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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY
VOLUME 11 —NUMBER XVI
Monday April 30 1951
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PION
DAY
Jim Jordon To
Have30 Entries
Old relic cars trucks ambulan-
ces firewagons and buggies will
be entered in the Pioneer Day
Parade May 2nd by Jim Jordon
of the Eva Community Mr Jordon
stated there would be 30 entries
all togther
At present some of the ancient
vehicles are on display at the
following business houses: a 1925
Chevrolet at the Western Chevro-
let Company a Model N Ford at
the Dale Hotel a 1914 firewagon
at Claycombs and a 1915 Sport
Model Roadster at Langston an
Duick Several others are in the
Perkins Building at 801 N Main
In Guymon
Among Mr Jordon’s collection
he has a 1904 Brush a 1908 Hud-
son which is supposed to be the
first model made a 1913 Buiek
a 1916 Model T Ford Racer with
the original racing wheels a 1925
Model T Roadster a 1906 Repub-
lic Truck with a minature Pioneer
wagon of 1864 mounted on it a
1925 Model T Truck with the
Liberty Bell Float on it a 1928
Chevrolet truck and several others
besides 15 buggys
Billie Tomlinson
Wins Speech Contest
Miss Billie Margarcttc Tomilin-
son on the Texas County Farm
Bureau Speech Contest sponsored
by the Associated Women of Tex-
as County
Miss Florene Wells daughter of
Mr and Mrs Ralph Wells of Eva
came in for a close second claim-
ing $1000 as her prize Mr Jimmy
Mitchell son of Mr and Mrs
Lcsslie Mitchell of Adams claimed
the Third Prize of $500
Miss Tomilinson daughter of
Mr and Mrs Percy Tomilinson
Guymon won the $1500 in prize
money and all expense trip to the
District speech meet which will be
held sometime this fall
Out of County Farm Bureau
members attending the event were
Mr and Mrs Earl Kerns Gate
Oklahoma and Mr Warren Hod-
ges President of Cimmaron Cou-
nty Farm Bureau Mr and Mrs
Paddy of Gate
AUDITOR HAVING
TO LABOR LATE
ON OATH SIGNING
John Beauchamp Guymon au-
ditor who “keeps the books” for a
number of school districts cities
and also does work for Texas co-
unty was having a bad case of
writer’s cramps Saturday brou-
ght on by signing the anti-communist
oath recently enacted as
state law
Saturday the score stood at 19
oaths which he had taken and
signed He must sign for each sub-
division he does work for
Beauchamp pointed out that
every employe of the state or any
sub-division county city school
district must sign the oaths before
they can get anymore salary per
diem pay expenses or reimburse-
ment The last day to file the oath
is May 9 but if a payday comes
before that time it must be sign-
ed on the spot — or no pay
Even secretaries of fair boards
election boards members of
boards of equalization and excise
and scores of others must sign
“The watchman at the Fair-
grounds comes under the law”
CHAIRMAN
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fy
Adley Sullivan is the present
day chalrmun of the Old Settlers
Association having succeeded Boss
Neff
Rural Phones
In Prospect
For Big Area
Organization of an eight-county
rural telephone cooperative
i which will include Texas Cim-
arron and Beaver counties of the
Panhandle Empire has been
perfected and has progressed to
the point of preparation of a loan
request to the Rural Electrifica-
tion Administration George Fel-
kel of Buffalo announced Satur-
day Felkel has been elected chair-
man of the association with
Dwight Leonard of Beaver vice-
president and W A Calvin of
Balko secretary-treasurer
Cline Heads Texas
Carl Cline of Eva is the Texas
county chairman William T
Jones heads the Cimarron or-
ganization and Colvin is also
chairman of Beaver county in
addition to his other office-
The organization meeting was
held at Gate school house i n
Beaver county
Other counties included in the
project are Woodward Harper
Ellis and parts of Major and
Dewey
The association has started a
campaign for members hips
which are given for $5 Tlc
capital stock assessment cannot
exceed another $45 it was stat-
ed When a sufficient number
of memberships have been se-
cured the application for a 35-
year two percent loan will be
made to the REA in Washing-
ton D C
Has Own Board
The structure of RTA is sim-
ilar to REA but will he separ-
ate and have its own Board of
Trustees
Seven hundred members have
also joined the association it
was announced the month of
May has been designated as a
campaign month to secure the
minimum 1000 that is required
The project is a "turn key’’
