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Volume 49
The T exas Mohair W eekly
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Rocksprings, Texas, Friday, January 18th, 1957
Number Z
Peoples State Bank Continues To
Grow Despite Drouth Condition
The financial condition of the
Peoples State Bank at the close
of business December 31, 1956 re-
flected the steady growth of the
bank during the fiscal year just
ended. Despite the drouth, the sta-
tus of the local bank shows that
the area is progressing.
Deposits on that date were $1,-
240,998.35, an increase of $116,-
196.54 over the same period in 1955.
urplus funds had reached $56,000
increase of $3,000 and undivid-
ed profits were up from $7,368.80
to $8,861.63. The bank declared
a 15 percent dividend in Septem-
ber, 1956.
All officers and doctors were
re-elected Friday, January 11th
at the annual stockholders meet-
ing. Serving on the Board of Dir-
ectors are C. H. Gilmer, L. B.
VVardlaw, H. H. Hough, Ivan B.
Smart, and J. A. Miller. Officers
are C. H. Gilmer, president; J. A.
Miller, vice president and cashier;
L. B. Wardlaw, vice president; and
Thos. L. Taylor, assistant cashier.
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Katy Railroad
Agent Seriously
Injured Here
Tuesday Night
Clyde Luther Bell, 57, of Fort
Worth, received serious chest and
internal injuries Tuesday evening
at 6:05 o’clock when his car turned
over on the Del Rio highway near
the Martindale ranch. Mr. Bell
was brought to the Edwards Coun-
ty Memorial Hospital by ambu-
lance and his family states that his
condition is remaining about the
same.
A livestock agent for the Katy
Railroad, Mr. Bell travels over
most of the state, particularly in
this area at this time as stock is
being moved out.
His car, a 1953 Plymouth, was
completely demolished when it
turned over several times. Sheriff
Henderson thought that the acci-
dent was caused by locked brakes.
Mrs. Bell and their daughter,
Mrs. A. W. Davis, both of Ft.
Worth, arrived in Rocksprings
early Wednesday morning to be
with the accident victim. They are
registered at the Balcntfne Hotel.
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195 Poll Taxes
Bought In
Edwards County
Besides exemptions and over-age,
195 people have paid their Poll
Taxes in Edwards County up to
Thursday, January 17. If you plan
to vote in the school and city elec-
tions this spring or any other
special elections, which might in-
clude a school band election, don’t
forget to pay your Poll Tax this
, month.
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Hospital News
Admissions:
Jan. 10, C. C. Sorrells.
Jan. 11, Tim Moody.
Jan. 14, Cornelia Leinweber.
Jan. 15 Cynthia Ann Hutt.
Jan. 15, Clyde Luther Bell, Ft.
Worth.
Dismissals:
Jan. 10, Win Coffman.
Jan. 12, Watt Turner.
Jan. 12, Coalby Gallaway.
Jan. 12, Iiirs. Maud Bradford.
Jan. 12, Tim Moody.
Jan. 14, Cornelia Leinweber.
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FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Neddie Clark Winner In Betty Crocker
Homemaking Contest In Local School
The Betty Crocker Homemaker
of Tomorrow in Rocksprings High
School is Neddie Clark.
She received the highest score in
a written examination on home-
making knowledge and attitudes,
administered Dec. 4, to senior
girls in the graduating class. Her
examination paper will be entered
in competition to name this state’s
candidate for the title of All-Am-
erican Homemaker of Tomorrow
and will also be considered for the
runnerup award in the state. For
her achievement, she will receive an
award pin designed by Trifari of
New York.
The national winner in the third
annual Search conducted among
300,526 young women in 11,636
of the nation’s public, private and
parochial high schools will be
named May 2 at the American Ta-
ble banquet in the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, New York City.
General Mills is sponsor of the
program designed to assist schools
in education for home and family
living and to emphasize through a
sound scholarship award program
the personal qualities and sense
of values necessary to successful
homemaking. A total of $106,000
in scholarships will.be awarded.
East state Betty Crocker Home-
maker of Tomorrow will receive a
$1,500 scholarship and an education-
al trip with her school advisor to
Organizational
Meeting Jan. 23
For Chest Clinic
Dr. Frank Pratt has received
word from the Texas Department
of Public Health that a representa-
tive will be in Rocksprings, Wed-
nesday morning, January 23rd at
10 o’clock to hold an organizational
meeting for the Chest X-Ray Clin-
ic to be held here in March. The
meeting will be held at the Balen-
tine Hotel.
