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Chamber Of Commerce New-Member Drive Starts Friday Morning
' With more than 60 per cent
of the proposed $10,000 bud-
get pledged in the re-evalua-
tion of old members, the Sem-
inole Chamber of Commerce
prepared today to kick off the
new member drive with a
breakfast Friday morning at
7:00 o'clock at Jo's Restaur-
ant.
"Our re-evaluation drive on
new members is now far
enough along to predict its
unqualified success," stated
Chamber President Jameil Ary-
ain Thursday. "We still have
out about 25 member cards,
and already have a good start
on our budget," Aryain said.
The drive for new members
will start just as the re-evalua-
tion campaign did, with the
early breakfast for directors
and all interested chamber
members, followed by a busi-
ness to business canvass of
prospects. A minimum of $60.
per year for businessess has
been established, with a $24.
per year minimum for indivi-
duals.
The decision to start the new
member drive Friday came on
a vote of the executive com-
mittee Tuesday morning. They
heard the report on money
pledged by present members,
with the amount still outstand-
ing. It was decided to start
the related drive while the
merchants were still anticipat-
ing the contact for member-
ship.
Each team will be armed
with a printed brochure ex-
plaining the functions and ac-
tivities of the Seminole Cham-
ber of Commerce, and a mim-
eographed copy of the pro-
gram of work which the or-
ganization hopes to accom-
plish both now and in the
near future.
"Only with the participation
of all the businessmen and in-
dividuals active in Seminole
will our town keep pace with
the rapid growth of this West
Texas area," stated President
Aryain. Denver City organized
a chamber of commerce only
last year, and they had nearly
300 persons at their annual
banquet, he said. "If we don't
get together and work as a
community, we're going to get
left behind simply from lack
of effort," he concluded.
The chamber's program of
work includes the following
main points, with a break-
down of each point into work-
able committee-size projects:
1. A systematic cleanup cam-
paign to be followed by a city-
wide beautification program; 2.
Look for ways to develop co-
operation among organizations
in the city for the overall wel-
fare of Seminole and Gaines
County; 3. Devise a program
of industrial promotion; 4.
Study ways to increase better
business-customer relations; 5.
Study ways of improving loan
facilities for agriculture, busi-
ness and housing; 6. Promote
farmer-businessman relation-
ship; 7. Develop a tourist pro-
gram; 8. Seek the develop-
ment of additional recreation-
al facilities; and 9. Study the
need for improving present
airport facilities.
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Volume 51
Sixteen Pages
Seminole, Gaines County, Texas, Thursday, May 1, 1958
Price 10c
Number 23
Toxic Beverage Suspected In Deaths Of Two Here
New Golf Course Opens Saturday
Public Is Invited
To Informal Rite;
Limited Play Set
Gaines County's new nine-hole
golf course will open at 10 a.m.
Saturday for limited play.
The public is invited to the
opening, which will be an infor-
mal affair pending full-opera-
tional inaugural ceremonies to
be held probably in September
when a golf tourney will signal
the grand opening.
A foursome of golfers who
were active in Seminole's first
golfing club some 30 years ago
will tee off Saturday morning
to initiate the course which is
located midway between Semi-
K^ole and Sea graves.
The men are Harry Stone, A
L. Duff, C. E. Rollins and Flo;
Stark.
Professional Golfer Jim Terry
who is in charge of the Gaines
County course said that play on
the new course will be limited
until the greens and fairways
are in better condition. They are
adequate to allow the limited
playing, however.
Schedule Set
The course will be open at 1
p.m. on week days and all day
on Saturdays, Sundays and holi-
days.
Banning of morning play on
week days is to allow the greens
and fairways to mature.
Because fairways haven't ma-
tured adequately to withstand
the full load of golfing activity,
a special rule has been adopted.
Golfers will be allowed to use
tees on the fairways for about
two months.
To protect the greens, the
greens committee of the course
is barring the use of motorized
See PLAY SET, Page 8
Jaycees Install
Officers For '58
A new slate of officers for
the Seminole Junior Chamber
Of Commerce held the organiza-
tion's reins Thursday following
a Monday election and installa-
tion.
Elected president was Joe Ma-
son, 706 Ave. G, NW, Pioneer
Chemical Co. sales representa-
tive.
Named vice president was
Curly Williams, an. Amerada
Petroleum Co. pumper.
Larry Workman, employee of
Ohio Oil Co., was elected treas-
urer and Owen Metcalf, Navajo
lotor Freight Lines agent, was
tamed secretary.
Eight-Year Resident
Directors elected were Alvin
Lamm, owner of Lamm Applian-
ce, >and George Trisdale, repre-
lentative of General Motors Ac-
ceptance Corp.
