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MAIN SLOWS
AREA HARVEST
Although Icy rains swept down
again this week to halt harvest
for another few days, Crosbyton
area cotton total almost doubled
in the past week.
Seven girts in this area report-
ed 10,502 bales ginned to date.
This compares with 5,728 last
Thursday.
Harvest was stopped as spas-
modic rains totaling 1.03 inches
began falling early in the week.
Mercury sank to 31 degrees both
Monday and Tuesday nights.
Blanco 1,139
Broadway 760
Co-Op, Crosbyton ...... 3,323
Co-Op, McAdoo 2,044
Co-Op, Wake * 1,488
West Texas, Crosbyton^ 1,583
West Texas, Kalgary * 166
DA Gets Praise
From Grand lory,
14 Are Indicted
District Attorney George Gil-
kerson got a pat on the back
from a Crosby grand jury which
returned 14 indictments Mon
day. Gilkerson will soon leave
the post for a non-political posi-
tion.
Indicted were Albert Johnson
17, Petersburg, assault with in-
tent to murder and burglary of
a private residence at night with
intent to rape; Jin*011*0 Martinez,
21, Ralls,-"attempted rape, inde-
cent exposure, and fondling;
Marvin Edwards, 21, Garland
Edwards, 23, both of Cone, Dom-
ingo Ramos Jr., 22, Harlingen,
Jose G. Madregal, 18, Corpus
Christi, Louis Perez, 20, Glenys
Ray Penkert, 23, Lubbock, all
for burglary.
George Staley, 18, Ralls, theft;
Charlie New, 44, Crosbyton, Cle-
tis Lee Vick, 45, Floydada, and
Curtis Truman Green, 37, Ralls,
all driving while intoxicated,
subsequent offense; also Nathan
Fennel, 31, Lorenzo, forgery, and
Lewis Lawson, Crosbyton, theft.
Three Chiefs on
All District Squad
Three Crosbyton football stars
were chosen for the All District
Football team by 4-A coaches
meeting In Idalou Wednesday.
Halfback C. P. Roberts (a un-
animous choice) and end Dar-
win Potter were placed on the
offensive team. At halfback Max
Ratheal was elected to the de-
fensive backfield.
Defensive team was: ends,
Jones of Idalou and Dan Moore,
Ralls; tackles, Willis, Peters-
burg, Pace, Idalou; guards, O'-
Neal, Idalou; linebackers, Breed-
love, Silverton, Bearden, Peters-
burg, Edwards, Ralls and Nicho-
las, Idalou; halfbacks, Ratheal,
Crosbyton; Peggram, Petersburg
and Respondik, Idalou.
Offensive team: ends, Potter,
Crosbyton, Roberson, Petersburg,
and Respondik, Idalou; tackles,
Bearden and Scarborough, Pet-
ersburg; guards, Sanders, Ralls,
Willis, Petersburg; centers, Grey,
Ralls and Brashear, Petersburg;
quarterback, Rodriquez, Idalou;
backs, Roberts, Crosbyton, Self,
Petersburg, O'Neal, Idalou.
Several CHS players won hon-
orable mention but names were
not available at presstime.
Crosbyton team fiinished tenth
In area standings in final poll.
Crosby County's 01de*tr Business Institution - Established January 7. 1909
VOLUME FIFTY-THREE CROSBYTON, CROSBY COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1961
NUMBEB FORTY-SIX
Fast Stepping Chiefs Victors Over
Stubborn Jackrabbits of Ralls
The Chiefs soured Ralls home-
coming celebration by carrying
away a 12-6 victory over the hea-
vier but slower Rabbits Friday.
Rites Held For
Oldtime Cowboy
Johnny T. Parker
An oldtime cowboy and early
settler died in his home here at
11:50 p.m. November 8. J. T.
(Uncle Johnny) Parker had been
critically ill for many weeks.
Funeral rites were held at 2
p.m. Friday in the First Metho-
dist Church with Rev. Carlton
Thomson, pastor, officiating.
