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Democrat - V oi,cw„ Coleman, Texas. November 9. 1954
Amen Johnston
Hesds Gonzales
Foundation Here
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Amon Johnston has accepted the
Chairmanship of the Coleman'
County Division of Gonzales Warm
Springs Foundation for Crippled
Children, according to a recent an-
nouncement by Rpss Boothe, presi-
dent of Jhe Board of Directors foe
this treatment center of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Mr Johnston has Been active in
civic and charitable activities in
Coleman County and Will Select
yltizens from this area to assist
him In his efforts on behalf of this
non-profit, > non-sectarian, charit-
able hospital. The Coleman County
Division Commltere rofc_«hlivh^8<cs
Johnston is chairman is a part of
a state-wide network of volunteers,
contributing their time and talents
to aid in the maintenance and ex-
pansion of the facilities of Gonzales
,„]Varm Springs Foundation,
Mr. Johnston's activities' for the
Foundation are of great importance
Boot.fifc...pelnted out In announcing
thfr appointment Besides conduct-
ing an apnual fund Raising cam-
paign, the local committee will also
provide a year round program of
education and Information design-
ed to keep the people of this com-
munity advised of what their con-
tributiyns are providing for. the
physically handicapped youngsters
of Texas . ” .
The Gopssalcs Warm Springs
Foundation opened its fhstbulld-
lng with a 16-bed capacity inT94l..
In 19.48 tour additional units were
completed and opened which gave
a capacity of approximately 100
beds. A new unit designated as the
"Midland Building." has Just been
completed which has increased its
capacity to approximately 140 beds
All this has beeh made posslhle
through the support of generous
.Texans
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Homecoming Will Honor
1910 CHS Football Te
Six Members
To Be Present
Members of the 1910 Coleman
High School football1 team will „be
honored, at the first annual Cole-
man Sfljui.i IlnilD-rcliim, vi
day, It isj revealed: This was-' the
y- I gild-team to it;!!••'-
; ten! Coleman High School
Plans are to hoi tor 1910 team
members at the homecoming foot-
ball game Thursday afternoon be-
tween Coleman and Ballinger:
Out of the 13 team member , some
six are expected to be present, in-
cluding John Warren, Jim Ripley,
Howard Newsom, Rowland MeOrev-
or. Walter Gordon and J. H Kellett.
An 'invitation has been extended
to all ex-'tridents, former teachers
and school board 'members .and
frle'nds of the school, to attend the
Service Station
Is Burglarized
A MON ANl) A DRAKE have been keeping company the past week,
and here shown is Ed Hunter taking the Lion’s Club attendance build-
er for a walk Hunter Inherited.the drake when he failed to attend
the club meeting last Wednesday. He will return the daakc Wed-
nesday, and pass him on to another member who is absent frojn the
meeting. Needless to sny, attendance at the club has increased con-
siderably. (Photo by Hugh Capps Studio i.
Ray Post Plans to Have First
..A 1 ft-vear-old high school boy
will be turned over, to the JuveuUle
Judge, District Judge A. O. Newman,
following a recent burglary of a
local service station, reports the
local sheriffs department,,/
The Leman Wilder Service Sta-
tion was burglarized Sunday night,
a week ago, when entry win made
by breaking a window. Some *40 In
cash was missing, along with a few
packages of cigarettes and there
I was some damage done to ttr cash
j register in an attempt to open it,
j the sheriff's department reports,
ftps* homecoming, state* Supt. Ter-
ri.-'i Grave.;, and fictwoen 500 and . ._
1.000-persons'are rxpectod
Registration and open house will
be held at Junior High School dram
M) a in to 1 pill, with'a Mexican
lunch 'being, served at the Junior
High Lunchroom, from 11 am, tp
1pm.. by the Homemaklng Depurt-
ment. with a Charge. •
Big feature of the, homecoming *
will be at 2 p.m when the Cole-
man Bluerais meet the Ballinger
Bearotrts in a Veterans' Day classic,'
which ts expected to draw il sellout
crowd The Coleman-Ballmgcr af-
ternoon games have always played
to a full house
Following the football game there
wifi, be fejur- open Iboilses underway
at the same time, at the Bluecat
field house, at the baud hail, tirth?
homemaking cottage and m the
agriculture budding. „
BosIa have been named for these
open houses At the Bluecat field
house theyhoste will be Coaches
Charles lJettoh and Glen Whitis.
