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The Saint
Servins Wide Area of Cooke and Montague Counties In Northwest Texas
Tribune
Established In 1898
VOLUME 62
Baint Jo, Montarit County, Texu, Friday, March 18, 1960
NUMBER 16
"What Is Saint Jo's Future"
P-TA President, Mrs. Alonzo Lawson
Speaks At Optimist Club Meeting
At the Wednesday meeting of the
Optimist Club, Wendell Wilbanks,
agriculture teacher, urged members
to support and attend the Annual
Montague County Project Show to
be held in Nocona, Saturday, March
19th.
Other guests at the meeting were
William McElroy, District Scout
Executive from Wichita Falls;
Richard Moore of Dallas, guest of
W. E. Nunneley; and O. K. Wil-
liams, and Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo
Lawson.
Mrs. Alonzo Lawson, PTA Prei-
dent, was guest speaker, speaking
on the Future of Saint Jo. She is
quoted as follows:
"Gentlemen, I am here to talk
to you businessmen and city fathers
who are charged with the respon-
sibility of the future of this town.
Vou men upon whose shoulders rest
either its bright future or its dead
tomorrow.
"For many years now, first as
the Men's Luncheon Club and now
as the Optimists, many plans, ideas
and dreams have eminated from
these lunchcon meetings. The peo-
ple of this area have looked and
are still looking to this group of
men for leaders to rub an imagin-
ative lamp and release the geni
of growth,' development and im-
provement.
"Sadly enough, the challenge has
not been met and we are now faced
with the realization that Saint Jo
may not have a future.
"In an English class in high
school, we were required to submit
a paper on some phase of Saint Jo's
history. I have many times wished
these papers had been preserved,
for among them were historical
facts I doubt can ever be equalled.
That class was impressed with the
colorful past of this community and
we were proud of much that had
proceeded us. We learned of men
of great courage and women behind
those l Ipn, forging ahead in the
hope that this was a place with a
future. The lives of many of these
early citizens were full of adven-
ture and spirit and courage and
!• sacrifice. The town still retains
much of that early charm and re-
flects much of those early days.
"We still pride ourselves in our
friendliness and feeling for one
another that is lost in most places
even of this size because of the
pressures of modern living.
"But we are lacking! We need
something. "What is the gieatest
need of Saint Jo?'
"We can think oi many needs
great and small, but what one tiling
dees Saint Jo need the most? What
is the real answer?
"As we look about us we see
man signs of communtiy decay and
deteriation. One of the biggest
signs of deteriation is a lack of
people in town during business
hours. Many, many times the cars
•-parked around the plaza can be
counted on your lingers. Another
sign is a lack of > oung families in
our community, ,*n unofficial count
by an individual revealed 90 homes
being maintained by widows with-
in our city limits.
"We would be lucky to retain
at least one person a year from
each class that finishes the local
high school and after they com-
plete their education. This question
- of what we need most was asked
a group of local women. One
answered—'We need something for
, our young people,' another an-
sW^tfed — 'We need an industry
most.' These answers seem miles
apart at first. But the young are
the ones we are losing. Young
families carry the burden of sus-
taining not only our business but
churches and our school, and these
are the people that are being forced
for lack of opportunity, to go else-
where to maintain their families.
"For many years this area was
dependent on the oil business but
since its decline, we can lay claim
to no real source of income. Many
of these men are fored to drive
long arduous miles to and from
work to continue to provide a
livelihood for their families.
tournament
begins here
MONDAY NIGHT
The Saint Jo Quarterback Club
volleyball tournament will get
under way Monday night at 6:00
when the Welch Rockets host
Illinois Bend in the opening game.
Twenty-two men's and fifteen
women's teams are entered in the
tournament which will run through
Saturday night.
Proceeds of the tournament will
be used to purchase a Whirl-Pool
bath and movie projector for the
school Athletic Department.
Twelve of the thirty-seven teams
are from the Saint Jo area.
"This stalemate cannot continue
always. If there is no means of
livelihood provided these families,
the businessmen can no longer ex-
pect to receive their trade and
patronage. "Shop in Saint Jo,"
Trade with your local merchants,"
are slogans we have seen and read
countless times. But competitive
prices and good consumer goods are
practically unknown. The wise
homemaker has been forced by
local merchants to go outside
Saint Jo to fed, clothe, and re-
plimish the needs of the home at
prices she can afford to pay. If we
patronize our local merchants on
our slim pay checks we women
have to be financial wizards.
