The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1960 Page: 1 of 8
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Groom;
Spelling Bee contest.
brough, Claude. Time: 22.3.
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Old rec-
Discus :
The regular monthly meeting of
the Esposa Club has been cancel-
ed according to Mrs. Bob Ledwig.
GROOM AREA RECEIVES
RAIN TUESDAY EVENING
Terry Cornett, 11-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Cornett was
selected recently to represent Car-
Globe-News
Terry is a
Seniors To Operate Algoe
66 Station This Weekend
GROOM WINS DISTRICT
TRACK AND HELD MEET
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
BY GROOM LIONS CLUB
Commenting on the coming Eas-
ter parade Bill the Barber remark-
ed that there is more truth in the
statement that fine birds make fine
feathers than in the statement that
fine feathers make fine birds.
sixth grade student in Groom pub-
lic schools.
sky; lion tamer, S. K. Roach; di-
rectors are B. J. Koetting, W. W.
Brunais, Jimmy McCasland, San-
ford Johnson and Carl Homer.
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TERRY CORNETT IS
SPELLING CHAMPION
Ring out the bells... our Lord has risen.
Sing His praises on this glorious Easter
Sunday, and rejoice in His word. May
the blessings of this wondrous Easter
season be upon you and yours.
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APRIL MEETING CANCELED
BY ESPOSA JOVEN CLUB
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1 2. Kirby Word, Quail; 3. Ken Bur-
ton, Claude; 4. Alton Vaughn,
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tance 35’11”.
Groom 28% points, Quail 23%
points, Claude 19% points, Lelia
Lake 4% points.
Claude; 2. Butch Brown, Groom;
3. (Tie3 and 4) Don Craig, Groom
and David Phipps, Quail. Time 6.5.
100-yd. dash: 1. Don Mitchell,
Claude; 2. Butch Brown, Groom;
3. Alvin Alexander, Lelia Lake;
4. Dan Craig, Groom. Time 12:45.
440-yd. relay: 1. Claude (Culbert,
Woods, Mitchell, Williams); 2.,
Groom; 3. Quail; 4. Lelia Lake.
The Senior , class of Groom High
School will operate the Billy Algoe
66 Service Station from 6 a.m. Fri-
day, April 15 untill '1 p.m. Sunday,
April 17, it has been announced.
During the period of time the
Seniors are operating the station,
the class will receive the profits
from gasoline sales and washing
automobiles. The Seniors will use
the money for their class project.
Since the Easter holiday week
end is approaching the Seniors
hope to have the opportunity to
service your car at the Algoe 66
service station Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday.
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VOLLEY BALL TOURNEY
SLATED HERE THURSDAY
gusts of high winds, and a scatter-
ing of small hail which accom-
panied the shower of rain caused
no damage in the Groom area.
The wheat in the Groom com-
munity which is in excellent con-
dition will benefit from the mois-
ture received Tuesday night. The
underground moisture supply is
plentiful through the area but the
surface moisture is being rapidly
sapped from the top soil by the
rapidly-growing grain crop.
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GROOM OSTEOPATHIC
HOSPITAL PATIENTS
Many Groom people were begin-
ning to worry that they were not
to be counted in the 1960 federal
census. However, doubts were dis-
carded Wednesday of this week
when the census taker began mak-
ing calls at local residences.
A man wrapped up in himself
makes a mighty small package
says Skeet Morrow.
son County in the
The City Barber Shop will be
closed Monday through Thursday
of next week for repainting and re-
modeling, Bill West, proprietor,
has announced.
The shop will be open for busi-
ness Friday, April 22, Bill said.
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CARD OF THANKS
The Senior class play presented
Monday night at the School Audi-
torium drew a record attendance.
The Seniors wish to thank the pub-
lic for its patronage.
Groom Public Schools will close
at 4 p.m. Thursday for the Easter
holidays and classes will be re-
sumed Tuesday, April 26 it has
been announcd.
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NEW BOOK SUPPLY IS
AVAILABLE AT LIBRARY
of fact, that is the minimum when
We are without any objective save
existence. Those who are going
anywhere have no time limit, but
have an objective.
The use we make of time deter-
mines whether we live a life, or
never really live at all. -Time
properly used makes the impos-
sible possible. Used time changes
all circumstances and alters all en-
vironments.
AND
Otherwise
Groom people suddenly realized
the pleasure of having storm shel-
ters Tuesday evening when storm
warnings were broadcast from
Amarillo stations by the weather
bureau. It didn’t take long to dust
out the storm cellars, round up the
kids, the kerosene lamp, and the
Bible and head for the hole in the
ground.
At a recent meeting of the
Groom Lions Club new officers
were chosen for the coming club
year which begins in July.
The new officers are:
President, Roman Homen; vice
president, Max Ray Faulkner;
secretary and treasurer, Glynn D
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—■ New Arrivals, —
Mr. and Mrs. Jiggs Britten have
a new son, born Monday, April 11
at the Groom Hospital. He has
been named Marvin George, Jr.
Grandparents are Mrs. Josephine
Britten and Mr. and Mrs. Guy'
Blackwell of Groom. Great grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Stockman of Channing.
