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EMPIRE, Vol. 68, No. 86; TRIBUNE, Vol. 88, No. 80
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1940
SIXTEEN .PAGES—Vol. 70, No. 16
LAST OF LEAGUE
EVENTS OF YEAR
HERESATURDAY
All Divisions Of Playbrounu
Ball Will Be Played; Vol-
ley Ball Over
All classes and divisions of play-
ground ball contests, concluding
event of the Erath County Inter-
echolastic League meet this year,
will be held in Stephenville Satur-
day, April 20, beginning promptly
at 9:00 o’clock, according to the
pchcdule arranged at a meeting
of coaches held Wednesday after-
noon in the county school superin-
tendent’s office.
, Joseph A. King, Stephenville
coach and county league director
of athletics, stated Thursday that
the schedule for the day’s events
was as follows: Class A Ward,
Senior High School, 9:30 a. m.;
Class B, Junior High School, 9:30
a. m.; Class C, City Park recrea-
tional building, 9:00 a. m.
Volley Ball Games Ended
County volley ball elimination
games were held at the Tarleton
gymnasium last Thursday after-
noon, April 11, with the following
results: Class A-Lingleville,
first; Dublin, second; Class C—
Shiloh, first; Selden, second; Ward
—Dublin, no opposition.
To determine a representative
to the district meet, Lingleville
nosed out the Shiloh girls for this
honor. -Entries in the county con-
tests were as follows: Class A—
Dublin, Stephenville Senior High,
Stephenville Junior High, Hucka-
bay, Lingleville; Class C—Sniloh,
Duffau, Selden, Bluff Dale; Ward
—Dublin. ._.__________
Feature Articles
In This Issue
In this week’s issue of the
Empire- Tribune our readers
will find a series of feature ar-
ticles written on outstanding
Erath county firms, institutions
and professional men. The pur-
pose of these articles is to fa-
miliarize our readers with the
history, growth and develop-
ment of these firms and pro-
ducts as well as to remind you
of the service and quality they
offer and the position they oc-
cupy in community life. We
think you will enjoy reading
these features because of their
informative natuA. '
City Will Be Host To Many
Singers and Visitors Here
For Saturday and Sunday
SERIES OF SOIL
ARE* MEETINGS
NOWUNDERWAY
A&M Authority Explains New
Soil And Water Law To
Erath Landowners
TWO DAIRY DAY
SHOWS ARE SET
A number of Erath County cit-
izens interested in dairying will
attend two official “Dairy Day”
programs, which will be held in
Eastland on April 23 and in
Brownwood on April 24, G. D.
Everett, county agent, announced
Monday.
The Eastland program includes
the entire district, composed of
Erath, Eastland, Brown, Callahan,
Taylor, Jones, Shackelford, Steph-
ens and Palo Pinto counties.*
Starting at 9:00 a. m. next Tues-
day, the program at Eastland in-
cludes: 9:00 to 10:00 a. m., enter-
ing and listing of dairy cattle and
dairy products; 10:00 a. m., dairy
products judging contest; 10:30 a.
m., talks on dairy products and
their uses; 11:00 a. m., dairy cat-
tle judging contest; 11:30 a. m.,
introduction of visitors; 12:00 to
1:00 p. m., music by local talent;.
A delegation of Erath County
farmers heard C. Hohn, Texas A.
& M. College soil and water con-
servationist, discuss a proposed
soil conservation district for nor-
thern Erath, southern Jack, eas-
tern Eastland and all of Palo Pin-
to counties at the first of a series
of meetings held at-Strawn Thurs-
day afternoon.
Hohn will speak at Dublin next
Tuesday, April 23, at 10 a. m., in
the theatre building on another
proposed district, consisting of all
of Comanche County, most of
Eastland and the western part of
Erath. All landowners and farm-
ers are urged to hear Hohn dis-
cuss the soil and water conserva-
tion law, on which he is an auth-
ority.
Other meetings in this section
will be held by Hohn the same day,
as follows: Proctor, 1 p. m.; Com-
anche, 2 p. m., afid DeLeon, 8 p.
FRESH WAVE OF
BURGLARIES IN
CITY PAST WEEK
School And Two Homes Broken
Into; Two Persons Have
Been Arrested •
A fresh wave of burglaries
broke out in the city and county
during the past week. Little suc-
cess was gained in the
however, and two persons have
been arrested—another instance
where “crime does not pay.”
