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TOUCHDOWN — Wildcat Quarterback Tommy Hobdy (on the
ground) scores the first touchdown in the Canadian-Perry ton grid
game here Friday night. Hobdy was downed over the goal line
by Ranger End Hobart Buxton (No. 78). Wildcat Tackle Luther
Ballard (No. 48) at left Guard Bobby Cochran (No. 65) and
Halfback Johnny Grist (No. 27) cover the play. See story on
Page 3. —Photo courtesy Ochiltree County Herald.
Grid Districts to
Be Reorganized
Panhandle football districts
will be completely reorganized
next year in line with Inter-
scholastic League reclassifica-
tion recommendations approv-
ed last week by the State
Executive Committee.
This year's 9-team District 1-A
will be split down the middle to
form two Class A districts next
fall, and Canadian will land in
a new District 2-A which will
also include Lefors, McLean,
Memphis and Clarendon.
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PAGE I
MUST*
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK
THURSDAY, Sept. 22 — B-Team
plays football at Perryton.
WMS Royal Service, 3:00 p. m.
FRIDAY, Sept. 23 — Lions Club
regular meeting, noon.
Football game here, Memphis.
MONDAY, Sept. 26 — Children's
Hour, 3:00 p. m„ First Chris-
tian Church.
Christian Men's Service Club,
7:30 p. m.
TUESDAY, Sept. 27—Rotary Club
regular meeting, noon.
Baptistjirotherhood, 7:00 p. m.
Lois Circle meeting, 7'30 p. m.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28 — ChoiT
practice and prayer meetings.
Canadian Fire Dept. Regular
Meeting, 7:30 p. m.
Baptist Deacons Meeting.
•
Don't forget the two rum-
mage sales scheduled this
week-end. Members of the Re-
bekah Lodge will hold a Rum-
mage Sale Friday and Satur-
day at the Hoover Building, on
Main street, and have also
scheduled a cooked-food sale
on the second day, Saturday,
only. And ladies of the Meth-
odist Church are planning a
Rummage Sale Friday and
Saturday in the old Poet Office
building on Second street.
Happy huntingl
• • •
Canadian High School Seniors
are taking orders for Christmas
cards. If you're interested, con-
tact any Senior or call Mrs. John
Rowntree during school hours at
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Three other District 1-A teams,
Panhandle, White Deer and Stin-
nett, will be joined by two teams
moving up from Class B, Gruver
and Sunray, to form a new Dis-
trict 1-A.
Wellington, ninth member of
this year's 1-A conference, will
move back into the ranks of
A A schools to form a confer-
ence with Perryton, Shamrock,
Quanah and Childress.
Phillips, long the nemesis of
District 1-AA, will be moved up
into a AAA district along with
Dumas and Hereford. Other
members of the present District
1-AA will go into a new Class
AA district organized along the
west side of the Panhandle,
which will probably include Dal-
hart. Canyon and Tulia.
Enrollment figures for confer-
■nce assignments for the 1956-57
season have been revised all
along the line. Enrollment for
classification purposes considers
.he number of students in the
op four high school grades.
Schools with 119 students or
less in the high school will be
placed in Class B conferences;
hose with enrollments ranging
from 120 to 200 will be in Class
A, from 200 to 370 in Class AA,
from 370 to 845 in Class AAA,
and from 845 up in Class AAAA.
The League has re-formed its
ranks for next season to provide
for 16 districts in Conference
AAAA and AAA, and 32 districts
in AA and A conferences. Class
B schools, which do not play
through to a state champion-
ship, will be divided into divi-
sions of four districts to provide
for regional play-offs.
The conferences which will be
formed next fall will be "frozen"
for two years, which means that
the only possible changes in the
make-up of next year's districts
during the two - year period
would be to provide for the en-
try of newly-created schools. Pur-
pose of the regulation is to per.
mit conference schools to make
two-year home-and-home con-
tracts with the assurance that
district assignments will not be
changed during any two-year
period.
