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The fkNWANDEE Wecaid
Our 68th Year
Of Service To
Carson County
Vol. 68—No. 20
Postal
Receipts
Growing
Lloyd Miller, acting postmaster,
lias released figures showing the
increase in business over the same
period last year. The figures are
foro the first 3 quarters of the
year with the same ratio expected
for the remainder of the year.
1953: 1st quarter, $3,102.54;
2nd, $2,8(13.31; 3rd, $3,290.36.
Total, $9,206.21.
1954: 1st. quarter, §3,547.76;
2nd, $3,355.68; 3rd, $3,77S.C.\
Total, §10,681.51 for an increase
of $1,475.30.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1954
(8 Pages Tc Jay)
Price 5c
Governor Shivers Endorses T. B. Drive
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JUNIOR HIGH
BASKETBALL
GAMES OPEN
The junior high hoys’ team
opened the season by defeating
Skellytown 39 to 15 Nov. 1.8, The
boys also won the second game
of the season by defeating Groom
21 to 13. Coach of the boys is
Thurman Richardson. Starting
line-up is Eugene Stephens, Buster
Simpson, Jimmy Richards, Harley
Hager and Jerry Beard.
Starting line-up for the girls’
team is Martha Morgan, Cecilia
Walker, Vaneese Osborne, Sandra
Hicks, Bennita Bentley, Barbara
Mitchell and Helen Bouquet.
Coach of the team is Doyle Carver.
The girls defeated Skellytown 35
to 19 and also defeated Or om
23 to 21.
The Kittens played at River
Road last night.
The Kittens’ schedule follows:
Dec. 9-11, White Deer grade
school tournament, 6 p. m.
Dec. 17, Claude, there, 7 p. m.
Jan. 6, White Deer, there, 7 p. m.
Jan. 13, Skellytown, here, 7'p.m.
Jan. 20, Groom, there, 7 p.m.
Jan. 27-2-9, Panhandle grate
school tournament, 6 p. m.
Feb. 3, River Road, here, 7 p.m.
Feb. 10, Claude, here, 7 p. m.
Feb. 17, White Deer here. l p.m.
Farmers Meeting
Will Start Today
The Texas Farmers Union will
hold its 51st annual convention
at Wichita Falls Dec. 3 and 4.
Featured speakers will be Cong.
Walter Rogers of Pampa and
Cong. Frank Ikard of Wichita
Falls.
Officers include Fred Haiduk of
Groom, president, and J. J. Berg
of Panhandle, vice-president.
The resolutions committee met
Dec. 1 and the board of directors
Dec. 2.
Services Held For
Mrs. Jay’s Father
William Armsted Stoddard, 84,
father of Mrs. Claude Jay of Pan-
handle, died at his home, 205
Alabama, Amarillo at 12:40 a. m.
Tuesday. Survivors include the
wife, four sons, 3 daughters, 4
sisters, 17 grandchildren and 10
great-grandchildren.
Stoddard was born at Versailles,
Mo., May 15, 1870. He belonged
to the West Amarillo Church of
Christ and the Masonic Lodge.
Funeral services were held at
4 p. m. Wednesday at an Amarillo
funeral home.
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Governor Allan Shivers an.l
Mrs. Terrill Butler discuss the
tuberculosis toll in Texas as the
governor prepares to sign a r
official memorandum calling on
Texans to buy and use Christmas
Seals. His signature designates
Nov. 22 through Dec. 2 5 as Christ-
mas Seal Month in Texas,.
The traditional seal sale pro-
vides the sole support for the work
of the Texas Tuberculosis As-
sociation and its affiliated organ-
izations throughout the state. Mrs.
Butler, of Wichita Falls, is presi-
dent of the state association.
Annual Christmas Seal Campaign Gets
Official Endorsement of Gov, Shivers
Carson county’s annual Christ-
mas seal sale is under way. Spon-
sor is the Carson County Tuber-
culosis Association.
Mrs. J. O. Murray is president,
Mrs. Cecil Walker is seal sale
chairman and Mrs. J. B. Howe
is treasurer.
