The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1965 Page: 1 of 6
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Fifty-nine Years
Of Service
The Paducah Post
Serving Cottle
and King Counties
FIFTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 35
fHE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH. TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1965
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Miss Paducah Beauty Show Holds Spotlight
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Mesquite Eradication Field
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Day Set For December! 8th
QUANAH — A nation-
wide mesquite eradication
program that will directly
affect the economic future
of the Southwest, including
Paducah, will be launched
December 8 when Secretary
of Agriculture Orville Free-
man pays a visit to this
area for a brush eradica-
tion,. field day near here,
expected to attract some
5,000 persons from a three-
state area.
This ambitious program,
designed to impress state
and federal authorities
with the neec^of acceler-
ated research for complete
eradication of mesquite, is
being put in orbit by a
group of North Texas and
Panhandle businessmen
and stockmen who recently
formed the Southwestern
Mesquite and Brush Eradi-
cation Association.
The field day, which will
call for demonstrations of
every known method of
mesquite control, will pro-
vide a graphic example of
the inability of present
methods to offer a perm-
anent solution to the
Southwest’s .most devasta-
ting argiculture problem —
the loss of land to the
1966 COTTON PROGRAM
DETAILS ARE SHAPING UP
Some provisions of the
1966 cotton program have
not been decided, mainly
farm projected yields, ac-
cording to W. T. Sandlin,
office manager of the Cot-
tle County ASCS office
here.
These ‘yields will he es-“^payment.
1966 crop. One will be re-
ferred to as price support
payment and will be com-
puted by multiplying the
farm’s projected yield by
.0942 per pound. This gives
the dollar and cent rate
per acre for yricc report
tablished by the county
ifeCS committee for each
farm in the county. County
normal yield is based on
past 5 years. The farm pro-
jected yield will take into
account farm production in
the past 3 years.
Two methods of payment
are made available for the
Rod and Gun Club
To Sponsor Shoot
Sunday, Nov. 21
The Paducah Rod and
Gun Club will sponsor a
trap, lucky shot, and hi-
powered rifle shoot, Sun-
day, Nov. 21, at the Padu-
cah Rod and Gun Club
range, located 2 miles east
of Paducah.
Prizes will be awarded to
the winners ,according to
Tommy Thaxton, secretary.
Everyone is invited to try
t&eir skill. Time is set for
2:00 p.m.
The total cotton price sup-
port payment a farm is
eligible for will be deter-
mined by multiplying this
rate time the planted acres,
however in no case can the
planted acres eligible for
this payment exceed 65 per
cent of the farm’s effective
allotment.
Other payment is cotton
diversion payment and will
be comuted by multiplying
the farm’s projected yield
by .105 per pound.
A farm can sign up to
divert 1234 per cent; 25 per
cent; or 35 per cent of the
farm’s effective allotment.
The total cotton diversion
payment will be computed
as multiplying the diver-
sion rate times the acres
diverted at the applicable
percentage.
In the next couple of
weeks complete details will
probably be available on
wheat, feed grain and cot-
ton program, added Sandlip.
Dunbar Hosts Tourney Saturday,
Tigerettes Win First At Colo. City
The Dunbar School will
be host this Saturday when
12 teams will converge at
the local gym for a one-
day invitational tourna-
Student Teaching
Assigned Mrs.
Robert Graves
Mrs. Robert A. (Marian-
na) Graves. Texas Tech
Home Economics Education
major from Guthrie began
her student teaching as-
signment this week in Lub-
bock County at Cooper
Rural High School.
During the nine-weeks
period of her assignment,
Mrs. Graves will participate
in the school’s home eco-
nomics program under the
direction of Mrs. Velma
AlcWhirter, supervising
teacher.
The Tech senior is a
member of the Home Eco-
nomics Club, the Associa-
tion of Women Students,
th£» Rodeo Association, and
the Student Education As-
sociation at Tech. Her hus-
band farms in Guthrie
where the couple make
their home. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Hulon D. Egger of Mullin.
ment, announced H. A.
Crowe, principal of Dunbar.
Tentative schedule play
will begin at 10:45 a.m.
with play continuing
hroughout the day. A total
of 14 games will be played,
oth boys and girls, with
the finals scheduled for
Saturday night, according
to H. W. Jackson, coach.
Dunbar basketball play-
ers journeyed to Colorado
Springs Saturday, Nov. 13.
Girls came home with a
first place, boys brought selves can be successful.’
creeping paralysis of mes-
quite and other brush in-
festation.
