The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1947 Page: 4 of 8
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The Panhandle Herald, Panhandle, Carson County, Texas
Friday, December 12, 1947
American Silent Guest Committee
and sent in care of the Governor’s
office, Austin, Texas.
The committee has chosen
CARE to handle its funds. Com-
posed of 27 major relief agencies,
CARE delivers goods in 15 Eur-
opean countries on order from
individuals and groups here. Al-
most a million and a half tons of
food can be released immediately
by this 'arganization if the Amer-
ican people give their support
through the Silent Gjuest pro-
gram, ■-
Checks and money orders
reaching the Governor’s office
the early part of the week were
in amounts ranging from |ilto55.
“Silent Guest” Idea
Going Over Big
That traditional “big heart” of
which Texas so often boasts, was
evidenced again to Governor
Beauford r H. Jester during the
early part of this week when an
almost continous flow of checks
and money orders for the Amer-
ican Silent Guest Plan began to
reach his office.
The plan, which was launched
in Texas Thanksgiving Day, is
part of a nation-wide program
designed to help the hungry peo-
ple of war torn and devastated
Europe. It was sponsored by the
chief executives in each of the
48 states and is supported by all
religious denominations.
Texans have been asked by Go.
Jester to invite one “Silent Guest”
—a war orphan, a widow, or an
old person in distress—into their
home to share a meal, and then,
to mail a check or money order in
the amount that such a meal
would cost. Cash contributions
and material gifts cannot be han-
dled in this particular project.
These checks and money orders
Would be made payable to the
| Gifts For Men
1 From Our Stock
R. C. A. Radios
Gun Cases
Gun Rods
Remington Hand Trap
and Clay Pigeons
Casting Rods and Reels
Automatic Fly Reels
Hand Tools
Flashlights and
Electric Lanterns
Pocket Knives
Pop Corn Poppers
B&B Hardware
And Supply
Phone 27
White Deer, Tex.
Read the classified ads
November Cotton
Balance Smallest
In 23 Years In U. S.
Not since the fall of 19 24 has
the November cotton balance for
the nation been as small as it is
this iyear, according to the Uni-
versity of ! Texas Bureau of Bus-
iness Research.
D^. A. B. Cox, Professor of
Cotton Marketing, College of
Business Administration, pointed
out that cotton, because of its
many ramifications into the ec-
onomic life of this nation and the
world, is particularly sensitive to
economic and political storms now
dominant in the world.
“Cotton is the best hedge in
the world against inflation,” ac-
cording to Dr. Cox, “because it
has a world market and is rela-
tively nonperishable. At the pre-
sent time cotton is in rather
scarce supply, especially with the
United States cotton balance
standing at 11,733,000 running
bales.”
Strong world demand for cot
ton, the wide margin of profit
to spinners, drastic Government
proposals of price ceilings, ex-
change regulations, export pro-
grams, crop quotas and subsidies
will regulate cotton in the near
future as far as price movements
are concerned.
To Help Another Child
Museum Executive
Committee Meets
Members of the executive
committee of the Panhandle-
Plains Historical Society will
meet at 2:30 p# m. Saturday at
Canyon.
Announcement of the meeting
which was called by President
Harold Bugbee, was sent to the
executive committee by D’r. L.
F. Sheffy of Canyon, secretary.
Business concerning the
completion of the second unit of
the museum will be brought be-
fore the meeting, according to
David M. Warren of Panhandle,
vice-president of the Society.
"This used fat is not for you,” radio star Jinx Falkenberg explains to
her young son, Patrick, "but it may help another child somewhere in
the world. Kitchen grease sold to meat dealers is used industrially
over here, which releases fats and oils for distribution to starving
people in Europe. That is why l.save every drop of used cooking fat,
and why our government urges every woman to do the same,” says Jinx.
