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• A Community Service
' for Armstrong County
&, Its Trade Territory
"The Oldest and Best Read County
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Seat Weekly in the Panhandle"
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In the Interest of the
Farming & Ranching
Growth of this Section
VOLUME 55
CLAUDE, ARMSTRONG COUNTY, TEXAS NOVEMBER 16, 194a.
NUMBER 11
tfs am
Texas Part Or
Share Of Jobs To
Be Created
TEXAS MUST CREATE 000,000
JOBS
Without going !nto the intricp-
clcs of probable o"cr-!ap between
the groups—the pos'.lblo ntimbei
of Service perscnrel who won't
enter the list of Jo'c seekers; the
number of home-makeis who will
return to the hon e, ot those who
will return to school—wo nav con-
servatively i hat Texas must create
at least 30C.00C more jobs now than
she had to offer in July of 1044;
and more than PO'j OCt) tlian she
had in April of W.!
Tne magnitude oi the task can
Claude landed in fan Francisco, j be scon from another angle. In
and is. expected home thi: week. 1940. Texas agriculture emplovcd
lie has received his honorable dis- | 970,000 persons, and all other uc-
charge and will make a wife and tivities, 1.4fi9.000. In July. 19*14.
four children very happy upon | agricultural employment in the
American Legion
Have A Big
Meeting
® E/l-C Eugene Bagwell is now
rt Nagasaki, Jrpan on ui) oiler
[Toing from island to island to re-
l'i'el shin:. Eugene writes his wife,
Jean Nell, interesting letters about
his trips. lie has ber-n In the ser-
vice one year am! over seas three
months.
O S/l-C Jim Eail Qilly, hus'-ind
of Lucile, who ha3 4 children in
his return to Claude.
9 S/l-C, M. 'L. Bunn, Jr. son of
M. L. Bunn, who has been in ser-
vice 20 months, 18 months of this
time sent over seas. His ship
participated in 14 invasion bom-
bardments iu the South Pacific,
state dropped to 950.000 while 11
other activities increased their em-
ployment to 1.808.000. Manufactur-
ing activities, with an increase ,?f i DIST. II DC
NELSON, JR.
175.00C gained from munitions work,
more than doubled their employ-
ment. Governmental services in-
creased their lolls from 86,000 to
and he wears the Asiatic ribbon j 250.000, The drop which car. be
with 4 bronz stars. He is home j expected in munitions and govern-
on 30 days leave to visit his bro- ] mental employment alone would
thers and sisters and expects to present industry, agriculture, an!
lcceive an honorable discharge' other activities with greater labor
sotre time next March.
9 T/5 Cpl. Molen Barker Brum-
mett is now located in Korea
in the South Pacific. Barker, only
son of Mr. mid Mrs. Molen Brum-
mett, has been in the service 1M
years, and 7 months of this time
was spent over seas. He writes
liis mother that lie started to
school and would take the Kor-
ean language and photography.
supplies than they could use to
regain pre-war levels, where they
had dropped, and to maintain all
other war-time levels!
AMERICAN LEGION BANQUETT
One of the most interesting and
helpful meetings of Hanold Gist
Unveiling Of Our
Plaque Today
Nov. 16th
ARMY BAND TO FURNISH
MUSIC FOR Till. UNVEILING
Today Nov. 10, 1945 at 2:30, p.
m. in the District Court room at
Gout; hoiti". Armstrong County
people will pav' t:Jbuto to their
toys rnd :;irls of the Armt:! Ser-
vices with the unviang of the
"Honor Roll Ptaaue".
A'l (lis.hr.rur.U Vetera3 of World
War I and f'erv: •!> bavs and girls
horn? on leave are requested to
assemble in the hall of the court
house at ":00 ti. :r.
