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JACKSBORO GAZETTE-NEWS 10
JACK COUNTY'S SHOPPING SHINE SINCE 1111
AT THE CROSSROADS TO WEST TEXAS
NINETY—NINTH YEAR
jacksboro Gazette—news, jacksboro. texas 76056
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1977
NUMBER 32
larvin Tilghman
esigns Office
Jack County Clerk,
Marvin Tilghman, announ-
ced this week his resiftna-
ion as County Clerk
effective December 31. Jack
County Commissioners
have appointed Patsy
Ramzy to complete the
term.
Tilghman has served the
county for the past 19 years
and his quitting is with
reservations. He stated he
is resigning for personal
landidates
lust File
All candidates for the
Board bf Directors for the
Jack County Water Control
Improvement District I,
must file applications to
become a candidate by
January 1. District secre-
tary Ed Stewart will be
accepting applications at
his store, Ed's Clothes Shop
until January 1, 1978.
The election will be held
January 21 for two direc-
tors for the board. Anyone
wishing to file is urged to
contact Stewart before the
filing deadline.
reasons and expressed his
appreciation for the support
of the residents of the
county throughout the
years.
Taking office January 1,
1959, Tilghman has served
in the elected office during
the years as well as serving
several years as Jack
County Rural Fire Chief.
Prior to his election he was
in the trim and upholstry
business in Jacksboro.
Tilghman stated he will
play golf and take an
active part in local
organizations of which he
is a member. He will
remain with the fire
department and continue
his service to the county in
this way.
A native of Jack County,
Tilghman and his wife
Gwen are the parents of two
daughters, Brenda and
Cathy. He is a member of
the First Baptist Church,
the Jacksboro Lions Club,
the Jacksboro Golf Club,
Jack County Sheriff's
Posse, Fort Worth Model A
Club, North Texas Model A
Club of Wichita Falls, the
Disabled American Vete-
rans and was a member of
the Lost Battalion during
WWII.
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1977 Was Good Year
For City and County
SANTA VISITS-Santa was on hand for
the annual Christmas party for the
residents of Cox Convalescent Center
Friday afternoon. Pictured is Cordie
Reaves, Bertha Jennings, Mary Rogers
and Levis Frank who received a big hug
from Santa.
One Car Accident
Leaves Two Dead
City Receives
Sales Tax Check
State Comptroller Bob
Bullock has announced
that some 890 Texas cities
will be receiving some early
Christmas cheer in the form
of city sales tax rebate
checks totaling $53.8
million.
The checks represent the
cities' December share of
the local option, one percent
sales tax. The December
checks totaled $3.2 million
more than those for the
same month last year, and
bring tl^e rebate total for the
year to $361.6 million. Thu
is up $58.9 million — 19.4
percent — over calendar
1976.
^^“Theee figures indicate
/j^Aat 1977 was a banner year
merchants and other
.JMnles tax permit holders in
and we expect the
^PKning year to be as good or
better,” Bullock said.
The local option sales tax
is collected by local mer-
chants and other sales tax
permit holders and retur-
ned to the cities monthly by
the comptroller's office.
Jacksboro has received
$25,137.14 this period and
has received so far this year
$148,275.13. During this
period last year Jacksboro
received $18,771.98 show-
ing an increase of 33% over
the year.
The city of Bryson recei-
ved $2,487.49 this period
ompared with this period
year when they recei-
ved $526.64 an increase
over the year of 216%. The
amount received to date
during the 1977 year totals
$8,209.60.
Amounts received by
other cities in the area
include Windthorst,
$1,688.59, to date,
$10,505.40, Springtown,
$3,973.22, to date $20,499.83
Henrietta $9,512.02 to date
$46,349.44, Graford $702.40
to date $3,320.44, Graham
$50,857.71, to date,
$332,866.15, Decatur
$17,747.60, to date,
$114,527.26, Chico
$2,619.72, to date
$11,300.92, Bridgeport
$18,988.29, to date
$106,457.03, Bowie,
$25,078.94, to date,
$217,610.51.
