The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1971 Page: 1 of 8
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Ohe Groom Netos
The Groom News, Groom, Carson County, Texas 79039
VOLUME 45. NUMBER 50.
FACTS
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The Heart Fund campaign
A blizzard with snow
past week.
new year.
Moisture from the blowing snow
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Library foyer so that books may Medical:
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intact.
County.
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Sign in Dr. Sticksel’s optome-
surgery.
ton.
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B. H. Cooper Funeral
Services Held Sunday
Among the patients at Groom
Memorial Hospital the past week
were:
Groom people have been having
all kinds of weather conditions the
Most of the 48 members of the
Carson County Historical Survey
Committee were present at the
first meeting of the group held Feb.
peal letters in the mail beginning
March 1. The Easter Seal Appeal,
conducted yearly to provide dis-
abled persons and their families
treatment and services, will con-
Elmer Tuggle of Panhandle will
head the 1971 Easter Seal Appeal
in Carson County, it was announced
recently by O. P. Settle, Jr., of
and other phases of the work.
Following this recess, Mrs. Ran-
Obstetrical :
Mrs. Robert West, of Groom,
SISTER TO MRS. BRAY
DIES IN ARIZONA
Grain prices at local elevators
Wednesday afternoon of this week
were:
Wheat: $1.48 per bu.
Milo: $2.13 per cwt.
ing crop conditions very poor
wheat.
Ernest Morgan, Pampa
Lonnie R. Hillhouse, Pampa
Mildred Armstrong, Amarillo
LennieM. Sutton, Groom
Betty E. Lowe, McLean
Jackie K. Shults, Panhandle
Sandra Whitmarsh, Pampa
Ruth V. Mesneak, Pampa
Al vie Gibbins, Groom
Donald B. Booth, Claude
Ama R. Hamblen, Memphis
Arthur Wilkerson, Pampa
Patricia J. Gudgel, Pampa
Thomas M. Young, Panhandle
Kendall Mesneak, Pampa
James Akins, Borger
Ethel Sears, Amarillo
Grace M. Bishop, Lefors
Nelda Arnold, Groom
Hattie L. Noel, Pampa
Dassie Wilkerson, Clarendon
Maurice Roper, Pampa
Louella Thornberry, Panhandle
Helen M. Phillips, Pampa
Jo Lynn Hubbart, Groom
Surgical:
Joe Andra Henderson, Pampa
Lorene Riley, Amarillo
Mildred Lowrance, Stinnnett
Doris Mills, White Deer
Mildred I. Womble, Panhandle
Orville Bearden, Childress
Jim G. Holton, Seminole
Delena Young, Lefors
Karen Case, Groom
Ronald Lovell, Fritch
Norma J. Baggerman, Groom
LaVerne Schultz, Groom
Thursday, Feb. 11: Basketball—
Groom Jr. High vs. Claude Here
at 5:00 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 12: End of fourth
six-weeks.
Mrs. Exie Gambel of LaPorte,'
Tex., died Sunday morning in an
Arizona hospital after a short ill-
ness following a heart attack. She
was a sister to Mrs. Ermine Bray
of Groom.
dren and Adults of Texas.
Residents of Carson County will
The road to success is always un- ■ Doug Wood is home from an Am-
der construction reports Joe Thom- arillo hospital after undergoing eye
। Heart Fund Campaign
To Be Held February 28
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ELMER TUGGLE IS HEAD OF
EASTER SEAL CAMPAIGN
AND
Otherwise
Groom School Trustee
Election To Be Held
daughter, Victoria Leann, 7 lbs.,
11 ozs., born at 2:06 a.m., Satur-
day, February 6, 1971.
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GRAIN PRICES THIS WEEK
AT ELEVATORS IN GROOM
f
The Groom Branch Library has
installed a telephone for the con-
venience of library patrons and the
librarian. The number is 248-5391.
Funeral services were held Sun-
day for B. H. Cooper, 68, at 3:00
p.m. in the Groom United Method-
ist Church with the Rev. Lynward
Harrison, pastor, officiating. Burial
was in the Groom Cemetery by
Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors
of Amarillo.
Mr. Cooper died Friday morning
in Groom Memorial Hospital after
a lengthy illness. He had been a
resident of Groom for 32 years and
was owner and operator of the
Groom Wrecking Yard.
Survivors include his wife, Essie;
a son, James Cooper of Bethany,
Okla.; four daughters, Mrs. Marvin
M. Morrow and Mrs. Billy Robert-
son, both of Groom, Mrs. J. D.
Stringer of Houston, and Mrs. Ver-
non White of Manhattan, Kans.: a
sister, Mrs. Clara Hill of Erick,
Okla.; 12 grandchildren and three
great grandchildren.
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1971 TO BE BIG YEAR FOR
COUNTY HISTORICAL GROUP
nothing mark and depositing about
an inch of blowing, dry snow. This
was followed by almost Spring-
time temperatures Tuesday and
Wednesday.
THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1971 (10c a copy)
David Fennel, band instructor at
Groom High School, accompanied
by Jerry Crowell, left this week for
Houston to attend the Texas Music
Education Clinic and Convention to
be held Thursday through Satur-
day. Jerry is among the 40 Pan-
handle students who have been se-
lected to take in the convention.
Jerry Crowell, a senior student in
Groom High School was selected to
play in the All-State Band at the
try-outs held recently in Lubbock.
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GROOM BRANCH LIBRARY
HAS NEW PHONE, 248-5391
Charles Koetting, 24-year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Koetting of
Amarillo, was seriously injured
Wednesday of last week, Feb. 3,
when he fell 40 feet while on a con-
struction job at Omaha, Nebraska.
He is in the Methodist Hospital at
Omaha and last reports received
Tuesday evening were that he was
showing some improvement but
was still in intensive care.
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SCHOOL NOTES FROM
OFFICE OF PRINCIPAL
Kenny Babcock was filing out a
job questionnaire and when he
came to the line asking “How long
married?” he hesitated for a mom-
ent, then put down, “24 hours a
day.”
During the negotiations by fe-
male students at Groom High
School for the privilege of wearing
pant suits the question was asked
one girl: “How do you judge when
the trousers are too tight?”
It doesn’t take “pull” to obtain
1971 license plates for your motor
vehicles. In fact, if you pull apart
the three-part motor vehicle regis-
tration form mailed to you early
this year by the Texas Highway
Department it will make the proc-
ess slower and unnecessarily com-
plicated.
Even though the handy three-
part form carries the warning “Do
Not Separate or Detach Any Parts
of This Notice” in large letters on
the reverse side, many motorists
are doing just that.
Highway Department officials
and county tax officers report that
many motorists in applying for li-
cense plates by mail detached only
one part of the form and sent it in.
Department officials stress that
the entire form must be mailed in
or brought to the county tax office
or sub-station. A stick down strip
showing the new license number
will be attached to all sections of
the form and the tax office will
I separate the form, returning the
license receipt to the owner.
Motor vehicle owners still can ob-
tain their 1971 license plates by
mail if they send in the entire
1, in the War Memorial Building ■ three-part form, their registration
flurries struck over the week end in Panhandle. They were not only fee and $1 for handling to their
lowing day that they were due.
Effective February 1, over-due
book fines were raised to 5 cents
per day county-wide. There will
be a return box in the City Hall-
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— New Arrivals —
(Mr. and Mrs. Robert West have a
new daughter, Victoria Leann, 7
lbs., 11 ozs., born at 2:06 a.m., Sat-
urday, Feb. 6, 1971 in Groom Mem-
orial Hospital. Other children in
the family are Barbara, Tommy,
Allan, Eric and Russell. Grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
West and Mr. and Mrs. Harlon
1 Pool of McLean.
Groom is scheduled for Sunday,
Feb. 28, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.,
when members of the Groom FHA
Chapter and friends will make a
house to house campaign solicit-
ing donations for the Heart Fund.
The campaign workers will meet
at the Max Wade home at 2:30 p.m.
on Feb. 28 and will try to contact
each home in town during the aft-
ernoon.
Donations may be mailed to
Heart Fund, Box 460, Groom, Tex-
as 79039 or’left at the State Na-
tional Bank or Groom News office.
Co-operation of the public will be
appreciated in making the annual
Heart Fund campaign a success.
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JERRY CROWELL AND DAVID
FENNEL AT STATE MEET
A young school teacher was stop-
ped in Houston for driving through
a red light and given a ticket to
appear in traffic court the follow-
ing Monday.
Appearing before the judge, she
was told sternly by the judge: “So,
you’re a school teacher. Your
presence here fulfills a long-stand-
ing ambition with me. For years
I have yearned to have a school
teacher in this court.
“Now,” he ordered, “you sit right
down at that table over there and
write ‘I went through a red light’
500 times.”
be done, conferences to be held, the
new system of bookkeeping, the
I cataloguing being done by Mrs.
Vern Wisdom, and the increased in-
terest in the work shown by the
residents of the area. A coffee
break was taken for a few minutes
at which time the new members
and the carry-over members of the
del gave in detail the assignments receive the annual Easter Seal Ap-
given to each member of the com-i
dropping temperatures to near the present but accepted graciously the county tax officer during February,
assignments given them for the That allows the month of March
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Time was taken to explain to the 1 and the license plates returned be-
new members just what was ex- j fore the April 1 deadline for dis-
Minard Henderson sends this one
in:
Abraham Lincoln didn’t like to
go to church and hear complacent
“cut-and-dried” sermons. He ex-
plained: “When I hear a man
preach, I like to see him act as if
he were fighting bees.”
pected of the group, a definite part j playing the new plates.
ivDiul LI0.. uz. JICg of county government. No one left I During the month of March, it
was scant and farmers are report-I the meeting without knowing that j will be necessary for owners to ap-
for the Square (House Museum, the, ply in person at the county tax of-
The annual Groom School trus-
tee election will be held on April 3,
1971 and deadline for filing for a
place on the ballot is March 4, 1971.
