The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, December 19, 1947 Page: 1 of 12
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Founded 1887.
Oldest Business Firm
In County.
The Panhandle Hedald
Let’s Build
That World War II
Memorial.
Volume 61—No. 22
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1947
(20 Pages Today)
Price 5c
Yuletide Shopping Heavy
FARM BUREAU
ELECTS McCRAY
NEW PRESIDENT
J. B. Lim*, Who
Is Uncle Jay At
KGNC, Is Heard
Jim McCray was elected pres-
ident of the Carson County
Farm Bureau to succeed A. G.
Gripp at a meeting at the Pan-
handle Inn Wednesday night.
Other officers named were:
Ernest Russell, vice-president:
Elton Vance, secretary-treasurer;
Walter Bill, reporter.
Carson county has about 75
members n the bureau. It was
reported that Hansford county
has 32 5 members or 100 per
cent; also, that Armstrong coun-
ty lacked only five farmers of
having 100 per cent.
Sewell Kammerer had charge
of the program and introduced
H. M. Nichols, new county agent,
who told of his attendance at
the Texas Farm Bureau conven-
tion in Amarillo and also of meet-
ings he recently attended in
Cnicago as president of the Nat-
ional Association of County
..Agents.
Featured speaker was J. B.
Linn, Uncle Jay of KGNC, who
said the station had spent about
$750,000 for its new radio sta,-
ion. It was announced at the
ime of its opening on 10,000
atts that the Carson county
ansmtter had cost around
50,000.
In the audience of around 100
ersons, Linn could get only five
to admit they listened to soap
operas. He referred to dead air
space, which made it impossible
for lsteners on 710 now, espec-
ially some of those in the north-
western and northeastern parts
of the county to get the station
at night.
Linn said that stations in
Kansas City and Seattle use 710
kilocycles and have preference
in directional antennas.
The speaker demanded that
the public not judge political
candidates by their voices, feel-
ing that personal appearances are
still preferred.
White Deer Boys
Lose To Panther
Squad 34 to 31
The Panhandle Panthers boys
defeated White Deer 34 to 31
in a close basketball game Tues-
day night in the local gymnasium
while the girls lost 28 to 19.
The Panthers started off
strong and led one time 17 to 10,
but the Bucks narrowed the lead
to 19 to ,15 in favor of Panhan-
dle at the half.
The Bucks gained in the third
quarter, which ended with the
teams tied 2 5 to 25. Then, the
Panthers forged ahead with sev-
en points while the Bucks made
none. The Bucks then built up
to 31 points, just one good , foul
throw behind the Panthers.
Near the close of the game the
Panthers dropped in a goal to
make the score 34 to 31. The
Panthers opened up the game in
the last few minutes and soon
lost most of the lead they had
gained earlier in the forth quar-
ter.
The taller White Deer girls
crowded the Pantherettes all the
way, making it difficult for the
Panhandle fair sex to catch re-
bounds.
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IULETIDt
1-B DISTRICT
LOSES THREE
OF ’47 TEAMS
Class 1-B district in football
was organized at a meeting at
White Deer Monday night with
Panhandle represented by Supt.
R. E. Byrom, Coach Doyle Christ-
man and Asst. Coach Bobby
Doyle. John Morris of Claude
was elected chairman.
Spearman, Panhandle, Claude,
White Deer, Canadian and Wheel-
er are the six teams making up
the district, which refused ap-
plications from Stinnett, Vega,
and Groom, who were members
last year. Panhandle, Claude and
S'pearman are in the district this
year, while White Deer and
Canadian compete in 2-A with
Wheeler in 3-A.
Lefors originally was assigned
to the district, but its applica-
tion to remain in 3-A had prev-
iously been accepted. Thus. Le-
fors withdrew its application. '
The Panhandle Panthers plan a
■ 10 game schedule in 1948 with
five conference games as follows:
Oct. 22, Spearman here; Oct. 29,
Canadian there; Nov. 5 Claude
there, Nov. 12, Wheeler here;
Nov. 19, White Deer there.
The season will open Sept. 17
at McLean, which has been the
traditional opening game for the
Panthers for several years. Le-
fors will be played Oct. 8 there.
Hereford and Phillips will be
played, but the dates have not
yet been set. It is laso planned
to arrange another non-confer-
ence game, if it is possible,
Coach Christman said.
In the old 2-A set up from
1946 back for a few. years were
Panhandle, Canadian, Spearman,
and White Deer with Perryton
and Phillips. Thus many trad-
itional enemies, except Perryton
and Phillips will be on district
schedules. Some years ago Claude
also was in the 2-A district.
