The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1968 Page: 2 of 13
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Page 2 — Section One. Thursday, November 14. T96.x
FOR SALE: 6 rm*. A Bath,
pay like rent. 400 A. 75 field.
$105, all mineral*. 600 acre*,
all tillable, irrigation area,
A. M. King, FAM Bank
Building 40-ltc
Goodyear Tires ,
Mobil Products
Highway •
Filling Station
Owned A Operated ,
Henry Tepiicek Jr. v
Bill Middleton
Is Your
Glassified Ads
Bandmaster: An Odessan s Way of Life
M,
PLUS
Virgin!:.
WANTED J
LUXURI-
plu*
THE COLDEST drink in town.
Get an Icee at Ballinger Ice « l»?nwfor man over 40 trr HsHhr
you’ll love them.
tfnc
Where
and had
h<- had seen
To Shop
Wrestling
(1) 301 Sth St. near town,
KNTAEJ • SALES
on thi*
in.
Wrestling
and in
For Sale
unsettled con
took
Grant
German Style
Insurance
MISCELLANEOUS
Sausage
Beef and Pork
Processing
KING-HOLT
38 3tp
Cash Locker
perience in title*. Deeds
Bear
THE WEEK
SPECIAL OF
dining room, roomy kitchen
Two cpaciou* bedroom*,
Nick Adams
The Lawman
i*ored by
Land is the basis of all wealth'
Runnels County Gin
Steak House
Rowena, Texas
Ballinger Appliance&Hardwye
Our
Rev.
Mad
near
and at
w ecks
Starring
Robert Shaw
Where There Are Two
Mom Lint Clmmore"
You Tried
Deliciou* .
the
on
area
Bay
Cooperating
with area
Broker*
ft.
tai!
Select Used Couchee-Sofas
and Chair*. Bedroom Suite*.
Breakfast Suite* —
I am not responsible for any
debts made by anyone other
than myself.
than myself Paul Winchester.
IT’S THIS TIME of year for
those delicious Mexican Foods.
You’ll find them at The Texas
Grill.
Repair*
Call 44241'1
HELP WANTED — SALESMEN
— $17,000 plus regular cash
THE COLDEST drink in town
Get an Icee at Ballingei Ice —
you’ll love them. tfnc
DON’T MISS the Garage Sale
at 902 6th Street Virginia Doug
lass Class of First Methodist
Church. 40 nc
WALL PAPER—large stock, all
cinds in stock. Wm. P. Carey
.umber Company. 24-tfc
FOR RENT — 3 bedroom home
in good location. $65. Grant
Agency. 34 tfc
FOR SALE — Small folding
baby bed. Call 365 2749, Mrs
Wylie Hearn. 40-ltp
FOR RENT — 2 bedroom house
on 9th Street, Mrs. J. G. Tuck
ey. 365 2344 30 tfc
FOR RENT — 1 bedroom fur-
nished duplex. $50. Grant Agen
ey. 34 tfc
WANTED — Humble dealer for
service station in Paint Rock.
Wonderful opportunity for am-
bitious man. Phone Bob Loyd,
365-3211, Ballinger. 27-tfc
music is as
of the thing*
in the nation
Methodirt Church sale at 902
•th St Friday. November 15
Items of all kinds. 40 Inc
CHRISTMAS CARDS, station
•ry, gift wraps, all occasion
cards, other gift items. Call
Mary Ellen Perry at 365-2159.
17-tfe
tin, pho 792 1771. Talpa, Texas
40-ltc
has brought
through his
accom
through
SINGER AUTOMATIC 65 00 a
month or $45.00 cash Repos
teased, full site, late model
Makes button holes, sews but
tons on. blind stitches, over
casts, monograms, appliques,
and does all fancy designs.
Write for free home trial. Box
DSC, co I-edger Bellinger,
Texas 76821 40 5tc
CARL BYNUM
(RBAL ESTATE BROKER)
809 Hutching* Avenue
Ballinger, Pho. 365-2334
Rowena, Texa*
Phon. 447 2851
Real Estate It a tech-
nical, complex butinet*
INFORMATION — If you
have a good credit rating,
these homo* can be bought
for 5% of the total price
Good Gulf Gasoline
24 Hour
Road Service
FHA appraisal order. Coll today for thi* certified value
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Flats—Beams
Pipes
Angles—Channels
i.- presented by the Bearcat
ime shows on Friday nights
in nails’ changing formations.
>pent each football season
i jireparaiion for the shows,
ger area Take short trips to
contact customers Air mail R
A Dickerson, President, South-
western Petroleum Corpora
tion. Fort Worth. Texas 76101
WANTED — Custom combining
for late milo and other grains.
