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JACKSBORO GAZETTE-NEWS
DIAL 4596 TO PLACE CLASSIFIED ADS
JACK COUNTY'S SHOPPING GUIDE SINCE 1880
CROSSROADS TO WEST TEXAS
seventy-Seventh year
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,. 1956
NUMBER 14
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Back in the spring we could
blame laziness on spring fever,
■during the summer it was too
hot to work—we’d wait for
cooler weather. But now with
football and hunting season in
progress we still can’t get
around to the extra chores we
had been planning.
Seems like there is always
some reason for putting things
off.
This year the dove season
isn’t so hot, according to the
hunters that have already pop-
ped a few caps. Its lack is more
than made up by the football
prospects. After last year even
the more optomistic fans don’t
breathe words about a champ-
ionship. But it should be a good
season for the Tigers—with a
little luck.
College football looks even
better. TCU is picked to be the
top team in the Southwest Con-
ference and since it is only 60
miles to Fort Worth the town
should almost empty for Frog
games. Incidentally, a lot of
people are going to have to get
tickets soon to the Frog games.
In the Southwest Conference
It is a bad omen to be chosen
as September champion. TCU is
a setup for the axe. But even if
worst comes to worst the Frogs
will provide some good football.
Football has become big busi-
ness for Jacksboro in addition
to providing recreation for fans.
The large crowd following the
game provides lots of business
for local, stations, visitors pro-
vide business for cafes, etc. The
next six Friday nights will prob-
ably see rushing business at all
of the local cafes.
But the big business cames on
the weekends TCU plays at
home, Texas plays Oklahoma,
and A&M meets Texas Tech at
Dallas. Then we play host to
West Texas. Lots of visitors for
motels.
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Football games make highway
traffic and that leads to our
next item. In today’s Fort
Worth papers we noted that the
four-lane project between Azle
and Lake Worth is expected to
be completed by mid October.
It cost one and a third million
dollars.
To-be completed at the same
time is the $300,000 project of
paving shoulders and improving
Highway 199 between Lake
Worth and 12th Street in Fort
Worth. The article also noted
that the highway department is
ready to start the four lane
project around Azle, to two
miles north, as soon as right of
way is secured.
Jack County’s four lane road
to Fort Worth isn’t too far
away. „r ........
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This is it, the big weekend
. , for the rain. Or at least this
S weekend has the perfect require-
' ments for rain. Football game,
horse show, roping contest and
Shrine circus. The principal
other item is everyone having
■ their cars washed. That should
do it.
Our prospects dimmed -this
morning when the cold front
came through dry. Clear and
cool is the prospect, according
to the weather bureau, for Fri-
day and Saturday. But Sunday,
possible afternoon showeris, ac-
cording to the three day fore-
cast.
We can hope. A big rain early
in September could help a lot.
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The PTA is sponsoring a
Hamburger Supper before the
Lake Worth game tomorrow
and invites everyone to come
early. Doors open at the cafe-
teria at 5:30 and the dinner con-
tinues until kickoff time at 8
p.m.
Another townwide invitation
is extended by the fire depart-
ment for everyone to enter
floats, etc. in the Horse Show
parade. The parade forms at
3:45 on North Main and steps
off at 4:30.
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SHRINE CIRCUS CYCLISTS—The Cycling Sidney trio who
perform feats like this on unicycles and bicycles, stand still
long enough to remind that they will be featured in one of the
44 acts of the Gil G. Gray Shrine circus coming to Jacksboro
Monday, September 10 for afternoon and night performances
at the Football Stadium.
Shrine Circus To Play Here Monday,
Fealtires Acts From Disney TV Show
Monday is Circus Time in
Jacksboro when the Disneyland-
produced Shrine Circus arrives
for a matinee performance at
3 p.m. and a night show at 8:30
p.m.
Jacksboro Shrine Club, spon-
sor of two all new circus, prom-
ises acts including trained ele-
phants, lions and other wild
animals, Alaskan dogs, scores
of horses but no mice, not even
Mickey, with the five ring circus
from Walt Disney’s fairyland.
But Mickey Mouse was about
the only famous character left
behind when the Gil G. Gray
Shrine Circus pulled out of Dis-
neyland where it was featured
with Disney’s Mouseketeer Club
on TV three months last fall.
