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NUMBER 40
Subscription $1.50 a year
GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEX., THURSDAY, NOV. 30, 1944
Subscription $1.50 a year
VOLUME 19.
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News And Letters
Of Our Servicemen
Services Held Tuesday
For Frank Bohr
I have recently found one of the
best methods for eradicating roaches
which I am passing on this week to
those who are baffletd by this pro-
blem—and baffled is the most ap-
propriate word for roaches are very
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Mrs. Reeves and Annie.
Pvt. Jack Brown is here on fur-
lough visiting relatives and friends.
Billie Brown and Robert Beamon
of Amarillo visited in the homes of
Mrs. W. F. Ashmead and Elmer Ash-
party tomorrow?” he asked.
“It’s too late now,” answered Doug
■“last night I prayed for a “blizzard.”
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Edward Koetting: I’m so glad
made you cry.”
Mildred: “You brute—why?”
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Otherwise
tricky household pests. One must ob-
serve their habits pretty carefully in
order to win the battle.
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November 10, 1944
Mr. and Mrs. Z. L. Armstrong:
Dearest Mother and Dad: And being
as how, I haven’t written you all for
some time. I thought that I would
drop you a few lines to let you know
that I am thinking of you and hop-
ing that you all are well. For myself
I am fine.
There is a lot of things I would
like to tell about but you know how
■ it is. The censors won’t let anything
pass that would give away infor-
mation.
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Mrs. Billie Cornett recovering from
a major operation remorked to her
husband that she felt terrible just
sitting around letting the grass grow
under her feet.
Billy* “Don’t feel too bad about it.
It is better to grow under your feet
than over your head.”
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Mrs. Grady Stapp estimates that
fifty percent of the traveling sales-
men who are hotel guests take a
bath just to get their money’s worth.
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former friend.
“Will you come
children attended the show at Claude
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. George Bural and Alice of
Amarillo visited in the Bert Bural
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stubblefield
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Wayne Clark: “I love your dau-
ghter.”
Grady Stapp: “Hum.”
Wayne: “I want to marry her.”
Grady: “Hum.”
Wayne: “Have you any objection
to me?”
Grady: “No, but I can’t let you
marry her.”
Wayne: “But why, sir. There is
nothing wrong with me.”
Grady: “That’s just it. I don’t in-
tend to have you held up to me as a
shining example for the rest of my
" life.”
When you stop to argue with <
fool, remember there are two of you,'
says Homer Martin.
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The “lead” on the news
was:
“Santa Claus has come 1
Cisco!
back to
to my garden
Claude were Groom visitors
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Friemel
sermon at the Groom Church
Because my friend’s town was the
one place in all America that the
coming of jolly old St. Nicholas was
news.
“Yes, said the newspaper reporter,
"I always carry my notes in my
hat.”
“I see,” said Jeff Gray. “News in
a nut-shell.”
called upon his
Grandma Farley says: “Things
aren’t as bad as they were a year
ago. Remember, you were trying to
make one cup of coffee do for two
then!”
Ray Harrell: “Don’t feel sore old
man, but honestly, I’d give a thou-
sand bucks to have a wife like
yours.”
Rocky Wilson: “Say that again
and you’ll regret it.”
Ray: “Oh, will I get hurt?”
Rocky: “No, you’ll get my wife!”
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buying
WAR BONDS
Dan Witt was to celebrate his
. birthday with a party in the garden.
He had had a quarrel with one of
his friends, Douglas Whatley, and
did not invite him. His mother in-
sisted that Doug should be invited.
Amarillo shoppers Friday.
Jimmie Helm and girls, Mrs. W.
F. Ashmead, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Jones and boys, Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Schaffer and family were callers in
the Elmer Ashmead home Sunday
night.
Mrs. W. F. Ashmead spent Satur-
day night and Sunday with Mrs.
Reeves.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hill were Alan-
reed visitors Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Husted at-
tended a dinner honoring his brother
in Pampa Monday evening.
Leonard Husted, Donald Anglin,
Earl Fredericksen and Bobby Helm
were Amarillo visitors Sunday.
Donald Anglin spent Sunday night
with Leonard Husted.
days.
Mrs. W. F. Ashmead spent Thanks
giving day in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jodie Helm.
Ruby Jean Evans visited Thanks-
giving day with Virginia Gillham.
Mrs. Jodie Helm, Mrs. Bertha
Brown and Lee Ann and Mrs. W. F.
and remove them. Often this is a
most difficult task as they find most
unusual hiding places. They some-
times get on the underside of draw-
ers and tables; hide near water
pipes, in moist places, in basements.
I have heard of them hiding in such
unusual places as a waffle iron, in
felt back underneath a serving tray,
and in the insulating material around
a hot water tank.
CAUTION:
Soduim Floride is poisonous and
must be used with care. Do not put
it where children or pets may get it.
