The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1954 Page: 1 of 12
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VOLUME f>H( NUMBER
SEYMOUR, 1IAYLOK COUNTY, TKXAfl. THURSDAY, JANUARY 1%4
PASSING
PREDICTION; "Cloudy and a
lot colder."
xxxxxx
Of course, the cold front may be
sidetracked, and wander around all
over the United States before it
•vor gets here. But it's not bad.
If we are going to have some more
cold, let's have it now.
xxxxxx
One thing we could have chang-
ed about thitt weather is that it al-
ways seems to blow up something
about the Mm*} of our Chamber of
Commerce banquet. Just the cold
wouldn't matter so much, but our
guests from otiher places can't come
in over icy highways.
xxxxxx
The speaker, even, did well to
get here, and he is some traveler.
Also, he is am experienced hand at
this speaking business, and those
who braved the cold last Thursday
night felt like they were well re-
paid.
xxxxxx
Mr. McFarland said there is not
too much to making a speech, and
most anybody can do it. And he
said a person didn't have to be a
cabinet maker to put a bottom in
a chair.
xxxxxx
Kenneth also spoke a good word
for the Harmonettes, who supplied
the entertainment part of the pro-
gram. He especially complimented
the good looks of the organization,
and Claimed that he knew a good
voice when he saw one.
xxxxxx
Things are a bit quiet around
here during this cold weather, but
it is fine i'or basketball. And the
Seymour Panthers do all right in
cold weather—or any other kind
of weather. Basketball has never
been as popular in Texas as foot-
ball, but those Panthers are doing
o lot to popularize the garn'e.
xxxxxx
Some more folks you are going to
have to hand it to are the Club
boys who have been feeding calves.
It just doesn't look possible to put
that much weight on a calf in less
than a year's time.
xxxxxx
Right along with compliments to
the boys, there are some other peo-
ple who have done well—and that
includes the ones who planked
down the prize money for the Calf
Show. Without tiheir very sub-
stantial aid, there could have been
no show.
xxxxxx
And even some credit is due to
those who attended the Show. Lee
Morris and the colum'n writer
were admiring the calves, and hap-
pened to mention the hard job the
judges had in making their decis-
ions.
xxxxxx
The column fellow said: "You
or I wouldn't even know the points
they judge 'em on. If I were doing
the judging, I'd say this square-
hacked fellow right here was the
best calf on the lot." ( You guess-
ed it. He was).
xxxxxx
Well, January is nearly gone, and
maybe some of the rest of us are
nearly gone. We presume that all
of you got the Christmas bills paid.
Including the regular bills, togeth-
er with church dues, lodge dues
and all the other contributions you
are supposed to n.'ake
xxxxxx
We hope that taxes are paid, in-
cluding income tax. luxury taxes,
auto tax, and the new safety in-
spection fee And that you were
able to pay interest on the note,
irastead of adding it to the princi-
pal (New license plates go on sale
next Monday.'
xxxxxx
On top of that, the country is be-
ing threatened with a slight reces-
sion However, so long as it is a
slight one, most of us are not wor-
ried We have been going thru a
flight recession *11 our live*
xxxxxx
TODAY S CHUCKl*
Hubby "What did the man say
was wrong with the tire
Wife H<- said the air w * be-
ginning to show through "
xxxxxx
tide <Hance> e«rto«jM *how-
womeia talking and one of
as haymg Your visit* are
mtrenlui « to rr,V >on at
»ve much worse ache# and
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DANiNY RYAN AND GRAND CHAMPION
—Photo by Dixon
Danny Ryan Shows
Champion Club Calf
Danny Ryan, 14, 4-H Club boy—
showed the grand champion here
Saturday in a calf show sponsor-
ed by the Seymour Chair,'her of
Commerce.
Ryan s calf was a 985-pound
Hereford bred by the Wallace
Nichols Ranch of Baylor County.
Of the 16 calves In the show,
12 were classified as prime and
four as choice.
