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The Hereford Brand
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HEREFORD, TEXAS, 7W4S, THURSDAY AUG H IM*
3 Arrested After
Football Is
robbery; that she had seen a Negro man
Teachers To Start
School Activities
Jo Poarch, Lewis
Win Rodeo Titles
\\ illiamson Is
Chosen Park
Conimisioners
Commissioners heard a request
of
be in this area to try to deter-
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tersection.
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Airport Device
Discussed Bv
Monday night, nearly took over the station house
as it found its way into just about everything
this semester
Miss Poarch, who is also IS.
When first brought in. the young animal wanted
to do nothing but sleep Then Brand photographer
an in-service session with
authors of the program
Workshop for introduct o ry
in any years
Cowboy he won a fancy saddle
and a $5M scholarship fie also
won a second saddle for World
Champion Calf Roping, and a
third saddle for Bull Wrestling
were laid out in this manner as Deaf
Smith County Sheriff’s deputies copi-
ed the serial numbers. See story for
details.
Sky Diving Is
Set At Easter
The Easter Lions Club
Tyler Vance began snapping flashbulbs in his face,
and the animal started nosing around The police-
man took the racoon home with him for a S*t
am.
No one was in the house when
Firemen say
the house was completely des-
troyed.
$12,889 FROM ROBBERY - Shown
here is the $12,000 taken from Dave
Broadwell of Hereford Monday by
three Negro men The 120 $100 bills
agencies
The Amarillo patrolman spot-
Magic Triangle
Patriotic Group
Will Sing Here
j “The Flames for Freedom.”
some 45 young men and women
from Amarillo, will present a
I patriotic program at 739 pm
I August 30 in the Hereford High
I School Auditorium
Sponsored by the Here ford
Lions Chib. the procram wfl
be free to the public The sing-
ing group recently appeared on
television and response to their
singing has been 'tremendous''
said Lions Club President Ray
Moore.
Bob Price Will
Be Here Today
COON TAKES OVER — A racoon, which was cap-
tured by a Hereford policeman at 11$ S Centre
they must win points in all e-
vents. To the All-Around Cham-
pion Girl goes a 4500 scholar-
ship and a traveling trophy.
p m Admission for the meet
will be tl per car on each of
budget report on the first three the two days
Also to be featured at the sky
diving meet will be airp lane
rides and also the possibil i t y
of a helicopter demonstration.
The airport is located 11 miles
south at Hereford at Farm Road
phies to be awarded to
winners in each class.
Jumping will begin at 9 a m
and last until 7 p m on Satur-
missioners said the committee's day and on Sunday they will be-
request will be on the agenda gin at 1 pm. and last until 7
cumulate points toward the Wor- for the next meeting p m Admission for the
Id Championship Awards prese-
nted at the end of the year.
“In our IS to lt-year-old
girl's group there an- four cha-
mpionships to tie won.” she
said, "the barrel racing, option-
al racing (poles and flags), the
roping, and the coveted All-A-
round Championship Girl ”
on
that
months of the fiscal year from
City Manager Dudley Bayne,
voted to hold the next meeting
Sept IS instead of Sept. 2 lx
cause of the holiday, and voted
to attend a regional meet i n g _______________________
for city councilmen Sept 5 at 1955 and Farm Road 1957 in-
To win the All-Around award, the tornado Im at Amanllo
Set Lp For County
ing the 1959 program called on
farmer-committeemen to make
a new effort in 1959 to get more
Low-income' fanners or ran-
chers — who usually have l>een
doing little or no conservation
work — to undertake a conser
ration project that will be help
ful to them and their communi
ties Some of them will find it
advantageous to take part in a
group enterprise conservation
project, or ACP pooling agree-
ment. as well as carry out need
ed individual farm conservation
practices
As in previous years, farmer-
elected ASC committees will ad
minister the 19*9 ACP with tech
nical assistance from State and
other Federal agencies in coor-
dination with work plans of fo-
cal soil and water conservation
districts Further information
regarding the program is avail-
has
announced that their annual sky
diving meet will be held for
two days. Sept 14 and 15, at
the Easter International A i r-
port at Fry e Farms
Hundreds of jumps are sche-
duled to take place and will in-
Harvest Festival Dinner is to-
day at the American Leg ion'
Post House inside the main
gate at V e terans Memorial
Park The dinner begins at 11 JO
a m and continues through 1 30
p.m
The American Legion Auxiha
ry has invited everyone to at-
tend Past Harvest Festival Din
nets have been rated as real
M»od eating" and many people
Are planning to return this year.
