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The Nocona News, Nocona, Texas, Thurs., Aug. 24, 1967
EDITORIALS
Notv faith is the assurance of things hoped
for, the conviction of things not seen.—Heb. 11:1.
IT’S THE LAW OF THE LAND
If you think the Courts of the land have
handed down some rather surprising and “high-
handed” decisions in the past, read and see what
is new in this department.
The Fifth Circut U. S. Court of Appeals in
the “Johnson County Case” has laid down the
following basic points:
1. All grades in ail public schools in Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Texas must be desegregated at the start of the
fall term 1967. The order applies to pupils, teach-
ers, schools, transportation, and other activities.
2. The “guidelines for public school desegre-
gation” drawn by the Department of Health, Ed-
ucation and Welfare are the laws of the land
DESPITE WHAT THE STATUTES UPON
WHICH THESE GUIDELINES ARE DRAWN
MAY ACTUALLY SAY.
3. Pupils must be bused to schools where this
is necessary to achieve racial balance (and the
racial balance in the schools must be the same for
pupils for facilities as it is for the total district
population.)
4. “Freedom of choice” plans for public
school desegregation will be acceptable only so
long as the plan works to achieve the racial bal-
ance described above.
All four of these principles, which bear the
force of law, are contrary to the law as printed
in the Civil Rights Act of 1954 and 1964.—(From
the Texas Schoolboard Newsletter, July, 1967.)
Here you see government by men instead of
government by law in action. This is an example
of the kind of dictatorship that you may expect
in other phases of daily life so long as you put
up with it. Only the clamor of the average citizen
can bring such things as this to a halt. And most
of us are too busy to care.
AN OLD STORY
Since the 1920’s an American-owned mining
corporation known as Cerro de Pasco has been
operating a highly efficient, 600,000-acre sheep-
ranch complex in the mountains of Peru. Those
employed by the mining company and who farm
its lands have been the beneficiaries of the same
kind of research and development, that have
brought such great agricultural and industrial
progress to the United States. Their livestock
produces more meat and wool than anywhere
else in Peru. Their wages are more than double
the average. They have free medical care, schools,
homes, utilities, and a generous pension system.
Irrespective of all this, Cerro de Pasco, if news
reports are correct, is destined to become a victim
of “land reform” under a Peruvian Agrarian-
Reform Law.
A spokesman for Cerro de Pasco sees in the
expropriation proceedings a basic conflict be-
tween capitalism and socialism. “There’s no sub-
stitute”, he says, “for individual initative. It’s
what’s made our own agricultural system in the
United States the most efficient in the world. I
hate to see all that we’ve accomplished go down
the drain. ...”
If the welfare of the people is the primary
goal, there seems little reason for this particular
expropriation. But then, governments never have
to look far for a reason when they wish to seize
land. In Peru, it is called land reform. In the
United States, it is called urban renewal or some
other attractive name. The end result is always
the same. The owner is dispossessed of his prop-
erty. Ironically, history tends to indicate that the
long-term outcome of land seizure is often merely
a prelude to chaos and strife.
• • • •
A WESTERN PETROLEUM company de-
cided it was time to tap the oil reserves under
the city of Los Angeles. So, the company engaged
an architect to design a drilling installation that
would harmonize with new construction in the
area. It is a beautiful ten-story, sky-blue structure
of vertical steel panels, behind a 12-foot ornamen-
tal flagstone wall, looking for all the world like
a very modern high-rise office building, sound-
proofed and landscaped.
THE NOCONA NEWS
Published Thursday of each week at Nocona, Texas.
Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office in Nocona,
Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3,1879. Second
class postage paid at Nocona, Texas 76255.
Edgar R. Hays .....
Mrs. Edgar R. Hays ■
Mrs. Pauline Seay ..
Mrs. Zelda Robertson
Roger Henley.......
..... Editor and Publisher
. Society and Personal News
.... News and Advertising
Receptionist and Bookkeeper
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing
or reputation at any person, firm or corporation which ap-
pears in the columns of this paper will be corrected upon
due notice being given to the editor at his office. Correspon-
dence should be addressed to the Nocona, News, Box 539.
Nocona, Texas 76255.
OTHER
NEWSPAPERS
ARE SAYING ..
A SAINTLY EVIL
Pride Is that trait which
causes a man deliberately to
forfeit the friendship of a po-
tentially good friend for a life-
time — all because he is too
proud to admit a mistake, too
proud to overlook an affront.
It is pride that causes a
parent torehisetoacceptanew-
ly acquired son-in-law or
daughter-in-law because that
daughter or son married against
the wishes of the parent The
cost of this pride may be the
loss of the child’s love for gen-
erations to come. What a price
to pay for this luxury called
“PRIDE.”
