Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 21

RETIRED PUBLISHER RECALLS Ufa Sbfiene Reporter Clyde Enterprise Had First Callahan County Linotype PAGE ONE SATURDAY MORNING AUGUST 29 1953 SECTION Phone Line Cuflimg iranded 'Sabotage' By HAMILTON WRIGHT Rcportar-Ntwi Stiff Writer CLYDE Aug 28 Veteran newspaperman Eugene Franklin Butler wouldn't have come to Clyde In 1917 and entered the ncwa-paper buaineaa If he had known the United Statea would aoon enter World War I agalnit Germany Aa It wan he bought the Clyde Enterprise on April 1 1917 on a borrowed down-payment from George Kerr who had established It In 1912 "But the war made buaineaa good and 1 paid It out shortly after the war was over" he added If he had not come Clyde would never had had him three times as lta mayor either Butler has the distinction of having brought the first llnotvpe typesetting machine) to Callahan County in 1924 Also the honor of having Installed and operated the first electric power driven motor In the county He became a printer's devil i beginner In a newspaper office) rather late in life at age of 20 But for nearly half a century after that with a gap or so here and there he has been a newspaper publisher or editor ABILENE TEXAS CROSSROADS Dear Editor: Reading about these congressmen which are taking summer tours at the taxpayers' expense on account of they say they need to investigate first one thing and then another as far away as possible has brought up some comment in our local coffee shop that Is about to ruin the- proprietor It takes two more spoons of sugar to make a cup of coffee drinkable after it Is exposed to the kind of remarks that are bandied up and down the counter on this subject Feller on the next stool had figured out the 8300 he got deducted from his pay check last yesr was Just about enough to last one congressman one night of investigating in some place like Paris or Romp And likely as not what he learned there could be found out cheaper at some Institute of practical education closer to home There is some which thinks these congressional Junkets don't only use up money some of us taxpayers would enjoy taking a vacation on for ourselves but might lead people in other countries to wondering with is if that's the best we can do for statesmen SCOTT The district manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company charged here Friday afternoon the cutting of a long distance toll cable pear Rotan was and evidently done by someone who knew what they were doing'' The Incident disrupted long distance service In and out of the Fisher County town for two hours late Thursday night before repairs were made (Bill) Blakney manager of the Abilene district said the cable was severed near a terminal connection box making repairs difficult He said the act was sabotage to company property" Incidents such as cable cutting and other examples of violence have cropped up over the state since Communication Workers of America (CIO) went out on strike against the Bell System More than 500 CWA members are out on strike throughout the Abilene district Union Not Blamed Blakney and other phone officials however said they did not believe union members were responsible tor the phone interruption at Rotan Leaders of the Local CWA 6202 asserted it was not union policy to have violence Paul Gray union representative for Northwest Texas In Abilene Friday for a meeting with local union leaders said: "I don't think any of our people are responsible Possibly It was dme by someone sympathetic to the union misguided in their efforts to help us Certainly the union does not advocate violence nhvxlrel nr otherwise to company property" Gray was to leave tor Vernon to investirate reports of a fight involving the union members but he declined to elaborate (An Associated Press report said two union members were arraigned on charges of simple assault after a reported attack on a Bell employe In Vernon) A company spokesman said the rable rutting was flrt reported about 9 Thursday Repairmen found the cable "sawed Into' at a pole on a rallnad right of way near the Rotan depot Service Restored The companv said partial service was restored -hnrtlv after 11 and complete sendee about 2 a The cable the ontv one connecting Rotan with the outside world Is connected Into the Hamlin toll center which handles lone distance sen-ice for both Roby and Rotan Local service In Rotan was not disturbed the company said Blakney said civil authorities in Fisher County had been asked to watch tor any other attempts to djsrupt communication facilities "I think It fthe cable cutting) will heln to keep others on the alert" Blakney said Sweetwater Gets Relay TV Station WASHINGTON Aug 28 (RNS) Telecasting Inc operator of KDUB TV at Lubbock has been granted permission by the Federal Communication Commission to broadest at Sweetwater on a ion to broadcast at Sweetwater on television Channel 12 No bearings have been set on the corporation's bid tor a TV channel In Big Spring Granting of the Big Spring channel has been delayed by competing