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THE ASPERMONT STAR
VOL. 71, NO. 13
ASPERMONT, STONEWALL COUNTY, TEXAS 79502, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1970
PRICE TEN (10) CENTS
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Yesteryears
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
(January 10, 1935)
TheAspermont Hornet basket-
ball team captured the Dickens City
invitation tournament Saturday night
by defeating Jayton in the finals by
a score of 19-15. Scoring honors
were fairly well divided with McCas-
land leading with eight points and
Rash and Comer with five each.
Idalou was played Friday night
in the first round with Aspermont
winning 30-14. McCasland was high
pointman with 11. Dickens City was
met in the second round Saturday
morning, with Aspermont winning
28-15. McCasland was again high
point man with 15.
In the semi-final round Asper-
mont defeated Peacock in the best
defensive show of the tournament,
holding them to six points while
making 23. Comer was high point
man with eight.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
(January 6, 1950)
The Aspermont Green Hornets
by employing some very fast ball
playing won their own tournament
here the past week end.
The victory came at the hands
of their blood rivals the college all-
stars from Swenson.
Avoca placed consolation.
All receipts of the games above
the actual cost of the '.ournament
went into the school athletic fund.
One of the players informs the Star
there was a net profit to the school,
of more than $40 for the use of the
of the gym the three days.
These Green Hornets (All-Stars)
have one of the fastest teams in this
section of the State.
TEN YEARS AGO
(January 7, 1960)
Both boys and girls teams of
Aspermont High School were final-
ists in the invitational basketball
tournament, which was held in Trent
over the past week-end.
Coach Bill Teel reports that all
games were unusually good, and that
the local teams brought back two fine
trophies to be added to the growing
collection. Aspermont boys won the
tournament by defeating Noodle,
Westbrook, and Trent. The girls
lost in the final game to be runners
up to Trent, for winning honors the
girls played games against Noodle,
Winters, and Trent.
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THE SCENE LAST WEEK-These pictures
were taken near Haskell. The worst ice
storm since 1926 disrupted telephone ser-
vice to more than 25 towns in this area.
General Telephone Company had 200 extra
Telephone Co. Crews Working
Around the Clock to Restore Lines
"General Telephone Com-
pany is maintaining work
crews around the clock to re-
store telephone service knock-
ed out by the ice storm that
covered most of this area,"
Harlan Jones, division man-
ager, said.
Of the more than 5,000
customers who lost telephone
communications, it is esti-
mated that 3,000 have yet to
be restored. Ninety percent
Rule Services Held
Friday for Mrs.
Mattie Norman
Rule — Mrs. Maine uin-
non Norman, 8G, died at 11
p.m. Wednesday in the Hask-
ell Memorial Hospital, where
she had been a patient for
14 days.
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Friday in the First
Baptist Church in Rule with
Mike Herrington, pastor, and
Dr. Harry Sarles, pastor First
Presbyterian Church in Hask-
ell and Rule, officiating.
Burial was in Rule Ceme-
tery under direction of Pink-
ard Funeral Home in Rule.
Mrs. Norman was born
March 23, 1883, in Burnt it
County and married Lawrence
Morrow in 1906. He died in
1915. She married Virgil
Norman in 1945. Mr. Norman
died Jan. 17, 1949.
Survivors include three
nieces, Mrs. Warren Frazier
of Aspermont, Mrs. Ernest
Rogers of Andrews and Mrs.
Truman Barbee of Rule; three
nephews, Lee Webb of Rule,
Alvin Senn of Lubbock and
Weldon Webb of Dallas.
Pall-bearers were Weldon
Norman, Travis Self Doyle
Nonnan, John MeQuinn, Den-
sil Barbee, A. V. Town send,
J. R. Barbee and Don Davis
of these were to Ik? restored
or partially restored, by Fri-
day, January 2, 1970.
The I laskell-Rule-Asper-
mont area is the hardest hit
and a portable microwave
unit was installed between
Haskell and Rjle. This micro-
wave unit temporarily re-
stored long distance service
for Aspermont, Rule, Knox
City, Rochester and O'Brien.
There are 100 repairmen
working at restoring service.
Contractor crews and company
personnel have been called
in from as far away as Tex-
arkana and other Texas cities.
"Many of the repairs that
have been made since the
storm arc only temporary,
aimed at quick restoration of
service. Then when the pres-
sure is off, crews will have
to go back and make perman-
ent corrections to many of
the lines," Jones noted.