It is pride that often causes
a divorce for almost no just-
ifiable reason —except that one
or both is unwilling to swallow
a little pride.
It is pride that causes church
splits.
Pride can divide a town or
a county.
It can cause civil wars.
It can cause a proud soul
to steal in order to maintain
a front rather than to accept
a financial reverse and perhaps
a lower standard of living.
It can fill prisons and elec-
tric chairs with people who
prefer such punishment to the
thought of giving up a husband
to another woman.
Foolish is the man who, in-
stead of taking five minutes
alone with himself to forget
an incident will instead choose
to forfeit his happiness, his
peace of mind, his health, and
perhaps his very life!
“For all that is In the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the
lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life, is not of the Father,
but is of the world.”—I John
2:16.—The Tulia Herald.
THE REAL FAULT
How much the actions of the
Supreme Court and the Admin-
istration in former years may
have had in laying the founda-
tion for the race riots in the
larger cities this summer can-
not be evaluated exactly. Never-
theless there is a firm con-
viction in the minds of many
people that there is a definite
connection between the two and
that the responsibility of sup-
pressing the riots should rest
with the Federal Government
as well as the states and cities.
While the fundamental causes
of the unlawful outbursts of vio-
lence are many and complex,
it is obvious that the immediate
cause of the riots are the pro-
fessional agitators who have a
habit of being seen in the
troubled areas just before or
■ at the time of the deadly loot-
: ing, burning and killing. It
amounts to Insurrection and
war in the streets and the
leaders who start the trouble
should be tried for inciting a
mob, murder and arson.
These professional agitators
are enemies of society, in a
much larger and more danger-
ous sense then any of the Ln-
dividual criminals that you see
listed among the ten most
wanted men. Acts of high crime
have been tolerated too long
simply because the men who
led were operating under some
slogan such as black power,
civil rights or some other word-
ing designed to impress the
politicians. These men should
be treated for what they are-
Crimlnals.
Never in the long history
of our nation have we needed
wise and firm leadership in
high places as much as we need
it today.—Deskin Wells in Wel-
lington Leader.
ONE EVERY 36 SECONDS
Senator John J. Williams
(R., Del.) on June 29 reported
some interesting new statistics
on the rising tide of bureaucracy
in this country.
The Senator noted that last
September President Johnson
issued an executive order which
supposedly froze Federal em-
ployment at the July 1, 1966
level.
But there was no freeze..
Instead:
"The addition of 131,871 new
employees in eight months is
the equivalent of 16,000 per
month or 4,000 per week or 800
per day — 5-day week — 100
per hour —8-hour day.”
Carrying Senator Williams’
figures a couple of steps fur-
ther we find the bureaucracy
is growing at the rate of eight
new employees every 5 minutes
or one new Federal bureaucrat
every 36 seconds of every work-
ing day.
And the President calls this
a freeze? — Muenster Enter-
prise.
EXPORTS FROM KOREA
The Republic of Korea ex-
ports more than 500 commodity
items. Total exports soared
from $32 million in 1960 to
$255 million in 1966. The ex-
port goal for 1967 is $350
million.
Sir Gorden Richards, Eng-
lish jockey, holds the world’s
record for winners.
Hisiory
From the files of the
NOCONA NEWS
AUGUST 22, 1924
Quoting from a story on the
Reunion, “The people as a whole
like the wholesome fun and are
getting away from the rough
stuff. There were no accidents
to speak of and the people
will all return to their homes
and always have a kind re-
membrance of the Reunion and
will start gathering and mar-
keting the best cotton crop they
have had in 15 years — From
a business man.”
Belchervllle —Mrs. J.S. Ad-
dington has been carrying the
mall the past week.
Grayson — Geo. M. Baker
has Installed machinery and
is now manufacturing brooms
from broom corn which he
raised. Mr. and Mrs. Marion
Weaver are the proud parents
of a fine girl born Saturday,
August 16.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Ware
and children of Gainesville were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. D.
Carmichael during the reunion.
Mrs. Lou Carter of Thack-
erville, Oklahoma has been vis-
iting her brother, Tan Cooper,
and family.
J. H. Cone visited his Cooke
County farm Wednesday and
reports that crops are very
fine indeed.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Vinson
of Topeka, Kansas who have
apartments at the McNew
House, were visited by the stork
on August 12th, leaving a fine
baby boy.
The following people enjoyed
fishing and picnicing at Cedar
Springs on Tuesday: Mr. and
Mrs. F. A. Wood and children,
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McCarley
and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Charley Shot, Mr. and Mrs.
Claud Wallace, Mr. and Mrs.
B. J. McCarley, Mrs. Jess
Jones and son and Mrs. W. A.
