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Ohe Groom Rews
The Groom News, Groom, Carson County, Texas 79039
City and School Elections Census Bureau Releases
Local News and
FACTS
Scheduled for Saturday
Count for Carson County
Personal Mention
Groom voters will have an op-
A crew of workmen have been
Carson County’s official popula-
V
Groom Hotel Building.
The official ballot
commissioners.
a
Groom School building near the
The census showed 447 children
a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m.
same election judges will serve for
In addition,
households.
person
minister.
greatly strengthened; others wake
unit buildings, and 82 mobile homes
said the principal, ’ OFFICE OF PRINCIPAL
give the kid a chance.
and boys underwear, sox,
\
r
| Upstairs Removed From
Groom Hotel Building
The strong winds in the last few
weeks show the need for better con-
servation of our natural resources:
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Thornton and
Mrs. Jodie Thornton and children
What bothers me is — if those
space scientists are so smart, why
do they all count backwards? asks
Dolan Hanna.
men’s
etc.
Be sure and vote in the City and
School Trustee election Saturday!
Jack Pool tells us a butcher is
a guy whose hands always get in
the weigh.
146 persons were living in group
quarters.
The 1970 census counted 2,329
Thursday, April 1: Dress up day.
District golf meet.
Friday, April 2: End of fifth six-
weeks. .
One-act play at Miami.
Amarillo relays.
Saturday, April 3: Lit. meet at
Miami.
Winning isn’t everything, but los-
ing isn’t anything!
strife,
A man can count upon his wife
To take his mind off of his woe,
By telling him, “I told you so.”
pedia.”
“Aw, hell,”
99.7 per cent of the population was
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GROOM MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL REPORT
I daughter, Melissa Denice, 6 lbs.,
12% ozs., born at 12:54 p.m., Sat-
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— New Arrivals —
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ruthardt are
says Mrs. Vivian Lacy, proprietor.
Also offered is 20 per cent dis-
count on materials, dresses, slacks
and blouses said Mrs. Lacy.
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AND
Otherwise
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GRAIN PRICES THIS WEEK
AT ELEVATORS IN GROOM
The population 14 years and over
included 3,295 married people, 380
Who were widowed, 113 divorced,
and 957 never married.
There were 2,063 households with
“Is it serious, doctor?” asked
Leo Britten.
“There’s nothing to worry about.
Everything you have is covered by
hospitalization,” replied Dr. Levy.
Grain prices at local elevators
Wednesday afternoon of this week
were:
Wheat: $1.42 bushel.
Milo: $2.18 per hd. lbs.
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SCHOOL NOTES FROM
the hospital at Dimmitt recovering
Wellington Wed-! from a heart attack and is reported
! in a serious condition.
The hotel building was built by be elected for two-years terms of Census, U.S. Department of Com-
the late E. E. Filer for a local, office and include a mayor and 2 merce, reports,
corporation in 1929 and when first
A sermon can help people in dif-
ferent ways. Some/rise from it
the soil. Blowing dust and soil did Treadwell.
The polls will be located in
for his health and took up chewing
toothpicks instead. Now he’s got
the Dutch Elm disease.
considerable damage to farms in
the McClellan Creek Soil and Wat- schoolroom at the west end of the white.
Amarillo Girl: Gentlemen may
prefer blondes, but I’m not really
a blonde.”
“I don’t mind, I'm not really a
gentleman,” said Roman Homen.
Joe Dean tells this one:
It was the first day of school and
the teacher was getting the names
of the pupils: Bill, Jane, Tom, Shir-
ley. One boy said, “My name is
Dammitt.”
er Conservation District, according
to Tom Cunningham of the Soil
Conservation Service. Farmland
that had no cover, either from lack
of moisture or burning of residue,
was the first to blow. Much land
in the district had to be plowed to
stop the soil movement. There are
two types of farming practices that;
will control the blowing. These]
are stubble mulch farming and no-
till farming.
