The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1946 Page: 4 of 6
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THE ARCHER COUNTY NEWS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1946
“Free Play of Competition” Urged For
Producers and Consumers of Gas
Mr*. Truman Miller arrived home
Ejtnday from Canby, Oregon, where
Jfe'ha* been the past few months
with her husband and his parents, the
J. T. Millers. She reports that J. T.
end Vera expect to move soon to Hub-
hard, Oregon, and that they are car-
ried away with the Great Pacific
Northwest.
Charlie Hannah was brought home
Wednesday morning from Wichita
Falls where he underwent an opera-
tion for the removal of a goiter last
week. He is reported doing fine.
Acting Sgt. Ernest Sutherland
•pent two days delay en route from
Ft. Lewis, Washington, to San An-
tonio, at home here with his wife and
enuoren, anaron ana Charles. He al-
so visited his parents, Mr Mrs.
W. C. Sutherland, Sr., and Glen and
the John Robinsons. He will return
to Ft. Lewis in a week.
Every woman wants to retain her
youth, And so does the draft board.
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Deo Canada returned home Sun-
day after 42 months service in the
Army, having received his discharge
Saturday at Fort Bliss. Pfc. Dee
served* 8 months in the Hawaiian Is-
lands and the Philippines and arrived
February 3rd on the West Coast. He
is son of Mr. and Mrs. Cage Canada.
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Mrs. Ben Ellison, of this city, at-
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Dlney
of Salina,
ting with her aged
ta, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Parnell,
train! the Rebekah Lodge in
Tuesday night.
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Mas. Charlie Thuman,
Kansas, is visiting with
parents, Mr. and Mrs.
hi Chico, Texas.
CLASSIFIED
HELP - HELP—Urgently needed
new! Furnished or unfurnished a part-
■Mat. See H. D. Locklear at White
Ante Store or call 24.
FOR SALE—5-room house and lot
in city. Inquire at News Office.
7-ltp.
FOR SALE—1940 model Ford tu-
dor. new motor, blue windshield. See
J. 8. Dugan. 3'5tP-
WHY pay rent when you can buy
a home with a small cash payment;
the balance like paying rent. See
J. L. O’Keefe, phone 82. 3-tfe.
FOR SALE— Lorene upright piano.
Zenith battery radio, good shape, and
Wiadcharger and all wiring. R. L.
Doan. 6tfc-
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GENERAL electrical repair work
and houee wiring AH work guaran-
teed. No job too large or too small.
Telephone 90. Jack Nagle. 4-4tp.
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FOR SALE—Simmons iron bed:
Simmons half bed, slats, springs and
2 Mttrcflflen; Coolerator; chifforobe.
See Mrs. Charlie Wingo at home.
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FOR SALE—Milch cow with 2-
week-otd white-face calf. See Gor-
don Elmore. 6'2tP-
Royal Theatre
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
TOM CONNAY
in
“The Falcon
In Hollywood”
and good shorts
SUNDAY - MONDAY
“P2ARL BUCK’S"
“China Sky”
with
RANDOLPH
SCOTT
TUESDAY ONLY
“Powder
Range’
HOOT GIBSON
HAKKi tAttiil
"PLEASE NOTICE’
"Powder Smoke Range" is 10
years old, but it is new to us
now and a good western.
THURSDAY
“Lake Placid
Serenade”
I HOUSTON, Texas, February 14.—
The stake of consumers in adequate
natural gas supplies is vital and will
be best served by the “free play of
competition” in providing such sup-
plies, City Attorney H. P. Kucera,
of Dallas, testified before the Federal
Power Commission here.
The official who was military gov-
emor of Trieste, Italy, before re
turning to the city attorney’s office
with which he has been connected for
21 years, was one of the last witness-
es at the FPC’s natural gas hearing
just concluded here.
Representing the consumer’s view-
point, Mr. Kucera cited the large in-
vestment of Texas gas consumers in
gas-burning equipment. In Dallas,
for example, the average investment
in piping and appliances is 8280 per
consumer, or a total of $25,000,000, he
showed.
“FziYoie of tinemgar supply wou'.d
render the customers' investments in
ordinary house service useless,” he
pointed out. “Furthermore, a large
proportion of the dwellings in south-
western cities have been so con-
structed that natural gas is the only
fuel that can be satisfactorily utiliz-
ed for heating purposes without ex-
tensive structural modification.”
For these and many other reasons,
Mr. Kucera explained, the consumer
has an interest in the business equal
to that of the gaa producer or dis-
tributor, and “in order to fulfill these
consumer interests and demands,
management should have latitude and
freedom for deciaion and operation.”
