Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 10, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 25, 1953 Page: 1 of 8
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For
Newspaper Advertising
COLEMAN DEMOCRAT-VOICE
70 Years In Coleman — Published Each Tuesday
Reaching Almost 4,000
Homes Every Week
5 Cents
VOLUME 69-NO. 10
Burkett School
Head to Start
Term No. 34
Burkett school students who will
file Into classrooms Monday for a
new term, will have a direct link
with the school of their parents and
very possibly, their grandparents in
the geniaf, imperturable "Prof." who
will be greeting his 34th school en-
rollment there.
W. It. Chambers, Burkett
superintendent, shares with two
other Texas school heads the
longest tenure of service as
superintendent of one school.
The others arc l.ewellyn Motley
of Teague and II. VV. Stillwell
at Texarkana. All date from the
Fall of 1980, when Mr. Cham-
bers came home from World
War I to become superintendent
of the active Burkett school.
"It doesn't seem that long." the
mild-mannered dean of Coleman
school men agrees, "but I know
that It is.”
As a period of time the 33 years
don’t measure so long, but the sue-
Howdy!
By Dick Reavis
That bale of cotton sitting in
front of the Santa Anna National
Bank is their fir t bale of the year
over there, and was produced by
Heiiry Goodwin of north of there.
You can almost hear the thud
of leather in the downtown grog
shops, with the time for actual
football thumping just a week
away. You can stand in line for
your reserve tickets the week-
end after school starts, if you're
a lUuecat fan.
Lots of district shuffling for the
new season. Schoolman Terrell
Graves was at a meeting the other
day where the changes were under
heated discussion. Brownwood school
officials had.a complaint. Said It
was so bad they went to district
meetings some times, to discover
they weren't In that district any
more.
Santa Anna Mountaineers
hilve a district story, too. Their
conference has just Inherited
the Ranger team, to add to their
last year’s legacy of Eastland,
Dublin and DeLeon, all fresh
from “AA” leagues. The Blue-
cats have Anson, Stamford, et
al. U all promises to be an in-
teresting season.
* • •
That fish that came out of Lake
Scarborough here a while back that
all of us experts thought was a pike
Is really a darter, the current issue
of Texas Game and Fish says. It’s
a mistake that fishermen are mak-
ing all over Texas. Actually, there
are some yellow pikeperch in a
couple of Texas lakes on a trial
basis. A related fish, the logperch,
Is adding to the confusion.
* * *
You may have seen some of
those walking catfish, presum-
ably Imported from India, that
are being sold for county ponds.
We haven't, but reader J. E.
Shelton described one for us.
It looks liki a catfish, but has
legs and can ambulate. If they
are caught, a few years hense
they should contribute greatly
to an Improvement in the com-
mon habits of fishermen. Except
for fish tales.
u * *
There'll be/ big "No Smoking"
signs up around the new Glen Cove
Gasoline plant this Thursday and
Friday. The reason: The new plant
will be converting its first gas to
gasoline and propane, a test run
not conductive to lights.
ceeding classes of students whose
fathers and mothers can be rem-
embered as the same youngsters are
a keen, but pleasant, reminder.
1 It was a different school in 1920,
an ambitious system that beginning
to feel its growing pains, but then
had only three teachers, and a lot
of plans.
One of the teachers was Mrs. W.
R. Chambers, recently Miss Muriel
DeBusk, whose home was in the
Burkett community. Mrs. Chambers,
who died in 1948, was a faculty
member only the starting year in
their new career in Burkett. She
was succeeded in the .school a few
years later by the Chambers' family
of three girls and two boys, the
youngest of whom, Harold Lynn, is
a Burkett High School sophomore
this year.
The young superintendent al-
ready was an experienced school
man, with five years of teaching
in Brown County in a one-
teacher system that he went
into at 18 years of age, fresh
out of high school. He left that
to enter the army engineers ip
the First World War and served
overseas in France.
And as expected the school did
grow, with new building programs
and budget problems, but in 1936-
37 and in 1937-38 its scholastics
numbered a peak of 344 each year,
more than four times the 1920-21
enrollment. With World War II,
and the shift of population away
from rural areas, the trend reversed,
but the school program, so carefully
built, continued.
