The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1954 Page: 1 of 12
twelve pages : ill. ; page 22 x 16 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Paducah “The
Friendliest Little
City In Texas”
The Paducah post
—THE RrtDUCAH POST—
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN THE
WORLD THAT GIVES A ‘HOOT
ABOUT NEWS OF PEOPLE
YOU KNOW!
'•*NS
RTY-SEVENTH YEAR. NO. 36
TWELVE PAGES
THE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954
PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY
AL HINDS
Prattler had the privilege of
attending a 6:30 breakfast
Thanksgiving morning at the
fire station as guest, of Fire
Chief Sandlin and his good wife.
The Chief warned Prattler by,,
telephone around 5:30 that thd
alarm would be sounded at
6:15. We wanted to see the ex-
pression on the firemen’s faces
and their action as they arriv-
ed at the station, so we got
down at the city hall around
6 a.m. As Prattler has said
many, many times through this
column we are proud of our
very fine, loyal and efficient
volunteer fire department. Of
course Prattler enjoyed the
breakfast, but it did our heart
good to see so many of those
present stand up and give
thanks on that Thanksgiving
morn. Members of the city
council, peace officers, minis-
ters and yours truly were guests
at the breakfast.
—o— —
The following little story, by
way of friend Wylie Boyle, we
think is worth repeating: A
fellow at the depot dropped a
coin in some scales to check
his weight, and a card rolled
out which said: “Weight 150
pounds, and you are waiting
on the southbound train.” The
fellow was amazed the machine
could tell his weight and that
he was waiting on a southbound
train, so he dropped another
coin in the machine, got on and
weighed again. Out came a card
. . . “weight 150 pounds and you
are still waiting on the south-
bound train.” That was just
too much, so the fellow ‘snuck
up’ behind the machine, reached
around, dropped in another coin
and hurriedly jumped on the
scales. This time out rolled a
card which read: “weight, 150
pounds, but you fooled around
and missed the southbound
train.”
——Q——*
For last we^k-end football
games involving teams in the
Southwest Conference and., the
Dragons, we batted 60 per cent.
For the coming week-end orily
one game remains in Southwest
conference play and for that
one we pick SMU to squeeze
past Notre Dame. We take the
Dragons 42, Clifton 13, for the
second round of the play-offs.
—o—
Letters to Santa Claus are
arriving at our desk. This is
one sure way to remember that
Christmas is just around the
corner. Little boys and girls
may rest assured your letters
will be forwarded to St. Nick,
North Pole, in plenty of time
for the Grand Old Man to
fill your orders . , . provided
of course you continue to re-
main “good little boys ajnd
girls.”
Thanks to Peggy Osburn and
Laverne Chaney, former Padu-
cahians now of Wichita Falls,
mimeographed sheets advertis-
ing the Regional 1-A football
game, Paducah Dragons vs. Clif-
ton Cubs to be played at Coy-
ote Stadium tomorrow night,
Friday, Dec. 3, 7:30 o'clock, haje
been distributed over Wichita
Falls. Thanks again to these
“gals” for the fine publicity.
Not too long ago Prattler ran
an article in this column on
“What is a Boy?” so a reader
asked this scribe if we would
publish the article below on
What is a Girl?” Since we have
one each of those creatures
what else could we do?
Little girls are the nicest
things that happen to people.
They are born with a little bit
of angel-shine about them and
though it wears thin some-
times, there is always enough
left to lasso your heart—even
when they are sitting in the
mud, or crying temperamental
tears, or parading up the street
in mother’s best clothes.
A little girl can be sweeter
(and badder) oftener than any-
one else in the world. She can
jitter around, and stomp, and
make funny noises that frazzle
your nerves, yet just when you
open your mouth, she stands
there demure with that special
look in her eyes. A girl is Inno-
cence playing in the mud, Beau-
ty standing on its head, and
Motherhood dragging a doll by
the foot.
Girls are available in five
colors—black, white, red, yellow,
or brown, yet Mother Nature
always manages to select your
favorite color when you place
Jyour order. They disprove the
law of supply and demand—
there are millions of little girls,
but each is as precious as ru-
bies.
God borrows from many crea-
tures to make a little girl. He
(Continued on Page 12)
LAND BOUGHT.
NEW BUILDING
PLANNED HERE
Another expansion of Padu-
cah’s business district is threat-
ening. K. Haddad, Mangum,
Okla., purchased lots 19 to 24,
block 8, Paducah, from .W. C.
Briggs earlier this month.
