Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1971 Page: 1 of 16
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Prices on these “Sidewalk
Sale” items will be cut to, the
very bone, he said.
enrolled. tendent of Saltillo and Frisco
native of Hop-1 Public Schools before moving
November
allocation
commented
have earned
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eleMrieatty JightM
board artr will autMettaML
stamp the weight of the ani-
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More Funds For Rural Water
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Friday .
Saturday
Sunday
Monday ...
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cording to Charles Stretcher
and Tommy Welch, local ad-
visors.
DO to Silt Ixm? Star
Optics goofed again. In the
eutliimajpst week we named
Dawn sK-nolds as head cheer-
leader for 1971-72 TERESA
KILL is the head cheerleader
ind we extend her our apo-
logies. Congratulations Tere-
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6 Local FFA Boys
To Get State Degree
Six Mt. Vernon FFA boys.
Dale Sinclair, Kmnetti »to
Shaun Botin, Richard
Roy Newsome and
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students
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bdUlng with the sales arena immediately behind. The offices,
MMhave all-electric heating and cooling
FRANKLIN COUNTY LIVESTOCK COMMISSION will have its grand
opening and first livestock sale on Thursday, June 3. Sales, will start at
12:00 noon each Thursday. The offices and cafe are located in this por-
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Banks,
l^andy Pickens, have earned)
right to apply for their
I farmer degree. The
» farmer degree, better
rn as Lone Star Fanner,
ii the highest degree that a
FFA boy can earn in the state
association,->
■ There are a number of re-
quirements that haV? to be
mat in order to receive thia
(iagysk A few of these f*
sab-ClarksvUle test (piirements are:
iflF Mfc.T,
• trants
t-'ghest calf j ,
'Mira. Th# man selllnr the
highest 46* and jrifc paM- apd
thejnan buying the pair will
also be givbn. prizes.
County Junior College, Ath-1 joins the City of Fort Worth
ens. Texas. Burleson is locat-
ed on Interstate 35W and I
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on the south. The school dis-
;rict has approximately 3.750 I kins County. He was superin-1 to Mount Vernon
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The Mt. Vernon Indepen-
dent School District Board of
Trustees accepted Stribling’s
resignation on Wednesday
night and is now accepting
applications to fill the post.
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east side of the Mt. Vernon
school grounds. Games will be
played on Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday nights.
Pee Wee and Little League
schedules, rosters and mana-
gers will be published next
week. The Pee Wee and Little
leagues will contain four
teams each.
The Pony League will be
ernon,
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An econuipiii
the devel<^>n
Texas wav-
week by J.
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Riding Club Rodeo
Set June 17, 18, 19
The Mt Vernon
Club will stage its 10th annu-
al rodeo at the local arena
on Jpne 17, IB and Id. Pnr-
fennantes will begin at 8:00
each afcht .RMiitrs,
A rodeo parade will launch b* Wedne
the three-day event on THttfp-1*** to. ♦
day, June 17 at 8:00 p.m.
The Mt. Pleasant QuadriHe
win perform during
Ttondto night performance, *87-3334.
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manee and the Riding Club
queen will be crowned dur-
tag toe Saturday night per-
formance. ( n
CialMnsi tar quean must
be 1A> 18 yaws ot Mfcu*
‘ and a number at
toat . Mm*.*
He replaces Dr. T. M Har-
vey who Was recently elected
president of the Henderson
WEATHER
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The weattaA information
given below is for the 24*our
these
their drinking
late teens
continue as
from five to ten years.
Those who become addict-
ed to alcohol do not become
alcoholic overnight, but prog-
ress through various stages
over a period of time.
While the order and expres-
sion of the symptoms will
vary from one person to an-
other. studies have shown
that the stages progress most
often in the following gener-
al order.
