The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1960 Page: 1 of 8
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The Southwest is hard on
propheta.
says banker Russell McCurdy.
Personally I leyl opttnitstite a-
bout thd prospects."
Commenting, on .White River
Dam preparations, authority di-
rector Robert Work says: "Pro-
spects ace really good."
So far as Crosbyton's housing
authority and urban renewal
setups are concerned, attorney
Harry Jung thinks the town has
an excellent chance of benefit-
ting from both this year.
Many area farmers and busi
nessmen are getting out from
undertnr tteavfrdEbte
cumulated during the lone,
drouth; says McCurdy, executive
vice president of Citizens Na-
tlonal Bank here.
.. . ■ Expansive Crop
However, farmers made only
80 percent of. the cotton crop
they did during *58 bumper har-
vest and got from $5 to $20 per
bale less for it. On 'top of that
was the crop's high cost
"Actually, it was the most ex-
pensive crop we've ever made
Up-p W gfjVfi thr hflnkrf TTn njfng
numerous repiantings, late Una!
planting and increased produc-
tion cost.
"Deposits lacked 1600,000 go-
ing as high as 1958," he notes*
"but demand for loans is good.
Loans went $300,000 higher.
There's been a world of new
tractors and vehicles bought."
Dam Looks Certain
Particularly McCurdy feels
good about the excellent wheat
prospects. This crop meant a,
million dollars to Crosbyton ter-
rltorv In 19SS but misfired last
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CBOSBTTOM. CBOSBT COUNTY. TEXAS THURSDAY. JANUARY 21st 1980
NUMBER THREE
Attendance of 200 Urged fan Public
Business men, home owners,
owners of rental property," and
anyone else who "is interested,
are urged to make plans now to
attend a public hearing on pro
posed Urban Renewal' program
for .Crosbyton. Date of the hear-
ing has been set for Thursday
night, Jan. 2g, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Pioneer Memorial auditorium. ,,
The hearing, a required pre-
requisite to a vote - on tHe gov:
ernment program, will be de-
vised to explain the purpose,
cost and results that can be ex-
' pectefl' from an .urban renewal
S plan. A person familiar with ur-
* ban renewal work will be pre-
sent tb.discuss the plan and an:
swer questions,
If those prPRAnt npponr.tr> fa.
vor the plan, the City Council
will take under advisement the
calling of an election-to decide
whether the city>will make an
application for a Federal Urban
Renewal Program in Crosbyton,
city officials said. ~
Under the program, the federal
government put up $2.00 for each
$1.00 contributed by the "city, it
is uafletstoasL R(jt lac ^itv'h
Many Absent-Minded
Persons Hereabouts
There are a lot of absent-
minded persons in the Cros-
byton area- - .
A grand total of 184 over-
due books are still abroad
here Mfith the bookmobile
program going into its final
days, says Mary Jo Vines,
librarian. v
Finall check-in date,„ is
February 16, barely 4 wfeeks
from now. -- All, readers ate
urged to dig out those libra.-
ry,..books and return them
immediately.
NewDixectors
Named foi Boatd
New directors for Crosbyton
Chamber of Commerce were an-
nounced this week by Joe* Wood.
manager, Directors were named
The library program,
which .cost subscribers noth-
ing, could cost the state 'a
great deal. It is hoped most
residents won't compound
their forgetfulness to be-
come thieves.
Donkey Caqers
by vote of the members con.
ducted the past two weeks by
mail. "
New directors named are Nor-
ton Barrett Harry Jung, Dr.
Wayne Houser, Alton Wallace,
Joe I^arris and Henry Ellison.
Theselwith holdover directors
Aries Graham, Jimmy Karr, J. C.
(dap) McNeill, Dale R. Rhoades,
T. J. Taylor and Homer T. Flllin-
gim will comprise the board- of
directors of the local organiza-
tion for the coming year. t_I
Garnet Jones, as retiring pres-
ident of the organization, antn
matically serves, another year on
the board.