Gilbert Wirz, 10, a 4-H Club-
ber, showed the reserve champ-
pion. Ills calf was bred by the
Arledge Stock Farm.
A total of $1,361.50 in prize
money was distributed to youths
entering animals in the show. No
auction was held this year.
Bernard Knezek won the show-
manship award given by the Bay-
lor County Farm1 Bureau. He re-
ceived a shop-made halter
Jack Bourland of Port Worth,
head buyer for Swift & Company,
was judge o£ the *>Msw. He was
assisted by Walter Rice, field rep-
resentative of Fort Worth Stock
Yards.
The Show was held on the
Morris-Wire lots, across the street
east of the Seymour Hotel The
place was easily aocessable to the
business district, and a large num-
ber of people visited the exhibit.
And they saw the best of calves
ever shown in a Baylor County
show. Those in petition to judge
say that this event was the most
successful yet staged under di-
rection of the Chamber of Com-
merce. .
Too much credit could not be
given to Bob Fair, chairman of the
Chamber of Coirynerce Livestock
Committee; County Agent Roy Mc-
Clu,ig; and Lester Burk of the
high school faculty and director of
the FFA Club boys There are
others who did almost as much as
these. These would certainly in-
clude parents of the Club boys.
The boys and their parents, to-
gether with donors of prizes and
visiting guests, were entertained by
the Chamber of Commerce for
lunch Saturday noon in the grade
school lunch room. Mr Farr pre-
sided at the program given there,
before about 150 guests Some of
the guests were introduced includ-
ing the judges Glenn Shelton of
the Wichita Falls papers, and other
celebrities At thiu, time all the
prize money and the special prizes
were awarded
Following are lists of eight fi st
place winners in heavy and light
clasat*. The information about
each will include whether 4,11 or
FFA with P denoting prime and
C showing choice and the ratw?h
C -C Directors
Lay Plans For
Year's Work
President Jack Jones railed a
meeting of the board of directors
of the chamber of commerce Tues-
day night to outline plans for
operation during 1954. This was
the first meeting of the newly
elected board.
One of the first actions was the
adapting of a resolution recom-
mending to the city officials that
Monday, May 3, be declared a holi-
day. A group of 25 business men
irflet in December and voted to
prss up the traditional Fish Day
Holiday May 1, as it falls on Sat-
urday. The May 3 date is an al-
ternate date, whioh will still give
a double-holiday. Sunday and Mon-
day. It will be up to the city of-
ficials to declare it a legal holiday
in Seymour, as the chamber's reso-
lution was merely a recommenda-
tion.
As an aid to the directors in
mapping the years program'. Presi-
dent Jones appointed a' committee
corrfposed of two directors and two
business men to make a study of
the community's needs and present
their findings to the board This
committee, composed of Dr. J. W.
Foy. Richard Fergeson. D. M. Wil-
lett and Robert Farr. will make its
report to the chamber at a called
reflecting February 4
On the basis of this re|>ort. and
known expenditures, a budget will
be worked out and the membership
drive will be started soon there-
after
Salary Increases
Would Add S23,718
To Teachers' Pay
The question has been asked:
"What will be the effect In Sey-
mour School District if the special
session of the Legislature, called
by Gov. Shivers, passes the com-
promise proposal to give teachers
a $402 salary increase?"
Supt. J. W. Hamilton has worked
out the answer and it is presented
£.•< fallows:
instead of contributing a total
of $45,000,000 toward financing the
Minim'um Foundation Program as
provided by the Glkner-Aiken leg-
islation, the local districts of the
state will contribute a straight 20
per cent of the cost and the state
will provide the other 80 per cent.
In addition, the compromise pro-
posal would provide for the state's
participation in the building con-
struction costs of local districts by
contributing 20 per cent of the
cost of amortizing the bonded in-
debtedness resulting from building
programs in local school districts.
This contribution would be in
the form of a credit allowance on
the local fund assignment, and
would be in the amount of $100 per
professional unit employed by the
•school.
