The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1947 Page: 1 of 20
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ELECTRIC SHOW OF ’47
OPENS HERE TUESDA Y
latest 1947 Electric Appliances
To Be Displayed at High School
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VOLUME 71
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The Graham Leader
OLDEST BUSINESS INSTITUTION IN YOUNG COUNTY— ESTABLISHED. AUGUST 1«, M76
GRAHAM, TEXAS, THUR8DAY, MffY 22, 1947
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Crew* will be busily engag'd
Friday and Saturday at Graham
High School setting up displays
and moving In electrical equipment
in preparation for the opening
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock of
the Texas Electric Show of ‘47.
By Monday afternoon the gym
nasium will take oif the atmos-
phere of a gigantic electric ap-
pliance establishment, and by the
time of the opening Tuesday after-
noon, everything will be In readi-
ness far the biggest show of it*
kind ever staged in . Graham.
The feature attraction ef the
two-day electric show will be pre-
sentations in the high school audL
torium of General Electric’s fa-
mous “Rouse of Magic”, a demon-
stration of uncanny tricks that can
bo done with electricity. This
show is the modernised version of
similar shows presented by* Gen-
eral Electric to the million* of
visiters st the New York World’s
Fair, and since ten to military
personnel in all pafy of the coun-
try. This show is non-teehnical,
and Is interesting and eritertain-
ing to eKOdsen as well ts adults.
“* Of particular (surest to farm-
era and ranchers in this area will
be the Farm-Ranch Electrical .Ex-
hibit hr the large tent on the school
grounds. Here visitors may ass
Us latest types of electrics!
equipment for the farm,: Including
walk-in fleeter*, milkers, water
pumps, milk coolers and dosans ef
other assist appliances to make
farm work easier. One of the ms
A A HA RBI SON
Texas Electric Service
Scoots Will ~j_
Collect Scrap
Paper May 31
ime or uie ms- *"*• bundU* P»P*r bo-
this tent wGl be fa* stacked on the southeast-corn-
‘ sr of the square for the Boy Scout
F*p4T driven Saturday, May SI,
and residents era urged to begin
...____of three baby
China pigs, being raised
These uiga ere named
Rehearsals In
Progress For
Jaycee Production
Rehearsals for.the production of
“Arsenic and Old Lace” are in
progress^for the three act murder
mystery to be presented in Mem-
prial auditorium Thursday even-
Ing, June 6 hy the Graham Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Setting for the play ia in Brook-
lyn and concerns two strange old
maid sisters, Abby and Martha
Brewster, played by Mrs. T. Jean
Rodgers and Mrs. W. B. Fult*.
who have th# habit of disposing of
kindly old gentlemen with ar-
senic in their cofft* and elderber-
ry wine. Their eccentric- ami
slightly “insane” .brother, Teddv
Brewster, believe? he 1* Teddy
Rooaevelt, and is kept busy dig-
ging the Panama Canal In the
basement of the home burying the
bodies and leading Imaginary sol-
diers in the Spanish American
war. Travis Wheat takes this role.
Poppy Sale Will
Be Held Saturday
May 24, the Saturday before
Memorial Day, will be observed as
Pnppy Day by the tmtrtfiii O:
*ion and American Legion Auxili-
ary in Graham.
For mopths, thousands of
wounded veteran* have been at
work in the Veterans Hospitals
preparing: millions ,of Buddy pop-
pies which . will bb- sold on the
street* by the ladies of the Auxili-
ary. They will be assisted by Gm-
ham high school girl*.
President Truman, who j* a
member of the American Legion,
in I will buy the first poppy from Mr*.
er | Nortpn H. Pearl of Detroit. Mlchi.
gan, president of the American le-
gion Auxiliary, at a----’-* -
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Jonathan Brewster (the villign).
Jonathan's partner in crime, Dr.
Einstein, is played by Ray Co*ti-
low. Others in the cast Include Put
Bryan, Spencer Mayes, Ernest
Tucksr, Charles D. Rhea, 0. D.
Morrfc. Jim Bowron, and Brown
Walker.
Tickets for the production are
now on sale by members- of the
Jaycee organisation. Mrs. Ernest
Remington ia director for the
p «uy. . *
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Jaycee* Meet
Tuesday Noon
Dale I^mmOns, presided at thb
noon meeting of the Junto* Cham-
ber of Comm* me Tuesday
n°0Q. A. large number of the
member* were present and plan*
were discussed for the forthcom-
ing Jaycee production, ‘.Arsenic
and Old Lace" to be presented in
the Memorial auditorium June 5.