James Branch
Elected President
Of Fire Department
The Aspermont Volunteer
Fire Department elected of-
ficers Monday night at their
regular meeting.
They are James Branch,
president, Buddy McNutt,
vice-president; Don Welch,
secretary-reporter; Bill Mar-
tin, treasurer: Wayne Thig-
pen, Fire Chief; Harold Mc-
Nutt, assistant Fire Chief;
Ton Hannis, Fire Marshall
and James Suggs, chaplain.
To Meet Tonight
Cap-noll and Milo gaurd
will be the program topic
presented by Ma-. Reynolds,
at the Young Farmers meet-
ing Thursday Jan. S at 7:30
p.m in tin' Vocational Agri-
culture building.
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crewmen in the area restoring service. In
many instances only tempory repairs were
made. Another two weeks will be needed be-
fore everything is back to normal, company
officials report.
Ranchers Urged to 'Winterize'
Cow Herds By Local Ag Teachers
The autumn months for the
cow-calf producer should, be
likened to the squirrel gath-
ering nuts for the winter
ahead or the service station
attendant who prepares your
car for the cold winter months
with anti-freeze, etc. Now is
the time to "winterize" your
cow herd for the long pull
until spring grass.
The most important animal
the cowman owns is his bull,
and eary fall is an ideal time
to evaluate your bulls. Look
at them objectively and cull
out the old. injured, or in-
ferior bulls, then "fertility
test" the balance. Most vet-
erinarians will do this for a
reasonable fee, and they can
examine your bulls for repro-
ductive soundness a", well as
semen evaluation. After the
unfit bulls are determined,
the rancehr still has plenty
of time to shop for new bulls
before the usual winter or
spring breeding season. In-
sist that all bulls be fertility
tested before they are pur-
chased and moved to your
farm or ranch. The risk of
using a lowly fertile bull is
not worth the gamble.
According to Mr. Cochran
and Mr. Teichelman, vocation-
al agriculture teachers at
AspJfmont High School, mass
fertility testing of bull", in
the county would make an
excellent project for local
Young Farmer Chapters or
other county organizations to
sponsor each year.
The cow, like the hull, should
also be inventoried and "win-
terized" each fall. A sys-
tematic, cold-blooded, business-
like appraisal should be made
of each cow She should be
cheeked for pregnancy, tooth-
ed, horns tipped or dehorned,
given any necessary vacci-
nations, Vitamin A shot, eyes
and udders checked, ear
ticked, spot drenched for
stomach worms if needed, and
topped off with a good spray-
ing for external parasites. Do
not use a systemic spray or
pour-on at this time. Each
cow should be numbered or
identified in some practical
manner
J. T. (Hap) Hill
Files for Precinct
Four Commissioner
J. T. (Hap) Hill has author-
ized the Aspermont Star to
announce that he is a candi-
date for the office of Stone-
wall County Commissioner
from Precinct Number 4.
He will make a formal
statement at a later date.
Joe E. Meador
Seeks District,
County Clerk Post
Joe E. Meador has author-
ized the Asjjermont Star that
he will be a candidate for the
office of County and District
Clerk
He will make a formal
statement at a later date.
Mid-Term Test
Schedule Told
/vs|>ermont High School
students will continue mid-
term tests "oday (Thursday!
with the firs*, third and fifth
period classes having exami-
nations today and periods
two, four and six on Friday.
Period seven classes were
tested from 2 41 to 3:36 .Inn
6 and 7.
School will be dismissed at
2:30 p.m. today and Friday
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Hornets Open District
Play With Roscoe Win
The Aspermont Hornets
opened district play here
Tuesday night with 47-40 win
over the Roscoe Plowboys.
Jackie Ray hit 20 points to
School Census
Set During Jan.
School census will be ta-
ken during the month of
January, 1970. All school age
students that were born af-
ter September 1, 1952, or
before September 1, 1964 must
be enumerated,
Also it is very important
that the school have the
names and birthdays of all
children that became six
yc..rs old before September
1, 1970. This information is
very essential to the plan-
ning for next year's first
grade pupils. Please submit
this Information to Burel
Jameson, principal. Phone
9S9-2707.
lead the HorneL scoring.
Roscoe won the girl's game,
43-42.
Friday night the local
teams will travel to Wylie
and Tuesday they will host
Robert Lee.
H. A. Tunnell, 51,
Dies At Peacock
Home Thursday
11. A. Tunnen, 51, died at
7:30 p.m. Thursday at his
home in Peacock- after suffer-
ing an apparent heart attack.