Thro'.t-'hont the aflenioon a
"Victory Bond Booth" will be In
lii? Co', ,-t House hall so that
nr.on - who wistvc to purchase a
Why Not Make
Thanksgiving A
Day Of Prayer
THANKSGIVING 1945
This is the time of year when
man is offered the upward look,
the lifting of eyes and prayers
for his fulfilment, his benefits.
His. Thanksgiving thoughts are evi-
dence of his appreciation to God
As a whole, we do not take time
as a religious people, to engage in
manifestations of our faith. The
annual o servances of religious
holidays we keep in the traditional
manner but stray fron. our faith 1
in a benign Providence, lr the
interim. •
Many Claude families will unite! way'
to partake of t the ThanksgMng
dinner as before the recent war
Our Joke Column
Fiddler Bates—"1 areamed last
night I passed away.
Foree Sowder—"And the heat
woke yo' up?"
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Dever Walker says that the nob -
lest kind of a dog ts the hot
dog. it actually feeds the hand
tha,t bites it.
Mart H. Crownover—"I heard
something this morning that open-
ed my eyes."
H. B. Watson—"9o did I—an
alarm clock."
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. >nt! may do sc. Lets al! help Arm-1 interrupted the usual festival of
strong County r.c over the topi Pilgrim founding. A plentiful plate,
.vi.h iis quota in this 'Victory)after this victory, is not the only
Bend Drive". I blessing for which each such family
Program Far Unveiling: j will give thanks this year. We have
"March"— Amarillo Army Airfield
Band.
Seating of Gold Star members
and returned 3ervicemen--by Boy
Scouts.
"America" Amarillo Army Air-
many protections and benefits to
add to our already lor.- list.
This November finds lis thank-
ful for a harvest ana a peace,
yet other countries of people no
better than we, lack both. Many
favors have been visited upon this
nation since the Founding Fathers
carved out ihc base for our good
fortunes. A land rich in goods.
acres yielding a harvest one of
Caprock Cafe, furnished t'.:c re-1 "Tlieits a Star Srangcled Banner (the greatest it: our history, pro- ,,
past, for the evening, consisting of Waving Somewhere"--Amarillo Air- duction is advanced to fill Arn.- "Jan UP? a Kuest said to
Post No. 344. of th" American I field Band.
Legions held ar Claude was at the ] Presentation of Colors—By A
Banquett given at the Caprock ] merican
Cafe, Friday evening of last week, j Guards.
Legion to Boy Scout
Virgil and Zola Morrison of the j Invocation.
It used to be that when you
owned a dog, von just owr.ed the
dog and that was all there was
to it. Of course, you had to see
that the animal was given food
and water and received sufficient
1 exercise. That was in the da: s
when life was simple.
~ "7 7 Now, even as old and establish-
Mis Luther Lowery to a Clerk— a CUS(,om as owning a dog has
would like to buy some powder become almost unbelievably compl:-
Al'ttllr, Vnw •>«.. tU. *
cated.
Of course, if you live in a city.
Bill Wisdom—"My son wants to
be an automobile racer What
shall I do?"
Mrs. Wisdom—"Don't stand in
Artfclle Kerr—Do you want the
kind that goes off with a bang'
Mrs. Lowery—No, I want the
you have to pay a dog tax—on the
kind that goes on with a puff ; of COurse. And before yon
_ ~7 ! . can pay the tax, you have to have
Emmett Gooch—"A Kansas Wo-
man's Club debated for an hour
and a half on the most dreaded
disease among women, and then
decided it was lock-jaw!"
Judge E. C. Nelson Jr.—at a
public dinner had talked for an
hour, and seemed good for as
long again.
