The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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.VOLUME 70—NUMBER 22 PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS, Friday, February 27, 1959
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The public is invited to visit
a public school next week,
March 2 through March 6. The
annual event is endorsed by the
Governor of Texas, School offi-
cials, and most civic and federat-
ed clubs of the state.
Locally School Week is being
sponsored by members of Car
son Masonic Lodge No. 1167, wish
G-ene Skaggs as chairman.
Skaggs pointed out that next
week Texas public schools van
celebrate their 105th year of pub-
l'c service.
ACTIVITIES
See Democracy In Action is
the theme of School Week, and Panhandle high
will be ihe
in local schools by pupils, admi-
nistrators, instructors and person-
nel. No special frills have beau
‘Gue'ls Each month the Rotary Club
IMS TAKE
M-MSTRKT
New manager
at Panhandle Inn
Jackie Burns hit a layup
\ ' ' give the White Deer Bucks
Carson county milo producers
appealed to Congressmen for re-
lief from the drastic 31c price
support cut on grain sorghum
posted recently by Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Benson.
Farmers say it will be almost
impossible to make a fair profit
on milo under the new price of
$1.52, compared to last year’s
$1.83. Takingxinto consideration
to Mrs. G. A. Black is the new
an manager of Panhandle Inn, ac-
■exciting sudden death overtime cording to an announcement g^> per hundred for shipment
-V Class A bi-district victory over made Monday by John E. Hill aTld tbe elevator storage
-v' Gruver Tuesday night. The game and Son, owneis. charge, the milo producer will
Hill said Mrs. Black would be have only $L31 Per hundred for
, was played at Stinnett.
Jeff Bearden, the shot maker
JAMES JAY,
president
school
of the
student
Jell Bearuen, the snot matter his work,
who personally beat Panhandle !,sslfea Dy iVir- ana iVirs; ■Lj; c L I
three times this year, tallied 35
this theme is being carried out rouncJ., oTthe** hTcal rarL= the scoring bell 27 times for
Rotary Club, Friday noon. Jay
is a member of ihe senior class,
Gruver.
White Deer will meet the win-
See Bucks Take Page 4
added to the programs. x . , . .
will see ‘us’ in our every-day selects an outstanding student to
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TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK has been proclaimed by
Governor Price Daniel for March 2-7. Receiving the proclamation
for the ninth annual statewide observance is John McKee of Dallas
(right) who has served as state chairman of the Texas Citizens’
Committee for Public Schools Week since the week was inaugurated
in 1950. Parents and other citizens are urged to visit their local
schools during the week.
, LIST KE9 CROSS VOLUNTEERS
‘working clothes’ and in our
every-day activities,” James R.
Cox, superintendent of schools
said Wednesday. ‘
Monday: Club meetings from
2:30 to 3 p. m. and girls intra-
mural volleyball games.
Wednesday, Sing Song with all
students in auditorium.
Friday, National Honor Society
installation of new members, 2:30
to 3 p. m.
Elementary and Junior High
classrooms will be open all week
to all visitors.
TUESDAY NOON
At Lions Club, Tuesday noon,
I. E. Padget will introduce a
be the guest of the club.
Farm Bureau to see
s Tenderfoot film
Burleson for a few weeks and ij- Edwards, president pf
.._____ . . ... c . . then the Burlesons would be the Texas Whe-at Growers Ass’n.
official Pcmts'^ while Sonny Blankenship transferred to another Hill hotel. sent Senator Lyndon Johnson the
following telegram:
Mrs. Black, who has worked “New support ratio of grain
for the Hill Hotel chain since sorghum to corn grossly unfair
1950 moved, to Panhandle from to area. Higher prices imperative
the Yates Hotel at Rankin, Tex. if sorghum farmers continue to
Prior to that time Mrs. Black operate. Continued high prodtic-
was manager of the ' Hillson tion costs lend further to reduc-
Hotel in Pampa. Mrs. Black own- ed profits. Request full coopera-
ed and operated her own hotel tion in relief of Secretary’s de-
in Amarillo for 14 years. , plorable move.”
