Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1951 Page: 1 of 18
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VOLUME 60.
CLAUDE, ARMSTRONG COUNTY. TEX., THURSDAY, APR. 12, 1951.
Saturday
30c Tax (Carries in Claude Wins Dist..
County Election Literary Champ.
Here Saturday
In the 30; advalorum tax on the
1100 valuation, vitect on in the
Cpunty last Saturday, 150 vote*
were registered for the tax, and
£.7 against the tax, making a to-
tal of 207 votes cast In the county.
In the school election held over
ihe county, Mart Crownover and
Roy Brun;on were elected to Claude
Independent School Board, A. J.
Garland and \V. O. Hubbard were
elected to the Goodnight Independ-
t-nd School. Trustee of Precinct 3
was Guy Watson and Precinct 1
was J. P. Brown. Elected to the
Wayside Common School District
7 was Ira Schrlb.
Very few write in vote3 were re-
ported.
Claude Grade School won the
all-around Literary Championship
for gratfe schools at the District
Meet in White Beer Saturday mak-
| ing a total of 35 points. Groom
was second with 34, Skellytown
' third with 25, White Deer fourth
with 12M.- and Panhandle fifth
with 10',.
First places were won by Elaine
Moore and Eleanor Maddox in 5th
- 6th Grade Spelling; Kdwina
Lay.ock and Margaret Knott In
7th - Hih Crude Spelling; Bobl.-y
Byrd in Number Sense; and John
May in Story Telling.
Norma Gayle Posey was fourth
In Number Sense.
Gerald Mahler
to Bigg's AF Base
Biggs Air Force Base, Texas. Ap-
ril 11—Pvt. Gerald Cordell Mahler,
Eon of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Mahler,
Wayside, Texas, lias teen assigned
to the 97th Air Ba*e Group at
Biggs Ail Force Base. Texas.
He Is now a member of the 97th
Bombardment Wins Medium, part
of Strategic Air Command's Uth
Air Force.
Prior to entering ..the Air Force,
Private Mahler attended Panhandle
A. & M College, Goodwell, Okla.
McLean 3-Day
Rodeo Slated
Court of Honor
Saturday Evening
Parents and friends of Scout
Troop 17 are being invited to the
Court of Honor to be held Satur-
day evening at 8:00 o'clock, in the
Claude Christian Church. Several
scouts will receive advancement
cards at the meeting. Scout films
will also be shown.
The adult scouters will meet fol-
lowing the Court of Honor iO de-
cide on new tents for the troop and
help plan the Field Day event to
be held April 20-21-22 at Camp
Don Harington.
Demonstration
Agents' Column
(Uy MYllTLE MILLER AUSTIN I
April 10, 2 00. County Home
Demonstration • Council, Claude
Community Home.
April 17, Home visiting, Good-
night 4-H Girls.
April 18, Home visiting, Wash-
burn 4-H Girls.
April 19, Wayside Club.
April 20 Claude Garden Club.
April 21 Farm Bureau Meeting,
Amarillo.
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A National Garden anil Food
Preservation Emergency has been
declared.
The goal is 100 container ol pre-
served food in the home. 100 con-
tainers per person would help re-
lelve the high ^ost oi living budget.
Bedrooms of Patsy Schrib and
Jeanette Hamblen, Wayside were
visited last week.
Wayside and Claude M's members
were almost 100'! for 1051 gardens.
The J. K. Hunts will soon be
eating lettuce and radishes from
the demonstration frame garden.
Vegetables re))orted planted by
gardners are onions, English peas,
greens, lettuce, radishes, beets, car-
rots, turnips,' tomatoes, callage,
potatoes, corn etc.
Kitchen gadgets and equipment
given for roll call lis being most
helpful were: bowl scraper, juice
extractor, knife holder potato
peeler, dish drainer and drain
(See AGENT on Page 2'
Hie rodeo season will officially
open in McLean on Friday, Satur-
day, and Sunday, April 20, 21, and
22, when the annual three-day rod-
; eo Is sponsored by the Fioyd-Cor-
' bin- F'lorey Post 315, American Le-
gion.
The three performances will be
held in the rodeo arena in the
northwest part of McLean. The
first performance will be Friday
night at 8 o'clock; the second Sat-
urday afternoon at 2; and the :"inal
performance Sunday afternoon at
2.
Six events will be held, with a
total purse of $1,200 in prize money.
