The Mexia Daily News from Mexia, Texas • Page 1

MICROFILM SERVICE ft, SALES CO BOX A066 DALLAS, 1 FiXnS Hatta Copy MEXIA, TEXAS, 7IM7, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1964 NEA COMPLETE FEATURE SERVICE "V6LUMNE 14 MEMIIER ASBOCIAtEP PREii VliltE NUMBER 102 Wortham Has Annual Banquet WORTHAM LIONS CLUB honored Gulf end retired employes from the Wortham station Tuesday night at the annual Lions banquet in the Wortham High cafeterium. John F. Joplin (middle), vice-president and manager of operations for the Gulf Refining Company, was principal speaker. E. A.

Strange, left, is presi dent of the host Lions Club, while J. right, is in charge of operations at the station. (Daily News Photo.) Wortham Honors Gulf Employes During Annual Lions Banquet WORTHAM (Spl.) It wasj Gulf Appreciation Night at the annual Lions Club banquet Tuesday night at Wortham. All Gulf employes and retired em- ployes from the Wortham station were special guests at the fete. John F.

Joplin, vice-president and manager of the Gulf Refining Company, was principal speaker. He cited interesting facts and figures concerning the Wortham station's operations. Mr. Joplin, a 1946 graduate of Rice University, where he received a bachelor of science de- roll at the Wortham station dur- i ing the past 10 years was in excess of $1,000,000." The speaker, citing further economical facets of Gulf operations in Freestone County, said "total operating expenses during the past 10 years at the Wortham station was about $4Vs million." station is the "hub of our West Texas Gulf system," Mr. Joplin told the group.

"Your Wortham station has a storage capacity of 1,800,000 barrels of oil." i He said that over the last 10 years, 1,236,479,000 barrels of gree in mechanical engineering, crude oil were pumped out of Joined the Gulf Refining Com- the Wortham Gulf station. pany at Almeda in 1946. E. A. Strange, president He pointed out that Gulf em- of the Wortham Lions Club, in ploys 29 persons in Freestone! troduced Harry Bounds, pro- County and said that "the pay- gram chairman, who introduc- ed the guests, and Mr.

Joplin. Entertainment was provided by the "Hootin' Mammies," comprised of Mrs. E. A. Strange, Mrs.

W. M. LeFevre, Mrs. Alton Frost, Mrs. Deward LeFevre, and Mrs.

N. D. Buchmeyer. Dr. N.

D. Buchmeyer did a pantomime. Johnny LeFevre accompanied the "Hootin' Mammies" ort the piano. Among the Gulf Oil Corporation officials attending the banquet, in addition to Mr. Joplin, were F.

J. Burk, district engineer from Midland, and J. J. Thorpe, district manager of Beaumont. The Industrial Committee, which was an outgrowth from the Lions Club several years ago, was recognized.

The corn- By JOHN MOSS Mickey Sunday has let us enow he's back on the job as assistant county school superin- and he's really glad to je out of those khakis. Of course, he's no more overjoyed at being a civilian again than Chester Seelinger. Both are in he National Guards and went on six months active duty in the Army at Fort Knox. Ky. Si Buddy Fleming knows he still las those three monstrous tanks but he has to count the valve caps on the truck tires to be sure everything is in order at the National Guard armory Buddy, whose military handle is Master Sergeant Weldon H.

Fleming, is taking his annual inventory and has to count everything from guns and bullets to knives, forks and spoons. Lt. Bobby Maggard will become commanding officer of the Mexia National Guard Company Thursday. He will succeed Captain Edward H. Hamilton who will become battalion communications officer.

Hamilton's picture will then adorn the walls of the armory along with See WORTHAM Page Official JHemoranbum By JOHN CONNALLY Governor ol Texas AUSTIN, TEXAS GBKBTINGSf rlfht to vote a treasured instrument of a democracy, and a solemn responsibility on the part of every American cltixea of voting age. Unfortunately, it ia a responsibility that is often treated lightly, for. many eligible voters consistently fail to right aad duty to cast their ballot. will vote in the primary eleettont on May 2 to their KunUwaa for public office at the tUU and aatieaai level. Oa tfal day the party precinct conventloai will be kali to eelact to county to coaalder lutloas etate and national policy.

These of our entire political and governmental It itfiNHbi $0 our itate and nation many participate to rt as Governor of to hereby destgaafe Saturday, May 2, 1994, as TEXAS CITIZENSHIP DAY ipf all eligible to participate the primary and pracbMt convf ntioai of parly of Mr cheating, 1,000 PEOPLE EXPECTED AT RALLY IN GROESBECK CITY BEAT Johnny Lee, Ray Purcell, Charles Frank Barker, Vickers, Lewis Wadle, 0. L. Brotherton and other former commanders of the Mexia company. Dan Mize says it's supposed to be a sure thing that work will start Thursday morning on paving of McKinney Street and is expected to take only three days to complete, provided the weather remains favorable. The first stretch of pavement to be worked on will be rom Milam street to the post office.

