The Stephens County Times (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1957 Page: 1 of 6
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BRECKK.NRIDGM, (STEPHENS COUNTY), TEXAS
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Home-Operated "THE FAMILY PAPER IN BRECKENRIDGE AND STEPHENS COUNTY"
—THURSDAY DEC.
5,
STEPHENS COUNTY TIMES
NUMBER 4W
Goodfellows Ask
Names Of Needy
For Santa Glaus
With the Christmas season of-
ficially opened in Breckem tilge,
, the l.toi h! tel iovs now a re reailv to
I begin pi i paralions to see that
Sat ia < to '.' all here
Kiank I'elli/.zuri. 1957 Guod'iY'l-
low chairman, asks chut the iut;r, ■«
NATION PICTURED NEAR
TOP EXPANSION BRINK
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I'l.AVED i.A-T lil CKAROO l.AMK |; .
"•'"m !'iu ka- endmg the season as ,Js
It- nil:.' I I). . .1::: my sV.utw, til.-ri \\ iUUiilh.
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Pother Lewis Heard As Speaker
ELKS STAGE MEMORIAL FOR
FOUR WHO DIED THIS YEAR
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Derides
Work Of Saving
Soil Under Way
Despite Weather
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Christ)
Legion Ha
li at 7:*>o r>.\
Decembo.r 2:'.. j
t on basket.-
. will be til-!
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i; a nil 1 i i ■
>y 'a Chris;
>■' i) 1111 ail i
tm as dinner.]
ii he 11,-!: \-
eled oil lite
>t Uecombei
ar tiic Good
fellows play-
Claus haskc
its for a real1
dinner to
I.'15 families,!
rumipi-.- thi;
- year, it s
wiii be th:
u many, on
ittS
Former Resident
Dies In Abilene
C-G Diners Hear
Lake Progress*
Meet Officers
Members ii' the Broekenridge
Chamber of Commerce at the an-!
nual banquet Tuesday evening
heard hew officials of the organi-
zation introduced with Arthur Ml
president, report on progress!
,:' Hubbaid Creek lake, and a word
fl m Dr. I'rice Ashton in appro-'
•.•nation of the library furnished
Ranker Junior College of Brock-I
enndge in addition to other pro-|
gi-um features.
Co nee rniii}t the lake Lester Clark i
stated there will be a meeting of!
directors tomorrow, that an ap- j
p raiser has been appointed, engiu-j
eers and others are at \voi k, and
there detinitely will be a lak.'.
Miller presented Karl Trantmoll >
Hill Rogers and Omar Gillniore as
I the new officers as Dr. J. F. I'ro-
I veiiza. Albert Tuck and Robert j
Dickson, as v ice presidents, and I
! announced that Bob Hnusel execu
'j ' •
JUST DUCKY Tin • "• -1! has l« -n chosen f„r the t! r,
■ i :ei." stamp. Drawn by Leslie C. Kouba. oi Minneai
Mum., it depicts Canadian tv-ding in a picked ••. m :
II is the -'>'.ii in the .el ICS of initiatory bird-hunting ' .
Wanda Lewis Off For Chicago Meeting
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Ralla
in th
i . ha-
le hoard ■ ! supervisors .
r ( :ir f ork S 'il i 'on
District met recently ■>
lire.,: lanch n ithwr
keni ai:Mr. (ii en is .
list ra t . ape; . The :
-- '■ atvued a d-miou.si rat
il- two" bulldozers!' The"
f til"]
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: tile
t of!
If of
at he
No
a> Jo
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Cutting Horse
Contest Slated
Next Saturday
h i nisei!
hiy we thi
>rs ai«- at'I,
i- by their
The curse
Highness
•♦..•as for tl
and
' No
d:r hii
L I bt
■ tu s:
put
.ai di
•r ho
e our
A I;
on
pond is be it itc
Virj-'il kilev u.
rich
I it t>
rklK
M:.
jond :s t<
iter and
and Vim;
tooui
:ken-
i lrnest Hay i. I rooks
a u I-. > n io a i it* d'-aler, diod at his
home oi: the San Angelo highway
near Aoia.*ne Saturday morning ai
a. in. after a I liim'ss.
H- was I'otm-T resid.-nt of Moran
an<i Rreekenridgo.
Born Oct. 'M. IiM14 .:t Pioneer,
lie spent most oi his eariy life ,'ji
Moran. Me manied Waikoi-
•Jan. i UeJ(>, m Cisco, 'i iie couple
!i\'ed in Abilene i.or s m .- tirrje piior
to 11144. when they m>> . d a 1,'i eck-
STEPHENS 4-H CLUB MEMBER
WINS HIGH NATIONAL HONOR
ti'.e secretary has been re-eieeted. |
Tv-ei\i new incoming, already pub-
licly announced, were introduced.!
