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THE CLIFTON RECORD, CLIFTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, AUGUST 2S, 1964
Seventy Yean 01d,
And New Every Week.
Serving Clifton And
Bosque County
VOLUME 70 — MO, 32
WILL COMPETE IN DISTRICT • QUEEN CONTEST
Betty Loo Reichert To Represent Bosque
County Form Bureau in District Contest
Scheduled In Waco Friday Night, Aug. 28
Our eity’i college kid* will be
getting away from home, soon now.
witir for the very first time. Know
they've h*d * good do*e of *<M»e
from parent*, teacher*, and well-
meaning fnend*. That U ai it
•howld be Our favorite—to prevent
an idea, now and then, by citing
example and allegory.
I converted an empty pickle Jar
Into a little acquarium taut winter
Completed the bowl with gravel,
plant*, and la*t a single guppy t
unscrewed the jar lid several
month later and returned the little
guppy to the community acquar
ium.
He flipped hta tail, nr am a few
mrbea and a big angel ftth caught
him.
Freedom won't all he had ex-
ported It to be—Freedom mean*
only that yon have left the aecurlty
of your place in aodety and are
wtrttng to wort tor a better place
—or fall into a lower epot It
mean* (imply that yoa are ready
to face the world and to accept the
reward* brought and bought by
the sweat of your brow and the
ability of your thinking.
Record
SOME GOOD—SOME SAD
The local cotton fanner will no
doubt, get a short financial return
on hi* crop this year, due to the
long drouth which didn't "break
in time." There are some excep-
tion*. dace rain*, all summer-long
skipped and hopped drenching
one pasture—ignoring another.
Record
HUNTIRS ON FtR«
With a "feeling in their honed*
of what's coming up. Take a lata
afternoon drive around CHftan and
see the impatient hunter. Ha will
he outride—peering down Ms gun
barrell. aiming up at absolutely
nothing, and flapping the pocket*
of hi*
AIM TO
E.K
he couldn’t
this item. A
Cheshire. Cam., is
the following hand-printed word*
“Satisfaction guaranteed or double
your
At 7 30 o’clock on Friday night
of this week *t the Raleigh Hotel
in Waco, Betty Lou Reichert, who
ia pictured above and who recently
Clifton V.F.W. To
Scotchlite Bikes
On Sat., Aug. 29
As a service to the children
and young people In and
around Clifton, the V. F. W.
Post 8553 of Clifton will put
Scotch-lit* roflector top* on bi-
cycles. This will be done #t the
Clifton Public School grounds
in front of the Gym on Satur-
day morning, August 29 be-
tween the hours of 9:30 and
11 a. m.
The service is a national pro-
gram done only through the
V. F. W. and thousands of bicy-
cles across the country have
bean Scotchlitod as a safety
crusade by the V. F. W.
We, the local V. F. W., hope
that all children and young
people in and around Clifton,
who ore bike owners, will
bring their bicycles to the high
school gym on Saturday, Aug-
ust 29.
Han Amundson
Post Commander
First 1964 Cotton On Platform
Civic Society Will
Plan Its Fair Dinners
At Meeting September 2
Members of the Clifton Civic 1m-
™ Bu^.VSLH'iU Soc'rty will have their
HkeTonteSts from *•« “ 3 00 °'clook
ten other counties In this area for
the District 8 Farm Bureau Queen
Title.
Betty Lou, who will be a junior
student this coming year In Valley
Mills High School. It a daughter
of Bosque County Farm Bureau
President H J. Reichert, of Route
2. Valley Mills
District g winner selected at
Waco will compete against 13
other district Farm Bureau queen
candidates at the state finals to be
held at Houston in November.
The young lady who Is chosen
as Texas Fsrm Bureau Queen will
be rwtrded 880000 in expense* for
herself and her matron escort *0
that they may attend the American
Farm Bureau Federation Conven-
tion to take place at Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania. In December
on Wednesday afternoon of next
week—September 2—in the City
Hall dtning room, at which time
they will make plans for their din-
ners to be served during the Cen-
tral Texas Fair and Rodeo here
later this month.
Fair dinner planning committee
members for 1984 include Mrs.
