Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1967 Page: 4 of 16
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condition is undetermined to-
day. The car was a total loss.
The next meeting is scheduled
for Sept. 28 at 7:30 p m. in the
Frey Room.
CC Directors
The board of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce approv |
ed a resolution, at their regular!
| Johnny and Tommy of Denton
are all doing fine at this time.
Mr. and Mrs. Ora Lee Head
were also vhitors.
Mrs. John Martin of Johnson
City is visting her sister
Iress Ellis this week,
brother Mr. and Mrs. W. L. El-
lis and Tim of Stephenville vis-
ited them Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary Scott is visiting
her daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Crews of Stephenville.
Mother, Mrs. King
___ Col. Tommy Blakney visited
Far East and Southeast Asia j over the weekend with his mo-
Before his arrival in South , ther Mrs. L. A. King. Blakney
is enroute to Baton Rouge. La.
US 377 Monday
Highway Patrolman Mike
Watkins investigated two acci-
dents Monday tietween Stephen-
! vilie and Bluff Dale on V. S.
Metres* lx Had
As for the flour mill, it contains an
interesting history of its own. When
it was built in 1862, the labor market
was high and scarce. In order to
solve the problem, Negro families
were moved into the area to con-
struct the mill. Once the mill was
completed, the Negro workmen were
told to leave.
Several days passed and they still
remained, but not for long. A group
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Alexander began what was to be a
rapid development. In fact the town
grew so rapidly in its early years that
merchants did not have time to put
up buildings. Instead, they used tents
far their early business establish-
ments.
Alexander received her first store
from — Harper’s Mill, a near-by town
which had been founded in 1867.
By 1890, the Erath county town was
home for some 21 businesses, includ-
ing a bank, three saloons, three ho-
tels, three livery stables, three gins,
and a flour mill.
berg and
Services were held July 31 at
Restland Funeral Home, Dal-
las, for Mrs. Gordon M. Wil-
kins. Burial was also in Dallas.
Mrs. Wilkins was born Nov.
27, 1905 in Bryson City, N. C.,
but spent most of her life in
Texas. She was the only child
of Mrs. J. H. Raney of Dublin
who is now in a Grapevine rest
home. Mrs. Wilkins was a
member of the Calvary Baptist
Church, Dallas, and was a gra-
duate of the Baptist Memorial
Hospital School of Nursing in
Waco.
Survivors include her hus-
band and two children, Jimmie
E. Wilkins and Betty Wilkins,
all of Dallas, an aunt, Mrs. Sid
Lowery of Lubbock and four
grandchildren.
Mrs. Hazel M. Qualls of Ter-
rell has been named home ser-
vice advisor for Texas Power &
Light Company’s Brownwood
id i s t rlct, W.
M. Streckert,
[district man-
ager, announc-
ed.
In her new
'position, Mrs.
Qualls will
serve as ‘‘a
lighting c on-
suitant, 1 ““
conduct cook-'
ing demonstrations and will
eco-
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and
work closely with home
nomics teachers, county home
demonstration agents and 4-H
clubs in Brown, .Comanche and
Erath counties.
She joined TPAL as a clerk
in the Company's Hillsboro of-
fice in 1946. Since that time, she
has served as a home service
advisor for TP&L in Hillsboro
and Tyler. She had been home
service advisor for the Com-
pany in Terrell since 1963.
A native of Chico, Mrs. Qualls
attended Perrin public schoos
and Texas Tech in Lubbock.
She also has completed advanc-
ed home economics courses at
Texas Woman’s University in
Denton and Southern Methodist
University in Dallas.
She and her husband, Mur-
phy, are members of the Meth-
odist church and now reside in
Brownwood at 2010 Tenth
Street.
Debi Barker, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mbs.
Wayne Barker, was selected Queen of the 1967 De Leon
Peach and Melon Festival at the De Leon fairgrounds
Tuesday night.