Foreign acts include the Cycl-
ing Sidneys from Australia;
Britain’s famous Aerial Gibsons,
billed as the “Sweethearts of the
Air” (they romance atop 112-
foot high sway poles); “Natal,”
the “human chimp,” from Paris,
and the Eight jCarlisles, teeter-
board acrobats from Belgium.
With a European background
but in an American act, Fay
Alexander, who “doubled” for
movie stars Tony Curtis, Burt
Lancaster, and Gina Lollo-
brigida in the movie “Trapeze”
headlines the circus Flying
Alexander troupe of high trap-
eze artists.
2,000 Free Circus Tickets
More than 2,000 grade school
The new 1956 circus with youngsters will be guests of the
Scout Fund Drive
annual fund drive for
5 Jacksboro Girl Scouts
>ave
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scores of acts recruited from
11 nations was recruited from
11 nations, built in Hollywood
and Disneyland, and formally
premiered in February.
Highlighting more than 40
acts will be three elaborate pro-
duction spectacles “Fiesta
Days,” “Yesteryear” and
“America on Parade.”
The 200 performing showfolk
and as many trained animals
embrace more “imported” aerial
and acrobatic artists and more
performing animal acts than
with any other circus in Amer-
ica, according to the producers
and sponsors.
sponsoring committee, mer-
chants and professional and
business firms at the Monday
afternooft performance. General
admission and reserved seats
are now on sale at Spears and
City Drug stores, and all Shrine
members have adult tickets
available for both afternoon and
evening shows.
A herd of baby elephants
with the circus will give a free
exhibitioh at Bob’s Food Store
at 1:30 p.m. Monday under the
sponsorship of Bob’s, Simpson
Furniture, Hurd’s Oil Well
Services, and Jacksboro Supply
Co.
Locally Addressed Mad Must Bear
Complete Address; Boxes For Rent
5th Annual Fireman’s Horse
Show, Polo Game Saturday
The Fifth Annual Quarter
Horse Show sponsored by the
Jacksboro Volunteer Fire De-
partment gets underway here at
10 a.m. Saturday and continues
through Sunday afternoon.
Quarter Horse judging will be
held in the morning and after-
noon. Reining classes being at
3:30, parade at 4:30 and child-
ren’s classes, begin at 7 p.m.
Jack County Sheriff’s Posse
will play Cowtown Sheriff’s
Posse of Fort Worth in a
Palmetto Polo game at 5:30 p.m.
Last Saturday the Jack County
Posse lost to Spur, the national
champions 14 to 6 in the first
bi-district playoff game. A re-
turn game will be played here
at 4 p.m. September 16.
The NCHA approved Open
Cutting Horse Contest gets un-
derway at the Fireman Arena
at 8 p.m. and continues until—
Sunday afternoon matched
calf roping and jackpot roping
gets underway at the arena.
Ralph Stone, Marlow, Okla., and
Dale Youree, Addington, Okla.,
will rope eight calves each.
Back To School,
Party At Canteen
Jacksboro High School stu-
dents will have a Back To
School Party after the football
game Friday to start a new
season at the Tiger canteen.
The party vsfill end at midnight.
New officers were elected for
the canteen recently. Incoming
directors are Mrs. Bob Platt,
Mrs. George Nixon, Carroll
Porter and Jim Neely.
High school parent and stu-
dent officers and chairmen are:
Mrs. Lonnie Rhoads, general
chairman and Ronald Watson,
student president. Recreation
chairmen, Mrs. Leon Hawkins,
Bobby Platt; Cleanup chairmen,
Mrs. J. C. Kay and John C.
Hackley; refreshments, Mrs. H.
H. Hatfield, Burlene Wells; Dec-
orations, Mrs. Katie Moorman,
Linda Hawkins; Telephone, Mrs.
B. H. Gregg, Lillie Mae Stark,
secretary and Mildred Dixson,
reporter.
Junior High representatives
are Darlene Duncan and Jimmy
Johnson. Junior High officers
are Mrs. W. W. Henderson, gen-
eral chairman; Mrs. E. E. Be-
shear, recreation; Mrs. Harold
Davis, cleanup; Mrs. B. D.
