The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1968 Page: 1 of 8
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WILDCATS OPEN WITH TIGERS FRIDAY
WILDCATS OPEN WITH ELECTRA—The Archer City
Wildcats will kick-off the 1968 football season Friday night
with the Electra Tigers. The game will be at Electra with
kick-off time set at 8 p.m. Members of the Wildcat team
are, front row, 1. to r., Ward Campbell, manager, Jerry
Stults, Richard Hill, Terry Lear, Bill Crow, Lonnie Maag,
Johnny Hudson, and Charles Gaines. Second row, Eddie
Trigg, trainer, Danny Horany, Jim Black, Casey Rodgers,
Freddie Walsh, Charles Luig, Eddie Wright, Charles Ham-
ill and Coach Bobby Ray. Third row, Coach Eddie Morris,
Lloyd Adams, Kerry Bowen, Ricky Cheves, Mark Fuller-
ton, Jimmy Sheppard, Allan Campbell, David McDaniel,
Earl Schlabs and Coach Toby Wood. Third row, Coach
Mike Wood, Mike Morris, Robert Denning, Homer Smit-
son, David Cheves, Jeff McPherson, Richard Wingo and
Rfix Ridenour. (News Staff Photo)
A tone of serious concern
was noticed in Coach Toby
Wood’s address to members
of the Archer City Quarter-
back Club Tuesday night on
the eve of the season football
opener with Electra Tigers
Friday night.
“We’re ready physically but
we just haven’t displayed our
mental readiness that is nec-
essary if we are to win very
many ball games this season,”
the coach noted. In his report
to the members he pointed
out that the Tigers are entire-
ly a “new” club from the past
two seasons. “They are quick-
er, tougher and display an at-
tidue to win,” he said. Rusty
Talbott is the new head
coach at Electra and he has
a reputation of organizing
winning teams. He formerly
coached at Nocona and Bor-
ger. At Nocona he had a win-
ning team that took the dis-
trict championship in 1954
and advanced a long way to-
ward a state championship.
The Indians, under his lead-
ship, was one of the two
teams that beat the local
Wildcats in '64.
On offense the Tigers will
run from various sets, wing-
T, “I”, and from a straight
“T”. On defense they deploy
what is known as the Arkansas
defense. This is with a five-
man front and a “monster”
that will usually shift to the
strong side.
On offense the Tigers line-
up will look something like
this: Plumblee, 165, Mash,
190, White, 179 and Fisher,
160, round out the starting
backfield. Fisher is regarded
as one of the area’s best
quarterbacks. He was named
all-district at this position
last season. In the Tiger line
will be Lalk, 181, Gee, 220,
Humphrey, 172, Prickett, 164,
Gary, 182, White, 190, and
Holley, 176.
Coach Wood has not re-
leased a probable starting
line-up for the Wildcats but
according to the last two
scrimmages the offensive start-
ers will probably be: Earl
Schlabs, quarterback: Eddie
Wright, wingback; Rickly Che-
ves and David McDaniel, alter-
nating at fullback. Ends will be
Mike Morris and Allen Camp-
bell; Freddie Walsh, center;
PEP RALLY
SET FRIDAY
Archer City High School
will host a pop rally to which
all Wildcat football fans ara
invitad, Friday, Sapt. 13 at
3:10 p.m. in tha school gym.
according to J. B. Adams, high
school principal.
Adams statad that tha pub-
lic is invitad to attand this
pap rally which pracadas tha
1968 saasor, opening game with
Elactra, there, Friday night at
8:00 o'clock.
Rex Ridenour and Jimmy
Sheppard at guards; and
Homer Smitson and Lloyd
Adams, at tackle.
Coach Wood reported Tues-
day that Homer Smitson was
hospitalized following the
Monday afternoon workout
and it was not known wheth-
er he would be in the line-
up Friday night. He said that
Richard Wingo, a junior, who
has been improving steadily
would probably be used if
Homer is not up to par Fri-
day night.
Coach Wood was not too
pleased with the scrimmage
against Notre Dame last
Thursday night. He did say
the "boys” hit hard and show-
ed a lot of “hustle” but we
continued to make mental
mistakes that will hurt in
tight games. “We just haven’t
got our minds on the business
at hand,” Wood said.
During the two-hour scrim-
mage the Wildcats posted
five touchdown while the vis-
iting Knights failed to cross
the goal line. On offense the
Wildcats netted 424 yards on
the ground to their opponent's
87. Eddie Wright lead the
Wildcats with two touchdowns
of 85 and 30 yards. Ricky
Cheves scored one from 25
yards out and Danny Horany
plunged in from three yards
out. The other tally came
from a 25-yard aerial from
Schlabs to Mike Morris. David
McDaniel hit four of four ex-
tra point attempts and Fresh-
man David Cheves ran one
over for two.
