The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 47, No. 8, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 23, 1956 Page: 1
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Irtf HENEVER WE run on to a
jpJFw good joke we usually use It
jpojbcgin this column We heard a
yulu this past week
jfAn opponent of the power bond
lissuc said that Marvin Cnrlllc didnt
Iwrite the letter attributed to him in
Oast weeks paper that we wrote it
and signed Marvins name to it
TjThe longer one meditates on such
bfirsiluatlon the funnier It gets
town topics
DOUBT some of the oilier
NO
fantastic and false reports
floating around town this week came
from an equally responsible source
town topics
OF Hugh White former
EMENDS
er Swisher county sheriff
are attempting to convince him that
heshould nin for the office of state
representative Hugh knows Austin
and he knows the people of Swisher
Bfiscoe Floyd and Hale counties
town topics
IIARLIE GUY editor and pub
Usher of the Lubbock Ava
lancheJournal made the following
observation after a recent trip to
Dallas where he attended a meeting
ofJithe Texas Associated Press Editors
association Present were news
executives of most of the states
daily papers
By a great majority said Guy
thise men believe
I Price Daniel will run for gov
ernor
2 Ralph Yarborough will be his
chief opponent
3 The race will be bitter and
close with slight odds favoring Dan
iel
4 The many crosscurrents in Tex
as politics this year could give the
job to Yarborough
5 There are a lot of folks in Texas
in a mood to throw the ins out
in a considerable number of in
stances
So writes the proRepublican pro
Shivers publisher of the Lubbock
paper
town topics
MM ETO OF THE natural gas bill
Ur by President Eisenhower is
reeking with political implications
It Is unfortunate that such issues
as this the farm problem and other
issues cant be solved on some
basis other than unadulterated poli
tics
As yet weve failed to read any
thing coming out of Washington
which concerns only the merits or
demerits of the gas bill All we hear
is political expediency They say that
Eisenhowers action in vetoing the
bill will provoke proponents of the
bill to vote for the socalled rigid
price supports of agricultural pro
ducts that Eisenhower favored the
bill but vetoed it to gain the big
city vote
This isnt mere sidewalk conver
sation It has come from high places
in Washington even from Senators
both Democratic and Republican
who are not engaging just in poli
tical talk but are looking at the situ
ation seriously and realistically
This talk is coming not from Ikes
enemies but from his friends
A Senator is quoted as saying that
one cannot be elected to a major office
in Texas without the support of
the oil and gas industries
town topics
WE REACHED the place
HAVE
where no issue can any longer
be solved on the basis of merit
Is everything determined in the light
of its political implications
Must a President be selected on
the basis of the state from whence
he comes Must a Vice President
come from California because California
has a lot of electoral votes
and the state is considered a borderline
state
town topics
OF ones opinion
REGARDLESS
of Harry Truman weve got
to admit that he spoke his piece exactly
as he saw it He never left a
question asjo which side of the fence
he was on He let his conscience
speak regardless of the consequences
He wasnt all things to all people
just to pick up a vote He voted
for or against a measure because
that was the way he saw it not because
he thought it might pick up a
few votes
The fact is it doesnt pay to be
honest and frank in politics It will
get you defeated every time Just
ask Adlai
town topics
ISNT DIFFICULT to get elected
IT
ed to most any office if you
want to pay the price
All you have to do is to swallow
conscience and tell people what they
want to hear Tickle their ears Be
all things to all people When youre
talking to the farmers promise
them not 90 per cent but 100 percent
of parity When youre talking
to the industrial areas tell the
workmen that farm price supports
are responsible for their high cost of
living
If you have an opponent who
threatens your vote merely start
a few wild rumors about his political
leanings If he promises justice to
common men call him a pinko or
a leftist Dont call him a communist
because that is libelous The other
two words will convey exactly the
same meaning and you can get by
without being sued
By all means seek the support of
the oil and gas industry Theyll finance
your campaign provide your
