The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 1948 Page: 1 of 8
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1948
(8 Pages Today)
Price 5a
Demos to Vote Saturday
Democrats Caucus So Long
Over Vice-President They
Miss Voting For Barkley
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STARK RECALLS
SURVEYING TRIP
MADE IN 1890
Editor’s Note: A. P. Stark
of Sealy, Texas, now 86 years
old, lived at Panhandle from
1890 to 1893. He visited here
recently for the first time in
55 years. By request of The
Herald Editor, he wrote the
following article and has
promised to give more remin-
iscences.
By A. P. STARK
About the first of September,
1890, Jim Gray hired five men in
Panhandle, I being one of them,
to go with him to the northern
part of the Panhandle to do some
purveying. I furnished the wagon
ind team for the trip.
f The Canadian River was some-
times dangerous because of heavy
rains somewhere up stream and
jit was at this stage when we
reached it. After going down
Dixon Creek trail and arriving, , , ,
at its banks about mid-afternoon Moody s motion for an amendment
to return to the two-thirds vote for
(By D. M. W.)
Once more a Democratic Na-
tional Convention is over. The
Herald Editor soon learned that
the long Wednesday night session
at Philadelphia was too much ex-
citement and by Friday he was
snifling with a cold.
It was no surprise to The Herald
Editor that President Truman was
renominated on the first ballot.
Many months ago The Herald
Man had written that the Demo-
cratic party would have to stand
on Truman’s record and renomi-
nate him if he wished to run
again. And Truman was in the
mood to run.
From the way that Harry Tru-
man won the crowd in his accept-
ance speech, you would have
thought that the delegates had
been with him all along.
Texans as usual got themselves
in a most difficult spot at the
convention. The Texas delegation
went uninstructed from the
Erownwood state convention. Tex-
ans apparently were not going to
endorse Truman because of his
civil rights program.
Texans Repulsed
And after the platform was an-
nounced and Ex. Gov. Dan
Church of Christ
To Hold Services
In New Structure
SPECIAL SCHOOL
ELECTION ASKED
FOR $1.25 RATE
Also Five Rooms
For Grade School
Put In Proposal
Petition was being circulated
this week asking for a special elec-
tion in the Panhandle Independent
School District to permit a maxi-
mum rate of $1.25 and also for
$55,000 in bonds for grade school
improvements.
It is understood that the board
feels that valuations of oil inter-
ests cannot be increased and that
the best way to provide additional
funds for school needs is to per-
mit a higher rate.
The present maximum is $1.00
per hundred dollars of assessed
valuation. It is not believed that
it would be necessary to assess the
maximum rate for these im-
provements after about two years
when the present high school
building is paid out.
The present grade school facil-
ities have been regarded as inade-
quate for many years. It is plan-
ned to erect five fooms just west
of the present new wing.
Parts of the old wing, erected
many years ago, have proved in-
adequate lighting and ventilation
being poor.
and viewing the situation, Jim
advised waiting until morning,
hoping the water might recede
by that time.
But when morning came the
river appeared about the same,
and after waiting about two hours,
4,7 Jim said we would try it. I hitch-
v;|v ed my big Missouri mules to the
>wagon and drove in. At the first
i-i. step, the mules began to sink and
flounder in the quicksand. They
pulled the wagon about ten feet
rfrom the bank and then fell on
their sides.
i. Unhitched Mules
7 Jim and I jumped out and un-
^ hitched them and got them out on
?, the bank. Then we knew the only
i thing for us to do was to take
our supplies across, one piece at
a time. The river looked to be
about 300 or 400 yards wide with
channels of water about 100 or
200 feet wide and sand bars about
the same. The water was not too
. deep, but we had to move fast
(Continued on page five)
a nomination had been rejected,
it was evident that the Texans
were going to get slapped. Anoth-
er strong civil rights program was
adopted—even stronger than rec-
ommended in the platform—was
barely adopted.
Texans held a caucus Sunday
afternoon, July 11, and then met
in caucus Monday from 4 to 11
p|mj with a recess of only one
hour. It was at this caucus that
Gov. Ben Laney of Arkansas was
called in and said he would not
support Truman if he were nom-
inated. The caucus barely voted
to endorse Laney over the pro-
test of Gov. Beauford Jester, who
said he would not vote for any
candidate who would not support
the nominee of the convention.
