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Volume 45
The Texas Mohair Weekly
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Rocksprings, Texas, Friday^ February 13, 1953
Number 5
Rocksprings Schcx>l Band Highly
Complimented At Del Rio Clinic
The Rocksprings School Band
was given a rating of a first divi-
sion band at the Del Rio Band
Festival and Clinic last Saturday
by each of the four judges. This
rating is classed as superior in
band terms with a grade of 95 to
100. Judges were William Wendt-
land, Ed. D., Supervisor of Musi-
ic, Cuero School; Douglas Fry,
High School Band Director at
Brady; Charles Nickell, High School
Band Director at Goliad; and Joe
Bellamah, Director of Lobo Band,
Sul Ross College. Alpine.
The critics entered the following
remarks on their judges' sheets af-
ter the Rocksprings School Band
played three numbers at the Clinic;
Dr. Wendtland’s comments, were,
stage deportment and spirit of
band, excellent plus. His general
comments—“A wonderful job for
a young band. Congratulations.
Your community should feel proud
of director and young students.
Well controlled for such a young
group of musicians.”
Mr. Nickell’s criticism was: stage
appearance, very sharp: stage de-
portment, excellent; spirit of hand,
great, amazing; general comment,
"This is the greatest display of sp-
irit, desire and drive I’ve been privi-
leged to witness.”
Mr. Bellamah of Sul Ross Col-
lege had this to say "Congratula-
tions on a tremendous accomplish-
ment. Excellent spirit in hand. This
.is a credit to fine teaching and
leadership, congratulations! This is
definitely a first division band with
very good instrumentations.”
From Mr. Fry, the Rocksprings
Band got a grade of excellent plus
for their sta^e appearance and ex-
cellent 5 plus for spirit of band. Mr.
Fry said, "This group surely de-
serves a lot of credit. Keep going,
don’t stop, just when you arc this
far because though you are doing
fine you can do much, much more
and will, too. Congratulations,
Rocksprings.”
The band students and others
from Rocksprings attending the cli-
nic were guests at a luncheon giv-
en by the Del Rio Chamber of
Commerce. Mr. Anderson attended
a luncheon given by the Band Boos-
ters for the judges and directors.
The All-Star Band consisting of
about 160 students from the 16
bands participating in the clinic
gave a concert that night. Six of
the Rocksprings Band students were
selected to play in the All-Star
Band. They were Jo Nell Hunt,
tenor saxophone; Betty Feynn, bass
horn; Shirley Pope, alto saxophone;
Gordon Buswell, flute; Dean Allen
Moody and Donnie Merritt, trom-
bones.
The Mason High School Band
won the all-around award, and San-
derson High School Band received
the award for the small band com-
petition and the show band award
went to the Pecos High School
Band for its perforance Friday
night.
The Rocksprings Band will par-
ticipate in the spring band event
to be held at Brady, Saturday
March 7th, when 37 bands of that
area will assemble.
Words are inadequate to express
how proud Rocksprings is of our
band and its accomplishments.
Each band booster that watched
the parade here Saturday morn-
ing and was privileged to witness
the performance at the clinic and
later the colorful parade in down-
town Del Rio were thrilled at the
exhibition and musical accomplish-
ment of the Rocksprings Band.
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94.1 Per Cent Of
Taxes Are Paid
Fred H. Husbands and M. B. Hodges
To Address Annual C. of C. Meeting
The 1953 annual meeting of the
Edwards County Chamber of
Commerce will be held Friday ev-
ening, February 20th at the Ed-
wards County Park Building. The
meeting will convene at 7:15 when
a supper will be served.
Principal speaker on the pro-
gram will be Fred H. Husbands,
Executive Vive President and
General Manager of the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
Husbands will speak on "Building
Your Community.” M. B. Hodges
of Del Rio, District Engineer for
the State Highway Department,
will also address the group on
highway activities in this area.