transportation take you on pleasure
jaunts manufacture your campaign
propaganda and run all your errands
And if anybody criticizes you
for siding in with these boys and
against the people all you have to
do it to charge that he Is an enemy
of free enterprise
See TOWN TOPICS Page 5
sw rrHi r
JIM LEACH
Leach Begins
Local Duties
A Hospital
Jim Leach has succeeded Cleo
Coffey jr as administrator of
Swisher County hospital Leach was
born at Wellington and attended public
schools there Later he served
during World War II in the European
theatre with the Air Corps He
married the former Katie Lentz of
Wellington
He is a member of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars National Guard and
Methodist church He served for six
years as business manager of the
JonesWatkins Clinic of Wellington
For the past year he has been associated
with the Hospital Wholesale
Supply of Amarillo
Mr and Mrs Leach are living at
511 S Bowie in Tulia
Wethington Infant
Is Buried Monday
Graveside rites for Mary Wething
ton stillborn daughter of Mr and
Mrs J T Wethington of Nazareth
were held Monday afternoon at
Holy Family cemetery at Nazareth
The infant was born Sunday at
Swisher County hospital
Survivors inclue the parents and
seven brothers and sisters
Burial was under the direction of
Wallace Funeral Home
Kress Box Supper
To Benefit Scours
Kress Boy Scouts Troop 201 are
sponsoring a box supper Tuesday
night March 20 at 730 in the school
gymnasium at Kress Raymond Anderson
is scout master
Proceeds will be used for the ao
Tickets may be obtained from De
Molay members or from Mothers
club members and also at the door
Price is 25c for students and 50c for
adults
Proceeds will be used for DeMolay
work
Merchants teachers and clubs
sponsoring entrants in the show are
Literary Arts club 1931 Study club
Tulia Jaycees Tulia HD club Lake
view HD club Womens Study club
Rotary club Progressive Study club
Sorosis Study club Kiwanis club
Beta Sigma Phi Lions club Smith
tivities of the troop Women are re McAneliy Mrs W R Humphreys
quested to bring a decorated boxMrs R W Davidson Mrs D II
with food for two The men are re J Schurbot Mrs Beulah Henderson
quested to bring wellfilled wallets
SWISHER COUNTY top seed producing
county itvTexas can now boast of having
the largest seed bag storage warehouse
and processing plant in Texas The huge
Crown Seed Co building containing
36000 square feet is owned by W C
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Loftin Timmons
Lead 7th Graders
To Win Tourney
Tulia seventh graders brought their
undefeated season to a thrilling climax
Saturday afternoon defeating
Floydada 20 to 1G to win the Tulia
invitational boys basketball tournament
High point men for Tulia were
John Loftin and Pat Timmons
Abernathy beat Hereford 21 to
19 to win third place honors
For consolation Plainview overwhelmed
Olton 4G to 10
In other games of the tourney
Tulia B 7th graders lost to Here
ford 24 to 12 Tulia A 7th graders
beat Olton 3G to 10 and Floydada
defeated Kress 31 to 10
Coach Travis LaDuke said the
tourney was well attended and highly
successful in every way He added
that the visiting schools expressed
a hope that Tulia would stage
a similar tournament next year
stead Travis Venable Littlejohn
Bros Flynt Jewelry Bobs SuperMarket
JGee Department Store
Northcutts Dress Shop Swisher Tire
Supply Huxfords Perry Bros
Thurman Drug Tulia Tot Shop and
Texas Company
Numbers will includes pantomime
guitar duopiano dancing instru
Mrs Donald Crocker Ernest Bum mental sextet and choir
Cowan jr George Hipp Keith Wolfe all
of Tulia and Grady Goodpasture of
Brownfield The three Tulians are active
in the organization while Goodpasture is
inactive The building is located on Highway
87 just north of Star Grain Company
1
J H Reynolds
Succumbs Here
Funeral services for Jacob Howard
Reynolds 72 were held Tuesday
afternoon at Wallace Funeral
Chapel The Rev C G Sewell of
Plainview officiated Burlnl was In
Memorial Park at Plainview under
direction of Wallace Funeral
Home
Mr Reynolds died late Sunday afternoon
in Swisher County hospital
following an attack suffered a short
time earlier at the family home
301 N Bowie
He was born Jan 10 1881 at
Tioga He married Miss Daisy Scog
gins They would have been married
53 years yesterday After living one
year in Canyon they returned to
Tioga where they lived until moving
to Tulia in 1929 He was employed
by Conoco Oil Company He had
been a member of the Methodist
church for many years
Survivors include his widow one
son Willis Reynolds copublisher of
