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STAR
Vol. LXVIII No. 31
Aspermont, Stonewall County, Texas, 79502 Thursday March 31, 1966
Price 10c
Rodeo Association Annual Roping
To be Held Saturday, Sunday
The Stonewall Coun'y Rodeo As
sociation is sponsoring their
Soring Amateur Roping here Sat-
urday and Sunday, April 2 and 3.
Funeral Held for
Ernil Wolsch
At'Sagerton
Mrs. Emil Wolsch. 72. of Old
Glory, longtime Stonewall County
resident d'ed at 1:30 a.m. Friday
In Wichita Falls Hospital af er a
two months illness.
Funeral was held at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday in Zion Lu'heran Church
in Sagerton with the Rev. Marion
Von Rentzell, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in Highland Memorial
Ceme'ery in Stamford.
Born April 21, 1893, in La-
Grange, she came to Stonewall
County in 1906 with ner paren's.
The former Emma Tredemeyer,
she married Emil Wolsch Dec. 17,
1919, at Sagerton.
Mrs. Wolsch was a member of
the Zion Lutheran Church in Sa-
gerton.
Survivors are the husband; two
daugh ers, Mrs. W. H. Wahlen of
Stamford and Mrs. Elvira Shmidt
of Haskell; two sons, Edgar and
"S&hvard, boil of Old Glory; eight
^randqhiMj-en: and two sisters,
Mrs." C. F; Erdman of Cisco and
Mrs. Fi'z Diers of Stamford.
, Nephews served as pallbearers.
"Mr—
Trustee Election
Saturday, April 2
Aspermont Independent School
District voters will go to the polls
Saturday, April 2, to elect two
school trustees.
Runtitling for the 'wo places are
E. R. (Sonny) Nichols, Frank
Mrazek, Mrs. Arnold Wallace,
Dean Clark. George Calvn Kenudy
Jr., James V. Rash and Mrs. 13.
G. Cook Jr.
P-TA Meeting to be
Kbld at Hickman's
Mrs. Billy Bradford, president
of tiie Aspermont Parent-Teacher
Association lias called a meeting
for Tuesday, April 5, at 10:30 a.m.
at Hickman's Restaurant for the
election of officers for 1966-67.
After election, the officers will
be installed.
All members of P-TA are in-
v*t&d to attend.
Today Last Day to
Register Vehicles
Tax Assessor-Collector H. O.
McAfee warned motorists that to-
day Thursday, March 31, is the
last day to register their motor
vehicles. New tags must appear
on the crars, Friday, April 1.
Rainfall Varies
Over County
Rainfall in Aspermont Sunday
measured .3 of an inch. North of
Aspermont measured V4 to 2 inrh-
es near the King County Line.
Old Glory and vicinity received
nearly an inch with the west part
of the county around Peacock re-
ceiving .7.
County Fire Truck
rfeing Repaired
^ The County Fire Truck was tak
en to Wichita Falls Saturday
morning where a pump and other
ndtessary repairs is being made
Jo the truck. The truck went out
of commission Thursday morning
at a fire here.
The truck is used to fight grass
fires over the coun'y and Is main-
tained by the county.
Program will begin Saturday
afternoon at 1:00 p.m. and will
have 2 go rounds of calf roping,
1. go round of barrel races and 2
■-'<> rounds of team tying.
Sunday afternoons program will
begin at 2:00 p.m. and will have
'lie same schedule as Saturdays.
Admission is 1.00 for adults and
50c for children. Jack Ra jcn is
forn'shing the stock.
Aspermont Wins
VII & VIII Spelling
At Merkel
Karen Shadle and Grace Hoy.
eighth grade studen's, placed first
in the District GA InterscholasUe
League spelling event in Merkel,
Saturday.
Aspermont has won this event
five times and placed second once
in the past seven years. The
names of Shadle and Hoy will be
placed on the list containing the
previous winners by years, 1965,
Jan Winter and David Verner;
1964, Bill Morgan and David Ver-
ner; 1963 Celia Martin and Bill
Morgan; 1961, Clota Hinze and
Patti Dalby; and I960, Clota Hinze
and Sharon Welch.
