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TEXAN
VOL. 47
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1950
No. 14.
NORWOOD SCHOOL South Ward School To
TO BEGIN 1950-51 „ !? n™U 3U1001 10
Be Placed In Operation
TERM AUGUST 7
W. L. AYRES
BAPTIST REVIVAL
TO BEGIN SUNDAY
A'revival meeting will begin Sun-
day, August 6, at the First Baptist
Church of Shamrock,-*#hd continue
through Sunday, August 13, Rev.
Edward C. Derr, pastor, announced
this week.
Rev. Rudolph Q. Harvey, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Mart,
will do the preaching. Music will
be under the direction of W. L.
Ayerer, local music director.
Rev. Harvey was for several years
pastor of the Central Baptist Church
of Pampa, and many local people are
acquainted with him and his splen-
did manner of sermon delivery.
^Services will be held twice daily,
at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The public is cordially invited to
The 1950-51 school term will open
at Samnorwood on Monday, August
7. As has been the custom the past
several years, the large consolidated
school is opening early so that stu-
dents may be turned out later to
help harvest the bumper cotton crop
that Is expected.
An enrollment of about 370 Is ex-
pected. Supt. Orville Cunningham
wishes to encourage all parents to
send their children to school as the
number of teachers the school will
be allowed to hire ‘s based on the
attendance records.
The school building has been given
an extensive reworking inside. Desks
and some floors have been sanded
and several of the rooms have been
redecorated.
Busses will run early enough to
allow the school to open at 8:30 a.m.
A short program will be presented
at 10 o'clock on the opening morning
to Introduce teachers and outline
the program for the coming year.
Patrons are invited to this program.
Officials of the Samnorwood school
are as follows:
Orville Cunningham, superintend-
ent; Willard Ethridge, high school
principal; Winston Connor, grade
school principal; Purl Tipple, coach.
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The South Ward School building,
unused the past 10 years, will be
re-opened for the 1950-51 term.
Members of the board of trustees,
at their regular meeting Tuesday
night, voted unanimously to put
the facilities of that branch of the
school system back into operation.
Work was started immediately
on repairing and redecorating the
brick building which is located in
the 500 block of South Wall Street.
The one-story building has been
re-roofed and woodwork and walls
are being painted.
Supt. Elmer J. Moore stated this
week that final plans for the grades
have not been made. Tentative plans
call for the teaching of one section
each of the first, second and third
grades and
South Ward
Ward, Supt. Moore said.
The boundary line determining the
division between the North and
South Ward schools has not been
set. This Information and announce-
ment of the teaching personnel will
be made at a later date.
The trustees decided to re-open
the school after several weeks of
consideration, basing their decision
largely on the result of a public
meeting at which many residents
pointed out the need.
With the recent consolidation of
Shamrock with the Twitty and Magic
City Districts, the board feels sure
of retaining a substantial number of
scholastics with a possibility of an
Increase.
Although the system does not show
IRISH BAND WINS
THIRD PUCE AT
DALHART FESTIVAL
The Shamrock Irish Band won
third place prize of $35 for its per-
formance at the XIT Reunion at three or four times.
Nine persons were injured, at least one of them critical-
ly, in a traffic accident one mile west of Lela on U.S. Highway
66, at 11 o’clock this morning. All the victims were brought
to Shamrock General Hospital, and local doctors were still
rendering treatment at 1:30 p.m.‘
Injured are:
Mr. and Mrs. Preston R. Boothe, Spur;
Mrs. J. J. Randall (sister of Mrs. Boothe) Spur;
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Anderson, Portales, N. M.;
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Anderson, Portales, N. M.;
Mrs. Mary Gray, Hagerman, N. M.;
Helen Jean Gray (granddaughter of Mrs. Gray) Hag-
erman, N. M.
The accident occurred when the 1949 Chevrolet pick-up
in which the persons were riding overturned and rolled over
1
kindergarten in the j a marked increase In scholastics at
There will be two sec- j the present time, a larger number
Dalhart this week.
First place prize of $100 was award-
ed to a band from Tucumcari, New
Mexico and second place with $65
went to the high school band from
Phillips.