This Soduim Floride method is
also recommended for getting rid of
household ants and silverfish.
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If you are now a subscriber to the
Amarillo News or' the Star-Telegram
we will be glad for you to call at the
News office and let us renew them
for you. No new subscriptions will
be accepted by either paper.
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visited their children
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert
daughter Margy were
Amarillo Friday.
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human beings or pets coming in con-
• I had a letter from B V. and he istacowithitthe source of infestitation
in Idaho. Said he was doing fine. I
am getting fat. can’t see how I am.
I wear a size 40 belt and it isn’t any
too big.
I went to see a boy from home last
night. Duty Brook. We are in the
same regiment. We have been in the
regiment for five months and didn’t
Jimmie Hess should have been
hard at his homework. As it was,
his father found him listening to the
radio and sucking his pencil.
“Well, asked his father, “why don’t
you get on with your work?”
“I can’t, dad,” Jimmie replied,
"I'm drawing a map of Europe and
I can’t finish until I’ve heard the
latest news bulletin.
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Mrs. Foster asked her class to
write a short composition on the sub-
ject of “Water.”
Johnny Bird seemed to be having
difficulty, but finally he turned in
his paper, and here is. what he wrote:
“Water is a light-colored , wet-
liquid which turns dark when you
wash in it.”
Printing Salesman: “Is the boss
in?”
Junior Culver (at bank window):
“No; he’s gone out for lunch.”
Salesman: “Will he be in after
lunch?”
Junior: “No; that’s what he’s gone
out after.”
Bural and
shopping in
was well known and liked by his
many acquaintances.
Surviving are a daughter, Adelle
Bartlett, Forest Grove, Oregon; a
son, Harold, Creston, Iowa; two
brothers, Jack of Creston and Mike
of Howard, S. D.. and four grand-
children.
The remains were laid to rest in
the Groom cemetery Tuesday morn-
ing.
F. L. Lewis of near White Deer
called at the News office Saturday
and renewed his subscription for
another year.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shockley and
daughter, Beulah were dinner guests
in the Nelson home at White Deer
Thursday.
Mrs. J. C. Eschle left Tuesday for
Creston, Iowa where she will visit
hei- mother and other relatives for a
few weeks.
Nella Katherine Bledsole of Los
Animas, Colorado visited her grand-
mother, Mrs. Safronia Jackson and
other relatives last week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Homer and
family attended the wedding of Mrs.
Homer’s sister at Nazareth, Texas
Tuseday.
Page Blackwell who has been
visiting his parents, Mr. ♦ and Mrs.
Ollie Blackwell and other relatives
and friends left Sunday.
Mrs. Max Wade and Maxine re-
turned home Wednesday of last week
from a visit with Pvt. Wade who is
stationed at Camp Carson, near
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Mrs. Guy Andis, Mrs. Roy Ritter,
Mrs. T. G. Fields, Mrs. Carl Kunkel,
Mrs*. Margy Emery and Mrs. Chas.
Fields attended the Eastern Star
school of instruction held at Pampa
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Patezold and
Marcial of Fritch and Flight Officer
Bernard Paetzold of Lincoln, Neb.,
were guests in the John Homer
home Thanksgiving Day.
Billy Bural, Georgia Spangler
Lucy Britten and Mary Ann Britten
and Bobby Helm who are attending
If you want to add years to your
life, eat right day after day. This is
the theme of a new bulletine just
issued by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture which points out that
nutrition, along with heredity, plays
a major part in determining the
length and vigor of normal lives.
The science of nutrition offers
extra years—perhaps seven to ten of
them. These should not be consider-
ed as ‘added to old age; rather, they
are inserted at the prime of life,
while old age is postponed, the bul-
letin points out.
The bulletin is entitled "Principles
of Nutrition and Nutritive Value of
Food,” (MP 546) and it was written
by Dr. Henry C. Sherman, former
chief of the Bureau of Human Nutri-
tion and Home Economics. Dr. Sher-
man’s statement that there is noth-
ing mysterious about good nutrition
is emphasized by Miss Edith Law-
rence, food preparation specialist for
the A and M College Extension
EXTENSION
SERVICE NEWS
Miss Elsie Cunningham, Home De-
monstration Agent
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Howell
Pampa visitors Monday.
Miss Annie Reeves with
Grace Sparks of Panhandle
agiig.puokyursberlip"hanasome Groom Glider Pilot
in Amarillo
Billie Crowell: “Ma, what is a
budget?”
Mrs. Crowell: “A method of wor-
rying before you spend instead of
afterwards!”
“The last time he had been seen
there, he fled under a hail of lead,
leaving two dying citizens and ten
t 'thers wounded. It was two days be-
fore Christmas in 1927 that a band,
the leader disguised as old Santa,
held up the bank.”
