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Paducah “The
Friendliest Little
City In Texas”
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The Paducah Post
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FORTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 19
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THE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1956
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By Patrick Bennett
Exit Alfred. Which leaves
me to fashion some of my
gangling, dangling, grammar
mangling sentences into a col-
umn this week. In answer to
the question most often on the
lips of my friends, my picture
will not be appearing at the
top of this column.
Vote counting assumed a cer-
tain other-worldly air with Mrs.
Powers’ Singing Convention held
just across the hall, in the
courthouse during the recent
primary. “Will There Be Any
Stars In . My Crown” had a
special meaning for nervous
candidates as prespiring elec-
tion workers totaled tally sheets
which arrived sporadically from
outlying precinct voting boxes.
Click of the adding machine,
jangling telephone, quoting of
totals, requests for cigarettes
and touchy ejaculations all
found cohesion across the strains
of familiar hymns which leaked
through the half shut doors.
Who said that the trouble with
life is there is no background
music?
Since the departure of Neil
Lowry for a bit of angling in
New Mexico, I’ve been puzzling
over one of his final statements.
It was:
“William Jennings Bryan
spent his reclining years at
Ashville, you know.”
Not wanting to appear ob-
tuse, I nodded that I knew;
but I didn’t. I’d always thought
of Bryan as a possibly dim but
certainly upright citizen whose
principal hobby was running for
president. Just what were his
reclining years?
Cleopatra seems to have had
reclining years; in all of the
pictures she is reclining on a
sofa or barge or something. But
I’d always thought of Bryan as
spending his time vertical on
speaking platforms. No amount
of cogitating has pierced the
mist and I guess I’ll just have
to ask Lowry when he returns.
—o—
Guthrie doesn’t have a movie
house and doesn’t need one. A
Saturday western hasn’t half
tire violence and eye v'ddeners
which have recently diverted
King county residents.
Life around Paducah seems
pallid by comparison with the
wave of robberies, burglaries,
wrecks and manhunts which
are overworking Sheriff Dub
Hollar. Every traveling thief and
scoundrel seems to find the lit-
tle county seat a convenient
halfway place to stop and fill
up his car with money.
In ratio to population, Dodge
City and Tombstone during their
gunsmokiest days would have
a hard time matching modern
Guthrie. And don’t forget about
that mule that had a colt.
Post owner Jetty Clare had
a happy thought when he de-
cided to send Charlene White
here to report news for a while.
She brought with her a work-
ing knowledge of the English
alphabet and a Willys auto-
mobile in which she drives to
the disaster scene. A native
Kansas who has been writing
for the Haskell paper for some
time, Miss White attended Ok-
lahoma State College for Wo-
men. She is attractive, friendly
and throws right handed.
The government groceries
truck lay like a beached whale
on the edge of the courthouse
lawn for several precarious
moments Tuesday afternoon. It
tilted and high-centered as it
rolled up toward the building.
County landscapers, who have
long labored to regrass the
lawn, stood ruefully by with
hands in pockets while the
truck was unloaded. But their
masterpiece wasn’t really badly
scarred.
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The new concrete and steel overpass on US Highway 70, just inside the Cottle County hne is
shown above. The new overpass straightens and lengthens the highway, eliminating dangerous
curves. The above picture is looking southwest where the highway crosses over the QA &
tracks. The overpass is of the most modern and safe construction. Steel piling penetrate the clay
for 50 feet. The overpass is independent of the main roadway to culow for contraction and ex-
pansion. Cooper and Woodruff of Amarillo and Ferrier Brothers of Seymour constructed the over-
pass. ________
DEATH CLAIMS
W JOHNSON
HERE FRIDAY
James Edgar (Red) Johnson,
67, died in Richards Memorial
Hospital at 7:45 a.m. Friday.
He had been in declining health
for some time.
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 3:00 p.m. in the Mis-
sionary Baptist Church. Rev.
Neal Stout officiated.
Born February 1, 1889, in
Hunt county, he was the son of
James Ervin and Matilda John-
son. He first moved to Cottle
county 36 years ago where he
and brother Marion Pies John-
son farmed.
Red Johnson acquired quite a
local reputation for his wit.
Brother Pies passed away Jan-
uary 2, 1947.
