Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1959 Page: 2 of 16
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Renvte Allred Jr.
Christian Church
Named
Leader
Reene Allred, Jr. is the newly
elected President of District 18
Christian Churches (Disciples of
Christ). This honor was bestowed
upon him at their annual conven-
tion held at the First Christian
Church in Denton on Sunday. Mr.
Allred is an Elder and Chairman
of the Board, First Christian
Church, Bowie.
Officers elected to serve with
him are: Vice-President, James
Reed, Minister, First Christian
Church, Denton; Secretary, Ray
Shields, Elder and Chairman of
the Board, Central (Christian
Church, Nocona; Treasurer, Mrs.
Harry Riley, Deaconess, First
Christian Church, Mineral Wells;
and Public Relations Director,
Mrs. Reene Allred, Jr., Deaconess
and Church Secretary, First Chris-
tian Church, Bowie. Their tenure
of office will be for a two-year
period beginning July 1, 1900.
Under the theme', “Called To
Be My Witness”, the convention
president, Wilbur Mix, Minister,
, First Christian Church, Gaines-
| ville, placed emphases on the need
J of evangelism in a troubled world.
! Dr. Harry Munro, Professor, Jar-
vik Christian College, Hawkins,
j presented new ideas for an effec-
tive campaign to gain and hold
members in an active relation-
ship to the church. Dr. E. C. Rowl-
and, Minister, Central Christian
Church, Dallas, spoke on "The
Problems of Lop-Sided People".
The District Board Chairman,
Mrs. Carl Kessler, First Christian
Church, Mineral Wells, presented
her report of the work in the Dis-
trict by color slides. Many of the
slides centered around the youth
program of the Chi Rho and Chris-
tian Youth Fellowship and their
activities at Kamp Koinonia lo-
cated near Mineral Wells.
Grady Guyton, Minister of the
local church, and Paul A. Cunyus,
Vice-President of the District and
Chairman of the Board of the lo-
cal church, are aetive members oi
the District Board. Mrs. Ross
Jury Fund Derived
From Special Tax
While citizens quite often ap-
pear before the Erath County
commissioners court asking for
something that would be of some
benefit to them from the general
fund or the road and bridge fund,
the commissioners don’t get many
requests from citizens wanting to
get something out of the jury
fund. For the most part, those
Africa Studied
Monday by WSCS,
Bertha Cox Circle
The Bertha Cox Circle of th.; I
First Methodist WSCS met Nov.
9 with Mrs. W. R. Morton.
Mrs. Ward Evans opened the
meeting with prayer. After a short
business meeting the study leader,
Mrs. R. V- Anderson, continued ]
the lesson on Africa.
After a poem-prayer and medi- |
tut ion Mrs. Anderson discussed the
country of Ethiopia, Mrs. L. A.
King discussed the Union of South
Africa and Mrs. Hal Hays discus-
sed the Belgian Congo.
The meeting was closed with
the WSCS benediction.
The hostess served sandwiches,
cokes and coffee to the following
Mmes. Oren Ellis, Fred Keith,
Tom Bridges, J. P. Hedrick, L. A.
King, W. O. Pierson, Ward Evans,
F. E. Powell, R. Y. Anderson, G.
O. Ferguson, Sam Cress, A. A.
McSwceny, llal Hays, L. G.
Martin, A. J. Spangler, Clyde
King, J. F. Whisenant, Eari
Weathers and R. F. Higgs.
Wolfe is a District Representative
to the Texas Board of Christian
Churches.
The churches which comprise
District 18 are: Aubrey, Bowie,
Chico, Decatur, Denton, Dublin,
Gainesville, Gordon, Granbu r y ,
Jacksboro, Mineral Wells, Nocona,
Palo Pinto, Paradise, Pilot Point,
Ringgold, Stephenville and Weath-
erford. ‘ •
Bobby Tat© Enters
Scottish Rite
Clinic in Dallas
Bobby Tate, 10-year-old son of
Mrs. II. C. Tate of Stephenville,
was admitted on Wednesday,
November 4, to the Scottish Rite
Hospital for Crippled Children in
Dallas.
Thirty-five years ago, Scottish
Rite Masons founded the hospital,
dedicated to an effort to provide
a chance at a normal life for the
handicapped . child. Since 1925,
mor* than 130,000 children have
been admitted for treatment to the
hospital, which iB supported by
public contributions and bequests.
