The Texas Mohair Weekly (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1957 Page: 5 of 8
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f«, Texas, Friday, June 14th, 1957
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J. C. Clark Selected
To Be Princess
Of Old Settlers Reunion
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Mrs. J. C. Clark was selected
'by the directors of the Chamber
of Commerce, Tuesday, to he
Princess'S^ the Old Settlers Re-
union. Mrs. Clark will take part
in the ceremonies when Mrs. A. G.
Morris* will be crowned queen dur-
ing the July 3rd and 4th celebra-
tion in Rocksprings. Mrs."" Clark
wasV a candidate of the Rock-
springs Woman's Club and will
be queen of the 19S8 Old Settlers
Reunion.
Duchesses in the court will be
Mrs. Minnie France, sponsored by
the Merry Heart Club; Mrs. Wal-
ker Diemukes, sponsored by the
Rocksprings Music Club; and Mrs.
Carrie Henry, sponsored by the
American Legion Auxiliary.
The directors also voted to make
the movies and slides of the Old
Settlers Reunion, Homecoming and
Parade again this year. Pictures
. of the affair the past three years
have been made. During the lecep-
tiom the pictures of the 1956 cele-
bration will be shown.
Boy Scouts
To Attend
Camp Fawcett
Rocksprings Boy Scout Troop 27
will leave Sunday for Camp Faw-
cett to spend next week. The boys
wjll return home to stay a week
then return for another week’s
outing. They will be accompanied
part of the time by their Scout
Master, Ellis Martin.
Boy^ planning to attend are Dave
Thurman, Ronny Luce, Kenneth
McCoy, Dennis Maurer, Carroll
Smith, Charles Becker, Ronny
Martin, Gary Osburu, Jim Martin-
dale, Phillip McCoy, Mike Tatum,
•Carl Hjd:, Truiio-u Cerda, John
Sweeten, James Sweeten, Eddie
Sweeten, Frankie Cloudt. Mack
Guthrie, and Bill Weldon.
4-H Club Elects
Officers
; v A 4-H Club meeting was held
at the court house Tuesday, June
4th to elect the rest of the officers
' • and to decide what was to be
shown at the Edwards County
Junior Livestock Show. County
Agent Hayden Haby met witli the
. jgroup.
t>. Officers elected are:
^ Rodney Merritt, president.
■?, Epp Epperson, secretary.
Jim_Martindale, reporter.
J James Sweden, junior leader,
a Walker Epperson, adult leader.
It was decided that meetings
■will be held the first Thursday in
■every month.
Jim Martindale, reporter.
I
John and C. O. Whitworth’s mo-
ther, Mrs. Will Whitworth is a
patient in the Peterson Hospital
in Kerrville. Mrs. Whitworth suf-
fered a stroke several weeks ago.
Wildlife Biologist
Assigned To
Edwards County
Jack Thomas, wildlife biologist
for the State Game and Fish
Commission, has beei| assigned to
Edwards, Sutton, and Crockett
counties. Mr. Thomas graduated
from Texas A. and M. College in
June, when he recsived a B.S. de-
gree in Wildlife Management.
Mr. Thomas is available for con-
sultation and help on any technical
problem relating to wildlife in these
three counties. He is living in
Sonora and may be contacted
there or through Ellis Martin, lo-
cal game warden.
He was in town last Friday
visiting around the square with
Mr. Martin and making contacts
pertaining to his work in this
county.
Tax Assessor’s
Office Issues
956 Registrations
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The Tax Assessor and Collector’s
office has issued 956 vehicle regis-
trations during the first five months
of the year according to C. E.
Martin, Assessor and Collector.
A total of $16,800.09 has been
collected for registrations by this
office and of this amount, $16,794.44
will remain in county funds and
$6.45 be issued to the state.
Mr. Martin said that the county
would derive possibly $2,000 more
during the balance of the year from
registrations.
