The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1973 Page: 1 of 8
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The Groom News, Groom, Carson County, Texas 79039
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1973
The Texas Highway Patrol
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HOSPITAL REPORT
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Glen is now able
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Firemen To Raise Funds
To Buy New Rural Truck
John C. Koetting Rites
Are Held in Houston
Homer, Page Blackwell, and Mel
Prather.
Groom Schools Show 309
Students Are Enrolled
Traffic Crashes in July
Total 18 for This County
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Classes begin each morning dur-
ing school days at 8:20 a.m. and
school is dismissed at 3:45 p.m.
Next week the editors and re-
porters of The Tigers Tale plan to
unit tailored to our department’s
needs can be used in 98 per cent
of all fires and these are our plans.
“All donations to this project are
bers whether they live in town or
in the country.
September is the month when en-
rollments are revised and a mem-
ing times of the county 4-H clubs
are as follows:
Conway 4-H Club—third Monday
each month.
grades is as follows:
First grade .......
Second grade .....
Third grade......
Fourth grade .....
Fifth grade .......
Sixth grade .......
Seventh grade ....
Eighth grade .....
Ninth grade ......
Tenth grade ......
Eleventh grade ...
Twelfth grade ....
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GROOM BANK TO BE CLOSED
MONDAY FOR LABOR DAY
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BUD BROWN IN HOSPITAL
WITH A BROKEN ANKLE
Grain prices at local elevators
Wednesday afternoon of this week
were:
WHEAT: $4.40 bushel.
MILO: $4.80 per 100 lbs.
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DANCE PLANNED AT GROOM
LEGION HALL SEPTEMBER 8
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4-H CLUB MEETINGS TO
RESUME IN , COUNTY
have it ready for publication
The Groom News.
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C. H. OVERSTREET JOINS
CLARENDON D.V.M. CLINIC
member is asked to bring a dish.
Hostess will be Mrs. Cliff Fraser.
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GRAIN PRICES THIS WEEK
AT ELEVATORS IN GROOM
that it has been in the past.
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ROUND ROBIN PINOCHLE
CLUB TO MEET SEPT. 4
apprroach in conjunction with an j was former chairman of the Amer-
entertainment program near the' Ran Bakers Association and past
end of the drive which we will try j president of the Texas Bakers As-
to complete during Thanksgiving sociation.
week,” said Bob. ! He leaves his wife, Mrs. Freddye
“Although the new unit is plan- Koetting, and daughters, Mrs. ear-
ned primarily for rural use it has i olyn Combs and Mrs. Delia Brous-
been found in the past that a good sard, all of Houston, and a brother,
City Making Final Plans
To Remove Junk Vehicles
son of Hannah and R. W. Over-
street, brother of Mrs. Ron Daven-
port of Friona, and is a grandson
of Mrs. C. H. Keeter of Groom.
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day from St. Anthony’s Hospital
in Amarillo where he spent the
month recuperating from a
because of race, color, or national. al e
origin. It costs nothing to try it ipast
out. Extension agents in Carson ■ heart attack.
County are Pat Palmer and John to be up and about and is is report*
Fields. 1 ed doing fine.
audience waited patiently for short
rains to stop, and the show' was
able to proceed except for one oc-
casion when only the first act was
presented.
The production is still drawing
people from great distances. In a
survey taken on August 2, which is
representative of the figures for
this season, 36 per cent of the audi-
ence lived over 500 miles away, 37
per cent of the audience lived in
the panhandle and the rest travel-
ed from 100 miles to 500 miles each
way to attend. •
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— New Arrivals —
William Koetting of Groom.
Burial was in Garden of Gethse-
mani Cemetery at Houston.
Relatives from Groom attending
Mr. and Mrs. Herbie Hunt
where he was installing a gutter
on the edge of the roof. Bud re-
ceived a broken leg above his
right ankle. He will be immobil-
ized for several weeks while the
bone is healing.
