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THURSDAY NIGHT FIRE
The Panhandle Volunteer
Firemen made a*run 1-2 mile
west of Panhandle on High-
way 60, at 9 p. m. last night,
when a truck was reported
on fire. No other details were
available.
The Panhandle Kedald
Our 70th Year
Of Service To
Carson County
VOL. 70—NO. 5
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY—PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 19^56 —8 Pages Toda7
PRICE 5c
MASONIC DIGNITARY—W. W. Boothe, fifth from
left, grand master of all Masonic lodges in Texas
visited Panhandle Lodge No. 1167 Thursday, Aug.
16. In the picture, left to right, N. F. Yates, senior
deacon; Louie F. Cleek, junior warden; Merle
Lewellen, senior warden; Herbert H. Hunt, district
deputy of Groom; most worshipful gkrand master
Boothe of Paris; Gene Skaggs, worshipful master;
H. H. Smith, James Cannedy, chaplain; Audie Mor-
gan, junior deacon and Harold Knapp, tiler.
Football Practice
Stazts August 27;
Fizst Game Sept. 7
Panther football fans must wait
until Monday, Aug. 27, to see their
favorite football team practice for
the 10-game schedule that begins
Sept. 7 at Wellington, Bill Davis,
head coach, announced.
Coach Davis and assistants
Lewis Martin, Billy West and
Doyle Carver, expect about 40
boys for the first practice call set
at 8:30 a.m. Monday. Sessions will
be twice daily until school starts
Sept. 4.
All Panther fans are urged to
watch the practice workouts. “I
know that parents and friends
are for us,” Davis said, “but I
also know that -Its a wonderful
boost for the boys to see you on
the sidelines.”
Saturday, Sept. 1, the local
eleven tangles in a scrimmage
with Canyon Eagles. The affair
starts at 8 p.m. and the public
is invited.
Thurman Richardson, 8th grade
coach says that practice for his
team will not begin until after
Sept. 4.
“Our opening game is only 11
days away and Wellington will
field one of their better teams,
although they lost some 6 or 7
boys from a club that won 7, lost
2 and tied Panhandle last year,”
Davis pointed out.
Wellington is a double A school,
coached by John Hurley. Hurley
is in his second season as head
kins, ably assisted by such re-
turning veterans as Jerry Elberts,
left end; center and defensive
star Don Hood and a guard.
Baptist To Hear
Rev. Wayne Keith
Rev. Wayne Keith, associate
pastor of the First Baptist church,
Borger, will fill the pulpit at the
First Baptist church, Panhandle,
while the pastor, Rev. Keith Mc-
Cormick, is on vacation in Okla-
homa. Keith, as a small boy,
lived in Panhandle.
J. W. KETCHUM FILES
SUIT FOR DIVORCE
After nine days- of married life,
John Walter Ketchum filed suit
in 100th district court Aug. 22
against his wife, the former Mrs.
Gladys Hope Howard, to whom
he was married Aug. 13.
Ketchum is a long time farm-
er in the Conway community.
Coach Bill Davis returned Sun-
day from a two-weeks camp at
Fort Sill, Okla., where he is a
first lieutenant in the 474th
Field Artillery.
Cold 49 Read
For N^w Tow
Rain Barely Wet
Records have been broken and
tied during the week, when the
lowest temperature ever record-
ed on Aug. 21 was 49, the pre-
vious low was 54 in 1950, and the
lowest maximum was 67 ■ on the
19 th.
Temperatures of 55 and 51 on
the 19th and 20th tied the lowest
for those dates, which were in
1950.
Rain during this period
.30 inch.
For the same period last year
temperature extremes were 95
and 60 with .34 inch of rain. This
year the high was 96 on the 16th
and 17th. The low Thursday
morning was 62.
The cool spell did more good
than the small amount of rain
received according to many farm-
ers, and allowed crops to recu-
perate from the nearly 30 days
of temperatures in the 90s, with
night temperatures in the 60s and
low 70s.
Weekend forecast is for near
normal temperatures with widely
scattered' thunder showers.
Temperatures and rain for the
Groom Club Member
Attends State Meet
LOUISE HARRELL
coach, having been assistant coach
for two years.
week
Date
follow:
High
Low
Rain
The “belly series” or Georgia
Aug.
