The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 47, No. 41, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 11, 1956 Page: 1
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I
OF THE best things that
ONE
ever happened to Tulia is
the new Clane divided thoroughfare
through town So remarked a Tullan
last week end And we agree
It is to be hoped that negotiations
will begin as soon as possible for
a similar project along North 5th
street This project would bo much
simpler than the South 1st street
undertaking since North 5th is a
much wider street There would be
no trees to come up and no sidewalks
to move such as has been
necessary on South 1st particularly
through the business section
This second project would also
Include North Maxwell Of course
the next move Is up to the Highway
Department Ahemmm Marshall
Forinby
town topics
THINGS are more impor
FEW
tqnt to the physical life of
a town than paved streets sidewalks
and adequate street lights
Tulla ranks at the bottom of the
list on all three scores especially
when it comes to street lights It
seems that we got started on the
street light project about 40 years
too late Tho 35 new lights being installed
arent a drop In the bucket
compared to what we need yet
they cost 1238290 Theyll be spread
so thin around over town that well
hardly notice them
There are just two ways to achieve
civic improvements such as
street lights They can be financed
all at one time through a bond
Issue or they can be added so
many each year according to a
definite plan
We doubt if there has ever been
a year when the city couldnt have
afforded four street lights Had four
been bought each year beginning
with the incorporation of the town
we would now have a street light
at every intersection
The same thing could be said concerning
paving
A city is like a family It gets
things it needs not because it is
rich but through orderly planning
We are indebted to Dr McCas
lanoVs administration for the mercury
vapor lights along Highway 87
and for those around the square
So much more needs to be done
When youre driving around at night
take a look down North 5th South
1st Broadway North Maxwell and
other much used streets t
TOWN TOPICS
ATTEMPTS to Interest
ALL
Tulians in a general street
paving project have flopped At the
same time Dimmitt was laying curb
and gutter and paving their streets
by the mile and the City of Dim
mitt made a much less attractive
offer than was extended to Tulia
property owners this past year
We are told that Dimmitt residents
had to pay more than 5 afoot
for curb gutter and pavement
and that they gladly entered into
the program On the other hand
with the City of Tulia participating
Tulians were offered the same thing
this summer at only 195 a foot
and practically nobody was interes
ted even though the most liberal
terms were offered those unable to
pay cash As someone remarked I
dont believe some people would
have participated if the city had
offered them 195 a foot to let them
put it down
In searching around to discover
what causes some towns to get
things done while others remain
stuck in the mud it is always found
that the difference is in the wilt of
the people rather than in their abilityTOWN topics
NEWSPAPERS come
SEVERAL
to our desk each week from
oil towns nonagricultural communities
These papers understandingly
so consistently go to bat for the
oil industry On such occasions as
Oil Progress Week they pay tribute
to that which is responsible
for their economic wellbeing
These papers reflect their indebtedness
to the oil industry by militantly
supporting those things which
benefit the source of their bread and
butter They fight taxes on oil and
other types of legislation which
even indirectly affect their earnings
Most of these papers waged an effective
campaign for Price Daniel
for governor pointing out that he is
a friend of the oil industry At tho
same time these papers are highly
critical of farm price supports and
other legislation designed to benefit
an agricultural economy
town topics
WE offer no criticism
CERTAINLY
cism of these communities and
their papers which are fightingto
protect their own economic well
being We would do the same thing
if we lived in an oil town depended
upon oil for our livelihood
