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CLIFTON, TEXAS ★ THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1974
TWO SECTIONS * PRICE TEN CENTS
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Luckenbach Heads Chamber Of Commerce
Elmer F. Luckenbach, admin-
istrator of the Clifton Lutheran
Sunset Home, has been chosen
presidentelect of the Clifton
Chamber of Commerce.
Picked as viec-presidcni-elect
was Gerald ~Sormrude, who
operates Sormrude's Thrif-Tee
Super Market in Clifjon. Charles
Haines, owner of Clifton Lum-
ber Co., will be sccrctary-trea-
surer.
The names of the three men
were submitted to the Cham-
ber's board of directors at a din-
ner meeting last week at the
Cooksey Place by a three-mem-
ber nominating committee. The
group included Past President
Hulen Aars-, Jim Jones,- and Al-
lan B. Davis.
The nominees will be present-
ed to Chamber members at the
annual membership banquet of
the Chamber Friday evening.
April 5, at the National Guard
Four In Council Race,
Five Run For Trustee
With just a few hours remain-
ing before filing deadline Wednes-
day, a fourth contender had en-
tered the Clifton City Council
competition and five candichites
had filed for the Clifton /Inde-
pendent Schobl District Board of
Trustees.
Joe White became the latest
Council candidate. Previously fil-
ing were Ernest Erickson, • A1
Herzog, and Frank P. Smith Jr.,
according to M. It. (Pat) White,
city secretary.
There will be three Council
scats open, Aldermen Doyle^
Crews, Bill Painter, and Pat Pat-
terson are not seeking re-elec-
tion to two-year terms.
Signing up for the Clifton Inde-
pendent School District Board of
Trustees were Harold H. Schulze,
Tom G. Parks, Werner Philipp,
Mrs. Donald A. Gloff, and Bobby
Joe Conrad, according' to Mrs.
C. R. Outlaw, tax ^assessor-col-
lector for the district.
The terms of Dr. W. F. Key,
chairman, and Jack'Hill are ex-
piring. At press time, neither had
filed for re-election. However, a
few hours still remain in which
they could do so.
The city and the school dis-
trict will hold their elections!
jointly Saturday, April 6.
Armory in Clifton. Attorney Bob
Murphy of Nacogdoches will
speak.
The outgoing president of the
Chamber is Robert B. Lame,
chairman of the board of Farm-
ers Slate Bank of Clifton. Other
present officers include T- F.
Crawford, vice-president, and-W.
E. (Pat) Patterson, secretary-
treasurer.
PRESIDENT - ELECT
President-elect Luckenbach was
born in Fredericksburg and was
graduated from Fredericksburg
High School. Ife attended Texas
Lutheran College for two years
before entering Trinity Lutheran
College. San Antonio, wTiich
awarded him a bachelor of
science degree in sociology.
After a year of graduate study
in social work at Denver (Colo.)
University, he completed require-
ments for a master's degree in
sociology at Trinity University.
Mr. Luckenbach was business
manager and treasurer of Texas
Lutheran College from 1951 to
195;). He was superintendent of
Trinity Lutheran Homes in Round
Rock from 1953 to 1957.
He was administrator of St.
John's Lutheran Home, Mars,
Pa., from 1957 to 1907. In 1967,
Mr. Luckenbach assumed his pre-
sent post as administrator of the
Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home.
Mr. Luckenbach is a licensed
nursing home administrator, lie
was among the first '4# persons
to -receive such a license in
Texas. -v
He is a Fellow in the Ameri-
can College of Nursing Home
Administrators. He is also secre-
tary - treasurer of the Texas
Chapter of the American College
of Nursing Home Administrators.
. Other memberships held by
Mr. Luckenbach include those in
(Sec LUCKENBACH Page 6-A)
Woman Bruised
In Car Accident
A Meridian woman received
bruises in a one-vehicle accident
Tuesday morning on Texas State
Highway 22, three-quarters of a
mile east of Laguna Park
Texas Dept, of Public Safety
Trooper Gerald Baker of Clifton
said that Mrs. Sheryll Robert-
son’s 1970 sedan collided with
the guard rail on the Whitney
Dam. Heavy damage was done to
the right front and right back
quarter panel of the car, he re-
ported.
