Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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General Alexander, commanJcr in chief of the British Mitldlc East-
ern forces, recently tiecoratcd a number or Free French officers and
men who distinguished themselves at Uir ilaclieini. At tjp Free French
Infantrymen are shown a,> they were reviewed by the C-in-C. Lower
photo shoua (uncial A!c\ar.dcr inspecting speedy Bren kuu carrier*
and crews.
Claude News
to be Published
Tuesday Next Wk.
Due to next week being Christ-
mas week, the Claude News will be
published on next Tuesday so as
to give the force a few days off
from the gruillng work of news-
paper publishing. Most of the sub-
scribers should receive their paper
on Wednesday of that week.
Those having news to go into
next week's paper please bring or
send It in by Monday noon so as
to Insure publication. #
PVT. WILLIAM E. BRADY, Jr.
Sheppard Field, Tex.—Pvt. Wil-
liam E. Brady, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Brady of Claude, has
graduated from an Intensive course
in aviation mechanics and now is
prepared to blast the Axis. Shep-
pard Field, near Wichita Falls, is
one of the many schools In the
Army Air Forces Technical Train-!
ing Command which trains the'
specialist technicians who main- j
tain our bombers and fighter planes
In perfect combat condition. He
now Is elglble to become crcw
chief on a bomber and to win a
rating as corporal or sergeant. Be-
fore entering the school, he was
trained at one of the basic train-
ing centers of the Air Forces Tech-
nical Training Command and learn-
ed to fight the Axis with other
things besides the tools of his
trade. Men trained by the Com-
mand are versed in the art of pro-
tection and offense as well as re-
pair. #
LT. IRENE WKRTENBERC.ER
WRITES FROM ALASKA
Miss Irene Wertenberger has
written friends and relatives from
an army base somewhere in Alaska.
She Is Chlel Assistant to the sup-
ervisor In the base hospital. The
base and living quarters are all as
modern as the ones in the states,
according to Miss Wertenberger. ,
The entertainment In the camp
Is splendid and the country far
more beautiful than one could be-
lieve. Those who know her, are
quite pleased that she is so happy
in her new location, ft
Sgt. Wayne Bailey of the Army
Medical Corps at El Paso, Texas,
spent the wee>:-end with his par-
ents, Mr and Mrs. Frank Bulley
nt Claude.
Why Not Go
Back to the
Old Time?
CLAUDE WELLS, Editor of The
Memphis Democrat, Informs us that
the town of Memphis has reestab-
lished Sun-Time, or the old time
when It comes to opening up busi-
ness, going to lunch or dinner,
etc. In other words, if business
houses usually opened up at 6:00,
they now open up at 7:C0 a ni.
Then school opens ni 10 a. m. in-
stead of WAR TIME, i' OO a. m.
School turns out for dinner at 1
instead of 12 and schools close rt
0 ins!?ad of 1. In other words they
still use the SO-CALLED DAY-
LIGHT SAVING TfMfe,—which is
a misnomer—but open up one hour
later than said time. This does not
change their time pieces but chan-
ges their acts, cne hour later than
formerly.
If our good Mayor would Issue
a pioc'amation to that effect, we
could continue to use the So-Called
Daylight, saving time—which does
not save anything—and while us-
ing such, act with the Suntime, as
we formerly did In the past This
would save our schoil pupils, who
live in the country, from having to
get up in cold weather, way before
daylight, getting ready for the
school bus, etc. Let us have the
change, Mr Mayor. WHY NOT
N°W. # iU.ifci:
RED CROSS
The local Red Cross will not
work during the holidays. Today
will be the last work day before
Christmas but there Ls an urgent
call for all knitted garments which
are out. Turn these or any other
finished work to Mrs. Rogers or
Miss Emma Bagwell at anytime.
—Pub Chair. #
l!I(i PANHANDLE SNOW
That big snow which fell in the
Panhandle last week, has given
Winter wheat plenty of moisture,
and incidentally gave us plenty of
mud with the slow melting. It looks
like another bumper wheat crop
for 1943. With cattle and hogs
jumping up In price, our farmers
may come into their own. *
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Kunz, of
Clarendon, visited Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Puckett, Mr. and Mrs. New-
ton Harrell and other friends over
the week-end.
CUT THAT ROPE!
V.r> i , \
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me ffltoii&e Wettra
"The Oldest and Best Read County
Seat Weekly in the Panhandle"
VOLUME 52.
