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The Tulib Herald
VOL. 61, NO. 3
TULIA. (Swisher County) TSXAS 79069
THURSDAY, JANUARY U. 1*69
Field Work
Is Underway
On Survey
Door Prizes Planned
Worth Blake and John Miloy of
the Industrial Economics Research
Division of Texas AAM I'niversit
For G-C Banquet
Preparations for the annual Tulia January 23, an* continuing under
Chamber of Commerce and Agri - the direction of Gwyn Vaughn, ban-
with the industrial survey of Tulia
contracted for by Tulia Industrial
Fi >undation
According to word received from
College Station, the organization
GROUND WAS BROKEN for Swisher county’s new $780,000 hospital Tuesday after- cemller "gathering 'and analyzing
noon. Earl B. Cosby, chairman of the hospital board, is flanked by representatives of Pan- information on Tulia 3
handle Engineers, builders of the hospital. (Herald photo by Joe Foster)
Division of Texas AAM University commerce ana \gn - me uirecuon oi
arrived in Tulia early this week »wnqia>t set for Thursday, quet chairmen,
to begin field work in connection
Salvation Army
Presents Awards
New Hospital
Construction
Patients in Swisher Memorial
Hospital Tuesday were: Mrs. Scot-
ty Smith and daughter, Mrs. Carl
A new feature was announced Atkinson, Paul D. Miller, Ray Biv-
this week Door prizes will be a- e n s, Wilbur J. Hyatt, Leonard
warded. At press time* three prizes. Smith, Mrs Ruth Glese, Mrs. Car-
e a c h valu'd al over $29, had rie Boydstun, Mrs. Ola Mills, Mrs.
been posted by members. More Alma Brannon, Rev. Noah Dan-
prizes are anticipated. iels, Fred Lindeman, Monte Clay*
The program planned is a de - b».
parturc from banquet programs of Dismissals since last week: Mrs.
past, and will be both informative Florence Thomas, Mrs. David Da-
and entertaining as well as sur- villa, A. L. McMurtry, Ray Coth-
prislng Kenneth Wyatt will acl ran. 11 G. Howard, Mrs. Juan
Service Awards were presented as Salvation Army Service unit as master of ceremonies. Rev. Contreras, Mrs Dan Byrd, H. L.
to several Tuiians Wednesday at chairman and treasurer for the Frank pollard will also have a Jones. Mrs L. K. Hutto, Mrs Jer-
the Rotary club luncheon by a * . .,5 prominent part in the program. O' Wilhelm, Eugene Hernandez,
representative of the Salvation Ar- ' y , ' . , . Only :UNl tickets have been print- Mrs John V. Deckard, Mrs. Sam
my. Douglas Kortnem Otm*r plaques to be presented ^ Sa|,,s )as| and ln. Appleton. Mrs. Carl Atkinson, Jan
Recipients were It B Dawson, b> ,,hl,,1P Kau«h‘* n‘* umt dicate a sell out Tickets can be Wllkersoa. W. O. Borchardt Fred
Jr , First National Bank;
>EVERAL MONTHS AGO
haired Georgian who calls himself
a tall, lean, dark -
a country
,By H. M. BAGGARLY |$ UnclOTWOV
•*L'*.»-I II «pr..n k> :« ill 1 ■
; Mrs W chairman, and , W*U H° to r,.served by calling the Chamber IJndemap,
i of First I’ , *ol«;s, Beth Held, D c k office. Kescrvations should be made Gasper Chi
Mrs. Dale Anderson,
K Hulsey; Bill Harmon of First " r; ,J«"es, Hein.neio, n ten offuv Kexervat ions should be made <Iaspi*r Chapa, Mrs. David McVk-
State Bank. (Ben Amburn of KTUE Shackelford, Kay Barbour, H T a, OIKl, t0 jnsuri, a plai(. a, Tujla-S kers, Jose Isaguerre, Vickie Tay-
boy" from "the other side of the tracks" became a
special assistant to President Johnson.
Tom Johnson, no relation to the President, was
low man on the totem pole when lie began Cur-
rently he is No. 2 man in the offiee of George
Christian, presidential press secretary lie has tak-
en over briefing chores when the ixiss is away.
EJkflTH HIS WHITE HOUSE job now expiring, he
TT has had many templing job offers, includ-
ing one from a magazine which offered him a
$75,000 a year editor - publisher post.
But Johnson, after much soul - searching, has
decided to accept a job as executive assistant lo
the President in the I.BJ offices in \ustm
He will direct a small staff including a few
secretaries and two White House -|x-cch writers
who will he churning out lectures and helping the
President on his memoirs.
