Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1961 Page: 15 of 16
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STICPHENVnXE EMPIRE-TRIBUNE, STEPHENVILI-E, TEXAS
PAGE SEVEN
INSURANCE MERGER
Floyd West & Co. Joins
With Crum & Forster
Ownership of Floyd W#st ft Oa„
62-year-old Dallas general agency,
has been acquire dby Crum ft
Forster of New York, one of the
nation’s largest underwriting man-
agement organiutiens, through an
exchange of stock of the two com-
panies.
Announcement of the torporste
union was made by officials of
both companies.
“Floyd West ft Co. is an ack-
nowledged leade rin the field of
multiple line insurance in the
state of Texas and Hs afficiatien
with the Crum ft Forster Group
is truly a momentous event in
modern insurance history," said
Wiliam G. Ridgway, Jr., Crum ft
FY>rster president. Mr. West is
wpll known in Stephenville and
has made frequent visits to this
section of Texas. As a youth he
lived at Tolar in Hood County.
“It is indeed a privilege to join
the Crum ft Forster family,” said
Floyd West, longtime head of the
Texas firm. “This will improve
both service and facilities to local
•gents and their policyholders.”
Floyd West ft Co. will retain
its corporate identity and head-
ousrters will remain in the pre-
sent location at 2108 Bryan St. in
Dallas. As manager of a newly
created Texas department, it will
supervise activities of the Cram ft
Forster group in Texas.
“Our present management team,
our 18 service offices, and our
staff of more than 475 department
managers, adjusters, fieldmen and
office personnel will remain on-
changed,” said Mr. West.
Founded in 1889, Floyd West ft
Co. is one of the state’s most pro-
gressive general agencies and,
through its 1,700 agencies, pro-
duces one of the largest volumes
of fire and casualty business in
Texas.
Mr. West assumed management
control of the agency in 1986 and
was joined shortly afterward by
F. H. Duff and J. A. Travis. In
1981, these joined as partners and
•ml* ownexj of the agency. In 1950
this partnership wae expanded to
include Willard McClain, B. P.
Russell, At Tobia and F. F. Was-
ko. About a year ago the partner-
ehi pbusiness began operation as
a corporation with Mr. West as
President, Mr. Duff as Vice Praoi-
dent and Treasurer, Messrs. Trav-
is, McClain, RueseU and Wasko
as Vise Presidents end J|r. Tobin
as Vies President and Secretary.
Following the change in owner-
ship of the corporation, Messrs'.
West, Duff, end Travis will enter
inte partial retirement but will
continue close to the business af-
fairs of Floyd West A Company
in an advisory capacity. Active
management of the business will
henceforth be in the hands of the
four other officers with Mr. Rus-
sell as general manager.
The only change anticipated is
that standard classes of Insurance
such as fire, marine, automobile
and casualty will now be written
through one of Crum A Forster's
A-plus:AAAAA companies. All
present miscellaneous facilities of-
fered local agents such as special
risks, Lloyd’s of London, surplus
and excess lines, livestock and avi-
ation will ha continued without
change. There will be no reduction
in rapacity. *
As the Texas department of the
Crum ft Forster group of insur-
ance companies the Dallas office
will operate aa an autonomous
unit with all underwriting and
claim decisions made here. This
will permit a reduction in general
paper work including correspond-
ence and therefore will increase
Lingleville Primary
Student* Appear on
Party lime Television
both facilities and
and improve
service.
Crum ft Forster is the under-
writing manager of insure nee
companies with assets in excess of
8876 million and a surplus to
policyholders of mors' than $200
million. Predominant companies
within tho group are United
States Fire Insurance Co., the
North River Insurance Co., West-
chester Fire Insurance Co., and
the International Insurance Co.
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i corps of the Italian Red Crow,
willhelp doctors at the scenes
I of highway accidenta.
XMAS TREE
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DAMAGE
— Discarded
Christmas trees, of all things,
have been fouling up the drainage
system iu nearby Millcreek.
