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THE PANHANDLE HERALD PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1942
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The Panhandle Herald
Established July 22, 1887
By H. H. Brookes
Published every Friday at Panhandle, Carson County, Texas
by Panhandle Publishing Co., Ine. _
MEMBER,
Panhandle , „ National
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DAVID M. WARREN
Editor and Publisher ____
Entered as second class ma^r, July 22, 1887. at the P«*
ttffiee at Panhandle, Texas, under the act of March 3, 1878.
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Obituaries, resolutions of respect, cards of thanks, etc. 2
tents per word.
“It’s a hell of war when the people have
to be entertained by Hollywood stars m
order to buy bonds; it shows we’re not
ready for total war,” said Hugh Grant,
former minister to Albania and Thailand,
in an interview in Oklahoma City this
week.
Thousands of dollars have been expend-,
ed by motorists going to Amarillo for two
entertainments regarding the sale of war
bonds. Every car load that made the trip
easily spent $5 that could have bought a
war stamp.
Too many persons think that this war
can be done with “business as usual.”
We’re learning that things just aren’t go-
ing to rock along like they did in the good
old days.” _
“Newspapers arte the schoolmasters of
the com'mon people. That endless book, the
newspaper, is our national glory,” said
Rev. Henry Ward Beeche^.
“Show me a community that has a live,
aggressive newspaper, made possible by
well-filled advertising -pages representa-
tive of local interests, and I’l show you the
town that is headed for growth and devel-
opment.” a business executive once said.
When you support the Panhandle Her-
ald liberally with your patronage, you are
doing more than merely keeping this bus-
iness institution going. You are making an
investment in making Panhandle a strong-
er city.
Anpual National Newspaper Week will
be observed Oct. 1 to 8. Many newspapers
will issue special sections showing the pro-
fession’s part in a war time America.
The nation has no more patriotic young
men than has Carson county. You find Car-
sn county boys represented in the Army,
Navy. Marine Corps, -Air Corps, Coast
Guard, Seabees and every branch of ser-
vice.
If the 3,000 counties in America had
given volunteers in proportion to popula-
tion, you would not have found Carson
county’s lA’s list so small. The centers of
population just aren’t there compared with
counties like Carson which can be called
truly, “The Heart of America.”
Shortage of labor in rural communities
may eventually cause a serious problem':.
It may be handled in some places by put-
ting schools on a half time basis or dismis-
sing for several weeks duiing planting
and harvesting emergencies.
BERL PRUITT SETS
RECORD IN TRAINING
Berl Pruitt of Panhandle, son
of .Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Pruitt, is
one of 1,800 recruits at the naval
air squadron at the University of
Georgia, Athens, and he set a
new record of 1 minute, 22 se-
conds, clipping 7 seconds from
the old record, in training com-
petition.
Pruitt's feat included vaulting
over fences, running and jump-
ing out of ditches, running
through mazes, across logs and
over creeks, going under 18 inch
hurdles, walking across pipes
with the use of hands, going over
an eight foot wall, swinging
across a creek on a rope and go-
in gthrough a 300 foot tunnel on
hand and knees.
Information received here re-
cently said that Pruitt was one
of the three highest in the sand-
bag test. The recruit put a 65
pound sack of sand on his back
alnd stepped up and down in fast
time for five minutes from a 36
inch bench. Pruitt made a score
of 88 and the highest was 9 5.
Recently he was chosen by bat-
talion officers as a cadet with the
highest aptitude for his work.
The following week he was honor-
ed as sub-commander of the 6th
Battalion.
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MERWIN BEIDERWELL
IN DESERT TRAINING
Merwin Beiderwell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ora Beiderwell, who
went into military service several
months ago, has been seeing some
of the U. S. A. He stayed at Fort
Sill, Okla., a few weeks then he
was sent Bakersfield, Calif., for
training. Later he was sent to
Salinas and now is at Rice, Calif,
getting desert training, where the
temperature has been 138 de-
grees.
Beiderwell has been put in the
observation squadron in the air
corps. This work deals with
photography and he expects to
sret some training up in the air
shortly.
Sam Graham is in the hospital
at Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls,
to get rest and treatment to build
him up. He was losing weight
and hospital authorities prescrib-
ed some shots and rest.
Miss Beatrice Gorman, only
unmarried woman teacher in the
Groom hi’gh school, says that it
takes a good disposition to take
all the . razzing she receives. She
teaches English and speech
courses.
