The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1967 Page: 1 of 12
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Elm Creek Water Directors
Children's Clothes
Needed by School
I
Will Organize Tuesday
children
at
coining
of
the
clothiug
to the school
Growth of Highways in Texas
the
office
similar
coming fiscal
have
a million
J
Hi
t ii>- t ear <>i
the
Minzenmuy • r.
School Bus Drivers Due
' oW II
Workshop Saturday
v aluat ion
t Ctlt nf f
three
Your Chest Dollar
if
. . nothing ■
Girl Scouts Will Have
150 Girls in Program
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t he < 'ot ton
r
t hat
went
....bit cut
Stultz and
Ball
against the
4
Monday Edition of Ledger Set Oct. 2
I
1
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and
at
of the
in the
is
in
cent
the
cent
I
school dis
a workshop
Ballinger In
District and
the
and a
going
conducted
dependent
the Texas
he rounded around the end of the
line in one of his runs that helped
stack,up the 197 yards rushing the
than planted, he continued,
■nd these are on aight-fgg*
centers. * We hope that th#
difference in the closqnass
the planting will servo •• a
tenance
Coffee
then the project is worthwhile,'
he stated.
The organization
to that which «a
Coleman
FM con-
mto Ro-
Grill Meeting tune will be 12 00
noon
Texas High-
conduct the
< ommi.ssuuie
al'amount of
pa pci
man;
I t (Hips
The
linger
beginnings of
Woodard said
Shopping
Guide
of a copy
Green field.
her 1
home
Daylight Saving Time has
euro foulded up daylight shavifag
time, hasn't it?
s Mon
the bud
Lions Change
Meeting Day
PUMISHID WEEKLY AT 711 HUTCHING® AVENUE. BALLINGER. TEXAS. SUBSCRIPTION RATE (4 PER YEAR IN RUNNELS COUNTYl SB PER YEAR ELSEWHERE
■ favorite subject'
Highway
insist on its needs, yw will
be neglected." He explainsd
that the Highway Department
people, both hero and In
Austin like to listen to the
vtfee of the local pssnts. _
lie commended Chambers of
not 1
in 200 feet of the cross-eyeta,
he said, plants are three fset
This examination will be cog-
ducted by the Texas State Soil
and Water Conservation Board
and the SC'S to determine the
amount of local interest and the
need for such a project on Elm
Creek. Rugh said.
d state item
wax pointed
only a IhHik
30
a s
Ronald Rugh. range conser-
vationist with the local Soil
Conservation Service, reported
that a field examination will
be made on the Elm Creek
Watershed within tht next six
months.
ed. Henderson said
eludes clothing for
and girls.
Shoes, sox, pants
j Around Town
crage for the entire week in
their advertising messages
Primary emphaxis on the'
Monday edition w ill be «n *ag.
ricuitural news The Thursday
edition will continue to carry.
Women s as the primary em-
phasis. other than general news
coverage which will appear in
lioth editions
Deadlines for the early week
women of the community.
Girl Scouts in Ballinger. ind
their leaders have expressed
their appreciation of sup|*ort
given them through the Chest,
and promise a good return for
flic dollars invested
game from
hi subscription Tates or lists.
Present subscribers to The
I-edger wfll receive both edi-
tions of the newspaper each
week Copies of the Thursday
paper will continue to be avail- .
able on newsstands late
Wednesday eyftiing Monday
editions will not be available
until Monday mornings.
'Ihe affair will begin at 8 30
a m
f rank Perkins district safe
By Mri Elian Parry
doughnuts will be
the mid morning
not attending
and others were
pa'rt of the time
lai k 'it aiTei|ua'e
Announcement was made
this week of planned publica-
tion of a Monday edition-of The
Ballinger Ledger to be effec-
tive Monday J October 2
The earlwweek paper will
complement the regular Thurs-
day edition of The I-edger, to
give more compete news cov-
erage, in addititm to giving ad-
vertisers moH complete cov-
They
ing
pi St. 50 years who were high-
way minded
‘‘Support and strength comeg
I’rom local citiiens support," he
orWUn WfrW W’""’-.....
erall highway program in the—,
state.
