The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1970 Page: 8 of 10
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The Archer County News
Published at Archer City, Texet, 76351, weekly except the la*t
week in December
Second class postage paid at Archer City, Texas, 76351
Subscription rates: $3.50 in county and adjoining counties
and $5 00 elsewhere.
Any erroneous reflection on the character, reputation or
standing of any person, firm or corporation which may appear
in The News will be gladly corrected if brought to the atten-
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rHURSDAV, FEBRUARY 12, 1970
4-H Club News
The fifth grade 4-H Club
girls of Windthorst held their
regular meeting Tuesday, Jan.
13. Al this meeting Mrs. A G
Reis taught us how to cut out
patterns.
Lisa Meurer, reporter
The fourth and fifth grade
4-H boys met in the Wind-
thorst school cafeteria with
County Agent Marvin Henry Jan.
13. The president, Butch Sch-
roeder, conducted the meeting
and the secretary, Randy Wolf,
read the minutes and called the
roll. Al! were present. We talk-
ed about dairy cattle and dis-
missed going out one day and
learning to build and use quail
feeders. Henry taught us a new
game.
Bob Steinberger, reporter
Busy Bee 4-H Club
The Busy Bee 4- H Club held
their regular monthly meeting
on Jan. 13, in their classroom.
The president opened the
meeting with the 4-H pledge
and motto. -After the rill was
called by the secretary each
girl gave a two minute talk
on a subject suggested by our
leader, Mrs. Ed Veitenheimer.
The talent show was dis-
cussed and the offices of club
reporter and recreation leader
were exchanged by Carol Ber-
end and Sharon Jeter.
Carol Ann Berend, reporter
The perfect way to say I love you" — a beautiful
Pangburn's Valentine Heart packed with Milk-and-
Honey Chocolates Your sweetheart will appreciate
your good taste in choosing Pangburn’s
Archer City Pharmacy
VALENTINE DAY IS FEBRUARY 14th
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Delphians Hear Of.
Big Thicket Of Texas
Mrs. Charlie Lee Martinwas
hostess at her home, 506 S.
Oak, to members of the Archer
City Delphian Club recently,
with Mrs. D. J. Graham as co-
hostess.
Mrs. Gene Crutcher, chair-
man of the Conservation
Department, led the group in
repeating the pledge to the
Texas flag and introduced the
speaker, Mrs. Virgil Seay.
Mrs. Seay spoke on “The
Big Thicket Project,” des-
cribing the location of Big
Thicket as near Houston in a
beautiful land with heavy rain-
fall and dense vegetation. She
noted that it is one of the
country’s most valuable re-
gions, stating that Big Thicket
is so remote, primitive and
unconquerable that draft dod-
gers during World War II hid
out in its darkness to escape
military service.
The speaker said that Big
Thicket is the only place in
Texas where the native red
man can make medicine, and
that it is rich in timber, yet
very poor and is at once peace-
ful, serene and picturesque.
The abundance of game which
inhabits the Big Thicket
includes white-tailed deer,
flying squirrels, wild hogs, alli-
gators and poisonous snakes.
Mrs. Seay told of how the
Big Thicket Association was
organized for the purpose of
preserving portions of the land
for public parks, and of how
Sen. Ralph Yarborough has in-
troduced a bill in Lesislature
to establish a Big Thicket Nat-
ional Park in Southeast Texas.
She stated that the Texas Fed-
eration of Women’s Clubs has
expressed an interest in the
project.
Mrs. Smitson's
Parents
Improved
Mrs. Dorothy Smitson re-
turned Saturday to her home in
this city from Chandler, Ariz.,
where she had been the previous
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Clark Guy, who have been
ill.
The elderly Mr. Guy is con-
valescing satisfactorily from
major surgery last week, ac-
cording to his daughter, and
Mrs. Guy is recuperating from
a sudden illness.
