The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1940 Page: 4 of 8
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
UMOcals
Mr. and Mrs. John Booker return-
ed Sunday from a visit In Oklahoma
points with relatives. Mrs. Booker
visited her mother, Mrs. D. C. Hill,
at Glencoe, Okla., for a week and
after Mr. Booker joined her there
they visited with Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Gilbert and family of Still-
water and with Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
McMlnds and children in Eldorado,
Okla.
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Mrs. B. O. Flowers of Healdton,
Okla., and Mrs. Neal Coleman and
daughter of Duncan, Okla., are vis-
Cornell, Buckeyes, Texas
Aggies Look Good for 1940
King Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Golsori this
week.
G. H. Burkhalter has sold his in-
terest in the Burkhalter and Wof-
ford Grocery store to Mr. Wofford
and will be associated with the Re-
tail Merchants Credit Association.
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City residents were without wa-
ter a short while early this morn-
ing as there was a break in the wa-
ter line between the city and the
wells.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Taylor and
three children of Erick, Okla., have
moved to Shamrock to make their
home and Mr. Taylor will be a
salesman in the Montgomery Chev-
rolet Company. Taylor formerly had
the Chevrolet agency in Erick and is
well known in this vicinity. They
will reside at 407 S. Austin street.
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Thursday, September 5,
1940*
Gunny-Sacks
Have Been
‘Glamorized’
‘Made in Germany—Finished in England’
FORT WORTH (UP) — Gunny-
sacks and feed bags once were used
lor wiping muddy feet and dripping
dishes.
BY ART BRONSON
'T'HERE’S a world series yet to
■*- be played but the booming
sound of foot against pigskin is
echoing on all fronts.
V. W. Shoemaker transacted bus-
iness in Pampa Wednesday after-
noon.
Dale Austin of Winona, Miss., is
visiting his sister, Mrs. J. G. Hamer
and family. Dale formerly went to
school here and he says so many of
his ex-classmates are married he be-
gins to feel a trifle old.
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Roy Sims visited a while in the
office this afternoon and it was the
first time he'd been in since he
moved to the farm.
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The new flock of first graders has
just discovered what fun it is to
elide down the steps of the First
Baptist Church.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Clement will
The collegiate gridiron battal-
ions are in camp and preparing
for the season. In another couple
weeks they’ll start hitting the
championship trails.
In the east it looks like Cor-
nell is headed for another big
year. The same line returns in-
tact which led the Big Red to
an undefeated season a year ago.
Most of the back comes up again*
too, headed by Capt. Walt Matu-
szcak and Vince Eichler.
Fordham, perennially strong,
needs only a little more reserve
strength up front, but the pros-
pects are there. Pennsylvania’s
hopes are rather bright and so
too are Penn State’s. Beyond
that quartet there appear to be
no stand-out teams.
Big Six with the Cornhuskers re-
garded as pre-season favorite.
Paul Christman lost most of the
teammates which sparked Mis-
souri to a big season in 1939.
Tennessee, Tulane and North
Carolina, the three top teams in
Dixie a year ago, look like the
best bets again this trip, with the
Vols basking in the No. 1 spot. ,
Watch Alabama is also a word of
warning.
leave in the morning for a business
trip to Carrolton, Mo.
Mrs. R. L. Scott of Oklahoma City,
who has been visiting in the home
of her daughter, Mrs. C. L. Clement.
Tor the past several weeks, returned
to her home this morning.
Miss Martha Nell Ewton of Here-
ford has been visiting the past few
days in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Clement.
BUY OR SELL THROUGH A
TEXAN WANTAD
TT’S Ohio State and Michigan in
the midwest, with the Buck-
eyes’ Big Ten champions headed
for a banner year. Don Scott
heads the best backfield in the
nation.
Notre Dame won’t be quite as
strong as it was a year ago. Min-
nesota also shapes up well.
