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Yield Under Impact
Buried At Norton
about
two
sign
spots
wo
the
the
Marker Un veiling Climaxes
Mavericl
Homecomin
More people are killed by
Kern
now in the Lincoln Continental tradition
Easiest Way to Lovelier Rooms
Higginbotham's
Ford Motor Company P*«ilion, N»w York World's Fair
We Give and Redeem Geld Bond Stamps
Willberg Rites
Held Saturday
Just one coat brings naw
boauty to your room*.
why
mind
held
the
here
Even the best leaders c&n
accomplish but little without
good followers.
Miss Doris Conn
Dies In San Antonio
upon
work,
teach
Nurs-
Monroe
medical.
A weak brain and a little
iearwmg' forms a combina-
tion that normally result? in
swelling of the head.
his
A F
here
include his wife
J. L. Ohlhausen
Mrs. F
obstetric
The
■first”
search
states
Mrs.
Rock mi
101-Year-Old Lady
Oldest in Witters?
medical, i
, Fred
medical, i
Mrs. V
shaw, me
Ada
and
the
with illustrated to
different phases o
work
in 1883 and Mrs. Will Harrell
of Abilene, the oldest ex-stu-
dent She attended Maverick
schools in 1889
Ex-teachers attending were
Mr and Mrs E C. Grindstaff
of Ballinger. Mrs. Ina Buch-
anan of Ballinger, Mrs Gar-
land McAulay of Alice, Hen-
ry Todd of Abilene and Mrs
Brookshier of San Angelo.
Feb
sons,
two
very
on the ladder of success
cold feet.
SUPIR
Kem
Tone
and movgd
1916 He was
Lena MeCarty in
Pure 6—SeHiea One. TJhunsday, June 10. 1965
The BnH»npr?r Ledger, Bal’inger, Texas
to the Winters area
parents. Mr. and
Adams, in 1888 He
until his marriage
Davis on Dec 25
played
hour
was
and
Assistant
tendent Did
supervise
Start prod
schools tq
with the 1
1913, the average work-
in the U. S needed to
502 weeks to pay for a
for fur-
lielej ebn-
will be
- under
and
older
installed to
been struck
Mrs. Ml
ger. medil
Mrs iJ
ger. surd
takes perseverance, to
to something you're noy
People cannot climb
high
with
Tate
medical,
Mrs. V
rillo, mel
cameras,
research
films to
f various
during
tinues near Bryan to deter-
mine whether the desirable
qualities hold true in all in-
stances — Including Impact
by a foreign compact car. or
a trailer truck. “We're proud
of our progress so far,” Greer
says, ‘ but there’s still more
work to be done."
Meantime, he points out. a
transitional structure that
should save lives has been
achieved and is already op-
erational.
"Last year 222 Texans lost
their lives in collisions with
fixed objects,” Greer says.
Some of these fixed objects
were signs which, ironically,
are conceived and designed
to enhance motoring safety.
If this new design, and those
that follow, carreqspare just
one life, all our research will
have been worthwhile.”
Mrs, Koller Leads
Council Program
Sherwin-Williams
SUPER KEM-TONE
WALL PAINT
OFFICE!
Ballinger
from left
M rs. Dot
row, Mes
man
work
home, while now, with high
wages, it takes only 375 weeks
to pay for one.
services were
afternoon at
Davis Chapel
president; Mrs. Russell Carl-
ton. secretary and Freddie
Tidmore. treasurer
Bill Morgan of Sacramento,
California, was recognized as
having come the farthest to
the reunion Others recogniz-
ed were Miss Nell Mackey, 91,
of Norton the oldest one pre-
sent; Mrs Renza Lee. the
oldest continous resident,
having lived there since 1901;
Ernest Marshall of Bronte,
.the oldest settler who arrived
stick
stuck on
WINTERS — Mrs J M
Mapes who was 101 on Dec
26, 1964 is the oldut resident
found ao tar by the Winters
Diamond Jubilee Committee
The mother of Melvin
children
W E. Harris
Calif., Mrs. W
of Goldthwaite
Hinkle of Prid-
Joe a former
died in Ama-
There are 31
, 100 great-
35 -great-great
Funeral services for Ben L.
