The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1964 Page: 2 of 8
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THE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1964
Published Every Thursday by
Post Publishing Company
Serving Cottle-King Counties for 57 Years
JAMES P. LAWRENCE ................................ Owner & Publisher
Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Paducah,
Texas, under the Act of March 30, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Cottle and adjoining counties, $2.50; elsewhere, $3.50
The Paducah Post is an independent Democratic Newspaper,
publishing the news impartially and supporting what it
believes to be right regardless of party politics.
TEXAS <[ipRESSjUSSOCIATIOM
-Area Opinion Sampler-
The cost of unemployment,
welfare, and relief, delinquency,
and crime, hige morbidity and
mortality — human as well as
at all times be accelerated.
Even now, immediately follow-
ing 15 years of real educational
progress, Texas ranks 29th in
financial costs are among the tbe nation with regard to class-
costs of failure to make ade
costs oi Icuiuie to mcme due- room teachers’ salaries and 35th
quate investments in education jn tbe nati0n with reeard to
. . . Hauser Committee.
That pertinent paragraph
should make all stop and pon-
der. Our country is experienc-
ing a growth in scientific knowl-
edge and technology that is
giving rise to a society in which
the poorly educated will have
virtually no opportunity. It will
become increasingly important
that our youth obtain at least |pjan to be a student all
employable years.
—Quanah Tribune-Chief.
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in the nation with regard to
current expenditures per pupil
in average daily attendance.
We are convinced that not
only should distributive educa-
tion be re-introduced into the
local schools but classes for
adults should be scheduled.
The time is not coming—it is
here—when a worker be he ei-
ther a laborer or executive must
his
a high school education in order
to compete for jobs—even those
jobs at ; the lower end of the
pay scale.
The importance of providing j ENCOURAGING JUVENILE
*ach citizen the best possible j DELIQUENCY
education has never been great- A short time ag0
With tile advent of automation', | students skipped going to school
„ur society’s “ a°"
changing^ rapi ^y,^ S j0r ditch day.” This was a di
some 75
creased importance upon a per
son’s knowledge and skills rath-
er than his ability to perform
physical labor.
Texas must continue its ef-
forts to develop a first-rate sys-
tem of public schools which can
prepare its boys and girls for a
useful and satisfying life in a
complex modern world. Such a
system can never be realized
without the necessary funds to
a
rect violation of school rules,
but, worse by far, was the atti-
ture taken by a number of the
parents who falsely stated their
children were ill on that day or
involved in some urgent family
business.
The known “ditch day” par-
ticipants were suspended for
three days. The Superintendent
then wrote to the board of edu-
cation and said: “If the atti-
provide an adequate educational tudes shown by some of both
Program m eac j parents and pupils in relation
adequate salaries which wil at , ^ d&y hag gignifi_
tract and retain go d ‘ cance as to the moral outlook
As the «school year closes itms , ^ Qf leaders Qf QUr preg.
appropriate t a head ent and future generations . . .
school distn b f I am'profoundly concerned and
in humbleness an -quite pessimistic about the fu-
the many decica local iture effectiveness of this or any
teachers we have , | school in teaching the values of
system. Attesting ^ , i personal pride, honor, sports-
of performance are the honors * , _______.V-,_
won by the students in compe- j
tition over the state. The in- '
vestment in schooling for our1
children will be increasing at a
faster clip than in previous
years
Cottle County History
25 Years Ago — Sept. 7, 1939
With 73 students enrolled
early today, the senior class is
the largest in the history of the
Paducah high school, accord-
ing to announcement by Supt.
J. D. Wilson.
Dumont School held opening
exercises Monday mormng when
a program was presented for
students and patrons. The in-
vocation was given by Rev.
Claude Adams, a welcoming ad-
dress by Supt. E. S. Rickard.
Other faculty members are F. T.
Hamilton, principal, and Misses
Colher
school
and Metcalf,
teachers.
Mrs. E. D. Fyke, Horace Stall-
ngs, Mrs. Potts and Misses Lula
Lee Briggs, Inez and Lyda
Kelley, Odell Freeman and Osa
Mae Holloman.
45 Years Ago — Sept. 4, 1919
McKibben and Swint get
their Kerosene Oil in tank car-
loads direct from the refinery.
The Post man received one
of the nicest pumpkins from
our friend, C. S. Lewis, of Chalk
last week we have seen in a
long time. It was a big one,
and was as guoa at one ever
grammar
Both incoming and outgoing
mail service in Paducah will be
halted temporarily next Sun-
day, Postmaster B. F. Hobson
said today following receipt of
a letter from A. F. Sommer, vice
president of the Quanah, Acme
& Pacific railroad, announcing
the company was stopping its
Sunday passenger service in
order to curtail losses.
Ruby Reynolds and mother
and Howard Reynolds and wife
have returned from vacationing
in Idaho and the Yellowstone
Park.
Six Cottle county 4-H club
boys Wednesday afternoon re-
ceived pigs to use in club dem-
onstrations, County Agent G. J.
