Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 113, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 7, 1961 Page: 1 of 6
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Say Yes To The
New March
Of Dimes
Smftftu'ttigp Antrriratt
WEATHER
WAJMI2U TOMORROW
VOL II
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"NORTH CKVIRAL 1KXAS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER'
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BRECKENRIDGE AMERICAN-TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1961
PRICE DAILY S CENTS SUNDAY 10 CENTS
SERVICE COMMITTEE AT WORK—The Servicc Committee cf the American Cancer Society, Stepnens
County Unit, headed by M's. Mjry Fincher, is shown here at work in a new supply room donated to
this committee by the city and
available to ah canccr patient!
Mrj. f inchcr •)'. HI 3-321!,
Jf. if Jf
Drive Planned
By Cancer Unit
Opening Feb. 18
The sti (ihctis County Unit of
Iiais Division, American Cancer
Sor ir I s met tor tiicaklast ami
scheduled monthly meeting ;il the
Iturch Hotel Thursday morning
February 2,
Plans weie formulated lor the
forthcoming Crusade drive. This
drive will begin April 18
Jack Cox, a member of the
State l:\eeulne Bcai«i. Texas Di-
vision American Cancer Society
was pre.sent and gave a rrview ol
the Annual Statu Meeting held at
Dallas
( ti\ stressed iiie impoi lance ol
the Service Committee and the
county imi .
The Service Committee, headed
I■> Mis. .Mary Kincher. reported
on their artivitic#. Members of
tins committee are Mrs I Job
Smith. Mr*. C. C. l-ockhart. Mrs.
C. U Wulfjen Jr. Mis. Cecil
llrov> n Mr* Jimmy Cos. Mrs.
tiinei I'alnui, Mis. AC Andrews.
Mis I it K ibiiiM.n, Mis Hoi ace
HoHiic; and Mis Sam Fainbni
the Service Committee is con
i.mtly putting together sick room
supplies which are available to
cancel paticnHol Stephens County
llesidenfs Vroin all walks ol life
are using these facilities and all
citizens of Stephen# Count) aie
iir-jed to communicate with mem-
bers of Uic Service Committee it
■on have old clean white sheets
.Hid shirts that may be used by
(Continued on Page 5i
Seen or Heard
by C. M. H.
located in the City Hall, Here sickroom supplies are stored and are
in this a<-ea. Those m the area in need of such supplies may call
C Of C Directors Adopt
Budget And Hear Reports i National Traffic
9 r 1 Deaths Hit 38.200
County Resident
Over 70 Years
| Dies Suddenly
Thomas Washington Peeks. ?'(,
longtime Stephens County farmer
and rancher, died at 9.25 a. in.
Monday at his home at 1015 W.
F.lliotl St. as he was preparing to
go to the hospital ior treatment,
lie suffered a heart attack.
Mr. Peeks was born Dec t
1881, in Fannin County and came
j to Hieckenridse when he was two
vcar.s old with his parents. He mar-
: ried Ah ail I lou pe in Stephens
County in 1908. She died in 192fi.
He married the former Callie Sor-
■gee Cowart in Breckciu idge in
I 1928
| Mr. Peeks lived here most of
| his life except for a period be-
tween 1920 and 1024 when he resid-
ed at Cisco.
Funeral will he held at 2:30 p.
m. Wednesday in tlie Satterwhite
■Mineral Home Chapel with the Rev.
Wil'iam A. Cockerel I. pastor of
Caddo Methodist Church oUiciat-
ing. Burial will be in Breckenridge
Cemetery.
Surviving are his wife: three ;
sons. Don of Breckcnridge Hay
• ii WeaMim'ford and Woody of
Odessa: three grandchildren and
throe great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Raymond
Stewart, Tom Moore. Edgar
Green, John Watson. Aston Dur-1
kee. Wayne Bobbins and Jack
Tread way.
Mi tubers of the hoard of diiec- of meeting working out a budget
tors ot the Chamber o| Commerce tor tile year 1901.
in their monthly meeting Monday' The 1901 budget as adopted was
noon heard a lew committee re- for $11,651,54, about the same as
pons but spent most ol the time the $11,000.90 adopted lor last
J ear.
