Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1941 Page: 9 of 16
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THE 8TEPHBNYILLE EMPIRE-TRIBUNE, STEPHENVILLE, TEEXAH
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Tuesday, May 20th...
Official Dairy Day in Stephenville
This bank haa constantly encouraged the raising of better livestock. We con-
tributed materially to the purchase of ten registered Jersey Circle Bulls.
Come to see the Jerseys in Stephenville May 20th
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HUCKABAY
(By Mrs. T. E. Smith)
Heavy rains in this community
made it impossible to have s'good
attendance at either of the church-
es here Sunday.
Rev. Ferguson attended District
Conference at Dublin Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Copeland of
Stephenville spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Auten.
Miss Roundalee Fincher of Ste-
phenville spent Saturday night and
Sunday with her father, Ben Fin-
cher.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Auten and
children Rea Dell and Norman
Dwane spent Saturday with her
parents in DeLeon.
Miss Clara Oliver of Stephenville
visited her brother and sister-in-
law awhile Friday evening.
Mrs. Bud McDowell of Steph-
enville spent Saturday night with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G.
Lucus.
Mr. and J(rs. Billie Garner and
daughter Jerrye, Miss Dorothy
Kay and Mrs. Walter Hicks all of
Aransas Pass visited this week-
end with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Allan McCarty and
Mrs. Natilee Stanford of Fort
Worth spent Sunday in the home
of their mother, Mrs. Lena Allen.
Little Jo Ann Stanford accom-
panied her mother to Fort Worth
for a few days’ visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dunn of Dal-
las visited Mr. and Mrs. Steels,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Morris of
Mineral Wells spent Sunday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Lowe. Wanda and Geraldine Lowe
returned home with them for a
short visit.
Billie Fincher of Stephenville
spent the week-end with his
grandmother, Mrs. B. A. Fincher.
Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Ferguson
and family of Stephenville spent
Sunday in the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Smith.
ERATH LAND USE PLANNING
GROUP IS HELPING COUNTY
A bad cold is both affirmative
and negative. Sometimes the eyes
have it and sometimes the nose.—
The Collegian.
C. C. Winters of Indian Creek,
chairman, and Z. G. Christian of
School Hill, vice chairman of the
Erath County Land Use Planning
Committee, this week announced
conditions and needs of the sev-
en farming areas of Erath Coun-
ty.
This committee, organized in
1939 and composed of 30 farmers
and farm women from all of the
seven areas of Erath County, is
at work on all of the problems
outlined and has made some prog-
ress already toward their solution.
The committee assisted in conduct-
ing the educational program which
resulted in getting all of the areas
in Erath County included in soil
conservation districts.
At present the committee is co-
operating in putting over the na-
tional defense program in Erath
County by recommending the pro-
duction of more food and feed in
this county.
The problems, conditions and
needs of the seven farming areas
of Erath County, as outlined by
the Erath County Land Use Plan-
ning Committee, are:
County Needs by Areas
Area One—Low income, secur-
ing adequate credit, debts made
when prices of farm crops were
high, control of insects, soil and
wat£r conservation, pasture im-
provement, control of timber line
around fields, and home feed and
food supply.
Area Two—Insect control, in-
adequate income, small farmers are
without satisfactory credit sour-
ces, debts were made during «>>’■
iod of high prices, soil and water
conservation, and home food and
feed supply.
Area Three—Soil and water con-
servation, low farm income, debts
made at the wrong time, inadequate
farm credit, livestock diseases and
parasites, and home food and feed
supply.
Area Four—Soil and water con-
servation, livestock parasites and
diseases, inadequate farm credit,
home food and feed supply, and
disposal of crop residues.
Area Five—Pasture Improve
ment (cedar and prickly pear eradi-
cation), road improvement, soil and
water conservation, home feed and
food supply, and fence building.
Area Six—Soil and water con'
servation, home food and feed sup-
ply, livestock parasites and dis-
eases, inadequate farm credit, and
disposal of crop residues.
Area Seven—Increasing length
of AAA contracts (planning farm
program and tenancy), soil con-
servation, farm labor deficiency,
aged workstock, providing home-
grown food supply, pasture im-
provement, and blow sands brought
down by floods.
FORMER GIRLS’ DORMITORY
DIRECTOR VISITS CAMPUS
Mrs. C. A. Chipley, the form
er Miss Lucille Hearon, and small
twin daughters, Nancy and Sue, vis-
ited in Stephenville last week with
her sisters, Mrs. J. P. Hedrick, and
her father, Rev. W. J. Hearon.
While here, she also visited the
Tarleton campus.
