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THE BATTALION
Colle'T'e Station, Texas Thursday, August 31, 19C1
Old Ft. Davis
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General Store Still Lives In Roxton
Schoolboy Grid
Season Fires Up
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
Texas schoolboy football cam
paign, which makes no claims that
it is the best but does insist that
it is the largest, moves out for
the forty-second time this week.
There never has been and prob
ably never will be anything just
like it elsewhere in the world —
a massive gridiron race in which
almost 50,000 boys from more than
900 schools play 4,700 games be
fore 8,000,000 fans.
The 1961 race should be no ex
ception in thrills, interest and ex
citement. It will find Wichita
Falls making a bid for its fifth
state championship and its eighth
trip to the finals. The only school
ever to surpass the latter was
Waco, which went to the finals
nine times.
Wichita Falls is the favorite in
Class AAAA because it has vast
experience and is expecting to
have probably the finest team in
history.
Brownwood is an easy favorite
in Class AAA.
Albany is the strongest favor
ite of all in Class A.
Class AA has some new names
with Sweeny and Jacksboro stick
ing out like a couple of Jimmy
Durante noses.
It’s a long trail filled with
brambles, thorns and rocks that
stretches from September 1 to the
championship days of December
but here’s how they rank in the
four divisions that go to state
titles:
Class AAAA — 1 - Wichita
Falls, 2 - Corpus Christi Ray, 3 -
San Antonio Jefferson, 4 - Austin,
5 - Fort Worth Paschal, 6 - Gar
land, 7 - Houston Bellaire, 8 - Ga
lena Park,, 9 - Ysleta, 10 - Odessa
Permian.
Class AAA — 1 - Brownwood,
2 - Kingsville, 3 - Carthage, 4 -
Lamar Consolidated, 5 - Andrews,
6 - Nederland, 7 - Corsicana, 8 -
San Benitc, 9 - Gainesville, 10 -
San Antomio Lee.
Class A A — 1 - Sweeny, 2 -
Jacksboro, 3 - Brady, 4 - Anson,
5 - Denver* City, 6 - Dayton, 7 -
Terrell, 8 - Hebbronville, 9 - Fort
Stockton, 1.0 - Lancaster.
Class A — 1 - Albany, 2 - Ana-
huac, 3 - New London, 4 - Rio
Hondo, 5 - Farwell, 6 - Wink, 7 -
Mt. Vernon, 8 - Stinnett, 9 - For
ney, 10 - Slealey.
There haTe been five great eras
o f Texas schoolboy football —
Waco, Anrarillo, Wichita Falls,
Lubbock ;i;nd Abilene. These
schools won multiple champion
ships, were absolutely dominating
for a period.
Waco was the pioneer. Under
the late Pax 1 Tyson, Waco en
tered the Texas Interscholastic
League in IS22 and was in the
finals for six straight years, win
ning four state championships.
In 1927 W.aco set the all-time
scoring record. — 784 points in 14
games. That team still is rated
among the besd of them all. Cor
pus Christi Ray of 1959, Abilene
of 1955, Odessa of 1946 and Wich
ita Falls of 1958 are others that
crowd into the picture when the
best is considered.
The 1961 season just might put
another team up there to make it
a half-dozen in the top echelons
of memory.
Falls Away-
Day By Day
FORT DAVIS, OP)_Last year
the hospital building at the old
cavalry post here fell down. Part
of the quarterma'ster building
caved in recently.
One by one the buildings of old
Ft. Davis, called by the Interior
Department one of the “most typ
ical” of the still-standing frontier
forts, are crumbling away.
Most Ft. Davis residents feel
a sense of urgency in pushing a
drive to preserve the post. Legis
lation has been introduced seeking
to make the fort a national his-
toric site.
“I’ve seen the fort destroyed
since I’ve been here,” said Barry
Scobee, a resident of more than
40 years.
Scobee, peace justice, historian,
short story writer and former
newsman, came here in 1917. The
fort had been intact at the start
of this century but was losing
ground to vandalism and decay
when Scobee arrived.
“Half the houses in Fort Davis
(the town) were built with lumber
from the fort ... at least the
older ones,” he said.
