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New law Will Add S6 Million to
Tax Bolb ol White Him Dowel
Cards were to be mailed this
week to residents of Crosbyton,
Ralls, Spur and Post notifying
them of a meeting of the Board
of Equalization of the White Ri-
ver Water District Exact dates
of these meetings, scheduled one
day in each of the four towns,
were not available Tuesday.
Ten days from the time of the
Fate of Rodeo to
Be Decided at
Monday Meeting
Stockholders in Crosbyton Ro-
deo Association, Inc., were in-
formed this week of an impor-
tant stockholders' meeting to be
held Monday night, Aug. 21,, at
8 p.m. at the courthouse. Purpose
of the meeting will be to discuss
liquidation of the local associa-
tion.
Financial status of the asso-
ciation is not the principal rea-
son some stockholders want to
liquidate the local rodeo asso-
ciation, Preston Weaks, secretary
said Tuesday. Despite a disas-
trous rodeo last month at which
two performances had to be can-
celled due to rain, the associa-
tion is little if any in debt. A
bank loan owed by the associa-
tion was paid off two years ago.
Main reason for discontent,
the secretary pointed out, is that
a few men have had most of the
work to do over the years in pro-
ducing the rodeo performances.
They feel, he said, that there is
not enough interest to justify
continuing the rodeo.
Crosbyton Rodeo Association
has been organized almost 15
years, producing 14 annual ro-
deos. It has invested some
$30,000 in grounds and arena,
all of which is clear of debt. De-
preciation, of course, has taken
much of the value from stands
and other construction, while the
value of the land on which it is
located has increased.
All stockholders of the asso-
ciation are urged to attend the
Monday night meeting to help
make the decision, the secretary
urged.
Revival Starting
at Omega Baptist
Church Tomorrow
Revival services have been
scheduled at the Omega Baptist
Church beginning tomorrow, Fri-
day, according to Rev. Otis W.
Pierce, pastor. The series will
continue through Sunday, Aug-
ust 27.
Morning services will be held
at 10:30 o'clock and evening ser
vices at 8 o'clock. Rev. Pierce ex-
tends an invitation to the public
to attend.
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FOWLER REUNION SET
AUG. 27 AT MACKENZIE
Annual Fowler Reunion will
be held at Mackenzie Park in
Lubbock Sunday, Aug. 27, ac-
cording to announcement this
week. Each family is asked to
bring a well filled basket for the
noon meal. Visitors are always
welcome.
mailing of the notices must el-
apse before date of the meeting,
however, Bob Work, water dis-
trict secretary, said Tuesday.
This will probably place meet-
ings during the final week or
August
Ju3t as soon as these sessions
of the equalization board are
held and the. final tax roll com-
pleted, it is expected that the
Attorney General will approve
the district's bonds ^and make
money available immediately,
Mr. Work said.
Members of the equalization
board are Norton Barrett, Crosby-
g.n; W. P. McKee, Ralls; Walter
uckworth, Post, and C, L.
Knight, Spur.
District Laws Amended
Mr. Work also reported pas-
sage of an amendment to the
law governing the White River
Water District at the recent ses-
sion of the Legislature. The a-
mendment stipulates that "Ter-
ritory heretofore or hereafter an-
nexed to any city contained in
the District may be annexed to
the District," and then outlines
the procedure.
All four towns of the district
will be affected by the amend
ment, which was requested by
the directors, Mr. Work said. It
simply means that when one of
the member cities extends its
city limits, the new area also be-
comes a part of the water dis-
trict.
Post will be affected the most,
he said, but Spur and Ralls have
also taken in considerable terri
tory since the water district was
created May 15, 1957. Crosbyton
will add 11 acres in the south-
west part of the city which has
not yet been developed.
Raise Values $6 Million
Completion of the tax rolls
will show a valuation of approx-
imately $30 million for the dis-
trict, Mr. Work said. The amend-
ment will add new territory with
a value of about $6 million, but
the addition will not be reflect-
ed in the tax rolls the first year,
said the secretary.
"It's really too early to tell
yet, but this amendment should
mean a reduction in the tax rate
of the district after the first
year," he pointed out.
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Ihild of Former
esidents Dies,
Interment Here
Bobby Odell Stokes, 12, was
buried in Crosbyton cemetery,
August 10. He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bobby Stokes, Sr., Cot-
ton Center. The Stokes family
are former Crosbyton residents.
