The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1965 Page: 1 of 8
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The Paducah Post
FIFTY-NINTH YEAR
NO. 23
PADUCAH. TEXAS
SCHOOLS OPEN MONDAY
ACROSS THE FENCE
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By Carl Leatherwood
To match the vogue of
p u b 1 i c a t i o n—writings of
other men’s first 100 or
first 2,000 days in office-
I will conclude this column
with the “First 200 Days,
and Last, of Editor Carl
Leatherwood.’’
My stay in Paducah has
been as brief as my know-
ing that I was coming here,
as short as the knowledge
of my departure. Two tele-
phone calls on the same
day brought me to this com-
munity five days afterwards,
on Feb. 4 some seven
months ago. Friday I was
d r i v in g to the Wichita
Mountains with eight fine
Boy Scouts from Troop 80
when I discovered that
Sept. 1 (Tuesday) the Post
would belong to someone
else.
So it began and ended.
The sand blew and frosty
drizzle swept across the
Rolling Plains shortly after
my arrival. What followed
was a strange experiment
in publication and a lot of
fun in sharing the life of
the town. I remember...
...Gayle Isenhower gather-
ing copy into my car, and
Curtis Burton typing a story
dictated as we rushed to
Quanah to meet deadlines.
...Sleeping in the front
car seat at Clarendon and
Childress cafes because
the distance from Amarillo’s
press and home was too
great for a sleepy person to
drive in one stretch.
...The tasty and bounti-
ful buffets and banquets, as
many as two a night.
...A spring sales promo-
tion which included some
very talented youngsters in
an hour-long hootenanny on
the courthouse square and
the shipment of palmettos
here from the Gulf Coast.
...Geneva Bragg helping
oversee seniors serving at
the Post’s sidewalk cafe
during the 23rd Annual
Horse and Colt Show, and
her chasing all over parts
to two states last week with
those Boy Scouts.
...John Slough snapping
pictures, of horses, hundreds
of them, during the horse
show.
...Ollie Sandlin in the
closet photographing head-
lines.
...Ruby Tiller working
with the others unselfishly
until past midnight on Wed-
nesdays.
...Silver, Rose Rock and
Ollie’s molasses pie.
...The Red Sox Little
Leauge club watching the
Amarillo Sonics, not seeing
much of it, however between
hot dogs, cotton candy and
snow cones.
...Stories left out of the
paper, and the wrath of their
creators,
...Machines with repair-
men 200 miles away.
But most of all I will re-
member the card this week
which said in part, “..We
already have expressed our
sincere appreciation of how
fortunate Paducah is to have
such a progressive young
person in the position you
have and the leadership ab-
ility you have shown.
Please keep up the excel-
lent work and maybe Pad-
ucah will respond.’’
Whether the praise was
deserved or not, the qual-
ities and goal expressed
were those to which I as-
pired.
I continue running from
the easy, the obvious job,
much in the fashion indi-
cated by John Keats in
Holiday Magazine’s June
issue. It was at another de-
cisive moment in May, on a
jet flight with angelic music
and sunny clouds, that his
words “On Running Away”
sank deeply. He noted that
persons run away in order
to find how they as indivi-
duals best fit in the world.
It is this more richly re-
warding, sometimes lonely
path, which I seek.
Towns, too, may choose
that path.
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THESE WERE THE OLD DAYS
In nictures sDread throuah this back-to-school j >* iou PUS Amnnn
In pictures spread through this back-to-school
issue of the Paducah Post we have attempted to
show the dress, the students and the class-
room building of amother era. Residents have
generously brought us more pictures and infor-
mation about Cottle County School history
than we found room to use. Mrs. Ola May Powell
Biddy, for example stopped by with “The Boun-
der” of 1916, the first yearbook at PHS. Among
its ads was an Overland automobile selling for
$725. Through the years education, like auto-
mobiles, has changed and we hope improved.
But now travel back with us to a time when
lunches were packed in syrup buckets and
children sometimes rode donkeys to school.
Hackberry School students dressed in Sunday best for
this picture in 1920 but little boys didn’t groom their
hair or always wear shoes (see lower right corner).
The pupils are, first row, Lillie Moss, Artie Moss, Roxie
Garrison, Minnie Moss and Hattie Garrison; second row
Leonard Garrison, Edith Slope, Mollie Polk, Jessie Lee
Brewster, Lillie Brewster, Velma Polk, Elmer Brewster
«!
Snappy caps and sweaters indentified the 1925 football
team at Paducah High School. From left are Leslie Biddy,
Glen Boley, Dean Hughes a. ' Floyd Eblen.
Nicknamed Bay Wolf in 1923, Dean
Hughes models football garb of the
decade.
