The Rule Review (Rule, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1967 Page: 1 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Stamford Area Newspaper Collection and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Stamford Carnegie Library.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
VOLUME 61
IS-
CENTS PER COPY
"*4HP
NUMBER 22
The Story of Rule
The Pioneers^
Corner
(By E. J. CLOUD)
GEORGE B. TANNER
The above, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George W. Tanner, came
to Haskell County along with his
parents when he was a youth
of fifteen or sixteen years of
age. The Tanner family'came
to Haskell County during 1889
and some of the descendants
have lived here continuously
since then. Presumedly Mr.
Tanner ,was born in 1877 in Cor-
yell County, Texas and as above
stated, grew up in an undevel-
oped area where there was an
abundance of antelopes, wild
turkeys, many rattlesnakes and
hundreds of square miles of
prairie dog towns. Very little
farming was done here at the
time of the Tanner’s arrival.
The chief occupation was that of
cattle and sheep raising with a
minimum of farming opera-
tions.
George became a cowboy for
several years in which he did the
regular routine of branding,
doctoring and the driving of
cattle. As is generally known,
the country at that time was an
open range with very few fences.
During the branding season,
calves were usually branded as
were the mother cows, and if
there were no brands on the
mother cows, it was customary
to brand the calf so that the
finder could identify it as his
own.
Upon the declaration of war
against Spain during the latter
part of the nineteenth century,
young George enlisted in the
Field Artillery in order that he
might be of services to his coun-
try and, incidentally, that he
mlffiUsee a part of the world.
*^After what we today call “boot-
training”, he was sent to the
Phillipines and to China where
he took part in the Boxer Re-
bellion.
After his term of enlistment
terminated he returned home
during the early 1900’s and soon
afterwards he purchased a tract
of land across the river. The
place consisted of several hun-
dred acres. He put some of it
into a state of cultivation and he
left part of it as a pasture.
He thus became a stock-
farmer. But the young man con-
sidered it as being too lone-
some a life to live alone on his
stock-farm and diming 1908 he
married Miss Winnie Davis
Greenwade. They had a com-
fortable home on the place
where they lived until 1919 when
they moved to Anson where they
lived one year before returning
to Rule. Upon their moving back
to Rule, they constructed a
beautiful grey brick house in
the west central part of town
where they lived until Mr.
Tanner’s demise.
Mr. Tanner became identified
with Farmers State Bank of
Rule during the latter 1920’s as
a. director and he continued his
affiliation with the bank and its
successor — The Farmers Na-
Jr. High Names
Football Hero
And Sweetheart
Rule’s Jr. High football
sweetheart and hero were
chosen in after game activities
between the Rule Kittens and
the Rochester Yearlings Tues-
day night, October 17 on the
Kitten field.
The 1967 sweetheart, chosen
by the Kitten football squad
was Debra Denson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Den-
son. The hero, chosen by the
pepsquad, went to Rickey Nor-
wood, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Norwood.
Runners-up were Carrol
Miller and Don Hisey, first;
Gail Lott and Tommy Davis,
second.
*****
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Hert-
tenberger went to Abilene Sat-
urday on a wild goose chase.
*****
John McQuinn of Alpine spent
the weekend at home with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
McQuinn Sr. John Sr. had the
misfortune of breaking one of
his toes last week.
tional Bank as long as he lived.
Mr. Tanner served for four
years as a commissioner for his
precinct. He was interested in
the civic and educational wel-
fare of the community. He be-
came a member of the Church
of Christ.
During his years of activity,
he accumulated other reales-
tate, and he thus became a
substantial land-holder in the
community.
Mr. and Mrs. Tanner became
the parents of three daugh-
ters and one son: Dalia Tanner
Pounds of Lubbock; Miss Mable
George Tanner, who has worked
for The United States Weather
Bureau at Albuquerque, N. M.
since 1943; Martha Tanner Pratt
of Lubbock; and R. D. Tanner of
Rule. There is today one grand-
son, R. D. Tanner, Jr.
After Mr. Tanner’s passing
away during 1952, Mrs. Tanner
continued to make Rule her
home for a while. Upon her
selling the home in Rule, she
moved to Lubbock where she
still resides.
The Tanners played an im-
portant role in the growth and
development of this area.
'\* • '-'m/
f&vf i#
JAMES L. NORMAN
James Norman
Medical Student
At Galveston
James Lee Norman of Rule
is a member of the 1967 fresh -
man class at The University of
Texas Medical Branch in Gal-
veston. He is among 157 medical
students whose first - year
training will include courses in
anatomy, physiology, biochem-
istry, pathology, and psychobio-
logy.