Retiring directors are Bob Per-
kins, Bill Hlgginbotham, Jack P.
Martin, Hubert. Curry and Alton
Wallace. Wallace, who had serv-
ed out an unexpired term on the
Old board, was re elected to a
full two-year term.
. Both old and new directors
wJllfrold a
Picked Up For
Hot Checking
T. W. Grant has been picked
up on charges of giving a bad
check to Chaesir Service Station
in Lorenzo, July 17, 1950. #ined
$16.50 by Justice of Peace W. P.
Hood, he was, not picked up until
But Crosbyton area civic, ag'
ricultural and financial' leaders
are optimistic about present
prospects for 1960. Their agree-
ment often uses even the same
terms. - .
"The outlook, as far as mois-
ture is concerned; is pretty good"
says Lee Suther, county agent
"Prospects, with the early
rains, are the best since 1949
and; prior to that, since 1931,"
this week.
Grant is also being held on a
charge for Haskell' county.
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to Re Discussed
A library workshop-wm b.e
held in the high school auditor-
ium in RaU^at 7:30 pm, Janu-
ary 28, announces Mary Jo Vines,
Bookmobile librarian
Talks of Dogs,
Everything from raising the
bounty, on stray $ogs to a city
trash collecting code was dis-
cussed by Crosbyton councilmen
in a four hour meeting Tuesday
night.
Bounty on dogs was raised
Purpose of the workshop Will
be to explain what you, as indi-
viduals can do to help establish
libraries in your counties, under
a. new program that is now a-
vail able," she adds.
-Guest speakers front Austin
will discuss the matter with the
group. . ,c
Bookmobile program in Crosby
county is about ended, folding
Plains Food in
Saturday Raid
, A tidy burglar /aided Plains
Food Market sometime Saturday
night. He entered by drilling a
"hole -through , back1 'door - and
from $14o $2 to encourage catch-
ing. It Wis decided to ask Les-
lie Hargrove who, with Herbert
Moore, trapped 48 last fall, to a-
gain try his hand at ridding the
town of stray pests., s _
A contract with Pioneer Natur-
al Gas Co, to buy 200,000 cubic
feet of gas at 'if cents per thou-
sand-cubic feet was okayed. The
group learned many towns are
forced to pay 22 cents. }
- After some discussing of tiie
ice house Jointly owned with
grocer Qdell Justus, council' dis-
cussed sending someone to a
meeting on Eminent Domain to
be held In Dallas, Feb. 25-26.
Nobody was found to go;
Council decided to ask'Hubert
.gurry and Harry Jung to attend
spring,
"I donV think there is any
doubt about it going through,"
says Work of the. dam. "Engi-
neering is within 30 to.80 days
of being complete.
"We've got another water elec-
tion, Then a formal application
for the $1,300,000 loan will be
presented to Texas Water Devel-
opment Board.
pbrtion, any civic improvements
done'iwithin the past three years
would be accepted according to
cost of the project
For instance, the new primary
school building costing $116,000
could be entered as city share,'
an.d if accepted would entitle
"the proglrarin to $232,000 in gov-
erament funds. Much tSf Crosby-
ton's paving has been done in
the past three years, and total
cost of this pavemSnt could be
entered as the city's share.
OnThis basis, the city would
have to put Up very little actual
cash to realize big returns from
the project .
Purpose of urban renewal is
to purchase and de§$rpy;. both
residental arid^busiriess property
classed as subinaafginal for hu-
man habitation and which is be-
yond repair. To take the place of
property that is destroyed, the
government agency would guar-
antee loans for a much ° as 40
years in some instances, with
no discount in order that new,
small homes could be built to
take the place of thoseJtorn
down.
The loan feature would also be
applicable to larger homes and
business buildings, it is under-
The plan if, adopted here
would, in all likelihood be on a
volunteer basis, with attractive
offers and civic pride being the
only inducements used to en-
courage property Owners to sell
submargihal homes.
