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White Deer Review
VOLUME XVI.
WHITE DEER. CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
NUMBER 25
REUNION OF COFFEE
FAMILY AT ELLWOOD PARK
Eliwood Park, Amarillo, became
the Coffee grounds Sunday.
The reunion of the Coffee fam-
ilies was a success.
All the way from California,
from New Mexico, and from many
Texas towns came members of the
Coffee family, who arrived here
yesterday to hold the third an- j
nual reunion of the “Descendents
of James and Betsy Coffee.”
One especially interesting group
Pupils Are to Report for School Tuesday
SCHOOL BUS REGULATIONS
County Superintend ents o f j
Public Instruction throughout the !
State are calling attention to the
provision in the rural aid bill
eliminating all children residing
within a radius of two and a half
O’Brien, Team Mates Face Giants in Star Game
miles to the school from the priv-
present for the meeting included iie.ge of using the free bus trans- j
the six brothers and one sister portation. This has been a feature I
left of the oldest generation. They
were Woodson Coffee of Amaril-
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of the Texas equalization legisla-
tion for a number of years, but
lo, Logan of Miami, Henry of was just one of those bologna pro
Tampa, Mansel of Perr y t o n,
Janies of Mineral Wells, Glenn L.
of Amarillo, and Mrs. C. B. Locke
of California. They .were joined by
Mrs, Cleve Coffee, widow of the
only deceased member of the fam-
ily. This was the first time all of
them had been together to attend
one of the reunions.
The business session of the
meeting was held during the af-
ternoon. New officers elected
were George Coffee of White
Deer, president; Henry Coffee of
Pampa, vice-president; and Velda
Coffee of Amarillo, re-elected sec-
retary.
It was voted that the next re-
union will be held on the fourth
Sunday of August, 1940, in Ell-
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wood Park, and that all Coffees, half miles to school, country
visions no one took very seriously.
But in the 46th regular session
the economy bloc in the executive
session of the free conference
committee succeeded in putting
teeth into the proposition by mak-
ing it not only possible but man-
datory upon the legislative joint
advisory committee to withhold
funds where infractions occur.
This asinine arrangement will
force thousands of rural school 1
children to walk on the highways j
—a practice condemned by the j
safety experts as the greatest,
traffic hazard in the transports- J
rem’esentatHes' fro^meHonolitan . Little Da™y '°’Brien’ Texas Christian university’s forward-passing wizard who was the na-
P , s, :c, tion’s No. 1 football hero last year, was among outstanding 1938 collegiate players participating in
the sixth annual all-star football game Thursday at Soldiers field, Chicago, when college men chosen
in a national poll competed against the professional New York Giants.
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areas who contended that if city
children could walk two and a
should be invited to attend.
FOOTBALL GAME
youngsters should not object to
the exercise.
They overlooked an important j
FOR LABOR DAY j factor. Urban children have side-
walks, or esplanades, to travel up-
DALLAS, Aug. 30.—The South-
west’s fourth “dream” football
game will play in the State Fair’s
Cotton Bowl Labor Day evening
to a capacity crowd, advance tic-
ket sales indicate.
All members of the all-star
squad which will meet the Green
Bay Packers are now training in
Dallas. The Packers are expected
over the week-end.
on, with traffic lights to protec#, °!'ee %IlDfy
them at crossings But on tlJsivHI at 1,er home Tuesday
highway it is a drainage ditch or
sloping shoulder.
Enforcement of this law is cer- » , , , . A1 ,
tain to increase traffic accidents, | »/n£iteur test, “Going Abroad
especially in the more thickly set- | Crof ?Vestl0>!s” ami other Jo1'
tled countries, and with the death ! * entertainments.
Those present were: Messrs.
SIX TEACHERS
RECEIVE MASTERS
1MK honoSebNonLwrthday , Lab°r_ Day Picnic
- Is to Attract Many
Mrs. Laura Naylor was the hon- --
at a surprise birthday party Xhe trigger is all primed for fir-
even- j jng a big- gun which will open the
in§'- • big free Panhandle-wide commun- .
