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MOVING MOUNTAINS—One of the largest stocks of cotton seed ever gathered at the Swift & Company
Oil Mill here is piled into two large "mountains” of seed on the plant yards. Part of one of the large piles
is shown here, and its size can be judged from the standard bales of cotton in the foreground and the
buildings behind, that the piles* almost hide. The piles contain about 6,000 tons, or 12-million pounds of
the seed, Swift & Company personnel said. (Photo by Hugh Capps).
City Elections
Slated April (,
Curb In Voting
of-
Candidates for Coleman City
fices can file now for annual elec
tions on April 6, and must file be-'
fore a March 7 filing deadline, City
Secretary Milton Collins said to-
day.
Two city councilmen, from South
Ward and North Ward, and the
mayor are to be named in the an-
nual elections, that this year will
include a special vote on a center
curb on Commercial Avenue.
Voting for the councilmen will be
only in the south and north wards,
while the mayor’s race and the curb
election will be city-wide. Council-
men and Collins worked out tenta-
tive election judges for the ballot-
ing at a council meeting Monday
afternoon. V
In the north ward, Councilman A.
L. Hubbard affirmed again Monday
that he would not be a candidate
for a second term, while South
Ward Councilman Delma Johnson
has not announced his plans. Both
are serving first terms.
Mayor Wm. O. Leach, now in,his
second one-year term, had announc
Contract Let On
Trickham Road
On $69,938 Bid
8.171 Miles Will
Extend Road in
Brown County
Council Talks of Large
Extensions of City Limits
Sweeping extensions of the west
and south city limits of Coleman
are being studied by the city coun-
cil, after an action in a Monday
meeting gave tentative approval to
extending the limits to include A
200-yards strip along the south-
west; part of the city, and all the
way across its southern boundary.
The council held its second Jan-
uary meeting Monday afternoon,
after it was postponed from its
. regular last Thursday schedule.
In the meeting the council dis-
cussed at length a former proposal
that an area in the southwest part
of the city, where a building addi-
tion is planned, be taken into the
city limits. In the discussion, mem-
bers outlined a larger proposal that
any action enlarging the city be in-
creased to include other areas that
have been discussed previously.
Roughly, the council detailed plans
to take In an area two city blocks,
or 500 to 600 feet wide, starting in
the southwest part of town and
running south and east around
about one-third of the city. The ex-
tension, as discussed, would start
at West First Street on Fifth Ave-
nue, the present west city limit at
that point, and would take in a
band running south along Fifth
AVenue to the city limits on 15th
Street.
There it would turn east and run
along the south city limits to a
junction with an extension of Gua-
dalupe Street, the east city limits.
The south side strip would in-
clude, as outlined, a drive-in theatre
and several oil and drilling com-
pany installations.
In the southwest part of the city,
the starting point of the discus-
sion, -a number of new residences
are being planned by Ancil Forbess
of Coleman, just west of Fifth Ave-
nue and south of the present Tay-
lor Addition.
Council T. R. Knowles argued
that taking in a part of the area
on the west side would give the
city “a lot of expensive drainage
and road building to do.”
City Manager Albert Hope was
instructed to complete field notes
on the proposed extension for coun-
cil study and action at a later
meeting.
The city park will get a needed
addition in a second council action
in the Monday meeting. Pope was
instructed to go ahead with the
addition ’ of two modern rest rooms
at the park, on the city’s north side
and with a 2-inch pipe line that
will allow Increased watering of
the park area.
March of Dimes
In Filial Week,
Fund at $1,300
The March of Dimes drive for
Coleman County stood at a healthy
$1,300 towards its $5,000 goal today
as drive directors opened an active
final week pointed towards its goal.
The drive got a $315 boost Satur-
day night from an Abilene televis-
ion program, and $65 from an ama-
teur show held here last weekend.
Big drive for this week will be the
annual Mother’s March in Coleman
Thursday night, headed by Mrs.
j. a. i. Miller, county March
Dimes chairman* and Coleman
ent-Teachers Associations.
Mrs.
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The mothers will start making a
oircuit of the town at 7 p. m„ visit-
ing residences for contributions to
the polio lund. They are askirig that
poroti lights be left burning at homes
with contributions.
Funds drive chairman C. L. New-
ton .believed today that the $5,0Q0
mark could be readied by thJtmon1-
th’s end, "We have our big alents
this week,” het pointed outj "and
most of our county wmimmltigs
are to be heard from Jet.”
