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Carson Co. Library 8-15-41
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Carson County
Defense Bond
Quota $353,300
The Panhandle Heeaud
To Hell with Hitler
Mussolini and
The Mikado
VOL. 56—NO, 20 Four Pages
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PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1942
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
45 Year Old Carson County Men Put In 4A
Jaysee Stale
President To
Come Monday
Breakfast to Honor J. B.
Shepperd, States
Paul Dollarhide
John B. Shepperd, president of
the Texas Junior Chamber of
Commerce, will pay his first of-
ficial visit to the Panhandle or-
ganization Monday morning, Dec.
7 Paul Dollarhide, local president,
stated this week.
Shepperd, youngest Jaysee ever
to serve as president of the state
organization and the first man
mfdU TURKEY
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THANKSGIVING DINNERS
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rorex and chil-
1 dren took Thanksgiving dinner
with their daughter, Mrs. O. C.
Holt, and family of Spearman.
Mrs. Holt is the former Louise
Rorex.
to hold post from a small city,
Gladewater, will be principal
speaker bafore a breakfast spon-
sored by the Panhandle Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
The breakfast will be held at
the Panhandle Inn, Dollarhide
announced and will begin prompt-
ly at 8 o’clock. Dollarhide is in
charge of all arrajigenjents and he
will preside.
“Why a Junior Chamber of
Commerce in Wartimes” will be
the subject of Shepperd’s address
at the local meeting.
Within the short time since
Shepperd was named president he
has made 59 official visits to
Jaysee organizations over the
state traveling over 18,000 miles,
urging the streamlining of Jay-
cee groups to eliminate all acti -
ities whereby the Jaycee man-
power is available to the war ef-
fort.
He has also advocated stripping
peace time committees from local
organizations structures to be re-
placed by groups working toward
three objectives: Winning the
war, achieving national unity and
winning the p eace.
The cost of the breakfast is
50 cents and every business man
in Panhandle is urged to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Gent *of
South English la., are here for
an extended visit with their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ed Preusser, and family.
The Preussers were happy to have
them here this Thanksgiving. Mr.
Gent said that corn in his part
of Iowa was making 130 to 140
bushels an acre.
Mrs. Frank Stone and children
of Sunray came Wednesday night
of last week to visit Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. Stone. They were joined
Sunday by Mr. Stone, who took
his family home. He was unable
to come for Thanksgiving din-
ner.
Mr. and Mrs. P. I. Crum took
Thanksgiving dinner with their
daughter, Mrs. Freeman Gibson,
and family at the Gulf Dial camp
north of Borger.
Mr, and Mrs. Buster Stepkin
of Amarillo and Mrs. Essie Step-
kin, the former’s mother, were
Thanksgiving dinner guests of
the Daltons in Pampa. Mrs. Dal-
ton is a sister of Mrs. Buster
Stepkin. *
j Miss D’essa King visited her
brother Davis King and family
of Bovina last week and was there
for Thanksgiving dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gilliland
took Thanksgiving dinner in Am-
arillo and spent the day there.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ewing had
Thanksgiving dinner for members
of the family and special guests
were Rev. and Mrs. E. M. Weath
Volunteers Will
Open Recreation
Hall On Monday
During the past week The
Volunteers have been getting their
recreation hall ready for visitors.
This hall, which will be known
as The Volunteer’s Service Organ-
ization, will be opened to the
public Monday evening, Dec. 7.
It will be greatly appreciated
if anyone wanted to loan the or-
ganization some furniture to use
in the hall. Any other contribu-
tions would also be welcomed.
Wednesday afternoon the girls
sorted magazines for the Red
Cross. These magazines will be
given to the soldiers on troop
trains passing through Panhandle.
Mrs. S. Denny went to Dumas
Wednesday night of last week
and took Thanksgiving dinner
with her sister, Mrs. G. L. Trout-
man.
