The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1966 Page: 1 of 9
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The Archer County News
52nd Year Short Crass Ranching Capital of The ^ orld Archer City, Texas 76351 Single Cnpv 1 :»«• Thursday, November 3, 1966 Number 44
General Election Is Tuesday
Sixteen proposed Constitutional
amendments to the State of Texas
will appear on the ballot to be
cast in the general election Tues-
day, Nov. 8.
Complete texts of all the pro-
posed amendments have been
published earlier in The News.
A brief summary of the proposals
are listed below.
Voters will decide “for” or
“against” these changes:
Amendment one — Provides
that all land owned by natural
persons and designated for ag-
ricultural use shall be assessed
for all tax purposes on the con-
sideration of only those factors
relative to such agricultural
use.
Amendment two—Would auth
orize creation of airport authori-
ties composed of one or more
counties.
Amendment three — Would
withdraw Arlington State Col-
lege from participating in the
Permanent University Fund.
Amendment four — Increases
the permissible term of office
for directors of conservation and
reclamation districts from two
to six ypars and validating pres-
ent statutory terms of office for
such officials.
Amendment five—Would auth-
orize the legislature to provide
a system of retirement, disability
and death benefits for county
officials and employees and oth-
ers.
Amendment six—Provides for
payment of assistance to surviv-
ors of law enforcement officers,
custodial personnel of the Texas
Department of Corrections and
full-paid firemen.
Amendment seven—Would re-
peal the Constitutional provision
requiring a poll tax as a pre-
requisite to voting and requir-
ing the Legislature to provide
W eather
Date
High
Low
Oct. 26
82
46
Oct. 27 .............
81
48
Oct. 28 ...............
83
48
Oct. 29
73
48
Oct. 30________
77
44
Oct. 31________
76
47
Nov. 1 ...........
68
46
No rainfall this
week.
V. Longan
for annual registration of all
voters.
Amendment eight — Would
authorize the Legislature to en-
act laws permitting persons to
vote for state officers and ior
president and vice president of
the United States without having
fulfilled residence requirements
to vote for other officers, as
well as laws permitting former
residents of the state, for a cer-
tain period, to vote absentee for
president and vice president.
Amendment nine—Increases to
five the number of judges on the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
and lengthens the term of that
court.
Amendment ten — Provides
that taxes or bonds previously
voted in any independent school
district shall not be abrogated,
cancelled or invalidated by any
change in boundaries and auth-
orizing the continuance of the
levy after such change without
further election.
Amendment eleven — Would
authorize the issuance of an ad-
ditional $200,000,000 in bonds by
the Texas Water Development
Board upon two-thirds vote of
the Legislature and expanding
the uses to which money in the
Texas Water Development Fund
may be put.
Amendment twelve — Provides
the method and manner for dis-
solution of hospital districts.
Amendment thirteen — Would
authorize the Legislature to pro-
vide for consolidating the func-
tions of government . within a
county having 1,200,000 or more
inhabitants and to provide for
intergovernmental contacts be-
tween political subdivisions of
the county.
Amendment fourteen— Would
allow members of the armed
forces to vote in Texas upon
satisfying the residence require-
ments applicable to Texans in
general.
Amendment fifteen— Author-
izes the channeling of funds
from private and federal sources
through the state for use by
privately owned or local agen-
cies in establishing and equip-
ping facilities to assist the han-
dicapped in becoming gainfully
employed.
Amendment sixteen — Estab-
lishes the date on which newly-
elected members of the Legis-
lature qualify and take office.
Archer County citizens go to ( ably will not be this many votes
the polls Tuesday, Nov. 8, to help cast as the last go-round was a
elect a governor and a slate of | presidential election year.
other state, district and county
officials.
Gaining the most attention will
be the United States Senator race
Candidates with opposition
other than those mentioned above
are: For Lieutenant Governor,
Preston Smith, Democrat; Kellis
that pits Republican incumbent Dibrell, Republican; and William
TEXAS-SIZE BALLOT — Voters in Archer
County will be marking this king-size ballot
when they go to the polls Tuesday to vote
in the general election. Holding the ballot
are Mrs. Irene Stanford, right. County and
District Clerk and Mrs. Jane Matthews, chief
deputy. The unusual large ballot is two feet
wide and IS inches deep. Absentee balloting
will close tomorrow (Friday).