Dr, M X .White Jr Marvin DoWer,
Don Startles. John Warren and Mil-
ton Autry
Hosts at. tfiji band trail will be
band director. Raymond Hike, and
former musicians Nila Lee Gilliam
Roberts. J K. King Jr., Owen Wat-
son Coleman. Bernice Cobb -late,
and Wanda Thompson smith.
Hosts at the homemaklng cottage
will be the teacher1, Mrs. Leland
Fry, Miss Ator Mrs Tithe Close
Hector. Sheri Winstead. Mrs Don- J.
no Stoke Rankin. Mrs. Beverly
COLEMAN'S l-IRST FOOTBALL TEAM, the 1910 squad which i pictured here will be honored at the
Coleman school Homecoming Thursday. They.are, left to right, front row John Watson, John Warren. Jim
Ripley; middle row Rupert Barber, Howard Newsom, Edgar Frnncttco, Rowlaitcf'McGregor and Rawllu*
Gilliland. lop row victor Dobbs, Walter Gordon. J H. Kellett, Percy Knox and Charles Petty.
Veterans Day Program Here
Small Damage In
Saturday Wreck
It will take many good Americans
a while to get used to it. but Arm-
istice Day is a thing of the past
and the name of Veterans' Day
now applies to the November 11th
observance.
Ray Post 213, local American
Legion unit, has completed plans
for the first Veterans' Day obser-
vance Thursday, and invite the
general public and veterans in par-
ticular, to- attend. - reveals Felix
Horton, post commander.
The Legion Hall will be open early
U“Hay morning, and coffee will
ed. Also, according to cus-
tom, tire flag will be raised to half
mast at sunup, and at 11 o'clock it
will be raised to the’ top of the
mast.
A program Is scheduled at 11 a.m,
when Father Tomerlin, local Cath-
olic priest, will speak. Commander
Horton will preside at this session.
At 11:30 a barbecue dinner will be
scfvcd for all veterans. There will
b<s no-charge Ed Kilgore, Bill Ad-
kins and, Horton head the com-
mittee preparing for the barbecue,
and they stress that all veterans
are invited'.
Thursday night, starting at 8.00
p.m , the Legion Post, will sponsor
a Homecoming Dance to complete
the Coleman High School Home-
coming activities
1904 'ELOCUTION' TEACHER RETURNS
TO COLEMAN FOR SHORT VISIT
The teacher of Coleman's fiisut
school of elocution, or expression, is
back here tills week for a visit
with her aunt, Mrs. T, H. Gilles-
pie She Is Mrs. Claire Scott Sulli-
van of Ashville, North Carolina,
who opened her elocution school
Jn Coleman In 1904
Mrs Sullivan lived in Coleman
about SO years ago She came for
a visit with her aunt In 1904 and
decided to make her home here
She opened the first school of ex-
preaslon. or elocution, a* it was
then culled, m Coleman In Septem-
ber of 1904. Her class met In a
rented room near Coleman's only
school, which wax on the present
site of South Ward School,
Mis, Sullivan has recently retir-
ed from Civil Service work In Wash-
ington, D C. siie la active in churih
work and taught a Sunday School
class and sang in the choir o* the
National Memorial Baptist Church
of Washington,
After leaving Coleman, Mrs Sul-
livan wfll^visit In Memphis. Tmn,
and then return’ to her home In
AslivtUe,
City To Observe
Holiday Thursday
I
The city «f Coleman win take a
holiday Thursday, November Uth,
m observance of Veterans' Day, an-
nounce* Charlene DelUs ol the Re-
tail Merchant* Aicoclatlon
Thii t» the regular Armlrtlce Day
closing. which is one of the city’s
regulai holiday*, but this year the
Q. KIRKS MOV*
back to comma* . *
j/)Q, Ktrk and family ol Dalle*
h*ye moved to Coleman, and Mr
Ktrk will be aeaoaated with Knight
it St At, teal estate firm, M» new
location mutt) of poet office
' tn 1948-48- Mr Kirk wae the Hud*
dealer here, and wttl be fnnrm-
p,,e.i by ma«' i»«*|de residing here
day has been changed In name to
Veteran*' Day
Two more regular holiday* are
also scheduled for 1854, the Thanks-
giving holiday tan November 25th„
slid the Christmas holiday on De-
cember 35th
Chronicle Out
Wednesday
The Coleman County Chroqiri*
Win publish Wednesday, one day
earlv t)u» deck bweure Of the hot
May on thUreday, November nth.
amt alt advertiser* and news sour-
gw* are ■ requested to please turn
ttu-ir «*»? in «*i tv.