Secretary Freeman’s visit
will take place while he is
in North Texas to attend
an apreciation dinner in
Wichica Falls for Congress-
man Graham Purcell Jr. He
will be accompanied to
Quanah by Congressman
Purcell, chairman of the
House agriculture commit-
tee, and Congressman Bob
Poage of Waco, veteran
member of the House’s
agriculture appropriation
committee.
Joining them will be top
state officials including
Texas Commissioner of
Agriculture John C. White,
along with a host of legis-
lators, ASCS, Soil Conser-
vation Service, Extension
Service leaders and offic-
ials from other state and
federal agencies in Texas,
Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Others to attend will be
representatives of livestock
associations ,state and na-
tional farm organizations
and agriculture editors of
Texas and other South-
western newspapers, maga-
zines, radio and television
stations.
The field day will take
place on the J. A. Koch
farm on the Hardeman,
Childress, Cottle county
lines some 14 miles south-
west of Quanah in the
rolling plains mesquite
country at the edge of the
Texas panhandle.
Visitors will get a first
controlling mesquite and
hand look at every known
method and technique of
brush including shredding,
root plowing, chaining and
grubbing and application of
chemicals by land machine
and airplane.
One of the most impres-
sive demonstrations will be
by a mammoth “Billy
Goat” machine produced by
the R. G. LeTourneau
Company of Longview, Tex-
as that cuts and shreds the
brush.
Support for the program
has already come from
North Texas, Oklahoma
and New Mexico ranchers
who are faced with tre-
mendous economic losses
because of mesquite and
other brush infectation.
W. C. Howard of Quanah,
chairman of the Associa-
tion, said it is hoped this
program will receive the
same enthusiastic support
from farmers and ranchers
in the Southwest that has
been received in recent
years'by the Texas screw-
worm rogram.
“We believe that a con-
centrated and accelerated
mesquite eradication re-
search program backed by
state and federal funds and
from the landowners them-
Burton Saves
Child From
urc wrung
Five-year-old Eugene
Williams has Richard Bur-
ton, a former resident of
Paducah, now living in
Yuba City, Calif., to thank
for saving his life recently.
Chance, fast action and
knowledge gained more
than 10 years ago all com-
bined to play a part in
saving the life of the boy
at Maniac Hanor Motel on
Highway 99, south of Yuba
City.
Little Eugene Williams,
near victim of the accident,
was pulled from the bottom
of the pool at its deepest
point by Burton, 1469 Up-
land Drive.
Burton, who is employed
by a water softener com-
pany, was at the motel just
‘‘by chance” to service
equipment.
“I had planned to call
at the motel in the after-
noon,” Burton said, “but I
had just been assigned a
brand new truck and
wanted to try it out.” As a
result, he decided to ser-
vice clients on the outskirts
of town rather than those in
Yuba City.
On his arrival he noted
the pool, when he saw the
boy lying at the bottom,
he jumped in and pulled
him out. He started mouth
to mouth resusicitation.
The grandmother of the
boy also had jumped into
the pool, she could not
swim, Burton had to pull
her out. Mrs. Minnie Forrest,
motel manager, and mother
of four gave resuscitation
also “I remembered
course I took in school, one
of the things they taught
me: don’t give up. And
didn’t.” She said.
By the time the fire de-
partment help arrived, the
child was breathing, he was
taken to the hospital in an
ambulance, next morning
he went to school.
Burton is the son of
Mrs. H. R. Burton 608, Bray
and the brother of Mrs
Burnett Richards, 1408
Richards.
SECOND SURVEY SCHEDULED
FOR HOSPITAL PLANS
Cards for the survey of
every tax payer living in
Cottle County are being as-
sembled and will be dis-
tributed to the volunteer
workers within a few days.
This survey will be made
to determine what the tax-
paying residents of Cottle
County wants to do about
Xmas Cantata
Rehearsal Set
The Euterpean Club is
sponsoring a Community-
wide Christmas Cantata,
“White Dawn of Christmas”
by Roy E. Nolte, to be giv-
en Dec. 12 at the First Bap-
tist Church.
All singers in the county
are invited to participate.
The Cantata will be di-
rected by Mrs. W .0. Jones
Jr., with Mrs. T. J. Rich-
ards, organist, and Mrs. W.
S. Heatly, pianist .
Rehersals will be at the
First Baptist Church on the
following dates: Sunday,
Nov. 21, at 3 p.m.; Sunday,
Nov. 28, at 3 p.m.; Wednes-
day, Dec. 1, at 8:15 p.m.;
Sunday, Dec. 5, at 3 p.m.;
Wednesday, Dec 8. at 8:15
p.m.
building an addition to our
hospital facility.