Debbie Mullen placed fourth in
girls' declamation and David
Moor a seventh grade student,
ranked in uumber sense,
wi'-h a score of 135. The first
place score was 170.
Stewart Home
Destroyed by Fire
Fire destroyed an old landmark
in Aspermont early Thursday
morning when the two story
frame resident that formerly
housed the Shirley Stewart. Gro-
cery and home was destroyed.
The fire was turned in around
8:15 a.m. Firemen were hampered
somewhat when one of the fire
truck's power)akc off tore up and
couldn't he used to pump water.
Several buildings around the
house were sprayed with water to
keep them from catching afire.
Saturday evening firemen were
called to Hie Frederick >\ilby
place east of town to a grass fire.
Sunday night firemen were
again called to the McGee Hotel
where a car belonging to Red
Lindscy had caught fire.
Hospital Directors
Election Saturday
Stonewall County vo'ers will go
to the polls Saturday, April 2, to
elect three directors to the Stone-
wall Hospital District,
Seeking the three offices are in
eumbents N. A. Plttcock and
Houston Ward. Others in the race
Van Bullard, a former member,
and newcomers M. C. Myers. Carl
Hunt. J. R. Ray, Carl Dickerson,
and Clyde Littlepage.
City Election
Tuesday April 5
City of Aspermont will elect a
mayor and two councllmen Tues-
day, April 5. Jim Ward is running
for re-election as mayor. Tom Hill
is seeking re election for council-
men and Bill Martin is seeking
the other council seat.
Mrs. Bess Forgos is election
judge and helping her will be Mrs.
Bill Childress and Mrs. Bill Ay-
cock.
Old Settlers
Badges on Sols
Old Settlers Badges have tone
on sale at $3.00 each The badges I
are being sold to raise money to j
sponsor various functions that will I
be carried on at the Stonewall |
County Old Settlers Reunion In j
June. I
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Wylie Bulldogs Win Stonewall County
Relays Saturday; Aspermont Fifth
WINNERS AT DISTRICT—Old Glory winners
at the District 4-H Meet Held at Wichita Falls
are left to right Judy Sander and Reva Letz,
Senior Safey, hirst Place; Judy White, Senior
Public Speaking, First Place; Brenda Palmer
and Kenneth Jones, Senior Vegetable Produc-
tion. Second Place. This group will participate
at A&M in June.
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FIRST PLACE WINNERS—Dstrict 4-H Shaie the v-rt the
Pvin Contest Winners were Bifida Fo.i, leu aod J..ui jc...
Line a Kay Jo.cs. Accompanying the twirlers \ c-..
'Tcrondos". left 'o right C'-ris Pen a.
i:iry Lawrence and Freddy Wea-
Stonewai! 4-H'ers Win Six F ir>l> and Five
Seconds in District at Wichita Falls Last Saturday
The Wylie Bulldogs won two
events and placed in nine others
Saturday to come out on top in
the Stonewall County Relays wlili
80 points.
Wyl'c winners were Hus'y Rut-
ledge in the 100-yard dash and
Ricky Parris in the polo vault..
The Rule Bobcats copped sec-
ond place wi h 70 points, including
Pr: s in both relays, and the 4-1 f<
ar.d 220 dashes.
Paul Cornelius, who ran the
third leg tin both relays for • 11 ■
Bobcats, was high point man of
the meet with 23 poin's. Cornelius
won the 22!) with a 22.5 timing
and was fifth in die shot put.
The host Aspermont Home's
were fifth with r>3 points, The
Hornets, who have previous wins
this season over the Bulldogs and
Bobcats, found their chances hurt
Saturday when senior hurdler Karl
Ray Coplen was injured in the
high hurdles. Coplen won the pre-
liminaries in both hurdle events.
Hornet Coach Wayne Jenkins
said that Coplen suffered a brok-
en arm and will be out of hurdle
events for the rest of the season.
He won the broad jump wi'h a
20-4, but could not compete in
the Low hurdles and high jump.
In third place with 56 points
each were the Roscoc Plowboys
and the Paducah Dragons.