Willberg. 76. were held at 9
a m. Saturday in St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church in Rowena
with burial - in St Joseph's
Cemetery Newby-Davis Fu-
neral Home was in charge of
arrangements A rosary was
said at 8 30 pm Wednesday
in St Joseph's Church
Mr Willberg. a retired Ro-
wena farmer, died at 3 am
'Thursday in St John's Hos-
pital in San Angelo
He, was born June 12, 1888,
in Columbus and moved to
Rowena in 1908 He married
Anne Pohler in Rowena on
Jan 11. 1910
He was a member of Sons
of Hermann 50 years and of
the Rowena School Board
Survivors are his wife; two
sons. Ben A Willberg of Miles
over the Christmas Monday
• average) than in any o
three of our wars: Revolu
tionary <342', War of 181
• 265 > or Mexican (114L
in San Antonio. In 1853. he
had land in this important
ranching area?’
Mrs. Padgitt told that her
grandfather, who was not a
cattleman, once had to accept
400 wild cattle in payment of
a debt. When the ranchers
found one of these unbrand-
ed cattle they would say.” It’s
Maverick’s.”*Thus the name
maverick was soon coined
and applied to all unbranded
ONLY THE DEARBORN DELUXE HAS
ALL THESE QUALITY FEATURES
SLIP-STREAM LOUVERS You get EVERY OUNCE of
cool air from the exclusive aerodynamic design of the
Dearborn Slip-Stream Louvers. You get it smoothly,
quietly, without turbulence or back pressures.
INTEGRIP PROTECTIVE BARRIER You get extra dura-
bility from this strong, waterproof protective barrier.
It interlocks with the galvanized surface of the metal
... assures double resistance to rust and wear.
UNILOC FRAME CONSTRUCTION You get many years
of quiet, service-free comfort from the .single-unit con-
struction of the self-reinforcing box frame. The frame
is joined to a rigidized front panel.
PUSH BUTTON CONTROLS Yon get fingertip-easy con-
trol. A touch of a button gives you high or low cooling
— or just blower ventilation. Priced from nn nr
Mrs Lillian Maverick Pad-
gett of San Angelo spoke at
the unveiling of the marker
at Maverick Sunday in honor
of her grandfather, the late
Samuel Augustus Maverick,
for whom the community was
named
Others participating in the
ceremony were Judge W H
Rampy a‘id Herman Gnuucke.
chairman Of the Runnels
County Historical Survey
D Lee on June
Springhill. Texas
came to Runnels
1922 from Long-
He died June 14, 1934
Lee was a member of
ShSe men tell us that
men's feet are getting larger
— and their thumb isn*t too
small, either
After seeing a few recent
movies, we have concluded:
1. Congress should remove
the Amusement Tax, or
2 Radically change its
name.
if the new
followed a
Information on the marker
located on the highway just
west of Maverick reads.
' Founded in 1870 Named for
S A Maverick <1803-1870i
Texas in 1835
Texas War for
In secession
A few gals fall head over
heels in love — others fall
in love with heels.
The average family could
use more money than it is
getting — and usually does.
Bears are nut supposed to
like honey as much as they
like young bees, which they
xd the bbuey.-xomb.
who came to
Fought in the
Independence
convention 1861. he was made
one of the committee to nego-
tiate surrender of U.S. troops
Ohlhausen ,Kin
Buried Wednesday
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon in Abi-
lene for Gory Alta Ohlhausen.
62. who died Tuesday morn-
ing following an apparent
heart attack.
Ohlhausen was the brother
of J. Lester Ohlhausen of
Ballinger
Officiatir^f at the rites was
WiMie May. minister of the
Vine Street Church of Christ
in Abilene Burial was in Caps
Cemetery.
Ohlhausen was born Sep-
tember 4, 1992
to Abilene
married to
1923.
Survivors
his father,
of Rt. 3, Abilene, three sisters,
Miss Lola Ohlhausen of Rt 3,
Abilene, Miss Flossie Ohlhau-
sen of Baltimore, Maryland,
and Mrs Eula Rippy of Rt. 3
Abilene; four brothers, Ver-
nis Ohlhausen of Rt 3. Abi-
lene. W T. Ohlhausen of Fort
Worth, and J Lester Ohlhau-
sen of Ballinger, six aunts
and one uncle.
