The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1950 Page: 1 of 16
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BOSS
NUMBER thirty-four
VOLUME
COUNTY!TEXAS--"FRIDAY. APRIL
d of Oold-
who lives
tern fron-
taucer” at
KEMP, WESSON AND TIPPEN
S$ORE FIRST AT TARLETON
Rural Telephone
Cooperative Set
To Serve Soon
A bis boost to Goldthwaite as
a trading center was promised
this week with announcement
of the organization of the Cen-
tral TPxas Telephone Coopera-
tive to serve rural areas In Mills
County as well as In adjacent
counties.
Willis Hill, President of the
projected Cooperative and the
sparkplug of the effort that Is
bringing It Into being, said that
the rural telephone service will
be set up along the lines of the
Rural Electrification Adminis-
tration and that, with Its cen-
tral exchange In Goldthwaite,
It will serve to channel trade
from outlying districts Into this
city.
In addition to President Hill,
the officers of the Central
Texas Telephone Cooperative
Three Cute Little Heart Breakers All In A Row
J. D. Nix,
on fon so-
was watcr-
the bright
(day’s noon
James Kemp, Kenneth Wessoff and James Tip---
pen have turned tonight’s Goldthwaite Future Farm-
ers of America banquet into a victory celebration
by winning, first place, against teams from 112 oth-
er schools, in the livestock judging contest at Tarle- '
ton State College at Stephenville last Monday. Among
all of the contestants, James Kemp, 15, was high
point man, and Kenneth Wesson, 16, was fourth.
---- The local boys, whose F. F. A. .
( the north-
und brightly
the sky at
angle In his
was travel-
y direction,
this story is
dy win not
Why Phone Co.
Wants Rate Hike
In Goldthwaite -
Sr. He let The
Es,®!
( he was ask-
K to the ob-
flt "Just tura-
Lappeared ” If
[the fund of
atlon bn the
id have been
She very time
1 In his vision,
L turned away
ho Is the Mills
f cream pie
Mrs. Nix ar-
te she saw an
\ than have
i “Hying sauc-
|d, The New
the suggestion
t seen by Mrs.
I the bright,
keen previously
classes of breeding and fat
hogs, sheep and cattle In the
competition at Stephenville.
They were up against the
toughest sort of competition
against teams from areas 4, 8,
and 12, which embraces that
vast portion of Texas stretch- ,
lng from north of Fort Worth
to below San Antonio. Yet,
James Tippen, Kenneth Wesson
and James Kemp scored as the
high team for all three areas.
They now have qualified to
ehter the State-wide contest at
A. and M. College on May 6.
Because of the victory at
Stephenville, there will be. add-
ed significance to the F. P. A.
banquet, at the Ooldthwatte
High School lunchroom at 7:M
o’clock tonight, Friday. At the
banquet, the big blue and gold
banner won by Tippen, Wesson
and Kemp at StephenvMe wUl
be displayed
Jimmy Hays win be banquet
master of ceremonies. High
School Principal J. N. Faith
wUl be called upon for the In-
vocation, and. the P. F. A. queen
will be crowned by Oeorge
CUne and John Miller. The
guests wUl be -►Introduced by
President Jimmy Hays, and
Grady Carothers wUl deliver
(Continued on Back Page !
An explanation as to why the
Southwestern States Telephone
Company Is seeking to increase
Its rates was made this week In
a public statement to the
citizens of Goldthwaite by John
D Allen, Division Manager for
the Company, with headquart-
ers In Brownwood.
j Mt. Allen said that under ex-
j isting charges for telephone
! service In Goldthwaite, the
hopes now Is
County citizens
»b)ect he saw.
Ill turn In to
i of any heav-
durtng the
works” In Washington, where primroses and green leaves. (Eagle- Phofo by Wicker
comparatively recent legislation -
made possible federal aid to
such undertakings.
Before the announcement of |
the organisation of the Central'
Texas Telephone Cooperative, i
there was an extensive survey
which resulted In so sympathet- j
Ic a response that the Coopera-
tive Is able to forecast an ultl- j
mate list of subscribers of 1,500
—possibly 2,000.
Under its organization setup,
the Central Texas Telephone
Cooperative will not, by any
means, be cbnflned in Its oper-
ations to Mills County, Mi. Hill
said in his announcement ft
will be able to extend It- lines
Into adjoining counties. They
will, however, all clear thiough
the central exchange that Is to
be established In Goldthwaite.
Today, Friday, Is the day the
free chest X-ray-examinations
start at the Smith BqiUyncpt
Company on the east side of the
Square in Goldthwaite. The
examinations will be available
also Saturday and pext Tues-
day, Wednesday and Thursday.
At a meeting held last Tues-
day in the office of <_
Judge L., B. Porter, it was voted
to allocate separate days to the
various Mills County 3chools. ..
Today.' Friday, has been set
aside for the Goldthwaite. >'* this city.” according to Mr.
School. Next Tuesday has been. Allen’s statement. He said that
reserved for the Mullin School, PXPenses have Increased at a
Wednesday for the Priddy (treater rate than revenues, that
School, and Thursday for the; his company’s payroll In Gold-
Star School. ^r~‘ | thwalte - laej year was more
^Vny person overH.he age of than, four times higher than
15 may take advantage of the before the ^ar, thereby con-
free chest X-rays on any day > trlhutlng to a decline lp earn-
, most convenient to them, but1 lugs despite the increase in the
I on the days listed above, trans- [ number of subscribers.