Hugh Combs, chairman. Mrs W. B
Oswald. Mrs. Dan E. Orbeck. and
Mrs. Hans B Dahl. Also meeting
with the group In recent weeks has
been Mrs. Joe Little, Civic Society
president.
Mrs. Combs urge* all Civic mem-
bers to be president at the meet-
ing Wednesday of next week. At
that time dinner committees will
be named These committees al-
ready have been formulated, and
it will make notification of com-
FIRST THREE BALES CLIFTON COTTON—stands on the loading platform at the
Roye Payne Gin. G. W. Bearden, Rt. 1, brought the first bale in on Wednesday, August
20, and then hauled in the other two early Thursday morning. The first bale weighed out
at 644 pounds. Bearden had his first bale i n about a week earlier last year, when he also
had the distinction of making Clifton’s number one bale. He brought that cotton in on
August 12, 1963.
Bosque County member* of the tMKl th, m,rting
Farm Bureau^ as well as Betty Hostesses will be Mesdame* B I.
Lou a many friend* throughout the; Dth) Troy c Kggen Ted B E
«■****"•• .•£■* •hL!S nT" >nd C. L. Forcum.
in the District 8 competition They _
alt are pulling hard for her to be: ...
named the winner Friday night in OV%. 0. L Winnett,
Of MorttBaR, Dios
At Clobonw Aug. 24
Funeral services for Mrs. O. L.
Winnett, aged 73, of Route 2,
Meridian, were heM at 8:09 o'clock
on Monday afternoon. August 24,
at the Brister Funeral Home Chap-
el in Meridian, with Reverends Roy
Hill and Evans Cole officiating. In-
terment followed in the Meridian
Cemetery.
Mrs. Winnett died in a Celburne
hospital around noon on Sunday,
August 28. She was born on March
80. 1891. at McGregor and had
lived at Meridian for approximate-
ly eight year*.
Surviving Mr*. Winnett are her
husband. O. L. Winnett. of Route
2. Meridian; one son, A. L Winnett,
at Meridian; two daughters, Mr*.
Jimmie Lay, of Fort Worth, and
Mrs. Alice Freeman, of Santa Roan,
California; two brother*; five sis-
tor*; six grandchildren; and 14
great-grandchildren
Mr and Mrs. Vernon Amundson,
of Plano, are the parents of a
daughter, Tonji Kim, bom August
21. 1984. in a McKinney hospital
Die new baby weighed 7 lb*., 10H
ounces, at birth The paternal
grandparent* are Mr and Mr*. Wil-
liam Amundson, Rt. 2, Clifton Mr.
and Mrs Tony Ingram, of leonard,
are the maternal grandparents
Mr and Mrs James Zander, of
812 South Avenue H in Clifton, are
the proud parents of a son. Robert
James, who was bora in the local
hospital on August 19. 1984,
weighed 8 pounds and 7
when he arrived. Paternal
parents are Mr and Mrs. Walter
Zander, of Rout* 1, Clifton, and
maternal tcrandm^it li^*r t s M rs. J Isa—
A son, Drang Bryan, was born to
Mr. and Mr*. Bryan Bottlingcr, of
418 North Stidham in Waco, on
August 20, 1904, ia the Clifton hoe-
pital The young man weighed 7
id 11 mama at birth
John Covey Dies
At VA Hospital
In Temple Aug. 20
Funeral services were held at
4:00 o’clock on Friday afternoon,
August 21. at the Clifton Funeral
Home Chapel for John Covey, aged
71 years, 8 months, and 10 days,
of this city, whose death occurred
at ffcOO o'clock on Thursday morn-
ing, August 20, at the Veterans
Hospital in Temple
Mr. Covey had been ill for the
past three year*, during which
time he had been a hospital patient
never*! time*. For the past six
months he had received treatment
for asthma and other complications
at the Veterans Hospital During
that period he was able to be at
home a number of week-ends.
Conducting the services for Mr
Covey last Friday afternoon was
Reverend R D. Cates, pastor of
the Pentecostal Church of God in
Clifton.
Pallbearers were John Edward
Pierce and Wiley Cecil Pierce, of
Clifton. Bobby Weir, of Temple, J.
