The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1960 Page: 2 of 6
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CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
First Methodist Church
Fifth and California
Church School, 9:45 a. m.,
John Daugherty, Supt.
Morning Worship, 10:50 a. m.
M. Y. F„ 6:30 p. m.
Junior Fellowship, 6:30 p. m.
Evening Worship, 7:30 p. m.
Official Board meeting, sec-
ond Monday night each
month.
Methodist Men, third Wed-
nesday night each month.
Robert M. Hinkelman, pastor
Bethel Baptist Church
Twelfth and Ohio
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship, 11:00 a. m.
Training Union, 6:30 p. m.
Evening Worship, 7:30 p. m.
W. M. U., Monday afternoon,
3:00 p. m.
Wednesday evening, teachers
and officers meeting, 7 p.m.
Mid-week service, Wednesday,
8:00 p. m.
Jim R. Brown, pastor
First Baptist Church
aevenin and Marylanu
Sunday scnool, 9:45 a. u».
aaornmg worship, 10:55 a. in.
Training Union, 7:00 p. m.
Evening worship, 8:00 p. m.
Wednesday evening, teachers
and officers meeting, 7:00.
Mid-week service, Wednesday,
8:00 p. m.
W. M. U. Circle meetings, on]
Monday. 9:30 a. m.. 3:00
p. m.
Brotherhood meets last Mon-
day night of each month.
Vick Atjwood, S. S. Supt
De Witt Chandler, Jr., pasta
Assembly of God Church
Eighth and Flaza
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning Service, 11:00 a. m
Evening Service, 7:30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting, Thursday,
7:30 p. m.
We welcome you to our serv-
ices.
A. L. Beggs, pastor
First Christian Church
Fourth and Texas
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship, 11:00 a. m.
Evening Worship, 7:00 p. m.
C.W.F. meeting, 6:30 p. m.
Harroll Watkins, Chairman
of Church Board.
Daniel F. Walker, minister
First Presbyterian Church
Sixth and Georgia
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship, 11:00 a. m.
Worship Service, Wednesday
evening, 7:30 p. m.
Women’s Council, third Tues-
day, 7:30 p. m.
Presbyterian Men, fourth
Monday, 7:30 p. m.
Session meeting, first Monday
7:30 p. m.
Everyone is cordially invited
to worship with us.
William b. Leonard, pastor
Greater Alexander I. M. E.
Church
Davenport School, Corner of
Mississippi and Wolters
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
Morning Service, 11:00 a. m.
Evening Service, 7:30 p. m.
Official Council, Monday, 7:30
p. m.
Missionary meeting, Tuesday,
7:30 p. m.
Prayer Service, Wednesday,
7:00 p. m.
Stewardess meeting, Thurs-
day, 7:30 p. m.
Methodist Men's Bible Class,
Friday, 7:30 p. m.
The second Sunday In each
month is Pilgrim’s Sunday.
The public is always welcome
to come and worship with
us.
Wallace E. Sims, pastor
St. Margaret of Cortona
Church
Mississippi and First
Mass every Sunday at 10:15
a. m.
Mass on Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday at 7:15 a. m.
Mass on Wednesday at 8:00
p. m.
Confessions every Saturday | ing number
NEWS AND VIEWS OF YOUR
Chamber of Commerce
By Don Boston
Church of Christ
Fourth and Depot
Sunday Services:
Bible Study, 10:00 a. m.
Regular Service, 11:00 a. m.
Preaching, 7:30 p. m.
Wednesday Services:
Regular Bible Study 7:30 p.m.
Kenneth Hoyle, minister
7:00 and 8:00 p. m
Rosary and benediction on
Saturdays at 7:30 p. m.
Inquiry (information)
classes for the public every
Monday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.
m. in St. Margaret rectory.
Individual instruction in
the faith by appointment,
telephone 555.
Christian doctrine classes
for grades one to five every
Monday and Thursday Im-
mediately after school at 3 p.
m. and 4 p. m. respectively.
Christian doctrine for
grades 6th through 12th every
Wednesday at 6:45 p. m. and
7:00 p. m.