Expertly staffed, unusual physi-
cal facilities and devoted interest
in the individual, make the Scot-
tish Rite Hospital an outstanding
treatment center which serves the
entire state.
who get money from the jury fund
have been drafted into earning it.
The county’s budget which will
go into effect Jan. 1 estimates the
jury fund will receive $9,565.37
from the seven-cent advalorem tax
set aside for the jury fund. If
prospective juros r.re afraid there
might be an unusually large num-
ber of trials in the county 1n 1960
and the seven cent tax will not
provide enough money to meet
the jury payroll, they can take
comfort. The budget estimates
the fund will have a balance of
$12,707.13 as of Jan. 1. This
amount added to the expected tax
revenue for the year will give the
jury fund resources totaling $22,-
272.50.
Actually, less than a third of
the jury fund is budgeted to pay
jurors and jury commissioners for
their services during the year—
$3,000 to be exact. In district court
$()5 is budgeted for jury com-
missioners, $400 for grand jurors,
$2,000 for petit jurots, and $500
for special venire. In county court
$24 is budgeted for jury commis-
sioners and $800 for petit jurors.
K-wtuI<| btf unfortunate indeed
if a person who can not speak
English has to go on trial in dis-
trict court in 1960. The budget
makers did not set up anything
in the budget to pay for the ser-
vices of an interpreter, but did
set up $100 for grand jury bail-
iffs'. Of the county court’s $324
from the jury fund, $100 is set
up for payment of attorney fees.
The one item on the budget for
justice court is $3,500 for officers’
court fees.
In addition to these strictly
court expenses which are paid out
of the jury fund, there are four
other items budgeted for payment
out of the jury fund. One called
“miscellaneous” is budgeted for
$25. Treasurer commissioners are
budgeted at $175. Social security
is down for $120, and audit and
budget is set down for $900.
Taken all in alt, one can feel
reasonably ^sure he will be paid
for his services if he accepts a
call for jury duty in 1960.
Stephenville Coed
Explains Purpose
Of Local Group
The Townsters, an organization
unfamiliar to some TSC students,
was explained by Reporter Mary
Clapp recently as an organization
for Tarleton coeds living in Steph-
enville or Dublin, “The purpose of
the club is to unite those coeds and
to make them feel a part of the
college,’’ she said.
The Townsters participate in
the Christmas party held in the
women’s dorm every year and
spend the night with the dorm
residents.
The organization held its Initial
meeting Oct. 20 in the parlor of
the women’s dorm. Eighteen coeds
saw a telephone committee ap-
pointed which is to contact all
members and notify them of the
next meeting. v
At the next meeting, which is
scheduled for some time this
month, the members will hol<J a
luncheon. Pictures of the group
will also be taken at that time.
Miss Clapp urged all members to
attend the event, which will be one
of the more important occasions
of the year.
Judy Cato, an 11-year resident
of Stephenville and a graduate
of Stephenville High School, .is
president of the organization. She
was elected during the previous
meeting when other officers were
chosen. Miss Cato is a senior
chemistry student.
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show tiny Bobbie Sullivan how to hold a basketball with one
hand. Mi«s Sullivan is 4 ft. inches short.
Stirring Event of Turblerit
Era Presented in New Film
Action as eweeping as the
Kansas plains against which its
exciting story is set, is promised
■from Paramount’s Technicolor
thriller, “The Jayhawkers,” which
opens tomorrow at the Majestic
Theatre with a cast headed by co-
stars Jeff Chandler, Foss Parker
and Nicole Maurey.
Tall, white-haired and hand-
some Chandler will be seen in the
role of Luke Darcy, who imagines
j himself an American Napoleon,
with the Territory known as
Kansas his domain. He recruits an
Annual Staff Meets
A meeting of the Grassburr
staff has been scheduled for today
at 6:30 p.m. in the Grassburr of-
fice. Martha Jones, editor of the
publication, said page assign-
ments will be given to various de-
partment editors. This meeting
is considered to be of great’ im-
portance, and all parson* working
on the year book are urged to at-
tend.
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sible. However, Bleeker is won
over by the charming and force-
ful Darcy and he himself becomes
a Jay hawker, ready to fight and
die for the ruthless and complex
gentleman-murderer.
