Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1961 Page: 1 of 16
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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1961
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I’LL TELL THE ...
WORLD
Bjr RUPU8 P. HIGGS
GOOD PREACHERS ... A
pmekA to war people
is one who toll* them what they
waat to hear.
Sunburn Dangers
During the months of the sum-
mer when there are hours of idle-
ness it is easy to hear almost any
and every subject under the bun
discussed. Many times some of
these topics are far removed from
the actual facta all because of our
ignorance of the subject involved.
Only a few days ago we heard (
a small group of old timers dis-
cussing the evils of being exposed (
to the sun. Soon afterward we re- j
reived a treatise on the subject
and if what it says is true there
are many dangers to the idea that
it may be healthy to get plenty
of hot sun on our bodies.
Looking around us, we see many
people — both young and old —
in various degrees of “tanning.” i
A visit to the park swimming pool
or in other places will give you
a picture of what we meato Swing ! ^ ^ flLTm ranchers and
these men, women and children ex- buRin„81t IeJI<)er, were on
V* *u" brin*r‘ *° Saturday night at the Highland
mind the death, a few years ago,. Community Center for the presen-
of a 24-year-old man in another I tattoo of the Community Improve-
state, due to sunburn, and the re- ment award. The award was won
collection ef such a tragedy should by tba 'upland Community Club
serve to want all persons, and ea- jn competition with clubs from -0
pecially fair-eklnned people, that' counties comprising District XX
it can be dangerous to expose jn Central Texas,
oneself unduly to the rays of the I Byron Singleton, manager of
»un. j Texas Power A Light, presented
the plaque and a $100 check to
Billy Keith President of the High-
TO THE VICTORS — Byron Singleton presents check and certificate to Billy Keith, president of
Highland Community Club, for first place in community improvement contest. On Keith’s left, Miss
Helen Flowers, HD Agent; on Singleton's right, George McKinney and County Agent Richard Gary.
Highland Receives State
Improvement Certificate
Oar technical adviser tells u*
that it is not always the bright-
ness of the sue that causes fatal
herns. On slightly overcast days
the solar rays can filter through
and be ea powerful as the height
sunlight.
We do not know too much about j
the subject nor does anybody have
any great amount of knowledge
about tile rays ef the tun other
than that they ere extremely pow-
erful. Some patients, we do know
from observation, are exposed to
Teachers
Added to
- : re*
CitySchool's
BLOCKED DRAINS CAUSE
JR. HIGH
Brazilian
Students
Take Tour
especially tuberculosis victims, but
it is safe to assume that if bene-
ficial results ran be secured, there
A new third grade teacher will | Evant. (
ini
the start of the new school year
In September to bring the number
of third grade teachers in that
the ray. of the aun "orTreatment j Ge<h#e McKinney of Dallas
is the posaibility of harmful ef- Khoo| five j c H#lm
Central Elementary School with , "V , y
tn. .ok. -I... _____ f*rm supervisor for Texas Power
A Light praised the work which
was done by the Highland club.
land Club. The contest was apon- accounts of the past year’s activi-
ties.
Other special guests at the meet-
ing included, Senator and Mrs.
Crawford Martin of Hillsboro,
Rep. and Mrs. H. A. Leaverton of
Kvant, L. B. Howard, Stephenville
C-C manager, Dr. Joe Pate, Dub-
lin C-C; District Clerk Grady
Daniel and family; County school
superintendent E. C. Johnson add
family; County HD Agent, Miss
Helen Ruth Flowers, County
Agent Richard Gary and family,
Julian Havens, Erath Electric
Cooperative; Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Whitehead Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sikes.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henderson all
of Dublin; R. G. Burwell, district
XX, Agent, and Miss Annie Lucy
Lane, district XX, HD Agent.
After the program initiation
Was held and a string band fur-
nished music. 4——
Community leaders in Highland
are now back at work seeking
more prises in state and district
competition.
sored jointly by the power com-
pany and the Texas’ Agricultural
Extension Service.