Fred Haddad, manager of the
Save-Way Food Market, states
his father intends to build a
super market building on the
location which is southeast cor-
ner of the post office block,
on the highway. The Haddads
believe this would be an ex-
'ellent location for a grocery
ousiness. Plenty of parking
space, a big asset to modern
shoppers, is to be found at that
spot.
Construction of the building is
planned soon after the begin-
ning of next year.
GRAND JURORS
FOR DEC. TERM
COURT NAMED
List of Grand Jurors selected
to serve at the December term,
1954 District Court, Cottle coun-
ty, beginning Monday, Dec. 6,
follows:
Arbie Biddy, V. E. Thomas,
Alfred N. Cribbs, W. E. Smith,
Dan Latimer, R. B. Ransom,
Donald Love, Mac Austin, S. E.
Holley, O. T. Owens, N. W.
Smith, G. R. Shavor, Aulton B.
Irons, Ben. Ellis, James Terry,
Alec Crump.
McMurry College Band Will Appear In Concert: Here
64 Applications
Processed For
Emergency Feed
At press time today. Thurs-
day, 64 applications* had been
filed and, processed for Cottle-
King counties in ;the emergency
drouth feed „ program, Arrell
Cummings of The FHA office
said.
Cottle-King counties were
placed back on the hay - and
feed program early in Novem-
ber by action of the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture.
A break-down earlier in the
week revealed 34 applications
were approved for 123 tons of
hay, 2,827,200 pounds of sur-
plus grain, which involved 14,-
378 head of livestock, Cum-
mings pointed out.
16.174 BALES
WEIGHED IN
AT COMPRESS
Figures released Wednesday
revealed the Paducah Compress
had weighed in 16,174 bales.
To the same time the five
town gins had processed 8,100
bales from the 1954 crop.
To the same d&te last year,
the Paducah gins/had turned out
I, 250 bales, and’ the Compress
hdd weighed in 2;668 bales.
J. C. Penney Co.
Authorizes Special
Year-End Payment
J. C. Penney Company, nation-
wide department store organi-
zation, announced today that its
directors have authorized a spec-
ial year-end payment for more
than 50,000 associates in the
company’s 1,639 stores, offices
and warehouses throughout the
United States.
The payment will be ah
amount equal to two weeks’
pay for all full-time associates
who have been employed for the
full year 1954, and proportionate
amounts for those employed
less than a year, according, tb
Dargan Sims, local J. C. Penney
store manager.
All Penney associates will
share in the payment except
management staff members
whose earnings are determined
largely by the company’s long-
standing profit-sharing plan.
It will be made Dec. 15.
The payment is in addition
to regular company provisions
for associates’ benefits, includ-
ing Sick benefit, Gratuitous
Death and Dismemberment ben-
efit, Thrift and Profit-Sharing
Retirement Fund plans, dis-
counts on company purchases
and others.
The McMurry College Indian
Band, under direction of Ray-
mond T. Bynum, will be pre-
sented in a concert at the Pa-
ducah High School auditorium
at 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 6.
The public is invited.
The McMurry band’s appear-
ance in Paducah is under the
auspices of the Paducah High
School Band.
The Indian Band will play
8 other concerts in addition to
the Paducah program on its
fall tour of Northwest Texas.
Its itinerary for the tour in-
cludes Rochester, Seymour (two
concerts), Paducah, Abernathy,
Levelland, Brownfield, Lamesa
and Snyder.
The band’s concert in Padu-
cah will feature a variety of in-
strumental soloists and ensem-
bles, vocal soloists and a ro-
mantic duet, symphonic ar-
rangements, novelty numbers,
and the Latin-American rhy-
thms which have become a
trademark of the McMurry mu-
sical group.
Dorothy King of Throckmor-
ton, soprano, and Jim Pollard
of Vernon, baritone, are the
band’s featured vocalists. Miss
King will sing “Italian Street
Song” and Pollard will sing
“Deep in My Heart”—two se-
lections from the operetta, “The
Student Prince.”
The two students will blend
their voices in a duet arrange-
ment of “Serenade” from the
same operetta.
For a touch of variety, the
band features Ike Dillingham,
Abilene freshman, whistling
“Listen to the Mockingbird.”
Another novelty number in
the 55-piece band’s large reper-
tory is “Three Blind Mice at the
Night Club Floorshow.”
Every member of the McMur-
ry- Band is an instrumental
specialist, capable of perform-
ing solos or in ensemble groups.
