The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1954 Page: 1 of 12
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THE MULLIN ENTERPRISE
THURSDAY, MARCH 25,1954
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1954 Will Soon Come To A Close
Clyde And Cecil Locklear Featured As
Part Of Locklear Clan Of Horsemen
36,600.00 Pledged For Industrial
Promotion At Community-Wide Meet
Of Business People Tuesday Hight
out along with the following
through on all contacts and
contacting new prospects. In-
cluding some of the work that
will be undertaken will be com-
piling information relative to
labor supply, building space
available, rent costs, building
sites for new buildings, water
supply, electricity, utility rates.
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Wayne, a trainer at the Reyn-
olds Brothers’ breeding farm;
and Jack, a breeder and racing
official.
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CLYDE (Left)
. . . Just Two of
the town. The water is good for
the horses and the training gets
1,175 members and $2,051.00,
Mr. Duren said. All workers
are urged to get their contact
work completed and their re-
ports turned in as early as
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MBS. T. M. GLASS
who was elected president
of Goldthwaite Garden Club
at their last meeting. Newly
elected officers will be in-
stalled at their regular May
19 meeting. See story on page
eight of this issue.
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MLLS COUNTY HARDWARE
TAKES ON NEW FUMY UNE
Mills County Hardware is now
the county outlet tor Reda
Friday An
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nkey’s Uncle,” a th
dy under the direct
Saturday night in t
t School Auditorium
With the'Red Cross campaign
in its final weeks, Warren P.
Duren, drive chairman, today
called for a “Membership Mo-
bilisation which will draw into
the ranks of the Red Cross all
men and women of good win.”
“There are stil some in Gold-
thwaite and Mills County.” Mr.
Duren said, “who have not re-
newed their membership in the
Red Cross this year. We are
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A representative group of
Goldthwaite business and pro-
fessional people in special call
meeting in District Court Room
Tuesday night voted to have the
industrial committee continue
their work and pledged $6,600.-
00 to further industrial promo-
tion for Mills County. Of this
amount, $2,400.00 is pledged for
expenses involved in promotion
and contact work and $4,000.00
is pledged as an underwrite in
getting a small industry locat-
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It was pointed out at the
meeting that this industrial
promotion problem is not limit-
ed to the city of Goldthwaite
alone, it is a problem for the
entire Mills County area. The
need to provide employment in
this community is a problem
that concerns all citizens of the
county and everyone in Mills
County is Invited to take part
in supporting the industrial
promotion program.
Further reports will be made
through the paper next week as
the work progresses.
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More Candidates
For School Trustee
Nominations for school trus-
tees as filed with County Judge
John L. Patterson up to Wed-
nesday noon of this week are
A. M. Davidson and Melvin
Beasent in the Mullin Independ-
ent School District, Vance Cor-
nelius for county trustee in
precinct one, and J. D. Berry
for County trustee, precinct
four. These are in addition to
those reported last week.
Judge Patterson announced
that more may be filed before
the deadline at midnight last
night. A complete list of all
school trustee candidates, in
the forthcoming election on
April 3, will be carried in next
week’s paper.
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Drouth Relief
Feed Program
To Be Continued
Washington — (Special To
The Eagle)— Drouth relief feed
from government stockpiles will
be continued beyond the April
15 cut-off date, provided it does
not rain in the meantime and
produce some Spring grazing.
Congressman O. C. Fisher has
been assured by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
Fisher conferred with Ken-
neth L. Scott, in charge of the
emergency program, and told
him the continued drouth in
most of southwest Texas makes
the outlook there worse than it
was at this same time last year.
Several telegrams have been
received by Fisher following re-
ceipt by local Drouth Emerg-
ency committees in various
counties of notices of the cut-
off date. These included one
from Walter Pfluger of Eden.
President of the Sheep and
Goat Raisers Association.
Fisher reports that the De-
partment is presently surveying
available stocks, reported to be
low, of cottonseed products to
determine if more meal and
pellets may be made available
Most of the emergency feed is
now in the form of corn, wheat,
and mixed feed.
In carrying their work for-
ward the committee will, have
a number of problems to work
trainer for the Reynolds Broth-
ers’ Stock Farm of Fort Worth,
hasn't missed an Oaklawn
meeting since 1937.
"Cecil started bringing his
horses here in 193A and has
been absent at only a few since.
“The Hot Springs track is
their most common meeting
ground, and they compete a-
gainst each other like any rivals
would.*
"I always beat him,” quipped
Cecil, whose Big Ike won the
1950 Arkansas Derby.
"Oh, is that so?” laughed
Clyde, who comes up with some
outstanding performers each
year. .
"Tracing the Locklear family
tree is like trying to find your
way out of a forest. There have
been a lot of acorns down
through the years.