After a very delicious covered ity picnic to be held six miles east I Davis, and Ray Vineyard
Six members of the White Deer
and Skellytown faculty received
Master degrees this summer. They,
were: Maurice Carlson, Glenn F.
from
Everything is Ready
For School Opening
Monday morning, September 4,
9 o’clock, at Skellytown, a gener-
al faculty meeting has been call-
ed which will start the White
Deer and Skellytown schools off
for another school term. Follow-
ing this meeting each school fac-
ulty will meet with its respective
principal to make plans for the
ensuing year.
Registration 'will begin Tuesday
morning, Sept. 5, and instruction
Wednesday, Sept. 6.
Eleven new teachers have been
elected, and with the remodling
of the high school, and the addi-
tion of a cafeteria at Skellytown,
a very successful year is expect-
ed. White Deer and Skellytown
now have one of the very best
and most modern school systems
in the state of Texas.
The faculties, led by Superin-
tendent George A. Heath, follow;
j dish supper the group enjoyed an of Borger on the Pampa-Borger j Colorado State College of Educa- j culture
i junnfpnr fpcf AVivAnd** Vii rrli nr a \r nnvf 1\/T A n -tv T firm »f ffrpplpv rinln • Plipcfor iViTS-
High School
J. Davis Hill, principal
Maurice Carlson, mathematics
Wendell Cain, public speaking
Harold Drumond, commerce
Vivian Hannock, home econom-
ies, TSCW, Denton
Dorothy Witliff, home econom-
ies, TSCW, Denton
Odessie Howell, English
Claud a Everly, English and
journalism
Gladys Holley, librarian
H. M. Howell, vocational agri-
of one Texas school child, those
who served on the free conference
committee, the economy bloc
The State Fair has arranged' — CW“UI7 . 'j 7'
elite for the large crowd indiJat- T*?* :a”d «***? liegIsIat,or
ed so that the stadium can be emp-
Avho let this requirement slip
tied without difficulty following1‘hl0af'b ">m !,a™,t¥ of
•’ n tiie little one upon their hands.
the game. Five thousand dollars
are being expended in better light-
ing and other facilities, all of
which will be ready for the
“dream” game.
Strong is the hope of the A-
and Mesdames W. J. Stubblefield,
F. J. Travis, L. M. Shieldknight,
W. W Simmons, and Mesdames
Jessie Pearston, Frank Evans, G.
W. Culbertson, Buddy Marton,
Rex Wheatley, Zela Matheson,
Eugene Richardson, George Phil-
lips, Ed Minter, Artie Morrow7,
merican people that we will not £*vin, G !Wl Culbertson,
again become involved in a Euro-1 d' Hatton, lannie Williams,
Some of the’outstanding play- I Pean war- ^ot s0. st™ng, judging! and the honoree, Laura Naylor,
ers of the Southwest will appear! bV standard public opinion polls,
-• , 1- mi L1 , lie fll/l foUll til of llri 1 ] lin o 111 n ir.
in the all-star line-up. The Pack-'is the faith that win be able to
ers are regarded as one of the keeP neutral. A very considerable
toughest pro teams in the Nation, seRment of the population believes
and a fight from start to finish is;that 'Te wou]d eventually go to
indicated. the aid °f European democra
eies if they were forced to wa
ALFRED N. HOLMES
highway next Monday, Labor! D°n at Greeley, Colo.; Chester
Day, Sept. 4. Strickland, and Marshall Gordon
I. J. Ruval, Commander of the j from Texas University at Austin,
Pampa American Legion, which is and P- B. Stovall, North Texas
sponsoring this third annual old
fashioned get-to-gether, bas k e t
picnic, stated today that the pro-
gram is practically complete in
every detail and that those who
attend the all-day event are assur-
ed of one of the biggest days of
entertainment and fun in the his-
tory of the Panhandle of Texas.
Last year the picnic was held two
miles east of Miami with over 15,-
000 enjoying the outing.
The sponsors are expecting 15,-
State College, Denton.
