The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 8, 1964 Page: 1 of 10
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©he ©aft ©ribtttie
Devoted To The Best Intent* Of Toft and Son Patricio County
VOLUME VI1L
Second Class Postao*
paid At Taft, Texas
TAFT. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY. JULY 8, 1964
PunUOMttO WKKLV HVTHI
x.utmkis PusuoMiNa Co
Junior Olympic
District Meet
TEN PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
Set July 10th
ii
■ f;i
drain Storage
Running Over
LON<
of trucks that Had |ust
e yrain renters in I aft returned
every available combine and truck
i ifvy grain flowed into Taft in'
inanities. This line of trucks was backed up Tues-
, ... .ill!' ) I1, ii turn at Louisiana Llevator and just;The top three winners
Toft will play host this Fti*
day to the Coastal Bend Trek
Club with upwards of 600 young
athletes ex[« i ted for the «|fo- The last evert is scheduled for
hid Junior Olympic truck! 9:40 p.m.
is * In addition to the above teams
Ihni are entered in the meet
there are several other inrti-
Midway and Grogi>ry-P<>> t! ’tut viduaU that are scheduled to
aa
Kitt
war another !u to 12 trucks
In Taft Area
The mi
exploded in
with every
tang pressed
result w.is •
dition m p: 1
f'evatoi-
Most <>f I he
uere full u i
ihev were «• <*
in the quad*. *»■
ship f»uf. The
grain hit ;i vn
trucks that )<
va’.n> early
had no? i M*f*n
ttar IohJ in t
5v late aftern-
grain 'rui k ■ d
take in f'orp1
that st the :
At least
Planter • O ■
« during • i •
Santa)' and <•;
ptAsibiy lx1 (o
the ; i r« *?t
combine
and
i crop
Week
truck
■. Tile
o\ erf low
tally at!
con-
Taft
the end of the week j| they are j
: M 11 able to gel any sizeable \
.::iv«ints shipped by the end of
the Week.
A lotid of 1063 cars of iin
Ii.. been received in the Taft-i
Mtdw.iy-Gregory elevators since
the opening of Pit' s'sisoti to
Grain received ;ii elevator-
is follows:
s Mat till
outward
e Tltesd:
iviest in . number <>l yen-
The hoik of the cutting is in-
GRAIN COUNT
Eastern Seed
Louisiana Elevator
Rosson
Midway
Taft Elevator
Golden Grain
Gregory Elevator
TOTAL
36
341 full
215
50
125 full
114 fu!!
142
1063
City issues Tola!
Building Permits Of
$19,438 For June
Dunns? the month of June the
City of Taft issued permits for
buildings or for moving build-;
mgs m the amount of $19,438. • Ballots for the election of new
Johnny Johnson, move a officers for the Taft Chamber
house from outside the city of Commerce were mailed out
limit, to lot 21 block 36. value to all members fhis week. They
j28oo. : are to be marked and returned
Ballot For
C of C Officers
Is Mailed
meet. Entered in the meet win’
; be boys arid girls from Bishop.1
IRobstown, Tuft. Simon. Tutov*-
1 Miritiuiit GrttO.il’t.'.i rf, (
each
event will
1hc regional
meet scheduled for July IS in
San Antonio.
in
to
The meet will get under way j sorahip of die Tail Jqjrceos
at 6 p.m. and will continue un- t they wiil have charge of ,
til all events have been cur. off j eouceMifor stand as well
Have the reapers‘Jhillty of
meet proper.
An <«iM>tMston charge ot X»
cents will lie charged to itafrgy
the expenses of the meet.
The following events will *“■ '*
run off iri the order irtfed •
!M>
Sfc
take pan in the meet. For _____
lie eligible to enter L'anee. Walter Reyna, chamui- J aa*,h. 7S-y«l. dash. 220-yi.
Juni.it Olympics Ion stare mtier from San Diego I re|a., loo-yd dash. 880-yd rw,
,u, is in i jg scheduled to perform, 1 .... 4 ,c,_c »—-AfceCa}
The tneel is under (he
: M
Margaret Steven*
Get* Broken Collar
Bone In Wreck
Fbb Olympics
Set For
Tbur$. Night
Miss Margaret Stevens and
Franklin Gunn were in a two-1
ear collision in die City of Sin-1 as a curtain raiser for the
ton Sunday afternoon and she Junior Olympic meet that is to
...» before Muirtiv"Aumi'st “T wiiieh suffered » broken collar bone. V held in Taft Friday night
Abel Aguerra, moving a house before Monday. August J. wruen vvas U2wl ijut is now 1he Tatt Javeees will stage a
bom l»l 3. block 7. Second regular ofja, hom, : Flab Olympic * Thi^ay
According to the bylaws of the I According to Mr. Gunn, he j -,ieh, -mmlng M 6.30 p.m.
