The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1946 Page: 1 of 16
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N
ROUNI
Town
Sights and Faces Seen
Hertford's war veterans, led
by ths American Legion . sad
VFW, are setting ready for a
really Me celebration on April
80. A big feature of tbe khow,
as far as ths «ets are concern-
ed ill b at suction eale to
raise funds fori the proposed
Veterans Memorial Home. Sev-
eral head of cattle and other
livestock, as wtH as othsr mis-
cellaneous Items, have been do-
nated already for the sale ...
and move are nesdad. Anything
that can toa sold will be accepted.
Ifs rumored that a bathtub
Is among the items that will be
put on the block. How If some-
one would only donate some
soap....
Jm to
Jwrnpy.
The current boom . . . and we
do mean BOOM .. .to flrecrack-
getttog a lot of people
Hot Just nervous old la-
either. There are a lot of
young fellows around town who
are just back from the late war
and are still having a little
trouble distinguishing the dif-
ference between the explosion
of a giant cracker and a 90-
mllllmeter mortar shell. There
aren't any foxholes to Hereford,
either. v
Overheard to Passing: (from
a wheat farmer with dust to his
eye) "It's A recorded fact that
Deaf Smith County got a quar-
ter of an loch of agin during
Noah's floodl"
/
, to of normal
and Chape, which fad alone
it news to thee
outaised henmiit. Mrs. R
her hen mud have been read-
_ in* the bit-egg stories to old
[4 (Continued on Page f, flee. 1)
C.R.Anihon
I
Construction to already un-
derway on a new business build-
ing on Main Street, just south
of Oave's Variety Store, which
will be occupied by C. R. An-
thony Company Department
Store.
The new store will open on
July 1 If the building to com-
pleted on schedule, according to
M. A. Lyons, vice-president of
the firm, of Oklahoma City, who
was to Hereford Wednesday.
The building to frrtffg con-
structed by Fuancto Hardwick.
n Mill k. £# iMi-w mi- ZZT,~
strucUon, Hardwick said, and
drill be 40 feet by 140 feet with
a 90-foot measantoe and offi-
ces stove the show windows.
The building will be air condi-
tioned and wired for fluores-
cent lighting throughout.
This will be the 79th store
opened by C. R. Anthony, Mr.
Lyons said. Fifteen are in Tex-
as. The company already has
stores to Amarillo. Platovtow
and Ctovto. Oeneral offices am
to Oklahoma City.
The new department store will
a complete tone of cloth-
for both men and women
M
Mr. Lyons was accompanied
by P. H. Zhen, company engi-
neer, also of Oklahoma city.
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Hasafwood Seeeki at
Hartford Rotary Club
iwo bcnooi Board Lleclions To
Be Held in County Saturday!
Catholic President
ident of the Amarillo D ? i
Oounoii. of Oatholio Women,
will pjjglds at the dtotriot
meettor here neto Thursday*
ftiedhbus** IVammsell
uunrici irOittcu
Women
Here
bthlUcWi
Will met 1
Final plans and arrangements
have been completed for the
annual spring meeting of the
Amarillo District .Council of
Catholic Womem which will be
held at the CsthM^ Se%)i H*ll
begin it
morning
Albradit to
charge. The meeting wlU open
at 10:80 and the program for
Hie day win be built around the
theme "The Catholic Woman to
Political ■
and Political life.
Approximately one hundred
women, Including Miss Mary
Donohoe, national field repre-
sentative, are expected to at-
tend*
At noon, a luncheon will be
served by members of the Parish
Council who are cohoetessee for
the event.
Mrs. Edmund Loerwald. dis-
trict president, will preside at
all sessions. She has been an ac-
tive member of the Council for
a number of years, having ser-
ved as district secretary for two
years and as Diocesan chairman
of libraries and literature for
two years. She Is now complet-
ing four and a half years as the
Amarillo District president.
