The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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• A hoepltel.
• Bottor school facilities.
• Curt ad and guttered streets.
• Mora water facilities.
THE LLANO
VOLUME LXVII
the news
CORRAL
By John W. Cardwell
GHORT ‘N SWEET
This will have to bo abort ‘n
aweot thla week. Let my deadline
alip up on me. And In tba news-
paper business, letting a deadline
catch you napping loaves you with
same expression on your (ace aa
someone leaning over a water
cooler expectantly without any
water responding to the pressure
on the button.
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Sort o' the same thing aa The
NHWS the past week — I ex-
pect that the Lions Club will get
a large 'charge' out of selling
'booms' around town. I sincerely
hope that nobody will be hurt Can
be dangerous. Selling booms!
What we need more is a buying
boom.
Even in the best of families . . .
• a a a
PREPARATION
Talked to Attorney General
John Ben Shepperd in Austin re-
cently and convinced him that he
bad never been fishing until he
went along on an annual trip on
the Llano JUver. This annual af-
fair Is always Joined in by a
bunch of guys named Joe and
usually turns out to be more
lucrative from a 'fishing' stand-
point than it Is productive of
fish. 'John Ben', as he signs his
name, dropped a note and said
he was ready .
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CORRESPONDENCE
Also delivered by Unde Sam’s
postal forces this week was a
letter from V. Adm. H. H. Mc-
Lean advising me of ground-work
being laid for observance of Pub-
lic School Week the (-10 of March.
Watch the columns of The NEWS
for developments.
Ltlano Texas
Thursday, February 16, 1956
AN OLD-TIME LLANO LANDMARK, The Colonial Inn. has been solil by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kustak
of Chicago, Illinois, to L. G. Ramey of Bartlett.
Mr. Ramey will have some repair and Improvement work done to the building in the near future.
Number 11
Elwood Raines Resigns From Position
Of City Of Llano Utilities Manager
Elwood Rallies, manager of the
City of Llano Utilities since
August, 1951, has submitted bis
resignation to the City Council.
Koines said he has other plans
that do not Justify his remaining
In Llano, but that he would stay
until someone can he named to
replace hint. He said he had en-
joyed Ids work here and fully up
predated the cooperation which alt to open a funeral home
he hnd received
The City Council
Klug and Sandstone streets.
J , R Mayor H. J. Hoerstur ordered a
greed to Install lights In the vl-!city election to be
Monday
others.
Don Waldrop rmiuosted
Commissioners Court Let Contract On
Hospital Bond Election Proceedings
More Centennial Committees Named
m
Brothers Of Brush: Sisters Of Swish
Over $500 Collected
By ESA Sorority In
Mothers March Here
Twenty Epsilon Bigma Alpha
sorority members met Thursday
night at the home of Mrs. Cliff
Martin, with Mrs. George Epper-
son aa co-hostess.
Mrs. Granville Smith, president,
reported on the recent district
meeting held at San Marcos which
she and Mrs. E. R. Seldenstlcker
attended.
Miss Mayme Colson presented
the evening’s program, a demon-
stration on frostlngs for party
cakes.
Mrs. H. A. Raesener Jr., stated
that #506,08 had been collected
to date from the Mothers March.
Assisting sorority members with
the March, either by driving for
collectors, or In making collec-
tions were: Miss Ruth Hohman,
Tommy Rodgers, E- R. Selden-
stlcker, H. A Raesener Jr., and
Mines. Bolling, Charles Whitley,
Gordon Donop, Sill Watkins,
Henry Buttery Jr., iPhllllp Smith,
Elgin Hesse. Spencer Weber, Paul
Oolllngs, Robert Kaesell, Aubrey
Hallmark, Clarence Wilson, Joe
Tom Wallace, Orville Buttery, and
Opal Holland.
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Tennis Tournament
To Be Big Affair
The three-dey tennis tournament
to bo held at the high school
Feb. 87-86*2# promises to draw
tennis players from all tha sur-
rounding counties.