The University of Texas
Medical Branch, oldest and
largest medical school in the
state with a faculty of approxi-
mately 400, has facilities for
more than 1,000 patients in its
various hospitals. Medical stu-
dents number 589, along with
172 nursing students, 29 in-
terns, 170 residents training
in the various specialty pro-
grams, 69 graduate students,
and 52 in the medical services
curricula.
Norman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Weldon Norman, Box 483,
is a 1967 graduate of The Uni-
versity of Texas with a B. A.
degree in Psychology.
*****
Museum To Hold
Open House Sun.
The Haskell Railroad
Museum will hold open house
Sunday, October 29th from 2 to
5 p.m. All persons intersted
are invited to attend and “look
over” the improvements and
different items of historical in-
terest.
Refreshments will be served.
*****
Iona Sellars of Fort Worth,
Tinker Barbee of Arlington,
and the C. B. Barbees of Bronte
visited relatives here over the
weekend.
*****
Mrs. David Halliburton, who
has been with her husband in
Louisanna was home a few days
last week with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Elgin Wright. They
attended the funeral of Jim
Wright In Rochester, Tuesday.
*****
CALL IN LOCALS
] 150 Farmers
Attend FB Co,
Convention
About 150 farmers and their
families attended the Farm
Bureau County Convention
meeting held Monday, Oct. 16th
in the Elementary School Bldg.
The invocation was given by
M. W. Phemister, who is now
serving as director from the
Weinert community. Pres. Dale
Middlebrook greeted the group
and introduced guests — in-
cluding Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Richards from Paducah. T. J.
Richards is Dist. ni Director —
for this area and gave some
interesting facts and figures
stressing the importance of
continued support of each local
group to better agricultural
living and the American Free
Enterprise.
Steve Livengood, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Homer Livengood
made an informative report on
his trip in August to the Texas
Farm Bureau Citizenship Semi-
nar at Baylor University in
Waco — which was sponsored by
the local organization. Steve
and Bill Ratliff, Jr. attended
from this county along with 400
other students from across the
state.
The nominating committee
composed of C. G. Hammer,
Chrm., Adell Thomas and Sam
Scott presented the following
names for the 5 directors to be
installed and their decision was
unanimously accepted by the
membership: J. W. Aycock for
Mattson community; Justin
Puesckel, Irby; and L. W. Nor-
man, Rule; Clinton Kimbrough
and John Hisey were re-elected
for Haskell and Jud com-
munities respectively. Hold-
over directors are Lee Cor-
nelius, Sagerton; Wilson Bean,
Rochester; R. G. Walton, i^aint
Creek and M. W. Phemister,
Weinert. .T.-ewi? Tbomrr.,.
vice president; J. P. Perrii^lst
vice president and C. Dale Mid-
dlebrook, president. Sixteen
Resolutions were voted on and
will be sent to the Texas Farm
Bureau state conventional Aus-
tin, next month.
The Paint Creek Play Boys
entertained with their usual toe-
tapping music enjoyed by all.
Sugar and coffee were the prizes
as drawn and Fred Klose won the
1st prize of a large Slow Moving
Vehicle Emblem, Pres. Middle-
brook advised.
3|C* jfcjfcjfc_
Funeral For
W. Stephens
Held Wed.
Funeral for Willie James
Stephens, 32, was held at 1p.m.
Wednesday at King Solomon
Baptist Church, the Rev. R. D.
Allen, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in Cedar Hill
Cemetery under direction of
Elliott’s Funeral Home.
Mr. Stephens, of 5249 Capitol
St., died following an accident
at Tye Truck Terminal Sundaj
morning.
Born March 28, 1935, in Ca-
meron, he married Nancy Ber-
nice Brown in Rule in 1956
and the couple moved to Abi-
lene shortly after that. He was
a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife;
three sons, Jimmy Dean, Willie
James Jr., and Jeffrey Wayne,
all of the home; parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. Stephens of Came-
ron; three brothers and five
sisters.
$$$$$
Zip Code Mail
Gets Attention
Postmaster Trice says: If
you want your mail to be speeded
to the utmost BE SURE that
ALL MAIL IS ZIP CODED,
please. Unless the mail is zip
coded it will BE DELAYED.
WE HAVE INSTRUCTIONS to
work all mail that has the ZIP
CODE on it FIRST. The mail
that is not zipcoded will be
thrown aside until the ZIP CODE
MAIL is worked and then it will
be worked, BUT IT MAY BE
DELAYED BY NOT having the
zip code on it.