Calling and
Unity" was the
the lesson which
Allen. Mrs Pat
Mrs Rufus Allen
leader in pre-
THE COOLING YOU WANT
YOU GET.......FROM THE
State Highway Engineer* D"
C Greer
We can’t prevent all ac-
cidents,” he said, but we can
do our best, to design for
softer’ accidents when they
Mrs ND Lee, 81, a Mav-
erick resident for 43 years,
aied Sunday afternoon at
Holiday Rest Home in Cole-
man. where she had been a
patient
months.
Funeral
Tuesday
Allen
Burial was in Norton Ceme-
tery under the direction of
Newby-Davis Funeral Home
’ Mrs. Lee was born Lillie
Mne Harper on August 19,
1883. in South Carolina. She
married N
IT, UJ4 in
The couple
County in
view
Mrs
the Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include six sons,
Inna rd Lee of West Lake,
Louisiana. Joe D. Lee of
Houston, Winifred Lee and
Jack Lee, both of Ballinger,
and Hurlin Lee and James
Lee, both of Bronte; 12
grandchildren, and 16 great
grandchildren.
Mapes, commissioner Of Pre-
cinct 2, Mrs. Mapes born
Eugenia Ticker in EaXt Tex-
as near Gilmer in 1863 and
live< there until she wks
married DO Jacob Melvin
Mapes in 1888 They *ved in
Hopkins County until moving
to a farm north of Wingate
tn 1908, and to a farm east
of Winters two years later.
After her husband's death
in 1932, Mrs. Mapes -lived
alone for a time and with j a
sister-in-law at Merkel before
moving to the home of a dau-
ghter. Mrs A J. Roe. at Rob-
ert Lee She also lived with
a daughter. Mrs W R Ad-
ams. at Wingate, and her
son. Melvin and wife before
moving to the Senior Citizens
Nursing Home in Winters.
Other children of Mrs
Mapes are Mrs
of Riverside.
L Hamilton
and Mrs J E
dy One son.
commissioner,
rillo in 1959
grandchildren
giand and :
grandchildren
John Adams is thought to
be the resident who has lived
here the greatest number of
years . •
Eorn July 6. 1880. Mr Ad-
ams came
with
Mrs
lived
to Maude
1904 and they lived near Ros-
coe for six years
Returning to Winters, the
couple lived on u farm in the
Victory community for a
number of years before mov-
ing into town in March of
1938
1952
Two good reasons
many people never
their own business:
1 No business.
2. No mind.
AUSTIN, Tex. — Highway
signs that yield under impact
are being Installed on sorrie
Texas highways as part of
the Texas Highway Depart-
ment's conUnuing effort to
make motoring safer.
The signs and their sup-
ports are designed to crack
in the middle and arc harm-
lessly when struck by a mov-
ing vehicle.
DtBbed "break-away signs”,
they were developed in a
joint research effort of the
Texas Highway Department
and its research arm, the
Texas Uransportation Insti-
tute of Texas A&M Univers-
ity, in cooperation with the
U 8. Bureau of Public Roads
Although research is con-
tinuing to perfect a better
sign. structure for Texas
highways, the transitional
break-away sign already is
being installed on highways
over the state as a field test
of the basic design. The sign
was tested exhaustively last
year at Bryan in crashes in-
volving driverless autos.
Some of the revolutionary
signs have been erected at
strategic locations on Texas
Interstate highway
ther study under
ditions. Many more
installed in the future
new signing contracts
as replacements for
sigiuj. Of those
now, none has
by an auto.
Development
sign structure
number of car-and-sign col
lisions, some fatal, on ex
and Frank i. wuiberg of
Rowena; tom daughters. Mrs
Andrew Wilde and Mr*. W
W Strube. both of Rowena.
Mrs. Alphonse Book of MUets
and Mr a. Floyd Weathersbee
oB Seiaire, two aiatera, Mrs
Emil Anderle of Ban Angelo
and Mrs Alvin Gass of Miles;
28 graadchildren and nine
great grandchildren.
