The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1962 Page: 1 of 11
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v Shamrock
i.m and aid-
i brought to
arly Franch
uly
asioM
ock 100
American
Jtic occasions.*^
edom that we
flag, it's easy
all family sir<|
t order btarrk
the necessar
inted thereon*
Flag, complet*.
e in the U. S£
Is' celebration*;
Iv Anniversary,'
-*§-
CLARKSVILLE'S SENIOR LEAGUE team is
shown above. Players are front row, left to right,
Bruce Duncan, Buddy O’NeilTJack Carter, Chubby
Reep, Sonny Walston, Jimmy Jones. Duane Ballew.
Back row, manager Bob Edwards, Jimmy West-
brook, Robert Popp. John Cross, David Garrison,
Greeley Gilliam, end Bobby
Studio Photo)
9
Half Century of Service is Being New Fire Truck
Celebrated in 1962 By TP&L Co. Purchase Gets
Texas Power & Light Com- the growing 52-county area F niinCll
pany, the pioneer of electric TP&L's newest plant, the Val- * *11 UI v/UUIldl
transmission service and con- ley Steam Electric StaUon in
struction of rural lines i n North Texas, will be complet-
Texas, a 50 years old this ed in late 1962.
ye*r- TP&L buUt the state's fir-
The investor-owned Comp- gt rural line in 1914, a 12,500-
any was organized in 1912 and voit line constructed from
the new firm acquired a num- Waxahachie to Lancaster, wh-
ber of locally operated clec- jet, ierved a number of farm
trie systems scattered thro- customers and the town* of
ugh North. East and Central Red 0ak and Sterrett
Texas. TP&L began serving Through the years the Corn-
some 14.000 customers in th- pany has followed consistent-
esetowns. » jy a policy of providing sen-
iU G°d^!L Anniversary jce t0 rurai customers as rop
TP&L serves 300.000 custom- j<Hy as sound business would
ers in 456 cities and towns At the end of 1925
in a 52-county aervlce area the Company Had extended el-
that extends some 290 miles metric service to 15,000 custo-
east to west and about 230 mers in farm and rural areas
miles north to south.
and by the end of 1930 was
The seven original coirunu- serving some 24,000 farm and
nities served by the Cofap - CU8t0mers and had built
uwere ®?nham> a*buTt\e' 1 500 miles of rural lines to
Hillsboro, Sherman, Temple, gprve thegP areag AIg0 bv
Wa*o and Waxahachie. By J930 |he company had extend-
the end of the first year Br- pd service to m communl.
ownwood, Taylor. Gainesville, tlcg whlch unU, that tlmp
Palestine. Paris and Tyler had no electrlc gervlce To_
had been added to the towns day, TPJtL gerves more than
served. -------
100,000 customers living
The original local electric fapm and areag
systems had problems of vol-
tage and continuity of elec-
Fire Chief Bert Johnson re-
quested the City Council Mon
day evening to give serious
consideration to the immed-
ate purchase of a new fire
truck- to replace one which
has been condemned by the
State because it is no longer
dependable or adequate Fire
department equipment in Cl-
arksville is well below stan-
dard. a fact which is respon-
sible for a higher insurance
rate here than In^nost Texas
municipalities
Johnson told the Council
that morale among the volun-
teer firetnen is good and that
the fire-fighting organization
lacks only one man being full
strength To meet the needs
of the communty he empha-
sized that the fire truck shou-
ld be provided without delay.
His request was acted up-
on favorably and he will meet
with Mayor Wooley and one
or more councllmen to det-
ermine the type of machine to
be purchased
TP&L. from its beginning,
has been recognized as :i
)Um
47C
29c
3!
19c
29c
23 c
25c
-v
9o
cctric service at all. Some ing c|ogeiy wRb |oca| officials
plants operated only f r o m and c|v|c ou ln brlnKln3
dusk until midnight and from ph6u| indu*Xri£ Rrov(ih and
about 5 00 soul until -aunriae lmprovpmpnt agr7ru]ture
Others provided special ae v- Thp Company t \ j, grcat
°n 'SSLteii*deal of effort toward develop-
others supplied daytime serv- jng ,hp cotton ml)] and tbr
each wVkr STtJSrSS 1SS
. mere heedful h.d a-hou, b^'emlj
JP*L begin to .olv, tbe.e
problems in the various towns y .? ^cr
and then started construction w w i vnrh ,
of Texas:-tlfst transmission th^r^n.Lny" ^ k
,,__Tl-eetumr m.nu lit the Company, points out that
lines linking together many or xDsrt'*-. „
the communities to assure * rfr°m, * 8m*"
them a steady and depend- *™p 0L *?«* t0wns 0
able supply of electro power ™ m* °[ ""JESS'*8
Transmission lines were 1st- ** ^“*"*nC;
er built to all areas and to- ‘'ompllshed through ttl% use of
day the Company hat nearly prlv* ** Investments, * th not
21.000 miles of trqsmigsion * p*"n_v af,Van^d b? !h^ *ov‘
and distribution lines, — - fhr"nJTnt Hc add* that dur'nc
The early-day electric sya- *h* 50 ***” the Company has
terns also had problems o(> J***" °P«r»"n*. its Federal
rate unformity. After TP&L ,nc°™ taxes aione have am-
ounted to *140 million.
