The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1961 Page: 1 of 4
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WORTHAM. FREESTONE COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1961
NUMBER
OWN
ALK
. By CHARLENE LE FEVRE
■jpHlS IS THE moat exciting week
In Wortham and one of the
busiest. Everyone in town is
waiting eagerly to visit with their
old friends.
The Bulldogs will be trying
their very best to win this Home-
coming game, since they haven’t
in the past two years. They will
have a tough time with Whitney,
a team they have yet to beat. The
pep-squad will also have a special
drill for the half-time.
The dinner tickets are $2.00
starting Friday morning.
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JHE FIRST SIX weeks hes
passed at school. It doesnt
seem possible. Just 2 more foot-
ball games, then we will be into
basketball season.
★
$OME HOMECOMING VISIT-
ors arrived in town the first
part of the week. The Journal
joins everyone else in welcoming
each of you.
★
|T SEEMS THAT Johnny Mack
and Bryan McGill can’t make
connections at home. Johnny
Mack, who is in the Navy, was
home the first of the month. He
had only been gone about a week
when Bryan, who is in the Mar-
ines, came home. Now Johnny is
on his way to Iceland and Bryan
will be going to Okinawa.
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ANDY CONN UNDERWENT
surgery this week at the
Fairfield hospital. . . Bob White-
side has returned home from the
Fairfield hospital.
★
MRS. MARTHA ECKHARDT.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jackson,
Jr., H. C. Magness, Josie Weaver
Gibson, Hallye R. Tyler, Dell Bal-
lard Bonner, Dot Ballard Jones
and Dixie Ballard contributed to
the Scholarship fund. **■ •
*
A HEARTY WELCOME to Mr.
and Mrs. Barney Isbell who
have moved to Wortham from
Espanola, New Mexico. They are
living on the Vernon Keeling
ranch with Mrs. Ida Stone.
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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO
Bob Poindexter on Oct. 27;
Kay Richardson, Nellie Posey,
R. E. Byers, Jr., and Betty Jo
Henton on Oct. 28; Flo Driver on
Oct. 29; Mrs. J. B. Williams, Lew-
is Earl Calame, Inez Odom and
Cynthia Simmons on Oct. 31; Pat-
sy Lee Woods on Nov. 1, and Da-
vid Goolsby on Nov. 2.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO MR.
and Mrs. Sidney Calame of
Beaumont who are the proud par-
ents of a baby son.
Welcome Back Home, WHS Exes
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Bulldogs Outlast Bynum, Win 14-12
Extra Points Margin in Defensive Battle
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By-MACK STRANGE
Coach Bill Spencer’s “Fighting
Bulldogs” spoiled a Bynum
Homecoming by winning their
annual “dog-fight” 14 to 12, in
a very exciting District 22-B con-
test.
Playing without the full serv-
ices of senior FB Randy Butler,
who was injured in practice last
week, the WHS Bulldogs scored
14 points in the final quarter
and threw up a stone-wall de-
fense to stop the hometown boys
cold. Led by hard-running Leon-
Tri-Counly Bond
Sales Report Given
The people of Limestone Coun-
ty purchased $17,876 in savings
bonds during the month of Sep-
tember, according to J. H. Nuss-
baum, chairman of the county
Savings Bonds Committee.
Bond sales in this county during
the first nine months of the year
were $247,337. The 1961 Lime,
stone County savings bonds goal
is $3200,00. The county has reach-
ed 77.3 per cent of its goal.
In Freestone County, $21,742
was the September sales total,
bringing the nine-month amount
to $161,035. The 1961 goal is
$210,000 with 76.7 per cent of
that goal having already been
reached.
Leon County savings bonds
sales during September totaled
$7,828, hiking the nine-month to
tal to $90,398. Leon County’s 1061
goal is $110,000 with 82.2 per cent
of the goal having been attained.
Information From
Social Security Office
To qualify for social security
disability benefits, a working per-
son must have a severe and long-
lasting disability. A minor or
temporary condition will not qual-
ify him. Your social security of-
fice will be glad to explain the
rules for deciding who is eligible
under the disability provisions of
the Social Security Law.
A representative of the Waco
office will be in Mexia at the
new City Hall between the hours
of 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on
eevry Wednesday to assist per-
sons in matters pertaining to
their social security.
