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The Panhandle Herald
Established July 22, 1887_
printed Every Friday at Panhandle, Carson County, Texas
“ MEMBER: Texas Press Association, Panhandle
Press Association and National Editorial AsB’n.
" DAVID M. WARREN, Editor and Publisher
Entered as second class matter, July 22, 1887, at the post
office at Panhandle, Texas, under the act of March 8, 1879.
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Obituaries, Resolutions of Respect, Cards of Thanks, etc.—
I cents per word.
HOT OLD AUSTIN
It was hot old Austin last week-end
when The Herald Man was there for a
meeting of the Board of Regents of the
University of Texas. It was 99 degrees
Saturday, the hottest day of the year. Sun-
day temperature was 92, but it seemed
just as hot as Saturday’s scorcher.
The humidity made people suffer and
the only real relief was in an air condi-
tioned room. Visitors could sympathize
with the thousands of summer students as
well as the residents of Austin for having
to live in such a disagreeable summer
climate. However, the are times when the
gulf breeze is strong and the July Austin
weather is at le.ast passable.
Although there were hundreds of rou-
tine items for consideration before the
Board of Regents, principal discussion cen-
tered around the new loyalty oath for state
employes. The state has about 55,000 em-
ployes and no other group had asked for
the attorney general to make an interpre-
tation of a rider to the appropriation bill
whereby affidavits of loyalty and declar-
ing that the person receiving a pay check
had not belonged to a subversive organiza-
tion within the past ten years will be re-
quired.
The board was sharply divided on the
issue and voted 5 to 4 to ask the attorney
general for an opinion. Gov. Allan Shivers
in a general way has asked for an opinion
on this issue. He requested the attorney
general to pass on the constitutionality of
235 riders to the appropriation bill. .
This Regent voted with the minority and
it was necessary for the board chairman
to break the tie.
Another subject of great interest con-
cerned the mailing of a circular letter to
200 leading Texans by D. K. Woodward,
Jr., of Dallas, chairman of the board. This
letter charged political interference in con-
nection with operations of the University.
The Panhandle Herald, Panhandle, Carton County, Texas
Friday, July 20, 1951
Knowing that eventually all this disaster I
would come, people kept on investing in
the lowlands. Now, Kansas City has called
upon congress for millions of dollars for
relief.
Hundreds of rural communities in Amer-
ica are on the low banks of rivers and
creeks. Just why there is not a better ap-
proach to the location of cities is difficult
to understand.
Possibly insurance, banking and housing
firms will have the answer. If credit is
taken away for those dangerous lowland
\ areas, it may be that this waste can be
partly stopped.
A couple of years ago Fort Worth went
through a flood disaster. Kansas City went
through it time after time and yet there
is always high land for building a city.
COMPULSORY INSURANCE
The Herald subscribes to the doctrine of
life, health and property insurance. When
adversity strikes' an individual, he is for-
tunate if he has the type of insurance that
will help to ease the financial pains.
During the years there has developed
a systematic effort to make compulsory'
insurance for the individual. That became
, a reality in the recent session of the legis-
lature in regard to automobile insurance.
Every automobile driver should have his
car insured.
This editor wonders if the fact that there
is compulsory insurance will mean that the
maximum of the policy will be the sum
that will be awarded the injured person
or owner of the damaged car instead of a
realistic view without regard as to whether
there is an insurance policy.
Chicago reports that doctors in that
area have been submitting unethical bills
for fees to patients who have had polio.
Chicago fees are said to be generally $10
per hospital visit in the acute stage of the
disease, $5 per home visit and $3.50 per
office call.
Bills as high as $1,700 have been submit-
ted by doctors at Chicago, according to
a report of the grievance committee of the
Chicago Medical Society. This gravy train
has been possible due to polio insurance
of the past few years, policies generally
selling at $10 to cover a family for all
costs up to two years.
Chicago doctors, it is said, are about 95
per cent fair in submitting bills for fees.,
Let’s not make the maximum, or there will ]
be a big hike in insurance rates.
CITIES ON FLOOD ROUTES
Sympathy goes to all persons in the path
of a flood, but it seems that America needs
to look realistically at the locations of
cities.
People invest hundreds of millions of
dollars in areas in the route of floods.
People know that the time will come when
such areas will be flooded.
Kansas City is a typical example. In-
surance companies had it figured out that
certain areas of Kansas City would be
flooded. No flood insurance could be ob-
tained in those areas, yet business firms
and individuals kept pouring their millions
into the low areas.
A Kansas City bank located on the sec-
ond floor of a building in the stockyards
area reported water four feet deep in its
banking quarters. The bank reported 12
employes lost their cars.
History of Eye-Wear
Marked with Fumbling
Every normal human has two
ears and a nose, which provide a
logical means of holding a pair of
lenses before the eyes. What could
be more natural than to saddle the
nose with a neat, snug-fitting bridge
and keep the spectacles in place
with a couple of hooks behind the
ears?
