The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1948 Page: 1 of 20
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The Hereford Brand, Hereford, Texas, Thursday, January 15. 1948
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SIGHTS, FACES
SEEN
Local Denies will oe closed Mon*
day^Jemiary 19, for Robert R Lee’s
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Penney Company force. He was
associated with the company in Den-
ver, and will be assistant manager
here. Mrs. lfadsen and small son.
Gary Lynn, will arrive next week,
\ and after February I, win be at
home at 407 Jowell.
OTHER HEW ARRIVALS: At
the Deaf Smith county hospital this
week, we note the following: Michael
Timothy Brownlow, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. O. Brownlow, arrived Janu-
ary •; Jacqueline K. Welty, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Welty, ar-
rived January 8; Nancy Delores
Lane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Lane, arrived January 10;
and Alice Lee Martin, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Martin, arrived
January 13. Welcome to our city.
Commissioners Court has employ-
ed Mrs. Margaret Johnson as county
auditor, to succeed Mary Jane Mor-
gan, who resigned recently to go
Into business on her own.
Why doesn't somebody clean oft
the bulletin board at the south door
of the Courthouse. Casual inspec-
tion of same the other day revealed.
In the top layer of notices, OPA
Regulationc (now where have we
heard of OPA) dated way hack
a notice of a City Bond Elec-
April 29, 1947: various
le notices (to be posted
public place) dated for various
(Continned an page 13)
Harold Stassen
fffll Speak Next
Monday al Canyon
—-—
Former Governor Harold Stassen
of Minnesota, an avowed candidate
for the Republican nomination for
President of the United States, will
speak at Canyon next Monday after-
noon. January 19, at 3:45 o'clock at
the West Texas State College aud-
itorium.
Charlie Hutchinson, student body
president at the college, has announ-
ced that Stassen’s talk will be open
to the public, and that interested
citisens from all over this section
are Invited to hear him.
Stassen is making a whirlwind
speaking four of the Southwest in an
effort to line up delegates to the Re-
publican National Convention.
Governor Stassen served in the U.
S. Navy during the war, and has'
since been working with the Amer-
ican delegation to the United Nat-
ions Assembly.
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Swimming
' One Sum ,i
be bsokec for Here-
160,809 municipal swtm-
probably within a few
D. Ford Construction
contractors on the pro-
tool shed on the site
[east end of Lake Park this
ire awaiting the arrival
to start construction,
ngineers were due in Here-
Say to stake out the site.
“ ‘ call for completion of
l bath houses in time for
later than June 1, and
50 per day penalty for
beyond the deadline date
completion.
tor construction of the
pool was let to the Ford Construc-
tion Company of Cordell, Oklahoma,
an December 16 at a low bid of
mm.
The pool will be 40 by 130 feet,
with modem bath houses and a
wading pool for small children ad-
joining the main pooL
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Potato Acreage
Goals Upped To
1947 Figures
to speak in canyon Couiractor Meets
Midi Local Group
Last Monday
Hereford's house-hungry citi-
sens saw a ray of hope ... but
only a ray so far .. . Monday
afternoon when W. C. Schutts
Jr., housing contractor who in
now compietih* his third housing
project In Plain view, met with
direetors of the Hereford Cham-
ber of Commerce, members of
the Junior Chamber of Commer-
ce, local business men and the
city officials to discuss possi-
bilities of a housing project in
Hereford.
Schutts has completed projects
covering some 500 FHA homes In
Plain view duting the past two years.
He was Interested in a local pro-
ject by Dubs Reeves, JayCee direc-
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Harold Stamen (above) will speak = . . ,. ... . __.__
at Canyon next Monday afternoon tor.w.*}°
in the interest of his candidacy for
the Republican nomination for the
President of the United States.
JayCees to Stage Membership
Drive in Hereford This Month
Wanted: Young men between the
ages of » and 35 inclusive, to par-
ticipate, Ah a program of civic bn-
and development: to
advancement ahd
That, briefly, waa the call issued
this week by the Hereford Junior
Revised notices of potato goals
for the 1948 spud are bilag Commerce has been active since
the young men of the community.
Bartley Dowell has been L 7
ed chairman of the no
committee. The JayCees,
last summer, now have a member-
ship of about 30, and hope to double
the number during the next few
weeks.
