Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1970 Page: 1 of 10
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STAMFORD, JONES COUNTY, TEXAS 79553, THURSDAY, DEC. 31, 1970
Lowest Total Rainfall
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New City Manager Arrives—
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some 11.200, i«t provided bv
A free barbecue dinner will
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and is the net amount after
the state deducted the two per
cent fee. Gross for the quar-
to town,
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the family
Macombers
H. R. Macomber, new city manager, and his wife Ann supervise the movers as
they move into their Stamford home at 1001 Symonds Place. The Macombers
arrived Dec. 30 from Dumas.
New PhoneBooks
To be Delivered
The outstanding player cho-
sen was Jerome Hopkins of
Colorado City. The Sportsman-
ship Award went to Wayne
Page, Aspermont, and Bill
Whisenhunt of Merkel was cho-
sen as the recipient of the
Defensive Ffeyer Award.
Final thp tnn
The cover picture will be an
artists drawing of Stamford
Memorial Hospital, printed in
brown ink.
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XI ?-. . .•, <
has arrived from Austin, in
the amount of $12 221.IS.
The check is for the July
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Club to Sponsor
Quail Rodeo for
Mexico Trip Funds
•WR-At, Texas rsgjjK
County Officials
Will Take Office
December
the farmers’
coming
praised
city government and said,“He
has experience WorMih^ with
small cities and knows their
the wet trend with 2.34 and
2.65 inches respectively, one
and one-half inches more than
normal for those two months.-
The only snow in 1970 fell
March 21.
The drv season began in
Mav, the/highest month in 1969 “
with 7.68 inches, when only
1.49 inches were recorded.
May’§. normal is 3.89 inches,
2.4 inches more than this */
Stamford broken tat® the same
night and officers suspect this
was the work* of the same
group.
A door was broken at Son’s
City Pig' Cafeteria and $27.90
taken from the cigarette ma-
chine.
A door glass was broken at
the Conoco station on North
Swenson where $4 was taken
from the cigarette machine.
A cigarette machine and
juke box were broken into at
On Hilltop Cafe after the in-
SAFETY PAYS
IN MANY WAVS.
d'Rive friendly
5p
Three Stamford
Business Firms
bom. Nine people were in the
house when the fire started,,
but no one was seriously in-
jured, Lawson sakj.
The owner of the house said
thd* fire started when grease
on a cooking stove Ignited.
Grass fires have again be-
Cto plague firemen as the
weather continues. Resi-
dents are urged to use ex-
treme caution with any fires
on their property.
died Tuesday morning. Dec
22, in Stamford Inn, where ht tnider removed a door to gain
had been a patient since Feb- entry to the building.
ruary. /
The Rev. Jack Southerland,
pastor of First Baptist Church,
-officiated at the service.
Burial was in Rochester Ceme-
tery under direction of Kinney
Funeral Home.
He was bom Feb. 13, 1879,
in East Texas and married
Josie Belle Carr Sept. 23. 1903.
She died May 10, 1917. He
moved from a farm into Stam-
ford in 1936. He was a retired
farmer.
Survivors are two sons, Al-
bert of Stamford and G. B.
of San Angelo; two daughters,
Mrs. C. T. Singleton of Pasa-
dena and Mrs. Mary Camp-
bell of Big Spring; eight grand-
children; 13 great-grandchil-
dren; one, brother, Zed ol
Rochester; and one sister.
Mrs. Minnie Vordman of Fres-
no, Calif.
Pallbearers were Ed Sorrell,
Dan McLemore, R. O. Gibson.
Willard Terrell. N. M. Sum-
mers and H. E. Youngquist.
Residence Burns,
Fire Department
Calls Increasing
There have been 17 fires and
14* ambulance calls in Stamford
this rrfonth, up considerably
from last month, according to
Bill Lawson, fire chief.”
Lawson said a Christmas
day fire did extensive.damage
it Disneyland while we were
there/’ Christie said.
