Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 34, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 7, 1956 Page: 1 of 10
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Coleman Democrat-Voice
75 Years In Coleman — Published Each Tuesday
Reaching Almost 4,000
Homes Every Week
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VOLUME 75—NO. 34
Democrat Voice, Coleman, Tana*, February 7, 1956 i
1 SECTIONS—10 PACES
City Census
Is Approved
Soon wo will.know.
Many people have from tilne
to time spec ulated as to the pop-
ulation of the City -of Coleman,
especially during the months
when the oil industry was more
active here, and soon that ques
tion will be answered
City officials, in session yes
terday afternoon, approved a.etty
census, lo establish the a<-tual
population of Coleman, and re
tained Mrs .1 A Netherton to
conduct the eensus It is under
stood that she will start e.num
crating in the near future and
more details will he released at
that time
, The official federal census
jn 1950 gave Coleman 6,530 re
sidents, arid a footnote in the
latest Texas Almanac had the
1955 estimate at 6,300.
Anyway, city officials agreed,
that It was of much value, from !
several considerations, to know
the population of the city, so
they approved the eensus The
eity agreed to pay for a count of
the population only. There is the
possibility that arrangement'.will
be made whereby Mrs Netherton
will secure additional Informa
tion which would be of value to
the city and the'BCD.
City Asks Enterprise To Make
Engine Perform, Or Take It Back
School Attendance I
Back To Normal
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Attendance in City Schools lias I-- — -----------
returned to normal this week, ; J0HN CRAMMER BACK
with only 86 students reported H0ME FROM HOSPITAL
absent today, as compared to
over 200 last week.
86 absentees is just about nor
mal for January and February,
this period always running some
heavier than the balance of the
school year.
Across the
Editor's Desk
By MILTON AUTRY
We got our figures miked in
last Thursday’s paper, when we
reported on poll tax Sales Our
story-stated that the sale had ex-
ceeded the 4,000 mark, when it
should liave staled that sales had
exceeded the 3,400 mark
KENNETH BURNAM,Aon of Mr
and Mrs, Ed Burnam; will rep
I resent, the southern district lit
■j Chisholm Trail Council in at
| state wide "report to the gover-
i nor this weekend* when top
■ Scouts from all over Texas will
1,convene in Austin as a feature
of Boy Seoul Week (Photo by
Hugh Capps Studio)
FHA Broadens
Lending Plans
The Fanners Home .Adminis-
tration has broadened, its lend
mg authorities to meet the spec-
ial needs of established small
farmers who, due to drought and
other adverse conditions, have
( been forced to work part-time off
ager of Scott and White Mentor i the farm in order to make a liv-
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Officials Say Light Plant Unit
Has Not Operated Dependably
Coleman City "officials have to-1 engines, the city has three other
day revealed that they are not [units, operating on steam Two
satisfied with the operation of;are high pressure turbine units,
| the new light plant engine and j one carrying a 1.000 kilowatt rat-
have asked the manufacturers. [ ing and the other a 750 kilowatt
rating. The third unit is a 600
kilowati low pressure steam unit
The steam units would tie used
as standbys and to run regular
in peak periods, when the two
gas engines could not take care
of the heavy, load
Texas U. Exams
Given Here Friday
Examinations for entering Tex
as University were given students
from Coleman, Ballinger,' Bangs
j Enjerpr.se Engine and Machine.
; Company of .San Emm-i-.i,, c.alif
! lo either make It perform satis
| faetorily or take it hack and to
j fund the city’s money
, City Manager Albert Pope
! states 'that the city made -1i11--
; request in a letter from the
1 mayor's office, which also con-
firmed a previous; letter in Jan
; nary in which Pope notified the
[company of the difficulties with!
the engine
i The mayor's letter charged
! that the engine had not met spe j
| cifxations and a.Vked two things
: First that the company refund
[the cty all money previously ; am,"Sarita \una Fri.i.iv at Cole
. paid on such engine and remove n)un
it. second that the efitpany pay
John Grammer who had major
Supt"Terrell Graves states that "vy !n Fort W*" h«*wp,r«l
late in January returned home
Monday afternoon It will prob
ably be several days before he
will be back at the store, but his
recovery has been ; very rapid
and gratifying to his family and
friends.
W E. ARNOLD NAMED
ADMINISTRATOR AT
SCOTT & WHITE
W E. Arnold has been mimed
administrator and financial man
I ial Hospital at Temple His wife
is the former Elizabeth Hubert,
who was reared in Coleman and
is a sister of Mrs. Robert Wood.
