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VOLUME 30 NUMBER 25 -‘On Highway 66” THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST .18, 1955 (5c a copy)
FACTS
AND
OTHERWISE
You can send a message around
the world in one-seventh of a sec-
ond, but it may take years to
force a simple idea through a
quarter inch of human skull says
Supt of Schools, W. G. Reno.
John Homer was feeling low the
other night and went to the bath-
room for an aspirin. Picking up
the familiar bottle he downed a
couple of the pellets. Next mom
WORK STARTS ON NEW
ALL-WEATHER STREET
First Street one block north of
Highway 66 will receive an all-
weather topping from the farm to
market road at *the west city lim-
its to Broadway in the near fu-
ture according to Mayor C. L.
Culver.
Traffic entering Groom from
the northwest will now have an
METHODISTS PLANNING
‘MUSIC EMPHASIS’ WEEK
A “Music Emphasis Week” to
be held September 4-11 at the
First Methodist Church, Groom,
was announced this week by the
Rev. Oran D. Smith, pastor.
Mrs. Oran D. Smith will'serve
as instructor. She has had a wide
range of experience in this field,
directing church choirs, college
alternate road into town rather! choral groups and ensemble, mus-
ical theory, and hymnology.
Anyone can learn music, theory,
I or singing. If you can drive a car,
Groom the newly-paved street will ■ measure baking powder, or swing
make a convenient detour for a mop you will want to attend
than driving on to Highway 66
When construction work starts on
a four-lane Highway 66 through
farm people living north of town.
The bridge covering the draw
which carries flood water from
the highway to the Britten lake
“Music Emphasis Week”
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ing his wife excitedly asked him: b?®1 rem°ved- A sl°Pin«
1 will be used instead which will
4'Did you take a pill last night?”
"Yes, I did, and felt better right
away,” he replied. “Why?”
“Well,” said Mrs. Homer unhap-
pily, “those pills were for my pe-
tunias.”
Spluttering and choking, John
made a hasty trip to see the doc-
tor who examined him and said:
You haven’t a thing to worry
about John. All you did was take
the equivalent of 10 sacks of barn-
yard fertilizer.”
POPULAR VARIETIES OF
WHEAT ON BLACKLIST
. j, . , „ The following news story ap-
handle enough flood water to keeps peered in daily newspapers Wed-
t from backing across Highway i nesday morning:
66 as it did last year when heavy wheat varieties
rams fell.
The new addition
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Carter of
Odessa visited in the home of
their daughter and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Bill West, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hughes and
Mr. R. E. Martin has returned
home after visiting in Dalhart,
Tulia, Lubbock and Dallas all this
week on his vacation.
Mrs. Pearl Banks and son, Jerry
blacklisted for
to Groom’s!i9^,m..!Se Uf^DePartmKnt °^and sons returned home Mon’day
several miles ot all-w£th«Tad! Agrlculture mc!ude « number of'— - |-----•-----£ &
family, Bobby, Donnie, Patricia are visiting relatives in California,
and John, left Sunday morning! Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Price of
for their home at Bryan, Tex., Skellytown were visiting in the
after a week’s visit with her home of their daughter and fam-
mother, Mrs. Elmer Akers, and ily, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bates,
other relatives and friends. | Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Rusty Ward were Larry Rogers returned to his
Amarillo visitors Sunday. home at Topeka, Kansas, Tuesday
Wilma Hickox who has been after spending several weeks here
employed for several months at with his grandparents, Mr. and
Edith’s Beauty Shop accepted a Mrs. W. A. Dickerson and Mr.
position as beauty operator Mon- ( and Mrs. Chas. Rogers, Sr.
daMrn^aMi!? Tbeafy^h°iP‘ a1 Mr- and Mrs- Jim Billy Henry
if1?* L* ?• 3ipl.ey and and twin daughters of Stillwater,
vfXtl , Miami were 0kla j and Mr and Mrg Barney
ZufTT’ f Henry and Francita of Erick,
rry, ay. Okla., were visiting in Groom
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Crowell Tuesday
Intelligence consists of having
enough wit to talk well, or enough
judgment to be silent says Uncle
Joe Weems.
In Amarillo last week Ray Har-
rell went into a drugstore and
asked the druggist how to stop
the hiccups. The answer was a
slap in the face. Amazed and
angry, Ray demanded the reason
for such behavior. “Well,” the
druggist said, “you don’t have the
hiccups now, do you?”.
"No,” shouted Ray, ‘ “but my
wife out in the car still has!”
will be convenient and useful foy
users of the farm to market road
running from the west side of
Groom north and for home owners
residing in the northwest part of
town.
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AUGUST DRY WEATHER
DIM CROP PROSPECTS
“Always do right,” says Derrel
Shaw. “You will gratify some
people and astonish the rest.”
