The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1971 Page: 1 of 6
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57th Year
The Archer County News
Short Grass Rantfhing Capital of The World Single Copy 10?_Archer City, Texas 76351 Thursday, April 22, 1971
Number 16
County-Wide Rubella Immunization
Clinic Scheduled Here May 20
Metcalf, slide rule. Front row (L to r.) Nancy Gage, spell-
ing; Karen Lulg, typing; Karen Holder, shorthand; Shirley
Gensler, slide rule and number sense; and Cindy Martin.
Informative speaking. (News Staff Photo)
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Clarence Johnstons Honored
At District legion Convention
Delegates and guests of Ira
Jones Post 198, American Le-
gion of Archer City, attended
the 13th District Legion and
Auxiliary Convention held the
past weekend, April 17-18, in
Olney. More than 200 dele-
gates from 11 posts in the Dis-
trict were in attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence John-
ston of Archer City were honor
guests of the Legion meeting
and were presented the God
And Country Medal, awarded
posthumously for the supreme
sacrafice by their son, Sgt.
Gary Johnston, killed in com-
bat April 16, 1970, in Viet-
nam.
Attending from Archer City
were Commander and Mrs. Jack
Mueller and Messrs, and Mmes.
Jimmy P. Horany, C. E.
“Jiggs” Brewer and Bob Ro-
bison. Mmes. Helen Wylie and
Pat Martin attended the after-
noon session of the Auxiliary
meeting during which Mrs. Er-
ma Stayton of Unit 264, Burk-
burnett, was elected president
for the forthcoming year, and
Mrs. Ilene Stark of Unit 120,
Wichita Falls, was chosen Dis-
trict vice-president.
Legion delegates elected
Frank Slavens of Post 169,
Wichita Falls, as incoming Dis-
trict Commander. Post 169 was
selected as host for the 1971
Fall convention site.
Archer County is among ma-
ny counties in Texas to launch
a county-wide rubella immuni-
zation campaign aimed at era-
dicating the disease in Texas
and the entire nation. Dr. R. D.
Schlomach, M.D., county health
officer and school officials
throughout the county are urging
parents of children ages one
through nine to take advantage
of the availability of this vac-
cine.
The immunization clinic will
be held in the Archer City gym-
nasium Thursday, May 20 with
a schedule set up for the four
county schools.
The schedule that the schools
will follow is as follows: Ar-
cher City, 8:30-9:30 a.m.; Hol-
liday, 9:45-10:30 a.m.; Megar-
gel, 10:45-11:30 a.m.; and
Windthorst, 1:00-2:00 p.m. A
clinic for pre-schoolers will
be held in the afternoon from
4 to 6:30.
Darrell W. Morris of the
State Health Department met
with school and civic officials
last week and made arrange-
ments and plans for the clinic.
The Archer City Lions Club
and other civic clubs in the
county are helping sponsor the
clinic. The club will assist in
furnishing some of the nece-
ssary supplies for the pro-
gram. Also assisting will be
ladies from civic clubs in Ar-
cher City and area towns.
The board of education of
the Archer City schools have
endorsed the clinic and have
discussed the possibility of hav-
ing the immunization required
before a student can enroll at
the local school.
Parents are reminded that
this vaccine is for rubella, com-
monly called German or 3-day
measles, and should not be con-
fused with the vaccine that has
been offered in the past few
years for regular red or 10-
day measles which does not
protect against rubella. Also,
since many childhood diseases
look and act like rubella, it is
impossible to know for sure
'Corky’ McGee To Speok Tuesday
At Local ACS Crusade Kick-Off
Rev. Carl ‘ Corky” McGee,
pastor of the Henrietta and
Bluegrove First United Metho-
dist Churches in Clay County,
will be principal speaker for
the Archer County Unit’s 1971
Cancer Crusade ‘ Kick-Off’
meeting to be held Tuesday,
April 27, 7:30 p.m. in the Ar-
cher City Lions Club building.
The meeting is to be attended
by the ACS board members and
the 1971 Crusade Volunteer
workers. The Crusade in
C. W. Hannah
Dies Friday
Funeral services for Cla-
rence W. Hannah, Sr., 49, were
held Sunday afternoon at the
United Methodist Church in Ar
cher City following his death
at the Veterans Hospital in
Dallas Friday, April 16. Rev.
