Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 55, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 19, 1950 Page: 7 of 14
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Cavalcade of Erath County--I00 Years
Itinusd from last wade)
r Lanelle Fitzgerald
lOD OF EXPANSION
AND PROGRE8S
Erath county emerged in-
Pi# 1900a’ period Stephenville
two weekly newspapers and
ibHn had The Progress publish-
by Jim Dailey. Mcllhaney Col
Stephenville had arisen
endowed by John 28,386—Cars were .getting numer*
Tarleton, being now known ae
John Tarleton College. Prom 1900
to 1990 saw the rise of such en-
terprises as Eilia Insurance Agen-
cy, Blakeneys Dry Goods Store,
Theo Bauer, Bucks Livery Stable,
Comptons Store, G. M. 'Carlton’s
General Store, Payne’s Egg Farm,
R. E. Cox’s Drug Store then Ms
opening of the Dry Goods Store,
Lewis Hollingsworth Poultry Farm,
Cage and Crow Bankers, The Far-
mers First National Bank opera-
ted by Frey Brothers, Henson’s
Grocery, Higginbotham’s Lumber
Co., Fitzgerald’s Nursery, and
Caver’s Picture Show Houses. Of
course there were other businesses
Sponed, too. The first new cars
came to town, Erath had now a
fair network of gravel roads ——
Highway IQ was built. The Des-
demonia oilwells blew in end pros-
perity blew in with them causing
Stephenville and Dublin both to
profit greatly thereby. The war
pears of 1914-1918 called to Erath
county boys and some lives were
lost in the war. The Stephenville
H. E. Church was built in 1918,
Hie Chamber of Commerce became
active, the Twentieth Century Club
was begun. A'Boys Corn Club and
A Girls Canning Club were active
in various communities of county,
Stephenville National Farm Loan
Association was established, the
Interscholastic League of the coun-
ty was organized, K. N. Baxley
moved his picture gallery from
Dublin to' Stephenville. In 1900
66,000 bales of cotton were pro-
duced . W . J. Oxford, F. H. Chand-
ler, J. B. Keith, L. N. Frank,
,Wm. Pannill were making history
in the law and political fields of
the county. Influenza swept the
country after the war. Tsfleton
College was made a branch of A.
A M. and its annual enrollment
was increasing yearly. The rural
communities were progressing
several of the larger ones had
banks and post offices and as
many as two or three doctors
in each. Doctors in the Stephen-
▼ille area were Lankford, Naylor,
Yarborough, Gordon,
Mulloy, and Keith. In Dublin
vicinity Drs. Goodnw, Bryan. Snl-
der, Seaaums and Gaines practiced.
Then came the “Roaring Twen-
ties” of the 20th century, which
Were good years for the county af-
ter the period of deflation direct-
ly following the first World War
lot up. County population was
ous; cotton, corn, and sorghum
foods were the Main crops. More
people were keeping and raising
greater numbers of chickens for
their 1 eggs. Mott farmers were
selling sweet and sour cream.
Schools were pretty well scatter-
ed throughout the county and teacb-
ers war* getting plentiful—most
schools had terms ranging from
to | months in length, teach-
ers’ salaries from 846 to 8100 per
month, and equipment was an im-
provement over the pioneer age.
In 1921 cotton sold for 20c per
lb. Stephenville gained a nqw Bap-
tist Church Building, Parry’s 6410
Store, Cress Carlisle Veriety, The
Shields Bluebonnet Shop, The Lad-
ies Store, the Roberson Bus Lines,
The Snow City and Tarleton Bus,
The Majestic Theater operated by
TJ»s. Donnell, Red Top Tourist
Courts on W: Washington, Texas
Power and Light Company, La-
tham’s Tailor Shop, Norman’s
Store, Holt's Drug Store, McDon-
ald’s Drug, and others. Gas and
pacing came to both Stephen-
ville and Dublin during the ’20s.
Free Fall Fairs were held at Ste-
phenville and Dublin. Higgs and
Clements took over the TRIBUNE
of Stephenville. In 1926 there
were 42 Baptist churches' repre-
sented at the Association held
at Huekabay. Stephenville’* City
Park obtained new playground
equipment. Wolfe’s Nursery was
building up. Onyx Cafe was doing
good. Some attempts were made
at drilling for oil in various sec-
tions of the county. Stephenville
became a regular bee-hive of lit-
tle and big businesses. Politics
were “hot” in the state—Mrs. Jim
Ferguson was running against
Dan Moody. Lindberg had made
his famous flight, and the women
were wearing “permanent waves,”
long Waist dresses with short full
circular skirts. Suddenly there
was s crash—way up in Wall Street
and ker plunk went prices and
wages and jobs—the “big depres-
sion" whs on—people wailed—in
the fail of 1929—-Stephenville Hos-
PORTABLES
CONSOLE MODELS
Crsgwoll, pital was in ita infancy. Hall Ho-
tel was prominent
The 1930s came in cold and hard
and depressing—wheat was 26c
per pound, cotton only about half
of what it was in 1920—Roose-
velt put into effect the NRA and
WPA, Instigated the cotton plow-
up and cattle kili-off to earn mat-
ters. The country was deluged
with dust storms. The Federal
Soil Conservation Project was open-
ed on the Greens Creek Water-
shed in the Greens Creek Com-
munity. Farmlands in the coun-
ty wore pretty well depleted and
badly eroded in some sections.