The woman in the case is the
beautiful French star Nicole Mau-
rey, whom Bing Crosby introduced
to American audience* in "Little
Boy Lost” and who also scored in
“Me and the Colonel.” She por-
trays a young widow with two
children, a true pioneer who falls
in love with Parker and influences
the course he finally takes fa a
climactic scene that should have
viewers biting their fingernails in
excitement and suspense.
Henry Silva has the co-starring
Inous hench-
army for himself and proceeds to
Penny Terrill, a freshman maj- I follow through on his master plan
oring in elementary education, is uf taking town after town, with
vice-president; Judy Bell, a senior j,is eye on the eventual capture of
business administration major, is j Abilene, Heart of the Territory. ___ __
secretary-treasurer of the group;! Into his life comes Cam Bl-Joker,,role of Chandler’s viUa:
and Mary Clapp, a freshman maj- j played by the increasingly popu- man. ' I
oring in nursing, is reporter. Dean jar j>ess Parker, an ex-soldier
of Women Kugena L. Cotton is wbose own freedom depends upon
the sponsor of the organization. j bis capture of the outlaw chief of
the Jayhawkers, <tnd who is fur-
ther motivated jby »
avcige th* death Of fcls wife for
TSC Train
Will Go
To Lawton
Nearly half the student body
of Tarleton State College, since
426 persons including the Tarleton
Band and Wainright Rifle drill
unit, will ride a special train to
Lawton, Okla., for the Plowboy-
Cameron Aggie football game
Thursday night.
The school trip became a real-
ity Friday when the ticket quota
was reached after a two-week
sales campaign on the campus,
i Members of the Student Coun-
cil and several other campus lead-
ers took on the job of selling the
large quota in order to have the
trip, an event which has become a
yearly activity of the Tarleton
student body.
The train is scneuuled to leave
Stephenville at noon Thursday. It
Ja expected to arrive in Lawton
in the late afternoon and the T8C
students have planned a six-block
parade through the city to the
courthouse where a pre-game pep
rally will be staged. The parade
will be led by the Tarleton band
and followed by the ROTC cadets
in uniform.
Students will have aupper be-
fore going to see the football
game, a game which has acquired
more than usual amount of ri-
valry in recent years.
Following the game, rivalry
will be forgotten and the Tarleton
students wilt be guests of Came-
ron State at a dance.
The return trip to Stephenville
is scheduled to depart Lawton
around midnight, arriving in Ste-
phenvilla about 6:30 a.m.
The Tarleton band will perform
in a pre-game show at the foot-
ball stadium and the Wainright
Rifles will perform at half-time.
Plowboys Will Meet
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Cameron in Lawton
A crowd of 450 enthusiastic stu- Sanford named his starting line-
dents will give the Tarleton Plow-
boys moral support Thursi
night when they meet the
ron State Aggies in Lawton,
homa. Tarleton students
chartered a special train to I
the game and will leave Steph
ville at noon tomorrow.
The Plowboys want this vh
as badly at they have warn
this season. Previous e
in Lawton have turned out
for the Plows and they have felt
that the game played in 1956 was
sot well-called by the officials-
They want revenge and they npay
get it.
The Aggies have lost their lisst
five games. They have been beaten
by New Mexico Military Institute,
Victoria College, Murray State jin
Oklahoma, Wharton County JC
and Dei Mar. Their only confer-
ence victory was over the San An-
tonio Rame, 14-6.
A victory by the Plowboys could
throw the Pioneer Conference in-
to a three-way tie for last place.
Coach H. A. Sandy Sanford
mid he will take his complete
team to Lawton, “cripples and all.’'
The “cripples” include Johnny
Erickson, Tarleton's leading quar-
terback who will be out of action
the rest of the year with a shoul-
der ae pa ration, Billy Vaught, a
halfback who received a serious
leg Injury in the San Angelo
game, and Mickey Morse, 215-
pound center, who has a leg in-
jury.
Civic Series H«* *“
Entertainment for
Faculty, Students
The Civic Series Program ia a
group of programs set up by some
of the town’s people, faculty mem-
bers. and students for the purpose
of fine entertainment for those
who seek it.
Faculty members of the Civic
Series are Mr. Morton, Dr. Cara-
way, Miss Hilliard, Dri Grant,
Capt. Ailyn, Mrs. Terry, and Dean
Cunyus as chairman. Student mem-
bers are Priscilla Morton, Phyllis
Smith, and Judy Cato.
