Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1959 Page: 1 of 16
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VOL. 89. No. 28.
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, ■ Home of Tarleton State College ■ FRTDAY, JULY 24, 1C58
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By RUFUS f. HIGGS
PEDESTRIAN ... A person
walking will reduce hie
but whose jaywalking
,"... reduce his years. (Eran
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FINEST IN YEARS ... The I
Stephenville area, including all of I
Eruth County, has been blessed j
with the most wonderful rains in
years the past 10 days. It has
brought smiles to the faces of our
farmers and ranchmen. They are
optimistic about the future and
look forward to a harvest of pea-
nuts and feed crops that will boost
the morale of all this great coun-
try. Grass was never finer. The
season is deep after rains that
measured anywhere from four to
six inches. That is something we
have been missing in recent years.
Another tremendous advantage is
the run off water that filled our
stock tanks. There was absolutely
no flood damage. Most of the
moisture went into the ground.
One enthusiastic ranchman said
Tuesday that' it was the best rain
since 1910. We don’t know about
that, yet we do know tliat we have
every good reason to feel happy
about o“r situation. Since the be-
ginning of time, water has been
the biggest problem of this par* of
Texas. It is a problem in Ste-
phenville and will continue to be
Unless we get plans started and
completed for a bigger volume.
When we have good rain* we are
happy—and that’s the way we are
in this land of the blessed now.
What more could we ask for.
SIXTEEN PAGES
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LIVE OAK-PURVES HOMECOMING—Old timers and former residents of the Live Oak area gather-
ed at the Live Oak cemetery for the annual homecoming. The cemetery is south of Dublin near the
Purves community. The annual Homecoming is one of the highlights of the year for the old settlers
who return from every section of the state to attend. ' .
TRUCK FARMING . . . Truck
farmin'! is described as covering
just about everything that grows
in a garden in the way of fruits
and vegetables. It is something
that probably could be expanded
In this country in a big war. At
least, we have some toil that is
ideal for this type of operations.
The country up the road to Pigeon
is a good example. For a distance
of about 10 miles there is a strip
of sandy land that will grow in
abundance almost any kind of veg-
etables and fruit. Melons out that
way are as fine as they are at any
place in Texas, yet there is no
heavy melon acreage in that part
of Erath County. Welcome Valley
(Rabbit Center as some call it)
is another small area that will
produce in almost unbelievable
amounts of truck products. Neither
of these communities cover a very
large area but they are big enough
to take care of a mighty volume
of agricultural operations (fruits
and vegetables) if the idea i* ever
organised in a way that volume
production can be had during the
marketing seaaons. Our close
proximity to the Fort Worth and
Dallas markets might be an ad-
vantage that we should think
about when we look at the oppor-
tunities in this soil.
Four Days of Rain Gives Farmers
Boost; Peanut Crop Promising
OTHER ADVANTAGES . . .
The highway department is getting
ready to pave five miles of the
Pigeon toad and when that is com-
pleted no time should be lost in
carrying t)ie pavement on to con-
nect with the Huckabay-Lingle-
ville road at the McAdams farm.
These improvements are going to
make that community look like a
new country. Even if there is no
organised effort toward truck
farming it can be done on an in-
dividual basis successfully. We
look to see those farms out that
way improved greatly during the
coming years. It is one of the
few guch communities in Erath
County without a paved, all-
weather road. The melons and
peaches that are growing out that
way now are as luscious as we
have ever tasted. Look for these
Improvements to get under way
just as soon as the new pavement
is finished. The modern, look on
the Huckabay Road, located near-
by, is an example of what good
roads will do for a community.
The large number of modern farm
and ranch homes out that way is
one of the most attractive sights
in this entire country. There is no
better feeling than to be living In
a place like Grand Old Erath dur-
ing such times as we have today.
Wonderful—simply wonderful, as
they say In the beauty parlprs.
HANDWRITING . . . The pea-
manship that reveala a man’s
character, especially when hta
love letters are read in conrL
(Eran Eaar.)
TOWN BUILDING . .. Weather-
ford is one of the growing towna of
Texas and probably will keep on
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Rains which had been falling* in
Erath County over a four-day per-
iod apparently came to an end for
the time being Tuesday afternoon
after leavi.ig the best July mois-
ture condition ip the county in
years.
The official total fall in Steph-
enville over the four-day period
was 2.60 inches, with .40 of an
inch of it falling after 8 a.m. Tues-
day.
.The Morgan Hill and Huckabay
areas did not receive as much of
the rain as other areas of the
county, according to information
gathered by County Agent Richard
Gary. Jack Btewart told Gary a
total of two inches fell at hia place
at Huckabay during the rainy per-
iod. B. R. Laughlin said the total
at hig Morgan Mill place was 1.8
inches.