Debi was chosen in competition with 11 other entries
and will reign over the 53rd annual lair. The 1966
Queen, Glenda Hardin, presented Miss Barker with a
bouquet of red roses. v
Linda Hassler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Hassler, will represent the Stephenville Lions Club and
Chamber of Commerce at the queen’s coronation to be
held at 9 p.m. today. The queen’s ball, an invitation
affair, will be held at 10:30 p.m.
Festival activities will continue Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights, with Miss Barker slicing the tra-
ditional first melon at a melon slicing on De Leon's
main street at 5 p.m. Saturday.
He announced that the city-
wide paint up. fix up. clfcan dp
campaign will be held in the
fall.
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By MIKI LIISI
DaHy Empire Writer
Established in 1660 as'a railroad
town, Alexander stands today aa a
community of scattered homes, a ser-
vice station or two, a grocery store,
and a Baptist Chureh.
But just to the south of the modern
highway and sparsely settled village,
reign the old foundations, a few stone
walls, and the railroad tracks which
help to recall Alexcnder’s early his-
tory. Even a bridge abutment fpm
one of the earlier rail lines remains
embedded in old Greens Creek.
Some 87 years ago W. C. Keith sold
176 acres of Erath county to the Tex-
as Central Railroad Company.
Through this land was to be built
Erath County s first railroad and in
the midst of it all a city was to rise.
Tents Served at First
The town was begun and christen-
ed Alexander in honor of one of the
railroad officials. T. H. Kosse, a
civil engineer for the Texas Central,
drew up plans and laid out the town.
Once the rails wve down in 1881,
ROWDY PAST — Daily Empire writer Mike Leese
visited Alexander last week and today recalls the
past of one of Erath’s most colorful communities
in both story and pictures on next page.
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with her mother Mrs. Edith
Cochran.
Mrs. Francis Swain, who has
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By MRS. W. F. WILLIS
Mr. and Mrs. Vtnt Anderson
have returned home after a
trip to New Mexico where they
visited Carlsbad Caverns," Red
Mountain and March Pass in
Colorado and came b a ck
through Oklahoma. —,
Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Moore
and Kelley of Stephenville, Mrs.
Bessie Kelley and V. A. Under-
wood of Tolar spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Ho m e r
George of Fort Worth. Mr s.
Spence Nix of California was
also visiting . her sister, Mrs.
George. Delton Kelley of -San
Antonio visited Mrs. Bessie Kel-
ley last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fehl and
Mrs. Joe Spender attended the
Rodeo in Stephenville last Sat-
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Gregory
and twin daughters of Fort
Worth visited Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Garner this week.
Mrs. Betty Carraway attend-
ed the wedding of Miss Shelley
Coke and Frank Dorn in A-
lington Satuday afternoon^
Mrs. Fern Crow has been
home for a few days.
Vergil Cobb Brothers of Mrs.
W. F. Willis and his daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ward and
son of Athens visited Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Willis and Mrs.
Minnie Gentry last Sunday.
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Jada Davis, former city edi-
tor of the Daily Empire' and
Empire Tribune, and family
visited here Monday, The Da-
vis ’ were enroute home to St
Louis where he is director of
community relations for five-
states for Ute Bell Telephone
Co.
Davis was efty editor for tbs
Empire in 1949 50 apd has beep
with the BeB System store MM6
The De Leon native attended
Tarleton in 1*37 39 and after a
tour of military duty during
World War II got his journalism
degree at the University of Tex-
as.
As •
of caped, masked men came by and
warned the Negroes to be out of Alex-
ander by the next night All were ex-
cept for one. As for that one, he was
filled with bird shot and fled to Ste-
phenville. Since that day in 1882,
there have been no Negroes in Alex-
ander. rswwwq
By 1889 Alexander's growth was al-
ready beginning to be checked. The jSH
railroad had been extended to-Steph- 4
envllle and thus trade began to move
from Alexander to the latter location.
The census of 1900 reported a popu-
lation of 381, the Same as 1860.
