Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1956 Page: 1 of 14
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GET SAFB-UKIVING^AJkbDS—Thrc« mtmben of
High School, taught by Arnold JohnljMt, were proven
ville Junior Chamber of Commerce “SqjMghlving Conteet1
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left.to right, James Ramsey (third piece),-Ode
place) and Johnson. ~ 7! T - —' — ■
thTIftWeer
ntA awards
‘st'Tnt the 4
Education claaa at Stephenville
awards won during tne recent Stephen-
*at the assembly held at the high school
this week. Johnson presented the swards 1n behalf .pf the Jayceas. Shown above are the winners,
Weathers (second place), LouJane Mitchell (first
(Photo by Bax Studio)
Photo by AuUt McMahon.
ZAVALA MADE TREASURER
Jaycees Board Backs Poster
Contest on 'Western Roundup’
+; The board bf directors of the meeting pet for next Monday night drive to coincide with the nation-
Stephenville Junior Chamber of l in the Community Room. 1 wide drive now in pr greiw. Under ,
Commerce recommended to the j Under -the proposed project the 1 the new plan the drive would end
general membership the sponsor- r rganization would offer prises for on March 31 rather than the pre-
ing of a poster contest to boost at- the best posters created urging at- vinusly announced April 4.
tendance at the Junior High 4 tendance at the Roundup with con- Under the national drive a local i
SJch’ ol Parent-Teachers’ Asaocia- testa being conducted in three member will have an opportunity j
t'on sponsored “Western Roundup” 4 group*, senior high school, junior to compete foT prises to awarded l
at the group’s regular bi-monthly bigji school and elementary school, by the national organisation in ad-
meeting in the Community Room : hi other actions taken by the djtion to the local prises,
of The Stephenville State Bank board at the meeting, the resigna- Pate of the social to be held for
Monday night. j tion at Kenneth Long as treasurer new members was not changed and
The b«MgeM(B|PSrh* taken to ! wm" nwwpted and Robert Zavala I it will be held at the Municipal
the . membership at the regular WM to All out Long’s unex- ) Golf Course Club House on Sat-
! pired term. , urday night. April 7.
ffU--»t.e— oapininnd Weuhmlttiag JhU-, - -Pj
1 COUNTY RED
CROSS OMVE
SHORT OF QUOTA
The Erath County Red Cross
Drive i| far abort of the announced
j $3,606 quota, drive chairman Brad
Th-mpson stated Tuesday morn-
ing, with only 1$ days left ia the
| campaign. ''• V'TV.. *'
DHve treasurer. Fred McCleskey
reported that £687.66 had been
turned in to him et the Farmera-
First National Bunk with 8620.43
being collected by city drive chair-
man Lewis Hollingsworth and his
co-workers and 868.13 being de-
posited by the rural community
*| chairmen.
• -j Reporting for the rural areas
were Virgil Lnughl’n of Morgan
Mill «ith-$PU'>^Mrs.-Cart Mitch-
ell of Alexander with ffl <18, Mil,.
Leila Cowan', of Smith Springs
with $1. S. E. Gary of Victor
(who was the first to report and
who made his quota) with $1$ and
M. A: Elston of School Hill with
$16-<S-
Thompson and Hollingsworth
repeated their previous urging to
, area and block chairmen to com-
plete their’ collections as soon as
possible and called on the public
i to cooperate with the workers in
making the drive a success'.
•f ' They pointed -out that many
worthwhile projects benefit from
the Red Cross programs and that
the American Red Cross was quick
to come to the aid of local people
during the disastrous floods of
I*, si spling, as well as in pievieus
year*.
Thompson indicated that drive
workers are to bring their collec-
tions direct to the treasurer and
urged that they repott as soon as
possible.
