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CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1970 TWELVE PAGES IN THREE PARTS
VOLUME 98, NO. 45
Annual Christmas Parade and
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Santa Visit Tuesday Evening
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contest. the square anil all units with
Judges for the_ float contest the exception of the floats will
Tuesday evening, December
1, at 6:30, first unit of the
annual Christmas parade will will be secured from neighbor- exit; the floats will make a
appear at the entrhmre lo-lhe lng communities, and will grade second circle of the square to
Public Square in Clarksville, tho floats on three categories; give the |>eople and the Judges
At that time the multi-colored (1) attractiveness (2) originality another opportunity to view the
lights will be turned on. Ter- and (3) artistry. In preparing floats. • ‘ :
mlnating and climaxing the pa- your float give some thought to Please do not have a live
rade will be the arrival of Santa the categories that will be used Santa Claus on your float, or In
Claus, who will be jtj^yoned in judging the winners. The a car or vehicle; more than one
at a point on the Squar# for a floats should depict the Christ- Santa is confusing to the small
time to greet the children who mas season.
will be on hand for theoccaslon. ' __________
This
children wljo have cu.me to the will be placed on the list of
parade to see Santa Claus. floats to be Judged.
Participants In the parade are
requested to assemble at 6:00 Square to De Cleared
P.m. on the public parking lot of All Vehicles
south of the U. S. Post Office. The Public Square will be
The parade will start promptly cleared of all vehicles and bar-
at 6:30 p.m. ricades will be set up and
If you are entering the Float guarded to leave all the area -
Contest, please call the Cham- open and safe for the activities
ber of Commerce office and you planned for this occasion.
colorful and to The Suggestions for Parade
LOCAL MERCHANTS EXTEND CHRISTMAS GREETINGS—By wearing Holiday buttons
saying "Thank You for Shopping in Clarksville,’' local merchants and their employees
extend greetings. Chamber of Commerce President Jim Mlssildineplns a button on Paul
Hamilton and members of the staff at City Drug Store, Mrs. Byron Varley and Mrs. Paul
Hamilton. Also shown is Jerrold Marx, chairman of the Merchants Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce. All merchants who do not have buttons are urged to contact the
Chamber office. (Times Staff Photo by Boyd Hurt)
Sports Program in Schools
Now Focuses on Basketball
youngsters exciting occasion
will mark the formal opening
of the holiday shopping season
in Clarksville.
The Clarksville Chamber of
Commerce Is again sponsoring
the annual community Christ-
mas parade. Anyone wishing to
participate in the parade is
welcome, and clubs and organi-
zations are especially encour-
aged to prepare and enter floats
in the Christmas Float Contest..
The Chamber of Commerce
will award cash prizes of
Participants
If you have a one-sided float,
please decorate and arrange It
so that the float scene will face
the stores and sidewalks as the
parade makes left hand turns
around the square.
The entire parade line will
make one complete trip around
Annona, Bryarly Have
Best Voter Turn-Outs
With the final 1970 scm. ded
football game for Clarksville
nullified by changes in the Mar-
shall School System, which
eliminated Pemberton High,
the sports emphasis for Tiger
players and fans turns to bas-
ketball, with a big season in
prospect for both boys and girls.
In recent years CHS teams
have been moving up in the
rankings and since some of the
players who have figured in this
climb will be playing again the
Tigers may be impressive net-
withstanding they are to com-
pete for honors in C> ...rence
AAA.
First Game With
Rivercrest
The first basketball game of
the 1970-71 season will be in
the Clarksville High School gym
Tuesday evening, November 24.
Rivercrest Rebels will furnish
the Tigers a brand of compe-
tition in keeping with the tra-
ditions of that school. Activi-
ties begin at 6:30.
