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'<► JACKSBORO GAZETTE-NEWS
DIAL 567-2616 to Place CUsufwd Ad*
NINETY-FIRST YEAR
JACK COUNTY’S SHOPPING GUIDE SINCE ISM
Jacksboro, Texas 76056, Monday, February 8,1971
AT THE CROSSROADS TO WEST TEXAS
NUMBER 37
WEATHER
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Former Jacksboran Is
First '71 Traffic Fatality
JIMMY MULLEN
MICHAEL MOLLOY
CHERYL HORNE
Alpha-Omega Players To Present
'The World of CarlSandburg'Here
The shifting scenes of
America since.the turn of the
century will be portrayed when
the famed Alpha-Omega Play-
ers present a fully staged pro-
duction of “The World of
Carl Sandburg’’ on Monday,
Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m. at First
United Methodist Church.
Sandburg, who was born of
a Swedish immigrant family
early in 1878 in Galesburg,
111., recorded the sprawling
country of prairies and small
towns, the slums of the big
city, the struggle of labor
to improve itself, and jusl
Young Fanners
Demand Loans
Many young farmers in
Young, Jack and Stephens
Counties are finding the
Farm Ownership loan pro-
gram of the Farmer Home
Administration an e f f e c t i v e
tool to buy the farms of their
retiring elders or even to ex-
pand their own small opera-
tions, said Donnie R. McCool,
Farmers Home Administra-
tion supervisor serving the
three-county unit.
“The demand for this type
of credit,” McCool said, is
greater today than it has ever
been before. Established
farmers need this sort of
credit to enlarge and update
their operations, other farm-
ers need it to work their way
out of financial difficulties and,
in many cases, to use their
equity in real estate to re-
structure on manageable
terms short-term debts in-
curred for long-range im-
provements.”
Family farmers may use
^WHA’s farm ownership loans
^P> combine small land tracts
into economic units, establish
permanent pastures, finance
needed soil and water im-
provements, construct or re-
novate dwellings and essential
farm buildings or take other
steps to increase farm in-
come-producing capacity and
efficiency.
The interest rate is 5 per-
cent per year on the unpaid
principal. Maximum term is
40 years. A borrower may
make large payments in
years of high income to
build up a reserve that may
keep the loan in good standing
during years of low income.
A loan may not exceed the
^Plormal value of the farm and
other security minus any debts
against this property. In no
case may the Farmers Home
Administration loan plus
other debts against the se-
curity property exceed
$100,000. Farm Ownership
borrowers are required to
maintain their property, pay
taxes and property insurance
" premiums when due.
The Farmers Home Admin-
istration also makes loans to
pay farm operating expenses,
meet emergency credit needs
of farmers, develop com-
munity water and sewer sys-
tems, grazing associations,
build housing in rural areas
Including housing for senior
citizens and farm laborers,
and raise income levels of
rural and farm people.
Additional, information is
available at the Farmers
Home Administration Office
located in the courthouse at
Graham.
people from the poor to the
great.
President Kennedy said of
Sandburg, “He is the inter-
preter of the nation’s tradi-
tions and shaper of its
myths.”
His observations of his
fellowmen in the growing
industrial years are always
objective, never cruel, filled
with pathos and humor, so
that during his lifetime he was
the most widely read and ad-
mired poet in the history of
this nation.
Before his death several
years ago, Sandburg distin-
guished himself in five fields:
poetry, history, biography,
fiction and music, and his skill
in the world of letters earned
him numerous awards, includ-
ing two Pulitzer Prizes.
The Alpha-Omega Players
bring to Jacksboro the Nor-
man Corwin adaptation of the
best of Sandburg, in a mem-
Fuibright Earns
Company Honors
During the 1970 Leaders
Campaign of Southland Life
Insurance Company, W. C.
“Bill” Fuibright, Jacksboro,
a member of the Fort Worth
Agency, earned fourth place
in total premiums paid.
The Leaders Campaign is
the largest company-wide
sales campaign for South-
land Life and broke all re-
cords in 1970 with individual
and group sales combining to
equal a total of $2,746,960 of
new premiums.
Fuibright has been a mem-
ber of the Southland Life
field force for 17 years.
