The Vernon Daily Record from Vernon, Texas • Page 1

Telephone VOI, 264 he ernon aily ecord VsstK taU'd VERNON, TKXA8. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 975 SIXTEEN Sunday Copy 15 Cents I iiu Presidential Security Beef-Up Seen Ford Unshaken by Incident HEAD VERNON HIGH SCHOOL BAND-Officers of the Vernon High School Band, which presented its first halftime performance of the season FYiday night at Lion Stadium, are pictured just prior to the game. From left are Kevin Cook, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Russell Cook, vice president; Jerry Foerster, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.

Foerster drum major; Cheryl 'Hiiele, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Gerald 'Hiiele, secretary: Pam Nichols, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Nichols, treasurer; Ann Bramlett, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. E. G. Bramlett chaplain; Rex Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs.

John Adams, president, and Janice Doherty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Doherty, historian. The band presented a Bicentennial year formation and featured Rose of which has been proposed as a community theme song. 21 Pictures Selected for Region Show Three citation and six merit winners were selected by Professor James D.

Howze of Lubbock, a member of the Texas Tech Studio Art faculty, as 21 pictures from a total of 46 entered were chosen for hanging in the Region 16 Citation Show of the Texas Fine Arts Show at Vernon Regional Junior College Saturday. The pictures will hang at the college library from Sept. 6 though Sept. 27, with a special open house scheduled from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 14, to which the general public is invited. The three Citation winners will also hang in a TFAA statewide touring show. Citation winners are: You Want It to' by John Nelson of Vernon. by Kathleen Dean of Wichita Falls.

Appointment With by Cora Dell Miller of Wichita Falls, the Region 16 TFAA president Mrs. Miller and Mr. Nelson also had works designated as merit winners. Other merit- winning artists include: Polly Cox, Bettye Hanse, Vida McDowell, and Linda Coken- dolpher Jones, all of Wichita Falls. Artists whose works were selected to hang in the regional show, considered a distinct honor in itself, include: Claudine Ripley, Robert Pope, Murl Moore and Sherri Brumley of Vernon; Jean Parker and Lola Hudson of Iowa Park, Eunice Cokendolpher of Burkburnett and Voyle Armstrong and Margaret Binger of Wichita Falls.

Wire Walker Claims Grease Stretching Odds NEW ORLEANS (AP)French daredevil Philippe Petit says walking across the Superdome on a greasy cable 200 feet in the air is stretching the odds too far. steel high wire arrived in the city coated with a thick layer of goo after an engagement in Baltimore. The tightrope walker wasted little time worrying about how it happened and quickly had it cleaned. The 750-foot cable was dunked in a special chemical solution and Saturday dozens of volunteers rubbed it down with rags under supervision. Field Day Program Set at Chillicothe Field tours are scheduled Sept.

16 during a field day at the Texas University Agricultural Research Station at Chillicothe. Dr. Ed Clark, of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and director of research at the Chillicothe unit, said visitors on Sept. 16 would see the results of studies with cotton, grain sorghum, guar and sunflowers. Visitors are expected from a wide area for the event.

The Experiment Station scientists seek to improve Uie resistance of the crops to insects and diseases, as well as the yields. Also featured will be exhibits and presentations dealing with horticultural crops. The station is located five miles southwest of Chillicothe on New York Beauty Is Miss America Town Crier OH UN BRKWEK A representative of the Frederick, newspaper telephoned the other day to find out the dates of the 1975-76 Vernon Community Concerts. The news story in which the dates were initially published wasn't anywhere at hand, and he had to be referred to Mrs. Norman leader, who has served the Association as publicity director in recent years We have secured the listing from Mrs Loader, and it struck us ii few other people also might getting curious about the first concert will be corning up schedule 'Ilie Little Angels of Korea, Saturday.

Oct 4 iirrat Arnencan Nut. with a dale to I announced Shiaring J.tn 21 rnu.sit.il production. M.irrh I I HI MIIKN IS liki ly vuli 1)1 dunnii VHi- no! lliiil ihr Hi( rn tmftirfi MH. rft brfi- ol Ihr KirM I ii jii fif thf iihrduffd ton imw I t' ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Miss New York, Tawny Elaine Godin, a 18-year-old pianist whose family roots in America date back three centuries, was crowned Miss America 1976 here Saturday night.

