The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1953 Page: 1 of 4
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AN EDITORIAL
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Htniy Brown from
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day last week end beside*
to business, he gave our
Cynthia, now elevenmon-
old, her first piece of candy,
loved it! He’s still politick-
we suppose, and instead of
the babies, he is giving
candy!!!
A no** from th* Snood John-
s’s In Long Beach, Calif., says
surely
news of Wortham and vicinity—
especially the fooball news.
This gives us an opportunity
. in the newspapers of our country
people who make this newspap-
er possible during this National
Newspaper Week. To our com-
munity correspondents, our
sports writer, school and club
reporters, and everyone who so
faithfully turns in the news each
week. It is like a shot in the arm
to receive, and we. here in the
office, are the only one who hear
them, while actually you who
turn in the news and write a
lot of it, are the ones to be com-
plimented.
It is wonderful to have a news-
paper that is for the benefit of
the people who are interested in
Wortham because there are a lot
of small towns of comparable
sire which do not, and we are
happy to be a part of it.
This week is also National
Fire Prevention Week and spe-
cial emphaiis is being stressed
in the newspapers of our country
regarding the careful use of fire.
With cooler weather here, we
should all check our heating sys-
tems before placing them into
use and caution our children and
the older people, too, about the
careful use of fire.
OUR TOWN has boon fortu-
nate in the fact that no serious
injury has resulted from fire
during this year thus far, and
very little property loss has oc-
cured, thanks to our Volunteer
Fire Department under the able
direction of City Secretary W.
L. Garrett.
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This brings to mind th* great
need for a new fire truck for
Wortham and it is the hope of
this column that a means for the
new truck will soon be provided.
The regular monthly meeting
of the P.-T.A. will be held in the
high school English room on
Thursday afternoon, October 8,
at 3:30. First and second grade
mothers are hostesses for the
afternoon and a display of the
children’s work will be shown.
Mrs. Nina K. Hereford, R.N.,
will speak on "Health of the
School Child". Mrs. Hereford is
nurse for the Mexia Public
Schools.
Mrs. Richard Hill is leader of
the program, “Parents Till the
Soil”, and Mrs. E. A. Strange
will give a discussion on this
subject.
Burleson Furniture Store has
dondted a beautiful picture
which will be awarded to the
room having the largest num-
bers of parents in attendance. At
the conclusion of the year the
room which has the picture the
most number of times will re-
ceive the picture as a gift for
the home room. All twelve
grades will participate instead
of just the elementary school.
The annual membership drive
is in progress and the room se-
curing the most members will
be given a party by the P.-T.A.
If you have not been invited
to Join and would like to, please
contact Mrs. Ralph Butler, the
membreship chairman, or Mrs.
Clifford Calame before October
15. Dues are only fifty cents a
year.
Six Southwest
Conference Teams
See Action this Week
W&
HOMECOMING is
Just on* month away!
Th* mspon** has been good
for th* special 25 cent offer in
th* Wortham trade territory for
new subscribers who will gat the
paper from now until the first of
the year for that pric*. This ob-
viously is not a money making
scheme on the part of The Jour-
nal; it is a real attempt to get
each and every home in this
area to take the area paper, The
Wortham Journal. Tell your
■fHends about it, or better still,
blow in two-bits on them and
gat them started reading The
Journal.
Exciting play-by-play accounts
of six Southwest Conference
games this week end will be
broadcast for Texas football fans
by Humble Oil 8c Refining Co.
On Friday night starting at 8
o’clock, the SMU-Missouri game
will be broadcast direct from the
Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Bob
Walker and Jerry Doggett will
describe all the action over radio
WFAA-WBAP-820, Dallas - Fort
Worth; KPRC, Houston; and
WOAI, San Antonio.
Five other games will be
broadcast Saturday.
The TCU-Michigan State game
will be broadcast direct from East
Lansing, Michigan, by Ves Box
and Joe Cullinane.
Radio time will be 12:50 p.m.
over KRLD, Dallas; KTRH.
Houston; and other stations.,
Kern Tips and Alec Chesser
will be in the Cotton Bowl, Dal-
las, Saturday to give a play-by-
play account of the Texas-Okla-
homa game. Broadcast time will
be 1:50 p.m. over WFAA-WBAP-
570, Dallas-Ft. Worth; KWTX,
Waco, and other stations.
