The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1952 Page: 1 of 8
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Founded 1887.
Oldest Business Finn
In County.
The Panhandle Herald
Our 66th Year
Of Service To
Carson County
Vol. 66—No. 9
.PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1952 (8 Pages Today)
Price 5«
Saturday Is Festival Day
Tremendous Crowd
Expected to See
Plowing Contests
Committee workers are con-
vinced the folks of the Southwest
will long remenber Wednesday,
Oct. 1, for the Southwest Soil
Management and Plowing day.
Contest, program, grounds,
parking, publicity, exhibits and
events chairmen and the co-chair-
men on signs and badges met at
PanTech Farms Monday and in-
spected the grounds. A splendid
parking area was selected to bring
t guests close to the exhibit area
and but a short distance from all
contest areas.
Alvis Tabor, committee chair-
man for the tractor driving con-
tests, and Pleas Harrison, in
charge of the grass judging con-
tests, have selected a pasture close
to headquarters for the' day and
of enough acres to handle both
contests. Tabor has announced
there will be two courses for the
^ drivers of the tractors; a FFA
course and a 4H course.
Van Mills, chairman of the com-
mitee on the stubble mulch plow-
ing, will have these contests held
across the black-top road from
the tractor driving'contests north
of the shops area. Cars will not
be permitted in these contest
areas because only contestants and
judges can be accommodated and
be fair to the contestants.
J. P. Smith, program chairman,
has arranged space for persons
wishing to listen to the speaking
program and the bands. If the
weather is unpleasant the program
will be inside. Smith has Dr. E. N.
Jones, president, and Dean Stan-
gel of the agricultural division of
Texas Technilogical College will
be at PanTech.
L. A. Maddox, on exhibits and
events, said Monday that manu-
factureres and dealers have re-
sponded practically 100 per cent
when invited to bring exhibits and
demonstrations to the grounds for
Oct. 1. These with the educational
exhibits from the experiment sta-
tions, colleges and other sources
will give the men and women of
the Plains 'a big day. Everything
points to a great event Wednes-
day, Oct. 1.
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JERREL JULIAN
CARSON TAKES B Football Team
DISTRICT 1 4H
CLUB HONORS
First step toward state honors
in 44-H club work has been taken
by 15 talented High Plains young-
sters.
Their work was judged first in
District 1 of the Texfas Extension
Service and will be sent to Texas
A. & M. for competition with* that
c other district winners Oct. 7.
i. county winners are:
-f Ernestine Thorn-
ier; clothing, Irene
41e, and leader-
1, Panhandle.
.. udgmg took place Friday in
the Amarillo News-Globe confer-
ence room under the direction of
Floyd Lynch, College Station,
state director of 4-H work, and
Knox Parr and Miss Doris Leggitt,
Dstrict 1 agents.
Assisting with the judging were
county agents and home demon-
stration agents from the district.
They were: Charlotte Tompkins,
Carson; Clara Redman, Deaf
Smith; Bill Goldston, Gray; Vara
Crippen, Hutchinson, and Zack
Jaggers/ Hansford.
Awards to the young people are
scholarships, medals, educational
trips to the National 4-H Club
Congress in Chicago in late No-
vember, in some instances, cash.
This is the first year that the
4-H awards have been judged at
the district level. In previous
years the contests have been judg-
ed at the state, but growth in
entries from the 4-H boys' and
girls caused the elemination com-
petition.
Patrolmen Talk
At Lions Meeting
Bill Wells, Ray T. Miller and
J. Duman, state patrolmen from
Amarillo, brought the program to
the Lions Club Tuesday noon.
Lion Grady Stapp, deputy sheriff
at Groom, was a special guest.
Shown was a safety film on the
Los Angeles traffic court. Lloyd
Sterling arranged the program.
After the luncheon the execu-
tive board met and decided upon
Nov. 1 for the Halloween cele-
bration sponsored by the Lions
Club each year. A ball game for
the Panhandle Panthers at McLean
on Halloween night prevents hav-
ig the carnival at the traditional
time.
With 18 Players
To Play 7 Games
By MARSHALL SHERWOOD
Seven games have been matched
for the newly organized B team
of high school football players,
chiefly freshmen and sophomores,
who because of size or lack of
experience cannot play on the A
squad. Coach of the 18 boys who
suit out is Walter O’Farrell, new
this year to the Panhandle faculty.