Schools which have entered tbs
pla/ eo far include Brady, Bangs,
Vkodsridteburg. San Babe, Bur-
net, and Llano; other entries will
be taken tor several dags.
Both girls and boys eiglos and
doubles of the senior division of
the high school will bo played.
All committees for the (Promo-
tion division of the Llano County
Centennial celebration have been
named, Lester Inman division
chairman, revealed this week.
Thera are six committees for-
ming the division which will do
much to create the atmosphere for
the coming event. Their work will
•tart about eight weeks before
the centennial week of June 8 to 9.
Mrs. Cliff Martin Is chairman
of the Ladies Sun Bonnet com-
mittee, assisted by Mrs. T. D.
Swenson, Mayme Colson, Mar-
garuite Norton. Mrs. Raymond
Winkel, Mrs. Lenox Llgon, Mrs.
Bailey RAtllff, Mrs. S. E. Ches-
uut and Mrs. Herman Raesener,
Jr.
The Sisters of the Swish com-
mittee, of which Mrs. John Dodgen
Is chairman. Is composed of her-
self, Mrs. Irl Larrtmore, Mrs. Dick
Williamson, Mrs. John Pearson.
Mrs. C. G. Mlffleton, Mrs. George
Pechacek, Mrs. Charles Whitley.
Matt Kelley Page and Mrs. gfear
James Moss.
The Promenade and Caravan
committee is formed of Taylor
Vlrdell, chairman; Mrs. B. W.
Llano 4-H Clubbers Take High Honors
At The San Antonio Livestock Show
Two Llano 4-H club boys made
Llano County "firsts" at the Ran
Antonio (Livestock EtcposHton.
Malcom Osbourn, exhibited the
Champion Hampshire Barrow of
the Boy* Swine Show. The 204-
IS League Activities
Getting Under way
Interscholastic League activities
for the spring meet of District 23A
have been scheduled. C. ®. Brown,
superintendent of the Llano,
schools, will serve as Director-
Oeneral.
The one-act play contest Is to
be held in Goldthwalte on March
12-18.
The high school track and field
meet will be held In Brown wood
April 18-13-14; the literary meet
will be held at Goldthwalte April
7.
For tennlk, the district will be
divided Into • northern and south-
ern section with Santa Anna, Gold-
thwalte, and Bang* in the north;
and Mason, Llano, and Burnet In
the south. Section winners will
meet for finals in Llano on Fri-
day, April 6.
pound barrow took top honors
from 84 Hampshire entries.
Allen Rode won Reserve Cham-
pion Angus Steer of the Boys
Livestock Show.
This was the first time Llano
boys had wo na breed champion
In the swine division, and the first
time thoy had one of the
championships in the boys Angus
or Hereford Steer show. Both ani-
mals will be sold In the auction
tomorrow.
Doris Rode came Into honors
when her three Hereford steers
took first place among all other
entries In the Open Hereford Show.
They had earlier placed eecond
and sixth In the middle-weight
class and tenth In the lightweight
class.
The nine 4-H dub steers won
$275 In prize money In addition to
that won In the swine division.
OTHER WINNINGS
Other boys and girls and their
placings were: Hereford Steers,
Charles Keese, 6th middleweight
and 20th heavyweight; Stanley
Keese, 16th heavyweight; Allen
Rode, 14th lightweight.
In the Open Show, Norman
Grenwelge showed the 18th place
j lightweight Hereford; Roy Oren-
For grade school Juniors, ten- welge, KVA member, exhibited
the 14th place medium weight
Hereford.
Other4-H club winners In the
boys swine show were: Carroll
Osbourn, 6th place Hampshire;
John Thomas Moseley, 7tb place
Chester White; and Donald Os-
bourn. FFA, 8th place Chaster
Whits
STUDENTS ATTEND
LIVESTOCK SHOW
A MM of Uaao County
Mfcool children attended the San
Livestock Skew and
nls, track and flald, Volleyball,
and playground hall will also be
divided Into north and south. Com-
petition win stop at the half-di-
strict level.