applications for the broadcast rights In a statement filed with the FCC owners of the Sweetwater channel rights said they expect to spend more than 893213 building the station at Sweetwater and about 890000 to operate the first year Broadcasts at Sweetwater the corporation indicated win be either by a pick-up method or microwave relay The Lubbock station Is an affiliate of CBS Broadcast hours at Sweetwater will he from 2:55 to 11:30 pm Monday through Friday from 3:40 pm to 12 midnight on Saturday and from 1:30 to 11:30 pm on Sunday Sweetwater viewers will have a program divided in the following manner Entertainment 61 per cent religious 8 per cent agriculture 2 per cent educational 4 per cent news 6 per cent discussion 2 per cent talks 5 per cent and sports 3 per cent Texas Telecast Inc said financing of the Sweetwater station will be accomplished by existing capital and by deferred payments in purchasing the equipment Staff Outlined The staff to be supervised by KDUB TV department managers is to include a station manager program manager chief engineer two transmitting engineers salesman one in charge of traffic and continuity and one secretary and accounting clerk AU accounting will be handled in Lubbock The KDUB TV group stated in applying for channels at Sweetwater and Big Spring that unless stations in the two towns may be established with a minimum investment and operated with virtually a skeleton staff they cannot economically survive Many persons In communities near Lubbock but outside KDUB-1 coverage areas have complained because they cannot receive consistent signals the ap-llcants said In seeking their one Breck Expects 1500 Students (lasses Will Begin Wednesday came to Texas with his parents Mr and Mrs Butler In 1880 They were farmer folks who settled at Farmer's Branch Just north of Dallas The publisher attended schools at Farmer's Branch Junior college at Greenville and attended school a abort time at Baylor University Worked on Farms But for several years he asserts he worked on farms and as a day laborer hero and there did you enter the newspaper business?" Inquired the reporter "I'd had a sort of hankering after it Then one day 1 saw an ad in the classified columns of the Dallas Morning News wanting a devil at Jacksboro So I went at age of 30 to the Jacksboro News owned by Marks He put me to work at any little Job cleaning presses sweeping floors running errands emptying the spittoon whatever a fellow could do" Butler paused long enough in the continuity of his early career to say that Marks was the founder of a youth's corn club which later evolved into the present Future Farmers of America organization Marks wanted to educate adult farmers to plant more and better corn They did not respond so he enlisted bova in Ms pet bobby Out of It sprang the FFA Stayed Six Months Six months' stay was enough there Butler went to the Bridgeport Index owned by Orion setting type about 14 years I worked for him off and on" On April 1 1917 he bought the Clyde Enterprise He had borrowed the down payment for the purchase of the paper "I came to Clvde in debt and kept going into debt" he said was 81000 in debt a huge sum in those days" But while I felt the gloomiest after the war started 1 found it was really my salvation Business was good advertising was increasing and I kept busy all during the war Shortly alter the conflict was over I had paid every dollar 1 During the memorable period Butler said he primed his tabloid paper on a 12X18 Chandler press The tabloid was 5X18 Inches four pages The plant still has the press on hand The Enterprise was located in a building across from the present quarters which now has been occupied about 12 or 14 years He recalls the largest special edition carried 10 pages Sold Paper About seven years ago Butler sold the Enterprise to A Pool and retired for a short time from newspaper work "1 Just worked around my house" he said The next April after he sold he was elected mayor of Gyde served See Ex-Publisher Pg 7B Cols 78 "The men who repaired the trouble at Rotan and other places had to be taken off switchboards" company official said were management people who already have been working long hours to maintain service" At nightfall Friday the company said operations were proceeding normally throughout the district A union leader declared Friday night the union was ready to atay out for as long as It takes to break the strike As far aa our people are concerned we'd rather wait till Christmas to forego a wage Increase to save the union Deleting of the nostrike clause in the contract would leave us completely Ineffectual like taking the powder out of a shell" The statements were made by Gray shortly before a rally by area CWA workers here Friday night It was one of a series the union has called since the strike to keep unionists posted on developments of strike negotiations being carried on in St Louis between management and union Gray reiterated union claims that the strike had reduced company operations by 95 per cent He asserted the company's claim that