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Shop In Paducah
Where Courtesy
Reigns Supreme
THE PADUCAH POST
Paducah “The
Friendliest Little
City In Texas”
FORTY-FOUR YEARS, NO. 8
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Housing Authority Of
Paducah Is Organized
The Housing Authority of City
of Paducah, Texas, was formal-
ly organized here Saturday
morning with V. L. Hutchison
appointed as chairman of the
group by Mayor Carroll Robert-
son. Ray Loftis will serve as
vice-chairman and Herbert
-Henry, temporary secretary.
Purpose of the newly-organ-
ized group will be to build
low-cost rent houses in Paducah
with the aid of the Federal Gov-
ernment. Ralph R. Cole of the
engineering firm of Bentley-
Broad and Nelson of Dallas,
was present at the meeting and
assisted in organizing the local
authority, and to draw up by-
laws. , _ .
Formal application to the Fed-
eral Housing Authority in Wash-
ington, D. C., will be made for
180 units in the initial appli-
cation. This number was set
on the basis of the 1940 census,
when Paducah had 438 sub-
standard houses. If the appli-
cation is approved by the Fed-
eral Housing Authority, they
will make a preliminary loan
to the local authority for the
purpose of making a survey of
housing conditions. A paid sec-
retary will be employed by the
authority to overspe all con-
struction, collect rents, etc.
Since Paducah has already
been declared eligible, approval
of the project is expected with-
in the next four to six weeks.
The houses, primarily for low-
income families, will be rented
to tenants approved by the local
commissioners at 20 per cent of
eir income. Difference in the
st of operating the project
d the rent which the houses
raw will be made up to the
ocal housing authority by the
Federal Government, and is de-
signed to pay out in 29 years.
At that time, all of the hous-
ing will become the property
of the City of Paducah.
Sites for the houses, which
will be available in one and
two-bedroom houses, with possi-
bly a few larger-size units, will
be selected by the local author-
ity. The housing project is de-
signed both for white and col-
ored' residents.
Local commissioners other
than Hutchison, Loftis and
Henry, are Cecil S. Carr and
W. S. Heatly.
COTTLE COUNTY
TO HONOR
WAR DEAD
Cottle County War dead will
be honored here this week-end.
Honoring the dead of all wars,
flags will fly silently in the
breeze on the courthouse lawn,
Saturday and Sunday, May 27
and 28. Each cross and flag
will represent a Cottle Coun-
tian who paid the supreme price.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
will have a replica of the un-
known soldier’s tomb set-up on
the courthouse lawn.
* At 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, May
30, at the Veterans Memorial
Building, the local VFW Post
and . American Legion1 will un-
veil a bronze memorial pla-
que with the names of those
who "gave their all", inscrib-
ed thereon. Byron Shotts will
make the dedication address.
The service will assume
about 45 minutes and special
places will be reserved for
families who have lost loved
ones,
FINAL RITES
SET FR1. FOR
R. N. THAXTON
Ransom N. Thaxton, age 56,
Cottle County farmer, resident of
the Chalk Community for the
past 29 years, and World War 1
Veteran, passed away Wednes-
day morning, May 24, in a
Quanah hospital where he had
been receiving treatment for a
heart ailment the past six
weeks.
Born in Oklahoma, October 10,
1894, he was married to Miss
Christine Weiler at Coblance,
Germany, Sept. 1, 1920, and to
this union was bom five sons,
whom survive.
Survivors in the immediate
family include his mother, Mrs.
Lena Thaxton, Salt Creek; his
wife, Mrs. R. N. Thaxton of the
Chalk Community; five sons,
Curtis Thaxton, Bryan, Texas;
Tommie, Maurice, Clinton and
Hershell Thaxton, Chalk; and
one sister, Mrs. Charlie Ryan,
Salt Creek.
