Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. NINETY-FIFTH YEAR, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, December 30, 1974 Page: 1 of 6
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JACKSBORO GAZEnE-NEWS
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NINETY - FIFTH YEAR
Jacksboro, Texas 76056, Monday December 30, 1974
NUMBER 32
Junior Varsity Wins
Jacksboro and Hirschi Jun-
ior VSrattys played in a see-
saw battle that found the Ti-
lers coming out on top 45
to 42. The first half saw
tbs action all tied up 21 to
II as each team matched the
Other point for point
In the third quarter action
the Tlcers were ahead by a
slim four points (36-32) but
late in the |arae Hirschi went
ahead by one point. With
two minutes to play the lead
had changed hands five times
by one paint. Hirschi was
ahead with 26 seconds left
in the game when Freshman
David Pickett banked a shot
off the back board to put the
Tigers ahead again 43 to 42.
With three seconds Greg
Clayton put the icing on the
cake as he was fouled and
converted both foul shots to
f}ve the Tigers the lead and
the win 45 to 42.
Clayton led with 12 points,
Freshman Ricky Myers eight
points, Jimmy Graham seven
points, Brad Elenburg and
Pickett each six points, Bryan
Elenburg four points, and
Freshman Philip Fleming had
two points.
The B team plays host to
Graham Saturday starting at
6:00. The Freashman will
play at Decatur Monday Jan-
uary 6 and the Junior Var-
sity will play Whltesboro Jan-
uary 7 at home.
Tigers Lose Game
Hirshl coasted to a 60 to
51 win over die Tigers here
Saturday night, as Jacksboro
could only hit 35% of their
field shots.
Hirschi had a slim six
point legd (25-19) at half-
time, but pulled ahead with an
19 point lead in the third
quarter. Jacksboro missed
several chances from the foul
line as they could only man-
age to hit nine of 23.
Randy Myers had 20 points
in a losing cause. Dudley
Horton 10 points, Ronnie Den-
ning and Don Lively six points
each, Randy Perrltt four
points, Stephen Wood three
points, Kent Elenburg and
Greg Clayton (up from the B
team) had two points each to
round out the Tigers scoring
Robert Sumpter led the Hus-
kies with 21 points.
The Tigers will play Gra-
ham at home next Saturday
night in a game following the
B team. Then on January 7
the Tigers will again start
into District play as they play
host to Whltesboro. The Ti-
gers will again be without the
services of James Pickett,
but hopefully all will be in
good shape for District play.
1974 Year of Progress for
Jack County, 1975 Maybe So
DR. ELMER V. KREHBIEL
Beef Production Short
Course Set At Perrin
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Missions To Continue
F-105 tactical fighters of
the 901st Tactical Fighter
Wing's 457th Tacticil Fighter
Squadron based at Carswell
AFB, Will continue toflylow
altitude training missions
over Northwest Texas and
Southwest Oklahoma.
The low altitude missions,
which started in December,
197S, are part of the wing's
training program to assure
that the F-105 pilots main-
tain their proficiency to fly
at high speeds low enough
to get under enemy defenses
and reach target areas.
The 301st, commanded by
Col. John E. Taylor Jr., is
an Air Force Reserve wing
located at Carswell AFB.
Two routes have been
established for the low level
flights. Route 214 starts sev-
en miles northeast of Jacks-
boro, Tex.; travels west to
Lake Kemp; north to a point
west of Mangum, Okla., and
then loops east to a simu •
lated target area, 20 miles
west of Lawton, Okla.
The second flight pattern,
route 209, starts about 20
miles west of Denton, Tex.;
passes north to Lone Grave,
Oklahoma Where it swings
northwest to a point some
SO miles west of Oklahoma
City. Jt then makes a loop
and swings south to the
Wichita Mountains in Okla-
homa, about 20 miles west
of Lawton.
Both routes make a lazy
sickle shape pattern, ending
near Ft. Sill, Okla.
According to Colonel Tay-
lor, two flights of four air-
craft each, use the routes
daily, Monday through Sat-
urday. These routes will
continue indefinitely, he said.
No sonic boom will re-
sult from the flights, which
are flown at 420 knots 1,000
feet above ground level.
In keeping with Tactical
Air Command regulations,
pilots will not fly low level
over hospitals, mink farms,
large poultry farms, or con-
gested areas.
The 301st was reactivated
as an Air Force Reserve
unit in July , 1972. Other
detachments of the wing are
located at Tinker AFB,Okla.,
and Hill AFB, Utah.