JayOee members and prospective
new members will attend the first
night dinner meeting of the organi-
sation at the City Hall banquet
room on January 37. The dinner
will be the fUst of a aeries of month-
ly dinner meetings planned by the
JayCees. Program arrangements
are in charge of Paul Coneway. The
dinner this month will climax the
membership drive.
There are young men at work
in worthwhile endeavor in your
Junior Chamber of Commerce,''
Dowell aaid this week In extending
an Invitation to new members. “The
opportunity is now extended you to
join them in the privilege of build-
ing your city’s future.''
Local business Onus are being in-
vited to become senior members of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
and to »elect young men from among
their employees to be active mem-
bers.
Active membership is restricted
only to young men of good charac-
ter who are within the ages speci-
fied. Dues, Including state and
national dues, are only $10 per year.
The Hereford Junior Chamber of
its
to spud growers in Deaf Smith coun-
ty this week, F. O ColUer, secretary
of the County ACA committee, said
yesterday.
The 1948 acreage goals will be
practically the same as tat year,
ColUer said.
The Secretary of Agriculture, af-
ter ordering sharp cuts in 1948 po-
tato acreage last December, sudden-
ly made an about-face Just as local
committees were mailing out indi-
vidual farm acreage goals and is-
sued a “hold everything" order.
Restoration of the 1947 goal was the
Actually the Deaf Smith county
goal for 1948 planting is seven acres
greater than in 1947. The new
county goal Is 4,173 acres as com-
pared with 4,188 last year. Only
3.480 acres of spuds were actually
planted In this county In 1*47.
February 3 Is the deadline for re-
porting on these goals. OoUler said.
Any protasis by growers must be
Clad by that date; and all growers
must report no later than February
3 whether or not they intend to
plant their goal
If any grower is not planning to
plant his goal, OoUler said, he
should report It so Out the excess
may be assigned to some
other grower who wants to
New grower gods end policies are
organisation to numerous civic pro-
jects. and plans a full year's pro-
gram of activity for 1948, John
Kelly. JayCee president, said this
Projects undertaken by the Jay-
Cees todate have included park im-
provement, a community Hallowe'en
Carnival, the Christmas decorations
and program, and most recently, the
preparations of plans adopted last
week by the City Commission to pro-
vide street markers for the city of
Hereford.
In addition to the active mem-
bership of the local Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce, several older busi-
ness men have been enrolled by the
organisation as senior members, and
other individuals and firms are In-
vited to Join on this basis.
Sheriff's Office
Shows Gain to
County of $1683
The Deaf Smith county Sheriffs
department has showed a net gain
to the county, over and above ex-
penses, of 81,803.37 for the pear Of
1*47, Worth Covington, deputy, re-
ported this week.
Total reotipts of the ofttea. aa
listed by Covington, wen 811,34*.I*.
Of this amount. *1,381.83 was la
sheriffs fore. *0,300.11 in ooUac-
FOR RE-ELECTION
Sheriff J. C. Reese (above has an-
nounced bis candidacy for his sec-
ond term In the prisaarles this mm-
Sheriff Beese
Will Make Race
For Re-EIecIfon
project while visiting friends there
recently. At Reeves’ request, the
Hereford Chamber of Commerce had
sent a committee, composed of
Bob Wilson, H V. Hendrick, J. C.
McCracken, and Reeves to Plain-
view to investigate the project. The
committee arranged for the meet-
ing here Tuesday.
Schotts told the committee he
woald be definitely Interested in
contracting a housing project
In Hereford If it eeedd be demon-
strated that a sufficient mm-
her of poop) wanted to buy a
ItiHiiF |f & SMtt&feiC flttfe itYUlfl
bo obtained, and if ntiMty facu-
lties, inetadteg MeeteWNy, gas,
water and sewage, to the site
could bo guaranteed.
He indicated that he would be
interested to building a minimum
of 35 houses, but would build any
number, required, j
tn the Ptoimiew project
ranged to cost from *7,500 for a 2-
bodroom house and garage, to $9,500
for a 3-bedroom house and double-
garage. All prices included the lot
and Improvements, including side-
walk and paving; and houses were
built to FHA specifications.
Tentative plans were advanced
for a 50-house project. A site for the
development, located Wfest of hteh-
way 51 and north of Harrison, with-
in the Hereford City limits, has
been tentatively selected to accom-
odate approximately 50 houses.
