Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. 33, Ed. 0 Thursday, January 11, 1968 Page: 1 of 8
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SBORO GAZETTE-NEWS
DIAL 567-5596 To Place Classified Ads
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR
JACK COUNTY'S SHOPPING GUIDE SINCE It80
Jacksboro, Texas, 76056, January 11, 1968
AT THE CROSSROADS TO WEST TEXAS
NUMBER 33
HowUnq*
9iL$adt
James R. Dennis
North Texas weather didn’t
set any season records during
the cool spell at the first
the week but likely it will go
as the coolest tempera-
rPs of the winter of 1967-68.
At least that is my wish.
Jacksboro had its coolest
reading since January 23, 1966
when the mercury dipped to
an even Zero. If it is any com-
fort to you, Sunday morning’s
low was the second coolest in
the past five years.
Hie Zero reading, mentioned
above has happened in Jacks-
boro only once since I started
trying to help keep up with
weather records almost 22
years ago. But there were two
times when the mercury might
have dipped in that vicinity.
Unfortunately the weather bu-
jrau thermometer for record-
mk minimum temperatures
vras broken on those occasions.
One of these came in Jan-
uary, 1947 and the other time
the broken thermometer might
have set a record was in Jan-
uary, 1962.
jHBH Sleet, Ice Cover Closes Schools,
Temperature Dropped Down to 7
jack County had the duBlous
distinction of having the low-
est percentage of blood dona-
tions to quarterly quota in the
area covered by the Red River
Bloodmobile in December. The
quota was 65 but only 38 ac-
tuolly donated blood.
There were other communi-
ties, Iowa Park and Chillicothe
that gave less blood but had
smaller quotas.
Like many of the others that
tries to give each time the
Bloodmobile visits, I had been
taking antihistimines for a
sinus attack. Most of the blood
given during the December
visit was by a faithful few
donors that show up each time
the Bloodmobile comes.
It was interesting to note that
Windthorst got nationwide pub-
licity last month with its large
turnout. The community of 170
had 100 volunteers and 80 pints
of blood were taken.
Hamid Schrieber, the blood
program chairman, said the
visits was sponsored by the
Knights of Columbus. The or-
ganization assigned quotas to
ot’ er clubs, etc.
Somehow, we need to work
up more support for this pro-
gram. Securing more dcnors
would be a worthy project for
Jacksboro clubs. And I’m sure
chairman J. W. Hulsey will ap-
preciate the help.
The Bloodmobile will visit
Jacksboro on March 7, June
6, September 5, and December
5 — all Thursday, tills year.
Please mark your calendars to
help give when the Bloodmo-
hile visits.
* i *
Jacksboro schools reopened
by “Popular Demand" Wednes-
day. Supt. Smith said the wea-
ther indicated Tuesday that
streets and roads would be
passable. And the board pre-
ferred not to interfere with the
Easter holidays.
But I think the main reason
was to soothe a lot of irritated
parents. A mid-winter, unsche-
uled vacation is about the
worst thing that could happen
around our house.
Tuesday I received a note
from my mother about keeping
the kids in so they Wouldn’t
Match colds. But soon I learned
0nat perhaps their ccddsi would
be easier than a parental men-
tal breakdown. (And I w?s able
to take refuge in the Gazette
part of the time.)
One of the loyal employees
here recently moved to the
country. She said she would
be at work Tuesday if she had
to walk. A day home with the
kids during bad weather cer-
tainly makes for good employ-
ees.
Area columnists have had a
field day with comments about
the effects of the weather and
stay-at-home children on the
mothers. And so have I in the
past. But now the mothers have
at least one champion. It is
funny until it happens to you.
George Dolan in his "This
is West Texas” in the Star
Telegram said it was tile hav-
ing to fix the mid-day meal
that really bugged tile mothers.
