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The Panhandle Herald
"but one ISM in America—and that’s AMERICANISM”
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Vol. 54—No. 23
Six Pages
PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1941
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
NEW TEH IS
BEGUN Ml
BY OFFICIALS
Only
ft
One Is Absent
On Initial
Day
4 Carson county’s official family
took oaths of office and submitted
bonds for approval at the court
house Wednesday. Jan. 1. Most
of the officials took their oaths
before C. P. McCollough. county
clerk in an informal ceremony.
In a special session of the com-
missioners court bonds were
approved for T. B. Harris, sheriff,
ta- assessor and collector; W. J.
W Hams, county judge and ex-
ofi*,*i0 superintendent of schools;
C. P. McCollough,- county and
distirct clerk.: Mrs. Eva E. Craig,
county treasurer; Frank R.
. Murray, county attorney; Mrs.
Willie O’Neal, county auditor;
Geo. Crossman, commissioner-,
tprecinct 1: A. D. Bender., com-
^^imssloner, precinct 2; J. J.
Witpui, commissioner, precinct 3;
H. 'll Dickens, commissioner,
precinr’V 4,: Fred Reiner, 'justice
of peace, precinct 1: J. W. Miller,
J justice of peace, precinct 6; Bud
Bickle, constable, precinct 1,;
W. W. Williams, constable,
precinct 2; J. W. Langham, con-
stable, precinct* 4; Odell Johnson,
constable, precinct 5.: A. C. Car-
roll. constable, precinct 6; and
Gene Wade, justice of peace,
precinct. 5.
Only one Carson county official.
J. W. Wells, justice of peace
precinct 4, failed to appear on the
initial day.
Mrs. Willie O’Neal, court
auditor, received her appointment
from District Judge Jack Allen
in time t.0 take oath of office and
submit bond with the other
officials Wednesday. Pier appoint-
ment is for two years.
Harris is required to make three
bonds, one for each office under
his supervision. Williams is re-
quired to make two bonds and
McCollough two because of com
‘ .billed official duties.
Short Talks And
Reports Given At
Lion Luncheon
Short talks by both visitors
and members were featured at
the Lions club meeting Tuesday
noon.
Visitors at the meeting were
Robert and James Mecaskey,
Trotter Adams, and' Connie
Sparks, T.C.U. students, Zane
Smith. Jr., wh0 is with the army
at Fort Bliss and C. H. Bell.
S. D. Shepherd told the club of
attending a meeting of the Lions
club in Oklahoma City during the
Christmas vacation.
Reports on various activities
during the past month were given.
M. R. Best, had charge of the
program for the day.
98 Couples Get
License To Wed
During Past Year
Marriage license business in
Carson nearly held its own during
1940 according to records at the
court house. In 1939 there 106
licenses issued and in 1940 there
were 9S issued.
The first six months of the
year almost doubled the last half
with 60 couples announcing their
intention to wed before July 1,
leaving only 3S to take out
.marriage papers for the rest of the
year.
The business evidently suffer-
ed because of the registration last
Oct. 1.6 with ouly 1 couple getting
a- license during the month cl’
November.
The monthly record is as
follows: January, 17, February
7, March 9, April 4,May 12, June
11, July 3, August 12, September
10, October 6, November 1, and
December 6.
Mrs, Brummett
Rites Seit Today
Funeral services for Mrs.
Blanche Allene Nally Brummett
were tentatively set for 4:30
o’clock this afternoon at the
Methodist church. Arrangements
were not complete Thursday even-
ing.
Mrs. Brummett passed away
suddenly about 8:30 a. m. Thurs-
day morning at her home here.
She had been an invalid for more
-than 2 0 years.
Burial will be in the Panhandle
cemetery with the O’Neal Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Brummett was born Nov.
21. 1 88 5 at Chilicothe, Mo. She
was married to Alva Brummett
Nov. 28, 1905 at Stafford, Kan.,
and moved to Panhandle with her
husband in 1926.
Survivors are her husband, two
daughters, Mrs. Cleo Witt, Ken-
dall Ivan,: Mrs. Fern Davis, Ama-
rillo; four sons, Clyde Brummett,
Syracuse, Kan.; Claude Brummett,
Liberal, Kan,; Glenn and Vernon
of - Panhandle; three grand-
daughters, five grandsons, and
one sister, Mrs. Rudoph Geres.
Piereeville, Kan.
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Miss Jo Rutledge spent the
Christmas holidays in her home
at Roanoke.
