The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1953 Page: 1 of 8
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Founded 1887.
Oldest Business Firm
In County.
"TlHE f^NHANCLE B^ES^ALS)
Our 66th Year
Of Service To
Carson County
Vol. 66—No. 36
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1953
(8'Pages Today)
Price 5c
Relays Will Be Saturday
Farm To Market
Road 10 Miles
Long Requested
Farm to market road of about
10 miles in the southwest part of
Carson county between Highways
60 and 66 was asked in a petition
filed Monday with the commis-
sioners court.
■The petition was signed by al_
most three dozen persons and
states that the area for the pro-
posed road is the largest in the
county without all-weather facil-
ities.
The road would begin about
ithree miles southwest of Pan.
handle on Highway 60, go south
four miles, west two miles and
south four miles to Highway 66.
Detailed description stated the
road would begin on Highway 60
near the northwest corner of Sec.
81, Block 2, TTRy survey, leading
south on the west lines of sections
81, 80, 79 and 78; thence west on
the north lines of Sec. 7 and 10,
block 3, AB&AM survey; thence
south along the west lines of Sec.
10 and 9, block 3, AB&M survey;
thence south also along the west
lines of Sec. 11 and 30, block B4,
H&GN survey, to a point near the
southwest corner of Sec. 30 and
Highway 66.
Signing the petition were Messrs
and Mesdames J. D. Bender, T.
M. Cleek, Raymond Biggs, Ray
Anderson, A. B. Adams, O. M.
Spurlock, Chas. Walker, J. B.
Walker, Otis Whlker, D. £). Long-
anacre.
Also; H. and A1 Werner, Jerome
and Sam Labus, R. H. Orr, Louise
Orr, Mrs. G. F. Orr, Mrs. Esther
Ingrum, Phil Walker, H. C. Wal-
ker and O.. L. Houghland.
Predict Showers
Over Week-End
Partly cloudy with mild temper-
atures and a few showers is the
weather forecast for the weekend.
With a low of 49 early Thursday
morning the high for the day was
expected to be in the high seven-
ties. The temperatures for the
week have averaged about 10
degrees above the seasonal normal
with the high 82 March 20. The
low was 32 March 24.
Winds have been moderately
high on several days with blowing
dust. Little land around Panhandle
has been blowing. Wheat in most
instances is still looking good with
many farmers reporting they could
go for several weeks without rain.
No rain has fallen during the
week.
Temperatures
follow:
March 19
March 20
March 21
March 22
March 23
March 24
March 25
for the
week
High
Lqw
80 .
45
82
44
65
39
60
35
61
39
71
32
77
34
*
Car Driver Hit
With the Bends
Poston Ambulance.....received a
call late Wednesday afternoon for
a man ill with the “bends” in his
car west of Conway on Highway
66.
The man was unconscious part
of the time and cried out “not
to pull him up' so fast.” It was
learned that he was a sea diver
from California and was Traveling
alone east in his car when the
attack hit him.
The patient was taken to
hospital at Groom.
FEAR INVASION
GRASSHOPPERS
IN PLAINS AREA
The 4-County Agricultural
Workers Council; meeting at Bor
ger Monday evening, March 23
learned from top authorities that
the small native grasshopper that
is often found in the range country
probably will be present in great
numbers this ^ear.
John Landrum and Fred Reese
of the Federal bureau of entom.
ology division of grasshopper con-
trol, reported n a survey made
last fall. They found 15 to 35 grass
hoppers per square yard on many
counts. It has been found that
17 grasshoppers to a square yard
will eat 50 per cent of the grass
in that area. On the same basis
one could expect to lose all his
grass with a population of 3 5
grasshoppers per square yard.
When the rains come these pests
will get busy. To avoicT loss of
grass in the grass country, ranch,
ers have found the answer in
aerial spraying.
The council is now planning
a meeting or ranchers and others
interested in Hotel Borger at Bor-
ger Monday afternoon, April 13.
Landrum and Reese will be pres-
ent.
GRAIN GRADING,
SANITATION TO
BE EMPHASIZED
General Meeting
Set April 3 At
Children’s Home
All farmers, grain elevator
operators and others interested in
grain are urged to attend a meet-
ing at 9:30 a. m. Friday, April 3,
at the Children’s Home auditor,
ium, 3400 Bowie, Amarillo.
Regulations covering the grain
sanitation program will be featur-
ed. These meetings are being spon-
sored by the Texas Agricultural
extension service in cooperation
with different grain exchanges
and the Texas grain Dealers
association.