Can notning be done to shut
Daily
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N. Africa Sun. 28 Oct 1915
Dear Folks:
In my grazing about in the
volumns and columns that have
keen written by men of the past,
and present I ran across some-
thing several days "go that as-
tounded me in no mall way. It
was written by a brilliant man of
our time. I quote him as follows:
"People are discovering that, a
frightful queerness has corr.p into
life. Even unobservant people are
betraying, by fits" and starts, a
certain wonder, a shrinking, f*.'.gi-
tive sense, that something i: hap-
pehing ro that the wolId will
'never be the same'
"Spread out and examine the
broad pattern of events a..d you
will find yourself face to face
with a new scheme of b ing. hi-
therto unimaginable b\ human be- dependent ropulace, start 011
Life had to adopt itself to 4hat
or perish and with the presenta-
tion of that, the ultimate pattern
of things to come lias faded away
—it is the end."
It sounds strangely like a reli-
gious writer indulging in interpre-
tations of phophecy but because of
the fact that it is from the pin
of a materialistic mind it becomes
amazing. The author, H. C. Wells,
if Great Briticn, in 1929, pre-
dicted that the second world war
would break out in Danzig in 1940
and that the lirst real fighting
would be between Poland and
Germany. Tl'.e above quotation
was written and published on Oct.
23, 1945.
Then I read the following, pub-
lished as an editorial >11 the New
York Times in 194:': "Something
like an ideological totalitarian con-
quest is oven now under way right
within the Democracies The Fit -
damental basis of totalitarianism
is an exultation of the stile, it
starts out as h welfare state,
which takes care a. all essential
needs of the individual. Von- soon
the individual becomes completely
dependent on the state which as
a result, acquires complete .owe'
over the individual. And, as a final
step there arises some tou?h-f'.'tea
ruffians and fanatics v.hr,. seeing
the vast power acquired bj th..
state over an acquiescent, becau.sc
to
ings. Hitherto events have been
held together by a certain logi-
cal consistent j -as the heavenly
bodies have been held together by
a golden core of gravity.
"Now it is as if the core has
vanished and everything is driv-
ing anyhow to anywhere at a
steadily increasing velocity. Dis-
seize the state for themseives.'
Notice that more and more men
are being employed by the Govern-
ment in the U. S. A. Aside from
this, business and farming are
becoming more dependent 011 the
government for ftnr.nei'.i! aid in
one form or another. The govern-
ment is also acquiring more and
tance has been abolished, events | more control over labor arcl in-
have become practically simul-
taneous throughout the planet.
(Continued bottom next column)
dustry iu the form of employ-
ment agencies i.ne. reconversion
(Continued On 1'aRe Two)
4-ifers Taking Part in Farm Safety Program Study
Accident Prevention Measures in City Plants
RURAL boys and girls are taking
every opportunity to learn how
10 prevent accidents on farms. Aa
one example, a group of partici-
pants in the 1945 National 4-H
Safety Program (shown above)
recently visited plants of an auto-
mobile manufacturing concern in
Detroit to study safety measures
taken to protect workers against
injury.
To comply with the organiza-
tion's safety regulations, the gr«np
was equipped with nonshatter
eyeglasses, and the girls were
clad in slacks and provided with:
hair nets or other head covering.
Other safety measures through-!
out the plants were pointed outj
and the reason for their use ex-l
plained to the 4-H'ers.
The tour will be credited to'
each member's 4-H safety program
record. Participants in the pro-
gram who achieve outstanding
records in safety work this year
will receive merit awards donated
by General Motors. The awards
are based on county, state, sec-
Uonal and national level*.
T-Bone steak, oic.
Feist Commander. Kaimltt Gcoe.li
a regular fellow, was toast master
for this auspicious occasion, and
lie certainly made a good one
calling on each member and visit-
or present to say something "for
the good of the order".
The principal spr;:ikers for the
evening were Ex-District. Judge N.
C. Nelson. Jr. for 8 years judge:
of this Judicial Dist. of Hanson
Post No. 54, Amarillo, and orator
James R Moore, 18th Dist. mem-
bership chairman of this District.
