Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 9, Ed. 1 Monday, July 19, 1976 Page: 1 of 6
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE-NEWS 10
Dial 567-2116 It fact Classffittf Ads
Jack County’s Shopping Guide Sinct 1880
At tkt Crossroads to Wost Ttxas
NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR
Jacksboro, Tens 76056, Monday July 19,1976
NUMBER 9
t
Billie Cranford Is
Named CF Chairman
i
Mrs. Billy Crawford has
been named chairman in
Jacksboro for the Sept-
ember Breath of Life Cam-
paign of the Cystic Fi-
brosis Foundation, by Wil-
liam B. Henley Jr., pres-
ident of the North-East
Texas Chapter.
As chairman. Mrs. Craw-
ford will be responsible
for recruiting volunteers
for a public education pro-
gram and a door-to-door
drive.
Mrs. Crawford has
served as a 1974 and 1975
CF chairman. She is a
member of the Church of
Christ, Order of the East-
ern Star, Delta Kappa
Gamma and the Hospital
Auxiliary;
Sponsors Young Homema-
kers of Texas and Future
Homemakers of Texas;
teaches high school econ-
omics.
The Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation supports over
100 CF Centers across the
nation, five of which are
in Texas. These Centers
provide diagnosis and
treatment for children who
have CF and other long-
damaging diseases. The
Foundation also finances
research to find a cure
and improved control for
systic fibrosis, the most
serious of the lung-dam-
aging diseases, and to
develop better treatment
for children suffering
from all lung disorders.
Cystic fibrosis is the nu-
mber one genetic killer
of children. It affects
one out of every 1,500
babies bom each year.
VISITED-Mrs. Kathi Hawkins, executive director of the Multiple Sclerosis Society
(14 county area) with headquarters in Wichita Falls, visited with Mrs. Iona Elenburg
who has suffered from MS for over thirty years. Pictured also is Mrs. Elenburg’s
nurse.
Multiple Sclerosis
Chapter Organized
Kathi Hawkins, execu- Mrs. Janet Parrish, Mrs.
five director of the Mull- Emma Craig and Laura
iple Sclerosis Association Peacock, reporter for the
NEW MEMBER-Dr. Grayson Tennison, left, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, was installed as a member
of the Jacksboro Lions Club last week. Installing the
new member was E. B. Whitaker, right.
of the Wichita Falls area
composed of 14 counties,
has appointed Nat Bush,
chairman of the Jacks-
boro chapter. Mrs. Haw-
kins met Wednesday morn-
ing to help Mr. Bush
complete the organization
of a chapter in Jackboro.
Present at the meeting was
National Weather Service
Will Present Free Program
Alan Moller, Disaster in Meteorology in 1973,
Preparedness Meteorolo- specializing in severe thun-
gist, with the National derstorm and tornado re-
Weather Service will pre- search,
sent a program July 26 A lot of time was spent
at 7 p m. in the Jacks- in (he field to photograph
boro High School audi- severe storms and torna-
torium. The program is does, learning that tornadic
being sponsored by the thunderstorms often have
Jack County Citizens Band v'sual signatures of being
Radio Club, Inc. tornadic even before a
Purpose of the program funnel cloud or tornado
par
hel
is to enlighten the resi
dents of Jack County on
safety rules for tornado and
severe weather in this
area. This program is
presented to police, high-
way officers and firemen as
well as civil defense sta'l
groups.
The program to be pre-
sented to the public is
free of charge and there
v will be free coffee served.
Moller is a native of
Fort Worth and attended
the University of Texas at
Arlington for two years.
He then transferred to
Oklahoma University re-
ceiving a B. S. in Met-
eorology in 1972. He be-
gan working on his M.S.
develops.
In 1974 Moller joined the
National Weather Service
in Fort Worth and is cur-
rently the Disaster Pre-
a red ness Meteorologist,
Ipmg communities to in-
II or
up grade tornado areas
and severe thunderstorm
preparedness plans.
In a statement to the
press. Moller stated "I
am looking forward to the
July 26 meeting in Jacks-
boro and we at the Na-
tional Weather Service are
extremely pleased that the
CB Club is interested in
being prepared in the event
that an unexpected weather
disaster should occur in
Jack County."