Some of the soloists who will
be heard on the fall tour, and
their numbers, are Jack Darnell,
trombonist, “Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot;” Audrey Carver, marim-
ba, “Deep Purple;” Stella Ber-
gen, alto saxophone, “Estilian
Caprice;” and a cornet trio—
Tommy Fry, Bill Fiveash, and
Bob Newman—on Leroy Ander-
son’s famous “Buglers’ Holiday.”
Two selection from the band’s
large library of Latin-American
music will be heard in the con-
cert. They are Morton Gould’s
“Tropical,” and a mambo rhy-
thm, “Si Trocadero.”
Other numbers to be heard
in the band’s concerts include
“Jaulosie,” “Londonderry Air,”
Fred Waring’s choral arrange-
ment of “The Battle Hymn of
the Republic,” and the overture
“Orpheus.”
The McMurry musicians will
make the fall tour in two col-
lege-owned Flexible buses,
leaving Abilene Sunday morning
and returning Wednesday, By-
num said.
PEP SQUAD
SHAKEN UP
IN COLLISION
Members of the Paducah High
School pep squad, along with
driver R. D. Tye and Miss Mar -
gurite Mathis were shaken up
and,.*’ xtw cuts an,1, bruises re-
ceived last Thursday night when
their school bus and a pickup
truck collided at Beverly Drive
and Iowa Park road, Wichita
Falls.
The bus, driven by R. D.
Tye, was making a left turn
into the highway, heading back
to Paducah after the Paducah-
Pilot Point game. State High-
way Patrolmen J. D. Hotchkiss
and D. E. Polk said it was in-
volved in an accident with a
1950 Ford pickup driven by Fred
W. Street, 35-year-old Iowa Park
pipeliner. Street’s truck was
heavily damaged and his left
hand was cut by flying glass.
He did not require hospital at-
tention.
The officers said Street was
traveling east on the busy
highway, headed toward Wichita
Falls. The left front fender of
the bus and the 1950 Ford were
smashed.
Pep squad girls were load-
ed on two other buses for the
ride home. Tye reported at the
emergency room at Wichita
General Hospital for observation
following the mishap.
First Showings
Today, Thursday
Of 1955 Mercury
First showings of the new
1955 Mercury is on display to-
day, Thursday, December 2, at
the Paducah Motor Company
,and in dealer showrooms
throughout the nation.
Bold lines of the completely
new bodies represent an evo-
lution of basic Mercury styling.
Post readers may turn to
the back page of today’s paper
for an advertisement concern-
ing the new Mercury showing.
Mrs. M. B. Moore
Dies In Canyon,
Burial At Wayside
Mrs. M. B. Moore, 89, passed
away at 4:00 a.m., Nov. 25, in
the hospital at Canyon. She was
buried at Wayside Saturday at
3:00 p.m.
Mrs. Moore was an aunt of
H. H. Moore and Rev. A. D.
Moore, Paducah.
Born anuary 10, 1865, Mrs.
Moore has 120 living descend-
ants. She is survived by seven
children, 32 grandchildren, 75
great-grandchildren six great-
great-grandchildren and a sister.
COMPLETING COURSE
Donald Dawson West, 21, son
of Mr’ and Mrs. Clarence West,
Paducah^ is completing his Air
Force basic military training
course at Lackland Air Force
Base, the “Gateway to the Air
Force.”
Brother Of Local
Resident Passes
In Oklahoma Gty
Final services were conduct-
ed in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Monday for Sam Woody, age 71,
brother of Mrs. O. D. Hutchin-
son of this city who attended
the funeral. Interment was made
ifi an Oklahoma City Cemetery.
Woody died in a hospital
in Oklahoma City where he had
been taken following a heart
attack Friday at his home.
Survivors include his wife
and three daughters of Okla-
homa City, six grandchildren,
one other sister, Mrs. George
Dobbs, Snyder, Okla.; four
brothers, Frank Woody, Harry
Woody,, Oscar Woody of Lub-
bock, and Drew Woody, Snyder,
Okla.
LIONS HEAR
MISS EUDORA
HAWKINS
Members of the Lions Club
heard Miss Eudora Hawkins of
the West Texas Utilities Co., Ab-
ilene, speak on “Immigration
Laws and Problems” at today’s
noon luncheon session. The cul-
inary committee, Roy Jones, Carl
Darr and S. E. Boothe, were in
charge of the program.
“Deportation laws are still not
strict enough,” Miss Hawkins
said.
“Immigration is a privilege
a nation has the right to grant
or reject and we have let in
more immigrants than we can
assimilate,” Miss Hawkins point-
ed out.
