The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1978 Page: 1 of 8
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Success the first year, but then...
Cooperative Fund fades away
BY BILL JORDAN
The Clifton Cooperative
Fund, formed to eliminate du-
plicate charitable solicitationy
here, has apparently ceasd to
exist.
Encouraged by the Clifton
Ministerial Alliance, a group
of community leaders or-
ganized the effort and con-
ducted its first drive in 1976.
Participating agencies includ-
ed the Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, Mental Health-Mental
Retardatiom Red Cross and
Salvation Army.
Collected in the 1976 drive
was $3,000. Expenses amount-
ed to $89.
Funds were distributed as
follows:
Boy Scouts, $590.03; Girl
Scouts, $590.03; Mental Health-
Mental Retardation, $347.10;
Red Cross, $368.26, and Sal-
vation Army, $997.58.
These amounts were as
much, or more, than had been
Car stolen here
is found in Waco
A 1974 Plymouth stolen
here the night of Dec. 23 was
found by Waco police where it
had been abandoned, accoid-
ing to Police Chief Alvin
James.
Chief James said that the
office at the Schmidt-Meyer
Chevrolet Company used car
lot on North Highway 6 had
been broken into that night.
Taken were $20 in change and
six sets of car keys, including
one set for the car driven from
the lot.
The vehicle was recovered
by Waco police the morning of
Dec. 27. The incident is still
under investigation, Chief
James said.
'in another matter, two saw-
horses and tw'o ladders were
taken from the construction
site at the Goodall-Witcher
Hospital Foundation last June
14 have been recovered in
Valley Mills, Chief James re-
ported. This situation, too, is
still under investigation.
Car lot incident
Chief James said that an at-
tempt had been made to re-
move two tires and wheels
from a 1973 Chevrolet at the
Schmidt-Meyer Chevrolet Com-
pany used car lot on N. High-
way 6 at 4:55 p.m. Sunday.
Two adult males were ar-
rested in the 1,000 block of W.
Mary Street and charged with
attempted auto burglary. Po-
lice records listed their names
as William Alexander Smyth,
19, of Seabrook, and Albert
Edward Warren 111, 21, of
Houston.
A 14-year-old female who
was with them when they
were arrested was held until
her parents arrived from
Houston to return her home.
No charges were placed
against her.
Smyth and Warren, appear-
ing before Judge W. R. Lively,
were held in bonds of $5,000
each and transferred to Bos-
que County jail in Meridian.
Arrests made
Officers Charles Ford and
Robert Bailey responded to a
disturbance call at 9:30 p in.
Saturday in the 800 block of
N. Avenue,I.
Chief James said that an
adult male and an adult fe-
male had been reported to
have been fighting in a yard.
An adult male was arrested
on misdemeanor charges of
disorderly conduct and resist-
ing arrest. He appeared before
Judge W. R. Lively, was fined
and released.
Chief James said that the
officers reported that an adult
female had threatened to kill
them. The patrolmen said that
they had been held at bay for
a while. Chief James said that
a sawed-off shotgun, a .22-cali-
ber rifle and a knife were
found.
A woman listed on police
and court records as Betty
Plunkett, 811 N. Avenue I,
was arrested on a charge of
threatening the life of a peace
officer. Judge W. R. Lively set
bond of $5,000 before trans-
ferring the woman to the Mc-
Lennan County Sheriff's De-
partment.
An adult male was arrested
at 5:01 a.m. Dec. 26 on N.
Highway 6 and charged with
disorderly conduct and public
intoxication, both misdemean-
ors.
Car accidents „
Noel Shawn Sadler, 202 E.
Moore Street, was taken to the
Goodall - Witcher Hospital
Foundation by Clifton police
after his 1970 four-door sedan
hit a tree in the 200 block of
S. Avenue J at 12:40 a.m.
Thursday. The motorist was
treated and released. Officer
Charles Ford investigated the
accident.
A 1973 two-door sedan was
lightly damaged and a 1975
two-door sedan received medi-
um damage when they were in
contact in the parking lot of
Dairy Queen, N. Highway 6,
at 7 p.m. Friday. No one was
injured.