Two men broke into a house in
the northeast part of the county
Sunday and stole two cases of
eggs. Both men have been arrest-
ed and are out on bond, pending
action of the grand jury.
The Glynn Barham residence,
here in the city, was entered Mon-
day night and a purse belonging
to Mrs. Ermer Ferguson, who
visiting in the home at the time,
was taken.
Knock Knob Off School Safe
Burglars knocked the knob
off the Stephenville High School
safe Tuesday night but were un-
able tb get 'the door of the strong-
box open. The sheriff’s department
is investigating both cases!
A screen.was taken off a win-
dow of the Jack Teddlie residence
Monday night but nothing was re
ported missing.
Other persons have reported
seeing prowlers near their homes,
some even being so bold as to
imake their visits between 11:00
moonlight
sSSSaKt ajaste vs
voted on by landowner-farmers on use fla8hh*hts ,n the,r
May 25.
Location of Voting Boxes
The election for the district af-
fecting the northern part of Erath
County will be held at Patillo and
Hannibal, while voting boxes in
the district affecting the western
portion of Erath County will be
at Dublin, Alexander and Bunyan.
Five farmers will supervise the
organization in each district, if the
districts are formed. The work to
be carried out in the districts to be
voted on May 25, however, will be
optional with the landowners in
the districts formed, according to
G. D. Everett, Erath County ag-
ricultural agent. No landowner
will be forced to conserve water
or soil in Ilia district, Everett- said,
lunch; 1:00 p. m., classification of if he does not so desire.
dairy products; 2:00 p. m., class!
fication of dairy cattle; 8:00 p.
m., awarding of prizes to winners
of judging contests. Men, women,
boys and girls will compete for ap-
propriate prizes.
Brownwood Show Program
A parade will open the Brown-
wood program, at 9 a. m. next
Wednesday, and the dairy show
will start at 10:00 a. m. The re-
mainder of the program follows:
10:00 to 10:20 a. m., introduction
of chairmen of the various divi-
sions of the show and introduction
of judges; 10:20 to 10:40 a. m.,
judging of dairy cows for milk
production; 10:40 to 11:00 a. m.,
judging of dairy heifers above one
year and under two years; 11:00
to 11:45 a. m., judging of dairy
products; 11:46 to 12:30, lunch;
12:30 to 1:30 p. m„ classifying of
dairy cows, cows over three years
old, and cows two years old and
under three years old; 1:30 to 2:80
p. m„ judging of cows one year
old and under two years old that
are not in milk; 2:30 to 3:00 p .m.,
bulls over two years old and bulls
one year old and under two years
old; 3:00 to 3:30 p. m., get of sire
(three females, one male;) 3:20 to
3:30 p. m., announcement of prize
winners; 3:30 to 5:00 p. m., auc-
tion sale of dairy cattle.
Cattle entered in the two shows
will be classified by Texas A. & M.
College dairy specialises, Eeverett
sxfd. ' „
“To carry out the land use reg-
ulations,” he continued, “it will
take a second election and the ap-
proval of 90 per cent of the. voters
at the second election. Also, no
homestead will be forced to carry
out the land use regulations with-
out the owner’s consent, even
though 90 per cent of the voters
do approve the carrying out of
land use regulations in this second
election.”
To Be Special Service
There will be a special service
conducted by Rev. Roy A. Lang-
ston at the Lingleville Methodist
Church Saturday night, April 20,
it was announced this week by
Rev. H. R. Hall, Methorist pastor
...........................-............
City on Sunday Program
Stephenville will be featured In
a suggested Sunday afternoon
motor tour at 10:80 a. m. Sunday,
April 21, during the Suburban Ed-
itor program from Station KGKO,
Fort Worth. Glen Rose, Cleburne/
.Granbury, Burleson an
Cake-Waljc Green
Creek Tabernacle
Tuesday, April 23
There is to be a cake-walk and
candidate rally at the Green Creek
Methodist Church tabernacle on
Tuesday night, April 23, at 8
o’clock, Mrs. Bryce Cannon, Dub-
lin, Route 5, has announced.
This affair is being sponsored
bby the Green Creek Home Dem-
onstration Club. All candidates
will be given an opportunity to
speak and the Star Tire Boys of
Dublin have been asked to en-
tertain throughout the evening.
Everyone is invited and a large
crowd is expected to attend the
program.
better, use flashlights
search -for valuables.
