De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1969 Page: 1 of 6
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Staff Photo
Mrs. Opal Clayton and Class
Revised Little League Schedule
June 12-
June 16 -
June 19-
June 30-
July 7-
July 10
July 3-4-5 De Leon Riding
Club Annual Open Rodeo
Cats vs Lions
Higginbotham vs
Finche r Feed
Boy Scout Camp
this week
June 22 - 28
No little league games
Bank vs Lions
Fincher Feed vs Cats
Lions vs Higginbothams
F & M Bank vs Golden Oak
Assisting Mrs. Clayton and
Mrs. Crittendon are students
of the De Leon Home Economics
Department who are given cre-
dit for their work. These girls
are active in playground duties,
classroom work and have com-
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The sediment pool
a surface area of
New Cafe Is
Opening Here
Mr. and Mrs. George Bour-
geois and son, Jerald Gregg,
are having the grand opening
of their new cafe, Cactus Inn,
Saturday at 102 Gonzales, for-
mer location of Lloyd's clean-
ers. Free Dr. Pepper and Pep-
si will ,be served all day Sat-
urday and live music by the
Boen Brothers will also be
featured. Their speciality will
be Mexican Food. Mrs. Bour-
geois and Jerald are former
residents, movin
residents, moving to San An-
tonio while he was in the 5th
grade. Jerald finished school
in San Antonio and has just
finished serving 4 years in
the navy where he was assigned
to a submarine.
Other employees at Cactus
Din are their married daugh-
ter, Mrs. Darleen Mathis and
another son, James Gregg, age
15.
Higginbotham vs Cats
Golden Oak vs Lions
Fincher Feed vs
F & M Bank
Higginbotham vs Golden
Oak
Fincher Feed vs
Golden Oak
Cats vs F & M Bank
c. D. (Shorty) Blanton to
in the MKAT Hospital In
Denison for treatments.
Pre-School Prog. Gets Underway
Forty six preschoolers got
things going last Monday at Do
Leon Elementary School under
the supervision of Mrs. Ojxal
Clayton and Mrs. Arcli Crit-
tendon. pre-school, designed
to give the students an expec-
tation of what future activites
will demand of them, will run
for eight weeks from 8;00 a.m,
until 12;00 noon.
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Mi', and Mrs. C.l • Mohon
Jr., Mrs. Bertha Bl itch and
Mrs. Johnnie Burleson visited
Rising Star Chapter #277 order
of the Eastern Star last Tues-
day night for the installations
of officers for the ensuing year.
Mrs. Blitch, founders day
committee, grand chapter of
Texas O.E.S. was installing or-
ganist and accompanied C.L.
Mohon, Jr. who sang‘How Great
Thou Art' and ‘Near the Cross.'
plete charge of the lunch room
when the midmorning break of
cookies, milk and orange juice
are served. They prepare the
snack, serve ami clean up with,
out any assistanc. Working on
a schedule under the direction
of their instructor, Miss Mario
Maughan, are Jane McClellan,
Ann Gilder, IX’bbie Bailey,
Martha Swinney, Vickie Ham-
rick, Nancy Silva, Janis Na-
bors, Reta Warren, Sarah Hod-
ges, Rhonda Huddleston ami Kit'.
Chapman.
B.W. Chambers, principal
of elementary school, is in
charge of the pre-school pro-
gram.
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Work Starts
On Rush Creek
Water Project
Ground breaking last Sat- ’
urday at 5:30 p.m. on site ,
12 marked the beginning of
construction in the Rush Creek
Watershed project. Approxi-
mately 100 people were pre- "
sent to celebrate over 15 years
of effort on the part of local
people to secure a program
of flood control for the area.
The Rush Creek watershed
plan covers 188,180 acres and
reaches from proctor Lake
northwest and includes the town
of Rising Star. Site 12 is one
of 13 flood control structures
and one multiple structure in
the plan. The multiple struc-
ture was designed to store extra
water for irrigati >n.
Comanche County Judge, Cal-
vin Lee, pointed out that the
project, when completed, would
result in an annual savings of
over $7,000.00 flood damage
to roads and bridges in the
watershed.
Irvin Poff, area conserva-
tionist with the Soil Conser-
vation Service in Stephenville,
described the main purpose be-
hind the flood control program.
He stated that the primary rea-
son for a project of this kind
Cantrell Awarded Medal
private Henry M. Cantrell,
21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
A. Cantrell, Rt. 1, recently
graduated from basic combat
training at the U.S. Army Train-
ing Center (Air Defense), Fort
Bliss, Texas and received an
excellerated promotion to the
rank of E-2. He was assigned
to A Company, 1st Battalion,
2nd BCT Brigade.
PVT Cantrell is
graduate of
School.
former Cherle May Wells who
resides in Haltom City.
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Mrs. Jewel Grisham, 906 Bur-
leson, De Leon , Texas, was
assigned May 6 to headquarters
Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Ca-
valrv, 1st Cavalry Division
(Airmobile) in Vietnam, as a
supplyman.
a 1966
De Leon High
He is married to the
Army private First Class
was to control flooding. How- David E. Grisham, 19,^ son of
ever there are many added ben-
efits which can be developed
by local people such as ir-
rigation, fishing, hunting, boat-
ing, skiing, picnicing, etc.
