The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1937 Page: 1 of 10
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tate Will Let Paving Contract On Highway 60
ire Victim
Relation of
Local People
Mm. G. W. Clieaher, victim of the
laaglc fire which destroyed $35,
worth of property In Htulun
Tne*htay of liuit we,*k, wn* the
ilater w Mm. C. K. Wade. R. L.
Harvey, and the mini of Mm. O.
18. West, all of Hereford. The
' gull people attended the funeral
f*Jjces lield at Littlefield Thurs-
i ay, December 81.
aira. Ohesher was surns-nird
'when she wn« trapped In the up-
appartment of the Oerden Thou*
by Are which broke out In the
^ullding and spread to the balcony
before it waa discovered. Her
•help crle* and acreama awoke
her huaband who waa sleeping In
the back part of the building and
’Y. Onatott who waa sleeping In
the back of another atore four
doom down the afreet
Help could not reach her, duo
lto the apreat^ of the blaae through
the haleony. .and Mr. (3ie«her heg-
her to Jump from the second
r window. ftbe attempted to
How his suggestion but fell t»ack
the window when, it la ba*
, eved, the wn* overcome by a
irt attack. Hniatl windows pro
Amneo from rescuing the
until hols* were cut through
reef and the blaae driven
Nk Mo Mm building,
lira. Cheaher waa born June 24,^
18711, and waa reared at Gates-
1 rllle. Ah lit mi Harsh Louise Har-
vey «lm waa married to G. W.
i Ohesher at Jackatioro in 1896. To
this union was born four aona and
two da ugh tern, all of whom sur-
iylvn thclr mother.
It The dereased had visited nls-
fives here many tlrawa and *i*f*n*l
a few daya here Just prior to
cphrlstmas. Hhe waa known by
'many Hereford I tr«.
* Mrs. West, Mr. Hnrvey and Mr*
i Wade of this city attended th *
Uat ritea at Littlefield and were
rewccomirttnled on the return tr!j*
M>y two of tb - victim’s brother*,
John Haney of Anton nml H. I*.
Haney ami wife of Newcastle,
who remained here (hvougti the
ft rat i«n i of this Week.
Boom Is Noted
In Irrigation
Well Business
Irrigation well contracting drill-
i— w.. iyuui uulnvliiir Iwmiii IiiimI.
||N * « ^ we — —- ■
h,-re for the [mat few weeks,
uat rating tl** advantage farmers
f Deaf Smith county are taking
the \ a*t supply of shallow wat-
|n this area. New wells are
ti.,l in varhma sections of
p county, while other land own-
have «nnouneed plans to drill
thin the neit few weeks.
Among those reported as having
recently completed Irrigation wells
were DnBol* Walker, two wells;
tried Arnold, one; Pete Engle, two
widla worked over; J. K. AndVews,
one; Mr. Harper, aoutb of Hum
merfietd. one well. Other wells
fhtv* been completed daring the
pant few months, bat the Brand
[bad not contacted their owners
redneedoy.
It baa been predicted that by the
Of February at least a down
would be working day and
'night on projects all around the
«Uy of Hertford.
Mr. and Mrs. I* I* Gannon of
the Hummerflold community, wore
Artfftr to • tranter of invited
at ft dinner Bunday. Tbooe
the WMiftiltm Included Lae
nod family, O. R. Waloor
•family. ■- A Fridley and
0. J. Paddock and wife, and
Brand Passes Another Milestone
As Publication Enters 37th Year
Time marches on! Th<> Hereford Brand pasoes another
Milestone In Its years c»f publication as this Issue marks Its
entry Into the f471li year. Starting In 1801, known then ns
the Hereford Reporter, the publication has maintained the
aim, "a service to the area it represents," ami the prophecy,
“a greater Hereford and lH*af Smith county".
Ho accurately has the Mraml rworded the Interesting ac-
counts of local huppenings ami other events having direct
louring upon the eltixi-nship of this
area that the paper hus loug since
become recognised, within the news-
(isper fraternities of Texas, ns one
of the leading weeklies of the Pan-
handle.
