Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 142, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 19, 1961 Page: 1 of 4
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Help Crippled
Children With
Easier Seals
Atttmratt
SUNDAY
10c
NO. 41
Leased ASSOCIATED PRESS Wir*
NO. 142 ~~
Special Events
Feature Week
In Seal Drive
,The W.''ck of ^ through
1 ^ ls Special Emphasis
Work f(jr the Easier Seal Drive in
Stephens County, ami members oi
the Thcta Tau Chapter of Beta
Si^ina Phi. who sponsor the ciriw
here, have planned three speeiai
events to maik this week.
Wednesday, Mai eh 22. is C'of
fee Day in Brerkenridgc. ami al.
of the coffee money received i<\
the iol lowing stores will be donatii
l«> the drive Stewart & Peeks la
(.■tefia. The Pie Shop, Mai idee Col
fee Shop. Frazici s llestaiirain
Holiday Hills Coifee Shop Millei
Coffee Shop, liarnes . \\ illiai.i-
Drug Company .Nap Thomas Drim
Mc Mali a n Drug, iiowen Diu^ an«.
Burin Drill!.
Members of Iheta Tan Chapte:
of Beta Sigma Phi will b,. .scllm.
Kaster Lily pins all day Salurda;
Maicli 25 jor this year's tund-iai*
ing drive.
There will In- a citx-wide Ea>>tci
Egg Hunt on Saturday lor all m
the children of the county Then
will be a small donation lot ..i!
mission to the hunt with ail pro-
ceeds going to the Easter Seal
drive. Moie details on thi> will
lie announced later in the wee*.
The Easter Seal money in St.■ -
phns County pass transportation
eosts of handicapped children and
.'(lulls to Abiienc where they re-
ceive treatment at the West Texas
Ithalillltation Center, and speeiai
equipment needed by handicapped
persons is also put chased with
funds from this drive. .
The Easier Seal drive has pur-
chased the half hour between 9 30
and 10 o'clock tonight on National
Kroadrastnig Company, and a spe-
cial Easter Seal program will be
presented in honor of Easter Seal
Week.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER"
NEA Newsphoto Service
PRICE DAILY 5 CENTS
SUNDAY 10 CENTS
BRECKENRIDGE AMERICAN —SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1961
Heart Surgery
Proves Fatal
To Breck Girl
l.orctta Collins, 19 . year . old
daughter o'j Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Collins of Breckcnridgc, died at
9:30 a m. Saturday in St. Luke's
Episcopal Texas Medical Center
in Houston where she had under-
gone heart surgery Thursday
Sh0 was believed lg be recover-
ing satisfactorily, but her condi-
tion became «or.se late Friday.
Horn in Breckcnridgc on Septem-
ber 22, 1911 she attended Brcck-
enriduc schools and had lived here
most of her life.
Mr. Collins is manager of the
Heed Oil Station on West Walker
Street.
1* uncrat arrangements are pend-
ing at Melton Funeral Home.
Former County
Resident Dies
In Ft. Worth
Mrs. Dareey Thombs. 12. daugh-
ter ol Mrs. E. 11. Blackburn of
the Gunsight community, died Fri-1
day at 7.15 p.m. in the Carswclll
Hospital in Fort Worth after u
Survivors include the parents; ''"Ser'n8 illness.
five brothers, Buddy Maurice who | > ®orn ,'n the Gunsight community !
is in the Army in Japan Bobby, | on April 12, 1918, she grew up in
Jimmy, Kenneth and Jerry Col-1 that community. Sne was a grad-:
tins an oi the home; and two sis- uate of .Breckenridge High School.
BADLY NEEDED RAINFALL
RAISES COUNTY SPIRITS
Dry Top Soil
Refreshed By
Drizzly Fall
ters. Joyce Ann and Kathy both
of the home.
