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Groom May Get Dial
Phone System By 1952
“On Highway 66”
VOLUME 22
Markets Show Few
THE AMERICAN WAY
Gains During Week
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A Growing Cit^
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Passes In Review
The Un-Streamlined Model
I Tigers Receive
Football Jackets
Grain buyers for country elevators, vidual variety samples by Keats Sod-
Friday morning of last week,
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STATE COURTS
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Election Judges
Picked For ’49
Samnorwood Wins
District 3-B Title
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SENIORS TO HOLD FOOD SALE
McLean, Groom
LEGION HALL
Groom
F. D. Fowler
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Wheat Poisoning
Playing with the greatest of ease,
Discussion Success
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Dances are held each Friday night j direct to Texas A. and M. College.
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Wheat Variety School
is Scheduled for March
Recruiting Team
To Be Here
Dead Woman
Comes to Life
of the second half for Groom. It was
the third meeting of the two clubs.
Groom has taken two of them while
McLean has canned only one.
Citizens of Groom are reminded of
the Senior food sale to be held Satur-
day. They are now taking orders for
Pies, cakes, home baked bread, chick-
ens and rabbits.
in scoring with 12 points.
Reserves played the greater
had stopped to see if there was any
trouble. Neither of them could rouse
her and they assumed the woman to
be dead. They reported the incident
to Grady Stapp.
Mr. Stapp reports that as he neared
the place where she was lying, she
suddenly raised up and looked around.
When asked about being there, she
i eplied, “I got here about thirty min-
utes ago and sit down to rest while I
waited for a ride”
Sheriff Stapp asked her if anyone
had stopped.
“Why no,” she said.
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Strum Confesses
To Burgularies
James Leon Sturm, 23-year-old of
Pampa, has signed statements admit-
ting entering the Roberts Motor Co.
building and the Texas Grill early
Wednesday morning, Feb. 2.
supported them at the Top o’ Texas
Junior Livestock Show just finished '
at Pampa,” Nichols wrote. “We know
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Groom Osteopathic
Hospital Report
Patients at the Groom Osteopa-
thic Hospital the past week includ-
ed the following:
Major Operations
Mrs. H. C. Hull, Borger.
Harold Barclay, Claude.
M. B. Trout, Clarendon.
Mrs. E. A. Points, Groom.
Linda Jo Patterson, Lefors.
R. A. Williams, Clarendon.
Minor Operations )
J. C. Heathington, Clarendon..
Miss Mary GAlham, Jericho.
Medical
Mrs. Ca Jones, Borger.
Obstetrical
Mrs. S. J. Stephenson, Claude, girl,.
Sandra Sue, Feb. 18.
Mrs. C. G. Kieth, Tahoka, girl, Ivah
Louise, Feb. 17.
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“Adventures of Gallant Bess,” with
Cameron Mitchell, Audrey Long and
Fuzzy Knight.
“T-Men,” starring Dennis O'Keefe.
SUN., MON. & TUES.
“The Best Years of Our Lives,” star-
ring Frederic March, Myrna Loy, Da-
na Andrews and Teresa Wright.
WED. & THUR.
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Tigers romped on the McLean Tigers
last Thursday night and came out
with a victory of 36 to 13. Ellis Stapp,
Sophomore, lead the Groom Quintet
Poll Tax Receipts Good
for Off Election Year
For an off-election year, Carson
county set a good example with 1,476
poll tax receipts. These figures were
released recently by Sheriff Clarence
Wiliams, tax assessor and collector.
Only 15 exemptions were issued to
persons reaching 21 years of age. It
was not necessary for persons over 60
years of age to obtain exemptions.
Sturm had maintained innocence
elaylng wilI ulk gicavedu ox ease, the FFA boys- of the county are also
the McLean Tigerettes took the full i proud of the interest you took in them
ers the money in a curtain rod in the
room where he was staying when
arrested. He had previously told offic-
ers that the money had been put in
a waste-paper basket and thought an
atendant had emptied the container.
The State Courts, owned and- ope-
rated by Bert Berres, were opened on
Feb. 15, 1948. However, the cabins
were not completed until about the
middle of June of the same year.