The work will be done Is interest in politics dead? J. R. (Dick) Chenault. Limestone County Democratic Chairman, is out to prove that it is not. He has set a goal of one thousand in attendance for the final pre-electicn rally, set for Thursday night in Groesbeck, and said Tuesday, "It now begins to look as if the 1000 figure may be considerably exceeded," slating that word is coming from each voting box in the county that there will be delegations present for the (Iroesbeck Democratic Rally.

Hillbilly and hootenanny music with song and instrument will be presented by Groesbeck High School students beginning at Recorded music will be played from 7:00 to 7:30 while cinct Three, known as the Groesbeck precinct. Boyd Tillmon, Kosse, is the Precinct 1 incumbent His opponent is John Nance of Thornton. D. S. (Dick) Long, Precinct Three incumbent, faces Elgin Cook in his race.

Both are from Groesbeck. Two county-wide races will al- the crowd is gathering. The speaking will begin at 8:00 o'clock. Congress candidate Jack Zubik of Bryan has definitely notified Chairman Chenault that he will be present at the rally. Congressman Olin E.

Teague, if not present himself, will be represented by a speaker. Adding to the interest in the rally is the hotly contested race between Senator Bill Moore of Bryan and Representative Joe Cannon of Mexia for the State Senatorship, District 11. This is expected to bring delegations from nearby counties. Also, the four-man race for the Representative position now held by Joe Cannon, has gained in climactic momentum during the final few days before the Saturday, May 2, first primary election, and this race is expected to bring out-of-county visitors from Falls and Freestone counties, which with Limestone comprise the 27th Legislative District. Legislative contestants are W.

B. Duke, Groesbeck; Charles O. Barker. Mexia; Louis P. Patke, Marlin, and Jack Hawkins, Groesbeck.

Essentially, however, the Thursday night rally in front of the courthouse will be highlighted by the mounting interest in two Commissioner races in Precinct One, known as the Thorn- and Pre- L. B. J. VOTES ABSENTEE IN TEXAS PRIMARY JOHNSON CITY, (AP) President Johnson has voted absentee in Texas' Democratic primary election, the Blanco Bounty clerk, Mrs. Jeffy Furber, said today.

DRESS DESIGNER SUING GOLDWATER LOS ANGELES (AP) Sen. Barry Gold water and his son, Barry are being sued by a dress designer who says he is still owed money for dresses he designed for the Goldwater girls. NOTICE by Young Brothers, of Waco, ton 0 sse precinct; he same firm that has the contract for the widening of Milam Street. It is therefore presumed that work will be started on Milam just as soon as the McKinney Street project is completed. Mexia Daily News subscribers whose papers are delivered to their homes are reminded that no paper will be delivered this Saturday afternoon.

The Mexia Daily News will net "go to press" until the finel election returns are in on all precinct and county races, and the paper will be delivered early Sunday morn- int. When you open your copy ef The Mexia Daily News Sunday morning, you will have returns en all precinct, county, district and state and national news. If you have not received your paper by a.m. Sunday, telephone GYs-t04S. Mexia Future Farmers Plan Parent-Son Fete The annual Parent and Son banquet of the Mexia High School Chapter of the Future Farmers of America will be held in the cafetorium of the Ross Elementary School Friday evening at 7: so.

Chapter President Jerry Keys will preside and Glen Little will deliver the invocation. The opening ceremony will be presented by the chapter officers. Joe Roait will give the welcome address. FFA degree winners of the past year will be named by Dale Brown, chapter advisor. Local chapter awards will be presented by A.

IfcBay. high school principal Contest winners will be recog- by Supt. E. Oterholt- and preset honorary degrees will be by David BaitM iov rrA of work for the past year will be given by the committee chairmen as follows: Bobby Beene, organization; Robbie Robinson, membership; Kent Yelverton, supervised farming; Jerry Masters, cooperation; Cliff Waters, community service, and Larry Story, leadership. Others making reports will be Chrias Carlson, earnings and savings; Don Archibald, con duct of meetings; James Sandi fer, scholarship; Ronnie Talbot, recreation; Jimmy Quest, relations, and Jimmy McEl roy, state and national tfteerl of Hexia FFA chapter this year we Jerry Keys, president; Kent Yelverton.

vice president; Robbie Rob- of inaon, secretary; Jimmy Quest, reporter; Chriss Carlson, treasurer; and Oon Archibald, so help attract the voters to the final political rally the Tax Assessor-Collector race and the Sheriff race. A. B. (Jep) Sims, incumbent, who resides in Groesbeck, faces Russell Richardson of Shiloh and John Clay of Groesbeck in the tax race. Sheriff Connor Spivey is opposed by Jeff Russell of Mexia in his bid for re-election.

Candidates for Constable will also be heard at the rally. Constable Gus LaFoy of Groesbeck is facing F. F. Duke of the LaSalle-Center vicinity for Constable. Precinct 3.

Constable con- didates from the Mexia and Coolidge precincts will also possibly be present. Third In A Series AAexia Airs Its Problems EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third of four articles dealing with financial problems of the Mexia Independent School District. This series is particularly designed to acquaint people in Mexia and surrounding towns with the student transfer issue, from a financial standpoint. Money is hard to come by for public educational services. Our local people, just as people everywhere, are faced with mounting tax obligations from federal, state and local sources.

