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New Sound System Is Installed at Auditorium
New Curtain Club Play Is
Scheduled for September 6
as
be one of the headliners in the son.
cast of the new Curtain Club Wayne Hulme, who made a
the
Mayor Malouf Abraham will daughter from marrying Luigi's tomey; and J. B. Reid Jr.
"Lucifer," a visitor from
nether-world.
Others include Pearl Teague
play, "Rest Assured," which is big hit with local audiences in fls Luig,,s departed wliCi Abe
scheduled for production at the "My Friend Irma" last spring, Haddox as a nervous mortician;
High School Auditorium on the has the role of the son; and and Randy Carver as a ragged
night of September 6. Carol Pinson is the daughter. newsboy.
The mayor has a leading role Also cast in top roles in the Tickets for the play will go on
in the three-act comedy as "Lu- play are Virginia Carver as Mrs. sale later this month. Reserved
igi Lanconi," an Italian meat Morelock, Madsen's long-suffer- seats will be $1, general admis-
cutter. Playing opposite him as ing wife; Eleanor Owens as his sion 75 cents for adults and 50
the other male lead will be Dr. 13-year-old daughter, Jessica, cents for students.
Dick Madsen, who has appeared who is training to be a iady The play will be staged imme-
in several Curtain Club produc- wrestler; Floy Williams as Mil- diately following the annual
tions, as a high-pressure busi- dred, the maid; Jennie Deaton as PTA-Faculty reception at the
ness tycoon, "P. U. Morelock," Morelock's secretary and Bill high school on the night of the
who is determined to keep his Jackson as his brow-beaten at- 6th.
rrs NOT THE HUMIDITY
rrs THE HEATI
Heat Wave Breaks Records Here
As Mercury Soars to 5-Day High
It's not the humidity . . . it's Tuesday was hot, too, but the
the heat! lawn sprinkler on courthouse
This area is riding the crest hill hit the official weather bu-
of a record-breaking heat wave, reau thermometer and the max-
according to County Agent War- imum temperature recorded was
ren Pickens, who is also the of- a co°l 100 degrees.
ficial weather observer here. On Wednesday, with the
If you've been super-heated sprinklers moved to a respecta-
the past few days, it hasn't been ble distance, the official tem-
Just your imagination. perature maximum was 103.
Beginning Saturday, August 4, The first three days of August
when the mercury rocketed to were relatively cool . . . with a
104 degrees, Canadian residents reading of 95 degrees on August
have been sweltering through a 1 and 2. and 96 on the 3rd.
steady parade of record-break- The nights have kept pace
ing hot days . . . and nights. with the days since the big hot-
Sunday's temperature hit 106',í foot began on Saturday . . . with
degrees, and Monday's rocketed minimum temperatures since
to a new record at 107. (Continued on Page 4)
The Canadian record
VOLUME 67 — NUMBER 32
CANADIAN, HEMPHILL COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1956
TV Cable Service Due October 1
$1,000 Gift from
Curtain Club
Installation of a thousand-dollar sound system fox the Canadian
High School auditorium has been completed, and the system win
be introduced to the public on the night of September 6 when the
Canadian Curtain Club presents its first play of the new season, a
three-act comedy called "Rest Assured."
The sound system is being presented to the schools by the Cut*
tain Club, and proceeds from the September play and others ta
follow will be used to pay for the installation.
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CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK
THURSDAY, Aug. 9 — V. F. W.
meeting, 7:30 p. m.
Masonic Lodge Called Meet-
ing, 3rd-Degree, 7:30 p. m.
FRIDAY, Aug. 10 — Lions Club
meeting, Lake Marvin, 7 p. m.
SATURDAY, Au# 11—Apprecia-
tion Day Drawing, City Hall,
4:00 p. m. (Time Changed).
MONDAY, Aug. 13—Chamber of
Commerce meeting, City Hall,
7:30 p. m.
Boy Scouts meeting, Legion
Hall, 7:00 p. m.
