The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1949 Page: 1 of 20
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The Churches of Seymour
Welcome You!
Let us rejoice at the manifold gifts the Lord
has showered upon us. Let us go to His House
this Christmas Day and offer our deepest thanks.
No matter the church of our faith, the spirit with
which we attend is the same
the world over. Each in our ,
her. It you are one who has no
v particular preference, any one
of the many churches in Sey-
\ mour will welcome you.
3be ®avlor Count? JBannet
VOLUME 54, NUMBER 17,
SEYMOUR, BAYLOR COUNTY. TEXAS,
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SI)AY, DECEMBER 22, 1949
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FAMOUS SAYING: "Christmas
will soon be here."
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Time has a way of rolling along,
and when we start writing this
column next week, Christmas will
be over. Maybe there will then
be something else to look forward
to, like the bowl football games,
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There seems to be a fine spirit
for Christmas around here, and it
looks like everybody is going to
have a happy time. The business
men have a fine lot of greetings
in the paper this week, which we
know are from the heart. With
that many good wishes. It looks
like all of us should get along all
right.
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The writer of this column and
his wife have been getting a good
many greeting cards, as usual, and
greatly appreciate all of them. A
few have come from people we do
not know, and one from a lady we
met only one time. The P. D.
writer and his wife used to send
out a lot of cards, with an increas-
ing number each year, and finally
gave up. But we do appreciate all
the friends, and especially so at
this season of the year.
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Another thing, don’t write it this
way: Xmas. That makes X stand
for Christ, and really he ought to
rate high enough to have his name
spelled out.
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A nice tribute could be paid to
all those who have decorated their
homes and to the business men
who have paid special attention to
their show windows, rt contrib-
utes in a great way to the spirit
of the occasion.
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And let's watch out for accidents
that might mar the Yuletide. The
safety Department has already told
us how many will be killed and
injured during the next few days.
The other day Mary Rigoni said:
"Be careful There’s somebody at
every corner waiting to kill you.”
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Much of the loss of life and prop-
erty could be avoided if Americans
could get rid of that split person-
ality that makes them act, in Ed-
die Cantor’s words, “like Emily
Post as a host but like a heel at
the wheel."
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Claude Callan says the future
will take care of itself all right,
but it won’t necessarily take care
of you.
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The county jailer at Wichita
Falls has 75 guests now, and he is
appealing to folks to stay out of
jail at Christmas time. He’s full
up The thing would be easier if
some people didn’t think they had
to celebrate the birth of Jesus by
getting drunk.
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The city of Seymour is being
given a Christmas present of 250
parking meters. The innovation is
' being looked upon with a mixed
approval and disapproval. A good
1 many are willing to just wait and
see. One thing may be in favor
of the city fathers: it may be that
most people will prefer to pay a
little something for a parking
space which they could not get if
it were free of charge.
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It began to look this week like
we might have some winter weath-
er for Christmas. A rather icy
breeze blew in from the north, but
the threat of rain or snow is gone.
And it may not have been as cold
as we thought it was going to be.
Whenever the forecasters say that
a blizzard is coming, we freeze to
death, even with only a little cool
breeze.
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! Anyway, the shortest day of the
| year has come, and they are get-
I ting longer now. And winter was
| ushered in Tuesday, according to
I the calendar. And there is this
1 much more about it: we can’t get
| winter over with until it starts.
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Kloyce Gwinn of the gas com-
pany said we didn't treat him right
in this column last week. Kloyce
said we spoke about those who
complained of the heat last sum-
mer, and now are paying high for
that heat. Gwinn says it doesn't
cost as much to provide heat in
winter as to get rid of it in sum-
mer.
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Some folks don’t go through
life—they're merely shoved thru
it.—Birmingham (Ala.) News,
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Life Lines: A hazardous little
Christmas candle can cause a blaze
too big to handle.
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People need diversion. But some
of them seem to think they don’t
need anything else.—Lamar (Mo.)
Democrat.
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Aunt Het. Bob Quillen: “I ain’t
no beauty, but I don’t let it worry
me. I Just concentrate on my good
points and forget about the things
I ain’t got."
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A fine feature of living in •
small town is that you have ao
many people who are trying to
help you look after your business.
—Early County (Ga.) News,
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COLLOQ : "Santa Claus really
seems to have moved in."
OIney is Victor
In Basketball
Tourney Here
Ey Hal Fees
The OIney "Cubs” remained un*
defeated in Tournament play at the
Seymcur Invitation Tournament
and took home the winning trophy
given by the Seymour Chamber
of Commerce for the event. They
defeated Crowell 31-20 in the finals
Saturday night to turn the trick.
