The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 51, Ed. 1 Monday, November 4, 1940 Page: 8 of 8
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Monday, November 4, 19
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SHAMROCK GIRL WEDS
ALLISON YOUNG MAN
Miss Elease Bowen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ivie Bowen, Shamrock,
and Karl Newson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Newson, Allison, were
united In marriage at 7 o'clock Sat-
urday evening, Oct. 26, by Rev. Her-
man Coe, Baptist minister of White
Deer, at the Newsom home in Alli-
nn.
The bride was charming in a sol-
dier blue crepe dress with black ac-
cessories and wore a corsage of ro-
ses.
Miss Philo Newsom, the bride’s
only attendant, wore an eye blue
wool crepe dress with black acces-
nrles. , ... , ■
Johnny May of Wheeler, uncle of
Ihe groom, was best man.
Mr. and Mrs. Newsom are well
known in Wheeler county where
they have made their home for some
time. They will reside in Allison for
the present.
The following is a list of the
guests attending the wedding and
reception: Messrs, and Mesdames
John Peeples, Sam Begert, David
Kikcr, Denver May, Misses Neville
Dillon, Prances Hensley, Gail David-
son, Connie Reed and Jewel Keenan;
Van. Layton and Charles Newsom,
George and Sonny Merzbacker and
Miss Philo Newsom, Allison; Mrs.
Ivie Bowen and daughters, Misses
Lorene and Louise, Shamrock; Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. May and son, John-
ny, and Miss Emily May, Wheeler.
Charles Ackley and Miss Ackley,
Dallas; Rev. and Mrs. Herman Coe
and Charman Coe, White Deer; the
newly-weds, Mr. and Mrs. Newsom,
and the host and hostess, Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Newsom, and several
children.
ersonal
Terry Williams, son of Mr. and i Mrs. Cabot Brannon visited
Mrs. Ted Williams, had his tonsils Amarillo Saturday.
removed Saturday. He is getting -o
along nicely. * [ Claude Montgomery had some
I hard luck the first of the month.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wade are the j was 013anc* 31r 30 s*-ay
parents of a baby girl born this the office and couldn’t^ avoid col
morning in the Clinic Hbspital.
Miss Peggy O’Neal of Magic City
who underwent an appendectomy in
the Clinic Hospital last week, was
able to return to her home Satur-
day.
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Henry Pond of Amarillo was in
Shamrock Saturday.
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lectors. He said he couldn’t even
think of good excuses for not paying
bills.
C. T. Palmer of Hugoton, Kan.,
was here this week-end visiting Mrs.
Palmer and Helen.
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Mr. and Mrs. Willard Roberson of
Osage, Okla., visited over the week-
end with Mr. and Mrs. V. W. Shoe-
maker.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Caperton re-
turned this evening from Pasa-
monta, N. M., where they have been
visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Britt
Mr. and Mrs. John Harvey and
Mrs. J. M. Porter of Wheeler visited
in Perryton Friday.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hallmark and
family visited in Clarendon Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. David Martin and
son visited in McLean Sunday eve-
ning.
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Mrs. Elvese Hurt of Pampa visited
relatives and friends here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Eubanks and
children of Magic City spent the
week-end in Sayre, Okla., with Mrs.
R. R. Morris.
Wits
By
Virginia
Anderson
WOMEN RALLY TO NATION’S DEFENSE
IN RED CROSS VOLUNTEER SERVICES
Used to it was names that made
news, now it’s numbers.
To our many friends who fear
we’ll have a complete collapse in
case our favorite candidate for pres-
ident is not elected, cease to worry.
We have anticipated such a catas-
trophe and are fully prepared. Two
weeks ago we started training, going
on a rigorous diet, taking exercises,
breathing deep and inhaling the
sunshine and now our muscles and
nerves are in perfect condition for
possible defeat. No, my friends, fear
not, Anderson is made of sterner
stuff and truth crushed to earth
shall rise!
Rotary Governor-
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prepared to resist invasion and op-
pression with force if needs be."
Governor Roberts, who visited
toe Shamrock club on a routine
tour of clubs of his district, was
introduced by President Jim Smith
who presented him with a small gift
from local Rotarians in apprecia-
tion of the governor's services to
Rotary.
Roberts, elected to the office of
district governor at the 1940 Rotary
eonvention in Havana, Cuba, last
June, is an attorney at Brecken-
rldge. The 127th district over which
he presides consists of 55 clubs lo-
cated in cities of Texas and has a
membership of 2,568. As is the cus-
tom of district Rotary governors,
Roberts is devoting his entire time
fbr a full year without remunera-
tion.
