Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 9, 1982 Page: 2 of 16
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FEATURING MIKE JOHNSON
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★ About Personal lives of "Rock Stars"
★ How Secret Messages Are Corwqod
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SOMETHING EYRY TEENAGER
AND PARBiT SHOULD KNOW
shown above. They are, from lefts
Clay Seale, treasurer; Nona Jones,
secretary; Mark Dovel, president;
INVITATIONS • ANNOUNCEMENTS
NAPKINS • BRIDAL BOOKS
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FRIDAY, Sept. 10th, is the final •
day for “season tickets” to be
purchased at $3 each, according to
EHS Principal Keith Sales. After
Friday, tickets will be available
only at the gate at a cost of $3.50
each. Also reserve tickets for
home games will be sold only on
a first come, first serve basis
beginning Monday of each week.
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BART HUDSON and Juanita
Ainsworth of Bartley’s Jewelry &
Gifts attended the Jewelry Show at
the Market Place in Dallas this
past yeekend. They also attended
a fashion show where Mrs.
Ainsworth won a pearl bracelet.
solely to the interest of this community
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AARP will conduct its first session
of the new club year Sept. 21st at 6
P.M. in the Electra Chamber of
Commerce. Members and guests
are encouraged to attend the
session and bring a covered dish
for the luncheon. Plans will be
discussed for food concessions and
other items during Electra’s 75th
anniversary celebration.
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make from investments).
Rather than getting the 5
percent profit margin the insur-
ance industry sought, the board
reduced the underwriting profit to
0.26 percent.
SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS-Of-
ficers for the 1983 Senior Clasa
were elected recently and are
JIMMIE FLINT, daughter of
Mrs. D.L. Flint, and Kenneth
Lemons, Sr., son of Mr. Charlie
Lemons, are announcing their
engagement and approaching
marriage. They plan a garden
wedding in October in Throne-
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Life on a ranch before 1900 was
often/dangerous and fiardship
common. Such' was the case with
S.B. Burnett and the 6666 Ranch.
There were few neighbors and
they were ten or twelve miles
distant. The nearest town was
Henrietta. Lumber for his house,
the first sawed timber to be taken
into that area, was hauled from
Fort Worth, a distance of .125
miles. Burnett described the area
.where Wichita Falls is located as a
lonely, desolate region “..Nothing-
more than boundless stretch of'
plain and forest, given over
entirely to the raving redskins,
and scarcely less, wild buffaloes.”
He had jin employee follow him
around with a sack filled with
cartridges, to. facilitate the. killing
of buffalo and protect his cattle.
Land at that time could be
bought for twenty-five cents per
acre. He said the Fort Worth and
Denver railroad crossed what had
once been his front yard, between
his cabin and Jiis well.
Success brought him the ease
and comfort of his labors. He was
a director of several banks and was
the main stockholder of the First
National Bank of Fort Worth. He
owned several hundred thousand
acres of land located in several
ELECTRA BAND Parents will
meet Monday, Sept. 13th at 7 p.m.
in the EHS Band Hall. All band
parents are encouraged to attend.
75TH ANNIVERSARY comme-
morative plates have arrived and
are currently on sale at the Electra
Chamber of Commerce. Cost of
the plates which depicts the
current Electra City Hall (the
., oldest brick structure in Electra),
is $10 each.
ELECTRA ARTS and Crafts
Association will meet Thursday,
Sept. 9th at 7 p.m. The meeting
will be held in the museum portion
of First Ward School. This will be
the first session of the new ,club‘
year Aand members encouraged
anyone, interested in participating
in the organization to attend this
session.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
along with other congregations are
sponsoring a “Rock Music Re-
vealed” seminar on Rock Music at
Electra High School Auditorium
Wednesday, Sept. 15th at 8:30
p.m. Mike Johnson will be fea-
tured speaker.
WORD HAS BEEN received
of the death of former Electra
resident Zella McCormick of Ray-
mondville, Texas. She reportedly
died Sept. 4th in a Raymondville
Nursing. Center. She was bom
Feb. 29, 1892. She was a former
member of First Baptist Church of
Electra. Survivors include: a son,
Alvin McCormick of Raymond
ville: a sister-in-law, Ruth Stilley
of Wichita Falls; a brother, six
grandchildren and eight great-
grandchildren. Services were held
Wednesday in San Diego, Calif.