The Blakeney’s and Carlton Stores
went out of business in the late
thirties. The TRIBUNE and EM-
PIRE were merged. The Horse
Show, Baxley’s Baby Photo Con-
test, The Peach and Fruit Show,
The State Singers Meet, The Amer-
ican Legion Celebration were stag-
ed during this period, also the
Mid-Texas Hereford Breeders Auc-
tion Sale and Thomas Weekly Auc-
tion Sale at the Mule Barn. A
cyclone hit in Stephenville area in
1986 creating much havoc. Perry
Brothers Drug went out of busi-
ness in the early thirties. Cswyer
Drug Store opened, also other new
businesses were established. School
Bus transportation had its begin-
ning in the 30s; consolidation of
school districts was begun also
in this period. *
In 1940 Erath county had 20,760
population, Stephenville had 4,768
inhabitants, and Dublin 2,646 of
that number according to U. S.
Census. World War II came on,
prices zoomed, jobs became pro-
fuse, men went to war, women
went to work in industry, money
was more in evidence and this per-
iod became known as the “fabu-
lous forties." New businesses
showing their faces in the late 30s
and early 40s were Henson Broth-
ers (Bill and Bob), Pennys’, Slaugh-
ter’s Drug, D’Arcy's Service Drug,
Safeway Grocery, Jack Allen’s
Grocery, Homer Nix, Tackett’s
Manufacturing Plant, Long Hotel,
J. T. Hardings Supply Store, Eve-
retts, Brown and Pearey, Reecie
Jones Motor Co., Bus Station, J.
T. Mayes Hardware “Store, Barnes
Store, Hill Drug, and many other
businesses we do not name for
lack of space. Stephenville now
had a new Federal Post Office, an
airport, a big Junior College with
an annual enrollment of over 1,200,
a radio station, and an A&P Groc-
ery. Erath gave around 80 boys
in World War II—in 1949 a mem-
orial was dedicated to Erath’s
war dead, it being erected on the
cctonty eotftthooae |*wn. The. DAI-
LY EMPIRE was launched in fail
of '49. Many schools by now had
been consolidated with others and
better equipped schools with high-
ly efficient tutors arose with a
well-organised bus system opera-
ting from the larger schools. Dub-
lin has grown and progressed, too,
with the years—it looks forward
each year to the Pre - Madison
Square Garden Rodeo which had
its beginning in the late 30s.
And now wr nave coming up
the “Fantastic Fifties,” the age
of plastics, television, atomic ener-
gy, Scotch Tape, cellophane, ra-
dar, trailer house efficiency units,
and “flying saucers.” Stephenville
has both a weekly and a daily
paper and is a leading metropoli-
tan center of business and enter-
prize. It has two Drive-In Theat-
ers, three show houses in town,
three public school buildings and
is getting its fourth one soon, 8
or p churches active, several flo-
rist shops, many feed and produce
houses, filling stations and eat
shops galore. Soil conservation
has swept the rural sections of
the county bringing about better
quality products on fewer acres
and restoring the land to high-
er fertility. Farmers are in much
better shape financially than in
the 30s period. Livestock rais-
ing is gaining popularity in the
county and peanuts has become
one of the main crops. The county
has a population in 1960 of 18,665.
There is a movement to build more
farm-to-market roads in the coun-
ty. Stephenville has had a Public
Library since 1922 which serves
the county, but it has ho Museum
as yet—and it needs one badly
as s memorial to its founding fa-
thers and its early pioneers, a
place in which it can preserve the
mementos of the yesteryears.
What will .the ’60s bring to
Erath?—that remains to be seen
but we hope it brings a Centen-
nial Cavalcade and a Historial Mu-
Don’t you?
ONU FIVE MEN LEFT OUT OF THE
164 ORIGINALLY IN ‘FOX' COMPANY
By H. D. QUIGG
Va!tW Trmmm Stall Carmpaa
Empire want-ads.