Survivors include a sister,
Mrs. W. D. Langford, Greenville;
two nephews, Carl and Emmett
Langford, Dallas.
Interment was in Garden of
Memories Cemetery. Norris Fun-
eral Home was in charge of
services.
Pallbearers were A. L. Smith,
Allen Holley, Ernest Holley, J.
B. Davidson of Azle, Claude
Chadwick and E. H. Gladden.
Sumner Doyle Tye
Will Graduate From
Fort Worth College
Sumner Doyle Tye, Paducah,
will be among those who receive
bachelor of science degrees at
Texas Wesleyan College’s 65th
annual commencement of the
summer Session, August 24, in
Polytechnic Methodist Church,
Fort Worth.
Tye is son of Mr. and Mrs.
Reece Tye of Paducah and a
graduate of Paducah high
school.
ASC OFFICERS
AT DISTRICT
MEET TODAY
Officers of the local ASC of-
fice are attending a district
meeting in Childress today. They
are Walter Holley, performance
supervisor, Miss Barbara Hamil-
ton, soil bank permormance
clerk, and Tom Sandlin, County
Office manager.
The main speaker will be Bob
Nelson of the state office from
College Station. His topic _ will
concern soil bank compliance
with acreage reserve.
About 70 people from 17 coun-
ties are expected to attend the
one day meet. The counties are
Collingsworth, Donley, Hall,
Childress, Hardeman, Wilbarger,
Baylor, Kent, Throckmorton,
Foard, Cottle, Motley, Dickens,
King, Knox, Haskell, and Stone-
wall.
Jameson Accepts
Coaching Job For
Junior High Team
Bob Jameson, assistant coach
at Granger the past year, has
accepted a position of junior
high coach here, according to
Superintendent Alton Farr.
Jameson, who hails from Clif-
ton, is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Texas. Residents may re-
member that__Granger won its
district last season but was de-
feated in the bi-district game.
His wife, also a Texas Univer-
sity graduate, will assist Miss
Irene Tippen at Alamo School.
Damage Runs High
To Farm Buildings
After Wind Storm
More than $1,500 damage was
left in the wake of a high wind
which swept through farms
eight miles northeast of Pa-
ducah at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
A three room house and large
tractor shed, valued at $1,000,
were demolished on the John
Chenault farm. On adjoining
farm of T. C. Sivells, one side
of a grainery and a television
antenna were carried away.
Sivells reports his rain
gauge showed one-forth inch of
moisture after the storm.
County Schools
Begin New Term
September 3.
YOUTHS HELD
IN GUTHRIE
HIJACK JOR
Two Fort Worth youths were
arrested in Hobbs, New Mexico,
Friday in connection with the
early morning armed robbery
of Pete Hensley’s Phillips 66
Station at Guthrie, August 2.
Earl Barton and Bobby Ray
Music were returned to Guthrie
jail the same night by King
Sheriff Dub Hollar and Cottle
Sheriff Elmer Clark. Both gave
their ages as 20 years.
They also _ face possibl
charges of stealing the red and
black 1956 Ford convertible,
which they had with them on
their apprehension, and taking
it across a state line.
The robbery took place at 2
a.m. August 2, when two. hi-
jackers threatened Charles Hen-
sley, 16, with a gun, bound and
gagged him and fled with more
than $100 in currency and silver.
OPEN COUNTRY
MANHUNT NABS
PUERTO RICAN
A cross-country manhunt by
officers from several counties
trapped a Puerto Rican on the
Pitchfork Ranch, August 2. He
-is- accused of stealing a 1949
Ford convertible from Dickens
early that morning.
Ismael Otero Alitea, 21, was
apprehended in the pasture four
miles from Highway 82 at 1:40
p.m. by a. search party which
included Cottle and King county
sheriffs.
The auto, belonging to J. W.
Regan of Dickens, was found
abandoned and out of fuel five
miles west of Guthrie.
A second car stolen earlier
in Sweetwater was found aban-
doned in Dickens with a flat
tire the same day. The five-
foot, eight-inch, 135 pound sus-
pect admitted taking the Regan
car but denied connection with
the Sweetwater vehicle, says
King Sheriff Dub Hollar.
A Real Scorcher!
107 Degrees Monday
Hottest Since June
The hottest news in Paducah
Monday was the temperature,
according to Fire Chief Price
Sandlin.