Not a sheep but a donkey. Yes. Woody Smith rode to
school at Salt Creek School everyday on the mule. Here,
in T927, he gives Mrs. A.O. Bennett and Mrs. Jessie'
Thomas a lift.
School for Cottle County
students begins Monday
when some 700 are expec-
ted at Paducah High, Good-
win Junior High, Alamo
Elementary and Dunbar
School.
The enrollment will be
about the same as: last
720, Supt. H.R. Jefferies
said Wednesday. A dozen
new teachers will join a
teaching and administrative
staff of 38.
Under the new integration
plan two pupils, one in the
first grade and another in
the sixth, have registered
for formerly all-white
schools.
Teachers this year will
be; Alamo— Irene Tippen,
principal; Bernita Fish,
third grade; Lottie Gibson,
first; Jpye Johnston, se-
cond (from Fort Worth);
Myrna Jones, third; Mary
D. Majors, second; Pearl
Miss Rekieta Wins
Bureau Queen
and Jim Moss; third row, Horace (Preacher) Garrison,
Otis Dixon (teacher). Wesley Dye, Vernon Slope, un-
identified, Lucycle Garrison, Alvie Mpss, Lorine Dye
and Marvin Blair; and fourth row, Hoyt Slope, Paul Blair,
Royce Garrison, Dick Long,Ara Vee Brewster, Nellie
Blanche Long, Sid Stone, Buck Stone and Rufus Polk.
Sherry Rekieta, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Antone Re-
kieta, was crowned Farm
Bureau Queen for 1965 in
colorful ceremonies at Pad-
ucah High School Auditor-
ium Thursday night.
Other winners were Janice
Slape, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J.D. Slape, Junior Miss
Farm Bureau, and Gail Fish
Little Miss Farm Bureau,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Fish.
Jerry Taff, Amarillo tele-
vision personality, emceed
the show
Miss ReJcieta, the new
senior queen competed jn
in the District III Farm Bu-
reau Queen Content ir*. Ver-
non Tires day • n i gh t.
King Given
FHA Credit
As a result of damages
from drought conditions in
King County, FHA has been
authorized to make emer-
gency loans to established
farmers and ranchers, an ad-
ministrative aid in Rep.
Graham Purcell’s Washing-
ton office reported last _
week.
Those who are not able
to obtain needed credit
from other established
sources may obtain appli-
cations for these emergen-
cy loans through the local
FHA office, the aid said.
Susan Burgus of Graham
won first and Anita Butes
of Hardeman County was
runnerup.
Funeral Held
For Valdez
Funeral services were
held for Joe Valdez Satur-
day at 2 p.m. in St. Eliza-
beth Catholic Church with
Father Richard Neyer of-
ficiating.
Burial was in Garden of
Memories Cemetery.
Bom in Mission on June
3, 1903, Valdez was 62.
He died at 5:30 a.m. Fri-
day ' in Richards Memorial
Hospital.
Valdez and his family
lived in King County on
Guthrie Route. Norris Fun-
eral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
Survivors include his
wife, Mrs. Clara Valdez;
two brothers, Henry Valdez
of. Mission and Lolo Valdez
of Lamesa; a sist^v .,'V'ary
Hernandez; three sons,
Henry, Joe and Richie of
Paducah; and two daughters,
Mrs. Gloria Roach of Olney
and Miss Patricia Valdez
of Paducah.
Pallbearers: were Law-
son Havins, J.P.Ratliff, Jr.,
Tom Long, Dick Hooks,
C.C. Fitzgerald and Marrs
Ratliff.
Nash, music; Irene Powell,
first; Mary Rhodes, third;
Hallie F. Sarratt, second;
and Zana Stockstill, first.
Goodwin-B.F. Jordon,
principal; Jackie Alexander,
fifth (from Meadow); Pau-
line Albright, fifth; Alma
Long, fourth; Charlotte Pear-
son, fourth; Jane Kilcrease,
(from Gainesville); Helen
Ruth Barnett, art and sixth,
(from West Texas State);
Larry H. Jones, social
studies; Van Collins, math;
Dub Johnston, science and
coach (from Fort Worth);
Racheal Curry, English (from
Quanah); •
P&ducah High—John Brin-
son principal; Jane Baker,
homemaking; Ted Paddock,
band and choir (from Abi-
lene Christian College);
Myrtle Jones, English; Car-
lene Westbrook , English;
Lyda Kelly, business; ;.Gene
Bristo. agriculture; G.W.
Maxfield, coach and physi-
cal education (from Ropes-
ville); Bill Alexander,
coach and history (from Mea-
dow); Mary Clark, librarian
(from North Texas State
University); Janes Masten,
science (from West Texas
State).