District Alignments
for 1970-71
University Interscholas-
tic League district alignments
for basketball in 1970-71 have
been approved as follows;
Conference AAA Boys
Region i, District 7; Atlanta,
Clarksville, Daingerfield, Gil-
mer, Mount Pleasant, Pitts-
burg, Sulphur Springs and Lib-
erty-Eylau. *
Conference AA Boys
Region II, District 15; Riv-
ercrest, Commerce,. Cooper,
Mount Vernon, Pralrieland
(Pattonvllle), Powderly-Reno
(Powderly) and Winnsboro.
Conference A Boys
and Girls
Region II, District 14: De-
troit, Honey Grove, Fannlndel
(Ladonia), Pottsboro, Van Al-
styne, Whltesboro, Whltewrlght
and Wolfe City.
Report Issued for
1970 By Red River >
Co. S& WC District
Directors - of Red River under agreement. This is 56
County SqII and Water Conser- percent of the farms in the
vatlon District have issued theydlstrict, »l»o 56 percent of the
report covering 1970 activities..agricultural land.
The score of this organization’# Accomplishments
services is Indicated by the District accomplishments on
subjects covered in this sum- application
mary of accomplishments.
During the year, 46 new co
operators have received assist- 1970 fiscal period;
ance while developing plans on Conservation cropping sys-
of conservation
practices were llste^as fol-
lows, applications being for the
Region III, District 17: Av-
ery, Como-Plckton, Harleton,
Karnack, Maud, Ore City, Queen
City and Bowie.
Conference AAA Girls
Region I, District 7: Clarks-
ville, Gilmer and Mount Pleas-
ant.
Conference AA Girls
Region II, District 15: Riv-
ercrest, Pralrieland, Powder-
ly-Reno and Winnsboro.
Basketball in 1,115
Texas Schools
A total of 1,115 schools have
Indicated they willbarticlpate in
the League's program of boys’
basketball in 1970-71 and have
been assigned to districts, ac-
cording to Bailey Marshall,
Athletic Director. The totals:
AAAA, 220; AAA, 141; AA,
206; A, 210, and B, 345.
Divided Tournament
The five boys' conferences
will go to a state championship.
This year the State Tournament
will be held on two weekends.
Conferences A, AA and AAA will
have their State Tournament on
March' 5 and 6. Conferences
B and AAAA championships will
be divided March 12 and 13.
State Tournament participants
must be decided at the Regional
level the week prior to the re-
spective tournaments.
Fewer Girls Teams
In girls’ basketball, 743
schools have been assigned to a
district. Last year 781 schools
signed up for participation. The
total in each conference: AAA,
70; AA, 146; A, 193, and B,
334. The four conferences ac-
tivities will culminate in Austin
at the Girls’ State Basketball
Tournament, February 25, 26
and 27.
Two Draw State
will MW H1U CMSI1 prizes UI »w • m
$25, $15 and $10 to the flr*t Pp|OA|1 I PHflC
Jhrae pla^e winners of the float * * 101/11 t VI 11IO
-For Burglary
Town is Closed
For the Holiday
Pleas of guilty were entered
before Judge Hubert Line Mon-
day in 102nd District Court by
Jimmy Dean Lee, age 20,
Clarksville, and James Thomas
Vickers, 21, Balrh Springs,
Texas, who were under indict-
ment for burglary of the 7-11
Store in Clarksville on Septem-
ber 3,
They consented to trial with-
Two Annona voting boxes and
Bryarly have won United States
flags for polling the highest
percentage of their registered
votes in the recent November
general election. County Judge
Gavin Watson Jr. will present
the flags to the election Judge
of each box in recognition of
their achievement.
South Annona Box 28, John
Hardeman, Judge, had 142 votes
of 226 registered, 62.39%, for
precincts with over 200 regls- vey, Judge, once again polled
trants, barely winning over 100% of their 23' registered
Clarksville Box 1, with 598 '* *ers to win the division with
962, 62.16%, 3oe Garland, Judge, c j >r 100 registrants. This Is
in (he 100 to 200 registrants, the second straight election this
division, North Annona Box 20 year in which the box has voted
had 94 of 156 votes, 60.26%, to all of Us registrants, an almost
win, Mrs. Stiles* Jones, Judge.