Preceding the program the
gueat enjoyed a beef barbecue
dinner prepared by the citizens of
the bustling West Erath County
Community. The community house
which was built entirely by maw-
bers of the club was the scene
of the get together.
Trior to the program Mrs.
Orval Fair, of the Highland Good
Neighbor Club gave the welcome
address and Rev. Jack Green pas-
tor of the Highland Baptist
Church offered the invocation.
Maj. General Henry Vicellio of
the U. S. Air Force gave a brief
resume of the duties ot the
Strategic Air Command. The Gen-
eral is the son in law of Repre-
sentative H. A. Leaverton of
fecta, too.
superintendent of Stephenville
And when we speaR of knowl- ; PuWic whools, announced Wednes-
edge of the sun and its blistering dajr morning,
rays .or the lack of It, we might
as well admit that we also recog-
nise that the average laymen
knows very little about the ques-
tion of pigmentation. Pigmenta-
tion is a highly technical word and
given very little study outside the
office of the doctor. However, it
explains why some people are easi-
ly iu,n-bumed and other are not.
It is wise and good sense for
everyone to be temperate in ex-
posure until weU-tanned.
Learn to Swim
It is hard to believe yet there
are a great many people who do
pot know hew to swim. It la all
{ importsait. One of the fhr»t iplea
} ot Boosting is to tfsch all uScquts
' the rules of safety, first aid and
1 swimming. It has saved many lives
of our young people.
Although there la a life guard
on duty at the City Park swim-
ming pool at all times this docs
not mean that we should allow our-
selves to overlook the law of safe-
ty. When children are taken to
the pool somebody should keep a
careful eye on them at all times.
When the Scouts go swimming
they are in pairs and each part-
ner knows about his companion at
all times. There are many swim-
ming places besides the regulated
pools, as wo all know, and fre-
quently these are the danger xones.
Boys love to slip away and swim.
Those who do not know the art
often are tempted to take a few
short steps in the shallow water.
That involve* many dangers.
We have always believed that
one of the first thing* parents
should do is to teach their chil-
dren to swim, especially the boys.
The time will come when it will
he Important, Score* of children
have loet their lives in recent
weeks because they did not know
what to do when they got in deep
water.
VISIT OKLAHOMA
Mr. and Mr*, Claude W. Bryant
have been visiting for the peat
week in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Mervtn Cog at Broken Bow, Okln.
Mrs. Brysnt and Mrs. Cox are
slaters.
The new third grade teacher is
Mr* Louise Wooliey who has been
teaching the past 10 or 12 yean
at Huckabay. Sha holds both the
bachelor degree and the master
degree from North Texas Stan
College.
Mrs. Launa Sartor, who taught
last year at Hamilton, has been
employed as a second grade teach-
er at the Central School. Mrs.
Sartor has had 17 years of teach-
ing experience and earned her
liachelor degree at Texas Chris-
tian University.
A new member of the high
school faculty will be David C.
Willingham, whe has been em-
ployed as a biology and general
science teacher. He ig a beginning
teacher who will pet his bachelor'
degree from jNorth Te^as .Statj
College this summer.' Willingham
is married and has ttoo children:
He completed bis four years ol
college work in Ihtec years.
Helm said only two more va-
cancies remain to be filled. One
is to employ an assistant football
coach and head bast ball coach—
a combined job. Another is to em-
ploy a speech correctionist.
The school superintendent said
the latter position is going to lx
hard to fill because persona train-
ed in that line of work are com-
paratively rare and the wealthier
school district grab them up at
much higher pay than Stephon-
ville can offer.
VISITS PANAMA
Judy Halbert, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Halbert, left last
Friday from Love Field to fly to
Panama for a three week vacation.
Thera she will join Donna Huddle-
ston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.
W. Huddleston who is visiting
Donna’s aiater and brather-in-law,
Lt. and Mrs. Billy B. Carter.
