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'■? IMPORTANT FARM
i MEETINGS CALLED
ill DISCUSS PROGRAM
fcXRMERS IN SOUTH PART OF
COUNTY URGED TO ATTEND
I THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
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juke Tarter, Wheeler county ag-
ricultural agent, urges farmers of
the south part of the county to
attend one of the three meetings
called for Thursday and Friday
when the 11)40 agricultural program
will lie explained. The cotton
IfkarkeUiig quota referendum
^fhlch is to be voted on December
9'will also be discussed.
'jjjjpttrmers of the Heald community
meet at 7:30 o’clock Thursday
ht to hear extension agents de-
lll provisions of the new agricul-
ral program.
meeting will be held at Clark
iditorium at Shamrock at 2:30
(lock Friday afternoon which is
"ticularly important because In
jMdition to explaining the 1940 farm
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pgram and the cotton marketing
quota referendum, the Land Use
Planning committee will also make
Its report.
jjfcast of the series of county meet-
ings will be held at Pakan at 7:30
(Block Friday evening.
•Attendance has been good at the
sessions held the first of the week,
the county agricultural agent said.
A meeting was held at Mobeetie
|onday night and one at Kelton
uesday night. Farmers of the
•lainview community gathered
Wednesday afternoon and those of
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Uie Allison neighborhood are sched-
| Bled to meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
RED CROSS DRIVE
CLOSES THURSDAY
ALL
THE LOCAL
NEWS
PUBLISHED
MONDAY &
THURSDAY
VOL. 30
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER .10, 1939
NO. 59
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PERSONS NOT SOLICITED BY
’ CANVASSERS ARE URGED
TO SEE H. E. FORGY
Although Thursday is the final
flay of the Red Cross membership
flrivc, Mrs. E. K. Caperton, chalr-
pan of the Roll Call committee, said
persons wishing to join the organi-
sation who had not had an oppor-
;!|nnity to do so, could pay their
Membership dues to H. E. Forgy.
reasurer of the local chapter, at the
lcero Smith Lumber company.
Forgy said Wednesday that the
total number of members in Sham-
rock nod rural communities was ”73
i and membership dues totaled $293.25.
I Fifty cents of each membership Is
1 sent to the National organization
I and the remainder of the money is
I retained by the local chapter for re-
J Upf work in this area.
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Mrs. Caperton expressed her ap-
I predation to the workers who con-
| ducted the drive in Shamrock and
| the rural areas and to the public
f for its fine cooperation during the
roll call.
She pointed out that many of the
workers were unable to contact ev-
ery person in their district and urg-
ed those people who wished to join
and who have not been solicited, to
|^y their dues to Mr. Forgy.
Upper photo shows the “regulars”
of the Chillicothe squad which in-
vades Shamrock tomorrow for a
taste of District 3-A football as
played by the Championship Irish-
men of Coach Forrest Kline. Front
row: C. Martin, end: A. Martin,
tackle; O. Davis, guard; Worley,
*ent»»; A. Davis, guard; Clair,
tackle; Dillon, end, Back row. Bud
Davis, half; Johnson, half; Scruggs,
full; Karr, quarter; Hopkins, full;
Morrison, half.
The two co-captains of the dan-
gerous Eagle team are pictured in
the 1-col. picture, Georgs Morrison
and A. Davis.
ROBERTS EXPLAINS
EXECUTIVE OF ADOBE WALES
PRAISES JACK SHULL FOR
LOCAL LEADERSHIP
ARE DUE SATURDAY
CITY MERCHANTS SUBSCRIBE
$60 TO PUT DECORATIONS
IN BUSINESS AREA
Brhe business district of Shamrock
will take on a holiday air Satur-
day night when the colorful Christ
mas lights will be turned on, giving
a festive appearance to the town
and officially opening the holiday
season.
The lights will be put up Friday,
according to Bedford Harrison, sec-
retary-manager of the chamber of
commerce, who said local merchants
Imd contributed the $60 necessary
tP defray expenses for the lighting
effect.