Other Hereford women who
will take an motive part to the
lions are Mrs. Ed
a member of the nomin-
ating committee, and Mrs. Oene
loerwald, district Chairmen of
(Continued on Page 8, Sec. 1)
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SST.
The Westway
•miration Club win have a
hex supper Friday night,
April 9, at the Westway
eeheelhenee.
bring year peek-
Everybedy Is In-
Two school elections are
scheduled Saturday. Elections
have been ordered on Saturday,
April 6, for both county and
rural district schtool tijustees
and for the Hereford indepen-
dent School district board of
trustees. A
The Hertford board election
wtl to held at the oounty court-
house, polls opening at sight
o'clock to the morning and
dosing at seven o'clock to Sis
evening. Election, judges art
Claud Ricketts, John Patton and
W. R. fletorfhagen.
Three trustees must be sleet-
ed. The names of D. 8. Alex-
ander, Cliff Bloks, and Louie Le-
Orand, the throe members
whose terms are expiring, will
appear on the ballot for re-
No other nominees were re-
ceived before the March 89 dead-
!tee, when an petitions to pfeee
names of oandldates on the bal-
lot were required to be tuned
to.
to the county board elections,
two members of the county
school board and eight district
trustees an to be named.
Polls will bs set up Saturday
In each of the school
districts In the oounty with
election judges appointed by the
presidents of the Board h ea
dtotriot. Polls will open at 8
a. m., and close st 7 p. m.
Oounty trustees whose terms
epkre on April 80 an O. W. Wil-
son from precinct 1 and E. H.
Norton, trustee for Hie county at
large*
District trustees whose terms
are expiring are L. H. Looking*
MU In Dtotriot 1 (gummerftold):
Carl Wimberley
(Dawn); Deck
trlct 4 (Wyche);
Dtotriot 9 (Westway); Edwin
Morrieon to District o (Bippus-
Walcott); Zcrrell Thomas to
District 7 (FOrd); Fnd Salts-
man in District 8 (Ward) and
George Messenger to District 10
(Messenger).
— - -—-O- ’-
Hi-Y Carnival ai
High School Gym
Tomorrow Night
The Hereford High School
Hi-Y Council will sponsor s
Carnival at the High school gym-
nasium tomorrow night (Fri-
day ) beginning at eight o’clock.
Entertainment features will
Include bearing matches, wrest-
ling, doll racks, fortune telling,
cake walk contests, and bingo
games.
HlghUght of the affair will be
the crowning of the Carnival
Queen, to be selected by vote
In an election now to progreat
atm rive clsoi candidates for
the crown ase: Betty Craig.
Senior; Anne Morgan, juniors;
Marian Longbottom, Sopho-
more; Beth Morris, freshman;
and Nancy Cagle, 8th grade.
The grand climax of the car-
nival wUl be a basketball game
between Hie high school faculty
and the Hereford Whlteface
cage team.
Admission will bs 10 cents to
ituderiii, 18 cents to adults.
Dameron Elected Mayor; McCracken And
Blanton Are Named on City Commission
Vgtarans to Givs Away Jaap on "X-Doy"
"Cum Fir," Orta taut to Fir,
factor Tmm* kr City PoUc*
Numerous complaints have
been made to the city Police
department and the Sheriffs
office regarding the tossing of
flrscraoksrs to town during the
paet several days, according to
Bduee Wooddall, city officer. ■
Several near accidents have
oeenned to which personal to-1
Jury or property damage could
have been very serious as a re-I
A group of Teen-Towneri inspect the new Army Jeep ... the successor to ths Modal T
which will bs given away by Hartford War Veterans on X-Day April SO.
A U5ui:auc::itiUI;
iy , Ip Distrito 2
Roberson to Dto-
►); M. C. Haul to
Hereford War Veterans Will Celebrate With Field Day
Here April 20; Parade, Barbecue and Dances Planned,.
suit of
Hereford when two cars <
youngsters wtr# playing tag to
an attempt to toss firecrack-
ers into each others care Aside
from the danger of coUitoo
s firecracker exploding inside a
ear could eerily have caua
permanent injury to the right
or besrtogiof cot of the young*
stem, h
The sudden outbreak of rise*
A Mg toHorhaitoito war
veterans U being planned for
Saturday, April 20, when the
Veteran’s of Foreign Wars and
the American Legkm. with the
cooperation of the Hereford
Chamber of Commerce and local
business men will stage a field
day for veterans.
