The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1969 Page: 1 of 23
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HOW SWEET IT IS!
Hornets Win First Since '67
Area Towns Disgusted
By HAPPY COLE
Last Friday night the Tulia Hor-
nets made the long trip to Dal-
hart to do battle with the Wolves whimpering puppies
of Dalhart High School. After suf- net*
fenng through eleven straight set- •
backs, the Hornets went onto the
field looking for their first victory
since 1967. Once again though, the
lionets were the underdog in the
contest.
As the Hornets took the field the
fans and other interested specta-
Pint tamo |mn of H»
tar Tvlia ttanwta vM bo Friday
night whan tbo Homot* moot LMMo-
HoM hort oo Younger FfoM.
time is 7:M pan.
Mike Gleason who made a ter-
rific catch for the score. The try
for the extra point was no good,
rhe defense then proceeded to shut
out the Wolves as Mike Gleason
palled down two enemy aerials to
mi lift out the fire. Tulia held a
hart 26^ Tulia was aided by a pass
interfermice penalty on the 9 yard
one sensed that things were about five times before Dalhart started march. He carried the ball to the the Hornets capitalized on an 11
to happen. The Wolves were des- moving. Ricky Heiskell provided Dalhart 33 before the Hornets scor- yard punt back by the Wolves,
tined to be reduced to a litter of the big play by toting the pigskin tiieir fjrst xd of the year. Don After setting up shop at the Dal-
* “*Hoc' SMSSWSPJE 5r,SS * * •vard ■“ -
attack then sputtered and Ken Gal-
legly came on and booted a 25
yard field goal to put Dalhart in
front 3 - 0
After taking the kickoff at the
start of second quarter, Tulia be-
With Amari
t uisgu
iHo Ma
yor
By DOUB SMITH
Many of the towns and cities of
line. Jerry Dickens carried for the the Panhandle will seriously con
score on a 4 yard trap play. Ones .j^r joining a regional planning
again tbe extra point try failed, commission.
★ ★ ★
(AM IMTOBIAL)
gan to drive from her own 34 half time lead
Dalhart came right back after
the kickoff and put together a 60
yard drive. Kicky Heiskell com-
pleted three passes to tight end
•d thraagb f
• Saturday
A survey of mayors indicated
no flat rejections, and the re - M Hw traitor
sponse ranged from reluctance to
enthusiasm. nitoatoa. Tba
tors could see sheer determination coui(] mount much of a scoring
in the eyes of the Hornets. Every- drive. Both teams exchanged punts
In the first ouarter neither team >ald ,me Jerry Dickons workhorse in tht, third quarter Tulia con- Gary Parker in the drive, the last became a reality Sen- mayor I
of the Hornets personally account- ,muvd t0 carrv the fight to the one going six yards for six points, ^r 2 whS^Se Ptrtter aad tba
ed for 40
personally
yards on the
tmuvd to carry the fight to the
Hornet Wolves. After jiuntuig to Dalhart,
one going six yards for six points.
(Continued on page 7)
The Tulib Herald
Rand a 1 1 County commissioner ta AamrHta aad Caayaa.
courts adopted its bylaws. The Tba sama rip waa la TUlla lua-
Amarillo City Commission, on day. . . J*to Hma )aat aBar
a 4 - 1 vote, adopted the bylaws 17 a'ctacbjubaa
on September 23. aa T " “
Joining a regional planning com- Tba
mission will be considered Oct. 7 at church
* COVERING SWISHER COUNTY LIKE THE SUNSHINE ★
VOL. 61. NO. 40
TUUA, (Swtohf Cawwty) TIXAS 97QM
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1969
by the Tulia City Council.
h "We will join either Amarillo
V Lubbock," said
H ns. "We want to get
rillo. We feel like Amarillo's our
POUR SECTIONS town up there
B
cirioa baa
tbare was saam fpotalto* fea
. _ concept became people are MI
HBa pared g| more govenmtat control,
of TuBa oa At Borger, Mayor Ed Lewta arid
Tba algae the council was studytaf tba pnpa-
sitloa before voidng its optatoa.