Three Bills Are
Sent Committee
By Texas House
In the committee reports Albert
lleck called attention to the move-
ment by his committee to get trees
planted here adding that Feb. , • . - , . ,,
17-18 has been set aside ior the c.^,'..ilmost 6 and °"c hdlf b,11,on
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The National Safety Council re-
ports that traffic deaths in 1900
rose to 38.200. the greatest number
since 19.")" The council also esti- i
mated that traffic accidents dur- j
ing the year disabled 1,400,000
Americans beyond the day of the
accident and that auto accidents
WARM SUNSHINE TO END
3 DAYS STORMY WEATHER
Five Inches Of
Snow Measured
En Breckenridge
I'.iiJil sunshine that appeared
lieic Iiv midinorning today slarl-
ed melting the snow of the pa t
three days that biuiigbl 1.09 inc'i-
es of moisture to Brcckenridpe,
and snow that measured live in-
che.s. he "lall brought lite moisture
lor January - February to a total
oi 0.31 inches, 1.09 in Fcbruaiy.
Over Texas the snowstorm had
tapered oil. but it has left at least
tinec dead, many schools closed
and highways so treacherous that
driving still remained dangerous
in some places.
The respite follows heavy over-
night snows in some places, es-
pecially along the Bed River in
me vvicliila r'alls - Gainesville -
Sherman - Dentsoti area and the
Big Spring and San Angelo areas
oi West Texas.
The Weather Bureau predicts
that all portions of the state will
continue to moderate tomorrow.
But more bad weather may oc-
honor Friday night as fifty-one Bey Scouts from six Breckenr ,-jge Troops received awards and merit f cur during thc weekend.
badges. This special Court of Honor was held in order to reserve the time at the Bluo and Gold banquet
for Life, Star and Eagle Awards and the Cub Scout Awards. Bernard Clegg is conducting the presen-
tation as members of the Scouting Official committee and Scoutmasters look on.
* *
AT COURT OF HONOR —Scenes such as this were repeated many times at the Boy Scout Court of
dollars.
Service Man Of Q0„rt Of Honor
Caddo Seen on TV I. , A .
Awards Scouts
Spc. 4 c Rodney Viek, who is;
stoic.
Itev. Jerry Walker, chairman oi
the military afiairs committee, told
\lsl ,\ ,r -The House State of steps being taken here to bring
\ffatrs Committee last night con- the N'ationaT Guard enrollment up
to the required number ot 51. Mem-
sale of several varieties ot trees.
There will be offered at former lo- . , ... ... ,. .
cation of the Bender department reported that the nation s mo- in a filmed interview on kilBC-IA
r torists set a recoici low rate
deaths for every 100 million miles
bers oi thc committee will go to soaired1(J° a pcak of 713 bilUon mU'
cs til 1900.
On the* credit side, the council j j(l Werthcim, Germany w as shown j
sported that the nation s mo- j„ a filmed interview on KRBC-T"
torists set a record low rate of 5.3 in Abilene last night on their 0
p. m. news.
rf, motor vehicle travel last year. , interviewed bv his sup-
Travel increased 2 percent, while work at his
fatalities rose only half as much. ~ . rnt.manv
The council says highway travel A""-v P°st ,n Germany.
Viek is the son oY Mr. and Mrs.
John Viek Route 1. Caddo.