Speakers include W. B. Combs,
USSDA marketing specialist from
Chicagq; a representative of the
food and drug administration;
H. H. Walkden, bureau of entom-
ology, Manhattan, Kan; Dr. I. M.
Atkins of the Texas agricultural
experiment station, Denton; E. G.
Pope of the predatory and rodent
control scervice and Fred Dines,
grain specialist of the Texas exten.
sion service; Licensed grain inspec-
tors will give the latest informa-
tion on grain grading. Samples
of wheat will be graded.
Dines stated questions on the
grain sanitation program will be
answered. This program has to do
with all grain, including storage
on the farm.
Those wishing to make the
Amarillo meeting and are seeking
transportation are asked to call
County Agent H. M. Nichols at
Panhandle.
$2,315 Red Cross
Money Received
In Annual Drive
Howard Amick, Carson County
Red Rross roll call chairman, re-
ported $2,315.51 received Thurs.
day morning
Contributions by communities
have been: Panhandle, $856.77;
Groom, $431.03; White Deer,
$671.40; Skellytown, $40; Tony
Ridge, $26; Cuyler, $7.26; Hobart,
$29.50; Liberty, $25.05; King,
$39; Lark, $61; Conway, $82;
Pleasant Plains, $46.50. No report
has been receved from Gulf Camp.
The campaign runs through the
month of March and it is hoped
that the quota will be reached.
Those not contacted are asked to
send their contributions to Amick
as soon as possible.
the
Mrs. W. A. Miller
Is Critically 111
Mrs. W. A. Miller is receiving
treatment in Northwest Texas Hos-
pital, Amarillo, for a stroke suf-
fered Thursday morning. Her con.
diion is critical.
grade
given
Free Eye Tests-
To Be Given To
Grade Children
Free eye examination of
school children will be
Tuesday morning, March 31, spon.
sored by the P. T. A., in the grade
school. Dr. Ralph Payne, eye
specialist from Amarillo, will be
in charge.
Principal Jerrel Julian urges
every student to have his eyes
examined. A report of the exam-
ination will be sent to the parents
immediately, so that corrections,
if needed, can be made during the
summer. The P. T. A. will pay the
expenses of the examination.
m
Griffith, Smith
Define Lionism
Jack Griffith and H. H. Smith
of the . information committee
spoke at the meeting of the Lions
Club Tuesday noon on the meaning
of the etters LIONS. The letters
mean: “Liberty, Intelligence, Our.
Nation’s Safety.”
M. C. Davis made a report on
the prograss of the black face
minstrel to be given in the high
school auditorium tonight. He said
that over 70 valuable prizes and
money equal to the value of the
prizes had been collected by the
Lions from merchants for the
minstrel. Jack Griffith was chair,
man of the collection committee.
The minstrel will be presented
at Groom Saturday night for the
benefit of the Lions Club there.
Groom’s share of the proceeds will
be presented to the Groom Band
Mothers Club.
. J. O. Murray was a guest of
Frank Sparks.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Walker and
Mrs. M. G. Walker visited last
week in Canadian with Mrs. Ett
Herderson, cousin of Mrs. M. G.
Walker.
Henry J. Drerup
Of Groom Dies;
Native Of Ohio
Rosary was said for Henry J.
Drerup, retired farmer of Groom,
Monday night in an Amarillo
funeral chapel.
Mass was said Tuesday morning
in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Ama-
rillo. Burial was in Nazareth
cemetery, Nazareth.
Drerup, 83, was born Dec. 20,
18 69, at Ottawa, Ohio. He had
lived in Amarillo 21 years before
moving to Groom. He died at 1:10
a. m. Sunday in Groom Hospital.
Survivrs include three sons,
Cornelus of Hereford, Ralph of
Lubbock, and Earl of Oklahoma
City; four daughters, Mrs. John
L. Bichsel of Amarillo, Mrs. Wil-
liam Utser of Dallas, Mrs. Phillip
Miller of Plainview, and Mrs.
John Garner of Groom;; three
brothers, Gust Drerup of Kalida,
Ohio, Ed Drerup of Atlanta, Ohio;
33 grandchildren, and 17 great-
grandchildren.
Panhandle Gets
Adult Education
Planning Clinic
Dr. Per Stensland, Carl Bailey
and Ray Janeway will return to
Panhandle and conduct a program
planning clinic Tuesday, April 21,
in the War Memorial Building
from 3 to 5 o’clock and 8 to 10
o’clock.