Woodard concluded his >d-
drast J>Y saying that "yeU
might think that you have
■ II the highway you need in
Ballinger. But If the area
paper will be on Fridays pre-
ceding publication, for both ad
vertising and news coverage.
For the Thursday edition,
deadlines will be at 5 p. ni.
Tuesdays for advertising. 9
. ,a ‘ m\ Wednesday for news;
and 11 iSjn Wednesday for
classified advertising . <.
No changes are to be made
fioin Perryton to
on High
on U. S.
Ballin-
Crews and
County line;
struction |ob
wena.
"These total nearly
dollars worth of construction,’’
Woodard said
Citing future planning Wood-
ard said that.some 10 or 11
miles of construction is in the
future for Highway 83 between
Winters and the Taylor County
iir.e Too. additional Farm to
Market roads are planned for
the countv.
He cited V S Highway 8? as
being the longest in the state
reaching
Brownsville, a distance of 903
miles. The Highway 83 Associa-
tion was also mentioned as the
most active highway associa-
tion in the state
Explanation was made con-
cerning the engineering and
thinking behind the "beauti-
fication project"
Highway 67 between
ger and San Angelo.
Woodard said that one
purixises of the project,
planting of a plant "b.
between the divided highways,
was to provide a headlight’hsr*. . •
Tier, similar to that which
used on the expressways
cities.
We have concluded that
a beautification project can
gi-ve us a safety factor, too.
Must n[ the advertisinr was patent
medicines such as Storm's Bee-
lias run classified .ids in the county
papers for many, many years and he
always heads them "Thing.- Rare and
I'nusual" . . . well, the Sidney Horton
family at Norton has something "rare
and unusual". Two of their daughters,
Flora V. and Nicola are attending Tar-
leton, Flora a- a senior pre-med ,-’u-
(li nt and Nicola as a pre law student
, . . both are attending school on aca-
demic scholarships. Their other daugh-
ter, Dr. Jackie Horton is a licensed
veterinarian who i- stationed at 1-a-
Tedo a> a meat inspector.. . . In the
recent Runnels County Farm Bureau
Quern’s contest. Flora i
runtc-tant- and their
made their dresses for
t hern W i' limit
belles t.
ki i ping < hange
-The
money
provide Dav
organizational
<>r< rtrrtrbnok«
organized troop, and t<) cover
the Gid Scout House with in-
surance. .supplies, janitorial
I-one Star
Conference
held in the Baker Hotel in Dal
las last week
Beth Stulfz accompanied her
parents to Dallas and visited
with relatives
largest part of the Bal
1 hest (foliar for Gii I
provides for the X'atlon
al Participation dues that’ al-
low the local girls the priv i
leges of a recognized Girl
Soaut l< adet training from the
council offices in Brownwixxl
and the use of ktcillties of both
the Council office and The Gul
t amn at I akea Brow re
coming," ha commented
I-ocal personnel of the
way Department were
by Woodard for the role
play in the Department'!
gram Present from the
office were W. B. Hoppe,
dent Engineer, end H.
gent. Maintenance Engineer.'
"Texans ehould take pride In
the ‘Pay as You Go’ policy
that the department uses la
highway construction,” Wood-
ard said f
He pointed out that most
other states finance highway
consruction by the Issuance of
bonds, while Texas doesn’t
build until it has the money on
hand, or knows where it will
come from.
Highway ronstructlen I IS
1966 amounted to $340 mil-
lion, Woodard said. In IMS,
construction costs should bo
$550 million and this for only
"critical" projects. He sold
that in public hearings last
year, construction which was
■ equested was $450 million
over what was granted.
He pointed out that highways
form the heart of the economy
in Texas "Experience has
shown that if we fail to build
a highway in time, then stag-
nation, decay, and economic
disaster come to that area,” he
said.