He will be rvsjKinsible for the President's mail
— perhaps 3,000 letters a week — ap|x»intmcnts,
speeches, articles, lectures at some 4o univer-
sities, and bonks now at the1 planning stage
Said the President, "He's got his eyes on the
stars and his feet on the ground
SS £ — * — <«>. - h,- ~ Tu"a"" SM'“V ~d'w - *
finals as well as a large group Bortnem, field representative
BUST WHAT DID the Supreme Court do? tthat <>* Tul,ans »vre on hand Tuesday was introduced hy Harmon, pro i^Mted^in t ho
J ix the xi iinw ih.. Kihiu ivi • ,,r, _ afternoon for the ground breaking Ufam director The Plaques were P«>r*ictpat*a in helping t h c*
m ihc i.ul.hc M h^.ls .a \mi i i-h P > r’ ceremony for Swisher county’s new presented by Don Crocker, mana- Salvation Army, said Bortnem
m tne public schools of Amenta. *7*9,909 hospital. *er of Tulia Chamber of Com - •
nr o . !pl.°n H!a,y J*., pra< !lwd or s,udlJ’d Jhe Earl B Cosby, chairman of the merce The boy who usc*d lo gel a dime
sindvT larei-iv* j .'ito i" hospital Ixiard" turned the first Earlier in the day. a Special to carry in the* coal or wood 50
i iargt .* .an ^ . of. l)lat,ut‘ *n shovel of dirt Award plaque was presented to years ago has been replaced by
*-.ruaU‘ lf‘‘ l,rdt,-lc* an< •■‘,u<Jn may 1x1 combined i>anhandlc Engineers of Amaril- Mrs A H Cooper, widow of the* one who wants a quarter for get
.‘lunch, alBm‘m 'pSlT ll.^hcTmus^te ‘ ££ lo liis afready &gun wo^k in {he »*te A H Cooper who had served ting up to turn up .he thermostat.
• * Ii'iinl ion of tHo lo l l I / I in it lo lu I
separate construction of the building to be
' ii. ...ii. i , _ . . located south and east of the pre-
* lie* public sc hmil must not sponsor the more . h . . r
important practice of religion, but only the* less * v '
important study of religion And don't \ou dare say Atchcson, vtkinson a n u »jtrt-
you really want it any other way! wnght is the* architectural firm
In the* first place, the study of religion should v\bllb dt‘>l^n,'d the 30 - bc*d hos-
l)recc*de its practice. Pl,aJ ... „ , . . .
The liuilding will include about
20.0011 square* fcs*t of floor space
1ERE IS NOT ONE THING in any Supreme
The building will lx* as complete-
Dis't Cage Race
Gains Momentum
Court decision which says a sehcx.l cannot ly tan t*. designed
t-a.liefi/cn nr virt-if i x m-i>t i. ,./i Thu f'miri i< .. • _ .
By HARRY COLE
The district 1-AAA cage*
race
handle* lx*for« kic king off their dis-
trict action with Mulcshoe
Last week the Hornets and Hor-
Fnona f o r
kF ALL THE THINGS about which \nicii .m-
couldn't care less is prayer in the public
schexils
We spe-nt all our public s. hcxil days riuht here
in Swisher county, heart of the- Bible Be lt, where
prayer in the* schools would have Ixc-n a maior
thing if it was a maior Ihmg anywhe re* in the nation
Yet, never once do wv recall hearing a prayer,
a Scripture, or anything else resembling worship
in the classroom
Oh, occasionally a visiting evangelist would lx*
in the community and he would lx* invited to speak
in assembly. but that was all
study re ligion or what is practiced. The Court has - |,);ins an, ,0 ,onvt.rl the pre
said, wisely, that a public school may not practice building into a unit for pat-
whai ha- Ixs-n studied. u>nts requiring k*ss intensive care will get into full swing this week. ‘.T**1
A public sc hool may require a study of the* than that provided by a convcn- The Hornets will have played Here- "
Bible and everything in it It may require a stude nt tmnal hospital ford and will lx* look to Dumas J?d\
lo study 1 he Catholic interpretatk.n of the Bible The* job will require 365 days and Mulcshoe Tuba's Horn*leu
or the l.utheran. Baptist or ( hristuin s. i. nt- {,* completion * have games wilh Idalou and Dan- J V-,.. ^
1st It may require the students to study and com
lor.
BORN TO:
Mr and Mrs John V. Deckard,
Box 577, Tulia, a boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Scotty W. Smith,
502 S. Fannin, TuUa, a girl.
New meler connections reported
by City of Tulia since last week:
Jimmy Powell, C12 N. Hale; Tim
Tucker. 615 NW Bth; J. P l*ry«r.