Why I Did It I
.1. D. Sandefer Jr. master of cere I
monies, introduced Miller as tile!
I 1 newly elected president to succeed
1 himself. In summing up "Why I
Did It" Miller stated that he did
accepted the office for the same!
reas in a Huckaroo likes to play and .Mrs.
lootball. "He interested in his J county, ■
school and likes to play tile game." | has been
Miller stated concern or indiffer- j now lias won a national award and !) a m. Saturday for th,' ."'ith Xa-
City Urged To
Get Very Best
For Its Dollar
| Declaring that America today
i stands on the brink of an econom-
I ic i xpansion never experienced be-
fore, and pleaching a gfispel .11!
; optimism, William .1. Bird, Bos-
ton. held -inn listeners silent for
nearly an hour as he spoke last
night at the annual Chamber of
('omnierce banquet.
Introduced by Mrs. Robert Hous-
el, as a friend of tile family and a
man likes to talk with ladies pres-
ent. because "men hear things ill
one ear and out the other, while,
women hear through b >th ears
and out the mouth." Bird declared.
Breck, nridge to lie in big time com-
petition with every city and town in
the I nited States and that it is up
t i its citizens individually and col-
lectively to get a ['air share of the
expected expansion for Brecken-
i idge and for themselves.
lime lo (iet Busy
"'Sou can't afford to stand idle,
and wait for expansion" Bird de-
S dared, and ur.ne,| as the way to get
' Breckeiiridue share of what is to
! come as individual participation ill
j community activities for "He, who
['chops his own wood is twice warm-
led. and he who caies shares."
be
; 11
am
pe.
had do
! nomp.-vm
the ' "add'
the utes-
eilMilge. I
leu,- in 1!
Funeral
p. in. at ti
in .Moran.
pastor ,
Church h
U.i'. na
he
jack to Abi-
w.is Monday at •'!
Fiist Aletii'niist 1 'hurch
The Rf-. John Kn'Misii
the I": 1st Metiiodist
re. the lv, ■ v. Uaieiiee
of the Grace Lu-
Manufactui inn
assets to Bret
lluced (_r U V W.
and locus on a c.instructive pro-
gram.
"Become a better salesman for
Joni i your coiiHiHinity. Businessmen are
111,■ s ' the .cri-atest salesman in the world
Tii
the lilLT bluest."
and I.itth bhiesteu
bid:
po
M> Friends. 1
the
■ t,
iid
A:;
M,
W,
pas;
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M,
, ,, . , , , , 1 he speaker set forth se\eral
Wanda Lewis, daughter o| Mr. uoik were treated to dinner at the xv.,v> t(, ,.,k,. advantage .if com-
•me.ie Lewis Ol Me,,hens hotel by the >ears-Roehuck l-oun- niumty opp, rtunities. Among these
o w ith her sister. Judj, datum. were "keep Vour Chamber of Coin-
ntning 4-H ( luh awards, i 1 hey were to an ive ( incaco at j nK.,,.t to ,iate and strong. Keep
,i , • i r ' i — it supplied with manpower, monev,
cue' makes the kind ol a coimnun j has uone to the big 4-11 Club con-, tlonal 411 l luh Congress at C m- •
ily in which one lives and express-' gress in Chicago. i rail Hilton Hotel.
■ ,! appreciation for the o-opera- Wanda and Judy won state award ! From .Saturday night until
lion given him. He called special | in their vegetable demonstration,! Thursday, the 'I'.-xans will
attention to lex-Togs and Boss j and, to get the trip to Chicag o, i more than 2.0IHI other dele
i hi pa ny as payroll { Wanda has won the recreation a-i from the I "nited States. Hawaii. I and vim can do it. In order to be-
nridge, and nit,,, ward, one -I tuehv m the L n.ted Alaska and I'uerto Rico in a roiuid , ih.,t,.r ,-alesman know yjur
lex-I J states. Wanda lias been leading m|o| s.icial events and programs in i product."
president, who came from HI I'aso ' state, distric: ..iid county in their honor* 1 " m,.„jit| Miitude
,oid Charles Wcnde, manager of' ci.-ation for the past three years, j Included on the fhe-dav agen- ii iportaut' factor is to
the glove factory. and this year she enterded and won ; da for the congress will be dances, j ••.■iieck on voiir 'mental attitude.