Before and after Friday’s lunch-
eon the district governor conferred
with officers and committee chair-
men of the Shamrock club.
Dan Gribben of Pampa was a vis-
iting Rotarian Friday while local
guests were Wayne Boren and F. H.
•Gillespie of Shamrock.
Dan Gribben of Pampa was a
visitor in Shamrock Friday and
attended the Rotary luncheon.
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Art Fleming and Mel Williams
have it all figured out how Sham-
rock is going to beat McLean—play
the Irish first team the entire game
and the Tigers won’t have a chance,
so they say.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dan Dean and
daughter, Carol Anne, of McLean,
visited in Shamrock Friday evening.
Royce Lewis says the reason May-
or Bill Walker is so lucky matching
for drinks, smokes, and meals is
that Bill has an old brass half-
dollar which is so worn nobody but
Bill can tell whether it falls heads
or tails.
John Bond of McLean, student at
T. C. U., was a visitor here Sunday
en route to Fort Worth. He spent
the week-end in McLean.
Tom Risley was able to be back
in school today after spending the
past two weeks in bed because of
an injury.
No County Men-
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The reason Gerald Mayfield look-
ed so sleepy last Friday was his
customers wouldn’t let him sleep
Thursday night. He was called out
of bed three times between mid-
night and daylight by people who
had to have auto parts or accessor-
ies.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Geyer at-
tended the Nebraska - Oklahoma
football game at Norman Saturday.
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The draft has reconciled at least
one Wheeler county couple. A negro
man was in The Texan office Fri-
day to see if he was safe from being
called into the army, now that he
has taken back a former wife and
their two children. He understood
men with dependents could stay at
home, he said.
LIBERTY
THEATRE
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Porter returned
this week-end from a visit in New
Mexico the past week.
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Mrs. M. E. Risk returned Thurs-
day from Wilmington, Ohio, where
she has been visiting her mother.
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Tonight & Tuesday—
“THE RAMPARTS
WE WATCH”
Admission 10c A: 25c
Cartoon and News Reel
Mrs. C. T. Palmer and Mrs. J. A.
Hall returned Friday from Detroit,
Mich., and en route home they vis-
ited points of interest in Ohio, Ken-
tucky and other states.
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Harry Seright underwent an op-
Wednesday—
THUMBING THEIR
WAY TO DISASTER!
eration Saturday morning in a local
hospital. He has been ill for several
weeks.
Miss Margie Cole of Elk City,
Okla., left Saturday after spending
a few days with her aunt and uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. John Nunn.
Winfred Lewis transacted business
in Amarillo today.
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Mrs. Harvey Close left Sunday for
Chicago, 111., where she will demon-
strate Stanton Rugs at a depart-
ment store. She was formerly with
Hunter’s Department Store and the
firm will continue to stock the
thread and needles but will not have
a demonstrator.
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Mrs. R. B. Lewis, Mrs. Clayton
Heare and her mother, Mrs. Rags-
dale, left Saturday for St. Louis,
Mo., Lansing, Mich,, and Des Moines,
Iowa, to visit relatives.
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Mrs. W, S. Pendleton, Mrs. B, F.
Holmes, Mrs. Bedford Harrison and
Mrs. H. P. Mundy spent the week-
end In Midland visiting Mrs. Pen-
dleton's sister, Mrs. Roy Parks.
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Miss Guynne Wofford of Okla-
homa City spent the week-end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Wofford.
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Mrs. Carl McPherson and Miss
Guynne Wofford drove to White
Deer Saturday to meet Mrs. Bill
Knutson, Billie Joe Knutson and
Virginia McPherson of Lubbock.
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Miss Annette Gobble and Miss
Louise Stewart visited in Childress
Friday afternoon.
who hold the first 25 numbers In the
lottery. A possibility also existed
that the number to be conscripted
on Nov. 18 may be materially cut by
volunteers.
The army announced that con-
scripts and volunteers under the
draft law must meet the same rigid
physical standards required for the
regular army. At the same time, the
war department said that in order
to bring about complete standardi-
zation of physical tests it will relax
the weight and height standards for
men in the regular establishment,
height and weight minima for the
regular army were thus reduced to
5 feet and 105 pounds, respectively,
compared to previous minima of 5
feet 4 and 115 pounds.
Lower Age Groups
At the same time it was reported
that since the army had 17,000,000
men from which to choose 800,000
draftees by next June It would seek
conscripts in lower age groups. The
registrants subject to possible serv-
ice are from 21 to 36 years of age.
But the army, it was reported, fa-
vors men from about 21 to 26.
