Olney Enterprise (Newspaper) - June 7, 1962, Olney, Texas Microfilm Bax 8066 Texas Salus xxx 1 0 Pagts 10c Unfit VOLUME FIFTYTWO THE OLNEY Texas ENTERPRISE JUNE 1962 t Lacy i t r v J f i f vi A1 NUMBER MY for a Pulitzer Prize in journalism is Oscar Grif the crafty and courageous former editor of the Pecos Inde pendent and It was you who did the research and aired the facts about Billie Sol Estes fabulous dealings in fertilizer His expose led to Estes indictment on charges of peddling bogus mortgage paper and drove the opening wedge for later investi gations which are causing reverberations from to Probably Griffin himself had little idea that his newspaper stories early this year would lead to such sensational developments as have come to pass in recent weeks and Griffin was one of the few persons in the Pecos area not beholden to some de gree to Boy Wonder And despite Estes reputation as a great moralist and benefactor to the Pecos area Griffins sensitive nose for news tipped him off that something was rot ten in In the best tradition of re sponsible and courageous journ Griffin rooted out the facts and made them public doubtless at great personal The rest is If the nation has not been stunned and outraged by facts in the smelly Billy Sol Estes as brought to light by Griffins newspaper stones and myriad grand jury attorney gen eral office investigations and congressional then something is amiss in the Amer ican publics attitude toward right and Nothing short of the Pulitzer I would be ade quate reward for the journalist ic valor and excellence shown by Editor Griffin in the Billie Sol Estes AND MRS Charlie Gore got caught in an emergency while driving toward Olney on the Archer City Highway the oth er Their car engine heated up and appeared for a moment to be They quickly pulled off the Soon three young men from Ol ney came saw the Gores stalled car and stopped to render They checked the engine and found that a loose water hose had caused the The boys fixed the went to a farm house for a bucket of fill ed the radiator and sent the Gor es safely on their In this day and such chiv alry is not too and the Gores were particularly of the kind The young men were Tooker Ronnie Mitchell and Tom my We really do thank them for helping us out of a the Gores 1 V f r JV v X a J L County Follow Set in FUN IN THE SUN These two winsome young women find that soaking up sunshine at Olney Municipal Swimming Pool is a good means of relaxation during warm spring Judy was caught by the camera as she took a short break from her duties as life guard at the Her sunning partner is Janice Both girls were members of the 1962 Olney High School graduating Enterprise photo Mop Up Lackin Area Except for a relatively minor mopping up the 1962 wheat harvest in the Olney area is now An estimated 06 per cent of the area crop has been threshed and with the yield to taling in excess of bush The series of thunder showers C Agent Kennedy Gets Tour Scholarship County Agricultural Agents Thurman Kennedy of Young County and Uel Ray Stockard of Ellis County have been awarded 1962 Dow Study Tour Scholar according to Ollie Hale county agent and chairman of the Professional Improvement Committee of the Texas County Agricultural Agents The tour program is carried out by tho National Association of County Agricultural Agents in cooperation with the Agricultural Chemicals Dow Chemical The professional improve ment program is designed to meet the needs of county agents by giving them opportunities to study marketing out standing farm agri successful Extension IN LAST WIIKS Enterprise Service and research programs frontpage feature story development was a about a man who suffered aLiner broken neck in an was rushed to Hamilton Hos pital and had to be placed in a bed in a because of the unavailability of a room at the The of was news worthy enough to rate frontpage placement on its own But it also served as publicity for the forthcoming campaign for funds to build an addition to the hos It placed dramatic is on the fact that Hamilton Hos pital at most times is grossly overcrowded with BY A TWIST of 1 gained firsthand knowledge of the hos shortage of bed Be ing stricken with an abdominal ailment early Sunday I was rushed to the hospital for emergency The situa tion was the same as when the broken neck victim arrived sev eral days No hospital rooms were The hos pital folks did the best they They placed me in a bed in a por tion of the east corridor of the maternity There I stayed until being dismissed from the hospital about noon Certainly Im not complaining about the treatment I As the medical and ing care was And the bed in the hall wasnt so It served just fine in a The point that Ol ney does badly need more hospit al The forthcoming hospital en largement fund drive deserves the utmost in cooperation from every citizen who is seriously concerned about the problem of meeting present medical needs and paving the way for future growth and Kennedy will join other schol arship winners from tho Western Region in June to begin the 19day This group will visit in Montana and Wy and return to June Stockard will join the Southern Region group in Little also on June and will make tour stops in New Texas and Oklahoma before re turning to Little Rock on June cd from the training Kennedy has served as secretary treasurer of the Texas Associa tion for several Both are graduates of Texas College and have conducted outstanding adult as well as 4H programs during their Extension Kennedy has served in Stonewall and Young counties and Stockard in Hop Tarrant and Ellis Both began their service as as sistant county agents immediate ly after graduating from 119 107 TO HIST HOMI Lunn of Lunn Funeral Home was in Fri day to get Martha a former Olney