Lane announced. Boys conduct-
ing demonstrations are Glen
Bates, Earl Bates, Lester Moss,
Kenneth Moss, B. D. Garrison
and Joe Garrison.
Misses Yvonne Sublett and
Helen Smith were hostesses at
a dance last Friday evening at
the Altha Evers Girls Scout
cabin in the city park. The
affair was to honor six guests
from Crowell. They were Rob-
ert Sanders, John Lee Orr, Joe
Eddy, Jack Fitzgerald, H. C.
Brown and Sonny Eddy. Ap-
proximately 20 couples and Mrs.
Olen Pressley attended.
When the Post man ap-
proached Jim Wilson last Mon-
day and inquired as to whether
he was guilty or not, he con-
fessed to the whole thing and
stated that he at last was able
to fool one of the best girls in
Cottle County. He was married
Sunday afternoon to Miss Eula
Jones of Dunlap, Rev. Biddy per-
forming the ceremony.
The Paducah Public School
will begin its 1919-20 term on
Monday, Sept. 8. We trust all
who can possible leave their
places of business will be pres-
ent. Program at 10 a.m. open-
ing with the invocation by Rev.
J. A. Long; Welcome to teach-
ers and pupils, J. Ross Bell; re-
sponse, Mrs. T. E. Shelton; pi-
ano duet, Misses Purtney; The
Patrons and the School, G. H.
Gattis; address, Dr. L. B. Hank-
ins.
W. O. Miller and two daugh-
ters of Wheeler County were
in Paducah during the picnic.
Dr. Howard leaves this after-
noon for Matador and other
towns in the West. He will re-
turn about the first of October.
manship and responsible citi-
zensship.
Well said! The parents who
lied set an example for their
children that directly and ’in-
evitably encourages juvenile de-
_ ... „ liquency. It is a short step from
But compared wi / skipping school to serious crime,
unemployment, welfare relief , ^Matador Tlibune.
deliquency and crime, schooling ! ★ ★
is cheap. ... ! TIMES DO CHANGE. I can
So it is a nius na w i e remember when hub caps on a
recognize Past accomplishments &r ^ ^ worth stealing>
our efforts tov a. p g ^ were gQ smap that if you
and supporting a scnool system / stolen them, you could
that continues to improve must ^ put a get of them in your
: pocket. That was back in the
days when it was fairly com-
mon to hear a parent say that
he wanted his son to get an
education so he wouldn’t have
I to work for a living. That has
j changed, too. The wise poppa
j now tells his boy that he had
j better get a good education so
that he will have a chance to
work for a living.
—Chillicothe Valley News.
A picnic supper at the city
park Friday evening honored
Hugh Potts, student of John
Tarleton College who is in Pa-
ducah for two weeks before the
fall opening of school. Attend-
ng the affair were Mr. and
Mrs. C. Killingsworth, Mr. and farm products.
Earl Briscoe of the Matador
Ranch was transacting business
in Paducah this week.
Speaking of fairs — as Cottle
County’s exhibit on the 27th
and 28th may be classified as
such — puts all other fairs in
the shade by a good majority.
Never before has Cottle County
and the people of the various
communities spoken so well of
themselves in the exhibit of
GAME HURT
BY WES-TEX
ARID SPELL
Here is a cold appraisal of
wildlife prospects in West Tex-
as, stated in the prosaic prose
of a field man for Parks and
Wildlife Department interested
only in viewing conditions as
they were when he made his
observations just before recent
showers in some areas:
Extended hot dry weather
throughout West Texas has
temporarily stopped the normal
reproduction of wildlife popu-
lations.
Antelope, deer, quail and
other wildlife species, without
storehouses set aside for subsist-
ance during drouth periods, de-
pend on the yearly production
of weeds, shrubs and other
foods for their survival.
If spring and early summer
rainfall doesn’t come each year,
weeds and shrubs don’t grow
and the stamina and strength
necessary for successful repro-
duction is lacking.
In West Texas this year only
a few of our hardier species
have the stamina and strength
to bear young. Quail and
nourning dove are still hoping
for late summer rains which
will cause a few green sprouts
to burst forth and provide just
enough nourishment for late
summer hatches.
Without rainfall during the
next two months only the
strongest of each wildlife species
will survive the rigors of win-
ter when conditions will be even
more unfavorable than they are
now.
Although such appalling sit-
uations greatly disturb wildlife
admirers, hard times, such as
these, will ultimately benefit
creatures of the wild. Nature’s
plan, although severe in appli-
cation, will eliminate only the
weak and ill adapted. The
strongest of each group will
survive to reproduce next year.
cfEYA',
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Bigham Attending
Army Staff College
Maj. Harral A. Bigham, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William V.
Bigham, Paducah, is attending
a ten-month regular course at
the U. S. Army Command and
General Staff College, Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., beginning
August 20.