Three trustees will be elected to
the seven-man board for 3-year
terms of office. Retiring board
members are Troy Treadwell, W.
H. Ollinger and Bob Pool.
Candidates must file written ap-
plications for places on the ballot
with the school secretary not less
than 30 days prior to election date.
For a name to be place on the bal-
lot, a petition signed by five per-
sons, together with a statement
from the candidate allowing his
name to be placed on the ballot
and stating that he will serve if
elected, must be filed in office of
county judge or school business of-
fice by March 4.
Forms are available in the busi-
ness office at the school for peti-
tions for names on ballot.
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Weather Changes Coming
Rapidly As Spring Nears
The young miss replied:"“When
I put a quarter in the pocket and
I can tell which side is heads or
tails when it presses against my
leg I think the garment is a bit too
snug.”
historical volumes “A Time Tofice or substation for 1971 license
Purpose,” the book of poems by (plates.
Charles Deahl and illustrated by in either case; owmers will -save
Floyd Scott, and numerous other, themselves time and trouble by us-
projects and activities did not justing the new comupterized applica-
happen. ition. You won’t need your title
Mrs. Ralph Randel, chairman of certificate or last year’s registra-
the committee presided at the i tion receipt.
meeting. She told of work that had j But’ remember, leave the three
been done on the museum, work to । parts of the registration application
(committee continued the discus- Fort Worth, president of the Eas-
sions having to do with the museum ter Seal Society for Crippled Chib
tinue through Easter Sunday,
April 11.
Mr. Tuggle is one of 223 men and
women throughout Texas who are
serving in this capacity. The cost
of the state-wide Easter Seal pro-
gram is over one million dollars,
financed mainly by the Easter Seal
Appeal. Almost 90 per cent of all
funds raised by the Eatser Seal
Appeal remain in Texas to support
the growing needs of the disabled
in the state.
Special emphasis is 'being given
in the 1971 Easter Seal Appeal to
the disabled citizen or his family
in Carson County who may need
assistance and not know where to
obtain it. Any disabled person can
contact Mr. Tuggle at the First Na-
tional Bank, Panhandle, Texas, and
he will refer the request for serv-
ices to the Easter Seal Society. A
determination of the extent and
type of assistance needed and the
most efifiicent means of obtaining
that assistance will be made. Ar-
rangements for needed treatment
or service will be made by the Eas-
ter Seal Society.
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Telephone No. 248-3541 and re
' port news for publication
The librarian will notify residents
of over-due books by phone the fol-, GROOM MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL REPORT
You’re never quite sure how you
feel about a neighbor until a “For
Sale” sign suddenly appears in
front of his house.
Thurs., Fri. and Sat., Feb. 18-19-
trist’office window: "I you don’t High School Boys district tour-
see what you want, you’ve comenament at —eo.
to the right place.” ! HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Bert Levy was running to catch a
bus in Amarillo and just as he ap-
peared to be winning the race, the
bus driver, with a fiendish smirk,
pulled away from the curb and the
wheels splashed muddy water over
the old timer.
Softly, Bert mumured: “May his
soul find peace.” Still more softly,
he added: “And the sooner the
better!”
be returned in the forenoon.
The Groom Branch Library is
open 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
New Books at the Library:
“Something to Live By,” by Dor-
othea Kopplin.
“In Christ,” by Stanley Jones.
“Treasury of Biblical Quota-
tions,” by Lester Berrey.
“Moon Rocks,” by Henry Cooper.
“The Hungry Grass,” by Richard
Power.
“Too Good To Be True,” by K.
Hunt.
“Winter Rrange,” by Al Cody.
“Outlaws Brand,” by Tom Curry.
“Whispering Gallery,” by W.
Ross.
“How Young They Die,” by
Stuart Cloete.
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CHARLES KOETTING INJURED
IN 40-FOOT FALL AT OMAHA
mittee. Very few escaped without
receiving additional duties beyond
what was expected in former
years. There will be numerous
sub-committees at work and on
some of the activities individuals
will carry on calling upon others
when needed. George Rohan and
his barbecue committee are right
now at work on the fall barbecue.
Just an example to indicate the
committee is on the job 12 months
a year on the several phases of
preserving the history of Carson
“No wonder Lynette gets straight
“A” in French,” lamented one teen
student to another. “Her parents
were born in Louisiana and speak
French at home.”
“In that case I ought to get “A”
in geometry,” complained the oth-
er. “My parents are square and
talk in circles.”
A farmer’s garage burned down
and C. L. Culver, agent for the in-
surance company, explaining the
policy that covered the structure,
told him that his firm would build
another garage of similar size in-
stead of paying the claim in cash.
The farmer was furious. “If
that’s the way your company does
business, you can cancel the in-
surance on my wife!”
“Another new dress’” griped
Paul Bowers. “Where will I get
the money to pay for it?”
“Whatever my faults, dear,” re-
plied his wife, “you can’t say I’m
inquisitive.”
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1971, newspaper, February 11, 1971; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512136/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.