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Mlonofllm 3ervioe 8c SlecCc Bnz PQ66 'Joxao Coryell County's HOME NEWSpaper For More than 70 Years Cantaloupes At Mound (irow Siamese Stjle See Page 5 AND STAR-FORUM Catesvilla Messenger, Vol. 17 Catesvilla Star-Forum, Vol. 24 Consolidated September 20th, 1907 GATES VILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1958 10c Par Copy VOLUME 51 NO. 1 Extra Innings for Candidates Evanf Fmnlnvs Contract Is Let XX Greer as New For New Addition ounxun To Negro School Siv POSTAL RATES acnooi tniei Fred Greer, 30, head of the Pon arhnkl tuir1 Mai). Duels Loom August day voted to accept Ji $1,444 bid LJ der public schools, Monday night was named the new superintendent '111 of the Evant school system.

He on the construction of a new room for the colored school building here. Winning the contract with succeeds Paul Hilburn, who resign ed to accept the principalship of the low bid wii Porter Adams, lo More than 3,300 votes cast In Dimmitt High School. cal builder. Work on the project Coryell's Democratic primary elec-will start Immediately. tion Saturday failed to resolve four Buckner, who carried the Jones-boro box.

Below are the official returns: For Commissioner Precinct 4 Greer, who holds bachelor's and master's degrees in education from North Texas State College, will assume his new duties in August The trustees also set Aug. 15 as I of the five local contests on the date for opening bids on the ket Winners will be decided in the He is married and has two child sale of school properties at Fid- second primary Aug. 23. coke and Coryell City. Disposition Leading in the hotly-contested of the school building at Mountain county judge'i race, credited with was postponed.

spurring the unexpected large num- ren. Greer has been superintendent of the Ponder schools, located near 'iWt i i The Pldcoke property consists of ber of voters to the polls, were Denton, for the last three years. C. E. Gandy and Norman Storm Only 128 votes separated the two The Evant school board also fil a large stone building and 13 acres of land.

At Coryell City there's a brick building and a B-room frame teacberage on a 3-acre plot The board is reserving the right to re Others earning run-off berths led two other faculty vacancies. Named principal and assistant foot xv V. '-A Gatesville, Ward 1 318 336 Jonesboro 63 30 Turnersville 40 79 Absentee 23 25 berths were Bill Shannon and H. ball coach was B. K.

Whiteside, who comet to Evant from Cam A. Leaverton for state represent ject any and all bids. eron. He succeeds Rodney Love tive, Roy Evetta and Dick Payne for Precinct 2 commissioner, and TOTALS 444 470 Budget hearing for- 1958-59 Is who resigned last June. C.

W. Turner and Barney Preston scheduled for 8 p. m. Aug. 19 in New head athletic coach is Her In Precinct 2's justice of the peace race, incumbent George Mil for justice of the peace in Precinct the high school building.

man Anderson, assistant coach at 2. Granbury last year. J. E. Green Supt L.

McKamie said the faculty for the new term is just Closest race was in Precinct 4, ler, veteran officeholder who is in ill health, finished third in the three-man field. Turner led with 630 votes, Preston had 550 and the Evant football coach the last two years, remains on the faculty where Commissioner Cleo Carroll bout complete. T. Petsick has resigned from the elementary won another term by edging Jeff as a classroom teacher. Anderson school faculty.

takes the place of R. B. Forrest, Buckner by 28 votes. Carroll garnered 470 votes, Buckner 444. Miller 367.

Turner's strongest showing was in Gatesville's Ward 2. The board voted down a propos new principal at Levita. The results: Stoney Hammack received 894 al to build additional dressing room facilities at Holmes Stadium votes in winning the justice of the For Justice of Peace W. W. Callan Buys Estomated cost of the project was peace office in Precinct 4.

He was Precinct 2 Big Lander Ranch unopposed $1,500. In state races, Coryell voters pretty well rode with the winners W. W. Callan, Waco trucking executive and prominent breeder of They accorded smashing margins Burglars Strike At Round Up Cafe Santa Gertridus cattle, has pur to Governor Price Daniel and Sen ator Ralph Yarborough in their chased the sprawling Lander Ranch eight miles southwest of Gates PRICES GOING UP Postmaster Hal Anderson posts a sign in the post office blaring news of the postal rate hikes which go into efftct today. triumphant sweeps to re-election.