NUMBER
special cere-
SS&sSssg
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Dr. Gowan Tells
V™. u f?° »_ d_. _-,the »**■ ®f _ Grubam Rotory club
A. Hefner, presiding in the ab-
sence of the president, L. C.
Young.
Grain Harvest
In County Is
-----w. win! a«Ai
Mrs. N. B. Crenshaw. Dr, R. E- L
Gowan was introdacod to the
frroup ***• of hi* experience*
n the Navy nodical dpeartment
In toe Pacific thaater during the
vu.
The small grain harvest in
-Young County ■ has been delayed
about 7 or 8 rihyx on account of
recent apd general rains through-
out the whole Panhandle territory.
The prospects for s record yield
im prospects tor a record yield
—John Gardenhire presented, of wheat on the largest acreage
ntv farmers will net d about ' 80
additional combines in order to
harvest the record acreage of
wheat in Young County.
The supply of rail ears will be
vary short in toe wheat barveot-
ing ana. North and Wert of
too grain move-
Thousands Honor Young County W<
Dead In Ceremony At Obey
Orahamites joined with pipe’:, pay tribute today
snts Tn the observance of the
rcsi<
se^nld annual Yeung Countv -
Memorial Dar at Olney test" Sat-
urday afternoon to pay tribute to
the War dead.-
. Several. thousand spectators
watched the parade in the jown-
town business section which pro-
ceeded to the football field for
tlw Memorial, pncice.------ . t: -
officers and
state dignitaries including Gov.
Beauford Jester and Brig.
L. I--- ------ “
4th
ito dignitaries Including Gov. that “We will ]
muford Jester and Brig. General .another war far
C. Beebe, chief of stefT of the but
h Army wire present for th* j not como to the
Mayor
uey, in
Charlas Wolverton, Ot J any
gave their Uvea in order that our
form of government and wav of 7
life might be secure. Today wo
pause to honor their memory.
Heroic lives never end. There is hi
them a very real immortality.”
General Beebe delivered an ad-
dress In behalf of General Wain-----
■jttlgba * ~~~MStg to attend
due to ill news. The General nmiA
that “We will probably not hT£
the next 10 years,
-----* ~M. Ponca has
----to the world and milUon*
af people In thie world am hungry '
any envy the United States. We
t be traand in caea ef at-
“If jreu don’t wnnt a Job paint-
ing or cutting weeds, stay out of
given by
Sheriff Burt Bunnell
______ Mr. Bunnell said that
the interior of tth buidiag wa* re-
" coat at paint with
dope by prisoners,
painting is finished,
n thorough Job of cutting the
weeds would fallow after the puint-
tne interior or toe •
Sfef fig's
“After the paintii
Ray CoaCUmr flaw to Dblla*
Monday on n business trip.
fife- T
W. J. Brady,1 Jr., 8984
Drive, DaUga,
member of. I ‘
Fish Association to catch
who caught tagged fish No.
16, was in Graham thf
leering prises and
from local merchant*
in the total awards. The fish was
worth over f 186.00 in merchandise
to Mr. Brady. Gubin's News
and George Shabay’s Men’s Store
■f “ ■ «gad flab—
who is pastor uf the
ua
magical jArformancewllt Tndude Valiev church for g students of
professional stage Hustons the
Mrs. W. L Scott win spend the
week end with relatives in Waco.
Seventeen Seniors Spend School
Days Together Here
______i___MerWin T®aa, pastor oT the lira- combine npefators havSr, conlact*H
Other act* scheduled include
vauhdeville, awing band, vocal
music, tumbling act and dames.
Proceeds from th* event wiU be
used to finance a delegate to the
World Christian Youth Conference
hold in Oslo, Norway. this
summer, and to help finance pro-
jects being sponsored by the youth
organisation of th* church.
boys and Stria of the —Those who bogaa at East Wasd
arm Frances Morrison, Batty
Butler, Lila Rose Newby, Cathar-
Janct Hinson. John
MSP
high school graduating class have
spent til of their school days in
school*.
Ten of thou began toe first grade
together at Bast Ward, graduated
there and than
an of them
days in Shawnee School,
them to Junior “ 1
i and than on to
thora to Junior High st that
on to ffigh School
colm Bennett,
Kay Denny,
lott, . Gerald Foi
and Totpmy Cave.
