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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS. -FRIDAY, JANUARY 1T.TS4T
SIXTEEN PAGES—Vol. 71, No. 3
BAND CLINIC TO
BE HELD IN CITY
NEXT SATURDAY
Second Annual Event to Start
At 9 A. M. Saturday in
JTAC Auditorium
Stephenville’e second annual band
clinic, one of the four or five to-
be held In Texas preliminary to
the State clinic at Waco in Feb-
ruary, will be held at the John
Tarleton College auditorium next
Saturday, January 18.
Both morning and afternoon ses-
sions will be held, according to G.
W. Collum, director of the Steph-
enville High School Band, who stat-
ed that a band of about 86 mem-
bers would be assembled, with
all instruments represented, when
the morning session begins in the
Tarleton auditorium at 9 a. m.
Saturday. The afternoon program
will start at 1:30 p. m.
The public, Collum said, is in-
vited and urged to attend both
the morning and afternoon ses-
sions.
Sponsored by Music Co.
The clinic is being sponsored by
the Ault Music Company of Fort
Worth, sponsor of the first clinic
here last year, through the co-
operation of John Tarleton Col-
lege and the Stephenville High
School.
Last year the clinic was attend-
ed by 175 students and teachers,
with 35 of this number being band
instructors, from a radius of more
than 100 miles around Stephen-
ville. Attendance at the clinic Sat-
urday is expected to be about the
same, Collum estimated.
Col. Earl D. Irons, North Texas
Agricultural College music direc-
tor, composer and nationally known
music judge, will be the instructor
and conductor at the clinic.
Local Band Leaders
The Stephenville High School
Band, which has participated in
the national band contests during
the last two years, and the DeLeon
High School Band, as last year,
have again been selected as offi-
cial bands for the clinic. They will
he assisted, hbwever. by the John
Tarleton College Military Band
and the Tarleton All-Girl Band, as
well as the Dubltn, Hico and Strawn
school bands.
Classes A and B. will play Sat-
urday from 9 to 10:30 a. m. and
Classes C and D from 10:30 to
noon. Similar sessions will be held
in the afternoon.
Collum said a luncheon will be
given all band teachers at 12
o’clock.
NEW PASTOR
Experiment Station
Plans Announced
President Roosevelt Inaugurated
Plans
eration
for the first year of op-
of the new West Texas
Cross-Timbers sandy land experi-
ment station here were announc-
ed Tuesday by B. C. Langley, su-
perintendent, who moved here with
1 • C 11 __ ■ *— - il I., tt
some beef cattle for experimental
work. Probably purchased will be
some good grade Hereford cows
and a registered Hereford bull. j
Incidentally, Erath County and
this immediate section probably
his family during the latter part (has more Hereford eattle than any
from tnc
Eev. Harry Lee Spencer, new
pastor of the First Baptist Church
in Stephenville, who will be hon-
ored at a Union Service *t the
First Baptist Church next Sunday
night. Bev. Spencer was highly re-
garded by the congregation of the
College Avenue Baptist Church In
Fort Worth, where he has been
serving as pastor during the last
five years.
of 1940 from the State experi-
ment station at Spur.
Field crop work at the new
619-acre station will include a va-
riety of tests on cotton, corn and
grain? sorghums and fertilizer tests*
with the same crops and with pea-
nuts. Tests to determine proper
planting dates for this section
will be conducted with peanuts.
I “Wc also will begin, as soon as
! possible,” Langley said, “some
work on the control of insects and
diseases affecting field crops, es-
pecially peanuts, in this area.”
Fruit Tests Planned
In the horticulture line, Lang-
ley said tests were planned on dif-
ferent varieties of fruits and ferti-
lizer cover crops and a limited
amount of breeding work will be
done. For the fruit tests the sta-
tion will grow its own root stock
material in order to eliminate any
differences in the experiments that
might arise from using a mixture,
or different kinds of root stock.
Langley said some cooperative
work will be started this year wjth
fruit growers in this region in de-
veloping spray schedules to con-
trol the more common fruit in-
sects and diseases.
