The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1956 Page: 1 of 20
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VOLUME 49
TWENTY
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SEMINOLE, GAINES COUNTY, TEXAS
Thursday, October 25, 1956 PRICE 10c Number 48
New Location Set
For Harvest Day
Saturday Drawing
Scene of »next Saturday's
Silver Harvest Day free draw-
ing will be in the 600 block of
South Main St. between Tow-
er Appliance and Furniture Co.
and H & D Food Store, of-
ficials announced.
Silver Harvest drawings are
free, no obligation drawing? at
which negotiable merchandise
certificates are given persons
whose names are drawn. Per-
sons may register free at any
participating firm and be-
come eligible to win the priz-
es.
Next Saturday's Silver Har-
vest Pot totals $550, of which
half can be won.
F. M. Morton of Seminole
was the winner last Saturday,
claiming five per cent of the
$500 pot, or $25 in merchan-
dise certificates.
BEHOLD! THE WINNER — Twelve-year-old
Earl Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. L G. Miller,
Seminole, proudly displays a blue ribbon and
the pig which took the grand prize champion
barrow title at the State Fair of Texas. Young
Miller is a Gaines County 4H boy. He also is
a Seminole Sentinel carrier boy.
With Grand Champ Barrow
\Seminole Boy Wins Fair Award
A 12-year-old Seminole Sentin-
lel carrier boy Thursday held the
| honor of Texas' top pig raiser.
Earl Miller, son of Mr. and
I Mrs. L. G. Miller of Seminole,
Iwith a Spotted Poland China en-
Itry at the State Fair of Texas
Itook the blue ribbon &nd $26 in
(prize money for the Grand
(Champion Barrow exhibit.
■Earl's was the first Spotted
|Poland China ever picked at the
State Fair as the Grand Cham-
pion Barrow.
The young 4-H boy was a-
long several Gaines County
youngsters whose animals placed
the livestock show of the
world's largest state fair.
Jimmy Westbrook of Seagrav-
srvice Station Man
rins Chevrolet $50
Ira Elkins, manager of Sem-
inole McAdoo Chevrolet Co.,
[lursday announced the winner
the $50 grand prize given
away by the McAdoo firm at the
Showing of their 1957 model
automobiles.
The winner is Jack Hughes,
liflole service station atten-
ant.
In addition to the $50 grand
brize, 30 other persons received
prizes of $5 each during the new
showing.
Prizes were given free and
Ithout obligation.
es, a Future Farmer of America,
won 7th place with his Hamp-
shire Swine in the light weight
division
David Adams, a Seagraves Fut-
ure Farmer, won 12th place in
the medium weight Hampshire
division with his entry. David
Trio Saved From
Suffocation al
Gasolene Plant
Three Cities Service Plant
maintenance men narrowly es-
caped death from hydrogen sul-
phide gas suffocation Wednes-
day when they were overcome
by fumes at the plant 12 miles
northwest of Seminole.
Quick thinking and action by
fellow workmen in pulling the
overcome men from gas fumes
were credited with saving C. E.
Brown, 42, John McClead, 36, and
Paul Jones, 53, all of Seminole.
The three were changing a
valve on a field gas line when
they, were overcome by the
fumes.
The Seminole Volunteer Fire
Department sent its resuscitator
to the scene, but the men had
recovered from most of the ill
effects of the poisoning.
Indians Head Toward
AA Football Tide
also won 12th place in the Hamp-
shire heavy weight division with
his animals.
Seminole 4-H member Bubba
Shultz' Hampshire placed ninth
in the heavy weight division.
In the market steer show, Loop
4-H Clubber Jimmy McClesky en-
tered the animal which took the
first place spot in the Choice
Angus Steer category. His prize
money totalled $16 and the calf
sold for 33-cents a pound. The
animal weighed 1,036 pounds.
Jerry Rowlett and Joe Row-
lett of Seminole, with their
Hereford prime steer heavy-
weight entries, won blue ribbons.
So did Seagraves Future Farm-
er Charles Ward.
Young 4-H'er Earl Miller's six-
months-old Spotted Poland China
pig won the state's top honors
in a field of 615 barrows from
all over the state.
Earl had obtained the animal
from Duffey Brothers of Loving-
ton, N. M., breeders of Poland
China stock.