The Brand lih*s *|M*ak a loud
boast of the fuct that all Its pub-
1 ushers have amunpllshed must In
the way of Improvements through-
out Imth the county and the Olty
of Hereford. Its editorial columns
have carried much Influence and
resulted In vast development of the
conuty proper, while lta news col-
umns have recorded the happenings
of worthwhile eveuts und promo-
tional activities to the extend that
s living and accurate history of the ares Is ready to be hand-
ed down through the ages to come.
The publishers of The Brand during its early history were
many. Few changes have been made since the late ty*tb B.
Holman and Kail Gough obtained the paper In 1017. 3*ir. Hol-
man became sole owner a few months later when Mr. Cough
entered the World War. In 1925 the late publisher became «s-
xuriftted with W. U. Ateektuan and that partnership lasted one
jrwnr. The Nunn Warren Publishing Company purchased the
Brand lit 1829, when Mr. Holman retired ts-cause of 111 health.
He again arqntrv.l The Bnvad lu 19ft2, at wl»l«h rjmfc Mrs.
Heth B. Holman i>ecame active In the affairs of the business
ami continued as publisher through the time of his Illness und
death Its July, 1983, and until tin* present time
Time march** on and today the uim of the publisher Is
the same as In TV Brand's first year, "a service to the area
It represents". For this, the 37th year, the prophecy Is still
"a greater Hereford and Deaf Smith county," but " served
by the liexl weekly In the Panhandle" is added. It Is Tlx*
Brand’s g«**l. nml with the continued goto! supp.rf of a splen-
did eitlsensliip and progressive, advertising business firms that
goal will l*e reached as time innrehes on.
Drilling Is
Delayed On
Garcia Well
Drilling which was scheduled to'
liegin last w**ek on the Fnrwclll
<*■-
\o. 1, l*M*ated in the Gurcla Lake|(|n Monday night I was informed
area In Ib*af Smith county, was that th„ Mtuto hlghway eoromls-
* e ayed another week when : H|,,n j,as approval plans for the
ugo water whs discovered in 1L**, pav inyr of Highway 90 in Deaf
old casing, according to reports, HmUh couuty> aiul lt WfW under-
ueaday. j yhat contracts would l>e let
During the shut-down since 1930 about the middle
Telephone Report From Austin
Monday Night Announced State
Highway Department’s Decision
The Texas Highway Commission has approved the plans
submitted by W. J. Van London, division engineer stationed
at Amarillo, for paving of 21 miles of Highway 60 through
Deaf Smith eounty, according to a telephone call received
from Austin Monday night of this week.
In a telephone cnll from Ana--* .......................
of February,"
of activities at ihe wildcat test, i van London informed county o£-
prowlers out the heavy cable nml, tleluls here Tuesday.
drop|MMl the bit Into the I sit tom The division engineer estimated
of the 1500-foot bole. The old | that caliche nml asphalt work In
bit was removed soon after th * this county will cost $100,000 and
I scan Company resumed work J hIs office Is now preparing detail-
on the test. In Decemtier. but It; ed plans and specifications for the
construction project. The work
is ticing rushed in the hope that
contracts will be let next month.
Contracts for grading and drain-
age work on sections of the high-
way through Parmer county were
awarded last month, nnd that was
the only work scheduled for High-
way 00 In the immediate plans of
the state department. However,
In a eonferemv with State En-
gineer Gilchrist and the commis-
sioners in Austin last, week Mr.
Van London recommended that ad-
ditional funds be provided for pnv-!
lug of porlions where the grade
work has been completed. He was
advised Monday that the depart-
ment had followed ills suggestion.
Commissioners Wood and Mar-
tin approved the project in the
was not until last week that t-be
damage *k*ne to the 20-Inch easing,
through the water sand, was dis-
covered.
Tho new contractors propose to
drill 1500 feet when operations
1 are resumed as soon as the casing
is pulled and recemcnted.
-o —'
Mercury Drops
To New Low
Of 5 Degrees
NEW HEALTH OFFICER
215 Filed For
Aged Security
Number Here
Approximately 215 persons filed
applications for federal old-age
lieneflt accounts under the Social
Security, at the local pint office.
