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J. W. "HAP" ROGERS PHIL RAUGHT CHARLES ZEECK VELMA REEVES
JIM PERKINS
FRED STORY W. V. SWINBURN RUSSELL RUCKER
VL HIDaiP®IE
H. M. BAGGARLY
^^NE OF THE NOT so articulate guests on a
recent TV interview show was asked some •
thing known to be true by the one asking the ques-
tion.
However, he snaj>j»e<l back with this denial—
“That's an utterly unfounled truth:-’
pETTY BRYANT CALLED to say their high
D school age sm want d an after-school job, si
he ran a da-sHied ad in The Herald offering to do
small painting jobs. Since the pap t came out, says
Betty, he ha- averaged two calls a night'
pOUR TULIA KIWAFMANS attended tin- Plain-
B view Kiwanis luncheon Thursday. Herb Hil-
burn came in a little late and had to sit at the
head table since all other seats had been taken.
We visited a moment with the longtime pub-
lisher of the Plainview Herald who never looked
better.
It wa- a shock to hear that shortly after the
luncheon ilerb had died of a heart attack before
reaching the hospital
Last Urn we worked with II- rb was in getting
the West T \a- Chaitib o ol Coimnerce ait award
for Kcnn th Wyatt We prepaied the scrapbook
and Herb provided the influence.
JL S A RESULT OF mu h interest manifested in
the Roll - \ - Cone r tad paving project, the
county c >mmi--loners "Uit ha- a-ked the Indus-
trial Foundation t i sp in- , th * t ailing of a stio.iHin
bond election to; I’.eeinct 2 with which to pave
the r tad.
The Foundation board ha« voted to accept the
offer. Necessary signatures were easily secured.
WAAYLIE BYRD HAS offered to pay $10,000 to-
ww wards the >-t. in which case the issue
would be to. ml) sr«0.iHin
We are a dii'-et ■ of the Industrial Foundation
but w : • not at the meeting due to th • fact that we
were busy w akin on the |>a|*.*r and simply forgot
It!
We di not intend to support the election as a
matter of pi inciple.
M $$MM OR MB.BM BOND election, the cost of
a moderately nice iv-id-n. e, spread out over
several years w uld not amount to a tremendous
burden for Precinct 2, mu< h I tnan the cost of
a factory building a community might Ik1 a-ked
to provide, and it may '>c that then* are enough
people who give a hang about Swasher’s economic
future to pas^ th * issue.
Hut if it isn't much f ir Pr> rinct 2. it would be
ev*n 1 s- f-.r the County of Swisher which has
very littl indebtedness
The City of Tuba pay- tiO per vent of all county
tn\e, and has about hall the county’s population
but far from hall of the ounty's wealth A Tulian
unwilling to do everything within hi- power to help
presen • th •conomy of Swisher t aunty i-n't much
of a citiz n.
Wt da n at l.ve in Pr met 2. have no property
in it, s> the road wouldn't cost us anything.
^^UR REASON FOR not -uppotting tin- proposal,
as we said, i- a matter of principle.
Precinct 2 wa- called upon back in the 19:ths
to vote bands to pave the rami to Vigo Park. No
other precin t ha had to do anything lik • this,
pi •cinct 2 has NOT g itten its share of farm to
mark t roads IF we don't c insider the \’igo road
which it paid tar.
Sec mdty. reason far paving thi- proposed road
is NOT to serve farmer, primarily even though
farmers obviously would benefit, primarily those
living on the rna.l .ind beyond t > wh re the road
would ev ntually ml c -pi the road from l.ove to
the Sadler corn r No doubt this road would event-
ually lx- paved by th • state since it t. engag'd pri-
marily in i mneding toads anil n >t leaving dead
ends Hut it Ilk -Iy wouldn't be done in the f ire-
sc able future.
pRIMARY REASON FOR paving thi- road i.- to
B s-rve the. economy of \U. of the county,
every part of Tuba whi.h lies in alt four precincts,
at i Kress and Happy since thei • ar<- Kr" and
Happy residents who commute to Herd's Roll-A-
C mv whet • they w irk as well as Byrd customers
fi mi all ov i th • county
So whv single out Ihavinrt 2 to carry the whole
load?