Miss Frankie Sewell, music
teacher, spent the Thanksgiving
vacation with her relatives at
Claude.
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Wilson had
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Weatherly
and Mrs. Wilson’s parents Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Barnes of Pampa, for
Thanksgiving luncheon guests.
O’Neal and son Mike were
Thanksgiving dinner guests of
Mrs. Willie O’Neal’s sister, Mrs.
J. ,M. Sanford, of Amarillo.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Powell
had a family Thanksgiving dinner.
Out of town guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Wade Johnson and children
of Borger and Mr. and Mrs, Elton
Wright and son. Jimmy, of Phill-
ips. Jimmy fell and was uncon-
scious for more than 30 minutes.
It was necessary to call a phy-
sician to help revive him.
Delos Cleek, student in West
Texas State College, Canyon, came
in Wednesday night of last week
for a Thanksgiving vacation with
his mother, Mrs. Opal DIeek, and
other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Howe gave
a Thanksgiving dinner Thursday
night for 18 persons. Guests
were Elbert Howe, Rosfebud, N.
M., Lorene Lemons, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Floyd Howe and two children,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Howe and
child Mr. and Mrs. Deahl Howe
and child, Harold O’Neal and
Mrs. Opal' Purvines of Borger.
Mrs. Willie O’Neal, Mrs. J. H.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Holcomb
bad Mrs. Georee Biggs. Miss Lil-
lian Biggs and Mrs. J. L. Blimp
as Thanksgiving dinner guests.
Mrs. F. A. Paul,- Mrs. Jim Mec-
askey, Mrs. J. G. Garrison of
Amfirilio and Mrs, Kincanon of
Dallas left here Thanksgiving
morning for Fort Worth and Dal-
las. Mrs. Kincanon is the mother
of Mrs. Mecaskey and has been
here some time. All except Mrs.
Kincanon returned home Sunday
Jr. of Amarillo.
Mr.’ and Mrs. L. H. O’Neal and
family were guests of Mr. and
*Mrs. Jack Mahler of Claude for
Thanksgiving dinner.
| ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Walker,
i Memphis; sister, Peggy, West
Texas State College, Canyon; Mr.
and Mrs. Chesty Walker and Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Vaughn and fam-
ilies.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Weiser had
the following guests for Thanks-
giving dinner: Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Konecny and daughter, Frances;
Mrs. Caroline Konecny and Mrs.
Weiser’s mother, Mrs. J. A. Best
of Claude.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Miller had
as Tflianksgi'ving dinner guests
Mr. and Mrs.Lloyd. Miller and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Bam Good-
lier and son, and Mr. , and Mrs.
Jack Miller. -r
Thanksgiving was a different
day for the F. A. Render family,
as no family reunion was plan-
ned. Their son, Richard. in
Texas Tech could not get but
Thanksgiving day and did not re-
turn home.
Mrs. Lloyd Waldron had a
Thanksgiving dinner for Mr. and
j Mrs. Belmont Slagle, Miss Joyce
Lemons and her sons, Lloyd Jr.
and Dick.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hughes and
Mr. and Mrs. Asbery A. Callahan
attended the football rm^ be-
tween Amarillo and Pampa at
Amarillo Thanksgiving dav. Af-
ter the game they enjoyed Thanks-
giving dinner at the Amarillo
Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Orr and son
were Thanksgiving dinner guests
of Mrs. Orr’s sister, Mrs. Viola
Buster, of Amarillo:
F. A. Paul and daughter, Nel-
leen. were Thanksgiving guests;
of Mr; and Mrs. Frank A. Paul
Miss Zady Walker attended a
family reunion a t Phillips
Thanksgiving day at the home of
her sister, Mrs. R. E. Vaughn.
Those present included her par-
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Ware’s
Thanksgiving dinner guests were
their son, Bob, and Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. Garretson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Sid O’Keefe
had as Thanksgiving dinner guests
their son, Corp. .Toe Pat O’Keefe,
of San Antonio, their two daugh-
ters Mrs. Dawson Nichols and Mrs.