Along the way, with summer
classes crowded into his school duties
at home, Mr, Chambers did college
work at North Texas State Teachers
College at Denton, and at •Daniel
Baker at Brownwood. and received
bachelor of arts and bachelor of
science degrees.
And every year, to the present,
he has coached boys basketball
teams, building teams that in
the mid-34’s were the scourge
of the section, at a time when
the smaller Burkett school com-
peted in district play with teams
from Coleman, Brownwood and
other larger systems.
In a 16-year period, Burkett cage
teams brought home 12 district
championships, a trend that is con-
tinuing, and in 1942 and 1947 went
into state tournament playoffs.
The “Prof" has another set of
statistics that he likes to recall.
Fifty-six Burkett students in World
War II, some 40 of them commis-
sioned officers.
There arc others less statisti-
cally organized, but all a part
of the rich recollections of the
fatherly school teacher who, his;’
patrons and students are quick
to tell you, took a close personal
interest in every one and has
followed their adult careers with
the interest of a parent.
These careers include government
officials, school teachers, farmers
and ranchers, businessmen, nurses,
engineers, the range of professions
and industry. A few years back for-
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Cadet Program Team
To Be At Brownwood
Coleman service-age youths today
were extended a familiar invitation,
to become aviation cadets for train-
ing as air forcij observers.
, Sgt. Del Stacy j
nnnd Huffman of
did M/Sgt, Ray-
Webb Air Force
Base at Big Spr:
cadet selection tea;
plan Tuesday to1 invj
diriates to a board
Brownwood next Tui
will be at the Ch:
meree, from 9:30 a.m'
High school grade
the ages of 18 and Y
eligible for the fly^
grain.
an aviation
were in Cole-
possible can-
be held at
y. The board
bar of Com-
to 4 pjn.
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Democrat-Voice, Coleman, Texas, August 25, 1953
ONE SECTION- 8 Page*
1,000Expected for
County's Annual
Farm Bureau Meet
Garland To Head ®n ^en*er
County USO
Fund Campaign
Walter Garland, Coleman Gas
Company manager, has been nam-
ed to head a county funds drive
for the Texas United Defense Fund,
a statewide organization which will
sponsor the USO campaign for *775j-
000 in Texas this year.
Garland’s appointment to the
fund post was announced today by
John P. Butler, Midland, regional
drive chairman and Dudley K.
W. R. CHAMBERS
3 generations of students linked
(Photo by Hugh Capps)
Dr, C. G. Yarbrough
Will Move Office To
West Elm Street
Dr. C. G. Yarbrough announces
today his plans for moving his
office to 315 West Elm street, from
his present location at 301 West
Pecan street, in the old W. J. Coul-
son home.
Dr. Yarbrough purchased the
property at 315 West Elm, and re-
veals his plans to move off the
frame residence and move on an-
other building.which will house his
office.
The location is Just across the
street from Overall Memorial Hos-
pital, In a southwesterly direction.
The doctor expects to move to the
new location by September 20. He
rtates he will occupy the new office
building by himself.
1,000 Attendance
At Sunday Night
Baplisl Revival
An attendance of 1,000 persons
was reached Sunday evening in the
10-day long First Baptist Church
tent revival here, now in its second
week.
A Sunday school attendance of
625 was reached Sunday morning,
a highpoint In the revival, and 33
additions to the church have been
made. The meeting will continue
through Wednesday night, when the
large tent at College and Llano
Streets will be taken down to be
moved to Dallas for a meeting.
Evangelist is Rev. Joe Boyd, form-
er All-American football tackle.
Petition For Vote
Due For Council
Coleman still has the prospect of
a city-wide election this year to
decide whether center curbs along
Commercial Avenue, the city’s main
thoroughfare, should be removed.
Backers of a petition being cir-
culated for the past two weeks to
ask the city council to call an elec-
tion on whether the curbs should
be removed;’ said today that the
petition probably would go to the
council at their first September
meeting, Sept. 3. •*
"We have about 475 signers so
far," said R. L. Mitchell, one of the
Woodward Jr., state campaign chair- supporters of the petition.