Postmaster Walter Pickett stated
this week. One hundred and ninety
of the applications have been an-
swered through the return of as-
signed numbers.
Those sot yet returned are is
the process of being exnminted by
the board, the local postal authori-
ties pointed out. and their delay
is due chiefly to the applicant'*
tardiness in tiling, while In souw
cases the applications have boon
filed for the second time because
of errors made In the original.
More than 800,000 persons in
the states of Texas, Louisiana and
New Mexico have filed applications
In the Southwestern region, ac-
cording to Oscar M. Powell, re-
gional director of th-r* Social Se-
curity Board at. San Antonio. Tex-
as led the region with more than
580,500.
DR. GEORGE W. COX
who was recently named State
Health Officer of Texas, has serv- |
ed In the state defMirtment oft
i absence of Chairman Hurry 11 lues. 1 health sim-e his npiKilntmcnt by
Old Maii Winter mude his first
serious professional call on this
urea lust week with his Initial
visit sending the mercury down to
H degrees atswe xoro Inst S»tur-j
day night, while his latest up-'
is-antnce Wednesday night saw'
i the mercury drop to the season's
' low of 5 degrees curly Thursday
1 morning. A light snow covered
J. R. Daniel
Dies Following
J Governor Allred in January of
J1935. A* a youthful physician he
I accepted an appointment by Gov-
ernor Thomas M. Csinpls-U to be
' in charge of quarantine stations
| at Brownsville.
T.rX. .Local Banks
Meet Tuesday j Sponger in’36
By $118,859
Members of th** Iler«*f«<r*l Lloos
club made plans Wednesday to af-
teud a *ooo meeting of Panhandle
elnbs at Dalhnrt next Tm-ilay,
The local club will furnish part
of the program.
A banquet at 7 o'eloek will n|ien
the district meeting, wlrieb will
attract club memth-rs from over I
the entire Panhandle, and an
hour of business will 1st follow*d
with dance, party amt free picture
show, according to program an
J> iif Mini'll (yMjnly'a twtiikji j*;j j<>y- j t'nitixl Mljllnu \v «»iitlun' >>nri-uil
ed healthy iner**ases In business
In 1 D.'Ut iitiip 1U3N In iKtu avf ai»I
of $1IM,Mf»9.98 gains In combin'd moisture,
loans and deposit* at lta twoj —-
banks.
At the el**s** of business on D<
Land Work Is ‘
Begun Here By
Erosion Body
With already enough windy days
to indicate erosion-luizard land*
wlfhln the county, the Deaf ftmith
Wind Erosion I tody met Monday
of this week and made final plana
to work all or parts of 17 sections
in precinct four. The body, com-
prised of the commissioner* court
members, as provided by law, start-
ed this week the task «»f listing
ro|»ort*»«| lauds where the owners
were unable to work.
"Ijinil Is being reported every
day," Judge Karl W. Wilson, head
of the erosion body. Mated Tues-
day, "und owners are ls*ing noti-
thd In ample thru* before tbelr
lands are umm-ssed This work 1*
suow and drove Hu* mercury to The Hereford pi«*n*er wa* ImmiiJUu* city of lf**n-faj-»i n»r On- 1m*/ j conducted purely in the In-
tbe s*mison's low of 5 degrees January 13, IhcH, in Georgia. 1I»- three mouth* of 19.*MI show an in-!’ ♦•**4ajid ««■'>/ «ml
diirinu the night Wednesday. came to Texas when six yuan j crease of more than $1,1:40 nverinmm ,H billing e*M»p**nire •'ft in
the same period of HMC, actror*iipg \1 v'Individual to the **xt»*nt •
to a report from the office Of t-Ityij Tnrfhef egnurtoing the body's pa he?
