Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 11, 1966 Page: 1 of 10
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Volume 7
Burleson, Johnson County, Texas — May 11, 1966
Number 23
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Team Totals
Taylor 58, Palacios 50, La
Grange 31, Lockney 26, Taft
20, Copperas Cove 18, Stinnett
.18, McCamey 17, San Antonio
East Central 16, Quanah 12,
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Attend Reunion
After attending the reunion
of the Moore family at Bethes-
da last Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. J.
T. Poole of Floydada, spent the
night with Mr. Pooh’s sister,
Mrs. John Truelove, and Mr.
Truelove.
member of the Lions Club. He
is a Methodist.
He studied some chamber of
commerce work at Texas A&M
College when this was part of
Vocational Agricultural teach-
ing in some towns. He has par-
ticipated in every civic improve-
ment project sponsored by the
local Lions Club since it’s or-
ganization here. There can be
no doubt that he is interested
in the development of Burleson.
In accepting the job, Mathews
solicits the cooperation of the
business men and individuals
interested in our town. This is
not a one man project but will
require participation of busi-
ness, individuals and organiza-
tions.
Suggestions addressed to the
Chamber of Commerce will be
appreciated.
Mrs. Collins Winner
At Flowercade
A number of flower lovers
from this community attended
the Thirteenth Annual Flower-
cade, entitled,. “It’s A Woman’s
World,” which was held in Fort
Worth, April 27-30.
Mrs. Don Collins, representa-
tive of the Burleson Garden
Club, was a third place winner
on her arrangement named ‘‘I
Could Have Danced All Night.”
It was made of Eucalpathus
foliage and roses, placed in a
ceramic white high top shoe.
Mrs. Collins was the Tri-Color
winner of the local club at the
FloWerade last year.
The Burleson High School
Band participated in the Region
II University Interscholastic
League playing contest in Den-
ton, Saturday, April 30. They
received a Division II Rating,
or “Excellent,” on Concert
Playing and a Division II Rat-
ing in Sight Reading.
These were the best ratings
a Burleson Band has ever re-
ceived in Interscholastic League
competion. It marks the end of
competition for the year, the
most successful year of compe-
In Preinct 11 only 55 votes
could be counted in the Justice
of the Peace race and Mr.
Mathews received 52 of that
number with 3 going to Lockett.
Burleson was out-voted by
Joshua, a much smaller place,
by 73 votes. Many people need
to start thinking about our
candidates that you do not keep
out' of office op do not send
them.
COUNCILMAN
W. A. FANNON’S
MOTHER BURIED
The Burleson Elks defeated
the Boswell Pioneers 4-2 in a
District 6AA baseball game at
Boswell Friday, May 6. Charles
Russell led the 7-hit Elk attack
with 2 singles. The win gives the
Elks a 2-1 mark in district play.
Burleson
Boswell
WP — Henderson
LP — West
The Elks will play the Grape-
vine this Thursday. Game time
4:00 p.m.
MONDAY
Mrs. Sarah F. Fannon, 80, died
in a Cleburne hospital Saturday
night at 10:40 from a heart at-
tack that struck her at her
home in Alvarado about .7:30
p.m. the same day. Her son,
Councilman W. A. Fannon, said
Logan, Quisenberry Place
In State Meet at Austin
Valle 10, West Oso 10, Katy 10,
Dalhart 10, Edcouch-Elsa 10,
DeKalb 10, Decatur 10, Sey-
mour 10, Livingston 9, Ham-
shire-Fannett 8, Plano 7, Den-
ver City 7, Brady 6, Yoakum 6,
Ballinger 6, Winters 6.
Ercel Lewis did not make the
trip to Austin because of ill-
ness.
Burleson FFA
Rated Gold
Emblem Chapter
The Area FFA Convention
was held at University High
School in Waco, Texas, this past
weekend. During this meeting
it was announced that the Bur-
leson Chapter of the FFA was
rated as a Texas Gold Emblem
Chapter. This is the highest
award given by the state FFA
organisation and is based upon
the degree of achievement in
meeting approved standards and
in carrying out a program of
work.
The Area Talent & Sweet-
heart contests were also held
during the convention. The
Lake Whitney District, the dis-
trict of which Burleson is a
member, won both contests. The
sweetheart is from the Godley
Chapter and the talent team is
from Blum.
