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SERVING SHACKELFORD
COUNTY SINCE 1879
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Albany, Texas, Thursday, February 25, 1965
Number Twenty-six
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS KEEK TO
BE OBSERVED MARCH 1-4
Public School Week, get for
March 1 through 4, will be ob-
served In the Albany Public
Schools. All person* Interest-
ed in our school system arc
urged to visit the schools dur-
ing the week. Parents are
asked to make a special effort
by those to visit their children's class
aeone on
a little
nlng." The
aufflcient
called "Pat
jour name,
and
or not
not
or could in-
land Mr. and
part own-
have
percent in-
eontractor,
owns 42 per-
Murphy 26
R. Watson
I Nat home,
now has 27
• capacity of
.fUNDAY
ifcANTATA
the Easter
tat 2:80 Sunday
First Baptist
is by in-
i is YOUR
tare to come.
Service Guild
to meet
postponed
b, 25, due to
meet in the
Price at 7
members
present. Mrs.
tg the program
t Genesis.
rooms.
The Parent-Teachers Asso-
ciation will be sponsoring open
house from 7 to 9 p. m. at the
Nancy Smith Elementary
School Tuesday, March 2, Stu-
dents are already planning and
working on the different work
displays to be shown on this
night Refreshments will be
served in the school library by
the room mothers.
Parents may visit the school
any day Monday through
Thursday and are urged to do
so. Those wishing to cat with
their children nt the school
cafeteria may do so l>y Inform-
ing Mr. Speck n day In ad-
vance that they will be there.
Those eating with their chil-
dren Monday, March 1, must
send word to the school Friday,
The price for each meal Is 30c.
The following days have
been set for parents to eat
with their children:
Monday, 11:20: 1st and 2nd
grades.
Tuesday: 11:30: 3rd grade.
Tuesday, 12:00: 4th grade.
Wednesday, 12:10: 5th
grade.
Wednesday, 12:30: 6th
grade.
Thursday, 11:45: 7th, 8th
grades and high school.
Friday, March 5, will be a
holiday for the children as our
teachers travel to Vernon for
the annual TSTA meeting.
Lenten Vespers
To Be Held
Members of the community
are cordially invited to nttend
Hospital Notes
Albany Misses
Snow and Sleet
Albany missed the snow and
sleet promised Tuesday nijrht
and Wednesday us a blizzard
whipped down from the Pan-
handle country. No precipita-
tion fell here, but the temper-
ature dropped to a cold 16 de-
grees, This was one of the
coldest official readings of the
winter.
The blizzard blew itself out
Wednesday, and warmer tem-
peratures are duo this week-
end.
The norther came down on
gale winds, estimated at times
at 30 to 40 miles an hour.
Temperatures for the week,
with high reading for after-
noon before, are given below:
Friday: 53 and 39.
Saturday: 68 and 38.
Sunday: 73 and 39.
Monday: 51 and 22.
Tuesday: 63 and 41.
Wednesday: 62 and 16.
Thursday: 42 and 25.
|To Organize
Admitted
Sidney Dobbs, Feb. 18.
Mrs. Mary Crawford, Gold-
thc Lenten Vespers at Trinity smith, Feb. 18.
Lutheran Church beginning Mrs. W. H. Jones, Feb. 20.
Tuesday March 2, at 7:30 p. I Mrs. B. D. Trice, Moran,
m. Services will be held each Feb. 21.
Tuesday evening during Lent! Mrs. L. L. Pate, Feb. 21.
nt 7:30 until Holy Week.] Mrs. R L. Tunstail, Feb. 21.
During Hoiy Week the service Mrs. Hester Pope, Feb. 22.
will be held on Maundy Thurs-' Mrs. Letha Ledbettcr, Feb. tnurant last Friday noon, and
day. 122.
The theme of the Lenton1^ Mrs- Donald Sazamn, Feb
Vespers is "Seven Words for 22.
C-C to Meet
At Carters
Restaurant
The Albany Chamber of
Commerce met in the private
dining room at Carter's Res-
Some 200 people attended a
spaghetti suriper at the Ameri-
can Legion Hail last Friday
evening, sponsored by the
Shackelford County Historical
Survey Committee.
Purpose of the meeting was
to form a historical society for
Shackelford County, and scores
of Interested people signed a
statement Indicating they
would be Interested in becom-
ing members of such a society.
The meal hnd been prepared
by the local Historical Survey
group, i-nrf tney had spent
many hours displaying histori-
cal documents of the county,
books concerning the area,
and pictures of early-day Al-
bany. Pictures were project-
ed on a screen, showing old
Albany and Shackelford Coun-
ty scenes and people.
