The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 97, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 29, 1936 Page: 3 of 4
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
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> centennial Exposition the night of September 7 against an All American team were in the
nal intercollegiate grid limelight only a few years ago. The two gentlemen carrying the footballs
lironko Nagtirski, left, Bear fullback, and Bill Karr, right, Bear end. In the center from top to bot-
■are John Siske, halfback; Bill Hewett, end; left, Bernie Masterson, quarterback; right, Beattie
thers, halfback; left, Jack Manders, fullback; right, George Musso. tackle.
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Richman, night club singer and sportsman flyer, and Dick Merrill, veteran air mail pilot, made
j preparations for the round trip flight they hope to make from New York to London after flying
man’s big Vultee monoplane (top) to New York from California. Richman (lower left) is shown
ling into the big plane (top) some of the 30,000 table tennis balls he hopes would keep the ship afloat
did It drop Into the ocean. The route of the proposed flight is Indicated on the map. (Associated
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HEALD
By Mrs. Geo. K. Keneau
Several from here are attending
the singing school at Liberty. Profv
McCord is In charge.
Mrs. R. W. Bailey and children,
Miss Glynedora. Thomas and Lester
and R. A. Reneau left Wednesday to
attend the Centennial at Dallas
and visit relatives at Port Worth
and Baird.
IVL-s. E. H. Kramer and children,
Miss Marguerette and Bob, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Bailey left Wednesday to
visit relatives near Bridgeport and
Port Worth. They will also attend
the Centennial at Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Rollen Litchfield
left Tuesday for their home in
Wynnewood, Okla., after a Week’s
visit with his father, J. T. Litchfield.
. Grandmother Rogers went to
Plainview Monday afternoon to at-
tend the revival that is in progress,
Rev. W. 6. Shirrell of Groom is in
charge.
Uncle Alfred Haynes of Pampa,
spent most of last week with his sis-
ter, Mrs. Annie Jay in the Paul Ladd
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Odell Holder and
Mr. and Mrs. Sular McKinzey of
Lipan are visiting relatives here this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Clois Hanner spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Stauffer.
Mr. and Mrs. Kester Rippy left
Sunday afternoon to visit relatives
at Electra. They will also visit the
Centennial at Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Tampke and
daughters and Peggy Jean and Bob-
bye Raye Blair, visited in the Josh
Chilton home Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. H. N. Roach visited Mrs.
Nida Green Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Hick spent
the week end at Lela.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mcrtel and son,
Tracy, of McLean and Mr. and Mrs.
Will Stephens of near Shamrock,
visited in the P. L. Ledgerwood home
Sunday.
J. W. Ivey and children. Miss
Johnnie, Joe and Jack, returned to
their home at Quanah after spend-
ing a week in the J. T. Litchfield
home.
Mrs. Nida Rippy was an Amarillo
visitor Monday. She was at the bed
side of little Jane Alice Cryer who
underwent a mastoid operation. She
also visited Mr. Green at the Saint
Anthony hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Reneau went
to White Deer Monday to visit the
lady's parents, returning Tuesday.
The folks of the community re-
paired and painted the Church last
Tuesday. Wednesday and Friday.
Mrs. Nida Green, Mr. and Mrs.
Clois Hanner and Miss Laverne Bail-
ey attended the Gray-Wheeler Union
Meeting at Wheeler Thursday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Litchfield
and son. Charles Wayne, Nolan
Litchfield and Miss Flora May
Stockton from Wynnewood, Okla.,
came Thursday for a few days visit
in the J. T. Litchfield home. They
returned Monday.
Mrs. Paul Ladd returned home
Friday from Dimmitt where she has
been at the bedside of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. H. C. Nelson. Wanda Neil
remained for a longer stay. .
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Litchfield of
McLean spent Wednesday night in
the W. L. Litchfield home.
Mr, and Mrs. Elmo Phillips and
children of Shamrock visited in the
T. F. Phillips home Sunday.
Mr. and -Mrs. Vinson Younger who
has been attending school at Can-
yon visited in the T. F. Phillips
home Sunday.
Mrs. Grace Rippy left Friday to
visit her parents at Tecumseh, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis who have
been visiting in the Rippy home left
Friday for the their home at Ko-
nona, Okla.
Uncle John Haynes and daughter,
Mrs. Frank Bailey and daughter,
Miss Laverne went to Petersburg
Saturday to attend the funeral of
Uncle Mack Carr.
HAMLIN GOT HIS IDEA FOR ‘ALLEY OOP’ WHILE
WORKING IN TEXAS OIL FIELD
Brail To Build Army Planes
RIO DE JANEIRO—President Ge-
tulio Vargas signed a legislative act
providing 800 contos of reis (about
$48,000) with which the Army Avi-
ation School will buy training planes
built in Brazil with Brazilian ma-
terials. Engines may he foreign.
MONEY
TO LOAN ON
USED CARS
Quick Service
Reasonable Rates
•
Cars Refinanced
•
Motor Overhauls
Financed
MILLS *M0T0R
COMPANY
2nd & Madden
Phone 161
Old fossils—not' some people you
have met — but those scientific
finds that reveal the life on this
earth a million years ago, gave V.