The Army Command and
General Staff College prepares
military personnel of the U. S.
and allied nations to perform
those duties that they may be
called upon to perform in time
of war.
Major Bigham is receiving
instruction in command leader-
ship, principles of war and
logistics.
Bigham received his B. S.
degree in 1947 from the Uni-
versity of Texas in Austin and
received his M. B. A. degree
from St. Mary’s University in
San Antonio.
WIRE BRUSH SCALER
To aid in scaling fish, use a
painter’s steel wire brush in-
stead of a knife. Even when
fish are dried, the scales come
right off.
Paducah
Lodge
No. 868
A. F. & A .M.
Stated Meeting at 8:00 pan.
Tuesday Night, Sept. 8
All members hrgea to attend.
Visitors welcome.
JIMMIE WILCOX, W. M.
W. A. BISHOP, Secretary
BOSS IRRIGATION
"Pipelines for Irrigation — from Planning to Pumping"
Aluminum Pipes and Couplings
Wheel Move Systems — PVC-Plastic Pipe
—CONTACT—
DONALD WEST, Sales Representative
PADUCAH, TEXAS
Phone 492-3439 or 492-3655
WE WILL BE
Closed Monday, September 7
LABOR DAY
Hall-Scruggs & Co.
Hand Electric
South Side Square
Lighting Fixtures
Electric Motors
PHONE 492-3765
FOR SALE
8 x 10 foot
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Located At Veterans Bldg.
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or
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South Texans who want to
ish or to play have a wonder -
ul choice of locale.
They can divide their time be-
tween salt and fresh water
angling.
South of San Antonio and
only a short distance north of
Corpus Christi is a wonderful
lake for fishing or water sports.
It is known both as Lake Corpus
Christi and Lake Mathis. It’s
located between Highway 77
and Highway 9, just outside the
city limits of Mathis.
This lake is comparatively
new, having been built within
the last decade for flood con-
trol and as a source of muni-
cipal water for Corpus Christi.
With a shoreline of some 200
miles, extending for nearly 50
miles up the Nueces River, it
ranks close to tops
line is wonderful cover for bass,
bream and catfish. This makes
it an ideal lake for all of those
game species.
Mathis isn’t a constant-level
lake. At certain times of the
year, when there has been little
rain on the upper reaches of the
Nueces, the level goes down.
While this is inconvenient to
property owners around the
lake, it does provide additional
food sources for fish.
When the lake goes down,
vegetation moves in. Then when
the lake refills this vegetation
becomes food for the fishes and
the brush that has grown up
provides additional shelters.
This brush also is one of the
big tackle hazards. But any
good fisherman will tell you
that if you put it where the
in size for j fish are you gamble on losing
Texas’ inland lakes. j a lure . . . and landing a lunk-
Lake Mathis is fed from the ! er.
upper Nueces and its tributar- I At the present there is con-
ies. It was stocked with bass, siderable development going on
both blacks and whites. Today ! around the lake. Much of it is
it is one of the so-called “hot” ! by people who live in San An-
lakes in a state where there are j tonio or Crupus Christi. The
Your Best Entertainment!
Friday and Saturday
SEPTEMBER 4-5
“The Raiders”
Robert Culp — Brian Keith
In Technicolor
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 6
“Wild and Wonderful”
Tony Curtis — Christine Kaufmann
In Color
PALACE THEATRE
many. j lake is only a short drive from
But cnere is more to Lake both cities and provides an
Mathis. It is a beautiful lake, j ideal location for a leisure home
where nature has been lavish . °r a vacation spot,
in her decor. The Game and Fish Commis-
The Lake is completely sur- sion keeps a close watch over
rounded by a tremendous vari- ^ the waters of Lake Mathis. Con-
ety of vegetation. Most of itj stant checks are being made of
stays greed throughout the year. ' the growth of fish and the
It is particularly impressive in j eradication of rough fish. Some
the early spring when Yucca intensive experimental work has
blooms in profusion, blue bon-,gone on there, in an effort to
nets dot the hillsides and yel- |keep down the rough fish popu-
low flowers are so abundant lation.
you can’t keep from thinking
of the toothpaste commercial.
One of the better state parks
of the state is located along-
side the lake, with fine con-
cessions and abundant space.
There are many spots where
you can pitch camp or park
your trailer. Also there are
ample boat launching ramps
around the lake and several
nice boat barns and boat
houses.
In the general vicinity of the
state park there is a vast area
of open water, ideal for water
sports.
Back in the hundreds of
There are five cities with
rapid transit systems in the
country — Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, and
Cleveland. New or expanded
systems are being proposed for
Los Angeles, San Francisco, At-
_ lanta, Cleveland, Washington,
> small covers that clot the shore- Boston, and Philadelphia.
So if you want a place to
fish, ski, have a general good
time, watch the birds or just
drive around, take a little
week-end trip to Mathis.
You can get a list of avail-
able motels from the Mathis
Chamber of Commerce.
It’s a trip you’ll enjoy.
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