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VOLUME 76 — NUMBER 2
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CLIFTON, TEXAS 76634, THURSDAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1971
TWO SECTIONS ★ PRICE TEN CENTS
HILL ■ BURTON FUND RELEASE EXPECTED NEXT MONTH-
Clifton Hospital Will Be Finest In
United States For Towns Our Size
By SAM LOGAN > than 60 members of the
Record Editor ' Lions Ctuo Tuesday noon, mat
•Jim B. Smith, Administrator ,inai funding it tne federal gov-
of Goodall-Witcher Hospital Foun eminent s Hill-Burton matcri.nf
dation. told an audience of more grant lor tne new $1.7 million,
-----1-----| 64-ued hospital in Cufton is ex-
pected between February 5 and
mih.
While this eagerly awaited an-
nouncement is of primary interest
not only to'Cnftomans but to
current and future patients from
a wide segment oi Central 'lex-
as, perhaps the most clramauc
statement Mr. Smith made tj
tne Lions was the fact triat:
'When this new hospital is
Three Injured
In Separate
One-Car Wrecks
Three persons were injured ir.
two separate one-car accidents „„„
in BosqueiCounty since Saturday, compieted,' uiftP'n’wiirhave the
but none are believed seriously ! fin«st hospital of any town its
injured ; Jlie jn t(le en|jre United States,
Mrs. Ho Seward of Koute 1, and I have done considerable re-
Clifton was injured about 7:30 search before daring to ma<e
a.m. Monday morning when her| that statement!" he exclaimed.
I car overturned in a deep gully, A great many towns of - >oj
! ‘n Walling Bend Park at Lakej population don t even have out
Whitney, according to Highway j doctor. Clifton has four doe'or-.
Payoiman Gerald Baker. : now, and a fifth is coming in
He said Mrs. Seward was alone j June a formal announcement ui
and on her way to go fishing j this will be made by the uc-ciors
when the accident occurred. She I at a later date .
SLUGISH?— Clifton Volunteer Fireman DicklEaton
is pictured pointing to the big dent in the real door
of Clifton Fire Department equipment truck. Tkre dent
was caused by being pushed from behind by a high-
bumpered fire truck because “old betsey” wouldn’t
start at a recent fire. In fact, she’s been pushed-start-
ed to a number of fires. A 1951 model, the panel
truck is to be retired as soon as firemen raise enough
mqney to buy a replacement model, and that’s the
reason for the fireman’s benefit dance to be held Frit t
day, Feb. 5 at the guard armory. The two inset photos
show other views of the truck’s awkward doors,
through which firemen must remove their equipment.
—Record Staff Photo
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Upon A Thought •
Dance to Finance Fire Truck
was brought to Goodall-Witcher
Hospital in Chiton by private
car, where she was treated for
bruises and released.
She was driving a 1965 auto
which was heavily damaged,
Patrolman Baker said.
The other mishap occurred at
Wainut Springs Saturday, Jan.
23, at about 9:50 p.m. when a
1965 model car driven by Andei-
son J. Chappell, 21, of General
Delivery, Walnut Springs, left
| the roadway and crashed into
I a telephone pole.
Both the driver and his passen-
ger, younger brother, David
‘Chappell, 18, were injured. They
were taken to Meridian hospital
and treated for bruises, lacera-
tions and abrasions and releas-
ed/: Patrolman Baker said.
The vehicle was demolished.
Siill fewer small towns have
their own hospital, and not an-
Ciifton other in the U. S. will have one
as complete and well equipped
as will Clifton.
Mr. Smith said, As you all
know we have been disappoint-
ed before. Decause for aoout J
months alter we were approved
for the tub Burton fpnds, the ad-
ministration froze 'ail lunds m
the nt-alih care field.
"I almost hesitate to make the
announcement that funding is to
be due next month, as we've
been told by health department
officials, for fear tnat something j
e»se will happen to put us -off
a oi in.
lie then gave u run down on
some of the physical aspects of
tne new hospital.
“For comparative purposes
you might remember that our
present hospital is 4! beds and
about ll,00o square feet in floor
space, ' he suki.
The new two - story structure
will have 48,000 square leet 'four
times as dirge , and will have
04 patient beds.
