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, ASPERMONT, TEXA
VOL. 73. NO. 48
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July 23, 1931)
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ASPERMONT, STONEWALL COUNTY, TEXAS 79502, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1971
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Friday Is Final Day
To Vaccinate for VEE
ASPERMONT. TEXAS
drive which will last until the last
meeting Tuesday in September. The
losers will have to eat chili while the
winners will eat chicken.
Lions from Haskell were scheduled
to speak at this meeting but were
hindered because of heavy rains
there. Miss Kathrine Rike who is
visiting here in the city gave a
reading as a part of the entertainment
feature.
D. R Couch of Lubbock was visitor.
Miss Kooiker, Health Nurse of this
district will demonstrate Home Care
of the Invalid at the Baptist Church
Monday July 27. A very interesting
lesson was given Wednesday with 28
ladies present.
These meetings are very helpful
and should have the largest at
tendance possible.
Quite a few Aspermonters are
attending revival services at Old
Glory. Rev. Rogers of Spur is
delivering some wonderful sermons
there this week. Rev. A. S. Holmes,
Pastor at Old Glory has charge of
the song service, very good at-
tendance is recorded.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
(July 19, 1951)
August first is the final date for
transferring school children from one
district to another, said Thomas A.
Moore County Supt. Tuesday.
It was announced the last of the
week that the Hotel Drug has changed
hands.
Now in charge are Mr. and Mrs. J.
D. Clay, and in the future it will be
known as the Clay Drug,
It has formerly been under the
management of the Branches.
The Aspermont community enjoyed
a very nice shower on Sunday af-
ternoon, which at least served to cool
off the atmosphere.
Albert Baugh who keeps the rainfall
statistics reports the rain here in town
at 0.33 inches.
Other parts of the county reported
heavier showers.
Mrs. Letha Saunders, a returned
missionary from Brazil gave a very
interesting talk on Brazil at the First
Baptist Curch Sunday. Miss Saunders
| plans to return to her work in Brazil in
| about a month. She has spent 13 years
I there.
iTEN YEARS AGO
(July 27, 1961)
The Hamlin Junior Chamber of
ICommerce will stage an Amateur
|Rodeo here August 10,11 and 12 at the
lamlin Riding Club arena, Charles
Lbsher, club president, announced
lis week.
Highlights of the big three day show
(ill be a Wild Mare Race and a Tri-
|unty 12 and under flag race. The
§d Mare Race still puts three men
|inst a mare and they must saddle
gride her to the end of the arena
|back. The first team back across
finish line wins. There will not be
intry fee charged in the 12 and
fcr flag race and prizes will be
forded.
HK Ranches of Snyder and Rotan
rill furnish the bucking stock for the
Show. Besides these events the show
irill include tie-down calf roping,
ribbon roping, bareback bronc riding,
Sponsor's barrell racing, and bull
fiding. Entry fees for the show are
5.00 for wild mare racing and $25 in
le pot each night.
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A FIRST D9VE — Bobby Boone, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bobby Boone, gets ready to dive for the first
time to his instructor, Kirby Priest.
BULLETIN
The final go-round for the
vaccination of all Stonewall
Cosanty horses for VEE has
been get for Friday af-
ternoon, according to E. T.
Hennig, county agent.
Anyone who has a horse
that itas not received the
serum is urged to be at the
court house by 1 p.m.
Friday, Hennig said.
With the expected arrival of
more vaccine for Venezuelan
Equine Encephomyloitis
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SWIMMING IS SUMMER FUN — Learning to swim and staying cool is good
summer time fun. Shown here are youngsters in the third session of swimming
lessons. Some 55 youngsters have taken lessons at the local pool this summer.
Federal Emergency Drouth
Help Guides Available Now
What kinds of federal
assistance are available to
farmers, ranchers, farm
workers, small business men,
and others hit l\v the severe
drouth in parts of Texas,
Oklahoma and New Mexico?
Answers, in general terms,
have been consolidated in a 16-
page pamphlet prepared in
English and Spanish by the
President's Interagency Drouth
Help Available, with separate
versions {or each state.
Copies of the pamphlet are
available at county offices that
handle U.S. Department of
Agriculture drouth assistance
programs and information,
including County Extension
Agent, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service (ASCS), Farmers
Home Administration (FHA),
and Soil Conservation Service
(SCS). state and regional of-
fices of Small Busi. ess Ad-
ministration, Internal Revenue
U. S. Amendment
Gives Vote to
All 18-Year-Olds
Betty L. Smith, Slonewall
County Clerk, has been of-
ficially notified by Secretary of
State Martin Dies Jr. that
persons 18.19, or 20 years of age
who are presently registered to
vote for federal elections only
may vote in all elections in this
county and other political
subdivisions
This notice came following
the ratification of 26th amend-
ment to the United States
Constitution lowering the voting
age to 18 in all elections This
amendment overrides the
Texas Constitution which
requires an otherwise qualified
voter to be 21
Service and Department of
Labor also have copies for in-
dividuals who ask for it.