January Term Of
District Court
Begins Monday
The regular January session of
district court will convene here J
Monday morning, Jan. 6 with
District Judge Jack Allen on the
bench.
'£'he grand jury will meet Mon-
day but no petit jurors are called
for the first week as no jury
cases are usually tried in that
period.
Only one case on the civil
docket has been set for action,
that one is the case of SaVanna
Tate et al vs. Mary Susan Flint
et al in suit for title of possession,
set for Wednesday, Jan. 8.
There are 19 civil cases to come
up for action at this term of
court . 13 suits for divorce and
IS criminal cases which were
carried over from the August
term of district court.
Out of the IS criminal cases
On docket, S are for operating a
motor vericle while intoxicated,
2 for burglary, 1 for murder with-
out malice, 4 for theft, 2 for
removing mortgaged property out
of the state and 1 for rape.
To Speak Jan. 9
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Mrs. Glasscock
Rites To Be Held
This Afternoon
JEFF H. WILLIAMS
Seven To Answer
Draft Call From
Carson Jan. 15
Carson county will furnish
seven men in the second call of
the selective service draft it was
learned here last week. The men
will leave for the district induc-
tion station Jan. 15.
Four of the men will be volun-
teers, as only two Carson county
men were in the first call. There
are 13 class 1-A men at present
in this county, it was learned, out
of the 201 who have been class-
ified by the local board.
More questionnaries will prob-
ably be sent out within the next
week or two, officials stated.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Howard
of Kirkland, were week-end guests
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Reiner.
Public Invited
To Hear Williams
Talk Thursday
Jeff H. Williams, considered
one of the nation’s outstanding
speakers, is to be presented in
Panhandle next Thurusday night
in the high school auditorium
by the three civic clubs of this
city.
Those who have heard the
Chickasha, Okla., attorney speak
have every praise for his ability
both as an interesting speaker
and a thoughful analizer of
current conditions.
There will no admission charges
and the public is being urged to
hear the talk. Invitations have
been expended to citizens of
surrounding communities and it
is expected that a capacity crowd
will attend.
Williams, in the capacity of a .
speaker and a member of the |
board of directors of Rotary |
(Continued to Back Page)
Mrs. N. W. Glasscock, 71. died
at her home near Panhandle Wed-
nesday evening following a heart
attack early Sunday morning.
Funeral services will be held
at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon at
the Methodist Church in Panhan-
dle with Rev. James Todd, pastor
of the First Christian Church here,
and Rev. Rodney Glasscock,
grandson, who is pastor of the
Christian Church in Lamesa,
officiating.
Pallbearers will be Groves
Burum, Leo Detten, M. L. Pur-
vines, Marshall King, Ben Mc-
Gregor and Wyman Purvines.
Honorary pallbearers will be
husband of members of the
Liberty Community Club.
Burial will be in the Panhandle
cemetery with the O’Neal Funeral
Home in charge. The body will be
at the funeral home chapel until
an hour before the funeral today.
The casket will not be opened at
the church.
Mrs. Glasscock was born March
3, 1869, near Ottawa, Kans., Mr.
and Mrs. Glasscock were married
near .Ceder Vale Kans.. in l'889v.
They moved to Texas and Carson
County in 1916. from Ceder,
Va^ and have been residents j
here since then. The Glasscocks
celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary at their home near
'Panhandle Feb. 6. 1939.
Survivors are her husband, a
daughter, Mrs. H. R. Pugh of
Panhandle and a son, Ralph Glass-
cock, of near Pampa. One son,
Leslie, is deceased.
Slip is also survived by four
grandchildren, Rodney. Geneva,
Keeth, and George Carroll.
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Visitors in Lubbock Chirstmas
Day were Mr..and Mrs. J. C. Jack-
son and Miss Bertha Rogers. They
visited in the home of Miss
Rogers’ parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simms and
and Mrs. Don Duncan of Sudan
were visitors in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Minor Simms during the
holidays.
Rotarians Honor
Ladies T onight
With Program
The annual ladies night, pro-
gram will he held by the Rotary
Club tonight at the Panhandle
Inn.
The program Friday was in
charge of Dr. York. Peggy Lou
McNeil gave volal numbers with
Weldon York as piano acT
companist. Norma Jean Franklin
gave a musical Cliistmas reading
with Mary Ruth Evans as ac-
companist.