Drilling ol Oil
Weil Scheduled
In Wortham Field
Drilling permits have been
filed with the Texas Railroad
Commission to drill a well near
Wortham and another 14 miles
north of Fairfield.
The Lundberg Oil Company of
Dallas will drill the Numbers 10,
11 and 12 Vera Hearne on 150
acres of the Eli Hillhouse and
H. Bush surveys in the Great
Northern field two miles north
of Wortham. The venture will
go to 1.000 feet, it was announced
by the oil company.
In Freestone County, the Sun-
ray Mid-Continent Oil Company
of Shreveport, La., filed to drill
a Sub-Clarksville sand wildcat
teat 14 mil— .north, of Fairfield
in an area where gas production
has been indicated.
The No. 1 F. R. Hill on 185
acres of the James Nix survey
will go to 3,900 feet. Site is 330
feet from the most westerly west
line and 660 feet from the most
northerly line of the survey and
lease.
Wortham PTA Has
Corsicana School
Man as Speaker
Joe Parks, Director of Instruc-
tion of the Corsicana Public
Schools, was guest speaker for the
Wortham PTA which was held
in the high school library, Thurs-
day night, Oct. 19, at 7:30 o’clock.
Mr. Parks’ subject for the eve-
ning was “The Home Team,” and
he brought to the group many
points to challenge their thinking
along the lines of why America
is great, and how the home,
school and community must com
bine their talents in order to ke«p
moving forward.
Mr. Parks stated, “America is
a land of opportunity because of
our free education system, and
America is great because she
teaches all of our students wheth-
er poor or rich."
A social hour was enjoyed by
all following the meeting, with
refreshments being served by the
9th and 10th grade room mothers
who were hostesses for the eve-
ning.
ard Norton, who scored both
Bulldog TD’s and figured in the
important PAT, Coach Spencer’s
Bulldgos got off to a winning
start in their district race.
The Bynum Bulldogs kicked
off to Wortham to get things
started and as in previous gamse
the Wortham offensive machine
couldn’t get started. The By-
num team got the pigskin fater
forcing Wortham to punt and
started toward pay dirt. Ten
plays and 70 yards later the BHS
Bulldogs drove over for their
first TD. The PAT attempt fail-
ed and the score was 0 to 6 late
in the first quarter.
For the remainder of the first
and for all of the second quarter
the Bulldogs of both teams fought
real hard, but neither could push
the pigskin across the double
stripe line. The first half ended
0 to 6 in favor of the hometown
Bynum Bulldogs.
The visiting Bulldogs kicked
off to the Bynuin team to start
the second half and the third
quarter was a rough and tough
defensive battle. Late in the
third quarter from 19 yards out
LHB Leonard Norton raced in
for Wortham’s first score. The
PAT attempt was a pass attempt
that failed and the score was
tied 6 to 6.
The host Bulldogs liked to
have scored on the second play
following the Wortham kickoff
but a great tackle by RHB Bobby
Cherry stopped the fast Bynum
Three Southwest
Conference Gaines
To Be Broadcast
Three Southwest Conference
football games will be broadcast
over radio Saturday by Humble
Oil St Refining Co.
The Texas A&M-Baylor game
will be broadcast from College
Station by Ves Box and Dave
Smith. Radio time will be 1:45
p.m. over WFAA-WBAP, Dallas-
Ft. Worth-570; WACO, Waco-1460,
and other stations.
The SMU-Texas Tech game will
be broadcast from the Cotton
Bowl by Eddie Barker and Eddie
Hill. Radio time will be 1:45 p.m.
over WRR, Dallas-1310; KWTX,
Waco-1230, and other stations.
The Texas-Rlce game will be
broadcast from Austin by Kkm
Tips and Alec Chesser. Radio
time will be 7:15 p.m. over
KTBC, Austin-500; WFAA-WBAP,
Dallaa-Pt. Worth-070
dogs refused to give in and the
Bynum team could not score.
The WHS Bulldogs took over on
their own 20 yard line.
On the first play of the fourth
quarter LHB Leonard Norton
brought the fans to their feet
as he raced 80 yards for a Wor-
tham touchdown. Norton was
aided considerably by End Lar-
ry Dunn’s beautiful side block of
two Bynum defenders. This time
Norton hit RHB Bobby Cherry
with a flat pass for the PAT
and the score was 14 to 6 in fa-
vor of Wortham with nearly 10
minutes left in the game.