PROCLAIMS EASiER WEcK-Mavor Ted Brown $inns a proclama-
tion declaring the week of March 19 through March 25 a\. Easter Seal
Week in Breckenridge. During this week, members of the Beta Sigma
Phi soronty will crnduct soeoal events in behalf of tfie drive includ-
ing a coffee day. Easter Lily pin sale and an Easter Egg hunt fcr all
children of the ccunty. Mrs. June Roqers. a member of the sorority's
publicity committee, is pictured above with Mayor Brown.
Visiting Pastor
To Preach Sunday
Itev. \\ right 11. Johnson, execu-
tive secretary of the Department
of Christian Education of the Epis-
| Church Sunday
Rev. Johnson came to Brecken-
ridge Saturday, and a meeting with
the church school teachers was
held.
and during World War Il'she work-!
Arrest Made In
Death Of Widows
DALLAS .F -A loiiner llomlun
man ami nis wife arc in a l.os An-
p-les jail awaiting extradition to
Texas to face charges ill the heal
ins deaths of two Nacogdoches
widows.
The couple surrenders! volun-
tarily to FBI agents in Los An-
g les last night
The two are 27-vear-old Edward
Otho IIscans and Ins wife. 38-year
old Marie Jordan Mllner llagans. '
Sin-rial agent in charge of tin-
Dallas FBI office. Curtis (> l.yn-
mn. s;iii! the pair called agents in
l.o-. Angeles >111(1 said lliev were
w anted in Texas for car theft anil
wanted to surrei'tler.
Cuba to Operate
Plant
Manager Tells Lions Of
City Situation Of Today
ed for the FBI in Washington. D.C.
ur.ler J. Edgar Hoover.
She later worked in Abilene and
it was there that she was married
to M-Sgt. Will Thombs about 11 '
or 12 years ago. He was stationed
at Camp Barklcy at the time of
their marriage. i
While Sgt. Thombs was stationed j
in Japan, Mrs. Thombs wrote scv-
?p,l D ,.« * Dallas." wiii be'a j were
coming back to the United States, i
He was stationed at Carswell Air
Force Base in Fort Worth, and
they lived at 106 Dun Robin Lane
in Dallas.
Funeral services will be held at
2 p. m. Sunday in Campbell Fun-
eral Home. 300 West Davis Street.
Dallas. Burial will be in Fort Sam
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MR. AND MRS. THOMAS J. POE
He is to celebrate the 7 a. m.
Holy Communion todav visit with
the church school classes, and
lie will bring the sermon at the - — ...
10:50 celebration of thc Holy Eu- j Houston National Cemetery in San
charist. , Antonio.
winUbeaJher|!lihin «finKCI "P S,UPP" ! Survivor, include her husband;
1. be held in the Parish House her mother. Mrs. Corrye Black-
* * *
Frlm-ifrw V' 'h and!1Rc.v- burn of ihc Cunsigh7"commun7ty;
Francis Can of Graham will be | one brother. Wynn of Shrcveport
}!?* plf" 'r al ,he ' ° tlocK Evcn* La- Her father, E. B. Blackburn
tng Prayer service. 'died In 1957. '
Fifteen newcomer families
HAVANA .Pi — Informed sources
in lla\ana say the Castro govern-
ment has begun efforts to rcsuim
Operations at the foi mer Owens-
Illinois Class Bottle Plant in lla-
v.tna with a Chechoslovakian advi-
sor in charge. The plant was taken
oxer by the government last year
The sources say thc plant is sch-
eduled to produce only three bas-
ic t* j>e« of glass Im>Itics when raw
materials and equipment aie avai-
lable. despite a critical shortage of
bottles.
Seen or Heard
C. M. H.
by
James Swaim. city manager.
speakinu to uieiiii.ers cf the Breck-
enridge Lions Club Friday, pictur-
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Active During
Past Week
Coo{>cralors of the Lower Clear
Fork Soil Conservation District
have been goinj; at hi-h speed with
their conservation activties the past j stantly at work.
week C. L Garlitz chained about Streets: could be better. Paving
acres o'( mcsquitc brush on a needs major maintenance or re-
place in the Moran Community. building. Dirt streets arc as good
Chase Booth has chained about or better than mostf towns.
