The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 24, 1969 Page: 4 of 6
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The Archer County News
Published st Archer City, Texa\ 76351, weekly except the lest
week in December
Second class postage paid at Archer City, Texas, 76351
Subscription rates: $3.50 in county and adjoining counties
and $5.00 elsewhere.
Any erroneous reflection on the character, reputation or
standing of any person, firm or corporation which may appear
in The News will be gladly corrected if brought to the atten-
tion of the publisher.
THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1969
News About People You Know
Mr. and Mrs. J. V Linscott, 1004 S. Ash, returned to Bishop
410 S. Ash, returned Monday, with his paternal grandparents,
July 21 from a two-week vaca- Rev. and Mrs. Carl J. Schlo-
tion jaunt which took them to mach, Friday, July 18, as they,
New Orleans, La., where they accompanied by two other
explored Bourbon Street, and grandsons, John Mark and
other famous locales, and took Douglas Lindley of Beaumont,
a 40 mile cruise down the who visited last week with the
Mississippi which lasted for Carl Bealls and Schlomachs,
six hours. They drove to Mo- returned to their home following
bile, Ala., thence to Jackson- an Archer City visit. Carlton
ville, Florida. They telephon- is looking forward to flying
ed Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mercer home in some two weeks.
in Pearson, Ga., and the former -
Archerites joined the Linscotts, Maj. and Mrs. Phillip
who were accompanied by her L. Blake and children, Susan
sister, Mrs. Claude Rogers of anc| Matt, of West Point, N. Y.,
Wizard Wells, for a sightseeing were recent visitors with Mr.
tour in the Jacksonville area. and Mrs. Harold Wunch and Re-
The Texas trio returned to nee no? S. Oak.
Pearson, Ga., with the Mercers ’ -
and participated in a fisher- Mr. and Mrs. L N. Barton
man’s dream, as blue and yel- of 1101 S. Ash, returned to their
low channel catfish were caught Archer City home, Thursday
by the multitudes. They re- of last week from Tulsa, Okla.,
turned via Montgomery, Ala., and were accompanied by their
the Vicksburg battlegrounds; daughter and grandson, Mrs.
Fort Worth; and home. They Carl Young III and John Mit-
are enthusiastic over camping chell. The Tulsa residents will
trailor vacations. visit this week with the Bartons
- and will be joined by their hus-
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Perona band and father toward the end
of Oakland, Calif., arrived Sa- of the week.
turday, July 19, for a week’s -
visit with her brother’s family, Mrs. Ross Davis of 215 W
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Ashton, Walnut, called from Fort Worth
409 W. Elm. The two families one night last week to report
visited another sister, Mrs. that she had attended revival
Fannie Armstrong in Munday, services that evening at Rosen
Sunday, July 20. The Califor- Heights Baptist Church in that
nia visitors are former resi- city, where Rev. Earl Allen is
dents of Bowie, but have lived pastor and Rev. Billy Barber
in California for the last 29 was evangelist. Both preachers
years. are former pastors of Archer
- City First Baptist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Eustace -
and children, Todd, Lorrie and Recent visitors in the home
Boyd, accompanied her parents, of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cheves,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sturgeon, Bridwell Ranch, were the la-
103 Homestead Lane, to Breck- dy’s mother, Mrs. Anne Fra-
enridge, Friday evening, July zer of Birmingham, Ala., and
18, for a visit with two of her Jack’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
aunts and their families to in- H. E. Cheves of Dill City, Okla
elude Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Fam- Mrs. Frazer’s air trip home
brough of Breckenridge, and was fraught with delays,
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Parks and according to her daughter, Bar-
their two daughters, Sue and bara, but she finally made it
Janie of Palm Springs, Calif, tome okay. The visitors en-
The Eustaces, with the excep- joyed parties and community
tion of Lorrie, returned to their gatherings while here.
home in Tulsa, Okla., early -
Saturday morning. Lorrie will Mrs. Press Hudson of this
visit with her maternal grand- city, on vacation from clerical
parents and her paternal grand- duties at the Andrews \ etera-
mother, Mrs. Bill Eustace of narian Hospital, and her sis-
306 N. Oak, for some three ter, Mrs. Susie Thompson of
weeks. Todd completed a five- McAlister, Okla., are visiting
week-plus visit in Texas on his this week with another sister,
return to Oklahoma, Saturday. Mrs. Edith Lampkins in Ama-
- rillo.