Ray Showalter local band director,
states that the parade lasted well
over an hour, and was composed of
about 10 bands, floats, and several
groups of horsemen. One of these
was composed of Dalhart business
men who rode In saddles bearing the i
XIT brand.
Prizes were awarded to the bands i
i the basis of their apeparanctf1
The pick-up was being driven east by R. D. Armstrong, a
62-year-old Portales farmer, who told State Highway Patrol-
men from McLean that he believed his brakes caught while
he was attempting to pass another car. The car which he
was attempting to pass was driven by John Ratliff.
The traffic victims were en route to Oklahoma to attend
a family reunion. Physicians were unable to report the ex-
tent of the injuries to the press at 1:30 p.m.
tions each of the first, second, third, | of teachers will be allowed under the
fourth and fifth grades at North | Gilmer-Aikin law.
attend these revival services.
Last Month Goes
Down As Wettest
duly In History
During the month of July, Sham-
( rock was drenched with 8.70 Inches
of rain, bringing the total for the
year to 18.94 inches, according to
rV Roe Davidson of the Traders Com-
ijress.
, ? The past July was the wettest one
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4-COUNTY DRAFT
BOARD CALLS 60
MEN FOR AUGUST
Sixty men from Wheeler, Gray,
Roberts and Donley Counties will be
ordered to Amarillo for physical ex-
amination in August, draft board
officials at the Pampa District Of-
fice announced the first of the week.
The first group of 24 will report
on August 9, and the second group
of 36 will be examined on August
16. the draft .board said. The num-
ber of men was stepped up from 24
to 60 following recent announcement
from Washington, D. C„ that 100,000
men will be drafted by September,
instead of 20,000.
The chief clerk of the local board
said that men who are now delin-
guent with the board will be subject
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|anyfin the history of the city’s moisture
l^irecording. The only year in which
fght rthe precipitation for July even came
ffr^S'close to matching that of this July
|ars:; was 1944 when 8.44 inches fell.
‘ l Rain fell 15 of the 31 days in July,
iiree-tenths of an inch fell on the
fjeond, 1.23 on the fourth, .35 on the
„ Mth, .39 on the seventh, 1.58 inches
nes l>n the eighth, .62 on the 13th, .51 on
the 19th, 1.16 inches on the 20th, 1.29
[ncMes on the 21st, .02 of an inch on
[hi',22nd, .14 of an inch on the 25th,
|2 of an inch on the 26th, .04 of an
jich on the 27th, .03 on the 29th, and
.92 of an inch on the 31st.
Although the rainfall for the
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HEREFORD MAN
BUYS INTEREST
STATION KEVA
V arm
RITES HELD FOR
DROWNING VICTIM
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The 10-year-old grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. Omie Caress, of Shamrock,
drowned in Lake McClellan about
7 o’clock Saturday night.
The boy, Jackie Sparlln, his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Sparlln, an
plder brother, Glenn, and a friend,
C. O, Goodwin, were fishing off the
spillway bridge at the lake when the
accident occurred. Jackie attempted
to cast the home-made reel he was
Rasing, and in doing so, fell Into the
T/ater.
Other members of the party were
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EjUMBER CO. INSTALLS
FIRST GLASS HOUSE
The Installation of a complete
glass house Is announced In an ad-
vertisement elsewhere In this issue
of The Texan by the Shamrock
dumber Company.
James Brothers, manager, said that
the new service will offer cutting and
grinding of plate glass, automobile
safety glass and mirrors.
I. A. Brooks, Jr., will be in charge
of all glass work.
Announcement has been made that
Hal Blymlller of Hereford, Texas,
has purchased an Interest In Radio
Station KEVA and will move to
Shamrock to assume management
of the station on August 16.
The new partner-manager has
been a friend of Albert Cooper,
KEVA owner, for several years, and
sale of an interest in the station to
Mr. Blymlller has been pending for
several months, Cooper said.