Schutts made it plain to the
group Monday, however, that
he was not interested to build-
ing homes on speculation. “We
are not in the real estate bas-
inets,” he said, “and don’t want
to era any houses. Our business
Is building than.”
He indicated that he would want
signed purchase commitments from
the prospective owners before be-
ginning the project; and that he
would. If he undertook the pro-
ject, be prepared to offer contracts
stating a definite price for a definite
house.
He also pointed out that he would
require definite assurance that util-
ities would be available before start-
ing construction. Mayor W. E. Dam-
eron and City Commissioner J. O.
McCracken, who were representing
(Continued on page 13)
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J. C. Reese, now serving his first
tedm as Sheriff, Tax Assessor and |
Collector of Deaf Smith county, this |
week became the first county official i
to announce his candidacy for re-
election in the primaries this sum-
mer.
Reese, a former member of the
Texas Highway Patrol, resigned
from the Patrol in the spring of 1946
to make the race for Sheriff to the
Democratic Primary, winning with-
out a run-off over three opponents
in the first primary. , -—
His statement follows: | The case of John L. Whitsett vs.
“I wish to take this opportunity Virginia Ethel Whitsett and others.
Whiisett Case Is
Settled Without
Jury Trial
Street Markers Will Be Installed in Citij Within 60 Dags
opes Raised for FHA Housing
evelopment in Hereford Soon
WEST TEXAS STATE COLLEGE PREXIES: NEW AND RETIRING
Dr. James F. Cornette (left) president-elect of West Texas State College, pose
president, at the dinner honoring the new preoHont at Canyon last Friday night.
i with Dr. J. A. Hill, rearing
(Amarillo Times Photo)
Decision Is
Reached Al
Hearing
Over 400 Attend Dinner Honoring New West
Texas Stale College President al Canyon
More than 400 Panhandle citi-
zens gathered at the new College
Cafeteria building on the campus
of West Texas State College at
Canyon last Friday night to attend
a dinner welcoming Dr. James P.
Cornette, president-elect of the In-
stitution, to Canyon and thq Pan-
handle.
Dr. Cornette. lately dean of Bay-
lor University at Waco, begrere ex-
ecutive vice president^ West Texas
State on January 1, and Will become
the third president of the college
on September 1. when he will suc-
ceed Dr. J. A. Hill, who has announ-
ced ills retirement, effective on that
date.
The dinner was given by the Can-
yon Chamber of Commerce and the
Canyon Rotary Club. Guests from
practically every town to the Pan-
handle area served by the college
were invited.
Special guests at the dinner were
four members of the Board of Re-
gents. Newton Harrell of Claude,
vice president of the board; Judge
W. L. Karr of Midland, president;
the young president-elect dearly
outlined for his audience the poli-
cies which will govern his adminis-
tration of the college.
had better come to me white the
team is winning ... not when it is
He stressed the qualities at hon-
esty, sincerity, and straight-for-
wardness as his measure of men. “If
he has these," he said, Til get a-
ton* with him; If he doesn't, I don't
with him
ex*1
ponent of “the American way,” Dr.
Cornette told bis listeners, however,
that the man who accuses another
of being a communist because the
About athletics: "I am a supporter other man differs with him in polit-
of athletics, but I do not believe ‘cal opinions, when neither is a
that a losing ball game turns a good
coach into a bad one overnight. If
any of you want a coach fired, you
communist, is “as dangerous, if not
more so, than a communist." Intol-
(Continued on page 13)
List Approved Conservation
Practices in County for 1948
Dr. Heard Tells World About Deaf
Smith County On "We, The People'
add to their soils the minerals found
abundantly to Deaf Smith county.
We grow something better than
to announce to the people of Deaf
Smith county that I wiU be a can-
didate for re-election to the office
of Sheriff. Tax Assessor and Col-
lector, in the Democratic Primary
this summer.
When I first announced my can-
didacy for this office two years ago.
I promised you I would do every-
thing to my power to make you a
fair and impartial officer, and
would conduct the affaire of this
office to a business like manner. I
believe that my record will bear out
tiie fact that I have carried out my
pledge to you.
In this connection, I want to ex-
press my sincere appreciation to the
law-abiding citisens of this county
for your hearty support and your
cooperation and assistance. With-
out this public support, which you
have so generously given, it would
have been impossible for this office
to function as effectively as it has
(Continued on page 13)
Confess to Talk
t. r.j.„u..
a suit to revoke a trust agreement, portunity to elaborate on his theory
involving the Whitsett estate, was
settled out of court Tuesday after-
noon at the close of the second day
of the hearing in District Court.
