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“That Was Two Long Years Ago”We Reminded Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel
By ALBERT COOPER
The Governor of Texas and the
ublisher of The Shamrock Texa..
ii® lunch together last Thursday.
It may have been an accident or
It may have been the’ sense of hu-
|nor of our hosts, Mayor and Mrs.
/. H. Walker, that we were assigned
table at which Gov. and Mrs. W.
Le# O’Daniel and Mrs. Fred Oliver,
Inother of Eugene Worley, were
lieated. There were other tables
where we could have been seated but
we won't quibble over that—we ate
chicken spaghetti with Governor
O’Daniel and liked it.
For the benefit of readers with
short memories, we wish to state
The Shamrock Texan was not
among those newspapers actively
supporting the election of Mr.
O’Daniel two years ago and as we
sat down in that chair, we were
almost certain the Governor had not
requested the arrangement. Why
hadn’t Gene Worley taken that
seat? Did the govenior remember
the fight we made on him two years
ago? What would we talk about?
Our reply to the last question was
quick in forming as we recalled that
seated at tables to our back were
such nimble wits as J. B. Clark-
Clayton Heare, Bedford Harrison,
Gene and Bill. The conversation be-
fore lunch had been of a light, jest-
ing nature at which we noted with-
out pleasure that the Govenior was
a past master. It didn’t take a very
smart person to figure sooner or
later somebody was going to wise-
crack about Tlie Shamrock Texan’s
failure to endorse O’Daniel in 1938.
We decided to beat them to it, to
spill the beans so to speak and if
the govenior wanted up removed
from hip tnijle or ejected from the
hours we would have it, over with
In a hurry and go eat lunch at
home which fortunately was only
■a block away.
! Between huge mouthfuls of spa-
| ghetti that only Marjorie Walker
j knows how to cook up, the governor
J of Texas listened in silence as we
detailed the events of that 1938
campaign as concerned The Sham-
rock Texan and himself. We told
him of the Hill Billy flour the Irish
band brought us from Memphis and
of the hct-cake breakfast we threw
in honor of Bill Porter and Charley
Duncum. We described the large
"Headquarters for W. Lee O’Daniel”
sign they hung across the top of The
Texan building the night before the
election.
"But as we said, Govenior, that
happened two long years ago,” we
concluded. By now he had plowed
through the west half of his brim-1 All of this conversation had been
mtng plate and had managed to l in low tones and it must have been
slip In a few words paying high | purely a coincidence that Gene
compliment to Marjorie’s spaghetti. 1 Worley shouted across the room,
Reluctantly he laid his fork on his , "How are you and the publisher
plate and reached for a napkin.
“I'm glad to hear that, we are al-
ways glad to know what our friends
are doing for us," he replied. We
imagine he had reference to the sign
they put on our office and the
strong letters we had mentioned his
friends wrote us, criticizing our at-
tack on him.
getting on. Governor?” Taking ad-
vantage of the governor's mouthful,
we replied for him, “Fine, Gene, just
fine, he sure likes Marjorie’s spa-
ghetti. Getting ready for the second
dish.”
Consenting to a second helping.
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ILLKIE SPECIAL
MAY STOP BRIEFLY
* TUESDAY MORNING!
7-Ae SHAMROCK ■JMSS fc
IEPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT REQUESTED |
£ TO MAKE APPEARANCE
PUBLISHED
MONDAY &
THURSDAY
If you are at the Rock Island
depot in Shamrock around 6:40
I o’clock tomorrow morning you
| may get a peek at Wendell L.
YiCUkte, Republican nominee for
| president of the United States.
Wilikie's special train is due to
I come through Shamrock shortly
before 7 o'clock en route to Ama-
TEXAN
A BOOSTER
OF SHAMROCK
37 YEARS
VOL. 37
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940
rUJIo where he will fill a speaking
enga
Tgagement at II o’clock Tuesday
[ morning.
The Shamrock Texan tried for two
lays to get assurance that the spe-
cial train would stop in Shamrock
lo£ the Republican presidential
liominee to make a rear platform
tippearance but the best the news-
paper could do was get a promise
from Amarillo Republicans in charge
of the rally there that they would
l«:#e a telegraphic request of Will-
jtie’s manager at Coffcyville today.
