Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1951 Page: 4 of 12
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4—Slephenville Empire-Tribune
Friday. Jan. 19, 1951
^tepljenviUe IBmpire-Qfribune
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
'RUFUS F. HIGGS. Editor and Publisher
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E AND THERE
Mrs: J. Thomas Davis
v Mrs. Betty Ayre» Todd «nd little
daughter, Carol, returned to their
home in Dallas Saturday after a
visit with Mrs. Todd’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Young Ayres.
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—Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wood ami
children, Harold Jr. and Sue, visit-
ed in Dallas Sunday with Mrs.
Wood’s sister, Mrs. Reuben Dalton.
Music can play a very important
part in the worship service of a
ehurch. Certainly it can create an
atmosphere for a fit reception of
ter's sermon. Some hearts
drawn nearer to trod by the I the._grmed forces. It will be avail-
words and music of a jfood, song
well sung, than by any pother
means. For this reason much at-
tention is paid to the selection of
church music.
The - following are largely re-
sponsible for the music in the sev-
eral churches of Stephenville: Mr.
Don Morton plays the organ and
directs, the singing at th* Meth-
odist Church; Mr. Royal JJrantley
directs the singing and Miss Thel-
ma Geeslin plays the organ at the
Presbyterian Church;' Rev. Miley
is director of the singing and Mrs.
C. H. Dawson is pianist at the
Christian Church. For special serv-
ices Mr. John E. Tompkins is di-
rector.
Calvary Baptist Church has Mrs.
R. A. Stanton for .music director,
and Mrs. Beryl Coshy for pianist;
Mr. Aubrey Holley is director of
singing at the Church of Christ;
Mrs. L. B. Howard conducts the
choir and leads the singing at
First Baptist Church, and Mrs.
Felix Gresham is organist. Mrs.
Fred Parker is assistant organist.
At St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Mrs. L. G. Rich and Mrs. M. S.
Stag^ play the organ; at Grace
Baptist Mr. Sam Reynolds leads
the singing and Mrs. Cap Stewart
plays the pjano; the singing is
directed by Rev. Hippetoe and Mr.
Waylan Keith at the Washington
Street Baptist Church, while Mrs.
T. M. Spell plays the piano; Mrs.
Rex Cates is director of singing
and Rev. H. C. Brown and Mrs.
Clyde Eads are pianists.
Sunday some very inspiring spe-
cial numbers were sung: At the
Presbyterian Church Miss Jo Anne
Rollins sang “Blessed Redeemer,
that little Sharon Duggan, who has
been very ill, is greatly improved.
She is the .daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. tfuggan and the grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D.
Bledsoe.
We have heard, of course, that
the way to fight with a woman is
with your hat—grab it and run.
The fellow who coined that
slogan will be interested to know
that associated country women of
the world and other international
groups of ladies have been having
conferences on peace.
We don’t think this means the
kind of peace that lots of hus-
bands would like to have around
the house, but it shows that the
ladies, bless ’em, are thinking in
terms of vital issues.
It was the Chinese, it seems,
who said if there be harmony in
the horue there will be peace in
the world.
That would have to apply to just
about all the homes in the , world,
though.
It is ironic that just after an-
nouncing the glad'news that there
had been no outbreak of foot and
mouth disease in Mexico for 12
months, a few cases were dis-
covered in the state of Vera Crus.
This happened the same week,
that the U. & had lifted, the ban
on importation of canned Mexican
meat.
. .We have had no news of any
rescinding of this action. Mean-
while, the border is still closed to
fresh meat and livestock from
Mexico.
In norma] times, about half a
million head of cattle were brought
into southwestern grazing lands
each year from across the border.
Fruit growers in the fantastic
land of Southern California have
over three million smudge pots,
which cost about three dollars per
hour each to operate, we read.
