Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR, No. 36, Ed. 0 Thursday, February 13, 1969 Page: 4 of 8
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Jtcbboro (T*x) Gaxe+te-News Page 4 Thursday, February 13, 1969
19 Results Demonstration Projects
Conducted by Ag Committee m 1968
The Jack County Agricultural
Sub-Committee of the County
Program Building Committee
had a busy year in 1968 using
many, methods to help show
producers in the county new
and improved production pro-
cedures. 1968 agricultural in-
come is estimated at
$5,267,736 for the 587 farms
and ranches in the county.
The Crops Sub-Committee
sponsored a Soil Fertility
Workshop in February and co-
sponsored a Pecan Budding and
Grafting Clinic in April. The
committee sponsored 11 result
demonstrations in 1968 in-
cluding a milo demonstration,
a forage sorghum demonstra-
tion, two cotton variety demon-
strations, two small grain high
phosphorus fertilization de-
monstrations, one pecan var-
iety and two pecan case-
chemical control of weeds,
brush and prickly pear. The
annual plan of work is pre-
pared in the early fall each
year for the next year's work.
The County Agricultural
Agent had over 2,250 consul-
tations to assist individuals and
families in agricultural and
4-H club work in 1968.
Ninety one news releases were
released to newspapers and
magazines and 1,844 publica-
tions were distributed to the
public. Fifty different pieces
of mass mail totaling 5,119
copies were mailed pertaining
to agricultural producers and
4-H members with agricultural
projects during the year.
The Jack County Extension Of-
fice is open Monday through
Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The office is located in the
basement of the county court-
David Black, Rhythm Guitarist
JHS Stage Band Places Second
at Stepitenville Contest Saturday
The Jacksboro High School
Stage Band placed second in
the Stephenville Stage Band
Contest at Tarleton State Col-
lege last Saturday. Bridgeport,
Jacksboro, Clyde and Midway -
Waco were the four 2-A bands
in the 14 band competition.
The JHS jazz band placed
second, Bridgeport captured
first slot, and Clyde was in
third place.
The judges seemed extremely
pleased with the performance
given by Jacksboro, and noted
to director Milton Fox, the
tremendous improvement
shown by the musicians. The
band is now preparing for the
Brownwood Stage Band Contest
this Friday and Saturday.
Two of the Jacksboro musi-
cians were selected for the
All-Star Stage Band picked
from all competing bands, in-
cluding class 4A-B. Recipients
of this award were Mike Cot-
ten, all-star drummer; and
Reagan Simpson, all-star
trumpet player. Each re-
ceived a special commendation
Missionary will
Speak Sunday at
Assembly of God
The Reverend Howard Foltz,
newly approved Assemblies of
God missionary to Europe and
assigned leader of the newly
formed European Youth Evan-
gelism, will be guest speaker
at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19,
at the First Assembly of God
Church.
Headquarters of European
Youth Evangelism will be at
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Rev.
Foltz will assist and advise
the Dutch Assemblies of God
in establishing a youth minis-
try patterned after the Teen
Challenge program in the
United States. He will also
serve on the staff of the Cen-
tral Pentecostal Bible School
in the Hague, Netherlands.
Rev. Foltz and his family have
lived in Dallas and Fort Worth
where he founded a Teen Chal-
lenge ministry and served
as the director.
During this service, he will be
speaking of the projected
plans of European Youth Evan-
gelism according to pastor,
Rev. Roy H. Carpenter.
plaque in addition to the trophy
presented to the Stage Band.
The band previously placed
second in the Abilene Contest
sponsored by Hardin-Simmons
University. David Black re-
ceived the all-star guitarist
award at Abilene.
Lions See Slides
of Apollo Trial
Color slides of the Apollo 7
space ship recovery were
shown to Jacksboro Lions and
High School students Wednes-
day by Walter Gilchrist of the
Research Institute of Texas
Woman’s University, Denton.
Gilchrist was a member of
the bio-chemistry group that
ran tests on astronauts prior
to the flight and after the re-
covery and was aboard the
carrier USS Essex during the
recovery.
