The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 48, No. 19, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 12, 1955 Page: 1
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955
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wHE MAN who trims himself to
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suit everybody will soon whit
tie himself away
This bit of wisdom comes from
the bulletin of the Happy First Baptist
church Its true not only of
ministers but also of newspaper edl
3 TOWN TOPICS
ij ARM COOPERATIVES are in
the spotlight during these
days of high taxes For almost a
generation now many eyebrows
have been raised by advocates of
private enterprise as they saw what
J they believed to be an unfair tax
j advantage accorded coops
J As they always do where controversial
Issues are involved many
people veer to the extremes One
group believes coops are inherent
i ly socialistic and evil and should be
if legislated out of existence or the
laws repealed which make them possible
in the first place
Another group believes cooperatives
should supplant practically all
j business institutions If they could
they would buy all their food clothIng
and farm implements and would
sell all their farm products through
coops
TOWN TOPICS
UST LIKE labor unions cooperatives
came into being of ne
cessity When private enterprise failed
to meet a general need then
consumers were driven to do something
about it
When private enterprise failed to
provide modern and adequate grain
elevator or cotton ginning facilities
then the farmers got together and
built their own
TOWN TOPICS
FARMERS wanted electricity
WHEN
tricity and telephone service
they first asked private enterprise
to furnish these services Rightly so
private enterprise said the rate of
profit to be derived from such projects
made them undesirable
So farm cooperatives were the
only solution
TOWN TOPICS
OT ONLY ARE cooperatives an
economic necessity in cases
such as rural electricity and telephone
service but cooperatives of
any kind have an inherent right to
exist This is nothing more than
freedom of enterprise which this
country has enjoyed since its birth
If a group of farmers want to
band together and organize their
own millinery shop they have the
same right as do two townspeople
who want to enter the same kind
of business
True it is that all cooperatives are
not ggod for a community but nevertheless
they have the right to
exist
TOWN TOPICS
THIS ISNT all the story If
BUT
a group of farmers want to
come to town and go in business
they should have to abide by the
same rules of the game as do a
group of townspeople
This isnt the caseIn
the case of a conventional corporation
any profits made are subject
to a federal income tax ranging
from about 30 per cent to 50 percent
depending upon the amount of
the profit What is left may be paid
to the stockholders in the form of
dividends which then are subject to
ordinary personal income tax dou
ble taxation if you please
In the case of a cooperative it
car escape all federal income taxes
as a corporation Only tax paid is
that on the personal income of the
one who receives the dividend
TOWN TOPICS
E ARE NOT extolling the
merits or demerits of our
corporate income tax plan Frankly
we think the coops pay just taxes
when the members pay only on their
individual incomes
But whatever the system of taxation
it should be fair to everybody
When one group enjoys favoritism
then the other group automatically
is penalized
Whether a baseball team is allowed
three strikes or five is immaterial
the important thing is that the
same number be allowed for both
teams
TOWN TOPICS
S IT IS private enterprise can
not compete fairly with coop
eratives in cases where they desire
to do so because everything else
being equal one is taxed only once
while the other is taxed twice
This is not sound business Neither
is it fair play
TOWN TOPICS
S STATED IN the beginning
many coops are virtual neces
sities the electric and telephone as
well as grain elevators and cotton
