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Serving
King and Cottle
Counties
The Paducah Post
Texas’ Most
Progressive Weekly
Newspaper
are installed and two
rectors were elected
of the Paducah Jun-
of Commerce in the
innf room here last
; Byron A. Schatz was
city and Vice-Presi-
Williams presided. Ed
etary-trehsurer, and
3arr, T. L. Holland,
Horace Stallings,
arker, Roy A. Jones,
Bon, directors, were in-
directors elected were
irr and Hubert Lee.
ogram was directed by
LUME XXXIV
PADUCAH, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940
I GIVE YOU
PADUCAH
By Ed Fyke
T. Harper, the man who built
first Store in Swearingen, was
e this Week visiting his mother,
I9HH87. Harper, and other
Harp
er ‘built a general
ore at Swearingen
operated the estab-
■chandise store at Swearingen
1008, and
meat until leaving Cottle coun-
in 1011L He is residing at A-
•as Pass at the present.
* * *
Preacher F. E. Swanner is
raping the skies this week
th hie feet in a pair of cow-
(presented him by Bill
|jld other friends. He
KNOWS now that he's
fan in):h taller than
and Toby Powell.
* * *
ion of Paducahans re-
the column to start
gainst street-spitters.
ink they’ve got some-
It’s almost impos-
through the city on
thout being spit on.
‘column knows that
,1 art to spitting that
tobacco chewers pos-
I doubt that the city
are the proper place for
this ability. Result: I
an appeal to street-
week—asking them
im this favorite past-
they are off the
■^•tssaatar B. F. Hobson has
fttd a aew fad in Paducah.
Ha M; riding a bbycle to
(h, Ilrii Powell doesn't par-
ditts Paducah’s gasoline
JtMHfr* * * *
ad Cross war relief contri-
ons are still lagging in Pa-
th. Donations this week in-
ed:
'30. A. B. Earp................$2.50
Mrrod A. Williams ............$1
Ira. Jackson ........................$1
0 of Paducah’s $380
en raised, and Mrs.
vis Jr., local Red
n, has announced a
drive starting Sat-
ontributions will be
in the column.
* * *
daeah was a hotbed of
MUM this week. Paul Eu-
i caadidate for repreaenta-
aat Up campaign head-
•n ia the city and will
ila hare for at least two
I. Staneell Clement of Chit-
aad R. R. Walker of
dh, also seeking the legis-
vacated by Alien
kland, were in Pa-
_esday. Lewis Wil-
njamin and J. Don-
_i of Seymour, can-
j district judge, were
iWednesday and part
6666 COWBOY
SUFFERS FATAL
NECK INJURY
Elarold Riley Dies in. Paducah
Hospital From Injuries Sus-
tained When Thrown From
Horse.
Haiold Riley, 19-year-old cow-
boy, died in a Paducah hospital
at 2:10 Thursday morning from
injuries sustained on the 6066
Ranch last Monday morning when
he was thrown from a horse.
The accident occured in a
branding pen on the King county
ranch. Riley’s horse reared up and
struck his head against the cow-
boy’s, causing him to lose con-
trol of the animal and fall to the
ground.
He was rushed to Paducah
where hospital attendants found
he had suffered a fractured vei-
tabrae in his neck.
Riley, son of Ira Riley, longtime
resident of Snyder, had been an
employe of the 6666 Ranch since
January. A brother and sister
also survive.
Funeral services will be held in
Snyder at 2:30 Friday afternoon,
with Oidem Funeral Home of that
city in charge of arrangements.
BRIGGS NAMED
GOP DELEGATE
CONVENTION SCOR E S
PRESENT NATIONAL
ADMINISTRATION
Selected as Stamford Sponsor for Texas Cowboy Reunion
ather is here and
tivities are in full
candidates agree,
they are having a
1 competing with the
r. It’s apparent that
be the number one
the summer.