Michael, Jackson, pastor, offi-
ciated.
Mr. Hannah was born Aug.
10, 1921, in Archer City and
was a retired welder, and a
World War n veteran. He was
a member of the Archer City
American Legion Post No. 198,
Wichita Falls Amateur Radio
Club and Archer City 100 F
Lodge.
Survivors include his wife,
Gloria; his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Hannah; three dau-
ghters, Angella of the home,
Mrs. Johnny Campbell and Mrs.
Frank Allen, both of Electra;
a son, Clarence W. (Butch)
Hannah, Jr., Seymour; and one
grandson, Jarvis Allen.
Pallbearers were Jimmy
Barrels and Jerry Owen of Ar-
cher City, John Schroeder at
Windthorst, James Schlab6 of
Scotland, Bob Scott and Ricky
Wallender, both of Wichita
Falls.
Interment was in the Archer
City Cemetery under the direc-
tion of Auids Funeral Home.
Archer County has been set for
May 3-10, according to Mrs.
Jack Robertson, Crusade chair-
man.
Rev. McGee is president of
the Clay County ACS Unit, is
chairman of the ACS District
13 Leadership Committee and
of the Texas State ACS Leader-
ship Development Committee.
An active civic leader in his
county, the Methodist pastor
has served four years as a
volunteer in the county Cru-
sades, is immediate past pre-
sident of the Henrietta Kiwanis
Club and member of the Clay
County Chamber of Commerce,
is a Boy Scout leader and a
volunteer for the Salvation Ar-
my.
At the Tuesday night meeting,
plans will be completed for the
Crusade and plans discussed
for a 1971 special event, po-
tentially the second annual Ta-
lent and Variety Show, to be pre-
sented in June or July in a
local entertainment center.
Rev. Kern Choate, pastor of the
Assembly of God Church in this
city, is chairman of the Special
Events Committee.
Other pastors and other in-
terested parties are cordially
invited to the meeting and to
participate in the activities of
the forthcoming Crusade May
3-10.
Mrs. Robertson reports that
the Mankins Crusade chairman,
Mrs. A. R. Compton, has al-
ready turned in $50.00 in con-
tributions from that community,
$25.00 of which is in Memo-
rials.
The Archer ACS Unit Nomi-
nating Committee, composed at
R. A. Killian, chairman, and
Mmes. Marvin Pickard of this
city and Lucille Moseley of
Dundee, met Thursday, April
15, in preparation for selecting
1971-72 board officer nomi-
nees.
that a child has had the di-
sease without a special blood
test. So it is recommended that
all children ages one through
ten years be given the vaccine
even though it is believed that
a child has already had the
disease. It is safe for a child
who has had the disease to
receive the vaccine.
Using the virtually painless
‘‘Jet Injector,” rubella vaccine
will be administered to school
age and pre-school children
having signed permission from
a parent or guardian. Parents
of children at least one year of
Montague Jury
Sees Need For
District Attorney
A recent move by the Tri-
County Bar Association of Ar-
cher, Clay and Montague Coun-
ties to create a post of district
attorney to serve the 97th Ju-
dicial District has apparently
failed due to some opposition.
However, just recently, the
Grand Jury at Montague County
returned 52 indictments and an-
other 20 to 25 cases are to be
heard April 28. Following the
return of the indictments the
Grand Jury also offered the
following resolution.
‘‘Be it resolved by the Grand
Jury of Montague County, for the
March 1971 term, that we go
on record as stating in our
opinion it is mandatory for pro-
per and sufficient law enforce-
ment within our County that
the office of District Attorney
for the 97th Judicial District
of Texas, consisting of Archer,
Clay and Montague Counties be
created, and that pursuant to the
creation of said office of Dis-
trict Attorney that a District
Attorney be appointed imme-
diately to undertake the work-
load in this County, as well as
the backlog of cases pending in
the entire district”
SCS Work Unit
Receives Award
E. Wayne Chapman, Area
Conservationist, Soil Conser-
vation Service, Vernon, recent-
ly presented the Archer City
Work Unit an award for not
having a lost-time personal in-
jury from any cause in the
last 15 years.
