Winnsboro News (Newspaper) - August 15, 1968, Winnsboro, Texas i c r i -s r .it o Northeast l exas Leading Agricultural ana Area t News Volume II Wood 75491 August 15, 1968 10c a copy One Pages Finance woes appear eased for schools raked down an electric power telephone television cable a highway sign and the service Gulf The parked 1955 Burglars loot four stores LONG BOOM of a dragline swung too wide around the corner of Main and Broadway Monday and damage as The boom Football drills open Monday for Raiders j Football bounces into the j Winnsboro picture during the next lew clays with the opening of practice for the high school Red The Raider grid candidates arc scheduled to be issued shoes today 1 Thursday i at the Practice will officially open on Monday and head coach John Baker will direct the in twice a day classes in First game lor I he Tribe will be on Sept. 13, at Grand Saline An unofficial scrimmage will probably await the Red s before thai Assisting Baker with the coaching duties this year will be i ami Jim j Wallace headquarters back Irom last and Ronnie a newcomer to the coaching staff this let of Stokley was damaged about the roof by the falling Driver of the low hoy tractor trailer rig was Willis of operating in similar fashion at each loafed four businesses during recent Total lout is expected tu run into the thousands of Places hit were Newman Brothers Stewart's Drive-In Grocery and Broadway The Ford house and the jewelry store were broken The grocery and the service station were looted Monday Wood County sheriffs officers and Winnsboro policemen Marvin arc TRAI LS SIDELIGHTS y By to open in Winnsboro The American for George Wallace for will open a headquarters in Winnsboro in the next few daws to serve the surrounding j for j were made at | Friday night of i ers at the City OFFICIAL RIBBON cutters at the opening of the new educational building addition to Pine Street Baptist Church Aug. were three young people of the church who have volunteered for special services in Christian work - Ronald Debbie Jones and Pam t t t INVITED to Open House Sunday at the new W i n s b o r o Chiropractic Clinic by Dr. and Mrs. Larry Landers and Festivities arc scheduled For 1:00 to p.m. with several visiting doctors to be on hand to help explain the workings and procedures of a chiropractic health The official announcement appears elsewhere in this t t t IT'S THAT time again when the busiest season of the year is just around the corner for The usual flurry of activity is getting underway for school opening Sept. 3. Raider Band members already have been practicing for a week while football aspirants hit the field for workouts next This plus Autumn Trails activities which makes the Northeast area during the 1- t t FIRST AUTUMN TRAILS event of interest will be pageant preliminaries Aug. 24. at the high school Queen contestants have been sharpening talent acts for weeks and the show Aug. 24 promises to be a very interesting preview of the big main event Oct. 5. members attend meeting Mrs. Allen Mrs. Mrs. Clem and Mrs. Wayne Foreman attended a Business & Professional Women's workshop in Longview Aug. 4. Plans were made for the district conference to be held in Winnsboro Sept. 211-29. A large delegation from district is expected to A winner Mrs. Kevin Allen of Winnsboro is richer this thanks to a winning ticket site picked up in Humble Mrs. Allen got the winning ticket at Hanson's Enco the headquarters a meeting last Wallace Attending the meeting were E. Lamas of Mt. Franklin County Roger Bland of Wood County several precinct chairmen and other supporters from Mineola and Ice cream supper The Good Neighbor Club will hold its annual ice cream supper at Forest Home Community tonight at 7 Everyone is invited to bring homemade ice cream and cake to the Pep Squad meeting Judy Winnsboro High Pep Squad has announced that the Pep Squad will be at 9 o'clock Aug. 14. at the high All members are urged to be and Roger Barkley handling the Most of the business places were entered by burglars who pried open back doors with a metal bar or tire the officers The Swanner grocery was entered by a front door which was Hardest hit was Stewart's where a large quantity of diamond watches and other jewelry were Loss is expected to run over a thousand the At the Ford whose back doer is close to that of the jewelry the thieves took about cash from the office and also escaped with the titles and registration papers to all the used I cars on the Newman Brothers J | On Monday grocery reported a large amount | cigarettes plus a j watch and worth ol Kennedy I At Broadway a back j i do ir was pried then a j arctic machine broken At least in money was | irom Coxes return from j tour in Canada Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cox have returned to their home in Winnsboro a tour of the West Coast and The Coxes left Port Arthur July 6. by chartered bus for the West Coast and They went from Seattle to Vancouver by From there they I'd through the Canadian Rockies i and back down through the Mesa Verde and Glacier National In Glacier Park they rode in a snowmobile ' over Toll foot thick ice. When home on July 29. they had lal of 7,000 For the time in a number of Winnsboro publi c schools will wind up their fiscal year in the The picture for the year just ending was reported at Monday night's regular school board and next year's budget and tax rate were Superintendent L. M. West reported to the board that the 1967-jit fiscal which ends Aug. 31, will leave the school with a slight balance in unspent In the school system has had to barrow money several times in recent years to out its The difference lies in the extensive tax revaluation program completed by Winnsboro school district last This program raised property lax values in the district by nearly a POOL AUTHOR OF EDITORIAL Credit where credit is Last week's front page editorial in The Beds of was written by Fred Pool of executive vice president of the East Texas Chamber of Kis name was from the editorial by and the piece drew much favorable comment from News For next the school system will hold its tax rate at the level which was used this The tax rate was set at Monday night's board Of the total rate per in assessed will be earmarked for maintenance and operation and 45 cents will be used for payment on bonded This division is the same as used this Operational costs are rising for the school but a rise in property valuation - new construction - enabled the tax rate to be retained at Last year's After the 1967 revaluation