job with dial telephone furnish-
ed i n s t a 1 1 cd and maintain-
ed The equipment would be
modern diul with eight-party
selective ringing Non-attcnded
electric dial units would become
community switches for immed-
iate communication and long-
distance outlet to the nearest
towns
Secretary-Treasurer C ol v i n
has set a June 2 deadline for
getting applications in t o the
REA offices at Hooker and
Woodwurd This would insure
inclusion of service from the
commencement of the project
Banks Set Special
Pioneer Day Hours
Both tho First National Bank
and The City National Bank will
open for business at 8 a m and
close at 11 a m The change in
business hours will be In effect
only on May 2 said Julian Schaub
First National Bank cashier
Guymon’s two national banks
have set special business hours
Boys Injured In
Fall From Pickup
Four Goodweil boys were given
a good scare this last week when
they fell from the back of a pick-
up which Ted Hale was driving
The four who fell were "Rod”
Jim Davis who was knocked un-
consious "Bo" David Camp wno
hud stitches taken in the back of
his head Kenneth Humphries who
hurt some ribs and Jerry Hoyt
who was uninjured
Gospel Meeting At
Church Of Christ
A Gospel meeting will bo held
at the Church of Christ from A-
pril 29 through May 6 The ev-
ening services begin at 8:00 with
speaker Lloyd Camion of Tox-
homu and song director Max
Commer of Booker Texas
Topics to be discussed this we-
ek are as follows: Monday night
“Faith” Tuesday night "Great-
est Things” Wednesday night
"Paul A 4-letter Man” Thurs-
day night “God’s Elect" Fri-
day night “ Faithfulness" Sat-
urday night “Vision” Sunday
morning ’Be Thou An Exam-
ple" Sunday night “To Him
That Knoweth To Do Good”
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DICK JURGENS
Perhaps the greatest modern
hand attraction ever to lilt the
Panhandle Empire will be that
of "Dick Jurgens and His Orches-
tra" which will be featured on
Wednesday Pioneer Day May 2
after the western dance at the
I Texas County Fairgrounds
Jurgens has played Ameriea’s
top orchestra positions hotels
dance palladiums is on the air re-
gularly on television and is one
of the nation’s leading recording
artists
Jurgens has been regularly draw-
ing audiences in the top spots of
America up to $25 per person He
will appear here as a tribute to
tho “No Man’s Land Pioneers" at
one-tenth that amount $250 per
person
The Jurgens’ ordiestia is regul-
arly rated as one of tho “Top Ten"
of tho nation
FLIERS WILL MEET
—The University of Oklahoma
will be host to more than 150
' fliers for the fourth annual nu-
i tionol Inter-Collegiate Air meet coats und mittens
I here May 4 und 5
Snow And fee Prevail la June
July And August of 1816 Ho Summer
Mr and Mrs J E Kennedy fall of snow A Vermont funner
think that the following article
found in a Tennessee paper will
be of interest to people this year
They all so hope as we all do
that this year isn’t another like
that one of the year 1816 They
aren’t sure where the article came
i from In tho beginning but thought
that it might have been clipped
from an old Knoxville Journal
The article:
NO SUMMER THAT YEAR
Snow and Ire Prevailed in June
July and August 1816
The year 1816 was known
sent a flock of sheep to pasture
on June 16 The morning of the
17th dawned with the thermome-
ter below the freezing point A-
bout nine o’clock in the morning
the owner of the sheep started to
look for his flock Betorc leaving
home he turned to his wife and
said jokingly:
"Better start the neighbors soon
it’s tho middle of June and I may
get lost in the snow”
An hour after he had left home
a terrible snowstorm came up
I The snow fell thick and fast and
throughout the United States and(as there was so much wind the
Europe as the coldest ever ex
peneneed by any person then liv
ing There are persons in Northern
New York who have been in the
habit of keeping diaries for years
and it is from the pages of an
old diary begun in 1810 and kept
unbroken until 1840 that the fol-
lowing information regarding this
year without u summer has been
broken: —
January was so mild that most
persons allowed their fires to go
out and did not burn wood except
for cooking There were a few
cold days but they were very
few Most of the time the air was
warm and spring-like February
was not cold Some days were
colder than any in January but
tho weather was about the same
March from the 1st to the 6th
was inclined to be windy It came
in like a small lion and went out