Wheelis, refreshments; Mrs.
Jack Swafford, telephone; and
Mrs. Charles Slimp,'decorations.
Observer Corps Meets Tues.
Jack County Ground Observer
Corps will have a monthly meet-
ing at Clay Building Material
Co. at 7:30 p.m. next Tuesday.
Representatives of the five ob-
server posts are expected to at-
tend.
An air force representative
will outline the practice alerts
to be held in the future, County
Supervisor B. C. Hornsby said.
Later there will be a combina-
tion calf roping and barrel rac-
ing contest between Jackie
Worthington of Jacksboro and
June Mayo, Okemah, Oklahoma.
There is an admission charge
Sunday afternoon.
There will be 18 halter and
reining classes in the quarter
horse show. Billy Craft is chair-
man for the horse show.
Proceeds from the show are
used for purchase of fire de-
partment equipment and the an-
nual Christmas gifts for Jacks-
boro children.
Barbecue beef plates and
sandwiches will be served all
day Saturday at the show
grounds at Lake Jacksboro
Park. Tom Cherryhomes do-
nated the beef.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Miller Fatally
Injured In Labor Day Collision
Two Jacksboro residents were
fatally injured about 8:30 p.m.
Monday when their car collided
with a cattle truck at Spring-
town.
C. E. Miller, 47, died immed-
iately after the wreck of head
injuries and Mrs. Miller, 46,
died enroute to the Weather-
ford hospital. Their daughter,
Charlene 15, a sophomore in
Jacksboro High School, received
cuts and bruises and was dis-
missed from the hospital Tues-
day.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the
Clear Fork Baptist Church at
Dicey, near Weatherford, by
Rev. A. R. Bilberry, Jacksboro,
Rev. Harold Butler, Fort Worth,
Mr. Claude C. Smith, Weather-
ford Church of Christ. Inter-
ment was in the Dicey ceme-
tery.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Miller were
natives of Parker County and
had moved here in July, 1944,
when he was named manager of
the local Safeway Store. He had
previously been employed with
Safeway in Weatherford
The Millers were returning
from their farm northeast of
Weatherford when the accident
occurred at the highway inter-
section at Springtown. The
truck was going toward Fort
Worth. The truck driver, whose
name wag not reported, was not
injured. The Miller car was com-
pletely demolished.
Mr. Miller is survived tfy a
brother, Bill Miller, Weather-
ford; and a sister, Mrs. Travis
Warren, Mineral Wells. Mrs.
son, is survived by eight broth-
ers and sisters, Mrs. M. L.
Smith, Jacksboro; Mrs. Lee
Ragle, Fort Worth; Mrs. Rosa
Sharp, Dicey; R. K. and Fort
Pearson, Dicey; J. M. Pearson,
Mineral Wells; Ed W. Pearson,
Whitt; and B. F. Pearson,
Weatherford.
Charlene returned here today
and will make her home with
her aunt, Mrs. M. L. Smith.
Jacksboro residents serving as
pallbearers were Doyle Morrow,
Dave Gibson, Calvin Smith and
John Roberts. Other pallbearers
were J. L. Mock, Clifton Woody,
John Bell, Norman Wood, Jack
Borden, L. R. Tabor, Roy
Springer and Lowell Wright.
ASC Election To
Begin September 5
Ballots were mailed Wednes-
day for voting in Jack County’s
ASC Community elections. Nom-
inees for the chairman of each of
Jack County’s three communities
was announced recently.
In addition to nominees se-
lected by the election board
serving as a nominating com-
mittee, any name or names of
farmers or ranchers submitted
to the nomination committee by
petition signed by 10 or more
eligible voters in the community
will be included on the slate of
nominees. Such petitions must
be filed by Tuesday. No peti-
tions have been received to
date.
Candidates for Community 1
are: E. B. Abernathie, Carl
Berry, Jim Butler, Guinn Camp-
sey, Don Cleveland. R. M. Chris-
tian, Floyd Lewis, Aaron Roper,
Mizell Stewart and Ralph Tip-
ton.