Masonic graveside services were
also held.
Johnny Parker was born, Oct-
ober 6, 1876, near Cameron in
Milam county. With the family,
he moved to Dumont commun-
ity in northeast Dickens county
in 1889. There he attended
school in a half dugout.
When only 14, he went to
work for the Pitchfork Ranch
and participated in two of the
hazardous early day cattle drives
to Garden City, Kansas, before
the railroads were built
The Pitchfork. cook took
French leave from the outfit one
day and Parker was designated
to fill in with his work. He liked
the job and continued at it the
remainder of his ranching ca-
reer.
In 1904, Parker married Lela
Franks and left tne Pitchfork's
employ. They moved to the edge
of the Plains and later purchas-
ed a ranch. He then bought a
160 acre farm near present day
McAdoo.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker moved to
Crosbyton after he retired 15
years ago. He had beep a mem-
ber of the Methodist Church
since 1905 and of the Masonic
Lodge since 1910.
A good citizen, he served as
school trustee for several years
early in the cenfury. His friends
successfully ran him against the
incumbent socialist candidate,
Sam Russell.
Drawing on his ranch cook ex-
perience, Parker barbecued for
many public gatherings in the
Crosbyton area until his health
failed him.
Survivors include his wife; a
daughter, Mrs. Mary Alldridge,
Crosbyton; two sons, Benard,
Crosbyton and Lee, Jayton;
three sisters, Lena Criswell,
Clarendon, Minnie Bobo, Cres-
cent, Lavina Chadwick, Fort
Worth; three brothers, M. M. and
Arthur, Paducah, Andrew. Cla-
rendon; 10 grandchildren and
three great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were W. H. Leath
erwood, C. B. Leatherwood. Wil
lard Richardson, Sam Brown,
Buck Taylor and John Stead-
ham.
Interment was in Crosbyton
cemetery. King Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements.
REALITIES Pat Bennett
Primitive Sense of Rime, Rythm
Disappears Ref ore High School
Amelia Forrest, who teaches
English to Crosbyton freshmen
and sophomores, says it is very
difficult to make poetry inter-
esting for the current bobby sox
blue jean crowd.
Poetry is the language of
primative people. When these
-same youngsters were only tod-
dlers, they probably learned to
talk on nursery rines. In the
first and second grades, they
still enjoyed a bit of verse a
bout dogs, kites and similar
subjects.
But somewhere between the
third grade and freshmen Eng-
lish, the development of this
primative Joy in rime and rhy-
thm was arrested. Shelley looks
as formidable as a problem in
nuclear physics to the average
high school freshman.
Perhaps I should qualify that.
II a few lines of doggerel verse
are blended with a nasal bari-
tone and accompanied by a gui-
tar or dance band, teenagers go
gaga. It's too bad they cant en-
joy cake as well as stale bis-
cuits.
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It was either a hot tip or just
another rumor. I can't decide.
Don Yaifeorough handed me a
prepared new? release late Sat-
urday afternoon, just before he
addressed the annual meeting
of Crosby County Farmers Union.
The thing started off: "Don
Yarborough, rumored to be a
candidate for governor.
However, the young Houston at-
torney crossed out "governor"
and wrote in "a high state of-
fice" before my own eyes.
So, does Yarborough intend to
run for governor and just isn't
ready to officially announce? Or
has he changed his mind and
now plans to run for another
high state office?
The lieutenant governor spot
vacated by conservative Ben
Ramsey must be tempting to
liberal Yarborough, who Is spiri-
tually if not genetically akin to
the Texas senator of the same
surname.
You figure It out.
& tAT 'Cf
"Shucks, they haven't got any-
thing on me," said Glen Barley
when he read the anecdote a-
bout the time the Don Pattons
were given a Lubbock telephone
number that had once belonged
to a house of ill fame.
When the Barleys moved to
Crosbytohr-thetr residence was
assigned a number listed as the
county Jail. Some very peculiar
calls came their way too.