Specifically, for Seymour, the
present local fund assignment
would be increased from $50,734 to
$5<8,141. Deducting $6,900, on the
$100 credit per professional unit,
leaves $52,241, or a total of $1,507
more than the present local fund
assignments.
The 59 teachers would receive
an increase of $402 each, or a total
of $23,718. In other words, for
tin additional local district expendi-
ture of only $1,507 per year, the
teachers of Seymour would receive
it total of $23,718 more than they
are now receiving.
Mothers March on Polio
Scheduled for Fri. Night
Motor Vehicle
Registration
Starts February 1
Scholastic Census
Now Shows 1,330
announced
♦ The success of the month-long
1004 March of Dimes hangs In ttie
balance tomorrow night. It depends
on the outcome of the campaign's
grand climax apixiai—the dramatic
„ . . ... Mothers' March on Polio.
The Baylor county scholastic cen- Th„ ... .
sus figures through January 27. as dri ' ? b« L
released by Supt. J. W. Hamilton. J™® L"
are as follows- white scholastics s,,r*"!' at 8eYe" ,)jnl "hen
1277; negro scholastics M. tor a Egg™" «» gj '* the
total of 1 330 March or Dimes Is asked to ligiht
c , '' ... ... | a porch lamp or place a light of
this week. New license plates must i. , ...w! !1,11. S<,'VS some some kind in a front window
be Installed on all vehicles used on J? ; will be removed Irom Mrs. Jeanette Johnson Mothers'
the public highways by April 1. • »'"«• they MalTh chairman. i'as suKieSttlat
but Styles urges early registration ' or ,„«iH n r those living in apartment buildings
to avoid the customary last day pL ,»rv7 u.|ii i," m' hotels imke known their (fcwire
rush to beat the deadline. scholastic on February I will d<-i<(> donate to .the polio fund bv
Last year 2,512 .passenger ve- whose Census roll' he wiR'rwrnin't n sho'' ,)r handkuvnchief
hides, 425 commercial units and! 7^3^ t nite 'h w ! - 0,1 t,H"r door8'
575 farm vehicles were registered ! that the ]954 cen9US wli| be abov'<; | "During the critical hour from
in Baylor county. Those figures (he 1953 of j 302 scholastics." Ham ^ven t(> clRhl tomorrow might,"
include registrations to the present n#,.., Mrs. Johnson said, "the people of
Baylor County will have one more
The registration of motor ve-
hicles for the year 1054 will start
Monday, February 1. Wesley Styles
tax assessor-collector,
J. F. Cooper Injured
In Accident Thurs.
4H P Wallace
The !
ed two
them »
1 **lly
May* 11
pain* ti
that bred the < a Ives
heavy dl»
1 Danny Ryan
Nichob
2 Hernard Kae/afc 411 P
Crtuwell
X Richard Kne/ek 4iH P I
ftaiwfe
4 Kent Mian 4H P V
First is the
A l>ad accident happened about
8 30 Thursday morning, when Com-
missioner J. F Cooper's piekup had
a collision with a coupe driven by
W K McCaleb of the Wnght
PackuiK Comp«iny of Vernon 'Hie
coupe landed in th«* ditch with the
wheels up in the air and the front
end of the pickup was caved in
The d"ivers were brought to th«'
hospital where McCaleb had X ray
pictures taken and was declar<d to
be free of injuries Such was not
the ci»<e with Mr Cooper, who had
sevt-rsl ribs and his collar b-mi
broken In addition to that
Cooper suffered a light h
tax'k after l>eing lakm to Uie
pital which at first seemed
steri,»u» than hi* broki-ii tsset
it )> fine to iepi»rt that Ik* smcj
l» irtt'iM («nd diould t<e all
Mr
-t at.
hoa-
ris>re
Hut
1* to
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Panthers Need 1
Mote Victory to
Win Eastern Hall
The Seymour Panthers are going
along in basketball, and one more
victory would give thorn the east-
ern division champ I or whip. One of
the crucial games stiH to be played
with BurkburneK light, and
the other one is with filiectra.
