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HOWE SUCCEEDS
JACK ATKINS ON
SCHOOL BOARD
New Member’s
Mother Former
School Trustee
J. Floyd Howe was elected a
member of the school board last
week to take the place of G. T.
Atkins, president, who resigned
to move to Pottsboro, Texas.
Ernest Roselius was elected
president and Minor Simms vice-
president of the board. Atkins had
been a member of the board since
April, 1947. He 'also formerly
taught in Panhandle high school
and served as football coach.
The new board member is a
graduate of Panhandle High
School and is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Howe. His mother is the
only woman who ever served as
a trustee of this district.
Joe Rorex, collector, reported
October tax collections were 524,-
$60.80.
Supt. R. E. Byrom was asked
to present figures on the cost of
starting the band again.
J. F. Pundt, Cline Edmonds and
others from the Gulf Camp area
asked the board to pay tuition,
differentials of $80 for Borger
High school and $26 to Borger
grade schools for transfer pupils.
(The board unanimously opposed
any change in policy.
U. S. Government
Would Help County
Improve Airport
J. D. Church, district airport
engineer of the C. A. A., Big
Sirring, and his assistant, W. O.
Harroll, flew in late Wednesday
afternoon to attend a meeting of
the Panhandle Flying club.
Judge O. R. Beddingfield, com-
missioners George Crossman, J. O.
Murray and D. L. Slagle met with
the club to hear the report of
these men as to their recommend-
ations for Federal aid for the
Panhandle Airport.
They were well pleased with
the site now being used and said
Banquet Honors
Richard Detten
For Prize Pigs
Richard Detten, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Detten, residing north
of Pantex, was the honored guest
at the Highland Park School west!
J. L. Armstrong,
75, Passes Away
Early Thursday
Funeral services for James Lee
Armstrong, 75, will - be held at
the First Methodist Church in
Panhandle at 3 p. m. Saturday
with Rev. George York, minister,
^—•=1 _____________ officiating, assisted by Rev. James
thatnhVwer'e^°r7commending~the Todd, minister of the First Chad's-
developing of small municipal air-* tian Church. Burial will be in
ports instead of so many in large
cities. They recommended that the
government pay 50 per cent of
the cost of improving the airport
and 25 per cent of the cost of
the land, these funds to be match-
ed by county funds as the airport
must be either municipally or
county owned before this aid can
be granted.
Members of the Panhandle
Flying Club present were M. F.
Calliham, M. D. Eagle, J. L. Naylor,
C. E. Meaker, J. W. Brothers,
J. Floyd Howe and Rev. James'
Todd.
Garcia Family
Gets $23,500
From Railroad
Mrs. Ysidro Garcia has been ap-
pointed administratrix of the es-
tate of her husband, Ysidro Gar-
cia, who was killed last August/
in a Santa Fe railway accident.
He was an assistant extra gang
of St. Francis Friday evening, J foreman.
Nov. 12, at a meeting sponsored) Probate court has recorded a.
by the Farmers Union Local cover- i settlement of $23,500 for the wife
ing the St. Francis community, and minor children: Joe Mike, 17;
Josephine, 14, and Petra, 8.
Proceedings also include Ysidro
Jr., four months old son, who
died last week. He was born about
three weeks before his father was
killed.
Vacations Set
For Thanksgiving
And Christmas
Panhandle schools will close
Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 24, for
the Thanksgiving vacation and will
reopen Moinday, Nov. 29.
Christmas vacation will begin
Friday afternoon, Dec. 17, and
school will resume Monday, Jan.
3.
Richard was the 1948 winner in
Texas Swine Production Contest
sponsored by the Texas SWine
Breeders Association, in District
1 of the Texas Panhandle. He
produced a letter of Chester White
Pigs, ten in number, that reached
the weight of 2470 pounds in 175
days. The second prize winner m
the Panhandle produced 2018
pounds of pork in the same num-
ber of days.
Two very fine awards were re-
ceived by this young farmer. Knox
Parr, district extension agent, pre-
sented Richard with a 17 jewel,
Lord Elgin watch furnished by
the Texas Swine Breeders Associ-
ation. The other award was a gold
certificate also given by the As-
sociation and presented by H. M.
Nichols, county agent. This was*
a framed certificate printed in
gold and giving the summary of
his accomplishment.