NEW SOFTBALL
LEAGUE FORMED
MONDAY NIGHT
Majority of Games This Year
To Be Played With Teams
From Out of Town
Here From Waco
Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Pyles of
Waco, who were married here
seven months ago, are visiting
this week with her aunt, Mrs. L.
W. Wilcox and family. Mrs. Pyles
is the former Miss Lucile Wolf,
daughter of Mrs. Algie Mayo of
Waco and Will D. Wolf, circulation
manager of the Waco News-Tri-
bune and Times-Herald. Mr. and
Mrs. Pyles, accompanied by Mrs.
Wilcox and son, Warren, drove to
Perrin Thursday for a brief visit
with Mrs. Wilcox’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Penick.
Sensing to Convention
W. B. Sensing, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, left this
morning for Colorado City to at-
tend the Chamber of Commerce
,gerf’ Association *f West
1*
X""hew softball association was
organized in Stephenville Monday
night when a group of business
men interested in softball met at
the Chamber of Commerce at 8
o’clock for the purpose of forming
a new type organization.
R. L.-Ballow was elected presi-
dent and Travis Latham secre-
tary-treasurer of the association.
A board of directors, who also
will serve as members of the fi-
nance committee, was selected and
fifteen business and professional
men of the city were named as
charter members of the associa-
tion.
It was voted that the organiza-
tion would operate strictly on a
cash basis, with no purchases to
be made without the consent of
the finance committee.
Official Opening Soon
Official opening will be in the
cert will be the feature of the en-
tertainment program to be pre-
sented along with the initial game
of the 1940 softball season.
A movement is under way now
to obtain suits for the Stephenville
players. There probably will be
only two or three teams in the
league this year, but an all-star
team will be formed to play games
with out-of-town clubs.
Both the all-star boys’ team and
the Stephenville girls’ team will
play most of their games this sea-
son with out-of-town clubs. It was
stated. The girls are said to have
the strongest club yet. and are al-
ready suited out. An outstanding
boys’ team also is to be organizied
and given suits.
Newspaper Man a Visitor
W ,T. Baldwin, of Levelland, who
recently sold his newspaper, The
Hockley County Herald, was In Ste-
phenville Friday on business. Mr.
Baldwin has been in the newspaper
business since 1898 and has owned
his own plant since 1902.
Attended Teacher Meet
A. H. Wilcox, haad of the John
Tarleton College education depart-
ment. returned Saturday from a
two-day atfhufil matting of the
Texas Society of Cowge Teachers
' Education, held in Dallas. Mr.
u 1 ad thaw or;
Weather permitting, this city will
be host to several thousand visit-
ors over the week-end, including a
large number of singers from
many parts of the state who will
be here for the fortieth annual
convention of the Central Texas
District Singers’ Asociation. Ten
thousand people are expected.
Opening Saturday afternoon at
2 o’clock in the City Park recre-
ational building, another program
will begin Saturday night at 7:30
o’clock, a Sunday morning session
will start at 10 o’clock, and the
concluding program will be held
from 1:00 to 4:00 p. m. Sunday.
At a business meeting following
the final singftig program, officers
will be elected for the ensuing
year. Present officers are Ernest
R. L. (Bob) Webb, Hamilton, vice-
president, and Charles E. Skiles,
Stephenville, secretary. These of-
ficers have worked together for
the past eleven years and Skiles
has been secretary of the associ-
ation twenty years.
Many Quartets Coming
Many quartets will take part on
the two-day program, including.
Stamps Quartet, KRLD radio
singers, Dallas; James D. Vaughn
Lubboek, Nations! Mu-
sic Company Quartet, Fort Worth;
L. D. Huffstutler Quartet, Dallas,
representing the Hartford Music
Company; C. B. Ribble Quartet,
featuring “Abraham Lincoln,”
tenor; Silas Clark Quartet, Abi-
lene; Ed Weaver Quartet, San An-
gelo; Melody Girls, Mineral Wells;
a girls’ quartet from Wingate; the
Wright Sisters Quartet, Fayette-
ville, Arkansas, and the Hardin
Quartet from Mexia, heard regu-
larly over WFAA, Dallas radio
station.
Local candidates will compose
the convention entertainment com'
mittee, and the Ammon Turnbow
Post of the American Legion has
been granted the concession-rights
at the park during the convention.
The Dublin radio station will
broadcast all programs Saturday
night, starting at 7:30, and again
at 10 a. m. Sunday morning, con-
tinuing throughout the day.