Carlton Schlomach, son of Dr.
and Mrs. R D. Schlomach of
Pvt. Pat Wolf
Com plates Bask
At Fort Bliss
Private Patrick Wolf, 19, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Wolf
of Windthorst, was recently
graduated from eight weeks cif
basic combat training at the U.S.
Army Training Center (Air De-
fense), at Fort Bliss. He was
assigned to D Company, 1st
Battalion, 2nd Basic Combat
Training Brigade.
Pat Wolf is a 1968 graduate
of Windthorst High School. He
entered the Army in April and
completed basic combat train-
ing June 27.
Terry Schroeder
Is Deanery
President
The Windthorst CYC was tost
for the Wichita Falls area dea-
nery on Sunday, July 20. Main
business on the agenda was the
election of officers. They are
as follows: Terry Schroeder,
president; Gerald Knezek, vice
president; Doris Jean Kuehler,
recording secretary; Frances
Lindemann, corresponding sec-
retary; Wayne Frerich, trea-
surer; and Freddy Walsh, par-
liamentarian.
Approximately 150 youth at-
tended from Seymour, Jacks-
boro, Scotland, dney, Wichita
Falls, and Windthorst.
Windthorst won the Travel-
ing Scrapbook for having the
best scrapbook.
The meal was fixed for the
youth by the Christian Mothers
Society. The Evergreen High-
way played for the dance held
in the gym.
Tarr Reunion
Held Sunday
In This City
Fewer members than usual
were in attendance at the annual
reunion of the children of the
late Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Tarr,
according to locals, Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Moore. The gather-
ing was held Sunday, July 20,
in the American Legion Hall
in this city.
Present were Mrs. Mary An-
derson and Glenn of Weather-
ford and her children to include
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Anderson,
Lewis and Carolyn of Dallas
and Wesley of Perryton; Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Justice, Lorraine,
Jonathan, Anthony and Anita of
Fort Worth and Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Anderson and Lisa, also
of Weatherford.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A Walker
and Harold Tarr were the oth-
er Archer City family members
in attendance.
Also present were Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Love, Quitman,
Mary Gale Parker and Mr. and
Mrs. Coy Wall of Dallas; Teresa
and Lana Lee Davis of Spokane,
Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Davis, Wichita Falls. Others
included Mr. and Mrs. James
Tarr, Guthrie; Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Tarr, Jerry Don and
Bobby Wayne, Dallas; Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Tarr and Mr. and
Mrs. N. L Bowman, Beth, Bec-
ky, Paul David and Brenda, all
of Henrietta.
Guests present included Ken
A Brown of Spokane and Steve
Ernest of Dallas.
Personal
The Bill Andersons of Fort
Worth were weekend visitors in
Archer City, visiting with her
parents, the Pat Brocks, and her
brother’s family, Airman First
Class and Mrs. Charles Brock
and Diane. Charles leaves,
Thursday (today) for a year
in Vietnam.
AIEPORT FROM TOUR
County Agent’s
Office
MARVIN HENRY
Judges Holder, Williams Request
Nortex Hasten Police Training
Miss Karls Hooke, daught-
er of Mr. and Mrs. Art Henke
of Holliday, and Miss Theresa
Schreiber, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Schreiber of Wind-
thorst, were selected as win-
ners in the senior and junior
divisions, respectively, of the
1969 Archer County 4-H Dress
Revue. This contest was held
Monday, July 21, with judging
of record books that morning,
construction at 7:00 p.m. and
the young lady in her outfit
at 8:00 p.m.
Nineteen Archer County 4-H
girls modeled their garments
on a stage decorated with a
“man on the moon’’background.
Decorations were prepared by
the Holliday 4-H Club under the
supervision of Mrs. Art Henke.