Civic and study clubs are asked
to have representatives present at
this meeting to learn of the duties
that will be required of Rock-
springs.
Some of the committees which
will be needed will be Clerical,
Hostess, Ministerial Alliance, Un-
loading and Loading, Location,
and Publicity. The clerical com-
mittee will require 2 shifts of 5
clerks each besides the hostesses.
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Only Bexar, Comal
Back Water
District Idea
Sunday, January 20:
9:45 Sunday School.
10:45 Morning Worship.
6:30 Methodist Youth Fellow-
ship.
Tuesday, January 22:
2:30 Bible Study on the Letters
of Paul.
Wednesday, January 23:
7:30 Choir Practice.
Attend Churdh This Sunday
Bring the Family
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Mr. and Mrs. Julius P. King at-
tended the statewide Baptist Evan-
gelistic Conference held at the
Will. Rogers Memorial Coliseum in
Fort Worth the first of the week.
They heard such Baptist evange-
lists as Bill# Graham and Howard
:i£gtt speak before a 20,000 audience.
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Austin, Tex. — Proposed legis-
lation to create an Edwards Under-
ground Water District received
a body blow at a meeting of South-
west Texas lawmakers Monday,
but proponents still held hopes that
differences could be compromised.
Spokesmen for four of the six
counties which would be included
in the district- stated the areas ob-
jected to the legislition as it is now
drawn.
San Antonio Rep. Marshall O.
Bell suggested that district advo-
cates begin immediately to try
and sooth ruffled feelings by: •
Personal visits to each county,
by lowering the bill’s tax provis-
ion from 50 cents maximum to 15
cents on the $100 valuation by ex-
cluding land “in the rough from
taxes," and by some adjustments
in boundaries to include some
areas and exclude others.
“We can pass this bill on the
local calendar if we go out and
explain "it instead of being arbi-
trary," Bell said. “You should go
to every county seat and tell them
the Story.
Tell them that San Antonio
would pay 90 per cent 6f the tax
load. We know something has to
be done. We cap't set and let this
whole area -turn into another Sa-
hara before we do anything. Ev-
erybody’s prosperity, not just San
Antonio’s, Is involved in ibis."
Counties proposed for inclusion
are parts of Bexar, Hays, Comal,
Medina, Uvalde and Kinney. •
Washington, D. C., colonial Wil-
liamsburg, Va., and New York
City. A $500 scholarship will be
awarded the runnerup girls in each
state. The school of the state win-
ner will receive a set of the Ency-
clopedia Britannica.
The scholarship of the young
woman named All-American
Homemaker of Tomorrow will be
increased to $5,000. This year for
the first time girls who rank
second, third and fourth in the na-
tional finals will receive $4,000, $3,-
000 and $2,000 scholarships, res-
pectively.
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Rocksprings Girls
Lose First Two
District Games
By Three Points
Rocksprings basketball girls
were disappointed in losing their
first two district games with Lea-
key and Nueces Canyon. The Lea-
key score was 42 to 39 and the
Nueces Canyon score at Tuesday
night’s game was 45 to 42.
Rocksprings boys and girls play
Utopia here next Tuesday night
in district games. The girls will
participate in the Uvalde tourna-
ment and the boys go to Ozona
this week-end.
At the Lakeview Tournament
last week-end Winters defeated
Rocksprings in the first go-round
63 to 19. The next game was also
lost to Rankin 37 to 30. Bronte
edged the Rocksprings girls out
of the tournament with a score of
48 to 46 in the third go-round.
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Mrs. Nan Fields
Buried Thursday
At Barksdale
Mrs. Nan Fields of Barksdale
died at 5 o’clock Wednesday
morning at the home of friends
in Uvalde. She was 78 years and
11 months of age.
Survivors are one son, Ocie
Fields of Barksdale; seven grand-
children and five great-grand-
children; and one brother, Hugh
Wood of Uvalde.
Services were held at the Church
of Christ in Barksdale Thursday
afternoon at 3 o’clock with Ed
Mullin in charge. Burial was in
the Barksdale cemetery.—Uvalde
Leader-News.
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367 Students
Enrolled In
Second Semester
Enrollment in the Rocksprings
School was up to 367 students
Monday, when the second semester
began. This was an increase of 47
students over the enrollment in
September.
Supt. Barr reports that the Ele-
mentary School has 303 students
and High School has 64 students.
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MERRY HEART CLUB TO
MEET WEDNESDAY
The Merry Heart Club will
meet Wednesday afternoon, Janu-
ary 23rd at 2:30 at the Club
House. Hostesses will be Mrs. J.
