The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1955 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME LXVI
LLANO. TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1955
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The News
CORRAL
During our more than three de-
cades with The Llano News we
have had many employees In vari-
ous capacities. Mainly these men
have been printers. We have had
good ones and we have had had
ones. We have had some whom we
wanted to see go und we have
had some whom we have regretted
to see leave.
Throughout all these years, we
do not believe we have ever had
a man whom wo regretted losing as
we did John Cardwell last weok.
XXX
This young man came to us
about a year and a half ago, just
out of the U. S. Air Forces. He
carried no recommendations, did
not claim to know ever thing about
the newspaper business.
From the day he started with
The News, he also started mak-
ing friends in Llano. He conthiu-
Five Llano Churches To Ton tract To Hunger Named 2 Elections Draw Li«^|t
hy^El?xl... Vote In Llano Past Week
Hold Joint Services
As has been the custom for
many years In Llano, many of the
local Protestant churches will ob-
serve Easter with a union service
at 5: :t0 Sunday morning.
Tills year the service will be
held at the First Christian church,
with t.he Baptist, Christian, Epis-
copal, Methodist und l*resbyterian
churches taking part.
The service will consist of Eas-
ter music, rendered by a special
inter-church choir, a mixed quar-
tettet, a male quartet and scrip-
ture reading by varolus ministers.
The program will start with a
prelude by Mrs. Cullie Carter, the
organist. After the processional by
the choir, the Rev. R. A. Jackson,
of the Christian church will give
the theme, “This Is The Victory”.
The Rev. E. J. Haffner, Episcopal
minister, will read a scripture af-
ter an anthem by the choir, which
will be followed by a song by the
male quartet. The Rev. C. Herman
Murph of the Methodist church
will then lead a prayer, after which
the Rev. W. H. Ulhlman, Baptist
minister will give another scrip-
ture. The mixed quartet will then
render a song, after which the
Rev. Ron Wilkins will read the
closing scripture. The Rev. Jack-
son will give the benediction,
which will close the program.
Laboratory To Auto Tag Sales
Be In Operation Exceed 1954
Next Week
The testing laboratory at the
ed to make friends for himself Agricultural Chemicals, Inc., main
and for The News as long as he
was here.
We can truthfully say we never
heard an unkind word about John
as long as he was in Llano, nor
have we since his departure.
This young man was very un-
assuming. but his sincerity won
for him the admiration of every-
one with whom he came in con-
tact.
XXX
John has gone to Georgetown,
where he will be connected with
Southwestern university in the ca-
pacity of instructor in journalism
and with the public relations work
of the school. He will also have
time to continue his college work
to the goal of a master’s degree.
We congratulate Southwestern
for having secured the services of
this young man and know he will
give the school far more than he
will receive either In compensa-
tion or in knowledge.
Being a graduate of this Insti-
tution of higher learning, he is
well fitted to take over his new
duties, for he knows the back-
ground of the school and the aims
of the governing body. This Is
(something he had to learn on com-
ing to Llano and will have to
learn again when he leaves South-
western.
XXX
While John ‘was in Llano, he
was active in the work of many
organizations. He served on vari-
ous committees of the different
groups with whom he became af-
filiated. He never shirked a duty,
never tried to get someone else
to do his work. In fact, ho looked
for more work to do after he had
done Ills part.
XXX
While John has left Llano and
now has taken up a different work,
It Is still affiliated with the news-
paper business, we hope he con-
tinues in the future to be connect-
ed with the Fourth Estate.
We believe that in the years to
come we will have cause to look
upon the achievements of this
yoirng man and point with pride to
the fact that we were once associ-
ated with him.
Again we say, “Congratulations
Southwestern for obtaining the
services of this outstanding young
man, John W. Cardwell.”
KINGSLAND
(By MR8. GRACE LINDSEY)
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Harden vis-
ited relatives in Marble Falls Sat-
urday.
Haywood Hill, Caro Hickey and
John Banks were business visit-
ors in Llano Friday.
Miss Guida Moss of Austin was
here on business Monday and vis-
ited her father O. B. Moss.
