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Tho Oldest Business Institution in Red River Coynty
ESTABLISHED JANUARY 18, 1873
ClARKSVI LLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1967
TWELVE PAGES
VOLUME 95, NO. 47
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All-District Teams Had
Nine Clarksville Men
DAVID BALLEW
wuarterbeck and s*k ondary
MIKE BACKUS
Guard
MARK BURTNER
Guard
I
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IONNIE COOPER
Guard
BILLY OOODING
Tackle
DON LAWSON
Tackle
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mac mcguire
Fullback
TOMMY PRUITT
Linebacker
Clarksville, 19*7 champion Massey, senior, Commerce.
oC District 15-AA, dominated Llnebackers--Tommy Pru-
Uie all-district team, selected, lit, Clarksville; Mike White
by roarIms. Seven Tiger play- River rest; ixmnle Scott,Com-
ers made this mythical eleven, mer< e, and Glen Light,'Winns-
four on the offensive team and boro, all seniors,
three on the defensive lineup. Serondary- Davld Ballew,
In addition Clarksville had Clarksville; Gary Otis,Cooper;
two men on the lionorabl# men- Roger Humphrey, Commerce,
tlon list of offensive players * Receiving honorable mention
and une on the defensive group, on the offensive selections were
All District Offensive Lonnie Cooper, guard and Tom-
. Teem Selections my Pruitt, halfback, Clarks-
Ends--Gary Mlnter, Junior, vllle. Also on the honorable
Klverrrest, and David Hall, mention list on the defensive
senior, Ml. Vyrnon. team was Mark Hurtner,guard,
Tackles —Hilly Gooding, jun- Clarksville; ' • • ✓
lor, Clarksville, and Mlky Mpr- Levine Norman, fullback;
rls, Wlnnsboro, senior.
Guards--Danny Bethea, sen-
ior, Wlnnsboro, and Clifton
Martin, Mt. Vernon, junior.
Center--Gary Tedder, sen-
ior, Clarksville.
Uuarterhack--David Ballew,
senior, Clarksville.
Fullback - - -Mac McGulrs,
senior, Clarksville.
Ilalfbacka—Gary Otis, sen-
ior, Cooper, and. Mike Davis,
junior, Wlnnsboro.
' tjefenslve Team
Guards—MIke Backus, sen-
ior, CltrksvIUs, and Kenny
Klein, senior. Cooper.
Tackles--Don Lawson, sen-
ior, Clarksville, and Hobby
Kaynard Screws, linebacker,
and George Marshall, se-
condary, all of Rtvercrest were
placed on the honorable mention
GARY TEDDER
Center
lists.
Role of Seniors Indicated
In Selections
_ The role of senior players
.10 the all-district selection was
very evtgynt. Eighteen of the
22 men named for the offen-
sive and defensive units have
pjayed their last high school
football. Every member of the
defensive team Is a senior.
Clarksville, Rtvercrest and
Mt. Vernon each placed a Jun-
ior on the all-district elevens.
Each coach in the district
nominated players from his
team but could not vote for
them In the final selections.
PMVers on the honorable
mention lists failed to receive
enough votes to be placed on
the all-district units.
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Law Seminar in
Marshall Friday
Judge C L. Ray Jt. of Mar-
shall, president of the North-
east Texas Bar Association,
announces a seminar to be held
at Marshall Hotel, Marshall,
Texas, December A, cospon-
sored by the Aesoriatlon and
the State Bar. of Texas. Reg-
istration begins at 9:30 a.m.
Guest speakers are Max
Hamilton of Austin, Hubert H.
Field of Athene, Gerald S. Gor-
don of Houston, Joe B. Allen of
Waco and J. Harris Morgan of
Greenville, who will discuss
■•How to practice l.aw and still
Make a Living.”
A buffet lunch will be served
at noon.
are based on "Shelter Rent”
total rent collections for the
nS^T1 Grand Jury Proposes More Law-
Up Tax office Enforcement Personnel in County
Kermlt Wommack, super-
intendent of the Detroit Inde-
pendent School District, has an-
nounced the establishment of a
tax assessed-collector's office-
for the district effective
January 1, 1989. Until this
time school taxes for Detroit
ha ve been assessed and collect-
ed by the Red River County
tax assessor-collector's office.
Mr. Wommack said taxpayers
should render their property for
school uses for the year 1989
to the newly established school
tax office. The dates for ren-
dering, as set by state law, are
January 1, 1988 through April
30, 1988.
As part at the procedures in
establishing the tax office and to
insure that the school taxes are
assessed on a just and equal
beets all property In the school
district will be appraised by
professional appraisers. The
appraisal firm of Davis A Wil-
son of Houston has been selected
on the bests of their qualifi-
cations and experiences to com-
plete this pert of the ppogram.
