Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1952 Page: 1 of 6
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CLAUDE, ARMSTRONG COUNTY, TEX., THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1952.
NUMBER t.
Farm Bureau
Barbecue Tuesday
The Annual Farm Bureau bar
l.ecue will be held Tuesday, Octo-
ber 28, at 7 PM. All farmers and
ranchers are Invited to the annual
farm bureau barbecue to be held
at the Community Homo. The elec-
tion of Directors will follow the
Barbecue.
Hamblen Brothers of Wayside will
do the barbecuing and it promises
to be one well worth attending.
District representatives have been
Invited to the meeting
All interested farmers and ranch-
ers are urged and invited to at-
tend this important meeting and
take part In it.
Straw Ballots Still
Coming In
This week even more straw bal-
lots reached our desk showing one
vote for MacArthur; one vote for
Eisenhower; six for Stevenson; and
two undecided.
This shows a total for the week
ns follows:
ICisenhower
Stevenson
MacArthur
Undecided
Send in your ballot today or call
The Claude News office or toil one
of the Eds when you see them. On-
ly the totals will be made public.
You don't have to sign the ballot.
Only indicate your wishes.
The regional survey as reported
by The Amarillo Daily News shows
t lie following totals: Eisenhower
1,660 and Stevenson 432, which
shows little else than that (he Eis-
enhower boosters are a great deal
more active than the Stevenson
boosters, the latter saying very lit-
tle about the election..
Farm Bureau
President Explains
Membership
Driving by a farm near Claude
the other day, Glenn Wilkins, pres-
ident of the Armstrong County
Farm Bureau, saw three tractors
operating, a sight not unusual in
this county. "It put me to calculat-
ing," Wilkins said.
According to the 1950 census,
there were 522 farm tractors in
Armstrong county Every legisla-
tive session for the past 12 years
at least, the Farm Bueratt has wag-
ed a fight in Austin to save the
tractor gas tax refund for the far-
mers. Figuring conservatively, if the
farmers had to pay this four-cent
road tax on gasoline burned in
tractors not used on the highways,
it would cost them about $40.00
per trctor per year. With 522 trac-
tors in the county, this would
mean that the Farm Bureau
(which is primarily the only organ-
ization or group that puts up a
scrap on this issue) saves Arm-
strong county farmers $61,659.00
every year.
•That's a goodly sum," Wilkins
said, "that can well be used in
meeting other farm operation ex-
penses." He summed up the sit-
uation this way:
"Farm Bureau dues in this coun-
ty are $7.50 a year. Say an operator
has only one tractor. He can pay
his Farm Bureau dues and have
$108.00 left on what Farm Bureau
saves him on this one issue."
Two Injured in
Car-Train Crash
At Goodnight
Clarendon, Oct. 18(Speciali—Two
Clarendon College students were in-
jured about midnight Friday night
when the car in which they were
riding collided with a southbound
Burlington freight train at the
crossing nerth of the depot in
Goodnight.
In Northwest Texas Hospital,
Amarillo, are Billy Carl Pittman,
18 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Pittman of Clarendon, and
Miss Vivian Newberry, 18, daugh-
ter of L. S. Newberry, postmaster
at Goodnight.
Pittman suffered a fractured
pelvis, cuts, bruises and lacera-
tions Miss Newberry suffered a
sprained left ankle, numerous cuts
and bruises.
The two had attended a football
game in Claude and were on their
way to Miss Newberry's home in
Goodnight when the accident oc-
curred as they turned off the high-
ly onto the crossing in the path
of the oncoming freight engine.
The accident occurred at 12:02
AM. The car, a 1942 model sedan,
was demolished.
The freight train was delayed in
Goodnight for about an hour and a
half after the accident. A south-
bound Zephyr passenger train I
which arrived in Goodnight during i
the time, was shunted onto a pass- j
ing track to get around the freight.1
Pittman and Miss Newberry were
I taken to the Amarillo hospital in a
Murphy-Spicer ambulance from Cla-
rendon
Return from
Fishing Trip
Earl Blanton, Alvls Rude, Charlie
Amarillo Firm
Entertains Mustangs
The Claude Mustangs were treat-
ed to another one of those famous
Winkcompleck and J. F. Taylor, stea!i (ijnners Wednesday night,
returned Thursday from a Tour day j ouober 15, 1952, at the Caprock
iishlng trip to Lake Lugor in Okla-j C:i)e j,i Claude by Gentry Imple-
lioma. They reported having a good ment, the Massey-HarrLs dealer, for
long-
time and trip. That's all.
Memory Lane . . .
