"The Albany [TX] News" - Fort Griffin Centennial Edition, July 27, 1967

              Fort Griffin Centennial Edition
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THINGS HAPPEN IN ALBANY
Story Hour to August 2
A Story Hour will be held at the Shade on the library lawn on these dates, Aug. 8, 9, 16 and 23, 9 to 10 a. m.
Children entering school for the first time this year through third grade are invited to at­tend.
Mrs. Charles Prince will be the storyteller for this pro­gram. Children attending will be allowed to check out a book from the library to be taken home and returned the follow­ing week.
We urge all mothers with children in this grade group to remember these dates.
TO TOUR AFRICA
Mrs. A. V. Jones, Sr., will leave July 30 to attend the as­sembly of the World Council of Christian Education in Nairobi, Kenya. There will be repre­sentatives from 60 other coun­tries at the assembly.
Mrs. Jones states they will also visit interesting places in Africa, besides other education­al centers in Geneva, Copen­hagen, Rome and Brussels.
BOB KEY ATTENDING WORLD JAMBOREE"
Bob Key, Eagle Scout and member of Troop 55 of Albany, is in Farragut, Idaho, attend­ing the World Jamboree of Boy Scouts. Bob is serving as one of the hosts to welcome the boys from other countries.
He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Luther S. Key.
Recently Byron Swank and Joe Scout, attended a scouting meeting at Tonkawa and were initiated in the Order of the Arrow.
FRONTIER STORE TO BE OPEN SATURDAY
To help celebrate the Fort Griffin Centennial on Saturday, the Albany Study Club ladies will have the Frontier Store open for out-of-town visitors and home folk. There will be items for sale including the cook book containing all the Tasting Bee recipes.
OPENS MAGNETO SHOP
Jackie Balliew has opened a magneto shop in the Goff building on the Breckenridge highway, calls his shop Balliew Electric & Magneto.
SERVING SHACKELFORD COUNTY S)NCE 1879
VICKY WILLIAMS HURT IN CAR-BICYCLE MISHAP
Vicky Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, was injured Tuesday in a car-bicycle accident at Main and Railroad Streets.
She was hospitalized, suffer­ing from cuts and bruises.
The accident occurred when the car driven by Rusty Harris struck the bicycle Vicky was riding.
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FORT GRIFFIN CENTENNIAL
PROGRAM SET FOR SATURDAY
Hundreds to
Attend Program
And Barbecue
The Fort Griffin Centennial
Loses Foot in
Gun Accident
Harold Castleberry, who had
celebration to be held at left foot badly wounded
Griffin State Park this Satur­day will have the character of an old-time, summer-time pub­lic get-together, J. W. Cloud, president of the Shackelford County Historical Association, said. "There will be band mus­ic, patriotic speeches and din­ner on the grounds." The pub­lic is invited to be guests of the Historical Association for all events of the late afternoon
LT. GOV. PRESTON SMITH evenmg.
The band music will be fur­nished by the 328th Army Band from Fort Welters. Principal speaker of the day will be the lieutenant-governor of Texas, Preston Smith. Supper will be barbecue prepared by the Al­bany Lions Club, with the meat and other food furnished through the generosity of Al­bany ranchers and business men.
Guided tours of the historic sites on Government Hill and in the area below the hill which was once the town of Fort Grif­fin will begin at 4:00 p. m. With help from Park Superin­tendent Joe Shelton a crew of boys has worked on the top of Government Hill this past week, clearing brush from the parade COL. E. P. JR. so that visitors can
have a better view of the fort area and the remaining A large model, taken from old War maps, has been laid out on the parade ground to help the guides ex­plain to the public what the fort was like before it was abandoned.
Fort Welters Band will play a concert under the trees of the recreational area of the park, beginning at 5:45 p. m. Benches will be placed in the shaded area for visitors.
The Fort Welters band con­sists of 37 musicians, directed by Chief Warrant Officer Frank Chiarello. The origin of the band stems from the old Band No. 3 of the Quartermaster Re-COL. GEORGE J. KRAUSE placement Center at Camp Lee,
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SENIOR CITIZENS
MEET TONIGHT
The Senior Citizens Club will
meet tonight (Thursday) at the
Youth Center for their July
game night.
You are invited to come
for an evening of fellowship,
games and light refreshments.
En route to their home in
Edgewater Park, N. J., from a
tour of the western states, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe and Bill
are visiting this week and next
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Oliver
and Bob, and Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Boling, Wesley and Va­nessa.
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when a shotgun discharged cidentally shortly afternoon Sunday, is reported doing well in Hendrick Memorial Hospital. The foot was amputated six inches above the ankle.
He had returned from the lake, and was sitting on the back of his station wagon when he picked up his gun to lift it out of the car. The gun is re­ported to have caught on a coat hanger and discharged, striking his left foot.