The win gave Crosbyton third
place and Ralls fourth in dis-
trict standings. Although this
was only a battle between twe
also rans, their long standing ri-
valry made it a bitterly fought
game.
Quarterback Travis Sursa's
deft passes netted 138 yards and
tipped the scales. Targets in-
cluded C. P. Roberts (fourth in
area scoring at 80 points) three;
Darwin Potter two, Marshall Ber-
ry one and Forrest Griffin one
completions.
Ratheal Scores First
Fullback Max Ratheal, 12th a-
mong area scorers with 52 points
rs leading Chief ground gain-
with 86 yards. Leading Ralls
offensively and defensively was*
big talented Charlie Edwards,
but he wasn't enough.
Denny Davis, Jimmy Jones
and associates in the Crosbyton
line did a remarkable job of
halting the bruising Rall^ run-
ning attack.
Ratheal smashed over from a
couple of feet out to score the
first CHS touchdown in the sec-
ond period. The tally was set
up on a long 50 yard Sursa
heave to Potter.
Berry Takes Pass
Marshall Berry took another
short Sursa aerial and scamper-
ed over with it for other Chief
touchdown in the third period.
Another long scoring pass to
Forrest Griffin shortly afterward
was nullified by penalty.
Moving in desperation, tht-
Rabbits booted an onsides kick
and one of their own linemen
caught it in the air. However, it
only went nine yards and Cros-
byton took possession to run out
the clock.
Center Edmond Wheeless
threw a powerful block into Ed-
wards on the opening kickoff
and was knocked senseless until
the fourth period. However, Gene
Richardson, freshmarr, filled in
very ably for him.
STATISTICS
Crosbyton
14 First Downs
143 Yards Rushing
138 Yards Passing
7 of 16 Passes Completed 8 of 15
1 Interceptions by 1
1 for 12 Av. Punt Ydge. 1 for 38
10 Yards Penalized 2fS
2 Fumbles Lost 0
Ralls
12
111
73
Chiefs Open Cage
Play With Post
Friday Night
Crosbyton high eagers launch
a full scale season against Post
teams here tomorrow night, Fri-
day. Girls' B-teams play at 5:30
p.m., girls' A-teams at 7 p.m.
and varsity boys afterward.
"We would sure like to see a
good crowd out for this first
home game," says Coach Deane
Wright. Admission is 50 cen^ foi
adults, 25 cents for students.
The Chiefs will play the pow
erful McAdoo Eagles In games
beginning at 6 p.m. with B game
Monday.
Crosbyton girls opened bas-
ketball .season against Siatpi.
with a slim 33-32 loss Tuesday
night. Freshman Sylvia Curry
scored 16 points for high follow-
ed by Dell Forgus with eight.
Coach Bert Grimes has added
two girls, ineligible because of
moving last year, to the streng-
thened defense. They are Ann
Messer and Elaine Humble who,
along wifh Julia Johnston, make
up an excellent defense.
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Co-op Association
Selling Cotton
Through Auction
"Plains Cotton Cooperative
Association at Lubbock is sell
ing some $7 million worth of
cotton weekly without fanfare,-'
according to Gary Weaver, Cros-
byton Co-op Gin manager.
"Daily sales catalogs listing
from 7,000 to 10,000 bales are
flown nightly to cotton buying
centers in Dallas, Houston and
Memphis and distributed in
Lubbock.
"At 2 p.m. each day, sealed
bids are opened and each qual-
ity awarded to the highest bid-
der," Weaver explains. "Farm
ers find a stronger market be-
cause of the economies made
possible by cooperative action
and volume competitive sell-
ing."
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BALL SNUG under his arm, fullback Max Ratheal steps out fox
a good gain against the Ralls Rabbits. RaUs guard Eugene Deer-
ing (81) runs alongside while fullback Wayne Sanders (60) and
end Donny Moore (85) race over. Ralls center Dwight Gray (50)
staggers at left after a block apparently thrown by Chuck Perk-
ins (88) on the ground, and runs in front of tackle Denny Davis
(73) at far left.
