Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1970 Page: 1 of 12
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Council Talks
McDonald,
District
Kings and Queens Named
'ball game here, Sept. 18.
are unopposed with represent-
United Fund Drive
Dogs to Try to Blemish
Undefeated Rotan ‘Record
.............
He returned to Abilene dur-
projects tn the various
turned to Stamford Tuesday
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Dav-
Mae
food
are L. R.
Jr.. Jones
(Shorty)
County
over the meeting of 'directors
Stonewall Counties.
. Billy Jacob represented the
WCTCOG at the meeting.
Larson, area conserva
from Abilene, presided
ford.
These directors need not re-
side in their zone but must
be a producer in that zone to
be eligible to serve as a di-
rector for that zone.,
ects to the group and led in
discussions on determining the
needs and methods of applica-
tion of
areas.
Paul
tlonist
---- 12 DRIVES IN t ONE . .
THAT’S THE UNITED FUND
FUND WAY — GIVE NOW
. Residents of three Jones.
County voting boxes will vote
in new locations in the elect-
tion as their former boxes
were eliminated by the com-
missioners court in compliance
with a new law which sets a
minimum number of votes per
box.
Tuxedo area residents will
vote in Hamlin, Hodges com-
munity will vote in. Hawleyr.
and Nugent residents at Cen-
terline or Southeast Anson.
Voters must vote in the com-
And Zone 7 from FM 1228
to U. a. 380 Southwest will be
represented by W. L. Med-
tools, all valued about 8100. A
large amount of tools was
boxed but abandoned.
The same night, entry was
made through an office win-
dow at Beggs Implement Co.
Here, three chain saws and
hand tools were taken an un-
successful effort was made to
ojv»n the safe.
Jones County Sheriff Wood-
row Simmons annd Ranger Sid
Merchant of Abilene are in-
vestigating.
Sunday night, 82306 in cash
was taken from Turnbow Mu-
By DAVID CLARK
The Stamford Bulldogs take
a 0-1-1 district record to Rotan
Friday night to test the unde-
feated Yellowhammers in a
7 AA game there at 7:30. The
’Hammers knocked off Hamlin
Friday 56-14. - •* —
The Stamford Bulldogs fell
to an agressive Merkel team
28-14 In Badger Stadium Sat-
urday night. The loss set the
Dogs with a 64-1 record for
the year and the Badgers at
County Judge - I-eon Thur-
man has set Nov. 4 as the
date for the three juveniles,
who are charged with the acts
of vandalism Oct. 0, at Stam-
ford High School, to appear in
his court. - -
According to Stamford po-
lice, the three teenage boys
are charged with vandalism
including breaking into the
school building, spraying fire
extinguish!:, into the halls,
and puncturing a number of
tires with a knife on cars
parked near the building.
Police Chief B. Q. Cooper
also said two of the three con-
fessed to being the ones who
took some money, wallets and
jewelry from the Sweetwater -
locker room during the foot-
the past week but no uhot”
leads have been developed.
Chief B. Q Cooper said
The Bulldogs* coaches desig-
nated Andy Young as the Of-
fensive Player of the Week,
and Mike Robinson as the De-
fensive Player. Young made
serveral long runs, one. for a
38 yard touchdown, and being
only a junior could really de-
velop next year. Mike Robin-
ipply cooperative, in a
? Oct. 26, in the Stam-
atives of the Democratic Party
filling the slots.
Candidates are Ben Ramsey
for Railroad "Commissioner;
Jack Pope, Associate Justice,
Supreme Court, Place 1; Ruel
C. Walker, Associate Justice,
Supreme Court, Place 2;
James Denton, Associate Jus-
tice, Supreme Court, Place 3;
J. F. Jack Onion Jr., Presid-
ing Judge, Court of Criminal
Appeals; and Truman Roberts,
Judge, Court of Criminal Ap-
County Judge
Sets Hearing
For Juveniles
over the dart board booth.
In Mrs. Patsy Cole’s room.
Mandv M'-Keev-r dan«hters of
Mr. and Mrs. Billy McKeever,
and Wavne Seav. son of Mr
and Mrs. Gary Don Seay, will
relen over the wishing well.
In Mrs. Mildred Lane’s room
Kim tfataer. rtjra«h»er of Mr
and Mrs. J. C. Kainer. and Wayne Medford, son o Mr.
Jimmv McCorkle son MrZ and Mrs. W. L. Medford will
and Mrs. James M. McCorkle,
will reign over the rivle show.
Bob Harrison was elected
elected for a 3 year term from
Zone 5 which is from U. S. 92
to U. S. 277 Southwest.
Zone 6 from U. S. 277 to F-
M 1226 will be represented by
Jerry Manske who was elect-
ed for a 2 year term.