><) acres on his ranch in the Eolian Water System: Fair but-.lines
Community. Powers Estate has need cleaned. Need a large new
chained about 1C0 acres of ines- j main across towp from East, to
'liiiic brush. | West. Need larger mains to many
r arm and ranch ponds were com-1 areas. Some areas have no fire
"leted ih s week rn the Frank! protection by mains. Purification isemployedby Safeway"aiid'Bautist
Do.v. ranch vvest> of Breckenridge.! plant has good filters and pumps : is their church preference
"?«• 'rvan l t'«"s place in but sedimentation basion is old with Mr. and Mrs Mack Layfield
V vland community. Both ! weak concrete walls. I Janis twelve -
ponds were constructed for j Machinery: Improved greatly
water and better distri-1 last two years. City has own shop,
livestock grazing. The mechanic and welder.
cd progress in city operation as a
whole although raced at times with
need for funds to meet some situa-
tions.
Taking up the various - depart-
: ments_ Swaim summarized as fol-
; lows:
I Sewer'*-!'!'"' Breckenridge have been visited
Sewer system — Disposal plant during the past two weeks and cx-
i If. .. ..SO,nc aTi,s f,ot rrat'hwl tended a welcome hv a reprcsen-
Sh.Mild the percapita use. of 150 gal- tative of local businessmen
i ons per day per person continue t Mr. and Mrs. Lester Ferrell are
( the city can he forced to do some- from Pecos and now live at 712
| thing. Some sections of the city South Cutting. Mr. Ferrel is with
still do not have sewerage system Wm. A. Smith Construction Com-
1 and to reach them the lines have pany and Methodist is their church
; to go a long way. The gathering preVercnce
system keeps a crew of lour con- i Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Dunlap and
Jimmy( age twelve, live at 203
FIFTEH NCWeOKI FMMUES
WELCOMED IN PAST 2 REEKS
Smiling Cop.
Married 50
* *
Wife
Years
South DuBois. They arc from Dar-
dancll, Arkansas and Mr. Dunlap
is employed by Wm. A. Smith Con-
struction Company. Baptist is their
church preference.
Mr. and Mrs. Don II. Jackson.
Janet age seven and Larry age
nine, live at 306 West Fifth. They
are fiom Fort Worth. Mr. Jackson
to Aid Administrator on Construction
Projects by profession. Methodist
is their church preference.
With their children Alan, age ele-
ven, Bruce, age eight and Dian
no. three months. Mr and Mrs
I). K. Larimer live at 1109 West
Wi'tiams They arc from Utile
Rock. Arkansas, Mrs. Larimer is
with Wm. A. Smith Construction
Company and Methodist is their
church preference.
Knox City is the former address
of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Rosignol oi
309 West Seventh. They have a son
Don, age 24. Mr. Rosignol is with
Hetchcr Oil & Gas Company and
(Continued on Page S)
the
thesr
livestock
bution of
above practices were done with
cost sharing under the ACP pro-
gra in.
John W Jackson finished seed-
ing almiii twenty acres of native
Everyone appeared mighty hap-lf'T^ "" hls. ra,"„h ,h? Way-
7 land community. Mr. Jackson is
seeding under the Great Plains
Conservation Program
FV over the rain coming as it did
. . Irvan Lewis said "I would like
to five to be a 100 with days like
these" . . . Haskell Key was happy,
but said it made his back hurt to
think about how the weeds will
grow ... No fire run — maybe the
ram helped there, too.
New Equipment Major: Two late
model dump trucks cost $6,000.