More than $90 was the haul en- Yarborough's margin over Bill ville on F-M Hwy. 116. The sale was announced by Os cineered by burglars in a raid on the Round Up Cafe last Friday Blakley was nearly 2 to 1. Four-Cent Stamp Gatesville, Ward 2 240 251 381 Pidcoke 16 3 12 Flat 59 19 47 Mound 30 12 19 Copperas Cove' 139 41 95 The Grove 12 6 37 Leon Junction 27 9. 23 Absentee 27 26 16 car M.

Lander of the Lander Trust which had owned the ranch since 1950. Lander said a program of brush control and sowing of clov night The cafe is located on West Mrs. Nell Blanchard, first wo-Main Street only a block off the man to campaign for the office of square. county judge in this county, re- Retail Sales Scale New Peak Here in '57 Becomes the No. 1 Officers say the cafe was enter- ceived only 452 votes but that was ed through a window.

The thieves enough to force a run-off between ers and native grasses had been carried out on the big ranch. The Landers also developed herd of leaders Gandy and Storm. Gandy rifled the cash drawer and broke open a cigarette-dispensing ma had big leads at Turnersville, Leon TOTALS ..550 367 630 Seller Today Junction and Pearl, and carried chine. Santa Gertridus cattle there. Callan, founder of Central Freight Lines, operates a pure Gatesville's Ward 2 by 97 votes.

Unofficial totals from' over the The Round Up robbery happen Coryell County, playing catch Storm ran strongly at Copperas four-county 62nd District for the bred Santa Gertridus ranch south ed only five nights after thieves Four cents instead of three cents up as a result of the demise of Cove, Harmon and Evant and car looted five soft-drink dispensing representative's race showed Shan- of Waco. He will carry on a similar on first class letters. the long-standing drouth, pushed ried Gatesville's Ward 1, 308 votes retail sales to a new high of beven cents instead of six on machines at a food store and service stations at the Highway 84-36 non well aoead with 5,180 votes, operation at his newly-acquired Leaverton next with 3,764, and Kal ranch in Coryell County, Lander to Candy's 298, air mail letters. 544,000 during 1957. That's according to figures developed by the Below are the official returns in East Gatesville.

Segrist third with 3,086 votes. Shan- said Three cents instead of two cents in the race: Sales Management magazine and quoted in a publication by the West Texas Chamber of Commer ce. Last year's sales bettered by nearly $1.7 million the 19o6 total of $14,873,000. In 1955 Coryell's retail sales were $14,256,000. For neighboring counties, retail sales in 1957 were: Lampasas, Bosque, and Hamilton, $7,694,000.

non swept Erath County and also Also stolen last Friday night was on postal cards. a 1949 model automobile belonging For County Judge Those are the postage rate hikes, ICoryell County in his bid flew School Term ALL-STAR GAME TONIGHT effective today, which will affect erton had a big lead in Hamilton ITo Open Sept. most users of the U. S. mails.

to Buddy Franks. It was parked in front of Scott's Funeral Home on Leon St. A police alarm was spread but officers have been unable to county, county-by county results Postmaster Hal Anderson point I I 2 5 to ed out that the jump is the first Messengers Tie For Teenage Title locate the car. A student body numbering 1,500 will troop back to classes in Gatesville's public schools come Tuesday, Sept. 2.

Opening date of general increase in mail rates in are: Coryell Segrist, 961; Leaver-tori, 847; Shannon, 1233. Erath Segrist, 815; Leaverton, A Moody man arrested Monday night pleaded guilty to a hot-check 25 years. He also said the five-cent penalty charged for delivering mail on which postage is due in effect the 1958-59 term was announced Gatesville, Coryell Democrats charge and paid $22.45 fine and 685; Shannon, 2535. this week. Ward 1 308 298 59 since July 1 will be suspended for The Gatesville Messengers base costs in county court Tuesday.

He Hamilton Segrist; 300; Leaver- Supt. C. McKamie said work Gatesville, three months. ball team was rocked by McGre also paid off his $35 worthless men have been busy all summer Ward 2 349 99 gor's Herefords, 7-0, in McGregor check which led to the charge Oglesby 57 "This is to give folks a chance to get used to the new rates with ton, 1253; Shannon, 480. Bosque Segrist, 1010; Leaver-ton, 979; Shannon, 932.

Wednesday night. The Hereford getting the school plant in shape for the new term. The old high school building is being completely Blast DOT During Precinct Parleys Osage 27 Coryell City 24 out having to pay the penalty, triumph overcame a half-game Mes Here is how the representative the postmaster explained. "It goes senger lead and left the two teams Ted Foote Is GOP Nominee for Judge Slater 8 remodeled. candidates fared in Coryell back into effect Nov.

