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THE ASPERMONT STAR
VOL. 74. NO. 15
ASPERMONT, STONEWALL COUNTY, TEXAS 79502, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1971
PRICE TEN (10) CENTS
ASPERMONT IN
YesteryeorsJ
FORTY YEARS AGO
(November 26, 1931)
This year the American Legion
became the greatest organization of
veterans in the history of the world.
Our membership for 1931 stands well
past the million mark, a notable
Aspermont Bands to Stage
Christmas Concert Dec. 9
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talk Legionism to the new members,
we must get them interested in the
Legion program and see that they
enroll for 1932 and the succeeding
years. Legion strength must be
maintained.
Our Legion program of helping the
disabled, child welfare work,
Americanism, community service
and good citizenship are activities in
which every Legionnaire should have
a personal interest.
Meet with us Friday night
December 4th and bring a new
member with you. Make this a big
year for the Harris-Johnson Post.
The Stonewall County teachers met
at the courthouse Saturday afternoon
for the Interscholastic League Work.
They elected officers and asked for
the cooperation of all the schools in
the county to make this the best
school year possible.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
(November 29, 1951)
The Green Hornets, Aspermont
Independent basketball team, will
play the Jayton Independents on
Monday night at the Peacock gym-
nasium.
The Peacock ladies will be hosts to
the Jayton femmes at this time, also.
Accord? to reports, the Green
Hornets ai ~ looking forward to a very
successful season on the boards.
The team will soon be sporting new
uniforms, if present plans go through.
Those making up the Hornets'
roster are: Jack Dillon, Clifton
Gardner, Bill Tell, Roy Letz, Doyle
Rash, Roy Salee and Eugene Gerloff.
Peacock Baptist Church will be host
to a workers' conference of the
Stonewall-Kent Baptist Association
on Tuesday, December 4.
George Mahon of Colorado City, a
member of Congress, representing
the 19th Congressional district,
authorized the editor this week to
announce that he would visit
Stonewall County on Friday
(tomorrow) November 30th.
According to word from Rev. C. R.
Mathis, associational Training Union
Director, five churches of the
Stonewall-Kent Baptist Association
will be participating in the training
union revival, beginning Sunday,
December 2 and continuing through
December 7.
The kick-off meeting will be held at
2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Peacock
Baptist Church, under the direction of
Doctor Gardner.
TEN YEARS AGO
(November 23, 1961)
General Mills Feed in cooperation
with Farmers and Ranchers Feed
and Seed, fed some fifty ranchers and
feeders Thursday night at the
Stonewall Hotel. The meal was
prepared by Frazier's Cafe.
This was General Mills way of
introducing their line of feed to this
area. Farmers and Ranchers are the
dew dealers for them here.
Also attending were five executives
of General Mills and a few other
business men of this city.
The Parent's Band Club met for
their regular meeting Monday
evening at 7:30, Nov. 6th in the new
band building. We are indeed very
happy to be able to have this beautiful
new building for our band students
and as this was our first meeting in
the new building.
The Aspermont public school
bands will perform the annual
Christmas concert Thursday,
Dec. 9, in the school auditorium.
The concert, scheduled to
begin at 7:30 p.m., will include
Utility Company
Promotes Two Area
Men In Sabs
I. O. Hughes, district sales
manager in West Texas Utilities
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since 1968, has been transferred
to Abilene and promoted to
assistant to the manager of the
Merchandist Sales Department.
A. C. (AI) Berry, mer-
chandise salesman in WfU's
Stamford Office for the past five
years, has been promoted to
district sales manager for the
Stamford District.
Hughes joined the Company
as a merchandise salesman in
Stamford in 1931. In 1968, he was
promoted to district sales
manager.
Berry joined the Company in
the Stamford Office as a
merchandise salesman in 1966.
Born in Tuxedo, Texas, in
1923, Berry attended the public
schools in Stamford. Before
coming to work for West Texas
Utilities, he worked for Mont-
gomery Ward as a sales agent,
Thompson Hardward, Huston
Hardware and Westfall Home
and Auto Supply, all in Stam-
ford. During World War II, he
served in the Army Signal
Corps for three years.
Mr. and Mrs. Berry are
members of the Church of
Christ in Stamford. He is also a
member of the Stamford
Exchange Club, VFW Post 9179,
the Jones County Unit of the
American Cancer Society
where he is education chair-
man, past president and a
member of the District
Leadership Development
Committee and president of the
Adult Council for the Stamford
Youth Center.
