The Crosbyton Review (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 1966 Page: 1 of 12
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VOLUME FIITT-EIGHT
CnOSBYTON. CHOS»T COUHTT. TEXAS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. ISM
NUMSER THIRTY-FOUR .
General Rains Deluge Crosbyton Area
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OH THE 6666's landing strip near Guthrie,
Parks and Wildlife Department officials
from Austin and a delegation from Lub
book landed and were, met by Kobert
Reynolds, thiid from left, and Dickens and
area residents interested in the develop-
ment of a state park in the Croton Breaks
east of Dickons, in the ^rotip above, left to
right, arc Mark Go*den, Jack Palmer, pi-
lot of the plane from Austin, Reynolds,
Dickens Mayor Willow Street, Mrs. Alma
Holmes of KFLD, Floydada, Dickens Coun-
ty Judge Martin Pope, Mrs. Jack Hash
and Jedd Blessing of Floydada, whe will
be co-owner ol the Crosbyton Review ef-
fective Sept. 1. Staff Photo
Qualifications
Set for CAA
Exec Director
The Multi-County Commun-
ity Action Agency met in the
District Court Room in Cros-
byton, Thursday, August IS.
Representatives from all four
counties, Floyd. Crosby, Dick
ens and Kent, attended.
The following officers were
elected: Tommy Assiter of
Floydada. president; Truett
Mayes of Crosbyton, vice-pres-
ident; George Darden. Girard,
secretary; J. Fike Godfrey of:
Spur, treasurer.
The proposed by-laws were
accepted to govern its opera-
tion.
The position of an Execu-
tive Director for the organiza
tion-was discused regarding
salary, job description, and
qualification, which wil 1 bo
minimun education, 2 years
college, degree preferred,
business experience and
group experience. The salary
decided upon would be $7000.
00 annually plus mileage for
official travel.
The committed also sug-
gested only people who would
help make the application be
considered.
The Multi-County group e-
lected Henry Ford, Jr., Coordi-
nator of PESO Unit VIII as
Advisor for their committee.
State Officers, Area News People
See Proposed Dickens Park Site
The rugged ranchland of
the Croton Breaks east of
Dickens was toured Thursday
by Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment officials and delegations
from Lubbock, and nearby
counties. A dream of a state
park in the vast arreage of
! canyons and bubbling springs
to serve the people long after
this• generation is gone was
the purpose of the tour,
which, was made by plane,
jeep and helicopter.
Robert Reynolds and other
Dickens County businessmen
and ranchers hosted the tour
and a steak luncheon, com
pletc with sour dough bis-
cuits. was served at noon at
the Bar None Ranchhouse of
Mr. and Mrs. Coy Drennan.
Jack Hash of Crosbyton flew
the Lubbock delegation to the
6666 landing strip near Guth-
rie and furnished plane tours
over the area for the visitors.
Also attending from Crosby-
ton were Mrs. Jack Hash and
Mrs. T. W. Stockton, Jr. From
Floydada were Mrs. Almo
Holmes and Jedd Blessing.
The Parks and Wildlife of
ficials included Mark Gosdln,
director of park service; A. E.
Walker, director of Wildlife;
Jierce Uzzell, wildlife coordi-
nator; and Johnny Buck, dir-
ector of planning, design and
construction of the state park
service, all of Lubbock. They
were flown to the 6666 land-
ing strip by Jim Palmer of
Austin.
The Lubbock group includ
ed Dean Gerald Thomas and
Dr. Bill Kitchens of Texas
Tech; A. C. Hamilton, City of
Lubbock parks and recreation
director; and Grady Lewis of
Lubbock Chamber of Com
merce.
MR. AND MRS. JEDD Blessing will move to Crosbyton
where Blessing and Wendell Tooley of Floydada have
purchased The Ciosbyton Review. Blessing will be editor
and publisher and Mrs. Blessing will serve as bookkeep-
er. The}' are shown with their children, Jedda, 4, and Billy
Gene, 5.
New Owners of Review To Take
Over Management This Week
Smith Residence
Damaged by Fire
Tuesday Night
Crosbyton Volunteet Fire
Department answered a call
aboUT 1:15 a.m. Wednesday to
the residence of Mr, and Mrs.
Jack Smith at United Com-
press Warehouse.