* * *
Well., editor of the
Leader and a can-
, Congress to succeed
aes, will open his
Wellington Friday
7. Wells' opening
ill be delivered et
beginning at 8
* * *
one member of the
which is not migra-
ting in the state the
nd. It is the white-
pve, sometimes called
a game bird pecu-
i h e border section,
the spring and sum-
- it is easily recog-
drumming call, but
| winter it is extremely
giving voice to a
W. C. Briggs of Paducah was
elected a delegate from Texas to
the national Republican conven-
tion at Philadelphia as the state
convention closed in Dallas Tues-
day. Briggs was elected to the
Chicago convention four years
ago.
He will serve on the credentials
committee during the convention
and Jack Parnell of Paducah al-
so will attend as a sargent-at-
arms.
The Republicans shoved through
a series of sweeping resolutions
at Dallas, condemning the Roose-
velt foreign and (domestic poli-
cies, reiterating their belief in
protective tariff and sending a
slate of uninstructed delegates to
the national convention.
Resolutions included:
Condemned the administration
for sending officeholders over the
nation at the expense of the tax-
payers to build up a third-term
movement.
Asked the nation to guard
against all propaganda, inclulding
war, designed to cover the fail-
ings of the administration.
Opposed United States involve-
ment in the war.
Condemned sit-down strikes.
Advocated that relief funds be
distributed through reorganized
local agencies.
Deplored the reduction in cot-
ton acreage and the enforced cur-
tailment of farm products.
BIBLE SCHOOL
EXERCISES SET
GRADUATION PROGRAM
TO BE HELD TONIGHT
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
Commencement exercises for
the Baptist Daily Vacation Bible
school will be held in the church
auditorium tonight, beginning at
8 o’clock. The public is invited.
Certificates will be presented
students who have attended the
school during the past two weeks.
Handwork done by the children
will be displayed and various
things taught in the school will
be presented in a program by the
lils.
Miss E i I a h B I a n Elliott
(above) has been selected as
Stamford’s sponsor for the
eleventh annual Texas Cowboy
Reunion which will be held in
Stamford July 2, 3 and 4. Six-
ty or more towns, counties and
ranches will likely be represent-
ed at the Reunion by cowgirl
sponsors, who will compete for
the special saddle and three
other prizes. Brownfield’s spon-
sor, Miss Fern Sawyer, won
first place last year.
OVER HANDFUL OF PENNIES-
Local Negro Stabbed Fatally
FARM TENANCY
TO BE TALKED
RADIO OPEN FORUM WILL
DISCUSS PROBLEM AT
3:30 TODAY
pup
(Continued on Page 7)
iee Officers Installed
Friday Night Session
President Schatz today called a
membership meeting for Friday
night of next week to be held in
the city hail starting at 8 o’-
clock. Schatz will announce stand-
ing committees and outline plans
for the year at the session.
“We have approximately 60
members already enrolled and ex-
pect to pass the 100 mark with-
in a few weeks,” he said. The
president said he would recom-
mend that the organization’s
name be changed to Paducah and
Cottle-King County Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce in order to
make it a more representative
organization.
Farm tenancy, one of the major
problems facing American agri-
culture, will he discussed in an
open forum broadcast over Radio
Station KGNC at Amarillo, Fri-
day afternoon, beginning at 3:30
o’clock, according to S. W.
Weatherall, county supervisor for
the Farm Security administration.
As one approach to the solution
of America’s tenancy problem,
Congress passed the Bankhead-
Jones Farm Tenant Act in 1937
to provide loans to help competent
tenants, sharecroppers, and farm
laborers to purchase their own
land. Various phases of this pro-
gram are expected to be discussed
on the open forum.
Participating in the special
broadcast will be members of the
four-state farm tenant purchase
committee, which will be meeting
in Amarillo to recommend coun-
ties in which loans will be made
in 1940-41. Members of the com-
mittee are A. B. Crump, Wheeler;
R. C. Hopping, Lubbock; M. A.
Pillers, Twitty; Charles L. Thom-
as, Pampa; James H. Crabtree,
Beaver, Okla.; John Hiatt, Plains,
Kan.; Adolph Hansen, Granada,
Colo.; L. L. Jones, Garden City,
Kan.