West Prairie Water Coop
To Meet Thursday, May 12
A meeting of the West
Prairie Water Coop will be held
Thursday, May 12 at 7:80 p.m.
in the Joshua High School audi-
torium. The new Water Coop
will supply the Joshua, Godley
and Crowley areas. Rural fami-
lies in these areas who are in-
terested in belonging to this new
coop are urged to attend.
Chairman of the board of dir
rectors is Garrett Middlebrook
Directors are Hank VandiveL
W. D. Doggett, John Childrt s j
Smith and John Shipman. j
Money for the project is »-
shed by the Faring
ministration. “
M. P. Mathews New C of C Manager
M. P. Mathews has been em-
ployed as manager of the Burle-
son Chamber of Commerce ac-
cording to a recent announce-
ment of the Board of Directors.
He will be on half time basis
with office hours to be worked
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The headquarters will be lo*
cated in the Watters Insurance
building. The use of the office
was donated for a period of one
year by Mrs. Watters for which
we are all grateful. The office
was refinished recently and will
be equipped by the Chamber of
Commerce. We think it will be
a credit to the town.
M. P. is well known in Burle-
son, having lived here for the
past twenty years. He recently
retired from the Soil Conserva-
tion Service. He is an active
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1952, though she did her house
work Saturday and apparently
was in good health.
Survivors include 4 daugh-
ters; Essie Lee Fannon, San
Antonio, Mrs. Nell Hawkins,
Fort Worth, Mrs. Margie Ho-
gan, Corpus Christi and Mrs.
Ruth Moon, Alvarado; 2 sons,
W. A . Fannson, Burleson and
Jack Fannon, Alvarado; 1 sis-
ter, Mrs. Maude Fannon, Alva-
rado; 7 grandchildren and 6
great-grandchildren.
Services were held at 2 p.m.
Monday at the Assembly of
God Church, Alvarado, with in-
terment in Old Alvarado Ceme-
tery.
Her husband died February
11, 1947.
Born in Vichey, Missouri, she
and her husband moved to Irv-
ing, Texas, in 1903, and from
there to Alvarado in 1909
where her family was raised.
Youth Week
To Be Observed
At Garden Acres
Baptist Church
The Garden Acres
Church will observe
Week on . May 15 with Ernie
Sellers serving as Youth Week
pastor. He will preach in the
evening service starting at 7
p.m.
Other offices will be filled as
follows: Sunday School Superin-
tendent, Chuck McCoy; Adult
Supt., Mike Masserang; men
teacher, Jack Graze; women’s
teachers, Sherilyn Morrow, ant!
Babara Martin; junior boys
teachers Jim Carpenter am
Barry Phillips; junior girls
teachers, Sandy Moorhead and
Karen Howell; primary teacher,
Kay Johnson; beginners teach-
er, Linda Morrow; Organist,
Karen Howell; pianist, Barry
Phillips and ushers, Tim McCoy,
Lynn Bailey and Ed Thornburg, ably all day.
Music will be directed by Char-
lie Lewis.
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Burleson High Band Participates
In Regional Contest, April 30
tition in the history of the
school. Only 3 Class AA bands
in Region II, an area of 27
counties, bettered this rating in
Concert Playing, and only 2 ex-
ceeded it in Sight Reading. So
band in District 10AA exceed-
ed or equaled these ratings.
The band will partciipate
next in the annual Fine Arts
Festival and open house this
Thursday, then will finish it’s
year’s performances at Com-
mencement Exercises, May 27.
Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Gamble Returned Wednesday From Chicago
Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Gamble, owners of Haskew & Gamble Hardware in down-
town Burleson, returned Wednesday from Chicago where they had been since Sunday.
As members of the Tru-Value Hardware group who combine their buying, they
went to place their order for winter and Christmas merchandise. They traveled by
plane both ways.
Voting Light In Saturday s Election
Voting was extremely light
in Saturday’s election with less
than 10% of qualified voters in
Precinct 11 voting. In Precinct
10, Mr. Parks reported that
only 239 voted and remarked
that if we had not had a rather
hot race for Justice of Peace
he didn’t think that many would
have voted. M. L. Mathews led
the ticket in that race with 291
votes with Mr. Vest of Joshua
trailing with 261 votes. Mr.
Loclcett, the incumbent seeking
reelection received only 81
Mike Logan ran a blistering
49.0 in the 440 Dash and placed
2nd in the State Track Meet at
Austin Friday night, May 6.
