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57th YEAR
“SHORT GRASS RANCHING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD’
SINGLE COPY 15c
ARCHER CITY, TEXAS 76351
THURSDAY, JULY 18,1974
NUMBER 27
i5< The Archer County News
[Plus tax] _
Chairman Makes Appeal
For 'New Blood’ Tuesday
The second semi-annual visit
of the Red Cross hlnodmohile
will be in Archer City, Tuesday,
July 23, at the Lions Club
building. The bloodmobile will
be open from 3 to 7 p.m., ac-
cording to the Red Cross blood
chairman, Luis Carcano.
The goal for the visit has
been set at 65 pints. Carcano
said that donors fell short of the
goal in the February visit of the
Bloodmobile when only 44 pints
were collected.
Mrs. Raymond Cox will head
a list of local Red Cross volun-
teers that will be assisting the
Bloodmobile staff in collecting
the blood. Archer City women
interested in assisting the Red
Cross volunteers can do so by
contacting Mrs. Cox.
Carcano pointed out some
special benefits for blood do-
nors. Included were that in
addition to meeting the blood
needs for you and your house-
hold, for one year following
your last donation, Red Cross
will replace blood for the
following members of your
family who live elsewhere:
children over 18 who cannot be
blood donors; parents and
parents-in-law; and grand-
parents and grandparents-in-
law. All that is required is that
you contact the Red River Red
Cross blood program in Wichita
Falls when replacement is
needed.
Two new changes in eligibil-
ity to give blood has been
adopted this year which is
hoped to increase the donations
here, Carcano said. The
permissible age for donating
blood has been lowered to 17 by
the American Red Cross. How-
ever, Carcano pointed out that
17-year-olds must have signed
permif n from their parents
or legal guardians to be an eli-
gible donor.
Carcano said that "we need
new blood from our younger
group if we are to fill our quota
of 65 pints.” The new blood
chairman is making a concen-
trated effort to get the younger
donors out and be leaders in
the important cause of giving
the life-saving blood. "Many of
our older regular donors find it
difficult to give every time the
bloodmobile comes to town due
to illness and medications,” the
chairman said. “This is why we
must educate our youngsters of
the importance of supporting
the Red Cross blood program
with their regular donations.”
The new chairman evidently
knows the importance of being
CHURCH OF CHRIST PASTOR — Von Carrlthers has
named new pastor of the local Church of Christ. He
the pastorship Sunday morning. He and his wife, Peart, have
settled into the church personage on West Mesquite following
their move from Captain, N.M.
Livestock Donations Are
Needed For Auction
Robert Wolf, Archer County
chairman of the Crippled Chil-
dren's Livestock Auction, has
asked all county residents to
make a special effort to support
the auction benefit, scheduled
August 7. Proceeds of the auc-
tion benefit the handicapped
children a'id adults at the North
Texas Rehabilitation Center in
Wichita Falls, which is avail-
able to county residents.
Wolf, in his plea, stated that
this year, greater sacrifices
must be made in order to con-
tinue support of the NTRC.
This year has not been a good
year for farmers and ranchers
and it is going to be harder to
get contributions of livestock
for the auction.
Thusfar. Wolf has had 20
head of cattle designated and
cash donations have also been
made.
Assisting Wolf are Ted Burk-
ett, Arch Andrews, David Wil-
liams, Red Livingston. D R.
’Cotton’ Ross and Carter
McGregor, Jr.
Donations may be made to
any of the above men nt med.
Last year’s sale netted $67,718.
Mrs. Brothers Retires From
Teaching Profession July 8
Mrs. D. A. (Margaret)
Brothers tendered her resigna-
tion to the Archer City Public
School System, effective June
8, in hopes of retiring. But
immediately, she went to work
for her husband as bookkeeper
for Texaco, Inc. of Archer City.
She taught school in Archer
City for 24 years, teaching
fourth grade, fifth grade and a
few subjects in junior high. She
officially retired as fifth grade
teacher. She taught eight years
in Iowa Park prior to moving to
Archer City.
Maybe some sort of record
has been set by Mrs. Brothers,
as she has not missed a day of
school due to illness in her 32
years of teaching.
Inc., for 31 years. They are the
parents of a daughter, Mrs.
John (Alice) Blanco and two
grandchildren. Maria and Mel-
lisa of Pittsburg, Pa.
They are members of First
Baptist Church in Archer City.
Mrs. Brothers was graduated
from high school at the age of
15. She says she hasn’t had
time for hobbies, but plans to
develop some now that she has
retired, that is if she can find
time.