High school volleyball will also
be dlvtded, end one team ellmfnot-
ed from each half. Tha top four
teams will meet In Goldthwalte for
finals on April M.
Junior basket bell will be play-
ed In Mason on Feb. #4-86 with
fonr classes competing; grade
school Juniors, both boys and girls;
and high achooi Juniors, both boys
and glrla.
BLOOD PROGRAM
PERSONNEL TO MEET
A meeting ef the bleed pregram
personnel will he held Monday at
T p.m. at tha Hotel Liens, Elwood
Rolnee, county Red Crete chair-
man. has announced. He
ett woefcors to be present IV
Huhho, Ram Rabb, Npencer Weber,
Mack Stoic, Mrs. l^roy Fanste-
makor, Larkin Schmidt and Mrs
Ustaee Conwop
The committee In charge of
Rales of men’s hats Is headed hy
Raymond Winkel, with Damon
Wyckoff, H. C. Willis, Mrs. Fred
Wood, Pat Marsrhall, Oskar Gren-
welge, K. A. Alherson, R. R. Ray
Clarence Osbourn, Charles Moss,
Charles WhIUsy, Chsrlls Ratliff,
Jim Rtumfall and A. C. Myrick,
assisting.
Martin Roy will lead the com
mlttee of the Brothers of the
Brush. This Is tho mifch-talked
about committee on growing of
heardH. There hnn been discussion
about this committee and what
they would do to anyone who does
or does not shave during the time
there are to be active. Just what
will be done is not known hy
anyone as yet, as the committee
has not had a meeting, nor have
their duties been dlHctiHsed hy
the executive committee or anyone
else In a position to make a Htnto-
ment.
On the commlttoe with Hoy are
Clayton Strlbllng, A. C. Hillman,
Martin Kagehlel, John L. Miller,
1%) B. Ducsn, Jim Btumfsll, Mack
Stolz, Milam Barnett and Damon
Wyckoff.
Alex Hardin Is head of the
Kangeroo Court. He will have as
helpers Milam Barnett, Paul Coll-
Ings, Hherman Long, John Pearson
and M. J, Rtewart, Jr. Like Hoy’s
committee, the functions of this
group have not been outlined as
yet, hut will be announced at a
later date.
The six other divisions will have
all their committees appointed be-
fore long, It was announced. After
the appointments there will be
organizational meetings, the first
of which was held Tuesday night
of this week. The Merchants Pro-
motion committee, headed by Jim
Stumfall, met then and their
duties were outlined. They will go
to work within the next few days.
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NAMES FILED HERE
FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEES
A petition has been filed with
three names of candidates for
school trustee: Lee Whitt, T-eon-
ard Oestreicb, and Therbert Ste-
wart.
The petition was signed by M.
W. Raesener, Logan Templeton, |
Marvin Bales, W. H. Templeton, j
and T. O. Burke.
The County Commissioners
court has let a proceedings con-
tract on n hospital l>ond election
to Hanson * Co., of Ran Antonio,
fiscal agents, Judge R. i\ Me-
Pubtic School Week
Activities Planned
Representatives of a number of
civic, groups have been planning
activities for Public School Week.
March, 5-10, <’. E. Brwon, super-
intendent, mild.
Plans were made for a parade
to be held hy the students on
Monday, March 5.
Timing bout the week, students
and teachers will be In charge of
the programs of various civic or-
galnzntlons.
Tho Lions Club will have their
luncheon that week with the stud-
ents In llie school cafeteria. Nov-
eral churches are planning for
high school students to take pert
In their program with Mrs. D. B.
Edwards, music director, In
charge.
An open house was planned for
Thursday night March 8 to show
parents how tho schools are ope-
rated. A film may he shown and a
spelling bee might lie arranged
between ndnlts and eighth graders
if iMissihle.
However, Mr. Brown snld, the I
nmlrt purpose of the week !m to!
give parents and friends an op-
portunity to visit tho school at any
time during the week, to become
bettor acquainted with touchers,
students, and teaching methods.