Adults may dine for $1.50 with
children under 12 listed at 75
cents Roast beef will be served.
’69 ACP Funds
$12,000 Robbery
Three Lubbock Negro men,'
charged with the strong-armed
robbery of a Hereford man here
Monday, remained in Deaf
Smith County Jail late Wednes-
day under $20,000 bond each.
The trio was arrested by an
Amarillo policeman about 2 10
p. m. Monday, approximately
one hour after Dave Broadwell
of 340 W 3rd in Hereford said
he was robbed of $12,000 in the
400 block of Mabie Avenue
Sheriff's deputies said Broad
well came into the sheriff's of-
fice at the courthouse at 1:20 p.
m Monday and reported that he
had been robbed Deputies im-
mediately took Broadwell
The three men are William
Lewis Jr.. 25; James Hodges.
28. and Finner Lee Young ?r. 28
Deputies theorized that the
three men had a total of $350
on them to be used in the “pi-
geon drop.” The currency in-
cluded two $100 bills, a $20 bill
and the rest were $1 bills All
of Broadwell's $12,000 was in
new $100 bills
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Ser% ing
the
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Football*, high spirit* and
sore lung* are filling the air
once again as the 1988 football
season got into full swing this
week with the beginning of two-
a-day workouts for the varsity
gridsters
Some 95 boys have turned out j
for the high school teams which
began Monday with conditioning
drills as coaches began working
with them trying to get ready ner will serve as president for
for the tough schedule they will "
face this season. Area schools
were unable to participate in
I contact workouts prior to Mon
i University Interscholastic Lea-
| gue, but almost all of the play-
ers have been working out at
Dameron Park every evening
for the past week or two The
Interscholastic League also
made it impossible for coaches
to assist in any way in the even-
ing workouts but now that the
season is officially open, every j
one is giving a helping hand
where it is needed
Interschool scrimmages will
not be allowed to begin until
the first of next week, and the
first game of the regular sea-
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agriculture legislation
might be forthcoming
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will meet at 9 a m Tuesday in
the high school band hall for a
three hour in service program
Holman said elementary tea-
chers not involved in any pro-
grams scheduled above will
meet from 1 39-3:30 Tuesday af-
ternoon in the high school audi-
torium for a talk by the direc-
tor
Agricultural Conservation Pro-
gram (ACP) funds allocated to
Deaf Smith County for the 1959
program total $131,940 accord
ing to Frank J Bezner. Chair
man. Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation County Com-
mittee
The national program level
authorized by Congress for 1959
is $195 5 million
Continued emphasis for ACP
in 1959 will be on (2) special
aid to low-income farmers in
combating erosion of their land
and improving their food supply
through conservation measures
for home gardens, and (2) soil
and water conserving practices
that also help reduce air and
water pollution, benefit wildlife,
and improve the quality of our
environment while conserving
our soil and water resources.
Secretary of Agriculture Or- _ _
vilie L. Freeman, in announc able at the County ASCS office
since 1952 To retire the trophy
a girl must win it three times
in a row.
Miss Poarch has now won it
This trophy has been awarded three times but skipped a year
in between Therefore she can-
not retire it.
She is the only girl to ever
win it three times.
This year at the finals. Miss
Poarch won her 12th World
Championship award She star-
ted in 1954 won three that
year; three in 1965; three in
1956; one and 2 reserves in
1967. and this year won all but
the roping championship This
year's awards included the All-
Around Cowgirl, the champion-
ship barrel racer and the option-
al racer.
She will receive a trophy sad-
dle silver-laced and back-stit-
ched. a belt buckle and the $500
scholarship to the college of her
See POARCH Page 2
Here Again
I son for the Whitefaces will be
I Sept. 13 when they play host
I to the Pampa Harvesters
Following the regular and tra-
; ditionol aspects of the game, the
Hereford Whiteface Booster
Club will once again take up
where they left off last June as
they hold their first meeting
Monday. August 29th at the
Community Center. Earl Stag
ner will serve as president for
the coming year as the dub will
begin putting forth its usual sup
porting efforts during the athle
tic year. All persons are invited
day due to the strict rules of the to attend the season's initial
meeting which will begin at 7 :39
p m.
