The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 29, 1968 Page: 1 of 8
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THE ASPERMONT STAR
VOLUME LXX NUMBER 27 ASPERMONT, STONEWALL COUNTY, TEXAS 79502 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 29, 1968 PRICE TEN (10c) CENTS
Hornets to Play Clarendon Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
CONSERVATION FARMER OF 1967 —
Ernest and Mrs. Kolb, are shown with
s >mc of their registered Angus cattle, in
.
a pasture overseeded to sideoats gramma
and Caucasian Bluestem.
Ernest Kolb, Aspermont Farmer-Rancher Named
Outstanding Conservation Farmer of 1967
,-n*
Earnest Kolb has been
named Outstanding Conser-
vation Farmer of 1967 in
ihe King-Stonewall Soil
and Water Conservation
Three Act Play
To Be Presented
By Senior Class
Tne Senior class of As-
permont High School will
present the three act play
"Soup To Nuts", Tuesday
March 5 at 7;30 p.m. in the
high school auditorium.
The comedy takes place
in a dietetic sanitorium on
the California desert where
meals are served in the
form of concentrated pel-
lets. "Emotional pellets"
are mistakenly given for
the food pellets and then
pandemonium reigns.
The play is under the
direction of Mrs. Martha
Harrell, with production by
special arrangement with
Samuel French.
The cast includes Bill
Morgan, Mary Lou Max-
well, Bobbie Worthington,
Debbie Gardner, Jimmy
Mitchell, Linda Waggoner,
Dennis Trammel!, Susan
Anderson, Jackie Samford,
Brenda Foil, Roy McEwen
and George Abernathy.
Tickets at the- door will
be 75c for adults and 50c
for students.
Tickets may be purchas-
ed in advance from any
member of Ihe Senior Class.
Advance ticket price are
Adults 65c and students
40c.
District. The district super-
visors selected him because
of his consistent conserva-
tion work on his farm and
his efforts to promote con-
servation throughout the
district.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kolb
own and operate their 498
acre farm five miles west
of Aspermont. Both take
pride in carrying out a com-
plete conservation program
on their land and in build-
ing up their herd of regis-
tered Angus cattle.
The Kolbs - bought this
place in 1955. They built a
new house and then moved
in during December 1055.
The cropland was badly
washed for there was not
a terrace on the place. The
pastures were peeled off
and in poo/ condition due
to over grazing and poor
distribution because there
were no cross fences or
permanent livestock water.
Ernest became a coopera-
tor with the King-Stone-
wall Soil and Water Con-
servation District and soon
developed a basic conserva-
tion plan with the technical
assistance of the Soil Con-
servation Service
The Kolbs have since ter-
raced all their cropland,
controlled mesquite brush,
planted fields to permanent
grass and overseeded range-
land with better grasses
such as sideoats grama.
Their rangeland is now in
good or excellent condition.
Two water wells were
drilled and a farm pond
was rebuilt fcr better graz-
ing distribution. He also
built a new farm pond.
They have recently put up
an implement storage barn
and a feed barn.
Mr. and Mrs Kolb are
proud of their Angus cattle.
Their female cattle are of
the Bando^er breeding.
Their sire i? of Bardolier
breeding. They cull their
catfe critically to maintain
hitrh quality.
In 1957 Ernest was elect-
ed Soil Conservation Dis-
trict Supervisor where he
has continued to serve over
the past ten years. He not
only carried out a conser-
vation program himself,
but advocates it for the en-
tire country.
Ernest wants to overseed
more of his rangeland to
See Kolb, Back Page
Two Terms Up
On Aspermont
School Board
Aspermont School Dis-
trict voters will elect two
school trustees on April 6
Terms of R. D. Kluting and
Wayne Thigpen are expir-
ing and only one person
has filed and that is Thig-
pen.
Deadline for filing is
March 6.
Voting this year will be
held in the Aspermont
School Band Hall This will
be the only box for the
election.
The Aspermont Hornets,
for the seventh time in
eight years advances to the
Class A Regional Tourna-
ment at Lubbock.
The Hornets winners of
the overtime Bi-District
game, played Monday night
in Snyder, will play Claren-
don Saturday morning at
8:30 a.m. in the Lubbock
Coliseum.
