Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 19, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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County Calf Tour
Set For Thursday Coleman Democrat - Voice
calf touf of 411 and FFA 9 15 to 9 35, Jerry Audi*
feeders in Coleman County has! 9:50 to 10:10, Jimmy and Boh
heen scheduled for Thursday, : by Traylor
June 21, when 12 places, will be 10:20 to 12:40, Donald Keeney
visited,"reveals County Agent C 11 10 (o 1130, W O McWhir
M Hyekabee; who today releases ter.
the itinerary. 11 50 to 12,10, Becky and Joe
1 1 Pat Hemphill
The tour is under the sponsor ]5 lull(,h slop ;ll Mr and
ship of the county agents. Cokv!^^ /(.lm JtewbiHs.
TWem if# ,>intufhal o o iai#, i iTt n i-#\ 1 ■«
75 Years In Coleman — Published Each Tuesday
VOLUME 75- NO.. 1
Democrat Voice, CoDmsn. Te*aj, June 19, 1954
ONE SECTION 8 PAGES
Enterprise Test Is Underway
man vocational agriculture in , 40 t0 2:00. Marcus and Ken
The 12mfmth proving period—period The City has Taken The
, ....................... .......... ; for the new Enterprise engine stand that m view of past troubles
stiuetois and t lie t oleman ( oun-1 nC((, o reaves. ! at the city light plant, as request with'the engine a proving period
ty Breeder-Feeder group The 2J0 to 2:40, Grady and Meh’in ed some time back by, city of of satisfactory service for 12
tour will leave at H Jo a m ^ from , Hansenfluke ‘ fietals. is flow underway months would be required
the courthouse, and make the j 300 to 3 20, Charles Hubert Officials, in regular meeting Following recent installation
following schedule Taylor yesterday, voted to approve tin ,-id,,v new control unii, the engine
8 45 to 9.05, Hilly Riley I 3,40 to 4 00, 14 B Nunley . ! commencing , -of the proving ;is on.'the line .running.-
I
Citizen Complains About
Late-at-Night Car Racing
'Mr.Texas Almanac
Is Coleman Visitor
City May
Employ More
Patrolmen
A Cob-man resident. (’ E Me i
Qtiiiry appeared before the City
Council yesterday afternoon to
formally lodge a complaint eon
cern-nig ear racing in Coleman
late at night, awl ai the same
time to make two rci-ommenda
lions oh the matter
Metjuary. who lives at 18t)5
South < Common ial, reportthat
cars have been rat ing out Com
memal late at night, "sometimes
two and three abreast, and some
lie is referred In in many I new each year Redoing two-
places as “Mr. Texas Almanac"; thirds of the Texas Almanac re
and his friends and associates on I quires a lot of time and a lot of
the Dallas Morning News affect ! know-how. but McGregor takes
innately call him the Coleman ; the work right in stride In fact
Hoik, but here in Coleman he j it doesn't require all of bis time
is just Stuart McGregor, a well-j and he contributes regularly to
known Coleman name-, anil the the editorial columns of the Dal
Dallas News staffer and Alma-j las new spaper
nac editor was back in Coleman | His staff writing is usually
over the weekend visiting old j slanted to economies, and he
friends and his family. I reports that he is also regarded
Occasion for his visit was to as a specialist on water lie
return his sister to Coleman who guesses that he. game - .by this 1
had been receiving medical talent from having spent so j
treatment in Dallas While here many .wars leaning on a hoc j
he did a bit of visiting and gath- handle in Coleman County look
ered some data to use in a news! ing for rain took tin opportunity on a recent the racing goes on from mid
story. McGregor has'done .a lot of ( visit io the University of Toxic flight until two or three o’clock
McGregor has been with the'sUlfly ;""1 research on rainfall. I library to look into records con in the 'morning and that it is
Dallas News for .33 years and for a,H* his most firm' conclusion at ' l ining the county's history He
the past. 30 years he has been j *his point is that "Texas weather j has promised to forward this in-
editing the Texas Almanac -a job j's unpredictable'1 He points out formation to the Coleman news
he does just about by' himself.!that u‘Ktlsl always affords the paper m the near future!