His industry honors include
membership in the Texas
Leaders Round Table for nine
years, qualification for the
National Quality Award for
seven years. This year he
qualified for the National
Sales Achievement Award.
orable evening of word
pictures which pleases all
ages in the audience, It is a
staged performance, not a
reading.
The Alpha-Omega Players’
company of talented young
actors intersperse laughter
with moments of reflection,
joy with sadness, respect with
satire.
Cheryl Horne, lead female
vocalist, was born in Stamford,
Conn., and received her formal
education at Southwestern Uni-
versity and Southern Metho-
dist University.
She has worked with Child-
ren’s Theatre, appeared as a
regular on a weekly television
series in Dallas, and her
stage credits include
“Marat/Sade," "Threepenny
Opera,” and the world premier
of “The Assasin,” Cheryl
returns to the Alpha-Omega
Players after a summer with
the Pacific Conservatory of
the Performing Arts.
Michael Molloy brings an
already varied list of ac-
complishments to the Alpha-
Omega Players. Winner of
National Society gf Arts and
Letters award in Dramma.he
has studied at Pennsylvania
State University and the world
renowned Dallas Theatre
Center. He has played in
theaters across the country
among them the Pennsylvania
State Festival Theater in such
larry Armstrong
On Dean's List
productions as “Funny Girl,”
"Look Homeward Angel,” and
“Dark of the Moon.” He has
also managed to squeeze in
enough time to graduate from
the rigorous Outward Bound
program. Michael’s other
interests include mountain
climbing, music and traveling.
Jimmy Mullen started his
dramatic training in higt
school in the drama depart-
ment there and in alocalcom-
munity theatre. He then wer
on to two years at Trinity
University where he did
French commedies and did the
role of Sergey in “The Jour-
ney of the Fifth Horse.” He
moved on to Dallas Theatre
Center for a year in their
Professional Academy. His in-
terests include writing and
classical music. He currently
makes his home in Dallas, and
this marks his third tour with
the Alpha-Omega Players.
The performance will be
open to the public. There will
be no admission charge but a
collection will be taken to help
cover the expenses of the
group here.
Bryson Students
Win at Show
FFA and 4-H Club members
of Bryson who placed at the
Fort Worth Fat Stock Show in-
cluded:
Eddie Kinder, 11th place in
the Junior Hereford Steer di-
vision.
Kirk Clayton, 3rd place with
his Black Angust Steer in Sen-
ior Division.
David Mitchell, tenth, Black
Angus, Julia Mitchell 13th.
In the Junior Steer Class,
Angus show, Kirk Clayton,
4th; David Mitchell, 9th;
Christ! Mitchell, 16th; Eddie
Kinder 17th.
Shorthorn division, Leon
Tate, ninth. Charolais Divi-
sion, Kelly Kinder, 3rd; Ho-
ward Hull, 17th.
Junior heifer Angus, Ralph
Coley Jr., 4th. Late junior
yearling class, Tommy Coley,
.3rd, Ralph Coley 5th.
In the showmanship for An-
gus exhibitors, were David
Mitchell son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Mitchell.
R. J. Shepard of Wichita
Falls, a one time Jacksboro
resident became Jack
County’s first traffic fatality
of 1971 Thursday when he lost
control of his 1959 Chevrolet
nine miles north of town on
Texas Highway 148 at 5:45
p.m. and was fatally injured in
the resulting crash.
The car, heading south, ran
off the road to the right,
swerved back onto the pave-
ment and went across the road
Fire Destroys
Damron Garage
The Jacksboro Fire Depart-
ment was called to the Euel
Damron home on South Se-
cond Saturday when fire de-
stroyed the garage and came
close to burning the house.
“We had company and were
eating supper when someone
came and told us the garage
was burning,” Mrs. Damron
said. She credited quick re-
sponse of the Fire Department
and the neighbors for saving
the house.
COMPETING IN GOLDEN GLOVES-Gary Neves senior (left),
and Monte Garner, junior, will represent Jacksboro High
School in the Texas Golden Gloves Tournament at Fort Worth’s
Will RogersColiseum, starting Feb. 12-13 and running through
Feb. 18-19-20-21.—Staff Photo
Rites Scheduled
For Oscar Tackei ^ousewarming ^ Tigers Compete
in Indoor Meet
Final Rites Held
For Mrs. Eckert
Mrs. Jake Eckert, 67, or
101 Fillmore, Wichita Falls,
died in a hospital there Feb.