CLAUDE, ARMSTRONG COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY. DEC. 18, 1942
NUMBER 17.
Local Banks
Keeping Small
Businesses Open
Small business must be saved
if the free enterprise system is to
be saved. No one knows this better
than large business. How to keep
small business afloat in the grow
ing flood of restrictions on the
supply and distribution of mater-
ials, is a grave problem.
Senator Murray of Montana,
Chairman of the Special Senate
Committee on Small Business, has
pointed out in cffect that the banks
arc carrying the main burden at
present in keeping .small business
alive. The local banker, more than
any other agency, Ls in a position
to aid the local business In meet-
ing financial and operational dif-
ficulties.
Consultation witli the banker of-
ten spells new Hie for an enter-
prise otherwise faced with extinc-
tion from the exigencies of war
And every enterprise thus saved
is as valuable to the cause of free-
dom as a military victory. Conver-
sely, every Independent enterprise
that closes its doors is in the na-
ture of a defeat.
The business man who goes to
the banker with his "war problems"
will get a sympathetic hearing
They are both striving for the
same thing, the maintenance of
a system under which they can
continue to do business as free
men. Unless this system is saved,
the war will have been lost, Irres-
pective of who fires the last
shot, zt
WHY NOT MAKE
SOME MONEY
IF THERE IS anyone who wishes
to open up the Claude Magnolia-
Wholesale and Retail Gasoline Sta-
tion—you are asked to write to
W. S. NORMAN, District Manager
of Magnolia Petroleum Co., Am-
arillo, Texas, and you will receive
the desired information to do so.
Or you may call on Mr. Norman
at the wholesale service station In
Amarillo, tell him that you read
his ad in The Claude News and
Mr. Nonnan will make you an
offer that will be worth your while
going up to see him. tt
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MRS. W. A STONER
JO FRANCES WORLEY
BECOMES BRIDE OF LT.
WILEY A. STONER
Dallas, Dec. 12—Announcement is
made of the marriage of Miss Jo
Frances Worley, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. O. Worley of Claude,
to Lieut. Wiley Alan Stoner, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Stoner of
Kinsley, Kan. Both the bride and
bride-groom are residents of Dallas.
Chaplain William Hewitt of the
Hensley Naval Air Base in Dallas,
read the double-ring ceremony in
the home of Lieut. A. B. Buchanan,
Jr., of Dallas, at 8:30 o'clock Friday
evening, Dec. 4, 1942.
The bride's attendant was Miss
Dorothy Turner of Dallas. She wore
a white and black ensemble with
gardenia corsage.
Lieut. Randolph E. Scott of Dal-
las served as best man.
The bride wore a crepe dress of
turquoise blue with a shoulder cor-
;age of orchids, and black felt halo
lat. Her jewely consisted of a pearl
lecklace and ear screws.
After their marriage, the couple
left on a wedding trip to Kinsley.
Tho couple are at home at 4317'j
Oak Lawn, Dallas.
Mrs. Stoner is a graduate of the
Claude High School and North
Texas State Teachers College at
Benton. In college she was an out-
standing student scholastically and
vas prominent in student activities.
She was a college favorite and was
•.elected by committee to appear a-
mong collegians in "Who's Who.'1
Lieut. Stoner was graduated from
he University of Illinois where he
An Easy Way to
Help Win the War
Your nation needs iron scrap for battleships, bombs, guns,
all its weapons of war. Think of idle metal—zay large mass
you have seen—in an abandoned building, mine, saw mill,
quarry, in street car rails, a sunken ship—in any other
form. Write it down here. Mail this coupon to:
Special Projects Salvage Branch
War Production Board
Washington, D. C.
Where to find it:—
My natne-
Address-
If you know of other large chunks of metal of this sort tell us
about it on a separate sheet.
Just A One
Inch Ad But Look
at the Territory
A Linotype representative recent,lj
returned from a trip with a story
of a weekly publisher who gave
potential advertisers a graphic idea
cf what they get when they adver-
tise in his paper, runs a story in
the latest issue of the Linotype
News.
"That publisher," said the repre-
sentative, "had lifted a one-Inch
ad from one of his newspaper forms
had run off 1,900 copies of it on 8
Job press, and had pasted all of
them on p. wali in his plant.