Mrs. B. R. Weeks, social science
Virginia Martin, physical edu-
cation and science
Eugene McCollum, coach
Julius Johnson, assistant coach
This brings the number of fac- j and EnSlish> NTSC, Denton.
ulty members who have Masters
to a total of ten, with five more
planning to get theirs next sum-
mer. George Heath, superinten-
dent has two summers.’ work off
on a Doctors degree.
Elton Beene, band.
White Deer Grade School
Glenn F. Davis, principal
Juno Duvall, first grade
Marion Clark, second grade,
WTSC, Canyon
Leffel Simmons, third grade,
DIES IN PHOENIX J 000 persons from every communi-
BORGER MAN ELECTED
HEAD OF TEXAS LEGION evTSC, Denton
Esther Plank, fourth grade
IW'ACO, Aug. 29.—Lou Roberts
ROW BINDER FOR SALE
. UUU persons from every commum- of Borger was elected department
j tv in the Northeast PpnVianf]ip to • commander and Laredo was selec-
Alfred Holmes, 64, father of attend this big day. This give* ted as convention city for 1940 as
ra_ Alva Holmes and longtime resi-1 the children one last 'big holiday J members of the Department of
ge I den^ °t- Cray County, died Tues-, before the opening of school. Texas, American Legion, closed
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against the dictatorships—! da^ nh?bt St. Joseph hospital, < Every conceivable kind of en- their twenty-first annual conven-, s*0,
1 i A V. « L ~ „ lorroimnonf will Vi ~ 4- „ ■» -» , t
Christine Cousins, art
Melva Gamewell, language arts
Leonard Monroe, phy. ed. and
mathematics
R!ay Vineyard, social science
Mrs. Elton Beene, private mu-
■ at leaf. if the war ^ent o/for | 1 t^ouglmR
will be on tap tion here late Tuesday.
McCormick-Deering row binder,: some length of time and the die-1 ™nflned ±or the Past three Weeks-! ^fouguout the day and evening, j Roberts won over Ed Riedel of
in first class condition, for sale, tatorship seemed to have the ad- Tb® body is lbeinf sent to Pampa j there will be games and contests g,an Angelo, the only opposing
---- with^funera! services to be held at, with prizes^tor old and young. A j candidate, by a vote of 496 to 430.
-See Ed Katora.
vantage.
New U. S. Steamship Slides Down Ways
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Skellytown Grade School
Chester Strickland, principal
Lillian Davis, first grade
Fay Evelyn White, first grade,
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the First Christian Church Friday I feature of the day will ibe a tobac-! Several posts did not vote.
afternoon at 2:30. j co-spitting contest for all users of j Laredo’s selection as 1940 con- Texas University
With Mr, Holmes at his death j;be ",eed‘. Another feature will be . vention city climaxed an intensive! Marjorie Sorenson, 2nd grade
■ were Mrs. Holmes, former wife, | ^ ie ®.d flddb3r s contest in charge campaign conducted by that city ' Mildred Houghland, 2nd grade,
; and four sons, Luther and Rufus j °f Clmton Henry. ! as soon as its delegation hit Wa- j WTSC, Canyon
j of Pampa, Alva of White Deer, “ 1 J
1 and Louis of Phoenix. Other sur-
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' 'At K , ‘V'/V* V,.. i UlllW BIAL-
/ J v j vivors are three daughters, Mrs.
A. E. Shaw, (Mrs. H. W. Kelly,
i and Mrs. Fred Palmer, all of
Pampa.
Mr. Holmes came to Gray coun-
33 years ago. He acquired land
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There will be tables constructed
so that all who bring their own
full baskets will have places to
spread their eats. There will be
red lemonade, pop, hamburgers,
hot dogs, and all picnic accessor-
ies on the ground. Chur dies
throughout the territory have
i co. Beaumont and Fort Worth,
. other cities bidding for the con-
| vention, withdrew in favor of La-
redo.
j In addition to Roberts, officers
: named for next year included An-
, drew Dilworth, San Antonia,
judge advocate; Harry Wilcox,
j south of Pampa which he farmed, j Iff1 invi.ted to hold their Sunday Amarill0; historian; Rev. Willis
When oil was discovered in the
South Pampa field, Mr. Holmes
was one of the first men to lease
land for drilling of wells.