We simply cannot afford to subsidize when we can't provide adequately for our own. Your school board, your administrators, and your teachers are acutely conscious of this problem how to obtain the funds needed to do the job you want done. We give this problem daily, serious consideration. Your board also has to take serious cognizance of the following items: For the past five years, the average per capita cost of operating expenses in our district has been $288 per student, and we've had an average of 1,595 students each year during this period. If we add to the operating costs, all other expenses, including our bonded expenses, then the total per capita cost per student is $310 per year, each year for that five year period.

During these same five years, 1960-64, the total per capita revenue has been $312 per student. It doesn't take much of a mathematician to see this isn't a big operating margin in our favor. And, during the same five years, the cost to the Mexia schools, for handling an average of 149 transfer students a year has been $11,701 per year out of local sources. Teenager Kills Himself Playing Russian Roulette NEW ORLEANS, La. Thomas Carter, 19, son of Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Hodding Carter, killed himself playing Russian roulette at his father's New Orleans residence Monday night.

Alice Monroe, 20, member of a socially prominent New Orleans family, witnessed the fatal shooting. Sam Moran, investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner's office, said Miss Monroe told him that she went with Carter to his father's residence shortly before 10 p.m. The youth had staged a party there Sunday night, she said, and had returned to clean up the place. Miss Monroe told Moran that Carter pulled a revolver from beneath a sofa, removed all but one cartridge from the cylinder and told her he was going to play Russian roulette. She told Moran that Carter put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger.

The gun fired and he slumped forward. An autopsy was ordered. The youth's father, publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times at Greenville, has been spending some time in New Orleans as writer-in-residence at Tulane University. The publisher and his wife have been in Detroit, where he was undergoing treatment at Ford Hospital. New Orleans relatives said young Carter was a prize-winning horseman while attending Culver Military Academy, in Culver, Ind.

He had been attending Tulane University since early this year. The "Craters of the Moon" are located in Idaho. Thundershowers U. Weather tureeu fematt far Meiie and ftwe area: and Thurttky with ihawfri. Warmer wMi a law ef near el.

Nifh Ttwitday war M. MARKET REPORT NEW YORK (AP) Stocks opened mixed in moderately active trading today. Chrysler was up at 45 7 westinghouse Electric up "2 at and American Telephone off at Anaconda eased JH to New York Central lost at 34 Jonathan Logan recovered at 18, Eastern Air Lines was up IK at 36'it and Ford was off at 55 7 s. Electrical Musical Industries lost at and American Tobacco declined at Reynolds Tobacco lost at 48' Allied Chemical gained at 54 American Motors was unchanged. Santa Fe and Sears, Roebuck added fractions.

Bethlehem and Montgomery Ward dropped fractions. Let's roll that ball by slowly, again: The cost for transfer students, that is paid out of Mexia Independent School District local funds, by district taxpayers, is an average of $11,701 per year for the past five years. This is no small amount of money. The total costs stack up this way: from all sources, costs for these students average $46.215 per year. Out-of-district funds from all sources bring us an average of $34,514.

Mexia district taxpayers make up the $11,701 deficit each year. There are those who will point out that as the transfer students enter our school, it is possible for us to hire more teachers. It is just as true that were it not for the 150 transfers a year, we would need 13 teachers, where we have 17. So, there is no financial advantage to Mexia in this instance. Also, we would be able to have classes of 20 as opposed to classed of 25 to 35 students thereby increasing the quality of offerings.

We do not wish to lose our transfer students, for this ends a relationship between the people inside the Mexia district and their neighbors, that ha.s been friendly, and of value; to each for many years past. We welcome the transfers, and wish to give them the same opportunities for a quality education we would give our own. But, we cannot honestly continue this traditional service unless some method is found for underwriting that part of our operations which only tuition, in fair measure, can remedy. We must be fair to our own people as well as to the 1 parents of our transfers. Roving Reporter By BOB WRIGHT or partial could he discussed anywhere, anytime, but probably wouldn't be "settled" in any argument or disussion.

It's a sore spot to many. Nobody seems to agree on the many-sided question of. disarmament. Disarmament is noble in theory, but we do not think it would work. Apparently, the persons will) whom we discussed this thorny problem, think the same.

The question is ''do you favor total, or partial, disarmament? Why?" ir if it MRS. CARL MAISEN: "I'm in favor of partial disarmament. 1 think we must maintain most of our weapons for our well-being and for keeping our freedoms secure." it it it JOE LUCAS, student: "Total disarmament? That would be foolish. I'm in favor of a slight slowdown in production of weapons of a nuclear nature. In total disarmament, a small nation could rule the world simply because there could be no effective safeguards to insure a totally-disarmed world." it it GLOVER LAIRD, Tehuacana: "Partial or less.

You might say I'm not in favor of any type of disarmament. We can't trust the rest of the world." ROD BRUBAKER: "Disarmament might be a good thing if it were enforced. Unilateral (one-way, one country) disarmament would be gtupid." it Our definition of disarmament? One word! Call it "stupid,".