Because of the early hour of the
train's arrival in Shamrock and the
Jfact Willkie will have spent a
I trenuous day Monday closing with
|i 4|ieecl: nt Tulsa Monday night, it
vas impossible for his aides to say
fvhether he would be up in time to
aake a rear platform appearance
lere.
only scheduled stop between
and Amarillo is Groom where
E. McDonald, state commissioner
bf agriculture, and ji group ol farm
eaders are scheduled to board the
train for a conference with Willkie
jfe he reaches Amarillo. McDon-
Sdirhad requested that he be per-
tted to board the train at Sham-
ck sq local people might have a ,
ance to see Willkie but previous
ingements provided that he
rd it Groom in company with
fr farm leaders. McDonald then
Requested Amarillo Willkie leaders
have the train stop at Shamrock
fefly If at all possible,
WILDCATS DEFEAT
IRISH 13 TO 0 IN
FIRST GRID GAME
Wreckage of Huge Powder Plant
CANADIAN CREW PROVES "TOO
MUCH” FOR INEXPERIENCED
SHAMROCK WARRIORS
By J. C. HOWELL
The Canadian Wildcats plastered
a 13 to 0 defeat on the Shamrock
Irishmen in a fast contest played
on Denver Field Friday night. The
two fairly evenly matched clubs
played before an opening night |
crowd of approximately 1.000 pig-
skin fans.
Coach Bill Back Gibson, who has
Just taken over at Canadian, put
one of the fastest and best balanced
ball clubs on the field Friday night
that has represented that fair city
on the gridiron in the past few
years. The Wildcat crew included
seven veterans and the remainder
of the club was picked from a group
of 12 squadmen thus giving them a
fairly experienced team.
The contest started off like It was
to be a battle of fumbles with each
club fumbling the ball and losing it ■
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AREA P-TA MEET TO
BE HELD CANADIAN
LARGE DELEGATION
SHAMROCK PEOPLE
AT AMARILLO FAIR
A step by step explanation of how residents of Sham-
rock can buy or build their homes under the Federal Housing
Administration plan will be made Tuesday night at 8:00
.o’clock at the Johnson Hotel in Shamrock, it was announced
today by P. S. Luttrell, of Dallas, State Production Manager
~7- for Texas of the Federal Housing Administration.
NO. 37 He announced that Forrest W. Gregory, Field Repre-
sentative of the Northwest Texas FHA District will be in
charge of the meeting. In addition to the explanation on the
FHA plan of home ownership, there will be shown 36 slides,
in color, of houses ranging from $1600 to $5400 which have
been built and financed under FHA during recent months
in Northwest Texas.
IRISH MUSICIANS OFFICIALLY
OPEN TRI-STATE EVENT
19 O’CLOCK TODAY
The Shamrock band left at 7
o’clock this morning for Amarillo
accompanied by its new director,
i Col. E. D. Crites, to officially open j mio
295 MORE COTTON
CHECKS RECEIVED;
$80,145 TO DATE
the Tri-State Fair Tills is the elev-
, enth consecutive year the Irish band
has taken part in the opening day
, of the Fair. Bedford Harrison, sec- '
retary-manager of the Shamrock I
Chamber of Commerce was in'
charge of the local group. 1
Delegations of business men and
1 local residents were in attendance
today at the exposition which is the '
: biggest fair sponsored by the Tri- i
I State organization in many years.!
i More than 200,000 men, women and !
children visited the fair last year j
and a larger attendance record Is
expected this year,
j The Irish band played a short
concert In the music hall at the fair I
grounds at 10 o’clock this morning
which was broadcast over station
ftri
COUNTY FARMERS TO
RECEIVE $162,090 FROM
PARITY PAYMENTS
With receipt of 295 checks total-
ing $20,091.41 ul the office of
County Agent Jake Tarter last
Friday, cotton parity payments to
Wheeler county farmers has
amounted to a total of $80,145.41
to date.
All business firms in Shamrock
will be advised of this meeting in
order that they might acquaint their
employees with plans for the Tues-
day night meeting and it is expected
that a large number of salaried peo-
ple will be present.
“I feel sure, “Luttrell said, in con-
nection with the meeting, “that
many of your people can buy or
build their homes on the FHA sys-
tem and pay for them with money
they now spend for rent. A good
many of these people, however, do
not know how easy It is to own
homes and how little It takes to buy
or build on the liberal FHA terms.
"The Shamrock meeting is a time-
ly one and FHA officials will be here
for the express purpose of explain-
ing the simple steps necessary to
buy or build your own home. The
Prior to then 822 checks
amounting to $60,054 had been re- ; showing of slides will be practical
ceivedi at the county agent's office, evidence that attractive small homes
A total of 1,900 county farmers
will receive cotton parity checks,
Tarter said, in the total sum of
$162,000.