The earliest stage at which
alcoholism might be detected
is a period during ^hlch the
pampering effects of al.
are discovered. The individ-
ual's motivation for drinking
turns from social use to pae
for release from tensions and
inhibitions. He comes to use
drinking to “get over” disap-
pointments, frustrations and
.additional $12,600,000 00 has
been released for the current
. fiscal year, through June 30,
for rural water and sewer
I system loans in Texas. He
ewpimtoed rim* med fer mr-
at residents ' doairing water
I add xestar - system loans to
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Successive Steps To
Alcohol Addiction
life.' ■
didatea art to* lai
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made for an
for the Pee
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(This is the second in a
series of five articles telling
the story of the alcoholic and
telling him where he can find
help* <
Most people who drink
start out as social drinkers,
-taking their liquor in moder-
ation, with their drinking fol-
lowing no particuar pattern.
Usually these people start
during their
and apparently
social drinkers
Rural residents desiring ad-
ditional information concern-
ing the loan funds should
contact their county Farmers
Home Administration super-
visor or the Texas Annota-
tion of Rural Water Corpor-
ations in Austin.
Gaulden said a number of
merchants will display and
sell a wide variety of mer-
chandise on the sidewalks in
front of their stores on the
above dates.
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July 15. Piggies at ,.
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Johntown and four
from Mt. Pleasant.
The Pony League schedule '
will be as follows:
Mon., June 7. Piggies at
Pirates.
Tues., June 8, Mt. Vernon
at Johntown; Bakers at Bank-
ers.
Thu., June 10. Bankers at
Mt. Vernon; Johntown at Pig-
gies
Fri . June 11. Bakers at Pi-
rates.
Mon., June 14. Piggies at
BakerS; Bankers at Johntown.
Tue., June 15, Mt. Vernon
at Pirates.
Thu.. June 17, Piggies at
Mt. Vernon; Pirates at Bank-
ers.
Fri., June 18. Johntown at
Bakers
Mon.. June 21. Bankers at
Piggies: Bakers at Mt. Ver-
non.
Tue., June 22,
Johntown.
Thu., June 24. Pirates at
Piggies.
Fri., June 25, Johntown at
Mt. Vernon; Bankers at Bak-
ers.
Mon., June 28. Piggies at
Johntown; Pirates at Bakers.
Tue., June 28. ML Vernon
at Bankers.
Thu., July 1, Bakers at Plg-
gleg.
Fri.. July 8. Piratea at Mt.
Vmon; Johntown at Baakon.
1*M., July 5. Bohen at
Johntown.
Thu.. July 8, Pl|
Bonkers; Johntown <
MM.. July U Mt
at Bakers Bankers at
V*M.. July 18, Mt
at Ptagloe.
period ending at 7 a.m. Mt the
day listed for the period of
May 21 through May 27
Max. Min Ralr
... 83
... 87
84
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ic boost toward
>ment Of rural
jA announced last
Lynn Futch, State
of the Farmers
jMetAOttea ta Ten#
<*■ potato* out tbat'hnj
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Merchants Of
Mt Vernon Set
Sidewalk Sale
Glenn Gaulden, chairman
of the retail merchants com-
mittee of the Franklin County
Chamber of Commerce, an-
nounced this week that the
twice postponed “Sidewalk
Sale" will be held Friday and
Saturday, June 4 and 5
ed No. 1. H. M. Vaught, 4,800-
foot Pataxy toot seven rhllta
east of Wtee, ta Talco field,
Titua County. 130 from west-
erly north Hue and 1,900
from westerly west line of
9. C. Bootoe Purvey, A<-84.
'Shell Oil'Co. has announc-
ed No. & W. S. Reynolds. 8.-
500-foot ’ (■“*■ ‘**"*
7M mHos northeast M Quit
county, ttwr ooutn aimi
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XUME 96—HQ. 3d > 4 WWW irnANKtlN qyy THURSDAY, AAAY 27, 1971 ON THE BROADWAY OF AMBBCA
**ranklin County LivestocfcCommission Opens June 3
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Mt. Vernon Fields ;
Pony League Team
Charles Lowry, president the new baseball park on the
of the Franklin County Base-
ball Improvement Association,
announced kthis week that
plans have Been worked out
for Mt. Vertjon to field a
Pony League '‘baseball team
which will compete with teams
from Mt. Pleasant, and John-
town.