Pilots of the 457th Tacti-
cal Fighter Squadron from
Carswell fly the “Thunder-
stick II,’’ a specially modi-
fied version of Falrchlld-Re-
public’s F-105 “Thunder-
chief” series D model.
The F-105 is a mach 2
multi-purpose, all weather
fighter-bomber.
Maggit Barry Wins TV
Maggie Berry was the win-
ner of the black and white
portable TV given away by
Ellis A Chambers Furniture'
A Appliances December 24.
PERSONALS. ..
Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Mas sen-
gale have been visiting their
son and family, Don Mas sen-
gale in Conroe.
Dr. and Mrs. Paul K. Con-
ner spent Christmas in
Dallas with their children.
Coming Events . ..
There will be a New Year’s dance at the Canteen
December 31, from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. sponsored by Mr.
and Mrs. John Damron and Mr. and Mrs. Pat Myers. The
“Elysian Fields” will play and hats and horns will be
furnished.
Hie Salvation Army truck will be at the Chamber of Com-
merce office early Friday, January 3 for items. If you have
items please call file office 567-2602 by 5:00 p.m. Thursday.
A special watch night service is planned at the First As-
sembly of God Church tonight beginning at 9:00—12:00.
The service will feature special singing, preaching, and com-
munion. Rev. Roy Carpenter, pastor, Invites the public to at-
tend.
A beef production short
course for adult farmers will
be Held at Perrin under the
sponsorship of the Perrin High
School Vocational Agriculture
Department according to Bob
Cannon, superintendent, and
Jack York, teacher of Voca-
tional Agriculture.
Dr. Elmer V.Krehbiel.beef
production specialist with the
Vocational Agriculture Divis-
ion of the Texas Education
Agency and the Department of
Animal Science at Texas AAM
University, will be the instruc-
tor for the course. He is
headquartered at Texas AAM
University.
Dr. Krehbiel is a native of
Oklahoma. As a farm boy and
FFA member, he has shown
livestock and won many
awards, including champion-
ships at the Southwestern Ex-
position in Fort Worth and at
the American Royal Livestock
show in Kansas City.
He has a strong background
in animal production and gen-
etics. He received a B.S.
degree from Oklahoma State
University in 1950,andanM.S.
degree from the Uni-
versity of Arkansas
in 1959 and aPb.D
degree from Virginia Poly-
technic Institute in 1966. His
graduate studies were based
on selection for type and re-
production performance of
cow herds.
Between periods of formal
training, Dr. Krehbiel worked
with the beef cattle industry
as artificial , insemination
technician, beef cattle herds-
man, and ranch manager in
Oklahoma. He also served as
beef cattle research assistant
in Arkansas, and animal gen-
eticist for the USDA at Miles
City, Montana. For the past
two years prior to joining
the Agricultural Education
Specialist Program,he served
as Area Livestock Extension
Agent in Ohio.
The short course at Perrin
is scheduled to begin January
6 at 7:00 p.m. in the school
cafeteria. Other meeting in
the series of four will be held
January 7, 8, and 9. During
the dates the short course
is in progress, Dr. Krehbiel
will be available to assist
cattle men with individual
problems and to provide on-the
farm instruction, according to
Jack York.
Cattlemen interested in at-
tending the short course
should write or call the super-
intendent of schools, Bob Can-
non, or the agriculture teach-
er, Jack York. An entry fee
of 33.'HI will be charged.
Beef Production Short
Course certificates will be
presented to each cattleman
who attends all training ses-
sions.
Dr. Krehbiel states that the
field of beef cattle produc-
tion must take a close look
at efficiency of production in
the future. With land prices,
feed, and taxes rising, the pro-
ducer is meeting more and
more competition for the con-
sumer’s dollar at the .meat
counter. From the economic
view of the beef cattle business
there is every indication that
in comparing the production of
yesteryear and the producer of
tomorrow, beef must be pro-
duced more efficiently in or-
der to be a profit-making
business. Dr. Krehbiel in-
dicates that the beef produc-
tion short course will deal with
methods of producing beef at
lower costs and the ways of
producing the kind of beef that
the homemaker wants to buy.
He also states that the course
will include such important
topics as cattle reproduction
and pregnancy diagnosis bulls
and replacement heifers, calf
crop percentages, and supple-
mental winter feeding. The
course can be changed to meet
the wishes and interests of
the farmers and ranchers en-
rolled.
