Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1948 Page: 2 of 20
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THIS STEPHENVILLE BMPDtB-TitlBUNB. STEPHENVIIJLE, TEXAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1948
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FINAL
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Values $16.98
Special..
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HATS
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Special $1
1 Group Hats......................Special $2
1 Group Hats.....................Special $3
1 Group Ladies’ Hats
' ~ $5
Values to $21.50
Special.
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Chenille Housecoats, sizes 14 to 52, values to $10.98.
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Smocks, $6.98 Value..
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Slips (not long), values to $5.50. Special____91.98
Pajamas, $9.98 value---------93.98
Maternity Dresses, 1 group values to $8.00.
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Evening Dresses, 1 group values to $32.50.
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Blouses, 1 group..
Rain Coats, $27.98 value.
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House Coats, quilted, solid colors__
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1 Group Children’s Coats__% Price
Dresses, 1 group Children’s Dresses___% Price
Cook Aprons. Special_______91.00
Dickies, $2.98 value
-91.98
WELL TEACH DANCING
Frank Jordan of Mason, who help-
ed to organise this association of
Hereford breeders. With his wife
and children, J. D., Ethel Mae, Lois
Laverne and Kenneth, he lived in
Stephenville from 1941 to 1945.
The first president of this associa-
tion during the years of 1943-44,
he now raises commercial and reg-
istered cattle on his ranch seven
miles east of Mason. He is now
president of the Mason and Hill
county Hereford associations. "It’s
a job for me to judge here because
I have worked with these boys,”
Jordan stated.
Funeral Services for
B. F. Crook Are Held
At Lindale Saturday
Mrs. Lester Smith, who will begin classes in tap, ballet and
acrobatic dancing in Stephenville. For the past twelve years
she has taught in the schools in Bosque county and has
studio in Dublin. She is a graduate of Gardner’s Professional
School in Baltimore, Maryland, and has studied under many
teachers, including Billy Truhart and Grover C. Able. Mrs,
Smith attended the Texas convention Christmas week at the
Baker Hotel in Dallas, learning the up-to-date routines for the
classes.
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Breeders Discuss ±
Range Conditions J
At Show Monday i
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rt, dcy range-endthe hlgh AlfhougF. in the opinion of Jus- P“®8,40 Indian Affairs Services in
reed were named repeat- ton McBride, this has been one of Oklahoma and Ansona.
A sho:
-price's!
edly as chief problems of Here-
ford breeders at the Mid-Texas
Hereford Association show held at
the city park here Monday, Jan-
uary 12. '
In the crowd around the judg-
ing ring during the morning were
cattlemen of many degrees, while
in the ring were some of the finest
cattle, according to the concensus
of those present, ever to be shown
in this annual contest.
According to Charles Pettit, of
Dallas, owner of the Flat Top
Ranch jocated 1 near Walnut
Springs, the cattle in this show
School Children
To Be Immunized
By 1948-49 Term
Beginning with the 1948-1949
term, all Staphefiville public school
registering for the first
will be required to pre-
liysieian’s certificate show-
have been immunised
the school board Thursday night
of last week.
Diseases specifically mentioned
were diptheria, whoqping cough,
tetanus and smallpox.
J. B. Merrell, public school sup-
erintendent, stated that the new
requirements will be put into ef-
fect In order to protect children hi
school from contagious diseases
from those who might spread them
before the cases were diagnosed.
Philadelphia municipal stadium
130,000 persons. --------
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been before. The bulls that were
grand and reserve champions
would look good in any show,”
said this famed breeder of cham-
pion Hereford cattle. He stated
that none of the cattle were over-
fed, attributing this fact to the
extremely high price of feed.
W. B. Barrett of the Barrett
Hereford Ranch, located in the
cify limits of Comanche, attested
to the bad condition of the range.
However, his cattle, he said, are
doing better than they had been
previously, since they are finding
fairly good grazing on small grain.
Solves Water Problem
Gail Dudley, one of the three
Dudley Brothers of Comanche,
stated that the scarcity of water
is another problem which many
cattlemen are having to face. Gail,
together with his brothers, Eltos
and Tom, has recently completed
a water system on the ranch so the
scarce supply of water is not a
problem with him. Paying close at-
tention to the business at hand
was Jim Dudley, small son of Gail
Dudley.
Durham and Prather of Coman-
che, new breeders in the associa-
tion, were present in the milling
crowd. They have a foundation
herd of WHR bloodlines. Accofd-
ing to F. W. Prather, they are es-
caping the feed problems by rais-
ing most of their own feed.
Looking forward to the sale to
be held in the afternoon, Hasten
Walker, whose Hereford ranch is
located on the highway between
Dublin and Stephenville, said that
he “might buy a good herd bull.”
Walker has at this time a herd of
40 registered Herefords.
Williams Here To Buy
T. J. Williams, general manager
of Higginbotham A Co., whose
ranch is located near Comanche,
also planned to make some pur-
chases in the afternoon, as he
“generally buys cattle.” Mr. Wil-
ling was Roy Largent of Merkel,
president of the Ter
exas Hereford
Association, who also owns and
operates the L. S. Hereford Ranch
at Merkel. Largent Saturday ship-
ped fifteen head of Hereford cat-
tle to Denver where they will be
entered in the stock show there
He judged the show here last year.
100
en-
liams, who owns a string of
mother cows, had four animals
tered in the sale.
An interested onlooker during
the judging was Charles Lewis of
the White Hat Ranch at Black-
well, which ie owned by Jack Frost
of Dallas. No disease had troubled
fhis herd, and he statad that it is
“in fair shape.1 Regarding the
dreaded foot-and-mouth disease, he
is confident that it will not reach
this far.