Natural or not, the early spec-
tacle-makers didn’t do it. As you
look over the drawings and prints
representing ancient glasses, a
question keeps repeating itself in
your mind. How in the world did
the wearer hold them in place? So
it happens that the history of
frame-making is very largely a
story of methods—some ingenious,
the majority clumsy—of attaching
binocular spectacles to the face.
The earliest lenses were single
glasses, held in the hand, so the
problem of facial attachment did
not arise. They were of the type of
the emerald lens through which,
according to Pliny (23-79 A.D.),
Nero regaled his beastly soul by
gazing at the gladiatorial fights in
the Roman arena. These were the
first “opera glasses”, so to speak.
Optical science paused for centu-
ries before developing into eye-
care, after Euclid wrote his classic
treatise on optics (third century
B.C.), and Seneca discovered that
objects were magnified when
viewed through a glass globe filled
with water (first century A.D.),
and Claudius Ptolemaeus (150 A.D.)
founded the science of optics by
calculating the refraction of light
in water (n equals 1.3335) and in
glass.
THE PROFESSOR’S MILLION
The retired University of Illinois pro-
fessor, who died recently at the age of 87
and left a million dollar estate, has caused
a lot of interest in recent months.
The professor’s salary ranged from
$2,000 to $6,000 yearly and it is believed
he was not worth more than $25,000 when
he retired in 1932. Thus, his making a
million dollars after his retirement was
regarded as all the more sensational.
The professor, George A. Miller, was
one of the world’s greatest authorities on
mathematics, but friends said he apparent-
ly was unable to make practical applica-
tion of his great knowledge.
Prices were at their lowest in the 1930’s
and Miller invested his money in corpora-
tions which he regarded as being funda-
mentally sound over a period of years. It
seemed that Miller did not believe in sell-
ing America short.
Miller left his estate without restriction
to the University of Illinois with which
he became associated in 1906. His methods
would be difficult to follow, but essentially
it was a firm belief in America’s future.
Tom Horn, 19-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Biggs Horn, sailed
from New York July 10 on the
S'. S. Europa for Paris, where he
will study French literature for
six weeks at the University of
Sorbonne. Tom was a freshman
at Baylor last year.
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Richard Widmark
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Oldest Dated Actifacts
Reported by U. C. Men
The discovery of the most ancient
dated man-made artifacts so far
reported in the western hemisphere
has been disclosed by anthropol-
ogists on the Berkeley campus of
the University of California.
Implements fashioned by prim-
itive man in about 5,000 B.C. were
uncovered near Lovelock, Nevada,
recently by university anthropology
students working under the direc-
tion of Robert F. Heizgr, associate
professor of anthropology.
Dated by the new “carbon 14”
method—a technique devised by
nuclear physicists and the only
method for really exact dating of
prehistoric materials—wood spear
shafts taken from the excavation
site were determined to be about
7,300 years old.
In the upper layers of the ex-
cavation site the archaeologists
found quantities of artifacts such as
basket and arrow fragments of rela-
tively recent origin, dating back
about 2,500 years. Deposits of bat
guano at a lower level, in which the
ancient spear shafts, spear points,
pieces of string, and evidence of
Campfires were embedded, were
found to be 9,000 years old by the
Carbon 14 technique. A floor of
lake gravels at the bottom of the
Site was estimated to be about 25,-
000 years old.
From these findings and a survey
of other sites in the area, the scien-
tists were able to reconstruct the
first reliable picture of prehistoric
man’s occupancy of the Humboldt
basin.
The engagement and approach-
ing marriage of Miss Jimolou
Newman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Newman, to Edgar
Lee Judy, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. L. Judy of Floydada, formerly
of Panhandle, was revealed at a
tea held recently in the home of
the bride-elect’s parents. The
wedding will be Aug. 4 in the
White Deer Church of Christ.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haiduk
entertained with a pork barbecue
at Mr. and Mrs. LeeRoy Meakers’
lawn July 9. Guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Vincent Haiduk of White
Deer, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Flaharty and family from Pampa,
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Reining and
family of Amarillo, Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Haiduk and family, Mr. and
Mrs. A1 Haiduk and family, Mr.
and Mrs. O. R. Meaker, Archie
Bailey and Mr. and Mrs. Meaker
of Panhandle.
If A-Bomb Falls
Neither explosive nor lingering ra-
dioactivity has any effect on the
operation of most mechanical or
electrical devices. Unless the wires
are down or there is a power fail-
ure, both your lights and telephone
should continue to work. But don’t
rush to the phone just to find out
how Aunt Susie may have weath-
ered the A-bomb attack. Leave the
lines open for real emergency traf-
fic. ■ The bomb’s radioactivity will
not interfere with the operation of
your radio. In the event of attack,
be sure to turn it on. It may be
your main source of emergency in-
structions. And don’t forget: Bat-
tery-operated portable sets, includ-
ing those installed in automobiles,
will continue to work even if the*
city power goes off. Television re-
ception, like radio, won’t be jam-
med by radioactivity.
