The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 69TH YEAR, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1958 Page: 1 of 8
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DUBLIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1958
Eight Pages
the Farm Problem Like Baying
Car - Demand Keeps Reaming
Proctor Reservoir
Development Club
Program's Subject
A Lot of Brick
t $ not*: Th* Green* Crook*
jpber on hi* Jobneon gw**
Apparently t* trying to Writ*
tfully thU week, hut wo
«lt whether ho wccood* or
dttar-
lirtlme* I *»l mhted up on
hinting that gone on In
egtnn whfeh I* only
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on. I
rhle
naTbral. u 1 nleo
get roiled op on
the thinking that
goe* on out here
on thi* Johnson
grnae farm.
For example, i
|w«* rending In
' a newspaper taat
night, for poor
walked up to a
► ••• 1 in town and paid for ft
Coro )«*«*rday. whan an
jltural expert. testifying be-
Onngreapional commute*
kluxton. eaid "Last mr It
thro* Ultlon dollar* to
I out the proaeat ftm pn<*
: ait«i disMUnklkii pmifitn,
bad hr might a aolutioo to
It eronlg hare been
da instead the problem
iVtkh on.** .
I* reault. ho wag la foyer
lUijg’ Us program
n't underrtaed thU type
Kkiag. on the gronnda that
i»t*r to all the other
*« that geo* on la Wnafciag-
I oat here tod,
1 tartaaco. take Poralga Aid.
car tire (pent BMiny tlmee
[than three Mllloa dottare
akt. hut how many
d«* iron knew of who
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l? tf tl
I tkal*#
lot
Williams Resigns
As Higginbotham
General Manager
T. J. William* provident and
general manager of Higginbotham
Brother* and Company *tnc* 1931.
announced hi* retirement from
then* poeitlon* at the annual
stockholder* and director* meet-
ing at Comanche taat Friday
William*. who ha* been. Mooch
»ted with the company for the
pnat H year*, will remain a*
chairman of the hoard lie la also
to remain active a* a director of
the Comanche Rational Beak and
t Wpi
tUa year
3&3S BE
[take aauooal itofomss We
•couod 49 billion dottare
on defenee, tint the problem
|H «ch a*, in a worm way
letee wan,
ink* education Coaming
! th. whole country spend*.
I f>r*i grade through *Ot-
|we mua< .pend many a Ml-
ioltarg a year am edweuthM.
i doot even have t* get Mf
out here to find a mea
■ «taad aanr more and
idee you can find plenty
wHhout eve* coming thin
|- '•» without even taae-
mnybe without even
yo«r block, maybe. weU.
■ no ua* ta narrowing thin
any further, ain't that what
ay* Yau rerkoa that Wash-
»*pert want* to oiWtMi
becauae noma people are
naif
to permanently aolvo
problem la like trytag
eatly active the pro-
[at a new car. You can troy
new list model today
your family t» hollaring
to maintain ita aortal
but that won't aolvo
I new car problem, unleea you
abolish the calendar Menu-
' are alroddw
i for the IMP
property 'owned by him
In the Comanche area
Me wen born near Clalretl* and
attended public school* at Cotton-
wood and Dublin. He started
work far the company In the Dub-
lin atom at the pgn of It Ful-
Iowing hie marriage to Mia* Julia
Kvertdge here December 17, 1897.
be wea promoted to the poeiiteu
of bookkeeper in the local atore
M* wea named manager of a
new etore at Comanche, opened
la ISO! which poeitlon ha held
until HIT. when he Wan named
gent rat manager of the chain of
Higginbotham atore*
The firm at praeeat operate#
nine, general atom. 15 lumber
yard* and an implameat company
in 18 Central Went Tvxaa town#
Having it# beginning with the
opening of a gM»ral atore ta De-
1883. the company J* ob-
it* 75U» «mlvcreary thla
poor. BlSiipB ......
A larger end more complete
atore wa# opened In Dublin In )Mf
Olid waa managed by It W Hig-
ginbotham dr, Joe T Kennedy ha*
Program made toward eonstruc-
tlon of the proposed Proctor Re-
Hervplr waa under dlacuealon at
the Friday/boon meeting of the
Dublin Development Club last
week. Edwin L. Keller, former
manager of the Chamber of Com-
merce here and present county
attorney, waa principal speaker.