The wardrobe, valued af
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. (Mac)
Macomber arrived in Stam-
ford Dec. 30 and began moving
into their home at 1001 Sy-
monds Place. Macomber was
named city manager in Nov-
ember and assumes duties
Jan. 1, M71...
Macomber comes to the
Stamford position after having
served as city manager in
Dumas for eight years. •*
“We began to love Stamford
from the . moment we began-
meeting the people here,”
Mrs- MaComber said. z
"Everyone has been sd' nice
in offering to help us in eypry
way, Macomber praised. “I
am looking forward to that
first day in the office, and my
family is anxious to continue « through September ouarter,
making friends here.”
The couple has three chil-
dren, two grown sons and a
daughter, Karen, who is a - ter was $12,485.68.
senior in high school. Karen
will remain in Dumas until
Jan. 5, whep their semester
ends, then transfer to Stam-
” <ord High School.
'“Karen met some of the
senior girls when we visited
here earlier in the month,”
Mrs. Macomber said, “and
feels she alreadv has- a start
on making friends here.
According to the new city
. manager, from the time he
began considering the Stam-
screaming. An armadillo cros-
ford position, he met people
from Stamford, former - resi-
dents and people with rela-
tives and friends in Stamford.
“Our daughter in laws fam- t .
ilv originated in Stamford, he * problems. He is a capable
said. “The city has friends all man with both experience and
over the state." — a sound background in muni-
Mayor James Self, in web ; cipal affairs.
hunt with the Rev. Barry
, Wood, pastor of First South-
ern Baptist Church on the Suh-
set Strip in Beverly. /Hills,
Calif., and Claude Kicks of
Abilene. / T
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He gave his testimony re- Mg ,
cently on a Billy Graham tele- .chosen for the role from over
vision crusade and has aj> 400 applicants. The series Oves
peared with Rev. Wood to re- started six yegbs ago; .
vivals, including the fall re- _ '
vival on the Hardin-Simmons • actor st°PPed In Lueders
University campus to Abilene, «* 11,8 wa* back to North Hol-
this year, </• , - lywood after spending Christ-
mas with his parents in Laur-
Lester became a Christian 'el, Miss. He said he had never .
when he was ten years, old and* failed to make It home for the discussion and bring with
- said he felt at en early age Christmas.
that God wanted him to be art , . . .
actor. “Friends and relatives . The Interview ended when
said I was too skinny, too „abr’JPt,y sa^T “Excuse
tall and too ugly to be in the rac a, ran <w" °* ,be bouse
movies,” he laughed. ,The state JftJso reatins a
percentage of the gross each
quarter, then includes the re-
tainer in the check for the
following quarter.
*' The newly annexed section
of town, along North Swenson
Street, is not included in this
check as they did not come
under the city sales tax until
Oct. 1. ■■ ;
City official estimate reve- Governments during the week ‘
nues from tax to add some'of Jan. 5-8, to teach area law
$40,000 per year to the general enforcement personnel proce-
fund, or an average $10,000 dures and operation of new
per quarter. ” teletype equipment which will
The first check received by be installed to 22 area cities
and counties in mid-January.
The class will be held to
Stamford, Jan. 7, at the City
IJalL J A
To facilitate training of area
law enforcement personnel to
operate the new equipment,
four one-day schools will be .
conducted in the region, ac-
cording -to Cecil Mayes, Exe- .
cutive Director, of the Council.
Mayes explained that four dif-
ferent training sites were se-
lected to make attendance to
at least one of the sessions as
Funeral was held at 11 a.m .
_ Thursday, in Kinney Chapel
Stamford JV 52; Third Place’ E. Wadzeck,v92, whe
Merkel 80, Jayton 48; and in *~
the championship game, C-City
65. Stamford 46.
The all-tournament team
was made'up of the five best
players chosen by the coaches,
and listed Mike Robinson,
Stamford; Kim Nickols. Jay-
Three Stamford businesses
were broken into Dec. 22, and
a total of less than $60 taken
from cigarette machines and a
juke box in the establishments.