Library Appreciated i top a >v;,i d. >he W'ein-to 1- ort \\ rr:h . netw ork radio and television stu-! are o! '
Dr. Ashton made his remarks in I to join the group going to Chicago. ,1,
introducing Vivian Simmons of j and Friday noon directed a .".o ;o in
Kanger Junior C dlege who sang a ! minute program on recreation f ,r
soio number, which received louvl j tile group, at Western Hills. Fol-
applause. Dr. A slit m expressed j lowing the dinner thiity award
appreciation for 2,(inn books con-| winners fiom Texas boarded th
u id
Yo
In M i-
I ' l *
Th,
■ do community
isely going to plan
Xi.;
I d,
He,
'ou r i a i
trial bi
>f s<
. Thomps
hut
>adcast.
nted in
.and
has made a
und
er da et
Lai.glut"
■ N
The
titer [
n a 1st
pasture v- ill
• ,'C th,' Cad-
Fu:
a-raj H
Alis. j-
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Allie s C 1 11'
t) i
iys ti
"lat they aiv
Alt'
ienc:
one: so
n, L'rnest
altnu
n or twenty
Bio
, (lei
oks Jr.,
on. irra
ic L". S. A-
adsoii, one
>n sa\
•s that tha y
M.
i.:;n a.
Hoop, r
ui" Abiien
e *
planti
hroi
.Mrs
the rs, "1
. V. Bi
Ruben
•oks o*' \[(
i !; oolis
lit
but i
chev are iro-
dor;
Mo," A:
■k.
ti ibuted
more w
pressed
■ i i
Terr
the; D.
A di">'<*
it to
•n and
Alsobrook Rites
i ,.i.
da\'
"Ti
indg.
r
•Jt
,ad
The
side
Breck Resident
Kills First Doe
As Season Opens
id
D. H
r.-t antlerii'ssj
!1!S past week
Bleo.euridjr'' :
k.: 1. y " ■ ' collMry sluv <lee i
I,;,:,, i-, on ::te piotecteil list ut
if a * 11 e a i u i:' a i e s. •
Mr. Ho" > k.le-d .« three ami a j
half ;.-.ir old doe. on the ('barley t
Kcliofs . .in. h north of Cadd >. that,
w.'.ahed pounds I :.'.<l dresse.l .
iiioiou.-t wi:h th- I . x a s (in. j
and Fish C. . n>i.-sion cheeked so-
enteeii alitleri.-ss deer averaging-
f">-( pound thiougii the ( adilo check-
ing station the first day Deer were i
fa't and ill very go id condition.
Most of the deer killed Weie III tile
two t« foili" vear "id ;n;r i rack«-l.
W T. Wi gin. Wild!!'' If. !
predicts a kill of 2.>n anteiless deer
for Stephens Count) during the
.urlent season. j
■ y ,r, p.m.- ih<
Mi-. Moil
"id li.,-".:' I r
Alsobrook 7a-year'
■, Si ;..,it di-d at 's:
a. .... Sunday
Hospital wii'i
patient smce .'
May' v!hen .-!i
ii Rang, r (!••,-: al
e sue had been a
\iov. 'Jo.
a in ill health since
i.,1 suffered a heart
^ x: f
: a i lack.
Cusho.au. Air
Vsoblo'K "II
. .. . ' , !' .
i:t \pr! Ii',. in
... She marri-d Joe
No-.. -J. llto.-l and
-
la'i.d [i 1 I j •;'< :■
In I,D41,-i
and had b.-eo
1 fving'"in ' lias
' moved ill liasliand
living ii, i i-.o and
'li a mi Hotel' at I:
••SEWjS-S.-.'*
•ii-.
o the library, and added | train for Chicago.
he appreciated, he ,-x-! The b iys and girl's each
real appreciation for tile ! l.-cted for outstand achievement
j- ' riendship and support ol trie col-j his or h,*r particular field of I
! lege branch here.
Judge Frank Roberts in an im-
promptu talk in answer to intro-
duction expiessed his admiration
fur the work tile Chamber of Com-
merce is doing, and love for the
many friends made during his 40
years residence here.
Entertainment was also furnished
by the Boys I'll >ir under diiection|
of Mrs. Ben J. Dean, with Mi
Janice Bryant accompanist. Mi
Jackie Cornelion furnished organ] A suit seeking ?l(t,r>H>l judge-
music during th • dinner, which j ment on a claim growing out of a
was served by FHA girls. Invoca
tiou was bv Rev. I'at Everitt.
Lawsuit Filed
As Result Of
Car Collision
Possum Kingdom
Waters Survey
Will Be Made
Re-).
negative state of mind.