The League has also adopted,
by a vote of members, a rule
which will prohibit "voting-in"
of schools which fall below re-
quired enrollment into a district
of higher classification. The new
rule takes effect next year.
!eet Memphis Cyclon
Open Conference
Schedule Here
Opening the District 1-A conference season here tomorrow night
(Friday), the Canadian Wildcats will tangle with the Memphis
Cyclones in the conference "game of the week" in this district.
Game time will be 7:30 o'clock at Wildcat stadium . . . half an
hour earlier than the first two games of the season.
Cyclone Coach D. W. Andrews
will bring a big, experienced
team into Canadian for the dis-
trict opener. The Cyclones have
nine returning lettermen from
the 1954 squad, including a pair
of experienced backfield men in
Butch Adcock and hard-hitting
speedster Dean Sustaire.
The Cyclones also have; a for-
ward wall bolstered by a pair of
beefy tackles with two years
starting experience already be-
hind them. Mainstays in the Cy-
clone line are Paul Wilson, 185
pounder, and Co-Captain Jerry
McQueen, who tips the scales at
upwards of 220 pounds. The Cy-
clone ends, Jimmy Jenkins, 185-
pounder, and Campbell Morris,
250 pounds, are also lettermen
from the 1954 squad.
The Cyclone starting backfield
of Joe Young at quarterback,
Dean Sustaire at fullback, and
Adcock and Dickey at halfbacks
will average about 150 pounds
per man, while the line will
stack up at better than 170
pounds.
In average weight, the two
teams will stack up about even
in the line, with the Wildcats
having a slight edge in the back-
field.
Coach Johnny Cardinal indi-
cated yesterday that his starting
line-up would probably be un-
changed from last week's hard-
hitting combination which play-
ed the Perryton Rangers to a
13-13 tie in a thrill-packed game
here.
The Wildcats came through the
Perryton contest with no major
injuries, and the only first-
stringer who is currently riding
the bench is Tackle Roger Free-
man, who was injured in the
season's opener against Wheeler
two weeks ago. Out with a dis-
located elbow, Freeman is not
expected to see any service be-
fore mid-season.
Wildcats and Cyclones have
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Canadian "B" Team
At Perryton Tonight
Coach Grady Burnett's Wildcat
"B" team wili journey to Perry-
ton tonight i Thursday) to take
on the Perryton Ranger "B" team,
with a return game from the
Ranger reserves scheduled at
Wildcat Stadium here on Novem-
ber 3.
Coach Mose Damron's Junior
High "PeeWees" will be idle this
week-end, but renew their own
grid wars next week in their
first home appearance against
the Clarendon Junior Bronchos
on Thursday night, Sept. 29.
Both PeeWees and the Wild-
cat Reserves were in action at
Wellington last Thursday night,
the PeeWees winning their game
6-0 on the strength of a 25-yard
touchdown pass from Danny Ur-
schel to Bucky Price, while the
Wildcat Reserves played the Sky-
rocket "B" team to a scoreless
tie.
The PeeWee home game,
against Clarendon Junior High,
will begin at 6:30 o'clock next
Thursday evening (Sept. 29) at
Wildcat Stadium.
Coach Damron's young charges
will meet the Junior High Pirates
from Lefors here on the following
Thursday, October 6, at 7 o'clock;
and are scheduled to play the
Junior Mustangs from Wheeler
here at 6:30 o'clock on October
20.
The PeeWees will go to Wheel-
er on October 27, and to Lefors
on November 3.
"FEW CLOTHES" SELMAN NICKNAME STUCK:
Veteran Cowman Jim Selman Dies
Sunday at Woodward Hospital
Jim Selman, 78, of Woodward,
Oklahoma, a prominent figure in
the livestock industry of the
southwest and early-day cowboy
in the Canadian area, died Sun-
day night at Woodward's Mem-
orial Hospital.
Funeral services were held at
Woodward Tuesday afternoon.