The new general manager of
KEVA is now manager of Station
KPAN at Hereford ... one of the
most successful small-town stations
In the Southwest. Mr. Blymlller put
in the station at Hereford two and
one-half years ago . . . and was em-
ployed at Clovis, New Mexico, before
before going to Hereford. He is a
middle-aged man and has had many
years experience in radio. He and
his wife resided in Wheeler and Coll-
ingsworth counties several years ago
County-Wide X-Ray Survey
Slated For September 8-16
The annual mass chest X-ray sur-
vey, chief weapon in the unending
fight against tuberculosis, has been
set for the period September 8-16 in
Wheeler County, W. R. Ritter, county
sanitarian, announced this week
C. H. Hoover, Field Representative,
State Department of Public Health,
TB Division, was in Shamrock Tues-
day to work out preliminary plans for
the survey with Mr. Ritter.
The Wheeler County schedule fol-
lows: Wheeler, September 8 and 9,
high school gymnasium; Mobeetie,
September 11 and 12, legion hut;
Shamrock, September 14, 15 and 16,
Community Building.
The X-ray unit will be in operation
from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on each of
the scheduled dates with no break
during the noon hour.
Arrangements for the X-ray serv-
and playing and marching ability, j
Prizes also went to the builders of
the best constructed and most com-
ical floats and to the best dressed
cowboy and cowgirl. V. D. Arm-
strong, superintendent of public
schools at Dalhart, served as parade
marshal.
Twenty-five members of the Irish
Band made the trip.
Tuesday night, the band will put
on a concert at the Shamrock Mu-
nicipal Swimming Pool. There will
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City's Second Dollar
Day Set For August 7
Ice at Wheeler is under the chair-
manship of W. O. Carrick in cooper- j
ation with the Wheeler Chamber of j
Commerce. Jim Hathaway will
spearhead the drive In Mobeetie with
the assistance of the Mobeetie Liohs
Club. W. R. Ritter will serve as
general chairman.
Purpose of the survey Is to dis-
cover unknown oases of TB In the
early stages. While TB is the No. I
disease killer In the United States,
the chances of cure are great if dis-
covered soon enough and the prin-
cipal way to do this Is through mass
chest X-ray surveys.
Last year, 3,742 Wheeler Countians,
PLAY-OFF SERIES
IN LOCAL LEAGUE
TO BEGIN SUNDAY
The Shamrock Green Sox will
clash with Mobeetie and Wheeler will
meet Briscoe Sunday In the first of
a series of play-off games to decide
the championship of the Tri-County
League.
The games will be played at Mo-
beetie and Wheeler, starting at 3 p.m. I
The following Sunday, August 13, |
Lower prices, more sale items and more sales personnel
bo serve the crowds will keynote Shamrock’s second Silver
Dollar Day, Monday, August 7. The 55 sponsoring firms
.ave been stocking up oh quality merchandise at quantity
prices ever since July 3, when the first Silver Dollar Day drew
i sell-out crowd to Shamrock.
“We’re determined that there’ll be plenty of sale items
to go around at real bargain prices and that there’ll be a
sufficient number of clerks on hand to serve the crowds this
time,” Gerald Geyer, chairman of the Retail Merchants
Committee of the Shamrock Chamber of Commerce, which
mginated Silver Dollar Days, said today.
Designed to compete with trade days in Amarillo, Pam-
and other area towns, as well as meet competition of mail
>rder houses, Shamrock’s Silver Dollar Days are planned
yeeks ahead so that merchants can take advantage of favor-
ible buying opportunities and pass the savings along to their
:ustomers.
This issue of The Texan lists 811-
Mobeetie will play the Sox here and j
or 43.1 per cent of the eligible popu- wiu journey to Brlscoe. B |
lation was X-rayed. Sixty-three
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REV. J. R. GAMBRELL
REVIYAL SLATED
AT LONE MOUND
Rev. J. R. Gambrell of Hartley,
will preach at a revival meeting of
the one Mound paptist Church, Rev.
Carl Lamb, pastor announced this
week.
The evangelistic services will start
Wednesday, August 9, and continue
through Sunday, August 20. Serv-
ices will be conducted twice each day,
10:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., the pastor
declared.
Rev. Gambrell is pastor of the
Hartley Baptist Church. He preached
for a revival at the Lone Mound Bap-
tist Church In the past and residents
of that community feel fortunate
in again securing hs services.
Rev. Lamb will be In charge of
Work Started On
Puckett's Food
Store Building
The ground was broken this week
in preparation for the construction
of a 51 x 140-foot brick veneer build-
ing which will house the Puckett
Food Store of Shamrock.