Stephenville families who have
rooms to spare are urged to notify
Skiles or Rippetoe immediately,
since all visiting singers are to be
guests throughout the convention.
Quite a number of rooms already
have been secured for the singers
for Saturday night, Skiles said,
but many more are needed, since a
large number*"Sf”Vlsiting 'singers
are expected.
Applications for mattresses un-
der the government cotton mat-
tress program will be taken by
Erath County home demonstra-
tion club women next Tuesday,
April 23, from 1:00 to 6:00 p. m.,
at the following centers: Bluff
Dale, Clairette, Dublin (in the
bank building), Duffau, Huckabay,
Highland, Lingleville, Purves, Sel-
den, Stephenville (basement of the
court house) Liberty and Morgan
Mill.
Miss Grace Cody, county home
demonstration agent, said Wed-
netsday that applications will be
taken at the school houses unless
announcements to the contrary
are made.
To date, Miss Cody said, 737 ap-
plications have been taken, and
notice has been received that an
order for 25 bales of cotton had
been placed.
“Please make application on the
afternoon of April 23 at any of the
above centers,” the county agent
urged, “so that club women will
not have to devote any more days
to the taking of applications. So
much of their time will have to be
devoted free to taking applications
and supervising the making of the
mattresses that everyone should
co-operate in every way to make
their work as light as possible.”
Is Visiting Mother and Sister
Mrs. Verelle , Atkinson of Cor-
sicana is visiting here as a guest
of her sister, Mrs. J. C. Farmer
and her mother, Mrs. Fannie Blak-
eley at Mrs. Farmer’s home on
South McNeill street.
Were Guests In Lenty Home
Mr. and Mrs. N. S. F. Vittrup
arrived here from ■** San Antonio
last week for a visit in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Leuty, 1303
Jones steeet. Mr. Vittrup went
from l/n^to Dallas to Attend to
bustfleas afffairs In thfft' “
Vittrup remaining with:.
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TWO GRID GAMES
WILL BE PLAYED
HERETUESDAY
Plowboys And Jackets Will
Play Intrasquad Games
Benefit Children
It won’t be necessary for Steph-
enville football fans to wait until
next fall before seeing a gam
in fact—of their fav-
orite sport played right here at
home.
There will be an intrasquad con-
test by the Stephenville High
School Yellowjackets and another
intrasquad game by the John Tar-
leton College Plowboys—all on one
program—played next Tuesday
night, April 23, at 8 o’clock at the
Tarleton athletic field.
. Proceeds from the program will
be for the benefit of the ward
srhool cafeteria, where underpriv-
ileged children are being fed free
through a P-TA sponsored project.
The football games, however, are
being sponsored by the Stephen'
ville Lions Club, yvhich has as its
major project each year welfare
work in behalf- of underprivileged
children and aid to the blind.
Both Bands Will Play
A football game wouldn’t seem
right without a band so, to make
it seem still more natural, both
the Tarleton Military Band and
the Stephenville High School Band
will be on hand Tuesday night to
furnish pep music for the intra-
squad contests, each of which will
last 45 minutes, or an. hour and a
half in all.
Both the high school and the
college squads have been working
out in Spring training and are in
good condition. Fans will have an
opportunity of seeing a preview
of the 1940 Plowboys and Yellow
Jackets in action, as well as help-
ing to feed some hungry child by
attending,
ftarl Rudder, Plowboy coach,
is chairman of the Lions Club com-
mittee which has charge of ar-
ranging the double-program for
Tuesday night. He was assisted by
Supt. J. E. Burnett, High School
Coach Jimmy Marshall and oth-
ers. Tickets are now on sale and,
although it’s ag’in the “law” to
give the admission price in a free
news story, this^is an exceptional-
Western Spirit In
Town With Dublin
Rodeo Boosters
The spirit of the Old West came
to life when fifty-one cowhands
from Dublin invaded Stephenville
at 8:10 a. m. on April 18 of this
week advertising the World’s
Championship Rodeo to be held at
Dublin on April 26, 27, and 28th.
All of the 51 members of the good-|
will delegation were dressed in j
cowboy and cowgirl regalia: hats,j
loud shirts, boots spurs, chaps and
guns.