acquired these plants the
Company reduced and atabil-
Mr. Lynch, this month was
ized electric rate*. Slnct Its "*mfd pIre*d*"t Edi,nn
organization, TP&L has redu- Institute, the trade
ced electri® rates 12 Umes «**ocUtlon of Amerlca * ,n.
Electro rgtes have been In- vestor-owned electric utilty
creased only three Umes, in oompanes
1919, 1920 and In 1951 because “®r“-~
of the Inflationary conditions OiaaBt^r Rplief
following World War l and ,
World War II The average Office Closed
cost per kilowatt hour for
TP&L residentitri elfectriclty
The following has been re-
ts only about one-half what it ceived from Betty, Lewis, dis-
was 25 years ago.
aster representative of the
The Company's first large American Red Cross
generating station was built
in Waco in 1914 This 12,00(b
Work in connection with
the tornado which swept
kilowatt plant together with through Red River County
the plants located in other lagt month has beeti com-
towns served by the Com - plcted and wfc have closed
. pany, provided ample caps- our disaster relief office in
city for serving the entire sys- Detroit.
tern load By 1923, it was «vi-
Before leaving your cofn-
dent that TP&L's load growth munity, I want to thank you
would require additional cap- f0r the space you gav eus in
acity This led to the con • your newspaper Without
struction of the Trinidad St- communicatiop It would be
cam Electro Station in Hen- impossible to conduct a dts-
dcr-son County, the flrat m’aj- aster operation. People know
eleetrit power plant In the and depend on their local
S. to use powdered lignite newspapers for dependable
a fuel Construction of the information ( - v
It Is tervice such as yow
or clcetrit power plant in the
U ~
•a
plant began in 1924 and 40.00C
kilowatts of power capacity (jave which enables us to
was put in service there In (unction -effectively ln time
of disasters.
"Mr Jolley. Chapter chair-
man, joins me In thanking
1926
TP&L at the end of 1962
will have 12 generating pi- _______ ______ ______
aiits. and with additional pow- 0(J jor ynur SUPjM>rt
er purchased will have 1.332,- . , -
000 kilowatts of electric pow- ts Your PmikHiw
rr. an ample supply U} serve Waldrep Insurance Agency
> * , -'—>
Texas Has War
Veteran Total
Of 1,146.000
The latest survey made by
the Veterans Administration
shows' there are 1.146.000 war
veterans now living in Texas,
according to Edward P On-
stot. manager of the VA Dal-
las Regional Office
Of this total number, 786 -
000 are veterans of World
War II There are 280.0«)
veterans of the Korean Con-
flict, while an additional 223 -
-OOp veterans, already listed
with the World War II vet-
erans, saw’ service also in
the Korean ConfMet
JTexas also has 130.000 vet-
erans of World War I, ac-
cording to the latest VA tal-
ly, while an additional 7 vet-
erans of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War, the Indian Warr
and Career ex-servicemen
‘who now receive compensa-
tion reside within the state
The totaYhu.liber of veter-
ans as of December 31. 1961,
the date of this survey, stood
at 22', 338,000 with 15138.000
World War II veterans; 4-
542 000 Korean. TTonflTct vet^
erans. 2.511 000 World War I
veterans, and 147.000 other
veterans including Spanish-
Amer(can War Indian Wars
and career ex-scrvtcemrn
comprising the Regular Es-
labiishment
BasebaP Tryout
Camp Announced u
The Houston Colt 45* wtli
conduct a tryout camp at Tj -
ler June 28-30 This will be
V*** last of three camps in
Tcass during the montl of
June
Youngsters atteridTKIf Ihe
camp rmm be between Jhe
ages of 15 anfl 25 American
Legion balj players are r«
qutred to have a letter of per-
mission fro.n their Legion
Post Commander.
