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The Winkler County News
•Vol. 26—No. 29
Classified Ads on Page 4
Published Twice Weekly—Read Daily
(Member Associated Press)
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
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18 Pages in Three Sections
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Thursday, January 18,1962
REPUBLICAN FIGURES—Jack Cox (right) is pictured with Roy Carter and
Mrs. H. B. Phillips, both of Kermit, during meeting here Monday. Cox, Republi-
can candidate for Governor, spoke to a crowd of 125 in Kermit Community Center.
(News Staff Photo)
Streets Damaged By Freeze
Extensive Repair
Work Necessitated
Last week’s severe cold spell has intensified the deter
ioration of a number of streets in the City of Kermit, ac
cording to word from J. C. Hill, city secretary, and E. D
Henderson, street superintendent for the city.
“There has been extensive breaking of streets through-
out tlie city, Hill said. “As far as I can tell there is no
particular area affected worse than any other section. It
generally appears that streets in all areas have been dam.
aged by the severe weather
The City Secretary said the
streets which have cracked
are primarily ones which have
not been overlayed or sealed in
the last five years. There was
no damage reported to any of
the streets overlayed during
the summer, he added.
“Repair of the streets will
be taken care of by our own
maintenance department,” Hill
said. Initial plans call for the
broken or buckled sections to
be torn up, rolled and allowed
to dry. After the areas have
been dried sufficiently they
will be sealed or overlayed.
“If there are no more spells
of extreme freezing conditions
such as we experienced last
week,” Hill said, “this program
should fix us back up.” He
said the streets broke up from
a combination of normal de
Speaks in Kermit Before Crowd of 125
i Cox Tells of Dangers From Within
_ Jack Cox of Breckenridge, imust work to preserve our free- in the administration’s
Republican candidate for Gov- dom without any additional fed-
^nor of Texas, Monday night eral controls. ' Teaching our
told a gathering in Ke-rn*it tfe«^I children is something which be-
this ‘country &nd lie bfe.'le at the local level.” Cox
Texas are in for serious times
with threats of aggression from
without and socialism from
within.
The Democrat - turned - Re-
publican spoke at the Communi-
ty Center Monday before a
crowd of 125, including a num-
ber of putrof-towners. “There
is a very real threat of military,
aggression against this country
from without,” Cox told the
group, “but another danger,
that from within, is also real.
Cox spoke at Kermit Mon-
day morning during a swing
through West Texas in the open
ing round of his campaign for
the Governor’s chair. He spoke
Tuesday at Monahans and was
scheduled to address groups in
Odessa - and Midland Tuesday
night and Wednesday.
“Actually,'!” Cox said, “what
^ \ are doing at the present
tUne is immoral. We are de-
manding 'things of our govern-
ment, -making it give us things
for which we cannot and will
not pay. ; This is immoral. We
Oh giving our children a debt
said he • can 'see- the beginnings
of programs of aid to education
pro.
posed programs.
“These are some of the dan-
gers from within,” he empha-
sized. “This liberalism and def-
icit spending which is causing
and socialized medicine coming S”0" “e the dangers (rom
Cox explained that today
there are only two basic politi-
cal philosophies at work in
America . . . liberalism and
conservatism: ■ ■
“Liberals believe in more
and more government. Conser-
vatives believe in trying to
conserve the individual free-
dom. Today, the conservative
program is the progressive one.
It is the one which has the
hope for the future of all.
“We, as conservatives, have
been sitting back and letting
the liberals do all the talking
for the last 30 years. It is time
for us to get busy. We have
a story, and the right story to
tell.”
Cox, who is waging his second
campaign for the highest gov-
ernmental post of Texas, lost to
Governor Price Daniel in 1960
by half a million votes. Some
months ago he announced he
was switching his party affili-
ations. because he felt he could
do more for the State in the
Republican party than he could
as a Democrat.
“For a long time I felt the
conservatives could gain con-
trol of the Texas Democratic
Party and change the course of
our nation,” he explained. “But,
some months ago I realized it
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terioration and the extreme
weather.
“The wetting and freezing of
the bases of these streets nat
urally intensified and quicken
ed this cracking and buckling
process,” Hill said. “However
under normal conditions many
of these streets would have
started showing deterioration in
the near future anyway.’
No complete survey has been
made of the number of streets
which have been damaged, he
added. The repair crews will
work on them as they come to
them.
“Of course it would be best
if we could tear up an entire
block and rebuild it where such
buckling and cracking has ap-
peared,” Hill said, “but this
would be a costly and time-
consuming process. So, at least
for the present time, we will
simply perform the necessary
maintenance on the streets.”
Crews started Monday morn-
ing tearing up the already dam-
aged streets and rolling them
out for drying. No estimate on
the length of time needed to
complete the program of
pairs was made.