CHMS1US SPECIALS
RESERVE
SCHENLEYS
FIFTHS_____________________________
SCHENLEYS RESERVE
PINTS_____________________
SEAGRAM'S SEVEN CROWN
FIFTHS______________________________
SEAGRAM'S SEVEN CROWN
PINTS __________________________
CALVERT'S RESERVE
FIFTHS_____________________
CALVERT'S RESERVE
PINTS__________________________
GLENMORE, 6 Years Old
FIFTHS____________________________
Glenmore, 7 Years Old
FIFTHS_____________
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We Also Have
Haig & Haig and White Horse “Scotch"
CIGARETTES, Carton_____ _
Star Liquor Store
JACK MILLER
Holiday Jobs Call
For S. S. Numbers
Increased employment during
the holiday season brings many
requests for account number
cards to the Amarillo Social Sep
urity office, J. R. Sanderson,
manager, said today. “Seasonal
and part time workers in stores,'
shops and other commercial es-
tablishments need a social sec-
urity card just- like regular and
full time employees. Every work-
er should show his card to his
employer when he goes to work.”
Sanderson pointed out.
“Employers,” said Sanderson,
“are required to report quarterly
to the Collector of Internal Rev-
enue the correct amount of wag-
es paid to each p'art-time and reg-
ular worker with his or her soc-
ial security account number. Both
the worker’s name and social
security number are needed to
give the proper wage credit on
the social security administra-
tion records. If this is not done,-
the worker nray lose credit for
the wages he has earned.”
“Applications for Social Sec-
’at any post office and mailed to
our office.” Sanderson said.
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Panhandle Plays
In Claude Tourney
For District Title
Section 1 of District 3-B bas-
ketball will be composed of Pan-
handle, Groom, Claude, Lelia
Lake and Hedley with a winner
to be determined at a tournament
'at Claude Feb. 5 to 7 inclusive.
Briscoe, Mobeetie, Kelton,
Quil and Samnorwood will be
in section 2, the winner to be
selected by a double round robin
on a home and visiting basis.
District 3-B title will be de-
clared by 'a series of three games.
Girls will compete on the same
basis with trophies going to first
'and second place teams, TO gold
basketballs going to leading boys
and 12 to leading girls in the
district.
Claude won the district for
three years, but Panhandle and
several other teams are expected
to be contenders this year.
John T. Morris of Claude is
3-B basketball chairman. Others
on the executive committee are
Noah Cunningham of Quail,
Craig Johnson of Leila Lake and
Supt. Smith of Hedley.
Farm Bureau Will
Hear Amarilloan
The Carson County Farm Bur-
eau will meet at the Panh'andle
Inn at 7:30 p. m., Wednesday,
Dec. }7. Uncle Jay of the Amar-
illo trading post will be the main
speaker.
DON’T NEGLECT THAT CAR-
Your car right now needs attention like it never did before. We will soon be in. the dead of win-
ter, when driving requires perfect automobile performance. Too, any minor adjustments made
now will avoid more costly repairs later on.
There is another thing you should remember—your car will
in on that new one if you give it careful attention and care now.
pert auto treatment you get only at—
be worth more when you trade
Bring it in TODAY for that e
ALL THE BEST MOTOR OILS
GOOD GULF GASOLINE
ACCESSORIES
OLIVER & HERB SERVICE STATION
OLIVER RUSSELL
HERB .SULLIVAN
Dairy experts of the Quarter-
master Corps now have the answer
to the problem of providing bev-
erage milk for troops in the Far
East.
Mechanical recombination of the
solid ingredients of milk with but-
ter oil and water produces satis-
factory milk for drinking, the ex-
perts report. Plants necessary for
the new milk-production system
are planned for Japan, Korea, the
Philippines, Guam and Okinawa,
where the land has been found
unsuitable for dairy farming.
Dry ingredients for the plants in
the Far East can be shipped from
the United States and stored with-
out deterioration. The new pro-
cess assures a highly acceptable
beverage.
Lack of fresh milk in the Pacific
area has long been considered a
major morale problem due to the
average soldier’s liking for milk.
In Europe, an adequate supply of
fresh milk has been established
through arrangements between the
Army and the Danish industry.
Sites and buildings in the Pacific
area will be furnished rent-free to
American dairy-products firms co-
operating in the beverage-milk pro-
gram. The rent-free basis will
continue as long as the entire out-
put of the plants is delivered to
the Army.
The Milk Industry Foundation
has co-operated with military
authorities in research on the re-
constitution of dried milk, and it
has interested a number of Amer-
ican dairy firms in the production
program.