$2 Per Pound
The pig sold to Grady Jones
Feed Store of Irving, Tex., a
suburb of Dallas, and was donat-
ed to the Masonic Home, Fort
Worth. The pig weighed 216
pounds and brought $2 per
pound.
Assistant County Agent Paul
Gross accompanied the Seminole
and Gaines County youngsters to
the Fair to see their animals ex-
hibited.
Shop-Liflers
Seminole Store
The Gaines County Sheriff's
office Thursday was on the look-
out for three Negro women shop-
lifting suspects in connection
with the theft of three men's
suits from Moseley's Department
Store in Seminole.
The theft of the suits, valued
at a total of $165, occurred Wed-
nesday afternoon. The loss was
discovered after three Negro
women had entered the store
and one had engaged the store's
clerk in the shoe department.
James Williams, operator of
Williams & Sons, dry goods, re-
ported to Sheriff V. A. Harris
that the suspects had been in his
store and had aroused his sus-
picions when one of the women
insisted on seeing some shoes
while the other two women loit-
ered in the front portion of the
store.
Mr. Williams declined to wait
on the "shoe customer," and the
trio left. He saw them get into
an automobile, circle the Semin-
ole square and stop near Mose-
ley's. By the time Mr. Williams
could get to the Moseley store
with a warning, however, the
trio already had snatched the
clothing and escaped.
Funeral Services
Held Monday For
John W. Bandy
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p.m. Monday at Seminole
Church of Christ for John Wilk-
es Bandy, 82, one-time cowboy
and retired Church of Christ
minister who ' died early Satur-
day.
Darrell Flint, minister of the
Big Sprftig Church of Christ, of-
ficiated at the rites. Burial was
in Seminole Cemetery, with
Seminole Memorial Chapel in
charge of arrangements.
Mr. Bandy spent the early
portion of his life as a cowboy,
in the ranges of West Texas,
New Mexico arid Arizona, and
following the cattle trails to the
north and northwest.
It was during his cowboy days
that he became interested in
study of the Bible. He left the
rangelands to become a minister.
He was married to the former
Miss Alice Smith in 1899. She
preceded him in death in t949.
Surviving Mr. Bandy are four
sisters, Mrs. Kate White of Los
Angeles, Mrs. W. C. Wooten of
DallaS, Mrs. Emma Kelso of
Green Briar, Ark., and Mrs. Neal
Miller of Fresno, Calif.; and one
brother, Jim Bandy of Fresno.
Also surviving are several niec-
es and nephews.
Near-Record Turnout Seen
For Presidential Election
County Clerk Chester Browne
Thursday predicted a near-record
turnout of voters lor the Nov. 6
presidential election.
He declined to anticipate, how-
ever, that the voters will topple
the 2,905 vote record set for
Gaines County in the 1952 presi-
dential balloting.
The record high for a state
primary election was in July j contended that interest in
when 2,597 persons went to the | chief executive's race this
polls in Gaines County".
It was near this figure that
Mr. Browne set his estmiate for
the Nov. 6 vote total.
While the presidential cam-
paign of 1956 has not stirred
Gaines Countians as did the
campaign of 1952, some observers
Mayor Denton Uiges
Chest Fund Support
Liner Will Attend
Vet Officer School
Gaines County Veterans Ser-
vice Officer Warren Liner will
leave this weekend to attend the
Oct. 29-Nov. 1 ninth annual vet-
erans service officers' school in
Houston.
The school Is conducted by the
Veterans Affairs Commission in
conjunction with the American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and Disabled American
Veterans, with key personnel
from the Veterans Administra-
tion and other state and federal
agencies participating.
Light Freeze Seen
Possibility Here
Possibility of a light freeze
early Friday for Seminole, the
season's first, was foreseen
Thursday.
Area weather forecasters were
predicting possible low of 28 de-
grees Friday morning in areas
north of Seminole and Seminole
Weather Observer Len Dugan
said that such temperature may
be possible for Seminole.
The dip of the mercury, how-
ever, will depend upon just how
much thrust and strength is con-
tained in a cold front which has
moved into the area, Mr. Dugan
said.
Seminole,Mayor W. E. Denton
Thursday issued a plea to citi-
zens to support the 1956 Com-
munity Chest fund campaign
which will be launched at 7 a.m.