The Civic series Programs have
been presenting entertainment
for thirteen years. There are four
programs yet to be presented this
year. First will be Tarleton Choir’s^
Christmas Concert on Thursday,
December 17, 1959. Next, the Can-
adian Players will return again,
this time with “The Cherry Or-
chard” on Monday, February 15,
I960. The play was written by
Anton Checkhov and is about a
Russian woman and the cherry
orchard on her estate. It was
Chekhov’s last play before he died.
Sometime in March, I960, there
will be a Dunce Bund Concert with
a name band. The last program
will be the Spring Concert, given
by the Tarleton Fine Arts Divi-
sion on Thursday, May 12, 1960.
James A. Jacobs,
Retired Barber,
Dies Tuesday
whldh hft believes Chandler reipon-
Funeral services will be con-
ducted from the chapel of the
Trewitt Funeral Home, Thursday
afternoon at two o’clock for James
Arthur Jocoha, who died Tues-
day night in'* the Stephenville
hospital. Mr. Jacobs had been in
ill health for the past six years.
James Arthur Jacobs was bom
Sept. 18, 1886 in Alabama. He
came to Stephenville when he was
a youngster in his early teens. He
was married to Jdiss Charlotte
Marie Wright at Johnsville July
10, 1910 and they were the parents
of two children.
Mr. Jacobs was a retired bar-
ber. He was a member of the
Oakdale Methodist Church.
Survivors include his widow, one
daughter, Mrs. Pauline Worrell of
Stephenville, one son, Orland
Jacobs of Denver, Colo, on* grand- payees,
son, and a half sTsUY, MW. ETtnr-
beth Newman of Houston.
Rev. Raymond M. Burton and
Rev. J. B. Cole conducted the last
in the East Memorial Cometery.
Trewitt Funeral Hume was
charge of all arrangements.
Jaycees’
Turkey
Shoot OK’d
Directors of the Stephenville
Junior Chamber of Commerce vot-
ed at their regular board meeting
Monday night in the Jaycee office
in the Stephenville State Bank
building to recommend to the gen-
eral membership that the club
adopt a project to sell electric
yard lights which come on auto-
matically at sunset and turn off
automatically at sunrise to earn
money to pay for the new street
signs which have arrived and are
ready to be put up.
A representative of the concern
which manufactures the lights will
be in Stephenville within a few
days to discuss the project with
the Jaycees and go into details
as to how the lights are sold, in-
stalled ,and time payments are
arranged where wanted.
Ed Sullivan, Jaycee president,
reminded the directors the state
fall board meeting will be held at
Waco Friday, Saturday and Sun-
day. He said he and Jack Curtis,
state director, will go to Waco
Friday to attend the meeting.
Other directors present indicated
they might attend the Saturday
and Sunday sessions.
The directors voted to accept
Jimmie Gillen as a new member
of the club. He is a chemical cor-
poration employee.
Bill Parnell, turkey shoot chair-
man, reported tickets for the tur-
key shoot to be held Nov. 21 and
22 and Dec. 19 and 20 have been
printed and the sale of tickets
will start at once.
T. B. Collins, Jr., chairman of
the club’s poll tax paying cam-
paign, announced he will have a
poll tax receipt book at Monday
night’s general membership meet-
ing so members who have not
yet paid their poll taxes can do
so.
Marion Porter, chairman of th*
street sign project, announced all
of the street signs have arrived
and are ready to be put up. The
signs will be put up by city em-
Sullivan reported he and Curtis
have been talking to some young
men at Hamilton who want the
Reading Group
Meets Tuesday
The TSC reading group will
meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18,
instead of the usual second Wed-
nesday of the month, a group
spokesman announced recently.
Miss Doliie Glover will read poems
of Thanksgivings and praise, tak-
en from many different cultures.
The reading group members are
people who enjoy varied programs
of reading from unusual sources.
The meeting is held in the faculty
lounge at the TSC library and is
informally sponsored by the Eng-
lish Department. Members of the
English department also provide
refreshments for the group.
Miss Boren has been selected
chairman of the group for this
year. She said that an open invi-
tation is offered to anyone who
wishes to join the group. She said
the reading group however, is not
a formal club, has no elected of-
ficers, and charges no dues. Stu-
dents are encouraged to join the
group at any meeting. It is not
confined to faculty. The group
meeting is not in the form of a
class, rather it it a strictly in-
formal meeting for persons who
enjoy varied readings.