When the 25 automobiles leave the
lock Island station immediately af-
er the train pulls in Amarillo at
0:30 o’clock, a dozen motorcycle of-
Icers. riding abreast, will lead the
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IMAGIC CITY P-TA
. GROUP IN MEETING
PRESIDENTS LOCAL GROUPS '
URGE MEMBERS ATTEND |
4-COUNTY AFFAIR
Tin.: ,iew snows wiemage aftei lour explosions mew asunder
Kenvil, N. J., smokeless powder plant of Hercules Powder Co.,
claiming more than 50 lives and injuring scores more. Plant was
working on $2,000,000 government defense order when it was
wrecked Sept. 12.
THE CREATIVE HOME” TO BE
THEME OF THIS YEAR'S
WORKING PROGRAM
iftte first meeting of the executive
ommittee of the Magic City Par-
nt-Teachers Association was held
ruesday evening In the school
mllding. It was decided that "The
hmfive Horne” would be the theme
if me year’s program.
The president explained the duties
if every officer of the organization.
?oom mothers were announced and
hej% are: Mrs. Tony Shackleford
Mrs. Roy Willingham, first
ie» :
•aae;
;rade; Mrs, Ovid Phillips and Mrs.
S. J. Braxton, second grade: Mrs.
Jan Frye and Mrs. C. B, McCoy,
third and fourth grades; Mrs. J. V.
Younger and Mrs. James Pearson,
grade and Mrs. Otis Johnson
Mrs. Collie Austin, sixth and
seventh grades.
J. V. Younger, Mrs. Collie Austin,
Mrs W. C, Davis and Mrs. Otis
£lff *
am | A
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CITY REPRESENTED
AT LEGION MEETING
The 18th district American Le-
gib® and Auxiliary met Sunday at
Miami and attending from the
Shamrock post were Mr. and Mrs.
Flake George, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Goodrich, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Kava-
naiMh and Mr. and Mrs. Jack
La*enbach. A barbecue was served
to the group and afterwards a bus-
iness meeting was held with J. M.
Johnson of Canadian, district com-
mander, presiding.
Absolution was unanimously vot-
ed upon by Legionnaires requesting
Congress to stay In session until suf-
fleieht laws are enacted to protect
the United States from the “enemy
within.” The next meeting will be
hel%in Tulia on October 9.
Mrs. Flake George, president of
the south ward Parent-Teachers
association, and Mrs. Charles Lum-
mus, president of the north ward
association, urge as many members
of their organizations as possible to
attend the meeting in Canadian
Wednesday afternoon of P-TA
groups from Wheeler, Gray, Roberts
and Hemphill counties.
Mrs. Cliff Vincent of Lefors, vice
president of the Eighth District
P-TA, announced that the meeting
would open at 1:30 o’clock Wednes-
day afternoon and local unit presi-
dents are requested to bring as
many members as possible and es-
pecially the newly elected officers
and chairmen of committees.
Mrs. E. H. Becker of Houston,
state vice president of the Texas
Congress of Parents and Teachers,
WORLEY HONORARY i DISTRICT 3 A GRID
MEMBER OF ROTARY
i Contimii-h^n "PaRe 41
GROUP TO SPONSOR
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR KEETON FAIR
can be built in this community at a
cost that many of your residents
can well afford. It follows, of course,
that home building brings a measure
of prosperity to all business in the
community.”
Bedford Harrison, secretary-man-
„ _ , ager of the Shamrock chamber ol
‘PARFNTHfinn WFFK’,rcommcrce- **»■ citizens to attend
I fllu.ll I IlltUU iYCLIi the meeting, whether interested In
_ I building at this time or not.