In 1886 Alexander opened her first
school with 56 students and two teach-
ers. The first school was burned, as
was the second when it was two-
thirds finished. Constant watch was
placed around the third school as it
was being built. As it began to
smoke one night, the watchman
caught a man who was soon sent to
the penitentiary. It seemed that be
was mad because hia child had been
thrashed.
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Visiting in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Sewell last
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Yocham and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Densomore and
family and M-Sgt. and Mrs.
Weldon McDonald and family.
MSgt. McDonald had just ar
rived home after a tour of duty
in Saudi Arabia and has been
re assigned to Sheppard Air
Foree Base in Wichita Falls.
various
weapons,
and machine-guns
grenades.
Tarleton President Dr. W.O.
Trogdon and Mrs. Trogdon and
Mr. and Mrs. M i 11 o n Staig I
NEW AIDE — Don Bar-
ry, a 1961 Howard Pay-
ne graduate, has joined 1
the Stephenville High
coaching staff as track
mentor and football as-
sistant. Barry has been
at Forney tince 1964.
Barry and his wife Eu-
genia have one child,
Jana, 3, and are making
their home at 106 Blak-
ney.
Dickerson of Stephenville; Eric
Johnagin of Dublin; Jimmy!
Robinson of Stephenville; David [
Kincannon, Morgan Mill and
Alan Waters, Stephenville.
The camp officially ended
July 25.
Woman on Duty
At Tuy Hoa AB
WITH US. COMBAT AIR
FORCES, Vietnam — Master
.Sereant Don B. Tramel, whose
wife, Billie, is the daighter of
O H Campbell of Tolar, is on
dutv at Tuy Hoa AB, Vietnam.
FT. OBDOM, Ga. - Pvt-
Thomas L. Afftutrbng. 19. son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Arm-
strong, Route 2, Dublin, com-
pleted a nine - week communi-
cations center specialist course
at the Army Southeastern Sig-
nal School. FL Gordon, Ge.,
Job M.
He was trained to operate
teletype sets and other com-
munications equipment.
Sgt. Britton and other mem-
bers of the 1st Air Cavalry Div-
ision have evacuated more than
19,000 refugees from coastal
areas to numerous refugee cen-
ters in secured areas and have
also inflicted heavy damage on
the Viet Cong.
During the search and clear
operation Sgt. Britton has been
engaged in dragging the VC
from their vast network of tun-
nels and bunkers. They have
been driven underground by
constant U.S. artillery and air
strikes. .
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★ First Railroad Created Booming Burg ★
WhttefleM Guest*
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Copper
of Palm Date, Calif., her niece
Mary Lee Horn of Cisco, and
his brother, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Cooper of Ctaeo; Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Moxley, Mrs. K a t ie
Carr, Rev. L. W- Olliff Metho-
dist Pastor, Mr. and Mrs. Char
lie B. Troup, Edna Wagher,
M. A. Jenkins. MT and Mrs.
W. O. Holly and Cindy Land-
ford all of Stephenville; Mrs.
Whitefield's tyeces, Louise
of Lubbock, Ruth and
Wanda of Wichita Falls; Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Jones and daugh-
ters of Killeen, Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy Shulk of Fort Wo r t h;
and their daughter and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Smith and
girls of Rome, New York, vis-,
ited in the Oscar Whitefield
home recently. Oscar is report-
ed to be improved and it has
also been reported that Mr.
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Davis Ave., Stephenville,
trains at the bayonet
course while attending
Army Reserve Officers’
Training Corps summer
He is a student at Tarle-
FORMER RESIDENT —
Petty Officer David Gary
Watson, formerly of Ste-
phenville, has recently
com pleted Corpsman
School in San Diego,
Calif., and will attend a
six-weeks training course
at .Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Watson is also scheduled
for addlfiorial training at
Balboa Hospital in San
Diego. He is the son of
Mrs. Bill Wende, of Cis-
co, and the late Cecil 01-
en Watson, and is the
grandson of Mrs. D. 0.