In our nation today, Woodard
said, one out of every six bus-
inesses are related to travel
He
have
County
Budget
Is Set
All types of clothing from
size 5 through size 14 are need
This in
both boys
rem.lining portion of the
is used in Ballinger Jo
Camp supplies,
funds and lead
lor each ne.vlv-
at a meeting at 7 30
Tuesday. September 19.
Winters City Hall
Wes Hays chairman
steering committee of the dis
tnct has called the meeting
The district was created this
year by an act of the Tex as
Legislature to meet flocxi run
trol requirements on the F.lm
shirts, un
•s, shorts,
blouses skirts - anything rail*
(■« used, he emphasized
Persons having clothing they
wish to donate
may do so bv bringing
the principal's
elementary s< ho
bv ( ailing 2 7441 and someone
w ill |>1< k up the clothing
. State
Chairman
Coleman
termed tn
Texas
ing ot the Lions ('tub here Fri-
day
The address centered on
the Texas Highway Depart-
ment's Golden Anniversary,
which will be marked this
year with a dinner in Austin
on September 26
Recalling tire I
the dcp.irtnn nt.
til.lt ■ 10 einpe } . e
in "borrowed offices' were the
pioneers in tlw Texas Hr'hway
Department xhen it began in
t9!7. "Arrt rhe highway- sys-
tem was just iiencil lines on a
map. he continued
In bringiiu the d-partmenl
closer to Ballinger he pointed
out that
had no
Ballinger school bus drivers
include Joe Bennett. Claude
Simmons Hugh Campbell HI.
David Burton. M E Sweeney.
Robert Wilson < urtis Traweek.
Willie Rotimfeld, and I. V.
Turner.
1 .i» ioliar :
jurv I mils
county fund
nent impto
r ent ■ llilel
funds -2o
cents perm.i
mr mt fund two
-t and sinking
< ills |..,|(| and
fund to cents
School bus drivers from' Ba!
linger schoolas
from surrounding
trots, will attend
by the
S< h<x»l
Department of Pub
Saturday morning at
the "Ballinger High School Cafe
Highway Commission
Hal Woodward-, of
is< ussed what he
l«r lloo
■ounty An
per Sloi \
An appeal tor children s
clothing has been issued by
Hob Henderson, irinnpal at
Ballinger Elementary
Bearcat.*- put on the statistic hook
Friday
Broncos. The not-to-be-stt»pped
Bearcats took the
strongly - picked Sonora 39-7
IT'S MCLARTY \GA1N
carrier Sammy McLarty,
Recently we came into possession
of the Greenfield Times
will im hide
pertaining to
Traffic Laws
and ur safe
Preventive Main
Hays as
I edtretter
' litfon.
White
(>tfi< ers for the boa rd of
directors of Elm o 'reek Water
Control District wdl .be elected
in
the
Members of fhe Ballinger
1 ions ( I ib agreed Fndav Zo
change their meeting day from
Fridays t’o Thursdays, effective
Thursday October 1?
Meeting place w d! continue to
ailed yon from rheumat i.-m ■ to hay
fever and yont.. Chill Cnee. l ydia 11.
Finkham. I’ernna and just about any
kind of medicine for all kind' of ail-
ments . . . strangely enopph the local
merchants didn’t have much advertis-
ing in it. mostly classified ads. There
v as one 2 column ad for
Belt Railioad advertising two trains
a day to Texas . . . and by the wav',
theti were lots a|ul lots, of Teiint
folks that came to Texas about
time.
Courts, and City Official! who
have pUt aside their selfish in-
terests. and are working .. lor
the betterment of thejr , c<m*
munities through hotter Ufto-
w®y« ..
