The Taylor Daily Press (Taylor, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 136, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1961 Page: 2 of 10
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Page 2, Taylor Daily Press, Thursday, May 25, 1961
TV Tower
Construction
Dae Soon
The location of the transmitter
tower of KLRN-TV, Channel 9.
has been approved by the Fed-
eral Aviation Agency and a long-
term lease has been signed with
the land owners. Construction on
the tower is expected to begin
within the next few weeks.
“This is the ideal site for a
tv antenna between San Antonio
and Austin,” Harvey Herbst, as-
sistant general manager of KLRN
said. “It .Is just mid-way betwen
the two cities and' is located on
a high point which affords addi-
tional advantages.”
‘The tower will be 999 feet, in-
cluding the antenna, and it will
be built cn a hill that has an
elevation of 1048 feet above, sea
level,” he continued. “We will be
operating at top power, so this
should put a beautiful picture on
most any tv set in Austin or
San Antonio.”
The site is on the .Leonard
Voges ranch, just off Farm Road
No. 306, near Saltier, about nine
miles northwest of New Braun-
fels.
KLRN-TV, Channel 9, will be
constructed and operated by The
University of Texas under con-
tract from the Southwest Texas
Educational Television Council,
the station licensee. Offices and
studios will be located' in Austin
at the University. The San Anton-
io office is located at San Antonio
College.
The Council is a non-profit cor-
poration composed of citizens of
San Antonio, Austin and surround-
ing communities. Broadcasting is
expected to begin early in 1962.
'Death City'
Is Discovered
MEXICO CITY m — A fasci-
nating “death city” sprinkled with
hundreds of tiny funeral monu-
ments has been discovered in
Veracruz, the rector of the local
university said.
Dr. Fernando Salmeron said
the graveyard can be traced back
to pre-Columbian days and is a
typical example of the Totnacan
architecture.
BAR TO HEAR JOHNSON
FORT WORTH ® — Vice Pres-
ident Lyndon Johnson, is sche-
duled to address the State Bar
Convention here July 7, Bar Pres-
ident Paul Carrington of Dallas
said today.
HOWARD
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Ihifife Hoad1
On Covered
Wagon Trip
William A. Blakley, Democratic
candidate for U.S. senator in Sat-
urday’s runoff election, was born
in a covered wagon at Miami
Station, Mo., where his parents
had stopped on their way to the
Indiana Territory to homestead
a quartersection of land.
When the baby was two: months
old the family settled in what is
now Custer County, Oklahoma,
near the Texas Panhandle. The
family operated a grocery store
and farm in the town of Arapaho.
At 14, young Blakley was work-
ing for S25 a month as a cow-
hand. From Arapaho High School,
he went into the Army, with a
semester in the University of Ok-
lahoma as part of his world War
f training, he then came to Tex-
as.
It was at Ranger during the
oil boom that he learned the rudi-
ments of accounting. Beginning
as a teller-clerk, he found jobs
in West Texas banks during the
next few years.
He married the former Villa
Darnell in 1922. They lived in
Cleburne, where Blakley was
working in a bank. In 1925 they
settled permanently in Dallas. In
the early 1930’s he received his
license to practice law in, Texas.
The Blakleys own ranch proper-
ty in Irion and Reagan Counties,
another ranch in New Mexico,
a citrus farm in the Valley, and
another farm in Dallas County.
He is chairman of the largest
capitalized' state bank in Texas
His other interests include in
surance.' real estate and his Ex-
change Park in Dallas.
He is known for his many phi-
lanthropies. He was first appoint-
ed to the U. S. Senate 1957 to
serve until a candidate could be
elected to fill out the term of
Price Daniel who resigned to be
come governor of Texas. He was
again appointed to the Senate in
January of this year
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:eives
Gift Certificate
At the close of a board meet-
ing of the deacons and trustees
of the Hutto Lutheran Church
Tuesday evening, the Rev. Ken
neth Peterson, pastor, was told
there was another item of busi-
ness to be transacted.