Nebraska, Oklahoma and Mis-
souri should lead the way in the
A LL-AMERICA John Kim-
brough is the chief reason
why Texas A. & M. is an out-
standing choice to repeat in the
southwest, and possibly repeat as
the No. 1 team in the nation, as
well. There’s plenty on hand to
help Kimbrough, too.
Texas Christian and Southern
Methodist are other contenders.
The Rocky Mountain sector
lists Colorado, Utah and Uni-
versity of Denver in just about
that order as pre-season hot-
shots.
Out on the coast Southern
California will have a battle to
keep the level of a year ago
when Troy wound up a Rose
Bowl winner over Tennessee. A
lot of material graduated, in-
cluding Grenny Lansdell and
Amby Schindler, but Howard
Jones has plenty left to combat
the threat of Washington and
Oregon State.
Today the gunny sack and the feed
bag have been “glamorized." They
have “oomph.” Feed bags that once
were "rags” today are slinky eve-
ning dresses, slacks, and play suits
for women of the cattle industry.
It was Mrs. Irene Aby, home econ
omist for a local milling concern
(Bewley Mills), who first showed
farm women the all around purpose
of feed bags. At a demonstration
recently she modeled a pastel blue
evening gown made from four 100-
pound feed sacks at a total cost of
48 cents. It was a gown, as she ex-
plained, that she has worn at the
most formal occasions.
“If you feel the slightest shame in
dressing your family in feed bags,”
Mrs. Aby told the farm women.
Then just look over my wardrobe.”
She quickly donned an attractive
white summer sports dress trimmed
with rick rack. Jt cost 25 cents for
the buttons, 10 cents for thread and
five 48-pound flour sacks, she said.
Then she showed a child’s pink pin-
afore and a four-purpose suit
which combined a playsult, pinafore,
spectator sports suit and evening
dress, all in one—at a total cost of
80 cents.'
Mrs. Aby said the labels on the
bags washed out in response to the
most frequent question. She is be-
lieved to be the first industrial home
economist to be employed as a dress
designer.
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Tile re are about 700 species of
Spectators view a German Messerschmitt fighter plane on exhibit fidar London after being shot down
m air battle in Surrey. Each person was charged admission, and the proceeds went to the “Buy a
_____ Spitfire” fund.
Texas Schools To Fight
Un-American Propaganda
With Government Courses
butterflies in the United States, but
no collector has ever captured them
all.
Mrs. M. M. Baxter returned Tues-
day night from Arkansas City, Kan.,
where she visited her daughter, Mrs.
Earl Henderson and family.
While eating a hard-boiled egg
Zoone Smith of Richlands, Va„ was
surprised to find a rifle bullet in the
yolk.
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KNOW ANY NEWS—we appreci-
ate your reporting news items to us.
The Shamrock Texan. Phone 160.
This Fellow Is
Causing Officers
Lots Of Trouble
’ FORT WORTH (UP)—a thrice-
married young dairy worker, father
of two sons, gave county juvenile
officers a problem that had them
perplexed several days afterward.
The father married wife No. 1, but
divorced her and married wife No.
2 soon after a son was bom to No. 1.
The court ordered him to pay $4 a
week toward the upkeep of his first
son. Meantime, he divorced his sec-
ond spouse, who later became the
mother of his son
Then he remarried wife No. 1, to
whom he was paying child support.
This voided the court order for the
$4 a week payment.
The juvenile officers' problem
came when the husband for a sec-
ond time divorced his first wife.
Another district judge had ordered
him to contribute to tire support of
his second son.
To make things more complex, the
second wife infosmeri the juvenile
authorities that her ex-husband had
a .sued her to remarry him.
If she does, the officers said, the
second court order for the support
of his son will be voided—arid they
haven’t been able to get the first
one reinstated yet!
it
?!
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Texas concerns continued to re-
ceive substantial awards and con-
tracts under the national defense
program during the last half of Ju-
ly, Governor W. Lee O'Daniel today
advised local industrialization com-
mittees throughout the State.
