The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1976 Page: 1 of 4
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THE ASPERMONT STAR
VOL, .'8, No. 20
ASPERMONT, STONEWALL COUNTY, TEXAS, 79502, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1978
PRICE 1Q£
ASPERHONT IN...
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FIFTY YEARS AGO
(December 22,1926)
The second social meeting of the
Phoenix Club was held last Friday
at the home of Mrs. Ben Lee with
Mesdames Lee. Grindstaff,
Herring, Martin and Lanier as
hostesses.
Miss Gn& Mae Godfrey of
Peacock visited Miss Gertrude
Marr and other friends over the
weekend.
The tennis girls met last Wed-
nesday after school and agreed to
sell hot chocolate" Thursday at
School.
Each girl brought something for
our lunch.
Members of the Pastime and
LaJoys Clubs with a few guests
dropped the mantel of serenity,
adopted the slogan that, "All work
and no play makes Jack a dull
boy," left their homes, offices,
schools and hied themselves away
to the lovely new home of Mr. and
Mrs. Keece Ward, Swenson, last
Tuesday evening for a few hours of
real pleasure.
Mesdames W. E. Green, Bock-
man, John Guests, McKnight, H. V.
Link, W. H. Link, Roy Riddel,
James H. Robertson, F. 0. Senter.
Wylie Bingham, Boyd, Galloway,
Fred Dalby, Evans, Flowers,
Grindstaff, Knight, and Miss
Dahlia Link, of Aspermont.
Mesdames John Hoy, Robert Hall,
Joe Brownfield, T. L. Green,
Gladys Hoy, R. B. Johnson, and
Dudley Ellis of Swenson, attended.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
(December 27, 1956)
Mrs. H. G. Flowers, chairman of
the Stonewall County chapter of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, announces that Mrs. N.
E. Springer of Aspermont has
accepted the position to the county
fund drive chairman for the 1957
March of Dimes.
Burless D. Criswell, seaman,
USN, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward A. Criswell of Aspermont,
arrived at San Diego on December
3rd aboard the Destroyer U. S. S.
John W. Thomas, after a tour of
duty in the Far East.
Guests in the W. E. Driver home
during the holidays were Mr. and
Mrs. C. B. Clark and family of
Odessa, and Mr. and Mrs. E. F.
Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Driver
and son, Bennett, and Miss Sue
Driver, all of Aspermont.
Mrs. Pat Allen, owner and
operator of Pat's Beauty Shop,
announces that Miss LaNeil Boyles
has recently joined her staff of
beauticians.
The Aspermont boys and girls
traveled to Paint Creek last Friday
night to begin their district play-
offs. Both boys and girls of Paint
Creek were victors over the Hor-
nets.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ray Dodson
of 1241 Elmwood Ave., Ft. Worth,
announce the arrival of a son, born
on December 11 in All Saints
Hospital in that city. The young
man tipped the scales at six
pounds, seven and one-half ounces,
and has been named Louis Ray, Jr.
He is the first grandchild of Mr.
and Mrs. Caii W. Duncan of
Aspermont.
TEN YEARS AGO
(December 29, 1966)
The Aspermont boys basketball
team left Tuesday afternoon for
Lubbock where they will take part
in the Caprock Holiday Basketball
Tburnament.
The Gleaners Class of the First
Baptist Church had its Christmas
Social Dec. 19 in the home of Mrs.
Vera Bell.
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WE ARE DELIVERING
W) IN STYLE!
We would like to deliver warm wishes for a safe, healthy and
happy New Year. We hope the coming year will bring you suc-
cess in all of your ventures.
Hornets Ploy
Today In Jayfoit
In Tournament
Beth the Aspermont boys
and girls basketball teams
will resume play today
(Thursday) following the
holiday break. They will meet
Patton Springs in the first
round of the annual Jaytor:
Invitational Tournament at
Jayton. Hie girls will play at
4:45 and the boys at 6.
The second round of play is
scheduled for Friday with the
finals on Saturday Schools
entered in the tourney and
their pairings are: Spiff and
Roby, Patton Springs and
Aspermont, Crosbyton and
Services Held
Wednesday for
Lloyd Prfchard
Service fer Lloyd Prichard,
72, who died Sunday, were
held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at
First Baptist Church.
The Rev. Clyde Code of
Shallowater and the Rev.
Tom Riddle, pastor of-
ficiated. Burial and Masonic
graveside services were in
the Aspermont Cemetery.
Born June 9, 1804, in
Detroit, Tex., he was retired
from General Crude Oil Co.
He married Verna Drennan,
Jan. 19, 1923, in Aspermont.