Burkburnett. consolation winner,
had to come from behind twice
in the game, but knocked off Chill-
icothe 32-24. F. L. Ballard, Crowell
forward was high point man for
the tournament, garnishing 40
points to take high scoring honors.
In the opening game of the tour-
ney, Crowell edged Holliday, 22-20.
In the following games on Thurs-
day night. Valley View came from
behind to top Archer City 32-29,
and the Panthers jumped into the
lead shortly after the opening
whistle and went on to stay ahead
of the Albany Lions all the way.
The final score, the Panthers 31,
the Lions 25. Friday afternoon,
the Munday Moguls knocked off
Valley View 37-27, and Crowell
stomped Chillicothe 41-24. Friday
night, in the first consolation
round, Chillicothe edged Holliday
19-16 in a hard fought defensive
game. Then, Cope, Iowa Park’s ace
scorer tossed in fourteen points
to help his team mates down the
Panthers 26-17 and put them out
of the tournament. In the final
game Friday night OIney edged
Burkburnett 28-26 to send the boys
from Burk into the consolation
end of the tourney. Saturday after-
noon found the OIney Cubs ousting
the Munday Moguls from the tour-
ney by a score of 30-24. Burkbur-
nett walloped Archer City 44-30 to
become the favorite in the conso-
lation end. and Iowa Park failed
to hold a half time lead over
Crowell and lost to them 34 -30.
Then, of course, in the finals Sat-
urday night, Burk dropped Chilli-
cothe 32-24 to take home the con-
solation trophy, and OIney dropped
Crowell 31-29 to give Crowell the
second place in the tourney.
Tuesday night, the Panthers
avenged an earlier loss to the Mun-
day Moguls and bought their
season- average to five wins and
two losses. The Moguls went ahead
early in the game, 3-0. but the
Panthers led at the end of the first
quarter, 5-3. They were never
headed again in the game, and
their lead was never threatened
until the waning minutes of the
game, when the boys from down
south started hitting long shots,
short shots, inside shots and out-
side shots. The final score was
Seymour 32, Munday 30.
STORES TO STAY OPEN UNTIL
1:00 O’CLOCK THUKS., flL SAT.
The business firms of Seym OUR
that is most of them, will remelR
open until 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Frt
day and Saturday of this week as
convenience to late CluistaUMI
shoppers, according to O,. McDaniel,
Chamber of Commerce aecretatft
who made a survey of the mop*
chants Tuesday.
Saturday night being Christmas
Eve, some of the stores
open longer, McDaniel
as most people will be
around Christmas Trees
that the majority would close
8:00.
Cotton Growers
Approve Acreage
Allotments Here
The government’s farm program
was adopted last Thursday by an
impressive vote. In Texas a total
of 90,931 votes were cast, with
86 per cent of them in favor of the
program.
Baylor County voted for the cot-
ton allotment plan with a some-
what less impressive figure. In
this county the AAA office reports
there were 205 votes cast, with
1 149 voting yes and 56 voting no.
1 This is 72.7 per cent in favor of
; the program.
The vote here and over the state
was with crossed fingers,, and the
hope that Congress will do some-
thing to relieve inequities of the
allotments. Congressman Ed Gos-
sett states that he believes the
lower house will pass needed legis-
lation by the middle of January,
but he will not speak for the Sen-
ate.
NEW OIL TEST IN
WILDCAT TERRITORY
This county is to have a new
oil test in territory that has not
been largely tested before. Many
new possibilities could be opened
up Location of the test is de-
scribed in the following mention by
the Star-Telegram.
BAYLOR—The Baylor wildcat
is the Anderson Drilling Com-
pany. Wichita Falls, No. 1 James
A. Couch. 330 feet from south and
east lines of the northwest quar-
ter of block 7. HT&B survey, a
3.500-foot test five miles north-
west of Seymour. Location also
is 12 miles northwest of the Sey-
mour pool.
$ FFA Chapters
filter Contest at
; High School Sat.
ftigh school boys from all over
Future Farmers of America Area
OM gathered at Seymour last Sat-
urday for the Annual Area one
WA Leadership Contest. In at-
tendance at the meeting were
members of 25 FFA Chapters, ap-
proximately 250 boys and 25 teach-
er*.
The first two winners in each of
six events will represent Area
one at the state meet, and the
third is an alternate in the event
one of the top two finds it impos-
sible to attend Following is a list
of the winners of the various con-
test*: Senior Chapter Conducting.
Lubbock Cooper, Lovelland, Taho-
ka; Junior Chapter Conducting.