Mies Myrtle Wood was honored
by her family Sunday. A delicious
birthday dinner was served at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Neal
Wood.
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Camp of
Sun Antonio were here over the
■weekend.
Mines Erioh C. Laippe and E.
B. Lowery were shopping In Aus-
tin Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Estes and
plant, which was destroyed by
fire last Wednesday morning will
he In operation again next week,
according to Carl Behse, president
of the firm.
In talking of the fire, Mr. Behse
pointed out t-hftt, while the report
had been circulated, his firm had
never crushed rock or had they
ever made any fertilizer.
The loss, which was fully cover-
ed by insurnace, will amount to
between $4,000 and $5,000, the
president stated.
Lions Club To
Celebrate Their
20 Anniversary
The Llano Lions club will cele-
brate their 20th anniversary on
May 10, it was announced this
week by Clias. Sagebiel, president.
The club was organized In 1935
with 22 charter members, nine of
w'hom are still in the club. There
have been seven lost by death
tvnd the others either by resigna-
tion or moving away from Llano.
Dr. R. A. Self of Dallas, direct-
or of Lions International, will be
the principal speaker for the cele-
bration. Others to take port in the
program will he George H. Jones
of Corpus Christl, district gover-
nor and Marlowe Fisher of Aus-
tin. state secretary of Lions Clubs.
The organization date was April
21, but the anniversary night had
to he postponed until May in or-
der to have Dr. Self present. The
first of the week In which April
21 falls, he will be in Chicago at
a meeting of the Iward of directors
and t.he last of the week will find
him in Caracas, Venezuela.
Says Collector
There have been 1,523 passenger
cars rgeistered in Llano county
for 1955, according to Eugene
Atchison, deputy tax assessor-col-
lector.
Be Let For
L. G. Road
y\ contract will be let April 20
for the construction of Llano coun-
ty's newest farm-to-market road.
This will lie the road from Llano,
through Lone Grove to connect
with State Highway 261 (Lake-
shore Drive).
This contract will he for the
grading, water structures, base and
surfacing of the road which is
12.061 miles in length.
The commissioners have obtained
the needed right-of-way for this
new road, which will follow’ the
present road with the exception
of eliminating several bad curves.
The new righ t-of-way, of course,
will be much wider than the pres-
ent one. .
Llano Co. Has
One Of Seven
For April Call
Barton G. Oestreich of Llano
county will he one of seven young
In addition to this number, there j men from 1116 10031 draft 1,oard to
have been 449 commercial vehicles; ! report for Eduction into the arm-
Dr. Robert Hunger is the new
j president of the Llano Junior
j Chamber of Commerce. He was
I elected at the regular meeting last
I Thursday night. James Epperson
is the outgoing president.
Eugene Russell will be the new
first vice president, with Jack
Talley as second vice president.
The new secretary and state di-
rector will he elected at a later
date, according to James Epper-
son.
At the meeting, the Jaycees ap-
propriated $300 for repairs and im-
provements on the Lions Club
Baseball field. The Jaycees will
also sponsor a Little League Base-
ball team again this year.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cole of Abi-
lene were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Patterson recently.
Mrs. Mary Tucker, Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Banks and Edwin Banks of
Austin were weekend guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Long.
Mrs. Nora Stepnlfy is spending
this week in San Antonio with
her son, Sgt. Raymond Dellate.
Miss Ruby Williams of Abilene
and Cleo Bell of Merkel spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Bur-
ton Wiley.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hamblin of
San Antonio were weekend guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan E. Hamblin,
Jr.
Roy Bransford of Adamsvllle
visited his mother, Mrs. N. W.
Bransford.
Mr. nnd Mrs. Charlie Hays were
shopping In Burnet Saturday.
Mmes. L. A. Weed and Mae
Drace were business visitors In
Llano Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Long
and children of Austin visited
relatives here last week.
Mrs. J. G. Snipes was shopping
in Marble Falls Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F,. Doan were
guests of relatives in San An-
tonio over the weekend.
Miss Mamie Dell Marrow ol
Austin wns a weekend guest of her
sister Mrs. Erich C. Lappe.