the Lockney Beacon and formerly
associated with The Tulia Herald
three daughters Mrs Delbert Lowes
of Canyon Mrs Fred Mye of Amarillo
and Mrs Clifford Durham of
Tulia 9 brothers John of Tioga
Bert of Bisbeo Arizona Cecil of
Wichita Falls Clem of Bristol Colo
Clanton of Piano Iowa Bob of Amarillo
Ed of Canyon Fred of Tioga
and Joe of Canyon two sisters Miss
Cora Reynolds of Dallas and Mrs
Zora Engleman of Graford and several
grandchildren
Pallbearers were Chink Tucker D
J Northcutc Lloyd Morris Claude
Cole Jim Ford and L C Frona
barger
The Hickory Hut Is
Popular Eating Place
Clois Vandergriff who was reared
in Tulia and is u 1932 graduate
of Tulia High school has opened
a barbecue pit on Highway 87 in
Northwest Tulia which is called the
Hickory Hut
He features hickory barbecued
ham beef spare ribs and chickens
He servos sandwiches service in
basket bulk meats to go and features
custom barbecuing He uses
only hickory woods and government
inspected meats He has been in the
KressTulia Dinner
Set For Tonight
bout 50 Tulia merchants and
1 lkins farmers attended the Stuff
n Discuss dinner served Thursday
night in the Tulia school
lunchroom It I Dawson of Tulia
gave the welcome and II T Duke
of riklns was master of ceremoniesI ntertamment numbers included a
piano solo by Ann Mills Essay on
Husbands by Mrs Idgar Mills
dairy food demonstration by Judy
Dawson Bill Roach assistant county
agricultural agent presented the two
4 II members Miss Dawson had previously
given this demonstration of
mocha pudding filling at Lubbock
The next Chamber of Commerce
sponsored dinner will be next Thursday
night at Kress
Mr and Mrs L C Edwards and
Mr and Mrs W H Tewell and boys
spent Saturday in the homo of Mr
and Mrs A E McBride and family
iof Amarillo They were helping celebrate
the birthday of Mr McBride
who is a brother of Mrs L C Ed
I wards
sw iTW T s n < VJ5J
Soil Ferfiiify Day Is Slated For Satyrda
Soil Fertility Day sponsored by agronomist Mathcslon Chemical Co now operates a highly diversified I Ivestock Feeding and Use of Man will discuss 1 crtllier and Organic
the Extension Service and the Bur Houston F M Vlning Weslaco farm of S00 acres Vining is a lire McClains topic will beInter Matter King will talk on Hybrid
linglon Railway Co will be obser Jack King agronomist Extension charter member of the Valley Grow planting of Field Peas with Grain Grain Sorghum Curry will mod
ved Saturday in Tulia The program Service Lubbock and Lett McClaln ers Gin of Weslaco organized in Sorghum Woolen will talk on ernte a panel composed of all spenk
will be held in Tulia school cafeter Hart farmer 1934 of which he is still president Marketing and Surplus Brasher ers
la beginning at 10 am Vlning Weslaco farmer will speak Ho has been president of the Valley will moderate a panel discussion in The annual event has attracted
Speakers will include A K Hep on The Story of Soil Building on Coop Oil MilJ since its inception in which all speakers will participate good attendance In other years and
perly agricultural agent Burling My Farm He moved to the Rio 1910 The noon meal will be prepared by this years program promises to be
ton Railway Denver Colo Koy Grande Valley in 1923 after manag Judge Claude Shelton of Tulia is Swisher County Home Demonstra up to the usual high standard
Neely professor Animal Husbandry ing a large plantation in Mississippi general chairman R B Dawson tion clubs Entertainment will be
Texas Tech Alvin B Woolen econ Starting with citrus and cotton he jr will give the welcome and Ed featured from 1230 until 1 p m Mr and Mrs Charles Sarchct were
omlst from the Extension Service successfully expanded his farming to Brasher will be chairman of the Corliss Curry will be chairman of visiting in Amarillo Thursday even
College Station Dr W O Trogdon include vegetables and cattle He morning session Neely will talk on the afternoon session Dr Trogdon ing
COVERING SWISHER COUNTY LIKE THE SUNSHINE
The Tulizi Herald
VOL 47 NUMBER 8
wer
Talent Show
Is Friday
A talent show sponsored by
Tulia DcMolay Mothers club is
scheduled for Friday night in the
school auditorium The contestants
will appear In three classifications
according to age Winner
of each group will receive an n
ward and a grand prize will be
given winner of the three groups
The grand winner will appear on
television with Johnny Linn and Wcl
don Bright at a later date
TULIA Swisher County TEXAS
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 1956
TWO SECTIONS
rove
In the heaviest voting ever tecorded in a city election