Jerry Chisholm of' Mt. Pleasant,
Mich,, grand daughter of Dr.
York, also gave a reading.
After a short talk by Dr.
Ferrell York of, Madill, Okla., on
socialized medicine, and open
forum was held and many interest-
ing thoughts were brought out.
THREE NIE IN
CAR ACCIDENT
DECEMBER 26
Sam Smoot Is Third
Victim In White
Deer Crash
Escar Watts, Jr.
Graduates From
Randolph Field
Largest class of Flying Cadets
ever to complete their basic flight
training at Randolph Field, Texas,
graduated from the “West Point
of the Air” during Christmas
week. Tw0 hundred eighty future
pilots of the expanding Air Corps,
including fhirfy-two' from Texas
ai'e being transferred to the ad-
vanced flying school at Kelly
Field for a final ten weeks in-
ctruction before receiving their
wings and commission as Second
Lieutenants.
Esc°v Watts, Jr., of Panhandle,
is listed among the 12,000 new
Air Corps officers to be added to
the newest branch of national
defense during the coming year
More than 3 50 low wing mono-
planes with a top speed of 175
miles an hour are in daPy use
at Randolph Field alone where
4 200 Cadets will be trained this
year. Seventy hours additional
f!*. ine time is logged during Hie
secondary phase of training, much
of it at night or under the
instrument flying hood.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. McConnell
spent Christmas in San Saba. San
Antonio, and other South Texas
cities visiting relatives.
Review of ’40 - As It Happened in Panhandle
Highway Accidents
Take Lives of 71
J
Highway accidents in the 30
Panhandle counties claimed the
lives of 71 persons in 19 40 the
highway patrol records show.
This is an increase of 2 4 deaths
over the 1939 total of 47.
Carson county ranks in third
place with Deaf Smith in the
numbe,. of traffic deaths with a
total of 6. Eight counties reported
no deaths according to the re-
port.
Deaths were as follows:
Dallam county 3, Sherman 1,
i Lipscomb 1, Hartley 1, Moore 2,
Hutchinson 5, Hemphill 2,
Oldham 2, Potter 14, Carson 6,
Gray 3, Wheeler 2, Deaf Smith 6,
Randall 8, Donley 3, Collings-
worth 2, Swisher 2, Hall 1, Child-
ress 4, Hardeman 1, Motley.
A resume of news events dur-
ing 1940 as printed in the columns
of the Panhandle Herald:
January
5—Four candidates, Mrs. Eva
E. Craig, T. B. Harris. C. P.
McCellohgh and C. H. Huff, an-
nounce for county offices. District
court opens with four indictments
returned by grand jury. An
accident was fatal for Bob Hales
in Amarillo, he was the son of
J. C. Hales of Panhandle. O. H.
Booth dies from injures in auto
accident. Gabe Crossman is first
baby born to Panhandle residents
in 19 40.
12—-James E. O’Keefe, 91
passes away. Mrs. Sarah Black-
burn dies breaking a five-genera-
tion circle. J. C. Jackson, A. D.
Bender and Bud Bickle announce
for public office. County gets
1.31 inches of moisture as
temperature drops to zero. Infant
daughter of W. S. Dickerson
succumbs to throat ailment.
19—Commissioners set county
salary scale. Ticket sales starts
for president’s birthday ball
January 30. Seven Panhandle
people injured in car accident on
Amarillo highway. Groyer Ingrum
and Geo. Curyea announce for
commissioner place. Snow and
cold weather continues with
temperatures dropping to 3 de-
grees below zero.
26—W. J. Williams and Geo.
Crossman announce for county
offices. Light snows an:l near
zero temperatures continue into
fifth week of cold weather. .Foot-
ball jackets presented to Panther
squad at chapel meeting.
February
2—-Carson poll tax payments
pass 2,000 mark. Junior live-
stock show date set for March 1.
Fred Reiner and J. J. Witten
announce for reelection. Judges
named for democratic primary.
Panhandle Hardware & Imple-
ment Co. celebrate 10th annivers-
ary.. Jean Burrow leads honor roll
for the first semester in Panhandle
high school. W. D. Riggins dies of
heart attack.
9—Panhandle observes Boy
Scout week. Curtis Douglass an-
nounces he will enter senate race.
Leon Pingelton annouc.es for
sheriff. Iv. L. Turner elected head
of schools for second year and
Coaches Atkins and Shepherd re-
elected. Report 90 per cent of
state taxes collected. Rain and
snow brings three-eights inch of
moisture to territory.