The many acres of maize crop
in the Groom community is be-
ginning to show signs of the re-
cent dry weather. No rain has
been recorded here since August
6 when a shower fell in Groom and j State Health Department
spotted rainfall was reported over I week.
strains currently being grown on
the High Plains. Growers who
would avoid the 20-cent per bushel
price support discount should note
this list of varieties:
Red Chief, Chiefkan, Red Jack-
et, Ranking, Kanqueen, Purkof,
Stafford, selection 33 of Early
Pawnee, Early Blackhull, New
Chief and Yogo.
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Junior Hudson is attending the
Methodist Youth Encampment at
NEW SHIPMENT OF POLIO
VACCINE DUE IN TEXAS
Arrival of 50,838 shots of Salk
polio vaccine was^ expected by the j allowed visitor^ according to her
this daughter, Mrs. O. M. Eaves.
from a vacation at Creed, Colo
Tex., where she had been visrting | and Mrs BiI1 Britteni and Mt, and
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Heltoni and, Mrs Jlm Brittcn returned home
family for the past two months. ! Monday from a few days vacation
^Mr. and Mrs Victor Moff of trip to Red Rlver> NM
Henly Mo and Mr. and Mrs. Mr and Mrs. L. H; Leven and
Richard Schulfe of Marys Home,! (amlty were visiti at Happyi
Mo., were visiting in Groom last Tex Sunday
. ty ‘ ! Mrs. Sam Black and Chubbie,
Mrs. Connne Kay who has been Mrs Bud Brown and Bren(Ja>
convalescing in the Groom hospi-! and Mrs. Kenneth Black, Doyla
tal suffered another severe heart and Kyle were shopping in ^
attack last Sunday. She is show- j
ing improvement but is not being i
Tim Gibbins:
Pampa Gal:
ness, sir!”
Tun: “Ah, at last;
sional!”
Do you neck?”
That’s my busi-
a profes-
Some people are even tempered
because they are in a bad mood all
the time says George Trickett.
the community. A great deal of
the maize is now heading out and
general rains at this time could
be of much benefit.
Temperatures in general have
ranged below 90 degree maximums
and the weather for August has
been considered milid in compari-
son with other years. Rain must
come soon, however if the much-
needed heavy row crop yield is to
be harvested.
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MRS. L. A. SWINNEY DDES
AT NORMAN, OKLAHOMA
Services for Mrs. L. A. Swinney,
73, who died Friday, Aug. 5 at her
home in Norman, Okla., following
a heart attack were held Monday,
, Aug. 8 in the First Christian
The bride s mother, Mrs. Bill Church in Norman and burial was
West, was weeping copiously, and in the IOOF cemetery there,
her husband was trying to comfort i. Mrs. Swinney was bom Nov. 9,
her,. “Now, dear, remember—in- 1881 in Denver, Ark., and moved
stead of losing a daughter, we’re to Norman in 1894.
setting a son.” She arid her husband, the de-
Oh, goodness, no!” the Idis- ceased L. A. Swinney owned and
. This is part of Texas allotment
of 1,177,069 shots in addition to
the vaccine given free to first
and second grade school children.
Under the “volunteer control”
plan adopted by the State Polio
Vaccine Committee, 83 per cent
will be allocated for commercial
use, 17 per cent for public agen-
cies.
This week’s shipment was to
come from the Wyeth Laborator-
ies in Marrietta, Pa.
Meanwhile health department
figures showed polio on the in-
crease. Forty-five new cases were
reported during the past week,
bringing the 1955 total to 939.
Of the victims 45 had received
Salk vaccine.
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PATIENTS AT GROOM
HOSPITAL, PAST WEEK
rillo Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hunt
have purchased a house at Claude
and plan to move to their new
Mrs. Jim Hermesmeyer and ! home next week,
daughters, Evelyn, Ann, and Bet-( Mrs. Safronie Jackson and Mrs.
ty Rose, Mrs. Charlie Hermesmey- j Lora Bledsoe are visiting rela-
er and Mrs. John Homer were { fives at Wheeler, Tex.
visiting in the home of Mr. and j- Bill Fraser of Pampa visited his
Mrs. John Quirk in Borger Mon-
day.
J. R. Ward who has been visit-
ing in the homes of his nephews,
sister, Mrs. Margie Emery, Sun-
iday.
Dorothy Stapp of Panhandle
visited relatives and friends here
Gene and Max Wade, for the past las* week returning home Sunday,
week left Friday for San Augus-i Mike Garmon returned home
tine, Tex., where he will be em- this week from Wyoming where
ployed at the newspaper office ke kas been employed in the grain
tressed mother shrieked. “At my
age, who wants more children.”
One thing that puzzles every
married man, says Cook Garmon,
is why every bachelor isn’t rich.
operated a large ranch north of
Groom about 40 years ago. Mrs.
Swinney will be remembered by j Minor Surgery:
Among the patients at the
Groom Hospital the past week
were:-
Medical:
Mr. Ora Boham, Ohio.
Mrs. Mary Ann Cobb, Claude.
Tooter Byrd asks this one:
Here’s the question that eludes
me,
It’s answer is my goal—
How’d they get the toothpaste
in
Through such a small hole?
Dr. Vardaman defines a special-
ist as a doctor who has his pa-
tients trained to become ill only
during his office hours.