Community 2, L. G. Caskey,
C. J. Coker, Richard Cox, V. A.
Cox, A. L. Cranford, Will A.
Ham, G. C. House, I. L. Martin,
T. D. Williams and Henry J.
Richards.
Community 3 nominees are:
Hugh Coley, S. B. Easter, Wil-
lard Hanna, Ellis Henderson,
Clyde McAnear, H. S. Moore,
Claude Rumage, Allard Smith,
Tom Smith and J. A. William-
son.
Voted ballots must be return-
ed to the ASC office by Septem-
ber 19.
Tigers Open Season Friday Here With
Lake Worth Frogs, Non-Conference Game
Jacksboro High School Tigers
will kickoff their 1956 season
at 8 p.m. Friday at Tiger Sta-
dium when they meet the Lake
Worth Bull Frogs in a non-con-
ference game.
-Friday’s game will be the
Tigers only home showing in
September as their schedule is
open next week and on succeed-
ing weeks they play at Ranger
and Graham. Mineral Wells, the
final non-district opponent
plays, here October 5.
The Tigers are in a new dis-
trict this year, 2A-9, along with
four long time conference foes,
Decatur, Olney, Bowie and
Nocona, and two newcomers
Burkburnett and Electra. The
latter two teams have been on
Miller, the former Winnie Pear- the Tigers schedule for the past
Mail deposited at the Jacks-
boro postoffice Or various pick-
up boxes must include complete
addresses if destined for local
delivery, Acting Postmaster
Mixon Stamper pointed out this
week.
Jacksboro became a letter
carrier office last November and
regulations of the Postal De-
partment state- that mail ad-
dressed to letter carrier offices
must include street and number,
or post office box number, or
rural route number, whichever
way the addressee receives mail.
Probable extension of city de-
livery here in the near future
makes enforcement of the reg-
ulation even more necessary.
The post -office here points
out that mail not containing
proper addresses, or no address
at all, will be returned to the
sender for proper address.
Swimming Pool Closes
Jacksboro’s City Park swim-
ming pool will dose its summer
season
In order to avoid delay of the Polide Arrest 25 For
delivery of mail it is suggested
that all business houses obtain
their patron’s correct mailing
address immediately. It is also
suggested that everyone inform
their correspondents of correct
addresses. All mail should have
the name and proper return ad-
dress in the upper left hand
comer of the envelope.
The local office also an-
nounced that there are still a
few boxes available for renting.
County Hospital To
Take Applications
Don Curl, administrator of
the Jack County Hospital, an-
nounced this wfeek that applica-
tions for employment at the new
hospital will now be taken. Posi-
tions are opeh for cooks, kitchen
help, custodians, practical-
nurses, registered vocational
nurses, registered nurses, maids
clerical work.
.will
> until
Traffic, Drinking Violations
Jacksboro police had a busy
holiday arresting six persons
from out of town for drunken-
ess Saturday and 19 traffic
violators. Two drivers didn’t
have licenses, seven ran stop
signs, and ten were speeding.
No accidents were reported over
the weekend.
945 Students Enroll In City Schools,
Enrollment Down 42 From Last Year
Jacksboro schools opened the
1956-57 term Tuesday with 945
students including 89 first
graders Supt. Lewis Moore an-
nounced. Classes were held the
full day. Several high school
teachers reported it was the
smoothest running first 'day
they had seen.
The school’s initial enrollment
this year is below that of the
past two years, Supt. Moore re-
ported. In J954 there were 1003
students, including 103 first
graders, enrolled during the
first week while in 1955 the
total was 987 including 92 first
graders.
Supt. Moore said there were
448 students at the elementary
school Wednesday, 245 in junior
high, 233, in the high school,
and 19 in Blackshear school.
Ohly 48 seniors have register-
ed this year as compared with
72 juniors, 55 sophomores and
58 freshmen. The fourth grade
Bryson Cowboys Tackle Springtown In
Season Opener At Bryson Friday Evening
The Bryson Cowboys of Dis-
trict 9-B open their 1956 season
Friday when the meet Spring-
town at Bryson. Next week they
will play Boyd there.