The work done by the Insti-
tute in measuring loss of min-
erals from the human body
during incapacitation was out-
lined by Gilchrist while other
medical tests on apes, to aid
checks of astronauts, was out-
lined by Miss Mary (Ru&iy)
Parker, a nurse anesthetist
with the Bio-Satelite group at
UCLA, Los Angeles, who has
been visiting at Denton.
Prior to the Lions Club pro-
gram at noon Summer Re-
creation Director Dan Owen
presented tennis tournament
trophies to competitors in last
summer’s program. Owen said
an even better tennis program
is planned for this year.
The adult women’s trophy
went to Mrs. Dale Ward and
2nd place to Mrs. Paul
Fleming; high school boy, 1st
Charles Marley; 2nd, Reagan
Simpson; Elementary boy, Kent
Elenburg 1st, Don Cross, 2nd;
Elementary girls, the finalists
Becky Fleming and Cindy
Owen.
Personals
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bearer control demonstra- house in Jacksboro and the
phone number is 567-2132.
County Agricultural Agent
Mickey Crowell, Home Demon-
stration Agent, Miss Lynn Hub-
bard, and Office Secretary
Mrs. Ivy Gunter are ready to
help you with information re-
lated to agriculture, home
economics, and 4-H Clubwork.
Hundreds of bulletins are
available with information per-
taining to many subjects
varying from catfish farming to
brush control to meal planning.
In addition the vast resources
of Texas A&M University are
at anyone’s disposal who visits
the County Extension office.
Mrs. Witherspoon
Rites Saturday
at Weatherford
Mrs. Joe B. Witherspoon died
Thursday afternoon at her
home in Weatherford.
Mrs. Witherspoon and her
husband operated the bookstore
at Weatherford College. She
was active in church and civic
work and in the Republican par-
ty.
Survivors include her hus-
band; two sons, Bill Wither-
spoon of Jacksboro and Ray
Witherspoon of Dallas; a dau-
ghter, Mrs. Betty Holbrooks of
Benbrook; her mother, Mrs.
Ordille Bullington of Weather-
ford; and two brothers, Ralph
Bullington of Wichita Falls and
Roy Rosseau of Arkansas.
Funeral services were at
2 p.m. Saturday in Couts Me-
morial Methodist Church with
burial in a Weatherford ceme-
tery.
Court Approves
Road Land Prices
Initial prices for securing
right of way for FM 2127 in the
northeast part of the county
were set Monday by the Jack
County Commissioners Court
at its regular session. Com-
missioner Orville Long, Pet. 1,
will handle right of way nego-
tiations for the short road sec-
tion.
Among those from out of town
attending the Blake Kuykendall
funeral were Mmes. George
Enloe and Robert F. Sloan,III,
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Worth-
ington, Fort Worth; Miss Mar-
garet Kuykendall, Lubbock;
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Reeves,
Vernon; Mrs. F. P. Specht,
Vashti; Mrs. Erwin Pettus,
Graham; Mrs. C. A. Miller,
Houston.
tions, chemical weed control
in cotton and milo and one
tomato nematode control de-
monstration. Chairman of the
Crops Sub-Committee is
Johnny Pate of Perrin.
The Livestock Sub-commit-
tee is chaired by Bobby Mit-
chell of Bryson. The com-
mittee sponsored a Brush
Control and Range Manage-
ment Clinic in June and mem-
bers served in various capa-
cities in working at the Jack
County Junior Livestock Show
in February.
Nineteen result demonstra-
tions were sponsored by the
Livestock Sub-committee in-
cluding three on range fer-
tilization, four range chemi-
cal weed control, chemical
prickly pear control, three
performance testing demon-
strations, one gain test,
grazing, and two brush con-
trol demonstrations.
The Wildlife Reservation
Sub-committee prepared an in-
formation sheet for land
owners to use when leasing
hunting. This sheet will be
released later in 1969. The
committee under chairman
Lonnie Wooten sponsored a
Wildlife income meeting in
October of 1968 and spon-
sored one pond weed control
and three wildlife income de-
monstrations.
All agricultural sub-com-
mittees work to find ways to
he!p the farmer and rancher
in the county increase his net
income. 92.7% of the agricul-
tural income in the county is
derived from Livestock enter-
prises and 7.3% from crops.