Relaying a report submitted by
the Office of Government Reports,
the Governor announced that con-
tracts totaling $6,024,499.86 were
awarded Texas concerns by the Ar-
my Department in the two-week
period.
At the same time, the United
States Housing Authority let a con-
tract for $989,000 for 250 housing
units at Corpus Cbristi and W. P. A.
approved projects totaling $825,000
for work at Texas army posts.
The army contracts were awarded
as follows:
J. G. Bartholomew, Dallas—sew-
age treatment plant at Ft. Benning,
Georgia, $30,750;
Empire Electric Company, Fort
Worth—changes in lighting, Barks-
dale Field, Louisiana, $1,890;
Pan-American Airways, Browns-
ville—fuel and oil, $14,094;
Humble Oil & Refining Co., Hous-
ton—fuel and oil, $26,500;
Amarillo Airport Corporation,
Amarillo—fuel and oil, $16,800;
City of Abilene—fuel and oil—$9,-
600;
Robert ,E. McKee, El Paso—con-
struction at Albrook Field, Canal
Zone, $2,27i,500;
H. H. Moeller, San Antonio—re-
pair of building at Duncan Field,
San Antonio, $142,258;
Robert E. Stevens, San Antonio—
excavations at Duncan Field, San
Antonio, $5,762.50;
AAA Air Conditioning Corps of
Texas, Dallas—roofing, Beasley Field.
$6,000;
E. L. Dalton, Dallas—gas distrib-
uting system, Kelly Field, $15,504.50;
Crawford - Austin Manufacturing
Company, Waco—mattresses, $98,100;
Taylor Bedding Manufacturing
Company, Taylor—mattresses, $230,-
125;
Guiberson Diesel Engine Compa-
ny, Dallas—diesel engines and parts,
$2,915,255.86;
Crawford - Austin Manufacturing
Company, Waco — folding canvas
cots, $240,360;
H. H. Moeller, San Antonio—su-
perstructure of equipment, repair of
buildings, Duncan Field, $142,258;
Edw. W. Oeffinger, San Antonio
—engine test building, Duncan Field.
$259,200;
The Works Progress Administra-
tion awards were for construction,
utilities, and roads as follows: /
Duncan Field, San Antonio—$250,-
000:
Brooks Field, San Antonio—$75,-
000;
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio—
$100,000;
General depot, Army, San Antonio
—$50,000:
Kelly Field, San Antonio—$200,-
000;
Randolph Field, San Antonio —
$50,000;
Normyle quartermaster depot —
$50,000;
Fort Crockett—$50,000.
In a previous bulletin, quoting the
Office of Government Reports, Gov-
ernor O’Daniel announced contracts
and awards totaling $7,807,701.01 re,
ceived by Texas concerns from the
Army, the Navy, and the United
States Maritime Commission from
June 13 to July 17.
The Governor’s prospectus, set-
ting out the advantages offered by
Texas for the manufacture of air,
craft and aircraft parts and acces-
sories, reached 178 prospects last
week. Copies went also to govern-
ment officials and to chairmen of
the local industrialization commit-
tees throughout the state.
Other prospects are in the nego-
tiation stage, the Governor told his
local committees, and announce-
ments concerning them are expected
shortly.
Plans Underway—
(Continued from Page 1)
Mrs. Henry Pitcock has charge
the ladies department.
A six-man football game will be a
feature of the event again this year
and no speaking program will be
arranged. Shamrock and Wheeler
bands have been invited to attenA
and help with the entertainment.
There will be exhibits of livestock
and all kinds of farm and garden
products.
The Kelton Community Fair al-
ways attracts large crowds, and thi:^
year is expected to be no exception,
with attractive exhibits promised in
all departments.
Christmas is not a legal holiday in.
Kansas.
From Head to Foot
New hat and shoes can’t make
a very- pretty picture out of
you if your dress is soiled!
