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VOLUME 19.
GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEX., THURSDAY, OCT. 19, 1944
Subscription $1.50 a year
NUMBER 34
FACTS
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Apples Bought for
Canning Purposes
Grandview School
To Hold Carnival
Groom Receives
Nice Rain Sunday
cup
table-
songs,
famous
be
as
Sue Whatley: “How old would
person be who was born in 1894?”
Paul Koetting attended a celebra-
tion where the amount of good whisk-
ey available was unlimited. About the
middle of the evening he got up and
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Womans Society
Of Christian Service
Will Meet October 24th
Percent
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Lawrence Knorpp: “Man or wom-
an?” ,
short cows.”
Broncho Bill saved a lot of lives one
time—he shot the camp cook.
Mrs. Shorty Ham: “You naughty
boy. How dare you use such wicked
wards.”
Dusty: “But Shakespeare used it.”
Mrs. Ham: “ Oh, he did. Well don’t
play with him again.”
Frank Bohr: “I’m just a that aw-
kward age.”
Henry Kuehler: “The awkward age!
Frank Bohr: Yep. I’m young enough
to smile at Hedy LaMarr—but too old
to have her smile back at me.”
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that I was in the war, but I was neu-
tral.”
Gos Koetting: “You were neutral
Norman Martin? Yeah, I sold cigars
and cigarettes to both sides.”
Leo Britten: “My father said when
I was a boy we rode a mule that was
just like one of the family.”
Gos Koetting: “Yeah, and I know
which one.”
The “Backwoodsy” Junior Class is
presenting an entertainment for the
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The Woman’s Society of Christian
Service of the Methodist Church will
have an all day meeting at the church
October 24, at 10:30 a. m. The Topic,
“A Worship Service for a Quiet Day”
will be the subject of this day, and
will be led by Mrs. Wesley Woods,
Spiritual Life Chairman. She urges
every woman of the church to attend
this meeting.
The following week, October 31st
at 3 p. m. at M. E. church our Study
Girls when they went out to swim
us’ter look like mother Hubbard. Now
they have a bolder whim. They look
more like her cupboard.
By Blanche Redus
When Leo Briten was asked to turn
a bit of news for our paper he said,
“the only thing that had happened at
his farm, he had not fed any of his
wife’s kinfolks for the past thirty
days.”
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BUCK THE ATTACK! BUY MORE
Subscription $1.50 a year
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Friendship Needle
Club Met October 12th
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Groom Tigers To
Play Vega Longhorns
Here Friday Afternoon
Troy Whatley: “Darling, did you
take a dollar bill out of my right
hand pants pocket last night.?”
Billie Louise: “Certainly not. May-
be you don’t know it, but there’s a
hole in that pocket.”
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The Sophomore class will sponsor
a food sale Saturday to be held in the
office of Southweastern Public Ser-
vice Company. Good eats will be of-
fered at this sale. Drop in and we’ll
fill you up and throw you out.
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Tough On Black Market “Gas”
‘Grand Old Opera,” and to equalize
the absurdity of these characters and
skits, a few cultural numbers will be
presented.
Tie a string around your finger
and remember to come to the High
School auditorium at 8:30 on Satur-
day night, October 21. Admission is
10 and 25 cents.
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The Future Of
Home Dehydration
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book:
A Texas editor received
asking “How long cows
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Price
Groom
Happy
Claude
iby buying
SOUR CREAM APPLE CAKE
1/2 cup heavy sour cream, % to 1 cup
sugar, % cup unsweetened thick ap-
plesauce, %teaspon salt, 1 teaspoon
cinnamon, 2 cups sifted flour, 1 tea-
spoon baking powder, % teaspoon
soda, % teaspoon cloves, 1 cup chop-
ped raisins, 1 cup chopped nuts.
Mix sour cream, sugar, and apple-
sauce. Sift the dry ingredients to-
gether and add to the first mix'ture
with the raisins and nuts. Mix well.
milked.” He replied, “The same
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Photo Approved by Army Air Forces
DETROIT, MICH.—Test flights have been completed over the city
here for the first helicopter to be built by Nash-Kelvinator Corp, for
the Army Air Forces, marking the successful application of automo-
tive assembly line technique of mass production to the manufacture
of this versatile new-type aircraft.
