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THE ASPIRMONT STAR
VOL. 75, NO. 8
ASPERMONT, STONEWALL COUNTY, TEXAS 79502, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1972
PRICE TEN (10) CENTS
ASPERMONT IN . .
Yesteryears
FIFTY-ONE YEARS AGO
(October 20, 1921)
A box supper will be given in
Swenson Saturday night October 29th
and the public is cordially invited to
attend. The proceeds of the supper
will go to paying for the piano at the
Methodist Church.
The Gerrard Company has been
playing here i.hiS whhk in ainrmct
capacity houses each night in their
big tent theatre located on the vacant
lots near the post office. All the plays
that have been given here have been
good and well acted.
There will be no school next week
on account of the Tri-County institute
which convenes at Jayton.
Institute speaker, S. M. N. Marrs,
First Assistant State Superintendent
and candidate for State Superin-
tendent 1922, will be with us at Jayton
Thursday and Friday, October 27 and
28th. Friday is Trustees Day and
Stonewall County Day.
Dr. Montgomery will be in
Aspermont one day only, Tuesday,
October 25th prepared to treat
disease of the eye, ear, nose and
throat. Office at the Aspermont
Pharmacy.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
(October 16, 1952)
A deal was consummated last week
whereby C. B. Berry of Lubbock
purchased the Link Drive-In Theatre,
located just south of town on the
Hamlin highway. Mr. Berry stated
early this week that the popular drive-
in theatre would still be operated
under its former name, and that
pictures catering to the entire family
would be shown. Mr. Berry also
purchased other property from the
Lonks.
The Aspermont Hornets had to
come from behind last Friday night to
beat Moran. The game was played on
the latter's field. Score was 28-13.
The local quarterback club is
asking all those who are going to
follow the Aspermont Hornets to
Rochester tomorrow (Friday) night
for their annual clash with the
Rochester Steers to have their cars in
front of the courthouse at 5:30 p. m.
sharp so that proper decorations may
be affixed. The game has been called
for 7:30 p. m., instead of 8 o'clock.
At a meeting held on Tuesday,
October 7, in the Peacock School,
John McNutt was elected supervisor
to the King-Stonewall Soil Con-
servation District.
TEN YEARS AGO
(October 18, 1962)
Homecoming for Ex-Students and
Teachers of Aspermont High School
will be held October 20. Everyone is
invited to attend. Registration will
begin at 2:00. Beginning at 7:30 will
be the football game with the Roby
Lions. This is the Hornets first district
game.
The Aspermont Hornets spoiled the
Loraine Bulldogs Homecoming
Saturday night by a score of 42-0.
The Aspermont Stingers defeated
the Rule Bobkittens, Tuesday night
by a score of 28-0.
Mr. W. J. Teel, Supt. of Schools, will
be speaker for the P.T.A. meeting
today. His subject is "Good
Citizenship: Self Development
Through Personal Discipline anrl
Integrity."
All farmers and ranchers are in-
vited to come to a film and short talk
on livestock feeding to be held at the
Hotel Stonewall dining room Monday
night, October 22. It is being spon-
sored by Ward Feed and Supply
Company and the Purina Company.
The Old Glory Junior Leader 4-H
Club met on September 25 and elected
officers.
JOHN KIDD PRESIDENT-
farm tour — County Agent Truette Hennig and John Kidd listen as
Eddie Howard of the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station at Stephenville,
explains one of the peanut varieties. The peanut variety test plot on John
Kidd's field was the last stop on the farm tour last week. The tour was spon-
sored jointly by the King-Stonewall SWCD and the Stonewall county Program
Building Committee.
Hornets to T ravel
To Merkel Friday
By Gary Weaver
Aspermont Hornets lost their
second district game to the
Wylie Bulldogs Friday night, 20-
6. The Hornets will travel to
Merkel Friday night with
kickoff at 7:30 p.m. Neither
team has won a district game.
Wylie dominated the first half
with a score of 14-0. Late in the
third quarter Kollin Shadle
scored from the three-yard line
making the score 14-6. Wylie
scored again with three minutes
left in the game.
Services Held
Here Oct. 11
For Mrs. Hatley
Mrs. Ellie Beatrice Hatley,
78, whose home was on Bonham
Route 1, between Gober and
Cotton Center, died early
Monday, Oct. 9, in a Bonham
hospital.
Funeral services were held in
First Baptist Church in
Aspermont Wednesday, Oct. 11,
at 3:00 p.m. Burial was in
Aspermont Cemetery under
direction of Cooper-Sorrells
Funeral Home of Bonham.
Mrs. Hatley had been ill about
three weeks and in the hospital
for two days. She was born Jan.