Second was Bagwell Box 14,
Mrs. Irene Murphy, Judge,
voting 111 of 189 registrants,
36.80%.
Bryarly Box 26, Bobby Har-
unprecedented occurrence in
modern county political history.
McCoy Box 11, Carl Childers,
Judge, polled 56 of 70 for 80%
and second place in this
division.
Business will almost come
to a standstill in Clarksville
today as the Thanksgiving holi-
day is observed.
Other activities such as
schools, county, state and fed- Jury and judge Lln, pas.ed
eral government offices wlU
likewise be closed.
The holiday will
be an Oc-
casion for many famiUes to be
together, with students home
from schools and members who
Uve away coming back for a
renewal of home ties.
Hunters are due to be out in
large numbers stalking deer in
Red River County provided the
weather is cooperative.
A number of local people will
be Interested in football games.
The principal attraction prob-
ably will be at College Station,
where the annual Texas-A4M
clash takes place.
’sentence. Lee was given two
years and Vickers three years
in State Prison.
Led and Vickers were under
Indictment for burglary at Paris
on the same night they bur-
glarized the Clarksville store.
Inital Phase River Work
For Navigation Due Soon
23,853 acres. Thirty-eight CO'
operators were assisted on re-
vising and updating their Con-
servation plans on 18,554 acres. 2,516 acres;
tern, 2,833 acres;
Contour farming, TOO acres;
Crop residue management,
The District now has 1,205
members with 374,167 acres
County Offices
Plan Holiday
All County Offices except the
office of Sheriff Mac McGuire
will be closed Thursday through
Sunday’ November 26 through
November 29, for the Thanks-
giving holiday.
The Sheriff’s staff will
observe routine working hours feet;
during the period. -
Brush control, 14,017 acres;
Critical area planing, nine
acres;
Pasture and hayland manage-
ment, 14,188 acres;
Pasture and hayland planting,
13,867 acres;
Proper grazing use, 1,624
acres;
Wildlife habitat management,
1,059 Acres;
Deferred grazing, 131 acres;
Grassed waterways, three
acres.
Drainage ditches, 13,600 feet;
Parallel terraces, 16,015
Access road, 7,300 feet. „
Commercial recreation de-
velopment, six projects;
Expanding commercial rec-
reation development, two;
Non-commercial recreation
BOGATA CHRISTMAS
PARADE DATE SET
The Bogata Chamber of Com
meree has announced that the development, 72;
annual Christmas Parade will Farm ponds, 53;
be Wednesday, December 9, at Fishpond management, 68.
3 p.m. Land adequately ti oated
A number Of school classes totaled 8,711 acres,
and organizations, civic organl- Members of the Board of
zatlons and other groups are Supervisors of the District are:
expected to enter floats In the James Pearce, Zone 1; David
colorful event.
MRS. RATTAN JOINS
SHERIFF’S STAFF
Mrs. Florence Rattan, has
Joined the office staff of Sheriff
Jackson, secretary, Zone 2;
Alvin Baird, Zone 3; Robert
Smith, chairman, Zone 4; Jack
Franklin, vice chairman, Zone
3. •
Mac Mc^Tre « s^aTaS ^e’ln*” “ *?**»*?
dispatcher. Beadle Insurance Agency, Inc.
Times to Again
Publish Santa
Claus Letters
Letters to Santa Claus will
be published by The Times in
the big special Christmas edi-
tion to make Its appearance on
Decembdr-23.
All young friends of Santa
are invited to write him. Let-
ters to appear in this edition
should be addressed to .Santa
Claus, North Pole, Care of The
Clarksville Times, Clarksville,
Texas 75426.
Letters for publication must
bear a postmark not later than
December 15. If received later
than this date they will be too
late to appear in the Christ-
mas edition.
. Since a number of letters are
anticipated and space may be
limited, all who write to Santa
are urged to be brief.