Call Ralph Dankworth. 365-3108
after 5 p. m. or Charlie Dank-
worth, 365-3308, Ballinger.
30 tfc
as well for inarching contests. Band members
spent Tuesday afternoon and evening this week
in a Band Marching Clinic conducted by Charles
Traylor. Marching Band Director at ACC. Abi-
lene. Director of the Bearcat Band i> J. Weldon
Moore, i Ledger Staff Photo".)
lot’
Good for
Redman s Gulf
Service Station
FOR RENT — Furnished du-
plex apartments; private bed
room. Call 365 2682 or see Sam
Behringer. 40 Itc
FOR SALE — Honda 300
Scrambler motorcycle. Call 365
3997 after 5 p. m. 32-tfnc
FOR RENT — 2 bedroom house
at 913 6th Street. Call 365-2260
or contact Levy Lee. 38 tfc
bandstand
lawn and
For
Building Materials
Of All Kinds
And
Low* Brother* Paint*
as he was selected •
the massed band at half
before a national tele
audience
Wanted
Scrap Iron
Cable*—Motor*
Tin Can*
Copper — Radiator*
Brat* — Batteries
WALL PAPER — large’stock,
*11 kinds in stock. Wm. P.
Carey Lumber Company.
7441c
Ballinger
Salvage Co
Ballinger
Salvage Co
Maddox has served as presi-
dent of Texas Bandmasters As
sociation and in 1959 was nani
ed Texas Bandmaster of the
Card of Thank*
We wish to express our most
sincere thanks and gratitude to
the entire staff of Ballingei
Memorial Hospital, especially
to Dr James Cook and all the
nurses who so graciously
care of my dear husband
father. Joseph A Lange,
most sincere thaaks also to
James P. Bridges, pastor of
St. Joseph, and our many rela
tives and friends who brought
and prepared the fo<«l The
Masses, cards, visits, memo
rials, floral arrangements and
expressions of sympathy during
our time of bereavement were
and arc greatly appreciated.
Asking God s blessing on each
and everyone.
Mrs. Joseph Lange and
children
The following article written
by Cope Roath app< ared in th<>
Odessa American concernin ■
Robert Lee Maddox, a former
Ballinger High School student
The tall and distinguished
looking man with the gruyin 1
hair stepped quickly to the
podium and raised his baton.
The 17,000 football far
jammed into the W T Barrett
Satdium fell silent
Through the cool night irr
came the stirring strains of th
finale of Tschaik.nwsky’s IX .1
Overture — performed by the
more than 200 members of the
combined band and orchestra
of Permian High School
And Robert Lee Maddox Jr.
was again a Bandmaster — a
cherished title he had held for
more than 40 years
It is a title which carried him
into the Cotton Bowl on Jan 1.
1962,
direct
time
vision
was a title which carried
into the membership of
elite American Bandmas
Association, which limit
MW BUYING $55$
Silver 10c & 25c Coins
BUY OVER FACE — 15%
Silver 50c Coins
BUY OVER FACE — 26%
Scrry I do not buy, sell or
have knowledge of old coin*.
CARL BYNUM
(REAL ESTATE BROKER)
809 Hutching* Avenue
Ballinger, Texa* 76821
Bring Us
Your
Ginning
We played an hour and a
half a day in the school cafe
tcria for two meals a day and
we organized a hand to play a'
dances around Waco
His first Job was with Ranger
schools, teaching commercial
subjects during the day and
working with the town band
after school hours In 1935 there
came an offer from Cisco and
j four years later came a better
I offer from Mexia
' This time.’’ he continued.
"I had no commercial teaching
and could direct all my effort:
toward band, and later the
school choir .”
Then eamtvthc offer from
Odessa^ x
A year after his Arrival in
Odessa, he joined other Odea
sans, including Mrs: Inland
Croft, whom he had known as
a child hack in Bdllingcr. in
the belief that there was a
potential for a symphony pro-
gram.
The Odessa Symphony was
organized and be was its di-
rector for the first five years.
a member of the
orchestra and also
a private musical
help pav his way
Raleigh Reese
Realtor
365-2S1I
FOR SALE — Good used Serve!
Ga* Regngerator
deer hunters Call 365 2558 or
see Hugo Vogelsang. 38 tfnc
FOR SALE — Large chain
drive tricycle; small boy*' b>
cycle Mr* Richard Perry . 130«
Mb. 365 2156 40 toe
Ior" SALE 177 acre*, 80 acres
•f cultivation good grass, plenty
•F ..water, good fence. Seven
thfle* northeast of Talpa on
Dr. J. L. Ohlhauten
Chiropractor
Hutching* Ave.
Kettler
Lumber Co.