Briefly the price slash allows
Monday, March 2
School, City
filing deadline
next week
Carson County Farm Bureau
members and invited guests
Hill told The Herald that an northern com planters to
extensive remodeling program pl.oduce another big corn crop_
store more than 90 percent of it
at an increase over last year’s
Carson county citizens are ask- percent of their quota,
if id to contribute $2,250 for this “Carson county has received
I ; -ear’s American Red Cross fund rriore than $86,000 from Red
tmpaign. Judge Clarence C. Cross during the past 10 years special School Week program.
» illiams, campaign chairman, therefore it is doubly important
pounced. Wednesday. that we maintain our chapter and
Our campaign begins Monday, reaca our S°ab
f * .arch 2 in every home of the
at their meeting at 7:30 p.
( m. Monday, March 2 in the Harold
’’ Carson County Living War a^R G. H.
; \>unty and we hope through your
100 percent cooperation to com-
| plete the campaign in one week.
.,... “Few counties
Jessed
VOLUNTEER WORKERS
Citizens who have volunteered
to work during the
are:
GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS
Governor Price Daniel says in
his official proclamation: “In an
effort to make Texas public
schools the finest in' the Nation,
the citizens of our communities
campaign are urged to take an active in-
terest in the school system and
have beep as
as Carson county from
financial as well as assistance
iandpoint and it is up to us to
tep Carson county in the list
Sf chapters who contributed 100
Panhandle, Alvis Tabor. to cooperate with, the respective
White Deer, W. R. Howard school boards, superintendents,
Groom, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie principals and teachers.
would begin as soon as workmen
could be contacted. “The 38
UPO„ Jack Martin and C. L. Edwards rc^fia wiR remodeled, baths support pric^—and then the" com
win see the popular color have filed for places on the school will be added when possible and ^ planters will buy CHEAP Texas
film A Tenderfoot In Europe trustee ballot to be voted- on a general c ean-up and paint-up m_Q0 to use }n their feed lots.
April 4. J36 ^he ordei for the entire Last year corn was supported
P. Smith, Richard Orr, building. at $1.06 per bushel. This year the
Bell have filed for Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Baldwin, price will be $1.12.
Me*m~oriaF~Building7 according Places on the city ballot to be managers the past two years, Congressman Wlalter Rogers
to Leo Detten, Farm Bureau voted- on April 7. plan to travel in California for said: “I heartily disapprove of
president " ’ The deadline for filing for the the next two to three months and the action of the Secretary in,
Detten said, “I urge all Farm school trustee election is 5 p. m. then move to their home in the price of milo and' corn. I feel
Bureau members to invite c Wednesday, March 4. Amarillo. that he has indulged in favorit-
couple to brixip' with them to The deadline for filing for the Mrs. Black is a very gracious ism to the corn producers.”
city election is 12 noon, Satux- and charming woman. She is a Forty percent of the nation’s
day, March 7. member of the Methodist church, milo is grown in this area.
Three vacancies will be filled She has one son, L. E. Black, Persons desiring to inform their
in the city election and two who is the midwest manager for Congressmen of their opinion on
vacancies will be filled in the the Wall Street Journal, with this tragic price cut should do so
. # offices in Chicago. this week.
Monday
the entertainment
evening.”
Coffee and donuts and
cookies will be served after
the film, Detten remarked. .
Cotton John (Garland) Smith, school election.
KG-NC-TV Farm Director, has
been invited to the meeting
f , TAG SALES ABOUT AVERAGE
Carson car and truck owners
ire buyng 1959 license plates
about the 'same scale as this
hod last year, according 1o
: p ..cords of C. L. Sterling, Carson
1 /County Tax Assessor and Collec-
' nr
Fields.
Conway, Ray Calliham.
