Gatesville Messenger And Star Forum (Newspaper) - November 23, 1972, Gatesville, Texas Coryell Countys HOME NEWSpaper Young Musicians Shine Page 2 AND Gatesville 17 Gatesville 24 Consolidated September 1907 NOVEMBER 1972 10c Per Copy VOLUME 20 PRIZE Deer hunter Floyd Wal of Gatesville was all smiles as he admired tha trophy rack on a husky buck he killed at on the opening day of the 72 deer season He was hunting with Mack on the Morris place in the Pancake The buck field dressed 130 pounds and the symmetrical spread of antlers had 13 Happy Hunting Grounds Deer Harvest Off to Fast Start in Coryell Coryell Countys growing sta ture as a deer hunting center has been embellished by a ser ies of successes by happy hunt ers during the opening days of the 72 Many a plump a scattering of to the guns of sharpeyed nimrods as the annual harvest of venison and horns got And a more than modest percentage of the bucks sported multi racks of antlers that make prize The countys deer population is of such proportions that it is even attracting poachers in rec ord Game Manage ment Officer Jerry Noles filed 11 of them for trespassing and road hunt the first week end of the All the game law violators pleaded guilty and paid fines averaging in justice of the peace Noles also investigated sever al other complaints by land owners of hunters illegally en tering their places or firing at deer from public Its the worst its been in the six years Ive been Noles Yule Shopping Season Starts Drawing 9 Its already beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Gates ville with Yule decora tions enhancing business estab where coupons are being distributed free to all callers for chances at prices offered in the Cham ber of Commerce 72 Yule pro motion As merchants and salesclerks prepared for Thursdays Thanksgiving they re ported Christmas buying alrea dy under Ticketed are three Saturday giveaways of in merchan dise The drawings will be held on the courthouse lawn at the Saturdays of 16 and At each drawing there will be a first a sec ond and a third will have to be present at the drawings to Christmas ribbon and span gles already are placed in the interior of many Gatesville and the street decora tions in the downtown area and on Main Street are due to go up this The Christmas lights will riot be turned until said ONE OF THE first and best kills of 72 Coryell hunt was registered by Floyd Wal who bagged a 13point buck on the Mack Morris place near Pancake early The dcHT field dressed at 130 Then Tuesday afternoon Cur tis Snider of Gatesville brought Quail Season Opens 1 Quail hunters who are chomping at the bit still have a few days to wait before going into the fields in quest of their favorite Quail season in Co ryell County doesnt open until In the quail season has opened concurrently with deer season but the schedule was changed this Game Management Officer Jerry Noles pointed Youth Fairs Officials Named Catalogs Ready Top officials for Iho tural division of the 1973 Cory ell County Youth Failand Live stock Show have been Catalogs have also been printed and will soon be distributed to prospective exhibitors in Ihe booked for 1920 al the Coryell Community Center in Don Hunt is executive tor of the fair and general sup will be Clovis King and Kermit The board of directors includes Don Bob Clois Wood Carroll Tony Don Jeny Mc King and Making up the executive committee are Cam McGilvray and Tom Mil Other officers for the 73 fail are treasurer secretary Cloyce ringmaster George Jageler and Ral livestock superintendents and veter On the facilities committee for the exposition arc County Judge Doug Mayor Bob Miller and the Gatesville Jay back an 11point buck from a hunt on the Snider place at The bucks field dressed weight was 128 Among the Gatesville hunt ers killing 10poinlers were Norman Justin Herring and Sammy Some hunters who have been going out of town for years also reported exception al Harmon Bythel Cooper and Dawson Cooper all brought back from their favorite hunting lease near Leonard Meeks bagged a 9pointer near Clar ence hunting on the Fort Hood killed a 9poinl buck lhat field dressed See HUNTERS Page 1 Housing Loan For Jonesboro is Approved Farmers Homo Administra tion has approved a loan to the Jonesboro Housing Authority for a rural rental housing it was an this week by the of fices of John Tower and Boh Project according to Jonesboro Housing Authority President Leo call for construct inf five 3bcd room brick veneer houses for rental to senior and other rural families of modest means in the Jonesboro The financed by the rural housing program of the is repayable in 50 years at 7 per cent The Jonesboro Housing Au which has 11 similar