Burl Baker, and son, Scottie, were in their back yard next door when the accident occur­red and rushed to assist Harold. They, Cecil Weaver and Mrs. Castleberry rushed him to the Shackelford County Memorial Hospital where he received emergency treatment, and was then transferred by Godfrey ambulance to Hendrick Hospi­tal for surgery.
Mr. Castleberry, who operates an insurance agency here, was reported doing well Wednesday.
Attend Funeral At
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of Hamlin and Mr. and Mrs. El­mer Smith of Albany attended the funeral services for their aunt, Mrs. Henry Smith, at a funeral home in Waxahachie Sunday. She died Friday, July 21, in a rest home in Italy. In­terment was in Hughes Ceme-tary at Avalon.
She was born Leonora Maria Fuston Nov. 13, 1873, and is survived by four sons, Glenn, Long Beach, Calif., Aubrey, of McKinney, Vern of Emhouse and Herschell of Avalon.
Aunt Nora, as she was known, spent most of her life in Ava­lon. She had many grand and great grandchildren.
Great grandsons acted as pallbearers.
Nearly everyDody in Shackel­ford County reads the News.
A number of Albany people met members of the State Parks and Wildlife Commission Friday afternoon at the Fort Griffin State Park. Commis­sioners present were Will Odom, chairman, Harry Jersig and James Cellinger. They were accompanied to the park by State Representative Burke Musgrove, who had sponsored the commission visit to this area. They flew to Fort Grif­fin in a Bell helicopter, cour­tesy of Bell Helicopter of Fort Worth.
The commission had flown over Hubbard Creek Lake Fri­day morning, where a state park is being contemplated. Friday afternoon they visited the state park at Possum King­dom Lake.
The Albany group took the commission members on a tour of the park, where they saw the old ruins which the Albany Chamber of Commerce hopes to have rebuilt. The Albany Chamber of Commerce and the Shackelford County Historical Association have combined their efforts the past year on this program that would make the Fort Griffin Park a great tourist attraction.
Members of the commission stated that "chances of restor­ing Fort Griffin depends prin­cipally on the voting of the $7.5,-000,000 bond issue which con­fronts the people of Texas at the next general election."
Members of the Parks board
Graft Fails, Arm Removed
Reuben Schkade, who had his arm cut off in an accident at a Mineral Wells cabinet fac­tory Friday, July 14, and had the arm grafted back on, had to have the arm amputated.
The operation was at Harris Hospital in Fort Worth, where surgeons believed Reuben had a fifty percent chance of saving his arm.
He is reported improving.
His father, C. A. Schkade of Albany, stated it was Reuben's left arm that was severed.
Reuben's Albany friends re­gret that the graft didn't take. The arm was amputated be­tween the elbow and
Mrs. L. L Harris
Buried at Moran
Mrs. Sarah Amanda Harris,
long-tune resident of the Mo­ran
area, passed away at 12:30
Sunday afternoon in the Cox
Memorial Hospital in Abilene.
Mrs. Harris, who was 80, had
been ill for some sime.
Funeral service was held at
4:00 Tuesday afternoon in the
Moran Baptist Church, with
the Rev. Butch Pesch,
and Rev. Boyd Tabor officiat­ing.
Burial was in the Moran
Cemetery under direction of
Godfrey Funeral Home.
Mrs. Harris was born April
2, 1887, in Stephens County and
had resided at Moran since a
child. She was married to Luney
Lee Harris at Moran Dec. 18,
1904. Mr. Harris died in 1961.
She was a long-time member
of the Baptist Church.
. Survivors include four
were very mterested Lorean
cattle at the Fort
of Dumas, Mrs. Annie
D. of and
Mrs. Louise Turner of Hayward,
Calif.; nine grandchildren and
14 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Tommy
Burton, Bob Burton, Joe Mar­tin,
C. S. Barrow, Garland
Shelton and Frank Midkiff.
CISCO WINS LITTLE LEAGUE
BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
Griffin park.
Albany people have been do­ing some work at the park this week, preparing for the Fort Griffin Centennial program Saturday.
The Pioneer Store will be
open Saturday to help celebrate the Fort Griffin Centennial. The Albany Study Club ladies will have items for sale.
Mrs. C. L. Gladden returned
Sunday from a three-week vis­it in the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. Hartjens, in Edge-water Park, N. J. She was met at Love Field in Dallas by Mr. and Mrs. Max Williams.
100 Degrees Wednesday
Albany registered .33 inch of rain last Thursday night, bring­ing July's rainfall to 1.21 inches and the total for the year to 11.60.
Temperatures this week have been in the 90's, with Wednes­day afternoon's heat reaching 100 degrees.
Temperatures for the week, with highs for afternoon before, are given below:
Friday: 87 and 68. .33
Saturday: 89 and 67.