SPEARMAN AND
PERRYTON WIN
REGION TITLES
Lynx Easily Beat
Whitharral 51-0;
Irish Lose 14-0
The big football teams con-
cerning this area turned out j^OO
per cent according to predictions
the scores in two instances being
larger than had been forecast.
Perryton easily defeated
Shamrock 14 to 0 for the Class
A Regional championship at
Pampa last Friday afternoon. It
was generally predicted that the
winner of * the Phillips-Perryton
game would coast into the reg-
ional title.
Spearman ran away over Whit-
harral 51 to 0 for the Region I
Class B championship. The light
team from the South Plains was
not regarded as having a chance.
The game was played at Spear-
man Saturday afternoon.
A quarter final game closely
watched was the 27 to 0 victory
of Odessa over Wichita Falls.
Fns believe that the hard game
Wichita Falls had with Amar-
illo the previous week caused
the Coyotes to lose by such a large
score Saturday.
There were also three other
Class AA games, Highland Park
defeating Arlington Heights, Fort
Worth, 18 to 14, after spotting
the losers 14 points. This is the
fifth successive year that High-
land Park has made the semi-
finals.
Two other AA games resulted
in scoreless ties, Longview de-
feating Breckenridge with one
penetration, making it the first
time the Loboes carried the ball.
Brackenridge High of San An-
tonio defeated Goose Creek with
2 to 1 penetrations in another
scoreless tie.
Odessa plays Highland Park at
Dallas Saturday and Longview
plays Breckenridge High at San
Antonio in semi-final games.
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A’MERRY* CHRISTMAS
SEASON’S GREETINGS
From The
PANHANDLE HERALD
STAFF
DAVID M. WARREN
BUDDY GILBERT
FLOY W. SELLERS
BILLIE GREEN I
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JACK CURTIS |
Coaches Select 4 Panhandle Players
On 1-B All District Team; Four Also
Were Named Off Spearman Lynx Squad
GIVE TO CHAPEL
Dr. and Mrs. O. H. Lloyd of
Vega, residents of the Panhandle
since 1902, Monday gave $2,400
to the West Texas State College
Chapel Fund, bringing the total
to $35,000. President J. A. Hill
is hoping to raise another $5,000
to $10,000 for the work.
Schools To Take
2-Week Vacation
Christmas vacation for Pan-
handle schools will begin Fri-
day afternoon and will continue
until Monday morning, January
5. All high school classes held
Christmas parties Monday night
and various grade classes also
have had room parties.
The Panhandle Panthers will
not have any basketball games
during the holidays.
Sports minded Panhandle peo-
ple are now thinking about the
Cotton Bowl and Sugar Bov/1
games New Years Day. SMU and
Penn State play in the Cotton
Bowl and Texas and Alabama in
the latter. Special trains are be-
ing run from Dallas and Austin
to New Orelans for the Sugar
Bowl contest.
Post Office Plans
To Open One Hour
On Christmas Day
The post office will be open
from 10 to 11 . m. Christmas
day for the delivery of packages,
Mrs, Letha Gramer, postmster,
said this week.
This service is being given so
that patrons may have the pleas-
ure of receiving Christmas pack-
ages that have been late in arriv-
ing at Panhandle.
Morning Freeze
Reported Daily
For Past Week
Every morning during the past
week Panhandle has had freez-
ing weather with temperatures
running from lows of 18 to 27
degrees.
Weather generally has been
clear the* past few days. Next
week winter begins officially and
will arrive.
Temperature readings:
Date High Low
Dec. 11 45 24
Dec. 12 56 27
Dec. 13 46 18
Dec. 14 52 23
Dec. 15 70 26
Dec. 16 66 26
Dec. 17 56 24
VFW Post Makes
Good Record In
State Campaign
James Mecaskey Post No. 6972
was seventh in a state-wide cam-
paign for members, according to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
News. The Panhandle post was
listed as among 11 posts in the
entire state to equal or surpass
previous year’s totals.
The local post now has 60
members and plans to continue
its drive for members. Any vet-
erans eligible for membership
should contact any member, who
will be glad to take application.
A meeting was held Wednes-
day night and lunch was served
at the close.
Newly elected post officers are
Francis Holcomb, commander;
Howard Beddingfield, quarter-
master; Lloyd Miller, quarter-
master sergeant.
The 1-B all-district team pub-
lished in The Panhandle Herald
Nov. 28 and based on • concensus
of opinion here was close to the
official team picked by the
coaches at a meeting at White
Deer Monday night.