Miss Barkley Talk
The long Monday caucus caused
Texans to miss the great keynote
address of Senator Alben W.
Barkley of Kentucky that night.
After the platform was announced,
Qov. Laney said he would not run
(Continued on page four)
CLINTON V. OLDHAM
Dedication services will be held
Sunday for the new $16,000
Church of Christ building. Ser-
vices have been arranged under
the auspices of the pastor, Clin-
ton V. Oldham.
Sundry school will be held at
10 a. m., preaching at 11 a. ni.
and communion services at 11:45
a. m. A special song service will
be held from 3 to 4 p. m. and ser-
vices will also be held at 8 p. m.
Services in the new auditorium
will mean abandonment of the
old church, the oldest in Pan-
handle. It originally was built b'y
the northern Methodists about 50
years ago.
National Farm Safety Week Scheduled
For July 25-31 By Extension Service
v
National Farm Safety Week, by
proclamation of the President of
the United States, will be July 25-
31. The Extension Service is co-
operating with the National Safety
Council; the press and all active
community organizations in an at-
tempt to stop accidents.
If every farm family in Carson
county will accept the responsibil-
ity for the elimination of at least
one hazard for every member of
the family, the local goal will be
reached. Nationally, it is the goal
to eliminate 30,000,000 farm haz-
ards.
Groups Cooperate
The United States Department
of Agriculture through it’s Ex-
tension Service is cooperating with
the National Safety Council, The
Nation Fire Protection Association,
the Farm Equipment Institute, The
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, the Farmer’s Union, the Na-
tional Grange and many other or-
ganizations interested in agricul-
ture and farm life.
Locally, the extension agents
wish to work with the Red Cross,
veterans organizations, civic and
service clubs, all farm organiza-
tions, junior organizations, the
press, implement dealers, peace
officers, and all others interested
in accident prevention.
Kit Carson Post No. 441, Amer-
ican Legion, through action of the
executive committee, has endorsed
the idea of the National Farm
Safety Week and its members will
do all possible to make the pro-
gram a success. Other organiza-
tions in Carson County will also
give their whole hearted support.
What Is the Outlook
Past records show that unless
precautions are taken one out of
every 18 farm residents will suf-
fer disabling injury this year. One
out of every 4 farms will be the
scene of an accident resulting
in a disabling injury to a farm
resident. Accidental death .will oc-
cur in one out of every 320 farm
families. A disabling injury will
strike some farm resident every
19 seconds.
Accidents, on the average, will
kill 51 farm residents every day.
Total costs of accidents involving
farm people, including fire, mo-
tor vehicle and property damage
will be $1,050,000,000.00. Four
farm buildings will be destroyed
by fire every hour of the day,
every day of the year, according
to the National Fire Protection
Association.
Causes Accidents
A partial list supplied by the
National Safety Council indicates
the common hazards that cause
hundreds of accidents each year.
They are stairs without handrails
or in need of repairs, faulty me-
chanical or electrical equipment,
unsafe bull pens, frayed electric
cords, unsafe ladders, defective
hand tools, rotten boards or planks
in porches, lofts, bins, etc., worn
ropes, unprotected chutes, inade-
quately lighted barns, loose boards
with nails in them, uncovered
water tanks and wells, unprotected
pools, rubbish in yard, field or
garden, oil-saturated or paint rags,
weeds, brush, old lumber or oth-
er fire' hazards around buildings.
Unmarked and unpainted gas-
oline containers, loose matches,
horns on cattle and tusks on boars,
makeshift harness, improperly
stored explosives or flammable
iiquids, incorrect electrical fuses,
homemade electric fence control-
lers, small rugs on stairs, loaded
guns, unsafe or careless workers,
poisons stored within reach of
children, matches within reach of
children, equipment not properly
guarded, improperly stored tools,
toys and supplies, tripping haz-
ards such as mops or brooms on
stairs, loose fitting or torn clothing
around machinery, improper
hitches to power machinery.
• Motor vehicle accidents kill
more farm residents than any oth-
er type but falls lead the list.
Accidents involving machinery are
next, then accidents involving an-
imals and tools. Burns rank next
to falls in home accidents. Fire-
arms and drownings are important
recreational types of accidents.