Mrs. Leroy Mashburn: “Ronnie!
Ronnie!”
Ronnie: “What, mother?”
Mrs. Mashburn: “Are you spit-
ting in the fish bowl?”
Ronnie: “No, mother, but I’m
coming pretty close.”
Whatever troubles Adam had,
No man in days of yore
Could say, when Adam told
joke:
“I’ve heard that one before.”
many old settlers who will regret
to learn of her death.
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PROGRAM OF SHOWS
AT GROOM THEATRE
The following program of shows
will be presented at the Groom
Theatre during the coming week.
Thursday, Aug. 19
“Untamed,” in Technicolor and
Cinemascope with Richard Egan,
Rita Moreno and Agnes Moore-
head.
Friday-Sat., Aug. 19-20
“The Yellow Tomahawk,” in
color starring Rory Calhoun and
Peggie Castle.
Sun.-Mon.-Tues., Aug. 21-22-23
“Underw^er,” with Jane Rus-
sell, Gilbert Roland, x Richard
Egan, Lori Nelson.
Wed.-Thurs., Aug. 24-25
“Bedevilled,” with Anne Baxter,
Steve Forrest. A CinemaScope
picture in color.
Starting time 7:30 o’clock P.M.
weekdays. Sunday matinee at
2:00 P. M.
Mrs. Leta N. Potter, Pampa.
Dal Harrell, Groom.
Celestia Harlan, Alanreed.
Mrs. 'Mary Klein, Groom.
Major Surgery:
Richard Stump, Bethany, Okla.
Mrs. Alfred Homer, Groom.
Mr. J. F. Bowling, McLean.
Obstetrical:
Mrs. D. L. Duby of Borger, a
daughter, Delilah Gale, bom Au-
gust 15, 1955, weight 5 pounds,
2V2 ounces.
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BUTANE PRICE UP
The price of butane has been
raised from 6% to 7 cents at the
Koetting Butane & Oil Co., here.
The new price is now in effect ac-
cording to B. J. Koetting, proprie-
tor of the company.
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HOUSE IS MOVED
The house located on the end of
Main Street owned by H. M. Mar-
tin was moved Saturday to a new
location north of his new home in
the northeast part of town. The
house was in the flooded area dur-
ing heavy rains last year.
during the fall and winter.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Kunkel of
McLean and Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Wetzel of Borger were visiting in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. H.
Terbush last week end.
Bro. Walter Davis, S. K. Roach,
Joe Weems, Sam Black, Leroy
Mashburn and Sanford Johnson
attended the district Baptist
Brotherhood meeting in Amarillo
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Benton Moreman
and Mr. and Mrs. Leldon Hudson
entertained the Torchbearer Sun-
day School Class of the Methodist! ting? George,
Church with a hamburger supper
at the Hudson farm home Monday
evening. Attending were four
guests, and 20 members and their
families.
Mrs. Bobby Cornett and ’sons,
Mrs. Zona Cornett, and Mrs. Billy
Cornett were Amarillo visitors
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy McCasland
entertained her father, J. H. Jack-
son and Mrs. Jackson of Shamrock
with a dinner Sunday. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
Jackson and family of White
Deer, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brown
and children, Mr. and -Mrs. Ru-
dolph Tucker and Mrs. Lora
Bledsoe.
The Rev. and Mrs. Oran D.
Smith left Monday for a vacation
trip to Central City, Colo. They
plan to return home Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Goodlett and
son, Bobby, visited Capt. and Mrs.
Ennis Pike at El Paso last week
end. Martha Hinson who had
been visiting there returned home
with them.
Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Davis of
Pantex were guests in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Terbush,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
harvest during the summer.
Mrs. Bert Berres, Mrs. Burdette
Berres and family and Mrs. Hu-
bert Johnson and son of Plain-
view were visiting in Groom Tues-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Jones and
children visited, Mr. and Mrs. T.
E. Jones at Hereford Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Curly Davenport
of San Antonio were visiting their
aunt, Mrs. Safronie Jackson, and
other relatives here Tuesday .
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Koetting and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Koet-
Donnie and Alba
Ann Kuehler, of Amarillo, Paul
Sirilla and Ralph Stestack of Col-
umbia, Mo., Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Koetting and family, Mrs. Paul
Koetting and son, Joe, all enjoyed
a picnic at McClellan Lake Sun-
day.
Margaret Young of Stinnett is
visiting Mary Margaret Dove this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Weatherly
and daughter were visting in
Claude Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Keller and
sons of Amarillo spent last week
end in the C. L. Ledwig home.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Jones of
Amarillo visited in the W. S.
Jones home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rice and
daughter returned home last week
end from a two week’s vacation
trip to North Carolina. On their
return trip home they attended a
family reunion at Rogers, Ark.
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Green of Pam-
pa visited in the Kenneth Hunt
home Tuesday.
Mrs. Blanche Harris is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Virginia Hol-
ton, and her granddaughter, Janet
Holton, at Pueblo, Colo., this
week.
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1955, newspaper, August 18, 1955; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth870144/m1/1/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.