Gene Thompson, L. J. Bernau-
er, Charley Wright and Dave
Warren of Panhandle were sel-
ected by the coaches, and in The
Herald poll several weeks ago.
Also, Glenn Mackie, Joe Lackey
and Brad Castleman of Spear-
man were on both selections.
However, the coaches put Don
McLain of Spearman on the first
team and Jack Barnett of Groom
as a utility back.
Local fans had put Barnett on
the first team and McLain on the
second. District coaches picked
Raybey Smalley of Claude for
left end over J. D. Cotter of
S'pearman, also Rutherford of
Claude over Jim Clinton of Pan-
handle for guard and Edward
Mathes of Vega over Larry Tack-
ett of Panhandle for right end.
Coaches put Tackett as end,
Clinton as guard and Carl Ad-
cock as back on the second team.
Attending the meeting at
which the all-district teams were
selected were the two Panhan-
dle football coaches, Doyle Chris-
man and Bobby Doyle.
Pampa Defeats
A and B Teams
In Basketball
The Panhandle Panthers A
team lost 52 to 26 and the B
squad 22 to 15 last Friday night
to the Pampa Harvesters at the
local gymnasium. The inexperi-
enced Panthers were no match for
the 1AA basketball teams from
Pampa High School.
The Panthres opened the sea-
son at Pampa Dec. 2 and the A
team lost 39 to 21 and the B boys
47 to 13, The B team played a
stronger game while the A boys
played about the same pace
against Pampa.
Farlow and Thompson led with
8 points for Panhandle, Warren
6and Adcock andmfwyp mfwy
6 and Carl Adcock 4 ponts for
the other Panther tallies in the A
game.
Among those scoring in the B
game were Clinton 5, Skelton 4
and Bickerstaff 2 points.
Malcolm Douglas, son. of Mr.
and Mrs. Curtis Douglas of Pam-
pa and grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
T. M. C'leek of Panhandle, played
on the visitors’ team.
ALL DISTRICT 1-B
TEAM SELECTED
BY COACHES
L. E.—Raybey Smalley, Claude
L. T.—Glenn Mackie, Spearman
L. G.—Rutherford, Claude
C. Gene Thompson, Panhandle
R. G.—Joe Lackey, Spearman
R. T.—L. J. Bernauer, Panhandle
R. E.—Edward Mathes, Vega
Back—Charley Wright,
Panhandle
Rack—Dave Warren, Panhandle
Back—Brad Castleman, Spearman
Back—Don McLain, Spearman
Utility Back—Jack Barnett,
Groom
W. L. Boyles’
Mother Dies
In Oklahoma
Mrs. Susie E. Boyles, mother
of W. L. Boyles of Pampa, died
at 1:30 a. m. Saturday, Dec. 13,
at her home at Britton, Okla.,
adjoining Oklahoma City.
Mrs. Boyles, who was teaching
at Union City at the time of her
death, had spent many years as
a teacher.
She is survived by the son and
a daughter, Mrs. Bernell Ell-
wanger of Britton. Survivors in-
clude three grand children, Wel-
don Boyles of Oklahoma City,
Mrs. J. L. Nimmo and Wilford
Boyles of Pampa.
Services were held Sunday, but
it was understood by friends here
that burial was in a mausoleum
Monday.
Mrs. Boyles had made many
trips to Panhandle to visit her
son and family during the past
25 years. The Boyles family
moved to Pampa about two years
ago.
A. J. Weiser went to Britton
for the rites.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyles left Pam-
pa for Britton Friday when they
learned that the former’s mother
had taken a relapse.
ON BOY SCOUT BOARD
Jack Atkins was elected to the
Adobe Walls Boy Scout Coun-
cil executive board at the an-
nual meeting in Pampa Monday
night. Rev. Douglas Carver was
named council chairman. Report
showed there dre 2116 Scouts in
90 units in 15 counties with 883
volunteer workers.
Merchants Reporting
Good Business; Many*
Students Come Home
Panhandle merchants report
unusually good Christmas busi-
ness. Stocks are much larger
than they were a year ago and
decidedly above two years ago,
the first Christmas after the
close of World War II. Many
stores will stay open at nights
through Christmas eve.
Demand has been large for
higher priced items. But there
has been steady delivery during
the year on many items, SO' the
Yuletide rush for them has not
been quite so large.
The usual pre-Christmas rush
is on in Panhandle. Nearly all
clubs and organizations have
held Christmas parties or they
will be held before Dec. 25. Sev-
eral school parties were held
this week.
Churches are planning many
parties for Sunday, school classes
and other church units. AH
churches will have special Christ-
mas services Sunday.