Governor's Committee Recommends
Drastic Changes In State education
The reported plan of Gov.
John Connally’s Committee on
Public School Education Com-
mittee will, if it is adopted by
the State Legislature, affect
each school in the state and
some proposals of the plan
will be of special concern to
independent school districts
within Archer County.
One of the proposals calls
for consolidation of districts
with an average daily attend-
ance of less than 2,600 st«-
dents in 12 grades by June
1, 1972. Archer County has
four independent school dis-
tricts, namely, Archer City,
Holliday, Megargel and Wind-
thorst.
The Archer City Independ-
ent School District has approx-
imately 590 students enrolled
this term, so the average daily
attendance would fall below
that number. Holliday’s enroll-
ment is close behind Archer
The Red River Regional
Bloodmobile will be at the
Lions Club Building in Arch-
er City on Thursday, Sept. 26,
from 12:00 noon to 6 p.m. for
the collection of blood from
Archer County donors.
The quota for Archer Coun-
ty is 213 pints annually. The
Bloodmobile makes an annual
visit to the Windthorst com-
munity as well as coming to
Archer City twice each year
and the over-all total is con-
sidered in the alloted quota.
The Volunteens, a Red
Cross organization for teen-age
high school students, will be
in charge of recruiting donors.
For ednturies, blood has
been regarded as a vital, life-
sustaining fluid . . . and its
loss associated with tragedy
and death. Early attempts at
blood transfusion were doom-
ed to failure because of a
lack of knowledge of blood
types and methods for pre-
venting coagulation and con-
tamination.
Scientific developments in
1914 paved the way for the
highly successful application
of the indirect method of
City’s, with a smaller enroll-
ment at Windthorst and Me-
gargel.
The committee plan calls
for exceptions to be made for
county-wide districts with at
least 1,600 students. The com-
bined school enrollment in
Archer County would exceed
the 1,600 count. If the proposal
is approved it could be that
only one school district (sup-
ported by taxes) would exist
in Archer County.
The offices of county school
superintendents would be
abolished as the terms of in-
cumbents expire.
Free public kindergartens
would be offered for five-year-
olds in all districts by 1980.
When that goal is reached, the
age limit would be lowered to
four for educationally handi-
capped children.
Another of the proposals
transfusion in use today, but
it was not until later that meth-
ods were discovered that pav-
ed the way for apparatus
which is so essential for prop-
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Photos Made In
Archer Schools
Sept. 24-25
School pictures for the Ar-
cher City School Annual will
be taken by Lasater’s Studio
of Olney on Tuesday and
Wednesday, Sept. 24 and 25,
according to school officials.
Grade schoolers will have
their pictures taken on Tues-
day, Sept. 24 and they will be
in color. Parents might like
to take note of the date so
that extra caution might be
exercised that each child gets
to school wearing something
photogenic on picture-taking
day.
High school pictures will be
in black and white, in keeping
with the wishes of the stu-
dents.
which would directly affect
Archer County schools is to in-
crease the minimum teacher’s
salary, now $4,734 a year to
$5,400 in 1969-70 and $6,300
in 1970-71. The maximum
state-guaranteed teacher’s sal-
ary, now $6,912, would go to
$8,800 by 1970-71.
Premium money for win-
ners of the first annual Arch-
er County Junior Livestock
Asociation is being raised by
the board of directors of the
Frank Scheffe
Dies Saturday
Funeral mass for Frank
Scheffe, 62, was said at 10
a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 10, from
St. Mary’s Catholic Church in
Windthorst with Rev. Cletus
Post, pastor, officiating.
Scheffe, a retired oilman,
was born Aug. 30, 1906 in
Humphrey, Neb. He came to
Windthorst at an early age
and had resided there most
of his life.
He was a member of Saint
Mary’s Catholic Church,
Knights of Columbus, Kettler
Council 1824 of Windthorst
and a member of Holy Name
Society of St. Mary’s.
Scheffe died Saturday, Sept.
7 in a Wichita Falls hospital,
following a long illness.
Survivors include his wife,
Alma, of the home in Wind-
thorst; a son, Lloyd, of Fort
Worth; a brother, John of
Windthorst; four sisters, Mrs.
A. J. Teichman of Wichita
Falls, Mrs. S. A. Frerich and
Mrs. Sue Wimmer, both of
Scotland, and Pauline Scheffe
of Corpus Christi; and seven
grandchildren.