Stubble mulch farming consists
of plowing the land and residue
with large sweeps and tucking the
residue into the soil. This leaves
the large part of the residue on the
soil surface.
No-till farming is exactly what
the name implies. The land is not
tilled from crop to crop. The next
completed housed a drug store,
I set by the fact that no tillage op-
erations are performed.
In this time of words like ecology
and pollution the blowing dust is
just as bad as the smog in our big
cities. The soil that is removed
from the fields in a windstorm is
। the topsoil which is the most valu-
able part of the farm. This is the
soil that supports all plant life and
once removed the process is long
and complex to rebuild this layer
of soil. Any farmer desiring infor-
mation on no-till farming or stub-
blemulch farming is urged to come
in ages 5
will contain the name of
crop is seeded into the standing j
residue from the last crop. The!
up from it refreshed reports Jack weeds are controlled by chemicals.
Bivens. i The expense of the chemicals is off
Homer for mayor, and for commis-
sion the names of C. L. Wieberg
and Gregory Lamb. ) The two can-
didates for commissioner are seek-
ing re-election. Mr. Homer is a
new candidate for the office being
vacated by Frank Curry who has
held the office four years.
The Groom School District’s an-
nual election will fill three places
on the seven-man board of trustees.
Terms of office are for three years.
Candidates will be W. H. Ollinger,
Bob Pool and R. J. (Raphael) Brit-
ten. They are unopposed on the
ballot. Pool and Ollinger are can-
didates for re-election and Britten
is a candidate for the position held
by retiirng board member Troy
Mrs. Bob Milton returned home
Friday from a 12-day visit at
Houston with Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Simmons and family and at Port
Arthur with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lan-
dry and Melissa.
Mrs. Joe Britten and son, Maur-
ice, visited Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Swazey at Dallas last week end
Mrs. Dwain Currie returned to
her home in Linden, Tex., Tuesday
after a visit here with her father,
Manuel Ruthardt, who is a surgery
patient, in the Groom Memorial
Hospital, and with her mother and
other relatives and friends.
The Rev. Tommy Gleaton of Lit-
tleton, Colo., underwent major sur-
gery in a Denver, Colo., hospital
Tuesday. He is a son-in-law of Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Neal. Mr. and Airs.
Neal were in Colorado this week
with their daughter and family.
Mrs. Katherine Simpson and Mrs.
Roy Pounds and daughter, Trade
Kate returned to their homes in
Lansing, Mich., Saturday after a
week’s visit here with Mrs. Mattie
Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. Max Wade
and Kayla.
Pfc. Larry Stephens arrived
home Wednesday of last week for.
1 2 weeks leave from the U.S. Army.
Larry has spent the past five
months with the Echo Patrol, First
The through 17; 3,395 people 18 through
fon 64; and 753 who were 65 and older.
both city and school elections.
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Groom Church of Christ
I Plans Gospel Meetings
I The people of Groom are invited
to hear Wayland Whitlow, evange-
list of Laverne, Okla., in a series
of Gospel meetings April 5-11 at the
Groom Church of Christ.
Week-day services will be at 7:30
p.m., and Sunday services at 11:00
a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
“We invite everyone in the area
to attend all services,” said Roben
east wing of the building.
The hotel unit of the building has
been - closed down for the past two
years and was serving no good pur-
pose. Removal of the upper story
will make it possible to remodel
the entire building along more con-
ventional lines.
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WINDSTORM SHOWS NEED
FOR SOIL CONSERVATION
busy the past two weeks removing portunity to vote in two elections tion in the 1970 census was 6,358,
the upper floor from the two-story this coming Saturday, April 3. Of- DOWN 18.3 per cent from the 1960
ficials for the City of Groom will | figure of 7,781, the Bureau of the
The Christian Mother and Altar
Society of St. Mary’s parish will
sponsor a bake sale at Homer’s
Grocery, Saturday, April 3. All
members are urged to bring as
many items to sell as they can.