Pert Iverson had on display
a collection of Indian artifacts,
including scores of arrow
heads and stone knives picked
up in the Clear Fork area.
One interesting display was
the signature of five Texas
governors on land grant certi-
ficates.
The Shackelford County His-
torical Survey Committee was
appointed some two years ago
by Judge I. M. Chism. They
arc Frank Andrews, Joe F.
Blanton, Mrs. Matthews Plan-
ton, Clifton Caldwell, Mrs, T.
F. Dodge, Mrs. L. E. Farmer,
Basketball
Player Admits
Taking Money
A Plymouth station wagon
carrying six people, all mem-
bers of the Harlem Stars, a
group of colored basketball
players, stopped at Muse Pros.
Service Station Saturday af-
ternoon late for gasoline.
Gregg Muse, at the station
alone, serviced the car, and
went to the cash register to
make change. When he open-
ed the register and turned his
head one of the players took
two $10 bills. Gregg heard
the weight on top of the bills
drop, but couldn't see any bills
in the man's hands. When they
left he noticed that the $20
was missing, and called the
sheriff's office.
Sheriff Jack Moherley and
the Hreckenridge Highway Pa-
trolmen were drinking coffee
at Hubbard Creek cafe when
called on the car radio. Jack
drove back toward Albany and
saw the car approaching him
just east of Hubbard Creek
bridge. The highway patrol-
men assisted in stopping the
car. One of the men confess-
ed to taking one $10 bill and
handed the bill to Mr. Mober-
ley. The station wagon was
brought back to Albany, and
the basketball player confessed
taking the $20 when confront-
a World in Need." The vespers
are intended to give us an op-
portunity to meditate on the
meaning of our Lord's suffer-
ing and death for us.
Lent invites us to self-ex-!
animation and also promises,
hope. The self-examination is!
necessary for all because all
George Clinton Rarrett, Feb. week,
Johnny Musselman, manager,1 *T- R Green, Mrs. C. E. Jacobs,
states the meeting will be held [ ■ M Johnson, Mrs. Gladys
at Carter's again Friday of this Loudder of Moran, James V.
22.
Mrs. Clara Bailey, Feb. 23.
Rev. Marion E. Kirchner,
Feb. 23.
Di*mi««ed
Mrs. C. M. Riley, Feb. 18.
Mrs. C. M. Pryor, Feb. 18.
J. P. Walker, Moran, Feb. |
Martin, Robert Nail, and Mrs.
J. M. Townsend of Moran.
The committee was appoint-
FANDANGLE SAMPLER TO BE
PRESENTED IN ABILENE
Teacher Pay
Raise Bills
Information
In view of the publicity giv-
en the conflicting proposals
that have been introduced in
the 59th legislature in regard
to teacher pay raises, Superin-
tendent of Schools Carroll
Tatom has furnished the News
with information as to how each
of these proposals would affect
the taxpayers of Albany Inde-
pendent School District.
Senate Bill 124 and Houi-e
Bill 446, commonly referred to
as the governor's plan, propose
a ten year plan of salary in-
crease for teachers. In addition,
provisions are that local dis-
tricts participate in the cost of
textbooks and teacher retire-
ment matching funds at the
rate of 20 percent of their
cost. The governor's plan would
also provide state funds equal
to $50 per classroom teacher
to be used for merit salary in-
creases, with school districts
providing equal funds from
ed by Gregg Muse. He return- i0(.a| sources.
Senate Bill 4 and House Bill
ed to locate and mark histori- ■ 0J-iev said.
cal buildings and sites in the j s'ome of the piayers are ex-
,county, which has been done; ol0be Trotter players, and I ry increase of $200.53 for the Mr Reynolds was the oldest
Mrs. Dudley E. King, Feb.
20.
men share human failings and 20-
sins; the hope is secure be- A. L. V.ok, Feb. 20.
-ause of Jesus Christ, the cen-
tral figure of the Lenten sea-
son.
Lent reminds us of the agon-
izing role God took upon Him-
self for our sakes. Jesus' suf-
fering was real; His sacrifice
was for us; His death paid our
O. L. Anderson, Feb. 20.
Mrs. J. M. Clevenger, Lue-
ders, Feb. 21.
Mrs. Frank Woodfin, Feb.
21.
Mrs. J. R. Eller, Feb. 22.
Mrs. Ben Kenshalo, Feb. 22.
