Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1949 Page: 5 of 12
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1 Mother of Local,
Resident Died
Sunday Morning
Funeral service* for Mr*. J. P.
Tunnell, mother of Mr*. Enni*
Favor* of Stephenville, were held
in Abilene Monday at the Dudley
Church of Christ. Mr*. Tunnell
died at her daughter’s home her*
Sunday morning at 11:30.
The Rev. Emmett Banta of
Houston officiated and burial fol-
lowed in the Tecumseh Cemetery.
The body wa* taken from here to
Abilene late.Sunday. .
Mr*. Tunnell had been in poor
health for *evejaljTiontha, and she
died during’T'visiT'iaJier daugh-
ter’s here. She was a resident of
Oplin, having lived there for 46
years.
Mrs. Tunnell, the former Mary
Alice Wolfe, was bom in Brown
county in 1882. She was married
to Henry Tumnelt, who died in 1933.
In 1946, she was married to J. P.
Tunnell.
She is survived by her husband,
three daughters, Mrs. Ennis Favors
of Stephenville, Mrs. Everett Davis
of Gilbert, Ari*., and Mrs. Grady
Haynes of Abilene. Two sons, Seth
Tunnell Calfax, La., and Olen Tun-
nell, Wichita Falls, also survive.
Other survivors are five broth-
ers, Sam Wolfe, Lampasas; Ar-
thur and Hugh Wolfe, Pomona,
Calif.; Ernest and Carl Wolfe, Los
Angeles, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs.
Harvey Stuart, Pomona, Calif.,
and Mrs. Howard Brinkenhoff, Los
Angeles, Calif., and 17 grandchil-
dren.
very active In the church, civic
•nd social life of the Mty.
Her daughter, Mrs.' Mary Jane
Guerra of Balboa, Canal Zone, vis-
isted her mother in recent months
and was unable to return at the
time of her death.
Besides her husband and (laugh-
ter, Mrs. Anderson is survived by
one sister, Mrs. L. 0. Burnett,
Oklahoms City, Okla.. and three
brothers, Bob Tindall, Tulia; Dave
Tindall, Cranfills Gap, and Rube
Tindall, Breckenridge. There are
also several nieces and nephews
who survive.
Mr*. W. H. Lee
Dies at Home
In Fort Worth
♦NEPH Week Set
For Oct. 2 to 8
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Mr8. Anderson Dies
Saturday, Sept. 24
After Long Illness
Mrs. Hays Anderson, who had
been in ill health for the past
two years, passed away in the Bte-
p harm lie hokpital Saturday eve-
ning, Sept. 24, at 7:46.
Filial rites were conducted Mon-
day morning at 10 o’clock in the
chapel of the Stephenville Funeral
Horn? with Rev. J. W. Ford of
Arlington and Rev. W. L. Hankla.
officiating.
Interment was in West End
cemetery. Serving as pallbearers
were Herman Anderson, Sam An-
derson, Binous Tindall, C. R. Tin-
dall, Dave C. Tindall and Hatley
Tindall.
Eula Mae Tindall was born Nov.
19, 1B88 at Cranfills Gap, daugh-
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. R.
Tindall.
She came to Stephenville in 1911
to attend Tarletoii College. She
taught music in various places
but has made her home here most
of her life except for a few years
spent in Louisiana.
She was married to Hays An-
derson in 1917 ar\d to the union
were bora-one son and one daugh-
ter. The son died in infancy.
Mrs. Anderson was a member
of the Methodist church and until
the time of her last illness was
Leroy C. AyeockJVow
In Charge of Amer.
Consulate in S. 4.
Leroy C. Aycock, who has a long
and successful record of govern-
ment service behind him, becomes
American vice-consul in charge of
the American consulate at Buena-
veenpura, Columbia, 8. A., Oct. 1.
He has most recently been sta-
tioned at Port of Spain, Trini-
dad, and before his servicee in
World War if, was stationed at
Guaymas, Mexico.
• Vice-Consul Aycock is a native
of Erath county, and is the son
of Mrs. Mattie Aycock, 665 Elm
Street, and attended Stephenville
schools. He last visited his mother
during the Christmas holidays of
1947.
New Auto Body.
Plant and Repair
Shop to Open
Lawrence Butler, well-known
throurhout this area as an expert
auto body repair man, announces
this week that he will open a
plant of his own about Oct. 10.
The shop will be located one
block east of North Belknap Street,
near tfhT Earl Wekthers Sandwich
Shop. New equipment of the latest
design is beltag installed through-
out the plant.
Butler is Considered an expert
ia this line of work.
Tolar w Happy
Over Plans For
New Paved Road
Announcement of the proposed
plans for the building at a fario-
to-market paved 'toad from Tolar
to the Hill City community south-
east of that town has brought
genuine satisfaction to the people
of that section of Hood county.