The card that will be
presented to each taxpayer
by the volunteer worker
reads as follows:
“It is understood that it
is possible to build a new
24 bed hospital addition,
with new operating rooms,
a new nursery section, de-
livery rooms, a new sterile
section, without a bond is
sue and without any in
crease in the present Cottle
County tax structure . .
am,
For—
Such construction of ad-
ditional hospital facilities
Against—
Date;
Signature John Doe
Signature Mrs. John Doe
These cards, when com
pie ted will be given to the
Cottle County Commission-
er’s court for their consid
eration ... If Cottle County
is to have adequate hospit-
al facilities within the near
future this approach to our
problem can be solved by
the tax payer making then-
wishes known . . . This
survey is being conducted
for the good of all and our
hospital needs are very
urgent.
Date Set For December 4th
Total Of 69 Entries Listed
Blakely Accepts
Position at
Lubbock
home a third.
Two girls received awards
for outstanding players.
Charlie V. Childress was
awarded for action as for-
ward, Merelene Jones was
given an outstanding
award as guard.
Dunbar Tigerettes edged
out Floydada with a 38 to
34 score and won with
their bout with Colorado
City, 53 to 33.
Floydada came out on
top when the boys played,
78 to 71. Score was 13 to
77 in Dunbar’s favor when
they played Olton. In their
second bout with Floydada
the boys came out on top,
63 to 58.
Dunbar girls have enter-
ed two tournaments this
season, and have brought
home a first each time.
Howard is a former state
chairman of the Texas Soil
Conservation District Sup-
ervisors Association.
Announce Boy
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Hill
are the parents of a baby
boy, born Nov. 2, at West
Texas Hospital in Lubbock.
The baby was named Donnie
Coy, he weighed 7 lbs.
Mrs. Hill is the former
Patricia Lee Lynch, former
resident of Paducah. Ma-
ternal grandparents are
Wanda Dukes, Lubbock and
the late Theo Lynch.
Paternal .grandparents
are Mr .and Mrs. Coy Hill,
Alabama. Great-grand-
mother is Sue Townley
who lives here.
Earl Blakely, Soil Scien-
tist at Paducah, has ac-
cepted a promotion and
transfer to Lubbock. His
position there will be Area
Soil Scientist.
Blakely, his wife Deloris,
and daughter Lori Jean,
moved to Paducah in Aug-
ust, 1964. They attended the
First Christian Church.
Blakely has been working
to complete a Standard Soil
Survey for Cottle and Mot-
ley Counties.
Blakely began his career
with the Soil Conservation
Service at Childress in
June 1956 following his
graduation from Oklahoma
State University, where he
received his Bachelor’s
Degree in Agronomy. He
worked at Childress for over
eight years prior to moving
to Paducah.
The supervisors of the
Upper Pease Soil Conser-
vation District wish to ex-
press their appreciation to
Blakely for his contribu-
tion to the conservation
movement within the dis-
trict.
Johnny Hajek has assum-
ed leadership in complet-
ing the standard soil sur-
vey which should be com-
pleted by about mid 1966.
MALONE NAMED AS HEAD
OF CAP, IN CROWELL
At the regular meeting of
the board of Directors of
the Economic Opportunities
Advancement Corporation
of Cottle-Foard-Hardeman
and Wilbarger counties in
the Wilbarger Memorial
Thanksgiving
Supper Slated by
Dumont Club
The Dumont Community
Club will sponsor a
Thanksgivig Supper, to be
held at the lunch room,
Saturday Nov. 20.
Serving will start sharp-
ly at 7 o’clock.
We invite all our friends
from other communities to
join us.
Bring a basket lunch.
Auditorium, Monday night,
Nov. 15, Don Malone, of the
Waggoner Ranch was se-
lected as the Corporation Di
. rector.
The city of Crowell was
also selected as the most
centrally located city in
which to locate the office.
Malone and a committee
of the board of directors
will accept applications
and select a secretary for
the new office soon. The
committee will be composed
of the four-county Judges
of their respective counties.
Malone is a graduate of
Texas University; he holds
a BS degree in economic
government. Malone was a
football star on the Vernon
High School team; he also
was a member of the Texas
Longhorns.
Dragons Win Last Game 16-8
As 10 Seniors Bow Out of F’ball
Mrs. Dudley Chewning
visited last weekend in
Desdamona with Mr. and
Mrs. Don Box and Ray Don. Association.