I (Continued on Back Page i | The telephone company’s
_0__ | operations -In "Goldthwaite In
(r48 resulted In a deficit of
$1,204.17,” Mr. Allen said. -’’The
deficit v-as even greater in
thwmlte, Mr. Allen said, al-
though there has been an in-
crease In the number of tele-
phone stations, the present
earnings of the company are
not adequate for meeting its
County^ public service obligations.
I off Into the
thing you
tve his feUow-
g their time
nd more time
han Is- wasted
offee cups on
the Square.
envllle, Comanche, Hamilton, i
Meridian, Glen Rose, De Leon,
and McGregor
The Callers have been billed
as the best four in the Asso-
ciation. They will be Jim Searcy
of Oglesby, Grady Williams and
Horace Taylor of Hamilton, and
Joe Waring of Comanche. Mr"
Taylor formerly lived. In Gold-
thwaite, where he attended
school. He is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Taylor.
For the occasion, F. T. A. and
F. H. A. boys and girls from
the Goldthwaite High sAiool
will tend the Chuck Wagon.
There will be an abundance of
good sandwiches and cold
drinks for everybody.
In addition to President Lit-
tle," the other officers of .the
host club are Mrs. Y. B. John-
son, Secretary; and Mrs. Louis
Glass, Treasurer. A. L. Whit-
taker is Program Committee
Chairman.
JL. Emery was
rho covered the
dlealion of the
1al pipe organ
the First Bap-
Ooldthwaite on
unday, April 9
lr.g, however,
id not do right
>rganlst a ho is
i parson report-
after the dedl-
by Brother Em-
r played a brief
The Eagle Wont-
Put Money Value
On The Good Rain
Famous Newsman
Here For Visit
Wifii Old Eagle
Distinguished visitors came
l to Goldthwaite this week with
the arrival of Dwight S. Perrin, j
America's best newspaperman,
and Mrs. Perrin, who served
during the war as a Major In
the Women’s Army Corps.
For a portion of her wartime
service, Mrs. Perrin was sta-'
Honed at Camp Hood, where
she was Troop Movements Of-
ficer In charge of overseas em-
barkations.
En route to California from
Syracuse, n. Y., Mr. and Mrs.
Perrin came to Goldthwaite to
visit the Eagle’s editor who.
manji years ago, worked under
Mr. Perrin when he was the
city editor of the New York
Herald.
Mr. Perrin’s long experience
has Included also the city edi-
torship of the New York Her-
ald-Trtbune and the assistant
The rains came and went,
leaving everybody happy. From
the night of Wednesday. April
12, until this week’s Eagle went
to press, Harry Allen's gauge In
Goldthwaite had recorded a
total rainfall of 3.35 Inches.
Gut‘in the County, it must
have rained harder or longer
or something, oe-
here have been
Its for ldsntifl-
mmbers played
To compensate
the Eagle and
f New Boss re-
el Mrs. Emery,
irs she played
: following the
le Falrman pipe-
Weather Brings
Immediate Need
For Anthrax War
I '
Vaccination of cattle against
anthrax is urgently required
j now because of the effects of
[the rainy spell, Dr. O. A. Dan-'
ford said this week.
“Now is the time,” Dr. Dan-
ford said. He explained that
formally, anthrax germs hiber-
nate In the grqund and are dor-
i mant until damp, warm weath-
|es were;
hd Fuge in D-
(Wldor-Schweit
| or heavier.
cac.se, the precipitation was reg-
istered at Mullin as 3.71 inches.
In the ether -direction, on the
I r. D. Henry farm. 2 1/2 miles
southeast of Star, the rainfall
was registered as 4.7 inches. At
j Herman Ford’s place, three
i miles southwest of Star, the
total rainfall for the period
was 4.5 Inches, four Inches
of It since Thursday morning,
April ».
This report Is written pri-
marily for the Eagle subscrib-
ers who do not live In Mills
’ County. Those subscribers who
’ do live here know all about the
ralp and. until the next rains
come, they will be arguing
about the accuracy of the
gauge measurements.
Pot txample, more rain thus
ie for Orand
Goldthwaite Post Office
Of Gun In Rural Box Improvement
>thique.
lotre Dame.
Hymns With
May 1 to 7 has. been design
nated officially as Rural Mall
Box Improvement Week, but
Mills County already is far
ahead of the rest of the coun-
try. Patrons of the Poet Office
here ha* been fixing their
mall boxes on the rural and
■tar routes served out of the
Ooidthwalto Poet Office, and
RAIN
n bed
the rain,
other
eweet refrain.
Acting Postmaster Ludle Pair-
man, as well as the carriers, are
highly pleased aboqt It all.
For the March 17 tame of
the Eagle, tbs editor went out
to see for himself what was
wrong with rurgl mall
He found out first how Uncle
Ram wanted thsm to be. Re-
prints of |he article entitled,
•Now The Editor Knows How
Uncle sam Wants Mall Eogee,”
were distributed by order of
Poatmasttr Falrman to all boa-
ts served from, Ooldth walks.
Them were some official notle-
Mayor Long And
Barnett Go To
Wfcter Meeting |
Mayor lap Long of OoMth-
WhUe he was at It, Dr. Dun-
ford also etnpbaeleed the neiee
ktty, far protection against rab-
taa among doge. He said that
with the poaaOMltty of eompul-
• editor of
I - Journal
an . He re-
early this,
of recuper-
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Ekins, H. R. The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1950, newspaper, April 21, 1950; Goldthwaite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1072905/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.