L. Pruitt, of McGregor, Dm Covey,
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TO TEACH AT VALLEY MILLS
Mrs. Marshall V. Bwda, at Map 4
Bout* 1. Clifton, who ha. heldi A
qur County schools daring the past
several yean, will
Ian
tie*
teacher In the Clifton schools.
to» 2Jt
Clifton tonnlood n total at MB
rain ov*
h Avenue H ii
the birth of a
Deem Lytm, in the local
22. 1984.
10 ounces o*
her
A son, Kendeil Gam. was
|o Mr. and Mrs. Gene Floated, of
118 Sooth Avenue G in Clifton, oa
August 28, 19M, in the local
pital oa August 33
ghed 7 pounds and ]
arrival
art Mr. and Mrs.
•ff Route R,
m-SGSST-tow.
I
Any person who employs domes-
tic help in his own home and pays
the worker |80.00 or more cash
wage* in a calendar quarter moat
report the wages and pay the so-
cial security tax to the Director of
Internal Revenue on the wage*
paid according to Bob McLean,
Field Representative of the Waco
Social Security District Office.
Mr. McLean wHl be in Clifton at
the City Hail Diatag Room batwe
the hour* of 1800 a. m. and 18:00
noon on Tuesday, September 1,
IBM.
A5 To 69 Band
Students Now Are
Practicing Daily
Clifton High School band direc-
tor Glen Judah said Wednesday of
this week that between 88 and 08
band students have been attending
pre school practice sessions this
week beginning at 7:00 o’clock each
morning.
Mr. Judah points out that he
expert* to have around 74 students
■t the sessions when they all re-
turn from vacations and other sum-
mer activities.
The Clifton High School Band,
with 55 marching members, will
play and participate during half-
time activities at the Clifton Cub-
Hillsboro football game to be play-
ed here Friday night September 4.
According to Mr. Judah, the
band ha* a new set of tyumani and
a new bassoon and has had two
baritones and two bam clarinets
redone since the end of the past
school year.
Clifton High’s Band has bean
nrded the Region m Sweep-
stakes Trophy for the past two
years. Each year It received first
division ratings in marching, «a
cert playing, and sightreading con-
ducing the season to
4 now are on sale at
the local drug stores, according to
> rotated thir weak
ent of the Clifton Public*Schools.
Afltoto smi, tot the five
Clifton Joycees
Plan Dunk Booth,
Labor Day Stop
Members of the Clifton Junior
Chamber of Commerce had their
first meeting since May 26 on Tues
day night, August 11, in the local
City Hall dining room. Ten persons
were present.
Vernon (Pdf) Erickson, James
Corpier, Edward Bryn, and Doug-
las Railsback were appointed to the
committee to have charge of the
Jayeee Dunking Booth during the
Central Texas Fair and Rodeo to
be held in Clifton later this month,
it also was voted that the Jaycees
enter a float in the fair parade.
Thst project will be discussed at
the next business meeting to take
place on September 8.
On Monday, September 7, the
Clifton Jaycees will operate a rest
stop for motorists. It will be locat-
ed on Highway 6 as it goes through
this city.
The local Jayeee* pledged 2180.
00 to the United State* Olympic
Fund to help send the U. S. Olym-
pic Team to the Winter Olympic
Game*. There also was such dis-
cussion concerning the organisa-
tion of a basketball team here dur-
ing the winter months. No motion
was made, but it will be discussed
later if enough members are inter-
ested.
Present for the August 11 meet-
ing as guest speaker was Richard
Skipper, Region IV state director
He gave the club some good point-
ers on club organisation and mem
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CAMP AFTER
N> WEEK-END
AFTBR DAUGHTER
TO
AMD:
Last Saturday, Mr. awl Mm. R. I*.
Mrs Dm
to bring their
sister, and aunt, Pat
back home after rim
r. Their arrival at camp
the first real rain of the
Clarence Beasley
Named Chief Of
Police In Clifton
Clarence Beasley hss been nam
ed Chief of Police ia Clifton, ac-
cording to an announcement made
Wednesday, August 26 by the City
Council. Beasley replaces James
Bird, chief here for the past 14
months, who rerigoad to take a
position elsewhere.