• ihe building will face nearly
due north and is designed to ad-
here to uie rather sleep contour.
Vehicle Tag^Sales
Begins on Monday
In early January motor vehicle covers cost yf handling and post-
owners received by mail from age.
Austin a three-part card to ue it owners are to receive tluir
used in purchasing auto, truck plates by mail before the Apt if
and trailer registration or l deadline, then they must, send
''license" piates during 1971. the renewal form, lee and $l lor
These three - part, perforated each vehicle m be registered .u
cards should, be kept together the local county tax .office by
and presented at the County Tax March l. This allows 30 days for
office in the courthouse in. Me- delivery oi the piates before the
ridian when you register your April 1 registration deadline.
Civic Society to
Hear Program on
In an effort to continue their the band couldn’t come that National Guard Armory in Clif-
| current project to purchase -a; night so it was changed to Fri- jton.
new fire fighters equipment i day. The first batch of tickets! Entire proceeds from the j
truck, members of the Clifton j printed had a Fell. 6 date, so dance will go toward purchasing' / kjk J* I * ./
I Volunteer Fire Dpet., will host a : holders of these tickets should i a new fire equipment truck. Ad- j /VI6Cl ICCl I ATT
benefit Fireman's Dance to whichj be reminded that the dance has mission is $2.50 per person. Ice |
! the public is invited Friday j been changed to Friday, Feb. 5. will Ire furnished free, and a
night, February 5. Jerry Benfer and the Country ! buffet of chips and dips and cold
drop
of
ink Voter Registration Deadline Looms
Originally the dance was sche-
duled for Saturday night, but
Music Masters will play for the cuts and cheese will be served,
dance which will be held at the | (See DANCE, Page 6-A)
With only a few days remain-1 These blank forms also will
This columnist is compelled ' before the Jan. 31st deadline,' have a list of the names of the
this week to write complimenting ; only about hall the estimated voting boxes in the county, and
The Houston Chronicle's Texas numl)er of eligible voters had j the correct Precinct Number by
Sunday Magazine section for its- registered to vote in Bosque each, so that those filling out the
excellent feature story and color fUounty, County Tax Assessor-. applications may place >their
photography about the annual j Collector Earl Behringer reveal
Mrs. David C. Tyssen will pre-
sent the program during the next
meeting of the Clifton Civic Im-
provement Society to be held at
3 p.m. next Wednesday, Feb: 3.
Subject,of Mrs. Tyssen's pre-
sentation will be "Medical Art".
Hostesses for the February
meeting of the Civic Society will
be Mrs. N. W. Willett Jr., Mrs,
Sam Logan, Mrs. James Tuttle,
tom of the form. Mr. Behringer
said that some people were fail-j Mrs. Chris Strand, and Mrs. 1L
ing to sign the form, and that' C. Dahlen
these cannot be processed with- j All members of the Civic So- d until February 1.
out signatures. , ciety are urged to be present.' The additional $l
vehicle for 1971.
Registration begins Monday,
Feb. 1, and will continue through
April 1.
The application is a three-part
form with instructions ' printed
on it. One important thing to
remember is THE c A It D
SHOULD NOT BE TORN APART.
After the registration period
begins February 1, each vehicle
owner can take the renewal ap-
plication and the tee to his coun-
ty tax office, or he can order his
plates by mail.
If the owner wishes to register renewal form will be more coa-
his vehicle by mail, he should vement and timesaving
send the entire three-part renew-
al application, the fee and an
additional $1 to the local county
kax office as .early as January
with the understanding that his
icense plates may not be mait-
if the owner decides to go to
the county tax office, he vviii
find shorter waiting jines.
All he needs to take with him
is the renewal application and
the fee. He will then receive ms
new plates and part of the form
as his receipt.
Another part of the form is
retained by the county and the
third is sent to the Motor \ elude
Division of the Texas Highway
Department in Austin.
However the owner may do
slope of the site. Part of if will
be one story and part two story,
which hast been designed both
for looks 4nd functional reasons.
The iwo-story patient wing will
include kitchen and dining faci-
liues.
Tne. lower floor will include 32
patient beds, five bassinets m
tne nursery, kitchen and dining
areas. The upper Loot will con-
tain 38 regular patient oeds and
a compliment ol four coronary-
car or intensive - care bed areas.