Lee Dickson is manager of
the Pony League team. Beau
Croley will be director of th»|made up Of the Mt. Vei
entire summer baseball pro- -j*a- ■ -
gram which will include the
Pony league. Little League
and Pee Wee League. Croley
will also coach the Pony
League team.
The Pony League includes
boys who are 13. 14 and 15
years of age. Currently there
are 26 boys trying out for the
Pony League team.
Lowry said a Little League
All-Star game with Winnsbo-
ro has been scheduled for
July 17. Little League incul-
des boys 10, 11 and 12 years
of age Plans are also being
All-Star game
Wee League
teams. The Pee Wee League
includes boys 7. 8 and 9 years
of age
First Pee Wee and Little
League games are scheduled
for Thursday night, June 3.
All games will be played on
Modern Facility Will
\ Have Pens For 1,600
Cattle Under Roof
I * Billy Rex Lawrence an-
nounced this week that the
Franklin County Livestock
Commission facility will have
Its grand opening and first
sale on Thursday. June 3.
Sale will start at 12:00 noon.
Associated with Lawrence
in the facility is his wife, son
Ronald and daughter Cathy.
They have constructed the
31,000 square feet facility on
a 30-acre tract south of In-
terstate 30 and west of High-
way 37 near the Mt. Vernon
city limits.
The Commission barn has
pens for 1.600 head of cattle
under roof. The office, cafe
and sales arena, which is
equipped with central heat
and air conditioning, contains
3.200 square feet.
The pens are so construct-
ed that a cow may be taken
from a pen at the east end of
the building. run through
the sales ring, into a pen in
the west end of the building
or to loading ramps at the
west end of the building. It
would also be possible to
move cattle from the east
end to the west end without
going through the arena for
obe ramp is the full length of
the building. Two other ramps
’ are provided in the east and
m unity.
The degrees are checked
on three levels, district, area,
and state. The boys, along
with their degree applications,
have passed the diatriet, and
area checks. T7»e applications
will now go before the state
check committee to he held ta
June at Dallas, Texas. The
boys are almost assured of
the degree now that they have
fotten to the state check, ac-
piine
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ktion wM fsveont their 8th
knnual I.R-A. Bodeo June 2,
I, 4. and 5. Ttaae for the Ro- (
leo is 8 g in iMhmight. Wing
kanch Rodeo Company, Jear-
Lld Smith is producer and
lontractor for the Rodeo.
I A downtown parade will be
held at 4 p.m. on June 2. The
Oklahoma Prison Band will
lerform on the square before
me parade around 2:30 p.m.
I “Miss Ford Country" will
le in the parade and then at
me Rodeo that night. Also the
nge coach from WBAP, Ft.
Sorth with their staff will be
me of the main attractions in
;t»e parade
Wednesday night, June 2,
die queen for the Rodeo will
»e selected from four con-
estants. Also the Kiawanis
rill be having their annual
tancake supper in the agri-
rulture center on the
[rounds. Wednesday
Chursday nights from 5 to 7
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The ML Pleasant Jr. Quad-
■ille will perform June 2. 3,
ind The Lamar County Sher-
ris Posae will perform June
i and The Tarrant County
Sheriffs Posse on Saturday
night there will
ramble, wild cow
Saddling and goat sacking.
I Appearing at the Mt. Pleas-
Lrt Rodeo also wiU be D C.
Cogburn. nationaite known
satmai acts.
The concession stand
betomp from 5 udttl. sei
citotao-11^ baoqfmrgers.. hot
Wbl jiao, french fries.
LA*' MBtok poeoorn, eeM
1 rinks, coriee aU' etMj.
BtaarVe Box Seats are now
oa aate at $2.00 each at the
Fint National Bank, Guaran-
ty Bead Bank and The Farm
bfoMau. General admission
prices are $1.30 and $1.00.
The desire of the Rodeo
Association through its com-
bined efforts, is to make Ti-
tus County and Mt. Pleasant
k little more prosperous and
attractive to everyone. So
Lome on out on June 2, 3, 4
Lnd 5 for the best rodeo yet.