First reports of helicopters in war action occurred with the inva-
sion of Burma when they were used to evacuate wounded from inac-
cessible points. More recently they were reported to have rescued
American flyers shot down behind Jap lines. The Nash-Kelvinator-
built Helicopter, shown above, takes off from the company’s “pocket”
airport, straight up, in its first test flight. This machine, a joint Army-
Navy development, is a single rotor type, having three blades, top
speed in excess of 100 m.p.h., carries fuel for five hours flight, and will
climb to 4,000 feet in seven minutes, according to George W. Mason,
company president.
Mrs. Turner Kirby: “Nope. I don’t
think I’ll go to the dentist. Maybe
this loose tooth will fall out by it-
self.”
Turner: “Don’t be silly, Glin. Noth-
ing falls out by itself.”
Glen: “Ohno. What about that stuff
on top of your head?”
Vesta Johnson: “Ive been feeling
kind of run down lately—and I’ve
been taking vitamin pills. But they
don’t help.”
Mrs. Foster: “Maybe its your diet.
What have you been eating?”
Fields, Mrs. Les Driskill, Mrs. Jim
Eschle, Mrs. Geo. Latta, Mrs. Chas.
Keeter, Mrs. Vance Robinson, Mrs. O.
E. Pool, Mrs. John Ray, Mrs. Chas.
Rogers, Mrs. J. C. Major, Mrs. Ben
Shockley,, Mrs. I. C. Unsell, Mrs. W.
S. Jones, Mrs. Geo. Whatley and
hostesses.
The club will meet with Mrs. J. C.
Eschle in November with a covered
dish luncheon at noon.
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Country Neighbors
Meet October 25th
I GIVE
YOU
TEXAS
by
BOYCE
HOUSE
Pour into a well-greased bread
and bake in a moderate oven,
deg. F., for about 1 hour.
Vesta: “Oh, do you have to
when you take vitamin pills?”
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a letter
• Be sure to attend the Junior Class
Hillbilly Show at the school audi-
torium at 8:30 Saturday night.
enables a coupon to be traced from
the plant that printed it to the per
on to whom it was issued. The en-
dorsement makes it possible to trace
an illegal coupon to the person who
put it in circulation. Authorities re-
cently arrested four alleged counter-
feiters in New York and seized equip
ment ready to print five million
counterfeit gasoline coupons.
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Mrs. Bud Brunnier and daughters
Carolyn and Donna and Joanne Hess
were among Amarillo visitors Sat-
urday.
The new “A” basic gasoline ration
books to be issued soon outside the 17
East Coast States are going to be
hard on the black market in two ways,
the OPA says. They are printed on
a new type of government safety
paper almost impossible for counter-
feiters to duplicate, and each book and
all coupons it contains will carry a
serial number. With the combination
of the serial number and the motor-
ist’s endorsement on his own state
and automobile license number it will
Two hundred bushels of Arkansas
apples for canning recently were pur
chased cooperatively by Galveston
County home demonstration club
women. The venture was most suc-
cessful, and Miss Viola McKenzie,
county home demonstration agent,
says the women could have disposed
of 100 extra bushels in a single after-
noon, if these had been available.
The apples cost $3.50 per bushel.
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Course on the South Pacific Islands
will begin and is to be concluded in
4 consecutive weeks. Mrs. P. E. John-
son, Secretary of Study will conduct
this study. We invite every person
who is interested in the study of
these islands to come. These very
islands are where many of our boys
are fighting now, and is a subject
that many are interested in. Plan to
some now.
APPLE DOWDY
1/2 loaf of stale bread, 8 largg tart
apples, % teaspoon of cinnamon, %
teaspoon of salt, % cup of dark
brown sugar, % cup of cold water, 2
tablespoons of butter.
Cut the bread in small slices and
pare off the crusts. Butter each slice
and lay it in a buttered baking dish
until the dish is neatly lined. Add the
pared and sliced apples, the sugar,
the cinnamon, and the salt. Pour the
water over it, then cever the top with
bread, buttered side up, and bake the
mixture in a slow oven at 250 deg-
rees F. for about an hour.
Again this year the Grandview
school will sponsor it’s annual Car-
nival on Thursday, October (today)
19th at the school building, starting
early and running late into the night.
