Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1969 Page: 1 of 12
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AY/WATl, 1969
Little Storm Damage—
Heavy Rains Blanket
Area, Fill City Lake
Before the rains started, on
J
SACHIYO OKUMURA
JENNIFER CRAIG
take
A full slate of officers
was
Council Rejects Motion
To Annex North Swenson
“For a progressive commu-
Paint Creek School Lists
Top-Ranking Graduates
salutatorian
state chairman of the program.
He and Mrs. Maples will ac-
Next week will be-the final
week of school at Paint Creek.
Bacc alaureate services for the
graduating seniors will be Sun-
day at the Paint Creek Bap-
Okumura, is president of Nis-
shin Sangyo Co., Ltd. The fam-
ily lives at Kumamoto which
points to a need for producer
owned facilities in this area,
it was emphasized.
P
The City of Stamford will
advertise for bids on two new
cars for the police department,
asking several alternate bids. -
To be traded in is one police
car which is a year old, a
Chevrolet, and a Plymouth
which is two years old. The
JANICE ISBELL
high ranking girl
City Asks Bids
On Two New
Police Cars
Mrs. D. M. Spencer returned
Saturday night from Houston
where she attended the funeral
of her nephew's wife, Mrs. R.
A. King, held Friday morning.
She. was accompanied home by
her niece, Mrs. Chris H. Roach
of El Paso, who spent Satur-
day night here and went on to
El Paso on Sunday.
young boys and' girts on the
trip. ■ .......----------r.-----
— Last week the Craigs re-
ceived confirmation that they
would be assigned one of the
75 Japanese youngsters be-
tween the ages of 18 and 22
years who will come to Tex-
as. An addtional 115 Swedish
spent a- month in a Scandina-
vian country.
Sachiyo .will be the wily ex-
change student coming to
Stamford under the Lions Club
program this year.
he concluded.
Councilman Beggs replied
that the hospital had asked to
come into the city.
When Mayor James Self pre-
sented the motion. Hassen and
Cozby voted yes but liarkins,
Beggs arid J. M. Ashcroft voted
Men’s Tourney
At Club This
feed will need to be available.
This would 6e of much con-
cern to local hog producers
and feeders. This combined
with the fact that there are
cattle feed lots in the area,
plus the possibility of others
being established nearby,
ing named first vice president:
second vice presi-
sented the plaque for out- Bureau officer and an admin-
standing distributive education istive assistant to Cong Omar
student Monday night at the Burleson.
organization's annual bosses
night banquet.
Top boy for the year was
Ray Jbnkins. He, too, received
a plaque. Awards were made
by Bill Decker, coordinator for
the program at Cliff House.
School.
Mike White, DECA president
was master of ceremonies for
the program held .at Cilff
House. Rhonda Collins gave
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and Don Rose, the third
president.
Fenter Northern is the nw
tail twister with Robert Bird
. the assistant. Ed Sorrell is the
new Lion tamer with Bob
Dickenson the assistant.
Woodie Beene is the new sec-
retary and W. B Trice the
treasurer. Two year directors
are Stanley Morns, L. G.
Sixteen Ill With
Food Poisoning
‘ Food poisoning sent 16 per-
sons to Stamford Memorial
Hospital Friday night. All were
released Saturday morning af-
ter treatment.
Alf who got sick were teport-
ed to have eaten barbecue
from the same source.
ed the city has as much as
five years to provide services.
Councilman E. B. Harkins
expressed himself as “It would
appear we have about all we
can handle at the present
time.”
City Attorney Jack Watson, will have to take it in. Later
when asked about the five-year will cost more than now.
provision in the law, said there
was no hard and fast obliga- nity, we should consider this,”
tlnn on the part of the city.
There is no compulsion to pro-
vide service...
"If you did annex the terri-
tory and at the end of five
years had not provided ser-
Mr. King commented on the
changing times and the pro-
blems they present and he
cited three actions that can be
taken.
Have a good conscience, he '
said, and explained that cons-
cience is that something with-
in a man that approves what .
he does that is right and dis-
approves that which is wrong.
What do people think about > ■
you? When they hear your
name, what do they think, he
asked.
“The name we have, our re-
putation, is somet hing we have
created for ourselves,” he said
in pointing out the need for a
good name.