According to rain reports reach-
ing Gary's offiee LingleviUe hag
been one very wet spot with a total
of 6.10 inches having been measur-
ed at the Edilleman store. R. M.
Love reported to Gary a total fall
of 3.60 inches at his place three
and a half miles west of Stephen-
ville.
Art Dillon reported a healthy
four-inch total fall at his place
eight miles from Stephenville on
the Alexander road. The Fitzgerald
Nursery also reported a four-inch
total.
R. G. Burwell, district Extension
Service agent, described the pre-
sent July moisture conditions in the
county as being the best of any
year since he came to Stephenville
12 years ago.
Rex Baber of Green Creek re-
ported 8.16 inches of rain since
Sunday with .40 falling Tuesday.
Peanuts which were planted
early have been helped especially
by the rains, Gary said. Peanuts
planted later in the season probably
will need more rain later on te
make a good crop, the county agent
predicted.
Farmers who hsu harvested theii
hay prior to the rains will receivy
a bqnus as the result of the rains,
a second hay wap. Gary aaid tin Unusually' lc
rains will cause the eat hay field!'dry months.
to start growing again bringing
the lucky farmers the bonus crop.
The rains not only will help corn
complete maturing, but will mean
better ears and equality. The rains
have been a life saver indeed for
late maize, the county agent de-
clared.
Many of the county’s stock tanka
still were not full following the
rains, due largely to two reasons-
the comparatively slow fall of the
rains and the fact the tanks ware
low becauee of the long
Seybold Will Present
Firearms Exhibition
Mr. Elmer Seybold, a firearms shooter in the United States per-
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Facility
Free to
Public
expert, will put on a unique inter-
esting and infremutive shooting
exhibition the evening of August
13 at the Tejas Country Club.
In his exhibition Mr. Seybold
will use a 160-year-old Kentucky
flint lock rifle. Among the shots
performed with this old muzzle
loading rifle will be shooting the
flame off of a candle, splitting a
bullet on the blade of an axe and
breaking a balloon on each side
of the axe simultaneously.
Mr. SeyboM has performed this
shooting exhibition on TV and for
a number of organization through-
out the state. He is the only
Booth Calls Football
Meeting for Sunday
Coach C. E. Booth announced to-
day that he would hold a meeting
for all prospective candidate for
the high school football team at
2 p.m. Sunday, July 26. in the field-
house on the campus of Chamberlin
School. Booth said he also wanted
all junior high candidates.
All members of the coaching
staff will be introduced to squad
members including Boxey Weems,
former line coach at Ralls who
has been in summer school at
Texas Tech; Charley Kitchens,
former baekfield coach at Vernon;
Ernie Johnson, former assistant
coach at Dublin who will coach
the B team.
Booth has been working all sum-
mer on the practice field and has
recently completed a fence around
the area. Recent rains plus water.
Ing all summer . should have the
TRAVEL TIME....
Now that the vacation season
is here don’t overldbk one of
the most important items of
your trip—Low Cost Travel
1 nett rancr. We have what you
need end at surprisingly low
rates. Thia service is werld-
\ wide—1 day to fl months.
ZANE CARTER
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Phones: Sue. t-3486. Res. I.-3847
Stephenville, Texas
field in good shape when drills
begin August 17.
The Yellow Jackets will have
three weeks of two a day drills be-
fore school starts September 8.
The first week all the squad mem-
bers w'ill be housed in the high
school gym and take their meals
at the school cafeteria.
Booth, a former SMU grid and
basketball star, Is returning to the
coaching profession for the first
time in two years. He has pre-
viously coached at Vernon and Ro-
tan. He had been ranching in June,
lion before accepting the head
coaching job here last spring.
Booth has been busy this sum-
mer looking at films of the 1958
grid season. He faces a giant re-
building program ir. ’59. The
Jackets lost eight starter* from
the 1968 team.
The entire high school staff will
attend the Texas High Behool
Coaches Association convention in
Fort Worth August 2 through Au-
gust 8. Sam Taylor, assistant
junior high coach, will also at-
tend. Jack Deavenport, junior
high couch, is In Hereford and will
attend a coaching school in New
Mexico.
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For your Living room see out
seven piece matched group. Sofr
matching chair, two step tables,
coffee table and two lamps. All
for 8189.80.
J. T. MAYS *
forming these feats with a flint
lock rifle.
Included in the exhibition will
be some quick-draw demonstra-
tions, proving that it is possible for
a man to draw and fire a shot be-
fore a person can pull the trigger
on a gun held in readiness.
Mr. Seybold works under the
theory that it is fun to be fooled
but more fun to know and he lets
you in on the secrets carefully
guarded by most quick-draw art-
ists as to how and why these
amazing feats are performed.