and move her by ambulance to a rest home in Estes is the mo ther of George Quisenberry of Kennedy and Stockard arc vet eran Texas county Both have directed many outstanding Extension programs in the coun ties they have served and both aro active members of their state association and are in a position to put into use information gain LifeSaving Course Completed at Pool The Red Cross junior and sen ior lifesaving course at Olney Municipal Swimming Pool was completed and classes for beginner and intermediate swimmers got under way Mon Charles was by Charles Smith in teaching the lifesaving Enrolled in the junior course were Chuck Holly Horace Candy Bock David Calvin Lucy Ann Donna Jan Clarida and Beverly Members of the senior life saving class were Judy Glenn Atchley Glenda Atch ley and Bobby Mitchell said approximately 60 boys and girls are enrolled in the beginner course and 20 in the intermediate Assisting Mitchell in teaching the beginners are Gay Lucy Ann Donna Chuck Holly Hannis and Candy Golf Tournament To Resume Sunday Second round of the Golf Clubs team tournament is sche to be played Sunday after noon at the Olney All 11 of the fourman teams involved in the tourney are slat ed to be in starting at Each team will shoot a the end of which will mark the halfway point in tho summerlong tour oise on ncy t the end of the first nine hole completed two weeks the team composed of De Wayne Joe John Turner und Don Williams led the field with a score of In second place is the team of Charles Ronnie Dunlap and Charlie with a score of The tourney will consist of a See Back Page which visited the Olney area dur ing the week has delayed har vesting of the few scattered crops still remaining in the According to statements by op of the two local elevat approximately bushels of wheat are yet to be combined in the Olney At Olney Feed and coowner Clyde Stuteville said his firm has received mately 1531000 bushels of wheat and expects to take in an addi tional to bushels when fields dry sufficiently to permit resumption of At other wheat market ing Graham Mill and Ele Manager Bobby Goldsmith reported his with an estimated bushels yet to Tho two have received a total of bush els and look for an additional to Figured at the market price of per the Olney area wheat crops gross value is about Extremely dry weather and consistent hot winds during the latter part of April and most all of May apparently took a big toll on the wheat reducing ex yields Last local esti mated the Olney areas average yield at 17 bushels per This with the harvest Thunder storms on three dif more nearly they were occasions this week brought inclined to scale their estimates muchneeded moisture to the Ol Voting in the second Democrat ic primary in Young County Sat followed exactly the pat tern set in statewide Young gave sizable vote margins to John Connally frr Preston Smith for lieutenant Waggoner Carr for attorney general and Joe Pool for Carr and Pool were also the leaders in the two Olney voting former Navy Sec Connally of Tarrant Coun ty defeated his liberal Don Yarborough of Harris Coun by to State Senator Preston Smith of Lubbock polled votes to win the nomination for ant His James Turman of Fannin Coun got In the attorney generals Waggoner Carr of Lubbock de Tom of Austin by a count of to Winning the nomination for the new Joe Pool of Dallas polled compared to for his run off Woodrow Bean of El Based on complete but ial here is the vote tab for the two Olney boxes Box Box Total For Connally Yarborough For Smith 145 Turman 80 For General Carr 15G Reavely 67 For Pool 124 Bean 99 The total votes in the 18 Young County boxes were For governor 902 For lieutenant governor 996 attorney general 886 John Connolly l f K b t Preston Smith Waggoner Carr Red Cross Drive Scheduled in Olney June 22 With Gene serv ing as first blood donation drive since Young County joined the Red Cross Red River Regional Blood program Blood four months will be held j made Tuesday by Sam June The announcement of Speers acceptance of the chairmanship and the date for the drive was Prais By Men Who Use 81 59 78 57 87 47 71 60 200 16G 223 137 243 114 195 159 executive secretary of the Young County Red Cross chap Furr pointed out that the mobile blood unit from the Red River Regional headquarters in Wichita Falls will come here June 22 to collect blood at Community i A meeting for the purpose of making plans for the collection project is scheduled tonight Thursday at oclock in the nurses classroom at Hamilton For For Olney Area Gets Needed Rainfall downward to about 16 bushels per wheat apparently suffered more from ad verse weather than did the early In the latter stages of the yields were notice ably reduced by shrinkage of the caused by wind and lack of 1 Assuming the Olney area did average Hi bushels per the 1902 crop was far from be a poor but not up to the high standards set in 1901 ney area and put an at least to a severe spring Largest of the showers fell Thursday Ol ney weather gauged the moisture at Another storm front came i rough Monday night and dump ed rainfall that was measured by 1iijM1 at This was fol lowed on Tuesday night by show of ITS that produced inch Page Pages measurements of rain and when the area average fall in the last period was above the 20bushcl See Back Page MORE IMPROVEMENT With two sidewalk superintendents providing supervision workmen were busy Tuesday on a renovation project at the former Rays Shoe Store which is being prepared to receive a new Mens The 25foot front owned by Morris is one of the several Main Street bus iness locations undergone modernization and improvement programs in the last few the two curbstone engineers at the site cameraman arrived were Howard and Sam Furr who also positions as prominent