The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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CLOSES SATURDAY
WITH CASH PRIZES
Bargain Days To Close
With Final Drive To
, Clear Up Lists
"""Cor
Due to the snowstorm on last
I Saturday the Review bargain days
have been extended to Satuftfay
February 24, when the present
I rgtes will go off with the contest
staged al the Review office at 4
I o'clock- Saturday afternoon, Feb-
| ruary ■
Tf you know yourself indebted
L, the Review on subscription you
would be saving money if at all
possible to renew for your Review
today or "tomorrow. You need your
home paper and we need you. Re-
member at that rate you get' 52
copies, a little less than 2 cents a
paper, for only $1.00 in Crosby
land adjoining counties, and $1.50
[elsewhere. If you want the Aval
"We are fortunate in getting W.
G. Kennedy, Member State Soil
nservatlon Board, ter med with
the land owners of Crosby Coun-
ty,' Saturday afternoon, February
V Z4~ut 2:30, in tt*p district court
room at Crosbyton," Ralph Howe,
county agent> has announced.
He. will discuss and outline the
necessaipr requirements to formu-
late Crosby County into a Soil
Conservation District
Texas Act. * "
[anche we can still give you the
1 oorabination rate of $5.75 for both
[for one year. Semi-Weekly Farm
I Farm News, both papers for $1.80,
I Pathfinder and Review, both
papers for one, $1.50, —~ -
CROSBYTON GETS
A MAXIMUM FIRST
CREDIT OK25 P'CT.
Savings of $3,047 to-Poli-
cy Holders of City
Announced
Crosbyton received the maxi-
mum of 25 cents for good fire re^
cord in 1939, it was announced
last Friday by Marvin Hall State
Fire. Insurance Commissioner. The
savings amounted to *$3,047. There
were seventy seven towns receiv-
ing credit, forty-nine, received the
maximum credit, six the maxi-
mum penalty, and rfeven ^remained'
neutral.
W. G. KENNEDY TO 7
TALK TO FARMERS
HERE FEBRUARY 28
Will Outline Requirement
For Soil Conserva-
tion District —
All land owners of the county
are invited to attend this-meeting
and hear this important} subject
discussed, said Mr. Howe.
TUESDAY MEETING
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Two Members of Board
Resign and Appoint-
ments Made j
J. D. Tussy, president oif Cros-
byton School Board, ani Pete
Marsh, member of the^i>oard, re-
signed, their positions at a meet-
ing of the board Tuesday night,.
GeOrge Crump and eT D. Cash
were appointed to fill the unexpir-
ed terms of the two members re
srgnirig.","W7"P.Lam!ir7"vTce""presN
dent of «the board, became presi-
dent.
Mr. Lamar, L. D. Huckabay and
T. W. Stockton, members whose
terms expire, in.April, filed for re-
election. ..The election"" will take
place the first Saturday in April.
The board approve,<i the new
grade school buildffigfcahd moving
day for the, grades was observed
Thursday. The primary depart-
Would you like to help the underprivileged
children of Crosbyton by givingl a cash dona-
tion .toward the lunch room project.
Clip this coupon and bring or send to the Re-
view office. Please sign-your name.- —~ ~
v
Amount $ -
REA COMMITTEES
UP NEWMEMBERS
Electricity To Be Ready
Foi" Members By
Summer - -
—A tatal—of~=^—~havev been
signed up to date for installation
of the Rural Electrification pros-
pective line into* Crosby county
from th§ Floyd County Coopera-
tive. Staking crews were said to
have been sent out Wednesday of
this week to stake out the routes
foj- 86-mile extension" in "Floyd,
Crosby and Dickens counties Jn^
preperation for starting the con-
struction^., soon. C. T. Hjgginbo-
tham, one of the committeemen
said Tuesday that they have been
promised that the electricity was
to be ready here by summer.
ers on the line is $2.45 per 25 KW
>said Mr. HigginbotJvam. if one is
off the line a 1000 feet it is tl^e
same price..If one is off the line
a half mile it would be necessary
to pay $4.00 per month to get the
extension. A mile would be $8.00.
Of course the more subscribers a.-
long the' extensions wuuld make
the price that mucn lighter on
eacH one, it was pointed out.
DO YOU HAVE SOME
SURPLUS PISHES
The Boy Scouts will make a
house to house canvass Satur-
day for . dishes , for the new
lunchrbom. They need approx-
imately 100 more dishes, such
as -dinner plates, cups and sau-
soup bowls, small dessert
8, glass or china.