And he might be right. Satur-
SEE Bawling on Page •
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READING THE BAD NEWS this week at the Weather Bureau station at the City Water
Plant on North Jack Street are Bertram Fox, official observer, and Oran Pickett. Both
are water plant employees. Low mark for Sunday was 7 degrees. Gazette-News Photo
Atomic World
to be Presented
at High School
“This Atomic World” a high
school leeture - demonstration
program sponsored by the
Atomic Energy Commission
3acnes. --------- — - —- will be presented at Jacksbero
Players who received All-Dis- highlights of Southwest Con- at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday,
• x _____—-— ...in La fprcnpp Football Action. inn 17 nmurom ic hnintt
Tiger Boosters to Honor Five
Grid Teams at Jan. 20 Dinner
Tiger Booster Club will honor
the High and Junior High foot-
ball teams with a banquet Sat-
urday, Jap, 20, in the high
school gym. Each team will be
recognized along with their
coaches.
Mike Cullifer and Don Fitz-
gerald. Tickets are on sale at
$2.50.
The Booster Club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan.
11, in the elementary School
auditorium to see a film of
trict recognition will be pre-
sented. The Most Valuable Back
and the Most Valuable Line-
man of the Year will be named
by the Booster Club.
Committee Chairmen for the
annual affair ace. Tickets, Don
Fitzgerpld; programs, Wade
Winn; Seating, Paul Fleming:
Decorations. George Porter:
Speaker, O’Neal Blevins: Food
4-H Food Show
ford.
Twenty-seven Candy Stripers
are now doing many various
duties and have been extreme-
ly helpful. This training may
encourage many future nurses
ference Football Action.
Hospital Auxiliary
to Meet Tuesday
The Quarterly Meeting of
Jack County Hospital Auxi-
liary wiD be at 2:30 p.m. Tues
day, Jan. 16, in the Community
Room of the Jacksboro Nation-
al Bank. All active and Asso-
ciate Members are urged to be
present.
« . a | aa The Memorial Fund is always
Saturday, Jan. 20 aitfSATC
The annual Jack Ccun'y 4-H pital could not otherwise af
Food Show will be held at 9
a.m. Saturday, January 20, in
the Courthouse Assembly Room
in Jacksboro under sponsorship
of the County 4-H Council. Ex-
hibits are to be in place and
ready for judging by 9:15.
There will be a program for
the parents and friends of 4-H
while judging is underway.
Ribbons will be awarded and
winners will be announced
about 10:30.
The 4-H members will be
judged on their knowledge of
the food entry, its nutritional
value, their exhibit and food
records.
There will be four winners in
each the senior and junior divi
sions. Winners will represent
Jack County is the district food
show at Dallas in April.
Judges will be Extension
Agents from neighboring coun-
ties and local 4-H leaders.
Tigers to Play
Henrietta Here
This Evening
The Jacksboro High Tigers m luc
and Tigerettes will be hort to obligations for bonded indebt-
Henrietta teams beginning at ancj teacher contracts
6:30 p.m. this (Thurs.) even- wyj become the responsibility
tag. The games were postpon- ol jack County School
ed from Tuesday due to bad
weather. The area and financial obli-
The games with Boswell next ^ the board in that
week have been moved up to county, according to County
Monday from Tuesday since ^ E B Whitaker,
both schools will have semes- Biyaon Independent School
ter exams that week. District was established by the
The Tigers lost their first legislature in 1926, according
district 2A-9 game last Friday to Supt. Whitaker. It legally
90 to 64 to Nocona and now became a Rural School dis-
share a 4-way lead with the trict when merged with the
Indians. Bowie and Boswell. Jermyn district but actually
The Indians, the district fav-
orite, took an initial lead and Marr;aga Counseling
had little trouble maintaining fo perrJn yep|c
“rvltasS led Tiaer scor- Perrin Young Homemakers
will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
fv£ *^K£rs and Ttae- January 18 for a program on
t2 “Marriage Counting. ” Mary
cona Friday. Jan. 19. will be guest speaker.
Jacksboro had its worst wea-
ther so far this winter this
past week with freezing rain
and sleet mixing in with a bit-
ter cold wave that swept
through Texas Saturday.
A downtown Thermometer
showed 39 degrees at 10 a.m.
Saturday and then bad went to
worst as the readings slowly
sank to 5 degrees Sunday.
The rising temperature g-a-
rlually went on up to a bo it ?0
degrees early Monday when
sleet began falling and stick-
ing as it hit. The sleet measur-
ed only a half inch to an inch
but all roads and streets imme-
diately became hazardous.
Teachers began calling local
students about 6:30 Monday to
announce no school would be
held that day and the vacation
was continued Tuesday as
roads were still too hazardous
to permit school buses to safe-
ly travel.