Keller outlined progress made
to date on the project, which in-
clude* appropriations totaling
$ 176,000 for planning work.
He also stated that prospects
were good that-* another
$125,000 would be appropriated
by Congrem this year for further
planning.-Thla amount waa In-
cluded la President Elsenhower's
budget for the 1 #68-59 fiscal year.
Three Comanche c 11 1 a « a a,
Oswald Hrlghtmaa. Bill Parka and
Bit! Parker, attended the meeting.
Other visitor* Included County
Judge Dale Harbin and Joe
Fletcher, Stephenvllle; Commis-
sioner fkm UtBaume aud Sam Oll-
ier. Dublin, and W H. Griffin.
San Antonio.
President Walter Hamilton pre-
sided at the meeting while
Clarence l.eatherwood waa In
charge af the day's program.
700 Year Supply of Clay in Prospect
To Supply New S west Brick Company
Mothers to March
On Polio Tonight
Sharply at *:t8 has been set ae
**t» hour by an army of mother*
who will at that time begin their
march on - polio. The carp* of
worker* will systematically make
a house lo house canvas* of those
homes where a light la burning
on the porch or In a front windw
■ Proceed* of the march wit) be
turned over to the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
to be used to combat and treat
potto. ThU particular phase ta a
portion on the month-long March
of Dime program being carried
out throughout the nation
The Mothers March is scheduled
here, a* well a* in most Ameri-
can cities, on the birthday of the
lata ..Franklin D. Roosevelt, a
victim of Infantile paralysis,
Th« (hr** co-chairman, Mrs.
managed operation* of lb* depart- ‘"r*e T*"?™, •
meat atore, hardware and furnl- Nathan »l*f*l. Mr*. T H. Clave-
tare Mores sad lumber yard her#
ainer 1932.
Keaaedy aha la one of th« com-
pany-* director*, along with Nick
Higginbotham, Comanche; T H
William* DeLeon; Paul Richard-
son. Browuwood, Paul Higgln
hot bam. Dallas. Bd I- Frwaaley,
Comanche. R T Williams, tlailtn-
ger and J M Higginbotham HI.
Dallas
January River is lb# English
moaning of Rio de Janeiro
land and Mr*. Audrey Rhllllng-
burg will direct the march and r««-
gueat that Dublin citlaena cooper-
ale in making liberal contri-
bution*
HINDERS MEET
The regular monthly meeting
e! the Krath County Singing
Convention will tw held In the
court house in Suphenvllt* Sun-
day, starting at 3 p.m.. Johnnie
Herring, president, announced
this .weak.
No More Free Seed
*0
Free Bdkths Covering 500 Subjects
Contained in Lid Mailed by Bmrleson
anyway, 1’v#
. »*w or old. that didn't com
to run.
rn r» going to abolish a
■ IBM bocaus* It tent
•he problem, you’ll bo
with the Job of abolishing
.tat
foreign aid. national do-
•uiomoblle mechanise, woo-
| forecasting, radio, televiaion.
Possibly newapapera. We'd
[Sr$sF *
J- A* ; "M
lent to _
|P-TA
w. o — -
Coagreeamsn don't eend out
fra* packeU of seed* Ilk# they did
n faw yuars ago. hut they do make
available bulletin* to tall you bow
to grow things If you havu tbs
seed or plants.
Congressman Omar Burlaaon
thla wash mnllad lltla of UA. Da-
partmant of Agricultur* bulletins
which art available to thoae who
want them. Just for the asktag
In a not# accompanying tbs I hit
Gang. Burleson explained that the
bulletin* have been' carefully pre-
pared to cover many subjects—
UO of thgm-
that order# for the
limited to not
Hu 15.
The list of bullstins lacludun
most conceivable subject;
“First Aid for Flooded Home*
Farm*.’' to tdanUflcsilon,
in end eradication of
•oak and pol---
person* Ini
do shout
par so u> cvvei
ap| roximntaly
rs<j uoet* that c
bulletin* be Ui
Among other bulletin* which pro-
mise interesting reading nr# “How
to Control the Meadow gpUtlebug,'
“Buying Woman’s Costs and
Suits.” “How to Judge Quality of
MlnW Suit#.*' sad others.