Final rites will be held
Friday, May 26 at 3:00 p.m.,
from the local First Baptist
Church with Rev. Clarence
Powell, officiating and inter-
ment will be made in the
Garden of Memories Cemetery,
Paducah. Military graveside
services will be held by the
American Legion.
Pallbearers will include Burt
Loar, J. D. Tipton, Cooper Flem-
ing, Haskell Haston, Noel Chap-
man.
SERVICES SET
JUNE 1 FOR
T-SGT. TOWNLEY
Funeral services will be held
at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, June 1,
from the First Baptist Church,
for T/Sgt. Warren T. Townley,
who was killed in action August
1, 1943, in an air raid over the
Ploesta Oil Fields in Romania.
Rev. J. R. Smallwood, former
pastor of the First Baptist
Church here, but now pastor at
Gainesville, will officiate at the
services.
The body will arrive in Padu-
cah Wednesday evening, May
31. Reburial will be made in
the Garden of Memories Ceme-
tery, under the direction of the
Norris Funeral Home. Military
burial rites will be conducted
by the American Legion and
VFW.
Townley is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. M. Townley. Other
survivors include one brother,
Myron Townley, Paducah'; two
sisters, Mrs. Harold Felts, Padu-
cah and Mrs. Milford Allen, of
Bryan.
T/Sgt. Townley was born m
Henderson County, March 2,
1922, and moved to Cottle Coun-
ty with his parents, when he
was six months old. He attended
grade school at Delwin, and is
a graduate of- the Valley View
High School.
Prior to entering the Air
Corps on May 29, 1942, he was
employed at a munitions fac-
tory in Houston. He was station-
ed at Sheppard Field, Wichita
Falls, and received his advanced
training at Lowrey Field, Colo-
rado.
Pallbearers will be Theo
Lynch, R. G. Lynch, Don Blount,
A. J. Barton, Jim Felts and R.
D. Wall.
CITY-WIDE
REVIVAL TO
BEGIN SUNDAY
Scout Leaders
End Training
Monday Night
Local Boy Scout Leaders will
end the four session training
course Monday night at the Boy
Scout Hut. This final training
session will get under way at
7 p.m. and the first hour of
the meeting is intended for the
men only. The boys may attend
the meeting beginning at 8:00
o’clock. Eugene Vaughn of Ver-
non will again conduct the meet-
ing and he urges that all men
in the community who intend
to work with the Boy Scouts
should be present. The troops
will be officially registered at
that time and it is necessary
that the scout masters, assist
ant scout masters, and troop
committeemen be present for
that action.
The men listed to work with
the V.F.W. sponsored troop in-
clude C. C. Prude, H. M. Mar-
tin, S. E. Carr, Jr., Richard
Fischer, Barron Jones, Dawson
Reid, Jr., Buster Hanks, H. A.
Bigham, Horace Stallings, Doyle
Cain, Lem Lowry, Reece Tye,
T. J. Richards, and Bobby Stew-
art.
7-STEP COTTON
COMMITTEEMEN
ARE NAMED
A called meeting of cotton
producers, and representative
groups of agricultural agencies
and workers .of allied cotton
interests, met Friday afternoon,
May 19, in the County Court
Room, with County Agent G. J.
Lane, in charge of the session.
The 7-Step Cotton Committee
for Cottle-King Counties consists
of the following men:
Bill Guggesburg, Chairman;
H. J. Moore, Bruce Washburn,
M. J. Carmichael, G. J. Lane,
Jr., P. E. Godfrey, S. W. Wea-
therall, Allen Holley, W. W.
Goodwin, L. L. Goodwin, Walter
Bates, Tom Sivells, W. R. Jones,
G. J. Lane and Roy Hayes.
The Cotton Program consists
of the following seven steps: 1.
Fit Cotton into Balanced Pro-
gram. 2. Take Care of the Soil.
3. Act Together on Best Variety.
4. Make Labor Count. 5. Control
Insects and Diseases. 6. Pick and
Gin Higher Grade. 7. Sell for
Grade Staple and Variety.