Friday Night
Kennedy's Plan
Draws Fire On
Foreign Aid
Anti-Yankee Feeling Needs Halting
sidercd a resolution that Mould put
the legislature on record opposing
any changes in the so-called State I lie schools to talk to Ihe senior
Might to Work l.aws. The commit-j boys about the advantages to those
tec, h'Jwever. sidestepped any nil- who arc about to become of mili-
incdiatc action and turned the hill tary age joining the guard. He
by Rep. Will Knrlc of Childress also reported that and open mcct-
over to .1 subcommittee tin further ing will lie held on February 20
stiJ'lv. ( in the court house and that a let-
The resolution asks Congress not ler will be sent to the parents ad-
iij in.ike any mange* in the Talt vising ol thc meeting and requcst-
ll.ii ll< \ \ct, parliiiclarly a pro- ing their attendance as well as the
Msion allowing states to have boys for further explanation. The
their own laws governing union se- meeting will be al 7:30 o'clock Kditors Note — This is the third
curity lor linns in interstate com- that evening. Following this meet- and last article written by Jack
mcree. jn[J fln 0pen house is planned at Cox of Breckenridge for the As-
The important State Affairs Com- the armory.
mil tee oi the llou.se also sent to Report was made by Robert
subcommittee three other mcas- House) that the annual Chamber of
u" i Commerce banquet was a succcss tlieir business lalior and profes-
tinc wou'.l set tip a 12-man econ- and past president Arthur Miller sional organizations, and through Spanish, l.atin feclin
ooiv in government commissions thanked C. W. Wtilljen Jr., and their
simil.tr to the Hoover Commission Arthur Knight co-chairmen and
TEXAHS CAN HELP IMPROVE
LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS
sociated Press on l.atin America.
Tcxans — individually, through
State Government
3 re at re&ponsibiltics and
The snow, wnich began Saturday,
left more than a foot in portions ol
Hie upper Panhandle and penetrat-
ed as "iar south as Eagle I'ass,
Uvalde, Hondo, Castroville and
Presidio.
Heavy rains south and east of
the snow belt caused biief tlood
ol roads in some places.
Latest victim of the storm was
the wife of a Perrin Air Force
Base airman. She was 22-year-old
Mrs. Mildred F. Anthony. She was
killed when her car and an oil
truck collided on slippery pave-
ment near Van Alstyne this morn-
WASHINGTON UP — Kennedy's "ig. Her husband is airman Ro-
' A city-wide Court of Honor was 1 program to halt the drain on U. bert L. Anthony.
| held Frday, Fcbruaiy 3, in thc j s. gold is winning favorable reac- j Many schools remained closed
District Court Boom of thc Stc- tion in Congress But his proposals today because of the difficulty and
i phens County court house lor the hav0 brought powerful Democratic danger of getting children to the
I purpose of awarding ranks of Ten- j complaints over foreign aid spend- classrooms.
derfoot, Second Class and First jnii Chairman Harry Byrd </t the San Angelo schools, closed yes-
; Class as well as merit badges ear- Senate finance eommmittee called terday reopened this morning, but
; ned by the boys. This Court of [0r U|,at he described as "a much tural schools in the fc/ca are clos-
i Honor will replace the awards j more positive and constructive cf- ed.
I previously made at the annual fort" to reduce foreign economic Other schools closed includ Bur!;-
Blue and Gold banquet wncre ranks ;,i(| And the chairman of thc Se- burnett and Valley View in the Wi-
of Star. I.ue and Eagle will be . nate banking committee. Senator chita Falls area and in the Slier-
made: f Willis Robertson, says he believes man and Denison area.
Those receiving awards from J foreign aid can he cut by-one bil- Schools also are elosed in the
Troop 17 included Warren Hart and j|on dollars without hamstringing Big Spring vicinity .at Justin, Par-
lrv — and state — dismiss as jjiuee Curry. Second Class. Merit (|,P program adise and Newark in North Tar-
■ "little things.'" badges presented to this troop in-1 Byrd said Germanv. Japan Bri- tant county and Cedar Hill and
These are specifies I would list: eluded Marshall Alexander, Citi-; tajn' France and other industrials Duncanvillc in Dallas County.