Farm And Ranch
Tours Planned
Farm and ranch tours will be
held in Armstrong and Carson
Counties next month. Action was
taken by the soil district board
of supervisors at their monthly
meeting held July 16 in the court
house at Claude. Supervisors and
ptlfers present at the (meeting
agreed that much more can be
accomplished toward a proper soil
and water management program
by holding such tours than from
meetings in offices alone. Super-
visor D. W. Osborne of Panhandle
will be in charge of the farm tour
and Supervisor Forest Doshier of
Claude will head up the ranch
tour. They will be assisted by the
other supervisors and the county
agents of the two counties, by
Louis Dawkins representing the
Texas Soil Conservation Board, by
Quentin Williams, district conser-
vationist of S. C. S., by Knox Parr,
Roberts Motor
Open House Set
For Saturday
Open house for Roberts Motor
Co., Dodge and Plymouth distrib-
utors, will be held Saturday, al-
though the firm has been open
for business1 for two months.
Roberts Motor Co. is Carson
county distributor for Dodge mo-
tor cars and trucks.
C. W. and P. D. Roberts, broth-
ers, are from St. Jo, Texas, where
they graduated from high school.
Later they attended North Texas
State College.
P. D. was an ensign in the Navy
i and C. W. was a first lieutenant
in the infantry. The latter was a
patient for a long time in the Wal-
ter Reed hospital just around the
corner from General Pershing’s
apartment. The entire staff wor-
shipped Pershing and fought for
the privilege of serving the great
general, Roberts said.
The Roberts Co. remodeled the
south of the Vance Service Sta-
tion. This is the site of the Cole-
man Garage, erected here during
1926. That building was destroy-
ed by fife.
The shop has been open several
weeks with Joe Adcock foreman.
Several Dodge cars will be on
display Saturday. The brothers
wish the people of Carson county
to visit them for open house Satur-
day.
The district agent will be here
for the open house.
BIRTHS
Vote Saturday
(Editorial)
Election day should be important in our lives.
Not too many nations have the opportunity to go
to the polls and cast unhampered votes like
American citizens.
The Democratic primary will be held from 8
a. m. to 7 p. m. Saturday. All persons wishing to
participate in the Democratic primary should do
so.
The Herald is a believer in the people voting.
It usually expresses its views on public affairs
and also comments on the qualifications of state-
wide candidates. However, this newspaper would
rather have the people vote against its recommen-
dations rather than not go to the polls.
Our only contested local races are for com-
missioner and constable. Our local ballot is
probably the shortest since the Democratic pri-
mary was established. Lack of local candidates
should not cause Carson county residents to neg-
lect going to the polls Saturday.
Texans have the opportunity to vote for gov-
ernor, United States senator, supreme court
justices, state treasurer, lieutenant governor,
railroad commissioners and other offices.
Just being good citizens should cause quali-
fied voters to go to the polls. If you plan to vote,
vote early. It takes time to count ballots and
close an election. Cooperate with the clerks and
judges by voting early.
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Wright, Bor-
ger, are the parents of a son
Thomas Lawrence, Jr., born at
4:11 p. m., Tuesday, July 20, and
weighing 6 lbs., 15 ounces. Mrs.
Wright is the former Mary Chen-
oweth of Panhandle and C. E.
Chenoweth is the paternal grand-
district extension agent and others, father.
Details of the tours, which will
include stops at farms and raches
in both counties, will be announc-
ed later.
The matter of weed control re-
ceived considerable attention at
this recent board meeting. Reports
received by supervisors and by the
county agents indicated many far-
mers and ranchers are truly in-
terested in the several phases of
soil and water conservation as
outlined this spring by the district
board. However, weed control
stands out as the number one
problem as reported by many land
owners, operators and managers.
An effort is being made to secure
a weed control specialist as well
as one or more soil specialists to
attend the proposed tours.
All suggestions anyone inter-
ested cares to make on weed con-
trol or other conserving practices
will be more than welcome by the
supervisors of the soil district or
by the county agents. If this Stak-
ed Plains Soil Conservation Dist-
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Meaker
are the parents of a son, Michael
Gene, weight 5 lbs., 7 oz., born at
Northwest Texas Hospital, Ama-
rillo, July 17. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Meaker in
Panhandle, and Mr. and Mrs. J.
H Garner, Amarillo. O. Meaker,
Panhandle is a great-grandfather.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Witt are the
parents of a daughter, Anna Paul-
ine, weight 9 lbs., born Friday,
July 16, in Worley Hospital,
Pampa.
rict functions as it should it will
be because the people of Arm-
TWO SUITS RECORDED
Two district court suits were
filed last week. Rayburn Eugene
Harlan and wife filed an appli-
iation for adoption of a child
July 12. The following day Mrs.