'Eastern Star meeting, 7:30 p.
m.
TUESDAY, Aug. 14—Rotary Club
meeting, noon, WCTU bldg.
Big Brothers meeting, High
School, 7:30 p. m.
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 15 — Mid-
week services, all churches.
THURSDAY, Aug. 16 — V. F. W.
meeting, 7:30 p. m.
Masonic Lodge regular meet-
ing, 7:30 p. m.
• * *
Don't overlook the change of
time for the weekly Apprecia-
tion Day drawing, effective
this week. It will be held at 4
o'clock Saturday afternoon in-
stead of 2 o'clock as in the
past. The kitty will bs S465.
* * *
Big Brothers Club will meet
Tuesday night at 7:30 at the
high school. All interested men
are invited.
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First services of the Baptist
Mission Church in the church
building moved to the site this
week will be held Sunday
morning at 9:30 a. m. The old
Church of Christ building, pur-
chased by the Baptist Church
for the Mission, has been mov-
ed from 6th street to the new
location at First and Panhan-
dle. Dedication services will be
announced later.
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In the Hospital today: Mrs. W.
L. Barton, William Shaw. Dis-
missed during the week: Mrs.
Paul Evans, Mrs. Boyd Huff and
baby, and Mrs. W. L. Owens
(August 3); Mrs. James Snyder
(AuRUst 5).
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Dr. E. H. Morris was oper-
ated for removal of gall blad-
der at St. Mary's Hospital in
Galveston Tuesday morning,
and is reported to be getting
along all right. In a letter re-
ceived by The Record this
morning (Thursday) Mrs. Mor-
ris asked us to "thank the
folks for their kindness and
thoughtfulness to us down
here. Please teU them." she
added, "that we will try to
thank them individually as
soon as we can do so. There
have been so many nice cards
and letters, and they have aU
helped us. Dr. Morris was op-
erated today, and has had a
fairly good post-operative day.
The weather here is hot I" We
know the doctor's many friends
• will be glad to have this word.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stroud left
by car Wednesday morning for
*- {e of Washington, where
visit their son.
NEW COMMUNITY TOWER WILL BE NEAR SITE OF FIRST ONE:
First Television Reception Here
Was on Water Tower Hill in '50
TV made its first appearance nadian Record reported in a fea-
in Canadian on the night of ture story in the issue of June
June 8, 1950, when Max and Cert 15 Q{ {hat r
Callaway, in cooperation with '
Dean Cook, set u¿ an open-air ^er attempts to bring in a
demonstration with a portable clear signal at a downtown lo-
antenna on the hill south of cation, with the aid of a 75-foot
town near the city water tower tower mounted atop the Calla-
. . . only a few yards from the way brothers' Killarney Cafe,
proposed site of the new 400-foot were less successful . . . and the
Community TV antenna. project was temporarily aban-
The television receiver was a doned.
21-tube General Electric with a The same site which was used
12-inch screen set up in the rear in the pioneering TV test here
end of a pick-up truck. has been selected by the organ-
"Signals from the Oklahoma izers of TV Cable Service for the
City station came in clear and erection of their new 400-foot
strong on both nights," The Ca- community antenna.
Lions Club Plans
Barbecue at Lake
Members of the Canadi-
an Lions Club will be hosts
to visiting Lions and wives
at a barbecue at Lake Mar-
vin Friday night honoring
Lions Club District Govern-
or Don B. Stark of Amaril-
lo.
Between 110 and 115
Lions and guests are ex-
pected for the ladies' night
affair at the Lake.
Harry Wilbur jr. of the
Canadian club, who has
been appointed Zone Chair-
man, has called a meeting
of the Governor's advisory
committee just prior to the
barbecue, and club presi-
dents and cabinet officers
from the six Lions clubs in
this zone are expected to
be here.
Club officers expected
here will be from Lions
Clubs at Mobeetie, Lefors,
Pampa (two clubs), Perry-
ton and Canadian.
The barbecue is slated
for 7 o'clock Friday night.