The purpose of the organization
cf the B team says O’Farrell, is
to give more beys a chance to play
football and to gain valuable ex-
periene. He expects his boys to
make un in hustle what they hack
in experience.
Games have been arranged for
Thursday nights. Admission will
be charged.
The schedule as announced this
week follows:
Sept. 25, Price College, there
Oct. 2, Canyon, here
Oct. 9, White Deer, here
Oct. 23, Canadian, here
Oct. 30, Perryton, here
Nov. 6, McLean, here
Nov. 13, Lefors, there
All opponents are B teams.
Games will start at 7:30 p. m.
except the first, which is set for
8 o’clock.
Grade Principal
Julian Prefers
West Texas Life
City Tax Roll
Is $1291,880
City of Panhandle tax roll for
1952 is $1,291,880, according to
City Manager M. C. Davis.
This compares with a 19 51 roll
of $.1,148,730, a gain of $143,150.
Increase is largely due to new
building plus a minor amount of
adjustments.
RETIRED PROF DIES
Dr. John S. Humphreys, 82,
retired West Texas State College
professor, died 1 Wednesday at his
home in Canyon. He was with the
college from 1923 to 1942 when
he retired. He taught classical
languages and English at WT.
Burial was Thursday at Canyon.
Mrs. Leroy Heare is' a new
addition to the Roberts Clinic
•staff.
Librarian Outlines
Work to Rotarians
Miss Jo Battle, librarian of the
Carson County Free Library, spoke
on her work at the Rotary Club
luncheon last Friday noon. She
told of the library’s rating, needs
and the bookmobile.
The meeting the previous week
featured an address by Rev. Royce
Blackburn, minister of the Church
of Christ, on “The Bible Before
Anything Else.”
By SHIRLEY TIPTON
“The farther West I go the
better I like it,” is the comment
of Jerrel Julian, new grade school
and junior high principal, who
comes to Panhandle from Weinerf,
250 miles southeast of here, “deep
in the heart of East Texas.”
The good looking young man,
who looks in the opinion of some
observers, more like a shirt ad
model than a school tetacher, was
high school principal and girls
basketball coach at Weinert. He
attended North Texas State Col
lege, Denton, majoring in Public
school administration, receiving
his B. S. degree "in '1948 and his
M. Ed. in 1951. This is his fifth'
year of teaching.
Another five years of his life
were claimed by Uncle Sam. Serv-
ing as a staff sergeant in the
famed 3 6 th National Guard in
World War II from 1940 to 1945,
he saw 26 months of overseas
action in Africa, Italy, France,
Germany and Alsace-Loraine.
A combat engineer, he built
bridges, laid mines, and built
booby traps. He was in the battle
of Salerno and the Rapido River
Crossing, where so many Texas
lives were lost. In the attempt at
Salerno to establish a beachhead
Oh, the European continent the
Americans were almost pushed
back into the sea.
The Rapido River Crossing
brought on a spate of criticism
for Commander Mark Clark, now
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Board Announces
Three Inductees
Selective service board No. 73,
composed of Hutchinson, Carson
and Armstrong counties, has an-
nounced the- following are Sep-
tember inductees: Raymond Leo
Baton, White Deer; William Eu-
gene Tyler, Claude, and Bob Allen
Thompson, Borger.
August inductees reported are
Lawrence G. Kirkpatrick, Borger,
and Del R. Gibson, Pantex.
3 CITIES WILL
BE VISITED IN
CHEST SURVEY
Carson county’s free tubercu-
losis chest x-ray surveys will be
held Sept. 30, Oct. 2 and Oct. 4
from 10 to 7 p. m. each day.
The unit will be at White Deer
Tuesday, Sept. 30, at the Richard-
son Motor Co,; Thursday, Oct. 2,
at Southwestern Public Service
Co. at Panhandle, and Saturday,
Oct. 4, 'at the Groom City Hall.
Mrs. J. B. Howe of Panhandle,
Carson county general chairman,
and Mrs. Cecil Walker of Conway,
county co-chairman, made the an-
nouncement of the dates the sur-
veys will be made.