Selman was employed in the
early days in this area as a
cowhand on the A. H. Tandy
ranch in Roberts county, going
to work on the ranch as a boy;
and he earned a nickname at
that time which distinguished
him all his life among the old-
timers. When he asked Tandy
for the job, the rancher asked
him what his wages should be
and Selman replied, "my grub
i and a few clothes." The nick-
name "Few Clothes" Selman
stuck with him.
Selman was one of the organ-
izers of the Elks Rodeo at Wood-
ward, which celebrated its Sil-
ver anniversary this year. He
was also a member of the orig-
inal 8-man Oklahoma Highway
Commission, appointed by Gov.
Roy Turner.
Selman is survived by his
wife, Lena, of Woodward; a son,
Robert; a daughter, Mrs. Jim
Liner o£ Tulsa; two brothers, G.
L. Selman of Freedom, Oklaho-
ma, and Frank Selman of Hobbs,
N. M.; and three sisters, Mrs.
Tom London of Loving, N. M.;
Mrs. Henry Gordon of Mobeetie;
and Mrs. J. P. Coates of Sham-
rock.
The Canadian Record
VOLUME 66 — NUMBER 38
CANADIAN, HEMPHILL COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1955
Drilling Crew on
Humble Well to
Locate Here
Midland Company Is
Awarded Contract;
To Start Monday
Rowan Drilling Company of
Midland has been awarded the
contract for Humble Oil Com-
pany's new deep wildcat, the
Coy Meredith No. 1, located 27
miles north of Canadian, and
will establish crew headquar-
ters in Canadian lor the oper-
ation.
A 15-member drilling crew will
arrive in Canadian tomorrow
(Friday), Mayor Malouf Abra-
ham was informed late yester-
day. ~ .
Mayor Abraham had contacted
the Rowan company as soon as
awarding of the contract was
announced by Humble, inviting
them to make their headquarters
here.
W. B. Adams will be in charge
of the drilling crew. Adams said
his drillers would begin arriving
in Canadian Friday, and work of
setting up rig at the drilling site
will probably get underway Mon-
day.
Humble Oil and Refining Com-
pany has scheduled an 11,000-
foot test on the Coy Meredith
land in Lipscomb county, about
27 miles north of Canadian. The
location, staked last week, is in
the southeast quarter of Section
469, Block 43, H. & T. C. Survey.
The location is about three-
quarters of a mile northwest of
the old Gulf Porter well, a dry-
hole put down six years ago by
Gulf Oil Company on the Jack
Porter ranch. The Porter well
was a 15,000 foot test which was
almost two years in the drilling.
ROUND-UP Revivalist at the
First Christian Church will be
Dwight Gladieux, minister oi
the Portales Christian Church
of Portales, N. Si See story
below.
Round-Up Revival
Opens October 2
At Local Church
A one-week "Round-up" re-
vival meeting will be opened at
the First Christian Church here
on October 2, Jim Mitchell, min-
ister. announced this week.
Dwight Gladieux of Portales,
New Mexico, will be in charge
of the meeting.
Gladieux is minister of the
Portales Christian Church.
A series of films on "The Life
of Paul" will be shown each
evening after the regular serv-
ice. Services will begin at 7:30
o'clock each evening from Sun-
day, October 2, through Sunday,
October 9.
Student Council Officers Named;
Organization Meeting Is Held
Erbin Crowell jr.. president
of the student body, and Joyce
Cleveland, president of the
Student Council, head the stu-
dent government organization
on the Canadian High School
campus this year.
Other student council officers
for the year were elected at a
meeting last week, and were
chosen from the list of class rep-
resentatives named last spring.
Ruth Conatser has been named
secretary-treasurer; and Dale
Cain parliamentarian.
Council members are Nona
Dale Snyder and Dale Cain
from the Senior class; Eddie
Massey and Texa Peterson
from the Junior class; Johnny
Grist and Ruth Conatser from
the Sophomore class; Kenny
Abraham and Frederlca Ellis.
