The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1956 Page: 3 of 10
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Social Security
Benefits Increased
By Amendment
Monthly benefits for women
at age 62 instead of 65, begin-
ning November 1956; for dis-
abled workers at age 50, begin-
ning July 1957; benefits for
children age 18 or over who
were disabled before they
reached 18 were added to the
old-age and survivors insurance
program when the 1956 Social
Security Amendments were
signed into law by President
Eisenhower, according to John
G. Hutton, manager of the Lub-
bock district office of the Social
Security Administration.
Under the amended law, ac-
cording to Hutton, working wo-
men, wives of men receiving
old-age insurance payments,
and the widows of insured work-
ers can start getting monthly
benefits at age 62. The depend-
ent mother of an insured work-
er who dies leaving no spouse
or child eligible for benefits may
also get benefits at age 62.
Working women and wives
who apply before age 65 will
receive benefits at reduced
rates, on a sliding scale. Bene-
fits for widows, based on their
husband’s earnings records, will
not be reduced.
Payments for women who are
already 62 and who qualify un-
der the amendments can begin
with the November benefit
checks, due early in December,
Hutton added. Application must
be made for these benefits;
however, there will be no loss
of benefits to women first eli-
gible in November 1956 who
apply before December 1857.
Hutton stated that his office
would not be ready to accept
applications for these new bene-
fits for a few weeks.
A representative of the Lub-
bock Social Security Office will
be in Paducah on Aug. 14, at
1:30 p. m. at the Room 101,
Courthouse and will be glad to
assist in all matters pertaining
to Social Security.
Jamie Creamer spent last
week in Sudan with Eddie and
Sidney Chance.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this oppor-
tunity to express our thanks
and gratitude for the many
kindnesses of the nurses and
doctors of Richards Memorial
Hospital and to all friends who
sent messages of sympathy,
flowers and food during the ill-
ness and death of our loved
one. May the Lord bless each
one. „ ,
Family of Red Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. George
Redfearn 19°
Special Notice
To Our Friends and Customers,
In the past we have tried to bring
you the best products plus service at the
very lowest cost to you. But due to the
rising cost of everything, we can not sell
on credit and still save you money on
gasoline and oils that cost us just as
much as the other gasoline dealers.
So, starting the first of September,
we are going to operate strictly on a
cash basis or credit cards of Panhandle
Oil Corp. or D. X. Oil Co.
Again we invite everyone to come
by and try our Gasoline and Oils—Plus
wash and grease or any kind of service.
Or, better still, just come by.
DOBBS & GARRETT OIL CO.
Capitol Hill Bows
To Ancient Laws
From Mount Sinai
On the eve of adjournment,
the House and Senate passed
a joint resolution endorsing the
Ten Commandments.
Presented by Senators Styles
Bridges, New Hampshire Repub-
lican, and Earle C.^ Clements,
Kentucky Democrat, in the Sen-
ate and by Representatives
Frank J. Becker, Republican, of
New York and John D. Dingell
of Michigan, in the House, the
text is as follows:
“Whereas the World today is
divided by conflicting ideolog-
ies which cause people to live
in constant fear of annihilation
or enslavement, and
“Whereas the basic principles
of man’s ethical conduct towards
his fellow man have been cast
aside throughout so much of
the world today, and
“Whereas a return to the pre-
cepts as expressed in the Ten
Commandments never was more
vital to survival and continued
civilization than today; and
“We believe, the Ten Com-
mandments, as the primary
moral force behind the three
great religions of today—Christ-
ianity, Judism and Islam—should
be reaffirmed as the ethical
code governing the lives of
men, and are the means of
bringing about lasting world
peace and a solution to the
many problems of mankind.
“Therefore be it hereby re-
solved by the United States Sen-
ate with concurrence of the
House of Representatives that
we hereby proclaim our faith
in The Word of God and there-
by perpetuate renewed obser-
vance throughout the world, by
nations and by individuals, of
the Ten Commandments.”
Constituents throughout the
nation will be happy, we are
sure, to think of their elected
representatives taring forth to
the quadrennial presidential
battle with these noble words
ringing in their ears. Further,
if only out of respect for this
pious interlude in the scratnble
and confusion of the closing
days of this session, we might
all get out the Good Book and
reread the Decalog. In case
you’ve forgotten, you’ll find it
in the twentieth chapter of Exo-
dus.
SHORT SfoRy
Lifetime
Chance
By V. T. Inglish
you never seen a guy so set on
*■ an idea. That’s all he’d ever talk
about. Used to come into my hole-
in-the-wall cafe, two-three times a
week. Sit at the end of the bar and
never say anything to anybody, but
after people had mostly gone
home, then he’d begin.
“I got a boy,’’ he’d say. “Fine
boy. An’ he ain’t goin’ to ever want
for nothin’. No, sir. He ain’t goin’
to have the kind of
life I had ”
And then he’d tell
about how his dad
died when he was
twelve and his ma married an-
other man, and he left home.
Didn’t go to school anymore after
that. Made his way somehow. I
didn’t pay much attention, but it
always ended the same way.