Everyone is urged to
attend this meeting being
presented for the beni-
fit of the residents of Jack
jCounty and surrounding
131
local newspapers. The
meeting was held at the
Jacksboro National Bank
from 9 to II a.m.
Mrs. Parrish told her
story of her bout with
MS for the past 15 years.
She hopes by letting others
know of her experiences
with the dread disease
that it wil help others
who become affected.
Mrs. Hawkins also vi-
sited with Mrs. Iona Elen-
burger who has had the
MS for over 30 years.
These two are the only
two cases known in the
county at this time. Mrs.
Hawkins stated that there
are over 80 cases known
to be in the 14 county area.
There is no known cause
or cure for MS. However
scientific researchers today
are more hopeful than ever
of finding a preventive
or more effective methods
Jacksboro Peewees Win
Over Henrietta Team
Food Production Items
Freed From Sales Tax
Texas farmers and ranch- duction. including such
ers no longer have to pay expendable supplies as
sales taxes on certain band tools. baling wire,
purchases to be used in fence wire and posts,
the production of food and gates and storage facili-
fjber. ties for bulk commodi-
Effective July 20, the des.
Texas sales tax law will Natural gas or electri-
city used on a farm or
ranch is also exempt with
the appropriate certificate
Wednesday night
brought about a victor-
ius win for the Jacks-
boro Peewee League.
Starting line up con-
sisted of: pitcher, J. Gary,
scoring three runs and one
home run; catcher. Ware,
scoring four runs; short
stop. B. Heim, scoring
four runs; second base,
B. Damron, scoring four
runs; third base, T. Ogle,
scoring three runs; first
base, Terrell, scoring three
runs; left field, J. Lil-
lard, scoring three runs;
center field, Z. Mustin,
scoring one home run;
right field, Hardman, scor-
ing one run; and sub
right field, Wilton.
In the first inning Jacks-
boro started the game off
with a bang, scoring five
runs and Henrietta scored
one run.
The second inning
brought another seven runs
for Jacksboro and five
runs for Henrietta.
Jacksboro really made an
impression in the third
inning, which resulted in
15 runs.
John Gary was the win-
ning pitcher of the game,
I lie' Antelope homecoming will be held Sunday July whose score finalized at
25 at tiler community center. Lunch will be served at 27-6, in Jacksboro's fav-
1:00 p.m. and everyone is invited. * or-
A revival will be held July 25 through August I,
8 p.m. each evening. Bro. Jim Wiggington of Joplin is
Dinner will be served o
MIMS Of HII1S'
The regular blood pressure clinic will be held Wed-
nesday July 21 front noon until 5 p.m. in the community
room of the Jacksboro National Bank. Sponsors of the
clinic are the Aging Committee of the Extension Ser-
vice and the A. A. R. P.
The Smith - Ballow Reunion will be held Sunday,
July 25 at the Brysor. High School Cafeteria. Bring your
own lunch. Plates, silverware, tea, coffee, and ice will
be furnished. All friends and relatives are invited to
attend.
It is Homecoming time at Antelope July 25th. Bring
a basket lunch. Everybody is invited. Dinner at 1:00
p.m.
Antelope Baptist Church Vacation Bible School will
be held July 26-30.
invited.
9:30-11:30 daily. Everybody is
holding services.
July 25.
on the ground
The annual Dixson-Durham-Hughes reunion will be
held July 25 in the Lion’s Club Building in Jacksboro.
There will be a covered lunch served at noon.
exempt agricultural pro-
ducers from sales taxes
on such items as baling
wire, fencing supplies and if used for pumps for live-
machinery and equipment, or irrigation water,
points out Don Parks, dairy barn operations,
area economist with the welding machines, electric
Texas Agricultural Exten- fences, and lights for
sion Service. barnes, pens and poultry
"However, a farmer houses,
or rancher does not auto- To request exemption
matically qualify for ex- certificates, producers may
emption from the sales wri(e or cab the Sales
tax," notes Parks. "Pro- Tax Division, Comptrol-
ducers must file an ex- *er of Public Accounts,
emption certificate with HJ East 7th Street, Aus-
each firm or business with tin, Texas 78774 (800-
which they deal. These 292-9687; after August I,
certificates are available 800-252-5555).
from the Comptroller.