The Baylor-Arkansas game
will be broadcast from Baylor
stadium beginning at 1:50 p.m.
Dave Russell and Eddie Hill will
be calling the action over radio
stations WACO, Waco; WRR,
Dallas; KTHT, Houston, and sev-
eral other stations.
A play by play description of
th* Texas A. A M. Texas Tech
game will start at 8 p. m. John
Ferguson and Jack Dale will an-
nounce the game over KGNC,
Amarillo; KRLD, Dallas, KORA,
Bryan, and a number of West
Texaa stations.
The Rice-Hard in Simmons
game will be broadcast from Rice
stadium by Eddie Barker and
Dave Smith. Radio time will be
8 p.m. over KTHT, Houston;
WRR, Dallas; KMAC, San An-
tonio, and other stations.
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK
This is National Newspaper Week. The Journal feels there
is no need to try to sell the public on the value of newspapers,
because it is felt that their value is well known. The public is
also familiar that newspapers as we know them here in America
are only made possible by the most enlightened system of gov-
ernment ever designed by man. Freedom of the press, freedom
of speech, freedom of petition and assembly, along with freedom
of worship, are cherished freedoms guaranteed by the consti-
tution of the United States and the separate constitutions of each
of the 48 states.
The Journal would like to localize the newspaper week
situation and call attention to some of the values of the local
newspaper to the local community and its immediate area. We
feel that this newspaper is appreciated, as is attested by our
many faithful subscribers and loyal advertisers, without which
its production would be impossible.
A community newspaper such as The Journal is a com-
munity effort. It gives the management a great deal of satis-
faction and pleasure to feel that a worthwhile service is being
rendered.
Sometimes the local paper gets a thoughtless knock here
and there. It is a very small paper when compared to many
of the larger papers, but we believe perhaps it represents the
quality that is often to be found in small packages. We believe
it represents a community and the several nearby communities
which in themselves are not large as towns and communities go,
yet which have that quality produced by some of the very finest
citizens to be found anywhere.
It is these fine people and these communities to which this
newspaper has dedicated itself for more than a half century, and,
with the continued cooperation of those to whom its efforts
are dedicated, The Journal hopes to continue on for a half cen-
tury more, representing one of the small freedom stones upon
which the fortress of freedom—America—is builded.
We earnestly solicit your cooperation in this endeavor—and
wherein we have failed, we just as earnestly solicit your helpful
and constructive criticism.
Eckhardts Attend
Citizenship Program
At Howard Payne
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Eckhardt
were guests of President Thomas
H. Taylor of Howard Payne Col-
lege at Brownwood recently. In
observing Cityizenship Week,
Howard Payne conferred an hon-
orary Doctor of Law degree up-
on Wright Morrow and an hon-
orary Doctor of Literature upon
Mrs. Morrow.
FHA Plans For Year
Made Saturday
In Area Meeting
TO BAIL FOR TURKEY
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dodge
have received word that Col.
and Mrs. Harold E. Ratdiffe and
sons art sailing the find of Oc-
tober for Ankara; Turkey, where
Colonel Ratcllffe will be station-
ad for two years with the U.S.
Medical Corps. Mrs. Ratcllffe is
the daughter of K. W. Chancel-
lor.
Mrs. T. E. Owens went to
Bryan last week end to Join her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph McCormick and
their two children for a whirl-
wind visit to the Carlsbad Cav-
erns. At Odessa they were join-
ed by Mr. and Mr*. D. W.
(Sheet) Owens for the trip to
Carlsbad.
Contributions To
Wotor Fountain Fund
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Th* Wortham Parent-Teacher
Association has received the fol
lowing donations on the water
fountains recently installed at the
school:
R. Q. Seely ....................$ 1.00
Gussie Weaver .............. 5.00
O. D. Williams ............ 10.00
First National Bank...... 10.00
Uel Davis, Sr................ 5.00
K. Wolens Dept. Store. 5.00
Wade Odom .................... 5.00
F. P. Simmons ............. 10.00
M. C. Strange ................ 10.00
No special canvass is being
made for the. funds to pay for
the coolers, but all contributions
will be greatly appreciated.
South Sub-District
Of M. Y. F. Meets
In Wortham Monday
The South Corsicana sub-dis-
trict of the Methodist Youth Fel-
lowship met Monday night, Oct.
5, at the First Methodist Church
in Worthm with the Wortham
MYF in charge of the program.