In this changing world, God'S
favor is unchanging. Keep
God’s favor, Mr. King admon*
ished.
aUthe spillway. The lake, he
said, had been rising at the
damage was reported in Stam-
ford. The roof of part of the
old Bryant , Implement Co,
building caved in with the
A. C Berry and B L. Wil-
liams have been renamed to
the board of Stamford Housing
Authority. Their new terms
will expire on June 1,1971.
meeting, with discussion of low- present operations to some 500 vice chairman.
er costs, feed supply, packing sows with 8,000 finished hogs - Other members of the com-
plant, youth activities and pro
motion.
A survey taken during the
meetin0' to determine the num-
for martlet. mittee are Jerry Andersbn,
A steering committee was Stamford; Cecil Lewis, Rule;
appointee io investigate the Don Welch, Lueders Avoca;
feasibility of such an organ!• Callicoate, Old Glory;
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a motion to annex an area one was seconded by Councilman
block deep on each side of ;Grady Cozby, Cozby suggest-
North Swenson, running north
to the Haskell Y.
. Councilman Farced Hassen
nad brought up the suggestion
a month or so ago and the
council had instructed City
Manager Kerry Sweatt to pre-
pare an estimate on possible
tax revenues and cost of ex-
tending services to the area.
This information was made
available Friday and showed
about 144,700 would be required
to provide water and sewer
services.
One councilman pointed out
the city already is Committed
to spend some $.30,000 to pro- vices, residents of the area
vide services for West Wind could petition to be dis-
Circle and the area laying on annexed.” ' ' .
each side of Highway 380 near Another councilman, Clifford
the new hospital. - Beggs, said. "We asked for a
Councilman Hassen made the report and the city manager
vailable from Mrs. Taylor or
Camp Fire leaders. .
the southern islands making
up the nation of, Japan.
Jennifer and her feflow Tex-
ans will leave Dallas on June
18 and will visit the islands
of Hawaii, spending; a week
companied the assignment. She there before going on to Tokyo
has another, sister and two where she will be met by re-
brothers. Her father, Kakuzo presentatives of the Lions Club
Saturday and 1.16 on Sunday. M1A8. Wednesday morning’s Total rainfall for the year
In the Paint Creek commun- reading was 1414.5. Spillway now stands at 12.79, far in ex-
cess of normal which, through
Food will be prepared by the
staff of the camp and will be
served in the dining hall.
Campers will be given the
opportunity to learn more a-
bout outdoor craft, outdoor
cooking, building fifes, council r
fires, hikes and trail blazing
and they will have a chance
to improve their skills at sports
and games. 4 1 t
The camp swimming pool will
be available for training and
fun. .. .
A' folder setting forth needs
for each girl and Just what is
other one-year-old Chevrolet thou8h tornadoes _____
will become the city manager’s places> for tie most part the Old Gtoty repealed 1.9Q.
Big Country was unhaTmed. Bill Buie, who lives at Ship-
Marvin Massey
New President
Of Lions Club
■
Marvin Massey, distribution
superintendent for Stamford
Electric Cooperative, has been
elected president of the Stam-
ford. Lions Chib. He will
to Stamford is Sachiyo Okumu-
ra, a years okj and a gradu-
ate of Musashino Art Univer-
sity with emphasis on interior
decorating.
A picture of her family ac-
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TSOS
In the Paint Creek commun- i w
ity,- totals ranged up to 6 level is 1414.6, It is expected
inches. *■ that water will go around the May is 9.45.
The salutatorian is Kenneth
William Dudensing. son of Mr.
and Mrs* Clement Dudensing,
He has a four-year average of
< 95J6.
tist Church with the pastor^ Kenneth was on. the honor
the Rev. Robert Griffith, the. foil four years, was elected
speaker.
Commencement exercises for
the high school will be in the
school auditorium May 16.
Grade school commencement
will bi Thursday night, May
15. Both services will start at.
8 p m •r—' l
Roger Sfevan Livengood son
of Mr and Mrs. ’Homer Liven-
good, is high school, valedic-
torian, -He has a four-year av-
erage of 95,85. He was elerted
to the Who’s Who list for four
years and was on the honor
roll every year while in high
school.
Stamford Lions Club To Sponsor Exchange wtth 1
Of Japanese and Local Qirls This Summer
A Stamford coed, Jennifer
Craig, will spend a week in
Hawaii and four weeks in Ja-
pan as a guest in the home
of a Japanese family.
Four days before her return,
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy ’
. will ..go. toJDallaa to _
pick up a Japanese girl who
will be their guest for a month.
