Throckmorton Tribune (Throckmorton, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1962 Page: 1 of 8
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Seventy Fourth Year of Service To Throckmorton end ^hrockmorton County, Texas
Thuirs. March 15, 1962 Throckmorton. Texas
Capital of the Cow Co*
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First Christians Plan
Easter Revival S'erv.
Plans were completed early
this week for the Revival to be
held Monday, April 16 through
.Friday, April 20 at the First
Christian Church here i n
Throckmorton. Guest preacher
at the five services, which will
begin at 8 p. m. each evening,
will be Dr. A. Wayne Braden,
Professor of Preaching at
Brite College of the Bible and
Director of the University Cha-
pel at Texas Christian Univer-
sity.
Dr. Braden has not as yet
announced the particular top-
ics upon which he will be
preaching. However, the em-
phasis in his messages will be
upon the religious answers
which the Christian Gospel
gives to the problems of life
which laymen face each day.
Complementing these sermons
of Holy Week itself will be the
Palm Sunday and Easter Sun-
day Sermons of the church’s
regular pastor, Dennis Thufte-
dal; Palm Sunday is the be-
ginning of Holy Week; Easter
the end.
Professor Braden is well
known to many members of the
■ministry of the Disciples of
Christ and the Methodist
■Ghufrch, having served for a
time as an Assistant Professor
of Preaching at Vanderbilt Uni-
versity, a Methodist university
located at Nashville, Tennessee,
before coming to Texas Christ-
ian University.
Noted as he is in education-
al circles, Dr. Braden is best
known for his preaching. Prior
to his coming to Texas Christ-
ian, Dr. Braden was minister
of the Vine Street Christian
Church in Nashville for sixteen
years. During that time he di-
rected the building of a new
sanctuary and a relocation of
the church from the business to
the residential district of the
city. He also was chosen on one
occasion to deliver a sermon
on the National Radio Pulpit of
the Columbia Broadcasting Sy-
stem, an honor reserved for tKl“
best of Protestant preachers. )
The Holy Week services will
consist of a full worship hour,
similar to that of Sunday morn-
ing services, except that the
Lord’s Supper will not ]oe cele-
brated. The members of the
First Christian Churck have
invited all of their friends from
the other churches o£, the com-
muinity to share in^these Holy
Week moments of spiritual en-
richment. !
Survival iaoklet Available
Baptist Revival Begins
The First Baptist Church will There will also be morning
begin their spring revival on services at 10:00.
Sunday, March 18, with the One of the highlights of the
Rev. Sid Martin of Wichita meeting will 'be the Junior
Falls doing the preaching. The Jamboree for boys and girls
meeting is scheduled to run a between the ages of nine and
full week, ending on Sunday,' twelve. The Jamboree will be-
March 25. gin each night at 7:00 before
Rev. Martin is well known the preaching service. There
here, having preached in revi- will be plenty of fun and re-
val here several times before.
For the past sixteen years he
has been the District Mission-
ary of Baptist District 11, re-
tiring last year.
■Services will begin nightly at
7:30 p. m. A nursery will be
provided for the evening ser-
vice and will be open at 7:20.
freshments for all.
Don Holland of Southwestern
will be in charge of.
ijarv will be in charge
id^ic f(tjr"ffie"revival’.
\ membership of the Bap-
Ohurch has extend°d an
invitation to the people of this
community to attend the re-
vival services.
Merriman With
36th In Arkansas
Michael Merriman left March
8th for Camp Chaffee, Arkan-
sas, for a six month tour of
duty with the Texas National
Guard 36th. Infantry Division.
Michael, who was a student
at Texas Universitv, had plan-
ned to complete his BA this
sping, but after this delay, will
return to TU in September and
graduate in January of 1963.
After graduation his plans
are to go to the Episcopal Sem-
inary in Austin to work on his
Bachelor of Divinity Degree.
Michael is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Merriman of this
city.