Even should tiie eastern cham-
pionship be sesved up, there would
still be plenty of early trouble. A
strong aggregation in the west is
the Childress Bobcats; and alto"
that would come Bowie, in bi-dis-
trict play. And a whole book
could be written about thwe How-
ie Jack rabbits. They have won 57
straight games, in which have liecn
tied up three suite chan?pionships
The Rabbits take them all, regard-
less of name or class
A big honor came to the Sey-
mour team when they annexed the
Burkburnett Invitation last Satur-
day night. Burk wa« the defend-
ing champion and the Bulldogs got
to the finals in this one. Not only
that, but they came within an ace
of knocking over the Panthem
Starting at the beginning there
were three teams that had tolerably
easy victories. Seymour beat Hoi-
liday, fil to 37. FJectra rolled over
Randlett. Okla tW to T7; and the
Burk Bulldogs tcrok out Byers, 70 to
Without going into detail about
tlu- rest of the play, it should be
said that the last game, Saturday
night, was a thiller. Seymour was
behind M points late in tb«* second
quart* r, shaving thr. to 30-25 at
halftime In the final tnrwute of
play, the score was $2 to 51 for the
Panthers, and they finally won, 53
to 52 liie teams were tied up six
times, arid the lead changed hands
nine times
Owen of Hurkliurm-lt led the
scoring and Hu:*k« Moyer got It)
Winn, Walling and Styles made 14,
11 and 10 reii|>e('tively. foi Mm? Pan-
thers Koberl NK'kewon pickwi up
thrw personal fmda early in the
game and he play<«d vi«ry little in
the i« iMid half
In tiie < onfeieiM-e gaiur at < Hney
Tue'day night Ow^e we, another
laid Miri' for tin Psiitlsrr ■> (Miiry
was hitting the iaarfcet in the first
include registrations to the present | yton
time and as there are two ntonths
>"«t to go on the 1963 year a few
more will be added before 1954
license plates go on.
W. T. Grahscn of Wichita Falls
was a business visitor here this
week, and had to go to the hospital
for treatment of high blood pres-
sure. Mr. Graham, who is 89
years old, owns a farm in the
Round Timber community, which
is rented by S E. Fallin and fam-
ily.
Mrs. M. E. Morton came home
Saturday front Henrietta, where
she had been on account of the ili-
ne.<s of her mother. She remained
here untiil Monday night, and then
went back again.
APPLICATIONS MUST BK IN HY
FEB. 5 ON NEW COTTON PAKMK
Farmers who have not grown
cotton in the years 1051. 1952 and
1953 are eligible to make applica-
tion for a new growers allotnfent.
A farmer will not be eligible for
a new grower allotment if he Is
interested in another farm as land-
lord or tenant that has an allot-
ment If you wish to make appli-
cation for a new grower allotment,
you sihould contact your ASC Of-
fice before February 5, 1954.
chance to help the fight against
polio th« year. The health and
welfare of our children is at Htoke
"Any contribution to the March
of Dinfles, however small, will be
an investment In care far polio
victims and in the scientific re-
search that has made such re-
markahlc recent progress toward
the ultimate production of an ef-
fective and safe vaccine against
the disease.
"Thte progress must not armrk
time at this critical stage but must
. be pressed to ufltio«aite victory over
! polio," she said
Mrs. Johnson explained thait the
Edwin Nash Tucker of Alamo- i
trnrH,. w„.„, wirs. joimson expiainea matt ine
;™ ' IS.'KS' «•«» county KM Kooi, ™w«l
end with his parents, Mr. and Mi
Mark Tucker and Kathlee
Jack Jones Named
C-C President for '54
areas, each under a chairman The
basic unit in the area setup is a
group of eigJit dwellings in a single
block.
Each of thc.c eight-dwelling
units will be visited by a "contact
mother" wh > will carry mason jars
with a Mothers' March Sticker
Contact mot he in, altar ix>m-
pleting their calls, will turn their-
collections over to their reffpne-
tive area chairman who will deliver
them to the Farmers National
Bank.