Ihe bunding will have emer-
gency room, delivery and labor
rooms, two operating rooms, X-
ray taciiiues, a iao, and a cen-
tral supply department, medical
records department, business of-
fices, a lobby and gift shop, and
a general storage area.
The two-story portion will in-
HOSPITAL, Page 6-Au
Hog Creek Flood
Prevention Plan
OK'd by Congress
The Hog Creek Watershed
Flood Prevention program has
been approved by ihe Congress,
ine upper drainage of this water-
shed originates in Curved coun-
ty1. comes on througn Bosque
county and continues on through
McLennan county and empties ia-
; to Lase W aco,
This program as approved by
l Congress consists of two flood-
water retarding structures and
, 44,700 feet of stream channel
,improvement. One of the.strut-
1 tares, Site i, is located in Bos-
que county on Hog Creek un-
. mediately below the Coryell
j county line. The other structure.
Site, 2, wifi be across Liveoak
j creek1 and Long Tom branen,
approximately four miles east of
; Mosheim.
The Hurst Branch stream chan-
nel improvement liescjjn Corye. 1
county, starting above Hurst
Springs and extending 12,400 feet
| above the Springs. The'Liveoaic
; Creek stream channel improve-
I ment begins above Site 2 retard-
| mg structure and extends up
Liveoak Creek 25,800 feet througn
Bosque county and on into Cory-
charge ment
tide to register his-vehicle, ay. j ell County 6500 feet
mail or in person, use of the ! rat*° 01 the total annual
’ benefits resulting from the in-
stallation of these structural
The current registration sys- j measures to the annual costs is
tem is the product of much work j $L70 for each $1.00.
and planning. The system began ! Sponsors of this project are
to take shape in 1967 with the Mhe Bosque, Hrfmiiton-Coryell and
installation oi the, first Computer j McLennan county Soil & Water
equipment by the Motor Vehicle I Conservation Districts and Bos-
Division of the Highway Depart- ! ^ue, Coryell and McLennan Coon*
Smorgasbord held at Norse.
Since wc are a bit out of the
Houston paper’s circulation area,
nol too many Clifton people re-
ceive the Houston Chronicle, but
those, who know someone who
docs, might want to borrow his
January 24th issue. • |
The state’s largest newspaper's
S'unday magazine section used
three full-process color cover
photos Uwo of '"Smorgasbord
cd this week.
As of Tuesday, Mr. Behringer
said that the total registration
was 4,400, county-wide.
A total of 5,422 registered to
vole in 1968 ; 4,486 registered in
I960; and 5,344 in 1970.
With 18, 19 and 20-year-olds al-
so eligible to register lo vote
this year, however, Mr. Behring-
er estimates that there is a po-
tential 7,000 to 8,000 possioie
scenes and one of Our Savior's voters in Bosque County.
right Precinct numbers in the j
appropriate blank. First time j
voters, who still don’t know |
where they "are supposed to vote, |
should leave this "Precinct No."
box on the application unmark- |
ed, and tax oitice will till it in
correctly.
At the top of the application
blank is a place tor voters to j
place the name of the person be-
ing registered, but each blank
must also be signed by Ihe ap-
plicant or his agent, at the bot-
Lutheran Church), and (hen
numerous color and black and
white photos with the feature
inside. Chronicle Staffers Curbs
McGee took the photos, and Ray
Conaway wrote the accompany-
ing feature article.
The main reason we compli-
ment the Chronicle, however, is
not for its coverage alone, but
for the quality of coverage. The
Ink Dropper has a king-size chip
In an effort to urge voters to
register so they will be eligible
to vole in elections during 1971,
the Clifton Chamber of Com-
merces Governmental ' Affairs Historical Committee
Mrs. Sam Radde Named
New Chairman of County
committee has placed application
blanks for voter registration in
key places around Clifton, and
every bank in Bosque County
has blanks available.