Each youngster w'ili furnisli
his own glove, baseball shoo-
and uniform, in addition to
paying his own expense.. Any
player signed out of the tr>-
out c*mp by the Colt 45* will
be reimbursed for hfis ex-
penses
Date Set for
AIA Auction
At the monthly board meet-
ing of the Red River County
''Agricultural Improvement As-
sociation Tuesday evening it
Wait announced that the an-
nual auction sale, sponsored
by the AIA to help defray
the operating cost of the
County Fair land Livestock
Exposition, will be held Sat-
urday. September 15/ at 2 p
m , on the public square Ma-
urice Wooley is chairman of
the auction sale committee
Chairman of the AIA. J II
Summers, announced appoint
ment of Mr and’Mrs Gordon
Groie and Mr. and Mrs. Mo-
ody Hale as members of a
Fair entertainment commit-
tee for the 1962 show
The board approved plans
to provide a feeding facility
for bulls .in the performance
testing program of the Red
River Valley Performance Te-
sting Association provided fi-
. oancing can be arranged
Clarksville Has
High-Ranking
FFA Chapter
At the advance degree ch-
ecking conference, held June
5-6 In Austin. Clarksville FFA
Chapter was ranked fifth In
Texas in chapter accomplish-
ments, according to Advisor
Roy King. | a member of ..the
1962 advance checking com-
mittee.
As a result of this position
the Clarksville Chapter will
compete in the national chap-
ter rating contests, to be held
in Kansas City, Missouri, in
the fall
Sammy Andrews of Clark'-
vllle was runner up for Stale
Greenhand honors for Texas
Tommy Bolin, also of Clarks-
ville, was runner-up In Toxjr-
Electric Awards.
Three Clarksville boys, Jo-
hnny Drew, .’Nell Puckett and
WilT Ed Wadlc/, qualtfted -frrr
Lone Star F'armer degrees at
the State FFA convention in
Ft ’orth Jniy^YMO.
Advisor King will accom -
pany the Chapter winners:
Washington-Tiny envelopes
and odd-shaped cards will be
banned from United States
mall, starting January 1 ,
1963
Postal official have announ-
ced that this action is to be
taken along with other econo-
'Wrizlng moves because of an
annual operating deficit o f
more than *800 million.
All envelopes less than 3
inches high or less than 4V«
inches long will be banned
The bans are a step toward
"standardization of mail siz.
es-essential to the most ef-
ficient use" of stamp cancel-
ing machines and other mec-
hanized equipment;' the de-
partment said. The mechani-
zation program is aimed at
helping relieve the postal de-
ficit
Postal officials first announ-
ced last January thaL-^-t h e
to-a-
year The long lead time in
pidrtng them into effect, and
the" reminder campaign, are
aimed at allowing manufact-
urers to switch production
and the public to use up sup-
plles £
Parade Opfcns
Annual Bogata
Rodeo June 21
j i
June.21-23 will be the datev
for the annual Bogata Rodeo,
sponsored by the Bogata Ro-
deo Club An event expected
to draw a large ’crowd will
be the parade at 4 o'clock
Thursday afternoon Perform-
VICTIM OF STORM—The pecan tree pictured above was the victim of the
storm which swept over this area last Friday afternoon, crashing into the
front of th5 home occupied by Mrs Della Bram. 401 South Locust She was
inside at the time but escaped injury. Thn built
Scattered damage from-the w1mfr^hTc4rirrtained a velocity of uff to 60 miles
an hour in gusts, was reported in the City. Rainfall accompanying this storm
measured 2 67 inches, falling in a period of less than one hour. (Dehoney
Studio Photo)
Plans Announced for Rest Home
• t— 1 1
To Accommodate Fifty Persons
Screwworn Fly
• I
Hatchery Will
Be Dedicated
College Station - Forma!
Street and sewer facilities
were requested for a new .
50-peison-capacity rest home
in Clarksville at the June
meeting of the City Council
Monday evening. CUfton Kay
appeared before the grouo
Contrary to popular belief;and outlined briefly what bad
the U. S Census Bureau does been accomplished in efforts
not fold its tents and fade to obtain the project. A local
away between the big 10-year corporation has been formed
Census Bureau
Always on Job
ances are jcheduled at 8 pm dedication of the,new sterile population and Housing and FHA financing of the
Thursday, Friday and Satur- l,v production plant at Min-
day. Stock for the occasion s,<"1 headquarters of the Sou-
>111 be furnished by Clyde thwestern Screw worm Eradl-
Crenshaw of Haworth. Okln cation Program, arc schedul-
Barrel Race for Youth* t’fl for Saturday, June 16
A featured attraction i n The new plant, located at
which boys and girls 12 years Moore Air Force Base, is de-
old and yopnger arc to parti- signed to provide 50 to 75 mil-
cipate will be the barrel race ho" sterile flies per weex.