Rev. Ted D. Ewing, pastor of
Baptist church at Mobeetie and
so’n of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ewing
of Panhandle, • began , a revival
nieeting at the Baptist church at
Skellytown Sunday.
Revenue freight cars handled
on Santa Fe for week ending Sept.
19 were 38,056; previous week
33,349,; year ago, 31,934.
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An Ogden, Utah, newspaper
carried this classified ad: “Owner
of 19 40 Ford would like’ to cor-
respond with widow who owns
two tires. Object, matrimony. Send
picture of tires.”
Dick Weatherly has sold 2Q0
yearling heifers to Cox and Chap-
pell of Amarillo, who are putting
the stock on wheat pasture in the
Adrian and Vega country.
Pantex Ordnance
Plant Turns Out
Its First Bomb
At 5:35 o’clock Thursday after-
noon, Sept. 17, the first bomb
was poured at Pantex Ordnance
Plant just five months and twen-
ty-one days after ground was first
broken at the reservation on last
March 2 7, it was announced by
Major P. S'. Irvine. Commanding
Officer.
Although it was a momentous
occasion, there was no time out
for ceremony in connection with
the loading of the first bomb.
Only officers of ordnance and of-
ficials of Certain-teed, operators
of the plant, followed the missle
as eager crews moved it surely
but cautiously through the various
operations along the line.
Employees at their posts
throughout the vast Pantex organ-
ization felt the thrill of the event,
however, because they knew that
it was the day. They knew that
after weeks of.strenuous prepara-
tion the first goal of their ob-
jective had been reached and that
now each of them have a real
and tangible part in America’s
fight for victory.
Operations began in one load
line. Other lines which are iden-
tical with the first, are nearing
completion and “there is every,
indication that they also will be
ready well ahead of schedule,”
according to an official spokes-
man.
Spic and span and ready for the
sinister job for which it was
built, the first line received final
inspection last Sunday by Col. C.
F .Schneider’s representative. Lt.
Robert L. D'odge, an authority on
munitions equipment.
Lieut. Dodge expressed himself
as being extremely well pleased
with the completeness of the pre-
Darations for operations and com-
plimented both Major Irvine and
H. J. Hartley, president and gen-
eral manager of Certainteed’s
operations, on the tremendously
quick job that has been done at
Pantex.
The greenlight for production
flashed at noon and. thgt after-
noon an endless rowr of bomb
cases were being fed through the
seven-eighths mile long line to
be filled with death and destruc-
tion and earmarked for. Tokyo
and Berlin. The line will operate
continuously on a 2 4-hour sche-
dule.
Pantex officials were high in
their praise St. the production
crews, most of whom have been
recruited in Amarillo. “They are,
an outstanding group of men and
the glowing reports of their pro-
gress in training school are being
borne out in their performance in
production,” it was declared.
Library Notes
FOOTBALL SCORES
Jimmy Phillips of Borger, who Bring along your husbands
Notice in Arab, Ala., news-
paper: “On next Wednesday even-
ing the Ladies Aid will hold a
rummage sale at the Methodist
Church. Good chance to get rid
of anything not worth keeping,
j but too good to be thrown away.
will leave Saturday night for his
second year at Texas A. & M. Col-
lege, was the guest of honor at
a dinner Sunday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Warren.
Other relatives present were Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Phillips and Court-
ney and Gene Phillips, Borger;
Mrs. Pauline Little and Miss
Sophie Meyer, Amarillo, and the
Warren family.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cleek and
children of Cincinnati, Ohio, ar-
rived here last week to visit with
the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ross Gilkerson, and other rela-
tives. She was accompanied home
by Delos Cleek, brother of Ed-
ward, who has been visiting with
them at Cincinnati.
War Week
A calendar of events on one war job in one recent week gives a graphic
picture of how General Electric is working to meet wartime emergencies.
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1. THURSDAY: An order was
received at an eastern G-E factory
The Panhandle Home Demon-
stration club meets in the home
of Mrs. C. O. Hinshaw at 2:30
o’clock, Sept. 29. Mrs. Ruth Perry
will be. there for the meeting.
Visitors and members and urged
to come.
Staff Sergeant J. W. (Pete)
Tipps visited in Panhandle with
friends this week and with his
aunt, Mrs. F. D. Branson of Bor-
ger. He was on a 15-day furlough.