“Short courses in beef pro-
duction, as well as in other
areas, are now available to
farmers throughout the state
under the cooperative pro-
gram between Texas Ed-
ucation Agency and Texas
AAM University,” states Bob
Jaska, associate professor,
Department of Agriculture
Education at Texas AAM
University, who coordinates
the program for Texas AAM>
This cooperative program
is designed to make the ser-
vice of a specialist available
to conduct short courses un-
der the supervision of public
schools. Such a program will
enable teachers of vocational
agriculture to provide im-
proved educational services to
farm people.
Specialists are now avail-
able in the field of beef pro-
duction, farm electric wiring
and safety, farm electric mo-
tors, arc welding, swine pro-
duction, tractor maintenance,
pasture, and oxy-acetylene
welding.
PERSONAL . . .
Mr. and Mrs, Tom Burns
of Kingsland have been visit-
ing Mrs. Myrtis Leach and
other relatives here.
The United States, Texas
and Jack County survived the
year 1974 and with charac-
teristic ooptimism look for-
ward to 1975. The old year is
about gone and many wonder
how even it survived to get
its job done and push us
into 1975.
Jack County is lucky com-
pared to the rest of the na-
tion. It has a mimimum of
unemployment, and prices in
the stores are lower than in
the rest of the country. Even
the pessimism of many has
scarcely reached us, and we
look forward to a wonder-
ful 1975.
Whether for us they were
tragedies or jokes, the big-
gest ones for the old year
were the fiasco fo the presi-
dent of the country resigning
and putting a stand-in in the
White House, and the Texas
Legislature comedy team try-
ing to write a new state con-
stitution.
January, 1974, saw daylight
savings time sta t with tem-
peratures down as low 13
degress for several days. The
new Pine Manor Apartments
held open house and have been
full ever since. Mr. and
Mrs. O.L. Pender opened Bag
and Wag Grocery.
February, Farmers Son
Steak House had its opening.
Bob Peterson was elected
president of Chamber of Com-
merce. State Representative
Joe Hanna was B4PW
speaker.
The city ordered a new fire
truck in March. Mrs. E.C.
Richards was presented the
CofC award for Outstanding
Community service. "’***'•
In April Bryson elected
Mrs. Alta Rudolph its first
woman to be on the city coun-
cil. The First National Bank
of Jacksboro named John K.
Hackley president.
May: John Stockdale was
appointed band director for
Jacksboro Schools. Wynelle
Catlin sold her book “Old
Wattles,” to a national1
publisher. Mitchell G. Da-
venport opened law offices in
Jacksboro.
Kathi Carpenter, Jacksboro
High School honor student and
parttime Herald staffer, won
Miss Jack County honors
early in June.
July was the month that
“0-phis” dialing came for
our telephone system. Erma
Applewhite resigned as CofC
manager. S.V. Stark Jr.,
vice president, Jacksboro
National Bank, named to head
of 1975 Centennial Committee.
In August Lloyd E. Knight
became a vice president at
First National Bank. The
annual newcomers picnic was
held. Dr. Counts opened prac-
tice here. Chester Williams
took over management of CAW
Food Store
September: Howard Elen-
burg became manager of Cofc.
Bobby Conger was new
manager of JimiCo’s super
market.
October was the month when
Mrs. Laura Peacock an-
nounced publication of the se-
cond edition of “94 Years
in Jack County.” Herald
Publishing Co. told of ex-
pansion program. Jacksboro
had a new fire truck.
In November First National
Bank honored Harry McCon-
nell, chairman of the board,
for 50 years of service to
the bank, and Carroll B.
Porter was named an advi-
sory director.
December was a month for
resignations. J.L. Lacewell
resigned as city com-
missioner, James M. Splller
resigned as city attorney; and
Gerald Moore resigned as
Jack County Hospital admin-
istrator. W.T. (Jack) John-
son named new hospital ad-
ministratior.
BILLY JOE EASTER
CLINTON FARRIS
ROBBY MYERS
Three Tigers On All State Team
Listed in the Fort Worth
Star Telegram were three
Jacksboro Tigers chosen for
the All State Team.
Billy Joe Easter, tackle,
a 225 lb. Senior, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clinton Easter, was
chosen for the first team
offense. He was on the first
team offense and second team
defense all-district, lettered
two years on the varsity, and
captain of the team this year.
Billy is a member and presi-
dent of FFA and plans to at-
tend college after graduating.
Other Tigers chosen were
Clinton Farris, line-backer,
senior, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Linn Farris. He was chosen
on the second team defense.
He has been first team line-
backer for two years, lettered
three years on the varsity,
and captain of the team this
year. Clinton is a member
of Mixed Choir and FBLA.