1." 22 11 10 2 14 15 0 43 3 deadlocked for the top at the end of the regular Tri-County Junior Purmela 37 Levita 10 Pidcoke 10 446 57 14 16 14 28 28 23 51 25 22 43 59 Old postal cards and stamped envelopes sold by the post 'office Ted Foote, Gatesville attorney, Teenage League campaign. Missourians Ending Stay at North Hood For State Representative may still be used by sticking a A sudden-death play-off game one-cent stamp on them. was to have been staged Thursday Flat 53 Arnett 18 Cave Creek 5 The new rate schedule also Missouri National Guard tank night. 4 won nomination as the Republicans' candidate for county judge Saturday, when he received all 15 votes cast in the first GOP primary every held here. Tom P.

Thomson was re-elected the Republicans' county -chairman means that third-class mail, in 9 At 8 p. m. tonight at the Lions eluding unsealed greeting cards units, comprising 800 men, will pull out of North Fort Hood this week end after holding a two-week Anti-DOT Democrats many of them recognized as conservatives will be in the saddle in tomorrow's Democratic county convention. It will be held in the district courtroom and will begin at 2 p. m.

The two TGatesviire precinctsT which carry 54 of the county's 120 unanimously adopted resolutions condemning the DOT in pre Mound 19 Copperas Cove 203 The Grove 15- 38 7i -J in League Park, the Sims Radio-TV championship crew will take on an and the smaller merchandise par- 3L. eels," will cost three cents for the training camp there. Jonesboro 42 all-star team from five other clubs with 14 votes. Four GOP state first two ounces and lVz cent more in Gatesville's Little League. The Now at North Hood, and due to be there for another week, are 900 candidates were given practically for each additional ounce.

Gatesville, Sims crew won ten straight games unanimous totals. -15 13 3 11 13 20 21 16 There have also been some chan 176 195 255 in pee-wee competition. troops of the 406th Engineer Bri gads. Army Reserve. Their Chap For precinct committeeman, Roy Ward 1 Gatesville.

39 4 16 .41 28 77 52 4 82 ges in rates on mail to foreign countries. Letters to Canada and Jim Miller maaages the Sims en Harmon 24 Ireland 5 Leon Junction 13 Evant 52 Turnersville 25 Pearl 25 Whitson 3 Absentee 38 Ward 2 236 302 lain, Lt. Col. Alfred Kline, was the principal speaker at Wednesday's try, Paul Dean will direct the All- cinct conventions Saturday and instructed their delegates to the county session to vote under the unit rule. 305 45 19 Mexico take the same postage as domestic, letters.

Surface mail to Stars. Oglesby 64 21 Osage 23 6 M. Phillips Jr. got five votes and Mrs. Gaines Saunders three votes in Precinct 1, and Thomson got three in Precinct 25.

Thomson said that "Phillips will probably disqualify Lions Club luncheon here. The Lions Club will stage its an 3 8 most other countries will require 18 Political observers are predic nual ice cream party feting the eight cents for the first ounce and Meeks in Lebanon baseballers, their parents, man himself because he is a postal em. ting that Saturday the Democrats will stickwith anti-DOT re-. five cents for each additional oun 24 agers, umpires, at 8 p. ployee and in the event he does, ce.

TOTALS 1370 1498 452 Roy Evetts led the field in Pre Friday, Aug. 8, in Raby Park. A- Saunders will be declared There has been no change in solutions and pick a "conservative" slate' of ten delegates to send to the state convention, which meets wards will be presented; and the committeewoman in Precinct 1 cinct 2's commissioner race with parcel post rates. Pfc. Dean Meeks, who has been stationed in Germany with a U.

S. airborne division, arrived in Beirut, Lebanon, last week. In a letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. winning teams will be recognized, The Republicans will hold their 677 votes to Dick Payne's 560, Er Information on any of the chan 29 16 62 26 16 32 127 in San Antonio Sept.

9. county convention, at 8 a. m. Sat nest Huey's 327 and Kenneth Trum ges may be obtained from the lo Price Bauman chairmaned the urday in the Tom P. Thomson 104 Is Summer's cal post office.

precinct convention in Ward 1, Coryell City 26 3 Slater 4 9 Purmela 24 21 Levita 7 8 Pidcoke 5 6 Flat 47 25 Arnett 7 7 Cave Creek 4 7 Mound 12 16 Copperas Cove 119 25 The Grove 25 1 Jonesboro 33 17 Harmon 4 6 Ireland 12 6 Leon Junction 22 5 Evant- 6 80 Turnersville 50 20 Pearl 13 28 home, 401 Grandview Drive. ble's 89. Copperas Cove and Flat gave Evetts sizeable margins, while Payne collected 359 votes in Gates Temperature High M. D. Meeks of Rt.