Everyone welcome. Come or
call any time.
Father Bertram Tiemeyer,
O. F. M., pastor.
Weather is the prime topic
of conversation nowadays,
and justly so with the way
the weatherman has been
bouncing from one extreme
to the other. Earlier in Feb-
ruary you will recall the dust
storm, called the worst in at
least three years, a few days
later an unusually warm day
or two, then a temperature
drop to eight degrees, etc.
Actually, Boze Hartgrove, who
has been here awhile, believes
it was the coldest February
since 1933, and overall prob-
ably the worst month he re-
members. He said in 1933 he
recalled the temperature
dropping to 10 degrees below
zero. It’s too early to deter-
mine the livestock loss, but
it’s hard to imagine it not be-
ing considerable,
* * *
According to our local doc-
tors the siege of flu should
begin dropping off sharply as
soon as warmer weather ar-
rives to stay. Both local doc-
tors agree that probably 80
per cent of the folks in Big
Lake and this immediate area
have had the flu at least once
during this winter. And, may-
be it’s a tribute to their medi-
cal skill that no one locally
has died as a result of the flu.
But it’s a fact and consider-
who have
Big Lake as to ability, and
one that will do full credit to
Big Lake when appearing on
the same stage with perform-
ers from neighboring towns,”
Mr. McCready writes. . “This
can be a man, woman, or
child, or quartet or what have
you. The only stipulation we
make is that the song or mu-
sic sung or played shall be of
the time covered by the years
1854-1891, the period when
Ft. Davis was in active use.”
Anyone interested?
• • •
Some business members of
the Chamber of Commerce
have been throwing away
their membership plaques be-
cause of the 1959 date. Don’t
do it. We now have 1960 tags
to replace the 1959 on the
plaque and they will be de-
livered soon.
Spiritual Thought
Of The Week ...
By Rev. Wm. D. Leonard
First Presbyterian Chur eh
SERVE THE LORD
It has often been said that
the will of God Is done
through us or in spite of us.
This is often times true.
This happened to another
man of long ago. His name
was Jonah. God asked him to
go to Nineveh, the city of the
enemy of the people of God,
to preach. Jonah tried to flee
from God by boarding a ship
for Tarshish (Spain). During
the voyage the ship was near-
ly wrecked by a great storm.
Jonah was tossed overboard
because it was his sin that
caused the storm. He
THE BIG LAKE (TEXAS) WILDCAT
March 3, 196*
this. When God speaks to us,' International Reading Asso-
or we see a need we should' elation,
arise to this occasion and go Dr. Sheldon, director of the
and do it, that the Gospel Reading Laboratory and
might be proclaimed. I chairman of the Improve-
Ood works in and through ment of Learning Program at
us or in spite of us. When it is
in spite of us, we become un-
comfortable because we know
our failures. We must heed
the will of God, that we
might live. Do not be like
Jonah. Seek ye the Lord.
Syracuse, spoke at the first
general session Friday night
on “A Teacher Must Diag-
nose”. On Saturday morning,
his subject was “Guiding the
Individual Reader”.
The Big Lake teachers also
attended a demonstration of
basic reading, and a panel
discussion on improving
reading comprehension.
RECEIVES CITATION
Major Charles E. Limpus,
Jr., son-in-law of C. A. Pierce
of Big Lake, is in receipt of
the U. S. Army Commenda-
tion ribbon with metal pen-
dant for meritorious services
at Headquarters Fourth
was United States Army as assist- _______^
swallowed by a great fish, re-1 ant secretary of the General! and family, Mr. and Mrs. Col
HAVE ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Puckett
quietly observed their 51st
wedding anniversary last
Sunday. One of their sons
maining in the belly of the staff for nearly two years. At
fish three days and nights,1 present he is attending the
before being deposited on the u. S. Army Command & Gen-
seashore. j eral Staff College at Leaven-
Jonah then rose and went worth, Kansas. He and his
to Nineveh to preach. Jonah ^ wife, the former Miss Dorothy
did not see how he could do Pierce, have two children.
