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Council-Manager City Covernment
Recommended By Town Hall Guests
City officials of Perryton, Dal-
hart and Tulia to)d a Shamrock
Town Hall audience Monday night
they would unqualifiedly recom-
mend adoption of the Councll-Man-
Bger form of city government by
Shamrock.
It is the modern way of doing
business and has saved thousands
of dollars annually to these three1 Dean McCutcheon of Perryton.
towns in addition to providing ex- i Mayor John A. Brown and City
panded services such as better po- Manager Fritz Lanham of Tulia
lice protection, ample water supply, and City Manager Andrew J Brown-
new paving and city parks they I ing of Dalhart.
sald' | “Perryton was in the same shape
Giving enthusiastic endorsement 11 understand shamrock is in be-
fore we voted the City Manager
to the Council-Manager plan were:
Mayor Drew Ellis and Councilman
Plans To Build Traffic Loop
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Around Shamrock Delayed
I’lans for constructing a traffic loon around Shamrock
as a part of a program to convert U. S. Highway 66 into
one of the major interstate highways, have been delayed.
't he announcement was made this week by L. C lyde
Drake, Wellington, resident engineer of the Texas Highway
Department.
Drake said this week that the project had been pro-
grammed for May, with plans to make a survey and begin
purchase of right-of-way. The project was cancelled in July.
The engineer said the interstate construction, originally
set up for a 13-year period, would require a longer time
for completion. For that reason and because Shamrock al-
ready has “reasonable traffic facilities.” it was decided by
the State Highway Department to postpone the local work
for some time.
Announcement was made last winter that a loop would
be built around this city, branching off from Highway 66
one mile east from the city limits of Shamrock and re-
joining Highway 66 one mile west of the Fort Worth and
Denver Railway track.
Drake said it was his belief that the plans would he
renewed, but that it might not be in the near future.
Irish Gridmen
Lose Thriller
To Broncs, 14 - 7
By NORBERT SCHLEGEI.
I Shamrock Irishmen, showing I
marked improvement over their
previous week's performance, took
the opening kick-off against the
Clarendon Bronchos last Friday
night and drove 69 yards In 17 plays
to score first in the non-conference
game played in Clarendon.
The Bronchos came back to take
the big end of the 14 7 score, but
the Irish never stopped trying and
looked good all the way.
The Irishmen's opening burst of
fire was highlighted by Jernigan’s
23-yard scamper to the Clarendon
13-vard line. Tyler picked up 2 over
auard. then - two offsides penalltler I
against the Broncs put the ball on
the 1.
Tyler lost the ball momentarily
on the next play, but recovered
for no gain. Quarterback Dodgen,
reluctant to risk a hand-off after
that scare, carried on the keeper |
for the TD.
Two tries for extra point weren't
good, but Clarendon lumped off-
sides both times. On the third try,
Tyler carried over for the point
plan in 1951, "said Mayor Drew El-
lis, prominent Ochiltree County
business man and landowner. "We
had good men serving on our coun-
cil who tiled hard to run the city's
affairs by meeting one or two
nights a month.
"No one was in charge. Depart-
ment heads did as they wlshefl
There was no planning, no budget.
We were In debt. We tried hard to
get efficiency but there was no or-
ganization. We visited other towns
and asked for advice. We found our
methods were obsolete; we needed
to fix responsibility in a trained
manager We adopted the Council-
Manager form of government and
It has been the salvation of Per-
ryton.’'
Councilman Dean McCutcheon,
Perryton Insurance man who worked
with Mayor Ellis and others in
changing Perryton's form of city
government six years ago, said he
I sincerely hoped Shamrock would
I try the Council-Manager plan.
"Under your present Mayor-
Council form everybody’s business
in nobody's business, “ he told the
Shamrock audience. "Your Coun-
cil needs to be free of detail work
7Ae*SHAMR0CK
TEXAN
VOLUME 54
SHAMROCK. WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, Till R \t\\. S! ri MHI.R 26. U'±>_
NUMBER 23
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Most Courteous
Business Women
Chosen By Votes
Mrs. Ann Cantrell and Miss Re
Lumnrns tied for first place In a
recent voting campaign to deter-
mine the most courteous business
woman In Shamrock.
The balloting was sponsored by
Shamrock Business and Profession-
al Womens Club and the voting
took place September 13-20, with
ballot boxes being placed at con-
venient places throughout the city.