*****
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bowles
spent the weekend In Loraine
and attended their homecoming.
Charles Bragg Succeeds Charles
Stenhohn As VP Of The RPCG
Charles Bragg, a native of
Tahoka, Texas has been em-
ployed as the new executive
vice president of the Rolling
Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.,
replacing Charles Stenholm who
is soon to become associate
manager of the Stamford Elec-
tric Cooperative.
Bragg is currently employed
by the USDA in Washington,
D. C. serving as acting head of
the Cotton, Peanuts and Tobac-
co branch of the Policy Pro-
motion Program and Appraisal
Division.
Bragg studied at Texas Tech
and, upon discharge from ser-
vice, farmed in Lynn County
for seven years. He then went
to work for the ASCS serving
as office manager in Lynn, Hut-
chinson and Lubbock counties
before moving to Washington,
D. C. three years ago.
Charles is 38 years of age
and he and his wife, Reba, have
one daughter. They are mem-
bers of the Baptist Church and
will make their home in Stam-
ford.
J. B. Cooper, Jr. of Roscoe,
President of RPCG stated “We
fell very fortunate to secure a
man of Charles' ability, quali-
fications and experience. He
will be a tremendous asset to
all the Rolling Plains.
ffWtiC ¥ I '
r L »* 2
?
rCWSflS I |
^ ~ J wv/i***^ an me riciins,
Rule Clobber! Valley View
TVlO PiiIa D « . .....
r
i Sciiitr.
t«****- j ymm
{ ■
"IT!
The Rule Bobcat’s and the
Valley View Warriors met on
Rule’s home field Friday night
October 21. The Bobcats came
up the victors over the War-
riors 53-12.
The game started with Rule
jumping out ahead with a 20
yard run by Charles Lott to
make the first touchdown of the
ballgame. Charles received
some first-rate blocking on his
run. Johnny Westbrook kicked
for the extra point which made
the score 7-0.
Rule regained the ball by
blocking a kick. Rule started
a drive for a touchdown and
Johnny Westbrook threw a fan-
tastic pass to Dwight Kinney
who ran 14 yards to make the
second touchdown of the ga’ne.
Johnny Westbrook kicked for he
extra points.
The third touchdown came
on with another pass of 35 yards
from Bobby Denison to Charles
Lott. The try for extra points
failed.
Valley View hit the score-
board when Mike Moore plunged
■;Toy§r_Jvm. the_
for Valley View’s first tally
of the game. Extra points at-
tempted was blocked by Rule’s
tough defensive line.
Rule chalked up another
touchdown when Johnny West-
brook hit Dwight Kinney
standing in the end zone. Try
for the extra points was good
when Johnny kicked.
Rule knocked off another six
points when Charles Lott inter-
cepted one of Valley View’s
passes and ran a 25 yard run.
Johnny Westbrook put his foot
to the ball for the extra points.
Valley View was able to get
through Rule’s rugged defensive
line to make their last tally
of the game. Timmy Moore
passed 5 yards to Gred Anull
who ran for 10 yards for a touch-
down.
The mighty Cats rolled up
another six points from a pass
from Bobby Denison to Donny
Barbee who was standing all
alone in pay dirt territory. The
extra points failed.
The Bobcats rattled the
scoreboard again when Bobby
Denison dived over the one
yard line. The extra points at-
tempted failed.
Paul Cornelius was deter-
mined to rattle the scoreboard
one more time when he ran a.
55 yard punt return all the way
to make the final tally of the
game. Johnny Westbrook made
a perfect kick for the extra
points.
Rule made a total of 17 first
downs to Valley View’s 12.
•Rule ran 286 yards and 68
yards of passing. Valley View
ran 115 yards and passed 74
yards. The passing average for
the Rule Bobcats was 6 out of
12. The Bobcats had 3 for 15
yards penalization and the War-
riors had 2 for 10 yards.
Lunchroom
Menu
MONDAY — Meat and maca-
roni, gravy, creamed potatoes,
green beans, cookies, butter,
'peach halves, milk.
^TUESDAY - Beans, spinach,
ion and pickle slices, buttered
f’.ornbread, fruit pies, milk.
[WEDNESDAY - Beef roast
Fr?yv.__jna.sbodk not^toe.1?..
ilickeye peas, fruit cup, rolls,
ratter, milk.
THURSDAY — Beef vegetable
:ew, french fries, congealed
fruit, cornbread, crackers,
I cookies, milk.