Eliminations for this - event "With production beginning in
will be conducted June 18 mid-June, the first flies from
Eight boys and girls are to the new plant wiU be relci.j-
be chosen from those who ed in early July,
participate in the elimina - "We are \ery pleased with
tioris They will compete for conslructon progress at toe
counts, according to Director major portion of the cost is
James W Stroud of the Bu- Jn the process of being seeur-
reau's permanent regional «1- provided the municipal
field office at Dallas The services required are made
Dallas region covers th« St- available,
ates of Arkansas. • Louis! • The proposed structure will
ana. Oklahoma and Texas. occupy a site east of- the
Stroud points out that nine Hod River County Hospital.
majbr censuses will be con Eight hundred feet of new
ducted between now and the s*rpets will be needed A aew-
next decennial census in 19- rr Hne approximately 1.500
70 The first of these major fwl >°n8 will also have to be
censuses will be the 1962 Cen- constructed to take care of
sus of Governments which is lh* requirements for the rest
conducted every five years home and probable develop-
’ y .-'te
' t
prizes at the Rodeo. Mission plant," Marvin J Br- Tben COme* the five-year "tent to the area.
Bogata Rodeo has become idges.. executive director, So- Censuses of Business Manu- An extension of Baker
over a period of years one uthwest Animal Health Rest- facturers and Mineral Indus- Street would provide the en-
of the loading events of its arch Foundation, said "We triea These will be taken in 'ranee into the area where
kind in Northeast Texas Fac- will havc4Jy production unn- 1904 and 1969 coverinK thy facility is to be erected,
ilities for conducting the an- orway ahead of the date we npsg operations in 1963 and The modern fireproof struc-
nual shows are among the originally hoped construction 1968 respectively The Census ,ure Planned would meet all
best to be found anywhere would be completed of Agriculture will be conduct *nd sanitary require
outside the larger centers Early completion of the pd jn )9W ,and 1969 ments Total cost would be
Spectators are expected to plant will be a tremendous ,n add|t)on t0 thpg l0 . weli in excess of *200,000
converge from a wide area 'w.osl to the program since wc cengugC!, lhe Bureau carries K3X s,*ted ,h,t ** pl*n»
for the three performances will have sterile flies required ou, a wjde variet of currpnt tow being formulated are
and the parade to coverjhe wide area necess- surveyg on „ ^plh. carried to completion without
haw< stente Hies required to tpr,y >nd innu#| b>»s “ delay, it may be posalble foe
aver the wide area necess- , rnv_r-rf ln „lpr„n( the nfw structure to be com-
ary tor eradication in the lirvJJITtollull employmenl l'leted within nine month. .
Southwest. ' ______i.__________He and associates have been
To^Swnsored ^Sssw.'s«;ss;. 3
IU DC OpUIIMJieU ,,ouid not have been possible SJTTr.de »»d -cached a point
except through the Southwest “ *detai*s •«
The hoard of directors of Animal Health Research Fo - . rurppn, «„ru_.P ( , receiving attention,
lhe Red River County Fa(m undation, using funds contri- «un„ipmp_, .k , s a ,° if this deal is conaummat-
Bureau met on June 7 at buted by individual livestock . l'p UP 0 t<d as.now appears likely the
7 30 pm ; producer, and aporUmen Ir- SSUlS JT th? will » the
The board agreed io 'spon- om all over the Southwest
sor 1 the rabies vaccination Release of flics produced a*.
unanimously' by the
Copy Deadlines
For News Items
The Times appreciates the
Assistance if all who turn In
reports of club and other ac
tivlties
Jn order to keep up produc-
tion schedules, however rc
ports of events taking place
Saturday or before, must Ik
In The Times office by 4 0!
pm everx Monday Sundis
and Mbr.day events should t>r
reported n« latcd'-tjiari noon
Tuesday and final /deadline-
for ialer happenings is 5 p m.
Tuesday
. Events reporter later*than
appropriate deadlines will be
carried the following week
when space permits and.the
news vallie warrants
of its kind in Northeast
Th» ,Texas It is regarded aa an
program again this year the temporary plant at Km- ..... e .__^rCn.; J*ipra,IOn sur' asset of considerable value to
The date will tie announced vllle has been increased to '• c „P k ki ^ Clarksville and Red River
r,rr,r:,a's rzmz J,h. &. 1 ^;„0„ „ Ck, w„
tT, *h'1 I"' |0l<l|[Tnrrtcd' norm.V‘'hii!*1 nr n»£l>£ ^
S XTizaSL'SiZ tSS^JSSVZ
Countv tipns. The increased produc. Information obtained by in-
Plans for lhe annual bar- "o" »t the Mission plant will tervieus in 333 sample areas
. . . ... nrovide sufficient sterile flies °F the country is combined to
brque are being made All di splint MeT.ie iiie glaU/Ucg for naUonal
members Jhff' their familic- to give added impetus to th# JV, * , V. n i l,
will be Invited to attend The eradication program * ’^',eV'n'^mat ”, ?!’