Knox Ci'y was sixth wi'h 40,
followed bv Merkel with 31; Holi
day, 20; Munday with 23; Rotgn's
single entry of Larry Van Loon
with 18: Jay ton. 16; Guthrie, and
Archer City, 10; Roby 5 and Jim
Ned 3.
SUMMARIES
120-Yard High Hurdles—1. Ton-
er. Holilday. 16.0; 2. Ravburn.
Rnseoe: 3. Brock, Knox City; 4.
Edward Pat'on, Aspermont. 5.
Kelly, Jim Nod: G. Whi'ehead.
day.
ird Dash - 1 Rusty Rut-
ledge. Wylie. 10.5 2 Liedplte. Pa
ducah; 3. Jones, Rule. 4 Hunter.
Jayton: Cud. Knox C':t>: 6
' Oowlev, Wylie.
tSO-Ya-d l.ow Hurdles 1. Hoi.
: der. \ivlvr Ctv. 2'> 2, T ner.
I'oliidav.
Holiday; 3, Patton, Aspermont; 4.
Ravburn, Roscoc; 5. Brock, Knox
City, G. Kelly, Jim Ned.
440-Yard Relay—1. Rule <Lyn-
del Norwood. Dennis Riggins,
Paul Cornelius and harry Le-
Fevre 4(5.3: 2. Paducah: 3. As-
permoiv: 4. Roscoc; 5. Wylie; 6.
I lollitlay.
140-Yard Dash — 1 LcFevre,
R'de. 2. Wagner, Wylie; 3.
Tomplenion. Merkel: 4. Goodwin,
Padueah: 5. Ash. Wvlic: 6. Wil-
son. Merkel.
220-Yard Dash — 1 Cornelius,
Rule. 22.5: 2. Walling, Paducah;
3. Cowley. Wylie: 5. Wilburn,
Roby; 5. Liedphe, Paducah; 6.
Meredith, Roscoe.
880-Yard Run—1. Logsdon, Knox
City 2:0G.6: 2. Bonduart, Wylie;
3. Duncan, Roscoe; 4. Lowe, Mun-
day: 5. Anderson, Munday; 6.
Crawford. Rule.
Mile Run—1. Costello, Merkel,
5:01.8; 2. Large. Knox City; 3.
Dclora. Roscoe; 4. Gary Suggs,
Aspermont; 5. Long, Wylie; 6.
Lawrence, Munday.
Mile Relay— 1. Rule (LeFevre,
Lott, Cornelius, Rigginsi, 3:41.2;
2. Wylie: 3. Paducah; 4. Munday;
5. Roscoe: G, Aspermont.
Shot Put—1, Larry Van Loon,
Rotan. 15-6; Phil Williams, Knox
Ci'y; 3. Santaigo, Roscoe; 4.. White
Knox Civ; 5. Cornelius, Rule;
G. Taylor, Roby.
Discus—1. Paty, Roscoe, 141-0;
2. Van Loon. Rotan; 3. Rutledge,
Wylie: 4. James Ray, Aspermont:
5. Holderman, Roscoe; 6. Beck,
Wylie.
High Jump — 1. Sandy Giliey,
Aspermont, 5-10: 2. B. Davis, Mer-
kel. 3. Harris. Wylie: 4. Fuller,
Holliday: 5. Rutledge. Merkel; 6.
Patton. Aspermont.
Pole Vault — 1. Parris, Wylie,
11-0: 2. G Goan. Merkel: 3. Mil-
ler. Gi.Vhrie: 4 Flowers, Gu brie;
5. D. Goan. Mekel: G. Ray bun,
Rose
Read .lnmiv-l. Karl Ray Cop-
len. V;,er' ;en'. 20-4 : 2, Gilbreath,
I': dm ..'I: ". Eddie Mo'ttles and
Hunter l.ioth .Taj ton: 5. Alcola,
Mtmdnj : 0 Rig .ins. R'de.
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Stone'vali County entered 12 |
teams i.t Dis ric' competition at |
Wichita Falls last Saturday and i
won 5 firsts, 4 seconds, 2 thirds. I
and 1 fifth. The 4-11'ers also won i
one high individual, one second
high individual, and one third high
individual.
