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VOLUME 90
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1966
NUMBER 31
GRAHAM. TEXAS, 76046
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40-Room Hotel And
Restaurant Planned
Open House Planned
Here Friday For GMI
Governor Connally to
Head Dignitaries
Houston Attorney Is
Secretary of State
Jermyn Jamboree
Planned Saturday
full structure is located on Highway
24 northwest of the Municipal Air-
port.—Leader Staff Photo
OPEN HOUSE — Graham Magnetics
Incorporated new plant, above, will
hold Open House Friday The beauti-
NEW INDUSTRY — Bob Tyler, Jr
left, and his father Bob Tyler, right,
announced this week plons for o new
industry, Graham Wholesale Floral,
Ltd , to produce potted olants for re
Governor Connally to
■sr Speak at Dedication
tail flower shoos They will expand
their greenhouses to cover 50,000
square feet and be in full production
in August — Leader Staff Photo
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Police Issue
Accident Report
Graham Police Department
reports thirteen accidents oc-
curred within the city limits in
February compared to 10 for the
same period in 1965, which in-
cluded three injury with 4 per-
sons injured.
There have been 29 accidents
to date in the city this year,
compared to 19 accidents, 3
injury and 4 persons injured
same period last year. -
Mr. John Spann, vice-president of Rock, Island Railroads
and other officials are expected for the luncheon.
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Governor Connally will fly to Graham from Vernon where he
is scheduled to speak Thursday night at the Vernon Chamber of
Commerce banquet. He will leave Graham Friday afternoon fol-
lowing the GMI dedication ceremony for Wichita Falls where he
is scheduled for an appearance at the Jaycee gridiron dinner.
Governor Connally will address the Production Credit Associa-
tion Saturday morning before returning to Austin.
Will Davis, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Com-
mittee, Austin, has accepted an invitation to attend the luncheon.
Other dignitaries include Amon Carter, Jr., publisher of the
Fort Worth Star Telegram, Emory Cantey, Fort Worth attor-
ney, James Garvey, Fort Worth director, and Steve Knuckley,
Wichita Falls director.
Several representatives of the West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce plan to attend the dedication.
Senator David Ratcliff of Stamford, Texas, announced he plan-
ned to attend the luncheon and plant dedication.
ATTEST:
J. K. Morgan
City Secretary
TWO RECEIVE
DRAFT ORDERS
Two registrants will be in-
ducted into the armed forces
on March 28 according to a re-
port from the local Selective
Service office.
They include: Kenneth Ver-
non Bigham of Graham and Ed-
ward David Jenkins of Olney.
Twenty men will take physi-
cals on the same date.
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Formal dedication of the new Graham Magnetics Incorporated,
Texas' first precision magnetic computer tape manufacturing
plant, by Governor John B. Connally, is scheduled Friday, March
11.
March 11 has been designated as “Industry Appreciation Day"
in Graham under the sponsorship of the Graham Chamber of
Commerce and the Graham Industrial Association.
The day’s events Include a civic luncheon at 11:45 a.m. in the
Graham High School gymnasium, at which Governor Connally
will be the featured speaker. *
Nearly 1,000 persons are expected to attend the luncheon which
will be catered by Walter Jetton of Fort Worth. Graham's civic
clubs will combine their meetings Friday in order to hear Gover-
nor Connally’s luncheon talk.
Roy Dies, Graham attorney, will be master of ceremonies for
the luncheon, and Mayor E. S. Graham, Jr. will introduce Gover-
nor Connally. The Rev. Hubert Foust will give the invocation.
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Plans were announced this
week for the construction of a
new 40-room motor hotel to be°
constructed at the corner of
Hunger and Montgomery road
by E. Bruce Street, M. Boyd
Street, Harry Bettis, and W.
Glenn Ragle.
The new hotel will be named
“Gateway Inn" and will include
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Jermyn Jamboree will be held
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12,
at the Jermyn Community Cen-
ter. Mr. and Mrs. Waler of
Graham, will be present to en-
tertain the public together with
other fine talent.
