The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1969 Page: 2 of 10
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Absentee Voting—
Archer County News--Thursday, July 17, 1969
(continued from page one)
ing Aug. 31, 1971, in addition
to the $60 million appropria-
tion in the Departmental Ap-
propriation Bill for the pay-
ment of assistance grants for
the fiscal year beginning Sept.
1, 1969. The supplemental ap-
propriation is allocated and will
be available to the Department
of Public Welfare for the pur-
pose of paying assistance grants
effective Sept. 1, 1969.
(3) It streamlines the provi-
sions so as to eliminate cer-
tain eligibility requirements
from the Constitution and gives
the legislature the authority
to prescribe eligibility require-
ments for the needy aged, the
needy disabled, the needy blind,
and needy children. Age re-
quirements for the needy aged,
the needy disabled, the needy
blind, and needy children have
been deleted as have also ci-
tizenship requirements for the
last three mentioned categories
of participants.
Proposed Amendment No. 6
authorizes the removal of con-
stitutional interest rates on
bonds which may be issued by
certain agencies subject to li-
mitations imposed by the le-
gislature. The Regular Ses-
sion of the 61st Legislature
passed S. B 20, which would
set the maximum interest-rate
at 6 1/2 percent on bonds is-
sued under constitutional inte-
rest-rate limits as well as on
bonds and other public securi-
ties issued under statutory in-
terest-rate limits. If Amend-
ment No. 6 is adopted, the sta-
tutory interest-rate limit in
S. B. 20 will control maximum
interest rates on bonds whose
maximum interest-rate limits
are presently set in various
sections of the constituion.
Amendment No. 7 adds cer-
tain governmental employees,
officers, and agents to the list
of persons whose surviving
spouses and minor children are
eligible for assistance as pro-
vided by general law.
Enumerated among those
whose surviving spouses and
children would be eligible for
assistance are volunteer fire-
men, reserve or auxiliary po-
lice, and any other employees,
officers, and agents of the state
or of any political subdivision
who, because of the hazardous
nature of their duties, suffer
death as a result of perform-
ing those duties.
Proposed Amendment No. 8
gives the legislature power to
authorize the Coordinating
Board, Texas College and Uni-
versity System, to issue and
sell $200 million of additional
general obligation bonds, the
revenue from the sale of which
is to be used to make loans
to students who have been ad-
mitted to any institution of high-
er education in the state wheth-
er publicly or privately owned
or operated, and including ju-
nior colleges.
Proposed Amendment No. 9
providing for annual sessions
of the Texas Legislature
provides for the holding of re-
gular sessions in even-
numbered years. Present pro-
visions prescribe that regular
sessions be held biennially in
odd-numbered years. Thus the
proposed amendment would in-
stitute annual sessions.
The proposed amendment
provides that regular sessions
held in even-numbered years
shall not exceed 60 days in
length and will be limited to
legislation on the “subjects of
providing funds for the support
of .....activities of the state
government and emergency
matters submitted by the Gov-
ernor in messages to the Le-
gislature.”
The proposed amendment
also provides that, commencing
in 1971, the legislature, at each
regular session, must appro-
priate funds for the support of
activities of the state govern-
ment for the succeeding fis-
cal year.
Death Claims News About People You Know
Jeff McMurtry’s
Youngest Sister
Funeral services were con-
ducted from the First Chris-
tian Church in Clarendon for
Mrs. Glenn White of that city
who died July 8 in the High
Plains Hospital in Amarillo af-
ter a brief illness. Burial was
in Clarendon. She was the
sister of W. J. (Jeff) McMur-
try of Archer City.
Born Margaret McMurtry in
1905, she was the youngest of
the 12 children of the late Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. McMurtry, pio-
neers of Archer County. The
Whites had lived most of their
married life in Shamrock. They
had no children.
Survivors, other than the hus-
band and McMurtry include a
sister, Mrs. C. M. Carpenter
of McLean, and three other
brothers, Roy of Silverton, Bob
of Amarillo, and a host of
nieces and nephews.
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Eustace,
Lorrie and Boyd, of Tulsa, OK-
la., joined their son and broth-
er, Todd, at her parents, the
Bunk Sturgeons, 103 Homestead
Lane, Thursday, for a week of
vacation visiting. They and the
Sturgeons visited relatives in
Breckenridge, Saturday, to in-
clude the ladies’ grandmother
and mother, Mrs. Ellis Hope,
and the C. G. Balls of Smyrna,
Tenn. The Eustaces will re-
turn to their Tulsa home the
latter part of the week, accom-
panied by Todd. Lorrie will
remain for a longer visit with
her grandparents to include
Mrs. Bill Eustace, 306 N. Oak.
James Abbott, assistant State
Conservationist of the USDA
Soil Conservation Service and
resident of Temple, Tex., was
a business visitor last Thurs-
day in the local SCS office,
according to announcement by
the Archer County SCS office
manager, Howard Barton.
Accompanying the two on a
tour of farms and ranches in
the county whose owners are
complying with the conservation
program was E. Wayne Chap-
man, area conservationist from
Vernon. The visitors also re-
viewed local office records.