Richardson Rites
Held Monday
Charles S. Richardson, 70, an
early day teacher and former
mayor of Olney, died Saturday
in the Hamilton Hospital after
an illness of several years. He
was the brother of Mrs. Guy
Houston of this city.
Richardson was active in nu-
merous civic affairs during his
adult life in the Olney area. He
was one of the originators of
the Olney Livestock and Rodeo
Association, operator of the
Olney Quarterborse and Palo-
mino Show held in Olney in for-
mer years, one of the originators
of the annual True Community
reunion, and was active in the
Downtown Men’s Bible Class.
Richardson was born in Sun-
set 'ou Aug. 10, 1891 and came
to Olney with his parents at
the age of 8. He married Miss
Anne Gladden in Dallas in 1942.
Funeral services were held
at 3 n. m. Monday from the
Lunn Mulneral Home chapel in
Olney with the Rev. Erwin
Reed, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church, officiating. Burial
was in the Olney Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife;
two daughters, Mrs. Maurice
Litton of Tallahasee, Fla., and
Mrs. Raymon Kunkel of Irving-
a brother, John, of Abilene; two
sisters, Mrs. Ethel Lemmons of
Oleny and Mrs. Guy Houston
of Throckmorton; five grand- W’yffiestfty afternoon rt the
children and one great-grand- church. Ages of the boys in this
chlld- . group are 13 to 17.
How to Survive
Discussed At
Tuesday Meeting
“Nuclear weapons are a
reality”, were the opening re-
marks of Mr. Harold King, when
he addressed the County-Wide
Defense Meeting Tuesday even-
ing at the Courthouse.
The subject of his talk was
“What Can We Do When—”,
and he emphasized that the
longer a person postpones plan-
ning what he will do should we
have a \nuclear attack, the
more likely that person will
not survive the fallout.
“No one in the blast area will
survive,” he said, “but many
outside WILL survive, IF they
know how to protect themselves
from fallout and provide for
their family after the first
dangers have past.”
George Blackburn, County
Agent, opened the meeting and
explained the purpose of the
committee who called the meet-
ing.
‘Our committee’s only pur-
pose is to protect the farm iam-
ily anu their ability to pro-
duce”, he said. “We are sepa-
rate and apart from other civil
defense agencies whose inter-
est is more generally wvwnraed
with Civil Defense problems.
“We are trained and qualified
only to instruct in the agricul-
tural aspects of the Civil De-
fense program”, he stated.
The film, “Fallout and Agri-
culture” was then shown to il-
lustrate how to use existing
crops after fallout and how to
prepare the soil for future
crops.
After the film King, Black-
burn, and George Sultemeier
.conducted a yery interesting
and informative onen d’'e"vs=iioh
of fallout problems. They de-
monstrated the geiger counter.
A concensus of opinion ex-
pressed at the meeting was
that Throckmorton was
quiately prepared and that the
people were grossly uninformed
on what to do if we are at-
tacked.
Don Morrison, Postmaster,
reported that only a few per-
sons had called for the Civil
Defense fallout booklets at the
Post Office.
Several men from Woodson
attended the meeting, but the
crowd was quite small.
-o-
Wrights Attend
PCA Meeting
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wright
of Throckmorton, representing
the Wichita Falls Production
Credit Association, attended the
sixth annual stockholders’ meet-
ing of the Federal Intermediate
Credit Bank of Houston, held in
Corpus Christi March 11-13.
Mr. Wright is a member of
the Board of Directors of the
Wichita Falls PCA.
Also attending from this
area were Mr. Harry Horton of
Woodson, Mr. and Mrs. Estes
Miller of Seymour, Mr. George
Decker from Archer County,
and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Craft
of Jacksboro.
The bank is discount and su-
pervisory agency for the 36 PCA
groups in Texas and for se-
veral other agricultural finan-
cing institutions.