New Street sweeper $9,000.; Two
new *i ton pick-ups. $4,000.; Two
new garbage unit — chassis and
packer body. $9,000.; New back
hoe-loader unit $9,600.; Mechanic
tools. $300.; Additional asphalt and
K , .. , .of storage tanks, $1,000.; Vibra-
ncveral other farmers and ran-! tor roller made by City personnel
ehers are preparing the seed grass,
j es under the Great Plains and ACP
programs.
Troy Allen is preparing to seed
; about twenty five acres of Madrid
i Sweet Clover on his larm north of
I Breckenridge,
A basic conservation plan was
j prepared with Carter
Dolje Dean Price Abilene, was
fined $100 and costs here Satuulay
morning on a DWI charge . . .
I.onfiic Lee Johnson has been re-
turned here from Ixivington. N. M.
to answer charges of removal of
I^WrSS are aMTrnr^ me farmw. The!
a contact Lcns congress in Dallas. I .Scians pToWdl-S '^assUtance I
Mrs. John Ed Douglass under-} W'th ,hc pU,nninE
went surgery Thursday in M. D.
Anderson's hospital, Houston —
for patching. $2,500; total $43,300
Financial Condition
General Fund: tax supported —
barely hold our own:
A. No carry over at end of year.
B. Not able to do many badly
needed things. . ~' —*
C. General Fund — includes all
Place he owns southeast""oTb^V. i dppartmenls ^er than watered
enridge. The plan is an agreement !
with the Lower Clear Fork Soil '
sewer.
Systems Fund: water and sewer
systems.
A. At present we have funds to
do some major (epalr work on wa-
(Contlnuad on Page S)
Checks Made On
Of
. Douglas seven. Don-
I na five. Buddy four and Wayne one
: live at 708 West Elm. They arc
Yrnm Roswcll. New Mexico. Mr.
Layfield is employed by Wm A.
Smith Construction Co. and Baptist
is ther church preference.
* Mrs. Robert H. Brown. Patricia
five, Dorothy twelve and Linda one,
live at 105 East Power Mr. Brown
is with the U. S. Army, stationed
in Germany. Baptist is their church
preference.
McCook, Nebraska is thc former
address of Mr. ft Mrs. Glenn Gib-
son of 318 East Dyer. Mr. Gibson
is employed by Wm. A. Smith Con-
struction Co. and Baptist is- their
church preference.
Employed by Breckenridge
Ready Mix Company, Mr. Eugene
Cotwell and wife Lorene live at
603 East HuIIum with their child-
ren Omer Loyd. age eight. Mickey,
age six. and twin sons Michael Si
Richard, age two.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bray'iord
and Peggy, age nine. livc at 202
South Harding. They arc from St.
I Jose, California, Mr. Brayford is
1 unemployed at present. He is First
expects to be there about ten days
. . . Joe Adamt, D. D. Doty, and
Chandos King were elected mem-;
bers of the Lions Club Friday . .
Builders of St Paul's Methodist |
Church were expected in Saturday: ... . Ilw , ,
afternoon to start work on Monday. „,.h' i '"'P"1 tant'r •" good high One casc was investigated by the
school record was pointed out by State Department of Public SaVety
I Palpal .of the in bhalf of a young man who ha*
applied for admission to the depart,
ment's training school. A Secret
Students Cause Unsavory Rumors
Dr. Lec C. Pierce will preach a
the First Christian Church Sunday
morning . . . The board of dircc-
| Breckenridge High School, this
past week as he commended sever-'
tors of the' Lions Club has voted ^roup,s, rf| ..,hc sch001 who had Service man investigated a second
to sponsor a team in thc Utile Lea- o"'s/anding acc.miplishments former student for Uie Army, and
guc this yean ... A group of Boy | a"^. .st,av,te competition.
Scouts, Werner Bendorf, chairman, | ■ • ... ,he assembly of
is attending a junior leader train-
ing course in Brown wood . . . And.
that is all we saw or heard today.
Thought For The Moment; The
lets men think, the more they talk
— Montesquieu.