The events will be saddle bronc rid-
ing, bareback bronc riding, bull rid-
ing, bulldogging, calf roping, rib-
bon roping. The purse in each e-
vent will be $200, with an entry fee
of $10 for each event.
Veterans Questions:
Q. My eyes have been bothering
me since I left military service.
May I get eyeglasses from the VA?
A. VA will furnish eyeglasses only
under three conditions: if VA jud-
ges they are necessary for a ser-
vice-connected disability; if they
ire needed as part of hospital or
domiciliary care, or if they are
needed for proper continuance of
Public Law 1G training.
Q. 1 have completed four years ot
college under the GI Bill, during
which time I received quite a large
number of textbooks at Govern-
ment expense. May I keep the text-
books, or must I now return them
to VA?
A. The textbooks are yours, and
need not be returned to VA.
Q. I was commissioned in the
Anny in 1935, and hope to retire ill
I96;">, after 30 years' service. Will I
be eligible for GI Bill benefits,
since I was in service during
World War II period?
A. No. Under present laws, all
GI Bill benefits will have expired
before your release from active
service. The deadline for unemploy-
ment and self-employment allow-
ance Is July 25, 1952; for education
and training, July 25 1956. and for
GI loans July 25, 1957. Veterans
who enlisted or re-enlisted under
the Voluntary Recruitment Act
(between October 6, 1945 and Octo-
ber 5, 1946i are exempted from the
deadlines, but the exemptions
would not apply in your case.
Q Where do I apply tor institu-
tional oil-farm training under the
C.I Bill?
A. Apply directly to the school
in your locality approved to offer
the training The school then will
transmit jour application to VA for
approval of the agency.
Thanks for the your news item.
Easing the Burden on that Aching Back
si.
Crass Add direcUr dlseasses a personal problem with a
naUoJtto U*.iekh.y\f a mavy tranaport d.rln* "Operstlon MWI"
maneuvers on the West Coast. Red Crooo held workers serve thMcned
farces wherever they way be.
DONNIE McFARLAND
Donnie McFarland
to Receive Seoul:
Gold Honor Medal
First Class Scout Donnie Mc-
Farland. 12 years old, of Troop 17,
will receive the Gold Honor Medal
for Lii'e Saving in a Special Court
of Honor to be held Saturday at
8:00 P. M. in the Claude Christian
Church. This highest scout honor
award is being presented to Don-
nie lor risking his own life to save
the life of three year old Jerry
Preble, whose parents formerly liv-
ed at Claude. Jerry wandered onto
lli .hway 287 in Claude, and into
the path of a fast moving truck,!
on the morning of May 20, 1950.
Donnie ran and grabbed the child,
then dived for the ditch, saving his |
life from the wheels of the truck.
'Ihe presentation will be made by
W. J. Hiatt. ol Amarilo, Scout Exe-
cutive of the Llano Estacado Area
Council.
The citation, made by the Na-
tional Court of Honor of the 'loy
Scouts of America, in New Yor'.:
City, reads as follows:
"March la. 1951, Citation: Tend-
erfoot Scout Donnie Miles McFar-
land, rescued Jerry Preble from
being killed by a truck on May :!0,
1950.
"Donnie saw Jerry run out into
the highway near his home. Just
as he looked, a truck, soing about
forty miles an hour, tore around
the bend of the road. The truck
driver could not see Jerry, and the
frightened child stood directly in
the truck's path. Donnie said he
was scared stiff himself, but he
ran to the child, grabbed him with
one arm, and kept on running. He
fell to safety-otf the highway. Don-
nie showed presence of mind and
entire disregard for his own safety.
It was only a miracle that the two
children were saved.
"The National Court of Honor is
awarding to Donnie the Gold Honor
Medal for Life Saving, the highest
award of the Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca."
Scout Donnie is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. McFarland, of
Claude and has been a member of
Troop 17 since a very young boy,
first as Mascot and later as a scout.
He has not missed an outing or
canip of the troop since becoming
interested in it; activities. He is
now Assistant Patrol Leader of the
Frontiersman Patrol and receives
his First Class Scout Badge at this
same Court of Honor.
Tliis is the first time such an
award has been made to a scout
of Troop 17 The troop is rated as
the oldest troop west of the Missis-
sippi. It was organized by the late
Dr. W. A. Warner in 1912 and is
named the "Lone Star Pioneer"
troop. It has had almost continuous
registration since 1912. Present
Scoutmasters are Wilbur Cobb, El-
zy Hazard and Cecil Waggoner.
