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The Groom News, Groom, Carson County, Texas 79039
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
FACTS
a.m. Friday at St. Mary’s Catholic .the various areas of “Young Farm-
0
District.
—Thrush.
of 10 cents per ounce
three o’clock in the morning?”
one?”
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ekhe served later
After a New Year holiday we
the Tax Equalization Board for
Canyon Independent School
gins to act like a fool.1
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"Young Farmer" Officers
To Be Elected January 8
And I couldn’t help but grin;
Everyone wants to be wanted,
on
the
Civil Defense officer H. M. Nich-
ols asked the Rev. James Coffman,
Funeral Mass To Be Held
Friday for Felix Ledwig
iwork with anyone interested prior
i to January 8, and would like to
urge every interested man to be at
N.C.; a sister, Mrs. L. A. Cline of
Henrietta, and 10 grandchildren.
)
er” work, and to elect officers for
the year 1968.
Any member of the organization
committee, which is made up of
tips — so he won’t
smoking.
as president. Dur-
rected the 18th Congressional Dis- Wall and Mrs. Tooter Byrd
trict Democratic campaign in 1956 tended the funeral services,
and headed the party headquarters ' ---------o0o---------
again in 1962. | GROOM MEMORIAL
He has been a Randall County HOSPITAL REPORT
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YOUNG HOMEMAKERS
TO MEET JAN. 8
Kevin Wayne Tipton, Claude
Luna Morris, Amarillo
Leona Roe, Panhandle i
Sharon Levy, Groom
J. M. Britten, Groom
Grady Stapp, Groom
Billy Fields, Groom
James C. Woods, Quitaque
Milton D. McBryde, Claude
W. D. Higgins, Clarendon
Tom B. Odom, Clarendon
Ara Westbrook, Pampa
Lillian Ashton, Amarillo
Merlyn Evans, Groom -
James Lynn Kimbell, Turkey
Alta K. Riley, Clarendon
M. K. Tipton, Claude
Carolyn Sue Martin, Matador
Clara Booth, Panhandle
Marion Chisum, Pampa
Thomas B. Windom, Pampa
Mrs. Jimmie Davis, Pampa
Everett Jones, McLean
Mary K. Homer, Groom
Mrs. Maurice Roper, Pampa
Ray McClendon, Skellytown
Hattie Noel, Pampa
Darlene Darnell, Pampa
Effie Martman, Wellington
Norman R. Brenum, Panhandle
Martin Savage, Phillips
Donna Heiskell, Pampa
Surgical:
Amanda Sue Strange, Amarillo
Janie Sue Noble, Hedley
Carl L. Langham, Denver, Colo.
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SCHOOL IS RESUMED AFTER
TWO-WEEK HOLIDAY PERIOD
AND
Otherwise
ity activities.
| The objective of the meeting will
Funeral mass will be at 10:00 be to familiarize everyone with
policeman who shoots first so he! Higher rates also will go into ef-
won’t have to ask questions. i feet January 7 for all categories of
------ ) second-class mail, bulk-rate third-
----- ! parcels weighing between eight
Jack Bivens, prospective juror: and sixteen ounces. Special handl-
Felix Bernard Ledwig, 68, a res-
ident of Groom for 45 years, died
Tuesday morning in Groom Mem-
orial Hospital after an illness of
several weeks. He was a retired
farmer and a member of the Im-
maculate Heart of Mary Catholic
horn breeder since 1936 and is a
qualified judge of the breed hav-
ing judged fairs in most of the
Western states, including the Tex-
as State Fair in Dallas and the
Kansas and Idaho State fairs.
Mr. Bruce will appreciate your
consideration of his candidacy for
the office of State Representative,
to Groom
tives and friends.
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Phone 248-3541 to report local
Officer: “Why are you dragging1 class mail, controlled circulation
that chain down the sidewalk at mail, and’ the educational mate-
____ ______________ _ I rials’ category of fourth-class mail.
Drunk: “Didja ever try pushingiMailers using these classes who
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Church in Groom
Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Ledwig moved
and of the
er temperatures soon dissipated
the ice.
at- her husband J. T Sexton: three
; daughters', Mrs. Eula McCarver of
I G , Miss Lena Sexton and Miss
I Mane Sexton of Dodson; three
i sons, W. C. Sexton of Hollis, Okla.,
■Weldon Sexton of Dodson, and
Among the patients at Groom Granville Sexton of Oklahoma
As a result of
Court’s decision,
An investigator for the iAnti-
Poverty Commission was recently
Church in Groom with the Rev.
Arnold Carlson, pastor, officiat-
ing. Rosary will be held at 7:30
p.m. Thursday tat the church.
standard wages. He went out to
snow. Shrubbery was coated with
There will be no more wars when ------- ------
nations learn how to completely news for publication in The Groom (thropic drives,
break each other without fighting. News. member of
the glad to discuss “Young Farmer’
All men in the Groom (area who
are interested in the agricultural
industry and in actively participat-
ing in “Young Farmer” work are
asked to attend the Groom chap-
ter’s first regular meeting on Mon-
day, Jan. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the
high school Vocational Agriculture
room.
