ARE two kinds of dis-
good and bad; discont.
motivates work is good
that inactivates
MEMBERS of the State
were noted for their
Each looked for
to embarrass the
!uring his most import.
of the session, the
looked up and no.
his archrival was doz.
in his front row
in tb.e day, the
said angrily, "Must you
my speeches?,,
d.
yawned the second law.
"it's purely Volun.
a lot of COmment
interview With Dr.
Marshall which was
in last week's Clar.
Press. It seems some
been told that the
attributed to Mar.
false, and the story
been "fabricated,, by
us assure you that the
nts were exactl:i as Dr.
made them. And let
you that the editor
that these statements
And let us assure
the story was not lab-
If ever there Is a need
00ars00ll story up.
vaay to do so.
YOu think about it,
it be Silly for this
to "fabricate,, a
possible reason
actual?make up a story
policy of The Clar-
ess to print the news.
the news as it is,
we want it to be. And
we have an obliga-
the People. If
news, it Still must
always to print
as it happens, and
Chips fall where they
new8#:o
all men is
e; attempting to
workable and
plan
chili
ncho Booster Club
free Chili supper
13, at 7:30
hool Care-
and en-
E. H.
that the
citizens of
Surrounding
Bronchos
Well this past
be one
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Clarendon, Donley County, Texas
MISS CINDY MADDOX, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Haskel Phelps of Memphis, was crowned
Clarendon College Bulldog Queen Monday night during halflime ceremonies at the CC
basketball game. She is escorted by Kim Blaut, a member of the Bulldog team. Flower-
girl is Bridget Spier, and crown bearer is Chris Simmons. (Press Staff Photo)
Cotton harvest Chamber eyes
nearly over county-wide group
co;t00h00vestinL00i00ycoun.
ty hit the 90 per cent comple-
tion mark this week as most
cotton farmers began to wrap
up their harvest.
The climax to one of the odd-
est years of cotton harvest in
history was nearing, with the
harvest beginning last October
and wrapping up in February,
a harvest period of 5 months.
With only 10 per cent of the
cotton left in the fields, some
9,100 bales of cotton had been
ginned in the county, and it
appeared likely that the harvest
would top the 10,000 mark be-
fore the season is over.
Eldon Lyles, manager of the
Paymaster Gin in Clarendon,
reported that most farmers had
begun to wrap up their harvest.
He said most of the county's
cotton would be out of the fields
by the end of the week.
Lyles said this year's crop
is the best in the county since
1965.
work together
The Clarendon Chamber of Commerce board of directors
voted Monday in a called meeting to check into the possibi-
lity of forming a county-wide group to boost the county and to
seek industry and growth for the area.
Some suggestions had been made earlier to various cham-
ber members concerning a county-wide group.A special aim
of the group, if formed, would be to coordinate the efforts of
both Clarendon and Howardwick and other areas of Donley
County in seeking industry and new residents.
Letters will be mailed to various governmental and service
groups in the county, asking them if they are interested in a
county-wide effort and if so, what goals they would like to see
accomplished.
The Mu Gamma Chapter of fair is from Hereford.
Beta Sigma Phi is sponsoring The benefits from the ball
February 8, 1973
i t l i II
unt?:fUnty has one of the finest medical facilities of
" " :°mparable size. But it doesn't do anybody any
it's Closed.
re ar:rObably many opinions as to why our hospital
"" t/fete
it re-'- may be many reasons as to why it is
• azzy dOesn*t matter why the hospital is clos-
Is, it is Closed. Anda closed hospital doesn't do
any good.
week, two loc
auto w- - al residents were sermusly injured
t, :reck. One person was taken to Amarillo,
h," .ffLemphis. It takes an hour to drive to Am-
"' uay m
that ay come, and probably already has
hour is one hour too long for a life to
Very, Very dangerous for a community this size,
lWay from a larger community, to be without
And it is a shame that we have such a faci-
we aren,t Using it.
taxes on the hospital whether it is open or
not have it open?
the basic reason why the hospital isn't
a matter of the community not working to-
one group of people tries to open the hospital,
another group who works in the opposite
as a result, nothing constructive gets done.