. Urban renewal also has a
number of "other features which
Will be explained at the meet-
ing Jan. 28.
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saturday bake sale
ie junior-class will have
Bake Sale Saturday, Jan. 23. The
class Will sell cakes and pies at
the grocery stores. Prices will be
set according to the purchase.
The class asks the public to pa-
tronize this sale.
Play Satuiday
Donkey basketball, billed -as
"America's funniest game," will
be featured in CHS gymnasium
Saturday night. Event is spon-
sored by Crosbyton FFA chapter.
' Also on the program will be a
Hobby Donkey Derby, which, is
races on 'mechanical donkeys,
and a donkey trick act between
quarters.
"night, February 2, Mr. Wood an-
nounced. At this time officers
for the coming year will be chos-
en and MditionaLjplans for
annual banquet Feb. 23 will be
made. '
Joe Parks . underwent major
heart surgery in a Lubbock hos-
pital Tuesday. The operation , fs
reported to have been a success
and Parks is recovering satis-
factorily. '
the scheduled year, last check-
out date for Crosbyton head-
quarters Js February 16. After
will leave March 5.
Rails and Lorenzo groups are
already hard at work on the li-
brary matter, as demonstrated
by their attendance at county
court session 'last week. It Is
hoped a large Crosbyton delega-
tion will attend the Ralls meet-
ing.
prizing off a bar.
He left the place so neat that
nobody noticed until grocerman
L. ft-Fineh .yifent down that af-
ternoon .to check the store's mo -
tors. .
Thiefs haul consisted simply
of about $15 in money belonging
to Baptist Sunday School class of
which Finch is treasurer.. Noth-
ing else Appeared disturbed,
the National Association of
Housing and Redevelopment to
be held-in Washington, D. C., on
February 8-0. — i
"TUaapucda of radio static
...T6e luptuied fame of spece
foams in our <kii i" Hctrt Crane
This town is known ill over
the world—at least among ama-
teur radio operators.
Few Crosbyton residents rea-
lize their town has no less than
seven operators talking over at
least six radio rigs. ....
"That's a pretty good number
for a to<fcn this size," says Lu-
cian Ochsner, dean of Crosbyton
airwave amateurs, '^Cake Colo-
rado City for example; that town
has about 9,000 persons and not
a single operator." '.'«■>•
Any night with good reception
will fir.d voices or dot-dashes
from Crosbyton beaming out in-
to the ether.
From here, they've contacted
points as far away as Russia
Puzzling Apathy
For Poll Taxes
Continues Here
With only about a week re-
maining to pay poll taxes, Cros-
by voters had still paid for only
about 1500 votes, records show.
Donald Wooten, local 'Demo-
cratic^ chairman, and other in-
terested persons are puzzled by
this publicapathy.
Aside from the national elec-
tions, there will be state, district
and county elections. In Crosby-
ton. Mayor L. H.. Finch estimat-
ed the city may have as many
as four elections during 1960 at
Tuesday night's council meet-
ing. .
Renal Rosson Seeks Re-Election
to State-Representative Office
Renal B, Rosson, of Snyder,
has authorized the Review to an-
nounce hewill seek renomina-
tion and reelection as Democra-
tic nominee for the office of
"State Representative of the 90th
. Legislative District of Texa3,
.composed of Scurry, Borden,
Garza, Kent and Crosby coun-
ties; ■
Rosson has served one term as
representative from this dis-
^ trict, having been first elected to
'the post in 1958.*?
Born at Breckinridge, Decem-
ber^ 24. 1919, Rdsson moved to
Scarry county with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Rosson, now
graduated from Snyder high
school in 1937.
Upon completion of high
schodl, Rosson enrolled in Texas
Tech which he attended three
and one-half yean. At that time
* he entered the Army Air Force j
foi- a four year tour of duty. |
- He served with the 15th A it
Force in Italy where he paftici^1
pated in 46 missions during
World War II and was awarded
Distinguished -
and Prarp!
irr" ■
Reserve
his
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Negro Gets live
Yeazs In Pen on
Mnzder Ghaiges
Containing the first woman
ever to serve on a capital crimi-
nal offense in Crosby county, a
jury found Negro Frank Johnson
guilty of murdering Frank
Fruesto at Lorenzo, in mid-Octo-
ber.