This clinic will be for the pur-
pose of helping clubs and other
organizations plan their programs
for the coming year. Those who
have already chosen their course
of study will receive aid in how
to make their programs more
effective and those who so desire
may receive aid in ehosing their
topics. Another feature of the
clinic will be a display of resource
materials available for more effec-
tive club programs.
Each club and organization will
soon receive publicity on the meet,
ing and will be asked to send in
their chosen topiq for the coming
year. These topics will be sent to
the leaders and the program plan-
ning clinic planned around these
chosen topics or courses of study
The Carson county community
education clinic held in Panhandle
February 27 was most successful,
with 100 attending, and it is hoped
that all citizens will ake advantage
of the forthcoming program plan-
ning clinic. Yearbook hnd pro-
gram committees are already wel
coming such an opportunity and
all such committees are asked to
plan to attend the meetings, and
all persons interested are cordially
invited.
The services of the above lead-
ers are made possible because
West Texas is the test region of
the Fund for Adult Education, an
independent organization of the
Ford Foundation. Dr. Stensland
and Janeway are from Texas Tech-
nological College and Bailey is
with the Lubbock public schools.
AUTO LICENSE
RUSH ON WITH
MANY TO SELL
Penalty Becomes
Effective April
1 On Late Sales
The 1953 automobile license
sale business is hitting its peak
with penalty and interest becom-
ing effective after Wednesday,
April 1.
Sheriff Clarence C. Williams,
tax assessor and collector, said
that the sales are just about nor-
mal, although they may be slightly
lower than at this time a year ago.
Trips have been made to White
Deer, Groom and Skellytown, so
a good percentage of the tags has
been sold in those communities.
Deputies in Williams’ office
hope that persons needing to buy
license tags will come in immed-
iately. They don’t want too big
a rush the final day, April 1.
25 High Schools
Definitely Enter
Panhandle Events
McCray Heads
Mecaskey Post
James Mecaskey Post; Veteran’s
of Foreign Wars, elected the
following officers March 18: Com-
mander, James B- McCray; senior
vice.commander, David Arm-
strong; junior vice-commander,
Ray Biggs; quartermaster, Lloyd
Miller; chaplain, Vaughn Curtis;
trustees, R. F. Surratt, and W. A.
unis.
’53 Lions Minstrel
To Be Given Tonight
It’s Lions Club minstrel time
again!
The Panhandle Lions Club will
have its seventh annual blackface
minstrel at 8 o’clock tonight at
the high school auditorium.
Lions and others have been re.
hearsing for several weeks to
bring the best minstrel yet.
M. C. Davis is director for the
third time. Sheriff Clarence C.
Williams will be interlocutor for
the first time. Ralph Randel,
Howard Lane, Harry Vance, O. Z.
Light, A. J. Weizer and J. C.
McCollough will be end men.
An all-man chorus will perform
for the first time. In addition
(there will be the Honey Belles and
a quartet with other specialities.
Proceeds will be used to support
/various activities of the Lions.
Reserved seats may be purchased
at the high school.
For those persons wanting to
see the minstrel for a second time,
they may go to Groom Saturday
night. The minstrel will be staged
there in cooperation with the
Groom Lions Club at the high
school auditorium.
FORMER HOME
DEMONSTRATION
AGENT PASSES
Mrs. Dalton Burleson Hall,
Tulsa, wife of Frank Hall, died
Sunday in Tulsa, Okla., following
a long illness.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday in Tulsa at the Moore
Funeral Home with burial Wed-
nesday in Georgetown, Texas.
Mrs. Hall was a graduate of
Mary Hiardin-Bi/ylor College at
Belton and had done postgraduate
work at the University of Texas.
She taught home economics in the
Thorndale High School and served
home demonstration agent of
Jim Wells County before coming
to Carson cunty as home demon-
stration agent in Sept., 19 34. In
Feb., 1937, she went to Wheeler
county as agent being succeeded
by Miss Bernice Westbrook.
In 1941 she went to Gray county
as agent. In 1942 she was vice-
president of the Business and Pro-
fessional Women’s Club of Pompa.
She was a member of Panhandle
Chapter of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include two nieces,
Mrs. Olin Thorp and Mrs. Fred
Crist, Panhandle.
The annual Panhandle relays
will swing into action tomorrow
on the Panther track with 25
teams entered and 5 more expected
to participate. Accepting up to
Thursday noon were Dimmitt, i
White Deer, Childress, Claude,
Phillips A and B, O’Donnell, Vega,
Pampa, Turkey, Borger, Mobeetie,
Memphis, Happy, Miami, Welling-
ton, Perryton, Canyon, Texline,
Sunray, Dumas, Groom, Shamrock,
Canadian and Panhandle.