Mrs. Smitson was met at
Love Field in Dallas Saturday
by Mr. and Mrs. Emery Berend,
Glenda and Leo of Windthorst
who were there to outfit an
apartment for Glenda and her
fiance, Harold Leroy Smitson,
whose wedding is to be Valen-
tine’s Day in Windthorst.
Mrs. R L Hancock spoke
on Texas Shrines, enumerating
many of them and placing spe-
cial emphasis on LakeTexoma.
She pointed out that Ft. Washia,
on the Texoma shore, served
as a protection for the Texas
Trail during the Civil War.
Mrs. Hancock also mentioned
the Eisenhower home in
Sherman where Austin College
Ls also located.
Mrs. Jeff Seay reported that
work will begin about Feb. 20
on construction of a new gate-
way to the Archer City Ceme-
tery, the club’s project.
The meeting closed with
members repeating the club
motto in unison.
Refreshment plates served to
Mmes. Crutcher, Seth Duren,
J V. Linscott, B. D. Ikard,
James Roberts, G. B. Purcell,
J P Horany, C. W. Fletcher,
D W. Gholson.W C Abernathy,
Seay, Hancock, Seay and Miss
Ruby Power.
Scotland News
By Mrs. Leonard Schenk
Pfc. Johnny Luig, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Luig is home on
furlough from the Marines. He
is to report back to Quantico,
Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. FredTeichman
of Amarillo are here visiting
relatives for a few days inclu-
ding Mrs. Robert Hajovsky and
family, Mrs. Wence Martinka,
the Hugo Teichmans, the Irwin
McDonalds and Mrs. Joe Hoff-
man.
Mrs. Joe Schlabs went to
Lake Whitney recently where
she was joined by a sister-
in-law, Mrs. JoeDonoho. From
there the two went to Texas City
where they visited with two of
Mrs. Schlabs’ brothers and
their families, the Tom Donohos
and Roland Donohos.
Mrs. Lucille Schenk flew to
Westminster, Calif, last week
to attend the funeral of a
brother-in-law, D. C. Horton.
Mrs. Horton will be re-
membered as the former Vivian
Moore.
Mrs. Joe Hoffman, Mrs.
Frank Scheffe and Mrs. Wence
Martinka went to Fort Worth
Saturday, Feb. 7, where they
attended a Diocesan Board
Meeting.
In Fort Worth, the trio also
visited with Molly Zaskoda and
the Lloyd Scheffe family, and
in Dallas with Mr. and Mrs.
“Jerry” Hoffman.
From Dallas, the ladies went
to Denison, where they visited
with the Charles Ingrams and
William Grays and returned
home Monday, Feb. 9.
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Henry “Hank” Meurer was
admitted to the Archer County-
Hospital last week with pneu-
monia.
Travis Bussey is substitu-
ting as school bus driver during
Hank’s illness.
The Catholic Women’s Club
met last Wednesday evening,
Feb. 4, at the home of Mrs.
Frank Luig.
After the meeting, a surprise
pink and blue” shower was
given for one of the members,
Mrs. Lloyd Schreiber.
Personal
Mrs. R. C. Anderson, former
Archerite now of Moore, Okla.,
attended business and visited
during the weekend with friends
to include Mrs. Myrtie Walk-
er in the Archer Nursing Home.
She visited also in Holliday
with Mrs. Eula Paul and daugh-
ter, Frances.
W A (Bill) Berend was over
Friday afternoon from Wind-
thorst attending a number of
chores in Archer City.
Jewel Coleman was a Fri-
day visitor in Archer City from
her Scotland home, attending
to business.
Rex Conner at Childress was
a News office visitor Friday
at which time he enlisted as
a new subscriber.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Lyles
of this city attended funeral
services Monday at Floral
Heights United Methodist
Church in Wichita Falls for
Mrs. Zettie Hill, 87, who died
Saturday. She was a sister at
Pete Albritton of Wichita Fails,
brother-in-law of Mrs. Lyles.
Mrs. Hill has been a resident
of Wichita Falls since 1905.
Johnny Schreiber was over
Monday from the Windthorst
area, attending county seat af-
fairs to include seeking publi-
city for the Archer County Re-
publicans.