Mr and Mrs Arnold and their
son Hubert, live at 956 Fannin
Loop in Temple
Coleman was fortunate to
receive the moisture the past
several days, and the near driz-
zle of today is lending more
optimism for good deys ahead,
Some local residents point out
thet "so far, things are look-
ing mighty good."
Today we are in receipt of a
letter from J B Atkinson of
Cuero, Including n subscription
to the papers. Mr. Atkinson was
a resident of Coleman for many
years, having been associated
with Mayes Drug Store. He re-
ports they raised a good corn
crop In that section, but didn't
mention turkeys, for which Cuero
is so well known. Anyway, the
former Colcmanitc sttnes that he
enjoys the "old home town news"
and we’ll do our best to keep
him Informed,
In cast some of you haven't
noticed, the trees down Col-
lege Avenue, were whitewash-
ed tome time beck, and same
adds considerably to the looks
of the street. College Avenue
is, and will always be, one of
Coleman's nicest streets, and
this bit of beautification de-
serves a "well done" to city
crews.
Another report from the Fort
Worth Fat Stock Show VGHF
Domestic 97, senior Polled Here-
ford bull calf, placed first In his
class He was shown by Vanre
Golden Hoof Farms and Jipt and
Fay Gill
HEAR JOE BOYD
Leland Maples, Louie Beal,
Donald Mankin, and Marilyn
Thomas ind Janie Ellis of Brown-
wood were in Dallas Sunday to
hear Evangelist Joe Boyd Rev;
Boyd has conducted revivals here
at the First Baptist Church.
Zoning Hearing
For Marlin Brick
Induslrial Site
By action of the Coleman City
Council a zoning hearing has
been set for March 5, on a pro-
posal to re-zone the site of Mar
tin Brick Company plant and of-
fice from residential to indus-
trial
Adjoining property holders
will be officially notified of the
hearing Lang C Martin, repre
■aentlng Martin Brick Co, appear-
ed before the Council yesterday
afternoon
The Council recently invited
the request for such changes, in
instances where property has
been used for business or Indus
trial for a long number of years,
even prior to the enactment of
'the present zoning laws In this
Invitation, they pointed out thai
a petition would not be neecs-
sary. ... '
It Is the opinion of the Cflunei)
that there are many pieces of
property in the city; which have
Iwen used for business and in-
dustrial purposes for many years
which should not have a re|ld#n-
Hal status
STILL GOING STRONG
Polio Fund At
$7,000 Mark
Coleman County’* moat popu
lar fund drive, the March of
Dimes campaign. Is going strong
again this year and judging from
present indications, may reach
the all-time high of $8,300 which
was contributed last year
C, l Newton, county chair-
man, reports today that the fund
has now reached $7 000, with
many reports yet (•> mute in A
number of communities, as well
as several organizations, are ex
peeled to turn in report* this
week or next
Santa Anna, with Mr and Mr*
John Gregg a* co-chairmen, turn
ed in a dice report of $1.15# 05,
to boost the fund considerably
Other new report* in Include
(louldbuak. $53 90. 'Junior High
School, *23347; and Whom *25M
-
iug for the family, Walter T Mr
Kay, the agency's State Director
announced today.
The extension of credit to these
small farmers who are in need of
credit primarily for farm operat
ing expenses which canuot-be ob-
tained from their usual source
of credit, together with the in-
come from their off-farm work
will permit them to continue
farming and to maintain a sat
isfactory standard of living, Mc-
Kay said,
These loans are short term
credit designed to help farmers
'finance one years operation*'.
Credit ntay be extended to far-
mers who are operating units no
larger than a family type farm
provided there is a sound basis
for credit McKay stated this
means that, the anticipated gross
iricome from farming and other
sources must be sufficient to re-
pay the loan, meet farm and
home expenses not provided for
in the loan and provide a reason-
able margin above such amount*
Applications may be filed at
the County offices of the Farmers
Home Administration The local
county Farmers Home Adminis-
tration Committee determines
the eligibility of applicants for
these loans.
Credit is also extended by the
Farmers Home Administration
over longer periods to finance
adjustment* and improvements
in fanning operations
Ten New Cars
Registered Last
Week In County
Ten new cars were registered
in Coleman County last week ac
cording to a report from the of
fire of Bernice Johnson, County
tax assessor-collector
They are as follows
Edaieen Bean, Beaumont, 1956
Chevrolet Sedan
J I’ Hodges Jr , Santa Anna
1956 Buick Sedan
C F Faulkner, Abilene, 1956
Ford Sedan
H, M. Phillips, San Angelo,
1,956 Ford Station Wagon
Johnnie Stewart, Kockwood,
1956 Ford Coupe
Hay Caldwell, Roekwood, 1936
Ford Fordor
G L Joyce, Tatpa. 1956 Ford
Pickup
C'harle* Hupe, Coleman, 1956
Buick Coupe.