'hose who have a surplus of
ihes and would like to con-
ibute them to the lunch room
would be do)ng a good service
If you do not plan to be at
home Saturday just place them
outside where the Boy Scouts
can see them and they will be
picked up. '
LUNCH ROOM TO
OPEN MONDAY AT
GRADE SCHOOL
Organisations of the City
Make Local Project
Possible
The new "School lunch room,
sponsored by the Texas " Relief
Commission and WPA, and co-
sponsored by the Crosby ton,' Inde
pendent school district, will open
Monday, February 2.6, in the dfouth
east corner of the? pew^school
CROSBYTON WINS
SECOND PLACE IN
Lorenzo Wins First Place
In Games Played at
Ralls Gym
Lorenzo won first place in the
Crosby county Basketball Tourna-
ment" held this jweek and last at
Ralls. Crosbyt&n was second,'Ro-
bertson third'and Ralls fourth.
■ Ctosbyton'pleiycd three—gamOH)
defeating Robertson 30 to 9; Ralld
.10 to 24, and losing to Lorenzo 39
to 25.
Chas. Freeman was high in the
Robertson game with 7 points and
Edd Blackwood second with 6.
Gray with 17 and Martin with 16
both of Lorenzo, were high point
men in that game. Freeman Witli
19 points was high in the Raits
game, with Barrington of Ralls
second with 14.
Track training- will begin offi-
cially Monday, said Coach W. W.
Wilson. . ' '
Filial basketball game of the
season will be between the Chiefs
and a team made up of faculty
members, said Coach Wilson. A
small admission charge will be
made and proceeds will go td the
award fund.
building. " The1 local organizations
assisting in the project £tre: the
Chamber of Commerce, ' Lions
Club, Parent-Teacher Association,
City of Crosbyton, Crosby county,
and- Business and Professional
Women's Club, said Mrs. Mildred
Crump, district field supervisor,
who was in Crosbyton Wednesday
Mrs. Crump said that all meals
would be well balanced, and ia op-
en to all students, both high
school and grade school. After the
ii^st week the menu will appear
each week in the paper. Serving
of the meal will begin at 11:45
and accomodations have been ar-
ranged to take care of l08 at on^
time. Tickets will be issued by the
Home Room teacher under the di-
rection of Mr,~Qrmon, said Mrs.
Crump. The price of the ticket
will be 10 cents, and may be pur-
chased-by the day, week or month
Primary purpose of the lunch
room is to feed the underprivileg-
ed and undernourished children,
tunity to secure a hot lunch, Mrs.,
Crump said. Children may furnish
food if they care to, and will,, be
given credit for the food on their
meal tickets.
To start with the room will
h ave seven workers, paid by tho
WPA. A supervisor, to be appoint-
ed try the Texas Relief. Commis-
sion, has not yet been announced.
The WPA furnishes the labor
and surplus commodities, and the
MANY
RELATED BY
CAUGHT IN SI
Worst Storm Here Since
1918 State Old Set-
tiers of City
The February 16th. "Issue, of
Review, had no more than
the postoffice' on last
when it begin to snow which,
ered in one of the most memoiable
snow storms for this section in
recent years, and perhaps in some
HARRY HINES
HARRY HINES TO
SEEK OFFICE OF
GOVERNOR OF TEX,
Makes Announcement
Tuesday Night j
Austin, Feb. 21—Tossing - his
hat into the ring with" an .an-
nouncement as a candidate for
Governor of Texas, Harry Hines
member of the Texas _ Highway
Commission for; the past five
years, last night raised the cur-
tain on the 1940 " gubernatonc1
contest.
Hines announcing that he would
later issue a platform and discuss
every issue pertinent to the camJ
paigrt in full rtetflil put hi
respects most severe of record.
Snow begin falling at 9 o'clock
Friday morning, it was Wet and
melted for a considerable time be-
fore it begin to stick on the
ground, but with about,, the same
sonstant fall througout the day
and with a high wind by late in
the afternoon drifts were piled
ten to 14 feet high in many places.
Snow con-
....
record on several burning -issues.
He pledged himself:
1.-Against the sales tax, jvhich
he termed a tax on proverty and
opposed to his understanding "Of
the; meaning of Democracy;
' 2. Tn favor of fulfillment of -the
social security program, including
payment of • adeqjjate old age "pen-
sions, and aid to'' ftppenrfent vTiTIe-
ren. needy blind, (he State's part
of th« teachers' retirement pro-
tinued to fall through most of Fri-
day night and a light fall contin-
ued until 10 o'clock on Saturday.