"To qualify for an
exemption, the item pur-
chased must be used ex-
clusively on a farm or
ranch. A farm or ranch
is defined as land used
entirely or partially in he
productio of crops, live-
stock or other agricultural
products. Home gardens
are not considered a farm."
explains the economist.
Certain items are exempt
without the use of an
exemption certificate.
These include feed for farm
and ranch animals, fer-
tilizer, seeds and annual
plants, and animals.
Items requiring the use
of an exemption certificate
include fungicides, insect-
icides, herbicides, defol-
iants, desiccants, all med-
ications for farm and ranch
animals, and machine^
and equipment used in
food, grass .and feed pro-
Jacksboro To Host
Baseball Tourney
of treatment, reports the
National Multiple Sclero-
sis Society. The Society's
nationwide 1976 Hope
Chest Campaign runs from
Mother's Day May 9,
through Father's Day June
20.
Multiple Sclerosis is
caned "the mysterious
crippler of young adults”
because there is no known
cause or cure for this
disease of the central
nervous system. The
National Multiple Sclerosis
Society reports that the
prime career and family
building years from 20
to 40 are when MS gen-
erally strikes.
The National Multiple
Sclerosis Society scientists
think that the disease is
caused from a virus. They
hope to come close through
funds donated by every
concerned citizen who
wishes to help on this
worthy cause.
Jacksboro will host a
boys baseball and girls
softball tournament July
26 until July 31 at the
three fields at Lake Jacks-
boro. Games will begin
each night at 6 p.m.
Teams playing in the Pee
Wee bovs league will be
from Graford, Jacksboro
All Stars. Jacksboro Cubs.
Graham, Bowie and Hen-
rietta. Pee Wee girls teams
will be Jacksboro All Stars,
Bowie B, Jacksboro Ro-
bins, Bowie A and Bridge-
port.
In the Minor Leagues will
be boys from Perrin. Bow-
ie. Jacksboro All Stars,
Henrietta and Saint Jo.
Girls from Henrietta. Bow-
ie A. Perrin, Jacksboro
Roadrunners, Bridgeport
and Bowie B.
Bovs major league teams
will include Jacksboro,
Henrietta, Bowie, Graham,
Bridgeport. Graford and
Holliday.
Trophies will be present-
ed to the first, second and
consolation teams in all
divisions.
The Jacksboro Roadrun-
ners and Perrin girls soft-
ball teams are entered
in the Bowie trou tourna-
ment being held this week.
The Jacksboro team played
Special
Meeting
Jacksboro Masonic
Lodge will have a called
meeting July 24 al 7:30
p.m. This is a special
meeting and all masons are
invited to come and bring
their families.
Purpose of the open
meeting will be the instal
lation of officers for the
coming year.
at 6 p.m. Monday and Per-
rin will play ai 6 p.m.
Tuesday.
Chamber of Commereo Luncheon Wednesday
W.H. (Bill) Collyns, pre-
sident of the West Texas
Chamber of Commerce,
City Sales Tax
Rebates Mailed
Comptroller Bob Bullock
mailed checks totaling SI3.4
million to 535 Texas cit-
ies and towns Thursday as
their July rebate of the one- rca1l ed a*
cent city sales tax they
collect.
Bullock also released
a computer analysis of
w ill be guest speaker at the
July monthly luncheon of
the Jacksboro Chamber of
Commerce. The meeting
will be held at noon Wed-
nesday July 21 at the Far-
mers Son Steak House on
North Main.
Collyns has been vice
president and editor of The
Midland Reporter-Tele-
gram since November 1,
1946. He was born and
San Angelo
and moved to Midland from
McCamey in 1935.
He served as manager ot
The Midland Chamber of
gross rtetail sales in each Commerce and as oresi-
Texas county during the dent of the Midland
first quarter of this year Chamber and retired
that he said "shows the December 31, 1972,
Texas retail economy is from his third term on its
growing as fat as a Wal- board of directors. He also
ler County watermelon." Was chairman of various
The analysis shows there chamber committees,
was a total S28.3 billion
in gross retail sales in Collyns was vice prest-
Texas during the first dent, program of work,
quarter of 1976, the Comp- from 1972-74, of the WTCC
trailer said. and was a director ot
Bullock said city sales that organization for over
tax rebates are also run- ,25 years. In October 1972
ning well ahead of 1975.
