The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1968 Page: 1 of 8
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UCAH POST
THURSDAY, Ma
The Paducah Post
TEN CENTS PER COPY*
NUMBER 9
PADUCAH, TEXAS 79248
^SECOND YEAR
THE PADUCAH
PRICE
POST
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1968
YOUTH-LED CRUSADE DEGINS FRIDAY
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ALL FLAVORS
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BY
Mrs. Beck To
Present Students
Rites Held
Wednesday For
Mrs. Dobbs
Sixty-Two Years
of Service
Bill Glass, Pro
Football Star, To
Preach 3 Nights
Sp/4 T.P. Porter
Home From
Korea
Mike
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as
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of
and
at
by
House.
Junk Piles, County Jail, old
cars and wire; alleys and un-
used space by businesses within
1 block of square; old cars on
east side of North 9th and Farm
Road 1037.
Litter containers, There are
no litter containers in the down-
torn area.
year,
have
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MARY ANN HART
Valedictorian
&
erving Cottle
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Mike
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high
GLYNDA BATES
To Austin
Glynda Bates
To Attend
Science Meet
school crossing; vehicles
parked to the curb at the SW
corner of 8th and Hwy 70; high
corner and trash at corner of
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Mary Ann Hart and
Evans have been named
principal John Brinson
valedictorian and salutatorian
respectively for the 1968
graduating class of Paducah
High School.
Mary Ann had the top grade
average of 93.2 while
had a grade average of
Both have accomplished
scholastic achievements
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Honor Society, representative
and later corresponding sec-
retary of Student Council, PTA
Queen, Pep Squad president,
Senior Class treasurer and
assistant editor of the Zephyr.
She is a member of Quill and
Scroll, FHA and the West Wind
Staff. She received the typing
award and was first runner up
in the Miss Paducah Contest. An
I pianist, she
played for the 1967 graduation
exercises and became a mem-
ber of the National Piano Guild.
It is as an athlete that
Mary Ann has received most
publicity. She was top scorer
on the 1967-68 Dragonette team
and was chosen to the All A
West Texas Academic Basket-
ball team.
Mike, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tracey Evans of CeeVee,
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duty. He served as a military
policeman at Camp Red Cloud
in Korea with the 55th M P.
Company.
He returned home May 4 for
a 45 day leave and then will go
to Ft. Riley, Kansas for three
months which will complete his
tow years of army duty.
CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN NOW $|ow Rainfall
Following is a list of com- corner of 10th and Hwy. 70 and
DrenchesCounty
Cottle County, already with a
good season in the ground from
unusual winter moisture, was
drenched again the past few
days as slow soaking rain fell,
and fell and fell. Amounts of
moisture varied over the
county from 5 or six inches at
Valley View and from one and
one half to five inches at
Delwin; about the same amounts
fell throughout the county, al-
though the city received less
than any other area.
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Total moisture for May has
been 2.14 already,bringing the
years’ total to 11.36. January,
usually a dry month here, had
4.34 inches; February 1.86;
March 2.08 and April .94.
With the tornado season upon
us Paducah has been in an area
under severe weather watches
several times.
Services were held Wednes-
day, May 15, in First Baptist
Church for Mrs. Tobitha Ann
Dobbs, 95, who died in
Richards Memorial Hospital on
Tuesday morning. Mrs. Dobbs
had been a patient in the hospital
for one week but had been in
the Golden Age Home for about
three years.
Born August 8, 1872 in Mt.
Home, Arkansas, Mrs. Dobbs
had been a resident of Cottle
County for sixty two years. Her
husband, Lindsay Dobbs, pre-
ceded her in death in 1922.
She is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. Mabel Higgins,
Paducah; two sons, Silas Dobbs, Porter, has recently completed
San Diego, Calif.; and Cecil fourteen months of overseas
Dobbs, Paducah; one brother,
Bob Tolbert, Ft. Worth; 25
grandchildren, five great-
grandchildren and five great-
great grandchildren.
Rev. Robert Beck officiated
at the services and burial was
in Garden of Memories under
direction of Norris Funeral
Home.
SP/4 Talmadge P. Porter,
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Deadline for Little League
applications has been set
May 18, Jaycee Jimmie James
said today. This means thatif
your son is between the ages
of 8, before June 1, 1968, and
14, will not be 14 before June 1^
and wants to play baseball this
summer in the Jaycee Program
his application must be turned
in before or on Saturday.