The change in meeting place
is d e to the closing of the
Western Skies Hotel Coffee
Shop.
The president, Herb Sieven, | ^empt to preserve ."II build-
presided at the meeting after jnjfs an() rccor,ls of historical
having been away two weeks, siKnJficance; establish a mil-
while attending the stock show seum of rp]ics related to the
at hi 1 aso. [Shackelford County area; en-
No definite date for the j courage any other acts which
annual banquet had been set, will enrich nnd encourage the |
as the committee is waiting | study of local history.
on the availability
speaker.
ed the money, and was charg
ed with a misdemeanor and
paid fine and cost of $36.45,
and the car of basketball play-
ers went on to Weatherford
where they were to play that
night. The man charged was
Sammy Smith. The manager,
of tlie group was irritated for estimating additional costs
by the player taking the mon
5, commonly referred to as the
T.S.T.A. plan, propose a base
raise of $45 per month, or $ 105
per year, for all teacher per-
sonnel effective Sept. 1965.
According to the formula
The Fort Griffin Fandangle
will begin its 1965 season
Monday, March 1, in Abilene
when a Fandangle Sampler will
lie presented at a dinner meet-
ing of managers of the West
Texas Utilities Company held
nt the Abilene Country Club.
More than thirty Albany
singers and dancers will make
the trip to Abilene to appear
in the show, first of a series of
samplers to be presented in
West Texas this spring. On
the second of April, the East-
ern Star, meeting in Albany
for a school of instruction, will
be entertained by a sampler.
April 21 there will be a show
for the directors of the Ameri-
can Hereford Association.
April 30 the sampler will be
shown to the Texas Society of
Medical Technologists, which
will be holding its District II
convention in Midland. There
is also a tentative plan to pre-
sent the sampler to the Stam-
ford Music Club.
The samplers are a very
important part of the Fandan-
gle program. Not only is new
material tested, but also per-
] formers are given seasoning.
All these ingredients work to-
ward making the hig summer
Fandangle a polished presenta-
tion.
ey, and "got on him," Mr. Mob-
Albany Native
Passes Away
Eaton Reynolds of Fort
to local districts, Superintend- Worth („e(, Jan 3 an(, thp fun.
ent Tatom states the governor's era, wa, hel(, Jan 5 from the
plan would provide the teach- <happ, of thfi Flrst pr,,sbyter-
ei . of Albany an average sala- jan church in Fort Worth.
have plavcd in Hawaii, Europe I 1965-66 school year, a
' V . ... ...i ~ f * r. n"
a total
and South America and Mex-
ico. They are from Richmond,
Calif.
MOVES TO ARIl.F.NE
of the children of Mr. and Mrs.
salary increase of $6,417, at an w R Reynolds, and moved to
increased cost of $9 310 in Fort Worth ton years ago.
local taxation. 1 ho j.S.T.A. ]fe \s survived by his wife,
plan would provide a raise of s.;strrs nn(1 flvp brothers.
$405 for each teacher, a com-
i Attending the funeral from
| bined total of $12,960 for Al- Albany were Joe B. Matthews,
Mrs. Dudley E. King left last ] bany teachers, at an increase Tom iilanton, Mrs. Ethel Mat-
of the1 i>art of their objective is to weck for Abilene to make her i of $6,295 in local taxes.
i help organize a county histor-1 home. She has a daughter and
i thews Casey and Watt Casey.
debt. We need to think about | Mrs M Crawford, Gold-
School" U?e ,™eanin« of His lif® " smith, Feb. 22.
I Brendia Wright
very much
are very nice
death.
kt and Brendia
be with the
They like it
i have so many
iMndia's teach-
and Vicky's
We ride
forth to school.
, much.
Brendia study
! their grades,
the 4th grade
5th gradfe.
Former Sedwick
Resident Dies
Word was received this week
of the death of Thomas Jack
Cook, 88, of Compton, Calif.
He passed away Jan. 18
Funeral was conducted by
Rev. Frank Watkins at Comp-
ton.
Mr. Cook lived in the Sed-
wick community for several
years, and had many friends
there.
He is survived by his wife,
have five Eiia Mae Cook; a son, Roscoe
four girls 0f Texas; several grandchil-
Wright is children and great grandchil-
children. Mr. dren.
have three in i -
.fc£b^NOT,CETOMASONS
to the baby. ThPPe wni be work in the
J*
Joe is 15,,2y( at the Masonic Lodge Hall.
All members are urged to
attend, and all visitors will be
welcome.