There is no upper (age limit for
membership in the local young
farmer chapter as suggested in gm
earlier article. Men over the age
of 35, however, are not eligible to
hold offices at the local, area or
state levels. This does not limit
them from 'being vital leaders in
committee work and in being ac-
tive in other chapter and commun-
moved in Tuesday night
church in case of disaster. The
pastor’s reply was, “I’m not too
sure, but every Sunday morning
there are about 100 who sleep
here.”
Funeral arrangements will be Charles Burk, Joe Koettting, Jiggs
under direction of Schooler-Gordon Britten, John Eschle, Kenny Jack-
of Amarillo. The family asks that son and Johnny Brooks, will be
fied to serve the interests of allj Medical:
citizens of the 75th District—urban
It is a well-known fact that hap-
py people are healthier than angry,
discontented people. That just
goes to show that the surly bird
catches the germ reports Dr. Dav-
id Levy.
THURSDAY, JAN. 4, 1968 (10c a copy)
----- applies up to 7 ounces. -
You really can’t judge the mod-' The postmaster also noted that Democratic party,
em girl by her clothes, there isn’t' effective January 7 special handi-
enough evidence. ' ing will be available on third-class
City; 27 grandchildren and 46
great-grandchildren.
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ANTIQUE SHOW AND SALE TO
BE HELD IN AMARILLO
| Postage Rates To Take
Jump on January 7th
and rural—for I have faced the
same problems they have,” he
said.
“A farmer-stockman who surviv-
ed the ’30s and the drouths of the
'50s learned every farm problem.
And, I have lived in a metropoli-
tan community that nearly tripled
its population in the last 15 years.
In such a community you learn
urban problems fast!” he said.
He served as Lieutenant-Gover-
nor of Kiwanis International in
1961 and is a member of the Leg-
ion of Merit (25 years of perfect
attendance). He 'became a mem-
ber of the Randall County School
Board in 1946 when his name was
written in while he was attending
the Plainview Dairy Show which
"I would like to be excused from ing has not been available on these
jury service, Your Honor, because parcels since 1958, when packages
I’m deaf in one ear?” weighing between eight and six-
Judge: “That’s all right Mr. iteen ounces were transferred from
be subject to a rate lower than
the regular rate. Bills and state-
ments will be subject to the first-
class rate of 6 cents.
One of the area’s outstanding at-
tractions of the new year will be
held Jan. 5-6-7, at the Holiday Inn
West in Amarillo when Continen-
tal Shows, Ltd., presents its first
annual Continental Antique Show
and Sale in Amarillo.
George A. Kuehler of Joplin,
Mo., owner and director of Conti-
nental Shows, Ltd., reports that
all types of collectable antiques
will be exhibited for sale. There
will be period furniture, primi-
tives, pattern glass, Victorian art
glass, jewelry and elegant import-
ed pieces. Since glass is the most
active seller at antique shows, all
types will be represented, from
rare colored flint glass to Tiffany,
Steuben, etc.
Antique shows are becoming
more and more popular with tire
buying public 'as they represent a
prime opportunity for those too
busy to travel “antiquing” to let
the antiques travel to them. Deal-
ers from as far away as California
and Florida will exhibit in this
show. This, of course, will give
people the opportunity to see and
buy many types of old things not
normally seen in this area.
The show starts Friday, Jan. 5,
at 11 a.m. and closes at 10:30 p.m.
Hours are the same on Saturday,
with hours for Sunday 11 a.m. to
6:00 p.m.
asked to check on reports that a LIGHT ICE STORM VISITS
farmer was paying his help below AREA TUESDAY NIGHT
Groom students and faculty re-
sumed regular school sessions
Wednesday morning after being
on vacation for two weeks.
The Christmas and New Year
holiday period was enjoyed by
need information on the new rates
should contact the local Post
Office.
The 75th District includes Arm-any memorials be made to
als, "oc-strong, Briscoe, Carson, Collings-! Groom Memorial Hospital.
----- cupant” mail, and other material | worth, Donley and Randall Coun-; ---------oOo---------
I saw my picture in the local PO in the third-class category. ities. SISTER TO MRS. WALL DIES
| The new rate of six cents per Bruce is a native of Randall i Funeral services were held the important meeting.
' ounce for first-class mail applies County where he was born in 1912, | Tuesday at Lawton,
1 j _ i ____ , X-LAH WA g+il 1irAg incF A11+i ■ n3,, TD A C1 N
don,” said the farmer. “He tends front
to the cows and works in the fields bringing fog which turned to ice
Fund and other civic and philan- --- —7V . T • 2, A
He has been a 75th District, in the coming Dem
the First Baptist cratic Primary election May 4.
the farm and was introduced to all AIEI a IIUv --u -------J ------,
of the hired hands. “This is Gor- end of fairly nice weather, a cold J ing the same period Bruce served
from Knox County in 1923. His
wife died in 1964.