Junior high hoop tournament
to be in Clifton this weekend
BY JAKE WIMBERLY
Clifton’s annual Junior High
Basketball Tournament will be
held Jan. 5-7 in the Junior
High Gym. There will be eight
teams for both boys’ and girls’
divisions. Clifton will have
both A and B teams to give
more of the athletes a chance
to see action.
In the tournament will be
Hico, Valley Mills, Crawford/
China Spring, Hamilton, Whit-
ney and Clifton A and B. The
tournament should produce
some good games with finals
beginning at 7:45 Saturday
night.
Hamilton boys and China
Spring girls are the defending
champipns from last year.
Come out and support these
young boys and girls and give
them a boost. All proceeds
from 'this tournament go to
finance the junior high ath-
letic program.
Driver is injured
as pickup overturns
A Meridian man was injured
when his pickup ran off the
road and overturned during
the holiday period.
James Edward Remington of
Meridian, operator of a 1963
pickup, was driving along
State Highway 144 when the
vehicle left the road and over-
turned several times sevejt and
six-tenths miles north of
Meridian at 5:15 a.m. Dec. 25.
The man was taken to the
Meridian Hospital by its ambu-
lance. He was later transferred
to a Waco hospital.
Mr. Remington suffered
bruises, lacerations and a
broken shoulder blade, accord-
ing to Trooper Gerald Baker
of the Texas Department of
Public Safety Highway Patrol,
who investigated the accident.
Trooper Baker said that he
considered the pickup a total
loss.
In another highway accident
investigated by Trooper Baker,
a 1977 sedan operated by Wil-
liam Carl Hinkleman, Route
1, Clifton, skidded off the road
and crashed through a bridge
guardrail on Farm Market
Road 56, three-tenths of a mile
east of Valley Mills at the
Bosque River Bridge.
The vehicle was eastbound
at 12:10 a.m. Dec. 26, Trooper
Baker reported. Although the
driver sustained minor head
bruises, he did not seek medi-
cal treatment at the time of
the accident. His vehicle was a
total loss, according to Trooper
Baker.
Hastings named
county chairman
Atty. John A. Hastings Jr of
Meridian has been appointed
chairman of the Democratic
Party Bosque County Execu-
tive Committee. He succeeds
Mrs. Regina Hanson of MeHdi-
ah, who resigned because of
a heavy schedule.
James Grimland has been
appointed precinct chairman
for Granfills Gap by the
party’s county executive com-
mittee. Attorney Hastings re-
signed as precinct chairman
in Mustang, but no replace-
ment has been named.
collected in past years for
each organization.
Some difficulty was 'experi-
enced in obtaining volunteers
to solicit Clifton Cooperative
Fund directors were pressed
into service to seek contribu-
tions.
A few organizations were
unable to participate in the
drive because of by-laws. These
included the American Cancer
Society, the Heart Fund and
the Cystic Fibrosis Associa-
tion. , •
All five organizations that
did take part in the 1976
drive, however, wanted to con-
tinue in 1977. Fund officials
had intended to invite other
organizations to participate
with the hope of eliminating
repeated solicitations by va-
rious groups.
- Clifton Cooperative Fund
leaders agree to hold the sec-
ond annual drive in the spring
of 1977. The Clifton Record of
November 25, 1976, reported
that a nominating committee
had been appointed to present
a slate of officers at a meeting
planned for January, 1977.
“Those present felt that the
drive served a good purpose
and accomplished its goals,
they said, meriting continuing
another year," The Record re-
ported concerning the Novem-
ber, 1976, meeting.
President Cleon Flanagan
thanked all who contributed
time, effort and money to
make the drive's first, and
what was to be its only year, a
success, at the November,
1976, meeting.
What happened?
No drive was held by the
Clifton Cooperative Fund in
1977, however. New officers
were not elected.
President Flanagan attri-
buted this to the inability to
obtain the leadership neces-
sary to carry out a successful
drive. Many of those who en-
dorsed the concept were un-
able, due to personal respon-
sibilities, to give direction or
time to the Fund, he ex-
plained.