Texas pioneered state regulation of
the oil and gas industry through its
Railroad Commission, he noted, add-
ing: “To say that people who control
the state would permit its resources
to be dissipated to the disadvantage
of the citizenship is an indictment of
the intelligence of its citizenship.
State and local regulation, through
cities and towns, is closer to the
people and should be responsive . . .
The States should be left free to con-
trol their natural resources.
“During the last five years the
costs of utilities to Texas consumers
have been greatly reduced, and no
good reason is presently offered why
state sovereignty, exercised through
its agencies, the Railroad Commis-
sion and local city governments,
should not be permitted to continue
to handle this phase of economic and
social life.”
The attorney disagreed with pro-
posals of coal and railroad interests
that natural gas be limited to strict-
ly domestic uses, declaring that this
"would reduce the life expectancy of
natural gas to all classes of uses.”
Gas service has been brought to many
Texas towns which today are enjoy-
ing a better service than some of the
world’s greatest cities “solely because
the suggested elimination of indus-
trial sales was not in effect when ser-
vice waa extended to these communi-
ties,” he concluded.
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Mr. and Mrs. Olie Rust, Jr.. Wichi-
ta Falls, visited Sunday with the
lady’s parents, the Sam Herrons, and
kin here. They were sporting a
bran new (to them) 1942 Lincoln
Zephyr of which they are now the
proud owners.
Duren Bell to
Attend Houston
Land Bank Meet
Mr. J. Duren Bell has been selected
by the board of directors of the Ar-
cher City National Farm Loan Asso-
ciation to represent the organization
at the stockholders’ meeting of the
Federal Land Bank of Houston
February 19-20 in Houston, according
to Paul H. Zink, secretary-treasurer
F. J. Schroeder was named as dele-
gate by the Windthorst association:
and is also scheduled to attend the
Houston meeting.
The Archer City Association, or-
ganized in 1918, has $7,935.00 stock
in the Land Bank which is owned
entirely by the national farm loan
associations throughout Texas. The
Windthorst association, organized tha
same year, has a stock interest in the
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My Birth Month
“The Maid O’ Dundee”
Sam McAnally and Howard Colgan,
a couple of Megargelites, were busi-
ness visitors in the metropolis today.
Harold
Falls, was
Tuesday.
M. Kelleher, of Wichita
an Archer City visitor
Hints on successful shrubbery
planting was a demonstration given
by Mrs. H. J. Ostermann at a meet-
ing of the Windthorst Home Demon-
stration club which met at the home
We would like to call to the atten-
tion of at least some Archer City
parents that at least some Archer
City children are developing at least
some very bad traits—one of them
being thriving rocks at passing care.
A few years ago we bought a new
door glass to replace one that some-
body’s darling little boy innocently
tossed a sock through as our wife
was driving down Soutn Center street.
One evening last week Miss Sara
Young was driving home when some-
body’s little precious threw a rock
which broke out a $40 windshield.
Such antics, besides being destructive,
are exceedingly dangerous and should
be stopped—at the source—and that,
in our opinion, is the parents who al-
low their rock-throwing kids to play
in the streets.
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Seal Beam Auto Lights—$4.62 and
up. White Auto Store.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Shields and
young daughter, Shirley Ann, moved
last Thursday from this city to Tex-
arkana, Texas, where he will be em-
ployed having recently received his
discharge from the service. Mrs.
Shields is the former Miss Sibyl
Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. D. Johnson, here.
Miss Money Wilson, Wichita Falls,
left last week for Dover, Deleware,
to visit a while with her nieee, Mrs.
J. T. O’Toole, nee Miss Peggy Max-
well.
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Gov. Proclaims
Feb. 22 Arbor Day
A 57-year-old custom will be re-
newed this year when Texas observes
Arbor Day on February 22.
Governor Coke R. Stevenson has
issued a proclamation designating
George Washington's birthday anni-
versary as the day when the state
will mark the importance of trees,
forests and forest industires.
In his proclamation, Governor Ste-
. venson said: “I do earnestly recom-
of Mrs. A. L. Zotz. Flower seed and j-mend and urge that all citizens, in-
shrubs were exchanged among the JI—J—~
members. Names of unknown ft iends
were drawn. These present were
Mesdames H. J. Ostermann, Alma
Scheffe, A. L. Zatz, Arnold Linde-
mann, Frank Wachsmann and Misses
Bertha Veitenheimer and Rosalie
Veitenheimer.
A man who is always growling
must lead a dug’s life.
Charlie Stewart went Sunday to
the Jacksboro hospital for further
checking and medical treatment of his
ears which have caused him consider-
able trouble for more than a year.
His wife reports that he is doing
fairly well.