Featuring the "X-Day" pro-
gram will be a parade of Deaf
Smith county ex-servicemen to
uniform ae the opening event
of the day. Hereford business
firms have agreed to give all ex-
servicemen employes a holiday
on April 80.
A barbecue for the veterans
will be staged at noon by the
Hereford Chamber of commerce.
Olenin Snyder, BUI Davis, and
Homer Brum ley are members of
the Chamber of Commerce com-
mittee to charge of the feed.
4 section of Mhto Street will
be roped off in the afternoon
for a big auction eale, which
is being staged by the Legion
and VFW to raise additional
funds for their proposed Vet-
erans Memorial building; and
as a feature of the day. a new
Jeep will be given away by the
Veteran's organlsatlans.
Two donees, st ths Country
Club and Fireman's hall, wlU
climax the day of celebration.
Be* Cross WUl
Pay Expeaies Ai
S&fety Course
E. a Eubanks, chairman of
the Deaf Smith County chapter
of the American Red Croat, has
announced that ths chapter will
pay ths expenses of any adult
who wishes to taks ths Water
Safety Instructor Course which
U1 bs held In
Applicant* must have com-
pleted the Senior Life Saving
Course, and bs willing to give
volunteer work ss instructor,
either here or elsewhere if resl-
W. E. Dameron was elected
Mayor of Hereford end Lyle
Blanton and J. C. McCracken
were named City Commissioners,
in the municipal election Tues-
day.
With only one commissioners
place contested and no opposi-
tion to Dameron’s candidacy for
Mayor, there was little Interest
evidenced in the election and
only a light vote cast. Only 188
ballots were counted when the
poUs closed at seven o'clock
Tuesday evening.
Dameron polled 183 votes for
the Mayor’s office. One write-
in ballot was cast for Homer
Fox, who had refused to have
his name placed on (he ballot
after being nominated for Ihs
Mayor's office to s last-minute
petition last Thursday.
T. W. Alder son was ths de-
feated candidate for Commis-
sioner.
McCracken, the only candi-
date for re-election, poUed 188
votes to the commissioner's
race. Blanton received 104
votes, and AJdersan trailed with
98.
The date for the newly elect-
ed officials to take office has
not yet been definitely set.
Torn* of tbe present adminis-
tration will expire officially out
April 30, but retiring commis-
sioner N. E. Oass has Indicated
that the administration may bs
turned over, to the haw mayor
and council at an earlier data.
Oass and Mayor 1. S. Ireland
had * _ _
year. „-
Amy V«b Ckaltago Savy is flag* A
Bailer Skew aa X-Day Bara April 20
y jjAsESL
ona Joweli
Ex-GI Earl Stainer, spokesman for
trade mi X-Day, April 28. Rumors are rife
to Navy oxss by
Editor's Note; A challenge has been I
--- or the
I pai
the Navy, toit the Marines, are preparing a reply. Wateh for ft
vets, to turn out
lie that net only
in The Brand. Here’s Stagner’s note:
We have all heard about D-Day and V-Day and
n Hereford. That's the Ex-service-
now we are
all anxiously awaiting X-Day in
men’s Day. Of course, we are expecting and hoping that all you
Gobs (Including those members of the Navy who don’t like to be
classified that way—Marines and Coast Ouard pleas* note) will
be out In full dress and help us put on a good show.
> see who can
dress and parade the best. We know you’re supposed to be sea-
going people, but don’t feel bad If you’ve never seen the ocean
or been sea-sick . . Just put on those bell-bottom trousers and
come on out for a big time. Oet your land legs under you, sailor!