The City Secretary explained
that the amouip * f water stand-
ing on the paving at various
times during the cold spell did
not cause the damage. “The
broken streets are a direct re-
sult of the base freezing and
expanding thus causing the pav-
ing to explode or buckle as it
expanded and contracted. None
of the recently overlayed streets
suffered damage from the ex-
treme weather.”
Breakfast Kicks
Off Ticket Sale
TRICKY COMBINATION—George Mossman of
303 North Avenue A was one of many Kermit Post
Office patrons who experienced difficulty in open-
ing new combination-lock mail boxes at the new Post
Office building. (News Staff Photo)
R. L. Van Norman Jr., chair-
man of ticket sales for the an-
nual Kermit Chamber of Com-
merce banquet, today (Thurs-
day) asked team captains and
workers to strive toward top-
ping last year’s record ticket
sale.
The committee chairman was
scheduled to speak briefly to
the workers at a kick-off break-
fast today at Jett’s Dining
Room at 8:09 a.m.
Team captains for the sale
include George Reich, D. O.
Gray, Louis Edwards, J. M.
Lipham, K. E. Burrows, John
F. Moore, Ben E. Cowling, G.
L. McGuire and R. L. (Junior)
Bell.
Workers include John P. Gam-
mill, Verne Jackson, Lyndon
Webb, Larnce Hicks, Dalton
Haines, John L. Pike and W.
S. Jordan, composing Reich’s
team;
Bill Cameron, R. C. Stodghill,
Kenneth Sweet, Ed Smead,
Arnold Evans, Floyd Ledbetter
and Guy W. Southern, members
of Gray’s team;
Bond Sale Expected During
Court Meeting Monday
Officers Ask Public
To Eliminate Calls
to pay.
The oil company executive
spoke rapidly, 'apparently using
few notes, and effectively to his
audience and was frequently
interrupted by applause. After
his talk, he was honored at a
reception in the H. B.. Phillips
residence on the Monahans
Highway.'. Mrs. Phillips is act-
ing chairman of the Winkler
County Republican Party.
“I want, to tell you that any-
one who says you can have
federal help, in education or
anything else, and still be free
from federal control is not tell-
ing you the truth.-It just isn’t
so. I think we as individuals
1st National
Bank Elects
]$ew Official
Edward E. Stuart was named
assistant cashier at First Na-
tional Bank of Kermit Tuesday
evening during an annual meet-
ing of the stockholders.
Dalton Haines, president, said
all directors of the bank were
re-elected during the stockhold-
ers meeting and during a di-
rectors meeting immediately
following the stockholders
meeting the officers Of the con-
cern were also re-named.
In addition to Haines and
Stuart, other officers re-elected
were Fayne A. Mullen, vice-
president (inactive) and Bar-
bara Beebe, cashier.
Directors re-named included
J. M. Waddell, Haines, Mullen,
Calvin Wesch, L. R. Nutt, John
A. Garza, John R. Graves, R.
T. Waddell, G. E. Smead, E. E.
Hixson, Leroy F. Spinks and L.
V. Gills.
P. M. McKinney
Rites Pending
Final rites for Pleasant Moses
McKinney, 46, of Kermit are
pending at Maples Funeral
Home. Mr. McKinney died at
Winkler County Memorial Hos-
pital Wednesday noon following
a lengthy illness.
Services will be held in Com-
munity Church with Rev. C. B.
Brinkley officiating and burial
will be in Kermit. Time for the
service, is pending arrival of a
son who is stationed in Penn-
sylvania with the Air Force.
Mr. McKinney moved to Ker-
mit Trom Austin in 1949. Prior
to that he had lived at Abilene
and Odessa. He was married to
Bernice Eugene Lee at Baird,
Nov. 15, 1936. He was employed
in Kermit at the time of his
death as a salesman for South-
west Auto Supply. He had also
worked for a number of local
auto firms.
He is survived by his wife,
who lives at 306 South Avenue
C; two sons, Skippy McKinney
of Kermit, and P. M. McKin-
ney Jr., stationed at Benton,
Penru; and one daughter, Mrs.
James Mercer of Kermit; his
mother, Mrs. E. I. McKinney
Sr. of Nixon, N. J.; a sister,
Mrs. E. J. Navatkoski, also of
Nixon; a brother, E. I. McKin-
ney Jr. of Laredo; and three
grandchildren, Mike McKinney
of Kermit; and Jimmy and Tim-
my Mercer, also of Kermit.
Mr. McKinney was born
Marqh 26, 1915, at Brownwood.
He was a charter member of
the First Christian Church of
Kermit and was a member of
the Community Church where
he was a Sunday School teach-
er. He was also active in Scout-
ing and was a past member of
the Evening Lions Club.
Kermit Police Chief W. A.