Fire was caused by wiring
A three and one half inch
rain here Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning sent wa
ter over the highways west,
north and south of town, was
rapidly filling lakes and rais
ed the water level of the
White River Lake another five
feet.
The rains began Sunday
evening and the 5.01 inches
received since Sunday
brought the total August rain
to the furnace, It was report fall here to 7 34. second high
ed. and extensive damage! est in the history of recorded
was done to the flooring of! rainfall here. Record for total
the residence. i August rainfall here is 8.37
McAdoo School Begins Monday;
High School Registers Friday
Quarterback
Club Sets First
Meeting Mon.
Rev. Corbitt
Will Be McAdoo
Baptist Preacher
The Rev. Jack Corbitt will
be the new pastor of the MoA-
doo Baptist Church. The Rev.
and Mrs. Corbitt and daugh
ter will move into the parson-
age at McAdoo August 28
from Victoria.
It was incorrectly stated in
a headline in last week’s pa-
per the Rev. C. D. Walker of
Lubbock will be new pastor.
Rev. Walker delivered the ser
mons August 14 at the
church.
The Crosbyton Quarterback
Club will hold an organiza-
tional meeting at 8 p.m. Mon-
day in the school lunchroom,
announces Kay Don Spurgin,
president.
Business session will In-
clude election of new officers
for the coming year.
Athletic Director Deane
Wright will give a rundown
on prospects for this season
and will introduce new mem-
bers of the coaching staff.
The Chietains’ scrimmage
game at Amherst, slated Fri-
day night, will be discussed.
T. J. Taylor and Dale
Rhoades are in charge of sale
of season tickets to the Chief-
tains’ home games, Spurgin
said.
NEARLY NEWS
By BILLYE STOCKTON
They were met at the land-
ing strip by Dickens County
Judge Martin Pope, Dickens
Mayor Willow Street; Robert
Reynolds; Robert Collier and
Cecil MeadOr, businessmen
and rancuers, all of Dickens;
and J. H. Taylor, area conser-
vationist from Dickens.
Gosdln told those present
at the luncheon that a
thorough study of the area
and a wildlife survey would
be necessary before beginning
preparation of a feasibility
report on the potential of the
area as a state park.
Officials were questioned
by area landoWTiers about the
methods of securing land if a
park is considered feasible
and they were told, "In the
last 20 years the Parks and
Wildlife Department has
bought 146,000 acres, all on
(Continued on Back Page)
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This is the final issue of
The Crosbyton Review under
the ownership of Hubert Cur-
ry and Wayne Dobson. Next
week's paper, dated Thursday,
Sept. 1, will be published by
the new owners, John Edd
(Jed) Blessing and Wendell
Tooley.
Mr. and Mrs. Blessing and
children, Billy Gene and Jed-
da, will move to Crosbyton
this weekend from Floydada
to take over management of
The Review. Mr. Blessing will
be the editor and publisher,
while Mrs. Blessing will be-
come the bookkeeper and of-
fice supply manager.
Hubert Curry, present pub-
lisher of The Review, will re-
main with the firm for the
present as printer until a re-
placement can be found by
the new owners. Also remain-
ing with the new firm will be
Mrs. Billye Stockton as news
editor and Ronnie Traylor as
a printer.
Mrs. Stockton, a journalism
graduate of Texas Tech, has
been with the Review for 3
years, while Traylor joined
(Continued on Back Pago)
Registration date has been
announced for McAdoo school
system for the 1966-67 school
year.
High school students will
register Friday, August 26,
with grade school students
registering on Monday morn
ing, August 29, when school
begins at 8:30.
Buses will run at the usual
time and drivers include Hu
bert Hawley, V. V. Scott and
Earley Fulfer.
Mrs. Daisy Barton and Mrs.
Faye Griffin will be In charge
of the cafeteria. Students’
lunches will be 40 cents with
teachers' lunches being 50
cents. Lunches will be served
the first day.
Grade school teachers will
include Hubert Hawley, first
Mrs. W. B. Burton, second and
third; Mrs. Alone Hurst, four-
th and fifth.
Elementary and higii school
teachers will include Maborr.