The group sang, “Stand Up for
Jesus” and Rev. J. I. Patterson
of Mexia led in prayer. Another
song, "Yield Not to Tempta-
tion”, was sung. Clarence Lucas
read the first chapter of Psalms.
Dr. Will Miller of Corsicana
gave an interesting talk on “Al-
coholism”. He told the group
about the Alcoholics Anonymous
and its great work with alcohol-
ics.
Following the program, the
business meeting was held with
Mary Lou Kilpatrick, sub-dis-
trict president presiding. The
roll was called and Wortham
won the attendance cup with the
largest percentage of enrollment
in attendance.
Refreshments of sandwiches
and cold drinks were served to
approximately one hundred
young people, sponsors and pas-
tors.
The group went to the tennis
court where folk games were led
by Rev and Mrs. Frank L. Tur-
ner, Jr. A friendship circle was
formed and the MYF benediction
was given.
The next sub-district meeting
will be at Cooldige on Novem-
ber 2.
J. P. Stubbs and Mrs. K. W
Sneed were in Mexia Wednesday
morning to attend the funeral
service of Mrs. Jim Robinson,
who died in a Galveston hospi-
tal after several months illness.
District Second Vice-President
Paula Butler, accompanied by
Mrs. P. O. Butler, attended the
Area and District FHA Execu-
tive Council meeting of Area
VIII Saturday at the La Vega
High School.
The meeting which began at
9:00 was to plan the year’s work.
This included District Area and
District Camp meetings due to
the fact that no district camp
planning meeting can be called.
After the opening ritual, each
girl was assigned to one of the
nine committees.
The camp committee met in
the clothing lab. Crafts and
camp fees were discussed by the
four district camp chairmen. The
purpose again this year will be
“Leadership” but will be pres-
ented in a different way than
last year. The committee also
made some recommendations
concerning camp that are very
important to each chapter.
The La Vega Chapter, spon-
sored by Mrs. Johnnie Morrow,
served refreshments during a
short recess. Reports from each
committee were given to the en-
tire group by the recorder. Paula
gave the Camp Committee re-
port. Each report was accepted.
This concluded the Area VIII
council meeting.
Each of the four districts then
had their Executive Council
meeting.
Paula, camp chairman, met
with her comp planning commit-
tee and made plans for the Dis-
trict 2 Camp which will be held
at Lakeview Methodist encamp-
ment Junel-3.
The State F.H.A. theme for
this year will be “Happy Home
Life for All”. The area (heme
will lbe “Good Homes Make
Good Americans” and the dis-
trict theme, “Family Living Is
Fun”.
The local F.H.A. Chapter is
definitely a part of this “Future
Homemakers of America” work
and it needs your cooperation.
Annual Hallowe'en
Carnival To Be
Held October 29
At a joint meeting held Tues-
day evening of the committees
of the Lions Club, the Study
Club and the Parent-Teacher As-
sociation, final plans' were made
for the Annual Hallowe’en Car-
nival to be held on the streets of
Wortham on Thursday night,
October 29.
General Chairman Gussie
Weaver expressed thanks and
appreciation for the splendid co-
operation that the citizens of
this community are giving to-
wards making this Carnival THE
best one yet held.
Lion Seretary Harry Bounds
read to the group of Carnival
representatives a letter that he
had received from Mr. Forney
Owens, General Sales Director
of Bewley Mills of Ft. Worth,
stating that the Chuck Wagon
gang will be able to appear in
Wortham on Carnival Night in
connection with the festivities.
It is hoped by the committee
that the securing of this added
attraction for the Carnival shall
be received by the citizens of
the community as a token of ap-
preciation for the wonderful re-
sponse they have given towards
making this Carnival both a
financial and recreational suc-
cess.
This year the Carnival pro-
mises to have many NEW and
ADDED attractions and some are
especially for the young visitors.
Plans are also being worked
out for a COUNTRY STORE and
DUNKING STAND. Some of the
attractions under consideration
are very dependent upon the
weather and so final plans can-
not be completed until SHOW
DAY.
REMEMBER THE CARNIVAL
IS OCTOBER 29th!
Wortham to Play
State Home Friday
Mrs. Harry Bounds
Named Director 0(
1954 March of Dimes
Mrs. Harry Bounds will direct
the 1954 March of Dimes cam-
paign in Freestone county. The
appointment was announced by
C. N. Williford, chairman of the
Frestone count chapter, Nation-
al Foundation for Infantile Par-
alysis.