.........-............ ■■ '.rvuun 10 oe held April a
dnlty of East ('allege Street: and for tho purpose of electing alder-
to re-sulHltvlde a portion of the men for a full term. Mrs Raymond
southwest section of town by clos- Rogers was appointed presiding
lug unused streets and opening Judge with Mines, Orville Buttery,
Elmo Llttlepage, and It A. Uyfisld
a per- named as clerks
Mayor Hoerater reported that
an inspection had been made of
the City Airport hy the Civil Aero-
nautics Administration who said
the runways are In excellent con-
dition; however, work such aa
runway markers needed repairing
ami repainting; tho VFW race-
track should be removed from the
east-west runway; a supervisor
named to look after the airport;
and some maintenance work done
on the hangars. It was suggested
I that some civic organisation might
Williams Raid.
Al an election, probably to ho
held next month, voters will de-
cide whether Llano County will
spond $135,000 for the construe-
tlon of n hospital for which tho
Rtute Board of Health lias already
approved a federal grant or
$100,000.
General Dean F. Winn, M.D., l,l0,p w,,h tlu’ ^novation
and Director of Hospital Hot-vires
with the Rtat»' Department of
Health emphasized al a recent
visit here that tho hospital grant \
Is not a federal program, although
the federal governient iimkes the
allocation to the stale, lie stress-
ed that no federal agent would
ever vIhU the project, and that it
Is actually against tho law for a
federal agent to Interfere In the
operation However, the slate
The City Council algo authorized
the Church of God to build a
church building In tho Furmuic*
Charles Moss Named
Broom Sale Chairman
Tho Llano Lions Club (vlted
Tuesday that every member carry
must approve tho hospital con- a whisk broom all next week be-
structlon plans nnd give curtain ginning Monday; uny member
assurances to the Stole as to the
construction and operation of the
hospital.
Judge McWilliams said that all
nd valorem property tax pavers In
the county are eligible to vote; not
caught without his whisk broom
will be fined twenty-five osnts.
Brooms may be picked up at Win-
kel’g Pend.
Tt was also voted that any mem-
ber who falls to show up to par-
Outstanding Students
Named By Faculty
The high school faculty has
selected outstanding students of
the school who excel In classwork,
citizenship, and participation in
extracurricular activities.
Seniors named are Gall Ulcki-t-
son and Joanna Gray; juniors,
Janie* Gray, Marilyn Knthmann,
Donald Osbourn, Sherry Ratliff,
and David Stewart and sophomore
Milton Allen.
only land owners, but anyone who tlclpute In the broom-Relllng cam-
pays a tax on either real or per pnlgn be fined $2.
annul property. j The Lions will hold their broom-
selling campaign on Friday and
Saturday. February 24-25 Charles
Moss has been npolntod general
chairmen
Club members will canvas the
Llano, Feb. l.l will Collins, j r"Hl,l"n‘1"1 -nllon »ft«r their rs-
uffl.e manager of tho Llano K",Hr wo,,k,>’ l"nrh*‘,n' to ba Frl-
County Centennial Association, I dfty nt 5 ',0- Th* dlstrlot
lies mailed (Feb. ID, muicrlhl to
Centennial Pageant
Material Is Mailed
.
the John H. Rogers IProducIng
| will bo canvassed on Saturday,
J And at all times n menibi r will
C Of C To Sponsor
Short Course Here
The Llano Chamber of Com-
merce will sponsor s short course
on public rotations beginning at
7 p.m., Feb. 27-28-29 and March 1
at tho Hotel IJano, to be directed
by tho University of Texas.
The course will be held for
owners, managers, and employees
of wholesale and retail organi-
zations and service groups.
Company In Fostorla, Ohio From h* R< truck, on the
this material the historical page- w"rtho"*° "flUR,'B- for tb« con-
ant will be written ............- ven,9n™ of
clonal script writers
The pageant material Included
Information about early seiners
from all sections of the county;
organization of the town and coun-
ty; Important Industries such ns
cuttle, mining, quarrying, farm-
lug, and very early ones now dls-
profes v. anyone wishing to
purohasr a broom directly from
tho truck
In addlioln to the brooms, door
mats, mops, and Ironing hoard
cover nnd pad combinations will
be sold.