16
96
68
Tr.
Tech style is followed by Welling-
Aug.
17
96
70
ton and “you might remember
Aug.
18
95
70
that Wellington’s B team was un-
Aug.
19_____
67 *
55
.30
defeated last year,” Davis ex-
Aug.
20 _ ___
72
51
Tr.
claimed.
Aug.
21 ______
81
49
The Wellington attack is quar-
Aug.
22 -
91
57
terbacked by returning Pat Wil-
Aug.
23
62
Louise Harrell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Glynn D Harrell, Groom,
spent last week at Stephenville
was where she attended a special cere-
monial workshop of the- leader-
ship training camp.
Miss Harrell is a member of
the executive committee of District
4-H council, a representative of
this district for State 4-H council,
a former Carson county Gold Star
winner (1954) and has completed
32 4-H projects.
She is a senior in Groom high
school and is a participant in all
school activities. This is her sixth
year in 4-H work.
Saturday, Louise attended the
district council meeting in Ama-
rillo. Tuesday the Groom 4-H Club
member was one of the models for
Allied Youth Style Show, pre-
sented at Amarillo’s Little Thea-
tre by Colbert’s.
Silas Mason Co.
Is New Contractor
For Panitex Plant
Mason and Hanger-Silas Mason
Co., of New York and Lexington,
replaces Procter and Gamble de-
fense corp., as operating contrac-
tors of Pantex Ordnance plant in
October or November, Lt. Col.
Marvin J. Bruedigam, Pantex
commander, has announced.
More than 100 Panhandle fami-
lies are effected by the change,
however, all of them will be of-
fered employment by the new con-
tractor, Colonel Bruedigam ex-
plained.
Silas Mason Co. are old hands
at Ordnance plant operations, be-
ing the same firm that construct-
ed most of Pantex when it was
converted in 1951-52.
Procter and Gamble had asked
last May to be relieved of the
plant operation and since that
time Ordnance officials had nego-
tiated for a new contractor.
Colonel Bruedigam said that no
significant change in Pantex
workers is expected.
Williams Reports
Paving Progress
Judge Clarence C. Wliliams
made a trip to southeast Carson
county Tuesday and reported that
paving work was moving rapidly
on the new roads.
Base is being laid on the farm
to market road north of Groom
and topping is being put on the
road east to Gray county due,
east of Panhandle.
This road is east of the White
Deer-Groom road.
Mrs. J. L. Hawley is a surgical
patient in St. Anthony’s Hospital,
Amarillo. *
Box 3 Will Vote
At Lamborn Home
A change in the place for
holding the election for Pre-
cinct No. 3 was announced
this week. This box,’known
as Pleasant Plains and Abel,
has used the Abel elevator
for a number of years. The
elevator is unavailable and
the box has been changed to
the J. C. Lamborn home
for the Democratic primary
run-off Saturday.
$342,802.00
Operating Fund
Approved Tuesday
School tax payers and patrons
showed complete trust in the lo-
cal school administration and
board members Tuesday night
when they stayed away by the
hundreds. In fact, not a single
visitor attended the budget hear-
ing.
Board members approved a
$342,802.00 budget for 1956-57,
compared with $320,045.00 last
year, Supt. James R. Cox, re-
ported today.
Money will be spent for:
adminstraiton, $24,700; instruction,
including salaries and teaching
supplies, $187,606; transportation,
busses, band, athletics, chorus,
etc., $34,175;
Operation of the school plant,
gas, water, lights, etc., $20,200;
maintenance, $7,100; insurance,
$3,600; community service, $250.
Debt service, including retire-
ment of bonds and interest, $40,-
600; building site, $1,500; complet-
ing FFA laboratory, $2,000; re-
wiring high school, $13,000; two
new bus chassis, $3,900 and fur-
niture and equipment, $4,171.
Cox pointed out that money for
the budget would come from the
following sources: Federal and
other funds, $18,155.58; state per
capita, etc., $78,565; county avail-
able fund, $150; and local taxes,
$244,845.42.
Last year school officials op-
erated within the budget, spending
$320,021.71 of the approved $320,-
045.00 budget.
