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Fifty-nine Year*
Of Service
The Paducah Post
Serving Cottle
and King Counties
FIFTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 36
THE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH. TEXAS, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1965
PRICE TEN CENTS PER COPY
EIGHT PAGES
HOSPITAL PLANS MOVING FORWARD
Miss Paducah Beauty
Contest Plans Complete
K
Plans for the 1966 Miss
Paducah contest, sponsor-
ed by Pythian Temple No.
7, are being completed this
week, according to Mrs. D.
D. Chewning.
The contest, scheduled for
Bee. 4, in the High School
Auditorium will include
girls who are in high
school, sponsored by local
businesses.
Fythians exlained if you
are a business man and
were not contacted,* there
were not enough girls as
contestants.
Paula Rodgers, Miss Pa-
ducah 1964 will crown the
new Miss Paducah. She is
the daughter of Mr. cfad
Mrs. Weldon Rodgers, Del-
win, Paula is a freshman
at Tech.
Proceeds from this con-
test will be used for an
electric scoreboard for the
football field and a
donation will go to the
hospital fund.
Interested persons are re-
miryded by the Pythians
Ihdt donations can be made
ho the Scoreboard Fund at
me First National Eatik, or
see George Deatoh or P. E.
Godfrey.
Former Resident
Receives Award
Clifford White, former
resident of Paducah, was
named as outstanding citi-
zen at the annual Chamber
of Commerce Membership
banquet held last week in
Shamrock.
White has been manager
of West Texac Utilities
there since January 1964,
when he was transferred
from here.
White was also elected
president of the Chamber
jof Commerce for 1966.
COTTLE COUNTY WILL GET
IMPROVED BRIDGE, HIGHWAYS
The Texas Highway Com-
mission on Nov. 16, ap-
proved the expenditure of
$104,000.00 for the widen-
ing of the North Pease
River Bridge on U.S. High-
way 83, 3.0 miles south of
the Childress County line,
in Cottle County, as part
of the 1967-68 Consolidated
Highway program, announc-
ed District Engineer V. J.
McGee of Childress.
Also included in this
program was the placing of
a seal coat on U.S. High-
way 70 from the Cottle
County line to Paducah,
and from Paducah to the
Foard County line, at an
estimated cost of $62,000.00.
Work authorized for this
county is part of a two-
year $350 million Consoli-
dated Highway Program,
described as one of the
most important in the his-
tory of the Texas Highway
Department.
Slaid*»*Highv y Engineer
D. C. Greer said the 1967-
68 program includes work
on 9,469 miles of roads un-
der the Department’s juris-
diction and called it one of
the “most meritorious pro-
grams ever formed by the
Department.”
He stressed the program’s
many safety features, the
protection of investment
previously made from high-
way user tax funds and the
immediate benefits that will
add to the safe and ef-
ficient movement of traf-
fic over the Texas highway
system .
The Commission approved
projects to cost $337.9 mil-
lion, with $12.7 million be-
ing held in reserve for fu-
ture assignment. The ulti-
mate program will approxi-
mate $350.6 million.
The program includes
1,809 miles of construction
and reconstruction on high-
ways that carry U.S. or
State numbers at an esti-
mated cost of $262.8 mil-
lion.
It also includes the
State’s portion of the cost
of 587 miles of right of
way on U.S.-and State-num-
bered highways at an esti-
mated cost of $19.3 million.
Betterment work for the
improvement to travel con-
ditions and protection of
investment on 3,143 miles
of U.S.-and State-numbered
highways is included in
the program at an estimat-
ed cost of $24.1 million.
Also covered is better-
ment work on 3,930 miles
of existing Farm and Ranch
to Market Roads at an es-
timated cost of $31.6 mil-
lion.
Considering all features
and types of roads covered
in the program, some 1,900
miles which will cost an
estimated $174.7 million to
complete *fall in the cate-
gory of highway safety.
The safety work included
in the program represents
about 52 per cent of the
total monies involved.
