Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1939 Page: 4 of 16
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Honorary Corps
Is Organized For
This Year’s Work
THE STEPHENV1LLE EMPIRE-TRIBUNE. 8TEPHENVILLE. TEXAS
Ham Wright, James White, Vic-
tor Penuel, Winston Randle, Angus
Gentry, James Knight, and Robert
Ross.
The Honorary Company which
will perform at various football
games played at the college and
also at N. T. A. C., held its first
drill Monday, October 2.
Special performances of the com-
pany will be at federal inspection
and parents’ day. On Armistice day
the Honorary Company will parade
in the city of Stephenville.
“The annual trip of the company
to San Antonio is assuned and is
not dependent upon participation
of the R. O. T. C. band,” Maj.
James D. Bender said recently.
If for any reason the Military
band cannot make the trip, it is
probable that the Girls’ band will
accompany the Honorary Company
on the trip.
Applicants for the company in
order to become accepted members
are required to meet the highest
standard of academic and military
work.
The following is a list of char-
ter members of the company who
have been approved and are now
unconditionally accepted in this or-
ganisation :
Nels Anderson, Dextor Ator,
Phillip Bible, Felton Dengler, Ty-
ran Devolin, Bill Ellis, Edward
Emmett, Joe Gracy, McRae Hill,
John Higgs, V. 0. Miller, Ells-
worth Murtha, Maurice Nixon,
John Lowe, Gene Norred, John
Phelan, Gordon Rohe, William
Reiley, Robert Throckmorton, Rob-
ert Tollett, and William Turner,
Applicants who have been tenta-
tively accepted as members of the
, Honorary Company are Robert
Berryman, Bill Borders, Joe Brown,
Perry Cox, George Eckhardt, Wil-
liam Grisham;
Gordon Haynes, Charles Hill,
Clovis King, Lawrence King, Ed-
gar Kinsey, Alvin Mays Rowland
Moore, Jerry Parnell, Layman Rat-
liff, Tom Ridley, Jack Russell;
Fuller Shannon, Oren Soules,
Bumes Wheat, Collins Wise, Wil-
Dr. J. R. Walmsley
CHIROPRACTOR
First National Bank Bldg.
Miss Marrs Returns
Miss Mary Marrs has resumed
her position as instructor in the
math department this year. She
was on leave of absence last year
because- of illness.
Tailetonites To A. & M.
Bob Davis and Jack Faubion,
students at Tarleton last year, are
enrolled iij A„& M. College this
winter. They visited on the campus
SELDEN SCHOOL NEWS
A very large and enthusiastic
crowd, consisting of patrons, school
children, and teachers, gathered
Monday morning, October 2, at
the Selden school auditorium for
the opening exercises of the school
year, 1988-1840.
With the splendid cooperation
and interest of patrons and teach-
ers shown here Monday morning,
we feel that we will have one of
the most successful school years
Selden has ever, known.
• A very interesting and educa-
tional hour was spent in the audi-
torium. The speaker of the even-
ing, Clint Barham, gave a very
inspiring talk on citizenship.
After leaving the auditorium, an
hour was spent making pictures
of the students, patrons, family
groups, and faculty. We are very
grateful to Oren Ellis of Stephen-
ville for making the pictures for
us, hnd we invite you all to come
later and see your picture on the
screen, as Mr. Ellis made of you.
With much interest and determ-
ination we began our work, so as
to make the school term successful
and pleasant for all.
Major Bender To
Assign Co-Eds To
Cadet Companies
Triumphant over a host of can-
didates, e'ight Tarleton girls were
selected by popular vote to repre-
sent the cadet corps as sponsors
for this year.
The girls listed alphabetically
are Martyne Black. Albany; Fred-
da Carlisle, Breckenridge; Maxine
Coleman, Eastland; Elizabeth Dy-
Premiums on butter, cottage
cheese, sweet and buttermilk and
sweet croam will be given in the
dairy products division. Game bird
breeders will show, at their own
request, for ribbons only. Prem-
iums also will be awarded in the
community exhibits.