Livestock Plans KJade
Livestock experiments also will
be carried out at the station here,
the superintendent said.
“We have 360 acres of land that
will be cross-fenced to permit ro-
tation of grazing land," he said.
“This acreage includes native pas-
tures as well as cultivated pas-
tures.”
All outside fences already have
been built around the two tracts
comprising the 619-acre station.
In the near future, Langley an-
nounced, the station will have
Jack Teddlie, at the annual
stocholders and directors meeting
of the Farmers-First National
Bank here Tuesday afternoon, was
elected as a director of the bank.
Officers and other directors for
the year also were chosen.
The other directors are Earl L.
Frey, E. E. Hatchett, Chas. Neb-
lett Sr.,’ Chas. Neblett Jr., Joe B.
Frey and Chas. Long.
Officers for the year are the
same as in 1940. They are Chas.
Neblett Sr., chairman of the board;
Earl L. Frey, president; Jack Ted-
dlie, cashier, and Hugh and Fred
McCleskey, assistant cashiers.
With Bank Since 1924
-Teddlte has-been with the FarTn-
ers-First National Bank here since
1924. After graduating from Bluff
Dale High School in 1920, he was
employed with the Bluff Dale State
Bank, an institution which was M.<ivv ______ ______^ .........__
largely owned and controlled by and farmers produce a large nunv
the late W. H. Frey, where he l ber of livestock each year, Coun-
worked for one year before being ty Agent G. D. Everett believes
employed with the First State th
Bank in Stephenville. He later be-
came connected with the Stephen-
other breed, although there also
are quite a few Shorthorns and
Jerseys.
Livestock work at the experi-
ment station, with cattle, will have
to do largely with grazing, the
superintendent informed, but it
also will include utilization of what-
ever seed crops can be grown lo-
cally.
Use Home-Grown Feeds
Later on, the station will pur-
chase some hogs which, as in the
case of cattle, will be used most-
ly to utilize home-grown feeds as
much as possible.
“We will have a few sheep, too,”
Langley added, “to run on the
brushy land of undesirable weeds
and shrubs.”
Langley pointed out that these
plans are subject to change but
constitute the general outline of
the station’s tentative program of
work for the year.
“Other things will come, up from
time to time,” he explained, ‘as
demands are made upon us for
other work, and as available facili-
ties will permit the station to ex-
pand.”
Three Families Here
Personnel of the station is com-
BOYS' DEFENSE
PROJECT BEING
TAUGHT IN CITY
EH Pushing Is Supervisor
Of Local Project At
Ward School
A national defense re-employ-
ment project for boys not in
school and between the ages of
17 and 24, inclusive, is in opera-
tion in Stephenville, at the ward
school cafeteria building, with Eli
F. Rushing, of Stephenville, as
supervisor. Rushing is a grad-
uate of Texas A. & M. College.
Handled through the vocation-
Tbe third-term tradition wlU be broken January 20 when Franklin t>. ^ cu o“^R‘nuhHc^hoo*!
.rated a. Prealdent of the United State, for a third i S^ourne.'UuKfc
term. At the same time former Secretary of Arrlcnlture, Henry A. Wat- hpl., „ach 8choo] day
FIRST DRILL IS
JiELD BY GUARD
Forty-five members of the Ste-
phenville home defense company
met in regular drill at the recrea-
tional building in the city park
from 7:30 to 6 o’clock Monday
night and, in this first drill, learn-
Red Brand Fence
Week Sponsored
By Local Concern
posed of Langley, T. E. Denman j ed various movements described
and P. H. Czarowitz who, with
their families, already have located
here. Denman is a horticulturist
and Czarpwitz is assistant in farm
and ranch management.
An office building is Jocated, easi-
ily accessible, one mile north of the
overpass on U. S. Highway 281.
The superintendent's residence has
been modernized and outside fen-
ces erected around the entire sta-
tion site.
“We hope to have cottages built
later,” Langley concluded, “for our
workmen.”