CO-ORDINATING COUNCIL TO j--0-
POINT OUT PURPOSE OF ■ I) li/II Ilf IT H/FI I O
ANNUAL OBSERVANCE HlLUu/ll “LLLu
LOCAL RESIDENTS ARE URGED
TO ATTEND COMMUNITY
EVENT FRIDAY
HUEY COOK, JR„ INTRODUCED
AS STUDENT ROTARIAN
FIRST SEMESTER
R4CF IS lUVOERWAYj Bedford Harrison, manager Of the
___ j chamber of commerce, urges as
MEMPHIS DEFEATS LAKEVIEW |many business men as possible to
IN FIRST CONFERENCE I ** Ke“°n
I this Friday. The Shamrock band
GAME OF SEASON | wjjj pjay a short concert at 1
_ jo'clock in the afternoon and Eugene
, The District 3-A conference race , Worley, congressman-nomlnate, is
inee for congressman in the 18th , got underway Friday night, when planning to be present and if he can
Eugene Worley, Democratic nom-
distriet, was made an honorary the Memphis Cyclone took the mea- j arrange to do so will talk sometime
In Wheeler county Better Parent-
hood Week will be observed on Sep-
tember 23rd to 29th under the spon-
sorship of the Wheeler County Co-
Ordinating Council. Thousands of
Mothers' Clubs. Parent-Teacher As-
sociations, Child Study Groups and
Chapters of the American Associa-
tion ol University Women in con-
STAKED AT TWITTY
GASSER BROUGHT IN EAST OF
SHAMROCK; SHELL CREW
IS MAKING TEST i
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WHEELER COUNTY HAS
ONE OIL COMPLETION
member of the Shamrock Rotary j sure of their Hall County neigh-
club at the weekly luncheon of the j bors, the Lakeview Eagles, by a
service group held in the U-Drop j count of 12 to 0 in the first con-
inn Friday. Following presentation ' ferenct encounter of the season,
of his membership card by President Ted George. Memphis fullback.
Jim Smith, Worley thanked club was the outstanding performer of
members for the honor paid him the contest, making both of the Cy-
and expressed the hope he could, done touchdowns, the last time
live up to the high ideals of the or- plunging nine yards with three tack-
ganization. J iers hanging 0n him. This was their
Huey Cook, Jr., was presented by j first contest under their new coach,
W, O. Morrow, assistant superin-1C. E. Headstream. formerly of
tendent of schools, as Student Ro- j Hardtn-Simmons.
tarian for the first six weeks semes- j Wellington’s inexperienced lads
ter. Each semester an outstanding, took an awful drubbing from the
member of the senior class of Sham- ; powerful Chillicothe Eagles who
There were 15 completions in the rock school is chosen by the : have their 1939 club back almost In-
Panhandle oil field last week as
compared with 10 during the pre-
vious week. Last week 13 of the to-
tal were for oil production, 9 of them
being in Hutchinson county. The to-
tal new oil potential amounted to
2,935 barrels. One gasser was com-
pleted In Carson county and there
was one completion In Wheeler
county.
The Wheeler county completion
was the Budeo Oil Co., No. 2 Walker
in section 44. block 24, H&GN sur-
vey, drilled to 2,512; oil pay at 2,438
to 2,512; without shot it pumped 39
barrels on railroad commission test.
There were no new locations listed
for Wheeler county.
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TICKETS ON SALE FOR
BORGER-IRISH GAME
Superintendent W. C. Perkins an-
nounced this morning that general
admission tickets to the Borger-
Shamrock football game this Friday
night In Borger. were on sale at the
City Hall.
W. O. Puett, secretary of the
school board, is in charge of the
tickets and local fans may obtain
them in his office. Price is 50 cents.
class memberhip and a facultyj tact. The final count in their non-
durlng the morning program.
Judging in the livestock depart-
ment will begin at 10 o’clock and
in the other departments at 10:39
o’clock in the morning. Fair officials
state that there will be more en-
tries in every department than in
previous years.
On the program will be the Mo-
beetle Rhythm Band, special music
by a girls duet, numbers by the
Erick, Okla., band, music by the
Shamrock Irish Band, a six-man
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PUBLIC IS ASKED TO
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Death Of Mrs. E. 1 Pullen
Recalls Hardships Texas
Pioneers Had To Suffer
DISPLAY FLAG TUESDAY
Oil field activity in Wheeler
County continues to increase with
junction with the National Better j two wildcat locations staked in the
Parenthood Week Committee, New j Twitty field this week and a 5,000,-
York City, are putting on local ob- i 000-foot gasser brought in east of
servances of the week throughout Shamrock last week,
the United States. j Pendleton and Vaughan have
The purposes of The Third An- j made a location on the E. D. Hol-
nual Better Parenthood Week, ac- j land farm one mile south of Twitty
cording to George J. Hecht, Chair- J and the Gramp OH Company will
man of the National Committee arid j drill on the Will Sammons land two
Publisher of Parents’ Magazine, are: ; miles west of Twitty.