Joe Kennedy, general chairman
of the trip, stated “Dublin is able
to present such an outstanding
rodeo only because the home ranch
and headquarters of the World’s
Championship Rodeo Corporation
is located fourteen miles southeast
of Dublin. This ranch supplies the
livestock, equipment and manage-
ment for the Madison Square Gar-
den rodeo, held each year in New
York- It is only 13 miles to Dublin,
and we guarantee that you will see
more action, spills and thrills than
any other rodeo in the Southwest.”
Special attractions at each of the
four performances will be: Billie
Keene, making a Roman Standing
vhmrp on two horses at full speed
over an auto, the world famous
Hardin Simmons Cowboy. Band,
Jazzbo Fulkerson. Madison Square
Garden Clown,' Garlcne and Gloria
Ann Tindall, eight- and ten-year-
old trick riders and ropers and
Loyd and Blanche McBee. smooth
working trick riding team. $1,400
besides entrance fees is offered in
prize money.
The first performance will be
Friday night, April 26th, followed
MOSTCROPS NOT
HURT VERY MUCH
OY TWO FREEZES
Gardena And Potatoes Seem
To Have Suffered
From Ice, Frost
Moat
Most of the damage from the
two freezes, topped with a frost,
in the county last week was done
tp the gardens, investigation the
first part of this week revealed.
On the average, over this county,
the damage to all kinds of fruit
was not very much, although a
few growers state that some of
the fruit was falling off. At this
time it appears that some of the
trees need additional trimming.
Joe Fitzgerald states that there
are more twin and triplet peaches
than he has seen for years.
A number of Erath county pota-
to growers, in the School Hill sec-
tion, have been contacted and they
are of the opinion that githovfgh
the potatoes were bitten to the
ground they will come out and
niake some potatoes yet. Extent of
the damage to this crop is uncer-
tain, although in past years pota-
toes that were bitten to the ground
did not yield as much as the pota-
toes that were jUst ready to come
through the ground. Some of the
potato fields had plants from four
to six inches high and were doing
fine before the frost.
■There-was-wo--damage--to--apeak-
-by-~shows” presented on Saturdayt '
afternoon and night and Sunday of to the corn crop, except that the
afternoon. ^P8 ab°vef?ound was bltten
down. Most of the corn that was
damaged is now showing green
and, as some of the growers say,
com that has been frozen, only
above the surface of the soil will
produce a better yield than if
replanted. In 1938 the corn was
bitten farther down in the ground
than it has been for some time in
this county. •
Gardens were hurt worse than
either crops or fruit, according to
County Agent G. D. Everett.
Beans, tomato plants and other
vegetables of the type that cannot
withstand a freeze were killed ex-
cept in cases where they were
protected from the weather.
ly werthy cadSe—Tt’s only a dime..
MATTRESSES TO
BE APPLIED FOR JAYCEES BOOK
NOTED MAGICIAN
ERATH FARMERS
URGED TO UNITE
IN OWN GROUPS
Initial Meeting Held Tuesday
Night at Duffau; Another
To Be Held Soon
Announcement was made this
week that Birch, reputed to be
America’s foremost magician, with
his company of assisting artists
will play an engagement at the
Stephenville Recreation Hall Mon-
day night, April 29, under the
sponsorship of the Stephenville
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
The Birch show is the largest
magic production now on tour in
this country. Equipment, scenery
and effects valued in excess of
$25,000 avo carried and will be
seen at Jjie local performance.
The current tour is Birch’s
eighteenth annual one. Thurston
publicity declared that Birch is the "Uupment suen as trac
nnlv mntririnn auffieientlv talented a"d Plows; also feed mills and en-
silage cutters; row binders, thresh-
On Thursday night, April 16,
some thirty representative farm-
ers of the Duffau community met
at the new gymnasium to discuss
the formation of farmer co-oper-
ation.
The meeting was opened by Al-
bert McKay. Jr., Rural Supervisor,
who stressed the need for farmer-
co-operatives. He outlined the
work which had been done towards
the formation of cooperatives and
cited four instances of services
which had been obtained through
co-operatives action in Erath
County during 1939, when peanut
threshers nnd hay balers had been
purchased by_|he Farm Security
AffMIbistralion.
The principal talk of the even-
ing was delivered by W. L. John-
son, Rural Supervisor-at-large,
from Dallas office of the Farm
Security Adminsitration.
Johnson gave a short discussion
of the Rehabilitation Program I
sponsored by the Farm Security
Administration. He pointed out
that community and co-operative
services was one part of the pro-
gram along with Resettlement,
Farm Debt Adjustment, and Ten-
ant Purchase. - , .
