Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. 44, Ed. 0 Thursday, May 22, 1969 Page: 1 of 8
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>0* JACKSBORO GAZETTE-NEWS
DW 547-5596 to Place Classified Ads
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR
JACK COUNTY'S SHOPPING GUIDE SINCE 1880
Jacksboro, Texas, 76056, Thursday, May 22, 1969
AT THE CROSSROADS TO WEST TEXAS
NUMBER 44
City Will Test Resurfacing
Material on E. Side Streets
TRYOUTS for pitcher and other positions began Monday Myers and Ricky Myers plus the remainder of the Ran-
when practice for the 1969 season began. In center, gers and others gathered behind to get in a picture.
from left are pitcher candidates De wayne Wright, Randy Gazette-News Photo
Extension of II. S. Highway 380
Through Jacksboro Is Requested
James R. Dam*
It hardly seems that school
Christmas must have just pas-
sed— surely it can’t be time
for school to be out—we with
responsibility of a house full
of children cry.
But it is.
Elsewhere in this issue are
articles about Commencement
Exercises for Jack County’s
four schools. Perrin and An-
telope are in the midst of fi-
nal exercises and this week
their students get out of clas-
ses.
Jacksboro and Bryson Se-
niors might attend the Per-
rin or Antelope graduation ex-
ercises Friday and say “There
but for the Flu Epidemic go
I.” Perrin and Antelope had
flu problems too but Perrin
started classes earlier than
others.
*****
Memorial Day is just around
the corner and with school out
it is vacation time. Local
folks will be traveling in about
a week. But it will be two
or three weeks before the va-
cationers start coming through
here from the four directions
of the compas.
The traffic will be a big help
to local business. Local cafes,
stations, garages, etc. do a
lot of highway business.
But since the locals will be
traveling so soon perhaps I
should pass' along Road Con-
struction information that was
put out this week by the
Texas Highway Department.
The Jack County area is free
of construction at this time but
will have a big resurfacing—
hottopping-program underway
this summer. The local main-
tenance department is doing a
jdjfcrf patching and leveling
fliPeparation for the resur-
facing.
Travelers going from here
toward San Antonio or Austin
this summer will go through
two construction projects—
just north of Stephenville and
another just north of Lampa-
sas.
The only nearby construction
that will catch many local re-
sidents is the rebuilding of
Highway 24 between Lake
Bridgeport and Bridgeport. It
is supposed to be finished this
month.
There are five construction
nmfects underway between
j^Band Amarillo—all west of
Whita Falls. The Albany hill
reworking between here and
Abilene is slated to be finish-
ed this month.
The Interstate highway
through Dallas is open to
Shreveport; open to Mount
Pleasant if enroute to Texar-
kana. There is a slug of work
underway between here ana
Houston. And another mass of
construction going on inter-
state 20 between Fort Worth
and El Paso.
Aaron Hull, chairman of the
Highway Committee for Jacks-
boro Chamber of Commerce,
represented this area in Aus-
tin last week when dele-
gations from cities along Tex-
as Highway 24 from Old Glory
to Greenville requested the
number be changed to U.S.
380.
Cities along the route have
sought for a number of years
to have the number changed
since this would bring a U.S.
highway through Graham and
Bridgeport and give other
towns along the route another
U.S. highway.
CofC delegations and Com-
misssioners Courts from most
of the counties along the route
attended the meeting with Tex-
as Highway Commission, Hull
said.
Presently U.S. 380 begins at
Cisco and goes through Albany,
Leuders, Stamford. Old Glo-
ry, State Highway 24 from the
east deadends at Old Glory
into U.S. 380. The U.S. high-
way continues west through
Aspermont, Post, Tahoka,
Brownfield, Plains; then into
the New Mexico cities of Ta-
tum, Roswell, Carrizozo, and
San Antonio , near U.S. 60.
“The change of designation
could help bring a lot of east-
west traffic through the pre-
sent Highway 24 cities,” Hull
said. “Many travelers wish
to avoid the big cities, de-
spite their freeways, and would
be more inclined to use this
route if it had a U.S. number.”
A Highway 24 association was
formed several years ago to
promote the change but no ac-
tive work had been done in
several years.
Memorial Service
Planned by VFW
Memorial services honoring
Jack County veterans will be
held at 9 a.m., Friday, May
30 at the VFW Hall on Oak-
wood Street.
Rev. Tom Price, minister of
First United Methodist Church
will be the speaker and spe-
cial music will be by Audie
Weir.
The public is invited to the
program sponsored by the lo-
cal VFW Post and its Auxil-
iary. D.L. Martin is chair-
man.