Other teams invited were Dal-
hart, Muleshooe, Paducah, Level,
land, Kress, Stratford, . Estelline,
Friona, McLean, Tulia, Sudan,
Lockney, Floydada, Olton, Gruver,
Springlake, Quitaque, Hereford,
Lefors, Stinnett, Abernathy, Little-
field, Wheeler, Higgins, Amherst,
Clarendon, Petersburg, Spearman,
Ralls, Crosbyton, Hale Center,
Matador arfd Silverton.
Coach John Truelove picks
O’Donnell and Phillips to win the
meet, with Childress also fielding
a strong team.
Head track coach Chester Wet-
sel and accistant coach, Boyd
Williams, are expected to field a
strong team led by Gene Bentley,
who is favored to win the 220
yard dash. Dean Lewellen, Ken-
neth Bumpas and Gary Cummings
will be expected to pick up points
for Panhandle also.
Trophies will be awarded to the
first place team and both relay
teams. First and second high point
men will receive gold track shoes.
Starting time for the meet will
be 9 a. m. Marvin Sparks will be
the official starter of the meet.
Meals will be served in the cafe,
torium at noon.
Entrants from Panhandle are:
100 yard dash, Gene Bentley, Roy
Thomas and Gary Cummings; 220
yard dash, Gene Bentley and Gene
Trent; 440 yard dansh, Dean Lew-
ellen and Aubrey Russell; 880
yard run, Don Vance, Jimmy
Mitchell and Jackie DeSpain,; 180
yard low hurdles, Wesley Wood
and Dale Roselius; 120 high hur-
dles, Wesley Wood, Dale Roselius;
mile run, Everett Howard, Henry
Marlin; high jump, Aubrey Rus-
sell, Wesley Wood, Gary Cum-
mings; broad jump, Gary Cum-
mings, Roy Thomas.
Pole vault, Wesley Wood, Dale
Roselius,; discus throw, Gregory
Sherwood, Gene Bentley, Dean
Lewellen; shot put, Gene Bentley,
Kenneth Bumpas, Dean Lewellen;
440 yard relay, Roy Thomas, Gary
Cummings, Gene Bentley, Kenneth
Bumpas; mile relay, Aubrey Rus-
sell, Dean Lewellen, Kenneth
Bumpas, Gary Cummings.
Reaves To Begin
Sermon Series
Monday Night
Rev. W. D. Reaves, pastor of
the First Christian Church,
Quanah, will conduct a week of
preaching each night Monday
through Friday beginning March
30 at the First Christian Church
Reaves has conducted similiar
meetings in nearly every Christian
church in the Panhandle extending
over a period of several years. He
will come here in conjunction with
the United Evangelistic Advance
which is designed to unite at least
10,000 persons to the Christian
Church during March.
Beginning Monday night with
A Bible Example of Conversion,
Reaves will prehch these sermons:
Tuesday, Who Cares If You Are
Lost; Wednesday, A Successful
Businessman Who Failed; Thurs-
day, One of the Most Common
Things in Panhandle; Friday, A
Tragedy of Neglect.
Each night there will be a period
of congregational singing lea hy
Marvin Sparks with Mrs. J. L.
Sprowls, Miss Ida Broadaway and
Mrs. C. W. Herndon accompanying.
The local congregation have
accepted a goal of at least 14
persons for membership. Member-
ship development "and cultivation
have been in progress for several
days under the leadership of
Judson Skaggs.
TWO CONTEMPT
CASES WILL BE
CALLED TODAY
Two contempt cases are to be
heard in 100th district court at
10 a. m. today.
Judge Luther Gribble has order-
ed the defendant in the case of
Opal Jo Mitchell vs. Delbert Mit-
chell to appear for contempt. He
is charged with paying only $30
on an order to pay $100 monthly
for the support of minor children.
In the other contempt case,
Wanda Wall vs. Fred M. Wall, the
defendant is also to appear before
Judge Gribble.
Sheep Shearing
Crew To Come
About April 15
The same crew of sheep shearers
used in Carson county last year
plan to come back about the middle
of April to start shearing the new
clip. Manuel Hernandez will bring
in a four drop outfit.
All wool growers who have not
made arrangements for shearing
and would like to use this crew
are asked to list their flock with
Couny Agent Nichols at Panhandle.
