Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1967 Page: 7 of 8
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Jacksboro, Texas, Gazette-News
Page 7
Thursday, June 1, 1967
Mrs. W. A. Stafford
Correspondent
Bryson Woman's Society
The Bryson Woman’s Society of
Christian Service met May 29 at
the church for pledge program and
installation of officers. Mrs. Ruth
Bailey was leader; Mrs. Bob Mit-
chell, narriator; and Mrs. Grace
Reynolds and Mrs. G. C. House,
Jr. readers.
Ms. J. R. Clayton installed the
officers using the theme “What Is
In Thy Hand?” New president is
Mrs. W. L. McCloud; Vice presi-
dent, Mrs. G. C. House, Jr.; Trea-
surer, Mrs. C. B. Williams; Secre-
tary, Mrs. Ruth Bailey;
Committee Chairmen are: Spiri-
tual Life, Mmes. W. G. Stamper;
Missionary Education, Don Cun-
ningham; Membership Cultivation,
Roy Clayton; Program Material,
Miss Cleo Caldwell; Campus Mini-
stery, Mrs. Bob Mitchell;
Missionary personel, Mmes. L. J.
Hester; Supply Work, W. S. Mor-
ris; Children’s Work, Merwin Tur-
ner; Christian Social Relations, J.
P. Andrews Jr.; and Local Church
activities, Don Mitchell; Refresh-
ments were serve to 12 members
nd one visitor. Next meeting will
be in September.
* * *
Alline Brown is visiting in Wichi-
ta Falls with her sisters and fami-
lies.
The B. J. Sims family of Graham
were supper guests of the W. A.
Staffords Saturday.
Mrs. Mary Pendleton spent Wed-
nesday night in Fort Worth, with
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hankins.
Mrs. C. P. Clayton returned
home last weekend from Fort
Worth where she visited her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Maxine Howerth, Mrs.
Howerth accompanied her home for
visit.
"Mrs. Alline Birdwell returned
home Friday from Dallas, accom-
, panying her were James Birdwell,
Roger and Julie. Roger and Julie
remained for a 3 week visit with
Henry Birdwells.
C. L. Denning spent Tuesday
night in Cleburne with his son, Mr.
and Mrs. John Denning, and ac-
companied them to Dallas to attend
the graduation of his granddaugh-
ter, Beth Kean from Highland High
School. He remained for a few
days to visit with the James Den-
ning family in Richardson
other relatives.
Rev. John Sullivan, pastor of
First Baptist Church of Bryson,
and family moved here Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gib Helvey of
Andrews spent Friday night with
his sister, Mrs. L. S. Simpson, and
also visited other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shuck spent
the weekend in Kerrville with their
daughter, Mrs. T. E. Tenburg and
family.
Mrs. J. C. Dunlap Is visiting in
Hobbs , N. M., with her daughter,
Mrs. Don Hughes and family and
son, Gary.
Mrs. Clemmie Harris spent a few
days in Graham last week with
her son, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wayne
Harris.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hartman
Jr. of Farmersville spent last week-
end with her mother. Mrs. Grace
Reynolds.
The Fred Clintons, and the Ar-
nie Kings of Fort Worth visited
with their mother, Mrs. M. M
King, Wednesday.
The Teddy Emanuel family of
Azle spent Tuesday night with the
Tommy Grays.
Marty and Lea Ann Kinder are
spending this week in Crane with
their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs
Hoy Kinder.
Mrs. G. M. Foster was dismissed
from Bethania Hospital in Wichita
Falls Sunday.
Mrs. J. C. Rasco visited friends
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in Gainesville last week.
The Doyle Caskey family of Pan-
handle moved to Bryson Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Newsom
moved into their new home Satur-
day.
Alvie Jones of Corpus Christi
spent Thursday night with Mr. and
Mrs. Coy Ice and visited other
relatives.
The Bob Mitchells were host for
and a back yarc* Pig suPPer on May
27. The pig was furnished bv Mr.
and Mrs. D. D. Tate and was
roasted eight hours over an open
pit fire. The pig drew a number of
curious people during the day, as
they had never seen one roasting.
Guests included the Mitchell fam-
ily. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Tate, Leon
and Denelle and Mike Mathis, the
Harell Petty family, and Gerald
Deck and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Lewis
spent Thursday night in Andrews
with his sister, Mrs. Herman El-
loitt. The Elloitts accompanied
them to El Paso Friday on a busi-
ness trip. Mrs. Elloitt will under-
go surgery in El Paso June 29th.
Mrs. Roy Brooking of Wichita
Falls spent Sunday with her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Chester Crow and family. I
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Rangers Are Upholding State Laws
and Mrs. Curtis Crow last week-
end.