Sandefer and son of Henrietta.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Hoben
entertained at dinner on last
Saturday some of the old time
Montague County pioneers. All
of these had known each other
and Mr. Hoben for fifty years
or longer. The guests, their
ages and length of residence
are W. A. Morris, 79, in Mon-
tague County 66 years; J. C.
Bryant, 77, in county 65 years;
C. E. Quillin, 73, in county
65 years; S. L. McCool, 73,
in county 16 years; and W. B.
Lewis, 71, in county 52 years.
The following party enjoyed
a weekend camping, fishing and
swimming party on Big Elm
near Aubrey last week as guests
of Miss Madge Henderson of
Aubrey: Mr. and Mrs. R. S.
Lenon of Denton, Mr. and Mrs.
Lon Roberson of Bowie, Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Simpson and
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Powell of
Aubrey, Misses Glen Allen, Bill
March and Ollie Lemon of No-
cona, Kathlene Tobin, Mae Hen-
derson, Mary Hodges, Pearl
Thomas, Edith Pearl Simpson,
Florence Drue and Messrs.
Frank Powledge, Lutz Bonar,
Franz Henderson, Tommie
Ashley and Howard Simpson of
Aubrey, Oran and Eric Pennal
and Olen Roberson of Nocona.
AUGUST 22, 1941
Sgt. Leonard Evans of Law-
ton, Oklahoma and Pfc. Troy
C. Hillard of Nocona have been
personally commended in a let-
ter from Brig. Gen. William
H. Simpson, Commander of
Camp Wolters, for their quick-
ness of thought and action in
extinguishing a fire in nearby
Mineral Wells last week. They
discovered smoke coming from
a house. One summoned neigh-
bors and fire department while
the other entered the house
to fight the fire. The blaze
was extinguished when firemen
arrived.
Thoughts For Thinkers
by Mrs. Ruth Oman
For the heart of this people
is waxed gross, and their ears
are dull of hearing, and their
eyes have they closed; lest
they should see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and
should be converted, and I
should heal them.
Acts 28:27
• • • •
Temperance, Is keeping what
is proper in correct balance,
o e e e
It is good for a church to
be known as being in contrast
to the world. We should stand
for something.
• • • •
Som? good Excuses. (For not
attending Sunday School)
1. Those who are sick and/
or are quarantined because of
a contagious disease.
2. Those who are more than
155 years old.
3. Those who are waiting bn
the immediate family, who are
ill.
4. Those that have an unavoid-
able accident on the way to
Church.
5. All babies under ten days
old.
6. Those who have been in-
dicted by the Grand Jury and
are now in Jail. If none of
those reasons are yours, God
expects you for worship every
time the Church assembles.
o e e e
If your action will cause an-
other to doubt your Christian
experience, then refrain from
that action.
This day urgently needs men
of the gospel rather than sham
religionists with vested inter-
ests.
• • • •
Many people have started a
little gossip that increased into
a wild fire and seriously hurt
peoples’ characters.
• • • •
We have a power beyond our-
selves to control the wild forces
from within.
mm
The side that we turn to the
church, our neighbors, or the
public is not always the most
honest side of ourselves.
• * • •
There is hardly any work for
God where we do not have to
adjust to somebody else.
* * • •
Paul said, “In Him we live,”
it also means that outside of
God we do not live; we are
dead. There is no real living
out of God.
• • • •
Are you still sleeping and
taking your rest? How deep the
sleep that has settled upon us!
Our churches are forsaken; the
morals of our land are unimag-
inably perverted; we have ceas-
ed to cry over lost souls. Prayer
is regarded as a matter of form,
not as a matter of contact
with God. How long will we
sleep?
• • • *
Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth
of God. Matt. 4:4.
Honoring D. M. Painter of
this city, a group of 43 gath-
ered at the City Park Sunday
for a picnic. Those present
were Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Pain-
ter and Donald Jerry of Wash-
ington, D. C., Mr. and Mrs.
E. T. Painter and children of
Royalty, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Allen and children, Mr. and
Mrs. Kelley Allen and children,
Mrs. I. H. Keele, Leroy Hicks,
Mrs. Rile Chaffin and Patsy,
all of Ryan, Oklahoma, Mr.
and Mrs. Dan Painter of Dal-
las, Mrs. Bill Mitchell and chil-
dren of Grand Prairie, Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Painter of Sherman,
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Painter
and children, Mr. and Mrs.
George L. Kegley, Mr. and Mrs.
D. M. Painter and Misses Helen
and Louise Painter, all of No-
cona. Mr. and Mrs. Bunk Reed
and sons and Miss Lula Boul-
din of Spanish Fort and Rev.
Frank Sutton were callers in
the afternoon.
White - Priddy —K. C. Van
Dyke of Atlanta, Ga. is visit-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shelton
and family and other relatives.