This will Involve an Inspection
of each property by the ap-
praiser to secure the informa-
tion necessary. Mr. Wommack
said that each appraiser will
have an Identification card and
will identify himself to the tax-
payers at the time of his Ins pec •
tlon.
When the appraisals have
been completed end renewed by
the Board of Equalization, the
taxpayer will be given the op-
portunity to discuss the ap-
praisals with either the ap-
praisers or the Hoard of Equal-
ization or both if they desire
to do so. The values which will
be the basis for the tax roll
will then be set by the Board of
Equalization. The tax roll will ■
then be prepared and tax state-
ments mailed to the taxpayers.
Johnny Crawford, Mike Segleski'
Are December Junior Rotarians
A final action of the grand
Jury in 102nd District Court
before adjournment Monday was
the adoption of the following
recommendations:
"Be it remembered that on
this 4th day of December, 1987,
the duly Impaneled Grant Jury
of Red River County, Texas,
sitting In special session at the
court house, after having re-
ceived adequate testimony and
evidence of the state of law en-
forcement In Red River County,
Texas, do unanimously recom-
mend that adequately trained
and adequately compensated
peace officers are essential to
the well-being of our county
and so recommend that to re-
ceive the minimum essential
county and that each peace of-
ficer receive at least one ad-
ditional week of training per
year in criminal Investigation.
"It la also deemed basically
essential that sac h peace officer
receive at least one week of
firearms training before he is
permitted to carry a pistol and
should receive periodic fire-
arms training thereafter. This
county should provide the am-
munition used In this training
and should either provide a
shooting range or make the nec-
essary arrangements with an-
other county for the use of
their range. The Paris, Texas,
Police Department has offered
the use of Its range, and the
Grand Jury gratefully acknow-
JOHNNY CRAWFORD
Junior Rotarians for Decem-
ber are Johnny Crawford and
Mike Segleskl, both Clarksville
High School seniors. *'
Crawford, age 17, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Crawford, 1810'
West Main, is a member of
the Spanish Club, also Science
Club, played football and (s on
the basketball taam. Johnny Is
also an officer of the National
MIKE SEGLESKJ
Honor Society. He' plans to
attend the UnlveTklty of Texas
and major In science,
Segleskl, age 17, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Y. Segleskl,
604 West First Street, played
football. He la a member of
the Spanish Club, baskatball
beau, most handsome Junior,
and sehior class president.
Mike plans to attend East Texas
State University.
Uw enforcement for our county* ledges their offer,
that at least four regular full- “Each of the above recom-
tlme deputies should be ap- mendatlons are considered has -
proved, that thalr minimum sal- * aasantlal and should be
ary should be $400.00 a month attended to at the earliest poe-
and that at laast three autoipo- *U>1* time. The testimony re-
plies be made available to the celved by this Grand Jury, ta-
sberlff’s office. die alas that law enforcement
"Considering the many com- this date Is a highly speclal-
pUcaled changes In crtmlnailaw l««d and skilled professional
enforcement procedures whicn hould be practiced only by
have occurred In recent years -tlw—» persons who are Quail -
It Is also deemed essential that
eech peace officer receive at
least s basic two weak course
covering criminal Investigation
before he Is employed by the
Local Housing Authority Makes
Distribution in Lieu of Taxes
The Housing Authority of the Tl>e local Housing Authority
City of Clarksville has distrlb- < onslsts °f • board of commla-
uted to local taxing agencies a 'loners and an executive sec-
pavment In lieu of taxes for the cetary. Five commissioners
fiscal year ending September “r« appointed by the mayor of
30, 1967. The total amount of «*>• City and they nameanexec-
$1,360.55 was prorated as fol- utlve secretary or manager,
lows: Clarksville Independent The present board has served
School District, $493.94; the without charge from the lncgpr
city of Clarksville, $387.14; t,on 01 th# PfoX^L Members
Red River County, $304.18; the »re F. M. Morehexd, ehalr-
Stale of Texas, $129.97; Lang- William J. Gist, vice
ford creek Water District, chairman; Jerrold Marx, H. L.
$55.32. HtfMley and Harry Whltehouse.
The Housing Assistance Ad**-v:* — ■
ministration, a branch of Hous-
ing and UrbgnDevelopment, has
provided this method of a I lowing Choral Pr ORTH 111
a Low-H*0* Housing Project to
participate in the cost of local December 18
government. These payments
are not based on Hie assessed The Clarksville High School
valuation of the properly, but choral Club will present Ha
Parade Planned
At Detroit
The third annual Christmas
parade In Detroit will be held
Friday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock.
Santa Claus will make an ap-
pearance and hand out candy to'
the kiddles and local merchants
have donated a box of groc eries
to be given away In connection
with the event.