Bethlehem Baptist Church
501 South California
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship, 11:00 a. m.
BTU, 6:00 p. m.
Evening Worship, 7:30 p. m.
J. H. Blakemore, pastor
Big Lake Teachers
Attend Conference
Representing the Reagan
County school system at the
International Reading Con-
ference held on the campus
of Southern Methodist Uni-
versity in Dallas on Feb. 26-27
were Mrs. Ben Featherston, _ ,. . tVlo
Mrs. Prentiss Garrett and Study’ and Prudent of the
Mrs. Tom P. Wilson. The con-
Dr. Austin, lecturer on edu-
cation at the Graduate
School of Education at Har-
vard, gave three pertinent
lectures at the conference,
entitled, "Parents and the
Reading Program”, “Improv-
ing the Reading Program”,
and “Teacher in Orbit". Dr.
Austin is also director of
Harvard - Carnegie Reading
been ill it’s a wonder no one
has died. It might also be a
tribute to residents of Big
Lake in that they go to see
the doctor when they are ill,
instead of trying their own
home remedies. One of the
local doctors pointed out that
these folks in Big Lake will
just tell you right off that
they want to go to the hospi-
tal.
• • •
Got a letter from R. D. Mc-
Cready, president of the Ft.
Davis Historical Society, con-
cerning the 106th anniversary
celebration of the establish-
ment of the Army Post at
that city. To celebrate the
event, the Historical Society
is going to present the “Old
Ft. Davis Music Festival” on
the grounds of the Fort, June
25th and 26th. “It is our hope
that you can give us the
name of a person to contact,
one who is outstanding in
Local 4-H Clubbers
Enter Angelo Show
Fifty-four Reagan County
4-H Club fat lambs will be on
exhibit in the lamb show
Thursday morning, March 10,
when the San Angelo Fat
Stock Show gets underway at
8:30. Other local 4-H exhibits'
will include 12 registered
sheep, 10 calves, 1 registered
Hereford and 3 commercial
ewes. There are 42 local boys
and girls who have entries in'
the show.
E. O. Nevllls, county agent
who directs the local 4-H;
Club work, calls attention to|
those events on the stock!
show’s schedule which the
exhibitors should keep in
mind. They are listed below:
Tuesday, March 8, 4:00 p.
m. — Livestock to leave Big
Lake by truck.
Wednesday, March 9, 8:00
a. m. — All livestock to be in
place.
Thursday, March 10, 8:30 a.
m. — Fat Lamb Show. 1:00 p.
m. — Junior Rambouillet
Show. ,
Friday, March 11, 8:30 a. m.
—Junior Range Ewe Lamb
Show. 10:00 a. m. — Steer
Show.
Saturday, March 12, 8:00 a.
m. — Livestock Judging Con-
test. 10:00 a. m. — Auction
Sale of Livestock.
TAX FACTS FOR THE HOMEOWNER NO. 1“
Theft, Damage And Destruction
Of Property
any good. The people heard
Jonah, even the king, and
they repented of their evil
and God repented of the evil
which he had said he would
do to them.
Jonah thought his efforts
were in vain, so he went out
on the hillside to watch de-
struction to come down upon
the city. A plant arose over-
night to give Jonah shade,
but the next day it withered.
Jonah was angry and wanted
to die.
God’s reply to Jonah was
“You pity the plant, for
which you did not labor, nor
did you make it grow, which
came into being in a night,
and perished in a night. And
should not I pity Nineveh,
that great city, in which
there are more than a hun-
dred and twenty thousand
persons who do not know
their right hand from their
left, and also much cattle?”
Do we not at times become
rather reluctant to do the
work of the church for we
fear that we cannot accom-
plish anything? This was
Jonah's plight, but the people
repented and God did his
justice unto them.
At times we are the Jonah’s
because of our attitude to-
wards what the church must
do. Then when something is
accomplished we become an-
gry. There is a way to avoid
Mr. Pierce, pharmacist at
Peoples Drug for a number of
years, is spending the winter
on the Gulf Coast and is ex-
pected back in Big Lake soon.
lin Puckett and Tommy, of
Midland, were here for the
occasion, and a few local
friends visited with them
during the afternoon. The
Pucketts’ other two sons and
their families, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Puckett, Ray, Jr., Don
and Richard, of Midland, and
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Puckett
and Lisa of Houston, had vis-
ited with them just recently.