Mr. Williford pointed out that
the ability of the National Foun-
dation to make available a vac-
cine as soon as possible, hinges
on the success of the March of
Dimes.
Meanwhile we must use Gam-
ma Globulin to modify the course
of polio as much as possible and
pay the costs of care for the
many already stricken, the chair-
mban added .
By VERN SANFORD.
Texas Press Association
F. F. A. Exhibit
Places Second At
Corsicana Fair
The Wortham F.F.A. won 2nd
place with their Agricultural
Education Exhibit at the Cor-
sicana Fair last week. All the
F.F.A. exhibits were exception-
ally good this year.
Other schools placed as fol-
lows: Dawson, first; Kerens, 3rd;
Corsicana, 4th; Blooming Grove,
5th; Mildred, 6th; Fairfield and
Frost, 7th.
Prize money for winning second
place was $30.00.
AUSTIN.—P oliticians are
working up a head of steam that
will blow off when President
Eisenhower visits Texas this
month.
As far as any public announce-
ment is concerned, the reason for
Ike’s Texas trip is to join Pres-
ident Adolfo Ruiz Cortines of
Mexico in the dedication of Fal-
con Dam on the Rio Grande.
But it is clear that H. J. Porter
of Houston, Republican national
committeeman, will use the pres-
idential trip as a means of rally-
ing G.O.P. support in Texas.
When Eisenhower gets to Tex-
as, his official host will be Gov-
ernor Allan Shivers. The pres-
ident will stay at the Shivers’
palatial home at Sharyland, near
Mission.
While Shivers led the Demo-
cratic Party of Texas in helping
to elect Eisenhower last year,
there is no indication that the
governor and his political friends
will line up with the Texas Re-
publicans as a permanent ar-
rangement.
On the contrary, Shivers has
said that the G.O.P. has “delu-
sions of grandeur” on the ques-
tion of making Texas a two-
| party state.
In other words, the Shivers
Democrats were for Eisenhower—
but that does not mean that they
will move over into the Repub-
lican ranks in the Texas political
battles of next year.
At the Falcon Dam celebration
there will be represented a third
political faction, the Texas Demo-
crats whe supported Adlai Ste-
venson.
Senator Lyndon Johnson, a
Stevenson Democrat, is expected
to be present at the border cele-
bration.
Porter, by the way, has an-
nounced that the Texas Demo-
crats will put up the strongest
candidate they can find to op-
pose Johnson next year.
That candidate may be Ben
Guill, who once served as a Texas
Republican congressman from the
Panhandle district.
Guill is now an executive as-
sistant to Postmaster General
Summerfield.
School Cafeteria
Menu for Week
Workers in state departments
and some of those in state hos-
pitals and other institutions re-
ceived $15 per month pay in-
creases on the first of this month.
Increases ranging up to $300
per year also went to faculty
members of state colleges and
universities.
And some state workers re-
ceived "incentive” raises amount
ing to as much as $50 per month
under a new law authorizing such
boosts out of savings effected by
decreasing the number of em-
ployees.
There will be more pay hikes
if the courts uphold the Texas
natural gas gathering tax, Gov-
ernor Shivers has said.
Game in Bulldog
Stadium to Begin
At 7:30 P. M.
By MACK MULLINS
The Wortham Bulldogs will be
playing the 1952 district cham-
pions and the team that looms as
1953 winner when they meet the
State Home Laddies of Corsicana
this week. The Bulldogs will not
be favored to win when they
take the field at 7:30 p. m. Fri-
day in Bulldog Stadium.
An injury to regular guard
D. W. Lynch has caused Coach
Stooksberry to reshuffle his
squad again in a search for cap-
able replacements. Lynch, who
suffered a knee injury in the
Italy game, will be lost to the
Bulldogs for the remainder of
the season.
With a record of two victories
in the three games they have
played, the Laddies are regarded
as one of the strongest Class B
elevens in this part of Texas.
Their record looks even better
when you examine it closely.
They lost to Class A Kerens,
7-6; swamped Mildred 39-6 in
their first district game and beat
Hawkins, another Class A team,
13-7.
Although the State Home team
is not too beefy it does have all-
around balance. A quartet of
speedy, hard-running backs lead
the offense with Jerry Perona
and Truman Hull as halfbacks,
Louie Fletcher at the fullback
slot, and Paul Drury at the
quarterback position.