To Be Ready by
World Series Date
Installation of a 400-foot Community TV tower, and cable and
equipment capable of carrying 12 channels, will be started as
soon as equipment . . . which is now on order . . . can be deliv-
ered. according to Wm. J. Jackson, general manager of Canadian's
newest busines «enterprise. TV Cable Service.
The project, which has been in the mill for several months, got
the green light this week as final financial arrangements were
completed. The company will be entirely locally owned and op-
erated, Jackson said.
The system consists of six
high-fidelity microphones, sus-
pended in two rows over the
stage and concealed from the
audience; and twelve speakers
distributed around the auditor-
ium, under the balcony and in
the balcony.
Designed for the Curtain Club
by General Electric sound tech-
nicians, the new audio system is
planned as a sound-booster to
lick the problem of bad acous-
tics in the auditorium, particu-
larly aimed at "dead spots" un-
der the balcony and at the sides
of the auditorium.
Planned for use of both stage
presentations and for individual
speakers, the system includes, in
addition to the six overhead mi-
crophones, a floor mike to be
used at a speaker's podium.
Also included in the set-up is
a connection for phonograph at-
tachment, so that recordings can
be played through the system.
The audio system-has been in
use by Curtain Club members
for the past two weeks in re- untn midni ht on A t 2]L
hearsals for the September 6th three d jor t0 the election.
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Absentee Voting
Awaits Printing
Of New Ballots
Only Three Polls
Will Be Opened
In This County
Absentee voting for the run-
off primary August 25th offi-
cially started Monday . . . but
while applications for absen-
tee ballots are being accepted
at the office of the County
Clerk, no ballots have been
printed as yet.
County Democratic Chairman
J. B. Reid jr. said ballots would
be prepared for the printer as
soon as certification of candi-
dates has been received from the
State Democratic Chairman.
Absentee voting will continue
Hemphill County Clerk Hiranb
Park said only one application
for an absentee ballot had been
will be con-
DISTRICT GOVERNOR Dan B. Stark
of Amarillo will visit the Canadian
Lions Club Friday night.
Magnolia Well May
Be First Big Gasser
the pay zone, however, and the
company is drilling ahead in a
search for the Morrow sand. The
test is scheduled to go to 13,500
feet.
Company officials have an-
nounced, however, that they be-
lieve they have a commercial
gas well from the Tonkawa for-
the first in Hemphill
Magnolia's No. 1 D. D. Feld-
mrm. Hemphill county's new-
est deep wildcat was drilling
ahead this week after encoun-
tering a big show of gas on a
drillstem test last midweek at
about 7.500 feet.
Indications were that Magnol
ia has a good commercial gas
ser in the Feldman test. On a mation
drillstem test between 7,4G1 and county.
7,608 feet in the lower Tonkawa, The well is located in Section
the well flowed gas at the rate 43, block 42, H&TC survey, about
of 1,500,000 cubic feet a day, (en miles cast of Glazier on the
with recovery of 275 feet of heav- Margaret Hodgson section*
ily gas-cut and slightly oil-cu> Geologists said there is a pos-
mud. sibility that the formation in
The tool was open for two the Hemphill county test is the
hours, gas surfacing in 30 min- same as that which is showing
utes, and pressure continued to production in Stanolind's No. 1
increase throughout the test. Frazier, two and a half miles
Casing has been set through (Continued on Page 4)
Target date for getting the
system in operation with service
on at least one channel is Oc-
tober 1 ... in time for the open-
ing of the 1956 World Series.
"If we are not held up on de-
livery of materials and supplies,
we might beat that date by a
couple of weeks," Jackson said.
Equipment for the $20,000 in-
stallation was on order this
week. A site for the tower has
been located adjacent to the city
water tower on a hill south of
town; and a lease agreement has
been made with the City of Ca-
nadian for use of its utility poles
to carry the service cable to Ca-
nadian homes.
The proposed system will cover
about 80 per cent of Canadian's
residential area initially. Jack-
son said.
