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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS 76401
Three Sections, 25 Pages
Vol. 105, No. 200
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ROTC WEEK -Stephenville Mayor Don Joaes, center, signs a proclomation making
this week ROTC week in Stephenville, as Colonel Marshall Boynton, left, and Cadet
Steve Turknett look on. Colonel Boynton is in charge of the Military Science
Department at Tarleton State University. Tarleton students return to campus
tomorrow. Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe has also proclaimed this ROTC Week in
Texas. The ROTC unit at Tarleton is recruiting new cadets among incoming male and
female students this week.
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is mute evidence of the violence that accompanied a storm here Friday afternoon
Several trees on the Chamberlin Elementary School campus were destroyed by the
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Stephenville schools opened Friday with
81,828 students attending classes.
• School superintendent Ben Gilbert said
he expected more students to appear
tomorrow. Gilbert said Friday was "all in
all, a good day.”
The Friday attendance was about the
same as last year, he said.
There were 430 students at Central
Elementary Friday, 494 at Chamberlin
Elementary, 324 in Junior High and 580 in
High School.
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Association of West Texas Queen” Mary will be judged during each of their
The pageant will kick it’s activities off Geers, also 16. activities, and will compete for horseman-
Wednesday and will end next Sunday ship points during the week. The
morning. The winner of both divisions will Miss Foerster is five feet five inches tall contestants will appear at the rodeo again
receive a trophy saddle from Lusky’s and weighs 135 pounds, has brown hair and Friday night and Saturday night following
Trees on the lawns of Chamberlin
Elemehtary School were blown down in
northwest Stephenville and limbs were
removed from trees in that general area.
for Stephenville Yellow Jackets home
football games had been sold at the
Stephenville Chamber of Commerce
office.
Additional home game season tickets
will remain on sale at 88.75 throughout this
week. Normal gate fee for Jacket home
games is 82, so the season ticket holder can
save 81.25 by buying now.
The Jackets open play at home this year
on September 6, with Fort Worth Nolan
coming to town Other home games this
year will be with Mansfield, Weatherford,
Graham and Vernon.
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the grand entry, the new Miss Texas
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B Besides Miss Webster, the contestants
■ for the Miss Rodeo ute are Carlett Kyle,
, 18, “Miss Red River Rodeo”; Rene Slape,
A 19, “Miss Rodeo Big Spring”; Nancy
B Leech, 22, "West Texas Fair Rodeo
B Queen”; Fran Wheelis, 19, "South Texas
Cutting Horse Association Queen”; Kay
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E Sweetheart”; Marien Sharp, 18, “Miss
B Steiner Rodeo Company” and Nicola
g Tully, 21, “Miss West Texas Boys Ranch”.
The other contestants for the Miss Rodeo
I Texas- Teen title are Kim Henderson, 17,
» “Red River Rodeo Junior Queen”;
B Marilyn Chesser, 17, “Brown County
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■ "Dublin Riding Club Sweetheart”; Jan
" Beck, 17, “West Texas Fair Rodeo
Princess”; Carla Sue Sallinger, 17, "Clay
County Pioneer Centennial Rodeo Queen”;
Donna Mantz, 16, "Miss Stephenville
FFA"; Pattie Brannan, 16, “Miss Fort
Bend Quarter Horse Association”; and
Denise McCracken, 16, "Miss Rodeo El
Paso Teen”.
m Advance tickets for the rodeo are still on
■ sale at most Stephenville businesses.
m In the contest to name "Miss Grand
E Entry", Vicki Ratliff has taken the lead
■ this week in advance ticket sales. Pam
H Brown is in second place and Margina
g Solomon is in third place. G.K. Lewellen’s
• Grand Entry Western Store is giving the
first and second place girl in the ticket
sales contest free western outfits.
convicts.
Baker, had told Stonewall County
officials Friday night that he was on
the death list of escaped convict Dalton
Williams, 29.
His three assailants later fled west in
a camper trailer later found abandoned
in Breckenridge, near Mineral Wells.
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A DPS spokesman said later that the >ales otal 12,4b/
three men were south of Interstate 20
in Erath County shortly after they shot Series E an H United States Savings
and killed a woman and robbed another Bond sales in Erath County during the
car month of July totaled 812,467, according to
The three men were reported to be County Bond Chairman Fred W.
heavily armed after stealing some guns McCleskey. Sales for the seven-month
from a Breckenridge home. period were 8170,390 for 63 per cent of the
A police spokesman at Stephenville 1974 sales goal of 8270,000.
said three persons, all civilians, were Sales in Texas during the month
shot and wounded. One was reported in amounted to 819,640,596, which sales for
critical condition at the Stephenville the same period last year totaled
Hospital. 817,185,499 - an increase of 14 per dent.
We've got every officer available out Year-to-date sales amounted to $136,083,-
on the search, the spokesman said 685 with 57 per cent of the yearly sales goal
•We have several people wounded.” of $236.8 million achieved.
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Late summer weather continued to lash Former Texas Ranger George Roach,
at Erath County Saturday and Sunday, who observed the brief storm Friday
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bee, his deputies, ■ members of the
Department of Public Safety and
Stephenville police officers were search-
ing northwest Erath County early this
morning for three men believed to have
been responsible Saturday morning for
the death of a rancher near Roby.
At least three Erath County residents
were injured in a shooting near
Hanibal. One person was reported in
critical condition/ at the Stephenville
Hospital after they were fired upon on
the open road. Details are presstime
were vague.
Sheriff Huckabee was checking on a
home near Huckabay Community to
determine if the trio of escaped
convicts were there.
Erath County officers got involved in
the incident after the fleeing convicts
were lost by Palo Pinto officers near
Mingus.