The building Is to be constructed
on the 300 block of North Main
Street and will occupy a space which
has been used in recent years as a
parking lot through the courtesy of
the Puckett’s Food Stores and the
Chamber of Commerce.
Blaine Puckett, co-owner of the
Puckett Stores, said the building
would be constructed of expanded
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a third game Is necessary to decide J
the victor in the two-out-of-three
series, that contest will be played
I on the diamond of the team holding j
the highest position in the league, i
After the four top teams complete
their play-off, the two remaining
clubs will meet In three series con-
test.
The Green Sox remained In the
number four spot in the league with
at 14-1 win over Canadian last Sun-
day in a game played here. Hendrick
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L , . the song services, and a booster band
There have bee" several changes i wii] participate in the meeting. A
in personnel at KEVA since tne j 3Q.mlnute prayer meeting will be
change in ownership and manage-, a(. 7:30 0'ci0c.jCi preceding each
evening service.
ment was contemplated. Three form-
er KEVA employees have resigned.
They are: Mrs. Pauline Corbin, Bob
Waters and Ray Boyd Kllman . . .
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DOZIER METHODISTS
SCHEDULE REVIVAL
A revival meeting will begin Sun-
day night at the Dozier Methodist
Church and continue for a week or
possibly longer, Rev. L. D. Cleveland,
pastor, announced this morning.
Rev. W. B. Hicks, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of McLean,
will deliver sermons twice daily, at
10:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Rev. Cleveland stated that he ex-
pected the services to start on time
and extended a cordial invitation
to the public to attend.
The public Is cordially invited to
attend.
D. O. BEENE TO HEAD
COUNTY REPUBLICANS
D. O. Beene of Wheeler was elected
Wheeler County Chairman of the
Republican Party at a meeting held
in the courthouse Saturday after-
noon. He succeeds H. R. Anderson
of Shamrock.
B. Irons was named delegate to
the district convention which will
be held in Amarillo, Saturday, Aug-
ust 5. Miss Ruthelle, Amarillo, Dis-
trict Chairman of the Republican
Party, was named delegate to the
state convention which will convene
In Galveston, August 26.
CLOTHING STORE
TO OPEN FRIDAY
Friday marks the opening of Smith
Clothing Company at 113% N. Main
Street In Shamrock. Featuring style
and quality wearing apparel for men
and women, the store will be under
the management of Mr. and Mrs.
Terry F. Smith and Mr. and Mrs.
Winston Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Smith have
been In the clothing business In
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GUY HILL UNDERGOES
iver Dollar Day items and prices.
[Readers are urged to go over the
■ advertisements carefully and note
’ the actual money savings that fam
' be made by shopping In Shamrock,
Monday, August 7.
Repeating the Invitation extend-
ed area residents to shop in Sham-
, rock on the first Silver Dollar Day,
a spokesman for the Retail Mer-
; chants Committee said: “Our plans
I are even more complete for the Sec-
| ond Silver Dollar Day and we know
'that you'll be glad you came when
: you note the low, low prices on value
; merchandise. We want you to shop
in Shamrock Monday, August 7,
and have taken definite steps in the
j form of price concessions to attract
i you here. We want you to feel that
Shamrock is your buying headguar-
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FATHER OF CITY
RESIDENT DIES
George Edward Castleberry, father
of Herbert Castleberry of Shamrock,
died suddenly Sunday morning at
his home In Shamrock. The 73-year-
old Gray County farmer-stockman, pears ago.
was stricken about 8 o clock.
Funeral services wore held in Alan-
rced Baptist Church at 4:30 o’clock
Monday afternoon with Rev. C. T.
Greenwood, former pastor, officiat-
ing. Mr, Greenwood worked for Mr.
Castleberry on his ranch 40 years ago.
Pall bearers were Roy Sherrod, Roy
McCracken, Hartley Davis, James
Hill, Wilson Blake and Jenkins
Shaw.
Interment was in Alanreed Ceme-
tery under the direction of Clabom
Funeral Home if McLean.