gins where the independents for
some reason did not choose to enlarge
and modernize their facilities
to meet the needs of the times
But this philosophy of eliminating
the middle man all the way from
food to farm machinery is vicious
When it comes to retail business
institutions the field is highly competitive
No independent can long
survive if his profit is excessive His
independent competitors will put
him out of business without the aid
of a farm coop
To buy washing machines groceries
gasoline farm machinery and
other articles normally sold on the
retail market through a cooperative
for no other reason than to eliminate
the middle man is to assert that our
traditional system of retailing is all
wrong Its no more wrong for 100
per cunt of the buying public to eliminate
the middle man wiping him
out of our economic system than it
is for two or 50
TOWN TOPICS
Continued on Page Eight
try is owned by James Cullar of
Abilene manufacturer of high quality
evaporative air conditioners A
farming community this will be the
first payroll industry since the close
of the Chillicothe cotton oil business
VOL 48 NUMBER 19
fered her an honorary membership
in that organization
In 1888 she became a member of
arriving in Tulia she and her hus
band united with the Methodist
church in which she had served in
almost every official capactiy For
a time she was superintendent of
It is being hailed by civic and business
leaders as a return to a stabilizing
influence in the citys economy
which has been greatly handicapped
during the past five years of
drought Securing of the plant has
been largely accomplished through
the untiring efforts of Haskell R
Ward Dr R E Sitta and Ben K
Lawson who have encouraged the
location here since January of this
year For months Mr Cullar had
been considering the move from Abilene
to a new location to obtain
more room for expansion of his businessHis plant in Abilene covers 20
000 square feet of floor space He
said he plans to double that space
here Estimated number of employees
at beginning of production
Is from 28 to 50 persons gradually
working upwnrd as conditions arc
worked out The firm in Abilene is
producing 3000 air conditioners
SWISHER COUNTY winners in the District II 4H
elimination contest held Saturday in Lubbock were
from left Judy Dawson Love 4H Barbara Thorn
MRS ALICE B CRANE
two rural church schools
She had served as worthy matron
of the Tulia chapter Order of Eastern
Star
Survivors include two daughters
Welker both of Tulia three grand
children Stanley Cobb Vigo Park
Mrs C W Reeves off Tulia and
the First Christian church Upon I Mrs Lee Ochsner of Amarillo and
two greatgrandchildren
Pallbearers all former pupils
were W R Goodwin J G Burrow
Franklin Blocksom Orville Gardner
Harry Rogers and Virgil Goodwin
C <
Salos
mservico
B0X Dallas I s
yearly ho said
Roy M Craig editor and publisher
of the Stamford American devoted
his latest issue to the opening in
Stamford of the Feldt Manufacturing
company which lias customers In 44
states and Canada for Its mens ladies
and boys western clothing
I cant overemphasize the Importance
of the citizens of Stamford
realizing that Feldt Manufacturing
company Is a local concern owned
in a large part by local capital managed
by local people and employs
several hundred local people Anything
that we as Individuals can do
to further this company is of benefit
to the entire town Since this company
has come to Stamford inquires
from other companies about Stamford
have increased and just as sure
as you live you can bet that therell
bo another company or so locate
here within the year
The third leport of new Industry
Swisher County 411 club girls took honors in the District II
elimination contest in Lubbock Saturday The winners in the Senior
Division will go to the 411 Roundup in College Station June 810
1R Dinwiddle
Buried Tuesday
In Arizona
J R Dinwiddle 69 Tulia pioneer
died Saturday morning in
California where he had lived for
several years
Funeral services were held Tuesday
in Prescott Arizona