ZANE CARTER
INDIVIDUAL
TAMIL T
BusrniM
HOMB
Quality Insurance
• P. 8. (Personal Barrie*)
Then Singleton presented
check to President Keith. ,
Other officers of the Commun-
ity Club are Wayne Thiebaud, vice
president; Mrs. Thurston House,
secretary-treasurer and Mrs. Roy
Chaney Reporter.
Inside the community house are
several ribbons and play awards
won during the past two years by
various organizations in the com-
munity. The bouse is used by the
4-H dub. Good Neighbor Club and
on occasion family reunions and
church groups use the facilities. It
ia complete with a. kitchen and
outaide a brick barbecue pit. As
you enter the community on the
farm road from the east the
names of the farms are on a neat-
ly painted sign. This sign is one
of the many projects completed
by the club.
..And the club yenp hook wtych
enabled them to win the fiyst
yThe 22 Brazilian agricultural
students touring Texas with Pro-
fessor Doyle Graves head of the
Poultry Department toured sev-
eral of the agriculture installa-
tions of Stephenville Friday anu
Saturday.
Professor Graves ltd the tour
of the Tarleton Poultry plant
which also included a' look In on
the Texas Poultry Diagnostic
Lab. The Brazilian students als->
toured the Tarleton College Farm.
Other stops on the tour includ-
ed the Ersth County Egg Farm,
Barham and Lockhart Poultry
farm, the Jack Martin Poultry
Dressing plant and Hollingsworth
farm and poultry plant.
Friday evening the students
were guest at Mr. and Mrs.
Graves home where they*- enjoyed
barbecued chicken. Prior to the
dinner they swam in the Tarleton
pool.
Spotted Leaf Mold
Found in County
Peanut Crops
Ixaf spot is beginning to put
in an appearance on some of the
county’s peanuts but the situation
apparently is not serious, County
Agent Richard Gary said Wednes-
day morning.
f«R*t
reported to his office but from
evidence be has gathered in trip*
over the country he does not an-
ticipate any widespread appear-
ance of the leaf spot.
ROOFJjAVE-IN
Board
county judge who died Thursday
in a Fort Worth hospital at the
age of 37 following a long illness
which had continued since he en-
tered a Houston hospital in March
of 1960 for a heart condition sur-
gery. ’ -
The First Methodist Church of
Stephenville was filled Saturday
afternoon not only with Erath
County citizens who had come tq
pay final tribute to the man who
became county judge at th# age
of 24 but a number of officials
of other counties who had known
Harbin through bis work as presi-
dent of the West Texas County
Judges and Commissioners Assn.
The Rev. Raymond Burton, for-
mer pastor of the church, officiat-
ed at the services". Interment was
at the Erath Garden of Memories
with the Harrell Funeral Home of
Dublin in charge of arrangements
Pallbearers were Brad Thompson,
Thurston Latham, Sam Taylor,
Joe Autry, Bud Higgs, Dr. Philip
Price, Dr. Bruce Terrill, and Carl
C rim mi ns. . ^
A constant stream of friemh
railed at the Stephenville Funeral
Home Friday afternoon and night
after the body of Harbin was re-
turned from Fort Worth to He in
state at the funeral home until
The county agent said same ifh Ifafl ftir the funeral services. All
latod aaass tfJeaf «»et have been j
Crowds Attend Rites
For Judge Dale Harbin
The great, the near-great, the | The young county judge came
humble and the proud of Dale Har- out of the University of Texas Law
bin's beloved Erath County paid School in 1946 to practice law at
final tribute Saturday to the young Dublin for two years prior to to*
courthouse offices were closed Fri-
day and Saturday out of respect
for the young county judge. The
offices of the Stephenville Sav-
ing* A Loan Aasn. also were
closed.
