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ESTABLISHED JANUARY V8, 1873
CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1973
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VOLUME 101 NO 41
Utility Rate Increase Requests
Dominate City Council Agenda
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HOSPITAL ROOM MEMORIAL DONATION - Mrs. John P. Giddens presente a
check for $7,500.00 for a memorial room in the new hospital to Dr. Melvin Marx,
co-chairman of the Development Council. The check was given by Mrs. Gidden’s sister, >
Mrs. Everett P. Jarvis of Decatur, 111. “in grateful appreciation of Mrs. John P. Giddens Sr.
and the late John P. Giddens.” (Times Staff Photo)
Hospital Fund
Passes $540,000
The Hospital Building fund
grew approximately $17,000.00
last week, according to George
Sunkel, chairman of the
Development Council. Pledges
and gifts totaled $641,250.00 on
Monday morning indicating
that the goal of $550,000 is in
Tigers to Close
Football Season
Friday Night
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Cow-Calf Clinic
Here Nov. 29
Two Build East Texas
Cow-Calf Clinics scheduled in
late November are expected to
attract several hundred beef
cattle producers and agri-
business representatives. Sub-
jects important to all beef cattle
producers and related indus-
tries will be presented at
Clarksville, November 29 and
at Huntsville. November 30.
“Topics differ slightly at
the two meetings," according to
Dr. Randall Grooms, area
livestock specialist for the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service. “The programs were
planned, developed and co-
ordinated by the BET Forage-
Beef Task Force. Area
producers are members of this
group." __________
At Clarksville, the clinic is
scheduled at the Avalon
Theater with registration at
9:00 a.m. Subjects include
"Beef Industry-Smiles and
Frowns", Dr. 0. D. Butler,
head, Department of Animal
Science, Texas A&M Univer-
sity; “Nutritive Requirements
of Beef Cattle" and “Supple-
menting Forage Deficiencies",
Dr. Grooms; and “Production
Patterns of Forages”, George
Alston, Extension area agron
omist, Texas A&M University
Agricultural Research and
Extension Center at Overton.
Also, "Developing a Herd for
Fertility", John Beverly, Ex-
tension animal reproduction
specialist. College Station;
“Will It Work”, Johnny Cates,
Wood County Extension Agent
— Agriculture, Quitman; and
— “Bulls — Avenue to Genetic
Improvement", Dr. R. A. Long,
senior vice-president, Ankony
Corporation, Grand Junction,
Colorado. The group will be
welcomed by State Senator A.
M. Aikin, Jr., Paris, and R. S.
Loftis, District 5 .Extension
Agent will open the session.
Harold Connor, Daingerfield
rancher, will be master of
ceremonies.
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sight, Sunkel said.
Another memorial room The Clarksville Tigers will
was donated by Mrs. Everett P. host the Sulphur Springs
Jarvis of Decatur, 111. The room Wildcats Friday night in the
was donated “in-appreciation of kst scheduled game of the
Mrs. John P. Giddens Sr. and season. The only hope for the
the late John P. Giddens Sr." Tigers to share in the district
Mrs. Jarvis and Mrs. Giddens ^ Atlanta, to defeat
arc sisters. unbeaten Mt- Pleasant, throw-
Sunkei emphasized that ing the district into a three way
workers should complete their tie.
assignments and turn in pledge Clarksville will enter the
cards by Monday, November K*™ with a 72 s*®800 record
19. in order to conclude the and district mark- A win
drive by the November 30 wiI> 8til1 Pve the Tigers their
deadline. Donations will be ^ season since 1967 when
accepted after that date he tkey won tbe District 15-AA
said, but the $550,000 must be championship,
assured by the deadline date to If the Ti*ers beat Sulphur
assure the $2.5 million loan for Springs and Atlanta loses to
building the new hospital. Pl«a8*nt, Clarksville will
He noted that a number of Piace *«>nd in the District race
large gifts had been received aince they have every
from former residents and that other conference opponent
local donors were still respond except Mt. Pleasant,
ing generously to the drive. The Tigers and the
Anyone desiring infor- Wildcats have met four times,
mation about the drive or The first game in 1956 was won
needing a pledge card may call b^ tbe Wildcats. Clarks-
427 3976 in Clarksville. The ville won the 1970 8ame 2419;
number published in last tbe 1971 match by 36-14 and
Requests for rate increases
by Texas Power & Light Co.
and General Telephone Co.
were major items on the
agenda of the Clarksville pity
Council Monday night.
Harold Shields, local TP&L
manager, presented the electric
supply firm's request. He said
the company hadn’t asked for a
general rate increase since 1962
and said the fuel problem was
the major problem facing the
company. He said that
generating plants designed to
use fuel oil or natural gas could
not be converted to lignite or
nuclear power and that
construction costs of a lignite
plant were about twice that of a
gas fired unit. Nuclear plants
are up to four times as high.