During her years of teaching
she stated she never had a
favorite class, but enjoyed all of
them as each one was a new
challenge. She did comment
that Dr. Richard Threet was
one of her former students. She
is always interested in what her
former students are doing
following graduation.
The only advice she passed
along was to challenge the
young people to consentrate on
their work and to set a goal to
work toward.
The Brothers have made
their home in Archer City since
1940 and he has served as a
consignee for the local Texaco,
Archer City retired frees her Seeching position at the Elemen-
tary Grade School In Archer City Jufy 8 Mowing 32 years of
Texaco, lac. of Archer Qfy
Scotland and Windthorst
failed to reach an agreement on
the price of water to be sold to
Windthorst during the regular
Scotland City Council meeting
Tuesday evening, July 9.
Scotland officials have asked
for more time to study the legal
and financial problems involved
in the project and as the Scot-
land attorney was unable to be
present for the meeting, the
council is uncertain about the
possible effect on their contract
with Wichita Falls.
A special meeting will be
held at a later date concerning
the study.
During the remainder of the
business session, Lewis Linde-
man and Roy Dale Delcambre
were interviewed for the posi-
tion of water superintendent.
Lindeman resides in Scotland
and was former mayor of the
city and Delcambre is a resi-
dent of Lake Arrowhead East.
Mayor Charles Oliver re-
ported a record amount of sales
tax of $694.00 was received.
LT. DONALD PETTY
IS STATIONED
AT ROCK ISLAND, ILL.
Second Lt. Donald Petty has
been assigned to the Segnal
Corps in Communication in
Rock Island, III. He has just
recently completed officers
training at Fort Gordon, Ga.
and is now at his new post.
He spent several days in
Archer City following his train-
ing before reporting to Illinois.
The council also looked over a
profit and loss statement for the
past year on the water system.
Mrs. Ruth Key
Is Buried In
Charleston, Ark.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Ruth M. Key, 78, who died
Friday in the Archer County
Hospital, were held Sunday
afternoon at two o’clock in First
United Methodist Church in
Archer City. Rev. Johnnie
Haney, pastor, and Rev. Terry
Fitzgerald, pastor of First
Christian Church, officiated.
Graveside rites were held at
10 a.m. Monday in Garden of
Memories Cemetery in Charles-
ton, Ark., under the direction of
Aulds Funeral Home of Archer
City.
Mrs. Key has been a resident
of Archer City since October,
1973, moving here from Char-
leston. She was born July 8,
1896, in Beeville.
Pallbearers were Luke Kirk-
land, Charlie King, Doyle Grif-
fin, Jiggs Brewer, W. J. Smith
and Don Ash.
Survivors include three sons,
D. E. Bratt of Archer City, John
Key, Jr., of Levelland, and
Marvin E. Key of Belen, N.M.;
two daughters. Mrs. {Tharles
Council of Charleston and Mrs.
L. R. White of Friona; 16
grandchildren and 21 great-
grandchildren.
STATE 4-H CONTENDERS — Jan and Jay McWhorter, 17-year
old twins of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McWhorter of Archer City
will be representing the District In the State 4-H Horse Show
and National Yonth Horse Congress in Dallas July 29-August 3.
The two were eligible after winning the district show in Vernon
recently. Jay is entered in the roping event and will be riding a
seven-year-old gelding named Dee. Jan will be riding Squaw, a
15-year-old mare. She is entered in both the barrels and pole
bending. Mrs. McWhorter will be accompanying the twins to
Dallas. Marvin Henry is the County Agent and 4-H sponsor.
[News Staff Photo]
Volunteers Seek Funds
For Child Care Center
GUESS WHO? Oar g
guests this week are
Archer County residents and
are well known in the area. The
first News reader to identify the
twosome will receive a free one-
year gift subscription to be sent
to a friend or relative. No
renewals and no guesses
accepted from relatives.
A group of Archer City wom-
en volunteers, organized as
Neighborhood Action Group,
has made application through
the Community Action Corpora-
tion of Wichita Falls for funds
for a county child day care cen-
ter to be located in Archer City.
Mrs. Leo Harrelson, chair-
man of the local volunteers,
presented their plan to the
Wichita Falls Corporation Mon-
day night. The corporation ap-
proved the plan and told the
local group that they would for-
ward their plan on to state
headquarters of the office of
child development of Health,
Education and Welfare for
funding.