1 City charter requirements for an
election through petition requests
are a petition containing the names
of 30 per cent of the qualified voters
of the city. City Hall estimates of
the number of qualified voter sign-
ets needed for an election this year
are 300 to 350 voters. Qualified vot-
ers under the city charter must
have current poll tax recepits, or be
above poll tax age, and have satis-
fied residence requirements.
The curbs in question were in-
stalled last tall by the city council,
man. Funds will be used to carry |
on USO services for armed services
men and women.
Mexico Missionary In
Bible Baptist Program
A missionary from Mexico, Isaia
Rodriquez, will be guest speaker at
the Bible Baptist Church here on
Wednesday evening, it is announced,
A native of Mexico, the mission-
ary will explain the work of mis-
sionaries in the country. An invi-
tation to the public to attend is ex-
tended by Rev. B. W. WaUis, pastor.
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New Sixth Grade
Teacher Named
To S. A. Faculty
Mrs. B. A. Parker of Sants' Anna
was elected sixth grade teacher in
a Santa Anna school board meet-
ing Monday night,, to complete the
Santa Anna faculty for the new
school year.
Mrs. Parker succeeds O. C. Clifton
who resigned last week to join the
San Angelo school faculty.
R. K. Green will be starting his
seventh year as school superinten-
dent. to head up the faculty, and
Cullen Perry, high school principal,
his fourth year.
Other faculty members are J. A.
Harris, elementary principal; Mrs.
Marie Turner, 1st grade; Mrs. Ruth
Mclver, 1st and 3rd grades; Mrs
Maudie Harris, 2nd; Mrs. Margaret
Crews, 3rd; Mrs. La Juan Lancaster,
4th; Miss Ruth Odom, 4th and 5th;
Mrs. Nadean1 Harris, 5th; Mrs. Beu-
lah Sparkman, 7th; Mrs. Gertrude
Martin, 8th; A. D. Donham Jr.,
8th grade and coach.
Roy Mathews, high school science;
Mrs. Maude Evans, English; Mrs.
Jessie Williamson, commercial; Mrs.
Winnie McQueen, homemaking; A.
D. Pettit, vocational agriculture; D.
W. Behrens, mathematics and
coach; James Pollard, history; Carl
Gllkerson, band; and Page Mays,
English and speech. Mays is the
most recent addition to the high
school staff, and comes to Santa
Anna from Fleer. He is a former
Santa Anna resident.
Miss Minnie Alexander will teach
the colored school, that has been al-
most completely remodeled and
put Into its best condition for sev-
eral years.
Lunchroom personnel are Mrs.
Beatrice Smith, Mrs. Bessie Lewel-
len, Mrs. Jim Dunn and Mrs. Edna
Hall.
School board for the 1953-54 term
is Ozfo Eubank, president; Tom Ste-
wardson, Dick Baugh, J. W. Mc-
Clellan, Tony Rehm, W. H. Pittard
and Bruce Snodgrass.
Telephone Raise,
City Budget Gel
Final Council OK
In one of their quietest meetings
in months, the Coleman City Coun-
cil last Thursday gave final approval
to two major city ' matters, the
*693,126.60 1953-54 city budget and
a raise in city telephone rates, ef-
fective with Sept. 9 buildings.
No one appeared to discuss either
matter with the council, and both
were passed unanimously on their
second and final reading. The city
tax rate was affirmed at $1.35 per
*100 valuation for 1954.
The council also changed the zon-
ing of a one-half block area on
South Concho Street, occupied by
the Panhandle Refining Co., from
a business to Industrial zone. The
change was made on petition by Jay
wtti
An expected 1,000 persons, Cole-
man County Farm Bureau memb-
ers and their families and guests,
will attend their annual meeting and
barbecue scheduled Thursday eve-
ning at the Recreation Building,
with a beauty contest as a program
feature.
The annual Farm Bureau meet-
ing, a major county event, will have
a barbecue supper, group singing,
business session, a talk by C. H.
DeVany of Cohoma, state Farm
Bureau vice-president, and a Farm
Bureau Queen contest with 20
county entries.
Program opener will be the bar-
becue supper at 7; 30 p.m. Members
are asked to bring salad and dessert
to the supper:
This will be followed by a group
singing program to be directed by
Harold Moore of Austin, field sajes
supervisor, for the State Farm Bu-
reau, . who also will-, be master , of
ceremonies for the beauty contest.
