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JteJfide, Tex,
Founded 1887.
Oldest Business Finn
In County.
The Panhandle Heimd
Our 66th Year
Of Service To
Carson County
Vol. 66—No. 38
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1953
Oil Test Location Made
LEAGUE TRACK,
FIELD EVENTS
SET SATURDAY
High and Grade
Students Enter
Day’s Activities
District 3B Interscholastic
League track and field evests will
be held in Panhandle Saturday,
April 11.
Grade school preliminaries for
the 50-yard dash will begin at
9 a. m. and the 100-yard dash
will be at 9:45 a. m.
Finals have been sheduled as
V follows: 440-yard relay, 9:30; pull
» 7 hP, chinning bar, 9:45 a. m.; high
' jump; broad jump, 11; finals, 50
/ yard dash,'ll:30; finals, 100 yard
dash, 11:45 a. m.
High school preliminaries in the
100 yard dash will be held at
12:45 p. m.
Finals will begin at 1 and end
‘ at 5 p. m. Events to be run in.
elude pole vault, shot put, 120
yard high hurdles, 100 yard dash,
180 yard low hurdles, 440 yard
dash, 440 yard relay, 880 yard
run, 220 yard dash, mile run, mile
elay, high jump, broad jump.
White Deer, Panhandle, Good-
night and Groom will enter the
senior girls tennis matches at 9
8 a. m. in the new gym.
■ ; Officials of the meet include:
* James R. Cox, general director;
H. W.. Amick, secretary.; Chester
f Wetsel, athletic director; Miss
l Barbara Ledbetter, White Deer,
| director of volleyball, high and
| felementary, boys and girls; Harvey
jj Millsap, Groom, director of play-
j|Ng)ound ball; Mss Sue Doty, tennis
ft director.
1 : ^ Ribbons will be awarded indi-
vidual contest winners. Grade
school volleyball will be played
off tonight in Panhandle gym.
<y. Grade school playground ball for
y both boys and girls will be in
V Groom May 2.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
SURPLUS RAISED FROM
$100,000 TO $125,000
The board of directors of the
First National Bank voted Tuesday
afternoon to raise the surplus
from $100,000 to $125,000. Capi-
tal is $75,000. The new combined
capital and surplus will be $200,.
00.0.
Principal reason for making the
increase in surplus, funds for
which were obtained by a transfer
from the undivided profits account,
is to enable a larger loan limit for
the bank, according to Vern Wis-
dom, vice-president and cashier.
Cattle and warehouse grain
loans of $50,000 will be possible,
compared to $43,750 under the
old limits. Commercial loan limit
will be raised from $17,500 to
$20,000.
Board members concurring in
the surplus were: Frank A. Paul,
chairman,; David M. Warren, presi
dent; Wisdom; David M. Warren,
Jr., assistant cashier; Asbery A.
Callaghan and Walter Lill.
i,
*4ift Certificate
resented Coach
Coach John Truelove was pre-
sented a gift certificate valued at
$70 in assembly Wednesday. The
Kmoney was a donation from the
vboys in Panhandle High School
jjwho wanted to show their ap-
preciation for his coaching here.
Marshall Sherwood presented the
certificate. The boys were undecid-
ed as to what to buy with the
money so they thought a gift
■ /certificate would let Truelove get
what he wants.
Truelove will leave Sunday to
go to Lockney to participate in
y £ tbe spring Training there. He will
' return for the last two weeks of
school.
Ellen Vance and M. 0. Calliham
Elected School Trustees Saturday
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ELTEN VANCE
Reelected Trustee
Only 39 votes were cast in the
school trustee election Saturday
with Elten Vance being reelected
and M. O. Calliham being named
a new trustee to succeed J. P.
Smith, who was not a candidate
for reelection. .
All 3 9 votes were cast for the
two candidates and there were no
J. P. SMITH
Retiring Trustee
write-ins.
The board will meet Tuesday
night to make the official canvass
of votes and reorganize.