It was pointed out that men who
are given a year’s military training
under the conscription law are liable
for service for 10 years. Thus, If a
man were trained when he was 35,
he would be liable to service until
he became 45 years of age, and men
of 45 do not make good soldiers, ar-
my officials claimed.
Every board will post its daily
mailings, and each draft registrant
should make sure he receives his
questionnaire, which he must return
In five days.
On the basis of the questionnaire,
he is tentatively classified according
to his fitness and availability for
service. The board will notify him
by mall of his classification.
Those placed In Class 1 (fit and
available) will be called for physi-
cal examinations in the order of
their numbers. Wherever possible,
five days’ notice will be given before
examination. In addition, men found
acceptable after examination will be
given five days’ notice to settle their
affairs before reporting for induc-
tion Into the army.
13 Classes
A list of the 13 classes In which
registrants will be placed after
questionnaires have been received by
local draft boards follows in order
of eligibility:
CLASS 1A—Available and fit for
general military service.
CLASS IB—Available and fit for
only limited military service.
CLASS 1C—Members of the land
naval forces.
CLASS ID—Student fit for gen-
eral military service.
CLASS IE—Students fit for limit-
ed military service.
CLASS 2A—Men necessary' in ci-
vilian activity.
CLASS 3A—Men with dependents.
CLASS 4A—Men who have com-
pleted service.
CLASS 4B—Officials deferred by
law.
CLASS 4C—Aliens who have not
taken out first papers. •
CLASS 4D—Ministers Of religion
or divinity students.
CLASS 4E—Conscientious objec-
tors available only for civilian work
of national importance.
CLASS 4F — Persons physically,
mentally, and morally unfit.
Didn’t that sound pretty? You’d
think we were a candidate or some-
thing.
For two weeks we’ve been trying
to remember to tell the public that
Wes Hill fell and broke his shoulder.
Each day we’d make a notation to
write about Mr. Hill and then for-
get we’d even made one, finally lose
it, consequently never missing the
item until the paper was already
out.
Then we’d try again, “Remember
to tell public Mr, Hill broke shoul-
der,” we would say but somehow It
did no good. Anyway now that you
know Mr. Hill “broke shoulder” we
can only add that it is reported he
got so excited over the 1941 model
automobiles he fell off the loading
dock down at the railroad tracks.
He’s doing nicely and will recover.
We’ve decided that picking win-
ning football teams is an Impossible
achievement for a person with more
than average intelligence. Or else it
takes average intelligence and we
don’t have it. Either way it’s pretty
discouraging but every week we try
again. After talking with a bunch of
experts on football it confuses us
more than ever. They don’t agree
and so there you are, a might-have-
been.
Training Courses Fit
Them for Duties Vital
In Present Emergency
TX7ITH the call to the colors of
^ V more than a million of the na-
Household Hint
Instead of throwing away those
addressed envelopes you get in the
mail daily, save them for saving
flower and vegetable seeds from
garden favorites. Sometime you
may want to use them for keeping
year budget straight.
It was quite a surprise, picking up
the paper to read Charles Driscoll’s
column, “New York Day by Day,”
and see the ’following item:
“Ruth TurnWof Shamrock, Texas,
writes to say- that she enjoys be-
ing a telephone operator, that tele-
phone employes are always well
treated by their employers, and that
she finds the work extremely Inter-
esting.
“Let me hop up on this opportun-
ity and raise my hat skyhlgh to the
telephone operators. For intelligent,
courteous, conscientious service, they
can’t be beaten. Their training and
treatment must be of the finest
quality, for you never get a surly
word or tired tone from one of them
in the United States. I’ve used tele-
phones in many foreign countries.
The American people wouldn't stand
for the Incompetence that is ac-
cepted as routine In many lands
where governments own and operate
the phone system.”
Irish And Tigers-
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aggregation after that and the
Bronchos scored In each of the re-
maining periods.
The -Wheeler Mustangs dropped a
non-conference encounter to the
powerful Canadian Wildcats by a 27
to 13 count in a contest played in
the Wildcats’ back yard.
Conference Standings
Team
W
L
T
Pet.
Shamrock
4
'0
0
1000
McLean
4
0
0
1000
Clarendon
4
1
0
800
Wheeler
2
2
0
500
Wellington
2
2
1
500
Lefors
1
3
1
300
Memphis
1
3
2
300
I.akevlew
0
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5
0
000
Workers Needed—
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per cent of the dues in each com-
munity is retained by the local chap-
ter for its own Red Cross work.
The drive will open on Tuesday,
November 12, and continue through
November 30.