Township supervisors complain-
ed recently that “all kinds of road
washouts” occurred during spring
rains because downs of Christmas
trees had been thrown into storm
sewers and drainage ditches.
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Primary students of Liagleville
school appeared on television’s
Party Time children’s show, Mon-
day evening, July 8. The program
is a feature of Dallas’ KRLD,
channel 4.
After leaving the LlnglaVille
school at • •-«■ the group stop-
pad first i» Ridglea, Fort Worth,
to hear the taped story of “The
Last Supper” and to see the life-
siged wax figure interpretation of
da Vinci’s famous painting of
Jesus and the Twelve Disciples.
Lunch was eaten at the Forest
Park in Fort.Worth.
In Dallas the group visited the
State Fair Ground and saw the
aquarium and the Hall of Natural
History.
The children and adults who
made the trip spent much time
at the Southland Life Insurance
building where they visited the
Obaervmtion Deck, 39 stories high,
end were able to get a full view
•f Big D. In the 41st floor obser-
vation deck lounge refreshments
were served. Mr. Jess Elliott made
the trip to the Southland Center
possible.
“Chapel in the Sky” a place for
quiet meditation was visited. The
chapel is noa-^enomiaational and
is backlighted with stained glass
windows and feat urea a vaulted
ceiling. The wails are of stained
and hand-rubbed butternut wood.
Making the trip were students,
Barbara Ray, Nickay Sims, Paula
Carter, Brenda Hope, Kenny Phil-
ips, Larry Bostick, Paula Caugh-
man, Linda Caughman, Randy
Good, Leona Lucas, Dwain Mar-
tin, Mike Martin, Teresa Parks,
Duane Smith, Alemeda Stephens,
Connie Moon, Linda Hofmsley,
Gary Decker, Marilyn Decker and
Mrs. Blanche Jones, their teach-
ers.
Parents making the trip were
Mr. and Mrs. 8erey Bostick, Mr.
and Mrs. Dale/Holmsley and baby
daughter, Mr*. Donald Sims, Mrs.
Craig Ray, Mrs. W. D. Caughman,
Mrs. W. . W. Good. Mrs. Albert
Carter, Mrs. Prentice Lee Philips,
Mrs. W. W. Good, Mrs. Loyd
Lucas, Mrs. W. L. Martin, Mrs.
Lee Martin, Mrs. Harold Wayne
Parks, Mrs. Frank Smith, Mrs.
Lloyd Stephens and Mrs. J. C.
Moon.
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Americans who wish to serve in
the Peace Corps will have another
opportunity to qualify by taking
examinations July IS and 14.
Additional requests for volun-
teers with a variety of skills rang-
ing from athletics to taxidermy
have dictated another nation-wide
testing.
The second round of Peace
Corps examinations will be given
a* Civil Service Commission test-
ing centers throughout the United
States. All those who apply, re-
gardless of whether they have
previously filled out a Peace Corps
questionnaire, will be permitted to
take the examinations.
The testing on July 13 will be
for all Peace Corps assignments.
On the following day, tests will be
given to those applicants who have
a college degree and wish te teach
in secondary schools. The subjects
they may choose are mathematics,
biology, physics, chemistry and
English.
Applicants who wish td take
both sets of tests may do so.
Thomas H. E. QuimJjy, Direc-
tor of Recruitment for the Peace
Corps, said the list of skills re-
quired for new projects now un-
der discussion was rapidly grow-
ing.
“For example.” he said, “we
need physical education instruc-
tors who can coach track, an as-
sistant museum curator for a col-
lege of animal husbandry, a time
and motion analyst, a town plan-
ner, a plant physiologist, an ex-
part repairman for Diesel engines." !
“Groups of skilled people are
needed, too,” Quimby said. “We
have requests for arc welders,
chemists, textile mill foremen,
audio visual aid specialists, busi-
ness school graduates who can do
market research and home eco-
nomics instructors."
Quimby emphasized that college
trairting was not necessary for
many of the jobs to he filled by
volunteers. "People who have agri-
cultural and trade skills are par-
ticularly urged to apply,” he said.