Slight Thaw Tuesday
The roadways thawed slignt-
ly Tuesday but that night a
freezing mist added to the dan
ger.
Traffic was almost at a stand-
still Monday and it even the
big trucks pulled off roadways
Monday night. The Continental
hue from Dallas to Seymour
Cior.’t make its regular lun
Moncay or Tuesday.
Bu' local utilities repo t no
big breaks during the bid wea-
ther. Supt. R. H. Tate reported
only one small water main
break at tiie City Commission
meeting Tuesday. Bryson had
a water main to break just
east of the downtown area Mon-
day.
Perrin schools were out Mon-
day for the bad weather but
Bryson classes continued. Supt.
Eugene Davis of Bryson said
the school had a 15 percent ab-
sentee rate due to flu and cold
weather.
Jacksboro Supt. Don Smith
had subsided.
Slickest Wednesday
Early morning motorists
Wednesday said roads were
slicker than the two previous
days. Few drivers ventured to
drive up the West Archer St.
hill in front of the elementary
building.
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co. said it had no breaks out
there were many call blocks
Monday and Tuesday. “It
seemed like everyone started
calling late in the morning,”
one of the local repairmen
said. “It wasn't quite so bad
Tuesday and service was nor
mal Wednesday.
Brazos River Gas Co. had its
local crew on 24-hour duty
during the cold weatner but has
had only one call to check on
low pressure.
Texas Powar & Light Co. re-
ported no troubles.
Hie official low reading for
the week was 7 degrees Sun-
day morning after a high of
41 Saturday morning. Sunday's
high was 20.
The sleet Monday produced
.43 inches of moisture while .02
, inches was recorded early last
Thursday. Traces of moisture
came Tuesday and Wednesday.
High temperature for the
week was 42 degrees Friday.
Wednesday's high was 35, the
tow was 27 and the 4 p.m.
reading was 34 degrees.
The temperature range Tues-
day was only three degrees
with the high at 30, low at 27,
and the 4 p.m. reading at 29.
Perrin Schools Close
Perrin schools remained
closed through Wednesday. No
report has been received from
Antelope.
The focal Highway mainten-
ance crew went home for a
night’s sleep Wednesday even-
ing aftor being on duty since
the sleet began at 4 a.m. Mon-
day.
“We started sanding when
the sleet began,” maintenance
foreman Bob Stalcup said.
‘"Hiere wasn't much road
trouble Monday but the slight
thaw late Tuesday plus the
freezing mist really glazed late
Tuesday night."
Big trucks particularly had
trouble on the Highway 199 hill
near the Lone Star Gas Com-
pression plant near Joplin. And
west of Jacksboro another bad
spot was on Highway 199 just
west of the 281 intersection.
“We had to stand ahead of
nearly every big truck,” Stal-
cup said.
All main highways were
clear late Wednesday but Farm
roads, particularly those in the
west and north part of the
county, still had ice and slush.
None of the roads were ever
actually blocked or closed to
traffic. And no wrecks were
reported although
hides slid off
Jan. 17. The program is being
presented at 18 Texas schools
this month .
The program, designed to
foster increased awareness ai d
understanding among second-
ary school students of scienti-
fic and technical informaricn
relating to atomic energy con-
sists of a 4(kninute assembly ro uon imun
presentation followed by da s- ^ hg h d the outbreak o{
rnnm « «ionS w.to science stu- flu here would sub.ide during
.JM9HKL
room sessions with science stu
dents.
Units of the demonstration
program, operated for the
Commi sion by the Oak Ricige
(Tenn.) Assodated Universities
will appear in 17 states during
January. Texas A&M is as-
sisting with presentations in
Texas.
Most of the programs this
month are in North Central
Texas and the Waco area.
Biyson School District Voters Will
Consider Abolishment on January 13
Biyson school district voters kept the name of Bryson In-
will go to the polls Saturday, dependent School District. *
January 13 to determine whet- The county board will lave
her or not their Independent, the option to continue Bryson
School District will be abolish- schools as a common school
ed. The issue came up when a district or attach the area to an
petition signed by more than adjacent school district.
10 percent of the qualified vot- If the proposal fails the
school affairs will continue un
ers was presented to Jac«c
County Commissioners Court.