Hold.over trustees are Minor
Simms, A. L. Stovall, W. D. Fer-
rell, J. E. Roselius and Phil
Hawkins.
Cancer Campaign
Collections Good
i_ Carson county cancer campaign
'is looking good, according to W. L.
Sherwood, county drive chairman,
Tuesday. County goal is $599.
Sherwood reported $115.92 coL
lected at Groom with clubs to
make their donations. Panhandle
had $170 Monday with a dozen or
more clubs to report.
White Deer was scheduled to
I begin its campaign Wednesday.
| As around one-half of the goal
has been reached, Sherwood is
optimistic about the success of
he campaign.
Bill Lanning Is
Accepted By OCS
Bill Lanning, who ig stationed
vith the infantry at Fort Riley,
■ ‘•an-> was notified Wednesday that
he had been accepted for OCS in
L a class of 70 at Fort Benning, Ga.
v^he class will begin May 1.
Lanning, who received informa-
juon of his acceptance for the
w officerg candiate school, is home
i* on a furlough visiting his parents,
VTr. and Mrs. Sam Lanning. He en-
©red military service Aug. 7, 1952.
He is a graduate of Panhandle
.High School and North Texas State
College, Denton.
B. E. Ferrell, former Panhandle
esident, lost his race for mayor
• Pampa Tuesday to Tom Rose
r 1,033 to 445.
PLAINS EDITORS
PICK MORRIS AS
NEW PRESIDENT
W. Glynn Morris, Amarillo
News and Globe-Times, was elected
president of the Panhandle Presg
Association at the 44th annual
convention at Amarillo Saturday
to succeed Allen Hodges of the
County- Wide News, Littlefield.
Morris was vice_pregident last
year.
Ben Ezzell, Canadian Record,
was named vice-president. Harold
H. Hudson, Ochiltree County
Herald, Perryton, was, reelected
secretary-treasurer.
Hold.over directors are G. W.
Estlack, Leader, Clarendon, and
Arthur C. Haley, Canyon News.
Hodges as vice-president auto_
matically is a director for another
year. Reelected a director was
Lester Campbell, McLean News.
New directors elected were:
Paul A. Loftin, Herald, Perryton;
H. M. Baggerly, Tulia Herald, and
W. H. Curry, Crosbyton Review.
Serving on the nominating com-
mittee were David M. Wa!rren,
Panhandle Herald, chairman; Roy
T. Craig, Stamford American, and
Douglas Meador, Matador Tribune.
The 45 th annual convention
next April will be held in Ama-
rillo. Around 200 persons regis-
tered for the convention.
Editor and Mrs. Warren and
son, Randy, attended the conven-
tion. Their guests for the annual
dinner Frday night were Mr. and
Mrs. David Warren, Jr.
Joseph E. White
Named Manager
Of Soil Office
The Soil Conservation Service
has trangferred Jaseph E. (Red)
White from Childress to Panhandle
to replace Wayne Mann, who was
transferred to Cameron.
White has a B. S. degree in
agriculture education fro Texas
Tech, and taught vocational agri
culture in Hermleigh High School
before starting to work for the
Soil Conservation Service. He ig
married and he and his wife,
Deomie, have a 23 month old son,
Rodney. They are members of the
Baptist Church.
White states that the Soil Con_
servation office will be open from
8 to 12 on Tuesday and Friday
mornings, on other dayg word
may be left at the P. M. A. office
and he or Burns will contact the
person needing help as soon as
possible. Hd will be very glad to
help you in any of your conserva-
tion problems and will appreciate
you calling on him.
He states that he likes Pan-
handle as he thinks it is a friendly
town.
TAMES GOTCHER LEADS
LEFORS SCHOOL TICKET
James Gotcher with 161 votes
led a field of six candidates Sat-
urday for Lefors school trugtee.
Three trustees were elected.
Gotcher is the son of the late
Emmett Gotcher, who served as
foreman of The Herald for several
years. The family moved to Pampa
about 20 years ago and the father
died there.