The awards for the excel-
lent safety record were approv-
ed by Clyde W. Graham, SCS
State Conservationist The Soil
Conservation Service is coop-
erating in the “Zero In On Fe-
deral Safety” program whereby
Federal agencies are placing
emphasis on eliminating major
causes of employee injuries
during calendar years 1971 and
1972.
The Archer City Work Unit
gives technical assistance on
conservation matters through
the local Little Wichita Soil
and Water Conservation Dis-
trict.
age and older but not yet in
school, are urged to bring their
children to the pre-schooler’s
clinic.
It may be that it is within
your power to prevent a baby
from being born dead or with a
birth defect simply by having
your children, ages one through
ten, immunized against rubel-
la.
For additional information,
contact school officials at one
of the four county schools.
HAVE A BROOM OR MOP, MAM7-BU1 Hays, general chair-
man of the Lions Club annual broom sale, and other Lions
will be looking for customers to sell brooms, push brooms,
whisk brooms, mops and other items at the sale site on the
courthouse square next Tuesday, April 27. The sale will
begin promptly at 8 a.m. and will continue until 6 p.m. The
products are made by skilled Texas blind-craftsmen in Texas
Blind Shops. (News Staff Photo)
Annual lions Club Broom
Sale Set Here Tuesday
The Archer City Lions Club
will conduct a sale on Tuesday,
April 27 to sell quality blind-
made products to residents and
local businesses, according to
an announcement made today
by Bob Russell, Lion presi-
dent. The articles are all man-
ufactured by blind workers in
the Lighthouses for the Blind
which are located throughout
the state of Texas. The Lion
Club’s earnings from this sale
will be used for purchasing eye
glasses for needy children.
The entire membership of the
Lions Club has been organized
to supply friends and neighbors
with this quality merchandise at
the courthouse square. Every
household can use some type of
household cleaning aid and ev-
ery item sold helps some blind
person to help himself.
Sales of blind-made products
held by the Archer City Lions
Club in previous years have
been most successful and Lion
Russell expressed his confi-
dence in another successful sale
this year.
Bill Hays at Lakeside City,
and a member of the local Lions
Club is general chairman of
this year’s sale.
Revival Service*
Set At Holliday
First Baptist
Revival services at the First
Baptist Church in Holliday has
been set for April 25 through
May 2, according to an an-
nouncement this week by Rev.
Darius McKay, church pastern.
Leading the revival services
will be Rev. Bill Penland, for-
mer pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Archer City and now
pastor of Arrow Heights Bap-
tist Church in Broken Arrow,
Okla.
Jim Benson, youth director of
the Lamar Baptist Church in
Wichita Falls will direct the
choir and be in charge of spe-
cial music for the revival.
The services will begin 7:30
nightly and at 9:45 weekdays.
Ivory Week Is library Week
At Archer County library
Mrs. BUI (Helen) Meek, li-
brarian for Archer County Pub-
lic Library, today announced
that this is ‘ Library Week”
across the nation and reminds
county residents of the library
located next door to the City
Hall.
She enthusiastically told of
several of the best sellers which
are now marked and on the
shelves for public reading. The
library just recently purchased
18 best sellers. Also mentioned
was the 300 books on loan from
the state library. Qace a year
new books are borrowed from
the state and made ready for
reading.
The librarian says that an
average of 50 books a day are
on loan to citizens.
‘‘It seems as though Wednes-
day is the day for reading, and
I don’t know why,’’ Mrs. Meek
said. Last Wednesday afternoon
she checked out 52 books after
3:30 p.m. until closing time
and just a few weeks prior she
checked out 72 books on a Wed-
nesday after 3:30 p.m. This past
Saturday morning 40 books were
checked out by readers. She
continued that this past week
three senior students have used
the library to find material to
assist them in theme papers.
Each weeks finds more high
school students browsing and
using available library ma-
terial.
Memorial contributions may
also be made to the library,
designating a special book or
contributing and leaving the se-
lection to the discreation of the
librarian.
IN
FIRST
DAIRY JUDGENG-Placing first in the district dairy judging contest held
Saturday at StephenvUle was Windtborst’s senior 4-H dairy judging team,
the team are, left to right, Mark Hoff, David Wolf and Gene Wolf. The
Vickie Schroeder, was unable to be present when the picture
high individual in the contest and Vickie placed third. The team will
state dairy judging contest to be held in June at Texas ASM.