The school busses left out at 2
p. m. on Friday with an attempt
to make their route, but none of
them got very far until they were
bogged down in high snow drifts
The Kalgary bus reached a point
about half mile east of T, W,
Stocktons and stalled, Ttje chidrea
w^re guided to farm homes and
spent the-night. T. W. Stockton
had 17, W. T. Dunn a number as
did E. Lawson. Some of the par-
ents did not know how their child-
Ten were farmg~tHrough the en-
tire night as there was no way to
find out. '
The .Fast Plains bus reached tho
Mauley home-whereat skidded off
in the bar ditch. 10 of the children
were at the Marley home and
others were ~a1r~ different'—home3
there. The Mt. Blanco bus got as
far as. Roilin Artley's home, and
tii£_Smith Ward bus to the Austin
home. All children were , safely
housed - ' ;
COTTON ALLOTMENT
FOR CROSBY CO. IS
GIVEN 5,000 A. CUT
1940 Allotment Placed At
91,433 Acres States
Jack Bradshaw
Crosby- county's . cotton allot-
I ment for 1940 is placed at 91,-
433 acres, according to Jack. Brad-
shaw, assistant to the county a-
gent, who said Tuesday that it
was a reduction of 5,000 acres ov-
er that of last year. Reason fo^
reduction was the reduction in the
state allotment, which is 230,000
[acres this year. ... ~
For feed in the "county 105,000
I acres have been allowed, and for
I wheat, 41,958 acres. There are
1308,354 acres of tillable land in
the county. Cotton, feed and
[wheat take up 75 per cent of this
(amount and *25 per cent remain-
ling is soil conserving acres, Mr.
[Bradshaw said.
A reduction of
|er 19 South plains counties has
|been made over that of last year.
JUDGING TEAMS
TO ENTER TECH
F F A CONTESTS
and Meat Teams to
Compete in Annual
Contesta
ment was moved into the new
building and other grades were
shifted to rooms vacated' by the
primary deartment.
Miss Hazel Louise Bryant, elect-
ed as Home Economics teacher,
was unable to accept as the school
board where she is employed re-
fused to release her from her con-
tract. Two other applications for
the place were rejected.
BAPTIST^ REVIVAL
THIS YEAR TO BE
FRQM MARCH 10-24
.
Pastor Will Preach; Rev.
Jess Lunsford Will
Lead Singing
The regular Spring Revival of
the Baptist church wiil be held
this year March 10-24, the pdfetor,
Rev. Noel V. Guice, has announc-
ed. Rev. Guice wll do the preach-
ing for the meeting, with Rev.
Jess Lunsford leading in the mu-
sic.
BASKETBALL GIRLS
TO PRESENT PLAY
NEXT THURSDAY
1
Western Comedy Full Of
Thrills Froifr Start
To Finish
co-sponsors the neees/.iry food to
suplant this, along with the" room
and equipment. Later it is hoped
to have the names of all organiza-
tions, Churches and individuals
who contributed to the project.
GIRLS TEAM HAS
GOOD RECORD; 12 .
OF 18 GAMES WON
Crosbyton will be represented
it the Annual Texas Tech Judg-
ing: contests to be held Saturday,
February 24. Teams- in meat iden-
tification and Dairy Cattle Judg-
ing will bid for honors in the con-
n't where approximately 60 de-
partments will have teams.
The Te^as Tech contests have
-rown so large that two day?
be used to cart; for all the
p°ntests. The contest Saturday
1x5 ^e first half.. The last half
II be held the first part of A-
rr which time two mor$
is win be chosen.
Members of the Dairy Cattle
earn to compete Saturday are
McKachern, Dean Hucka-
■y, Otis Justus and J. W. Woods.
of ttle Meat tecun will
P01 be announced until Friday.
LUB pA®NPTS in-
terior or BUILDING
Clult Qaf® was closed Tues-
onjuid Wednesday as
wfre btuty giving the in-,
new coat of paint and a
(•novation. *~
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Rev. Lunsford is an outstanding
Gospel singer. He was a success
as a radio singer before he be-
cameL a* gospel-singer. Folks never
tire of singing with him and hear-
ing him <sing.
This Revival is designed to help,
every church in town, said Rev.
Guice. It will be a Baptist Revival
only in name. He earnestly soli-
cits the co-operation of all the
other churches and promises the
The girls basketball-Jteam is
presentng a three-jict western co-
medy in the high school auditor-
ium Thursday, February 29. Thai
proceeds will be used to buy jack-
ets for the gir.ls.
Eighteen years 'before the play
opens, an overland bus is wrecked
in Blue Canyon. The sole survivor
was a beautiful four months old
baby who was taken in and care
for by Steve and Minnie Haws, a
western couple. No one ever came
to claim the child^so they raised
her as their own and called her
Rose. « vi-
church's co-operation with them
in return." Let's "Love One Ano-
ther," he said.