Survivors include his wife;
two sons, Granvel of Asper-
mont and William of Eagle
Pass; a daughter, Mrs. Fred
Eddins of Littlefield; a
brother, Paul of El Paso; two
sisters. Gladys Gardner of
Brownwood and Ina Hurst of
Frederick, Okla.; six grand-
children and a great-grand-
child.
Pallbearers were Dick
Hardt, Bobby Byrd, Arthur
Seago, Cullie Gilley, Rex
Dillard and J. A. Scott.
Knox City and Rule and
Jayton. The aame schedule
will be followed for both the
boys and girls brackets.
Both teams will resume
district play here Tuesday
when they host the Psducah
Dragons. The boys junior
varsity teams will open the
play at 5, followed by the
vprsity girls at 6:30 and the
varsity boys at 8.
Dickens County
Electric Receives
*536,000 Loon
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Congressman Omar Burleson
announced today the ap-
proval of a $536 000 REA loan
to the Dickens County
Electric* Cooperative, Inc.,
with headquarters at Spur,
serving Crosby, Garza, Kent,
Stonewall, Dickens, King and
Motley Counties.
The purpose of the loan is to
finance service for 218 ad-
ditional consumers: to
finance 50 miles of dis-
tribution line; and to finance
system improvements.
OM Glory HD
dub Meeting Set
The Old Glory Home
Demonstration Club will have
their monthly meeting
Wednesday.. Jan. 5, at 2 p.m.
in the Old Glory School cafa-
tcia.
The program will be given
by Miss Thelma Wirges who
is the District Extension
Agent for District 3 of Wichita
Falls.
All members are urged to
attend and bring a salad for
refreshments.
LOOKING BACK ON 1976-
100th Birthday Celebration Is Top Story
Over 3,000 taking part in
Stonewall County's 100th
Birthday celebration and the
marking of this nation's 200th
birthday was one of the top
highlights of 1976, according
to a week-by -week review of
the files of The Aspermont
Star.
The effort by the com-
munity to keep the services of
two of its three Filipino
doctors, Dr. Antonio and Dr.
Lesley Serrano, also ranked
as one of the more pressing
issues facing the people of
Stonewall County this year.
This effort is being continued.
A week-by-week look at the
news happenings during the
past year follows:
Jan. &—Ricardo Barrera
Tan, m.D. has a busy
schedule after opening offices
for practice of general
medicine at Stonewall
Memorial Clinic. He recently
came to Aspermont from
Manila, Philippines.
Jan. IS—Ron Galloway,
formerly of Abilene, has been
named administrator of
Stonewall County Memorial
Hospital, according to Jack
Jones, president of the
hospital board of directors.
Galloway, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Victor Cuiioway, is a
1MB graduate of Aspermont
High School and graduated
from McMurry College in
Abilene in 1972.
After 30 years of ownership
and operation of Jack's Food
Market, Jack McGough
announce* the sale of the
store to Tom and Jo
McAnally, owners of T it J
Jan. a —Kathy Cochran,
11, showed her 248-pound
Chester White and Hamp-
shire crossbred swine to
grand champion honors
Saturday at the Six County
Livestock Show held in Nolan
County Coliseum at Sweet-
water. Kathy, a fifth grader,
is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Steve Cochran.
Jan. 29 —The City of
Aspermont is seeking a new
source of water to replace the
present source that is too high
in nitrates and iron. The city
is presently using well water
from near Rule and is seeking
a pipe line grant to secure
lake water from Miller
Creek.
Directors of the Big
Country Resource Con-
servation and Development
held their annual meeting
here Wednesday at Hick-
man's Restaurant. Kent
County Judge Norman Hahn,
chairman, spoke at the
meeting.
Feb. 5—Last minute filings
brought the total number of
contested Stonewall County
races to three for the May 1
Democratic primary elec-
tion. There will also be one
contested race at the district
level. Late filings for the
office of tax assessor-
collector brought the total
number of candidates in this
race to three Thelma
Kluiing, the incumbent, did
not seek re-election. Seeking
this office are Joyce McNutt,
Fern Rash, and Jerre Cook.
Sheriff Marvin Crawford Is
being opposed by Rayborn
Fitts and J. C. Ghoisoo is
being opposed by L. R. Moyer
for Commissioner, Precinct
1 Joseph TMgpeti i* opposing
Royce Adkins for district
attorney.
A Jan. 20 announcement
from the office of Congress-
man Omar Burleson states
that the U. S. Department of
Agriculture has selected
Aspermont as the location for
the construction of a United
State Department of
Agriculture Service Center.
Feb. 12—The annual
Stonewall County Livestock
Show will open Friday at 1
p.m. with the judging of
lambs, followed by the
judging of hogs. Steers will be
judged at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Entered this year are 125
The Aspermont Hornets fell
to the Crowell Wildcats in a
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played at Hamlin Tuesday
night, 62-51. The two teams
were tied for both the first
and second half crowns.