All persons who have lived
in the district 6 months, anj
were legally qualified to vote
in elections according to 1967
laws may vote.
W. L. McCloud will be the
election judge. All voting will
be a* the Bryson sard build-
:cg.
If voters approve the aboli-
tion the district will cease to
exist as of the time the Com-
missioners Court canvasses th
vote. The area of the district
in Jack County, the district:
the weekend and two day holi-
day. But with sleet still on the
ground and early cold Wednes-
day it was difficult to deter-
mine whether or not the illness
High Schoolers
to Compete in
Safety Program
A Jacksboro Hijh team is
slated to compete on the “Live
and Learn” TV program on
Channel 6. Wichita Falls, at
noon Sunday, Jan. 21 against
a similar team from Quanah
High.
Sve Notith Texas schools are
competing for the area cham-
pionship and the winner will
compete with an Oklahoma
team in the finals. Members
c! the winning team will re-
ALL'S QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT of Jacksboro High as schools km their
second day of an unscheduled vacation. The picture of the empty parking lot also shows
the Tuffy the Tiger sign erected last fall on the front of the auditorium. The high school
risr th* ament Bryson board, ceive wrist
is at right.
Members of the Jacksboro
team are two seniors. Wesley
Poynor and Melinda Shown,
and one freshman. Mark or
Mike Witherspoon will com-
pete and the other will be an
alternate.
Other teams will be from
Electra, Seymour and Notre
Dame (Wichita Falls.) The
program will be taped Thurs-
day, Jan. 18.
Gazette-News Photo
Jacksboro Schools Resume Classes
After 2-Day Vacation, 184 are Absent
Jacksboro schools resumed
classes Wednesday morning
despite the lingering sleet and
ice after a an unscheduled two
day holiday. “Roads seemed
too slick Monday for the school
buses to run and there has
been cor.'idenbli illness among
the students during the past
week,” Supt Don Smith said.
Teachers and administrators
started calling parents at 6
a.m. to tell that classes would
not meet Monday.
On Radio, TV
When snow or ice come in the
future and make roadways dan-
gerous announcements, will be
made on WBAP radio and TV
(Channel 5) Fort Worth; KWFT
and KNIN, Wichita Falls,
Channels 3 and 6 Wichita Falls,
and KSWA ot Graham, as well
as by telephone, Supt. Smith
said.
“We hope to have the an-
nouncements started by 6:30 a
m. And although we have made
arrangements for these announ-
cements we hope it won’t be
necessary again this year to
dismiss classes,” Supt. Smith
added.
Main Up In May ---------------
The two days of classes will with eldest children. We are
be made up on Thursday and already trying to contact fam-
Friday. May 23 and 24. Supt. ilies with an eldest child that
May 24, instead of Thr-sday.
High school graduation had
been set for Friday.
114 Are Absent
Th? schools had 184 students
absent Wednesday morning
when classes resumed includ-
ing 37 from the high school;
50 at Junior High and 97 ele-
mentary students. “This is
less than 20 percent and is
most likely due to bad weather
rather than illness,” Supt.
Smith said.
The school board had its
January meeting at 2 p.m.
Monday instead of in the even-
ing. And Supt. Smith appreciat-
ed their presence to help de-
cide whether or not to have
classes Tuesday.
The board purchased a post-
age meter for the tax office
and all school mail will be sent
out through that office.
The schools will complete the
third six weeks next week and
semester exams will be given
on Thursday and Friday.
Sand Blanks Monday
The annual school census is
underway but blanks will not
be sent out until next Monday
Si-Sr- the/ go over reports of current ariivi*
Mrs. Ivy Gunter, seated. This one of the few times that Jack County has tod two
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Smith said. Previously the
school schedule had listed
Wednesday, May 22 as the fin-
al day of school.
”V additional vacation days
are required the tiipe will be
made up from the two day ho-
liday scheduled for Easter
tone,’ he added.
The 8th grade graduation will
be moved to 10 a m. Friday,
is now 5. or just turned 6, that
will start to school in Septem-
ber," Elementary Principal
Howard Elenburg said.
Last Friday the absentee
rate was about 10 percent in
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Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. 33, Ed. 0 Thursday, January 11, 1968, newspaper, January 11, 1968; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth734680/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.