Little League baseball
sponsored in Paducah by
Paducah Jaycees, with uniforms ceive special
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guitarists and a bass fiddle.
Seating for 1,000 persons will
be provided in the new gym-
nasium and a nursery for in-
fants and children up to five
years old will be kept by ca -
pable ladies in the band hall,,
next door to the gym.
Choir practice will be held
Friday evening at 6 p. m. and
prayer services at 7:30 just
prior to the services in the gym.
Youth delegations from all
churches in surrounding
counties have been gV'-j
special invitations to the ser-
vices.
The youth choir will be com-
posed of high school and junior
high youth from Cottle and King
Counties. More than 100 youth
of the two counties have made
plans and preparations for this
crusade. These youth are from
Christian, Assembly of God,
Catholic, Methodist and Baptist
congregations and people of all
faiths, races and creeds are in-
vited to attend these services.
Absentee Vote
Begins May 22
Absentee voting begins May
22-28, a period of only 8 days,
and all people who think they
may not be able to vote in the
June 1st election should make
an effort to vote absentee.
Small towns and rural areas
have a responsibility to get out
and vote lest they be over run
by the larger town and city
votes.
Be sure to cast your vote on
June 1.
MIKE EVANS
Salutatorian
Hart, Evans Named
Top School Grads
B (CREDIT WEST WIND STAFF)
has maintained a scholastic re-
cord set early in his
years.
Valedictorian of his junior
high class, Mike had a 91.1
average'. As sports writer for
the West Wind, Mike won the
Journalism Award in 1967 and
was elected to Quill and Scroll.
His interest in science won him
the Science Award as a fresh-
man and projected into his in-
terest in the Photography Club
of which he was a member. He
is also a member of Spanish
Club; was Student Council re-
presentative from his class his
freshman year and was elect-
ed president of his Sophomore
Class. He was nominated as a
Senior Class Favorite.
Other seniors I
include Susan Bell, 91.2; Diane
Monson, 91; Janice Me (
86.6; Jimmy Jones 85.5; Karen
Bragg, 85; Wanda Lockridge
84. 8; Linda Tucker, 84.2 and
Louise Tucker, 84.1.
adding honor on top of honor. Riiflz- Tr>
She was elected to the National DUCK V166K IQ
Fence Cemetery
In a called meeting last
Saturday Buck Creek Cemetery
Association voted to accept
donations to help pay for a
chain link fence across the front
of the cemetery and to repair
the rest
fence.
Donations may be given to
Mrs. Leon Thompson or de-
posited to the Buck Creek Ce-
metery Fund at First National
Bank.
|ien doing." i said yes°
S day like to have
|e,' He said "Don’t you
IP re supposed to start
IE About 5 yards the
| enough.”
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ter in daily ex-
F most any day»rain
|KOr snow, you’ll see
It® a brisk, invigora-
te ! r a 1 least a mile
. has a strong consti-
&.Perseverance, and I
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Old Houses - Old house falling
down at 11th and Zula; Partly
burned house at Bray and
Richards; old house and weeds
and trees at 15th and Backus;
falling down shack on SW cor-
ner of Bray and Farm Road
1937; old house at SW corner
of Bray and Backus; old
apartment house by railroad
track at 1600 Blk. Garrett;
falling houses at Farm Road
2846; two old vacant houses
in 1200 block of 9th street; ole
house roof at corner of 16th
and Moody; four of these are in
the immediate vicinity of the
Goodwin and High School.
Requests concerning schools:
More informative signs at the
high school about one way
traffic; request for stop signs
giving school buses the right of
way down Zula Street; request
for one way street at Alamo
during school hours; request for
paving around Alamo School and
2 blocks north of Goodwin.
Traffic Violations - Traffic
laws need better enforcement.
weloped a good case
Meumonia and was just
■round all last week;
B the post-office Bob
me if i got that
ttrunnin£ throughout their high
career.
Mary Ann, the daughter of
Mrs. Ruth Hart, has amassed
many honors in her high
school days, the first half of
which were spent in Guthrie
where she was president of
the Freshman Class and a
4—H officer. She was sopho-
more class favorite and best-
all around girl and lettered in
basketbell and volleyball. She
was also cheerleader. Trans-
ferring to Paducah High School
her junior year she continued in
Holcomb Visits
Home Before
Oversea Duty
Machinist Mate 2nd Class
Marvin A. Holcomb and wife
and son Mark spent Mothers
Day weekend with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Holcomb
and Mikie Dean. They were
accompanied by Miss Judy
Williams of Colton, Calif, who
Is a niece of Mrs. Holcomb and
Mrs. Grover Wilson of Paducah
and granddaughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Powers.