At a meeting af the First
Presbyterian Church USA .
Women’s Council which in-
cluded both business and
missionary study, for which
Mrs Sherman Hendricks was
hostess. Mrs Clark Koller
was leader for the lesson on
’National and Ecumenical
Missions ”
Christian
Christian
theme for
Miss
Wood
assisted
sentfng
pics on
mission
Mi’s R B Twltty eave the
prayer for missions.
Mrs Pat Wood presided at
the business session and an-
nounced the executive meet-
ing to b? held ip July. The
Family Nieht for members
of the church was announced
for July
Mrs John Reese gave the
devotional The mrzpah bene-
diction was repeated at the
close of the program
Mrs Willie Hoover ;
hymns at the social
when a sandwich plat
served with cake coffee
punch
Patients
orial Hos
were: I
Mrs T |
linger. nl
February I
Mrs. Ill
medical. J
24. 1964 I
Mrs. mJ
surgical. I
Mrs. John Fiveash, of Bal-
linger, Texas, has just re-
turned from a trip to Flor-
ence, Alabama where she
visited with her daughter,
Mrs. Drayton H. Lester and
her family. The special occa-
sion for the visit was the
graduation 'of her grand-
daughter from the University
of Alabama. Miss Vicky Ro-
san Lester received her B.8.
degree in nursing May 30,
1965. She is the daughter of
the former ma Ray Fiveash
and Drayton H. Lester;
granddaughter of Mrs. John
Fiveash and the late John
Fiveash of Ballinger; and
great granddaughter of Mr
and Mrs John Fiveash. of
Coleman County.
The date of Miss Lester's
graduation was also signifi-
cant in that twenty-five
years ago Miss Ray fiveash
graduated from Robert B
Greene Memorial Hospital in
San Antonio, Texas, begin-
ning the tradition of Regis-
tered Nurses in the family.
- Miss Lester shall begin
^graduate studies at the Uni-
versity of Colorado in the
verslty of Colorado in the
her M.S. degree in the field
of Psychiatric Nursing;
completion of graduate
Miss Lester plans to
collegiate Psychiatric
ing
While at the University of
Alabama, Miss Lester was
tapped into Sigma Theta Tau,
National Oollegia'te Nursing
Honorary; Triangle, Univer-
sity of Alabama’s Service
Honorary; was a member of
Alpha Xi Delta social sorori-
ty; was the first student at
the University of Alabama to
receive a traineeship for ad-
vanced studies in Psychiatric
Nursing; and has had an ar-
ticle published in the Jour-
nal of Phycbiatric Nursing.
Along with Mrs. Fiveash
and Mrs. Lester, Mr. Drayton
H Lester, manager of W. T.
Grant’s and Co. of Florence,
artd Drayton H. Lester Jr.,
a sophomore at the Universi-
ty of Alabama, attended the
134th Commencement Exer-
cises of the University of Ala-
bama.
Miss Doris Conn, 59. a res-
ident of San Antonio the past,
40 years, died in a San An-
tonio hospital last Tuesday
following many years of ill-
ness She was buried Thurs-
day at 11 am from Roy
Akers Funeral Chapel with
the Rev L D Mahandy pas-
tor of the First Baptist
Church of that city officiat-
ing Burial was in San Jose
Burial Park. San Antonio.
Miss Conn, the* daughter of
Mrs Hubert O.* BonlWT~nT
San Antonio and the late R
P Conn was reared in Bal-
linger and attended Ballin-
ger Schools .
Survivors are her parents.
Mr and Mrs Hubert O. Bon-
nan, one brother and sister-
in-law. Mr and Mrs C B
Conn; one niece and one
nephew, all of San Antonio
Mr and Mrs H J Zappe
of Ballinger attended the
services.
town
Mrs. Adams died
There are two
and Floydw and
daughters. Alice and Mrs
E Hill Maudella Hill is
only grandchild
Deadline of entry in
oldest resident contest
noon. Saturday.. June 12.
was covered by
After
teams
usscss
sign
nip urrvpfttng rlinttfxed^i
reunion of Maverick citizens
which is held every two years
More than 400 attended this
year's reunion. ..
