Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 1958 Page: 1 of 16
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Committeemen
elected (or SCS
The following farmers were e-
lected to serve for the offices
named in the Soil Conservation
Service beginning Oct. 1, through
Sept. 30, 1959:
County Committee: Herbert K.
Hunt, chairman; DeWitt T. Mc-
Gehee, vice-chairman; G. J. Hin-
ders, member; James W. Cope,
first alternate; Ivan Chauveaux,
second alternate.
Community Committeemen:
A-Claude: James H. Gunter,
chairman; Sam Stephenson, vice-
chairman, Alfred Reck, member;
C-Lakeview: Don Ransom,
chairman; Ed Reed, vice-chair-
man; Rex Bagwell, member.
B-Goodnight: Ralph Justiss,
chairman; Judge H. Davis, vice-
chairman; Milton Davis, member.
D-Wayside: James Bible, chair-
man; Harvie Newsom, vice-chair-
man; Guy Watson, member.
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CLAUDE, ARMSTRONG COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCT.* 16, 1958. NO. 8.
Farm Bureau
meeting Monday
Homecoming
John Pegram slated Oct. 24
Services held
Funeral services for John Peg-
ram, pioneer resident of Arm-
strong County, were held in the
Claude Methodist Church Sun-
day at 2:00 p.m. The Rev. Cecil
Hardaway officiated. Enterment
was in the Akin Cemetery at
Ponder, Texas Monday morning
at 10:00 a.m.
Mr. Pegram, 81, passed away
Saturday, Oct. 11, 1958, following
several weeks illness. He was born
October 5, 1877 in North Carolina
and farmed here for many years.
He was a member of the Metho-
dist Church.
Survivors include two sons, L.
L. Pegram of Menard and Homer
J. Pegram of Port Worth; one
daughter, Mrs. Cleo Buckley of
Dallas; a brother, Jim Pegram of
Tahoka and two sisters, Mrs.
Minnie Chancy of Tahoka and
Mrs. Flora Alexander of Norman,
Okla.
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Amarillo judge
to speak here
Connally Lockhart, Judge of the
Amarillo Corporation Court, will
speak to the Claude Lions Club
October 23 on the problems of
Amarillo traffic and parking.
Judge Lockhart will speak on
the subject, "Amarillo's Traffic
Violations and the Manner in
which Traffic Citations are Han-
dled." He also plans to take up
some of the complaints made re-
cently by Uncle Claude and con-
duct a question and answer ses-
sion at the end of the meeting.
The Lions Club meeting will be
held in the High School Home-
making department at noon, Oct.
23rd.
J. J. Oliver
returns home
J. J. Oliver returned home last
Sunday from Sanatorium, Texas
where he has been staying for
the last 15M> months, regaining
his health. Mrs. Oliver and their
daughter, Mrs. Fred Salmon and
the grandson David, from Circle-
ville, Ohio, drove down and
brought "Jay' hom^ He looks
much improved and has gained
weight and he seems to be more
like the old time "Jay" that ev-
eryone remembers him to be.
Kimbrough
speaks to Lions
Coach Kimbrough director of
athletics at West Texas State
College in Canyon spoke to the
30 Claude Lions and their guests
on Thursday at noon in a regu-
lar session. He gave a vivid des-
cription of the new stadium now
being built for the college. The
stadium is planned to take care
of the largest crowds at the
present time and with room to
build on later when and if the
crowds grow larger. It is to be
a modern stadium with many
new ideas incorporated in it for
the comfort of fans and to facii
liate traffic to and from the
games. It looks like a well plan-
(See LIONS on Page 8)
The Claude Public School is
extending invitations to all Ex-
Students of the school to their
Annual Homecoming Friday, Oct-
ober 24th.
School will be dismissed at 2:30
Friday.
A "Coffee", honoring Ex-Stu-
dents, will te held in the home-
making department from 3:00 to
5:00 p.m.
The homecoming football game
against Texline, will get under-
way at 7:15 with Homecoming
Queen Ccrnation ceremonies. Half
time ceremonies will be conducted
by the band and pep squad. At
this time presentation of flowers
to the oldest Ex-Student and the
Ex-Student traveling the futher-
ist distance will be presented.
The school building will be open
for all exes who have not seen
the new building and would like
to do so.
Wedding held
at Tri-State
In an effort of merchandizing
to make grocery buying more in-
teresting to customers, the Tri-
State Grocery held a make bel-
ieve wedding last Friday, uniting
"Miss LoLo Prices and Shurefine
Sam." The mock wedding took
place before a large and interest-
ed audience at the store.
The store page ad in last week
Claude News, served as a wedding-
invitation.