Rev. Chester Sylvester, pastor,
officiated at services held in the
Cotton Center Baptist Church at
10 a.m. last Thursday.
The boy died Tuesday after
noon in the Hi-Plains Hospital
at Hale Center after a lengthy
illness. He was born in Prairie
Grove, Ark. The family moved to
Cotton Center throe years ago
from Tulsa.
Survivors include the parents;
two brothers, Perry G. and Stacy
L., both of the home; and the
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Stokes, Prairie Grove;
Mrs. Jessie Rowe, Tulsa; and
Walter Rowe, Brownfield.
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Crocby County's Oldest Business Institution - Established January % 1909
VOLUME FIFTY-THREE CROSBYTON. CROSBY COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 17. 1961
NUMBER THIRTY-THREE
$190,000 REVENUE BOND ISSUE CALLED BY CITY
COUNCIL TO BUY BIG ENGINE FOR POWER PLANT
Faced with the situation of an
ever increasing demand for elec-
tric power, Crosbyton City Coun-
cil called an election Tuesday
night in which citizens will de-
cide on a $190,000 revenue bond
issue to purchase a new 900 kw
engine and make other im-
provements in the electric sys-
tem.
The election will be held Sat-
urday, September $, in Pioneer
Memorial Building.
Called after a comprehensive
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REALITIES Pat Bennett
Bickering Over Sheriff's Rudget
Creates Dangerous Jail Problem
Mrs. T. E. Thornhill was snif-
fling around with the hayfever.
I asked her if she were taking
any sort of medicine for that al-
most incurable malady.
"I've taken every sort of pill,"
she managed to smile. "I think
I'm immune " to the pills, but
I'm allergic to everything else."
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Crosby county law enforce-
ment is coming in for a lot of
criticism these days. It seems
there Is generally nobody around
the jail at night or over week-
ends.
This means that, with no one
to operate the police radio, ijfls
often difficult to get hold of an
officer quickly in an emergency.
They may be all out chasing
bootleggers.
Also, it presents a hazard to
the prisoners in the jail. If that
building were to catch fire, or if
one of the prisoners suddenly
became critically ill, it would be
almost impossible to summon
aid.
The thing would have been
remedied long ago except that
Sheriff Fletcher Stark and com
missioners can't get together on
what to do.
Stark says the best thing to do
would be to a (id at least two dis-
patchers (Garza county has
four) to aid Deputy Bob Hale.
Then, with an outside deputy
aiding, they could give 24 hour
service.
Of course, that would cost an
additional $400 per month.
A second solution would be to
pay some elderly bachelor to
sleep in the building and an-
swer the telephone and radio for
about $100 monthly. He could
have another job in the daytime.
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On the other hand, commis-
sioners point out that they are
now spending more on the sher-
iffs department than Crosby
has ever spent before. Yet they
are getting less hours of service
and communication.
Heretofore, the sheriff or one
of his deputies have always liv-
ed in the Jail. However, the mas-
sive files, radio and other para-
phernalia of policedom have
hitherto been in the courthouse.
Deputies' salaries were raised
when Stark took office last win-
ter. Officers were furnished cars
where they had furnished their
own in the past. At that time,
Stark said he thought the addL
tional money was sufficient.
"We Just have so much money
to spend," says one commission-
er, "and we've Just about reach-
ed, the limit."
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The problem is a difficult one
since the offices of both sheriff
and commissioners are elective.
Both are responsible only to the
voters for their acts.
Yet IX a harmless drunk has a
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Depot Agent Lucian Ochsner displays the old fash-
ioned coal stove which has stood for decades in the of-
fice of the Panhandle-Santa Fe Railroad here. The
antique room warmer was recently presented to Crosby
Pioneer Museum here. Ochsner says the stove was pro-
bably the one originally installed in the office of the
C. B. Livestock Company's Crosby ton-South Plains
Railroad in the spring of 1911.
School, Church Worker Claimed
R. C. Ellison Rites Held Saturday
study by the city engineer, Gor-
don Greenwood, Abilene, with
Jack Covington, Engineering
Consultants, and financial ad-
visor, Joe Smith of First South-
west Company, Plainview, the
additional motor would provide
sufficient power for the munici-
pal plant through 1964.
"We will be very close to the
borderline by the fall of 1962,"
Mayor L. H. Finch said. By vot-
ing to buy the new engine now
we could complete installation
by late summer next year."