Hal Whitsitt
Roy Leach
Eighth Grade Honor Students Listed,
Graduation Exercises to be May 29
The list of Honor Students
for Jacksboro Junior High was
announced this week by Prin-
cipal John Lowrance.
The list is headed by Hal
Whitsitt, 92.53; Roy Leach,91.
67; Stephen Stamper, 91.60;Ste-
phen Kessinger, 91.47; Timo-
thy Vann, 91.40; Earnest Ba-
Oakwood Marker
ker, 91.33; and Ronnie Easter,
91.26.
All are members of the 8th
grade.
The Eighth Grade will have
its graduation exercise at 10
a.m., Thursday, May 29, at
the High School auditorium.
The speaker will be Rev. Ha-
rold Black. Mrs. A.D. Shaw-
ver will be in charge of the
Reagan Simpson
A dedication service for the
Oakwood Cemetary historical
marker will be held at 2 p.m.
Memorial Day, Friday, May 30.
Everyone is invited.
unarms Mariey
Reagan Simpson Among Student
High Scorers In Current Affairs
Reagan Simpson was named
among the high scorers of the
2,5000,000 participants in the
annual Current Affairs Con-
test conducted among High
School students by "Time”,
the weekly news magazine.
The Current Affairs Test, ba-
on significant news sto-
sed
If you are interested in other
Texas routes—come by the Ga-
zette or Highway department
offices to check on con-
struction. Even if not traveling
it is interesting to see how
many highway building dollars ries in “Time” comprises 100
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questions on n
foreign affairs, as 1
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l\ I* i • _ h OH music. Mr. Lowrance will
|/6QICdll0n riay uU present the students, Superin-
J tendent Don Smith will pre-
sent the diplomas. Benedic-
tion wil be by Rev. Ronald
Eldridge.
Burglars Break
Into Cotten Drug
Cotten Drug Store was broken
into last Friday night with the
theives taking only narcotics,
Sheriff Hubert Jackson re-
ports. The illegal entry was
discovered about 3 a.m. by
City Patrolmen Alvis Epps
when he saw the back door
slightly opened.
Entry had been gained by for-
cing the back door. A
money box near the narcotics
was not taken. The store has
been unable to take a com-
plete inventory until owner
Cliff Cotten returns from re-
covery from recent surgery
at a Wichita Falls hospital.
No clues were found to the
burglary and local officers
said the entry was probably
made by professional burglars.
A Dallas woman, Linda
Carol Stanley, was arrested
for driving while intoxicated,
Saturday night by Highway Pa-
trolman Ray Priest. Later it
was found she was driving a
car stolen in Wichita Falls.
After paying a fine here she
was transferred to Wichita
County authorities.
AstJsr*sr£
to * c«r spotted stolen In
Jacksboro Saturday night. The
City of Jacksboro may start
a trial street resurfacing pro-
gram today with some four
blocks of streets to be im-
proved, City Supt. R.H. Tate
said Wednesday.
A seal coat of Pene-Prime
is going to be tried out on
the East side of the square
and on East College St. from
Church St: east to Bowie St.
City officials have seen se-
veral projects resurfaced, and
some initially surfaced with
the slurry type material.
One project at Fort Worth was
done four years ago and seems
to be doing well, Tate said.
The cost of the work is chea-
per than seal coating but exact
costs will be worked out dur-
ing the trial. Part of the
first project will be done by
city workmen.
Present plans call for re-
surfacing East College today
and the east side of the square
Friday. The work must be
free of all traffic for four
hours, Tate said. Parked
cars, etc. will be cleared from
the east side early Friday
Summer Returns
After Short Pause
A cool front passing through
North Texas last weekend tem-
porarily delayed summer wea-
ther that was arriving here.
The mercury only reached 65
Saturday under cloudy skies
and 71 Sunday.
Rain came with the front but
only small measurements were
recorded in Jacksboro. Thurs-
day morning rain amounted to
.1 inch while another .05 was
measured Saturday; andatrace
Sunday.
May rain now measures 2.85
inches and rainfall so far this
year is 13.02 inches.
High temperature for the week
was 89 Wednesday and the low
was 55 degrees Sunday. The
Wednesday low was 69.
Masonic Team to
Confer Degree
Fort Richardson Masonic
Lodge No. 320 will
host to the Shrine Degree
team at 7 p.m. Friday
at the local lodge hall when
it confers two Master De-
grees. The visiting team will
perform in full dress.
All Masons in the area are
invited.
Antelope School
Closing Exercises
Commencement exercises
will be a 8 p.m. Friday, May 23
in the Antelope School auditor-
ium.
Gaston Randall Bounds is
valedictorian of Antelope High
and Troy Dean Bolton is
salutatorian.