For the murder of Fruesto, the
jary recomnrtended a five yeai
sentence. ^Johnson will be eligi
ble for parole after approximate
ly 18 months of good behavior.
The state asked 99 years and
held Johnson had tried to rob
Fruesto, while Johnson claimed
he fired in defense. Fruesto left
a pregnant wife and nine "chil-
dren at the time of his death.
Serving on the "Jury were Mrs
J. W. Payne, BUly Ray Evitt, E.
J. Batcheller, L. W. Bownds.
Dwayne Moses, DWayne Mc-
Clure, Tom Oats, R. T. Bowman,
H. D. Joyce, Jolin H. Bird, Ray
Eason and James A. Robertson.
Lucian (call letters;. W5Ff*Q)
and Nora (W5FNS) Ochsner both
got their licenses in 1935. Only
Crosbyton operators with Class
A licenses, they nav6 given tests
which qualified Proctor and the
two Perkins;
"When we were at Texort, I
bumped into a ham and he got
-me interested in it" says Lu-
cian. "My wife got interested be-
cause I was, I guess."
MoVed to Crosbyton by Santa
Fe in 1948, Ochsner was ac^
quainted- with the town long be-
fore. He had been talking with
Noel Guise, Baptist , minister
1943.
Lucian lists set construction
and rag chewing as- his princi-
pal radio interests today. He is
building an MT-1 mobile trans-
mitter. The Ochsners already
possess the most powerful e-
Cross,
roak leaf
He is
the -Air
entered Tech where he received
his BBA degree in, June, 1946. In
September of that year he enters
ed the . University of TCSas Law
School In Austin where he was
graduated with a LLB Degree in
June, 1949. , .
Upon graduation, Rosson and
his wife, the former Dorothy
Murphree, feturned to Snyd^f.
and-nowNreside at 2510, 31st St
They have one son, Kyle, 2.
i®88
Will Be Riggest
Ever Produced
Truett Mayes, Crosbyton thea-.
trical impresario, says he is col-
lecting the biggest and most tal-
ent-loaded cast ever for the an-
nual free Mayes Gas House Gang
production this yeaf^v
Tfte frae show will be held In
the Pioneer Memorial Building
at 7:30 p.n -, January, 29.
In an iht«view this week,
Mayes said the . usual eomedy
skits will be beefed out with sev-
eral musical and dramatic -mm-
bers which ..any variety, show
would be proud of.
Biggest group will be thejfa-
mous Wayland International A
Cappella Choir from Plalnviewv
With five soloists added to its
choral company, thii group Is a
sfliow in itself. >' ;
The Griffin sfetertr Ciwhyton
ffA^g (Wi contzibtttion *
party, will perforin. WHhv inem
will be ti e, Pic trio, a highly
and Borneo, as near as Ralls.
They've helped a Crosbyton wo-
man talk to her . O^Mrseag > hus-
band, and establisfrea emergen-
cy contact with phone lines
down.
With Ochsner, ham operators
include his wi$e Nora Ochsner,
Homer T. Fillingim, Perry Bell,.
Amon Proctor, Bob Perkins and
his son, Chuck Perkins.
They are ail willing to discuss
radio with anypne Showing a
little interest A diverse pastime,
it ranges from common /'rajg
chewifif" to'-networks, emer^
gency messages and sweep-
stakes contests.
Talked Out During Ice Storms
tfptlpment in town—a
Chanrip '300 A transmitter and
Collins 75 A-l receiver!
At least twice since coming
here, the Ochsners have had on-
ly communication out of Crosby-
ton for days, during ice .storms
in 1949 and '50. One important
use of amateur is such emer-
gency contact wOrk.