“The busieness item,” the Rev,
Peterson said, “was the presen-
tation to me of a gift certificate
for $60 (to be used for the pur-
chase of a suit of clothes).”
The presentation was made by
Edmond Schmidt “in behalf of
the fine work the pastor has: done
while serving the Hutto Lutheran
Church as pastor for the past two
years.” .
The Rev. Peterson was “flab
bergasted—to say the least” and
“considers it an honor to work
with a fine .group of people like
members of the Hutto Lutheran
Church.”
Other members of the hoard
include Sigurd Johnson, Dennis
Johnson, Arnold Lindgren, Henry
Hooper HI, C. E. Lidell, Tom
Bryant, Kenneth Johnson, Verne
Rydell, Ernest Olson, Carl Stern
and Emory Stromberk
Of Methodist
Church Leader
John Tower, the Republican can-
didate for U. S. senator in the run-
off election Saturday, is the son
of Dr. and Mrs. Joe Z. Tower
of Houston. His father is executive
secretary of the Texas Confer
ence of the Methodist Church.
He is the grandson of two
Methodist clergymen, the late
Rev. C. A. Tower and the Rev
John W. Goodwin of Atlanta
Tex., now retired.
He and his wife, the forma
Joza Lou Bullington of Wichita
Falls, have three daughters, Pene-
lope, 6; Marian, 5; and Jeanne
Born in Houston in 1925, he has
lived in Doucette (Tyler County)
Alvin, Jacksonville, Tyler, and
Beaumont, cities where his father
filled ministerial assignments
He graduated from Beaumont
High School in 1942 and is a Pad
fic combat veteran of the Navy
in World War II.
He received a bachelor of arts
degree in government from South-
western University at Georgetown,
and master of arts in political sci-
ence from Southern Methodist
University. He studied at the
London School of Political and
Economic Science where he did
research work among laboring
class of England.
During college years, Tower
served as news editor-announcer
for Radio Stations KFDM, Beau-
mont; and KTAE, Taylor.
In Wichita Falls he is a mem-
KTAE Radio Los
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6:00—1200 Shindig
6:55:—Farm News
7:00—News
7:05—Weather
7:10—Sports
7:15—Tommie Griffith
7:30—News
7:45—Tommie Griffith
8:55—Weathervane
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9:15—Switzer Show & Weather
10:00—Tommie Griffith
10:30—Headlines & Griffith
10:55—News
11:00—Polka Parade
11:30—Want Ads
11:45—Farm News & Stock Market
12:00—Jamboree
12:15—News
12:30—Jamboree
2:00—Tony Von
3:00—News & Larry Fitzgerald
4:00—Larry Fitzgerald
5:00—News & Larry Fitzgerald
5:30—Music by Candlelight
L J tOO--Sign Off
Family Dinner
Fetes Senior
A family dinner party in the
Wallace S. Johnson home Sun
day honored Miss Lee Ruth
Schroeder, a Taylor High graduat-
ing senior.
The two families have been
very close friends all through the
years, and the late Mr. E. E
Johnson was her sponsor in bap-
tism.
Among the gifts for the hon
oree, was a cut glass basket
an heirloom in the Johnson fam
ily, and presented by Miss Becky
Johnson.
Places were laid for Miss
Schroeder, the honoree; for Mr
and Mrs. Albert T. Schroeder
her parents; Mrs. E. E. Johnson,
and the hosts, Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace S. Johnson and their
children, Micky and Becky.
John Tower
Mrs. Sparks
Named Literacy
Council Head
Mrs. Richard Sparks was named
director of training for the Taylor
Literacy Council at the board
meeting Thursday, and hearten-
ing reports showed the con-
tinued snowballing manner in
which the work of the council is
progressing.
Several local people, including
Mrs. Sparks, Mrs. George Shaper,
and Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Fechner,
have qualified as teachers to
train teachers, and in one class,
sixteen persons are being trained
at the O. L. Price school.
