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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY. TEXAS.
Horn* of Tsrleton State College
FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1965
TWELVE PAGES
VOLUME 86—NO.12
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Shannon Says Higher-Lfps
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Trying
Block TSC
Many Ideas Are Alexander
Offered at Clinic Test Well
At 5300
Will Attempt
To Move Bill
1 I’LL TELL
THE WORLD
; By Rufus F. Hiocs
John Akey, the retired machinist,
telle us he is the lone living mem-
ber of the former 3rd Texas Regi-
mental Band that wai Vacated in
Stephenville long years ago. Not
many of those living here today
know anything about this wpnder-
ful musical organization — except
what they have heard. Mr. Akey
has a lot of natural talent as a
musician. In the band he wan a
tuba player bat later in private
life he was an accomplished violin-
ist, left handed. The late Pat Wil-
son was one of the prominent'
members of the early-day military
band. Other members of the Wil-
son family also belonged. A long
time ago the band held an annual
dance and one of these programs
is on ffte at this office. It' must
have been a gala Occasion. Admis-
sion, incidentally, was 88.60 per
couple. That was a lot of money
for a dance In the eighties.
Everett Mitchell, the news com-
‘ mentator for Allie-Chalmers and
radio hookup, said Saturday that
the changes in fanning methods
during the coming ten years would
revolutionise the agricultural pro-
pram of the country. If there are
as many changes in this period as
there have been since 1940 then
I we can look for a notable .transfor-
mation. It has not been too long
ago sines many bankers and a lot
of others said that power, machin-
ery would4 bankrupt every farmer
in the Country. Today it is hard
to And a mule er hcrae in use on
Rotarians Elect
Evans Governor
The four-day Community Development Clinic, which closes
Friday afternoon, has produced ah abundance of suggestions
residents of Stephenville woulad like to see accomplished for the
general betterment of tfte town. ^
It is expected that approximate- pleted Shively will compile all sug-
AUSTIN—(INS)— Representative Rill Shannon of Stephen-
viile charged Tuesday that higher authorities are attempting
to block his bill which would expand Tarleton State College to
The oil test well on the Benson !a full four-year institution.
Arch Evans of Stephenville was
.elected nominee for governor of
the 186th District of Rotary In-
ternational during the annual dis-
trict conference which dosed Mon-
day night in BrownWond. i
Evans, who is in the wholesale
auto parts business, was chosen
to succeed Warren B. ‘Tayman of
Stgmfprd. His formal election to
the high ranking Rotary post is
due to take place at the inter-
national convention in Chicago on
May 29-June 2. He was formal y
presented to approximately 266
Rotarians and Rotary Anns at the
district's governor’s banquet Mon-
day night.
As the conference came to a
close it was announced that Abi-
lene, Denton and Mineral Welle
are seeking the 186th district con-
ference in 1956. Incoming presi-
dents of the 32 clubs within the
district will select the next con-
ference site at their assembly later
thhryear.
Rotary Clubs in the district arc
Crowcdl, Graham, Mineral Wells,
Eastland, Bowie, Ciscq, Vernon,
Rule, Rochester, Quanah, Burkbur-
nett, Abilene, Gainesville, East
Fort Worth, .Starqford, Wichita
Arlington, Denton, Fort Worth,
Stephenville, Ranger, Hamlin, No-
cona, Olney, Weatherford, Brown-
wood and. North Fort Worth.
ly 700 persons will have filed their,
suggestions before the clinic is
concluded. The “gathering box” for
community ideas is being conduct-
ed by Stan Shively, community
specialist from Dallas, under spon-
sorship of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
Stephenville is the second Texas
town to have the services of Shive-
ly this year. From here he will
conduct similar clinics < in 18 other
towns in the state this year.
Every civic club, organization,
lodge, sorority, and each individual
has been invited to participate in
the clinic. When the clinic is com-
Texas Farm Families
Ready with New Plans
any farm, except for. riding pur- Approximately 12,000 Texas ( The Farmers Home Administra-
' _ - f n 1-tM / A M. 11 1 4k Cl nrlsr. a . .
Despite the continued f,rm Emilies who are operating,
poses.
drouth‘it could be that we are go-
ing to come into an era of pros-
perity in the rural.sections. Along
with the programl of Mr. Mitchell
another commentator said that
there would be a Dot of irrigation.
