The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 31, 1952 Page: 8 of 8
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Page Eight
The Panhandle Herald. Panhandle, Carson Count?, Tax**
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Wednesday, December 31, 1952 I
Christmas Visitors—
(continued from page one)
Panhandle. Mr. and Mrs. H. R.
Pruitt left Friday morning for
Cleburne and a visit with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Fisher.
Mr. and Mrs. Asbery A. Cal-
laghan and Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Hughes were guests in the home
•of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adams,.
Cuynion, Okla.
Christmas dinner guests of the
Hermit B. Lawsons were Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Lawson, Panhandle;
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Olson, Ann
and Carl, Panhandle; Mrs. J. W.
Everly, Clauda Everly and Chester
Nunn, White Deer. Others calling
during the evening were Mr., and
Mrs. Steele Gleason, Carol, Bobby,
and Billy, and Miss Sue Rhoades,
Pampa; J. R. Lane, Fort Worth;
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Lane, Mike
and John, Odessa.
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Lawson,
Hay and Joanne, and Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Lane, Roy and Jerry,
fepent Christmas'1 eve in Pampa at
the home of their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Lane, for a family
reunion and gift exchapge. Others
attending were Don Lane, Norman,
■Okla; John F Ijane, Fort Worth;
Mr. and Mrs. N.D. Lf.ne and Dean:
Port Worth, and Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. M. Lane, Mike and John of
'Odessa.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Cleek and
Coe Cleek were Christmas dinner
guests of Mr.and Mrs. Curtis
Douglass and Maleomb,. Pampa.
Guests in the home of Walter
Gripp were Mr. and Mrs. Ploward
Mulkey, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cof-
ife©, Harold, Cindy and Charles;
Worn Coffee and Sam Goff, Miami;
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Steinke and
Dolores, Cheyenne, Wyo,; Mr. and
Mrs. Spicer Gripp and Nancy,
Hereford; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Gripp, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Gripp,
.John, Martha, Dick and Dolly;
Mr. and Mrs. Groves Burum, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Burum, Jennie and
Jerry, and Mr. and Mrs. Nolan
Poteet.
WHO Averts Typhus Epidemic in Afghanistan
....................--
For hundreds of years, Afghanistan has been plagued by malaria
and typhus. Not until the World Health Organization sent a four-
man medical team to Kundus in 1951 to spray with DDT an area of
175 square miles against malaria was any organized attempt made
to bring the diseases under control. The program was trebled in
1951 because of favorable results. During the off-season for malaria
the WHO teams tackle the typhus problem. Here a WHO team in
Kabul is shown spraying the people and homes against typhus.
Guests of Dr. and Mrs. O. York
were Mr. and Mrs. Glynn D Har-
rell, Louise, Glynda and Beverly,
Groom; Mrs. R. F. Chisolm, Nor-
man, Okla; Mr. and Mrs. Silby
York, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
Hood, Jr., and Fredrick, Amarillo;
Winfred York, Dallas; Weldon
York, Austin, and Mr. and Mrs.
C. F. Hood, Sr., Panhandle.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Armstrong
were guests in the home' of their
daughter, Mrs. R. C. Forsyth and
family, Plainview.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Randel and
Margaret visited relatives in Dal-
las.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Williams
PANHANDLE THEATRE
A FULL WEEK’S ENTERTAINMENT
“MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER”
— Double Feature —-
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, JAN. 2-3
‘THE WHISTLER AT EATON FALLS’
Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Gish
plu«
“BARBED WIRE”
Gene Autry
SUNDAY, MONDAY and TUESDAY, JAN. 4-5-6
“SON OF PALEFACE”
Bob Hope and Jane Russell
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, JAN. 6-7
“YOU FOR ME”
Peter Lawford and Jane Greer
m
Metcalf House Is
Destroyed By Fire
A residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Metcalf, seven miles south-
west of Vega, was destroyed by
fire Wednesday night, Dec. 17.
Mrs. Metcalf and daughter, Pluma,
had started to Vega, where the
daughter was to be in a Christmas
pageant. They returned to the
house and found it burning. It is
believed the fire was caused by
on oil heater.
The Metcalfs had two houses.
The one which was burned was
used for cooking, dining and liv-
ing. They had onother nice home
nearby for sleeping.
HERALD PRINTS TWO
DAYS EARLY AGAIN
The Panhandle Herald printed
Tuesday afternoon, the second
week in a row it has printed early
because of the holiday season.
Next week’s Herald will be printed
as usual on Thursday and will be
distributed Friday.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all those who
sent gifts to us during the Christ-
mas holidays.
Panhandle Telephone
Operators.
and children attended a family
reunion in Hereford.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bender, Mid-
land, were guests of his brother,
E. O. Bender, and Mrs. Bender.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. 0. 0.
Hinshaw, Charlotte and, Edwin
and Mrs. Olive R. Whitely and
Larry were Mr. and Mrs. H. O.