Letters encloscing seals have
been sent to Carson county resi:
dents. Checks should be sent to!
paign by setting Nov. 22-Dec. 25
as Christmas Seal Month in Texas.
He praised the various tubercu-
losis associations for their '“organ-
ized, consistent battle against this
disease.”
He urged “every citizen to aid
this fight by buying and using
Christmas seals on all Yuletide
mail.”
Governor Shivers formally is-
Mrs. Howe, treasurer. I sued an official memorandum
Governor Allan Shivers nas throwing his support to the cam-
given his influence to the Cam-1 paign.
Seniors Lead
On Honor Roll
Seniors outnumber all the other
classes on the honor roll for the
second six weeks.
Highest averges are held by
Mary L. Miller, 96; Kay Williams,
95.7^; Charles Miller, 95.67;
Carolyn Wheat, 95.
The complete roll follows:
Seniors: Kay Williams, Carolyn
Wheat., Paula Calliham, Georgette
Rohan, Jacquelyn Hartsell, John
Trent, Patsy Adcock, Leon Simp-
son and Elaine Bell.
Juniors: Charles Miller.
Sophomores: Clara Bednorz,
Paula Russ, Margaret Randel and
Phillip Maxwell.
Freshmen: Mary L. Miller, Judy
Shepherd and Lynn Williams.
Smith Gets Citation
For Korean Service
Gene Smith last week received
a unit citation for service on the
USS Cacapon during the Korean
War. This was for service beyond
the line of duty.
Smith, a Navy veteran of World
War II, served 18 months in the
Korean conflict, receiving his dis-
charge in Feb., 1952.
Lions To Sponsor
Lighting Contest
With Cash Prizes
The Lions Club is again spon-
soring the Christmas lighting con-
test. A door and window division
and an outside decorations divi-
sion will be held. In each, there
will be a first prize of §10. Second
prize will be $7.50. Third prize
of $5 will be awarded.
It is hoped that through this
project with the street lights and
the court house lights which the
Lions Club have already put up,
that Panhandle will be an attrac-
tive city during the Christmas
season/
M. Crittenden, 79,
Dies In California
Marcus’ Crittenden, 79, Los An-
geles, Calif., brother-in-law of the
late L. H.. Skaggs, died Nov. 19
at a hospital in Los Angeles fol-
lowing a long illness. Burial was
in Forest Lawn Cemetery there.
Crittenden was the husband of
the former Lula Skaggs and as a
young man lived for a time in
Panhandle.
Basketball Tournament for Boys
And Girls Will Feature 21 Games
Panhandle
Is 2nd In
FFA Meet
Canyon and Panhandle F. F. A.
chapters were the top two teams,
Canyon having three firsts and
two thirds and Panhandle having
two firsts and one third, in the
Amarillo district leadership con-
tests held in Panhandle at the
high school Tuesday. Banners
were given the winning clubs in
six contests.
Walter S. Britten
Given Texas State
4-H Alumni Award
Over 200 friends of Walter S.
Britten of College Station, Texas,
and former 4-H boy of Groom,
crowded into the KGNC-TV station
at Amarillo Saturday night, Nov.
20, to pay tribute to Walter who
had just won the Texas State
4-H alumni recognition award.
At 6:30 o’clock, Cotton John,
(J. Garland Smith), farm editor
Panhandle won first in radio \ KGNC, gave the signal and
broadcasting and in senior farm
skill. The following F. F. A. boys
toon: part in the radio broadcasting
contest: Leon Stephens, Roy Lane,
David Osborne and Joe Russell.
Taking part in the senior skill
Demonstration were Richard Orr,
Wayne Mohon, Rodney Veteto,
Charles Starr and Billy Brown.
Third place winners in the senior
farm skill demonstration were
Cloyd Bender, Ferrell Devin, Os-
car Thorpe and Larry Hirons.
Canyon won first in the junior
farm skill, junior chapter con-
ducting and the farm quiz. It re-
ceived third place in senior chap-
ter conducting and radio broad-
casting.