Both of these exchanges are
part of Lions International
youth exchange program. The
Stamford Lions Club is spon-
soring the program here.
Jennifer, a graduate of Stam-
ford High School who is com-
pleting her sophomore year
at Texas Tech, will get her as-
, signment in Japan within a few"
weeks. She and her parents
were in Dallas two weeks ago
where they underwent orienta-
tion for the triop. youths also will come to the
Loren Maples of^Graham is state under the exchange pro-
..u-. .u gram.
said the larger engine would
give better milage arid a car
with an air conditioner and
automatic transmission would
have a better trade-in a year
in the town to which she is as- from now.
si^ned The question of buying one
Assignments in Japan are , gtationHwagon rather. than a
made by a coordinator com- with the/station wagon
parable to Mr. Maples m Tex- used backup the am-
as„. -r : , L balance was rejected when it
The Texans will return July explained, thfcre is no real
need for additional ambulance
equipment.
Who’s Who two years, was ed-
itor of The Pirate, the school
yearbook. He played USsketball
for four years and was a mem-
ber of FFA for four years, y
Highest ranking girl is Jan-
ice Isbell, -daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Isbell Her four-
year average was 91.94.
Mildred Kelly, daughter of
Mr. and Mril. J. E. Kelly,
the grade school valedictorian,
with a grade point average of
93.20. Linda Caddell, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lindon J. Cad- ■ £ .
dell, ..is salutatorian with an/ Roger Steven Livengood
average of 92.60. /' • • svalpdictoriaa,
J"? DECA Club Is Host
To Be Talked *1
To Bosses at Banquet
PonmMvi nffnw >. Susie Gonzales, who earlier duced the speaker, Dale King, i
Renewed effort is being jn the year had been- named former minister of Oliver
made to organize a grain co- DECA sweetheart, was pre- Street Church of Christ, Farm
operative within the Stamford
K area.-A meeting is being called
after much renewed interest
and several meetings of small
groups of producers.
The meeting has been set for
May 13, at the Stamford Elec-
tric Cooperative , conference
room at 8 p. m. and all grain
producer^ and livestock feed-
ers are urged to attend. Re-
freshments will be served.
Due to pork production ex-
pansion, a. larger supply of , the welcome, Phyllis Stanhope
read the creed and ’Joyce Bar-
bee and Sharon . Brown read
the class prophecy.
Elaine Jenkins expressed ap-
preciation to the employers-
and with the aid of students,
certificates were distributed to
-those, present.
Don Mueller gave the invo-
cation and Ray Jenkins the
benediction. Mike White intro-
Anriual .bosses’ banquet of the Stamford DECA Club was held Monday night.
Pictured here is the head table..From left to right are Wendy’ Russell; Mike
White, club president and master of cerremjnies; Dale King, speakei, and Bill -
Decker, distributive education teacher and club sponsor.
Awards Presented—
June 2 to
Registration Now Open
Foi1 Camp Fire Girl Camp
Registration is now .under of girls their own §ge with one
way for the annual Camp for 1W adults in each
Blue Birds and Camp Fire *
Girls to be held June 2 to June
6 at Lueders Baptist Encamp-
ment Grounds.
Mrs. W. C Taylor again will
be camp director and is lin-
ing up a crew of assistants.
Reservatfons are to be m^dled
to Mrs. Taylor at 1213 Wekley-
ber of hogs owned and market- z£’>on and tc set up aims and j p.- Riddle, Tuxedo
n. ton* wmnmy j*.
Moore, Raymond Hilscher and
BUI Lorgtey, fct ye« dir«. Meeting
tor is Don Starr. ®
Grady Cozby served as chair-
man for the nominating com-
mittee.
and her fellow countrymep ar-
rive in Dallas.'
All youths coming to Texas
—Japanese as well as Swedish
will be English-speaking and
some will be able to speak sev-
eral other languages, Mr. Ma-
ples said.
All homes to which Texas
youngsters are assigned will
Include persons who speak En-
glish but there likely will be
some members of the house-
hold who do not, it was ex-
plained. .