Obbie Cunningham, W. M.
Mrs. Ada Whitley, transfer-
red to Bluebonnet Lodge Feb.
22.
Mrs. B. D. Trice and baby
son, Moran, Feb. 24.
FHA to Sell
Cook Books
Johnny Musselman reported | ical society, and if enough peo-
the county and city have made - pie respond, an organizational
agreements on supporting the meeting will be called.
local airport, and an interested ■ 0
group will raise funds to do l HOMF from HOSPITAL
some work on the runway. I
C. W. Haswell, who has been
J*y McCul-la patient in Hendrick Memorial
Ala 9.
J. J. Talbott
visiting rel-
; and Midland.
This order blank
NEWS
tEXAS 76430
check or money order for $-
for year
to:
State ZiP
whether subscription is ( ^ New
Nil
JBSCRTPTION RATES
County (Albanv nnd Moran) $2 ->0
hi the United Stnte* *300
The Future Homemakers of
America of Albany High
School is conducting their an-
nual sale of famous cookbooks,
"Favorite Recipes of Home
Economics Teachers." The
1965 edition features cass-
eroles (including breads).
These cook books are sold only
for fund raising. The 19f>2
edition features meats, the
19fi3 edition features desserts,
and the 19G4 edition salads.
These books may also be
obtained from the local I'HA.
The 19G6 edition, featuring
vegetables, will be available
in January.
Homemakers will find in this
book the most complete collec-
tions of casserole recipes ever
printed, rt contains more than
2,000 recipes submitted by
home economics teachers from
every section of the United
States.
Price of the books is $2,9.).
For information about ob-
taining this book, contact the
home economics department at
Albany High School.
DEBRA GAYLE W1MBERLY
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wim-
berly are parents of a baby
daughter, Debra Gayle, who
arrived nt 9:1(1 p. m. on Mon-
day Feb. 22, in the Stephens
Memorial Hospital in Brecken-
ridge. Birth weight was eight
pounds nnd ten ounces.
Grandparents are Mrs. Vir-
ginia Gillilnnd of Dallas and
M. and Mrs.
lough and children, Jaylene
and Todd, returned Monday to
their home in Kermit after
spending six days of their va-
cation here with her parents,
j Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Balliew,
her brother, Wayne Balliew,
and his sisters, Misses Fannie
nnd Nannie McCullough.
Hospital at Abilene several
weeks, and has undergone sur-
gery, was brought home Satur-
day.
son living there
Mrs. King came to Albany j plans have merit, but that he
Superintendent Tatom ex-1
pressed a fe ling that both ATTENTON
AI.BANY
Oct. 1, 1922, as manager of js opposed to the powerful ef- STUDENTS
Western Union office and held | fort to shift a larger portion of There will be an all-school
that position until 1927, when the cost of financing public
she resigned. She operated the ; schools to the local level. Local
telegraph office during the oil > school districts have only one
boom here. I method of taxation, whereas
She states that she hates to [he state has many. The tradi-
leave Albany after spending 42 j
years here.
tional method of financing the I and girl
tacky party Saturday night at
the Youth Center. Everyone
is invited and requested to
wear a costume. A prize will
be given to the tackiest boy
,r .... .... .ATTENDS AGO RECITAL
With 15 million television;
sets in operation, Japan ranks' Mrs. Jack Farmer returned
second only to the United from Dallas Wednesday, where
States in television sets.
Jody Self Makes Good Recovery
From Open Heart Surgery
By Norma Joe Williams I Angelo's Belmore Baptist
(The following story from Church, and his wife took their
the San Angelo Standard-Times little girl to famed Johns Hop-
will be of interest to our read-
ers, most of whom will remem-
ber Jody and her parents).
"I remember distinctly that
the operating room was blue
and green and had a purple
window."
Jody Self, 18, was reminisi-
ing about the day in 1953 she
had open heart surgery in Dal-
las' Baylor Hospital when she
was just 7 years old.
"You were high as a kite,
Jody," her genial father teas-
ed. But Jody won't be swerved
from the fact that there was a
purple window.
Now that a pretty little 5-
footer is a healthy Central High
senior, it's easy to find some
thing to laugh about concerning
that October day when little
Jody spent six hours undergo
ing surgery then in its earliest
pioneering stage.
Hut the Rev. Joe P. Self and
Mrs. Self, then residents of Al-
bany, hnd done much soul-
searching before agreeing to
have their daughter risk a new
technique.
Jodv was born in Abilene
kins Hospital in Raltimore,
Md., for a confirmation of the
diagnosis.