3, Gatesville, he reported that things in Beirut are "quiet" and that there is a big force of U. S. Marines there along Jim McClellan was the chairman in Ward 2. The resolutions adopted 192 Goats Ticketed ville's Ward 2. Unrelenting sun that has baked by these two sessions were identi 24 28 19 10 For Show, Sale Here 5 Drafted Thursday; 4 More Go Aug.

7 Below are the official returns with the. paratroopers. cal. They were: Coryell County for the past week pushed the temperature up to 104 here Wednesday the high so far No. 1 "Whereas, Art.

13.57 of Arrangements are moving full steam ahead these days for a big Five Coryell-Hamilton draft reg in the race: For Commissioner Precinct 2 Wallace Promoted the Texas Election Code states 'no new political party shall assume for summer, '58. It was the sixth 41 the name of any pre-existing par istrants were inducted at Abilene Thursday to fill the local Selective Service call for July. They were Angora goat show and sale to be staged at the 'Coryell Community Center here Aug. 15-16. This e- consecutive day the mercury had passed the century mark.

The max 34 Tommy Wallace of. Washington, D. son of Mrs. C. H.

Wallace of Gatesville, has recently been pro 41 Whitson 3 i 2 imum temperature figures were Charles Winifred Stubbs and Emil vent is sponsored by the Texas An fr Friday-10r; Saturday-lOl- Sun Absentee 39 33 50 moted to the Senate Preparedness ty and whereas the flagrant and unauthorized use of the name 'Democrats of Texas' by the DOT splinter group has caused confusion, distrust and disorganization, within the party and is contrary Tyson Stubbs of Jonesboro, Donald Dean Wright and Robert Dun day 102; Tuesday 103 Investigating Subcommittee, head and: the Gatesville Chamber of TOTALS 961 847 1233 Wednesday 104. ed by Sen. Lyndon Johnson. This is can Chambers of Gatesville; and Commerce. 2 a.

iu Maurice Francis Young of Belton. The 157 billies and 35 does will a subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Price Daniel piled up 2,196 votes Gatesville, go on parade at the Center at 1 Four more will be drafted Aug, 7. for governor as W. Lee Pappy 0'- Ward 2.

p. m. Friday, Aug. 15. The sale Returns from San Francisco Seven registrants were sent to Pidcoke Daniel, for the first time in his political career, failed to carry will start at 1 p.

m. the following 4 2 0 day. Miss Frances Good all returned Flat Mound this county. ODaniel had 908 votes; Henry B. Gonzales, 99: and Joe A.

Saturday from San Francisco, 254 8 16 14 20 1 6 8 270 17 100 26 185 32 33 14 .359 5 37 33 20 30 26 .50 ALV1S HOLDING OWN4 where she attended the Na Copperas Cove The Grove irwin, 84. 79 0 0 tional Library Conference. Ralph Yarborough, who has al C. E. Alvls, retired Gatesville to law; therefore be it resolved: that this convention condemns the attempted usurpation of the name of the 'Democratic Party of Texas' by the DOT and demands, that the use of such name be No.

2 this convention favors majority rule in the Democratic party of Texas and approves the Majority Rule Code of Conduct adopted by the State Democratic Executive Committee to in-S DEMOCRATS, Back Page, This Section Voters Attention In this issue of The Messenger there appears the full text of five, of the nine constitutional amendments to be voted on at the general election Nov. 4. So that you may be fully informed we urge that you read each proposed measure in its entirety, and study all of them carefully before you go to the polls to cast your vote. Leon Junction Absentee merchant who has been seriously 1 Abilene yesterday for physical examinations, and nine more will go Aug. 7.

r. WILL RUTHERFORD ILL Will Rutherford, retired Gatesville barber, is critically ill in the Coryell Memorial Hospital. He suffered a heart attack at his home Monday. Thursday reports were that his condition was some ways run well In Coryell. County, did better than ever this trip.

He amassed 2,076 votes to 1494 for ill in Scott and White Hospital, his opponent Bill TOTALS 560 677 327 89 A strong showing at Turnersville Back from South Carolina Mr. and Mrs. Mack Morris and daughter, Shelly, have returned to their home here after visiting with relatives and friends in South Carolina. Temple, for more than two weeks, is said by relatives to be "holding his own. Hospital reports were that he had a restless day Wed Coryell County went for George enabled Carroll to win the com-missionership in Precinct 4 over Sm election.

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