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STAMFORD AMERICAN I
No. 43 STAMFORD, JONES CObNTY, TEXAS 79553, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1976 L , Leader Volume 7G, No. 43
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sumford High School w
.„rur*wdriver’» training on
, JibUrcording to Bill
Judge rules in favor
of hospital district
Jones
Stamford must wait
for housing funds
Firemen were busy in '75 with calls
County has
Vocational
courses set
contests
for adults
January
Abilene man
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Stamford and this area of Central West
meeti^ of the Stamford Historical
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ruling
came
Hamlin Hospital District, "notwith
standing the jury verdict” which came
on Jan. 6 in favor of the plaintiffs in a
at th? right ^yhtle a color guard
National Guard stands at attention
RFV CARLHATCH
reformed alcoholic
divided into several categories
Fire alarms come in the form of
grass, auto.' structure, smoke scares,
fuel spills, or burrs and cotton fires
LIBERTY TREE RECEIVES DEDICATION—
Members of the Stamford Cub Scouts join in turning a
spade of dirt at the dedication Friday of Stamford's \
Liberty Tree, a T^jas pecan A group of Girl Scouts
Jones County voters will have only,
one contested race to decide on in the
May 1 Democratic primary and voters
in Precinct 3 of the county will have one
other contested race
The filing deadline for the pnnj^ry
was Monday The two contests are in
the count vw ide sheriff 's race and in the
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>» Home Administration and a neyv loca-
tion was sought
An option was then obtained on
approximately a city block on South •
/ Anson street, adjoining the Dodscn-Hill
Addition on the west The new site runs
302 feet south from New Braunfels on
Anson Street and 165 feet west from
Anson on New Brauiifels, and is large
enough to accommodate 14 units.
After the new site was obtained,
Lubbock architects added the two units
and replaced them on the tract so that a
large courtyard will be provided
A survey was made last year which
determined many families would be
Interested in living in one of the units
which would rent for from $110 to $140 a
month Calls are still being received
about the units.
Gruessendorf said that the applica
tion would be resubmitted and that it
would be ready when new funds become
available about July 1
Incorporators of the Stamford
Housing Development Corporation are
Roy M Craig, president; Bill Koon,'
secretary; Danny Blain, treasurer; and
James Self and Jimmy Hokanson,
directorsw
The Jones County 4-H FoodJ§ijow will
be Saturday, Feb 7, beginning in the
afternoon in Anson.
Judging is scheduled to begin at 1 30
p.m.t and a public showing will follow
at 2:30 pm in the Fellowship Hall of
First United Methodist Church,-in
Anson
The show will be open to 4-H mem-
bers between the ages of 9 and 19 and
there will be four categories in two
divisions — junior and senior. The four
categories are main dishes, side dishes-,
breads and desserts, and snacks and
beverages
Theme for the show, to which every-
one is invited, will be Heritage Foods.
September. 25. October, 23. November. .. Walker, both of Anson.
19. and December. 41
Thus. April, with 28 calls, came the
closest to the^nonthly ambulance call
average of about J29-,5 £aH$
May was the lightest month for out
of-tbwn fire calls-when only one was
received and October, with one out-of-
town ambulance call, received the
same distinction in that field>^The
month for the most out-of-town fire
calls was-December16 — and the
month for. the roost out-of-town ambu-
lance calls was August — 8?
Jones County
4-H Food Show
to be Saturday
RING RETURNED—
Tim Huggins, Stamford High
School graduate of 1975, tries on for
the'first time in about a yH»r his
senior ring, which was returned to —
him over the weekend after being
lost. Huggins, spn of Mr. and Mrs.-
N. Wy/Muggins, of Sagerton, said he
had given up finding the ring, of
which he has manyxtnemories.
Mrs. J. T. Wyatt, an employee at
the high school cafeteria here,
found the ring earlier this school
year while on the way to work one
morning from her home on ;
Reynolds Street. She had set it
aside, intending to investigate for
ownership, but it slipped her mind
until she came across it recently.
The initials TAH and a check in last .
year's annual gave clues leading to
the reunion.
Jaycees to sell
personalized ;
trash cans
wait their turn
provided by the
and Stamford Mayor I F Hudson looks on at the left
Vocational
Education
Week set
Stamford Fire Department,
operating the town s firefighting and
emergencj ambulance services, kept
very. busy during 1975 and after one
.month down in the new year the trend
appears to be unchanged
During the 12 months of last year the
department made 159 fire calls and 355
ambulance calls for a total of 514.
calls in 365 days And in the first month
. of 1976 the department Jias had 30 fire.,
calls and 38 ambulance calls or 69
cajtain 31 dass'
Stamford Fire Chief Bill Lawson,
uhose lour fulltime firemen m<n the
fire trucks and ambulance during
emergencies said the calls can be
Dist. Judge J. Neil Daniel released
a ruling at noon Wednesday granting
a summary judgement in a law suit
involving the Stamford Hospital Dis-
trict and .a group of south
County taxpayers.