AH rehabilitation borrowers and
low income farmers are eligible to
become members. When co-oper-
atives are set up, services may be
rendered to non-members after all
members have been serviced. Some
of the co-operative services which
may be setup, according to John-
son, are. purchase of mure bred
sires, such aS bulls, stallions and
jacks; home equipment such as
cookers, canners and sealers; land
tillage equipment such as tractors
only magician sufficiently talented
to be his successor and is the man
he picked to “fill his shoes.”
Heading the Birch staff of as-
sisting artists is Mabel Sperry
hailed by critics as the world’s
greatest xylophonist.
Of the entire remarkable array
of illusions, perhaps the most baff-
ling is the famous Hindu Kopa
Trick in which an ordinary piece
of rope is tossed into the air where
it remains rigid and is climbed by
a Hindu boy who vanishes in the
twinkling of an eye.
Slicing a beautiful girl into
four parts, shooting a live canary
into a burning light bulb, and
walking through a sheet of solid
steel are among the many other
startling mysteries to be present-
ed.
ing machines, hay balers and ware-
houses.
F8A to Aid Organization
“The Farm Security Adminis-
tration will aid in the organiza-
tion of community and co-opera-
tive services and finance such eo-
,0fi,erativcs where ■AherO' is n need
iand jhe members are unable to do
so, stated Johnson.
J. S. Flowers was elected tem-
porary chairman and H. H. Tal-
ley, vice-chairman; committtees
from those present were appointed
“We believe we have been of real
ing the Birch engagement, for it
is not often that we are permitted
to view a performance of such
real merit,” Travis Key, president
of the Junior Chamber of Com-
merce declared in discussing the
show.
A. * '
tut
IH9
ip remauunr nN
atil his • i<jk
revenue.of
mco js
ipality
from
the co-operatives. A date, to be
announced later. i#r?4^» be set at
which "time the organization is to
be perfected.
The farmers present voiced the
, , . . need for co-operative-owned, row
service to our community Mfid?rs."7«bls; slaBidnif^nff 'bifllk:
Present from the Dublin office
of the Farm Security Administra-
tion and hssistlng in the program
were Miss Roberta E. Martin,
Home Supervisor. Jack B- Baucom
and J. C. Myers,
.*• 'V Robert Platta Hare
Mri ahd, Mrs. Robert' -
LOW BIDDER ON
US 281 NAMED
H. B. Zachry Company was low
bidder on the State Highway De-
partment-advertised job of plac-
ing a seal coat on 17.8 miles of
U. S. Highway 281, “from the
end "of " the brick pavement in
Stephenville South to the Hamil-
ton County line.
Amount of the low bid was $10,-
258, according to the announce-*
ment made by the State Highway
Commission Tuesday. Bids were
advertised for and received until
April 15, when they were opened
and low bidders announced on a
number of State highway proj-
ects.
The seal coat topping will place
the highway in first-class condi-
tion between Stephenville and the
Hamilton County line, which pre-
viously had been topped under an-
other contract.
An improvement project be-
tween Hico and Hamilton will re-
sult in that gap of U. S. 281 being
paved, as will another contract
from U. S. Highway 80. in Palo
Pinto County, to Mineral Wells.
Completion of the two contracts
will enable speedy all-weather
travel from Stephenville to many
miles north and south on U. S.
281. ___________________
LOCAL FFA GOES
TO STATE MEET
local Chapter of Future
era will be represented at
The
Fan _
tate FFA Judging Contests
exas A. & M. College April 21
by throe teams: Horticulture, Soil
Conservation, and Wild Life. The
nine boys and their adviser, E. W.
Scott, will leave Sunday and re-
turn Tuesday.
Members of the Horticulture
from those present were appointed team„ are Samuel White, Sanford
t'O assist in perfecting tile orgalti- .White, and J R. Stone'. Members
ration and obtaining members for of the Soil Conservation team,
which placed first in the Tarleton
Contests April 6, are Aaron Aut-
ry, Orval Tackett, nnd Arthur
Shepard. Members of the Wild
Life team are Otho Hicks, Kyle
Little, end Nolan Hensarlmg.
Stephenville won the right to
compete in the State Contests as
a result of their excellent show-
ings In the recent district con-
tests, held at John Tarleton Col-
lege. • ~
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