Charts showing the almost
fantastic growth in the use of
electricity in the city were pre-
pared by the engineer. By pro-
jecting this increase in consump-
tion into the future, he indicated
that the local plant will need
three more large engines within
the next ten years.
"Surprising thing is that our
reports show us to be in just a
bout the same position financial-
ly as we were when we voted
the last bond," said Mayor Finch.
"Just one year's growth in the
municipal plant's business gives
us plenty.of profit to finance an-
other purchase."
The Council Tuesday night al-
so accepted the city auditor's
annual report, prepared by Joe
Cassel of Lubbock. The report
showed every department of the
city in sound financial condition.
A longtime worker in Crosby-
ton public school and church af-
fairs died at 12:25 a.m. Friday
in his home here. R. C. Ellison.
78, had been critically ill for
several weeks.
R. C. ELLISON
Travis Bennett
Dies in Lubbock,
Funeral Monday
Funeral services for Gerald
Travis Bennett, 50, were held at
2 p.m. Monday in a Lubbock
funeral home chapel. He had
been a resident of Crosbyton for
many years.
Bennett died at 11:30 a.m. Sat-
urday in the home of his sister.
Eva Mae Cowdry, in Lubbock.
He had been ill for some time.
Survivors include his sister;
his mother, Mrs. R. B. Bennett,
Crosbyton; two brothers, Otto,
Big Spring; and Arthur, Elk City.
Oklahoma.
Burial was in Lorenzo ceme-
tery.
office, the Roddy Service, and
was active in sales work.
Last year, Barley was the top
salesman in the Southern Divi-
sion when the company had an
employee sales program on au-
tomatic electric yard lights. He
was responsible for the sale of
nearly 100 units.
Barley is a member of the
New Manager Is
Assigned Local
SPSC0 Office
Appointment of a new Crosby-
ton manager for Southwestern
Public Service Company was an-
nounced today by Arlie Hudson,
Southern Division manager for
the electric light and power com-
pany.
Glen Barley, who has been
with Southwestern Public Ser
j vice Company since 1953, and in
■ the Southern Division since 1956,
I will become the company's local
! manager September 1.
Barley will succeed Jack Mar
! tin. who has been manager here
since 1956 and is being transfer-
red to Lubbock for assignment
I with the division engineering
i department.
j Following graduation from
Amarillo High Schixil and atten-
dance at Amarillo College, Bar-
ney" began his work with South-
: western Public Service Company
Final rites were held at 2 p.m. , !n accounting department.
Saturday in the Crosbyton He came to Lubb°ck as supervi
Church of Christ. Thomas Comp- su" "l ,h<; company's first branch
ton, minister, and Carl Maples,1 offlce- the Reddy Service,
Broken Arrow, Okla., officiated.
Robert Council Ellison was
born in Sommervilie, Ga., during
LS82. The family moved to Erath
county in 1894.
He married Clara Gertrude
Brasell. October 30, 1904. Mr. and
Mrs. Ellison moved lo Crosby
county in 1922 and he farmed
here until his retirement in 1946.
Ellison served for 16 years on
Crosbyton school board during
a period stretching through the
Thirties. During his tenure, the
two buildings in center and
south part of the schoolground
were constructed.
"He was a mighty good trus-
tee,'' recalls D. A. Edwards, who
was Crosbyton superintendent
during that period. "He took an
active interest in school affairs
and tried to do what was right."
A worker in the Church of
Christ, Ellison was baptised in
1<M)7. He served as an elder in
the Crosbyton church for a quar-
ter of a century.
Ellison also served terms on
the Crosbyton hospital board and
the Co Op (lin board. He assist-
ed in the development of the
city by opening the now popu-
lous College Heights addition a
long Ivy street.
Survivors include the wife,
Gertrude, of the home; four
daughters. Mrs. Irene Dendy and
Mrs. W W. Robertson, both of
Crosbyton. Mrs D. K. Stevens,
Ralls, and Mrs. Raymond Tillson,
Amarillo; six sons. Duward,
Ernest, Lonnie and Keith, all of
Crosbyton. Homer, Halls, and R.
C. Jr., New Deal; one sister, Mrs.
Sol Yardley, Stephenvllle; three
brothers. A. D Ellison, Ralls, Al,
Portales, and John Stephenville;
31 grandchildren; and 13 great-
grandchildren
Pallbears were Roes Cash, Dee
Cash, Joe Bailey, Allan Mlze, El-
dred Mize, Billy Bob Wright, C.