When asked how big the \! h'as! rainfall of any month, yet
manac department was. he ad i,ht' biggest single rainfall month
vised that himself and his as ! <>» r« ord was an August
sistant made up the department He is a,*f> of ,?P"lion thi"
, , ... "wet or drv cycles art’ some
McGregor gives a lot of credit j on|v 0f n conversation
PRESENTATION OF A $1,013.92 CHECK TO THE OLD FOLKS HOME wf made Monday morning' hy lepresentati'ves of the Loss
t reek Community At fai li ft 1- Jim Watson presenting the cheek to. H G Hollingsworth, chairman of the hoard of directors of the
w.-llai. I eagui which npoiah Next gr*' founty Judge W K Boyd Jr ,ind. Jew (.reel, whp ser.cd with Watson «s a
treasurer ot#i!be home The tramatfion was
made in Judge Is > I ollui- il'l . to ! Hugh Capps Studio';
STUART McGREGOR
. . . editor of Almanac
' times -cars have youngsters on
both front fenders
McQunry -states that most -o.f.
worse on Friday, Saturday
i Sunday nights
and
Loss Creek Community Gives
$1,013.92 To Old Folks Home
Money Comes
PUBLIC DIVIDED
to his assistant, but the modest
Stuart McGregor personally
( piece, He says that a study of:
rainfall records -doesn't support!
handles everything that goes in-. any cyclp ,lf rcgllia,-itv
to the big annual edition, and it stuar, MrC,regor ls alwavs in
is no wonder that much of ex-; ,prt,sl0(j ln Coleman County, and
as refers to him as Mr. Texas
Almanac
This year, 75,000 copies of the
Almanac were printed It was
the biggest Texas Almanac vet
with 768 pages of reading mat
ter. statistical tables, pictures,
charts and maps In addition to
current information, the hook
contains much historical matter
The editor confides that a,bout
70 percent of the Almanac Is:
Across the
BANK' NOT IN THE
BAKING BUSINESS
In last Thursday’s issue of the
Chronicle an error appeared in (
the ad of the First Coleman Nat
lonal Hank A paragraph in the |
ad read, "You'll find that mem
hers of the Little League teams!
will attack their .job with the
same enthusiasm that the First
Coleman National Bank will at
tank your baking problem." Il '
Fireworks
Question Is
Still Hot
1 can get any number of wit
nesses to corroborate my story,”
he slated He also added that
not all of the ears were Coleman
cars He turned in, several
license numbers to Chief of
Police l.es Taylor.
Mike Powell
Is Placed On
All-Zone Nine
and
Mike Powell, sun of Mr
,, , ! Mrs Everett Powell of Coleman
McQuarv staled that he would , , . ,
. has been named, as a member of
the All West Zone team for 1956
as a result of his fine play-with
the Howard-'County Junior Col-
lege baseball team - as an out
fielder The selection was made
hy coaches ------------_., ,' __j
like to see a lot more of Hie
"loud mufflers come off of cars
He went on to say that he knows
that many of the loud muffler*
have heen removed hut that
many still exist
MRS JOHN CANDLER
SUFFERS BROKEN HIP
Mrs John Candler, who is vis
tttng her. daughter, Mrs Kerman -
McKinney of Canyon, suffered
a broken hip when she fell last
Wednesday, June 13. Her con
ditton is reported to he good 1
Mrs Candler is in the Neblett •'
Hospital, Room 12, Canyon, Tex
as
From Sale
Of Building
Editor's Desk
By MILTON AUTRY
Bill Atkins, mayor pro-fern,
J pointed out that the city only
I he fireworks question in ( ole : das orit» patrol ear In operation
man is "still hot. but at this.; that time of night, and that the
| point appears no closer to a solu ( p(,0|,lc doing the fast driving
tion City officials indicate that - eart, watching for the patrolman
to them opinion appears about \( this point MeQuary stated
divided that he had two recommenda
Two opinions were presented lions he would like to make The
at the meeting Monday after-(first was that a 4-way stop light
Should have Sflj.fl your .hanking 1 11,1011 who flared..«} of,
problem -not baking Glad i«1 present at the meeting, voiced 1 ( oinmereial with Needham, so
make'correction It unstated that : ,lls objection to the sale of shoot j that all traffic would have to (
a customer called the hank Fri | ,,IE llf fireworks in the city, and come to a halt before proceed
day about getting some help on ! Elizabeth. Alexander expressed tng He also recommended that
their "baking problem." Things j thc -same opinion'' in a letter
Powell is a graduate of Cole
man High School; where he star
red as a baseball, basketball and
football player
Coleman Goods
And Money Head
To Korean Youth
Swimming Class
Youngsters Asked
To Stay On Curb
The local drive to help fill a
shq! bound for Korea to aid the
thousands of homeless Korean
youth, was declared complete
here yesterday hy drive chair
very little, and recently the com-
munity voted to dispose of same
and named Jim Watson, Joe
Greer and County Judge W. K.