* * *
COMPETITION: Reserve, Na
dona] Guard and Army of the
United States officers can compete
for more than 400 vacancies in the
Regular establishments of the
Army and the Air Force, beginning
in January.
A new policy permits officers
vho are high school graduates but
Jack two years of college to take
an educational development test to
establish eligibility in lieu of a
college education. The competi-
tive tour of active duty has a max-
imum age requirement of 27 years,
except for officers of the Medical,
Dental, and Veterinary Corps and
the Judge Advocate General’s De-
partment, who may be 32; chap-
lains, who may be 34, and Medical
Service Corps candidates, who may
be 30.
* * *
HERO: Sergt. Wylie Bell jumped
into the swirling Naknek river in
Alaska after a fellow soldier was
forced to release his hold on the
pontoon of a taxiing seaplane.
The time was last August, but
the temperature of the water was.
near freezing. Sergt. Bell saved
the other man’s life. His heroism
was rewarded in Washington,
where in the presence of his wife
and Gen. Carl Spaatz, chief of
staff of the Air Force, General of
the Army Eisenhower recently
pinned the Soldier’s Medal on
Sergt. Bell’s chest.
* * *
LUCKY SEVENTH: There now
is a Seventh Armored Division
Association. Veterans can join it
by writing to John P. Oliver, 2517
Connecticut Ave., N. W., Washing-
ton, D. C. The “Lucky Seventh”
closed the Allied ring around Nazi-
dom when it joined the Russians
on the Baltic Sea.
* * *
LENSES: Samples of $11 the
types of photographic lenses pro-
duced at the famous Zeiss optical
works at Jena, Germany, now are
stored in the Signal Corps labora-
tories at Fort Monmouth, N. J.
* * *
* WACS NEEDED: WAC Staff
Director Colonel Mary A. Hallaren,
who recently returned from an in-
spection tour of the Far East, re-
ports Army commanders in the
Pacific want more Wacs assigned
to their commands. During her
tour, Colonel Hallaren visited
Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan and
China, where both officers and en-
listed women of the Women’s Army
Corps are stationed; and Korea
Guam and Hawaii, where WAC
officers only are presently assigned
The Champ From
Waterloo
By RAYMOND T. DAVIS
WNU Features.
PLMER ACKLEBERRY’S long
'' legs made crunching sounds on
the white gravel path leading to the
pretentious Hendrick residence.
He reached the door and lifted
one hand to knock, but it remained
suspended in midair. The same
doqbts assailed him again. What if
Old Man Hendrick didn’t give him
the order?
Elmer sighed and knocked, tim-
idly, hoping nobody was home. But
the door was swung open after a
moment by a pompous fat man with
ruddy cheeks and a broad smile.
“You’re Elmer?” he said. “The
Acme Company’s pool shark?”
Elmer hesitated, finally replied,
“I’m Elmer—the insurance sales-
man.”
Mr. Hendrick grasped Elmer’s
skinny arm and hauled him into the
house. “Your boss didn’t tell you,
I guess. He has been phoning for
weeks to sell me insurance,” he told
Elmer as he led him through one
big room and down a thickly car-
peted hall. “Then he discovered
I’m an unbeatable pool player. Says
he’s got a new salesman who will
pin my ears back. That’s you, eh?”
Elmer scowled. So that was it!
That was why the Chicago office
had summoned him all the way
from Waterloo. Not because of his
sales record. It was his pool-play-
ing they wanted. Elmer had the
urge to run straight back to his
room and pack up.
“I told your boss I’d give you the
order if you can lick me,” Hendrick
He already could picture Mary
Ann’s forgiveness.
rumbled on happily. “Nothing like
a good contest, is there?”
They turned into a large room,
brightly lighted, with two shiny new
tables in its center.
Hendrick sprinkled some talc on
his palms and briskly rubbed them
together. “Hope you are a good
loser, Elmer,” he said cheerfully.
Elmer hurriedly peeled off his
coat and rolled up his sleeves. “I’m
a better winner,” he said curtly,
and selected a cue-stick from the
nearest rack.
“How about a little wager, too,”
urged Hendrick, “just to make it
interesting. Say a dollar a game.”
Elmer thoughtfully fingered the
four dollars in his pants pocket and
shook his head. “Ten cents is
enough for me.”