He plans to attend Texas
Tech after graduating.
Robbie Myers, center, sen-
ior, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Pat Myers, was chosen on
the second team offense. He
has been offensive center for
the first team for two years,
and lettered three years on
the varsity. Robbie is a
member of FBLA, Student
Council, NHS, and Mixed
Choir. He plans to attend
college at Stephen F. Aus-
tin in Nacogdoches.
Federal Excise Tax Cut
Amidst all the bad reports
of national inflation and in-
creasing prices, South-
western Bell has some good
news for its customers.
The federal excise tax on
telephone service will drop
another percentage point next
year. The tax will be re-
duced from eight to seven
percent beginning January 1-
Nuclear Generating Plant
To Be Built Near Dallas
The Atomic Energy Com-
mission has issued a permit
to Texas Utilities Generating
Company (TUGCO) to con-
struct a nuclear generating
plant near Glen Rose in
Somervell County, about 60
miles southwest of Dallas.
To be named Comanche
Peak Steam Electric Station,
the plant will be owned by
Texas Power A Light Com-
pany, Dallas Power A Light
Company and Texas Electric
Service Company. It will con-
sist of two 1,150,000-kilowatt
generating units.
The first unit is scheduled
for operation in 1980 and the
second in 1982.
Application for the con-
struction permit was first
made to the Atomic Energy
Commission in 1973. Since
then, the AEC has conducted
numerous public hearings and
thoroughly researched the en-
vironmental and safety as-
pects of the plant.
Recently, the AEC issued a
limited work authorization
which allowed TUGCO to begin
non-nuclear related site work,
such as grading and excava-
tion.
The final approval which
was announced Thursday gives
TUGCO a green light on the
total constructionproject. Af-
ter the plant is built, the AEC
must then issue an operating
license before any com-
mercial electricty can be gen-
erated.
General contraktor for the
project is Brown A Root In-
corporated, of Houston.
In addition to the plant, a
3,200-acre cooling lake will
be built, part of which will
extend into Hood County.
An average of 800-1,000
construction workers will be
needed to build the plant and
lake.
A nuclear plant produces
electricity the same way a
conventional plant does. The
heat source is the only dif-
ference since nuclear fission
produces the heat which turns
water into steam. The steam
spins the turbine, which in turn
spins the generator, to pro-
duce electricity.
Salvation Army Truck Due Jan. 4
Start the new year with a
home inventory cleanup and
contribute you unneeded house-
holcntems toaprogram which
helps homeless and handicap-
ped men, suggest the Salva-
tion Army.
Repairable furniture and
appliances, as well as un-
needed clothing uncovered in
home inspections, become
valuable items in the reha-
bilitation program at the Sal-
vation Army’s Men’s Social
Service Center.
Residents who have large
repairable goods to donate
are requested not to leave
them outside the local Sal-
vation Army collection box.
Instead they should contact
the Salvation Army and ask
for home pick-up.
Donations in Jacksboro will
be picked up during January
by the Salvation Army truck
the 3rd. Residents who jiave
items to donate should call
567-2602 the day before the
truck is scheduled to make
its rounds.
down from 10 percent since
1972.
The cut is the third in a
10-year schedule elimina-
tion of the government-impo-
sed tax. The excise levy
began during the depression
on long distance telephone
service.
It was supposed to be tem-
porary, but it has stuck with
us despite efforts to have it
repealed. During World War
II, the tax was extended to
include local telephone ser-
vice.
Southwestern Bell Manager
James Smith said the tele-
phone company acts merely
as a collecting agent for the
government.
“We’re happy to see it’s
being reduced,” he said. “Of
course, we’d prefer total re-
peal of the tax now. But
at least this reduction is a
step in the right direction.”
XTZ Club To Moot
The XYZ New Year party
will be held January 7, at
the Methodist Fellowship
Hall.
The program will begin at
11:15 a.m. A covered dish
luncheon will be served at
noon. Games will be played
in the afternoon. All are
invited to come and bring a
friend.
Hostesses will be Mrs.
Otheea Oliver, Zula Roberts
and Sukia Shackelford.
WEATHER
Rain
Max
Min
Dec. 23
77
59
Dec. 24
75
36
Dec. 25
38
29
Dec. 26
.37
37
30
Dec. 27
.01
52
34
Dec. 28
50
45
Dec. 29
54
50
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Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. NINETY-FIFTH YEAR, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, December 30, 1974, newspaper, December 30, 1974; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth733335/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.