The Ruff Kings of Fort Worth
spent Sunday with Mrs. Maude
King and Lillie.
The Burney Simpson and family
of Nocona spent Sunday with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Simp-
son.
Mrs. Nell McConnell of Fort
Worth, spent the weekend with the
Don Mitchells.
Rev. Gene Gordon, pastor of
White Rock Methodist Church
spent Friday night with Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Mitchell.
The Clinton Box family of Ed-
mond, (Mtla., and Mrs. Comelie
Beam and son of Hurst spent Sat-
Mrs. Dora Box and Aunt Mrs.
urday night with their mother,
Fannie Nolen. Mrs. Box accompan-
ied her son to Edmond for a two
week visit.
Mrs. Mable Shields and Mrs.
Barbara Shields and baby of Lov-
ington. New Mexico visited with
Mrs. Myrtle Keyser Friday.
The Tommy Lamar family of
Wills Point and the Jim Pat New-
soms of Euless were weekend
visitors of the M. D. Newsoms.
Carl York of Denton spent the
weekend with his sister, Mrs. Les-
sie Bryson. . . , .
Mrs. J. R. Clayton visited in Har-
lingen with her daughter, Mrs. Joe
Sanders and family last week and
attended the graduation of her
granddaughter, Ann Sanders from
Texas University and accompanied
her grandmother home for a visit.
Visiting the J. E. Butler’s last
week were their children H. H.
Butler of Springtown, the M. C.
Butler family of Boyd. The Billy
Ray Butlers and children, of Ke-
rens, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Butler
and Judy of Hurst. Virgil Maxwell
and family, Jacksboro; Tommy
Butler, Springtown; Guy and Edd
Butler of Boyd spent last week with
their grandparents.
Edward and Mary Maxwell of
Jacksboro spent last week also.
Ann Butler visited her brothers
the H. H. Butler of Springtown and
M. C. Butler at Boyd and their
families Sunday. Mrs. Edward
Maxwell of Jacksboro accompanied
her.
Mr. and Mrs. John Nunley at-
tended graduation exercises for
their granddaughter, Martha Keas-
ler, at Baylor University in Waco
Friday morning. They also attend-
ed High School gaduation exercises
Friday at McKinney for John Keas-
ler, a grandson.
Mike Spencer of Fort Hood and
Mrs. Mike Spencer of Jacksboro
visited with Mr. and Mrs. L. V.
Sartain Sunday afternoon.
Following procedure dictated by
recent Supreme Court decisions,
police organizations are necessarily
hesitant about commenting on any
case under investigation. However,
there has been so much misinfor-
mation about the function of the
Department of Public Safety and
ting to prevent others from engag-
ing in their lawful vocation. We also
know that these violations have
occurred.
We further know that some of the
participants have criminal records,
that many are not employed in
Texas nor are even Texas residents
the Texas Rangers in the labor, but reside in other states.
controversy in the Lower Rio Gran-
de Valley that I feel compelled to
issue this clarification of position.
In the charges and counter-
charges being passed back and
forth, the overall purpose of the
Department of Public Safety has
apparently been forgotten by some.
It is our duty and responsibility
by law to assist local authorities in
preserving the peace and to enforce
the law regardless of whom it may
affect.
It is no part of our function to
decide what are good laws or bad
laws or to decide which should be
enforced and which should not.
We must enforce the law a3 writ-
ten or have a lawless, unregulated
and dangerous society.
The particular function of the De-
partment in a situation or cont'o
versy such as exists in the Valley
certainly needs clarification.
First, by law and tradition, the
Department of Public Safety has
assisted local authorities in many
thousands of cases involving every
type of crime and law violation.
We daily participate in numerous
investigations concerning murders,
robberies, burglaries, rapes and
other crimes.
So far this year the Texas Ran-
gers have participated in a total
of 21,313 investigations, searches
and arrests. The incident in the
Valley is merely one of many,
many matters with which we are
concerned, and most certainly was
not singled out for emphasis.
Secondly, the Department is the
only agency which can perform law-
enforcement functions, state or lo-
cal, where the activity or law vio-
lation involves more than one
county.
We have statewide jurisdiction,
whereas the local authorities must
stop at the city precinct or county
line. With the activities in the Val-
ley extending into many counties
there is no other law enforcement
agency available to perform the
function carried on by the Di*S
We have no position on the merits
of either side of the labor contro-
versy. The Department position is
solely to see that all participants
obey the law. We know that the
law prohibits stopping a train be-
cause it is carrying something that
an individual does not like—the law
calls this a “secondary boycott.”