Working with Mr. Brown on the
10-foot scaffold was Bob Ledwig
who also took a tumble to the pave-
ment below. Bob escaped serious
injury but received some painful
scratches on his arms and bruised
heels.
The Round Robin Pinochle Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Sept. 4 in the Hospitality Room of
the State National Bank. A salad
supper will be served and each
phasized from now until October.
Many persons have signed consent
forms for the City to remove ve-
hieles. A] residents having junk
or abandoned cars on their prop-
erty who have not turned these in
C. H. Overstreet who recently
received his Doctorate of Veterin-
ary Medicine from Texas A&M
University is now associated with
Drs. Deyle and Patterson at the
veterinary clinic in Clarendon.,
The young veterinarian has a
ranching background from Lynn
great metal triangles rang, closing
the eighth season of the musical
drama “Texas” which plays in the
Palo Duro Canyon. More than
85,000 people attended the 58 per-
formances, raising the total at-
tendance in the eight years to 585,-
000. The final unaudited count for
1973 is 86,262.
There were 2 rain-outs this sea- i
Cheyenne and Mr. and Mrs. Earl born at 4:01 p.m., Friday, Aug.
Hamon of Mangum, Okla. 24, 1973.
to make a donation can leave it at Mrs. William Koetting, Mr. and ibe published next week. It is hop-
ed that finally we will be able to
The Groom Public Schools open-
ed the 1973-74 school term Friday
morning, August 24, with an offi-
cial total enrollment of 309 stu-
dents in grade one through twelve.
The 309 students for the new
school year compares with a total
beginning enrollment last year of
313 students in grades 1-12.
The enrollment this year by
Members of the' Groom Volun-
teer Fire Department include John
Quirk, Glen Smith, Bill McKee,
Ross Nix, Lester Pair, Bob Led-
vestigated 18 accidents on rural <
highways in Carson County during :
the month of July, according to <
Sgt. C. E. Henderson of Borger, <
the Highway Patrol supervisor of
this area. :
These crashes results in none
killed and 10 persons injured.
The rural traffic accident sum-
mary for Carson County during :
the first six months of 1973 shows
a total of 94 accidents resulting in
no persons killed and 48 persons in-
jured.
The rural traffic accident sum-
mary for the 60 counties of the
Lubbock Department of Public
Safety Region for July, 1973 shows
a total of 658 accidents resulting
in 21 persons killed and 366 per-
sons injured as compared to July,
1972 with 713 accidents resulting
in 34 persons killed and 388 per-
sons injured. This was 55 less ac-
cidents, 13 less fatalities, and 22
less injured in 1973 at the same
period of time.
The 21 traffic deaths for the!
month of July, 1973 occurred in
the following counties: Lubbock,
Sherman, Wilbarber, three each;
Palo Pinto, Parmer, two each;
A public dance will be held, at
the American Legion Hall in
Groom beginning at 9:00 p.m. Sat-
urday, Sept. 8.
Admission will be $5.00 per
couple, or $2.50 for singles, and
everyone is invited to attend.
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NEW PHONE NUMBER FOR
MRS. RUBY MILTON 248-5961
The State National Bank of
Groom will be closed next Mon-
day in observance of the Labor
Day holiday. Customers are re-
minded to drop by and get a supply
of blank checks if they plan to at-
tend any of the holiday celebra-
tions Monday as hamburgers and
gas are not cheap anymore.
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CAR STOLEN IN GROOM
RECOVERED IN OKLAHOMA
Services for John C. Koetting, 77,
retired board chairman of Rainbo
Baking Company of Houston, were
held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday at St.
Michael’s Catholic Church in Hous-
ton.
Mr. Koetting of 2400 Yorktown,
Houston, died Thursday. He was
bom in Henley, Mo., in 1896 and
worked in Kansas City before mov-
ing to Houston in 1928 where he
opened a ibakery owned by Winn
Campbell of Dallas. In 1963, Mr.
Koetting was elected vice president
of Campbell-Taggart Associated
Bakeries, Campbell’s national com-
pany with majority interest in
Rainbo Bakeries.