Power Picture Is
Shown To Lions
Lester McCoy had charge of the
Lions program Tuesday. A film,
Our Freedom and the Growth of
Electrical Power, was shown. The
film stressed that the freedoms
that Americans enjoy have helped
rapid expansion. Clinton Williams
was the guest of Jerrel Julian.
Reelected White Deer-Skelly-
town school trustees Saturday
were L. C. O’Neal, A. D. Parson
and J. T. Crawford. Other Can-
didates were W. H. McBee and
Dallas Wyatt.
Ed H. Little of Amarillo, former
resident, was a business visitors
here Tuesday.
PANHANDLE TO
HAVE LITERARY
DISTRICT MEET
Contests Will Be
Held Saturday;
Schedule Given
Literary events in the Inters
scholastic League 3B meet will
be held here Saturaay. High school
declamation will begin at 9 a. m.
in the Panhandle high schiol
auditorium.
The ready writers contest also
will begin at 9 a. m. in the library,
junior high building. Both high
find grade school divisions will
meet.
Fifth and sixth grade spelling
will be at 9 a. m; seventh and
eighth grade at 9:45.; ninth grade
at 10:30 a. m. Contests will be
in junior high building.
Other contests scheduled for 9
a. m. are: Slide rule, high school;
typewriting, high school; story
telling, elementary school; picture
memory, elementary school; ex_
temporaneous speech, junior high.
High school division, number
sense, will be at 10 a. m. in the
junior high,: grade school at 11
a. m. in the junior high.
Shorthand contest will be at 11
a. m. in the high school.
Director of literary contests is
Miss Gertrude Golladay of White
Deer.
Other directors are: One-act
play, Lawson Shaw, White Deer;
declamation, Mrs. Nanette Padget;
extemporaneous speech, Herbert
McDonald, White Deer;^ picture
memory, Mrs. Lipsett, Claude;
ready writers, Mrs. Clauda Everly,
White Deer,: shosthand, Miss Helen
Walker, White Deer.
Also, typewriting, Mrs. Ethel
H. Cox; slide rule, Bill Immel;
number sense, R. Y. Corder, White
Deer; spelling, Miss Forrester,
Groom; story telling, D. V. Big-
gers, Skellytown.
Lunch will be served in the
cafetorium. cost will be 75 cents.
Panhandle will enter the follow-
ing grade school literary school
events: Spelling, eighth grade:
ready writing; number sense;
declamation; spelling, sixth grade;
picture memory, fifth grade,; pic-
ture menrary, fourth grade; decla-
mation, sub-juniors; story telling.
High school literary events to
be entered- are: Declamation,
senior girls, junior girls, senior
boy; spelling; slide rulq; number
sense; typewriting; extempor-
aneous speech, boys and girls.
1.07 Inch Rainfall
Ends Drouth; Year
Moisture Is 2.58
“It can rain in Panhandle”
were the words heard over and
over Sunday and Monday after
rains over the weekend had
brought rain varying from 1.07
at Panhandle to 2.07 at Groom.
Varying amounts fell over the
county but no reports were for
less than an inch. This brings
to 2.58 inches the amount of
moisture for the year with .65
during January, .24 inch during
February, and .62 inch during
March.
Wheat and pasturelands have
taken a new lease on life and
many farmers have hopes for some
harvest. The moisture started with
hail about 4:30 Saturday after,
noon and hail fell again about 11
o’clock that night but no damage
was reported. High winds also
accompanied the rain and caused
interruption of electrical service.
Some residents reported hearing
storm warnings for this area hut
most people were unaware of the
danger.
The forecast for the weekend
is for cooler weather with temper-
atures near freezing on Friday
with a rising trend Saturday. Little
moisture is ^expected although
snow was reported in Kansas and
Colorado Thursday. The high tem-
perature for the week has been 82
April 2 with the low 28 April 3.
Temperatures and
moisture for
the week
follow:
High
Low
Rain
April 2
82
45
Auril 3
61
28
April 4
75
40
April 5
51
47
1.04
April 6
63
43
.03
April 7
77
43
tr.
