The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1964 Page: 2 of 8
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The Archer County New* Thursday. No* - -6. 1<)64
The Archer County News
Published every Thursday at Archer City, Archer County, Texas
Joe K. Stults, Editor and Publisher
Angling About
Archer
By Mrs. Jack Robertson
A combination of Ozark thrift-
! iness and the knack of improvis-
_________ | ing which is common to all farm
Subscription lates: $2.50 In county and adjoining counties and j wives tends t0 !nake an outstand-
|5.00 elsewhere. I ing homemaker. Such a person
-----------------------:--I iS Mrs. O. T. Cox. Star Route, j
Any erroneous reflection on the character, reputation or : A native of Missouri, |
standing of any persor . firm or corporation which ma> appear : ^jrs <-ox grew up in Arkansas j
in The News will he gladly corrected if brought to the attention ol , &nd came t0 xexas as a bride, 36:
the publisher. . „ j years ago. Her husband who was;
____________-—------------; pn engineer for the Shell Oil Co.1
Muenster Editor’s
Views on Hwy 82
Second class postage paid at Archer City, Texas, 76351-
- - 11 i If reports reaching here are
had arrived ten years earlier. true lt>g easy ,0 understand why
Since Mr. Cox’s retirement, the [olfe’ along highway 82 in towns
(EDITOR’S NOTE—The fol- I assurance does anyone have
lowing article appeared in the j that the road a few years hence
Muenster Enterprise last will not by pass many present in
| vestments? And are people quite
sure that they wil continue to
want traffic going through the
I tow ns’ Times change. Many roads
now miss the towns and in most
| cases people are glad of it. On
the other hand, no one knows
week which points out the
advantages of having High-
way 82 re-routed. The article
was written by R. N. Fette,
editor of the Enterprise).
either what traffic conditions to
expect along Highway 82 in the
future. Can anyone be sure that
LETTERS
to the
EDITOR
(EDITOR'S NOTE—The News
prints all letters to the ed-
itor which are not of a libel-
ous nature. All letters must
be signed.)
UliST 1»»S HtSS HVldiru,/ couple have made their home om ^ Muenster were worked traffjc business will actually de
F* >4 their stock farm in the Blackflat up over the meeting last week to cline?
| Community. {promote a highway from here to
_____-----1 One of Mrs. Cox’s hobbies is Seymour As those people under
hool Coach Graves told us all ,he niaking of unusual jell,es dand it, the proposal is to re-
the day we elected Ranch Week and thls rePorter "a!> lu^ route the highway, leaving Saint
candidates not to elect football | e.ncugh.10 "f “J *>• Nocona and Ringgold very
boys because they had to be home
| by 10:00. I was mad and so was j
I everyone else, but we got over J
it. Now I admire him for stand-
much isolated. Who wouldn’t ob-
ject?
Editor Eddie Powell showed
a front
Dear Editor.
I think each and everyone of
us should make it a point to find
our football coach and shake his
the recipe for two of these deli-
cacies.
Prickly Pear Apple Jelly
u. i .......— ______ Gather the apples with ice! commendable spirit in
in11 up against it all like he did. t°ngs and wash at least five j page editorial in the Nocona and
Cm sure he didn’t really like times. This should bring all the Saint Jo papers last week> urgjng
: doing it be just wanted a good fine bristles to the surface for j people in the towns concerned to
ball team, and Ranch Week or disposal. Cut the apples into start a barrage of protesting let-
nothing else was going to inter small pieces and boil in water, ,ers to the Highway Department
fere | just to cover, until w-ell done.' happens, however, that the
Mrs. Cox uses the standard
Corn-Cob jelly recipe to make
Strain several times through a j letters are not necessary. There
Coach Graves is firm and lays jelly doth and allow to set over- L no conspiracy t0 take the high-
down the law, its up to the boys night lhen strain again. Com- wav {rom them. Rather, the plan
v. i v thJ RJ rraves the". If ,hey can or *a"not ta*® bine 5i cups of juice with 2 box- L 't0 promote an alternate road
hand. lm sure that Coach Graves lt The ones that cant live with ps of powered pectin in large ket-! providing a better and shorter
-WTin ^ ' ^w JUSt h°" thc ru,les °r restijations wouldn t ,]e Bring t0 boil and add 1 eup|route to Seymour as well as to
much he has none with our boys have done us a whole lo, of good ]emon ?nd 7 nwp_ i^tween here and there.
nc , at Highway 82 need not
be changed in any way.
A glance at the road map re-
veals that the proposal has real
merit. Highway 82 goes north as
well a west from here to Wich-
ita Falls, then southwest to Sey-
and west to Lubbock. The sug-
gested alternate route would go
southwest to Bowie, than due
west to Windthorst, Archer City
and Seymour, joining the present
Highway 82 there. From here to
Seymour it would reduce mile-
age about 25 to 30 miles and also
eliminate traffic driving in Wich-
ita Falls. Saving in time would
be almost an hour. And in the
bargain it would be a very wel-
He has worked hard for four ^bf Z hu^*'iZd ^e^' ^ "
years with our boys. He has play- haye made a good foot5all play. ,0 glas'e"
ed at each game just as hard if er |Jut the Coach was just too
not harder than the boys. He strict.” These boys our team does her Mesquite Bean Jelly.
loves the game and from some- n°t miss or want. 1 hope we never Gather ripe mesquite beans,
where I got the idea that he loves never bave a sm§le bo>' on our wash and break into small pieces.
each and rvervone one of those team ,ba! d°CS ?0t, °Ve 3"d Cover with water and cook slowly
each e,.one jpeet the game. As long as Coach untj, mushv. strain and let cool.
boys. Graves i., here, or a man that can strain aga’in the ncxt m0rning.