If It’s
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Call 549 or 306
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ference was sponsored by the
Texas Association for the Im-
provement of Reading.
Theme-of the two-day con-
ference was “The Reader as
an Individual". Out-of-state
speakers included Dr. Mary
C. Austin of Harvard Univer-
sity and Dr. William D. Shel-
don of Syracuse University.
Big Lake Lodge No. 1203,
A. F. & A. M.
Stated Meeting
Second Tuesday
of each month
W. T. Mills, Sec.
Benton L. Weeks, W. M.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank my many
West Texas friends for re-
membering me during my ill-
ness. Their flowers, get-well
cards and calls have been
gratefully appreciated.
O. I. Courtney
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(This is one of a series of articles on federal income tax
filing. The articles arc based on information provided by the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the
Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, in cooperation
with the Internal Revenue Service.)
VTOU can get some relief from casualty and theft losses by
X taking advantage of the legitimate tax deductions you
are allowed.
To help you prepare a correct
return and take advantage of
legitimate tax savings, this news-
paper Is printing a series of four
articles prepared with the help
of the state and national orga-
nizations of certified public ac-
countants.
Today's article considers the
problems you may have in claim-
ing deductions for theft or casu-
alty losses. Later articles will
offer advice on other tax prob-
lems of particular Interest to
homeowners.
Time and Destruction
There are a great many ways
in which your property can be
damaged or destroyed, as for ex-
ample, by fire, storm, flood, or
explosion. Generally, a casualty
which will give rise to a deduc-
tible loss must occur with some
suddenness. However, there are
situations where the casualty
occurs over a period of time and
still results in a deductible casu-
alty loss. For example, consider
the damage caused by termites.
Say that you purchased your
house in June 1957 and at that
time a check by experts showed
that there were no termites
present. Then, in February 1958,
you discover that termites have
been eating your house from
under you. Can you claim a casu-
alty loss deduction for the ter-
mite damage? Yes, you can, even
though the damage took place
over a nine month period.
The casualty here, is the in-
vasion of your house by the ter-
mites. However, it is probable
that a casualty deduction will
not be allowed where the ter-
mite damage did not occur over
a relatively short period of time.
The Property Must Be Yours
You must have ownership of
the damaged property to claim a
loss deduction. It is quite con-
ceivable that severe damage to
the property around your house
may cause the value of your
property to decline. Although the
damage occurred suddenly, you
canno; claim a deduction for the
loss in value unless your own
property was actually damaged.
You can claim a deduction for
a drop in the value of your car
due to an accident. This is true
regardless of whether you or
another driver is to blame, un-
less the accident is a result of
your willful negligence. How-
ever, if you are responsible for
a car accident and have to pay
for damage inflicted on someone
else's car, you cannot deduct the
payment as a casualty loss.
Proving a Casualty Loss
Determining the amount you
can claim as a casualty loss may
be very difficult. Generally you
are allowed to claim the amount
by which your property de-
creased in value. In some cases,
a repair bill will be considered
sufficient to support your deduc-
tion.
The best thing you can do is
gather together any information
that may help support the
amount you claim as a deduc-
tion. For example, if your house
is badly damaged, a qualified ar-
chitect can often give a reason-
able estimate of the before and
after value. The appraisal fee,
by the way, is a deductible ex-
pense.
Theft Losses
You can claim a deduction
for the value of property that is
stolen. The problem in claiming
losses from theft is that you will
probably have to show some
evidence that the theft took
place. Be sure that there is at
least a police record of the theft
and a report of any findings the
police may have come up with.
Also, you might keep track of
newspaper accounts, insurance
reports, and so on. Theft losses
are deductible in the year you
discover that your property is
missing.
You can get additional infor-
mation on casualty and theft de-
ductions from the instruction
booklet issued by the Internal
Revenue Service each year.
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