The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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IAMROCK UTILITY
METERS QHOW ONLY
SLIGHT DECREASE
HIBTY-FIVE UNITS PROVE
TO BE GREATEST LOSS AS
COMPARED TO I,AST YEAR
In spite of the fact that a great
any Shamrock men are in mill-
ry service, meter recoris of the
ocal utility companies show that
comparatively few families have
Jjfft town when one condders the
amount of defense work available
over the area.
Claud Holley, manager of the
chamber of commence, checked
meter records this week and found
foat in comparison with last year’s
figures the water company has
lost only eight meters, the West
Texas Utilities company 25 meters
and the Shamrock Gas Comapny,
55 meters. Hpiwever with 1.015
iketers in January of this year,
there is a loss of 65 gas meters
this year.
In May of 1941 the West Texas
Utilities company had 705 residen-
ts meters and 237 commercial met-
ers. In January of 1942 there were
696 residential and 223 commercial
meters while in May of this year
there were 689 residential and 228
commerical meters.
/Whe Shamrock Gas company had
9th meters in June of 1941; 1,015
meters in January of this year and
950 meters this month.
There were 880 water meters in
June of 1941 while in January of
t^s year there were 879. This month
there are 872 water meters in the
city.
These figures present a consid-
erably brighter picture than has
been generally believed.
imiuimo
BUY BONDS, STAMPS
W _
MERCHANTS COOPERATING IN
NATIONAL DRIVE WHICH
WILL OPEN JUDY 1
^Opening next Wednesday, July 1,
Retail Merchants of America are
sponsoring a special war bond and
stamp sale drive during July in
which every merchant of Sham-
rock is participating.
®Dnening July 1, nothing but war
bonds and stamps will be sold from
12 noon to 12:15 p. m. as a special
“kiafccff" for the SJonth’' jiftj’e
1 On that day everyone is urged to
buy bonds and stamps and centin-
,$fcig through the month, ask for
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LONNIE HOOD IS
LUNCHEON SPEAKER
BOOSTERS WILL NOT ELECT
*,ST. PAT CHAIRMAN FOR
* DURATION OF WAR
rAe'SHAMHDCK M*,
T E 5CA.N ^ Pouring In
VOL. 39
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942
No. 7
CHANGES IN SUGAR
RATIONING RULES
ISSUED BY BOARD
VALUE OF STAMPS NO. FIVE
AND SIX INCREASED TO
TWO POUNDS EACH
The Office of Price Administra-
tion has announced that the value
of sugar ration stamps 5 and 6 had
been increased to two pounds each
—but that each stamp would cover
a period of a month instead of two
week, continuing the weekly ration
to each consumer at half a pound.
OPA explained that stamp No. 4,
now valid for the purchase of a
pound of sugar, would expire at
midnight, June 27. The next stamp,
good for two pounds, may be used
at any time thereafter until mid-
night, July 25, whereupon stamp
No. 6 will become valid until Aug. 22.
Sometime before Aug. 22, OPA
will announce the period of time to
be covered by other stamps in the
ration books.
The ration stamps numbered from
1 to 4 each permitted purchase of
one pound of sugar and covered a
two-week period. OPA offered no
official explanation of the exten-
sion to a month, but it was evident
that the move to make a stamp last
longer would reduce the number of
FARM AND RANCH
LABOR PROBLEMS
BECOME SERIOUS
Youths, 18 To 20
Years Of Age, To
Register June 30
„ , i A starkly realistic picture of
Every male resident of the United States between the problcms and prospects for enough
ages of 18 and 19 years, plus those who have become 201 labor operate farms and ranch-
years old since the first of the year, must register under1 „ was painted at a meeting of
the Selective Service Act on Tuesday _ June 30. I agricultural heads and draft board
Officials of the Wheeler County Draft Board this week off,clals held in Lubbock recently'
announced that three convenient registration points have1 Those attending from here were
been designated over the county, ^andjouths may register ^“^“^herly cie“
j the draft board, and Jake Tarter,
DRAFT BOARD OFFICIALS AND
AGRICULTURAL LEADERS
DISCUSS SHORTAGES
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AARDN STURGEON
IN DISTRICT RACE
EXPERIENCED LAWYER ASKS
SUPPORT IN HIS CAMPAIGN
FOR DIST. ATTORNEY
between the hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m,
Registration places selected are:
SHAMROCK, at City Hall.