Norman Moore, Upper Leon
Soil and Water Conservation
District Director, stated that
about 9,000 acres of land pre-
viously subject to frequent
flooding would be protected.
This would allow landowners to
develop the land to its full po-
tential without fear of loss to
damaging overflow.
Lyles and Lyles Construc-
tion Company of Ballinger made
the low bid of $189,341.70 and
was awarded the contract for
this structure. This dam will
contain a total of 288,000 cubic
yards of earth-fill material and
will store about 400 acre
feet of water in the sediment
pool including that made avail-
able by removal of the fill
material,
will have
41 acres.
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it travels into the bulk tank
with a storage capacity of 600
gallons and keeps the milk at
37 degrees until picked up by
a tank truck. Otwell sells to
Central West Texas Dairy As-
sociation at Abilene where the
bulk milk is processed into such
as is Ixjught in stores and milk
products are made.
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iiness For Over Twenty Years
storing of the milk are auto-
matic. The milk goes from the
cow through glass lined pipe
to a receiving jar. From there
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belnr
HU his feed but
acreage.
P**”11 h»s a herd of 70
tows and 20 heifers for
p’ments at all times. With
Option of one Jersey, all
tc?*s holstein. Each
1145 a number for record
And each on lias
. estwl **fore joining the
and all are tested reg-
J thereafter to detect any
PrJ’ that could exist that
F be harmful to herd of
[“her.
[•“nd Mrs. Wayne Otwell
2, ha ... t>een in the
P business for 20 years in
pbn, the last eleven years
rlr present location. Mr.
f" Stated lie bought out
lather in 1949 and at that
1 there were thirteen dair-
*his area. There are
S|ch dairies here now,
Ififing one of them. He
HU his feed tint has am-
le Spivey is the manager
e 14 employee firm.
cal Fencing
|m Turns Out
st Products
he can get it in any pop-
height and any weight,
galvanized wire, already
bered and proven good, will
long years of service and
vailable in unlimited quan-
according m Mrs. Roy
tinia) Adams, bookkeeper
be firm.
Mrs. Roy Adams, bookkeeper and
office manager of Mid-States Supply
Inc. on Cato Street.________________
new business firm, Mid-
k Supply, Inc., lias opened
k Leon located just off
Ipe Springs Road.
is unique in that it makes
ilk purse out of a sow's
| so to speak. In other
k, It takes discarded tele-
t wire that in the past has
thrown awai and makes
b chain link fencing.
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Part of herd at milking time at the Wayne Otwell Dairy. All
operations are automatic.
Karl Montague, left and Don Locke shown operating the ma-
chine that forms link fencing out of old telephone wire.
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NOTICE
Work night - Friday, June
13 at baseball field. Every-
one and their lawn mower cord-
ially invited.
Progress Report Of City, Area Given
products. The De Leon Brick
Company, now owned by Texas
industries and producing some
of the finest quality brick in
the state, continues to increase
its production. And now we
have about the only passenger
train in the state and it runs
between Dublin and De Leon
four afternoons per week. Its
passengers are the guests for
the beginnings of a new mu-
seum in De Leon which will
preserve and display early day
railroad paraphernalia, as well
as a collection of the histor-
ical items of yester-year of
the De Leon area.
(Cont. next week)
Crowds From All Over Attend
Homecoming At Cornyn Sun.
used on both the depot and post
Office, is encased in glass now 1
and stands atop the school
plaque. A copper plate on the
name sign teils that the sign
board was taken from the depot
building when B.L. Painter
bought the depot and transfer-
red the sign to the post of-
fice building. B.L. Painter was
the postmaster for 33 years
and the last one Cornyn had.
m 1924, C.M. Caraway Sr.
was president of the school
board with C.S. Dry as sec-
retary. Other members were
H.A. Watson, J.S. Barnes, W.H.
Coffee, S.D. Strong and Ed Tho-
mas. These names appear on
the marble plaque and on back
of this has been added a cop-
per plate with the names of
all superintendents and dates
of their years of service. The
Caraways gave the marble
plaque from the old school
building for the occasion. A
copper plate has also been at-
tached to the back of the ‘Cornyn’
sign naming all the post mas-
ters and dates of their ser-
vice.
Once again the streets of
Cornyn were jammed with snail
paced traffic as townfolk from
area towns were driving through
to see the ceremonies. Also
the Texas Central Railroad pas-
senger train stopped at the old
depot site so that passengers
and crew might join the crowd
for the ceremonies.
The air conditioned passen-
ger cars pulled by a diesel
engine was a far cry from the
wood burning trains that first
came through Cornyn. Heavy
freight trains of the early day
wood burning type were unable
to stop In Cornyn because they
could not get up enough power
after stopping to make it up
the grade when going east, and
were forced to go to Mt. Airy.
When steam engines came into
existence the extra power elim-
inated that problem and they
begin to stop at Cornyn.