We know that the law prohibits
, mass picketing. We know that the
' law prohibits preventing or attemp-
Olney Rodeo
June 8, 9,10
Downtown Parade 5 p.m. Thursday
Rodeo Grand Entry 7:45 p.m., Thursday &
Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday
Kids Day-Rodeo Grounds, 9 a.m. Friday
Cutting Horse Eliminations I p.m. Saturday,
Olney Auction Barn
We know that some participants
have been armed with dealy wea-
pons. One has been convicted in
court for smuggling aliens, for ag-
gravated assault, for Driving While
Intoxicated and for murder, besides
at one time being deported to Mex-
ico after illegal entry into the
United States.
This particular individual was
placed under arrest by the Rangers
after a magistrate told them to
forcibly enter a house and arrest
him.
Under such circumstances, as Di-
rector of the Department of Public
Safety, I believe we would be de-
relict in our duty to the state and
all peaceful, law-abiding citizens if
we did not take every lawful step
to protect citizens and their pro-
perty, and to see that all partici-
pants obey the laws of Texas.
As for the allegation of brutality
on the part of Department person-
nel, let me say this once and for
all. As Director of the DPS, and
as an individual citizen, I would
be the first to condemn any such
activity. I abhor it. Every officer
of this Department has specific in-
structions against such conduct.
I have made a personal investi-
gation of these charges and believe
them to be totally false and un
founded.
The charge of police brutality is
the common defense and cry of a
professional criminal and agitator
(and I say this generally and not
as a comment on any specific
statement.)
It is one of the most dangerous
tactics known when employed in
an emotionally charged situation. It
can and does result in innocent per-
sons becoming unwillingly and un-
wittingly involved in rioting mobs
and lawlessness.
If this unfounded assertion is to
achieve the dignity of calling off
those sworn to uphold and enforce
the law, then this State is indeed
in great danger and peril.
The very simple answer to those
critics of the Texas Rangers is
this: If they will only obey the
law, no Texas Ranger c/er has or
ever will molest them.
Wise County Land and
Royalty Owners Meet Tues.
A meeting of the Land and Roya-
lty Owners Assoc, of Wise and ad-
joining counties will be held at
8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Chico High
auditorium. All landowners in Wise
and adjoining counties are invited
to join.
Mrs. Clide Ogle
Correspondent
Mrs. Wanda Scarber and Jimmy
of Henrietta are visiting her sister,
Mrs. Juanita Long and family.
Mrs. Betty Ogle and children
spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs.
Roger Swaim in Bowie.
Visiting the Clide Ogles during
the week were Mmes. Elsie Sch-
roufe, of Fort Myres, Fla., Willie
Ogle, Vemie Middlebrooks and
Jean.
The Bill Carters visited Mr. and
Mrs. Jake Fraziers and the John
Robertsons in Graham Sunda
Mr. and Mrs. Junior Long and
boys of Bridgeport, the Wayne Hu 1
sons and Devin of Wichita Fails
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Long last weekend.
The E. E. Creeks of Elk City.
Okla. and the Cubert Fries and
Sharon of Holliday visited the H
M. Creeks.
Weekend visitors of Mrs. Geor-
gie Brown were the Herman
Drowns and girls of Bridgeport, the
Louise Leffingwells and girls ct
Wichita Falls and the Earnest
Grangers of Jacksboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Wayhoff of
Fort Worth and Terry Lewis of
Jacksboro spent the weekend with
the Lewis Kirks, Danny and 3he-
rila.
Joplin News
Mr*. W. W. Erwin
Correspondent
Sharon Belz, daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. Fritz Belz is on tour with
the Texas Girls Choir to New York
where they will have a concert
at Carnegie Hall June 12. They
will sing at the Capitol Building in
Washington D. C,; make TV appea-
rances; make tapes for the Mike
Douglas Show; and be on the Ted
Mack Show.
Linda Hall, on vacation from
Oklahoma State University, visited
the Floyd Halls and Oma Hall re-
cently.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hall and sons
of Houston also visited the Halls
while enroute to New York where
they will live.
The Alvin Spanns, League City;
Kitty Sue Riley, Jermyn; Mr and
Mrs. Henry Riley, daughter and
granddaughter, Mt. Home. Ark.
visited the L. L. Rileys recently.
Henry Riley and family also visit-
ed Dock Johnston.
The Dewey Branch family spent
the weekend at Possom Kingdom.
The Frank Erwins and boys, Den-
ton and the J. W. Fronts, Weather-
ford visited Mrs. Dru'illa Nero and
son Sunday afternoon.
The L. L. Andei^en family at
tended the wedding of a neice,
Janet Beasley, in Fort Worth Fri-
day night.
Groveland Homecoming will be
June 11 at the Perrin Community
Center. A basket lunch will be
spread at noon. Everyone is invit-
ed.
Ronnie Erwin was injure Sat-
urday while working on a pulling
machine in Denton. He was re-
leased from Jack County Hospital
Monday.
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