While President Flanagan
was able to adjust his time
schedule to serve as Fund
President while pastor of the
First United Methodist
Church, when he resigned his
pastorate to join Parks Insur-
ance Agency he found it ne-
cesary to decline to serve an-
other year as Fund president
because new responsibilities
upon entering a different field
restricted his time.
When it appeared likely that
there wuuld be no Clifton Co-
operative Fund drive in 1977,
President Flanagan talked
with leaders of participating
organizations so that they
could make other fund raising
arrangements.
What arc the chances of
resurrecting the Clifton Co-
operative Fund as a going or-
ganization? They are slim, ac-
cording to the man who head-
ed it.
If it were not possible to
carry on the year following a
succesful first year with the
necessary leadership, Presi-
dent Flanagan is not too op
timistic over starting from
scratch again. He, .for one,
would be unable to give the
effort the time he jjad contri-
buted to it previously.
The result of all that has
happened is that the Clifton
Cooperative Fund appears to
have died a quiet, unheralded
death after a successful first
and only year.
Calvin Ruefer
voting delegate
to Farm Bureau
Calvin Ruetcr of Clifton, a
director of the Texas Farm
Bureau, will be a voting dele-
gate to the annual convention
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation. He will be accom-
panied to the Jan. 8-12 gather-
ing at the Houston Civic Cen-
ter by Mrs. Rueter.
Some 15,000 persons, rep-
resenting 2.8' million farm
families in all states except
Alaska, and including 214,000
Teaxs families, are expected to
attend.
The Clifton Record
oHardest (circulation On iOost^ue dounfy —
VOLUME 83 — NUMBER 2
CLIFTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1978 Price 15*
What made headlines in 77?
News highlights, taken from
weekly issues of The Clifton
Record published last year, re-
flect news happenings in Bos-
que County and the Lake Whit-
ney Area during 1977.
Here's the news that made
headlines last year;
JANUARY
Dwight Wayne Bible was the
first baby born in 1977 at the
Goodall-Witclier Hospital Foun-
dation . . . Robert L Baldridge
Jr., foimer editor and pub-
lisher of The Clifton Record,
was named assistant publisher
of the newspaper following his
recent retirement as Clifton
postmaster . . . Schools dosed
and gas was curtailed follow-
ing a severe ice storm . . .
Robert B. Lane became presi-
dent of Clifton Bank, llulen C.
Aars, vice chairman, and Wen-
dell Bearden, senior vice presi-
dent ... Jamie Zander suc-
ceeded George Harris as chief
of the Clifton Volunteer Fire
Department . . . Mark Kreid of
the Clifton Cubs was named to
the 1976 Super Centex football
team . . . The Cliflon City
Council approved a gas rate in-
crease . ., Mike Reeves of Clif-
ton became a partner in Service
Drug and Fill Box Pharmacy,
joining Doyle Crews . . . More
lighting for school exteriors
was favored by the Clifton In-
dependent School District
Board of Trustees . . The Rev.
Tommy Needham succeeded
the Rev. Dan Kyle as pastor of
Grace Memorial Baptist Church
. . . Morris K. Jackson of
Shreveport, La„ son of Mr. and
Mrs. George E. Jackson of
Clifton, was listed in Who’s
Who in the South and South-
west.
FEBRUARY
Icy road conditions caused
schools to close . . . Clyde Sel-
jos was re-elected president of
the Central Texas Fair Asso-
ciation ... A Norwegian doll
exhibit drew area residents to
the Bosque Memorial Museum
A new judicial district, in-
cluding Bosque, Comanche and
Hamilton Counties, was formed
. . . Mayor Jim B. Smith an-
nounced that he would not seek
re-election . . . Clifton High
had an early morning fire . . .
Clifton mourned former Mayor
Oris E. Pierson : The eighth
grade Cubettes became district
basketball champions . , . The
first Bosque County History
Fair was hold at the Clifton
CiOic Center . . . The Clifton
eighth grade basketball team
took the 11A district eighth
grade title . . . George T.