Refreshments will be served
throughout the evening.
Mr. A. L. Scott, president of Kimbell Enterprises, Fort
Worth, has indicated he will be in Graham Friday. Oscar
Castillon, manager of area development division and W. G.
Marquardt, vice-president of indivisional operations of TESCO,
plan to be in Graham.
G. A. Jaggers,GMIpresident,
said visitors would see the ini-
tial equipment with adequate
space to add more equipment as
sales expand.
Visitors will see a computer
designed to certify enough tape
for 3500,000 sales. It can be ex-
panded to twenty units to take
care of $10 million sales.
Visitors will follow arrows
located throughout the plant
Friday. No guides will be ne-
cessary. Twenty-one signs, lo-
cated at key points in the plant,
will give an explanation of the
manufacture of precision tape.
Public Records
Cases filed in 90th Judicial
District Court: Joe Franklin
Kenmore vs Bertha Jean Ken-
more—Divorce.
ASH AND
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GOLD BOND
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Construction
Completed on
GFS Building
Graham Federal Savings and
Loan Association’s handsome
new building on West Fourth
Street is nearing completion.
Officials expect to move to the
new1 structure within the next
two weeks, and an Open House
is planned at a later date.
A feature of the Community
Room includes a furnished wall
to be used for the display of
paintings by local artists.
Members of the Graham Art
Guild plan to keep a rotating
display of paintings in the Com-
munity Room. It has a fully
equipped kitchen.
The historic old oak tree,
site of the founding of the Tex-
as Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association, has been preserv-
ed with a beautiful park area
on the west side of the Gra-
ham Federal Savings and Loan
Association.
Congressman Graham Purcell and an administrative assis-
tant, Norman Duncan, of Wichita Falls and Washington, D.C.,
will be in Graham to attend the luncheon and dedication.
The Graham Leader
OLDEST BUSINESS INSTITUTION IN YOUNG COUNTY—ESTABLISHED AUGUST. 16 1876
John L. Hill, Houston attor-
ney, who has ranch holdings in
Archer County, has been ap-
pointed Secretary of the State
of Texas by Governor John Con-
nally. Mr. Hill is a son-in-law
of Mrs. Louis Pitcock, Sr. of
this city.
Crawford Martin, former
Secretary of State, has resigned
to devote full time to his candi-
dacy for the office of Attorney
General.
DPI Plans
Police School
in Graham
Texas Department of Public
Safety will conduct a 20-hour
Police In Service Training
School at Memorial Auditorium
in this city March 21-25 accord-
ing to an announcement today
by Police Chief Raymond Bur-
kett
An invitation is extended to
officers of surrounding coun-
ties to attend the school.
Discussions will include Code
of Criminal Procedures, court
demeanor, directing traffic,
motor vehicle, police public
relations, and scientific aid to
enforce traffic law.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, in 1964 great faith was shown our City and Its
citizens by Hexcel Products Inc. who at that time moved
their Southwest Regional Plant to Graham and the wisdom of
their management and great pride of our people who man this
plant, is best evidenced by the fact that Hexcel’s Graham plant
tripled in size In 1965 and even now, additional expansions are
in progress; and
WHEREAS, In 1964 the management of Graham Magnetics
Inc. picked Graham as the location of their plant for Texas’
first precision magnetic computer tape manufacturing facility
which is to be formally dedicated Friday, March 11, 1966;
and
WHEREAS, the first consideration of the Citizens of Graham
has always been and is to make our City that place we would
all want to live with our families and furnish means by which
all would have gainful, honorable and useful occupation, and
WHEREAS, these two new industries together with those
which have been a part of us through the years have furnished
the means by which Graham and its Citizens will grow and pros-
per; and
WHEREAS, Governor John B. Connally will be with us to
dedicate Graham Magnetics Incorporated’s new plant,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, E. S. Graham, Jr., in my official
capacity as Mayor of the City of Graham, do hereby welcome
Governor Connally to our City and proclaim him an Honorary
Citizen of Graham and proclaim “March 11, 1966 as Industry
Appreciation Day in Graham." By token of the same authority
I bid each Citizen do all in his power to assist these industries
in order that they, with us, might grow and prosper and do thank
God for the many blessings he has shown our fair City.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused to be affixed the seal of the City of Graham, Texas this
9th day of March, 1966.
