The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1976 Page: 3 of 4
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THE ASPEBMONT STAR, ASPERMONT, TEXAS, 79502
MHdnll KMd
To Spetk At
El Paso Mooting
Mitchell J. Kidd, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Johnnie J. Kidd of
Peacock and faculty member
of Texas Tech University, is
scheduled to speak on his
present research during the
Southwest Regional Tri-
State Meeting at El Paso,
March 11-13. Kidd is senior
author of a paper en
nutritional aspects of the
microorganism, "Neisseria
gonorrhoeae." Serving as
junior authors will be David
L.; Cox and Dr. C. L. Baugh.
Kidd's paper is entitled
"Preliminary Studies of the
Growth of "Neiserria
gonorrhoeae" in a Medium
N6t Containing Supplemental
Carbon Dioxide or Sodium
Bicarbonate."
Kidd points to the fact that
gonorrhea is the leading
infectious disease in the
United States and notes that
30 per cent of reported cases
develop serious com-
plications.
While presently working
toward the Master of Science
degree, Kidd is a member of
the Texas Branch of the
American Society for
Microbiology, the American
Society for Microbiology and
the Society of Industrial
Microbiology. He is a 1971
graduate of Aspermont High
School and a 1975 graduate of
Texas Tech University. Kidd
plans to work toward the Ph.-
Dv degree after completion of
the M.S. Presently, he
describes himself as a bac-
terial physiologist with an
interest in pathogenic and
immune mechanisms.
DISTRICT 26-B GIRLS CHAMPS-Old Glory girls basketball team,
winners ui uie iiirb uMiiii/iCnsmp. wwe ucicaicu bi BrOIitC 59-4C in ui-
district play in Abilene, Monday, Feb. 16. Members of the district
championship team are, from left, front row, Martha McKee, Marcene
Baldree, Lynette Meier, Debbie Teichelman, Jami Pierce, Celinda
Vahlenkamp, starters; back row, Linda Harris, Rosa Barrera, Billy Jo
Baitz, Gail Bryant and Coach Terry Burkhalter. The girls' record was 27-
13 for the season and 15-1 in district.
STAR SUBSCRIBERS
Snyder Service
Held Tuesday for
Mrs. James Clark
Mrs. James A. (Ida Mae)
Clark Sr., 85, of Snyder died
at 8:10 a.m. Monday in
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
following a lengthy illness.
Funeral was held at 4 p.m.
Tuesday at the First Baptist
Church in Snyder. Burial was
in Hillside Memorial Gar-
dens.
She was born Dec. 18, 1890,
at Clayton and was married
to James A. Clark Sr., Dec.
28,1909, at Clayton. He died in
1963.
Survivors include three
daughters, Mrs. Damon
Worley of Brunswick, Ga.,
Mrs. Charles A. Kemp of Fort
Davis and Mrs. Horlice
Dorman of Austin; five sons,
Lindy of Snyder, James A. Jr.
of Aspermont, Blanton of
Clayton, Donald of Cross
Plains and Everett of Cedar
Hill; 19grandchildren; and 21
great-grandchildren and a
great-great-grandson.
Postal Consumer
Protection Week
Observed Here
"The week of Feb. 23-28 has
been designated by Post-
master General Benjamin F.
Bailer as Postal Consumer
Protection Week to em-
phasize the importance of
consumer protection and
inform the public of its
availability to users of the
mail," Peacock, Old Glory
and Aspermont Postmasters
said today.
The Postal Service
provides safeguards in the
transportation of mail,
against mail fraud and false
representation, and provides
assistance with maii-order
and service problems. Our
consumer protection
program works through the
Inspection Service, Con-
sumer Protection Office of
the Law Department, the
Judicial Office and The
Consumer Advocate, they
said.
"If you have any problems
with the mails, come in and
talk with us or a postal in-
spector. We want to help,"
Postmasters Lets, Moorhead
and Boyles added.
Bonny McNutt of Childress
visited with his grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Fletcher, Monday when he
came to attend a cattle sale
HAD VISITORS? That's
i, call the STAR.
Subscribers to the
Aspermont Star during the
past month, beginning Jan.
12, are as follows:
Cecil Klump, Old Glory;
Mrs. L. S. Jasper, Frank
Jasper, Houston; Mrs. R. W.
Ferrell, Houston; Mrs. J. P.
Ward, Camarillo, Calif.; L.
F. Lanier, Clay Douglass, Joe
Douglass, Plainview; Geary
Meador, Royce Adkins,
Haskell; W. J. Hart, O. K.
Calhoun, Doyle Hill, Dale
Moore, Fort Worth; Mrs.
Wade Smith, Jayton; Van
Dickerson, N. A. Pittcock,
Bertha Heald, Fort Worth; C.
V. Counts, Rotan; Jimmie D.
Johnson, Old Glory; Alyin
Graham, Omar Burleson,
Washington, D. C.;
Arthur Huffman, Alvin
Smith, Jayton; Edd Brister,
Lubbock; Mrs. John Scott,
Lamesa; J. A. Scott, E. N.
Linsley, Girvin; William A.