"Information on federal
assistance in the pamphlet has
to be general because all
programs are not effective in all
counties of the state," points out
George Hastings, chairman of
the Interagency Drouth
Committee.
Specific types of assistance
have to be requested, county by
county, depending on need,
Hastings said.
Harriett Martin
Qualifies for State
4-H Horse Show
Harriett Martin, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Martin,
qualified for the State 4-H Horse
Show last Friday and Saturday
at Vernon in the District 3 Horse
Show.
There were a total of 160 4-
H'ers who were trying to make
the Top-20 who are eligible for
State competition at Fort Worth
July 20-30-31. Harriett, who
scored one point in Western
Pleasure, 5 points in Halter
Class, and 9 points with second
in Showmanship, was 5th high
individual in the show.
Other entries were Jan
Yarborough and Don Wayne
Jones.
Bill Jones, Fred Martin, Mrs.
Wayne Yarborough and County
Agent. Truette Hennig, ac-
companied the 4-H'ers.
Jerry Allen,
Track Coach,
Resigns Here
Jerry Allen, head track and
line coach for Aspermont In-
dependent School District has
resigned.
Allen is resigning to go into
business with his father in
Clifton.
Allen coachcd the Aspermont
track team to a District 7A
victory last spring. Also on the
team last spring were two
young men who qualified for
state competition.
Superintendent W.C.
Robinson is taking applications
for the position and that of girls
basketball coach.
First Baptist Sets
Youth Rally Mon.
An Associational Youth
Rally will be held at the First
Baptist Church. Monday, July
•26. at 8 00 P M
All vouth are invited
Minor Damages
Reported In Fire
The Aspermont Fire
department was called to the
home of Lanier Foster this past
week. The bedroom curtains
had caught on fire from a
candle. Mrs. Ed Mayfield called
the fire department, and Mrs.
Buddy McNutt and Mrs. Foster
ran the water hose into
the bedroom and had the blaze
out in a short time. There was
damage to the window and
carpet and some water damage
to the other part of the house.
The Aspermont people are
thankful for their volunteer
fireman
Visitors in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Odell Myers were
his sister and husband, Mr and
Mrs. Preston Low of San
Angelo
Mrs. Arthur Brown of
Oroville. Calif., is visiting her
parents Mr and Mrs E V
Smith
Mr. and Mrs Barns Gibson «>•
Austin have been visiting
in Aspermont and attended the
First Baptist Church Sunday
(VEE) in Abilene Wednesday it
is hoped that most horses in the
Big Country will have been
vaccinated for the dreaded
Stonewall County
Agricultural Agent E.T. Hennig
and the County Commissioner's
Court met here Monday to
organize the county for vac-
cination against VEE.
Four coordinators were hired
in the Monday action to do the
leg work for veterinarians in a
horse vaccination program,
according to Hennig
Horse owners in the county
are urged to contact the coor-
dinators so they can pass in-
formation concerning the
number of animals to be vac-
cinated on to veterinarians.
The coordinators and their
areas are:
Doyle Hill, Swenson and
Peacock, 817-256-2231;
John Stulir, Old Glory, 817-
989-2881;
N. L. Winter Jr., Aspermont,
817-989-2757; and
Jim Hecht, Aspermont, 989-
2807.
The West Texas Veterinary
Supply Co. in Abilene received
1,700 doses of VEE serum from
Austin Saturday afternoon and
another larger shipment was
expected to arrive Wednesday.
The serum, used to combat
the spread of VEE, must be
carried to the horses. A
statewide embargo prevents the
animals from leaving the
premises where they are
stabled, even to visit the
veterinarian for inoculation.
It was announced Sunday by
State veterinarians from the
Southwest that they will make
mandatory vaccination of all
horses in their respective areas.
The decision was made at a
Dallas meeting of animal health
officials from Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, New
Mexico and Louisiana.
A USDA official said that 1.8
million doses of vaccine will be
available by the end of the week
ior the approximately 1.5
million horses in the five states.
WTU Adds Fourth
Generating Unit
At Paint Creek
West Texas Utilities Com-
pany's system generating
capability was increased 110,000
kilowatts last week when the
number four generating unit at
Paint Creek Power Station at
Lake Stamford was placed in
commercial operation.
The announcement was made
by WTU Vice President and
Chief Engineer John A. Hut-
chison.
The increase in the capability
of the Paint Creek Plant gives it
a total capability of 236,000 kw,
making it the largest
generating station in the West
Texas Utilities Company-
system.