BUSINESS BRISK WITH
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
Justice of the Peace Lucian
Reed docketed 13 cases Sunday
and Monday. AH were for
drunkenness and traffic viola-
tions. Twelve paid fines and
were released. One did not
Pay and was Jailed.
NHS Induction
Ceremony Held
In an impressive ceremony
held in the auditorium, the
Clarksville High School chapter
of the National Honor Society
Inducted eleven new members
on November 17. The new
members were:
Michael Davidson, Lisa Love,
and Carlene Roberta, seniors;
Keith Bollman, Becky Bone,
Greg Copeland, Jon Davis, Wen-
dell Davis, Milan Hughston,
Bobby Parker and Bill Rice,
Juniors. These students were
chosen by a faculty committee
on the basis of character, schol-
arship, leadership and service.
The program consisted of the
following: Welcome address,
Debbie Love, president; prayer,
Carolyn Peek; Pledge of
Allegiance, Alonzo Lester; ex-
planation of the Keystone and
Torch, Larry Williams; pres-
entation of the four principles
--Character, Patsy Westfall;
Scholarship, Janice Wooten;
Leadership, Vivian Harvey,
and Service, Kathryn Murray; *
inspirational poem, Billie Sar-
gent.
Travis Hale, principal, gave
the history of the National Honor
Society, presented the diplomas
and led the pledge of the new
members. The program was
closed by the singing of the
Alma Mater. Sponsors of the
National Honor Society are Mrs.-
Lawson and Mrs. Fisher.
Arbor Day Kits
Being: Offered
College Station -- FreeArbor
Day Program Kits are being
offered again to school teachers
and conservation-minded
orgalnzations by the Texas
Forest Service. The Texas
Pecan Growers Association is
cooperating In. the program by
providing high quality pecan
seeds which are a part of each
Arbor Day Kit.
In addition to the seeds, the
Kit contains a suggested Arbor
Day program, suitable program
aids Including poems, songs and
a history qf Arbor Day, and
instructions for planting the
seeds as a classroom project.
The third Friday In January
of each year has been designated
as Arbor Day by the Texas
Legislature. The next observ-
ance of Arbor Day In Texas
wUl be January 15, 1971. "
Send all requests for Arbor
Day Kits to Texas Forest Ser-
vice, College Station, Texas
77843.
First phase of a vast pro-
gram of improvements opening
navigation of Red River from its
mouth to Denison Dam will get
under way when funds are made
available from an appropriation
by Congress, according to a
statement to members of the
Louisiana Post, Society of
American Military Engineers
November 20 by Col. Herbert
R. Haar, New Orleans district
engineer. - -
This undertaking will be car
Pines near Daingerfield, Texas.
The Red will also be realigned
into a more suitable channel and
the banks stabilized from Its
mouth to Denison Dam. This is
to be achieved by dredging, cut-
offs, revetments, dikesandoth-
er river training works.
The navigable segment from
the Mississippi to Shreveport
will be shortened from 278
miles to 210, a reduction of
about 70 miles.
Colonel Haar pointed out that
rled out over a long period. - the benefits from navigation be -
Benefits to accrue to the Deni-
son area will not be realized
for a number of years.
Appropriation $600,000
To InIHatg Planning
Cplonel Haar noted that Con-
gress has appropriated $600,-
000 for the purpose of initiating
planning on the project this fis-
cal year. He added that tjils
will mark the beginning of the
largest single public works pro-
ject in the history of the New
Orleans District.
tween the Mississippi and Dain-
gerfield are estimated to be
$22.4^ million annually. These
savings are based on Initial
shipments of 2.4 million tens of
commerce increasing to aver-
age yearly movements of over
10 million tons.