April 8
78
42
—
Orr, Edwards and Smith Reelected
Aldermen In Light Voting Tuesday
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RICHARD H. ORR
Re-elected Alderman
White Deer Exes
Hear Dr Golden
White Deer high school alumni
met Saturday to hear Dr. Floyd D.
Golden, president of Eastern New
Mexico University, Portales and
WDHS principal from 1922.24,
speak. Guest toastmaster was Berl
Huffman of Albuquerpue. Around
300 persong were present.
Among those on the program
was Mrs. Vern Wisdom of Pan-
handle who presented dinner
music.
New officers elected are: Ken-
neth Huey, Pampa, president,; Ox
Fleming, vice president; George
Eller, secretary-treasurer, and
Willie Urbanczyk, parliamentar-
ian.
Three aldermen, Richard H. Orr,
C. L. Edwards and Charles Smith,
were reelected unanimously in the
city election Tuesday. They were
the only candidates in the race.
Voting was light with only 4 0
votes cast. The election was held
at the city hall.
C. L. EDWARDS
Re-elected Alderman
The city council was scheduled
to meet last night to canvass
votes and to reorganize.
Mayor F. F. Ferrell and Aider-
men Gary Simms and Lloyd Miller
are hold-over members of the
council.
White Deer Voters
Re-Elect Aldermen
W. W. Wells, Dalton Ford and
Eugene Richardson were reelected
aldermen in the White Deer city
election Tuesday with 31 votes
each. They were unoppised.
Wells is the brother of Mrs.
George Crossman and Mrs. Wells
is the former Helen Demons,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Lemons.
First National
Remodeling Is
Due Next Week
Marble and woodwork for re-
modeling of the fixture line at the
First National Bank was received
last weekend.
W D. Collins Fixture Co. of
Denison is scheduled to start work
Monday, April 13. The firm is
completing work for the First
State Bank at Vernon this week.
The fixtures at the teller win.
dows will be cut down. A storage
space under the stair steps to the
second floor will be eliminated.
The office of Vern Wisdom, vice
president and cashier, will be
moved to the front of the bank
and a semi-private quarters will
be provided.
The First National Bank build-
ing was opened May 6, 1927, and
this is the most remodeling that
has been done since its erection.
GROOM RANKER
NAMED MAYOR;
BEATS UNSELL
Cecil Culver, banker, defeated
L C. Unsell, incumbent, for mayor
of Groom 90 to 43 in the city elec-
tion Tuesday. Culver was a write
in candidate.
Charles Field, incumbent, re-
ceived 126 votes for commissioner.
James Ledwick defeated Sam
Black 83 to 4 9, for the other com.
missioner’s place.
Field and Black were official
candidates and Ledwig was a
write-in winner.
WHITTENBURG I
WILDCAT WILL
BE SIX MILES
WEST OF CITY
Catherine C. Whittenburg No. 1*
W. J. Morris, will be spudded in
about April 20 and will be 990 feet
from the north and west lines of
section 4, block M.4, John H. Gib-
sono survey, six miles west of
Panhandle.
Application for the test was
filed with the Texas Railroad
commission*
J. A. Whittenburg, Sr., of Ama-
rillo and associates obtained a
block of several thousand acres
a few weeks ago. Contract calls
for drilling to start early in May.
Thompson & Carr of Houston
have the drilling contract. A boiler
was moved to the site Wednesday
and five truckloads of materials
are due any time.
A water well will he drilled at
once and it is believed the 6,000
foot test can be started by April
20. The test is 2,000 feet deeper
than the Shamrock Oil & Gas Co.
'p-Ross McGill wildlat on the T.
M. Cleek land late last year. The
site is five miles west and two
miles north of the other test.
Many persons feel that a 6,000
foot hole may bring in a new oil
field for the Panhandle.
. Persons close to the Whitten-
burgs believe the test will go even
deeper than 6,000 feet if prospects
are good.
Phillips last week spudded in
a wildcat on a 40,000 acre block
in the south-central portion of the
county. It is No. 1 Ardis, section
3, block B-4, H&GN survey.