The business session that follows
will elect 16 new members for the
county organization of 600 mem-
bers. A slate of ’candidates for the
offices will be offered for election
by the meeting.
Directors whose terms expire are
Claude Bevill, Coleman, Oscar Boe-
nicke, Santa Anna; A. V. Bullard,
Burkett; T. C. Hart, Cplemau; Lu-
ther Holder, Coleman; R. A. Milli-
gan, Rockwood; C. A. Moore, Cole-
man; J. H. Myers, Gouldbusk; Neely
Powell, Goldsboro; J. C. Ries; Talpa;
Sam Sartor, Goldsboro; T. E. Slm-
onton, Coleman; J. Frank Taylor,
Gouldbusk; Ben Wilson, Coleman;
Solon Wilson, Santa Anna; and Roy
West, Santa Anna.
The new directors, and holdover
directors, will meet early In Sep-
tember to elect new officers for
county organization.
DeVaney’s address will follow the
business meeting. A well-known
Farm Bureau worker and speaker
for a number of years, DeVaney is
expected to review the coming year’s
program for the state and national
organization.
The Queen contest will include 20
comely entries, daughters or sisters
of Farm Bureau members, between
the ages'of 16 and 25. They will
present a skit for the Judging. Win-
ner will represent the county group
at a. district Fann Bureau queen
contest later'this fall.
Entries are Shirley Brooke, Sue
Crossland, Jo Ewing, Juanita Feeler.
Dixie Gordon, Sallie Guthrie, Fran-
ces Gulley, Ann Holt, Leta Pearl
Home, Mary Cecile Home.
Nora Leverett, Patsy Moore, Joan
McClellan, Marciel Rich, Norita
Starnes, Dorise Stone, Eva Beth
Thwtng, Peggy Sue Thwing, Lillian
Wallace, Kathryn Williams.
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FOUR OF 20 COUNTY’ BEAUTIES entered tn the Farm Bureau
queen contest are shown here at a rehearsal held for the contest Sat-
urday. Nora Leverett, Coleman, Is front, left, and Dorise Stone, Talpa,
front, right. In the back row are Jo Nita Ewing, Coleman, and Sue
Crossland, Leaday. (Photo by Hugh Capps)
Lions Mark 25th
Birthday With
Program Tonight
Coleman LioAs will officially'ob-
serve their 25th anniversary' in
Coleman, with a special silver an-
niversary and ladies night program
here tonight at the Recreation,
building in the rodeo grounds.
A program will begin at 8 p. m.
Lions District Governor James L.
Mogford of Carrizo Springs, will
be the principal speaker for the
evening. Herb Petree, also of Car-
rizo Springs, a former Internat-
ional Lions president, will be un-
able to attend the affair, as had
been previously announced.
Program events include a review
of Che 25 years of the organization
by Emet Walker, numbers by the
Lions Club Quartet, directed by
Tommy Allen and special music by
J. E. King, Jr. of Brownwood.
A barbecue supper will precede
the program. Birthday cakes with
candles will decorate the tables.
ATTENDS RODEO
Mr. and Mrs. Max Horne were in
Colorado City on Saturday evening
to attend the rodeo.
Hubbard Open Lids On
1953 City Politics
Coleman politics took an early
start for 1954 this week with the
announcement from A. L. Hub-
bard, North Ward councilman,
that he would not be a candi-
date for re-election next spring.
Hubbard, who will be com-
pleting his first term next April
emphasized that he would not
run again for the office. "I want
that printed in the paper,” he
announced at the council meet-
ing last Thursday, “at the end
of this term I am through."
Hubbard’s announcement came
at the start of the meeting, and
did not follow any council con-
troversy.
Coleman Schools
Opening Schedule
Announced
First-grade students in the
Coleman schools will open the
1953-54 school term this Friday
when they will be enrolled at
South Ward and West Ward,
three days before the full school
opening on Monday.