All persona who have rant la a
Peace Corps questionnaire since
the lnat testing May 27 and June
5 will be invited to the July ex-
aminations. Thera who submitted
questionnaires to the last tests,
but did not taka them, also will be
invited.
People who have not filled out
question nairera, but who wish to
join the Peaoe Corps, will bo per-
mitte dto go to the testing ranter
and take the examination as long
as tost oopioo are available.
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Judges Magazine
Publisher Here
For Funeral
Clark Coursey of Brown wood,
editor and publisher of County
Progroaa, official publication of
the County Judges and Commis-
sioners Aran, of Texas, and Mrs.
oursoy wore among thoee from out
of town who were hen Saturday
afternoon to attend funeral ser-
vices for County Judge Dale Har-
bin.
Coursey and Judge Harbin be-
came well acquainted while the
law eouaty judge was towing aa
5**?3rte ^d ^OmamlwSSt
A sen. The editor of the county
Texas testing centers in this
area are, Abilene, Main Pott Of-
fice; Dallas, Room 108, Federal
Bldg., 1114 Commerce Street,'
Waco, Room 212, Federal Build-
ing; Wichita Falls, Room 317, Fed-
eral Building; San Angelo, Room
824, Federal Bldg.; San Antonio,
Room 618.
Outstanding 4-H
Driver Will Get
National Prize
An outstanding teenage driver
is expected to be Umoung the
stato delegation to the National
4-H dub Congroso in Chicago next
November, according to the Co-
operative Extension Service.
The delegate can be either a
hey or girl juat so long as he or
aha is enrolled in the national 4-H
automotive program and moots the
requirements for a state award.
The winner will then be eligible to
compete for a national $400 col-
lege scholarship.
Work dans in this project is
helping to make young drivers
more safety conscious and better
informed on the mechanism of the
automobils, judging from the
stories submitted by the 1960
champions. 'Ole 4-H’ers not only
learn rules of the road, but also
the “golden rule” of driving.
Farm and city club members
are equally enthusiastic about the
new automotive program offered
nationally last year by the Co-
operative Extension Service and
supported by the Firestone Tire
ft Rubber Co.
Club leaders recruit local law
enforcement officers, state offi-
cials, traffic engineers, mechanics
and other specialists to instruct
members in good driving, car pur-
chase and upkeep. Parents are in-
volved, too, since their permission
is sought for use of the family
car.
Of the estimated 200,000 club
members of driver age, better than
10 per cent were enrolled in the
automotive program this past
year, according to a recent report.
The njnber of participants is ex-
pected to rise this year.
The three-year project is ar-
ranged. in separate work units.
Unit I covers general information
on car and highway; Unit II,
maintenance and operation; Unit
III, efficient operation involving
cost and care. The manuals, writ-
ten especially for this project, are
given to 4-H’ers and club leaders
by the Extension Service.
For mors Information about the
project, contact the county Ex-
tension agent.
HOSPITAL NEWS
Mr. Lon Wall was admitted to, Moure, Austin; Mrs. A. W. Boyd,
tho hospital on Friday for medical! Mr, Ty Pittman, Mrs. James Dat-
ireatmcnt. Mr, Wall makes his by, and Mra. Jackie Lawson and
home at $20 S. Bell, in Hamilton-1 daughter, all from Stephenville.
nterod
being
Mr. E. M. Beckworth en
the hospital on Friday after being
bitten by a copperhead snake on
the band. Mr. geckwofth lives op
the Star Route, Stephenville.
Dismissals from the hospital on
Friday include: Mrs. Otis Cola-
man, Eastland; Mra. Donald
Gauntt and daughter, also Johnny
Gaylor, from Granbury; Mra.
Eddie Stone and son, and Mra,
T. H. Garrett, all of Stephenville.
Mr a.nd Mr». L. L. Outlaw are
the parents of a six pound, fifteen
ounce baby girt, named Carolyn
Arlene, horn at 5:80 am. Saturday
morning. The Outlaws have na-
other daughter, Sharon Darlene
and a son, Lawrence Lee, Jr. Mr.