The 5-foot-10y4 Skidmore College sophomore is the tallest Miss Ajnerica ever and her Quake Kills 1,000 in Turkey ANKARA, Turkey (AP) A strong earthquake killed at least 1,000 persons Saturday in a wide area of eastern Turkey, the governor of Diyarbakir state reported. lx)cal officials said the death toll could go much higher when rescue teams reached remote mountaintop villages. Rescue workers reported the noon-time quake toppled buildings and touched off fires along the Anatolian Fault. Aftershocks continued past midnight. Premier Suleyman Demirel said he will go to the quake area Sunday accompanied by Gen Semih Sanear.

chief of staff Diyarbakir Gov Nazim Kemal Deniz told newsmen 500 per sons died in the town of Lice, a town of people, and an equal pensht'd in sur rounding villages in the rugged eastern Anatolian area Atx)ut 75 per cent of the buildings in Lice were leveled, the governor told a con carruHl Turkey's radu) He s.iHl rescuc teams, vtiU digging debris in Lue at nightlull aiul rrliei inalenal had siarletl arriving in the Hje measured on hter vias (pit all riiMerti and wHith Turkev Sr.i A Jiii hlrt of a a rnranii jfwhlr of first winner since 5-foot- 10 Bess Myerson captured the crown as Miss New York City in 1945. She gasped as her predecessor, Shirley Cothran of Texas, crowned her. Then, as Bert Parks sang She she walked down the long runway to the cheers of a Convention Hall crowd of 17,853 and a national television audience. Miss Godin wrote the classical piano composition she performed on state entitled in A resident of Yonkers, N.Y., she lived for 74 years in Toronto where she studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Her first runner-up was Miss North Carolina, Susan Lawrence, and the second runner- up was Miss California, Janet Jay Carr.

Retired Postal Employe Dies D. Humphreys, 86, of Oklaunion, a retired postal employe, died F'riday night in a local hospital after an illness of six weeks Funeral services were held at 4 Saturday in the Sullivan Funeral Home Chapel with the Kev Al Jordan, minister of music of the Fir.st Baptist Church, officiating Burial was in hast View Memorial Park Mr Humphreys was born Oct 7, 1888. in Star, Tex He married the former Vera Vawter March 20, 1914, in Tij)lon, Okla and they moved to ounty in 1924 from Fast He was a meinlx'r of the Oklaunion liapiiM Church Surviviws include a stm. 1) Humphrrys Jr of Wraon. three daughters.

Coy Stjyej. of Hernice Siupper and vhnvard. of onr grand dauithlef iW Im tm ircll Kmg Trumafl (4W(Mrd iialie FM 392. The program, as announced by Dr. Clark and Dr.

Wayne McCully, director of research at the Texas Research and Extension Center, at Chillicothe and Vernon includes, starting at 1 p.m.; tour ol research plots, exhibits and grower consultation. -----Cropping Systems for the Rolling Plains: Dale Lovelace, Agronomist, The Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Chillicothe-Vernon. Variety Evaluation: LeVon Ray, Cotton Breeder, The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Lubbock. Breeding and Evaluation; Roy Stafford, Plant Breeder, USDA, ARS, The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Chillicothe-Vernon. Sorghum Performance Text: Harvey Walker, Agronomist, The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station.

Research: Charlie Rogers, Entomologist, USDA, ARS, The Texas Agrucultural Experiment Station, Chillicothe-Vernon. Conversion: Fred Miller, Plant Breeder, The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station. Breeding Research: Luther Bird, Plant Pathologist and Breeder, The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station. Exhibits and Grower Consultation at Headquarters Area will include the following: Diseases of Field (See FIELD DAY, Page 2) Attack Fatal To Resident William E. Nethery, 70, a retired W.

T. Waggoner Estate employe, died about 7:30 p.m. Friday at his home at 1911 Cumberland of an apparent heart attack. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Sullivan Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev.