That must have sounded good to
Jake Oliver—who has for sale a
lot of irrigation equipment, in-
cluding power pumps.
Miss Lola Thompson, librarian
at Tarleton State College, announ-
ced the past week that she knew
fairly well about the design and
equipment for the new library
building that is to be erected on
the campus of the local school this
year. President Howell authorised
Miss Thompson to study library
plants at other institutions some
time ago. The exact Ideation has
not yet been made but that will
be taken care of soon. Architects
are now busy with the plans and
specifications. Final cost of the
new project will be in excess of
8400 thousand dollars.
The coining city election trill be
an I important for Stephen -
vjlle. The, mayor and three mem-
bers of the council are holdovers,
leaving five new places to be Ailed.
Stephenville has a great many
problems that only the official city
family can take care of. Both
members of the council and city
employees need to be alerted to
these needs. And many of. these
needs FJU cput mofwy. No City can
be progressive without spending
money—and that does not mean
that we are urging careless spend-
ing. We have often wondered .what
a capable city manager would do
in Stephenville if he were placed
in office and tokh to gat busy.-He
would have a tong list of items to.
look after right quiek.
buying, improving, or enlarging
their farms with Farmers Home
Administration loans are ready
with new plans for the 1966 farm-
ing season. State Director, W. T.
McKay, Farmers Home Adminis-
tration, Dallas, Texas, said today.
He said these families have care-
folly analyzed their last year’s
operations, compared their results
with pla^s they made a year ago,
checked on successful as well as
unsuccessful operations, and have
made new plans for the coming
year.
Miss Stidham
Elected V-P
By Teachers
•
Miss Velma Stidham, Arst grade
teacher in Central Ward School,
Friday night was selected vice-
president of the Mid-Texas Edu-
cation Association at its annual
meeting hi Brown wood.
Principal Guy T- Smith of
Brownwood was named president
and San Angelo was chosen tor
the 1966 meeting as a record num-
ber of school teachers and admin-
istrators from 20 counties con-
chided the annual two-day con-
vention.
Registration totaled 1,677, an
•11-time record for the 48-year-old
organization. Almost 100 per cent
of the teachers and administrators
In Erath County attended.
Hi
Faculty Rehired
AH nine members of the Lingle-
vjlle school faculty were rehired
with one year contract* at a meet-
ing of the Lingleville Rural High
School Board of Education Mon-
day night.
R. L: Meek Insurance Agency.
Tty best in Fire. Automobile, Farm
and Home Insurance. Call L-4816.
Farmers First National Bank Bldg.
mi*r mdmber of the Stephenville
- High School faculty, waa elected
a member of the district executive
committee.
Nineteen state delegates includ-
ing Ernie Johnson of Stephenville,
Erath County school.superintend-
ent and Miss Stidham, were elect-
ed. .V •
Special Offer! A big supply of
Tide, pins two Dm in Tubs on
Stand, With the purchase of any
Speed Queen Washer' at J. T.
MAYS Co.
tion supplies farm and home rec-
ord books to all families with sup-
ervised loans—that is, loans ac-
companied -with on-thr-farm tech-
nical aid service. The record books
are simple but complete. At the
end otf the year they show sources
and amounts of income, what the
money was spent for, farm inven-
tory, what farm work or livestock
practices paid off or lost money,
debts owed, plans for repayment.
The records are a guide for good
business.
Each family is encouraged to
bring in to the county office its
farm and horte record book and
farm plans for analysis at the end
of the farming season. The county
supervisor and the farmer and his
wife go over the records and plans
thoroughly, and use last year’s re-
sults as a basis for making next
year’s plans. Moat oLlhe year-end
analysis in Texas were completed
in December and January and
February of this year.
, J*i'
The families keep the records up
to date throughout the yaar to
serve aa consistent guides to farm
operations, McKay said. I-oans are
baaed on farming as a busineaa re-
quiring records or simple., book-
keeping for successful operations.
The county supervisor visits the
farms and homes as of^ten as nec-
essary to advise with the families
on matters pertaining to efficient
farming. When necessary, he aids
the families with the plans and
records when he makes the farm
visits or when the families can at
the county office.
The families are requested to re-
finance their government loans as
soon as they are able to go to a
gestions into various percentage
brackets. They will then become
available to all clubs, organizations,
6tc., as potential projects.