“In Texes, the folks who
know just naturally associate
the family name with horses—
stock or racing.
"Let's begin with Clyde and
Cecil’s grandfather. Jack Lock-
lear, although there were horse-
men ahead of him. -
“Jack Locklear was a
VOL 60 NO. 31
(Editor’s Note: In a recent
issue of the Hot Springs, Ar-
kansas, Sentinal-Record there
appeared a story entitled: “A
Clan Of Horsemen— Clyde, Ce-
cil Best Known At Oaklawn,
But 50 Locklears Are Close To
Racing.” Since both Clyde and
Cecil are Goldthwaite boys and
many of their friends and rela-
tives making their home in
Mills County, we are reprinting
the story along with picture as
it appeared.)
"If they ever call the roll of
the Locklears in racing, watch
out for an old-fashioned Texas
stampede.
"A family historian estimates
there are at least 50 members of
the clan either raising or train-
ing horses, and most of them
live in the, wide open spaces of
the Lone Star State.
“You’d have to consult the U.
S. Census Bureau for an offic-
ial count.
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ed here. - taxes, freight rates, transporta-
Forty persons who are highly’ —- -t---*
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around Oaklawn Park
brothers Clyde and Cecil.
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eager to reach these people so
that our goal of signing up
every adult as a Red Cross--------
member may be attained. would like to
“To that end may I call upon acreage stake
For County Farmers
g.Accordins to announcement
For Sunday
ldthwate Red Sox will
first of the two pre-
aseball games with
burg on the Goldth-
unond this coming
afternoon at 3:00
he following Bunday,
they will travel to
burg for a return
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“Father Locklear who today
weighs about 125 and is 5-6,
rode around the Texas bush
tracks until he became too old.
“But only Cecil was small
enough to follow in his foot-
steps as a jockey. He didn’t ride
at any of the major tracks.
“A long time ago Clyde and
Cecil formed a trainer-jockey
team and toured Texas’ quart-
er-horse tracks with a measure
of success.
“Both formally embarked on
careers as trainers in 1925.
“There was a time when the
Locklear clan took over a coun-
try fair race meeting at East-
land, Texas.
“On one of the three days, it
was staged, theirmounts fin-
ished first in all nine races.
Since they had two horses in
each, they also won six seconds
and three thirds.
“Despite their long associa-
tion with racing, the brothers
will tell you “we learn some-
thing new everyday.”
“You can’t train any two
horses alike,” said Clyde.
"Racing has become more of
a profession than a sport,” de-
clared Cecil. “It sure is compli-
cated, and you’ve got to work at
it to make a go.”
“Clyde has 24 Reynolds
Brothers horses here for this
meeting. Cecil will race six of
his own, and two for Mrs. L.
Fry.
“Fans will remember several
of the well-regarded horses
Clyde has trained—Mr. Chair-
man, Col. Goodnight, Powder
Bluff, Gunnison, Mountain
Time, and Texas Melody.
“Mountain Time won four
straight races here a few years
ago, and Texas Melody was the
first winner of the Oaklawn
Preview as a two-year-old three
seasons ago.
“The brothers agree why they
like to come to Oaklawn each
year.
Hi-Way Garage
Sponsors Free Show
Next Tuesday Night
Hi-Way Garage and Imple-
ment Company of Priddy, Mills
County Case Dealer, will spon-
sor a Free Show at the Priddy
Gym next Tuesday night when
a film prepared by Case Imple-
ment Company will be shown
and Free Refreshments will be
.served to everyone who can be
there. The show is scheduled
for 8:00 o'clock.
Herman Kopp and Otto Seil-
heimer, owners of the firm,
have just returned from Dallas
where they joined with qher
Case dealers at the unveiling
of the new Case “120” Self
Propelled Combine. Factory rep-
resentatives were on hand to
explain its advanced features
to ’ help solve the problems
which farmers face under t-
day’s conditions.
Many changes have been in-
troduced in the new machines
in the way of improvements to
meet the demand of farmers
in present day operations.
lb. Kopp and Mr. selthetmer
extend a special invitation to
their triends and neighbors to
attend the Free Show Tuesday
night at the Priddy Gym and
enjoy the film and refresn-
ments.
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Six Candidates
In Field For
School Trustee
Six nominations were made
for the two places on the board
of trustees of Goldthwaite In ■
dependent School District by
Wednesday noon, according to
report by Charles Conradt, sec-
retary of the board.
Candidates -who have been
nominated and have signed for
their names to be placed on the
official ballot are: V. T. Hort-
on, H. J. (Jack) McKenzie,
Eugene L. Dyas, C. W. (Walton)
Daniel, W. O. (Bill) Sherwood
and Tommy Harper.