Granville Smith ^
Assigned to Calif.
VAN NUYS, CALIF. - Army
Private first class Granville
L. Smith, 23, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis C. Smith, Route 3,
Jayton, Tex., recently was
assigned to the 65th artillery,
Van Nuys, Calif.
PFC. Smith is an operations
and training specialist in the
Artillery's 4th Battalion. He
entered the Army in June 1971
and was last stationed at Ft.
Bliss, Tex.
He received a B. S. Degree in
1970 at Sul Ross State
University, Alpine.
His wife, Jamie, lives in Van
Nuys, Calif.
Visiting Hero
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ware and
children, Shirley Ann and
Elizabeth Jennifer, of Aber-
deen, S. D., have been visiting
Mrs. Ware's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Bradshaw.
Elizabeth Jennifer is the new
month-old granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw whom
they had not seen.
Mrs. Ware is area property
and supply management officer
for a four state area with the
Bureau of India affairs of
Washington, C. D.
Attend Meeting
The Central West Texas
Pharmaceutical meeting was
held in the Westwood Club
Thursday, Nov. 18, in Abilene.
Attending from here were Mr.
and Mrs. Wesley Robbins and
Mrs. George C. Kenady Sr.
Topic of discussion was the
Welfare Program and then a
film on Drug Abuse was shown
to several members of this
organization.
Tuesday
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42
Wednesday
50
36
Thursday
58
42
Friday
62
46
Saturday
62
35
Sunday
69
31
Monday
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the Tonette Band, the
Elementary Band (Grades 5
and 6), and the High School
Hornet Band.
Many new selections will be
featured by the Hornet Band
including the pop-version of
Amazing Grace, and a carol
called "Fum, Fum, Fum."
Admission will be $1.00 for
adults and 50 ccnt^ for stuunniK.
Tickets wiii be available at the
door.
School Basketballers
To Play In Hamlin Tourney
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To Fort Hood
FT. HOOD, TEX. - Army
Private First Class George C.
Kenady III, 22, whose parents
live in Aspermont, recently was
assigned to the 13th support
Brigade at Ft. Hood.
PFC. Kenady is a radio
repairman with the 528th
transportation company of the
Brigade's 169th maintenance
battalion.
George is a 1967 graduate of
Aspermont High School.
His wife, Judith, lives in
Copperas Cove.
JERRY HEARE
. . .guest speaker
Aspermont Small
Business Center
Sets Annual Meet
The Annual Board meeting of
the Aspermont Small Business
Development Center, Inc., will
be held Saturday at the Haskell
Country Club at 7 p.m., ac-
cording to Oscar Dickerson,
executive director.
Speaker for the meeting will
be Jerry Heare, director of
Community Programs for the
Texas Industrial Commission
The ASBDC serves 17 rural
counties in helping establish,
preserve and strengthen small
business concerns and to im-
prove the managerial skills
employed in such enterprises
through the Small Business
Administration economic loan
program.
Heare is a graduate of the
University of Texas with a
degree in Sociology. Prior to
joining the staff of the Texas
Industrial Commission in 1968
as an Industrial Development
Consultant, he served as
manager of Chamber of
Commerces in Atlanta and
Seguin. He also has experience
in public relations with Proctor
and Gamble and has served as a
research analyst for the
Governor's Committee on
Education Beyond the High
School.
The Aspermont High School
basketball teams will play in
the Hamlin Invitational
Basketball Tournament this
weekend. The girls will play
Spur in the first round at 5 30
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To Sponsor Game
Party Monday
The Aspermont Volunteer
Fire Department will host a
game party Monday to benefit
the Goodfellows Fund.
Game time will be 6:30 in thK
school cafeteria Everyone is
invited to come and play games
for the Good fellows.
Refreshments will be served.
Miles Ellison
Announces for
Commissioner Post
The Aspermont Star has been
authorized to announce that
Miles Ellison is a candidate for
commissioner from Precinct
No. 3.
He will make a formal
staterr * at a later date.
Yule Decorations
Now Going Up
Employees of the City of
Aspermont and West Texas
Utilities Company are busy this
week installing the Christmas
decorations.
Plans are for the lights to be
turned on in downtown
Aspermont by Friday night,
weather permitting. ...