Despite many reported failures
the area of Crosiqr County aouth-
east of Crosbyton will get an-
other wildcat oil try, according
to reports thi* week. It is under-
stood that a road to the location
is being built this week.
The new wildcat will be Hum
ble Oil and Refining Co.'s No. 2
Morgan Jones Estate, 6V4 miles
east-southeast of Crosbyton. It
CROSSING GOALLINE with the ball is end Marshall Berry (89)
after taking a pass for second Chief score. Ralls star Charlie Ed-
wards (62) makes a desperate dive for him. Ralls linemon Elvin
Verett (24) and Wayne Sanders (60) turn to watch, still blocked
by unidentified Crosbyton players.
Yarborough Says Sales Levy Hits
Farmers With Extra Tax Burden
McAdoo Eagles to
Play Tahoka Friday;
Crosbyton Monday
McAdoo cagers will sharpen
their fangs on Tahoka teams at
McAdoo tomorrow night, Friday,
before taking on the Chiefs in
tlie Crosbyton gym next Mon-
day.
Coach Fabian (Doc) Lemley's
Eagles bounced hack to score a
double win over Hawley Friday.
The McAdoo boys won 72-57 and
girls triumphed 45-33.
Center Johnny Powers stood
out for the lads. With Tommie
Haris unavoidably out, sopho-
more Sherry Belaska ably filled
in during the girls' game.
Grade School Plan
Committee Works
Toward Improvement
The Grade School Planning
Committee met, November 2, foi
its first meeting of the year.
The committee is composed of
the presidents of the seven class-
es of grades 4, 5 and 6.
Lenoir Ciappell is president
of the Grade School Student
Body and presides at the com-
mittee meetings.
This committee discusses
ways of improving our school. H>?nd_ $7 for _fa_rmj <applies
Notes are taken and the sug-
gestions are taken back to each
room and presented to the pu-
pils by the class presidents:
School Bands
Start Annual
Magazine Sales
Crosbyton school bands began
their annual magazine sales
this week, Director Jesse Lancet
reported Monday.
Members of all three bands,
grade school, junior high and
Chieftain, are salesmen in this
annual selling event, with a
percentage of profits going to
the band fund, the director said.
Most popular magazines are on
the list furnished to each stu-
dent, and house to house calls
are already being made.
Mr. Lancet urges that parents
and ottt§r supporters of the band
assist by-purchasing their mag-
azine needs from the members.
Patrons are not asked to buy
magazines they do not want; on-
ly those that they would pur-
chase anyway.
The bands' share of the pro-
ceeds are used each year to buy
music, pay entrance fees at con-
tests, and for other necessary
expenses of the school organiza-
tions.
Sharyn Ausntus Now
Singing in Chorus
of Lubbock College
Sharyn Ausmus, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ausn>Os of
Crosbyton, is singing*- in the
second alto section of the a eap-
pella chorus of Lubbock Christ-
ian College.
Sharyn, a 1W0 graduate of
Crosbyton High School, is a
sophomore home economics ma-
jor at the college. In high school,
she participated in band, chorus,
cheerleading. and journalism.
At LCC, she was Freshman Fa-
vorite. president of LOA, a girl's
social club, treasurer of sopho-
more class, and was in the band.
Donald Wooten was reelected
president of Crosby County
Farmers Union in the annual
county wide meeting held Sat-
urday evening in the Pioneer
Memorial Building.
Vice presidents elected were
J C. Dycus, Joe Elam and Sam
Brown, George Griffin was voted
secretary-treasurer.
"The general sales tax is dis-
criminatory against Texas
farmers and will become in
creasingly so each year it is al
lowed to remain on the statute
books," said Don Yarborough,
principal speaker of the event.
Yarborough is expected to run
for a major statewide office next
year. The liberal Harris County
Attorney ran for lieutenant gov
ernor in the last campaign. He
is no relation to the Texas sena
tor.