Mayme Ree Barnard filed suit for
divorce against W. E. Barnard.
strong and Carson Counties took
an active interest in the organ-
ization and through this interest
developed a practical and a long-
time program.
Christian Church
Dedication To Be
Sunday, Oct! 24
Date of dedication of the new
building of the Christian Church
has been set for Sunday, October
Dr. D. Ray Lindley, dean of
Brite College of the Bible Texas
Christian University, will be dedi-
catory speaker, and Station
KGNC, Amarillo, is preparing to
run a special wire to Panhandle
and broadcast the entire dedica-
tory service.
Dr. Lindley will remain with the
church for one week of special
evangelistic service fQllowing the
dedication.
In addition to being dean, Dr.
Lindley also teaches several
courses in practical ministry and
during open time between semest-
ers and the giving of tests he
visits various types of churches
and studies the program of those
churches.
The Panhandle church is recon-
nized as one of the leading town
and country churches of the de-
nomination, and Dr. Lindley will
make a study of Panhandle and
its church activities as well as
lead in the dedication of the
building and the evangelistic
meeting which follows.
The congregation hopes to have
the first worship in the new build-
ing Sunday, Aug. 22.
The installation of the Wurlit-
zer organ and Maas chimes in-
cludes also four large amplifiers
in the tower and an amplifica-
tion unit which will permit broad-
casting an entire service through
the tower, for a distance of four
miles if necessary.
Beginning the first Sunday the
congregation worships in the new
building a passersby service will
be held at 6 to 6:30 in the even-
ing and continuing through the
summer months.
This service will consist of
organ music and chimes with Mrs.
Clyde Wayne Hendon at the con-
sole and special musical numbers
by the singers of the community
who desire to participate, and the
reading of appropriate passages
of Scripture and poems by the
minister.
This will afford an opportunity
for late Sunday afternoon autoists
to drive around the developing
civic center of Panhandle and
listen to this new type of service.
During the fall and winter
months the usual Sunday evening
church service will be conducted
in the sanctuary.
Panhandle Gets
1.85 Inches Rain
High winds and severe electrical
storms during the past week have
done much damage to Panhandle
and vicinity. Late afternoon thun-
derstorms have given 1.85 inches
of rain, but winds have damaged
barns, garages, trees and tele-
phone lines and lightening did
damage to telephones and to high-
lines. Panhandle was without elec-
tricity for more than two hours
Wed. afternoon because of damoge
to a highline near St. Francis.
Temperatures for the past week
have been the highest of the sea-
son, with showers bringing lower
night time temperatures. The high
for the week was 100 on July 20
and the low 61 on July 17.
Temperatures and rainfall a-
mounts
for the past week
follow:
July 15
High Low
91 63
Rain
tr.
July 16
94 63
.11
July 17
94 61
—
July 18
94 63
.01
July 19
95 72
—
July 20
100 70
1.43
July 2(1
99 74
.30
Mrs. Ed Foster’s
Sister Succumbs
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Foster were
called to Oklahoma City last week
by the illness of Mrs. John D.
Woods, sister of Mrs. Foster.
Mrs. Woods 53, died Wednes-
day, July 14, and funeral services
were held in Ponca City Saturday.
Suvivors include the husband a
daughter, Mrs. E. O. Wasser, Chi-
cago, another sister, Mrs. Cath-
erine Ribb, Seminole, Ocla.; qj
brother, H. H. Kelly, Borger.
Mrs. Woods had visited in Pan-
handle several times and was
known by several people, who sent
flowers to the service.
POLLS WILL BE 5
OPEN 11 HOURS
AT NINE BOXES
U. S. Senator’s
Race Exected
To Top Interest
The Democrats of Texas march
to the polls Saturday and it is
predicted that the votes cast will
set a state record.
Carson county has one of the
smallest ballots in its history with-
out a county-wide race. Only con-
tested races are for commissioner
of Precinct No. 1 and for .con-
stable of Precinct No. 1.