This year a new arrangement will
be worked out for stringing the
lights. They will be placed in zig-zag
! formation down main street, from
i Fourth to First streets, and the two
I blocks of East Second street, from
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MEXICAN PASTOR TO
!■ SPEAK HERE SUNDAY
| A special evening service at the
IPirst Christian church will be glv?n
Sunday night starting at 7:30
O'clock sponsored by the Ladies Mis-
sionary Society. Fidel Reys, pastor
of the Mexican Mission at Amarillo,
Will be the guest speaker, leading
the songs, presenting special vocal
numbers and giving a talk to the
ngregation on his work in the
ixlcan Mission,
Mrs. J. B. Parker will lead the
otlonals and Mrs. B. F. Cain and
Lyle Holmes will present spe-
| music diiring the service. Rev.
iys is an interesting speaker and
had a wide and varied experi-
ln church work among Mexl-
people. Everyone is invited to
d this service and hear Rev.
speak.
“The aim of Scouting Is to give
a boy the fun he wants and to get
out of him what you want,” Fred
M. Roberts of Pampa, Boy Scout
executive of the Adobe Walls area,
told members of the Shamrock
Boosters club at their weekly lunch-
eon Wednesday. He said the build-
ing of character and good citizen-
ship are its objectives.
Roberts praised Scoutmaster Jack
Shull for the manner in which he
has carried on Scout work in Sham-
rock, for a long time almost single-^
handed, and expressed pleasure at
the way local business men have
gotten behind the program lately,
Roberts and Shull were the guests
of Sol Blonstein, chairman of the
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Eagles Shove Turkeys
Out Of Picture As Far
As Shamrock Concerned
Gridiron fans from a dozen nearby towns and cities
will move to Shamrock tomorrow to witness the Class “A”
Turkey Day clash between the Shamrock Irishmen and the
Chillicothe Eagles which although lacking official status as
far as any regional pennant is concerned, givesrpromise of
being one of the most bitterly fought games yejt played on
Denver Field.
Far from being the practice game that soifoe fans be-
lieved when it was booked, the Thanksgiving day card
stands out as an important test of the relative strength of
two of the Panhandle’s fastest moving Class “A” gridiron
districts. Schools in neither of the districts will have cause
to feel ashamed of the brand of ball exhibited by. its repre-
sentatives as pre-game announcements state both squads
are in fine fettle and rarin’ for action.
The game will start at 3 o’clock
71 LOCAL FARMERS
TO GET WPA JODS
NAMES WILL BE SELECTED
FROM 297 QUALIFYING
IN COUNTY YEAR AGO
Seventy-one Wheeler county farm-
ers will receive WPA jobs; in the
emergency drouth relief program
recently authorized for 26 Panhan-
dle counties, A. A. Meredith, dis-
trict WPA administrator, has an-
nounced. Names of these men will
be selected from the 297 county
tarmers who were certified last year
and there Is no need for others to
make application as there is no
agency for handling certification.
The men will be chosen on a basis
of need as reflected In their appli-
cation made last year and there Is
no need for them to contact county
commissioners or other officials to
secure employment. County officials
have unsuccessfully tried to make
it possible for all needy farmers,
whether they were certified last year
or not, to qualify for the work but
WPA officials were unable to change
the ruling.
The work will start up within the
and the admission charge for adults
is only 50 cents, including reserved
Seat, -■
Chillicothe's Eagles are runners-
up in their district, having been de-
feated by one touchdown in lt3
only loss of the season, while the
Irishmen, winners of District 3 suf-
fered two defeats but both of them
were at the hands of strong Class
AA clubs.
True, the contest will have no ef-
fect on the conference standing of
either team, but both clubs will be
fighting to add another victim to
their long list of defeated opponents
and nothing would please the Eagles
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LOCKNEY GAME SEATS
ARE PLACED ON SALE
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IMPORTANT MEET
LEGION TUESDAY
GOVERNOR HOPEFUL
SAYING WPA JOBS,
LEGISLATOR SAYS
REPRESENTATIVE WORLEY IS
BACK FROM CONFERENCE
ON SPECIAL SESSION
State Representative Eugene Wor-
ley returned this week from Austin
where Governor W. Lee O’Daniel
assured him he was doing every-
thing possible to prevent the threat-
ened loss of jobs by state WPA
workmen due to lack of state facili-
ties to handle necessary clerical
work in certifying the laborers.
Worley said the governor told him
he had conferred with H. P. Drouth
of San Antonio, state WPA ad-
ministrator, and that Drouth had
agreed to use the old files in certi-
fying WPA applicants.