“One of the more important
things we have been lax in is
that our country has never
asked immigrants if they were
Christians,” Miss Hawkins em-
phasized. “We must keep out
wretched refugees,” she con-
cluded.
Lions voted to co-sponsor
with the Quarterback Club the
district football banquet here on
January 10. Roy Powell and Hen-
ry Brooks were appointed as
committee to work with Tom
Sandlin, Cecil Carr and Bill
Mulkey of the Quarterback Club
to work out plans.
Supt. Alton Farr announced
a football rally will be held to-
night on the square at 6:30.
Another rally is slated for Fri-
day morning at 10:30 at the
high school auditorium at which
business men are especially in-
vited to attend.
Merchants agreed to close
their places of business at least
by 4 p.m. Friday in order to
allow ample time to attend the
Paducah-Clifton football game
at Wichita Falls.
Lions voted to donate $100 to
the. Ministerial Alliance to be
used in helping needy families j
at Christmas time and through-
out the year.
M. J. Carmichael announced
that Paducah netted $1,597.22
from the Dragon-Pilot Point
football game.
Visitors present were Bill
Warren, Wichita Falls, Louis
Sally, Childress, Ray Veatch,
Lubbock.
COUNTY GETS
FOUR MORE
WATER WELLS
Four more good water wells
have been completed in the
county as continued dry weather
is making farmers here more
and more “irrigation well mind-
ed.” ,
Jack Tippen, Jack Parnell,
Pat Jones, in the Sneedville
area, and Joe Isbelil, Chalk,
have brought in good wells,
running around 1,000 gallons
per minute. The wells are be-
tween 175 and 200 feet deep.
Marvin Townley, P. R. John-
son, Delwin, and J. D, Slape,
Chalk, have stated they will
drill, Vernon Goodwin said.
This brings the total to 38
irrigation wells for Cottle coun-
ty to date.
~
Biggs Air Force Base
Participated In
Demonstration Drop
Sgt. Jasper Taylor, 24, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Marion F. Taylor,
Route 2, Paducah, was one of
63 paratroopers of the 80th
Airborne Battalion who recent-
ly participated in a demonstra-
tion drop at Biggs Air Force
Base, El Paso.
Sgt. Taylor, a section chief
in Battery D of the battalion,
part of the 82nd Airborne Di-
vision, is regularly stationed at
Fort Bragg, N. C. He entered
the Army in 1948 and holds the
Parachutist and Glider Badges.
His wife, Sammie, lives in
Spring Lake, N. C. .
HOSPITAL
NOTES
Mrs. J. W. Boley.
Mrs. B. T. Smith.
Mr. W. H. Harrison.
Mrs. Catherine Garcia.
Mrs. Marvin Smith.
Mrs. Antonio Gomez.
DISMISSED ,
Ml Roy Biddy.
Mr. Marvin Allison. /‘h
Mrs. A. P. Hollar.
Mrs. Albert Axe. - - —
Mr. A. B. Naul.
David Plasencio.
Mrs. Domingo Garza.
Mrs. Lewis Newcomb.
Mr. Green Powell.
Mrs. Victor Gutierrez and son.
Cynthia Jane Carter.
Gloria Nunez.
Mr. Paul Whitener.
Miss Patricia Jones.
Mrs. Charlie Conley and
daughter.
BIRTHS
To Mr. and Mrs. Victor Gu-
tierrez, a son, Nov. 24.
To Mr. and Mrs. Domingo
Garza, a daughter, Nov. 24.
To Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Con:
ley, a daughter, Nov. 30.
Janice Tucker
Polio Victim Is
Returned Home
Little Janice Tucker, two-
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Randall Tucker, was re-
turned.; to her home, here Wed-
nesday of last week, after spend-
ing 10 weeks in the Plainview
polio center.
,-,Jfemicfe entered the West Tex-
as polio center on Sept. 16. Al-
though she has a brace on. her
right leg and walks With Crut-
ches, the little girl is “all
smiles” just to be able to move
about, and to be home.
Farmers Co-op Gin
Fire Loss Runs
Less Than $5,000
Final fire loss figures to, the
Farmers Co-op Gin cotton stor-
age building and contents were
released Tuesday of this week
by Chief Price Sandlin.
The fire, which broke out
in the cotton storage building
at the gin on the afternoon of
Oct. 22, did less than $5,000
damage to the building and con-
tents, Sandlin said.