This covers widening of
existing lanes, construction
of additional lanes, paving
of shoulders, widening of
structures, grade separa-
tions, barrier fences and
guard fences.
The safety projects in-
cluded in the program take
on added significance con-
sidering a recent report
showing a decrease in traf-
.ic accidents and deaths on
U.S.-State-numbered and
interstate highways.
Mrs. Jessie Thomas visit-
ed in Brownfield last week-
end with Mrs. Ludie Mor-
gan and Mrs. Mattie Sparks,
former Delwin teachers. She
also visited Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Willis who live on
Route Two, Brownfield, for-
mer residents of Cottle
Schools Approved
For Federal Aid
The Paducah Schools
have been approved for
$62,700. to improve instruc-
tion in the public school
system.
The new program will be
financed by federal money
which is funneled through
the Texas Education Agen-
cy, according to Supt. H. R.
iCing-Stonewall
SCS Organized
For 1966 Term
W. D. Brady, Dumont, was
re-elected to serve as Soil
Conservation District Sup-
ervisor in zone II of the
King-Stonewall Soil Con-
servation District .
Brady is beginning his
third term as SCD supervis-
or, according to Rayford J.
Brister, SCS, conservation-
ist at Guthrie.
During the meeting held
in November the SCD
board re-organized officers
for the coming year. B. F.
Pettiet, Grow, was re-elect-
ed as chairman of the
Board for his second year
in this position.
The last several years it
has been an annual policy
of the board of supervisors
to have a meeting and in-
vite all SCS personnel in
December for a Christmas
lunch prior to the super-
visors meeting. This year
the supervisors have decid-
ed that it would be good
if the wives also attend.
The SCD supervisors have
started the work necessary
for the district annual re-
port. This information will
be sent out in the form of
a news letter during De-
cember.
Mrs. A. V. Burney from
to attend the funeral of
Houston came to Paducah
an uncle, Buddy Yarbrough
recently. She also spent a
week with her mother, Mrs.
Annie Bridwell and visited
other relatives and friends.
Jefferies. This comes under
Title I of the Elementary
and Secondary Education
Act passed by the recent
session of Congress to pro-
vide development and re-
medial work for all child-
ren.
Paducah has over 200
children, negro and white,
who are lagging behind
their age grade level and
we intend to use the money
to help remedy this situ-
ation. We know who these
children are and special
classes will be set up for
their provisions.
Additional qualified
teachers will begin duties
Nov. 29. Some of the pro-
blems we are faced with
and hope to remedy are:
—Being from families of
little money who con’t pro-
vide school lunches;
—Need for medical care
when parents can’t afford
it;
—Missing school fre-
quently because their par-
ents are itinerant laborers;
—A language handicap,
from living in a home
where little or no English
is spoken;
—A poor foundation in
reading, or being raised in
a home where few or no
books are ever read;
—Those who are just
slow learners.
Keeping students in
school, not dropping out
but being an habitual ab-
sentee, is a problem we
face and this will be reme-
died by having an ab-
sentee office full-time
working for the school.
This Act will provide an
educational opportunity
students have not had be-
fore. It will be made avail-
able to anyone who needs
it from grades 1-8 and at
Dunbar grades 1-12.
Pre-school programs
would be set up immedi-
ately if personnel were
available, according to
Supt. Jefferies; however, at
this time it looks as though
the pre-school program will
have to wait until the sum-
mer because of personnel
and facilities.
By
DR. C. C. PATE
To the People of Paducah
and Cottle County .
If today an accident such
as a car wreck should oc-
cur ,and it does almost
every week, and three
people should be brought
to our hospital, one of those
three would have to be put
to bed on a bed in the hall
or in the basement,because
(Editor's Note: The author
is Dr. C. C. Pate. He has
been in Cottle County 40
years and we feel he has
the interest of the people
at heart.)
there are only two vacant
beds in the hospital at this
time. Several times in the
past few months, we have
gone into the night with
only one vacant bed and
this is not good.
This came to the atten-
tion of interested parties
about a year ago and plans
were started to determine
what we could do about the
matter .