Grand preparations have been under
way for the past few days in an at-
tempt to make this affair the best
ever held in that community, and you
can rest assured that all preparations
will be completed to the most minute
detail. There will be entertainment
galore for young and old alike, with-
out a dull moment for anyone in at-
tendance.
Don’t forget the date. Today at the
Grandview school building. There will
be plenty to eat and drink. They will
feature their great big Oklahoma
T-Bone steaks at 10c each.
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-Army-Navy Award
To Ordinance Plant
honeymoon. The city editor sent
trace reporter for an interview.
Will consumers want dehydrated
foods after the war if they are cheap
and available? Will farm people con-
tinue to do home-drying when equip-
ment for freezing and canning is ac-
cessible. ?
Food specialists throughout the
nation are interested in this subject,
and a national survey on the subject
recently has been reported to the A.
and M. College Etension Service.
One interviewer among urban famili-
es found that most housewives had
heard of dehydrated foods, but only
half had used them. Dehhydrated soup
seemed to be the most commonly us-
ed, but cranberries and sweet pota-
toes seemed to be the best liked.
Chief reasons why the homemakers
said thy would buy some dehydrated
foods after the war were because
they liked the taste and found the
foods easy to prepare. Few mention-
ed the talking points that they are
high in nutritive content, save spice,
and keep much longer than fresh
foods.
Mrs. Winifred J. Leverenz, Exten-
sion specialist in food preservation,
says talking with farm women who
have done home-drying in war-time
makes her believe that it will con-
tinue after the war, just as urban
women will continue to buy some de-
hydrated foods. Where rural families
have an abundance of fruit, she be-
lieves they may dry some apples,
peaches, and pears principally for the
sake of variety. And families who
cannot afford more expensive equip-
ment can do sun-drying or oven dry-
ing without much expense. Among
the vegetables, home-dehydrated corn
seems to be a favorite, except for
dried beans and peas.
Regardless of the future of home
and commercial-dehydration, Mrs.
Leverenz believes the food presesva-
tion method with the greatest appeal
and possibilities for the homemaker ’
is freezing.
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Apples “have just about every-
thing.” They contain some vitamins,
some mineral salts, some fruit acids,
some sugar, a little starch, an ab-
undance of pectin, and the quality to
combine with oher foods. They add a
richness and flavor that makes food
good to eat.
There are many good apple dishes
and many dishes that “go well” with
apples, for instance apple rings with
pork chops. . . tart apples diced,
skins and all, with chopped celery and
chopped nuts for Waldorf salad. . . or
apple turnovers, apple dumplings,
and apple upside down cake.
Some apple recipes not quite so
well known are sour cream apple-
sauce cake, apple crisp, and apple
dowdy.
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OUTLOOK FOR
LIVESTOCK PRICES
With fewer hogs to be marketed
this fall and winter and with large
non—civilian pork purchases, the hog
price outlook is more promising than
a year ago, the Department of Agri-
culture says. Total calf slaughter
this year will reach an all-time high.
The large slaughter has resulted from
high butterfat prices in relation to
dairy cow prices, a weak demand for
calves by cattle feeders, relatively
high prices for veal calves for slau-
ghter and record numbers of cows on
farms. Prices for lambs are likely to
average higher this fall and winter
than a year ago and ewe prices, now
lowest since the fall of 1941, are ex-
pected to continue lower than a year
ago.
guests, saying goodnight very polite-
ly. “But surely you’r not going yet
Paul, the host objected.”
Nay Mom, said Paul. I’m not go-
ing. But I telling ye gude nicht
while I still know ye.
Are you a paradox? A paradox is
a business man who throws a Justin
boot at his Big Ben alarm clock, rolls
off his Ostermore mattress onto a
Congoleum rug, hops into his B. V.
D’s, runs his Gillette razor over his
Mennen-lathered face, consumes a
hurried breakfast of Shredded Wheat
and a cup of Postum, lights a Ches-
terfield at his store and then tells the
advertising solicitor of a newspaper:
“Advertising doesn’t pay; it never
sold me anything!”
gram includes dramatized
characters taken from the
The .groom met him at the door,
cussed him out, blacked his eye and
threatened to kick him down the
steps if he came back. Theh reporter
went to a telephone in the lobby and
reported the treatment he had receiv-
ed and the threat that had been hurl-
ed.
