The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 74, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1968 Page: 1 of 10
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Ballinger, Texas 76821. Thursday, April 25. IMS
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By Mrs
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McLarty, Hale To
mid-May.
Larry Ph
Phillips'
of the school year.
resignation that he
will be
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Three Historical Markers Due
Dedication Sunday at Winters
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stripes, cost
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will be parked to
like it con-
the cultural
Chapel,
Winters,
retired band
the Winters
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develep-
of Den
in 14 8
State Bank was bought in
19J3 and the First National
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Sammy McLarty
. . sets new record
Billy Hale
. to state meet
and
seen
had
I
tor varsity football coach,
coach of golf and tennis. .
Richey said that
terested in applying for
ixjsition may contact hia
fice or Flippin.
of
in
Oil Field with the i
ery March 11, IBM. * f
Poe’s Chapel was
honor at William
who came to Texas
native Alabama in
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r 5
intersect in front of the or
Poe homestead and it 1
signaled as “Pan Q
The family was
farming, civic and
fairs. A son. Howard,
ed 4-row tractor
area in 1BW.
PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY AT 711 HUTCHINGS AVENUE. BALLINGER. TEXAS SUBSCRIPTION RATE S4 PER YEAR IN RUNNELS COUNTY SO PER YEAR BLSEWMXRI
Harvey Kahiden, dub great
dent
Attending the meeting w
Outgoing State Director
Mack Hyde, and Incoming
Director Fred Smith, both at
Abilene.
lose an hour to save
Sunday at 2 a. ni.
May 30 with open hours
8 p. m. Tuesday through
day. Il will be closed on
days.
at Saginaw as a
Phillips has been dot
faculty here for the paMtbr'd
years as mathematics tMctoor
K
Organization of the Ballinger
CRy Council was completed
Tuesday when the group, meet
ing in regular session for the
first time since the election,
named Seth McLarty Mayor
Pro Tern
Newly elected commissioner
H. 1’. Largent and Joe Hain
bright were attending first ses .
sions of their term It was a
first term election for Largent
and a re-election for Hambright.
W E. Middleton. Huby Clark,
Guy Taylor and Clark Roller
were named to the city's board
of equalization, which will con-
vene on May 14
Resignation of Jerry' McGufi
fey from the fire department
was accepted by the commis-
sion. One of the city's two paid
firemen for the past 13 months.
McGuffey will be moving from
Ballinger.
Mrs. Evelyn Hale was named
manager of the Ballinger Swim
mtng Pont for the summer op- “
communities, Po»‘i
five miles west of
will be recognized Sunday.
Although Poe's Chapel no
longer exists, three highways
This week the Chamber of Com-
inerce had a letter from a lady in
Lubbock who had passed through Bal-
linger en route to her home after at-
tending HemisFair in San Antonio.
She had inquired if thq^e was a park
in town where they could picnic ...
this is what she wrote — "When we
inquired if there was a park we didn't
realize we would find such a delight-
ful spot . . . the trees and the sound
of the waterfall were a treat to 'West
Texas’ and many tables that the
Rotary Club had provided made pic-
nicing a pleasure. We are sure that
the many HenmFair visitors who will
stop in Ballinger this summer will
as impressed as we were.”
Ballinger is at the crossroads
two important highways that lead
all directions and we are sure to have
many HemisFair travelers passing
this way. Let’s just hope that all our
visitors will be as complimentary as
these Lubbock folk were . . . Our
Chamber of Commerce has placed spe-
cial emphasis on Operation Sparkle
for the last few years, working to-
ward a clean, beautiful town . . .
many improvements have been made
but as is the case with any town, there
are still nip^iy things we cjjn do. One
of them is to get the weeds cut on va-
cant lots and in yards of vacant
houses. We’ve had an unusual amount
of rain this year and grass and weeds
have grown .more rapidly than usual,
but with a little extra effort we can
The Winters Brass Band his-
torical marker will be dedicat
ed in a ceremony Sunday, April
28. at 2 p n». in front of the
Scout Hut on North Main Mrs.
L. E Dudley, prominent club
woman of Abilene, will be the
speaker.
The program is directed by
the Runnels County Historical
Survey Committee. Rankin
Pace is chairman. George Gar-
rett will be master of cere-
monies.