Channing Cope, the colorful Geo-
rgia farmer, arthur, newspaper-
man and broadcaster, who was set
to appear on the Texas Livestock
Roundup, ran afoul of high blood
pressure last week and had to
stay home, but he arranged for
a substitute speaker, Dr. A. E.
Cullison of the University of Geor-
gia.
Use Daily Empire Want Adsl
CHRISTMAS —
GIFT WRAPPING PAPER AND FOIL
COLORFUL RIBBON GIFT DECORATIONS
COMPLETE SELECTION OF CHRISTMAS CARDS
.With 1st Cavalary Division, Ko-
rea, Nov. 18,—IW—Five men shiv-
ered in the early morning damp.
Five men in green fatigues and
brown sweaters.
These five men were left. Five
out of 164. There’s nobody else
around in Fox Company, who
made the original landing with
the 1st Cavalry Division in Korea
and stayed on, alive and uninjured.
There were 164 man in Fox
Company of the 5th Cavalry Regi-
ment when it landed with the
ivision at Pohang July 18. Fox
Company went in the line and
stayed. The battles cut down the
men. Each fight was like a scythe
Yongdong, Kumchon-Cheriye,
Waegon and Hill 303, Shindo and
Hill 203.
Fox was the first company to
Cross the 38th parallel as an or-
ganized rifle company, although
others had sent patrols across ear-
lier. It spearheaded the attack
into Pyongyang—the assualt com-
pany of the assualt battalion.
Many Replacements
Time and again it was drained
of men. After Yongdong, on July
26, Fox Company had only Hi
men. It was built up again. Then,
by the time it attacked Hill 203,
Sept. 16, it was down to 13 men
again.
These five remained—and, watch-
ed the replacements, in to take
the places of the dead and wound-
ed. By now, a few of those who
made the landing and were wound-
ed in the Korean fighting have re-
turned to the company from hos-
pitals. But only these five came
through alive and unhurt.
We went into a room of a Ko-
rean elementary school and sat
around a crude iron stove, and the
five listed their names:
Corp. Thomas P, Little, 19 of
Cochrane, Ga., Sgt. Frederick L.
Smith, 23, of Hagertown, Md.,
First cook; Corp. Thomas L. Kirk-
ham, 20, of Route 1, Delight—
that’s right—Ark., company sup-
ply; Sgt. Norman D. Powers, 20,
of War—yep, War—W. Va., com-
pany clerk; and Sgt. Alvin Ur-
banke, 26, of Saratoga Springs,
N. Y., a mortar squad leader.
Through a good many of the
talks at the First Annual Texas
Livestock Roundup in Fort Worth
on November 2 and 3 ran the ad-
vice, “Watch Washington.”
The reason it was suggested that
Washington be watched is the fear
that more controls and restrictions
are being brewed up for the live-
stock industry. ,
Stockmen want none of it. Dur-
ing the late war they were able
to get by without many, but they
know that there is considerable
thinking outside the industry which
would try to impose ^strict regula-
tions on the marketing of meat an-
imals.
Had Been in Japan
They were five typical G. I.s
who had been through occupa-
tion duty in Japan. When they
were asked what they intended
to do when the war’ is over, none
hesitated for an answer.
“Reenlist,” said Little.
“Six more years, and then get
out,” said Smith. “I’ll try to go
back then to my old job as a press-
paper.”
“I got 17 more years to go be-
fore I reach the Army 20-year
retirement mark,” Kirkham said.
“You’re not going to shoot for
30?”
“I’ll think about ' that at the
end of 20,” Kirkham replied.
“I’ve got a long time to go, too,
before retirement,” said Powers.
“I’ve only got three and a half
years in now.”
Urbanke said he had been in
the Army eight years and was
going to stay the full 20. He
was a corporal and a machinegun
squad leader in Italy in the last
war. He landed in Sicily and at
Salerno, fought at Anzio and Monte
Cassino.
All of the five who came through
have been recommended for medals.
That seems like a small enough
thing for the five who survived
in the company that led its batta-
lion up Hill 303. They went up
the - hill, withdrew, and then went
up again—or, as Smith says, “Yes,
sir, we took it twice.”
A corn belt feeder, Ed. Hollen-
beck of Sterling, Illinois, who feeds
a lot of Texas calves, says folks
in his section find Texas stock
does better than calves from other
sections. They are smoother, he
says, and put on gain faster.
He took a critical view of the
comprest type of beef calf and fa-
vors larger animals, but advised
against going all out the other
way.
“Regardless of the size of t£e
animals,” he said, “it’s the smoott)
ones that sell best.”