WHEN THERE IS another reason why we don't
I like this pr ipo-al. We are nil convinced that
the he.ut- of the i .unly commissioners are in
this project. Frankly, we don't think at least a part
of th • court caics whether or not this road is
paved. We think it has other projects on its mind,
that it is determined to give these other projects
priority, and that it is proposing this election just
to get the monkey off it. back.
W e think th • court th'nks the pro|K>sal will fail
. . .th n when someone mentions the road, it can
remind that the people dan't want it, we gave
them an oppoitunity and they turned it down."
One nil mber of the court told us there wa.. no
interest in the road, that the people don't want it.
BAAE REALIZE THAT farm roads are difficult to
Ww get and that there ill t aren't enough to put
one everywhere on • is needed. . .but we als » know
that until the county court is .-old on a project, we
might as well forget about the whole darn thing.
We uW (.ui influence to get the road from
Wayside to the Sadler corner paved. At the time,
Wayside was wanting to bring its school students
to Tuba. This would have been one of th" be-t
things that ever happened to Tuba economically.
Hut the Tuba -chool board scent d blind to the
economic implications, couldn't agree >n the co-t
to Wayside.
Frankly, we believe the cc inomic benefits
would have been worth so much that tuition should
have b'cn a minoi consideration Nevertheless, the
board priced it-.'It out of the mu ket and Wayside
went instead t > Claud We could have absorbed the
Wayside enrollment, c,dieted the state |x r capita
and aid. . .and now remain a Class AAA -chool.
M NTICIPATING THE s bool transfer which we
nev r dreamed would be sabotaged by Tuba,
w worked through a memb-r of th highway com-
mission and the road was authorized almost before
the general public knew it wa- under consideration.
When thi- road project was announced, a cry
went up to high heaven from some landowners in
Piecinct 2 who want -d the road.
\nd the cry is still going up, • one from voices
who don’t even live in the precinct or even in
Swisher County.
W • b-li vo the present commissioners court i'
being influenced by these same cries.
At NIXON WOULD say let us make it perfectly
AV clear that we are not asking that any farm
load mileage earmarked for Precinct 2 be divert-
ed from the old l nion Mill community to the Koll-
A-C.me road. We have been told lhat opposition to
the R dl-A-Cone road w as an issue in recent com-
niLssioner race..
In fact, that road has been an issue so long as
w can remember, back in the 19:10. when J. W.
Miller was active. And it seems that thee are
some hellbent on ktving the road from ever being
paved.
It it is a political is-uc. it seems that that game
work- two way- We b lieve there are enough peo-
ple living in I’recinct 2 and interested in the econ-
omy ot th • community to i n.-tituC' a political
f riv also. Hu! it ISN'T a political issii • so far as
locating a Precinct 2 farm to market road L> con-
cerned.
BABE REPEAT THAT THIS isn’t an argument
** over w!n h of two roads will be paved.
When the court t ild Us a year ag • that it hail com-
mitted it -1 If to mother project .n Pivcinct 2. we
said, Fin-, all wo arc ii-kiii.: is that the Roll-.A-
t’one road be placed on tho list s mi where down
Ihe line a. new roads become available for Pre-
cinct 2”.
Hut tho court wasn't interested in the lea-t.
Our impression was that tbc livid road w..uld
NFA'ER Ik' paved .si tar a- our commisioners
court is conn mod.
N i commitment what-mwer was even enter-
tained.
\nd we agree. . .until sum -body in the court-
hous • has a change of attitude towards this major
Swisher industry, the road will n-v.-i be paved
QINCE THIS ROLL-A-CONE road has industrial
^ us-, primarily, we think il should be built
by Ihe county and not by ju t Pm ,net 2.
We are told that "it can't be done.”
Su h things have been (I me ,.i other counties.
Where was the money found to sub-idi/" the
hospital every month bel.ro the hospital district
was voted'.’
Whi paid for paving KMh St. and a par! of 3
Dalla-'.’
II >w was th' road to Title l-.ik" paved?
(Continued on page 4)
The Tulizi Herald
★ a COVERING SWISHER COUNTY LIKE THE SUNSHINE ★ ★
VOL. 63, NO. S
TULIA, (Swither County) TEXAS 7908S
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1972
FOUR SECTION,
Grand Prairie Banker C-C Speaker
McMurtry Rites
Set For Today
A longtime Tulia area resident
and Briscoe County pioneer. Mis
E. I) McMurtry, doxl suddenly
Tuesday at her h me at 410 X
Armstrong in Tulia. Servi c. will
be at 2 :10 Thursday at the First
Baptist Church with Rev. Gerald
Tidwell, pastor, officiating.