Besides the membership of the
Chamber of Commerce, this meet-
ing is open to all who would like
to attend. Plates will be served at
SI.25 each. Reservations should be
made with Mrs. Warren Hutt, sec-
retary, by Tuesday, February 17.
Edwards County land owners
had paid 94.1 per cent of their
1952 county and state taxes by
February 1. 1953, according to Mrs.
Rose Guthrie, Deputy Collector.
This is 2.4 per cent less than was
paid at that time last year. It is
considered a good percentage in
view' of conditions caused by the
drought.
A total of 562 poll taxes were
paid and three exemptions applied
for in Edwards County.
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CORRECTION
An error appeared in the report
of Births and Deaths in last week’s
paper. The name of Carl Edward
Morriss, should have read Carl
Adam Morriss.
OVERWEIGHT—AND HOW!
Revenue Agent
To Assist Local
Taxpayers Feb. 27
Don't be a last minute shopper—
when it comes to your income tax
return! That’s the advice of Sam
Haslam, local representative of the
International Revenue Director’s
Office, for the sooner a taxpayer
entitled to a refund files his return,
the sooner he'll get his refund check.
In addition, Haslam, reminds that
Rocksprings taxpayers may get
assistance in preparing their returns
at the County Court House on
February 27, 1953.
Saddles To Be
Awarded Again
At Legion Rodeo
The Rocksprings American Le-
gion will award trophy saddles to
the champion rodeo contestants
July 3, 4 and 5 at the Legion’s
Fourth Annual Rodeo in Rock-
springs. These saddles will be near-
ly identical to the six awarded at
the 1952 rodeo. The attractive sad-
dles that were given last year were
unconditionally guaranteed for five
years by the saddle maker.
Winners of the six saddles last
year were Larry VVeinter of San
Antonio, Junior Calf Roping Cham-
pion; Dink Tomlinson, Van Horn,
Bare Back Bronc Champion and
Bull Riding Champion; Gene Gra-
ham, Rocksprings, Saddle Bronc
Riding Champion; Loyd Mitchell,
Jr., Rocksprings, Calf Roping
Champion and Hollis Parmelly,
Abilene. Team Tying Champion.
Rocksprings To
Hold Basketball
Tournament Sat.
The previously postponed Rock-
springs Invitational Basketball
Tournament for Boys is to be held
in Rocksprings on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 14th.
Coach Howard Schultz announc-
ed the following initial pairings;
8:15 A. M. Rocksprings vs.
Camp Wood.
9:30 A. M. Harper vs. Leakey.
10:45 A. M. Barksale vs. Com-
fort.
12:30 A. M. Medina vs. Junc-
tion "B”.
Consolation semi-finals will be
played at 1:45 and 3 P. M. followed
at 4:15 and 5:30 by semi-finals in
the championship bracket.
Finals in the two brackets will
be played at 7:15 and at 8:30 P. M.,
and the tournament will be conclud-
ed with the presentation of trophies.
Admission will be 50 cents for
adults and 25 cents for students
for each of the three sessions.
Both boys and girls basketball
teams travel to Barksdale (tonight)
Friday, February 13th, for district
games, starting at 7:00 P. M. This
will be the last regularly schedu-
led district game for the boys and
the girls will end the district sea-
son when they meet London in
Rocksprings February 20th.
County School Board
Gives Entire Hackberry
District To Barksdale
Horace W. Busby
To Hold Gospel
Meeting Here
Barksdale Youth
Places In Angus
Steer Scramble
Eliminate Waste!
The Federal government consists of a total of 2,055
departments, bureaus, divisions, commissions, authori-
ties, corporations, and other agencies.
Employees in some of these offices are duplicating
the work of employees in other offices. Some are
working on projects the Federal government should
never have started. There is waste of money all along
the line.
To balance the budget, the new Congress must eli-
minate this waste. A President pledged to economy
cap help separate the necessary from the wasteful,
et-cutting is one of the first and most important
facing “ike” and his Congress.