TP&L’s request was for a
rate increase averaging 8
percent for residential users.
He said the average bill in
Clarksville is now $12.86 per
month and would increase to
$13.83.
Joe Robbins, Division
Manager of General Telephone,
presented a request for
increased rates for commercial
customers ranging from 5.68
percent to 6.36 percent. He
explained that the company's
rates were figured on each
individual exchange and in the
case of Clarksville were placed
on commercial customers
because approximately 43
percent of local residents were
on fixed incomes.
Robbins said that one
party -business ' lines now
costing $12.00 would increase
to $14.50 with rural business
multiparty lines going from
$8.50 to $14.50. Residence one
party lines in Clarksville would
remain at $6.00 and two-party
at tfi-0Q. Rural residence
mulilfiarty lines would be
raised from $5.00 to $6.00.
He said the increases in
rural lines were occasioned by
higher original installation
costs and much greater upkeep
costs. Both rate requests were
read and passed. Each must be
read and again voted on at two
more regular meetings of the
council before taking affect.
City Manager Bob Moore
noted that building permits for
the first 10 months of the year
totaled $1,336,172.50 — more
than double the corresponding
period in 1972.
Police Chief Jim Whiteman
showed a proposed new
uniform for police officers. The
Navy blue uniforms with light
blue trim consist of 4 pairs of
trousers. 8 shirts, jacket and
cap for each officer. Cost of a
complete set- is $189.00.
Purchase of uniforms for each
officei; was approved.
Speed limit changes
recommended by the Texas
Highway Department were
also approved. Main change
was limiting speed to 25 miles
per hour on West Main Street
between the intersections of
Spruce and Grove streets. The
area is in the school crossing
zone on West Main.
In final action a reward of
$250 was posted for information'
loading to the arrest and
conviction of persons selling
illegal dFugs In Clarksville.
< ’ Action on purchase of a
tractor and front end loader
were deferred until a special
meeting Friday at 5 p.m.
Annual Christmas
Parade December 1
The annual Christmas
Parade, sponsored bv the
Merchants Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, has
been set for 10 a.m.. Saturday,
December 1. It will be the first
daytime Christmas parade in
Clarksville in A . number of
years.
The big parade tradition-
ally opens the Christmas season
in Clarksville and anyone
wishing to participate in the
event is welcome. Clubs and
organizations are especially
encouraged to prepare and
enter floats in the parade Float
Contest.
Cash prizes of $25.00,
$15.00 and $10.00 will be given
by the Chamber of Commerce
to the three top winners in the
float contest.
The floats will be judged
on attractiveness, originality
and artistry and should be
decorated in keeping with the
Christmas season. One-sided
floats should be arranged with
the scene on the right hand side
in order to face the stores and
sidewalks as the parade makes
left hand turns around the
square. Entrants are asked not
to use a live Santa Claus on
their floats. /
Further information about
the parade may be secured at
the Chamber of commerce
office.
Christmas Season
Stare Hours
Closing hours designated
for downtown stores during the
Christmas shopping season are:
Thursday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m.;
Friday, December 7, 8 p.m.;
Thursday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m.;
Friday, Dec. 14, 8 p.m.;
December 17 through Dec. 22,8
p.m. and Monday, December
24, 5 p.m.
Stores are asked to have
their windows decorated for
Christmas in time for the
parade.
Two Week Deer Season
To Open November 17
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Community Thanksgiving Worship
Service at First Baptist Church
Deer hunting season will
open in Red River County on
Saturday, November 17 and
continue through November 30.
The limit is one buck deer with
a hardened antler protruding
through the skin. Ip addition,
hunters who have obtained an
antler less deer permit from a
landowner and signed by the
landowner may kill antlerless
deer.
Hunters authorized to kill
antlerless deer must have their
antlerless deer permit on their
person while hunting and must
use the permit only on the tract
of land for which is was issued.
Immediately after killing
an antlerless deer, the hunter
must complete all of the
required information on the
antlerless deer permit and
attach it to the foreleg of the
deer along with the tag from his
hunting license. The permit and
tag must remain attached to
the deer carcass until final
last year's game with a 19-0
shut-out.
The Tigers will be going'
all-out to retain their high
district standing and are
expected to have halfback
Calvin Timmons and fullback
Ed Rieka, who missed last,
week's game due to injuries,
back in action.
week’s paper was in error.
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Santa Letters
To Be Printed
Letters to Santa Claus will
be published in The Clarksville
Times special Christmas edition
on Thursday, December 20.
All of Santa's young
friends are invited to write him.
Letters to appear in the paper
should be addressed to Santa
Claus, North Pole c/o The
Clarksville Times, Clarksville,
Texas 75426.
