The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1957 Page: 9 of 30
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Friday, Mardi 1,1957.
TH1 HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO
County Clubs Taking Part
In Observance of 4-H Week
Fun Festival To
Be Staged Mar* 9
One of the most popular events
on the year’s 4-H Club calendar
in Hopkins County will be held {
March 9 in the Travi'a School au-
ditorium.
It is the annual 4-H Fun Festi-
val.
Each 4-H Club in the county is
eligible to enter an act in either
the junior or senior division of
the festival, or in both.
The sky is the limit on the
nature of the skits presented. The
youngsters are free to put on any
type of act they can think up and
carry out.
;Paatomine Popular
Plays and pantomines of phono-
graph records and other well-
known creations are the most pop-
ular form.
The age brackets in the junior
division are from 9 to 13 years.
Those in the senior division are
from 13 to 21 years.
Each act can have from one to
nine members participating and
can be from one to six minutes
in length. ) \
The presentations are judged
on the following basis: Talent dis-
played 40 per cent, showmanship
26 per cent, audience reception
25 per cfent and costumes 10 per
cent."';/ - .
Prise* Awarded
, Prizes and ribbons are provided
for the winners by the County
4-H Club Council. The Fun Fes-
tival always plays to crowded
houses.
Twenty-two acts were entered
in the 1966 Fun Festival. The
North Hopkins Senior Girls won
last year’s upper division with a
talent contest act. The Houston
School Club won the junior di-
vision with three boys doing a
pantomine of the song, “Make
Yourself Comfortable.”
Polo was introduced to the Uni-
ted States in 1876 by editor James
Gordon Bennett.
BEST WISHES TO THE
4-H CLUBS
We Appreciate Your Business
Pine Forest Washateria
PINE FOREST, TEXAS
WE ARE PROUD OF
.1 OUR
4-H CLUBS
HOPKINS COUNTY
Our Best Wishes for
Their Continued Success
K. ■
L B. WESTER
FURNITURE
B-SS"
4-H LEADER—Miss Jean Stev-
ens, assistant county home
demonstration agent, directs
girls’ 4-H Club work in Hop-
kins County. (Staff Photo by
T. A. Wright)
Sulphur Bluff
pirls Club Has
31 On Its Roll
The Sulphur Bluff Girls 4-H
Club lists 31 members and food
projects as the most popular ac-
tivity. Clothing ranks second as a
demonstration field, with 'ten
members participating.
fin. Sulphur Rlllff -Tanip
Huie, is working with beef cat-
tle, project usually chosen by
boys.
” Mikel Sue Skeen is president of
the Sulphur Bluff Girls club, Ka-
tie Chester is vice president and
Delonia Beth Akins is secretary.
Jane Vance is council delegate,
Patricia Chester lecrcation leader,
Juanita Hume song leader and
"fltipldTir^ooiity's 26 4-H Oluhs —
an4 their 659 members are join-
ing in the observation of Na-
tional 4-H Club Week March 2-
9. •,
The theme of the 1967 celebra-
tion is "Improving Family and
Community Living;”
During the interval 4-H Club
members all over the country
have a chance to tell and show
their families and friends wl(at
4-H work means to them. The 4-H
program is designed not only to
help the individual member but
to spread through the family and
then through the community.
Members of the Hopkins Coun-
ty organizations are planning
elub parties, special meetings for
parents and the county- wide
Share-the-Fiin contest Saturday
night, March 9, in. the Travis
School auditorium.
4-H boys and girls will be show-
ing livestock, in the Northeast
Texas Livestock Show "during the
week, and the grass judging team
will enter the contest sponsored
by the Soil Conservation Service
in connection with the show.
Governor Daniel ‘ has issued a
proclamation officially designat-
ing the period as National 4-H
Club Week ‘in Texas. A similar
proclamation on a national level
has been issued by President Eis-
enhower.
Nina Kellum reporter.
Mrs. Ralph Vance is adult lead-
er for-the club.
Members are Margaret Aikin,
Delonia Beth Akins, Patsy Bass-
ham, Barbara Baurland, Lou
Burkart, Billie Chester, Katie
Chester, Mybha Chester, Patricia
Chester, Sarah Clark, Jane Dea-
ton, Mary Harred, Justa Harris,
Darc’e May Harrell, Janie Huie,
Juanita Hume, Carolyn Johnson,
Nina Kellum, Linda Kellum, Mary
Kingsley, Victoria Mobley, Mary
Neal, Nancy Neal, Susie Sears,
Mikell Skeen, Edith Lunn Stevens,
Linda Stevens, Patsy Tubb, Jane
Vance and Lynda Weaver.
127 Jefferson Street
Phone 5-3757
YOUNG ENTOMOLOGIST—Linda Odell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Odell of Pine Forest, exhibits part of her collection
of insects for her 4-H demonstrations in, entomology. She now
has some 28 varieties of insects. (Staff Photo by T. A. Wright)
COMPLIMENTS
OF
QUICKY FOOD STORE
• Y ■ ■
May We Add Our Compliments to the
4-H Boys and Girls and Their Leaders
OF HOPKINS COUNTY
A* They Observe
NATIONAL 4-H CLUB WEEK
MARCH 2-9 ”7 .
ARBALA CLUB NEW UNIT—Members and leaders of the Arbaia Joint 4-H Club, one of the newest
4-H organizations in the county, are shown ;n this picture. The club was organized in January.