No bulletin ts listed which of-
fers suggestion* on how to ranks
mongy farming daring drought
cards for Farm Homes” might
com* In handy when It ruin# at
th* right time.
By A. S. Jackson
Jeff Donaldson, owner of the
Southwest Brick Company and
who literally knows the brick
business from the Inside out, Is
*ure of one thing: he won’t run
ont of clay soon. Engineers tell
him he has n supply that will
last more than 700 year#.
Donaldson’* new brick plant
located In Comanche County just
“west of the Leon River on High
way No. 6, started on limited pro-
duction last week. Within a mat-
ter of a few day* he will have
the “bug#” out of newly installed
equipment «nd will start produc-
ing a top quality brick in mass
qunntitlea.
Headquarters of the new con-
cern is In Dublin, and Donaldson
plan# to make hi* home here when
he can find auttable housing In
order to move hta family here
from their present home In Fort
Worth.
When asked how he could be
certain of clay suitable for brick
making in such a large quantity
Donaldson produced a report from
an engineering firm which indi-
cated there was - approximately
8.000 acre feet of day available
on property he hog nurchased.
Baaed on on eanhiated 3.000
tom of clay per nerd foot he has
n total of 18 million? tons of raw
material. Donaldson explained
that asing the tact that three
torn of day will produce 1,000
brick as n denominator he has
*a trident clay to manufacture « ject*. They then go to the drying
billion brtek. Figured on the basts
of producing 30,000 brick per day
he has enough clny to operate
716 year*.
Formed !*»<* SIaw Wrick
Although Donaldson has spent
Scheduled Thursday
In Elementary Hall
Thursday evening has been the
time set for a Band Concert in
Dublin School auditorium. The
time ha* been set for 7:30 and
the public has been invited to at-
tend.
Presenting the program will be
the High School Band and the
Junior High School Band, undar
direction of Vernon T. Lewis,
school bund director.
The High School Band will pre-
sent a number front the Universi-
ty interncholnsttc League, the
Slavonic Folk Suite. On the ligh-
ter aide will be marches, Jump
tune, light overture and a novelty
number.
Also featured will be n clarinet
quartet composed of Gurle Bax-
ter, Jan Siegel. Rita Mcllroy and
Lulna Hetxer. Student Conductors
Carter Smith and Jan Siegel will
also have a part on the program.
In th* Novelty number will be
Joe Templeton, Linda Daggett,
Lonnie Black and Don Klrklnn.
The band to working hard to
give ths general public a concert
that will he worth nn evening of
entertainment time, Lewis stated.
A small charge will be made at
tbu door or with advanced tickets.
According to National Review,
yuan, but No. F-19M. “Useful Re- the Soviet Union bad a "catastro-
phic" crop failure Inst year. Out-
pat to astl mated at 16 to 30 per
cant below th* 1968 level.
most of the 17 years in the brick
business in the capacity of sales-
man and management of brick
plants hla Dublin plant la not
his first venture in the manu-
facturing end of the business He
formed the Lone Star Brick Com-
pany, with headquarters in' Fort
Worth, in 1954 and within a period
of 15 months built a 9160.000
monthly business
He sold the Lone Star plant
in 1956 but remained as general
manager until the latter part of
last yean, when he started plan-
ning hfs local plant.
Much of the responsibility of
constructing buildings and install-
ing machinery in his new plant
was placed In the hands of his
son, Robert, who, although he
to only 18 years of age, handled
the job like a veteran. Now that
the plant is in operation Robert
nets an production foreman.
Actual production of brick to a
seven to nine-day process. After
the clay Is trucked to the grind-
ing room, where It Is broken down
Into small particles, It is conveyed
to the pug mill. There it is mixed
with the right quantity of water
to make it pliable and moulded
into correct else and shape, all
by machinery.
Color Burned In
The brick move from the cutter
to n conveyor belt, where work-
men select only those Which grade
No. 1 end separate others as re-
IT.ANT OWNER Jeff Donaldson, left, mol his min, Robert, in-
spect brick from a stack which have jnsl come off the assembly
line. The wet brick weigh six pounds, but when they come from
the kiln as finished brick they huve lost a pound and shrink
slightly in size. Present production of the Southwest Brick Co.
is 225,004) per month. progress BTArr Photo
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room where they remain under
heat for 48 hours.
