The Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 28, 1975 Page: 1 of 14
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Volume 94, No. 36, 10 pages
Coleman, Tex,, Jan. 28, 1975
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Stevens and Doose Are Honored
Awards Highlight of
MOD Auction
Sat, At Echo
Space Age Banquet
CHS TRACTOR MECHANICS TEAM members, pictured
above, hod the highest score of ony of the teams
participating in the four-area contest at Waco January
22, and now they will compete in the state meet in
March. They are, from left, Mike Calk, Brad Wilkinson,
Nicky McCulloch, and Sherman Traylor. The team is
coached by Tommy Mac Connelly, Coleman High School
faculty member, (staff photo)
CHS Tractor Team Tops 4-Area Meet
Tommy Mac Connelly took
the ColemanTligh School
Tractor Mechanics Team to a
four-area contest at Waco
Thursday, January 22, and
when contest results were
compiled, the Coleman team
had the highest score of the 10
teams competing.
■The contest was part of the
Mid-Texas Farm Show, held at
the Waco Convention Center.
Areas II. IV, VII and VIII were
represented, and the four area
winners will advance to the
state meet.
The contest was in three
parts, including a quiz with 300
points possible; a tractor
component analysis with 300
points possible and a trouble
shooting contest with 400
points possible.
Out of the possible 1,000
points, the Coleman High
School team scored 747. Mid-
way of Waco, was second with
721 points. Scoring by other
teams follows; John Marshall of
San Antonio, 681; Rosebud1
Lott, 665; Seguin, 649; Elgin,
619; Thrall, 611; Brady, 609;
McGregor, 517; and Wall, 515.
Members of the Coleman
team are Sherman Traylor,
Brad Wilkinson, Nicky McCul-
loch and Mike Calk, Connelly
reports. Traylor was second
high individual, overall; Wilk-
inson was 4th high individual,
overall; and Calk was high
individual in component analy-
sis.
The Coleman team was first
in trouble shooting and in
tractor component analysis and
4th in the quiz.
The state event will be at the
Southwest Farm Show, State
Tractor Pull and State Tractor
Mechanic Contest March 8,
1975 at the Tarrant County
Convention Center, when
$1,000 in prizes will be awarded
to the top three teams in the
state.
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Two ASCS
Deadlines For
January 31st
READY TO SELL COOKIES are the three
Brownie Girl Scouts pictured above,
holding cartons of cookies. They are, from
left, Karyn Crye, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Crye; Trina Mills, daughter of
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Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Mills,- and Latricia
Burns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Deraid
Burns. The cookie sale starts Thursday,
(staff photo).
Two deadlines fall on Jan-
uary 31,1975, advises Wayland
Shurley, County Executive
Director of the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service (ASCS).
January 31 is the last day to
file application for disaster
credit. This includes requests
for failed acreage (where none
is harvested) and also requests
for abnormally low yields
(where part or all of the
acreage is harvested).
January 31 is also the last
day to file for incentive
payment for the 1974 sales of
wool and unshorn lambs.
Shurley states that it appears
there will' be an incentive
payment on sales made during
1974 and asks producers to
bring receipts to the ASCS
office before that date.
Novice Youth
Fair Held,
At the space age Chamber of
Commerce banquet Saturday
night, with an astronaut as
speaker and decorations ap-
propriate for the occasion, two
citizenship awards were made
to men who travel mostly by
land and still have a link with
the horse and buggy days.
Joe C: Stevens was named
Outstanding Citizen of the Year
while Arthur Doose, Jr. of
Gouldbusk was named Out-
standing Rural Citizen of the
Year. Both men were cited for
their service to the community.
Ross Jones, last year’s top
citizen, made the presentation
to Mr. Stevens, while J. T.
Myers, head of the Chamber's
Agriculture Committee, pre-
sented the award to Mr. Doose.
Joe Stevens is a grandson of
early day pioneer J. E. Stevens,
who established the J^. E-
Stevens firm here, and he has
served as administrator for the
family-owned enterprise. Aside
from the family businesses, he
is a rancher and runs cattle,
sheep and goats. >
Currently Mr. Stevens is a
member of the board of Central
Colorado River Authority. He
is also on the Holiday Hill board
and holds, a lifetime appoint-
ment to the five-member
Insurance Board for Funeral
Directors of the State of Texas.
He is a Trustee and member
of the Administrative Board of
the First United Methodist,
Church. He served as chairman
of the building committee when
the new church budding was
erected some years back.
Mr. Stevens has been active
in the Chamber of Commerce
and Kiwanis Club for many
years and is a former member
of the Coleman City Council. He
served a term as president of
the Texas Hardware Dealer's
Association. He was married to
the late Mary Jane Caton,
mother of Mrs. Mary Fran
Johnson. Grandchildren include
Judy, Joseph, Jane and Joan
Johnson. He married Melba
Read Draper in 1963, widow of
Harmon L. Draper, Fred
Harvey executive of Grand
Canyon, Arizona.