Walton Daniel is a member of
the present board whose term
expires this year along with
that of Loyd King. King is not
seeking re-election.
The two places to be filled at
the regular election on April 3.
are for a full three year term.
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Gwin-Dalton
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Install New
Shop Equipment
John L. Gwin and Larry Dal-
ton of Gwin-Dalton Cleaners
have announced a new end im-
proved .service for their cus-
tomers in installing “Streets”
secret formula, offering the
finest dry cleaning process. A
service that assures customers
a whiter white and brighter
colors in dry cleaning process.
They announced further that
this services is usually found
only in large cities and Goldth-
waite is one of the first small
cities to have such a service
available to the trade.
Installation was made during
the past week when the owners
along with a company techni-
cian worked practically around
the clock to get the job com-
pleted.
Saturday Night
1 my, whom he has never seen,
I to come and live with him.
I However, Tommy’s eighteen-
year-old sister, Bonnibel, dis-
I guised as her brother, comes
I instead to keep from marrying
I her step-father's son, Milo,
who isn’t exactly bright.
Gary plans to adopt Tommy
and decides he must marry in
order to provide a mother for
him. Bonnibel, head over heels
in love with Gary, determines
fMat no other woman shall
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Markets
tue Sale at the Mills
Immission Ring show,
esults with 588 head
lugh the Ring Tues-
i varied very little
tception of pairs and
cows which were
the previous sale.
| were 3,141 bead of
h },4oo head of goats
rough the Auction
Friday, with most
sheep showing a
irease in price. All
goats remained steady
I exception of Good
cuts which were up
liars per head.
CATTLE
it Calves, 18c to 22c;
Calves, 15c to 18c;
ir Calves, 15c to 19c;
ad Cutters, 7c to 9c;
to 13c; Good Cows
», $100 to $130 per
Dry Cows, $70 to $90
; Plain Cows and
i to $100 per pair.
SHEEP
ibs, 17c to 19c; Milk
; to 24c; Good Year-
to 15c; Culls, 10c to
Wethers, 8c to 12c;
7c to 9c; Stocker
$16 per head; Ewes
$10 to $18 per pair;
6c to 8c.
GOATS
lutton Goats, (in hair)
per head; (out of
to $8 50; Weighing
6%c; Good Nannies,
(out of hair); Culls,
Kids, $4 to $6 per
and Kids, (one
7, $12 per pair.
EGGS
Receipts were listed
down this week.
it, 40c and 42c lb.
CHICKENS
8c lb. Hens, 18c lb.
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interested in furthering this
cause attended the meeting.
Thirty-nine pledges were made.
A three member committee was
appointed to jeontact all busi-
nessmen who were unable to
attend the Tuesday night meet-
ing. Those serving on the com-
mittee are E. B. Gilliam Jr.,
Lewis T. Hudson and Lee Long.
This action was taken after
members of the industrial com-
mittee made a report to the
group on work done to date and
problems facing the committee
in carrying on their task of
contacting industrial prospects
for our city.
Members of the industrial
committee are Ray Duren,
chairman, Dr. T. C. Graves, W.
C. Barnett, Vic E. Koleber and
Howard Campbell. Four alter-
nate members were named to
the committee. They are Ray-
mond Little, Fred Reynolds, J.
D. Harper and LeRoy Stacy.
Warren Durren was elected by
the group as secretary-treasur-
Park Committee
Sets April 7 As
Local Work Day
Announcement was made
Tuesday by E. B. Gilliam Jr.,
Chairman, that the Park com-
mittee has set Wednesday, April
7 as work day for the local park.
According to present plans all
business houses will be asked to
close at 1:00 o’clock p. m., so
that everyone can turn out and
help with this clean-up pro-
ject at the swimming pool park.
Everyone in Mills County is
extended an invitation to come
and help with this work in
cleaning up the park and get-
ting it ready for spring and
summer season.
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Local Legionnaires
To Entertain Priddy
Legionnaires Tonight
Members of the Goldthwaite
Harry F. Edmondson American
Legion Post will be host to
members of the Priddy Legion
post at a barbecue dinner at
the Legion Hall Thursday (to-
night) evening at 7:30 o’clock,
according to announcement
made this week, by Lewis T.
Hudson, commander, and Far-
rest Frasier, adjutant.
All members of the Priddy
organisation are invited to be
guests of the local group for
the evening.
All members of the local Post
are urged to attend. There win
be no admission charged. 1954
membership card will serve as
admission ticket for local mem-
He had a stable
the brothers be
ran them here at
turn of the century. Dad
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ESTABLISHED 1894 GOLDTHWAITE, MILLS COUNTY, TEXAS-
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Koleber, Victor E. The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1954, newspaper, March 25, 1954; Goldthwaite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1492248/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.