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Horn of San
268 farm trucks; 19 truck-tractors;
five house trailers; 51 trailers;
three motorcycles; 12 dealers
numbers.
Registrations this year are
ahead of last year, according to
the official. He said a check had
not been made of nhe number of
increase, hut the total money re-
ceived from registrations are more
than of the same period of 195-1.
As there has been no increase in
the license rates, this can only
mean an increase in the number
he explained.
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Eight Teachers
Short In Llano
Eight more teachers are needed
to fill the faculty for the Llano
schools for next year, according
to Iva Vest, secretary of the board
of trustees.
Of this number, five are for the
grade schools, from the first
through the sixth, with the ex-
ception of the second grade. One
teacher is needed for the high
school for all elossroom work.
Two athletic coaches are still
needed to complete the roster.
These two will teach some high
school subjects in addition to the
roaohing duties.
TOW VALLEY
(By MRS. DAMON WYCKOFF)
ed forces on Tuesday of next week.
Others in the call for April
include Andrew A. Rode and El-
mer R. Wahrmund of Gillespie
county; Alfred G. Ulrich and Roy
W. Bruemmer, Blanco county; and
Thomas A Liesmann and Joe W.
Poff of Kerr county.
TOMORROW TO BE
HOLIDAY IN LLANO
Tomorrow, Good Friday, will be
a holiday in Llano and the majori-
ty of the stores in town will he
closed.
This is the first year this day
has been observed as a holiday
In Llano.
FFA Team
Wins First In
Dist. Judging
Llano FFA ntilk products team
placed first at the area, judging
contest at Tarleton State college
Saturday, April 2. Kenneth Hol-
land was high scoring individual
for the milk judging contest. He
received a scholarship to Tarle-
ton as a prize. Sergei Kabanshuk
was second high scoring individual,
Don Lee Williamson was the third
member of the prize winning team.
Llano FFA poultry team placed
fifth at the area contest. Members
of this team are Duncan Wright,
Travis Newman \and Billy Bob
Schneider.
As a result of these placings in
the area contest, the Llano FFA
milk products team and the poul-
try team are eligible to participate
In the state judging contests. Eu-
gene Russell, FFA advisor and
vocational agriculture teacher,
will accompany these teams to
the state contests in May.
J.B. Upton and Whitley And
E. R. Osbourn Ratliii Elected
School Board New Aldermen
Mr. and Mrs. Lindon Lockhart
and children visited Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin Coleman and family in Fort
Worth Friday until Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Alexander
of San Marcos and Pvt. Jerry
Co.-Wide Meeting Being
Held At Court House
Russell Osbourn will replace
Lester Inman on the board of trus-
tees of the Llano Independent
School district as a result of last
Saturday's trustee election. J. B.
Upton was re-elected as a trustee.
The votes was 260 for Osbourn;
186 for Upton and 174 for Inman.
These two men were elected for
a three-year term.
Inman was appointed to the
l>oard last July 9 to succeed Hud-
son Fowler, who had resigned be-
cause of his health.
Holdover members of the board
of trustees include John Pearson,
J. B. Love, Sam Rabb^ Taylor Vir-
dell and Cecil Osbourn.
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Rotary Club
To Get Charter
This Month
The program has been complet-
ed for the charter night of the
newly organized Rotary club in
Llano. This affair will be held on
April 20th.
Since the Llano club is in one
district and the sponsoring club of
Marble Falls is in another, there
will be two district governors
present for the presentation of the
charter. These will he W. T. Hanes
of Cameron, and Leander Wagner
of Crystal City.
Also on the program will be Dr.
Clarence R. Miller of Mineral
Wells, district governor-elect of
district 187. of which Hanes is
now governor.
Chas. C. Whitley was high man
in a three-man race for two places
on the city council In Tuesday’s
city election, according to the un-
official tabulation of the 2o4 votes
cast.
Whitley received 164 votes, with
Chas. Ratliff running second with
153 votes. Rex. S. Wootan was
third man in the race polling 72
votes. Whitley and Ratliff will suc-
ceed J. F. Ross and E. A. Schnes-
sler.