Melvin Sissney of Lockney won
the event in 48.4, a new state
record.' The old record was
48.6, set in 1964 by Tommy
Moore of Lockney. Logan’s best
time prior to the State Meet
was a 50.7 run in the prelimin-
aries at the Regional Meet in
Denton.
David Quisenberry leaped
5’8” in the High Jump and
placed 5th. Riley Odoms of
West Oso won the event with
6’1 H Quisenberry’s best jump
of the season was 5’10” at the
Regional Meet.
The Mile Relay team, com-
posed of Bobby Howington, Jer-
ry Batxer, David Bartlett, and
Mike Logan did not place. Pa-
lacios won this event in 3:20.7,
a new state record. The old
record was 3:20.8, set by Qua-
nah in 1962.
The Elks scored 10 points and
tied for 12th place. Approxi-
mately 50 schools in AA classi-
fication participated in the
meet.
Three Boys Honored
Three Senior boys, Mike
Hass, Bobby Smith and Robert
Brown, who have been in school
together since the 1st grade,
were honored recently with a
breakfast at the Colony Inn in
Cleburne by Robert’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Brown, Sr.
Cheerleaders Selling
Football Magazine
The newly-elected Elk Cheer-
leaders for 1966, Randy Hum-
phreys, Jo Starkey, Brenda Ball,
Kay Heberle, Linda Parks,
Sandi Thompson, and Christine
Badgett, are selling subscrip-
tions to “Texas Football” mag-
azine for $1.00 per subscription.
The magazine gives a preview
of High Schools (district by dis.
trict), Southwest Conference,
and other Texas Colleges foot-
ball teams for the 1966 season..
Predictions of district winners
are also included in the maga-
zine, and the top teams in each
classification are listed. “Texas
Football” is published by Dave
Campbell of Southwest Sports
Publications, Inc., Waco, Texas.
If you are interested in a
magazine and have not .been
contacted by a Cheerleader, call
Mrs. Judy Hajek at AX 5-1766,
or contact any of the cheer-
leaders.
Pictured above are 1st place blue ribbon winners in the
Town A Country Garden Club’s placement flower show held
last Friday in the borne of Mrs. Curt Apel. Left to right
they are 1 Mrs. J. T. Keen, who also won the sweepstakes In
horticulture, Mrs. Ray Don Williams, who also won tri-color
ribbon for best fresh ffewer arrangement and the bronne
award of distinction for the beet dried arrangement, Mrs.
Paul Babb, Mrs. Don Vincent, Mrs. R. G. K. Deering and
Mrs. Jorrell Perkins.
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★ MEN’S BOWLING SUNSET LEAGUE
BOTH GAME AND SERIES HIGH
Duane Garrett bowled a high game of 245 in
the Men’s Sunset League, bowled at the Burleson
Bowl Monday night. Other highs are as follows:
Ralph Coleman, game 239; Virgil Jones, game
224; Johnny Pugh, game 224; Joe Turner 220;
Claude Foster, Jr., 220; Harvey Pruitt, 211; Jim
Sueiger 202 and Joe Hill 200. I?
In the series, Ralph Coleman took the aeries
with a high of 643, with Duane Garrett trailing
only 9 behind with a 634. z
Junior-Senior Banquet To Be Held
Friday Night At Ridglea
Both the Seniors and Juniors are looking forward
to Friday night when the Juniors will honor the Seniors
with their arinual banquet. This year it will be held at
Ridglea Country Club in Fort Worth.
Dinnej/will be served to 164 students at 8 p.m., then
they will dance until midnight. Guest speaker of the
occasion will be Dr. John F. Elliott, with a special guest,
Rev. Jay Darnell, who will give the invocation.
Following the prom, the Seniors will be entertained
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Nichols, who will
serve breakfast at three o’clock in the morning, or at
least start about that time.
Some of the Juniors will continue on through the
night after the dance ends. They will assemble at Mr. she had been in ill health since
and Mrs. J. H. Clinkscael’s home and at 2 a.m. will be
escorted on a hay ride out through the country, return-
ing to the Clinkscale home for a big breakfast.
You guessed it, they will sleep on Saturday, prob-
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Deering, R. G. K. Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 11, 1966, newspaper, May 11, 1966; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1267128/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.