Reserve season tickets sales
for the five home games of the
Whitefaces, now total 143 with
just a short time left before the
season begins, it was reported
Mrs Bobbie Kitchens, book-
keeper at the school's adminis-
I tration office, reported that
there were still some 95 persons
who had season tickets last sea-
son that have not as of yet re-
quested renewal of their seats,
and if this is not done before
Sept 1. they will go on sale to
the general public. She also stat-
{ed that if there is anyone who
wishes to have their tickets
mailed to them, to mail the
money for the tickets to the ad-
ministration office and thev
Board Chairman Kladl> send ,hem tn «*
XJ all I ail rnai|
Leroy Williamson is now the
chairman of the combined Am-
erican Legion-Veterans of For-
eign Wars Park Board, w h ich
covers Veterans Memorial Park
south of the city of Hereford.
Benny L. Womble was elected
to the Park Board last Wednes-;
day night
The second man on the board
is C. L. Walker.
Womble replaced former!
chairman Ira W. Ott. with Wil-
liamson and Walker on the
board at that time Thr o u g h
their order of election, each
board member serves a certain
length of time and is replaced
bottom to top
with as many homegrown vege
tables as possible The dessert “ " ” ' ' *
will be cobbler. One of the spec-
ialties of the dinner will be the
homemade bread
The proceeds will go into the
American Ix-gion Vuxili ary
scholarship fund — which has
already proven to be very im-
portant to four focal girls in the
past. The people who dine with
the Auxiliary today will help
make It possible to award fu-
ture scholarships. It is entirely
an aid for the future education
of Deal Smith County girls.
The girts who have received
these scholarships during the
past four years have been Joan
Marncll (Minks). Retha Kelley.
Cathy Rusher (Johnson) and
Cynthia Hanna
Teenagers are also invited to
attend. The Junior Auxili ary
girts will be present to help in
the serving
It was also reported that Har-
vest Festival Dinners have be-
come noted here lor the manner
in which they promote locally
grown products
Commissioners received a
led age group
She said it was an organiza-
tion for girls and boys 19 years
and younger and is open to
worldwide competition Some
200 to 300 kids travel from A
tail through the world's fin-
als in August each year to ac-
Broadwell was taken to Am-
arillo and identified three men
They
were brought back to Hereford,
arraigned before Justice of the
Peace Ernest Wade, who set
coordinate programs for the ed with new pilot programs will l>ond at $29,000 each and ordered
year Registration begins Wed- meet Monday and Tuesday at them placed in jail in lieu of
nesday and continues until Aug West Texas State University for the_bond
30 with more meetings schedul- an in-service session with the
ed during that time.
The first conference be g i n s
at 9 a.m. Monday at the re- physical science program begins
Harvest Festival
Dinner Today
Monday at I.a Plata Jun t o r
High and ends that Friday.
Teachers from all over the Pan-
handle are expected to attend
Teachers piloting the AAA
science program meet 9 a m -
3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Bluebonnet
cafeteria That same day pre-
school migrant teachers and
teachers of non-Engbsh speak
ing S|>anish children will be in-
volved in workshops 9 a m
3:30 p.m. at Northwest Elemen-
tary cafeteria
Math teachers in grades 7-12
have meetings from 9-12 a m
Tuesday in the high school li-
brary In-service programs for
the spot where the robbery ; that she had seen a Negro man
took place and began to ques- in a car sitting under a tree
tion him and persons in the im- near her home about the same
mediate area. time The car, she said, went
Broadwell stated that he had west and then turned around
gone to the location in his car and came back in front of the
with two colored men who said house She gave deputies a dee-
they had bought some stock and eription of the man and the
wanted to sell or cancel it out car he was driving.
When he failed to go through Descriptions of the three Ne-
with the elaborate “pigeon gro men and the car they
drop" (confidence game) which were believed to be driving at
had been set up by the men, the time was radioed immediat-
they took the money from him ely to all area law enforcement
by force.
