The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1973 Page: 1 of 4
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SERVING WORTHAM
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VOLUME 75
WORTHAM, TEXAS 76*93, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1973
NUMBER 7
WITH SCHOOL CLOSING
and with the clubs shutting down
their meetings for the summer
months. The Journal may be
hardpressed for local news for
the next three months.
However, this time of year
brings on vacation time and
many Worthamites will be
making interesting vacation
trips. Those having a good and
interesting vacation trip are
invited to report their trip with
some of the details to The
Journal.
AS SCHOOL CLOSES, THIS
newspaper wants t<y*again
congratulate Wortham High
School and the Wortham schools
in general for the many worthy
and prize winning accomplish-
ments both scholastically and
athletically.
FRIDAY NIGHT. OF
course, is graduation night for
the twenty-one graduating mem-
bers of the WHS senior class.
Attention is called to many firms
and individuals joining in this
week's issue to the members of
the graduating class. Each of
them will be missed in their
activities at WHS next year, but
each is encouraged to use the
education obtained there to go on
to even greater accomplish
’Tflfcnts. DwMoim -Wreral of
HONOR GRADUATES—Robin Richardson, right, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Richardson, is WHS 1973 Valedictorian with
a grade average of 93.97 for her high school years. Linda
Chambers, left, daughter of Mrs. Sammie Lee Williams, is the
Salutatorian with an average of 89.66.
Wortham High School Has
Hilarious Fun Day May 11
these members will enter college
to seek a higher education.
MRS. CHESTER ELLIOTT,
2406, Greenlee Drive, Austin,
Texas 78703, sends The Journal a
nice note of appreciation for the
account given in last week's issue
of her husband’s funeral services
recently ifl Austin. She is the
former Catherine Newell of
Wortham, and Mr. Elliott
through the years of their
marriage had frequently visited
in Wortham with her, especially
at homecoming time. Mrs. Elliott
ordered a number of last week's
Journals so she can send them to
friends and relatives.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:
Cheryl Smith, Andy Keathley,
and Jesse Ryno on May 25; Joe
S took sherry, Esau Williams and
Wanda Lamb on May 26; Benny
E. Hall on May 27; James L.
Robinson, and J. E. Sims on May
28; Roy Miller, and Vickie
Rogers on May 29; W. L. Garrett
on May 31.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO:
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Jolly on
May 28.
Constitutional Revision
Hearing Set For
June 28th in Waco
The Texas Constitutional
Revision Commission will con-
duct a Public Hearing in Waco,
Texas, June 28. 1973, in the
Brazos Room of the Waco
Convention Center, 100 Wash-
ington Avenue, Waco, Texas.
The hearing will begin at 10:00
a.m. and adjourn at 6:00 p.m.
with a break during the lunch
hour.
There will be considerable
publicity by the news media
concerning this Public Hearing,
but HOTCOG is giving you this
advance notice in order for you to
make your plans to attend and if
deaired, present an oral or
written statement at the
hearing. Arrangements for the
oral or written statements will
be made by the staff of the Texas
Constitutional Revision Com-
mittee prior to the meeting.
This is your opportunity to
present your suggestions and
recommendations relative to the
revision of the Texas Consti
tut ion.
The First Annual Student
Council and Beta Club Relays
were held May 11. These relays
were conducted like a track meet
with first second and third place
winners in each event getting a
certain amount of points for their
class. Also first place winners
were awarded a certificate for a
free drink from the concession
stand.
The first event of the
afternoon was the girls tow sack
race. Ten points were given to
the winner of this contest,
Sophmore, Kathy Cantrell. The
boys tow sack race was won by
Sam Hawthorne, another Soph-
omore. '* ~ *'
The three-legged race was
next on the agenda. Ten points
were given to the winners.
Seniors, Francis Hogan and
Connie Baker.
The wheel barrow contest was
next. Ten points were awarded
for first place. Seniors, Stanley
POLICE REPORT
First off, Johnny Bounds’
daughter that works for the city
sure got upset the other day. She
was late getting to work and
there was some dude making a
Fairfield Park and she could not
park.
Locked up one the other day
that looked like something from
India or someplace with this get
up on his noggin and he got upset
when mamma wouldn’t pay his
fine. He told mama he was just a
kid. (He will be 28 his birthday).
Boy, I could have used fifty
pairs of overalls the other day.
These kids wanted some to wear
to school but I didn’t have but
two pair and they said these was
somethimg to see.
Well, we had a big wedding at
the City Hall Monday morning
and the Judge did O.K., I guess.
He wouldn’t even let us peep at
his doing his thing. And he was a
little upset because he didn’t get
to kiss the bride.