Eldredge, grade school prin
cipal and drivers education;
Joe McGlaun, high school
principal and social studies;
Mrs. Eldon Williams, business
and librarian: Mrs. Mary Ly-
nell Harris, homemaking;
Darwin DeWees, Math; Miss
Harris, English V. V. Scott,
reading specialist; Mrs. Doris
Neff, school secretary and
teacher’s assistant, and Fa-
bian Lemley, superintendent,
with Earley Fulfer
custodian.
-o-
as school
Schools Will Start Sept. 1
For one who’s scared to look
out the window of a two story
building, Thursday was quite
a day for me.
Went with Aurelia Hash
down to the Croton Breaks
where Robert Reynolds and
Dickens businessmen and
ranchers "Were hosting tours of
that country as a proposed
state park site.
Arriving at the 6666 Ranch
landing strip I promptly
made a fine impression on
one member of the group
gathered there who looked
familiar, but I couldn’t place
him. With all that Sam Car-
negie training, looks like I’d
have remembered Jedd Bles-
sing, who!ll soon be my new
boss.
Jack Hash then todk several
of us in the news media on a
flight over the beautiful
country in his new six pas-
senger plane. The scene was
so beautiful I was only half
shaken when we. landed, and
I found the dootl’d been sit
ting by wasn't locked during
the trip. Not that the air
pressure would have let' it
open, Jack assured me.
A sumptious lunch prepar-
ed by a group of . Dickens
women included real sour
dough biscuits, some of which
were oooked outside in coals
and
l«is Just aren’t the
■
and the fact there was no
door, in fact nothing hut a
seat belt and a lot of air be-
tween me and the ground be-
low, didn't frighten me as I’d
figured it would. Even man-
aged to get pictures during
that flight.
All in all, courtesy of Ro-
bert Reynolds and other Dick-
ens businessmen and ranch-
ers, we had a day to remem-
ber, besides being Infected
with the dream of a great
park near the historic ranches
of this area.
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They had a slumber party
over at the Rodger. Cartels the.
other night and it’s reported
that about 2 a.m. Rodger ser-
niously considered going over
to the Wayne Hills to catch a
few winks on their couch, but
he didn’t." „
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Hey, the new programs will
soon be* on the magic picture
box. We’ll get to see all new
programs, followed by reruns
of rerun old movies for
maybe six months before they
start reruns again. With
someone with Influence would
tell those TV moguls thaf the
watching season is longer
than their scheduling
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Watching one of those teen
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City Clerks,
Secretaries
Meet Here
City Alderman Truett
Mayes delivered the welcome
address and was In charge of
the program for the meeting
here Friday of the South
Plains City Clerks and Secre-
taries Association. The lunch-
eon meeting was held in the
Pioneer Memorial building.
During the business session,
presided over by Oma Fay
Brown of Slaton, a plaque was
presented Mrs. Lavenia Lowe
of Lubbock, who served as
president of the Association
during 1965.
Following the business ses
sion a round table discussion
and question and answer ses-
sion was held.
On the program three skits
were presented by Mr. and
Mrs4 Truett Mayes and Non-
ette, Miss Theresa May sang
three numbers accompanied
at the piano by Miss Sylvia
Curry and threw solos were
sung by Roy Ellis, accompan-
ied at the piano by Miss Car-'
la Patton.
The steak luncheon was
served under direction of Mrs.
Tommy Webb.
After the meeting those at-
tending were taken on a tour
of the newly remodeled City
of Croabyton offices.
Attending .were Madge
Jones of Lockney, Mr. and
Mrs. M. L Rea of Plainview,
Maxine Sunday of
Lovenia Lowe of Lubbock,
Oma Fay Brown and Gerald
Kendrick of Slaton, DolUe
Berry and Dorothy * Cox of
Seagravea, Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
McClenny of Big Spring, Mr.
and Mrs. E. T. House of Lo
Cedle Cunningham of
Faye Cox of Tulia.
Macel Hark-
Ireta Long, all of
Crosbyton school classes
will begin at 9 a. m. Thurs-
day, Sept. 1, and dates for
registration will be Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week.
All students who have not
previously attended Crosbyton
schooLs will register at 2 p. m.
Tuesday. Those in Grades 1-5
will meet in the Elementary
School auditorium. Those in
Grades 5-8 will register In the
Junior High building and
Grades 9-12 will meet in the
High School auditorium.
Students who were enrolled
in Crosbyton schools last year
will register on Wednesday,
August 31.