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Floyd Pace, of Wichita Falls, was
an Archer City pleasure and business
visitor Wednesday.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. Leverich, of Wichi-
ta Falls, were Sunday guests in the
T. H. Wingo, Jr., home visiting also
with their grandson, Edwin Stuck,
home from Wichita for the week-end.
Little Miss Oherrie Ann Knox was
dividualiy or in association, and par-
ticularly the schools of the state, by
apropriate exercises render due ob-
servance of this occasion in the in-
terest of the commonwealth and the
nation.”
The governor said that Arbor Day
has been set aside to bring the atten-
tion of the people of the many bene-
fits which trees offer as a forest crop,
as a raw material for industries, as
a protection for the soil, as a cover
for the wildlife, and as a beautifier
of the state.
Abor Day was originally observ
ed in Texas on February 22, 1889.
A bill was introduced in the Senate
by State Senator George W. Tyler,
of Belton, Texas, and was signed by
Governor L. S- Ross.
This year, the day has been spon-
sored by the State Department cf
Education, the Texas Forest Service
of A. &. M. College, and the Texas
Forestry Association.
Dr. L. A. Woods, state superinten-
dent of public instruction, has urged
the school teachers of the state to
hold appropriate exercises in- the
schools. He suggested that they fur-
ther the program of tree planting
February is my birth month. I am
not yet three score years and ten,
the age referred to in the Bible where
a Patriarch could lay down his bur-
dens and die, but I am past the hsif
hundred mark and if “Life Begins
at Forty" then I am at least in my
adolescent period.
My husband who has shared my
joys and sorrows for lo these many
years reminded me of my natal day
by a gift and these words: “If my
age and your age were added to-
gether it would total” but before he
could utter the staggering sum 1
reminded him that my age was old
enough and big enough to stand alone
and I preferred to do a problem in
up from Olney for the past week-end j and other landscaping.
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Knox. The young lady will begin
school here next week.
Too many people waste their time
until their time is about gone.
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Mrs. Clarence Perrin has been in-
capacitated the past two weeks to the
extent of being unable to attend du-
ties very much at the City Cafe,
co-owned with Mrs. Ann Gholson.
Little Donny Linscott, infant son
at Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Linscott, is
reported fine after having been ser-
iously ill Tuesday might. According
to information, he was bordering on
pneumonia, though was “pulled out”
with penicillin.
Zippers can never take the place
at buttons—in the collection plate.
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Miss Pauline Roll is reported im-
proved after illness of about a week’s
duration, and is expected back to her
“jerkin’ sody” job at Service Drug
soon.
Olaf Haile is reported greatly im-
proved today from diphtheria for
jehich he was given the anti-toxin
Tuesday. He had been ill a few days
when he .submitted to the treatment.
An Arbor Day radio program will
be broadcast over many Texas radio
stations on February 22. It will in-
clude a brief address by Governor
Stevenson, a dramatized exposition of
the value of forest products to the
state, some quotations by poets ana I ,jy race
philosophers, and a dramatic episode on the *
of George Washington and Thomas
Jefferson concerning the planting cf
pecan trees at Mount Vernon.
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Mr. and Mrs. Freddy Horany be-
came the proud parents last Friday
morning of a bouncing baby boy, who
has been christened Freddy K, Jr.,
and weighed in at 6 pounds and II
ounces. Mother and babe are re-
ported as doing nicely and expect to
return home tomorrow, Friday.
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Pfc. Gus Gatlin, Pfc. Charlie Lee
Martin and Ted Burkett, A.O.M. 3-c,
visited in Norman, Oklahoma, the
first of this week with James Trent,
MoMMM. The three former are on
leave. Trent was here the past week-
end on • 3-day pass, having just re-
homt
cently returned home from overseas.
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Albert Acker, Olney. accompanied
his brother-in-law and partner-in-
business, Bill Young, to Wichita Falls
Tuesday on Acker-Young hardware
and furniture business.
subtraction rather than in addition.
But men are that way. They like
the cold brutal facts. They say “fig-
ure-’ don’t lie.” Well, a little prevari-
cation wouldn’t hurt as tempus fugiu.
Somehow age doesn’t bother me.
Like interest and taxes, it accumu
lates every day, so why worry?
I’m glad to tell my age for I al-
ways thing people might think I
was older than I am.
Not long ago, J was complimented
on my “youthful” looks by a young
lady and had just repeated the con-
versation to my husband as we were
standing in our store door. About
that minute came an old lady hob-
bling along on her cane. She stopped
in amazement and said: “Is that Miss
Williams?" “Yes,” I replied, while
visions of compliments danced in my
head. “Well, we air all agettin’ old
and we shore do look it,” she con-
tinued as she went on up the street,
leaving me a “much wiser and older
women” while my better half asked
me, “Now which one are you going
to believe?”