Monday.
A breakfast for campaign
workers at the school cafeteria
at 7 a.m. Monday will open for-
mally the Seminole Chest cam-
paign for $6,500 to support ser-
vice, charitable and welfare or-
ganizations for the coming year.
Heading the Chest, campaign is
Oil Distributor Jess Duval.
Mayor Denton is chairman of
the Salvation Army Service Unit
Committee in Seminole. The
Salvation Army, the religiously
devoted army of men and women
who serve humanity, is a red'
pient of/funds from tte Semin-
ole Community Chest Budget.
The Salvation Army local ser-
vice units, such as Mayor Dan-
ton's, donate their time to car-
ing for persons in distress. There
are no paid workers, nor local
administrative expenses.
Service units of the Salvation
Army are set up to meet the
needs of individuals not covered
by other existing organizations.
Tower Appliance-Furniture Co.
Announces Liquidation Sell-Out
Leon DeWald, owner of Tower
Appliance and Furniture Co.,
Thursday announced a liquida-
tion sale for the firm which has
been in operation in Seminole
for the past 10 years.
Mr. DeWald announced that he
was retiring from the furniture
and appliance field because of
health reasons.
Tower Appliance has been
Seminole's only Frigidaire deal-
er. It is anticipated that Alvin
Lamm, Jr., Tower store manager,
will assume the Frigidaire deal-
ership for the city upon the
close-out of Tower Appliance.
The Tower liquidation sale,
Ghost Story
Seminole High School Indians
lursday appeared headed for
le District 5-AA football title.
Two major obstacles, McCamey
nd Crane, will confront them,
nt the Indians, battle-trained in
»ore competitive league non-
inference play, appear ready
br the two roi^gh teams of their
kn conference.
fThe Indians won their first
inference game, with Fort
cockton Panthers, 21-0.
[The victory was won with
of the top Indian players
fcnched because of injuries. Out
the Stockton game were
uarterback Kenneth Saylor,
lfback Gerald Stewart, Full-
Ijick Carol Norton and Guard
f»n Sanders.
Training Paying: Off .. .
alnsprlng of the Indian team
Quarterback Leland Caffey,
Ijo unwound a 60-minute game
Fort Stockton. Fans lauded
teamwork of the Indians in
the Stockton skirmish.
Coaqh Metz LaFollette began
the Seminole football season
with a limited number of play-
ers, young and unseasoned. The
coach matched the team against
teams of heavier league ratings
than Seminole.
Playing heavier, more exper-
ienced teams in non-conference
games has paid off for Coach
LaFollette and the Indian eleven.
However, the strongest teams
of the 5-AA conference, McCam-
el and Crane, still are to be en-
countered.
McCamey, although beaten
by Crane last weekend, is con-
sidered a major challenge for
the Indians. TTie McCamey team
has been likened unto the Brown-
field eleven over whom Semin-
ole eked out a one-point victory.
Denver City is the other team
the Indians must down to win
the title.
See FOOTBALL, Page 8
Last Rites Held
For Mrs. Bledsoe,
Florey Resident
Funeral services were held at
3 p.m. Sunday at the Seminole
First Baptist Church for Mrs.
Ethel Clara Bledsoe, 64, who
died Sunday at Gaines Clinic-
Hospital.
Mrs. Bledsoe was a resident of
Humble Camp, Florey.
Rev. R. N. Powers of the Park
Avenue Baptist Church of Odes-
sa, assisted by Rev. H. D. Chris-
tian of the Seminole First Bap-
tist Church, officiated at the
last rites. Interment was in Sem-
inole Cemetery under direction
of Seminole Memorial Chapel.
Pallbearers were H. T. Grice,
B. M. Roebuck, G. E. Dozier, B.
J. Bruce, J. E. Clanahan and E.
E. Medlin.
Mrs. Bledsoe was a native of
Blue Sprirtgs, Mo.
She Is survived by her hus-
band, John Henry Bledsoe, and
one son, Edmon Martin of Ana-
heim, Calif.
Hallowe'en's Spectres Of Yore
Survive Only On Sportive Side
The night is fast approaching
when the cauldrons boil, witch-
es flash across the sky on their
brooms and ghosts, zombies and
goblins stalk the land.