Mr, C- H. Moore was admitted
to the hospital bn Monday fog
surgical treatment. Mr. Moose
lives on Route 2, Stephenville.
Mr. 3. H. Holder, a resident qf
Stephenville, was admitted to tl(e
hospital on Monday for medicgl
care, Mr. Holder resides at 509 B.
Broadway.
Mr. Virgil Gordon entered the
hospital on Monday for surgery
which was done on Monday aftef-
r.oon. Mr. Gordon lives on Route
4, Stephenville.
Mrs.-Ben Bolling arrived at the
hospital on Monday for possible
s St
ham, in Stephenville.
the family lives on Route 4, Dub-
lin. |
Mrs. R. 0. Parkinson was ad-
mitted to the hospital on Saturday
for medical treatment. Mra. Park-
inson makes her home at 204 Elis-
abeth Boulevard, in Granbury.
Mrs. R. B. MeAlpine entered the
hoepital on Sunday for medical
rare. Mrs. MeAlpine lives on Route
2, Stephenville hear Morgan Mill.
Mrs. J. A. Glenn, a resident of
Stephenville, was admitted to the
hospital on Sunday for medical
treatment. Mrs. Glenn resides at
1314 Cleveland.
Mr. C. H. Alexander was a|-
niitted to the hospital on Monday
for medical care. Mr. Alexander
lives at 850 N. (Jraham, In Ste-
phenville.
Dismissals from the hospital on
Monday include: Mra. D. B. Brush.
Fort Worth; Mr. Lon Wall, Hami-
ton; Mr. John McLemore and Mr.
O. N. Lack#y, both from Stephen-
vtlle. TM ■
Mra. Roy Stafford entered the
hospital on 8unday as a surgical
patient. Mrs. Stafford lives at
1011 Vanderbilt, in Stephenville.
Mr. O. N. I-aekey arrived at the
hoepital on Sunday for modical
treatment. Mr. Lackey resides at
961 N. Clinton in Stephenville.
Dismissals from tile hospital on
Saturday and Sunday include: Mr.
and Mra. Jackie Brooks, Tolar;
Mr. Bill Salyer, Dublin; Mrs. Cecil
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CONDITION OF
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FARMERS-
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
At the close of business June 30,1%1
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts...............L.............,..........................................$3,342,306.79
Stock in Federal, Reserve Bank.................................................... 12,000.00
United States Bonds......................................................................... 1,668,633.27
Other Bonds and Warrants............................................................ 989,157.21
Banking House.......................-......................................................... 25,203.34
Furniture and Fixtures...........................................-......-..................34,348.85
Other Real Estate ...........................................,.......-....................... 13,000.00
Cash in Vault, and due from Banks ............................................ 1,484,598.22
Other Assets ...................................................-.................—.......—_606.05
TOTAL ...................................................-.............................$7,569,858.73
___________ __ LIABILITIES
Capital Stock..............................................................$100,000.00
Surplus ........................................................................ 300,000.00
Undivided Profits .................................................... 308,223.08
Reserves ...................................................................... 149,945.44__
Total Capital Accounts...........................-.......................-......$ 858,168.52
Deposits ..............................................................................................$6,711,685.21
TOTAL
OFFICERS
PAUL HICKEY, Chairman of Bonrd
FRED McCLESKEY, President
HUGH McCLESKEY, Vice-President
RALPH JONES, Assistant Vice-PresideUt
DEAN MURRAY, Caahior
NELL REYNOLDS, Assistant Cashier
DARRELL HANSON, Aartatent Cashier
MRS. HUBERT DARBY. Assistant Cashigr
_____$7,569,853.73
DIRECTORS
PAUL F. HICKIE
CHAS. NEBLETT
JOE B. FREY
CHAS. NEBLETT. Jr.
FRED McCLESKEY
HUGH McCLESKEY
JOSEPH A. CHANDLER
REECIE JONES
C. C. WINTERS
The Old Reliable Since 1906
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Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1961, newspaper, July 14, 1961; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1134850/m1/15/?q=%221961-07%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.