Funeral was held at 2:30
p.m. Sunday at the First
Baptist Church with the
Rev. James Wood, pastor of
the Central Baptist Church,
officiating.
Burial was in Double Moun-
tain Cemetery under the di-
rection of Littlepage Funeral
Home.
lie was born Feb. 1G, 1918,
in Spark, Okla. He was a re-
tired railroad employee and
veteran of World War II. He
was a member of the Baptist
Church. He married Dessie
Shcrrod Jan. 22, 1947, in
Tucumcari, N. M.
Survivors include his wife
<>f Peacock; one daughter,
Mrs. Dick Tracy of Ft. Mor-
gan, Colo.: three sisters, Mrs.
Carmen Hayz.cn of Meeker,
Okla., Mrs. Juanita Bennett
of Kansas and Mrs. Dorma
Lee Carary of Oklahoma
City, Okla and brothers,
Dewey Tunnell of Del/mo,
Calif., and James Tunnell of
Meeker, Okla and three
grandchildren
Pallbearers included L. D.
Moorhead, Frank Hoy, Jake
Hall, Doyle Hill, Carl Dicken-
son and John McNutt.
Betty L. Smith
Seeks Office of
Co., District Clerk
The Aspermont Star has
been authorize J to announce
that Betty L. Smith is a
candidate for the office of
Stonewall County District
Clerk.
She will make a formal
statement later.
Pat Mitchell Jr.
Announces for
County Judge
To the Voters of Stonewall
County:
I am using this means to
inform you that I am with-
drawing as a candidate for
the office of County and Dis-
trict Clerk, and will be a
candidate for the office of
County Judge.
I have enjoyed and ap-
preciated working with and
for you as County and Dis-
trict Clerk, but I feel that I
can be of greater service to
you by asking for the ad-
vancement to the office of
County Judge.
I have learned a great deal
about County Government
while serving as your County
and District Clerk for the past
13 years; therefore, with this
knowledge and experience I
will be qualified and capable
of rendering you more effici-
ent service as County Judge.
Prior to the forth-coming
Democratic Primary I will
attempt to visit with each of
you personally, to answer any
questions you may have about
my intentions after I am
elected as your County Judge.
Sincerely,
Pat Mitchell Jr.
Posse To Meet
The Stonewall County
Sheriff's Posse will meet Jan.
!2 at 8 p.m. at Frazier's Cafe,
AH member1- are urged to at-
tend
R. O. Gibson Sr.
Dies In Stamford
Hospital Friday
Funeral services for R. O.
Gibson Sr., 87, were held at
2 p.m. Sunday in the Trinity
Baptist Church, Stamford.
Mr. Gibson died at 8:25 a.m.
Friday in Stamford Memorial
Hospital.
Rev. Marvin Ward, pastor,
officiated assisted by the Rev.
Marvin Fisher, pastor of the
Methodist Church in Rule.
Burial was in Highland Me-
morial Cemetery, Stamford,
under the direction of Kinney
Funeral Home.
He was born Oct. 9, 1882,
in Henderson County. He
moved to Stonewall County In
1889. He married Miss Annie
Smith. May 25, 1913, in Sag-
erlon She died Jan. 24, 1969.
He had been commissioner of
Stonewall County, precinct
1, for 12 years. He had been
farmer and rancher In
Stonewall County for the
last (50 years.
Survivors include two soros,
R. O. Gibson Jr. of Stamford
and W. A. Gibson of Rule;
five daughters. Mm. T. E.
Beil of Old Glory, Mrs. Wal-
lace Roger of Lubbock, Mrs.
W. C. Hughes of Stamford,
Mrs. H. T. Magess and Mrs.
John Burrow, both of Friona;
11 grandchildren; 17 groat-
grandchildren; one brother,
C. L. Gibson of A.jpermont
and one sister, Mrs. Mildred
Christopher of Marfa.
Grandsons were pallbearers.
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Motor Vehicle Division
40th (j Jackson Ave.
Austin, Texas "78703
This is your
License Plate
renewal application
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DO NOT LOSE — Everyone who had a car registered in Texas latu year
has received a form similar to the above in the mail thi.s past week.
This form and the necessary money are all that is needed to register a
vehicle for 1970. Car owners may take their form like this to the Tax
Asnessor-CoUector's office in the courthouse and get their car tags.
Instructions enclosed
Those who prefer may receive their car tags by mail by sending the in-
dicated amount of money plus a $1.00 handling fee to: TaxAssessor-
Collector Aspermont, Texas 79502. The forms were mailed in an
envelope similar to the one above.
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