The main purpose of the pro-
gram in Cottle-King Counties
is to assist farmers in the con-
trol of insects.
ROTARY CLUB
CATCHES EYE
OF ABC CLUB
The possibility of becoming af-
filiated with an international
organization, preferably Rotary,
was discussed at the ABC Club’s
regular noon session Wednes-
day.
Afton Willingham, presiding
chairman of the meeting in the
absence of the president and
vice-president, appointed H. M.
Martin, chairman; H. A. Big-
ham and J. Ross Bell as com-
mitteemen to obtain a Rotary
Club representative from a near-
by town to outline necessary steps
and expenses involved in affil-
iating with that organization.
Action was taken on the mat-
ter after a cross section of opin-
ions of club members indicated
that more interest might be
stimulated in an affiliated or-
ganization. It was brought out
that an organization as the
Rotary, offered year-around pro-
grams, a large part of which
pertaining to local civic pro-
jects.
Members voted to have a pic-
nic for their wives or guests dur-
ing the month of June. Com-
mitteemen appointed to plan the
time, place, etc. were Jimmie
Sandlin, chairman; Jack Carr
and Jake Hanks.
Carl Hinton To
Speak To G. I.
Classes Tonight
Tonight, Thursday, May 25, at
7:30 o’clock, Carl Hinton of Com-
modity Credit Corporation, of
Dallas, will speak to the G. I.
classes in the high school audi-
torium.
Mr. Hinton, who for a number
of years, was connected with
the Amarillo Chamber of Com-
merce, spoke on Price Supports
on Cotton and Wheat at the
noon-day meeting of the Lions
Club, today, Thursday.
Everyone is invited, especial-
ly the farmers of Cottle County,
to hear Mr. Hinton speak to-
night.
Dalton Named Gen.
Agent For Lincoln
Liberty Life Ins.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dalton are
“settled .back in Paducah” this
week, to make their home, Jim
says, “from now on”. For the
past three years the Daltons
have resided in Austin, Texas.
The Daltons, at present, are
making their home at the Mrs.
S. B. Chenault apartments.
Mr. and Mrs. Dalton need no
further introduction, to residents
of this area, as they made Padu-
cah their home for some 20
years.
Mr. Dalton has been named
General Agent for the Lincoln-
Liberty Life Insurance Com-
pany.
Issuing Dates Of
Drivers’ License
Announced Here
H. B. Patterson, drivers’ li-
cense examiner of the Texas
Highway Patrol, announced this
week the issuing dates of li-
cense here will be the first,
third and fifth Fridays of each
month.
Patterson will be here Friday,
June 2 at 9 a.m. All persons
who wish to have their license
renewed, or expired license re-
issued may do so on that date.
OIL NOTES
The H. H. Hamilton1, San'
Angelo, No. 1, T. J. Richards
Estate, 1800 feet from north
and 2,000 feet from west lines
of the Heirs of T. Flint sur-
vey, A-362, 6,000-foot Cottle
County wildcat, 10 miles south
of Paducah, was drilling be-
low 1100 feet, today.
The Texas Company No. 1
A. A. Payne, section 15, block
M, R. M. Thompson survey,
Cottle County wildcat 21/2 miles
southwest of Swearingen was
drilling below 8353 feet in
lime and chert. No showing.
—o—
King County failure is the
Shamrock Oil & Gas Corpora-
tion and Lone Star Producing
Company No. 1 Masterson, sec-
tion 29, block A, R. M. Thomp-
son survey, 11 miles northeast
of Guthrie. It was abandoned
at 6,200 feet in unidentified
formation.
Slingin' Sammy Baugh To
Rope Here Saturday Night
EVANGELIST B. B. CRIMM
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L. C. MESSER, Music
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FAULKENBERRY
BRINGS IN FIRST
LOAD OF WHEAT
Harvesting of Cottle County’s
wheat crop got underway here
Tuesday, when T. W. Faulken-
berry, of the Swearingen Com-
munity, brought in the first
wheat to the Fish-Worley Ele-
vator, just before noon.