Jacksboro High and son of Mr.
and M rs. John Simpson. Other
high scorers at Jacksboro High
were Charles Marley, a senior
and son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob
Marley, and Bob Dennis, a
sophmore, son of James R.
Dennis.
The tests has been taken by
some 10 million students since
its inception 33
ssrs
high scorers at the s
morning if weather permits.
No announcement has been
made about opening of the
swimming pool. The city is
still looking for an operator
for the pool.
Two water connections were
pulled loose from an 8-inch
main on West Arche- about
4 p.m. Monday while a gas
connection was being made.
Water was turned off in the
vicinity of the breaks, near
the intersection of N. 3rd from
4 to 6 p.m.
Considerable rust and mud
was stirred up in the lines
in the west part of the city
while the crew was draining
the big main to make re-
pairs. Several complaints
from west side residents were
received.
O.L. Pickett retired from the
City Water Department Ma,/
15 after over six yea*s of ser-
vice. Pickett had previously
retired from General Dyna- extra trash truck through May
mics at Fort Worth before as part of the annual Clean-
going to work for the city. Up, Fix-Up. and Paint-Up cam-
The City is continuing its paign. Tate said.
CHy to Have First Open Forum at
4th Tuesday Meeting Next Week
Jacksboro City Commission
will have its first Community
Forum meeting at 7 p.m, next
Tuesday with representatives
from a’l Civic organizations.
Other citizens are also in-
vited to the meeting.
The meetings are designed
to bring various civic pro-
blems to the attention of the
commission, help the com-
mission in bringing out r
mission in bringing out pro-
blems of governing and city
and managing its utilities,
and give citizens a better voice
in local government, Mayor
F.C. Heard said recently.
The Commission plans to have
its regular business meetings
on the Second Tuesday even-
ing of the month and devote
4th Tuesday meetings to the
Forum type gathering.
Each civic organization,
school boa-d, county, aid o-
ther groups have been invi-
ted to name representatives
and alternates to attend the
meetings.
“We won’t have time to work
out any major problems but
it will help bring these pro-
blems to light,” Mayor Heard
said.
WHO’S WHO winners from Jacksboro High for 1969 are from left, Mary Jo
Crawford, Diane Solomon, and David Black.
JH Baccalaureate 3 Jacksboro High Students Named
Service Sunday to Win's Who Among US Leaders
Jacksboro High School will
have its annual Baccalaureate
Service for 1969 graduates at
8 p.m. Sunday at the High
School Auditorium, Principal
Glynn Boykin has announced.
Graduation exercises for the
seniors will be held at 8 p.m.
Friday, May 30 at the audi-
torium.
Rev. Tom Price, minister of
First United Methodist Church,
will be speaker for the Bac-
calaureate Service. The com-
plete program for both bac-
calaureate and commencement
appears on Page 3. Pictures
of the 57 candidates for gra-
duation also appear on Pages
2 and 3.
National recognition came to
three Jacksboro High School
Students this week with the
announcement of their selec-
tion to membership in Who’s
Who Among Student Leaders
in High Schools of America.
They were selected on the
basis of scholarship, leader-
ship in academic and extracur-
ricular activities, service to
school and community, and
promise of future achievement.
Selected were David Black,
student body president; Diane
Solomon, editor of the school
newspaper and president of Be-
ta Club; and Mary Jo Craw-
ford, editor of the school year-
m
and Glenn Cross. left, and
Texas Mineral-Vitamin Co.
* Pete Grace re^dence Tues-
book and the recent recipient
of the State Degree in Future
Homemakers of America.
Established ir 1954, Who’s
Who Among .V.dent Leaders
in High Schools of America
is a nationwide or nization
devoted to recogni’J g the ac-
hievements of d' jrving high
school students, and to encou-
raging them to develop their
talents by continuing their ed-
ucation.
A biograr deal sketch of each
honored .tudent will appear
in the crrrant Who’s Who book
published by the organization.
A copy of the book will be sent
to the school library. Each
wil’ be awarded a plaque dis-
pl .ying the certificate with the
Cold Seal of recognition.
Letters of recommendation
are written upon request of the
student to any college or uni-
versity for scholarship or en-
trance references. Letters
also are written to prospective
employers when requested.
During the past decade, se-
lection to Who’s Who Among
Student Leaders in High
Schools of America has become
a coveted goal for young men
and women in hundreds of se-
condary schools throughout the
50 states.
B. T. McRoberts
VFW Commander
B.T. Me Roberts of Jacksboro
was elected Commander of Ve-
terans of Foreign Wars Dis-
trict 21 at the annual meeting
Sunday at Mineral Wells. Mc-
Roberts will be installed at
the state convention in June
at Galveston.
The Astaire commoder is cur-
rently vice com minder I
district and will!
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