Samuel Horton, 25, and
Tristain Nava, 21. died
early Thursday morning in
a one car accident six miles
south of Jacksboro on U.S
Highway 281. The accident
occured at 12:40 a.m. at the
Carrol Creek bridge.
According to the report
from DPS officer Jim
Terrell investigator of the
accident, the 1972 Ford
Bronco driven by Nova was
north bound on U.S. 281
without lights when the
vehicle ran off of the road
into the medium and turned
off of the highway again
hitting the bridge. The
vehicle came to rest in the
creek bed.
Horton was pronounced
dead at the scene by Justice
of the Peace J.L. Lacewell
and Nava was dead on
arrival at Jack County
Hospital. Nava resided at
534 West Archer and
Horton lived at 405 West
College.
Investigating officers
were Patrolman Terrell,
Patrolman James Rhoten
both of Jacksboro and Sgt.
N.W. Morton of Weather-
ford.
Funeral services for
Nava were held Saturday at
10 a.m. in the Assembly of
God Church with Rev. Roy
Carpenter officiating.
Interment was in Oakwood
Cemetery under the direc-
tion of Hawkins. Funeral
Home.
Bom October 2, 1956 in
Mineral Wells, Nava had
resided in Jacksboro for two
years and was employed at
Circle 7 Drilling Company.
Survivors include the
widow Camlyn, daughter
Trista, son Samuel of
Jacksboro, father Trinidad
of Fort Worth, mother Mrs.
Vera Nava of Jacksboro,
sisiters, Lucy Salavar,
Bibita Stencestence, both of
Grand Prairie, Ella Etraw
of Fort Worth, Mary Datoce
of Germany, Joyce Gomez
of Copperas Cove, Mar-
garet Elokan of Turkey,
Carolina Sullivan of Jacks-
boro, brothers, Trinidad Jr.,
Jacksboro, Gilbert and Joe
Ortega both of Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Funeral services for
Horton were held Friday at
4 p.m. in Grace Baptist
Church with ReV. Dean
Gann officiating. Inter-
ment was in Oakwood
Cemetery under the direc-
tion of Hawkins Funeral
Home.
Bom October 17, 1954 in
Jacksboro, Horton had
lived in Jacksboro all his
life. He was an employee of
Cirlce 7 Drilling Company.
Survivors include the
widow Kathy, daughter
Lisa Kay both of the home,
mother Dorothy Wallace of
Sterling City, father, Pete
Jacksboro saw a bright
year in 1977 with seventeen
new business opening or
remodeling in the city and
the County voters put the
first woman peace officer
into office.
The city received a cut in
phone rates at the first of
19.77 and newly elected
county officials took office.
Officials taking over were
Mack Fry as Sheriff, John
Whisihunt, constable of
Precinct two, Raymond
Matlock commissioner of
precinct three, M.C. Butler
as constable of precinct
three and Dixie Lea Ash as
constable of precinct one,
re-elected were Pat Myers,
county attorney and Gay
Jackson, tax assessor and
collector.
During the month of
January petitions were
circulated in the city for the
alderman form of city
government and the second
snow storm of the season
hit the area. Fort Richard-
son received a grant in the
amount of $11,357 to aid in
the historic restoration of
the park south of the city.
Gas rates were increased
20% in the city.
On January 22, Jack
County recorded the first
traffic fatality of the year
and the Jacksboro Gazette-
News began featuring
Jacksboro youngsters in
the weekly edition. R/B
Super Save held the grand
opening for the new owners
Ralph
Horton of Jacksborg, . Jjjtoddjf Smith and
of Jacksboro, grandmother The Jacksboro Volunteer
Mrs. Mattie Horton also of Fire Department received a
Jacksboro. new fire truck and the city
announced the joint ven-
ture with Jack County of
the ambulance service.
Hawkins Funeral Home
had served the county for
many years. The city and
county officials took over
the service to the residents
of the county.