business was being continued only 10 per cent under normal "is strictly without fact" Surgery Averted For Crash Victim Mrs Sally Harkrldcr 60 was reported Friday night to be in Very satisfactory" condition at Hendrick Memorial Hospital where she is under treatment for injuries suffered In an automobile accident Thursday Her husband Harkrider 65 said doctors had found that his wife had no broken bones and that they did not perform surgery as was indicated previously Mrs Harkrider was Injured when she was thrown from a car in a collision at Chestnut and South Seventh Sts intersection The car in which she was rid'ng collided with another driven bv Stephen Rowe Jr 18 of 4058 Stratford Ave Harkrider an Abilene oil operator Rowe and a passenger in his car Carroll Turner 19 were not seriously injured KEEPING TAB ON SERVICEMEN BUTLER borrowed down-payment "My newspaper career has been without any unusual happenings" the modest publisher explained A native of Bowling Green Ky he was born Jan 25 1874 and The new squad coach to replace Vernon Robertson will be Charles A Hester who haa coached at Littlefield for the past two years He Is married and haa a small son Other new teachers are Sue Spratt 1919 graduate of Breckenridge High School whose mother Mrs Fern Spratt is a teacher In the school system will teach English and reading in Junior High Emmons will be In charge of boys's physical education and elementary football Mr and Mrs Marvin Moore are coming here from Blanket where they have been teaching since 1949 They are both graduates of Daniel Baker College at Brownwood Mrs Moore will teach in ward school and Moore will be in charge of boys' physical education and elementary football Mrs Mary Anderson graduate of Ranger Junior College and McMurry College will be the other new teacher in the elementary schools Mable Grounds of Abilene has accepted a position with the high school as Spanish teacher She has had 13 years teaching experience four years of that as a teacher in the public schools of Puerto Rico She replaces Miss Jo Hest-and who resigned during the summer months GRISSOM'S mont has been promoted to corporal at Camp Pendleton Marine Base Calif He was Inducted Into the Marine Corps in February' of "Anson Thedainag" The cable cutting brought to light reports of other "unusual" trouble within the past five days A bullet hole was found in a Four area sailors are among the 12000 men who recently participated in the largest and most extensive Naval training exercise since -World War II BRECKENRIDGE Aug 29 (RNSi Some 1500 stulents will report for classes at the six schools in Breckenridge on Wednesday Sept 2 Supt John Culwell said the average daily attendance hist year was 1476 whites and 51 colored Preparatory to the opening all elementary students are to register on Monday and Junior High on Friday and Monday Thera will he no registration on Tuesday Sept 1 but those who have not registered by that time will be permitted to register on Sept 2 The schools will recess for the Christmas holidays on Dec 18 and resume classes on Jan 4 Otherwise there will be five holidays one on Labor Day on Sept 7 two for Thanksgiving November 26 and 27 Thursday to Monday to observe Easter The commencement season will open on May 23 with the senior class baccalaureate sermon and the high shool graduation will be on May 28 8 New Teachers Eight new teachers have been named to the school system Thomas Seeley who will replare Jim Wilkerson as vocational agri culture teacher In the high school comes here from Coleman where he taught for four years He is married and has two children They are: Billy Bailey stew- ardsman husband of Mrs Alice Bailey cf Stamford aboard the heavy cruiser USS Helena Noel Dyer seaman son of Mrs Andrew Taylor of Snyder aboard the heavy cruiser USS Los Angeles Don Everett radioman third class son of Mr and Mrs Walter Everett of Arah Route Snyder aboard the heavy cruiser USS Los Angeles A Biggs firefhan of Stanton aboard the heavy cruiser USS Helena Thomas Hart a on of Mr and Mrs Lawson Hart of Asper- 1952 A second son of the Harts S-A William Hart is stationed at San Diego Calif in the Naval Station post office Another son Pvt Dee Hart has completed basie training at Camp Chaffee Ark and has arrived at Fort Hood Tex to begin eight weeks training as a food inspector and cook BUFFALO GAP Aug 28 Airman Third Class Levi Reeves has returned to his station at Mather Field Sacramento Calif after a 30-day visit with his wifa and in the home of Mr and Mrs Glenn Johnson In Buffalo Gap ed rable caused several Anson phone customers to go without local service Lines Short-Circuited In three instances pieces of wire were found draped over long distance wires causing a short circuit to long distance operations between Abilene and Anson the company disclosed Another Incident ocurred within Abilene Someone successively dialed (which signals the operator) at nine outdoor booths then laid down the receiver and left The phones were dialed over a period of 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