On the line the Laddies have
Dwight Tanner and J. Harry,
ends, C. Dowell and James Per-
ry, tackles; Bob Tommerlin and
Bob Harry, guard.-, and Bob
Cole, center.
Wortham's probable starting
lineup will be Hershal Conn and
Leonard Hosea, ends; Ernest
Fletes and I,eroy Sikes, tackles;
Bobby Wilson and Charles Flet-
es, guards; Fred Lee, center; Ken-
neth Butler, quarterback; Henry
Grizzard and Dwain Calame,
halfbacks, and Pat Henry, full-
back.
Others who will probably see
some action are Fenley Magness,
Mack Butler, Ruben Fletes,
Dwain Mathison and Gaylon
Michaels.
Vetch and Oats
Fine Combination
For Winter Grazing
Robert James Boyd who at-
tends Sam Houston State Col-
lege in Huntsville spent the week
end here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Hiram Boyd.
Glynn Riley, Jr. who is at-
tending John Tsrleon College in
Stephenville spent the week end
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Glynn Hey.
D. R. Wimberley left Monday
tor two days in Houston.
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Mrs. Stubbs Flies
To Abilene and Austin
Mrs. Vtn Hook Stubbs, pres-
ident of the Texas Federation of
Women’s Clubs, flew from Waco
Monday morning to Abilene
where she was to make the open-
ing day address before the City
Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Tuesday morning she flew on
to Austin where she held a con-
ference with Doctors of the Hogg
Foundation for plans on the Men-
tal Health program she has
launched for women’s clubs.
MAKE YOUR PLANS FOR
HOMECOMING.
Monday, October 12: Hot beef
sandwich, green beans, mashed
potatoes, cabbage apple salad,
milk, lemon bisque
Tuesday: Frito pie, whole new
potatoes in cream sauce, tossed
salad, combread muffins, or-
ange juice, peanut butter cook-
ies
Wednesday: Baked beans on
meat layer, buttered carrots, let-
tuce and tomato salad, combread,
milk, pineapple pudding
Thursday: Cheese and macar-
oni, buttered beets, English peas,
combread muffins, orange juice,
cherry cobbler
Friday: Fresh perch fish, dice-
ed
tomato
and vaninlla cookies.
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potato salad, green beans, JlylG ,
ato catsup, milk, peach half
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Death took George B. Butler,
49, chairman of the Texas Board
of Insurance Commissioners.
Butler died of a malignancy in
a Temple hospital, and funeral
services were held in Austin.
Another member of the Board,
Paul H. Brown, has been at Mo
Closkey Hospital, since he suf-
fered a heart stroke last Feb-
ruary.
Twenty-one church schools
formed an association and will
ask Texas business and industry
for n million dollars to balance
their budgets this year.
Texas Foundation of Voluntar-
ily Supported Colleges and Uni-
versities is the long name of the
organisation, whose board of di-
meet 4n Dallas Nov-
Tom Haskins, a cooperator
with the Navarro-Hill Soil Con-
servation District, believes in
winter cover crops for grazing,
soil improvement and seed pro-
duction.
Last year Haskins had 14
acres of volunteer vetch on
which he drilled oats and ap-
plied 200 pounds of 20% phos-
phate per acre at the time he
planted his oats.
From November to April 15th
Haskins grazed 13 head of cat-
tle on this 14 acres continuously.
On a couple of acres where he
had not had vetch the year be-
fore, Haskins stated that his oats
were not half as good as on the
vetch yiriched acres.
There were 54 bushels of oats
and vetch per acre combined in
addition to the grazing benefits.
This field has been planted back
to oats and vetch this year. An
additional 65 acres have been
drilled and more will be planted
as land is put into condition.
Haskins has a 20 acre native
bluestem meadow. He has cut
it for hay once and is letting the
second growth make seed so as
to maintain a good stand. Hiig
meadow has also been fertilized
with 250 pounds of 5-10-5 in the
spmig of of 1953.
WOODRUFF TAKES POSITION
WITH KILGORE JR. COLLEGE
Bert E Woodruff, high school
commercial Instructor of the
Overton schools, has resigned to *
take a position with Kilgore. Jun- rl
lor College. • •' . ' ‘
He went to Overton In th* fi
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