ATTENDS REGIONAL MEET—These nine students are en-
tered in the Regional UIL literary events this Saturday in
Lubbock. Back row (L to r.) Charles Lulg, persuasive speak-
ing; Brian McPherson, informative speaking and journalism;
Fifteen Students
In Regional UIL
Fifteen young people will re-
present Archer City High School
in Regional Meet in Lubbock
April 24. Nine students are lis-
ted in the literary events, five
make up the golf team and one
will run tract.
According to J. B. Adams,
high school principal, Archer
City won the District UIL events
with a total of 122 points. The
golf team picked up another 10
points for second place at dis-
trict and third place medalist
Jerry Stults picked up another
five points, bringing a total
number of golf points to 15.
Johnny Hudson is entered in
broad jump and intermediate
hurdle events.
Shirley Gensler will be in
slide rule and number sense
competition Friday and her
teammate Myrle Metcalf will
be competing in slide rule.
Commercial studies will have
Karen Luig entered in typing
and Karen Holder, shorthand.
Cindy Martin and Brian Mc-
Pherson are entered in the girls
and boys informative speaking
and Charles Luig will be in
persuasive speaking.
Lonnie Maag and Brian have
entered the journalism event
Nancy Gage will be spelling
for the school.
The golf team starts com-
petitive play at 8 a.m. Thurs-
day (today) and will finish Fri-
day afternoon. Golf team mem-
bers are Jim Black, Jim Lew-
is, Mark Groves, Charles Gain-
es and Stults.
Preliminaries for track will
be broad jump at 10:00 a.m.
and hurdles at 1 p.m. Friday
afternoon with finals being held
Saturday.
Teachers accompanying the
students to Lubbock will be Judd
Gray and Mmes. John Fall and
L N. Barton. Eddie Morris is
golf and track coach.
‘A’ Club Plans
Baskeball Game
And ‘Sock Hop’
The Archer City High School
“A” Club is sponsoring a bas-
ketball game and ‘ sock hop”
Friday, April 30 in the high
school gym. The Club, made
up of high school athletes, has
scheduled the school faculty a-
galnst fathers of the A club
members and Archer City
‘‘has beens.” Coaching the in-
dependent team will be Bill
Crow with Coach Bobby Ray
in charge of the faculty.
The number one starter for
the faculty will be all-state,
all-American and all-pro cen-
ter Dean Fisher. The sharp-
shooting 5' 5" center will be
joined by Coaches Ray, Morris
and Wood and other faculty
members to Include Bobby
Blackburn, James Adams, Tim
McPherson, Judd Gray and Lon-
nie Dooley. Not to mention the
‘‘spark plug” on the faculty
team, A C. Wallace.
Admission to the game will
be .50 for students and $1.00
for adults. A spokesman for the
‘ A” Club said that an admis-
sion ticket to the ball game
would also be good for the
‘‘sock hop.”
County Judge Makes Plea
For Drouth Stricken Area
County Judge Bill Holder this
past week made an appeal to
state and federal authorities to
place Archer County in the
drouth disaster area.
In his letter to the officials
he pointed out the following:
“Archer County is suffering
from its worst drouth since the
dust bowl days of the 1930’s.
‘‘Very little forage remains
in our pastures. No hay supply
is available. Many ponds are
dry or near dry. Small grain
crops are being abandoned daily
since they are not worth har-
vesting. Cattle herds are being
reduced at the present and it
appears that these reductions
will continue in alarming num-
bers.
‘ Request that Archer County
be declared a disaster area and
that a supply of hay be made
available and that other appro-
priate relief be made available
on request as the situation may
dictate.
‘‘It is felt that many farmers
and ranchers may have to de-
clare bankruptcy under the pre-
sent situation."
The County Judge also re-
quested that a financial state-
ment that is usually needed in
connection with'emergency feed
program to be omitted as a
requirement
Social Security
Representative
Here April 27
There are no social security
benefits payable during the first
six months of disability. This is
the waiting period. However, to
make sure your disability
checks start at the earliest
time you should file for your
social security benefits as soon
after you become disabled as
possible.
James B. Foyce, representa-
tive of the Social Security Ad-
ministration, will be at the
Archer City Courthouse, Tues-
day, April 27, from 2 until
3:30 p.m.
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1971, newspaper, April 22, 1971; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth709522/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.