High on the list of suggestions,
during the opening days have been
requests for an enlarged recreation
program, complete with a youth
center and the hiring of a full-time
recreational director; summer wa-
ter rates; parking lot facilities;
attracting new industry; a city
lake; beautification of approaches
to the city; erection of a museum;
a good selling program on Tarle-
ton State College; establishment of
an annual fair; more paved and
lighted streets, etc.
Stalin Used Pledge
To Get Concessions
WASHINGTON, March 17—(INS)—Josef Stalin used his
pledge to help defeat Japan in World War II as the lever to
extract broad concessions from Britain and America at Yalta.
This was revealed today with the publication of the long-
secret Yalta papers over the ob-1 Communist-led poles to take over
mrtioti* of British Prime Minister the rule of the ceodtrv
farm near Alexander had passed
the 5.300-foot mark early Thurs-
morning.
Progress on the well, being
drilled by the Henderson Drilling
Co. of Abilene for the Seaboard
Oil Co. of Sweetwater, is ex-
tremely slow as drilling continues
in a hard lime substance. This
substance was originally reached
at 4)00 feet and was expected to
last approximately 1200 to 1500
feet.
What will be reached once the
hard substance is cleared is not
known. Speculation on this is ris-
ing throughout the community,
especially since the drillers have
already progressed to a greater
depth than any previous test made
in the community. An earlier
Shannon said he would try this week to transfer the bill
from the State Affairs Committee, where it is resting in
unfriendly” subcommittee.
.“I.Rort .stfrtt of The‘Tailefon bHI*v
LfPhni to move it to,” he said, "but
1 want to get it to one that will
give it a fair hearing
"The State Affairs Committee
has been instructed by higher au-
thorities not to let this bill out
of committee,” Shannon concluded.
A member of the House com-
mittee, Rep. Joe Pyle of Fort
Worth, tried unsuccessfully Mon-
day night to have the Tarleton bill
freed from committee.
The House has already voted ap-
proval on a bill which would pro- I
mote Arlington State College to
senior status. At the same time
several members of the legislature
sampling of the Benson well', made | have openly predicted that the Ar-
lington expansion would be the
only such bill approved a) this
Session of the legislature.
at about 4500 feet, produced a |
showing of oil and gas.
It now takes the drillers ap- j
1 proximately five hours to go il*i1
j and out of the hole to change ,
bits. With this equipment time
| and also due to the hard sub- !
stance the drillers are only pro-
I gressing approximately 100 feet
l every 24 hours.
) The Henderson firm has a con-
tract calling for a 7,000-foot test
well.
Sir Winston Churchill, the only
living member of the wartime “Big
Three.”
The papers went into the most j h'elp t'he"
minute details of formal and in-
formal discussions and planning at
a meeting of Franklin D. Roose-
velt, Churchill and Stalin that be-
gan Feb. 4, 1945 near the Crimean
resort city.
There has long been a demand
by Roosevelt critics for publica-
tion of the papers on the confer-
ence which they charged set th“
stage for present-days woes in
both Europe and Asia.
The main Anglo-American con-
cessions in Asia gave the Kuriles,
Southern Sakhalin, control of Man-
churian lailroads, Port Arthur and
Darien to the Russians.
In Europe the Soviets got what
they wanted in Poland by scuttling
the chances of the Polish govern-
ment in exile in London and paving
the way for the Lublin group of
The papers revealed that the
reason Roosevelt and Churchill
were so anxious to get Russian
was a
whole series of miscalculations of
the military situation.
At Yalta itself the combined
British-Ameriean chiefs of staff
advized Roosevelt and Churchill
that it would take 18 months after
Germany surrendered to win vic-
tory over Japan, even if Russia
helped.
The American leaders knew the
atom bomb probably would be
Lift Donated
To Hospital
By Lions Club
A new service was added to the
facilities of the Stephenville Hos-
pital and Clinic when W. I’. Sho-
walter, chairman of the medical
committee of the Lions Club, made
, available to the hospital a large
ready by August. 1945, but were , hydraulio lift for use in fhang,ng
told by Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Gro- ! *
ves, head of the Manhattan pro-
i. B. Henson
Rites Held
Thursday .
| Isaac Bird Henson, Sr., 88. re-
| tiled farmer and resident of Erath
I County for 65 years, died Tuesday
j at his home west of Stephenville
i after a long illness. He suffered a
I fractured hip in a fall Jan. 46.
i Henson, a native of Fayetteville,
Ark., had lived near Stephenville
i since 1K88, except for eight months
in Hamilton County and 18 months
in Stephens County.