Tttlians Saturday approved the proposed 700000 power
revenue bond issue by a comfortable majority On the first
Heart Fund
Drive Set
Sunday
Sunday has been designated as
Heart Sunday in Tulia The
Texas Heart Fund now being conducted
in hundreds nf communities
throughout the stale under the
chairmanship of Senator Lyndon
Johnson himself a heart disease
sufferer will continue through
Feb 29
Prime purpose of the 1950 Texas
Heart Fund is summed up in the
Funds campaign slogan Help Your
leart Fund Help Your Heart
Money contributed to the Texas
Heart Fund supports a continuous
threepart program that helps heart
disease victims in every bector of
the nation
Since 1918 the annual Heart Funds
have Invested more than 13000000
in heart research alone They have
put additional millions into public
and professional education programs
to provide wider distribution of information
about heart disease and
what can be done to prevent or
cure it
One person out of eacli 10 in the
United States including 500000 children
now suffers from some form
of heart disease
The Swisher County Heart Association
will meet Thursday night at
730 in the bank conference room in
Tulia to map plans for the coming
fund drive scheduled for Sunday afternoonThe association desires that the
public contribute generously Bill
Hill of Tulia is county fund chairmanmeat business and selects all that he j cents for Ttudeiits and 50 cents for
buys
Vandergriff said that this is the J
r ily hukory pit of its kind between
Mnunllo and Plainview
He has asked the Herald to thank
thr > public for the excellent business
txt ndfd to him since the opening
H served 1100 sandwiches the first I
t i da > s i
V Jergnff is married and has
hr < e boys 1 eon Jerry and Joe
H > invites the public to pay a visit
0 Tin Hickory Hut
Tulia Dimmitt Tie
To Be Broken
Here Saturday
A toss of a coin Saturday afternoon
ruled that the lie for district
honors between tulia and Dimmitt
higli school girls teams will be broken
In Tulia Saturday night
The allimportant game wil begin
at 8 oclock Admission will be 25
adults rveryone will be required lo
payCoaches
Coaches and administrators from
botli schools were in Tulia Saturday
to arrange for the playoff
proposal which was to refinance
155000 in outstanding
revenue bonds the vote was
136 to 257 The second proposal
to issue 545000 in new
revenue bonds also carried
440 to 257
The 701 votes cast topped by G
votes the record set in the city election
of April 1951 at which time the
issue was to change the city char
er from a 3member commission
form of government to a city muna
geraldcrmaiuc form and to elect all
new city officials Ten votes cast
Saturday were Invalid
I he Saturday election reflected
even more interest than is indicated
by the vole when it is considered
that only those city voters who were
also city taxpayers were eligible
to vote in the 1951 election all city
residents otherwise qualified were
entitled lo vole
Much interest was created by Saturdays
election Proponents of the
issue favored enlarging and improving
the citys power plant and distribution
facilities as a solution to
the citys power shortage The opponents
favored maintaining the present
facilities and buying excess
needs from the public utility companyIn an effort to expedite the im
provements so that a power shortage
next summer can be averted
city offlciuls had already advertised
for bids on the new equipment
needed subject lo the outcome of
Saturdays election This action will
save much time and it is expected
that the improvements can get underway
at an early date Completion
of all improvements will not be
accomplished until January of 1957
In addition to purchasing new engines
to be added to the power plant
facilities voltage will be stepped
from 2100 to 1100 volts
CUH SCOUT IIANQUirr
SET FOR TONIGHT
Annual cub scout blue and gold
banquet will be held Thursday night
at the school cafeteria beginning at
730 The cub scouts and their families
are asked to bring a covered
dish Drinks will be furnished
The Rev Dan Hartsock is to be
the speaker
STAY TUNED TO
K S b fa W
i Eva Jessyes American Concert Ensemble v
i Tulia Monday night at 8 o clock in the junioi
I2G0 Kc 1000 Watts
10 a m DAII Y I XCIPI SUNDAY
BACK 10 1111 lliltll BROAOCASI
auditorium under auspices of Tulia Town Hall Concert
Association Dr Fred V Richards
president Attendance
will be limited to Town Hall
membership
i One of the Great American In
is the way Jacque Wolfe
noted American composer has proclaimed
Eva Jesseys musical crea
i lions Her singers have appeared