The Faulkenberry wheat was
graded No. 1, H. H. Fish
said. "It was extra good qual-
ity especially for so early in
the harvest." The wheat aver-
aged 25 bushels per acre, and
tested 60 lbs* per bushel, with
13.88 percent moisture con-
tent. This indicated the coun-
ty's wheat crop may be con-
siderably better than previous-
ly- reported.
Mr. Faulkenberry said he be-
lieved his entire yield would
top 20 bushels per acre. He also
said that wheat farmers in his
section of the county will har-
vest more wheat than last year.
It is the consensus of some
of the grain men and farmers,
the county will make more
wheat than first anticipated.
The harvest, in this area, is
expected to get underway in
full swihg within the next week,
if good harvest weather pre-
vails.
Howard Thompson followed
Faulkenberry by only a few
short hours, having brought in
a load to the Fish-Worley Ele-
vator, Tuesday afternoon. Mr.
Thompson grew the wheat on
his place north of Paducah.
LIONSSOT
TOUR TERMED
HUGE SUCCESS
WM
MRS. L. C. MESSER, Pianist
With Evangelist B. B. (Cow-
boy) Crimm, bringing the mes-
sages; L. C. Messer, music di-
rector, and Mrs. L. C. Messer,
Pianist, the big, city-wide (large
tent) Revival will begin Sun-
day night, May 28. Services will
be held each night, 7:45 o’clock
under the canvas, located just
south of the Post Office, Crow-
ell Highway.
Evangelist Crimm is widely
known for his 37 years of hold-
ing revivals in 37 states, and is
credited with 100,000 converts
with 522 ordained to preach.
PLANS SHAPING
FOR LIONS 25TH
ANNIVERSARY
Plans are shaping nicely for
the observance of the Paducah
Lions Club 25th Silver Anni
versary, to be held on the night
of Thursday, June 22, at the
city park. ,
Outstanding speakers, a big
barbecue, installation of new of-
ficers, and special entertainment
will highlight the program. Of
course the main purpose in the
observance of the Lions anni-
versary is to bring back, and
honor charter members.
Committees named to work
out plans for the special pro-
gram include the following:
General Arrangements:—B. A.
Shotts, Gen. Chairman; R. I.
Loftis, J. F. Powell.
Publicity:—A1 Hinds, Chair-
man.
Program:—W. C. Brewer,
Chairman; Pearl Loar.
Invitation:—W. H. Mulkey,
Chairman; W. A. Bishop, E. A.
Carlock. -
Barbecue-Picnic:—R. I. Loftis,
Chairman; Carl Darr, J. T. West-
brook, A. «N. Cribbs, Rex Keys,
Henry Brooks, M. J. Carmichael.
One of the best roping match-
es ever presented in Paducah
will unfold here Saturday night,
May 21, at 8:30 o’clock in the
Cottle-King Livestock and Ro-
deo Association arena, when four
of the “top notch” ropers in this 1
section of the country will be
pitted in a duel “under the lights
in the cool of the night.”
The widely known, and
much publicized slingin' Sam-
my Baugh, of Rotan, Texas
and Fred Dolby, of Aspermont
will rope against Harold Felts
and Alvis Townley, Paducah.
Each contestant will rope four
calves each.
All of these famed ropers have
seen action in the local arena,
and thus need no further intro-
duction to residents of this area.
Following the main attraction,
jackpot roping will be staged,
with a $5.00 entry fee.
Admission to the roping match
will be adults, 50c; children, 25c.
American Legion
Poppy Sale To
Be Held Saturday
Saturday, May 27, the Amer-
ican Legion Post will stage its
annual Poppy Sale. Girl Scouts
will be in charge of sales.
The wearer of a poppy will
reveal the purchaser has helped
to make the life of some dis-
abled soldier a little bit easier.