Freshman class; and Carol
Pinson, a Sophomore, who is
Councilman-at-Large.
Nona Dale Snyder is the dis-
trict secretary for the Top O'
Texas district of Student Coun-
cils.
"From time to time in Student
Council reports," Mrs. Lovllla
Kessie, faculty sponsor, said this
week, "we hope to acquaint the
public with the aims and objec-
tives of the Student Council."
'This is fairly new in CHS,
but was adopted after it had
been proved successful in many
schools throughout the state,
and has been, each year, proving
its effectiveness in promoting
school spirit and better student-
faculty relationship," Mrs. Kes-
sie says. "The council provides
an opportunity for student ex-
pression and acquaints the stu-
dents with a representative form
of government. We believe it
will do much to promote better
citizenship after graduation, for
learning to take an active part
in school affairs must, to a de-
gree, influence students to take
an active interest in civic mat-
ters following graduation, whe-
ther they remain in this town or
continue on through college or
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Annual Allison Fair
Opens Next Friday
Garlón Rogers Gets
Citation from C. O.
Garlón Rogers, Specialist 3rd
class with the U. S. Fifth Army
at Fort Crowder, Missouri, has
received a letter of commen-
dation from his company com-
mander, Major William G.
Worden, for "high performance
of duty and soldierly excel-
lence."
Rogers is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Mark Rogers of Canadian,
and is a graduate of Canadian
High School. The letter of com-
mendation was forwarded to
Mrs. Rogers this week.
Rogers was commended for
his performance as a member
of the Honor Guard of the
Headquarters Company at
groundbreaking ceremonies at
Fort Crowder on September 2.
"The Fifth Army Commander,
Major General P. D. Ginder,
Congressman Dewey Short, Col.
Lincoln Wood, the post com-
mander, and Col. Arthur L.
Selby, commandant, all com-
mented on your fine appear-
ance and bearing," Major Wor-
COMMENDED — For his mili-
tary excellence. Garlón Rogers,
Canadian soldier, won a letter
of commendation last week
from his Commanding Officer.
den wrote in the letter of com-
mendation addressed to Spe-
cialist Rogers.
Big Scouters Rally
Scheduled Sunday
Free Barbecue Sunday Afternoon Will
Attract Scouters to Camp Ki-0-Wah
Boy Scout leaders and adult supporters from all over the Adobe
Walls Council, which covers the eastern half of the Texas Pan-
handle, are expected to converge on Camp Ki-O-Wah, east of Ca-
nadian. Sunday afternoon for a big free barbecue which will touch
olf the Boy Scout finance campaign for the coming year.
Rotary Rural-Urban
Steak Fry Tuesday
Attracts 144 Here
Canadian Rotarians entertain-
ed 144 members and guests at
the Rotary Club's annual Rural-
Urban steak fry Tuesday night
at Wildcat Stadium.
Rotarians served steak dinners,
with all the trimmings, to 67
farmers and ranchers and spe-
cial guests, 47 members of the
Canadian High School band, and
30 Rotary Club members.
Entertainment was provided by
the high school band under the
direction of Bandmaster Bill
Hendricks.
Labelled "Operation Green-
back" by E. F. Glasgow of Pam-
pa. chairman of the 1955 Co-
ordinated Campaign for the Ado-
be Walls Council, the Camp Ki-
O-Wah rally will get underway
at 3:30 o'clock Sunday after-
noon, September 25.
All committeemen for the com-
munity campaigns in thirty-six
Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle
towns have received invitations
to attend the barbecue and meet-
ing.
Borger Sheriff Hugh Anderson
is in charge of the barbecue.
A team of trainers will be on
hand, Glasgow said, to explain
to every committeeman his par-
ticular job in the coming finance
drive. The annual Boy Scout fi-
nance drive, usually held in Feb-
ruary, has been moved up this
year to October . . . and a state-
wide concerted drive is plannedd
with Campaign Day set for Oc-
tober 25.