Cable service will be available
to all homes in ihe College Hill
section, in the Central Park ad-
dition, and in part of the South
Side addition . . . and along
Seventh street through most of
its length for a distance of two
to three blocks on each side.
The downtown district may or
inay not be covered by the in-
itial installation, Jackson said.
Plans for this area are not def-
inite.
Service will not be extended at
this time north or west of High-
way 60.
Initial plans are to monitor
three TV channels. First to go in
service on the system will be
Channel 4.
Channel 9 or Channel 10 will
probably be added next, to be
followed by Channel 5.
"We plan to have all three
channels in service within two
to three months after we begin
actual operations," Jackson said.
'We will add the two additional
channels as quickly as possible."
A full-time serviceman will be
employed by the company to
maintain cable service to indi-
vidual subscribers.
The company is still accepting
a few advance subscriptions at
a special rate arrangement, Jack-
son said. Advance subscriptions
cost $100, plus tax. and include
connection fee and 6-months ad-
vance rental at $6 per month.
For the initial subscribers, the
monthly rental fee will remain
at $6 plus tax.
For subscribers tying into the
system after it is in operation.
Jackson said, a $25 connection
fee will be charged, and the
monthly rental fee will be $7.50
plus tax.
Advance subscribers will be
the first to get cable service.
Anyone wanting to subscribe
for advance service may contact
Jackson or John Wilkinson at
the Chamber of Commerce office,
Jackson said.
play, which will be the first
staged by the Club under its own
auspices. All previous produc-
tions by the Curtain Club during ^eFved^aT"midweek"
the past three years have been Voters here wm marR a short
for the benefit of other organi- ba]]ot ¡n the
run-off election.
i * • ' Only two state races . . . and
"Until the sound system is one district race
paid for, however," Curtain Club teste(|
president Ben Ezzell announced,, Major ¡m of cou wiI1
•no other benefit productions center on the Governor-s race
will be scheduled. The Curtain where price Dan¡el and Ralph
Club has gone in debt to the yarborough will battle it out
tune of $feo0 to pay for this in- Danjel ,ed in the first primary
stalla ion, and all profits from b a m jn of 162(m voteSf
our plays will be used for this about 40 cent o£ the total
purpose until the indebtedness is cast. yarborough had a little
pair' _ more than 29 per cent of the
The Curtain Club is a non- pr¡mary vote
profit organization established Another state - wide run - off
nearly three years ago by local contest w¡]1 ^ between former
amateur theatrical enthusiasts Supreme Court Justice will wil_
for the purpose of providing pub- son and WacQ d5strict attorney
lie entertainment and raising -pom jvioore for the office of At-
money for various civic projects To General. Wilson held a
Beneficiaries of Curtain Club big lead in lhe primary, but
plays have included the Jiouth miSseKj a cjear majority by a
A public hearing on the Recreation Program, Boy Scouts, sma]j margin. Moore has incli-
school budget for the 1956-57 ,anc^ Student Council, among oth- catecj will fight it out to the
school year has been called ers- Among its productions have finish
by the Board of Trustees of "Arsenic and Old tace, jn tbe Lieutenant Governor's
the Canadian schools for, "Good Housekeeping, 4 Blithe racet however, where incumbent
Spirit," and "The Whole Town s Ben Ramsey piled up a big lead
Talking. over (bree opponents but nar-
Another Curtain Club produc- rowjy m¡ssecj a majority, the No.
tion is tentatively scheduled for 2 man in the race_ Senator A m.
a November date. Aikin jr., has withdrawn from
'the run-off. Aikin said doctor's
orders forced him to drop the
BUDGET HEARING
SET FOR AUG. 20
Monday night, August 20, at
8 o'clock at the high school.
All patrons of the Canadi-
an school district who are
interested in the school
budget are invited to be
present, Supt. Woodie Beene
announces.
Mrs. Mary Louther and daugh-
ters will leave Saturday morn-
ing on a two-weeks vacation to
Pennsylvania.