Of the total donations made,
during the sale, a part of the
money will remain in Cottle
County with the Legion Post,
for local Veterans work. The re-
mainder will go toward pay-
ment of labor of disabled Vet-
erans who made the poppies,
and other worthy causes spon-
sored by the American Legion.
The best way to show our
gratitude for the sacrifices of
our disabled Veterans—is to pur-
chase a poppy, Saturday.
VFW Poppy Sale
To Be Conducted
Here Saturday
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AL HINDS
An estimated crowd of 100
farmers, ranchers and business-
men were present for the Lions’
Club Soil Conservation Tour here
Thursday, May 18.
The group making the trip
was taken to various farms in
this area where they saw sev-
eral different soil conservation
The 29th annual nationwide
Buddy Poppy sale of the Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars conduct-
ed throughout the country, will
be held in Paducah Satur-
Upper Pease Soil Conservation
District, guided the tour, and
at each stop gave explanations
of the practices used.
SCHEDULE OF TOUR
Leaving at 1:45 p.m., the
group visited the following
farms:
Dudley Chewning farm—ter-
racing and deep breaking' be-
tween terraces.
Coy Morris farm—Love grass
and soil erosion control.
Frenchy pumont farm—Spring
planted grass and fall planted
Alfalfa, also a new stock water
tank.
Wiley Jones farm—Blue Panic
grass/ The group was served
refreshments at this stop.
T. J. Richards farm — Blue
Panic grass.
Cy Wright farm—Mixture of
grasses and Alfalfa.
Hageman Purchases
Interest In Paducah
Elevator Company
Announcement was made to-
day, that A. C. Hageman has
purchased an interest in the
Paducah Elevator Company.
The name of the business has
been changed to the Wright-
Hageman Grain Company, ac-
cording to an advertisement ap-
pearing elsewhere in today’s is-
sue of the Post.
Maxey, Commander of V.F.W.
Post 7528.
The sale will be conducted
by Post 7528 and its Ladies Aux-
iliary and by women and girl
volunteers. Funds raised by the
sale will be used to carry on
the extensive veterans welfare
program of the Gold Chevron
VFW, America’s oldest organiza-
tion of overseas fighting men.
A portion of the proceeds will
remain in Paducah to be used
locally for needy veterans and
their dependents. Other phases
of veteran welfare maintained,
partly, by proceeds from the
annual Buddy Poppy sale are
national in scope. They include
the nationwide program of vet-
eran rehabilitation and main-
tenance of the VFW National
Home for war orphans and
widows, at Eaton Rapids, Michi-
gan.
VFW Buddy Poppies are made
throughout the year by hospi-
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Knights of Pythias
Open House Set
For Monday Night
Monday, night, May 29, the
Knights of Pythias Lodge, 392,
will hold “open house” in the
Castle Hall.
The entertainment committee
is sending out invitations to
Knights this week urging them
to attend the evening of fel-
lowship, which will include a
“big feed” and entertainment.
Eastern Star To
Install Officers
Paducah Chapter Number 506
Order of the Eastern Star will
hold a public installation of of-
ficers at the Masonic Hall, Wed-
nesday, May 31, 8 o’clock p. m.
Mrs. Ollie Sandlin will be in-
stalled as Worthy Matron and
Jack Beavers, Worthy Patron.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
Hinton Speaks
To Lions On
Price Supports
Carl Hinton, of Commodity
Credit Corporation, of Dallas,
spoke to members of the Padu-
cah Lions Club today at the
noon-day session. Mr. Hinton
brought a very up-to-the-minute
message on Price Supports on
Cotton and Wheat.
Visitors present were J. A.
Scofield, District Agent, Vernon;
Frank Wendt, County Agent, Ver-
non; Joe Burkett, County Agent,
Vernon; A. H. Walker, Range
Management College Station; V.
E. Hefner, County Agent, Chil-
dress; Harry Igo, Plainview.
These men were present at the
mesquite control demonstration
held on the B. L. Smith farm
this morning, Thursday.
