The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1966 Page: 1 of 8
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The Archer County News ©
52n<1 Year
Short Grass Ranching Capital of The World
Archer City, Texas 76351
Single Copy 10c
Thursday, March 3, 1966
Number 9
City Council
Okays Fire
Public Invited To School Next Week
Truck Fund
The City Council met in spec-
ial ression last Thursday night
and unanimously agreed to add
$1. per month to all water bills
to pay for a new fire truck for
the city.
•S&i-: 10uo*ln& a
Utter from the state Fire In
surance Board issuing a warning
to the city that a 500 GPM triple
combination pumper to be pur-
chased or face a 5c key rate
penalty on fire insurance.
The SI. per month additional
rate will be carried on the water
bill as “fire truck fund’’.
Meeting with the council were
representatives of two fire
truck manufacturing firms. Fol-
lowing the meeting the council
drew up the specifications for
the truck and equipment to be
purchased. The specifications
can be found in today’s News
on the classified page.
Representatives of the com-
panies told the council that it
would take at least four months
to deliver the equipment after
the contract bid has been award-
ed.
Councilman Frank Walsh was
absent from the meeting due
to sickness.
Wheat Growers
Assn. Sponsors
Program In Olney
☆ ☆
Public School Week
The need for the public school never changes, but times
and conditions may change or require to be changed methods
and practices of publi^educatipn. This is inherent with an\
tnt"aT‘gTTTST,i'!? “owtn iri,p result of"ek'-ag
Our Texas public schools were created 112 years ago. In
1854 the first law was passed establishing the public school.
It is a healthy thing in our democratic way of life to have
intelligent understanding of the important functions of our
basic institutions. This is especially true of the schools. The
initiative and resourcefulness and the wisdom and leadership
that our schools are inculcating in the youth of today are the
answer of the problems of citizenship in the years ahead.
Yes, “bring me men to match my mountains.” That is the
need of our times and must come from the public schools—
schools that are strong in virtues required for building strong
men and women.
We can be assured of this and do our part in understand-
ing the public schools to fulfill their great obligation to our
times by being a participant in the annual Public Schools
Week, March 7 through March 11. Schools in Archer County
will hold open house; accept their hospitality, and you will
enjoy the experience of going back to school—if but for a day.
Since 1951, Texans have been
observing the first week in
March as Public School Week,
with the result that nearly two
million visitors are attracted to
the school annually.
The public school is a place
to see Democracy in Action, for
here the child is taught the
teiican W«* of life, here he
learns that his country wst
founded by the work and inia-
tive of the pioneer. The school
is a gift to the coming genera-
tion from those who would
make the path smoother for
their children.
Here the character of fu-
ture citizens is being molded,
and if America is to grow,
it is these youngsters in our
school who will do the job. Vis-
it your school this week.
The Rolling Plains Wheat
Growers Association will sponsor
a program of interest to all
wheat growers of this area.
Dr. Kenenth Porter, researcher
and plant breeder of the Bush-
land Experiment Station will
speak in Olney tonight (Thursday)
March 3, at the Community Cen-
ter, at 7:30 p.m. and in Vernon,
Friday, March 4, at the Wilbar-
ger Memorial Auditorium at
7:30 p.m.
Work being done on hybrid
wheat will be discussed. Also
what is new in wheat varieties.
Dr. Porter is an expert in these
fields and anyone interested is
invited to attend one of these
meetings.
Those planning to attend from
Archer County include David
Williams of Dundee, and A. B.
Herndon and Bill Dwyer, both
of Holliday. Williams serves as
executive vice president of the
Association and Dwyer is a di-
rector.