By
NARVAL BAYNE
The 1965 Football season
ended Friday with both joy
and sadness for the fight-
ing Dragons when they de-
feated Henrietta 16-8, but
injury early in the game
took out one of the ten
seniors playing their last
game of school boy foot-
ball.
David Liedtke, senior
captain, received a broken
ankle late in the first
quarter when he fell after
gaining several yards in a
line plunge. Despite this
blow to Dragon strength,
they put up a determined
fight which carried them to
victory.
♦The first half was just
a defensive struggle be-
tween the two teams with
neither team scoring and
ended with no scores re-
corded.
Services Scheduled
For Thanksgivnig
There will be a Thanks-
giving service Wednesday
night, Nov. 24, 7:30 at the
First Christian Church.
The public is invited to
this service sponsored by
the Cottle County Pastors
Fans watching the band
and boy scouts during the
half-time as they performed
in honor of the veterans.
The Dragons first score
came in the third quarter
when Danny Walling leap-
ed two yards for a score.
Ronnie Mints who scored
the two extra points made
six more points when he
ran 335 yards for a touch-
down a few minutes later.
Danny Walling scored the
extra points .
The Dragons and Bear-
cats fought it out until the
last quarter when J. Hurn
scored for the Bearcats
from the one foot line on
the fourth down. The Drag-
ons had received a penalty
and the Bearcats captalized
on their break. They then
scored extra points on a
pass to J. Hurn.
Other seniors taking part
in their last game for PHS
included captains Nolan
Reynolds, Franklin Hamil-
ton, and Ronny Mints,
Steve Chenault, Neal Davis,
Ted Smith, Mickey Park,
Ben Smith, and Jimmy
Sweeney.
The Dragons district rec-
ord stands at 3-3 and the
seasonal record is 6-4.
12 3 4
Paducah 0 0 16 0—16
Hernietta 0 0 0 8— 8
Mrs. Strudivant
Celebrates 99th
Birthday
Mrs. R. B. Sturdivant, 99,
was honored on her birth-
day Nov. 14 by her child-
ren with a celebration in
the home of Mr .and Mrs.
Cliton Matney. •
Members of the family
present were, her children;
Mr .and Mrs. II. L. Martin,
Tulia; Mr. and Mrs. R. M
Isbell, Lubbock; Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Sturdivant, Mata-
dor; Mrs. Harve Black, Mrs.
W. A. McDonald, Omar
Sturdivant, all of Paducah,
and Mrs. Gladys Sturdi-
vant, a daughter-in-law
from Denton.
Grandchildren, great-
grandchildren and great-
great grandchildren includ-
ed Cop Sturdivant, Denton;
Jerry Dan Strudivant, Mid-
land; Mrs. Royce Powell
and Sharon, Clarendon; Mr.
and Mrs. B. D. Shavor, Pa-
ducah; Bob Shavor and
Scott, Harve Shavor, John
Shavor, all' of Lubbock;
James Sturdivant, Vernon;
Miss Floye McDonald, Lub-
bock; Mrs. Hugo Campbell,
Barbara, Charles and Scott,
Big Springs; Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Whitley, George and
Richard, Mineral Wells;
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Mat-
ney, Ronda and Renae.
Afternoon visitors includ-
ed Floyd Biddy of Plain-
view, and from Paducah
were; Mrs. Ted Grayum,
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Foster,
Mrs. Roy Wall, L. D. West,
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brothers
and Joe Meador.
Mrs. Sturdivant has five
daughters and two sons
living. One son John, died
about 10 years ago.
She has 18 grandchildren,
18 great-grandchildren and
great-great-grandchildren.
Former Resident
Jerry White, 22,
Succumbs
Jerry Douglas White, 22,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Syl-
vester White, former resi-
dents of Paducah died in
John Sealey Hospital at
Galveston at 6:45 a.m. Nov.
12.
White had been a patient
at Plainview, approximately
three weeks before he was
flown to Galveston. He has
been in ill health several
years.
He was born in Eugene,
Orgeon, July 31, 1943, his
family moved back to Fa-
ducan wheh he was small,
they resided here until they
moved to Plainview three
months ago.
Services were conducted
Sun., Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. at
the Missionary Baptist
Church, Rev. Richard Bolt
pastor and Rev. Warren
Everson of Crowell officiat-
ed.
Burial was in the Garden
of Memories Cemetery, un-
der the direction of Norris
Funeral Home.