Ross was elected to fill the
place left vacant by the resigna-
tion of Ezra Stone, who left Lla-
no several months ago.
Dr. H. J. Hoerster was re-elected
mayor for his 'fourth term. Dr.
Hoerster succeeded M. C. Dalchau
as mayor In April of 1949.
The new aldermen will be quali-
fied and take the oath of office
at the regular meeting of the city
council on Tuesday night of next
week.
The holdover members of the
council are J. T. Wallace and Mon-
roe Raesener.
777 X-Rayed
In Two Days
ByMobileUnit
During the flret day and a half
the X-ray unit has been in Llano
there have been 777 persons have
their chests X-rayed, According to
officials in charge of the unit
from the state health department.
Today 13 the last day of the
stay in Llano for this visit end
E. C. Martin, director for the
extension service on Rural Pro-
gress, and Mrs. Eula Newmark ex-
tension service home management
specialist, are In Llano today to
conduct a training course for the
community leaders who are enter-
ing the Llano County Rural Pro-
gress contest, sponsored by The
Llano News.
The program will start this
morning at 10 o’clock at the court
house mid will continue through
the greater part of the day.
The two specialists will discuss
the contest, from which the win-
ners can go on to district contests
and then to the state contest, ans-
Jack Ashby, president of the J everyone over the age of 15 years
Marble Falls club, will be master is urged to take advantage of this
wer questions tihat may he in the
minds of the local people and dis-i sopr<'t‘irj
cuss the various phases of the
program.
T. D. Tanksley, county agent, and
Miss Mayme Colson, home demon-
stration agent, will also be on the
program for the day.
Martin and Mrs. Newman will
outline the duties of each of the
officers and committeemen from
the individual communities, It was
explained.
The two specialists will hear the
officers of each of the participat-
ing communities tell of their local
needs and then make suggestions
for methods of obtaining the neces-
sary results.
of ceremonies for the occasion.
Joe House is president of the
Llano club, with Don Bruhl as the
free service.
The unit Is located on the north-
west corner of Hie square In a
large trailer.
ford Munson of San Antonio, Mrs.
C. Evans, Mrs. O. H. McDonald
Alexander of Lackland Air Force'anc* children and Erma Jean kar-
hase in San Antonio visited Mr. ’r‘s °* Burnet.
and Mrs. W. A. Alexander, Montie
and Larry, Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Williams
of Evant visited Mr. and Mrs. D.
E. Ramsey and children this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Shoenlmrg
of Houston visited Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie Renken and Mary Jane this
week.
Jim and Bill Brown spent ~ the
night, Thursday, with Mr. and
Mrs. Damon Wyckoff.
Mrs. O. K. Alexander had as
guests this weekned, Sgt. Dayton
Hohmann of San Antonio. O. K.
Alexander of Fort Worth and Pvt.
Jimmy Alexander of San Marcos,
Mrs. Hohman and hoys who have
been visiting here this week, will
return home with Sgt. Hohmann
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Strachan
had as guests Mr. and Mrs. Cllf-
Antonio spent the weekend at
their lakefront place here.
Miss Myrtle Wood and Mrs.
Ella Flowers were business visit-
ors In Llano Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ixrng were in
Austin on business Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Tyler and
children of San Antonio were
weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Thleman.
Mr. and Mrs. (Hattie) Willis of
Pontotoc visited in the Valley
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Farthing
of England are spending this week
with Mr. and Mrs. George Stra-
chan.
Mrs. Jack Alexander and chil-
dren of Fort Worth are spending
♦his week with Mr. and Mrs. L. T
Lockhart and family.
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Griggs are
visiting in Big Spring and other
West Texas towns this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Clendennen
and children, Mrs. Ben Wootan
and daughters of Lake Victor, Mrs.
Marcus Neuhouse and children and
Miss Thelma Behrns of San An-
tonio visited Mr. and Mrs. Eddie
Hallmark Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Morgan
of Johnson City visited Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Morgan Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Marvin Alexander attended
the funernl of N. K. Fisk In Sterl-
ing City, Thursday.