The State Courts are equipped with
nine cabins with garages. Three of
the cabins have kitchenettes. A trail-
er park is located in the center of
the drive beside a central bath for
use by occupiers of cabins not equip-
ed with baths and for occupants of
trailer houses. The business has one
four-room apartment and plans are to
add two more of similar construction
and one more cabin. Mr. Berres also
plans to black-top the driveway for
convenience to customers during wet
weather.
Mr. Stapp insisted that at least
two persons had stopped.
“Nothing is wrong with me,” she
said, “and nobody hos stopped. Some-
body is crazy!”
On her person was found a large
amount of whiskey and dope.
W. H. Price.
Gene Harlan.
appointed to oversee organizing of the
team, has announced that the first
game will be played at White Deer
on Tuesday, March 1. On the follow-
ing Thursday, March 3, the White
Deer club will come to Groom for a
return game. Both sessions are slated
to start at 7:30 p. m. Admission has
been set at 15 and 25 cents.
The U. S. Army and U. S.
under the auspices of the Legion and
Legion Auxiliary.
Bob Ledwig was commander of the
Groom Post while the building was
under construction. Jack Babcock is
the present commander.
The Legion Hall is the only building
in Groom of sufficient size to accomo-
date a large gathering of people for
banquets, etc.
The Legion plans to acquire more
steel chairs of the type now in use
there in the near future. Plans also
include the acquiring of two pool tab-
les and more lounge furniture.
A baseball field will be made this
spring for use this summer.
The opening of the Legion Hall was
considered one of the outstanding
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Pct. 7, Gulf Camp:
and H. N. Vaught.
Pct. 8, Skellytown:
Burt Castlebury and
Carson County Boys
Say ‘Thank You’
H. M. Nichols, Carson County agent,
recently wrote E. O. Wedgeworth, sec-
retary of the Hereford Breeder’s As-
sociation, on behalf of the Carson
County boys who participated in the
Top o’ Texas Junior Livestock Show
and Sale.
This was the first year that Carson
County FFA and 4-H Club boys had
been allowed to show their stock in
District 3-B has a new basketball
champ this year! The Claude Mus-
tangs who have had a habit of win-
ing over all comers lost out this year
in the cage race for district champs.
They were eliminated by a defeat at
the hands of Groom and White Deer
in the northern half play-offs. White
Deer eliminated Groom with two de-
feats and represented the northern
half bal clubs in a two-out-of-three
series against Samnorwood.
The Samnorwood. Eagles won the 3-
B title with a resounding victory over
the Bucks on Tuesday of last week to
the tune of 36 to 24. The victory was
the second straight for the Eagles in
.the two out of three series being
played on-a home-to-home basis.
Coach Purl Tippe’s quintet went
into an early lead of 12 to 0 before
the Bucks could find their range. The
Eagles led 14 to 2 at the end of the
first period, 19 to 10 at half time and
21 to 11 at the three-quarter mark.
Teddy Harvey garnered 10 points
for the Bucks while Payne was high-
point man for Samnorwood with 13
points.
Other Class B district champs in-
clude: District 1-B, Stratford Elks;
4-B, Carey Cardinals; and 11-B, Vega
Longhorns.
Program Of Shows
At Groom Theater
during these events.”
He added the extension service
wants to do everything within its
power to aid the rural youth of Car-
son County.
Deputy Sheriff Grady Stapp was
recently called to investigate a “dead
woman” who was reported to be lying
beside the highway about two miles . .. , cg ,
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cast ox woom. ■ where $104.50 was taken. He later ad-
Two local citizens had seen her and ".5 P. 1. " cc
mitted the robbery and showed oflic-
Split Pair
Displaying top form, the
Force Recruiting Team composed of
1st Sgt. Carl J. Hopf and Sgt. 1’cl
Jesse W. Bewley will be in Groom on
Feb. 26 (next Saturday) to inter-
view applicants for enlistment in the
U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force.
Although enlistments are frozen at
the present time, applicants, if quali-
fied, may be placed on the priority
lists for one of the fine openings that
are coming up in the near future.