There were no passenger? in
Mrs. Robertson's car. The driver
did not seek medical attention,
DPS Highway Patrolman Baker
stated. The car was driven away
under its own power.
Trooper Baker invcslgatcd the
accident.
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Humane Society Protest Cancels
Predator Control Training Plans
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NEW LEADERS —Clifton Chamber of Elmer Luckenbach, president, and Gerald
Commerce directors have approved a Sormrude, vice-president. The three will
nominating committee’s selections of assume their duties at the' Chamber’s
Charles Raines as secretary-treasurer; . annual membership banquet April 5.
New Group Will Aid Retarded
A restraining order issued by
a Washington D. C., court against
the State of Texas has caused
cancellation of a predator con-
trol training program, Bosque
County Extension Agent Robert
Itcich has announced.
The order was obtained by the
American Humane Society, he
said. Under its provisions, meet-
ings and training sessions on the
use of Ihc M-44 sodium cyanide
spHBg-loadcd ejector to control
coyotes are banned, he explained.
County Agent Reich had sche-
duled a training session for Bos-
que County ranchers and appli-
cators for' Monday afternoon,
March 11, in the County Court-
house in Meridian. Upon receiv-
ing news of the court’s action,
the session was cancelled. Coun-
ty Agent Reich said that the
session would not been rcschc-
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First Baptist Church To Honor
CHS Seniors At Banquet Friday
v The First Baptist Church of
Clifton will honor the senior class
of Clifton High School with a
banquet, Friday, March 8. The
banquet will be held in the Fel-
lowship Hall of the Church, starl-
ing at 7:30 p.m.
The theme will be centered
places and peoples around the.
world, Mrs. Carl Remington,
chairman of Church Hostess
Committee, will be in charge.
Dal Shealy, backfield coach at
Baylor University, will be the
speaker. Coach Shealy joined the
Baylor coaching staff in January,
1974.
He had compiled a 31-13 record
J
ashead coach at Carson-Ncw-
man College, Jefferson, Tenn.,
during a four year span. How-
ever, he is best known for a
game he did not win, the NAIA
Championship against East Tex-
as State in 1972.
On the week of the title game
he reproved five players, in-
cluding his leading ground gain-
er and leading scorer , from the
team for disciplinary reasons.
His team lost a thriller 21-18, but
won the plaudits of sport fans
around the nation for their ef-
fect.
Coach Shealy is not only a
(See BAPTIST Page 6-A)
doled unless the. present situa-
tion changes, probably through
legal action.
The Texas Department of Agri-
culture had received final ap-
proval from the Environmental
Protection Agency to establish an
experimental program in 44
counties, using the M-44 device
to curtail livestock losses.
Wildlife specialists with the
Texas Agricultural Extension Ser-
vice were lo have given the ini-
tial training. A representative
• from the State Department of
Agriculture was to have explain-
ed the regulatory aspects of the
program and required reports,
and to have issued training
certificates.
Under the program, only those
farmers and ranchers who had
participated in the training meet-
ing were to have been certified
lo purchase the M-44 and cap-
sules to use in the pilot program.
Each participant was to have
been issued a certificate by the
Texas Department of Agricul-
ture at the conclusion of the
meeting, County Agent Reich
stated.
The 44-county program was be-
ing directed by the Texas De-
partment of Agriculture, in co-
operation with the Environmen-
tal Protection Agency, the Tcx-
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as Agricultural Extension Ser-
vice, and the Texas Agricultural
(Sec HUMANE Page 6-A)
Four Grass Fires
Past Two Weeks
Four grass fires have been
fought by the Clifton Volunteer
Fire Department within the last
two weeks.
Two of the grass fires look
place on Sunday, February 24,
one at the John Paulson pro-
perty at Ben Creek and the other
on the railroad .track at Valley
Mills.
On Tuesday, February 26, there
was a grass fire on the Warren
land on North Avc. F.
A grass fire at the Pete Olson
place brought out the firefighters,
on Friday, March 1.
A slate of officers for The
Bosque County Association for
Retarded Citizens has been
chosen by a nominating commit-
tee of Ihg new organization.