Mr. Koetting was a member of
St. Michael’s Catholic Church and
a regent of St. Joseph Hospital. He
A car was stolen about noon
Monday in Groom from near the
Bridges Butane & Oil Co. It be-
longed to Anthony Ledwig. The
vehicle was found Tuesday at
Erick, Okla., where it had been
abandoned. An abandoned car
left in Groom where Led wig’s ve-
hicle was taken was later identi-
fied as a stolen vehicle owned by
an Amarillo motorist.
Mrs. Ruby Milton has a new
telephone number, 248-5961. Please
write it in your directory.
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glen smith out of hospital
Glen Smith, was dismissed Sun-
VOLUME 48. NUMBER 27.
City officials, in recent months,
have made several attempts to
get junk cars removed from the
streets, residences, and vacant
lots throughout town. Some prop-
erty owners have moved these junk
and abandoned cars off themselves
and some have been hauled away
by a body shop. Over-all the at-
tempt to rid the town of over 100
of these vehicles has been slow
and hampered by one thing or an-
other.
Last week the City secured ar-
rangements with a salvage com-
pany to move into Groom with a
Groom 4-H Club—4th Monday.
Happy Workers 4-H Club—first
I Tuesday.
Panhandle 4-H Club—3rd Tues-
day.
Rain or Shine 4-H Club—2nd
Tuesday.
White Deer 4-H Club—1st Mon-
day.
Clubs hold monthly meetings
from September through May.
Summer months are taken up with
swimming and skating parties,
county camp, and other county-
wide activities.
Any person, 9 to 19, interested in
joining 4-H should contact the
County Extension office located in
the Courthouse basement in Pan-
handle. Interested persons may
also contact any of the adult or-
ganization leaders in the county.
They are Henry Leven, Doris
Smith, Don Vance, Mitchie Fus-
ton, Grace Bulla, Dorothy Ral-
eigh, Gladys Looten, Marion Hai-
duk, Don Warminski, and Rose-
mary Warminski. Adults interest-
ed in assisting with this youth
work should also contact the Coun-
ty Extension office.
This is a good youth program
and membership is not restricted
Pavlovski, Bill Homer, Eldon
son, eleven in eight years. On five GROOM MEMORIAL
other evenings this summer the
J. C. (Bud) Brown was taken to
Groom Memorial Hospital a few
minutes after the noon hour Mon- j ber must enroll each year,
day after a scaffold collapsed in:
front of the Groom Pharmacy
Jones, Jim Kingston, Rodney Har- ’
din, Roman Homen, Martin Her- j J-- - -- —- •
mesmeyer Guy Blackwell, Jack j costs involved. Contrary to po
West, Janies Ledwig, Bob West Al, larnbaliefnim aisinnoranretssprrtici. i in the enforcement of our Junk and
pate in 4-H activities. Many dif- Abandoned Vehicle ordinance so
ferent project .areas are available that once the town is cleaned up
which can be conducted by mem- we might be better able to keep
portable baler. The crew and
equipment will be here around the
latter part of October. They will
pick up the scattered junk through-
out town and move it to one cen-
tral location for processing. The
operator of this salvage firm would
welcome farmers and residents
outside the city to haul in old car
or pickup bodies and scrap metal
they would like to get rid of, to be
baled while they are here.
Arrangements have been made
for a central location site and work
will begin next week to get it ready
so that junk and metal can be un-
loaded on it. Details of location
and instructions for dumping will
The Groom Volunteer Fire De-
partment is starting a drive to
raise funds for the purchase of a
new fire fighting unit, reports Bob
Ledwig. “We are in need of this
unit to make our rural calls more
efficient,” he said: “The unit we
now use has a small water capa-
city and, although good for grass
fire, has left us short in some
dwelling fires when a few more
gallons of water would have been
enough,” Ledwig stated.