The “chief” banged hie fist on the
table as he shouted into the telephone,
“You go back and tell that blankety-
blank that he can’t intimate me.”
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Miss Lucille and Mary Ann Britten
of Canyon spent the week-end in the
home of their parents
Butter manufacturers will not be
required to set aside for government
purchase any of their output between
October 1 and spring, according to
information from the War Food Ad-
ministration to the A. and M. College
Extension Service.
Notwithstanding, civilian supplies
of butter are expected to be at least
as " tight” during the remaining
months of the year as they were in
the corresponding period of 1943.
Three reasons are given for this pros-
pect, namely, rising demand; decline
in production, and allotments to the
U. S. armed forces and Russian army
of 15 and 5 pounds, respectively, out
of every 100 pounds of our butter
supply.
The WFA explains that the output
of creamery butter for the nation
during the first seven months of 1944
was about 131,000,000 pounds smaller
than for the corresponding period of
1943. July production was the lowest
in 22 years, and preliminary reports
indicate that production in August
and September also will be smaller
than last year.
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The "Backwoodsy"
Juniors Present Play
be much easier for OPA
stolen coupons. The serial
Norman Martin: “Yes, it’s
Amarillo, Oct. 18.—Army and Navy
production Award will be presented
to the Pantex Ordnance Plant on Oct-
ober 20 for its excellent record of pro-
duction in the war effort. The “E”
ground of tradition is the symbol by
for excellence with its proud back-
ground of tradition is the symbol by
which both Armed Services confer
their highest praise on those plants
whose record in the production of war
materials is outstanding. Justly
proud of their achievement, workers
at Pantex continue their efforts to
keep a steady stream of bombs and
shells flowing to the men who are in
the actual fight on distant battle
fronts.
Additional workers are needed now
at Pantex in order to meet the in-
creased demand coming from the
front lines. New workers will find a
typical West Texas welcome in join-
ing the ranks of its “Fighters behind
the Fighters” at Pantex. Attractive
wage scales start at 75c per hour,
with time and one-half for more than
40 hours per week. No experience is
necessary. Wage increases are given
for length of service.
Workers who have been employed
within the last 60 days at their high-
est skill in essentiail war work must
have a statement of availability. Men
engaged in farm work should secure
their County Agent’s approval before
applying.
spoons butter. Grease the baking-
dish, fill it with thinly sliced apples,
sprinkle with 2 teaspoons of cinna-
mon. Mix crumbs, sugar and blend
with butter. Spread over top and
bake uncovered in moderate oven
(350) for 30 minutes.
A variation from the usual cinna-
mon apple, made with red-hots, is to
cook the peeled apples in grape
juice. These are excellent served with
roast pork.
The Sophomore Class will hold a
food sale Saturday afternoon at the
Southwestern Public Service Com-
pany office. Cake, pie, and coffee will
be served.
The Groom and Vega teams will
tangle in a six-man football game
here tomorrow evening at 2:30. The
kick-off will be promptly at that
time. So all of you football fans be
out to see the Tigers win another
six-man game.
Six-man League Standings
Rev. Godwin was driving home
from an outlaying hamlet when he
overtook a young woman. Recogniz-
ing her as the maid that worked at
a farm which he would pass so he
pulled up and offered her a lift. Mary
gladly accepted his offer and they
chatted all the way to the farm home.
Thank you sir, she said as she got
out.
Don’t mention it Mary. Don’t men-
tion it, he told her politely.
No I won’t Mary obligingly assur-
ed him.
Groom and vicinity received a nice
gentle downpour of rain Sunday
which was well received by our people
in the farming sections. Wie were
not particularly in need of rain at
this time, but as you know rain is
always welcome in West Texas.
The downpour will be of much bene
fit to the already fine crop of wheat
now in prospect—In fact the wheat
prospects of this section of the State
could not be better than at this time
of the year.
The early rains enabled early seed-
ing of the ground before cold weather
and as the result the growth that has
and will be made by the wheat before
extreme cold weather will permit the
grazing of thousands of head of cat-
tle this winter.
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The National
Butter Outlook
EXTENSION
SERVICE NEWS
Miss Elsie Cunningham, Home De-
monstration Agent
Dad Blackwell: “Boy am I mad.