Applicants interested in a secure fu-
ture at above average pay be sure to
contact Sgt. Hopf or Sgt. Bewley at
the U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force
recruiting service van when it arrives
in Groom on Saturday, Feb. 26.
Coach Harvey Millsap presented
the jackets and related some intertst-
ing experiences with each player.
Those receiving the jaskets were:
Edgar Musser - Captain, Clifford
Schaffer-Co-Captain, Kenneth Ang-
lin, Billy Joe Crowell, Bobby Wood,
Ellis Stapp, Gene Earl Steed, Jimmy
Hess, James Stroope, Richard Homer,
Vick Ashmead, Curtis Whatley, Jack
Milton, Charles Schaffer, Dean Hill,
Jean Quirk, Kenneth Hall, G. W.
Weems-Manager, E. S. Craig-Coach,
and Harvey Millsap-Coach.
The jackets are red and black with
a red “G” on a black background.
The Groom Lions Club has been in-
vestigating the possibilities of an im-
proved telephone system in Groom.
The investigation was started when
the matter of inability of operators
to give efficient service was brought
before the club recently. There are at
the present, over 200 telephones in
use in Groom and it has become im-
possible for the operators, one full
time and one part time, to give the
prompt service on all calls that Groom
citizens would like.
The Lions Club sent inquiries to Mr.
Ray Red of Lubbock, an official of
the telephone company, pertaining to
steps that might be taken to remedy
this situation.
Mr. W. B. Harris, president of the
Lions Club, was referred to Mr. R. L.
Brewer of Memphis, district manag-
er. Mr. Brewer conferred with Mr.
Harris recently here in Groom and
presented the primary problems con-
fronting the telephone company to-
day concerning change-overs of old-
type equipment.
The main problem facing the com-
pany at present, said Mr. Brewer, is
the acute shortage of materials. Wes-
tern Electric, who has the franchise
for supplying the company, is at peak
production but is unable to keep up
with demand. Consequently, all ma-
terials received by the company are
on a quota basis, and the telephone
company can make changes only
when equipment becomes available.
Mr. Harris referred to a battery
system now in use by many towns and
measure of the Groom Lassies. Doro-
thy Gudgel carried a four-leaf clover
as she sunk 23 points of McLean's
final score, 35.
The Groom Tigerettes could • ac-
count for only 12 points in the lopsid-
ed ball game.
i Lions Accept Challange
to Play Volley Ball
The Groom Lions Club, at their
regular meeting Thursday night of
last week, voted to accept a chal-
According to Mr. H. M. Nichols,
Carson county agent, the open house
discussion held Tuesday evening in
Fanhandle reached over 100 persons
directly. The discussion, led by Dr.
C. O. Morgan, was a great success in
that all present went away satisfied
because his question had been very
thoroughly discussed.
Dr. Morgan presented for discus-
sion, the latest methods for preven-
tion and care of wheat poisoning in
live stock. Many problems were pre-
sented by the persons in atendance
and each Was solved for the benefit
of all.
According to Mr. Nichols, delega-
tions were present from Groom, Pan-
handle, Claude, White Deer, Miami.
Spearman, Wellington, Stinnett, Am-
arillo, Happy and several other small-
er communities.
Also discussed was the possibility of
securing a veterinarian to locate in
Carson county. Groom has shown the
best response in this matter. If you
would be interested in seeing this
service available in Carson county,
you are requested to send your let-
ters to H. M. Nichols, Panhandle, or
at San Antonio, $20 at Fort Worth,
$20.50 at Oklahoma City and $21.25
at Denver. Best pigs sold about $16 to
$16.50.
Lambs gamed $1 to $2 for the week
and ewes changed little. San Antonio
brought common and medium fresh
shorn lambs at $17. Fort Worth took
medium and good grades at $21. Top
slaughter lambs reached $23.50 at Ok-
lahoma City.
Receipts of cattle, calves and hogs
last week dropped Well below the
week before, although sheep increased.
Dressed beef, lamb and pork re-
mained strong as trade opened in
New York and Chicago Monday. The
gains for the week ranged from $3 to
$6. Veal and calf dropped $1 to $6
since last Monday, depending on the
weight and grade.