Chief Sandlin reports that the
thermometer soared to 107 de-
grees at 2:30 p. m. Monday,
making it the hottest day in the
city since June 16 when a tem-
perature of* 108 degrees was re-
ported.
Heatly To Accept
Cate Brings In First Bale
Of 1956 Cotton For Cottle
Smith, Chenault To
Support Liberals
At Convention
Ag. Teacher Award BIG NEW GIN
Lennis Smith and John Che-
nault were named delegates to
the state Democratic convention
in the county convention held
in. the courthouse here Saturday
at 10 a.m.
Fred Albright and V. L. Hut-
chison were elected alternates
to the convention in Austin,
August 13. They were instruct-
ed to vote unit rule in support
of the liberal-loyalist faction of
the party.
Three resolutions were ap-
proved by the convention. The
group favored legislation oppos-
ing forced attendance to de-
segregated schools and strength-
ening laws against intermar-
riage between Negroes and
whites.
They also approved use of
interposition to prevent meddl-
ing of federal government in
both natural resources and state
legislation on treason and inter-
position.
A fourth resolution to call
a convention to amend the fed-
eral constitution limiting taxes
on gifts, estates and incomes
was not even brought before the
convention.
John Chenault was elected
chairman of the convention and
V. L. Hutchison acted as secre
tary.
Jamie Cate, Chalk Community
farmer, brought in Cottle Coun-
ty’s first bale of cotton for 1956,
late Wednesday afternoon.
The cotton was gathered from.
10 to 12 acres of Cate’s irrigated
farm, located 15 miles south
east of Paducah. Cate said he
expects to get 3 or 4 more bales
of cotton from the 50 acre field.
Goodwin-Crump ginned the.
535 pound bale at 5:30 Wednes-
day afternoon. Cate bettered
the record of last year by 11
days. Last year’s first bale was
brought in by Woodrow Nash,
also of the Chalk Community,
on August 18. Nash was first
in with his cotton in the years,,
1953-54.
HOSPITAL
NOTES
IN
Mrs. B. T, Smith.
Mrs. J. E. Cook.
Mrs. Keith Slover.
Corene Craig.
Mrs. Leonard Taylor.
DISMISSED
Mr. Jimmy Brewer.
Miss Jimmye Brown.
Micheal Corp.
Mrs. J. R. Jeter.
Top A&I Football
Prospect Biddy To
Play In Greenbelt
One of Texas A&I’s top fresh-
man football prospects, Kelly-
Biddy, has been chosen to play
for 'the Western All-Stars in
the annual Green Belt Game
at Childress August 17,” notes
a college bulletin.
Juniors Selected
For Oklahoma
Camp Meeting
Juniors were selected for ;the
Turner Falls, Oklahoma camp
at a meeting of Cottle-King
Farmers Union held in the
courthouse, August 2.
Ronnie Parks, Robby Gibbs,
Peggy Nixon, Nelda Cranford,
Peggy Martin and Walter May-
berry will have their $5 fees
paid by the camp which will
last from August 19 through 23.
President Jim Skinner also
called a special meeting of ac-
tion and legislative committee-
men together with Union offi-
cers in the commissioners’ court-
room here, August 14 at 2 p. m.
At that time the educational
director of the Wisconsin Farm-
ers Union will address those
present. Next regular meeting
of the local chapter will be
September 13.
Plans have been completed, Mrs. Fred Ballard,
for beginning the 1956-57 school Mr. W. T. Goodgame.
term in Cottle County Schools Mrs. John L. Higdon and son.
on Sept. 3, announces Mrs. Jes- Mr. G. F. Hamilton.
sie Thomas, County Superintend-
ent.
Mrs. Thomas stated that all
faculty appointments have been
completed in the . countyis
schools.
Recently elected to the staff
of the Cee Vee School are Mr.
and Mrs. H. F. Collins, Dickens.
Mr. Collins will serve as prin-
cipal of the school and also will
teach the 7th and 8th grades.
He holds a bachelor of Science
degree from West Texas State
College, Canyon and has done
graduate work at Sul Ross Col-
lege, Alpine and Tulane Uni-
versity, New Orleans, La. Last
year, he was superintendent of
the Dickens Schools. Mrs. Col-
lins has a bachelor, of science
degree from North Texas State
College, Denton and has done
graduate work at Sul Ross. She
will teach the primary grades.
