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City
If you use your backbone
as often as your wishbone,
you can’t lose.
The Panhandle Herald
Our 70th Year
Of Service To
Carson County
VOL. 70—NO. 4
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY—PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1956 —8 Pages Today
FAIR BOARDS
MEET TORIjlHT
IN PAHIK
More details of the Carson
county fair were completed last
Friday night at a meeting in White
Deer, and tonight the group will
conVen- in Panhandle," Alvis Ta-
bor, fa - ^resident, announced.
Details have been worked out
whereby tents will be rented for
the lives': ck sdexv. Other, dis-
plays will be in the War Memorial
Building.
The commercial exhibit com-
mittee set a tentative rate for; dis-
plays in the Odd Fellow and
American Legion halls. Implement
firms will be asked to display
heavy farm equipment on the out-
side of these two buildings.
J. C. McCollough and Harold
Smith of Panhandle and C. L.
Culver, Jr., of Groom and E. L.
Norman of White Deer, members
of the finance committee reported
that all ads in the catalogue
would be sold this week.
At the meeting tonight in the
Carson county Red Cross room in
the court house, the faim execu-
tive group will award the printing
of the fair catalogue.
Plans for the queen contest
and tractor driving rodeo are pro-
gressing, committe chairmen re-
ported. The entretainment com-
mittee has planned a full slate for
both days.
I. M. Crowley
Funeral Thursday
I. M. Crowley, Pampa, died
j suddenly Aug. 14 after suffering
a heart attack. He was 67 years
^ old. His children attended Pan-
handle schools.
Funeral services were Thursday
in the chapel of a Pampa fun-
eral home with Rev. Edwin Hall,
pastor of St. Paul’s Methodist
church, officiating.
Survivors include his wife, of
1212 Garland, Pampa; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Hugh Hanson and Mrs.
Richard A. Carter, Jr., both of
i Phillips; two sons, A. L. Crowley,
Kermit, an$ A. W: of Monahans.
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Public Service
Making Improvement
Southwestern Public Service
Co., is adding extra transformer
capacity at the sub-station here.
The improvement will benefit
service to all rural lines and the
t city of Claude, Alfred Bell, lo-
cal manager, said today.
J. D. Gillispie, sub-station fore-
man, is in charge of the work.
Guardianship
Of Minor Moved
’u Guardianship for the estate of
;j * Joe Frank Skelton, minor, has
been transferred from Carson to
Tarrant county, where he and his
mother now live.
Judge Clarence Williams au-
thorized the transfer Aug. 6.
Bondsmen for Mrs. Juanita
Skelton, guardian, were releas-
ed. They were Richard H. Orr,
and J. C. McCollough. A new
surety bond for $10,000 was ap-
t ^proved.
Oakes Confident
He’ll Be Winlner
Porter Oakes of Amarillo, run-
off candidate for 94th flotorial
district state representative, was
in Panhandle last Friday in be-
half of his campaign.
Oakes won Potter and Randall
i counties by small leads and lost
* Carson and Armstrong by small
votes. He said one of his goals for
the run-off is to carry Carson
county.
Oakes said prospects were most
encouraging and he predicted he
would be the nominee.
Curb - Gutter Survey
Expected This Week
f Engineers are expected this
week to start drainage surveys
for new curb and gutter construc-
tion in Panhandle, Frank Vise,
city manager, reports today.
An Amarillo contractor, Jerome
Caldwell, was low bidder on the
project.
Price 5e
M. B. Welsh, 82, Former Mwor, B'es
In Oklahoma City, Rites Mere Monday
M. B. Welsh, 82, a resident of ! §
Panhandle since 1909, died at
10:15 p. m. Friday, Aug. 10, in
Court House Haven, a rest home,
at Oklahoma City, Okla. He had
been there four weeks undergo-
ing treatment.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 o’clock Monday afternoon at
the First Methodist church by the
minister, Dr. Charles W. Garrett.