Judges for the stock show this
year, and the dates on which each
will judge his respective division,
are: E. A. Eudaly, Texas A. & M.
Extension poultry husbandryman.
A, L. Smith and Roy Snyder, of
the Texas A. & M. Extension Ser-
vice department, will judge light
horses Friday, artd draft horses,
ess, Albtuiy; Hatty Elliott* Breck- mule* and jacks Saturday. Oseaf lous contests.
enridge; Tua Richardson, Stephen-
ville; and Bettie Wylie, Albany.
Ernestine Finnigan of Eldorado
was selected as band sponsor.
Sponsors will be assigned to
companies according to height,
Major Bender said. Regimental
sponsors will be selected from the
eight named.
Sponsors will wear a two-piece
uniform with skirt and blouse of
military make. The uniforms will
be of white serge, with purple Sam
Brown belts, and; white Russian
bots with narrow tops. A white
overseas cap, trimmed in purple,
will be worn to complete the uni-
form.
All candidates for the positions
were required to be senior with a
high scholastic standing for the
Frazier, of the John Tarleton Ag-
ricultural College department of
agriculture, will judge swine en-
tries on Saturday.
Best Rodeo—
(Continued from Page One)
Tuesday. The Jaycees will make the
trip in an air-conditioned Bowen
bus, leaving here at 7:80 a. m. and
returning early that night for a
street jamboree on the square,
probably about 7 o’clock. The
motorcade trippers will go to
Granbury, Glen Rose, Walnut
Springs, Iredell, Hico, Hamilton,
Comanche, De Leon, Dublin and
back to Stephenville on the one-day
round.
Music for the trip will be pro-
vided by Charley Nichols and his
String Band, of Lingleville. A
dance
pot; and, steer riding, $2 entrance
iee, $10 added. If other events are
added later, Little stated, pur set
and prizes will be arranged ac-
cording.
Tom Jenkins, with the Laney
Bros. Ranch of Merkel, will handle
the disbursement of prize money.
All entrance fees must be turned in
to Jenkins at Mel’s Cafe on Thurs-
day, Oct 12, not later than 6
p. m. He will be at the cafe
throughout the day to book en-
trants for the rodeo events, and
will be able to answer any ques-
tions of prospective participants
concerning rules governing, the var-
square dance at each stop will
draw crowds to the bus, where a
“ i °—r | ehort TrrOgram. including trick
pftfet year. Only members of tne rnnlncr Donl
*The American Waif
Will Be Reviewed on
Thursday ,October 12
“The American Way,” a new
play by Kaufman andnart, will
be reviewed Thursday morning,
October 12, at 10.40 o’clock in the
Senior High School auditorium by
Mrs. Virgnia Baker Long.
The play is now being produced
in the Center Theatre in New
York, featuring Frederic March
and Florence Eldridge in the lead-
ing roles. The play is the story of
a German emigrant in America
whose great love for his adopted
country has a distinct effect on
his reactions to outstanding his-
torcal events of this country.
Friends of the school are cor-
dially invited to come to this re-
view. There will be no admission
charge.
cadet corps voted, upholding the
opinion that they are the ones who
have to look at the girls the most
and, therefore, should have the
right to choose.
The life of a sponsor is not a
"bed of roses” as some might
expect. The long hours of drill,
the hard work in preparing for
social functions for the military
ball, the diplomacy that must be
Jised in accepting and rejecting
dates—Vail tax the ability and en-
ergy of the co-ed cadet. Then, too,
there is the matter of scholarship
to be watched.
Presents
ITS GREATEST
PICTURE OP
CONCENTRATED TEXAS
HATURINO
LIVESTOCK I AGRICULTURE
SSI.000 la Framlumt | S2S.000 la Framlam,
POULTRY
tr.SOO la PraaaimM
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Tha Ltvaifock Show will bo tha largaif avar hold la tfia
South. It will include tha Nation*! Hartford Show, for
which 111,000 is caih pramiumt ara pottad.