"And now when any potential ad-
vertiser asks why 'a little one-inch
ad should cost so much,' the pub-
lisher points to the wall and says:
"But you're not buying a one-inch
space. You're buying all that—1,900
inches—with ail of it individually
mailed to your prospects.
"If you were to mail them out
yourself, at only a penny each, the
postage alone would amount to
nineteen dollars!"
This graphic demonstration, which! because "it supplies a need of the
has proved quite convincing, could man who grew it which would
be adapted to advantage by many I otherwise be reflected by purchases
a publisher-reader of the Linotype! in the open market," and. there-
News. # j fore, it "competes with wheat in
commerce."
santa I n rm This is worth thinking over.
' ' > Under similar legislation and court
Dear Santa: j rulings, almost every productive act
Just to remind you that I'm 0f American citizens could be con-
tryir.g very hard to be a nice little, strued to "exert a substantial ecu-
girl and have been away from nomic effect on interstate com-
How Far is Farm
Regulation Going
in this Country?
The United States Supreme
Court has rendered a unanimous
decision upholding the govern-
ment's power to regulate wheat
production, even when the crop
is to be consumed on the farm.
An Ohio farmer who plainted 23
acres of wheat was fined $117.11 for
raising 12 more acres than hi,
allotment of 11 acres under the
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Granting that the decision is
in accordance with the letter of
the law, the reasoning of Justice
Jackson, who wrote the decision,
has far-reaching effect on every
American citizen. He said that
wheat, even if grown for home
consumption, could be considered
within the scope of Congressional
regulation if it "exerts a substan-
tial economic effect in interstate
commerce." To emphasize this point
he went further and said that
even if such wheat was never mar-
keted. it is subject to regulation
home all summer but I'm verv
merce," and therefore be subject
dog and today he got his leg hurt 1
With lots of love,
JOANNE
Lots of kisses for you Santa it
happy to be home. I would like t0 Federal jurisdiction
very much if you could bring me jf a farmer c.annot feec, hls
an Indiun Tepee (girl scouti & surplus grain to his own cattle
small bycicle and a small rocking, becaUse his affects interstate corn-
chair. Please remember Mother and | merce, how long will it be before
Daddy and if you have any dog jle jS t0](j he cannot kill a nog
biscuits for Jo Jo, he is a very nice |0r n ,)eef for his own cotLSUmption
because "it supplies a need of the
man who grew it which would
otherwise be reflected by purchases
in the open market."
Almost any human activity of
free and independent men and
women could be brought under the
dragnet classification of "exerting a
substantial economic effect on in-
terstate commerce " The housewife
who makes a dress for herself in-
terferes with such commerce.
And this Is happening in the U-
nited States where the independ-
ence of the American farmer is
one of the most sacred traditions
THAT SUNDAY DINNER
AT METHODIST CHURCH
The good ladies of the Methodist
Church furnished a wonderful feed
at the Church during the noon
hour Sunday, which proved beyond
a doubt, that we have some of the
best cooks and most agreeable en-
tertainers to be found anywhere.
A special invitation to the editor
by their able pastor, was accepted
quickly. In that good repast, we'of our nation tt
had most everything good to eat.I
That well baked chicken, pies and'
cakes just suited the editor's palet
to a T. | WPB Chairman Nelson described
This dinner was served to stew- October arms output as "disappoint-
arts and friends in order that they, inB as it was up only 3 percent
could remain In town after the j ovpr September, the smallest month •
morning services and attend the. increase this year. He gave the
Steward's meeting in the after- October box score for major cate-
noon and save gasoline, which gories of war production, airplanes
otherwise would have been used in'were down 5 percent, mainly due to
two trips to Claude.
Such get - to - gether meetings
should be encouraged as It cements
our brotherly love and friendship
in a way that nothing else can. #
AN EXPLANATION
special factors affecting deliveries,
merchant vessels were down 10 per-
cent but still ahead of schedule, or-
dnance was up 3 percent. Army and
Navy vessels were up 4 percent,
other munitions were up 9 percent,
and machine tools were up 8 3 per
cent—a new high for machine tool
The War Fronts
Give Encouraging
News this Week
President Roosevelt told Congress
that American forces overseas will
number more than 1,000,000 by the
ind of this month, and said "the
Axis powers have, temporarily at
least, lost the initiative." The OWI
reported that from December 7,
1941, to December 7, 1M2, the U. S.
armed forces suffered 58,307 casual-
ties—37,678 in the Army and 22,629
ill the Navy. MaJ. Gen. A. A. Ven-
dergrlft, Marine Commander, stated
that in the 4-months campaign on
Guadalcanal 7.000 Japanese troops
have been killed and 450 Japanese
planes destroyed, with enemy losses
exceeding U. S. losses by 10 to 1.