Highlights of the meeting in-
cluded addresses by F. Vernon
Wright of the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration, Washington D. C.,
Texas A&M’s Dean of Agricul-
ture Dr. R. E. Patterson and
L. J. Cappleman of Dallas, the
state director of the Farmer’s
Home Administration.
The home-owned and opera-
ted Wichita Falls Credit Asso-
ciation serves as a source of
agricultural credit for an
couinty area.
Fallout Protection Guide
At CD, Post Offices Now
A pocket-sized booklet with the most essential, up-to-the-minute
Information for families and individuals on how to survive a
nuclear attack is now available to Americans without charge
from any post office or state or local civil defense office.
The 48-page, yellow-covered booklet, entitled “Fallout Protec-
tion—What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack," includes spe-
cific instructions on how to survive fallout, build a fallout shelter
or improvise a last-minute shelter if necessary, stock and ven-
tilate the shelter, and take sanitary and first aid measures. Special
information for farmers is provided on protecting or decontami-
nating livestock, food and equipment in a fallout zone.
The Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense, produced
the booklet to provide up-to-date, easily-readable survival infor-
mation in one publication. So
far, 25 million of the booklets
have been printed and placed
in distribution.
The booklet also points out
other ways in which the De-
fense Department’s new civil
defense program will pro-
vide Increasing protection:
• The National Shelter Sur-
vey now under way will identify
fallout shelter spaces in existing
structures for about 50 million
persons. Identification, mark-
ing and stocking with austerity
food and water rations, first aid
kits, radiation detection instru-
ments and other essentials will
cost less than $4 jser space.
• The proposed Federal Shel-
ter Incentive Program would
provide Federal grants of some-
thing less than the cost of con-
structing fallout shelters in
schools, hospitals and in other
non-profit institutions. Many
shelters also would serve a dual
peace-time function.
• The existing National Warn-
ing System is being extended
to provide Americans near-in-
stant attack warning.
Where to Get Booklet
You can obtain your free
copy of the Defense De-
partment’s survival booklet
for all Americans, “Fallout
Protection," at your local
post office or your commu-
nity civil defense office.
After April 1, 1962, It Ly dp
be available only frol
defense offices. 0
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CRATER 5 Ml.
100 Ml
How Fallout
Endangers U.S.
Told in Booklet
What is fallout?
This frequently-discussed and
even more frequently misunder-
stood phenomenon of the nuclear
age is simply explained in the
Department of Defense’s “Fall-
out Protection" booklet now
available to the public through
post offices and local civil de-
fense offices.
This drawing from the book-
let shows how fine dust and
debris from a nuclear explosion
can be carried downwind from
the blast, the amount of fallout
gradually diminishing with the
distance. Each dust particle is
like a tiny X-ray machine whose
gamma radiation will penetrate
lighter materials but will dis-
sipate in a relatively short time
and do little harm to those pro
tec-led by -a sufficient amount o
dense materials in shelters.
Sister of Mrs. Oates Dies
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R.A.’s Win
Basketball
Tournament
The Junior Royal Ambassa-
dors of the local Baptist
Church won the district basket-
ball tournament in Electra Sat-
urday.
The boys, whose ages range
from 9 to 11 years, represented
the Throckmorton - Young
counties in district playoffs
against Vernon and Wichita
Falls.
The fii-st game, played that
morning against Lamar Bap-
tist Church of Wichita Falls,
was won by a score of 33 to 6.
Mike Lukert was high point
man with eighteen points.
The second game, played
against the RAs of the First
Baptist Church of Vernon, was
a close, exciting game from
start to finish. The boys of the
Vernon team were larger than
the local team and were favor-
ed to win, hut the local RAs
played hard and finished the
game with a 15-14 score in their
favor.
The last 59 seconds of the
game began with the teams tied
14 to 14. Then Joe Mack Milli-
can scored a free throw and
won the ballgame.
The boys were awarded a
large trophy as District RA
Champs of this twelve Coun-
ty District.
