The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1968 Page: 3 of 8
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Ambassadors For Christ Win
Scavenger Hunt Cash Prize
The Ambassadors for Christ,
Archer City youth group!
earned a two hundred dollar
cash prize, Saturday, March
16, for collecting 50 articles
in a scavenger hunt, sponsor-
ed by radio station KTRN in
Wichita Falls.
The hunt «\hich was called,
"Mission Impossible,” was en-
tered by six other groups, but
the Archer City young people
were the only ones having
collected the entire list of re-
quired articles.
The money earned will be
{Scotland News)
By Mrs. Leonard Schenk
Rev. Amos Frerichs, a mis-
sionary Priest just back from
Africa has been visiting rela-
tives and friends in this vi-
cinity for the past week or so.
Rev. Amos is from Taylor
and after another month or
so he is scheduled to return
to missionary work.
Anton Schlabs Sr., celebrat-
ed his 97th birthday March
13, in the Archer Nursing
Home where he is living. A
number of his relatives visit-
ed him during the day and
evening.
Schlabs is the father of
nine sons (one is now de-
ceased) and eight daughters.
Six of his sons served in the
Armed Forces during World
War II. He has 41 grandchil-
dren and 74 great grandchil-
dren.
Mrs. Joe Stallcup was dis-
missed from a Wichita Falls
hospital March 8, and is now
at home doing nicely.
Mrs. Grady Schenk was dis-
missed last Monday from the
Archer County Hospital and
is at home. Grady Jr., is doing
fine too, but won’t get to
leave the hospital until he
weighs 5 lbs. having just
weighed 3 lbs. 10i ozs. at
birth.
The St. Boniface Altar So-
ciety met last week at 7:30
p m. in the K of C Hall with
eight members present includ-
ing one new member, Mrs.
Bonald Schroeder.
Mrs. Lawrence Schlabs was
among those who attended
the Institute put on by the
chapter of the National Con-
ference of Christians and Jews
concerning the “Understand-
and Communicationg with my
Teen-Ager”, held at the
YWCA in Wichita Falls March
14.
Mrs. Wence Martinka was
scheduled to leave a Wichita
Falls hospital the first part
of the week. She will be at
the home of a sister, Mrs. Joe
Hoffman in Scotland.
used toward the purchase
price of a bus that the group
is buying in order to have
transportation for witnessing.
The contest began on March
6 and ended at noon, Satur-
day, March 16. Since many
Archer City residents and
those of the surrounding area
loaned articles and assisted in
the collecting of the 50 varied
items, the group wishes to
express their profound ap-
preciation to everyone who
assisted in any way.
The group is sponsored by
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Abernathy
and Coach and Mrs. Toby
Wood.
A list of the “impossible"
items required to qualify for
the cash award follows: a
four-leaf clover, Dewey for
president button, cup of fin-
gernails, racoon coat, cotton
carding combs, two buffalo
head nickles, two Indian head
pennies, Confederate dollar
bill, silver certificate, Rudy
Valee record, suit of armor,
side car, calvery sabre, spin-
ning wheel, Christmas tree,
refrigerator door, bear trap,
wishbone, plumb-bob.
Also a pigs tail, quart milk
bottle, live lizard, two live
snails surf board artillary
casing, oaken bucket, picture
of old Kemp Hotel, crystal
radio set, butterfly, tattooed
lady, Marilyn Monroe calen-
dar, hadacol bottle, set of
bag pipes top hat bear skin
rug, Edsell hub cap real
snow, two Alabama-Texas foot-
ball game ticket stubs, Tex-
as Ranger badge, old-fashion-
ed coffee grinder, a spoked
wheel, and a live fish which
was to have been weighed
and the largest one declared
the winner if there had been
controversy over the winner.
Also a green tambourine,
plaster of Paris left-hand
print, topless bathing suit,
honeycomb, branding iron,
sack of oats, pound of feath-
ers, and two bales of hay.
Two articles, the real snow
and a butter churn were not
on the list, but the Ambas-
sadors were under the impres-
sion that they were among
the coveted items and col-
lected them too.
Larry Fiaaell
Gets Commission
Larry S. Finnell, son of
Jewel Finnell and the late Mr.
Gilbert L. Finnell of Holliday,
has been commissioned a sec-
ond lieutenant in the U.S. Air
Force upon graduation from
Officers Training School (OTS)
at Lackland AFB, San An-
tonio.
The lieutenant, selected for
OTS through competitive ex-
amination, is being assigned
to Ch'^fiute AFB, H., for
training as a missile launch
officer.
Holliday Students Win In
Conservation Poster Contest
ENGAGEMENT TOLD—Mr. and Mrs. Dalo Schaefer of Arch-
City announce the engagement of their daughter, Linde, to
Vinson Lowack, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Vinson Lowack, Sr.,
also of Archer City- »,Vse Schaefer is a junior at Archer
City High School and plane to continue her education. Lo-
wack attended the Arche; City Schools and is employed In
Wichita Falls. No wedding date has been set.