Some businessmen already have
noted an increase in tourist traffic
here, which they attribute to in
troduction of legislation to pre
serve the fort.”
The area has other tourist at
tractions. It is about halfway be
tween Carlsbad Caverns and Big
Bend National Park, and is near
Davis Mountains State Park, Mc
Donald Observatory, Monahans
Sandhills State Park and the cav
erns of Sonora.
Ft. Davis, established in 1854
for protection of frontier dwellers
against the Indians and rebuilt
after the Civil War, was vacated
in July 1891.
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PARTS (A 3 )—New-fangled shop
ping centers that advertise every
thing you want under one roof
raise little stir in Roxton com
munity, population 620, west of
Paris.
Miss Nettie Whipple’s General
Store has been doing that kind
of business for years. Since 1919,
as a matter of fact. Same loca
tion.
Miss Nettie reckons she has one
of the oldest general merchandise
stores in these parts, if not the
oldest. It can be dated back to
1889, when her father helped G. J.
Hackleman operate a similar busi
ness.
When she opened her Roxton
venture Jan. 1, 1919, general
stores weren’t anything out of the
ordinary. Through the years,
though, most of the others have
closed or began specializing. Now
Miss Nettie is something of a rar
ity among Red River Valley busi
nesswomen.
She’ll tell you right off that she
isn’t operating some kind- of a
historical marker. Like other
businessmen, her intent is to show
a profit.
And if you have a mental pic
ture of an old country store with
a half-inch of dust on everything,
forget it. Miss Nettie’s store
keeps pace with the new mer-
c.hadising methods, new shelves,
displays and the like.
Woodshop Text
Fixed For Arabs
The air of nostalgia is there,
nevertheless.
Underneath the front ^counter
is the old tobacco cutter she once
used to lop off chewing tobacco
by the nickel’s worth. She still
handles chewing tobacco, but it
comes already cut and packaged
by the plug now.
Then there’s the old vinegar
pump on the back wall. She
bought vinegar by the barrel and
sold it the jug.
Either the tobacco cutter or the
vinegar pump would be worth con
siderably more than their original
cost now as collector’s items.
Miss Nettie does all her own
buying and bookkeeping. She
keeps a close watch on the stock,
and never throws anything away.
Her mistakes in stock buying
somehow have a way of becoming
valuable as antiques a few years
later.
She wondered if she’d ever turn
that batch of cedar buckets—until
one lady spotted them and bought
three for flower pots, and a farmer
picked up two for use on his own
well. Didn’t like to drink out of
metal buckets.
Over in the corner there are
churns and churn dashers, milk
strainers and milk buckets, curry
combs and water kegs, and old
fashioned coffee pots. Well buck
ets and pulleys. Coffee mills,
kerosene lamps and globes.
Times have changed, though.
“Where we used to sell churns,
milk buckets and chicken feed to
the farmers,” Miss Nettie offered,
“we now sell them their milk and
eggs and fryers. Not many folks
keep their own cows and chickens.
It’s easier to get it at the store.”
The general merchandise busi
ness has changed, too. She still
keeps piece goods and bolts of
gingham, but the best market is
for ready-made things Her shelves
are lined with hats, shoes, overalls
and jeans.
“We used to buy our flour by
the barrel. Molasses, vinegar,
baking powder, too,” she recalls.
“Lot cheaper. Harder to handle.
All this fancy packaging now adds
to the cost but folks seem to want
it.”
One of the antiques in the stoi’e
is a big clock she got for buying
a barrel of baking powder. It’s
the winding kind, and an electric
clock now keeps time above it.
Her chat was interrupted while
she hunted up a rubber heel for
T. McGrew of Roxton. She found
it.
Miss Nettie has seen the good
days and the slow days of Roxton.
She saw the town shift to meet
the railroad, and watched itsij
cultural economy change wift
years. The depression daysi
her, too.
“Credit business has lost
thousands of dollars,” she goes
“People mean well, but some!
they just don’t ever get art;
to paying up.”
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Clifford J. Simmang and set
commanders of the Army Rest:
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also a major general, commaEt,
the 90th Infantry Division,^
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