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high school students that regularly
various agencies and private em-
ployes checked" at the school office
on the record of students while
they attended school here.
Last week, there were three se-
parate cases of such investigation
at the school. Young men who had
attended school here had applied
for positions with three separate
employers, and they sent some-
one to check on the desirability of
the jounjj cu e future empires.
a private investigator checked the
credentials of a third student who
had applied for employment with
an insurance company
In spite of the *act that- Wilker-
son fully explained the cases to the
students to Impress upon them the
importance of their day by day
school activity. Many students ap-
pear to have misunderstood, giving
rise to a rumor* In Breckenridge
that the investigltors ware in
Breckenridge to uncover probable
unsavory activity ol loma local
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Citv Officials
To Attend Meet
There will be no meeting of the
City Commission Tuesday due to I Ayub Khan
the 'fact that the city officials will
attend a meeting of Region VI at
Sweetwater.
The city manager, city secretary
and mayor and city commissioners
plan to attend this meeting which
will be conducted by Dr. James H.
McCrocklin, mayor of Kingsvllle, |
and president of Texas Municipal
League.
Assisting him in holding this
meeting will be C. C. Crutchfield. j
director of Field Services for the'
league.
Four Pleas Of
Guilty Heard
Threc pleas of guilty in felony
eases, and one in a misdemeanor
casc, were made at the week end
beiore Judge E. II. Griffin in dist-
rict court.
Jimmic Collins Burnett was given
10 years for theft by bailee in con-
nection with- theft o*i a car from
Grady Slaughter.
Billy Ray Ragland was given five
years for forgery in connection
with a check lor $500 signed by
Don Buckalcw.
Ray Ruddock was given two
years, sentence suspended, in con-
nection with signing unauthorized
signature of Reynolds Mobile Truck
Stop.
In thc misdemeanor case D. F.
Grimes was fined $100 and costs
for selling beer on Sunday.
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Horriman Plans
Policy Meeting
WASHINGTON Ml — President
Kennedy's roving ambassador, Av-
erell Harriman, says he will meet
separately with thc leaders tft In-
dia and Pakistan within the next
few days to answer questions about
U. S. policy.' Harriman said he
did not plan to raise any matters
himself with Indian Prime Minis-
ter Nehru and Pakistan President
By JO ROBERTS
American Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 8. marked thc
50lli wedding anniversary of Mrs.
and Mrs. Thomas J. Poc, parents
of Mrs. John T. Cope, long-time
tcacher of the lirst grade at North
Ward School. The Pocs have been
living with Mrs. Cope at 308 South
McAmis since last spring and in
Breckcnridgc for thc past two
years.
They have had an interesting and
varied life during their fifty years
together. Mrs. Poe. the former
Minnie B. Watson, was a student
of Mr. Poc's in thc school at j
Bluff Dale when they married on '
March 8, 1911. in Erath Co.
He was born in Alabama and !
came to Texas with his parents in j
1891. The family settled in Hood
County and later lived in Erath I
County. He attended Huckaby aca-
demy and Tarlclon College in Ste-
phcnville bclorc he started teach-
ing school.
Mrs. Poc is a native of Erath
County.
Alter their marriage, they con-
tinued living in Erath' County lor
thice years, and in 1915, they mov-
ed to Fort Worth where he was
an employe of Uie Traction Com-
pany there, lie joined the Fort
Worth Police department in 1921
where he worked until 1926.
After a time in the grocery busi-
ness in Wichita Falls, he became
a plainclothes dctcctive on thc Wi-
chita Falls police force where he
worked until 1937. During that time,
Mr. Poc handled every kind oi po-
lice casc except kidnapping, and
he was oiten referred to in news-
papers as the "Smiling Cop." He
remembers a case particularly well
in which a young boy had stolen
a bicycle. Through Mr. Poe's help,
the boy weat on to schqpl and be-
came a minister. He considered
that the m<)st important case he
ever handled.