The Shamrock legislator submit-
ted the following statement to The
Texan regarding the WPA threat-
ened crisis as well as outlining his
views on the proposed temporary
impeachment of the governor:
“I had a conference with Gover-
nor W. Lee O'Daniel in Austin Fri-
day, November 24, urging executive
action be taken In providing for fa-
cilities to care for certification of
WPA employees. He assured me ev-
erything possible was being done to
care for the situation. He stated
that State WPA Administrator, H.
P. Drought of San Antonio, had
agreed to use the old files in certi-
fying WPA applicants,
“In other words, if a man had
been on WPA In past years and
wanted back on, he would be eligi-
ble. He did hot disclose what could
be done toward certifying workers
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PASTORS EXTEND
CHURCH WELCOME
SERMON TOPICS ANNOUNCED
BY PASTORS OF LOCAL
CONGREGATIONS
AUXILIARY MEMBERS ALSO
URGED BE PRESENT AT
CHAS. DeSIIAZO HUT
CHILDRESS MAN HURT '
WHEN CAR OVERTURNS
Earl Green of Childress, escaped
with a fractured shoulder when his
car overturned a few miles north of
Wellington on Highway 83 Sunday
night as he was returning home
from Shamrock. He was taken to
a Wellington hospital, and was re-
moved to Childress Monday. Green'
said his car overturned when he
suddenly swerved to avoid hitting a
car in front of his which had no
tail light. His car was badly dam-
aged.
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35 DEGREES IS LOW
FOR PRESENT SPELL
It was certainly a surprise to find
out that It hasn’t been very cold
this week. The Lone Star Gas com-
pany’s local weather observer re-
ported 35 degrees at 8 a. m. Monday
was the minimum for the first
three days of the week. High for
Monday was 44 degrees at 3 p. m.
Tuesday the maximum was 44 de-
grees at I p. m. and low was
40 degrees at 6 a. m. This morning
at 7 o'clock it was 40 degrees and
the mercury rose to 45 degrees at
1 p, m.
Ticket sales for the Shamrock-
Lockney bl-district contest started
with a bang Tuesday afternoon as
eager Irish fans gobbled up the
greater potion of the 300 reserved
seat ducats placed on sale at the
Killamey Drug,
All the bleachers on both sides of
the stands are reserved for the con-
test and tickets for these seats in-
cluding general admission are $100.
Adult general admission Is 75c and
student general admission tickets
are 25c each.
There will be an important meet-
ing of the American Legion and
Auxiliary Tuesday night, December
5, at the Hut starting at 7:30 o'clock.
Several things of vital Importance
to the Legion will be passed upon
at this meeting.
Following the meeting there will
be a short business session of the
"Last Squad.” Members of the “Last
Squad” are urged to pay their dues
to Bob Roach or Flake George as
December 31 Is the deadline for pay-
ment.
A covered dish dinner will be serv-
ed at the beginning of the evening
and every Legion and Auxiliary
member is urged to be present. Mr
and Mvs. Cecil Reavis will be host
and hostess for the affair.
The joint meetings of the Legion
and Auxiliary are beneficial to both
organizations and every member Is
missing a lot by their failure to at-
tend.
"Attend Sunday school and church
Sunday” is the plea of local pastors
who cordially invite everyone to join
in worship services this Sabbath
Day.
First Baptist Church
Sunday school begins at the First
Baptist church at 9:45 a. m.
Morning worship opens at 11 o'clock
when Rev. Vernle Pipes will speak
on “A Good Steward.”
Baptist Training Union for young
people opens at 6:30 p, m. and the
eventng service at 7:30 p. m. The
sermon subject for the evening hour
is “How Israel Lost Her Song.” At
the close of the sermon a New
Testament Baptism will be observed.
Church of Christ
H. P. Cooper,' minister of the
Church of Christ, will give the third
in a series of sermons on the identi-
ty of the church in his morning ad-
dress at 11 o'clock Sunday. “The
Identity of the Church: Scriptural
Worship" will be the subject. Sun-
day school will open at 9:45 a. m.
Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock,
328 More Farm Checks
Boost County Payments
To More Than $138,000
Receipt of 328 additional checks this week at the office
of Jake Tarter, county agricultural agent, brought the total
1939 Soil Conservation payments in Wheeler county up to
$138,184.77.