C. L. Upham Jr., and Mrs. T. W.
Smith, mother of Mrs. O’Keefe.
Joe Pat arrived Tuesday of last
week from San Antonio, where he
was made a corporal three weeks
ago. After nearly 100 hours in
the air, he was given a release
as a flying cadet because he did
not react properly physically to the
thaining.
Mrs. Harold Welsh has been
quite ill for more than two
weeks, but is improving this
week.
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subscriptions to The Herald.
Panhandle Flyer,
Killed in Arizona
To Be in Film
Shortly before i his death
Bernard Gordon, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Gordon of Panhandle,
who formerly was an instructor
for the Royal Air Force, because
of his excellent charadter, fine
type of manhood and outstanding
record of achievements as an
aviator and instructor, was se-
lected by Twentieth Century Fox
to play in the technicolor film,
“Thunder Birds.”
• The film has just recently been
released and will be shown at
the Panhandle Theater Wednes-
day and Thursday, Dec. 9 and 10.
The locale of this picture is
Thunder Bird Field in the Ari-
zona desert, where the flying
cadets of the United States, Great
Briton and China are trained for
combat service.
Bernard Gordon was instructor
for the Royal Air Force at Falcon
Field, which adjoins Thunder
Bird Field, when he was released
to assist in making the pidture.
The interesting story of “Thun-
der Birds” is focused on a young
British cadet, John Sutton, arid
the aviation instructor, Preston
Foster,. each seeking the love of
Gene Tierney at the same time.
The picture gives an over-all of
training at Thunder Bird Field.
The local boy, Bernard Gordon
plays as stand-in, doing the fly-
ing for the main stars.
Friends of Bernard Gordon and
the C. W. Gordon’s will be espec-
ially interested in seeing this
picture, which will be shown here
next week. Gordon was killed
in his instruction work in Ari-
zona.
Temporary Gas
May Be Obtained
For Farm Cars
College Station, Dec. 3,—
Temporary transport rations are
in store for owners of farm ve-
hicles whose certificates of war
necessity do not.provide sufficient
gasoline for 30 days essential op-
eration.
Under an adjustment phase of
the transportation program, the
Texas USDA war board announced
this week that farm vehicle op-
erators should make requests for
additional gasoline to local war
price and rationing boards where
obvious errors have been made in
certificates.
The procedure for handling
emergency cases was agreed upon
by the department of Agriculture
and the office of price adminis-
tration.
The war board explained that
whien allowances are corrected
by the local War Price and Ra-
tioning Boards, operators will re-
ceive motor fuel rations for op-
eration to December 31 and the
amount used will be deducted
| later from the total gallons of
! motor fuel allowed on a correct-
ed certificate of war necessity.
■ County Farm Transportation
committees are scheduled to han-
, die appeal cases from farmers
j for corrected certificates, the
: War Board said in explaining that
I regular ODT appeal forms would
be sent to committees as soon as
possible.
Temporary rations will take
care of emergency cases and give
committees sufficient time to
consider appeals and make pro-
per recommendations to ODT un-
der regular appeal procedure, the
Board pointed out.
Rationing Causes
Record Sales 01
Gasoline in City
Panhandle had the biggest day’s
gasolfne business in the city's
history Monday, the day before
nation-wide rationing became ef-
fective.
People flocked to service sta-
tions and some ran out of gas.
They used tubs, crocks, fruit jars
and everything they could find
to take away some extra gallons.
So many people went to the
rationing panel during the week-
end that the office was moved
in one of the' rooms at the rear
of the First National Bank. Two
secretaries have been assisting
the panel.
All service stations were closed
Tuesday for inventories. Thirty-
five dealers registered with the
panel.
Fear has beep expressed that
many homes have created fire
hazards by storing extra gasoline
without proper facilities.