) like a very innocent lamb
April came in warm but us the
days grew longer the air became
colder and by the 1st of May
there was a temperature like that
of winter with plenty of snow
and ice In May the young buds
were frozen dead ice formed hall
I an inch thick on ponds and rivers
I eon was killed and the cornfields
1 1 were planted again and again un-
‘ til it became too late to raise a
crop By the last of May in this
climate the trees arc usually m
leaf und birds and Powers are
plentilul When the last of May
arrived in 1816 everything had
been killed by the cold
June was tiie coldest month of
roses ever experienced in this
latitude Frost and iec wore us
common us buttercups usually
ate Also every gieen thing was
killed all fruit was destroyed
Snow fell 10 Indies deep in Ver
mold There was a 7 inch fall in
tho interior of New York Stute
und the same in Massachusetts
There were only a few moderately
wurm duys Everybody looked
longed and waited for wurm wea-
ther but wurm wcuthcr did not
come
It was also dry very little rum
fell All summer long the wind
blew steudily from the north in
blasts laden with snow and ice
Mothers knit socks of double thick
ness for their children and made
thick mittens Planting and shiv-
ering were done together and the
farmers who worked out their tux-
es on the country roads wore over-
On June 17 there wus a heavy
fleecy masses piled in great drifts
along the windward side of the
fences and outbuildings Night
came and the farmer had not been
heard of
His wife became frightened and
alarmed the neighborhood All the
neighbors joined tho searching
party On tho third day they
found him He was lying in a
hollow on the side of a hill with
both feet frozen he was half
covered with snow but alive
Most of the sheep were lost
A farmer at Tewksbury Vt
owned a large field of corn lie
built fires Nearly every night he
and his men took turns in keeping
up the fire and watching that the
corn did not freeze The farmer
was rewarded for his tireless
labors by having the only crop of
cum in the region
July came in with snow and ice
On the Fourth of July ice as thick
us window glass formed through-
out New England New Yoik and
in some parts of the stale ot
Pennsylvania Indian corn which
had struggled thimigli May and
June gave up lroze and died
To the sui prize of everybody
Au1 I''"1 “C W‘“sl 'T"'
ol all Almost every gieen thing
in this country and Europe was
blasted with trust Snow tell at
Barnet Unity miles lrotn bunion
England on August 31) Newspap-
ers received irom England stated
that 1816 would be remembered
by the existing geneiation as the
year in winch there was no sum-
mer Very little corn ripened in
New England There was great
privation and thousands of per-
sons would have perished m this
country had it not been for the
uboundanec of fish and wild game
Danbury (Conn) Nows
EAGIE TOSSER COACHES
FAYETTEVILLE ARK A-
pril 29 —Tommy Thompson
the sharp-shooting passer for
the Philadelphia Eagles retired
from professional football today
to become backfield coach u t
the University of Arkansas
j Thompson was signed for his
new post by his former trainer
and teammate-O t i s Douglas
who took over head coaching
chores at Arkansas last year
Thompson a one-eyed quart-
erback has been rated one o f
the pro loop’s top passers and
slgnul callers
He is retiring after 10 seasons
( with the Engles
NOTICE
A meeting will be held Thurs-
day May 10th at the Cactus Re-
creation Hall Cactus Texas for
the purpose of forming a Church
and Fraternal Organization Soft-
ball League The meeting will be
held at 8:00 p m Interested or-
ganizations are requested to send
representatives
I A meeting will be held at the
Cactus Recreation Hall Tuesday
May 8th at 8:00 PM for tho pur-
pose of forming a TAAF Men’s
Softball League Interested team
managers are invited to attend
The T II S Alumni Banquet
will be held at 7:00 p m Satur-
day May 19 1951 in the Com-
munity Room of the Tcxhoma
High School Budding All Alumni
that plan to uttend should notify
Mrs Ginger Roach
Roden Completes His
Marine Basic Course
Maiine P F C Howard II Ro-
don jr son of Mr and Mrs llu-
wird II Roden sr Goodweil re-
cently completed his recruit tra-
ining at the Marine Corps Re-
cruit Depot San Diego Cal
He was promoted to the rank
of Private First Class
The young leatherneck has been
thoroughly trained in basic wea-
pons of tho Marine Corps first aid
field sanitation map reading mil-
itary courtesy infantry drill and
many other military subjects Al-