The /un-i reports do not include ,
Session
the amount collected in Dublin!
since that city’s drive was covered
in the 1955 Community Chest Cam-
ptegn.
at Rec Hall
Earl Morrison Re-Elected—
President at Board Meet
* Earl C. Morrison of Walnut Bpring* waa re-electad president
of tha KrnOi Count)' Rural Klee trie Cooperative Association at
a mooting of the association’s Board of Directors following tha
annual membership mooting In the City Recreation Hall Tuaa-
day afUfpooo.
Other officers named by the board were W. L. Ringo of
Gordon a« vice-president and J. H. Runyan of Staphenvltle as
aecretary-traaadro'.
The membership meeting wna opened with n song by Mrs.
___ Chanev and Rev. Garland Shall, paatoa^^he Flrat
Presbyterian Church, give the invocation
An estimated lilhLHO attended the aiOlBHrdteoUng, A .
higher registration had been expected but offlciala were pleased
with the attendance,
1 the opinion that the bed weather |
had kept many of the mere distant
member*, at home. |
I Jess Elliott, vice-president c*
the Stephenrllle Chamber ef
Commerce, geve the welcoming
dress and Morrison gave tha
nuat president’s report, after
which Clinton C- Co* gave the
secretary-traasurer'i report. , / t I
After the repoet of the namhtsf-
Ing committee, headed by T, R.'
IsaJ
— l ditanteiin Of tilf lytHlfRI'WIII
members ef the board, af mreeaers. T Producer. A mods tion. of
Mueical aatartateiMnt then ws.' Ahltne will be the main apeakera
given by the Fsirin Twins of f«r the first semi-monthly Erath'
Brownwood and Ben Templeton r«nn»y Dairy Program, sponsored
i geve the manager’* report aad jra th* dairy committee of the Ste-
Introduced the guest*. phenvllle Chambei oif Commerce,
In the swarding ef door prises,. from 8-8 p. m. March 24 In the
PROGRAM SET|
:: FOR FIRST DAIRY
CLINIC AT TSC
I’LL TELL
THE WORLD
Bu Rvrvs Jj\ Higob
resignation -that bis enrollment in
the Erath County ' Vocational
School prohibited his
board and general membership
meetings regularly.
The board also voted to change
the date of the local membership
-JU .V» Dantefc .appnteted-
A neighborly, conversation be-
tween old friends in the reception
room at the Stephenville Hospital
Wednesday night was interesting
in many .wn^*, as well as quite
revealing, ^rady -Miller, the Well
known stqfkman and farmer of l
the SimsA‘alley country, was at>
the hospRal helping to look after
his son-jndew, Jessie Morris, who4
is recdfcring from a severe ill- j
ness. /Mr. Miller was expressing
his opinion about the dairy in- j
dustry. and said that he believed
it was something that the younger
generation could well afford to
take up and follow. While Mr.
Morria. ia ill he is assisting with
a dairy herd on that farm. How-
man’s game. Lots of hard work
and far different from the way
the Millers were reared.
The W. H- Miller family settled
a large farm and ranch in the
north part of Eraft County a
long time ago. They roared five
boys—Grady. Mose, Doe, Dick
and Walla. All are gone except
Grady and Wade, the latter now
(making his home at Fort Hancock.
'However, all that is another story
‘although it does serve the pur-
pose of leading up to the conver-
sation at the hospital Wednesday
night, ft wan at that time that
(Continued on Page 2)
EIGHT FILE FOR
CITY, COUNTY
SCHOOL BOARDS
One candidate was added to the
list of those seeking places on the
(.allots for the Stephenville In-
dependent School District Board
of Trustees and seven candidates
have Tiled for positions on three
common and rural school districts
hoards this week.
Filing for re-election to the city
young ! school board was Weldon Glasgow,
three-man committee consisting of
: Bill Johnson as chairman, Roger
attending Gideon and Danny Wolfe to plan
, entertainment ft r the members, j
I both at the social and at other i
! times during the coming year.