One hundred and ninety-nine checks totalling $27,000
were received at Tarter’s office Monday and 50 checks for
$9,160 were received Wednesday.
A total of 647 farmers have received checks to date out
of a total of 2,100 to whom payments are due for partici-
pating in the soil conservation program.
The other checks are expected
BUY EARLY, MAIL
EARLY, SHOPPERS
HERE ARE URGED
POSTAL REGULATIONS MUST
BE OBSERVED TO INSURE
RECEIPT OF GIFTS
'Do your Christmas shopping ear-
ly” is the plea of local merchants
and “Do your Christmas shopping
and mailing early” Is the plea of
Postmaster Flake George.
Packages must not be wrapped In
Christmas paper, George said. Use
plain brown wrapping paper, tie se-
curely and plainly, and be sure and
address each bundle, he advised.
Only one address and return post-
office is necessary on each pack-
age. George urged each sender not
to put Christmas seals or stickers
on the outside of the packages.
On packages containing fragile or
breakable articles, notify the postal
clerk of the contents so each box
can be stamped “Fragile.” People
sending such articles through the
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MEETING TUESDAY
momentarily and County Agent
Tarter explained that notices are
mailed farmers as soon as their
checks reach his office. He asks that
farmers not come to his office In-
quiring for checks unless they have
received a notice from his office
that their checks are there.
THANKSGIVING HE
OBSERVED TONIGHT
AT UNION SERVICES
J. F. MATHEWS WILL PREACH
SERMON AND OTHER CITY
PASTORS TO ASSIST
JEFF MANKINS IS SPEAKER
AT NORTH FORK BAPTIST
SESSION AT LEFORS
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STAFF IS THANKFUL
In order that employees might
have at least one thing to be
thankful for. The Shamrock Tex-
an reaches you a day early this
week. Realizing full well that with
an Irish football game coming up
Thursday employees would not
work anyway, the management de-
cided to make the loafing legal
and declared Thursday a holiday.
If the news coverage is a little
weak, excuse us, please.
Good Old America Gives Thanks
AN EDITORIAL
Doubt fills the hearts of millions
of men and women this week. In
hundreds of thousands of homes be-
wildered Americans making plans
for the dear familiar feast of
Thanksgiving are asking themselves:
"Why? Why Thanksgiving?” As hu-
man beings we would be callous to
give thanks merely because we have
been spared Europe's sufferings.
That would not be Thanksgiving but
smugness and complacency.
The spirit of Thanksgiving, the
consecration of the holiday itself Is
one of obligation. Thanksgiving
calls upon us to share, It teaches us
on this day that no one should go
hungry. There are many things we
cannot share at this moment with
our fellow human beings across the
ocean. We cannot share our abun-
dance or our security and serene
and happy homes. These are beyond
our power to give.
We love peace. We love democra-
cy. We believe the little man has
a right to speak and be heard. Our
sense of justice is as yet and for-
ever, we hope, unclouded by pas-
sions, We are strangely Imbued with
the belief that every man deserves
well at the hands of every other
man—a belief which seems to be
sadly out of date In much of the
world.
The time will come when the calm
counsel of America will be desper-
ately needed to bring not only a just
peace but a merciful peace so that
the world may again and for all
time turn Its back on war.
And so. at this time, on Thanks-
giving, it is not enough that we give
thanks to the benevolent Providence
that has spared us. In our hearts
we pray that we may be permitted
to hold fast to all those fruits of
two thousand years of civilized en-
deavor: Peace, Democracy, Justice
for all men and all nations.
The monthly Brotherhood meet
ing of th» North Fork Baptist Asso-
ciation was held Tuesday night In
Lefors with a group of Shamrock
men attending.
Jeff Mankins of Shamrock spoke
to the group on “Loyalty to the
Brotherhood" in keeping with the
theme of the meeting which was
"Loyalty to Christ," W. O. Puett,
president of the Brotherhood Asso-
ciation, presided.
Those attending from Shamrock
were W. O. Puett, Barney Varnell
Herschel Nelson. Max Pipes. Russell
Dean, Hoyt Welch. Jeff Mankins
and Rev. Vernle Pipes,
There were 88 men In the Asso-
ciation 1 r o m approximately 30
churches present.