Mr. Seybold is the owner of
Texas’ most outstanding and com-
plete guest ranch. This fabulous
ranch is located 4 *4 miles west of
Mineral Wells, Texas,' on a high
bluff overlooking the historic
Brazos River. The ranch is modern
in every respect and each room is
cooled with an individual refrig-
erated air-conditioning unit. The
food at the ranch is famous
throughout the Southwest and is
prepared by experienced chefs and
served family style in an air-
conditioned dining room. The ranch
offers a complete recreational pro-
gram ranging from horseback rid-
ing and swimming in the Patio
Pool to shuffleboard. ping-pong,
wool and dancing in a
60-foot ballroom. In addition there
ere many supervised guest partici-
oation programs.
These who have visited the raneh
are high in their praise for the
moden. comfortable rooms, the
«uperh food and the manv facili-
ties which are nrnvided for their
comfort and entertainment.
An agreement has been reached
between the Yrewitt Funeral Home
and the City of Stephenville where-
by the city will use U>e 67 by 294-
foot lot at Tarieton and Graham
just north of the funeral home for
a public parking lot, Rex Cates,
city secretary, announced Monday.
The lot will be paved under the
supervision of Virgil Dickerson,
chairman of the eity council’s
street committee.
Negotiations for use of the lot
as a public parking lot have been
in the discussion stage for several
weeks.
Parking on the lot will be free
and on a first coroe, first served
basis with no time limit on the
parking.
Dickerson »aid work on paving
the lot will start as soon as the
weather will permit. A base will
have to be hauled in and put down
on the area, then the area will have
to lie topped.
The lot faces 67 feet on Graham
and 207 feet on Tarieton. City
officials pointed particularly to the
convenience of the lot to the hos-
pital. The lot also will eliminate
• parking problem in that area on
Sunday when MrHWOre held at
the Church of Christ.
Since the lot is only three blocks
from the square it will be con-
venient for many who work in the
stores on the north side of the
square.
More parking space convenient
to the main business section has
been one of the objectives of the
civic improvements committee of
the Stephenville Chamber of Com-
merce.
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RODEO BOOSTERS—Parker County Sheriff Posse members are sponsoring the 12th annual Rodeo in
Weatherford July 29-August 2. In conjunction with the Rodeo will be the Parker County Livestock
Show and Auction. Front Row, left to right CapL Acme Shaw, Dave Hudson, O. T. Davis,* Forest M.
Lindsay, and James Bodiford. Bark Row, left to right, Morris Sands, Frank McEntire, H. Calhoun, H.
K. Whaley, Bill Murray, Claud Bodiford and Jess Hail Sr. (Photo Courtesy Weatherford Democrat)
Weatherford Rodeo Features
Rough Stock, Riding Groups
Erath Egg
Farm Plans
Expansion
New Units Include
12,000-Capacity
Laying House
A big expansion at the Erath
Egg Farm is now under way and
will be completed in time for ser-
vice in the fall months of the year
announced owner and manager
Charlie Deisher Friday. The farm
property of the company is locat-
ed four miles west of the city on
Highway 377.
The new facility is a new laying
house which will house 12,000 lay-
ing hSflis. It is being built at a cost
between 860,000 and 860,000 and
aiK-root OFTwiH supplement four other laying
houses located on the property.
The work is being done under the
supervision of J. R. Day. The
structure will be 810 feet in length
with appropriate width. Total
capacity of the farm wilt be 12,000
laying hens when the new unit
is completed.
Huckabay Dairy
Cbmmittee Calls
Imoprtant Session
Members of the dairy committee
at Huckabay will meet at 7:80 p.m.
Thursday at the community center
to make plans for their dairy show.
One of the Items on the agenda
for the meeting will be to set the
date for the show. A fall date
probably will be set.
For the best in used furniture
and appliances visit our used de-
partment yonTl find .yourself a
real Bargain.
). T. MAYS A CO. ___
Headquarters of the Erath Egg
Farm are located in Stephenville
where the institution had its be-
ginning almost 60 years ago. It
was founded by the late P. E.
Payne. Mr. Deisher purchased the
property about 20 years ago.
In a statement Friday, Mr.
Deisher said that he believed the
time was ripe for expansion, es-
pecially since the business of the
company keep* growing year by
year. "We need more faeilitiee
and in spite of Ibw egg prices dur-
ing the past several months wo
believe It will be to bur advan-
tage to make these improvements
now," Mr. Deisher aaid.
The Erath Egg Farm is one of
the oldest and largest of its kind
in the southwest, , V'—-1
WEATHERFORD (Spl)— Hun
drsds of the roughest, toughest
gamblers hi the United States will
hit Weatherford July 29, and no
law enforcements officer will try
te stop them, as they show their
skill, not under cover, but In the
wide open.