I’LL TELL THE \
WORLD
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Steph-
business conditions than in a Food ay",“turning in’14® fet
misdemeanor indict-
fL Sgh£L kWlt!hlf°lnb.alrt I CrtnHwU cou* will convene next
Mino^iy mill. ItwwnJLw! .nH ! Monday January 20 and the crim-
inal docket will be taken up. The
third week petit jury panel has
been ordered to report Monday
morning.
Several non-jury civil cases have
been disposed of during the first
two weeks of the term, according
Stockmen Asked to
Increase Supply Of
Hogs And Cattle
Since Erath County stockmen
at the following information
from the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture will be of in-
ville State Bank before starting terest at this time.
with the Farmers-First National
Bank in 1924 as assistant cashier.
At the close of business Decem-
ber 31, 1940, the bank had a de-
posit strength of $1,253,718.89.
Grand Jury Turns
In Indicements In
15 Cases Tuesday
JaSSSj terTeTwenTyShnjud*
Mineral Wells, Brownwood and
Abilene, there is a demand for
many workmen. Prior to the time
I left Texas for this assignment,
many men had already been given
employment at substantial salar-
ies. Others will undoubtedly be
added from time to time. But
“In late December, 1940, the sec-
retary -of agriculture issued a
statement pointing out certain ad-
justments in livestock production
and marketings which many farm-
ers might finflvt desirable Co make
in view of the prospects for the
expansion in consumer demand for
meats in 1941 and 1942 resulting
from the defense program.
‘The secretary said in part:
‘Farmers have an opportunity to
increase their income from hogs
by increasing production (number
of pigs raised) above the level
now indicated.’ He suggested that
farmers and ranchers ‘would do
well to market more cattle’ during
the period of strong demand ‘ra-
ther than to hold back increasing
numbers of breeding stock.’
“The basis and the supporting
facts for the secretary’s state-
ment have been given in several
outlook and situation reports re-
cently released by the Department
of Agriculture.”
Bull Circle tb Meet Later
J. i, fll-Uie.
Eratn County Bull Circle, announ-
ced that a meeting of the organi-
zation scheduled to have been held
last Monday has been postponed
until further notice. Muddy roads
were blamed for the postponement.
NEW YORK POULTRY MEETING
ATTENDED BY HENSARL1NG
Roosevelt Is Inaugurated as
term. At the same time former secretary or Agriculture. Henry a. «»► wVth classes held each school day
lace, will succeed John N. Garner as vice president. Arrow points !• - g to lz and from 1 to 5
President Roosevelt as be stood la the rain to review passing troops 0'ci0Pk
during his Inauguration la 19M. Courses allowed are auto me-
chanics, woodwork, metalwork and
electricity. Each course is to last
approximately eight weeks and the
program was set up by the fed-
eral government for an initial per-
iod of six months. At the comple-
tion of each course, the student is
awarded a certificate.
There is no charge for the train-
ing, but each student is required
to put in a minimum of 15 hours
study each week.
Eighteen Boys Enrolled
Eighteen boys already have sign-
ed for the courses, Rushing said,
and any others interested may con-
tact the supervisor at the ward
school cafeteria building during the
hours, and on the days, specified.
The courses are designed for
young men to teach them skilled
trades considered of importance to
the national defense program and
to prepare the youths for employ-
ment in these skilled trades.
Roy B. Mefferd, John Tarleton
Agriculture, is area supervisor and
F. M. Thurman, Texas A. & M.
College, is state director of the
program,
Boys already taking the courses
Bill Baker, James Bennett,
in military circles as “the school
of the soldier.”
With the three commissioned of-
ficers, Oapt. L. E. Bredberg, First
Lieutenant H. E. Braeuer and Sec-
ond Lieutenant H. B. Garrett, in
charge, the company was divided
into two platoons. Capt. Bredberg
and Lieut. Garrett assumed com-
mand of one platoon and Lieut.
Braeuer and First-sergeant Wins-
ton Welch the other.