15, 1894, in Navarro County, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. T.
Holloman, and was married
Mar. 24, 1910, at Aspermont to
J. W. Hatley. He preceded her
in death April 15, 1962.
She is survived by three sons,
Irvin Hatley of Aspermont,
Leroy Hatley of Las Vegas,
Nev., and Jack D. Hatley of
Seattle, Wash.; one daughter,
Mrs. Duayne Moore of
Bonham; two sisters, Mrs.
Pinky Van Zandt of Carlsbad,
N. Mex., and Mrs. Edna
Gholson of Tucumcari, N.
Mex.; 20 grandchildren 34
great -grandchildren.
Mrs. Hatley was a member of
the Gober Baptist Church.
ASPERMONT WYLIE
13 First Downs 10
133 Rushing Ydg. 166
42 Passing Ydg. 85
4 of 11 Passes Comp. 5 of 13
0 Passes Intercepted by 0
5 for 29.8 Punts, Avg. 7 for 39.7
5 for 43 Penalties, Yds. 6 for 50
3 Fumbles lost 0
B. A. Erdman
Elected Farm
Bureau Prexy
B. A. Erdman of Old Glory
was elected president of
Stonewall County Farm Bureau
at the annual convention held
Monday night at Aspermont
school cafeteria.
Other officers elected were
Herbert Vahlenkamp of Old
Glory, first vice president and
Ben O. Hawkins, second vice
president. Zearl Galloway was
re-elected secretary-treasurer.
Directors re-elected were E. V.
Smith, Earl Roddy, and Van
Bullard.
Mr. Erdman will appoint
voting delegates to attend
Texas Farm Bureau Annual
meeting in Houston Nov. 13-15.
Three resolutions were adopted
and voted on.
Cancer Society
Raises $1,038
The American Cancer Society
in Aspermont raised a total of
$1,038.00. George Rhoads is
county chairman.
Volunteer workers were
Shirley Freeman, Patsy Day,
Don Foster, Bernice White,
Mrs. Lillian Hicks, Mrs. Carl
Duncan, Lisa Fachonn Duncan,
4-H club members and adult
leader? and County Agent
Truette Hennig.
Weekend events ■ should be
reported to the Star by noon
Monday.
Stamford Club
To Host Board
Meet, Workshop
The Pierian Club of Stamford
will host the board meeting and
workshop of Mesquite District,
Texas Federation of Women's
Club Saturday, Oct. 28, at
Stamford Country Club.
Theme of the meeting will be
"Concern-Membership, a Goal
for Achievement." Mrs. H. B.
Bratton of Waco, third vice
president, will speak at 11:00.
Other Saturday activities
include registration from 9:00 to
10:00 a.m. with an executive
committee meeting beginning
at 9:30 a.m.
A "Patriotic Medley" will be
presented by Lezli Brownfield,
accompanied by Jacki
Southerland of Stamford.
Mrs. Ellis Rucker of Action
Line, The Abilene Reporter-
News, will present "Women's
Potential - Our Key."
Mesquite District includes
clubs in Abilene, Albany, An-
son, Aspermont, Biard, Clyde,
Colorado City, Hamlin, Haskell,
Loraine, Merkel, Moran,
Putnam, Rochester, Rule,
Snyder, Stamford, Sweetwater,
Throckmorton and Weinert.
Weinert.
Brazos River
Authority Gets
Federal Grant
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Congressman Omar Burleson
announces approval of a
$75,000.00 Environmental
Protection Agency grant to the
Brazos River Authority for
Water Quality Management
Planning.
The purpose of the study is to
develop a basin-wide water
quality management plan for
the Brazos Basin and adjoining
coastal areas, comprising about
one-sixth of the area of Texas.
Stonewall County is one of 68 in
the Basin. The study is to be
financed half by State and local
funds and half by this Federal
grant, under the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act.
The desirability of having an
effective plan throughout the
basin is fully realized by all
concerned. The urgency of
developing such a plan has been
emphasized by Federal
regulations requiring that
sewage systems built with
Federal assistance in the future
must be consistent with basin-
wide water quality
management plans; if such
basin-wide plans are not in
existence, the proposed sewage
treatment facilities will not be
eligible for Federal grants to
assist in paying construction
costs.
Congressman Burleson ex-
pressed gratification at the
approval of the grant, having
made personal contacts with
the EPA Administrator in
behalf of the Brazos River
Authority request.
Square Dance
Festival to Aid
Rehab Center
The Taylor County Coliseum
in Abilene will be the scene of
the Fourth Annual Square
Dance Festival Oct. 28 to
benefit the West Texas
Rehabilitation Center. The
festival is sponsored by The
Square Dance Clubs of Abilene,
Anson, Dyess Air Force Base.
