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Vol. 68—No. 51
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1955
(8 Pages Today)
Price 5c
W pathor Officers Installed by Lions Club;
Alvis Tabor Becomes New President
Getting*
Warmer
*
June 30, with a temperature
of 96, was the second hottest day
of the year, followed by 98, on
July 1. This seemed Jo start a
rising trend and temperatures dur-
ing the week have been high
with higher still predicted for the
week-end.
Because of te heat and high
winds, fields have dried rapidly
and most of the crops washed
out by heavy rains have been re-
planted. Row crops in most in-
stances are up to a good stand,
hut could use some rain. Ranges
are badly in need of moisture.
The high temperature for the
week was 98, July 6, and the
low, 63, June 29. The low temper-
ature early Thursday was 70 with
humidity of 52 per cent.
Forecast for the week-end is
for temperatures of near 100 with
winds' 20 to 25 miles an hour. No
rain is expected.
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Temepratures
follew:
for the
week
Date
High
Low
June 29
89
63
June 30
96
67
July \1
98
69
July 2
94
70
July 3
89
67
July 4
91
67
July 5
91
66
July 6
96
69
July 7
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70 ■
Jack Griffith’, a past district
governor, was installing officer
at the' meeting Tuesday noon of
the Lions Club.
Installed were Alvis - Tabor,
president; O. D. Smith, past presi-
dent; Jack Ramey, vice-president;
Alfred Bell, Lion tamer; John
Franklin, tail twister; A. J. Weis-
er, secretary-treasurer; directors,
H. B. Skelton, H. M. Nichols and
Jerrel Julian. Hold-over directors
are Ralph Randel, W. H. Lane
and Clarence Williams.
Appointed as committee chair-
men .were S. R. Lanning, attend-
ance; Nichols, agriculture; James
R. Cox, boy’s and girl’s work;
Julian, program; Griffith, infor-
mation and education; Lane, cine
development; Bell, publicity;
Weiser, finance, and Clarence C.
Williams, convention.
Guests were Don Light, Ralls,
of his father, O. Z. LighJ; Clodus
Smith, Booker, of Lester McCoy,
Surratt
Dies In
Kansas
iSssiS;
ALVIS TABOR
and Knox
Nichols.
Parr, Amarillo, of
Woman Beat Up,
Found on Road
In Groom Area
Bessie Wagner, 53, was found
severely beaten up on a rural road
four miles east and one mile south
of Groom at 9 o’clock Thursday
morning.
Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Black
was notified by Van E. Steed, who
noticed the woman at the side of
the road. She was taken to Groom
Osteopathic Hospital.
Black said, the woman had a
skull fracture, broken ribs, scrat-
ches and marks from beating as
well as a smashed plate.
As the woman was found in
Donley county, officers there are trip to the
in charge of the investigation. ' Canada.
Harvest Hardly
Held As Sample
With Low Yield
Harvest is hardly regarded s
sample in Carson county. Only a
few fields are being harvested.
A. L. Stovall began cutting
wheat on the land of Mrs. M. B.
Pickens at Cuyler June 27. The
wheat was hauled to the Hughes
elevator ,at Cuyler and tested 60
to 61 pounds with moisture con-
tent of 11.42.
John Kotara, Jr., cut some
wheat July Fourth on his farm
northwest of Panhandle. It tested
60 pounds and had a moisture
content of 10.18. Some of the
wheat will average 20 bushels, it
is believed.
J. S. Sparks has been cutting
some 15 bushel wheat.
All three of the farmers men-
tioned were cutting from irrigated
Land, which is smaller than is
desired from that type of farming.
Cub Scouts Plan
Swimming Party
A swimming party for the Cub
Scouts will be held at .7 p. m.
Monday, July 11. Parents are in-
vited to come. All boys who are
8 years old or who will soon be
8 years old and who desire to be
a cub scout are also invited to
come to the party at the swimming
pool.
Comes Home After
Teaching In Japan
Miss Peggy Pemberton, daugh-
! ter of Mrs. Ruby Pemberton, re-
turned home June 29 from a two-
year teaching position at Yokota
Air Base, Japan. Peggy taught
the first grade children of the air
force personnel at the Dependent
Schools at Yokofra which is located
about 30 miles from Tokyo. She
will teach at Hobbs; N. M., next
year.
Robert Fred Surratt, 6 6, Pan-
handle service station operator
and motor car dealer since 1925,
died suddenly Sunday morning at
Sharon Springs, Kan., where he
had gone to check his ranching
interests. He was stricken while
he was driving his automobile.