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Band To Present A
Negro Minstrel Here .
First Week in April
A Negro Mnstrel entitled, "ITie
Lazy Moon Minstrel" by J. C. Mc-
Mullin Will be staged the first
week in April in the high school
auditorium, Band Master Bill Ro-
berson announced this week.
Mr. Roberson said a complete,
fulluvening's minstrel show with
lots of comedy will be ,< given for
Crosbyton Band beneftf.
Mrs. Wily Curry, asMat^d by B.
B. Terrell and BUI -Roberson will
direct the show. Oat of-towrt mu-
sicians will appear ^ ori -Uie—^pro-
gram. The mixed cast of 18 will
be selected soon, Mr. Roberson
s^id-
found living with Minnie in the
mining village r of Sleepy Creek.
Steve has passed away five years
before. Rose is the life of the'vil-
lage and is adored by everyone on
the small ranch wheh they own.
She is loved by Curtis Trent who
gets possession of a claim near
Sleepy Creek and strikes "pay-
dirt". "i '
A fairly recent arrival in Sleep-
y Creek is Jason Mitchell, a sqtave
Easterner, who represents the EU** <
reka Development Company. Ja>
son-seeks to buy out or get shafe
of Curtis' claim and failing in
tnis, he plots with Hank Mason, a
native, to steal the deed to the
claim. In this he is cleverly out-
witted by Rose.
Characters in the play are as
follows: Rose, the flower of the
ranch, Anna Beth Smith; Mrs.
Minnie Hawes , who rules the
ranch, Dora Bell Gilmore; Texas
Hurley, who works on the ranch,
J. W. Woods; Mehitablg Pickens,
newsy and nosey, Wanda Gilmore;
Curtis Trent, a young prospector,
Thillman Johnson; Jason Mitchell,
from the east, Ray Haltom; .
Claire King, a young school
teacher, Mildred Witt; Mrs. Wil-
liunrJonlanr^n^tcraiaB^ ^^ oty,
Mudna n i Bio.
COMMISSIONERS COURT
APPROVES AUDIT OF
COUNTY OFFICIALS
Merriman & Campbell, public
of
the audit last week of the books
of each county officer, and the
audit was presented to the court
at the February meeting of the
body.
The auditors expressed thanks
for the many courtesies extended
by the officers and complimented
the records of each officer..
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Place Second in County
Tournament Past
Week-End
BR
OF J. F. ROBERTS
CD WED. AT TEAGUEt
R. B. (Unfile Bob) Smith, of
Lubbock wps jnow bound hera.
over the wefkend. He managed
to get out to the ranch Friday and
remained until Mortlay.
tBrit DiUard. '• v
a Mexican girl, Blehe Scott; Hank
Mason, a native, Wayne . Smith;
Sherff Daniel Busts, the .boss of
the county. Gardner Smith.
——r—0*~
Estrel Furto\fi Who Mai .been
employed at a picture sfiow "in
the past
has returned home.
Mr. an<T Mrs. J, F. Robrts, and
son, Perry Roberts, were called to
Teague, Texas, on last Wednesday
on the death of Felix the elcfest
broker Of J. F. Roberts. Mr. and
Mts. Roberts wiil. remain - there
for a month or more. Perry re-
•turned "home the first pf week.
—a—; O •
Mr. and Mrs. Rayford Palmer
and baby .have moved back here
from Plainview after few months
sts.y in that city. Mr. Palmer is
employed as salesman for Jef-
freys Tractor ' Company. The
residing in the Roberson
tments on Fourth street.
February 20 concluded a suc-
cessful basketball season for tho
girls of Crosbyton high school.
The team won 12 otlt of 18 games
played. #
Following is the list of games
played with the scores:
Lorenzo, lefist 10 to. 22; Robert-
son, won 18 to 11; McAdoo, lost
36 to 37; Outsiders, won 16 to 13;
Silverton, won 34 to 9; Lockney,
won 28 to .16; Robertson won 14
o 5; Ralls,~w6n 32 to 15;
Matador lost 16 to 66;^ Graham
won 21 to 11; Post lost 13 to 18:
Lockney, won 22 to 11; Ralls won
26 to 13; Abernathy lost, 29 to 39;
Ralls won, 26 to 12; Robertson-
won 14 to 10; Lorenzo lost, 13to
15; Ralls won, 23 to 10.