Tnk Assessor nml (’ollerUtr MtM,fl tb<v 'rork id* a of the mar
Eva Pitman. Better huslni**H nml i 9iov*m#ur. •
eoiidltioiis ucNuititid for the l;i- Judge Wilson further pointed ont
Joseph Hardy Daniel, a r*-si-
■ tin* area Wednesday night and j dent of Denf Smith county for the]
J continued throughout tin* duy on past 81 years, pas-ed away here
Thursday. Tuesday, January 5, after an 111-
j Following the e.*l»l wave Hat-1 of several week*. Service-
'll r day night and Hunduy, Hie mer-' wer«* held nt the First Baptist
lettry 1111511***1 back to tin* sixties! ‘ hurch with Rev. B. N. Hh pln rd.
through the first part of the w-es, ’ 1*»*sB»r. off! ia lng. The Black {
I only to drop again Wmlnesday. j Funeral Home had charge <»t th
j Tlie <‘**ld wave, whleh struck from un ices and liiterni«*nt. w !,' •». was
1 It*** north, brought both rain and »»‘*l<* hi 'Vest Park Cemetery.
^ninfSS Current Tax
Collections of
City Increased
.........* tax collect ion* for
_ I With Ilk- .......ill! In wlnt^a j l’"1,!" ’*7"' "”‘,1 ’tl“1
c-mi-rntlvn km «)„™r thatlm*. Inn- Tl.nwrta.v nn-rnln*. ifej ,““f’’smUhIn *SSTB°
was an active memla*r of the i.
cnt«**l atop tin* Brand balding did
not ahnw mwvtfrt* *»f t|u> mnnw'u i
O. O. F. lialge.
ftf Amarillo was
tioniH-einents coming from tho l»***t j **' ml**r 31, WA, tho First Nut hand
Hank of Hereford claim**! a total
of $4(47,997 In loans and deisstlts,
w hile at Mm* end of December, I08fi,
the total figures had reached $492,-
247.02. This represent* a gain of
$24,2*002 In Hie bank's busitieMl.
Tho Flint State Bank of this
city rep*tried a total of $589.^20.27
In loans nnd depoNlt* at. tin* close
of business on Itoeemher 31, 1839,
a« compared to #482,240.28 on the
same date la 1935. Their gain for
tho past year thus being establish-
ed ut the high figures of $8-4,*
579.80.
The general trend toward better
conditions account* for gains In
de|aMtits and loans in this county,
it waa Itolleved.
Castro County’s
’36 Cotton Crop
Shows Increase
Ginning reports In Castro coun-
ty. Prior to December 1, 198*4,
ahowt-d an increase of 11*7 balm
over the *ame period of 1880, ac-
cording to g recent report of W.
T. nmiedgo, special agent of UM
department of com mere*
Th" report prior to December 1,
I8W. ekonred a total of T88 balm
of — - -•* *
city.
AlMHit thrx'C cars of Herefor*!
Timm and their wire* had promis-
ed to make Ihe trip early this
week.
Nine Per Cent
Gain Shown In
Mail Receipts
| More Ofarlatmaa shopping and
sending of yuletldv greetings
through the mails accounted for
90 per cent of the Increase shown
at the local office for the last
quarter of 1888 as compared to
the same period of 1885, Postmast-
er Walter Pickett announced Tues-
day.
Receipt* for the last quarter
of 1988 were $4,944.55 as compar-
ed to $8,907*4 for the 1985 quar-
ter, or a gain of approximately
nine per cent
The report of the postal depart*
ent further illustrates the belief
Body Inspects
Local Project
PriorToTour
A group of federal soil <*onser-
vatiou workers from over the
Panhandle and Eastern New Mex-
ico inspected project work of th-*
local office Monday, prior to a
also survives,
children.
Relative* and friends attending
the service* from out of town
i were Mr*. J. E. Thomas, Ruder,
New Mexico; Mr, and Mrs. J. F.