MOBEETIE, school house.
WHEELER. Commissioners Court room.
It is estimated that about 3,000,-
000 of America’s young men will be
included in this registration, and
this, the fifth Selective Service reg-
istration, will complete the survey
of manpower available for fight-
ing or making the weapons for com-
bat.
Four previous registrations took
care of men between 20 through 64
years of age—-nearly 40,000,000 of
them.
Those 18 and 19 years old cannot
county agent.
In the painting, no attempt was
made to disguise the facts that the
problem already is serious, and that
It is almost certain to get much
-"!-1 worse before it begins to improve.
be drafted for military service under j Yet it offered tne reassurance
existing law, but some of them might that, for the present at least, the
be mobilled along with older men farmlng and ranching 'n^rluse
taken as a whole need have no cause
for service in war plants. The bu- t() fear that thelr labor that is
beau of research and statistics of deemed essential t0 the war effort
the Federal Security Agency esti- wm be snatched from them without
mated that as of April 1 there were them opportunity to train
2,483,000 men in that age bracket, Qr obtflin replacements.
while probably 500,000 who have
turned 20 also will register on June
30.
Shamrock and surrounding area have definitely gone
“all out” in the nation-wide scrap rubber drive. This morn-
ing 108,820 pounds of scrap rubber had been turned in to
filling stations and local oil company agencies.
J. O. Stribling, chairman of the salvage committee of
Shamrock, expressed his gratitude for the excellent co-
operation, which local people have given in response to a
plea by President Roosevelt.
The Continental Oil Agency led the field in the drive
with 71,150 pounds collected this morning. The Phillips
Company had collected 13,000 pounds; Sinclair, 3,250 pounds;
Magnolia, 6,000 pounds and Texas Company, 13 240 pounds.
Most of the agencies had not col-
lected from all their stations and the
final total cannot be determined
until next week.
The drive closes June 30 and ev-
eryone is urged to redouble his ef-
forts to hunt out all bits of scrap
rubber and turn it in before next
Tuesday.
The Boy Scouts collected 400
pounds of rubber while there was
1,780 pounds of scrap donated to the
USO.
It is again pointed out that any-
filling station will pay one cent a
pound for all scrap rubber and if
you wish to aid the Boy Scouts you
County Wheat Farmeis
Harvesting Best Crop
Produced Since 1927
_ Tn announcin': my oe-. ’-vlacy for
the office of District Attorney for
the 31st Judicial District of Texas,
consisting of Wheeler, Roberts, Lips-
comb and Gray Counties, subject
to the action of the Democratic
Primary, I realize that while there
are a great manv voters in the Dis-
trict with whom I am acquainted
and who are acquainted with me,
yet I also realize that there are
many with whom I am not ac-
JOBS AVAILABLE
TO LOCAL PEOPLE
MEN AND WOMEN FROM ALL
VOCATIONS NEEDED BY
AMARILLO FI,ANT
Men and women of Shamrock and
vicinity who are seeking employment
Lonnie Hood, representative of the
United States Employment Service,
addressed members of the Boosters
Qjpib at the Wednesday luncheon
meeting.
Hood, who spends each Wednes-
day in Shamrok, contacting em-
ployers and employees, told mem-
bers of the club of the origin of
fte employment service and how it
functions. He quoted figures rela-
tive to the number of cotton pick-
ers Wheeler County will need next
Fall in the event the crop matures,
Mid told how his service will go
Stout attempting to furnish those
workers.
Hood stated that there are 57,700
quainted and .who do not know are requested to come to the old
me. For that reason I desire to sub- jj^t 0ffjce building on West Third
|mit for your consideration a brief street next July 2 when
W. F. Stubbs, representative of the
Pantex Certain-teed company of
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list Of June 28
Selectees Given
« By Draft Board
A list of Wheeler County select-
ees who will leave for an Induction
station on Sunday, June 28, was re-
teased by the Draft Board today.
V*The inductees are: Morris Shep-
pard Compton, Mobeetie; Bill Royce
Cantrell, Shamrock; Floyd York,
Shamrock; General Lee Cason,
Shamrock; Bill Campbell, Wheeler;
fD>ie Lee Lablt, Shamrock.
The inductees have passed the
physical extmination given by the
county doctors and, under a recent
ruling, will take their second phys-
ical upon arriving at the induction
Ration.