The gamblers are the contestants
who will bet on themselves in the
Twelfth Annual Parker County
Frontier Days Rodeo which will
epen at the Sheriff’s Posse arena
the night of July 29 and continue
through Saturday, August 1.
The rodeo will open with a big
parade through the business dis-
trict Wednesday afternoon with
bands, riding clubs and other sher-
iffs posses from the surrounding
area •
Tommy Steiner, who grew up on
a ranch near Austin and rode his
first bull at the age of nine, will
again furnish the stock. Steiner
has gained a reputation for being
the best in the business.
Steiner was a contestant in rid-
ing event across the Southwest
following a hitch in the Army dur-
ing World War M. He returned to
the ranch to find his father rai«
ing some rodeo stock on a lim-
ited scale. It was from this start
that he converted hi* sprawling
Bar S Ranch to handling only ro-
dao stdA. Steiner also added
ranges in Montana for shows in
the far tvest-
In addition to the rodeo, the an-
nual Parker County Livestock
Show will be held during the same I ficials.
four days with an auction sale Sab
urday, August 1.
The annual Quarter Horse Short
Will be held August 1 with several
entries already received by of*
Peanut Growers
Meeting Expects
Large Crowd
The rains of the past few days
probably will boost attendance at
the annual membership meeting of
the Southwestern Peanuts Growers
Asan. Friday in the agricultural
auditorium at Tarieton State Col-
lege, Ross Wilson of Gorman, man-
ager of the association, said while
In Stephenville making final ar-
rangements for the annual meet-
ing.
Wilson explained the peanut
fields will be wet for several days
and growers will not be able to
work in the fields, so he is hoping
they will attend the convention.
Wilson’s hope that the wet fields
will boost attendance at the con-
vention seemed to get some back-
ing Tuesday when a South Texas
county agent telephoned Erath’s
county agent, Richard Gary, and
asked Gary to make some room re-
servations for a group coming to
Hie meeting from South Texas.
Beall Stores Announce
Change in Managers
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VISIT RELATIVE8
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Yartett and
children, Glenna and Greg, spent
Friday and Saturday visiting with
formed friends on Georgetown and
Pleasanton. Mrs. Yarlett’g mother,
Mrs. P. M.' Glenn of Altlanta, Ga„
who Is visiting in the Yarlett home
accompanied them. Em
Pleasanton the group spe
Austin and in Son
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R. G. Beat I, president of the
Beall Department Store announced
two changes in personell. Sam R.
Risinger-manager of the Stephen-
ville store since 1961 has been pro-
moted to manager of the new Beall
store in Weatherford.
Risinger will be succeeded in
Stephenville by Thurman W. Fitz-
gearld who has been assistant
manager of the Killen store.
Risinger haB been with the Beall
organization for the past 22 years
and will spend the next several
weeks getting the new store ready
for opening in August. It will be
the forty-second store in the Beall
chain.
A native of Paris
ed the store as a high
dent working after school. During
his 22 years with Bealls he has
worked In every section of the
stores operation.
Active in church and civic -work
in Stephenville, Risinger was a
charter member and first president
of the Kiwanis club and has taught
a Sunday School class at the First
Baptist Church.
Risinger said, “My family and
I want the fine people of Stephen-
ville and its trade area to know
we have made since we have been
in Stephenville, the many courtes-
we appreciated the many friends
is
SAM RISINGER
you have show to u* and to
our Store have been appreciated
we trust a double protlop of this
warm friendship will be shown to
my suseesser,
Mr. Thurman Fits-
xearld as he assumes the new
duties as manager of the Beall
store in Staphenville.”
Fitzgearld a native at Sulphul
Springs joined the Beall organisa-
tion as a salesman there in 1961.
In 1966 he was promoted to the
Beall Killeen store as assistant
manager where he served in that
city until receiving his first man-
agership in Stephenville.
THURMAN FITZGEARLD
Mr. Fitzgearld is a member of
the Baptist Church.
“I am highly honored and happy
to be the new manager of Beall’s
in Stephenville. It is with pleasure
that we anticipate meeting and
greeting all of Beall’s friends and
customers. We also pledge continu-
ation of that fine, smiling, friendly
service which all Beall store have
become famous,” Fitzgearld said
today. ,
His wife and children, Karen
Sue and Terry Wayne have joined
him here to make their home.
Cunyus Applies
For Passport
To Switzerland
DaVid Cunyus, son of Mr. anf|
Mrs. Paul A. Cunyus,. mod*
plication for a passport
morning at the office
Clerk Grandy Daniels.
He will go to Serlterland te ei
for nine months end is one
Rotary I oumlation program.
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