Heart specialists there agreed
that the condition existed. They
said nothing could be done for
her then and that perhaps when
she was older, perhaps 11 or
12, there might be an opera-
tion. And they referred the cou-
ple to specialists at the Dallas
Hospital.
Things rocked along for quite
awhile. Jody managed pretty
well except that she tired more
easily than her playmates and
wasn't able to do much walk-
ing.
Her pnrents wanted to post-
pone the operation they knew
she'd have to have someday. . . .
until Jody was older and
stronger . . . until science had
discovered ways to make the
surgery less dangerous.
Then, one day while Jody
and her mother were visiting
in Dallas, the little girl fell
down while playing outdoors
and cried, "Mama, 1 hurt."
The physician who examined
her snid the time had come.
she attended an organ recital
and master class. Piet Key,
well known organist of Hol-
land, was presented by the
American Guild of Organists
Tuesday evening at St. Michael
and All Angels Episcopal
Church.
Mrs. Farmer had a master
class with Mr. Key when in
Holland in 1961.
Lions Club News
Foundation Program of public
schools is on the basis of 80
percent of the cost paid by the
state and 20 percent paid by
local districts. The T.S.T.A.
plan would be financed in this
manner. Under the governor's
plan, 70 percent of the cost of
the proposal would be paid
from local sources and 30 per-
cent from state funds.
Much information on these
Time is from 7:30 to 11:00.
-o
Senior Citizens
Meet Tonight
The Senior Citizens Club will
meet at the Youth Center
this evening, Feb. 25, for
their monthly game and social
night.
Hostesses will be Mrs. Robert
bills is available at the school j nM(lford> Mrs ,Varl cjark and
superintendents office. Anj- Mrs. T. P. Fincher.
one interested in these legisla-
lative matters is invited to
avail themselves of this infor-
mation and all persons are en-
couraged to express their feel-
ings to those in Austin who
represent this district.
Mr». J. G. Swint of Hobb»,
N. M., spent last week here in
the home of her brother,
The Albany Lions Club met
on Thursday, Feb. 18, in Car-
ter's Restaurant
President Winkler called the
meeting to order. Lion Gar- j „ rr , ,, ,
! , r i j * ,1 j., Truley Caffey, and Mrs. Laf
vin led the pledge to the flag
and Lion Chism gavo the invo
cation.
Lion Secretary Todd read
the minutes of the preceding
meeting. They were approved
as read.
Lion Winkler announced that
the banqvet at Stamford will
be postponed a week.
The club voted to meet with
the Lioness Club next Wednes-
day at noon as the Lions Club
is on the move lately.
Lion Sievcrs reported on his
vacation to El Paso and on his
winnings there with his sheep.
The club received a cam-
paign bulletin from Stamford.
The Lion president there is
running for district governor.
Dates were discussed for a
broom sale. A tentative date is
JUNIOR BAKE SALE
The junior class will have a
bake sale Saturday, Feb. 27,
at Piggly Wiggly, staiting at
9 a. m. and lasting all day. The
money will be for the expenses
of the junior banquet.
Mary Lenamon, Reporter.
Nearly everybody in Shackel-
ford Countv rwidn the News
Mr and Mrs. Jack Wimberly j just. 12 days old
of Albany. Great grandparents the Selfs there w;
i if... I A W ini- I ......... ,*t ullli 1 1 w> J i
Jody's only chance to reach ma-
Aug. 16, 1946. When she was turity lay in having the opera-: April 3.
days old, doctors told tion and soon—he said. j "u> r'l,'> discussed oxchang-
as "something The young minister and his inp programs with other Lion-
wife knew the ri-' was high 1 hih.
iir, ]\]r. and Mrs. J. A. Wim- wrong" with their baby,
lierlv >f Ha*! II nnd Mrs. I It. was more than three years thai their only child might not i
Chapman of Dell 's. 'later before they were told she survive the surgery. They put |
0 — I had a restricted norta, the main off the final decision a little |
N, u office when I artery leading from th( heart. Ion;:'
Dr. Self, now pastor of San
Call the
you have visitors.
(Continued on page 8) 'amounts
I i .ns (M il, Sweetheart I Planned the week of February
' 2(1-27 as IT A Week in Texas. Pictured from left to right ore:
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la'.. .■ i one in ie VA;, ^"mon Montgomery, Executive Secretary, Tevas
ts to 27,143 gallons. I Assocla,,nn °f Future Earmers of Amcrica.
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