Visits were made and con-
tacts with people who had
like problems were estab-
lished in many nearby
towns. Visits and consulta-
tions have been made in
Floydada, Matador, Chil-
dress, Quanah, Vernon, Chil-
licothe, Crowell, Knox City
and Aspermont.
Talks with these people
have centered about what
should be and could be
done regarding hospital
needs, since each of these
towns has had a like prob-
lem.
Consideration and investi-
gation was made as to vot-
ing a Hospital District, Vot-
ing Hospital Bonds, Build-
ing a totally new Hospital
in another location and
building a new hospital in
connection with the exist-
ing hospital with our exist-
ing hospital.
All the facts have been
carefully gone over and
carefully considered and it
is now thought that a new
hospital built in connection
with the existing hospital
is the best and only way
our needs can be met.
We can build a complete-
ly modern hospital of 24
beds, with all facilities
needed for the work of
specialists in General Sur-
gery, orthopedic surgery,
urology and cardiology.
We have contacted spec-
ialists in these several lines
and have been assured that
they will be very happy
to come here to do our
Don Love 29,
Buried Here Sun.
Services were conducted
Sunday, Nov. 21 for Leslie
Donald Love, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Mack Love, at the
Missionary Baptist Church.
Rev. K. W. Thompson and
Rev. Richard Bolt offici-
ated.
Love died in the Mercy
Hospital in Oklahoma City
at 7:15 a.m. Nov. 19. He had
undergone heart surgery. A
clerk for the Safeway Gro-
cery Company, Love had
lived there about six years.
He was born in Lockney,
July 25, 1936. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Joyce,
and two sons, Ewell Eu-
gene and Loren Don. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mack
Love, Paducah and one sis-
ter, Mrs. Laverne McClen-
don, Paducah.
Burial was in the Garden
of Memories Cemetery un-
der the direction of Norris
Funeral Home .
Pallbearers were Bud
Higgens, Bill Higgens, Bob-
by Higgins, Keith Higgens,
Jones Attends
Cattlemen’s School
William R. Jones Jr., of
Cee Vee, enrolled as a stu-
dent in the Graham School
for Cattlemen (Beef and
Dairy), Garnett, Kansas, for
a week of intensive train-
ing in artificial insemina-
tion of cattle and in herd
management.
The Graham School was
founded in 1909 by Frank
B. Graham, and has at-
tained world-wide recogni-
tion as a school for the
training of herdsmen and
breeders by visual demon-
strations and actual “on
the farm” methods .of in-
struction. Classes are held
one week.
Cattlemen come from all
parts of the United States,
as well as other countries,
Jones will have many op-
portunities for an exchange
of ideas relating to all
phases of the cattle busi-
ness.
Bill Parker and Jerry Don
McClendon.
w7ork, with such facilities
available, thus adding to
the convenience of the
families of persons needing
such service as well as
making charges for such
service very much less.
This hospital plan has
been submitted to the
State Board of Health and
is approved. Also, the plan
is aproved by the Social
Security Service which will
administer Medicare when
it becomes effective July 1,
1966. Also, this plan will
give us access to 18 beds
now in the hospital for
overflow and the use of
the basement of the pre-
sent hospital for emergency
rooms, x-ray and labora-
tory space, storage, heating
and cooling areas and all
dining and kitchen facili-
ties, all of which would
have to be built if the new
hospital is located else-
where.
Your commissioners court,
composed of four commis-
sioners and the County
judge, after proper tax and
bonding company consul-
tation, has told us that
$200,000 can be made
available for Hosiptal Con-
struction if the people want
such.
It can be done with
positively no increase in
your taxes and will require
no election but to do this,
the Court would like to
know the wishes of the
people.
They have not suggested
that you do this nor are
they active in presenting to
you but they have assured
us that if the people want
it as will be shown by a
written poll of the people,
then such money can be
immediately available and
we can be in a new hos-
pital in a matter of months.