Students in grades three
through six in each school in
Archer, Clay and Wichita
Counties were recently in-
vited to participate in a Con-
servation Poster Contest, spon-
sored by The Disrict Agricul-
ture Workers Council, Little
Wichita Soil Conservation Dis-
trict and Wilbarger-Wiohita
Soil Conservation District.
Subject for the posters were
any phase of conservation of
natural resources of plants,
water, wildlife or soil. There
were 115 students who par-
ticipated in the contest.
First place winners from
Holliday Public School includ-
ed Kevin McAllister, third
grade; Diane Sanders, fourth
grade; Michael Finnell, fifth
grade; and Donna Craddock,
sixth grade.
The winners’ conservation
Wholesale fa Retail
Ignition Parts
posters and ribbons were dis-
played in the Holliday School
during public school week,
March 4-8. Mrs. Mellie How-
ard art, science and health
teacher at Holliday was di-
rector of the contest. She
stated, “The conservation pos-
ter contest was an excellent
method of introducing the
students to conservation and
looking forward to another
contest in the future".
Other winners were Lamesa
Wadsworth, Cam! Potter, Jim
Stevens, Lynn Coats, Larry
Johnson, Barry Lucy Betty
Ann Henson Noma Cullers,
Shelly Miller, Helen Alley,
Greg Stone and Neta Hicks.
The Archer County News—Thursday, March 21, 1968
Jail Escapee
Gets Nine Years
Jack Langford, who escaped
from the Archer County jail
recently, was given a nine
year sentence here last week
in District Court. The sen-
tence was for burglarizing a
Holliday residence.
Also sentenced at the same
time were E. D. Davidson and
Lee Bob Davenport, each
offense. The latter two were
ofense. The latter two were
with Langford on the Holli-
day burglary charge.
Archer County law officials
escorted Davenport to the
state penitentiary and Lang-
ford and Davidson were pick-
NOTICE
ed up here by Parker County
authorities where they will
stand trial in Weatherford on
similar charges.
The trio were in Wichita
Coutny prior to transfer to
Archer County where Lang-
ford received four years and
Davenport and Davidson both
received a four-year probated
sentences.
Half of the 600,000 new can-
cer cases this year could be
cured by early diagnosis and
prompt treatment, the Ameri-
can Cancer Society says. You
help by supporting the Society’s
Crusade.
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Up To 18 Months To Pay!
USE OUR FINANCE PUN FOR
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* Auto Parts
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Vehicles Must
Wear 1968
Tags April 1
“License tags sales are be-
hind schedule,” according to
Bobby Stubbs, deputy tax col-
lector for Archer County and
in charge of the sale of li-
cense tags for the approxi-
mately 3,000 vehicles in the
county.
Stubbs estimated that ap-
proximately 1,000 of the tags
for automobiles which are re-
quired to be on every vehicle
traveling the nation’s high-
ways by midnight, April 1,
have been sold in Archer
County, up to noon, Monday.
This is aproximately four to
five hundred less than had
been sold at this time last
year, according to Stubbs.
The tax office in the coun-
ty courthouse will be open
the two remaining Saturdays,
March 23 and March 30, be-
fore the tags are required to
be placed on the vehicles,
Stubbs said. This will enable
those who have to work the
other five days of the week
to purchase their plates. The
office will be open from 8
a.m. until 5 p.m., both Sat-
urdays, he went on to say.
“There will be no sub-sta-
tions where license tags may
be purchased this year,"
Stubbs emphasized. He went
on to say, “All county resi-
dents must purchase their
1968 vehicle license tags in
the county courthouse”.
irs A GIRL
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hamill, of
Jacksonville, Fla., announce the
arrival of their third daugh-
ter, Kelly Lynn, born Tuesday,
March 12, at 8:05 p.m., in a
hospital there. She weighed
6 lbs., 14 ozs.
The Hamills have resided in
Florida for a year, where he
is employed as baker for a
cafeteria there. The other
Hamill children are Caren,
three years of age, and Ann,
two.
Maternal grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Elwood Loving, of
Archer City, left for Jackson-
ville last week to spend two
weeks with the family and
new arrival.
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Voters of the City of Archer City, Texas are
hereby notified of the city election to be held
April 6,1968. For the purpose of electing two
city councilmen and a mayor. The election
will be held in the City Hall.
POLLS OPEN
8 Am. to 7 Pm.
Charles McDaniel, secretary
are
to attend
REVIVAL SERVICES
MARCH 24 - MARCH 31
7:30 mum
and hear..
REV. C. 1. LINDSEY
Evangelist
NURSERY FACILITIES PROVIDED
Rev. C. L. Lindsey
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1968, newspaper, March 21, 1968; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708778/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.