Chief of ^Police B. (^Cooper
said officers are still’, investi-
gating the .incidents and feel
all three were the work of
. . . the same individual or
Final results’of the touma- lndividuals -
ment were; C-Clty first place;
Stamford :--, —
third; Jayton fourth: Asper- and nlne ta HaskeU
mont consolation; l_
JV sixth: Albany JV seventh;,
and Hamlin JV eighth.-—
September .rains left stock
tanks empty with 1.25 inches.
1.4 inches less than the 2.65
normal for that month.
October was 1.07 inches less
than the normal 2.81 inches
with 1.74. ’re-
November and
disappointed
hopes for late rains with only
.02 inch in November and a
trace recorded in December.
Stamford’s last measureable
rainfall was the .02 ipch re-
corded Nov. 14.
2,086 local midwestern coopera-
' Sales in 1970 surpassed $600
million. They began in 1929
and have grown rapidly in
their 41 year history.
Leonard Willems, division
general manager of (he Ama-
rillo district office, will lead
City Sales Tax Check
Up From Last Quarter
The check for city sales tax the city was for the April
through June quarter, and was
for $11,541,46. Gross Jor that
period was $12,365.60.
Residents approved the one
cent tax in a special election
December of 1969. A one quar-
ter wait was necessary before
the collection began.
He graduated from Old Miss almost as excited as Lester,. Christmas holidavs with thoir
in 1960 with a ma tor in Biology who found It difficult to be- parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
a'nd Chemistry. He thought lieve the animal was only a Tayior and Mr. and Mrs. Earl
about entering medical school Texas sized mouse. Smith.
in learning more about the
new fuel and supply coopera-
tive, Big Country Cooperative,
Jan. 4, in the Stamford High
School Cafeteria at 6 p.m.
The cooperative and Farm-
land Industries of Kansas City,
Mo. are-co-hosting the dinner
and the program will be a
discussion of the coop and its
business relations to Farmland
Industries.
Farmland Industries is a
large fuel and supply coopera-
Lester auditioned artd* was tive that is owned by some
Hendricks Ranch Visitor—
v Tom Lester, Eb on television’s “Green Acres.”
spent $he week hunting on the Hendricks Ranch
near Lueders. -
The Stamford High School
Spanish Club is sponsoring a
Quail Rodeo Jan. 9 on the brought temporary relief, but
Coody-Morjfes Ranch. even this was .36 inch less
Tickets must be purchased., Wian normal for the month,
in advance at $10 per gun. A - - •
prize of $25 will be given the
person shooting the most quail
with the fewest shots.
This is the -elub’s rtain pro-
ject to raise money for an
April trip to Monterey, Mexi-
co. /
Tickets may be purchased
by contacting Kay Perry, 773-
3442; Gail Prewit, 773-2385;
and Sammy Escobedo,^773-
5302 in Stamford, or Mrs. R.
L. Morales to Haskell at 864-
2214 or 8(4-3248.
first insertion and five cents Cohen. NAWCAS public rela-
tion director,said, “the con-
. test Is national In scope and...
Display classifieds will be is to-seek.'out the all around
ilumn inch. high school girl who best ex-
The trip to San Diego was
HBe first time the Lundgrens
Mr. and Mrs. George Craig J® inffea9e of one P®8e °Yer dollar rate will still apply for had.uMtted that state, and the
Jones County and fill connect- first'time they had traveled
Ing counties. Subscribers from ' byjshr. “We found time to vis-
all other Texas counties will
pay five dollars per year, the
same qs the <mt*of state rate.
