The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1952 Page: 3 of 12
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Market Slow, Weak
At Midland Auction
The market was slow and
weak on cattle at Midland Live-
stock Auction Co. sale Thurs-
day 28. Butcher cattle were down
50c to $2 a hundred from the
week before. Better grade stock-
er calves and yearlings were off
$1 and plain and common kinds
more. Receipts were 273 head.
Medium to good grade slaugh-
ter calves and yearlings cleared
at $22 to $27, common to mfedium
$17 to $22, culls $12 to $17.
Choice butcher cows and heifer-
ish kinds cashed at $17 to $18.50,
mediums $14 to $17, canners and
cutters $8 to $14.
Stocker steer calves, none
choice, drew $24 to $27 aqd
yearling steers $20 to $23.50.
David Weaver to Talk
On FB Program
David Weaver, president of the
Gaines County Farm Bureau, will
appear on the program at 'the
sub-district meeting of the Tex-
as Farm Bureau Federation at
the Settles Hotel in Big Spring
from 10 a. m. until 3 p. m. Sept.
12.
Weaver will discuss the Farm
Bureau program in this county.
C. H. DeVaney of Coahoma,
GENE ACTItY stars and love-
Iv Anne .lames is featured in
Columbia Pictures' "Barbed
Wire," new range drama with
I'at Rut tram at the ..Tower
Theatre Friday and Saturday.
'Don't Cul Rope' Admonition Sticks With Sam Malone Through Career as Cowboy, Newspaperman, Preacher
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Section
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VOfcUME 45
SEMINOLE, GAINES COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1952
NUMBER 40
Indian Canteen Begins Fail Session Friday Night
The first fall session of the
Indian Canteen is scheduled for
Friday night from 8 to 11:30
p. m.
The center will operate under
the same by-laws and constitu-
tion as adopted last year, and
which appear in full in connec-
tion with this article.
Twenty members have been
named to the senior and junior
advisory boards, which will di
state director for this district, j rect the activities of the center
will preside. | during the coming year.
Members of the junior board i Members of the senior board,
were named at a meeting of the [in addition to Mrs. Wood, are:
senior board Sunday afternoon' i\lrs. B. A. Burk, vice-president;
in the Community Building. They
include:
Jimmy Brooks, president:
Jackie Earl, vice-president; Bar-
bara Britton, secretary; Crandall
Young, treasurer; Georgia Reece.
entertainment; Juanell Wood,
publicity; Gordon Williams,
games: Betty Oswalt, assistant
to sponsors; and Shirley Gray-
son, kitchen assistant.
Joe Britton, secretary; C. V.
Shelton, treasurer; Mrs. L. A.
Reddell, Mrs. Joe Marton, Tom
LeBleu, Mrs. Charlie Earl; and
Dale Puckett.
Mrs. Bill Oswalt is chairman
of the entertainment committee.
Other chairmen are: Mrs. B. A.
Davis, games; Mrs. Joe Martin,
kitchen; Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Jack-
son, chaperones; Guy Nelson
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and Gene Payne, cokes; and Mrs. shall
Reddell, publicity.
A meeting of the two boards
has been called for 5 p. m. Sun-
day at the Community Build-
ing. Board members who miss
two consecutive meetings with-
out a valid excuse will be re-
placed.
New membership cards will
be available at the door Fri-
day night, at the same $1 fee
used previously. Membership
cards will be required after the
second meeting.
Canteen sessions will not be
held on the nights the high
school football team plays out-of-
town, but will be held on the
nights of home football games.
CONSTITUTION
1. This organization shall bej
known as the Indian Canteen.
2. Purpose shall be to arrange
for wholesome entertainment for
members.
3. Members must bo students
in the Seminole schools, age 13
to 19, unmarried, and have writ-
ten consent of parents or guard-
ians.
4. The club shall be governed
by a junior board of nine and a
senior board of nine.
5. The senior president shall
be elected the last week of
August by popular vote of par-
ents and interested adults, with
not be permitted
A tongue-lashing received at
the age of 18 from a pioneer cat-
tleman was credited with play-
ing a large role In the life of
Sam Malone. who retired as pas-
tor of the South Seminole Bap-
tist church Monday.
Malone in recounting his ex-
periences as a cowboy, fiddler,
newspaperman and preacher to
J the local Lions Tuesday (he had
addressed the Rotary club in a
similar vein last Thursday) said
he never forgot that admonition
delivered amid a storm of pro-
fanity "Don't you ever cut an-
other rope as long as you live."
The episode started when Ma-
lone as a greenhorn cowpoke
| was helping drive a herd of cattle
| down off the caprock. As the
to re- drove reached the caprock rim
turn. one old cow turned outlaw and
4. No smoking permitted by raced away from the group. Ma-
members, chaperones or visitors, lone followed on a "moon-eyed,
5. Four boys and a girl from ring-tailed crazy horse."
the junior and senior classes: As he would near the cow the
shall act as monitors for each horse would sidestep and soon
meeting, and call down those the cow would be chasing the
guilty of misbehavior. If those horse. While he was being
called down do not respond, the chased Malone roped the cow,
matter shall be reported to a caught her, and round and round
chaperone. If the latter are not they went.