Within the next few days,
you will be approached by
workers who will want you
to make an expression of
your like or dislike of the
plan. Give it thought and
if you wish more informa-
tion, call me or write me a
card and I will be happy to
talk with you.
The need is great and
the oportunity is now, but
you will have to vote yes
if you want the plan. To
no vote, is a vote no.
Let me personally ask
that you support the plan.
Thank you very much.
C. C. Pate, M.D.
NEW 1966 COTTON PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
A new program for cot-
ton for 1966 was announced
by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, based on The
Food and Agriculture Act
of 1965 signed into law last
week by President Johnson.
Incorporating several new
features, the program is de-
signed to bring about a
better balance between sup-
ply and demand, to prevent
runaway cotton production,
to keep cotton priced com-
petitively on domestic and
. world markets, to protect
the income of cotton farm-
ers, and to reduce Govern-
ment costs.
As in past years, the pro-
gram must be approved by
cotton growers before it can
be placed in operation.
A national cotton referen-
dum was set for November
23, In this referendum at
least two-thirds of the cot-
ton farmers must approve
.•cotton marketings quotas
for 1966 before the essen-
tial provisions of the new
program can go into effect.
If more than one-third of
the growers disapprove
^jjjuotas ,the only cotton pro-
gram will be price support
at 50 percent of parity for
growers who do not exceed
their acreage allotments.
In the same referendum
cotton growers in each cot-
ton county will have an
opportunity to vote on
whether they want to per-
mit local cotton acreage
allotments to be sold, leas-
ed or transferred out of the
county. Unless two-thirds
or more of the growers in a
county favor sales or leases
out-of-county, such transfers
may be made only within
the county.
The New Cotton Program
is voluntary. The farmer
who wants to take part in
the program and thus be-
come a “cooperator” agrees
to divert at least 12.5 per-
cent of his effective cotton
acreage allotment into soil
conserving uses. For this,
the cooperating farmer will
be eligible to receive price
support loans and pay-
ments and acreage diver-
sion payments.
In addition, there will be
special provisions for small
farmers which will protect
their income but require no
reduction in acreage. An-
other feature of the pro-
gram allocates a limited
acreage to farmers who
want to raise cotton solely
for export market. These
farmers may receive an ad-
ditional acreage allotment
for this purpose. However,
they would not receive
loans and other benefits of
the cotton program avail-
able to “cooperators.”
The price-support pay-
ment rate will be 9.42 cents
a pound. This payment will
.be earned on the domestic
allotment which will be 65
percent of the farms ef-
fective allotment. The total
payment will be 9.42 cents
per pound times the pro-
jected yield per acre times
the domestic allotment (or
times the acreage planted
if this is less than 90 per-
cent of the domestic allot-
ment).
The divrersion payment
rate will be 10.5 cents per
pound .This will be earned
on the acreage diverted
from cotton production and
put to conserving uses. This
will be in addition to the
acreage in the conserving
base for the farm. The
payment will be 10.5 cents
times the projected yield'
per acre times the acreage
diverted. However, the acre-
age diverted for payments
may not exceed 35 per-
cent of the acreage allot-
ment.
Price-support loans will
be available to “cooperat-
ors” in the cotton acreage
diversion program. The loan
rates for individuals quali-
ties will be based on a
national average loan rate
of 21 cents per pound for
middling 1-inch cotton at
average location.
The relatively low rate
will continue “one-price” at
around world price levels.
This makes it possible for
U.S. cotton to move in
either domestic or export
channels without the need
for either an equalization
payment or an export pay-
ment. Price support and di-
version payments to grow-
ers will maintain farm in-
come.
The payments the farm-
ers earn will offset the low-
er cotton loan rate. Farm-
ers with larger cotton acre-
ages will have the choice
of diverting either 12.5 per-
cent, or 25 percent, or 35
percent of the farms effect-
ive acreage allotment from
the production of cotton.
They will receive payments
based on the acreage di-
verted. Unless farmers di-
vert the acreage they sign
up for they will not be
eligible for full program
benefits.