OBSERVE CHARTER—Three Cub Scouts and
their Cub Master are admiring the Pack Char-
ter and two blue and one red ribbons that
they received at the past threa annual Scout-
O-Ramas. Cub Scouts (I. to r.) Mark Groves,
Coby Osborne, Ronnie Willett and Cub Master
Bill Crow, were on hand to help celebrate the
Scouts 65th birthday Saturday night. The
Chatter and ribbons will hang permanently
in the Lions Club Hall. The Lions Club is
rsercsor agent for the Cub Scouts in Archer
City. (News Staff Photo)
School Census Shows County-Wide
Decrease; Archer City Gains 21
The Archer County-wide cen-
sus shows a decrease of six
scholars for the year 1966-67.
Three of the schools increased
in enrollment with only one de-
creasing.
Schools with an increase in-
clude Archer City with 21; Mc-
gargel, six; and Windthorst, 11.
Holliday school showed a loss
of 44 students.
In the 1965 census, a total of
63 six-year-olds, or first graders,
were enumerated at Archer City.
For the school year 1966-67
there will be 56 first graders
Brucellosis Testing Program To
Be Sponsored By Farm Bureau
The Archer County Farm Bu-
reau Board of Directors voted to
sponsor the Brucellosis Testing
Progam in Archer County as
outlined in Uniform regulation
of the USDA and the Texas
Animal Commission' at the
special called meeting, Monday,
Feb. 28.
Dr. Arch Andrews, local vet-
erinarian, was present at the
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
meeting on Monday evening to
answer questions concerning the
brucellosis eradication program.
Ira C. Elmore, vice-chairman,
was in charge of the meeting,
due to absence of Chairman C.
A- Newsom, Sr.
At the meeting it was an
nounced by Dr. Horn, area vet-
erian, that Archer County will
soon be surrounded by coun-
ties that have petitioned to be-
come modified Brucellosis Free
Areas. The Board then voted to
consider the possibility of spon-
soring the testing program.
Texas laws require that cattle
leaving a non-tested county must
be tested before going into a
clean county or to another
.state.
Calves under eight months of
age, steers and official vacci-
nates under 30 months of age
will not be tested.
Dairymen operating under
Plan A Agreement do not need
lo test their cows, unless a sus-
picious symptom appears.
Before a county can be test-
ed, 75% of the cattle owners,
owning 51% of the cattle as
listed on the tax rolls must sign
a petition.
Howard Lyles, Gordon Rucker
and Dr. Andrews were appoint-
ed to an Animal Health Commit-
tee and may be contacted for
additional information. Petitions
requesting the Texas Animal
Commission to have Archer
County declared a Type 11 Bru-
cellosis Control Area, are being
circulated. All livestock owners
are asked to come by the Farm
Bureau Office, The News Of-
fice or any of the committee
members to sign the petition. Al-
though their cattle may not be
tested, dairy herd owners are
asked to sign the request.
Present for the meeting were
Andrews, Elmore, Elmer Carter,
Ed Conrady, W. J. McMurtry,
Dale Murphy, E. J. Poirot, 0.
D. Gray, Lyles and Rucker.
enrolled in the local school.
Six-years olds who will enroll
in school for the first time in
the fail of 1966 will be: Mark
A. Anderle, Janice K. Ash, John
M. Aulds, Joe H\ Baughman,
John G. Bell, Judy K. Blassin-
game, Linda R. Carcano, Todd
Coleman, Joey L. Crites, Dana
S. Culwell, Judy L. Cunningham,
Julia D- Davis, Walter L, Du-
gan, Jeffrey J. Fletcher and Dor-
cyle Gosler.
Rickey F. Graves, Mitch C.
Green, Sheila D. Hale, Dean
Harrelson, Kathy J. Harris, Kirk
h'oepfner, David Huggins, Lo-
retta A. Jentseh, Rhonda G.
Keener. Wanda R. Keener, Judy
K. Koetter, Carol Koetter, Bar-
bara L. Lindeman, Mark A. Luig,
and Beverly J. Meyer.