Other schools * that placed in
the six contests were the follow-
ing: Stratford,, second in the
junior farm skill; Groom second,
Claude third, Gruver fourth and,
Borger fifth in the junior chapter
conducting; Groom first, Ama-
rillo second in the senior chapter
conducting contest; Groom second
in radio broadcasting; Groom sec-
ond, Amarillo third in the senior
farm skill, and Stinnett second
and Gruver third in Farm Quiz.
Two hundred sixty-five F. F. A.
non-Panhandle boys attended the
contests. They came from the 13
following towns: Hereford, Tex-
line, Vega, Stratford, Canyon,
Spearman, Stinnett, Groom, Bor-
ger, White Deer, Claude, Amarillo
and Tulia.
Judges coming from the dif-
ferent schools and colleges over
the Panhandle were the following:
W. W. Hall, agriculture teacher
at Littlefield,; A. B. Shaw, agri-
culture teacher at. Childress; T. L.
Leach, professor at Texas Tech
College; Walter Labay , super-
visor of Area I; O. V. Barker,
agriculture teacher at Tulia; Dr.
M. R. Callham, head of the agri-
culture department, West Texas
State College; Clint Crossland,
Hereford radio announcer; Wav-
land Carroll, Canyon, district
advisor.
The area contest for the first
place winners will be in Plainview,
tomorrow beginning at 9 o’clock.
Alvis Tabor, Panhandle F. F. A.
sponsor, was absent because of
illness. Senior boys directed the
visitors in the absence of the
sponsor. Principal Lester McCoy
said that some of the Panhandle
winners worked up their projects
without adult advice.
The day’s program was directed
by McCoy in the absence of Tabor.
One of the Canyon sponsors,
T. L. Devin, is the uncle of Ferrell
Devin, one of the Panhandle con-
testants. —Zelda Weatherly.
the party was on the air. Frank
Helvey of Amarillo welcomed the
group to the suidio. Other winners
of state 4-H awards were recog-
nized including Miss Irene Detten
of Carson county who won the
dress review contest.
Clarence Williams, sheriff and
county judge-elect of Carson
county, was asked to say a few
words on Walter Britten as a boy.
Dennis Kotara, president of the
3t. Mary’s 4-H Boys Club, pre-
sented Brkten with the certificate ,
which showed he had won the j
county contest. Walter Bfitten
was nominated by the St. Mary’s
boys.
J. P. Smith gave greetings from
the Golden Spread Agricultural |
Council, one of the sponsors of j
the event: Smith is president of the |
council. J. Paul Calliham, presi-
dent of the Panhandle Hereford
Breeders Association, another,
sponsoring organization, brought
greetings from his group. Roy
Milhoan, president of the 4-H boys
of District One, spoke for that
group. Knox Parr and Miss Doris
Legggitt, district agents for the
area, spoke for the Extension Ser-
vice. H. M. Nichols, county agent
of Carson county, spoke on ‘Why
a 4-H Recognition Program.”
The Texas award was presented
to Britten by George Kent, sales
manager of the Olin-Mathison
Chemical Co. of Houston. Britten
responded with one of the finest
short talks on the value of 4-H
work ever given at any meeting.
While as a livestock auctioneer
he reaches more boys than girls
he spoke for the entire movement.
Britten was president of the Texas
4-H boys while a member.
Mason King, public relations
director of the Amarillo News and
Globe-Times, told how he watched
Britten sell his first calf, which
was his own, and has watched
and helped in many of the sales
that followed.
The Americanism talk given
by Miss Treasure Ann Keys of
Moore county, a state wnner in
public speaking, was a high light
of the evening. The Gray county
number was a pantoniine.
After the program went off the
air, Knox Parr introduced Mr.
apd Mrs. Mike Britten, Jr., par-
ents of Walter Britten. Mrs. Wal-
ter S. Britten, who had come from
College Station to be present when
her husband, was recognized and
Dick, their son.
Clarence Williams gave the in-
vocation before the barbecue was
served. The fine barbecue was
prepared by Walter C. Cabelitz,
manager of the Amarillo Club.
The foods committee was headed
up by Gene Southall, the Potter
county agricultural agent. The
Olin-Mathison Chemical Co. pro-
vided funds for the barbecue.