1 Language: the greatest single I zenship In Community and Camp- zed nations are now enjoying pros- closed its schools.
iritant and handicap in Anglo-Ame- ing: Ralph Me Kinney, cooking; j perlty as the result of aid the U. Some of the 24-hour snowfalls to
riean relations is the Anglo's habi- nay Berry, Safety,. Citizenship in j s. has given them in the past Ami 7 a m. today included Wichita
tual refusal to attempt lo leain ; Community and Camping. | he added: "If foreign assistance is
about this Post 17 awards went to Lester sjj|j necessary the time is over-
World
their committee workers for a job (unities to meet in hclpin
assist,)!!' i aid programs. 'I ne max- other special appearances.
imuin old age pension payment
would be im re i e I Irom 5>(>H p -r
fourth of the 'o alMjut SVO, provided tiic
to pay the cost
Kvrry one nuesttoned the past
d.<y or so t!>mtted we have enough
meistore that is something! , .
The fall ot over 6 inches since
January Inst is one
average annual rainfall here . . ■
The soft '|round ha*, caused some
t'OutjIe m f'edm^ cattle—Mit Crow
ley said that Monday morninq he
s-nt out two trucks with a chain,
so that i! cne <jot stuck the other
coold pull it out,
After losing to Monday in Ihe
I here will In a meeting ol World district finals last year, the Hooker
XV .11 I sets Wcdnencbiy evening at T uirls came hack Saturday in
la'gi' n Hall at 7 lo ( lose the char-j Brady in the district tournament
ti i nieniticrship drive The and defeated Mundas 32 to 31 to
meeting o' the ( WF slated for the win Ihe district championship. The
I'ii *■! ( hristian Church tonight lias .season game n cord lor the girls
been post|Mine.l, Mrs. Berime is nine wins without a loss The
on tin national level.
\ i i ond would add Memorial well done.
Day Mas 30, to the holidays that A letter of thanks from Sis Clark Latin - America
lexas banks mas observe li adop- was tead expressing appreciation True
led the hanks would be allowed to for Ihe plaque presented her there, sprc
ol'serve seven hebdays. The board voted $75 to assist the feclin
Ihe third bill would raise state Boys Choir in meeting expenses tion
allocations for o.lage and blind of their trip lo New Orleans and Vrom my most
have has risen sharply sincc the lJM'fs : Kupcrman, World Brolherhood: ' c|„c u(,en these nations, in their ville up to •> iiiche
oppor- when 1 first lived among our La- Charles Gerhardt, Pioneering; Ben posperily should assume their Alpine
to im- tin neighbors. Tourists' ignorance Frank McMahan, World Brother- share of the responsibility." Worth
Falls up to 0 inches; Denison ae I
Sherman up to 5 inches. Gaines-
Dalhart and
one inch; Dallas. Foil
Abilene and San Angelo .'1
Regret was cxpics.scd to Robert Central and South America con-
Dickson that he is to leave Breek- vince<l thai the practice of con-
enridge, and he was presented eer- structive goorl neighborliness must
prove United States relations with is pardoned, but thc language Ig- hood. 1 Republicans generally are taking inches,
noranec of businessmen educators Troop 20 awarded Second Class , n,,. line that Kennedy is not ptopov Buses into Dallas from the nort'i
'• >- ' ««•- - ■ ... and west were two bouts bchml
schedule.
At Brand Prairie, between Dal-
and Fori Worth, a broken po-
ccent look - anci ■ ate Latin identifies his country j Henderson and Mike I.evcridgc. The President's program drew wer line knocke'l out service to
listen 20,000-mile visit to Mexico, "underdeveloped'' — but nol , Tenderb«)l ranks went 10 Gary Liv- favorable comments in Britain lo- about 100 families from midnight
in - America noranec ol businessmen euucaiois troop 20 awarded Second t lass * t(,e line that Kennedy is not pio|ms- B
rue. the big job of halting the and official representatives of the i(u„k to Gary Fambro, Bruce Me-1 jn(, anything particularly new in and
■ading cancer of "anti-Yankee" United States is resented as a show . Corkle. Lcc Dodson, Robert Baird, |jj^ program but merely expand- sclu
ing falls to Ihe new Administra- of colonial attitudes. I Steve Carter, Thomas Smith, Jay |nc ideas initiated by "iormer Pre- A
in Washington But I returned ?. Anglo "superiority": the liter- phillips, Jerry Toland, Charles sif|,.nt Eisenhower. l is
Legislating appropriates $1,800,000 ti'iicatc as an honorary citizen and begin at the north bank of the Rio
"backward." in Ihe African or illusion
Asian sense. Figuratively, such Swan.