Burial was in Panhandle Ceme-
tery under direction of Poston
Funeral home.
Graveside Masonic services
were held under the direction of
Carscn Lodge No. 1167, of which
he was a past master. W. E. Dart
was acting worshipful master for
he cemetery services.
Pall bearers, all past masters of
the local Masonic lodge, were
Ralph Randel, Richard H. Orr,
J. W. Randall, Victor Held, Jack
Griffith and Loyd Thorp.
Merritt Birney Welsh was born
March 6, 1874, at Deersville,
Ohio, and he was married there
April 30, 1896, to Ona Ramsey.
Mrs. Welsh died Aug. 28, 1948.
Mr. and Mrs. Welsh moved to
Washington, Iowa, in 1900 and to
Panhandle in March, 1909. They
became affiliated immediately
with the Methodist church. He
served as superintendent of the
Sunday school and as a member
of the board of stewards.
They farmed near Panhandle at
first. Later they moved to Pan-
handle and he was manager of
a grain elevator here from about
1924 to 1926. He then entered
the real estate business and fol-
lowed that vocation until a few
weeks ago.
His public duties were many.
He served as mayor of Pan-
handle, succeeding Asbery A.
Callaghan. He was elected aider-
man in 1927, leading the ticket,
and served two years.
He was a former president and
secretary of the Panhandle
Chamber of Commerce. He took
a leading part in securing high-
way paving from Panhandle to
the Armstrong county line. He
was a past president of the Ro-
tary club and a director of the
Security Savings and Loan As-
sociation, Pampa.
Survivors include his niece,
Mrs. Olive Scheetz, who had liv-
ed with her uncle; two brothers,
H. H. Welsh of Marianna, Fla.,
and Charles C. Welsh of Wash-
ington, Iowa. A sister, Mrs. W.
B. Ingham, died a few months
ago.
Other survivors are two nep-
hews in Shreveport, La.; two
nephews in’Florida; nephew, John
Ingham, Conway. The children of
J. L. Naylor of Panhandle are
great nephews and nieces.
An infant son died in Washing-
ton, Iowa, in 1904.
Rotarians To Have
Musical Program
G. A. Mahler, Jr., and Mrs.
Douglas Smith will present a
musical program for Rotarians
today at War Memorial Build-
ing, according to Asbery A. Cal-
laghan, program chairman.
Masons Invited To
Pampa Festivities
98th District Masons will ga-
ther in an all-district rally on
Monday, Aug. 27 at Pampa Lodge'
No. 966. The event will begin at
5 p. rn.
All Masons in this area are
invited.
Water Meters Hum
832.000 Gallon Tune
Thirsty lawns, gardens, trees
and people turned the taps wide
open last Wednesday and used
832.000 gallons of water, accord-
ing to city records.
■ Kelly Bender, head of the city
water department, said that this
was a record water-use in his
knowledge of Panhandle.
Panhandle has a storage capa-
city of 945,000 gallons.
M. B. WELSH
County Orders
Road Crustier
Permission was authorized Mon-
day for Precinct No. 2 to pur-
chase a road crusher at the meet-
ing of the Carson county com-
missioners court.
J. O. Murray is commissioner of
the precinct.
Budget Hearing
Set For Aug. 27
The commissioners court Mon-
day voted to hold the Carson
county budget hearing at 10 a. m.
Monday, Aug. 27, date of the next
regular meeting.
The budget is for 1957.
Charles Gores
Dies Tuesday
Charles F. Gores, 91, who liv-
ed five miles north of White
Deer, died Aug. 14 in his home
following a brief illness.
Funeral services were Thursday
in the First Baptist church of
White Deer with Rev. Eugene
Brand officiating.
He is survived by one brother,
Fred of Lamar, Colo; one sister,
Mrs. Frank Phillips of Denver,
eight nieces, including Mrs. John
Cotter and Mrs. Gene Goss of
Panhandle; and five nephews, in-
cluding Melvin and Charles Gor-
es, of Panhandle.