To be consistent it would seem
that agricultural communities would
follow the same pattern by mllitant
ly supporting those issues which
benefit agriculture Dut this is not
necessarily so
We often see agricultural com
munities joining hands with the oil
industry to their own detriment
TOWN TOPICS
IN 1912 it was often point
BACK
ed out that the Democrats
had improved the plight of the farmer
that the farmer during tho preceding
20 years had enjoyed prosperity
never before seen under a
See TOWN TOPICS Page 8
Judy Dawson Takes Top Honors
At State 4H Club Dress Revue
JUDY DAWSON
Davis Rites
Held Here
Robert Lee Davis Route 2
Tulla died early Wednesday night
in Swisher County hospital He
was stricken about two hours before
at his home with a heart attackThe G8yearold farmer was born
in Migscounty Tennessee in 1888
He came to Texas in March 1927
settling at Claude He married Miss
Anne Finley July 16 1911 in Tennessee
They had lived in Swisher
county since 1940
Funeral services were held Friday
morning at Wallace Funeral
Chapel Burial was in Claude cemetery
Travis LaDuke pastor of the
Calvary Baptist church Midland
officiated
Survivors include his widow two
sons Victor V Davis of Tulia and
Robert L Davis jr of Brownfield
one brother James K Davisof
Tulia one sister Mrs A D Ed
gmon San Luis Obispo Calif and
two grandchildren Bobby and Elizabeth
Ann Davis
Pallbearers were Richard Davis
Victor 0 Davis Edgar L Davis
Paul D Miller Albert Devin and
Delbert Devin
Used Clothing Needed
For School Students
The Progressive Study club is conducting
its annuat Clothes Drive for
needy school students Friday morningAll Tulians having clean serviceable
clothing for children of any
age are asked to leave the clothing
in a bundle on their front porches
Friday morning The club will call
for It
STAY TUNED TO
KTUE
1260 Kc 1000 Watts
BACK TO THE BIBLE BROADCAST
10 a m DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
OLDFASHIONED REVIVAL HOUR
Sundays 3 pm
Top honors in Texas 195G Stale
Fair 4H club dress revue went to
Judy Dawson of Tulia
Judy a Tulla High school sophomore
placed first over 46 state finalists
at the State Fair as a highlight
of the fairs Rural Youth Day
She received an allexpense paid
trip to National 4H club congress
In Chicago beginning Nov 25
Runner up in the contest was
Sharon Honea of Sweeney Joan Barton
of Monahans won third place
More than 6000 girls entered dresses
in 4H club elimination contests
Judy was third place winner instate
competition in Dairy Foods
competition at College Station in
June She was elected cochairman
of District II also in June
Judy is active in other activities
including church and school She is
pianist at the First Baptist church
and is school organist She is active
in both band and choir librarians
club FHA club
W Project s
Almost Complete
The Highway 86 paving project
through Tulia is ncaring its final
stage of construction Asphalt op
ping is almost complete Workmen
arc rushing to completion about
two blooks of the road between
Armstrong and Austin streets
through downtown Tulia
Only the center island remains to
be installed This type of work can
be performed any time of the year
Tulians arc delighted that the asphalt
topping could be applied this
fall instead of waiting until spring
Ordinarily this topping is not applied
after Oct 1 except in unusual
cases The construction company
managed to stay ahead of schedule
almost from the start of the project
Two downtown alleys are also being
paved the northsouth alley back
of the First National Bank and the
castwest alley between the Tulia
Herald and KTUE
Also being paved is the parking
area north of Western Auto on East
Broadway that in front of C R
Anthony Co on North Maxwell
that In front of National Farm Loan
Association on South Armstrong
and back of KTUE
Brumley Hog Company
Closes In Tulia
After 38 Years
Brumley Hog Company which has
operated in Tulia for the past 38
years closed its doors Monday morning
due to the scarcity of hogs being
marketed in Swisher county
George Neil who has managed
the concern for the past 20 years
said that the volume of hogs being
marketed just doesnt justify its
continued operation
He said that the price of hogs is
so low that farmers cant profitably
raise them at a profit