Weaver-Santos
Marriage Rites
Held At Austin
Miss Tommye Weaver, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Weaver
of Rocksprings and A/1C Felix J.
Santos, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Santos, New Bedford, Mass, were
married Saturday, February 7 at
6 p. m. at the home of the bride’s
brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Weaver, in Austin.
Rev. R. A. Taylor of Austin,
former pastor of the Methodist
Church at Rocksprings officiated
at the double ring ceremony.
The bride, who was given in mar-
riage by her father, chose a navy
wool suit with pink accessories.
Her corsage was of pink gardenias.
Miss Georgia Leigh Draper was
the bride’s only attendant and
S/Sgt. Richard Fuller was best
man.
Immediately following the cere-
mony a dinner and reception was
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Weaver.
Out of town guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Barney W. Weaver, Mrs.
Sadie Draper, Miss Georgia Leigh
Draper, Rocksprings; Mr. and Mrs.
Alex H. Grosse and children. Ma-
son; Mr. and Mrs. Troy Owens and
children, Galveston; S/Sgt. and
Mrs. Polston and S/Sgt. Richard
Fuller of Bergstrom Air Force
Base, Austin.
The couple is at home in Aus-
tin, where Airman Santos is assign-
ed to the Bergstrom Air Force
Base.
EIGHTH GRADE NEWS
The 8th grade has chosen its
class song, “Now Is The Hour.”
On the magazine sales there has
been $83.00 brought in. Ann Allen
was class captain. Sue Waters sold
the most magazines among the girls
with $21.00 and Ben Bishop head-
ing the boys with $15.00.
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Mrs. W. W. Sherrill, Mrs. Hul-
ette Franks and Mrs. Otto Cloudt
went to San Antonio Monday.
Lonnie Felts of Barksdale. Texas
was awarded 35th place for his
Angus Steer Scramble entry in the
1953 Houston Fat Stock Show.
Ralph A. Johnston, president, said
that this is the largest show of
livestock and poultry in Houston’s
history and several new records
were set.
Bill Williams, Houston restau-
rant man. paid an all-time high of
§18,800 for the grand champion
steer.
"The 1953 show also included
some of the finest quality animals
and birds that our judges have ev-
er seen,” Mr. Johnson said. "We
believe this is due largely to the
encouragement our hoys and girls
are given in the way of premium j
prices for extra good livestock and
poultry. Houston proved again that j
it will back these hard-working
boys and girls with cash prizes
and premium prices.”
Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee
l’lowboy, is star of the Rodeo,
which also features the Range Rid-
er, Jack Mahoney, the most popu-
lar C.B.S. television cowboy star,
with bis sidekick Dickie West, the
All-American boy.
The show will run through Feb-
ruary 15th.
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Winnie Lee Welch
Becomes Bride Of
Tommy Burgis
A gospel meeting has been ar-
ranged for the church of Christ
in Rocksprings with Horace Bus-
hy of Fort Worth, evangelist, to
do the preaching. The meeting will
begin Wednesday, March 25 and
come to an end on Wednesday
evening, April 1. There will be an
afternoon and an evening service
each day.
Dinner will be served at the Ed-
wards County Park Building Sun-
day, March 29 for the members and
visitors. A singing will be held that
afternoon at the church at 3 o’clock.
Brother Bushy has conducted
1025 gospel meetings in the last
thirty years and baptized 18,500
people. He has been holding meet-
ings in Sonora and Ozona for
many years and held several in
Rocksprings.
A cordial invitation is extended
to all to attend the services dur-
ing this meeting and all services
of the church of Christ.
Miss Winnie Lee Welch, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Welch
and Tommy Burgis of Devine were
united in marriage Friday by the
Rev. Ben Jackson at his home in
Uvalde. He read the single ring
ceremony.
The bride wore a blue faille suit,
studded with pearls and rhinestones,
■with a corsage of white carnations
and black accessories. The bride is
a graduate of the Barksdale School
and of the Uvalde Junior College.