February began with the
rural fire department
receiving a new fire truck
and the opening of the
Whole Enchilada owned by
Barbara Craft and Harriet
Lillard. Plans also began
for the annual Jack County
Youth Fair.
The First Baptist Church
of Jacksboro received a
historical marker and the
Jacksboro Firemen held
their annual Snake Safari.
Jim Davis opened the
Wizard Wells Health Resort
and the Jacksboro FFA set
the date in March for their
annual Rodeo. Jack County
Abstract Company Inc.
opened and Bill Hicks took
over the job as athletic
director at Jacksboro High
School.
Live Oak Baptist Church
celebrated 25 years of
services in Jacksboro
in 1977 and the election
results for the City election
and the Jacksboro School
Board were reported.
Jacksboro Firemen gave
free shots to dogs in the city.
Texas Power and Light
Company requested a rate
increase in April and
Mayor Aaron Hull pro-
claimed the week of May 16-
22 as Arm Forces week. The
VFW held the first annual
Loyalty Day Parade in
downtown Jacksboro with
War Hero Named
Local Recruiter
Light Company Seeks
City Rate Increase
Texas Power & Light
Company has filed with the
City Councils of Jacksboro,
Graford and the Public
Utility Commission of
Texas a request for an
overall average 18.4%
revenue adjustment that
would increase the com-
pany's general revenues
$118 million, system-wide.
The request is based on
operations in the test year
ended September 30, 1977.
The overall request is an
average for all classes of
customers. Increased
revenue requirements will
vary from one rate class to
another. For example
residential revenues to the
company will increase
25.4%, municipal services
23.4%, commercial an
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LEISURE LODGE PARTY-Mrs. Ada
, Whisitt is shown as she opens her gift just
received from the Christmas tree party
held at Leisure Lodge Tuesday afternoon.
Songs were sung before passing out of
gifts to the residents and guests.
Refreshments were served.
dindustrial 14.9%.
Jim. Hutto, TP&Lman-
ager, says that under the
requested increase, the total
bill of the average resi-
dential customer using
11,012 kilowatt hours per
year, would increase about
$8.88 a month.
Hutto has asked to ap-
pear before the councils to
discuss the rate request.
Hutto noted that rate
increases to TP&L cus-
tomers in the recent past
have been necessary to
allow the company to build
facilities to provide for the
electricity needs of present
and future customers and to
convert from the use of
natural gas, which is
expensive and undepen-
dable in supply, to lower
cost lignite coal and nuclear
fuel for generating elec-
tricity.
The TP&L manager
pointed out that in TP&L's
last rate adjustment the
company had asked for an
amount sufficient to meet
financial requirements
through mid-1979. The
amount granted, Hutto
said, was only 43% of that
requested.
“Present rates will not
properly support that
program. This requested
increase should provide the
needed support into 1980.”
Staff Sgt. E.C. (Gene)
Floyd will begin his duties
as Marine recruiter in
Jacksboro February 3 at
Jacksboro High School at
2:15. He will also present
programs on anti commu-
nism. He will be at the
Jacksboro City Hall once
each month from 6:30 p.m.
to talk with parents and
students interested in the
Marine Corps.
Floyd has everything it
takes to make a Marine
hero and everything that
should be needed to sell a
young man on a future in
the Marines.
Sergeant Floyd, a native
of Philadelphia, and a
Silver Star winner, has
been a Marine fpr l6 years.
He still thinks he is in the
best, most elite service in
the world.
There have been some
drawbacks—like a 1966-67
stint in the Vietnam War.
But even that service, as an
artilleryman, had all the
excitement of a war movie.
Floyd won his Silver Star
by single-handedly fight-
ing an artillery duel atop a
small hill where other
artillerymen were pinned
down by heavy fire from
enemy guns on another hill.
Floyd was acting as
gunnery sergeant for two
105-millimeter howitzers
pointed in opposite
directions. He instructed
one of the Marines to fire
direct at the hill from which
the Communists shell were
coming.
Direct firing of artillery
guns, which mostly went
out with the Civil War, is a
foreign technique to
modern-day artillerymen.