most one-third of this training
was at the rdle range where he
became an efficient lnaiksiiian
with the M-d idle
Tcxhoma To Have
Roadside Park On
II S Highway 54
The Oklahoma Highway Depart-
ment has offered to give Tcxhoma
a few feet of right-of-way on the
cast edge of town to establish a
small roadside park it was an-
nounced this week by Bob Math-
lews secretary of the Tcxhoma
Chamber of Commerce
The site Ij ft line of trees' which
has been frequently used In past
summers by tourists as a spot
for eating lunch
It is one of the very few places
on US Highway 54 between Wic-
hita and El Paso where shade
may be found along the road
Mathews said the highway de-
partment had offered to shape up
the paik site if the town would
have caliche hauled there
Tiie Chamber of Commerce
plans to place one or two picnic
tables and a gurbuge container in
the little park
Tho historical marker furnished
by the Oklahoma Historical Soc-
iety will be erected in the park
area
Tcxhoma wdll have an even
better spot for a roadside park on
the west edge of town on the
highway in a few more years
i when the newly-planted trees at-
tain size at the site of the Texas
monument
Cities Service Makes
Gas Test Location
The Lilies Scivicc Oil Co lias
announced location of a gas test
in Section 1U-5N-13 to be known
as tiie Stcelc-A This location
is about 20 nulcs northwest of
Guvmon
MONDAY APRIL 30
2:30 p m — Horse Racing Alex-
ander Track
8:00 p m — Wrestling Matches
Fair Building
TUESDAY May 1
2:30 p m — Horse Racing Alex-
ander Track
8:00 p m — Rodeo Memorial Sta-
dium WEDNESDAY MAY 8
6:00 a m Sunrise Old-timers
Chuckwagon Breakfast Ideal
Food Store
(Courtesy Ideal Food Store) 1
7:00 a m— Pilot’s Breakfast—
I Municipal Airport ‘
9:30 a m Bicycle Parade Main
Street
10:00 a m — Get Acquainted
Hour — Speaker’s Stand
11:00 a m —Big Parade Main
Street
ALL DAY — Old Timer’s Regis-
tration American Legion H9U
12:00 NOON -Old-timers Lunch
Hotel Dale
1:00 p m Speeches by Dignitar-
ies Speaker’s Stand
1:30 p m Band Concerts Fifth
and Main
2:00 p m — Rodeo Memorial Sta-
dium 2:30 p m — Old Fiddler’s Contest
Speaker’s Stand
2:45 p m— Barber Shop Quartet
Contest Speaker’s Stand
3:30 p m — Horse Racing Alex-
ander Track
3:30 p m —Games for Kids Fifth
and Main
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MAY 8
7:30 p m — Street Band Concert
Fifth and Main
8:00 jS m — AtriOmt CdrttUat
Fifth and Main
7:0016 10:30 p m Old Time Dance
Fair Building
11:00 p m to 7 ? 7 Modern Dance
with Dick Jurgens Fair Build-
ing ohiftlett And Little
Win Grand Champion
A large number of Goodweil
4-H Club members went to the
county 4-H Club Round-up 1 n
Guymon Saturday April 7th
the girls making their own
dresses entering the dress re-
view were: Head Scarf Dlvision-
Thco Jo McBride placing Bluo
ribbon and Pattie Butler and
Jean Cooke placing red ribbons
Third year Kay Cooke placed
a white ribbon
Fourth year Karen Hatchett
Ann Janice McBride and Lucy
Shiflett placed blue ribbons
Sixth year Emma Shifflett pl-
aced blue ribbon
dress and jacket etaoi
Seventh year Alma Lee Little
placed blue ribbon on her wool
dicss and jacket
Since fourteen year old girls
with blue ribbons enter runner
up for grand champion Emma
Shifflet and Alma Lee Little en-
tered with Alma Lee Little pla-
cing reserve Grand Champion
and she will take her blue wool
dress and red jacket to Stillwa-
ter to the Slate Round-up in June
in case the Grand Champion De-
loris Mires from Adams can’t go
The boys dress review was en-
tered by Allen Little in Sports
Wear placing 4th and Robert
Weeks entering Best Dress Wear
plucing 15th
Timley Topic division eater-
ies were Lucy Shiflett Alula Lee
Little und Kay Cooke each pla-
cing in red ribbon classes
Emma Shiflett and Alma Lee
Little won Grand Champion in
the Dally Team demonstration
and will a t to Uie State Round-
up at Stillwater in Juno
Allen Little an4 Jerry Hoyt
placed in white ribbon class with
their team demonstration In
grafting
COX HEADS ASSOCIATION
AMARILLO Tex April 29 —
HP — Julius Cox of Boise City Ok-
1 was re-clectcd president cf
the National Highway 287 asso-
ciation at its annual convention
today
Other officers elected were Bill
Wright Vernon Tex vice presi-
dent B N Brown Lamar Colo
secretary and S L Taylor Strat-
ford Tex treasurer
Mrs Clara Brock of Texhom
who has been seriously 111 for the
past four weeks is greatly Impr-
oved and may return home this
week
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