Mrs. Ochsner belongs to a
Texas women's network which
chats periodically. Lucian b
Jongs to the Sunday morning
emergency net Both are mem-
bers of the Santa Fe Railroad
Employees Radio Club.
out their interest in DX, or for.
eign broadcasting. However, dur-
ing their long range -days be-
fore World War II, they got a
listener's card frorij Russia and
even corresponded with a ham
in Nazi Germany.
Curry la chairman of Crqsb^-
ton's Housing Authority Tmd
Jung ia attorney for the project
The local authority's application
for Federal Hou&ing in Crosby-
ton has been tentatiyely-approv •
ed awaiting a government sur-
vey. The Council is also consid-
ering applying for an Urban. Re-
newal project for the city.
A street sweeping contract
wifli Clayton Cloud Was discuss-
ed but nothing decided. In this
connection, group assigned Sec-
retary Norton Bariett to draw up
a suggested hew code and
charges on trash pickup.
A request fretot Pioneer Mem-
orial board thatf alty hold Ks el-
ections in th^txSm building mt
$15 apiece was dlscusijed. Coun-
cilmen decided to talk the mat-
ter of their current contribution
over ;With board. '
Jack W. Martin, manager, out-
lined Southwestern Public Ser-
vice Company's plan von apjUi-
ance promotions for the coming
year. Councilm«Tvoted to coop-
erate. , ~
City election ,was called' for
first Tuesday 1#| April. Offices,
before voters will be those of
mayor and two cbundlmen. Tax
rate was again set at 91.50 per
$100 valuation.
Caution light repair and clean
up at the. park were also items
before the group. Coming, re-
pairs on an engine at the light
plant were reviewed and ap-
proved. ;
Present at the meeting were
Mayor L. H. Finch; Councilman
Guy Thompson, Ted Karr, Jack
P. Martin, Glenn Brashear, C. D.
Cflsnj BCDAra. FAfkcr/ Jack *
Martin and a Review reporter.
"Of course," insuranMrnaii
Work qualifies, "we've thought
every time we. got something
done that would be the last
Then they'd come up with some-
thing v e never hetfrtf of," _
County Atttorjjgjr_J*ing notes
the public hearln&January 28,
on urbaii renewal, Election will
follow that in 30 days.
"I think it will carry and be
approved by the governmental
agency," Jung says. "Then the
loin benfits willf immediately
become available. If everything
goes well, some of the benefits
Jwill probably be realized later
ltt ttleyear.* ' t ■
"Nothing has been heard from
the Public. Housing,
*ince tfce loan was approv-
somethlng."
County Agent Lee Suther re-
gards the fickle West Texas
weather with a guarded opti-
mism. '
^ "It Isn't often *#e get rain in
December," Suther states. "The
snow pushed it well down into
the ground. We've got good sub-
soil moisture.
' Good Dryland Tear
"It should be a real good .year
for- the drylandTarmer. Moisture
went 22 inches down by my
measure, and that was just as
far as my rbd reached.
•Of course, everything looks
rosy now," Suther hedges, "but
if we have hot weather in July
and August like last year, it will
cut us down. We always have to
fa«e that; hot; weather in the
summer months."
Yet everyehe commenting
seemed to agree with Work's
final remark: "I'm extremely
optimistio about the future of
this county."
Send Long Hours, Long Distances
REALITIES . ... ... Pat Bennett f
Sepazate Rut Equal Libraries
Seems Solution For Rival Towns
- "We've all sat up until 2 or 3
o'clock in the morning with ,our
sets," says bank cashler JT. Fiflk
ingim. "Your just as likely to
find someone Wearing a .T shirt
out at 11 o'clock in zero weather
turning his aerial."
"It's a big thrill-to work Rus-
sia, for instance," T continues.
"I've worked Alaska on my mo-
bile unit—Hawaii, Cuba." He
explains ham operators exchange
QSL cards to confirm any really
distant contact they'ye made.