FOOTBALL schedules for Elec-
tra Little League football teams
have been announced. They are as
follows: Sept. 11th, Iowa Park,
here; Sept. 18th, Henrietta, here;
Sept. 25th, Sheppard Air Base,
here; Oct. 2nd, open; Oct. 9th,
Holliday, there; Oct. 16th, Qua-
nah, .there; Oct. 23rd, Seymour,
there.
THE ELECTRA Landfill will be
Hosed on all holidays and will
begin new operating hours effec-
tive Oct. 1st, according to City
Manager Gary Jones. The landfill
will be open from 9 a.m. until 5
p.m. Monday through Saturday
from Oct. 1st, 1982 to March 31,
1983. Beginning April 1, 1983
through Sept. 30s 1983, the landfill
will remain open from 8 a.m. until
7 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
Holidays the landfill will be closed
are: Thanksgiving, Christmas,
New Year’s Day, and July 4th. The
landfill will be closed each Sun-
day.
EARNING DEGREES from
Midwestern State University were
D. Jeanne Stutsman and Dennis
Craig Parmley, both of Electra.
Stutsman earned a BSCJ degree in
criminal justice. Parmley earned
an MS degree in biology.
MR. AND MRS. ALTON Hol-
brook announce the marriage of
their daughter, Glenda, to W.C.
Pearce of Dallas. The couple
exchanged vows Aug. 16th in
Dallas where they will make their
home.
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County Insurance Rates to Climb
AUSTIN-The State Board of
Insurance approved a 9.1 percent
increase Tuesday in auto insur-
ance rates in Wichita County.
Figures released by the board
show that the average price of auto
insurance will rise by about $31 in
It comes easily to an independent
bank simply because we are dedicated
We take great pride in offering a
variety of financial services you would
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counties and in Mexico, as well as
in Oklahoma;
’ He was one of the organizers of
the Texas Cattle Raisers Associa-
tion and served that organization
as a member of the executive
committee and as an officer.
He sold 18,000 acres where the
city of Burkburnett is now located
to Kemp and Kell, who colonized
it. ‘
Samuel Burk Burnett ..yas a
pioneer, a man of vision;, a man of
great energy and vitality;,. . ,
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Wichita County,The average pre-
mium now costs $340. Effective
Nov. 1, the average premium will
cost $371.
The figures used reflect the
price of insuring a low priced 1982
model Chevrolet, Ford, or Ply-
mouth driven to and from work
with no male drivers under 25, or
female drivers under 21.
Insurance used for the figures
includes minimum liability cover-
age with a $200 deductible colli-
sion policy.
The board approved an overall
statewide average increase of 14.8
percent, rather than the 33.2
percent the industry had asked
for.
David B. Irons, spokesman for
the insurance industry, said he
was dismayed at the decision. He
added that there are some 400
companies which will have to
decide for themselves how they
are going to handle the rate
increase.
William P. iDav.es, insurance
board chairman, said the increase '•
was necessary because of the
rising costs, especially hospitaliza-
tion.
“People jire also paying less
* attention to the 55 mph speed limit
and that has increased the cost of
insurance and the frequency of
accidents,” Daves said.
The insurance companies had
also sought to increase their
underwriting profit (the profit
companies make from writing
policies, rather than the profit they
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CELEBRATESu,98THr-Mra. Ora
^iM-^oP'Eiec^ra^celebrated her
98tli birthday Saturday, Aug. 28th
with all of her children present for
the occasion. Attending were:
Rev. and Mrs. C.L. Stewart and
son and J.B. Crain, all of Fort
Worth; Steve and Laura Brownlee
of Garland; Barry and June
Brownlee and children of Denton;
Ann and Fred Smith and children
of Iowa Park; Bernice and B.J.
Bibby of Electra. Mrs. Crain, a
resident of Electra Nursing Center
for the past nine years, received a
beautiful array of gifts and many
cards.
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Thompson, Joe A. Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 9, 1982, newspaper, September 9, 1982; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1234063/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Electra Public Library.