The BHS team was not going
to play dead as they received
the WHS kickoff and moved
down the filed. Aided by two
penalties the hometown boys
pushed over a score from two
yards out. The score stood at
14 to 12 with the all-important
PAT attempt yet to come. The
Bynum team came out in a “T”
formation and attempted to run
across the PAT, but the fighting
WHS Bulldogs refused to give
and the score remained 14 to
12.
But the excitement was far
from over. With four minutes
left in the game Bynum sailed
the kick-off down to the visitors.
On the first play Wortham fum-
bled at midfield and things sure
got exciting. Bynum came out
in a spread formation, but it
failed to confuse Spencer’s Bull-
dogs as they moved smartly into
a different defensive formation
to meet the Bynum change. For
what seemed like two hours the
Bynum team kept the valuable
pigskin, but failed to move an
inch up the field as three passes
failed to click. On fourth down
Tackle Larry Williams pulled off
one of the most important de-
fensive moves of the game as he
tackled the Bynum tailback try-
ing to run after faking a pass.
Larry stopped him cold with one
of the hardest tackles thrown
by a Bulldog this year.
Wortham had the football, but
could they keep it? Well, the
talented Leonard Norton came
through again on third down and
12 yards needed for the first as
he raced 15 yards for a Bulldog
first down. Two plays later it
was all over and the fighting
Wortham Bluldogs walked away
with their second straight vic-
tory and their third for the sea-
son. Final score: 14 to 12.
The Bulldogs’ next game will
be against the Wild Wildcats
of Whitney in the 17th Annual
Homecoming football classic.
Game time is 7:30 and this will
be the Bulldogs' last home gam*
for the season. Let’s all get out
and Back the Bulldogs!
WORTHAM VS. WHITNEY
(17f£ Annual Homecoming Classic)
The ‘‘Fighting Bulldogs” of WHS will face a
real tough opponent this Friday night at 7:30 at
Bulldog Field—the Whitney Wildcats. Wortham
has never been able to win a contest on the gridiron
with the “Wild Wildcats.”
The game will be the last home game for the
following seniors: Left Halfback Leonard Norton,
Fullback Randy Butler, End Jesse Calame, End Mike
Batts, and Guard Bryan Smith.
Wearing the “Blue and White” this season has
meant a lot to the seniors and we are positive they
would certainly like to win this last home game. From
all indications the Bulldogs should give the Wildcats
a run for their money.
Game time is 7:30 and ALL the people of Wor-
tham are encouraged to go out and BACK THE
BULLDOGS!
LIONS HOLD ANNUAL APPRECIATION
BARBECUE; CONGRESSMAN IS SPEAKER
Congressman Olin E. Teague
was the guest speaker Monday
night at the annual Lions Club
Appreciation Barbecue. This was
a stag affair where individuals
from suil.-o unding communities
and Wortham citizens were in-
visted to be guests.
More than one hundred men
attended to her Congreeman
said he was probably “the most
under-rated individual of the
generation".
He also stated that Belin,
Laos, Cuba, the Freedom Riders,
along with other problems, make
this “the most dangerous times
we have ever known".
NAVARRO-H1LL
S S0IL C0NSER VAT ION S
DISTRICT NEWS
Simms
A. Neal Brown, Jr., of Rich-
land, has done an outstanding
job of pasture planting. He has
planted around 450 acres of King
Ranch Bluestem since this grass
was introduced to this area.
Brown started with a four-acre
planting from seed that were
furnished by the Navarro-Hill
Soil Conservation District. He
bought a combine solely for use
in gathering the seed to plant
back on his land. “King Ranch
Bluestem is the best grass I have
found for my type of operation.
I am also able to establish it
without too much expense,” he
remarked.
Brown now is combining seed
in a pasture where his cattle are
grazing. He is able to do this
for he consistently practices pro-
per use of his grass, leaving at
least six inches of stubble height
at all times. It takes grass to
grow grass. Without plenty of
leaf surface remaining, the grass
plant becomes too weak to pro-
duce forage as it should. It has
been found by clipping studies
on King Ranch Bluestem in the
Wortham Work Unit that where
it is fertilized and clipped at six-
inch height produces 40% more
forage as compared to unfer-
tlized K.R. that was actually
not getting proper use.
He hastened to add, however,
that . . “We (the United States)
have the power to completely
destroy Russia.”