Services in Groom
For Bivens Infant
Funeral rites for John Mark
Bivens, infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Bivens of Groom, were
conducted Monday in the First
Baptist church of Groom.
Officiating was Rev. J. Walter
Davis, pastor, assisted by Rev.
Bryan Robinson.
Burial was in Groom ceme-
tery.
The baby, bom July 26 in
Groom, died Sunday in an Ama-
rillo hospital.
Besides the parents, survivors
include two sisters, Ruth An-
drea Bivens and Susan Lynette
Bivens, both of Groom, and the
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lu-
ther J. Bivens of Tulia, and John
Shannon of Odessa.
Conway Soldier On
Duty In Korea
PFC Carl D. Jordan, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Dan L. Jordan, of
Conway, is a member of the 7th
Infantry Division in Korea.
A squad leader in Co. H of the
division’s 31st Regiment, Jordan,
entered the Army in January of
1955. He completed basic train-
ing at Fort Ord, Calif., and ar-
rived in the Far East last Decem-
ber.
94 Ordinances
On City Law Books
Citizens are getting along on
only 94 ordinances and many of
these have been revised, a check
of city hall records indicates.
The third ordinance passed in
1909 by Mayor A. L. Henson and
the city council prohibited the use
of sidewalks for bicycle riding
and roller skating.
Miss Pemberton
Leaves T oday
For Germany
Miss Peggy Pembertan,
daughter of Mrs. A. M. Pem-
berton, will leave by plane
today for Trenton, N. J.,
where she wil fly by govern-
ment plane for Spangdahlen-
Bonn, Germany, there she.
will teach in the primary
grades of a school for child-
ren of Air Force personnel.
Miss Pembertan, a grad-
uate of Panhandle high
school, and North Texas
State College, Denton, taught
last year in Hobbs, N. M. She
had previously taught in
Skellytown, and for two years
in a government school in
Japan.
Panhandle Schools
Open September 4
Willing To Serve Another Four Years
Same Song, Second
Verse, It’s Hot In
Carson County
The weather for several days
has followed much the .same pat-
terns, with high day temperatures
and cool nights. The exception
to this rule was shortly before
3 p. m. Wednesday, Aug. 15,
when a brief shower left a trace
of moisture and cooled the atmos-
phere.
High for the week was 98,
Aug. 9 and the low, 64, on the
14th. The readings for the same
period in 1955 were 92 and 57,
with no moisture. Thursday’s
low was 68.
Winds have been moderate,
and with high temperatures, have
caused crops to burn, although
not as badly as to the south and
east, where temperatures have
been over the 100 degree mark,
in some cases
to 112.
Forecast for
the weekend is
for continued
hot with a pos-
sibility of scattered thundershow-
ers.
Temperatures for the week:
Date High
Low Rain
Aug. 9
98 71
Aug. 10
- 96 66
Aug. 11
__ 96 66
Aug. 12 __
94 66
Aug. 13
96 68
Aug. 14
97 64
Aug. 15
96 69 Tr.
Aug. 16
68
Dams, Terraces And
Irrigation Well On
SCS Work Calendar
J. Roy Crutchfield has just
completed two dams on his farm
10 miles Northeast of Panhandle,
according to J. E. White, con-
servationist for Soil Conservation
Service, Carson county .
White also reported that the
SCS ran two diversion terraces
for H. P. Barnard, 1 1-2 miles
northeast of Cuyler.o, These ter-
races will empty into a water-
way that was built in ‘1951. The
waterway now has a good stand
of grass, however, it was necessary
to seed the plot four times be-
fore a suitable stand was obtain-
ed, because of drouth conditions.
W. C. Metcalf, four miles west
of Yarnall, is planning a diver-
sion terrace and work should
start soon.
J. D. Wood, two miles south-
west of Lark, is considering the
possibility of putting down an
8-inch irrigation well.