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Jones County voters will Join
voters around the state at the
polls Nov. 3, for the general
election to choose a Uv S.'Sen-
ator, a U. S. Representative,
Stamford voters will cast
their ballots at two locations
Nov. 3, from 8 *.m. to 7
F~) p. m. Precinct 25 (east side)
wiqfvote In the High School
Auditorium with Richard
Lane serving as election
judge, and Precinct 16 (west
Tools Boxed but Abandoned
Burglars boxed up all the took on this stand but
left them near the door after apparently being
frightened off at Doc Jones Implement Go. Doc
(pictured) said some batteries and some other tools.
were taken.
Marion Porter, left, guest speaker for Monday’s meeting, discusses the pro*
« gram with Paul Larson (center), area conservationist, and IE Birger Haterius,
* chairman of California Creek Soil and Water Conservation District. Conserva*
t ion i sts from seven counties met in the council chambers to discuss resource
conservation and development projects. . .. ’ - •
With Another
Applicant
Members of the Stamford
city council Wednesday morn-
ing interviewed another candi-
date for city manager, Mayor
. James Self said, adding that
no new applications have been
received.
The office was left vacant
wltii the resignation of Denny
Arnold.
Four applicants were inter-
viewed last Wednesday.
Soil Conservation District di-.
, rectors from seven counties,
all in the West Central Texas
Council of Governments area,
met in Stamford’s City Hall
Oct. 6, to discuss Resource
Conservation and Develop-
ment Projects and to decide
whether or not to make appli-
cation for RC&D projects in
their districts.
A steering committee of R.
V. Earles of Haskell, L. D.
Offutt of Munday, Glen Webb
of SweetWater, B. A. Erdman
was of Aspermont and Victor' Ar-
lington of Spur •
The committee will meet
Dec. 7 in Aspermont to set
to serve one year as director
of Zone I. the area between
Farm to Market Rond 142, the
Ericksdahl Highway, and U.
S. Highway 380.
Elected for Zone 2 from F-M
142 east of Stamford to U. S.
The local people in the pro-
posed project area, apply to
the State Conservationist for
the projects.
Room king and queens have
beefr chosen for each room at
Oliver Street School to reign
over Halloween Carnival, acti-
vities Oct. 31.- > -
A style show, spook house,
fortune teller and a variety of
game and food booths will be
included In the carnival, ac-
cording to co - chairman Mrs.
Larry McGraw, Mrs. Darryl
Schoonmaker and Mrs. Thom*
as Newland.
Children are urged to wear ' In Mrs. Bernice Boles’ room,
their costumes to the carnival Dee Ette Sbethamer daughter
so there will be no need to of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Shel-
change clothes for the trick-or- hamer. and Bart Rosenouist,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas.
Rosenouist. will reign over a
food booth.
In Yvonne Peterson’s room.
Tamara Newland, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas New-
land, and Nickv Stevenson,
son of Mrs. Gwen Stevenson,
Five Injured in
Auto Accident
treaters.
" Crown bearers will be Missy
Bearden, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Bearden, and Mark
Golden, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Golden Jr.
King and queen of Mrs. Er-
nestine Heller’s room are Pat-
sy Spalding, daughter of Mr. reign over the bingo booth.
In Mauring Turner’s room.
Jackie Cltpoer, daughter of
Mrs. Marv Clepper, and Hec-
tor Gonzales, snn of Mr. and
Mrs. Braulio Gonzales, will
reign over the shooting gallery . ants.
In Mrs. Mattie Lou Elliott’s sell 1
■ v • Scouts reported that Rotan
Rotary and Lions pro^’y h*\the best offensive
. * - backfield that we have played
State Representative Frank all year, including Iowa Park.
■ Calhoun discussed the seven The Yellowhammers are 7-0
Constitutional amendments to
be voted on in the Nov. 3 elec-
tion at the Rotary Club during
their noon meeting Oct. 27.
then opened the floor for a
The Rotan team will be high
- for Stamford and they are
Smith noted that coached by former Stamford-
ite, Charlie Davis, This is the
first year for Rotan in class
AA and they have made the
switch royally, having alrea-
dy knocked off a number of
good AA teams.
and are a senior team, with 9
senior offensive starters and 8
serrtor defensive men.
* The Rotan squad is led by * - Carlton Strand was elected
senior quarterback Walter
Hargrovp who is a good run-
ner. ball .handler, and passer.
Steve Nowlin is a fine tail-
back for the 'Harpmers and
Mjfky Early, the Rotan tail-
back, is reported to be the
Green Stamp
Center Opens
and Mrs. Robert L. Spalding,
and Jerome Bounds, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Bounds. The
room will co • sponsor the cake
walk.