By Gertrude Friend Scoggius
I'm longing for the good old days
When youth was never daffy
To consider it a wholesome treat
When served some lasses taffy.
the territory in and around Claude.
Gentry Implement is located just
east of Amarillo on Highway 60
There were seventeen boys and
Coach Mantooth present at the
dinner and they say many many
thanks to C. J. Conrad and Mr.
Gentry.
Legion Membership
Drive Underway
Hallowe'en is supposed to be a night when witches and-goblins
come out of their hiding places. It is a rare autumn evening when
sophisticated adults and older children smile at tricks played on
wary householders. * They think the jokes are done by boys and
girls. But if you look quickly enough at a dark shadow flitting by,
or suddenly disappearing over the edge of a kitchen table, you will
see what this little girl sees. Her mother and older sister don't
believe in such things. They are working very hard on a grinning
lack-o'-lantern But the littlest la«; believes in the small people
. . . so she sees them and joins in the secret fun of an evening set
aside for all little people.
Groom to Have
Dial System
From Groom News
Groom will soon have its
awaited dial telephone system, if
work goes according to schedule,
says Mr. Roy L. Brewer, district
manager of General Telephone Co.
of the Southwest with offices in
Memphis, Texas.
Cable splicers, general construc-
tion workers and installers are
in town now working to get the
system ready to go by early next
month. Mr. Brewer said installers
have already started putting in the
handsets and unless unfavorable
weather sets in. the outside crews
are expected to move along on
schedule.
New directories, with all tele-
phones being listed under a four-
digit number, will be in the hands
of all subscribers before the cut-
over is made. Complete instructions
for using the new telephone sys-
tem will be found in the front of
the directory, according to Mr.
Brewer.
If work plans can be carried out
to the letter, Brewer believes the
new system will be ready to go
around November 10th.
Watsons Return
From Trip
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Watson re-
turned Saturday at noon from
Sioux Fulls, South Dakota, where
DIAMOND LIL-Two million
bucks worth of rocks are bright-
ened by the charm of pretty
Candyce King. She has tui.
playing Diamond Lil with gem
of the Harry Winston display at
Las Vegas, Nevada The jewels,
including the 86-carat "Spirit of
Hope," pinned on her brief
swimsuit, dazzle wolves ot the
western resort. What we wondei
is Who pinned them there?
Mrs. Harrell
Writes About
World Trip
WAR AMONG TRIBES
Boundaries and religious differ-
ences in all of these countries keep !
them constantly poor, trying to I
maintain a large army while feed-
ing the hordes of desperate people
who inquire State aid.
It looks as if some country, and
the United States is an accomplice,
is inciting these people to war
among themselves to keep them!
busy and helpless so they do not1
become too prominent in world
affairs.
Each country has its different
language, monetary system, and
religion, customs regulations and
controls, making it difficult and
almost impossible to secure trade
the trade in dollars which they
need and want
The religious record furnishes;
the best history of the background
of each country as they rise and
fall. As each country becomes
over-populated and strangled by
controls it falls by the wayside
us new territories rise with free-
dom of enterprise and religion.
After having encircled the globe
with such ease and speed, with a
peek Into many strategic places, j
they visited their daughter and hearings the rumblings of unrest
Conservation
Men Seeking
Farmer's Needs
The Staked Plains Soil Conserva-
tion District Supervisors . met in
the Court house at Claude, October
10 for their regular meeting.
After routine business was com-
pleted, Herbert Hunt and Billy
Minkley explained to the newer
supervisors, Bob Mecaskey and
Louis Hollingsworth, the state ap-
propriated money that is administ-
ered by the Soil Conservation Dis-
tricts. The Steakd Plains Soil Con-
servation District originally receiv-
ed around $18,000.00 At that time
the board set up a policy to use
this money in any way to promote
conservation in this district.
To date the district has pur-
chased 4 grass drills, 2 sweep type
plows, 2 Borascu spreaders, 1 land
leveler, and 1 manure spreader, to
be loaned to farmers who are co-
operators of the Staked Plains Soil
Conservation District. Also a cam-
era and movie projector was pur-
chased, to be iLsed for educational
purposes. This equipment was pur-
chased out of the original State
fund and as money is taken in on
i rentals it goes into what is called
the local fund and can be used
again to promote conservation
Out of the original grant, the i
board still has about $14,000.00. This
money was discussed to some ex- j
tent and they tried to arrive at
I some way this money might be us-
ed to the best advantage. The su-1
pervisors decided that they did not j
know enough about what the farm-
ers really wanted and needed.