Survivors include two sons,
Ralph Ledwig of Pampa and Jer-
ome L. Ledwig of Beaumont;
three daughters, Mrs. Bernadine
McNiel of El Paso, Mrs. Florence
Ware of Liberal, Kansas, and Miss
Elayne Ledwig of Fort Bragg,
: know he is Postmaster said, “for those people
'who have five-cent stamps and
- I 1 will need one-cent stamps to make
the Supreme up the postage required under the
it is the wise new rates.”
Church of Amarillo since boy-
hood.
Bruce has been a Milking Short-
MARION BRUCE
#**
Bruce Is Candidate for
State Representative
Increased rates for all classes
of mail, except parcel post and in-
ternational mail, will go into ef-
fect Sunday, Jan. 7. “Even with
the new rates of six cents for first-
class mail and 10 cents for air
mail, postal service is still a real
bargain,” Postmaster Gene Wade
declared. “For six cents you can
send a letter to any of the 50
states, to any United States terri-
tory or possession, to Canada or
Mexico, or to any American serv-
iceman stationed 'anywhere in the
world.”
The postmaster pointed out that
the new rate for postcards will be
five cents and for air mail post
cards eight cents.
Drop Letters—the special rate
District.
Bruce is chairman of the Citizens
Group Work and Recreation Coun-
cil, Potter - Randall Citizens Com-
mittee, and has been a Council
member since 1956 when its work
brought a sharp decrease in juve-
nile delinquency in the metropoli-
tan area while the national rate
was rapidly increasing.
He served as the first president
of the Friends of Youth which
works with the Potter County
Court of Domestic Relations and
which brought about the formation
of the Amarillo Big Brothers. He
has been a Kids Inc., coach and
leader in ’ establishing other youth
recreation programs. He served
as president of the Amarillo Com-
munity Center Board during a peri-
od of expansion in its program. He
has been a worker in the United
Bivens, it won’t make any differ- fourth to third-class mail. — ----- ------------------
ence. We hear only one side of. There will be no changes in the delegate to all Texas state -on. -----
a case at a time?” charges for special delivery, spe- ventions since 1956 and attended' -
_____ |cial handling, registered mail, cer- the National Conventions of 1960 Memorial Hospital the past week
Today, we use 300 horsepower to tified mail, cash on delivery or in-and 1964. “I believe I am quali- were
move a 150 pound man one block to surance.
purchase a one-ounce package of, "‘We have an ample supply of
cigarettes — complete with filter one-cent stamps on hand,” the
local Baptist minister, how many for drop letters will be eliminat-
people could be housed in the J ed. Drop letters will no longer
and gets $85 a week. This is BiUy later in the night and a flurry of
Joe, the other hired hand. He
works in the fields and tends the i ice Wednesday morning, but at
stock and gets $80 a week. And'noon Wednesday the sun broke
this woman’s is Sue Ann. She through the clouds and the warm-
The Young Homemakers Club
will meet on Monday evening, Jan.
8, at 7:30 o’clock in the Home Ec-
onomics Room at the Groom High
School building. The program
'will be a cosmetic demonstration.
VOLUME 42. NUMBER 45.
cooks and keeps house and gets
$40 a week, room and board.”
Fair enough so far,” said the in-
spector. “Is there anyone else?”
“Only the half-wit,” answered
the farmer. “He gets about $10 a
puco ------ --------- -------J -- --------, Okla., for, ----oOo---
So how could I turn myself in? up to 13 ounces and the new rate and where he still lives just out- Mrs. P.O. Sherwood, 79 years old, GRANDMOTHER DIES
— ’ for air mail side the city limits of Amarillo. of Duncan, Okla., who died Jan. 1. Mrs. Emily Sexton, 84, of Dod-
Bruce, a long-time worker in the' she is survived by her husband, I son, Tex., died Monday in a
___________ Temocratic party, is presently: seven children, 25 grand children,1 Claude Convalescent home. Fun-
.. 1.___L- Chairman of the Randall County,and 17 great-grandchildren. Mr. eral services were held Wednesday
third-class Democratic Executive Committee,■ and Mrs. Sherwood were former at Dodson. She was the grand-
• ■ ■ a post to which he was re-elected' Groom residents and she was a mother of Mrs. Ruth Payton of
in 1966 without opposition. He di- sister to Mrs. Jim Wall. Mrs. Groom. Other survivors include
week, room and board.”
“Ah ha,” said the inspector. “I
would like to speak to him.”
“You’re talking to him right
now,” said the farmer.
Marion Bruce of Randall County
He said the added cent in the this week announced his candidacy
letter rate is a 20 per cent increase in the Democratic Primary for
Then there’s the little boy whose J compared to a 24 per cent boost in State. Representative from the 75th
mother did not believe in reward- the rates for mailing newspapers
ing him for being good. So he and magazines, and a 35 per cent
grew up to be a good-for-nothing, hike for advertising circulars, ”
Teacher: “Can anyone tell me
where the home of the swallow
is?”
Donald: “It must be in the
stomach."
pyVy
i
06 1m I
Sophomore: “What is heredity, everyone in the community. The
professor?” 'weather was cold most of the time
Professor: “Something every but roads remained open and peo-
man believes in until his son be- pie did a lot of visiting with rela-
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1968, newspaper, January 4, 1968; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1511974/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.