Before her marriage last fall,
Mrs. Chipley was director of the
girls’ dormitory.
Mr. Chipley is an engineer with
the R. W. Briggs Construction
Company. The Chipley’s home is in
San Antonio.
The definition of a modern girl:
A vision in the evening and a sight
in the morning—The College Star.
Rumors have it that the Ger-
mans are naming their ships after
jokes so that the English won’t
get them.—The South Texan.
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most unusual national defense J
jects sponsored in this section. Tnd
Ordinance Department of Camp
Wolters found that it needed at
once 409 rifle racks to hold the
12,720 rifles of the trainees.
The department sent out an
S.O.S. call to the Mechanic Arts
Department of Tarleton. The de-
partment in which these students
are enrolled answered immediately
that it would furnish the racks.
This unusual undertaking re-
quired a complete reorganization
of the department in order to speed
up the work, most if which would
have to be done at night and af-
ter the regular school hours. The
students gladly contributed their
work. With Professors E. A. Blan-
chard, C. H. Dawson, and John
Crowell as advisors, the boys elect-
ed other foremen, divided the
tasks and started to work. One
group of boys did nothing but
mark boards; another group cut
little blocks, and still another group
bolted the pieces together. In ap-
proximately 2,100 man hours, days
ahead of schedule, the Ordinance
Department was notified that the
racks were available.
Some idea of the magnitude of
the job is gained by Professor
Blanchard’s explanation of the ma-
terial used in making the racks.
Into them went 7,350 feet of angle
iron, 5,740 bolts and nuts, and
11,982 board feet of lumber.
Legend
Area 1. Llrestoek, Cotton, Corn, Small Grain—Fine
sandy loams and rough stony land.
Area 2. Corn, Small Grain, Sorghums, Livestock-
Bottom land, deep brown loam soils.
Area 3. Cotton and Peanuts, Corn, Sorghums. Com-
mercial Orchards—Light sandy soils.
Area 4. Cotton, Corn, Sorghums, Small Grain, Or-
chards—Deep dark clay soils.
Area 5. Cotton, Cora, Small Grain. Sorghums. Or-
chards-Rough stony clay and shallow clay
Area 6. Cotton. Cora, Sorghums, Small Grain-
Deep dark clay soils.
Area 7. Cotton, Small Grain, Corn, Sorghums—
Sandy, alluvial soila.
Colonel Bender to Leave Tarleton
Colonel Bender, PMS & T at Tar-
leton for five years, will be called
back into active service next
month. Colonel Bender’s four-year
period was up last spring but at
Dean J. Thomas Davis’ request
he remained for another year.
Although Colonel Bender has
been in the army many years, this
was the first time that he has ever
been professor of military science
and tactics. He has met many
groups of young men both in and
out of the army, but he is sure that
the cadets at Tarleton are the
finest that he has ever seen. “The
spirit of enthusiasm and coopera-
tion in the distinctive feature that
makes the Tarleton cadet corps
the best that I believe oould be
produced,” he said. “The cadets
have always been willing to work
and to live up to the Tarleton
motto—“Try!”
Colonel Bender further added
that he has enjoyed his work here,
and he is happy to h&ve been as-
sociated with the cadets. To him
the cadet corps has been a source
of pleasure and tended to make
this a very enjoyable detail.
“It is always a matter of pleas-
ure to find former cadets making
good in civilian and army life,”
said Colonel Bender. “My previ-
ous associations with them cause
a feeling of great pride in theif
accomplishment." Tarleton has
many former cadets in all three
branches of our armed forces and
many are now officers and very
promising students.
“I am sure the cadet corps in
the future will be a source of pride
to my successor as those in the
past have been to me,” the Colo-
nel concluded.
Tarleton first became a recog-
nized military college with ROTC
training in the fall of 1922 when
Captain Harris became Tarleton’s
first PMS & T. The cadets’ uni-
forms included wrapped leggins
and campaign hate. Captain Har-
ris was followed by Captain Mul-
chap, and Major Davis was the
third PMS & T at Tarleton. Solo-
nel Bender who came to Tarleton
in the fall of 1935 is the fourth
head of the cadet corps.
Pony Creek School
Closes May 2 With
Special Programs
The Pony Creek school closed
Friday, May 2, with special pro-
grams. After a morning program,
directed by Mrs. Ruby Rumph, din-
ner was enjoyed by a large group.
Due to the rains, W. T. Graves,
principal, did not present the play,
“Old R. F. D., or Civil Service,"
until Wednesday night, when an
appreciative audience applauded
the presentation.