The ne* road will traverse a
teritorjr that has long been with-
out adequate road facilities and
will open up a country that does
most of its trading in Tolar. Mile-
age involved in the project is about
six miles. Construction is due to
begin in October.
A. W. Boyd, i_________
for the State Highway Department
with headquarteers in Stephenville,
will supervise the construction of
the new highway.
Mr*. W. H. Lee, 69, widow of
the late police chief, died at her
residence, 3234 James, about 0
p.m. Wednesday after a two-year
ilness.
Mrs. Lee’s only son, Ed K. Lee,
is a lieutenant of the police force.
The former Miss Daisy King,
•he was a native of Stephenville,
where she was born Oct. 18, 1879.
Her father, William A. King was
a brother of Thos. B. King, whose
sons and daughters, with their
families are well known in Erath
county. Mrs. Lee’s late husband
waa a brother of Mrs. Frank Po-
teet, who also lives in Stephen-
ville.
After her marrige ->10 W. H.
(Henry) Lee, the couple lived on
the ranch for a time, and he be-
came deputy sheriff and later city
marshal at Stephenville.
In 1906, they moved to Fort
Worth and he became a special
investigator of the United States
Internal Revenue Bureau. He later
was employed by the city water
department and served for a period
as a motorman for the old Citisens
Street Railway Company before
joining the police department at a
mounted officer in 1915.
He' rose to police chief in 1922
and organised the Fort Worth Po-
lice Band, at one time considered
the finest musical organization of
its kind in the Southwest. He re-
tired from the police force in 1931
and died jn 1937.
Because her son also had joined
the police force in 1921, Mrs. Lee
always felt a close kinship to the
police department and often re-
ferred to herself as “the mother
of all Fort Worth policemen."
She was a member of the Mat-
thews Memorial Methodist Church,
having joined the church at its
former location at Shaw and Lips-
comb. Only last Sunday she attend-
ed services for the first time in
several months.
In addition to her son, Mrs. Lee
is survived by a granddaughter,
Mrs. R. W. Hudeck of Alameda,
Calif.
Ray Crowder Funeral Heme is
in charge of arrangements.
HARBIN
(Mrs. Raymond Martin)
Mr. and Mrs. Jewel and son of
Crane spent last week-end visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Evarns ana
looking for a home in this vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Choffin,
who moved from this community
several weeks ago to Abilene, have
moved back to the Guy Sones place.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McGee are
the proud parents of a ’baby son,
born in the Stephenville hospital,
Friday, Sept. 28. Mri. McGee ig
the former Miss Doris Martin.
Oct. 2-8, 1949, will mark the
fifth observance of the National
Employ the Physical Handicapped
Week. It will be a week when fed-
eral, state, and local officials and
private' organizations and in-
dividual* will unite in a nation-
wide program to enlist public sup-
port for, and interest in, employ-
ment of the physically handicapped.
With each succeeding NEPH
week campaign it becomes increas-
ingly clear that a 7-day campaign*
once a year is not enough. Interest
awakened during NEPH Week
must lie kept alive during the en-
tire year.
Employers should hire the handi-
capped for the same reasons they
hire able-bodied personnel—for
their ability to produce on the job.
The final yardstick ftfr measuring
efficiency of workers is result*.
It is results that count on any job.
Custom has often nut a premium
on high standards of physical per-
fection without regard for the job
to be done. It is here that tha
capable worker with an impairment
is unjustly penalized and the em-
ployer and the community unwit-
tingly suffer because of the, eco-
nomic waste of his productive ca-
pacities. ,
Different jobs calls fer different
kinds of experience and abilities,'
Even a perfect physical specimen
might well be disqualified because
of lark of aptitude or experience
for a big majority of job openings
in any community. How tjiany able-
bodied job applicants epp'd qualify
as expert accountants, or just plain
bookkeepers, or as timber toppers T
How many could qualify as major
league baseball players T Gene
Bearden, famous pitcher for the
Cleveland Indians, is physically
handicapped as a result of war
injuries. And there are others—
Monty Stratton, “Three Finger”
Brown, Bert Sheppard, Lou Bris-
sie, Pete Gray. The "Stratton
Story” vividly portrays on the
screen one man’s comeback fight.
The selective placement process,
which is carried on by the Em-
ployment Service, is highly impor-
tant to the handicapped worker.
Proper placement of the physically
impaired individuals is essential to
the well being of all handicapped
workers because it builds up em-
ployer respect and confidence in
the handicapped as abla workers.
Miss Ann Newman spent Sun-
day and Monday here with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Newman
and her jirother, David.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this means of
expressing our heartfelt thanks for
the beautiful floral offerings, acts
of kindness and words of sympathy
shown us at the time of the passing
away of our beloved mother, Mrs.