Chief Beasley, no stnugte to
police work nor to Clifton, returns
to the local force, where he once
had served as a patrolman. He
back to Clifton from the
Bryan Police Department, where
he was a patrolman. Earlier ha
waa employed by the Copperas
Cove PoBee Department with the
rank of Lieutenant. His back>
ground training includes special
training at the Texas Ptiica
School, Texas AAM and various
other special schools in traffic
Chief of Police Clarence Beas-
ley, hie wife, Pel and thrir six
at 616 Avenue K in
i. L Schows Injured
In Cor Accident; Two
Men Killed In Airplane
Mr and Mrs. E. E. Schow, of this
city, have been patients in the lo-
cal hospital since Saturday after-
noon of last week following a car
accident in which their red Volks-
wagen was involved near the bridge
which crosses I-ake Whitney at La-
guna Park.
Texas Highway Patrolman James
Wright, who investigated the aeel
dent, told the Record that the
Schow car and another driven by
Leon Sonnenberg, 19, of Bynum,
collided at approximately 4:30
o’clock that afternoon just a* the
Schow car left the bridge on High-
way 22 in the direction of Clifton
Two Hillsboro boys also were in
the Sonnenbere car; the three boys
were uninjured.
Patrolman Wrieht pointed out
that his investigation showed the
Sonnenberg car, which drove from
the side road to the observation
Doint, and the Schow car collided
head-on at a 45-degree angle. The
Sonnenberg youth came from the
side road and turned toward Hills-
boro. He was charged with running
a stop sign and driving while his
driver’s license was suspended.
Mr. and Mrs. Schow, who were
not seriously injured, were brought
to the local hospital by the Clifton
ambulance. Mr*. Schow sustained
deep cuts on her chin and neck, a
broken right arm. a broken knuckle
on her left hand, and other cuts
and bruises. Mr. Schow also had
stitches taken in his right hand
and received a bruised chest and
other cuts.
It was of interest to note that
Mrs. Schow’s glasses, which landed
on the ground during the accident,
were recovered unbroken.
Both cars were damaged, with
John Outlaw Wrecker Service eati-
(continued on back page)
first Graders To
Register August 31
Clifton Elementary School first
graders will register Monday, Aug-
ust 31, in the foyer of the Bettis
Auditorium, Clifton High School.
Registration hours have been set
from 2 to 4 p. m.
Students entering school for the
Urot time must bring their proof
of small pox vaccination and their
birth certificate*, according to A
T. Roberta, Elementary School
..I, | , 2
rTtnCipil.
Clifton Public Schools Have Additional
Teacher On 33-Member Faculty; Hours
Given For Registration For 1964-65 Year
BACK TO MUNICH
of tiw U. S. Aimed Forces
Local Gun Club To
Hold Open House
August
The Clifton Gun Ciub will twkl
open house on Sunday afternoon,
August 30, at the Gee Club
property, two i
on the Womack Highway.
The pubUa
attend and
Students Will Find Three
New Faces Among Teachers
Due to increased enrollment dur-
ing the 1963 64 school year, the
Clifton Public Schools gained an
additional teacher for the coming
year, according to information re-
ceived from Kent Appleby, super-
intendent. The local schools will
have 33 faculty members for the
vear to begin on Wednesday, Sept-
ember 2.
Superintendent Appleby also said
that three new faces will be found
among the faculty members when
the school bell rings again Wednes-
day of next week These new facul-
ty members, who also include the
additional teacher, will be Mrs.
Patsy Ruth Lancaster, formerly of
Waco. Mrs. Peggy Nichols McFar-
land, who has been living at Cy-
press, and Clifford C. Erwin, form-
er teacher at Winters.
Mrs Lancaster, who will take the
place vacated by Mrs. O. R. Jenson,
will teach public school music in
the elementary grades and also
junior high and high school. She
has a master’s degree from Baylor
University in Waco and 11 years
of teaching experience. She pres-
ently, with her son, who will be a
junior student in Clifton High
School, is making her home at
1803 West 5th Street here. Mrs.
Jenson was employed at the end
of the last school year to teach the
Fourth Grade following Mrs. E. E.
Schow’s retirement.
Mrs. McFarland, who is a daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. (Red)
Nichols, of Meridian, received her
bachelor’s degree from Southern
Methodist University in Dallas. She
will teach Spanish and social stu
dies in junior high and high school.