Early estimates, following the
stubborn blaze, were reported to
be around $10,000.
Rev. J. A. Lunsford
To Speak At First
Bapt. Church Sun.
Rev. J. A. Lunsford, Brazil
Missionary for the past 14 years,
will speak at the First Baptist
Church here Sunday morning
and at the evening service will
show slides and films.
Rev. Lunsford formerly was
pastor of the First Baptist
Church at O’Donnell and is
well known throughout West
Texas. He will be accompanied
to Paducah by his wife.
Father of Wilson
Womack Dies
At Floydada
E. J. Womack, 67, a resi-
dent of Floydada since ; 1911,
passed away this morning,
Thursday, in a hospital there.
Womack is the father of Wil-
son Womack, formerly of this
city, but now residing in Hous-
ton.
Final rites were pending at
press time.
Ben Tippen
Slightly Improved
Condition of Ben Tippen, who
entered the Methodist Hospi-
tal at Lubbock nearly two weeks
ago, was reported slightly im-
proved at press time.
Tipnen entered the hospital
suffering from pneumonia and
heart condition.
CHEVROLET GOT.
OFFICERS HOT,
THIEF ON SPOT
Sheriff Elmer Clark, City
Marshal Granville Martin, as-
sisted by Foard county deputy
sheriff Joe Ricks were on “the
ball” last Wednesday night, and
after giving chase to the Hollis
cut-off north of Childress, ap-
prehended Harold Davis, who-
a few hours prior to that time
had stolen a 1952 Chevrolet
from the Paducah Motor Co.
warehouse. Davis had hidden
in the building prior to closing
time, and later opened the doors
from the inside.
Davis, who had resided here
about a week, his wife and two
small children were in the sto-
len automobile when officers
overtook him. He smashed in-
to the large road sign when he
attempted to turn onto the Hol-
lis highway at a high rate of
speed. Around $200 damage was
done to the car, Roy Powell of
Paducah Motor Company esti-
mated.
Davis was taken to the Lub-
bock jail for safekeeping since
one time in the past he had
broken out of the Paducah jaiL
FM ROAD WORK
PROGRESSING
ON SCHEDULE
Cottle county farm-to-market
road project from end of FM
road 1038 at Salt Creek to Hack-
berry, a distance of approxi-
mately 4.1 miles, and from end
FM road 1038 at Salt Creek to
Chalk, a distance of around
4.0 miles, is progressing on
schedule.
Pile driving steel for bridges
and laying gravel from Salt
Creek schoolhouse toward Hack-
berry was underway early this
week.
Cage Brothers of San Antonio
has the contract on the pro-
ject and Harold Strebeck, Lub-
bock, is supervising the worig
Merchants Sponsor
Broadcast Clifton-
Paducah Game
C. L. Robertson Agency, Hall-
Scruggs, Hutchison’s, Powell Bu-
tane and Appliance, J. E. Nor-
ris Furniture Co., and Hanks
Bros. Food Store, will sponsor
a “tape” recording broadcast Of
the Paducah-Clifton football
game to be played at Coyote
Stadium, Wichita Falls, Friday
night.
Play by play account of the
regional playoff game may be
heard over radio station KOLJ,
Quanah, at 9:05 Saturday morn-
ing, Dec. 4.
Although most all Paducah-
ians will follow the team to
Wichita Falls, a number of fans
may wish to tune in Saturday
morning over KOLJ and hear
the “tape” recording broadcast.
CROWELL MAN
RAMS CAR INTO
TREE NEAR HERE
An estimated six or seven
hundred dollars damage re-
sulted to a 1951 Chevrolet around
5 a.m. Thanksgiving morning,
when the car driven by Earl
Davis of Crowell ran off the
highway and smashed into a
tree near the seven-mile park
east of Paducah.
According to a Crowell phy-
sician, Davis received only mi-
nor injuries, but entered the
Foard County Hospital for
treatment.
School Will Dismiss
Friday At 2:15 P.M.
Paducah schools will dismiss
tomorrow, Friday, at 2:15 pjsu,.
according to an announcement
made at press time.
This will allow students and
faculty plenty of time to drive
to Wichita Falls tQ attend the
Paducah-Clifton regional play-
off football game.
Attend District
Conference, Vernon
Rev. James E. Tidwell, Mr.
and Mrs. E. A. Carlock, Levi
Goodwin and L. V. Anderson
were in Vernon Tuesday attend-
ing the Methodist District Con-
ference held at First Church in
that city.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1954, newspaper, December 2, 1954; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1034720/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.