F. Mable Walker. Mrs. R. R.
Danner, Mrs. Dwight Mclnroe,
Mrs. Wm. W. Pierce, Mrs. N. B.
Loudder, C. E. Walker and L. W.
Walker.
Almost all English sparrows
in the U. S. are descended from
eight pairs imported from Eng-
9ET.DEN
(Mrs. Jayne Currier)
Rev. E. W. liolt filled his ap-
pointment at Pleasant Hill churvh
both Sunday morning and night.'
tyev. and Mi*. Holt were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Klzey Pate.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stone and
little son, Jimmie, of Plainview are
visiting Mr and Mrs. Elbert Stone,
Mr. and Mrs. fc. T. Smith, Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Stone, Mr. and Mrs.
Alva Stone and relatives in Ste-
phenville while here.
Mr. and Mrs. George Brackett,
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Carrol and
Cary of Fort Worth were week-
end guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
McGhee and son, Herman.
Those visiting in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Traweek and
sons over the week-end were Mrs.
Callie Spick, Mr. and Mrs. Weldon
Lewis and little son, R. W., all of
Lamesa; Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cross
and non' Douglas Ray, of Rig
Spring; Mr. and Mrs. Jim lieak-
ins of Fort Worth; Mrs. Dave Key
of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
Traweek and Linda and Bill Tra-
week, all of Stephenville.
Rev. and Mr*. C. O. Keeler spent
Saturday night in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Omer Cook, and were
Sunday guests of Mrs. J. D. Gar-
ner and Miss Faye.
Mr. amt Mrs. J. A, Currier ami
daughter visited in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Koonsman and
son, Tony. Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smith and
daughter, Rita Gay, of Sinton, were
week-end guests of his parenta,
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Smith, and sis-
ter. Mrs. Fied Carey and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cornett of
Dixon were recent visitors of Mr.
snd Mrs. T. W. Hatchett and Mr*.
Zells Hammitt amt family.
O. S. Rogers of Plainview Is
visiting Sc Men relative*.
Mr. and Mrs. Travis Cook and
Mrs. D. C. Wilkerson of Stephen-
ville w*fe visiting in the Omer
Cook home Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mr*. Elbert Stone, and
Mr. and Mra. J. H. Stone and son,
Jimmy, were week-end guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Will Stone of Zaval-
% VSn. ., ’ . ,
Attended McElyea
Funeral Sept. 22
Member* of the immediate family
of R. M. McElyea who attended
funeral services for him Thurs-
day, Sept. 22, include C. H. Mc-
Elyea and family, Fqrt Worth;
Mrs. G. Fruin ami Mis* Glenda
Fruin, Midland; E. 0. MrElyoa and
family, Jayton, and Mr*. , W. T.
Criswell, Olton.
Other out-of-town relative* pres-
ent were: Mr. and Mr*. V. 8. Ford
and John Hammett, Slaton; Mr.
and Mra. Gib Itnglaml and Gua
Martin, Afton; Mr*. Sue Cunning-
ham and Mr. and Mrs, Woodrow
llofackett. Levellnnd; Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Hudson, Austin; Mrs. K. M.
Tibbs and Mr. and Mrs. John Mc-
Alister. Mingus; Mrs. Minnie Mc-
Cain and Mr*. E. E. Dabney, Do
Leon, and Mr. and Mr*. V. G.
Locke, Fort Worth.
Friday, September 30, 1040 Stephenville Empire-Trlhu
Inhabitants of New Zealand have
the longest life expectanry.
NOTICE!
We wish to advise all the old customers of
> MRS. RUBY HITT
. that she in now located at the laundry directly in frbnt
of the depot (on Tarleton Avenue.)
\^Ve have complete laundry service, and will greatly
•/' appreciate your business.
Call 238 for Pick-up and Delivery. Service
TARLETON AVENUE LAUNDRY
Ruby Hitt and Earleen Stephens, Owners
WE DO
ALL KINDS OF REPAIRS
Grind Discs - Build Truck Beds
All kinds of welding, electric, acetylene, forge
WE AI-MO SELL
Oak Lumber—AH Kinds of Utility Steel
“Bring yonr wort where you ean get It done!”
We have four welders, three mechanics
and one blacksmith
W. R. LOONEY 6ARACE
.393 H. Graham
WE SELL
BULBS
GENUINE HOLLAND IMPORTED
(iET YOURS NOW AND PLANT RIGHT AWAY!
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NARCISSUS
HYACINTH , c.w.
2 For 15c
Cluster 15C
2 For 15C
2 For 15C
Perry Bros.
5c, 10c — 25c to $5
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Higgs, Rufus F. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1949, newspaper, September 30, 1949; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1131097/m1/5/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.