Re-elected for her fourth year
at Cee Vee is Mrs. Jess Stinett,
Tell, who will teach the inter-
mediate grades.
Elmer J. Kelley will continue
as principal of the Valley View
School and teach the 7th and
8th grades. Mrs. Kelley will
continue as first and second
grade instructor. Mr. Kelley
spent the summer in graduate
work at Southeastern State
Teachers College, Weatherford,
Okla. Also on the faculty will
be Mrs. Carmen Bennett, Pa-
ducah, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade
instructor.
In the Delwin School, all of
the faculty of the last term
were re-elected. They include
R. N. Parks, principal and 7th
and 8th grade instructor; Mrs.
Helen Joyce Harrison, 4th, 5th
and 6th grades; and Miss Edith
. Amburn, primary grades.
Mrs. G. N. Robertson Jr.
Mr. J. E. Johnson (Expired)
EIRTHS
To Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hig-
don, a son, Aug. 2.
Irrigation Well
Completed On
Buck Creek Farm
At Big Breakfast
Representative W. S. (Bill)
Heatly has been selected by
the board of directors of Voca
tional Agriculture Teachers As-
sociation of Texas to receive the
Distinguished Service Award for
a member of the state legisla-
ture.
The award will be presented
at a breakfast in the ballroom
of the Plaza Hotel of San An-
tonio next Wednesday. Waggon-
er Carr, representative of Lie
Lubbock district, will also re-
ceive one of the awards.
"At all times as a member
of the legislature I have en-
deavored to aid the progress of
agriculture and to help those
that were active in helping the
farmer,” says Heatly, who has
not yet been informed of the
specific cause for the award.
Paducah Firemen
And Individuals
Donate To Disaster
Fire Chief Price Sandlin
states that the Paducah Volun-
teer Fire Department has con-
tributed $150, or a total of $5,
for each of the 30 members, to
the terrible disaster near Dumas
and Sunray,. which took the
lives of fifteen firemen. All of
these firemen left families',
wives and children.
In addition to the above
amount, J. E. Norris Company j
added to that figure, $5, and
Marvin Standridge of Brown-
wood, former Paducah resident,
contributed $5.
Others who wish to donate
to this very worthy cause may
contact Fire Chief Price Sandlin
and in turn all contributions
will be sent to Olin Culberson,
secretary-treasurer, State Fire-
men’s and Fire Marshals’ Asso-
ciation of Texas.
IS NEARING
COMPLETION
The new Farmers Co-Op cot-
ton gin should be completed by
the end of this week, estimates
B. L. Everett, supervisor of ma-
chinery installation.
However, he stated, it will
be three or four days before the
plant is in perfect runnirg con-
dition and ready for firming
due to adjustments in the equip-
ment.
Actual work on the $140,000
project was begun approximate-
ly six weeks ago although the
management had been planning
the construction of the new gin
since early spring. The old build-
ing has been razed and the
new gin constructed directly be-
hind the old location. The gin
was constructed by the Murray
Gin Co. of Dallas.
SIGNAL LIGHTS
AT CROSSING
COMPUTED
Signal lights at the intersec-
tion of Highway 83 and QA & P
Railroad are expected to be in
operation by Monday or Tues-
day of next week, according to
B. R. Wood, foreman, Spring-
field, Mo.
C. I. Garton, Frisco’s inspector
of South West outlying territory
and R. L. Brooks, maintained
both of Springfield, Mo., will
arrive in Paducah to check the
lights before they are put into
use, Wood said.
Wood and R. L. Rowan, sig-
nalman, have been in Paducah
since July 31 working on the
installation of ■ the flasher lo-
cation.
Football Season
Tickets To Go On
Sale Very Soon
Norma Jean Mote To
Be Graduated From
School Of Nursing
Miss Norma Jean Mote will
graduate from the Northwest
Hospital School of Nursing in
Amarillo, August 10.
Miss Mote is daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Mote here and
a graduate of Paducah High
School.
Vernon Goodwin of Goodwin
Implement reports completion
of a new irrigation well, locat-
ed on the D. N. Gregory farm,
near Buck Creek Community.