Also appointed by Derrick was
a committee to contact the Free j
Fall Fair Association concerning j
j a project during the coming fair. ,
Named to this group were Ed Sul-
j livan as chairman, Arlon Weems
and Melvin Coley . A
AS MARCH 15-30
Absentee ballots in the forth-
coming city elections must be
cast at the city hall between
Thursday. March 16, and Friday,
March 30, city secretary Rex
Cates stated today. He empha-
sized that the ballots must be
cast in person.
The individual voter must
bring their poll tax receipt or
exemptioa with them, he stated.
awarding of door prizes, fram 8-8 p. m,
W. B. Wood of Stephenville waa' Agricultural Building Auditorium
the recipient of a Croaley electric at Tarleton State College,
range provided through the eo-; . Dr. Vane* Terrell, chairman of
operative and Brown A Fearer, (he sponsoring committee, will
and. C. R. Ward wan the White serve as emcee for the night,
electric water heater. Woodman will deliver a ton-
E. G. Russell ef Dublin wen the minute discussion en “MUk Mar-
1 100 pullets, the Wilson Church of ketlng” and Frey will speak on
in an Extended
’““TV,
Plans Set at Goodyear
NOTICE
i
Crows that annually do thou-
sands ef dollar* worth of damage
Tor a rough
Friday, March 18, fa the deadline
for filing applications tor the ad-
shoot to! dltional 30-day supply
Entry Blanks Out for
Junior High 'Roundup’
Mrs. ,T. C. Oliver, president of
■ the Stephenville Junior High
School Parenta-Teacher Associa-
j tion, has announced that entry
fii*»
F*S cta-l. .nd ’“ “*
Lyle L. Vouelts have announced u ,,, y n *nrii ‘IK
a* candidate* for the Three-Way 'Vood" r*nch on Apnl 28
Common School District Board I Roundup, bring sponsored
three p««ition§llo be filled, the High P-VA to raiiie
All three are asking re-election. 1 lu,lf4s for the schools’ library, will
as candidates for h»ve a wide variety of events and
to be filled en ths ' Mrs. Oliver stated that the blanks
loeal bogrd are Malcolm »r* botuff distributed early in or-
in Erath county, are in for
time If the plan* of a group of
hunters headed by Glenn Moring
of the Goodyear Service Store
materialize.
For years farmers have com-
- plained of the destruction of mel
i ons, peanuts and pecan* and the
crow po|iiit,itinn »(* ths to increase ,
each year with more damage-(o'
crop..
Glenn Moring and others inter-:
ested cnnc?Jved the plan of offer-
ing a double-barrel *k°facun com-
plete with case to the hunter who
turned in the greatest number of
contest Which
enough intefeAt in the _____ ... .
destroy the crews before the ereps feed. AJ1 applicant* who
they damage begin to mature. J for the emergency feed in
Shown in the photograph with • ary are eligible to sign the
(lie gun and case are Glenn Mor- time for the additional 80
ing and Ray Howell. supply. Applications are now
Result* of the content will be ing taken In the FHA Office at
published In the local papers from
time to time.-----------
Also stated to appoar on the Fra-
grant la W. W. Reed, professor
and head ef the TSC Animal and
I Dairy Husbandry Department.
Reed will conduct a demonstration
on “How to Got More Milk From
a Cow."
George Hollodey of Hico and J;
H. Runyan of Stephonvflte, dl-
ing | rector* in the CWTFA and Lewis
ho ! Wyly of Stofhonvllle, director in
“ th< NTPA, as well as other di-
the Courthouse in Stephenville,! rectors in the two association*,
Ray F. Turknett, county super- 4 (Continued on Pago 2)
TSC STUDENTS ENTERTAIN
Sra^whrsrXte^ ££ £ a i2 •
The gun, which is a 12 gaug»i
held Winchester, modol No. 24 Is on
anl display at the Goodyear Service
Separate contests will be
for high school, junior high
elementary grades.