Dalton Ford and Mrs. Hallie
Martin are in charge for the Car-
son County Tuberculosis Associa-
tion at White Deer; Mrs. Van E.
Steed and Mrs. G. D. Harrell at
Groom, and Mrs. Howe and Mrs.
Walker at Panhandle.
This wil be the first year that
the x-ray unit has been taken to
three communities. It is believed
that the response for the free
x-rays will be the largest yet.
Panhandle will have Mrs. Guy
Wester for hostess, Mrs. Earl Wil-
liams in charge of the house to
house canvas, and Mrs. George
Hankins as telephone committee
chairman.
“Please have your chest x-ray
made in Carson county,” said Mrs.
Howe. “We are having x-ray equip-
ment in three communities and we
would like to make as big a show-
ing as possible this year.”
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Obert and
family have returned to their home
in Toledo, Ohio, after visiting
friends and relatives in Panhandle
and White Deer.
PANTHERS WIN
FROM CL AUDE
BY 6-0 SCORE
13-Man Mustang
Squad Puts Up v
Strong Contest
The Panhandle Panthers edged
past the Claude Mustangs 6-0
in the opening game of the 1952
season. An almost capacity crowd
watched the Panthers take to the
air late in the second quarter to
score the only touchdown of the
game.
An offside penalty erased a 25
yard kickoff return by Gene Bent-
ley at the start of the game, which
was played here.
The Panthers fumbled several
times in the first quarter but held
•the Mustangs, who were unable
to make a first down in the
opening quarter.
Panhandle took to the air late
in the second quarter picking up
85 yards on two passes to score.
The Panther touchdown came
on a 61 yard pass play from Dale
Roselius, quarterback, to Dean
Lewellen, fullback. An effort to
run the extra point failed.
Claude turned back several Pan-
handle drives, one on their 9
yard line, taking the ball on downs
A few splays later the Mustangs
recovered a Panther fumble on
the 10. Lewellen took a Claude
punt and returned it to the Mus-
tang 22, but two 15 yard penalties
moved the ball back to the 50.
In the final quarter Claude
broke up a Panther threat inter-
cepting a pass oh the 16.’
The 13 man Mustang squad
showed much strength and should
go a long way in Class B with
capable ball handling of Roy
Thompson, quarterback and Don
Rutherford, fullback.
Game statistics:
Panhandle Claude
First downs 13 8
Yds. rushing 159 138
Yds. lost rushing 13 18
Passes attempted 10 5
Passes completed 4 1
Yds. passing 96 5
Passes Intercepted by 0 1
Penalties 8 5
Yds. penalized 70 45
Punts 2 5
Punt average 26 29
The Panthers have an open
'date 'this week-end. They will
play their second game against
the Price College Cardnals here
Friday night, Sept. 26.
Seventh Annual Fall Festival
Schedule, Saturday, Sept. 20
9 a. m. Livestock judging, north of court house.
10 a. m. Parade, Jack Ramey and Marlin Eagle,
marshals.
12 noon. Barbecue, V. F. W. Hall, Loyd Miller
A1 Haiduk, chairmen.
2 p. m. Kid pony races, .roping pens, Howard
Weatherly and Jack Ramey chairmen.
3 p. m. Matched roping, roping pens.
8:30 p. m. Dance, V. F. W. Hall, Jim McCray
and L. F. Cleek, chairmen.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Kit Carson American Legion Post and James
Mecaskey Veterans of Foreign Wars Post spon-
sors of festival. Francis Slagle and Frank Steph-
enson, general chairmen. Barbecue, $1.25 plate.
Business firms are requested to close from
10 a. m. to 4 p. m. so far as possible.
Enlists In Waves
2 Killed In Car
Wrecks In County
Two non-residents were killed in
Carson county highway accidents
this week.
Annie Owen, 19 year old Pampa
office worker for Lane Wells Co.,
was killed near Skellytown at 7
o'clock Monday morning when her
car struck an oil well pulling unit.
Bill Love, 18 year old employe
on a Borden milk truck, was killed
in a collision at Highway 60 and
Main street in White Deer at 2:55
p. m. 'Wednesday.