Commissioners Name
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Fallin Acting Judge
Roy FalHn, commissioner of
Precinct S and senior member of
the Erath County commissioners
court In point of service, was nam-
ed by his fellow commissioners at
the regular monthly meeting of
the Erath County commissioners
court Monday as acting county
judge until the commissioners can
decide on an appointment to fill
the un-expired term of the late
County Judge Dale Harbin.-W
All four commissioners express-
ed themselvei a« wanting some
time for serious thought, and con-
sideration Wore picking the ap-
en*tiled tnem to wtn the first staeration nerore picKing the a]
sbg!* in Oopixvunity .Improvement polntment to Mrve duf th» tertn
is fall df picture* and newspaper1 “It is too important an appoint-’
ment to be made hastily,” Drew
Mauldin, commissioner of Precinct
4, commented.
Bob Allen, commissioner of Pre-
cinct 1, expressed the opinion that
the appointment should be made
as quickly as possible, but not so
quickly that enough time is not
given for study and consideration.
W. W. LaBaume, commissioner
of Precinct 2, expressed the opin-
ion that the appointment can be
made within a very few day*.
In the meantime, Fallin will
serve as acting county judge and
be in Che judge's hffice to medt
those having business "With * itye
judge’s offic* and -to sign necet-
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Erath Bank Statements
Show Healthy Business
Deposits in Erath County's
three banks at the close of busi-
ness June 30 totaled $15,684,678.-
94, according to statements made
by the banka in response to state
and national bank calls.
The total of deposits as of June
30 waa practically even with the
total of deposits at the close of
Farmers First Naticftml Bank in
response to the June 30 bank call
lists the following resources:
Loans and discounts, $3,342,-
306.79; stock in Federal Reserve
Rank, $12,000; U. S. bonds, $1.-
668,683.27; other bonds and war-
rants, $989,167.21; banking house,
$26,203.34; furniture and fixtures,
business April 12, date of the last j $34,348.86; other real estate, $13,-
call with the June 30 total being ! 000; cash in vault and due from
other ai-
- $7,669,
banks, $1,484,698.22;
sets, $606,06. Total
863.73.
The statement lists the follow-
ing liabilities:
Capital stock, $100,000; aurplua,
i $300,000; undivided profits, $308,
loan no. —--.---- i.
just $123,966.84 under the April
12 total.
Resources of the three banks at
the close of business June 30 total-
ed $17,886,396.29, which repre-
sented a drop of $87,964 under the
total resources as of April 12. i eow.uw; unumaen pnuiw, sow,-
The total of deposits as of June 223.08; reserves, $149^945.44; de-
30 was down $244,697 under the 1 posita, $6,711,686.21. Total — $7,-
$16,929,376 In deposits which the 569,863.73
banka had at the close of business
Dec. 31.
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The hanks' loan total as of
June 30 was $7,308,662.69, which
showed a alight drop of $146,-
213.02 under the total of loans as
of April 12.
The statement issued by the
Stephenville State
The Stephenville State Bank
statement Uata the following re-
sources:
Loans and discounts, $2,358,-
987.68; banking house, $186,600;
furniture and fixtures, $15,879;
other assets, $687.46; U. 8. bonds
Wned. $1,037,795 36;
municipal
and other bonds owned, $596,-
691.11; cash in vault and due from
banks, $1,038,832.37. Total re-
sources — $6,785,072.97.
The statement lists the follow-
ing liabilities:
Deposits, $5,040,303.55; other
liabilities, $260,000; capital stock,
$150,000; certified surplus, $140,-
000; undivided profits and re-
serves, $204,769.42. Total — $5,-
786,072. 97.
Dublin National
The Dublin National Bank state-
ment lists the following assets:
Loans, $1,602,868.22; banking
house and furniture and fixtures,
$22,000; other asset*, $5,000; U.
S. bonds, $1,039,242.19; municipal
and other bonds, • $892,661.87;
stock in Federal Reserve, $9,000;
bash in vault and due from banks,
$980,206.31. Total asset* — $4,-
550,468.59.
