, to be presented by
the fourth and fifth grade music
classes at the ward school auditor-
ium Monday night, starting at 8
o’clock.
The operetta based on the fairy
legend of Jack and the base stalk
will constitute the program. In the
mast will be students taking the
parts of Jack, Jaek’s mother, Cap-
tain Kid, Juliana, the cow, the
golden egg, the giant blunderbuaa,
villager*, pirates, magic beans,
Dutch and Chinee* entertainers
and dancer*.
A small admission wtH be char-
ged for the program, to which the
public la invited
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