Know your community, analyze its*
products, and dramatize what you
nave for sale. Do not get into a
rut. "Ihe only difference between
a rut and tile grave is the depth,
and you can gel out of the only
me of them."
In. his final plea Bird urged his
he..ro;s to "go out and merchan-
dise your product individually and
coilecle. eiy, selling confidence ill
yotiiselvi.s and about the future of
your community. Make yourselves}
architects for building and selling
a better community and get the
best for '.our dollar.
Hearing Set On
Waterflooding
Stephens Area
A letter received fr.
T'U"tt Wilson with some corres-
pondence with the Texas (lame and
Fish Commission included, stales
that a survey will be made of the|
waters of I'ossum Kingdom La:
In the correspondence it w
stated that Loonaid D. Lamb, i
ologist. has been notified "lo .-
j two-car collision has been filed in ! up a survey under a federal aid I
j C. S. District Court in Abilene ; resurvey job just as soon
! bv a Stephens county num. i sibh ."
Rul'ii-. Stuard of St. ph.'lis Con ii - ! 'Fie i exiles: iiie (;u!j a...!| ||. "nan Caiii.i. ««. firmer Breck-
] ty is slung W estern ( asualtv and I' i s: i Department was made hy : , m : i<F • husi:iess man. and related
Surety ( ". i ir ■> 1 oio "ii a . l;ii: : Rep. W ilson alter attending a I here, di.-d I'lU'day afternoon in a
growing oi'! of a collision .I,i:;. n'eeting . f t!i. I'.Kingdom { a |.', Worth Hospital.
1 -. I9.il. between : ■ n automobile ' Association, and :t was stated til:"! Mr llauin. whose name Baum's
dri-.en by Haiiy King Jr. lie will attend another oa-eiing fashion Shop Inc. carries, was a
' brother-in-law of Aaron Kuperman,
Former Resident
Of Breck Dies
Marshal
las applic
wh" now or, ns the business. He
f.'Unded ti;-- Southwest Finance Co.
n j and Auto Sales Co. in Ft. Worth.
Survivors include his wife: two
sons. Kenneth and Lester Baum
rt Wolth: two daughters,
J
Fllller-.r
W. dliesda
H,
,| Bi,
d b
A nchorage,
M::- Georg
anion and
Mu.skog,.'.
dren.
Mi
of the 1 "en-
1 at HI a. in.
Pentecostal
ial "ill he
'.■metery un-
Meltoil Fu-
nridge.
• i. Jack ,
daughters,
h' oi IInis-
Davis of
■- : aisdchil ■
>LC>V / i\M
CROWNED Xr.v Yon, She
I'jvl Uiiii.-i her n
crown wah .« smile aftei be
named Bachelor Queen of H
by the Bachelor- Society
America (' >r< '.aUon was a.t
group's seventh annivor:
nee ting.
m
Stuard claims at the time id' that >- >.nation next Tuesday night
ill" accident King had made a t"n at Jack-bo.,, wh"ii tin- r.-sur\ey
tati\e contract of sale with J dm j will be further discussed.
K. Davis, but the certificate of ti- J i t What will b* inciu
tie on th.* atiloniobile had not been: 'lie r.'survey was not slal.e.l in tin
Pipe and Supply Co. J transferred to King. | eorivspondei but Hank Sntt. r-
,'or permission to car-I He alleges tile vehicle driv.n'while r.iemlier of the association,
ry on water flooding operiilioiis on I by King was covered by a policy of said that among things sought by j Mrs. Lila Lee l-'riedland and Mrs.
its Stanford lease in tin- Stanford! insurance issued by Western Cn. -1 the association an- elimination of! Klton Sokes of Dallas: two broth-
( I.' '\v,r St raw ti I Field, Stephens | ual ty and Su rety ( o. t . I la \ is. add- | rough fish, and add, -d fish hatch-1 ers. th ree sisters and three gra nd-
County. 1 ing that .sill,.odd judgement against j cries for the lak". Satterwhile! adii-j children.
Hearing m the application has King was awarded him (Stuardl : >-d that a g.-nei al survey of the) Funeral service will be held
been set for'J p. m. Dec. IV by tne j at the conclusion of a law suit in waters is sought. j Thursday morning at ld::J,() in Ft.
Ra:iroad Commission of T"\as. !)(lth District Court, of Stepln lis j Announcenient to Rep. Wilson | Worth.