3. Funeral services were
held Friday at Owens-Brum-
ley Funeral Chapel, Dr. Lan-
drum P. Leavell officiating.
She was a niece of Mrs. E.C.
Baker and a cousin of Ford
Scott, who, with Mrs. Baker,
attended the graveside rites
at Bellevue Cemetery Friday.
A native of Newport, Mrs.
Eckert was born Feb.
1904. She was a member
First Baptist Church, Wichita
Falls.
Surviving are her husband
Jake Eckart; a son, Jacob J.
Eckert Jr., Midland a
daughter, Mrs. Paul Hadley,
Jr. of Wichita Falls; and se-
ven grandchildren.
Five brothers, Oscar Wells
of Hastings, Okla., Herman
Wells of Wichita Falls, Ha-
zel Wells of Houston, Roy P.
Wells of Amarillo, Rue R.
Wells of Bellevue; five sis-
ters, Mrs. Lewis Carr of
Wichita Falls, Mrs. Henry
Bakke of Gainesville, Mrs.
Gerald Smith of Corpus Chris-
ti, Mrs. Lena Cason of Dallas,
Mrs. Bob Myers of Carlsbad,
N.M.
LUBBOCK-Larry G. Arm-
strong, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. G. Armstrong of Newport,
was among the more than 250
Texas Tech University stu-
dents in the College of Agri-
cultural Sciences to be named
to the Dean’s Honor List for
the fall semester.
He Is a senior and is major-
ing in agricultural education.
To qualify for the Dean’s
List a student must have a
grade point average of 3.0 or
more and must be taking as
many as 12 hours of work.
Announcement of honor stu-
dents was made this week by
interim Dean Samuel E. Curl.
The College erf Agricultural Millsap
Sciences Is one of eight col- land,
leges and schools at Texas
Tech. The others are the col-
leges of Arts and Sciences,
Home Economics, Engineer-
ing, Education and Business
Administration and the Grad-
uate School and the School of
Law.
Enrollment during the fall
semester passed the 20,QQ0
mark tor the first time since
Texas Tech was founded in
1( the mid-twenties,
of
Names Sought
In Elementary
Funeral services will be
held at Bryson Church of
Christ Tuesday, 2 p.m., for
Oscar F. Tackei, who died Sun-
day night at his home at
Bryson.
Officiating ministers will
be Carl Lassen of Fort Worth
and Bud Hales of Jacksboro.
Arrangements are with Haw-
kins Funeral Home and burial
will be in Cottonwood Ceme-
tery.
A retired pumper, Oscar
Tackei was born Jan. 17, 1897
in Bridgeport, the son of Chris
and MaryL. Blackburn Tackei.
He was married to Alice Neel
Aug. 24, 1924 at Jacksboro.
There will be a come and
go housewarming for Mr. and
Mrs. David Dunnigan at the
home at Perrin Saturday, Feb.
13, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Every-
one is invited.
Mrs. C. D. Freeman was the
lucky winner of the $50 gift
Surviving are his widow, certificate given away at El-
Mrs. Alice Tackei of Bryson; lis and Chambers Furniture
a daughter, Mrs. Norman Kel-
ley of Fort Worth; a son C. L.
Tackei of Fayetteville, N.C.;
four granehildren; three
great grandchildren; and two
brothers, Bonnie Tackei of
and Eugene of Gar-
Final Rites Set
For Mrs. Moody
Where are Jacksboro’s five
year olds?
According to Howard Elen-
burg, Jacksboro Elementary
School principal, not nearly all
of next year’s first graders
have been listed on the school
census. Nor have the four
year old group who will be of
kindergarten age next year.
A count is needed so that
plans can proceed for the
school term opening next
fall, Elenburg said.
He urges families in the
district who have a child with-
ing the age group to let him
and Appliance Feb. 5.
* * *
Fletcher and Mae Hughes
recently flew to Miami, Fla.,
where they enjoyed a visit with
the Leslie Hughes family.
Leslie is chief of electro-
nics in his US Coast Guard
division.
* * *
Pete and Mary JoBomma-
rito of Western Auto Store
attended the annual GE spring
meeting at Dallas.