Homer Brumley purchased the
business from the late J C Cowan
in 1918
Neill has accepted a position with
Tulia Wheat Growers Inc
Girl Cagers
To Scrimmage
BUI Phillips THS girls basketball
coach reports 25 girls work
htg out in anticipation of the forthcoming
basketball season He said
that he would have an A and
B team and that both teams
would be matched whenever a
game is scheduled
A scrimmage game will be played
Tuesday night at 8 oclock with
the locals divided into two teams
Also a game will be played between
the eighth graders and freshman
girls There will be no admission
charge and everyone is invited
Girls back from last years A
team are Pat Andrus Sue Evans
Twila Haught Casey Love Wilma
ODaniel Fern Ramsey Marsha
Smith Loretta Timmons LaJean
Timmons Peggy Washington and
Betty Watts
From last years B team aie
Mary Bonds Marie Hutto Pat Mars
Barbara Potter Leta Simpson Donna
Wilkins and Dolores Poage
Girls out who came from last
years eighth grade are Jo Nell
Cosby Vicki Culwell Melba Ewing
Iinda Gould Sharon Love Martha
Ringo and Jean Taylor
SprVl5e s gi
ASC County Community Committeemen Named
In Recent Balloting Cox Is County Chairman
County and community committeemen have been elected
in balloting by mail according to Elmer S Criag office
manager of Swisher County ASC The farmers will serve for
the coming year
Members of the county committee
are James W Cox chairman Virgil
R Hill vice chairman Edward
Brasher regular member J Cleron
McMurry first alternate and Jack
W Todd second alternate
Community committeemen are
AE Copus O Boyd chairman
Gordon Keith Cox vice chairman
Clarence J Leavitt member John
E McCune 1st alternate and Frank
Loftin 2nd alternate
AW Corliss H Currie chairman
George A Rahlfs vice chairman
Frank Cox member Harry R Edmonds
1st alternate and H E
Maynard 2nd alternate
BE Delbert L Devin chairman
J Stanley Vars vice chairman A
D Lee member R Jack Montague
1st alternate and T R Herndon
2nd alternate
BW Troy Stewart chairman W
J Crawford vice chairman Harvey
Milner member James Sturgess
1st alternate and Dave M Thompson
2nd alternate
CH Leo W Foster chairman
Hornets Play Better Ball
Despite OneSided Score
By TOMMY HULSEY
Last weeks article seems to have stirred up just a bit
of controversy and an occasional hard feeling If writing
an uncomplimentary article will cause the Hornets to improve
as much in the next two weeks as it did the past week
perhaps it would be wise to devote this entire issue to un
TWO PLAINVIEW MEN
RECEIVE SWISHER FINES
Two Plainview men each were
fined 200 and costs for transporting
liquor through a dry area in
Swisher county court
They are Odell Allen and Leo
Hampton Hurt
New Meter Connections
Reported By City
New meter connections reported
the past week by City of Tulia are
Lonnie Rice 407 N Briscoe E
Hardy Childress jr 414 W Broadway
Haskell Shelton 229 N Dallas
Chas Snyder 301 S Dallas Billy
F Stevens Scott Apt K Crouch
426 S W 1st and Tom Persons
C07 N Floyd
H Bontku member Adolph Obcn
haus 1st alternate and Henry
Thomas 2nd alternate
CW Carl Pate chairman C W
Rousser vice chairman W J Walling
member Woodie Boston 1st
alternate and Curtis Parker 2nd
Paul Hays vice chairman Joe A alternate
complimentary remarks
We liked the improvement we
saw last Friday night despite the
rather one sided score the Little
field Wildcats handed the Hornets
4814 We would venture to say that
if the Hornets had been playing all
season as they did against Little
field more specifically during the
first half we would not be looking
at the scores we are today We have
never said that a team must win in
order to have our support but lets
face the facts a winning team gets
more support than those only second
best We are reminded of a
statement that a West Texas High
School coach once made A losing
team talks about good sportsmanship
but if you win it is never mentioned
We think that hardly anyone
will go along with this quirk
in human nature but its there and
lets face it
No one knows better than the
coaches that they prosper butter in
both prestige and finances when
they occasionally produce a winning
team Many coaches in schools
smaller than Tulia have been giveu
cars for a winning team yet we
have never heard of a coach receiving