Pampa Mayor Mile Carlson mid,
"We have Inclinations more atapf
the line of a smaller piaantna
group — three or four couattes.
Pampa is "tar enough out la bo
an individual entity," be said.
Shamrock also is considering C
smaller planning unit, said Mayor
R. L. Roberts.
He said he had been approached
with the idea of forming a
to us tba* TuHans art county resources, conservation and
either Amarillo or capable of making ap tbotr mlads development group proposed in ID*
Mayor J. D. liar- an this as wad as ether iaaeee. 66 The Wheeler, Hall, Donley and
to get into Ama - W# neither need nor deetrs tba Childress counties and parts of
advice aad ceeneat «f AmariHe Gray aad Briscoe counties,
and Canyon Far Mfhtart tato da He said it would probably coat a
not i agrees at (be tbtabbig at n Utile more than joining the PBPC
I It Costs More To Live In Dying Town
■ _ — — _ _ _ fin#l Ikomciilt'ov tuvori hii'.itinr to lfi>i>n (111* t<m tit.. l,.t
By OEOROK W. HAWKES
The Mansfield Hew* Mirror
What makes a community attractive? People
who have long lived insmaller communities
have a right to b e c o m e concerned over the
push to move industry and jobs out into their
areas so that young people can continue to live
there rather than migrate to the metropolitan areas.
Hut too often the same communities adopt a defens-
ive stand and start worrying that growth in the
community will mean higher taxes.
The truth is that it may cost even more to live
in a community of shrinking population and a de-
clining tax base. Local government and community
services cost almost as much in a declining as in a
growing society. The few remaining people often
find themselves taxed heavier to keep the services
going. So in reality, spreading the jobs and popula-
tion is the most sensible national program we have
launched in some time It may be the solution to
the problems of the big city as well as urban and
rural areas.
A variety of jobs is essential in rebuilding any
community. Now that farming has become more
specialized and mechanized, agriculture alone can't
lx; expected to provide the employment base neces-
sary to keep young people at home. And without
young couples, any community is doomed to go
downhill
Good schools are next in importance, surveys
indicate. Industry takes a look at schools first
when they are looking a new plant site over.
And health care facilities also come near the
top of tile list.
01 course, other community factors are import-
ant. also. . . like churches, recreation facilities,
highways, and many others. You may wonder why
I haven't mentioned low taxes The reason is that
taxes come a ways down on the list among charac-
teristics considered by good firms shopping for new
locations Low taxes are nice provided they have
noi been a< hieved by robbing'' the community of
the things that make for what is calk'd "livability ”
A company must have an adequate supply of
labor, including young lalior. They must have a
community attractive enough to please the adminis-
trative (mtsomicI needed to launch and manage
their factory, laboratory or whatever the enterprise
may be. Low taxes do not necessarily mean happy
families, good schools and a heads - up community.
Why Not
V,L GogRVBir
Harris Picks Tulia,
Kress Friday Winners
than joining the PBPC
but he felt tbe PRPC area is tea
large.
"We all have problems wc cal
sit down and work out," he uii
"I don’t feel like we’ll be nBfr
quishing our authority to any tbM
power of govenmeat."
Neill Is Named
5 Court Reporter
Bob L. Neill, son of Mr. a ■ «
Mrs. George Neill of Telia, com-
pleted a Court Reporting Course
at Southwest Business College M
Plalnview last week. He passed
the Texas State Court Reporting
test which was administered bjr
members of the Bar Associatioa.
Bob and his wife, the former
___ Marilyn Culp, also from Tuila,
Mayor Kenneth Dak' of Memphis wffl *c»ve Plalnview for Casper.
Flores said, “The basic idea is pretty Wyoming, wtiere has accppted
He s a i d, however, eouncilmen
who attended a meeting in Ama- me|ert»y ef Ti
rillo several weeks ago came home Me aapeclaNy
"terribly disappointed."