John L. McCarty, editor and as-
sociate publisher of the Amarillo
News-Globe, will direct the open-
forum broadcast.
Rain Measures
1.90 Inches Here
+ An argument over a handfulf
of pennies cost a negro his
life here Sunday night.
Funeral home attendants
found only 129 cents in K. 0.
White’s pockets as they pre-
pared liis body for burial, and
negroes who sat in the fatal cotch
game said there had been less
than $3 among them.
“It happened this way,” one
witness said. “We were playing
a friendly little game of cotch
for pennies over at the Blue
Front when the argument start-
ed. K. C. and Clarence got in an
argument over who held the win-
ning cards. They cussed each
other and grabbed for their
knives. Clarence struck K. C.
in the heart and K. C. ran toward
the door . . . Clarence disap-
peared.”
Deputy Sheriff Wiley Ellis and
Justice of the Peace W. F. Wim-
berly, who investigated, found
White had been stabbed through
the heart and died almost in-
stantly at the negro cafe in
northeast Paducah.
Ellis arrested Clarence Steven-
son, 42-year-old negro, in Vernon
about daybreak Monday morning
and returned him to Paducah to
face murder charges. Stevenson
waived examining trial and his
bond was set at $2,000. He had
not made bond today and was
still in the county jail awaiting
action of the Cottle county grand
Continued showers fell over
Cottle county Saturday, Sunday
and Monday nights. Fall measur-
ed 1.18 inches in Paducah bring-
ing the week’s total to 1.90 in-
ches.
Most of the southern and west-
ern part of the county had re-
ceived from 2 to 5 inches of
moisture last week, and Dunlap
and other areas north of Padu-
cah reported good rains this
week. Dunlap received a 2 inch
rain Monday night.
Crops were washed out on
many farms during the past week
and replanting will be necessary,
farmers reported.
FINED FOR DRUNKENNESS
A Paducah man was fined $1
and cost, totaling $14, for drunk-
enness Monday ill Justice of the
Peace W. F. WmbqMy’s court.
He was arrest*!- Jtaturdlay by
Sheriff C. A. Brooks.
Carl McWilliams underwent a
tonsilectomv at a Paducah hospital
Tuesday, May 28.
The victim, who was 55 years of
age, was a farm laborer. He work-
ed in the Buck Creek community.
The defendant was a dishwasher
at a down town cafe. The stabbing
occured about 10 o’clock Sunday
night.
Four negroes who admitted par-
ticipation in the game were fined
$1 and costs, aggregating $24,
each. No charges had been filed
today against the owner of the
negro cafe.
Officers had difficulty in mak-
ing formal charges against the
gamblers. They didn’t know how
to spell cotch. It’s a falling card
game on the order of stud poker
that seems to be popular among
Paducah negroes. Maybe it’s spell-
ed cQtch . . . maybe kotch . . .
nobody seems to know, but it
spelled d-e-a-t-h for K. C. White.
County Valuations
To Show Increase
Cottle county valuations are ex-
pected to show a slight increase
this year, County Judge L. D.
Gibson announced after the coun-
ty commissioners court sat as a
board of equalization Monday.
Valuations totaled $6,258,721
last year.
Rev. and Mrs. William E. Fish-
er left Monday for Oklahoma
City where they will ^attend the
first jurisdictional conference of
the Southwestern-Central district
of Methodist churches. They also
will visit Mrs. Fisher’s brother,
Martin R. Johnson.
Post Want Ads Get Results.
TEXAS DEMOS
FAVOR GARNER
COTTLE COUNTY DELE-
GATES JOIN IN BOOST-
ING TEXAN
The state Democratic conven-
tion Tuesday at Waco instructed
that Texas’ 46 votes in the na-
tional party convention be cast
lor John N. Garner for presi-
dent.
Cottle county’s five delegates
favored the Garner nomination.
They were R. L. Middleton, J.
V. Payne, Dawson Reid and E. A.
Carlock. C. E. Blount, the coun-
ty’s fifth delegate, was unable to
attend.