Early Morning
Rains Wednesday
Softens Ground
A welcome rain fell over the
area about 4 o’clock Wednesday
morning that helped to break the
crust the recent hot days had bak-
ed over the ground surface. Kick-
apoo bad front .60 to .90 and the
Barksdale section reported about
the same. Rocksprings bad .08.
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Mrs. Greer Is One
Of Team To
Set World Record
Mrs. James Leo Greer, Jr. and
Mrs. Inez Sargeant of Houston set
a new world's record in the small
bore rifle event last week-end at
Dallas.
The NRA regional match was
held at the Trinity Rifle Range.
The ladies shot a score of 799 out
of a passible 800 in the team
match. The previous world’s record
was 795.
Vacation time /
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“Horse Sense” Main Factor In
Constructing Local Telephone Lines
Paper work of two years ago is
now materializing for the Rock-
springs and Nueces Canyon Tele-
phone Company into a network of
telephone lines and cable that is
fitting together like a jig-saw
puzzle. v
Various crews are working on
particular phases of the system
which will bring to a completion
one of the most modern telephone
systems in Texas. It will be a ma-
jor step toward the development of
the divide and canyon area and
should have much hearing on
bringing into the public’s view the
potentialities of the area.
With all the scientific and en-
gineering data of the system and
the half-million dollars of financial
support, it still takes a heap of
horse sense to pull the system to-
gether. This statement may not
mean more than the flip of a
mule's ear to some people, but it
is true.
O. D. Wilke’s two horses and
two mules are pulling in the en-
tire network of wires for the tele-
phone .company. Mr. Wilke came
upon the idea about 7 years ago
that the sum of a grain of horse
sense and the stubbornness of a
mule would result in a good team.
With the help of two linemen and
Don’t Select
Directly For
Twin Lambs
SONORA, Tex.-r-Twin lambs
are usually profitable for Texas
sheepmen, but not worth the trou-
ble of planned selection. Although
they increase flock numbers twins
generally lack the vitality and pro
ductivity of singles.
A 22-year study has revealed a
weaning weight difference of more
than 11 pounds in favor of single-
born lambs. Singles also register a
two pound birth weight advantage,
and yearling ewes generally weigh
about 5 pounds more at first shear-
ing than do sheep born as twins.
Creep feeding normally elimina-
tes the natural disadvantages of
twins, however, say animal hus-
bandmen at the Sonora Experiment
Station,
Death loss to weaning is esti-
mated to be 5.4 percent greater for
twins, say the specialists, while
ewes giving birth to and nursing
twins are about one-half pound
lower in wool production. Ewes
weaning twin lambs in the extend-
ed test produced nearly 47 pounds
more lamb than single producers,
but approximately 30 percent of
them lost one offspring before
weaning.
Although records show fat or
thin ewes as being less fertile than
average-weight animals, the single
or twin birth fact or is considered
uncontrollable. A rancher's pre-
ference depends largely on indivi-
dual ranch conditions, and balanc-
ing must depend entirely on man-
agement.
Details on the 22-year study made
at the Sonora Experiment Station
are given in Progress Report 1945.
It is available from the Agricul-
tural Information Office, College
Station, Texas.
HOLD FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR DR. H. B. ROSS
Funeral services for Dr. Horace
Benjamin Ross, 88-year-old re-
tired physician, were held at 10
a. m. Tuesday in the chapel of the
Doran Funeral Home with Rever-
end Herbert Sprowls, pastor of the
First Christian Church, oficiating.
Burial was made in Westlawn Ce-
metery under the direction of the
Doran Funeral Home.
Dr. Ross was born December 12,
1868, in Coffeeville, Mississippi. He
was the son of Stephen and Zu-
lieme Ross. He graduated from At-
lanta Medical College in 1895 and
came to Del Rio in 1896 to practice
medicine.
Dr. Ross practiced medicine in
the early days of the city and often
recounted.stories of hardships faced
when he hwde calls in a horse-
drawn buggy and of calls made to
treat those wounded m gon tights
a man on the reel trailer, Mr.