Mrs. Poe loves flowers, and every
seed she plants bursts forth into
kcr, and uses crutches for trips
outside the house. His car is made
with reverse foot pedals so that
he drives about town easily.
He is a member of the Methodist
Church, and Mrs. Poe is a member
of the Baptist Church.
"Thc greatest problem today in
the way of juvenile delinquency as
it has advanced in the past few
years is a lack of religious training
throughout thc country, it is of
great conccrn to me," Mr Poe
said.
Eastern Star
Plans Sale
Members of Breckenridge Chap-
ter No 659, Order of thc Eastern
Star actively engaged in preparing
lor a rummage and white elephant
sale. This sale is to be held March
24th'. and 23th. Friday and Satur-
day, at thc White Elephant Center,
215 East Dyer. Thc sale will be
open each day from 10 a. m. to 6
p. in. These hours arc to accom-
modate those who work and need
to come later in the day.
The members arc trying to se-
cure items that will be of interest
and useful to many diiiercnt peo-
ple. One item of interest is Blue-
bonnet plants. Some men's suits
By CHARLIE HALL
American Editor
Breckenridge received .70 of an
inch of moisture up to midnight
F i id ay night, more was measured
in every other direction in the
1 county, and as a result a spirit of
happiness if not exhubcrancc was
toui.l cn the streets here Saturday
; morning.
I The tall supplied badly needed
surface moisture, especially need-
ed where grcwing small grain had
sapped the top of the ground. It
also i ut the soil in condition tor
garde.i planting, and was consid-
ered a big help to pasture grasses
in cheeking thc fall in the coun-
ty. Roger Carey reporti.l 1.40 inch-
es at Caddo: Mrs. Paul Roberts .75
at Harpersville; Claude Louddcr
1.10 17 miles south of tovn; Rich-
ard Wood 1 50 northwest; and Fat
Boy Wright 1.25 8 miles west.
Ihc tail brought the total for the
year in the city to 7.65 inches, a
little above the average, but the
manner in which it came in spread
tails, with part of it snow, made
it more beneficial than a like
amount in iewer but harder falls.
Mrs. Paul Roberts, in reporting
the fall, happliy declared the rain
coming when it dvl means "it has
not got out of the habit."
Thc moisture was received just
before the advent of official spring, •
which will arrive Monday after-
noon at 3 o'clock. Spring means
garden planting for a large num-
ber of residents, but, if there be
those who go by signs and the
state ol the moon, iney are au-
vised to consult thc almanac
| The fall spread out over a long
. period of time, while above nor-
mal, has not filled lake Daniel.
| The water there is about five feet
I below the spillway, but there is
j no danger of a shortage, City
Manager James Swaim said
Chilling wiiiJs invaded lexas as
the state went through the limit
weekend ol winter, but a warming
up period was expected fo set in
shortly, with one more cool spci
to be expected if thc "Easter Spell"
is to be experienced. Easter lalls
on April 2 this year.
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A. A. Potter> 67
Dies In Odessa
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PRESENTS
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy to cloudy with
little change in temperatures
through Sunday, No appreciable
moisture seen. Low Sunday
morning *44, high Sunday 55-
65. Low Saturday morning 43,
high FrHtffe* 59. Winds north,
wwterly about IS miles par
hour,
lovely blooms. A neighbor of Mrs.
Poe in the Public Housing Unit
where they lived when they, first
came hcre saM that plants would-
not have the courage not to grow
for her.
She is also an excellent seam-
stress, and during the ten years
the family lived in Los Angeles,
California, she did some sewing in
connection with the ladies and
children's ready-to-wear store that
they owned and operated, and her
clientele included many Hollywood
celebrities such as Gail Storm, the
Crosby women and many others.
They operated the store in North
Hollywood for seven years. During
one year of that time. Mr. Poe
was a member di the police depart-
ment of Metro-Goldwyn . Meyvr
Studio and he worked on the set
with Fred Astaire, Eleanor Po-
well. Spencer Tracy, Greta Garbo,
Clark Gable, and it was Robert
Taylor who made the contact to se-
cure the job for him.