The only expense to the teach-
ing of reading and writing of the
English language in the stream-
lined manner is for supplies, and
these are purchased by the pu-
pils unless they are unable to
pay. Charts and books for the
teachers are also purchased.
However, donations from four
sources have kept the council
in supplies to date. Mrs. George
Shaper, the Woman’s Bible Class
of the First Methodist Church, St
Mary’s Mothers Club, and the
Lions Club have made donations
Others will be welcomed, and
annual personal membership has
been set at one dollar. Member-
ships may be paid to Mrs. Ern-
est Olson at the Taylor Housing
project.
Tentative by-laws were present-
ed, and a committee appointed'
to study and make changes where
needed before they are submit-
ted to members of the board
Making the study will be Mrs. C
J. Warren, Mrs. Olson, and Mary
Agnes Roddy.
Mrs. Shaper, council chairman
and Mrs-. Richard Sparks are
training the class at O. L. Price
the class to be ready to go and
work with their people during
the coming months. Members of
the class are Mrs. Algie Harri
son, Beverly Hall, Mrs. Lee Etta
Hennington, Mrs. Verd'ell Nicker-
son, Ralph Wilma Clarke, Janice
Jane Keith, Jerry Mae Wash-
ington, V. A. Anthony, Annie Lee
Taylor, Minnie Faye Hurd, Sid-
ney Smith, Melva Fair, Mr. Ber-
netta Woodson, Mrs. Johnnie
Elder, and Mrs. A. K. King.
4-H Club Boy
To Speak to
Council Group
GEORGETOWN — Mrs. Von
Falkenstein opened the County
Home Demonstration Council
meeting with song and prayer at
the L&M Cafe Friday.
Sixteen members and three vis
itors were present with eight
clubs being represented.
A letter was read from Mrs
her of the Board of Stewards and! Vivian Blair, former HD agent
a Sunday School teacher at the
First Methodist Church, member
of Chamber of Commerce, Univer-
sity Kiwanis Club, and Board of
Directors of the Wichita Falls
Symphony Orchestra.
He received 926,653 votes as a
conservative candidate for the U.
S. Senate opposing Lyndon John-
son last year. A surprising 41%
per cent of the major vote.
Mr. Merchant: Your Taylor
Daily Press ad man has your
master plan for more results from
advertising.
Mrs. H. R. Cannon, civil defense
chairman, presented a program
on fire extinguishers.
A letter from Judge Stone re
garding the ad valorem tax was
read.
Mrs. F. W. Buchanan led' the
THDA meeting and reported on
the State Legislature which she
visited.
A delegate to the THDA State
meet will be named at -the June
16 meeting. Orlan Ihms, 4-H club-
ber, will present the program
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Save gasoline and shop at home
GOODFELLOW—-Miss Eloise Brackenridge, daugh-
ter of Mrs. J. A. Brackenridge, and a senior at the
University of Texas, has been named to “The Good-
fellows”, an honor bestowed upon deserving stu-
dents by the Cactus. Selection for this honor is
made by a committee composed of the Dean of Men,
Dean of Women, Dean of Student Life, the Presi-
dent of the Students’ Association, Editor of the
Texas, the Editor and Associate Editor of the
Cactus. The chairman of each department on cam-
pus submits a list of nominees to the committee.
The committee thoroughly considers the list with
many depletions and additions before the final list
is completed. _
Six Gold Star
Mothers Honored
Six Gold Star Mothers were
honored at a coffee Tuesday
morning in the American Legion
home, members of the Graham
D. Lubn unit of the American
Legion Auxiliary as hostesses-.
Mrs. David Swenson, Mrs. Al-
bert Becker, Mrs. O. W. Arning,
Mrs. Rosa Meiske, Mrs. I. Krhov-
jak, and Mrs. B. F. Tucker were
the honorees, each presented a
corsage of red poppies, tied in
gold ribbon, as they arrived.