T T FiHtville by G Alex-;Chamber of Commerce a direc- |ran ,a Mop ^fn,.an<! T^to! Th,«-‘ **vtatan have been
J 1 roiouH. ny >x. rtic.s another car. Neither he nor the - ^ un ror the •*agint»" athletes
Company, nndmte t « 1 director can hold offlee for only |oth<,r rtrivel, was bw , mh up me a*m*
were damaged quite a bit.
140-yd relay, 136-yd high t:urtT>«.
spun- "0-yd high hurdles, mile run,
44b-yd run. 88tf-yd relay, 180-yt'i
low hurdles, 126-yd low hmtfie#,
50-yd low hurdles. 226-yd ifawsSi,
180-yd shuttle relay and the
mile relay.
Groupings of girl* will be as
duigo Addition to a lot outside
the city limits, value $538,
m
follows; Girls 9 and under,
Tall
ast am
Basket-ball
Far Girls
Set At Taft
under
lots 14 and 15. Driscoll Addition.
$16,1(8).
Alev;
App
500
50
uUr.d ;
! \ iinAtf •( V
this IfflDUO
• ii ihi' start
hV
the
County's First
Bole Delivered
Soturdoy
Here
!Vt> K tone
tlaimed the
pu: up l>j On
Cwimeri e ih
delivered ii"
«st;m tu tb<
Saturday at
also the t:l ,!
Tt,f Ktnnce :
first bait’ n
'•»> had ’
picking ov (;
get the firy
stud as he 6»
i ?t)<“Ss it u
The $41»I ■
pot lip bj
Commerce 1
los; Hoch i
Taft Co-op,
Eubitnk ami
The land >
V ill
Chi
[064
[as
tit (
30
tnt>
t fit;
pt'tk1u< is south of
ligh*. to nti\’ t Ac-
,\!r K’X’Pce land
.*j; HI ir.i.-fies J,1 r.ttn
Soptenilier with fie *■
, the coiton was
t . wick in M-u ch
S’.ir sets! uas u-’d
vvah ao.i.it 1-2 t>us|i-
5 af‘ g.rLs will have something
new to !<tok f.imard to at Tab
If all School next year its a re-
al! ol otion by the ,cli! ki!
Tx-ard Monday night Basket-
Ml tor git Is will lie .allied to
the pltysica! education program
amt a tub schedule of U.I.D.
Mints will lie worked out at a
[later date. It is presumed that
the T.ift girls will play iri >h”
■iirne district as the hoy;;: how-
ever, on occasions girl's dis-
tricts are modified -omewhat
blue to ih? tad that some
schools do not have a girl's
b-i.ketbail team.
Tt’ s wiil ii - iht first time in
modern history of Taft High
• Sohixil that a girls basketball
team wit! participate in regu-
iat I .1 I, games.
Details as In coaching scht-d-
nlin" and such will lie worked
out at a latet date
Jerry Grave* Is
Burned While At
Work Wednesday
Jerry Graves suffered first
and second degree bums on bis
left arm and the left side of
ins face in an accident In .t
Wednesday In Corpus Chrisfi.
He was working ha' an oil well
serene e company and is report-
ed to have been making a dis-
connect on what was supposed
to Ik; a line with no pressure
two successive terms. By these
rules present directors who are
1 ineligible for re-election are
i Robert Hack, Tom Reding, Geo
1 Wither, Walter Roots, W. E.
Kntmnow, and Adrian Krehs
! Directors having served only
a>ne term are Jack Stapper,
Bill Moore, Jimmy Shoemaker,
Harry Veselka
Chief of Police
Has Same Phone
Number As Listed
girls 10 and It, girt? 13 and 1*
girls 14 and 15, girts 16 and tt.
Boys will be grouped accord*
ing to their ages the samft test
the girls.
Field went* which t*i!I
start at 6 p.m,, will be as fol-
lows; Standing broad jump, &
soft bull throw, run-png
t 38 lu years, 2S years nnd. bpoa<| jump> high jump, nuo*
t.ver, and a sperm div.uon tor „ and jumfi_ Zi
I Participants weighing over £Mi | p(Jt dimls rjnning. br.,ad ^
^.1' „ , .. and pole vault,
j In the 18 to 24 year old dt-
|vision there will be the 109-yd.
