Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 9, 1954 Page: 8 of 16
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A New Dealer For
Irrigation Equipment
I can give you reasonable prices on
Webster aluminum portable irrigation
pipe and centrifugal pumps,
Will be glad to figure with you on
watering from lakes or wells. I will be
pumping from my lake in a day or two
and you are invited to drop by and see
it in operation.
SAVE YOUR FEED-SEE
Henry Finley
Phone 929-F-21 Claude
Wednesday Will be
Claude's Day at
Tri-State Fair
Mayor Charles Bagwell announc-
ed this week that Claude's Day at
the Trl-State Pair will be Wednes-
day, Sept. 22nd, and has proclaim-
ed a holiday for that day.
The fair will be held the week of
Sept. 20 through Sept. 25 and a
big fair is anticipated by the Tri-
State committe that is planning
the event this year.
Foster Whaley is also looking for
local farm produce to be included
in the county booth at the fair.
He stated these items could also be
entered in the judging contests and
be placed in the county booth at
the same time.
THE
"Bird Dog Club"
IT PAYS!!
Polio Fund
All Coffee Money Taken In
Saturday, September 11th
Goes In The Polio Fund
8
Howdy Neighbor!
... we have just taken over your Texaco Ser-
vice Station, and we intend it to be the friendly
kind of place folks like to go for Texaco's top
quality products and fast, competent service.
Yes, we expect to make a lot of friends. We
hope you will be among them. Drop by Today!
DUB'S TEXACO SERVICE
(formerly the Edgar's Texaco Service Station)
Dub Stockman, mgr.
Phone 123 Claude
THE COMPETITOR
By Sally S. Eads
ALL through college, I planned
to own a small town news-
paper. My uncle Tom had left
money for me to go into business,
and I felt sure old Mr. Thorne
of Hardinsburg would sell The
Clarion. But when I went to see
him, he refused to talk about sell-
ing, and I learrted that his grand-
daughter, Lily Thorne, was the
reason for his refusal. Lily loved
the newspaper business, she was
the power behind the Clarion, and
she did a fair job. But not as good,
I thought, as I could do.
Well, I decided, I wouldn't be out-
done. I would start a new paper
and show the Thornes what a
good paper was like.
At first, the noise from my print-
ing press and other machinery was
music to my ears. There was an
oil boom in the county, and peo-
ple responded surprisingly well
to my call for subscribers and
advertising. I was doing fine. I
was a newspaper man, and I would
show the Thornes who was who.
The only "fly in the ointment"
was the way Mr. Thorne took what
I was doing to his business. I had
thought he would make a fool
of him'elf, cavorting around over
my starting a second paper in a
town of six thousand. But not him
He treated me like a brother.
"HpJIo, Son," he would say when
we met, and Lily would smile and
say, "Good morning, Mr. Conrad.
M.v friends called me Burt, but I
didn't want to encourage familiar-
ity with the Thornes.
Their friendliness, under the cir-
cumstances. made me jittery. I was
even unhappy in church. Lily sang
in the choir facing me as 1 sat
in the audience, and her white
and pink complexion and her pan-
sy-blue eyes fascinated me. Her
smile lifted me right ofT this earth.
What a way to feel toward your
competitor!
One day when 1 was in thp Post
Office, Lily and her handy man
came in She didn't ,=ppm to no-
tice that I was mailing out onl.v
about a fourth as many papers
as she had to send out. When she
went out, one of the clerks teased
me about her.
"Being a newspaper man, you
could interest that girl," he teased.
"Yes?" I said, and hurried out.
I made up my mind right then,
that I would leave Hardinsburg.
I was whipped and I knew it. But
how could I leave Lily? I knew
she was too loyal to her grand-
father and The Clarion to marry
me. 1 planned ail week how I
would get out of Hardinsburg with-
out appearing to be a quitter. Then,
just as The Leader went to press,
I had a .bright idea.
"Whoap!" my helper called, and
the press stopped.
"Defect in the press," I said and
sat down.
In a short time, Mr. Thorne hur-
ried in. "May I help you. Son?"
he rsked, and went to the press. I
coaxed him away from the press
more quickly than I expected. But
he asked me to come and help
them get out The Clarion, and said
as soon as their paper was off the
press mine would go on.
I was never so humiliated in my
life. I worked like a trouper to
cover my embarrassment. We all
hurried, and both papers went
out on t^inc.
"Son," Mr. Thome said when the
last paper was gone, "why did you
gum the works this morning—de-
liberately stop your press?"
1 knew my face paled but I
made a clean breast «'f it 1 had
been wrong in starting T it- Lead-
ei. and 1 wanted bin: to have
my business. I would 30 t" some
other town
"Son," hp .sr\1 -T'-n ripHon
needs you and we need your new
equipment We need The Leader
How does "The Clarion-Leader
sound to you?"
"Oh!" I was too happy for
words.
I looked at Lily, and knew right
then, that The Clarion-Leader
.. "itl'l ev. iiibu.i.v uecuine a family
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This an' That
Frank Selvy, the Corbln, Ken-
tucky comet who rewrote basket-
ball records at Furman University
last year, has signed a one-year
contract with the Baltimore Bullets
of the National Professional Basket-
ball Association. Selvy averaged
41.7 points in 29 games last season,
setting a new collegiate record . . .
Canadian football, similar to the
American game, is technically
known as "Rouge". . . J. C. Caro-
line, Illinois' 1953 All-Amerlcan
halfback overcame scholastic diffi-
culties hy taking ; eclal summer
school make-up ' 'rscs so he would
be eligible for : ! lootball activity
. . . Amos Air- 1 Stagg, a football
coach for sis ur years, recently
celebrated h. untty-second birth-
day . . . 1955 Florida Derby
will be run -< . eek later this year—
March 26 1 order to attract horses
from Louisiana and California.
Wlnnei of the Gulfstream Park
race gets $100,000 . . . Dave Philley
of the Cleveland Indians went to
bat twenty-six times before he got
hi first hit this season—a single.
SWIM CHAMP . . . Jody Alder-
son, 19, of Chicago, looms as one
of world's best short-distance
mermaids. She recently set new
world's record of .58.1 for 100
yard free style, and also new
AAU 100 meter mark of 1:06.1.
Merchants Wise Advertise
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