Mr. Castleberry was born May 26,
1877, and was married August l,
1893, at Reno, in Wise County. He
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LORAN L. SEE, long-time resident ;
of Wheeler County, is one of the run-
off candidates in the race for Com-
missioner of Precinct 4. Mr. See
stated in his original announcement
to the people of the precinct that he
felt the experience gained while work-
ing for past commissioners would be
beneficial to' him in carrying on the
duties of the important office. Mr.
See rcides in Shamrock. He formerly
farmed in the Twitty Community
4 IRISH MENTORS
ATTENDING SCHOOL
Shamrock’s four coaches, Scott
McCall, Clarence Morris, II. W. Cal-
lan and Bobby Hill, are attending the
Texas Coaches Association's Annual
Coaching School in Austin.
The Texas school, the largest in
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and later made his home in Twitty wor](j with an enrollment of more
before moving to this city several; than 1 500 this year, opened Monday
and will continue though this week.
I Soon after their return to Sham-
FIRE DESTROYS
JACK COOK HOME
FHROAT OPERATION
Guy Hill, secretary-manager of the
Shamrock Chamber of Commerce, Is
recuperating from a throat opera-
tion at the Veterans Hospital In Mc-
Kinney.
Mr. Hill has written friends that
he will undergo lung surgery Friday
of this week.
The operation on his throat was
to remove two growths on his vocal
cords.
The Shamrock Chamber of Com-
merce manager hopes to be out of
the hospital and back home by the
last of August if everything goes well
with his second operation.
Friends of Mr. Hill may write
him in care of the Veterans Hos-
pital, McKinney, Texas.
The official finding of an inquest
conducted by Justice of the Peace
J. H. Templeton was that the death
of Oscar Holden, 56-year-old Sham-
rock resident, on July 24, was due
to heart attack.
Mr. Holden was found dead in his
room in the Mission Hotel and the
Inquest conducted by Judge Temple-
ton was routine in such cases. It was
stated in last week’s issue of The
Texan that Mr. Holden had com-
plained of an upset stomach a few
days before his death, and that his
fatal Illness could have been caused
by food poisoning. The Texan pub-
lishes the finding of the official in-
quest in fairness to any food estab-
lishments where Mr. Holden may
have eaten before his UBmss.
Jack Cook, his wife, and two small
daughters, Linda Lee, 3, and Shirley
Ann, 2, were left homeless early
Monday morning when their four-
room farm home caught fire and
burned to the ground.
The frame house, located on the
David Dunklin place four miles north
and % mile west of Midway, became
ignited about 7 a.m. when a kerosene
stove exploded. The house burned
to the ground in about 30 minutes.
All the families belongings were
destroyed.
Cook, who has no car or telephone,
was unable to summon help until the
fire was well underway. He burned
his face and chest In a futile at-
tempt to extinguish the flames.
Cook Is employed by Harold Wil-
liams who has the Dunklin farm
rented. Cook moved there In April
after serving five years In the Navy.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ervin of La-
vaca, Arkansas, were visiting In the
Cook home when the accident oc-
curred.
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Recent guests in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. T. C. Milam were: Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Milam of Cecil, Ark.; Mr.
and Mrs. Sidney Elder of Heavener,
Okla,; Mr. and Mrs. Charles McKen-
zie, Seminole, Okla.; and Mrs. George
Brooks of Fort Smith, Arkansas.
rock, the coaches will begin training
the Irish grtdmen for the 1950 sea-
son. Training opens Tuesday, Aug-
ust 16.
The Irishmen will have a five
home-game schedule which will bo
announced i.i the near future.
Season tickets will be placed on
sale at the office of the school sec-
retary in the City Hall at 5 o’clock
Tuesday, August 15. In order to bet-
ter accommodate fans who expect
to see all, or nearly all, the games,
season tickets will be sold this year
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ELDERS TO SPEAK
AUGUST 6 and 13
George Weems and Jack Dekle,
elders of the First Christian Church,
will fill the pulpit of that church the
next two Sunday mornings in the
absence of a pastor.
Mr. Weems will speak at 11 o’clock
Sunday morning. The
day evening service will not
but the young people will
usual at 7 p.m.
Rev. Roy Tomlinson, pastor
First Christian Church
two years, left Monday
berg, where he will serve as
the Central Christian
Rev. Tracey Hopper
Christ!, will assume
pastor of tile local
Augtlrt 20.
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