Farms and ranches where
observations were made pri-
marily on brush control and
range seeding included those of
Billie O. Bishop and Bennie
Fitche of the Megargel area;
David Siegler, Dundee; Mrs.
Ruby Pitteock, Olney(south Ar-
cher County); B. W. Stone, Hol-
liday; Willie Thorman, North
Star; and Murphy Bros.
The trio also observed the
seeding and shaping program
of the Archer City Country
Club grounds.
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Archer City
Pauline Perdue returned
Monday to mounds of clerical
work at the local Texas Elec-
tric Service office after a two
weeks vacation, during which
she visited sisters in Waco,
Lubbock and Plainview in spite
of a full length cast on one
leg. Her broken knee cap,
sustained in a fall on her con-
crete porch some six weeks
ago, is healing satisfactorily
and the cast was removed Mon-
day of this week. Visiting with
her and the Zeke Robertsons
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Ted-
dy Robertson, Sharon, Shiela
and Bobby of Wichita Falls.
Harold Schreiber of Wind-
thorst was accompanied to Ar-
cher City Tuesday of this week
by his sons, Donny and Tim,
to renew their News subscrip-
tion.
Alfred Berend, Jr., was over
Monday p.m. from Windthorst,
attending business which in-
cluded re-subscribing to the
News.
Mrs. A. D Horner, secre-
tary for Lakeside City in North
Archer County, and little dau-
ghter, Judy, were county seat
business attenders Monday at
which time Mrs. Horner pick-
ed up city printing at the News
office.
Water-Sewer
(continued from page one)
and sewer system in the city
has been made possible by the
w„ter-sewer bond Issue ap-
proved by city voters on Nov.
21, 1967 and a Federal Grant
of $36,410.00 approved In Jan-
uary of this year.
Adequate water will be sup-
plied to all sections of Archer
City, as a result of this pro-
ject and sewer facilities will
be available to all city resi-
dents. Heretofore, residents
in some sections of the city
have had to depend on indivi-
dually owned ceptic tanks for
sewer disposal and poor wa-
ter pressure has been supplied
by encrusted inadequate water
lines, making new home or
business construction undesir-
able.
House guests recently in the
home of Supt. and Mrs. Tim
McPherson, Jeff, Brian, Karen
and Gaylynn, were Misses Lynn
and Denise Hunter of Winches-
ter, Tenn., nieces of Mrs. Mc-
Pherson and daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Hunter. Mrs.
McPherson took the visitors,
along with two of her child-
ren, Brian and Karen, to Dal-
las Wednesday of last week
for an overnight visit and tour
of Six Flags before Lynn and
Denise flew home.
son and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Billv and Andrea Patrice of
Wichita Falls.
Mrs. Virgil Koetter and
daughter, Dianne, were over
Thursday from Windthorst, at-
tending business which includ-
ed renewing their News sub-
scription.
Ricky Taliaferro represented
the Archer City MYF of the
First United Methodist Church
at the annual MYF Camp held
at Lake Bridgeport last week.
Brad and Elizabeth Rowe of
Vernon spent last week with
their grandparents and aunt and
family, the A. W. (Mutt) Jan-
sens and Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Fox and Doug in this city. The
youngsters’ parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dale Rowe, vacationed in
Houston. Joining the group for
the weekend were the Jansen
Little Mike Young of Fort
Worth was the houseguest of
his grandparents, the Bill
Youngs here, recently while his
parents and brother and sis-
ter, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. (Dub)
Young, Janis and Will, were
living it up at a sailing re-
gatta being sponsored by the
Austin Yatcht Club on Lake
Travis. According to Helen,
Dub came in third in a sail-
ing contest.
Dr. and Mrs. R. D. Schlo-
mach and sons, Carlton, Byron,
and Clayton, 1004 S. Ash, and
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beall and
sons, Gary and Roger, 307 S.
Ash, attended a family reunion
of the Doctor’s and Mrs. Beall’s
maternal relatives at Palestine,
Saturday and Sunday. John Mark
and Douglas Lindley, sons of
Dr. Schlomach’s sister and bro-
ther-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. B.
Lindley of Beaumont, returned
with them for a brief visit
prior to being joined by their
grandparents, Rev. and Mrs.
Carl J. Schlomach of Bishop.
The visiting youngsters will re-
turn to Bishop with their grand-
parents for a visit later this
week.
day of last week, from Brown-
field where she had visited
with her daughter’s family, the
Dr. Morris Knoxes, helping
them get moved into their newly
completed home, there. The
Knox children, Bart, Bobby, and
Leigh Ann, accompanied their
grandmother home. They went
to Dallas, Monday, July 7, vi-
sited Six Flags, Tuesday, and
returned to Archer City on Wed-
nesday, July 9. The children
will visit their other grand-
parents, the Cecil Knoxes, 907
S. Ash, until Sunday, July 13,
when they will take them back to
Brownfield.
Marvin Wayne Goforth, 28-
year-old Wichita Falls pumper
who was electrocuted Monday
while handling a pipe from the
top of an oil tank, was a cou-
sin to Archer City residents,
Charles and Milburn Goforth.
Services for the young man
were pending at press time.
Mrs. L. N. Barton, 1101 S.
Ash, returned home, Wednes-
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1969, newspaper, July 17, 1969; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708847/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.