Mr. Teague exclaimed that
“Krushchev is the biggest bluff
who has ever lived and that we
ought to quit backing up”. He
continued, “We wouldn’t be hurt
nearly aS bad as Russia in a
^^fSTeo^oSt1
space committee, admitted, “we
are lagging behind the Russians
in this phase of the cold war, but
are rapidly catching up.”
Emphasizing that progress in
space is vital to the future of
this country, he told his listners
that present plans call for a U.S.
astronaut to circle the earth by
December of this year and by
1969 for three men to land on
the moon in a capsule.
Pleading for continued and
growing interest in affairs of the
govenrment, Mr. Teague said,
"you will get the type of govern-
ment you demand—no more, no
less.”
Harry Bounds was master of
ceremonies. Lions Club President
Glen Wren greeted the visitors
and announced several projects
for the club. He recognized sever-
al committees and had special
commendation was given the food
committee, comprised of Billy
Van Calame and Harold Walker.
Towns and communities repre-
sented at this annual barbecue
included Mexia, Tehuacana, Tea-
gue, Fairfield, Corsicana, Cool-
idge, Krvin, Curry, and Richland.
Homecomers are already pil-
ing into Wortham for what looks
like one fo the biggest and best
Homecomings of all time.
A bonfire will be neid behind
the high school Thursday night
at 7:00 o’clock to start things
rolling, and a pep rally will be
held at the school auditorium at
2:30 p.m. Friday, to be followed
by the football game at 7:30.
Saturday morning in the Home-
making Department, the ex-
queens will be hostesses at a
coffee.
The official Saturday program
will begin at 2:30 in the school
auditorium, the program of which
is outlined below:
Invocation—The Rev. James
Puckett.
Song—“Hail, Hail, The Gang’s
All Here.”
Welcome Addresses — Gordon
Tyner, president, Ex-Students
Association and J. B. Robertson,
superintendent of Wortham Pub-
lic Schools.
Special Music—Billy Montan-
don.
Guest Speaker—Billy Willard.
Song—School Song.
Benediction—The Rev. Verne
Fuqua.
Business Meeting—Pres. Gor-
don Tyner, presiding.
Election of Queen.
Dinner will be held in the
cafeteria from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Crowning of the Homecoming
Queen and recognition of Mr. and
Miss Wortham High will be at
8:00 p.m.
Concluding event will be the
Homecoming Dance in the gym-
nasium, 8:00 to 12:00 p.m., with
music by George Nethery.
Alec Henderson,
Ex-Texas Ranger,
Dies at Home Here
Alec Henderson, a resident at
Wortham since 1923, died in his
sleep at his home Wednesday
night. His death was apparently
due to a heart attack, Dr. N. D.
Buchmeyer stated.
Mr Henderson was a Texas
Ranger when he came to this
city in the oil boom days, and he
and his family had continued
their residence here. He was bom
June 23, 1889 near Cameron In
Milam County, bein 72 years of
age at his death. He engaged in
trucking, farming and ranching
here.
Surviving him are his wife and
one son, J. Watt Henderson of
Wortham; two brothers, D. M.
Henderson, Lubbock, and Jack
Henderson, Colorado City, and
one sister, Mrs. Carrie Baker of
Houston, and a number fo nieces
and nephews.
Services will be held at the
First Methodist Church in Wor-
tham Friday afternoon at 2 p.m.
of which church Mr. Henderson
has been an active and faithful
member. His pastor, the Rev.
Verne Fuqua, will officiate, as-
sited by the Rev. Frank Turner,
a former pastor.
Walker Funeral Home has
charge of the arrangements. Bur-
ial will be in the Wortham Cem-
etery.
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By VERN SANFORD,
Texas Press Association
Protbytorion Youth
Fellowship Closs In
Attendance Contest
The Youth Fellowship Class of
the Central Presbyterian Church
is having an attendance contest.
Sides have been chosen with
Captains Kaifa Simmons and
Patricia L i b h a rt competing
against each other, striving for
better evening
with Mrs. P. P. Simmons as spon-
sor.
MYF Selling Cokes
To Feed Homecomers
With all the company you
will be having over the home-
coming week end, the MYF of
the First Methodist Church will
be ready to take your cake order
any time. Just call RO 5-3301
or RO 5-3408. Deliveries will
be made if you prefer.