"Tori,<orrow nigh/t," Mrs Johnson
observed, "we will see one of the
most striking examphM of democ-
racy at work. Through the volun-
teer efforts of 200 marehki^r r(with-
ers. the contributions orf residents
(rf Baylor County will made
available for a humnnitarian or-
ganization—the National Fouimte-
tion for Infamtile Pornlysi»- whirh
is dedicated to the protection of
the health of a nation ngaknst the
scourage of polio.
"When porch lamps in alt pw is
of the county flash on tomorrow
night, each will bo a synJbolle h«>a•
11 it on irrc grouno; anri especially ^ " public determined to do
was this the case as regards the! ©verything possible to wkpe out
out of town representatives A tK,"u
large number of these had i ml I oat "And when the light uic turned
ed that they would be here but ' °rf hour lator. the traditionol
11,', ' t of then sent regrets And ' K**neroslty of the residents ml Bay-
they could not be blamed In view i,,>r County will have been dero<»n-
of the hazardous highways Those stra,ed by a t-eco-d total comtri.
who defied tiie eh'ments to attend butiori to the March of Dimes."
were Nn Ha kell Jetty v Clare •■■■"
publisher; A (' Pierson, hanker,
and wife, John A Couch, lumber-
man, and wife Carl Wheatley,
president of the Chamber of Corn
rnerce; Rex Felker. secretary of
the Chan toeof Commerce From
Munday: Russei J Penick imple-
i merit dealer and .1 D Gillespie
i From Goree Dr and Mrs W M
Taylor From Olney Sid Perry-
| man and wife Ktikii Megargel II
F llarmel Sr arul wife
Tiie banquet wa
Jack Jones, realtor and insur-
ance man, was elected president of
the Seymour Chamber of Commer-
i ce. at the annual meeting and ban-
quet. held at the high schol gym-
j nasium on Thursday evening, Jan.
21st, Four new directors wore
j elected recently, with the entire
| directorship for 1954 consisting of
the following: Richard Fergeson,
Or J. W. Foy, A. F Wirz, Gene P.
Robinson, Joe Wood, II, F. Harmel
Jr., Lindsey Hawkins, Emitt Gold-
en. L. D. Jones Jr. and Ralph Howe.
The crowd in attendance at the
I meeting was cut down very mi-
' terially on account of the snow and
on tiie ground; and especially
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—Photo by Dixon
Local Boy Gets
Polio Treatment
In connection with the polio
drive, son* timely information
should be given iri rngard to «
Seymour High School student who
han been receiving treatment for
polio. This student is Byron Rob-
ertson, 17 mmi of Mr and Mrs H
| A Robertson who live between
! Red Spring and Vera He is a Juri
j ior in KHS
By ran became ill with polio on
] Sept 30 last lull After thr**' day.-,
.... — nigii ri'rpi itnt iiiimi rifTri h|j|t p
I II Uie lioMftilal at Seytnooi. ,,e s They r.'i,»o..d«l to two en ,,,-de
taken to tiie UwktiI Hospital In **
WU'hita fails where he remained
j ti til Nov Wtii Me is imsw imk'k
. iri aetiool, but it he been nece*
sary to eontiliue tin' treaUnent*
He Jtlll tiiitn not have the use of his
right ami Myru* sturted to ai-houl
again two w«*tki> Isidore Cln 1st
mas and has issw wot king l>a<d to
make up the tins he lost The do*
New C. of C. President
Held First Regular
Meeting January 27
Tiie new president, Ja«k Jariea.
preside*) Werlnesdny ikh>ii at tha
regular hmche<M> ines«Mng ef the
Charrrber of Consriteree, at the Club
Cafe He was al»ettef| |>y Keeretary
served by the O McDasiiel, aixl u g<M*liy numlier
tM'ymour Remuda < luh and a of members attended tlx- event
swell Job tti< y did Wait ••sues i After the invoration toy Key
were high school girls Dinner Hollo Davideon the secretary an
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thai Kwy The invfs«tiori was won the guest pri/e The »<-w
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