The $158.8 million re-
bated so far in 1976 is
nearly 13 percent ahead of
the $140.6 million rebated
during the same period in
1975, ne said.
The Comptroller added
that the computer analysis
also shows a total $30.6
billion in gross sales in
he was named a lifetime
director of the WTCC.
Neil M. Berry, DO
Begins Internship
Neil M. Berry. DO, of
Jacksboro. is one of eight
new ly graduated doctors of
osteopathy beginning a
year-long internship this
month at Fort Worth Os-
teopathic Hospital.
The son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy W. Berry. Route
3. Dr. Bcrrv is« a 1968
graduate of Jacksboro High
jk’hool.
Dr. Berry, a June grad-
uate of Texas College of
Osteopathic Medicine
(TCOM). Fort Worth, earn-
ed the Bachelor of Science
degree in biology from Tar-
Icton StAte College, Stcp-
hcnville, in 1972. He is
listed in WHO'S WHO IN
AMERICAN COLLEGES
AND UNIVERSITIES.
Now a member of the
American Osteopathic As-
sociation and the Texas
Osteopathic Medical As-
sociation, Dr. Berry was
a member of the Atlas
Club, which is the lar-
gest and oldest osteo-
pathic fraternity dedicated
to fostering the principles
of osteopathic medicine,
while a TCOM medical
student.
Dr. Berry plans to re-
turn to Jacksboro to prac-
tice medicine.
Farm Safety Deadline
Extended To October
Farmers now have until
Texas by out-of-state firms October 25 to comply with
during the first quarter of certain safety standards
1976, up from the $26.9 under the Occupational
billion reported during the Safety and Health Act
first quarter of 1975. (OSHA) that were to be-
Jacksboro city sales and come effective June 7.
use tak allocation summary The safet actices con.
through the period ending ^ guardi^tractor poW.
July 1 was a net payment er ta6ke-offs(PTO), dis-
on
when the machine is
operation.
Permit no riders
farm equipment other than
persons required for in-
struction or assistance.
Stop the engine, discon-
nect the power source and
wait for all machine move-
ment to stop before ser-
s S4* ysz ES/tLM
analysts for Jack County in rraining6for n,achjnery op- except when the machine
the first quarter of 1976 ts r must be running to be
rst qu
$2,364,932, the amount
subject to tax from a gross
sales of $10,096,282.
First Baptist Church
Revival Being Held
erations.
"Even though the dead-
line has been extended,
farmers should continue
with preparations to meet
these safety standards,"
advises Dr. Gary Nelson,
agricultural safety engineer
for the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service.
Dr. Grayson Tennison,
pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church will be preach-
ing for the revival services
of the church beginning on
July 18 and running
through July 25. Tom
Burns, the church music
and Youth Director will
direct the choir and bring
special music for the
services of meetings.
service and people who
work in town are espec-
ially invited to attend, eat,
and worship at noon Mon-
day through Friday. All
church members are also
urged to bring a covered
dish and help to spread the
gospel as Dr. Tennison
brings these noon-day mes-
sages.
npha
PTC
on guarding the PTO drive
line. The tractor shield
on the rear PTO shaft must
be kept in place, notes
Nelson. However, the
master shield may be re-
moved when necessary to
operate PTO driven eq-
uipment, provided the
properly serviced.
Make sure everyone is
clear of machinery before
starting the engine, en-
gaging power or operating
the machine.
Lock out electrical poser
before performing mainten-
ance or servicing equip-
ment.
The requirement for
safety signs calls for such
signs to be placed at
prominent locations on
tractors and PTO driven
equipment indicating that
power drive system safety
shields must be kept in
place.
Furthermore, when re-
moval of a guard or ac-
Sts in
• ing people d ’hc jom- community to come to these
munity an opportunity to
attend. This service will
start at 12 noon with a
covered dish luncheon fol-
lowed by the pleaching
revival services, both noon
and night, to hear the
gospel preached and to
have fellowship with one
Among the safe opera-
ting practices in which the
employee must be instruct-
ed are the following:
Keep all guards in place
provide warnings to look
and listen for evidence of
rotation and not to remove
the guard or access door
until al! component move-
ment has stopped.
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Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 9, Ed. 1 Monday, July 19, 1976, newspaper, July 19, 1976; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth733272/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.