Mavis Cullln* Field*, Coleman,
1996 Ford Fordor
Pablo Gutierrez Morales, Cole-i
man, 1956 Chevrolet Sedan
WINS FREE TRIP TO
ACAPULCO, MEXICO
Wayland Gordon I* In Acapul j
to, Mexico, this week, enjoying
a vacation at the expense of the
[ Moforeda Corp fh won a today
j fret- trjp there in A recent tales
100(1 111 |d Ml to >v 6,1, k
I home Friday. ,
the nty $25,000 in damages > Thif U‘r firs' U,,u'
•’ ; juris nave br<*n K.iven ami they
I he same letter set forth an , wjjj [,<> required before entering
j the University effective this Sep
j tember. The regents announce
that this is necessary because
space and funds will not permit
the University to.accept all who!
wish to niter
An applicant's ability in two
fields is covered by the exam |
First in an understanding and j
meaning of words and relation
ship of ideas and second the ab I
illty to do simple mat hematics [
and solve problems
Fifteen students from Coleman j
took the examination and others
would have but could not be ;
cause of road Conditions- They!
were Charles Bridwell, Rob O' !
Hair, Raymond Scndejas. Martha !
Leverett, Jerry Co|H\ Jerry Eak
in. David Herd and Bob Griffis
alternate measure, that being
that the eity and Enterprise Mi
ter into a new contract, with a
new performance bond and a
new performance period The
letter stated that the city "does
riot intend to pay more money
on the machine until it works
satisfactorily'
The new performance period
was described as one year, clari-
fied by "one year from the date
that the machine starts perform
ing satisfactorily "
In a reply to the lettci of a
few weeks back, Enterprise of i
finals stated that they were *ur
prised to learn that the machine j
was not performing satisfactorily j
and expressed their confidence
that with sumo modifications it
could be made to perform sat
fsfaetorily
Carl Moeller, factory represen-
tative, is here at this time to
work with the engine, and it is
understood that he has instruc-
tions to remain here until the
engine is operating satisfactorily.
Rope states that since the en-
gine was put into operation in
June of 1955, it has “never op
crated dependably and has been
down"' for repairs and modifies
ttons time and time again,” Rec-
ord* show that the unit has pro
duced 702,000 kilowatts since
that time, which. Rope emphaiU
es, is far less than 50 percent
of the rated capacity Of course,
the unit was not operating some
of that time
Latest trouble to develop was
when cold weather cracked the
radiator, but Rope point* out
that such was not the fault of
the engine However, on January
5th the number one cylinder head I
cracked, . ,,
The City of Coleman eomplet
ed a deal for the 1,750 horsepow ;
er engine, with 1,250 kilowatt!
rating, in So pi ember] of 1954, to!
he installed in "earljJ 1955 " It is
a natural gas engine and. the ]
plans called for it to be “on the j
line" by the summer of, 193S, i
when the peak annual load hit*. j
The Enterprise was purchased al notice asking for bids
mm
NOAH ARMSTRONG
. . obiervej 104th birthday
Oldest Citizen
Has Birthday
Bible Baptist
Fellowship Heel
Set Feb. 8-9
.'Die Bibit Baptist Church of
Cole man has scheduled a Fellow-
slop Meeting for Wednesday
. mght. Thursday and Thursday
' night, announces the pastor, B.
W Wallis, Jr
Hex. I, J Dyer, pastor Of the
Bowie Street Baptist Church of
Sun Angelo, will conduct the ser-
vile gnd Rex W allis announces
• thai many other visiting preach-
! ers from all over tlie state will
be here Meals will lie served at
noon-and evening on Thursday.
Re\ W alhs states that every-
I one is invited to attend this fel-
- few ship meeting
Vance Heifers
Go To Canada
j Vam i Golden Hoof Farms have
x..!(| sexi-n voung Rolled Hereford
beifei s to breeders in Ontario,
j Canada it is announced this
1 week
! The heifers were purchased by
W K Rhillips of Denfield, Ontar-
io arid W F Here of Arva, On-
; lario A truck will arrive from
1 ('an,-ida this week to pick,up these
! heifers a> well as cattle purchas-
jed from Jim and Fay Gill and
| Curtis Collins
\ am: e Golden Hoof Farms also
i ix'port recent bull sales-to Ro-
; dulph Smith of Fredericksburg
and Felix Heal, Jr. of Kerrville.