Lubbock. T a h o k a. Levelland,
Senior FFA Quiz (questions
concerning the organization and
operational procedure of the FFA),
Brownfield. Meadow, Idalou: Jun-
ior FFA Quiz Brownfield, Idalou.
Whiteface: Senior Farm Denonstra-
tion (an exhibition of the proper
care of animals, and the manufac-
ture and repair of farm tools and
equipment). Brownfield, Throck-
morton, Requester; Junior Farm
Demontration Lubbock, Plain,
New Deal
O. T Ryan, VA Instructor at
Texas Tech conducted the meeting.
He is the Area one Supervisor.
Judges in the various contests were
two other Texas Tech VA Instruc-
tors. T. L Leach and L. M. Har-
graves; Vocational Agriculture
teachers from Area two, Walker
Todd. Quanah; Marvin Meyers,
Crowell; Gene Barnett. Plainview;
H. G. Barber. Floydada; F. L. Mon-
tandan. Lockney; Leo Carter, Hale
Center, R B. Dawson, Tulia; and
Richard McChristial, Ralls.
Lester C Burk, Seymour Voca-
tional Agriculture Instructor was in
charge of arrangements, and two
members of the local FFA Chapter.
Donald Welch and Harvey Thur-
man acted as the welcoming com-
mittee
Area one embraces Henrietta on
the east, as the eastern boundary,
and Plains on the west, with the
state line being the western edge
There are seven districts in Area
one. and 60 local chapters.
Mrs. Myrtie Shawver will leave
Thursday to spend the Christmas
holidays with her daughter, Mrs.
Leroy Hurst and husband at Semi-
nole.
Lions Pay Tribute Installation of
To Memory of Parking Meters
0. P. Caldwell Nearly Finished
Fifty-nine members and guests i The City of Seymour will be all
attended the Lions Club luncheon I dolled up for Christmas with
Wednesday at the Club Cafe din-I bright, shiny, new parking meters,
ing room, where Lion O. F. Tern- , Work started Monday, in laying
pie treated those present with a out locations for the meters and
special turkey feed as a pre-Christ- | drilling holes in the sidewalks to
mas gesture of good wil. | put the meters supports in I. N.
President Paul D Buck presided | Ronhovde, city secretary, said the
at the luncheon, with Secretary L. i meters would be in operation Fri-
K. Gwinn taking notes on the , , .
meeting and Tail Twister W. B j niornmg, ready to rece.ve the
Flewharty collecting fines on a pennies and nickels of last minute
subdued basis. He said he had to j Christmas shoppers,
be good this close to Christmas. By Tuesday afternoon the metal
Following the luncheon period ; pipes on which the meters would
Lion J. W. Hamilton gave a brief ; be installed were being placed
eulogy of O. P. Caldwell, a char- | along the block from J. O. Butler’s
ter member of the Seymour Lions I to the First National Bank, and
Club, who died Saturday, Decent- | receiving a fresh coat of aluminum
ber 10. Then the club stood for a paint. The pneumatic hammer used
moment of complete silence in his j in drilling the holes was just j
memory. A beautiful spray of | about to wind up its job by the
flowers was placed in a chair next j close of the day, and those aller-
to the president's symbolizing Lion , gic to noise were not unhappy to
Caldwell’s prominence in the club, j see that part of the job finished.
At the close of the meeting Lions | same changes in parking have
Buck and Ralph Howe too the ! been made: one in particular is a
flowers to the cemetery and placed fchange from 45 degree parking on
hem on Lion Caldwells grave. It jyjorrjs street, in front of the Ban-
was a beautiful tribute to a man i ner 0ffjce t0 parallel parking. This
who held a place of high esteem s^reej js narrow and a change to
m Lionism, and to one who can I rallel parking will eliminate a
never be leplaced. [hazard that has existed. When a|
Lion Jimmie Lester opened the | truck parks on this street it sticks I
meeting by leading the club in out so far it is near impossible t
singing Jimgle Bells" and "Amer- J for two cars to meet and get by |
ica," followed by the invocation ; safely.
by Lion S. A. Mitchell. j general topic of conversa- [
Appearing on the program was , tion around the street is "parking I
Miss Mary Ruth Gentry, who sang 1 meters." Some like the idea and
"White Christmas" accompanied by j some don’t fancy it too much. One
James Johnson at the piano. The merchant stated that he didn't
two are very tallented musicians know whether it would help the
and they will be invited back for
another program soon.