The table, laid in a green cloth,
was centered with an arrange-
ment of memorial poppies-. Mrs.
B. A. Hamilton presided' at the
silver coffee service.
Mrs. R. Wehby led the devo-
tional in a tribute to Gold 'Star
Mothers..
Mrs. B. F. Tucker expressed
the thanks of the group to the
auxiliary.
WILL RENT!
. . . for Graduation,
Parties, Dances,
Weddings, etc.
STARNE5-HERRING
TAYLOR
Vote Democratic
KEEP BLAKLEY
United States Senate
Destroyers OKed
For Germany
LONDON ® — West Germa-
ny’s European allies authorized
her to build eight destroyers up
to 6,000 tons, heavy enough to
mount missile launchers.
The new limit approved by the
Council of the Western European
Union was double the previous
limit under the 1954 Brussels
treaty,
Summer Activity Scheduled
At Thrall Homemaking Cottage
THRALL, May 25 (Spl) —
Thrall Homemaking Department,
which has a twelve month pro-
gram for in-school youth, out-
of-school youth, and adults, an-
nounces some of the activities to
be carried on this summer. Mrs.
Jimmie Cain, homemaking teach-
er will be in the community this
summer to help carry out the
program.
On Mondays, the homemaking
chttage will be open to the com-
munity for use of equipment,
consultation, conferences, or help
on individual homemaking prob-
lems. Adults are expecially in-
vited to participate in the pro-
gram and to make use of the
facilities.
The annual pre-school will be
held again this year June 19-23.
The play school serves as a labor-
atory for high school girls to
study and have actual exper-
ience with young children. It is
also an opportunity fob young
children to play with others and
learn many new things. All pre-
school children in the Thrall com-
munity are invited to attend each
day from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in
the homemaking cottage.
Several educational field trips
have been planned for the home-
making student^. Included in the
trips will be one visit to the Mis-
sion Valley Mills in New Braun-
fels where the girls will see the
processes cotton goes through to
become material.
Group projects are scheduled
during the summer for girls tak-
ing summer experiences for cre-
dit. These will include work on
various types of home improve-
ment and crafts.
The Thrall FHA Chapter will
continue their activities during
the summer. An officer workshop
will be held so that newly elected
officers can meet, become fami-
liar with their duties and’ plan
work for the next school year
The yearbook committee will meet
and plan the new yearbooks for
next year.
A number of socials are plan-
ned so that recreation and fun
will be a big part of the pro
gram.
Twenty - three students have
signed to take a supervised sum-
mer experience. Each girl, has
chosen the goals that will help
both her and her family. The
girl will work to carry oui her
plans so that she will have valu-
able learning experiences to sup-
plement her regular classwork.
These experiences will be super-
vised by Mrs. Cain and upon
successful completion the girl will
receive % credit.
Everyone is encouraged to take
advantage of the Thrall program.
Mrs. Cain can be contacted for
further information.
Public Hearing
Slated on Dam
AUSTIN (B — The State Board
of Water Engineers will hold pub-
lic hearing at 10 a.m. June 26
on the Sabine River Authority’s
plan to build a huge dam and
reservoir near Newton.
It is known as the Toledo Bend
project, Jointly financed by Texas
and. LouiSana.
The authority is asking for a
permit to construct a reservoir
on the Sabine River in Newton,
Sabine and Shelby Counties to im-
pound 4,477,000 acre-feet of watery
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AMERICANS DUE TODAY
MIAMI, Fla. UP) — A planeload
of Americans is due here late to-
day from Cuba.
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Save gasoline and shop at home.
Question ■ Question
Do 2 Pay Raises
for Commisisioners
Equal One
Tax Raise for
Everyone Else?
VOTE A6A1NST
THE TAX INCREASE
(Paid Pol. Adv.)
VOTE FOR A TEXAS DEMOCRAT
* i mms
Saturday, May 27
(Pd. Pol. Adv. by Democrats for Blakley—Julius Wittliff, Chairman)
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