Horn <>11 ic Mae Smith ■ in Sharp
County, ncai Hate-ville. Arkansas,
she moved to Silverton with hei
parents, pioneer merchant W. ('.
Smithee, and 1(1 brothers and sis-
ters. December 24. 1S97. She at-
tended Clarendon College and what
was then Denton Normal. She
taught school at Hricv, south of
Clarendon: Chicka-ha, Oklahoma;
and at Silverton. She married the
laste K. I). McMurtry, pioneer ab-
stractor and rancher, \pril 28, 1911.
They lived at Silverton until 1918,
then on their ranch near Vigo
Park until 1982 when they moved
to Tulia.
She had been a member of the
Baptist Church since the age of
10. and was a member of the
Dorca- ( lass ot First Baptist Chur-
ch, Tulia She was also a member
of the 1934 Study dub.
She is survived by her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Delbert L. (Betty) Dev-
in: two sons. Merle McMurtry of
\'ig > Park and Hoysp McMurtry
of Lubbock: one granddaughter
an four grandsons, and two great-
grandchildren: and a sister, Mrs
Cora Donnell ot Silverton.
Interment will be in Rom* Hill
at Tulia with Wallace Funeral
Home in charge.
Cemetery Meet
Monday Night
\nnual Member-hip Meeting of
Tulia Cemetery As-a uition will be
held Monday night at 7 30 at Wal-
lace Funeral II one
All |<er->n- interested in the lo-
(Co.ntinued on page 3)
LEE HERRING
Sentence
Croft Trial
Hilly Lee Croft. 28, of Lubbock,
one of thr e charg d in c inn '.-turn
with th .Ian 14 1971, murder of a
79 - year - old lulia woman, will
go on trial Feb. 2S in Dimmitt.
Judge John T. B iyd if the 84lh
District Court granted the change
of venue an I - t the trial dalWcd-
n '-day in a pre-trial corn rent e
with piostuting and defense at-
torneys.
Croft is charged in connection
with the -hoigun slaying of Mrs.
Cd K -1 r. a .v I >w who lived on
a farm about to mil's siuthc.st
of Tull.i lie is b( ing hi 1 I in ( a. -
tin County jail in Dimmitt in li u
Annual Tulia Chamlx*r of c im-
in -ret* banquet will be .served Fri-
day night at 7 30 o'cl ick in Ezra
Jones Memorial Cafeteria.
Speaker will be L'e Herring,
(Land I’raiiic* banker, whn-e sub-
ject will be "Don't Short-change
Laughter.”
In. lining officers to b - introduc-
ed ar- Hap Rogers, president. Phil
Kaught. vice pi ui fit: and Char-
les Zeeck. -eei-'taiy-treasuivr. A el-
iiia Reeves will be president of the
year.
New directors are Jim Perkins,
Russell Rucker, Fred Story and
U V Swinbum.
II ildover dir ( tors are Hill Har-
mon, Raught, Fuzzy Heagor, Ty
Godwin, Z e e c k, Fd Harris,
Don Morris and Rogers.
Retiring directors are George
Jennings. Jr., Dr. It iy \ McCa-
land. and Norman Singer
Directors of the women’s divis-
ion are Lucille Barbour, Linda
Probated
At Dimmitt
of $100,900 bond.
Although the trial was moved to
another county, Judge Boyd will
hear th • case -incc ( a-tro County
i- in the i*4th District. Defense at-
t irneys for Croft w ill t>e s lden
Hale of Amarillo and Jim Hi iwn
of Canyon.
Lonnie Ray Brown, 22. of Lub-
bock was ti n d amt convicted early
in September in the K -ler murd i
He is now on death row in Hunts-
ville.
Hobby De-hazo. 22. t h e state's
chi -f witnes in the Brown trial is
in Swishei County |ail awaiting
(Continued on page 3)
Hi adlcy, \ irginia Hull . Faye ( w-
ter. Jo \nn Daniel, Marj Dawson,
Louise Ham k. P »vi - Harman,
Judv M Gune. Donna M nil . Jc
sir Haw -on. and ila Hog i -
Hev G raid Tidwell, pa-tor of
the Lust Baptist ('hutch, will lie
mast r of ceremonies and will ro-
c ignize guest Invocation will be
T \ \V llllaills ol I lit. al ( Jim c i
ol < h i-t and benediction will be
by H v Jam's Carter ot the FT 1st
Moth idist chin h
The speak a will be introduced
by Jerry S McGuire.