(News Staff Photo)
Absentee Voting
Deadline Nov. 4
County Clerk Irene Stanford
reported that 58 voters have
made application for ballots to
vote absentee. Twenty three
voted ballots have been return-
ed to the office of the clerk,
at press time.
Mrs. Stanford stated that ab-
sentee voting will close at 5
p.m., Friday, Nov. 4, and that
voted ballots which are return-
ed by mail must be in the of-
fice by 1 p m. on Nov. 8.
Renee Mayes, Gary Boren Chosen
Ranch Week Queen And King
Gary Boren and Renee Mayes,
seniors, were crowned Ranch
Week King and Queen Monday
night in the Archer City High
School gym to conclude the
Ranch Week activities.
Their attendants were repre-
sentatives from the other classes
to include Charlie McMurtry and
Kathy Wright, juniors; Lynn
Lewis and Ginny Shelton, sopho-
-
m
HUNTERS BAG ELK—John Hoff of Wichita Falls and brother,
Buddy Hoff, of Windthorst, ara displaying an Elk thay baggad
on a hunting trip recently south of Craada, Colo. The bull elk
weighed approximately 1200 pounds on foot. Buddy will have
the head mounted for a trophy. The hunting party of four left
Creede Oct 10 by horseback and camped IS miles up in the
mountains. The hunters returned home Oct. 23 with their
trophy kill.
R. A. (Pop) Killian Receives
State O.E.S. Appointment
R. A. (Pop) Killian, Archer | of Eastern Star, meeting held in
City, has received an appoint-! KOUSton Oct. 27.
ment as a member of the State
Masonic Educational Committee
at the 85th Grand Chapter, Order
Wildcats Host
Crowell In
Season Finale
Win, lose or draw, the Archer
City Wildcats will be playing
their last game of the season
Friday night when they enter-
tain the high flying Wildcats
from Crowell. The Crowell Wild-
cats, ranked third in the state
Class A, will be bringing a per-
fect record to Archer City Fri-
day night. The visitors have pos-
ed eight straight victories, four
of these in district play. The
Foard County boys have two re-
maining games, the season finale
with lightly regarded Knox City.
All (hey have to do is win just
one of the two remaining games
and they will represent District
11-A in the state play-offs.
Coach Toby Wood’s charges
will have their work cut out for
them in facing one of the lar-
gest teams that they have met
this year. The Crowell defensive
and offensive line will average
near 200 pounds with plenty
of beef in the backfield to car-
ry the mail. They have two
strong senior backs in Mike
Payne and Lee Looney.
Coach Wood says
Mrs. Ben Fulton, worthy ma-
tron of the Archer City Chapter
No. 917, OES, and Mrs. Killian,
past worthy matron and a mem-
ber of the Grand Chapter of
Texas OES, also attended the
meet as voting delegates. Mrs.
Fulton went to Houston on Mon
day and returned home Friday
and the Killians were then
Thursday and Friday.
Killian was appointed and in
stalled by the new Worthy Ma
tron, Mrs. Mildred Sharpe ol
Dallas, at the meeting in the
Sam Houston Coliseum. The pur
pose of the educational commit
tec will be to work toward a
closer relationship between the
Masonic Order and the Order ol
Eastern Star.
A past patron of Eastern Star
and a member for eight years,
Killian is also past master of
Archer City Lodge. He has been
a member of the Masonic Order
for 45 years, having served in
most offices, and is currently
serving as chaplain for the local
lodge.
Killian is manager of the Arch-
er City Chamber of Commerce
and he and Mrs. Killian reside
on a farm northwest of Archer
City.
mores; and Walter Mayes and
LaNell Mobley, freshmen.
Darla Abshier, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Abshier, and
Lonnie Buerger, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Buerger, served as
crown bearers for the crowning
ceremonies.
The barbecue supper in the
school cafeteria, followed by a
Halloween Carnival in the gym,
climaxed a week of money rais-
in? activities by the four classes.
Each class reserved a day last
week for a special project to
raise money for their class.
The seniors earned $1,498.58
during Ranch Week; the juniors
were second with $713.71; the
sophomores took in $241.88; and
the freshmen netted $492.69.
Profits earned from carnival
booths netted approximately
$624 05. The approximate net to-
tal of booths sponsored by each
class were seniors, $268.00; jun-
iors, $109.24; sophomores, 135.81;
and freshmen, $111.00.