, To the theory that the PRPC Ndppen wbe. aa (hey
might dilute the powers of local worship oorvicoi, art
government, Mayor Harris said, with hate
"We, the people, are the govern- au» ef taw*,
ment.” Who* Tuftam
Dr. Richard L. Gilkey, mayor make rational
of Clarendon, said "not to be tbo nunaal ef
thinking of regional planning is to yen's rightwlng, we wM
be thinking backward." Ibis stomata. UtaM (be*, asadlk
He s a i d he thought his city sen ef Tub* we watad apprsri
could join without question, "twit their caacatartatag their eltarts
we’ve always run into a stone tbalr awn bemetoums.
wall with Amarillo’s present may- AAA
nr Me felt there was no need to because he was afraid "Amarillo
get into an argument with him." will control It." He said the Dum-
The concept is a coalition of al- *s City Council is considering form-
ready elected entities and certain- |ng another group.
Iv not a "foreign government,” Dr. Wheeler Mayor Pete Burton said
Gilkey said. The people voted on he was more interested in a re-
the Issue when they elected their gkinal planning commission for
officials, he said "We are simply smaller towns because they "have
asking them (the officials) to do more mutual problems."
a better job."
Stratford Mayor J. W
a position
porter of
MICTORY IN EUROPE or Japan back in the
w 1940s created little more jubilation in Amaril-
lo than did the successful election held there last
week.
After it appeared that the election was carrying,
radio, television and newspaper shouted such tri-
umphant notes as:
"This is a new day for Amarillo!"
"At last Amarillo is on the move again.”
"Amarillo has proved to herself that she has
a future.”
■JEWSFAFER EDITORIALS opined that this was
BW the day of victory for which Amarillo had
been waiting . now the mountain peak had been
gained, the victory won!
RUST WHAT WAS this hour of decision for Ama-
J rillo? What on earth could the citizens be vot-
ing on that could be so significant to Amarillo?
Hold on to your false teeth! Would you believe
that Amarillo was congratulating herself on voting
in a lc city sales tax!
The fact is. . Amarillo was the only city in
Texas with a population above 1(10,000 that hadn't al-
ready approved the city sales tax. It had become
almost routine with cities of any size. The issue
had almost always carried wherever it was pro -
posed.
Passage of a sales tax stimulated little if any
post-election editorial comment in most instances.
|UT SINCE AMARILLO turned the reins of the
said the City Council is consider- sound, but the reason there is no
ing joining the PRPC but hasn’t interest in Memphis is because we
made up its mind yet. are so far out on the edge - quite
"Why should any city or com- » distance from Amarillo, Lub -
munity want to Join a city that bock or Wichita Falls."
can’t handle 1 t s own city af - Fri<*» City Manager Jack Out-
Computers of the Harris Rating stronger than Littlefield as the two fdjrs without a fuss or squabble?" land said it was Just a matter of
System say the ten top AAA foot teams mm Friday night in Tulia. he asked. time before "we join. The ques-
ball learns of the state are Lub - Top ten Class A. team* are Sea- Childress Mayor C. J. Lyons, tion that’s been posed is whether
hoik F.stacado, Alvin, West Colum- graves, P o t h, Junction, Mason th<. council was considering we Join Amarillo or Lubbock."
bia llsn. Elmore, Plano. Bren hair, Three Rivers, Sonora, CWahoma, joining the Wichita Falls group be- Jim Sears, mayor of Hereford,
Cy - Fairbanks, Refugio, Belton, White Oak, Honey Grove and Paul caust. "Wichita Falls started theirs said there wasn’t much opposition
precinct seemed to indicate that a majority of the and Bonham. Pewitt. f|rs| ••
citizens were headed in the same direction on at Dumas, after an early season Farwell is 20th: Clarendon 22nd; Mayor Arthur Baer of umiku _.v ................— _______ „
least one issue, it was an emotional moment. Their ^kiri, has climbed back to 12th a- Kress 27th Sudan 33id; Spnnglake expressed doubt altout the PRPC Dalhart Mayor T. W. Frush said •’rd*
as Official Court
that District.