After a concert by the Win-
ters High School Band the
pledge of allegiance to the
flags will bo led by Boy
Scouts. Mayor Wade White
will bring » welcome from the
City. Rev. Walter C. Probst,
pastor of St. John's Lutheran
Church, will give, the invoca-
tion and Rev. Edward H. Ot-
well, poster of First Method-
ist Church, will pronounce
the benediction.
Two other markers included
in the dedication will he the
Winters State Bank and Poe
Chapel, emphasizing two oth-
er important phases of Run-
nels County history.
The Brass Band was the fo-
cus of social life during Win-
ters' early years, playing
throughout the area for box sup-
pers, bld settlers reunions, and
political campaigns. (
Charles Tipton Grnt organis-
ed the band la tMl, 11 years
after the town was named. He
conducted the band when it
played- tor the coming of the . original
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State Bank
has been a strong financial
institution and a bulwark in
the community since it was
founded in ISM by John Q.
McAdams, who served 17
years as cashier, and since
as president until his death
March 31 of this year.
The bank
immediately
to
Sun-
Mun-
We’re going to
time, come next
That’s the time we go to Daylight Sat-
ing ’fime . . . All clocks should be run
up an hour sometime Saturday night
or the very first thing Sunday morn-
ing or you’ll he an hour late for Sun-
day School . . . All summer we will
ter retarding structures cMto
jects is 1.288, Barnes OBRl.
Irises have been unusually pretty
spring with the largest bloom.-
the tallest stems, I’ve most ever
. . . Mrs. Flay Brevard .-aid she
a bunch of iris out back of her
garage and without any care at all.
they grew very tall . . . she cut one
stalk that was more than four feet
tall and had nine blqoms on it.
Officer Efedion
With the deadline for casting
absentee ballots in the May 4
primary coming next Tuesday,
April 30. some 58 persons had
requested their - ballots from
County Clerk Frankie Berry-
man in order to be able to ex-
ercise their right to vote.
Requirements for voting this
year include a one-year resi-
dency in the state; six months
in the county; and a valid regis-
tration certificate. regardless
April 30 Is
Deadline for
Absentee Vote
This week we had a letter from a
fellow in Australia wanting to know
something about Ballinger . . . he
said he was an Australian Radio
Amateur and regularly contacts ama-
teurs in the I'nited States . . . the oth-
er day he was looking through a call
book and came upon the name "Bal-
linger" and since it is his name, Jim
Ballinger, he liecanie interested in it
and would like for some of you read-
ers to write him and tell him about
our city ... He lives in (.'ampertown,
V ictoria, a town with 3n¥) population
in a dairying district. He is a plumber
and has been a radio amateur since
11132 . . . His call letter- are VK3NK,
so. if any of you radio amateurs can
contact him he'd appreciate it and
would like to hear from you . . . tell-
ling him about Ballinger. He said he
had received lots of wonderful pro-
ject material for his children for their
school projects from his contacts with
I'. S amateurs. His address is Jim
Ballinger. 23 Curdie St., Camper-
town. Victoria, Australia.
Sunday afternoon concerts
were presented in the band-
stand, then located in Tinkle Bank of Winters in 1937. The
present byilding was enlarged
in 1924 and again in 1954.
Founder was treasurer, 1918,
and president, 1931-32, of the
Texas State Bankers Associa-
tion; and State Banking Com-
missioner. 1941-44 He held of-
fice as president of the State
Bank Division, American Bank-
ers Association, 1950-51.
The fertile farm land that
surrounds Winters here con-
tributed much to the economy
of the City, and the small
communities played
portent part in the
BBB
Survey Team Approves Elm Creelt
the Texas Soil and Water Con-
servation Board Of this num-
ber, 152 have been approved
far planniug Some, ,4ft. water,
shed projects are completed,
or are under construction, with
343 floodwater retarding struc-
tures complete.
Total number of all floodwa-
Microfilm Sales x
p- 0. Box 45435
I las . Tx'.
1945, each child
farm. The land la
mainly by granriaona
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Perk, and members travel-
ed in a bandwagon drawn by
four white horses to play in
small towns nearby.
Favorite tunes were "The
Anvil Chorus," "Stars and
Stripes Forever,” and "Poet
and Peasant ” New uniforms,
blue with gold
J14 in 1905.