Playing Saturday were Joe
Mack Millican. Ronnie Carpen-
ter, Sidney Hargrove, Robert
Jackson, Mike Lukert, Randy
Nichols, Glenn Daws, Ronnie
Lawson, Kenny Lawson, G-ene
Teague, Mack Keeter, Joe Ed
Chandler, Jack Osborne, Willie
Roberts, and Boland.
Calvin Whitaker, Hilton Keet-
er, Billie Mack Millican, and
Rev. Roy Edgemon accompa-
nied the hoys on their trip.
Keeter is the RA leader and
councelor, and Rev. Edgemon
is in charge of RA athletics.
The Junior FI As m^et e"~h
Wednesday at 4 o’clock at the .
rp-i j , .. have been sent to each Post [ The many years Geneva suf-
The Intermediate BAs, under Office for distribution to inter- fered she Lver lost her tore
the direction of George Suite- ested individuals. for people never w w
me.er, meet at 5 o’clock each The q ■ slionnaires are avail-' smile She was ahvays ready to
ah e upon request from the post help everyone she came in con-
oifices at Elbert, Woodson, and tact with, never complaining
1 Throckmorton.
11-
Peace Corps
Questionnaires
Available at P. O.
Peace Corps Volunteer Ques-
tionnaires, with folders insert- j other parts of her body,
ed, have been sent to each Post
Funeral services for Mrs
neva Warbritton, 46, of Fort
Worth, were held in the Fort
Worth Baptist Church in Fort
Worth, Saturday, March 3rd,
at 9:30 a. m. with the Rev.
Jack Slater officiating.
Burial was in the Woodlawn
Cemetery, north of Marshall,
Texas at 4 p.tn.
Mrs. Warbritton died in the
Harris Hospital in Fort Worth
Thursday, March 1st. She had
been in ill health the last ten
years, but in the hospital three
weeks.
Mrs. Warbritton lived in
Marshall, Texas before moving
to Fort Worth_six years ago.
She was bora November 27,
1915 in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Surviving are her husband,
Steve, and three sons, Mike,
Ted, and David, all of Fort
Worth; three sisters, Mrs. Jim-
mie Oates of Throckmorton,
Mrs. Grant Yandell of Durant,
Oklahoma, and Mrs. Edith
Barksdale of Chicago, 111.; her
step father, J. E. Easter and
four step-sisters, Mrs. Ida Hib-
bitts, Mrs. Bill Callaway, Mrs.
Cleat Abies, all of Throckmor-
ton, and Allie Brewer of Cali-
fornia, and one step-brother of
New Mexico.
Her sister, Mis. Oates, wrote
the folljowinjg concerning her
sister’s illness and passing:
Mrs. Geneva Warbritton has
lost her long fight against can-
cer. For ten years she had been
fighting, and more times than
the family can remember, the
doctors wouid give her only a
few weeks to a few months to
live. But each time, after be-
ing critically ill, sh^ would
make a comeback, each time
actually astonishing the doc-
tors who treated her.
She was given the very lat-
est medicines in hopes there
would be found something to
help cure the cancer, (since she
was in such an advanced stage.
She was helped and even at
times the cancer would be at
an arrested stage. These times
she would even be up and help
with her housework and the
care of her family. Then again
the cancer would be found in
been hers to bear. Her sense of
humor was almost hard to be-
lieve.
Her pastor, Rev. Jack Slat-
er of the Fort Worth Baptist
Chujrch, said you could go visit
with her, with the thought of
comforting her, and when you
left, she had comforted you in
some way.
The many doctors who have
treated her said she was a case
for medical history.
Mrs. Warbritton’s mother,
Mrs. J. E. Easter, passed away
one month before her in the
Stephens Memorial Hospital in
BreckennVI(ge. And only four
and one half hours after Mrs.
Warbritton passed away, her
only grandchild was born, a
little boy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mike Warbritton, who has been
named James Michael.