(Bill) Pence and the recently
elected chief of the Kermit Vol-
unteer Fire Department, Jim-
my Brumlow, early this week
issued an urgent plea to resi-
dents to stop calling the Fire
Department when a fire siren
starts wailing.
“Last week,” Pence said,
“when we had a number of
fires and a number of false
alarms, each time the sirens
went off the telephone lines at
the station immediately became
tied up.”
Pence said the dispatcher on
duty at'such a time is already
an extremely busy person and
the extra telephone calls tie
him up to a dangerous point.
“We ask you not to call the
station when the fire siren
rings,” Pence said. “Unless you
have some pertinent business
with the department at that
moment, please wait a while.
The Chief added that in addi-
tion to tying up the dispatcher,
the problem, also arises, of
getting the proper information
to police officers and firemen
“Also, there may be some oth-
er type emergency at the same
time,” he said, “and if all the
lines are tied up there is no
way for a call to come through.”
When a fire is reported the
dispatcher on duty writes down
the information and relays it to
the fire station, across the alley
from the Police Station. The per-
son on duty then has a set rou-
tine which must be followed in
giving the proper information
to emergency crews, Pence
said.
“The Fire Department is anx-
ious to keep the public inform-
ed,” Brumlow said, “and it is
our intention to keep the city
well protected in case of fire.
However, the co-operation of
the general public is needed.”
He added that in addition to
calling on the telephone, there
are still a great many persons
who follow fire trucks to the
scene.
“If you do not have any
business at the scene of a fire,
don’t go there,” Brumlow said.
“All you will do is get in the
way and stand the chance of
getting yourself injured.”
KVFD Installation
Scheduled Jan. 26
New officers of the Kermit
Volunteer Fire Department will
be installed Friday, Jan. 26, at
the annual department banquet
and installation, according to
word from Fred W. Pearson,
president.
The affair will be held in
the Kermit Community Center
building starting at 7:15 p.m.
Members of the Fire Depart-
ment and their wives, plus a
number of city and county rep-
resentatives, will be on hand
for the banquet, Pearson added.
Highlight of the meeting will
be the presentation of service
pins to members for years of
service.
Winkler County Commission-
ers are expected to sell at least
$400,000 in improvement bonds
during a Commissioners Court
meeting Monday morning, ac
cording to County Judge W. E.
Cook.
The bonds, to finance im-
provements to Winkler County
Memorial Hospital and Winkler
County Public Library, were
approved by voters in a special
election last year. An additional
$150,000 in bonds for improving
Winkler County Airport also
may be sold, he added.
In addition to the bond sale,
Commissioners probably will
name three members of the
Hospital board during the meet-
ing. Terms of John F. Moore,
W. B. McCargo and H. D. Wes-
terman expire this month.
Columbian Securities Corpor-
ation, County fiscal agent, will
handle the actual sale of the
bonds, Cook said. The decision
on whether or not to sell the
airport bonds will depend up-
on the interest rates offered for
the other bonds.
Also scheduled for the 10
a.m. meeting are decisions on
salary adjustments for officers
of the Winkler County Sheriff’s
office and the possibility of
switching from private owner-
ship of vehicles for the deputies
to county-owned and maintain-
ed equipment.
Bonds for hospital improve-
ment and addition total $300,000
while library bonds amount to
$100,000. Plans call for a new
maternity wing, a new entrance
and large classroom - meeting
room to be constructed at the
hospital, in addition to exten-
sive remodeling and repairing
of the present structure.
At the library, space in the
library proper and also in the
offices of the County Agent and
County Home Demonstration
agent, whose offices are also in
the building, will be doubled.
20-30's Will Stage
Poll Tax Campaign
*
The Winkler County Chapter
of Active 20-30 International
this year is sponsoring a drive
to collect poll tax payments in
an effort to increase voting in-
terest, Brasell (Mac) McClure,
project chairman, has an-
nounced. ■
“We will be making calls to
downtown businesses and also
house to house in residential
areas from now until Jan. 31,
McClure said.
The program is aimed at af-
fording those who would other-
wise be unable to leave homes
or businesses during the time
the tax office is open the op
portunity to pay their poll tax.
Sharp Increase
In Juvenile
Crimes Reported
Juvenile offenses in Winkler
County took a sharp increase
during December, according to
the monthly report of Juvenile
Officer Jack Roe. There were
four official cases during the
month and 19 unofficial cases.
In his report to County Judge
W. E. Cook, Roe stated that
while official juvenile cases in
Winkler County declined in 1961,
the number of unofficial cases
showed an increase over 1960.
Roe said a final tally of the
number of offenses has not been
made as yet, but preliminary
figures support his statement.
Roe’s report showed five re-
peat offenders were handled by
the juvenile office. In addition
to the four official cases in De-
cember, four boys involved in
a series of offenses during the
New Year week end were taken
into juvenile court early in Jan-
uary. Two of those youths were
taken to the State School for
Boys at Gatesville.