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Tha Agricultural Show, with 64 county aihibih, 32 FFA
exhibit*, many 4-H Club and Individual Exhibiti and an
INTERNATIONAL CHEMURGIC SHOW will make this
tha largait agricultural aihibit avar hold any place.
Tha Poultry Show will faatura a Baby Boot Turkay Exhibit
and a Waterfowl Show In tho now ponds at wall as a
Rna showing of popular poultry brands.
A Balanced Program of
fcducaltott and ClmuMmsnL
FOLIES BERGERE
A (rear revua from Paris,
comas direct from the
San Francisco
World's Pair.
ON THE MIDWAY
and Cherry Shows,
irolral. . . Candid
Hoi* Land.
Tha Rubin F
a steal Carniri
Show . .
camera snow . . . Holy Land,
and the Hopi Indian Villas*.
FREE
ATTRACTIONS
In tha Castle of Foods, hourly ,, . Bert Swor's
Minstrels... the Southern Select Circus
and other sensational acta.
Dos'# Fall fo See..,
The Castle of Foods ... the Flower Show ... the Dos Show
... the Baby Parade . . . the Hobby Show . .. School Ex-
hibits and Cooiests, the Fine Arts Exhibit, an Auiomobilt
Show of all new models, and man, other attractions.
Buffalo Herd—
(Continued from Page One)
Point, Bunyan and Lingleville.
Bluff Dale will stress refresh-
ments; Green Creek, bedroom;
Clairette, mattress, making; Highr
land, canning "Equipment; Shelby,
protective foods; Rocky Point,
home arts; Cedar Point, wool;
Lingleville, milk, And Bunyan. po-
tatoes, in their respective exhibits.
The booths are to be educational
and will not be entered on a com-
petitive basis. They will stress one
idea, rather than be of a gen-
eral .nature, and are being sponsor-
ed by different group, including
home demonstration clubs, civic
clubs, and similar organizations
They will be arranged on a basis
of educational value, neatness,
quality and originality.
Dairy Show First Dsy
A dairy show will be held on the
first day of the show, and draft
mules and jacks will be judged
the first day; poultry and hogs
are to be judged on the first and
second days, and light horses on
the second day.
Dairy cows and bulls will be
judged, as they were last year,
according to the score card method.
Horses, mules and jacks will be
judged according to their action
and type, as they have been in
the past. Hogs will be judged in
different classes, according to age
and breed. Poultry will be judged
according to size and shape, as well
as other standard joints.
Howard Miller, superintendent of
the poultry department, states that
there will be more poultry entered
in the show this year. In addition
to poultry that will be judged for
production, Miller advises that
there will be four entries of the
baby beef of broad-breasted tur-
keys entered. This type of turkey
is being raised in Erath county
now. Plant also are being made to
take care of the different kinds of
pheasants to be shown by various
game breeders. The pheasant ex-
hibit was an added attraction last
year in the poultry department
In the dairy products division,
a new feature of the 1888 show,
many women of the county are
planning to enter their home-make
butter, it was stated this week:
Other Livestock Due
Many jacks, stallions and both
light, draft and plantation horses
are expected to be entered in the
show. The city has erected a new
livestock exhibit building at the
City Park to house animals entered
in this year’s livestock and poultry
show.
, The Junior Chamber of Com-
merce has built new rodeo chutes
at the park arena and has install-
ed adequate seating arrangements.
Heavy galvanized wire replaces the
top boards on the rodeo corral.
Lights have been erected and a
loud-speaker will be used to an-
nounce each event as it occurs at
all rodeo performances.
Officials of the Erath County
Livestock A Poultry Association
are Walter Wolfe, Indiair Creek,
president; W. B. Blankenship*.
Corinth, vice president; T. C. Grin-
berry, Stephenville, secretary-
treasurer, and Joe B. Frey, Ste-
phenville, vice secretary.