The new Jaycee president, 29,
Is a native of Crowell (Foard
County* and has been a Semi-
nole resident eight years. Fol-
lowing -graduation from Crowell
pigh school, he did a stint of
Buty In the United States Navy,
kfter his naval service, he work-
M five years for Magnnlin
Petroleum Co. He has been with
pioneer Chemical two years.
Mr. Mason is married to the
[ormer Miss Wanda Lamm of
linoie and the couple has two
dren, a daughter 5 and a
ton 2.
The Jaycee also is an active
nber of the Seminole Booet-
Club.
.1
KAT KLAW KLUBBERS —
E. C. Rollins, left, and A. L.
Duff, are shown above in golf-
ing attire of the day some 30
years ago. The photo was tak-
en during days of the old Kat
Klaw golfing league.
Pair Is Arrested
In 110 mph Chase
A 24-year-old Seminole man
had paid a $100 justice of the
peace court fine and a 26-year-
old companion arraigned before
city court Thursday following
a Tuesday night automobile
chase by police at speeds ex-
ceeding 100 miles per hour.
A third man taken into cus-
tody by officers was released
without charges.
The chase occurred at about
9 p.m. Tuesday night as the
speeding car in which the men
were riding narrowly missed a
police prowl car on Hobbs High-
way.
City Patrolman Earl Woodard
and Deputy Sheriff Hamilton
Bell were pulling onto the high-
way after reporting at a fire
in the "flats" area of Seminole.
As they pulled onto the road,
the speeding automobile bore
down upon them, swerved onto
See CHASE, Page 8
Cotton Problems
To Be Discussed
At Meeting Here
Opening Of Links
Revives Story Of
Kat Klaw League
Gaines County's history of golf-
ing is adding a new chapter with
the opening Saturday of the new
public course, but the first chap-
ter was written by a devout lit-
tle group of Seminole "cow pas-
ture pool" players three decades
ago.
The group was known official-
ly as the Kat Klaw Klub, taking
its name from the catclaw shrub.
Members played in what was
known as the Kat Klaw League,
competing with seven or eight
area towns. And while the Semi-
nole players didn't know a tee
from a putter when they began
their hobby, they soon began to
rate among the top linksmen of
the league.
Some of the original Kat Klaw
Klub players are still around
and figure on maybe taking up
golf again. Among them are
Harry Stone, A. L. Duff, C. E.
Rollins, A. J. Roach, Reeves
Cothes, Arthur Duff and Fred
Rollins. The late C. C. Cothes
was a prime mover in the golf j
association of 30 years ago.
First Hole-In-One
Among other early golfers
were Soapy Walker, the late
Fred Childers, Floyd Stark, Mar-
but George, Paul Haywood, the
late O. J. Daniel, the late Ram-
sey Longbotham, and Johnny
Heath, now of Denver City.
Johnny Heath was the first
and only player credited with
slamming out a hole-in-one at
the Hackberry Grove Golf Cour-
See OPENING, Page 8
v' *
A three-phase analysis of the
question of whether the Unit-
ed States can hold and In-
crease Its cotton markets will
be conducted at 8 p.m. May 8
at the Gaines County Court-
house, County Agricultural
Agent Calvin Hotcomb an-
nounced.
Discussing American cot-
wn'» competitive situation at
home and abroad, consump-
tion problems and its poten-
tials will be Earl Sears of
Memphis, Twin., Dale Ander-
son of Oklahoma City and
John Gregg of Lubbock.
The speaker
tetfvee of the
CHARLES T. McREYNOLDS
Announces For Post
Chas. McReynolds
Making Bid For
Legislative Post
Charles T. McReynolds, An-
drews. newspaperman, announc-
ed Thursday he will seek elec-
tion to the Texas House of Re-
presentatives from the 99th Dis-
trict which is comprised of An-
drews. Dawson. Oairww and I<ynn
Counties.
The 24-year-old McReynolds
has been a resident of West
Texas all of his life arid is presi-
dent of the Andrews Publishing
Co., Inc. He was born In Daw-
son County, and reared in An-
drews and Seminole. McRey-
nolds' father waa sheriff of Gain-
See MdUCTNOLDS, Page 8
Autopsy And Lab
Reports Pending
For Man,
An alcoholic beverage thought
by investigators to be poisonous
was the prime suspect Thursday
in the death of two Seminole re-
sfSents.
The dead are Doyle Ruther-
ford, 30, a radio-television service
man, and Mrs. Ivy Marie Mar-
shall, 35, mother of six chil-
dren and Seminole resident for
about a month.
The two died, Sheriff V. A.
Harris said, after drinking last
Wednesday night a concoction
believed made from grain alco-
hol flavored with apples and
apricots.