Ray Moore, Cathy Morrison,
Jackie Mueller, Terry L. McCub-
bin, Paul S. Parsley, Beverly
Pendergrass, James, D. Peters,
Celina A. Powell, Tina Y. Rob-
ertson, Barbara A. Schenk, Rich-
ard C. Schlomach, Jayne M. Se-
bastian, Douglas W. Stanford,
Leslie D. Stubbs, Tomi K. Tar-
no, Jim J. Taylor, Tommy Veith,
Steven Watson, Victor Welsh,
Lexa R. Willeford, Donnie B.
Wood, Rebecca D. Dwyer and
and Joe D. Williams.
A breakdown of the students
enrolled in Archer City Schools
show that there are some nine
more boys enrolled in the school
than girls. Divided according to
ages the students are;
Age
Boys
Girls
Total
6
29
27
56
7
35
25
60
8
23
31
54
9
33
27
60
10
26
19
45
11
32
18
50
12
23
32
55
13
28
27
55
14
27
31
58
15
21
22
43
16
31
29
60
17
19
30
49
Total
327
318
645
School
officials in the
county
have been taking census for the
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McMurtry Receives
Prose Award
I.arry McMurtry, an alumus
of North Texas State Univer-
sity, and currently an instructor
at Rice University in Houston,
was presented the Periodical
Prose Award ($250) at Denton
on Saturday.
McMurtry, who is preparing
his third novel for publication,
was not present to receive the
award given for his article,
Good Times Gone, or Here
Again?”, published in Septem-
ber Holliday magazine. The Tex-
as Institute of Letters presented
the honor.
McMurtry had previously won
the Jesse H. Jones Award for
his novel, “Horseman, Pass By.”
He is also the author of a sec-
ond novel, “Leaving Cheyenne”,
and “Big D” which is published
in the current isue of Gentle-
men’s Quarterly.
McMurtry’s third novel, which
is to be released in the fall will
be published by Dial Publishers.
Six Candidates File For Three
Places On Local School Board
Four Seek Posts
On City Council
Three new-comers to politics
tossed their hats in the race for
seats on the city council this
week. Filing for mayor is Ken-
neth Aulds, co-owner and man-
ager of Aulds-Littlepage Funeral
Homo. Seeking election as coun-
cilmen are Obie Deen, incum-
bent, C. M. (Shorty) Hickman
and Jack Mueller. Hickman is
co-owner of Hickman & Jansen
Oil Field Service and Mueller
is production superintendent of
Homa Oil Company. Deen, who
will be seeking re-election, is in
oil well drilling and production
business.
Frank Walsh, along with Deen’s
terms expire and Walsh has not
made known his intentions.
The city election will be held
in the council room behind the
city hall, Tuesday, April 5.
Candidates interested in run-
ning in the city election must
file with Charles McDaniel, City
Secretary, before midnight Sat-
urday, March 5-
Interest in the school board
election increased at Archer
City this week as the filing
deadline approached. With terms
of two members expiring and
one unexpired to be filled, six
candidates have filed for the
three places.
This week, W. C. (Bill) Aber-
nathy, G. P. Hudson Jr. and
James A- (Buddy) Schlabs, filed
with school board secretary, A.
(). Campbell for the places on
the ballot.
A. J. Morris is asking re-elec-
tion while R. C. Kinder, the
other outgoing board member,
will not seek the post.
Lawrence Schlabs filed earlier
for the place on the board.
Joe Stults is seeking election
to the post of the unexpired
term, which has one year to
run, while the other five candi-
dates are campaigning for the
two places to be vacated.
Abernathy, a rancher, has a
child in the first grade.
Hudson, an employee of L. T.
Burns Oil Co., has four chil-
dren attending school.
Schlabs, a farmer and an em-
ployee of Perkins and Cullum,
has two children enrolled in
school.
Megargel has three positions
for the voters to fill in the April
2 election. 0. C. Sherley, Jimmy
Cuba and Edwin Symank all
have expiring terms, but have
filed for relection.