He was married in 1890 to Miss I
Rena Hickey.
Henson was a member of First j
Baptist Church of Stephenville. | crease
claim another expansion would
prove costly to the state.
A companion Tarleton bill in-
troduced in the Senate by Sen.
Crawford Martin of Hillsboro is
resting in a subcommittee of the
Senate State Affairs Committee.
Meanwhile, growth of Arling-
ton State College brought recom-
mendations Monday from both
House and Senate spending com-
mittees for increased appropria-
tions.
Biggest increase was in the
House general appropriations bill,
which proposed a boost of $280,-
524 for the next two years of ASC
operation.
A lesser increase of $230,484
was set up in a Senate finance
subcommittee appropriations meas-
ure.
The House bill, already approved
by the lower chamber's spending
committee, may get floor consid-
eration later this week. The Sen-
ate bill awaits approval of the full
finance committee.
The House measure provides a
total of $1,676,590 for ASC for
the new biennium, as compared
with $1,396,066 for the current
biennium.
The Senate subcommittee's bill
calls for a total expenditure from
general revenue of $1,626,550.
Both ate below the ASC request
for $1,879,322 for the biennium.
Both recommendations, however,
recognize the enrollment expansion
of the school, both current and
anticipated, hv lumping bulk of
the increases for instructional
costs.
The House bill sets aside an in.
of $276,604 for teacherj
E. w. a cu™..,. i.,- £:!: ~'iE’iS
financing they need. Moat of them
report that (hey continue the farm
records and plans after they pay
off their Farmers Home Adminis-
tration loans. McKay said many
bankers report that the good busi-
ness habits developed by-$ty fami-
lies are valuable both to th* fami-
lies and the banks after gradu-
ation to commercial credit.
,-jA few dimes a day will easily
pay for those heavenly carpets by
Lees. Over one hundred samples
to choose from. Call ’us for free
estimate.—J. T. MAYS Co.
2 More Enter
School Board
Election Race
Two more persons have filed as
candidates for the April 2 election
of trustees for the Stephenville
School Board.
School tax aa8essor-collector W.
F. Henson reported Tuesday that
Alton Maikell and L. W. Wadling-
ton are the latest to file as candi-
dates for the three positions up
for election this year.
A total of six persons have now
filed for the election. Others to file
haVe been Gene Porter, Robert
Herrin, C. E. Still and Burette
Stone. Members whose terms ex-
pire this year are Herrin, Stone
and Reecie Jones.
Henson announced that 6:00 p.
m„ March 26 is the deadline for
filing by candidates.
ject, that the second bomb prob-
ably wouldn’t be ready until' the
end of the year.
Stalin laid it on the line at
Yalta. On Feb. 8, he told Roose-
velt flatly that if his conditions
were not met “it would be diffi-
cult for him and (Foreign Minis-
ter) Molotov to explain to the
Soviet people why Russia
entering the war against Japan. J Clinic extend their thanks to the
The U. S. nodes of the meeting j [jonF Club for making this service
added that Stalin said, however, available to the patients of the
if these political conditions were j stephenville hospital,
met, the people would understand
the national interest involved and i ----
it would be very much easier to ! n -l~~ _ - ..
explain the decision to the Su- ! DOSOlie Valley
preme Soviet.” _ _ * 2? _
a further factor in the Anglo- Managers to Meet
American decision to grant the I
concessions Was the determination j There will be a final meeting of
of both Riosevelt and Churchill to | all managers in the Bosque Valley
Survivors are his wife; six sons, salaries, while the Senate measure
Bill Henson of Bowie; I. B. Hen- ' ,h'' ''“>»«■ al $146,012.
