Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1962 Page: 4 of 16
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4 The Claude News, Claude, Armstrong Co., Texas, DEC. 27, 1962.
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Menu this week
Dec. 25: Turkey.
Dec. 26: Turkey sandwiches.
Dec. 27: Turkey hash.
Dec. 28: Turkey soup.
Dec. 29: Bone finerse.
Dcc. 30: Alkali-seltzer.
Dec. 31: No turk resolution.
Next holiday
Our next holiday will be Feb.
2, Ground Hog Day. In 1963 this
may prove significant as we are
living in an age when we may
join the old boy any time. So,
happy Ground Hog Day.
Ideal living
I was surprised to find the
"sloth" lives an ideal life. The
sloth eats so slowly that by the
time it finishes one meal it's
time for the next. Perhaps that
is also the reason there are so
few sloths in the world.
Puzzled
I don't quite know what to
make of this little note; is it a
Christmas present or a Christ-
mas wish? I received it Christ-
mas Eve and it reads:
"This certificate entitles the
The Claude News
ESTABLISHED IN 1890
Phone 226-3461
Co-Editors & Publishers
Wm. J. B. WAGGONER
CECIL O. WAGGONER
Local & Personal Items
Tom Henry Miller—Dail 226-4281
Entered as second class mail mat-
ter at the post office at Claude,
Armstrong County, Texas, under
the Act of March 30, 1879.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
-: Subscription Rates :■
In Armstrong County, year. ..$3.06
Outside the county, year $3.83
Prices include 2% Sales Tax
Members of
TEXAS PRESS ASS'N.
PANHANDLE PRESS ASS'N.
NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASS'N.
Second pj 'ce winner for Best Col-
umn, Pannandle Press Ass'n. 1957
Third place winner for Best Col-
umn, Div. VII, Texas Press, 1959.
Second place winner for Best Col-
umn, Panhandlle Press Ass'n, 1960
Deadlines: General and club news,
morning following event. Adver-
tisements: Tuesday noon.
All accounts with The Claude News
Claude, Texas, are due at our of-
fice on or before the 10th of the
month following delivery of such
services and/or printing. No other
arrangements are authorized.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation
of any person, firm or corporation
that may appear in the columns
of The Claude News, will gludly be
corrected upon it being brought to
the attention of the publishers.
Tn the case of errors In legal or
other advertising the publishers do
noi hold themselves liable for da-
mages in excess of the amount
paid for such service.
All resolutions of respect, card of
thanks, publishing at church or
>viftr ''mctioiv where •drateatm
If charged, 1a eburtflad aa adrar-
Hifnr ehar ad fm ~~
bearer—NON-TRiANSFERABLE —
CECIL WAGGONER to one car
wash job, free of apparent or
noticeable charge, at 209 Wes-
tern Street, Claude, Texas. To
redeem this coupon, present it
to ... Merry Christmas. . . .
Note: Only top quality products
will be used."
I have a vague suspicion that
he may make his six year old
son do the work.
Perhaps it is well
The mere strongly we become
creatures of habit the more strong-
ly we rebel against special days
and seasons of the year. These
special observances are inclined
to yank us out of the nocturnal
ditch in which we have been
tramping all year.
When we once lose our vision
we vegitate and become automo-
tons to routine.
For this reason I have always
been highlyin favor of vacations.
But those vacations must change
the total environment to be com-
pletely effective. And the old boy
who boasts he never takes a
vacation is simply admitting he
can't get out of his ever living
grave.
Now is the time to start plan-
ning that summer sauterne.
That man again
On Jan. 1, Social Security tax-
es will rise once more, both em-
ployees and employers will pay at
the rate of three and five eighths
per cent on earnings to $4800.
The self-employed rate will be
5.4 per cent on earnings to that
figure. Additional increases are
scheduled, by law, for 1966 and
1968.
If you think this is going to
be rough wait until medicare is
added to the tab. Then you'll
hear some real screaming. You'll
be paying well over half of your
income, if you receive under $4300
a year, to the government.
It sounds like these programs
are to help the little guy but it
is actually soaking them but good.
Those who make from $5000 up
can make it okey because they
only have to pay on the first
$4800.