Mrs. Skeet Bowers and chil-
r- The Lonely Heart ——i
dren and Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Griffin of Forestburg spent last
weekend at Turner Falls and
Sulphur Springs, Oklahoma.
Red Bud — Mrs. Edd Dan-
iels and daughters of Royalty,
Texas are here visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ran
Beasley, and other relatives.
Aurelia —Lindy Simmons of
Terral, Oklahoma is spending
this week with his aunt and
uncle, Mr. and Mrs. N. Gro-
now.
Mrs. Ethel Spears visited
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.L.
Milburn from Sunday until Mon-
day evening on her way to Tioga
where she will teach during the
coming school year. On her
vacation she spent three months
with her husband in Wyoming,
Colorado and California.
A night rodeo will be held
at the Crenshaw Ranch, one
mile north of Belcherville to-
night, Aug. 22 at 8 o’clock.
Special prizes will be given in
an Old Men’s Break-away Rop-
ing contest.
State Library
Worker Meets
With Board
Miss Anita Jane Decker of
Austin, field consultant for the
Texas State Library Associa-
tion, was in Nocona last Wed-
nesday and met with the No-
cona Library Board at the
Chamber of Commerce office.
Miss Decker gave the Board
a number of pointers on or-
ganization and advised with
them concerning their project
of setting up a city library
for Nocona. She has promised
to return in the fall and give
further assistance to the move-
ment.
Local board members said
that Miss Decker was very en-
couraging and felt that Nocona
could have a public library
with some effort on the part
of local citizens.
Seay Ranch —
(Continued from Page 1)
time of the Seay move, the town
had a gin, oil mill, two or
three grocery and dry goods
stores, drug store and post-
office. Four rock buildings,
which stood where Jack Cren-
shaw Il has his corral, were
destroyed by fire one night.
In the early days of the ranch
operation, calves were kept and
marketed as three-year-olds.
They were shipped by rail to
Kansas City until the Fort Worth
market was opened. Steers be-
ing sold were fed cottonseed
cake on through the spring un-
til marketed. Since fewer cows
could be run by this method,
it was abandoned and the steers
sold as two-year-olds. In later
years, steers were shipped as
yearlings to market and trucks
took over the transportation
of the animals.
The herd was started with
plain cows from Arkansas and
thoroughbred bulls were bought
all through the years to build
up the herd. Each year the best
heifers were kept as herd re-
placements.
After buying land at Archer
City, Mr. Seay sent his son,
Virgil, to manage thatproperty.
Driving the herd there in 1912
were Virgil, then 20 years of
age, his brother, Hardy, Ike
Stout, and Perk Gibson. Tom
Sanders, brother of Jess San-
ders, drove the chuck wagon
on the five-day trip. Virgil
remained at Archer City until
his death in 1963. His brother,
Bob, of Dallas died in 1962.
No story of the ranch would
be complete without mention of
Ike and Hop Stout, who both
worked on the ranch many times
through the years. Ike’s family
was living in Montague before
Hop was born, and Ike was
working for Jeff Seay. From
a spot on the hill above the
house, he could see the area
of his home. Each morning
he rode to tne top of the hill,
looking for the signal that a
new baby had been born. One
morning a sheet waving in the
breeze from a pole told him
the story, and he hurried away
for his home horseback—Hop -
had been born. Ike is now liv-
ing at Horizon Manor. Hop and
Wanda make their home in Ring-
gold where they’ve lived for
many years.
Oscar Seay died in 1929. Of
his five children, Clyde, Wil-
mer, Dell, Verna and Wayne,
only Wilmer and Verna, Mrs.
Lawrence Brown, are living.
Wilmer lives in Ryan and has
cattle at Oscar and at Ring-
gold. Mrs. Brown lives with
her husband on their ranch east
of Ryan.
Jeff Seay died in 1925 and the
property remained undivided.
For ten years it was known as
the Jeff Seay Estate. When Bob,
Virgil and Hardy bought the
cattle Interest from Nell Wiley, »
Ruby Coffman and Jeff, they
leased their part of the land
and operated as Seay Bros,
through 1966. Hardy was execu-
tor of the estate and operator
of the ranch, living there the
entire 66 years.
Bulldozing has begun on a
hillside northwest of the pres-
ent house where the Vails will
build their home, bari) and lots.
Construction will begin right
away on a barn and lots to
care for the 60 head of horses
to be brought from California
in the next two months.
The Vails hope to gradually
increase their cattle operation
here.
ON OUTING
Wednesday of this week Mr.
and Mrs. Grant Hoover and
daughter, Sarah, Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Curlin and family, Cindy,
Jay and John, Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmy Hoover of Wichita Falls
went to Possom Kingdom Lake
to spend a few days at the Hoov-
er cabin.
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