The convention also strongly in-
dorsed the administration of Pres-
ident Roosevelt and directed that
the state’s delegation to the na-
tional convention do nothing to
embarrass the president and that
it would not participate in any
“anti-Roosevelt” or “stop Roose-
velt” movement.
7,394 Visit WPA
Project Exhibits
Varied activities of the WPA
Professional and Service division
were on display during the week
of May 20-25 throughout the
Lubbock District of 24 counties.
This open-house held on projects,
although national in scope,, was
developed locally and was devised
to acquaint citizens of the various
communities with the work be-
ing done on non-construction pro-
iects.
A total of 75,957 interested
citizens in the Lubbock district
visited and carefully inspected
Professional and Service projects
in the various communities.
Cottle county projects had 7,-
394 visitors (hiring the week.
WPA Professional and Service
Projects provide employment for
more than one-half million men
and women, whose work and
achievements are essentiajly com-
munity business. Production pro-
jects, such as sewing, weaving,
canning and gandening, provide
clothing, food and other necessi-
ties for distribution at the direc-
tion of the sponsors to families
and tax supported institutions.
Public Health projects, with their
allies, housekeeping aide and
school lunch projects, give assist-
ance to needy sick, and help to
serve the malnourished with the
right kinds of food, provide house-
hold aid to needy families in
cases of emergency.
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mulkey of
the Dunlap community announced
the birth of a daughter, Margaret
Ann, on Monday, May 27.
NO. 7
Drive For American Red
Cross Relief Funds Will
Open In City Saturday
Plans for a county-wide tampaisrji to raise Cottle coun-
ty’s quota in the Red Cross drive for a $10,000,000 war re-
lief fund, were announced today by Mrs. John H. Davis Jr.,
local Red Cross chairman.
Only $16.50 of the county's $380 quota had been raised to-
day, and Mrs. Davis expressed the opinion that a countywide
drive would be necessary."”
The campaign will open with a'
rally on the courthouse lawn Sat-
urday afternoon. Brief talk- will
be made by Legionnaires, business
men and county and city officials.
Announcements will be made in
all churches Sunday.
Committees will be appointed to
accept funds in all communities
throughout the county in order
that every Cottle countain will be
given an opportunity to share in
relief work.
Mable T. Broadman, American
Red Cross secretary, in reiterating
her appeal for assistance this week
said, “The plight of millions of
homeless refugees now wandering
through France and other Euro-
pean nations laid waste by in-
vasion, has brought about a con-
dition which could hardly exist in
imagination.”
“The Red Cross societies of
Europe are making a desperate
appeal to the American Red Cross
to help in this greatest mass e-
vacuation of civilian populations
in history. Red Cross chapters
throughout the United States at
the close of the last week turned
in gifts totaling more than $2,000,-
000 toward the $10,000,000 min-
imum necessary to meet the ur-
gent and immediate needs of ref-
ugees at this moment.
“For all of these men, women
and children, the great beacon of
hope is the symbol of the Red
Cross. I plead to you for their
sake and in the merciful spirit
of the Red Cross.”
COTTON SALE
REGULATIONS
REMAIN SAME
.Sales of Cotton in Excess of
of Quotas Will Be Subject
To a Penalty of Three Cents
a Pound.
The agricultural adjustment ad-
ministration has announced that
the regulations governing the saie
of this year’s cotton crop under
the marketing quota system would
he virtually the same as those in
effect during the past two years.
Quotas were approved by pro-
ducers in a national referendum
last fall.
Under the regulations, the mar-
keting quota for each farm will
be the normal or actual produc-
tion of the farm’s AAA allotted
acreage, whichever is greater, plus
the amount of any old cotton
which was salable under quotas
in 1938 and 1939.
Sales of cotton in excess of
quotas will be subject to a pen-
alty of 3 cents a pound of 1939
and 1940 cotton and 2 cents a
pound on any over-quota 1938
cotton which might be offered for
sale.
Transportation
Aid Is Received
An additional 25 percent of
transportation aid for rural
schools has been received by
County Superintendent Beatrix
Cobb from the State Department
of Education.
The payment, aggregating $2,-
156, brings the total amount of
aid already received to 75 per-
cent, according to Miss Cobb.