M. M. 2nd C Holcomb re-
turned to Long Beach, Calif,
where he will board his ship
May 18 for the Far East. His
ship is an oiler and ammuni-
-<Mek is Clean-Up Week
mentioned before, and
ggBg ^council in co-opera-
the Family Living
Women and the 1964
have already begun
Wing up program. But
yl a lot to be done.
everyone will parti-
al this beautifying ac-
H^an up around your
if needed (if this
weather ever lets
frt’s get the old town
bJ”--f°r a^those sum-
gsts that we’ve been
■ are going to come
i so small a thing, to
joyed the sun;
ave lived light in the
tve loved, to have tho-
have done?
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leafs and turning them in to
them in order that they may
continue to offer the baseball
Xnas:ba11 BI?ve-win
’ctove?leX“d *” the
So drink lots of milk, kids,
and get busy saving those
points.
and equipment paid for by them.
A $10 deposit is put up by
each boy at the beginning of
the season and at the end of
the season, when his uniform is
returned to the Jaycees, the
deposit is refunded.
Three minor and three major
league teams are expected and
play will begin tentatively the
second week in June.
Mrs. Robert J. Back will
present 15 students in a piano
recital at 8:15 p. m. Tuesday,
May 21 at the First Christian
Church.
Students playing will be
Jenneane Russell, Regan Holley
David Jefferies, Tracy Davis,
Joanna Jordan, Marilyn Smith,
Reecie K. Burton, Judy Smith,
Denise Dilliard, Lynne Tippen,
Janice Slape, Delisa Brooks,
Lynn Staggs, Brad Harrison,
Diane Worley.
At the close of the program
the following students will re-
.____1 awards for en-
tering the National Guild Audi-
tion, Saturday May 11 Regan
Holley , Jeanneane Russell,
David Jefferies, Tracy Davis,
Joanna Jordan, Reecie K.
Burton, Judy Smith, Denise
Dilliard, Lynne Tippen, Delisa
Brooks, Brad Harrison, Diane
Wroley.
The public is
vi ted.
West Texas Utilities Com-
pany will sponsor twenty two
students and teachers to the
Eighth Texas Nuclear Science
Symposium for High Schools
at the University of Texas on
June 4-7.
Glynda Kay Bates of Paducah
has been selected by school
officials to attend the four day
meeting. She will be accom-
panied by Mr. W. Q. Richards,
Paducah High School teacher.
The symposium, held an-
nually at the university, is spon-
sored by the Texas Atomic
Energy Research Foundation
and the university. West Texas
Utilities Company and nine
other electric power companies
in Texas make up the foundation.
Some 500 outstanding science
students and their teachers will
attend the meet in Austin. They
will have the opportunity to hear
scientists from the fields of
both industry and education
discuss nuclear physics and re-
lated topics. Included will be
visits to the experiments being
carried on in thermonuclear
(fusion) research by scientists
at the university for the Texas
Atomic Energy Research Foun-
dation.
“West Texas Utilities
Company is interested in this
research as a future source L ,
of generation of electricity,” • ? e rip will take
Roff Hardy, president, said.
Miss Bates is a Junior student
at Paducah High School and is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Glen Bates, Paducah.
Little League
Application
e Deadline Mayl8
K Jaycees To Give
$10 Glove For
• Most Cloverleafs
Jaycees in Paducah, who have
faithfully supported the Little
League program each
like everyone else,
a money problem.
Money is necessary to func-
tion properly and maintain
parks, equipment, etc. Clover-
lake Company is offering a
program whereby points re-
presented by Cloverleafs found
on the containers of Clover-
lake Dairy Products may be
exchanged for money or cash,
payable to Little League of-
ficials only.
So the Jaycees are urging you
lung local
3ked recently
ves were heifer
SHANK ENDRw
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4-H lad,
if his two
or bull
one of
a half Brahma, and the
s half Angus.”
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mouths of babes...
^^k ■riving along a Dal-
F }Way the other day, the
Bgs cut off a stirring
ermon that was inter-
■ - the talk. Immediately
T RE EC A* -fear old James Clif-
te ed.
/'i# back on, Mamma,”
J|"I was listening to
puldn’t understand
|es,” she explained,
preacher.”