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor:
Our campus newspaper, “The
University Daily,” has a section
for letters to the editor, similar
to the one in The Archer C ounty
News. In this section students
or faculty can write their opin-
ion on almost any subject from
campus affairs to world prob-
lems.
This week there were two
very good satirical letters on
the subject of pollution. They
are both written by the same
boy and appeared in different
issues. I hope he continues
to write more of them because
they are to the point in a satir-
ical way.
I am enclosing them so that
you can enjoy them and pos-
sibly share them with -Archer
County citizens.
I hope that you enjoy them.
Jerry McWhorter
One of the letters follows:
In the end man polluted the
heavens and the earth.
He sterilized the waters and
over-populated the lands. He
held the throat of nature and
squeezed it until it choked with
noxious fumes.
But man, unlike God, did
not rest after seven days -
not even after 25 years.
He destroyed the fishing
industries of Lake Erie and
converted it into a magnificent
sewer. He filled the air with
chemicals and ashes. He folld-
ed the rivers with untreated
intestinal wastes from slaugh-
ter houses. He dusted his crops
and animals and himself with
DDT and other pesticides.
Then he stood back and said,
"This is good.” And it was
good for industry.
It was good for cotton gins,
chemical plants, slaughter
houses, oil industry, pesticide
manufacturers and too many
others. It was good for poli-
ticians supported by industrial
funds. It was good for ecological
disaster.
What is ecology, and what
does it have to do with you?
In simple terms it is the
various associations of living
organisms, both plant and ani-
mal, in your environment
For instance, DDT can impede
the production of oxygen in
marine plankton. And these
plankton produce over half of
the world’s oxygen. Yet agri-
culture and the chemical
industry insist on using it, and
it runs off into rivers and into
the ocean.
If you don’t think it’s hap-
pening, godownto Houston some
day and look at the ship channel
and take a deep breath. Drink
the water from almost any
major river in the state. Look
at “Clear Creek” in Houston.
Smell the air of Dallas.
Go southwest of Lubbock to
the oil fields and smell the
hydrogen sulfide gas (it’s that
stuff that smells like the
Chicago stockyards). And when
you’ve done all this, if you’re
still alive, think that in 10 years
it could easily be twice as bad.
And there you sit, as inno-
cent as an apple, while industry-
marches on. You may just die
that way.
R. M. Burton
3102 Fourth St.
David Pedens
Return Home
With Daughter
Mr. and Mrs. David Pedenand
children, Amy and Barry,
returned the past weekend to
Archer City from Clovis, N. M.,
where they had been visiting
the lady’s folk, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Threet, when Amy’s leg
was broken, causing a pro-
longed stay.
Amy is now in traction in
the Archer County Hospital,
her grandmother, Mrs. Carl
Peden said. It had been thought
the two-year-old child would
be hospitalized in Clovis four
weeks.
Personal
Mr. and Mrs. John Williams
of .Abilene were Thursday over-
night guests in the home of his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Lyles, 207
S. Ash. Visitors the preceding
night were Mr. and Mrs. Vern
Jarrard of Wichita Falls.
Personals
Mrs. Luther (Bunk) Key was
brought home Monday of this
week from Wichita Falls where
she has been hospitalized since
Jan. 21 (Inadvertently stated in
last week’s News as Dec. 21)
and where she underwent major
surgery.
Bunk is convalescing satis-
factorily, according to her
daughter, Mrs. Paul Hopkins.
Mrs. Blake Campbell of North
Archer County is in Austin for
a couple of weeks visiting with
her daughter’s family, Mr. and
Mrs. John Herbert Gray, Jr,
and new granddaughter, Shelly
Kay. This was Mrs. Camp-
bell’s first airplane ride and
Blake will drive to Austin in
a week or so for Mrs. Camp-
bell to return to their home.
Terry Schroeder was a brief
News office visitor Thursdays
last week, picking up some
printing for the Windthorst
school. Terry came over during
his study hall period, he said.
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