During the Court of Honor sev-
eral scouts of the troop will re-
ceive awards of advancement. 'Bar-
ents are especially invited to attend
the service. Scout films will also
be shown.
Following the Court of Honoi.
the Adult Seouter's Unit will meet
to plan for the Field Day trip and
select new tents for the troop. All
dads are especially urged to attend
this meeting.
I. S. Henderson returned last
week Irom a trip to Corpus Christ!,
Texas, where he visited Ms brother,
Guy Henderson. While there he
visited Mr and Mrs. Mansel Guyn
and they went fishing at Aransas
Pass and hod bad luck because of
lots of rain. It came a hard freeze
and hurt the trees considerable.
The Guyn children have grown
«lnce they were in Claude Mr
Henderson said
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Mustangs Place
Third (or 3-B
Track Meet Sat.
Claude proved a surprisingly
strong entry in the 3-B District
track meet at White Deer on Sat-
urday. The Mustangs placed third
in the high school track meet,
trailing the Champs White Deer,
s.nd Panhandle. Ponts were as fol-
lows' White Deer - 79, Panhandle
41. Claude - 27, Groom - 1
Robert. Whelchel of Claude was
one of the outstanding athletes a1,
the meet, scoring 14 points and
being high point man at the meet.
Whelchel scored llrsts in the 120
Yd Hi h Hurdles, Shot Put. while
making a second in lii;h jump,
and a third in low hurdles.
Four records were smashed and
White Deer surged to the champ-
ionship of the District 3-B track
and field meet Saturday afternoon.
Dale Imel of White Deer won
his seventh consecutive mile race
in a record-breaking 4 minutes and
42 second ;. It was 12 8 seconds bet-
ter than the old record.
White Deer's Kenneth Hightower
went 9 leet, C inches to win the
pole vault, one inch higher than
the old record. Floyd Travis of
White Deer went 02 of a second
under the record when he won the
100-yard dash in 10 2 seconds.
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NUMBER 3?.
Dairy Team
Wins Banner
On Saturday. April 7, 1951, the
Claude Dairy Judging: Team journ-
eyed to Plainview for the Plainview
Dairy Contest. The team received
a beautiful banner for placing third
in Milking Shorthorns. They also
placed fourth in Jerseys and eighth
in the cntjre contest. Thirty-two
teams were competing. Ray Thomp-
son placed third in Holsteins.
The team is composed of Roy
Thompson, Ray Thompson, and
Roland Brunson.
The Dairy and Livestock teams
will go to Lubbock April 28 for the
Texas Tech contest.
Visits Relatives
In Plainview
Mr .and Mrs Carl Wood spent
Sunday in Plainview, Texas; at-
tending church and visling with
Mrs Wood's relatives. Among those
visited were Mrs. Mavme Somer-
ville and her daughter, Dolores and
Mrs. Alta Luster; her daughter and
her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
McGuire and their children. Mrs
Somerville and Mrs. Luster are
aunts of Mrs. Carl Wood.
Thev attended church services at
the beautiful First Methodist
Church of Plainview; which is the
home church of Mrs. Somerville
and Dolores.
BUFORD FORESTER
Experienced
Singer at Baptist
Revival Apr. 18-29
Buford Forester, music director
for the Gambrell St. Baptist churoh
of Fort Worth, will arrive in Claude
April 13 to direct the music for the
First Baptist Evangelistic Services,
April 18 - 29.
Mr. Forester attended Howard
Payne college. 1935 - 37, and South-
western Baptist Theological Sem-
inary, as a sacred music and re-
ligious education student, 1937 - 41.
During this time, he was choir
director of the Gambrell St. Bap-
tist church and the Polytechnic
Baptist church, both in Fort Worth.
He served in the Army Air Corp
during World War II. 1942 - 4G, as
a teletype operator. During this
time he was stationed, for one year,
near Calcuta, India.
Since his discharge in February
1946, he has served the followng
churches as music - educational di-
rector: Lamar Ave., Baptist church,
Wichita Falls; Calvary Baptist
church, Beaumont; Coggin Ave.,
Baptist church Brownwood. and,
at the Gambrell St. church, in Fort
Worth, since September 1950.
He married Miss Dorothy Blan-
ton, a native of Fort Worth, in
1941. They have two children, a
daughter, Sharon, age 6. and a
son, David, age 4.