Wilke and his teams are pulling in
an average of 60,000 feet of wire
a day. Using a singletree, he is
pulling in 6 wires at a time.
It took quite some time to train
the horses ^and mules, Mr. Wilke
said. He used springs to tie the
wire to, to teach the animals when
to feel the tension and stop. The
group started stringing wire last
week from the city limits of Rock-
springs progressing south on
Highway 55. While they were work-
ing in this vicinity they had an
audience each day watching the
horses and mules pull the wires.
Mr. Wilke is from Goldthwaite,
where he has pulled in a telephoA;
job. Other places he has worked
were Buchanon Dam, Henderson,
and New Braunfels. He pulled in a
cable job at Shreveport, Louisiana.
During his career he has strung
2700 pole line miles of wire.
Jim Beal, chief cable splicer, and
Fred Braune, assistant splicer,
from the Bell Telephone Company
of Uvalde are in charge of splicing
the cable. *The system will have
7 miles of cable in the three towns
of Rocksprings, Barksdale and
Camp Wood. Five and one-half
miles of the cable will be in Rock-
springs. The cable here has been
spun in the air and is. in the pro-
cess of being spliced.
Other than the roof on the
switchboard building in Rock-
springs, the three switchboard
buildings have been completed. Si
Northcutt is now working on the
building at Utopia.
The poles have been laid out
and framed on the following high-
ways: Kerrville, Del Rio, Barks-
dale and Junction, and a good
many of the poles have been erect-
ed. The poles have been laid out
on the Sonora and Brackettville
highways. One crew of men is
working on the Spring Creek road
out of Barksdale, the framing
crew is in the Vance vicinity, the
stringing and cable crews are in
Rocksprings.
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Wool Pageant
To Be Held
At San Angelo
In August
Seven junior chambers of com-
merce from leading cities in Tex-
as have agreed to furnish entries
in tlie 1957 Miss Wool Pageant
which will be held the last week
in August in San Angelo, Texas.
Eleven finalist will be chosen
from these and dozens of other
applicants from all over Texas.
These eleven will be" the guest of
the Sail Angelo Board of City De-
velopment (Chamber of Commerce)
for a week of entertainment and,
of course, the series of contest
that will decide the 1958 Miss
Wool, the queen of the Wool In-
dustry. The finalist will arrive in
San Angelo on Sunday, August 25,
and will remain through Friday
for the pageant the_ night of the
30th. ~
Included in the long list of
prizes that the winner will receive
will be an all wool wardrobe valu-
ed at approximately $4,000, num-
erous expense paid trips to fash-
ion centers, which will include a
stay in New York City, and ap-
pearances on various national TV
and radio shows.
To be an applicant for the 1957
Miss Wool Pageant, a girl must
never have been married, he a re-
sident of Texas, wear a size 12
garment, be between the ages of
18 and 25, and have completed at
least one year of college and be
between 5’6" and 5’10" tall.
Applications and farther infor-
mation may be obtained by writ-
ing the San Angelo Board of City
Development, Box 712, San An-
Angelo, Texas.
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CAFETERIA NOTICE
BUY RESERVE SEAT TICKETS
NOW FOR WRESTLING
MATCHES
Reserve seat tickets to the
wrestling match, June 14th, have
gone on sale at Blue Bonnet
Store and Fred Service Station.
Tickets for the north side of the
gym may he bought at Blue
Bonnet’s and tickets for the
Glynn’s. You may buy your
tickets at Nemo Webb Service
Station in Camp Wood.
Rodeo Parade
Will Be On
Morning of July 4
Parade chairman Howard Mar-
tindale lias extended an invitation
from the American Legion to sur-
rounding towns to send floats to
Rocksprings, July 4th. Some of
the towns have accepted. It is hop-
ed that the parade will be as
good or better than last year.