Latins — the leaders on whom we it
(Continuco on r-age 5)
I-estcr Swan and James
Colored Girls
Win Cage Title
lifetime resident of Breckenridge. Grande. j
In part the certificate scls foilh( As I mentioned in earlier artic-
llita because he trod the "acred | • s, Texas is known, and known in
soil of Stephens county, drunk the generally favorable terms through,
magic waters of Gonzlous Creek, out Latin America, not just in
lie has the privilege hereafter of Mexico. Many top Latin business-
claiming Breckcnridge as "My men were educated in Texas. Many
Home Town." , US foreign service careerists in
The meeting was presided over Latin-America are native Tcxans.
by W. W. Rogers, president.
Wage Program To
Go To Congress
Badgest went lo Dick
Carey, Citizenship In Home, Firc-
manship. Nature, Personal Fit-
ness; Jimmy Glover, Physical Fit-
ness, Fircmanship and Painfing;
Bay Wilkersuii, Cooking, Fireman- overseas aid
ship. Public Speaking. Fishing and
Pei sonal Fitness, Charles llender-
Fishitlg; Lee Dodson, Swim-
day although il probably ssill cut lo early morning.
down to some extent Britain's vital Fiosl penetrated into the Lower
dollar earnings. But British eeono- llio Grande Valley but. a bl ight,
mic experts were giatilied the sun drove ihe col l away and little
President had ruled out easy short- or no damage to vegetables ij re-
term remedies such as higher tar-, ported.
ill's, devaluation and cutbacks in
Trammel! called to say ,
Breckeniidge Amci K an tomorrow the past three seasons is 27 wins
v ill start going to Mr ar l Mrs and 3 losses.
Tcxans, from corporate heads to .. . .
roughnecks, have figured promin- ' ■ s
ently in developing Ihe Latin eouti-
Less Cost—A tetter Deal-When I " resources This special
familiarity has hunt a special
\\ASFnN(;T()Nr orv
TTie basketball record for the girls ior *0U "nanc* y°ur Automobil# . foundation of good-feeling and un
Mac Smith at 1 !H>2
\pt H. Sal! Angelo
Jade Drive,
The record for the Imivs is seven
wins and seven losses.
BLAKE JOHNSON
INSURANCE AGENCY
Phon« HI M477
«AMIMVWUWAMWUIAIVMUUUUI
Work has re started to try to
•■each the goal for the United Fund
. There are a number of cards
out for oeonlp who have not given
who are asked to send in their
contribution, and some who have
cut are asked to ser.t in what
they gave last year—this is im
McMurry With Ex-Buekaroos Will
Play Texas Lutheran Here In Fall
derstanding
There is another side to Ihe coin,
however. Texas is more in Latin-
America's spotlight than any other
single state. While "good things"
about Texas may be exaggerated,
so are "bad things" given more
attention than we in Texas may
realize. This is important, to Ihe
President
minimum wage pro-
gram goes lo Congress tc.lay, lie's
expected lo recommend a two-j
step increase -from $1.00 an hour
to $1.15 and then to $1.25.
The program is expected to fol-
low that which he backed last ,
year as a senator. The two-stage
Congratulations
Mr. and Mrs. J. C, DeWill, 810
son
tiling.
Troop 02 members receiving
wards were Raymond Lane, Robert ; West 11h Street, are the parents ot
Lane and Michael DuBose. a baby boy born at fi: IB p.m. Sun-
Troop 63 gave First Class badges ; day. February 5, in Stephens Me-
lo Michael Gallagher Freddy moriai Hospital.
1'aytie, Rusty Str 'ig, Peyton Hud- j At birth, the baby weighed 8
low and Ronnie Thornton. J pounds, 4 ounces.
Merit badges went to Richard ;
Rohiiiiger, Safety; Waller Black,
al 7 p.m.