Send your clothes regularly to
us to keep colors fresh, pleats
creased and hems hanging
straight.
D. & S. Cleaners
Phone 26
I'm
TAIIORCD
DON'T FORGET IRRADIATED RET MILK
TOMATOES, 4 No. 2 cans 25c
TOMATOES, No. 1 can ........ 5c
PINTO BEANS, 10 ft*....... 39c
MUSTARD & BRAN, qt. 9c
SOUR PICKLES, qt........ 10c
CRACKERS, 2-ft box.......... 12c
PORK & BEANS, 15>/z-oz. can ................ 5c
SNELL’S Food Store
PHONE 42
FREE DELIVERY
Dll MILK SUPPLIES IXTRA VITAMIN D
LETTUCE, head ................... 4c
BELL PEPPER, lb .................................... 6c
l CARROTS, 3 bunches ....... 10c
CELERY, large stalk........ 15c
CAULIFLOWER, head ........ 15c
SPUDS, white, pk................29c
| GRAPEFRUIT 6 for 25c
GRAPES, Thompson Seedless, lb ............ 5c
ORANGES, 288 size, 2 doz... 35c
PORK CHOPS, 20c
PORK STEAK, 22c
SPARE RIBS, Jgc
FRESH
f,IDE PORK' 124c
SAUSAGE, I lb,
Pure Pork, lb .........
PORK ROAST,
FLOUR, QfZg*
48 lbs.......................
Brooms, each ...... 19c
PEACHES,
gallon .......................
Matches, 2 boxes .... 5c
Sugar Evidently
Didn’t Feel Well
OLEO,
2 lbs. ______
SUGAR CURED
!quares' 12c
piT
6 Baby
Cans
FORT WORTH (UP)—Elephant
wrestling combines all the unplcas-
antries of swinging on a bolt of
lightning said Jim Brown, a man
who should know.
Brown was the zoo attendant here
who was trampled by sugar, an un-
ruly, deformed elephant, that went
berserk recently.
A tussle with an elephant, he said,
is like a rendezvous with a thunder-
bolt—you just don’t remember it.
“I remember little that happened
after I opened the elephant house
door.” he said. “I think I had just
poured oats for sugar when she
lunged forward, grabbed the empty
basket before I could give her her
morning apple, and sent it spinning
on the floor. It was then that she
must have hit. me on the head with
her trunk.”
Brown then collapsed and the ele-
phant stomped him. He suffered
serious head and chest injuries, and
now as he recuperates his fan mail
continues to pour in.
The latest was received from a
P. T. Barnum circus clown who col-
lects elephant hairs when there’s a
story connected. But Brown couldn't
please because Sugar was executed
and now he suspects the elephant
can be found on the back of a post-
age stamp.
Brown was enthusiastic when told
of a subscription drive to buy a new
elephant for the zoo and “wants to
Ladies’ SHOES
Our new fall ladies shoe de-
partment is very complete fea-
turing the latest suede, mari-
cains, calf and soft kid lea-
ther shoes. The range of sizes
is complete with widths from
C to AAAA. Come in and pick
out a pair today.
Beautiful New Redfern
and Mary Lane Coats
$2.98 to $6.75
be the one to train her.”
FOR MADAME
$1.98 to $5.95
Dignified and oh! so charming
hats for ladies of distinction.
New layered felts with feather,
ribbon, jewel trims. Newest
colors.
NEW SHOES for MEN
$2.98 to $5.00
Remember Our Men's Fur-
nishings Dept. Fall Goods
Styled Right-
Gorgeous new creations in new
tailored or fur-trimmed coats,
tailored by such nationally ad-
vertised companies as Red Fern
and Mary Lane. Use our con-
venient Lay-Away Plan.
$16.95 to $69.50
j B.&L. Dept. Store I
j; “Always Something New” 1
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1940, newspaper, September 5, 1940; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528256/m1/4/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.