In Mrs. Mae Belle Astln’s
room. Glenda McCandless,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen
McCandless and Frnte Mans-
ke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry
Manske, will- reien over the
, country music and country
store booth.
In Mrs. Jean Burnett’s room,
Karo Holding, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. D. A. Bolding, and
Kelly Stacy eon of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Stacv will reign
room. La Tonya Dillard,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Dillard, artd Victor
is, son of Mrs. Naloma
Davis, will reign over a
booth. ,
Public Accounts.
Jesse James (D) is chal-
lenged by Robert F. Koen-
necke (R) for the State Treas-
urer's position. \
The Commissioner of Gener-
al Land Office is a race be-
tween Bob Armstrong (D) and
Harry Trippet (R). John C.
White (D) and Daniel C. Heath
(R) are bidding for the Com-
, missioner of Agriculture post.
Republican Marvin Sapaugh
has challenged Democrat
Frank W. Calhoun for State
Representative District 62,
place 2. Grant Jones (D) is
unopposed for District 62, Lueders - Avoca School will
Place 1, State Representative.^ have their Fall Festival Oct..
All other places on the ballot 31 .in the Lueders Auditorium, -
are unopposed with represent- beginning at 6:30 p. m. *
reign as the other co-sponsors
of the cake walk.
In Mr*. Sue Quade’s room,
Elizabeth Self, daughter of Mr
and Mr*. James Self, and Paul
Rosenouist. sou of Mr., and
Mrs. Melvin Rosenquist, will
reign over the fortune teller
booth.
in Mrs. Ophelia Reed’s room
Robin McCandless, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Glen McCandless
and Dennis Lvckman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lvckman.
will reign over the spook house
co-sponsored by Mrs. Betty
Meason.. .
Emcee for the carnival will
be Lori McCraw. Pianist will
be Roddy, Lawson and attend-
Ender and Trus-
son played ferocious football best the Dogs have come up
against Merkel and picked off against so far.
one pass and returned it 20 “ “
yards for a TD.
Coach 1
Freddy Washington had a
good game defensively, and
Bo Jones, playing middle line-
backer for the first time
played well also.. Smith said
Robert Stevenson and John
Newsom played well offensive-
ly for the Dogs.
Smith reported that two
boys had done an outstanding
Job all season for the special-
ly teams, Billy Dennis and
Alan Plumlee.
Of the Merkel game Smith
said, “We Just beat ourselves.
We gave the ball away three
times inside the twenty and
the mistakes are team mis-
takes; not individual mistakes.
When the punt was dropped
Calhoun Explains
* 1,. . a- - the receiver whether to catch
AmeiKlHieniS lO it that, close to the goal.”
-------------- Sometime Thursday night
South of Lueders
Implement Co took three bat-
The Stamford Fire Depart- teries and a quantity of hand
ment reported -two fire calls
and six ambulance caHs this
week, with one of the ambu-
lance calls to a one car acci-
dent south of Lueders, injur-
ing five Lubbock men.
The car went out of control
and turned over, according to
Bin Lawson, fire chief. AH
were injured, but only two ser-
iously. They were all taken to
Stamford Memorial Hospital,
Lawson said.
.? The accident occurred some
three miles south of the Lue-
ders River Bridge. *
missioners precinct in which
they reside.
Lloyd Bent'sen (Democrat)
and George Bush (Republican)
Hi Hi will battle for the U. S. Sen-
and a complete slate of state ator’s post in the election, with
officers. — Omar Burleson (D) running
— — — — — ■ unopposed for U- S. Represent-
ative of the 17th Congressional
District.
Republican Paul Eggers is
challenging the incumbent De-
mocratic Govenor. Preston
Smith, for the highest state of-
flee. Ben Barnes (D) and By-. pea^ ’ . .1
ron Fullerton (R) will bid for Also, David Ratliff, State
the —Lieutenant Governor’s senator ..District 24; Austin
HaU with Mr*. A. (W»y ch^ . ? M cClou4. Chief Justice, Court
serving a» judge. " ' ■ Attorney General (rawford of civl1 Appeals. District
Martin (D) is defendinng his paynter, Criminal District
■ post against EdwankM. Ytur- At$ornev for the 42nd and 104th
ri (R), and Robert "S. Calvert judicial Districts, Leon Thur- ■
(D) and S. L. Abbott (R) are mail( jop^s County Judge; and
- in the race for Comptroller-of w £.
Cleric
-Others
W'nkeLs
Treasurer: Roy Thorn, Jones
County Clerk: Everett Beav-
er, Jones County School Super-
intendent. T. H. (Tom) Boyd,
Commissioner, Predncf !; J.