Springer Jr., Lubbock;
Morris Garner, Old Glory;
Paul L. Gentner, Baltimore,
Md., James R. Hickman,
Seabrook; J. M. Hickman Sr.,
Leroy Morrow, Jayton; Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Daughtery,
Jayton; Joan Mitchell, Big
Spring; Lucille Hallford,
Maude Hankins, San Ber-
nardino, Calif.;
John McNutt, Peacock;
James A. Clark, June Winter,
MANY PEOPLE
ATTRACTED
TO NEW SPORT
Five years ago if you had
asked the average Southwest
farmer what the sport called
tractor pulling was he would
probably have answered by
saying that it was the hitching
of two tractors back to back
to see which one could drag
the other one across his
coastal grass pasture. But not
anymore, for the last year
alone over thirty pulls were
staged by farmers and county
fairs across the great South-
west. Pulls were held in big
cities such as Lubbock, Fort
Worth and small towns like
Fort Cobb and Elk City,
Oklahoma. It is predicted
that in 1976 not only will
the farm-oriented people be
addicted to this fast growing
sport, buy many of their city
cousins as well. People who
enjoy the thrill of watching
high-powered machines, driv-
en by skilled young men
compete with one another in
pulling a scientifically weight-
ed sled down a specially
constructed dirt track pull-
ing for distance.
Each March since 1972
the Southwest Farm Show
has staged a Championship
Tractor Pull during their big
farm machinery show in
Fort Worth. A pull that
determines not only who is
the champion puller in the
Southwest, but demonstrates
how these local pullers meas-
ure up when they pull against
champions from acros* the
United States.
"As only the high point -
champions will be competing,
and pulling a new fast-
opcr*tinf tied, we should be
able to complete the pull in
much leas time than in the
previous tmi years," accord-
ing to Franklin Brandt of
La Grange, Texas. Brandt is
the Track Manager
The pulls will be held on
March ft, 6 and 7 during the
Farm Show at the Convention
Center in downtown Fort
Worth. Texas. ■
Bobbie Boyles, Joe R.
Meador, Peacock; J. L.
Myers, Peacock; Garrett
Hecht, Mrs. Roy W. White,
Baytown;
Mrs. C. W. Owens, Hamlin;
Miles Ellison, Mrs. Leon
Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Craig,
publisher of the Aspermont
Star, attended the 27th annual
Mid-Winter Meeting of the
West Texas Press Assoc-
iation in the Hilton Inn in
Lubbock Friday and
Saturday. Craig is executive
director and secretary-
treasurer of the Association
and Mrs. Craig handled
registration responsibilities.
Funeral Services
Held Monday for
Jordan Hart, 67
Services were held here
Monday at 2 p.m. at First
Baptist Church for Jordan
Hart. 67, an Aspermont
stockfarmer.
A grandson, the Rev.
Bobby Earl Hart, a Pen-
tecostal minister from
Houston, and the Rev. Tom
Riddle, pastor, officiated.
Burial was in Aspermont
Cemetery under the direction
of McCc-y Funeral Home.
Mr. Hart, a native of
Stonewall County and
lifetime resident, died at 9:20
p.m. Friday in Hendrick
Memorial Hospital in
Abilene, after a brief illness.
He was born March 12,
1908. He married Emma Ruth
Rsjh Aug 15, is
Aspermont. He was a
member of First Baptist
Church.
Survivors inciuae his wife;
a eon, William Earl of
Athens; two daughters, Joy
Ruth Gerloff and Rose Marie
Simmons, both of New
Mexico; four brothers,
Morris, Bryon, R. V. and J.
Q.; one sister, Mrs. Slim
Myers of Spur; six grand-
children and a great-
grandchild.
Pallbearers were Thomas
Smith, Tom Ruthterford, Roy
Rutherford, W. P. Maxwell,
W. R. Neatherlin and Troy
Polk.
To Be Honored
Raymond Hilsher,
president of Old Glory Lodge
No. 228, Sams of Hermann,
will be honored along with all
160 presidents of lodges
across Texas in a
"Presidents' Membership
Campaign."
The campaign will be held
during the 31 days of March,
fhe fraternal benefit society
was founded on a state-wide
basis by Texas German
pioneers at a convention in
San Antonio Mar. 27, 1890,
with the Alamo serving as the
background.
THUBSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1976, PAGE 3.
C. 6. Vsertel
Funeral Services
Heiri Here for
C. G. Viertel, 80, a longtime
Stonewall County stock
farmer, died at 6:45 a.m.
Sunday in Hendrick
Memorial Hospital after a
short illness.
Services were held at 2
p.m. at First United
Methodist Church with the
pastor, the Rev. Elmer Ward,
and the Rev. CJyde Cook of
Shallowater, former pastor of
First Baptist Church here,
officiating.
Masonic graveside services
were held at Aspermont
Cemetery. Burial was
directed by McCoy Funeral
Home.
He was born March 4,1895,
in Jefferson County and came
to Stonewall County in 1P55.
He married Effie Orr March
4,1917, in Aspermont.
He was a past member of
the Aspermont school board,
a member of Lions Club, the
Aspermont Lodge and was a
Mason. He was a member of
the administrative board of
the Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife;
two sons, Clifford and Curtis,
both of Fort Worth; two
daughters, Wanda McKinnon
of Littlefield and Mary Lou
Hall of Fort Stockton; aine
grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were A1 Fin-
cher, Charles Morrison, Don
Selter, Charles Kirkpatrick,
W. C. Robinson and Leroy
Moyer.
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PRINTING
SERVICE
Visit tie STAR
manjaret Settle
On Dean's List
Margaret Ellen Settle had a
4.0 grade point average for
the fall semester at McMurry
College and was named to the
fall Dean's List, released by
Dr. Allen Cordts, vice
president for academic af-
fairs and dean of the college.
Mrs. Settle, wife of Donald
E. Settle, local West Texas
Utilities manager, was
graduated from Shamrock
High School in 1957.
She is a junior elementary
education major with a minor
in speech.
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The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1976, newspaper, February 26, 1976; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth128304/m1/3/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.