Mrs. Joe Berg, program chair-
man, presented a interesting pro-
gram. The chairman recognized
all guests present. Among these
guests was J. P. Smith, Pan-Tech
Farms, who started Richard Det-
ten on his way to success while
he was Carson county agetnt.
Richard responded with some
well stated comments and thanked
all who had helped him in his
work which included the whole
hearted cooperation of his parents.
After the recreation and refresh-
ment period the county agent
showed some colored slides taken
on the Detten Farm, 6 666 Ranch
and ia,t the National Plowing Con-,
test showing President Truman
speaking to 75,000 people.
4 District Court
Suits Are Filed
Recent district court suits filed
follow:
Mrs. Scemsion Garcia, et al, vs.
Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway
Co., compensation, Nov. 3.
Garrett Bewley and wife, adop-
tion, Nov. 12.
Sid Shaver vs. H. J. (Friday)
Hughes, debt or compensation;
transfered from Wichita county,
To a s, Nov. 12.
Clarence Alvis Johnson vs. Mar-
ion Hortense Johnson, divorce,
Nov. 13.
Ranhandle Cemetery under the
direction of Boxwell Brothers,
Amarillo.
Pallbearers will be Ralph Moore,
C. H. Bell, Groves Burum, Guy
Gripp, Leo Detten and Chester
Lamborn.
Armstrong was born in Ida,
Munro County, Michigan, March
1, 1873, and died v*. 4:15 a. m.
Thursday, Nov. 18, at his home
in Panhandle after a lingering
illness.
At the age of five he moved1
with his parents to Great Bdnd,
Kan., where he joined the Meth-
odist Church at the age of 16.
On Dec. 25, 1895, he was married
to Miss Effie Lucas in Ellinwood,
Kan. In 189 6 they moved to Cleo
Springs, Okla., where they lived
/until moving to a farm west of
Panhandle in the spring of 1917.
In the spring of 1946 he turned
over his farming operations to a
son and moved to a home in Pan-
handle.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Effie Armstrong; eight sons,
Leo, Auberry, Calif.; Ezra, Ama-
rillo; Glenn, Sanger, Calif.; Wayne
Wichita, Kansas; Floyd, Okla-
homa City; Ursel, Long Beach,
David, Panhandle; one daughter,
Gladys, West Texas State College,
Calijyon, and 15 grandchildren.
One brother, David, Kendallville,
Ind., also survives.
R. L. LAMBRIGHT
RITES HELD AT
BAPTIST CHURCH
Panhandle High
School Graduate
Killed In France
Funeral services for Robert Lee
Lambright, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Lambright, Sr., Pan-
handle, were held at 2:30 p. m.
Tuesday, Nov. 16, in the First
Baptist Church, Panhandle, with
Rev. Merle Weathers, Amarillo,
officiating, assisted by Rev. James
Todd of the First Christian
Church, Panhandle.
Burial was in Panhandle Ceme-
tery with military rites at the
graveside. Burial was under the
direction of Duenkel-Carmichael
Funeral Home, Pampa.
Pallbearers were Dari Sharp,
Charles Smith, Leslie Denny, Oli-
ver Russell, Frank Stephenson,
and Howard Weatherly.
The body of Pfc. Lambrite ar-
a temporary military cemetery in
rived early Tuesday morning from
France. Lambright, a member of
the 90th-Infantry Division of the
Third Army, was killed in action
at Nantes, France, Oct. 3, 1944,
after going overseas in August
of that same year.
He was born Dec. 31, 1921,
aind was a graduate of Panhandle
High School with the class of 1938.
He was employed by the Dan-
ciger Oil Company, Pampa, until
shortly before enlisting in the
Army Nov. 19, 1942 at San Diego,
Calif.
Besides his parents he is1 sur-
vived by two brothers, W. E. of
Tulia, a,nd Tom, Panhandle, and
one sister, Mrs. Frank Crist, also
of Panhandle.
HERALD WILL PUBLISH
DAY EARLY NEXT WEEK
The Panhandle Herald will publish a day early
next week on account of the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Herald will go to press Wednesday afternoon,
but little copy can be handled after noon Tuesday.
Club reporters are asked to turn in reports
promptly, as little late copy can be handled because
of the limited time to print The Herald next week.