At the end of the war. they came
back to Texas, owning and operat-
ing the first suburban ladies ready-
to-wear store in Amarillo. During
a winter storm in January, 1955.
Mr. Poe fell on the ice and broke
his hip. After four major operat-
ions, thc leg was finally amputat-
ed in 1958.
He geU about the house in a wal-
Alhcrt Alvin Potter, 67. former
Breckenridge resident, died Friday
in Odessa.
'1 here will be a funeral service
in the Chapel ol Roses in Odessa
at 2:30 p. m. Sunday, and the body
wi" he brought to thc Melton Fun-
will be available. Easter Hats for i cral Home in Breckcnridgc.
ladic.s children and other items' Graveside services will be held
Monday at 2:30 p. m. in the Brcck-
enridge Cemetery with Reverend
Edgar Jones, pastor o'r the First
Baptist Church, officiating
Mr. Potter moved to Odessa
from Brcc'kenridge in 1954.
Survivors include his wife of Od-
essa; threc sons. O. A. and Jcs-
sic L. both of Odessa and E I),
of Burkburnctt; onc daughter, Mrs.
James A. Deal of Odessa; onc sis-
ter Mrs. Pearl Henderson of Lind-
ale: Your grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be J. T. Ilawlcy,
J. C. Miller. Mike Fundcrburg Bur.
Icy Burleson, and Wakc Peeks.
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that can bc worn for Easter are
promised. Many white elephant
Items have been secured and will
range in price Irom two for five
cents.
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Texan Is Killed
Rising To Clinic
CORPUS CHRISTI W — An Ara-
nsas Pass man was killed Friday
night in the collision of a car and
an ambulance that was taking his
ill wife to the Naval Air Station
Hospital at Corpus Christi.
The victim, a retired Master Ser-
geant, was 71-ycar-old Issac Grifiis
He was riding in the front scat of
the ambulance when it collided
with an auto driven by a Navy
Lieutenant. W. R. Record.
Mrs. Griffis. who was suffering
from a stomach ailment, was tak-
en on to the hopsital by one of live
ambulances which converged at
the wreck scene.
One Is Admitted
To Local Hospital
Stephens Memorial Hospital re-
ported onc admission and onc dis-
missal during the past 24 hours.
Mrs. O. P. Parrish was admitt-
ed, and John Flatters was dismis-
sed.
Cattle Growers Told In Meeting
Of Plans For Brucellosis Testing
«fhen you flnanc* your car -at the
First National Bank yotrmay place
your insurance vMi the aient of
MMMMM
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By J. FRED CROSS
County Agent
Over 100 Stephens County cattle
owners met Friday in the district
courtroom to hear Dr. J. B. Hen-
derson of the Texas Animal Health
Commission, tell about thc Brucel-
losis testing program which is a-
bout to begin in the county. The
mobile testing' laboratory will move
into Breckenridg eon March 23,
1961. All herds in the county will
be tested before the testing crew
leaves the county.
All dairy and pure bred beef
cattle will be tested that are over
eight months of age, except steers,
spayed heifers and official vacci-
nates over thirty months of age.
Cvimwcial beef ijertU of $0 or
less anials will test every herd;
herds of 50 to 250 will test at least.
50 animals and herds of 250 or
more animals wil ltest at lfeast ZO'i
o'i the eligible cattle. Every cow
on the place may be tested is thc
owner so desires.
Calves will be vaccinated at no
charge if requested by thc cattle
owner. Dairy cattle may be vacci-
nated between 4 and 8 months of
age and beef cattle between 4 to
12 months of age, Henderson said.
Infected or reactor cattle will bc
fire branded with the letter "B"
on the jaw and they must be sold
for slaughter within 15 days.
General instructions to cattle ow-
ners for bruceiloais testing are aa
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