'et us wrong. We're not taking sides with any
want the hospital open, and we want it open to
'tion of ALL groups. And we think ANY group
in the opposite direction of progress is
What '. side" it's on.
suggestion. Why can't our community come
together, and think together in harmony?
to "bury the hatchet" and work together?
COmmunity fought long enough?
that the hospital will never operate well as
keep pulling at each other. We urge
to "pull together," and work together
the goal we all should have: to open the
all, a closed hospital doesn't help ANYONEI!
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their sixth annual charity ball will go to help the Human De-
February 10 at the Electric
Attem ts to chan e measure fail
Theater, Clarendon, starting at
8 p.m.
Tickets are on sale by the
sorority. They are $2.50 in
advance and $3.00 at the door.
The band playing for the af-
Senate passes hospital bill,
House consideration next
The Donley County Hospital
District bill was passed in the
State Senate Tuesday afternoon
and sent to the House, Sen. Max
Sherman told The Press in a
telephone conversation Tuesday
night.
The bill, as passed by the Sen-
ate, calls for the 7-memberhos-
pital board to be divided into two
groups, a 3-man group tobe
elected this April, and a 4-man
group to be elected in the next
election. As specified by thebill,
the three members whose terms
expire this year would be up for
election this year. Those mem-
bers are O. C. Watson, Jane
Bownds and Delbert Robertson.
It was reported from Austin
that there were several moves
by Donley County citizens to
change the bill. Some wanted the
bill to be changed, calling for
the three members elected to
be drawn from a hat, rather
than have those whose terms are
expired up for election. Another
move, which was reportedly en-
couraged by an attorney for the
hospital district, called for elec-
tion of all 7 hospital board mem-
bers in the April election.
Sen. Sherman informed The
Press that he passed the bill to
conform exactly with the resolu-
tion issued by the Donley County
Commissioners Court and the
hospital board. He said he sug-
gested some of the proposed
changes to members of bothbod-
ies, but said neither the Com-
missioners Court nor the hos-
pital board wanted any changes
made on the bill.
The bill now faces a House
committee, then when reported
out of committee, will face a
House vote. The governor would
then have to sig n the measure
before it becomes law.
Rep. Phil Cares told The Press
that he would see thatthe bill
is passed exactly as it reads at
present. He said that only a
resolution from both the Com-
missioners Court and the hos-
pital board would cause him to
alter the bill
The hospital bill must become
law prior to Feb. 28 for the elec-
tion to be held this year. Can-
didates for the hospital board
would have to file 31 days prior
to the election, which would be
the first Saturday in April.
Should the bill not pass in time,
commissioners would appoint the
3 board members.
County Judge Billie Christal
velopment Center, Park Ira- and two commissioners plan to
provement and the Summer Rec- appear before the House com-
reation Center. mittee to see that the bill is not
After you have bought your changed. The committee meeting
tickets, please phone Mrs. has not been scheduled at press
Owen Johnson at 874-2314 for time Wednesday, but probably
reservations, will be held sometime nextweek.
THE BRANIX)N FAMILY includes (from left)Janna, Elesha, Sarita, wife Barbara, Nessa,
and Dr. Brandon. The family moved here last week, and was honored with a reception
Sunday night at the church. (Press Photo)
An interesting family
When the First Baptist Church
of Clarendon called Dr. James
Brandon to pastor the church
recently, they received more
than an average Baptist mini-
ster. They got a family of 6
who can tell you more about
Brazil than the average geo-
graphy book.
Dr. Brandon and his family
spent $ years in Brazil. He
served a8 a missionary for the
Southern Baptist Convention.
The Brandons returned to the
states one year ago. And tly
brought back a genuine Brazil
citizen, their youngest daughter
Sarita, who is 2 years old. She
was born in Brazil.
"When you go to Brazil, you
can go back 100 years," Dr.
Brandon said. "The cities are
fairly modern, but go 20 miles
out in the country, and you find
the same thing you found 100
years ago, cow trails and Jun-
gie."
The Brandons learned many
customs in Brazil, and came to
know many inconvenient prac-
tices as a way of life, such as
boiling all of their waterbefore
using it and pasturizing their
own milk at home.
Dr. Brandon while in Brazil,
served as secretary intheState
Baptist Office. His duties in-
eluded training pastors and
building new Baptist churches.
The Brandons still speak the
native Brazil lang,age well, and
sometimes communicate with
each other with this language.