All agreed that a concentrated
effort should be made through per-
sonal contacts, newspapers, and any
other means available to inform
the people of Armstrong and Car-
son Counties about the Staked
Plains Soil Conservation District and
how it's purpose is to promote soil j
conservation. Each supervisor serv- j
ing on the board is interested in
knowing about your conservation
needs and how the Staked Plains
Soil Conservation District can best
serve all the district.
'A' Team to be
Played at Happy
The team busting Mustangs go to1
Happy Friday night to play the j
Happy strong A team. This will be j
the Mustangs third non-Conference
game aginst A teams of the area, j
They lost one to Panhandle and
swamped Clarendon the first of the
season. Last Friday's game proved
to be a sell out in both attendance
and score as is reported by Jane
Averyt, in the account below. Game
time at Happy is 8:00 o'clock.
Claude Mustangs
Stomp Vega
orns 61-6
t] Uftclc CUude
Seein as how there are some here
about what think its time fer a
change, and they belivin that Stev-
enson won't up and be enough of a
change, herewith be a report show-
¥ I Ct C the RePul}1ican plan fer that
Longnorns 01-0 | thair long awaited change. They hp
and fergot our schools, which cud
Claude, Oct. 17th Vega kicked also be run by private enterprize
off and Claude's Cashe returned j but guess they'll up and get around
the ball to the 30 yd. line. Yard- ter that later, iffen elected. Any-
age by Thompson and Rutherford how, read on:
wasn't enough after a penalty and
Claud' was forced to punt, but the The Republican Plan reported by
lunt was blocked. Vega took ever U. S. News & World Report shows
but the stellar Claude line held how they would end socialism in
and the Mustangs took over on the U. S.
20. After a first and ten Claude Idea of desocializing U. S. Is
was again forced to punt. Vega took ! starting to take hold.
over own Claude's 37. Gilley charg- One plan: sell TVA, other dams,
ed through to give Vega a ten yd. Another: sell the Post Office.
loss. Vega was forced to punt. Roy Government already has sold a
Thompson returned the kick i to steel mill, aluminum plants; is set
the 25 yd. line. Don Rutherford. to get out of the rubber business,
then went 30 yds. off left tackle, j There is talk of turning other en-
Thompson then connected with Mc- j terprises over to private investors
Intire for 23 yds. but was called j t0 halt socialims and cut down the
back. Claude punted but Vegai national debt.
family, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Traub
and Aletha Lou, who has recovered
from polio almost completely. They
reported a wonderful trip and saw
lots of good feed crops.
When they first arrived Aletha]
Lou was not feeling very well but i Calcutta, around 10 p. m. An hour ;
at the time they left she was play- is good time to get through cus- |
and some of the underlying causes
(from this little bird) it looks en-
tirely possible that we will at
sometime be "one world."
MAKESHIFT HOMES
We arrived at Dum Dum Airport,
ing and having a big time just like
she used to. She was very active
much to the happiness of her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Watson.
Jack Bostons
Adopt Son
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Boston return-
ed Tuesday night of last week with
their new adopted son, Benton An-
drew, who was born Oct. 6th, 1952.
He weighed 6 lis., 12 ozs. and has
lots of black hair. The Bostons and
the grandparents are very happy
over "Bents" arrival.
Program of Shows
At Gem Theatre
The Gem Theatre opens each
evening at 7:00 p. m. Sunday Mati-
nee starts at 2:00 p in.
Thursday—
Richard Widmark and Marilyn
Monroe in "Don't Bother to Knock."
Friday and Saturday—
"Red Mountain" in color by Tech-
nicolor starring Alan Ladd
Lizabeth Scott.
Sunday, Monday and Tursilay—
toms in these countries.
From the airport to our hotel,
on each side of the road or street
were Indians living in chicken
coops or makeshift houses of any
material they could find. As we
came to the larger flats and busi-
ness houses in every block there
•were from six to fifty Indians
sleeping on the sidewalks.
In every doorway, every alley
with head to the wall or lying
against the wall or double and
triple lines they filled the blocks.
Sometimes there is just a narrow-
walk between two rows of heads
and feet. You wouldn't dare walk
down the street at night. Right
up to our hotel door they filled
every block, leaving only a space
in front of the door. These people
are refugees, millions of them
without homes who overflow Cal-
cutta.
The dress of the Indian is a
large white piece of cheesecloth,
which he wraps around and pulls
up between the legs, tucking the
ends into the belt before or aft.
and j Many of them manage to have
some kind of undershirt or shirt.