Survivors include his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Syl-
vester White, three sisters;
Mrs. Dan Morris, Spring-
town; Mrs. Floyd’L. Reed,
Okinawa; and Miss Katie
Marie White, Plainview;
two brothers; Henry Leon
White, Quanah and Wil-
liam Edward, Austin; a
grandmother. Mrs. Sarah
Elizabeth White Wichita
Falls.
Pallbearers were Norman
Beauchamp, Ray White,
Boyd Perry, Jerry Ross,
Woodrow Ross and Herman
Tayor.
‘Miss Paducah of 1965,’
will be crowned Saturday
night, Dec. 4, at the high
school auditorium.
Sixty-nine; high school
girls are vieing for the
title of the event, sponsor-
ed by the Paducah Temple
No. 7 of the Pythian Sis-
ters.
Each girl will represent
a business in Paducah, the
contest will be judged by
out-of-town impartial judg-
es. Contestants will appear
in formal dress.
Businesses and girls they
will sponsor are: Olene’s
Cafe, Connie Robinson; Ray
Coffee Shop, Francine Tip-
pen; Thompson Feed Store,
Vonda Bayne; Reid Farm
Suply, Rita Hobbs; La-
verne’s House of Beauty,
Janis Slape; Paducah Motor
Co., Laura Timmons; Ham-
rick Grocery, Kathy Young;
OK Tire Shop, Shirley Re-
kieta; Whites Auto Store,
Dorothy Chaney; Fancy -
Freeze, Judith Cox; Givens
Barber Shop, Doris Ann
Davis; Higginbotham Bart-
lett Lumber Co., Rose Mary
Floyd; Thriftway Grocery,
Sheila Hand; Ray Hotel, Di-
ana Hindman; First Na-
tional Bank, Sharon Mc-
Intire;
Jones and Renfrow Ab-
stractors, Phyllis Nixon; J.
C. Penney Co. Kathy Parks;
Thornton and Love, Anita
Rhodes; Jones and Mulkey,
Linda Ross; Boons Laundry,
Becky Thomas; Paducah
Parts, Linda Jeter; Hanks
Food Store, Cheryl Good-
win; Golden Age Home,
Ann Bumpus; Alta’s Beauty
Shop, Carol Defore; Alton
Jones Radio, Carolyn Flet-
cher; Paducah Florist, Ro-
byn Goodwin; Paducah Cash
Grocery, Jan Harrison;
White Star Laundry, Jenni-
fer Jones.
Cloverlake Milk, Donna
Oney; Lions Club, Jean-
nette Prater, Farm Bureau,
Sherry Rekieta; Eva’s
Beauty Shop, Donna Tay-
lor; Green’s Grocery, Su-
san Bell; The Paducah Post,
Carol Reese; Shorty Long’s
Yard, Rita Paschal; Mrs.
Bairds Bread, Diane Gal-
yean; Killingsworth Jewel-
ry, Sharon Moss; West Tex-
as Utilities Co. Debbie Has-
ten; Jones and Browning,
Suzette Browning.
Gordon’s Auto Parts, Lo-
raine Owens; Rolling Plains
PCA, Linda Crabtree; Quali-
ty Cleaners, Marilyn David-
son ; Prater Equipment,
Janis Burks; Paducah Jay-
cee’s, Judy Boren; Paducah
Co-op Gin, Anne Rodriquez,
Sweeney Grocery, Gaynell
Smith; Arvis Davis Chev-
rolet Co., Waunel Jones;
Pascal Feed Store, Diane
Finley; Paducah Lumber
Co., Diane Munson; Beauty
Bar, Beverly Mayberry;
Branson Plumbing, Jean
Lockridge; West Side Gro-
cery, Darlene Fish; Carl
Darr Saddle Shop, Sandro
Cox; Paducah Gin Co.,
Shirley Burns.
Brazos River Gas Co.,
Karen Bragg; Isbell Drug,
Kay Brown ;. E. Norris
Furniture, Hazel Chaney;
Powell Butane, Elaine Hol-
comb; Western Auto, Wan-
da Lockridge; Save-Way
Foods, Linda Tucker; Du-
priest Hardware, Betty Hol-
comb; Crumps Station,
Glynda Bates; Hall
Scruggs, Teresa Martin;
Texaco, Inc., Barbara Rus-
sell; Brooks Grain, Tarra
Nan Townley; Paducah
Drug, Judy Hamilton; Farm-
ers Union, Marilyn Smith
and Garrett Oil Co., Kaye
Williams.
Sheriff and Mrs. S. D.
Clements, Muleshoe, visit-
ed briefly here last Wed-
nesday night with Mrs.
Tennie Byars. They were on
their way home from
Wichita Falls.
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