Oren Beall, high school basket-
ball coach, challenged the Lions to
a game of basketball with mem-
bers of the school faculty. The
Lions readily accepted the chal-
lenge, and the date was set for
Friday night following Christmas.
About Sick Folks
J M. Edwards remains in a seri-
ous condition. He is kept under the
inf icnce of medicine, and sleeps
■U M of the time.
Mrs. Walter Fancher Is in the
hospital again, an# is very low.
Mrs. G S. Plants. 88, is recover-
ing from an operation this week
for appendicitis. She is sitting up
reading, and doing fine.
FREE KIDDIES SHOW
The Texas Theatre will give its
annual party for the youngsters on
Christmas Eve. This has always
j been a very popular feature, and
a large number of the younger
generation have been present to
accept the hospitality of Messrs.
Tom Hooser, Elmo and T. J.
Hooser Jr.
The free show will begin at 10:00
o’clock Saturday morning, contin-
uing something over an hour. The
Aims will be comedies. All cil-
dren will be admitted free up to
the age of 12 years.
city or not, but it was a sign of
progress and he sure didn't want
to stand in the way of progress.
One town wit said that the noise
made by the air hammer would be
nothing compared to the noise
some solid citizens would make
trying to get out of an over-park-
ing ticket. That is probably right.
When the question of parking
meters was first brought to the
public, about 75 per cent said that
what this town needed more
than parking meters was signal
lights at a few of the dangerous
street intersections, and especially
at the intersection of Washington
and California Streets. The city
dad's answer to this was that the
parking meter revenue would help
to install the signal lights where
needed. They say that this is only
one step in a program to control
traffic in Seymour.
The type of meter being install-
ed gives the “short time Parker”
a break. One penny gives 12 min-
utes of parking time; two pennies
gives 24 minutes, and on up in
multiples of 12 minutes for one
pepny to one hour for a nickel;
then six. seven, eight, and nin°
cents will give one hour plus 12
minutes for each additional penny.
The maximum is two hours of
parking time for two nickels.
The meters have been installed
on a six-month's trial basis. The
idea in mind was to get the mer-
chants' and clerks’ cars off the
street and leave room for people
to come in to trade and find a I
convenient place to park. At the
end of this period of trial, a way
wfll be provided for the public to
decide if they should be kept or
removed During this period one
half of the revenue taken in by
the meters will go to the city and
the other half will go to the com-
pany owning the meters. If the
city should decide to keep the
meters then the half kept by the
company will be applied on the
purchase price, and thereafter
money taken in by the meters will
pay for them at no cost to the
city.
Any way it goes, Seymour will
have parking meters for the next
six months at least.
HOSPITAL NEWS
PRESENT PATIENTS: Lucille
Duncan, Mrs. Clarence Robertson,
Mrs. E L. Humphreys, Ira Cock-
rell. Mrs. Fra Cockrell. J. L. Park-
er, Mrs Warren Baccus. Mrs. Wal-
ter Fancher, Mrs E A. Fancher,
Mrs. Roy Vehon, Mrs. Billy Joe
Laney, J M Edwards. Mrs. Joe
Woods, Mrs. Pat Young, Patricia
Burkhalter, Mrs. David Reinke,
Baby Bibbs, W H. Bradley. E. L.
Humphreys, Linda Ware, Bill Rob-
inson. Mrs. Galen Plants, J. W Fite,
Mrs. Corrine Ownes, Mr. and Mrs.
W B. Self.
PATIENTS DISMISSED: Mrs. J.
B. Lewallen, J H. McGaughey.
Mrs. Margaret Jane Walker, Mrs.
G D Chappell, Adolp Odstrcil,
Mrs. T. H. Gothard, Joe Bursik,
Rarley Covington. Mrs. Laura
Brookshier, Clifford Gilstrap. J A.
Covington. Mrs. A. Starkey, J. E.
Hampton, Arthur Horn. Mrs. S. J
Neskorik, Mrs. Arnold Winn, Sam
Styles, Mrs. Rito Morin. Cicero
Cohron, Becky Haynes. Oscar
Pyle. Richard Ware, Mary Dan
Wilson, Mrs. D. L. Allison, Ray
Waldron, Mrs. Jake Hall.
BIRTHS: Carlton Turner, son
of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Chappell;
Carlene Jane, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Arnold Winn; Robert &t-
ward. son of Mr. and Mrs. David
Reinke; Maria Jaunita, daugter of
Mr. and Mrs. Rito Morin; Gary
Brent, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Woods; Nikita Karen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Pat Young; Billy
Ward, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Laney.
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Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1949, newspaper, December 22, 1949; Seymour, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth505605/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Baylor County Free Library.