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Glen Ray an-
nounced that seven Rotarians
were absent from the meet-
ing.
Men of the Winfield area,
who were guests of the elub,
were introduced by Charlie
Brown. Included were Dwight
Hightower, ' George Bass.
Frank Shumate, Buaice Kin-
der, Bob Shurtmrt, A. B.
Cody, Carol Marra. Clal Kir-
by, Jake Narramoeo and Bud
Peacock. Other gue4< includ-
ed Tom McFarland, guest of
MUton
Reeosa, student guest;
I'O'WFi
Banman,
Mrs. Marie Fleming.
Mrs. Fleming wm introduc-
ed as toe first, flrot lady of
isriiJtiSRnix
tata was toe first, preeMsnt
Of tar ML VwRft Itotmy
betel
a*?iaft3E rag**
Ecology Film Is
Shown At Rotary
A film, "Estuarine Heri-
qge”, was shown at the meet-
of the Mt. Vernon Rotary
bib. held last Friday at the
Vinfieid School cafeteria by
lob Alexander, chief bioio-
[ilt for the Texas Parks and
Otafltfe Commisaien. Alexan-
ler was introduced by Harold
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Ridtag cMtf clubs or business houses.
A Kids Calf Scramble will
be held each night With the
y^ner receiving a gift certi-
' ~ ition for events will
lesday, June 16, 12
„ <;00 p.m. at Meek’s
Gin tart Feed. Inftrafetton
regarding entering mey be ob-
tataed by calling A.C. 214—
Plata Sheriff's Poe$e dur-T Brents and entry fees will
to* Friday, night’s perfor- M as follows: bareback rid-
““ SfeW8.88;lmitridfog.tt8.(»;
btiUdvggtag. 815.00; Calf rop-
fag. »15« mi gitl’s barrel
racing. $10.00. . ... y.
AA-‘“*'*» will be $1.5* for
BtW ger.gtirtMts.
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Stribling Resigns As Supe
W. M. Stribling, superin-
tendent of schools. Mount
Vernon Independent School
District for the past seven
years has been elected Super-
intendent of the Burleson In-
dependent School District ef-,
fective July 1. 1971.
VERNE ERION
nanagT of the
County C. of C., sajrt he hasn’t
Jost any of the apeed he had
i« a young man especially
Lrhen a snake is involved,
faring the past week end he
mm mowing his yard with
dK. new yard tractor and
Lower. He stopped near his
tart door for a drink of wa-
m..When be came back out
Ml Otartod the mower a large
Hue racer snake came out
ffita. under the . hood of toe
metor, up Ms arm and over
U* Hiouldsr. Verne lost little
Mte leaving toe tractor to
til snake. Ho went in Ms gar-
to l«r t Ms |M ta wife,
Ka. A seateh fated to to
Lai* the snsfce. She told him
MS snake hdd gsstohty crewP
X-etf. He got beta on toe
tidtor and put it in gear,
Ijta gtaae the Moke crawled
taboos*Mo to*- Mb—s y it
pg—Wte
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Stephenson. The program was
arranged by Mitttm Kelley
who was unable to attend.
The film pointed out that
preserving wildlife in our
marshes, bays and estuaries
is very important but we
treat them as garbage dumps,
our wildlife suffers and it
destroys the beauty of the
areas.
The film pointed out that
polluted water kills many
fish and oysters. Spraying of
insecticides. oil spills and
dredging is also harmful to
tho ecology.
The film
pointing out that this destruc-
tion can be avoided by the co-
operation of everyone involv-
ed including business, indus-
try, and various agencies
through advanced planning.
It was pointed out that if we
plan together for the good of
everyone our estuaries may
live forever.
Secretary
quarrels During this time
his tolerance to alcohol in-
creases.
EARLY STAGE - In this
period drinking is eat conspi-
cious, intoxications are not
severe, and are usually limit-
ed to evenings or weekends
The first blackout ushers
in the early stage. This symp-
tom is a temporary amnesia
without loss of consciousness.