89 Drouth Feed
Applications Ok'd
Last Wednesday
Applications under the emergency
.drouth feed program hit a fast
pace here last week, as 89 were ap-
proved, reports John Curry, of the
Farmers Home Administration.
This was one of the heaviest
weeks for 'applications since the
program got underway, and. Curry
.reports that they are still coming
in at a rapid pace The committee
will probably meet again this week
to'screen the applications
Out of the 89 applications ap-
proved last week, 42 were for hay
and 48 for grain.
A. I. Edwards, has been employed
by the Farmers-Home Administra-
tion to work with the feed program
and emergency loan*.
A Wreck at the intersection of
Neelies and West1 Walnut Saturday
afternoon resulted in small damage
ta a car and a truck, and no In-
juries to the occupant*, according
to a report from the City of Police
Lea Taylor.
Taylor reports that a Chevrolet
driven by Edward Vernon Roberts
of. Glen, Cove route collided with a
Studebaiter truck driven by Raymon
Diax of Coleman.
Taylor reports that Roberts paid
a $10 fine Monday morning on a
charge of running a red Ught
Jones Copeland, Mrs. Ann (Hasson
Jackson and Mar-alec Casey.
Hants-at the agriculture btfJtdlfUD
will be Jake Joyce and Jact" Lacy,
and former "‘udeots. Turkey Chap-
man. J, B. Smith Jr Dan Rhone,
David SMifcle, and Jimmy H«mp-
hlll . . ,
The open - hon es still be held
from 4:30 until 5:30 ALo. from 4:30
iptil 6“10 there will e a reception
tn the high school recreation hall,
when special recognition will to- giv-
en to former teachers and past and
present school board members.
At 6 pm . a meeting will be held
In the high school auditorium for
the purpose* of organizing an ex-
students association. Officers will
be elected, as well as directors The"
officers and directors will comprise
the executive committee Inasmuch
as this is the first annual home-
coming there Is no official organi-
zation at this time.........• . .
Thursday night the America!*
Legion will sponsor ,i homecoming
dance at the Legion llall. starting
at 8- pan.
1910 Squad Pioneered
Coleman’s Grid Fortunes
By Milton Autry
Coleman's football team will have
added incentive as they go against
the Ballinger Bearcats here Thurs-
day afternoon, for there in the
grandstand will be at leant six mem-
bers of the first Coleman High
School team the men who toted
the pig.' kin for the blue and white
baek'inJSlO.
4-H Achievement
Rockwood Soldier
Visits Rest Camp
CAMP HAKATA, JAPAN-Sgt
Jimmy F Smith, 31, whose wife,
Janice, Uvea in Iraati, Texas, re-
cently spent a seven-day rest and
recuperation leave from h» unit in
Korea at Camp Hakata on Japan's
southernmost island of Kyushu,
Sight-seeing and extensive enter-
tainment facnitie* at the camp pro-
vided him wiMi a welcome break In
the ta*k of maintaining security on
the Korean peninsula
Sergeant Smith, son of Mr. and
Mrs Henry Smith, Rockwood, Is a
platoon sergeant In the 24th Engi-
neer Oroup’s Headquarter* He en-
tered the Army in March 1853 and
arrived overseas the following Sep-
tember. I
Day Set Saturday
Daughter OF Walter
Martin Enrolls At
Lake Forast College
Max Martha Martin, daughter M
Walter M Martin, serving with
UBA, t m Germany ha* mi oiled
aa a Vaahman at Like Forest Cul-
teg*..
Mfk# H.i, a graduate of Wiesbaden
awr* to ttfr >u>OM In German;.
fitly [iledged to G«nma Wit
»«* i
Keta
Achievement Dai . for no' 4-H
youth of Coleman County has been
.vet for Saturday, Nov 13. announces
Herb Helblg and Mrs. Betsy Lacy,
sponsor*. The county 4-H group
will be participating in a state-
wlic achievement day program
Plans far the. program were com-
pleted last week at a special meet-
ing A nssty-w Wo council meeting
a ill be held-at the county couHj
house at 9.15. At tills session coun-
cil off lews will be elected and a
district formed delegate will bo-
named •
Plans will be completed on ar-
rangements to help on the sale of
refreshments during the Coleman
County Hereford Calf -Sale here
Tuesday. Nov 30 Also, a feature of
the Saturday meeting will be the
discussion of the annual 4-H Chrlst-
tnaa parly.