Narrating the Junior and Se-
nior divisions were Mrs. Bobby
Steinberger, leader at Wind-
thorst, and Miss Cindy Schroe-
der, junior leader at Wind-
thorst. Mrs. Fern McAlister
provided music and the 4-H
clubs in Windthorst prepared
refreshments.
Karla and Theresa will re-
present Archer County Aug. 1
at the District 4-H Dress Re-
vue in Vernon.
Cathy and Lois Jean Schroe-
der were named senior and
junior runners-up, respec-
tively. They are the daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sch-
roeder of Windthorst
Making presentations and of-
fering his congratulations was
B. W. Finnell, county commis-
Hospital Report
Admitted
Mrs. Narnie Spaventa, medi-
cal, Archer City.
J R McLemore, medical,
Archer City.
Mrs. C. P. Pryor, medical,
Archer City.
Mrs. Rex Owen, surgical, Ar-
cher City.
Wanda, Rhonda and Sherry
Keener, surgical, Archer City.
Mrs. Ed Maag, medical,
North Archer County.
Bert Neal, medical, Holli-
day.
Carried Over
Mrs. Bud Rushing.
Dismissed
L A Evans, Mrs. Claude
Harris, Ernest Schreiber, Mrs.
Cora Gragg and James Seigler.
Personals
In a note with a request for
a subscription to the News, Mrs.
Gerald L Mathews reveals that
she and M/Sgt. Mathews have
only recently returned from
Taiwan where he was serving
with the U.S. Air Force. Sgt.
Mathews is now stationed at
Webb AFB, Big Spring. Mrs.
Mathews IsaformerWindthorst
resident.
sioner of Precinct L Awards
were as follows:
Senior Division-Blue Ribbon:
Karla Henke, Cathy Schroeder,
Vickie Veitenheimer, Debbie
Wolf.
Junior Division-Blue Ribbon:
Karen Henke, Kathy Henke,
Theresa Schreiber, Lois Jean
Schroeder, Cathy Steinberger,
Virgie Veitenheimer, La Donna
Wolf.
Red Ribbon: Norman Koetter,
Paula Munchrath, Denise Sch-
roeder.
White Ribbon-Carol Berend,
Marlene Hoff, Elaine Schenk,
Wendy Ward.
Judges were Mmes. Bill
Crow, Marvin Henry and Lee
Sprott. Judging was 25 points
on posture, poise and attitude;
50 points on appearnace of the
girl in her dress considering
neatness, fit, style, etc. and
selection of accessories; 25
points on construction and 25
points on record books.
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Mor-
rison of this city spent a re-
cent weekend at Red River,
N.M., with a son, Jerry, who
is working on the Red River
Ranch out of Springer, N.M.
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Slack,
accompanied by their son, Lar-
ry, of Wichita Falls, were Ar-
cher City visitors, Sunday ev-
ening, July 20, as they met
and visited with their son and
daughter-in-law, Rev. and Mrs.
Mike Slack of Fort Worth.
Archer County Judge Bill
Holder, chairman of Nortex Re-
gional Planning Commission,
and Clay County Judge Edd
Williams, chairman of the law
enforcement davisory com-
mittee, directed Ed Daniel,
Nortex executive director, to
move expeditiously as possible
in instituting procedures for
procuring allocated funds to
establish law enforcement
training for the immediate
12-county area.
The instructions were given
at the quarterly meeting of
Nortex Thursday night when
the group went on record to
seek immediate implementation
of a regional law enforcement
training program, a police aca-
demy type of operation to serve
the area.
Nortex officials cited Wichita
Falls Police Chief C. C. "Bud”
Daniel as a motivating force in
establishing the need for train-
ing “at the grassroots,” and
Burkburnett City Manager ex-
pressed the opinion that if it
were necessary to "isolate a
single project for the use of
allocated funds, a training pro-
Library Receives Fasdaiile
Copy Of Almaaac
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mueller
and sons, Mark, Mike and Jac-
kie, 804 S. Ash, spent the past
weekend touring New Mexico
points of interest to include
Carlsbad Caverns and the
mountainous area around
Cloudcroft.