Mrs. Daisy Granstaff, Peters-
berg, 111., is visiting in the home
of-her daughter-in-law and grand-
son, Mrs. Faye Grandstaff and
Kern.
Democrats To Choose
/ • • . • . ./''. v «. ;A *•_
Nominees In Second
Primary Saturday
TEXAS NEEDS DANIEL
Texas needs Price Daniel as its next governor. His slogan, “Best
for Texas,” in this instance is absolutely right.
Price Daniel led his opponent, Ralph Yarborough, 165,000 votes
in the first primary. Yarborough already has lost twice for gover-
nor and no candidate was ever that many votes behind and won
a run-off.
Carson county voters should go to the polls Saturday, Aug. 25,
and endorse the militant and capable Price Daniel for governor.
Will Wilson of Dallas is so outstanding in his capabilities that
he should romp on Tom Moore, Waco, a district attorney. Wilson
is a former associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey has his name on the ballot without opposi-
tion. His run-off opponent withdrew.
Porter Oakes and Ted Springer are run-off candidates for 94th
flotorial representative composed of Carson, Armstrong, Potter and
Randall counties. Oakes is a real leader. You will be proud of
Oakes as your state representative, so vote for him.
The other run-off race is for 100th district attorney between
Allen Harp, incumbent, and John T. Forbis, both of Childress.
This race seems to be generating considerable heat, based largely
on activities in their home county.
PEGGY HANSON, daughter of Mrs. Oneta Hanson,
county treasurer, was chosen as queen of the last Carson
county fall festival, Sept. 1§* 1954. .This year, as a fea-
ture of the Carson County :Fair, Oct. 5-6, the queen con-
test is scheduled at 12 noon, Friday, Oct. 5. Organiza-
tions and civic clubs desiring to enter & Contestant should
contact Mrs. Hanson or H. . A.
. ■ J* * " • « ■>
Entries Sought For. Carson County
Fair Queen Contest 'Hf?Ve October 5-6
Entries are now being aceepf- B<>x 518, Panhandle.
ed for “The Miss Carson County’
Fair of 1956” contest to be' held
at the main entrance of the court
house at high noon on Friday,
Oct. 5. Mrs. Oneta Hanson wlil
serve as hostess- of 'this contest
and all entries should be brought
or mailed to Mrs. Hanson, Car-
son County Courthouse, Pan-
handle, Texas or H. M. Nichols,
VFW and Auxiliary District 9
Meeting Set Here for Aug. 25-26
Walter Brown, Amarillo, dis-
trict commander, will be the prin-
cipal speaker lor the 9th Dis-
trict Encampment of Veterans of
Foreign Wqrs here Saturday and
Sunday.
James Mecaskey Post No. 6972,
of which Stewart Purvines is
commander will be the hosts,
assisted by members of the VFW
Club and VFW Auxiliary. The
district meeting was last held here
in 1954.
Registration will, get underway
at 4 p. m. Saturday at the VFW
Hall.
A reception is scheduled at
6:30 p. m./Saturday followed by
a dance that night starting at 9.
Sunday morning the Ladies
Auxiliary will serve coffee and
donuts from 9 to 10 o’clock and
registration for the Sunday ses-
sion begins at 9 a. m.
At 10 a. m. VFW members will
attend a business meeting and at
the same time Auxiliary members
will gather in the school cafetor-
ium for their District d business
meeting.
A banquet will be served at
12:30 with adjournment set for
2 p. m.
VFW officers besides Purvines
include: Wayne Driskill, W. R.
McGregof, Leon Martin, Leonard
Olson, Frank Dove, Dave Arm-
strong and Dr. J. L. Prender-
gast. Mrs. Leonard Olson is pre-
sident of the VFW Wives Club.
Students of Carson county high
schools are eligible. Each contes-
tant must be sponsored by some
recognized organization of Carson
county such as 4-H, clubs, FFA
or* FHA chapters/churches, ser-
vice clubs, veteran organizations,
etc/
A registration fee of two dol-
lars. must accompany the applica-
tion. .
The young ladies will appear
in formal attire only.