Boyd Jr . as a 3 man committee
to take rare of that business.
After due procedure the build-
ing was sold under sealed bids
to Guy. Cullins for $1,026.00, Out
The Los-Creek community lost ' Hull Money. 59 Off weel for
its school several years hack 1 ‘*dv ertislng. $3 48 went to pay
and have lost a lot of good rest, ! »«-rued insurance and the hal-
dents in recent years, hut Loss of $1,013 92 has gone to the
j Creek citizens have not lost their: Folks Home
. community spirit and their do The check was presented Mon-
sire to be a part of and eontri day to R G Hollingsworth,
(hute.to the betterment of Cole chairman of the board of direct-
man County ors of The W elfare League, which
This week they contributed operates the home, Hollings-
i $1,913 92 to the Old Folks Home ; Worth expresses appreciation for
(situated in Coleman a most the generous gift and assures
[ generous; gift which will mean that the money will he put to
much to the present and future good use
operation of the home \ft Hollingsworth explains
The money eamr from the sale that the building housing the
of then- old school building Old Folks Home as well as much
, After the school was closed the of the furniture and equipment
man Ruth Kansherger. and the building was retained for use as was made possible through con-
money ind goods are being ship J community renter but a it; trunnions by Coleman County
ped- m Ft Worth, a region*} : out the building was used citizens, and that through such
There's lols of little black pup
pies at the Sam Dowty residence (
Their border collie-gave birth;
to 10 pups recently and nine of j
them are still living Sam says!
that's too many to keep so fig I
lire* lie will just sell them
like that do happen
Doc Pirtle Not
Hurl In Wreck
Officials slate that persons oh
(jceting to fireworks are more
active 111 then objections than
all o'clock curfew be establish
ed in the city
Swimming class youngsters
gathering center.
Seven boxes of materials
clothing and supplies and $96 in
cash' nyide up the county’s, eon
MERCURY JUMPED
waiting fin buses to take them tnhutiiM: The money will be used
Atkins, pointed out that Com-
", ,1 men ial Avenui.- 1-. also a high
persons favoring them, hut that * ,, ,
. . . . way and that t would be neces
i way and
,ary to have approval of the Tex-
Coleman citiiani might
hsv# had a tail* of thingt to
coma last Friday when the
mercury soared to 105 de-
gree! Summer hain't even
arrived and here the tem-
perature ii jumping past the
100-degree mark. Thuraday,
June 21, it officially the firet
dey of »ummer end alto the
longest dey of this year.