The individual cannot remem-
ber events occurring while
drinking, or remembers only
partially.
Then comes “sneaking' of
drinks, gulping down a couple
of drinks to obtain a high lev-
el of alcohol in the blood.
At this period, too. may be-
gin a practice of protecting
the supply, hiding bottles to
be sure of a supply for the
future, He may avort any ref-
erence to drinking because of
fear that others may suspect
him of drinking differently
from them. The blackouts
begin to occur more frequent-
*' 1 after only moderate
’afnounts of alcohol.
MIDDLE STAGE - Loss of
control is the distinguishing
mark in this period. The in-
dlvtdti.il finds his drinking
getting more and more out
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west sheds to facilitate the
handling of cattle. *
The facility is equ^zped,
with automatic scales that
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move quickly The State Of-
fire of Farmers Home Ade CMUvl HYUl ^BUllC
ministration must have taoaw, rtfa • V w\ * ta i
pleted loan application* for' Vf||||f| I IPVMAIMmI
review and approval before * IUI« 1/CFXHVpVU
Dune "(5, 1971 Mr.‘TiitofT'aR, '"'The Ai? Force and Mobil
so said that more money1'''11 ---- •-------J -
would be
new fiscal year of 197? than
was available in this present
fiscal year of J971.
Jerry Johnson of
doches. President of the Tex-
as Association of Rural Water
Corporations, urged existing
systems to take advantage of
the current supply of loan
money. "Man' systems that
have been operating for sev-
eral years now need addition-
al loan money to provide new
consumer service and now is
the time to take advantage of
the $12.6 million
for our state,"
Johnson.
Oil Corp. have produced a
available for the less-flammable hydraulic flu-
id that Is expected to reduce
the hazards of airplane hyd-
raulic fires caused by acci-
dents and enemy fire.
In addition, the new fluid
can be used in higher opera-
tion temperatures common in
advanced aircraft, according
to Maj. Ben A. Loving, pro-
ject engineer for the new flu-
id in the Air Force Materials
laboratory at Wright-Patter-
son Air Force base.
He said the fluid, known as
MIL-H-83282, will be in wide-
spread use as soon as ade-
quate production quanties
are available.
The Synthetic hydrocarbon-
based fluid may be used in
aircraft, missies. spacecraft
and support equipment with-
out changing the hydraulic
systems. Loving said. Other
fire-resistant hydraulic fluids
have been developed but are
incompatible with seals and
other parts of systems.
Mobil, of Paulsboro, N.J.,
proposed the base fluid for
possible use as an engine lub-
ricant. The Materials labora-
tory recognized the possibili-
ty of using the base fluid,
with some modifications, as
a hydraulic fluid.
It will replace
fluid which is described
flammable as jet fuel.
The new fluid has a flash
point and ignition tempera-
ture more than 2*0 degrees
higher. In addition, when ig-
nited by a torch. It extin-
guishes itself when the source
is removed. Loving said
Major Loving is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Loving of
Saltillo
scales are
spected.
A huge surfaced perking
lot extends past the ends of
the building on the east and
west and from the building
to the property line of Inter-
state Highway 30.
Lawrence, who has owned
and operated the Pittsburg
Livestock Commission Co. for
the past few years, recently
sold it and began construction
of the Franklin County facil-
ity He built the Pittsburg
sale from 200 to 300 head to
the point where it was handl-
ing around 800 head each
week.
He says he has been as-
sured that a large number of
buyers will be at the local
sale each Thursday. The lo-
cal facility will be a federal-
ly approved stockyard and
will be bonded and insured.
Lawrence said the office
will be staffed, with courteous
and efficient employees and
experienced livestock hand-
lers will work the cattle.
Lawrence says the sale will
handle beef and dairy cattle,
hogs and horses. He said spec-
ial sales will be held from
time to time.
Personnel will be on band
to receive cattle at all times.
Door prises will be given
during th* opening day tale.
The man •elltag the highest
calf and the man buying the
— "! will be gfrta 4
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