Accoiding t i Tc\ Nd.iiii . editor
of the G and Daily \ vv IV\an.
Herring ha- literally talk 1 him
sell int i a • cond job and mak •-
mci* than toil s|ieech"s a ye n "
The vie' president of a Grand
Prairie Slab I',.ink eompl led high
school in Mineral Wells afle: at-
tending All a Academy and later
att'iided Texas Te h where he
played football umlei I’ te Caw-
thorn, making Colton Howl ap-
|H*;uance in 1939 He i- a past pie
sidcnt of (. r a n d Prairie l( Jary
Club, a 32ml degis • mason, a mem-
ber if Grain.1 Prairie school board,
has been chairman of th - t'nited
Fund Dm , wo;ked with B o y
Scouts. Graind I’rairie Chambet of
Commerce and -erred on th* e-
qualizali n board He has addles-■
ed numerous banker groups, civic
club corn ntion- and church groups
He is a member of th • hoard of
Texas Tech t mver.sity Foundation.
Jerry McGuire is banquet c im-
nnttee chairman and Ila Marie
Rogers is in charge of banquet
decorations.
Dinner mu-ic will Is* by Sonja
Hefley.
Johnson Cleared
Of Dope Charge
Randy Mill r J ihnson. s in ot Mr.
and Mrs Con - Johns n o: Happy,
one of 29 area men rc" * nlly charg-
ed with the sale >1 dangerous
drugs, his bi n de-red >| th*'
charge after taking polygraph tests
in Amarillo.
\eeording to Distiiet \ttorney
Tom Curtis and the unden - ei
agent, it w.i» a case of mistaken
identity.
Velma Strickland, indicted Nov.
1 for murder without malice in
connt 11 ;n with th'* -hooting death
of Willie Lee St r.kland on Sept.
'Jo. w.,. assessed a tkroe year
probated sent 'm e M inday in dis-
trict court heie after a pica of
guilty.
Strickland died of gunshot wounds
at the snack bar in Sunset Addi-
tion. He had been shot with a .38
caliber revolver through th • hands,
chest and head, according to Al
Wilkins, justice of the p ace.
Ills estranged wite, Velma, was
charged with murder with malice.
The charge was later reduced.
Sheriff Darrell Smith said at the
time of the shooting that it ap-
parently followed an argument be-
tween the pair.
New m lei ■ onnet li >n i
by City of Tuba -incc last vv, k
I bane i * inz.il. . >23 \ I- 3rd lo m
Lawson, 710 N ( o-by
•I ,'inings, lail pai m i I ii • \
I: mis. 403 S Hi i-c ,- D-* i sua:.'i
laad, (22 \ Don! y.
M.irri.i.O' lid'ii s i- m-il -
county * leik sin.i la-t wi * >vi
i" Lonny Glen Wat m, nyo
ir. l Mo.- ia D e Lmin;, ( i m
Jose P Gutc 11 /. Plain.. on I
I) lia ( osan iva, Tulia
illwcll,
HORN TO
Mr .1 n (1 Mrs Goiy I-
Box 180, Fri ma, i girl
Mr and Mi - Emmett 1 I
lin. Box 707, Silverton I
Mr and Mi (ilcndon \
Houle \. l ulia. a gurl.
Mi oil Mis (ilciin II 'both
am. oo:t Arthur, luii.i. a I
Mi on11 Mi - Ho k . II i * . :, 7! I
N Austin, Tulia, a
All and At: v I..... . A 1
H Mite 1. Ki -s. o I
All and All l(o 11"*i 1 <. .
Route 2, H"X Li A, Tul o I, yf
!
