Lipscomb Lime Light and the Follett Times (Follett, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 1951 Page: 1 of 6
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Herald—Vol. 4. No. 42.
FOLLETT, LIPSCOMB COUNTY. TEXAS, Thursday, November 22, 1951
Vol. 40. No. 6
Official Pap>r of Lip«fiomh County. Tern*—D<voted to tht /vtrrtst of follett and Liptcoinb County.
Safety and Security
On Our Highways
Funeral Services For Crash Victim
Are Held At Woodward Tuesday
This is the conclusion part of
Homer Garrison's radio address
that is being published in Follett
Times with the hope that you will
become better acquainted with
Texas' new "Safety Responsibility
Law" that will go into effect Jan-
nary 1st.
Let us now assume that it is
some time next January, or there-
after, that you have been involved
as the operator of a car in tho
kind of accident that comes under
the Safety Responsibility Law, and
that you have filed both your acci-
dent report and Form 21. Here is
how the new law will operate:
If yiou were not insured at the
time of the accidlent, the- Depart-
ment of Public Safety will deter-
mine the amount of damages for
which you may be held liable, and
so notify you. It may be as little
as $101 or as much as $15,000, re-
presenting only the damage AP-
PARENTLY caused by you. The
operators of any other cars that
were involved will receive similar
notice, you may be sure, of the
amounit of damage they caused.
Upon receiving this notice, OR WI-
THIN A MAXIMUM OF 60 DAYS
AFTER THE DATE YOUR RE-
PORT FORM WAS FILED, you
must satisfy the law's security re-
quirements by any one of the fol-
lowing means:
1. You may furnish the Texas
Department of Public Safety with
satisfactory evidence that you
have been released from liability
by all other persons involved in
the accident;
2. You may furnish the Depart-
ment with evidence that you have
been finally adjudicated not liable
by a court of competent jurisdic-
tion;
3. You may execute a duly ack-
nowledged written agreement pro-
viding for the payment of all cla-
ims resulting from the accident,
not exceeding $15,000; or
4. You may deposit with th«(
Department sufficient security, aa
determined by the Department, to
meet your damage claims, not ex-
ceeding $15,000. This last does not
mean that you must post $15,000
security but only as much as is
necessary to cover the amount of
damage apparently caused by you,
as determined by the Department.
Now, if the information you
have filed with the Department
on Form 21 Indicates that you car-
, ried the proper kind of insurance
AT THE TIME OF THE ACCID-
" JCNT, none of the other provisions
just mentioned will apply to you.
Ytou will, of course, have to file the
accident report form and Form 21
to begin with but the other details
I have Just outlined will not apply
to you, since the law recognises'
.any insurance that covers -damage
•claims resulting from a traffic
accident as sufficient evidence of
your financial responsibility. It is
Important to remember, however,
that the insurance must be suffi-
cient to meet damage claims up
to $15,000, which represents the
' minimum limits of am automobile
liability policy in Texas. You are
NOT required to carry Insurance,
however, since the law specific-
ally provides the other means that
1 have explained by which you
may prove that you can satisfy
4he Safety Responsibility Law's
security provision.
I am sure that this completely
justifies my earlier statement,
that this law is NOT a compulsory
•Insurance law.
Should you fall to meet the law's
security requirements by furnish-
" lng proof In tone of the manners
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LIPSCOMB COUNTY GIFT—Fred Born of Follett, standing-, pre-
sided at ceremonies Friday when 1,720 bushels of maize from Lipscomb
county were dedicated at Follett. Seated on the platform, left to right,
are Rev. E. R. McGregor, Methodist pastor of Booker; H. O. Rhode,
Lutheran pastor of Darrouzett;and Rev. Martin H. Kapeller, Congrega-
tional pastor of Darrouzett.