Survivors include his wife Prescott
a daughter Mrs L Dean Butler
Tulia and two grandchildren
Barbara Thornton daughter of Mr
and Mrs Joe Thornton Vigo Park
first in Dairy Foods individual
Carolyn Jones daughter of Mr
and Mrs Staley Jones and Judlnc
Young daughter of Mr and Mrs
L D Young took first in the Vegetable
team
Nancy Pyeatt daughter of Mr and
Mrs Loy Pyeatt and Sue Campbell
daughter of Mr and Mrs L F
Campbell won first in Junior Dairy
Foods team
Edith Herring daughter of Mr
and Mrs Charles Herring won second
in Public Speaking
Judy Dawson daughter of Mr and
Mrs D A Dawson look first in the
Junior Dairy foods individuals
Two bus loads of boys and girls
will go to 4H RoundUp from District
II
rs Alice B Crane Spent
Forty
Years In Classroom
Mrs Alice Barbara Crane 84 longtime Swisher county
resident and retired school teacher died Wednesday night in an
Amarillo convalescent home where she had been a patient four
months She had been in failing
health for some time
Funeral services were held Friday
at the Tulia First Methodist church
of which she had been an active
member The Rev Alby Cockrell
pastor officiated assisted by the
Rev W Neil Record pastor of the
Tulia First Baptist church Wallace
Funeral home was in charge of
burial in Rose Hill cemetery
Life began for Mrs Crane at Buffalo
Mo in 1870 When she was
young she moved with her parents
to Catlin III She was educated in
the rural schools of that state and
began teaching at the age of 18 She
attended college at Danville III and
at the University of Valparaiso IndianaShe majored in elementary education
because the five teachers in her
immediate family inspired her to
work with youth She taught 15 years
in the North and in 1908 she and her
husband the late Harvey D Crane
whom she had married at Cathn in
1896 moved to Texas where she gave
25 years of service to the schools
of Swisher county Delta Kappa
Gamma honored Mrs Crane for be
ing an outstanding teacher and of i Mrs Frank Cobb and Mrs C C
Are Saturday
At Kress
Mrs Dora Schmidt Buhrkuhl 75
died Monday In Contcsvillc Icnn
She was born Feb 2 1880 at
Morning Sun Iowa She was married
to Henry Buhrkuhl In 1899
They became the parents of 10
children one of whom died In infancyThe family moved to Texas in 1910
settling west of Tulia Later they
moved to Kress where he was engaged
in farming and in the grain
business Mr Buhrkuhl died in 1944
She is survived by the following
sons William of Ridley Park Penn
Albert Plainview Henry of Amarillo
and Robert of Lowell Ark
five daughters Elma Kunkel of Eu
gene Oregon Minnie Berner of
Springdale Ark Mary Kunkel Dexter
N M Agnes Obcnhaus Kress
and Dorothea Parks Plainview 41
grandchildren and 32 great grandchildren
Also surviving nnj nine
brothers and sisters
Funeral services will be held at
4 oclock Saturday at the Kress
Methodist church Burial will be in
Rose Hill cemetery at Tulia Rev A
A Anderson of the Providence Lutheran
church will officiate
Auxiliary Police
Receive Diploma
Members of Tullas auxiliary police
force received graduation certificates
Tuesday night at a meeting
held at Tulia Grill The 15 men
will assist the thrco regular offi
cers during emergencies
A 40hour training course ended a
week ago Claude Evans director
of training for the Amarillo Police
Department and commander of
Amarillos auxiliary police force conducted
the course at the request of
Tulia Police Chief Ted Hodges
Evans believes that Tulia is the
smallest city in the nation to have an
auxiliary police force
Members of the Tulia force are
Hollen Scott O A Arnold Mike
Powell Allen W Williams Jr Howard
L ODanlel Varna E Love
James M Cagle Loyd Hamilton
Frank P Madura Claude B Stana
land Eddie Walters Urban E Klc
man Leonard Gunkey and W B
Wiilingham
Willingham has been appointed
captain by Chief Hodges
A second 13weeks school will begin
Tuesday night since Tulia police
want to build up a sererve force of
25 men
comes from Crosbyton much closer
to home Editor V II Curry writing
In The Crosbyton Review has
this to say
When a dream turns Into a