Others filing for the positions
are Robert Harmel, who has
served on the board for several
I years in the past; Don Owen
and Frank McAnally, Jr. All of
these men have children enroll-
ed in the Megargel school.
Serving on the board at the
present include Sherley, Cuba.
Symank, Hons, Boyd McWhor-
ter, Odell Bishop and Johnnie
Dormier. Carl Barker is super-
intendent of the Megargel
school.
Terms of two members of Hol-
| liday Independent School Dis-
trict will expire this year. The
! two, J. M. Gore and Kenneth
Williams, are seeking re-election
I according to news released this
i week by the board president,
jO. L. King.
The present board of trustees
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ARCHER CITY SCHOOLS
Archer City school will ob-
serve Public School Week,
March 7 through 11, with all
classrooms being available for
parents, guardians and school
patrons to visit during this week.
The elementary grades ■will
observe “Open House", Tuesday,
March 8. from 6:30 to 8:30 p m-,
when all teachers will be in
their classrooms to greet the
visitors. Work of the students
will also be on display in their
rooms.
Parents are invited to eat
lunch with their children in the
school cafeteria for the regular
student price of thirty cents.
The Archer City Lions Club will
lunch at the school cafeteria
Tuesday, March 8, in observance
of public school week.
There will be a biddy basket-
ball game Tuesday night and
the public is invited to attend.
School Receives
Additional Funds
For Library Books
According to Tim McPherson,
superintendent of the local
school, word was received from
the Texas Education Agency in
Austin that $993 96 has been
awarded to the Archer City In-
dependent School District, for
funds for library resources un
der Title II of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act.
These additional funds are to
be used above and beyond the
regular funds used by the school
to purchase books, used in the
library, each year.
HOLLIDAY SCHOOL
All adults of the Holliday In-
dependent School District will
have an opportunity to observe
I the work done by the students
j of the school during Public
School Week. Ray Coe, high
school principal, has announced.
Open House will be held on
March 8 from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
The Holliday High School
Band led by Dee Tucker, will
give a concert in the old gym-
nasium, beginning at 7 p.m. that
evening. Following the band con-
cert, the public is invited to
visit each classroom or labora-
tory where a teacher will be in
charge. Work done by the stu-
dents will be on display, and
parents will be able to visit
with the teachers.
Following a tour of the build-
ing guests will be served cook-
ies and punch in the school
cafetorium by the homemaking
girls.
MEGARGEL SCHOOL
The Megargel School is observ-
ing public school week this
week, March 1-4. A special mu-
sic program was presented
Tuesday night, March 1. at 8:00
p.m., at the school autditorium.
Grades one through four pre-
sented the program under the
direction of Mmes. JoAnn Hold-
en, Nell Coleman and Sue
Sharpley.
Special visitation days for
each class were, grades 9-12,
March 1; grades one and two,
March 2; grades 3-4, March 3
(today); and grades 5-8. March
4.
WINDTHORST SCHOOL
According to Rufus Moore,
superintendent at the Wind-
thorst School, they have no spec-
I ial plans in observing public
school week.
MR. AND MISS ACHS—Mickey Horany and Mis» Conni* Atch-
iay war* recently selected es Mr. and Miss ACHS by tha stu-
dent body at Archer City High School. Tho honor is given oech
year to a senior boy and girl, and tha honors woro bostowod
upon them during the presentation awards program Fab. 21,
in tha school auditorium. Mickoy is the son of Mrs. Margaret
Horany and the late Mitchell Horany. Mr. and Mrs. B. M.
Atchley are the parents of Connie.
COUNTY AGENT RESIGNS
County Agent Harry Campbell,
who was hired three months ago
to replace C. W. Wilhoit, resign-
ed his position effective March
1. He will begin work with
Purina Mills at Nacogdoches im-
mediately. The commissioners'
court has not hired a replace-
ment at this time but hopes to
within the next few weeks.
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1966, newspaper, March 3, 1966; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708702/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Archer Public Library.