"At present, we have the best
school we have had in years wtih
an administrator whose eye is to
the future. But even so, he can not
do for us what we have to do for
ourselves to see that our school
system remains intact.
"What do we need — Our old
landmarks, once proud, now stand
in many cases, in disgraceful state
of dis-repair. Our old cemeteries
are now forsaken and neglected,
abandoned to decay, and one within
our city limits revolting for lack of
care, for there is no one left to
care. Our so-called new cemetery
is well on its way with a lack of
an adequate water supply — just
an old rusty hand pump that when
it is repaired is more work than
the amount of water forthcoming.
1 regret having to put my loved
ones there in a place that shows
such an utter lack of civic pride.
"The old building, the rock
fences, the beautiful old homes that
still reflect the taste and charm
of days gone by — must they be
doomed for decay and ruin — mon-
uments to a past now disregarded
and forgotten?
"At present and at long last we
have adequate water, state approv-
ed. We have sewage, one law en-
forcement officer, and one good
modern, with room to grow, dump
ground, minus garbage pickup.
"I'd like to see this old place
come alive with some of- that
courage, sacrifice and color of the
old days. I'd love to see community
expansion. I'd love to see old homes
restored and new housing areas
added. I'd love to see vacant lots
with homes on them and houses
full of young families. I'd love to
see good shops and competitive
(Continued on Page Two)
Montague County
£-K & FFA Project
Show, March 19
Approximately $1000 in prize
i money will be distributed to the
| 1-H and FFA members who partici-
pate in the Montague County 4-H
j and F FA Project Show to be held
i at Nocona on Saturday, March 19.
J The prize money is contributed by
j businessmen, civic and farm organ-
| i/aloins, and other individuals over
I the entire county. The show rotates
j betw een Nocona, Bowie, and Saint
I Jo.
I
A feature of the show is the
auction sale at 2:00 p.m. of fat
calves, fat hogs, and fat lambs. The
auction is dependent upon having
a good number of buyers present.
Beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine,
goats, poultry and farm shop pro-
jects may be shown by the mem-
bers. The judging will start at
9:00 a.m. with the swine judged
first, closely followed by the other
divisions. Judges will be from the
Agricultural Department of East
Texas State College at Commerce.
Prize money will be distributed
through five winners in each class
of each division with ten ribbons
being awarded in each class. Show-
manship trophies will be given to
the member doing the best job of
exhibiting in each of the following
divisions: beef, dairy, swine, and
sheep and goats. Miss Enid Justin,
president of Nocona Boot Company,
will again award a pair of Nocona
Boots for the outstanding exhibitor.
Two new divisions of this year's
show is a commercial lamb class
and a commercial fat calf class.
Both classes are set up on a com-
merial practical feeding operation
with no grooming or training per-
mitted.
There will be approximately 21
calves, 28 hogs, and 5 lambs on the
auction sale. Cecil Ward of the
Gainesville Auction Sale Company
is again donating his service as
auctioneer.
This show has grown into one of
the best of its type in this area
through the cooperation of the
financial sponsors and club mem-
bers. Officials hope that the public
will attend the show and auction
sale.
"Calling All Girls" Junior Play
To Be Presented Here Tonight
The junior play, "Calling All
Girls," will be presented in the
school auditorium March 18, 7:30
p.m.; admission will be fifty cents
for adults and thirty-five cents for
students.
The three-act comedy creates a
hilarious picture of the complica-
tions that arise when George
Ricker (Arnold Dennis), a wealthy
bachelor businessman, and his
three old maid sisters, Polly (Betty
Jo Hutson), Molly (Myrna Max-
well), and Dolly (Mary Nell
Brawner), try to play Cupid for
their shy, studious, twenty-eight
year old nephew, David Ricker
(Eddie Dill). Trying to cope with
his relatives and their matrimonial
assistants, James Hilton (Jimmy
Hutson), a lawyer, and Julius
Johnson (Sammy Berry), the local
undertaker, keep poor David
rather upset.
As if things were not already
sufficiently snarled up, the elder
Rickers lure not one, but five,
husband-hunting girls to the scene.