A facsimile copy of the first
Texas Almanac published in
1857 was received by the Ar-
cher County Public Library re-
cently, a gift from the Dallas
Morning News, publisher, ac-
cording to Mrs. Mary Varde-
man, librarian.
The first edition of the Texas
Almanac came off the crude
press of “The Galveston News”
in January 1857. Willard Ri-
chardson was publisher.
Current editions are publish-
ed biennially by the Dallas Mor-
ning News and the contents are
accepted as standard re-
ferences in libraries, school,
and courts. Bets are settled
by its contents and it is quot-
ed on Congress and in the Tex-
as Legislature.
The Texas Almanac has won
its place as "the Encyclopedia
of Texas” throughout the world.
The 1966 Facsimile Re-
production is by A H. Belo
Corporation of Dallas.
This first edition of the Tex-
as Almanac shows that the slave
population of the state increas-
ed from 58,161 in 1850 to 105,
704 in 1855. The ad valorem
value rose from 1361. in 1850
to $505. in 1855. Negroes in-
creased in value from $324.00
per head to$505.00, an increase
of 300 percent in number and
more than 500 percent in value.
Many other Interesting facts
about the state are also noted
in the gift book, which "county
residents are invited to come in
and read,” Mrs. Vardeman
said.
The library is buzzing with
activity this week as 300 new
books are catalogued and put
on the shelves for county read-
ers.
The new shipment of books
is mostly fiction on graded
reading levels, the librarian
stated. She said “We have
something to Interest everyone,
and are always happy to assist
anyone needing information and
help.” She went on to add that
a book dealing with different
religious denominations within
the United States was recently
borrowed by a lady who need-
ed information for a church stu-
dy.
"The Compact History cf The
Civil War,” by R Ernest Du-
puy and Trevor N. Dupuy, a
Story of the War between the
States, is a recent acquisition
and will prove helpful to Amer-
ican History students.
You don’t have to
feel like this
when you buy
a used
car.
Let our ® take the worry
out of used car buying
MURPHY BROS. CHEVROLET
116 N. Center_ Archer City
Hostesses may benefit from
three new recipe books, each
giving 2,000 favorite recipes
of home economics teachers.
The three books are: “ (Xu-
Favorite Desserts,” “CXir Fa-
vorite Salads,” and "Our Fa-
vorite Meats.”
Miss Deborah Dorris has as-
sisted with cataloguing and
placing the new shipment of
books on the shelves, ready for
county readers.
Porsoaal
Glen Larkin of Austin was
in a hurry when he came in
the office Tuesday to subscribe
for the News for ji brother,
Rip, in Bremond. Ostensibly,
Glenn’s hurry was to get back
to the home of his brother and
sister-in-law, Bill and Eleanor
Larkin, with whom he was vi-
siting, because a cold water-
melon lay a-waltlng in their
refrigerator.
Reminder
People of the Holliday area
are reminded of the Fun Night
Friday (tomorrow) at the Hol-
liday football stadium, 8:00 o’-
clock.
A cake walk and games of
all sorts for all ages are plan-
ned, to be highlighted by pie
throwing at the school princi-
pal, band director and coaches.
gram should have highest pri-
ority.” Daniel earlier had
said the “emergency for this
area is qualifying ail the of-
ficers.”
Fire Chief Floyd Bryant an-
nounced that the Wichita Falls
Fire Department is making a
study of the use of computers
for the future and reported on
their findings thusfar, accord-
ing to Judge Holder.
A guest at the meeting, held
in the community room of Texas
Highway Department’s district
headquarters, 1601 Southwest
Parkway in Wichita Falls, was
State Rep. Charles Finnell of
Holliday whose efforts in be-
half of legislation benefiting
the regional planning efforts
earned him a standing ovation
by the members of the council
present.
Judge Holder announced Nor-
tex’s operating committees for
the fiscal year, 1969-70, and
named chairmen of the key
groups as follows:
Wilbarger County Judge
Henry Scott, budget and finance;
Clay County Judge Williams,
water, sewer and public facili-
ties; Young County Commis-
sioner Jack Bishop of Otney,
transportation; Councilman Bi-
lly J. Smoth of Burkburnett,
open space and land use; Iowa
Park Mayor Erwin F. Soell,
by-laws; Holliday Mayor T. J.