The December meeting of the As-
sociation will be held at Dinsworth
THREE CITY FIRMS
WILL STAGE SALES
THRIFTY CITY SHOPPERS TO
HAVE ADDED REASON FOR
OFFERING THANKS
Thrifty shoppers of the Shamrock
trade territory will have added rea-
son for feeling thankful this No-
vember Turkey Day.
In today's Texan they will find
advertisements by three local stores
Of large pre-Christmas selling events,,
each of them starting Friday morn-
ing.
In a two-page advertisement, the
B & L department store announces
a Clearance sale extending into
every department. It lists drastic
reductions in clothing, shoes, ac-
cessories, and dry goods.
Hunter’s department store lists
several of the numerous Items in-
cluded in its pre-Christmas mark-
down in a page advertisement today
inviting shoppers to take advantage
of the savings.
In a half-page advertisement the
Ladles Store lists special clearance
prices it has set on dresses, costume
suits and hats.
DISTRICT COURT IS
ON TWO-DAY RECESS
^District Judge W. R. Ewing ad-
journed court at Wheeler Tuesday
for a two-day Thanksgiving recess
after the case of H. C. Wright of
Lipscomb county, charged with re-
ceiving stolen property, went to the
jury at about 3:30 o’clock. The case
of Wright, charged with receiving
stolen cattle, was transferred here
from Lipscomb county.
The trial of Leroy Saunders,
Shamrock negro, charged with mur-
der, has been set for Friday. Saun-
ders Is charged with killing another
negro in a knife fight at Shamrock.
"They Dedicated the Walls With
Thanksgiving,” will be the sermon
address of Rev. J. F. Mathews of the
First Christian church tonight at
the First Baptist church when all
denominations of the city gather for
a union Thanksgiving service.
The service will open at 7:30
o'clock and the public Is cordially
Invited to Join in the worship serv-
ice. Pastors of the city will take
part. Rev. Vernle Pipes reading the
scripture, Rev. Lance Webb presid-
ing and Rev. Williams of the As-
sembly of God church and Rev. Non
Price of the Missionary Baptist
church offering the Invocation and
giving the benediction.
The community chorus under the
direction of Glenn Truax wiil sing
a special Thanksgiving anthem.
Offering taken during the service
will be sent to the American Com-
mittee to aid war refugees.
RITES TODAY FOR
JUDGE TEMPLETON
FORMER COUNTY JUDGE OF
WELLINGTON RELATED TO
THREE CITY PEOPLE
Judge R. H. Templeton of Well-
ington, prominent resident of this
area and well known throughout the
Panhandle, passed away early Tues-
day morning following a two months
Illness. He was an uncle of J. R.
Benson. Henry Benson and Mrs.
John Walker of this city.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock this afternoon at the Metho-
dist church in Wellington with hun-
dreds of friends gathering to pay
tribute to the memory of the well-
known Wellington resident.
Judge Templeton was born in
Lincoln County. Tenn. and had lived
in Wellington since 1904. He was a
past county judge of Collingsworth
and prominent attorney during hts
residence in Wellington.
Surviving are his wife and six
children. Robert, John and Pat
Templeton of Wellington, R. L.
Templeton, student at the Universi-
ty of Texas, Mrs. Joe Minter of
Plckton and Mrs. Lyle Scott of Dal-
las, l
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Benson. Mr.
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$104 IS SUBSCRIBED
TO COMMUNITY CENTER
The total amount of money do-
nated by local people toward the
upkeep o fthe Community Center
project was $104.46. according to
Miss Mary Elizabeth Pendleton, sec-
retary-treasurer of the committee
in charge of the organization.
This money will be paid out un-
der a monthly budget plan, one-
twelfth of the total amount raised
being used each month, and Miss
Pendleton said the first check had
been given to Mrs, Matt Clay who
is In charge of the1 project.
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NEW BRIDGE IS OPEN
The new' concrete bridge spanning
Salt Fork river on U. S. Highway 83
between Shamrock and Wellington
was opened to traffic Tuesday, A
temporary wooden structure which
was frequently washed out during
rainy weather had been In use the
past several months during con-
struction of the concrete bridge.
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CONDUCTS FUNERAL
Rev. Vernle Pipes, pastor of the
First Baptist church, was called to
Balko. Okia., near Perryton, today
to conduct funeral services for a
friend who was a former member of
Rev. Pipes' church to Tucson, Ariz
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