A schedule on the opening of
the schools was announced to-
day for all Coleman schools by
Supt, Terrell Graves, as follows:
First Grade Registration: On
Friday, Aug. 28, from 9:00 am.
until 3:00 p.m„ all first grade
children will be enrolled at
West Ward and South Ward, n
is suggested that mothers bring
first grade children to school on
this day.
Official School Opening: On
Monday, Aug. 31, all students
will report to the various build-
ings at 9:00 a m. for a full day
of school work.
Lunchrooms Open; Lunches
will be served in all lunch-
rooms beginning c*» Monday,
August 31. with the first day of
school. Meals will cost 39c, the
same #s last year. High school
pupils will pay 35c per meal if
they do not pay by the week.
City School Bus: The city
school- bus, picking up children
within two miles of school, will
not operate during the first
week of school.
Division of Pupils In Class-
rooms: This year children will
not be placed in home rooms in
alphabetical order, but in each
grade there will be an impartial
drawing of names for the divi-
sion of pupils.
Faculty Meeting: A general
faculty meeting will be held in
the high school auditorium on
Saturday morning, Aug. 29, at
9:00 a m. Following this meet-
ing. the teachers will go to their
respective school buildings for a
meeting with their principals.
Schedule for the School Year:
After the first day of school,
the following schedule will be
followed:
High School: Students report
at 9:00 are., dismissed, 4 p.m.
Junior High: Students report
at 8:55 are., dismissed 3:55 pre.
Ward Schools: Students re-
port at 8:45 are. First and sec-
ond grades dismissed at 2:29
p.m. Third grade dismissed at
3:10. Fourth and fifth grades
dismissed at 3:45 p.m.
Colored School: Students re-
port at 9:00 a.m., dismissed at
4:00 p.m.
Major Improvements Made In City
School Buildings Through Summer
Without really planning to, the
Coleman schools completed one of
the largest Improvement programs
in school history the past summer,
school Supt. Terrell Graves con-
cluded this week fn reviewing pre-
parations for the new 1953-54 term
In all of the school plants, and
at Hufford Field; major Improve-
ments and maintenance work were
done to put the school buildings and
grounds “in their best conditions in
a number of years,” Graves pointed
out. '
At Hufford Field improvements
are apparent tn a neW tier of steel
stands for fans, similar to two other
tiers added In recent years. The new
group of 480 seats are built of steel
pipe with a specially finished board
seat, and aye 72 feet long and 10
rows high.
They are on the "home” side and :
do not increase the stands capacity,
but require 1cm lateral
having rows running higher.
brick concessions stand being built
by the high school Future Fanners
of America Club. A former coifces-
sions stand on the same side will
be operated by the band and other
school groups.
The football field house, at the
south end of the stadium has been
enlarged with an addition of 22x34
feet, to provide a large equipment
room, a coach's office and taping
room. The older part of the build-
ing is enlarged a? a briefing and
dressing room, with increased- show-
er room space and shower stalls.
WEST WARD
Repainting has been done on all
playground equipment, in the rest
room and woodwork of classrooms
at West Ward. Sidewalks leading to
the building from the east have
been raised to an all-weather level,
Floors throughout the building were
have been repainted.
SOUTH WARD
A similar schedule has been fol-
lowed at South Ward, with class-
room Woodwork shining with new
paint, and floors resealed. Play-
ground equipment has been repaint-
ed. and rest rooms and book rooms
refinished. Folding chairs have been
added to enlarges the auditorium
seating capacity and the lunch room
has been reflnlshed.
JUNIOR HIGH
This new building, in use not
quite two years, is having its class
room cabinets repainted, desk chairs
refinished and general brightening
up done on floors and corridors.
Just west of the building, an area
from the building to Hufford Field
walls is being paved as a bicycle
parking ramp.
sanded in the high school building
and agriculture building, and all
class rooms were repainted.
V
All desks were cleaned and re-
varnished, and mounted in 3-dask
runner banks. The band room has
been redone and air-condiUoiied,
and 70 chairs added by a coopera-
tive arrangement with the Band
Boasters Chib. New furniture ha&
been added to the recreation room
At the gym, hail screen has been
instilled on the east windows, con-
crete floors repainted and a com-
plete refinishing job done on the
gym floor, with several coats of floor
finisher applied to the large playing
court.
COLORED SCHOOL
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