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The Groom News, Groom, Carson County, Texas 79039
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1971
FACTS
“My representative, Mr. Charles
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Daniel
ernment.
I
anniversary.
port news for publication.
Local News And
Personal Mention
Rains Return After Two
Weeks of Good Weather
County Has Eight Traffic
Accidents During October
Groom Tigers To Play (
Booker Here Thursday
GRAIN PRICES THIS WEEK
AT ELEVATORS IN GROOM
Mr. Wiberg stated that he wish-
ed to thank customers for the good
business he had enjoyed while op-
erating the station.
Mr. Bichsel was operator of the
Phillips Service Station here sev-
Bivens.
W. W. Brunais, a medical patient
at Groom Memorial Hospital, has
been critically ill for the past week
but is reported showing some im-
provement.
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Knorpp ne-
Among the patients at Groom
Memorial Hospital the past week
were:
Medical:
Patricia J. Gudgel, Pampa
Paul P. Fields, Amarillo
Emma Underwood, Groom
Claud Manry, Pampa
Mary L. Stuart, Amarillo
Grace Kimes, White Deer
Margaret Sirgel, Amarillo
Eldridge M. Atchley, Groom
Bessie L. Mulanax, Panhandle
Edmond C. Davis, Pampa
June Thacker, Lefors
Cora L. Dabney, Claude
Surgical:
Robert L. Price, Pampa
J. L. Case, Groom
Fred C. Waters, 'Wheeler
Velma M. Cady. Pampa
Darlene Vaughn, Groom
eral years ago and has had several Seattle, Wash., visited in Groom
years experience in the business. , Tuesday evening and Wednesday
He invites Groom people to come of this week en route home from
the following statement this week! held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the
to Carson County residents: | First Baptist Church at Hammon.
J the drouth so they can harvest
I what is left of the milo.
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CLARENDON COLLEGE TO
PRESENT DRAMA NOV. 22 23
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MOTHER OF MRS. PAUL
MORROW DIES IN OKLAHOMA
AND
Otherwise
in and get acquainted.
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COUNSELOR TO BE AT
PANHANDLE NOV. 29
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GROOM MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL REPORT
Lanehart, will be at the County j D. W. ASHFORD TO OPERATE
Court House in Panhandle from 9 PHILLIPS SERVICE STATION
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. -----
School will be dismissed 2:40 p.m.,
for Thanksgiving holidays.
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Mrs. W. E. Mrs. Larry Lamberson, Jill and
Lance of Canyon, Mr. and Mrs.
Telephone No. 248-3541 and re- celebrate Mrs. Anglin’s birthday
C. L. Wieberg who has operated
the Mobil Service Station in Groom
for the past year has .sold out. New j
operator is Marvin Bichsel who ;
PRINTED EARLY NEXT WEEK
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The Groom News will go to press
a few hours early next week if
preesnt plans are carried out. This
will give the publishers time to get
all of the edition in the mail before
the post office closes Wednesday
afternoon. Coopeartion of the pub-
lic in making the deadline next
week will be appreciated.
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excited for a couple of days that
I walked around in my backyard
about 9:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. with
a flashlight looking for a pair of
eyes with big floppy ears sticking
up. I am sorry to report that I
haven’t seen any jackrabbits here,
so New Jersey is safe. I suspect,
however, that when I return to
Texas, that sense of tradition will
urge me to renew my interest in
jackrabbit littering. Please don’t
tell Kenneth Black or Grady Stapp
about these feelings as I have al-
ways suspected they would thwart
my efforts and cause me consider-
able embarrassment.
Best wishes always,
DR. DAN WITT
219 McIntosh Road
Cherry Hill, N.J. 08034
this week, is reported improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Wood and:
son, Kevin, of Stratford visited his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Doug Wood,
Tuesday.
A. F. (Wish) Britten who was
taken to St. Anthony Hospital in.
Amarillo last week for major
surgery is reported to be im-
and Mrs. Dan Craig and daughter.