Guests at the Friday taneh-
eon at the Ivy Room tateluM
T. F. Wigging ot aMJiMgio,
Charles Arnold ot AMltate,
"Skinny" Adamo of *obori
Leo. E E?K&>g, MUw Mg^or
Charles Hamnriek. H F. Lar
l-ocal Lone Star
People Attend
Conference
Mr and Mrs Bill
Mp at>4- Mrs- Boyd
tended a two day
Gas Management
the meet
hi car . . His number carried
Mufti SWII’l--. Ij w i.'ti't ha’,| f<n
findei of this plate to identity
ovv Iiel . . He found it out oil t lie
ton mad and came straight to t
and left the pk.t-e for .Mr. Behringer.
The Worlds Fare
- By Wick Fowler
said that Texas citizong
made certain that high-
programs did not fail,
have done this by elect-
officials throughout th.e M.
I^irectors of the district who
were named in the bill include
Charles/ Hambrick, Richard
Thomas. Clarence Ix-dbctter.
Virgil James. John Purifoy.
J E. Smith X 1. Faubion.
and Walter Spill.
\ ahiatmns in the countv are
based un about lb |h r (-ent of
true market value of the p'np
erty lax rale was set at 9’>
It might
person.'di/ed
tl:i- '.seek S.mi Rehringci
Fw ipr rcnrt-'ciititti'. <• m
several years ago on Valley
Creek for the samt purpose
Memtiers of the Steering;
Committee who hav< guidetT
the organization from its mcep
tlon until the bill bei ame law
include IL.ys as chauman.
Clarence I edlrntter Jake Pre-
ley < harlc*-
Bournc Wade
Mitchell V. I
Middleton. Bill
and T A Smith
'They had strikes in those
too . . . tlie employees of an Fast
nessee Marble ( ompanv's. mills
(»u 'jfAtsiaatKbt'f aKiyy c■-~ - fwydvrcMwrr'
to attend the fiiiiepl of a fellow -work-
man who was accidently killed in a
marble mill nearby . . . 'They seemed
to have-problems similar to those we
face today . . . there was the war in
the Philippines that was a big issue in
the upcoming election. There was a
Flory about how the administration
was carrying on the ‘‘Sanguinary Con-
quest” which sort of parallels the po-
litical situation and the war in Viet-
nam, today.
in 1917 Runnels 'ounty
high, ways in the I ex as
In 1920 however, the
state boasted six miles ot high
ways in the county—ail under
construction
"Today, th, re are over 300
miles ()f paxed highways with
in the count' he said
Presently there are
projects underway heie: 6 7
miles construction
way 83 between Hatchel and
Winters, amounting *o over
a naif million dollars; con-
struction on FM 53 between
Explained to Lions Friday)
a'sc-sment valuation of $24
fun, Kin an im reaof alxiut
mi and.
nt no', no ultei'at lulls had
' he Hol tons have
nut se. 1 w oiild >.ty
' tv officer for the
way Patrol, will
w orkshop
Subjects covered
Traffu Problem1
School Busses,
i including safe
Speesis and
, I'mmi . . . Greenfield was my
tow n w hen I was a ( !.dd. The
w a- (jiiite intei est ingf to me for
of t he people riieiit loned in t he
W'-re relatives . . . allot h*-r
tiling tha' whs unusual wa- that there
w as not a 'im.de head line or
page . . .m i.u t. no heads, ju
rules. 'There wa> a great deal ,
upcoming general election, I
were no pictures and no lijy head lun--
‘to let you know w ha' you wen iforig
to be reading about
make it appealing to tin
fi son v ho is a nia|
tjieirs is a "rare and unusual"
(if children.
Guls
f rom
m vrn tn
17 are
servne and limited repairs
offi ted
the .H
1\ ent tires
and ex
The allowance from the Bal
penem 1
•s < if
Gul
Scouting
linger Chest offers ea< h girl
Hi rou >.;h
the
stip|M»rf
ol The
about $ 1 o a ye.>i 1 he Gul
Bulling!
i ' h«
•st
Scout dpllai goes a long way
Ba 11 in
R(T W
ill soon
have IS'i
in the training of the young
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Perry, Richard H. The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1967, newspaper, September 14, 1967; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1183895/m1/1/?q=%22ROSENBERG%22~1: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.