Ronald Lee Bills, driver of the
Borden truck lived in Panhandle
from 1937 to 1939, was arraigned
in Justice of the Peace Lanning’s
court Wednesday afternoon and
fined $50 and $13 costs for run-
ning a stop sign.
Bills’ truck had just crossed
the Santa Fe tracks going south
on Main street, which is highway
294, the road running north to
Skellytown and south toward
Highway 66.'""'
John L. Hutchins of Albuquer-
que, N. M., driver of a loaded
lumber truck, also paid a fine of
the same amount assessed Bills
on a charge of exceeding a safe
speed limit, Sheriff Clarence C.
Williams said.
Love, a resident of Army Tech
Village, was a worker for Borden.
When the trucks collided, Love
was thrown to the pavement under
the wheels of the truck.
Miss Owen’s accident was about
100 yards north of junction of
the city loop with Highway 152
near Skellytown. Her convertible
car is said to have struck a truck
driven by Tom Carver of Pampa.
Her car ripped the left side of
the truck and demolished the car.
Carver was taken to a Pampa hos-
pital with cut on his head.
A car with Richard W. Manry,
Borger, as driver was behind the
Owen car and sustained a bent
bumper. A fourth vehicle, a pickup
with some of Carver’s fellow
workers, was behind the unit, but
.was not involved in the collision.
Miss Owen was a 1951 graduate
of Pampa High School and was
engaged in mechanical drawing
and drafting. She had planned to
be an architect.
Funeral services were held for
Miss Owen Wednesday afternoon
at the First Christian Church in
j Pampa with burial in Fairview
Cemetery, Pampa.
MISS EULAMAE STOVALL
Miss Eulamae Stovall, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Stovall, Jr.,
has enlisted in the Waves of the
United States Navy and left Sun-
day for service. She reported to
Albuquerque, N. M., and will be
sent to Blainbridge, Md., for
training. Her enlistment is for
four years.
Miss Stovall is a graduate of
White Deer High School and a
iphysical education degree graduate
of Colorado Sate ..College of Edu-
cation at Greeley.
She was a swimming instructor
at Camp Pahasapa, Deadwood,
S. D., girl’s camp and was camp
director in the summer of 1951.
She also taught school one year
in Detroit, Mich., and was associat-
ed with the Amarillo public school
administration last year.
Her enlistment in the Waves
fills a long time ambition and she
is entering her new work with
much enthusiasm.
Weather Is Dry
With Low of 58
Panhandle weather has been
dry the past week with lows slight-
ly higher than the previous week.
There was no moisture and tem-
perature readings follow:
High Low
Sept. 11 78 6 0
Sept 12 844 60
Sept. 13 90 63
Sept. 14 80 53
Sept. 15 89 58
Sept. 16 91 61
'Sept. 17 88 63
City Sets Number
Of Water Meters
Water meter connections made
in September follow:
George W. Castagnefta, 1412
Park; R. B. Choate, 1500 Frank-
lin; D. M. Gentle, 1108 Park;
John Sprowls, 1511 Franklin;
Mrs. Nancy L. Garner, 506 Park.
Also Paul Gilchrist, 1506 Frank-
lin; L. L. Reynolds, 1508 Frank-
lin; A. L. Roles, 610 Franklin;
A. L. Mefford, 701 Park^; Howard
Plorne, 15007 Franklin.
HARDWARE MAN DIES
Ed W. Hardin, 75, president
of the Amarillo Hardware Co. and
Amarillo resident since 1906, died
Sunday morning following a heart
attack suffered Sept. 6. Hardin
was president of Presbyterian
Children’s home and a past presi-
dent of the West Teas Chamber
of Commerce. Burial was Tuesday
in Amarillo.
Divorce suits filed in 100th dis-
trict court are: Jo Nell vs. Leroy
Cronise, Sept. 15,; Louis vs. Willo-
dean Rich, Sept. 18.
Ben Franklin in Pet. 4 has been
Burglars Crack
Safe at Lumber
Yard, Get $141
Burglars pried open the safe of
the Panhandle Lumber Co. Sunday
night and took $141.20 with $121
in bills and $20.20 in silver.
The double door on the north
side was pried open and a 2x4
lifted to obtain entrance. The light
weight safe was pried without it
being necessary to pound a chisel
or blast it.