Personals
Medical Society
Covers 9 Counties
PAMPA—The Top O' Texas
Medical Society met at Pamjpai
Country Club Nov. 16 at 7:30
p.m. The meeting started with a
banquet.
The society covers nine counties
and doctors from the entire area
meet once a month to study spec-
ialist’s methods in treatment of
disease and practice of surgery.
The Society is now large enough
to attract specialists from cele-
brated institutions.
The next meeting of the Top
O’ Texas - Medical Society will he
in Borger Dec. 20.
The Women’s Auxiliary com-
posed of doctors’ wives, also met
at the country club for the regu-
lar monthly meeting.
Nick Britten Will
In Probate Court
Will of the late Nick Britten,
wha died Aug. 25, has been filed
in probate court by his widow,
Mrs. Emma Britten. The will was
made April 26, 1920, and was
witnessed by C. R. Slay and Emil
Lack.
C. L. Culver, C. L. Ledwig and
Paul Koetting were named ap-
praisers.
Panther Queen
Is Crowned At
Football Field
In a colorful pre-game cere-
mony, Christine Cummings, mem-
ber of the stophomore class of
Panhandle High School, was)
crowned Panther queen Friday
evening, Nov. 12, preceding the
Panhandle-Wheeler game, at Pan-
ther field. Her attendants were,
Edellweiss Barnett, senior repre-
sentative; Joyce Bowling, junior,
Opal Raef, freshman, and Joyce
Thorp, seventh grade, grade school
queen.
The queen and her attendants
rode onto the field in ai conver-
tible car decorated with the school
colors of purple and gold and
driven by Lester Lusk, a former
Panther and 1948 graduate of
Panhandle High S’chool. As the
car was driven slowly around the
field the visiting Shamrock hand
played “My Wild Irish Rose.”
As she was driven around thei
field, the Panthers formed a guard
of honor in the center of the field.
As the car stopped in fi*ont of the
Panther grandstand, she was met
by cocaptians W. A. Mitchell and
Joe Knapp who escorted her to
the center of the field where she'
was crowned with a white foot-
ball helmet, as the band played
“Let Me Call You Sweetheart.”
The queen and her attendants
all wore tailored suits and mum
corsages, with the queen carrying
an arm bouquet of mums in the
school colors.
Dee Graham, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Graham, Phoenix, Ariz.,
former Panhandle residents, visit-
ed briefly with friends in Pan-
handle Wednesday, Nov. 10, en.
route to Phoenix to visit his par-
ents. He was accompanied by his
wife the former Zolena Bishop of
Panhandle, and his son. They have*
been living in Hereford for the
past 18 months, but have sold out
their holdings and are looking
for another location in the Texas
Panhandle.
Panhandle Panthers Lose Close
Conference Game To Wheeler 19
To 13; Panthers In Lead At Half
Colder Weather
And High Winds
Bring Snowfall
After a high for the week of
74 on Wednesday, Nov. 17, the,
wind veered to the northwest
about 3 a. m. Thursday bringing
much lower temperatures and a
light driving wet snow. At 7 a.m.
Thursday the moisture measured
.03 inch. The wind velocity of
between 35 and 40 miles per hour
made the temperatures seem mucn
lower than the recorded 31.
The weather forecast called for
clearing skies and much lower
temperatures than the low of the
week which was recorded as 26
on Nov. 10, but until noon Thurs-
day sinow had been falling inter-
mittently all morning.
Temperatures for the past week
follow:
High Low
57 26
59 29
57 27
67 28
67 36
73 39
61 39
74 39
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Mrs. Levi Fry and nephew,
Roy Neal Jenkins, Texas City,
spent the week-ent with Mrs.;
Jenkins’ brother, J. Sid O’Keefe,
and Mrs. O’Keefe. Other guests,
in the O’keefe home were Mr.
and Mrs. R. C. O’Keefe, Pampa,
and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Perriman
and children, Amarillo. R. C.
O’Keefe is a, brother, of Sid
O’Keefe and Mrs. Perriman is a
niece.
C. W. and P. D. Roberts of the
Roberts. Motor Co. were in Okla-
homa City at a dealers meeting
last Friday to see the first com-
mercial fluid drive Dodge truck,
a 1949 model, which will go on
sale in December.