Dr. Brandon pastored the Bol-
ton Steet Baptist Church in
Amarillo before entering the
mission field. He pastored other
various churches throughout the
state prior to that.
He married his wife Barbara
16 years ago. They have four
daughters, Elesha, age 13;
Janna, age 11; Nessa, age 4;
with an old fashioned "pound-
ing" and reception Sunday night
following services at the
church. Thechurch, for the first
time in quite awhile, was com-
pletely full Sunday night. The
enthusiasm at the church has
been overwhelming.
Dr. Brandon spoke to the Clar-
endon Kiwanis Club Tuesday
and Sarita, age 2. morning, and the Lions Club
The Brandons were honored Tuesday at noon.
Boy Scout week
under way here
by HELEN WOODY
Boy Scout Week begins Feb-
ruary 8 (today) and will pro-
ceed through the following week.
And Clarendon Boy Scouts and
Explorers have plenty of right
to celebrate, as one of the best
years in a long string of big
Scout years climaxes this week.
Today is the Boy Scouts of
America 63rd anniversary.
Scout Sunday is February II.
Troop 33 and Explorer Post 33
will attend ceremonies at the
First Baptist Church Sunday.
All are asked to be at the
church at 10:45 a.m. to pre-
pare.
Tommie Saye is the local
Scoutmaster, and has been
scoutmaster since 1966. He has
complied some big statistics in
that time. Local scouting sta-
tistics also look much better
than the national average. The
Adobe Walls Council covers 12
counties in Texas and 3 coun-
ties in Oklahoma. Only 25 per-
cent of all boys nationwide enter
scouting, while some 40.9 per-
cent of the boys in the Adobe
Walls Counil area enter
scouts. Executives at the Na-
tional Boy Scout Headquarters
• report that LESS than 1 percent
of all boys in scouting earn the
God and Country Award, while
Tommie and his scouts since
1966 have earned 27 God and
Country Awards, with 15 boys
now working on the award. Ac-
cording to anAdobeWallsCoun-
cil scout executive, Tommie's
scouts have more than half of
ALL the God and Country
Awards for the council. TheGod
and Country Award is earned
through the church of a boy's
choice. The minister of that
church helps the boy. It takes
at least one year to obtain this
honor.
Executives at the National Boy
Scout Headquarters also report
that only 1 percent of of all
boys in scouting earn the Eagle
Award. Out of Troop 33 since
1966, there have been 8 boys
who have obtained this rank,
with 3 boys now lacking only 1
merit badge each to qualify for
this rank.
To earn this rank a boy must
have 21 merit badges, 11 of them
specified by the National Boy
Scouts. There are about 100
other badges he can choose the
remaining 10"merit badges from.
After he has met these require-
ments, he must serve actively
as a leader in the troop, such
as a Senior Patrol Leader, Pa-
trol Leader, A ssistants or some
other officer in the troop for
not less than six months. He
Continued on Page 7
Two injured in car crash
Mrs. Frank (Wanda) Phelan
]r. and Cecil Burrow werein-
]ured Friday night when their
automobiles collided at the
corner of Highway 287 and Koo-
gle Streets here.
Basketball
benefit set
The Clarendon Bomberett s and
Bombers will play the KGNC
Floor Flusherettes and Flush-
ers in basketball games. The
games will take place Tuesday,
February 20, at 7 p.m. in the
Clarendon liigh School Gym.
Admission will be $I.00 for
adults, 'and .50 for students.
Tickets, donated by The Clar-
elon Press, are being sold by
the Clarendon football boys.
The accident happened about
6:15 p.m. Mrs. Phelanwasrush-
ed to Northwest Texas Hospital
in Amarillo by the local am-
bulance. She suffered 8 broken
ribs and a collapsed lung. She
was reported in satisfactory
condition at the hospital Tues-
day. Her husband Frank wasat
her bedside.
Brxrow received head injur-
ies in the accident, and was
taken to the hospital in Mem-
phis, where he was released
Friday night after treatment,
He was taken to Groom for
more treatment Saturday aRer-
noon, it was reported by mem-
bers of his family,
Burrow was driving a Dodge,
and Mrs. Phelan was driving
a Buick.
Clarendon police officers in-
vestigated the accident.