Women who can assist in the
work please contact Mrs. Mitcham
as soon as possible so that she can
arrange her schedule. Women in lo-
calities around Shamrock are also
needed for the canvass In earh com-
munity.
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Baptists To Hold-
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Board and Women’s Missionary
Union will have executive meetings.
The afternoon program will open
at 2 o’clock with Mitt Bullard lead-
ing the song service. Rev. Lawrence
will talk on the Cooperative Pro-
gram and Mrs. R. W. Brantley of
Lon’s young men, American women
everywhere ask how they can vol-
unteer their services to aid In the
emergency. What part can women
and girls play In national defense?
The American Red Cross, through
Its 3,700 Chapters and their branch-
es, provides the answer. More than
a half million women already have
enrolled to give theli time In Red
Cross volunteer servifces, according
to Mrs. Dwight F. Davis of Wash-
ington, D. C., Chairman of Rod
Cross Volunteer Special Services.
Through sewing and knitting a mil-
lion garments for Europe’s war vic-
tims, and making millions of surgi-
cal dressings for war wounded and
sick, they have gained efficiency
and experience which can be readi-
ly diverted to the work for home
defenses should the need arise, Mrs.
Davis said.
In order to prepare most effi-
ciently for any emergency which
may come, the Red Cross is extend-
ing its training courses through its
Chapters. Women motorists are
trained for the Red Cross Motor
Corps; girls who wish to volunteer
for office work, train for the Staff
Assistance Corps; other thousands
join the Canteen Corps; women
apd girls who wish to learn to pro-
tect the health of their families,
Top, left, millions of garments and surgical dressings made for war
victims by uniformed women; right, Nurse's Aides trained to serve In
hospital clinics; Gray Ladies trained to give morale building services in
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military and civilian hospitals. All are volunteers who give time
work of mercy every day.
take Home Hygiene and Care of
the Sick Courses; those who wish
to learn how to aid the victim of an
accident, enroll in the First Aid
classes.
The Gray Lady Corps Is com-
posed of volunteers who require
more specialized training and this
Is available only In those chapters
near military hospitals. The Gray
Ladies are the visitors in military
and civilian hospitals giving thoBe
aids and comforts to sustain the
morale of the sick. Nurse’s Aides
are trained to assist doctors and
expert registered nurses in clinics
and hospitals and this training's
limited at present to regions where
there are many hospitals.
The Rod Cross “preparedness for
humanity” program Is supported by
the memberships of the American
public and every patriotic man a^i
woman is urged to join his local
Red Cross Chapter during the Roll
Call, November 11 to 80.
Wellington will discuss the Buckner
Orphans’ Home. Business of the as-
sociation will be brought before the
assembly and announcements will
be made. The Wayland quartet will
conclude the program with special
music.
KNOW ANY NEWS—we appreci-
ate your reporting news items to us.
The Shamrock Texan. Phone 160.
Producers Should
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farm witli respect to which the loan
might otherwise be made.
Eligibility for parity payments will
be determined early in 1941, the ad-
ministrator said, and, since those
eligible for parity payments will be
eligible for loans, only one determl
nation of eligibility need be mati^
The announcement of these eligi
bility rules does not In any way con
stltute an announcement of a loa;
on the 1941 crop, Holmgreen pointei
out. The statement was issued as i
protective measure for the produfjr
so that they might plan their farm
ing operations in order to be ellgibl
for a loan if one is offered.
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How Many “Horsepower”
Is
Your
Wife?
No—we are not trying to be facetious. We think it is a reasonable
question when comparing human energy with mechanical power on the
matter of doing the family washing.
We do not know how much energy, measured in terms of horsepower,
that a woman uses doing the laundry work at home—
—but we do know that a tired little lady at the end of a hard day
of washing, ironing, cleaning, cooking, etc., is not a very interesting
companion.
It women were robots that never tired—geared to power like a
modern laundry washwheel—timed to precision with automatic controls
—directed scientifically in their operations by experts with gauges,
schedules and charts—they would make marvelous machines for doing
the family washing—but then they wouldn’t be women.
Women are not machines and they cannot compete with machines
when it comes to doing laundry work. That is a job for the professional
laundry where horsepower, equipment and knowledge all combine to do
the laundry work better and more economically than it can be done at
the home.
i j J?ei, east that can be done is t0 let the laundry lift this laborious
load. Call us and let science and machinery replace that needless expendi-
ture of vital human energy required to perform a menial but necessary
SHAMROCK STEAM LAUNDRY
& DRY CLEANERS
“WE CLEAN CLEAN”
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 51, Ed. 1 Monday, November 4, 1940, newspaper, November 4, 1940; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528767/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.