The Timpson Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1969 Page: 1 of 4
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THE TIMPSON TIMES
A newspaper dedicated to community progress
VOLUME LXXXIV—No. 31
TIMPSON. SHELBY COUNTY. TEXAS 7597b, FRIDAY, AUGUST IS. 1969
price five cam
FOREST VISITORS — Recent visitors to the
Washington. D. C; and John Olson, U. S. Forest
Service. 1 Aifkin Texas. Here the group discus-
included David Dailey. U S. rarest Service, ses one of the National FUrest recreation devel-
Division of Recreation, Atlanta, 6a.; Tony Skul opments on Toledo Bend Reservoin.
ca. U. S. Forest Service, Division of Recreation,
Deep E. Texas
Coop, to Increase
Present Capacity
Football Practice
Starts Monday
Football practice will start
, Monday, Aug. 18 There will be
tn order to meet the rapidly j -i meeting of all boys interested
increasing demands for eiectri- in playing football on Monday,
city, and to lnsare that ample Aug. 18 at 8;00 a m W;yne Har-
capacity will be avail-ble .next
year, Deep East Texas Flectric
Cooperative, Inc , has entered
into a contract with R. & Good
mar. ton System Improvements
costing approximately $500,000,
00. This contractor is oving into
an Augustine at the present
time, and will be working in
some of our problem areas be
fore Ibe end of August
The Cooperative expects to let
another contract very soon lor
approximately $580,000.00, the
most of which will be spent on
transmission lines and substa-
tions so as to increase their ca-
pacity.
As a result of the extreme
beat and its duration, the Coop-
erative experienced voltage and
coordination problems In some NOTICE
of the areas that had the
rapid gTowth la load during the
year. All of these problem
will be taken care of. We would
like to thank everyone fort their
understanding of the problems
which the Cooperative has fac-
ed this summer. Unprecedented
increase ia power use resulted
In these problems; members too
Win see higher than normal bills
until the summer is over.
ris. the new hend coach, will
meet with the boys at that time.
Coach Harris reminds ail hoys
to get their physical as soon as
possible.
Ski Show to
Be Presented at
Lake Tlmpson
The Angelins County Ski
Club will present a "Ski Show**
on Lake Tlmpson Sunday, Aug.
24, beginning at 2:30 p.m.
Everyone is invited to come
out and enjoy the program.
Please hand your
news items in to bin. Vernon
Wallace by 3i30 p.oi. Tuesdays,
in order for the items to appear
in that week's Issue of The
Times.
Six Tlmpson
Students Receive
Degrees at SFA
. Approximately 600 students
are candidates for graduation
this month at Stephen F. Austin
State University
Commencement exercises will
be held in Memorial Stadium on
the SFA Cl pus on August 21 at
8 pan
The following students from
Timpsou are among the candi-
dates for degrees:
Mrs. Clyde Reed Bussey. Mas-
ter of Arts.
Betty Js Crump, and Roy
Douglas Stewart, Master of Edu-
cation.
Vercon L Childs, Sandra Kay
Crawford, and John Ellis Hard
rick, all Bachelor of Science.
FTrsf Graders
To Enroll
August 20
MS. CHARI X KING
Charles King
Is Hired as
Band Director
Charles King has bee* named
as band divertor of Tlmpson
Higfe School Rand, it was an-
nounced today by School Sope»
intenrient R. V. Higginbotham
Hr. King has served as high
school baad director at Jeffer-
son, Texas, for the past % years.
He is a 1954 graduate of East
Texas State University sad hold*
s Bachelors degree in Music
Education He served as band
director it Taleo High School
daring the 1994-9 school term
Fa>m Taleo be went into service
and was commissioned as s lien-
tenant. He was commander §£
the 3555th Air Force Band at
Perrin Air Force Base far two
years and then served oae peer
tn Japan with the Air Police.
From 1858 until going to Jef-
ferson, Mr. King was associated
with the Kraft Foods Company
and tb-
psny.
Mr. King announced that he,and other Mate nr local Rvm-
ptens to start band practice for meat employee; killed ii line
the Tlmpson High School Btnd'of hazardous duty
oa Aaguet 18 in preparation for
Austin — Wztxr
lrartm already are talking
about another try with the $35
billion water hend authorize
boo to the wake of last week's can be pmaed m
constitutional amendments elec- special session and accepted by
tiers. | Gov. Prestos Smith.
Water bunds — to finance: Tea Bill to Inals — Now
the state's share of the $8 bfl tn the Senate's week to wrestle
plan
lion Texas
defeated by only a few Choueaad
vote* out of some 700,00* can.
say water ox
the master plan Is not
dead. Preliminary
for out-of-staio wi ___
tinue, and another vote can be **. but hearings an under way
scheduled on the bonds in 1871 ta »« attempt to come up with
Hopefully by then, same of the **> acceptable compromise — |
major objections wilt be re- *"d th*‘ W‘>*Y he easy,
solved. Hen is what the House bin
Ttexans, ia the amemhaents *>** <»u effective Jan.
election, solved one of the ft
with the
House passed its $$41
version of revs vie raising to'
balance s biennial budget red
seat it across the rotunda. From
it is
ment to say senators don’t like
A $474j88B
land medical services groat has
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Horton and
childnm of Longview are visit,
lug the Arthur Horton*.