satisfied that the offender has Meanwhile the remainder of
complied that person shall be the herd was ready to start down
asked to leave, which automatic- the break, and the boss waved
ally expells them. Visitors ask- for Malone to join them. After
ed to leave may not return. the second summons the young
6. An expelled member may be cowhand in desperation took his
re admitted after 15 days by ap- pocket knife and cut the rope,
proval of a majority of both When he joined the trail herd
boards. i the tongue-lashing followed. The
7. No member shall be permit- grizzled old cowman pointed out
ted to enter the meetings after that for another cowboy to rope
9 p. m. unless they have attend- the cow would be very hazard-
ed a school or church function, j ous. because of the 30-foot rope
or if the chaperone finds the rea-i trailing behind.
son for beinf late is valid. , Malone said he had tangled
S. Members will be given mem- with many "wild cows" since
fccrship cards, and none will be' that time, but that admonition
admitted without them. I from the old cowman had con-
9. Money in the treasury will stantly urged him to hang on
be spent only on approval of to the bitter end.
junior and senior treasurers. j Malone told of living in a half-
10. Members may bring vis't- dug-out for two -months when
ors who are not residents of his family first purchased a
Seminole if they are within the ranch southwest of Seminole, and
age limits. 1 of eating meat sent out to be
11. No gambling permitted, rendered down for soap.
Any member guilty shall be ex- He told of his efforts to re-
sist the call to preach, turning
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the president appointing eight .. .
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one vear Members leaving building aside from the church for a time
6. The junior board and of., before meeting is over must sign to fiddle for dances throughout
ficers shall be selected by 1 he1 01,1 WIth ,ime of departure, ana the area. When he finally accept-
senior board, with the president ,h/>s* ,eav!"K %vithout Pt>rmistsion £d the ca» he *as 29 old
of three chaperones may not re- had a wife and one child and
enter the meeting.
another on the way. By the time
and vice-president to serve one
year, and the other seven statj- _, , , , , , , . . .. • . .a. .
pered terms of three <2) six (2)1 13' Slx adlllt chaperones shall he completed his high school,
and nine (3) months ' l)e present at each meeting. college and seminary work he
7 Thn tpninr t.rUrri -iH 1 14. Members shall sign the was 39, and had seen many hard
vise and assist the junior board! registration book upon entering, times.
8. The junior board shall gov- ^ Members shall be appoint-1 The energetic minister who
ern the club subiect to annroval ed for cach meeting to stack indicated he does not plan to go-
by the senior'board. | the chairs and otherwise put the on the shelf after formal re-
' <1 Rnnrri mnofintTs chaii iv> building in goofi shape after the tirement took an optomistic look
called bv either or® both presi-! meeting. One of these shall sign to the future
dents with a minimum of three1 the building check sheet with one He compared the Gaines Coun-
members of each board appoint- j chaperone.
ed by the presidents to deal with|
the specific matter at hand. , Workers Thanked
10. Entertainment meetings £ LI I . /-« .
shall be on Friday nights at the j 'Of Melp Qi LQntecn
Community Building. ! . _ ,
11. Dues shall be $1 per year, j APP'"ec>ation of the co-opera
12. Six members from each
tion shown by a number of
ty situation now to that in 1938,
| when he returned to Seminole
and again purchased the Sentinel.
! At that time the oil boom had
not begun, but hovered on the
horizon. Seminole was the sleepy
little town it had been for 25
years.
By 1948, he said, many thought
board with the president of each j and student members °f _ ...w_
or one acting in his stead shall!the Indlan Canteen was express- the 5,000-foot oil was ail-but gone,
constitute a quorum I ed ,his we<k by Mrs- L- A- Now the picture has been chang-
13. The constitution may be i R<?ddell, retiring president of the ed with the prospect of deeper
amended by a two-thirds vote of j senior advisory board of the producing horizons across the
the junior board, on approval of j -v0"'h ce"tef- , southeast side of the county,
the advisory board She paid tnbu,e to ,he willing- Great farming development al-
rv » Avv< | ness t0 work exhibited in coping so was seen by Malone, particu-
j wjth ^e problems which arise larly as more acres are deep-
1. Members shall obey all club! during the first year of any or- broken. He said his farm has
rules, and serve in any capacity j ganization. corn taller than a man's head,
when asked. | These included Mrs. Bill Os-' with two large ears and as
2. Temporary and standing | wait. Mrs. J. W. Bowers, Joe green as grass, despite the
committees shall be appointed Britton, Mr. and Mrs. Arlin severe drouth conditions. He also
by board presidents. j Beavers. Bob McReynolds, Mrs. told at cotton taller than the
3. Members, visitors nor adults; Norma Wood, Mrs. Paul Sublett. knee, with roots as long—all on
present shall not be permittedf Nan Shelton, Paul Sublett and deep broken non-irrigated land,
to enter when drinking, or carry- Jimmy Bowers. i The development before us is
ing intoxicants on their person. as unbelievable as that behind us
If guilty, members shall be ex- Twenty West Texas cities are was to the residents of this area
pelled, and visitors and adults served by commercial airlines. in the thirties.
THE PHILLIPS 06 OILERS, gecond-place finisher* over the regular
championship trophy in the local noftball league by defeating Denver
Amerada In the play-off*. Members of the team presented the trophy
widow of the team's manager who died in the first week of the oUv-aff«
member* tri toe team pictured include:
left to right: Acting Manager IhtM Cheat*; a W. Day, Gene
, Morris Ivy aad D. B. King.
L B. lam, Bert Thnmmi. Dea (inariee and W. O.
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Steakley, Melvin. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1952, newspaper, September 4, 1952; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth412431/m1/3/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.