reality Its sometimes n little hnrd
to believe For the past 10 years
Crosbyton people have done n lot
of talking nnd dreaming about securing
industry for the city This
week we can announce that we will
soon have our first manufacturing
plant It isnt going to be n huge
affair ns manufacturing plants go
but It Is certainly n start The employing
of from 20 to 40 people will
mean an Increase of more than a
hundred in the citys population
The 1930 census gives Crosbyton
1847 persons And the success of
one small corporation wc believe
will bo the stepping stone for more
small Industries in he future
There Is also another angle to considerTULIA Swisher County TEXAS THURSDAY MAY 12 1955
ton Vigo Park 4H Nancy Pyeatt Love 4H Jud
Ine Young KressPrice 4H Sue Campbell Love
4H Carolyn Jones Love 4H and Edith Herring
Sara Beth Barnhart with an
average of 9563 Is valedictorian of
the Kress High school senior class
lallrltta Logsdon 9125 is saluta
nrlnn There are 23 candidates
for graduation according to Supt
W W Webb
Dr Emmitt Smith professor of
education and director of student
caching at West Texas State College
will deliver the commencement nd
drcss May 27 at 8 pm in the high
school auditorium Tho commencement
sermon will be preached May
22 at 8 pm by A C Mcllroy minister
of the Kress Church of Christ
wers
Llndscy Robert Bowers CO died
in a Burnet hospital May 1 He
suffered a heart attack recently
Ho was a resident of Tulia from
1933 to 1915 before moving to central
Texas
Funeral services were conducted
Monday morning at the Burnet
First Baptist Church The Rev
Holland Smith pastor officiated
The body was taken to Junction
for graveside services
Mr Bowers was born February
11 1895 in Gillespie county He was
married to Reba Ellen Barnctt May
23 1920 at Floydada
Ho was a member of the First
Baptist Church Burnet and was a
veteran of World War I
Besides his wife of Burnet he is
survived by three sons Gerald Bowers
of McGregor Ernest Bowors of
Cactus and Robert Bowers of Bur
net a daughter Mrs Henry W Boston
of Tulia a brother W R Bowers
of Fort Worth two sisters Mrs
John Wallace of Hext a nd Mrs M
II Christenson of Payette Idaho
his stepmother Mrs S J Bowers
of Brady three half brothers Cecil
Bowers of Houston Alvle Bowers of
Fort Worth and Cleo Bowers of
Odessa and a half sister Mrs Mack
Ficker of Hext Also surviving are
seven grandsons Eugent and Gerald
Ray Bowers Fred and Charles Boston
Dean and Tim Bowers one
granddaughter Paulu Bowors
Othors from outoftown attending
the funeral were J T Harnett Mrs
Jack Blair Tulia Mr and Mrs R
S A Barnett Hale Center Mrs
S A Thompson Amarillo Mrs II
P Coleman Mrs Tracy Collins
Lockney and Mr and JArs Preston
Greenhaw Hale Center
Burial was in Junction cemetery
Pallbearers ware Androy B Miller
Owen Schlomach W II Smith L
C Lange Bobby Dickens and M
B LaVoice
Furlow Attended
Firemens Parley
T S Furlow attended the 42nd
semiannual convention of the Panhandle
Firemans Association held
Tuesday in Dumas Furlow is president
of the association
Highlighting the days program
were talks by Bryon Richburg
drivers license examiner for the
state highway patrol Mr and Mrs
T S Hayhurst and Mr and Mrs
Frank Sneathen also attended
There Is already a housing short
ago In Crosbyton The employees of
the new plant must have homes and
from 20 to 25 new homes must bo
built here in the immediate future
Although local labor will bo used as
much as possible someone must fill
the jobs these men are now doing
Tho building of new homes will mean
work for quite a number of other
people
Work is to start Immediately on
the buildings for a 100000 concern
which will manufacture concrete Irrigation
pipe aluminum surface pipe
and other irrigation supplies A deal
has been made with H T Snider to
purchase approximately seven acres
of land on the west side of his farm
as a location for the plant Don An
deison Crosbyton is president of
tho new concern
Griffiths Hunt sale will be May 11
17 Instead of dates Indicated In nd
COVERING SWISH lit COUNTY LIKE THE SUNSHINE