Old Amarillo Highway. Ruth May-
nard, 1M N. Hwy 87; Gary Mason,
606 NW 9th; Eva Lowe, 202 N.
Briscoe.
Marriage licenses issued by the
county clerk since last week were
lo: Gary Hay Ince, .Amarillo, and
l.eanne Waldo, Amarillo.
RLVEM HOUSE
pare the various translations. It may study the
Churc h of Christ's understanding of baptism or the
Catholic's dextrine of Mary.
M TEACHER MAY ASSIGN the students to read
the Gospel of John just as -.he* might assign
them to read Chapter 15 in the history text And if a
Jewish student or an atheust refuse-d to read the
Signatures Sought To Letter
Condemning Madalyn O'Hair
battled through two overtime
iods before Tulia won 69 - 65
Williams sparke>d the Tulia of
fe*nse with 31 points Next, the
Hornets vaulted lo a 23 - 8 first
quarter lead and was able to hold
Hobsb Named
p Hospital
Grief
New subscribers to The Tulia
Herald since last week were
James Cruce, Star Route. Kress
Texas; Mrs. Warren Cope,' 607 Ar
thur, Tulia, Texas; Vcronu a Brow-
ning. 1326 Idaho St., Chickasha,
Oklahoma; Clarence O. Byrnes, 76?
Cleveland St, Dtmmttt, Texasi
Audrey l-ove, 3166 Vasaar St M »
ing. Texas; Raymond Oldham, 1906 /
W 19th St.. Amarillo, Texas; J. E.
Me Duff. Houte 2, Merkel, Texas;
Max Swinbum, 1366 E. Highway
190. Copperas Cove, Texas; Mrs.
711, Alamo,
Irene Martens Bos
Kim, M«- ol Tulia lu ko. '
on for a 65 • 59 victory. Mike
lli*nthom topped all scorers with a name*d administralor of Swisher
'Thank you, Mrs Madalyn Mur- Mrs. O'Hair, w h o challenged ,0*‘d points. Memorial hospital, succeeding Bill Weather during the past week
<ie»s[x*l of John, he could be disciplined or faile*d. ray O'Hair” is the theme of a let- state - composed prayers in the* Later in the we*e*k the* Hornets Harnett who resigned recently to been temperate and dry.
pi*-t as if he refused lo read an account of the ter writte*n by lex*al persons to the school room, is now seeking legis- travelled lo l.ubbex k for an on- aeeepi a similar position in Arkan-_________________
Civil War
self - professed athiest.
A ND WE ATTENDED public school- during an
era wh*-n te*ae-hers and schexils te*nded to Ih*
‘‘more* religious" than the*y are* texiay Teachers were
never re - elected if they weren't active in some
lYolostant church, preferably the Baptist or ( hurt h
of Christ, depending ii|x>n the denominational com-
plexion of the srhiHil hoard
And usually they had to tcaeh a Sunday sihind
class and sing in the choir
Bl
|UT LET US SEE WHAT the school tan NOT
do A teacher may not teach the students in a
public school that the < hurch of Chri-l is going to
heaven and the Catholics are all going to hell
She may NOT tell the students that the doctrine
of Mary, as believed by the Catholics, is a lot of
Sale To Close
Stock Shew
STAY TUNB) TO
rET, SINCE THE FAMOUS Supreme Court de-
cision which said the Regents of the Slate
lation to forbid Bible reading from counter with Dunbar. The Ban • *sas DEATH CLAIMS FATHHB
space flights Six* is also s«*eking thers who were running and gun House formally agreed lo accept ME*. HEFLBY •
to remove “In Gixl We Trust" ning" swam|M*d the Hornets 16H- th«* |Misitnm Friday night. y ^ McAdams, M, father of
from all American monies. 75 Kicky Cox had 23 and Mike House moved to Swisher county **rs Make Hefley of Tulia, died
This letter will be taken from llcnthorn 20 for Tulia with his parents from Oklahoma Monday in a Hale Center hospital
door - to - door Friday night in Meanwhile al home t h e Hot - *ht‘n h*‘ was 18 months old. He f'M'WIng a long iUneM. A ownly
an effort to get -tipjiorting signa- nettes were m«*<>ting with Ixtter has farmed and attend'd a bust- employee, he had been a resident
Judging was scheduled to b«*gin tures from all Tulia resld«*nls, chil- luck as they trounced the Fren ness college in Plainview. He °f "ap‘ ( smcB Ml.