■cVp
wi
'■W*i
Charles Bean, chief
announced this week
of police , ,,
that the ( M’
All coaches an? rrirfiftniHlIp
; dash," 22()-yd. dash"44(i-yd ‘dash ***** that <* Ws
880-yd. dash, mile run. 70-yd. in the -ometd sre*
[high
Jil/Luil ealav SKlLvrl Wt>. ! ul 18
25 cents wiil be made for «®A
hurdles. 120-yd. low hur.j^lle rha’ .w«‘ *"9
440-yd. relay, 880-yd. re-! ini~' l'art m is b-’^- run- A «£
shot put, discus, broad j
Group leaves Far
Baptist Encampment
Monday Afternoon
telephone number listed in flic "hVch^ toma note vault i participant,
directory is still the cut-reel one LjP2,.e,;,fu ' I Assisting in running die uwet
I the ha mer chief. Karl Echols
:!f thete is no answer at the
Bean home the dispatcher at
Several people from the First1,, , lh_ dispatcher at da4*1' sPecial 10U-y<1 dash, 220-j
Baptist Church left here Mon-, ^ . n >'d' ^luy, 440-yd. relay, shot
in it However, there was pres- dav afternoon for Zephyr En- ,hfs sh<?nfl s m Sin,ofl wi,! put. discus, broad jump, high
,.mt> and the gas shot out and campment on Lake Mathis anti;answer the call and get in ; jump, pole vault. 4 mile bicycle,
ignited, burning him before hewill be there until Friday after- i touch with Mr. Bean by radio,
roiiift roll nut of the way ; mum.
"to S£‘aS ' amf over dlvtoim |
held •SO-yd!! f***'-- «««»*•} *•**► **»«*
dash, 90-yd. low hurdles, 100-yd.
Rainfall For
June Totals 6.4
He is a patient in a Corpus Those who wen* we-e the
Chris'i hospital and observed [Rev. Chas. Miller, who will be
hi> 22nd birthday there on Sun-u* life «uard; Date Hogue, who
day. He is reported to be in | will be in charge of music; Mrs. |
•■(ks! condition. ’ Ethel Davie, sponsor of the; Rainfall for the month of
Jerry's parents, Mr. and Mrs. [!(xal <;roup; and Steve Riner, I June totaled 6.4 inches, accord-
A. W. Graves, were visiting in; Stanley Davie. Diana Priest, ling to the gauge kept at the
Penney Davie and Sandra;City of Taft water department
I Woodall.
for calling him. The number is
the same one s was listed for j the
ke. M. K. Brown, Eridik; Mts*
Namee. C. II. Mayo and WMt
Williams, judges and tftnpn|
Herbert Sigle, cietk; B S11
Nance, starter; Bill Ertassd,
relay and 220-yd dash. |^a* dl^r; .*'**_.*****'
H is t cjiortw! that an gmbul • | jlathef *\el y’ Ju? Wib.a «ism,
— •* —»* * Er.S,J'S 'SSL
Mrs. yortirwt. Joins |S,”'LSfkS*‘
Hole-In-One Club | Haley, HearsM Gk>s»dtr
Mrs. Edgar Martinets j;lined Sizemore, R. B. Sanders, AMm
Palestine
:happened
; few hour
when the
but arrived
later.
accident
home a !
'bam.
Jana Myers Wins
Ribbons At Camp
,!dim Myer-. came home
S»’4 uid-iy fffor
last
t\t i
!-ve>
the
>?Uf'
’hut
! a e rf
rlr
hfs k,
‘h it/’
‘. i/o nv ney w;i-
Tafr. Chnmhej^ ?l
! the tfAlowin%
-♦rhers, < i votary;
*if twin. Uetarnc*.
Tatt Compre.v*:
wfileh the lirst
i j...pf!. The lanrt w:d: weeks at Camp fdSewilde near
ih r>o |.H>un*.ls pet Comfort. and brought with hi
lading km
pi.,n?**d the
Northern
in planting
cis pfr i'toT
fertili/ed W
acre of 16-2'mj IntertMtional.
the itale weighed 471 poundh
i at the t.'omprestt and
the picking from 12
K Hunt bought the hale, pay-
iic-i 55 cents pec pound.
Manut'l Veii-'i was; the picking
ciitin actor for the cotton.
Lair ut c.tton was ginned
.Math’s Jam*- Myers, went up for her
Five Mew Teachers Hired By Taft
a very exclusive group, the -JEtoesek. Sherry Albritton, WetsS-
Ilole-In-One Club, last Sunday, .roe Petty. Billy Hunt, Anaont
She got tier jierfect sh;g onjFiory. Stubby Marsh, MklosSsu
.■hole number eight during me j Moore. Leonard LafiMt, &&&
mixed low ball toumame.it .itjHuestis and Leonard Ritey,
| the Sinton Golf Course. field event directors.
required
acres. .
four t-iiilxtnr which she won :n
yctivitie*. They were first plac?