Additional income is being de-
rived from wildlife recrea-
tion sources but not nearly as
much as the potential for this
income industry.
One hundred seventy-five
result demonstration hand-
books were distributed in early
1968. Results of all demon-
strations in the county are
published in this handbook and
distributed each year.
The annual goal established
by the sub-committee to in-
crease the agricultural income
for the county by 4% through
the use of better management
practices was surpassed. The
committee set the 4% increase
goal again for 1968 and planned
a total of nine educational
meetings and proposed thirty
result demonstrations for 1969.
The major emphasis for de-
monstrations will be placed on
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15£. Paisley Gift Wrap, 2
sheets 50£; Gift Decoration
251. Jacksboro Gazette-News.
spring
SPECIAL
Ailene Knit
Yellow, White and Navy
wide assortment
Tops $6 to $10
Pants $8
Skirts $6
Straw Beaded Bags
$6.00 to $8.00
Pastel Spring Shoes
$6.98 to $8.98
Dress and Casual
NORMA'S
Dress
Shop
SALE ENDS'MARCH 10
Sears
SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO.
Joplin News
Mr*, w. W. Erwin
Miss Brenda Roper and Del-
ton Rhodes were honored with
a wedding shower at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Ander-
son Saturday night with a large
number attending. The wedding
will be Feb. 14.
Mrs. Don Smith and Mike, of
Hurst, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Hubert Douglas Sunday.
Mrs. Carrie Henderson is vi-
siting Mr. and Mrs. Rayburn
Gilbert in Oklahoma.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Montgo-
mery announce the birth of a
son, George William, Feb. 7.
They have two daughters,
Laura and Martha.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Spencer
visited Mrs. Marie Matlock in
a Wichita Falls hospital Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Ander-
son attended the funeral ser-
vices of an uncle, Charles
Reeves in Jacksboro Sunday.
Mrs. W. W. Erwin and Mrs.
Wilmer Anderson visited Mrs.
Don Brown in Harris Hospital,
Fort Worth, Saturday.
Billy Ray Erwin, Graham, is
back in the Harris Hospital with
a leg infection resulting in an
accident on a motor cycle in
October.
Rev. and Mrs. Fritz Belz
and girls were dinner guests
of the A. L. Roper’s Sunday.
Joan Anderson is back in
school after having foot sur-
gery in Fort Worth recently.
■ •
LOTS OF EATING was lost Sunday afternoon when frozen food carried by a Dallas
tractor-trailer overturned northwest of here. Jacksboro firemen extinguished the
trailer fire but the tractor was lost. Gazette-News Photo
Tractor Trailer Destroyed Sunday
Afternoon in Highway 199 Wreck
A tractor-trailor overturned
just west of the Highways 199-
281 intersection 7 miles north-
west of here at 4:45 p.m. and
caught fire, destroying the ve-
hicles.
Traffic on Highway 199 to 01-
ney had to be detoured through
the ditches alongside the road-
way for over an hour while local
firemen fought the blaze and
wreckers pulled the trailer
from the center of the road-
way.
The truck, loaded with frozen
seafoods and other items,
owned by Wicker Fish Co. of
Dallas, was westbound when it
failed to make the turn in
the intersection, went out of
control, and overturned. The
tractor was destroyed by fire
and the trailer damaged in the
turnover and by fire. The
entire unit was a total loss.
The driver, J. D. Burleson of
Dallas, managed to crawl from
the cab of the tractor with as-
sistance of other motorists and
was taken to Jack County Hos-
pital. He was released Mon-
day.
The total loss was estimated
at $75,000 by Highway Patrol-
man Jim Terrell.
About People
You Know
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McCalla
and daughter Ginger of Lan-
caster, Mr. and Mrs. Howard
McCalla of Irving and Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Henley of Fort
Worth were guests of Mrs. Sal-
lie Eubank of Wizard Wells last
Saturday. Mrs. Howard McCal-
la is the former Linda Henleyi
and her husband is an assis-"
tant professor at Arlington
State College.
The Henleys are former
residents of Jacksboro.
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Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR, No. 36, Ed. 0 Thursday, February 13, 1969, newspaper, February 13, 1969; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth733586/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.