K.!SC5feb.'V„2r."“,
i, Imogene
Mary Grace Fora, Batty |
Harold Barnhart, Abnet* Murphy
and Kenneth Hays. --
AO Stars Beat
Jack* Cookies
The Cha*. E. Hipp All Star team
Graham presented their new
day svenhig, Msy 21 at th* Tonk
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the 8 th grade. Commencement
hum First Christian chtirch.
__B*rBgaL-Brown wei mlerfrtM-lan
and the salutatonui was Mildred
Rodden. -Thyse in the ereduntirtg
class were. Mad Ford,JJildred Rod-
den. Thomas ^Newman, Dalton
Brown-,-Peggy f rosier, and.. Ann
Smith. . — • .,
—Mrs. Fred -Ware h principal;
and Mrs. Walter Steele, is the
-teacher for the Tonk Valley 8th
grade. —^ -- —«
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Miss Mary Maria Morrison was
a visitor in Dallas Monday and
Tuesday. ■"
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that th# HariFCK Will begin about
80 or Jnn* 6, - _
of operation about the 10th
of June.
va< tne
Mar 80
pmked
or 16th
SB eflh*
workers era
the settlement
strike last .
back on duty in |
Lindsey Hawkins, pruobient af
combine npelxlors hsWb.oontmcrMl , «...
help to harvest their wheat crop
should notify the County Agent.
l.eSage Team
Defeats Newcastle
Monday night saw the LsSage
team defeat Newcastle 27d> at the
local softball diamond. Newcas-
tle returns here May 29 to play the
American Legion Port and . Pro-
mises to be • good match.
. toHaMir
to normal and credit on local tele-
phone bills would b« from April
7 through May It!’.
Telephone employee*, who were
scheduled for duty Saturday, re-
ported hack for duty and service
and maintenance work is now
back to normal.
wlmt
sponsor. Mr. Hipp, with a good
ball Xahta Saturday night by boat-
in the Jdek’s Cookies of Ft: Worth
* to 1. .Tartr’a Cookies Is leading
arm, but wore
Graham team;
to* hhrh-
the Fort Worth lea
stopped by the
Puryear’s pitching was
Mgnt of € _____
ty McDonald who mad* a big hit
with the fans by hitting a home
run “out into Salt Creek.”
• A. A. Shadder, in behalf of toe
Stars, prassntsd -Mo.
with a sport jacket with the same
emblem as used on the uniforms.
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tom to Graham Saturday night
May SI for another gam*. Their
: Graduation Exercises for G. H. S.
To Be Held Friday Evening, May 23
ah at*
Graham Saturday
SI for another game,
manager itated that th»!
well pleasad with the Graham
team, umpiee, and wanted to play
here every two weeks.
Junior High
Graduation
Thursday May 22
Nlnty four Junior High student*
will graduate and be presented
diulaaaas bp Mr. L T. Gilmer
night at 0 p. m., at tor
The home of Mr. and Mrs.* Tho-
mas Johnson, 917 Virginia street,
and Contents were destroyed by
fir* early last Friday morning be-
ween 12 and t a. m. The family
was awakened and escaped In
thi lr night clothe* just before the
.celling* ware ready, to coUapoa.
Origin °f_the fire is unknown.
Ninety-four studenti, members
of the 1947 Senior Class of Gra-
ham High School, will
ir dipWiaa at th* graduation
exercises Friday evening, May 28,
in th* Memorial auditorium.
Members of the
class are: Billy Jay ArTn?t.