the position of any patient who is j son, Jr., of Klsa; Coy Henson of j The increases were considered
heavy, paralyzed, or, for any rep- | Austin; Fred Henson of Houston; j several hundred thousand dollais
son, is difficult to move. j Owen Henson of Denver, Colo.; ' short of what would be required
This lift was constructed by I and Ren Henson «f Fayetteville, j should the school be eelvated to
E. A. Blanchard at Tarleton State | Ark.; two daughters, Mrs. J. T. ' senior status, as proposed in a
College, who placed it at the dis- Cullen of Stephenville, and Mrs. bill pending in the House,
posal of the Lions Club for public j A. F Agnew-of Weslaco; 16 grand- | However, ARC supporters were
use Since it is not in use at children and three great grand- j confident that should the expan-
present, the Lions Club has made | children. j sion be approved any additional
the lift available to the hospital t Funeral services were conduct- j requirements could be taken care
until other reed arises ’ ed at lfi a.in., Thursday, in First j of later, especially since the ap-
The Stephenville Hospital and I Baptist Church, with Rev. Wm. propriation bills will eventually bo
Harvey Andrews of Bryan offi- sent to a conference committee,
eiating. Burial was in West F.nd Adjustments will be worked out
Cemetery. in the conference group before
Stephenville Funeral Home was j the general spending effort be-
in charge of arrangements.
comes law.
keep the wartime alliance of the
big three going after the shooting
stopped. Roosevelt talked about a
“50 year” peace.
As background of this determi-
nation, in mid-1944 the U. S. mili-
tary advised Roosevelt that, in
case of an East-West war, the
U. S. and Great Britain together
could not defeat Russia in Europe.
The plank for joint Soviet-Am-
erican action against Japan were
(Continued on page 2)
6 Communities Reach
Quotas for Red Cross
Gene Wright, county chairman
of the Red Cross fund drive, an-
nounced Tuesday that aix com-
munity chairmen have either
reached or surpasaed their Red
Cross fund quota.
■ latest .to reach their quota are
Mrs. Lei a Cowan of 8mith Springs
and Mrs. Ida Bailey of College
Farm Road. Mn. Cowan’s quota
was 827 and ahe raised 860. Mrs.
Bailey turned In 832 on
quota.
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MW*}
i .'Ufoa’&e ’#d i .3i i >5
ed by Mrs. Dan Cox of Center
Grove; Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Adams
of Pony Creek, Mrs. Sue Herring
of Sap Oak and Mrs. M. C. Low-
rey of Johnsviile.
Wright said that only about half
of Stephenvllle’s quota has been
reached and that the drive is more
than half completed. He has urged
chairmen to complete their drives
at the earliest possible moment.
The community chairmen may turn
their contributions over to Wright,
Fred McCleskey or the city chair-
Earliyr quotas havs boon reach- man.
Junior Class to Give
Comedy Play Tuesday
Under the direction of Mrs. i act farce-comedy entitled "Let Ms
League president I.enn I<ewis re- j Christine H. Whybum and class | Out of Here,” by J. Vincent Bar-
Baseball League Friday night in
the city fire hall at Hico, starting
at 8 o’clock.
ports that the league will piobahly sponsors Miss Palsy Johnson, J.
sperate six team. Final de'ails will F. Crabtree and Mrs Johnny Dunn
be worked out at the Friday meet- the Junior Class of Stephenville
ing. 1 High School will present a three-
chose recent Texas Independence Day to paint this Confederate
hauls Oak and legao^ on a blank signboard In Topeka, Kan.
rett on Tuesday night, March 22,
in the high school auditorium at 8
o’clock. Proceeds will be used
for the Junior-Senior banquet.
“Let Me Out of Here" is a play
that is one of the funnies^ farces
of the year. II has speedy action
and clever dialogue. The stoiy, re-
enacted by our future thespians,
is about the trials and tribulations
of..Eve Boyd who has lead her
Aunt Angela into believing she is
attending an exclusive girls’ school
and is about to be found out by a
visit from Aunt Angela. To help
matters Eve’s roommate’s brother
brings a friend to their apart-
ment and while he is there he en-
counters with an accident. The
events that follow in a mixtd-up
way make the play the funniest
ami most outstanding entertain-
ment of the year. , „
The entire aetton takes place
in an apartment rooming house
which is under the rulings of a
very straight-laced, business-like
and domineering landlady, Bessie
Rhode*—played by Barbara Stan-
ton.
Hazel Miles, the colored maul,
played by Mariann Davie, ad4«
sparkle and extra humor when ehe
exaggerates and dramatizes every-
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