I Waterf lood Ass'n
Meets Wednesday
The February meeting of 0 "
West Central 'Texas Waterflof-I
Association ssill be held Wrdne •
day, al the PertoleUln Club in
Abilene.
The fellowship period, sponsored
by Abilene Reproduction w ill begin
at 6:30 p.in. followed by dinner
increase
year
million more people would be cov-
ered, including many retail aivl
service employes.
The administration measures are
expected to lie introduced in bot'n
reading; Sieve ilanna. Reading and
When you finance vour c r at the '|H> speaker will be II. I-. Shtib/.
ise would be over a two- pcrsolla'i 'Kitness; Itonny Thornton, ! National Bank you may place I .'l1"'1' t oin pany, lla rtles-
period. In addition, about 1 s Bernard Clegg." Jr., Fish- four injuranc# with th# agent of ul11',- "klalmma. Ills subject will
n mnrn nennlp would he cov- zl .qu^ choict. Adv. he Installation and Operations of
Siibmergible Pumps."
that a
. . „ . - | . The Breckenridge Optimist Club, dress, and he remarked
poitanr the Red ^ro-.s a ready is Breckenridge', youngest civic or- sehcduh.l football game in Buck-
cut cf funds • . No fire run, no y,lni/ation announced today they aroo Stadium with his MeMurrv
,,rrcs . „ 1 T w"' sponsor a college football game Indians would he a natural since
son of Mrs. Mary Wood has been jn |j!Ukaro. Stadium this fall. Me- his club had so many ex-Bucks.
nominated a candidate for thc Na-. Muits Ccllege of Abilene and Tex- Upon further investigation by thc,
val Acadcn y. Lutheran ol Seguin will be the officers of thc Breckenridge Op- j Steplicns Memorial Hospital re-
,, . ~~r ... . contestants in the season opener timist Club, it svas found Tne ported six admissions and seven
Mar', hi Naylor heid a meeting for both clubs in a night game Buckaroos would play their first
ol Highway 180 Association this sclx.luled lor September 9. three games away from home this
IhSltuI be h -hi here in ihe VSpr S ' > AthUle Director P. K ! ffa"- \\ quite possible Buck
Ga m l Holt has been o- Shotwell. an ex-Buck who hecome "football hung-
„„ V!!.:.. .J gave Breckenridge its first taste ,,f r> ^hefore Ihev would see a game
ing and Personal Fitness.
Troop 00 members receiving Se-
cond Class Awaids were Don Mc-
Nallcn, Gary Andrews, Stanley
Western Hemisphere because the Jhe'Vcnale'and liousei'u'ith a'ccom-. Hiuldoek and Don Blue,
deterioration cf, U S. . Latin rcla- panying letters from Kennedy and ,lMr^ ^l:'ss £W8"ls "cnt to
Hons Is principally the result of secretary Goldberg. Chair- wis T r'anrv
inattention to what wc in this coun- ma„ A(|nm Clayton Powell ol the \\arj}A
- House labor committee has said
Ciw Arp hearings on the propose*! Icgisla-
" " lion by his group will start next
To Local Hospital vc k
past week-
tirued from the veterans hospital « ve Hreekenridge its tirst taste of • Buckaroo li^ium It waf fTu Meniere
n McKinnev Sloan Thompson championship football in 1929. , ,L t J
n , . ; rele ised th,. \tr\tnnv u.h„i.,i„ that ,he McMurry-Texas Lutheran nutted.
,laced third in Ihe caif roping at ' ! McMurry schedule , h . . .
dismissals during the
end.
Linda Tale. Mrs. J. C. DeWitl.
Rtit'h /Durham, Mrs. B. R. Coap-
lanri. Mrs Clyde Waicl and Mrs. ;
Monteree Hurst were patients ad-
Ft. Worth Sun lay night, and Pete ,ni" "tornitig.