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FILLING STATION
DAMAGED BY FIRE
The roof of the Shamrock whole-
ile filling station on south main
treet was badly damaged by fire
Wednesday night which was said
3 have started from defective wir-
ig.
The alarm was turned In at about
ildnight Wednesday, The station
ras damaged from smoke and water
ut none of the tanks of gasoline
rere’destroyed.
But behind this present reassur-
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$440.2lH0NATED
TO USO THIS WEEK
$750 QUOTA MUST BE RAISED
BY JULY 1; EVERYONE IS
URGED TO CONTRIBUTE
County Cotton
Crop Damaged
By Wind, Rain
Wind and rain are taking tum
about in damaging Wheeler Coun-
ty's cotton crop, with some sections
suffering as high as 80 per cent
damage during the past few days.
A strtmg wind Sunday and a
three-inch rain Sunday night caused
an estimated 80 per cent damage to
cotton crops in the Allison area. The
Briscoe area suffered from 60 to 70
per cent damage, County Agent Jake
Tarter stated. Damage in the Magic
City vicinity was estimated at a-
round 65 per cent; Wheeler from 25
to 30 per cent; Kelton 40 per cent;
Twitty 25 per cent.
The Shamrock area was only
slightly damaged, Tarter stated.
Tarter pointed out today that far-
mers who have lost their cotton crop
from wind and rain can replant
that lalld feed crops and n0t„l0se Justice *cf Peace of Precincte 3 and
their cotton payment. They will, in igsues Ws forMa, statement
addition, be permitted to harvest
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manseIjsSs
FOR PRECINCT POST
RESIDENT OF COUNTY FOR 34
YEARS SEEKING JUSTICE
OF PEACE OFFICE
W. M. (Manse) Lisle, who recent-
ly announced his candidacy for
the feed and either sell it or feed
to the voters of the precincts:
“It is my desire to become Justice
il- of Peace of Precincts 3 and 4, an
Farmers are warned, however, that offlce whlcb j feei that I am well
if they have crop insurance, they qUaufled to hold.
must wait until the crop has been
inspected before they plow it up.
PASTORS ANNOUNCE
WORSHIPeVICES
PUBLIC INVITED TO ATTEND
CHURCH SUNDAY AT ALL
CITY DENOMINATIONS
-! Response to the USO drive has
Harvesting of Wheeler County's been fine this week with $440.28
best wheat crop sinre 1927 got well. contributed by Thursday morning,
underway this week with scores of, Clayton Heare'. chairman of the
combines at work in the fields of the drive, reported. , The goal set for
area. j Shamrock is $750 and Heare is
Wheeler County has 13,200 acres anxious to reach this figure by July
planted to wheat this year, County , 1-
Agent Jake Tarter announces, and | Sales of 1,780 pounds of rubber
it is estimated that an 18 bushels contributed by people in this area
per acre average will be realized, j were included in the amount.
The government loan on wheat at1 Heare 8ep‘ out Otters this week
the present time is $1.12 per bushel. explalning tha p“rp0!* °!,the US°
Tarter announces that this year’s and the important part this organi-
crop is good over the entire county zation 18 playin? in, pr°tvtdlng( torf Haynes will be in charge.
Church school at the First Meth-
odist church will begin at 9:45
o'clock Sunday morning with C. L.
Reavis, superintendent, in charge.
Morning worship opens at 11 o'clock
and the sermon theme will be “The
Pay of The Christian.” Rev. A. C.
the comfort and entertainment of
our soldiers, sailors and marines,
At 8 p. m. the Junior choir will
have rehearsal and evening wor-
with some fields turning out
much as 35 bushels per acre. , ... . ,---------------
Seven cars averaelne 1 500 bush- Response was immed ate and Heare; sbip {oUow at 8:30 o’clock.