* * *
Several Jacksoboro mer-
chants are offering sugges-
tions sure to please your
Valentine. Don’t overlook
their news for you inside,
* * *
We’ve been telling ourselves
every day that we need to de-
velop those pictures at home,
Now we don’t have those pic-
tures we took after last Thurs-
day’s first traffic fatality of
the year, and we’ve decided to
get “with it” in that depart-
ment. Bear with us if we come
up with a few bad prints.
* * •
Graford, Jearl Dean Guinn erf. Scores of you have told us
Wichita Falls and James Guinn how much you enjoyed the Fifty
of Seattle, Wash. Years ago column, but a few
Also by a brother, W. J. Bar- funny ones have turned up. Dr.
nett of Ardmote, Okla., 10 McClure said ten people have
grandchildren and several called to find out why he's
great grandchildren. moving to Olney.
Funeral services will be
held in Hawkins Funeral
Chapel Tuesday, 4 p.m., for
Mrs. Louisa Mae Moody, who
died Sunday in Wichita General
Hospital.
Officiating will be Rev.W.C.
McDonald and arrangements
are with Hawkins Funeral
Home. Burial will be in Cun-
diff Cemetery.
Mrs. Moody wasbornMay 1,
1892, the daughter of James
Monroe and Kibby Kirby Bar-
nett. She lieved at Newcastle.
She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. L. D. Sanders
of Fort Worth and Mrs. Doyle
Franklin of Mineral Wells;
three sons, Ernest Guinn of
Two Jacksboro High School
boys will compete in the Na-
tional Indoor Track Meet Fri-
day and Saturday to be held in
the Astrodome at Houston, said
track toach Jack Brister who
will take them.
Sammy Lewis who won the
State 440 yard dash champion-
ship last spring at Austin will
defend that title this week end.
Lex Henderson will compete
in the mile run. He placed
second in district last year ir
this competition.
This will be the first indo
meet for the boys to run it.
this year, the coach said.
Outdoor track season will be-
gin In March.
JHSWorkSel
On Income Tax
Jacsboro High School teach-
ers will be among the several
thousand North Texas teach-
ers helping Internal Revenue
Service teach students how to
prepare an income tax return.
Some 175 students will get
the IRS “Teaching Taxes “unit
at Jacksboro High School. The
Dallas district of IRS re-
ceived a record 1,149 orders
from schools, colleges, and
special teachers for 195,838
students this year.
"The income tax instruc-
tion is offered by the regular
teaching staff as part of such
studies as math, economics,
history, civics, bookkeeping,
accounting, agriculture,
homemaking, homeroom or
almost any subject,” accord-
ing to Ellis Campbell Jr.,
District Director of the Dal-
las IRS district
Campbell feels that Texas
teachers have done an out-
standing job in helping stu-
dents understand simple in-
come tax problems. He points
out that thousands of students
find from "Teaching Taxes”
that they have a refund com-
ing to them oo income taxes
withheld during summer em-
ployment
into a deep ditch, where it hit
a tree and left part of the car
body behind. Flipping around,
the car traveled another 50
yards on its side before com-
ing to rest.
Shepard was still alive when
the ambulance came, said
Highway Patrolman Jim Terry
who investigated. He was dead
on arrival at Jack County Hos-
pital.
Funeral services were held
Saturday 3 p.m., at Hawkins
Funeral Chapel, with H. P.
Bruce. Jehovah’s Witness
minister, officiating. Burial
was in Lynn Creek Cemetery.
Pall bearers were Ronnie
Ford, Onis Fuller, Norman
Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Jack
Shepard, James Shepard.
R. J. Shepard was born
Jan. 22, 1918 in Young County,
the son of Jack and Lucy
Singleton Shepard. He was
married to Eva Lee Jackson
Oct. 19, 1937, at Grandfield,
Okla.
Surviving are the widow of
Wichita Falls; five daughters,
Mrs. Kay Boyles of WestTaw-
okoni, Mrs. Sharon Ford :f<-
Duncan, Okla., Mrs. Pamela
Fuller of Iowa Park, Kathy
and Taffey Leann Shepard of
Wichita Falls; and a son,
Don Shepard of Wichita Falls;
six grandchildren.
Also by a sister, Mrs. Ben-
nie Hoff of Wichita Falls; and
two brothers, Ollie Shepard
of Paradise and Melvin of
Wichita Falls.
