The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1954 Page: 2 of 12
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FARMERS APPRECIATE
our
bank-by-mail service
Sonic have tol«l u* so. When you're
busy, or the weather 1.4 had, reniem-
l>er our tellers' windows are always
within the reach of your pen. Many
farmers find the mail way the easiest
way to hank.
to MOTHERS'
MARCH ON POLIO^
FRIDAY. JANUARY 29
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF BETMOUE
MEMBER FEDERAL
RESERVE SYSTEM
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EDITOR VISIT AUSTIN
Last week the editor threatened
Banner ireaders with a longer arti-
cle abinit his trip to Austin, to at-
tend the Mid-Winter meeting of
the Texai Press Association. Not
that the readers might be partic-
ularly interested, but it is just an
! old Spanish custom of the edito.-
| to write up any trips he may make;
and the only thing the reader can
! do is to take it or leave it.
Anyway, the trip to Austin was
j a bit different. The press meeting
j was held on Saturday, and the
i Seymour man left out late Friday
morning, with the intention of
Furniture Repair and Upholstery
Free Estimates Gladly Given.
Will Pick Up and Deliver
About 1,000 Samples in Fabrics and Colors.
T. L. Bullion
606 N. Donald
making a few stops here and there.
The first of these wu at Throck-
morton, in the office of the Throck-
morton Tribune, where we visited
Publisher Don Morrnon and his
father.
The next place was at Brecken-
ridge, with Claude Peeler and his
wife at the office supply and gift
shop. Claude was In the printing
business for a good many years;
and he got his start, while a mere
lad. in The Banner office. Several
months ago a fire started in the
store next door, and the Peelers
took a terrific beating in the Iosb
of their building and stock. The
building is now being rebuilt. The
net loss in the fire was something
like $40,000 or $50,000.
After a look over the new park
on the east side of Breckenridge,
largely the work of Arthur Miller,
the three men headed out for the
Lions Club meeting, which was also
attended by the Fort Worth Fat
Stock Show boosters. A good many
things happened at that meeting,
but we'd bette- hurry on. A visit
was made with Editor Hall of tho
Breckenridge American
The roving editor was interested
in learning population figures of
the towns visited, and from now on
these figures will be given just
after the name of the town. Breck-
enridge is 8,605.
! The next place of consequence
to the south, on Highway 6, is
Eastland, 3,606 This is a town
•which oil boorrred to a considerably
j larger figure at one time. In the
j office of the Eawtland Telegram,
- Mr. and Mrs. O H. Dick as pub-
' Ushers, we found that last fall the
i paper had changed from a daily
. to a semi-weekly.
Now you go through Carbon, 441,
I which is a small place to have a
newspaper. Most of the patronage
j comes from neighboring towns. It
J is a small, hand-set sheet, published
i by Merritt Dunn, who fa a nephew
' of J. O Butler of this place
| Gorman, 1,313, has The Progress
) for its newspaper, with Gene Baker
las editor and publisher. Also put
! out in that office is a new religious
paper, which is distributed from
i Eastland. The office has two Lln-
| otypes.
, De Leon is located a little way
off the highway, "so we drove on
to Dublin, 2,746. The paper there
is also The Progress, and it is
published by Coy Perry. He puts
out a nice pape-. Perry was get-
ting ready to leave for Austin.
Hico, 1,148, has for its paper the
Hlco News Review, which is pub-
lished by Roland and Jimmie Hol-
ford. That week's issue had eight
pages.
Iredell. 390, has no paper.
The editor has passed along close
to Merima.n several times, but it
is off the highway about half a
mile, so never had stopped there
before. It has 1,145 people. The
paper has been published since 1808
by Levi Dunlap. who is 78 years
oid. Mr. Dunlap has not been in
good health of late, and has let his
place run down, with no effort to
keep up with modern trends.
At Clifton, 1,833, we found Boh
Baldridge of The Record doing a
little overtime work in preparation
for getting away to Austin. The
Baldridge family are old friends
the START
and the
your modern
kitchen...
with to many
modern, good-
cooking features!
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of the editors fsmlly, and a visit
was had over the phone with Bob's
mother. 'Clifton is a clian, business
like place; and The Record has an
up-to-date shop, including a Meihlc
j newspaper press
Valley Mills. 1,036, was reached
at too late a hour for a visit with
the newspaper folks, and the same
thing happened as concerns Mc-
jGregor, 2,604 But at that place
:the editor has a sister-in-law and
her huband. and a nice visit was
had at their home. The husband,
|E. W. Crouch, has been in the
i grain business there since 1903;
j but the busine-s is now largely In
• charge of a son and a grandson.
The newspaper man wisely times
his visits so that a f-ee meal was
involved, and that 'set him up in
a big way.
After spending a little while with
the relatives, the car was headed
toward Austin, through Belton,
6,244; through Georgetown, 4.943;
etc., and to the state capital by
10:45.
i Most of the previous named
places were hit in high spots, and
no effort has been made to de-
! scribe them. The same will go
for Austin, which is quoted with
| 131,964 people. Probably that's
intore people than you thought it
had. Likewise, the capital i's some
| town in a great many ways. Those
i of you who have be n there would
j realize that much space could be
used in just a cursory description,
, but the thing will not be attempt-
ed.