The churches united for The
Business and Professional Wo-
men’s Christmas program Sun-
day night at the high school aud-
itorium. Around 60 persons were
in the Aeolian Chior of Amari
illo, which furnished a program
in three units. First unit was
popular music, second part was
a short play and the third was
/the singing of Christmas carols,
concluding with “Silent Night,
Holy Night.”
One of the talented soloists on
the program was Virginia Bailey,
daughter of Mrs. Mable Bailey,
formerly of Pnhandle.
Rev. W. E. Fisher gave the in-
vocation, Rev. James Todd read
the scripture lesson and Rev.
Herbert Brown gave the invoca-
tion.
By the end of the week sever-
al dozen college students will heve
returned home. These students are
expected to participate in many
family reunions and entertain-
ments in the community. The
high school class of 194 7 has al.
ready announced it will hold a
party.
51,000 CHECK
RECEIVED FOR
WAR MEMORIAL
Check of $1,000 received
Thursday from A. D. Weatherly
of Amarillo put the Carson Coun-
ty War Memorial Fund over the
$25,000 mark, according to A.
J. Weiser, chairman of the fin-
ance committee.
Fund now stands at $25,320.33,
according to Weiser, who now
regards the finance committee as
having completed its work, the
original, goal having been achiev_
ed.
However, it is understood that
some persons will give addition-
al sums to the fund when con-
struction begins in April, 1949.
That is the earliest date that the
site will be available.
Donations for the swimming
pool have totalled $7,831.50 and
some additional money will be
needed to complete it. Walls were
poured Tuesday and it is expected
that the floor will be finished
shortly.
Weatherly is the son of Mrs,
Maggie Weatherly and brother of
Mrs. J. B. Howe and Mrs. Opal
Purvines.
Carson Alloted
Surfacing Work
On Highway 152
Crson county has been alloted
a surfacing job on Highway 152
from the Hutchinson county line
to the Gray county line, distance
of 13.1 miles, at $16,000.
This is known as the Borger
to Pampa highway that runs close
to Skellytown. A detour highway
was paved recently from a con-
nection south of Skellytown north
through the town and west to
the connection with the main
road.
SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS MEANS
HOMECOMINGS. SONGS, GIFTS,
AND SENDING OF GREETINGS
BY JAMES TODD
The spirit of Christmas is here
again and it is still the same as at
that first Christmas 2,0 00 years
ago deep in the Judean hills—
home comings, sending of greet-
ings, singing of songs, and giving
of gifts.
It was a home coming for Mary
and Joseph. A Roman Caesar de-
creed that the world should be en-
rolled, “and all went to be enroll
ed, each to his own city. And
Joseph also went up from Galilee,
out of the city of Nazareth, into
Judea, to the city of David, which
is called Bethlehem, because he
was of the house and lineage of
David to be enrolled with Mary,
his betrothed, who was with child.
And while they were there, the
time came for her to be delivered.
And she gave birth to her first-
born son and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him
in a manger because there was
no place for them in the inn.”
How long Joseph and Mary
had been away from the old
home town is not told in the
sacred record, but too long, per-
haps because they had no family
contacts and went to the inn; but
too late. The homecoming trip
had had to be a slow one because
Mary was soon to become a mo-
ther, and when she did she made
the manger a sacred cradle and
the homecomng the tenderest of
them all.
Homecoming at Christmas!
Jhis is the joy of all, men, wo-
men and children, and those who
have homecomings Christmas
should be glad and happy, and
■emember there will be many
whose circumstances will pre-
vent homecomings at Christmas;
yet it’s spirit will be found as it
was at the manger cradle.
The sending of greetings! They
thrill both the sender and the
receiver, as on that first Christ-
mas when the angel brought
greetings to watching shepherds
in the historic field of Boaz near
the Newborn, “Be not afraid, for
behold, I bring you good news
of a great joy which will be to
all the people; for to you is
born this day in the city of Dav-
id a Savior, who is Christ the
Lord.”
The singing of songs! Already
we hear them. Over the radio
week-end programs will bring
them to all. We will sing them
in our churches, and our homes,
and our schools, and it will be
indeed hearts who have lost all
of faith, 4nd hope, and love who
cannot sing with the angel choir,
“Glory to. God in the highest, and
on earth peace among men with
whom he is well pleased.”
The giving of Gifts! They will
be gifts that have a meaning and
a usefulness—because we re-
member that “wise men from the
East” “offered him gifts, gold,
frankincense and myrrh.” Gold
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Warren, David M. The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, December 19, 1947, newspaper, December 19, 1947; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth883937/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.