Preceding the events at the
arena, a downtown parade will
be held under the supervision of
less Elliott and Charles Still.
Oren Ellis Receives Lions Club
'Key of State’ Award at Meet
and Elmer Johnson, both of
whom are reeking re-election.
Also seeking re-election ar H.
L, Davis and W. S. Davis on the
lluckabay Rural High School Dis-
trict board.
No candid
- (Contir
der that all school children in the
county will have an opportunity
to enter.r
Directors of the Roundup are
Mr. and Mrs. George Brown and
Mr. and Mrs. Whit Keeney, who
ennounced ' are scheduling what has heen term-
go 2) i ed as “an exciting, humorous and
GROUPS OPEN TO VOLUNTEERS
26 Work Committees Named by
Chamber of Commerce for ’56
Hugon, Paul Higginl
Watts, Mrt.~E. M. A
pi, , ■ | D
r, TcMfus Co
Tom Rridges,
The make-up of 26 work com-
mittees to sffifi. the Stephenville
Chamber of Commerce during the
coming year waa announced last
week by Pres. Arch Evahs, who
stated that the groups were still
open for volunteer onembers.
Committees, most of whom
Evans stated were on the votufi
teer basis, are:
MERCHANTS' ACTIV1TTR8
Lewis Hollingsworth, H. M. Ev-
erett, Milton Bradford, Albert Col-
lins. Lylo W. Hunt, Gene Wright,
O. A. Holley, Wade Hollo*, ^rt
Anderson, Brad Thompson, J. D.
Rlchardso*, Joe Price, Jack Ar-
thur, Ruftis Higgs, Bam Risinger,
f- George Shiels, Vad Alien, Dm
Paul Higginbotham, John
Anderson, Jess
Bros.. Mrs. Vlv-
iy, TeWrus Cawyor, Claude
Broek, Tom Bridges,' John Ficke,
Drilling Down to
2,120 Feet on
Oil-Gas Test Well
Drilling was reported to I
down to 2,120 feet en the Alvin
Koonsman oil-gas test well near
Imrrsu wwnp^fihy inni ntRgi »
, Current drilling on the welt fa
ia Hard lime and operator* expect
i&isitsnitflE
L. L. Heffley, Galen Gilbert, Trav-
is McMahan, H. G. Perry, Jimmie
Briggs, Dan D.’Arey, John D. Tati,
C. E. Wright, Milton Cox and
C. M. Howell.
INDUSTRIAL
Byron Singleton, J. W. Clements
Lucian Rich, C. H. Maguire, Jr.,
Jim Whitacre, Jack Arthur, C. M.
Shroyer, Rex Cates, Jess Elliott,
W. -hi. Brown, E. M. Anderson.
Tullu* Smith, Brad Thompson,
Jack Tedriifa, Claude Bryant, Mor-
rtf Novit, Art* Anderson, Harry
Parfa and Oren Ellis
if#.- FINANCE
Jack Teddlfe, J. W. Clements
and leede Jones. ,...... .r'; !...*..
fjt. EDUCATION
(Continued on Page 6)
Store. Those sponsoring the move
are asking everyone who likes to
hunt to register. Contributions are
being asked to help defray the cost
of the gun, but Moring emphasizes
that it l* not compulsory that you
Oren H. Elll
and member
I in, o
of th
"The Owl ami Two Young
ecniody based on two 13-
boya’ “entanglement in
j f raw*
rode, grand entry snd/or barrel ( f,,r the P,17,‘
(ConUnued on Pafce 6) , * The main object is to
Dunn Named Assistant
Coach at High Schooll
post president listed 76 new members into tbo ed
the Stephenville j club, an achievement made by only. Mon,” a
Lions Club since 1942, was honor- ]16 other Lions in the world-wide yoer-old
ed by Lions International and the1 organisation. j _ j love.”
