The Crosbyton Review (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1963 Page: 4 of 8
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THROUGH CROSBYTON EYES—
Brazilian Road
Home Rugged
"In other words, we live 100
miles off the pavement," sums
up H. W. Fite, home in Crosby-
ton for the first time in five
years.
The Baptist agricultural mis-
sionary explains his home at
Ceres, Brazil, is 200 miles from
the new capital city. Only half
the road from Brazilia is paved,
the half nearest Ceres being
poorly kept gravel.
"Boy, as we drove around on
a trip last week, and as we saw
where Texas highway depart-
ment had cut out curves and
things—well, it looks like they
just waste asphalt in the United
States," he muses.
"'If we could collect up the
odds and ends, it would be e-
nough to pave the ri*st t <M the
road to Ceres."
There are other aspects of the
Fite's second home as contrast-
ing as the two halves of the Bra-
zilia road. There are two types
of farmers: (1) the rich, using
caterpillars and other heavy, ex-
pensive equipment; (2) the poor,
cultivating with eye hoe and ox.
"It complicates tool buying,"
he admits. "If we need an imple-
ment, the stores have one which
can be dragged by a caterpillar
and nothing smaller."
Fite is director of the agricul-
tural school, in an area where
most education is borne by
churches. "We teach them prac-
tical agriculture and give them
an eighth grade education."
The school works with persons
age 14 and up, attempting to
reach that group of boys who
would have no other opportun-
ity. It has taught students up to
age 35.
"Ceres is a new town," says
Fite. "In 1941, they just went
out to point X, cleared the trees
and homesteaded. We're quite
progressive, with eight or ten
drug stores, 8.000 population,
three hospitals."
The returned native remarks
two odd differences between
Crosbyton and Ceres. 'It is cool-
er in Brazilian houses, without
articicial cooling. Tlie ceilings
H. W. FITE
are about 10 feet high and the
walls are_thick."
Also sunsets: "In West Texas,
the sundown Just goes on and
on. In Ceres, when sundown
comes, you'd better have your
mind made up what you want
to do—it gets dark in a hurry."
The school director says soil
conservation is one of the prin-
cipal things taught by his insti-
tution: "These people don't have
the faintest idea about it. They
plow a hillside and let the din
tumble down when it rains, and
it rains 50 inches in six months
there."
However the town is a rich
producing area for cattle, com,
rice, and beans. Any resident of
Ceres who will work has no
cause to go hungry. The poverty
ridden section of the nation is
the northeast.
"There are several professed
communist in Ceres," says Fite.
"By contrast, they are some of
the richest residents of the town.
Several of them are Syrians; I
suspect it has something to do
with the Middle East muddle.
Peace
think
"We have a couple of
Corpsmen there and' we
they're Just swell. They work
with 4-H Club organisations."
Fltes observations on BMsil
carry a good deal more weight
than those of a tourist Since ar-
riving at Campinas, Sao Paulo,
in November, 1950, he has spent
all but a year in the largest
South American, nation.
Born at Mena, Arkansas, Mar,
22, 1922, "Dub" is the son of H.
W. and Ada Fite. Alter some
peregrinations, including a stay
at San Antonio, the family mov-
ed to Mt. Blanco in 1938. His
father is with Fish and Wildlife
Service which keeps him shift-
ing.
After graduation from Crosby-
ton high in 1941, Fite served
with the infantry in France and
Germany during World War U
and was wounded in the hand.
He took a bachelor's degree in
agricultural education at Itoxas
Technological College in Janu
«ty, 1980. : „ „
He and his wile, the former
Sally Taylor, immediately went
to Fort Worth where he spent a
summer at the Baptist's South
western Seminary and then left
for""Brazil in November.
Fite is proud of the strides his
adopted land has made in recent
years. He says, for instance, that
no car was manufactured in Bra
zil when he arrived but now
Peep, Simca, Volkswagon, Mer-
cedes trucks and Alpha Komaro
have factories there.
He discusses with enthusiasm
Brazilia. the new capital which
is an articicial city like Wash-
ington, D. C., and says it Is quite
modern in every way.
There are no traffic lights in
Brazilia. Overpasses solve the
intersection problem. Streets
were designed by a traffic engi-
neer whose wife was killed in
an accident at an old fashioned
intersection.
Fite explains the great "piano
piloto" or "airplane plan" of the
city, which is shaped like an
airplane. President s residence is
in the nose, industries in the tall.
At the "Praca dc Tres Poderes"
or "square of the three powers",
situated where cockpit would
be, are buildings housing legis-
lative, Judicial and executive
branches of government.
One full street in a wing is de
voted to churches. Parking
problem ? "Yes, it looks like
there is going to be one to me
too,' laughs Fite. "Of course, the
Baptists are the only ones who
have built their church yet."
Government offered lots of
church buildings free to various
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These Crosbyton 4-H'era, Bill Lancet,
president; (left) and Paul Ogla, and in-
cluding Lee Suther, county agent, were a-
mong over 100 district 2 4-H'era attend-
ing 4-H Electric Camp this week, sponsor-
ed by South western Public Service Co.
In tite picture instructor explains work-
ings of power-groove lamp. Camp is held
at Scott Able, 29 miles southeast Clovd-
croft, N. M., high in the Sacramento
mountains.
All Those Teams
Could Boat You,"
Says Dale Neff
"I was really proud of this
league's boys in the Tahoka
tournament this year. All of the
boys played their hearts oui
down there. You couldn't ask for
faiths. The Baptists, believers in
church-state separation, couldnt
find It In their conscience to sc-
cept.
"When we wouldn't accept a
gift from the government but in-
sisted on buying, thst really
threw the government for a loop
trying to find a way to sell It to
" says Fite, who was a mem-
ber of the building committee.
They had to go right to; the
top."
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any better."
Dale Neff managed both
Indians, 1968 little
champions, and local all
club at the district tournament.
He commented on the season in
a Review interview this
"We have some good boys."
he says -if this year's Indians.
"We had a good defensive team
and I believe the records will
show It This year's club was as
strong defensively ss last
year's."
On the thing that dectdss lea-
gue races, he say*: "Since we've
been keeping records, you can
very near go back and the team
that makes the least errors Is en
top-
On his own team, shortstop
Bob Tldwell made only one er-
ror all year and first baseman
Wendell Neff made no errors at
all.
In-
Its had a
W(
Dwight Hickman.'plus t
plus batsmen In Phil
and Job TidwelL
could beat you at any time this
on the com
Who gave the high flying In-
dians most trouble?
"Thorny Mas was tough at
the plate. Se got two home runs
on us In one game."
"fhiKihn nitoiri beat us once
lor the Ysnkass. Danny Samples,
who throws s slow bsll, got ere
dK for beating us twice for the
Cardinals"
LIFE IN BRIEF: Dale Neff
born. June SO. 1980, —cUttse, son
of Mr snd Mis. B. L. Neff. BUB
living In same
bora. Graduated
to Sal-
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Bennett, Patrick. The Crosbyton Review (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1963, newspaper, August 1, 1963; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth281905/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.