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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1950
Page
1
In Kerrville the Hill Country District Show drew 16 4 H club members as Davene Schmidt won grand champion with a C type doe kid. Donnie Bode and Gene Simon claimed top sheep honors while Marvel Ann Skaggs and Edward Kothmann earned multiple firsts. FFA members and Vernon Jones accompanied the group to Kerrville for the Friday Saturday event.
Patsy Ann Price and Betty Sykes of Junction are among 31 students whose artwork was displayed in a Southwest Texas State Teachers College exhibit this week.
Last weekend Kerrville hosted the Hill Country District Show with a long list of attendees from Kimble County including Mr and Mrs Mills Bennett Mr Damon Evans Mr Herbert Simon Mr Charles Bob Ragsdale Mrs Chetty Porter Mr Harold Dutton Mr W R Allen Mr Philip Jacoby Mr Chester Stapp Mr Homer Mansfield Mr R W Rothmann Mr Rufus Coney Mr David Schmidt Mr Chester Itz Mr Chester Bernhard Mrs Tom Jacoby Mrs Ken aion Stapp Mr Lem Fleming Mr Marvin Skaggs and Mr Walter Parker.
Jimmy Hughes tops the local FFA judging contest with 485 of 500 points to qualify for the four member team. Teammates include Vernon Jones VA teacher notes others are Bob Jetton Ben Urban Bill McNutt and Clint Warren. Practice judging occurred in Iraan and beef cattle work at the Menard Show. The group plans district action in Llano and Abilene in March followed by the Area XII contest at John Tarleton College Stephenville.
Two representatives from CA A Fourth Regional Headquarters Fort Worth T X met with local leaders at Kimble County Airport to discuss commissioning the Airway Communication Station. Plans showed a March 19 opening with bids for personnel to be advertised soon and some originally selected workers possibly returning.
Kimble club boys will exhibit seven head of livestock in the Boys Fat Stock Show in San Antonio February 17 to 26. Ben Urban, an FFA member, will show a Brahman heifer that won ribbons at the Kimble Junior Livestock Show and the Hill Country District Show in Kerrville. Gene Simon, Jerry Dutton, and J R Evans will each show two ewe lambs from the Sears Roebuck Foundation sheep project for Kimble 4 H Clubs. VA teacher Vernon Jones and County Agent J W Jennings help the boys prepare the animals for future shows.
Jaycee president Pete W. Jacoby reports street marking will start soon in Junction. Materials include 180 inch posts, two thousand house numbers, and 360 street markers arriving this week. Markers will be placed at intersections with two signs per post except College Street added marker. After placement, home and business numbers will be issued. Donations to fund the project are still welcome.
Seventy seven buyers paid an average of 40 cents per pound for 96 lambs sold by 52 FFA and 4-H youths at the Kimble County Junior Livestock Show. Auctioneer Lemuel Jones led the sale at Hill Country Fair grounds arena with top price 67½ cents paid by Don Reed for a 107 pound lamb. Others bought lambs from Sue Beth Bannowsky, Bill McNutt, and many show members as out of town buyers also participated. Fordtran Johnston hauled the lambs to San Antonio with J W Kothmann Co guaranteeing a floor of 23 cents per pound.
Gene Simon son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Simon has been named Gold Star 4 H Club Boy of Kimble for 1949 County Agent J W Jennings announced He is th irteen and a junior high student who fed lambs exhibited at Junction Fort Worth and San Angelo and was on wool and mohair and grass judging teams He was chosen to receive sheep in Sears Roebuck Foundation program and was allotted four ewes and a ram He placed first and third in ewe lamb class in Sears foundation judging and won in Kimble County show with Rambouillet ewe lambs His wool mohair and grass teams earned top finishes at Sonora and State Meet College Station He ends the year with nine Rambouillet sheep and plans to show four more ene lambs at multiple fairs Future Gold Star prospects look strong.
A and M College plans to open the school here on August 1 1950 and to accept bids and let contracts for construction during March Judge M C Blackburn was informed by college officials Codie Wells the college contract engineer provided the update during a visit last week on a preliminary site examination Chancellor Gib Gilchrist received deeds and abstracts to the property last week The college is drilling test wells to locate water on the Bieck tract where the building site has been placed Others who viewed the location last week included T R Spence manager of physical plants and Norton and Mayfield architects
Weekend visitors included her brother-in-law and sister Mr and Mrs Lige Green and Mr and Mrs Sam Justin of Fort Worth. Sam Justin owns the Justin Joot and Shoe Manufacturing Co. in Fort Worth as noted in the visiting party report.
The Men’s Volley Ball League opened last Thursday as the Rotary Club defeated Junction Independent in a best of three. Rotarians Jack Jennings and Vic Loeffler led at the net with setters Woodard Wiedeman Borden and Jacoby. Independent standout players included Goodman Fields Perry Palmer Merediths Hayes and Baugh. The Veterans edged the High School Faculty by forfeit. Veterans listed Smith Mann Dunning Stapp Stapp Barker Bruce Broyles Ferguson. All teams play weekly Thursdays with no admission as March of Dimes events pause play this week.
Deputy Collector George Cavaness reports January second and third week poll tax receipts totaling 1017 on Tuesday morning, up from 448 two weeks earlier. The Kimble County Jaycees launch a “Pay Your Poll Tax” campaign urging timely payments or exemptions to safeguard voting rights before the January 31 deadline.
Judge M C Birkburn announced from Austin that a Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue will be at the Junction courthouse on March 7, 1950 to assist with income tax returns. Farmers and ranchers who filed complete returns before January 31 were offered help by a deputy collector Tuesday of this week.
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