local club at the weekly luncheon Department. Ellis was honored for having on-
meeting of the group in the Tarle- j The program was under the He became the first member of
ton Bute College Dining Hall at supervision of Dr. Jim B. Whtt-, ths Stephenville club to receive
noon Friday when he was present- ‘ acre, program chairman for March the award and is one of only S3
ed a diamond-studded "Key of Donald McKay, Ihitfez "fodent. in Texas,
create j ptgte” award for his activities in; gave “My Wife. Sally ” a take-off
; the organization. on women driverz, and Bobby Gres-
rresenting the key was Sandy bem and Donald Edwards parform-
I King, deputy district gevarner
Dunn
has an extensive athletic
BrewnwdM,'«iw streseed the va°T-j
ues of the organisation’s efforts
I "to build for tomorrow.’’
Also featured on.the Friday pro-
gram waa three Tarleton State Col-
lege students who gave playlet*
under the dirertioh of Miss Li 11k
V, Lilliard, head of the TSC Speech
Lion Pree. J, Louis Evans bttre-
duced King for the preeeatatlon
(Continued on Page t)
John’ Preston Dunn waa named
assistant football coach at Ste- background. He earned three let-, __ *
phenvllle High School end will ter* in fo thall «t Suphenvilie |V1. C. Br&Ildon IS
assume his duties Sept. i. Dunn, a High School and added three more --
former Stephenville High and TCU! at TCU under Dutch Meyer. ; Made Member Ol
football and track star, was head1 Following his graduation from ! _ _ wya a
coach at Dublin High School In ‘ (ConUnued on Page 6) J JerSCV Cattle CltlD
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CITY WW POST
HOLDS OFFICER
NOMINATIONS
Recreation Board
Called Meet Set
For Friday Night
A called meeting of the Steph-
envillo Recreation Board ho* bran
set for 7:30 p. m. Friday in the
Community Room of the Stephen-
ville State Bank, Chairman R. T.
Norwood ha* announced.
Purpoaa of the scission will be to __
continue the di«ous»ion of a pro- j^'g^North Balkniip'
ig on the { Retiring P««t f*mwiam
mmm
M. C.'Brandon of Stephenville
ha* been named a member of The
American Jersey Cattle Cluh. He!
is a breeder of registered Jersey
rattle. • ’ ______
Bi andon’s application for mcin-
beiship in the national organiza-
tion of the Jersey breed was ap-
proved at the last meeting of The
Chib’* Board of Director*. The ac-
tion gives Mm a voice Hi the mon-
Twetve men wort nominated for i agement and conduct of tbo af-
office* In Stephenville Post 818f' fair* of tbo breed and also entitl-
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars se him to regiotte Ms pure-bred
at the group’s ragdlar meeting, Jersey* at special membership
Friday right at Sparkman's Trim' rate*.
The American Jersov Cattla Club
being used for tennis courts.
Norwood is urging ad civic, ser-
vice ami racial club* in the city to
hd^e • represontativy ** “
’ the meeting. A!
patent ^ai
liyor Mated that* the nominations
would he reopened froap th* floor
organization. It was or-
fronFtho floor j ganired In 1868 to keep pedigree
at the next regular meeting, sot record* of Jersey cattle and tc
for Friday, March 23, and thaf implore and promote the Jersey
the election of officer* for the: breed. The national headquarters
(Continued on Page 2) j | is located ia Cotumbua, Ohio.
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('RESENTED LIONS KEY OP STAIY-Oren H. Ellis, center,
member of the Stephenville Lion* (flub since 1842 and past-
president ef the local club, became the first HtepbenviUe Lion to
reorire the coveted ‘Key ef State’ award at a recent meeting *d
thw elpb. Watching as District Deputy Guv. Sandy King of
Brawn wood, right, present* tbo swasri, I* J. Louis Evans, prest-
dei t rtf the local dub. ETtl* quaHfled for the key 6y enlisting
member* Into the organization. -= . •
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