Tipps graduated from Panhandle
high school in 1937. He has been
stationed at Randolph Field at
San Antonio but recently was
transferred to Keesler Field at
Biloxi, Miss. He is with the 416
Technical School Squadron and
is an instructor in air corps tech-
nical school.
J. H. O’Neal, who has been
visiting here for the past week
with his family left Monday for
Lubbock where he will continue
training in the C. P. T.
Roy Cheatham, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. F. Cheatham, is visiting
here this week-end. He has been
stationed at Sheppard Field.
George Moore, who worked
here for Jack Wigham for almost
a year and recently has been em-
ployed by Certainteed Corp. has
enlisted in the navy, it was learn
ed this week. He resigned his
Certainteed job Monday.
Easy Book:
“Auntie and Celia Jane,” by
Maud and Miska Petersham.
What fun it was to visit at
Auntie’s house! It was so mtich
fun that Celia Jane decided to
stay with Auntie.
Life was full of surprises at
Auntie’s house. There was the
time, for instance, when Celia
Jane put her hand deep down in
the cooky jar and found—you
Avould never guess what! Auntie
had a school right in her house,
and at Christmas ope of the Pu-
pils brought her a real live pre-
sent!
Juvenile:
“They Were Little Once,” by
Mabel Ansley Murphy.
In the pages are found twenty-
two incidents from the childhood
of world-famous people. In these
stories the children appear much
as ordinary youngsters, and this
is the clue to their fascination for
the child reader who comes to rea-
lize that the great persons of the
world are. after all, human be-
ings like themselves. Characters
who have brought the great gifts
of their talents and personality to
mankind are revealed in moments
of childhood play and work, and
each story provides the young
reader, in terms he can under
stand, an appreciation,of the gen
ius portrayed.
Teen-Age Book:
“Doctor at Timberliie.” by
Charles Fcpt Gardiner, M. D.
Veterinarian, dentist, spiritual
adviser—the frontier doctor was
all of these. Traveling paths new-
ly hewn into the early Colorado
mountain wild. Dr. Gardiner
found himself facing many
strange medical situation, many
an odd duty. To face pioneer life
one had to be rough and ready;
moreover, endowed with a sense
of humor. Dr. Gardiner was abun-
dantly blessed with these points
of character. Again and again his
vigorous and genial personality
is reflected in his reminiscences.
And it is this spirit, as much as
its historical worth, that makes
this book one of lasting signifi-
cance.
Adult Book:
:“Weep No More, My Lady”, by
Alvin F. Harlow.
Here is the story of the state
which the author firmly believes
,and the reader will soon be con-
vinced is the most colorful in the
Union. “Weep No More, My Lady”
is a happy anecdotal picture of
Kentucky and the Kentuckians,
past and present. It is not a his-
tory, not a travel book, not a
volume of reminiscences, hut a
thoroughly enjoyable amalgam of
all three.
Gifts were received, this week
from: Mrs. Joe Williams, Mrs.
Alton Epting and Mrs. L. F. Cleek.
. Suscriptions were given by:
Mrs. Fred Hagaman, Panhandle
Parish Council and Women’s Soc-
Panhandle 14, Lefors 7.
Borger 12, Liberal 6.
Amarillo 31, Childress 0.
Perryton 12, Dumas 6.
Brownfield 13, Midland 0.
Abilene 12, ’P'lainview 0.
Phillips 6, McLean 0.
Hereford 13, Olton 0.
Lubbock 7, Odessa 6.
Pampa 52, BurkburnettO.
Vernon §7, Altus, Okla. 7.
Big Spring 18, Tahoka 0.
Lamesa 6, Snyder 0.
Wichita Fall's 7, Masonic Home 0.
Floydada 7, Crowell 0.
Shamrock 19, Lakeview 0.
Shamrock 19, White Deer 0.
(Two weeks ago.)
Mr. and Mrs. J. Floyd Howe
and children returned home Tues-
da yafter visiting several days
with Mrs. Howe’s parents at
Lockney.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Lemons, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Howe and Mr.
and Mrs. Deahl Howe went to
Tucumcari. N. M., Monday to look
at some cattle.
The Fort Worth Star Telegram
came out this week with a new
face of reading type. The type is
slightly larger and more legible
than that formerly used.
LOCATIONS IN CARSON
Skelly Oil Co., No. 160 Schafer,
220 0 leet from the north line and
440 feet from the west line of sec-
tion 189, block 3, I&GN survey.