EX-INFANTRYMAN
JOINS TARLETON
MILITARY STAFF
Li. Thomas H. Benson, a for-
mer member of the 78th Infantry
Division joined the staff of the
Tarleton military department last
week.
, Lt. Benson was born in Dublin,
Texas, where he attended the pub-
lic schools then came to Tarleton.
Upon' graduation from Tarleton
State, he entered Texas A & M
where he graduated with a BS de-
gree In 1941. Lt. Benson was tem-
porarily in the United States Air
Force and later worked for the
North American Aviation Corpor-
ation.
He is the only ex-Tarletonite
on the military staff.
During the war Benson was over-
seas for 26 months in the Euro-
pean Theater. He received his com-
mission at 0. C. S. in Fort Ben-
ning, Ga.
After his discharge from the
Army in 1947, Benson returned to
A&M for graduate work. He taught
in a vocational school for one year
and worked for the Federal Land
Bank prior to his assignment to
Tarleton.
Lt. Benson's wife, Mrs. Delores
Benson, is Tarleton Station post-
mistress.
It is estimated that tne pro-
duction of lumber in the United
States in 1950 will be 38 billion
board feet—the highest produc-
tion in 25 years.
DARCY
Top Variety On
Movie Schedule
Tough fights, wagon trains, and
variety in movies to be on the eal-
swimming pools show the scheduled
endar this week at the Majestic
Theatre.
Esther Williams stars in the
MGM technicolor musical, “Duch-
ess of Idaho” and will enthrall hei
many fans as she swims in the
most unusual swimming pool ever
devised for a motion picture swim-
ming scene. The pool is construc-
ted of scientifically arranged mir-
rors, reflecting twelve separate im-
ages of the star as she perform?
in one' of her famous water ballets.
Van Johnson and John Lund also
co-star in the Technicolor musical
romance, and it also features Paula
Raymond, Lena Horne, and Clin-
ton Sundberg.
Fighting Robert Taylor will give
a few tense moments in his knock
out fight in the M-G-M movie,
“Johnny Eager.” The star admits
that, although he has done his
share of scrapping in picture roles,
this is the toughest assignment
he ever handled.
For the fight he was coached by
Boy Ryan, who at the time was
an associate of Mike Jacobs, the
well-knowli fight promoter. The
show will he on the screen at the
Majestic Sunday and Monday.
“Wagonmaster”, starring Ben
Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey,
Jr. and Ward Bond, will bring a
real-life chapter of Utah history
to the screen. The John Ford dir-
ected saga tens the story of a Mor-
I] '
mon train which was sent out to es-
tablish a new colony in an unex-
plored region of the Territory.
The little party’s encounters al-
ong the way, with hostile Indians,
bandits, and patent-medicine ped-
dlers, highlight the stirring action.
COEDS ANDPROF
ATTEND MEET
AT SAN MARCOS
Two Tarleton coeds and a faculty
member attended the state con-
vention of the Texas Recreational
Federation of College Women in
San Marcos last week.
Barbara Bruce, Santa Anna, Bet-
sy Evans, Lorena, and Miss Laura
Fellman, girl's P. E. director, re-
presented Tarleton at the meet-
ing, which was held on the campus
of Southwest Texas State Tethers
College.
A banquet Thursday night, and
a visit to the San Marcos under-
water theater Friday afternoon
highlighted the entertainment side
of the convention. In business meet-
ings, programs of intramural
sports for girls, high school athle-
tic programs, and panel discus-
sions were presented.
Other colleges represented at
the meeting included TSCW, North
Texas, Howard Payne, Abilene
Christian College, East Texas
State Teachers College, and TCU.
DRUGS
True D. Morese, president of the
Doane Agricultural Service, St.
Louis, says there is a demand for
farms now because people fear in-
flation and that prices will go
higher.
He regards the imminent threat
of inflation as one of our gravest
dangers.
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their cqunty agent, B. T. Haws,
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over a thousand who attended the
Texas Livestock Roundup.
Another favorite was the re-
port by young Bivin Dunklin, Ham-
ilton county 4-H’er and County
Agent E. R. Lawrence on their
beef cattle feeding project.
Hubertus Urbanczyk, young edi-
tor of the Agricultural Weekly in
Munich, Germany, has been here
as guest of the U. S. Dep’t of Agri-
culture lately. He is studying ways
of handling farm news and getting
agriculture information to far-
mers in an effective way.
He says Germans have failed
to do that satisfactorily.
A shary young fellow, he speaks
almost perfect English, learned
in five months he has been in the
U. S. He has received numerous
requests for public appearances
before luncheon groups and schools
here. He plans to return to Ger-
many after attending the National
4-H club Congress in Chicago next
month.
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