This makes weather forecasting
especially important out there. A
government meteorologist named
Floyd Young has been hitting his
frost forecasts on the nail over
90 per cent of the time for 26
years, broadcasting over a clear
channel station that .teaches th*'
growers. •• -v
Here in Texas we are pretty
proud of our weather forecasters,
too, and you hear them on the air
right along.
The weather men in Fort Worth
give the outlook for weather with-
in a 500-mile radius, and it is
the official weather used by the
commercial air lines, as well as by
farmers and ranchers.
Many a million pounds of meat
on the hoof has been saved in
Texas because ranchmen were
warned of approaching blizzards
or hurricanes in time to hustle
their livestock to shelter.
Erie Hardy and A. J. Knarr of
the weather bureau here and their
staff have built up a following of
radio listeners that will compare
with any other. We have received
letters to prove that.
It is fitting that the 1951 Maid
of Cotton come from Texas. Jean-
Wams Against
Small Cotton
Crop in 1951
Dallas, Jan. 11 (IP)—A small cot-
ton crop next fall would be “a
nine Holland, one of three entries
from Houston, walked away with
favors of the judges in the annual
contest recently in Memphis,
sponsored by the National Cotton
Council.
As she travels about the world
the next, six months as cotton’s
good-will ambassadress, she also
will be proving what the world
has long known anyway, that the
prettiest girls come from here.
Three year? ago, -Matilda Nail
of Fort Worth was the Maid of
Cotton?
Accommodated
Columbus, Ind. HP—A man walk-
ed into police headquarters and
asked officers to lock him up. “I
am too drunk to be out in public,”
he told them. Request granted.
major catastrophe for the Cotton
Belt” and a blow to national se-
curity, according to Harold A.
Young, president of the National
Cotton Council.
Young, of north Little Rock,
Ark., spoke at the annual meeting
of the Texas Cotton Ginners As-
sociation.
Young said failure to produce a
16,000,000 bale crop in 1951 would
be “a grave threat to national
security.’’ He aaid 10,400,000 bales
would be consumed in the United
States this year and 6,800,00(1 bales
exported, thus leaving a carry-
over of some 500,000 bales.
Mrs. Harry Neblett, county Red
Cross chairman, reports that
Erath is one of the few smaller
counties to have a blood plasma
mobile unit. This unit, which will
operate out of Fort Worth, will
be here soon, she says. Blood,
whi^h will be given by volunteers,
will be stored ready to be sent to
able for use by Eratbian; in ease
of local disaster.
Mrs. Ress Wolfe will serve as
chairman of the program, and
volunteers will be asked to help in
other ways.
Mrs. Maude Hooten of Beltdn
and her dapghtcr, Exie Fay' of
Austin, were guests in the hoinp
of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Palmer for
the weekend. .
Mr. and Mia. Alton Maikelk had
as guests Sunday 'Mrs. MaikeH’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Mor-
ris of De Leon, a sister, Miss Iva
Morris of Fort Worth, another sis-
ter, Mrs. C. G. Morton and her
husband and spn, C. G. Jr., of
Burnet; a cousin from Cisco, Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Collier and chil-
dren, Tommie, Jack and Sue. Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Palmer were also
members of the party.
ABOUT THE HOME
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Decorating your own home can
be lots of fun. It gives you a
chance to express your personal-’
ity as well as give the home more
individuality.
There is a new approach to deco-
rating today that is indicative of
the times. Gone is the slavish
copying of a period! People deco-
rate their homes to suit the way
they live and the climate they live
in.
Furniture from different ages
and periods and combined with
the colors, fabrics and furniture of
styl
today to create a style of deeO-
accompanied by Miss Thelma Gees- j rating' known as “contemporary.”
lin; at First Baptist, Mrs. George j The so-called “modern" riecorat-
Braeuer sang “I Shait Not Pass ' ing is a styte. Time wilt tetl wheth-
This Way Again,” by Fffinger. er it will represent a transition
She was accompanied by Mis. period or a lasting style in furni-
Felix Gresham. ture and decorating history. But,*
At the Methodist Church an octet | whatever the case may be* it is a
was sung, “Love Divine,” a Mozart j fashion of today just as Georgian
theme. arrangement. Those sing- (18th century), colonial or Vic-
ing were Miss Dolores Irvin, Miss j torian were to the past.