Davis of Stephenville. Pr-
or to entering the ser-
vice, Watson was a stu-
dent in the College of
Pharmacy at the*Univer-
sity of Texas. He attend-
ed Stephenville schools
Until 1955 and enlisted
in the Navy in 1966.
The first accident occurred
cbout 8:20 a m. when a 1962
Pontiac station wagon driven by
Gerald Williams, 1391 Raes
Street, apparently went out of |
control and overturned Damage 1
| to the car was estimated at |
$800. Williams was not injured. I geant in Company D, 2nd Bat-
The second one-car accident 1 talion oF-the division’s 12th Cav-
occurred about 4:30 p.m. when 1 airy.
a 1962 Chrysler went out of con- His wife, Betty, lives at 1006
trol, crossed the highway and j Tannehill St., Brownwood.
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'., of Colorado , Lola Mae Daniel Due
uritVt
and internal injuries, and his ' In State from Taiwan
tx>la Mae Daniel, Southern
Baptist missionrry associate to
Taiwan, is to arrive in the Unit-
ed States on Sept. 5 for fur-
lough.
Miss Daniel has taught in the
Morrison Academy for mission-
ary children. Taichung, Tai-
wan, since 1962. She taught in
Texas for 35 years before going
overseas.
Born near Stephenville, she
lived in Texas and Oklahoma
during childhood.
Marlin Laroy Quarles II
Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Leroy
Quarles of Arlington anounce
the birth of a son, Marlin Le-
roy, bom July 29, in the Harris
Hospital and weighed six
pounds and 15 and one half oun-
ces. Maternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. R. K Lucas of
Lingleville and paternal grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Tex-
all Quarles of Morgan Mill. The
new baby is welcomed by a sis-
ter, Marlene, 3.
Sergeant Tramel, an aircraft !
propeller technician, is a mem- '
' ber of the Aerospace Rescue
and Recovery Services in sup Col. Blakney Visits
port of the Pacific Air Forces
which provides offensive - de-
fensive airpower for the U.S. |
and its allies in the Pacific, 1
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Twenty-four students from sioned as second lieutenants in
Tarleton State College had an | the U.S. Army.
during the past six j During the training,
practice what they i student) and there were
had spent six weeks to prac j dents from 50 other colleges as
tice what they had spent three ' well as Tarleton) held several
years preparing for in ROTC. > command positions to
The group was the junior I practical experience in mjlita-
ROTC class which was under- I ry leadership.
going-their summer train ing*: The cadets etch tried their
camp at Fort Sill. Okla Most hand* with various types of
of them will graduate within I modem weapons, from rifles
hand
east Asia, he was assigned to
McGuire AFB, N. J
The sergeant is a 1949 gradu j ROTC proram at Louisana Sta-
ate of Sunset High School, Dal j te University.
las I
Blakney is the son of the late
i Conner Blakney and grandson
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Char-
les O. Blakney who operated
j Blakney Dry Goods Store in the
I city for many years.
Bob Herrin presented a series | Enroute to Baton Rouge he
of color slides, made on a recent will visit at Randolph Field
trip to Hawaii, at the weekly i with hia brother and family,
luncheon of the Lions Club in , Lt. Colonel Mack Blakney.
the Tarleton dining hall Friday.
Herrin narrated the presenta- !
tion which included slides of the 1
island and Pearl Harbor.
Guests at the meeting were ,
Charles Maguire, guest of his
father, C. H Maguire; Cerald
Wilson, guest or C f aBose;l
Chartes Farrar, guest of Jack
Farrar, and Linda Hassler,
guest of tho elu*.
Zeddie Edgar, slub secretary,
presented a gin of appreciation
to Mrs Roxie Creta who will
retire as director of the TSC
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YOU CAN’T PREDICT when an emergency will
arise. Pay it safe — build a savings account at Ste-
phenville Savings & Loan Association to cushion
medical or dental bills . . . auto or home repairs.