16—Business census gets under
way in Carson county. Work re-
sumed on road between White
Deer and Groom. Panthers and
White Deer clash in game to de-
termine basketball champions.
Baptist launch drive to clear
church debt. County library gives
years review fo the total of 58,-
416 books circulated.
23—Plans complete for Junior
Livestock show at White Deer
with calves being auctioned off
following tshow. White Deer
county cage title 27-25 over Pan-
handle. Ferry L. Johnson. Groom
merchant, Dies. Baptist raise
86,315 on church debt with plans
for victory banquet Feb/ 2 8.
March
1—Junior Livestock show held
at White Deer. Mrs. Mary Gribble
Bertrum, dies in Amarillo hospital
G. R. Collins enter sheriff race.
County gets $13,258 highway re-
fund from state. Local women aid
Red cross work for relief of war
sufferers in Europe. Meeting held
on advancement of pactical feed-
ing of livestack for club boys.
8—School board elects most of
•teachers for 1940-41 term. Spicer
Gripp’s calves named winner of
stock show. $454,000 was an-
nounced avalible for Carson
farmers who comply with triple-
A program. Everett Pierce
announces for sheriff post and
Bill Brain enters race for repre-
senative. Mrs. T. H. McKenzie
reelected chairman of county
Red cross.
15—D. M. Warren purchases
control of Borger bank and Mayor
W. L. Boyles named director to
succeed C. E. Deahl who retired
as president and chairman of
board. Senator Clint Small talks
to annual meeting of the Farmers
Supply Co. Elections of city and
school officials announced.
2 2-—-Ice plant safe robbed of
$70. Curtis Douglass enters
senate race. Donkey basketball
game sees candidate vie with in-
cumbents. M. F. Calliham
announces for commissioner.
Easter earliest sincel913, coming
on March 24.
29—Ten enumerators appoint-
ed for Carson county to do census
work. Six persons announces for
reelection to state legislature.
Groom ask vote on liquor ques-
tion. Weatherly gives annual
Easter egg hunt for grade school.
April
5—Boyles Randel and Williams
reelected to city council. Pember-
ton’s home burns. Three Carson
men plead guilty to Clarendon
robbery. High school band go to
'Flainview to state contest. School
election was to he Saturday with
six names on ticket.
12—Franklin, Miller and Pryon
elected to school board. Band wins
first place in state contest. Her-
bert Campbell elected principal
of grade school. Three-fourths
inch rain falls to help crop out-
look. Marvin Jones named U. S.
judge. Boyer enters senate race.
Thirty one Panthers report for
spring football training.
19—Nine candidates indicate
they will enter congressional race
for Marvin Jones’ place. District
Judge Jack Allen asks for -re-
election. Blaze in shoe shop
causes little damage.
26—1$ 22,000 arrive in f|d
wheat parity payments. Two more
candidates plan to make con-
gressional race. Producers sell S 5
per cent |>f stored wheat before
deadline of May 1. Phillips official
pay visit to Borger and Phillips,
going there by auto from Pan-
handle where their train stopped.
May
3—Goom keeps wet status in
liquor election by 13 votes. Annual
GALLEY 3 — ?
AD-Review of 194 0— ADD add
senior play held. Two more
enter congressional race. Parity
checks reach total of $S7,0 00.
Mecaskey ring case denied appeal.
Funeral slorvices held for Mrs.
Alice Eddy Herndon of 'Pampa.
10—Panhandle has street show
Saturday. Delegates uninstructed
for state democratic convention.
Census finished for county. Two
hurt in car-bus accident on Pampa
highway. H. Schafer granted
divorce in special session of
district court. Carson county gets
1.3 2 inches rain to help wheat
crop.
17—Forty-two seniors to receive
diplomas in final school program
May 21. $2 80 as,ked in Red Cross
relief drive. First census figures
show population decrease in Pan-
handle and Carson county. W.
L. McConnell asks reelection as
district attorney. R. C. Durrett
announces for commissioner post.
Predict wheat field to go over
normal. Library bookmobile given
publicity at Texas Library associa-
tion convention.
2 4—Drive made to increase
city and count, y census total. Crop
prospects bolstered by .9 2 rain.
Smith named Lions club presi-
dent. W. L. Boyles made chief
of district democratic party. J. L.
Graham purchases Eads and Me
Ewin grocery.