The cast of characters In this
play: “Old R. F. D., Albin Ram-
say; Steve Audine, Floyd Dris-
kill; Octavia Reynolds, Bobbie
Lodyne Kimbro; Postmaster Rey-
nolds, Kenneth Davis; Inspector
Cochran, Marvin Ay cock; Mra.
Jeffs Mrs. Regina Allison; Simp-
i Peavy, William Allison; Kate
Kenyon, Mrs. Chris Teague; Miss
Goldstein, Joyce Ramsay; Goldie
Wex, Chris Teague; Birdie Bevens,
Delma Jean Howard.
Graves and Mrs. Rumph will
teach at Pony Creek school again
next year.
Were Home on Visit
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bridges of
Gordon, visited here last week-end
as guests in the home of her moth-
er, Mrs. John P. Kay with whom
they visited until Monday after-
noon. Mr. Bridges, former student
of John Tarleton College from
which he was graduated several
years ago, Is now superintendent
and athletic coach at Gordon High
School.
Returned Hdtne
Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, returned
several days ago to har home at
Proctor after receiving treatment
at the Stephenrllle Hospital fol-
lowing a recent ilness.
Era of Prosperity
Foreseen For Dairy
Industry In Texas
Austin, May 15.—A new era of
increased opportunity for the dairy
industry of Texas is invisioned, ac-
cording to a bulletin from the
state executive department.
Economic factors which are
bringing a new industry to the
dary industry are suggested.
“In the first place,” the bune-
tin says, “the state’s population
is increasing and will undoubted-
ly continue to increase.
“Again, the nutrition and health
experts advise that we are con-
suming far less than the standard
amount _of milk products deemed
necessary for the development and
maintenance of our physidal
strength and well-being.
“The Texas A. & M. College
estimates that to include in their
diets the amount of food consid-
ered necessary, the people of Tex-
as would have to have-—in addi-
tion to what they now eat—the
following:
“100 million additional gallons
of milk;
“20 million additional pounds of
butter;
“45 million additional dozens of
eggs:
“200 million additional pounds
of citrus and tomatoes;
“500, million additional pounds
of greeh and yellow vegetables;
“75 million additional pounds
of meat and poultry.”
ALTMAN
There is yet much homestead
land to be procured in Alaska.
(By Mrs. J. H. McAnelly)
Mr. and Mrs, J. D. Upham and
daughter, Pansy, had as guests
several days last week Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Upham of West Co-
lumbia.
Jud D. Upham who has been ill
for some time is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Cozby and
son, Homer were in Stephenville
Tuesday and visited in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Pittman.
Mr. and Mrs. Melton McGehee
and son, Harvey I). of Wayside are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Land
and daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Waldrop and
daughters visited her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Davis in Carlton Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowe of Carlton
spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Upham and granddaughter,
Pansy Bolton,
Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Clifton and
son, James -Horace, were in Hico
Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. John Pittman spent
several days last week in the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
Cozby while working at Wolfe’s
Nursery.
The Bluebonnet Club members
and their families enjoyed a party
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. D.
Waldrop Saturday night. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. John
Moore and children, Bobby, John
Allen and Janice, Mr. and Mrs.
Les Bingham, Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Cole and sons, Floyd and Billy Joe,
Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Clifton and
son, James Horace, Mr. and Mrs.
Cullen Bingham and children,
Florine, Curtis, Woodrow, Bobby
and Shirley Ann, Mr. and Mrs. J.
II. McAnelly and daughter, Glyn-
na, Vernon Jones, Wanda Crocket,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hyles, Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Gibson and children,
Doris I)., Jackie and Ouida Sue,
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Ballard and
children, Clyce, Bryce and Weaver,
Gaylon Davis, Misses Jean and
Virginia Davis of Crystal Falls,
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Waldrop and
daughters, Valine and Carolyn.
Games of forty-two were played
and ice cream and cake were
served.
» Mr. and Mrs. Enger had as
week-gad guests their sons from
Lubbock.
Were Here Sunday
Mrs. W. B. McAdams and dau-
ghter, Mrs. Thompson Laird of
Dallas visited here Sunday as
guests of Mrs. McAdams’ sister,
Miss Mary Marrs, 1002 Mary
street.
Graduation
Presen ts
Elgin Watches, Diamond Rings, Tie Hold-
ers, Belts, Watch Bands, Watch Chains,
Locket Chains, Cross and Chains. Lucien
LeLong Perfumes. Olso other Perfumes.
Gift Candies, Stationery. In fact many
more Gifts suitable for the Graduate.
Come and See Them.
Service Drug Store
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Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1941, newspaper, May 16, 1941; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1120950/m1/9/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.