Terms of the settlement involved
execution of a new trust agreement,
and re-appointment of the same
trustees who had administered the
old trust, Mrs. Virginia K. Whitsett.
Bffyle Whitsett Kellogg, and Robert
L. Thompson.
A jury panel which had been sum-
moned to appear Tuesday morning
to hear testimony to the care was
dismissed Wednesday morning. No
Jury selection was ever made.
Arguments la the case began be-
fore District Judge Harry Schulte
Monday morning, continued through
the day. and were re-opened Tues-
day after the Jury panel had been
and ordered to report
again the following morning.
Arguments Monday and Tuesday
oooeerned admissibility of
In the ease, and were heard by
Judge Schulte before the Jury was
tailed in. Counsel for the defense
had offered 33 »»-r*Vwit to Um
plaintiffs pleadings, most of which
and Harold Jones of
Dr. G. W. Heard, 80-year old den-
tist from “the town without a tooth-
ache,” was heard on a nation-wide
broadcast on the “We, The People” - . ...
program over Columbia Broadcast- money," he told his Interviewer
however. “That s good health, and
all the money in the world cant buy
that.”
Hereford friends of the elderly
doctor got an unscheduled laugh
when the program’s announcer com-
mented wonderingly that Doctor
Heard was past 80 years old, and had
"come all the way to New York by
himself.'’ The doctor is a sprightly
and well-travelled octogenarian.
Sharing the program Tuesday
night were a Brooklyn subway po-
liceman, a singing cowboy, a min-
ister for the deaf, a New York
comedian, and Francis X. Bushman
of Hollywood, film star of another
era.
tog System network Tuesday night
—and it's a safe bet that 90 per
cent of Hereford radios were tuned
to Columbia stations during the half-
hour broadcast.
In his brief Interview. Dr. Heard
refuted the oft-repeated statement
that Hereford Is really “a town with-
out a toothache," but declared that
“there wouldn't be any need for a
dentist at all if these people will
learn one thing—to cat the food
they grow on their own land.”
Limited sharply by a prepared
sript, the doctor was given no op-
that people everywhere could enjoy
tooth-acheless lives if they would
Annual March of Dimes Will
#
Star! in Hereford Today
Foods Cnt Hali
Of Allotment for
1947 Practices
Permanent-type
eet markers are to be
at every street intersection la
the city limits of Hereford with-
in the next M days, and a pro-
ject to re-assign hease num-
bers throughtout the city to to
be undertaken immediately h
connection with the street mark-
ing program.
Decision to launch both projects
immediately was made by the Here-
ford City Commission tact Thurs-
day afternoon following a meeting
with representatives of the Cham-
ber of Commerce. Junior Chamber
of Commerce. Business and Profes-
sional Woman’s Clubs, post office
department, and local doctors.
A committee Including Neal
Young representing the JayCees
Pete Cowart of the Chamber of
Commrree, city Marshall Brace
Wooddell. Postmaster Jim Ups-
Comb. Dr. L. B. Barnett, and
Mrs. Dyalthia Bradley and Mrs.
Ellen Carter of the B A PW
Club attended the Imrlot before
the City Commission.
Immediate Installation of the mar-
kers was urged aa an emergency
measure.
Dr. Barnett, representing the lo-
cal medical profession, cited a re-
cent case when difficulty In locat-
ing an address on a night emergen-
cy call caused a delay of more than
half an hour In reaching a patient,
a delay which might have resulted
to tragedy, the doctor pointed oat
Postmaster Lipsoomb presented
the case for the Poet Office Depart-
ment, which has long complained of
the city's failure to provide adequate
street markers and has threatened
to lend city delivery. An agree-
mer was recently reached by
tify 1th til* ......
to have a
one year.
Mayor
that
delayed i
snuy i no win ay ene
department, however,
pteted
installed: bo* stated that If the
situation
gency, the city
in installing
marten. *■
Neal Young, representing the Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce, present-
ed plans for a concrete marker, pre-
pared for the JayCees by Bruce
Wooddell, which, he pointed out.
could be used now as temporary
markers and could be Installed as
permanent markers with no teas of
time or money when the curbs tor
paving are completed.