Several new members of the
home defense guard were signed
at the meeting Monday night,
Lieut. Braeuer reported.
All members of the unit are ur-
gently- requested to attend-the next
drill, Monday night at 7:30 o’clock
at the recreational building, offi-
cers state.
“This will be a very important
meeting,” Lieut. Braeuer empha-
sized, “ahd every member is re-
quired to be present to obtain in-
formation on uniforms, drills and
other matters of interest to the
local home defense guard.”
PUBLIC SCHOOL
ENROLLMENT UP
2ong with theM dfisinble condi* |gierj^‘ Albert Richard80n’
tions there will, naturally, be many
disadvantages. Not the least of
these will be the drifters who come
from any and everywhere—all
looking for an opportunity to get
inside the docket books of mer-
chants and other individuals. Most
of these appeals have no merit.
They should be ignored to the ex-
tent that it will soon become known
far and wide that Stephenville is
no place for the racketeer.
XT has been reported to me that
Washington is the gathering
place for undesirable people from
all over the country. And you
may inquire as to the reason. Well,
in the first place everybody here
has a job, most of them good jobs,
at government rates. Where there
are many people employed the
grafters rush in. Many, many
the Capitol must be
Mrs. J. T. Punches
Opens Office For
Hot Lunch Project
Mrs. Jim Tom Punches, of Alex-
ander, assumed her position as su-
pervisor of the Erath County WPA
not lunch project Monday and was
provided an office on the third
floor of the courthouse.
Twenty-four cooks, all Erath
County certified WPA workers, re-
ported Wednesday for medical ex-
aminations and will be ready to
start work in the cafeterias of
schools participating in the proj-
ect as soon as they receive health
certificates from the State.
W. B. Russell, county school su-
perintendent, announced Wednes-
day that summary reports on trans-
fatal results Jut who engages total amount of transportation re-
and pays for the neof, quested ^ fVi„
Hogi
schools of this
was $20,-
C. * Cl AA
found on every comer. But ‘ • ___________
vM^now° whenP and ^where^to Visit in Fort Worth
Jbljtheir raids, being equipped Mr. and Mrs. Jack Keyser of
MrPy with a full knowledge of Brady, who were here last Sun-
trteistt's:! E&Sssjsssia.t
business Operators. Eco- | Keyser. Miss Laurette Keyser and
onditions have been bad Mm D. W. German, for a short
many years, so much j visit with his brother, L. L. Key-
ontinued on Page 8) ser‘
T. A. Hensarling, head of the
John Tarleton College poultry de-
partment and superintendent of the
annual Tarleton International Egg-
Laying Contest, has just return-
ed from a two-day meeting of the
Council of Official Egg-Laying
Contests, held in New York City.
Besides acting as head of the
Tarleton poultry department, Hen-
sarling directs one of the four
largest egg-laying contests in the
United States, and the only one
in Texas. He made the trip to New
York, both ways, by air and this
marked the first time in his life
that he had ever had the experi-
ence of traveling by air.
"Since the trip,” Hensarling
says, “I would like to own a plane
myself, instead of my jallopy.”
The “Jallopy” he spoke about is
a new automobile.
, ... Many Entries in Contest
In the Tarleton contest this year
there are 100 pens and 1,300 birds
from 18 states entered. Keeping
up with these entries is a big task
itself but, in addition, Hensarling
must carry a full load of respon-
sibility in his department at the
college as an instructor. Then, too,
there are the many farmers and
poultrymen who come to him for
information and advice about their
flocks. , ,
He has, however, a couple of
laborers who do the actual gather-
ing of the eggs and other
work about the Tarleton poultry
farm where the contest is held.
There are 12 different breeds of
birds in this year’s contest whose
eggs are sold to the college dining
hall at a premium. The proceeds
from the sale of these eggs help
defray expenses of the egg-laying
contest, which begins each year on
Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 22
of the following year. The inter-
vening week is left open for the
purpose of preparing for the next
contest.
Thirty new students have en-
rolled in _ the Stephenville public
schools since the holidays, J. E.