Mr. Martindale says that now is
the time to start thinking of
float- from local organizations and
business houses as well as class
reunion decorated cars and floats.
These added attractions to the par-
ade together with the school band
and horse contingent get an en-
thusiastic response from the visi-
tors.
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Biologists Will Be Here
For Turkey Survey
Supt. Paul Barr
Announces New
Courses Of
Study Schedule
Parents and students will be in-
terested in knowing that a new
schedule for courses of study in the
Rocksprings High School has been
set up, whereby more courses will
be offered to the students
year.
Supt. Barr expects the new sch-
The State Game and Fish Com-
mission biologists have completed
laying out 27 deer survey line*
Edwards County. These will be run
by the men in the fall to ascer-
tain the number of deer, condi-
tions of habitat, sex, etc. of the
deer population in this county.
Next week there will be another
crew of wildlife biologists come in-
to the county to start work on the
wild turkey survey. Jack Thomas
of Sonora, who has been assigned
to this county, will have charge of
each | this survey. The men will check the
1 wood- during the early morning
and evening hours for young tur-
edule to overcome the conflicts of kc>' !,atche* and ,Jurin« ‘h* mid'
various courses that the students
have experienced in previous years.
die of the day will be in Rock-
spring- and Barksdale to talk with
Iowa Students
To Visit Jess
Hankins Ranch
AM ES, Iowa.—As the summer
session starts June 17 at Iowa
State College, 33 students of Agri-
culture will take one of the "broad- I RfteS FOF Daiia
e-t courses on the schedule, using
practically the entire southeast [
half of the United States a- a eta-s-
it is the aspirations of the ' local I ra,,t,,ers tl) as n,uch firjt 1,and
educators to prepare the high '"formation as they can about the
school student for college entrance 'urki*y conditions on the ranches,
without experiencing any difiicul- An estimate of the turkey con-
tie- and of cour-e to better edu-! litions will be derived by the vis-
cate the students, who will no; I ual information plus the oral infor-
go to college. mation released by the ranchers. It
Beginning with the fall term the •vil1 he,P if ra"ch»;rs will look the
Rockspring- High School will of- biologists up around the square
fer the following each year: 3 So-jncxt VVl'ck a,ui volunteer what
cial Sciences—United States His- i k'",v' about their turkey cr°P-
tory. World History, one-half voar The-V ,MU>' contact Judge Horace
of Texas History and one-half year j B'own for whereabouts of the bio-
of Civics. 3 Sciences—General j legist*.
Science, Biology, and Chemistry.
3 Maths—Algebra 1. Algebra 2,
ami Plain Geometry. Heretofore,
only two of the subjects in each
division were offered each year.
Other courses offered to the stu-
dent- will be 4 years English, Vo-
cational Agriculture, Home Econ-
omic-, Band, Music 1, Typing,
Bookkeeping, Spanish 1. and Pity -i-
cal Education.
Mrs. Everett Epper-ott has re-
signed a- Third Grade teacher ami
the board lias employed Mr-. Al-
bert Whittle to fill thi- vacancy.
Cemetery
Association
Needs Funds
The Agricultural Travel Course
for juniors and seniors is sponsor-
ed by the departments of agronomy
ami animal husbandry. Aboard an
air-conditioned, chartered bus the
group will swing southwest into
Bacon Wednesday
At Quemado
The R (fkspring- Cemetery As-
1-eciation i- in nee 1 of funds to
repair damage done to the graves
j by the -pring rain- and to clean
i the cemetery grounds.
Tho-r, who have grave- of rela-
1 five- it: the Rocksprings Cemetery,
I will he interested in having a part
in the upkeep of the cemetery.
1 Many people would prefer to do-
nate to the Cemetery As-ociation
c. 1 I ; thi- group -ee that the
J gr ■und- arc kept in a respectable
j -•..tv. Thi- e-pcci.ally holds true
to people living away from Rock-
Dana ()rva! Bacon, .V>-ycar-ob
somin-law of Mrs. Roy Edward-
was killed instantly about Id p. :n
Saturday in a ear wreck u e-t • ■:
the Pecos River Canyon. He wa-
it a v (
k-
Applications will be accepted by
the Rocksprings School for a lunch
room manager and two helpers.