In recognizing Mr. Doose,
Myers covered a long term of
service, including activity with
the ASCS in Llano County prior
to moving to Coleman County
in 1952. The south county
rancher runs Hereford cross-
bred cattle and Rambouillet
sheep.
He has been most active in
the support of the youth
programs, and he and Mrs.
Doose were named Outstand-
ing 4-H Adult Leaders in
District 7 in 1970. He has
served as leader and worked
with the livestock judging
teams for a number of years.
Mr. Doose is a member of the
Coleman County Program
Building Committee and is
Cookie Sole Begins Thursday “
The Annual Girl Scout
Cookie Sale gets underway in
Coleman Thursday at 4:00 p.m.
and will continue through
Saturday, February 8. Four
kinds of cookies will be sold:
Assorted oxford creme, Scott-
tea sugar cookie, mint, and
peanut butter Savannahs. Pac-
kages of the first three kinds
contain 12 ounces; the Savan-
nah packages contain 10
ounces. All will sell for $1.00 a
package.
Funds from the cookie sale
benefit the Girl Scout program
in a number of ways. Part of the
profits are kept by individual
troops to finance their own
projects which encompass a
wide range of activities. This
helps girls learn money man
igement by budgeting their
troop funds.
Part of the profits which go
to the Council provide partial
camperships for individual girls
attending Camp Wood Lake. To
enable more girls to attend
camp, requirements for camp-
erships have been lowered this
year. A $5.00 campership will
be awarded to each girl who
sells 36 packages, and a $10.00
campership for each girl who
sells 72 packages and attends a
12-day session. Another part is
set aside for financial assistance
to individual girls or troops
attending national or interna-
tional Girl Scout events. Last
year assistance was given to a
troop visiting the Girl Scout
National Center at Rockwood,
near Washington, D. C. The
rest of the profits go to the
development and maintenance
of Camp Wood Lake, the Heart
of Texas Girl Scout Council's
resident camp at Lake Brown-
wood.
The camp now has four units:
Pathfinder for Brownies, where
the girls live in cabins;
Trailblazer and Explorer for
Juniors, Cadettes and Seniors,
where the girls live in tents;
and Mariner, for the older girls
interested in canoeing and
sailing, which is a large building
on the shore of the lake. In
addition, the camp has an airy,
modern dining hall, an infir-
mary, an activities building,
and a large swimming pool.
Camp Wood Lake will be in
operation for six weeks this
summer and girls from the first
grade through twelfth will be
eligible to attend.
Camping is an important part
of the Girl Scout program the
year around. Troop camp
buildings are available to
troops throughout the year at
Camp Wood Lake, and a
resident caretaker is employed
to care for the camp and help
process the troops in and out.
The Board of Directors of the
Heart of Texas Girl Scout
Council feels that camping
opportunities should be made
available to all girls, and makes
every effort to provide facilities
for the best camping program
possible. The Annual Girl Scout
Cookie Sale provides them with
the means for doing this.
That’s Progress
In 1953, some 8.9 million
farm workers fed a total U S
population of 159 million. As
of 1974, only 4.4 million farm
workers were feeding the na-
tion's 210 million residents.
There will be a March of
Dimes Auction at Echo Com
munity Center Saturday, Feb
ruary 1, with the , program
scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and the
quction for 7:30. Music will be
furnished by the Hazlewood
Band of Brownwood and the
Burkett Playboys.
The chairman, Cleo Eding
ton, and program committee
members, Carl Bludworth and
Nig Clark, invite anyone who
has items to donate to the
auction to call one of them.
Also, leaders invite everyone
interested to come out, have a
good time and help the MOD.
Auctioneers will be Roy Gard
,ner and George Epperson.
Mrs. Carl Pearson will assist
with the music.
S. Hoffpauir
Is Arizona
Junior Miss
JOE C. STEVENS
..Outstanding Citizen
ARTHUR DOOSE, JR.
..Outstanding Rural Citizen
with the "Out of this World"
theme used on the printed
programs. Decorations sup-
plied a technological atmos-
phere with bouquets of flowers
adorned with miniature rockets
and cut-out murals of astro-
nauts, and command modules
dangling from the ceiling.
The recently jjrgahized Jay-
cee-ettes of Coleman provided
the decorations for the ban
quet.
biggest asset.
Jamison also pointed out that
"no man is an island in Coleman
County...anythingthat happens
to anyone, affects everyone in
the county”. He also pointed
out that many people are
returning to Coleman to live as
they want to rear their family
in this environment.
Mrs. Chet Holcombe provid
ed piano music, mostly from the
pre-space age period.
Chamber president T. E.
Jamison Jr. spoke to the 350
people in attendance, stressing
the importance of the people of
Coleman County. He said that
the county has many assets,
such as agriculture add mine-
rals, but that the people are the
Solar Heat Promising
By making use of a solar-
heated bam similar to a green-
house. North Carolina State
University researchers cut fuel
requirements for curing to
.bacco by 15 percent.