The Tuna Herald
THREE SECTIONS
Danny Solomon Don Pincher
Bob Dyer Are Honor Grads
Danny Solomon and Don Fincher both having u scholastic
average of 9131 for their four years work in Tulia High school
have tied for valedictorian honors in the JlIS senior class Hob
Dyer with a 0430 average will be salutaturian
Other candidates for graduation
whose averages were 90 or nbovo
arc Joann Stnnaland Sandra Pearson
Jo Ann Rowland Marsha Cock
rell Barbara Flynt Lornlne Smith
13111 Blvens Glen Herring Uonnio
Campbell Monetto Andrus Betty
Braley Dennis Patzlg Donald Fay
ing Mona Tucker Larry Barbour
Murvln Glenn BettI Lu Gatewood
and Kelly Atchley
Graduation exercises will bo held
May 21 In the high school auditor
ium Dr K N Jones president of
Texas Technological college will be
the principal speaker Tho commen
cement sermon will be preached
Sunday night May 22 by Rev W
Neil Record at the First Baptist
church auditorium Class night will
be May 20 in tho high school auditoriumTulia Youngsters
Win Quizdown
A team of fourth fifth and sixth
grade youngsters from Tulia
defeated n comparable team from
Will Rogers School of Amarillo to
win KGNCTVs Quizdown 800 to
525 Sunday afternoon Along with
the winning effort went n first
prize of a new table model radio
nnd individual competitors received
gold medals nnd red white and
blue Quizdown pencils
Leading 300 to 175 points at the
first intermission Tulia tacked another
400 points on the scoreboard
in the becond round on four perfect
answers to 200 for Will Rogers
Competing for Tulia were fourth
graders Douglas Johnson and Judith
Irlbeck fifth graders Leroy Hill
and Dana Jean Jlogers and sixth
graders Harry Lewis Jr and Michael
Shelton
Fourth grader Dale Ann Strickland
fifth grader Mack Scheid and slx
the grader Larry Stewart served at
alternates
Mrs Marjorlc Brewer of the Tulia
schools was sponsor of tho team
Tliis was the second year for Tulia
to win on the Quizdown series heard
each Sunday on both radio and televisionAmong those from this area submitting
questions for use on the program
were Evelyn Birkenfield
Nazareth Donna Key Moore Kress
and Stephen Schacher Nazareth
Baseball Players
Are Hospitalized
Four members of the Abilene baseball
team were injured about 2i30
am Monday when the automobile in
which they were traveling from
Amarillo to Abilene left the road and
crashed Into a tree a short distance
north of Tulia on Highway 87
They were Bobby Westfall manager
Scooter Hughes short stop
Sam Brown pitchor and J Haney
general manager
The injured were taken to Swisher
County hospital by Wallace ambulanceSTAY TUNED TO
1260 Kc
1000 watts
ow Drizzle Prepares Land
For Cotton Maize Planting
First general rain in months fell this week over the Golden
SpreadOfficial
Official fall in Tulia from Sunday night through Tuesday was
MRS MONA HILDRETH
fiSo
To Canyon
Mrs Monn Hildrcth tins resigned
her position as Swisher County Home
Demonstration agent to accept a
similar position In Randall county
She has held the local post for about
n year
Shu resigned due to the fact that
her husband is employed In Amarillo
They will live In Canyon and
ho will commute to his work Her resignation
will become effective June
4
Grass Judging
At District
Kinan Burk Harold Duke and
David Finch 4H Grass judging team
from Swisher county were winners
of the District II Grass Judging contest
held in Lubbock May 7 Klnan
Burk and Harold Duke tied for highpoint
individual with 229 out of a
possible 250 The tie was broken by
a misspelled word which gave Klnan
tho high individual and Harold second
high individual David Finch
came in third high individual with
220 points
These boys will represent Swisher
county at tho State Contest held during
RoundUp at College Station in
Juno
Hall Services Held
At Mineral Wells
J W Hall long time Tulia rest
dent died Sunday night at Mineral
Wells Funeral services were Tuesday
at Mineral Wells
He died following a lengthy illnessSurvivors Include his wife
three sons
re
General Showers Dent Drouth