Mrs. Ben Wootan and daughters
of Lake Victor visited Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Clendennen, Jr. and
family over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Damon Wyckoff
had as guests Sunday, Mr. and
Mrs. John Brown and children of
Robert Q. Cohen
Named Delegate
To Assembly
Atlanta, Ga. March 30—Robert
Q. Cohen of Llano, Texas, today
was officially certified by Dr. E.
C Scott, stated clerk of the Pres-
byterian church, U. S., as a com-
missioner to the general .assembly
of the denomination.
The assembly, which Cohen will
attend as an official voting repre-
sentative of Central Texas Pres-
bytery, will be held in Richmond,
Va., June 2-7. It is the highest
court of the Presbyterian church,
and meets annually. Some 46C-
commissioners from 17 states at-
tend and review the work of the
church for the past year, and set
in motion the program for the
Llano and Miss Mary Shurr and
Jack LaFrentz of Austin.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Neuhouse and
daughters and Miss Thelma Beh-
rns of San Antonio visited Mr. and
Mrs. Millard Behrns this weekend
H. C. Willis was rushed to a
Burnet hospital Tuesday with a
severe heart attack. He is home
now and Improving.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rylander of
Kerrvllle are spending the week in
their cabin here.
Does Llano Want A Rodeo
This Y ear? Com mittee Asks
All sponsoring organizations will
he asked for their opinion as to
the advisability of havng a rodeo
in Llano Uiis year, Janies Epper-
son, member of the rodeo commit-
tee, said yesterday afternoon.
The rodeo committee is appoint-
ed by the various civic and serv-
ice organizations of the town. The
chamber of commerce, Jaycees,
Lions club, school board are all
represented on this committee with
one member each.
it. is getting late In the season,
there Is still time if the people
want the show this year. He point-
ed out that the committee did
not want to assume the responsi-
bility of saying whether or not
there will be a rodeo, hut send it
hack to the various Organizations
and give them a chance to express
their opinion and pledge their help
when needed. This will also give
the sponsoring groups an oppor-
tunity of changing their members
on the committee if they see rea-
Mr. Epperson stated that while ! son to do so.
Visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John C. Buttery are Mrs
Douglas Pierce and son Johnny, of
Texas City.
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Tate Dalrymple of Washington,
D. C. was in Llano briefly last
Saturday. He has, for the past 25
years, been connected with the
IJ.S. Geological Survey.
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Johnson und
children and Mr. and Mrs. Mack
Stolz spent the past weekend on
Devil’s River fishing. They were
met there by Mr. and Mrs. John
Rabb and family of Van Horn.
HOME APPLIANCE MOVES
The Home Appliance company
has moved from their location on
West Main street to the T. J.
Watkins building in the 100 block
of East Main street.
Miss Pauline (killings, owner
of the firm, says she will have a
complete stock of late model elec-
trical appliances In the new loca-
tion.
coming year.
Cohen, who Is an elder In his
church In Llano, was selected as
a commissioner by Central Texas
Presbytery, and Is one of four com-
missioners—two ministers and two
laymen—from that Presbytery.
Week Sees 2nd
Hottest Day Of
Year Sunday
Sunday was one of the hottest
days of the year, according to E.
W. Tarrenco, local observer for
the United States Woahter bureau.
The mercury soared to 94 degree*
Sunday afternoon. The coolest day
was Saturday morning when a
low of 44 degrees was registered.
•Her laieuiouuaqi eqn qn.iujv' uo
Istered 100 degrees.
The past week has gone by
without a trace of rain In Llano
county.
Temperatures for the past week,
recorded by Mr Tarrenco. have
been:
Thursday_____________ S5 47
Friday ----------------- 74 59
Satuttiay ___________ Jtfi 44
Sunday.......... .94
Mondav ----------- 92 69
Tuesday -------------....,90 06
Wednesday _____________......74...-...07
Mrs. H A. Adams, Suzanne and
Bob ere In Llano to spend the Eas-
ter holidays with her nsrente, Mr.
and Mrs, J. W. Duncan.
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