Haar added that he estimates
that some 13 percent of the tows
in upbound traffic on the Red
will originate in New Orleans
and that II percent of its down-
bound movement would he des-
Slx strattow draft-navigation Uned for the Crescent city.
lock-dam combinations will be
constructed in the Red between
the mouth of the Red and Shreve-
port according to the Army En-
gineer Colonel. Five of these
are necessary to bring naviga-
tion to Shreveport. Three ad-
ditional locks in Twelve-Mile
and Cypress Bayous will bring
navigation into Lake O’ the
Colonel Haar ' prophesied
"Port facilities will rise on the
Bed, initially at Alexandria and
Shreveport. And certainly at
many other locations as the need
arises,” And he noted that
numerous industries will settle
when dependable navigation be-
comes a reality, touching off a
whole new era of prosperity.
He affirmed that the destruc-
tive forces of the Red that now
claim thousands of acres of
farmland "would be stilled.”
The development of recrea-
tional facilities at selected
Points along the navigation
channel, and at each of the locks
and dams will provide well over
three million general recrea-
tion days annually.
An additional bonus of the
psoject will be fishing and hunt-
ing areas for thousands.
Colonel Haar told the engin-
eers that when the $600,000
Congressional appropriation is
made available the New Or-
leans District Is prepared to
develop the overall scheme for
bank stabilization lndu<ling the
plans and specifications for the
first construction contract on
the project. Funds allowing,
construction could be initiated
during next fiscal year 1972.
Hughston 4 Son
Insurance
Sherman Man Loses
Life on Deer Hunt
Detroit Man
Assessed Fines
Charles Edward Cooper, 38,
of Detroit, pled guilty to dharges
of driving while intoxicated and
possession of Oklahoma
whiskey in County Court Monday
morning.
He was sentenced to 3 days
in Jail with fine and costs of
$148.80 and was fined an addi-
tional $142.30 on the liquor
violations.
Penalties were levied by
County Judge Gavin Watson'Jr.
Red River County’sflrstdeer
hunting fatality in more than
20 years that open seasons have
been observed here occurred
early Sunday at a pdtnt west of
Highway 37, six or seven miles
north of Clerksvllie.
Marvin Willingham of Sher-
man, age $3, fras hit by a bullet
from a 30-30 rifle fired by
Bobby Callander, who lives
about five miiea north of
Clarksville. Death was instan-
taneous.
Willingham was wearing dark
.clothing and cap, according tp.~
Justice of the Peace Lucian
Reed, who conducted an Inquest,
rendering a verdict of acci-
dental death.
Wllllngham’a body waa
brought to Jolley’s Funeral
Horn# and held until Sunday
afternoon, then transferred to
Sherman. *
Sheriff Mac McGuire said
Monday no charges had been
filed agalhst Callander. The
case was still under investiga-
tion, however.
Several years ago a fatal
accident occurred north of town
during the deer hunting season.
The hunter, however, had re<-
turned to camp. Hit death was
not therefore shunting accident.
A few mishaps have occurred
but no one has been seriously
injured.
Willingham, who was a civil-
ian employee at Perrin Air
Force Base, was married Sept.
16, 1939, to the former Mlse
Louise Stringer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Stringer of
Clarksville. She survives.
He was a veteran of World
War II, a member of the Ma-
sonic Lodge and the Central
Baptist Church of Sherman.
Surviving besides his wife
s son, Jeffrey Wayne of
man, two daughters, Mrs.
are
Shejm
Jim Minor of Sherman and Mrs.
Qulnten Theriot of M»drld,
Spain; three brothers, William
T. Willingham of Sherman,
Martin F. Willingham of Dal-
las, and Oscar Willingham of
Washington; a half-brother,
Norman Curry of Crockett; a
sister, Mrs. Flossie Wilburn
of Stockton, Calif., and six
grand children.
Funeral services wer# con*
ducted In the Central Baptist
Church at Sherman Wednesday
afternoon at 2 with burial at the
Cedarlawn Memorial Park
there.
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* ONE OF A PA!R--Pete Wright is shown with one of thaT'"'-'
two wolves he killed last Monday morning at his home near
Vesey. He shot the wolves si close range with a 12 gauge
shot gun after being awakened by his dog about day break.
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