Assuring Wholesome Food
In a single year, federal and
state inspectors certified as
wholesome about 120 billion
pounds of meat and poultry-
products from some 5,800
plants.
Former Coleman High stu-
dent, Susan Hoffpauir, was
crowned Arizona j unior Miss in
a pageant at Phoenix, Arizona
Saturday night, winning a
$1,000 scholarship..She will
represent Arizona in the
National Junior Miss Pageant
to be held in Mobile, Alabama
in May.
Susan also won a $300
scholarship during the week-
long pageant for her picture-
essay entry. This event is
sponsored by Eastman Kodak.
The winning entry consisted of
snapshots taken by Susan of
her younger sister Stephanie,
and an essay entitled “A Little
Girl’s Dream".
Now a senior in high school in
Phoenix, she is the grand-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Cecil
Andis of Coleman. Her parents
are Mrs. Robert Pawlik, 4214
W. Palo Verde, Phoenix, and
Steve Hoffpauir of ‘Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
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HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, north of
the Corky Chapman home, is pictured
above. Workmen were installing air
conditioning ducts when the picture was
token yesterday. This house has three
bedrooms, bath and half, kitchen, living
room-dining room area and garage, (staff
photo)
Fair was held Saturday, Janu-
ary 11, in Novice High School
Homemaking Cottage. Judges
were Mrs. Jake Joyce, Winters
High School Homemaking
teacher, and Mrs. Pat Murphy,
senior homemaking student at
Abilene Christian College. Fair
results are listed below.
FOODS
Cookies: first place, Melinda
Coats. Brownies: first place,
Melinda Coats. Cakes: first
place, Patti McMillan; second
place, Margie Mendoza; third
place, Melinda Coats.
Salads: first place, Eula Mae
Plummer. Breads: Cornbread,
first place, Melinda Coats.
Cranberry nut bread: first
place, Jerri Ann Saunders.
CLOTHING
Pants: first place, Melinda
Coats; Shirt: second place, Eula
Mae Plummer.
CRAFTS
Embrodiery: Shirt, first
place, Jerri Ann Saunders.
Cup Towels, first place, Sue
Sprinkles.
chairman of the Range and
Conservation sub-committee. A
number of demonstrations have
been conducted on his place. He
has been active in the preda-
tory control program which is
in full swing in the county at
this time.
For years he served as local
chairman in the former United
Fund drives, now the Commun-
ity Chest.
Myers paid Arthur Doose the
biggest compliment when he
cited the feeling of other south
county residents that "he is all
things that a good neighbor
should be."
Astronaut speaker
Dr. Story Musgrave, NASA
Astronaut, was speaker for the
annual county banquet. He told
of medical and physiological
experiments undertaken in
Skylab to determine how well
man adapts in weightlessness.
He also showed slides taken
from'outer space of the sun,
which he called, “our only and
ultimate source of energy here
on earth". He stated, “we’re
going to have to harness the
sun’s energy, directly, rather
than indirectly as we have
been”.
Decorations at the National
Guard Armory were in keeping
Brownwood firm will
Erect 12 houses here
A Brownwood firm is in
progress of building 12 houses
here, with one complete, one
under construction and founda-
tions down on two others.
Don Johnson Realtor of
Brownwood is handling the
houses, pre-assembled type
brick homes.
The completed house is on
Roselawn Street and has been
purchased by Gary Mills. The
firm has purchased four lots on
West Elm Street, and two
foundations are being complet
ed there. Seven lots have been
acquired just north of the
Corky Chapman home, be
tween the city limits ana
airport, and one house is under
construction there at this time:
Raymond Carter of the
Brownwood firm states that
they plan to sell the houses
through the Farmers Home
Administration plan; however,
the houses could be sold to
anyone and financed otherwise.
There are a number of plans
for the houses and the firm is
planning an advertising cam-
paign to stress the purchase
arrangements.
Discovery Well Near Valera
Coleman County has added a
Jennings Sand discovery in the
area 3 V* miles southwest of
Valera.
The strike is Gulf States
Energy (Corp. of Dallas No. 1-2
Royal, spotting 2,310 feet from
the south and 1,980 feet from
the west lines of Section 62,
Block 1, GH&H Survey.
Daily potential was 54
barrels of 39 gravity oil.
Completion was on a 16-64 inch
choke with 188 pounds tubing
pressure.
Production is from perfora-
tions at 2,890-98 feet, treated
with 250 gallons of acid. The
pay was fractured with 10,000
gallons of water and 10,000
pounds of sand.
Operator set the 2 7/8-inch
casing at 2,963 feet.
The hole was drilled to a total
depth of 3,775 feet in the
Ellenburger and plugged back
to 3,050 feet.'
Gas-oil ratio was 2,733-1.
The well is one-half mile
north of the Snave (Overall)
Field. It is 2350 feet southeast
of No. H Royal, plugged ,tt
3,784 feet.
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