Eggs held about steady at 37 to 38
cents per dozen in Denver and 40 to
45 cents elsewhere in the southwest
for current receipts. Fryers weakened
further, but other poultry changed
little. Fryers brought 28 to 30 cents at
North Texas points, 30 to 31 in New
Orleans. 30 to 35 at Denver and 26
to 27 at Arkansas farms.
Cotton advanced 50 cents to $1.50 a
bale for the week. Spot middling 15/16
inch closed Monday at 32.55 cents a
pound at Dallas, 32.60 at New Orleans
and 32.65 at Houston.
“The Walls of Jericho," starring
Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne
Baxter and Kirk Douglas.
civic achievements, in Groom
year.
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Ohe Groom Retos
The Groom Theatre opens each
week day at 7:09 p. m. Sunday mat-
inee starts at 2:00 p. m. with two
screenings during the afternoon. The
er; discussion of field characteristics,
yields, test weight and disease resis-
tance, by a representative of Texas
A. and M. College Experiment Sta-
tion; plus on open forum discussion of
methods of wheat handling and of
storage at country points needed to
collect premium prices now being of-
fered by terminals and mills. Two 2-
day schools are scheduled for Fort
Worth and Amarillo. The first day
will be the same as at other district
schools while the second day will be
advanced training for experts.
The school will be open to all who
wish to ateno but is designed to help
local grain buyers in preparing for
the day our extensive exports stop and
buyers in some areas will be forced to
oiler two prices for wheat at country
pc.nts, concludes Soder.
the • lenge extended by the White Deer
jackets for the 1948-49 Tiger football | Lions Club for two games of volley-
squad arrived. Supt. of Schools W. B. j ball
Harris called a special assembly and ( Mr. Jimmy McCasland, who was
the student body went to the auditor-
ium for the presentations.
(Ed. Note: This is the first of a
series of articles being prepared by the
Editor in connection with several new
businesses and homes that were erect-
ed in and around Groom in 1948. Some
are still under construction and others
are being added to. A few weeks ago,
The News carried an item on 1948
construction in Groom. The total
amount was well over $350,000 for the
year.
Private homes in and around the
city of Groom accounted for a large
portion of the above figure.)
the annual affair. Prior to the 19491 Sunday evening show opens at 8:00
show, only boys from Wheeler, Gray 1 p. m. with only one screening-.
and Roberts Counties were eligible THURS.
for participation. "Kiss The Blood off My Hands,"
“The 4-H boys of Carson County I starring Joan Fontaine and Burt
part are greatly endebted to you and yourancaster
1 associates for the splendid way you
Most southwest farm markets held
about steady to strong during the past
week, but some easy spots appeared,
reports the Production and Marketing
Administration of USDA.
Sorghums advanced 10 cents a cwt.
for the week, but other grains lost 1
to 3 cents per bushel. No. 1 hard
wheat closed Monday at $2.38 to $2.43
in bulk carlots at Texas common
points. No. 2 white corn sold around
$1.66, yellow corn, $1.52, barley $1.44%,
and milo $2.67 to $2.72. Oats ranged
from 91% to 96 and one-quarter cents.
Warm weather in consuming cen-
ters slowed demand for rice during
the past week, but prices remained
unchanged. Higher feed prices re-
flected strength in the grain markets.
Slackened demand for middle grade
hay brought lower quotations.
Southwest cattle prices ranged
largely from 50 cents to $2.00 above a
week earlier, although some classes
showed little change. Houston moved
cutter cows at $15 Monday. Canners
and cutters brought $12 to $16 at San
Antonio, $11 to $16 at Ft. Worth, $13
to $16 at Oklahoma City and $14 to
$15.50 at Denver.
Wide fluctuations during the week
left hog prices $2 higher after Mon-
day’s trading at San Antonio, and
around 50 cents higher at most other
markets. Top butchers reached $20.25
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asked of the possibility of getting one
for Groom. Mr. Brewer said that the
system requires four operators and
Groom could not stand the increase
in rates necessary to maintain such
a system. The battery equipment is
of the type whereby the central opera-
tor is signaled when the receiver is
lifted from the hook.