Lt. Gov. Barnes left the
thought with the crowd that
they all try to hold on to Co-
rnyn, the Church and work to-
gether for the good of all.
ported for golf ieeoona at PAR
Oountry Cltlb Monday mom-
tog, 'Riere is still time to Jota
this group this woek for sum-
mer lessons. Juntor goif pro-
gram to open to members on-
ly- ________ .
Entering the program from
De Leon were Judy 3Jwrp.
Manty Wilkerson. Brett
Sharp. Clynt Taylor, Steve
HaJbnairk. Paul and Tad Tate
and Ronnie Barker FVom Oo-
manctie were Katy Wilker-
son. Ann Hathcock. Joann
Maxwell, Linda and Oaroi
Trotter, Rusty Schwertx, Ed-
win McGutoe, Johnrte Hicks,
James. Terry T. and Gary
wnuams, Landon, John and
Jr. Golf Lresons Started
Howard Burtschell Mates
that twenty-three juniors re-
By Dorn Ijuira Box
Cornyn homecoming 1969 was
a day full of pride, joy, re-
membering and yes, sadness.
This, the 22nd annual home-
coming day drew the largest
crowd since homecoming was
organized. And Mrs. B.L.
Painter, who as secretary of
this organization, has supplied
the information of Sunday’s fes-
tivities, saying this year they
had visitors from as far as
Ohio and California and many
Texas towns and cities.
Rev. Harley Hughes, who has
been homecoming speaker for
many years, was unable tocome
this year due to illness. Pas-
tor Rev. i^wis Stuckey brought
the inspiring message to the
homefolk and many visitors
durin g the morning hour. Me-
morial flowers to W-J. Dickey
were placed in the church.
At noon a basket lunch was
spread under the tabernacle on
the church lawn, after which
the time was sjqent visiting with
friends and relatives of yester-
year and singing. Members
of the Dublin Quartet, the Crad-
dock Family, and many others
came for a few hours of group
singing, solos and congrega-
tional singing.
At 3:00 p.m. the overflow
crowd assembled in the taber-
nacle to hear the dedication
service and to hear our own
Ben Barnes, Lt. Gov. of Tex-
as, speak. Then all drove to
the site where once the post
office was maintained and saw
G.R. Goosby, first Cornyn
School superintendent, unveil
the marker where his name has
been on the marble plaque since
1924. Lt. Gov. Barnes read
another marker that stands be-
side the school plaque and as
he did so placed his arm around
the shoulders of his Grandmo-
ther Barnes.
C.M. Caraway Jr. presented
gifts to Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes,
Mr. Goosby and Miss Mollie
Grisham, former teacher of
Cornyn to whom Lt. Gov. Barnes
presented an orchid.
The ‘Cornyn’ sign board which
proclaimed where Comynites
have lived for many years, and
NOTICE
Saturday, June 14, Senior
League baseball. Cross plains
vs De Leon at De Leon. Game
time 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 17, double-
header baseball at De Leon.
Comanche Arthur Chevrolet Hot
Rods vs De Leon Jr.’s at 6:30
p.m. Comanche Sr.’s vs De
Leon Sr.’s; second game.
By Ham Locke
A great deal of progress has
been made in the De Leon area
during the last few years. It
is hard to say what has been
most important, although the
new and almost unlimited sup-
ply of good water is certain-
ly a great thing. We are
now approaching 50,000 acres of
irrigated peanuts in this area,
and, of course, good cultural
production practices are now
being used. A normal years
peanut production now should
be about double that of 10 years
ago.
Employment at home and in
nearby plants is the largest,
it has ever been. Recreation
facilities are among the best
in Texas with 1200 acres of
well equipped parks on the lake
and the new proctor Area Re-
creation Center which offers a
9 hole golf course, swimming
pool, club house, tennis court,
boat docks, etc. and now has
380 members. We have three
big new beautiful churches and
at least 100 fine new homes in
the area and a new low rent
housing project for the elderly;
the beginning of the construction
on the Rush Creek watershed
project and the approval of the
planning money for the Sabanna
watershed program. Then there
has been seven major highway
and farm to market road pro-
jects. The Jim West Constuc-
tion Company has grown from
a small effort to a large com-
pany doing business over a
large section of the state and
offering employment to many
people. Bank deposits have
increased from two and one-
half million to seven million.
The Golden Oak Milling Com-
pany and Finchers Feed and
Seed Company have made tre-
mendous growth. The De Leon
peanut Company has become the
property of one of the largest
food firms in the United States
and it continues to progress and
expand. The Hiram Smiths who
have more than 50,000 peach
trees, are setting out even
more. Womack's Nursery,
which is so well known for its ______ .
quality, is having trouble keep- Jim Vine*, and Danny Arm-
ing up with the demands for its rtronff. ____
The Fred Green Home was heavily damaged by fi <• late
Monday morning bringing both fire trucks into operation.
The fire seemed to have started behind the cook stove and
quickly spread through the ceiling and roof. Quick and
efficient work by the fire department confined the stubbo n
blaze to the kitchen area of the house. Staff Photo
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Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Otwell shown
with part of their Holstein herd.
ouCli these rigid health
Ceding programs Ot-
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De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1969, newspaper, June 12, 1969; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1259682/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.