The body was returned to Pan-
, , * ; handle Sunday night by Poston
y Funeral Home and services were
at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday in the
First Methodist Church by Dr.
Charles W. Garrett, pastor. Burial
was in Llano Cemetery mauso-
leum, Amarillo.
Pallbearers were Ike Scott,
Stewart Purvines, Floyd Hubbard,
I. E. Padget, M. C. Davis, Ralph
Randel, Earl Williams and J. P.
Smith.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Margaret Purvines Surratt; two
sons, William C. Surratt of Pan-
handle and Robert Fred Surratt
II of Austin; two daughters, Mary
Kate and Alice Surratt of Pan-
handle; two brothers, Stephen G.
Surratt of Pampa and C. J. Sur-
ratt of Greenville, S. C.
Surratt was born Feb. 24, 1889,
in Davidson county, N. C., the son
of William C. Surratt and Pris-
cilla Adderton Surratt. He left
North Carolina in 1915 and nfbved
to Oklahoma City.
He entered military service in
Masonic Lodge
Installs Knapp
As New Master
Affray At Lark
Causes Filing of
County Charges
WARREN WILL TALK
ON CANADIAN TRIP
David M. Warren, editor of The
Herald, will talk to the Rotary
Club today noon about his recent
province of Ontario,
Nichols to Report
At Corpus Christi
July 14 For Trip
h
Information has been received,
at the Extension Service offices
stating that County Agent H. M.
Nichols and others would be ex-
pected to arrive at Corpus Christi
not later than early Thursday
morning, July 14, for the sailing
of the CROP ship to Germany.
The state director of CROP,
Rev. Walter Parr, is now at Cor-
pus Christi with temporary head-
quarters at the White Plaza Hotel.
He will meet those going aboard
Thursday morning, July 14, to give
instructions. There will be a spec-
ial luncheon at the hotel that
noon before final preparations for
sailing are completed.
Nichols wil drive to Kerrville
and pick up Guy Powell, agricul-
tural agent of Kerr County. Powell
and Nichols will represent the
Texas Extension Service on this
assignment. Nichols will also he
the official ■ representative of the
Panhandle Lions Club and has
been asked to report to the Texas
Department of the American Le-
gion.
The Carson county commission-
ers court suggested that Nichols
take the 35mm camera which be-
longs to the county so that a com-
plete record of the trip can be
brought back on colored slides.
This material coupled with the
pictures now being taken by Max
Calliham and Johnny Howe on
the 4-H Korea trip should make
interesting material for this win-
ter’s county meetings, it was
pointed out.
Nine persons will go with the
cattle to West Germany. In addi-
tion to the two county agents
there will be Rev. Herman Borne,
Spring; E. C. Schaefer, Cuero;
Jimmy Smith, a 4-H boy, White-
wrighj; J. W. Baldwin, McAllen;
James Simpson, animal husbandry
student, Corpus Christi; Mary
Mahoney of the Corpus Chriati
Caller and some person represent-
ing the Memphis, Tenn., area.
Nichols overseas address will be
in care of Max W. Snider, Heifer
Project Committee, Asst. Heifer
Project Representative, Kassel-R.,
Witzechaeuserstrasse 5, Hes3tn,
Germany. The group will have two
weeks in West Germany and will
be expected back in the States
the last of August or first of
September.
Kern Granstaff, a recent grad-
uate of A. & M. College of Texas,
is now on duty at the Carson
County Extension Service offices
and will look after the agricul-
tural interests while Nichols is
away.
D. L. DODGEN FUNERAL
RITES HELD IN GROOM
Funeral services were held for
D. L. Dodgen, 83, at the First
Methodst Church in Groom Fri-
day morning, July 1, at 10:30
o’clock. Rev. Ural S. Sherill of
Lorenzo and Rev. T. Marvin Mc-
Brayer, former pastors officiated.
Interment was in Groom Ceme-
tery where graveside Masonic rites
were conducted.
Pallbearers were Van Earl Steed
C. A. Marrow, John Farley, C. L.
Culver, W. W, Brunais and T. G,
Fields. >
Dodgen passed away, at Boulder,
Colo., at 5 o’clock Tuesday after-
noon, June 28. He is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Dodgen of Boul-
der, Colo.; one daughter, Mrs. Le-
land Durham, Vega; " two sons,
Delma Dodgen of Boulder, and
Rufus Dodgen, Shamrock.