Pitts and Steve, Grand Junction,
Colq; Mrs. R. R. Kaufhold, Mrs.
N. C. Bryson, Mrs. J. 0. Box, Ama-
rillo, and M-Sgt. James Croffitt,
Amarillo Air Force Base.
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Dart,
Denton, were guests of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dart, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Moore and
Chris were Christmas eve guests
of his mother and sister, Pampa,
and Christmas guests of Mrs.
Moore’s parents of Bowie.
Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs’-
R. L. Curtis were Mr. and Mrs.
L. E. Curtis and children, Pan-
handle, and Mrs. Joe Yarberry and
children, Groom.
A New Year bows into a
world that prays for peace and
hopes for a new era of under-
standing among mankind.
May 1953 see these prayers
granted, these hopes fulfilled
. . . and leave the world the
better for its coming.
Christmas dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Naylor, Jimmy and
Virginia, were Mr. and Mrs. L. L.
Wallace and family, Mr. and Mrs.
E. E. Naylor, Mr. and Mrs. R. M.
Chunn, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Sat-
terwhite and son, all of Clarendon ;
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Ingham, Con-
way; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Biggs andf
son, M. B. Welsh, Joyce Dittber-’
ner and Aubrey Russell, all of
Panhandle', and Ben Naylor, Carls-
bad, N. M. Following the buffet
dinner movies were shown by L. L.
Wallace.
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Vance Service Station
HARRY G. VANCE
'PHILLIPS 66 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Christmas eve guests of Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Gilbert, Cynthia and
Bobby, were Mr. and Mrs. Irvy
Ayres, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ernest,
Bogie and Lauren, all of Borger.
Guests on Christmas day of Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Sparks and Marvin
were Mrs. Maurice Garner and
children, and Mrs. Earl Cox, Pan-
handle; Wayne Cox, Amarillo, and
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Cox and
baby, Austin.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lemons and
son, James Lee, Booker, were holi-
day guests of her mother, Mrs.
Myrtle Henderson, and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Lemons.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Lewellen
and Dean visited relatives in
Friona.
Diwali—Gay, Colorful
Festival of Lights
India recently celebrated Diwali,
the festival of lights. As its name
implies (Sanskrit—Dipavali, mean-
ing a garland of lights), illumina-
tion forms .the main feature of
this festival. In addition to multi-
colored lamps, the traditional and
more picturesque types of earthen
oil lamps are used. During this fes-
tival, prayers are offered to
Lakshmi, Goddess of /wealth and
beauty. Soon after sunset houses
are illuminated to welcome the
Goddess who, according to com-
mon belief, likes to enter a house
which is bright with lights. Hence
the preparations weeks ahead of
Diwali—illumination, new clothes,
sweets, color and gaiety. Many
legends have grown round this
festival. It is regarded as com-
memorating the victory of Vishnu,
the preserver of the Hindu Trinity,
over a demon Narakasura, thus
signifying the triumph of good over
evil, light over darkness. It is a
new year day festival according
to the Vikrama era, one of the six
eras in the old Hindu calendar. It
is said that on this day King Vik-
rama of Ujjain (now in the State
of Madhya Bharat) ascended the
throne. Another legend has its
origin in the story of Rama. It is
said that Rama, after defeating
Ravana, the demon King of Lanka
(Modern Ceylon) returned to his
capital Ayodhya (now in the State
of Uttar Pradesh) after fourteen
years of exile. He ascended the
throne twenty days after Dussehra
(another Hindu festival celebrated
on September 26 last) which marks
the victory of Rama over Ravana.
The city of Ayodhya was gaily dec-
orated and illuminated to mark the
happy return, and the tradition con-
tinues to this day.
Extinct Breed of
Horse Is Resurrected
Dr Heinz Heck, director of the
Hellabrun zoo at Munich, Ger-
many, has succeeded in fesurrect-
ing an all but extinct breed of
horse, called the “Tarpan,” which
flourished at the end of the ice age.
This was done by “breeding
back,” using horses that showed
primitive strains. Unlike the mod-
ern horse, the Tarpan has a long
skull with a narrow forehead. The
animal is short and stocky, gray
in color, with a short bristly mane.
Tarpans roamed over most of
the eastern hemisphere but were
not native to the western half of
the world. When America was dis-
covered there were no horses on
the continent and the Indian tribes-
men, later renowned for their
horsemanship, moved on foot.
Hard to Harvest
Cacao beans are a difficult hancf
crop. Cacao seeds form inside
tough pods which must be care-
fully cut to avoid injury to the
tree. Pods are opened with
machetes The beans are freed of
a sticky pulp in which they are
imbedded by a fermentation proc-
ess requiring several turnings by
hand. Spreading beans to the dry-
ing sun is also hard, hand work.