The Cowboys are picked as
the pre-season darkhorse of its
district but perennial champion
Newcastle is top choice to re-
peat. --
Bryson failed to win any of
its pine starts last season. But
under its new coach, Ernest
a formei' Graham
a lo^better l^wMs
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ing at Bryson are Richard
BroWn, Charles King, Dale
Shuck, Bob Williams, Don Wil-
liams and Dale McAnear.
Other games in the Cowboy
schedule are:
Sept. 21—Strawn, there
Sept. 28—Aledo, there
Oct. 5—Open
Oct. 12—-Tolar at Bryson
Oct. 19—Wlndthorst, there *
Oct. 26—Newcastle at Bry-
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Nov. 2—Lockett at Bryson *
Nov.^ 9 Valley View at Bry-
k’oodson. there *
is the largest class with 100
students.
At Blackshear school, Mrs.
Claude Shelton began her 40th
year as principal and teacher.
Mrs. Lou Ella Freeman Love
will also teach at the school
each morning. Mrs. Love is a
graduate of Texas College at
Tyler and has a BS degree in
homemaking.
The colored school has 6
high school students, a senior, a
freshman and two students in
each, the 10th and 11th grades.
There is one student each in
the first, second, third, fifth,
seventh and eighth grades in the
elementary school and three in
the fourth and four in the
sixth.
Jacksboro High students
took a two hour fundamentals
evaluation test Wednesday
morning. The test is expected to
indicate which, if any, depart-
ments of thd school system need
strengthening, Supt. Moore said.
New P. E. Teacher
Guy Redus of Gordon has
been named girls physical edu-
cation teacher in Jacksboro
High. He is a graduate of
Southwestern State Teachers at
San Marcos and has been teach-
ing for the past six years. Mr.
and Mrs. Redus and one child
have been looking for a house
here, Supt. Moore said.
Three Hunters Arrested
Ten hunters have been arrest-
ed since Sept. 1 in Jack and
Wise counties for violations of
dove hunting laws, Warden J. T.
Hooten has reported. Seven oc-
curred in Wise County and three
in Jack but no county residents
were involved. Most violations
were shooting from car and
roadway.
three years however.
Don Smith, High School Prin-
cipal, announced today that
football tickets will be on sale
at his office in the High School
building all day Friday.
Early season pickings by
daily press sportswriters and
District coaches indicate the
Tigers are rated top district
contenders along with Olney and
Burkburnett. The Tigers have
more returning lettermen than
the other two teams but didn’t
fare so well as the other two in
1955.
The Tigers will have a big line
and four experienced backs in
Henry Hurd, Bill Sparks,
Tommy Mustin and Mouton
Gunter. Other 1955 regulars
again playing in purple and
white are Co-Capt. Larry Kun-
dysek at end; Eddie Gibson at
tackle; Dan Davis and Co-Capt.
Clarkey Simpson at guard and
Nick Sikes at center.
While the Tigers will have
experience and weight they will
be lacking in speed according
to Coaches Woodrow Henderson
and Wallace Myers. Because of
next week’s off date the Tigers
are getting into shape some-
what slower this year and
should be in best condition for
the Ranger game two weeks
from now.
Last fall the Tigers and Frogs
played to a 6 to 6 tie here in
the second game of the season.
Both were picked to be district
champions (District 2A-9 and
2A-10) but neither made the
ripple. The Frogs are reported
to have about four returning
regulars from the 1955 team.
Other information is slight this
early in the season.
Other members of the Tiger
team expecting to get some
game experience Friday are
lettermen Brooks Bowen and
James Kay, ends; Jimmy Isbell,
center although formerly a
back, and Mitchell Patrick,
back. Up from the B team are
Jim Clark, Jerry Cunningham,
Rodney Malone, David Malone,
Jerry Beshear and James (Tub)
Mathis. Other Tigers are Jimmy
Sampley end, and Billy Joe
Plaster, Tackle.
Jacksboro Missionary To
Thailand To Speak Here
A Mission Institute will be
conducted September 16 and 17
by United Church Women of
Jacksboro. Mr. and Mrs. George
Cherryhomes, missionaries to
Thailand will be guest speakers.
They will return here from
Thailand September 14 for an
eight month furlough.
The Cherryhomes;
erly served in China
years but due to
moved to Thailand.
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