Reid of Breckenridge also roped. Negotiations for this game actu-l The five ex-Bucks expected to
. . . And. the ton or two of scraps ally began last December 22 when play for MeMurrv this season are
offered by Jolly Togs have all been McMurry Head Coach Grant Teaff Ronnie Martin, slated to be a start-
claimed. was the speaker at the Bret-ken- ing guard. Billy West, who has
^ ndge Optimist Club's first Special the Inside track as a starting de-,
Thought For The Moment: Thert Guest Day program. Since Teaff! fenslve half-back. Joe Crousen. a
it a tide in the •''air* of womtn is a vice president of Abilene's | transfer from An Angelo Jumor|
game might help bridge this three | Dismissals included Mrs. S. A.
weeks gap in Buckaroo Land. Davis. Billly Bacon. Jr., Mrs. Joe
Daniels and baby. Ruth Durham.
Mrs. Aubra Fulbrjght. Mrs. Ollie
Alexander, and Mrs. J. C. DeWitt
and baby.
God knows where,—Byron,
WW^iWWiM^VWWWWVS
#h«n you finance your car at the
*lr«t National Bank II* financed
which, taken at the f'o-.', leads— Optimist Club, he met with the College, Bobby Goawick. quarter-, ... . .
local Optimists following his «d-[hack, and Edwe Hyatt, a UpemtaJ 1
BILL BLACK
INSURANCE
104 N. Court rhone HI *4434
PRESENTS
THE WEATHER
Partly clocriy toniqht and Wed-
nesday. Warmer Wednesday
afternoon. Low tonight 22 to 30,
high tomorrow 38 to 48. Low
last night 25, high yesterday 31.
Wind northwesterly IS to 20
miles f«r hour to diminish to-
night and Wednesday.
Merit Badges were given lo Ray
Meadows Citizenship In The Home,
Farm Mechanics. Machinery, Bas-
ket ry ; Billy Fox. Citizenship in the
Home, Home Repairs, Basketry
and Dog Care: James Orr. Fir.st
Air and Finger Painting; Jerry
Brown, Archery, Fircmanship,
Cooking and Camping; Robert
Weils, Pioneering.
— o —
Policeman Loses
Wallet In Jail
ST PETERSBURG, Fla.. UP -
Policemen now keep their hands
on Iheir wallets whenever they en-
ter Ihe city jail. The precautionary
practice began after Patrolman
Jack Von Dyke reported his pockct
was picked while he was booking
two prisoners at the jail, '
Fourth Annual Science Fair To
Be Staged In Armory Feb. 10-11
The fourth annual Science Fair
sponsored by the Breckenridge
High School Science Department
is lo be held February lOlh and
11th in Ihe National Guard Armory.
Judging will begin at 8 o'clock
Friday morning. The fair will be
open lo Ihe public beginning Fri-
day at noon until 7 o'clock that
evening. On Saturday, the doors
will be open at 9 o'clock and pro-
Teachers in the high school
science department are Mrs. Fi n-
est Maxwell. Mrs. Jack Sullivan
and Mr. David Sullivan.
Work on the majority of these
projects was begun as iar back as
September. First work on Ihe pro-
jemts was a research paper lol-
lowed by plans and cxpermienta-
tion for construction. There will he
about 150 projects classified in
jeets will be on display until It divisions: General Science. Biology
o'clock that evening. and Physical Science. Achicvc-
Judges will be Mr. Bill Atvvood, ment award ribbons will be given
ormer Vocational Agricultural in- to the winners who will be eligible
•itructor at Breckenridge High I to enter their projects at the lie-
School, the Reverend Wilson Row- i gional Science Fair to he held
and. rector of St. Andrews Kpis-i March 25th and 2Bth in Abilene,
copal Church. Mr. A. V. Brewer. Two sweepstakes winners will
.etired pro'iessor of the Mechani- then lie chosen to go to the Na-
cal Engineering Department of j tional Science Fair which is to be
Texas A&M College and Mr. Tom held this year in Kansas City, Mis-
Ford, Production Manager for Ibex souri May 10th . 13th with round
(i Co. ' trip expenses paid,
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Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 113, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 7, 1961, newspaper, February 7, 1961; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth136091/m1/1/: accessed June 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.