It is to your advantage to file
your Medicare application
within 3 months prior to at-
taining age 65.
IN ABILENE HEARING-
Plan to Rid Brazos River
Of Salt Gets Support
The plan for taking the salt
out of the waters of the Brazos
River gained solid support in
Abilene last week at the first of
three public hearings being held
across the state by the U. S.
Corps of Engineers.
Headed by the Texas Water
Development Board, the Texas
Water Quality Board and the
Brazos River Authority, more
than 18 organizations and in-
dividuals voiced support for the
proposed plan for isolating
flows of salt brine from the
Brazos River and urged the
plan be developed and im-
plemented as soon as possible.
The first of the three hearings
the Corps is holding was held
November 17 in the Abilene
Civic Center. Approximately
150 persons from the western
area of Texas attended the
meeting. The next public
meeting will be held in Waco
on December and the final
meeting will be in Alvin near
the Gulf coast.
The only opposition to the
plan could be termed modified
or qualified oppostion. Several
landowners and Kent County
Judge Bob Gallagher, from
the area where studies have
shown most of the salt pollution
originates, said they wanted the
Corps and others involved in the
plan to make certain the
Duiiaing of brine control
reservoirs in the area does not
contaminate the underground
water supplies on which the
area depends.
Col. Walter Wells, general
manager of the Brazos River
Authority, outlined in the
Authority's statement the
details of how the study of the
natural salt pollution of the
Brazos River had been carried
on for more than 20 years bv t he
Authority and other state and
federal agencies and that the
studies had pinpointed the
major source of the natural salt
in a salt flat area in Kent, King,
Stonewall and Dickens counties.
At the instigation of the
Authority and other state and
local agencies, the Corps was
authorized to make a study of
the pollution and recommend a
plan for its solution. This study
was started in the early 1960's
250 Attend FFA
Barbecue Here
Friday, Nov. 19, the Asper-
mont Future Farmers of
America Chapter sponsored a
barbecue supper for ap-
proximately 250 people.
It was given in appreciation
for the many people who have
helped with the rodeo and other
various projects.
Some of the people attending
were FFA members and
parents, school faculty and
other honored guests.
A film was shown of the pre-
vious fall FFA rodeo.
The FFA chapter thanked
everyone for attending and
making the barbecue a big
success.
Expresses Thanks
The Aspermont FFA Rodeo
team would like to thank the
following parents and friends
for backing them in their effort:
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark,
Mr. and Mrs. Burl Jameson,
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Yar-
borough, Mrs. Charlie Kirk-
patrick, Mrs. Steve Cochran,
Mrs. Frederick Dalby, Mr.
Sonny Nichols and Pat Hill.
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news, call the Star.
That's
and resulted in the district
Corps office tentatively
selecting a plan which all
studies point out as the most
feasible to rid the Brazos of
most of its salt content.
The plan would call for the
construction of four dams on
creeks in the salt brine area
which would totally trap the
flow of the salt-laden water in
reservoirs and allow the water
to evaporate and leave the salt.
Colonel Henk said the
proposed plan is based on a life
expectancy of 100 years "and
surely by that time man will
have figured out an economical
way to take the salt from water
and make it sweet and usable."
This plan of trapping the flow
of salt brine into the Brazos
would so dramatically reduce
the salt pollution, that it would
give the Brazos Basin full use of
the water from more than
1,000,000 acre feet of storage in
three major reservoirs where
usage is now limited by salt
pollution.
"This is indeed dramatic
when you realize that all the
water in Possum Kingdom,
Grandubry and Whitney Lakes,
which is now adversely affected
by the natural salt pollution,
will be made completely usable
to help meet the present and
future needs of cities, industries
and farms throughout the
Brazos valley," Colonel Wells
said.
Colonel Henk said all
statements made at the Abilene
meeting and the two following
meetings will be incorporated
with the district office's
recommendations and plans
which will go to Corps
headquarters and then to ap-
propriate committees of con-
cerned Federal agencies and
eventually to Congress.
p.m. today (Thursday) and the
boys will play Spur in the game
to follow.
Other teams in the tourney
will be Hamlin, Abilene
Christian, Lueders-Avoca,
Rotan, Paducah, Knox City
Junior Varsity boys, and the
Hamlin Junior Varsity girls.