The local group is seeking
$41,000 to remodel the first
floor of the old Archer County
Hospital building to be used for
FB Sponsors
Melon Feast
The 10th annual Archer members including seven direc-
County Farm Bureau water- tors Howard Farmer, Gordon
melon feast will be held Rucker, C. W. Wilhoit and the
Monday evening, July 22, at late directors, L. K. Hyer,
the Archer County Livestock Duren Bell, G. Symack and
Shew Barn, adjacent to the City Jess Prideaux. Farmer served
Park. Hosts for the evening will as the first FB president and
be the board of directors, Mrs. Gordon Rucker has been
headed by H. P. McDonnell,
president.
The invitation is extended to
Farm Bureau members and
their guests and directors
promise everyone an evening of
visiting, fellowship and water-
melon feasting. Some 2500
pounds of watermelon have
been ordered for the affair.
Farm Bureau is active in
community activities and spon-
sor the FB Seminar students to
Waco each year, host the coun-
ty convention and the water-
melon feast. McDonnell pointed
out that this is the only meeting
of the year set aside for
membership visiting.
The Farm Bureau was organ-
ized in 1948 with 31 charter
PERSONAL
Mrs. Rex Owen and children,
Cecelia and Billy, spent several
days in Galveston with Mrs.
Owen’s brother and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Tony Garcia and other
brothers and sisters in and near
Galveston. The three returned
home Wednesday.
secretary for the organization
since organizing.
Today membership exceeds
600. Directors include McDon-
nell; Oliver Clerihew, vice
president; Ira Elmore, second
vice president; C. A. Newsom,
Richard Prideaux, Robert Stein-
berger, R. L. Haigood, David
Seigler, Sr., Leo Kunkel, Dale
Murphy, Albert Hilbers, Gark
McAnally and J. W. Dwyer.
the day care center and for one
year of operational cost.
Bob Mowry, assistant execu-
tive director of the Community
Action Corporation, told The
News that there are at present
three such child day care cen-
ters in the tri-county area of
Archer, Clay and Wichita. The
centers are located in Wichita
Falls, Burkburnett and Henri-
etta. He said that it costs
$1104. per child per year to
operate a day center in this
area.
The proposal by the local vol-
unteers is asking for funds for
space and supplies for 35 chil-
dren.
Mrs. Harrelson, in her pro-
posal to the Corporation,
pointed out that there were no
licensed child care facilities in
Archer County and that
dependable child care is needed
as many parents work and have
few dependable, reliable per-
sons with whom to leave their
children.
Mrs. Harrelson, who will be
director of the center if funding
is approved, said that a survey
was taken of working mothers
and prospective working moth-
ers and the results show a defi-
Man Charged
In JP Court
Arlie Preston Robinson, 22,
who gave Archer County Sher-
iff s Department his address as
Archer City, was arrested
Friday night, July 12, and
charged with molesting a
four-year-old boy.
Robinson appeared before
Justice of The Peace C. D. Cox
on the felony charge with bond
being set at $10,000. Robinson
is being held in the Archer
County jail with grand jury
scheduled to hear the charges
August 8, according to County
Attorney Paul Wylie.
Free Immunization Clinic
Scheduled At Service Center
A second in a series of free
immunization clinics will be
held on Monday, June 29 at the
Archer Service Center on Main
Street. The clinic will be open
between the hours of 1:00 and
3:00 and will provide vaccines
for polio, tetanus, whooping
cough, diphtheria, measles,
and rubella.
The vaccines will be admin-
istered by a public health nurse
from the health department
under the medical supervision
of local health officials.
Parents are reminded again
that polio and DTP vaccines are
administered in a series of
doses. If they brought their
child to the first clinic they may
have to return for additional
doses of vaccine. Parents who
are unsure about their child's
immunization status should also
attend to have their records
evaluated.
nite need.
Purpose of the center, as out-
lines in the proposal, were
four fold: (1) To provide safe,
hazard-free environment for
children (2) to provide an
atmosphere conducive to devel-
opment of children socially,
physically, emotionally and
intellectually (3) to provide the
working parent assurance and
peace of mind as to the
dependable care and (4) to
provide child care at a cost in
accordance with parents’ earn-
ing abilities.
* Mrs. Harrelson said "We are
most interested in serving those
children whose social economic
need is the greatest.” She also
said that the Center would be
interested in serving those of
all economic levels as space is
available.
Minimum age for a child to
be accepted at the Center will
be three months and with a
maximum age of 14. The center
will be open from 6 a.m. until 6
p.m., Monday through Satur-
day.