Mrs. Jimmie Oates and Can-
dy have returned home after
being with her sister, Mrs.
Warbriton, in Fort Worth, dur-
ing her last illness and death.
Mrs. Oates was at her sister’s
bedside at her passing.
Mrs. Ida Hibbitts and Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmie Oates, Gene and
Candy attended fujneral ser-
vices for Mrs. Warbritton and
Mr. and Mrs. Oates and family
went on to Marshall for the
burial service.
because this dread disease had
Fire Damages
Stribling Home
The Throckmorton Volunteer
Fire Department answered a
fire call Monday afternoon at
the new home of Mr. and Mrs.
F. B. Stribling, under construc-
tion in the southwest part of
town.
The new home, which was
nearly completed, was damag-
ed when filler used on the floor
ignited and exploded. The fire
was extinguished speedily ,by
the department, but walls,
floors, doors and windows re-
ceived smoke and fire damage.
The house was being con-
structed .by a Wichita Falls
firm. None of the workmen were
i-mred. The firm carried brai-
ders insurance but the amount
of damage is not known at this
time.
Important Areas to
Be Mapped Near Here
Engineering Field parties of
the United States Geological
Survey are now engaged in sur-
veying operations for the pre-
paration of accurate topogra-
phic maps covering the proposed
Millers Creek Reservoir near
Seymour, Texas. This mapping
was requested by the Texas
Water Commissioners, Joe D.
Carter, H. A. Beckworth, and
Judge Otha Dent.
The specifications and prior-
ity for this work was made by
Mr. John J. Vandertulip, Chief
Engineer for the Texas Water
Commission. The primary pur-
pose for these topographic
maps is for a topological and
feasibility study by the Texas
. ae I- Commission, the Brazos
River Authority, and the North
Central Texas Municipal Water
district- on the proposed Millers
Creek dam and spillway. This
reservoir will have an approxi-
mate capacity of 25,000 acre
feet and will yield about 6,000
acre feet per year.
The reservoir will contain ap-
proximately 1,850 surface ac-
res.. The maoping is being ac-
complished in coopration with
the Texas Water Commission.
This mapping is part of a
continuing cooperative topo-
graphic mapping program with
the Texas Water Commission,
which has been in progress for
the past five years. The pur-
pose of this program is to com-
plete and maintain a series of
topographic m a p s covering
areas of important water de-
velopment in Texas. The cost
of this work is on a 50-50 hoSis.
The Trapping of the Millers
Creek Reservoir area covers
fonr 7’A - Minute quadrangles
or about 250 sqitare miles. In
fpT.vpg of «i*res this would be
about 160.CO0. This reservoir is
quirements of towns in the
required to meet the water re-
North Central Texas Munici
pal Water District. The Texas
Water Commission and local
Agencies have anpropriated a
total of $1,466,700.00 for topo-
graphic mapping for the years
1958 through 1963. This would
be a total of $2,933,400.00 com-
bined funds for mapping the
areas of important water con-
servation and development.
Screwworm Control
Contributors
The following list of Screw-
worm Control contributors was
released to the Tribune this
week:
Mrs. John T. Davis, Joe
Wilson Daws, R. C. Pirtle, Jr.,
T. C. Redwine, J. W. McFar-
lane, H. M. Raper, Jess Barr,
Rubye Compton, Jesse G. Will-
iams, Harold King, Wilborn
Johnson, E. L. Johnson, T. W.
Keeter, and Mrs. W. B. Leiter.
The field surveying opera-
tions in this area is under the
supervision of Mr. Wilson Wells
project engineer. Mr. Wells is
assisted by engineers Bruce J.
Thompson and Robert E. Sea-
burg. These men are living in
Seymour, Texas. The work will
continue through the summer.
This mapping will become a
part of a continuing nation-
wide program which has been
in progress for many years.