Skellytown Is
Grade School
District Winner
Panhandle grade school Kittens
had not been defeated in football
this season, but they lost the dis-
trict finals against Skellytown at
White Deer 52 to 0 Thursday
night of last week.
Tickets were sold in advance
and a surprisingly large number
of fans attended the final game.
Panhandle won its section and
Skellytown another section, the
two teams meeting for the district
title. Neither team had lost this
season.
Size of Skellytown team made
it impossible for the Kittens lo
give the Skellytown boys much
competitition.
Wheeler Mustangs defeated
Pan-handle Panthers in a 1-B dis-
trict game, 19 to 13 in a hard-
fought battle in Panhandle Friday
night. It was the first conference
loss for the Panthers.
In a half-time ceremony, Chris-
tine Cummings, Sophomore, was;
crowned queen of Panhandle High
School. Attended by members of
other classes, Miss Cummings was
crowned by Joe Knapp and W. A.
Mitchell, co-captains, while the
Shamrock High School band play-
ed “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.'’
In the first two minutes of the
first quarter, Corkey Robertson,
Wheeler quarterback, took the pig-
skin over for the first marker
from Panhandle’s five-yard stripe.
Parker failed on the conversion.
Panhandle was quick to retali-
ate when Johnny Ellis, Panther
quarterback, went over from the
one-foot line in the beginning of
the second quarter.- Bickerstaff
made the extra point to put the
score at 7-6. And then., in the last
few minutes of the first half, Ellis
went over again from the one-
yard line. Bickerstaff’s try for the
extra point was blocked, but the
sco re stood at the end of the half
at 13 to 6 Panhandle.
Pendleton, Wheeler quarterback
in the third quarter made a touch-
down hut Johnson missed the point
Parks made the third Wheeler
touchdown in the fourth quarter
and Parks kicked the extra point,
making the score 19 to 13.
Wheeler’s winning touchdown
resulted in the break caused by
Knapp’s fourth down punt hit-
ting one of his own men. Wheeler
recovered on the Panther 13 yard
line and scored on a series of line
plays.
DISTRICT TITLE
GOAL OF TWO
TEAMS TONIGHT
Bucks Apparently
Have Edge With
6 Straight Wins
Panhandle Panthers play their
final conference game at 7:30
o'clock tonight against the Bucks,
a l White .Deer. The Cats are fight-
ing lor their lives in 1-B district
competition, as a loss will end.
all opportunity to win the district
title.
The Bucks have won conference*
games over Wheeler, Spearman,
Canadian and Claude. A victory
over Panhandle would give the
Bucks undisputed possession of
the district title.
The Bucks defeated Wheeler
7 to 0 and the Panthers lost to
Wheeler 19 to 13 last week.
However, the Bucks lost to Le-
fors while the Panthers defeated
the Pirates, who have already won
the Class A title in that strong
district. Edge apparently is for
the Bucks, who have won their
last six games.
White Deer will crown its foot*
ball queen preceeding the game.
Should Panhandle win the game,,
the district would he thrown into
a three-way tie between Panhan-
dle, White Deer and Wheeler.
Whether the winner would be de-
cided by a flip of the coin or
by votes of district officers was
not known here Thursday.
Coach George Watson has the
Bucks keyed up for this game,
wrhich also will decide the champ-
ionship of Carson County.
E. O. Thomas and his assistant,
John Cowan, have the Panthers in.
good shape for this game.
White Deer’s quarterback, Capt.
Buchanan, was declared the back
of the week last -week by Jerry
Kolander, Amarillo News, Class B
sports writer.
Panhandle fans are expected to
follow the team to White Deer in
large numbers tonight.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shearer,
Millersburg, Ohio, are visiting in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Enlow and Griff Shank.
Biddy Mack Wigham, who has
been in training at a Naval base;
in California, is visiting his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wigham.
He will report to Corpus Christi
Dec. 1 for further training.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Nichols have
vone to Marfa, Texas, where he
will be advertising manager of the
Big Bend Sentinel.
Mrs. J. W. Hammers has re-
turned from a visit with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wetsel,
Sweetwater.
Mrs. J. B. Howe left Wednes-
day by plane for El Paso to attend
the state meeting of the Texas
Congress of Parents and Teachers.