Judge Nelson, who made frequent
remarks of his false teeth, which
he left at home, which caused him
to whistle in speaking, .-.aid they
hurt his gums, hence he did not
wear them to Claude. His speech,
as well as Chairman Moore's was
made along the lines favoring the
legions of both wars to get toge
ther and make one gigantic le-gion
body. Judge Nelson
from the bench
tion as Attorney for Phillips ' 6S"
Petroleum Co.. one of the leading
oil companies of th" t,ood old X>.
S. A.
Wm. J. Bryan Waggoner, just
home from 2 years over seas, where
he spent part time in North Afri-
ca, North and South Italy, was
chosen as Chaplain for this occa-
sion; he, opening the meeting by
thanksgiving and prayer and clos-
ing by prayer. Finance Officer,
Calvin Finley tola of the Ameii-
car. Legions, of Harrolei Gist Post
having their new brick building,
lor all meetings paid out and in-
field Band.
Address—Chaplain from Amar-
illo Airfield.
Violin quartett—"America the
Beautiful", Mesdames Ruth Wil-
ton, L"ona Woodward, A.la Moore
and Olinda Collins. Mrs. Faye
Carr Piano accompanist.
Unveiling of Plaque—Miss Laura
V. Hamner.
Presentation oi Flaqtie to Arm-
strong County- -Mrs. Francis May,
President ot Armstrong Co. Fed-
eration.
Acceptance of Plaque—Judge
Chas. Stewart.
National Anthem—Amarillo Band
Benediction.
strong cupboarels. During George
Washington's time a farmer could
supply his own family and one
other. Today, our farmers take
care of their own brood and nine-
teen additional families from each
farm tract. So as time gees on
wo prepare again the ground, dis-
tribute the fruits of labor, build
a granary to provide- lor the com
Mr? Nelson next, to him
Mrs. Nelson-sighing—"I'm afraid
not," she said. "I've been trying
to do it'for 15 years!"
Mrs. Oletta Cobb Williams—"Yes,
we spent our honey moon in the
South It was beautiful down
there."
Motored down, eh"1 Well, you
mon welfare with herds and heads ■ must '™ve passed some glorious
yielding boun'ifullv meats and scenel'v'
butterfat, eggs and milk. Genera-
tions labor on the land to bring
this about and a grateful people
take Thanksgiving to bless such
toil.
Yet, we, in spite of being so '
Oletta—"Oh, we must have! Why.
we averaged well over 400 miles
a day!"
the dog inoculated against rabies.
And the veterinarian ; uggests al-
so that it wo.'.ld be a good idea
to have the dog Immunized a-
gainst distcm:.""-.
All of these thing? cost money
—not much separately bu' st'll
they add up. Like they used *0
say about a Modal T, "Its not
the original cr.st b:.t it's the up-
keep: one of these cars will two-
bit you to death."
Then there is fie problem of
food for the dog. In the old days,
you fed your dog rcraps and of
course some meat-but there is a
meat shortage, of which you've no
doubt heard.
Someone suggested that vv° feed
Bessie some prepared food. Upon
opening the package v?e found
that the contents looked like pieces
of brown eardboaid. The directions
s. id to soak in warm water, which
was done with considerable mis-
givings, but to our amazement,
Bessie ate this with much gusto
and began to grow taller and
Army
• [Answers Your
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T'JZ' Hi"? War Problems
fortunate in an unfortunate world, I *ur ^JnS'ing Brothers and Barnum
I are not able to reap harmony,, ^ Ba''ey combined, nad magnifi-
cat McClure says the late Dex- heavier
tFellows, who was Dress aeent . , ,
And as she g,.ew sJle ijec3mo
more playful and er.treet'c Fox
terriers are generailv conceded to
understanding, faith in the har- j <;ent faUh in the overwhelming I be the iiveiiest of a)1 do?s; Bp<-sie
vest of peace. So let us, as we • ° ^ 1 is hereby placed in nomination as
fox terriers,
to have a
place to romp and run—so that
~ - ia nc: i-uv yjituru m in
sit dewn to cur uounteous dinner, j "e walkec' into a newspaper office , liveliest i f all
pray that we be blessed with Kans®s clt>'- "* am Doxtel of course she had
• .... .. I Fellows of the circus, he aimeunc- '
selfishness and, through tl'.e grace!
r\, 1 LI- ,. ... 1 l'*"1-*- iUUiU UliU 1 U.-,— OU lllrtl
of God and our ovn efforts, that L ' ^ g,, c ne' and 1 am meant fencing in the backyard.
our comforts be extended to those
I beyond this land of plenty.