FRIDAY -Ham, tuna, pimento
cheese, and barbecue sand-
wiches, potato chips, combina-
tion salad, apple crisp, milk.
icsfc***
Guests in the< L, C. Wil-
liams home over the weekend
| were their daughter, Mrs. Lloyd
New and children of Abilene and
their son, Mr. and Mrs. Ervin
Williams and children of Abi-
lene.
*****
Olin Carothers returned
home from Haskell Hospital last
week.
ft*#**-
T
fp*II j Sifilitl* : J
v
J
Til fLM ■, •
IliifCIf Is
SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES of these twenty-eight counties, which is
known as the Rolling Plains Area, is the planning for the placement of a Research Center.
Area Representatives Hold Meeting
Thursday To Discuss Research Center
We believe it would be well
to inform the people of what a
Research Center actually con-
sists of, because there is the
dagger of confusion in the minds
of some, that the Center would
fee-jus^ another burden of work
and money spent with the bene-
fits going to only a few. Actual-
ly, as we understand it, the Re-
search Center, or Laboratory
if you choose, is designed to
help in any way possible, all
phases of work that will prove
profitable to the Rolling Plains
Area. Soil Analysis, crop, range
land, marketing and many other
factors will fall within the work
of the Research.
At a meeting held last Thurs-
day in the High School lunch-
room in Munday with repre-
senatives from neighboring
counties of Hardeman, Haskell,
Baylor, Mitchell, Throckmor
ton, Jones and from various
lieve this is an ideal site for
the Research Center, as there
is in the immediate vicinity,
almost every type soil needed
for study. There is both irri-
gated and dry farm land, range
land and cattle; vegetables of
many varieties are grown here
on a commercial basis, and as
can be noted, from the map
which was displayed at the
meeting, Munday is well within
the perimeter of being centrally
located.
There was quite a discussion
on our potentials of acquiring
the Center and the necessary
steps needed to follow up our
bid for the location site. One
remark was pointed out that
there are several ways to ac-
? Daylight
Savings Time
towns in Knox County, the bid
for the Research Center to be _ _ -
placed in Munday was stressed. SlOlU^Y
We, of the Munday area, be-
Mrs. Emor Daughtry Dies,
Rites Held Tues; Oct. 24
Virginia Haterius
Crowns New Miss
Cotton Queen
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Pinkard
of Rule and Mrs. Birger Ha-
terius of Stamford met Vir-
ginia Haterius of Canyon in
Dallas this weekend where she
crowned the new Miss Texas
Cotton Queen who is from Cros-
byton. The first runner-up was
Miss Penny Patton of Weinert.
Haskell County is well repre-
sented in Cotton Contest as we
won first place last year and
second place this year.
The Pinkards and Mrs. Ha-
terius also visited Mr. and
Mrs. Ronnie May and Jessica
in Euless.
*****
Mrs. Sue Olson
Continues Study
Mrs. Sue Olson, formerly
Sue Hertel, of Marshall, Texas,
after acquiring her high school
diploma since her marriage,
is now continuing her studies
at a college in Carthage.
Her husband, Raymond Olson,
formerly of Stamford, is pastor
at Good Sheppard Lutheran
Church in Marshall.
They are the parents of two
children, Laura, 5, and Kelly,
3.
Mrs. Olson is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hertel.
Mrs. Emor Allie Daughtry,
87, died at 12:25 a.m. Monday
in an Abilene nursing home
following a lengthy illness.
| Services were held at 2
p.m. Tuasday at First Baptist
Church, the Rev. Mike Herring-
ton, pastor, officiating, assisted
by the Rev. Manuel Reynolds,
pastor of First Methodist
Church.
Burial was in the Rule Ceme-
tery under direction of Pinkard
Funeral Home.
Born April 4, 1880, in Mis-
sissippi, she lived in the Rule
community from 1905 until she
NOTICE
The dishes that were brought
to the home of E. B. Lusk can
be picked up in the kitchen at
Sweet Home Church.
*****
A.B. Arnetts Attend
Rose Festival Sat.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Arnett
and granddaughter, Elizabeth
Arnett of Knox City, spent
Friday night with their daugh-
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Rose
and boys in Fort Worth. On
Safurday they attended the Rose
Festival at Tyler. Mrs. Arnett
described the one and one half
hour parade as very interesting
and colorful. The parade con-
sis ted of twenty-five bands with
members wearing very bril-
it uniforms. The parade was
by the Apache Bells.
moved to Abilene in 1959. She
was a member of the Metho-
dist Church.