®.®JJ£Srly
reported
__________ _____________ _____ by City of Tulia since taut week:
to the concept but "there won’t be |?“T,ero Gana, 725 NW Ird; BUI
Dumas any enthusiasm for it either." Green, ml NW 5th
cup runneth over! mong the .state's 119 Class AAA 41st; Petersburg 57th. Bovina 60th
Wonder what really would happen in Amarillo teams. Vernon is ittth: Hereford Wheeler 76th; Melanin 102nd: Kalis
if the city ever got together on a really significant 26th. Seminole 67th, Pcrrytim 79th: 104th; Vega 126th: Happy 126th;
issue. Canyon 6:!rd: Tulia 123rd. Little- Silverton 131st; and Claude 158th
field LKilh: and Mule shoe, on the among the 209 Class A schools,
bottom, is 149th Harris computers rate Kress 24.9
Harris says Tulia is 4.8 points points stronger than Happy.
I
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city over to the right wing several years ago,
nothing has seemed to go right She winds up on
the wrong side of every issue that comes along In
municipal meetings from coast to coast, Amarillo,
Texas has been cited as "the nut city”. She has
been used as an illustration of what can happen to
a progressive city when the wrong element gets
in the saddle
The Whittenburg papers have been cited from
coast to coast as having editorial policies some-
where to the right of King George III
Then there are the tales, heard everywhere,
about Amarillo’s city government, her one - cylinder
Congressman, her voting record.
M MARILLO'S EXTREME RIOMT has been proud
of its city’s reputation
All this talk just proves that Amarillo is one of
the few non-CommunLst and patriotic cities in the
world . .the right tells itself
But Amarillo also ha> an element a little to the
left of King George III Don’t misunderstand. . .
these good people are still to the right of center, but
in the context of their environment, they seem al-
most moderate
These people aren’t proud of their city. They
have developed an inferiority complex over some of
the shenanigans of their leaders. Some have almost
given up hope Some have felt that Amarillo had
ventured pa-t the point of no return
so it was that when the vote of every Amarillo
T WAS BROUGHT OUT by proponents of the
sales tax that people responsible for 40 |kt cent
of Amarillo's retail trade live outside the city limits
of Amarillo.
We wish we had had this information two weeks
ago when wc were editorializing on the city.
This statistical info was presented by some of
her own citizens not to indicate Amarillo's indebted-
ness to her trade territory, but rather to show that
"this 40 per cent represents people who use our
streets but don't help pay for them .”
Presumably those Cubans and Perrytonites and
all the rest who have to drive all the way to
Amarillo to find school clothing and to get a pair of
shoes will no longer be "riders" on Amarillo's
economy. Henceforth they will be paying for the
Amarillo streets they help to wear out, for the
salaries of the policemen who give them traffic
tickets, for Mayor Stroud’s salary.
We dislike being a sponger on Amarillo so
much that we would like for them to put out canis-
ters at Scars, Woolen. Fedway, K Marl, and all the
rest, so that all of us from outside Amarillo might
make freewill contributions to help cover the extra
expense we place on the shoulders of Amarillo
merchants
Better still, perhaps we could include Ama-
rillo in the l mted Fund or Community Chest.
M FOOTNOTE TO COMMENTS made earlier in
the summer concerning the relative merits
and demerits of Swisher Memorial and Neblctt hos-
pital in Canyon:
We’ve been keeping books on admissions to
Amarillo hospitals and tind that Amarillo hospitals
admit considerably more patients front Canyon than
from Tulia
The implication seems to lx- . Neblctt, like
Swisher Memorial, also has its problems, ju-t like
we said before . .but were contradicted by a few
readers who have never been able to find anything
commendable altout Tulia.