Burial was in St. Mary’s
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were James Hoff-
man, Jerome Hoffman, August
Baumhardt, Bernard Scheffee,
David Teichman, Arthur Pen-
nartz, John Lerner and John
Ingram.
The 15-member committee,
headed by Leon Jaworski of
Houston, said its proposals
would give Texas “national
leadership” in public educa-
tion by 1980.
The present system is char-
acterized by “mediocrity” and
“inefficency,” the panel said.
Livestock Association.
A thousand dollars are
needed for prize money, ac-
cording to the directors, and
the five men from each par-
ticipating town, Windthorst,
Megargel and Archer City,
who are members of the
board, will be responsible for
the fund drive in their home-
town.
All interested citizens and
businessmen in each commun-
ity are urged to contribute
toward this worthy cause to
help give the youth of our
county the incentive to strive
for perfection by making
prize money available to those
who enter prize-winning spec-
imen in the forthcoming stock
show.
Proceeds from the tickets
being sold by Livestock As-
sociation members and 4-H
Club members, which entitles
the holder to participate in
the drawing on the day of
the show, go toward financing
the show barn property,
and none of these funds
go toward premium money for
show winners. They are two
separate and distinct funds, a
member of the Board of Di-
rectors reminds.
Weather
High Low
Sept 4 93 64
Sept. 5 83 59
Sept. 6 89 64
Sept. 7 94 63
Sept. 8 100 69
Sept. 9 100 63
Sept. 10 83 S3
There was .01 inch of rain-
fall on Sept. 4—Jake
Sheppard.
Bloodmobile Sets Archer
City Visit September 26
Prize Money Needed For
Livestock Show Winners
JEFF WILLIAMS, first grader in Mrs. Gordon
Elmore's room, won the distinction of being
the first student to be served in the brand-new
Archer City School cafeteria, Monday, Sept. 9,
when he was first in the school lunch line. Mrs.
Elmore is shown here with students in her room,
as they are served lunch from one line of the
two-serving-line facility. Mrs. George Ensey,
cafeteria supervisor, is shown, in uniform, (1.)
with two of her assistants, Mrs. Otis Quisen-
berry and Mrs. Hank Meurer. (Staff Photo)
Livestock Show Draws 108 Entrants
One hundred and eight boys
and girls have entered 153
head of livestock and poultry
in the first annual Archer
County Junior Livestock Show
Association show scheduled
for Saturday, Sept. 28, at the
new show barn facilities
which are located on W. Cot-
tonwood St., in the'500 block,
across from the city park.
Of these 108 boys and girls,
64 are 4-H Club members
and 44 are FFA members.
The show will begin at 9
a.m. on Saturday, the 28th
with poultry. Horses will be
shown at 10 a.m. followed by'
swine at 10:30 a.m. The sheep
will be shown from 11 a.m.
to noon.
An hour’s lunch break from
12:00 to 1:00 o'clock will be
observed with beef cattle
being shown immediately af-
ter lunch. Dairy cattle will be will entitle the holder, of the
shown at 1:30 and the draw- first one drawn, to the yearl-
ing will be held at 2 p.m. The ig quarter horse given to the
winning tickets at the drawing Association by Bill Abernathy
Methodist Kindergarten
Registration To Be Friday
the level of the local public
school curriculum. A mini-
mum of 13 pupils will be re-
quired for the pre-school class-
es. Children who were five
before or on Aug. 31, 1968,
are eligible.
The church pastor, Rev.
Merwin Turner, has had ex-
perience in this field, having
helped establish and conduct
such programs elsewhere.
Any information desired by
parents of next year's first
graders will be available at
time of registration.
Announcement is being
made this week that the First
United Methodist Church in
this city will begin a kinder-
garten Monday, Sept. 16.
Registration of five-year-olds
will be held Friday, Sept. 13,
beginning at 9:30 a.m., under
the direction of Mrs. Virgil
Patton who will be the teach-
er.
Approved by the church’s
Commission on Education
with School Supt. Urn McPher-
son as chairman, the kinder-
garten will be conducted on
and Robert Cowden, and the
second ticket drawn will en-
title its holder to the locker
beef presented to the Associa-
tion by Red Livingston, Dale
and Vincent Murphy.
An auction will be held im-
mediately following the draw-
ing and is scheduled to begin
at 3 pm. All fat show ani-
mals will be sold to the high-
est bidder with the bidding
starting at market prices.
Sold in the auction will be
four steers, four barrows, 11
fat lambs, 36 turkeys and 33
broilers.
A member of the Livestock
Association suggests that this
would be a fine time to pur-
chase a Thnksgiving turkey
or meat for the home freezer.
It is hoped that bidders wilt
go above the market price
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1968, newspaper, September 12, 1968; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708741/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.