Nor will a detailed statement be
made about the press meeting. Suf-
fice to say. it was one of the best,
if not the best, ever attended by
The Banner editor One of its
finest features was a round table
discussion Saturday afternoon,
which covered a large numbe- of
questions of intere-t to the news-
paper folks, and on which they
were glad to learn the experience
of other publishers. The Seymour
Jrrtan was asked to sit in on the
panel, near the chairman for the
program.
! When the edito- from Seymour
walked into the hotel lobby, where
registering was bein? done, he felt
at home in meeting with Vern
, Sanford, manager of the A'-socia-
|tion. together with his wife stnd
one of the young lady assistants.
This attractive young lady was
none other than Miss Mary Mae
McDonald, who seemed like an old
I friend from the start She is the
daughter of Ben McDonald of Aus-
tin, and is a niece of Miss Dflla Mc-
Donald and Mrs. J T StClai- of
thte place For sorrfe time she was
gociety reporter on the Austin
Statesman.
j The young ladv was at our table
for luncheon Saturday, together
with her former professor of jour-
nalism at the University of Texas
—Paul Thompson. Mr. Thompson
has been in his position for 34
years, and looks like a young man
yet '»
One of the features of the morn-
ing ••ession was a talk by Palmer
Hoyt of the Denver Post, who is
a newspaper man who knows what
he Is talking about. Hoyt rather
ridiculed the ideti thit this country
is headed toward an early depres-
sion.
In ntakine the -eturn home, the
Seymour editor took a somewhat
indirect route in going by Fred-
ericksburg This was partly for
the purpose of the scenic territory
out toward Fredericksburg, and
r»artlv to see part's of Texas never
before traversed. One trouble about
looking at the scenery west of Aus-
tin was that there was so many
sharp curves In the road that you
didn't have time to look at much
else besides the road. But It was
Inteesting
The first place out is Dripping
Spring, 350. You pass over the
Colorado River Then you come
to Johnson City, 645. Near Fred-
ericksburg you encounter the Pe-
dernnlis River, and later on there
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SEYMOUR CLINIC
PHONE 1131
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Is the Sabine and the Llano On
the edge of Brady la Brady Crack,
and sometime* It is about like a
river.
Fredericksburg, 3,845, Is one of
the most interesting towns In
Texas While there we talked to
Charles George, former Seymour
boy; and he aaid H was a fine ag-
ricultural section. Charles aald
that last year the county averaged
81 bushels of oats to the acre. And i
a good deal of fruit is raised. A i
stop was made at a service station j
on the highway, where the fellow ,
said he had been tor 20 years. All
the business Is on Main Street, and (
extending for about two miles
along the highway. The service
station man pointed out a house'
across the street which was the
birthplace of Admiral Nimitz, and 1
he still has a number of relatives
llvlr.* there. The Admiral was an)
honored guest when the town cele-
brated its 100th anniversary, about
six years ago. A few houses are
•still there which w«re built when
the town was first established The
citizenship is almost entirely of
German origin.
Turned northwest to Mason, 2,448,
and saw sorrte of the country where
folks go deer hunting. Ate lunch
there. Out this side there is a
few miles stretch where the land
is covered with small white stones, I
that look like snow.
Maybe we ought to stop here I
long enough to comment on the!
kind of terrain passed over on the 1
way to Austin and back. Part of |
it is good farming land: but agri- j
culture is very difficult over a !
large per cent of it, making a Bay-1
lor County citizen proud of the!
amount of good agricultural land j
here.
Brady, 5,923, is a mighty nice.
town, and in a good farming and j
cattle country. A little visit was;
rrtade at the homes of Publisher L.1
B. Smith, and former publisher, j
Harry Schwcnker
Coleman, 6.513, ri another fine,
town; and it would have gotten a i
better going over if it had not I
been Sunday. Besides that. the.|
traveler had already begun push-j
inging on the strings and trying to j
get to Abilene. And you knew, of
course, that Abilene has 47,102 peo-
ple, and still growing. Also there j
is some fine farming land as you j
come in from the southeast.
Another distinction about that,
town is that the editor has a daugh-1
ter there, Mrs. C. E. Johnson to-1
gether with her husband and two ;
sons. Not only that but the editor's '
wife had been there on a visit of i
Many Bargains
two weeks and she joined her hus-
band on the rest of the way home.
This part of the trip was lona
Monday morning coming by way of
Anson, 2,703; Stamford, 0,806; Has-
kell, 3,832; Werner* 287; Monday,
2,270; Goree, 830; Bomarton, 150; to
Seymour 3,778.
little peeked yet, and says ha la
not planning to make much of a
hand on the ranch for several more
weeks. BIU was a pretty sick boy
for a while, and would have been
sicker than that if some of the
'fellows hadn't given him several
blood transfusions.
L.ow growing ornamentals blend |
and are especially desirable around <
the low modern homes. It is now |
time t<\ make new plantings and l
transplant old ones.
To Reiinr
Misfty of
Bill Damron is able to navigate j
on his own power, after resting up j
some in the hospital. He looks u
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Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1954, newspaper, January 28, 1954; Seymour, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth429844/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Baylor County Free Library.