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PANHANDLE HERALD
Panhandle, Carson County, Texas, Tliars., April 30. 1984
Local Business
Retail Advertising Is A
Part Of News In Newspaper
By Samuel S. Talbert Ph. D.
Chairman Dept, of Journalism
University of Mississippi
News is the basic ingredi-
ent of a newspaper.:
This Is true of all news-
papers. News is the commodi-
ty for :whic'h the public boys
a newspaper.:
News is the most impor-
tant part: of the largest daily
newspaper;: it is the most im-
portant part: of the smallest
weekly. ;
But news is not limited to
reports on the front; page.
The most interesting and
important news ini the local
newspaper is retail'advertis-
ing.
Mbrie women read grocery
advertisements than read
society items if' readership
research can be accepted.
And more women read dress
shop advertisements than
some front page stories. |
[ha community newspaper,:
more men read Want A ds than
read sports news. ]A man is
more likely to read, an auto-
motive advertisement men
motive advertisement than
an editorial dealing with na-
tional policies. ;
The intensive readership
local retail advertising is no
reflection oh the taste of
the public'. The news content
of complete and well-present-;
ed local retail advertising
touches directly upon the
personal welfare of the
reader.:)
For the news in retail ad-
vertising tells, or should tell,
how money and tiiiie can be
saved, ft' is' news about pro-
ducts which will immediately
Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Welsh and daughter Mrs.
Joe Ray of Coffeyville,
Kan., visited this past
week with his sister Mrs.
Faye Granstaff, brother,
H. L. Welsh and family
and other relatives.
* * * deflect | *
WHITE
as
Funeral Set For
George Kistler,
Pioneer Oilman
George Louis Kistler,
88, who came to the Tex-
as Panhandle in 1923 to
drill oil wells, where
others had failed, died
Friday, April 24, in Tu-
scon, Ariz., where he had
been living with a grand-
son, Major Kenneth L. St-
erne. He had been ill
for two months.
Funeral services for
Mr. Kistler will be held
Friday afternoon at 3 o’
clock in the First Chri-
stian Church with the Rev.
J. Alvis Cooley, minister
of the First Methodist
Church, officiating assi-
sted by the Rev. Ivan
Adams, pastor of the
First Christian Church.
Burial will be in the
Panhandle Cemetary un-
der the direction of the
Poston Funeral Home.
Mr. Kistler was born
January 16,' 1876, in Oil
City , Pa., and went to
West Virginia as a young
man, where he was marr-
ied in Wheeling Aug. 25,
1900, to Blanche Virginia
Cunningham, who sur-
vives him.
Following oil field work
he came to Oklahoma,
where at Sapulpa, he
started his first drilling
operations. Going from
there to Breckenridge,
where he helped to open
that field. He had also
worked in the Ranger
area.
Following the slowing
down of operations in that
area, he was asked to
iSsSXSSfi
Entered as second class
matter jfuly 22. 1887. at
the post office in Pan-
handle, Texas, under the
act of March 8, 1870.
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enrich the life of the indiv-
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come to the Borger area
in 1923 by the Gulf-Oil
Company which had had
a number of failures ,
and wanted Kistler and his
cable tools to help them
out. He drilled the first
oil wells in what is now
the town of Borger, the
first east of Main Street
and another on the west
side, which is now near
the site of a Borger bank.
He drilled three more
wells in what is now the
business district of
Borger. He opened his
own oil camp near the
site of the Gulf Oil Camp.
Following the opening
of the Borger field, Kis-
tler and his partner, Har-
ry Watson, drilled many
wells in the Pampa and
Skellytown areas and
in the 1930’s went into
the Odessa area and help-
ed to develop that field.
Following his retire-
ment in the 1940’s he lived
for many years in Gal-
veston. He last visited
with his family in Pan-
handle during the Christ-
mas holidays.
He was a lifetime mem-
ber of Breckenridge Ma-
sonic Lodge ana of the
Elks Lodge in Brecken-
ridge.
Survivors are the wi-
dow, and daughter, Mrs.
Freda J. Evans, both of
Panhandle; two grand-
sons, Bryce Sterne,
Savenport, Iowa; Major
Kenneth Sterne, Tuscon;
and a granddaughter,
Mrs. Floyd Stevens, Pan-
handle; five great-grand-
children, Fredrick Ty-
son, Bonnie and Melaine
Stevens, Panhandle;
Bryce Ware Sterne and
Kenneth Kistler Sterne of
Iowa and a great-
grandson, Douglas Ster-
ne, of Iowa.
Relative Of Local
Person Dies
DUMAS- Funeral ser-
vices for James Duane
Hayhurst, 4-month infant
great- grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. T. A. Hayhurst
and great nephew of Mrs.