The first day of the tourna-
ment, Monday, included six
games. The results were: C-
City 60, Aspermont 48; Merkel
65, Albany JV 48; Jayton 84,
Stamford JV, 56; Stamford 49,
Hamlin JV .24; Aspermont 59, M. E. Wadzeck
Albany JV 39; >md C-City 66,
Merkel 54 ~" "
Tuesday the scores were:
Stamford JV 48, Hamlin JV
25; Stamford 61, Jayton 60
(overtime); Albany JV 38,
Hamlin JV 37; Consolation
Championship, Aspermont 66,
Recorded in 14 Years
According to M. D. Thomp- fnches were recorded, some
son, weather observer, .30 Inch half-inch more than the 1.43
of rain fell in Stamford Dec. normal inches for that month. /
, 30, bringing the annual total- March and April continued
to 14.98 laches.
Total rainfall for 1970 is re-
V ' corded at 13.78 inches, the low-
est annual total since 1956,
-- when only 7.62 inches were re-
corded, according to M. D.
Thompson, official U. S.
Weather Observer,
y V - wo*
1969 ended with the area’s
worst ice storm in history,
then 1970 began with only a
trace of rain logged in Jan- year’s total,
uary. January is usually a dry June and July were extreme-
month with only M inch as ly dry months, with only .22
normal. — fanjng jn the two month
February gave, hope for an period. June was 2.69 inches
unusually wet year when 2.05 less than normal and Julv 1.56
inches below normal. This dry
peHod endangered summer
crops according to local farm- /
ers. but the unusuallv high
raiqs in 1969 left enough mois- -
ture in the ground for success-
ful cotton farming hr WTO.----- ~
The "?# inches in Aumist
Services Held
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In Chapel
CitytoHost
La wx Officers’
Teletype Class
■■■ Orientation classes will be ,
conducted in this region by the
West Central Texas Council of
region. ,
The first class will be Jan.
5 at the Brownwood Police
Station; the second class on
Jan. 6 to the 90th District *
Courtroom at Breckenridge;
the third class on Jan. 7 at
Stamford’s City Hall; and the
last class on Jan. 8 at the
Snyder Police Station. The
classes will last from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. to all cases. < '----
Instructors will be furnished
, by the Department of Public
Safety and the South Western
Bell Telephone Company.
Cities and counties already
signed up for the system are:
Abilene, Ballinger, Brecken-
ridge, Brownwood, Coleman,
Colorado City. Comanche.
. . --- - Cross Plains, Eastland, Sny- ‘~
Mark to San Diego, Calif., the schokfrship trophy and an . Christieplans to graduate der, Stamford. Sweetwater,* ■
nologicai- University in Lub- Jones, Kent Knox MitcheH,
Th€ contest is snonsnred an- bock in tne fall. Nolan Scurry and Taylor.
nually by the National Assoc- - *iation of Women’s and Chil- ” ■ 7 ■
dren’s Apparel Salesmen, and
the Celenese Corp, with NAW-
CAS affiliates. '
Christie entered the contest
In October by completing an
entry blank, writing an essay
and submitting her photo-
graph. She was chosen to re-
present Stamford in the con-
test by Jerry Schuchert. DisT
tributive Education coordinator
at Stamford High School. .
To be eligible, entrants were
to be between 16 and 19 years
bld, in the upper 50 per cent
of their class academically
and be a senior in 1970. ~
Delivery of the new St am-. Charge classified rates will In the official notice to tfie
ford telephone directory is be six cents per word for the Lundgren family, Lawrertce
scheduled to begin ,-Jan. 5. ' " ‘ -------- "
BUI Gilliland,, manager for for each additional, with the
Southwestern Bell, said that 20 word minimum,
about 3250 copies of the direc- p‘ / '
tory will be mailed to custom- $(.25 per col
ers. • Subscription rates’- will be amplifies young America,
The directory will Include 15 changed tor out of area sub- — - - - ■
pages of alphabetical listtags, scribers. The standard four
Christie Lundgren Receives Trip
MjfcJatidnal Scholarship Contest
./^Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Lund- Christie was chosen from some $1,200. i« provided bv
gren returned to Stamford Dec. over 9.000 entrants tn receive the different affiliates of NAW-
21, after accompanying their.'the $1,500 cash scholarship, a CAS‘and will be delivered to
daughter Christie and snn complete college' wardrobe, Christie by maU.