According to Roff Hardy,
WTU president, this increase
brings total system capability
to 718,500 kw, or an increase of
33 percent over the last five
years Hardy also pointed out
that site preparation for the new
Lake Ft Phantom Power
Station at Abilene is now un
derway. The first unit at the
new plant is scheduled for
completion in 1974.
The addition of the number
four unit at Paint Creek began
in 1969. The new General
Electric conventional reheat
turbine generating unit is
housed in a two-story, 20.000
square foot, addition to the
plant The initial boil-out of the
Riley Stoker boiler was made
early m March and the test runs
on the new equipment were
recently completed.
First use of the Railway
suspension bridge at Niagara
Falls was in 1855.
Horses that have been vac-
cinated must remain
quarantined for 14 days
following the shot before being
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The outbreak of VEE started
in the Texas valley last week
and has moved up the state,
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to stop the disease in Texas and
protect the other states.
The battle against the spread
of VEE was being pressed on
many fronts over the weekend
as the disease killed horses and
sent people to hospitals.
It was reported Saturday that
48 persons have been taken to
hospitals in the valley with VEE
symptoms. Five of those have
been confirmed as having the
disease which strikes humans
with flu-like symptoms for
several days.
VEE is a rare strain of
"sleeping sickness" which
strikes the central nervous
system of horses and is usually
fatal in equine. It is nriuc milder
in humans.
The disease has killed
thous nds of horses in South
and Central America and
Mexico since it was first
detected in horses two years
ago.
The vaccine being used in an
effort to halt the spread of the
disease was developed under
the Defense Department's
Germ Warfare program to
protect humans.
The vaccine, regarded as
experimental, is being supplied
free by the federal government
to veteranarians in Texas.
VEE is spread from horse to
horse or horse to humans by
mosquitoes and a large part of
the fight to stop the disease is
centered around the control of
mosquitoes, particularly in the
valley where Air Force planes
are spraying large areas with
malathion.
Besides creating a problem
for cattlemen who need to use
horses in working their cattle,
the outbreak of VEE has can-
celled rodeos and other horse
rujaran sctiviilss scross t >s
state.
The Hamlin Riding Club had
made plans to hold a Little
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but have postponed it for the
present.
Billy Martin
Attending Fisre
Training School
COLLEGE STATION — Billy
Martin, volunteer fireman on
the Aspermont Volunteer Fire
Department, is attending the
42nd Annual Texas Firemen's
Training School July 18-23. The
school, attended by nearly 2,000
men representing about 450
cities from approximately 30
states, is being held on the
Texas A&M University campus
this week.
Fireman Martin is being
sponsored by Stonewall County
Farm Bureau and Texas Farm
Bureau Insurance Companies
by contributing toward his cost
of the school. Since volunteer
firemen are interested in at-
tending this school to help do a
better job of fire fighting and
fire prevention, 93 County Farm
Bureaus and the Texas Farm
Bureau Insurance Companies in
the state-wide program have
sponsored 100 firemen to the
school.
"The Farm Bureau Insurance
Companies believe volunteer
fire departments have been
very effective in reducing the
amount of loss involved by fire
in rural areas," said President
J. T. (Red) Woodson of Gober.
"It is our hope in sponsoring
this program that the fireman
will help the Aspermont
Volunteer Department to better
serve the residents of Stonewall
County."
Old Glory Woman Talks On
Telephone for First Time
While most Americans take
their telephones for granted, not
Mrs Helen Bubela of Old Glory.
She talked on the telephone for
the first time here Monday. She
is in the Stonewall Memorial
Hospital and Mrs. Adolph
Stulir, her niece, also of Old
Glory, called to talk to her.
Mrs Bubela, who was born in
Brazos County in 1886, lives
alone in Old Glory except for
two dogs, two cats and six hens.
She savs the hens lay enough
eggs for her and her pets to eat.
This is the second time for her
to be in a hospital, in 1914 she
had her appendix removed. She
is really enjoying the food and
staying in the hospital but
worries about her pets.
Mrs Bubela came to West
Texas to live with her sister
when she was 16 years old. They
came to Stonewall county in
1912.
Mrs. Bubela does her cooking
on a wood stove and carries
water in the house. Her nephew
Joe Bubela had the water run to
her back door but she does not
want it in the house. Her family
has tried to get her to have a
phone put into the house but she
said no. she would not talk on it.
She married her brother-in-
law after her sister's death to
take care of the children. Mr.
Bubela died in 1945. Now she
has her pets and her family to
help take care of her, but she
likes to walk her dogs and take
care of her own home. She is
happy to have people to drop in
to talk.
MRS. helen bubela
. her first telephone call
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McAnally, Mrs. Dean. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 1971, newspaper, July 22, 1971; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth128116/m1/1/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.