“But I got it fixed so that boy of
mine won’t never have a hard
time. I got money saved, see. And
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PRICE DANIEL
To the 622,000 Texans who voted
for him in the First Primary and gave
him a 162,000 lead over the nearest
opponent
PRICE DANIEL solicits the
support of others for:
House-cleaning of official
misconduct
A Citizens Law Enforcement
Commission
States Rights and Local Self-
Government
Best schools in the Nation
Higher teacher pay, retire-
ment benefits and old age
pensions
Statewide water conserva-
tion and drouth relief
Lobby Registration Act
Crime-busting Attorney General of Texas, 1946-52; led fight to win back
Texas Tidelands; U. S. Senator since 1952; authored toughest anti-nar-
cotics law in history; World War II veteran; married, 4 children; farmer
and member of REA; dedicated public servant nationally known f orchis
fairness, honesty and integrity. ■
Traffic Misfit
Is Out of Luck
“Don’t be a traffic misfit—
the fellow who’s out of step is
out of luck!” /
That warning was given to
motorists today by E. C. Mc-
Fadden of Dallas,president of
the Texas Safety Association, as
he discussed the Share the Road
program of the Texas Safety
Association, the Department of
Public Safety and the National
Safety Council. This program
is being conducted in coopera-
tion with the Slow Down and
Live program of the National
Conference of State Safety Co-
ordinators.
“Safety on the highway de-
pends to a great extent on the
smooth, even flow of traffic,”
McFadden said. “Whenever you
interrupt this flow, you’re in
trouble—and so are the drivers
around you. Here are a few ex-
amples of stunts that will foul
up traffic in a hurry.
“Stopping suddenly can cause
an 'aggravating pile-up of the
cars behind you. Making a turn
from the wrong lane is sure to
jam things up in the lane you
barge into. Hugging the bum-
per of the car ahead makes you
a sitting duck for a serious ac-
cident if the fellow in front
stops suddenly.”
“Speed is another thing that
must be adjusted to the traffic
flow,” he said.
the road faster than the driv-
“If you go barreling down
ers around you, you’re likely to
tangle with them,” he said,
“But it’s not safe to drive too
slow, either. You can throw a
monkey wrench into the traffic
pattern if you force every other
car on the road to take chances
getting around you.”
He advised motorists to drive
At a rate of speed that fits in
smoothly with the speed of the
cars around them. He said this
is especially important when
driving on superhighways,
where .higher speed gives the
driver less time to think in an
emergency situation, and in-
creases the severity of any ac-
cident he may have.
“Remember, you’re not alone
on the highway,” McFadden
said. “Share the rbad if you
want to stay safe.”
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Cee Vee News
MRS. T. A. RIDDELL
Miss Loretta Samek of Lub-
bock visited at home last week-
end with Mr. and Mrs. Adolph
Samek.
Mrs. Homer Cornell of Hale
Center, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cow-
art and son of Lubbock visited
Saturday night and Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Love.
Ronnie Barnett and Jerry
Franklin of Lubbock visited in
VISIT IN MERIDIAN
Mr. and Mrs. Ewell Walker
and Charles, Mr. and Mrs. Jam-
ie Cate, Mr. and Mrs. Forest
Creamer visited Mr. and Mrs.
Wylie Moffitt of Meridian last
week. Mr. and Mrs. Odell Yow-
ell and family of Culver City,
Calif, were also visiting in the
Moffitt 1 home at that time.
Today, U. S. producing wells
turn out more than 6 million
barrels of petroleum daily—al-
most three times the volume
produced 25 years ago.
In just 25 years, total mile-
age of petroleum product pipe
lines jumped more than twenty-
sevenfold — from 1,289 miles to
36,735 miles of pipe line.
I was busy washing glasses,
so I just nodded.
I got insurance. That boy can have
anything he wants. He’s living my
life and his, too, see. I didn’t have
a chance, but that boy of mine,
he’ll have his chance all right.”
Late that summer I didn’t see
him for about a month. Then in
September he came in one night.
I noticed he was all excited. He
ordered a cup of coffee and grinned
at me when I put it down. Looked
as though he was bustin’ to say
something, but I didn’t have time
to listen then. After a while,
though, I was wiping up the bar,
and he got it out.
“Know what I did today?” he
asked. I shook my head. “Sent my
kid off to college,” he said. “Yes,
sir. Sent him off to college in the
best car you’ll see anywhere. Big
yellow convertible. Know what
told him? ‘Have a swell time,’
says. “Have a swell time for both
of us. If you get in trouble, wire
your old man. I’ll take care of
everything’. That’s what I told
him.”
I was busy washing glasses, so
I just nodded.
I started lining up the glasses on
the back bar, and all of a sudden
he lets out a sort of gasp. I look
around, and he’s slumped over the
top of the bar holding onto the top
rail with both hands.
“Help m—,” he whispers, and
slides right down to the floor.
A lieutenant came along while
they were putting the guy into the
ambulance. Wanted a report, but I
couldn’t tell him much. I called
my wife and told her I’d be late,
and then I went to the hospital with
the lieutenant.