Dodgen was a farmer in the
Groom community for over 25
years moving from Panhandle to
Groom in 1919 where he resided
until 1945 when he moved to
Boulder, Colo. He was an active
member of the First Methodist
Church of Groom and a past
master of the Grojom Masonic
Lodge.
AIRMEN, R. A. MITCHELL
INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT
Four Amarillo Air Force Base
airmen were in a passenger car
that was involved in an accident
Saturday morning with a pickup
driven by R. A. Mitchell of Pan-
handle. Three airmen received
treatment and a fourth was not
injured. Mitchell was uninjured.
The accident was a short dis-
tance east of Amarillo on High-
way 60.
HAROLD C. KNAPP
Officers, elective and appointive,
of Cafson Lodge No. 1167, A. F.
& A. M., were installed at an open
meeting of lodges of the 99th
district Wednesday night in GaCe
Hall of Khiva Temple, Amarillo.
Installing officer was W. E.
Dart of Panhandle, past district
deputy grand. H. C. Knapp was
installed as worshipful master.
Elective officers installed were:
Gene Skaggs, senior warden; M.
L. Lewellen, junior warden; R.
H. Orr, treasurer, reelected, and
I. -E. Padget, secretary, reelected.
Appointive officers installed
were: Louie F. Cleek, senior dea-
con; N. F. Yates, junior deacon;
J. L. Naylor, tiler,; Dick Stepken,
World War I at Oklahoma City | A14** „Mor*f '
enlisting in the Air Force H ^ Ijunror steward; Janies Cannedy,
assigned to the 36th Aero Squad- chaElam
ron and received his training at
Fort Logan near Denver, Colo.,
and at Kelly Field, San Antonio.
He was an inspector of airplanes
in France. He sailed from New
York Oct. 13, 1917, and served
18 months overseas.
Returning from the war he
joined the Texas Company at
Wichita Falls in 1919. He was
assigned to the Panhandle for the
Texas Co. in 192tL and worked on
the lease for the first Texas Co.
well that produced oil in 1922. He
delivered the first oil for the Texas
Co. in 1924 through the Plains
Pipeline Co., which operated out
of Panhandle.
Surratt became interested in the
business possibilities of Panhandle
and erected the two-story, 50 by
140 foot building which became
the Night & Day Garage. Until
World War 2 the garage operated
day and night and there was no
key to lock the building.
The business later was named
the Surratt Motor Co. In the early
days of the business he was as-
sociated with the late W. L.
Boyles.
In addition to the garage and
motor car business, Surratt became
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Former College
President’s Wife
Dies At Canyon
Mrs. J. A. Hill, 77, wife of Dr.
J. A. Hill, former president of
West Texas State College, died at
10 o’clock Tuesday night at her
home in Canyon following a long
illness. She had lived in Canyon
since 1910.
Survivors include her husband;
two sons, Davis Hill of Galveston
and Joe Hill of Columbus, Ohio,
and a daughter, Mrs. Lemore Hill
of Borger.
Funeral serices were held at
the First Baptist Church in Can-
yon Thursday afternoon with bur-
ial in Dreamland Cemetery there.
Postal Receipts
Show $193 Gain
Postal receipts for June were
$1,723.76, an increase of $193.52
over June of the previous year,
according to Lloyd Miller, acting
postmaster.
Receipts for the fiscal year
July 1, 1954, to June 30, !1955,
were $15,827.44 with receipts for
the previous year $15,129.95. ’J his
was an increase of $697.49.
Three aggravated assault charg-
es have been filed in Carson
county court as the result of an
affray at the farm of Mrs. Mae
D'ean just north of Lark about
noon Tuesday.
Charged with aggravated as-
sault on two counts are William
H. Dean, whose bonds were set at
$1,000 each. Bonds were signed
and aproved Thursday morning.
Signing each bond were George
Simms and Howard Lane jointly.
Dean in turn Thursday filed a
charge of aggravated assault with
a knife against Clem Helois, 37,
of Paris, Ark. His bond probably
will be set this morning.
Helios and Jim Shores, 45, of
Ozark, Ark., had been working
the past three weeks, except for
bad weather, for Dean at the
farm.
Both Helios and Shores were
severely beaten up and were taken
to Groom Osteopathic Hospital for
treatment. J. L. Case, welder on
a gas line near the Dean home,
took the men to Groom in his
pickup.
After staying in the Groom Hos-
pital dbout 24 hours, the men
were brought to the Carson county
ja^l to recuperate.
Officers said that Dean had told
them he planned to file additional
charges against both men in Pot-*
ter county courts.