His father, J. R. Forester, is now
pastor ot the First Baptist Church
May, Texas.
We have gone through the dime
and dollar age and have entered
the counting-your-pennies era.
Mlntlon the Claude News when
you buy!
Washburn Club to
Make Play Room
The Washburn Club ladies met
and quilted a quilt for Mrs. Mary
Medlin It was a Dutch doll pat-
tern and pieced by Bobby Asreal's
mother.
We voted to clean up the big
! east room and use it for a plav
room next regular meeting, April
18th. is to be used as clean up
day Little Gloria Thompson won
our white elephant.
Those present were: Mines Mary
Medlin. Dorothy Thompson, and
Shaw, Tennie Holderman, Edith
Gloria, St ell Rutherford, Linda
Tarwater, Juanita Gilbert, Rose
Longbine.
RHEA SMITH
Legion District
Convention, Borger
Six to seven hundred delegates
representing the 46 American Leg"
ion Posts in the 18th Congressional
District will converge on Borger
for their annual spring convention
to be held Saturday and Sunday.
April 14-15. District Oommander
Rhea Smith of Amarillo has an-
nounced.
D. H. Tiny" Reed. State Com-
mander of the New Mexico Legion
will he principal speaker on tTie
urogram which also Includes Tex-
as State Adjutant G Ward Moody
of Austin. National Executive Com-
mitteeman. H. J Bernard of Hous-
ton and other prominent Texas
Legionnaires ,
Registeration for . the two-day
meet with Borger's Hutchinson
County Post as host will begin
Saturday at I ajn.
Funeral Rites Held
For Jack Little
Funeral services for G. tl. (Jack*
Little were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday
morning from Blackburn-Shaw Me-
morial chapel. Officiating was Rev.
Hubert Thomson of the San Jacinto
Methodist church.
Burial was in Llano cemetery,
Mr. Little, an Amarillo attorney
and former member ol the Texas
Legislatuie, died Saturday night in
Rawlins, Wyo. He was 45 years old
and had been an Amarillo resident
since 1926. *He was a member of
ihe law firm, Gibson Ochsner, Lit-
tle, Harlan and Kinney.
Survivors are the wife, a daught-
er, a son, two brothers his lather
ajid granddaughter.
McGehee Bi 'OS,
Use, Ensilage and
Meal on Cattle
"A thing of beauty is a joy for-
ever" according to the poet That
describes steers fed by McGehee
Brothers, Wayside. The steers were
high grade, two year old Herefords
and the feed, two pounds of mea!
and 45-50 pounds of Atlas sorgo
ensilage for 90 days. Estimated
gain was two and a half pounds
a day. The weight at marketing
was 1024 pounds. Incidentally the
hair of the animals was very glossy
and price per pound quality.
A 200 feet trench silo, 13 feet
deep, 22 feet wide at the top and
13 feet wide at the bottom which
will hold 1100 tons was dug. The
day the trench was completed, the
ensilage started rolling in. Eight
hundred sixty tons were cut in
four days. The average acre produc-
tion was 13 tons of ensilage.
This silo is a drive-in. Trucks
are filled for feeding with a tractor
loader. A salute to McGehee Bros,
for their contribution to human nu-
trition the feed lot via.
1 lirce Minute Sermon
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago
SONGS IN T1IE N'IGHT
Several times in the Old Testa-
ment we read of a new song. Some-
times it is by way of exhortation, as
in Isaiah 42:10: "Sing unto the
Lord a new song, and his praise
from the end f the earth, ye that
go down to the sea, and all that
is therein; the isles, and t. in-
habitants thereof." Sometimes it.
is by way of personal history, as in
Psalm 40:3: "And he nath put a
new cong in my mouth, even ,,raise
unto our God."
The Ec.ik of Psalms is peculiarly
a songboo!:. It is God's message to
His own i.eople in terms of the
heart, and its special ministry is
one of comlort. This is the reason
for the continued reminders of
God's grace and power, and for the
repeated exclamation, "O that man
would praise the Lord for his
goodness."
"But," says someone, "are we
supposed to sing in this kind of a
world?" Yes indeed. We do not sing
the ribald, jerky, sensual songs of
the age. These are temporary, pop-
ular and soon forgotten. The song
of the Christian originates in the
heart: "Speaking to yourselves in
Psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord" (Eph.
5:19i.