Members of the group, left to right, arc: First Row, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Petrosa, adult leaders; second
row, Mack Gambill, Jerry Gambill, Erlene Kennimer; third row, Clara Gambill, Elvira Petross,
Charles Stubbs, Ruby Nichols, Teddy Gambill; fourth row, Joyce Kennimer, Mrs. John F. Williams,
adult leader, Judy Turley, Charles Hinton, Dan Hinton, Burford Hinton, John Gambill. (Staff Photo
by T. A. Wright)
4'H Members Win
Many High Honors
Members of Hopkins County’s
4-H Clubs have won many honors
with their achievements during
the last year.
An outstanding individual ner-
Grace Ev-
former for 1566 was
elyn Moncrief, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs, E. S, Moncrief of Paint
Rock.
. Miss Moncrief won the Maggie
W. Barry Scholarship for 4-H
Club girls sponsored by the Tex-
as Home Demonstration Associa-
tion. The scholarship, one of three
awarded each year, is good at any
school.
She also fcecame the firs't girl
in Hopkins /County to win a trip
to the National 4-H Club Con-
gress in Chicago.
Five to State School
In addition, she won top hon-
ors ori a grass judging team and
was one of five boys and girls
to attend the State Junior Lead-
ership Laboratory at Bastrop
State Park in Aiigust. Other?
were LaJuahda Christen berry,
Shirley Williams, Kenneth Spen-
cer and Charles Ethridge.
Top honors in the livestock
field were taken hy Murray Don
iHr. and
Dawson, son oT Mr. and ’"Ml'S.
Murray Dawson of, Nelta. He
showed the grand champion fe-
male entry in the jufiior divi-
sion of the Houston Fat Stock
Show and also the grand champ-
ion female in open competition at
the Northeast Texas Livestock
Show here,
Murray Don, who is president
of the Sulphur Bluff 4-H Club,
opened hia 1957 record by show-
ing the res e/ve champion in the
t fu
Ft
unior division of t/ie Fort Worth
Fat Stock Show.
Electric Team Win*
, Art electric team demonstra-
tion conducted by Miss Christen-
berry and Gretta Combs, both of
the Pine Forest Club, won the
district title and placed fourth in
Paint Rock Club
Small But Active
state competition.
Charles Ethridge' of the Miller
Grove 4-11 Club won fourth place
in state competition in, the pub-
lic speaking contest.
A giass judging team composed
of Put Potts, Don Phillips and
Norman Dykes pluccd ninth in the
state contest.
Arbaia Club.
Members Have ,
Varied Program
A diversified demonstration
program is being carried out by
members of the Arbaia 4-H Club,
a joint organization including
EftU> "Eoyii IndT glrli. ......
• Projects ofv members include
potatoes, peanuts, corn, calves,
clothing and foods.
Gerald Ragan is president of
the Arbaia club. Mack Gambill
is,, vice presidents-and Judy Turley
secretary. Charles Stubbs is coun-
cil delegate, Erlene Kennimer rec-
reation leader and Ruby Nichols
reporter.
Mr, and Mrs. Roy Petross are
i adult leaders.
Members are Clara Gammill,
Billy Gammill, Thomas Gammill,
Buford Hinton, Charles Hinton,
Don Hinton, Erlene^ Kennimer,
Joyce Kennimer, R u b y Nichols,
Gerald Ragan, Kenneth Ragan,
Charles Stubbs, Judy Turley,
James Wright and Guy Mays.
4-H Work Helps
Build Character
4-H Club work helps to develop
confidence and character. Young
mem he vs start with small jobs in
their cl lifts, and carry .on demon-
strations at home that they can
complete. They are guided and
helped hy adult leaders and par-
ents.
Older members find bigger jobs
to do. They meet other outstand-
ing youngsters in county, state
and national events.
Some special events included on
the county 4-H calendar are
Share-tho*Fun Festival; 4-H
| Dress Revue; 4-H Achievement
| Day; County 4-H Camp.
-You Are Alwaye Welcome
4-H CLUB MEMBERS
& AY
N. Side Squa
rRES
/ Sulphi/r Springs
Only a year oYd, the 1’aint
Rock 4-H Club is small in num-
bers but the members work well
together and accomplish big
things.
Last year the Paint Rock club
received state recognition for its
recreation program work. Mem-
bers used $20 in prize money t>>
purchase recreation equipment
for the community center, in-
cluding table tennis, bingo, check-
ers, card tables and a box of 48
varied games. They still have $8
left.
The club’s work included giv-
ing programs for community
meetings, having club parties and
entertaining other clubs in the
county. They describe the proj-
ect as fun, but also as hard work.
The Paint Rock club .has-. 11
members. Mrs. E. S. Moncrief
and W.' W. Dykes are adult lead-
ers and Grace Moncrief juhior
leader.
Norman Dykes is club presi-
dent, Sameul Lucky vice presi-
dent and Bertha Ledbetter secre-
tary and treasurer. Joan Christian
is council delegate, Joe Bob Bur-
gin recreation leader and Patricia
Thomas reporter.
Members are Joe Bob Burgin,
Joan Christian, Norman Dykes,
Bertha Ledbetter, Jerry Luckey,
Samuel Luckey, Grace Moncrief
and Patricia Thomas.
One of the most valuable min-
eral deposits in Cuba today is
nickel.> Next to Canada and New
Caledonia, Cuba ranks third in
world production of this metal.
The man who discovered it there
was Christopher Columbus.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
We Are Proud of the
4-H CLUBS
OF HOPKINS COUNTY
BEST WISHES __
A* You Celebrate
NATIONAL 4-H CLUB WEEK
MARCH 2-9
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1957, newspaper, March 1, 1957; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth826849/m1/9/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.