B. N. Owens
Chief of Police
Ethics Bill Is
Still in Dispute
AUSTIN, (TPA)—The House
and Senate are poles apart on
ethics legislation, and called on a
conference committee to try and
adjust the yawning differences.
House Speaker Price Daniel
Jr., who has been stung with
attorney general’s opinions
holding several of his reform
measures unconstitutional, asked
Attorney General Hill for an
opinion on the Senate changes in
HB 1, a cornerstone of his
government cleanup package.
The Senate bill applies to only
top-level state officials, legisla-
tors and judges, where the
House bill took in all officials.
Senators also ditched a House
provision for an ethics commis-
sion to police violations and left
the filing provisions up to the
Secretary of State.
Chatman and James Evans were
the winners.
The egg throw was held next.
This event calls for two
contestants. They get a certain
distance apart and one throws a
raw egg to the other one. After
each successful throw, the
contestants move back a few
steps. The winner of this contest
is the last one remaining without
a broken egg. Stanley Chatman
and James Evans, Seniors, also
took this contest and received 15
points for first place.
The cherry race was next. In
this contest a girl gets at one end
of a designated area and a boy at
the other end. The girl places a
toothpick between her teeth with
a cherry on the end of it. The boy
then runs down, get the cherry
and goes back to his starting line
to spit it out. Winner in this
contest is the boy who spits out
three cherries first. Juniors Tim
Gordon and Cindy Bates won this
and received 10 points.
The next contest was the
balloon race. A balloon filled with
water is placed between two
girls’ chest. The girls run from
one line to another. The winner is
the one who runs to the line
without popping the balloon.
Sophomores, Vickie Mathison
and Spring Miller obtained 15
points for winning.
The egg-flour relay was next.
In this contest a big box full of
flour is placed at one end of a
marked area. Spoons are put in
the box with the name of each
class in high school put on a few
spoons. One member of each
group goes to the flour and digs
out his class’ spoon. He then puts
an egg in his spoon and runs to a
line and back. His partner takes
the spoon and does the same.
Two Freshmen, Mike Teer and
Scott Keeling, won this contest.
Their class received ten points.
The boiled egg eating contest
was next. A Junior George
Chambers, won this. He ate
seventeen eggs and received 20
points for class.
The bat relay was next. This
requires a group of three. The
winners were Seniors, Stanley
Chatman, James Evans, and
Richard Hogan.
There were two group winners
in the egg swatting contest. They
were James Evans and Robin
Richardson, and Richard Hogan
and Leta Jarrell.
In musical buckets, Vickie
Rogers was the winner. Her class
received ten points.
In the mystery contest, a bag
of beans was poured out into a
puddle of mud. The winner was
the one who picked up the most
beans. Brenda Mcl^eod received
ten points for winning.
The tug-o-war was won by the
Sophomore Class. A total of 20
points was received by them.
The point totals were as
follows: Seniors-166, Juniors 136,
Sophomores-149 and Freshmen-
105.
Mr. and Miss. Sloppiest were
also elected. They were James
Evans and Leta Jarrell.
Judges for the relays were Jim
McNeel, Barbara Bonner, Beta
Club Sponsor and Virginia Kott,
Student Council Sponsor.'
Fairfield High
Praised by Head
For Baseball Record
While the Fairfield High
School Eagles push forward in
their bid for top state baseball
honors. Coach Richard Calhoun
and the Eagles were honored
May 19, 1973 in Austin by State
Representative Fred Head who
introduced and passed a
congratulatory motion in the
Texas House of Representatives
honoring them.
The Eagles were victorious
over Rusk in their second
straight game in a two-out-of-
three series. The 10-5 victory for
the Eagles brought them the
Bi-District Championship title
and assured them a place in
Regional playoffs where they will
face the winner of the Robinson
(Waco) and Midlothian bi-district
series.
The congratulatory motion
honors Coach Calhoun and the
Eagles for “winning their second
straight District Baseball Cham-
pionship title.” It continues,
“Dropping only their first
conference game and then
rallying to win all remaining
conference games for the season,
the Fairfield Eagles under the
guidance and direction of Coach
Richard Calhoun, have through
perseveramce and sheer determ-
ination brought honor to all
associated with their fine
baseball team and its successful
season efforts.”
Klemgrass 75
Looks Like It Is
'Here to Stay'
“New grasses are developed
each year and many of them
never amount to much but
Kleingrass 75, which was planted
in the Wortham area three years
ago, looks like it’s here to stay,”
says Joe La Barbers of the
Wortham Soil Conservation
Service Office.