Premiums on Judging Events
Premiums on horses, mules and
jacks, it was stated, would be the
same aa last year, as will prem-
iums for, winning chickens, tur-
keys and eggs. A judging contest
for FFA ana 4-H club boys agsln
will be a feature of the show.
A total of $40 will be awarded as
premiums in the swine division.
roping by Dook Purdom, will be
presented over a loud speaker.
Several cowgirls, dressed in rodeo
regalia, also will make the trip.
Several cars will accompany the
35-passenger bus.
Stephenville citizens are request-
ed to wear cowboy costume during
the three days of the stock show.
All who do not do So, according
to Grady Littleton, president of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
will be subject to a fine or im-
prisonment in a cowboy jail—for
one hour—on t he public square,
where all can see the “prisoners.”
Laney Bros. Handling Purses
Laney Bros., owners of the rodeo
stock, are guaranteeing purses in
all rodeo events. Cowboys already
are making Inquiries about the
various events, the latest entry
date for which is Thursday, Oct.
12, at 6 p. m. Rodeo judges are
Herbert Kittle, Jerry Hays, and
J. S. Holcomb,, all of Stephenville.
So far as is known now, Little-
ton said Wednesday, purses will be
a* follows: bronc riding, entrance
fee $2, with $10 added to pot:
bareback bronc riding, mount
money; calf-roping, entrance fee
$2.50,.jackpot: wild oow milking,
entrance fee $2.50, jackpot; break-
away roping, $1 entrance fee, jack-
V
Highway Patrol to Help
Such enormous crowds are ex-
pected here during the three-day
program that the State Highway
Patrol, at the request of the Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce, has
consented to station two State of-
ficera here throughout the show to
assist local law enforcement agen-
cies in helping keep order, both in
traffic regulation and at the rodeo
grounds.
Added to the entertainment fea-
tures of the livestock show and
rodeo celebration will be an ama-
teur fight card on Wednesday
night, Oct. 11, at 8 o’clock at the
City Park recreation building, and
a dance with “Pop” Sam Cunning-
ham and his Crystal Springs
Ramblers, of Fort Worth, at the
same budding, jn the local City
Park, on Thursday night, Oct. 12,
from 8:15 p. m. ’til. . . .
The officers of the Erath County
Livestock, Poultry A Swine Show
Association, the Senior Chamber
of Commerce and the Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce, assisted by de-
partment heads in tha livestock
division, John Tarleton College of-
ficials and students, public school
faculty members and students, and
other civic-minded ageheies and
individuals, have put forth a great
deal of effort, as well as expense,
in an, attempt to make this show
the host that has ever been held
in Stephenville. They ask that the
citizens of this entire section. of
Texas reward them for their efforts
by attending each day and night
program, or as many as it is
.possible for them to attend.
Flying To Begin
• Soon; C.A.A. Man
Is Expected Here
“Flying instruction will begin as
soon a8 possible,” E. A. Blanchard,
chairman of the college committee
of aeronautics, said today. “There
is nothing definite yet because we
have not received instructions from
the district office. The government
printing office is running day and
night in an effort to get ibe neces-
sary instructions to the schools,
but so far they are behind, and
we will just have to wait.”
A representative of the Civil
Aeronautics Authority is expected
to be at Tarleton within the next
few days, and at that time a def-
inite date for the beginning of
flying instruction at Tarleton may
be disclosed.
Girls May Fly
It was only recently discovered
that women students may take the
course. They must pass the same
examination the men take and
meet the requirements stipulated
by the C. A. A. Ten per cent of the
students may be girls.
Judging by the number of ap-
plications that are coming into
-the nfftre 'of Morton P. Brook s,
dean of men, there is a possibility
that there may be 50. or "60 in
the course. If there are that many
training, there will be five or six
planes, because there must be one
plane for each ten students.