Rev. E. W. Allen told depu-
ties he had seen Broadwell sit ted a car fitting the descriptfoB
Ung in his car with the two Ne- carrying three Negro subject*
to groes, and Mrs. Allen reported and attempted to stop it to make
a check The driver of the car 1
immediately raced away from
the police car, but finally was
stopped between two police cars
and their vehicle searched
A total of $12,350 was found in
a handkerchief under the front
seat of the vehicle and the men
were taken to the Amarillo Po-
Congressman Bob Price
Pampa will be in Hereford
Thursday afternoon
A public reception for Hep.
__________ Price will be held at the Hotel
vocational education teach e r s ',,m Hill ballroom from 5 to
are set from 9-12 a m. Tuesday 30 P m Thursday The public
in the distributive educa 1 ion *s invited.
• “ ____"__' '__According to Frank Ford, can-
Nebraska Curriculum and Car- dtdate for State Representative
' negie Tech English programs this district, Rep Price will
will be presented to Engl i s h •** in ,hls HrPa 10 ,r>' to deter
teachers, grades 7-12, from 9-12 n,*”c what approaches should be reported that the American Jun-
a m Tuesday in room 118 of the *aken on agriculture Hr will ior Rodeo Association was foun- which
high school *>e visiting several area towns ded some 17 years ago by Al
All elementary music teachers seekiiig opinions of people on vin G Davis of levelland, for said Sears, would be no more
the purpose of giving young pee than $2.850, which would include
pie interested in horses an op- the device, a monitoring system
portunity to train and compete and a flight check by the Fc- elude free falls and special t y
on their horses within a control deral Aviation Agency acts Professional and senu-pro-
Sears also stressed that he felt fessional jumpers will m ake
the homing device would bnng up the two-day meet with tro-
more business to the focal air Phies to be awarded to the
port because’ many pilots w->uld
rattier slop here than faev the
heavy traffic in Amanllo Com-
In a light business session
Blaze Causes
Heavy Damage
Fire Tuesday tughl at the Ed
of Panhandle Education ward Allison farm at Westway-
Service Center The topic will resulted in $8,900 damage to a
be new trends in education. house being used by one of Al-
Registration and classroom Itson's farm hands
preparation is scheduled f o r The blaze had broken through
Wednesday the roof by the time Hereford
Overall school programs and Volunteer Firemen reached the
policies will be presented to new scene The fire truck, called out
staff members by Johnny Clark, at 10 18 p m . was back by 110
superintendent, at 8 a m. Thurs-
day in the high school auditor-
ium A general laculty meeting the fire started,
superviwd by Clark begins at
10 «.m for all teachers.
Deaf Smith County has had
two winners in the American
Junior Rodeo Association this
year.
Jo Poarch. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H V. Poarch. south-
east of the city, has won the
All-Around Champion Cowgirl A-
ward for the third time in five
years. Wade Lewis, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Waiter R Ix-wts of 419
Western. Hereford, won the All-
Around Champion Cowboy A-
ward
Lewis, who is 19 yea.'s old. Monday night. Hereford City
won two trophies and became
the possessor of the most fioints from the Aviation Committee of
For .All-Around the Deaf Smith County Cham-
ber of Commert e to purchase a
radio homing des iee at the Here-
ford Municipal Airport
Jim Sears, chairman of the
Aviation Committee, det a i 1 ed
For Calf Roping in the finals the benefits the city could re-
he was awarded a leather jac- ceive from the low frequency,
ket He also won a certificate non-directional homing device
that entitled him to other pri- He pointed out that Childress
zes and Dalhart have the last di-
Lewis. who previously attend- rectional stations coming from
ed South Plains Junior College the south and north, respectiv-
at Levelland, will enter John ely. and many pilots have
Tarlton College at Stephenville trouble finding the city on a
dark day or night.
Sears also said Hereford is
one of the few cities of its size
does not hav e some
sort of homing device. The cist.
Students start back to school i spective schools with in-service lice station. Warrants were is-
Sept. 3 but official school acti- schools with principals. Robert sued for their arrest by the Io-
vines start next Monday when Holman, assistant supennten- cal sheriff's office
teachers gather in pre-school dent. said. The total day will be
preparation for the first day of devoted to curriculum outlines,
class. assignments, discussion of build- from a line-up of five.
Teachers have meetings a 11 ing policies and routines, room
day Monday and Tuesday with assignments and pilot programs
principals and school leaders to Social studies teachers involv-
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