Mrs. Azalee Walcher has just
returned from a two weeks’ vaca-
tion in the Ozarks. She is employ-
ed by Dr. W. Paul Roberts as his
office nurse and secretary.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Mitchell,
Herbert and Paula, spent the
weekend in Muleshoe. They were
accompanied home by their daugh-
ter, Barbara, who had been visit-
ing in Muleshoe and Baileyboro
for two weeks. Herbert remained
for a two weeks’ visit with his
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. E. '
M. Sowder of Baileyboro. 1
Is It “Colorfast”?
“Colorfast,” a familiar term to
today’s shopper, has different
shades of meaning! Just a clerk’s
assurance that an article is “Color-
fast” is not enough. Termed as
“Colorfast,” for instance, are many
of the colored rayon tablecloths
now on the market. But some of
these cloths stage a fade-out in the
most carefully controlled washing
formula. Drops of gravy, crimson
cranberry and lipstick stains, fruit
juice, wine and beverage stains all
must be removed in the laundering
process. If color loss occurs during
a cleansing treatment which must
remove stains as well as soil, then
the cloth is not “Colorfast” to the
mildest stain removal treatment.
Finish Protects Transformers
Electrical transformers, which
are hung on poles, are exposed to
extreme weather conditions and
must; have special finishes to pro-
tect them against heat and cold.
The surfaces of fully loaded trans-
formers often reach temperatures
of 200 degrees F when the sunlight
blazes on them. During the winter
months, these same surfaces may
be exposed to temperatures as low
as 50 degrees F. The finishes must
also be able to withstand the at-
tacks of salts, acids, alkalis and
moisture.
DR. HILL HAD FINE
COLORADO VACATION
Dear Friend Warren:
Enjoyed your article. (Referr-
ing to guest article Herald Editor
wrote for Dr. Hill’s column, Hill-
top Views, in the Amarillo-Times).
Think you have something there
and I thank you heartily for help-
ing me out. I had a fine vacation
in Colorado with our children.
Enjoyed the country, too.
However, I am glad to be back
in regular routine, though I am
afraid you old hands at newspaper
writing may have put a taste in
the mouths of my clientele for
better stuff than I can give. But
I am glad to try again any way.
Cordially yours,
J. A. HILL
Canyon, Texas
July 7, 1951.
cal party. The way begins in pre-
cinct conventions — begins over
and over again—and endless op-
portunity.
Very Truly yours,
C. O. TOWNE
4010 Harrison St.
Amarillo, Texas
July 5, 1951.
Herald Want Ada Get Kesolta.
R.I.P.*
by VIP
URGES PARTICIPATION
IN PRECINCT POLITICS
Editor The Herald:
There are among us many who
think politics is a dirty business
that contaminates all who take an
active part. For them I quote the
following: “This work of party
organization is a public duty often
thankless — yet in the highest
sense a public service, for organ-
ized political parties have become
an absolute necessity for the func-
tioning of popular government in
so large a population as ours. Only
through such organization can the
people express their will.” (Her-
bert Hoover, Feb. 1933)
Many a citizen has said to him-
self that both the major party
candidates are weajt and has felt
that the best he could do is to
vote for the lesser of the two evils.
After several such experiences he
decides voting isn’t worth while.
And he has given up hope of ever
seeing solid planks in a party plat-
form because he has seen too
many “planks” which are nothing
but fatuous promises designed to
get votes. His intelligence is iu-
sulted by such platforms and he
decides again that politics is
rotten.
But if someone were to say to
this disgrunted citizen that he
could no longer vote even if he
wanted to, he would scream his
head off. The trouble is not with
the system but with us. We have
come to believe that the vote is
all there is to it; But that is ob-
viously not all because someone
chooses the candidates and some-
one writes the platforms. And
where are we while all this is
going on? We’re out making a
living and passing smart remarks
back and forth at lunch about
how rotten politics is getting.
There is a way for every man
to help choose candidaes and help
write party platforms. But it can’t
be done without taking an active
part in the business of some politi-
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The Lazy J Ranch’s 1950 Ford
F-3 Express with POWER
PILOT was one of more than
5,000 Fords in the nationwide,
50-million-mile Ford Truck
Economy Run.
George Stephens of the Lazy
J Ranch* says: “The low cost
my Ford Truck showed in the
Economy Run speaks for itself.
I got regular service checkups
from my Ford Dealer.”
•Address furnished on request
My ranch ‘workhorse
runs for only 2%* a mile!
Ranch owner George Stephens proved for
himself, in the big Economy Run, just
how little it costs to run his Ford Truck!
“The Lazy J’s Ford Express did itself
proud in the Ford Truck Economy Run,
says Stephens. “Daily records kept during
the entire six months show that our Ford
Truck ran up a total of 5,109 miles. My
out-of-pocket expense for gas, oil, main-
tenance and repairs was exactly $123.51
. . . about a $20 bill each month . . . only
2% cents a mile!”
The Ford Truck POWER PILOT car-
buretion-ignition system is one reason why
Ford Trucks cost so little to run, in ranch
work or any work. The power pilot gives
you the most power from the least gas.
In the low-price field, only Ford has it!
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Warren, David M. The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1951, newspaper, July 20, 1951; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth881879/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.