E. Touchstone, Commissioner,
Precinct 4. •> . . - ~
Candidates for Justice of the
Peace are E. M. Spraberry
Sr., Precnnctl: John Bameu,
Precinct 5; and Tom Nance,
Precinct I. "
Knob-Knockers Not Successful
Mrs. Hollis Lindsey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ~
Kenneth Beggs of Beggs Implement Co., views the
damage done to the company safe by burglars
Thursday night. The cutting torch was used to
burn off the knob and part of the-door but the
safe was not opened.
Highway 277 north of Stamford
wjs Waiter Buerger, for a one
year term.
For Zone 3 from’ U. S. Hi-
way 277 to U. S. 380 North-
west .Wallace Dudensing i
elected to a 3 year term.
In Zone 4 from U. S. 380 to
U. S. 92 west Louis Corzine . __r
was elected .for a; 3 year definite goals "for their dis-
twm. . tricts. '
The meeting was sponsored
by the California Creek Soil
and Water Conservation Dis-
trict under the direction of
Birger Haterius, thairman.
Guest speaker for the meet-
ing was Marion Port**, RCAD
coordinator of the'Leon Bos-
que RCAD Project in Stephen-
The new S&H Green Stamp
Redemption Center opened
Oct 27 to find a line of wom«n
waiting to be in. the first 500
customers who wfere given-100
free trading stamps.
Lois Jones, manager of tte
new facility, said the new’ store
will be open from-ifiO a. m.
until 5:30 p. m. daily except
Sunday and Monday,
The 50,000 free stamps
were given away by noon on
the center’s first day of oper-
ation.
In Mrs. Trudie IsbeU’s room, Off to Fast Start
Sharon Starr, daughter of Mr. u 4 *>. j
and Mrs. Don Starr, and ,d „ ,Unite? T?nd
— Drive got qff to fast start
Monday morning with Chair-
man Marvin Massey distribut-
ing cards to the various divi-
sion chairmen. —7
Workers started making
calls immediately in an effort
to raise the 813,508 needed to
care for the needs of 14 dif-
ferent agencies. Response has
been good, according to Mr.
Massey, but far too many peo-
ple are giving just 81.00, he
said. “
“I’d like to Emphasize that
this is 14 drives in one. Money
donated . must be divided
; among these agencies. A dol-
lar won’t go very far split this
many times/
M‘When a citizen gives just
a dollar, he is giving only 11
cents the Bov Scouts. 11
cents to the Camp Fire Girls,
Officers Investigating -
Three Burglaries HereArea peace officers are con- sic Co. Chief Cooper said a T T *11 1
tinuing investigation of three bar across the back door was 1^01* H A I I fYW’PPTl L 1 Vwl I
burglaries in Stamford during not in p*ce and there, was no JL VzJL JL JLXULJLvz W V/lH A.X.K. ▼ CKX
sign of forced entry. The mon-
ey was taken from a hidinng
place in the building.
Soil Conservation Directors
Meet Here to Discuss Projects
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x; ' \ ' P.O. BOX 45436 ‘
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STAMFORD AMERICAN ~ -
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STAMFORD, JONEg COUNTY, TEXA3 79558, THURSDAY, OCT. 29. 19^0 ’ ’ > <
Big Country Cooperative
Elects Officers, Directors
W. L. Medford was elected
president of the new Big
Country Cooperative, a fuel
and su| *
meeting
ford City HaU.
Some 50 producers were at
the meeting to elect seven di-
rectors and adopt the charter
. and by-laws ' ’ >
Louis Corzine was elected
vice president and Wallace
Dudensing as secretary trea-
surer.
. Pledges were turned in at
the meeting and it was report-
ed that there are now 65
common stock holders in the
cooperatve. 7
County Electors to Pick
Officials at Polls Tuesday
11 cents to the summer youth
program and just 4 cents to
the Community Education
Center.”
Mr. Massey stressed that
“Fair Share Giving” i* the on-
ly way the goal can be
reached. He pointed out that
the United Fund has a year-
round secretary and both pay-
roll deduction and bank draft
plans are available.
The Rev. Jarrell Sharp, pas-
tor of St. John’s United’Meth-
odist Church, told workers -
Monday mominng that he be-
lieves in the Unnited Fund.
“I believe in it so much that
I am willing to support it with
my own life I believe in it
because it is the cooperative
thing to do. We join hands to-
gether cooperatively to do
those things that need to b-?
done in the community.”
The speaker said he wtas for
the United Fund because it
was the concerned way.
“These agencies are the con-
cern of all the people of Stam-
ford.” He then listed the agen-
cies and said all need more j
money than thev are getting, ’
an have pared their asking to
the bone.
nans caU for completing
the drive by Nov. 12.
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