Judge Daniel's favorable
for the local hospital district
six days after he promised during a
hearing in Anson on Thursday. Jan.
29. to make a decision in the. case
"within a week.”
Wednesday.^ ruliu^T? Judge Danjel
also included a decision m favor of th?*
Driver's ed
class planned
for March
Stamford Jaycees have announced
plans to sell personalized trash cans
that will be in accordance with re-
cently-Adopted city ordinances
Deadline for ordering trash cans,
complete with name or initials, chain
and lid, will be Feb. 27. Free delivery to
the home is planned for March 6-7.- '
On sale is a heavy-duty 31-gallon ~
galvanized can for $8.98 State scales tax
of 45 cents makes the total price $9 43.
Two cans are available for $17.89. plus
88 cents sales tax, or 118.57.
In addition to trash cans, the Jaycees
will be selling trash can haulers that
can be kept near the house and rolled
easily to the point of collection on days
of collection. They will sell for 88.95,
Funds are exhausted for the current
year and hopes for rental housing for
Stamford have to.be delayed until the
new fiscal year This was the informa-
tion given members of the Stamford
Housing “Development Corporation by
Bill Gruessendorf, manager of the
Anson office of Farmers Home Ad-
ministration
• The local corporation was formed by
the Chamber of Commerce to seek a
loan of approximately $200,000 to build
14 rental units — all duplexes Ten of
the units will have two bedrooms and
the other four only one '
The first application wAs filed the last
of September and* sought to build 12
unite on land to the south and west of
the old hospital on Gould Street This
location was ’rejected by Farmers
Ambulance calls can be divided alnong
transports, wrecks and accidents or
emergency illnesses
Lawson said transports transferals
from the nursing home to the hospital
or from the hospital to the nursing
home i constitute most of the
ambulance calls
While it is operated as.a city service.,
the department s calls know no city
limit signs and a large number of the ’
call originate from outside the—city
limits Lawson pointed out that 61 of the
159 fire calls or one-third of them
were from outside the city as were 50 of
the ambulance calls or about 15 per
cent
During 1975. Ilecember was the
busiest month for txith fire calls and
. ambulance runs -Lawson counted 29
* fire alarms and 41 ambulance calls
- August was the light month for fires —
six — .while November was the shoFt
month for ambulance runs
A further breakdown of month-by
month fire calls revealed
.13. February . 12. March. 17. April. 22.
May. 9; June. 12 July. 12, August. 6.
September. 8 October. 8. .November.
11: and December,, 29 Thus. ’January
was the month nearest the average of
13 .25 calls monthly »
In the ambulance’ category^, .a
monthly breakdown showed January.
27 February . 32; March. 32; April. 28; _ Precinct 3 commissioner’s election
May. 25, June. 26 July. 38. August. 39. incumbent Woodrow Simmons and
’ ’Burt Walker, both of Anson, are
matched up for the sheriff’s office while
three aspirants are challenging P A
Lynn, currently Precinct 3 commis-
sioner’ They are Don Doty of Ansorr H
T Howard of Hawley and Charlie Davis
of Anson Lynn is seeking his second
term and Simmons is seeking his third.
'Other county and precinct candidates
are Roy Lane, incumbent^x assessor
, collector; W L. <BilJJ Moore, incum-
bent Precinct 1 commissioner; and
Raymond Hollabaugh, incumbent
county attorney.
Last Thursday’s hearing, at which
time Judge Daniel had made his vow to
■deliver a decision within a week, was
highlighted by a scolding by the judge
of-persons interested in the outcome of
both cases . for quizzing about his
decision .......
The judge expressed displeasure at
the “tremendous number of telephone
calls I hAve received concerning these
Cases.” . •
He said he had received calls from
both sides and stated that “when a
decision is made, I assure you that it
will be made as I understand the law. It
will be decided on the law and the
evidence and nothing else.”
Vocational adulf courses will once
again be offered a( Stamford High
School through Texas State Technical
Institute Sweetwater
An organizational meeting will be
held Tuesdaj Feb 10 at 7 30-p m . at
the Stamford High School Auditorium
Interested persons are urged to-attend
'this most important meeting
Courses being considered include
bookkeeping typing I and II. auto
mechanics and nurse's^ aide The
courses, mostly basic in nature, are
, open to'any person 18 years of age or
’ older who qualifies for the program
-For more information interested
parties should contact Raymond
Hughes at Stamford High School
School willfiegin
on Monday.