Sweetwater, and Winters.
Square dance clubs from
throughout Texas are expected
for the square dance ex-
travaganza .
Eight top area callers will be
on hand, with guest callers as
time permits. Calling the tips
will be Sleepy Browing, Jayton;
Delton Lovelace, Abilene; Jack
Mason, Sweetwater. Owen
Renfro, Abilene; Raymond
Calley, Brady; Ralph Mc-
Mulley, Baird; Jay Lynn
Moseley, Santa Anna; and C. L.
Woods, Colorado City.
Spectators are welcome.
There is no admission charge,
but donations will go to The
West Texas Rehabilitation
Center.
County Farmers Organize
For Boll Weevil Program
Nearly 100 Stonewall County
Farmers attended the cotton
meeting in the County Court-
room Tuesday night, Oct. 10.
Charles Holt of Department of
Agriculture and Emory Boring
of Texas Extension Service
explained the cotton boll weevil
piugioiii uiai liic lamiiciB may
go into.
Mr. Hoit stated that money
had been appropriated by the
state in past for matching
amount for boll weevil
disposal control, also that
Stonewall needs to organize now
and put in for this program for
next year.
The farmers voted at the
meeting to organize and try to
get Stonewall County farmers to
go in the program 100 percent. A
$5.00 membership fee has been
asked for operating expenses,
such as a charter must be filled
out with the Secretary of
Agricultural of Texas.
Officers elected were John
Kidd, president; Jerry
Douglass, vice president; and
Doyle Rash, secretary-
treasurer. Old Glory com-
munity Jack Jones, Doyle
Baugh, Herbert Vahlenkamp,
Glen Pierce and Allen Letz.
Double Mountain community
Mr. Posey, Dick Sharp and
Wayne Yarborough. Mt. Olive
community Clay Douglass.
Johnson Chapel Earl Roddy and
E. M. Jones. Peacock com-
munity Bill Meador, Carl
Dickerson and J. H. Clements.
Swenson community Bay
Hallum, Jake Hall, Donald Lott,
Ward Gardner and Ivan Yar-
borough. Aspermont com-
munity Bill Lackey and R. L.
Snow.
Ralph Riddel Appointed
Savings Bonds Chairman
Ralph Riddel, president of the
First National Bank of
Aspermont, has accepted ap-
pointment by the U. S.
Department of the Treasury as
Chairman of the Stonewall
County Savings Bonds Com-
mittee. Announcement of the
appointment was made by Rex
Brack, Chairman of the Texas
Savings Bonds Committee.
In announcing Riddel's ap-
pointment, Brack remarked
that "his wide business ex-
perience and active par-
ticipation in community affairs
will be most valuable in his
volunteer service as Stonewall
County Chairman, especially in
AROUND
TOWN
by Mrs. Brooks Ellison
988-3358
Jim Rash of Seminole visited
here with his mother, Mrs. Rosa
Rash, brother, Bill Rash and
sister and husband, Mr. and
Mrs. Jordon Hart.
Mrs. Bill Rucker and Mrs.
Pearl Wells spent the weekend
in Spur with their sister and
husband, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Alexander.
Mrs. Fred Dalby is home
after ten days stay in Stamford
Hospital.
Arthur Gardner of Swenson is
a patient in Stamford Hospital.
Dan Hill is home after
spending several days in
Stamford Hospital.
Debbie Allen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Allen, is in
Stamford Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Mullis
are in Hamlin Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Debs Johnson of
Artesia, N. Mex., were Sunday
visitors in the home of Mrs.
Brooks Ellison and Joe. The
Johnson's were here to attend
the funeral service of her
brother, Harold Kingery.
Mr. and Mrs. Delmon Ellison,
Mona, Delmon Jr. and Marenda
of Seminole were Sunday
visitors in the home of his
mother, Mrs. Brooks Ellison
and Joe.
Mrs. H. H. Shadle visited over
the weekend in Hamlin with her
daughter and husband, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Jenkins.
Brother and Mrs. Hal Up-
church are on vacation in the
Ozarks.
Mrs. Pauline Lenery of
Abilene visited her aunt, Mrs.
Ella Kieth and her sister, Mrs.
Raymond Hoy, last weekend.
Joe Dean Ellison was carried
to Rotan hospital Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gardner
of Pecos visited the Lee Gard-
ners over the weekend.
Mrs. R. T. Cumbie is visiting
her daugher and husband, the
Dibrell's, in El Paso.
Mrs A. D. Martin and Mrs.
Evin Gholston visited Mrs.
Mary Allen in Stamford
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Allen
visited their daughter, Mrs.