Proceeds from the cake sale
will go to foreign missions. It
seems - like a small amount to
send to the foreign missions, but
when our small amount si put in
a district MYF fund it helps
make a large amount that can
really do good.
The home-made cakes will sell
for $3.00 each. Call or come by
the Wortham Journal office after
9:00 o’clock Saturday morning
SHSTC Homocoming
Sot for Nov. 17-18
HUNTSVILLE.—Dates for the
1961 Homecoming at San Hous-
ton State Teachers College have
been set for November 17-18.
The annual event, which will
begin November 17 with regis-
tration at the Student Union
Building, will be highlighted by
such events as an ex-student ban-
quet, a homecoming parade, and
gbtabacua. A homecoming dance
will follow the traditional foot-
ball game playdd this year with
Lamar Tack.
AUSTIN —City officials in Tex-
as got a warning from Chief
Engineer John Vandertulip of the
State Board of Engineers.
He said Texas had better get
moving on its water projects.
Vandertulip’s staff has just com
pleted a water study outlining
ways in which Texas cities and
industries could meet their water
needs for 1980. Half of the 14
reservoirs now under construction
in Texas will be too small to
supply their service areas by then.
It is going to take $1,000,000,000
to build the reservoirs, treatment
plants and distribution systems to
provide water the Texas of 1980
will need. It will also take plan-
ning and working—starting now
—to get the 45 new reservoirs
proposed by the Board of Water
Engineers’ plan built and full of
water by or before 1980.
Plan is endorsed in most de-
tails by the U. S. Study Commis-
sion.
Sales Tax Modification.
State Comptroller Robert S.
Calvert thinks it’s time to change
the oil tax plan just adopted by
the Legislature.
Constitution allocates the new
sales tax on motor oil to the State
Highway fund for road building.
Consequently the comer service
station man must keep books on
this tax separately from sales
taxes he collects for the State's
general fund.
Calvert plans to suggest to the
Legislature that this oil tax be
levied at the jobber level, same
as gasoline sales taxes. This will
simplify bookkeeping and col-
lecting.
Speaker James A. Turman
agreed that there are inequities
in the new sales tax which the
Legislature should correct.
First to talk openly about pay-
ing the tax under protest were
the vending machine people. They
can’t collect sales tax on items
selling for less than 25 cents, but
they must pay sales tax on their
gioss sales.
Texas Merchandise Vending
Association plans to ask for a
court ruling.
Last Go-Round.
Sale fo $25,000,000 in bonds for
the Veterans Land Board com-
pletes tha borrowing by the Bute
government for that program.
Voters authorized $200,000,000 to
finance purchases of farms and
ranches for veterans.
In the last year, about $37,500.-
000 has been invested in land
since the program was revived
after an increase in the authorized
interest rate.
L. H. Page of Carthage, mem-
ber of the Veterans Land Board,
estimated that veterans will pay-
enough extra interest that the
state will have made $100,000,006
profit on this program by 2005.
That is when the last loan is sup
posed to be paid off.
More Study.
Governor Price Daniel asked
the Legislative Council to bring
its 1958 study on loans and inter-
est rates up to date.
Governor Daniel now seems
likely to call the Legislature back
into session in January. He wants
up-to-date facts on the subject of
regulation of interest rates and
lenders. Regular session just could
not reach agreement.
He will also ask for passage of
a bill extending the new escheat
enforcement procedures to un-
claimed bank accounts in banks
and savings institutions.
Speaker James A Turman ap-
pointed a special House committee
to make a follow-up study of es-
cheat laws. Reps. Franklin Spears,
San Antonio; Ted Springer, Amar-
illo; Richard C. Slack, Pecos; Paul
Haring, Goliad; and Reed Quil-*
liam, Lubbock, are its members.
Governor Appoints.
Gov. Price Daniel assigned Dr.
James A. Turman (no kin to
Speaker Turman), Texas Youth
Council director, and Rep. Don
Kennard of Fort Worth to attend
the National Governors’ Confer-
ence on Delinquency and Youth
Crime in Denver, Colorado.
They’ll come beck aimed with
arguments on why Tam needs
juvenile parole oMeeie in more
than just the five hlggart coun-
ties. That’s extent of present pro-
gram.
Governor Daniel le asking the ",
Legislature to expand the five-
man juvenile parole art-up it
created this year. Kennard has
sponsored juvenile parole legis-
lation.
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