Last night I didn’t have enough gaso-
line in my ’ol car to get around, so
I poured a couple of gallons of beer
in the tank.”
Jim Byes: “Didn’t the car run?
Dad Blackwell: “Sure it ran alright
. . . . but doggone iit a cop gave me
a ticket for having bloodshot head-
lights.”
Mrs. Glyn D. Harrell will be hostess
to the Demo. Club at the club house
October 25th at 2:30 o’clock. An in-
teresting demonstration will be given
on hand made rugs.
The September meeting was held at
the home of Mrs. T. E. Latta.
Miss Cunningham demonstrated
the dry suds method of cleaning up-
holstery and rugs which was very in-
structive.
Names were drawn for the Xmas
I party. A nominating committee was
appointed for the election of officers
to be named at the meeting with Mrs.
Harrell.
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Ross Nix was working on some
plumbing and Huey Lonw was look-
mg on. Huey was learning and this
was his first day.
Say, inquired Huey, do you charge
for my time?
Certainly replied Ross.
But I haven’t done anything said
Huey.
After1 Ross finished inspecting the
job with a lighted candle he handed
it to Huey. Here be said, if you’ve
got to be so consyntious blow that
out. (
APPLE CRISP
Use 4 to 6 hart apples, %
sugar, % cup bread crumbs, 6
Carson Co. g
FreeLibrayyc,
This is a Texas story—even if it
did happen in New York City. The
chief figure was the famous (or in-
famous) slave-driving city editor of
the old New York World. The for-
man of a Texas ranch had eloped
with the ranch owner’s daughter and
they were in Manhattan on their
An entire chapter of Terras news-
paper humor is to be found in your
columnist’s new book, “Tall talk from
Texas,” from which the above is
quoted. (The book, by the way, ex-
hausted four editions in three weeks
—for which the author is deeply
grateful to thousands of friends).
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I started to make the rounds of the
The Friendship Needle Club met
with Mrs. George Whatley, Thursday
October 12th with Mrs. W. S. Jones
as co-hostess. Conversation, games
and sewing made the hours pass
quickly. Names were drawn for the
Christmas party. Only two members
were absent. Those attending were:
Mrs. W. Z. Borron, Mrs. Ceccil Culver-
Mrs. Zona Cornett, Mrs. Raymond
The Woman’s Society of Christian
Service of the Methodist Church met
in the home of Mrs. J. B. Shockley,
Tuesday, October 17, at 3 p. m. Mrs.
Dwight Weems gave the devotional,
on the subject, “Called According to
His Purpose.” Mrs. Benton Moreman
led the program on India. The first
women doctors to India and their
work discussed by several of the
members. During the business session
that followed the society voted to do
Red Cross sewing one day a month
at the Community Club house. Mrs.
G. M. Brunnier was elected Chairman
of Red Cross work.
The election of officers for 1945
were elected. President, Mrs. Van
Earl Steed; Vice-President, Mrs. Ben-
ton Moreman; Recording Secretary,
Mrs. A. B. Coffman; Treasurer, Mrs.
John Farley; Secretary of Missionary
Education, Mrs. George Latta; Sec-
retary of Christian Social Relations,
Mrs. O. R. Major; Secretary of Stu-
dent Work, Mrs. Oscar Bruce; Secre-
tary of Youth’s Work, Mrs . Nath
Helton; Secretary of Children’s Work;
Mrs. Wm. A. Wagoner; Secretary of
Literature and Publications, Mrs. D.
H. Farley. Secretary of Supplies,
Mrs. E. R. Hess; Reporter, Mrs. C.
D. Kunkel.
Lovely refreshments were served
to Mrs. P. E. Johnson, Mrs. W. W.
Brunais, Mrs. V. E. Steed, Mrs. Ben-
ton Moreman, Mrs. Dwight Weems,
Mrs. J. E. Wagoner, Mrs. O. R. Ma-
jor, Mrs. Ed Little, Mrs. Fred Burgin,
Mrs. H. A. Cranmer, Mrs. Harold
Baker and Beverely Kay, Mrs. T. E.
Latta, Mrs. Wesley Woods, Mrs.
Phil Farley, Mrs. E. R. Hess, Mrs.
Geo. Latta and Ellen and hostess.
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