Willene Hogan and children in
Copperas Cove.
Mrs. Johnny Fitzgerald and
Mrs. Kenneth Hays had
business in Odessa Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Newt Bryant of
Abilene, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Davidson of Big Sring and Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Davidson of
Whiteface were here for the
funeral of their uncle, Harold
Kingery.
WEATHER
Oct. 11
91
63
Oct. 12
86
59
Oct. 13
86
(>2
Oct. 14
89
67
OOct. 15
93
61
Oct. 16
77
60
Oct. 17
91
66
Revenue from cigarette taxes
dropped $106,729 from Sep-
tember 1971 to September 1972
— to $15.34 million.
these times when the U. S.
Savings Bonds Program takes
on increasing importance in
helping to keep our Nation
economically strong and
secure."
Mr. Riddel is well-known in
civic affairs, being active in
volunteer work. He was the
Mayor of the City of Aspermont
from 1946 until 1956 and is a
member of the Lions Club. His
military obligation was fulfilled
by service in the U. S. Army
from July 15, 1941 until
December 13, 1945.
Mr. Riddel resides in
Aspermont with his wife,
Allene, and their children - Ana
Marie and Ralph, Jr.
As County Chairman, he will
work with other community
leaders in a year-round
program to encourae the in-
creased purchase of Savings
Bonds at banks and on the
Payroll Savings Plan.
Mrs. Willie Davidson of Big
Spring was here for the funeral
of her brother, Harold Kingery.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Smith
spent the weekend in Ft. Worth
with their daughter and family,
the Bill Comptons.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Simmons
and children of Hereford visited
her mother, Mrs. Girtie Martin
and uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Lanier, over the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lanier
and Mrs, Girtie Martin had
business in Stamford Monday.
Mrs. Ellis Moore was a guest
of the Gary Cooper's in Hamlin
over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Gibson are in Stonewall
Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. James Suggs was
carried to Stamford hospital
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clay Douglass
and business in Eastland
Monday.
Visitors in the Carl W.
Duncan home over the weekend
were Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Williams of Lubbock, Mrs. Dink
Williams and Winfred Williams
of Quanah, Dr. and Mrs. J. O.
Kincaid of New York City, N.
Y., and Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Langston of New London, Conn.
The Glenners Sunday School
Class met in the home of Mrs.
George Kenady Sr. for their
monthly meeting. Mrs. Brooks
Ellison was co-hostess. A
business meeting was held to
elect officers for the coming
year.
Mrs. E. M. Wright gave a
devotion from the book of Ruth.
Refreshments were served to
the following members and
guests Mmes. Charlie Bryson,
John Boland, Roy Allen, Jack
Clark, Mark Luttrall, E. V.
Smith, Travis Beil, Luther
Reese and new members,
Oliver Penrod and Elan
Griffith and visitors, Carl
Duncan and Addie Walker of
Lubbock.
Mickey Gerloff
Gets Approved
As Minister
The First United Methodist
Church held its regular Church
Conference at 5:00 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 15, with Dr. Marshall
Rhew, superintendent of the
Seymour District, presiding.
In addition to the regular
business of the church, Mickey
Gerloff was approved by the
local church for a license to
become a Methodist Minister.
Mickey is a 1971 graduate of
Aspermont High School and is
presently a student in the
University of Texas at
Arlington.
Snack Bar Cafe
To Open Mon.
The Snack Bar Cafe was
purchased this week by Mrs.
Loretta Sharp of Eastland from
Luda Hill.
Mrs. Sharp plans to open the
cafe Monday, Oct. 23. The cafe
will be open Monday through
Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00
p.m.
Former Local
Resident Dies
In Abilene
Harold Newton Kingery, 60, of
Abilene, formerly of Asper-
mont, died at 7:30 p.m. Friday
in Hendrick Memorial Hospital.
Funeral was at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday in the First Methodist
Church.
Rev. Elmer Ward, pastor,
officiated. Burial was in
Aspermont Cemetery under
direction of McCoy Funeral
Home.
Mr. Kingery was born in Hall
County Dec. 16, 1911. He
married his wife, Audrey, Oct.
18, 1962, in Haskell. He was a
retired farmer.
Survivors are his wife; two
sons, Harold Loval and I. W.
McFarland; four daughters,
Mrs. Doris Jean Ray burn, Mrs.
Nefa Ermine Baldinellie, Mrs.
Ophelia Stout and Mrs. Barbara
Wilburn; one brother, J. D.;
three sisters, Mrs. Lola
Graham, Mrs. Willie Davidson
and Mrs. Elaine Johnson.
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Hester, Mrs. Gary. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 1972, newspaper, October 19, 1972; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth128181/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.