During the first year of war (Dec-
ember 7 to December 7), U. S. com-
muniques have announced the sink-
ing in the Pacific and Far East of
306 Japanese ships and 85 U. S.
ships.
The Navy announced the 22,000
ton U. S. President Coolldge, trans-
porting approximately 4,000 Army
troops, struck a mine in the South
Pacific and sank with a loss of
only four men, and also reported
the loss through enemy action if
the USS Alchiba, an auxiliary cargo
ship.
Gen MacArthur's headquarters an-
nounced the complete occupation of
the Gona area in New Guinea, with
allied forces advancing against the
remaining Japanese forces In the
Buna-Sanananda area. According to
communiques, at least 95 Japanese
have been killed and 4 captured in
attempts to escape from their sur-
rounded positions. On December 6
and 7 U. S. planes destroyed 21
Japanese aircraft, 18 of them in the
Buna-Gona area. '
Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, com-
manding general of the Army Air
Forces said that in the air struggle
over Tunisia American planes and
personnel are for the first time in
this war going up against first
class air power, engaging the best
U, S. can continue to destroy the
planes the Germans possess. If the
enemy plane for plane, we will
come out ahead, he stated, as U. S
production is at least twice that
of the Axis. #
NEW BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY
Week of December 21
"Canyon of No Sunset" Annette
Turngren. A thrilling adventure
story with an authentic background
in Ar izona.
Homeward Bound" Ruth Field-
ing.
"Cross Creek" Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings This Intimate, vivid and
fascinating narrative by the author
of "The Yearling" has all the hu-
mor and incident, the same human
and boundless appeal as its Pulitzer
Prize winning predecessor. It is the
story of Cross Creek, a tiny Florida
hamlet, of its people, its scenery
and wildlife Here are brilliant and
fascinating descriptions of the Flor-
ida landscape, the orange groves,
the swamps, the scattered home-
steads, and of the animals and rep-
tiles.
"The Sermon on the Mount' Em-
met Fox A recent donation to the
library, tt ■
LEND-LEASE
In the three months ended Dec-
ember 11, Lend-Lease assistance to
the nations allies totaled $2,367,-
000.000, the President told Congress.
This represents an increase of
more than 1/3 over the previous
quarter and more than four times
the Lend-Lease total for the quarter
immediately preceding Pearl Har-
bor. #
Three Minute Sermon
By Rev. P. B. Fltzwater, D. D.t
Director of the Pastors Count
The Moody Bible Institato
of Chicago
THE ROYAL CODE
Text: "Therefore all tilings what-
soever ye would that men should
do to you, do ve even so to them."
- Matthew 7:12.
A disposition to treat others as
one would be treated will be the
prevailing code when Christ's king-
dom shall come into realization.
May we all be able to say with
Spurgeon. "Lord, teach lt to mei
Write lt out In full in my life."
In doubtful questions between man
and man we should deal with
our fellows as we would have
them deal with us. The whole
law concerning .human relationships
is compressed into this one com-
prehensive rule, lt ls not merely
to refrain from doing our fellow-
man injury, but positively, to do
that for him and into him which
we would desire him to do into
us under similar circumstances.
Confucius set forth this principle
negatively, but only Christ could
do It positively. Between the nega-
tive and the positive sides of this
rule ls found the difference be-
tween heathernlsm and Christian-
ity.
Conformity to this rule is the
full keeping of the law. Unre-
generate men are holdng up this
Golden Rule as the ideal of living,
and they do well to do so. But
their fatal mistake is In the pre-
sumption that this life can be
lived apart from the new birth.
Only those who have been born
from above—who have received the
nature of God— can even attempt
to live this rule. To demand of
those under the power of the
evil one the keeping of this precept
ls utterly folly. The only remedy
for fallen men is the blood of the
cross. #
KNICK -WILSHIKE
Announcement has been made of
the wedding of Miss Doris Jean
Knick and Mr. J. C. Wilshlre, Jr.,
who were married December 5, 1942
by Rev. J. C. Sisemore, pastor of
Buchannan Baptist Church in Am-
arillo.