Fire insurance policies are void
in most instances with extra gaso-
line stored on the premises. One
official said that one gallon of
gasoline was equivalent to having
100 pounds of dynamite around
the house.
After closing all day Tuesday,
one dealer said that he had sold
just 12 gallons of gas until noon
Thursday.
Stovall Sells
Land to McKay
For $6,835.00
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Skaggs and
Barbara and Gene, Mr. and Mrs.
Les Adair and daughter of Phill-
ips, Mrs.. Jack Hartsell and dau-
ghter of Amarillo, and Mrs. Er-
nest McCafferty visited Sunday
with Mr. and. Mrs. Judson Skaggs,
at Hereford.
Mrs. Ted Ewing and son, Hob-
art Elmer, are spending the week
wi thMr. and Mrs. E. E. Ewing
and family. Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Johnson visited with the Ted Ew-
ings’ in Mobeetie Sunday, and
Mrs. Ewing returned to Panhandle
with them.
-Fight Tuberculosis-
AMARILLO AIR FIELD
NEEDS COAT HANGERS
Amarillo Air Technical School
needs coat hangers. And these
hangers are needed badly with
the increased number of recruits
being sent here.
City Manager J. S. Harrison
has given permission for the
hangers to be left at the city hall.
The hangers then will be caled
for by an official of the air
school.
L. L. Stovall has sold to Rex
McKay of Gray county two tracts
of land on the Carson-Grav line
for $6,835.00.
Property involved is the east
half of section 18 3, block 3, cer-
tificate. No. 1182, I & G. N. Ry.
Co. survey, lying south of P. &
S. F. Ry. C.’o., S7.4 acres,; north
160 acres of east, half of survey
:1S2, block 3, certificate 1181, I. &
G. N. Ry. Co. survey.
Deed is subject to mineral lease
on land to Magnolia Petroleum
Co. and a gas lease from Magnolia
to D. D. Harrington. This deed
was filed Nov. 24.
Oil lease was filed Nov. 21
from C, II. Fondren to Phillips
Petroleum Co. for the west 58
acres of the east 200 acres of
section 28 and part of the north
one-half of section 39, both in
block 7, I. & G. N. R. R. Co.,
the land being that part south
of the Santa Fe railway. Lease
is for 10 years with rental renewal
of $58 a year.
On the same date Ruth Blair
and her husband gave an oil lease
to T. B. Roach for five years for
an undivided one-half interest in
the southwest quarter of section
23 5, block B-2, H. & G. N. Ry
Co. survey of 160 acres.
Roach then assigned the same
lease to the Cities Service Oil Co.
and to the Cities Service Gas Co.
Methodist Church
Will Stage Play
On Sunday Night
“Light In the Wind” by Lu-
cille McGregor Cam obeli, will
be presented under the direction
of Mrs. Coe Cleek at. 7:30 o’clock
Sunday night, Dec 6, at the Me-
thodist church.
“You will want to'see this beau-
tiful play, with more than 30
characters. The public is invit-
ed to atrend this service,” an
announcement stated.
Miss Junita Ewing, who is em-
ployed by the War Production
Board in Washington, D’. C. ar-
rived home Sunday to spend two
weeks with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Ewing. Due to the
shortage; of transportation facil-
ities during the holidays, govern-
ment employes were asked to take
their Christmas leaves either be-
fore the middle of December or
in January.
31 Registrants
Deferred Due
To Age Order
Selective Service Board
Classifies 58; Many
Volunteer for Service
Fifty-eight registrants were
classified by the Carson county
selective service board at its meet-
ing Friday, Nov. 27, and 31 men
who' had reached 45 years old
since they registered were put in
a new classification, 4A.
These registrants may enlist
but they will nt>t be inducted
through selective, service under
new orders received by the board.
Another classification, 2C, has
been made for agricultural work-
ers who are not otherwise de-
ferred because of dependents;
This classification is primarily for
meat, dairy and poultry products
chiefly.