I. D. Hairrill returned to his
home in Duncan, Okla., Tuesday
after a few days visit with his
sister, Mrs. Ellen Dickerson.
Mrs. Marguerite Brunais of Chi-
cago, Ill., is visiting her father-in-
law, W. W. Brunais, who is seri-
ously ill in the Groom Memorial
Hospital.
Mbs. Vivian Lacy visited her
son and family, Dr. and Mrs. Ron-
ald Lacy at Sunray, Saturday,
where she attended a Scout meet-
ing to see her grandson, Ron Lacy,
receive the Eagle Scout badge.
Mrs. Francis Rogers of Arling-
ton visited Mrs. Audie Martin here
last week en route to Tucson, Ariz.,
to visit relatives
Mr. and Mrs Fred Holcomb of
Howe visited in the home of Mr.
and 'Mrs. R. B. Thornton and other
relatives and friends here last
week end.
Clyde Morrow who has been a
medical patient at Groom Memo-
rial Hospital for the past several
days was able to leave the hospital
Monday.
Sunday dinner guests in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Max Wade
and Kayla were Mr. and Mrs J.
A. 'Kidwell, Mr. and Mrs. James
Anglin, Wade, Quanna and Travis,
all of Claude, and Mrs. Jessie Me-
Spadden. The occasion was to
Texas Highway Patrolmen inves-
tigated eight accidents on rural
highways in Carson County during
the month of October, according to
C. E. Henderson, of Borger, High-
way Patrol Supervisor of this area.
These crashes resulted in four
persons killed and two injured.
The rural traffic accident sum-
mary for this county during the
first ten months of 1971 shows a
total of 111 accidents resulting in
10 persons killed and 42 persons
injured.
The rural traffic accident sum-
mary for the 60 counties of Lub-
bock Department of Public Safety
Region for October, 1971, shows a
total of 595 accidents resulting in
19 persons killed and 294 persons
injured. This was 96 more acci-
dents, 14 less fatalities, and 26
more injured than during Septem-
ber. The 19 traffic deaths for the
month of October, 19’71, occurred
in the following counties:
Carson, four; Kent, Lubbock,
Wise, Roberts and Wheeler, two
each; Crosby, Hale, Parker, Stone-
wall, and Hemphill, one each.
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WIEBERG SELLS MOBIL
STATION TO BICHSEL
Last week at the football game
at Follett Coach Roger Arnold told
Randy Garmon: “We gotta win
this game. Get in there and get
ferocious, vindictive and fierce!”
“Right, Coach,” replied Randy.
“Just tell me what their numbers
are.”
W. Ashford has taken
The Groom man whose elderly
mother was in a nursing home
brought her a fresh bottle of milk
with a little brandy in it every
time he visited. She never made
any comment but one day she
said, “Son, could I ask a favor of
you?”
“Certainly,” he responded.
“Please,” she said, “don't ever
sell that cow.”
Two weeks of warm weather
with clear skies ended Monday
morning when fog and drizzle mov-
ed in on a breeze out of the sout-
east from the Gulf of Mexico.
Rains Monday night and Tuesday
in Groom measured .80, followed
by 1.20 Tuesday night to bring the
total to 2 inches for the week up
until Wednesday morning.
North of Groom a flood of rain
visited the area bringing from two
to four inches of precipitation.
Lake beds are filling up from
the run-off water and the soil is
saturated. Harvest of milo is at
a standstill and hay still in fields
has been severely damaged.
Farmers only need a few days
of clear, dry weather to finish the
milo harvest but after the floods
the early part of this week it will
take several days for boggy fields
to become dry enough for farm
implements to be put in operation.
According to records kept by
Robert Kuehler at his farm home
adjoining the southwest corner of
the Groom townsite, rainfall this
year now totals 19 inches. Of this
Thursday, Nov. 18: Football—
Groom High vs. Booker, here, at
7:30 p.im.
Friday, Nov. 19: No School.
District T.S.T.A. meeting in Ama-
rillo.