Is, I can,” said Jam-
las talking about Je-
you don’t hardly ever
ling about Him any •
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Mr. and Mrs. Lee Currey
attended the Ladies Night
banquet of the Roaring Springs
Lions Club last Saturday night.
Mr. Currey conducted the
installation service for their
officers for the coming year.
Greens To Sell -
: After 50 Years '
The auction that will be held
Saturday, May 18 at Green’s
Grocery will mark the end of
almost a half century of groc-
ery and cafe business for Mr.
and Mrs. “Baldy” Green as he
is known to everybody for ten
counties around. Mr. Green,
suffering from leg trouble, must
return to the hospital for
surgery again and “The Doctor
said right away so I guess this
is what I’ll have to do,” he said.
Green and his wife have been
in the food business, one way or
the other since 1919, when they
purchased an eating joint north
of the square, across from the
old Hamrick Grocery. A few
months later Baldy sold that
place and worked for other
grocery stores until 1925. In
1925 he and brother Dock Green
bought a little country store
at Green Valley, then a thriv-
ing community, running it until
1928 when he sold it to a
traveler who stopped by to get
some water and liked the looks
of the place.
At this time he purchased
half interest in the little
hamburger joint on the north
side of the square and from 1928
\ to 1947 the smell of hamburgers
and chili emanated from that
narrow little place enticing hun-
gry patrons and spreading fame
of Baldy’s chili far and wide.
In 1948 the Greens purchased
the grocery store at the present
location and have been open
seven days a week since that
time.
Mrs. Green said, “We have
seen hard times and good times
here. We put three kids
through school during the de-
pression years as did a lot of
other folks but I guess we have
served the people as well as
we could. We hate to get out of
the business in this way, but
it looks like it has to be done
so what else can you do.”
Faulkenberry Auction Ser-
vice of Floydada will handle the
auction which will begin at
11 a. m. Saturday.
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Lmmye Taylor
corner of 10th and Hwy. 70 and
munity improvements request- the corner of 15th and Hwy. 70
ed for publication by
Family Living Council
Women, the City Council
other interested persons.
Yield Signs needed SE corner 16th and Zula St; sign
of 19th and Gober; SE corner
of 14th and Gober; NW corner
of 12th and Backus; SE corner
of 12th and Backus; SE corner
of 11th and Richards; sign
12th and Richards covered
tree limbs.
Stop Signs needed from City
Park onto Highway 70 and Farm
Road 1037; NE and SE corner
of Square; NE corner of 8th
and Richards; SW corner of 8th
and Richards.
Intersections where on-
coming cars are a hazard be-
cause of obstruction; trees on
Luther the SW corner of 12th and Gober;
hedge on the NE corner of 13th
and Breckenridge; trees on the
SW corner of 14th and Richards;
bushes on the NE corner of
15th and Richards; tree on the
SW corner of 15th and Backus;
trailers and vehicles obstruct
view at a corner of Delinting
Plant and Farm Road 2876;
a pile of junk at NW corner
of 7th and Hwy, 70; Rock Fence
at SW corner of Bray and Hwy.
70; weeds at NW corner of
Bray and Hwy. 70; Dixie Maid
patrons park out in Hwy. 70
and Bray Ave.; blocking view of
on coming cars down Hwy. 70;
sign and parked vehicles at
13th and Hwy. 70; trucks parked
along Farm Road 1037 at
corner of 8th St; butane trucks
parked along highway at 8th;
trucks parked to the corner of
curb at Intersection and the
Been iniormed that tne
)r not having the board
■ting election returns,
■weeks Ramblin’), is
the Federal Govern-
.s put a stop to this
‘Unnecessary spending.
Jjrson said.)
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f exciting to be called
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chewed by your
for some-
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Little League
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Plans have all been made and
preparations are completed for
the interdenominational youth
led revival crusade which be-
gins tomorrow night, Friday, in
Paducah High School Gym-
nasium.
Bill Glass, fine professional
football player with the Cleve-
land Browns, will lead the cru-
sade. Glass, who plays defen-
sive end in football season,
spends the off season in
crusades all over the country.
He is said to be one of the finest
Christian witnesses and
preachers in the land and has
a tremendous appeal to youth.
Wayne Philpot, a young ex-
' ecutive with Word Record, San
Antonio, will lead the singing
and Phil Driscoll, a talented
trumpeteer will accompany Phil
' pott and the youth choir. Music
will be evangelistic folk-type
music, with two pianos, an organ,
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