Clarendon winners of
Funeral Held
Monday for
Mrs. A. F. Baugh
Mrs. Alma Rebecca
Baugh, 79, wife of the As-
permont justice of the peace
Albert F. Baugh, died at
Hendrick Memorial Hospi-
tal in Abilene at 4:10 p.m.
Saturday.
Funeral was held Mon-
day at 3 p.m. in the Asper-
mont First Methodist
Church, wi .h the Rev.
Buenger Dickson, pastor,
and the Rev. E. L. Yates
of Roby officiating. Burial
was in Aspermont Ceme-
tery under the direction of
Littlepage Funeral Home
She was born Nov. 9,
1888, in Butler County,
Ala., and moved to Stam-
ford from Alabama in 1913.
She married Albert F.
Baugh Feb. 19. 1916, and
they had been residents of
AsDermont sincp that time.
Mrs. Baugh was a cnem-
ber of the First Methodist
Church.
Survivors include he
husband; three sons, Albert
Jr. of Stephenvlxle, Jim W.,
of Abilene ano Jack of As-
permont; two daughters,
Margaret Nicholson of
Houston and Mrs. Mary
Justice of Alp.'ne; seven
grandchildren and throe
great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Orv He
Aycock, Owen Webb, L. H.
McEwen, Lee Smith, Tom
Hill and D.d+oi Davis.
Honorary pallbear-
ers were W. A. Springer, C.
G. Viertel, E. M. Lawrence,
Wayman Cooper, and Etf-
wood Freeman
Family ushers were P. D.
Lambeth and Raymond
Marr.
Students Now
Selling Annuals
High School students are
now selling the school an-
nual for this year. Students
selling these are: Brenda
Foil, Sharon Pliillips, Deb-
bie Gardner, Judy Mc«
Dowell, Miles Frazier, Mike
Samford, Jackie Ray, Na<
than Ray, Jim Hecht and
Jimmy Mitchell.
District 2-A defeated Sun-
ray 42-38 Tuesday night in
Bi-District play at Pampa.
At 10:00 a.m. Lorenzo
will play iraan and the
winner of 1 his game will
play the winner of the As-
permont-Clarendon game at
7:00 p.m. Saturday for the
Regional Championship and
a chance to go to the State
Tournament next weekend.
The exciting game Mon-
day night between the Hor-
nets and the Plains Cow-
boys ended 58-52 after two
overtimes.
The first naif predicted a
close battle with the Hor-
nets taking a small 26-23
lead to the locker room.
The third quarter gave
the Hornet ians a real thrill
and they could see a easy
win in the making with a
score of 40-29. But the Cow-
boys were not to be counted
out. With 5 minutes left
and the score 45-31 the
Cowboys came alive and
added 11 consecutive points,
with 2:19 'eft in the game
As the final seconds
ticked off, the score was
tied up 46 to 46, the noise
m Scurry County Coliseum
was deafening.
The referees whistle and
buzzer sounded almost si-
multaneously.
Which came first? After
a discussion at the scorer's
t 'bJe it was ruled Nathan
Ray had fouled Bill Ken-
nedy.
S0 Kennedy went to the
line as the Hornets waited
helplessly on the sidelines.
Everything was riding on
the outcome.
Kennedy missed and the
Hornets had another chance
and the game went into an
overtime.
The first oi the two over-
times ended tied again
48-48. Aspermont received
their two points when Nath-
an Ray made a lay-up.
The Hornets hit the score-
board quickly in the second
extra ses§ioa as Eddie Jack-
son dropped a lay-up
through the hoop after only
20 seconds had elapsed.
Jimmy Parker widened
the margin with a free
throw and added 2 more
points with a jump shot.
With 1:54 loft the Hornets
netted 6 more points in free
shots as the Plains Cowboys
tried in vain to retaliate.
ASPERMONT (59) Sam-
ford, 1 3 5; Parker 8 3 19;
Jackson 3 4 10; N. Ray 6 2
14; Jones 4 2 10; J. Ray
0 0 0; Rash 0 0 0. Totals 22
14 58.
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The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 29, 1968, newspaper, February 29, 1968; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200405/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.