The thre men believed to be escape 1
convicts f im a Colorado state pris a
shot and killed two persons and took
two hostages in a trail of violence
Saturday that stretched eastward ac-
ross west and central Texas.
The convict was Dalton Williams, 29,
who escaped from the Colorado State
penitentiary at Canon City Thursday
along with Jerry Alamer, 22, and
Richard Magnum, 22.
Late Saturday the Department of
Public Safety in Mineral Wells said the
three men believed to be the assailants
shot and killed a woman in the area
and then took a man and a woman
hostage and fled in a late model car.
Earlier the three men had exchanged
shots with a DPS unit and a Sheriff’s
Office patrol car.
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To Register
Registration of upper classmen and
orientation for new students will be
/ Monday morning at Tarleton State
University, according to John Whiting,
. Registrar.
Freshman students and transfer
students will take part in a “get
acquainted” orientation session that
begins in Main Auditorium at 8:45 a.m.
Monday The freshmen will have
academic advisement in their major
departments late** that day.
Registration lur seniors will be held in
Wisdom Gymnasium from 8:30 a.m. to
11:00 a.m. and juniors will register
Monday from 1:00 p.m. through 2:30 p.m.
Sophomores will register from 8:30 a.m.
to 11:00 a.m. Tuesday and freshmen who
have not pre-registered will register from
1:00 p.m. through 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Graduate students may register on \
Rainfall was measured from .20 of an
inch at the Weather Station at the
Municipal Airport in southeast Stephen-
ville to .90 in the northeast section of town.
Additional showers were forecast for
late Saturday night. •
Showers and thunderstorms broke out
again over West Texas Saturday, bringing
warnings of possible flash flooding west of
the Pecos River. Heavy rain fell in El Paso
before noon.
The rains followed scattered downpours
Friday night and Saturday morning that
brought more than two inches of rain in
some places such as Jacksboro, Woodson
and Lake Meredith.
The moisture was set off by a weak
stationary cold front that ran during the
day from the northeast comer of the state
to the Big Bend area.
Temperatures differed as much as 20
degrees in front of and behind the front.
Forecasts called for afternoon and
evening thundershowers Sunday with
possible flooding in West Texas.
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Rodeo Week opens today in Stephenville, Western Stores and belt buckles from green eyes. She is a junior in high school
Bw Sh...A with activities running through next Nelson-Silvia and Ryon’s Western Store. and lists 4-H club and Girl Scouts as her
T.L. Baker Saturday morning was with high winds causing damage to several afternoon said it was a straight wind out of
believed to be a revenge killing, as trees in Stephenville on Friday as nearly the east and that garbage cans in his
Baker’s name was on a “death list” an inch of rain fell in some sections of the neighborhood were scattered by the wind.
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Mdedh Sunday. Events will include the annual The winner’s will travel over the state club memberships. She is a member of the
K ■ rodeo parade on Thursday, three nights of promoting rodeo and the pageant. Ector Company 4-H Mounted Drill Team
Kathy Webster. "EUis County Rodeo anmrerfnrms for local and state
ng entrvin the Miss ROdeo America pageant Roden"rekasconttsttssntszza,nsthvefiot, IMsGeersisfive feet six inchesitalland
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«wol Tommy Steiner of Austin s producer for of America, and was outstanding in track Junior uarterHorsAsgociationecuan
ehuigi, the events two years. She lists 4-H, Ellis County Horse Association and Ector Company ,
Fe "55 j j Horse Club. She was All Around Champion
Sponsored by the Erath County Riding Club, Texas Barrel Racing at Texas State 4-H Horse Show in Dallas,
0 Livestock Association, the annual rodeo is Association, training and showing horses, first in Showmanship and has shown the
- one of over 600 associated with RCA in water skiing and snow skiing as her Grand Champion Gelding at numerous
| which cowboys earn points toward special activities. She participates in high state horse shows. She has won nine
Rm national rodeo championships. school rodeos by running barrels, goat all-around Saddles in her competition and
tying, poles, steer undecorating and shows won the “Horsemanship” award in the
The Miss Texas Rodeo Contest and the at halter, Western Pleasure and Reining. 1973 Miss Rodeo Texas ‘Teen’ Pageant.
E5 Miss Rodeo Teen Contest were moved to She has won over 58 All-Around trophies
2 Stephenville three years ago. The winner Nine judges have been chosen for the and won over 200 first place trophies
h.) here is the official entry for the state in teh Miss Rodeo Texas Pageant. Two are from during her competition. She also shows
E Miss Rodeo America Contest which is held the West Texas area. Jay Alvie of Odessa and rides in English Pleasure.
E in conjunction with the National Finals and Mrs. Tommie Conners of Midland. A luncheon Wednesday at the Collier
E Rodeo in late December in Oklahoma City Other judges are Speedy Crockell of Diamond C ranch and a style show
P Aburey, Pat White, Stephenville, Sam Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. in the Stephenville
Thus far, there are eight young ladies McReynolds, Dallas, Hughie J. Long, High School auditorium will kick off the
entered in the Miss Rodeo Texas pageant. Cresson, Pat Lewis, Stephenville, and Ray Miss Rodeo Texas pageant. The style show < 1
Deadline for entries was yesterday, but Boeshart, Abilene. is open to the public and door prizes are to
additional entries are known to be already be given away. Tickets for the style show
in the mail, but have not been received. The latest two entries in the Miss Texas are 81 for those over 10 years of age.
Rodeo Teen contest are the reigning “Miss Thursday the contestants will appear in
There are also 10 girls entered for the Youth Charity Horse Show,” Kathy the rodeo parade and during the
. Miss Rodeo Texas Teen title. Foerster, 16, and “Quarter Horse performance of the rodeo that night They
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Morehart, John. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 200, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 25, 1974, newspaper, August 25, 1974; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500430/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.