Jto the carTadbeenshtorU expressed his appreciation to those ! “The Promises Of God,” will be the
fL S SSL wh0 sent in contributions for their; sermon subJect. The Junlor cholr
Amarillo, will be here to interview ,from Shamrock Wednesday after- prompt action. 1 wiii furnish the music
| noon, and many farmers are storing „Every „ of the money ralsed ^ Z Scout troop
will be used for the comfort anti wel- wU1 meet at 7:30 0.clock and the
annlicants 17.-----------------7 — ------ “Every penny of the money raised
applicants. the g-rain themselves in order to
“Mr. Stubbs will be in Shamrock ' collect the 7 cents per bushel star- . . thp mpn . „prvlpp,. Hpftrp ..... ..... - ,
for the express purpose of taking ' payment from the government f f th? ™ ln f®™1 ' H adult choir will have rehearsal at
our war, regular hours and good Manse Lisle, who has wheat ac- the'^'last'war” ** * I "™s ®hur®h giV®S cord|al m"
pay,” said an announcement re- reage from Leia t0 Shamrock de- . numb‘ of counties have all vitatlon l° those who do n°l
ceived by The Texan from the Cer- dares that his wheat is averaging completed their quotas and
ta n-teed company from 16 to 35 bushels per acre and Heay anxlous for ^ county in the ^‘c158' ***■ Haynes 8tated'
“It matters not what type of work that he expects a 25 bushels per acre tQ over the t on thls drive
iifc
rm
8 o’clock Wednesday night. Young
People will meet Thursday night at
1 Dy
a number of different agencies
the last war.”
A number of counties have all a cburcb home to come worship God
,cady completed their quotas and
thaThe5ex^c^a^burtfels^er acre ^ " top“ Triv^ “ XT*" t^t
voumay be doing. The Certain-teed average overall. Lisle reports that Th(fse who have not yet made con- serricJ"a cmdJ’'sincere wet
, probably has a position where you hls wheat Is testing from 60 to 62 tribllHons are urBed do so and h ° ® ™ " ‘
| would ™ perfectly. If your are wiii- pounds. i“n^d oKat mtey may ^
ing to abide by instructions and re- Recent rain has slowed harvest be ,gft >t either bank, at the cham- ^ Pp^yterian church
, ally want to work you are cordially to some extent and caused slight ber of commerce offlce or wlth clay I Presbyterian Church
invited to meet the representative damage to wheat in some sections. 1
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AARON STURGEON
: ton Heare.
The Presbyterian church holds
services each Sunday in the audl-
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RAILROAD EMPLOYEE
DIES SUDDENLY THURS.
toiium of the South Ward School
building located at 606 South W«U
statement as to who I am, my quali-
fications, and my conception of
what your District Attorney should (
perform for the people of his dis-
trict.
I am a native Texan and have
practiced law in all of the courts
of our state for the past eighteen
years, during which period 1 have
devoted a great deal of time to the
trial of criminal cases. 1 respect-
fully submit to you that your Dis-
trict Attorney should be ft man of
experience possessing deliberate and
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WOMEN’S CLUBS ARE
AIDING USO PROJECT
All women’s clubs of the city are
cooperating in supplying cookies for
the USO center at Amarillo, Mrs.
Cecil Cardwell announced this week.
The clubs will each have a cer-
tain week to bake cookies to be sent
to Amarillo for the “Cookie Jar” at
the canteen and Mrs. Cardwell stat-
ed that any woman.: who was not
a member of a social, federated or
home demonstration club is wel-
come to aid In this project and those
who wish to take part may call
Mrs. Cardwell for particulars; hi*
E. A. Smith, employee of a Rock
Island railroad crew died sudden-
ly Thursday morning following a
heart attack. Smith was working
with the crew east of Shamrock,
near Benonine, and according to
statements by several of the men,
had complained of feeling ill.
At about 7 o'clock Thursday
morning he suffered a sudden
heart attack and died before med-
ical aid could be obtained.
His widow resides at Rosedale,
Kan., and she was notified Im-
mediately. The body was taken
to the Clay Funeral Home to a-
waft the arrival of hls family.
TWO INJURED IN CAR MORE MEN NEEDED
ACCIDENT THURSDAY j FOR SPECIAL WORK street. Sunday school opens at 9:45
-- ! - [ a. m. and Rev. C. N. Wylie of Can-
Bauldwin Jarper and his daughter, Bob Roach, adjutant of the Chas. yon will be in charge of the mom-
Mrs. Josephine Moon, of Elimonta, De Shazo Post, announced today ing worship program at 11 o’clock.