1 with leading symphony orchestras
I under the direction of such famed
piano solo by Jackie Brown a talk conductors are Stokowski Ormandy
i grass judging by Kinan Burk and Smallens Black Mitrapoulos Stein
a burg Hugh Ross and were the first
to interpret the scores of I our
Saints in Three Acts opera by Ger
trude Stein and Virgil Thomson and
the folk opera Porgy and Bess j
by Dubose Heyward and the tmmor
tal George Gershwin of which she
was choral director
Now after a quarter century of
prominence on the Broadway scene
as concert director dramatist authority
on American music composer
and interpreter of modern
idioms she is bringing her priceless
experience and talents to the
public with her American Concert
Ensemble In forming this group she
has relied on the several separate
tV JESSYl
factors whicn have attubuted to her
phenomenal success Each singer
for instance is selected not only for
ocal qualifications but for imagination
originality and dramatic expression
Each must provide a distinct
color for the vocal canvas
One is valuable for ability to project
the humorous another for deeply
religious feeling another for down
toearth expression others for hear
ram
imx
M VINING
Mrs Dinwiddie
Dies Suddenly
Mrs Winnie Dinwiddle 63 years
old died unexpectedly Monday
morning In Swisher County hospital
where she had been admitted
Sunday morning with a light attack
of asthma She arrived In
Tulia about a week before her
death to visit in the home of her
daughter Mr and Mrs Dean
Butler
It was not unusual for her to
suffer from asthma on her visits
here and she often was hospitalized
for relief from the malady Her attack
Sunday was extremely light
according to members of her family
and her condition was not considered
serious
Mrs Dinwiddie the former Winnie
ODaniel was born Aug 12 1892
at Coleman She was married to
James R Dinwiddie Feb 1918
They lived on the Dinwiddie Ranch
southwest of Tulia and in town until
about eight years ago when they
moved to Arizona for the benefit of
her asthma Mr Dinwiddle died last
May
She was a member of Tulia First
Baptist church and an associate
member of the Congregational Baptist
church in Prescott
Survivors include her daughter
Mrs Butler two brothers Dick O
Daniel and Howard ODaniel both of
Tulia a sister Mrs Gladys McCam
mon Dallas and two grandchildren
Funeral services were held Tuesday
morning at the Tulia First Baptist
church The Rev W Neil Record
pastor officiated The body
was taken to Prescott Arizona by
Wallace funeral coach for burial
Pallbearers were J Ross Noland
Tom Bagley Marvin Carlile Frank
Cobb Miller Hill and Lloyd Glide
wellMrs
Mrs Dinwiddie completed a new
home in Prescott recently The
Phoenix daily paper devoted an entire
front page to a description of
the home
Hartsock Resigns
Tulia Pastorate
The Rev Dan Hartsock has resigned
as pastor of the Tulia First Chris
1 tian church He has served the local
congregation for one > ear
I Sunday services at the church will
be conducted by three young people
1 from the First Christian church at
Canyon Bill Carmichael Paul Call
let and Gene Mcrritt
lhe service will tx held at 11
o < lock and mi mbtrs and friends of
the church arc invited
Town
ill appear in
high school
ty ncighborlv vocal tone light modern
or heavy ja mterpistation
The program opens with a march
Hail to the USA a tribute to
the President and people of the
United States A group of spirituals
includes Sing All Along the Way
Wade in the water Chariot
Wtucl Tall Angel City Called
IK j n I m Gonna Live was
I m Mighty Tired and O What
a Beautiful City There follows a
tribute to Father Mississippi Included
is Kentuckians Song Si
tetn Tons and The Strawberry
Woman from Porgy S Bess A
group nf modem religious ballads is
included
After the intermission a baritone
and ensemble will sing Without a
Song Other numbers are by a
contralto ladies trio bass violin
soprano and other combinations
Shuberts Serenade will be pre
sented by a soloist ensemble and
basis violin
Modern numbers on the program
inclue The Breeze and I Thine
Alone Bah Hai from South Pac
ific Autumn Leaves and Tribute
to Abraham Lincoln
The finale Its a Sweet Country
will be by the ensemble
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Baggarly, H. M. The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 47, No. 8, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 23, 1956, newspaper, February 23, 1956; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth43023/m1/1/: accessed April 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.