Q. 1 now reccive a pensio
my husbanel was a World War I
veteran. I have two minor children.
In case I re-marry, would I still
receive part of the pension for
my children? If so, how much?
A. You would st'ii receive part
e>f the pension for the chilelren-
a total of $38 per month if your
husband's death was because of
injury or disability title to Army
service, or a total of $27 er month
if his death was due fo other
than Army service.
Q. To be eligible for discharge
vited all members of World War from the Army of Occupation in
to join them and make one
mighty body of what could be
over 12 to 15 million members
when all are in tlrs organizat'011.
This editor was allowed to de-
viate from the program long >•
:iorgh to say that these boys—
the legions (if both wars—can
make a real democracy w'th e-
qual rights to all a d special priv-
ileges to none; if they will take an
interest in politics and vote; ev-
ery one of t hem. They ma) put
Presidents and Congressmen in of-
fice and take them out of office,
just as they choose, if they get
into the political game and vote
iu the Interest of Democracy.
Many .~hoi't peeches were made
by those present, including our
Sheriff M. P. Ray Burton, whe is
just home from New Orleans, are!
other points, where lie spent two
years in service, his closing work
being the handling and protec-
tion cf explosives, including the
atomic bomb Rav is quite an ora-
tor and holds Ids audience well
as he proceeds, deeper ant! deeper
into his subject. Ad,j. J. E. "Cot-
ton" Johnson handled the finance
during this diive for new mem-
bers. Taken all in r.ll thi- was a
worthwhile meeting; ore calculat-
ed to bind our Great American
Legions in closer bonds of "Friend-
ship, Love and Truth". May we
have mora of it.
Ten new members signed up for
the Post at this meeting. There
arc now 53 members for 1940, of
which about 50 per cent art new
members. There should be at least
125 members in Ileirold Cist Po t
No. 344 for 1946. Th committee
urges ev?ry veteran In Armstrong
county to join them now and meet
j with them at every regular date,
which comes on the First Friday
night of each month.
Those attending this BanqueUe
weie: Carl Appling. R. C. Ballard.
John Blomer, Ray Burton, C. H.
Brown. Pat Bagwell, Warner Brun-
son, Wilbur "Lefty" Bagwell. Fred
(Continued Bottom Next Column)
Germany, does .1 soldier have to
stay there until tie gets the re-
quired points? How do these sol-
diers get points?
A. Soldiers are released from
occupation duly in o.ie of two
ways. When they become eligible
for discharge, they are sent home
and separated from the service.
They are returned for duty in
the United States as the size of
the Army of Occupation decreases
and as it becomes possible to re-
place them with lower-point men
or by those now enlisting or be-
ing inducted into the service.
Points have not b?en given for
service since September but from
time to time the Army has re-
duced the number of points neces-
sary to make a soldier eligible for
discharge.
Q. Is there any way for a farm-
er to be discharged?
A. Soldiers are not separated
from the servic" merely because
they are farmers. However, a dis-
charge can be giver based upon
the soldier's importance as a civ-
ilian to national hea'th, safety cr
interest, each case being decided on
its own merits.
Want Ads Pay Big
Church., Tvan ChauveauS, Poe Cab ;
La Roy Campbell, Glen Corbln,
Emmett Gooch, Calvin Fi.iley
Weeks Hughes, John H. Gilbert.
Theadore Hill, J. E. Johnson, J.