If I can grow old gracefully with
my disposition and my memories
growing sweeter each day, I shall
not dread the milestones passing
rapidly by.
I have never resented the word
“grandmother” as seme do. To me
it is the sweetest word in the Eng-
lish language. Around it are cluster-
ed the holiest and happiest memories
and if my granddaughters can look
back upon their associations with me
as one of pleasure and some little
degree of satisfaction and edifica-
tion, I can truly say, “My cup run-
neth over.”
Life to some is a treadmill, to
others a “merry go round” as Major
Bowes used to say, “Round and round
it goes and where it stops nobody
knows.”
To me life is like a quilt made up
of the scraps that one gets out of
their grab bag or those donated by
friends and relatives. When they
have all been pieced together, they
make the “garden path” called life.
Here a gay colored piece associated
with a friend, there a drab pattern^-
ah, that last was the day when we
had sorrow, sickness or some unjust
criticism. And yet that dark color
seems by contrast to bring out into
relief the gay lovely colors which we
adore which represents the memories
of pleasant little chats or the bloom-
ing plant we received when sick, the
cheery card, the pleasant phone call
that totals up the lovely days.
Around all this like a border on a
quilt is God’s love holding the colors
in place which we by our day by day
tasks have quilted in stitches—some-
times a back breaking job—some-
times a veritable joy.
Birthdays. What a legacy. What
chain of golden memories stretch
back over the years. Sorrow? Yes.
but with every sorrow there came
the courage and patience to endure
it from Him who does not promise
ease or health or wealth but does
promise to be with us to help bear
our burdens.
And one’s character will expand and
grow if sorrow is allowed to be the
stepping stones to higher ground.
Oh. “there’s a silver lining to every
cloud” though mine has become a bit
threadbare from turning it inside out
so much. But for everv sorrow there
have been manifold blessings. My
life has been full “of such a number
of things” and I have always thought
it has fallen “into pleasant places."
Ah, the heritage of a home with
Christian parents who stood high in
the community and could “look the
whole world in the face for they owed
not any man.” and the devotion of
a sister who to my eyes was perfect.
And then the transplanting into a
home where a devoted companion has
made life so sweet and happy and
where the consummation of our de-
sires have been a lovely daughter
and granddaughters.
Could life do more for one?
The passing of our dear one was
indeed a death blow but oh the sweet
memories stored away, and as I
passed through our Gethsemane He
was with us according to promise.
Well, the speedometer shows that
is half over and beginning
home run and all I ask is to
accept age and infirmity gracefully
and calmly.
May the lines on my face show
strength of character. May my hair
turn to silver gray showing that no
artificial devices have been used to
disguise the fact that I am growing
old. But before I get “too old to
dream” and be dependent on loved
ones, may I pass on to begin that
“ageless” life with the loved ones
gone on before who have earned their
reward because they have lived
“abundantly” accepting the sad with
the glad and doing all to the glorifi-
cation of God.
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Little Miss Betty Gorman, of Wichi-
ta Falls, is visiting this week with
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
McDaniel. Betty, 4-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Gorman,
decides quite often to come visit
Gramma Blanche and Grampa Fred,
so calls them vis telephone as she did
Tuesday, and tells them to come after
her—which they do.
Carl Skinner arrived home Tuesday
with a discharge after 3 years and 5
months in the service, stationed at
Fort Lewis, Washington, and at San
Diego, California. Ex-Pfc. Carl is
the son of Mrs. Kent Davis in this
city.
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Bogan Higgs, of Breckenridge. vis-
ited Wednesday with the Charlie
Wingos here.
MrB. W. L. Andrews received a
letter thia week from a roomer. O.
N. McIntyre, informing her that he
will be delayed in returning here due
to having been injured in an auto ac-
cident last Friday. The letter was
from Muenster, Texas, where presum-
ably he is hospitalized. He is with
the Sinclair pipe line company here.
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County Clerk and Mrs. Guy Bag-
gett received word thia week that
their son, Lieut, (j. g.) Bob had land-
ed at San Francisco February 7, hav-
ing returned with a ship-load of
troops from Japan. The UJ5.S. River-
side 102 is being taken to Norfolk,
Virginia, via the Panama Canal, for
de-commissioning March 1st, which
will make Bob a lieutenant without s
ship.
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Mrs. Ellen Stewart, of Amarillo,
arrived in Archer City this morning
for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Nors
Gauiden, and brother, Will Smith.
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We have heard that Master Ser-
geant Alfred Watts is at
that’s all. We don’t know whether
on leave or permanently, where from
nor how long he’s been here.
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Jack Meredith spent the first of
this week in Dallas merchandising
for his home-auto store.
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