Cily Election
Judges Named
Judges for the city election to
be held Tuesday, April 3 were
named yesterday afternoon by
the Coleman City Council, in
eluding Cecil Freeman as judge
with O W Buck. A H Scott and
L L RVbpst. to assist
Terms of North Ward Council
man Ralph Elkin and South
Ward Councilman Delnia John jrtrner* changed horses and stay-
son will expire Mayor IVm O
Leach and Commissioners Bill
Atkins and T It. Knowles of
w e.st and East Wards reaper
lively, have another year to go
i ni ie Nc.ili^i-oixtrong, ('.ole
manoldest cUlien. will ede
••• ms 104th birthday W'edne*'
day, Feb. 8, at the home of hi*
daughter, Mr*. Ima James. The
celebration will be a quiet one
with only hi*ttwo daughters and
a few other close relatives visit
mi; linn for the occasion
Horn in Frontier Territory in
Lincoln County, Missouri in 1852,
In t ame to lexas as an infant
with his parents They settled at
Saieilo in Bell County where his
father built a home which is now
a landmark known a* “Stage
Coach. Inn, named because it
originally xxas a stopping place
(or stage coaches where the
is to "never worry about any
thing ' He eat* "what be wants j
when he wants" and lias lived j
outside most of his life, < amping j
out as long as he was a ble I l a v !
ing lived a full life, Uncle Noah j
has earned the righf to sit quietly !
in his room and take life easy I
NEW CUB SCOUT PACK
HAVE DISPLAY WINDOW
County Youth
Rally Saturday
Night Al Talpa
.Rah,
Colefnan
will meet
County Youth
with the Talpa
The Cub Scout Rack So 21, a . Immanuel Baptist Church Satur-
new pack organized by the West j day night, Feb. 11, at 7 30 p.m..
Ward RTA. have a window dis atmouneed Dorothy Skelton, puB
play in the Owl Drug Store win j lints chairman,
dow this week to celebrate Nat | All young people are urged to
tonal Boy Seoul Week I attend
City To Purchase
J New Vehicles
City manager Albeit Rope was
instructed yesterday to advertise
for bids for three new motor xe
hieles, a police.ear, a pickup and
a 112 ton truck
Kxaci requirements for the ve
hieles wiM tie included in the leg
as a companion unit to a Cooper
Bessemer engine. *ame horse-
power which was installed in
1951, and plans were for the two
units to carry the base load for
the city
Total price for the Enterprise
was $147,000, and the city paid
down $75,000 when the contract
was signed Outstanding at thl*
time Is the difference between
the down payment and contract
price
A performance bond tor the
full price of the engine wu made,
which will expire March 4 1956.
Rope state* that the etty will re
quest (hat this performance bond
tie extended
It i* expected that the city will
In a "few day* receive a reply to
their lateat letter, which Includ-
ed the above stated request*
in addition to the natural ga*
Seal Coat For
Novice Highway
The Texa* Highway Depart
moot will advertise Thursday for
bids for a seal coat project on the
Novice highway, advises Erie
Mayo, local re*ident engineer
The seal-coat project will Mart
at the intersection just north of
Word Creek bridge, go north all
the way lo Novice and continue
on the NovMe cutoff, north to in
terser lion with Highway 84
had been set aside in the 1956
budget for these three units
; - 1 ■~
Autos Damaged
In Sal. Wreck
Two vehicles, a 1949 Dodge and
a 1955 Ford Pickup, were damag
ed when they collided the past.
Saturday afternoon, near the eti
trance to the City Park of High
way 84
Chart#* Duncan. 72, of Route
Three, was driving the Dodge,
while Jerty Wayne Whitfield, 21.