bunk She may NOT tell them that a sprinkled tx*- W«dn**sday in the annual Swisher dri.n deluded ship ferns 86-39 Leading the Hor •"•‘Jght an interest In Big N Fer-
liever has not really been baptized. She may not tell County Fat Stix k show which will AU inleresied person*- wishing lo nettes were Mary William*- wilh 35 tiliz'T in 1959 which he recently
them which practices are right and which are continue through today at the show donate lime or support to this points and Jo Carter 26 In the wdd ,0 f*,s partner, Nelson Hor-
wrong She may not hold a prayer meeting in bams at Tule Lake. all (H»t innununlty effort an* re- "B" game, Jan Parks led the fhardt
class and require all students to pray or participate Steer Judging will begin al 9 quested lo report to the Willie younger ilornettes to a 49 30 vie- House Is married and is the
She may not invite a priest in to conduct Ma-s am today Room at 6 30 p m Friday At this lory She accounted for 25 of their fa,f**r '*f three boys, Gary, M;
She may not invite a visiting evangelist into her I’resentation of awards, parade time, toffee and sandwiches will points The "H" Ilornettes fell earl l-arry 12. and Michael, 6
•lassrixim and |x-rmit him to give an altar call of champions and the livestock lx* si*rvi*d Persons wishing to help icr in the week lo Emma to the According to Earl Bell Cosby,
She may not invite a minister in to conduct a t om- auction sale will begin at 6 30 canvass the city will lx* assigned tune of 29 34 pally Powell had a ch«*rman of the hospital board,
(Continu'd on page 4) o'clock tonight. (Continued on |>age 4) fine night with 14 ixnnts wer* e'KM applicants for the
position.
Other board m**mtx*rs. besides
Cosby, art* Jack Midtllclon. Nel-
son Borchardt, Louie Bonds, and
Stanley Vars
Construction of the new hospital
The Jaycees of Happy are at Jaycec groups the Happy organi- the indebtedness on facilities no we as taxpayers are the state and lies show that snail schools do not will lx- in sthtxil or enroute as within a week,
templing to secure the sup|x>n of /ation urged letters to state rep- longer in use Then we as tax • we will ultimately pay the cost have as much of a discipline pro- much as 12 hours each day . . . There -c -m ir
all Texas Jaycce organizations in resentatives ,,ntl senators express- payers would lx- requind to dupli- ‘ While the above listid reasons blem as the larger school- instead of forced consolidate, let ,! kn',v',n *°
op|><ising the proposal of »he 'c*. ini: .1 desire to defeat the proposal cate thc-c fa< ilitie- in a distant are reason enough to op|Mist* thi* "Tran*|n>rtation present- ant»th 'he state set up a< aclemie stand '' s " ' ' s
rrnor's Committee on Public St-htxil "Our prime concern in this 1-. location at today's higher prices consolidation plan, we feel that er problem because many of the a»'ds and then if a school does not SERVICE AWARDS were presented to several Tuiians
of New York could not eompo-e a prayer and force
public school students. Protestants. Catholic- and
Jews, to recite it. all we've heard are -uth ir-
rv'ixmsiblc charges as "God has lx*en kicked out
KTUE
1*60 In
1JM «M
Happy Jaycees Oppose School Consolidation Plan
••cfc To The
0 00 m.m. EARY
Word of Ufa — Jack WyNaro
0:00 m.m.
6M»lo Study How — Er.
3:00 pjm.
FRISMTIO BY 1UUA HOULE
Education t-> consolidate all school sue 1- the loss of our hx.il sihix.l Mthough we understand the state the students th»*mselves will suffer large .schools that would receive meet these standards, consolidate W'etlnestlay at the kotVirv clulV luncheon hvYviuJlVr'RrirrnBm1*
district that do not have an aver- the letter said in part "The loss of proposes to underwrite the total the most The lo-s of the smaller th<-a- student- are not centrally 'hem with a school that does ’* field representative »if*th»* Salvation Army Tulia Chamber of
age daily attendance ot l.WKl or our school system would mean the cost of new modern facilities and schools will eliminate the c hance located Consequently, some stu • The letter is signed by Don Mag
more students into countywide dis- loss of the largest payroll in our help retire the present indebted- for many students to participate dent- will lx* forced lo ride buses ness, chairman
tricts of at least 2.6on student- community Added to thi- lo-s ne-s of these dc-crted schools, let in athletic events and other inter- as much as 20 hours each week. Q
In a letter mailed to all state would lx* the c\|>en-e of retiring us not lose ight ol the fact that scholastic league events Statis . This means that some students HEEALD ADVERTISINE RAYfl
( ommerce Manager Donald Crocker, left, delivered the
awards to Bill Harmon of First State Hank, R. B. Dawson Jr
of First National Hank. Glen Amburn of KTUE, Joe Foster of
I he Iulia Herald, and Mrs W. K. Hulsey. (Herald photo)
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Baggarly, H. M. The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1969, newspaper, January 16, 1969; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth507002/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.