“Because of the tragic associations,
Christmas after Christmas went by
without a Santa Claus being seen in
town. There were little children who
could not remember ever having seen
the bewhiskered old fellow. It was
the only place in all Christiandom
where the patron saint of the Yule-
tide season was unknown. And now
Santa Claus has come back to Cisco.
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Eat Right And
You Will Live Longer
Carson Co. Free Library cn
The Senior class is presenting its
play Thursday, December 7. They
have chosen “The Blundering Herd”
by Nat Foster Holmes. The play is
set on the Long Horn Ranch in
Nevada.
Miss Peggy Houston, owner of the
Long Horn, has resorted to “dude”
ranching to pay off the mortgage.
All her cowboys have gone except
Walrus, the foreman. Pappy, the
oldest of the men; and Shoo-Hi, the
Chinese cook. There is much humor
and excitement in the play with just
a bit of mystery. Those who come to
the ranch add color and interest to
the play. There are: Lobo -Zip, a box
car traveler; and Texas Tim, a schol
ary soul; Mr. Gordon, a man of
mystery with romance in his heart;
Miss Herring, or is it Salmon, Sar-
dine, or Pickerel, with her two wards,
■ Sylvia and Mildred.
Walter Schneider, Donald Anglin,
Cecil Culver, Richard Hall, Wayne
Clark, Billy Raymond Fields, Jua-
nita Williams, Adeline Weller, Kat-
hryn Stapp, Dorothy Britten, and
Rozella Burgin are the cast.
The date is Dec. 7; the time is 8
p. m.; the admission is 15c and 35c.
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Special Series
Of Sermons
maneuvers in North Carolina early
this year.
His unit, a part of the U. S. Troop
arrier Forces which form the air
component of Lt. Gen. Lewis H.
Brereton’s new First Allied Airborn
Army, holds the Distinguished Unit
citation for its part in the initial in-
vasion of Normandy and has spear-
headed the airborne drives that have
opened all the continental operations.
F/O Hoyt holds the Air Medal for
his part in the invasion of Southern
France.
The U. S. Troop Carrier Forces
are commanded by Maj. Gen. Paul
L. Williams, veteran leader of all
Troop Carrier Operations in Africa
and Europe.
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Tuseday from a visit with her college at Canyon spent the Thanks-
daughter at Bovina. giving Holidays with home folks.
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Services were held Tuesday morn-
ing at the local Catholic Church for
Frank Bohr, 57, who died Thursday
at the home of a sister, Mrs. Pete
Britten. The hour of the writes was
conducted by Father Norgert Wag-
oner.
Mr. Bohr was a long time resident
a of Groom and had only recently re-
” turned here from Iowa where he had
resided for the past few months. He
Control of Roaches
Soduim Floride in powder form is
the material to use. It may be pur-
chased at the drug store. You will
also need a small dust gun or an
ordinary fly sprayer. The process is
simple. Fill the container half full
of the Soduim Floride powder. Spray
the dust in cracks and crevices, in
drawers, on tables, in shelves, around
base boards and other run ways, as
thin as possible. Avoid putting it out
in small piles or as a thick coating,
for then the roeaches will avoid it.
It should be thin enough so that the
roaches will crawl through it.
It is more effective to put Soduim
Floride out in the evening as roaches
move around most at night and not
much in daytime.
If this is swept out, repeat every
J three or four days. It takes about
•ten days to see results. Roaches can
be cleaned out by this method but
one has to be on the alert all the
time since these pests are being
brought in constantly from the
grocery store and laundry in boxes
and packages. Roaches seem especi-
ally fond of such foods as potatoes
and onions.
Soduim Floride does not deterior
-ate, therefore is an effective control
to use in event it can be left out in
places where there is no danger of
Mrs. G. O. Helm of Amarillo is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. . . .
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Joe Britten says that love is like
a poker game. It takes a pair to
open, she gets a flush, he shows
diamonds, and it ends with a full
house.
Ashmead visited Friday in the
Elmer- Ashmead home.
Imogene Wilson spent Friday
night in the Elmer Ashmead home.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ashmead and
Victor visited June Frazier at St.
Anthony Hospital in Amarillo Sun-
day.
Mrs. Reeves and Annie attended
a shower and tea honoring Mrs. Rex
Reeves at LeFors Wednesday after-
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown and
family were McLean visitors Satur-
day.
Next Sunday, December 3rd att 3
o’clock will be Rev. L. E. Godwin’s
regular appointment here. Lets all
come and bring someone with us.
Some from here attended the
Thanksgiving dinner at Groom Thurs
day.