He also owned much residential
and business property in Pampa.
HUMBLE RESTORES
PRICE OF CRUDE
Houston, Aug. 29.—The Hum-
ble Company, the nation’s largest
purchasing and producing o i 1
company, today raised the price
The $15,750,000 America, shown above as it will appear when com- t ‘ r'‘dl‘ ,S° rleYel P,aip ™
pleted, was launched Thursday at Newp«S lC, T“' toeftot I ’ ‘C°
iarge passenger liner to be built under the U. S. maritime commis-
sion’s $1,250,000,000 program for 50 vessels a year during the next
10 years. The ship, which will carry a crew of 639 and 1,219 passen-
gers when placed in service next year, has a displacement of 34,000
tons and a guaranteed speed of 22 knots. She is 723 feet long and
has a beam of 93 feet, 3 inches.
School picnics in connection with
| this outing. Oil companies of the
! area have agreed to shutdown all
; possible operations for the day
to permit their employees and
j their families to attend this af-
| fair and business will be suspend-
j ed for the day in practically every
city and town in the territory.
The picnic opens Avith a mid-
night dance on an open-air plat-
form at 12:01 a.m. Monday. At
10 a.m. the picnic proper starts
and lasts through the day. At, 7:30
p.m. will be the old-time dance on
Gernigan, Mineola, chaplain, and
W. F. Speigel, Port Arthur, trea-
surer.
Missionary. Society
The members of the Methodist
Missionary Society were enter-
tained at the church Monday by
Mrs. W. L. Potter and iMks. R. A.
Thompson.
The meeting opened with the
song, “Make Me a Channel of
Blessing”, and prayer by Mrs.
the same open-air platform. Dan- Wheatley. Mrs. Potter conducted
ces and waltzes of thirty or forty ! a Bible quiz contest with Mrs.
, . . .. , years ago will be played in the! Walker’s side winning. Sunshine
e crude price like was made moonlight for the dancers, which gifts were then distributed and
le loactive to August 11. : will bring back memories. The two _ the hostesses served punch and
Vivian Walters, 3rd grade,
Warrensburg, Mo.
Ola Mae Roberts, language arts
Addeline Henry, physical ed.
Marshall Gordon, social science
Freda Charles Bills, music
(Mary Etta Bean, art
P. B. Stovall, phy. ed. and ma-
thematics, NTSC, Denton
G. A. Mauliler, music and band,
Hard i n- S immon s
Dorothy Jean Blahm, cafeteria
manager, TSCW, Denton.
Janitors will be I. N. Howard,
W. E. Moore, and Henry Hines.
Bus drivers will be: A1 Baer,
manager, H W. Buchanan. Emil
Urbanczyk';’ O. C. Williams, W. D.
Newman, Reece Duke, James Lew-
is, A. E. Emil, Howard Wedge,
Carl Burgett, and W. M. Dittber-
MUSIC CLASSES
TAMPAN HELD
Mrs. Eleanor Ansley Beene will
again teach piano with studio at
the Grade School building. Those
interested would do well to see
IN KNIFING
I severly cut in several places. His ! Delds five to 32 cents a barrel,
chances for reeoverv were consid-1 The Humble price cut preceded
PAMPA, Aug. 30-
assault with intent
roomer at that place.
-Charges of
to murder
were filed here today against B.
H. Huntsman in connection with
an affray Sunday night in which
Fred Keehn suffered severe knife j (Miss Dorothy Skibinski, daugh-
woands- ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Skibin-
. Huntsman has been m jail here ski, left Monday for Lubbock
since his surrender a few minutes j where she will enroll in Draugh-
after the difficulty, which took on’s Business college,
place in a local cafe. I —--
------------- recovery were consid , „ „
ered slight immediately following b^ a feT days the shutdown of
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the trouble.