The object of this program is
to complete and mainta’V a
series of topographic maps cov-
ering the United States and
its possessions. These maps arc
published in rectangular sheets
called quadrangles. Each map
covers approximately six^y
three square miles and may be
obtained from the U. S. Geo-
logical Survey, Building 25,.
! Denver Federal Center, Den-
■ ver 25, Colorado. Copies of
| aerial photographs and geode-
i tic control lists may also be ob-
tained.
In the preparation of these
maps, the most modern methods
are employed. Aerial photogra-
phy and precise photogramme-
tric instruments are used in
compilation. In the field sur-
veying work electronic measur-
ing instruments and precise
theodolites are used. The field
control surveys are now in pro-
gress. The cooperation and
assistance of local residents
and land owners in helping these
field parties will be greatly ap-
preciated.
Brown To Attem
Convention
j Margie Lukert
Takes WTU Job
Cattlemen from areas through
out the Southwest will play a
prominent role in proceedings
at the 85th annual convention
of the Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Association in
Houston, March 19-21.
Among those from this area
is R:. A. Brown who serves on
The Cattleman magazine, and
TS'ORA membership committees
and the Cbwboy Hall of Fame
and Western Heritage Center
special committee.
New developments in animal
health and marketing will be in
the spotlight at the Convention,
and those attending also will
have an opportunity to see the
results of the use of the Sono-
scope in determining the amount
of lean meat in a live animal.
Addresses on these subjects are
scheduled Wednesday morning,
March 21.
Registration at 8 a. m. will
open the Convention, Monday,
March 19, and a TSCRA Board
of directors meeting is schedul-
ed at 2 p. m. that afternoon. Ev-
eryone is welcome.
Addresses b y prominent
speakers and presentation of
the TSCRA Distinguished Ser-
vice Award will highirth'*' ^le-
vities during the general ses-
sion, Tuesday morrjng,. March
20.
Gaston Resigns
Pastorate At
Lr-caT uSiurch f
On Sunday morning, March.
11, Rev. Leo S. Gaston announc-
ed his resignation as pastor of
the Throckmorton Assembly of
God Church to be effective on
April 15, 1962.
He has been pastor of tha
church since October 1960.
He plans to move to Wichita
Falls with his family and to
return to an evangelistic min-
istry. Rev. Gaston traveled as
an evangelist for two years in
Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri
previous to coming to Throck-
morton.
He will remain in his posi-
tion as representative of the
Christ Ambassador work in tha
Abilene section until the an-
nual election in May. The
Christ Ambassadors are the
youtag people of the Assemblies
of God.
Rev. Gaston stated that it
was with regret that he leaves
Thiockmorton and the many
friends that he has found here.
A successor to Rev. Gaston
has not yet been named by the
church.
Mrs. Margie Lukert has re-
signed her position as book-
keener at the Throckmorton-
Memorial Hospital to go to
work in the office of West Tex-
as Utilities.
She leaves the hospital on
March 23.
Mrs. Jane Cook, who has done
nursing duty at the hospital, -
-is trailing now to take Mrs.
Lukert’s place there.
Hospital Kpoort
3-7 Mrs. w. H. Kneter 3-14
3-11 Kenneth Barrington
3-11 Bert Lilly 3-12
3-11 Vanada Little 3-14
3-12 Bill Whitaker 3-14
3-12 Mrs. Phillip Navarro
3-13 Mrs. J. H. Jenkins 3-14
3-13 Mrs. Turner Daws
3-13 Mrs. Glen Gambrell
3-13 Clifton Rogers
2-11 Mrs. Frannie Martin
°-19 Flo+rtier Robinson
2- 27 E. E. Armstrong
3- 3 A. W. Stout
3-6 Milton Lee
3-5 John Whitaker
3-7 Mrs. J. B. Reeves
3-7 Guv R. Ellis
3-6 Ravnv'’H Oldham 3-14
3-6 Huey Raper 3-14
3-14 Mrs. A. P. Hobbs
3-14 Glenn Huston
3-14 Mrs. W. J. Gist ' j \
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