The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1953 Page: 2 of 8
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Tha Manhandle Herald, Panhandle, Carson County* Texas
The Panhandle Herald
Established July 22, 1887
Qftrfated Every Friday at Panhandle, Carson County, Texas
MEMBER: Texas Press Association, Panhandle
Press Association and National Editorial Ass’u.
&AV1D M. WARREN, Editor and Publisher
Sintered as second class matter, July 22, 1887, at the post
office at Panhandle, Texas, under the act of March 8, 18'79.
Subscription Rates Carson and Adjoining Oounties
Year--------------- $2.00
•ffiix Months-----------------------------— $1.26
'sSFhree Months —......------- *75
Subscription Rates Outside Carson and Adjoining Counties
■iSae Year--.--------------------------------?---$2.‘50
Six Months________________________________$1.66
«ree Months.......... -80
Advertising Rstes\
tfDfeituaries, Resolutions of Respect, Cards of Thanhs, etc.—
® cents per word.
MRS. BOESEN’S EXAMPLE
The death of Mrs. Peter E. Boesen April
23 brought t# the close the illustrious
career of a noted pioneer Plains woman.
Her husband, Pete Boesen, who died in
1946, was widely known as a business man.
Me moved to Groom in 1915 and was en-
gaged as a land man and as a banker,
tout two years later went to Sudan, which
toe founded and developed into a thriving
community.
The Herald Editor always enjoyed visit-
ing with Pete Boesen because of our re-
lations with The Daily Panhandle, a pio-
neer Amarillo newspaper. Boesen estab-
lished The Herald in Amarillo about 1901
-.and The Daily Panhandle, which he
^operated until 1921.-
The Panhandle was later sold to Dr.
X E. Nunn, owner of the Amarillo Daily
Mews. The Panhandle Herald editor was
the last editor of The Daily Panhandle
when it was merged with the Amarillo
News July 2, 1923. The final issue was
published an hour or so early that day as
an extra to tell about the Dempsey-Car-
pentier fight at Boyles 30 Acres in New
Jersey.
Thus, Boesen founded and published the
•first issue of The Daily Panhandle and
this writer edited the last issue ever
published.
Mrs. Boesen left an estate valued at
S300,000 with her nephew, father W. F.
Bcsen as executor. He has alloted $125,000
for a new Catholic chancery building in
Amarillo, $15,000 to St. Benedict’s College
at Atchison, Kan., where Pete Boesen work
<ed his way through as a student, to help
sieedy boys, $6,000 to aid needy priests of
this area and for other purposes.
As there were no children, Mrs. Boesen
decided that the area in which she and
toer late husband had earned their wealth
should be the beneficiaries of their resi-
duary estate.
When people of the Panhandle of Texas
support their churches, schools, colleges,
museums, parks and other public activities,
our region will be much better. Mrs.
Boesen has set an example that others—a
few even more able—should follow.
of the Amarillo Globe, occasionally wrote
of the.need of an art gallery in that city
or this region.
Since his death there has been little talk
about the need of founding an art gallery
in the Panhandle.
The Panharidle-Plajns Historical Mu-
seum at Canyon is in good position to be-
come an art center. The second floor of
the new unit has been used for several
art exhibits.
The late James D. Hamlin of Farwell
bequeathed his pictures, largely western,
to the museum.
If others are interested in making the
Panhandle of Texas a center of art, there
.is no better way than for individuals to
purchase and donate pictures to the
museum.
Panhandle people have to go hundreds
of miles to view worth while pictures, so
let’s consider the possibilities of a large
art museum at the regional Panhandle-
Plains museum at Canyon.
Friday, July 31, 1953
6V PR. KENNETH 1. FOREMAN
Scripture: Ephesians 5:15-33; 6:1-9;
Colossians 3:12—4:1.
Devotional Reading: Psalm 119:9-16.
Christian Home
Lesson for August 2, 1953
The 76-day brewery workers strike in
Milwaukee has been settled. Workers will
be paid for a 30-minute lunch period daily.
So every time dry Texans drink Milwaukee
beer, they know that they are paying Wis-
consin brewery employes for 30 minutes
they spend eating lunch and drinking their
beer.