Monday, Nov. 22: Basketball—
Groom Junior High vs. Panhandle,
here, A boys and girls, B girls,
beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Wed., Nov. 24: Class meetings.
The public is invited to see
“You’re a Good Man Charlie
Brown,” to be presented by the
drama department of Clarendon
College on Monday and Tuesday
nights, Nov. 22-23, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Fine Arts Center of the Col-
lege.
Mrs. Lambert, 94 years old, died Earl Barker, Mr. and Mrs. Dannia
Howerton, Kim and Kit, and Sonya
The Groom Tigers will end their
scheduled football season Thursday
night when they take on Booker
here on Tigers Field. Game time
is 7:30 p.m.
Last Friday the Tigers won a
conference victory at Follett by a
score of 14 to 7. At halftime the
Tigers were trailing 7-6 but came
back in the second half to score a
touchdown and was successful in
making a two-point conversion.
Booker is reported to have a
good team and the game here
Thursday night could be a close
one. The Tigers have been weak-
ened all season by injuries to key
players but have always been able
to make each game interesting.
The schedule of the Tigers for
the past season is as follows:
Sept. 10: Vega 29, Tigers 8.
Sept. 18: Claude 6, Tigers 19.
Sept. 24: Silverton 21, Tigers 6.
Oct. 1: Wheeler 41, Tigers 13.
Oct. 8: McLean 41, Tigers 6.
Oct. 15: Turkey 7, Tigers 45.
Oct. 22: Texline 24, Tigers 43.
Oct. 29: Open date.
Nov. 5: Lefors 14, Tigers 0.
Nov. 12: Follett 7, Tigers 14.
Thurs., Nov. 18: Booker, here.
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PANHANDLE SENIORS TO
PRESENT PLAY NOV. 19
I proving and was moved from in-
stve care Monday.
Sunday dinner guests in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Adcox
were Mr. and Mrs. Clay Spear ann
son, Scott, of Richardson, Mr. and
Mrs. Gerry Meek and sons, Todd
Mrs. Bertha Knight returned
home Saturday by plane from
Houston where she spent last week
visiting Mrs. Blanche Gray and
Mr. and Mrs. Kyle McLain. While
there the group went to Galveston
and visited Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mc-
Donald. Mrs. Gray is very happy
with her children and new home
and sends her best regards to her
friends in Groom. Between planes
in Dallas, Mrs. 'Knight visited with
her nephew and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Neal, who met her
at the airport on her way to Hous-
ton and on the return flight.
Marva Bichsel, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin Bichsel, under-
went major surgery in St. Anthony
Hospital in Amarillo Tuesday
Kara Pruett, 4-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pruett of
Canyon, was chosen “Little Miss
Canyon,” in a beauty contest last
Saturday evening. The contest
was sponsored by the sororities of
CONFESSION AFTER 16
YEARS SOLVES CRIME
One morning approximately 16
years ago, when Groom business
men arrived downtown to open up
for the day they found Main Street
littered with the carcasses of dead
jackrabbits. The finger of suspic-
ioned pointed toward one individual
but proof was lacking for a con-
viction.
Then one day last month a news
story appeared in The Amarillo
Daily News telling of a similar in-
cident in Amarillo where 34th
Street was littered with dead rab-
bits. A clipping of the Amarillo
incident was mailed to Dr. Dan
Witt who is in residency at the
hospital in Cherry Hill, N.J., and
Wednesday morning the following
letter was received by the editor
of The Groom News:
Dear Max: I was very pleased
to get The Amarillo Daily News
clipping related to the time-honor-
ed heritage of jackrabbit street
littering. In these days and times
it does an “old” man’s (I’m 32 on
Nov. 28) heart good1 to know that
the customs and traditions of my
happy childhood are being pre-
served. I am a little concerned
at the slight change in policy—the
34th Street litterers have not been
apprehended, and as you have deli-
cately indicated, my escapades
were somewhat more in evidence.