W. E. Rogers, owner of 0ie Rog-
ers Hereford Ranch located three
miles west of Iredell on the Fairy
Road, is a veteran cowman of this
section of Texas. He entered nine
head of cattle in this show and
sale. Rogers’ ranch contains ap-
proximately 1900 acres of land,
he said.
AaMUf the notables around the
the worst years in many years for
cattlemen, the 1948 Hereford show
featured the “best offering of sale
cattle that it has ever had. “I hope
that the market is better, too,
since feed is so high and the range
is in such bad condition,” he stat-
ed. Heston McBride, is the other
half of the McBride Brothers,
whose ranch is located near Blan-
ket. Both are ex-students of John
Tarleton College and graduates of
Texas A. & M. College. Juston is
the assistant secretary of the
Brown County Livestock Show and
secretary of the Brown County
Hereford Show, both of which
to be held in Brownwood January
20-27. The McBrides plan to enter
cattle in this show, also
Here from the Brown County As-
sociation were L. E. Newton of
Crosscut and Porter J. - Davis of
Cross Plains. Their report was that
the range condition in their Sec-
tion of the country also was short
and dry. These cattlemen' extend
cordial invitation to interested par-
ties to visit the approaching Brown
County show.
P. B. Gray of Dublin, who owns
a herd of 40 head headed by a
Harrisdale male, in discussing the
problem of feeding, stated that
most of his feed, other than pea-
nut hay, is bought. Gray purchas-
ed 20 of his 40 head of cattle from
Dudley Brothers of Comanche,
while the other 20 came from the
Barrett ranch near Comafiche.
Range Good East of Here
In contrast with the poor condi-
tion of most of the range in this
and adjoining counties, Dr. Charles
H. Harris of the Harrisdale Farms,
Fort Worth, stated that due to
“splendid fall rains, the range is
in very good condition in my see-
the country. We have a lot
tion of
of winter grass, and the cattle are
in the best condition in several
years,” he said.
“Just here” with no entries was
William Watt, manager of the
Northwood Stock Farm of Fort
Worth. The Northwood Farm con-
tains about 1,000 acres of grass-
land and has a herd of 160 head
of Hereford cattle.
A newcomer to this section of
the country, and to the business of
breeding registered Hereford cat-
tle, is Lee Campbell, whose ranch,
boasting a lovely new ranch style
home, is located between Dublin
and Comanche. He is starting his
herd, and now has 100 head Of
registered Herefords.
D. C. Lamer, whose ranch is lo-
cated twelve miles north of Mor-
gan Mill, has a very short range
also, due, he says, to the southern
drouth. “The ranchers who are get-
ting along have vetch and small
grain to graze their cattle on,” he
said.
With Lamer was R. C. Madeley,
who is connected with the Soil Con-
servation Service here. He agreed
with Lamer’s statements. Madeley,
echoing the opinions of most of
those present* stated that there
were some \f‘mighty nice cattle”
in the show.
Raise Own Feed
Bennett Shannon of Stephen-
ville, owner of the Shannon Farm
near Whitney, entered one bull in
the sale, Shannon is another who
escapes the problem of buying
high priced feed by raising his
own.
Judging the sale cattle was -
Funeral services were conducted
at 2:80 o’clock Saturday afternoon,
January 10, at the First Babtist
Church of Lindale for B. F. Crook
Sr., 69, veteran druggist, who died
or a heart attack at his home in
Lindale at 3:00 o’clock Friday
morning, January 2.
Rev. P» C. Scott, • pastor, offi-
ciated and burial was in the Lin-
dale cemetery under direstion of
the York Funeral Hpme. The Ma-
sons had charge of services at the
cemetery. Active, pallbearer's were
Dr. James E. Ferrell, Domer, Stan-
ley and Tom Crook, all of Tyler;
Tom Davis and William Bumpus,
both of Dallas, all nephews. __|
Honorary pallbearers were mer-,
chants, professional men and farm-
ers of Lindale.,
Surviving relatives are his wife;
one son, B. F. Crook Jr.; three
daughters, Mrs. Frances Carter of
Dallas, Mrs. Clark Eason of Fort
Worth and Mrs. Arlene Watkins
of Lindale; three sisters, Miss An-
nie Crook of Tyler, Mrs. Emma
Barron of Fort Worth and Mrs.
Hattie Summers of Stephenville,
and one brother, L. B. Crook of
Tyler.
WAA Helps Indians
Relief for famine •stricken In-
dians of the southwest is beii
is being
furnished through the surplus food
WAA. Thus far,
stocks of the
$126,000 worth of foodstuffs has
been sent to 16 needy Navajo and
Cherokee tribes, whose agricultur-
al resources are not sufficient be-
cause of greatly increased popu-
lation and sickness following the
war. The zone office at Grand Prai-
rie is cooperating with other WAA
offices at Kansas City and San
Francisco to
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Final Camp Swift Sale
Central Texans will get a final
opportunity to purchase Camp
speed shipments of Swift hnildiiww when the WAA
conducts a high bid sale of some
600 remaining structures at the
campsite near Bastrop. The build-
ings will include a number of per-
manent type two-story barracks,
as well as a variety of other GI
facilities. No priorities will be ob-
served, and the sale will take piece
at the Camp Swift aporta arena on
January 20, 21 and 22.
R & M’s
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January
Our January Clearance continues to offer you an opportunity to make sub-
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Men’s “Californian”
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“Curlee” Top Coats
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Higgs, Rufus F. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1948, newspaper, January 16, 1948; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1134897/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.