Carson county has been the
scene of some of the finest Queen
contests ever held in the south-
west. Residents will remember
the contests staged by the Ameri-
can Legion at their annual Fall
Festivals with 30 or more contes-
tants. They will also remember
the contests held at PanTech
Farms where lovelies from all
oyer the Golden Spread compet-
ed in both Western and formal
attire.
Applications for registration,
must be received before 11 a. m.
Oct. 1.
Attractive awards will be pre-
sented to the queen and her atten-
dants.
Candidates are making their
final rounds in solicitation of
votes in Carson county for the
run-off primary Saturday, Aug.
25. Indications are that another
light vote wlil be cast and ob-
servers do not think that the
July primary figure of only 1,503
will be reached.
Only 35 absentee votes have
been cast. This number is less
than the 73 votes cast in July,
Absentee voting stopped at mid-
night Aug. 21.
Because of the short ballot,,
only four opposed races, A. J.
Weiser, county democratic chair-
man, predicts that votes will be
counted before 8 p. m.
Voters will choose between
Ralph Yarborough and Price Dan-
iel for governor; Tom Moore and
Will Wlison for attorney general;
Ted B. Springer and Porter L.
Oakes for representative, 94-F
district and Allen Harp and John.
T. Forbis for district attorney.
In the race for lieutenant gov-
ernor, Senator A. M. Aikin with-
drew from the contest and left
Ben Ramsey without an oppon-
ent. However, the state democra-
tic committee says that the name
of Ramsey must appear on the
ballot.
Polling places are: Prect. 1,
court house, Panhandle; Prect. 2,
Jberty club house; Prect. 3,
J. C. Lamborn farm; Prect. 4,
White Deer school; Prect. 5, Con-
way school; Prect. 6, Groom
school; Prect. 7, home of Mrs. W.
D. Ferrell, Gulf Camp; Prect. 8,
Skellytown school and Prect. 9,
Lark school.
Judges are: No. 1, Mrs. EIrha
Lee Dills; No. 2, George Curyea;
No. 3, Harold Welsh; No. 4, W.
J. Stubblefield; No. 5,- F. W,
Hagaman; No. 6, E. J. Britten;
No. 7, Mrs. W. D. Ferrell; No. 8,
W. H. Price and No. 9, Lee Kirk,
Judge Clarence C. Williams,
Weiser and Mrs. Fannie Williams,
district and county clerk, would
make no prediction as to the
number of run-off votes. They
pointed out that indications were
the number would be smaller.
Actually only 1,476 were counted
:n the governor’s race in the first
primary.
Absentee voting increased from
16 to 35 during the past week.
Nine voted at Panhandle, 1 at
Lark, 1 at White Deer, 6 at
Groom and 2 at Skellytown for
a total of 19.
Voting were: Panhandle, Mrs,
Faye Granstaff; O. W. Cutter,
Mrs. C. V. Walker, Curtis Met-
calf, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sulli-
van, Mrs. T. M. Cleek, Mrs. Ed
Deahl, Mrs. Eva E. Craig.
Skellytown, Mr. and Mrs. C. J,
Horner; White Deer, Joe P. Mur-
phy;
Groom, Charles Green, W. A,
Cornet, • W. M. Garmon, F. F.
Dove, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Evans;
Lark, Ronald Kotara.
Two Attend Demo
Planning Parley
County Judge Clarence C. Will-
iams and County Cairman A. J,
Weiser attended a meeting of
31st senatorial district delegates
in Amarillo Tuesday night.
Wliliams said that plans were
discussed for the September con-
vention of the Texas Democratic
party. Mrs. Kathleen Voight of
San Antonio, leader, in the Texas
loyalist group presided.
W. D. Bales of Cactus was
named as the 31st district mem-
ber of a convention committee
which will convene in Fort Worth
Sept. 6 preceding the convention
to be held Sept. 11.
Judge Williams nominated Ott
Shewmaker of Pampa and his
motion was seconded by Jimmy
Thompson of Pampa. Shewmaker
lost to Bales, but he later was
made an alternate to Fort Worth
along with Earl Snider of
Dumas and E. T. (Dusty) Milled
of Amarillo.
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Loftin, Paul A. The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1956, newspaper, August 24, 1956; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth881239/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.