Farm Deferments Made
A third group, 3C was also set
up for men who are deferred by
reason of both dependents and
agricultural activity This group
is below those engaged in defense
plants, as those workers are
j given 3B classifications.
The 31 men reaching 45 years
of age and transferred from 3A
to 4A follow:
Robert S. Harlar, Aloys P. Bich-
sel Bernard M. Britten, James L.
Honaker, Harvey L. Davis, An-
drew R. Hill, Leonard C. Collings-
worth, Lewis E. Williams, Clif-
ford B. Wasson, Willie W. Hughes
William N. Edwards, Charles W.
Graham, John R. Knight, Herman
D. Zollars, James R. Nicholson,
Leonard M. Ballard, Luis R.
Rodriguez, Walter D. Gorman,
Raymond C. Durrett, Willie L.
Cunningham, Rolla Sparks, Leon-
ard Cannon, James G. Northcutt,
Harold L. Welsh, John R. Allen,
Leo R. Studer, Brodie F. Kirby,
John S. Sparks Sr., Ira A. John-
son. Charles L. Elsheimer, Her-
bert V. McCabe.
Registrants Classified
Other classifications made fol-
low: 3A to 2C, Alphonse J. Brit-
ten, Andrew J. Dunn, Dallas A.
Harrell, Marsh F. Calliham, 1A
to 1C, Kenneth A. Nickell, Har-
mon P. Barnard Jr., Shellura
Pruitt: 3A to 4F, Charles W.
King; 1A to 4F, Ernest L. Barnes,
Samuel A. Phillips.
3A to /LA, Dalton D. Hillburn,
James T. Black, Johnnie I. Nep-
per, Theodora - R. Scruggs; 4F
to 1A, Floyd J. Darnell; 3A to
3B, Burl L. Didkson; f.B to 2C\
Victor S. Wagoner; 1A to 2A,
Walter L. Cummings, Frank!
Robinson; IB to 4F, Bernard A.
Ragsdale.
IB to 2B, William M. Johnson;
3A to 3B, Carl E. Newton; O to
1C enlisted, Roland Z. Jenkins,
Robert J. Bonner, Leonard G.
Collingsworth, Robert J. Ledwig,
all. of fifth registration; O to 2C,
Hayden L. Dowlen.
Key to classifications: 1A,
available for military service;
IB, formerly available for limited
ser ice: 1C, member of land or
naval forces,: 2A, necessary in
civilian activities; 2B, necessary
in war production; 2C, necessary
in agricultural prodhction; 3 A,
deferred by reason of dependency;
3B, deferred by reason of depend-
ency and war work; 3C deferred
by reason of dependency and ag-
ricultural work; 4 A, men who
have reached their 45th birthday;
4F morally unfit, physically or
mentally unfit, P. pendfng; O.
no previous seective service class.
Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor
of Pampa visited Sunday with the
latter’s father, E. E, Carhart, and
other relatives.
MRS. CZERNER’S WILL
PROBATED IN COURT
The will of the late Mrs. Tecla
Czerner of White Deer was filed
recently in probate court. Mrs.
Czerner died Oct. 28 and the will
was dated Oct. 14 with B. E.
Kirby and Maggie Armour as
witnesses.
The will left $> to each of sev-
en children and the balance to
her husband for his life. After
his decease, her estate is to pass
equally to the children.
Only six marriage licenses were
issued in November. No license
lias been issued since Nov. 24.
PA NHANDLE WE AT H RR
GETTING COLDER
Panhandle has had freezing
weather most of the mornings
during the past week. Temp-
erature dropped to the low twen-
ties Sunday morning after a cold
snap blew up Saturday.
After about freezing temper-
ature last Thursday and Friday
ihoi'nings, (the afternoons were"
unusually warm. The weather
became cloudy Thursday morning
and the temperature was dropping.
Divorce suit was filed Dec. 1
by Mary Botterman against Har-
ry Botterman in distinct court.
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