C. M. Hopper, chairman, an-
ticipates a number of floats will
be entered. These will be Judged
and prizes of $15.00, $10.00
and $5.00 will be awarded to
the winners.
A short program is planned
Immediately after the parade.
see—eew—ee—***»*——
Weather Data
For November
Rainfall In the ClgrksvtUe
area during November was be-
low normal, according to re-
ports from two Weather Bureau
rain gauges, one at the High-
way Department offices, west
of the city, the other at KCAR
Radio Station.
Rainfall measured at the
Highway Department offices and
reported by Raymond Hamilton
totaled 1.55 Inches. At the
KCAR gauge Mrs. Kenneth
Bishop measured 1.74 Inches.
Precipitation for the year
through November was reported
by Hamilton at 45.35 inches
and by Mrs. Bishop at 4^.28
Inches. Their respective meas-
urements for the same period
last year were 38.8 Inches and
38.93 Inches.
Temperature Range Si
Degrees
Temperature records are
maintained by Mrs. Bishop who
reported that during the month
of November the temperature
varied from a high of 80
degrees, recorded on the 13th,
to a low of 29 degrees, re-
corded on the 4th. The aver-
age maximum temperature for
•he month was 64.8'degrees
while the average low was 41.4
degrees.
As compared to November,
1966, the high was 82 degrees
recorded on the 1st, with a low
of 2$ dagrees occurring on
the 3rd.
clal sales event Thursday, Fri-
day and Saturday. Prepara-
tions have been bunder way for
some time. Remodeling of the
interior and exterior was start-
ed in July and haa been carried
on without Interrupting busi-
ness.
The new front was Installed
Predecessor of Marx Dry Goods
Opened More Than 90 Years Ago
Grand opening of the re- death In 1950.
modeled and modernized Marx Jerrold Marx, the present
Dry Goods store In Clarksville owner, Is a grandson of Isadora
will be celebrated with a spe- stlberberg and began working
In the business following the
death of his father In 1934.
Except for service In the U.S.
Navy from 1942 to 1946, he has
been In the business since then,-
Mr. Marx managed the store
as part owner, together with'
Mrs. Jay Stlberberg, until about
1953 when he acqulredfuUown-
by Bert Holster of Clarksville, ershtp. The name was then
Fixture Mart of Dallas designed changed to Marx Dry Gootte.
all fixtures for the remodeled For some 90years this bust-
interior for effective display of ness, operated by direct des-
merchandlse and convenience, < endants of the original
Some rearrangement of depart- founders; has catered to the
ments was Involved. mercantile needs of the people
Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold Marx of Clarksville and Red River
are assisted In the operation of county, striving at all times to
their store by Mmes. Ernest offer fashionable merchandise
Wttmer, Inez Fryar, Leonard at fair prices with courteous
Cole, Henry Hooser, Nat and dependable service. The
Quarles, Jim Bailey, Lucille management Is proud of Its
Hooser, Misses Hestalee West- long record of fair dealing with
brook and Karen Denials; also customers and participation In
Maxle Hutchison and Mac Me- community growth.
Outre. Jerrold and Mildred Marx
Remodeling and Installation want to thank most sincerely
of new fixtures are, In the words all those whose support over
of Mr. Marx, a reflection of his the past years, an0 especially
confidence In the future of since they have owned the busl-
C larks vllle and Red River ness, has made possible the re-
count y. modelling and modernization of
The remodeled and modern- their store.
I zed building has been occupied
Three From CHS
Win AU-Region
Band Honors
RANDALL CHILDRES
fled to do so by training and
experience, and that such train-
ing should be provided by coun-
ty funds Instead of Individual
expenditure by the police of-
ficer. Unless these recom-
mendations are placed into ef-
fect at an early date this Grand
Jury believes that a poor state
of affairs will become an im-
possible state of affairs."
The foregoing statement was
signed by Amos Mlnter, fore-
man of the grand Jury.
Twenty-Four Indictments
Monday’s session followed a
recess after two days of exam-
inations early In November
when 24 Indictments were re-
turned, all felonies. Eleven
true bills were returned for
burglary, one for robbery, three
for worthless checks; three for
theft, three for possessing
burglary Implements, one for
contributing to the delinquency
of s minor, one for driving while
Intoxicated and one for posses-
sion of marijuana. **
Personnel of Jury
Members of this grand jury
were: Amos Mlnter, Annona,
foreman; Sam H. Hervey, Bo-
gata; Paul Hammer, King Sut-
ton, Collin McPherson, Jab
Johnson, Clarksville; Ted
Grant, Annona; Leon Cox,
Avery; M. L. Fisher, Fulbright;
Bert Adams, Detroit; Alvin
Wood, Manchester, and Frank
Coffman, Bagwell.
Grant, Fisher and Adams
g| were not present for the final
5 session of the grand Jury.