Wages was named county
agent, succeeding Robert
Reich, who resigned to
enter Baylor University
Law School . . . Clifton
High School hosted an invita-
ional University Interscholastic
League Meet.
MARCH
James W. Smith, former co-
publisher and business man-
ager of The Clifton Record
and his son, W. Leon
Smith, editor and pub-
lisher of The Evant News,
and formerly of Clifton,
announced the purchase of The
Dublin Progress . . . Bob Lilly,
formerly of the Dallas Cow-
boys, spoke at the All-Sports
Banquet . . . Elmer F. Luckem-
bach, administrator of the Clif-
ton Lutheran Sunset Home,
succeeded James E. Boren as
president of the Clifton Cham-
ber of Commerce . . . Write-in
drives for former Mayor Char-
les M. Isenhower and Mayor
Jim B. Smith began ... The
First Baptist Church of Laguna
Park began a $36,000 expan-
sion project . . The Texas Lu-
theran College Concert Choir
appeared at Trinity Lutheran
Church . . . The eighth grade
Jfeuior Cabs took the top spot
in the junior relays . . . Mrs.
Sarah Whitley of Clifton Lu-
theran Sunset Home celebrated
her 100th birthday . . - Mrs.
P. A Dahl was chosen Nurse of
the Year by the Tri-County
League of Licensed Vocational'
Nurses ... Ticket sales for the
Clifton Chamber of Commerce
annual banquet hit a record
mark as those attending saw
Darrell Royal, Floyd Tillman
and The Light Crust Dough-
boys, and Walter B. Hailey Jr.
APRIL
Former Mayor Charles M.
Isenhower was elected mayor,
polling 319 write-in votes to
win a 67-vote victory over in-
DPS instant license system
experiment planned for Meridian
"A philosopher is one who
doubts." Montaigne
The Department of Public
Safety has launched an ex-
perimental across-the-counter
instant issuance system of Tex-
as drivers licenses in 28 se-
lective towns and communi-
ties, including Meridian.
Col. Wilson E. (Pat) Speir,
DPS director, said the expert
mental pilot project is being
conducted in widely separated
stations throughout the state.
“Special camera equipment
will be used on a comparison
basis. The equipment has the
capability of immediate pro-
duction of a photo driver li-
cense after the applicant has
established eligibility and qua-
lified for a license,” he added.
Speir added that the appli-
cant will then receive a vali-
dated photo driver's license be-
fore leaving the examining
station. He will not have to
wait 20 or 30 days for the li-
cense to be mailed nor will it
be necessary for the the li-
censee to drive on a temporary
paper permit until the license
is issued from the central DPS
facility in the Capital City.
“We are constantly trying
to upgrade the licensing sys-
tem and We hope that this ex-
periment will prove to be a
more convenient service-to the
public than the central issu-
ance system which we now
use,’’ Speir emphasized.
He added that a careful eval-
uation will be made between
the experimental instant
across-the-counter photo li-
censing system and the pre-
sent central issuance system in
order to upgrade the total
program in the future.
Speir said a second phase—
in 27 other Teaxs cities and
communities — will be initi-
ated in late spring. \
He added that the experi-
mental issuance policy will
continue for a two-year period,
•after which time the contract
will be considered for a state-
wide across the counter issu-
aneer program.
At the same time the ex-
perimental issuance program
is operational in limited sec-
tions of the state, the central
issuance program in Austin is
undergoing changes as well
which will improve the quality
of the portraits and the driver
license.
There are now more than
eight million licenses in Texas
with about three million new,
renewals or duplicate licenses
issued annually. Last year,
Speir said, the 55 towns to be
involved in the instant issu-
ance program combined to is-
sue 1.1 million driver licenses.
The program should provide
better, quicker service to the
driving public. Also, Speir
added, it will lower the mail-
ing costs of the department.
Renewal notices will con-
tinue to be mailed about a
month prior to expiration of
licenses, he noted.
cumbent Mayor Jim B. Smith,
also a write-in candidate . . .