Anyone interested in these posi-
tions ma*r contact Supt. Paul Barr.
as tofih as possible.
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New Mexico, back through the 1 travelling alone at the time of
southern tier of states toward the fatal accident.
Atlantic Coast, the northeast into Funeral -endec- were !
New York, and thence almo-t : p. in. Wcdne-day in the ijium
straight .back to iowa. The stu-: Baptist Church. Burial «.i-
dents will cover nearly 0,5(10 miles under the direction of tin D.
before arriving in Ames, July 19. Funeral Ilnme, with milit.r.y ■
Accompanying them will be Dr.; a* ,lK‘ Kra'v conducted ,n a:i
F. P. Gardner of the department ■ Ruard fnnn Lang ,:in
of agronomy and Dr. Duane Acker ■ Ba-e at Del Kio.
of- the department of animal hit-- ^lr- an'l Mr-. Har.ui n c
ban dry. After visiting farm- ran- purchased a farm at <J'■
n,( other means
si 1 surrounding
re needed now.
I t ■ Mr-. Mark
c a-'oeoiation.
cites, plantations, marketing centers, where they w ere
Vacation Church
School Closing
Exercises
C '-irg cxcrci-c- for the Presby-
aa-M et'iadi-t Vacation Church
School w II be held at ,X:(«) Sunday
:.:ght at the Method!-: Church. All
parent- ami children are invited to
c line and -hare in the brief pro-
gram.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Clark. Miss
Neddy Clark, Mr- J. C. Clark,
Mr-. Red Clark. Mrs Clifford
For Happier and Safer Motoring
making the!
processing plants and research sta-1 home. Survivor- include V- ur
tions the student- will make writ- a,"i ihrcc -on-. Ricky. < ,ary. an
ten reports of their observations. Clarence: and hi- parents of Sr>, »
Cost of the travel and lodging en- *°n. Calilornia.
route is shared by the students ’ 0 0
and enrollment is limited to the Mr.'and Mr-. Elmer Dean -pen
capacity of one bus. During the Monday and Tuesday in Three ! Clark and Melanie, and Mr. and
trip an effort is made to see a Rivers visiting Mrs, Dean'- rela- Mrs. Tlios. L. Taylor attended the
wide variety of livestock and crop lives. They visited the Cecil Allens wedding of Mi-- Katherine Brent
producing areas, together with ! *»"<• Doyle Rag-dale- in Beeville. I Taylor in Uvalde last Saturday,
their distinctive practices and pro-
blems.
In addition attention is given to
fertilizer manufacturing and min-
ing, pharmaceutical manufacturing
and other industries which serve
agriculture. Several stops are made
at points of historical events. A
stop will combine agricultural in-
terest with history will be a tour
of President Eisenhower's fan* at
Gettyburg, Penn. The President
relaxed general rules against visi-
tors in order to accommodate the
/
Iowa group.
The itinerary of the agricultural
travel course on June 27 will in-
clude a visit to Sonora Wool and
Mohair Company and Fred Ear-
wood Ranch in Edwards County.
Fsom 3:30*p. m. to 5:30 p. m.
they will visit Jess Hankins Quar-
ter Horse Ranch at Rocksprings.
Col. John R. Banister is a pa-
tient in Brooke General Hospital in
San Antonio. Col. Banister has
been ill for several weeks and en-
tered the San Antonio hospital
Saturday. He was accompanied to
San Antonio by his wife and Mr.
Applications should l»e turned in and Mrs- Orville Cowsert The
returned Sunday and
stated that Mr. Banister was feel-
ing better. If'* address is Col.
John R. Banister, Brooke Army
edical Center. Anne* 4^\Vard
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