housing units in recent has purchased a 3V4acre tract on a county road north of the Jonesboro post office as the site for the new The land was bought from Roberts for A contract for construction of the units has been awarded to Kenneth who built the other houses at Giant Sewer Program May Start in 73 Prospects for HU Grant Brightened Band Rated In Division III Gatesville High Schools band received a Division III rating in marching and play ing during University Inter scholastic League contests in Waco last The judges said our march ing was excellent but our play ing lacked Band tor Lex Grantham The band has 66 members and Grantham is hoping that num ber will increase considerably during the next year or Copperas Covo High Schools marching band was the only Class AAA entry in the to receive a first division rat This band was presented a CHARLES SMITH Dvn Funeral Services Set Friday For Charles Smith Funeral services for Charles Gatesville grocer and city council will be held at 10 Friday at the First Presbyterian The will conduct the riles and burial will be in Restand Smith died at Wednesday in the local hospi lal of a heart He was He became ill week end and was admitted to the hos pital early Smith had lived in Gatesville all his life for 18 months spent in South where worked for an oil He had owned and operated Smiths Grocery and Market at 1700 Bridge Street since He was elected a Ward 2 rep on city council last A longtime leader In tlie First Presbyter ian he was a deacon in the church and was due to have become an elder in January of Smith was bom in Gates ville son of the late and Frank He Miss Betty Jane Jones of on He was by Powell for about 23 years before entering the grocery See DIES Page 1 The signal that extensions and improvements to water and sew er systems may into fruition in was i ed this when the citys I application for grant I from the Housing and Urban Development Agency cleared its in early summer wis Miller de scribed as an application to file an application for the The mayor was noti fied this week by 1UI thul the initial application had been This means we about a 90 per cent chance of ing this Miller The HUD money is to be used on the im provement portion in the com prehensive program planned for Also filed several months ago was a bid for a grant of from the Texas Board for on the sower We feel confident our re will be by he Miller takes TOTAL COST of the plan ned improvements and exten sions is expected to run around Last February Gatesville vot ers approved a revenue bond issue for the citys tion f the Preliminary engineering work on the varied projects has been Once final word on the grant application is the city will he ready to its bonds and advertise for con struction bids on the Major water system projects include a sm face a CONSIDERABLE expansion cf lire citys sewage disposal built m is also included and the sWer out gallon elevated tank in West 1 and a new tank or variable flow and to the north lie way in Some of to the Slaie Schools the bond funds will also go Boys Foreseen is pay for the recent purchase if arrangement with lire Tex a water distribution system j as Youth Council whereby the owned by Stale Road Water process waste water from Evant Rites Held For Crash Victims Geye Recovering Trom Heart Surgery Geye is I satisfactorily at his 11 2Mlh from heart surgery undergone in Lukes Hospital in Houston on Geye returned home from the 1 hospital A Way With the Wayward Successful Probation Program Developed by Robb Forf Access Restricted During Deer Season FORT the interest the entire Kort Hood j military reservation except primary range airfields and the range be off limits to all both civilian and during the deer and turkey hunting The only exceptions to this restriction will be personnel on training missions coordinated through the Range Office and hunters who are hunting under the supervision of the Hunt Control Specific dales of the deer hunt are 18 through and thereafter each Satur day and Sunday through 17 and the entire period from 21 through except for Christmas Eve and Christ mas This restriction af such people as those who would enter the restricted area to gather work cattle or for any other Anyone with reason or need to enter the restricted area j must his entry through both the Range Office and the Hunt Control A Fort Hood spokesman pointed out thai the increas ed safely hazard during the hunting season is the result of hunters being placed over the entire raining The dan ger to an individual wandering into hunting areas where high powered rifles are being used is More than 50 people in the immediate Gatesville area have reason to be thankful this sea son thankful for the pro