Some 20 senior 4-H'ers qualified
for State from S'onewall County.
This was the largest number in
District 3, in which there are 22
counties. Listed below are the
places.
FIRST PLACES
Senior Safes' Judy Sander. Re
va Let/.
Senior Share of the Fun—Linda
Kay Jones, Brenda Foil, accom-
panied by The Toronodos, Chris
Pena, Freddy Weaver, John
Jouett and Jerry Lawrence.
Senior Poultry Judging —Jack
Sarnford, Mike Sam ford, Mike
Baldree and Flit a Baldrce.
Junior Poultry Judging—Russell
J Let/. Dale Lo'/
' and Randj Su::
.! , II Kidd
Richland Springs Wins Annual
Double Mountain Belle Relays
Mrs. M. A. Howell, Resident of County
Since 1909 Dies, Funeral Today
Mrs. M. A. (Arminda Elizabeth
Howell, 84, died at 8 a.m. Tuesday
following an apparent heart at-
tack at her home here.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m.
Thursday (today) in First Baptist
Church here with the pastor, the
Rev. Clyde Cook, offtcia'ing. Bur
ial will be In Aspermont Ceme-
tery under direction of Littlepage
Funeral Home.
Flor'**- *"* Hove
Open House Sunday
Formal opening will be held
Sunday, April 3. for the Asper-
mont Florist, owned by Gertrude
Forgus. The shop is located in the
Stonewall Hotel Building. Open
house " ill be from 2 00 to 5.00
p.m.
130 Register to
Vote in County
S onewail County Tax Asscs-or-
Collector It. O McAfee had 130
persons to register to vote in the
recent voter registration period.
Mrs. Howell was born Oct. 28.
1881, near Nashville. Tenn., and
had lived in Stonewall Coun'y
<ince 1009. She married M. A
Howell, Nov. 19, 1902, at Florence
and they observed their 60th wed-
ding anniversary In 1962.
She was a member of the Bap-
tist church.
Surviving are her husband;
three daugh'ers, Mrs. W. H. Bra-
dy of Hagerman, N.M., Mrs. W
E. Green of Lubbock and Eliza-
beth Howell of Aspermont: five
sons. Buck of Seagraves, Robert
of Carlsbad, N. M., Roy Elmer
of Wjixahachic. Burnon Lee and
DeWit', both of Lubbock; a broth
er, 0«car Arp of Austin: four sis-
*ers. Alts Essie Hunt of Libert v
Hill. Mrs Gerlie Gve«set' of Call
fiirnia, M-s OHc Hutehlnson of
'^au tee, OVla.. and Mrs Dovie
Caudle of Fori S'uith. Ark . 31
:ran«li 1 ildren; and 41 grcat-
.irandchi'dren.
Pallbearers "ill le Pete Sher
rod, N. L. (Boss Win'er, Ralph
Riddel, R. V. McGilljcrry, John
Rimes and Robert Boldaz.
S.,-;i!or Publir Speaking — Judy
Wlii e.
SECOND PLACES
Senior Vegetable Production —
Kcnne'll Jone.s and Brenda Pal-
mer.
Junior Tractor Driving—Herby
Wooldridge.
Senior Soil Evaluation —Wayne
Rash, George Roberts, Cary Lee
Gardner, and Stanley Trammell.
Junior Soil Evaluation — Mal-
colm Rash .Anthony Rash and
Preston Kolb.
THIRD PLACES
Senior Quarter-Horse Judging—
Susan Martin. Gary Six, Tommy
Walker and Clifford Gholson.
Senior Farm and Ranch Man
agemen — Perry Workman.
FIFTH PLACE
Junior Quarter-Horse Judging —
Jimmie Dalby, Harriett Martin,
Jan Yarborough and Jeff Yar-
bo rough.
HIGH INDIVIDUALS
Stanley Trammell, First, Soil
Evaluation; Malcolm Rash, Sec-
ond. Soil Evaluation and Clifford
Gholson, third, Quarter-Horse
Judging.
Adults who took cars were: Mr.
and Mrs. Fredrick Dalby, Fred
Martin. Mr .and Mrs Wayne Yar-
borough. Mrs. Hoj?er Foil, Mrs
At L. Jones, Mrs Rernlec White.