j opinion appears about divided
j Hie Lions and Ktwanis clubs dis
: cussed the subject last week and
I at the end there was positive
Dor Pirtle of Coleman was not ; lack of a dear cut decision, eitli
injured, but his automobile sus (or for or against,
'tallied heavy damage when the; City officials report that many
car struck a cow on the highway persons would like to establish i greatly"reduced^ tciftft iiait
three miles west of Valera Mori more regulations, such as limit ard then
day night. ittg the size of a firecracker, or
It is understood, that an on setting a curfew at night on
coming car’s lights obscured via shooting them
ton SO that Pirtle did not see \nyway the fireworks ques
the cow on the highway in time tion is still "popping, hut ts
to avoid the collision . ( popping in many direction*
to thr pool arc today rprjuosfod
by Chief at Police Los laylor
to Htay inside the curb and not 0f shipment
get in the street
Taylor reports'that tin* young
to pur» base livestock, ehu ken^
eggl and materials near the port
. Highway 'Department before ; havt, piayrng. and many
1 -such a signal light could he in ■ lln;, . -in the street ns they
'i,-die.! \ tour w-iv oght I' !’"‘w in iH-niiu .ihout Adults .-in
The drive here was sponsored
by the 1 -purity 4 II and HD clubs
with Mrs Raushergei as drive
chairman, and She wishes to ex :
press appreciation lo everyone
Water Use
Goes Up
: continued cunt) ihutmns the home
will he enlarged and improved.
He adds that the home always
welcomes such gifts
Both
m use on the Fif.li ^vo„ue and | ^ orT^al^j ! W^r uXv^Tm S
few days
WOODWARDS ON VACATION
TRIP TO GALVESTON
Mr and Mrs Halbert Wood-
ward and family are vacationing
this week in Galveston They
plan to return to (’oleman over
the weekend
West Walnut' intersection and
Taylor is i,f the opinion that it
for tl» boys as tflev drive by
There was only short discus
sion on the curfew reromtm nda
non There seemed to tie some
question as, to the, legality of
such action
J A Estes of Rockwood, 96 j
year old pioneer, received state ]
wide publicity Sunday when the
Fort Worth Star Telgram carried
a five generation picture of his
family and also Included a m-ws
story about a patriarch of 70 fam
Hies, including those of 13 child-
ren, 52 grandchildren and five
great grandchildren Including
In laws there are 225 members of
the Estes family, whteh has a re
union every year since 1939 on
the first Sunday in June Rev J
N Hester of Brownfield it pres- j
Jdetjt of the reunion
Public Relations Course
Offered Here June 25-28
Mayor Win ti Leach, who wax
not present for the meeting, had
T. J, Allen Tops
FI. Worth Market
With II Calves
3rd Annual Homecoming
For Cleveland
To Be Sunday, July 1
written a
t.'<11<■ >ii,in (’niiiity livivsliwk has
drive The goods will be used in
Korea to launch a program sum Ibe year* high of li\5 degrees
lar io the 4II program here '*a-* recorded here Friday by
The ship will be dedicated af leather Observer W J Steven*.
Galveston on July 16 and will; Temperature yesterday was right..
sail for Korea on July 18 Jack! *V t.*,e lW-dcgrce mark The 3rd Annual Homecoming
Slu.ni of Texas DIM and a’group W ain u .< T,i a high for the. "f Hie neeciand community will
;,f Texas cowboys and 4-H' fluhj summer months yesterday a* j be held Sunday, July 1, at the
youth will accompany the ship 1.875.ooo gallon* were pumped, Cleveland Methodist Church
to Korea j according to a report from Red: grounds. Everyone who ha* ever
Mrs Hansberger points out Koenig city water superinten ! lived in the community is in*
that one Coleman fieixon who dent Water used Saturday total vlted to come out and spend the
,l'n,'r ,t"' 1 ouiii-il. K,,rt \Vi,rH., : w ■-i. ■ m t.-main fiiionym.His o ed 1 R03 txxi g.iiloii* whit" Sun
again
Coleman County did gat a
ihswer or two out of the
ctoudi which moved over
yesterday It ie reported that
a hard ihowar fall at Hordi
Creek Lake Coleman didn't
even get a eprinkle. Although
no reporti have been receiv-
ed here. It it hoped that
other parte of the county got
tent precipitation too.
Stopjmd think nn axionally a
man think* twice before. he
speak* -and even then live* to j
H ;;u-t it.