Hallowe'en, the night of the
spooks, is due next Wednesday.
Although the name "Hallo-
we'en" is of Christian origin and
refers to the eve of All Hallows
or All Saints' Day, the modern
Councilmen Honor
City Workers At
Employee Barbecue
Twenty-eight employees of the
City of Seminole were back to
daily routine Thursday after be-
ing guests at a barbecue spon-
sored by Mayor W. E. Denton and
members of the city council.
Approximately 100 persons, em-
ployees and members of their
families, attended the barbecue
held Tuesday afternoon at City
Park.
During the affair, Mayor Den-
ton lauded the city workers for
their loyalty and attendance to
duty on behalf of the citizens of
Seminole.
symbols and practices of the
Oct. 31 evening date back to
pagan days.
Druidic beliefs in ancient Ire-
land held it to be a night of dire
foreboding when evil powers
drove the sun into winter hiding
and ghosts and witches held
sway. But such spectres as sur-
vive in Hallowe'en shindigs to-
day are on the sportive side, and
frighten not even the timid.
For the small-fry Hallowe'en
will be a night of trick-or-treat
with the little tykes suggesting
dire outcomes for persons de-
clining to treat them with sweets
or other goodies.
"Trick-or-treat" on the part of
some older groups, however, will
be a serious thing.
Youths of the of the South
Seminole Baptist Church and of
the First Methodist Church have
scheduled a door-to-door cam-
paign soliciting funds f6r the
United Children's Emergency
Fund and the needy of foreign
nations.
In other quarters, there will
be parties. The Junior Chamber
of Commerce and the American
Legion already have held their
during which all merchandise
will be sold at cost price, will
begin Thursday and will contin-
ue until all merchandise has been
moved, Mr. DeWald said.
"I want to thank the people of
Seminole for the most pleasant
business and personal relations
during our past 10 years of
operation in Seminole," said Mr,
DeWald.
"The real reason that I'm quit
ting is because of health rea-
sons, and I and my family plan
to continue our residence in Sem-
inole.
"I'll probably go into the oil
drilling business with my fath-
er-in-law, L. E. Bevers."
The entire Tower Appliance
and Furniture stock will be clos-
ed out at prices which are our
cost prices, Mr. DeWald said.
Mr. DeWald emphasized that
owners of Frigidaire appliances
will not be without full and
complete service for their ap
pliances, because there definite-
ly will be a Frigidaire dealer-
ship in Seminole which will take
over the service work formerly
handled by Tower Appliance.
The units have been especially
helpful in Seminole and else-
where in cases of emergency, to
give food and shelter to trans-
ients in need, to supplement oth-
er forms of aid by supplying
medicines and other necessary
items that otherwise would not
be available.
"But, the Salvation Army is!
just one phase of the good works
of the Community Chest dollar,"
said Mayor Denton, urging citi-
zens to support the Chest fund.
Beneficiaries of the Seminole
Chest also include the Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Red Cross,
Texas Gonzales Warm Springs
Foundation for crippled children,
local charities, Permian Basin
Heaijt Association and1 the Unit-
ed Service fDrgeJiiza^ior.st
Agents to Attend
A&M Conference
Top county agricultural and
home demonstration officials will
leave this week-end to attend an
annual week-long state agents'
conference at Texas A&M Col-
lege, beginning Monday.
Attending the conference will
be County Agricultural Agent L.
H. McElroy, Assistant County
Agricultural Agent Paul Gross,
Home Demonstration Agent Viv-
ian Liner and Assistant Home
Demonstration* Agent Charlene
Potts.
the
year
is just as keen as four years
ago.
"I think the people are just
as interested and determined to
vote as they were four years ago,
but I believe that they have con-
cluded that ju,st about everyone
has made up his mind and that
there's little chance of changing
minds," said one close political
observer.
Absentee balloting began Oct.
17, and four absentee votes have
been cast and Mr. Browne has
mailed out 15 other ballots.
In addition to the choice be-
tween presidential and vice presi-
dential candidates, Gaines Coun-
ty voters also will have choices
in one congressional race and
seven state races.
Also on the ballot will be
eight proposed amendments to
the Texas Constitution—for the
taking or leaving of voters.
I Three political parties are of-
t'fering candidates for the nation's
j two top executive posts. They
are:
Democratic Party: Adlai E.