A. Verett and Leonard Parker.
Burial was in Crosbyton ceme-
tery. King Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
BARKING DOG
SPOTS THIEVES
Jake Donathon turned off
the TV when news broadcast
was finished Monday night
and retired. It was 10:30 p.
m. and Clyde Ausmus' dog
began doing a lot of bark-
ing outside.
"He's always barking,"
says Jake, "so I didn't get
up. I guess I should have."
The next morning, Dona
thon's I960 model car was
gone, stolen. He had left the
keys in it the previous
night but it was in his drive-
way by the bedroom win-
dow.
Fortunately, it was quick-
ly recovered. Galen Whit-
church, who says he de-
serves a reward, spotted it
near Flukie Smith's place
while ^n route to Floydada
early Tuesday.
Floydada officers arrested
the culprits, two 16-vear-old
Lubbock boys. They also ad-
mitted lifting cars in Lub-
bock and Floydada.
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Final Rites For
Former Resident
Grisham Friday
A heart attack took the life of
a former Crosbyton resident, Al-
ton Grisham, at 2 a.m. Friday in
a Fort Worth hospital. Grisham,
50, has suffered heart attacks
previously.
Final rites were held at 2 p.m.
Sunday in Fort Worth. Burial
was in Everman cemetery.
Grisham was born in Hill
county August 25, 1910. The
family moved to Crosby county
in 1918, and he married Odessiu
Atchison here in 1929.
He was employed by D. H.
Moody at the grain company for
15 years. Mr. and Mrs. Grisham
moved to Fort Worth in 1952.
Survivors include his wife;
four daughters, Mrs. Vernon
Reid, Fort Worth; Mrs. D. A.
Moore, Mrs. Jack Bass and Mrs.
Bobby Rivers, all of Everman ? a
son, H. A., Everman; three bro-
thers, Charlie, Bob and Aaron, i
Fort Worth; a sister, Mrs. Annie j
Coley, Fort Worth; 10 grandchil-
dren.
Attending the funeral from
Crosbyton were Mr. and Mrs.
Lun Atchison, Mr. and Mrs. Clar- !
ence Gowrns, Mr. and Mrs. Don j
Gowens and Mr. and Mrs. Del-;
mer Gowens.
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Crosbyton Chieftain Band will
start pie-school practice Mpnday,
August 28, Jesse Lancet, direct-
or, announced this week. With
the first football game Friday
night, Sept. 1, it is imperative
that band members report for
these sessions, he said.
Monday's meeting .is scheduled
at 10 ajn. Following.the initial
practice session, uniforms will
be issued in the afternoon, the
director said. This will be follow-
ed by practice Monday night,
and the schedule for the remain-
der of the week will be announc-
ed at that time.
Due to the fact that a number
of band students have moved a-
way or got married in the past
year, quite a large number of
eighth grade students will be
moved up to the high school
band, Lancet said. The list will
include clarinet, cornet and bari-
tone players. These students and
their parents' will be notified by
letter before band practice be-
gins, he said.
In the meantime, • additional
samples of new uniforms are be-
ing secured. To secure the best
uniforms at the cheapest price,
Band Booster Club officials have
decided not to rush the order for
the new suits. The order will pro-
bably be made, however, soon
after the beginning of the new
school term.
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Grandmother of Mrs.
T. W. Stockton Jr.
Claimed Friday
Funeral rites for Mrs. G. C.
Pass, 79, were held at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday in the First Christian
Church, Littlefield. Rev. Robert
Piatt, pastor, and Rev. Jack Ell-
zey, officiated.
Mrs. Pass died in the home of
a daughter, Mrs. Sid Hopping, at
Littlefield Friday afternoon. She
had been desperately ill in the
Crosbyton hospital for some
weeks before but seemed recov-
ered enough to go home.
Minta Florence Pass was a
resident of Crosby county from
1913 until 1930, living in the
Cone and Ralls areas. She was
the grandmother of Mrs. T. W.
Stockton Jr., Crosbyton.
She had resided in Littlefield
the past 31 years. Survivors in-
clude her daughter, four grand-
children and five great grand-
children.
Burial was in Littlefield ceme-
tery.