We have read that during World
War I. when it was no longer pos-
sible to import those beautiful sing-
ing canaries from the Harz Moun-
tains, Germany, a dealer in New
York decided to start a system ol
training canaries to sing. He had
bird songs placed on records, and
these proven oi value. But one day
he made a real discovery, which
meant success. He found that if
he covered the cages with thick
cloths, completely shutting out the
light, the birds learned their song.
Many a Christian has learned
that sometimes God teaches His
children !o sing in, and because of,
darkness. Verial, "He giveth sones
in the night."
If half of the things that happen
here at home could find its way
into the local paper; we would have
one of the most interesting and
informative papers in lite country.
When a man and his conscience
are at war .have you noticed how
often the man wins?
Strong Winds
Damage Weeks &
Bagwell Elevator
The strong winds here Tuesday
brought damage t > the Weeks $
Eagwell Elevator just north of the
railroad. A strong suction was caus-
ed when the wind whipped oetween
the new elevator and the old, caus-
ing the southwest side of the shee;
iron building to be ripped away and
caved in No damage to stored
grain was reported.
Tempetures dropped to 15 during
Tuesday night.
Operation
Co-Editors
THE EVIL OF TODAY
The tongues wag and the evil
little minds spout fire of nate and
doubt. God weeps over His sick
little children! So it is with the
nation!
The unrest started in the organi-
zations, spread to school and church
and the mouthes foamed with mis-
tiness and corruption.
Can we wonder that we have
droughts, plagues and fear en-
compassing us about? Can we won-
der that the nation reels and faulty
before an atheistic foe. When peo-
ple sit with evil thoughts and are
multiplied by the thousands of our
nation, you see the cause of world
unrest.
The Christ of the heart is being
crucified anew "Oh Lord, where Is
that heart of charity and compas-
sion; of forgiveness and under-
standing? Where are the simple
truths that bind brother to brother?
They are being smothered by the
wagging tongues and evil little
minds, that see naught but evil,
and speak naught but evil!
God weeps over His sick little
children— C
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We give vou from your Blood
Pressure and Your Arteries", a
Public Affairs pamphlet; The heart
is a hollow, muscular organ about,
the size of a grapefruit but infinite-
ly tougher. Compared with mechan-
ical motors, the heart seems weak:
it is rated as only one-two hundred
fortieth horsepower. But the aver-
age heart pumps nine or ten tons
of blood every day handling the
body's entire stock of blood about
once a minute. If the heart's labor
over 48 years could be concentrat-
ed in a single moment, it would be
enought to lift both the Queen
Elizabeth and the Queen Mary out
of the water.
Strange, isn't it; those who throw
stones arc usually the ones who
can least afford to do so.
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Indiana University isn't the only
college where fraternities are turn-
ing the senseless, juvenile custom
of hazing of pledges, but we would
like to give you a few of the many
ways the men of this university
are working for community service.
Instead of hazing, pledges ol one
fraternity painted a community
building which provided education-
al and recreational facilities for
children of working mothers An-
other supplied a family of 14 with
bedding, repaired the roof of the
home, repaired a used stove and
installed it. Anothei painted the
city band shell, mowed park lawns,
landscaped city property. Pledges
have shoveled snow, cut wood, cai-
ried water and coal for the as-
sistance of the needy. They have
colored 400 dozen eggs for their
Easter party for the city's young,
have had Hallowe'en and Christ-
mas parties for under-nourished
(See CO-ED on Last Page)
Grav I.atlics Serve in Menial Hospital
Homemaking Girls
Serve Mothers
On Friday morning the fresh-
men girls served breakfast in honor
of their mothers Their breakfast
consisted of orange juice, scrambled
eggs, sausage, toast, strawberrj pre-
serves, and coffee. The centerpiece
was yellow jonquils, and yellow
candles were placed an tile buffet.
Earh mother received a corsage.
Those attending were Mrs. Ralph
Bagwell, Mrs. Mart Crownover. Mrs
Paul Whelchel, Mrs. Sam Plumlee.
Mrs. Johft Tolberl. Mrs. R. A O'-
Daniel. Mrs. Cliff Brown, and Mrs.
Alba Shores.
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Mention the Claude News when
you buy!
Patients ai a state mental liosptUI learn tjrplac *rom volunteer Red
Cross Gray Ladles Service In inititntioM tt kind is a new activity
of these traditional Bed Cross volnntoerm.
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