J. B. Reid jr. is community
chairman for Canadian.
Reid has announced the ap-
pointment of special committee
chairmen for the drive, including
Bill Bartlett as special gifts
chairman, Warren Harrington as
^airman for general solicita-
tion, John Wilkinson as chair-
man of the auditing committee,
Ben Ezzell as publicity chair-
man, Ivan Conklin as chairman
of the arrangements committee,
and Jack King as chairman of
the Prospects and Rating Com-
mittee.
Representatives from Welling-
ton, Shamrock, Wheeler, Keller-
ville, McLean, Quail, Samnor-
wood, Memphis, Hedley, Claren-
don, Higgins, Canadian, Miami,
Groom. Panhandle. White Deer,
Beaver, Logan, Perryton, Booker.
Follett, Darrouzett, Boise City,
Keyes, Texhoma. Goodwell. Bak-
ersburg. Straight, Phillips, Hook-
er, Hardesty, Adims, Spearman.
Gruver, Morse and Skellytown
are expected to attend the rally-
Sunday at Camp Ki-O-Wah.
Two-Day Fair
Is Planned for
Sept. 30-Oct. 1
All Entries Due
By 10 o. m. on
Opening Day
Allison's annual Free Fair
will open next Friday morning.
September 30. at the Allison
High School building, Mrs.
Millard Donaldson, publicity
chairman, announced this
week.
Deadline for entries is 10 a. m.
Friday morning.
The Livestock Show will be
judged on Saturday, and ribbons
and prizes will be offered for all
divisions. First, second and third
place ribbons are to be awarded,
plus Grand Champion awards in
each division.
Other features of the fair will
include a Pet Show and Parade
for children, and flower and
fashion shows for all ages.
Entries are invited in divisions
for horses, sheep, hogs, poultry,
fresh vegetables, fruit, grain, cot-
ton. eggs, pastry, canning, sew.
ing, antiques, and art.
Darrell Malin, Allison school
superintendent, heads the Fair
Board, with Mrs. Adda Voight as
.secretary and Kim Ball as treas-
urer.
Judges for the fair are: Mr.
Brady, chairman: dress parade,
Mrs. L. Powledge and Mrs. Edna
Begert; concessions, Mr. Malin;
educational exhibit. Mr. Pruitt;
kid pet parade. Mrs. Jimmy
Field; beef cattle. Rex Miller;
dairy cattle, B. L. Wallace and
Jim Marshall; hogs, Glen El-
more; poultry and turkeys, Ern-
est Begert; fruits and vegetables,
Millard Donaldson; sheep. H. R.
Warren; crops, A. E. Dillon <sor-
ghums!; crops, Stanley Richard-
son; horses. Glen George; an-
tiques, Mrs. Copeland and Edna
Begert; cooking and canning,
Winnie Kiker; domestic science,
Mrs. Carl Levitt and Mrs. John
Glisan; publicity, Mrs. M. Don-
aldson; exhibit spacing, Mr. Ma-
lin; and special awards, Mrs.
Ray Brown and Mrs. Jameson.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Webb and
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Riley visited
in Stillwater, Oklahoma with
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Webb from
Thursday until Saturday last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Cleveland.
Mrs. Wm. M. Karr, Miss Daisy
Childress and Mrs. F. D. Teas
will attend the lee Follies in
Amarillo Thursday night.
Seismograph Crew
Will Move Here
In Six Weeks
A twenty-one member Mag-
nolia seismograph crew will be
located in Canadian in about six
weeks.
Advance members of the party
have already been in town to'
scout for living quarters, and
two members of the party have
already moved here.
The crew is moving to Mem-
phis foT a brief job, and is ex-
peeled to set up headquarters in
Canadian for a long stay prob-
ably about the first of Novem-
ber. Reports are that the Mag-
nolia crew may be located here
for as long as two years.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 22, 1955, newspaper, September 22, 1955; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183765/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.