Selected were the Rev. Cleon
Flanagan, pastor, First United
Methodist Church Clifton, presi-
dent; Mrs. J. T. Browder, co-
ordinator. Bosque County De-
velopment enter, first vice-presi-
dent and program chairman;
Harold Keltler, engineering as-
sistant, Community Public Serv-
ice Co., second vice-president
and membership chairman; Osr
car Chapman, resource teacher,
Cliftpn Independent School Dis
Seniors' Sale
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The Clifton High School senior
class will sponsor a rummage
sale from 8:30 ' a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, March 9. The sale will
take place in front of the “Little
Alamo’’ on Ihc Clifton Fair-
grounds. Proceeds will go to the
senior class.
I rid, secretary, and Mrs. Benny
Powers, teacher of special edu-
cation, Valley Mills Public
Schools, treasurer.
Executive board members sug-
gested by the nominating com-
mittee included Bosque County
Judge Charles K. Word Jr.,
Meridian;- Wendell Bearden, vice-
president, Farmers State Bank of
Clifton; Ernest Cheyne,. owner,
Cheyne’s Texaco and Grocery
Laguna Park; Tom Hcartsill,
Bosque County Superintendent of
Schools, Meridian, and Richard
Liardon, principal, Clifton Ele-
mentary School.
The nominating committee met
at. Schmidt’s Downtown Restau-
rant in Clifton to pick prospec-
tive leaders of the organization
and to make other plans for it.
The non-profit organization in-
vites interested parents and rela-
tives of Bosque County retarded
citizens and the public to at-
tend the group’s next meeting,' at
7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28,
in the Clifton High School cafe-
teria.
Serving on the nominating com-
mittee were Supt. of Schools
Hcartsill; Mr, Cheyne; Bemiy
Powers, principal, Valley Mills
Elementary School; Principal
Lairdon, and Mrs. Browder,
chairman. The group proposed
that the organization meet the
last Thursday of each month at
7:30 p.m. in the CHS cafeteria.
The Mcxia Slatc.-Sch(fo| Out-
reach Department helped spurn !
sor formation of the group.
Among the organization's ob-
jectives are lo promote the gen-
eral welfare of the mentally re-,
larded, fystering the develop-
ment of programs in their be-
half, and encouraging Research -
related to mental "retardation.
" The group also plans to advise
and aid parents in solving prob-
lems and coordinating their ef-
forts and activities, and to de-
velop a better understanding of
the problems of mental retarda-
tion by the public".
In addition, the organization ex- .
pacts to cooperate with all pub-
(See GROUP Page 6-A)
County Retirement Delayed Month
CLIFTON'S EIGHTH GRADE CUBETTES
—Pictured above arc winners of the rc-
centiJunior High Tournament at Clifton.
The girls compiled a season record of 17
wins and 6 losses. They went to three
tournaments and brought home trophies
from each one. They also tied for second
place in District "22 AA. i'Toin left, top
row, Sherie Herzog, Monica'Phillips, Joan
Pierson, Sherry Conrad, Hazel Bronstad,
Linda Poston, Barbara Anz, Debbie Mc-
Dowell, manager;, kneeling. Bottom row,
left to right: Terri Smith, Cynthia
Stringer, Sherry Finstad, Julie Krueger!
Lisa Abercrombie, *Sh6ri Rachuig, Julie
Curlce.
Retirement benefits for Bosque
County employees, which were lo
have become effective retroactive
to February 1, took effect in-
stead on March 1.
County Judge Charles K. Word
Jr. told the Cbmmissioners' Court
Thursday morning at the County
Courthouse in Meridian that
Texas County and District. Retire-
ment System officials in Austin
advised him that March 1 would
be the earliest possible date on
which Bosque County could enter
the system.
The County Commissioners
voted Monday, February 11. to
join the plan. The county is
matching a four percent deduc-
tion from salaries and wages of
eligible county employees.
The program will cost the
county about $9,17.4.72 annually,
Judge Word estimated.
Members of the Commissioners’
Court had conferred with com-
missioners from other counties on
the retirement proposal while at-
tending the 16th annual County
Judges' and Commissioners’ Con-
ference last month at Texas A&M
University, College Station.