Calif., received minor injuries in that the Civil Aeronautics Admin- j Church of Christ
a non-collision car accident east istration had asked the cooperation i Minister Gray Carter will be in
of Shamrock last Thursday night. ; of the Legion in recruiting 13,350 charge of the services at Church
They were coming west and their men whom the Army Air Forces 0f Christ Sunday. Bible study will
car overturned on highway 66 about want to train as specialists. i open at 9:45 a. m. and morning wor-
three miles east of Shamrock. Jar- The recruits will be trained in ( Ship services begins at 11 o’clock
per recived a broken collar bone four kinds of flying: glider pilots, with Minister Carter speaking on
and fractured shoulder bone while service and liaison pilots, instruc- “The First Day Of The Week.”
his daughter was treated for a minor tors and airline co-pilots. Training
scalp wound.
| of the first class, to consist of
5,000, must begin July 1.
Training courses take from 8
Mrs. W. C. Grady of Lockesburg,
Ark., was injured in an automobile 40 weeks, depending on flying ex-
accident Monday. It was reported perience of candidates.
Thursday that her injuries were not! Those interested should contact
serious and she is getting along Roach or L. E. DePew, post com-
nicely. mander.
At 8:45 o’clock the evening ser-
vice opens with “Seek First The
Kingdom”, the theme of the wor-
ship hour.
Thursday night at 8:45 o’clock the
Giddap, Napoleon!
Intricacies Of Horse-Harnessing Explained
Dear Editor:
We’ve always doubted those wild
tales of your, early life On the farm,
when you plowed and gp-deviled all
over the place, and your untiring
efforts to make us believe you were
sort of a “Rover Boy on Grandpa’s
Farm” have shot over our head. It
is for this reason that we feel a
little bulletin Issued by a life in-
surance company entitled “How To
Harness A Horse" will be of great
educational value.
In yvar case we wonder if the
insurance company' zhouidert first
Issue a bulletin on “Haw To Rec-
ognise A Horse.”
Anyway things have come to a
pretty pass when an insurance
company feels that such a bulle-
tin Is necessary; it makes one
wonder if the automobile did fin-
ally replace the home.
With a large per cent of farmer*
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ROTARIANS HAVE
BARBECUE THURSDAY
The final meeting of the Rotary
year was held Thursday night at
the Legion Hut with Rotarians, Ro-
tary Anns and their guests enjoying
a barbecue and old-fashioned dance.
A large group attended the party,
incoming offioers win assume
their duties at the next Rotary
meeting on Friday noon, July 3.
Last Friday, Juneteenth Day, Ro-
tarians had the colored preacher,
Rev. Williams, and a group of Ills
church members for a program of
negro spiritual music.
“I have made my home in Wheel-
er County for the past 34 years and
during that time have met most of
the residents of the county. My
work has taken me into all sections
of the two precincts where I have
seen the various needs and realized
the duties that can be accomplished
through the office of Justice of
Peace.
“In these serious times, the of-
fice of Justice of Peace is an im-
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WORK TtARTED ON
WHEELER HIGHWAY
PROJECT TAKES IN 5.3-MILE
STRIP BETWEEN WHEELER
AND OKLAHOMA LINE
P. S. Bailey, state highway en-
gineer for this district, has an-
nounced that work of paving High-
way 152 east cf Wheeler to the Tex-
as-Oklahoma state line was started
Tuesday.
The work will include grading-
and topping 5.3 miles of road from
where the present paving termin-
ates to the state line, and actual
construction was awaiting arrival
of necessary equipment early this
week.
Bailey reported to Judge D. A.
Hunt that Wheeler County help will
be employed to furnish the labor
on the project.
At a meeting in Sayre, Okla., re-
cently a resolution was drafted and
a copy sent to various highway of-
ficials, congressmen and senators
requesting that the Oklahoma high-
way 41 (a continuation of Texas
Highway 152) be designated as a
Federal highway and be placed up-
on the military highway system of
the War Department.
Gasser Will Be
Brought In West
Of Town Tonight
The Pendleton and Vaughan No.
1 McDowell gasser, eight miles west
of Shamrock, is being bailed out
today and drillers believe that by
tonight Wheeler County will have
another good gas well.
The well was drilled in last Sat-
urday by Colvin and Colvin, con-
tractors, at 1,470 feet and was pro-
ducing an estimated 20.000,000 cubic
feet of gas. Monday morning the
gas flow was killed and the hole
has been deepened to 1,698 feet.
The owners felt that the addi-
tional drilling would greatly increase
the production of the well, but that
of course, will not be known until
after bailing has been completed
today.
Granite wash was
gnd that sand was i
when the bole wae 1
was a m-pound j
Wei) WM kHtod.
was stnirif at 1W
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