Sheriff Clarence C. Williams
said a rubberized sole on a shoe
in a job at the Fowler Implement
Co. in Dumas matched the one
here. Foxworth-Galbraith lumber
yard at Borger was also robbed.
The sheriff believes entrance
to the yard was made between
11:30 p. m, Sunday and 4 a. m.
Monday.
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Burum of
Lyman, Neb., are the parents of
a son, Jerry Allen, born Sept. 12
on his brother’s birthday. Jerry
Allen weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Burnham of Scottsbluff,
Neb., and Mr. and Mrs. Groves
Burum of Panhandle. Great grand-
parents are Walter Gripp of Pan-
handle and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Berner of Avoca, Iowa.
Richard H. Orr was in Amarillo
Tuesday afternoon to attend the
funeral of Ed W. Hardin, presi-
dent of the Amarillo Hardware
Co.
Mrs. Walt Brown attended the
taken off full time employment hair clinic in Amarillo last week-
at $245 a month and put on parti end and took special hair styling
time at $50 a month. under Comer Syprett of California.
Bazbecue
Az ranged
For Noon
Carson county’s Seventh Annual
Fall Festival will be held in Pan-
handle Saturday, Sept. 20, with
indications that the day will be
one of the most successful yet.
Committee chairmen report they
are having good cooperation.
After live stock judging at 9
a. m. north of the court house,
the big parade will move along.
All youngsters, 12 years old or
older, will have a section of their
own with attractive prizes for the
best decorated bicycles, pets and
other displays.
Following the barbecue at noon
at the V. F. W. hall in north Pan-
handle, pony races for children
will be held at 2 p. m. at the
roping pens in east Panhandle
with prizes for winners.
Barrel races for girls and other
games for children will be held in
the afternoon.
Matched roping contests will be
held at 3 p. m. at the roping pens.
There will be events that will
attract every one. .
Mayor F. F. Ferrell has ssued
a proclamation asking business
firms to close from 10 a. m. to
4 p. m. so far as is possible. This
is being done in order to make
the festival as big a success as
possible and also to cooperate with
the American Legion and Veterans
of Foreign Wars posts.
The 4H and FFA boys are asked
to have their livestock exhibits ini
place in time to start judging at
9 o’clock Saturday morning. An
area on the north side of court
house will be set aside for these
exhibits. Dr. M. R. Calliham of
West Texas State College has been
invited to judge the livestock. He
will be assisted by L. A. Maddox,
animal husbandman at PanTech
Farms. The parade begins at 10
o’clock promptly and if judging is
not completed by that time it will
be concluded following the parade.
If you have not secured your
barbecue tickets, you will have an
opportunity to purchase them at
the front end of lines at the time
of serving. The barbecue commit-
tee is not going into detail as to
the menu but wants the public
to know that this will be one of
the finest barbecue feeds ever
put out in Carson county.
All American Legion and Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars members
of Carson county feel that these
days set aside for good wholesome
games, shows, visiting and port-
taking of barbecue are helpful in
making a good community better.
Major Porter Oakes, director of
public relations of the Amarillo
Air Base has been in communica-
tion with Jack Ramey of the
parade committee. Ramey reports
that the color guard and the band
at the base have been invited
to participate in the parade. If
nothing at the base arises to de-
tain these units, the festival guests
will witness an excellent display.
It is entirely possible that the
base will be able to furnish other
attractive items.
The dance at 8:30 p. m at
V. F. W. Hall v 'll close the day's
activities.
Skelly Mai. Fined
On DWI Charges
Pampa News: Ernest Miranda,
Skellytown, was fined $100 and
costs in Gray county court at
Pampa Monday morning after en-
tering a plea of guilty to a charge
of operating a motor vehicle while
under the influence of intoxicating
liquor.
Miranda was injured in a three-
car collision Saturday night in the
500 block of S. Cuyler when his
vehicle slammed into two other
cars which were slowing down at
a. red light.
He was taken to a Pampa hos-
pital, left it of his own volition,
was picked up by police, booked
on the drunk driving charge and
returned to the hospital.
Session of 100th district coun
will be held here Friday, Sept
26. Petit jury has been called foi
Sept. 29 for the damage suit ol
W. G. Street vs. Rock Island rail-
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