Gov. Allan Shivers’ appointment of for-
mer mayor Gene Klein of Amarillo to the
state water resources committee is meeting
with wide approval in this area. As a for-
mer mayor of the area’s largest city, he
knows what water means, as Amarillo has
been on the verge of a real shortage several
times. Klein also has worked with the
Canadian River municipal water authority.
School districts with less than 2,500
students are reported ones mostly in need
of teachers—largely grade faculty mem-
bers—for the fall session. Panhandle seems
more fortunate, as its faculty is reasonably
well completed.
Forty-nine senior Texas colleges report
ed 3,660 graduates eligible for teaching
certificates, but only 2,550 are willing to
become' teachers. It is doubtful if salaries
alone are the reasons for recent college
graduates not becoming teachers.
AN ART GALLERY NEEDED
A few years ago, Old Tack, lately editor
The “Mystery Farm’’ feature in The
Herald has become an important feature
to our readers. Although this is only the
third week for the feature, the weekly
picture is awaited with interest. Ofie reader
asked to see the pictures three or four
weeks ahead of time, as he was taking a
vacation. As the Herald has no special
order for running the pictures, the request
could not be granted.
Our July rainfall of 3.7 inches is just
about the best news of the year. Our pas-
tures are coming along rapidly and many
larmiers have hopes of raising row crops.
There is nothing like rainfall to take away
the drouth blues.
Office Supplies
• Typewriters
. Typewriter Paper
. Pencils
. Ink
. Index Cards
. Blank Books
. Bookkeeping Sets
. Stapling Machines
. Daters
. Stamp Pads
• Typewriter and Adding Machine Ribbons
. Pencil Sharpeners
• Most anything you might need in the way of
supplies for your office, we would like tn Lave
you come in and look over our stock call us
and consult with us before you go out of town
for the items you need. We believe w« can tup.
ply your needs and we assure you tL*t win
do everything within our power to supply UiCm
at a reasonable price.
JOB PRINTING
Letterheads
Envelopes
Programs
Wedding Announcements
Personal Stationery
Commercial Forms
Pamphlets
Postcards
Any kind of job you might have—no matter
how large or small, bring it in and let us
figure with you—we’ll treat you right
The FkNHANDLE HeP4U)
PANHANDLE. TEXAS
Phone 56
yOU can have a Christian town
* more easily than a Christian
nation. You can have a Christian
one-man business more easily than
a Christian corporation. You can
have a Christian church more
readily than a Christian school.
But you can come closest to a
Christian group, 100 per cent, in
a Christian home than anywhere
else in the world.
♦ * *
Home Has Its Problems
A good Christian home is not
automatic. Its praises can be sung
too loudly. In sentimental moods
people talk and write poems and
even preach about the home as if
it were just nat-
urally a heaven on
earth. Nonsense!
Like all good
things it has to be
planned and
worked out. Or
again, they talk
about the Great
American Home
as -if it were a
special product of
this American na- ®r* Foreman
tion. But there were homes be-
fore America was discovered.
There are good homes wherever
Christians are—in China, Africa,
India, Fiji. There is no magic
about America that makes an
American home the best on earth.
It is Christianity, not race or geog-
raphy, that makes the best homes.
A Christian home in Madagascar
is likely to be better than a non-
Christian home in Memphis.
But even a Christian home has
its problems. . How Can old and
young live happily under the same
roof when “happy” doesn’t mean
the same thing at six, sixteen and
sixty? How can you have an Ex-
ecutive Committee (husband and
wife) with no one to break* a tie
vote? How can a father steer be-
tween being too strict and not be-
ing strict enough? How can a
growing child learn independence
without wrecking the place? Of
course home has its problems.
Life has its problems, and you
. i
don’t get rid of them even when
every one concerned is a practic-
ing Christian.
* * *
Some Christian Intentions
One reason why a home can be
more nearly Christian than any
other social group, is that you can
come nearer sharing the same
basic intentions in that group
than in any other. One intention
that must be woven into a true
home is that of permanence.
Homes cannot claim to be Chris-
tian if they are no more than
campsites. If husband and wife
are not in it for keeps, they lack
the first of all intentions that keep
a home together. Further, a home
that is Christian will welcome
children. If children are accepted
grudgingly, if they are thought of
mainly as “mouths to feed,”
“brats,” it is not a Christian home.
Another Christian intention is the
Golden Rulp. “Be done by as you
did” is somebody else’s rule, not
Christ’s. If you go looking for
slights and insults, if you go
around insisting always on your
“rights,” if you have a chronic-
ally unforgiving spirit, you don’t
fit into a Christian home.