Ralph Katttor, owner
States and
Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac Dealer
Morgan Motors
You can find
USED FURNITURE
to suit your need* at
&ING-HOLT
FOR SALE OR RENT — 2 bed
room house. small equity,
established loan. Resume pay-
ment* of $48 monthly. Call 365-
3048. 40-ltc |
His bands have made several
trips to Chihuahua City for con
certs, earning him citations
from both the Mexican and V S.
governments
His musical organizations
have consistently been rated
outstanding in southwest mu
steal competition
He s one of the hardest work
ers on the scene when, as ex
ecutive secretary, he handles
most of the details of the annual
Regional \ HI meet for musical
division of the Interscholastic
league.
Nou 61 years old Maddox
is looking forward to retiring tn
a few years to a five acre cher
ry orchard he and Mrs
dox acquired in I960
Glacier National Park,
which thev spend six
each summer
His faith in his music
musical appetites of youngsters
has not waned
“Our music today. ' he mus-
ed ’’ reflects our
ditions
“Much of our
radical as some
that are going on
The attitude of the nation is
always expressed in music.
“This is just a phase — 1
admit it s a phase that some
times is hard on our eat . .
but it i* a phase and our young
people are expressing their re-
bellion; we did the same thing
in our youth
“But it will pass and good
music like good literature, will
endure ”
GRANTS HALL OF
HOMES
ft.). 3 bedroom*, 2 bath*, and
a firoplace and a three apace
carport. Home it in excel-
••ht concn non.
(2) 1104 Ave. A, 3 bedroom*,
home in fair chape, a very
It
him
the
ters
itself to 135 members
It was a title which brought
him a commendation from th<>
White House for his effotts in
furthering good relation-- b<
tween the United
Mexico
It is a title which
him a rich life
music . . . through hi
plishments . . and
the lives of literally thousand
of young people he has touched
“It’s all I've ever wanted
from the time I was a freshman I
in high school," he mused a- I
he sat in the tiny office he <><■
cupies as supervisor of Musi
foi Ector County Independent
School District
“Music has meant so mud
to me and it has done so much j
in shaping lives of young. peopU 4
“Music creates in the -nd i
vidual the ability to work in • |
group as a part of the team I
“It teaches the pride of a< j
complishment and it giyes th I
child something he can earn i
all his life. Music can be con I
fined to an inner expression < t '
it can be expressed outwardlv
as a performer
“Music is as personal as a
prayer.”
For more than two deca 1
he has directed the destinie-
of music programs in Odessa ■
schools.
Maddox's interest began when
he was a bov back in his luq^e
town of Ballinger
“My mother, who was a pian
ist started me with piano les
sons when I was a freshman in I
high school.” he recalled, “and >
I liked it from the start After ,
l-Tmero
Wanted To Buy
Used Cars
Cash Paid. See Us First.
CENTER
B*f1 Inger, Texa*
Retervatien* and Ticket*
at Henry** Barber Shop
Phene 345-9ei4
Ringkide ........ $15B
Gen. Adm. 111
In
Rowena
FOR SAI^E—USED APPLIANCES & TV®
WK REPAIR ANYTHING
Ctoted FRIDAY tor Stamford
Ballinger Home Gam*.
Open Sat. — Sun.
Custer of the
West”
Marcoff
The Ruetian Brown
v».
The Lawman
And Ballinger Jaycte
Henry Guevara
of Henry’s Barber Shop
. “Chubasco”
Starring
Richard Egan—Susan Stresbarg
Christopher Jone* —
Ann Southern
to be
my life ' he related, “but I
knew I had to make a living
“So 1 majored in commercial
and teaching and mmored in
music."
He was
band and
played in
group to
SIM) lbs.] through the university
a I in the little Runnels County
community.
That was back in the 1920s
and every little town had its
own band
All the little towns around
us had one. ' explained Mad
dox. “but we didn't
So Homer Carsey decided
to stick around and organize
a hand Some of the members
were good musicians Others
paid him $10 a month for a les
son a week
The band ended up with 35
members. played concerts
every three weeks from the
on the courthouse
accompanievl
ot Commerce
go'idwill trins through the ;
in 1924 Maddox entered
lor University
I knew 1 wanted music
life ' he related.
ne neai
all ef your Real Etta**
ne«d* in Counseling, Ap-
praising, or Property
Management.
DELICIOUS Mexican food *erv
ed daily at The Texas Grill.
SAW SHARPENING - AH
types of iaw*. Darby’s 13th
Street, 365 2722. 36-tfc
Runnels County
Farm Bureau
Insurance
Representative
Life — Automobile
Fire — Crop
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Perry, Richard H. The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1968, newspaper, November 14, 1968; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184344/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.