Route Three, was driving the
pickup Whitfield was starting
to pas* the Duncan ear when
the collision occurred
Neither driver wa* Injured, but
both vehicle* were damaged Ac-
cording to the sheriff* depart-
ment. rharge* of "following too
closely were filed against w i,.i
field '
SISTER OF COLEMAN MAN
KILLEO IN EXPLOSION
Word wa* received here today
of the death of Mr* Fur* Smith
of Gordon v die, a lister of Ernest
Haney of Colemap Mrs Smith
wa* killed Saturday . Feb 4 about
1 00 p m when accumulated ga*
exploded tn her home
She was ja sister itj law of Her
rebel Smith >4 Coleman .
ed overnight on their trips from
Austin Ax a bov, Noah would,
run to meet the stage < oach and
rtde in With them
lie joined the Texas Ranger*-
at. Lamp*sire when he was 23*
I years of age and is the oldest
Ex Texas Ranger He was sta
I turned fur a while at Fort Grtf
fin, near Albany, and remember*
| the many buffalo hunts as there
I wire !i ready market fot the hides
I which were used tn numerou*
w ays
Air Armstrong earne to Cole-
man County in 1876 and wa*
married to Miss B Altec Fuller-
ton of Dawson. Texas in 1878
: • . (ini'! ' ■ , ! hr!!
Money I mu only two daughters are now
living, Mrs Ima James of Cole- i
man and Mrs W. C, Haile df j
How den, Tex** ' ' j
V. to sits quietly in his room', \
he relives his younger day*, rein- j
County Group To
San Antonio Show
Coleman County will be well,
represented at the Kan Antonio
Livestock Show this weekend,
with representatives from Cole
man, Santa Anna, Talpa, Novice
and the County wide 4 H Club in
attendance
Stanley Blackwell, C M Huek-
abee and Charles Taylor, from
Coleman will leave tomorrow
with a group of youngsters Jim
William*, new assistant county
agent, will take another group
down Friday arid Jake 'Joyce will
go down Saturday
dub to have entries there in-
. dude Robert Wood Gerald Wil-
kin- ■ Curtis Reese, Margaret
Nunley Billy Riley, Henry Dod
sun Richard Barker, Charles
Robert Taylor, Nelson Tuttle,
t Denny Densman, Gone Joyce, Bill
Gardner and Jerry Schulze
groups from the county will go
j to San Antonio, but It is presum
imsetng about tigiiiing Indians, j^j W11J make the trip Wed
sleeping in his clothe* mid spend I nre^rtjty
ing fit) to 90 day* at a time “in !
the -addle Because of trouble!
Midi lb- in,bail' i! »a>,!irro
vary for the Ranger* to sleep in j
thet! clothe* a* they never knew i
when they might have to get up
and take out after, them They
could rest fairly easy on dark |
night* it was moonlight nights
that the Indians would come
around looking for ponies and j
anything-else they , could steal
A philosophy of Uncle Noal’i j
THOMPSON FUNERAL IN
GEORGETOWN SATURDAY
Funeral service* for Mr*. H.T.
T'homi*vm of, Georgetown, were
condut ted Friday, Feb 3, fn
It is not known when the other | Georgetown.
Mrs Thompson wa* a fitter-
m law of Mrs Ernie Fenton, Mr*.
J N Thompson and Jim Thomp-
son of Coleman and will be re-
membered here a* Mr*, bailie
Thompson
Youngsters from the Coleman
FF A Chapter and the county 4 11
Building Permits
Lag Past Month
Comanche Meets
Cats Here Tonight
Going into their final week of i the top spot,
re-gulm season play, the Coleman | But Comanche ha* proved to
Bluee*t basketball team stays be very troublesome for the loe-
home for their last two game*. »lx thi* season, with the Blueeat*
and will play the rugged Coman barely edging out two victories
ehe Indians here tonight (Tues over the Indian* in preview U1U,
d*y). | However, the advantage of At
I Building fw-rmils issued in B ith their backs to the wall,'home floor i* with
-nan last month reflerted the Cat* are ha it ling desperately j that should prove helpful la both
very little building activity,, a*|R> keep from sunUlning a second I games this week,
only four permit* were issued for 1"** in conference play and thusj ----;------
a total of $2,450 keep alive their hope* of a share
Permit* were issued to 1. B : of the district title Should Cole
Kennedy, 363 9th St, alteration ! man beat Comanche tonight, then
to frame garage. $385, II G Gar j the Friday night game with Bal
lingtnn. 2nd and Pecos, new gar linger would be the determining
age, $400, Mr* () C Ware 230 game of the season By beating
Clow alteration to frame re*) both Comanche and Ballinger,
rfenee, SI.600. H G GarUngton. Coleman would be assured of at
910 8 Concho, frame ear port, leaat a tie for the crown and po*
SAN ANTONIO VISITORS
Mr and Mrs Jake Ha
and son*, Melvin and Of
Red during the weekend in
Anionio with Mr and t
Fowler Mr Ha
ed In Sun Antonin to i
State Bottler*
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