Included in the first year’s
budget is $4,822.72 for renova-
tions of the building to include
central air conditioning of the
ground floor. Assisting in the
renovation program will be the
3762nd Student Squadron at
Sheppard AFB. The squadron
has adopted the proposed day
care center and will provide
much of the labor in making
necessary repairs to the build-
ing.
The largest item in the opera-
tional budget is $24,933.90 for
salaries, fringe benefits. and
travel. Employees will include a
director, assistant director, two
full-time teachers and three
part-time helpers.
Other items in the proposed
budget includes $1,220 for
space cost that includes utilities
and insurance; estimated cost
of furniture was set at
$1,999.83; and estimated cost
of consumable supplies was set
at $8,104.60. The total opera-
tional budget fot one year was
set at $41,141.05.
Mrs. Harrelson said that the
group should know in the near
future if HF.W will assist in the
binding of the needed project.
"If funds are not available,
we’ll look elsewhere,” she
added.
Mrs. Harrelson said that the
local volunteers are in hopes
that necessary funds can be
found and that the center is in
operation by the first of Sep-
tember.
IgKE]
Ever wonder why the U.S.
Department of Agriculture is in
a state of chaos? Some insight
on the problems may have
surfaced from a recent remark
and suggestion by Secretary
Butz concerning a Congres-
sional bill.
Secretary Butz, according to
the Corpus Christi Times, said
that somebody in Congress dis-
covered a cow could have only
one calf a year with a normal
gestation period of nine
months. A bill was proposed to
speed up beef production by
cutting the gestation period in
half. Butz remarked that had
the bill been introduced, he
thinks it would have passed.
Now how is this for an intelli-
gent remark coming from our
agriculture leader?
—Jot—
The U.S. Department of Ag-
riculture also requested that
farmers go “all-out” for
bumper grain crops in ’74.
Most farmers responded by
planting from fence-to-fence.
Wheat supplies were short last
year and the farmer received a
fair price for his grain. So the
Department wanted a surplus
of wheat and grain on hand so
they could dictate the price. So
far this hasn't happened. The
theory behind the all-out pro-
duction makes about as much
sense as telling a man of labor
that you will pay him $10 per
hour for a 20-hour week or $5
per hour for a 40-hour week. If
the farmer and livestock pro-
ducer were as well organized as
the labor unions there would be
less food and meat boycotts and
less strikes from the labor
unions. Just last week truck
drivers in Chicago who were
earning nearly $7 an Jiour for
un skilled labor were on strike
for an additional three bucks an
hour. That makes you and me
pay $10 an hour for the driver
of a truck to deliver goods to
rural America where the truck
driver receives about $3 an
hour. It's not the man that is
making the three bucks an hour
that was bellyaching about the
high price of beef last year. It
was his fat cat cousin in the
Eastern cities that will live off
of food stamp money until he
gets his demand of ten bucks
an hour.
Nope, 1 don't have the
answers but I do know that
cutting the gestation period of a
cow in half and producing twice
as much beef is not the answer.
—Jot—
My good friend and former
sheriff, Gaude Morrison, will
never let me forget that I
backed “tricky” Dick Nixon in
his presidential campaign a-
gainst George McGovern.
Everytime he mentions this
fact I stsrt stuttering and
sputtering and before I find a
sensible answer and some
grounds to defend the Presi-
dent, he spouts back, "you just
won’t admit your mistakes.” I
must admit that I have lost
some of my admiration and
respect for the man but, in my
opinion, he was by far the bet-
ter of the two candidates. Who
knows, if McGovern had won
the top seat Jane Fonda may
have been the Secretary of Ag-
riculture. And she would have
wanted all the farmers and
ranchers to give the land back
to the native Indians. Last year,
with farmers and ranchers re-
cording high net gains they
were silent and the oilman was
on the President’s back. Now
the oilman’s profits are at an
all-time high and they have
backed off and ag men are
complaining.
Overheard an oilman in the
coffee shop recently say he
didn’t think the President had
anything to do with Watergate.
—Jot—
'Nuff on politics.
—Jot—
I guess every community,
large or small, has their share
of "free-loaders.” What is my
definition of a community
“free-loader?” A long detailed
definition could be written, but
in short, it is a person that lives
a life-time in a community and
is always prepared to make
excuses why he cannot accept
civic responsibilities. And I do
not mean that he has to serve
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1974, newspaper, July 18, 1974; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708795/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.