Those In Grades 1-5 will
meet in their assigned rooms
at 9 a. m. Wednesday, Aug-
ust 31.
- Sixth and seventh graders
will register in the Junior
High building at 9 a. m.
Eighth graders will register
there at 10 a. m.
Hours for the registration
of Senior High students in the
High School auditorium will
be: Freshmen, 9 a. m.; Sopho-
mores, 10:30 a. m.; Juniors, 1
p. rn.; and Seniors, 2:30 p. m.
All students are requested to
bring a ball point pen to use
In registration.
Supt. Sam Hawkes has re-
leased the complete list of
Crosbyton school personnel
for the coming year.
Principals are Wayne Hill,
high school, Rodger Carter,
Junior High, and L. E. Treat,
Primary and Elementary. Hill
will also be drivers education
instructor and Carter will
teach history and physical ed-
ucation.
First grade faculty mem-
bers will be Mrs. Florence Ed-
wards, Mrs. Foy Leonard, Mrs.
Freda Sherwood and Benja-
min Vera. Second grade
teachers are Mrs. Ruth Crouch
Mrs. Zenoba Cumble and Mrs,
Janelle Snodgrass. In third
grade are Mrs. Mattie Curry,
Mrs. Hallie Terrell and Mrs.
Hazel Brakeblll.
Fourth grade teachers are
Mrs. Lorene Blagg, Mrs.
Gladys Grizzle and Mrs. Ora
Raymond. Mrs. Jan Morgeson,
Mrs. Vivian Williams and
Mrs. Edrie Taylor are fifth
grade teachers. Sixth grade
teachers are Mrs. Doris Hill,
Vernon Payton, Mrs. Hazel
Brown, Mrs. Kathryn Hawkes
is vocal music teacher for
Crosbyton schools.
Reading specialists are Mrs.
Margaret Barrett, Mrs. Gladys
Howard, Mrs. Llllye Jo Nich-
ols and Mr?. Marjorie Treat.
Mrs. Lucy Williams has been
employed as special education
teacher.
Junior High faculty mem-
bers will be Mrs. Fem Martin,
English and reading; Larry
Maeker, Junior High coach
and social studies; Ben Rich-
ardson, science; James Ste-
gall, social studies, Gayle
Morgeson, mathematics, and
Principal “Carter, history and
P.E.
High School faculty mem
bers will be Stanley Nixon,
English III and IV and
speech; Deane Wright, ath-
letics, world and American
history and government; Wil-
liam Bennett, physics, science,
biology and chemistry; Mrs.
Oleta Lovell, home econom-
ics; Harold Eades, vocational
agriculture; Mrs. Evelyn
Lowrie, geometry, Algebra,
trigonometry and analysis;
Principal Hill, driver educa-
tion; Eddie Redwine, athlet-
ics, American government;
Charles Porter, typing I and
II and bookkeeping; Lynn
Low, band, American history;
Harold Gober, English and
world history; James Jeffries,
science, basketball coach;
Mrs. Mary Davis, English I,
II, library; Jacinto Alderete,
Spanish; and Don Patton,
mathematics.
Mrs. Madeleine Stanford Is
school counselor. Other staff
members Include Mrs. Alice
Ford, secretary; Mrs. Sybil
Voigt, Elementary secretary;
Mrs. Clair Carter, librarian;
Mrs. Llnnie Hardesty, nurse;
Supt. Sam Hawkes and Roy
Ratheal, tax assessor-collect-
or and bookkeeper.
Meet Set lor
Discussion of
Golf Comse
All interested in the pro-
posed golf course and family
recreation center at the White
River Lake are Invited to at-
tend a meeting at 9 p.m. to-
night, Thursday, In the Pio-
neer Memorial building, an-
nounces John Brown, local
member of the group seeking
construction of the proposed
center.
Brown said the recreation
center would Include facilities
for all members of the fami-
lies joining along with an 18
hole golf course.
lions To Fete
Faculty Aug. 39
Crosbyton School faculty
members will be honored at
a Ladies Night dinner of the
Crosbyton Lions Club at 8 p.
m. Tuesday night in the Pio-
neer Memorial building.
Speaker will be Berl Huff
man, Texas Tech Freshman
Coach. Truett Mayes will
serve as program chairman.