Tuesday the local teams will
host Rotan here with the boys B
team game starting at 5:30. to
be followed by the girls varsity
Young H'mokers
To Host Chili
Supper Tonight
The Young Homemakers will
have a chili supper Thursday,
Dec. 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the Home
Economics Building.
This supper will be for the
Volunteer Firemen, Young
Farmers, and husbands of the
Young Homemakers. After the
supper, the group will collect
money for the Goodfellow Fund.
Ail residents are asked to please
leave their porch lights on.
and then the boys varsity.
The Junior High School teams
will travel to Roby Monday
evening with the first, game
starting at 5.
The Hornets dropped a 54-51
decision to Anson Tuesday
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scoring for the Hornets with 17
points. The Aspermont girls lost
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Vicki English scoring 18 points
for the local girls.
FFA Rodeo Team
Attends Mineral
Wells Rodeo
The Aspermont FFA Rodeo
team traveled to Mineral Wells
Saturday, Nov. 20, to attend the
annual high school rodeo.
Team members were Monte
Jones, Lyndell Dickerson, Joe
Jameson, Danny Clark, Joe
Stubbs, Jerry Swink, Jeff
Hecht, James Bryant, Larry
Abbott, Harriet Martin, Jan
Yarborough and Jimmie Parks.
Rodeo club sponsors Steve
Cochran and Charlie Kirk-
patrick, accompanied the team.
Those who placed were
Danny Clark, 2nd, bullriding;
Monte Jones, 2nd, bareback
riding; James Bryant, 2nd.
chute dogging; and Jimmie
Parks, 1st in goat tying and
3rd, flag race.
Blocked Alleys,
Trash Fires Halt
Garbage Pickup
City employees are still ex-
periencing some difficulty in
explaining to residents the
reason that some trash is not
being picked up.
The main reason that trash is
left in the alley is that when the
pickup men get there the trash
is on fire and cannot be placed
fin the truck. Another reason is
that the alley is blocked by cars
or other objects and the truck
cannot get to the cans in the
alley.
Residents are again urged to
clear their alleys and if they are
■not sure of the day of garbage
pickup in their area, they should
wait until after 5 p.m. to burn
the trash.
The City employees want to
do a good job for everyone, they
said, but they will have to have
cooperation from the residents.
Phase II Price
Information Still
Available Here
The County ARCS Office will
continue as a public information
center during Phase II of
President Nixon's new
Economic Program says John
R. Fowler the County Office
Executive Director. County
residents can get answers to
their questions based on
guidelines received from the
Pay Board, Price Commission
and Cost of Living Council.
ASCS Offices can also give
assistance by forwarding more
complex inquiries to the
District Office of the Internal
Revenue Service. Call 989-3550
or visit the County ASCS Office
for further information.
Mr. and Mrs. Arvel McCoy III
announce the arrival of a baby
girl, Melissa Lynette, born Nov.
26 in Hamlin, she has one sister,
Maria Sue. Maternal grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Maxwell. Paternal grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Arvel
McCoy Jr. all of Aspermont.
Methodist Church
Marks First Sunday
Of Advent Season
The First United Methodist
Church of Aspermont
celebrated the first Sunday of
the Advent Season last Sunday
with Jeff Martin lighting the
first candle in the Advent
Wreath which is centered on an
altar cloth depicting the Advent
Season. The wreath and altar
cloth were designed and made
by Mrs. Joe Searcy for the
Wesley Sunday School Class.
The altar cloth is purple, the
Advent color, indicating the
royalty of Kingship of Christ, as
well as the preparation for the
Christ Event. The word
"Prepare" is in white script and
the fringe of the cloth is white
indicating purity and joy. The
leaves on either side of the word
"Prepare" are green, in-
dicating new life or growth.
The Advent wreath is of green
leaves ar?d the first three
candles are purple indicating
again, the preparation for the
Nativity or Christmas event.'
The fourth candle is pink, to be
lit the Sunday before Christmas
indicating Christ is here. The
large center candle is white, to
be lighted on Christmas day as
the Christ candle.
Advent is from the Latin word
Adventus, meaning the coming
or arrival. Used in the Christian
context it means the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ, a season
that has been celebrated by the
Christian Church for centuries.
ALTAR CLOTH FIRST UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH — This altar cloth was made and
designed for the First Methodist Church by Mrs.
Joe Searcy.
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McAnally, Mrs. Dean. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1971, newspaper, December 2, 1971; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth128135/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.