June Haws^ Miss Grace Ogan, I When decorating a home, deter-
Mrs. E. M. Stone, Miss Janice Al- I mine the type of decorating anil
sup, Mrs. Frank Turner, }Wrs. Al- furniture most pleasing to yhu.
sup, Mrs. Audis McMahifn, Mrs. j Don’t be in any hurry to make a
Alice Funkbou^er, Mrs. Don Mer-|-decision here. Not many of us can
ton. Mr. Don. Morton was accom-j afford to redecorate often—indeed.
panist.
Stephenville should and does ap-
preciate her church music.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Keyscr
were in Dallas last week on busi-
ness for St. Stephens House.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dorsey had
Mrs. Dorsey's mother, Mrs. Thiele
of Dallas,', in their home for the
weekend.
Friends will lie glad to learn
BRIEFS
most people use the same furniture
for a lifetime.
As a rule, furnishing best follows
the type of house: Colonial furni-
ture in a Colonial house, modern
furniture in a modern house.
The background, that is the
floors, woodwork, wall coverings,
etc., is most important when
choosing pleasing furnishings for
a home. Try to coordinate furnish-
ings and background as much as
possible. ----
Njws of Your Neighbors
and Friends
Mr. and Mrs. Lem Wilcox and
son, Wan'eti,'and Mi s. W. T. Pen-
ick accompanuRT' Mr. and Mrs. A
O. Mayo or Clifton to Abilene
Sunday where they visited with
Bobby Penick, student from Wich-
ita Falls in Abilene Christian
College. .
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Loveless
and daughters, Joyce and Shirley,
left Sunday for Eastland where
they expect to make (heir home
in the future. As a farewell cour-'
tesy Mr. and Mrs. Warren Ben-
ning entertained the family with
a noon-day luncheon. Weldon has
been an employee in tjhe mechan-
ical department of the’’ Empire-
Tribune for the past three* years.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Crawford of
Granbury were in Stephenville sev-
r Sunday. Both are prom-
inently identified with the husinesa
and social life of Hood County
where they are editors and pub-
lishers of the Granbury N^ws.
Mr*. Crawford is also a director
in the First National Bank of that
city. While here they made a
special visit to the shop of Homer
Stephen to see things “rare and
unusual,” as Mr. .Stephen adver-
tises his ware*. *
Regular Farm
Workers Under
Social Security
Regular farm workers came un-
der the federal social security law
Jan. 1, 1951, according to Z. E.
Avery, manager of the Fort
Worth §ocial Security office. He
emphasizes that it is the regular
farm worker who is paid cash
wages who will come under the
Jaw—not the itinerant, seusonal,
or part-time worker.
A new leaflet, “Notice to Farm-
ers With Regular Hired Help,"
explains how the farm operator
can tell whether any of his em-
ployes are covered by the law. Is-
sued by the Bureau of Internal
Revenue,' the leaflet is available
from the collector of internal
revenue at Dallas; the Social Se-
curity Administration, 615 Texas
Street, in Fort Worth; or from
the. offices of county agents or
Production Marketing Adminis-
tration assistants.
4n addition to explaining just-
what farm workers are covered,
the leaflet contains a tear-off
slip, Form SS-4a, whieh the faVm
fete
operator ahould complete and mail
If he has employes *who will be
covered by the law. Further 'In-
formation about making the quar-
terly tax reports, and copies of
the reporting blanks, will be sent
to farmers who mail this form to
the .collectC)r of internal revenue.
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Higgs, Rufus F. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1951, newspaper, January 19, 1951; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1133393/m1/4/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.