After two days in * drying pro-
cess the brisk go to the kiln, for
a period of slxjdnys. Th«« they
are ' burned” at a temperature of
1.80Q to 2.400 degrees for n
„ , , „ , „ L (rtierlod or 72 hours. Another 72
School Band Concerts hour# u required m
required in a cooling
process.
E*ch brick loses about one
pound in weight and nhu> shrink*
slightly in size In the process.
Wheu they come from the cutter
they weight six pounds, while the
finished brick weighs five pounds.
Color of the brick is controlled
by the temperature and thoae pro-
duced by Donaldson will range
from a light pink to deep red. He
also bos a supply of clay avail-
able In this area which produces
n white or cream colored brick.
Only one kiln to In operation at
the present time, which has a
capacity of 75,000 brick. Two
more are planned to bring pro-
duction to 225.000 brick monthly.
Donaldsoti to optimistic ns to
prospects of his new business ves-
ture. He to aware of the constant-
ly Increasing demand for brick
In the building industry. His big-
gest problem, ns he sees It. will
be to expand his facilities fast
enough to keep pace with the de-
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MANUFACTURING BRICK to carried oat at » fast dip at the
Southwest Brick Co., plant. In the above picture workmen sort
the cut and died brick preparatory to sending them to tlie dry-
ing rooms and kiln, when- they spend a wee* before they are
ready to ship out to consumers. All work to done by mnehtoery.
maud
An Important factor to people
of Dublin to that Donaldson is
Impressed with the progressive
spirit of Dublin, friendliness and
spirit of cooperation of Its people
and has chosen this city for hi*
hnadquartars.
His plant now employs 16 par-
sons, several of them from the
Dublin ares. When additional
factUtltlaa urn put into production
Donaldson expects that n work-
ing force of SO persons will bo re-
quired.
Over 50 Members
Listed in 100%
Club of Chamber
HwJIJ - *
Half a hundred local firms had
been reported Wednesday after-
noon as members of the 100 per
cent club, according to Dr. Joe J.
Rate, president of the Dublin
Chamber of Commerce,
These firms are those In which
the owners and all employees are
active members in the Chamber
of Commerce.
An active campaign to still un-
derway to secure Individual mem-
berships In the chamber, and a
goal of a minimum of <00 mem-
bers has been sat. Action taken
by the board of directors earlier
this month emended the constitu-
tion to reduce monthly dues to n
minimum at 80 cents in order to
secure a large list of Individual
members.
Heretofore expense of operating
the Chamber of Commerce hot
been borne, to larg* extent, by
dues paid by business firms. Dur-
ing the current membership drive
an effort to being made to in-
crease dues paid by business firms
to provide a monthly Income of
t<00 or more.
The increased budget to plan-
! to provide money to employ
an experienced manager and to
be used to promote growth and
isnt of the city,
t. Fate said Wednesday after-
that soUciation is just
underway, and that It to
to contact every indlvl-
■ to offer them an op-
mmmm- the
Elementary School
Gives Assist. Test
In Fitness Survey
w
Stephenvllle, (Spl.) — C. M-
Flory, head of the Department of
Physical Education at Tarleton
State College, this week expressed
his appreciation for the assistance
given him by the Dublin Elemen-
tary School during a youth fit-
ness survey taken recently.
Flory said that Mrs. F. Bolta-
ger, principal of the school, end
teachers Mrs. R. D. Burnett, Mrs.
Joe Little. Mrs. Grace Short end
Miss Johnnie Mae Vickers, ware
especially helpful during the tool-
ing.
Three counties Jn Texas, Erath,
Harris, and Taylor, have been
selected as tasting areas. Th#
Stephenvllle schools will also par-
ticipate in Uf* survey.
Wmi
Cleopatra’s Needle to a
meat in London.
Political
The Progress to
make tbs following
nounceraenta, subject to actio* of
the Democratic Primaries, J«*r
!< and August 23, 1968:
For State Representative:
BILL SHANNQN
(Re-election)
KAL
For County
DALE W.
(He-election)
pm
WADE
ter
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Jackson, Albert S. The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 69TH YEAR, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1958, newspaper, January 31, 1958; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth560131/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.