The group will have no Jan.
meeting. In February the theme
will be Oriental poetry. The read-
ing for March will be Carl Cal-
wick’s writing and poetry from the
McGuffy Reader or just Ameri-
cana poetry. At the April meet-
ing a lighter reign will be read
from such writers as Ogden N'ash
and Dorthy Parker.
Miss Boren said »h«? would like
to offer a special invitation to
students. A personal invitation is
not necessary, and anyone is wel-
come to share this period for un-
usual readings.
15-year Sentence
Given in Assault
To Murder Case
Trial of criminal cases started
Monday in district court at Palo
Pinto before District Judge W. J.
Oxford. The first case tried was
that of George Garland, 28, on a
charge of assault to murder. Dis-
trict Attorney Sam Cleveland said
Garland was convicted and re-
ceived a sentence of 15 years in
the penitentiary.
The district attorney said the
luan was indicted for attacking a
77-year-old man with a fence post
at Graford and braaking the man’s
arms and lags.
up today.
At center will be Jim Coleman,
Guards, Jimmy Eden and Tinman
Bridges, tackles, Bob Browning
and Bill Yandry, ends, Bob Bar-
nett and Carroll Nix, quarterback,
Paul Barnett, halfbacks, Allta
An* and Chftrlia Fox, and full-
back Tom Redon.
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Aggettes Prepare
Intramural Slate
In three Sports
The Aggettes, an association of
TSC coeds, have begun prepara-
tion for an intramural sports pro-
gram f*r women. Miss Bette jo
Rogers, women’s physical educa-
tion instructor, said last week.
The multi-sport program will
probably see its first active par-
ticipation soon after the Thanks-
giving holidays, the instruptor
added.
Members of the physical edu-
cation classes indicated, the high-
est interest in volleyball, basket-
ball, and badminton for the in-
tramural program, Miss Rogers
said, "although w* hope to hatr*
others for tboae who are intewat-
ed.”
Each floor of each dorm will
enter a team in each of th* sports,
if th* program progresses accord-
ing to the outlined plan, she said.
Water Revenue Up
After Rate Hikes
The returns are in for the first
month's receipts from Stephen-
ville's new increased water rate
schedule and the figures show the
receipts for the water hill paying
period for water used in October
are more than $3,000 above dur-
ing the comparable period of 1968,
City Secretary Rex Cates reveal-
ed.
This month’s payments ran up
to $15,134 as compared with ap-
prt xiraately $12,000 for the same
period a year ago.
Th* new increased rat* schedule
was put Into affect by Urn city
council to pay water
improvement and expansion pro-
gram. The first month's receipts
under th* new schedule show the
council had it figured out just
about right when they adopted th*
new rat* schedule.
Homer Hunter Associates, Inc.,
of Dallas, the city’s water engi-
neering firm, estimate $40,626 will
be required for the first yecr to
ray off $175,000 in live-year war-
rants. The amount required yearly
will increase each year to $41,145
for the fifth year.
The $3,000 increases In receipt*
for this month over the same
month last /ear is slightly, less,
than 'the amount needed, to retire
th* warrants, but increased us* of
water during warmer months is
expected to bring in the needed
extra funds.
Grady Halbert Will
Visit Rotary Club
Grady Halbert of Crowell, past
district governor of Rotary Inter-
national, will be speaker at the
regular Thursday noon meeting of
the Stephenville Rotary Club in
the Tarleton State College dining
hall, Grady Perry, program chair-
man, has announced.
Halbert will ditcuss work of
the Rotary Foundation which
grants fellowship to outstanding
graduate students for a year of
study abroad in a move to improve
friendly relations between nations.
David Cunyus of Stephenville is
in Switzerland studying as the
recipient of a Rotary Foundation
fellowship-
Since the program was estab-
lished some 200 young men and
Stephenville Jaycees to organize
a. Jayc— club -there. Sullivan- r->-
have almost enough young men
signed to organize the club.
women from 67 countries have
received fellowships for study in
44 nations. Th* Rotary fellowship
are unusual in that with more than
10400 Rotary Clubs la th* world
the students can ha in direct
touch with Retarlnns, regardless
of where he decides to study.
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