There were 12 reports of
stealing and three instances of
vandalism during the month.
At the present time, Roe added,
there are 34 juveniles on pro-
bation. Seven youths were re-
leased from probation during
December. Six youths were de-
tained in the juvenile cells of
the Winkler County jail during
the month, too.
Johnny Garza, Sam Cates,
A. B. Johnson, E. E. Denney,
Paul Hollinshead, Glenn Ken-
ley and Harold Diller, working
on the team headed by Ed*
wards;
C. W. Wright, Carl Lawson,
Charles Brinkley, Jack Hopper,
George Godfrey, D. L. Handlin
and H. W. Taylor, working with
Lipham;
Marvin Owen, Leo Hobson,
Leon Rose, Vaughn Brinson,
L. R. Nutt, George D. Jones
and Fred Skaggs, members of
Burrows’ team;
Elmo Glass, C. H. Martin, Ed
Everest, J. A. Crossno, Nev
Williams Jr., Roy Peden and
Jim Bewley, on team captained
by Bell;
Nev Williams, W. E. Cook,
Leonard Heard, Harvey Mitch-
ell, R. Lee Roberson, Fayne
Mullen and J. L. Slaughter,
working with McGuire;
A. O. Thomas, Bill Eddins,
Jake Tarver, B. F. Meek Jr.,
Bill Hard, W. L. Jones and
A. C. Williams, all under Cowl-
ing;
George Finley, Don Tracy,
Vance Van Pelt, Frank Wil-
liams, C. R. Giller, Tom Ran-
dall and Roy E. Carter, com-
posing the members of Moore’s
team.
The banquet is scheduled fop
the Community Center at Ker-
mit Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 7:15
p.m. Dr. James H. Jauncey of
El Paso, preacher and scientist,
will speak at the affair.
In addition, the Chamber
award to Kermit’s outstanding
citizen of the year will be
made during the meeting. The
new officers and directors of
the Chamber will be intro-
duced, too.
KISD Census
Takers Making
Initial Contacts
Work on the annual census of
scholastics of Kermit Indepen-
dent School District is current-
ly under way, according. to
word from D. M. Mayer, direct-
or of instructional services for
the local school system.
“The census was started at
the first of January and we
hope the two enumerators will
have made all their contacts
by the end of this month,”
Mayer said. Reports must be
completed and turned in to the
State in March, he explained.
Taking the census in Kermit
are Mrs. L. L. Deaton and Mrs.
C. B. Barley. Both have worked
on previous KISD surveys for
a number of years.
“Any co-operation which you
can extend to these census tak-
ers will be gratefully appreci-
ated,” Mayer said. “They have
a big job to do and an import-
ant one for the school district.”
Information desired concerns
names and birth dates of all
children presently in school or
to enter school next year, and
the grade in school of young-
sters.
Jaycees Urge
Stand Against
Firm
Reds
DAMAGED S1REET—Photo above shows one of
many streets in Kermit which suffered damage from
-severe weather last week. City crews are breaking
open the streets, allowing the base to dry in prepara-
tion for overlaying them. Damage was result of freez-
ing of the base of streets. (News Staff Photo)
Members of Kermit Jaycees
joined with thousands of other
Jaycees around the Nation in
urging President John F. Ken-
nedy to take a firm stand
against enemies of the U. S.
as they approved a resolution
during a recent meeting.
The resolution, which was in-
itiated by the Grand Rapids,
Mich., Jaycee Club, was pass-
ed by unanimous action. Pass-
age of the paper by the local
civic organization was part of
a nationwide movement by Jay-
cees to let the President know
the feelings of “young men of
action” from 21 to 35 years
of age.
The proclamation, which will
be presented to President Ken-
nedy personally, read:
“We, the members of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Kermit, do strongly urge
that you, as our Commander-
in-Chief> take a firm stand not
only on the borders of West
Berlin, but elsewhere whenever
necessary -to insure our securi-
ty.
“With democracy now facing
its greatest challenge, our faith
all others to which we must
hold. We have a heritage that
we cannot and will not relin-
quish. There is no greater cause
to which we can dedicate our
lives. As Americans and as
members of the Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce, we pledge
our lives and our future to the
basic concepts upon which our
great country was founded.
“The Kermit Junior Chamber
of Commerce represents 25
‘young men of action’.”
An introduction to the proc-
lamation, which will also be
delivered to President Kennedy,
explains that before World War
II the Jaycees presented such
a petition demanding that the
draft be initiated.
It also says, “The time has
come for us to stand firm, and
in the face of deceit and treach-
ery live up to the heritage for
which our forefathers fought
and died. Our democracy now
faces its greatest challenge. We
must remain firm with the
right and strong with the might
if we are to survive. To those
who would avoid war at all
costs, we say avoid appease-
in God is the one hotoe above ment at all costs.”
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