St&rr Mayfield (Mary Boggess), a
quiet, gentle nineteen-year-old; Rita
Davis (Jo Ella Prather), a practical,
self-reliant girl, twenty-one years
of age; Bethie Brown (Obie Lee
Graham), a small, baby-talking
twenty-year-old; Norma Linden
(Gayle Embry), a vivacious girl
with high ambitions; and Massie
Merrill (Maxine Ice), a happy-go-
lucky, exuberant girl of twenty-
one, all arrive at the Ricker resi-
dence with the intention of wooing
and winning young David. The
result? WHEE!!!
North Texas Water and Sanitation
Association holds Meeting in Muenster
The North Texas Water and
Sanitation Association held a meet-
ing Wednesday, March 9, in Muen-
ster. Loyal Burchfiel, associational
president, presided during the busi-
ness session.
Steve Moster, Muenster water
superintendent, was in charge of
the program and introduced Arthur
Endres, Postmaster in Muenster, as
speaker for the meeting. Endres
said in preparation for his speech,
he had visited the local water plant
in Muenster and was amazed at
the equipment which is required to
operate such a system. He pointed
out that only experienced men
would be able to operate such a
complicated plant, and that they
should be given credit for a job
well done. Problems which most
of us never think about often arise
and are solved by these capable
men.
Endres stated that water is the
biggest asset a town has. It must
always stay ahead of progress. He
suggested that every citizen be
more interested in their water
program and help it remain an
asset to the community in which
they live.
Saint Jo received state approval
for its water July 13, 1959, and
Muenster has had state approved
water for several years. It was
through the work of this associa-
tion and our city water superintend-
ents that approval was acquired.
Superintendent for Saint Jo is Mr.
H. A. Talley. who has done a fine
job in this community.
Officers of this association are
Loyal Burchfiel, president; J. C.
Miller, Decatur, secretary-treasurer;
and Niles Cocrell, Pilot Point, pro-
gram chairman. Representatives
from each district were present and
those attending from Saint Jo
were Loyal Burchfiel, H. A. Talley,
and Ed Powell.
The next meeting will be held in
April at Pat Boone's Cafe in Denton.
Saint Jo Riding Club to Hold Cutting
Sunday, March 27 in Club Arena
Texas Red Cross Chapters Offer Home
Service to Servicemen and Veterans
Assistance given to servicemen,!
veterans, their families and de-!
pendents, and others by Texas Red
Cross chapters reporting during the j
past year reached a total of 50.505 ;
cases. Figures released today in
Dallas by James H. Bond and in
San Antonio by Ray S. Erlandson,
Red Cross national fund vice chair-
men for the state, show that 138
chapters reported assistance given
through Home Service, local arm
of a world-wide Red Cross organ-
izaiton serving the armed forces,
veterans, and their dependents.
Home Service assistance, Mr.
Bond and Mr. Erlandson said, was
available in every part of the state
through 252 Red Cross chapters.
The services of counseling and re-
ferrals for servicemen and veterans;
emergency communication between
service personnel and their fam-
ilies; reporting on home situations
for use of the military in determin-
ing emergency leaves, transfers, or
discharges: emergency financial
assistance; and help to veterans
applying for government benefits
are part of a program of assistance
required of the Red Cross by its
charter from the U. S. Congress.
• Continued on page 6)
illinois bend MASONIC LODGE
host to caps corner school
The Masonic Lodge of Illinois
Bend entertained the Caps Corner
Elementarj' School on Thursday,
March 3rd with a lovely turkey
dinner. The entire student body
| was present. Everyone enjoyed the
meal and the pleasure of having
twenty-six guests.
Each year, prizes of one dollar,
seventy-five cents, and fifty cents
are awarded to students in each
room for outstanding accomplish-
ments in various fields
This year the awards were made
to the students who had the best
individual exhibits of his school
work for the year.
The exhibits included various
papers in reading, spelling, writ-
ing, art, posters, phonics, arithme-
tic, history, geography, civics, ele-
mentary word study, science,
elementary geometry and algebra,
paper weaving, basketry, and wood-
work.
The following awards were made:
Primary Room: first. Rex Parker;
second, Lana Parker; and third,
Dale Lyons. Intermediate Room:
first prize, Joan Bailey, second,
Dalton Lyohs; and third, Joy Dean.