Industry Comes To Three West Texas Towns
A dream of most every community
large and small is the bringing
to town of new industry more
people and added payrolls These
communities dream of small factories
bringing new income to town
Although much time is spent discussing
theso dreams they seldom
get beyond the talking stage
However in three West Texas
communities recently these dreams
have bloomed into reality
A new industry for Chillicothe
piomising a yearly payroll estimated
to be between 50000 and 100
000 is expected to begin full scale
her6 by fall according to Ann
Kennedy in her paper the Chilli
cothe Valley News The new indus
162 inches bringing the weeks
total to 258 inches Unofficial
readings in the vicinity were up
to three inches
Showers started late Sunday and
continued intermittently through
Monday and Tuesday bringing welcome
relief to drouthparched areas
of the southern PanhandleHigh
Plains district Almost five inches
were reported in a rural section of
Floyd county Almost every section
of the area received at least a half
InchAlthough
Although some hall was reported
In some sections none was re
ceived in Tulia vicinity For the
most part the rain fell gently with
every drop going Into the ground
Tulia was included in a storm
warning Issued Monday afternoon
however no violent weather arrivedAlthough the rain was too late to
benefit dryland wheat farmers hailed
the moistures benefit to farmlands
where cotton nnd grain sorghum
will be planted
Good rains in the South Plains
gave fnrmers hopes of another mil
lionbale cotton crop
Jnrvis Zecck IG miles southwest
of Tulia reported 175 inches this
week and one inch a week ago
Mrs C II Poff 20 miles northwest
of Tulia reported about 90
inch She said they failed to receive
appreciable moisture last week and
Sunday night
Earl Jones 35 miles east and
north of Tulia on the rim of the
canyon reports a total of four inches
during tho past week
O Huxford Tulia measured nearly
two Inches this week bringing
tho weeks total to about 31 Inches
lu
Three Tulia High school boys
Jim Wallace Jeff Carlllo and Jar
us Fowler have been selected to
nttend Boys State which will convene
In Austin June 511 For many
years this project has been sponsored
by Tulia Klwanis club and
Tulia American Legion
Boys State sponsored by the
American Legion of Texas provides
training in citizenship through a
model state organization run entirely
by the boys who represent tho
cream of Texas youth
The local boys will travel to Austin
by chartered bus
Jaycees Install
New Officers
Bob Paulson of Childress state
vice president of Region 2 Texas
Junior Chamber of Commerce served
as installing officer Monday night
when Tulia Jaycees installed new
officers
The installation banquet was held
In Noltos Dining Room Visiting
groups were present from Plainview
Amarillo and Childress organizationsNew officers are Donald Crocker
president Johnny Emmitt first vice
nnd president Sam Powell second vice
onhnued on Page 121j
pvmRsoN
a Foster Betty Patterson
onor Graduates At Happy
May 20 s Pinal Day
To Release Acreage
Says County ASC
If you are not going to plant your
cotton allotment or any part of it
come in to the Swisher County ASC
office and release it so that tt can
be reappointed to someone who will
plant it and the county can get credit
for it Elmor Craig told cotton
farmers this week
It will be necessary for you to
come in and sign the proscribed form
to release your cotton acreage Final
date to release it is May 20
Netha Foster McCarley daughter
of Mr and Mrs G B Foster of
Tulia has been named valedictorian
of the Happy High school graduating
class Her average was 90
Miss Betty Sue Patterson daughter
of Mr and Mrs John Patterson
of Happy is salutatorian with an
88SS average
Graduation exercises at Happy
will be Friday May 20 at 8 p m in
the high school gymnasium
The Rev Bill Hogue pastor of
the Happy First Baptist church will
deliver the commencement sermon
May 15 at 8 pm in the First Baptist
church
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