John Tower against Waggoner
Carr, a Democrat. Statewide
polls indicate that this will be
a very close race. Also an interest-
ing race is developing between
Democrat incumbent Graham
Purcell, Jr., and D. C. (Bunny)
Norwood, a Republican, for Con-
gress of the 13th District. Pur-
cell will be going for his third
two-year term in Congress. He
will be an overwhelming favorite
in his native county of Archer.
In Archer County the Demo-
crats do not seem to be facing
a real test. There has been little
effort here on the part of the
Republicans.
Gov. John Connally will have
three opponents in the race for
governor. They are: T. E. Ken-
nedy, Republican; Tommye Gil-
lispie, Constitution Party; and
Bard A. Logan, Conservative
Party. In the last governor’s race,
two years ago, Gov. Connally car-
ried Archer County with 1,874
votes while his Republican op-
ponent received 317. It is un-
likely that this six to one mar-
gin will be changed in this year’s
election. However, there prob-
A. Johnson, Constitution Party.
For Attorney General, Craw-
ford Martin, Democrat; Robb
Stewart, Republican; John C.
Williams, Constitution Party. For
Commissioner of Agriculture,
John White, Democrat; Jack Gar-
rett, Republican; and Derek
Bownds, Constitution. For Com-
missioner of General Land Of-
fice, Jerry Sadler, Democrat; Al-
bert Fay, Republican; and Joseph
Tiller, Constitution. For Comp-
troller of Public Accounts, Rob-
ert Calvert, Democrat; Rudy
Garza, Republican; and Wilma
McDaniel, Constitution. For State
Treasurer, Jesse James, Demo-
crat; Lawrence Gilmer, Repub-
lican; and Jesse Lee James,
Constitution. For Railroad Com-
missioner, Byron Tunnell, Demo-
crat; and David Clark, Constitu-
tion.
Voters in Archer County will
be marking an unusual large
ballot. The ballot, with 16 con-
stitutional amendments and the
nominated candidates, will be
24 inches wide and 18 inches
deep.
Polls will open at 8 a.m. Tues-
day and close at 7 p.m.
WHERE ARCHER COUNTlANS WILL VOTE
Precinct Voting Place
1 NE Archer City _______________ County Clerk’s Office
2 Holliday _______________Community Center __
3 Bowman -------------------- Community Center _
4 Lake Creek_____________Community Center _
5 Scotland ____________________ Community Center _
6 Windthorst -------------High School_____
7 SE Archer City______
8 SW Archer City______
9 Terrapin ...............
10 Megargel __________
11 NW Archer City______
12 Dundee ................
13 Mankins _______________
*—The possible voting strength
I in each voting box, including
| poll tax payments and free reg-
*Vote
_ 53
_ 307
— 88
46
_ 112
_ 226
... 336
... 210
_ 51
197
_ 170
_ 54
34
1,884
istrations. This total does not in-
clude voters over the age limit
that do not have to register.
__City Hall ____
__Tax Assessor’s Office
__County Voting Bldg. ...
___City Hall _________________
__County Judge’s office
_ Methodist Church___
County Voting Bldg.
TOTAL___
Crowell offensive is not flashy,
They just line up, tell you
where they are going to run,
and then proceed to run right
over the top of you.” He also
a lot of speed but they make
up for it with their size and
strength.
The Wildcats will be without
the services of Charlie Goforth
and Jim Harney. However, Har-
that the \ney will be used sparingly in
said that Crowell .did not posess Stadium.
the game.
Billy Holder, who received a
neck injury in the Munday tilt,
will be expected to go both ways.
Kickoff time is 7:30 at Berry
WINDTHORST FFA members and their spon-
sor, Jim Jacobs, left, were in Archer City this
week to take delivery of a new 1967 Chevro-
let half-ton pickup. Presenting the keys to
Jacobs is Mrs. A. W. Simmons, president of
the First State Bank. Looking on during the
cnemonies was Dele Murphy, far right. The
pickup wilt be furnished to the young future
farmers of Windthorst at no cost through
the courtesy and cooperation of the First
State Bank and Murphy Bros. Chevrolet Co.
(News Staff Photo)
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1966, newspaper, November 3, 1966; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708939/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.