With E. C. Grindstaff pre-
siding. officers were elected
for a two-year term. Alton
Bradberry will head the or-
ganization. Others elected
were Leland Carlton, vice-
Mrs. Elliott Kemp
Hosts HD Club
Four members of East Bal-
linger Home Demonstration
Club presented the program
of Social Etiquette at a meet-
ing held Tuesday afternoon
in the home _of Mrs. Elliott
Kemp. •
Social Etiquette on Travel,
Home, Table and Social were
discussed.
Mrs. William Fowler, presi-
dent, was in charge of busi-
ness after roll was answer-
ed with “My Best or Worst
Buy.” The thought for the
day was “The ladder of life
is full of splinters, but they
always prick the harder
when we’re sliding xiown ” by
Brownell.
Cake and coffee were serv-
ed at the social hour.
The next meeting will be
June 23 in the home of Miss
Edna Routh.
do occur.”
Basic features of the break-
away sign support are a “slip
joint” at its base and a
“break joint” at the bottom
of the sign face. The slip
joint allows the sign post to
slip free when sharply struck.
The break joint, a cast-iron
plate, cracks the post on im-
pact. creating a "hinge” ef-
fect oi< the post.
The hinge effect permits
an auto to pass under the
strutture safely and brake to
a stop beyond the sign.
Before releasing specifica-
tions to the 25 district offices
of the Highway Department,
design and research engineers
conducted collision tests for
nearly two years.
Surplus cars, reverse-towed
by another vehicle through a
pulley mechanism, clashed
repeatedly into experimental
sign structures at the Insti-
tute’s test facility. The break-
away signs were found to be
effective at speeds ranging
up to 60 miles per hour, max-
imum speed
vice.
Each crash
high speed
every test, i
pored dVer
dynamics of
structures during collision.
They finally arrived at the
basic design for large
structures now being
stalled at strategic
along Texas highways.
new sign represents a
for Texas. Before re-
bogan, the other 49
were surveyed on
whether work had been done
or was underway on a ‘soft-
er’’ sign. All replies were neg-
ative, and many expressed
hope that Texas would come
up with a practical solution
to a nationwide problem.
State Highway Engineer
emphasizes that the research
project is not yet over. ”We
think we’ve arrived at a
workable sign, one that will
help save lives,” he says.
But we don’t consider this
model the ’ultimate' sign
Our research will continue at
We have all the
BEAUTIFUL
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Higginbotham’s
‘Your Favorite Shopping Center”
pressway facilities in recent
years The number is not
alarming in comparison, with
other types of accidents. Tit
fact, fixed—object collisions
declined 14 per cent last year
according to the Department
of Public Safety
Nevertheless. 6 163 accidents
involving vehicles in collision
with fixed objects did occur
on Texas highways last year
As one of the most numerous
of fi£ed objects along high-
ways, signs represent a major
potential factor in such col-
lisions. * . . V
Moreover, signs designed
for legibility- in J
expressway traffic are ex-
ceedingly large. Some ex-
pressway sign faces are big-
ger than the side of a house,
with lettering 16 inches high.
With the nation's largest
quota of new expressways
built and to be built. Texas
Highway Department offici-
als decided to undertake a
program of preventive safe-
ty" to develop a safer sign
for the burgeoning express-
way-grid
Development of the sign
that yields is a, dramatic iU
lustration of how Texas is
acsieving better, safer high-
ways through research It is
also a graphic expression of
a Highway Department phil-
tute to improve on the pres-
high speed . ent design, and to explore
other possibilities."
Officials ixiint out that re-
search aimed at improving
highway signs involves many
complications. Signs must be
constructed to withstand wind
velocities of up to 100 r.p.h
in some Texas areas, for in-
stance. Also, they must be
installed near the roadway
for driver visibility, particu-
larly at night.
A "safe” sign, engineers
say, must not stop a vehicle
but must yield at impact. It
must move aside and allow
the vehicle to continue on its
path so it may be braked to
a gradual stop.
And in moving out of the
way. the sign must follow a
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