The bride Ls the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Knick of Dalhart. She It.
a graduate of Dalhart High School
and has been employed for the past
year in Amarillo.
Mr. Wilshire is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J C. Wilshire, Sr. He
finished Claude High school in 1941
and is at present employed in
Amarillo.
The only attendants were Mr.
and Mra Orville Knick, brother cl
the bride.
The couple are at home at 606
Arthur, Amarillo, Texas, st
CIVILIAN SUPPLY
Civilian goods will diminish stead-
ily in 1943, and every effort must
be made to insure continued pro-
duction of civilian supplies through
the concentration of output in a
few plants, said Joseph L. Weiner,
new Director of the Office of Civi-
lian Supply. #
MILLER-KIRK
Miss Marilyn Miller, daughter cf
Mr and Mrs. M. B Miller of F.1
Paso, became the bride of Pfc.
John W Kirk, son of Mr. and Mrs.
H W Kirk of Claude, Tuesday,
December 1, 1942.
Pastor of the First Methodist
Church of Lubbock performed the
ceremony in the presence of a few
close friends.
The bride is a graduate of El
Paso high school and before her
marriage was attending college at
Texas Tech.
The couple will be at home tem-
porarily at 1415 Ave L, in Lubbock,
Texas. # ,
HICKS-SHARP
Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Hicks, of
Owensboro announce the marriage
of their daughter, Betty Lou. to
Staff Sergeant Robert Rankin
Sharp, son of Mr and Mrs. Paul
Sharp, of Burkesville, Ky, at Fort
Knox at 2:30 p. m. Sunday, Chap-
lain J. H. McKnigh:, of the Arm-
ored school, officiating The atten-
dants were Miss Elizabeth Hawes,
ol Owensboro, and Corporal Hans-
fold Taylor, of D'llas, Texas
Mrs. Sharp ani Miss Elizabeth
Hawes, the latter the daughter of
Mr and Mrs. Sam Hawes, visited
here in the home of Mrs. L. C.
Cobb, several years ago. #
An Akansas woman advertised
for a husband She got one at a
cost of $9 He enlisted in the Army
and was killed. She got $3,000 in-
surance and a pension for the rest
of her life. And yet some people
will tell you that advertising doesn't
pay. #
An article appeared in last
week's Claude News which lead, Ploduclion'
some to believe that the Owner of I Because ot the conflicting essen-
tiality of many phases of the war
production program, said President
Roosevelt, the final decision as to
what Ls most needed remains with
Phone 97 is running a taxie to
Amarillo, charging for round trips.
This is not true.
Any time anyone wishes to go
to Amarillo and will share the ex-1 Arm>' and Navy. *
penses — according to Government,
regulations, to conserve gas and Phonograph records are being us-
save tire wear—which is strictly in'ed by the University of Texas
accordance to law, and will assist speech department to help foreign
In WINNING THE WARr-you may students build up a vocabulary cf
ichieved an outstanding athletic .'call the editor's attention to thLs English words and idioms, improve
record, and from the Naval Air! fact, and share expenses of the their pronunciation, increase theli
Uip.—Claude News. # i ability to understand what is said
In English, and to learn social and
MO■frfcAM parll imentary conventions. #
Station at Pensacola. Fla. At pre-
sent lie Ls flight instructor at Hans-
ley Field #
BIC. LIFT FOR HIS FARM
On his way to the American Red
Cross club in London, Pvt. Lee
Clary, Luling, Texas, picked up a
lady's brooch which he knew at
once was a gem of great value.
At the club he enlisted the serv-
ices of Patricia Brown to help him
locate the owner. They discovered
her to be the wife of Jack Lysaght
wealthy Briton, who placed a value
of $25,000 on the brooch Clarj's
reward for finding it was $2,000,
of which he gave $400 to Miss
Brown. He sent the rest home to
go into a fund in which he hopes
to buy a farm after the war. He
has been saving $40 a month out
of his Army pay for this fund n
Mr. and Mrs Geo. Cobb received
word Saturday that their son. Mon-
roe. had arrived in Northern Africa
after having been in England six
months.
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WITH PERSEftvFFiANCt 1
and hard work YOU
cam climb the. hlghcst
mountain-withgook luck
tou can get a ride in
An airplane
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