N. Whitworth, Jr., Mrs. Thomas
Qlasscock, and Mrs. Merlin Davis.
Livestock Sales Tax
Proposal In Face Of
History’s Worst Drouth
FORT WORTH, Tex—On the
eve of the flying inspection of
the drouth areas by President
Eisenhower and two of his cabi-
net members, Secretary of Interior
Seaton and Secretary of Agricul-
ture Benson, the United States
Weather Bureau announced that
the current drought in the South-
west was the worst since rainfall
records were started about 1850.
Tree ring data, according to the
report, raised the possibility that
it was the most severe dry spell
since about 1670 or perhaps 1570.
Currently 244 of Texas 254
counties qualify for federal drouth
relief.
These conditions make it certain
the proposed livestock sales t#x
to finance the operation of the
Livestock Sanitary Commission of
Texas will receive strong oppo-
sition from the livestock industry,
despite the sore need for a vig-
orous livestock health program.
Commission Chairman Frank
Scofield of Austin recently an-
nounced legislation was being
drafted, at the request of the Leg-
islature, to make a large part of
the Livestock Sanitary Commis-
sion's operational expense self-
liquidating.
This end would be gained by
putting a livestock sales tax, or
transactions tax, on all livestock
sold through auction rings or
through terminal markets in Tex-
as. The projected rate would be
5 cents per head on cattle, 3 cents
per head on swine and 1 cent on
sheep or goats. The proposal also
includes licensing and service
charge, but the big revenue pro-
ducer would be the tax on live-
stock sales.
Opponents of the tax say the
tax would hit that segment of the
citizenry least able to pay, because
of seven years' drouth. They point
out, too, that the livestock and
poultry health program falls more
properly in the public interest and
that during taxing farmer and ran-
chers alone would he discrimina-
tion.
Cleaning up animal and poultry
disease, they say, is a major step
in providing Texas homes with
wholesome milk, healthful meat
and clean poultry. As such, it
comes equally into the area of
public health and welfare, as well
as being a step to increase and
improve markets and production of
livestock and poultry.
The idea of a check-off of live-
stock proceeds to help finance op-
erations of the animal health pro-
gram stems from demands of the
last Legislature that some form of
self-help with the financing be
worked out by farmers and ranch-
ers.
This view grew from two major
misunderstandings. (1) For several
years the Commission had been at
odds with members of the Legis-
lature and had gotten small appro-
priations and had been threatened
with complete cut-off. The list of
controversies that created this sit-
uation would fill a book. (2) Second,
and probably more important, is
the fact that the Commission until
now has never brought to the rank
and file legislators the fact that
anyone except the farmers and
ranchers would benefit from an ani-
mal and poultry health program.
The public health angle has, ap-
parently, never been called to the
attention of the lawmakers. How-
ever, in the view of medical men
and public health officials the
dangers inherent in allowing pre-
sent conditions to remain uncheck-
ed far outranks the possible loss of
Chamber of Commerce To Have
Annual Meeting February 4th
The annual membership meet-
ing of the Chamber of Commerce
will be held Monday evening, Feb-
ruary 4th at the Edwards County
Park Building. Arrangements are
being made for an* out-of-town
guest speaker.
The supper will be a little dif-
ferent this year than at previous
banquets. Instead of a formal
dinner the directors have arranged
to eerve a barbecue supper. Re-
servations will be 50 cents per
plate.
Annual meetings are always Op-
en to the public and members arc
encouraged to invite their friends
tq also attend. Please notify Mrs.
Wjtrren Hutt about making reser-
vations for the supper.
The arrangement committee is
R. W. Shepperd, Albert Whittle,
A. E. Brown, and Elvie Moore.
out-of-state markets for Texas’ live-
stock or poultry.
Scofield has outlined what is
considered a meager budget of $1,-
178,000 for the Commission's pro-
gram.
Opponents of the livestock sales
tax point out that since there has
been reported an unspent surplus of
$40,000,000 to $50,000,000 in the
State Treasury now and the pros-
pect of additional State revenue of
$40,000,000 or more because of the
rise in oil prices, that such a small
budget could come from the gen-
eral fund with ease.
These opponents stress the fact
that even though the condition of
the general fund were not so ro-
bust, the money should still come
front a source which would levy the
cost of animal and poultry health
on all of the people because of the
public health aspects of the disease
cleanup.