W. G. McDonald planted about
10 acres in the spring of 1970 on
his farm west of Wortham and is
well pleased with his new grass.
Landowners in the Wortham
area are watching the McDonald
planting closely becuase it has
produced excellent growth with
little to no fetilizer on poor
eroded grayland type soil.
Although several have ques-
tioned just how well cattle will
eat the new grass since it gets
big and rank, this hasn’t
appeared to be a problem.
According to McDonald his
cattle appear to like it better
than any of the other grasses on
his place.
Kleingrass 75 is a warm season
perennial bunchgrass that is
adapted to the soil and moisture
conditions found in the Wortham
area. It is fine stemmed, leafy,
and grows to a height of 3 to 4
feet at maturity. It produces
large numbers of seeds and the
original stand will thicken each
year by new plants. Kleingrass
75 remains green in the fall until
temperatures drop below 25
degrees; green leaves are usually
present at the base of the plant
during much of the winter and
active growth begins early in the
spring.
Kleingrass 75 works very
nicely in a good pasture program.
It has basically the same growing
season as your bermudas and
lovegrasses. It does not have the
potential for extremely high
levels of production of such
grasses as Coastal Bermuda-
grass. However, it may equal or
out perform these grasses under
moderate production conditions,
especial! in terms of livestock
production.
For additional information on
Kleingrass 75 contact your local
SCS office.
TO RECEIVE DIPLOMAS—Friday night will be a highlight night for the twenty-one Wortham
High School seniors pictured above, who will receive their diplomas at the graduation exercises
that will begin at 8:00 o’clock in the Wortham High School Auditorium.
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Pat Brown On Recent
spui Jr in Illinois Criminal Code Revision
Is Nearing Completion
Mrs. R. M. Wilson was in
Waco recently visiting in the
horn* of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Brown.
Mrs. Wilson was with Melinda
and Mark Brown while Pat and
Lavada were on a speaking
engagement at the University of
Southern Illinois at Carbondale.
Pat was one of twenty-seven
men throughout the United
Statas selected to act as
Representatives at the National
InterCollegiate Flying Associ-
ation. Pat served as chairman of
the Re-Zoning Committee on
Each representative was
chairman of a specific committee.
Pa ir an instructor in electronics
at T. S. T. I. at Waco.
By BILL BOYKIN
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN—The First overall
revision of the Texas penal code
in more than a century is nearing
final passage as the legislature
plows through its last full week
of regular session duties.
House members promptly
went ot work on the bill after the
Senate passed it last week.
The revision is the product of a
seven-year study ramrodded by
the State Bar of Texas.
Generally, the code pulls
together the thousands of
Mrs. Haskins Honored
On Teacher Retirement
criminal laws scattered through
the statute books.
It groups felonies and
misdemeanors into classes,
ranging from most severe to
minor offenses and fixes a range
of punishment for each.
Many separate statutes are
consolidated into comprehensive
sections, and laws covering a
variety ^attempted crimes are
provision.
The new code increases
maximum penalties for certain
crimes of violence. Murder
without malice, for example,
could carry a maximum term of
20 years compared to five under
present law.
Penalties for some other
crimes were lowered. Minimum,
as well as maximum, punishment
is provided in each category of
felony.
One of the major changes in
existing law is the definition of
insanity as applied to defense in
criminal cases. The new
definition terms insanity as a
mental disorder or defect that
prevents one from conforming
his conduct to requirements of
the law. The old “M’Naghten
rule" terms a person insane who
does not know right from wrong
or understand the nature and
consequences of his acts.
Lawmakers went into Friday
and Saturday sessions in an
effort to reduce the tremendous
pile of unfinished legislation.
Much of it will remain unacted
MRS. W. A. HASKINS
MONEY ALLOCATED
FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING
AUSTIN, (TPA)- Grants
totalling $1.7 million were
awarded the governor’s Office
for Comprehensive Community
Planning Assistance.
NEW AUTHORITY
FOR DISASTER RELIEF
AUTSTIN, (TPA)—A bill
giving state government addi-
tional power to deal with
hurricanes and other disasters
passed the Legislature.
Mrs. W. A. Haskins, of
Tehuacana, who is retiring after
9 years of teaching first grade in
Wortham and with 36 years of
teaching experience, was the
honoree at a coffee given
Saturday morning, May 19. in
the home of Mrs. W. G. Moody.
Co-hosteses were Mmes. J. P.
Black, J. D. Chilcoat, Sam Craig.
E. G. Reynolds, J. E. Sims, J. B.
Stooksberry, and G. D. Wren.
Mrs. Moody greeted the
guests and presented the
honoree. Registering guests was
Miss Christi Haskins, Mrs.