All Applications Considered
The committee on^ selection ©Y
students reports they are trying
*%o qualify as many, as possible,
but that owing to regulation* gov-‘
eming the selection of pilots, they
must be cautious in their selec-
tions. However, every application
is receiving fullest consideration
and all who apply have an equal
chance of being accepted.
We think of bathtubs as a fairly
recent innovation. But a recent
excavation proved that King Minos
of Crete had a handsome tub in
hi* palace 4,000 years ago.
——————
The male hombill helps Ms mate
chisel out a nest inside a hollow
tree, then seals her up with sun-
baked clay for her eggs to hatch
unmolested.
More than 8,000 new varieties
of dahlias have been produced in
the lastten yeans.
Russelly Belcher
Will Hear Murder
Case, Palo Pinto
With District Judge Sam Russell
on the bench, and District Attor-
ney Ernest Belcher, both of Steph-
enville, handling the prosecution,
a Palo Pinto county grand jury
will convene October 30 to hear
testimony regarding j the fatal
shooting of. Joe McLaren. 34 of
Fort Worth, by T. G. Wallingford,
ICouWe Invited to an Exciting Event!
A SPECIAL SHOWING
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13TH,
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42, also of Fort Worth late Satur.
dsy night at the WPA-Universitv
of Texas archeological survey near
Graford, where both were em-
ployed.
Sheriff J. W. Edmondson, of Palo
Pinto county said Tuesday that
Wallingford was being held in tha
Pitlo Pinto county Jail in lieu of
the $3,000 bond set when he was
charged Sunday with murder
Bond is excepted to be made this
week by Wallingford’s brother
Deputy Sheriff W. C. Wallingford
of Waller county.
District Attorney Belcher quoted
WaHingford as saying hVsYot Mc-
Laren when the latter entered his
tent with an open pocket knife and
threatened his life.
Interment for McLaren was
made Monday at Mineral Wells.
He was shot seven times with .22-
calibre bullets. Known survivors
include a daughter, Patsy Mc-
Laren, 12, who lives with relative*
of McLaren’s former wife.
According to Sheriff Edmondson
a quarrel started Saturday after-
noon between the two men when
McLaren, driving from Graham to
the survey camp, failed to pick up
Wallingford, who was walking
along the road. •
After Wallingford went to bed,
he told the sheriff, McLaren came
to his tent. Sheriff Edmondson said
when McLaren’s body was found a
pocket knife with a two-inch blade
was in his hand.__:_,
Dublin WPA Street
Improvement Plan
Approved Tuesday
Included among 21 Texas pro-
jects, involving expenditures of
$596,823 in Works Progress Ad-
ministration funds and $544,471
supplied by local governmental
agencies, approved by the State
WPA office in San Antonio re-
cently is a street improvement
project at Dublin, Erath county,
which will cost the WPA $19,904
and the local sponsor $9,838, and
on which 59 men will be employed.
This announcement was mads
Tuesday by Stearns S. Tucker, de-
puty state t^nijboJiifcFator of tha
WPA, Sari Antonio. Other project‘d
approved with the amount, of
WPA funds, sponsors’ funds, and
the number of workers to be em-
ployed, included:
Comanche county—Demolish old
courthouse, which ia inadequate
and in dangerous condition, and
construct new building on site;’
$101,206; $72,288; 211.
Coleman county—Improve var-
ious roads in precinct 1 by clear-
ing, grubbing, grading1 And pro-
viding drainage structures; fed-
eral funds, $49,258, sponsors’
funds, $15,647; workers, 97.'
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Shown through the Cooperation of om of tbs Comntrfs
Largest Wholesalers of High-Grade Far Coats
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SILHOUETTES — PRICED IN KEEPING
WITH OUR POLICY OF SAVINBSI
Beery Popular Typo and Kind of Pur Will ho Shown!
JACKETS... SWAGGERS:. .STROLLERS
Smart Coats Prised as low as $33.00
Magnificent Coats as fine as $300.00
1with a special showing from $69.30 to $293.00
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