Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 12, 1939 Page: 4 of 16
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THE STEPHENVILLE EMPIRE TRIBUNE. STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1989
PRECINCT8CS—
(Continued from page 1)
serration program, to co-ordina
the programs of the districts
far as this may be done by advicei
and consultation,” to secure “th j
co-operation and assistance of th s
United States and any of its agen
ciea, and of agencies of this State
in the work of such districts,” an< I
to disseminate information con
earning the activities and pro
grams of the districts. 5
Tenure of Office
Tenure of office for the mem-
bers of the county advisory com-
mittees and for the state board are
prescribed by the conservation law.
Committeemen named from Pre-
cincts 1 and 3 in each county will
serve until the first Tuesday in
January, 1940. Members elected
from Precincts 2 and 4 will serve
until the-first Tuesday in January,
1941. Every two years after that,
two members will be elected by
precinct meetings to serve two-
year terms.
In Areas 1, 3 and 6, members
of the state board elected this« tn
month will serve until the first] p]
Tuesday in February, 1942. Each)
two years thereafter, each of thesi'
three districts will choose a me
her to serve a two-year term
the board until the first Tuei
in February, 1941.
As authorized in the law, coi
posing the advisory committee
the state board are Dr. T. O. Whl-
ton, president of the Texas- I &
M.t College system; CJfrilt j B.
Jones, president of T^jrhs Techno-
logical College; R, A. Manire, di-
rector of Texas vocational agricul-
ture ; J. E. McDonald, State Com-
missioner of Agriculture, and Paul
H. Walser, state co-ordinator of
the Texas Soil Conservation Ser-
vice.
m
Mrs. Shepherd in Dallas
Mrs. C. R. Shepherd, who has
been spending the past several
months here with her aunt and
cousin. Mrs._iL.-£r-BucIe
ErnTtnUBuck, 794 West Long, left
Thursday morning for Dallas
where she will spend Mothers’ Day
holidays with her daughters. She
will visit in other towns in that
section of the State during her
visit there.
A special symposium on disease
of the blood will be held at the
Univesrity of Wisconsin in Sep-
tember. *
Hi.
Wild Flower Show—
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wild flowers, gathered in the nine
counties of District 2 of the State
Highway Department, which spon-
sored the festival. Tracks of the
highway maintenance department
in each of the counties brought
the many varieties here for the
exhibit, which also included a cac-
tus garden and a lily pool.
There were about 200 varieties
of wild flowers from the nine coun-
ties on display at well-arranged
booths. Section foremen of the var-
ious counties who had charge of
Assembling the flowers were: Jack
county, J. C. Ferguson; Hood,
pomervell and Johnson, Holly
fenshaw; Tarrant county, A. H.
illis; Palo Pinto and Parker, J.
jf. Brumley; Wise, J. M. Ziegler,
afnd Erath, Dick Auvenshire. Bill
oodward. Fort Worth, District
highway beautification engineer,
as in charge of classifying and
he profusion of flowers.
Stephenville citizens wore flow-
ers on coats and dresses during
the festival and merchants dis-
layed wild flowers in their show
windows
More than 400 Registered
More than 400 persons had reg-
istered at the exhibit hall by mid-
afternoon Wednesday, and many
others heard a speaking program
there. The festival is sponsored by
District 2 of the State Highway
Department, the nine counties in
this district being Tarrant, Hood,
Parker, Palo Pinto, Johnson, Jack,
Somervell, Wise and Erath.
Hines was the principal speaker
on the afternoon program. He
pointed out how the department
combines highway beautification
and safety by placing shrubs at
hazardous points as warnings to
motorists. Hines cited advances
made in beautification of highways
and said that co-operation provided
by flower lovers has been of great
aid in improving the appearance
of highways. Home owners become
mofeT "conscious of beauty as the
result of highway work, he said,
and have begun to beautify their
homes more.
Mayor Henry Clark introduced
Hines to the audience. On the plat-
form with them were Mrs. I. B.