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Mr. Hill, who has visited in
Graham frequently, will take
the oath of office 2 p.m. Satur-
day in the State Capitol. Gover-
nor John Connally will preside
during the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pitcock,
Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pit-
cock, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. J. Duff
Pitcock, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy
pitcock, will be In Austin Satur-
day afternoon to witness the
ceremony.
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ce of business, without
s and labor the engine
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ansmission com and
ling manual dutch),
shaft, universal joints
itial. and rear weel
omobiles provided the
cl changed every 3
whichever comes first,
very second oil change
fitter cleaned every 6
very 2 years, and every
such a dealer evidence
reguired service, and
ertify(1) receipt of such
sthon current mileage
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several suites, a restaurant
which will incorporate a small
private dining room for the
community, and a swimming
pool, and living quarters for the
manager.
“We are extremely proud of
it,” said Ragle. The brick
structure will be western-type
modern. shingle roof, and very
tastefully done. Rooms in the
new hotel will be very similar
to those in the. Swan group of
the,fabulous Green Oaks Inn,
Fort Worth.
The four Grahamites were in
Fort Worth Monday conferring
with Larry White and reviewed
preliminary plans.
Plans for the new facility
should be in Graham within
30 days and construction is
scheduled to begin immediate-
ly. It is anticipated the Gate-
way Inn will be completed by
late August or early September.
COUNTRY COURT
HAS 11 CASES
Eleven cases are on the dock-
et and set for trial Tuesday,
March 15 In Young County Court
according to an announcement
from County Judge Ray mon
Thompson
A Jury list was scheduled
to be released from the of-
fice of the County Clerk Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Cases set for trial: State of
Taxas vs James W. Robbins,
transporting liquor, Delmar D.
Huddleston, Abandonment; Ed-
na Bailey Reynolds, DWI; Ken-
nith Boland, DWI; Charles H.
Isenberg, DWI, H.J. Denstitt,
Wbrthless Check; Gary Paul
Brown, Aggravated Assault;
Louis M. Rothberg, Worthless
Check; and Everett Henry
Hobbs, Theft.
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Their engineer son helps plan
the flight of a space vehicle.
Their daughter subscribes to a
fashion magazine. Her boy-
friend gets a traffic ticket.
All of these different occur-
rences— and countless more—
Involve electronic data proces-
sing systems, and, therefore,
the use of computer tapes.
These systems record and or-
ganize great masses of infor-
mation and then “feed out"
data in various needed forms,
all at very high speed. The
heart of the system is the com-
puter.
The computer translates both
figures and words into pat-
terns of digits which are re-
corded as magnetic signals on
computer tape. Each recorded
tape thus becomes a file of in-
formation. When instructed by
the computer operation, the
computer “reads" the tape
and reproduces required data,
such as how many seats are
available on a certain night,
or-mow muet me balance Is in
a checking account, or when to
fire retro-rockets on a space
mission.
Open House will be held at
Graham Magnetics Incorporat-
ed plant from 10 a.m. to 12 noon
and from 2 p.m. to 5,p.m. Fri-
day. The formal dedicatory cer-
emony, at which Governor Con-
nally will speak, will begin at
2 p.m. Sam B. Harbison,presi-
dent of the Graham Industrial
Association, will preside.
Amon Carter, Jr., GMldlrec-
tor, and publisher of the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram, will in-
troduce Governor Connally. Dr.
D. L. McCreewill give the invo-
cation at the dedication.