Mr. Brewer stated that installation
of a battery system would be imprac-
tical at this time too, because tena-
tive plans are to install a dial system
in 1952. If a battery system is installed
it would only serve to delay the in-
stallation of a dial system, which is
far superior to a battery type tele-
phone system.
The present magneto system now in
use in Groom is set up by the com-
pany on a one-operator basis and
Mr. Brewer stated that it would be
impossible to obtain provisions for
another operator. The company does
make provisions for one part time
operator, however, but with only one
switch board to handle all phone calls,
the office is still understaffed.
The Lions Club believes that in
view of the fact that over $1,200 a
month comes from phone users in
Groom, they are entitled to better
service.
The Lions Club, at their regular
meeting last Thursday evening, voted
to invite Mr. Brewer to speak to them
as a group inthe near future and
announced they would continue work-
ing on the matter.
Pct. 9, Lark: Robert Newton and
Lee Kirk.
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The commissioners court recently
announced the following persons had
been appointed to election judges and
tellers during the coming year:
Pct. 1, Panhandle: F. F. Ferrell, E.
B. Porterfield, R. E. Randel and W.
Lill.
Pct. 2, Liberty: R. A. Robinson, J.
W. Randell and George Curyea.
Pct. 3, Pleasant Plains: Elten
Vace, Paul Russ and Harold Welsh.
Pct. 4, White Deer: H. T. Dickens,
W. J. Stubblefield, W. L. Potter and
Jack Freeman.
Pct. 5, Conway: Marvin Calliham,
Otis Weatherly and Joe Walker.
Pct. 6, Groom: J. M. Britten, I. C.
Unsell and J. B. Demic.
The American Legion Hall at
Groom was opened July 16, 1948 with
a public dance.
The Hall was completed at a total
cost of about $11,500. It was built with
contributions from the people of
Groom and surrounding territory and
others interested in the project. It
was built in commeration of all de-
ceased war veterans of the area.
The auditorium (left Wing) is 30 by
56 feet in dimeisions. The lounge
(right wing) is 19 by 24. To the rear
of the lounge is a kitchen and two
rest rooms. The kitchen is equiped
with a four-burner range, coffee urn,
cabinet and double sink. Dishes for
service to 50 are kept in the cabinet.
The Legion Auxiliary has done an ex-
cellent job in equipping the kitchen.
The Legion Hall, built by The
American Legion. Post 601 of Groom,
serves as a community hall, club
room, banquet hall and dance hall.
The building serves as a meeting
place for several clubs in Groom, as
well as for the Legion and Legion
Auxiliary. It ateo serves as a recrea-
tion hall on nights when regular ac-
tivities are not scheduled.
The hall is equipped with 50 steel
chairs, a piano, ping pong table,
several card tables and banquet tab-
les
flour mills and sub-terminals as well
as county agents, high school voca-
tional agriculture teachers, veterans
training instructors, and certified
wheat growers will have another op-
portunity to study wheat variety iden-
fication at a district school to be held
March 17 and 18 in the V. F. W. Hall
at 1401 West Eighth Street in Ama-
rillo. Chairman of the school will be
Mr. Claude Goodnight. The school is
scheduled in wheat territory of Tex-
a. m. and will close at 4:00 p. m.
Ten of these district schools are
secheduled in wheat territory of Tex-
as and New Mexico under the direc-
tion of the Texas-Oklahoma Wheat
Improvement Program, according to
Keats Sodder, director. “We had so
much interest and good attendance at
our variety schools last year were of-
fering them again,” explains Sodder.
“At the close of each school we give a
test and award “Certificates of Mer-
it’ to graduates. Last year, we gave out
ver 400 certificates.” advises Soder.
Program for the one-day school in-
cludes study of principal variety
groups under the direction of Fred
Dines, the national authority on var-
iety employed by Tex-o-Kan Flour
Mills at Amarillo; a review of indi-
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Kunkel, Carl, Jr. & Kunkel, Loreta E. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1949, newspaper, February 24, 1949; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1403233/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.