Shores has numerous bruise^ on
his face, neck and head; a sizable
wound oon the back of his head;
larjge piece of upper jawbone
brooken, losing seven teeth. He
was x-rayed for possible skull
fracture while he was in the
hospital.
Helios also underwent x-rays,
which showed a broken rib. He
received severe bruises on the
mouth, nose and neck. One eye
was completely closed for a time.
He had a knot the size of an egg
on his forehead for a time, officers
said.
Dean is scheduled to go on trial
at 10 a. m. Monday, July 11, in
the county court of Judge Clarence
C. Williams. He told officers that
he would ask for a continuance,
which is his right under the law,
Sheriff John H. Nunn said.
Stories varried so much that it
will take the trials to bring out
the evidence, County Attorney
Frank P. Dove said.
City Has 925,000
Gallons of Water
In Storage Today
Mrs. P. B. Farley,
82, of Groom Dies
Mrs. P. B. Farley, 82, a resident
of Groom and Gray county since
1909 died July 6 at her home near
Groom. Death came after a long
illness.
Mrs. Farley was born in illinois
in 1873 and moved to Groom in
19il0. She was an active member
of the Methodist Church until she
became ill about 5 years ago.
Funeral services will be held at
3 p. m. tpday in the Groom Meth-
odist Church with burial in Groom
Cemetery.
Survivors are the*husband; oone
daughter, Mrs. L- A. Hudson,
Groom; one brother, Art L. Wag-
oner, Amarillo, and 4 grandchil-
dren. Another brother, J. E. Wag-
oner died in May, 1947.
EVERETT SNYDER DIES
IN GROOM HOSPITAL
Everett Snyder, 70, of Lefers
died Monday night in Groom Os-
teopathic Hospital after a short ill-
ness. He had lived at Alanreed
until a short time ago. Survivors
include a son, R. A. Snyder of
Groom.
Services were held Wednesday
at Alanreed with burial there.
Mrs. S. G. Bobbitt underwent
The city of Panhandle has
925,000 gallons of water in its
tanks, according to City Manager
Frank Vise. The increased re-
serves have been made possible
by the recent cleaning up of Santa
Fe tanks given by the railway
company.
June water pumping totalled
7,962,000 gallons. Peak pumping
was June 6 with 438,000 gallons
Water pumped during June ex-
ceeded 400,000 gallons on two
more days.
Panhandle is expected to use
around 7,000,000 to 8,000,000
gallons of water this month.
Mrs. Bender’s
Mother Dies of
i
Heart Attack
Mrs. O. L. (Martha) Welsh, 61,
Ada,- Okla., mother of Mrs. M. L.
Bender, Panhandle, died unexpect-
edly Wednesday morning after a
brief illness. She became ill while
on a vacation trip to Arkansas,
but her condition was not con-
sidered serious. Death was at-
tributed to a heart attack.
Mr. and Mrs. Bender and chil-
dren left for Oklahoma on learn-
ing of her llness, but she died
before their arrival.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 this afternoon in the Chris-
tian Church, of which she was
a member, with burial in an Ada
cemetery.
Martha Titus was born in Ark-
ansas and moved to Indian Terri -
tory as a girl. She had also lived
near White; Deer, returning to
Oklahoma about 15 years ago.
Survivors are the husband; two
daughters, Mrs. Bender and Mrs.
Clyde Haskins, Ada; three sons,
Clyde, John and Mack Welch, all
of Ada, two brothers, Jim and
Bill Titus, Fayetteville. Ark., and
several grandchildren. Another
surgery at Temple Friday, July brother, Mike Titus, Stinnett, died
1. She s reported doing well. Nov. 11, 1954.
Twelfth Annual U.S. Editors’ Goodwill Tour of Ontario
Second Day—June 19
Whoever organized this junket
certainly hadn’t heard that Sunday
is supposed to be a day of rest.'
The only concession to the Sab-
bath was that we were allowed
to have breakfast at our own con-
vience. It looked like a nice, rest-
ful period before resuming the
round of tours, receptions and
luncheons (not to mention din-
ners), but someone sneaked in
fishing, more boat trips and golf
before lunch.
I’m beginning to distrust those
‘do as you please’ and ‘at your
convenience’ items on the program
already. Too many booby traps
in them.
It should be noted here that
the fishermen had better luck than
the golfers. Some mysterious reas-
on kept the golf scores unpublish-
ed, but one of the speakers at the
dinner meeting, in Kenora said
after the divot diggers got through
thje course was fit for planting
potatoes. After that it was decided
not to reveal the names of the
golfers.