Customers wishing to place orders
for special goodies are requested
to telephone Mrs. Charley Hermes-
meyer, 248-5091, or Mrs. Johnny
Lee at number 248-4491.
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VIVIAN’S STORE HAVING
A “FIND IT” SALE
“If you can find it in our South
Room you can have it at 33 per cent
' discount—this includes men’s and
boys shirts, all shoes, men’s boys,
women’s and children, towels, wash
i cloths, tea towels, kitchen sets,
or trailers. The percentage of oc-
cupied units with more than one
person per room was 7.0, compared
with 14.9 in 1960. Of all the oc-
cupied housing units, 2,047 had
piped water, toilet and bath, while
16 lacked some or all plumbing.
The median value of owner-
occupied houses in Carson County
was $9,200, compared with $8,100
in 1960. The median rent paid by
tenants in 1970 was $56 per month,
compared with $45 in 1960. Half
were over and half below the
median figures.
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CHRISTIAN MOTHERS TO HAVE
BAKE SAT SATURDAY, APRIL 3
Some people certainly are pecu-
liar—they want the front of the bus,
the back of the church, and the
middle of the road says Rudolph
Tucker.
unusual name.”
, “Oh,” said the boy, “it’s a fam-
ily name; we’re proud of it.”
All went well until the principal
came to see the class in action'. He
asked some questions, and finally,
“Who can spell ‘encyclopedia?”
Dammitt raised his hand.
“Dammitt,” said the teacher,
“you know you can’t spell encyclo-
it’ yourself,”
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1971 (10c a copy)
The man was found guilty and fin-
ed. After the trial he asked the
judge: “This means that I cannot
call the countess a pig.”
The judge said that was true.
“’Does that mean that I cannot
call a pig a countess?” the man
asked.
The judge replied that he could,
indeed, call a pig a countess with
no fear of legal action.
The man looked at the countess
and said, “‘Good afternoon, coun-
tess!”
Among the patients at Groom
Memorial Hospital the past week
were:
Medical:
Evie I. Purdy, Panhandle
Bonnie J. Grantham, Panhandle
Alice Branum, Panhandle
Laverne Schultz, Groom
Vivian I. Gray, Borger
Janice J. Smith, Amarillo
Mildred McCarty, Pampa
Ruby Annis, Clarendon
Katie F. Talley, Groom
Ramona Brown, Phillips
Thomas Richardson,. McLean
Joe Berrera, Claude
Ethel Sears, Amarillo
Cora H. Hall, Groom
Hattie L. Noel, Pampa
Leslie F. Stewart, Pampa
Betty L. Garrison, Amarillo
Surgical:
Jack Leiper, Clarendon
Wallace L. Jolly, Wheeler
Henry Koetting, Groom
Howard L. Mansel, Groom
Myrtle Hall, Groom
Helen Weller, Groom
Judy Brown, Pampa
Roxie L. Littlefield, Groom
Obstetrical:
Mrs. Merle Couch, of Pampa, a
daughter, Richelie Renee, 7 lbs.,
10 ozs., born at 9:34 a.m., Thurs-
day, March 25, 1971.
Mrs. Louis Ruthardt, of Groom,
a boy Brice Benjamin, 7 lbs.. 13
ozs., born at 7:55 a.m., Friday,
March 26, 1971.
| Mrs. John Britten of Claude, a
Paul Bowers tells of his cousin
in Oklahoma who gave up smoking
Air Cavalry, stationed at a fire
6,212 persons, including 346 one- base near Saigon. Larry recently
The offiical population of the
Paul state was 11,196,730, up 16.9 per
cent from the 1960 population
count, which was 9,579,677.
A breakdown of the county pop-
ulation is as follows:
Carson County 1970 population
6,358; 1960-7,781.
Panhandle, 1970 population 2141;
1960—1958.
GROOM, 1970 population, 808;
1960—679.