Burnett, superintendent, reported
this week.
Most pf this increase, Supty
Burnett said, is a result of fami-
lies moving here from Brownwood,
j Mineral Wells and other places
to be near employment at one of
the army camps in this section.
No provision has been made,
either by the federal or state gov-
ernment, it .was stated, for finan-
cial assistance to the local school
board because of these additional
students this term, but it was point-
ed out that their presence will in-
crease the Stephenville school dis-
trict's scholastic census when it is
taken in March for the following
school year.
Supt. Burnett remarked that
there are approximately 25 boys
and girls of school age in Steph-
cnville who, for some reason or
other, arc not attending the schools
here. He said that the assistance
of the local citizenship is invited
in persuading these prospective
students to enroll in the.Stephen-
ville public schools.
Mid-term examinations will be
held Thursday and Friday, Janu-
ary 23 and 24, Burnbtt announc-
ed, after which the second term’s
work-.will begin.
T. A. HENSARLING
Until last year, a product of
the Tarleton contest held the
world’s record for individual egg
production. This bird, Lady Tem-
ple, a single-combed White Leg-
horn from Temple, Texas, laid 345
eggs in 357 days. In 1940, however,
a Rhode Island Red in another con-
test broke this record, laying the
same number of eggs with a lit-
tle more weight. Lady Temple was
beaten by less than two points.
The meeting from which Hen-
sarling has returned from New
York is the place where rules and
regulations which govern the vari-
ous egg-laying contests through-
out the United States are. worked
out.
Each year the Tarleton contest,
the results of which are interna-
tionally kept up with, attracts con-
publicity to John Tarleton College,
Stephenville and Erath County.
Returns From Visit
Mrs. W. J. Allen returned last
week after spending the holidays
at Idalou in West Texas with her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. F. H. Cannon. She also vis-
ited her brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bostick at
Slaton, her friends, Mr. and Mrs.
A. C. Johnson in Lorenza and Miss
Reulah Cannon at Post and on
her way home stopped in Abilene
for t\ visit with another daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Zickler and son.
Again this year the CIay”Btflld-
ing Material Company has desig-
nated a special Red Brand Fence
Week, from January 20 through
February 5, during which carload
prices will prevail on this spe-
cial brand of fence material.
Officials of the concern state that
they' have fence bought at a low-
er price than that prevailing today
and have made this saving avail-
able to their customers. Since steel
prices arc somewhat unsettled,
due to the national defense pro-
gram, the firm announces that
sales of this fence will be sub-
ject to stocks on hand.
Ranchmen and farmers expect-
ing to purchnsc fence this spring
are inv’tcd by the Clay Building
Material Cimpany to call early
during Red Brand Fence Week, al-
though a carload is being unload-
ed today and officials of the com-
pany believe that they have ade-
quatc stock on hand now to take
care at the needs ot tneir cus-
tomers.
Erath Woman
Is Candidate For
District Office
Mrs. E. S. Jackson, chairman of
the Erath County Home Demon-
stration Council during the past
two years, is a candidate for dis-
trict vice president, District 7,
Texas Home Demonstration Asso-
ciation, Miss Edith Lawrence,
county home demonstration agent,
announced Tuesday.
Mrs. Jackson’s name has been
presented by the Clairette Home
Demonstration Club, of which she
is a member, to Mrs. J. M. Hamil-
ton of Abilene, present district
vice president.
. She has seryed as president.of.
her club two years, was club re-
porter one year, has been a bed-
room demonstrator and kitchen
demonstrator, is a former secre-
tary-treasurer of the county home
demonstration council, and, as pre-
viously stated, has been chairman
of the county council for the past
two years.
The Erath County candidate for
the office of district vice president
is a graduate of- the Sam Hous-
ton State Teachers College and
taught school for a number of
years. She also was postmistress
at Hico four years.