Letters for publication received pledges in the amount
must be postmarked ho later of $4,584.10 toward its 1973
than Dec. 13. Time may goal of 415.622.00. The drive,
prohibit publication of tetters under the direction of county
received after this date. ' chairman, Mrs. Joan Hines and
Since a large number of Mrs. Mary Wilburn, is
letters are anticipated and scheduled to end November 20.
space is limited, letters should All workers are requested to
United Fund
Pledges $4,584
The Community chest
drive in Red River County has
be as brief as possible.
turn in completed pledge cards
at that time.
Clarksville residents have
pledged $4,086.00. with Avery
pledging $238.00, Detroit
$15.00 and Red River Arsenal
employees $245.10.
, Charities sharing receipts
Arts from the drive include United
begin Services Organizations, Texas
SHAMROCK CEMETERY TO
HAVE BAKE SALE
Ladies of the Old Sham-
,.rock Cemetery will have a bake
sale Saturday, November 17, at
the Chamber of Commerce
building. Good home baked
cakes and pies will be on sale
for you Thanksgiving dinner.
Art Exhibit
Held Over
The Texas Fine
Exhibit, scheduled to
Nov. 15, at the Red River Association for Mental Health.
County Public Library, has Southwestern Diabetic fpund-
been held over in Sherman and ation, United Way of America,
will open in Clarksville on Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts, Red
Monday, Nov. 19. River County Public Library,
The exhibit will continue Salvation Army, 4-H Club
through December 6 during Council, Texas United Corn-
regular Library hours which munity Service*. Red River
are from 9 to 5 four days a week County Child Welfare services,
and 9 a.m. till 12 noon on Tars, American Red Cross,
Saturday. The library is closed Texarkana Mental Health-
all day on Thursday. Mental Retardation Center and
Friends of the Library -are local charities,
sponsoring the exhibit and ________________
invite everyone to see the
exhibit. There is no admission Qur business is your protection
charge. ^ w ' Beadle Insurance Agency. Inc.
The Red River County
Ministers Association will
conduct a non-denominational
Thanksgiving Worship Service
for the public at 10 a.m. on
Christmas Mail
Dates Anonunced
Due to the “emergency
energy crisis," the U. S. Postal
Service has urged all postal
patrons to mail Christmas cards
and . parcels one to two weeks
earlier than the dates given in a
previous announcement.
The following series of
recommended mailing dead-
lines for the convenience of
mailers supercedes earlier
recommendations:
Domestic Mails
In the contiguous 48 states
surface mail letters should be
posted no later than December
8 and parcels December 3.
Airmail letters and parcels may
be posted till December 15.
Surface mail 'letters to
Alaska and Hawaii should be
mailed by December 8 and
parcels by November 20.
Airmail letters and parcels to
these states must be mailed by
December 14.
International Mails
The following schedule was
given for Canada and Mexico:
air greeting cards, Dec. 5; air
parcels, Nov. 30; surface
greeting cards, Nov. 25 and
surface parcels Nov. 18.
Air Mail (My
Destinations
Cards and parcels should
be posted Air Mail only to the
following destinations:
South and Central Amer
ica, Europe and Africa and
Near and Far East (Countries.
Greeting card deadline for
these areas is December 1 and
parcel deadline is November 25.
Hughston & Son
Insurance
Use a Times want ad to
buy, sell, rent or trade.
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday,
Nov. 22. The service will be at
First Baptist Church in
Clarksville.
Rev. Odell Edwards,
pastor of St. James Baptist
Church, will bring the message
and the St. James Baptist
Church will sing, The Union
Ushers will Usher.
Others on the program
are Rev. Wayland Boyd, First
Baptist Church; Rev. H. G.
Goodlow, Bogata Baptist
Church; • Rev. L. H. Williams,
Zion Travelers Baptist Church;
Rev. D. C. Smith, Annona
Methodist Church; Rev. Dean
Mathis, First Baptist Church,
Clarksville; Rev. W. A.
Williams, Macedonian Siloam
Baptist Church and Rev. Sam
Rice. Red River Valley Larger
Presbyterian Church.
Everyone is invited to
attend.
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1974 Holidays
Recommended
Holidays recommended for
observance in 1974 were set by
the Merchants Committee of
Clarksville Chamber of Com-
merce at a regular meeting held
November 7.
The five holidays recom-
mended to be observed are
New Year’s Day. Tuesday,
January 1; Independence Day,
Thursday, July 4; Labor day,
Monday, September 2;
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday.
November 21 and Chcistmas,
Wednesday, Deftftaber 25.
Band and Choir
Performance Set
The Clarksville High
School stage band and the High
School choir will present a
performance for the public on
Wednesday, November 21 in
the High School auditorium
beginning at 1:30 p.m.