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Rocksprings Boys
Participating In
Ozona Tourney
The twenty-sixth annual Ozona
Invitational Tourney began Thurs-
day at noon with sixteen teams vic-
ing for the coveted title.
While Big Lake and McCamey
will be the favorites in the tourney,
this year’s field promises to he one
of the best matched in recent
years.
Teams taking part in the tour-
ney this year are: Fort Stockton,
Rankin, Eden, Mason, Rocksprings,
Big Lake, Wall, ACCHS, Sonora,
Eldorado, Grandtall, McCamey,
Junction, Iraan, and Menard
along with host Ozona.
Uvalde, Del Rio and L,akeviewr
will he missing from this year's
field as all 3A teams were drop-
ped limiting the title contenders
to class B, A, and 2A.
Strategic Air
Command To
Take Over
Laughlin April 1
Strategic Air Command becomes
official owner of Laughlin Air
Force Base on April 1, 1957, ac-
cording to news released by Col.
Samuel C. Gurney, Jr., Base Com-
mander, Friday morning, following
return from a meeting with SAC
officials at Barksdale Air Force
Base, Louisiana. Col. Gurney said
SAC cadre will take over opera-
tion of the base at that time and
Air Training Command will be-
come a tenant organization.
Complete transfer of the base will
be completed by May 15. Col. Gur-
ney said final arrangements as to
transfer of ownership of material
and equipment on the base will be
worked out by Latighlin's officials
and SAC teams.
SAC teams are headed by Col.
Hubert Zemke, Commander of the
40th Air Division, Turner Air
Force Base, Albany, Georgia. The
SAC representatives are expected
in the latter part of the month.
Col. Gurney stated that all fly-
ing training will end with the
completion of training of Class
57-M on April 15. The other class
undergoing training at that time
would be 57-0, which will he moved
to other ATC bases for completion
of training.
Movement of Air Force person-
nel stationed at Laughlin will,
for the most past, depend on their
time remaining in their current
tour of duty in ATC. Behind-thc-
lines personnel are expected to re-
main here. Instructor personnel
will be moved to other ATC bases
if they have more than on year
retainability in their current ATC,
is of April 1, 1957. Thoes who
lave lest than one year will either
>e absorbed by SAC or be given
assignments outside of both com-
mands, Col. Gurney said.
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Friends of Mrs. Maud Brad-
ford will be happy to learn that
her health has improved consider-
ably since the has been a patient
at the Edwards County Memorial
Hospital. She was dismissed last
Saturday and is now making her
home with her daughter, Mr*.
Lana Lewis in Junction.
Edwards County Junior Livestock
Show Scheduled For January 26
Adult Charged
With Contributing
To Juvenile
Delinquency
Through investigation of the
Sheriff’s ofifee, it has come to
light that adults in this area have
been contributing to juvenile de-
linquency by purchasing intoxicat-
ing liquors and selling sucli to
juveniles. A charge was made in
County Court, Wednesday. on
such a case. The guilty party was
fined $25.00 and court costs, and
given a 15-day suspended senten-
ce.
This investigation also brought
into the open that drinking of in-
toxicating liquors has been done
by students on school athletic
trips.
The publishers of this paper arc-
cooperating with tlie Sheriff's de-
partment in order that the public
might become aware of the temp-
tations that are being placed before
our young people.
Edwards County Park will be
the scene Saturday, January 26 for
the annual Edwards County Junior
Livestock Show. 80 head of stock
will he shown by Vocational Agri-
culture students of the Rocksprings
High School and younger ranch
boys and girls.
The show will get under way at
9 a. m. with the judging being
done by Corky Cox, Vocational
Teacher of Junction. Mr. Cox vis-
ited many items in Rocksprings
with his grandparents, Mrs. Nora
Boyce, when a young boy.
4 trophies will he furnished by
the Rocksprings National Farm
Loan Association and will be pre-
sented to the winner showiug the
[ champion goat, fat Iamb, breeding
beep, and beef animal.
Ribbons for the show will be
I furnished by the Chamber of Com-
I merce. The Chamber of Commerce
revolving trophy will also be pre-
I sented, possibly to the exhibitor
I of the grand champion animal of
| the show, as it was handled last
year.
Season Hunting
Leases Wanted
Exhibited will he 23 line wool
mutton lambs, 12 cross bred mut-
ton lambs, 4 yearling does, 6 doe
kids, 4 billy kids, 12 ram lambs,
] 18 ewe lambs, and 1 bull. There
will also be 4 groups of 3 in the
sheep division, both sex represent-
ed.