Not being in the heavy sheep
growing area, Carson county some,
times find it difficult to locate
shearing crews. The Hernandez
crew is the only one that has con-
tacted Nichols this spring, so other
crews may not be planning to
come here.
Those wishing to use this ser-
vice are asked to list the number
of head they have to hear and
about what time the flock will be
ready for shearing. A list will be
given to the shearing boss the
next time he comes here from
Lubbock.
CITY GAINS 45
WATER METERS
The city of Panhaildle Monday
had 45 more water meters than
it had April 1, 1952, according
to City Manager J. L. Naylor. The
March readings showed 519 meters
with two new ones and one being;
taken out during the month.
Naylor said that 115 more per-
sons had signed up for irrigation
rates than a year ago.
BIRTHS
ELEVATOR MAINTAINED
PURCHASE IS ALLOWED
The commissioners court Mon-
day granted J. O. Murray, com-
missioner of Pet. No. 2, authority
to purchase an elevator for a main-
tainer.
AMARILLO ATTORNEY DIES
B. L. Morgan, 62, Amarillo at_
torney, died of a heart attack
March 18.' He had been seffering®
heart attacks since 1951. Services
were held March 20 with *burial
in Llano cemetery. He.was a broth-
er of S. A. L. Morgan, attorney.
NO ARRESTS MADE
IN SCHOOL THEFT
No arrests had been made Wed
nesday in connection with the re.
cent theft of Methodist Sunday
school and Lions Club minstrel
money from the office of M. C.
Davis at the school administrative
office.
Panhandle To Enter
9 Literary Contests
Panhandle will enter nine inter-
scholastic league literary contests
at the district meet in Panhandle
Saturday, April 11. They are
number sense, slide rule, junior
and senior declamation, extern,
poraneous speech, spelling, ready
writing, typing and shorthand.
Students are now competing for
places. Dolores Rohan and Jimmy
Osborne have begun work on
senior declamation. Marshall Sher-
wood will enter extemporaneous
speech. Dolores Rohan, Charlotte
Hinshaw, and Shirley Tipton are
competing for the two-girl team
in shorthand.
Three typists will be selected
from the following: John Trent,
Rose Detten, Peggy Tate, Marshall
Sherwood, Billie Wiginton, Ralph
Detten, Royal Parrish and Elaine
Bell. Competing for a two.member
spelling team are Mary K. Surratt,
Georgette Rohan, Mary L. Keahey,
Linda Jeffers, Jane Devin and
Edwin Hinshaw.
Those selected by sponsors to
represent Panhandle will be nam-
ed by March 31, according to
Howard Amick, high school prin-
cipal. There is still time to enter
the literary contests, Amick said.
Mr. and Mrs. James Knierihm
are the parents of a son, Mark
Alan, weighing 6 pounds, .8 1-4
ounces, born March 24 at Highland
General Hospital, Pampa. Mrs.
Knierihm is the former Dorothy
Caldwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Caldwell, Panhandle. Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Knierihm, Buffalo,
Okla., are paternal grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold V. O’Neal
are the parents of a daughter, as
ye.t unnamed, born March 20 at
North Plains Hospital, Barger.
iShe weighed 7 pounds. Grandpar-
ents are Mrs. Opal Purvines, Pan-
handle; M. L. Purvines, Amarillo,
and Mr. and Mrs. L. H. O’Neal,
Panhandle. Great - grandparents
are Mrs. J. F. Weatherly, Pan-
handle, and W. A. Chowning,
Truscott.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bennett
are the parents of a daughter,
Irene Louise, weight 8 pounds, 2>
ounces, born March 7 at St. An-
thony’s Hospital, Amarillo. Mater-
nal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Hink, Kelton. Paternal
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs,
A. F. Bennett, Canyon.
JVlr. and Mrs. J. T. Broadaway
3814 Monroe, Amarillo, are the
parents of a son, John Baron,
weighing 6 pounds, 13% ounces,
born March 21 in Northwest Texas
Hospital. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Evans and Mr.
and Mrs. John Broadaway, Pan-
handle.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Patton, Cle-
burne, are the parents of a daugh-
ter, Sue Ann, weighing 5 pounds,
14 ounces, born March 19. Mrs.
Patton is the former Carrie Jo
Heare, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
B. C. Heare, Panhandle. Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Patton, Canadian, are
the paternal grandparents.
Mrs. C. A. Baird, Cactus, is
convalescing following major sur-
gery at the home of her mother^
Mrs. Z. L. Walcher, Panhandle.
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