ICE CAUSES SKID
A driver and three horses
escaped almost unscratched
Sunday night when a 1962
Chevrolet pickup pulling a
horse trailer skidded on icy
pavement at 8:10 p.m. and
overturned on US 281 7 miles
northwest at 8:10 p.m. The
pickup was totaled and the
trailer badly damaged, said
Patrolman Ray Priest who
with Terrell investigated.
Billy Overstreet, 37, of
Route 2, Henrietta, was the
driver.
Registration Period Is Extended
Through February by Legislation
SB 110, signed by Governor
Preston Smith in Austin Friday
will give more than 700 Jack
County residents another
chance to become full parti-
cipating citizens during 1971.
The voter registration
period, which officially closed
Jan. 31, has been extended by
the new bill until midnight
Feb. 28, 1971.
Last year there were 3703
persons registered to vote in
Jack County.
The number registered this
year prior to the January dead-
line totaled only 2973, and this
figure is unofficial according
to Tax Collector Vernie Mae
Pruitt.
“We have not had time to
check the list for doubles and
other irregularities," she
said.
“Effective date for the cer-
tificates issued voters dur-
ing February is April 1,1971,
Secretary of State Martin
Dies told Mrs. Pruitt in a
letter she received Monday. He
reminded that she may have
received applications which
were unsigned or had insuffi-
cient information on them anc
suggested that correction oi
these errors may now be made
to get all registrants on the
list of qualified voters.
“Applications received
after the original Jan. 31 dead-
line should be processed with
ALAN BUSH
Alan Bush Rated
Certified CPA
Alan Bush erf Arlington
recently received his rat-
ing as a CPA from the
State Board of Certified
Public Accountancy.
A 1966 Jacksboro High
School graduate, Bush re-
ceived his bachelor of science
degree in business adminis-
tration from North Texas State
University. For the past two
years he has been employed
by Price ’Waterhouse accent-
ing firm.
His wife was formerly Paula
Platt They have a small son,
Charles Hayden.
the supplemental list,” the
secretary of state said, and
added:
“Please note that in any lo-
cal option election held prior
to April 1, 1971, the supple-
mental lists should not be
furnished at the polls since
these supplemental registra-
tions are not effective until
April 1.
Persons whose names ap-
pear on the supplemental lists
will be qualified to vote in city
and school elections, however,
since these are scheduled for
Saturday, April 3, Mrs. Pruitt
reminded.
Perrin Schoolboy
In Calf Scramble
E. L. Dodson Jr. of Perrin
will participate in the world’s
largest calf scramble of the
1971 Houston UvestockShow
and Rodeo, during the Friday,
Feb. 26 performance.
The Calf Scramble is one
of the all time favorite events
with audiences at the Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo.
From the first time the
scramble was held in 1942,
it has been a highlight of the
rodeo. Of the 384 boys who
participate, half will be suc-
cessful in winning a calf.
Since its beginning the
scramble has put more than
one million dollars in live-
stock in the hands of Texas
youth.
At each performance 24
boys are lined up within a
square in the center of the
Astrodome, and 12 calves are
turned loose. At a signal,
the boys race after the calves,
the idea being to place a halter
on a calf and bring it into the
square. The 12 boys who ac-
complish this receive a calf
certificate for either a dairy
or beef calf, which has been
donated by businessmen in the
area. With his cash certificate
he purchased the best animal
he can find.
He must then take care of the
calf, furnish monthly records
to the Houston Livestock Show
and his sponsor, then return
his animal to the Show next
year to be shown in either the
Junior Dairy or Junior Breed-
ing Beef Division of the Hous-
ton Livestock Show.
Purpose of the Calf Scram-
ble is to encourage and further
the education of 4-H Club boys
and FFA boys in the raising,
feeding and breeding of high
quality cattle in Texas.
The rodeo will open Feb. 26
with Johnny Cash headlining
matinee and evening perfor-
mances on February 26-27-28;
B. J. Thomas will appear at
evening performances on
March 1, 2, 3, and 4 and Glen
Campbell stars at the evening
performance March 5 and the
matinee and evening perfor-
mances March 6 and 7.
Tickets maybe obtained by
writing the Houston Livestock
Show and Rodeo, P. O. Box
20070, Houston, Texas 77025.
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