4E IDEA OF SHARING tax revenue is *ome-
thing relative new Already the date i' col-
lecting the total sales tax, then refunding a part of
it to the city
The suggestion has been made that the federal
government share a part of the taxes it collects
with the state and lex 1 governments.
In the first instance, the city decides whether
or not it wants to add a penny to its own -ales
tax. then recovers it from the 'ate In the second
instance, presumably, the federal government would
be expected to give the dates an automatic cut
(Continued on page 6)
Souter, DriskiH, Cagle
Grid Guessing Winners
Donley.
Israel l-elja,
Joe Martin. 811 N,
!* :t£
By JOE FOSTER
BORN TO:
Mr. and Mrs. Illinois Perkins,
429 S. Floyd, Tulia, a boy.
Mr and Mrs Pat Fore, 702 N.
Armstrong, Tulia, a boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim L. Perkins,
1200 Pecan St., Amarillo, a boy.
Olton over Muleshoe, Dimmitt ov- %
_ , . .____ . „ er Sprlnglake, Panhandle State Marriage licenses issued by the
The second week grid guessing Qm ^astern New Mexico, Bovina county clerk since last week: Neal
contest brought a total of *41 en- over |az|,uddlc Kress over Peters- Lynn Nelson, Tulia, and Roberta
tries as interest picks up. Most b u r g Canyon over Spearman, Mae Patterson, Amarillo,
games missed this week was 12 Estai.a<g, ove/uvellaad, Seymour •
and the tally went Hki mis^ (mt 0|n,.y Oklahoma State over Uni- New subscribers to The Tulia
missed 12, eight missed versity 'rf Houston, Happy over Herald since last week: Mrs. Guy
missed 10, eighteen missed 9, tnir- v (H>(j ^2 to 22), Groom over Young, 720 North Maxwell, Tulia,
ty missed 8, thirty one missed i, ^,|verton< pamp,t over Perryton, Texas; Lt. and Mrs. Richard J.
nineteen missed C, eleven missed wi sti over North Illinois, Hereford Bale-., Daugherty Trailer Court,
5. four missed 4 and two missed (|V(T s<.mln(l|l. Borger over Coro- Lot No. 44. 7947 Woodall Ri
only three games.
Taking first place this week was
Shana Souter of 405 N. Austin in
lulia with three incorrect guesses
She picked Eastern New Mexico
over Panhandle State University
of Houston over Oklahoma Stale
and Happy over Ve ga
Jack Driskill took second place,
also with only three misses. He
picked the University of Houston
over Oklahoma State, Happy over
Vega and Dalhart over Tulia
Rond,
nado, and the tie breaker games Norfolk, Virginia; L. G. Tang**,
were: Tulia 18, Dalhart 16 and General Delivery, Taylor Falls,
Texas University 49, Texas Tech, Minnesota; Carver Monroe, Houle
7. 1, Box 114, Silverton, Texas; E. W.
Foster, Box 304, Hart. Texas; R.
L. Williamson, 754 Grant, Twin
Falls tdaho; Louis** Jordan, 5443
Woodlark St., Houston. Texas; Jer-
ry Evans, Box 5361, 420 Memorial
Drive. Cambridge. Massachusetts;
Mary Reeves, 2959 Rurnsidc, Se-
bastopol, California: Gretchcn D.