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CITY BARBER SHOP TO CLOSE
APRIL 18-21 FOR REPAINTING
Groom. Pull ups: 23.
High jump: 1. Bobby Babcock,
Groom; 2. (Tie 2 and 3) Jack
London, Groom and Alvin Alexan-
der, Lelia Lake; 4. (Tie 4 and 5)
Jerry Quirk, Groom, and Don
Mitchell, Claude. Height: 4’8”.
Broad jump: 1. Baker, Quail; 2.
Saunders, Quail; 3. White, Quail;
4. Culbert, Claude. Distance 15’.
8-lb. shot put: 1. Keller, Quail;
2. Dan Craig, Groom; 3. Johnson,
Grade School Division—
50-yd. dash: 1. Don Mitchell,
willing to work eight hours a day.
The competition for 8-hour a day
jobs is, therefore, tremendous, and
the rewards are correspondingly
meager.
Eight-hour workers seldom get
anywhere. How can they, when
the rest of the world is willing to
match their efforts? A hundred
million men lined up, fairly start-
ed, and limited to a three-mile-
per-hour speed will in eight hours
cross the finish line 24 miles away
exactly even.
Eight hours a day is a mental
ord 3:56 set by Groom in 1956 and
tied by Groom in 1957 and 1958.
12-lb. shot put: 1. Don Case,
Groom; 2. Harry Woods, Claude;
3. Steve Garmon, Groom; 4. John
Koetting, Groom; 5. Delbert Thom-
as, Claude. Distance: 46’ 2”.
Broad jump: 1. Duane Stamps,
Groom; 2. James Neves, Groom;
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Among the patients at the
Groom Osteopathic Hospital the
past week were:
Medical:
Achsa Kelly, Pampa.
W. S. Boyd, Pampa.
Mrs. J. W. McNamee, Borger.
Minor Surgery:
Janie Talley, Groom.
Gaylen Frederiksen, Groom.
Mrs. Dollie Mayo, Clarendon.
Mrs. L. C. Jones, Sr., Groom.
J. D. Throckmorton, Dozier.
Carl Kunkel, Sr., Amarillo.
Obstetrical:
Mrs. Donald G. Painter, Hedley,
a daughter, Teena Marie, born at
12:00 a.m., April 8, 1960.
Mrs. Jiggs Britten, Groom, a
son, Marvin George, bom at 7:27
a.m., Monday, April 11, 1960.
Weight 4 lbs., 3% oz.
Mrs. Eugene Keidel, Panhandle,
a daughter, Jaquida Ann, bom at
5:17 p.m., April 11, I960, weighing
6 lbs., 6 oz.
Mrs. Frances Brown, Pampa, a
daughter, born at 6:35 a.m. April
13, 1960.
Claude; 2. Jerry Davis, Claude; Harrell; tail twister, Bill Pavlov-
3. Steve Garmon, Groom; 4. El- • -■ ------
dred James, Groom; 5. James
Neves, Groom. Time: 10.8.
440-yd. dash: 1. Robert Reed,
The District 12-B volley ball
tournament will be held in the
Groom School gymnasium starting
at 1 p.m. Thursday of this week.
Both boys and girls teams will par-
ticipate. The tournament was orig-
inaly scheduled to be held at
Claude but was moved to Groom
on brief notice when it was found
I the Claude School gymnasium was
undergoing repairs which would in-
terfere with the tournament.
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SCHOOL EASTER HOLIDAYS
FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY
2. Delbert Thomas, Claude; 3. Har-
ry Woods, Claude; 4. Steve Gar-
mon, Groom; 5. Jerry Snyder,
Groom. Distance: 126’ 6”.
3. Dickey Eddleman, Claude; 4.
Carol Watts, Claude; 5. Dale Dunn,
Claude. Distance: 16’ 1”.
220-yd. dash: 1. Robert Reed,
Groom; 2. Carol Watts, Claude;
3. Eldred James, Groom; 4. Louis
Ruthardt, Groom; 5. Joe Wincom-
pleck, Claude. Time: 24.7.
Mile run: 1. Jerry Dorsey,
Groom; 2. Gerald Cagle, Claude;
3. Johnny London, Groom; 4. Ron-
nie Wetzel, Claude. Time: 5:16.
Pole Vault: 1. Duane Stamps,
Groom; 2. Jerry Dorsey, Groom;
3. (Tie 3, 4, 5) Billy Bob Ruthardt,
Groom; Earnest Maxwell, Quail;
and Presley Yarbrough, ' Claude.
Height: 10 feet, new record; old
record, 9 feet and 6 inches.
High Jump: 1. Duane Stamps,
Groom; 2. Jerry Dorsey, Groom;
3. Leroy Littlefield, Groom; 4. Del-
bert Thomas, Claude. Height 5’9”.