According to Goodwin, the
well is producing 800 gallons
of water per minute with a'1
pumping level of 50 feet. Al-
though this is the first well to
be completed in that, area, an-
other is expected to be finished
in the near future, he stated.
Bel Canto Chorus
To Perform, 8 p. m.
Thursday
The nationally famous Bel
Canto Chorus of Boles Home is
scheduled to appear at the
Church of Christ, at 8 p. m.,
Thursday, August 9.
The chorus has gained fame
and acclaim among the Churches
of Christ since it’s organization
in 1949. The program to be pre-
sented in Paducah will include
hymns, spirituals, and a group
of especially selected songs._
The public is cordially invited
to attend the program.
John Campbell Is
Burned In Accident
At Fort Bliss
John Ross Campbell, former
Paducah resident, suffered se-
vere burns on his left foot while
working in an army kitchen at
Fort Bliss, Friday.
Campbell, whose parents Mr.
and Mrs. Roma Campbell now
reside at Plainview, will be con-
fined to William Beaumont Ar-
my Hospital, El Paso, for two
or’ three weeks.
Friends wishing to write him
should address mail to: Pvt.
John R. Campbell, US 54167181,
G Battery, 2nd GM Bn SAM,
Fort Bliss, Texas.
Show Bookings Are
Switched At Chief
Drive-In Theatre
Owing to a booking change,
two show dates on the orange
wall calendars distributed for
Palace and Chief Drive-In the-
aters have been switched, states
H. B. Leathers. Both are drive-
in listings.
Actually, “The Man Who
Knew Too Much” will be shown
August 12-13-14 while The
Scarlet Hour” will be shown
August 19-20-21.
Revival Meeting
Begins August 12
At Valley View
Sale of season tickets to op-
tion holders will begin August
27, announces M. J. Carmichael.
Option holders must pick up
their tickets at the school tax', j,„
office in the city hall before
September 10, at which time
sale will begin to non-option
holders. Those who have not
renewed by then may have their
tickets sold.
Season tickets will be sold
at $5.00 apiece. Applications,
mav be mailed to: Season
Ticket Fund, M. J. Carmichael,
Box 845, Paducah.
During the regular season,
single reserve seat tickets will
be sold just prior to each of the
five home games at the gate
Methodist Youth
Keeps Things
«F) * ”
Buzzing
Methodist Young people are
keeping things buzzing at the
Methodist Church with all the
activities of their Youth Activ-
ities Week now in progress.
The week of worship and fes-
tivities got underway Monday
evening at 7 p. m., under the
sponsorship of the Methodist
Youth Fellowship.
The ping pong tournament
was entered by the 21 young
people present. Classes began at'
7:45 p. m. with Claude Estes
leading a discussion among the
youths on Boy-Girl Relations.
The Intermediate group dis-
cussed Christianity In Daily
Living under the direction of
Bob Sunday. Following the dis-
cussions, the classes took part
in circle games and get ac-
quainted games at the Fellow-
ship Hall.
Refreshments were served the
group by Madra Eason and Jane
Tye.
The concluding worship ser-
vice, led by Joe Powell, was
on the topic, Christ Above Our-
selves. Youth Activities Week,
is the climax of the summer
activities of the MYF.
REV. E. O, ADAMS
Evangelist
With Rev. E. O. Adams,
evangelist, Floydada, delivering
the messages, revival services
will begin Sunday, August 12,
and will continue through Aug-
ust 19 at the Valley View Bap-
tist Church, five miles west of
Paducah. , ,,
Services will be held twice
daily. 10 a.m. and- 8 pm., Rev.
Les Tanner, pastor, announced.
Invitation is extended every-
one to hear the gospel preached
by one of God’s effective mm-
1isters.
Bigham Candidate
For BBA Degree At
West Texas State
William Douglas Bigham, Pa-
ducah, is one of 200 who are
candidates for degrees Aug. 24
at summer commencement at
West Texas State College.
The summer exercises will be
held at 8 p. m. in Buffalo Stad-
ium, according to Dean Walter
H. Juniper. Dr. Blake Smith,
pastor of the University Baptist
Church in Austin, will be the
speaker.
Bigham, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. V. Bigham, Paducah, is a
candidate for the Master of Busi-
ness Administration. He received
his Bachelor of Business Admin-
istration from Texas Tech in
1949.
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