Haskins' granddaughter. Her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jimmy
Haskins of Brenham, presided at
the coffee service in the dining
mom. The dining table was
centered with a beautiful large
arrangement of spring flowers of
varying colors. All appointments
on the polished table were silver.
Other floral arrangements
were placed throughout the
spacious home. Special guests
who served in the house party
were Mrs. Haskins' sister, Mrs.
James Keller of Fort Worth, her
niece, Mrs. Tom Donaldson and
little daughter Shelli, also of Fort
Worth, and two nieces from
Pasadena, Mrs. Gerald Adams
and Mrs. Jimmy Adams.
About 110 guests from
Tehuacana, Coolidge, Mexia,
Wortham, Waco, Corsicana, and
Dallas called during the
designated hours, and many
happy experiences were relived
with the honoree. Everyone
wished for Mrs. Haskins an
enjoyable retirement
Funeral Services
At Ml. Selman Church
For Mrs. Wilboum
Funeral services were held
Monday, May 21, at the Mt.
Selman Baptist Church for Mrs.
Linnie Wilbourn. 90. She passed
away in the Jacksonville Hospital
after a short illness. Burial was
at the Larissa Cemetery.
Survivors include her son, W.
W. Wilbourn of Wortham, and
four daughters of east Texas.
COUNTRY CLUB OPENS
SWIMMING POOL MAY 26
The Freestone County Coun-
try Club swimming pool will be
open for the week end of May 26,
27 and 28. The regular opening
for the summer will be on June 2,
hours 1 to 9 p.m.
Private swimming lessons will
be available. Contact Jim McNeel
in Wortham.
RED CROSS COURSE
IS BEING ORGANIZED
A Red Cross Life Saving
Course is being organized. This
course is required of those
wanting to be Life Guards. It is
offered at no cost and will start in
the near future. For further
information contact Coach Pe-
ters.
Twenty-one Wortham High
School seniors will receive their
diplomas Friday night in
graduation exervises that will be
held in the WHS auditorium.
The program begins with the
processional by Miss Sandra
Moody, followed with the
invocation by H. P. Foster. Linda
Dianne Chambers will bring the
salutatory address and Robin
Gala Richardson the valedictory
address.
Superintendent Wayne Poe
will introduce R. A. Armistead of
Corsicana who will bring the
commencement address. He is
instructor in History at Navarro
Junior College.
Mrs. Barbara Wilson will
present the Wortham Study Club
award, and D. S. Owens will
present the Ex-Student Associ-
ation award.
Mrs. Ora Jones, high school
principal, will present awards
and scholarships, and Alton
Frost, School Board president
will present the diplomas.
Those to receive their
diplomas are as follows: Connie
Baker, Isaiah Wendell Butcher,
Linda Dianne Chambers, Stanley
Warned Chatman, James Stan-
ley Evans, Marilyn Sue Farris.
Donna Lynn Griffin, Francis
Larue Hogan, Richard Hogan.
Leta Jo Jarrell.
Also, Beverly Rae Jolly,
Anthony Lee Knight, Shirley
Gail Latham, Sarah Kay Massey,
Lou Nell McDaniels, Mary Ellen
Paul, Robin Gale Richardson,
Billy Merle Rogers, Vickie Lynn
Rogers, Donna Jean Ryno, and
Anita Rhea Sheffield.
■JtNSOtiOM.....
Dale Rider, followed with the
recessional by Miss Moody.
Heart 0' Texas Fair
Seeks 'Smile Girls'
WACO—This is the first call
for Central Texlm girls to enter
the 1973 Heart Texas Fair
“Smile Girl” contest.
The contest is open to single
girls who reside or attend school
in Central Texas and who will be
high school juniors or seniors in
September, plus 1973 graduating
seniors.
First and second round
eliminations will be held in Waco
on July dates to be named later.
Finals are always a part of the
annual Fair Press Party in
August.
“Smile Girls" receive a long fist
of honors including the privilege
of meeting in person the star of
the fall fair and rodeo. Finalists
are selected on poise, charm and
personality, beauty, prettiest
smiles and on impromptu talks.
Entry forms are available at
the Groesbeck Journal office; at
the Coliseum office in Waco, or
many be obtained by writing:
“Smile Girl Contest," P. 0. Box
7581, Waco, Texas 76710.
Enclose a stamped, self-address
ed envelope.
SANDY JENKINS
RECEIVED B.S. DEGREE
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Jenkins
and Mrs. J. R. Rice attended the
graduation exercises of Dallas
Baptist College in Dallas Sunday.
Sandy Jenkins received his
Bachelor of Science degree in
business at the program.
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