Enjoy that comfortable feeling of Expanding savings
at Stephenville Savings ft Loan Association.
Mr. SAVEMORE Says
I ITS ALWAYS The FRESH
I EGG THAT G6TS SLAPPED
b IN THE FAHl
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A taw ! facilities of Fort Sfll and |
1 seeing the methods used by the 1
' Army in training its future of j
| fleers. Mrs. Staig is assistant
I professor of social science at
TSC.
I Five Erath County students
| were among the cadets: David
mpnthly luncheon Tuesday, call- ■
ing on Congressional represen-
tatives to oppose proposed legis-
lation that would permit Social
Security payments from the na
tion's general fund.
The action followed a similar
stand taken by the National
Chamber of Commerce urging
that any changes in the Social
Security program be actuarilly,
sound and within the financial
structure of the system.
The board also heard a report
from Agriculture Committee
chairman Marion Porter on as-
sisting representatives from Ft. ,
Wolters in securing temporary j
landing sites. in the county for
helicopter training The board
approved a motion authorizing
the committee to cooperate with
Army representatives by pro-
viding names of land owners in ;
the area and planning meetings
between the owners and Army
officials.
Porter reported also that the
committee had assisted with the
recent Junior Rodeo which at
tracted a record breaking 115
contestants
Chamber manager David
Montgomery reported that 60
spaces have been sold for the
Arts and Crafts sale in Novem-
ber and sale officials will prob-
ably expand facilities for the
sale Montgomery stated also
that the standardized signs for
cities in the West Texas area
had l>een ordered and would be
installed on the main highways
entering Stephenvilte
•y MRS. U H. ALLIN
Recent visitors in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Cole-
man, were her brother and
wife. Mrs and Mrs Mark Me
Guire of Lubbock.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kerr and
two daughters, Rhonda and '
Donna of Amarillo visited with
his mother, Mrs. Eva Karr
during last week
Linda Elliott of Dallas is visi-
ting with her grandmother Mrs.
Donna Elliott.
Mrs. and Mrs. Stanley Wein- |
berg and son of Fort Worth ]
spent the weeken dwith her par-
; ents Mr. and Mrs. D,
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Mineral
ROTC CAMP — Cadet
.David D. Diekerson, 20, ; _________________,______
son of Mr. and Mrs. Er- 1 •• • in fort W(>r ‘
. o rx . OOzs th Hospital, was able to re-
nest E. Dickerson, 230 turn home Sunday.
Dave Goforth of Strawn and |
Mrs. Ella Greenwood of Bluff I j
Dale visited with Mr. and Mrs. I
! L. H. Allen and Mrs. Nettie 1
| Neely Sunday afternoon.
Mr and Mrs. Davis Maddox I
ca * z-. j a r^- 1 and 500 o{ f ort Worth visited
ton State. Cadet Dicker- : witH her parents during the i
graduated in 1964 1 weekend, Mr. and Mrs. Virgie I
camp at Ft Sill, Okla.. ! Girforth 1
Our planned dividend rate is as follows:
E1ZO/ per anhum Certificate of Savings for
J/4/O6 or 12 months in denomination of
115,000.00 only. -----
EO/ per annum Certificate of Savings for 6 or
U/O 12 months in denominations of >5,000.00 ’
and >10,000.00 only.
A1ZO/ per annum Regular Account Book
ZO Savings, tompoundtd semLannually.
Drive-In Window and Save by Mail facilities availabk v
for your convenience.
> and Mrs. J. E. Thompk i n s.
Woodward Reed went to the j
doctor in Fort Worth Monday. |
He is having heart trouble.
The Methodist Mens Club
sponsored the annual fish fry
Saturday night on the Penning-
er Ranch with approximately
35 people attending.
The Bluff Dale Me t h od ist
Church is having Bible School
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Carra-
way of Rock Church visited In
the W. C. Ray home Sunday.
j
4;,. j
a 1962 Chrysler went out of con-
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