Survivors include one daugh-
ter, Mrs. William Henry of
Abilene and one son, J. L.
Daughtry of Rule, 10 grand-
children and 14 great-grand-
children.
Kitten Kapers
Thursday night the Kittens
played Rochester. The Kittens
extended their winnings by an-
other victory. They pounced'
upon Rochester 24-6.
Cato Macias, Don Hisey and
Rickey Lehrmann made the
touchdowns, Rickey Norwood
and Cato Macias ran the extra
points. On several plays the B
team did an outstanding job also.
All boys who suited out got to
play in the clash.
Tonight the Kittens will be out
to claim another victory. The
team travels to Aspermont to
lock horns with the Jr. High
there at 5:30 p.m.
Make plans to see this game
at Aspermont for the Kittens
will need all the support they
can get.
*****
Mrs. Nan Simpson and Mrs.
Joy Jones were in Canyon
Thursday where they attended
the Powder Puff football game.
Beth Simpson returned home
with them for the weekend.
*****
Cheryl Counts of ACC spent
the weekend with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Counts.
October 29 is the day! After
a long rushing summer of meet-
ing ourselves in everyday ac-
tivities it will be a pleasure to
turn our clocks back one hour
and get back on our own stan-
dard time. An extra hour of
rest or leisure time might be
the right prescription for many
of our gripes and groans.
Anyway, Daylight Savings
Time officially ends at 2 a.m.
October 29 and the clock in this
household will go back one hour
before retiring on October 28.
Speaking of time - It’s here
again. Time of year not to cross
the path of a gin hand. From
the familiar continuous hum of
the gins both night ..and day
leads us to believe the ‘season’
is in full swing. Round the
clock work will probably con-
tinue as long as the weather
conditions will permit.
And speaking of work - As
I walked into the Review of-
fice Monday I found to my sur-
prise a newly arranged office.
Tommy Herring and son, Ran-
dy, had spent long hours of hard
work during the weekend re-
doing and rearranging to make
a more comfortable place to
work In. This I appreciate!
There are a few things yet to
be done but you are invited to
come by and view the change
and maybe leave a bit of news!
*****
Mr. and Mrs. John Dominey
enjoyed the visit of their old
time friends, Mr. and Mrs.
Delmer Singleton of DeLeon,
Sunday.
*****
Mrs. Allie Mae Anderson,
Mrs. Lucy Fulbright, and Mrs.
Arra M. McDonald spent Satur-
day and Sunday with their broth-
er and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Singleton and family in
Sundown. He has been ill the
last few weeks.
quire assistance, but primarily,
the best way to get help is help,
ourselves.
The factor of cooperation
within the entire area of the
Rolling Plains, of which the
Research Center V/ill serve,'
should be emphasized. A re-
mark was made at the meet-
ing that reflected the lack of
communities working together
on past issues. We hope our
stumbling blocks of the past
can be stepping stones for fu-
ture development of our terri-
tory with neighbors working
together.
Representatives from other
Counties were very cooperative
and interested. It was decided
to organize a committee, com-
posed of two members from
each county, to represent the
area. At least six, of the above
mentioned, did organize with the
promise of consideration from
others.
Another meeting date was de-
cided upon in the near future
to further study our plans for
the placement of the Research
Center in Munday, and to com-
plete formation of this steering
Committee and formulate a plan
of work for them to follow.
It will certainly be an asset to
the town that can locate it and
we know our leaders are well
aware of this fact. Much time
and effort will be necessary
even for the “groundwork” and
the best way we can express
our gratitude to those that are
working is to give sincere sup-
port.
*****
Booster Club To
Meet At 7, Mon.
Are we letting our football
boys down? Only a handful
turned out for the Booster Club
meeting this past Monday night.
Seems that we could sacrifice
a little more, attend these meet-
ings and show our boys that we
appreciate their sacrificing for
us with their efforts in con-
tinous, faithful workouts and
hard play.
The Booster Club meets again
Monday night at 7 p.m. in the
school cafeteria. (Notice the
change from 8 to 7 p.m.)
Make an effort to be there
for they need our support!
*****
Velda Carter returned home
last week from the Stamford
Hospital.
*****
Mrs. Alton Ross, Pam and
Johnny spent Sunday visiting
her daughter and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Marion Singleton, in
Plainview.
*****
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Abbott
of Albany spent Sunday with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Dominey.
X
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Barbee, Ruby. The Rule Review (Rule, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1967, newspaper, October 26, 1967; Rule, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982309/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.