After 1920. the
members helped
school organize a band by lend-
ing instruments to the students.
About 200 brass bands once
flourished in Texas, and music
was a cultural activity in the
State's first colony in the 1820’s.
Many towns had started to build
bandstands by 1850, using them
for political rallies, church so-
cials, fund raising drives, as
well as concerts.
Once the largest brass band
west of Fort Worth, the Winters
group and others
tributed much to
growth of Texas.
The Winters
cause the clocks have been set up an
hour . . . We ll be going home at 4 p.
ng sun time., acnmlimi. t«> the clocks
it will be 5 p. in. but it will all turn out
all right next October 27 when we
turn the hands of the clock hack an
hour. We’ll have to get up a little
earlier next Monday or we will come
in to work late as well as not getting
the children to school on time.
<■ (,in pt■ 11111Tnbct w'i <Tn 4 II ch11i
members ami FFA members.
About 5o bo x s were entered
McWdliam-. scored 423 out of
a possible I’,/1) points."He also
was second high individual in
sheep judging; tied tor fourth
in vwm< iiidgmg and tied for
fifth in < attic judging
Alien Wilbanks placed sisth
in cattle nidging Other FFA
members altered included Da
vid Workman Gar> Bomar and
Jimmy .Matthews
team met last Thursday with
interested organizations. Of
ficials findings of the team wilt
In' mm, lite Elm .deek Water
Control District after each
member has reported to his
respective agency.
Barnes, at the Thursday meet
ing, said that under Public
McLarty Named City's
Mayor Pro Tempore
State Track Meet
Two athletes from Ballinger
High School qualified for par-
ticipation in the State Class AA
Track Meet on Saturday at Lub-
bock, when they won first
place in the 330 yard intermedi
ate hurdles and second place
in the 120 yard high hurdles.
Sammy McLarty set a new
track record in the 330 yard
high intermediate Jrurdles at
Lubbock when he ran the race
in 39.1 seconds. Previous re-
cord was set ip 1967 by Bubba
Grigsby of McCamey, 39.6, ac-
cording to Coach Don Flippin.
Billy Halo placed second in
the 120 yard high hurdles at
Lubbock, He was bested in the
race by Dwayne Young
ver Cit%. who ran it
seconds. ''
The state track meet
held in Austin on Thursday.
Friday and Saturday, May 2,
3. and 4 Finals in the events
to be participated tn by the
Ballinger youth are expected to
be run about 8 ni Friday,
May 3, at Memorial Stadium.
Coach Flippin said
Just
Around Town
For Jaycees
Officers are to ba etecti
when the Jaycees meet at
p m. Tuesday, April » tt IM
Coaching Staff
Resignation of Coach
Phillipa (TOM tha Met
B.llfaiRar High Sehooi WM'An-
nounced thia t
Flippin, athletic
Mops, Brooms on Sale
April 30 by Lions Club
Members of the Ballinger hot
Lions dub will conduct their 1
annual Mop and Broom Sale
on Tuesday, April 30, accord-
tog to dub President Odell
Scott McWilliams
Wins in County
Judging Contest
Scotl McWilliams of the Bal
linger Future Farmers Chapter
was high individual in the Run
nels County Judging Contests
. held m Winters Saturday.
The event was a county wide
feasible, a survey team stated
after an on site inspection.
They also said that because of
the topograph) of the land, a
Texas Water Department
Board.
The team made a survey of
the watershed area assisted by
local SCS personnel, directors
of the Elm Creek Water Control
District, and interested land
owners in the area, Presley
sard
Construction of a flood pre ven ed W W Snyder and JI. N. A review of preliminary find- Law 566.237 watershed applica
______----Uuui^hEiua town. rauiUud...by..-.
Service. L H. Barnes and lx>n-
zo Stewart of the Texas State
^oil and Water Conservation
Board; and D, C., Lgrn^r of the
similar project on Coyote
Creek watershed would not be
feasible.
The report was made public
by Jake Presley, chairman of
the Runnels Soil and Water
Conservation District. The ex-
amination was started on Mon-
day, April 15 by a field ex-
amination team which includ
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Perry, Richard H. The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 74, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1968, newspaper, April 25, 1968; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184112/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.