Preston,
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■tart driving at the end
of the school year anil a 845 fee will be
collected before driving begins.
Student* mi»t be 15 on or before
|Urch s in order to participate in
after the Court of Civil Appeals at
Eastland ruled in favor of the hospital
district
Attorneys for the hospital district had
argued at last Thursday’s hearing for a
summary judgement because, they
said, the more recent suit was techni-
cally not any different from the first
one, which ended in 'favor of the
district.
Plaintiffs had. argued that the case
wa$ different, in that there was a
different, group of plAintiffs and a
different issue Attorneys for the
defendants countered that argument,
saying that some of the plaintiffs in this
case, had had an interest in the first
case and that previous court cases
supported the argument that while the
issues were different, they could have
beerrpresent irrthe first case as well.
suit is the second filed by a' group from
the southern part of the county.
The first case ended when the Texas
case between that district and a separ ' Supreme Court refused to hear the case
ate group of taxpayers in the southwest
part, of Jones County
Jud^e Daniel said his ruling Wed
nesday was based on his understanding
of the law
The Stamford case stemmed from,,a
group of taxpayers who were included
in toe local district by an election
’following an act by the state Legisla-
ture and objected to the inclusion The
IV* NURSING SCHOOL GRADUATES— ?
,T«n LVN students graduated from the Slam ford Memorial Nbspitai's
Vocational Nursing School In exercises held at St. John's United
Methodist Church Friday night. Barbara Fouts was Instructor for the 1
class and th* graduates were (back row, left fo right) Caron Lindsey,
Katie Campbell,. Doris McCoy, Macy Alice Wash, Jtbnnine Thoroman,
and Patricia Wgjfon; (front row, left to right). LaVonayBrown, Charlene
Clark, Angelita Gomel, and Regina Murray.
Interested parents and citizens of t^e
Stamford community are invited to
visit the vocational education classes at
Stamford High School next week. Feb
8-14 which has been designated Voca
tjbnal Education Week by the Texas
Education Agency
Stamford school system has five
vocahpnal education programs for stu
dents to chosie from They are. voca
tional agriculture, homemaking, home
making co-op, distributive education
and vocational agriculture co-op
.Teachers of the different programs
Weldon Holbrooks and Willie Med
ford vocational agriculture classes,
and Jerry Schuchert. Distributive Ed
ucation Club advisor
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Romantic history
program slated
for meeting
f hauler wjll be available for $28 84 A
$31.29 value, the cans and hauler have
$1.33 in sales tax for a total price of
■e $27.97. Additional individual cans are
also available ’ • -»
The Jaycees stated they hope to
benefit residents with the project since
smaller trash cans will be required by .
will preach
here Sunday
Tlw- Rev Carl Raich. \tiilene
evangelist who is a former akoholic.
will be appearing at Temple Baptist
Church in Stamford 309 E Campbell,
at special sen ices this Sunday night-
Services are slated to begin at 6 pm-
Sunday. Feb 8. pc£ordjng to the Rev
Garry Worden, pastor
The Rev Hatch, who began drinking
at the age of 13 in his hometown of Lake
City. Ark , was drinking heavily by the
time he was. 16 His drinking became
accompanied by gambling after
serving eight years in the Army
After being married m 1951. toe Rev
Hatch was staggering home one night
from a drinking spree with the intention
( of killing his wife However, he fell
between two parked cars, striking his
head on the curb and becoming uncon
, scious
He almost froze to death in the heavy
snow before he was found and hospital-
ized The evangelist recalls that he
vowed to quit drinking when he re-
covered, but the promise was soon
broken.
Hatch later lived in Flint, Mich., and
a minister living next door brought
great influence on him. Soon Hatch
entered Bible School at Midwestern
Bible College in Pontiac, Mith. He later
studied at Baptist Bible College in
Springfield, Mo
Ordained in 1957, Rev Hatch served
as an Associate pastor at Flint Baptist
Temple in Flint, Mich., for four years.
He pastored in Fresno, Calif., one year
before returning to the Flint chupch.
. The. Rev. Hatch' then became
associate pastor of Landmark Baptist
Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
stayed three years. His 'next church
was Hialeah Baptist Temple in Miami,
Fla., where he stayed four years.
Among the many persons who have
heard the Rev. Hatch preach have been
notable* in the country music field The
Rev. Hatch is founder and president of
the Andrew Evangelistic Association.
He is married to the former Ruby
Williams apd they have four children
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