I still don’t understand how the en-
tire populus of Groom 'became sus-
picious of me instead of Button
Friemel, Doug Whatley or Johnny
Eschle. As you know, they were
fairly degenerate characters and
certainly were quite capable of
jackrabbit littering. Chub Black
and Martin Hermesmeyer were not
so innocent, either. I am the last
one to involve a member of the
family, but I was always a little
suspicious that my goodie-goodie
cousin, Jerry Thornton had an urge
to jackrabbit litter the streets of
Groom.
Again, let me say that I really
Hammon, Oklahoma where they - ----- ----
attended funeral services for Mrs. and Laine, of Amarillo, Mr. and
Grain prices at local elevators
Wednesday afternoon of this week
were:
Milo: $1.85 cwt.
Wheat: $1.41 bushel.
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EVERYTHING SOLD
We sincerely thank all of you for
making the COUNTRY STORE
BENEFIT so successful. The de-
licious goodies brought rewarding
contributions.
Your interest, assistance and fi-
nancial support insures the contin-
ued growth of the SQUARE
HOUSE 'MUSEUM.
Sincere thanks from
The ISquare. House Museum
Country Store Committee.
; Morrow’s mother,
Lambert.
29. I hope you will contact him _ —___ ... _________________
I if you think I can assist you on over the Phillips 66 Service Station turned home Sunday from Hous-
matters affecting the Federal Gov- in Groom formerly operated by the ton where they visited in the home
late Jodie Thornton. New tele- of their daughter and family, Mr.
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— New Arrivals —
Mr. and 'Mrs. Carl W. Irlbeck of
Abernathy have a new son, Bruce
Daniel, weight 7 libs., 2 ozs., born
at 12:06 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 16,
1971 in Neblett Hospital, Canyon.
Other children in the family are
Ramona, age 9 years, Cletus, 6,
and Everett, 2. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Wills of
Groom and Mr. and Mrs. John
Irlbeck of Happy.
Mr. and Mrs. Toby Don Patter-
son of Canyon are the parents of
their first child, a daughter, Misty
Dawn, born at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday,
Nov. 16, 1971 in St. Anthony’s Hos-
pital, Amarillo. She weighed 7
lbs., 4% ozs. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Carney of Am-
arillo and Mr\ and MIrs. D. J. Pat-
West Texas State University. Kara
total 7.90 had been received prior is the granddaughter of Mrs. T. G.
to August 7, the balance of 11.10 Fields of Groom.
has been received the past three E. M. Atchley, a medical pa-
months. tient at Groom Memorial Hospital.
For the first eight months of the
year farmers were praying for rain
to save the wheat and milo crops
and now for the past 60 days they
The senior class of Panhandle
High School will present an all-
time favorite play, “Up The Down
Staircase,” Friday, Nov. 19, at 7:30
p.m. in the Panhandle High School
auditorium. ■
The play is written by Bel Kauf-
man, published by the Dramatic
Publishing Company of Chicago,
and directed by L. A. Sparks.
Critics have acclaimed the play
as “sad,” “touching,” and “the
kind of funny that hurts.”
Admission is $1.00 for adults and
50 cents for children. Everyone is
invited to see this play.
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SCHOOL NOTES FROM THE
OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL
VOLUME 16. NUMBER 38.
terson of Canyon. Great-grand-
mothers are Mrs. Montie Ritter of
Pampa and Mrs. Loretta Carney
of Groom. Mrs. Patterson is the
former Diana Carney of Amarillo.
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phone number Of the station is
248-2201. He asks that you please
write the number in your telephone
directory and invites you to come
in for car servicing. Mr. Ashford
operated the station for a number
of years before selling out to Mr.
Thornton.
Congressman Bob Price issued Friday. Funeral services were
I Mr. and Mrs. • Paul Morrow of
appreciate the clipping. Was so THE GROOM NEWS WELL BE
took over the station Wednesday of i have been praying for a return of
this week Nov 17 j the donth ce +hev non harvect
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1971, newspaper, November 18, 1971; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512176/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.