They’d put the guy to bed in a
ward. Heart attack, the doc said,
and it was pretty bad. The lieuten-
ant had a nurse bring the guy’s
clothes, and we looked for identifi-
cation. There was a driver’s li-
cense in the name of Bill Thomas,
and an address in a cheap little
hotel. Also, there was a card that
said in case of accident notify
Maxwell Thomas, same address.
“Maxwell Thomas,” said the
lieutenant. “I know that kid. An
omrier, more spoiled brat I’ll
never meet.”
Just then the doc came out.
“Well, that’s that,” he said in a
matter of fact voice. “Died about
three minutes ago.”
The lieutenant said we’d better
go to the hotel and find out where
the kid was so we could notify
him. It was late, and nobody was
around except the night clerk. He
said he didn’t know anything about
what college the kid was going to,
but he did know he’d left that day.
“Had all kinds of clothes deliv-
ered the last few days. And the
car his dad bought for him! You
should see it. Yellow with lots of
gadgets.” And then he remem-
bered his business. “Hey, there’s
a telegram come for old Bill about
an hour ago. Bet it’s from his kid.
Want to open it and find out?”
The lieutenant nodded, and the
clerk rummaged in the mail boxes
for the yellow envelope. The lieu-
tenant ripped it open and read.
Then he looked up.
“So the kid was going to have
the time of both their lives,” he
murmured. “Looks like he did.”
He held out the paper to me. It
read:
“Maxwell Thomas killed instantly
auto accident. Contact Coroner
Griswold, Eudora.”
FALL CATTLE MOVEMENT
UNDERWAY EARLY?
FORT WORTH—Numbers of
cattle and calves being moved in
the Southwest indicate that the
Fall movement is underway
from 30 to 90 days ahead of
normal shipping dates, in the
opinion of many observers at
Fort Worth this Week.
Rail car movements of cattle
out of principal grass areas
lend strength to this belief, and
the runs at Fort Worth’s Stock-
yards in the past few weeks
have been well ahead of the
same interval last year.
The situation is not limited
to Texas alone. Conditions in
the Flint Hills of Kansas and
the Osage of Oklahoma recent-
ly have led to some early
movement out of these sections.
Unless conditions change abrupt-
ly the general exodus from
those ereas will be under way
at least a month ahead of nor
mal shipping dates.
Dry conditions are blamed for
the situation and all observers
agree that to avert serious price
breaks the livestock producers
will have to stay in close touch
and avoid serious bunching of
shipments.
One important meeting along
this line will be held in Fort
Worth this week when repre-
sentatives of the market agen-
cies and others on the market
will get together and try to
work out means of cooperation
in spreading receipts out through
the week so that excessive price
breaks can be avoided.
LIGHTER RUNS BRINGS
STABLE CATTLE PRICES
Monday the 12 major markets
reported about 33,000 less cat-
tle and calves than a week
earlier. The result was a stif-
fening of prices on most kinds.
At Fort Worth good fed cattle
were stronger, and grassy
slaughter steers, yearlings and
heifers were steady.
Cows were steady to strong,
with some sales of strohgWeight
canners and cutters 25 to 50
cents above the low close of
last week. Bulls were also steady
to 25 cents or more higher, some
of the medium weights selling
to better adavntage.
Slaughter calves were gener
ally steady, and stocker and
feeders sold at firm prices
Higher grade Stockers were
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supply to fill the needs.
Comparative prices: Good and
choice slaughter steers and
yearlings $16.50—-21.00, quotable
poll above $22. Plain and med-
ium butcher cattle $10 to $16.50.
Fat cows drew $8.50 to $11,,and
canners and cutters sold from
$6 to $8.50, a few shelly light
canners below $6. Strong weight
cutters sold to $8.75 and $9.
Bulls returned $8 to $12.50. Good
and choice slaughter calves $14
to $17, with baby beeves $17 to
$18.50 weighing around 575
pounds and upwards. Lower
grade killing calves $8 to $14.
Stocker steer calves $15 to $19
and steer yearlings mostly $17
downward. Heifer mates in
stocker flesh sold $2 to $3 un-
der steers.
the Bob Jones home.
Rev. and Mrs. Claude Nixon,
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Monsoit
took the immediate groups from,
the Methodist Church to Ceta
Canyon last week for summer
camp.
Mrs. Loyd Barnett of Lubbock
visited Tuesday with Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Jones.
Mrs. Curtis Watts and Brenda
of Abilene are visiting this week
with Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Riddell.
Diane and Reid Monson are-
visiting in Burnett with Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Farren.
and children of Amarillo visit-
ed over the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Riddell.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Horton
were called to New Boston to
the bedside of Mrs. Horton's
sister, Mrs. John Fowler.
Mrs. E. V. Leslie and Mrs.
Harlie Gravley of Quanah visit-
ed in the C. M. Horton and Ver-
non Hill homes Thursday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jones were,
dinner guests in Childress Sun-
day in the W. M. Allen home.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mills visit-
ed last week in Murfreesbora
and Hot Springs, Arkansas.
They were accompanied to Dal-
las by Mr. and Mis. Bob Find-
ley and Glen who vacationed
in that city.
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Tooley, Kenneth. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1956, newspaper, August 9, 1956; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018539/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.