The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1955 Page: 1 of 10
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BOY SCOUT REX SCOFIELD. center, receives the God and Coun-
try award, one of the highest of Boy Scout honors, from his
pastor, Bev. Billy Porterfield, in special ceremonies Sunday eve-
ning at the First Methodist Church. He is the first in the Cana-
dian troop to qualify for the Church award. His parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Scofield, are at left, and fellow troop member Warren
Rivers is at right. —Photo by Jimmy Reid.
Cage Games Will
Benefit M. O. D.
Canadian Junior High cagers
will play a double-header for
the March of Dimes Tuesday
night at the Canadian High
School gymnasium.
The Junior High girls, champ-
ions of two tournaments this
season, are undefeated . . . and
the Junior High boys team, with
one tournament championship
and one second-place trophy un-
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MUSTI
THIS WEEK'S CALENDAR
Jan. 13-14-15: Canadian Invi-
tation Basketball Tourna-
ment.
Jan. 15: Auction Sale, City Au-
ditorium, 2 p. m.
Jan. 18: Junior Basketball for
March of Dimes, High School
Gym, 6:30 p. m.
Conference Basketball at
Gruver.
Jan. 20: Baptist Association
WMU Quarterly Meeting at
Perryton.
Jan. 21: Basketball, Darrouzett
here, 7:30 p. m.
* *
Pupils of Mrs. Grace Spiller
will be presented in a recital
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
the First Methodist Church.
Twenty-five numbers are pro-
grammed. The public is invited.
«
In the Hospital today: Mrs.
A. P. Liske, Lon Sanders, H. R.
Miller. Dan Bachman, Bill
King and Mrs. Clark Reagan.
Discharged during the week:
Mrs. W. W. Burnett (Jan. 8);
Mrs. Jack Riley. Ed Hoover
(Jan. 10); Eaxl Blackmore, Gus
Cape hart (Jan. 11); Mrs. Gla-
dys Lee, E. M. Gilbert. Mrs.
Ethel McPherson, DeU Kreh-
Mel (Jan. 12).
der their belts, have lost only
two games.
Tuesday night's opponents will
be the Shamrock junior high
cage teams, and a pair of top-
notch basketball games are ex-
pected.
The Shamrock Junior boys de-
feated the Canadian Juniors in
a one-point overtime thriller at
Shamrock before the Christmas
holidays, and Coach Mose Dam-
ron's charges are fired up to
even the series Tuesday night.
The Canadian Junior High
girls defeated the Shamrock las-
sies in their first meeting of tije
season.
Tuesday night's double-header
will begin at 6:30 p. m. All gate
receipts will go to the Hemphill
County March of Dimes fund;
ind special "minimum" admis-
sion prices of 15 cents for stu-
len's and 50 cents for adults
have been announced by M.O.D.
■hairman Logan Owens for this
game.
"These admission prices are
he minimum," Owens said. "But
there's no rule against anybody
dropping more money into the
kitty if they want to," he added.
"The March of Dimes needs all
the help we can give it this
year."
Cage Tournament Opens Today
Canadian Teams
In Night Games
Canadian's 25th annual Invitation Basketball Tournament open-
ed at 12:45 o'clock this afternoon (Thursday) at the Canadian
High School gymnasium, with sixteen teams of girls and boys
representing nine area schools ready to vie for a big array of
trophies.
Opening game of the tournament was slated at 12:45 between
the Briscoe and Lefors girls teams; followed at two o'clock by a
game between the Durham and Follett girls, and at 3:15 by a boys
division game between Follett and Lefors.
At 4:30 this afternoon, in the
final game of the first session,
the Briscoe and Darrouzett boys
teams will meet.
.Tonight's session begins at 7 p.
m. with a girls game between
Allison and Perryton; followed
at 8:15 with a girls division
game between Darrouzett and
Canadian and at 9:30 p. m. with
a boys division game between
Allison and Canadian.
Play will be resumed tomor-
row afternoon (Friday) at 12:45
with a boys game between Mem-
phis and Durham completing the
first round of play.
Second round play gets under-
way at 2 o'clock with a consola-
tion bracket game between the
losers of the Darrouzett Canadi-
an and Briscoe • Lefors girls
matches; and continues at 3:15
with a consolation game between
the losers of the Briscoe-Darrou-
zett and Allison-Canadian boys
games. Another consolation
bracket match in the girls divi-
sion, between the losers of the
Durham-Follett and Allison-Per-
ryton games, will wind up the
Friday afternoon session at 4:30
o'clock.
Championship bracket semi-
final play will begin at 7 o'clock
Friday night between the win-
ners of the Durham-Follett and
Allison Perryton girls games.