N-'W siibscrit)'!'- to I 'Ini i
11 raid since last week Nino
Johnson. K iute I l> i\ 140 A. I I
N'lv.nlo J. ( Bard, 720
Nov ada: J ( Ward, 7_’o s
Apt J. Tulia, Texas. D m V. i
711 S Au-lin. Apt 2. I ul-.i. I < vo
I .eland II dz iau- 'i. 7>i - I r . -
Houston, Texas At ■
Guidry, 349 Suns I D
I -x.i- Joe Degel Box (
I 'xa-, Altifd Bucckcr, U ute 2,
Happy, Tcx.i-
W att«*( ■ xtrem - foi '
were 02 and II J ihn i:, ■ -n
local weal i r ob-crv, . > ... t |
02 in* h ■' inod'aii i> :* • i-
total f ir Jonuai v t i I > n h i .
ton harvest i- nearing completi >*i
with 91 p r cent "I th. o;i i,r
(if t he fields i- ill I . I s 1 (
Samples class-d to'.il l.OWl.Ood
' impa ed to 1.820.000 .g this lane
last year.
Swisher Seeks 4,719 Voter Goal
Voter r. gist rati* in in Swisher
( ounty -to d at approximately 3.34NI
Monday, how -ver. voters can re-
gi.-ter any tun * during the year
but at least 30 day. prior to an e-
lecti n in order to vote in that
v lecti >n
Since elections nr - not gene: ally
advertis'd until the last wis*k or
-o b f ir«» they are held, potential
voters aie uiged N(»1' to put oft
registration liut to do it immed-
iately so as to forestall any |>o-'i-
hility of neglecting to register pri r
t> the 30 day is iiod The 3.3INI
is far bet iw th • figure usually re-
corded by the end of January.
Thi- being a maj ■!' elction year,
it i- hoped that a maximum regi--
tration w ill be a, hi *vcd.
T h e (*|i.-ration Everyt>sly
v iter quota fc Swisher < unly
has been -*t by th Texas D mo-
iiatr Party ai 4.719. according to
IL T O'Damel, Pcm ma .i’i I' >un-
ty ('hai:man Thi, vv .uld be con-
sal led a heavy : .'istiation; h->w-
«ve”. ;t rep sents only tii p r cent
el the eligible voting population,
l ie stale goal "I th' li.in cratic
Party is to have five million Tex-
ans r gi-tei i iK-twis-n n *,v and
April a. Ihe la-t day to register
in or,;.' to h' eligible to v >tc in
th • May 7 primary.
• ()|M.*i ation Everybody'” is a pro-
le I ol the slat - Denioi t ali E.\'*-
cutivc Committee. T h e s|H'ci.il
drive is h ailed by Mis. James A.
At' Alullen. Ill u hurt W nth, chair-
man. wiih Mrs. Abtne K Evans of
Hou-ton as viis'-chairnian.
"Aoter P-gisfrati'in is free, but
e etyone must registei in ord*T I i
vote in th" 1972 elections," O’Dan-
i**l -aid A|i|>licati(in t irnis are .it
the ( "inty Tax V&ses-o; > offict*
in the courthous-
A jeciol plea is being made to
all II, 19 and N year elds to regis-
ter and take advantage of the new
law which entitles them to vote
for the first time.
' (tui county will Ik* c oup ling
with other counties >i sirnil.ir -izc
for -tat .Mil,' c ignition ri doing
a good job," O'Daniel -aid
(•old. silver, and bronze plaqu s
will be awarded to the counties
which ex •■(• t then qu Jas by th'
high si margins. All eounti - wh: h
meet their quota- wall receive spec-
ial certificates of merit.
This yeat i gistration for the
fi'st tine* will bo gooi for three
yeais i ri si ad >t only one
E\ iy pc: m I' years old and
older m ii s t register, including
th ■ r "i li
T ii e requirement 0 a year's
ri idence in the >tat a I .,u
itiinthv in t ie county in order to
Vllt.' still holds
Among the t I. t < fv he'd
this y ar includes tf t a U. S
President, L. s s n.i ". f. s
Congre--man, (i-v.-nor and a I I
other state oifu L an! -h n!
v ounty . mm - - -n, ■ . ■ a ■ -j ■
ee and city ift: .. ;.o -ia , ,,,, .
or m re bon i an l p issibly
th ■ (a-'ati in n u |un: >r ilk, •
di-tri i
Th • inly cost for the t ght to
(( >ntinued on page .3)
BILL HARMON "FUZZY REAGOR TV CODA IN
DON MORRIS LO HARRIS NORMAN SINGER OR. ROY A MtCASLANU GLONtu- JbNN.Twu
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