Mrs. McFarland's husband is with
the United States Consular Service
and presently is stationed at Cy-
press. She and their two children,
a boy and a girl, recently returned
to the United States when affairs
became troubled there. Her son
will be an elementary school stu-
dent either here or at Meridian.
Clifford C. Erwin, as previously
mentioned in the Record, will teach
(continued on last page)
Clarence Handleys
Have Car Accident
At Moody last Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence D. Hand-
ley, of this city, were involved in
a car accident at Moody on Sunday
afternoon. August 23, in which it
is understood no one was seriously
injured.
Mr. and Mrs. Handley were on
their way to Temple to visit with
their son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. C. D. Handley Jr., and
son, Jackie, when the accident oc-
curred Mr. Handley said that a
lady, who had three children in
her car which they were meeting,
did not see the Handley car and
turned to the left in front of them.
C. D. Handley Jr. brought his
parents back to Clifton, where they
received check-ups at the local hos-
pital. Mrs. Handley sustained a
broken bone in her right hand, and
Mr. Hundley received a cut on hi*
left hand.
According to John Outlaw’s
Wrecker Service here, the Handley
car suffered damage amounting to
from $500 to $700.
Junior, Senior High Students
To Register Monday, Tues.
Superintendent Kent Appleby
said early this week that the regis-
tration for the 1964-65 year at the
Clifton Public Schools will begin
on Monday, August 31, with the
seniors to register at 1:00 P. M. and
the juniors at 2:90 P. M. in the
study hall. The following day, Tues-
day, September 1, the sophomore
students will start registering at
8:30 A. M. and the freshmen at
10:00 A. M. in the same place.
Also to register from 2:00 until
4:00 P. M. Monday in the Bettis Au-
ditorium foyer will be all first
graders, with Junior High School
students to register at 1:00 P. M.
Tuesday in the Junior High Depart-
ment. Other elementary students
will not register until the first reg-
ular day of the school year, which
will be Wednesday, September 2.
First general faculty meeting, ac-
cording to Superintendent Appleby,
will take place at 8:30 A. M. Mon-
day.
Regular classes are scheduled for
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
of next week, but they will not be-
gin the following week unitl Tues-
day, September 8, as Monday, Sept-
ember 7, will be the Labor Day
holiday.
School To Start Esrtler
During the 196465 school year
the tardy bell will ring at 8:25
A. M. each day, which will be five
minutes earlier than in previous
years. The school day will continue
until 3:45 P. M. as usual.
Superintendent Appleby pointed
out that the school buses will run
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CKftoa High Peg Squad
It seem* that the Clifton High
School cheerleaders are ready to
football spirit among
local students prior to the first
football game scheduled with Hills-
boro here Friday night of next
week—September 4.
First meeting of the Pep Squad
will take place at $:» o’clock on
Monday night of next weak in front
of the local schools, at which time
other interested Cub fane also are
to be present to tarn
up somu
dash.
Clifton High
spirit lor the
ENJOY VACATION '
MX. and Mrs.
Saturday,
to Lubbock to vi.it i
Rev. Don Reed
Resigns As Pastor
01 Grace Baptists
Reverend Don Reed, who has
served as pastor of the Grace Mem-
orial Baptist Church in Clifton
since April, 1983. recently resigned
that position, effective August 16.
Reverend and Mrs. Reed and
their three children, Stevie, Luan-
da, and Lana Lee, moved to Fort
Worth Wednesday of last week.
Reverend Reed plans to attend
Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary and also will be employ-
ed in the paint department at Mont-
gomery-Word them: ..................
To date the Grace Baptist Church
congregation has not engaged a
pastor to take Reverend Reed's
place. Last Sunday Reverend Mor-
ris Morgan and his family, of Waco,
came lo Clifton, and Reverend Mor-
gan conducted both the morning
and evening worship services at
the church. This coming Sunday
Reverend M. E. Williamson, also
of Waco, will deliver the sermons
for both services.
DoM Toumomwit To
Go Tlirovgb labor Day
The playing of the 1988 Dahl
Tournament will b* extended
through the Labor Day week-end of
September 5 and 8. The extension
was made due to the adverse weath-
er condition* prevailing at the
tournament** opening.
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Grad* A large i
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barley 90c be; i
yellow com $120.
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