Her many friends will wish them
every happiness. They will be at
home in Devine.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Linn and Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Scoggin went to
San Antonio Monday, where Mr.
Linn entered the Baptist Memor-
ial Hoapital for surgery. The op-
eration was performed Wednesday
and hia condition is satisfactory.
Grey-Owens
Marriage Vows
Taken Wednesday
A decision of the Edwards Coun-
ty School Board was made Wed-
nesday afternoon at a called meet-
ing in Rocksprings, to give the
Barksdale Independent School Dis-
trict the entire acreage of 110 sec-
tions, which makes up the Hack-
berry School District. A plea for a
portion of this district for Rock-
springs was made by Jack Whit-
worth, president of the Rocksprings
School Board. The County Board
voted 3 to 1 to give Barksdale the
district.
The meeting was presided over
by J. W. Richardson, president of
the County School Board. Other
members of the board present were
Paul Rosenow, trustee of Precinct
3; Gus Fleischer, trustee of Pre-
cinct 1; Wheat Bradford, trustee of
Precinct 4; and Terry Hill, trus-
tee of Precinct 2. School board
members and other interested par-
ties present from Barksdale, Van-
ce, Hackberry and Rocksprings
were Clarence Ycrnor, Terry Hill,
Ira Hambrick, Allen Stovall. Neal
Jernigan, Sr., Leslie Connell, Jes-
sie Lockhart. Jack Whitworth, War-
ren Hutt and Cecil Allen.
According to the Attorney Gen-
eral's ruling under the Gilmer-
Aiken Law. a school becomes dor-
mant if not functioned for two
years and it is the duty of the
County School Board to consoli-
date the dormant district with one
or more adjacent districts. The
Hackberry School has not function-
ed for three years. It has been un-
der contract with Barksdale dur-
ing that time for Hackberry stu-
dents to receive instruction in the
Barksdale School and transporta-
tion to and from the school in ex-
change for the Hackberry Dist-
rict’s school tax money.
The County Board considered the
present cost of operating a school,
the present valuation of school
land and the daily average atten-
dance and front these figures it was
estimated that Barksdale had been
carrying a good deal greater school
burden than Rocksprings and in
order to equalize the financial con-
ditions the hoard gave Barksdale
the entire Hackberry District
Barksdale's previous district acre-
age was i<>5 sections. Rocksprings
has 1200 sections in its district.
With Barksdale obtaining this
extra territory the School Board
from that district voted to reduce
its school tax rate from SI.50 per
S100 dollars evaluation to $1.25. or
the same as the present Rock-
springs school tax rate.
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McMurry College -
Band To Play
Here February 20
The popular McMurry College
Band of Abilene will present a pro-
gram at the Rocksprings School
Auditorium Friday afternoon, Feb-
ruary 20 at 1:45. The band will
he enroute to Eagle Pass where it
wijl he featured in the Washing-
i ton Birthday Celebration held ia
that city.
The McMurry Band has been
i here before and was enjoyed im-
ensely by those who heard it.
Everyone is invited to the program.
No admission charge will be made.
Edwards-Real
Teachers Hold
Regular Meeting
Miss Marge Grey of Lancaster,
California and William Foster (Bil-
ly) Owens of Edwards Air Force
Base, California, were married
Wednesday at Las Vegas, Nevada,
in the presence of the bride’s par-
ents and close friends.
The couple went on a short
wedding trip to San Francisco.
They will be at home at Edwards
Air Force Base, where Mr. Owens
is an Aeronautical Engineer and
a supervisor of the field.
Mr. Owens is the son of Foster
Owens of Rocksprings. He is a
graduate of the Rocksprings High
School and University of Texas,
where he received his engineer's
degree.
Congratulations and best wishes
are extended to Billy and his bride.
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Rocksprings And
Camp Wood Play
Dist Games Tues.