Farmers Slate Bank in Clifton
not only has blanks, but also r
on his shoulder when it comes [j0X [0 cohect application blanks,
to journalists from big city at)(j they will mail the blanks
papers covering events in rural in for yoU| l{ ,hcy are deposited
Texas, and rural America for before closing time at noon Sat-
thal matter. Our beel is that too Urday.
many inexperienced reporters, The' Courthouse will not be
for some strange reason, slant open Jan. 31, which falls on Sun-
their copy to make everything day ,his ycar, but any mailed
in the country look "haysoedy'
and “corny”, you know, like
from "hicksville".
Rather than practice what they
preach, which is "tell il like it
is", many of them come light
out and say, nr imply with vary-
yz ing degrees of subtlety, that
' everything not urban or surbur-
ban is hieky and icky, dumb- j certificates,
dumb and Tinky-dink. j Also in cooperation with the
This attitude is just as ridicul- Chamber committee's "Get The
pus as writing to leave the im-! Voters Registered” campaign,
jpression that everything in our .....*
great cities is smog and fog and
'grog, and traffic 'crashes, and
breathing someone else’s garlic
(See DROP OF INK, Pg. 6-A)
in applications postmarked be-
fore midnight Sunday, Jan. 31,
will be processed.
Mr. Behringer said that be-
cause so many have waited mL.
til near the deadline before irfaiv
jug application’ to -register if
may take Tax Office personnel
several weeks Co process all the
this week's Clifton Record is pub-
lishing two application -blanks in
this week’s paper (one in the
first section and another in the
s'ecoud section).
The Bosque County Historical
Survey Committee, newly ap-
pointed by County Judge E. W.
McGee, held its lirst meeting of
the new term Wednesday, Jan.
20, in the courthouse at Meridian.
New officers are Chairman,
Mrs. Sam Radde; Vice-Chairman.
Mrs. George Brooks; and Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Alton Gandy.
A large group was present, |
representing these communities: ;
Iredell, Valley Mills, Clifton.
Norse, Lakeside Village, Cran-
fihs Gup, and Meridian.
Discussion was held of the 1
plans to dedicate the' marker .1
to John A. Lomax, ballad co!-!
lector, part ol whose boyhood -
home still stands north of Me- j
ridian. This will be done later
in the spring.
Thi> most urgent need seemed
to be the collection of documents, ]
pictures, reminiscences of older i
folks, and finding old neglected ]
grave sites. Each member would i
"" t**mm*'k*£ afshe fcKi 'alto tachtag
about these matters!1"
Next meeting will l>e in Val-
ley Mills Monday,. May 3rd, at
3.p.m. in the bank building.
HIGH ARCHER— Clifton’s Linda Schulze is shown
„ a free
throw, as teammates Jane llusc (No. 35) and Margie
Berger (33) get ready to go for the rebound, during
the local girls' game with Connally Mondav night
Where’s the ball? The photographer lost it He was
probably watching the girls and not the ball, but it
swished through a split second later. Connally won
the event, however, 53-37. —Record Stall'Photo
ty Commissioners Courts.
Construction is expected to
j start on this program soon after
ail easements require for con-
struction have been obtained.
Sponsors and the ,jop*l land
owners have sought ^is (project
r since 1966.
| :.........—_______
Kids Warned Against
Shooting Street Lites
I City Secretary $ R. Pj-i
i White told The Record thus week
: that a number of street lights
have been shot out since Christ-
mas and he warned parents of
youth with now BB and Pellet
; gtins that if they are caught thev
| will be prosecuted under the
city ordinance that prohibit the
firing oi any type of firearm,
or air rifle inside the city limits.
: These lights are expensive, and
destruction of them must be
■ stopped, he said. Heretofore the
! city has been rather lax on en-
forcing the Jaw against BB guns,
but if the breaking of lights con-
ft limes, we’ll have to stop it.
Violators can be lined under pre-
sent city laws.
Also more than one pot has
been shot during recent weeks,
; anil this too is against the law.
Students Design Drug
Clinic Advertisement
In connedmii with the Clifton
School system's clinic on Drue
Abuse to be held this Friday,'
ihe Record donated a half a
page of space in this week's
issue, but local high school Stu-
dents completely designed and
did all the work for the ad that
invites everyone to attend the
clinic starting Friday morning.
There'll be some interesting
informal ion on a most vital sub
ject, but see ihe ad for yourself
iuside tins issue.
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Logan, Sam D., Jr. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1971, newspaper, January 28, 1971; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth797270/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.