Mrs Donald A. Gloff and Tom
Parks were re-elected to the
Clifton Independent School
District Board of rTustees, de-
feating Ron Dorsey and Char-
les Hill, a Clifton High School
senior'. . . Joseph Healy and
John Rose were elected with-
out opposition to the Clifton
Ciity Council . . . Judge An-
drew Campbell of Hamilton
was welcomed as judge of the
r.ew judicial district serving
Bosque, Comanche and Hamil-
ton Counties . . . Leslie B.
Vance of Clifton became dis-
trict attorney for the new dis-
trict . . . Chris M. Paulson was
elected mayor of Cranfills Gap
... The Cubettes'Von varsity,
junior varsity and eighth grade
divisions in the four-division
Cubette Relays . . . The eighth
grade Cubettes won their own
track meet ... Mrs. Nancy Mc-
Clure was reappointed county
audijtor .. Pledges were being
sought by the Central Texas
Fair Association for the pro-
posed exhibits building . .
Court action brought by CHS
senior Charles Hill against the
OSD and CHS Principal Joe
Bryan ended with District
Judge Andrew Campbell deny-
ing the Hill application for a
temporary restraining ordeir
and denying the request and
pleading of the CISD for a
declaratory judgment . . .
CHS students won honors ait
the till, district literary meet
at Baylor University, Waco
. . . Dr Troy C. Egged was re-
elected president ot the CISD
Board of Trustees , . . The
Clifton City Council tabled for
a month a Michigan man's pro-
posal to run Clifton's municipal
airport . . Roy Johnson, senior
at Crapfills Gap High School,
was named to the Texas 6-Man
All-State Football Team . . .
The Clifton Ministerial Alliance
urged the mayor and City Coun-
cil to implement the city’s dog
control ordinance . . . The
Clifton Junior High School
track team became district
11A champions .,. Plans were
being made for a reunion of
members of Clifton High
School's Class of 1947 . . .
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
8553 Ladies Auxiliary cele-
brated its 50lh anniversary.
(Continued next week)
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CHURCH SCENE — The Immanuel Lu-
theran Church Christmas tree was deco-
rated Christmas Eve during the Christ-
mas Eve Sunday School program. The
Chrismons were made by the Women’s
Guild of the church. The children ex-
plained the significance of each Chris-
mon. After each explanation, a Chris-
mon was hung on the tree until all or-
naments were in place. The Rev. R. Je-
rome Teichmiller, pastor, had prepared
a slide presentation featuring each
Chrismon as part of the program.
—Photo by Don R. \Yhite
Cost of local govt. - $410 per capita
(Special to the Record)
For residents of Bosque
County, is the cost of local
government higher or lower
than it is for people in other
areas?
What is their tax load, per
capita, for the operation of
their state and local govern-
ments?
As in every other section of
the country, with the outlays
for public services increasing
year by year, the tax burden
has been growing heavier.
The demand is for more po-
lice protection, better schools,
improved health facilities, ad-
ditional roads and highways,
more welfare and a host of
other needs and wants. All of
which cost money.
The result has been, accord-
ing to a national study by the
Commerce Clearing House, an
authority on taxes, that the
cost of running state and lo-
cal governments in the United
States rose by an average of
$67 per capita in the past fis-
cal year, reaching a new high
of $731. As recently as 1970
it was only $427.
In Bosque County, on the
basis of its figures and data
from local sources, such taxes
came to approximately $410 in
the year.
Elsewhere in Texas, the av-
erage was $581, which was $66
more than in the year before.
The tax load in the West
South Central States as a
whble was $544.
Unusually large welfare
costs, special housing prob-
lems and other local condi-
tions are the reasons for the
high rates prevailing in some
communities. In some others,
inefficient management is the
answer.
In many localities, despite
higher taxes, the amounts col-
lected were not sufficient td
cover ^ecessary operating ex-
penditures, with the result
that they were forced to find
new sources of revenue or go
deeper into debt.
All in all, taxes in the
amount of $156.8 billion were
collected by state and local
governments in the past year.
This was 10.8 per cent more
than in the prior year.
In Bosque County, the tax
load came to an estimated $$,-
125,000.
(Park Row News Service)
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