Arrive Here on Visit
Mrs. I. F. Bay and small daugh-
ter, Sandra Sue of San Antonio,
arrived here Friday for a visit
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs,
Johnston at their home on
West Vanderbilt street. Mrs. Bay
was formerly Miss Mildred John-
ston. She and Mr. Bay were mar-
ried in Stephenville and lived here
for several years afterwards. They
have been located in San Antonio
for the last two years.
Zack Brooks, Ravmond Carr, Cleon
Davis, Johnnie Fincher, Ross Fin-
cher, Wilbur Caines, Wilton Gar-
ner, Newt Jackson, Pruitt Jackson,
Willie Blake, Edmond McDonald,
F. A. Pillebaum, Custer Rampley,
Royce Stacy, Nolan Stone and
Ray Waugh.
CO. DOFFICERS
TRANSFERREDTO
OTHEROUTFITS
Additional Promotions Are An-
nounced In Local Company
At Camp Bowie
ipro
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Palo Pinto Official Diet
Frank B. Watson, 71, Palo Pinto
County tax assessor and deputy
tax assessor for the last 20 years,
died of a heart attack at his home
In Palo Pinto Tuesday morning.
A native of Hill County, he went
to Palo Pinto County with his pa-
rents, settling near Santo, when
siderable attention and favorable^ ha was 8 years old. He married
Mias Gina Danner of Santo. Five
children survive.
Miss May Allmon, who has been
under treatment at the Stephen-
ville Hospital for several weeks
following a major operation, is im-
Droving satisfactorily during tha
ast few days, it was reported
Thursday. Miss Allmon was reared
near Stephenville and has many
friends here. She formerly taught
in the Selden school and is now
employed as a teacher in the
school at Lipan.
Guardsmen Visit Hoi
of Oor
Several members of Company D,
142nd Infantry, Stephenville unit
of the Texas National Guard now
at Camp Bowie, spent the week-
end here with relatives and friends.
The local company moved to the
army camp at Brownwood Friday,
January 3. The entire Thirty-sixth
Division now has been moved to
the camp. Many of these units pas-
sed through StephenvtlTe, where
the men in these outfits stopped
to eat and to refuel.
y~*egimental order dated-Jan-
uary 14 and effective immediate-
ly, Captain Lucian G. Rich, First
Lieut. Jerome W. Sorenson and
Second Lieutenant Albert E. Em-
mett, have been transferred from
Company D, 142nd Infantry, Na-
tional Guard, to other units.
Capt. Rich, commander of the
Stephenville company, was trans-
ferred to Headquarters Company,
Lieut. Emmett was transferred to
Company M and Lieut. Sorenson,
now-detached service. Infantry of-
ficers’ school, Ft. Benning, Ga.,
was transferred to Company G, all
in the same regiment, however,
as Company D.
Not only were the Company D
officers transferred, but all offi-
cers in all companies were changed
about to increase discipline and
military courtesy. Officers with
their home units had practically
“grown up” with their enlisted
men and the transfers were made,
after the entire Thirty-sixth Di-
vision had arrived at Camp Bowie,
for that reason.
New Officers of Co. D
New officers of Company D are:
Capt. Alvin P. Hammett, trans-
ferred from Company H; First
Lieutenant Ausy P. Brown, trans-
ferred from Company M; First
Lieutenant Wm. B. Mobley, now
detached service, Infantry officers’
training school, Ft. Benning, Ga.,
transferred from Company H.
Additional promotions were
made in Company D last week.
The following enlisted men were
appointed as privates, first-class:
George W. Coston, John D. Eddy,
Chesley P. Forsyth, Leroy Hamp-
ton, Watson S. Jones, John D.
Magee, William F. Outlaw, Eu-
gene O. Pryor, Robert D. Ram-
say, Troy O. Raulston, Paul C.
Smith. Richard B. Smith, Cecil C.
Smithey and Elverdge E. Zim-
merman.
Rated specialists in the classes
indicated wore: Sebum L. Bry-
ant, third class; Leroy Hamoton,
fourth class; William C. Maul-
din, fourth class, and C. L. Thack-
ston, third class.
Sgt. Glen Hurley hasbeen ap-
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