The program is a Joint cf* ffrwwon. Income school en*
fort of the Texas Animal He rollment. and other pertinent ___
iilth Commission, the Soutli- subjects is collected from Th^ ^n"on* r«”n*
avert Animal Health Research "me to time In the current rf?yr"-l-^LSLth*
Foundation, and the U, S population survey in addi • ^ , n,p Iive>fo<* KBlkn-
tlon to the facts on employ- ,5a j Harold Brown,
ment and unemployment. assisted by Gerald Gordon .
Approximately 35,000 house- *n ^oarge of the program
holds throughout the coungry ”n ..*;*d*n® c*"l* Meeting
are -included each month In fkrlhties and refreshments
the current population survey
These households are select-
ed at random under the Con-
date WiU he announced
soon as plans are' completed
Annona Young
Farmers Meet
Many From UT in
“Who’s Who’’
Foundation,
Department of Agriculture
Austin — The University of
Texas r;ink« ninth among 10 Allen1 ReSIjfllS aS
leading public u"iver*llie<:
who'e graduates prgn-tdr the V/lCy IvIana^Cer
qjost new names in the- latest
Cviitlon . of ' Who's Who in William Allen, who ha* ser- $us Bureau's scientific sampl-
Amerlra , " the Association of ved city manager of Cl- (ng program to provide a- rep-
State Universities and I,and- srksvllle^nearly three year*,’ resentative eross-section of
• Grant Colleges reports
Other public universities *"*■ v-ouncii monaay evening *nd all types
among the top • KTWltide., In He announced that he would
order, the University^
were furnshed by Gordon and
A D Drew of the Clarksville
Exchange
Officers of the chapter are
Claude Davison, president ;
Willie John Blair, vice prasi-
v
4:
MORE THAN FIVE INCHES
RAINFALL THIS MONTH
More than five Incjies of
rain has been recorded at the-
Weather Bureau station a t
KCAR Radio Station the-first
12 . days of June, w hirh is
more than the normal preci-
pitation for tnr entire .month
—'—' , v / ' i cBcmauvtr vru»i*i«vuon oi . a. - - . ' ^
submitted his resignation to all classes of the population, dw1t Nt>S(mmoM ,
the Council Monday evening ,nd all types of areas of the ’<™‘at*r/: ,c,rI ^
He announced that he would country — large cities, small zV r' C jF!£y jj,°* £,0ne*' *d’
>4 of CaU, not be leaving Clarksville but town., rural' areas, and sfi „“r: an<LW' W ,Tw> **
forni.i University of Mifdisclose his plans for forth ------__ , —^Porter*
gan, University of Wisconsin, the future. r v* Committees and their eha-
Univerjity of- Illinois. Unlvgrl A succesaor to Allen will irman are: Public relations,
sftv of Minnesota City Uni be sought but no action look METHODIST PARSONAGE w w Bryant; edticn
vrnlty of Now York. UnK ing toward the securing of a DESTROYED BY FIRE "onal, Robert S Simmons;
versify of Washington Ohio rtty manager was taken at Fire of undetermined origin service. Ralph X).
state University and Univer this meeting of the Council destroyed the Methodist par- ®**4l*; recreational, Harold
JViUi^il MLuourj ^toh had a heavy agenda to ,on,w at Woodland Saturday K^.™Z^.!*!de7h,P' *f,ri
The report ilso revealed dispose of. afternoon Reoairi to #hc a,f*f*w* COMuet of meetinc.
that Texas was e^fmBhg the Mayor Wooley and Council- building had been under way JosehP Baird; supervised
top in state, whose edueation- men expressed appreciation Npw pag(„r of ,hc Woodland l*™**' A.
at institutions -pnutoeed the «o -Allen for his accompR.h- circuit, the Rev. J. N Snow, 225 ^ ** *
most new rimes for the ref menu aa manager of the ittu- formerlv ni Rin..nm i.. , M*”«y .— *
rrrnce volume ntripallty'a varied and de- bppn nvint» in rtarkwiiio R#*ul,r meetlAga will be
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