total property tax values the district were New construction and renditions the past year have hiked i this figure to Also aiding the school's cial position for the coming year | was a hike in the state's per ita contribution to the local systems of I Total budgeted expenditures for next year amount to as adopted by the board Monday Of this more than j is earmarked Estimated income for the coming year is from local sources and from and federal VETERINARIANS come in pairs in Winnsboro these New citizens who are establishing their practice here are Dr. Karl James and his Dr. Viola Both are graduates of Texas College of Veterinary and their clinic is on Wheeler just south of the rodeo math teacher join faculties here Husband-wife team begin veterinary practice here had covered a I Two faculty members were hired Monday night by the school leaving the teaching staff just one person short for the coming school Hired were Mrs. Kay Thrasher ol Mt. Vernon for a math teaching post under the federal Title I program and Ronnie McCown of Mt. Vernon an assistant coach and social studies Mrs. Thrasher is a graduate of East Texas State University and has a year of teaching in Dallas schools and a half-year at Mt. She and her husband have two McCown is a native of Winnsboro and attended school here in the early He later was a football standout tor Mt. Vernon High and graduated from East He has also done work on his master's at and he is manned to the former Kay of McCown fills the vacancy on the coaching staff left by the resignation of Wendell In other action at Husband and w i aren't common in the al In the field of they arc But Winnsboro such a and the f e teams t three-year veterinary he i met a new student from Waco - j one of the very few j veterinary i females in that mass of male j extremely i now has j Viola wasn't the only girl in city's need veterinary There was an- service has been other She had attended MORE GIANT Winnsboro tomatoes - these grown by C. E. Stone at home on One weighed a nine ounces and the other a pound and a Marian Lee daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike holds the night's regular board the school J. Ordered a compilation of records on school land and mineral rights especially regarding small tracks taken in by consolidation over the 2. Delayed final payment on the 1967 tax revaluation program until spot checks for accuracy can be 3. Awarded contract for furnishing gasoline and motor oil to Sinclair Oil Harold local for the 1968-69 Sinclair's excluding federal was 17.24 cents per gallon of 19.74 per gallon of premium and 62 cents per gallon of motor 4. Contract for furnishing went to Foremost Dairies at a price of 7.2 cents per half-pint carton on both whole milk and chocolate Lilly Creamery won the contract on ice cream at 44 cents a dozen tor nickel i items and 75 cents a dozen for dime 5. Baking Co. of Mt. Pleasant will furnish bread with bid prices of 22 cents per loaf of 22 cents per package of hamburger 22 cents per package of hot dag bans and 22 cents per package of play paces top j team j The Goose Air Force Softball sparked by M O. L. Knight of I is busy this week I competing in the world | tournament in j Knight is the son of Mr. and j Mrs. 6. 906 N. j nut in His Goose Bnv j team won the right to enter the j world tournament by whipping teams from Massachusetts I Knight has just returned Irom | where he played with the Canadian Squirrel Club in a tournament and was named must valuable His will represent Newfoundland In the 1969 Canadian Games i be played in Nova | next in reporting on Knight's play in the Canadian a St. newspaper Bay's O. L. stunted the tournament by pitching six games in two Besides pitching great Knight hit five home runs and ended with great balling average to be the tournament's outstanding Knight's parents went to Abilene to see him play this week and to visit with Knight is ranked as the third best pitcher in the U. S. armed of veterinary Drs. Karl and Viola James are the new and they opened for practice week at their clinic on Wheeler ' just north of Coke Road and just south of the | The young James couple j opened their Tri- j County Veterinary on j their second wedding Business hours are 8 to 6 8 to 2 Botn are graduates of Texas College of Veterinary and their practice will cover animals of all sorts - cats and other cattle and Dr. Karl who graduated from A&M a year is an Australian from He became acquainted with Texas when his an came to Parkland Hospital in Dallas for a special Karl came with liked the area and enrolled at College Three years as Karl was starting his second year in the The James clinic is a 12 feet wide and 60 feet long. By purchasing the the James couple quickly solved problems of building a clinic and the accompanying long The trailer is being arranged into an waiting ex- lor University in her home town i amination room and an operating for three years before enrolling j cages for small j mals and pens for horses and A year Karl and Viola ' cattle will be erected behind the Karl graduated with his doctor of veterinary And later the James degree in 1967 and went to work a clinic building can be the U. S. Department of riculture in its meat For a girl in a He was Viola is embarking in Dallas but worked meat packing plants throughout East Texas - Mt. Mt. Vernon and other area Weekends meant quick trips to College Station until Aug. 2, while Viola received her DVM degree along with Brock Hopkins Jr. But during the summer the James couple was looking around ] mission for a location to set up their j They heard about Winnsboro from a couple of sources and visited here the Fourth of Winnsboro had lost its Dr. W. M. by death a few months the on a career that started with a childish love for From her interests grew to animals of all their problems and Veterinary medicine's future is the doctors tell Winnsboro's including the many beef cattle ranches and the livestock are all important veterinary work is fast becoming a vital part of cattle operations and herd Karl and Viola Modern stockmen find that regular checks and inoculations of their animals mean more dollars area was a dairy and livestock people were so j the James decided they had j found their spot for a of profit in the long The young doctors foresee a bright future of working together in Will 95 years missed the Wood County Old Settlers Reunion thia the reunion came to State Rep. George at the a specially inscribed walking cane to Darby on behalf ol the The presentation was Saturday morning boio Nursing