The Shamrock Oil Co, of Ama-
rillo furnished a plane to pick up
Britten at Clovis, N. M., where
he was selling at the Pollard
Hereford sale at Clovis that after-
noon and just could not get back
in time in his ,car. Vice-President
Art Braley of the American Na-
tional Bank and J. Paul Calliham
of Conway saw that the invitatio is
were prepared and sent out.
Before Britten left, Dr. Donald
Ashdown, radio chairman of the
Golden Spread Agricultural Coun-
cil, arranged for Britten and sev-
eral friends to make a radio trans-
cription which was put on the air
at 8 o’clock Sunday morning on
what is known as Cotton John’s
Experiment Station
Trophies
Will Be
Awarded
Twenty-one games will be play-
ed in the Panhandle basketball
tournament, which began Thurs-
day afternoon. There will be sevep
sessions with two Thursday, two
Friday and three Saturday, the
finals to be Saturday night.
The tournament for both boys
and girls is expected to be one of
the best ever held in Panhandle
with trophies going to the best
teams and players.
Games 10 through 21 will be
played between winners of the
various brackets.
Admission will be 2 5 cents for
children and 50 cents for adults
for the various sessions except
for Saturday morning when chil-
dren will pay 15c and adults 25
cents.
The Lair staff will serve food,
which will consist of light re-
freshments. If good weather pre-
vails and attendance is high, the
Lair will receive all money over
§118, the amount to be used to
pay for trophies.
Should the attendance he small
because of weather, the Lair staff
will receive 50 per cent of the
money for the benefit of the school
annual.
Girls entries are: White Deer,
Lefors, Claude, McLean, Panhan-
dle, Groom, Shamrock, Friona and
Canadian.
Boys teams are: Claude, Phil-
lips B, Panhandle, Groom, Tulia
B,' White Deer, Canadian and
Friona.
The tournament began at 2 p.m.
yesterday with White Deer and
Lefors girls playing. At 3:15,
Claude and Phillips B boys played,
followed by Claude and McLean
girls.
Carson Reaches
96.41 Per Cent
Of Bond Quota
Carson county citizens and in-
stitutions bought §37,585 of E
bonds and §12,000 of H bonds
during October, according to the
monthly report received by Judge
O. R. Beddingfield, county chair-
man.
Sales in this county have been
$312,363 or 96.41 per cent of a
quota of $324,000. Only $11,637
more of bonds remained to be sold
to reach the quota.
Judge Beddingfield feels that
the quota was reached sometime
during November.
The Panhandle-Plains area has
a quota of $15,679,000. Sales were
$SS2,417 during October with only
68.23 per cent of the area quota
reached.
Woolbright Shows
Irrigation Scenes
Of Grand Coulee
Rev. Blake Woolbright, min-
ister of the First Baptist Church,
spoke .and showed slides on the
irrigation project of the Columbia
River to the Lions Club -Tuesday
noon. Grand Coulee Dam, which
stores the water in Roosevelt
lake, has opened up vast acres of
rGh land which were useless until
the irrigation project was put to
i use.
Woolbright is a Rotarian. Guests
of the club were Edward Brannon,
highway patrolman, guest of Sam
Banning, and Dr. Melvin Calliham,
guest of James R. Cox. New mem-
bers of the club are David Warren,
Jr., and John Nunn. The program
w;as in charge of Jerrel Julian.
Guests of Mrs. Fannie Williams
were her daughter, Mrs. Bill Wat-
son,' and family, Hooker, Okla.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. F.
Ferrel were her aunt, Mrs. Grace
E. Benjamin and her daughter,
Mrs. Roy Percy, Bloomington, 111.
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Warren
and Randy attended the Texas-
Aggie football game at Austin
Thanksgiving day.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Sparks and Marvin were Mrs. Earl
Cox, Wayne Cox, Amarillo, and
Mrs. Birdie Dickson, Borger.
Mr. and Mrs. M. S. McKee,
Llipscomb, were guests of their
daughter, Mrs. Walt Brown, and
grandsons, Jerry and Gene Gaylor.