The Coleman Bluecat cagers
dumped almost $100 into the March
of Dimes fund last Friday night
when they beat the Brady Bulldogs
84-39 here, with a number of fans
pledged to pay a cent into the polio
fund for each point the Bluecats
scored. The fund is still building
at the Board of Community Devel-
opment office today, where returns
are being made, and is not included
In Newton's $1,300 figure, but mem-
bers of the Epsilon Sigma Alpha
sorority here, who sponsored the
game donations, expect it to reach
$100.
The rest rooms will be placed in
the Replica Building at the park,
in additions that will conform to the
native stone architecture of the
building. The improvements were in-
cluded in a request by the park
board last summer and set up then
by the council.
The council approved transfer of
a lease on city-owned buildings at
the airport, occupied by the Jin-
right Manufacturing Co., from the
Coleman Garment Co., to the Jin-
right Company. A gross receipts
tax to be applied to the Coleman
A contract to complete the Santa
Anna-Trickham road and extend it
on across the line into Brown Coun.-
ty—a total of 8.171 miles of paving
—was let last 'week to J. W. Perry
of San Antonio, lowest of 13 bidders
ed earlier that he would ask re- ! on the job, according to Erie Mayo,
election.
Councilmen for the east and west
wards of the city, T. R. Knowles
and W. D. Atkins, respectively, were
elected to two-year terms last year
and have another year to serve.
The special vote this election will
be for a public decision on whether
or not to maintain a center curb on
Commercial Avenue, placed there
more than a year ago. The curb
forced a change in parking from
perpendicular to parallel, in the
center of the city's major thorough-
fare. A petition with some 600 sig-
natures was presented to the council
last fall with a request for a public
vote on whether the curbs should
remain in the street. At that time
the council set the vote on it for
tire regular election in April.
Whatever the issues, the city has
prospects of a not-very-heavy vote
in April on the basis of poll tax
payments that are lagging well be-
hind last election year figures to-
day, with only four more days left
to make payment. Qualified voters
in city elections must have paid
current poll taxes or be exempt.
Concho Baptist
•Coleman, resident engineer for the
State Highway Department.
Bid was let to the San Antonio
contractor for $69,938.58. Next two
low bidders were A. L. Bucy of
Brownwood with $71,063.38 and Hol-
land Page of Austin, $74,381.74,
Mayo added.
The new paving link, will give
residents in the southeast part of
the county an all-paved route into
Santa Anna and Coleman. It is a
part of FM Highway 1176.
The new contract will start about
nine miles southeast of Santa Anna,
where the present paving ends, and
run south and east through Trick-
ham and across the Coleman-Brown
County line about three-quarters of
a mile to a junction with FM High-
way 586, approximately 12 miles
southwest of Bangs.
The Brown County road, FM 586,
runs east across the-south part of
that county to join the Brownwood-
Brady highway.
The oontract includes a 210-feet
bridge on the east side of the Trick-
ham townsite, across Mukewatcr
Creek.
Work on the contract is expected
to start in a few weeks and to be
completed by mid-summer this year.
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City Attorney H. O. Woodward asked
to draft an ordinance on the tax
for later council action. The tax
would apply to sales made in Cole-
man by the gas company.
A project to enlarge drainage out-
lets on South Commercial Avenue,
at its junction with ftoselawn Drive,
was tabled indefinitely by the coun-
cil after discussion.
Brother To '53
Winning Lamb
Follows In '54
Over 100 County
Lambs Entered
At Fori Worth
At Burkett
domino party
Coleman County FFA and 4-H
club sheep will make up a large
part of the Fort Worth Stock Show
that opens there this weekend, when
more than ’ 100 fat lambs from the
county will be entered.
In the 1953 show, a simlliar num-
ber of lambs from the county dom-
inated the Fort Worth showing and
won a major share of some divis-
ions.
Most county lambs will go to the
show Wednesday and Thursday.
Lambs judging will be Saturday,
ibs, from the county will Inplude
_ the Santa Anna FFA 22
the county 4-H clubs, 25 Iran
FFA, 18 from Novice
five from Talpa FFA.
To Have Revival Third Race For
Commissioner
January 28-31 with Evangelist Paul
Smith of Gouldbusk doing the
preaching.
All day service with a covered
dish luncheon will be held at the
church on Sunday. Evening services
will be at 7:30 p. m.
Kenneth Lee, pastor of the chur-
ch, invites everyone to wttend.
Initial Flight Shaping
Develops Today
High School Band
To Fori Worth
To sheepmen, a winning lamb and
exhibitor ,at. last . week’s. Coleman
County Livestock Show had a sur-
prising familarity, with a combi-
nation that’ Showmen w‘ere agree-
ing was unusual.