Mrs Kellie Rat hie ford visited
in Dallas this past week.
w requested to en-
roll their 1st grade students on
Wednesday afternoon, August
30, in the Tlmpson Qemeatary
Mmol Principal’s office bn-
tween the boors of 1 and 4 Pm.
AD Id grade students are re-
quired to have birthcertificate,
small pox and DJ».T. vaccine
The Aftoyac River Philosopher
.. amazed to learn farms have the answer
to problem of college rioting
EDITOR'S NOTE Ths At-
royac River Pli!ki«oph«r om his
J oh neon gras* farm on Attoyoe
Rivar apparently la looking
a (Mad to tho coming acbool
year, his lattor this week indi-
cates.
Dear editor
Because ants had gotten into
It, somebody threw a picnic
lunch wrapped in a newspaper
out of his can near ray Johnson
grass farm out kere yeaterday-
you’d think that with nun’s vast
technological skill be could
make an ant proof newspaper
but check any newspaper, your
newspaper included, and youTI
sac it's no more ant-proof than a
mosquito net—and 1 shook the
lunch and the ants out and
brought the paper home to lead.
According to an article I raa
Into immediately between two
mustard stains, a professor had
worked out an idea far handling
student unrest on college cam-;wrath on or barn, but I’d like
"ff tmt. lemk eleeM» L.L:__I tL. < ______
“If you look closely behind the
eempu* tuppenny,," he said,
‘•you'll find toe kids are sayhig
they want to actually get invoK
ed in some of the problems
they'll be facing often they leave
coaie up with a plan to let col-
lege students take off from das-
ses a few months at a time and
work with farmers and other
rural people who he says are for
the most part living below POT
erty level He proposes that they
teach toe farmers how to pro-
duce more, how to market it
more MdHuafiy. how to eat
more balanced meal, etc.
1 am interested ia ri»b pro-
ram. I’ve got e fence around
my pasture out here that’s so
fan below the poverty level I
figure it'll take the riot leaders
from at least 14 colleges to fix..
Another 10 er 12 could vent their,
puses this coming year,
to weeify rioters specializing In
Engineering because the first
thing an ordinary English ma-
jor would do is pull the psnps
<mt ou toe north side, which Is
--: »--' • our on me noun side, which is
the academic world", so he has the direction it’s leaning in at
rrann i in nti4h a nl— a. 1_ .__1 .
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the coating football
Mr. and Mrs. King are mem-:other proposed
ben of the Methodist Church the Aeg 5 ballet
end plan to move to Timpano In
the next few days. They are
parents of three children, Cindy,
18; Testy, 8; end Steve, S.
Tlmpson School will begin its ed property tax
school term oa August 25th. non-profit water supply
ration* by a fairly strong mar?
Mr. . W. Knstaoaen attera ~ ‘
the peet masters meeting
Nacogdoches tMs week.
STATE FAIR SAWDUST STARS
•i- MsxiLWs
tf -v
a great lorn not only to Liter-
attwe hut to my barn.
Aa for teaching me how to
market my produce and eat a
more balanced meal, I won’t
want to impose an these college
kids, they may not be that mad.
H they'll handle ths producing
end of the ;d> red get the stuff
grown, gathered and loaded and
Into town, m take over and
handle the marketing and buy-
ing of a balanced meal.
r aem dreamed I had the
answer to college rioting right
here under foot.
Vours faithfully,
J. A.
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mmk' ■
ter* the
Benda will he formally ah
tooriaed and awarded to the
purchaser at the meeting of
the Coordinating Board on
September 2. Panda will be
era liable for fall linutll
About JfifMO needy Texas
resident students have bare-
fitted from a total of nearly
100 800 loans atom the program
n ia 1800.
high and aid* am. 1_____
HOSPITAL AID CUT LOOMS—
Texas huptah got arming
from Tons health authorities
not pay toe premium tor insur-
ance to prefect ths public a-
gaiasl errors and oatoatoas of
coonty darks, Alty Qua Crew-
lard C. Mania tom held.
Mil before the toghdetaze
would create a Texas medal of
Ifedt
ITS A FATR-GOING CIRCUS —3
hungry for the old-time atmoupher*—three rings of saw-
dust. soda pop and axzdteznant under a bant—had bettor
harry, burry, hurry to fba 1969 State Fair of Toss, Oct.
4-19 nt State Pair Paafc ia Dales. Thay’li find tbs tanfaatk
and spangles alive and wail 4 the tree Dr Popper State
Fair Circux. Among He top featured performers are the
Zoppes, whom fabulous Indian spectacular ia billed as
America's finest and fastest raainbech riding net the
whole fast, hour-long circus, iwagaalwd several three
teay, paths enough adieu to thrm eh gmeretiaue. __ t
to U. S. money tor the date.
Tentative anotrauat is repeat-
edly about $31 million far te»
Panola Coualy
>iU to with-
drew an VISTA fVotxnteers hi
Sendee ef Amedci) wertere
from tbair areas touuedtotoly-
Atbetot Msdalya toarrvy CT-
Bair filed so* to federal caret
here to keep toe mrmeaste from
quoting the Nhie er greying a-
Claek ef Andrews oa
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Milner, Joel T. & Landers, Iris M. The Timpson Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1969, newspaper, August 15, 1969; Timpson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth766781/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Timpson Public Library.