McFarland, Houston, state presi-
dent of highway beautification;
Mrs. Will Lake, Fort Worth, dis-
trict chairman; Mrs. Pearl Cage,
Stephenville, chairman of fcne
Erath committee, and E. C. Wood-
ward, Fort Worth, district high-
way engineer. Mrs. Cage took a
leading part in getting the district
festival for Stephenville and in
making and completing plans for
thtf“ two-day program here. She
was assisted, however, by the Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce, the Ste-
phenville Senior Chamber of Com-
merce, and other local civic or-
ganizations and individuals.
$500 Spent by Department
It was reported that the State
Highway Department spent more
than $500 in sponsoring the dis-
trict festival and arranging for
the exhibit of wild flora here for
the two-day program. Highway en-
trances to Stepheaville notified the
tourists that a wild flower show
was being held here. Other signs
downtown dircted the visitors to
the city park, where the exhibit
was located in the old auditorium.
The Junior Chamber of Com-
merce also took a financial lead
in sponsoring the dance and queen,
and tin hiring a bus to take the
members on a motorcade Monday
to advertise the festival. Mrs. Cage
contributed of her means and de-
voted practically all of her time
the last six weeks in arranging
for a successful show.
Cleburne waa selected for the
1940 event, which will be held on
or about May 15. Mrs. A. C.
Schappaul, chairman of the John-
son ebunty highway beautification
committee, headed thel delegation
of 20 flower lovers who attended
the exhibit from that county.
From the many expressions of
pleasure heard from both local
and out of town visitors,.*the two-
day district festival was an out-
standing success from every view-
point
FREE SOFTBALL
GAME TONIGHT
AT CITY PARK
Double-Header Exhibition WU1
Open Officially The Local
Softball Season _—-i
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Farm Payments—
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mit us to release any of those
cases until all the related farms
have been accounted for.
“We have several thousand oth-
er cases in which some one or
more interested parties have re-
quested that a portion or all of
their part of the payment be made
to some agency from which they
have borrowed money. The Wash-
ington office has only recently sent
us instructions as to how these
cases can be handled, and it will
require some time to dispose of
them.
“There are many other factors
to be' considered, one of which is
the fact tlfat we do not make any
payments in this office. We certify
an application to the General Ac-
counting Office and if they ap-
rove it, it is submitted to the
isbursing Office in Dallas where
checks are written and sent to the
county office. We have no jurisdic-
tion over these two offices as they
are not part of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration.
Other Checks Due Soon
“We assure you that it is our
desire to see farmers get their
payments as soon as possible; but
there are certain provisions set
up for the safety of both the pro-
ducer and the Government that
tnust be followed. We are expect-
ing to clear up practically all the
remaining applications in the next
four or five weeks.
“We believe county committee-
men will be interested to know
that up to May t we have certified
to the General Accounting Office
264,691 applications for payment
in connection with the 1938 pro-
gram for an amount u£ $41,035,-
671.23; whereas, on May 1 last
year we had certified only 156,771
applications in connection with
1937 program in an amount of
$26,401,868, Comparatively speak-
ing the certifications to date far
exceed those of the same date last
year, in spite of the change in
the program for 1988. In 1938, be-
cause of the fact that producers
had the privilege of completing
soil-fbuilding practices any time
up to December 81, it was not
possible for any payments to be
made until after January 1, 1989.
In spite of this, from the figures
given above, it may be seen that
much faster progress hiuf been
made than in previous years.*’
Stephenville’s softball season will
havo its official opening tonight,
May 12, when an exhibition game
will begin at 8 o’clock at the city
park diamond, R. L. Ballow an-
nounced Wednesday.
This year's league will be com-
posed of four teams, whereas eight
teams participated last year. The
1939 “tens” will be known as Good-
rich Tire, Ballow Insurance, Clay
Building and Recreation Depart-
ment.
The game tonight will be a dou-
ble-header and is being held as an
exhibition. Each team will see ac-
tion during the program, Ballow
said. There will be no charges
made at the gate for admitance
in order to obtain as large a crowd
as possible for the official opening
of the softball season to Stephen-
ville.
Plans Made for Bleachers
Plans are under way, Ballow
said, to get more bleachers built
as quickly as possible, probably
starting next week. The ground
also will be placed in first class
condition and other improvements
made at the city park diamond.
Joe Xing, Stephenville High
School coach, will be the regular
umpire tills year and will officiate
at all the games, it was stated.