Wynne*, Box 56. MeMurry Station,
Arthur Johnson
Rites Saturday
Arthur Johnson, 70, of 229
Ur selected our third winner Collin, died early Wednesday night Abilene, Texas,
out of the lour entries mining m Swisher Memorial Hospital. f
only four games, and he was Kent He was born Nov 2, 1898, at Weather has been dry and wan*
Cagle, Box 121, Happy He pic ked Waxahachie He and the former during the past, just what the far-
Tascosa over Dumas, University Kffic Westfall were married Feb have been wanting. Harvest
of Houston over Oklahoma State, 26, 1923, in Coleman. They moved
Coronado over Borger and Dal - to’Tulia In 1942
hart over Tulia by o n c point The Survivors include his wife of Ihe
other entries missing only four home1; three sons, Walter of Okla-
y games but "way off" on the- IK'- homa City. Maynard of hort Worth,
breaker scores were Beverly Grim- Douglas of Tuc son, Ariz.; three
land, Richard Souter and Jeff daughters, Mrs Mary Beeves and
i Lantz. Mrs Millie Cook, both of Sebasto-
It wems necessary to remind pul, Calif, and Mrs Maxine Pear-
the readers that the rules of the* son of Canyon; three brothers. Bed-
contest state that there will be ford of Fort Horth, Luther of
only one entry per person This Coleman, and OUic of Lampasas;
we’-k wc- had to disqualify two en- and one sister, Mrs. Nan Martin
trios from the same person. We of Rrownwood; and 12 grand -
also had an miry that was post- children
marke'd on Saturday, one day late* He was a member of the Bap-
to be accepted . list church
For those who keep a score Funeral services were held Sat-
I ANYA MLKIXK.K, Happy Homecoming <ju«*en. -eTec- f ard, here are the final results for urday afternoon at Wallace Fun-
tod from a total of six nominees, presided over the Happy the-e past weekend gam*-' Dumas oral Chapel. The Rev. Jim Wick-
Homecoming game Friday night over Tascosa. Nebraska over Tex- ware of Fox. flkla officiated. Bur-
(Herald photo by Joe Foster) as A4M. Scagraves over Spui, lal was in Bose Hill
Is beginning to get underway
grain sorghum.
STAY TUNED TO
KTUE
I MO In
Bad) T* Tt» Btato
900 am DAILY-
Tulia Prepares For The Future' Theme Of Rotary Series
The Rotary Club will begin a
series of programs on Wednesday
entitled ' Julia Prepares for the
Fututc". l’ur|)o*-c of thi' .scries
will lx* to introduce members .end
guest.- to material and needs re-
flected in the recent suiw y made
pi the community by the Indus-
trial Economics Research team
from Texas \&M University for
Tulia Industrial Foundation
Initiating the series on October 6
will lie a panel presentation of
highlights of the survey arrang-
ed by the Industrial Foundation
Parti*tpjtm? .n 'he pan"! pre-cn
tation will lie Olan Alexander, Jim
McAlister and John \S Nichols
S o m e uniqu*- methods are aLo
planned for engaging the audience
in focusing on community needs
during the luncheon
The second program in the s>-ric.
on O ’oKr r> t ci 'itlt d "ihe
Hereford Story” ..nd is to In- pre-
anted by two (mm'-r Tulia resi-
dents nos residing in Hereford,
Harlan VandeiZee and Jeff Cai-
IBi Both VatatrZtc and CarUlc
arc officers in the Hereford Stab-
U.mk and ,ir< well informed about
. umir.urutj dcu-lcymat anJ
growth that ha taken place in
Hereford in recent year-
Br Walter .) 1 artwiijit. Head
of the So* lology Department at
lexa« lech University, will pre-
sent the thud program on Oct*<bcr
22 Dr Cartwright's presentation
il loc i on "Commum*) Leader-
ship ’’
final presentation in th** series
will lx- on October 29 and will
on "Community Spirit”. Howard
Jacob, President of West Central
Capital foiiteration of Dumas will
be guest speaker Jacob has had a
varfe*j' of cxjrrienceb in business
and has been involved in numerous
civic activities in his community.
Th** series of special programs
has been arranged by the Com •
munity Service Committee of tha
Rotary Club as a project to better
inform citizens about the needs of
the local community and to pre-
pare for Tuba's future. Peopl*
the community interested in
tending the series are urged to
tact a Rotary Club member.
Inflation Is the time when
have the money to burn and *
affoid to pun.hu-e the niwlchc
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