Counties can set up libraries
According to a Texas Press
Ass'n. report, Attorney General
Wilson has ruled that a county
commissioner's court must estab-
lish a free, county library if a
petition for its establishment is
signed by a sufficient number of
qualified voters.
It also authorizes commission-
er's courts to set aside tax funds
to maintain the free, county
library.
Burton S. Burks Sr., Hood Co-
unty attorney, asked for the
ruling.
Christmas all year long
When racial groups become a
political liability you will no long-
er hear from political saints who
go out to slay the dragon called
the white man. Through an en-
genious psychological play upon
the guilts of the whites, politi-
cians have used both to further
his political ends. Now things are
beginning to backfire, especially
since the northern white finds
himself in the same galleon as
the southern white.
According to the U.S. News &
World Report President Kennedy
and Adlai Stevenson are said to
have sought, in a recent White
House meeting with Negro lead-
ers, to induce those leaders to
shift their strategy from one of
boycotts, sit-ins and other lines
of attack on racial barriers to
one stressing the responsibilities
of Negroes to measure up to their
new role in U.S. and the world.
Some pollticains are reported to
feel that present «Negro policies
may backfire politically on Nor-
thern Democrats.
Political Chrisitmas will be over
when the Northern White finds
he is subject to the same self-
righteous laws he has been forc-
ing on the south. People are in-
deed funny.
Christmas story
Perhaps one of the most inter-
esting Christmas stories I en-
countered during the Holiday
Season is one written by Ford
A. Ellis, minister of the North
Amarillo Christian Church. Mr.
Ellis writes:
It is a rough and most difficult
road, crooked as well, the one
which the human race travels
from the gate of Paradise to the
door of the Stable where the
Babe of Bethlehem lies. This
rugged and uneven way has been
marked by the blackened foot-
prints of man's iniquity and re-
bellion. The sinfulness of man
led God to say, "for it repenteth
me that I have made man." Hu-
manity, in its ignorance became
lost. He found himself helpless.
In his weakness he cried out, "no
man careth for my soul."
It is at Bethlehem that God
declares to man, "thus far and
no farther." "I place between you
and the bottomless pit, a barrier,
a Babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes and lying in a manger."
Redemption is at hand. There is
hope for God's creation. "For
unto us a child is born, unto us
a son is given, of the increase of
His government and peace, there
shall be no end." The human
race repents as it stands with
the shepherds as they gaze upon
the new found hope. Here marks
the beginning of the way back.
Here, before the innocency of
the Christ Child, man begins his
.ong journey, following the blacK-
ened footsteps, to the innocency
of the Eden-garden. If humanity
found the way of evil, rugged in
his return, that which relieves
the unbearableness of it is the
presence of the Living Christ.
Whose hardened heart would
not melt as he gazes into the
clear, pure eyes of this God's
infant. As man journies back
over this rugged, uneven road to
God's Kingdom, he should ever
keep in mind, the Babe, God's
sacrifice for man's redemption.
Our political climate
One writer says, "The Socialists
seem to want to replace 'the faith
of our fathers' with educational
crusades to eliminate poverty, ill-
health, war, racial segregation and
crime. To them religion is nothing
more than social work."
We are even brain-washed into
the belief that God is a Socialist.
Do you believe this? Do you ask
God for bread, then sit with
folded hands? The true prayer
asks for "guidance" not Santa
Clause.
Would you be shocked if I said
God was a capitalist. Semantics
may get out of hand but capital-
ism simply means "the right to
own and control property."
In the book "Mainspring" we
are shown to what extent God
is a capitalist through their para-
phrasing of the ien command-
ments. The commandments read:
The FIRST commandment tells
the individual to reject pagan
gods and recognize his own worth
as a human being, subject to no
power but that of the Creator
and Judge.
The SECOND tells the indivi-
dual to form no image of ab-
stract Rightness but to direct his
reverence toward the Divine in
Truth.
The THIRD tells the individual
not to speak frivolously of the
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We ring in the New Ye*? with
our thanks for your fine support.
DAIRY BEE
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Happy New Year!
And thanks for
your patronage.
1963
Farmers Supplies
& Consumers
CHEERS!
We wish you well
through the year
ahead. To all we
say "Happy 1963".
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