New officer* will be installed at
the meeting following presentation
of swnrd-v to those member, who
have done outstanding ■ work in
supporting the club motto. "To
Make thv Beat Better "
Nov. 13 I* Texa* 4 H Achieve-
ment Day and some 130,000 boys
and girl* from over the state will
observe the day Mbre than 18,000
of that group are from urban home*
It b strawM that the broad 4-H
progt am offer* opportunity, to both
urban and rural youth
At 8 46 a m SatsMay morning
the county 4-H group vrtU present
* radio program.
agement. beautification of home
grounds, forestry and 'recreation.
Over 75 different project's are open
to 4-.11 memtier*.
Active In their communities, 4-H
member* appear on-radio and TV
programs or give a spee»:iy with pobe
N wHh jw
developed through theR^teaining
tonsHstyt
They give demonstration* teds*the-
State Fair Top 4-H youth in tlie
state win trips to the National 4-H
iConfinuetl On Page 1) 1
Last Riles For
A. H. Lemay Held
Here Today
He»m™ ranching, rabrog cro)>»
aiul lhwt.uk, coofclug and sewing,
live 4-H program includes *uch
things m money uwmagentem first
aid. safety, music apptocialton CHI-
seibhtp and «uom«»o«v *-H mem-
■tot* lot, ttotn.-ity home .man-
Last rite* for A. H LeMay. 91, of
31* W. 8th St are being held at
the Steven* Funeral Chapel thb
afternoon. Nov 8, at 3 :30 p m , with
Rev. J. D F williams offteiatbig
Mr. I^May ditxi Nov 7 He w»*
a member of tlse Methodist Church
and the Masonic Lodge He was a
retired gunsmith and came to cote-
man In 1808.
survivors include three «>n« Jd*
LeMav of GohiUiwatte. Ed ieMav
and J P LeMay of Ooleman; one
daughter, Mrs.- W. B Cathey of
Coleman, 10 grandchildren and
three greet -grandchildren Mrs Le-
May died in 1848
Pallbearer* are W*de HeinphlU,
toil GtlffU, Ft W Purcell, C J.
Gordon, OUie Gidecm and J Kay
Martin
Bubal will bC in the Valera
’ t 3'- ink tit yvi - * afi ii. onl |a.<M I
Vt'Urewt J J • *».. f WL(“rtlI
11. me fc 'to charfe ol wren#tm*nte.
There may have been a lot of
changes In the game since that
time, but the basic fundamental*
are still the same—blocking and
tackling, and the team which doe*
the beet at those two basics usually
wiils now, Just as they did In the
old days.
Those six men in the grandstand
will-iook out ui>on a green field,
a! Is >» c..ui in the t.inest t(,»nt»all
gear that money can buy. the game
being played tn one of the finest
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haps their memory will reflect back
to'Uieir day. when they talked Oieir
parents and school officials into
letting them form b football team,
of their buying their can equip-'
menl. some matching, some not, and
of tlidr action in securing a place
to pi ay in the west part' of town
aijd then clearing the field thrm-
|Aves
Perhaps too, as these six men
watch the game, with the numeFOur-
officlals, and the flags flying again
and again, they will recall that
they didn't have many rules, that
Knox, Charles Petty, Jim Watson,
Homer Verchcr, Sam Brimberry,
Frank Harbour, and Bob Wood. All
of there men were not present when
the above picture was taken
. Finally, the boys won out and
they formed the first," »rganl*ed
football, team for Coleman High A
Mr. Foley way the coach that first
year, and a* far a* can be recalled,
five games were played, with Brown-
wood. Bangs Ballinger, Santa An-
na and .Blanket The Coleman boys
did pretty good too. They won all
the games except one,. losing to
Brown wood 48-0
There were several problems ac-
companying the organisation of the
first football team First, there
were no uniform*. The school did
not have-tbe money for the pur-
chase, *o the boy* just bought their
own.
The uniform* didn't match, but
that didn’t matter. The pant* were
all the same, as were the helmets
and the no*e guards, but after that
the similarity began to lose out.
The boy* purchased regular shoes
and had -the local xhoeman nail on
leather cleat' Also, they wore tlif-
frrent .types of Jerseye, some using
turtle neck .sweaters.
Padding and protection In the J
uniform* wasn't much to brag about 1
and Injuria* were quite frequent |
An item of equipment figured quite |
important then was the rubber j
nose guard, which many football
fan* will remember The boys didn't
like the nose gifard "thouRb. -They
the field and erected goal posts.
The called it Morris Field
Blue .and white were the school
colors then, ju*t .»* “Uwy are now,
but the team didn’t have a name:.