Two other persons, Robert
Mauldin, 210 NE 5th St., broth-
er-in-law of the dead woman,
and Gene Pavlos, friend of the
dead man, also sampled the bev-
erage but showed no ill effects,
Sheriff Harris said.
Analysis Pending
A sample of the beverage was
taken by Chief Deputy Sheriff
Tony Simmons to Austin for
state laboratory analysis. Re-
sults of the analysis are pend-
ing.
An autopsy was performed
upon Mrs. Marshall, but the
pathological report also is pend-
ing.
TV-man Rutherford died last
Friday night in Gaines Clinic-
Hospital where he was taken
after being found unconscious
at his home on north Main St.
He lived only about 45 minutes
after arriving at the hospital in
a Seminole Memorial Chapel
ambulance.
Mrs. Marshall died at about
noon Saturday in the hospital.
She became ill at her residence.
See AUTOPSY, Page 8
Murder Charges
Filed In Death
Of Seminole Man
Murder charges were on file
in Levelland Thursday against
two Negro men accused of the
kicking to death last Sunday af-
ternoon of a Seminole Negro,
John A. Adkison, 21.
Charged with murder with
malice is James Ray Jackson.
Charged with murder is Othel
Williams, brother-in-law of the
slain man. '
Adkison, according to the
Levelland sheriff's department,
was beaten and kicked to death
in front of a Levelland cafe
last Sunday afternoon.
The beating, the sheriffs of-
fice reported, .resulted from a
family argument.
Young Adkison, a janitor, was
a former employee of Masters
Cafe in Seminole, but had been
residing recently in Levelland.
He was the son of Mr. and
See CHARGES, Page 8'
Tri-County Teacher
Unit To Meet Here
Members of the Andrews-
G&ines-Yo&Rum ui-county unit
of the Texas State Teachers As-
sociation will meet at 7:30 p.m.
today in the Seminole High
School Auditorium.
Their program will include a
presentation of "Gone With the
Goose," a musical* by school
students, and an election of of-
ficers for the 195859 school
year.
Near $1,000,000 Outlay
Due On Gaines Highways
Highway construction in Gain-
es County costing nearly $1,000,-
j 000 is expected to get under way
within about two weeks, high-
way officials announced Thurs-
day.
One contract, amounting to
$322,967, already has been award-
GOOSE HANGS HIGH—Third-grade music students appearing
in the 8 p.m. Friday school musicale "Gone With the Goose"
don't quite fathom School Superintendent Joe Young's side-
saddle ride on a flying goose stage prop. But it's all part of
school life. Viewing the official are Students Vaudine Brown,
Melinda Melone, Pamela Sandel, Beth Simmers and Donna
Underwood.—Sentinel Photo.
Anti-DWI Effort Getting
Results, Public Praised
Gaines County's battle against
driving-while-intoxicated traffic
offenses is paying off, but con-
tinued supports of citizens iff
needed for a successful campaign
this year, Texas highway patrol-
men said Thursday.
Patrolmen Martin Exum and
Jean Pate of Seminole praised
citizens for their help in curb-
ing the DWI offenses since the
traffic campaign started in Janu-
ary.
And they urged continued co-
operation, particularly in face of
a state-wide Department of Pub-
lic Safety DWI crackdown.
A traffic safety campaign
launched last week by Gov. Price
Daniel emphasized a crackdown
on drunken drivers.
The Seminole highway patrol
unit, sheriff's office and city
police, however, already had be-
gun a DWI offensive. Fourteen
triple deaths last year, 1G of
which were listed as caused by
drinking or drunken drivers,
•purred the drive.
"Must Not Rekuc"
Officers initiated the campaign
by urging motorists to report
suspected drunken drivers.
"We have had many calls from
cit&cna," said Patrolman Martin
Exum. "Consequently, since the
first of, the year, we haven't had
a traffic death contributed to
drunken driving,"
The officer warned, however,
that citizens and law enforce-
See ANTI-DWI, Page 8
Judge Lawrence
In Line For Top
Association Post
Galne'S""County Judge Charles
Lawrence Thursday was in line
for presidency in I960 of the
West Texas County Judges and
Commissioners Association.
Judge Lawrence was elected
secretary-treasurer of the organi-
zation for 1959 at a meeting last
week-end in El Paso. Under the
group's line of office ascension,
the secretary-treasurer moves in-
to the presidency at the end of
his term.
Other officers elected at El
Paso inc/ude President Kelly
Gilbreath of Wichita Falls, Vice
President Gene Mobley of Put-
man and Directors Claude Shel-
ton of Tulia and Bill Neidhart
of Monahans.
