The Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 3, 1974 Page: 1 of 16
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Volume 94, No. 15, 8 pages '
Coleman, Tex., Sept. 3, 1974 f
10(1 per copy, plus 1£ sales tax . <
Cfje Coleman Bemocrat-^otce
Jennifer On
Television
Jennifer Burkett, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Burkett,
appeared on television yester-
day morning in the Jerry Lewis
telethon for muscular dystro-
phy.
The filrrt entitled “Jennifer,
Remember When", was pro-
duced in the South Plains Mall,
Lubbock and another was shot
in the Lubbock Park with her
mother, the former Gail Boldt.
The film appeared at 10:20 a.m.
yesterday morning over Chan
nel 12.
Jennifer is the granddaugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Weldon
Boldt and Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Burkett, all of Cole
man.
Football Page
Starts Thurs.
In Chronicle
The Bluecat booster football
page will start Thursday irt’the
Chronicle, just ahead of the
season opener Friday night at
Sonora.
Page sponsors are being
solicited at this time by the
newspaper advertising staff.
Those interested in being
included in the page, firms,
individuals or organizations,
are invited to contact the
newspaper by noon Wednes
day.
Jamie Hemphill Reigns as Sweetheart
West Texas Fair
To Open Saturday
IF you’re in Abilene Satur
day, Sept. 7, you'll hear the
West Texas Fair coming'’to
town. It'll sound like marching
hands and clattering hoofbeats.
If you look around downtown
Abilene that morning, you’ll see
cowboys and pretty girls and
twirling batons and floats -all a
sign that it’s Fun Fair '74 time
for sure.
Junior high school and high
school bands, all competing to
be outstanding band in their
, classification, will march with
bands from Abilene Christian
College, Hardin-Simmons Uni-
versity and Cisco Jr. College.
CJC’s Wrangler Belles will also
be in the parade.
At the end of the parade,
bands will perform in ;a mass
concert at thV Civic Center,
directed by Dr. Raymond T.
‘Bynum, fbrmef band director at
Abilene High School and
McMurry College and father of
high school bands as we know
them now.
Riding clubs from the area
will participate in the parade,
but the prettiest sight on
horseback will be the Queen
and Princess elected at last
year's West Texas Fair Rodeo
to reign over the Rodeo to be
Sept. 12 through 14.
All 24 contestants for the
1975 West Texas Fair Sweet1
heart and reigning Sweetheart,
Jamie Hemphill of Coleman,
will be in the parade, waving at
spectators" -along the parade
route through downtown Abi-
lene. incjuding Nancy, Pittard of
Mozetle.
Other participants are Abi-
lene Jaycees^atfd Elmwood
West Lions Club.
Parade will begin at Abilene
Civic Center. Marchers will go
south on Pine Street, turn west
on North 1st, then head north
on Cypress Street back to the
Civic Center where the mass
concert will be.
Jarfiie Hemphill will reign
over the 1974 fqir and on the
night of September 11 will
crown the sweetheart for the
1975 fair.
Big School Move
In Two Months
Annexation Hearing Is
On Thursday Agenda
College List ,
Series Starts
The Coleman newspaper “Off
To College" feature is starting
with this issue, listing students
who are returning to college
and those going for the Hirst
time.
The first listing will be found
elsewhere in this issue, and
other listings will follow in
subsequent editions as long as
information is available. »
Students, parents or-other
members of the family are
invited to contact the news
paper with information about
college students.
When the Coleman City zoning change in Phillips a 100 per cent grant with no
Council meets Thursday after- Addition No 1, Block No. 3, Lot funds required by the city..)
noon at 5:30 p.m., the first 1.21 acres out of the northeast Consider passage of Ordi-
agenda item under new busi corner. Request is being made nance No. 746 on first reading
ness will be the public hearing by Woodrow Mantley for the which would prohibit the
on eight tracts of land to be purpose of re-zoning from consumption of all alcoholic
considered for annexation, Or- Residential to Commercial to beverages on city streets and
allow the construction of a
nightclub. Ordinance No. 744
will be presented on first
reading pending favorable ac-
tion by the Council.
Consider passage of Ordi-
dinance No. 743 will be
presented for first reading
upon favorable consideration
by the Council.
Full description of the eight
tracts under consideration was
published recently in the
Coleman newspaper. They in-
clude two areas owned by the street in Samuel Crook Survey
City, the old city lake and No. 736. (Street has been plated
property west of the. Oak but never opened.) Request is
Drive-in, as well as the City being made by Guy McDaniel.
Cemetery. Also included ire .Pass Resolution No. 74-14
tracts to the northeast, to the authorizing the city to partici
southeast and adjacent to the pate with the West Central
old city lake. Texas Council pf Governments
Other items under new in securing criminal investiga
business include the following, tion equipment to be used by
Public Hearing on a proposed the Police Department. (This is
thoroughfares within the limits
of the City of Coleman.
Under old business will be a
progress report concerning
developments on the problem'
of saturation of the Lake
nance No. 745 on first reading Coleman dam. City Manager
which would close a dedicated Roy McCorkle will make his
usual report on significant
actions in progress.