The markers, patterned after the
ones in use in the city of Vernon,
are of concrete, standing 24 inches
high, 18 inches wide, and 8 inches
thick, with a broad concrete foot*
ing. The street name to indented
to the concrete on an tnaltnod {date
at the top of the marker. Installed
at the curb line, the markers will
stand approximately 18 inchee high.
The marfcen, Tmmg painted
out can ‘ “ ' "
edat low
teporarily oa
by setting
the bread
from
be
the curb line
are paved.
They are easily read, he pointed
out, and have an additional advan-
tage in that the lettering on the
inclined face grows more legible
as the markers become dirty or
mud-spattered, instead of fading out
as many curb markers do.
Young presented figures on the
cost of the markers as compared
with others, and presented ptoM
for their manufacture.
Pete Cowart, who earns a eon-
(Continued an pege 11)
t
to dirt.
toppling ever; and
installed permanent!)
The annual March of Dimes drive
to build up the nation's depleted
Polio funds begins to Hereford to-
day, Paul Harvey, county chairman,
announced this morning.
Lyle Blanton is campaign director
for the 1*4* drive.
Collection boxes are appearing to-
day tn all focal stores, and to busi-
ness houses at Dawn and Bummer-
field. Dime cards have gone into
the mail, and the machinery is al-
ready turning to build up the fund.
The Deaf Smith county chapter
Is broke end to tee hole. Harvey
reports. Funds built up over a period
of several years have been corn-
ier this year, and' *850 has been
_ borrowed from the National ltounda-
B. N. Richards of Dalhart. tion to tide the chapter over until
ve donations can be raised.
Cost of maintaining one child In
Polio clinic it about *3M per
Lloyd Often Bnys
Clovis Andion Co.
With the cash allotment to Deaf
Smith county for farm conservation
practices cut nearly in half this year,
the county ACA committee yester-
day released a list of 22 conserva-
tion practices for which payments
will be approved during 1948.
Practices are about the same as
last year. F. G. Collier, county ACA
secretary, said, with a few minor
changes.
The county’s allotment for the
current year under the conservation
program has been cut to *90,500, al-
most exactly half of the 1947 fund.
Last year *189.500 was alloted in
this county for conservation work.
However, Collier reports, only
$99,000 of the available fund was
used last year, the balance being re-
turned to the government; and on
that basis, the funds allotted for
1948 are only $8,500 short of the
amount actually required last year.
The *500 personal limit on pay-
ments is still in effect.
Principal changes in the program
adopted for this county for 1948 ap- cagers
plies to payments for drilling wells w.i. center "B”
on grass land, setting the minimum week-end. and went down to the
I at 1280 acres in gross; with a siml- 1 championship g-™- 31-33 before
| lar restriction on the deferred gras- the determined the Krais
tog practice. Both sure range prac- , five,
tices. The Whitefsoe
One new practice has been approv- out Hale Center
ed this year by the county commit- , 54-33. Meingta
toe. permitting payments for chisel- 1 with 21 points. .!t«aww
ing not on the contour of cropland i Melugln and
or land planted to crops to 1948.
1
Hereford R Team
Goes io Finals
In Tonrnameni
The Hereford Whlte{ace “B” team
tgers surged to the finals to Mil
-1
Lloyd Otten, former Hereford auc-
tioneer, this week announced pur-
chase of the Clovis livestock auc-
son pete Knapp and Clyde RayL committee. ColUer said, on the baste points each
Otten left Hereford to 1*41 and <*«» g^^^Mtation to four: soaring with 3*
Urestock*Sates ** A“"m°! Us ’purpose is to permit j’lta*
Top yearlings ranged up to $3*80 |U<» practices on tend where eon-j the all
tAXA ——
heifers and steer calves
brought *37 a hundred Bill Hunter
was another Hereford man who In-
cluded consignments to the sate test
This practice was added by the quh^ta^he”"
swa* n««s.mvwo wu WHSii wtwsw UWU- : MJg Bll'ginu usumip*
our chiseling is Impractical. Tuesday night Is
Other approved practices for IMS [gym, the hustling X
lad Kn ’BSlJfitr *nd 1
its/sua
Otten reports
out If Deaf {to Oorts to the
devote hte
that he will more
future and will
to the
are:
j 1. Construction of
[ which proper outlets are
2. Construction of
races. 1
3. Establishing a vegetative water-
way. with 14 and
4. Constructing or enlarging
5. LmreUtoi for trrtgattan^tend for a see-saw battle
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