Anglers came back sunburned
and successful with one Northern
pike and twelve wall-eyes between
them. This party was made up of
Bob Fisher, Arkansas; Hub Meyer
Kansas,; Ross Buck of Pennsyl-
vania and Jim Platt of South
Carolina. While there was no
official confirmation of this, it
was rumored that editor Platt’s
catch was pretty close to the lodge
record for catches.
It was anchors aweigh again
as we set sail for Kenora. A lot
of our crowd may never have been
in the navy, but they’ll sure be
fresh water sailors at least, before
they are through with this affair.
On the way back, someone vol-
unteered the information that it is
possible for 43,000,000 (count’m)
U. S. people to reach this part of
Canada in one day.
Kenora is located at the north-
ern end of the Lake of the Woods,
and is sometimes known as the
town in the neighborhood of four-
teen thousand islands. An inter-
esting feature of this small me-
tropolis among the waterways is
that it is situated approximately
in the center of the North Ameri-
can continent.
J. A. Sherret, secretary-manager
of the Industrial and Publicity
Board of Kenora, is a Scots-Cana-
dian filled to the bursting point
with enthusiani for the Lake of
the Woods country generally and
Kenora in particular. He lost no
time in filling us in with the
facts and figures. He told us “Ke-
nora now has a populaton of
9,300 and should go well over the
10,000 mark in the next two years
. . . the Ontario-Minnesota Pulp
and Paper Company will spend
$(17 million dollars in the next two
years in enlargement with a new
paper machine and speeding up
the present two machines . . . this
will boost production from 330
tons a day to 700 . . . they are
enjoying the finest mining boom
in 50 years . . . two nickel prop-
erties, Falconbridge at Populous
Lake 50 miles southeast, and Que-
bec Nickel 50 miles northwest are
sinking shafts and both will be
thriving mines ... a big uranium
find is 30 miles long ... near
Populous . . . new nickel mines
are forecast . . . the district is
now on the threshold of its great-
est development and our tourist
business was around 8 million
dollars last year and we should do
well this season if the weather
favors us.” It’s pretty difficult
not to be infected by the ardor of
this proud citizen.
Kenora was once known by the
unlovely, but graphic name of
Rat Portage, due to the nearby
muskrat hunting grounds. The
present name was compounded
from names of neighboring town,
Keewatin, surburb Norman, and
Rat Portage, in 1905. A fort was
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President Names
New Committees
For Rotary Club
Thurman Richardson, president,
appointed committees for the year
at the meeting of the Rotary Club
last Friday.
Appointed were: Club service,
Audie Morgan and Frank Grisham,
co-chairmen; program, D a v i $
King, Fred Surratt, Frank Vise;
attendance, Vise, Robert Rorex,
John O’Keefq; classification, Gris-
ham, A. A. Callaghan, G. O.
Pruitt; fellowship, John O’Keefe,
O. D. Riggs, R. E. Bonner, John
B. O’Keefe; Rotary education and
information, Vise, Ewing Ohmart,
King.
Magazine, Herman Powell, Bon-
ner, Dr. J. C. Higginbotham; com-
munity service, David M. Warren;
rural-urban, O. B. Russell, John
O’Keefe, H. J. Hughes,; student
guests, Blake Woolbright, Ohmart,
Russell; crippled children, Dr. O.
York; public information, Warren,
Callaghan, Rorex; Rotary Park,
Grsham, Morgan, Surratt, Wool-
bright, Pruitt, Powell; vocational
service, Rorex, chairman.
Buyer-seller relations, Ohmart,
Hughes, Pruitt,: four-way test,
Morgan, Riggs, Woolbright; inter-
national information and contacts,
Alton Moore, Higginbotham, John
B. O’Keefe; internatonal student
projects and Rotary Foundation,
Woolbright, Moore, York.
Introduced as Junior Rotariau
for July was Roy Lane.
A report for the past year show-
ed 3S6 visiting Rotarians. Of these
276 were from Borger; 75 from
Pampa, and 19 from Amarillo.
Easton Rapids Wis., was the most
distant point from which a visitor
came.
Visitors were E. E. Shellham-
mer, George Newberry, Pampa;
Walter B. Verner, Dumas,; Fred
Carpenter, Bill Gibbs, Fred Bing-
ham, Harold Orman and J. E.
Bullock, Borger, and Harvey P.
Gardner, Decatur, 111.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Daniels
returned Wednesday from a visit
wth relatives in Dallas. They were
■accempanied to Dallas by their
grandsons, who had visited in Pan-
handle for several weeks.
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