Floyd realized that if he
was going to do direct
firing, he would have to step
out into enenmy fire.
*1 just considered what
had to be done,” he said,
“and did. it”
He opened the breech
block and lined up the hill
through the tube, stuck a
shell into the breech and
fired. Before he got off four
rounds, which silenced the
enemy hill, the entire area
was rocking.
One of his rounds hit an
ammunition bunker,
setting off explosions that
lasted 20 minutes. Superior
officers later told Floyd that
it was the first time they
had heard of single-
handed direct artillery fire
in Vietnam.
Outside the service, he
has found time to work as a
realtor associate in
California and put in some
time as a sheriffs deputy in
the same state. A former
drill instructor and a third-
degree Black Belt Karate
expert, he • is a father of
three and an ordained
minister, of the Church of
God in Christ. He attends
the Church of Christ here
with his wife, Louise and
children.
Since coming to Fort
Worth a short time ago, he
has appeared as an anti-
Communist speaker in local
high schools. He should be
an expert on that subject,
too, for as well as fighting
Communists, he has spent
time in Russia and was on
the security force at the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow.
Russia? “A good place to
visit, but I sure would not
want to live there,” he says.
“People in Moscow appear
sad. There is little laughter
or happiness. Away from
the larger towns, people are
more friendly.”
But he gives the Russians
credit for being industrious,
energetic and determined.
“They don’t have the
problems of drugs, an
immorality that we have," '
he says. “There is no
permissiveness as in
America.”
Floyd says the Marine
Corps is the top service in
the world. As far as the
Marine Corp goes, he said,
“history speaks for itself.
The Marines have always
been ready when needed. I
just want the truth about
the Corps to be known.”
He thinks the truth about
the Corps will be told and
its good name upheld
through the Corps’ good
leadership.
No young man can make
a better choice in life than to
spend some time in the
Marine Corps, Floyd
believes. “It’s the best
way,” he declares “for a
young man to get good
training, learn a profession
and become a leader. It’s
the best way I know for a
boy to be assured of a good
future."
ceremonies held at the hall.
Jacksboro Chamber of
Commerce Ambassadors
named the first Yard of the
Week in a drive to clean up
Jacksboro and Older Texas
Day was held in the city.
The annual rodeo was held
by the Jack County She-
riff's posse and Cancer
Month was proclaimed.
Jack County Carpet Com-
pany opened business
in Jacksboro.
Jacksboro B&PW held
their annual beauty con-
test, Kwik Chick opened
and the Herald Publishing
Company put the newest
computer type setter in
operation.
Ji le saw the beginning
of t..e Little league base
ball season open and Ed's
Clothes shop completed a
remodeling project. The
merchants of Jacksboro
held their first Moonlight
Madness sale and the
Exercise shop opened at the
Old Fort Richardson motel.
It was a busy month in
July with the annual Band
Camp held at the high
school. The Gittin Place
opened for business and
Don King, Jack County
rancher was named Man of
the Year by the Texas
County Agriculture Agents
Association. The first
annual Law Enforcement
picnic was held and B&H
Department Store opened.
Jacksboro School District
announced the hiring of
seventeen teachers in
August and Jacksboro
Police Department adn
County Sheriff's office
installed a new teletype.
The Dairy Queen held
ribbon cutting following
remodeling and the Jacks-
boro Social Club opened as
well as the Handcraft shop
fro Senior Citizens.
The election of city
alderman was held and
added to the city council
were Maurice Carlton, Ed
Stewart and Max Poyner.
School began in Jacksboro
with students numbering
the same as 1976,
Jack County C.B. Club
began September off with a
rest stop for Labor Day
travelers when they started
oever 1200 people on the
courthouse lawn over the
holiday. Plans were started
in September for the home-
coming at JHS ana tne
Firemen's annual horse
show. Also in September
the City of Jacksboro
received the largest sales
tax check ever received in
the amount of $27,615.53.
In October Jacksboro lost
one of the most respected
citizens with the death of
Dr. Paul Conner. Jacksboro
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