Sunday: 93 and 70.
Monday: 97 and 71.
Tuesday: 99 and 73.
Wednesday: 97 and 74.
Thursday: 100 and 75.
BARBECUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Anyone who would like to make a contribution to the His­torical Association barbecue to be Saturday, is requested to give check to Mrs. Bruce Bray at the Bank before 4:00 Friday afternoon.
Matt Blanton, Chuck Jacobs and Bob Green, Finance committee.
SINGING AT FORT GRIFFIN
We are planning a big time" singing at the Fort Grif­fin Baptist Church on Sunday, Aug. 13. Singing will begin at 2:30 that afternoon.
We would like very much for to come.
Fort Griffin Baptist Church.
EARLY ALBANY RECOLLECTIONS
(Editor's note: When County, Arkansas, about
Mrs. A. A. Clarke, Albany pi- 18 miles from Batesville. The
oneer, was in her seventies she compiled a small handwritten book of "Recollections." Since she related so much early his­tory of and told so many incidents that occurred in this city, the editor believes her ar­ticle will be of interest to the readers of the News. Mrs. Clarke died Nov. 5, 1945, at age 92.)
By Mrs. A. A. Clarke I was born in McCracken County Kentucky, near Padu-cah, Jan. 23, 1853, the daughter of William T. and Eliza New­ton Jones. My grandparents moved to Kentucky in 1829 to buy cheap lands in what was known as "Jackson's Purchase." My parents were married in McCracken County in 1851. In the spring of 1857 my father, W. T. Jones, along with Grand­father Jones and several un­cles and their families moved from Paducah to Arkansas. I remember the big sale before moving as was the custom in those days. Among other things, my pet calf was sold and I wept bitter tears. Although I was only four years old I re­member the long train of wag­ons and crossing the Mississip­pi River on a big ferry boat at Island No. 10, a few miles be­low Cairo, Illinois. That island has long since sunk out of sight. We all settled in Independ-
state was sparsley inhabited. It was new and very primitive in many respects. Lands were cheap and wild game was plen­tiful. I well remember my first school in a small log house near my home. My studies were Mc-Guffey's Third Reader and Web­ster's Blue Back Speller. The next school I attended was two miles from home in a better building but we had to go through a dense woods with no road except a blazed trail my father had made for his two little children to follow. The first morning my brother, Joe, and I got lost in the woods. We wandered and wandered around. I was crying all the time and my brother was trying to cheer me to be brave like he was although he was younger than I. We finally sighted home and got there safely. My mother decided to go to school with us for two weeks until we had beaten a pathway. Those two weeks were the happiest school days of my life.
The Civil War came and de­stroyed all of our hopes in this new country. Our horses and cattle were taken by the armies and all provisions that could be found. I had a little fat pony named "Lady Go Lightly," and she too was stolen. The vandals were aU over the country taking advantage of the fact that a war was on between the states to pillage and rob every one.
We became afraid to remain in Arkansas for fear of starvation. My mother's relatives were mostly in Illinois and her first thought was go to them. My father went ahead to prepare a place for us. Mother bought a pair of oxen, loaded one wag­on and with several other fam­ilies started on another long move. On this trip we were compelled to make a long cir­cuitous route for safety as there were "Jayhawkers" on the di­rect route who were robbing the people regardless of their politics.
This long train of wagons con­tained only one old gentleman, about 80 years of age. We call­ed him "Grandpa The others were women and chil­dren. My mother drove her team of oxen with four children to care for, but she was very courageous and skillful. She got along fine and often helped oth­ers over hard places.
We passed through sections where the people were in dire need of the necessities of life. I remember on one occasion Missouri a man came out to our wagon and if she could sell him one pint of salt. He said his folks were all sick for the need of it. We had but little but she was sorry for them and let him have the salt. He insisted on paying one dollar for the small amount.
When we reached St. Louis the women did a lot of shop­ping. It seemed they were out
of everything. I well remember what joy I had when mother bought me my first hat, a white leghorn with ribbon streamers in the back. She also bought me a little pair of hoop-skirts. Oh, my! I thought I was so dressed up, hoops and lace-trimmed pantalettes.
My father met us in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois, in June, 1862, and we were alto­gether and happy again. There we had fine schools in a land of plenty. We lived there until March, 1870.
I was in my seventeenth year when we came back to Arkan­sas. My father never liked to live in Illinois and his moth­er, a widow, was in the old home and we came back to her. Mother and father, two broth­ers, Joseph Burrell, and myself, composed the family. We made the trip again in wag­ons but in a very comfortable style. As we had an extra horse to bring along it fell my lot to ride horseback the entire trip of about three and fifty miles. The animal I rode was a large fat dun mare named Sookey. I unsaddled her and fed her when we camped and dress­ed her up in the morning. Some­times I would get tired travel­ing as slow as the teams did and I would ride on ahead to give my mare a little morning gallop to enliven her for the day's journey. It was my de­to go on and find a good on page two)
Hospital Notes
Admitted
Miss Mary K. Alexander, July 18.