More than 170 members and
guests from 15 South Plains
counties heard the young politi
cian attack the tax passed last
session.
"Although the present tax has
exempted some farm supplies,
there are many which are stin
subject to the tax which is
causing extreme hardship in our
Texas agriculture, already en
gaa;ed in a desperate struggle to
survive," Yarborough told the
group.
The average farmer must
be-
fore he can earn $1 and a sub-
stantial amount of these legiti-
mate farm expenses are subject
to the general sales tax.
"In view of the history of this
type of tax in other states, it is
reasonable to expect that many
present exemptions will be re-
moved in the future if the Aus-
tin lobby gets its way.
"Therefore, the farmer will
probably end up paying seven
times more sales tax than the
average wage earner. The tax
impact on the farmer at this
time is twice that paid by the
average wage earner today be-
cause he pays the tax both on
many necessary farm supplies
and on hts personal living ex-
penses."
Yarborough ended by exhort-
ing Crosby farmers to lead the
fight for repeal of the general
sales tax now before It is too
late.
J. E Collier.
Area Pioneer,
Dies Monday
Jesse E. Collier, 77, who mov-
ed to Crosby County only a few
months after the City of Crosby-
ton was founded, died at 4:30 a.
m. Monday at his home here af-
ter a short illness. Although ill,
he had visited with friends
dontown Friday.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p.m. Tuesday in First Meth-
odist Church. Officiating wer<
Rev. Leslie Thompson, Fort
Worth, a former pastor of the
Assembly of G6<! Chtirch in Cros-
byton. Burial was in Crosbyton
Cemetery under direction of
King Funeral Home.
Born in Hill County, Collier
moved to Crosby County in 1909
where he farmed until his re-
tirement in 1941. His farm was
located just west of the city. He
was a member and officer of the
Assembly of God Church here.
Survivors are his wife, Retta;
two sons, Marlin of Lubbock,
and James, Stinnett; seven
daughters, Mrs. V. A. Bowman,
Texas City; Mrs. John Moore,
McFarland, Calif.; Mrs. Loo
Sturgeon, Weslaco; Mrs. Willie
Mullenix, Belen N. Mex.; Mrs.
Artie Simer, Mrs. Fred Hill and
Mrs. W. G. Boone, all of Lub-
bock; four brothers, I. W., Dee
and Luther, all of Crosbyton,
and V. H . Houston; four sisters,
Mrs. Ewing Lawson, Crosbyton;
Mrs. T. T. McDermett, Levelland;
Mrs. Elmer Strawn, Hurst, and
Mrs. Ruby Gunn, North Holly-
wood, Calif.; 34 garndchildren
and 38 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Loyd E. Fow-
ler, Alvin Ewindall, W. J. Smith-
ee Floyd Hill, Jackie Dewbre
and John Buck.
is
of
in lltt aM-
of a recent
It Is also 5M miles
Humble's No. 1
reported drilling
feet in dolomite and eta
two Wichita-Albany
packer drillstem teats %
ren.
Exact location of No. $ Mor-
gan Jones la 1,W0 fleet
north and 680 feet
lines of Section 8, Hook
survey.
No. 1 Morgan Jonee
tested the Wichita-Albany
from 4,754-834 feet with
open m hours and recovered
200 feet of water cut mud and
900 feet of salt water. Another
test from 4,634-744 feet, open on*
hour, recovered 250 feet of water
cut mud and 3344 feet of salt
water. No pressures were report-
ed. No. 1 Jones is 14 miles south-
east of Crosbyton.
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Father-Daughter
Banquet Slated
by Girl Scouts
The Crosbyton Girl Scout
Neighborhood is having its an-
nual Father-Daughter Banquet
Friday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m., at
Pioneer Memorial Building.
Troop 284, wth Mrs. J. K. Edin-
burgh their leader, are to be
hostesses. They are expected a-
bout 200.
Program theme is "Pictures
From the Album of Time", fea-
turing the Girl Scouts 50th An-
niversary 1912-1962, with seven
phases of life presented by girls
from the seven troops.