Two hundred and fifty-three
votes were cast and 59 names were
submitted for the honors.
Mrs Cantrell and Miss Lummus
polled the greatest number of votes
with 26 each. Mrs. Lll Fry polled
25 votes and Mis. Ernie Hodges
received 15.
Mrs. Cantrell Is secretary of the
Shamrock Chamber of Commerce
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W. II. IBill) WALKER
United Nations
Day Chairman
Is Appointed
W. H. (Billl Walker has been
appointed by Mayor Seibert Wor-
ley to serve es United Nations Day
Chairman In Shamrock.
Mr. Walker will announce plans
for the Octobei 4 observance with-
in the next few days.
Mayor Worley made the local ap-
pOlntment upon icquest of Watson
W. Wise, State Chairman, who was
named by Governor Price Daniel.
In his official Proclamation of
United Nations Day which was is-
sued on June 26, President Eisen-
hower called upon "The officials
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Sleeping Sickness
Cases Diagnosed
Infectious encephalomyelitis
has been diagnosed twice within
three miles of Shamrock during
the Iasi three weeks, according
to Dr. E Bryon Range, Jr.
"All local cases have been In |
horses, even though the natural
hosts are domestic fowl and wild j
game birds, transmitted by mosqul- |
toes, chicken mites, kissing bugs,
some ticks and blood sucking gnats
to secondary hosts of horses, mules j
and men.” Dr. Range, local veter-
inarian, stated.
Since sleeping sickness is trans- |
missable to man and therefore is
a reportable public health disease,
proper health officials have been
advised of the local cases .which are
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DR. FORREST O. FEEZOR
Two-Day Meeting
Is Underway At
Baptist Church
Dr. Forrest C. Feezor, executive
secretary of the Baptist General
Convention of Texas, will be one of
the principal speakers at the 44th
annual North Fork Baptist Assoc-
iation today and tomorrow, Sept-
en bor 26 and 27, First Baptist
Church of Shamrock.
Dr. Feezor will speak at this even-
ing’s meeting which begins at
7:45 o'clock.
Rev. R. K Whitaker, pastor of
the Twitty Baptist Church and
Mrs. Gretta Mae Hurtt, former j moderator of the association, said
resident of Shamrock, died at 9:25 Dr. Feezor will leport on denom-
o'clock Saturday morning In the inatlonal work and outline goals
Hospital, Burlingame, for next year's state Baptist pro-
illness of sev-! gram.
As executive secretary, Dr Feez-
Fire Prevention
Week Scheduled
For October 6 • 12
Fire Marshal George Beaty re-
minds persons of the Shamrock
area of Fire Prevention Week which
thin year has been designated for
October 6-12
Members of Shamrock Volun-
teer Fire Department, of which
Raymond York Is Chief, are placing
red, white and black placards In
show windows throughout the city
Fire Prevention stickers are being
distributed among grade school
students, and booklets i>olntlng out
the danger of fires and how to pre-
vent them are being handed to
high school children.
Fire prevention Week Is the old-
est, president tally proclaimed "week"
in the UWted Staten This « nr
mark* lta .tbr.ii aiuiiveraa/y..
Purpose of Fire Prevention Week
(Continued on Page 8, See. 75”
PifktlNS
Dl'DLEY DABERRY, II three-year
student of vocational agriculture and a
member of the Shamrock Chapter of
Future Farmers of America, literally and
figuratively brought home the bacon with
his Chester White show pigs from the
State-Line Free Fair in Shamrock and
the Tri-State Fair in Amarillo.
In the Shamrock fair, Daherry's junior
spring Chester hoar won its class and
went on to win grand champion hoar
honors. A littermnte Kill won its class
and placed as reserve champion. In the
Amarillo fair, the hoar won its class and
the junior championship and was placed
as reserve grand champion hoar of the
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V.
Chester While division. The liltermate
Kilt placed second in its class o! junior
spring Kill* and received the reserve
champion junior k>H honors.
Young Daherry, son of Air. ami Mrs.
I). C. Dabern of east of Shamrock, fol-
lowing his interest in showing sw ine last
fall, pun based a top Chester W hile gill,
\V. Star Princess 1th. The nil! was care-
fully tended through the winter and
spriaK and farrowed the potential rib-
bon winners, (loud rare and management
brought the young prospects along until
show time when they accounted for
themselves in the show rings.