“We will purchase a chassis and
do the major part of the building
and equipping ourselves to fit our
needs, in this way we will ibe able
to keep the over-all cost down and
will set a goal in this drive of
$15,000.00,” he said.
“We plan to use a direct contact
Meetings of the si Carson Coun-
ty 4-H clubs will resume in Sep-
tember. Any youth between the to the City previously are now be-
i ages of 9 and 19 are • eligible to: ing asked again to do so. The serv-
! join 4-H and there are no dues or ice is free and it would do much
! Ane+e involed Contrary to popu- to improve the health and safety
r to of our town. Further, it would aid
wig, Tim Gibbins, Don Case, Don-
ald Conrad, J. L. Case, Norris
and Floyd County. His hobby is Hoyt, Joe Davis, Bill Britten, Bill
the violin. Dr. Overstreet is the
Amarillo have a new daughter,
Gana Lee, bom Thursday, Aug.
23, 1973 in High Plains Baptist
Hospital. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth Hunt, and great-
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Hunt, all of Amarillo.
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Mr., and Mrs. Arthur Wickelman
of Bryant, Ind., have a new grand-
son, David Paul, son of Paul and
Carol Wickelman of Bryant. Mrs.
Arthur Wickelman is the former
Loretta Homer, sister of Carl,
Paul, and Mike Homer, Mrs. Char-
lie Hermesmeyer and Mrs. Ray
Britten, of Groom.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Carey of
Groom have a new son, Doyle Ray,
born at 8:05 a.m., Saturday, Aug.
25, 1973 at Groom Memorial Hos-
pital, weight 7 lbs., 2% ozs.,
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Carey of Durham, Okla.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hamon of
Reydon, Okla. Great-grandparents
are Mrs. Jerry Harrison of Rey-
don, Mrs. Hespie Underwood of
the State National Bank, mail it di- Mrs. Al Homer, Mrs. Louis Leven,
rectly to Groom Fire Department, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bohr, and Gene rid the city of these unwanted eye-
or contact their favorite friendly Koetting, and Mrs. John Kempf sores that have plagued us for sev-
volunteer fireman, ” from Amarillo. era years.
Cooperation is again being em-
Hockley, Jack, Lamb, Parker,
Wise, Hutchinson, Potter and Old-
ham, one each.
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“TEXAS” ENDS SEASON
IN PALO DURO PARK
Among the patients at Groom
Memorial Hospital the past week
were:
Medical:
Betty Wells, Lefors
Geraldine Parson, Lefors
Mary LaRue, Pampa
Sharon Nunn, Pampa
Shane Hall, Clarendon
Timothy Hastings, White Deer
Jimmie Flowers, Amarillo
Mary Young, Groom
Darlene David, Miami
Annie Pfeiffer, Clarendon
Austiin John Morgan, Shamrock
Edna Earle Lewis, Groom
Dorothy McFarland, Pampa
Bonnie King, Groom
Willie Malone, Panhandle
Lola Harris, Memphis
Aaron Cummings, Groom
Katie Harris, Clarendon
Jean Atchley, Panhandle
Dorothy Monk, Pampa
Sharon LaParte, Pampa
Cynthia Smith, Panhandle
Charles Hill, Claude
Surgical:
Sharon North, Groom
Lorene Buurtin, Canadian
Cecil Hendrix, Amarillo
Rodney Fields, Amarillo
Sharon Chandler, Amarillo
Nellie Thomas, Pampa
Tony Fankhouser, Hooker, Okla.
Wanda Deen, Lelia Lake
Ralph Lemon, Stinnett
J. C. (Bud) Brown, Groom
Sharyn Morrow, Clarendon
Lynda Allen, Clarendon
Obstetrical:
Mrs. Ronnie Carey of Groom, a
• son, 7 lbs., 2% ozs., born at 8:03
! a.m., Saturday, Aug. 25, 1973.
Mrs. Joseph Matheson of Ama-
- rillo, a daughter, 7 lbs., 5 ozs.,
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1973, newspaper, August 30, 1973; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512393/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.