GARDENHIRE'S HIRING DOESN'T TAKE:
New Science Teacher Named; But
New Assistant Coach Gets Away
BULLETIN
Canadian high school is still
seeking an assistant coach.
Andy Gardenhire, hired by the
School Board Tuesday night,
notified Supt. Woodie Beene
this morning (Thursday) that
he has accepted a post as as-
sistant coach at Quanah High
School instead.
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contest.
Ramsey's name will appear on
the run-off ballot, but he will
be without opposition.
One district race will attract
local voters. A ruii-off contest is
slated between O. B. Hunt and
Charles L. Ballman, both of Bor-
I ger, for the 86th Legislative Dis-
i trict spot in the State House of
Representatives. Hunt held a
the narrow lead over Ballman in the
: three-way Primary race, but the
way as science teacher in
high school. | ... . ... _
Gardenhire. a 1955 graduate of \ílr¡ can(hdate, Rosa Jane White
West Texas State College, was of Borger- P«lled enough votes
head coach for the Lakevievv 'n ,ile •"'■county district to call
Eagles during the 1955-56 sea-1íor a run oif between Ballman
son. A native of Memphis, he an/' Iun<-
Only three polling places will
played football with the Mem-
phis Cyclones and, for two years,
with the Texas Tech Red Raiders
at Lubbock before transferring
to West Texas State at Canyon
Two new teachers were added ior his final two >'ears of college
to the Canadian High School work-
faculty Tuesday night as mem- He holds a Bachelor of Arts
bers of the Board of Trustees degree from West Texas State,
met in regular session. and has been in college at Can-
Supt, Woodie Beene has an- yon this summer working to-
nounced the hiring of Andy Gar- ward a Master's degree, which
denhire, head coach last year at he expects to complete next sum-
Lakeview, as assistant to Head mer.
Coach Grady Burnett here; and Gardenhire is married, and
Charles H. Lansdowne of Dar-
rouzett to succeed Vaden Hollo
School Asks Bids
For Bus Service
be opened in this county for the
run-off election, County Chair
man Reid has announced.
Polls will be at the Courthouse
in Canadian, at Allison and at
either Glazier or Booster.
23-Man Seismograph
Crew Moving in
This Week-end
Another 23-man seismograph
crew is moving into Canadian
this week-end . . . and housing
is urgently needed, Mayor Ma-
louf Abraham reported this week.
A Texas Seismograph Compa-
ny crew which includes eight
his two daughters, Sheila, age
4, and Dena, 2 years old.
Mr. and Mrs. Gardenhire and
family expect to move to Cana-
dian in about two weeks.
Lansdowne has been teaching
science at Darrouzett high families and fifteen single men
school. He was hired by the is establishing headquarters here
, A.. , . -Board Tuesday night, after the for operations currently centered
Bids y resignation of Vaden Holloway in an area between Canadian
had been accepted.
| Holloway has been hired to
head the science department in
the Perryton schools at a con-
increase in salary,
the Board of Trustees of the Ca
nadian schools from local serv-
ice stations on gasoline, oils,
greases and minor repairs for
school buses during the 1956-57 sjderable
school year. jSupt. Beene reported.
Service is to be effective be-, Lansdowne is a graduate of
and Wheeler. The crew is mov-
ing here from Perryton.
The Texas Seismograph crew
is working on explorations for
Humble Oil and Refining Com-
pany.
Furnished and unfurnished
ginning September 1. Bids will panhandle A&M College at Good- houses and apartments are in
be received by the Board up to well, Oklahoma. demand, and a housing shortage
8 p. m. Monday, August 20, Supt. | jje is married, and has four in Canadian is becoming ^ reai-
Woodie Beene said. daughters one a sophomore in ity again. The Canadian Cham-
Bids may be turned in to the high school, one in the 8th ber of Commerce office is hand
Superintendent, or to any mem- grade, and two of pre school ling listings of available rent-
ber of the School Board. 1 age. ¡ ais. No fee is charged.
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