Kern Granstaff, a student at
Texas A. & M. College, College
Station was a guest of his mother,
Mrs. Faye Granstaff.
Mrs. Minna Fulton was the
guest of her son and daughter-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fulton,
Stinnett.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stone
of Panhandle and Waynoka visited
over the Thanksgiving week-end
in the home of their daughter,
Mrs. Earl Weizbrod, and family,
Amarillo. Other guests in the
Weizbrod home were Mr. and Mrs.
T. B. Stone, Canyon. Weizbrod,
who had been yard foreman in the
Santa Fe yards in Amarillo, left
Tuesday for Belen, N. M., where
he will be roadmaster ,on that
division.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. O’Neal and
Mike were guests of his mother,
Mrs. Willie O’Neal.
Thanksgiving dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sterling were
Mr. and Mrs. Talmon Milligan and
Margaret and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Sterling.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hood,
Jr., Fredrick and Maurice, Ama-
rillo, were guests of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hood, Sr.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Johnson were their son, Jimmy,
and Jloyce Dittberner, both of
Pampa
Guests of Mr. - and Mrs. T. H.
McKenzie on Thanksgiving were
Mr. and Mrs. John Apel and chil-
dren, Mrs. John Apel, Sr., Mr.
and Mrs. Robert McKenzie and
daughters, Dr. Charles W. Gar-
rett and Susannah, Mr. and Mrs.
S. H. Kammerer, Panhandle, and
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bussey, Ama-
rillo. On Sunday they had as di i-
ner guest, Mrs. G. F. Gramer,
Maywood, Calif., and Miss Char-
lotte Tompkins.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hagaman
and children visited in Cascade,
Colo.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Walker and
daughters visited Mr. and Mrs.
Deahl Howe and family in Fort
Pierre, S. D.
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Mrs. G. F. Gramer, Maywood,
Calif., came in Friday, Nov. 26,
for a several days visit with friend®
She is a former postmaster and
a former librarian of Carson
County Public Library.
Cub Scouts Hold
Monthly Meeting
Walter O’Farrell met with the
Cub Scouts Nov. 22 in the school
cafetorium. Den 4, in charge of
Mrs. Harold Smith, opened the
exercises. Achievement awards
were presented to different cubs
by Mrs. E. R. Haskins, den mother
coordinator. A skit was presented
by Den 7.
A theme of Thanksgiving was
carried out by displays. Den 2 dis-
played turkeys, log cabins, trees,
pilgrims and Indians. Den 3 show-
ed the pilgrims landing at Ply-
mouth Rock. Den 1 carried out
a western theme by displaying
bookends, cowboys and Indians
which the boys had made.
Den 5 had a display of Colonial
America with log cabins, tents,
trees, Indians and the Mayflower.
Den 6 was in charge of the closing
ceremonies. Thirty-one adults and
47 cubs had refreshments after
the meeting. The nevt meeting
will be a Christmas party Dec. 17.
SONE ELECTED HEAD
OF CHURCH COLLEGES
Dr. Law Sone, president of
Texas Wesleyan College, Fort
Worth, and a former superinten-
dent of Panhandle schools, was
elected president of the Texas
Association of Church Related
Colleges at a meeting in Marshall
last week.
Basketball Tournament Schedule
THURSDAY
Session D—-2-3:15, White Deer and Lefors girls; 3:15-4:30,
Claude and Phillips B boys; 4:30-5:45, Claude and McLeau
girls.
Session II—6:05-7:30, Panhandle and Groom boys; 7:30-
8:45, Panhandle and Groom girls; 8:15-10:00 Tulia B and
White Deer boys.
FRIDAY
Session III—1:15-2:30, Shamrock and Canadian girls;
2:45-3:45, Friona and (White Deer or Lefors) girls,; 3:45-5:45,
Canadian and Friona boys.
Session IV—7-8:15; 8:15-9:30; 9:30-.
SATURDAY
Session V—9-10:15; 10:15-11:30 a. m.
Session VI—1-2:15;- 2:15-3:30,; 3:30-4:45 p. m.
Session VII, Finals—6, 7, 8, and 9 p. m.
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