* * *
Christ in the Home
There is a motto sometimes seen
on a wall: “Christ is the Head of
This House.” What does it mean
to have Christ in the house? 'His
picture on the wall won’t do it,
though it may help. Pious mottoes
won’t do it unless they express the
real heart of those who live there.
What does it mean to have Christ,
not as an obscure occasional guest,
not a stranger, but as Head of the
house? He is Head when his ideas
are known, followed and loved.
He is Head when every one has
the habit of thinking, Is this what
He would do? He is Head when
his spirit is in every heart. He
said himself that he came not to
be served but to serve; and the
Christian home is one where ev-
ery member of it carries out that
purpose of Christ. When in a home
there is prayer each day in His
nafne—that-is to say, when all the
daily prayers of the, family are
not just “Gimme” prayers but
such as Christ Himself would en-
dorse, when time is taken out ev-
ery day for prayer and all togeth-
er at least once in the twenty-four
hours think quietly about what it
means to be Christian, then it is
more and more likely that Christ
will be truly the Head of that
house. The problems will be there,
and they will not be easy even for
Christians; but no problem of
Christian living, even at close
range, is impossible when Chris-
tians work them out together in
His name.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na-
Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U.S.A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
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Personals
Mrs. AnJanette McCurry, Rock-
wall, has returned to her home
after a visit in the home of her
great-aunt, Mrs. C. W. Atkins.
Mrs. Elsie Reek fell at her home
Saturday morning while washing
woodwork and broke several ribs.
She is a patient in Groom Hospital,
where she is reported to be im-
proving.
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SCHOOL BOARD
MEMBERS PLAN
STATE MEETING
AUSTIN—The Texas Assoca-
tion of School Boards, which has
headquarters at the University of
Texas, will hold its annual meet-
ing October 8-9 in Austin.
“Better School Boards Make
Better Schools” will be the meet-
ing theme. The session will be
dedicated to the self-improvement
of school board members through-
out Texas, TASB officials said.
“It is fitting that school boards,
as the primary governing bodies of
our localized system of free public
education, should take the lead
in the improvement of our
schools,” the Texas Schoolboard
News Letter pointed out. “They
are. the agencies to which the
citizens of each community have
entrusted their schools and, thus,
much of the development of their
children.
“If these school boards are to
do their very important job well,”
the News Letter continued, “they
must look to themselves for the
strength, the courage and the
knowledge with which to improve
themselves and their schools.
In addition to general sessions,
the annual meeting will feature
eight group sessions on the follow-
ing topics: Personnel, segregation,
curriculum, physical education in
the school, school hoard functions
and relationships, public educa-
tion and the future, school law
and the board member, and school
finance and the board member.
A new feature of the meeting
will be a program devoted to re-
ports on school-board area associa-
tions- organized during the past
year. Another innovation will he
a “system-size” session. Board
members from school systems of
comparable size will discuss com-
mon problems.
Calvin
tending
Houston,
friends.
Kiser, who has been at-
mortician’s school in
is visiting Panhandle
Mrs. John Nunn and sons,
•Larry and Joe, visited last week
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Nunn, Abernathy. John Nunn
went to Abernathy for them and
for a short visit with his parents-
Mrs. Robert Austin and daugh^
ter, Mary Ann, Bluefield, W. Va.,
have returned to their home after
a three weeks’ visit in the homes
of Mrs. Austin’s uncle, Howard
Apel, aunt, Mrs. John Apel, Sr.,
and cousin, John Apel. Mrs. Austin"
is the former Florine Arnold.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Webster,
White Deer, announce the engage-
ment and approaching marriage
of their daughter, Bette, to Don
Carroll, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F.
Carroll of Velma, Okla. The single
ring ceremony will be held in the
First Methodist Church, White
Deer, Aug. 9.
Guests *were present from Ama-
rillo and Claude at the meeting
of the Do-Si-Do Club Saturday
evening. Guest callers were Ivan
Chaveaux and Earl Morris, Claude,
and Chester Grumpke, Amarillo.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Skaggs and
Mr. and Mrs. Dorset Sanford were
hosts for the evening.
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Warren, David M. The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1953, newspaper, July 31, 1953; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth881716/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.