The, Bosque County Commis-
sioners agreed that they could
increase the percentage rate for
payroll deductions for pensions
inter if they considered it wise.
‘Action on the retirement idea
Council Meeting
The Clifton City Council will
meet at 7 p.m. Friday, March 15.
at City Hall. This meeting will
take the place of the one which
normally would have been held
uu-.L Tuesday evening.
had been postponed twice previ-
ously.
NEW J. P.
Denny Proffitt of Iredell was
appointed justice of the peace for
Precinct 2 by the Commissioners’
Court, effective March l. A peti-
tion bearing 77 signatures, ask-
ing that Mr. Proffitt be named,
was submitted to the County
Commissioners.
Justice of the Peace Proffitt
plans to complete a required 40-
hour training course, lie will
serve until the November general
election, in which he plans lo be
a candidate for election to a tour-
year term,
TOUR JAIL
Judge Word and the County
Commissioners recently toured
the. Lampasas County Jail. The
structure, which cost more than
$100,000, was completed in 1971.
Lampasas-County, with an esti-
mated population of 10,000., has
roughly the same prisoner load
as does Bosque County, Judge
.Word noted. He said that lie was
impressed with the Lampasas
. County jail. „
The structure contains facil-
ities for 17 prisoners and a resi-
dent jailer. Plans for the jail iv 1
.. the requirements of - the 5.''
Health Department, lie observed
Among .the jail’s, features are
centra! heat and air-c'ondiiioiiing
Should Bosque -Comity decide
* ill the future lo construct a new-
.tail. Judge Worn said that it
would have to weigh the costs to
the county if it were to act on its
own versus the expense if it were
to have a $12,000 criminal justice
study made and try to obtain a
grant, jhroiigh the IfeArl of Texas
Council oi GuvcuwieuL.
ROAD CLOSING "
Judge Word had little lo report
other, than . telephone conversa-
tions .concerning the proposed
closing of the street adjacent to
the county jail. Armour & Co.
officials arc supposedly preparing
an offer to submit on the pos- •
sible purchase of flic county jail
property in Meridian.
The ‘judge said jhal he under-
stood that the meal packing firm
was in the process of having ap-
praisals made.
Terry Gould, representing Ar-
mour,- told the Commissioner
last month that his tirm was in-
terested in the county joining his
organization in‘petitioning for the
closing of the street adjacent lo
tin' county jail.
Judge Word indicated that the
county was riot yet ready to up-
date its jail facilities, but that at
some future date it might be
necessary.
Mr, Gould said at that meeting
that Armour officials had ex-
pressed an interest only in the
street, in order to expand, but
promised to find out it they might
want to purchase the jail prop-
erty and at what price.
REPORT IS DUE
Denny Pace, a consultant who
offered the county technical as-
sistance under the HOTCOG crim-
inal justice program, has com-
pleted his study of county law
enforcement procedures and per-
sonnel. A report should be forth-
coming shortly, Judge Word ad-
vised the Commissioners.
First Annual Stagehand
Festival Here Saturday
Big band jazz will ring througlp
Bettis Auditorium on Saturday
as the CHS Stagbbiind. under the
direction of Donald Braun, will
play host In eleven other stage-
bands in the first annual Chiton
I tagoband ‘Festival.
ThtydetMitPSl will gel muter-
w v at 8 a,m with ('la ■ B coin
petition between Crawfurd and
Marl Junior High Class A com
petition will match Vidlcy Mills
and Whitney.
The largest classification will
see AA Mart, Fairfield. Teague
and McGregor vie] for first
place. / 1'
Diuuio the iioou hour the Me*
Leiian Community College Stage-
band will present a concert. The
band has appeared with several
well-known jazz greats, including
Clark Terry of the Tonight Show
orchestra.
The public is Invited to attend.,
there will be no charge for any
of the days activities. ^
The afternoon will begin with
Class AAAA competition between
Killeen, Temple, and Richfield
of Waco. |-
A short concert by the CHS
Stagehand will he presented af-
ter Ihc contest while the judges
liiaLc then dcciaioiib.
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