The nrth-les are made by tho
-blind workmen In Lighthouses,
continued; the Indians, schools, inon'profU "r*™l/.atlons Twenty-
five percent, will be ratnlned by
churches, early organizations, the
"boom" days, and other data. All
the material was checked and re-
checked carefully as to facts,
dates and detail; and a large num-
ber of sources were searched and
a number of people Interviewed.
A true nnd colorful picture of
the entire century, 1856-1959, was
the aim of the eommltlee which
was compossed of Mrs. Orville
Buttery, Mrs. Carl Moss, Mrs II.
C. Buttery, Mrs. Clyde King, Mrs
K W. Ilasse, Randolph ladfostn
and Will P Miller
the Lions club for their local acti-
vities, Moss said.
Methodist Church Lets
Remodeling Contract
AND HILLBILLY PROGRAM
World Daj Of Prayer
To Be Observed
Women of five local churches
will observe tbs World Day of
Prayer at Oraee Rp!scope! Church
Friday at 8 p.m.
Members of the Presbyterian,
Method 1st, Lutheran, Christina and
Episcopal churches will partici-
pate. All womea of the community
are tavtted to Join in the service, | dey, February 84 at 8:00 p.m.
which la held la . 184 nations j for the purpose of raietar mosey
throat*—t the world. j tor the Bonier Claw trip.
1E. Brown Accepts
Position In Austin
C. E. Brown, superintendent of
I the Llano Independent School Dts-
irict since 1060, has accepted s
SENIORS SPONSOR WESTERN P—ltlon ** Rodent counsellor with
NlxonClay Commercial College at
Austin. He.will remain with the
Llano schools nntll the end of
The senior class of the high
school Is sponsoring a musical pro-
gram featuring Clyde Chesser and
the Texas Village Boys, a Western
and hillbilly orchestra.
The program will be held at
the High School Auditorium Fri-
ths school year.
LLANO COUNTY APPROVED
FOR DROUOHT RELIEF
The Lien# County A SC office
Wj
to#
Vedneoday received a
School Board To Take
Applications For Supt.
At tho mooting of the Llano
Independent School District trus-
tees, held Monday night, Jack Love
made a motion that tho following
news release be Issued
‘Tho Llano School Board has
appointed a committee of three
men, B. R. Osbourn, Sam Rabb,
and Taylor Vlrdell, who are to re-
ceive applications for the position
of supnrlntendeney of the IJano
School* for the school year, 1958-
67. The Llsno School has approxl-
A contract for the remodeling
of the sanctuary of the Lutle Wat-
kins Memorial Methodist church I mately eight hundred students end
has been awarded to I). K. Ram Ploys thirty-six teachers. Cecil
soy and Errol K Hodges. Osbourn seconded the motion."
Work will begin within the
next week and It Is hoped the
The three school principals were
re-elected for another year: It J.
work will he finished In time ! Gogh urn, high school, C. J. Duey,
tor the revival meetings which JO. Henry school; and George
will he conducted hy Dr. J. Chess , I’ecbacek, elementary school.
A trustee election was called
for the first Saturday In April,
with Mrs. Orville Buttery, Mrs.
Elmo Llttlepage, and Mias Mar-
guerite Norton to hold it. Namga
of candidates tor school trusts#
Lovern of Lubbock beginning
April 18, Rev €. H. Murpli said.
The total amount is about
#16,000 and will Include re-wiring
of the entire building; s 300,000
BTU beating unit, and later an ;
air-conditioning unit will be poe- j >• «>*d »n writing with Mill
stole: the work also Includes 1 Iv#f Veet. secretory of the board,
acoustical treatment nnd repair-, —t Inter then 4 p.m. March IB.
wire etet-' lag of the sanctuary, reflniahlng of
bod afato the floors, alterations to the bab
drought-re- cony and stairs, end new entrance
doors.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert LsrremOTO
of Lsmpaeas were visiters it
Llano tUn
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