bation department set up in the 52nd Judicial District near ly a year Among this number are 38 adults convicted in district court of felonies and 15 ju placed on probation by the Were it not for the probation some of them would doubtless be in prison or involved in addition al These people are joined in their gratitude by District Judge Byron The probation program is working wonderfully and Im cer tainly thankful for along with all the other attor neys and law enforcement cers over the Judge McClellan was saying this Its one of the best things that ever happened to Coryell THE JUDGE pointed out that at least 9 out of 10 of the pro are being rehabilita ted and this rep resents not only a saving in human lives but also a saving j in dollars to the i One of the reasons its work I ing so well is Roy the probation officer whos proven in just a few short months thai he a way with the way When a 275pounder who was once a college football star talks to you pay formula is to estab lish friendship with each one uf the clients assigned Im here to help them in every uay 1 the 29year old Robb In addition to See PROBATION Page 1 52ND DISTRICT PROBATION OFFICER ROY ROBB A holiday trip for a visit with relatives and a at Evant ended in tragedy for an El Paso family of kill ed when the plane in which they were pas sengers exploded in midair and crashed in a cotton field five miles east of Troy about The crash claimed the lives of Robert 31 Uis Linda Fa ye their two and two Perkins was the only daughter of and Gra dy Hanes of Funeral services for the Per kins family were held at 3 Sunday in the First Baptist Church of Also killed in the crash was the airplanes of El His body was sent to El Paso for Tlie El Paso group was on its way to Hamilton and plan ned to land at Iho airport tin The were to visit Perkins parents and spend some lime al a deer hunting and Hanes had gone from Kvant to Ham ilton to meet their daughter and The a Bon crashed about ij southeast of the Perkins fam ilys Reports are thil tlie pilot was in contact by radio with the Waco control tower before the asking for weather The pilot said ho above clouds and needed to get clear of Later they radioed the Bryan that they were experi engine and a few minutes later con tact with the aircraft was who owns the field where the plane said he heard a like a plane in a dive above the clouds Friday He said he saw the plane fall be neath the low and crash in pieces onto the The contents of the plane and wreckage were over a ra Perkins and Cindy were found clutched in each arms and a yard deep in the damp earth some 200 yards from the body of body of was not found until 10 when it was discovered by searchers partially buried in the soft ground about feet from where the largest piece of the plane Reports are thai she fallen from the airplane it was in the a quarter of a mile 1 from the crash Federal Aviation of cordoned oil the crash area and began an invest iga Temperature Dips To 29 Degrees The Gatesville area wel conred Wednesday morn i ings bright sunshine after I several days of j weather that sau this re gion chilled by damp south east forecast for Thursday is fair and The rain which fell here Tuesday morning measured only li Wednesday morning he temperature to a seasons low of 29 lion of the The FA A is not expected to release the results of its investigation for some the former Miss Linda fa ye was born in Galesville July She was reared in the Pearl community and attended school j there before graduating from I Kvant High School jn j She was married to 1er i kins She taught i at the Jack and Jill Kinder garten for four years the couple was residing in was born in and gra from high school there in He was a 19K3 gradu ate of Texas Tech He was chief geologist of the El Paso district for the Texas W a t e r Development Until Ihe Perkins family had lived See CRASH Page T CHAPLAIN WALTER ALLEN j Home 1J Tt Allen Leaving State Schools Chaplain Post Waller M disl minister u ho served iis a chaplain at the Mate training school complex 1iiir tin last Id h is resign ed to become head chaplain at the Spencer Youth in The resignation becomes Nov and Allen is to hetin his new work ill Tennessee on I Re i cause of accumulated e I was Chaplain Allens lasl day the Stale Schools and he and his w dl be mm from i die to I ort Spencer Youth i enter Stewart I ville is an nisi ii ui delinquent and crated by the late H is with mixed emotions I that ian I I Allen said We i have our at tire Slate Schools and we regret very much leaving our friends in are especial ly grateful to the Texas Youth Council and the stale of i because they have been so very kind to Hut we he go See LEAVING Page 1 is on Nash il dr