The cured product, amounting to
only about two pounds per tree
per year, is sacked by hand. Statis-
ticians estimate it takes 700,000,-
000 cacao trees, growing in hot
zones of South America, West .Af-
rica, parts of Asia and the West
Indies, to sate the1 near universal
craving for chocolate.
All Over But Shooting
When a deer shoots a hunter,
that is news. A man in Payson,
Utah had shot his deer and was
kneeling beside it to cut the ani-
mal’s throat. The deer gave one
last convulsive kick and struck
the youth’s gun, which was leaning
against a log. The pellets hit Kel-
sey in the thigh.
Solitary Anniversary
In Lawreneeville, 111., an unem-
ployed insurance salesman was
sentenced to 150 years in prison
for the slaying of his former sweet-
heart in a high school classroom.
In imposing sentence, the judge
stipulated that the murderer must
spend every anniversary of the
murder in solitary confinement.
Handy Jackpot
Brandon, Miss., the Rankin coun-
ty home demonstration council
converted the old abandoned
county jail here into a clubhouse.
The women renovated the struc-
ture with money recovered from
confiscated slot machines the coun-
ty had stored there.
Accent on Speed
To speed up unloading of rail-
road coal gondolas at terminal
points, electric vibrating devices
shake the cars so that the coal
runs quickly through the hoppers,
emptying a full load in less than
two minutes.
Even Better
In Philadelphia, after being in-
jured by a bus accident, Karl J.
Mersinger sued the Philadelphia
Transportation Co. for $75,000 dam-
ages, was awarded $90,000 by a
sympathetic jury.
Knows His Own
The minister’s daughter returned
at three o’clock from a dance. Her
father greeted her sternly. “Good
morning, child of the devil.” Re-
spectfully and demurely, she re-
plied: “Good morning, father.”
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J. T. Thompson
Of Washburn Is
Killed By Auto
J. T. Thompson, 56, of Wash-|
burn, brother in law of Mrs. Julia i
Thompson and uncle of Mrs. Clar-
ence Shepherd, both of Panhandle, j
was killed Wednesday afternoon, j
Dec. 24, in an automobile ac-
cident on Highway 287 near
Washburn.
Thompson’s car was parked
about 30 feet off the main high-
way and it was hit by an auto
driven by J. E. Yarborough, 24,
of Lubbock. In the car with him
were Mrs. Thompson and S. A.
Gilmore, 61, railroad worker, who
suffered facial cuts. Mrs. Thomp-
son was uninjured.
Funeral services were held Fri-
day afternoon at an Amarillo fun-
eral home.
Yarborough, driver of the car
which killed Thompson, was a
student at Texas Tech. His car
hit an icy spot and skidded into
Thompson’s auto.
Yarborough was arraigned Fri-
day in Claude on a charge of mur-
der without malice. He was being
held last week in Potter county
jail.
Three highway patrol units were
attempting to arrest Yarborough
before the accident occurred. Sev-
eral motorists had reported , to the
patrol that Yarborough’s car had
forced them from the pavement
on Highway 287.
AMBULANCE
DAY OR NIGHT
PHONE 81
Panhandle, Texas
POSTON
FUNERAL HOME
Funeral Directors
JLicensed Embalmer
We Accept Ail Burial Policies
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WANT ASS
FOR RENT: Two four room
houses and '1 two room house.
Mrs. S. II. Green. 24-ltc
FOR RENT: Five room house,
east of Convalescent Home. Call
F. A. Davis, Borger. 24-2tp
LOST: Dec 17, man’s Baylor wrist
watch between court house and
school or on school grounds. Re-
ward if returned to Ferrell Phar-
macy. 23-l:p
STORAGE of any Kina. New and
used furniture. Hardware items.
Rufe Hardware. 22-tfc.
TRANSFER AND STORAGE-
Careful and efficient long dis-
tance moving. Call Bruce & Son
Transfer & Storage, Borger, Tex.
Phone 192. tl
’OB PRINTING—Leave your
ders at Tne Herald. We are pre-
pared to give tne T>est of service.
NOTICE
Am not responsible for debts other
than my own. J. A. Phillips, White
Deer, Texas. 22-3t
WANTED: Plain or fancy sewing, |
machine made buttonholes. Mrs.
T. J. Aishman, 611 Ritchie, Phona
65R. 19-10tu
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and voices are
filled with best
wishes for all
our friends.
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May the New Year
hold only happinessr
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TUESDAY’S
GRAIN PRICES:
MILO, CWT. $2.70
WHEAT, BU. $2.19
Quotations Courtesy
of
H. J. HUGHES
GRAIN ELEVATORS
Your Grain Dealer
Serving You Since 1924
® Wrap yourself
in success and
achievement in
the days ahead.
P. I. CRUM
Jeweler Optometrist
Panhandle Inn
Barber Shop
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Warren, David M. The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 31, 1952, newspaper, December 31, 1952; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth881222/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.