Dunbar—Henry Crowe,
principal; Mrs. Lonnie
Crowe and Ethel Green,
intermediate grades; Bur-
nice Jackson, science and
coach; Doyle Allen, math;
and Edith Soyles, primary
grades.
School will begin at 8:30
and dismiss at 3:30 p.m.
except for the first, which
will leave the classrooms
at 2:45 p.m. Regular bus
service will start Monday.
“Because of changes in bus
routes, students should be
ready to meet the >buses
earlier in some instances,”
Supt. Jeflcries saia.
A general faculty meeting
has been called for 8 a.m.
Friday. Bus drivers are to
gather at 10 a.m.
In a called board meeting
Tuesday night application
was approved for submis-
sion to the state education
agency for $61,000 in spec-
ial education funds
Churches Conduct
Religious Census
Laughter rang as it still rings in the halls of
4»j* Area churches will con-
duct a county-wide religious
^ census starting Friday when
*3* workers meet for instruc-
o* tions and assignments at
4^» 7 p.m. in Goodwin School
iL Cafeteria.
iX Printed in this edition of
the Paducah Post is a copy
& of the census card all per-
*
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The Paducah Post Tues-
4§* day was sold to Charlie C.
.si Curry, publisher of the Chil-
licothe newspaper. Under
jj* his ownership Paducah will
o* once more have a job print-
4^* ing shop in operation and a
4^» newspaper published en-
A tirely within the town with
j the hot-type process,
o* Curry said he also in-
sons are asked to fill out.
If a person wishes, he may
clip this copy from the
newspaper, fill in the re-
quested information and
place the card in his front
door to be picked up be-
tween 1 and 4 p.m. Sunday,
Aug. 29.
This cooperation will
of the
enable
speed up the work
census takers and
them to do a more thorough
job. Persons are encour-
aged particularly to follow
this plan if they will not
be home on the 29th so
that the workers will not be
required to make a return
(continued on page 6)
PADUCAH P0S1 SELLS
Post,” Leatherwood said
Wednesday, “I hope every-
one will cooperate fully
with the new management.
All must if the newspaper
and town are to prosper,”
Boys Ranch Plans
Barbeque, Rodeo
r still rings in tne nans or ^ “
learninain 1953 at Paducah High School. From (“f® . to add a complete
left are Benny Bradford and Jane jye.
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rf K
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The first Cottle County school superintendent, the
Rev. J.W. McCreary is the teacher and coach of this
1918-19 Delwin basketball team. Players, from left top
row, Edith Bowling, Ethel Basham, Luttie Clark and
Lee Blount and bottom row, Zelma Snider, Prebble
Gonaght and Bertha Nash.
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Former Paducah High and Junior High
4^. line of office supplies even-
ly tually.
j The new publisher’s wife,
o* Mrs. Racheal Curry, will
4^* teach junior high English
.si at Goodwin. Staff plans and
3, newspaper policy of the new
ownership have not yet been
^ announced.
4^» The sale followed lease
.o. of the newspaper by the
o Quanah Tribune-Chief and
the present editor, Carl
4§* Leatherwood, during the
past seven months. The
o previous owner was Jim
|T Lawrence. Leatherwood’s
editorship ends Sept. 1.
“I thank the people of
4^» Cottle and King Counties
for their warm acceptance,
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Texas-size barbeque
beef sandwiches will be
a feature attraction when
the 21st annual Boys Ranch
rodeo is held Sunday, Sept
5, and Monday, Sept. 6, at
Cal Farley-’s Boys Ranch.
The boys who are study-
ing cooking as a vocation
will barbecue beef from the
Ranch’s own herd and serve
western-style on a giant
bun along with iced tea for
$1.00, including tax.
A record attendance is
expected for the two per-
formances which will take
place at 2:30, both after-
noons, in the Ranch’s ro-
deo arean. There are 336
youngsters ranging in age
from 4 to 18, from 32 states
now making their home at
Boys Ranch and each will
have a part in the famous
rodeo which is the only one
of its kind in the nation.
The older boys will com-
pete for honors on profes-
sional rodeo stock and
others will ride calves or
work in the behind-the-
scenes activities neceseary
to a successful rodeo. The
Ranch is located 36 miles
northwest of Amarillo on
Ranch Road 1061, and 22
north of Vega on Highway
385.
Tickets for the Boys
Ranch rodeo may be pur-
chased at the arena or in
advance from the Boys
Ranch office, Box 1890,
Amarillo. Reserved box
seats are $2.50, general ad-
mission is $1.50. and mili-
tary personnel and child-
rens’ tickets are 75c-
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Leatherwood, Carl. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1965, newspaper, August 26, 1965; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1024822/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.