Winners of the Briscoe-Darrou-
zett and Allison-Canadian boys
games will meet in a semi-final
match at 8:15 p. m. Friday; and
winners of the Darrouzett-Cana-
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Junior Girls Win
Tournament Title
Canadian's Junior High girls
basketball team won first place
last Saturday night in the Fol-
lett Junior High tournament at
Follett, defeating the Follett
team in the finals.
The Canadian Junior High boys
team won second place in the
tournament, defeating Follett
Saturday night to finish in the
Number 2 slot in the round-robin
tourney.
The Canadian Junior girls, un-
defeated this season, breezed
through games with Darrouzett,
Booker and Follett to win their
second tournament champion-
ship this year.
In the slarting line-ups wen
Sharon Riley, Barbara Meek, ané.
Lacreta Stephenson, forwards,
and Joyce Wheeler, Melinda
Markham, and Janis Hardin,
guards.
The Junior High boys tears
lost its second game of the sea-
son at the Follett tournament
Their only previous loss was 1®
Shamrock early in the season.
The Canadian PeeWees lost
their first tournament game to
Darrouzett, but won the rest to
finish in second place.
Both boys and girls teams haS
won tournament championship*
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THE CANADIAN RECORD
VOLUME 66 — NUMBER 2
CANADIAN, HEMPHILL COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13. 195E
Shot Childress Is Show Winner
Former Canadian
Resident Dies
In California
Ray Churchill, 73, died Janu-
ary 8 at Sonora, California.
He was born in Alemna, Kan-
sas March 10, 1882, and moved
with his parents to Canadian in
1892, living here for three years.
In 1895 they moved to Dur-
ham, Okla., and -filed on ranch
land which lies three miles north
of Durham. He and his brother,
Fred, formed a partnership and
farmed and ranched together.
In 1922 Mr. Churchill moved
back to Canadian and carried
the mail to Durham for about
twelve years. He also worked for
M. F. Bernson for three years. In
1938 he moved to Sonora, Cali-
fornia.
Survivors include two broth-
ers, Vern and Fred of Durham,
Okla., and a sister, Mrs. Pearl
Fay of California^ and a number
of nieces and nephews.
,£r. and Mrs. John Glenn and
■onVpent the week-end in Dal
Free Auction
Saturday Will
Aid Dimes Drive
/
A free public auction sale at
the Canadian City Auditorium
Saturday afternoon . . . first of
the 1955 series sponsored by
the Canadian Chamber of Com-
merce . . . will feature many
items consigned to the auction
to be sold for the March of
Dimes.
"Many items have already
been donated to the local March
of Dimes campaign to be sold at
Saturday's auction," Chairman
Logan Owens reported this week.
"Among them are a washing
machine, a chair and ottoman,
and several other items of furn-
iture."
City of Canadian employees
have volunteered, Owens said,
to pick up any item consigned
to the auction sale for the March
of Dimes. "If you have some-
thing- you want to sell for the
M.O.D.," he said,- "just call the
City Hall (Phone 277) and some-
one will call at your home and
pick it up."
The auction, one of a series
sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce, is open to all resi-
dents of the Hemphill County
area . . . and any person who
has something of value to sell
can consign it to the auction
sale without payment of any
fee.
A clerk will be on duty at the
City Kali after 10 o'clock Satur-
day morning. The sale will be-
gin at 2 o'clock. Shelby Pettit of
Wheeler is the auctioneer.
After this month, Chamber of
Commerce directors have an-
nounced, the free auctions will
be conducted once each month
on the first Saturday . . . to co-
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W. L. Helton in
Mayor's Race
For April Vote
Second Candidate
Begins Campaign;
Others Rumored
W. L. Helton, former Hemp-
hill County juasc, —«/winced
this week that he would ba a
candidate for Mayor of Cana-
dian at the city election >n
April.
Helton joined City Commis-
sioner Fürman Williams, who
had announced last week that
htf'jlttHlVdd to seek the Mayor's
office, in the early campaigning
. . . and rumors persisted that
other announcements might be
expected.
Mayor Malouf Abraham, who
is serving his first term in the
office, has not announced any i
plans to seek re-election.
Judge Helton, actively cam-
paigning this week, announced
his campaign platform based on
"a substantial reduction in util-
ity rates and ad valorem taxes;
a good maintenance and im-
provement of our streets and al-
leys; improvement and expan-
sion of our parks and recreation
facilities; and encouragement of
intercity bus service."
"I am a candidate for May-
or," Judge Helton told The
Record. "I am prepared to give
it as much of my time and at-
tention as necessary to carry
out and bring about my pro-
gram.
"I pledge my cooperation with
the City Commission and City
employees, county officials, the
Chamber of Commerce and the
Board of Development, the
schools, churches, and clubs . . •
anything and everything to bet
ter our condition.