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EASTER GUESTS
An Easter week-end reunion of
the Cannedv family was held in
the South Plains. J. H. Cannedy
of Panhandle, Mr. and Mrs. Oma
Cannedy of Allred, near Denver
City, and Mr. and Mrs. A. O.
Howard of Childress attended the
Cleveland-New York Giants base-
ball game in Lubbock Friday
afternoon. The following day they
went on a 400_mile trip to Post,
Odessa, Pecos, Carlsbad and Lov-
ington. N. M. That night they had
a pre-Easter dinner at the home
of Mr and Mrs. Oma Cannedy.
The visitors left Sunday for their
homes.
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Warren
and Randy, and Mr. and Mrs.
David Warren, Jr., and Janet were
Easter Sunday visitors in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Phillips.
Amarillo relatives also joined the
group at Borger.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Addis
Charless, Amarillo, were Mr and
Mrs. H. T. Deahl, Mr. and’Mrs.
Frank Metcalf and daughters, Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Bennett and
children, Panhandle, and Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Bennett, Canyon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Griffith were
dinner guests of Mrs. Lillian Deahl
and sons. Jan and Charles, Ama-
rillo.
MRS STONE RETURNS
HOME FROM LUBBOCK
Mrs. D. C. Stone returned Tues_
day from Lubbock, where she
visited two weeks with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Maynard Houser, and
Mr. Houser.
A gas explosion blew out a door
at the Houser home March 22.
Dishes were knorked to the floor
and Mrs. Houser suffered a severe
foot injury when she stepped on
a piece of glass.
Girl Scout Drive
Fund Totals $289
Girl Scout campaign funds total,
led $289 Wednesday, according to
workers.
Recent gifts were: Mrs. J. V.
Robinson, $5; C. E. McCray, $5;
Mrs. R. H. Orr, $5; Mrs. Clyde
Herndon, $5.; Fred Hagaman, $10.
D. A. Davis, father of M. C.
Davis of Panhandle, was reelected
city secretary of McLean 118 to
81 Vver C. S. Rice in the cityi
election Tuesday.
JERRY L. McCOY IS
STATIONED IN JAPAN
Jerry L. McCoy, fireman, USN,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd E.
McCoy of Skellytown, has recently
reported for duty at the U. S. Naval
Air Station at Atsugi, Japan.
McCoy enligted in the Navy in
Sept., 1951, at Amarillo, and re-
ceived his recruit training at San
Diego, Calif.
Before entering the Navy, Mc-
Coy graduated in the class of 1951
of White Deer High School.
GOP MAY REPLACE
34 TEXAS P. M’S
Republicans announced recently
that 34 Texas pogtmasterships are
subject to replacements. Among
them are Tulia, Dodson, Slaton
and Sanford.
Mrs. Melba Sands and son, Jean,
Plainview, visaed in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lorenz.
Mrs. Sands is a former first grade
teacher in Panhandle, hut is now
teachiny in Plainview. Other
guests in the Lorenz home to visit
Mrs. Sands were Miss Thelma Hoi.
man and her mother.
Easter dinner guests in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Curtis
were Miss Charlotte Tompkins,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter O’Farrell,
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Curtis,
Cheryl and Randall, Panhandle,
and Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Pfeffer-
korn and sons, Charles, Glenn and
Don, Arvadia, Calif. The Pfeffes-
korns visited over the weekend
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Vaughn Curtis.
A jury civil case' will be held
in 100th district court Monday
April 13.
Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs.
A. A. Armstrong were Mrs. Mau-
rice Armstrong, McLean; Mr. and
Mrs. Lynn Armstrong and Larry,
Seibert, Colo., and Mr. and Mrs.
R. C. Forsyth, Marilyn, Gardys,
Richard and Rex, Plainview. Sun.
day dinner guests were Mr and
Mrs. Charles F. Hood, Jr.’ and
Fredrick. Amarillo, Duane Van-
zaudt and Melvin Forsyth, Plain-*
view.
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