“A dime, then, but doubled each
game. Okay?” Elmer absently
agreed with a nod and the play was
started.
The game was over in exactly
four minutes. Hendrick was really
good, Elmer reflected. He rarely
missed a shot that could be made;
he knew how to freeze his opponent
and succeeded consistently.
But the champ of Waterloo was
better. Elmer found himself able
to do tricks that were impossible on
the ancient tables back home.
“You were just lucky, Elmer,”
Hendrick declared goodnaturedly.
“Now I’ll bear down hard on you.”
He seemed almost pleased that he
had been beat and that competition
was tough.
The next games were fast and
close, but Elmer won each, some-
times by only a miraculous shot,
while Hendrick’s big smile faded
and Elmer’s expanded.
It was fourteen games later, al-
most three hours, when at last they
ended the tournament. Both men
were exhausted, but Elmer had won
every single game.
Hendrick wiped his perspiring
brow with a towel and then mixed
drinks. Later, he brought out a pad
of paper and his check book. “You
win the insurance order—just mail
the policy to me,” he directed as he
wrote. “Best commission you’ll
ever make, I bet.”
“The last, too,” Elmer mur-
mured, reckling again how the
company had tricked him into leav-
ing home—and Mary Ann. “I’m go-
ing back home. Maybe the com-
mission will be enough for a down
payment on a little farm.” He could
already picture Mary Ann’s forgive-
ness at the news.
Hendrick folded a check and there
was a strange soberness in his ex-
pression as he eyed Elmer and
handed it over. “My check—don’t
forget the little wager we made, El-
mer.”
Elmer lifted a hand and backed
away. “The commission is plenty,
Mr. Hendrick,” he protested. “Let’s
forget the wager.”
Hendrick forced the folded check
into his hand. “Use it for your
farm,” he insisted. “Remember—
we played a dime a game, doubled
each game. Figure it out. It
amounts to $1,638.40.”
What’s Right With
The United States?
l
Millions of Americans seem
to be apathetic toward charges
that there is something basically
wrong with our governmental
and economic systems, 'and that
socialism, communism and the
rest of the assorted isms have
more to offer.
Edward C. Sammons, president
of the United States National
Bank of Portland, Oregon, touch-
ed on that vividly when he said:
“Our country is the only na-
tion in the history of the world
that has continued with its in-
trinsic, basic type*of government
since its beginning 170 years ago.
In those 170 years our 6 per cent
of the world’s population pro-
duced 25 per cent of the world’s
goods and possesses 50 per cent
of the world’s wealth. In no oth-
er country is there such oppor-
tunity as here.
“Too many people are saying
what is wrong with America. In-
deed, we should be saying what
is right with the United States.
Why should capital be on trial
here? Why should not socialism
or communism instead be on trial
when our people are asked to
provide the money 'and the food
and tools for other nations to
carry on?
“In my time we have defended
our country three times from
outside invaders, but we are not
defending it sufficiently from
within. The working man here
is able t-o live almost as well as
a king compared with those in
■other countries. Other systems
promise. Our people have!
“That is a fundamental truth.
The American people should
shout from the housetops their
faith in a system that has given
them unprecedented tangible ben-
efits—and, infinitely more im-
portant, the intangibles that make
for a life of freedom.
Yuletide Checks
Coming Dec. 22
It’s fortunate for Carson coun-
ty employees for Santa Claus.
The county commissioners court
will meet Monday, Dec. 22 to
pay salaries for the last half
of the month. This will help to
clear up the business for the
year and to make it possible
for some extra Christmas shop
ping for county employees.
Library, Branches
Closing For Week
The Carson County Free Li-
brary will be closed, Dec. 24
through Jan. 1, inclusive. This
applies to the main library as
well as the three branches locat-
ed in Groom, Skellytown and
White Deer. This decision w;as
made by the board of trustees at
the regular meeting Dec. 8.
Rag Gatherer
The word “chiffonier” comes
from the French word for “rag
gatherer.”
Dr. P. I. Crum
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Warren, David M. The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1947, newspaper, December 12, 1947; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth883673/m1/4/?q=12th%20Armored%20Memorial%20Museum: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.