Royce Dodd, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Wilbarger Memorial Park. Mr. Nethery was born Feb. 2, 1905, in DeQueen, a son of the late Mr and Mrs.

C. C. Nethery He came to Wilbarger County in 1924 and married Gertrude Clay in Sherman, Aug 31, 19K. He was a meml)er of the Calvary Baptist Church vSurviving are his wife, five sons, ('lien Nethery of bury, Nethery of Burney, ('alif Edwin Nethery of Odessa, Dan Nethery of Iowa Park, Manuel Nethery of Pans; two brothers. F.ll>ert Nethery of and Paul Nethery of Oklahoma City, two sisters.

I) Mayes of Vermvn. and Mrs Kihel Whishunt of 16 gramk hiktren and four great- grandi'hiUken Pallbearers be Jake Close Jack IHuxey (i Pnxiiu. Ihck Yeager Freetimn MapkMu ami Hyrrs I nutate werr dmignatrd as WASHINGTON (AP) A Secret Service official said Saturday no dramatic changes are planned in presidential security arrangements as p. result of the assassination attempt on President Ford in Sacramento on Friday. But spokesman Jack Warner said it is the desire that Ford not mingle in large crowds, which has been his habit both in Washington and in out-of-town trips.

Ford, meanwhile, seemed unshaken by his near-brush with death and carried on business as usual Saturday. He met with Democratic senators on energy, arranged a golf game and an appearance at a party for two military staff members who are being promoted in rank. are reviewing the Sacramento Warner said. we are always reviewing our protection procedures for the He said he felt presidential protection was adequate in Sacramento, where an agent thwarted an attempt by Lynette Alice Fromme, 26, to shoot the President with a 45-caliber pistol. Warner declined to discuss numbers of Secret Service personnel assigned to the President at any given time but added: are not anticipating any dramatic changes in our methods of providing There was no beef-up in security for the President as he traveled by car Saturday from the White House to Burning Tree Country Club in nearby Bethesda, to play in a golf tournament.

What bothers the Secret Service most is that Ford loves to wade into crowds and shake hands. He resist the cry of President, come over He was doing just that on a Sacramento street when Miss Fromme, standing just three feet away, pointed a pistol at his chest. This is in contrast to his predecessor. Richard Nixon, who made the Secret Service job easier by not mingling too often with crowds. has been a long-term Secret Service desire that those we protect do not expose themselves to crowds or a large segment of the Warner said.

Asked if the Secret Service would suggest that Ford cut down on this crowd-pleasing activity, Warner said that is an answer the White House would have to provide. A White House spokesman said Ford will make no fundamental changes and that the President had provided his own answer on Friday when he stated: going to continue to have that personal contact with the American people, In my judgment vital for an American president to see the American people and I intend to carry it on incident under no circumstances will prevent me or preclude me from contacting the American people as I travel from one state to another and from one community to When Ford is in public, he regularly shakes hands with crowds of people lined at airports, near his hotel, and toriums and elsewhere Secret Service agents provide an envelope of security around him, but Ford has a habit of making sudden moves toward groups of people, which sometimes throws his protectors off stride There was a noticeable tightening of security in Sacramento after the incident Friday, When he left his hotel for the airport, two large press buses were parked across the street, partially blocking the view of a crowd of about 300. At the airport, the presidential limousine drove right up to the Air Force One ramp, and the President climbed aboard immediately, although he might have been itching to shake hands with some of the several thousand people Sand Road, Bismarck Closing Due Monday; Alternate Routes Urged TTie intersection at Sand Road and Bismarck Street will be closed to traffic Monday for street repairs, and alternate routes should be sought by local motorists who normally use Bismarck and Sand Road to drive to Vernon High School or to work, City Manager Sam Phelps has announced. The City Manager suggested use of Beaver Street and High School Drive as an alternate route for students and teachers seeking to reach the high school from the Southeast part of town. Mr.