Skelly Oil Co., No. 170 Schafer,
440 feet from the east and south
lines of the northeast quarter of
section 197. block 3, I&GN sur-
vey.
Completion in Carson
Cities Service No. 49 Burnett
A. in section 27, block 5, I&GN
survey drilled to 2593; gas pay
2514 to bottom; tested 33,200,000
cubic feet of gas. RP 352.
L. F. Bookman of Lubbock,
Linotype salesman in this terri-
tory for the past 15 years, visit-
ed The Herald the other day and
handed out his card, which car-
ried the words. “Linotype pro-
duction engineer.” His firm is
engaged in war activities, has
little for sale and he works with
plants to keep present equipment
in good operation.
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Ralph Randel started training
for a position at the Pantex Ord-
nance plant. After one day’s
training, he was assigned to the
plant for immediate service.
W. A. James, formerly of Spear-
man, is now employed at Lefty’s
Barber Shop.
These crews came from varied rai iaii „„„ ______
walks of life to learn explosive iety of Christian Service.
handling, through classroom -- ^--
training in Amarillo and from , _ w Atkins formerly with the
laboratory work at other plants. £ n corp. here and re-
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GOVERNMENT
WHEAT STORAGE
We have available plenty of stor-
age room under government require-
ments for your wheat. See us at once
about government storage.
W. B. Johnston Grain Co.
Geo. Knittel, Mgr.
Elevators at Panhandle and Cuyler
For more than two weeks, they
have spent their time on the line
at Pantex familiarizing themselves
with" tools, equipment and gener-
al procedure.
Pantex is one of four identical
plants which were approved for
construction and the last of the
group to start building. The fact
Pantex is in production in ad-
vance of any of the other plants
and at least four months ahead
of the one earliest started is a
tribute to the achievement of Ma-
jor Irvine and his staff, the army
engineers, the construction con-
tractors and to Certain-teed Pro-
ducts Corporation, prime contrac-
tor, all of whom teamed together
to get the job done. —Amarillo
Daily News, Sept. 18.
Orval E. Allen, of Skellytown,
who enlisted in the Navy in Feb-
ruary, has recently been trans-
fered to the Naval Air Station
in Pensacola, Fla. Allen attended
West Texas State College and his
wife, Mrs. Frances P. Allen, is
now at Skellytown.
Old Tack No. 3, drilled by Stan-
olind Oil Co. in southwest Carson
county was reported drilling at
3,858 feet yesterday in a hard
formation.
2. THURSDAY
many workers as
NIGHT: As
could be effi-
C’urtis Griffin, who worked here
with the Southwestern Public
Service Co. in maintenance and
for a time was manager at the
Groom office, resigned his job as
service man for Southwestern
’Public Service in Amarillo to join
the marine corps, it was learned
here recently.
for equipment needed by a U. S. ciently employed on the job worked
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warship near Australia
call went out.
A special
all night, all day FRIDAY, as-
sembling the equipment.
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3. SATURDAY: Under police
escort, the equipment was rushed
to a nearby airport. Traveling by
plane, it arrived in San Francisco
on SUNDAY.
4. WEDNESDAY: A bombing
plane landed the equipment at its
Pacific destination —10,000 miles
from the factory—six days after
receipt of order.
Herbert W. McFarling, who has
been in the officers training corps
at Camp Crowder, near Joplin,
Mo., has been transferred to Fort
Monmouth, Red Bank, N. J. where
he is taking training in the radio
division, signal corps. Mrs. Mc-
Farling, the former Georgia Bell
Wigham, visited with him shortly,
before the transfer was made.
J. T. Owens of Odessa, former
wholesale oil dealer here, wajs in
Panhandle on business Thursday.
Mrs Owens and daughter visited
in Amarillo while Mr. Owens was
here looking after his property.
General Electric believes that its first duty as a
good citizen is to be a good soldier.
General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
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Word was received this week
from Delbert (Satch) Duby. who
is stationed in the northwest part
of Maine. He is in training for
machine gunner in the air corns.
Panha^dlo friends who heard
"i'om him said that lie had been
:n 23 states since he entered the
service more than a month ago.
Buy your school
Bussey Drug.
supplies at
Frank Paul Jr., employe of the
American National Bank, Amarillo
is taking his vacation this week.