The merchant* of
expressing his opinion that the
city needs two patrol ears op-j
crating around the clock -At this T .j Alien reports that he
time only one eat is operated shipped 14 calg> and eight
after 10 or 11 o'cioek at night steers to Fort Worth last week
and two men ride together in and 11 of the calves topped "the
Coleman this car During the daytime two market hy one cent pet pound
giving yearly support to twi
these unfortunate Koreans
of day’
Ion*.
report was 14*3000 gal
day visiting with old friend*.
Bring a basket lunch, if It is
possible.
MEETING SET FRIDAY MORNING
and their employees along with! ears are used
other service organization per ! The city has a pat mi car idle
sonnet in the city have arrange^ during the late hour* of night; j
for a week of special training and to operate it would rail for
dealing with building good Putt ( hiring two more traffic officers,
lie Relations for business organ) officers always operate in
rations pair* late at night
This training prog! am IS xpoi t Council agreed to look
sored hy the Trade Relation* into the possibility of adding!
Committer o( the BCD with, more traffic officer* and tn-l
meetings scheduled each night Hrueted City Manager Albert
Monday through Thursday, be pope to conlart the Texa* High
ginning June 25 at 7 00 pm, in; way Department to see if they;
The market high was reported
at Hk while the Allen calves i
brought 21k-
Th<- -ti-eis brought the market
high of 17 5 cent* per pound j
SUNDAY VISITORS
IN ABILENE
Group Moves To Secure
New Industry For City
A meeting of leading Coleman man ns a jKissthie site, along, plant It is understood that the
Mr and Mrs Harold Woodard eittzrna baa lu-en called for Fri with many other Texa* towns. A factory operator would want to
and Mi and Mr* J W Jarkson day morning. June 22, when the [ representative from the concern
and Gwendolen visited Sunday subject of securing another in , will he in Coleman next month,
in Abilene with Mr and Mrs j dustry for Coleman will he dia ! it i* understood,
eventpaliy purchase
erty. 7
' It would be necessary tgj.|||||
the Hospitality Room of the First would object to the 4 wav stop! Glen Mitchell and Mr and Mr* ! cussed The session has been! It 1* also understood that if j a positive proposition to make
Coleman National Bank i light being placed on South Com-! Berlin Dunn and how They also called hy the indostnal Develop-! the plant is opened in Coleman [to the MpruMntative when he
the prop-
E A. WILLIFORD
, ,,lt xanduct Khasl
Pubiir Relattona” I* the title merelal attended the dedication service* ment Committee of the Cpleman i It would employ 60 petiple at
of the course and the daily con Pope revealed that he had, of the new Trinity Baptist BCD, Walter Garland, chairman, j the start, with 50 machine* op-
ferenees will be directed hy E heard" that Coleman was going. Church other* from Coleman i for 7 00 am at the Coleman j crating At least 8,500 square
A Will#ford Retail Training to have two highway patrolmen who attended the •< • vt.wen: Hotel Club Room feet of floor space would hr
Specialist from The University j stationed here toon, ft was gem Rev and Mrs Walter Miller, Mr. j .At thi* meeting it will be ex- needed with room for expansion
of Texas Mr W tile ford was en erelly agreed that highway pat-' and Mrs C E Stantiwiry. Mr (plained that a California eon- Problem* involved include fi-
gaged in the retail field for more tolmen living in Coleman wouldr and Mr* George Dunn Mr* cern, manuiseturlng brassiere* ' naneing for securing of such position, and t.0
than 15 year* and has been on; be a big help to many traffic Maggn Andt* and Mrs Mary I* making plan* to open a factory I floor space as could be offered : plans for Coleman to
(C,a»tinv*d On Pag# 3) I piuhttm* here j Smith ! in Texa* and tx eonsidi'iiog Cole-1 remodeled to ft vet need* of the! hid far Ml plant.
visits Coleman next month o»
hi* tour of Text* town* under
consideration for the plant loca-
tion
The Friday meeting ha* been
called to explain the entire pro-
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t
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