B. Johnson, Bill I.ewter. Gordon
Lauderdale. Fred Longbine. John
Luther. John Morris, Lloyd Nelson.
Judge E. C Nelson, Jimmy Moore.
E. E. Nickell. Claude Renfio. Frank
Reck, Bill Brady. Louie Schmidt.
Chas. Smothermon, Rov Vineyaro
DeVere Walker. Don Watson, B
T. Woods, Edward Watson, Bryan
Waggoner, Cary Stephenson, Jelin-
ny Goodin, Clyde Lawrence, O. W.
Gilley, Wayne Jones, T. T. Wag-
goner. Vernon Dye, ar.d James
Hooker.
BUY BONDS
"Good lord, young man," 'ie pro-
tested. "If you were in London
and heard a man singing 'God
Save the King.' would you in-
terrupt him and ask. 'What king?'
WASHINGTON
(By Leon Bloch)
Washington, Nov. 16— High jinks
011 the food front are doing Mr.
and Mrs. John Q Public exactly
no good. Price a ad rationing chief
Chester Bowles is standing ada-
ment in the face of destiny and
refusing to budge an inch. Later
he may be forced to shift a mile,
observers say, because of nis ob-
duracy now.
First of all, coffee traders are
here to... , .....
. , I Of course, we haa been intend-
1 uT Jl Z fa \ ln« build *
, , ^ ,.p y.. fhocked-1 time (so we said) The ienee has
now been built at a cost of $77.50
Say, those friends that gave us
the dog, do you suppose they weie
friends?
Some excellent thoughts, com-
pactly expressed, are these by D01-
lilee Davis Smith, former poet
laureate of Texas'
The more a man knows about
himself the less he says about
the other fellow
There's always a way—find it!
I am no bigger than the small-
est thing that stirr ray soul to
wrath.
Opportunity may knack, but I
just open the door
Josh Billings once remarked
that when seme speakers strike
oil they forget to step boring.
After an hour and a half cf
preaching, a clergyman who was
given to both long-windedness and
fanciful flights of oratory was just
getting warmed up to his sermon
on immortality.
"I looked up tc the mountains,'
he shouted, "and I said, Mighty
as you are you will be destroyed,
but my soul will not.' I gazed
at the ocean and cried Vast as
you are, you will eventually dry
up. but not I.'"
And then he wondered why his
hearers chuckled.
BUY BONDS
About the only thing a nickel
is good for in cities today, is a
telephone call.
A Claude man says when he
hears that the divorce was a very
quiet one, he bets what led up
to it wasn't so contained!
I3i-w:es situ ituv*a> e
■ facts with official I
increased prise is]
it- the South Ameri-f
paying three cents a pound mare
than OPA prices 011 Brazilian and
Columbian bean, say inside ex-
perts. But Mr Bowles still lefusssj
to dignify the
blessing. The
not all loss, for the South Ameri-i
can producers have agived to ship'
us a minimum of half a million
bags a month as agairst 250.0C0
heretofore. And soon they say,
they will up the total to a million.
Conferences with Cuban sugar
interests are still at an impasse.
The Cubans have 'een liotding
out for a three-year agreement,
which we cannot legally make un-
der current law. However, a com-
promise has been suggested—a one
.'ear agreement with a promise ':y
President Truman that two renew-
als will be forthcoming in the
next two vears.
Meanwhile Cuba ha-- increased
her crop front three million to
nearly five million tons—and is
afraid she will be left holdirg
the bag as peacetime demand
slackens. It look* as though the
American housewife will have to
do without needed sn^ar for a-
while, while diplomacy works ana
Cuba piles up surpluses.
In either direction; in the field
of agriculture, the organ of a de-
cidedly left-wing farm group has
completely abandaned any thought
of the problems of agriculture to
bend its to efforts toward attack-
ing the XI. C. Army Engineers.
Congressmen Governors and other'
cit zens who show the slightest 1
disagreement with their wildest
theories.
KNOCKING HIMSELF OUT
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