(1) To make fathers and mothers ; The locations have already been
more fully aware of the importance I made and the wells will be spudded
of using the best possible methods 1 in this week, They will be drilled by
in the care and training of their j Ed Harris of Altus, Okla., and ro-
chlldren, and to acquaint them with I tary machinery will be used,
the many sources of help and In- ! The gasser brought in last week
formation available to them in ; for an estimated 5,000.000 feet, is
handling their family problems. (2) I located on the J. E. Mitchell lease.
To encourage the formation of j -
groups for the study and discussion
of child rearing problems. (3) To
promote more cooperative under-
standing between p a r e n ts and
teachers and between the school and
community at large. (4) To lend ac-
Tuesday is Constitution Day and tive El,PPolt t0 al> community ef-
forts for better schools, child health,
recreational facilities, vocational
guidance and the prevention of de-
linquency.
Locally Better Parenthood Week
is to be observed through special
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r
(EDITORS NOTE: The follow- |hfir anc, t0 force her to sur.
ing article about Mrs. E. i. PuUen, | render. The squaw continued to
former Shamrock resident who fight an[, aftel. knllng one 0{ the
passed away at her home in Nemo.
Aug. 29, was written by her child-
ren and mailed to The Texan.)
^Wednesday evening, August 28,
Hattie, wife of E J. Pullen, gathered
a few of her grandchildren about
her knees and told them an Indian
story. The story centered around a
small tributary of the Brazos river,
a stream near her home.
Early settlers being compelled to
exterminate a band of marauding
Indians discovered after the skir-
mish a lone Indian squaw, waist-
deep In the creek. They approached
white men with an arrow, was shot.
Since then this little stream has
been known as Squaw Creek.
Tills was the story Mrs. Pullen
told her grandchildren. The next
morning her soul went to its re-
ward and her body was laid to rest
in a beautiful little cemetery on the
banks of Squaw Creek.
Mrs. E. J. Pullen, a former resi-
dent of Shamrock, was bom Decem-
ber 11, 1874, at Melrose, Texas,
Nacogdoches County. She died at
her ranch home, 20 miles west of
Miss Nell Adams, president of the
Business and Profession Women’s
club, asks merchants and residents
to display the flag tomorrow. j
The constitution was adopted on !
September 17, 1787, by a majority of j
the 55 delegates from 12 states. It j
| first consisted of a preamble and j
seven Articles, Although not a legal 0
or national holiday, Constitution CLIFTON WILLIAMS
Day is observed In many cities by j MOVES TO AMARILLO
displaying flags. | -
--o— - : Clifton Williams, for the past
PRAYER MEETING TO j three years an employee of the
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BE HELD WEDNESDAY Shamrock and Lela National Farm
- j Loan Association, left Saturday for
Rev. J. F, Mathews, pastor of the Amarillo to make his home. He has
First Christian Church, announced , been employed by the Southern
today that prayer service would be States Loan Company of that city.
held on Wednesday night at 8 i Clifton Is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
o’clock. The study of the New Testa- E, A. Williams of two miles south of
ment will be the subject for dis- j town and was a popular young resi-
cussion. ! dent of Shamrock. He is a graduate
For this Wednesday the group will: of the Shamrock High School and
discuss the fourth chapter of the , was secretary of the board of stew-
Gospel of St. Matthew with special j ards of the First Methodist Church,
emphasis on the temptations of j Clifton’s many friends, although
Christ. The public Is cordially in- they regret to lose him as a nelgh-
vited to attend. | bor, are happy over his promotion.
Verne Troxell Is
Chosen President
Local FFA Chapter
Verne Troxell was elected presi-
dent of the Future Fanners of
America chapter in a meeting of
that oragnization last Thursday af-
ternoon. He will head the chapter
during the 1940-41 term.
Other officers elected were; Avery
Miller, vice president; Verland May-
field, secretary; Thurman Lee Rives,
treasurer: Ben Lummus, reporter;
R. C. Tarvin, historian; Clay Bum-
pass, parliamentarian; R. O. Lister,
farmer police; Calvin Montgomery,
second vice president.
The chapter has a large member-
ship this year and the boys are
planning a successful program for
the school tenn. Howard Weatherby,
vocational agriculture Instructor, is
sponsor of the chapter.
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CUB PACK MEETING
There will be a meeting tonight
in the Legion Hut at 7:30 o’clock of
all Dens of the Cub Pack. Parents
of the cubs are invited to attend,
A1 Burleson, leader, announced.
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