Tile company is seeking a per- County. , that a survey has been instructed] o :—
mit to waterl'Iood the lower Strawnj Stuard claims Western Casualty •.•anie from Ma.rioii Toole, chief| In 1 !K".7 the Turkish X'avy re-
reservoir encountered at an aver-jnn'l Surety < ,,. "is now ol>l igiited ' a,|tiat ic biologst. lo-p. Wilson is a cei\"ed fourteen destroyers antl mine
f said judge- i member of til
Fish i ommitte
depth of '1.nln feet. Location ! to pay oli the tern
s in Section 4s. Block ii T<£1' Sur-'ment.
vey. three miles east of Frankell j
in tiie southeastern part of the I
county.
B. F. Weekley of r d't Woi th j
Xo. 1 Ada Gray, project one and a
half miie north of Caddo in the |
Gourley (Strawn) Field was plug-
ged at .'1,28(1 feet. It was in Sec-j
lion '-T. Block •'> TiV-i' Survey.
__L
Benjamin Franklin started the i
st 1 io! man-language newspapoi
in thi Fniteil States in 17."ill.
interim Game and sweepers from the British Canad-
ian X:.' • s.
Washington School Honor Roil
Quartet Arrested
After Robbery
nioiieil "11 I. > " e. ShilleV .Villi McClee,
: School Gwendolyn ('buries Cooper. Annie
I',.
SHAPELY SHIVER - Fu r-
•wadcilod Delores Kiiby offer-;
3 somewhat shaggy-girl story,
playing it's cool at the sea-
shore in Miami Beach. Flu, The
only chance she has to wear her
silver fox stole at the resort is
when the temperature dips way
down—sometimes into the 70's.,
I iie to'lov, mg studenls
iii the r.eokei T Washing;.
a;,- "i: 'lie honor i -ii r seeoiul I."U Jones. Fmily Jean May. Bob
s,x ■•. . "ie-: bie Jean Stanch.
Primarj Departiiicnt The following students haven't
s D"itii.. .!,.,!) Ware Jessie Harri.-..1 been tardy nor absent fo rthe s.-c-
l.iini.i Fa. Tate. Marv F.ii/.abet h ond six weeks:
Dobbin.-. Willi:",.,1 Mci'n F.tclla Jessie Harris, Michael Bobby
t June No-, n. Van Lo Roland I'm ban,. \ .-iiion Wilson. James
, Booth. I'll e res a Gladys N-evim. Gilbert McClee, Dwight Williams,
Yid.i Franc..-. Da'.oiip >rt, Doi is Margaret Ree L ore, Billy Joe
si .lean ("a- an:
R. II Rhodes. Floyd
I „nd Ronald M. Ma. '.a of live,
Air Forte Base, and Shirley li
gan of Br, , S.-'tiridge have been jai
ed in Br, cki.iii; itlg'e on complaii
of robbery by assuuit. Shi i iff Cha-
i !<ioth said Satu i day.
'I'll, foil, u < !••• a nested foilowicg • .1 'an (";r atiamrli. I!..| by Michael i Tllnmas. Yvonne Kloise Wright.I
i ' ohiier y of .1 ;i• . - 11\\ itrht of I)ni !nr-i, \'ei «,,i Wilson. Jam, s Gil-; Fmiiy Jean May, Gwendolyn Churl- j
: Portland. Oregon, of money and a belt Mci'ie,-. Dairy.d II. Dixon. es (,'oopor. Betty Joyce Degrate.j
I pistol early Friday iuoi nmg on the Inleraiedial e Depart iiieiit Annie l.ou Jones. Mary Hlizabeth |
Lake Grand road. Cltaries Williams. David Xowlin. Dobbins. Roland B.oth, Tarlie I
Siieriff Booth ,,i tile i .bbery Jr.. L. \'. Hawkins', Helen Ruthj Smith, R, L. Stanch. Jr., Raymond j
; ;ii.,c, . .. i -: . (.'ly.->, L.-.il Da "Upoi t. i Wilson, Shirley Jean Wilson. M ■
jot' the parties. Texas Ranger Jim Ronaid Kdua.rd Williams. Willie Hudson, Mae Helen Love,
'Riddles was here and assisted in High School Department | Shirley Ann McClee, Bobbie Jean!
J t he case. I Llettye Joyce Dug rate, Ma« Hel- Stanch, Shirley Ann Kilgore. i
&
V
(VUIXG GOOD .!.,,' I'.d I e-,n is lion cai.v.ng :i,. oall .
with Sweetwater last Saltirday. The gain by I'e.seh was in the
bi-district meet by a score of IS to lii.
th (i.ir., Ingram Loickiiig iit the game
fourth quarter, Sweetwater won the
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