"I assure you I will keep an
open mind and will welcome
your suggestions at all times,"
Helton concluded. "My slogan is
Progressive Yet Conservative."
Judge Helton said that he is
prepared to devote his full time
to the job if necessary. "My bus
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4-H Club Boy
Shows Grand
Champion Cali
Also Wins Grist
Memorial Trophy
Here Saturday
Shot Childress, H e m p h i 11
County 4-H Clubber, won dou-
ble honors Saturday at the
fWUivesfock Show.
The 15-year old club boy
showed the Grand Champion
calf of the show, and also won
the Walter Grist Memorial Tro-
phy as this year's outstanding
4-H Clubber.
4-H CLUBBER SHOT CHILDRESS, at right, receives the J. Walter GrUft Memorial Trophy as the
year's outstanding 4-H Club boy from Mrs. Char lene Grist at special ceremonies Saturday after-
noon at the Junior Livestock Show. Richard Kiker (at left) won the trophy last year. Erbin
Crowell (with microphone) was Master of Ceremonies. Photo by Jimmy Reid.
* * # * * *
Auction Sale Nets $2,000
For FFA and 4-H Clubbers
Sale of three calves and
twenty-eight head of swine
brought a total of nearly 52,000
to Hemphill County 4-H and
FFA boys Saturday afternoon
at the close of the annual Jun-
ior Livestock Show at City Au-
ditorium.
Ora Sperry of Follett was the
auctioneer.
Top price was $32.50 paid by
the Beaver Livestock Sales Com-
pany for a light steer calí <710
pounds) exhibited by Larry
Schaef. The First National Bank
paid $30.00 per hundred for a
1,025-pound steer calf shown by
Iiarold Yarnold; and the First
State Bank paid $30 for an 820-
pound steer calf shown by Del-
bert Derby.
Other entries in the calf show
were not offered at the sale.
The Beaver Livestock Sales
Company put a "floor" of $25
per hundred under all calves
sold, and $18 per hundred on
the swine, purchasing the en-
tire lot from the auction buy-
ers at these prices.
G. W. Cafky of the sales com-
pany also notified the Canadian
Chamber of Commerce that his
company would, in the future,
provide plaques for each year's
show to be awarded to 4-H Club
and FFA boys for best show-
manship.
Delbert Derby took the top
check from the auction sale,
drawing a total of $327.25 from
the sale of one calf and two
hogs. Howard Yarnold was next
with $307.50; and Larry Schaef
was third with $230.75.
A total of $1975.55 was paid
for the livestock.
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He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Childress.
Reserve championship honors
in the Calf show went to a 4-H
Club girl, Gwenette Forrest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robeir
Forrest of Gem.
Her older sister, Marvella Fot-
rest, shared top honors in the
calf show with entries which
placed 1st and third in the light
steer division and third place
in the heavy division.
Gwenetta's entries placed sec-
ond and third in the heavy steer
division and second in the light
division.
For the Forrest girls, it was
the second straight year of tri-
umph in the local show. Mar-
vella Forrest's entry was Reserve
Champion in last year's show
and Gwenetta placed first lasst
year in the lightweight division.
Judge of the show Saturday
was Hugh Clearman of Hereford.
County Agent for Deaf Smith
County.
FFA boys and 4-H Clubbers
divided honors in the Swine
show, which had the biggest
entry list in the history of the
local show.
In the division for Fat Bar-
rows, Roger Wootten of the FFA
showed the Grand Champion
and 4-H Clubber Bucky Price
showed the Reserve Champion.
In the division for Female
Swine, Price showed the Grand
Champion and Lee Hendershot of
the FFA Club showed the Re-
serve Champion.
Fifty-seven pigs were exhibit-
de in the four classes. There
were 14 sows and 24 gilts in the
female swine division; eight en-
tries in the heavy barrow claw
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GRAND CHAMPION steer o! the Hemphill County Junior Live-
stock Shew Saturday was exhibited by 4-H Clubber Shot Chil-
other show honors (see photo above). .
—photo by llauny Bold.
RESERVE CHAMPION honors at the calf show went to 4-H Club
girl Gwenetta Forrest whose sister. Marvella, showed the re-
servo champion at the 1954 show. Bath girls bad top-ranking
entries In the show this year.
CITY FUNDS AT
RECORD LEVEL
The City of Canadian start-
ed the new year January 1
with the biggest bank bal-
ance in city history.
A total of $95,632.07 was in
city depositories at the close
of business on December 3L
Mayor Malouf Abraham re-
ports.
Biggest previous balance
on the city's books was $93,-
902.29 at the end of Decem-
ber in 1952.
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