Court to Study These
Recom mendatlons
Judge Gavin Watson Jr. said
tiie recommendations would be
'■ studied by the commlsskMBars’
| Court, which would have the
| final word In carrying out any
■ or air the suggestions contain-
ed In this report from the grand
jwy-
by Marx and the predecessor
Stlberberg Dry Goods more than
sixty years.
Marx Successor to Firm
Founded in 1870's
The business now known as
Marx Dry Goods was originally
founded In the 1170’s by three
Stlberberg brothers: George,
Leopold, and tsadore. Natives
of Germany, (he family came to
Texas and It Is probable that
one or more of the brothers
Don’t Forget
Santa Letters
annual Christmas program on
Thursday night, December 19,
year less the cost of. utilities si 7:30 p.m. -UHhe high school
provided by the Authority. The auditorium.
Cooperation Agreement exist- Miss Ruth Martble Is dlrec-
lng between the City and the tor of the Club and Sonny Reed
AutliorHy requires that ten per la kccompgnlst.
cent (HWl) of the shelter rent No admission will be charged
be t«ld In lieu of lakes. and the public la Invited.
* • •», ( '
HARVEST A BUMPER
CROP OF NEWS.
Read The Clarksville Times
every week for news about
iKimefolks you know, about
what'a happening In your town,
your county and your commun-
ity.
There’s still plenty of time
to write letters to Santa Claus.
They will be published In The
Times Issue of December 23.
Letters should be addressed
built a store at old Hamburg, *° Sal?<a Claus c/o Tbe North
a settlement on Red River. Th^ *>»• C*rksv,“?’
brothers then moved toClarks- T#*a* p°#* *
vine and established Stlberberg fa“°" forwarding to Sant^
Brothers Letters must reach the
An 1879 advertisement.In D">
"The Northern Standard‘7glves •ntb*r 16 ,0 *• Pushed,
the location as being "under the A
Odd Fellow’s Hall*' and lists •J*i*rrrrfYtiittrr*t*rrtt€t
many mercantile Items avail- _
Sentenced Under
By 1900 Isadora Stlberberg
had purchased Mil ownership NcW StfltC L*flW
and began operating under the
name of Silberberg Dry Goods. An 18-year-old Detroit youth
A destructive and costly fire sentenced to five days In
In that year led to a merger J*** *nd fin**1 $*5 Plu* costa
with another name well known for driving a motor vehlcls
In Clarksville business circles, without a license,
and the store was known as County Judge Gavln.Watsan
Stlberberg and Stelnletn for a Jr., In whose court he was
few years. tried, said this was the first.
The partnership was then dis-. case under a new Texas iaw
solved, the name again became wh*ch makes a jail sentence
Silberberg Dry Goods, and the mandatory for driving without a
business was located on the license,
south aide of the square ad- ________
jacent to the present building. over 24,000 cars were stolen
tsadore Silberberg died in |n Texas In 1988, and the As-
1923, and hla won, Jay, became aociation of Texas Fire And
owner-manager, Mr. Jay 811- casually Companies urges
tier berg, who had been active motorists to remove Hie key
In the business since hta youth, and lock the car doors when
operated the store until his leaving cars unattended.
LA NETT A COOPER
WM
rm
ROBERT SMITH
Three Clarksville High
School band members earned
places In the All-Region IV
bend at tryouts held Saturday
at the Mt. Pleasant High School.
Lanetta Cooper gained a chair
In the drum section and Randal]
Children la the tuba section.
Robert Smith placed fire! al-
ternate baritone saxophone.
Children ia eligible to ad-
vance io zone tryouts at pine
Tree High School Saturday,
where bandamen will compete
for places In the all-state band.
Suggestions For
Christmas Mail
The following suggest lone for
overseas Christmas mall
comes from the Clarksville
Poet Office.
Address Christmas Mall
Correctly
As the Christmas mail vol-
ume going overseas is expected
to Increase up to 30 per rent
or oyer 4 million pounds above
last year, every precaution
should be taken by frlende and
relatives of servicemen to ad-
dress their letters and pack-
ages properly .to assure rapid
delivery to Us destination.
There are four essential ele-
ments to an overseas military
address. They are:
1. The serviceman's Identi-
ty grade, full name, and ser-
vice number. •
2. His military unit, com-
plete.
3. Gateway post office -
New York, San FrancUco or
Seattle.
4. APO or FPO - a 3-digit
number.
HARLEM STARS PLAY
JAYCEES SATURDAY
. The Harlem Stars basketball
team will play I he Clarksville
Jaycees ia a benefit game Sat-
urday night, December • at
8 o’clock in the CHS gymnasium.
Tickets are now being sold by
Jaycees or may be bought at
the gate. Admission U $1.90
for adults, $1.00 for »tudents
end YK for pre-echoolchildren.
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