Mark to San Diego, Calif., the scholarship trophy and an ,
where Christie was awarded all expense paid trip to San In Ma^Wnd atfeto Text’s"Tec£ San’ Angeto,‘callahan,^Haskell
the “1970 What Young America Diego for the presentations r-»-~i—1 - .
Wears Scholarship.”
Classified and
Subscription
Rates to Change
Classified advertising rates
will be increased in the Ameri-
can as of Jah. 1, 1971, and
subscription rates will change
for some subscribers.
Cash with order rates will
be five cents per word (mini-
mum 20 words), for the first
Insertion, and four cents per
word for each additional in-
sertion-
Bulldog Cagers Place, Vandals Enter
Second in Tourney
The Stamford Bulldog cagcrs ton; Alan Arnwine. Merkel;
made a good showing in the Stan Bracy, C-City; and Skeet
Stamford Invitational Basket- Kimbrell, C-City.
ball Tournament by winning
two games before dropping
the final contest to Colorado
City for the championship by
a score of 65-46.
The tournament was held
- Dec. 28 and 29 and teams par-
ticipating included: C-Cit)^
Merkel, Aspermont, Jay^Nf;
' "Stamford, Albaffjr-JV, Hafnlin
him a group of specialists to
answer the producers* ques-
tions. >
Television Star Visits 7
Local Hendricks Ranch
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By MARILYN TQDD *
Tall Christian girls looking
for husbands missed an oppor-
tunity this week when Tom
Lester, Eb on television’s
. “Green Acres,” visited the
Hendricks Ranch near Lued-
ers.
The lanky Mississippi native
- said he was not married, and.
was “looking for a tall Christ-
Um girl.” . 7 -
Fuel and Supply
but waited until teaching biolo-' Cooperative
gy in a 'Purcell, Oklahoma- * - ■ . ..
high school for one year Jq }J0St Dinner
Still aspiring to be an actor. --
he went to Hollywood and. provided all 'agricultural
studied under Lorin® Tuttle, a producers who are interested
drama edach at the North
Hollywood Playhouse. He ap-
peared there in three show-
cases and a play, “Beauty and
the Beast.”
Linda Kay Henning? Betty
Joe in “Petticoat Junction,”
A ^Ster.5.am® t0 Lhe ran5h te • a,!W a'weare<1 in the play, and
her father, Paul Henning who
produces “Green Acres.” came
to see his daughter perform.
He became interested in Les-
ter and urged j>im to try for
the Eb role.
STAMFORD AMERICAN ==
Only two new Jones County
officials will take office Jart. 1
when Tom Nance replaces
Roscoe Hood as Justice of the
__, .' P®*ce in Precinct 2, and E.
second •"•^Mertair** Two businesses in Anson M Spraberry Sir. replaces
George Harrell as Justice -of
the Peace in Precinct 1.
Both new men ran unopposed
in the Nov. 3 election.
• Other ' county officials re-
turning to their offices for lhe to a residence at 105 Wende
new year include Leon Thur-
man, County Judge; W. L. Mc-
Donald, District Cleric; .L. R.
(Shorty) Winkels . Jr,, County
Treasurer; Roy Thorn, County
Clerk; Everett Beaver, County
School Superintendent; T. H.
Boyd, Commissioner, Precinct
2; J. E. Touchstone, Commis- -
sioner, Precinct/1 •,
John Barnett was elected
Justice of the Peace In Pre-
cinct 5. . I
Duties Begin Jan; 1—* .
New City Manager
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Arrives in Town
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