Opens Office Here:
R. H. Fulton Co.
Will Put In Gas
Gathering System
F.l Paso Natural Gas Company
has let a contract to R. H. Fulton
A Company lor a gathering system
to pick up gas from its own lenses
m Cita\. Wheeler and Collingsworth
Counties, according to a story In a
recent Issue of the Oil and Gas
Journal.
Approximately 160 men, most of
them with families, will he moving
to Shamrock to help with the pro-
ject. according to Jack Frazer, local
office manager.
The project will require from four
to st\ months for completion, Mr.
Frazer raid.
Fulton 1ms established an office
In the Martin Bros Transport
budding 111 the 1200 block of North
Main Street, and will start Immed-
iately on the gathering lines, which
range up to 21' Indies In diameter.
The system will expand with de-
velopments, according to the OOJ
story,
I The story continued:
I "Fulton is already well along with
HI pasos M-mtle, 1R and 20-lnch
lute Irom near Shamiock to its
system at Dumas An 8,100-horse-
j,lower compressor station Is nearing
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Irish To Host
Hollis Tigers
Friday Evening
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Former Resident
Claimed By Death
Peninsula
Calif., following an
eral months.
She was a sister of Alvin Roberts
of this city. Her parents are Mr.
and Mrs A E Roberts, former long-
time residents of Shamrock,
now live In Montara, Calif.
or executes and promotes the plans
and policies of Texas Baptists, work-
ing with the 191-member Executive
who i Board
I Administrative and
20 Boy Scouts
And Six Adults
Enjoy Cook-Out
State Officer Is
Speaker At Anneal
B-PW Club Bangue!
/ &\i*lnt*** uricf Vrotvmtrmhl Women
I of fUiamm k onferf ulnrd wUii h
I banquet to their biifllnr.sfl us-
| ,*nclutrn imtl other I'ticslw, on Tiles | )a , i*;a,:li*.s.
{clay fvi'nlii" In Fellowship Hull of, oprinw*, the
Hi* FI rut Methodist Church
Funeral services were held at 1 duties require the Baptist leader to |
Dutra’s Chapel, Half Moon Bay, 1 ravel throughout Texas and the
Cullf., at 3:30 o'clock Sunday af- Southern Baptist Convention ter-
ternoon. , . j rftory,
Mr and Mrs. Hurtt resided In In an advisory capacity, Dr
Take three parts bov, two parts
fun and one part competition
stir well and pour quickly Into the
open air, and you have the perfect
recipe for a going concern
And that's Just what Boy Scout
Troop 76 was Monday night when
more than 20 boys, 12 to 18 years
of age, and six adults met In El-
more Park for a cook-out and a
water boiling contest
It was a veritable 10-rlng circus
when 10 teams of two boys each
went Into action chopping wood,
building fires and In general bend-
ing all their energies toward boil-
ing water, and getting the Job done
ahead of their competition became
I the most Important thing In life
promotional | at the moment.
The activity had everything:
drama, tragedy, suspense. The team
of Bobby Bumpers and Gary Ritter
averted the tragedy of spilling their
water by constantly pouring water
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80 Young People From Shamrock
Attending Colleges, Universities
Rites Today For
Former Resident
By MRS. GEORGE L. STANLEY
The annual exodus of Shamrock
students to the campus of various
colleges is about completed.
In checking up as best we could,
we find that 80 local students are
enrolled In some 25 colleges and
universities.
West Texas State College at Can-
yon always draws the largest num-
ber, and Texas Technological Col-
lege In Lubbock Is the runner-up.
This year, 21 Shamrock students
are enrolled at WTSC They are
Emms Kay Morgan, Connie Blake,
Charlene Cadenhead,
Walraven, Nelda Hanncr, Patricia
Anderson, Joy Hefley, David Ad-
ams, Jack York, James Collings-
worth, Bill Burden, Bherron Steph-
ens, Jimmie Lee Daberry, B D.
THE CONCERTMEN, above, teiiLillveli scheduled (n
appear here under the auspices of Shamrock ('(immun-
ity Concert Association, April 1(1, 1958, Huhject In tiinil
approval by the orKunization’s hoard of director The
Concertmen feature a program of unuNual vn -nldity
and variety — designed to please all musical In I s.
Special arrangements are by Charles Tourhetle. I lie
entire production was created by Filmond Karlsrml.