He and Mrs. Paul visited several
days in Colorado and Mrs. Frank
Paul Sr. took charge of their
small daughter while they were
away.
cently transferred to Monahans
and Crane, is taking some time
off from work because of poor
health. He and Mrs. Atkins are
visiting his son, Coach Jack
Atkins. Before coming here Mr.
Atkins went to Hot Springs, N. M.,
for treatment.
C. L. Upham Jr., son of former
county clerk C. L. Upham, was
here during the week-end and said
that he expects to enter military
service about Oct. 12. His wife,
the former Beatrice O’Keefe, was
with him, and they visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Sid
O’Keefe.
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Jimmy Bickle, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bud Bickle, has gone to La-
mesa to report to the selective
service board He was acompanied
by his wife.
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P A. Hancock was fined $100
and $22.35 costs in county court
Tuesday on a charge of liquor law
violations. He was charged by
state liquor board employees with
selling more than three gallons
to one person.
DAVIDSON & MAHLER
REAL ESTATE
FARMS * RANCHES * CATTLE
M. B. Davidson G. A. (Jack) Mahler
215 Main Panhandle
Insurance
Teal Estate
ELLIS INSURANCE AGENCY
Phone 136
Panhandle
J. D;, Collingsworth, who came
here to attend high school on the
Gulf Camp bus and who was grad-
uated in 1936, was in the Dieppe
raid in France recently, friends
here have learned.
Patricia Ann Vaughn, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Vaughn of
Phillips, underwent a tonsil oper-
ation at North Plains Hospital,
Borger, Monday.
Rev. A. F. Johnson of Okla-
homa City, minister here when
the present building of the First
Baptist Church was erected, will
close a two-weeks’ revival at the
Phillips Baptist church Sunday.
He was pastor of the church at
Borger six years after he left here
in 1928.
The value of Texas farms (land
and buildings) was estimated by
’the U. S. censiis of 19 40 as more
than two biilion dollars. The
-vorage value per farm was $6.-
19 8
Steffins
Drug.
Ice Cream at Bussey
Clifford Cox, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Cox,''and George Dennis
son of Mrs. Catherine Dennis,
arrived here last week from Cal-
ifornia, where they have been
employed at the Douglas aircraft
factory. They plan to- enter mili-
tary service.
Mr. and Mrs. Asbery A. Cal-
laghan left yesterday for a few
days visit at Clovis and Fort
Sumner, N. M.
Eddie Webster visited his
mother, Mrs. Lissie Gray Spiller,
and sisters early this week. Buddy
as most people know him, was
graduated firom Boys Ranch,
whei’e he was for two years. He
is now employed at the Bruce
Dairy near Amarillo and is att-
ending Amarilo high school.
FOjWICTORY
BUY
UNITED
STATES
WAR
BONDS
AND
STAMPS
From where I sit .-
jby Joe Marsh
In the square of a little village not
far from here I came on the pret-
tiest flower garden you ever saw.
It was a lot of flowers all mixed
up—hundreds of different kinds, I
guess. So I asked a passerby if he
could tell me about it.
“Well,” he sa,55s, “in this town
whenever anybody plants a flower
garden and has any seeds left,
they scatter them over this plot.”
Then he leans over and pulls out
a couple of weeds. “We all have to
help pull out the weeds too,” he
tells me. “That way the village has
a flower garden to be proud of.”
That’s about as pretty an illus-
tration of co-operation as I ever
come across. But there’s plenty of
examples of co-operation and civic
spirit these days.
We were talking just yesterday
about how the brewers and the beer
distributors are working together
and co-operating with law enforce-
ment authorities.
You see a lot of friendship and
fine old customs have grown up
around beer. But the weeds—well
—they’ve got to be pulled out, too.
Everybody has to lend a handf ^
And the brewing industry is just
sensible enough to recognize that
. . . But what’s more—they’re do-
ing something about it.
The brewers don’t want their
beer sold in the wrong kind of
places, and so they’ve teamed up
with the authorities in a self-
regulation program to make care-
less beer retailers “clean up or
close up,” as they say.
From what I read, the plan is
working out mighty successful in
a number of states, and is spread-
in’ out into others. ])
From where I sit, it looks like a
fine idea ... a mighty practical ex-
ample of how honest co-operation,
works out to the benefit of every-
one—the brewers, the beer retail-
ers, and us plain citizens that like
our gardens and our pleasures—
with the weeds kept out.
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