The state races are expected to
bring out the heavy vote with the
United States senator campaign
topping the list. Three leading
candidates are Coke Stevenson,
L. B. Johnson and George Peddy.
Stevenson Leads
Polls early in the week show
that Coke Stevenson is close to a
majority over the balance of the
field. Stevenson was governor 5V£
years after serving as member
of the house and as lieutenant
governor.
Stake in this race is the one
who will succeed Senator W. Lee
O’Daniel. Stevenson succeeded
O’Daniel as governor and now he
is trying to follow him as U. S.
senator. 1
Although Gov. Beauford Jester
has many opponents, polls show
that he will get more than three-
fourths of the vote. His opposition
has been regarded as minor.
Polls Open Nine Hours
Carson county county’s nine
boxes will be open from 8 a. m.
to 7 p. m. Voting boxes will be
at Panhandle, Liberty, Abell ele-
vator, White Deer, Conway,
Groom, Gulf Camp, Skellytown
and Lark.
Reports will be compiled as
quickly as possible by the Demo-
cratic executive committee and,
made available to the public.
Contested Races
Contested races follow. U. S.
Senator—Otis C. Myers, F. B.
Clark, R. H. Collier, Coke R. Ste-
venson, Cyclone Davis, F. G. Cor-
tex, J. C. Saunders, George Peddy,
L. B. Johnson, Terrell Sledge, J,
F. Aliord.
Governor—Beauford H. Jester,
S. W. Stockton, R. Q. Evans, C. B.
Hutchinson, H. A. May, Caso
March, W. J. Minton, D. S. White-
ley.
Lieutenant Governor — Allan
Shivers, Turner Walker.
Chief Justice Supreme Court—
J. E. Hickman, C. T. Rowland.
Associate Justice Supreme
Court, Place 2—J. P. Hart, J. A.
Rawlings.
Associate Justice Supreme
Court, unexpired term, Place 3—
W. St. Johns Garwood, J. F.
Smith.
Judge Court of Criminal Ap-
peals—Harry N. Graves, W. E.
Myers.
Railroad Commissioner, regular
team—Ernest O. Thompson, Tom
Blakey.
Murray Runs
Railroad Commissioner, unex-
pired term—William J. Murray,
Jr., Carlton Moore, Clyde Austin.
Comptroller—Geo. H. Sheppard,
C. E. Butler.
Treasurer—Jesse James, Bruce
Lloyd.
Commissioner of Agriculture—
J. E. McDonald, James D. Griffin-
Associate Justice, 7th court of
civil appeals—James G. Lumpkin,
E. O. Northcutt.
State Representative, 123rd dis-
trict—Selden Simpson, J. Blake
Timmons.
Commissioner Precinct No. 1—
George Crossman, Wm. Doyal
Yates, Lee Roy Meaker.
Constable, Precinct No. 1—<X
R. Meaker, W. F. Huff.
Williams Reports Tax Collections
Pass 99 Per Cent During Past Year
pampans coming
“Hang Your Hat on the Top o’
Texas” will ring in the ears of
Panhandle people at 8:30 a. r
Tuesday, July 27, when a delega-
tion of Pampa boosters will be
here to extend invitations to the1
Annual Top o’ Texas Rodeo and
Horse Show to be held in Pampa
August 3-7 and to give a 30-min-
ute program.
Sheriff Clarence Williams, coun-
ty tax assessor collector, has re-
leased his annual settlement state-
ment for the fiscal year July 1,
1947, to June 30, 1948, which is the
best report made by his office in
recent years. The report follows:
Assessments
State ------------$121,103.79
County _____ 163,595.10
Road ------------- 22,088.98
Schools ---------- 27,745.25
Collections
$120,095.88
162,135.77
21,941.03
27,408.28
$334,533.12
Percentage
99.16
99.10
99.33
98.78
District, reports his collections as
of June 30, with two full months
for collections on his fiscal year,
Sept. 1, 1947, to August 31, 1948,
yet to be received, to be 98.9.
Tax books in the office of the
city manager are in the hands of
the auditor in preparation for the
change in personnel August 1.
These reports show financial
conditions in both Panhandle and
Carson County to be in splendid
condition.
$331,580.96
The road
taxes are
99.11
those of
District 1, White Deer.
Joe Rorex, tax collector of the
Panhandle Independent School
CONVENTION SATURDAY
Democratic precinct conventions
wll be held at the various voting
boxes at 2 p. m. Saturday. Dele^
gates will be elected to the county
convention to be held the follow-
ing Saturday,
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