Singletary, solid waste; Electra
Mayor Henry Culpepper, in
teragency group; and Henrietta
Mayor Rex Gates, housing.
Locals Eajoy
Ozark Visit
Mrs. Crit Adkins and daugh-
ter, Harola, accompanied by
the latter’s fiance, E/T Al-
phonse Zotz, Jr., of Windthorst,
on leave from military duty,
and Mrs. Alma Morris of this
city, spent the past weekend,
Thursday to Sunday, at Prai-
rie Grove, Ark., with the other
Adkins daughter and husband,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Zotz, tho-
roughly enjoying a stay in the
Ot-rks.
Monday visitors in the Ad-
kins home, 507 W. Pecan, were
the lady’s nephews and fami-
lies, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dunn,
returning to their Springtown
home after vacationing in New
Mexico, and Tom Morgan, a for-
mer Archer City resident, and
children, Tina, Terry and Br-
yan of Wichita Falls.
The Dunns visited also with
his mother, Mrs. R L. Dunn,
and the Morgans with Mr. and
Mrs. Doc Davis.
Personal
Mmes. Bruce Hale and E.
R Richards and Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Lane of Megargel attended
the Les Walsh funeral in Ar-
cher City last week.
Officials and personnel at-
tending from Archer County in-
cluded Commissioners L G.
Schenk, Scotland, J. W. Dwyer
at Dundee, B. W. Finnell oi
Holliday and J. T. Duke of
Megargel.
Daniel reported that seven
cities and threee counties were
members of Nortex as of July
1, 1968, and that in the in-
terim, nine more counties and
11 cities had been welcomed in-
to membership.
Whdthorst CYC
Holds Mootkly
Meeting
The Windthorst CYC held lta
monthly meeting on Thursday,
July 18 in the school gym with
62 members answering the roll
call. The meeting was called
to order by president Danny
Joe Schroeder. The secretary
and treasurer gave their re-
ports.
The Catholic State League
delegates gave their reports
concerning the meetings, work-
shops, and contests they at-
tended at San Angelo on July
11-13.
At the meeting it was an-
nounced that Windthorst would
publish the Youth Bulletin for
the coming year. The Youth
Bulletin is a monthly news let-
ter in which there are reports
from the affiliated CYC’s and
letters from officers and mod-
erators.
The schedule for the up-
coming deanery meeting was
read and discussed. A volley-
ball team was chosen to re-
present Windthorst in the vol-
leyball tournament at the dean-
ery meeting.
Gwen Hoff, welcome commit-
tee chairman, reported that a
fruit and vegetable basket was
presented to the Jeter Family,
new Windthorst residents.
Rev. Cletus, moderator, talk-
ed to the group about the youth
of today.
Eleven new members were
present.
After refreshments were
served, a film was shown con-
cerning the Archer County Ro-
deo Parade. The group played
volleyball after the meeting.
Personal
A farewell party was given
Sunday evening in the A L
Zotz home in Windthorst for
their son, Alphonse, Jr., on
leave from Ft. Bliss, El Paso,
who leaves July 27 for duty
with the U.S. Army in Viet-
nam. Some 30 relatives and
friends, including his fiance,
Miss Harola Adkins, and par-
ents, the C. L Adkins of this
city, attended.
Summertime
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with your electric cooling equipment
on the job around the clock to keep you cool and
comfortable in spite of the heat.
with your electric refrigerator
working overtime to keep your foods fresh and
supply you with extra quantities of ice cubes and
cold drinks.
with your electric dishwasher
washing and drying the almost endless number
p of glasses the children use on hot summer days.
with your electric washer and dryer
handling the extra loads of soiled clothes that
accumulate in hot weather.
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In the summertime, electricity works harder for you than
in any other season. As a result, most electric bills are higher during
hot weather. But when you think of the work electricity saves you and the
relief it brings from the heat, you’ll agree it’s your biggest value in
summertime better living.
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