There will be no admission
charge and the public is invited
to attend.
Thanksgiving
To Be Observed
Thursday, November 22;
will be observed as a full
holiday by Clarksville mer-
chants and those in other towns
throughout Red River County.
Practically all stores,
service establishments
throughout the county will be
closed for the day as well as
Immunization
Clinic Set for—
r
November 20
The Texas State. Depart-
ment of Health, Public Health
Region 7 office announced plans
for the continuation of a sei ies
of monthly immunization clinics
for preschool children in Red
River County. Th^ clinics will
be conducted in the office of the
Chamber of Commerce at
Clarksville.
The next clinic will be held
November 20, 1973. Clinic
hours will be from 10:00 a.m. to
.12:00 noon, and 1:00 p.m. to 3
p.m. Future clinic dates will be
announced.
The Health Department
emphasizes that this clinic is
planned for pre-school children
at least two months of age, and
who have not been previously
enrolled in the first grade.
School age children will not be
eligible to . attend, since
immunizations are offered
through all public schools in
Red River County on a yearly
basis. This clinic is intended
only for those children who do
not have a family physician.
Immunizations to be offered
include Measles, Rubella. Oral
Polio, and DPT. Parents are
reminded to bring the child's
immunization record if it is
available. All children must be
accompanied by a parent or
legal guardian.
The Public Health Region 7
Immunization Staff is being
assisted by the Red River
Cojinty Hospital Auxilliary in
conducting the preschool clinic.
state, county, city and federal
offices. A few service estab-
lishments will remain open for
the convenience of their
customers. All law enforcement
officers will be on duty.
Schools to Close
Clarksville schools will
dismiss at 2:30 p.m. Wednes-
day, November 21 and will be
out Thursday and Friday,
November 22 and 23. Regular
class schedules will be resumed
on Monday, November 26.
A large number of college
students, former residents and
other visitors are expected to
spend the holiday and following
weekend in the county. Visits
and reunions are being planned
and many deer hunters are
expected to be in the county
over the holiday period.
Football fans will have
their usual full day ot televised
games.
Jaycees Elect
New Officers
Jaycee officers and direc-
tors to serve during the
ensuing year were elected
November 5. They are Jerry
Sheppard, president; Allan
Heiberg, vice president;
Marion Lowe, secretary and
Robert Smith, treasurer.
Directors are Harry
Moore. Mark Whitehouse, John
Bagby and Grady Ward. State
director is Nick Duren. ’
Plans were completed for a
state wide Round-Robin Jaycee
meeting to be held here on
Monday night Nov. 19. All
active members are urged to
attend this meeting. A drive for
new members was also planned
and is to begin immediately.
Plans were also made to
make a club pledge to the
Hospital Building Fund.
Future meetings will be
held at the Branding Iron on
the first and third Monday
nights of eacli month at 7:30
processing and delivery to final
destination. Although antler-
less deer permits have been
issued throughout the county to
certain qualifying landowners,
absolutely no antlerless deer
hunting will be permitted
without a proper permit.
UQUsed antlerless deer permits
must be returned to the
landowner and from whom such
permit was obtained.
Before any person may
accept a deer carcass or any
protion of a deer, he must
obtain a written statement
from the hunger who killed the
deer. The statement must
indicate the hunter’s name and
the time and place the deer was
killed.
A hunting license is
required for anyone hunting
wild deer in the county. These
may be obtained from several
sporting goods dealers and
other retail establishments in
the county.
Most land owners have
already completed deals with
hunters for land leasing.
Owners leasing land are
required to have shooting
preserve licenses and these
may be obtained from the
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department in Mt. Pleasant.
Any type of* firearm that
uses rim fire ammunition may
not be used in taking deer.
Deer Season Big
Occasion in County
Every year several thou
sand dollars plus business is
generated throughout the
county as hunters from a large
area converge here. Most of the
money is spent for hunting and
camping equipment to be used
during the two-week season.
Local game management
officer, Wayne Chappell says
that food conditions have been
excellent in the area this year
and the deer population in
plentiful, indication prospects
for a good season.
Hunters or land owners
not sure of regulations should
contact Chappell rather than
risk violation of hunting laws.
T-Stepper
Egg Swap
Sunday
The T-Steppers Egg Swap
is set for Sunday. November 18.
Members of the drill team will
go from door to door swapping
eggs for donations.
All interested residents of
Clarksville are asked to look for
the T-Steppers to call between
the hours of 2 and 5 p.m. The
girls will be in uniform so they
can be easily recognized. , y
The Egg Swap is the first
project of the newly formed
T-Steppers Mom's Club.
Everyone is urged to partici
pate. All dbnutions will be used
for buying needed equipment
for the drill team. i
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