Booker Talent To
Put On Black Face
Program Here Nov. 26
A program that should be of
interest as well as entertaining
to Follett and Community is a
black face novelty show presented
by local talent of Booker and sp-
onsored by the Follett band and
Booket band parents. The program
consists of novelty negro selections J
including a special number by
Mrs. Irene Slovacek x entitled
"Massy Lincoln" in which she por-
trays an old negro slave. There
will be a negro chorus, and, the
closing number, is a rousing negro
camp meeting with the old negro
parson and his saints making
their confessions, with old spirit-
uals sung throughout the camp
meeting The Follett band will pre-
sent a concert before the show be-
ginning at 7; 30. Pioceeds <fr:.m
the show will be shared between
the Booker and Follett Band. At-
tend ttye show and help support
our bands.
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ST ABEL'S VARIETY PUTS
ON "QUITTING BUSINESS
SALE" STARTING SATURDAY
George Stabel of the Stabel's
Variety Store informs the Times
office that he Is putting on a
"Quitting Business Sale" and la
closing out the entire stock of
merchandise. We understand that
the reason Mr. Stabel is quitting
the store is on account x of his
wife's health.
The Times force has printed
bills for Stabel's Variety and a
half-page ad Is being run in the
paper this week. The sale begins
Saturday, November 24 and will
continue until all of the stock has
been sold. Following the sale the
building will be for sale or lease.
We urge everybody to come In
and take advantage of thte *sale.
Everything has been marked down
all the way from thirty and some
i much as fifty percent. Turn
right now to page five, in this
weeks issue of the Times and see
the many bargains that you tftil
want to take advantage of.
Lipscomb County
Home Demonstration
Club Tour
The Lipscomb County Home De-
monstration Club Tour started at
nine thirty on November 16th at
the F. S. Robertson's home in
Booker. The Robertson home is ' a
one bedroom houSe built of cinder
blocks. In this house we saw an
almost completely fire proof stru-
cture. They had planned their
home so that they could E^dd an
extra bedroom later. Mrs. Robert-
son had made a slip cover for her
couch and we were all interested
in the very attractive name plate
the Robertson's had made.
Our next stop was at the Luther
Lehman home. We enjoyed the lo-
vely dolors and accessories at the
Lehman home.
At the Vernie Weinette home we
saw her outdoor fireplace and
how her home had been remodel-
ed. We especially enjoyed seeing
the knotty pine finish. They had
used in the dining room and the
space she had planned for her la-
undry equipment.
We went from Booker to Follett
to witness the dedication of the
car load of maize that was sent
from Lipscomb Co. to South Kor-
ea. Mr. Fred Born is chairman of
Lipscomb Ctfunty Christian Rural
Oversea Program, the organizat-
ion that was responsible for coll-
ecting and sending this car of
maize.
Lunch was served at the Youth
Center in Higgins. The Hlggins
Club had the room ready when we
arrived. Mrs. Harry Haines, Chair-
man of our Education, Expansion
and exhibit committee, collected
the food In Follett and took it to
Hlggins so that lunch was ready
when the group arrived.
Mn. Earl Wilbur and Mr. C. N.
Goettsche gave us some informat-
ion about the Chinchilla on their
ranch at our first stop after
lunch.
Mrs. Alex Laubhan, Sr. ' showed
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Follett Timss $1.50 a Year)
Notice To All Farmers,
Ranchers And
Business Men
There will be a meeting Wed-
nesday Evening, Nov. 28, 1951, 7:30,
at the City Hall in Follett, Texas,
for the put pose of organizing fire
fighting squads for the purpose of
controlling and fighting all pra-
irie fires that may or will happen
in our community.
County agent Brown and Sheriff
Tarbox will be here to aid in or-
ganizing our squads.
After air it's your fire, and the
least you can do is to attend this
meeting and give us your support,
the Fire Departments and local ci-
tizens are willing to do all that
they can but they do need your
support, come and show that ycu
appreciate our efforts.
LONG'S DRESS SHOP
STARTS "BIG CLEARANCE
SALE" THIS SATURDAY
Long's Dress Shop, another Fol-
lett business firm is starting a
Big Clearance Sale" here on Sat-
urday, November 24th. Bills for
this sale were printed the first of
the week and their half-page ad
will be found on page 3. of this is-
sue of the Times.