Fred Phelan, who is in charge
of the Vacation Bible School at
the First Baptist Church, was
also noted as a guest.
TO DALLAS
Johnny Clemmons will leave
Sunday for Dallas where he will
be assistant manager in the
South Dallas M. E. Moses Com-
pany Store. He is being trans-
ferred from the local Moses com-
pany where he has worked a
number of years.
As most everyone knows by
now, Paducah is a member
of the Red River Valley Base-
ball league, and despite handi-
caps, has been playing some
good baseball, and doing
rather well, considering the
fact this is the first year they
have been members of the
strong Red River Valley lea-
gue.
It takes considerably amount
of money to run the club and
unless residents support the
local team—by coming out to
the games—at least more than
they have in the past—it ap-
pears the Paducah club might
have to drop out of the Red
River Valley League.
Tonight at 8:00 o'clock the
Paducahians will take on the
Altus, Okla., team here and
also at the game, plans will
be revealed concerning the
status, plans, etc. of the club,
so we appeal to all persons
interested in baseball to please
attend tonight's game.
Just completed “wading
through” the Sunday edition of
the New York Times, composed
of more than 100 pages. It usu-
ally takes us several days each
week to even scan through the
paper. The appealing part to this
scribe is the ads. The Times is
not what you would call a sen-
sational paper, but certainly
lives up to it’s slogan, “All the
News That’s Fit to Print.”
Of course it was rather hard
to do, but we finally convinced
Colley Briggs there are only two
papers — the Times and the
Post. Although it has been only
a short while since Colley open-
ed his News Store, he has jump-
ed Post sales at his place of
business to 60 a week, and thus
is gradually climbing to the up-
per bracket in weekly sales of
the Post.
Although Prattler thinks^Ben
Guill is a fine fellow, and we
would not want to take any
credit from him, where credit is
due, in walking off in the spe-
cial election recently to name
a representative to Congress 18th.
District to fill the unexpired term
of Gene Worley, resigned, but
this scribe thinks he was “talk-
ing through his hat” when he
made a statement to the Dallas
Morning News thusly, “It wasn’t
just Republicans who elected me.
It was a coalition, with a num-
ber of Democrats — just people
who are disgusted with the way
things are going.”
Let’s don’t kid ourselves, Ben.
Of course we are not entirely
satisfied with the way things are
going, but, let’s face the issue
squarely. The split vote and the
fact only a small percentage of
the voters went to the polls —
was the reason of victory. Mr.
Guill also said — “The fact I
had 10 Democratic rivals in the
special election, splitting the op-
position, was not the whole
story.” It might not have been
the whole story, but in Prat-
tler’s way of thinking it was 99
per cent of the whole story.
—0—
It seems to be a big problem
to get qualified voters to the
polls, but it is a bigger problem
to get the average person to
realize that after he has voiced
his opinion in an election he
must not stop at that. Following
the election he should continue
to cooperate with the person
chosen by letting him know
what we expect of him and the
type of representation we need.
Many a good man has been
elected to office and has failed
miserably due to the fact we
failed to give him our contin-
ued support and cooperation in
letting him know just what the
majority wants and expects of
him.
One of the greatest problems
of our generation is the loss
of interest, by a far too many
of our people, in their voting
franchise. It is a problem that
transcends political partisanship
for it involves the very fun-
damentals of our democracy. In
our generation two world wars
were fought for freedom of
speech, freedom of faith, free-
dom from want, freedom from
fear. The freedom of the bal-
lot box is the guarantee of these
other freedoms. But it is a fact
that millions of non-voters may
decide, by their failure to vote,
the key issues of the vital 1950
elections. The ballot box should
be used to the fullest extent
by all of our citizens.
Add this one to a rolling
stone gathers no moss—a rolling
football gathers no score.
Mrs. T. E. Long, Jack and
Elizabeth, are visiting in Lub-
bock, this week.
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