The bellboys slept in front of
Gospel Meeting at
Church of Christ
Members of the Claude Church
of Christ are holding a series of
Gospel Meeting being conducted by
their minister, Audy Moore. The
meeting started Sunday, Oct. 19.
and will last through Sunday, <
Members and friends are being
urged to hear these scries of ser-
mons beginning daily at 7:30 P. M.
at the church. Gospel singing will
also be included.
Fall Camp at
Dripping Springs
The Scouts leave Claude Friday
evening at 4:00 o'clock for their
Fall Camp which is being held at
Dripping Springs, near Doyce
Breedlove's home south of Claude.
All scout bedding, etc., should be
at the Legion Hall by 1:00 o'clock
Friday. The Green Bar will leave
right after that time to set up
camp. Scouts wishing to pass tests
should bring handbook and the e-
quipment they wish to use. Each
scout is also asked to bring a lea-
ther thong to be used in the fire
by friction contest.
Those wishing to visit camp the
following directions are given inas-
much as the old road to Dripping
Springs is unusable. To reach Dovce
Breedlove's house you drive south
on the Farm to Market Road out
of Claude. Continue 1 mile south
from the end of the pavement; then
drive 2 miles west to the Kerrick
place and turn south over a cat-
tle guard; drive 1 mile south to
another cattle guard, then drive "is
mile east to the Breedlove house.
See you in camp!!
Look for Your Free
Ticket in the Ads!
Your name may be somewhere in
the ads of this week's Clr.ude News
for a free ticket to the Gem Thea-
tre. Last weeks winners were
C. B. Russell, H C. Pafford. Mrs.
Ivan Chauveaux and Mrs. Scott
Laycock.
punted in turn and Brown blocked
the punt and Paul Rutherford cov-
ered the ball on the 2. Don Ruth-
erofrd went over the middle to
score.
Thompson kicked off and Vega
took over on the 37. After two first
and tens the Claude line dug in
and Claude took over on the 26.
Vega recovered a Claude fumble.
Don Rutherford went through the
line to put Vega ten yards behind
the line of scrimmage. Claude took
over the ball and Thompson com-
pleted a pass to Thompson who
went 50 yds. Gains by Thompson
and Rutherford put Claude with
a goal to go. Rutherford went over
right tackle to score and then he
also made the conversion.
Claude kicked off. Brown hit the
A plan is being offered to dena-
tionalize that part of industry in
this country that now is socialized.
That plan will be explored, and may
get a try, if Republicans control
the White House and Congress af-
ter next January 20.
At present, with approval of a
Democratic Congress, the Govern-
ment-owned synthetic-rubber plants
are about to be denationalized.
These 26 plants are soon to be ap-
praised and offered for sale to pri-
vate industry. The Government
carries these plants on the books
at 500 million dollars.
The Federal Government also
turned from socialism in selling
many of its big wartime industrial
developments. The big Geneva steel
plant at Provo, Utah, built at
ball carrier who fumbled and cost of 191 million dollars.
Thompson recovered on the 33.
Thompson completed a pass to Mc-
Intire for 16 yds. who scored. Ruth-
erf ords conversion was good.
(See MUSTANGS on last page.)
sold to U S. Steel Corp. for 47.5
million. The Big Inch and Little
Inch pipe lines, costing 147 million,
were sold for 143 million. A good
(See CLAUDE on Page 2)
Dont Fail to Vote
Tuesday Nov. 4th
"We're Not Married" starring the hotel so they could be near,
Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Pauli their work. They had no homes;
Douglas, and Marilyn Monroe. ; anyway. Some of them had some-
Wednesday and Thursday— j thing to spread down to lie on.1
Laurence Olivier and Jennifer a few had cots they had made by 1
Jones in "Carrie". [lacing ropes across a frame. j
■ (See TRIP on page 2.)
For the first time, the population
of the 20 Latin American republics
is probably larger than that of the
United States. That is indicated by
a census of the Americans. Still i't-
coinplete figures show the 20 re-
publics have a population of about
152,800.000, compared with the of-
ficial United States 1950 count of
150.697,361.
Sharpest gain in Latin America
was made by Brazil, preliminary
figures show. It had a 1940 total
of 41,236,316. The 1950 figure total
was 53,300,000, making it by far[
the largest Latin American country.
SUPER-SONIC WITCH—Not to be outdone by gadgety humans,
this lovely Hallowe'en witch was spotted last night riding a super-
sonic broom equipped with latest improvements in broom controls.
Enticed to earth and interviewed by our reporter, she admitted
broom-flying was a little windy in spito of the newest inventions.
"Airliners are more comfortable." she said. "We need windshields. '
HIGH PLAINS POLL
Mark your preferenrp lor President and
return (u (he office of (lilts newspaper.
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