ustin, Harold Glenn
Malcolm Boyd Bennett,
Wayne F. Bethel, Helen Jo B>C:
ra, Rvy Robert B^ljng, UriUWl
NraLMa
France* Pearl
rison, BUI Mouaer, Almeta Mur-
receive | phy, Howard Stanley McClpnahan,
iuatton Martha Kathryn McChiskey, Glyn
flharlsna MrGjra,
Betty Louise McGrhee, Freda
Mari* MaHargiic, Thelma Christ-
ina McLaren. Sherry Nail, Lila
Virginia MJ-rel PrrT W. C. Orr,
Rose Newby, Wayland W. Oatman,
Betty Corinne Pickard, Roy Tbo-
MM PliCWlC Ttiletia Lsmota RJfT
Boyd, Mary EH* Braddock, land, Freddie Mae Richards,
Ihrtita Leu Bnica, Carl Loyd Bur-
r Ruth Butler, Betty
irare tenon, Betty
Lou Catdy, Norman Lae
ter, Ewell W. Cason, -Jr. ■
Thomas Allen Cave, Dolores
Jean Chestnut, Frances Ann Chil-
ders, Grade Copeland, J|dwin
Crum, Donald Warn#; Cunning-
ham: Clifford Faye Damron, Paula
Lugene Daves, Billy Ray Denny,
Maggie Fay Daoley, Bobby Har-
rell Downey, Margaret A net*
Downey, Milton Farmer, Wlaon
Gernld Ferguson, Mary Grace
Fore, 'Jeanette Fortner, Imogen#
Gachter, Joanne Gamy, Robert
Austin George, Zebra Valets
entire group taking part
Gal* FuHv U valedictorian o'
the etas* and Grate hen Young to
INSPECTOR VISITS GRAHAM
LI 8ch«4*f*e, U. S. port «f-
J flea tnap actor. Wichita Falla, was
o a IrtjHB visitor In Graham Wed-
nesday »»d Tburaday.
,.Mjg
I OS
That
M*i
h’s Vision o' Qlbbs, Patricia Jean Hamlll.
Lindsey B. Hawkins, Tran
t Hawkins, Kenaath Alexander Ji
lays. Thelma Frail Higgins, “
Katorvn Janet Hinaon, Wy swell*
Hitt, Patricia Joy Howard, Mary
Fmma Jennings, Juntor N. Lackey.
rails IsWn Jtoshles Lytoe,
Pauline SanderaOn, Thomas
tin Smalley.
Donald Lae Speer, Columbus
Boby Tyler, Jr., Anna Jewel
Sweeaey, Billy Dan Wadley, James
Robert Walker, Mary Ann Walsh,
Marv Ann Watkins, John La*
Webb, Herbert Dan Wilde, Bohbv
Lae Williams, Beuna Wright, ThO-.
mas Albert Wright, Jr., Donald
Gene York, Frances Virginia
Yonng.
Commencement Program
— Mrs. Francs s
Guy
Jess# B. Zellner, Graham,
son of Mr. and Mrs. L, L. Mays.
Albany, Has been reported missing
since May 9. Ha was last
at
Area IV for the Texas Associa-
tion of Fqture Farmers and #
candidate for Texas Association
president at' a meeting in Stepbra-
ville May 17.
' Competing with representativ-
es from fpur dfatriets which com-
prise Ar*a TV of th* Tuxsr As-
sociation of Future Farmers af
America, Lindsey was selected by
a committee ®f vocational agricul-
ture teachers who nr* district
chairmen in each district. H* to
now a state officer for the Taxes
Association ef the Future Farm-
ers of America. There an ten
areas in the Texas associates,
and Undsy will compete otitis
other state .officers selected from
the other areas for th* office ef
prseidant ef the Texas Associa-
tion in the near futare.—:-
- After the prasidant is chosen,
the rams In ing nine candidate* wilt
serve as officers for the state or-
ganisation. ■ .
Th* Graham boy was stiactod
he made application for the
Star Farmer degree; W«g
the" district elimination two wades
ago: and was- adjudged the bast
raprasentatire fee tiito assn by a
committee of district chairmaa
who era vocational agriculture
teachers raprassntlng their dto-
triels. 2-r——^—
Selection of toe outstanding boy-
candidate was made on a basis
of mrpcralrad farming program a*
submitted in their supervised
farming program in their Lon*
Star Farmer application; on th*
basis of their knowledge and stilt
with group discussions and parli-
amentary procedure; and on Ito
demonstrated op* *
Ing abflitv, personality, apnrar-
snre, bitelligvnre and c ha rector.
Aa n state officer, Lindsey will
raceiv* expense raid trips to var-
seetldns af Texas
Anyone having seen this mbs- raT^msltiTte ptitov“ft>rraai
tag person nr* raqn—ted to notify tor tit* TVxaa *■»■***»— of
G. I. Cowtov, 507 Texas at, Gra-
hem; Young county sheriff, Bart
BunnaH; or L L Mays, Albany,
Texas.
Heard has torn offered by
rtiatlras for peaMbre taforamtion
SttSJtttf •* -
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Mrs.
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