How about it, Ex-Soldiers! I for one am not going to let a Gob
out-do me.
AU to all, this is an ex-servloemen’s day, and we hope all are
out and have a whale of a big time.
(Signed) EARL STAONER
Witherspoon and W.
Judges, add Mrs. Nona
and Mrs. Bari Phillips, dark*
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Davis Sparks
Track Team to
District Win
Camp Fire Girls Hold First Grand
Council Ceremony Here on Friday
•temple, t
who threw
of fire- works at this
to still
going to have
of ths year
tho ear of youi
the lighted fire- cere
filling
"We take this
i opportunity
amd girl to dts-
but Re' Dates wlU bs
Mm offl- to a few weeks
aequatlc
Camp Firs Oirls to Hereford
passed their first major mile-
stone since their organisation
a year ago with the observance
of the first Grand Council Cer-
emony ever to be held here at
the High School gymnasium last
Friday night. Three Camp Fir*
and three Blue Bird groups par-
ticipated In the program.
Mis. Phil Barkley guardian of
Shlsttota Camp Fire Oroup act-
ed as program chairman and
was to charge of the night’s ac-
tivities. Mrs. Bob Wilson, as-
sistant guardian of Shlsttota,
prtridsd at the candle lighting
ceremonies. One girl from each
of the three Camp Fire Oroups
participated to the lighting of
the candles of Work, Health,
and Love, symbolic of Wohelo,
watchword of Mm Camp Fir*
Oirls.
Sunshine, Sunflower, and
Blue Bonnet Blue Bird Oirls
participated to the opening
phases of the program and sang
the official Blue Bird song. Mrs.
erman Ford, Mis. Ctosde For-
Lari Rites tor
& 0. Bradley
Ai Amarillo
H. O .Bradley, 78 year old re*
tired farmer, died at his home
here Ptiday morning.
Funeral services were con-
ducted Saturday afternoon from
Hie Biackbum-Shaw Memorial
Chapel to Amarillo, with Dr. A.
D. Foreman Jr., pastor of M
First Baptist Church of Ama-
rillo, tad Rev. R. H. Cagle, pas-
tor of the First Baptist Church
of Hereford, officiating.
Burial was to Llano Cemetery
at Amarillo.
Mr. Bradley had lived to Ama-
rillo 19 yean before moving to
to held by the American Red Crow!
regarding
schools \
and anyone interested to at-
tending with an expanses paid
SISSSS.TSS*.
m
Hereford High school's White-
face thtoly-clads captured their
second consecutive District 1-A
track and field championship
Saturday to the annual district
meet at Canyon.
Bob Davis led the Whlteface
team to victory by rolling up
10 1-2 of the team’s total of 98
points to the meet.
Dimmltt tracksters took se-
cond place with 32 points, with
Dumas third with 28 counter*.
Friona trailed to fourth place
with 12 1-2 points, Dalhart fif-
th with 10 1-3, Canyon sixth
with 8, and Tulla last with 4
points.
Davis led the individual scor-
ing with first places to ths 100
yard oasn <io.a seconds); the
440 yard dash (94A seconds);
and the 220 yard dash, (24A se-
conds) and took a second place
to the high Jump.
The Hereford relay team, Bis-
hop, Rudd, Close, and Rog-
ers, captured the Mile Relay In
3 minutes, 98. 8 seconds, trailed
by Dimmltt, Dumas, and Can-
yon to that order.
Lueb tod tbe peek to the MUe
Run to 8 minutes, 33.2 seconds;
Worrell garnered two firsts to
the Shot Put (38 feet, 8 1-3 in-
ches) and Discus throw (117
feet, 3 Inches) and does com-
pleted the team total with a
first place to the broad Jump
(18 feet, 11 1-8 Inches).
Dumas team a clean-
sweep of the tennis matches,
and lost the volley ball title to
Canyon.
Summary of track and field
events follows:
(Continued on Page 8, floe. 1)
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Gillentine, Jimmie. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1946, newspaper, April 4, 1946; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth825355/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.