Mrs. Jack Jones and Mrs. Nor
man.la Sander and Coun'y Agon*
Trueit Ht'-.nig.
Senior Quarter-Horse Judging
team were beaten b\ only 3 paints
out of a possible RdO scored by
he second placed team. The sen-
ior Soil Evaluation team were
beaten out of f'rst by 5 points out
of a possible 600.
Richland Springs' tvrls .swept te
the cliampionshii) of the 1" b an-
nual Double Mountain Belle Re
lays here Friday.
Richland Springs rolled up 84
points to runner-up Hamlin's 58.
Other team scores included Mer-
kel 46, Aspermont and Gail 44,
Idalou 33, Forsan 20, Balmorhea
18, Jtui Ned 12, Akin Jr. High of
Lubbock 7, Ira i and Wylie 2.
SUMMARIES
High Jump—Magee, Balmorhea.
4-7; 2. Bailey, Hamlin; 3. Rogers,
Wylie: 4. Worthing'on, Aspermont.
Broad Jump —Noster. Merkel.
54; 2. Rogers, Ira; 3 Weems,
Idalou; 4. Walker, Merkel.
Discus —Walker, llamlin, 92-4;
Boy Lost for
Short Time Sunday
Ben Hawkins, 2Mi year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs .Richard (Bronc*
Hawkins, was lost for a time Sun-
day evening on the Fred Martin
Ranch south of Aspermont. Ben's
parents were fishing and he was
asleep in the car. He awoke and
got out of the car and couldn't see
his parents so ne started walking
and walked In a county road south
of the tank about a mile and a
hall across rough country. Bill
Henson of Abilene found him on
•he road and brought him to the
county Jail.
There were several ear loads
of men searching for him along
with C. C. Calhoun who was Fty-
ing over the area.
Yarborough. Aspermont; 3. Mc-
Malion, Balmorhea: 4. Compton,
Hamlin.
Shot Put—Weems, Idalou. 32-5;
I 2. Yarborough. Aspermon'; 3.
| Krapp, Gail; 4. Dennis, Gail.
Hop-Step-Jump — Magee, Bal-
morhea. 33-4; 2. Evans, Merkel;
3. Paige. Hamlin, 4. Mays, Asper-
mon'.
Javelin—.Jenkins. Hamlin, fil-4;
2. Rarborough. Aspermont; 3.
McMullen, Wylie;4. W eems, Ida-
lou.
60-Rard Hurdles—Bailey, Ham-
lin. 9-2: 2, Worthlngton, Asper-
mont: 3. Foreman, Idalou; 4 Rog-
ers, Ira.
160 - \ ard Shu'tle Relay —
Richland Springs 21.7; 2. Asper-
mont; 3. Jim Ned; 4. Merkel.
50-Yard Dash—Dennis, Gail, 6.4;
Magee, Balmorhea; 3. Sparks,
Akin Jr. High, Lubbock; 4. Noster
Merkel.
240-Shuttle Relay—Gail 31.5; 2.
Richland Springs, 3. Forsan, 4.
Merkel.
80-Yard Hurdles—Bailey, Ham-
lin 12-5; Foreman, Idalou; 3.
Worthing'on, Aspermont; 4. S'alio
Merkel.
300 Yard Shuttle Relay — Rich-
land Springs, 38.5; 2. Hamlin, 3.
Aspermont. 4. Gail,
100-Yard Dash — Sparks, Jr.
High Lubbock, 12.6; Magee. Bal-
morhea, 3. Noster and Evans Mer-
kel.
200 Yard Shuttle Relay — Rich-
land Springs 20.5; 2. Gall. 3. A:;-
permont: 4. Merkel.
240-Yard Shu'tle Hurdle Relay—
Idalou 41.3: 2. Hamlin; 3. Forsan;
i 4. Jim Ned.
880 Relay — Merkel, 159.3; 2.
Richland Swings; 3. Hamlin; 4.
Forsan.
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Foil, Roger. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1966, newspaper, March 31, 1966; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth127891/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.