Troop 78, which has qualified
for the senior scouting program,
will be capped and pinned by
Miss Mary Anderson, Lubbock.
Final Rites For
Mrs. Purkeypile
Are Held Monday
Funeral services for Mrs. Rose
May Purkeypile, 70, were held at
2:30 p.m. Monday in Crosbyton
First Baptist Church. Mrs. Pur-
keypile died at 12:30 p.m. Sat-
urday in Crosbyton Clinic Hos-
pital following a heart attack.
Rev. Otis Testerman, pastor,
officiated, assisted by Rev.
Carlton Thomson, pastor of the
First Methodist Church. Burial
was In Crosbyton Cemetery un-
der direction of King Funeral
Home.
Born in Eureka, Kansas, Mrs.
Purkeypile moved to Crosbyton,.
in 1946 where she lived with a
daughter, Mrs. Sarh Davis.
Mrs. Purkeypile was a Gold
"*5tar mother, a son, Floyd, hav-
ing been killed in the Coral Sea
Battle in 1942. Another son died
in infancy.
Other survivors are four
daughters, Mrs. Marvin Malm,
McPherson, Kansas; Mrs. Fran-
cis Wheeler, Denver; Mrs. Vir-
ginia Passmore, San Antonio,
and Mrs. Edgar Latham Dallas;
a son, Lester Purkeypile, Lub-
bock; two brothers, Elmer Wood,
Kelso, Wash., and Donald Wood,
La Center, Wash.; a sister, Mrs.
Mary Peterson, Coiby, Kansas,
and 12 grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Buster Reed,
Joe Bowles, Lloyd Parkhill, John
Will Stewart, Billie Cornelius
and Robert Work.
Crosby Republicans Have Highest
Number Pled. Chairmen in Area
Crosby County Republicans
were announced winners in the
contest among the 11 counties of
tne 28th State Senatorial Dis-
trict as having the highest per-
centage of precinct chairmen
selected by Saturday, Nov. 11.
Dennis Taylor, county eo
chairman, stated he had 100 per
cent of the precinct chairmen
committed, meaning 12 out of
12.
Results of the contest given at
the $10-a plate fund raising din-
ner held at the Fair Park Coli
scum in Lubbock Saturday. The
county chairmen, vice chairmen
and precinct chairmen were '""aa-
mitted free as the prize.
Local Republicans attending
were L. H. Thomas, Ralls, county
co chairman; Mr. and Mrs. Tay
lor, Crosbyton; Mr. and Mrs!
Craig McDonald, Ralls, and Her-
bert Boyd, Farmer.
Highlighting the dinner wefe
addresses by U. S. Senator John
Tower of Texas, and Rep. Wil-
liam Miller of New York, nation-
al chairman of the Republican
Party.
Tower, who introduced Miller,
stated that "the time has passed
when Republicans and other
conservatives will complain and
do nothing. There is nothing
<^£jhore important fhan who is to
"
set In governance of us except
the moral fibre of our citizens."
On the policy of conservative
Republican philosophy, Miller
said: "We don't believe that any
government can do a job as well
as a free,, man left alone to his
own ingenuity. The Democrats
say: "You're for the big man and
for big business.' We say we're
for the individual.
"America established a form
of government different from
any ofher, encouraging the indi-
vidual. Why start apeing the
systems our forefathers fled?"
he asked.
* Miller went on to paint out to
the audience and the public in
general that '"you're in politics
whether you like it or not. Deci-
sions will always be made which
concern you.
NIECE OF MIS. McCLtTBE
dies m pumwiEw
Mrs. Chill MeClure, Plalnview
died to a Plainvie hospital Sun-
day at the age of 44. Services
were held at 2:30 pan. Monday
at first Baptist Church, Floyda-
da, her former home/and burial
was to Floydada Cemetery.
Mrs. MeClure was a niece of
Mrs. C. A. MeClure of OOsbyton.
Several members . of ttl local
fam y attended funeral
vices.
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