Lawerence Tackett of Pa-
ihandle, were held here
Saturday.
The services were held
n the First Methodist
Shurch with the Rev. R.C.
'Jickson of Lakeview offi-
ciating assisted by the
lev. Merle Rogers of the
lactus Baptist Church,
lurial was in the Dumas
Cemetary.
301 South Main
Phone 6081
Funeral Services
Held Wednesday
For L. D.Cummings
Levi David Cummings,
95, died Monday in Groom
Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services were
held in the Church
of Christ with E.R. Car-
ver of the Amarillo Cen-
tral Church of Christ of-
ficiating, assisted by Ce-
cil Williams, minister of
the Panhandle Church.
The burial was in the
Panhandle cemetary un-
der the direction of the
Poston Funeral Home.
Mr. Cummings , born
February 15, 1869 in
Odon, Ind., had been a
resident of the Texas pan-
handle since 1910, coming
to Panhandle from Mob-
eetie. He had been a mi-
nister of the Church of
Christ since 1905. He
married Carrie Adella
Lee December 21, 1892,
in Denton County.
Survivors include his
widow, six sons; Earl,
Arthur, Dee and Cecil
all of Panhandle, Oliver
of Herford and Walter of
Tulia; four daughters
Mrs. A. G. (Dillie) Stamps
of Waldron, Ark., Mrs.
Lena Chapin of Bloom-
field, N.M. and Mrs. Be-
ulah Holland of Groom;
49 grandchildren, 97
great-grandchildren, and
six great-great-grandch-
ildren.
Services For
L. A. Tackett
Held Saturday
Funeral services for
Lawrence Tackett’, 38,
were held Saturday in the
First Christian Church
with the Reverend Ivan
Adams, pastor, officiat-
ing.
Burial was in Panhan-
dle Cemetary under the
direction of the Poston
Funeral Home.
He was born December
19, 1925 in Leedy, Okla.,
and had been a former re-
sident of Amarillo.
Mr. Tackitt owned and
operated a service sta-
tion here. He was a ve-
teran of World War 1 1
and a member of the First
Christian Church.
Mr. Tackitt was a con-
stant supporter of the
Panhandle Little League
and one of its original
organizers.
Survivors include his
widow, Lillie Belle, on e
son, Jerry, both at the
residence of the decesed.
A brother, Larry of Hap-
py, a sister, Mrs. Betty
Jo Crumm of Weather-
ford; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. G.L. Tackett
and his grandmother,
Mrs. Hattie Tackett of
Redmond, Ore.
Grandfather Of
Rickey Potts Dies
BCR GER-Funeral ser-
vices for William Quin-
ton Potts, 54, grandfather
of Rickey Potts of Panha-
ndle, were held Friday in
the Simpson Funeral Ho-
me Chapel with the Rev.
E. E; Taylor, pastor of
the North Hills Baptist
Church, officiating.
Burial was in Delhi,
Okla.
Bobby Bur gin On
Dean's Honor Roll
Bobby Burgin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. F.P. Bu-
rgin of Groom, has been
listed on the Dean’s Ho-
nor Roll for the first nine
week’s of the spring se-
mester at Clarendon Jun-
ior College.
He enrolled in Claren-
don Junior College in Jan-
uary, 1964. His grade po-
int average for the repo-
rting period is 2.7. He
was a 1961 graduate of
Groom High School.
RE-ELECT GOVERNOR JOHN
mum
FOR A GREATER TEXAS!
Plains Gr ocery & Market
WE DELIVER
Buccaneer Stamps
Phone 3301
45^ Kraft Chocolate Candy
3 lb. Ground Beef
3 lb. bag Franks
4 lb. bag Pinkney Sausage
Lean Prok Steak lb.
3 lb. can Folger Coffee
1 lb. Shurfine Coffee
$ .29
$1.00
$1.09
$1.09
$ .49
$2.40
$ .65
Be' Seein’ You
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A Loretto Heights Co-
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was held recently in the
home of Mrs. J. R. Fl-
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ong those attending were
Mrs. Gregory Rapstine
and Mrs. Phillip Smith.
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Phone 944-3425
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PHONE 3001
Attention To Voters
I will appreciate your vote and I have tried to visit each voter in
the Precinct. If I have missed you,
please let me take this opportunity
to solicit your vote.
influence in the election
■ '
Pd. Pol. An.
Saturday, May 2nd
I’ve tried my best to serve you in the post as your Commissioner
and hope that you will see fit to return me to this office.
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING.
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Peoples, Don. Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1964, newspaper, April 30, 1964; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth883686/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.