The club was nosed out by Lo-
renzo in the last game mentioned
in the county championship tour-
nament, placing the local girls in
gecondpiaeem
gram.—= ;
3The raising of the* additional
monv needed to pay these obliga-
tions by cooperation with the leg-
islators, spreading the cost with-
out 'dealing a death blow to any
cne group." -
Hines indicated he will be a con-
seryatiye candidate, and declared,
he will not try to "out promise
the promisers." and promised,, to,
be a" "doer instead of a a promis-
er."
"At no time need to expect Har-
ry Hines to play upon ignorance
or emotion in an effort to bait
Twenty stranded people stayed
at the McLaughlin Filling Station
on highway 24 on the' East Plains
Two cars were completely submer-
ged at the caprock west of Dick-
ens. Fourteen cars were reported
to have stranded between here
and Ralls on Friday night. It was
Sunday morning before the high-
way was cleared between Crosby-
ton aQ,d Lubbock and cars were al-
lowed to pass through. No mail
was received at Crosbyton from
Friday until Monday at noon.
Several Crosbyton people were
voters." he said. "If sound basic stranded at Lubbock Friday night,
fundamental of government as en-
visioned by our forefathers based
on honesty, integrity and economy
is an insult to their intelligence -to
an Insult to their intelligence to
promise them impractical, un-
suond, vote getting bait."
THREE BUCK BOYS FAIL V
TO REACH STATE CHAMPS
After hayfng fought their way
contests at Fort Worth last week
end for £he state championships,
two of the Buck boys, Shelby and
John, lost their dicisions, on split,
votes by the judges. Linard Buck,
another entry, lpst earlier in the
matches.
including R. E. Smith, W. M. Ro-
mane, Cap Ellison, Mr. and "Mrs.
Roy Harris, jack Arthur got back
as far as Ralls Friday and remain-
ed there until Saturday night.
Temperatures were not so low
23 and 26 degrees for the two days
of the storm. The moisture con-
tent is hard to determine, our
guage measured 1.40 inches, how-
ever, it was in a section of about
14 inches of snow. Probably 7 to.
(Continued on "Back Page)
TRACTOR MEN ATTEND
MEETING AT "DALLAS
family is
apartment
MARRUAE CERTIFICATES
The following marriage certlfi-
cates have been issued by County
Clerk, Bmsy Pieratt," the past two
weeks.
Frank Hamilton and Miss Dor
othy
Gardner: Willie Orville
Woody and Miss Margie Davis;
George Carroll And Miss Mary Ed*
few month* wards; D. B, Ellison atOS' MiW
JOnM. ' .' T—
L, P. Jeffreys, owner of Jef-
freys Tractor Company; C. V.
Shelton. and H. E. Mosley, sales-
men; and Dennis Robertson, me-
chanic, attended a meeting Mon-
day and Tuesday of Ford Tractor
representatives at Dallas.
Besides hearing representatives
of the company speak', the dealers
celebrated the arrival of two spe-
cial train loads Of Ford tractors.
Two of the cars, holding 14 trac-
tors each, were shipped to the lo-
cal company\at Crosbyton, and
another two cars were shipped to
the company at Spur.
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THR1E1T, fiaOflBYTON WOTS
a"<WIM WITH U. S. , ARMY
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Grady B. Hancock, John L. Col-
lir and Guy Williams, three Cros-
byton men, have signed up "for
service in the U. 8. Infantry at
San Francisoo Presidio, Sgt. E! O.
Slater, recruiting officer,at Lub-
bock. haa reported.
• NEXT ISSUE: H. V.
Kaltenborn, noted radio
news analyst, will review
the first six months of
Europe's warfare — ■
special article exehuhre
in this paper.
A commentary on
what's happened, s div
Mission of trends sad a
(•recast of the fatara
'• fshflang
ma tie frontiers all <K>
Vested for yea by the
r radio
Walck hr *h
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$3.00 SCHOOL PAY-
MENT IS RECEIVED
Salary Aid Check is AJsa
, Received
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A payment of $3.00'on state
-school -aj
ed here last week by R, H. Now-
lin, county superintendent, mth
this payment a total of $9.00 M*
been paid on this year's appCHN
tionment of $22, Mr. Nowlin said
One half of the salary aid was
also received by Mr. Nowlin, ii* .
mountirjg to $?,000 for the coun-
ty. $2,968 of this amount went to
the common school' districts of
the county and the balance to the
Independent districts.
The first payment of the
transportation allotment is
mlsed to be coming
18.
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a picture as could be
wherewith his near
He his. made a number of
tures since installing the:.:
Machine two w^eks ago. He i
has a flourscope among other
floe improvements.
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