Stevenson ■ for president, Estes
Kefauver for vice president.
Republican Party: Dwight D.
Eise nhower for president, Rich-
ard M. Nixon for vice president.
Constitution Party: T. Cole-
man Andrews for president,
Thomas H. Werdel for vice
president.
The Constitution Party is a
third party, which, in Texas, gra-
dually is putting more candidates
into the field in general election
years. It is generally considered
as an ultra-conservative group.
The Constitutionalist presiden-
tial nominee, Andrews, was
President Eisenhower's first col-
lector of internal revenue wh®
now espouses elimination of the
See NEAR-RECORD, Page 8
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School Paper Names
Cartoonist, Staff
Mary Sue Davis Thursday had
been selected staff cartoonist for
the Smoke Signal, the Seminole
Junior High School news publi-
cation, it was announced.
Other new members on the
newspaper staff are Susan Whit-
taker and Kenny Dean, seventh
graders, who will serve as re-
porters.
Sixth graders who will report
elementary news to the Signal
are Scotty Roberson, Sandra
Murphree, and Mike Presley.
January, 0; February, 1 inch
Jackie Sparks, student at Tex-1 (snow); March, 0; April, .14;
as Western in EI Paso, was a May, 1.42; June, .85; July, .10;
Seminole visitor the past week-1 August, .41; September, .15;
end. October, 2.39.
Rain Totals 6.46
Inches For Year
Despite precipitation totaling
2.39 inches in October, Seminole
still lagged far behind the aver-
age figure for rainfall, Weather
Observer Len Dugan said Thurs-
day.
Seminole has received 6.46 in-
ches of moisture so far this
year, he reported. The yearly
average calls for 16 inches of
rainfall.
Mr. Dugan said, however, that
approximately 25 per cent of the
time the rainfall has been less
than 10 inches, and during 65
per cent of the time less than
the mean 16 inches.
The precipitation figures for
Seminole for the year are:
Junior High Pupils
Seek Play-Acting
Cow-Punchin' Job
Lots of Seminole Junior High
School students applied for a
cow-punchin' job as teacher
Frank Nix's speech class held
try-outs for a play entitled
"Rootin' Tootin' Dude Ranch."
After try-outs were concluded,
an election was held, and the
following students were chosen:
Carolyn Capps, Gary Martin,
Barbara Caffey, Joe Simmons,
Ronnie Norton, Judy Upham,
Sennie Reid, Glenda Burnett,
Janie Earle, and Ray Smith.
Students were selected be-
cause of their ability to express
emotion.
The play will be produced
soon for a junior high assembly.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Baggett and
children of Hobbs were Sunday
visitors in the home of Mr. and
Hallowe'en masquerade parties. Mrs. B. T. Baggett.
Seminole High Sets
Nov. 2 Homecoming
Homecoming - 1956, Seminole
High School style, will be held
Friday, Nov. 2, High Sohool Stu-
dent Council President Don Sand-
ers announced Thursday..
Highlight of the homecoming
event" will be a grid clash at 8
p.m. at Wig Warn Stadium be-
tween the Seminole Indians and
the McCamey Badgers, one of
the two toughest teams the Ind-
ians must beat to win the Dis-
trict 5-AA football title.
Annual homecoming programs
are sponsored by the high school
student councils.
In an election, pretty Kay
Richardson, one of the school
majorettes, was elected football
queen to reign as homecoming
queen during Friday. Miss Rich-
ardson, a senior, is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert
Richardson.
Elected attendants for the
queen were Senior Melba Smith,
Junior Gwenn Bonner, Sopho-
more Callie Williamson, and
Freshman Deann Dow.
Football Captains Elected
As part of the pre-homecomlng
program, members of the Indian
football squad elected three cap-
tains who will serve for the rest
of the football season. Until now,
captains had been appointed at
the beginning of each game.
Named captains were Quarter-
back Leland Caffey, Guard Don
Sanders, and Fullback Don Holt
Homecoming - 1956, wiii begin
at 8:45 a.m., Nov. 2, when a re-
ception will be held at the school
for all ex-students of Seminole
High School.
At 10 a.m., the 1956 football
queen coronation will be held
and her attendants will be pre-
sented at an assembly held la
the gymnasium. Following tha
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