Skellytown, Mrs. Frank Hewitt
and Mrs. J. C. Jarvis.
Lsrk, Mrs. Bill Hammers.
Northwest, M. G. Weeth.
Pantex, J. P. Smith and: O. D.
Riggs.
Liberty Mrs. J. O. Murray.
North, Mrs. Harold Biggs.
Hobart, Mrs. Frank Robinson.
Cuyler, C. A. Caldwell and
Walter Dittberner.
“For the past 9 years Public
School Week in Texas has been
set aside as a special time each
year to place increased emphasis
on our educational system.
Three hot checkers
being sought
Sheriff’s Department has war-
Nichols retires
“Parent visitation is encourag- rants for three men who passed
ed and each citizen is urged' to fraudelent checks,
recognize the tremendous import-
ance of our public schools.
“Therefore, I, as Governor of
Texas, do hereby designate the
week of March 2-6, 1959 as Pub-
lic School Week in Texas.”
One of the pioneers of agri-
culture work is .resigning to ac-
One was given a Pampa drug cent a position with Christian
firm for $2 on Dec. 8.
Another for $5.25 was passed
in Panhandle May 31.
The third was for $10 given to
a White Deer firm on Dec. 22.
Rural Overseas Program. He is
a pioneer in years of service and
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PUBLIC INVITED TO FREE BAND CONCERT
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not in age. It has been said that
H. M. “Nick” Nichols, the man
causing all of this fuss, could
get 400 farm and city boys to
attend a demonstration on knit-
ting, if given three days notice.
Nichols will leave the Federal
Agricultural Extension Service
March 15. ,
He will remain in Panhandle
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WEST TEXAS STATE COLLEGE
concert band will appear in a
ree concert at 8 p. m., Thursday,
larch 5 at the school auditorium.
7he' public is invited. The WT
nid gained recognition last
ill as one of the great college
: bands in the southwest and clitics
say that the concert band is su-
perior to the football band.
One of the series of free con-
PUBLIC NOTICE:
DOG OWNERS
ARE WARNED
“Your attention is hereby cal-
led to Sect 10', Dog Ordinance,
No. 104, of the City of Panhandle.
Texas.
"It shall be unlawful for any Director for CROP for the top 40
person to permit any dog posses
H. M. NICHOLS
county expressly to work toward
the dis-olving of an injunction to
prevent testing of cattle for tuber-
culosis and to break up a county
wide fight on the issue.
Records show that this was
accomplished. ‘
Nichols and his associates de-
Ut veloped the well known “Hum-
boldt”- county plan of “Clean
Lot-.Swine Management” ' which
is still being used in the drained
over portion of Iowa.
In Hamilton county, Iowa he
was asked to set-up the origi-
nal Corn-Hog Program, now
known as ASC. He also helped
organize the original Production
Credit Association of that area;
the Cattleman’s Association; the
Hamilton County Soil Conserva-
tion District and the 4-H Calf
Wrestle.
In Carson county he assisted
See NICHOLS Page 4
for his new position of Field
J. Crager, head of the WT lty las-t September, after a num-
department, will perform ber of years as director of bands
Ted
music
for the pbblic at 8:00 p. m.
Included in the band’s reper-
toire §re such marches as Alford’s
Parapharse from La Boheme by
Puccini, Henry Fillmore’s Rol-
ling Thunder March, and Bright’s
March d-e Concert.
for Lubbock schools >
Hawkins is new
watchmaker at
Crum Jewelry
Four special groups within the
certs, scheduled in 12 Panhandle bgnd wiR also appear on the pro- .
cities, will be presented Thurs- ^ They delude a Brass Choir, ^ Roy Hawkins,
| day, March 5, in the Panhandle clarinet Choir, a Brass Quar- Brownwooa, is the
^ , ,, , n„- maker at the P. I. Crum Jewelry
tet, and the Woodwind Quintet, “ __ ._j.__. „ r r-™,™
school auditorium by the 70-piece
( Tjoncert band of West
l /State College.