T. Hamlin the Idea for a different
kind of comic.
The result is “Alley Oop,” a new
full p’age comic that is guaranteed
to draw at least a smile from mod-
ern old fossils. For his characters
Hamlin practically dug up “Alley
Oop,” the cave man; “Dinny,” his
pet dinosaur, and other cave men
and animals of the same prehis-
toric period. There is even a pretty
cave flapper.
In his setting of ages ago, he
often burlesques humorous modern
situations. Mr. Hamlin has made
a thorough study of the prehistoric
and his sketches of the past are edu-
cational because they are pictorially
correct. However, the main purpose
of his comic is to be comical—to
amuse newspaper readers.
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Mr. Hamlin is from Iowa, where
the corn is supposed to grow as tall
as the dinosaurs of his comic. Born
in 1900 at Perry, la., he began draw-
ing at high school. He enlisted in
the army and went overseas at 17.
“In France, I often drew sketches
for some of the soldiers who sent
them home with their letters,” he
says. “At a hospital there, I met a
newspaper man who suggested I
ought to try to produce a comic
strip.
When I went back to Perry in
1919, I returned to high school for
a short while and then took a course
in journalism at the University of
Missouri.
My first jobs as a reporter were
on the Des Moines Register-Tribune
and the Des Moines News. Later
I left Des Moines for a job as artist
and photograper for the old Fort
Worth Record.”
He Draws Alley Oop
Vincent Hamlin
Texas gave Hamlin his training
for the “Alley Oop” idea. For It was
in the oil fields there that he be-
came interested in the prehistoric
as told by fossils and rock forma-
tions.
“I had transferred to the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram,” he recalls,
"where I drew cartoons and comics
for the sports and other depart-
ments. But in 1927 I left this paper
and began to draw large art lay-
outs, maps and posters for various
oil companies.
“While at this work, I met a geo-
logist who was also a student of
prehistoric life. I became fascinates!
with the geologist’s work and began
to take up the study of this science
cut of books in the library.
“Grom geology, I naturally drift-
ed into paleontology, the study of
life in past ages.”
Mr. Hamlin next became photog-
rapher for the Houston Press and
after leaving the Press, started on
Ills first comic strip. It was a comle
about two girls, but the prehistoric
still intrigued Mr. Hamlin and he
dropped the “girl" Idea.
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In 1929 Mr. Hamlin returned to
the Des Moines Register-Tribune.
“Mrs. Hamlin kept insisting that I
continue experimenting with a com-
ic based on my knowledge of the
past,” he says.
“I fiist put a modern rough fam-
ily into the cave-dwelling days, r
worked on that idea for a year, and.
then destroyed the strips. I tried
another idea, in cave man style, far
another six months and dropped!
that.
"Then I got the idea for ’Alley
Oop’ and ‘Dinny.’ I really can’t re-
call just how I struck upon the1
name ‘Allep Oop,’ althougt It might-
be from the fact that the name Is:
a French term used by tumblers.
" ‘Allep Oop’ is really a rough-
house' tumbler.”
As for "Dinny,” the dinosaur, MV.
Hamlin gets many of his ideas far
this animal’s queet facial expres-
sions from “Betty,” one of his pet
black Russian Muscovy ducks. “Bet-
ty” can “register” almost as many
expressions as a movie actress, he
says.
“Alley Oop” starts in The Texaft
on September 7th.
DROUTH MAY REDUCE
POULTRY1S ADVANCES
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Because of
the drouth, the expected increase in
poultry production may not mater-
ialize, says the College of Agricul-
ture, University of Kentucky.
Prospects of higher priced feeds
are causing increased marketings of! crops.
pullets intended for layers, and hens--o-
also. Eggs have been exceptionally j READ THE WANT ADS'
high-priced for the season, and both
eggs and poultry may bring good
prices through the late summer, fall
and winter, according to present
prospects.
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Wyoming ranchers in several sec-
tions are waging war against prairie
dogs which they say are ravishing
ONE-TWO-THREE
McALLEN, Texas—James Settles”
Interest in 4-H boys’ club work was
considerably enlivened by discovery
that one of the hens he raised was.
a “wonder chicken.” When the hen
was only 116 days old, it laid Its
first egg. A few days later it came-
forth with an egg containing twa
yolks. And to top off her unusual
feats, she laid an egg with threee
yolks a day later..
MYRA NORTH...
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A THRILLING NEW DETECTIVE
STRIP YOU WILL WANT
TO FOLLOW EVERY DAY!
REALISTIC!
ROMANTIC!
EXCITING!
Here are some pre view flashes ol oui
new comic page feature, revealing the
amazing adventures of an attractive blond
nurse, who does some sensational detective
work. It’s a different kind of comic, full
of surprises, romance, excitement, humor
and pathos. Something happens every
day More interesting than many novels,
and it takes only a minute of your time
each day
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Bones, Percy. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 97, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 29, 1936, newspaper, August 29, 1936; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth525986/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.