Small farms under the
program are those with an
allotment of not more than
10 acres, or on which the
projected production is not
more than 3,600 pounds. No
acreage reduction is re-
quired on these farms to re-
ceive program * benefits.
However, small farms that
do voluntarily divert up to
35 percent of their farm
allotment will receive addi-
tional payment for such
acreage. Farms from which
any acreage is released for
reapportionment will not be
eligible for small farm
benefits.
Voluntary sign-up: All
cotton farmers both large
and small must sign up
for the program during a
period to be announced in
order to be eligible for the
1966 cotton program bene-
fits.
Export market acreage:
A national export acreage
reserve of 250,000 acres is
ducer may request and bp
established for 1966. A pro-\
port acreage reserve thus
alloted a share of the ex-
enabling him to plant more
than his allotment. How-
ever, all of the farms cot-
ton production must then
be exported. No price sup-
port would be available for
cotton produced on that
farm, or any other farm in
which the operator with ex-
port market acreage has a
substantial or controlling
interest.
Cropland adjustment Pro-
gram: Cotton producers will
have an opportunity to di-
vert their cotton acreage
from production for a long-
term period under the
terms of this program .
This new program is de-
signed to supplement the
commodity programs by
offering cotton, wheat and
feed grain producers agree-
ments running from 5 to
10 years for retirement of
crop acreage from produc-
tion.
Skip-row Planting Rules
for 1966 Crop Modified:
Changes have been an-
nounced in rules govern-
ing skip-row planting for
the 1966 crop.
2 TRANSFER OF UPLAND
COTTON ALLOTMENTS
PERMITTED BEGINNING
WITH 1966 CROP.
A new program under
upland cotton acreage al-
lotments may be transfer-
red to other cotton farms
within the State was an-
nounced November 5, 1965,
by the Agriculture Stabili-
zation and Conservation
Service.
This is authorized by the
Food and Agriculture Act of
1965 signed earlier this
week by President Johnson.
The acreage allotments de-
termine how much cotton
may be planted on a farm
under the acreage allot-
ment and price support
program.
Under the new program
allotments may be transfer-
red by sale or lease to oth-
er upland cotton farms,
Transfer may be perman-
be for one or more years
through lease* depending
on arrangements between
buyer and seller. These
transfers include sale or
lease to owners and oper-
ators of other upland cot-
ton producing farms or a
transfer of an allotment by
an owner to another farm
owned or controlled by
him.
Allotment transfers will
be subject to a few rules.
Some of the more impor-
tant ones follow: '
A. Allotments may not be
transferred to a farm out
of the State.
B. Allotments may not be
transferred from a farm
subject to a mortgage or
other lien, unless the lien-
holder agrees to the trans-
fer.
C. Allotment may be
transferred by sale or lease
out of the county only if
two-thirds of the cotton
growers voting in referen:
dum approved such out-of-
county transfers from their
county. County referendums
on this question will be
held at the same time as
the marketing quota refer-
endum on November 23.
D. When transfers are
made to farms with a pro-
jected yield per acre of
more than 10 percent above
farm ,the allotment will be
adjusted downward to re-
flect the difference in yield
between the farms. The
total cotton allotment on
the receiving farm (exclud-
ing reapportioned acreage)
may not exceed the allot-
ment for such farm in 1965
by more than 100 acres.
E. The price at which al-
lotments are sold or leased
is left to the persons in-
volved in the transaction.
F. For transfers to be ef-
fective for the 1966 crop an
application should be filed
with the ASC county com-
mittee of the county from
which the allotment is be-
ing transferred by not# later
than December 31, 119t>5.
Details of the allotment
transfer program will be
available to growers of up-
land cotton from ASC coun-
ty committees. This infor-
mation will be available in
all counties producing up-
land cotton.
In addition, the new
program contains provisions
under which rice growers
may exchange rice farm al-
lotments on an acre-for-
acre basis. The exchange
may be made between
farms in the same county
or in adjoining counties.
Transfers may not be made
across State lines or to
counties within a State
ent through sale, or may the yield of the transferring which are not contiguous.
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