The Rocksprings and Camp
Wood basketball teams met in the
local gym Tuesday night for their
last go-round between the two
towns this season. This was a dis-
trict game. The Camp Wood girls
held the largest score of 39 to 33
over the Rocksprings (iris. Rock-
springs boys defeated their op-
ponents 57 to 32.
.Model “A”
Goes Modern
Thirty miles to a gallon of ga>
is something dreamed of but not
achieved by the majority of late
model cars, hut that is how many
miles the 1928 Model A Ford
makes according to John Connell,
who recently sold one to Tommy
Coucy.
To keep the car from being too
old-fashioned, doing a measley
thirty miles on one gallon of gas
Tommy has given it a modern
touch with a car radio and an
aerial that extends a good six feet
high.
This Model A was presented to
the world as a revolutionary new
thing back in 1928. Everyone was
curious to know how Henry Ford
could possibly think of a better ve-
hicle than the Model T. The ca-
now owned by Couey was original-
ly sold to Mrs. Nannie Zuberbue-
ler by the Rocksprings Motor Com-
pany, owned at that time by E. I.
Miller. It has been driven 43,000
miles.
The regular meeting of the Ed-
wards-Real Counties unit of Texas
State Teachers Association was
held in the school cafeteria in Lea-
key on Monday, February 9th.
with President Zack Gray of Camp
Wood presiding.
The following delegates were sel-
ected to represent the group at the
meeting of the Alamo District of
T. S. T. A. in San Antonio, March
12th and 13th:
Real County: Zack B. Gray,
I Camp Wood, alternate, Henry
Graves, Leakey.
! Edwards County: Mrs. \V. B.
! Hill, Barksdale, alternate Sam Da-
vis. Rocksprings.
The speaker of the evening was
Sam B. Culpepper of the field
service of the state headquarters of
the T. S. T. A. in Austin, who
outlined and reported on the pro-
gress of the ten-point legislative
program of the teachers organiza-
I tion. Entertainment also consisted
| of music by the L valde String En-
semble and group singing.
A nominating committee, con-
sisting of Chairman Mrs. Webb,
Leakey. Mrs. Joe Luce, Rock-
spring'. Mr' Burney Pope, Barks-
dale, and B. J. Stewart, Camp
Wood was appointed and asked to
present nominations of officers for
the ensuing year to the Bi-County
Group at the next meeting, in
Rocksprings, April 13.
World Day Of
Prayer To Be
Observed Feb. 20
The World Day of Prayer wilt
be observed at the Methodist
Church Friday morning February
20th, at 9:30 o'clock. Members from
other of the Rocksprings churches
will participate in the program.
Everyone is invited to attend this
special service which will be observ-
ed by Christian churches all over
the world on this date.
—-Reported.
ROCKSPRINGS METHODIST
CHURCH NOTICE
The First Methodist Church of
Rocksprings, will have Rev. S. L.
Batchelor, superintendent of the
Kerrville Methodist Assembly, as
guest speaker Sunday morning,
February 15th for the 10:45 morn-
ing service. Bible classes will be
held at the usual time.
Rev. Don Dulany expects to con-
duct services at Carta Valley the
Fourth Sunday in February at A
o’clock.
NOTICE
The Woman’s Club will meet at
2:30 P. M. February 18, for busi-
ness and guest day program.
Mrs. O. B. Cloudt will be the
leader introducing Mrs. Preston
Dial. Mrs. Dial is chairman of
International Relations of T.F.W.C.
She will bring a message to us ab-
out her good will tour to the Orient.
Mrs. J. A. Laninig of La Pryor,
pianist, will accompany Miss Ed-
ith Noel, soloist, who will be pre-
sented on the program.
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Mrs. Pearl Cnster and Mrs. Sea-
sum Coney spent the week-end ia
Sweetwater with Mrs. Coaey'n
mother, Mrs. J. W. Glasscock, and
sister, Mrs. Wylie Sorell.
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