James Allen of Santa Anna show-
ed his second champion medium
wool lamb in two years at the show,
the 1954 winner a full brother to
the 1953 winner in the same divi-
sion. The Southdown lambs came
from the registered herd of Don
Smith of Talpa, who was a top-
winning club showman in the coun-
ty event a few years back.
Breeding of the two top-winning
lambs is a ram that Smith imported
from Ontario, Canada, and a ewe
that came from a Waurika, Okla.,
herd.
The 1954 winning AUen-Smith
lamb has been entered by his owner
In the Houston livestock show early
in February. Last year Allen car-
ried his winner on to a champion-
ship at the San Antonio show and
reserve champion-sUp at Ft. Worth.
While the-ribbons from these
shows stay with the exhibitors,
breeder Smith keeps a proud and
growing record of their winnings.
Last year, for example, lambs, from
his Talpa herd won championships
at Santc. Anna, Coleman FFA, Cole-
man Livestock Show, Novice FFA
and. San Autonio. 'Reserve champ-
ionships came front Coleman FFA,
Novice and Fort Worth.
This year, promises to be even
better, the young breeder predicts;
With • January not yet tone, the
herd has three championships al-
ready with most of the show season
, &
A special feature of “Coleman
Day” at the Fort Worth Stock Show
Saturday will be a 30-minute con-
cert by the 48-piece Coleman High
School Band at the Fort Worth
eolliseum at 11 am., it is announced
today.
The band members will attend
the Stock Show during their visit
to Fort Worth. Band Director Byron
Gray will be in charge of the trip.
Poll Taxes Lag,
Only 2,1(4 Paid
To This Morning
Coleman County's prospects tor
Coleman County's prospects tor a
light 1954 election took more defi-
nite form this week, as county poll
tax payments reached only 2,184 at
mid-morning Tuesday, with less
than five days left before payment
deadline.
The figure today was about one-
half the number for 1952, the last
election year when payments were
spurred by a presidential campaign,
but almost up to the last election
year without a national contest.
This was in 1950? when only 2,204
poll tax payments were made in the
county.
Poll tax payments have taken a
spurt the past several days, tax col-
lector Bernice Johnson reported, but
still will do well to pass 2,500 by
deadline. The tax, which Is a charge
for 1953, Is $1.75 for each person
of voting age, up to 60 years ef age.
Persons above 60 are exempt from
the payment.
PRESBYTERIAN MEN TO
HAVE MEETING, SUPPER
Men of the First . „
Church will meet at the church on
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A steadily "developing Coleman
County 1954 campaign, that levelled
off last week after an initial surge,
today had races developed in three
of the four county commissioner
precincts.
In precinct four, being vacated by
Pete Sneed of Novice, Sl^ve Hale
of Glen Cove last week entered the
race against W. J. (Bill) Beaver,
also of Glen Cove, to make that a
two-way race. Precinct four in-
cludes the west part of the county,
from Talpa northward.
John Wilson, Coleman, today an-
nounced for commissioner, precinct
one, that includes Coleman and
Burkett. Kay Anderson, incumbent
commissioner, is the only announc-
ed candidate in that race. In pre-
cinct three, the south and south-
west part of the county, five candi-
dates are seeking the office being
vacated by Monroe Forehand, ^’ho
with Sneed, is not asking re-elect-
ion.
Only in precinct two, on the east
side, has no race developed today.
Incumbent commissioner Earl Hardy
has no announced opposition today.
County offices have maintained
a campaign stability for the past
two weeks. In only one county of-
fice, that of district clerk, has a
race developed, with three candi-
dates asking election. On a district
level, no races have developed al-
though state representative, A. J.
Bishop Jr., Of Winters and Cong. O.
C. Fisher have announced re-elec-
tion plans.
Passengers on an initial Trans-
Texas Airways flight from Coleman
to Fort Worth and Dallas on Fri-
day have a good chance of getting
in state papers and on television,
according to E. F. Smith Jr., man-
ager of the Coleman Board of Com-
munity Development.
Smith has been informed that
representatives of the Fort Worth
.Star-Telegram, of radio . station
WBAP. Fort Worth, and WBAP-
TV will meet the Incoming flight at
Amon Carter Field at Fort Worth
Friday morning.
As preparations for the initial
flight were being worked out today,
Smith is organizing a group of Cole-
man businessmen to make the flight
and Mayor Wm. O. Leach urged city
and county people to make the first
trip.
"This Is an unusual opportunity
tc get favorable recognition for the
city, and to show' our appreciation
for the resumption of this important
service here,” Leach stressed. "We-
hope to have 15 or 16 Coleman pas-
sengers on the ^flight.’’