31—Six delegates from Carsor
go'to state democratic convention
at Waco. Rev. W. A. Erwin i:
union revival evangelist. Tota'
rainfall for May is 2.SI. Two
Shamrock men charged in cow-
theft. C. H. Bell opens new- service
station.
June
7—More rain accompanied by
heavy hail in some parts of county
brings joy and gloom to Carson
farmers. Census report show's
county loss from 7,74 5 to 6,563.
Reach quota in Red Cross war re-
lief dirve in county
14— Nearly three-fourth inch of
rain falls in county as estimates
on yield go higher. Saturday is
last day to file for public offices;
30 candidates in county race.
Hazelwood gets in senate race.
Lions make plans for homecom-
ing.
21—Wheat harvest starts over
county with White Deer getting-
first load. John O’Keefe enters
commissioner race. Herald editor
made vice-president of Texas
Press Association. Douglass opens
drive for senate office. Farmers
requested to give wheat in Red
Cross relief drive.
2S—Yields as high as 3 5
bushels reported as wheat harvest
gets in full swing. Candidates
pay ballot fees and get set for
final push in campaign activities.
Union revival closes three-weeks
meeting.
July
5—Carson county wheat
harvest reaches peak this week
with more than 60 cars of wheat
shipped from Panhandle; 300
(Continued on Page Four)
An automobile accident two
miles east of White Dear Thurs-
day morning, Dec. 26. took the
lives of three men and injured two
others. The dead are Samuel T.
Smoot, 25. of White Deer; James
L. Stayton, 25 , of Sayre, Okla.,
and William C. Tucker, of Aline,
Okla.
Injured were J. B. Bates of
Portales, driver of the car in.
which Stayton and Tucker were
riding and Oscar Cunningham,
driver of the car in which Smoot
was riding.
The accident was investigated
by State Highway Patrolmen J.
C. Reece and Charles Ballard and
by Sheriff T. B. Harris and Deputy
John White of Panhandle.
The officers said the cars
.apparently hit head-on. Cunning-
ham and Smoot were driving to
White Deer from Pampa where
they had spent the night with
Johnnie Wells, cousin of Smoot.
Bates who was .brought to Pan-
handle told Sheriff Harris that
he and his companions were en-
routo to Kingsmill for breakfast
at the Santa Fe section crew
dining room when the accident
happened. All three men were
employed by the section crew and
had been rooming at the Com-
mercial hotel in Panhandle.
Tucker was killed instantly, the
officers reported, while Stanton
lived only an hour after being
admitted to a Pampa hospital.
Smoot died at 1:30 o'clock Satttr-
dov looming in a Pampa hospital.
Stayton suffered a skull fracture,
internal injures and a broken leg,
and Smoot received a badly crush-
ed leg. deep seal]) wounds and
bruises coupled with a serious
loss of blood.
Cunningham was taken to
White Deer but later moved to
a Pampa hospital where it was
found he had serious head wounds
and body bruises. He was
suffering from shock.
Tucker is survived by the
widow, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Tucker, Aline, Okla., a
brother. Frank Tucker. Aline, and
five sisters, Mrs. Ruby Law. Cleo
Springs, Okla.. Mrs. Vernon
Hughes. Oklahoma City, Mrs.
Mildred Geist. Aline, and Mrs.
Bertha Fox and Mrs. Hazle Carr,
both of Anthony. Ivan. Burial was
in Aliive.
Stayton is survived by the
widow, liis mother, Mrs. Lillie
Stayton, Great Bend, Kan., a
sTsier. Miss Maxie Stayton, Great
Bend and a brother, Robert
Stayton, Spearman. Funeral
services were held in Erick, Okla.
Funeral services for Smoot
(Continued on Back Page)
Panhandle School
Again Elected As
Members of SACSS
In a letter received by Supt.
K. L. Turner last week, J. W.
O'Banion, chairman of the state
executive committee of the state,,
department of education, stated^**
that in the annual session of the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools held in
Memphis, Tenn.. Dec. 9-13. the
Panhandle High School was elect-
ed to membership in that body for
the current year.
He wrote that “the action of
the membership committee of the
Southern Association is significant
in that the Panhandle High School
was again unanimously elected
to membership without a single
adverse criticism. This high rating
of the school here is outstanding
and emphasizes the constructive
leadership of the public schools
in your city,” O’Banion stated.
Mr. Turner stated that Pan-
handle was one of the few schools
in Texas elected to the association,
without criticism.
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