Feb. 19—Premium sales
totalled $12,123 in the
Saturday afternoon auction
following the annual two-day
Stonewall County Livestock
Show with total sales going
over $20,000.
Old Glory High School
boys, winners of District 2ft-
B, in basketball will meet
Hawley for bi-district Mar. 2.
Feb. 26—The Aspermont
Lions Club Auction of farm
equipment and machinery
will get taiderway Saturday,
Feb. 28, at 10 a.m. at the
Stonewall County Show barn,
one mile east of Aspermont.
The auctioneers for the sale
will be Cruce and Dulin of
Piainview.
Mar. 4—The Junior Class of
Aapermont High School will
present "Mash," a comedy in
two acts, Tuesday evening at
the high school.
Old Glory pulled within two
points of Hawley in the third
period before losing the Class
B Bi-district game, 58-51. The
game was played in the
Ansoc Gymnasium Tuesday.
Mar. 11—A permit was
issued for the drilling of an oil
well within the city limits
during the city council
meeting Monday evening.
The site is on the northeast
quarter of section 123, block
D H 4 TC Ry Company
survey. The land is owned by
M. D. Pittcock.
Mar. 18—A meeting here
Monday at 2:30 p.m. in the
Stonewall County Library
will give Stonewall County
residents an opportunity tO
have a program of activities
lor older citizens "financed"
by an area agency.
Mar. 25—Some 20 different
acts and skits will be
presented during the annual
4-H Talent Show which begins
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the
Aspermont Auditorium.
Some 50 Stonewall County
residents from Old Glory and
Aspermont met Monday
afternoon at Stonewall
County Library to hear of
special activities and op-
portunities available to older
citizens.
Apr. 1—Five elections will
be held in Stonewall County
Saturday, but none of them
will involve contested races.
There will be one dty elec-
tion, two school election, one
hospital election, and one
we.ter district election.
Apr. E. H. Diers of Old
Glory was elected president
of the Senior Citizens
Association which was
organized for the county
Monday evening at the
American Legion Hall.
April. 15—Old Glory, the
little town in West Texas with
the patriotic name, is plan-
ning a big bicentennial
homecoming for all ex-
students and teachers of the
Old Glory Rural High School
District or any of its con-
solidated districts during the
Labor Day weekend this
year.
Apr. 22—The District 7-A
Boys Track and Field Meet
will be held today in Jayton,
according to Jim Pope,
District 7-A athletic director.
Apr. 2£—Stonewall County
voters will be faced with only
four contented races on the
county and district levels
here Saturday.
Names of the top graduates
in the Aspermont High School
Class of 1976 have been an-
nounced by Principal A1
Fincher. Terry Hennlg is
valedictorian, Bennett Cook
is salutatorian and Jeann«tte
Wren is highest ranking girl.
May 6—Joyce Y. McNutt
was elected to her first term
as county tax assessor-
collector during the
Democratic Primary here
Saturday. Travis M. Hart-
graves was also elected to a
first term in an uncontested
race for county attorney.
Marvin Crawford, sheriff
since 1973, wa- re-elected and
Joseph Thigpen defeated
encumbent Royce Adkins
for district attorney. J. C.
Gholson was re-elected
Commissioner, Precinct 1.
May 13—Thirty-five seniors
will receive diplomas here
Wednesday evening at 8 in
the Aspermont High School
Auditorium. Ed Jackson,
director of admissions and
recruitment at Hardin-
Simmons University will be
the speaker.
May 20—Graduation
exercises for Old Glory
seniors will be at 8 p.m. today
in the school cafetorium.
Aubrey Headstream, director
of the Haskell County Mental
Health and Retardation
Clinic, will be the speaker.
May 27—Special awards
were presented to out-
standing Aspermont Junior
High School students at tne
annual awards assembly,
Wednesday. Diplomas were
also presented to eighth
grade graduates.
June 3—Renee Hawkins
wen the Ali-Around Cowgirl
award in the Aspermont
Junior Rodeo held here
Friday and Saturday even-
ings. Sean Smith of Sweet-
water won the Ail-Around
Cowboy honors.
June 10—Joe Kenady,
Aspermont High School
student, will be one of 45
Texas High School students to
take part in the University of
Texas at Austin theater
workshop.
June 17—The Stonewall
County rodeo parade will be
Thursday, June 24. The
parade will open the events of
the 21st annual amateur
rodeo, with performances
nightly through Saturday,
June 26.
June 24—Books will close at
12 noon today for entries in
the 21st annual Amateur
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