This certainly should be good
news to the ladies surrounding the
Follett community. Just Think!
Right here at Christmas time
when you can save money by do-
ing much of your Christmas shop-
ping right here at Long's Dreas
Shop. You will be able to save
more than thirty percent on
many items.
We understand the reason for
this "Big Clearance Sale" now,
is that Mrs. W. E. Oadberry a part
owner of the firm is selling out
her interest to her mother, Mrs.
Anna Long.
Funeral services for Robert
Franklin Laubhan, business man-
ager and paitner in Laubhan Mo-
tor company in Woodward, was
held Tuesday at 3 p. m. from the
Woodward Presbyterian church.
Mr. Laubhan was killed instantly
early Sunday morning in a collis-
ion on highway 60, 10 miles north
of Fairview. He was 30 years old.
The services was conducted by
Rev. W. C. Hahes, past:r of the
First Methodist church, and Rev.
Dixon Poe, pastor of the Presby
te.ian church.
Burial was in tlie Elmwood
cemetery with the military rites
being conducted by the American
Legion. Interment was under the
direction of the Steecher Mort-
uaiy.
Highway patrolmen at Enid said
Laubhan was traveling alone in a
northeasterly direction on High-
way 60 when his car was involved
in a headon collision with a ve-
hicle driven by James Melton, 33.
of Highlandsville, Mo. Melton died
several hours after tne crash in
the Enid General hospital.
Injured in the crash were Mel-
ton's brother, ylaude, 29; Claude's
wife, Opal, 33; Mrs. Melton's dau-
ghter, Meda Pierce, 10: and a
nephew, Dean Melton, 17. Reed
Springs, Mo. The injured were re-
ported in., fair condition at the
Enid hospital Monday morning.
Investigating officers said the
car diiven by Laubhan struck the
left front of the Melton car. The
Melton car was driven backwards
15 feet from the ttyint of impact
and Laubhan's car was spun ar-
ound and went 67 feet in the op-
posite direction before coming to a
halt.
The accident occurred on what
is known as the Orienta curve, of-
ficers said, and the Laubhan car
had crossed the center line and
was partially in the same lane
with the Melton vehicle when the
ciash occurred.
Officers described the curve as
"pretty ferocious" for anyone who
wasn't too familiar with it.
Robert Franklin Laubhan was
born April 11, 1921, at Follett, Tex-
as. He moved to Woodward 17 ye-
ars ago and was a graduate of
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You can always enjoy a good
movie at the Follett Theatre and
their popcorn is always delioious.
Worry does a lot harm But
who wants to be all smiles? a
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OUR THANKS
OF THE WEEK
Now is a very good time to think
about subscribing a years subscri-
ption tc The Follett Times for a
friend or relative for a Christmas
present this year. They can keep
up with their old friends back
here In the "Old Home Town"
each week. And while you are ab-
out it why not look and see If your
own subscription has expired.
The Times would be a most en-
joyable gift--one that they could
enjey every week.
The price Is $1.50 in Lipscomb
and adjoining counties for one
year and $2.00 a year in all other
points.
The Follett Times wishes to
thank the following folks that
have either renewed ,their subscri-
ption cr have joined our band of
readers. " \
T. R. Laubhan, City.
Howard Harris, Follett.
Mrs. J. P. Teter, City.
Herb Towle, Logan, Oklahoma.
Sam Reger, Follett.
Iia Russell, Logan, Oklahoma.
COeta Russell. Tulsa, Oklahoma.
F. H. Russell, Wagoner, Okln.
Wesley Stevens, City.
Bert Kllpatrick, Follett.
Albert Frailer, City. ..
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Skaggs, Ethel J. Lipscomb Lime Light and the Follett Times (Follett, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 1951, newspaper, November 22, 1951; Follett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth389749/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Higgins Public Library.