I The group, conducted by Dr.
formerly of
new watch-
Texas rpbese groups are directed by Don- °-> ^accor nS
aid Haddad, instructor in brass, owner-
and David L. Kaplan, assistant Hawkins is a veteran
I. Crum,
it
PANHANDLE THEATRE
CALENDAR FOR WEEK-END
i
Thurs.-Fri.- Sat.
Tarzan's Fighi For Life
in color
the
professor, who instructs woodwind Korean War and received his
students. watchmaking certificate from one
The WT Bend annually makes <* «*. nation’s outstanding
a spring concert tour of Panhan- schools.
dl~, South Plains and Tri-State The new head watchmaker is
schools This will be the first year married and the couple (Joyee-
of directing the WT Band by Dr. and Roy) are parents of one son,
Crater who joined the facu- Roy Dail, four years old.
Announce
Kelly farm
auction sale
J. D. Kelly, Sr., is announcing,
a public auction sale at his farm
3 miles north on State Highway
15 at 10:30 a. m. Thursday, March
5.
The sale will be handled by
See AUCTION Page 4 „
sed, kept or harbored by him io
be at large unless leqphed, on ihe
streets, alleys or public places or
on private premises not under
the control of ihe said owner
within ihe limits of the City of
Panhandle, Texas, whether a
license for such dog shall have
been secured or not.
POLIO TOTAL
!S SI .841,20
"Sect. 14: Any person violat-
ing any of ihe provisions of this tion
ordinance shall upon conviction continued success
be fined in any sum of money and highly important job.
not to exceed $200.
"All stray and vicious dogs will
be DESTROYED when found
counties in Texas.
Nichols has been in Carson
county as agent or associate agent
since 1947. He entered the Exter-
sion Service of the U. S. Depart-
ment of - Agriculture as a 4-H
Club agent of Iowa in 1921.
W. W. Grisham, Jr., new dis-
trict agent of District I said he
“regretted to accept the resigna- week that the final
Nichols, .but wished him was $1,643.20.
in his new The total contribution by corn-
Robert
chairman
March of
M. Walker, Conway,
of the Carson county
Dimes, reported this
MOD total
munities follows:
place.'
City of Panhandle
Texas
Nichols came to Carson
county
Panhandle
_ $603.66
from Hamilton county,
Iowa
Groom _..
225.25
where he had served as
county
White Der
311.27
extension director for 15
years.
Skellytown ------
Prior to that time he had
served
Conway
51.00
as agent in Allamakee and
Hum-
Pantex
89.17
boldt counties in Iowa.
Walker thanked each person for
32-lc. He was assigned to Humboldt “volunteer work.’
Legion is re-activated
m
Sun.-Mon.-Tues.
Cal On A Hot Tin Roof
in Technicolor - Cinemascope
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman
Burl Ives and Judith Anderson
(no increase in prices!)
WAITING TRIAL
May, second Monday of each month at the Legion 18th District, com.
on Main mended the group for re-orgamz •
ing and pointed out some of the
work now being conducted by
Veterans interested in joining Texas and National Legion uniC,
Tliis area will have an active until re-election time
Crum said “I plan to take American Legion Post, following were: George Roberts, vice com- the Kit Carson Post
things just a shade easier, and action taken at a re-activation rounder; Uoyd Miller, adjutant; street.
Mrs. Crum and I plan to do some meeting Monday, Feb. 23 in the Louie Cleek, finance officer;
visiting. Hawkins comes to us American Legion Building. More E. Padget, chaplain.
SS I^rfrSor'
for the burglary of Raodel Motor hesitate to recommend tan to Nm«i. ^ ^ ^ to meet the Charles Mason, commander of from Amarillo.
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Loftin, Paul A. The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1959, newspaper, February 27, 1959; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth885080/m1/1/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.