Daniel, Gruvcr; Ray S. lintel
. . . __ am! family. Amarillo; Mr. and
?”r. ^ ***«■ <l,. Th. irm.p »» Mr, TniWt Mrt-l.ln, Amarillo.
and Mr. and Mrs. Graver Thom-
Pall laMircr.** at the funeral held I cream*, it was bt-lleved. I,,in tarmer is first given a
Wednesday were Wirt Phillips, JL \ Figures slum that collations 1'°1w‘>,rk ’lU ^
G. (Vuikwrlght, A. O. rH»ontp*on, during the last throe months of , f,"*n !f
<\ J. Paildo**k, riarence Strange 1935 were: Octolicr, $538.21; Xov- , , 1 B* do tho
and Earl W. Wilson. I ember, $2480.90; D.c.*mls*r, $1598.-ul ‘^county will hiru
Surviving relative* are three! 45, or a t«BUl o< $4,912.29. For th** ,J»* P«H* or all of hh.
sons, ItUNMell Daniel of Heraford, i*erlod whk*h ended the year j ' ,V' ^***, ”n< ^**'"** the
J. F. Daniel of Graver, Texas, and 1938 the collection* were: October,' lt 1* .. ^ !' 1 ,1‘ wo*k*
Ray M. Daniel 4>f Amarillo: two $1929.92; Novemb r, $2391.17, and /. (1 w*,,,ua,od
(laughters, Mr*. J. K. Thotna* of lSn-embm- $1753,83, or $-5742.82. I n^r aTc ',pprox,,nH ('ly 55
F/ti*l>e, New Mexico, and Mrs. O. During the tame period the city I ' where ,wimble »tn
I* Shugart of Hereford. One *1* . office collected $2128.29 in Aelln- «i8y strip list (he land and th *
*»" ■K.Ute.Vop.. o*7'-Hdn. r„t lax*, ta Tm “
In*mU1ch 19 grand
s - 5K sir- «*
re|»re*entH a collect I on Increase of 1 (^ltH advertised. Each
more than $1911 in dellnqnetit • whose land is
tuxe* for the |st*t 12 month*.
rtrr gaaarsjrs:
[*«»*» r~r to m BmM m mM Hkr.
headed by G. W. Humble, former
Deaf Smith county judge and now
a member of the regional conser-
vation ataff at Amarillo.
Following a two hour surrey
of experimental work through a
personal tour of the local project,
the group left for other project
stations thrughout the region. The
tour will take approximately a
week.
Those In the group beside Mr.
Humble were V. R. Htanhurg of
the Amarillo office; W. Mcott
Amend, formerly of the local of-
fice, now head of the district pro-
gram at Perry ton; Lee T. Morgan,
head of the district compotied of
Deaf ftmith and Randall counties
nnd atatiemd hers; %. U. Thomas
rumSo
as, WUdorado.
R. Tj-Nunn left Tuesday after-
m*Mi for Post, where hr will visit
his sou, Rev. Roy Nuun and fatn-
Hr - /
Weather Chart
Temperature extremes sad moist-
ure for past week, furnished by
Department of Agriculture's wea-
ther station la Hereford.
Day
Thursday
Sunday
Monday ..
Mar
Min.
Moist
..... 57
20
0.00
..... 58
27
0.00
...... 47
22
0.00
------ 40
8
0.00
------- 52
-----84
20
»
0.00
A hearty rtapuiisc is extjeeted
from city tax payers during the
present month.
■....... ■■ -—o .....-
County’s 1st ’37
Babies To Get
Free Policies
To the first two halite* born lu
I>eaf ftmith county tn 1837, Paul
Barnett, local Insurance agent,
will give a total of $1500 worth
of poiictoe, according to announce-
ment* this week.
"To the first baby born will go
$1,000 twenty-year policy and
1 the second will go a $»*> ordiu-
M>d
assessed trfli bo
glvou three years to pay, while
bio land will stand as sotmrltjr
and au Interest rate of fivo |M»r
cent will lie charged
The * nitre project is Iw-tng <*ot>
ducted for the sole purpose of pro-
tecting each Individual plot of land
until the entire county lias been
blanketed for protection against
sm«h wind erosion haxards. The
raunty does not benefit from flttsr-
clal angle* or any other way be-
sides the mass iwoteetion against
blowing, it has been pointed ont.
The body meets each Monday
morning to receive listing* of re-
ported land* and work out the
prutdems of the respective
Tiny then contact
land's owner to had
sihla for him to
art
tho
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Hayley, Earnest E. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1937, newspaper, January 7, 1937; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth825229/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.