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Vice Pres. Nixon
President Eisenhower
Community Council Executive Board
Outlines Years’ Accomplishments
Executive board of the Pan-
handle community council, com-
posed of Mrs. Phil Hawkins,
chairman, Jacy Ramey, vice
chairman, Mrs. A. W. Dills, sec-
retary and O. D. Smith, treasur-
er, met Tuesday night for the
purpose of reporting on accom-
plishments and recommending
action to member organizations:
on council projects.
Directors attending the meeting
were: Mrs. J. B. Howe, Alfred
Bell, Mrs. Ben Stone and T. J.
Richardson.
Ramey reported the Master
Calendar had been completed
through the month of January,
1957, and was now placed in the
post office.
All community and dub ac-
tivities are to be placed on the
446 Sign Soil
Bank Agreements
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation officials of Carson
county revealed today that 446
farmers had signed agreements
totaling 54,276 acres amounting to
$316,339.
ASC officials are measuring
acreage now and payments are
being approved as quickly as
measurement is completed, Louis
Grayson, ASC secretary and>
manager, reported.
Grayson warns farmers to “be
sure and check all mail from this
office, because it may have a
check in it.”
The following are measuring
for ASC: southwest, Nolan.
Sparks; southeast, Gub Keuhler;
northwest, Kern Granstaff and
northeast, Lansin Osborne.
Mr. and Mrs. James Welcher
and son, Ronald, and Mrs. Z. L.
Walcher vacationed the past
week in Crede, Colo., and Santa
Fe, N. M.
Absentee Balloting
Light With Only 16
Votes on Wednesday
Sixteen absentee ballots had
been cast in the Democratic run-
off at noon Wednesday, records
of Mrs. Fannie Williams, county
and district clerk showed.
Absentee balloting -v^ill close
Tuesday night, Aug. 21, and the
election will be held Saturday,
Aug. 25.
In the July primary there were
1,503 votes cast with 1,476 count-
ed in the governor’s race. There
v/ere 72 absentee votes counted
for governor.
Voting will have to pick up
rapidly to have as many absentee
ballots as there were in July.
Eleven voted from the Pan-
handle box, 3 from Liberty and
one each from Pleasant Plains
and Skellytown boxes.
Voting were:
Panhandle—Lloyd G. Williams,
Mrs. Minnie Garner, J. T. New-
ton, Mrs. N. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. McCollough, David F.
Moore, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hi-
rons, Mrs. Alice P. Newton and
S. H. Green.
Liberty—Leon Hunter, Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Enlow.
Pleasant Plains—H. T. Deahl.
Skellytown—E. J. Hunt.
The ballot is short and it is
not expected it will take much
time to count the votes election'
night.
calendar for the purpose of
avoiding unnecessary conflicts.
The calendar is a project of
the Fine Arts club.
Club presidents, school and
community officials are urged to
record their meetings on the
calendar as soon as possible.
Officials reported that the
traffic committee had completed
plans for a safety program, and
that the “silent patrol” was in
action.
The committee for the study of
a United Campaign for the com-
ing year tabled their report for
further study.
Teen Town committee is mak-
ing further study.
Paul Park is being watered and
mowed, and a meeting of that
committee will be held to re-'
commend further improvements.
Committee representatives of
Mothers Self Culture, Erudite,
Rotary and Panhandle Home
Demonstration clubs, are urged to
meet to study additions and im-
provements to the War Memor-
ial Building and make its report
to the council, Mrs. Hawkins said.
October 2 was set for the next
council meeting at«8 p. m. in the
district courtroom.
Dan True Tells
Rotarians About
Weatber Casting
Dan True, K(JNC-TV weather
caster, told the Rotary Club last
Friday noon about the weather.
He outlined the atmospheric con-
ditions that bring about chang-
es in weather.
The program was in charge of
O. B. Russell. It also was farm
guest day. There were a number
of farmers present.
Visiting Rotarians were: H. S.