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Scherer Funeral
Held in Vernon
WINS BEAUTY
SCHOOL CONTEST
Mrs. Verle (Dortha) Roberts
was one Of the members of the
| championship ex-student team
! which won a hairdressing con-,
! test at Fort Worth Sunday. The
Contest, sponsored by the beauty
school from which she graduated,
j awarded her a trophy for
skill
I Funeral services for H. H.
I Scherer were held in Vernon Fri-
day. He had visited in Crosbyton
I often, his latest visit being only
i three weeks prior to his death,
j Among those attending ser-
! vices were Mr. and Mrs. Garnet
Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Truett
■ Mayes and Mrs. Bill Gilbreath,
Ralls.
Visitors in the home of Mr. and
j Mrs. J. W. Wood and Diane last
. Thursday afternoon and night
[were Mr. and Mrs. Jim J. Lee and
i Michelle of Greenville. She was
| a former school teacher here,
her j and he was employed in the Soil
! Conservation office.
Hub Lions Club in Lubbock and j
has been an active participant I TREADS Hubert CillTV
in the softball program in the | uuucii vuuj
city.
"Our appointment of Glen Bar
ley as Crosbyton manager is a
move that we are sure will meet
with the approval of the pefaple
of Crosbyton. Like his pre<M*res
sor. Jack Martin, he has a sense
of civic responsibility and a
knowledge of the electric busi-
ness which we feel the commun-
ity will find valuable. We hope | years of government service as a
in the near future to announce Cooperative Weather Observer.
Trends Has 15 Years "Government
Service"; Teachers Get Pay Raise
Received a letter this week
from the United States Depart-
ment of Commerce, Weather
Bureau, commending us for 15
j other plans for the improvement
and expansion of our service in
Crosbyton," Hudson said in his
j announcement.
i Mrs/ Barley and two children,
! Gien Ann and Shelby Lee, will
move to Crosbyton as soon as
housing is available.
Children Enroll
in Kindergarten
For Coming Term
Children will enrol! and begin
classes in Crosbyton kindergar-
ten at 9 a.m. September 4, ac-
cording to Mrs. Wynon Mayes,
instructor
Kindergarten classes will be
held four days weekly, Monday
through Thursday. Tuition is
$15 per month.
Parents interested in enrolling
their children should telephone
Mrs. Mayes at 4131 or L E. Treat
at the elementary school, 2631,
for more information.
BUTS ANGUS BULL
C. J. Snodgrass, Crosbyton. re-
cently purchased an Aberdeen-
Angus bull from Oscar Golden,
i Aiken.
And. in lieu of salary, we re-
ceived a beautiful lapel pin
stating "Government Service —
15 Years."
For this beautiful pen we have
given about five minutes of ser
vice per day, day in and day out,
rai(n or shine, to reading and re
cording the weather. We have
endured insults — "You don't
even know how to read that rain
guage." . . . "Any fool would
know it was hotter than that
yesterday" . . . "You're 'way off—
my thermometer said it was
three below."
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We have faced all kinds of
weather—wading through two
foot drifts of snow, reading those
guages during heavy downpours
of rain, stumbling through blind
ing sandstorms. We remember
the elatlOn of measuring a heavy
rain after a long period of
drouth, and discovering the
moisture we were measuring was
heavy with mud from the sedi-
ment that settled In the measur
ing can. We also recall the per-
iods of heavy rain when rain
wasn't wanted, and pouring the
water from the can after measur-
ing was a disdainful task.
There really is a salary- at-
tached to this job, of course.
When we first became weather
observer 15 years ago there was
a handsome stipend of about $W)
per year, and we used that
money to buy one new suit a
year. Since then, salaries of ob-
servers have been reduced and
reduced again, until it has be-
come almost a volunteer task.
Last year, for instance, we re-
ceived a government check for
60 cents.
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But really, we're not objecting
to service without a salary. Hav-
ing the weather records furnish-
es us as a newspaper publisher
with an unfailing news source.
By merely referring to our re-
cords, we can tell the rainfall in
1941, the date of the killing
frost in 1917, how hot it got in
1935. We are more than repaid
for our small time in reading
and compiling these records by
the use we receive from them
ourselves.
It will probably be of interest
to you to know that the Crosby-
ton Weather Observing Station
is the oldest on the South Plains.
It was first established in 1886,
with Mrs. Hank Smith as the re-
corder at the old rock house In
Blanco Canyon. The station re-
mained at Mt. Blanco until
sometime after Crosbyton was
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