Mrs. Helen Dudley, Torrance, Calif., 19.
Mrs. Lloyd Morris, Moran, July 20.
Mrs. Minnie July 20.
Louis Todd, July 21.
Mrs. R. C. Farmer, July 24.
William J. Stuteville, July 24.
Mrs. Ronald Harris, Moran, July 24.
Dismissed
Carson Walters, July 17.
Urie A. Hammons, Moran, July 18.
Adam Ziehr, July 19.
Mrs. Maudie Garlitz, Moran, July 19.
Mary K. Alexander, July 19.
John T. McKenzie, July 20.
Mrs. Helen A. Dudley, Tor­rance, Calif., July 21.
Louis Todd, July 23.
Mrs. Minnie Liles, July 24.
J. W. Alexander, July 24.
Wayne Chapman Tells of Fighting In Vietnam
Mrs. Wayne Chapman, whose husband is a member of a tank crew in Viet Nam, receives some graphic details from him about the heavy fighting. He is in the Marine Corps. A letter, in part, written May 30, is giv­en below:
"I got back from Operation Hickory the 27th. I'm surely glad to be back ... we surely got clobbered. We left Cam Lo with 11 tanks and at noon we had five tanks left and four of them were flames tanks. We got hit about 1,000 yards from Cam Lo the first ten minutes. From then on it was pure hell until we got back. I carried about 100 dead or wounded infantry­men (on the tank) that first day to the helicopters to be medi-vac. The rest of the days I got more than that. I drove a lit­tle but was mostly tank com­mander. I kept as low as pos­sible but the NV still got some close shots at me. I didn't plan on making it back from there. I thanked my lucky stars every morning when the sun came up. The main rea­son for the operation was to get the NVA away from Con Thien. They tried to over-run it a cou­ple of weeks ago. We went all the way to North Viet Nam and NVA had so many bunkers and stuff, it was unbelievable. Flames tanks were the most useful parts of on getting them out of their bunk­ers. They ran when we shot a little fire at them. I don't see how any one made it back. Ev­ery gook carries RPG's and it,
Big crowds attended the Dis­trict II Little League tourna­ment here Friday and Satur­day. Ram cancelled the first game, set for last Thursday night, but the games were com­pleted Friday and Saturday ev­enings.
Cisco was the winner of the tournament, beating Brecken­ridge Saturday night 2-0.
Breckenridge beat Eastland the first game Friday. The game was tied, 2-2, at the close of the 7th inning, and the two teams went into extra innings.
Cisco finally won 3-2.
Eastland defeated Albany 5 in the second game Friday night.
The finals were Saturday night, with Cisco winning 2-0. Albany lost to Eastland in the consolation game.
Cisco will represent District II in the regional play at East-land, which begins tonight (Thursday.)
Local Baseball Association members were well pleased with the aid given by local people during the tournament. They were also well pleased with the big crowds.
Attracts Crowd
The final performance of first rodeo to be held at ure Riders Arena closed day night before a large
The local cowboys and cow- as the the crowd a. fine chow.
The two night shows were' termed a success by local ple.
The Albany sponsors were happy to see so many take an interest in the show and take this means of thanking each of the men and boys who work­ed so hard last week to com­plete the arena for the show. A special thank you to all the men, women and children whose names are too numer­ous to list, who worked so hard at each and every job during the two-night show; to Dr. L. S. Key for his long hours spent there to care for the injured, Godfrey Funeral Home for fur­nishing the ambulance; the bany Service Club for the use of bleachers, Floyd Jr., for furnishing calves for' pee-wee calf roping; Roping Club for furnishing-calves for the junior roping.
Each and every citizen who filled a place helped to make the show a success and we feel it could not have been without the help and cooperation of each of you. And again we say "Thank you."
All proceeds from the show will be used to further complete the arena. We feel this a fine community project and it is used and enjoyed by many.
There will be a "jackpot rop­ing" at the arena Aug. 5 and 6. A large crowd is expected for this event. Plan to come out and see some fine roping. We expect to have many more event at the new arena and hope Shackelford County will continue to support it.
knocks a tank out no matter where it hits.
"The jungle is so thick that they can be ten feet away and we can't even see them. One time we were going down a jungle trail and an infantryman with an M-60 machine gun was about ten yards in front of the tank. The NVA gook must not have seen him because he ran out into the road with a RPA-2 and was aiming it at me but the grunt' got him. He nearly ran into the solider, he was so close. He got cut in two with the machine gun, then we ran over him, with the tank."
Wayne left the States Dec. 7 for Viet Nam.