Fire Menaces Etter
Supply Store Here
Fire of undetermined origin
menaced the Etter Supply com-
pany on the northeast corner of
the ’ square Wednesday morning,
but was extinguished before ser-
ious damage had been done.
A slush pit of oil and the rear
wall of the building were ignited
by the flames. The Fire Depart-
ment extinguished the fire in a
few minutes, however.
meWodistT
PLAN SCHOOL
VACATION BIBLE STUDY
AND RECREATION TO
BEGIN JUNE 3
A Methodist Vacation Bible
school, for children from four to
16 years of age, will open Monday
morning, June 3, at 9 o'clock, ac-
cording to announcement by Wil-
liam E. Fisher, pastor. Classes
will be held from 9 until 11 o’-
clock each morning for two weeks.
“We invite all boys and girls
to attend,” Rev. Fisher said.
“There will be no fees of any
sort.”
“God In His World” will be the
theme of the worship, play, out-
door excursions and activities in-
cluded in the school.
Mrs. Presley Wright will be
dean, Mrs. M. R. Blake superin-
tendent of the beginners’ (depart-
ment, Mrs. W. C. Briggs super-
intendent of the primary depart-
ment, Mrs. Byron Schatz superin-
tendent of the junior department,
and Mrs. L. V. Anderson, superin-
tendent of the young people’s de-
partment.
Courses to be studied are:
“Let’s Go Out of Doors,” begin-
ners; “Exploring God’s Out-of-
Do o r s,” primaries; “Living In
Our Community,” juniors, and
“Discovering God in the Beauti-
ful,” intermediates and young
people,
12 Wheat Subsidy
Payments Received
Twelve additional 1940 wheat
subsidy payments totaling $211.-
52 were received at the AAA of-
fice in the courthouse this week.
Fanners receiving checks were
notified. • i- ■
DANCE TO AID
BIG BEND PARK
BENEFIT AFFAIR TO BE
AT ROARING SPRINGS
FRIDAY. JUNE 7
The Motley-Dickens Counties
Old Settler’s association will spon-
sor a benefit dance at the Pio-
neer’s Pavilion at Roaring Springs
Friday night, June 7, with net
proceeds to go to the Texas Big
Bend National Park fund, accord-
ing to announcement by C. C.
Haile of Afton.
Mr. Haile said he thought peo-
ple of this section would like to
aid in raising money for the pro-
ject, which will be made a Na-
tional Park as soon as land is
purchased.
The drive for funds to buy the
land is headed by Amon G. Car-
ter, publisher of the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, and will be ad-
vanced during the coming season.
Plans call for the purchase of ap-
proximately one million acres in
the Chisos mountains area of the
Big Bend. It is believed a park
as large and as popular as the
Yellowstone may develop, which
will have the climatic advantage
of being open throughout the
year. The value of tourist trade
to all of Texas, and the Pan-
handle in particular, is empha-
sized.
Good music, both o'd-time and
modern, will b» furnished for the
dance. Mr. Haile assured patrons.
Tickets are for sale at The Pa-
ducah Post in Paducah and in
Matador. Roaring Springs. Spur,
Floydada. Ralls and other neigh-
boring cities.
129ENR0LLED
IN 4-H CLUBS
MEMBERSHIP IS GREATER
THAN GOAL SET UP
FOR 1940
Four-H clubs of Cottle county
have a total enrollment of 129
members, which exceeds the goal
of 125 as set up by the County
Land Use Planning committee for
1940, according to County Agent
G. J. Lane.
Club members are conducting
demonstrations in crops, livestock
and poultry, the agent said.
Thirty-six boys are participat-
ing in a one variety cotton dem-
onstration sponsored by the Quan-
ah Cotton Oil company. They ar»
using Mebane No. 140 strain of
seed which was developed by the
Chillicothe station.
Fifty-six boys are conducting pig
feeding and swine management
demonstrations, 28 are feeding
beef calves, seven are conducting
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Fyke, E. D. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1940, newspaper, May 31, 1940; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth723073/m1/1/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.