■ rdilKms in front diving and fan-
cy jump diving, second place
Five new teachers were j
hired by the Taft Independent!
School District Board at their
regular meeting Monday night
to fill vacancies created bv
v a riou s resign a tions.
New teachers will include
’'iV’inT Sip!'s Pbysivid
education in high school; Nancy
ai the V’ahlsifJMf '-.*n ^
M na iy ny Lloyd Menge
in fancy diving and thir l place
in horse back ritling
i,.„k pan in syncroni/ed *’•M.,nson> high school science;
m.n' . Betty Wayne Patterson, junior
high science; Mrs. Jeanette
.Morrison, junior high math; and
Franklin S. McAllister, high
s«. hool business stibjects
Jana's parents. Mr. a.t.l Mrs.
Aug. 10 Hearing
Set On §4»4S
School Budget
i
at
.....*
feaMBfei
Mcrtkm
Miss Heyer is a native of i
Cuero and is 22 years of age.
She is a graduate of Cuero
High School, attended Victoria
Junior College and received he:
B. S. degree from Southwest J
Texas State College. Her pre-j
jvtous teaching ex[>erience was’
it Pettus. She is single.
1 Mrs. Manson is from Corpu*!
jChristi, having attended high’
school in Flour Bluff. She is 22
years of age and just recently
got married. She teeeived her
B. S. Degree front Southwest
Texas Teachers College.
Miss Patterson is 32 years of (
age and comes from Woods-
boto. She atUMuhaf Trinity t'nl-,
ver-ity. riveivmg her B S. and tort.)l!nti**t ,
her M S thete She later re-i held last night by the raft
!, cved the degree of a registered Lions Club, at wh.ch time Leo ^
" ' , , j ‘Dziariok tixfk ov#?r as president
-u.rse from Baylor Memonai ^ ^ ^
] Hospital and has also done others who took offi< e with
j graduate work in the field of Mr. Driadek are Paul Harr!son. i
nursing. ifirst vice-president; J W. Ham-:
*R- Mon Ison is ma rned and »lon secon.i u« - president; ;
Harold Krieg, secretary - treas-
urer; A R. Turner tai! twist- i
ei; Cas Maurin. Eton tamer; |
ami C R Owen, Geo Myers. ;
Noel Brittain and Roy JohriMm. j
directors.
The dinner meeting was held j
af Johnson's Cafe with wives j
of the men as guests
Ft’^ -'o''1
The hearing on the school This represents an mmatMt
budge; for the Taft Indeiwndent ’ approximately $70.«» over
1 School District will be held no iopernitoiial bwl for last ywvv.
August 10, which is the next The biggest start of this tncnwMt
regular meeting of tlw Schix.l it* taken up by; a salary to-
Board. 'c.rtsew for tenoheni »nd «M
Total expenditures antieipat-! (jersc>nne! and maanenapsse to*
ed by the school board m the | the new srhooi.
’ budget for next year have been j Anticipated revenue ad
sot at $788,273 00. This includes'280 ts antlos-aled by b««unM»
$9.1.305 00 for capital outlay and manager Gerte Pui’m. Tm
: 2>€'rvj<:c and $6W.98S 00 tor ^ ^
riirront f»r$^r ttf.iona) 11XIXP!XS!P.S. ! k>C9.1
rtf
Wm
Leo Diioclek
Installed As
Lion President
na-
! has two children. She is a
hoe of Roi kporb attend*?*! high
' t-hool at Wink, Tex., and did
. ollege work at Texas Univer-
sity and Del Mar fo-fore getting
i her degree at the University of
Corpus Christi.
Mr. McAllister cornes to Taft
! from Crystal City He attended
high s-ehool at Devine and re-
!h,j reived hi» BBA Degree from
_ j a Ar I. and then took a business
tbe^Taft Com-11 ,MUHC a1 DKkJgMcxt's Business
I'heTatt Cham- | College. He is single and 26
- Trb«rxi Ph5?0 years of age.
Bartlets Move Here
Mr. ami Mrs L. J Bartle: of t
, George West will move to Taft [
later this w*x?k and will be liv- j
|ing at 321 Tutt. Roth wdl t»e j
t teachers in the Tatt schools this j
fait He wMl be amending sum-
mer school at A. A I. College.
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Guthrie, Keith. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 8, 1964, newspaper, July 8, 1964; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth750240/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taft Public Library.