Liabilities are listed as follows;
Deposits, $3,932,690.18; capital
stock, $100,000; surplus, $200,000
profit*, $100,000; re-
sary documents.
In other action the commission-
ers canvassed the vote of the re-
cent Three Way school district
tax referendum when citizens of
election as county judge — being,
possibly, the youngest county
judge in Texas at the time of his
election.
Harbin’s record aa a county
judge was so outstanding that in
1953 he was elected secretary and
treasurer of the West Texas Coun-
ty Judges and Commissioners Aasn.
The following year he was elect-
ad president of the association.
Harbin was a charter member
and one of the first directors of
the 8tephenville Junior Chamber
•f Commerce. The Stephenville
Jaycees nominated him in 1966 fqr
the Outstanding Five Young Men
of Texas award. He had served
a* a director, vice president, and
president of the Stephenville
Lions Club. He was a member of
the First Methodist Church, Ste-
phenville Chamber of Commerce,
and the Masonic and IOOF lodges.
He had served as a steward of
his ehurch. He headed the Red
Clou fund raising campaign in
the county for two years. Harbin
was on* of the organisers of the
'Stephenville Savings A Loan
Asm.
The young county judge was
born at Dublin Aug. 19, 1923, sou
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Tom Har-
bin. He attended Erath County
public school* until he became a
student in the Whitoshoro High
School He was graduated from
that school In 1941. The day fol-
lowing his graduation from high
school Harbin enrolled In the Uni-
versity of Texas as a pre-law stu-
dent.
Harbin and the former Miss La-
nelle Whitefield were married at
Dublin June 21, 1943. They be-
came the parents of two children—
a son Dale (Butch) Harbin Jr.,
and Melissa Ann.
When the Stephenville Lions
Club met at noon Friday just a
few hours following Harbin’s
death the club president, Clinton
Cox, told the members of &r-
bin’s death and' the Lions and
guests all stood in a moment of
silent tribute to their fellow Lion.
The county judge's survivors
are the widow; a son. Dale W.
Takes
Action
the district voted 24 to 7 to allow | *"“"*•* \***£5l
an increase in the school tax rate
to an amount not to exceed $1.60
on the $100 of evaluation.
In making her regular monthly
report to the commissioners Miss
Helen Flowers, county home da-
rn onstratibn agent, announced an
electric appliance show will be
held July 26 at the Erath County
Electric Cooperative Aasn. build-
ing when experts will-explain the
different' ‘ features of - various
make* of electric refrigerators. >
-County Agent Richard Gary re-
ported tn the commissioners on
how Erath County 4-H members
fared in the state 4-U contests
held recently. He announced the
county 4-H camp will be held July
28 at the Stephenville city recrea-
tion tyiilding and will start at 10
a.m. to continue through tre day.
County Sheep
Breeders Get
Wool Checks
Check* totaling $37,217 were
sent out from the Agricultural
Stabilisation and Conservation of-
fice in Stephenville the past vr*ek
to approximately 260 Erath Coun-
ty sheep raisers under the Depart-
ment of Agriculture's wool incen-
tive payment program. Barton Mc-
Pherson, manager of the ABC of.
fice, announced Saturday.
Of the total sent out $34,396
represented incentive payments on
wool sold by the growers while
$2,821 represented payments on
unshorn lambs sold by the grow-
er*.
The wool Incentive payments
were made on the basia of 47.6
per cent of the amount received by
the sheep raisers for wool they
the peat year. The unshorn
lamb payments wan on the baaia
Ann Harbin; three brothers. Dick
Harbin of Dublin, Bruce Harbin
of San Francisco, and T. N. Har-
bin Jr. of Tuscon, Ariz.
ON VACATION
Mr. and Mr*. Eugene Carter
of Fort Stockton, Texas are
spending their vacation at their
farm in the Pony Creek Com-
RfanRy-___-I.'. - _L___
By JOHN FLEMISTER
■•to Staff Writer
Two blocked drains were at least
partially responsible for the col-
lapse of a 30 by 40-foot section of
the roof of the StepheuvMla Junior
High School about 8 p.m. Sunday
during a heavy rain storm, J. C.