The Japanese and Swedish office the first of July, sue-
youngsters will be taken on Clinton Rogers.
tours of Washington and New * - 'k~
York before they return home, seiefted with John Alarun be-
Last year, Ronald. Hott, son
of Mr and Ws. W. H Holt,
Much dmage will be done
----- ——— —--- to terraces and to voung feed
of Stamford Electric Camera- ent, s n o w e d approximaifly chaintian of the set the date for a meeting at Bids will be asked on four- ’ A \ twister struck liiesdzy W' Park *■ Stamford, c Jn ’
Uve. 268 aows and some 4,000 fin- steering committee, with Dar- a later date when plans hm door 'sedans with standard morning near Lake Fort Phan- got h his boat and went to the jen-ares may be rrnmaow* -
Education and marketing ished hop for market per year ryl Schoonmaker as secretary been made and other informa- transmissions with air condi- «>m be. carnage was slight. drm e«riy-Wednesday tr-'-"
ere the main subjects at the with planned expansion of their and Barry Moore of Hamlin as tlon secured tioning. Alternate bids wil be Rains have varied i^ inten- ing. He said water was lap
'------* . ; , r,. .... ■ . .. ... . .i’, .. ,>!■■■ ■ fey . automatic transmission W but have been general
with air and another alternate Heaviest fall came during the i __
J day Tuesday when Stamford rate of inch an hour.
Police Chief B. Q. Cooper 3 30 tacheS w — w-lvht nf water
hv foHowed a jg Aprll jq late levet weigM or water.
The city council by a three- motion to extend the limits out has provided it. He says it
to-two vote Friday turned down North Swgnson and the motionr would be difficult to finance.
I’d be against annexation.”
In defnse of his stand. Coun-
cilman Hassen observed, “We
extended a sewer line to the
new hospital acticpating a pay
off in 30 years. North Swenson
easily falls into this payoff for-
mula. This is a part of our
2 community. Sooner or later we said he will greet the group
- u i_ . be photographed with
them.
The bus, to be driven by
“Smitty,” wilt leave here at
4:40 a. m. Friday. In addition
to Mrs. Dobbins, Mrs. Melvin
Rosenquist, Mrs. Don Connal-
ly,. Rev. Jarrell Sharp and
Woodie Beene, school superin-
tendent, will accompany the
group.
= STAMFORD AMERICAN .....
Weekend
Annual men’s- golf tourna-
ment will be held this week-
end at Stamford Country Club
with qualifying rounds Friday.
Match play will be Saturday
except for those in the first
and championship flights. On
Sunday it will be medal play.
Championship and first flight
players'will compete in medal
play both days.
A barbecue end dance will
be held Friday night.
Much work has been done
on the course this spring with
grass planted hr many places.
Fairways in some instances
have been narrowed. Until the
recent heavy rains everything
was in fine shape.
The land drains quickly at
the course and it is hoped that
everything will be , tn good
shape by Friday despite the
heavy rains.
Defending champion is Tra-
vis Horton
Pork Producers Name Committee
To Stucfy Forming^Organization
Approximately 35 pork pro-
ducers from Jones and Haskell
Counties met.jn the conference
room of Stamford Electric.Cq-
eperative. May 1, to discuss
the possibility of organizing a
Pork Producers - Association,
according to Darryl Schoonma-
ker. member services director - * P”1 producers pres.
Training Course
Will Continue
Through Tonight
Eighteen persons were eri-
rolled in the training epurse
being held this week in the
council room of the city hall.
Mary Frances Bowden, su-
pervisory and management
training specialist with the U-
niversity of Texas. Extension
Division, is teaching at the ses-
sions which will continue
through Thursday night.
Training and getting along
with employees, maintaining an Street, Stamford.'
employee and handling gnekw Fee for girls who are mem
ances ifre topics to be covered, Of Stamford /Camp
>1 f . 1—Fire CoUnci), Is 910 wtth $3 of
this to be paid at tirne of re-
gistration. ^or other giPfs. the
total fee Is'* $22r»ith $5 to ac- to be exi
company the registration.
The girls will be in cabins
School Children
Will Visit —
Austin Friday
A chartered bus will take 33
pupils of Mrs. Peggy Dobbins*
fifth grade to Austin Friday
-eo they can visit the state cap-
itol.
Rep. Frank Calhoun of Abi-
lene 4as telephoned to say
that he will meet the students
when they arrive in the city
and Gov. Preston Smith has
The Stamford area got its ’r Erkksdahl, as much as' spillway before the day is ov
share cu rain which was dis- 4 inches were reported Tuxe- er
tributed generously over the do and New Hope each report- Last time this happened was
entire state this past week. Al- <
4 inches were reported. Tuxe- er
__ ed-3 1-2 inches. The fall was in September of 1966, City
kfos struck- some lighter to the northwest where Manager Kerry Sweatt said.
most
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