downtown Enterprise photo when the hold down For convenience and you cant beat the Red Cross regional blood bank in Wichita Falls as a source for blood Thats the opinion of Richard and Ralph chief medical tech nician at Hamilton Hos Since Young County hospitals and local Red Cross chapter vot ed four months ago to become affiliated with Red Cross Red River Regional Blood Hamilton Hospital has had few if any serious blood supply prob Thats more than can be said of tho situation in previous the hospital used what is called a walking blood hank where local citizens were called on to donate blood when it was needed by the hos That had its no donors could be found for rare types of it caused hardship and inconvenience to those on the donor hospital joined a commercial blood bank in a rath er distant The alliance work ed fairly but rates were high and tho distance factor proved to be a Under tho present the Red River Regional Blood Bank in Wichita Falls provides excell ent service at very reasonable the hospital men pointed Hinson told of a case recently at Hamilton Hospital where a surgical procedure was being per In it sud denly became necessary to ad minister blood to tho Vino A telephone call was hurried Iv placed to the Wichita Falls Red Cross blood The blood i was at Hamilton Hospital and 1 ready for administering in just j one hour from the time the call I was Hinson pointed out that the blood center personnel grabbed the blood from the banks inven tory and called tho Wichita County sheriffs In the the Young County sheriffs department had been A Wichita County officer pick ed up the blood and sped toward Olney with Ife was met half way by Deputy Sheriff Dun away of who transported tho precious parcel rapidly to Hamilton Such quick access to blood can often mean tho difference be tween life and death for a pat As another example of the Wichita Falls banks Hinson pointed out that Ham ilton Hospital surgeons recently needed a pint of AB Negative blood a very rare type and requisitioned it from Wichita Tho regional bank supplied it at When affiliated with the com blood Hamilton Hospital paid per pint for Tho Red Cross bank charg es per But in order to offer Furr said h dependable and economic al blood the Red Cross must depend on citizens cooper f The Red Cross will send a blood mobile unit into Young Court four times per year to blood The mobile units first visit in Olney is scheduled June Hamilton Hospital and Young County Red Cross officials hope Olney and area citizens will re spond Representatives from civic womens city chamber of com fire post of Surveillance Station organizations have to the planning ses Space ither Loving Firemen Vote To Establish Station The volunteer fire department at Loving voted in a meeting Monday night to buy the former Rice store build ing at Loving and convert it into a fire Two pieces of mobile fire fighting equipment will be hous ed in the One is the Young County Rural Fire Detriments unit number two and a Young County Civil Defense water tank both of which are presently stationed at Tho Loving firemen jire busy soliciting funds with which to finance the store buildings pur chase and conversion to a fire Officers of the Loving group aro president Marvin vice president Nor man secretary and Joe Young County hospitals voted in February to become af filiated with the regional Red Cross blood bank in Wichita one of the stipulations was that the bloodmobile would be sent to the county about four times per year to collect Young Countys donation based on an expected us age rate of three and onehalf pints per 100 is 603 pints per The bloodmobile visited Gra ham recently and obtained 138 George of Wichita regional administrator of the Red Cross blood will be at the planning meeting He will show a 15minute film and answer questions from the Local Red Cross and hospital officials stated it is hoped that the mobile blood unit will obtain at least 75 pints during its ini tial visit TO ATTEND WORKSHOP Olney School Superintendent Charles Mitchell will attend a Texas School Administrators As sociation to be held at Texas Sunday through MEETING ON FLOOD CONTROL SLATED OLNEY JUNE A town and areawide meeting for all persons interested in flood control is scheduled at 7 June in Ol niy Community Chamber of Commerce Manager Orville Roland said Particularly urged to he are persons who have suf flood damage of any type in the last 10 Purpose of the meeting is to acquaint citizens with the flood control projects which commun may obtain through the Soil Conservation A movie on the subject will be Sponsoring the meeting will be the Upper West Fork Soil Con servation the Soil Con servation Service and the Water Resources Committee of the Ol ney Chamber of Among those attending will be John manager of the Soil Conservation Service district of fice at Gainesville Claude Me Graham Work Unit con Cecil Larimore of member of the Upper West Fork District board of supervis ors city and county officials and chamber of commerce Tho Olney C C Water Resourc es with McCary serving as director in ii heading up an investigation into possibilities of receiving a Soil Conservation Service flood control project on Mud Creek and Salt Creek watersheds in Ol Saddles Club At Jacksboro Today Olney Boots and Saddles Club will ride at 3 today Thurs day in the parade which will mark the opening of the three day Jack County Sheriffs Posse Rodeo in The local riders will stay over o participate in the grand entry of the opening rodeo perform ance at 8 oclock tonight in the new arena on Graham Horses of club members will be loaded on trucks at and the group will leave at 1 Yale is or for the third annual Jacksboro which will per at 8 oclock Friday and Saturday r Classifies Otf r r 3 v I I f LV