A World War II warrant offi-
cer, Fillingim first studied radio
in the maritime service under a
Coast Guard commander, later
worked with it In the Army.
He got his firct class, second
class and novice licenses all at
ortce in 1944. ''That was -the
hardest test I ever took in my
life,'" be says, looking back over,
the triple trial.
Fillingim recently,moved here
from Rotan and is-energetically
re-eollecting materials to set up!
his station again. 'It's Just Junk
to other people, but it's gold
nuggets to a h<un." .,
A Rotan beginner is John Grey,
pilot who has done some flying
for Jack Hash here. When FH1-
ingim left Rotan, he hauled two
pickup loads of "gold nuggets"
to Grey. •
' Way Over in Okinawa
One of the most interesting
exploits of the Perkins, family
has been putting M]sry Richard-
son Hudson in contact with her
husbandi, A/2c John Hudson, on
Okinawa. ■ " ' " -
Bob Perkins happened to^Hftek
up Kwajalein Island in mid-
Pacific one night--Die- Inter-
mediary helped Bob findPOkina-
wa arid it was arranged that
Airman Hudson be if^in ama-
So Mary talked to John' and
has been hoping reception would
be good again. Mrs^ Oliver, Al-
len Jr. has hopes she'-ll be 'able
to talk to her husband also.
Botli Bob (K6KZY) and Chuck
(K5JUA) got their novice li-
censes in 1956 and general it-
censes in 1957. Both are interest-
ed in foreign DX communica-
.tions.
"Chuck has worked more, real-
ly, than I have," says Bob. "He's
gone farther into Europe and got
nearly all at South America."
Chuck hat worked .audi dis-
tant spots as Switzerland, Ger-
many and Ireland. Bob—fias
(Continued On
,. The free ride on the Bookmo-
bile is almost over, it was fun
while it lasted, but now H is
time to turn seriously toward es-
tablishing a permanent county
library system. .
'We cannot'expect Ralls and
Lorenzo to agree to. a single
county library In Crosbyton. Lo-
renzo is too far away 4o benefit
much, ftalls simply^ wouldn't
stand for it.
Only sensible solution is to set
up three "separate but equal"
bra nch libraries in Crosby's three
incorporated communities. By
rotating books, everyone would
have a wide selection conven-
iently close.
Last week a well meaning de-
legation composed chiefly of
Rallsites and Lorenzoans bad
geted the commissioners - into
tentatively granting *2.500 to an-
other locally, financed bookmo-
bile programr \
There are things recommend-
ing this idea. For instance, it
would let unlnoofporated com-
munities like Kalgary and JRob-
ertson have books right there.
But the fatal drawback would
be financing. The $2,500 would
be only a drop in the bucket of
Crosby's share Iff such a plan.
After a close look, library boos
ters say It would cost $7,000 a
year. Wow! ^
Buying and outfitting a book-
mobile plus hlrml a driver and
skilled librarian, plus keeping
everything rolling— takes a lot
of. Jack. But three sedentary li-
braries would be comparatively
Inexpensive, particularly if the
various towns would furnish the
housing.
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A Crosbyton housewife hired a
Negro lady to baby sit and do a
few household chorea while she
Was away the other day."
Returning home, she found
the rooms untidied, the clothes
unironed and the baby rave-
nously hungry. She started
checking around. v
Housewife's hubby had ' been
keeping a sealed bottle of snake-
bite remedy in the refrigerator—
the kind that makes some folks
see snakes. It was still in the
refrigerator, but almost empty.
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TeHqAtoned over :to loo's Auto
Supply the other day'and asked
for owner Joe Farris. Arthur
(Leeky) Grlffin ansWered:
"Joe's out doing a little field
work," he said, "with a dog and
gun." - ; ■
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The gremlins were at work on
our poll tax story last week. To
straighten ,matters out, Texaa
voters Are; exempt from pa:'
poll tax after their 60th, not
birthday; And, a. voter ~
poU tax
crat". im
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