They were just the Coleman foot-
ball team. Die name of Bluecats
was to come along many years later.
Power plays were uked a lot tn
rootball In 1910 and this aometlmex
resulted In Injuries as officials were -
slow to stop the play, which In it-
self wa* slow moving, and pushing
uid I'iiiiig Oi. was normal. Huddles
weren't used Oien either. The team
had a pre-arrangad signal calling
tin, am! th« quattMlMOTf merely
yelled "fiignals" and started calling
out numbers which directed tbw
play
Tackling wa. more vicious then,
a* U,r Hying tackle was still legal,
and every able bodied football play-
er felt it wax hi* duty to let go
with the flying tackle at every op-
portunity.
M'Wfa! oi the 1910 bo.vs recall
that Brownwood game well As one
puts it "everyone was trying to kill
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the game was pretty rough, and ; j,a(j r(,tn,.r have a skinned nose
tli.at oificials weren't *o numerous. ttwn mw tl1p -ugnJ_.
No doubt as they compare their; Another problem to the 1910
day with this, they will wish that 1 j^nm was that - they had no fooUMli'
they too could have-played football. They located an area in the
fn the more desirable condition* of |.wrt) pa,.t 0r about where” tlie
today, with fine equipment, highly - .. . . • •
trained coaches, and the full bark-
ing of the community.
'“•Way back m 11'910 ’baseball wax
the game, and that sport has seen
few change* these 44 year*. Cole-
man High School had a good base-
ball team, which played on a regular,
schedule with other achhois Football
was being played by many school*
and a' group of boy* decided they
wonted to play football too They
went to the school offtclalx arid
their parents, but .then1 wax ob-
jection from both, as cvcrvone con-
sidered' (he game "too roph"
That group Of boys. Inehided John
Watacm, John Warren, Jim Ripley,
Rupert Barber. Howard Newimm,
Edgar Francisco, Rowland McOreg-
or. Rawiln* Gilliland, Victor Dobbs,
Walter Oonion. J H. Kellett, Ptsrcy
Lang Martin home i* now located,
and persuaded the owner, J.” F
Marm, to let them y*»' same Mr
Morris' agreed, and the hoy* cleared
Mrs. Jessie Martin
Suffers Hip Injury
Mr-.' Jessie. Martin, retired school
teacher, is in the Hendrick* Mem-
orial Hospital at Abilene, following
a f*ll yesterday when she Buffered
a serious hip injury
A report on her condition ha* not
been received today
Chinchilla Field
Day Held Here
seven tv-one person* froth 14
towns were here Saturday afternoon
mid night to attend a state-wide
chinchilla field day. Sixty animal*
jwwe on display at the recreation
« the Held
conducted
Tin-, wa* the first field day for
the Texas chinchilla breeders, re-
ports Dr. C G. Tarbrough, prCxl-
dent of jtlie state «fai)h»tkKM,
Tliqee present Judged each of the
80 animal*, on a chart,, provided,
then C. W. KleUieck of Ft Worth,
well known chinchilla grader, judg-
ed each animal a* the breeder* com-
pared their findings with hi*
The group enjoyed box luncliei.
Town* represented were. Abilene,
Colorado City,. Midland. Odessa,
Burnet. latmtxiMi*, Santa Anna,
Brownwood, Cisco. Brecken ridge,
Coleman, San Angelo, Bronte and
Robert Lee.
150 Reserve Setts
Still Available
There are 1*8 reeerve neat
ticket* stilt avaHabie for the
t aleman-lteRIngre Nov. 11 foot-
ball g«Me here, reveal* Sup!
Terrell Grave*
The ticket* may he purchas-
ed el the IK’D office They
•reel on nail# there (hi* morn -
ing. and aa of nmm time 188
ware *UU nnaeM. These seat*
ace on the tWteman home *Ue
Community Chest To Be
Discussed Here Monday
An opening will'be held in Cole-
man Monday afternoon, Nov. 14.
gt .1 o'clock, for the purpose of dis-
cussing the proposal of organising
a community cheat tn Coleman, re-
veals Pete Newman, BCD manager.
Joe Odgeft, Chamber of Com-
merce manage* at Bredv will be
prerent and will explain
mutiny chert a*
Brady, It is uwlemtood that L.
uraay
also be jireseiil
Ij is undvretoori that Brady ha#
operated a community chert for a
number of years and are well sat-
isfied with the plan For revere)
year* conrtderatioti has been
tj> organlrtug the
here. Which would eombine tlie i
oi tlie fund .ditves
The meei lng witt b* held to the
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