Conceit Association Will
Conduct Membership Drive
Table cle< Oi
autumn Hi'Hfi
i mihurtMf’tvi
flunked with
"rum cover:
Tli* Invite it
( leon’.e I fold i
welcomed by
Mrh WOn
MKs I-ee II*
* lections n'
ftl*o iiftt'r (Hi
Flunk ci.t
Cnnch Bill l.uUeker’s Irishmen,
atinglng from three consecutive
defeats but si ill tilled with enthus-
Iomu and high in team spirit, will
ho i the Hollis (Okla.) Tigers, Frl-
do\ night.
Oolite line* 1» H pm
The Ttftct\ c-nmrhrtt l>v JDun
Proek find Mike Riley, tasted vic-
tory last Friday evening when they
clipped I hr wings of the flay re <Ok-
27-7 In their season
opener, the Hollis gridmen lost to
the Wellington Skyrockets, 44-6.
Leading the attack against the
Fnqjr:< last Friday were Bill Oas-
tlemon, 160-pound fullback, who Is
a brilliant runner; and .Johnny
Branch, 210-pound tackle, wlio Is a
powerful on hot hoffensc and de-
fense
Coach Lallcker said earlier this
week that despite their losses to
in-ierson played piano j \ , ,n, Leforn and Clarendon, Ills
111 embled and |,ln|, ,s showing grim deter-
Iinitiation In their dally work-outs
i Hons emphasized the
n. with a dry wood
i -oil ns a centerpiece, I
yellow tapers. Pro-
ven* autumn leaves,
on was given by Mrs.
oi, and guests were
Hie H PW president,
entertained the
Everything is In readiness for the
annual membership campaign of
the Shamrock Community Concert
Association to begin Monday, Sep-
tember 30. with headquarters in the
Ihowroom of Holmes Motor Com-
pany, Mrs. R A Dodgen and Mrs.
Mary Pace, co-chairman of the
campaign, announced today.
A last-minute checkup of prep-
arations for attendance at the as-
sociation’s campaign kickoff din-
ner meeting Is being made by Mrs.
Whlis Caperton, dinner chairman
More than 60 reservations for
thi campaign dinner to be held at
The First Christian Church on
Monday, September 30, at 7:30 p.m.
already have been made by the
dinner chairman who expects a 100
Per cent attendance.
Mrs. H. P. Mundy, association
president, said that she had been
her appreciation lo nil of those who
have agreed to work fluiin' the
membership drive and aid 1 felt
certain that membership in the a\
social Ion would reach an all time
high tills season.
The Shamrock association has
secured a hold booking on IP* Con
certmen tentatively scheduled to
appear here April 10, P< ■ final
booking subject to approval * f the
local association. The Concertmen,
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Road Project
Is Annofwed
Plans to "moditiiI/.l'" Highway
152 «»M from Wl'« Her to the Tex-
as Oklahoma ln» **r w uc announ-
ced this We* k by the Texas Hlute
Highway Department.
(Continued cm Page fi. Her i>
The project <
structures and
eight feel of pi
either side of II
* titling down lit*
l will b»* a mini mu
sight distant < at
Healed bids lot
of construction v
the Highway I)e|
(Continued on
ill: for widening
roadway surface,
ve*| shoulders on
e present road,
hills so that there
m of J .000 feet of I
ail points
the 16 532 mile/;
ill be received at
Hutment, office i
Page 8. Sec. 1)
Harrington, Chunk Woolly, Charles ^WUr^d that a representative of
Earl Harrington. Eugene Isaac*, Community Concerts, Inc, New
Johnston, Alveets fork- address the kickoff dln-
Funeral services of Edgar Lee
Bryant of Wellington, former resi-
dent of Shamrock and brother of
Andrew Bryant of this city, were
held at 1 o’clock this afternoon
(Thursday) in the First Church of
the Nazarene in Wellington.
FqUcwmg the £ n,e Shamrock Girl Scouts or-
bo"' '' ^ . . . rpm„tpr.. qar.ization is getting along pretty
In’erment In the local cemetery. . ____
65 years old. died at e0°? “nd fce we‘‘ “nder
i by the er.d of the week Mrs. Glenn
Meet Slated To Complete
Girl Scouts Organization
Glendene j Mary Lynn
- I Reeves, James Earl Tumbow and
Bobby Troxell.