When official play is begun, the
teams will be required to have ev-
ery member in uniform for each
game.
The Junior Chamber of Com-
merce has a softball committee,
composed of A. M. Leigon, Joe
Bailey Tate, Jimmy Marshall and
E. Terrell Coleman. This commit-
tee will assist in making the soft-
ball season this year a success.
CLAIRETTE
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' The cemetery working was at-
tended by a large crowd Saturday
and quite a bit of work was done.
People from Abilene, Ranger,
Eastland Colorado City, Stephen-
ville, DuMin, Hico. Fort Worth,
Alexander, and other places at-
tended.
Mrs. Sam Thompson and daugh-
ter, Mary Sue, of Stephenville,
spent Saturday night with Mr.
and Mrs. Homer Lee and family
and attended the baccalaureate
sermon Sunday at Alexander. Miss
Billie Lee and Luther Hudgens
from this community are gradu-
ates. Also a number of post gradu-
ates from here are attending the
Alexnder school.
Mrs. Nora Reagor of Abilene
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Thomp-
son.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Hitt of Alex-
ander and Mr. and Mrs. John Car-
le of Brown wood were guests of
‘r. and Mrs. Bill Salmon Sunday.
Miss Jessie Faye Harvey and
Alton Parten were married last
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mayfield
are progressing nicely on their
new rock house.
Mrs. Willie Wolfe of Dublin
visited with home folks Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Glynn Lee and
son, Jesse Mack, spent Saturday
night with Mrs. Willie Wolfe at
Dublin.
A large crowd went tp skate
Friday and Saturday night at
Alexander.
Mrs. Mary Fret well of Waco
spent the past ten days with her
sister, Mrs. Mark Dowdy. Mrs.
Fretwell is locating in Dublin in
the future.
Mrs. Eunice Salmon of Stam-
ford spent the past week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rob-
erson.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Edwards of
Fort Worth were week-end guests'
of his brother, Jim Edwards, and
family. •
Mrs. Dale Mayfield and sons and
Mrs. Louis Mayfield of Abilene
visited Mr. and Mrs. Cleo May-
field and daughter over the week-
end.
First Baptist Church
Regular services will be held
Sunday, May 14th, featuring
Mothers’ Day in all departments.
The services will be held as fol-
lows: Sunday school, 9:80 a. m.;
Preaching by the pastor, 10:80 a.
m.; B. T. U., 7:06 p. m. Everybody
should attend church services on
Mother’s Day. Let's make it un-
animous next Sunday. Go to church
morning and evening. Bring your
parents, children, friends, visitors
and all strangers. Everybody U
entirely welcomed to any and all
of our services.—Rev. L. D. Mit-
chell, pastor.
The Oberlin College mock politi-
cal convention is the oldest stu-
dent activity of its kind in the U
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MEN’S '
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HiGGinBOTHRm Bros. 6 Co.
Stephenville, ‘NME*
(By Mrs. A. O. Stephens)
Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Womack and
little daughter, Judith, Mr. and
Mrs Robert Womack and little
son, David, and Mrs. Joe Fitz-
gerald spent from Friday until
Sunday with their parents and
other relatives at Anson. “Grand-
father” Womack has been ill for
some time.
Mrs. Luther Pittman and son,
Luther Nyal, of Brice spent the
past week-end in this community
with her mother and brother, Mrs.
Smallwood and Rev. Lafe Small-
wood, and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Pipes had
as their guests Sunday Mr. Pipes’
cousins of Fort Worth.
The school closing programs
were well-attended and the good
picnic dinner was enjoyed by a
large crowd. All reported an en-
joyable time.
The home demonstration women
entertained a large number of peo-
ple Thursday night with a play.
The Fitzgerald nursery also enter-
tained with two numbers. All was
enjoyed by everyone present
The homecoming at Oak Grove
was well attended despite the
threatening weather. Many old-
time friends met for the first time
in many years. Singing wis en-
joyed in the afternoon.
Sunday is our regular preach-
ing day at Harvey church. Rev.
Shannon will preach at 11 o’clock
Sunday and Sunday night and
singing will be held Sunday after-
invited to at-
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