A pair of giant shears will be
used by Governor Connally,
Graham Magnetics President
George A. Jaggers, and Gra-
ham Mayor Edwin S. Graham,
Jr., to cut a roll of magnetic
computer tape in front of the
plant entrance as the climax
of the plant opening ceremonies.
The specially-designed 25,-
000-square foot Graham Mag-
netics plant will produce finest
quality magnetic computer
tapes for use on electronic data
processing eqanpment in bust-
ness, industry and government
installations across the nation.
The plant was designed spe-
cifically for the manufacture of
magnetic tapes, in a "super-
clean" atmosphere in order to
achieve "zero defect" quality
in all tapes. This requires
the most exacting care in all
steps of production. The pro-
cess begins with the precise
mixing and blending of micro-
fine particles of an oxide and
other materials which form the
tape’s magnetic coating. The
coating material is then care-
fully applied to wide rolls of
polyester film. When the coat-
ing is dried and securely
anchored to the base film, the
rolls are slit Into half-inch
tapes, each 2,500 feet long.
By actual computer oper-
ation, each tape produced at
Graham Magnetics is certified
to record and reproduce 7,200
magnetic signals per linear
inch--or a total of 216,000,000
bits of information on the 2,500-
foot length of tape. Failure to
handle even one bit of infor-
mation properly is cause tor
rejection of the entire reel of
tape.
To preserve the “white
room" cleanliness of each reel
of tape, it is hermetically sealed
in a plastic wrap before pack-
ing and shipping. In Graham
Magnetics’ research labora-
tory, work is constantly in pro-
gress toward building even
greater quality and capabilities
Into Graham tapes.
The Graham Magnetics plant
is staffed with people who have
the scientific background, ex-
perience and proven ability to
produce premium magnetic
tapes of superior quality. The
tapes will be marketed through
a nationwide sales organiza-
tion.
How are magnetic computer
tapes used?
A man makes an airlines
reservation. His wife mails a
check to pay a household bill.
The Honorable John Connally, Governor of Texas, will head
dignitaries coming to Graham Friday tor ene opening of Texas
first precision magnetic tape manufacturing plant.
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Dr. D. L. McCree
Improving
Dr. D. L. McCree, pastor
of First Methodist Church who
has been confined to his room
this week with a virus, is re-
ported to be improving and able - a
to be about in the house which
his many church members and
friends will be glad to know.
Newcastle
Post Office
Burglarized
Burglars entered the New-
castle PostOffice Monday night,
but apparently were scared
away and left their burglar tools
in the building according to a re-
port by Sheriff John Edwards.
The burglary was discovered
by Garland Hankins, Postmas-
ter. Edwards said burglars
broke in on the west side of the
Post Office, punched a pin and
peeled the safe. However, they
did not get to the inner door
and left their tools.
Sheriff Edwards and postal
officials from Wichita Falls
are conducting an investiga-
tion.
Since the end of World War
II, the use of computers and
magnetic computer tapes has
grown explosively and con-
tinues to Increase rapidly.
However, until the opening
of the Graham Magnetics In-
corporated plant, Texas did not
have a single manufacturing
installation making magnetic
tapes tor this burgeoning seg-
ment of our economy, despite
the proliferation of electronic
data processing equipment us-
ers in the Southwest.
Graham Magnetics will em-
ploy several hundred people
when it reaches peak produc-
tion.
Key Graham Magnetics exe-
cutives' are: George A. Jaggers,
President; Richard H. King,
Vice President, marketing,
Norf Petrucci, Vice President,
production; Dr. Edward H. An-
drew, Jr., Vice President, qual-
ity control; Directors of Gra-
ham Magnetics Incorporated,
are Mr. Jaggers, Mr. King, Mr.
Petrucci, Edwin S. Graham,
Jr., and Sam B. Harbison, of
Graham; Emory Cantey, Amon
G. Carter, Jr., and James S.
Garvey, of Fort Worth; S. J.
Knuckley of Wichita Falls, and
Donald Douglass of Houston. ,
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