Delinquency
At the meeting, Judge Law-
rence served as resolutions com-
mittee chairman. The committee
See LAWRENCE, Page 8
Gas Gathering Unit
To Be Readied Soon
Phillips Petroleum Co. will
soon place in operation a gas
gathering system"" and booster
station in the North Robertson
pool, approximately 10 miles
southwest of Seminole.
The gathering system will col-1
lect gas from six pools in the
area for delivery to the com-
pany's Seminole Natural Gaso-
line Plant about five miles
northwest of Seminole. The pools
to be connected are North Riley,
North Robertson, Doss, Flana-
gan and Harris, all in south cen-
tral Gaines County.
Completion of the gathering
system is expected by July 1,
with completion of the booster
station to follow as quickly as
construction will permit.
ed for widening Knd re-surfacing
of State Highway 51 from Sea-
graves to the Andrews County
line.
It is on this project that work
is expected to begin within a
fortnight.
Before the Highway 51 pro-
ject is completed, contracts are
expected to be awarded for and
work probably started on im-
provements to U. S. Highway
180 east-west through the coun-
ty-
Bids soon will be ' asked for
widening from 24 feet to 40 feet
the travel area <»f the federal
highway f'om Ihe-'Sej-i'.r^le city
i limits to tl t> New Me*{f6 'state
jline, a distance of 24 miles. The
contract also will call for re-
surfacing of the roadway.
Work Until Fall
Probably at the same time,
bids will be asked for re-con-
struction of Highway 180 from
Farm-Market Rd. 1312 (Loop
road) to the Dawson County
line, 12.4 miles. Estimated cost
of this project is $324,000.
This work would be similar to
that now under way in Dawson
County.
The three highway construc-
tion jobs mean that construction
work will be going on in the
county into the fall season,. Con-
tractors are expected to head-
quarter in Seminole.
Work on the state highway 51,
to be started in about two weeks,
is scheduled for completion with-
in 110 working days. The con-
tract has been awarded to Con-
tractor C. Hunter Strain of San
Angelo.
The widened highway 51 even-
tually will become one side of
a future divided-lane highway
through Gaines County.
Lions Delegation
To Attend Parley
A delegation of Seminole Lions
Club members, headed by Presi-
dent Charles Ray, is scheduled
to attend the Friday-Saturday
District 2-T-2 convention of the
organization in Odessa.
Among convention speakers
will be Dudley L. Simms, Charl-
eston, W. Va., Lions Internation-
al first vice president, and Herb
Petrey, Jr., member of the Tex-
as Highway Commission and
past president of Lions Inter-
national.
Most Candidates File For Ballots
Twenty-four of 28 announced
candidates for nomination to of-
fice in the July 26 Democratic
primary election have filed for-
mally for places on the ballot
with County Democratic Chair-
man Joe Anderson, the official
reported.
Deadline for filing with the
party chairman is Monday.
Filing for a place on the party
ballot is a pre requisite for seek-
ing party nomination, and pay-
ment of filing fees is a require-
ment before the name is printed
,on the ballot.
Filing fees are determined on
the basis of salary of the poat
sought and the number of candi-
dates seeking the poat. The fil-
ing tees defray election coats.
Candidates wlH be notified,
May 13 as to the amount* of
their fees which an* payable
by May 17.
Officially filed for places on
the party ballot are:
Candidates Listed
Wesley Roberts for state re-
presentative. Announced candi-
date Charles McReynolds has yet
to file, said Mr. Anderson.
Truett Smith for district
judge.
Mrs. Claudia Sartin Jordan
and Pauline Ancell for district
clerk.
Charles Lawrence for county
judge.
Norma R. Wood and Velma
Coons Mclntyre for county tree-
surer.
Cheater D. Browne for county
clerk.
J. C. (Coy) Patton and R. P.
Kelly for justice of the peace in
Seminole, and B. & Cookaey and
Jim Welch tor justice of Hie
peace in Seagraves.
George Mahon for U. S. re-
presentative,
Holvey Williams for Place 2
and Alan R. Fraser for Place 1
on the El Pa-o Court of Civil
Appeals.
Others who formally have fil-
ed for county offices Include O.
B. Smith, U. L. (Tony) Sim-
mons, Louis (L. L.) Dyer, Milam
Parker, David Grayson and Lee
Doggett for commissisnar of
Precinct 2. An announced candi-
date, C. D. Wickson, Jr., has
yet to file, Mr. Anderson said.
Additional candidates filing
are Bill Houston, Jesse R. Ram-
sey, A. C. Stanley and Truett
Smith for commissioner of Pre-
cinct 4. Two announced candi-
dates, W. H. Weecott and C W
Metcalf. have yet to file, the
county cfurirauui reported.
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Thompson, Barney. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1958, newspaper, May 1, 1958; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth417324/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.