Phelps said it is hoped that the street repair work can be completed by the end of the day, but portions of both Sand Road and Bismarck will not be open during the peak periods of traffic at the beginning and end of the school day. High School Drive is a new north-south street opened to the high school campus from Cottonwood Lane, which is a westward extension of Gordon Street. Kansas City Front Runner For GOP Convention Site WASHINGTON (AP) Kansas City is the front runner as the Republican site-selection committee tries on Sunday to choose a location for the 1976 convention. Cleveland also was pressing a strong bid, with Miami Beach, scene of the last two GOP presidential nominating conventions, offering a third alternative. The site recommendation goes to the Republican National Committee on Thursday for final approval, but ratification of the committee choice is customary.

Kansas City, which hosted last Democratic offered the Republicans $500,000 in services and facilities for the convention next August, but city officials said more money would be raised privately, Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk has said he can produce up to $3 million, but party sources said item for item the actual services and facilities offered by each city were about equal. The Kansas City edge appeared to be its ability to house the large number of delegates, guests and news media workers attracted to the huge nominating conventions. Cleveland, although it had the better convention hall, was handicapped by a lack of hotel space. It tried to make up the difference by offering cruise ships and temporary modular homes for hotel rooms. Miami Beach had been considered a fall-back position in WEATHER Temperature readings for the period ending at midnight Saturday: ...................87 degrees degrees Midnight reading 72 degrees Precipitation; Year to Same date last year ...........12.46 Forecast: Clear to partly cloudy through Monday.

A little warmer Monday. High Sunday 81 to 88. Low Sunday night 60 to 69. High Monday 86 to 92. case the two Midwestern bids fell through.

The Florida resort area has one of the best convention halls and ample hotel accommodations. However, party sources indicated the GOP really wanted a convention somewhere in the Midwest more attuned to the constituency than Miami Beach or New York City, where the Democrats will meet next July. A Kansas City convention would be held in the Kemper Sports Arena, home of the National Basketball Association Kings and the National Hockey Scouts. The convention setup would be similar to Madison Square Garden, where the Democrats will meet, with some of the same problems of cramped quarters and lack of floor space. Spillover from the Kemper Arena would go to neighboring buildings, including a livestock- horse show arena.

This might include such things as caucus and meeting rooms, news rooms and other support facilities. Convenience Stores Due For Vernon Allsup's Convenience Stores of Clovis, N.M., which operates a total of 46 stores in small towns and cities in Eastern New Mexico and West Texas, has announced purchase of three sites for new business locations in Vernon. Lonnie Allsup of Clovis, president and owner of the company, said that sites would be cleared and new stores opened around the first of the year. Store locations will be at 3620 Wilbarger Street, 2730 Main Street at the northwest comer of the Main and Beaver intersection, and on east Wilbarger between Bowie and Lexington Streets Mr. Allsup said that the stores will operate 24 hours a day, and in addition to groceries cooked foods, such as barbecue, and traditional convenience store items, will also feature a self- service gasoline island.

The new buildings will be 60 by 40-foot steel, concrete block and brick buildings, featuring a mansard roof. Convenience Stores are a member of Affiliated Foods in Amarillo and will feature the Surfine brand of foods. The company in this general area of Texas operates stores at Quanah Floydada, Post, Plainview and Clarendon. Mr, Allsup said he would seek to employ local people in the operation of the stores. thing that drew us to Vernon is the growth Vernon is Mr.

Allsup said, adding that he feels there is a need his stores can fulfill locally. Mr. Allsup says he prefers rural towns and small cities for his operation. A native of Woolforth near Lubbock, Mr. Allsup grew up and attended public schools at Morton.

He attended Hardin Simmons University, and spent four years in the U. S. Air Force before opening his first store in Clovis about 20 years ago. He and his wife, Barbara, have two sons, Mark, 18, a student at Baylor, and Todd, 14. t'ONVEMENCF real etUaUf dealer John Krnfro.

Irfl, and AiUup of I'fevik. of a 4S- Npw Mfnica contmiem'e store group, are turni in ol Ifcr Mir oo HUtMrner iilreet wher? onr Uirer nrw bcal to cub sir led here ifcrw wUl be removed to make space for the new store, which will feature a large parking area and a seif-service gasoline pump island. Mr. Kwifro arranged for the purchase of the store sites in Vernon and working wtth Mr. AUsup for store sites in Sevmour and Fleclra..