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Inquiries about season hunting
leases are being received at the
Chamber of Commerce office. This
information is being printed for
ranchers, who would like to answer
these inquiries.
John R. Ball, Jr., 112 Profession-
al Building, Arlington, Texas,
consulting engineer E needing a
place large enough for -ix men
that will he available for the next | i1k. County Show Barn in Leakey,
few seasons.
B, J. Kuebodeaux,
Real County and
Nueces School To
Have Junior Show
The Ninth Annual Real County
and Nueces Canyon School Dist-
rict 4-H and E'FA Show and Sale
ill be held on January 2bth at
Judging will begin at 8:30 A. M.
11 Circle S. The Sale, which will he handled
Orange, rexas, wants a season lease i j,, t(lc lliUa] manner, will begin at
for 3 men. The men plan to he ]
here on February 23rd and would
like to have some information he- u
fore that time about available |
leases.
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Funeral Services
For J. D. Taylor
At Barksdale
Graveside funeral servise for
James Daniel Taylor of Bark-
dale were held at four o'clock
Friday afternoon in the Barksdale
Cemetery. He died Thursday af-
ternoon, January 10, 1957, at till-
age of 82 at the home of his bro- I
tiler, eight miles north of Barks-
dale.
Mr. Taylor was horn Nov. 20,
1874 in Gonzales.
He is survived by two brothers,
Finish The Job”
Theme Of March
Of Dimes Drive
“Lei's finish the job!" This is
the theme announced by March of
Dimes headquarters here for the
campaign E now underway anil
will continue through thi> month.
| Mrs. Hilton Bean is chairman for
the current drive and J. A. Miller
j is secretary-treasurer. Mrs. Bean
urges Edwards County people to
consider what than can give to the
March of Dimes and mail it in to
her or Mr. Miller.
Several fund-raising projects are
being worked out and will be pre-
sented at early dates. However,
don't wait to he entertained to give
Albert of Barksdale and Abe fa\ - i to the March of Dimes—-give now!
lor of Camp Wood; three sisters.
Mrs. Helen Mitchell of Austin.
The job of the MOD is two-
fold: To raise funds for repair of
Mrs. Pearl Kelley of Oreville. the damage that polio has done
California and Mrs. Lottie Whit-
tle of Rocksprings.—Uvalde Lea
der-News.
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Income Tax
Payments
Up In Texas
R. L. Phinney announced today
that total Federal tax receipts in
the 111 counties of the Austin Dis-
trict for calendar year 195b amount-
ed to $1,335,303,129.
This is a gain of $113.6 million
over calendar year 1955. Nearly
half of this increase was from with-
held payroll taxes indicating con-
tinuing full employment and a heal-
thy economical picture in South
Texas. Other increases were shown
in corporation taxes, individual re-
turns, and excise taxes of various
kinds.
The $1,335 million collected it
1956 is an all time high for tat
collections in the Austin District
Phinney said.
REV. BEST TO PREACH FOR
PRESBYTERIANS SUNDAY
The Rev. Ernest Best, P.H.D
from Belfast, Ireland, who is r
guest professor of Biblical Theo-
logy at the Seminary in Austin
will preach the sermon next Sun
day morning at the Presbyterian
Church.
Sdiney Templeton of Homer,
Alaska is visiting in Rocksprings
with hit grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. D. Roach.
thousands of Americans in the past
and to prevent the disease from
criplitig more in the future.
March of Dimes spokesmen ex-
plain that an estimated 80,000 per-
sons have been left handicapped
by polio, throughout the length
and breadth of the United States,
and they point out that the job
of conquering the disease cannot he
considered finished until these pa-
tients have been helped to regain
normal and productive lives.
The second objective of the cam-
paign is to promote the widest
possible use of the Salk vaccine,
which was developed under March
of Dimes sponsorship, and which
has been proven safe and effective
many millions of times over.
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TEXAS IN REVIEW
The inauguration of Governor
Price Daniel will highlight the
Humble Company’s Texas in Re-
view the week of January 21. Films
of the Governor-elect will show
him at his home in Liberty, Texas,
and during the inauguration cere-
mony in Austin.
Other interesting films will show
the dredging of Port Mansfield,
Texas, as it is being enlarged in a
two and one-half million local pro-
ject.
Also to be seen will be the re-
tirement of Colonel H. D. Me-
Gaw, who for many years has been
Professor of Military Science Tact-
ics at the University of Texas.
On Wednesday (January 23)
Texas in Review can be seen over
KENS-TV, San Antonio at 6:30
p. tn.
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