Helm Jr., superintendent of public
schools, said Monday following an
investigation of the accident..
The 3.38-inch rain which fell in
the city in a short tima Sunday
dumped so much water on the
roof that the 80 by 40-foot *eo>
tion could not support the weight
of water which had accumulated
on the roof and caved in. Another
•ection of the roof tagged about
aix inches.
Prompt action was taken Mon-
day by the board of trustee* ol
the Stephenville Independent
School District and Helm to try
to avoid any similar accidenta in
the future. .. ------.—
“We are' thankful that if the
accident had to occur it happened
while the building was not being
used,” Helm said.
The section of roof which col-
lapsed fell into a study hall being
used weekdays by 25 summer
school students.
- Helm said the damage, from a
financial standpoint, was not aa
groat aa first feared. The school
superintendent said Vernon Gunn,
Stephenville contractor who con-
structed the roof which collapsed,
voluntarily supped forward and
offered to replace the roof.
One of the first actions taken
Monday was to chock the drains
and water spoute on all of the
city’s school buildings to make aura
they are open.
“The water spouts and drain*
for all the buildings will b* check*
«d regularly from now on," Holm
declared.
When a called meeting of the
board of trustees waa held lion,
day afternoon the board member*
authorized Helm to have an engi-
neer from the Hedrick A Stanley
firm of Fort Worth architect* to
come to Stephenville and make a
thorough check of all the dty’e
school buildings for any structural
defect*.
Helm said the building will be
repaired in time for the opening
of school in September.
“We plan to take and use every
precautions to make sure ear
1 buildings are safe,” Halm said.
Erath Bond Sales
Pass $400,000
The sale of U. S. savings bonds I a percentage standpoint in meet-
in Erath County during the first j ing its bond sale quota. It ia 12
five months of 1961 showed a per cent ahead of the closest coun-
whopping $113,064 gain over the ty.
it sold
■▼kml
serves, $169,395.40; other reserves, of eight cents per pound for the
$68,383.01. Total — $4,5*0,468.69.1 unshorn lamb* told. \
1 777 ■ ...I..... —
sales during the first five months
j of 1960, members of the key coun-
ty U. S. savings bond committee
for Erath County learned at a
meeting Thursday in the Frey
room of the Farmers Firat Na-
tional Bank.
H. A. (Tony) Ziegler of Fort
Worth, area manager for the U.
S. savings bond division of the
Treasury Department, and Jack
L/bdrick of Oklahoma City, assist-
ant regional director, were pre-
sent at the meeting and pointed
out that Erath County had' gone
58.2 per cent of the way toward its
$400,000 quota during the first
five month* of the year.
The sale* of the savings bonds
In the county during May of this
year totaled $58,256, which was
$46,699 more than the sales total-
ing $12,687 during May of last
year.
Ziegler pointed out that Erath
is the top county of the nine coun-
ties in the Fort Worth district from
Members of the savings bond
committee agreed to stags a
“Minute Man Week” in the coun-
ty in the near future to emphasize
the savings bond program. Plans
will be worked out by Ziegler and
the committee in about two weeks.
Fred McCleskey, county chair,
man of the bond committee, pre-
sided at the meeting.
Other members of the bond
committee are:
CL H. Maguire, city chairman;
Rufus Higgs, advertising and pub-
licity chairman; Mel Bennett, as-
sistant advertising and publicity
chairman; Ralph Jones, banking
chairman; Byron Singleton, com-
munity activities chairman; J. D.
Pilcher, payroll savings chairman;
Dean Cox, retail merchant* chair-
man; J. C. Helm, Jr., school saw-
ings chairman; Jack Arthur, the*,
tor and special events chairman; \
Etoiaa Jones, women’s activities
chairman; Richard Gary, agricul-
tural chairman.
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