JAMIE HEMPHILL
1974 Fair Sweetheart
4-H Group
To Fellowship
At Merkel
A Coleman County 4 H, group
was at Merkel August 24th to
attend a District 7 Fellowship.,
held in the Taylor Electric
Cooperative building there,
Joel Wilson of West Texas
Utilities provided the enter-
tainment for the event and the
Taylor County' 4 H served
refreshments. Over 100 4 H'ers
from the district were present.
From Coleman County were
Alan Watson, Charlie Hemphill,
Randy Burdick, Ross Burdick,
Rusty Ryan, Jim Hargett, Gary
Strickland, Max Row, Rocky
Rutherford, Derry Rankin,
Terry Rankin, Dena Ruther-
ford, Janet Wilkinson, Rene
Johnson, Tammy Rabon and
Leslie Barr.
Adults, accompanying the
group were Mr. and Mrs.
Hilary Rutherford, Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Burdick, Mrs.
Richard Johnson and Mrs.
James Barr.
At this point it appears that
the .‘‘big school move” in
Coleman will take place by
November 1, or before. That is
the thinking of Supt. C. E.
Casselberry.
The move will see high school
students go to the new high
school plant in South Coleman;
junior high students, including
„ the, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades,
- will move to the old high school
huffing; the 3rd, 4th and 5th
gradhrs will move to the junior
high school building and the
kindergarten, 1st and 2nd
graders will be at the West
Ward building.
The big transformer has
arrived and has been hooked up
gt the new high school building,
however, some of the air
handlers are not here as yet but
are expected soon. Too, other
work is now progressing that
was held up until electricity
was available, Supt. Cassel-
berry explains. *
There may be other hitches
develop but it appears now that
the new high school building
will be ready in time for the
move by late October. Some
time will be needed for a full
checkout of all systems prior to
the move.
How much time will be
needed for moving students has
hot been'announced, but it is
presumed that the students will
finish at the existing buildings
on a Friday afternoon-and
report to the new buildings the
following Monday morning.
With all in readiness for the
move, "it should be a smooth
transition for the students.
More details will be announ
ced in the weeks to follow
concerning the moving date.
County Fair Women's
Division Plans Made
The Coordinating Committee
of the upcoming Coleman
County Country Fair met
Friday morning in the meeting
room at Coleman Chamber of
Commerce. Those at the meet
ing were representing Coleman
County Home Demonstration
Club Women, who are serving
as the Coordinating Committee.
Women present for this first
session were Mrs. Ellis Martin,
chairman, Mrs. Maynard Gain-
es, Mrs. Raymond McElrath,
Mrs. Charlie Rae, Mrs. Dee
Williams, Raynese MeCravey,
and Bessie Parker, County
Extension Agent, (Home Econ
omics).
The group- planned ten
divisions for the Fair exhibits,
including Antiques and Collec
tor’s Items, Art, Ceramics, 4-H,
China Painting. Flower1 Ar
rangements, Home Canning
(fruits, vegetables, pickles and
relishes, jams, jellies and
preserves), Hobbies, Knitting
and Crochet and Needlework
(embroidery, needlepoint,
quilts, etc.).
Three contests were planned,
^including "Grandparents'
Brag", "Bubblegum’1, and
"Freckles". Finally, another
activity "PulTlic Quilting", was
Jdded to those already on the •
agenda.
More information concerning
the above listed plans and any
further developments for the
Division will be released later.
BIG QUESTION
The future is a certainty—the
only problem is what is it going
to bring with it.
DODGENS VISIT HERE'
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Dodgen
and Lynn of Salinas, California,
have returned to their home
after visiting his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dodgen,
other relatives and friends.
County Fair Parade... in 1930
Coleman County has had a lot
f fairs and parades, as
videnced by the two pictures
ere, taken in 1930, and handed
o the newspaper editor by
'om Kingsbery of Santa Anna,
'he pictures came from the
ecords of his late father,
toward Kingsbery, who served
s president of the Coleman
)ounty Fair Association in
930.
The pictures bear the stamp
,n the back of Martin Studio of
loleman. The parade picture
vas taken from the top of the
then new Coleman Hotel. The
parade route was normal, up to
the courthouse and then back
down Commercial, except there
was a right turn at the old Owl
Drug corner, as the then new
1928 be France fire truck was
making the turn. Many riding
groups and walking groups are
shown in the picture, as is most
of the downtown section in
1930. Center street parking
was different then.
The Dixie Theater sign at the
Owl Drug corner was advertis-
ing Matt Moore in "Call of the
West". Other firm names down
the west side of Commercial
include F. W. W'oolworth,
Sturges and Gibbs, Gray
Mercantile, Grissom’s, Ameri
can Cafe, Mayes Drug, Bowen
Drug, Coulson Drug and the
National Bank, now the First
Coleman National Bank. Other
names cannot be made out. The
o)d rock courthouse shows
clearly and the sign of the Hub
Dry Goods Store may be seen
on the east side of the street.
Nearest to t^e right is a sign for
beds and groceries. Upper
center is the then new Coleman
Office Building, now the Cole-
man Bank building.
In the upper left may be seen
the dome-topped First Metho-
dist Church building.
In the smaller picture to tne
right is the winning float
entered,by Valera School. Mr.
Kingsbery, in° center of the
standing group, is making
presentation of trophy. Others
in the picture are not identified,
but may be familiar to area
residents of that time.
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The Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 3, 1974, newspaper, September 3, 1974; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth752300/m1/1/?q=%22joe+dan+lemay%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Coleman Public Library.