Benjamin, J. C. Alexander, Bob
Meredith, A. C. Walker and Joe
Reed, Borger; L. M. Adair, Odes-
sa, and Porter Oakes, Amarillo.
Gerard Jajri Monio of Paris,
France, guest of the Borger Ro-
tary Club on an exchange plan,
was a guest of H. S. Benjamin.
Gerard spoke of his pleasure at
being in the United States.
Dance P'atoned For
Football Squad
A pre-football season dance is
scheduled at 7:30 p. m. Saturday,
Aug. 18 in the VFW hall, sponsor-
ed by members of the pep squad.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Dills are
sponsors of the pep squad and
they will be assisted by Mrs.
Elten Vance.
Members of the dance commit-
tee are Cecilia Walker, Joyce
Vance, Mary Lou Miller, Pat
Eakes, and Sondra Wasson.
New Motor Arrives
A new electric motor has been
received and installed on the
new city water well located atl
the west edge of the city. The
motor is of the latest design for'
a 6-inch well.
Seniors Register
Aug. 29, Faculty
Meeting Sept. 3
Seniors will register for the
new 1956-57 school term Wed-
nesday, Aug. 29; juniors choose
their subjects Aug. 30 and sopho-
mores, freshmen, and 7th and 8th
grade students Enroll Aug. 31,
James R. Cox, superintendent,
announced today.
School officially opens at 8:45
a. m. Tuesday, Sept. 4. The cafe-
teria will be open, and all depart-
ments will be in operation, Cox
said.
Band students and those inter-
ested in starting band will meet
in the band room at 9 a. m. Fri-
day, Aug. 24, according to Gerald
Smith, director.
Football practice gets underway
Monday morning, Aug. 27 for a
twice-a-day schedule, Coach Bill
Davis, reports.
As of today, all faculty posi-
tions are filled, Supt. Cox, ex-
plained, and the first faculty
meeting will begin at 2 p. m.
Sept. 3. Another general faculty
meeting is scheduled at 5:15 p. m.
Sept. 12.
Other events on the tentative
school calendar are:
Oct. 12, end of first six weeks;
Nov. 10, homecoming; Nov. 23,
end of second six weeks; Nov.
29,-Dec. 2, inclusive Thanksgiv-
ing holidays; Dec. 22-Jan. 1, in-
clusive, Christmas holidays.
Jan. 18, end of first semester.
Skelly Boy Aids
Injured Brother
Prompt first aid by Ted Mc-
Kissick, 12, to his seriously in-
iured brother, Guy, 9, this week
helped control the loss of blood
and prevent shock in the younger*
boy, family friends reported.
Guy’s right leg became caught
between the framework and the
counterbalances of a pump jack
on a lease three, miles north of
Skelly. Ted prevented his bro-
ther’s being wrapped around the
counterbalance and carried him
300 yards to a car where he ad-
ministered first aid from a kit
in the car.
Guy suffered broken bones,
bruises and lacerations.
Ted then carried his brother
home where his mother sum-
moned help by telephone.
Ted, a second-class Scout in
Skellytown’s Troop 9, received
his first aid instruction through,
the Scouting program.
Three-Months-Old
Dogs Subject To
City Licenses
Dog days, according to the
weather and especially the heat,
are visiting Panhandle this week.
And just plain and fancy
dogs are subject to $1 and $3
incense fees according to an or-
dinance passed back in 1969 by
the city council.
The ordinance provides that all
dogs of three months and over
“shall have a collar and license
tag, and payment of said fee will
be made during January of each
year, and that owners of dogs
that reach the age of three months
after January will obtain license
at the city hall.”
Pan-Am Mining Co.
Offers New Stock
Pan-Am Mining Co., Inc., of
Panhandle is offering new stock
for sale to stockholders. About
one share for each 15 now own-
ed will be available, according to
President Clarence C. Williams,
and secretary E. G. Stapp.
The board will receive subscrip-
tions from present stockholders
until Aug. 20. If there is any
stock not subscribed, it will be
offered to the public, officers
said. i
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