Junior High Room: first prize,
Sheila Parker; second. Calvin Dur-
ham; and third, Linda Lyons.
The judging committees were
from the Masonic Lodge.
The afternoon session was spent
with some 32 visitors watchiug the
demonstration classes from the
various departments.
The primary grades gave demon-
strations in spelling, arithmetic,
sight reading and original drama-
tizations under the direction of
Mrs. Ruel Cannon.
Mrs. Ware introduced Ronny
Parker, who gave the "welcome"
and extanded thanks to the Masons.
Marino Brawner did a research
project and gave his report on
Masonary, dating back to the
building of Solomon's Temple.
Mrs. Marguarite Dill conducted
demonsrtations on spelling, word
building, phonics, sight reading and
poetry reading throughout grades
four through eight.
Mrs. C. C. Ware gave demonstra-
tions on arithmetic, elementary
geometry and elementary algebra.
Classes went to the board and did
various graphs of equations in
algebra.
Students did various drawings in
geometry, including bisecting lines,
angles, erecting perpendiculars,
copying angles, inscribing and cir-
cumscribing circles.
Demonstrations of speed and ac-
curacy in extracting square roots
were given.
Representative of the civics work.
Calvin Durham, explained in detail
How a Bill Becomes a LaW in
Congress," while James Cannon
gave the same explanation on the
State Legislature.
Again we say the Masons have
made Public Schools Week a great
success, and we are grateful to
the forty-five people who came to
see us during the week.
A North Texas cutting is sched-<
uled for Sunday, March 27, at the
Saint Jo Riding Club Arena one
mile east of Saint Jo on Highway
82. Plenty of fresh cattle will be
available for the cutting. A con-
cession, sponsored by the local Fire
Department, will be open for lunch.
Entries close at 12:30 with the Open
Cutting to start promptly at 1:00
p.m. followed by the AA Novice
Horse-Any Rider, Novice Horse-
Any Rider, and Novice Horse-
Novice Rider classes.
The following cuttings have been
scheduled, but complete arrange-
ments are still pending:
May 28—Cleburne, Texas: John-
son County Sheriff's Posse Quarter
Horse Show and Cutting.
June 9-—Uvalde, Texas: George
Pardi Ranch.
July 2,3,4—Lake Worth, Texas:
Jinkens Bros. Annual Quarter Horse
Show. Cutting and Roping.
Sept. 5—Avondale, Texas: Annual
Labor Day Cutting.
Sept. 10—Hamilton, Texas: Ham-
ilton Chamber of Commerce Annual
Cutting.
Sept. 17—Denton. Texas: North
Texas State Fair Quarter Horse
Show and Cutting.
Complete details on these shows
will be announced later.
For the year 1960 our Association
will make a sportsmanship award.
This selection wil be made by the
judges of each contest. These
judges will vote on the basis of
the contestant's treatment of his
horse for the entire period he is
in the arena, both before working
and after working. Each contest-
ant's attitude toward the judges,
other contestant's, as well as their
general conduct throughout the en-
tire contest will be judged. Each
judge will vote on three men — first
choice, 3 points — second choice, 2
points — third choice, 1 point. At
the end of the year the contestant
with the most points will be award-
ed the sportsmanship award.
Another special award will be
made at the end of the year for
the most improved horse and rider.
In order to be eligible for this
award, a horse and rider must be-
gin this year in the Novice Horse-
Novice Rider class, with both the
horse and rider being judged.
Services Held in
Electra, Texas for
L. L. (Fay) Wilson
Funeral services for I,. L. (Fay)
Wilson, 68. were held Monday,
March 14 in the First Methodist
Church in Electra.
A native of Bentonville, Ark., he
spent many of his early years in
Saint Jo and Forestburg. He was
the brother-in-law of L. O. Tucker
of this city.
A retired employee of the Mag-
nolia Gasoline Plant, he died in his
home Friday afternoon.
Rev. Arthur Cox, Electra, minis-
ter, Rev. A. H. Logan of Dallas
and Rev. E. H. Coburn, retired
Methodist Minister of Electra offici-
ated. Burial was in the Electra
cemetery under the direction of
the Totten and Son Funeral Home.
Survivors included his widow,
Hattie; two sons, Willard, Sacra-
mento, Calif., Harold of Tulsa.
Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Lora
Coombes of Odessa; four sisters,
Mrs. Eva Marrs, McLean; Mrs.
Florine Watson, Missoula, Mont.;
Mrs. Lorine Large, Denver. Calo.;
Mrs. Susie Allman, Tacoma, Was*1-!
eight grandchildren and six great-
grandchildren.
Red Cross Fund
Drive Successful
John Henderson, chairman of the
local campaign, reports a total of
$325.76 turned in for the drive by
the four group captains. The goal
set for Saint Jo is $400.00, with two
Weeks still remaining for the drive.
Henderson said in behalf of the
Optimist Club, he would like to
thank the ladies, who so willingly
gave ol' their time and efforts to
make this drive a success. He said
without their help, it would have
been impossible to accomplish the
goal for Saint Jo. Group Captains,
who made a house to house cam-
paign last. Monday night with the
help of many other women of the
town, were Mrs. Emmett Yoder,
Mrs. H. D. Field, Jr., Mrs. Paul
Clayton and Mrs. Clarence Redman.
During the remaining days of
March, those who were not contact-
ed or were unable to give at that
time are urged to give their dona-
tions to one of the ladies or to
the Bank. "We only lack less than
$75.00 meeting our goal, so let's all
do what we can to make it 100%,"
concluded Henderson.
He who has a thing to sell
And goes and whispers in a well,
Is not so apt to get the dollars
As he who climbs a tree and
hollers.
Floyd Bradshaw
Candidate For
State Senator
Bi
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A constructive Record, Not a
Platform of Promises.
Floyd Bradshaw, a candidate for
a second term in the Texas Senate,
is a veteran of World War II and
has served four years in the House
of Representatives from Parker,
Wise and Jack Counties. He is a
school teacher, married, and has a
wife and four children. He is a
graduate of East Texas State
Teachers College and a member cf
the Christian Church.
Bradshaw has consistently work-
ed to promote soil and water con-
servation, better roads, schools, aid
to the needy and benefits for
veterans. He was author of the
constitutional amendments giving
Texas servicemen and women the
right to vote. While in the House
of Representatives Bradshaw served
as Chairman of Education, Claims
and Accounts and Sub-Committee
of Appropriations Committee for
Junior and Senior Colleges. Upon
being elected to the Texas Senate,
he was appointed to five major
committees. He is presently Chair-
man of the Insurance Committee,
Chairman of Senate Fftiance Sub-
Committee, member of Public
Health, State Affairs, Education and
Claims and Accounts.
During the interim, he is serving
on the Cost of Government Commit-
tee to find ways and means of
cutting out wasteful and unnec ^s-
sary spending and the Texas Ed-
ucational Standards Commission.
Senator Bradshaw was author of
several insurance reform laws that
brought about strict regulation that
put many insolvent companies out
of business. He was author of two
Bills that repealed several hundred
old outdated laws that hampered
the freedom and operation of local
county government. Bradshaw has
vigorously opposed restrictive reg-
ulatory laws promoted by special
interest groups.
Some of the laws sponsored by
Bradshaw are listed here for your
consideration. Rebuilt fire-trap Deaf
Mute school; relocated and rebuilt
old Blind, Deaf and Orphan School
for colored children; New training
school at Gatesville to segregate
young offenders from hardened
juvenile repeaters; flood control and
water improvement districts in
Eastland, Denton, Jack, Palo Pinto,
Wise and Parker Counties; reso-
lution creating agency to handle
surplus property for school and
school lunch program. Bradshaw
has been active in supporting
measures to enact animal health
legislation that would benefit the
farmer, dairyman, and rancher.
Floyd Bradshaw is opposed to
Federal as well as State Centraliz-
ation and interference in the op-
eration of our schools, business and
local affairs, and will continue to
fight to maintain our freedom in
such matters. He is well known
as a quiet and effective leader in
helping solve the major problems
that come before the Legislature.
Your vote and support of Floyd
Bradshaw, for State Senator, will
be sincerely appreciated.
Rev. Lewis Stucky, Jr., and Bob
Embry from Saint Jo and Diana
Jones from Forestburg attended the
Denton District MYF meeting in
Decatur March 7, 1960.
Diana was installed as the lead-
ership of Faith and Citizenship for
the forecoming year. Diana is now
the Montague Sub-District Presi-
dent.
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