Miss Mary Ellis Blackburn of
Dumas visited Thankgiving with
A U. S. Troop Carrier Base, in
France—One of the first American
glider pilots to land in the gigantic
airborne invasion of Holland was
Flight Officer James G. Hoyt, son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Hoyt, Groom
Texas. His wife, Mrs. Modena Jo
Hoyt resides at 915 Spaulding street, ,
San Angelo. Hoyt also piloted a
glider in the invasion of Southern
France.
“I received no ill effects from
enemy fire” said F/O Hoyt. “Upon
landing, we kept quiet for awhile
and unloaded. Some of the para-
troopers directed us to our head-
quarters after we had spent a night
in the woods.”
“The remainder of the time I
spent on Security guard until the
last day when I went up to the
front. I saw no spectacular action,
just enough to convince me it isn’t
funny.”
F/O Hoyt was graduated from
the Groom High school in 1940 and
was a farmer working with his
father when he entered the service
in Rebrwory 1941. He received his
glider training at various fields in
New Mexico, Texas, California and
North Carolina. To complete his
glider training he participated in
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Service. She says for most Ameri-
cans that “extra something” that cam
add to the good years of life is simp-
ly a matter of getting more milk or
milk products and more fruits and
vegetables.
Often, even people who consider
themselves well nourished can profit
by adding more of these to their diet,
Miss Lawrence says. Texans who
want to check on themselves can ob-
tain a copy of the Texas Food
Standard, a simple guide to a good
daily diet, from their county home
demonstration agents.
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If you are now a subscriber to the
Amarillo News or the Star-Telegram
we will be glad for you to call at the
News office and let us renew them
for you. No new subscriptions will
be accepted by either paper.
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Henry Smith of Claude had busi-
ness in Groom Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Stubblefield
and children of Amarillo were visit-
ing relatives here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cruse and
family visited relatives at Friona,
Texas last week-end.
John Lowrence Jr., nephew of Mrs.
Jim Wall is reported missing in
action.
Rev. L. E. Godwin was assisting
in a funeral at Adrian, Texas Tues-
day.
Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Longagan of
It was a gray day early in Dec-
ember some dozen years ago in Ft.
Worth and an icy wind was whistl-
ing around the corner where we
stood. My companion was shivering
and he had on an overcoat. I didn’t
have on one, so you can judge how
comfortable I was!
Just a few months before, this
writer had joined the Star-Telegram.
I enjoyed seeing my friends from
out West Texas way when they
visited Cowtown and I tried to get
some bit of news from each one and
thereby be able to put their names
in the paper.
This friend, J. E. Spencer, was
manager of a Chamber of Commerce.
It was a new kind of work for him.
What’s happening out your way ”
" “Not anything special,” he replied.
“Try to think of something so we
can give the old town a boost.”
He studied a moment and then
said;
“Well, we opened the Christmas
‛ shopping season yesterday.”
) Of course, that had happened or
would soon happen in every town in
the United States.
He continued.
“We had a big crowd at the air-
port for a special stunt—old Santa
Claus came to town in an airplane.”
“Well, much oblige, no use of me
keeping you here freezing; glad to
have seen you,” I said and went our
different ways.
And I did have my “story”—a full
column on the front page next morn-
ing!
Mary Ann Weller: “Why do they
put bells on cows?”
Zoah Mae Babcock: “Don’t you
know that, silly? It’s to give warn-
ing so you can run away from
them.”
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Christ will be a third in a series on ,
“Christianity vs. Modern Evils.” The
first two sermons in this series were
“Christianity vs. Gambling” and
“Christianity vs. Adultery and Di-
vorce.” The third in the series, sche-
duled for Sunday morning at the 11
a. m. hour worship service, is
“Christianity vs. the Evils of the
Modern Dance.” This will be an
honest, frank investigation of the
modern dance from the standpoint
of the Bible and of the religion of
the New Testament, Christianity.
Other services of the Church of
Christ include: 7:30 p. m. Sunday
evening Service, with a series of
sermons on the Book of Revelation.
Thursday evening Bible class, 7:30
p. m. with the asking and answering
of questions pertaining to any Bible
subject—a class open to all with
freedom o f discussion centered
around the principle of “What does
the Bible itself say on the subject?”
Also on Sunday morning, 10 a. m.
Bible classes for all ages.
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know he was here. We had a nice
long talk together and went to the
show. I’ll be visiting him real often
now. New Guinia has a lot of wild
game such as chickens, turkeys, and
hogs, and plenty of big snakes. We
killed a Python snake sixteen feet
long.
I’ve been getting the stamps you-
’ve been sending. Thanks a lot for
them.
As I know anything to write I’ll
close for now hoping to hear from
you all again real soon and that you
all are well.
Lots of love, your son,
J. W. Armstrong.
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Mrs. Ray Jones and Mrs. K. W.
Daugherty of Amarillo visited in the
Rev. and Mrs. L. E. Godwin home
the first of the week.
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