(Tied record set by Henry Hard-
Here’s some good plain talk from
a trade journal:
All of us have at birth an abun-
dance of time before us. When we
attain maturity, most of us are
The Groom community was
blessed with a nice shower of rain
late Tuesday evening and .60 was
measured in the editor’s rain
gauge. Storm warnings were is-
sued over the area by the Ama-
rillo weather bureau and a tornado
struck the small community of
Sunnyside, 12 miles south of Dim-
mit. Friona also reported tornado
damage.
Several people were reported
killed and injured in the Sunnyside
community and three persens were
reported injured at Friona.
Amarillo received a heavy rain,
accompanied by high* winds.
The storm diminished in strength
as it approached Groom. A few
Al Homer: “Tell me, Norbert,
did shampooing your hair with
beer do it any good?”
Norbert Britten: “That I can’t
say for sure. But I have the hap-
piest dandruff you ever saw.”
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1. Don Case, Groom;• Quail; 4. Bill Wood, Claude. Dis-
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2. Leroy Littlefield,
away of Claude ip 1958.) - . ...
Mile relay: 1. Claude (Dale!Time 54.6.
Dunn, Dickey Eddleman, Tommy! Chinning: 1. Jerry Quirk, Groom
McGowen, Carol Watts) 2. Groom. I ‘ ' -- --- T
time limit that most of us set upon' Time: 3 :52 new record
our success efforts. As a matter
Friday, April 15, is deadline day
for Safety Inspection stickers and
income tax reports.
Groom; 3. Jerry Davis, Claude;
4. Phil Sorrell, Claude; 5. Billy
Bob Ruthardt, Groom. Time: 54.7.
180-yd. L.H.: 1. Dale Dunn,
Claude; 2. Jerry Dorsey, Groom;
3. Bobby Boyce, Quail; 4. Eddie
Bartley, Claude; 5. Presley Yar-
She Graom Nemg
Ballots for the Democratic Pri-
mary election to be held May 27
were printed by The Groom News
last week and were delivered to
the Carson County Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee Chairman A. J.
Weiser at Panhandle Monday. The
ballots are tailored to each indi-
vidual voting box and only shows
names of candidates each voting
precinct will vote on. Approxi-
mately 45 state, district, county,
and precinct candidates are listed.
Voting is expected to be extreme-
ly heavy this year. Thirty-one
hundred ballots were printed for
Carson county and it is expected
that two-thirds of them will be
used by voters on May 7.
Seeing may be believing, but as
often as wives see their husbands
they don’t always believe them
says Doug Wood.
The Groom Branch Library will
be closed Friday, April 15 and will
re-open Wednesday, April 20. Some
of the new books now available at
the library are as follows:
“The Road to Faith,” by Ours-
ler. “Two Weeks in Another
Town,” by Shaw. “The Cave,” by
Warren. "The Facts About Nix-
on,” by Costello. “The Art of
Llewellyn Jones,” by Bonner.
“One Star General,” by Morgan.
“Storm the Last Rampart,” by
Taylor. “Death Casts a Long
Shadow,” by Gilbert. “Oh Care-
The Interscholastic League Dis-
trict 12-B Track and Field Meet
was held at the Groom High School
Friday afternoon. Schools repre-
sented other than Groom were
Claude, Lelia Lake, Hedley, Quail,
Dodson and Samnorwood.
Duane Stamps of Groom set a
new conference record in the pole
vault and tied the conference rec-
ord set by Henry Hardaway of
Claude in 1958 in the high jump. In
addition he took first places in
both the broad jump and the 120
yard high hurdles to lead the
Groom Tigers to the District 12-B
championship.
Big Don Case won the blue rib-
bons in both the shot put and the
discus. Robert Reed .took first
in both the 220 yard dash and the
440. Jerry Dorsey won the mile
and the sprint relay team compos-
ed of James Neves, Herman Koet-
ting, Eldred James and Steve Gar-
mon, brought the baton in first to
give the Groom Tigers a total of
10 first places in the meet.
Results of the meet are as fol-
lows :
High School Division—
440-yd. relay: 1. Groom; 2.
Claude; 3. Quail. Time: 48.3.
880-yd. run: 1. Dickey Eddleman,
Claude; 2. Wes Cornett, Groom;
3. Kenneth Dewey, Claude; 4. Don
Friemel, Groom; 5. Jimmy Con-
rad, Groom; 6. Tommy McGowen,
Claude. Time: 2:16.
120-yd. H.H.: 1. Duane Stamps,
Groom; 2. Delbert Thomas,
Claude; 3. Dale Dunn, Claude; 4.
Henry Nepper, Groom; 5. Louis
Ruthardt, Groom. Time: 16.1.
100-yd. dash: 1. Carol Watts,
VOLUME 35. NUMBER 7. -On Highway 66" THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, APML 14, I960 (5c a copy)
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man. “Mansion,” by Faulkner.
“Breaking Point,” by Du Maurier.
“Brant of Texas,’'' by Scott.
'“Showdown Guns,” by Stanley.
“The Brand Blotters,” by Stanley.
“Ambush Basin,” by Baldwin.
“Tombstone for a Troubleshooter”
by McDonald. “Hawaii,” by Mich-
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1960, newspaper, April 14, 1960; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1511457/m1/1/?q=%22Texas+Press+Association%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.