Keehn operates the American
Hotel here, and Huntsman is a
On Biat d.ate'the Humble^Com- crowning events of the day will be 1 cooliies
pfny ° V^iUb e ®ac o 1 111 ; the awarding of a 1939 Chevrolet! There Avei’e fifteen present. The i her at their earliest convenience,
cau rame> lecucec ie Pllce o aj. qo p.m. and a gigantic extra- next meeting will be at the church J so that proper schedules may be
Monday, Sept. 4, with Year Book ' arranged,
program. Mrs. Harsh will be the |
crude in Texas and New Mexico
Mrs. H. P. Barnard was taken
to the hospital in Amarillo Wed-
nesday.
Keehn, in a hospital here, was
reported improving tonight.
The stabbing took place late
Sunday night when, Avitnesses
said, Huntsman entered the cafe Agriculture lias a big stake in
and struck Keehn over the head the evnort market, and t,he Avel-
Avith a cafe stool.The men fought fare of Agriculture should be kept
out the door and into the street, in the forefront when foreign
officers were told, and Avhen spec-1 trade policies are considered—
tators separated the tAvo men it j Secretary of Agriculture Henry
was found that Keehn had been Wallace.'
Texas’ oil Avells by the railroad
commission.
In a formal statement released
at noon, H. C. Weiss, president
of the company, said:
“Humble oil and refining com-
pany has today posted: its price
bulletin No. 186, effective at 7 a.
m., August 11, 1939, restoring the
prices in effect prior to its price
and adjustment of that date.
“This is being done in vieAV of
changes in conditions that have
occurred since Aug. 11 and in the
belief that, folloAving the expira-
tion of the shutdoAvn and the re-
sumption of normal productions
of crude, the cut prices. in effect
''prior to our August 11 adjustment
will no longer prevail and that or-
derly production under conserva-
tion methods will obtain.”
vaganza of fireAvorks.
It is going to be a great holi-
day for everyone and from ex-
pressions of officials from cities
and communities miies around in
leader; Mrs. Hugh Edwards Avill
speak on “The Bonds of a Living
FelloAA^ship”, and Mrs. Walker
dications are that it will be one j will present “New7 Horizons of
Home Service.” This Avill be the
first program presented through
of the largest gatherings ever
held in this section of the country.
A. J. Smith of Yarniba, Bryan
County, Okla., stopped over here
for a Aveek-end visit A\rith his un-
cle J. E. Smith and family. He
Avas on a return trip from a visit
to the San Francisco fair and the
west coast.
MISS SKIBINSKI, HONOREE
ON HER DEPARTURE
a united Methodism.
SANTA FE CARLOADINGS
WANTED: Young sow1 with litter
of pigs or gilr due to farrow by
October. See—
E. H. GRIMES
Mrs. Bjones—And the portrait
will be real pretty?
Artist—Of course. You won’t
know yourself.
The Santa Fe System carload-
ings for the Aveek ending Aug.
26, 1939 Avere 18,984 as compared
AA’ith 19,686 for the same Aveek in
1938., Received from connections
Avere 5,400 as compared Avith 4,-
905 for the same Aveek in 1938.
The total cars moved Avere 24,384
as compared Avith 24,581 for the
same Aveek in 1938. Santa Fe hair*
died a total of 23,300 cars during
the preceding Aveek this year.
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Miss Geraldine Skibinski and
Mrs. L. F. Kotara entertained'
Avith a handkerchief slioAver re-
cently in the home of Mrs. Kota-
ra, honoring Miss Dorothy Ski-
binski Avho left Monday for Lub-
bock Avhere she will attend a busi-
ness college.
After several games were play-
ed on the laAvn, ice cold Avatermel-
on was served to the guests.
Attending were Misses Dorothy
BoAA’sher, Emma Haiduk. Iva Do-
ra Boyd, Lucille and Lillian War-
minski, Frances Piatt, Grace
Moss; Messrs. Verne Wyatt, Wal-
lace and Wilford Bieksel, LaAv-
rence Warminski, Forrest Piatt,
and Laddie Kotara.
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