Was it just four years ago that half f'!1 his shoes Fm confident Combine 3 cups juice with 1 box
Coach Graves came to Archer oh of our footbal boys will be box pectin in jelly kettle and
Citv, we lost every game that Just lkf *he bo>s were all so bring t0 boil Add 3 cups sugar
year. We had some good boys, proud oi ,hls ycar’ Ma-vbe not alJ and cook to jelly stage. Add red
just not enough, but who did we ^ or green coloring for appearance
blame, naturally Coach.
I was a freshman in High
FEDERAL LAND BANK
LOAN — for purchasing of
land, cattle, refinancing or im-
provements. Federal Land
Bank Association of Wichita
Falls, 207 First National Bldg.
Such questions, while un-
answerable, are important to the
people concerned, but they are
not the factors on which the
Highway department makes its
decisions. The purpose of roads
is to provide ways for people to
go from one place to another.
They are built for the benefit of
drivers, not for the benefit of
people who want to do business
with drivers. The important
question, therefore, the one that
matters in the long run, is wheth-
er the benefits to drivers will
justify alternate roads to serve
the areas concerned. Apparently
the answer is affirmative.
Personals
i standing as ;vas. Henry Schef-
JAMES AND ALFRED BERENDS fees and Ge0 Vit!“nheimers 13,
Alfred Berends and Allen Hoff-
CHAMPIONS IN BOWLING , ^ g John Schroeders and Ad.
James and Alfred Berends won 05ph Veitenheimers 7 and Leon-
the championship playoff in the ard Schenks and Dave Meurers 4.
Thursday league by 75 pins in-
eluding a 54 pin handicap. The Personals
teams bowled three games but Mrs. John Nichols of Pratt,
only total pins determined the Kansas, visited last week with
winner Lee Schenks and A. R her daughter’s family, the Char-
“’ 909 S- Ash.
Mr. and Mrs. Butch Eustace
and son. Kirk, of Wichita Falls Lindemans won the first game by lie Kmgs’
in whten Tommie Eustace, his tbe dccjdjng factor. Both teams we have a complete line of pos-
brother and former Archer resi received trophies but the “Champ ter board and all colors of Car-
dent, played, following a lunch- jon-, engravjng makes the dif- ter’s felt-tipped markers. The
eon that Butch attended. Mrs. Fay ference
Carpenter, the boys’ aunt from
Forth Worth, and her two daugh-
ters, Julie, and Mrs. Bill Uhe,
also attended the game.
MIMEOGRAPH PAPER, letter
The Tuesday league had a tug- 8nd legal size. Onionskin paper,
o-war this week with all teams letter and legal size. The News
winning two points, leaving the Office. tfc
sports and good boys, boys that pour int0 glasses and cooi
will someday be good citizens for _
Archer City or some city.
What I’ve been trying to say Personals
without much success, is that I yjr and yirs gjjiy Ray Craw-j come improvement for the area
think Coach Graces should be tord and children, Bill, Terry and ; between here and Seymour. It
commended for a job well done. 0ebcrah visited over the week- would even be a welcome short
I hope Coach Graves is still here pnd wjtb her parents, Mr. and cut from Saint Jo and Nocona
in Archer City to coach my son Mrs Arch Knox. They arrived in
in football if God blesses me with
a son
time to attend the Archer City-
i Keller football game last Friday
Sincerely. ! night. The Crawfords reside in
Mrs. George (Velda) Dickey Houston.
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to west Texas.
The practicability of such an
alternate route is apparent from
the fact that many drivers are
now using a less direct and less
adequate road which already ex-
ists. They go to Bowie via FM
roads through Saint Jo or For-
est burg, then follow another FM
road to Windthorst, Archer City
and Seymour. They already pre-
fer it to the regular 82 route.
They’d be much better pleased
if the road were shortened and
improved to the standard of a
regular highway.
Furthermore, there are reasons
why such an alternate road de-
serves early consideration. Pres-
ent volume of traffic points to
a probability that more traffic
capacity to west Texas is near
the planning stage. The present
Highway 82 will have to convert
to 4 lanes unless some of the traf-
fic is diverted to an alternate
road. As conditions are now, the
Highway Department could prob-
ably build the alternate route
for less than it could widen the
present one to four lanes.
In general here is what would
be required. A new right of way
and new road from here to Bowie.
From there on it already has a
right of way and basic construc-
tion. To meet federal highway
requirements it would probably
have to widen the right of way
and improve the road. It is doubt-
ful however, whether the total
cost of the alternate road would
equal the total cost of additional
right of way plus complete con-
struction of two more lanes from
here to Henrietta. From a finan
cial standpoint the alternate
highway should be considered
son'll, before other plans are
made.
Another look at the road map
shows that a re-routing of High-
way 82, as some seemed to fear,
j isn’t even remotely likely. A
highway is needed from here to
Wichita Falls, and heading to-
ward Amarillo. Re-routing would
create a bigger problem than it
would solve. The new highway
cannot possibly be more than
an alternate, sc towns along the
present route needn't worry
about losing anything—except
that portion of traffic which pre-
fers the other way.
Some concern was indicated
about the loss of tourist business
in the towns along present High-
way 82, and the thousands of
dollars invested by persons and
firms serving the tourists. Doubt-
less that is a factor. But what
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1964, newspaper, November 26, 1964; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth714283/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Archer Public Library.