Eleven students are attending Tex-
as Tech. They are Kenneth Ander-
son, John Walker, Barbara Sue Bell,
n*r group and be present for the
entire week to assist In the cam-
paign which will close Saturday,
October 5, at 5 p m.
At a called meeting of the offl-
County 4-Ii Entries Place
High In Tri-State Fair
A booth containing samples of :ccond; tomatoes, second and
crops and vegetables produced In j fourth; dry bluckcyed peas, third;
Wheeler County was entered In the , i caches, first and third
Trl-State Fair at Amarillo last1 The boys received *50 for putting
week by Wheeler County 4-H Club | up the booth, and prizes amounted
Mr. Bryant,
12:25 am. Tuesday. He has been
in ill health for several years and . ' ’
had beer, critically 111 for the past
two weeks.
Rev John R. Ferguson was in
charge of the last rites. Pallbearers
Art Eads, W. L. Moody, Ho-
were:
(Continued on Page 8, Sec. 1)
local chairman, said
day.
Mrs Richerson said she wanted
all girls desiring to become Scouts
who have not filled out question-
naires, to telephone her at once .
Several took blanks home to be
signed and failed to return them.
Mrs. N. K. Kadingo, executive
director of the Top o’ Texas Qlrls
Scout Council, Pampa, will be In
Shamrock Monday to help organ-
ize the troops and It is Important
to have the names of all girls wish-
ing to become 8couts. A total of
113 have already indicated they
wish to Join.
James Henderson, Jim Tom Neely! ,and members of the board of
John Stone, Donald Burkhalter, Mrs Mundy expressed
Cecil Gray, Mary Stetzler, Wayne
Henry and Morris Fillers.
Shamrock will be represented at
the University of Texas by a half-
j dozen young men. They are Jim
Mundy, Fred Hofmann. Carnal Da-
kll, Oscar Teegerstrom, Don Heath
Reavls and Bruce Barkley. The last
three mmed are In the law school
Miss Marguerite Zelgler departed
j for the University of Oklahoma at
temperature
By DICK WEST
Chemist United Carbon Co.
Mrs Richerson said there will be Norman, to resume her college work
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Date
High
Low
September 18
89
63
September 19
91
55
September 20
85
53
Sep'en-.ber 21
83
52
September 22
78
48
September 23
84
49
September 24
81
56
boys, Bob Martin, Briscoi Richard
Klker, Allison; Charlie Lang. Jr,
Kelton; and County Agent Bryan
Swalm.
The placlngs were as follows
grain sorghum, any red variety,
first; black hull kafir, third; com-
bine type kaffir, fourth; sunflowers,
fourth; alfalfa seed, first; peanuts,
any variety, third; millet, seed,
first; oats, any variety, third; rye,
any variety, first; barley, any var-
iety, fourth.
Millet, first; best tiiree pounds
of seed cotton, first; forage bun-
dles, sorghum, red top, second; al-
falfa, early bloom variety, fourth;
Sudan grass, first and second; Im-
proved Irrigated pasture grasses,
(Continued on Page 8, Sec. 1)
Services Set For
Mrs. L. R. Marshall
Mr*. L. R. Marshall, 211 Ea«t
f-G^ofld fltrffft, died at 7:20 o’clock
thl* morning •Thursday) In Sham-
rock General Hospital.
Funeral services have been sched-
uled for 2:30 o’clock Saturday af-
ternoon In the First Baptist Church
with the pastor, Rev. J. E. Byers,
officiating.
Richerson Funeral Home will be
(Continued on Page 8, Sec. 1)
< I V 1)1 K. DIC KERSON In the
newly Appointed district manager
of Houlhwentern Hell Telephone
< ompmy, xueceedlng fieorge II.
Newberry who has been trannfrrred
to a position In Fort Worth. Mr.
IHckerNon will be manager for the
14,600 telephone rustomem of ram-
pa. Canadian, Lefors, Mi Lean,
Skellvtown and Shamrock. Ilia
headquarter! are in I'ampa.
D And S Adds Rug
Cleaning Service
DSiS Cleaners announced this
week a brand new, low cost, rug
cleaning aervlcc — the only one of
Its kind located In the immediate
area — available on a "do-lt-your-
rell" rental basis, or the cleaner to
do the Job In your home at so much
per square foot.
In announcing the new service,
Ed and Ethyl Schaffner, owners of
DAS Cleaners, stated that you have
the option of renting the “Silver
King" rug cleaner machine at only
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