The dinner honoring facul
ty members and" their wives
and husbands and wives of
Lions Club members is an an-
nual affair.
inches received in Augtisl,
1920 A total of 6.39 Inches
was received in August, 1932,
and 6.10 Inches wen* recorded
In August, 1894.
Car in Loire
The deluge which sent wa-
ter pouring down the While
River in|<vJhg Whit.! River
Lake Happed two fishermen,
who escaped unharmed about
5 am Wednesday, when a-
bout two and one-half fedl
wall of water suddenly came
up Sand Creek.
Willard Davis at the While
R!$er Filtration Plant said the
two fishermen from Lubbock
were caught by the sudden
rise in water and water cover-
ed their automobile up to the
windows. It was pulled out
and they were unharmed, but
lost some fishing equipment
and their string of fish.
Lake Up
The White River Lake level
has risen 9.6 feet over the last
two weeks, Davis reported.
This included a 2.6 foot rise
Monday, a five foot rise from
Tuesday night rains and two
feet during the past two
weeks.
The White River Lake now
covers about 7,450 acre feet,
where it covered 5,040 acre
feet Tuesday I;;J
Depth of the lake now is 34
feet and depth when full will
be 57 feet, but it was explain-
ed that the lake will cover
much more territory when U
reaches capacity.^Lake depth
was 25 feet two inches prior
to the rains.
Davis said, "With about an-
other foot rise in level the
lake will spread out over the
flats on Sand Creek.”
Good for Cotton
County Agent Bruce Griffith
said, "The rains couldn't have
come at a better time, for this
saves the farmers that last Ir-
rigation. Enabling them to
shut off the wells amounts to
quite a sayings ovoc the coun-
ty in dollars and cents.’’ *
He said, “Now we need R
to quit raining by the 25th
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Gnligas Festival
Is In Progress
at Mayes Gas
The Gulfgas Festival is in
progress now through Satur-
day at Mayes Gas on U. S.
Highway 82 in Crosbyton.
Old and new friends, are
invited to go by the firm and
register for valuable prizes
including a 45 piece set of
Lenoxware, s 28 piece set of
tools, full size blanket and a
teflon griddle.
A matched set of spatula
and spoon, ideal for cooking
with teflon, will be given a-
way to each homemaker.
Purpose of the Festival Is to
present information on the
convenience of up-to-date liv-
ing with Gulfgas fuel, stated
Truett Mayes.
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Mr. and Mrs. Norton Barrett
attended the Texas Municipal
League meeting in Austin
last week. They went Thurs-
day and returned Frl.day
evening.
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Slopping through the mud
of a late May rain, the W. M.
Curry family arrived on the
Plains and In Croabyton via
Model T Ford in 1924. The
1920 census showed the new
town, then 16 years old; had
a population of 920. There
was no pavement and the
hitching rail? still bordered
the "park" of weeds in the
center of the square. There
were probably more vacant
lots around the square than
there were buildings. Great
areas of Crosby County still
remained in native grass, al-
though farming had already-
become the leading Industry
here.
W. M. Curry, my father, had
bought The Review In March
of that year, but the taw
had remained In Snyder until
the close of school. Our trip
over a rutted country road
was our introduction to the
Plains. _ -
Pour editors had guided
The Review through the first
fifteen years of its existence.
W. M. Curry stayed on for at
years, and I took over the i
■Y HUBERT ctnunr
Neediest to say, after spend-
ing most of a lifetime either
printing or editing one news-
paper, the thougnt of leaving
it permanently does bring
qualms of doubt aa to whe-
ther I have done the right
thing. But right or wrong, Jed
Blessing will arrive in Croa-
byton this week and will pub-
lish his first issue of The Re-
view next week, on Thursday,
Sept 1.
I will miss ipsny things
connected with the publish-
ing oi The Review*- perhaps
the greatest of which will be
my association with my part-
ner for the past seven years,
Wayne Dobson. Wayne start-
ed to work for me in 1949,
when he was a Junior in high
school. With the exception of
two years military duty and
a few months spent in Mid-
land In 1908, he has teen
with me ever since. - ,'v- IT
almost indispensable i
ee of The Bsvfa
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Curry, W. H. The Crosbyton Review (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 1966, newspaper, August 25, 1966; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth519298/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.