Judge Carl Wood officiated
and Miss Virginia Hill played the
part of Miss LoLo Prices. No
one was able to tell who was
playing the part of Shurefine
Sam due to his paper sack face,
black overcoat and hat.
Following the ceremony, tradi-
tional rice throwing was enjoyed
by those attending.
The crowd seemed to enjoy the
stunt and the LoLo Prices were
to continue through this week.
Bake sale
The Sophomore Class of '58 is
holding a bake sale at Corbin
Hardware, Saturday, Oct. 18. The
sale starts at 9:00 a.m. and will
stay open until everything is
sold. They will have cookies, ca-
kes, candy and pies.
The Armstrong County Farm
Bureau Convention is to be held
Monday night, October 20th, at
8:00 p.m. in the Warner Com-
munity Home in Claude.
Four directors are to be elected.
Resolutions from the county to be
sent to the state convention, are
to be voted on.
Anyone having a resolution they
wish to present at this meeting,
they may do so. There are al-
ready some resolutions ^o be pre-
sented.
"I would like to encourage e-
veryone to be present," Henry
Hamblen, President of the Bu-
reau, stated this week. "Farm
Bureau is everyone's business. If
our present policies are not agree-
able, now is the time to voice
your opinion so that they may be
changed."
West Texas Exes
to meet Oct. 27
The West Texas State College
Exes will meet Monday night,
October 27th, in the Claude school
cafeteria at 7:30 p.m. Anyone who
might be 'interested in the West
Texas State Stadium fund drive
is also invited to attend.
* Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Reck of
Mountainare, N.M. spent a few
days visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Reck in Claude, and
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernal
Urbonczyk of Pampa. They are
moving to Haxtsun, Colorado,
where he will work until Christ-
mas.
Federal Land
Bank lends more
Accodring to I. E. Padget, Sec-
retary-Treasurer of the Panhan-
dle-Claude National Farm Loan
Association, the Federal Land
Bank has adjusted its loan values
upward and is now in position
to lend to more on most proper-
ties. This added loan value is
important to persons buying land
and to those who use long term
credit on their farms and ranches
The Panhandle-Claude Nation-
al Farm Loan Association now
has 370 loans outstanding for
$4,200,700.00 in Armstrong and
Carson Counties, Mr. Padget said
The officers and directors of
this farmer owned corporation
are:
W. F. Simms. President; Alfred
J. Reck, Vice-President; Alton
McClure, Director; O. D. Smith,
Director; A. L. Stovall, Director;
I. E. Padget. Secretary-Treaurer,
E. T. Miller
passes away
Services honoring the memory
of E. T. (Dusty) Miller, 73, Am-
arillo attorney, were held at 10
a.m. Tuesday in Polk Street Me-
thodist Church. Dr. Eugene Sla-
ter, minister, officiated.
Mr. Miller, widely known cri-
minal lawyer, died Sunday at
12:05 p.m. in St. A.ithony's Hos-
pital. He was a member of Polk
Street Methodist Church, a Ma-
son, a charter member of Khiva
Shrine and the Crippled Child-
ren's Council and a 50-year mem-
ber of the Texas Bar Association.
Mr. Miller had been practicing
law in Amarillo since 1907, when
he formed a legal partnership
with Marvin Jones, now chief
justice of the U.S. Court of
Claims, and later was a member
of the firm of Stone, Miller and
Guleke, which was dissolved in
the 1920's.
Mr. Miller was born Dec. 27,
1885. in Cleburne and came to
the Panhandle in 1899 with his
parents, who settled at Claude.
He attended Polytechnic Col-
lege at Fort Worth and later
gained his legal training at the
University of Texas and Washing-
ton and Lee University.
He was married to Miss Agnes
Brummett in 1907.
Surviving besides his wife are
two daughters, Mrs. Mary Fran-
ces Wood of Amarillo and Mrs.
Iona Holtzclaw of San Angelo; a
brother W. M. Miller of Amarillo
and three grandchildren.
Dan Pegram
dies suddenly
Dan Pegram, brother of the late
John Pegram, died suddenly Wed-
nesday, Oct. 8, 1958 from a heart
attack. Mr. Pegram, who's home
is in Tahoka, was here helping
take care of his brother, John. He
was at the Pegram home in
Claude resting when he suffered
the attack and notified neighbors,
John Damron and R. A. Camp-
bell, who rushed him to an Am-
arillo hospital. He passed away
about 7:30 p.m.
Funeral services were conduct-
ed in Tahoka, Friday.
He is survived by one son, a
brother and two sisters.
Loses home
in fire
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Byard,
of 313 Tennessee, Amarillo, suf-
fered the misfortune of having
their home burn last Monday
night. Fortunately they were a-
way from home at the time.
They lost all their clothing.
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