Skellytown, 1970 population, 716;
1960-967.
White Deer, 1970 population,
1,092; 1960—1,057.
Carson County’s population was
classified as 100 per cent rural.
The 1970 census counted 6,323
white persons in Carson County,
99.4 per cent of the total; and 35
| persons of other races. In 1960,
by the ISoil Conservation Service
’That,” said the teacher, “is anoffice in Panhandle.
er, Joe Thornton, celebrate his 80th
birthday anniversary over the week
end.
Miss Ellen Latta and James
Dowdle of Corpus Christi visited
Ellen’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Latta and other relatives
and friends here last week end.
Scott Rogers of Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina left Thursday for
a tour of duty with the U.S. Air
Force in Hawaii after a few days
visit here with his grandmothers,
Mrs. Marie Rogers and Mrs. Ellen
Dickerson and other relatives and
friends. En route Scott will visit
his aunt and uncle and family, Mr.
and Mrs. James Dickerson at
.Scottsdale, Ariz.
Benton Moreman underwent
.emergency leg surgery in Baptist
High Plains Hospital in Amarillo
Sunday evening. Thad Moreman
of Texa's City is staying with his
father this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Crowell re-
turned home Thursday from Tem-
ple where she underwent a medical
checkup at Scott and White Clinic.
Mi's. Bob Longest of Amarllo
visited Monday with her father,
Henry Koetting who is a surgery
patient at Groom Memorial Hospi-
tal, and with her mother and rela-
tives and friends.
Henry Koetting who underwent
major surgery Monday at Groom
Memorial Hospital is reported do-
ing well.
Manuel Ruthhart who had major
surgery again, Monday, is report- -
ed making satisfactory recovery.
O. P. Blackwell remains m a
very critical condition at Groom
Memorial Hospital following recent
major surgery.
Monroe (Money) Wilkerson is in
grocery store, cafe and barber shop
A man was sued by a countess i in addition to the 20-room hotel,
for defamation of character. She After WWII the Groom Osteo-
charged that he called her a pig, pathic Clinic was built into the
VOLUME 46. NUMBER 5.
received his Combat Infantry
Badge.
business office. Polls open at 8:00 under 5 years; 1,763
A skunk challenged a dog to com-
bat. The dog refused. “Why,”
said the skunk, “are you afraid?"
“Yes,” admitted the dog. “For
you would gain fame by having the
honor of fighting a dog. But for
weeks everyone who came close to
me would know that I had been in
the company of a skunk.”
the parents of a new son, Brice
l Benjamin, born at 7:55 a.m., Fri-;
In time of storm and stress and.day, March 26, 1971 in Groomur ay* afC _
Memorial Hospital and weighing! UoA, IRER
Arhssssnjaren5 Ms. Buddy WeUer Ms a new
Eentanazeandructh' idearsotg: 1 tateprorntnrtmnbnrjust | Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Thompson
A Br“ Aman“o and Mr. and distributed. Thenumher is listed werey siting ’ “
Mrs. Manuel Ruthardt of Groom, to R. G. Weller 248-2361. nes y.
Come ‘find
Mrs. Travis Payne has returned
_ to her home in Bossier City, La.,
housing units in Carson County, after a few days visit with her
1,512 of them occupied by owners, I rather o. P. Blackwell who is a
551 occupied by tenants, and 26 surgery patient in Groom Memor-
vacant. These included vacant (ial Hospital. and with her mother
units for seasonal use. The pro- and other relatives and friends,
portion occupied by owners in 1970
Hanes, Groom Church of Christ j was 164.9 per cent, compared with
1 51.7 per cent in I960. returned Sunday from Howe where
Among year-round dwellingunits2 they had been visiting their par-
there were 2,138 singe amiilyents and other relatives and
houses, 108 housing units in multi- friends. They helped R. B.’s fath-
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1971, newspaper, April 1, 1971; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512143/m1/1/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.