Reservations for Coleman pas-
sengers are being held at the BCD
office until late Wednesday after-
noon, Smith said, and persons wtsh-
iug to be,,au.the. inaugural flight
are asked to contact him by that
time. The flight will leave here at
7:20 am* Friday, and will be the
first stop on the new Trans-Texas
service here.
The Trans-Texas schedule, which
will operate regularly after Friday,
will leave here on the 7:20 schedule
to the east and make a return stop
here at 7:30 p.m. each day. The one
round trip daily gives Coleman
County people opportunity to make
a one-day trip to Fort Worth or
Dallas and spend the day there,
arriving back here on the early
evening run.
James Albright, Trans-Texas sales
representative, and W. W. Blanton,
district sales director for Trans-
Texas, both of Dallas, are .in Cole-
man this week perfecting arrange-
ments for the new service. The two
Will be on special programs here
this week, at the Klwanis Club to-
day at noon and at the Lions Club
luncheon-meeting Wednesday.
Work on the airline ticket office
and control tower office is being
completed at the Coleman airport
this week.
(Photo by Hugh Capps)
Fort Worth Rodeo Tickets
For Saturday At BCD
Fifty tickets to a matinee perfor-
mance of the Fort Worth Stock
Show Rodeo on Saturday afternoon
are still available at the office of
the Board of Community Develop-
ment here, announces E. F. Smith,
BCD manager.
The matinee performance will be
a feature of "Coleman Day” at the
Stock Show, and a number of tick-
ets were consigned here, Smith said.
They will be available only through
Wednesday, what unsold tickets will
be returned.
WYOMING RANCHER
VISITS HERE
John E. Rice, Polled Hereford
rancher from Sheridan, Wyo., was
a visitor here last week at the
Jim-Fay Gill Ranch. Rice is one
of the northwest’s largest Polled
breeders.
CAROLYN COKER
cowgirl sweetheart
Carolyn Coker To Represent City
As Fort Worth Cowgirl Sweetheart
Carolyn Coker, Coleman High
School sophomore, has been picked
as "Coleman Cowgirl Sweetheart”
to represent the city at "Coleman
Day” Saturday at the Fort Worth
Stock Show.
The pretty, blonde cowgirl is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Coker of Coleman, and a veteran
rider since she owned her first horse
at three years of age.
The past two years she has been
a familiar figure in the Coleman
Rodeo as a top competitor in the
women’s flag race event. Her rodeo
competition has included contests
away from here, in flag and barrel
races, Between times, she has added
to her riding experience by working
stock on the Coker ranch north of
Coleman.
At Fort Worth Saturday, the Cole-
man sweetheart will ride in a Stock
Show parade downtown in the mor-
ning, and will be introduced at a
ol the £
Stock
matinee performance
Show rodeo that afternoon.
A number of Coleman people plan
to attend the Saturday show and
rodeo event. •
'Listening in' on Radio
Pays off for County
A strategic bit of monitor-
ing—that’s a radio' term for
"listening in” on a party line—
has paid surprising dividends
recently for the county sheriff’s
flee, on their two-way radio
fystem.
Thearadio system that was en-
larged a year ago with, the ad-
dition of a master unit in the
sheriff’s office that enlarged its
range and permits Increased
monitoring, was installed to give
the county modern enforcement
methods.
Last week, though, It told the
sheriff’s force how they could-
get a prisoner they wanted back
from California at a saving of'
about $325 and located another
prisoner for whom they had
been searching for months.
wood police force were in Los
Angeles, Calif., to pick up a
prisoner.
Coleman County officers also
had a prisoner at Santa Barbara,
Calif., and Sheriff H. F. Fen-
ton, Jr., was making plans to
have him returned. He was Ho-
ward' Moore, Coleman, who es-
caped from county jail here
last June and had since been
picked Up in California and was*
being held for return here.
’ Fenton called the Brady sher-
iff toJ ask if he could bring
Moor.e on his return trip, and
the prisoner was brought back
last week, at a saving that the
sheriff estimated at $225 to the
•ounty. •
here
for several months on a forgery
charge. The county office over-
heard an exchange between
Abilene and Eastland officers
on the arrest of Connell, who
was wanted at Eastland. A
•’hold" order for him was pteeed
with Eastlanl Officers, for re-
turn here for trial when l?e is
through there. ■
The county radio equipment
includes i master receiving and
transmisstoruae* In the sheriffs
office and- two mobile sets in
officers cart. 411 the sets -‘will
transmit 09 One frequency, that
Is used by most area county and
City officers,, and receive on
that frequency at
quency used by state
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