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Lawson
visited in Norman, Okla., over
the weekend and saw the Okla-
homa-Nebraska football game.
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Cornelius
and son, David Lee, Uvalde, are
visiting Mi\ Cornelius’ mother.
Mrs. Clara Cornelius.
Mrs. Herbert Sullivan returned
to her home Monday after being
a medical patient in Amarillo Os-
teopathic Hospital for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. West and
daughter, Gloria, Dallas, spent the
weekend in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Nunn.
Amateur Show
To Be Tuesday
The Panhandle Parent-Teacher
Association is sponsoring an ama-
teur show at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday,
Nov. 23, in the high school audi-
torium.
The program will consist of
rea,dings, skits, musical numbers
and dances by girls and boys of
pre-school through high school
aige. Miss Mary Ewing is direct-
ing this program and prizes will
be awarded in each age group.
Tickets are on sale at all drug
stores at 35 cents for students
and 75 cents for adults.
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. William Kelsey
Walters, Wichita Falls, are an-
nouncing the birthi of a daughter,
Cheryl Ann, weighing 7 lbs. 12 oz.
Oct. 21. Mrs. Walters is the former
Dorothy Abernathy of Wichita
Falls. Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Temple Abernathy, Wichita
Falls, and Mr. and Mrs. L. A.
Walters, Mulberry, Ind.
Garcia Infant Son
Dies Of Pneumonia
Ysidro Garcia, Jr., four months,
and seven i days old, died Satur-
day, Nov. 13, in a Pampa Hos-
pital following a week’s illness
with pneumonia.
Funeral services were held at
11 a. m. Monday, Nov. 15, in St.
Theresa’s Catholic Church with
Fr. Joseph Walters, pastor, offic-
iating. Burial was in Panhandle
Cemetery under the direction of
Duenkel - Carmichael Funeral
Home, Pampa.
The infant was buried by the
side of his father, an assistant
foreman of the Santa Fe, who was
killed in a railroad accident near
Pa,nhandle, August 26.
Survivors include his mother,
Mrs. Ascension Garcia, one bro-
ther, Joe; two sisters, Josephine
and Patsy, all of Panhandle, and
by three uncles.
2 Students Make
NTSC Honor Roll
Betty Armstrong and Robert
Bonner of Panhandle are on the
dean’s honor list at North Texas
State College, Denton, for the fall
semester.
To be included, students must
maintain at least a B average for
12 hours’ work the previous se-
mester with no grade below C.
Miss Armstrong, grandaughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Armstrong,
is a junior music major and a
member of the Womens Choir and
Sigma Alpha Iota music frater-
nity.
Bonner, son of Mr and Mrs.
R. E. Bonner, is a junior indus-
trial arts major.
County Business
Outlook Meeting
Proves Valuable
Many wTho attended the first
Carson county agricultural and
business outlook conference held
on the 6666 Ranch Nov. 10 have
indicated they would like to have
it made an annual affair.
Some received more help from
one speaker than the others and
other visitors had other prefer-
ences. It all added up that all out-
of-the-county speakers made a
special effort to bring timely in-
formation.
From the “outlook” standpoint,
the principa 1 speaker was Dr.
Tyrus R. Timm of the Extension
Service at College Station. He was
assisted by E. R. Morrison of
Dallas. At the conclusion of Dr,
Timm’s presentation a good old-
fashioned discussion meeting was
held.
In the morning Animal Hus-
bandman A. L. Smith of the Ex-
tension Service at College Station,
conducted a tour among the calves
recently received at the ranch.
Foreman George Graves was ship-
ping big steers that day and it)
was impossible for him to conduct}
the tour.
Later a drive into some of the
pastures was made where A. H.
Walker, range specialist of the
Extension Service, explained the
grasses found on the ranch. He!
showed specimans of excellent,
good, fair and poor grasses and.
also showed some bothersome
weeds.
Dater in the day Quentin Wil-
liams, district conservationist of
the Soil Conservation Service, told
of experimental work he amt
others were doing on the ranch.
Dr. C. O. Morgan of the Pan-
Tech Farms was called upon to*
tell of the 'accomplishments of his
department in study of grass and
wheat poisoning in livestock. His
comments brought forth an ex-
cellent discussion. Following his
phase of the program, the home
demonstration clubs of the county
served a splended hot lunch.
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