one for teaching good sportsmanship
Again we say that the
Hornets dont have to win to have
Continued On Page five
teJM
GOP Trades Farmers Vote For City Support
Political analysts report that the
Eisenhower Administration has
adopted a strategy of sacrificing
some votes in farming districts for
anticipated gains in the big cities
Writing after President Elsenhow
ers speech in Peoria III last week
syndicated columnist Doris Fleeson
saidWith
With rare political courage Pre
sident Eisenhower is standing pat
on a farm program which leaves the
farmers with reduced incomes and
evokes potentially perilous political
dissatisfaction with his administrav
tlon
By design the President made
his farm speech to a party rally in
a Republican city rather than to
the National Plowing Contest in
Iowa where he spoke four days previously
Thus the telecast got vehement
applause as directed by the
Presidents TV maestro actor Robert
Montgomery
It appears that the political decision
has been taken to make up
in the cities dnd towns which dis
like their high food bills the fall
away of farmers who resent their I
present and fear their future
A Chicago Tribune writer who
has been following Vice President
Nixon on his campaign tour reports
as follows
Nixon has a somewhat surprising
opinion on this subject
lie believes that the Republicans
may have lost some strength in
mltlwcstern states because of the
i
farm unrest but that these losses
will be more than offset by party
gains in the big city areas
This strategy was reported in the
1951 Congressional elections by the
Wall Street Journal which stated
The GOPs sharp pencil boys arc
convinced that control of Congress
in this falls elections will be decided
not on the farms but in the cities 1
COVERING SWISHER COUNTY LIKE THE SUNSHINE
The Tuim Herald
VOL NUMBER 41
TULIA Swisher County TEXAS
THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 1956
Club Names Delegates
To Kiwanis Convention
The Tulia Kiwanis club will be represented
at the 1956 convention of
the TexasOklahoma Kiwanis district
at Corpus Christi October 14
16 by President Burrell Evans Dr
Lynn McCarty and Gordon Gate
wood
Reed C Culp president of Kiwanis
International a Salt Lake
City Utah businessman will be a
featured speaker during the three
day meeting
Mr and Mrs George McKone and
Mrs H E Chester attended the
Hale County Fair in Plainview
Thursday
JACK HOOD of Tulia is shown with his Weimaran
er Silvers Von Lugo which won Best Local Dog honors
in the 6th Annual AllBreed Dog show held Friday in
Plainview Pat Nlcholl left son of Dr and Mrs E C
Nicholl Plainview is presenting the trophy and Walter
H Reeves of Ontario Canada right judged the event
THREE SECTIONS
Hoods Dog Takes Top Honor
At Plainview Dog Exhibition
I he Sixth Annual AllBreed Dog show of the Plainview
Kennel club Inc was a huge success according to Jack
Hood Tulia President Theie were 103 dogs entered in the
event
Death Claims
D N McGavock
Funeral services for D N
Uncle Doc McGavock 93 retired
farmer and pioneer resident of
Silvcrtiin and Briscoe county for
39 > ears were conducted Sunday
at the Central Church of Christ
with W M McFnrland of Lubbock
officiating He was assisted by
Richard M Williams Sllvcrton
Church of Christ minister Interment
was In Sllvcrton cemetery
with arrangements under the direction
of Wallace Funeral Home of
Tulia and the Douglas Funeral
Home of Sllverlou
Mr McGavock was born August
17 1803 In Tennessee the son of the
late Mr and Mrs Oscar McGavock
His father a Confederate soldier
was killed before his birth He moved
from Tennessee with his family
to Jonesboro Arkansas where he
lived until he was approximately 20
years of age at which time he came
to Abilene for four years moving to
Okluhoma in 1007 settling at what
is now Clarmore Oklahoma then
Indian Territory where he married
Miss Nettie Wcast June 23 1893
They came to Texas and Briscoe
County in 1917 where they lived and
engaged in farming until his retirement
I hey moved to Tulla
about a year ago making their hom
at 215 N Crosby He died Saturday
night in the Swisher County hospital
He had been a member of the
Church of Christ since 1885
Besides his wife he Is survived
by three daughters Mrs John Mc
Clendon and Mrs R G Chisum
both of Tulia and Mrs W A Kirk
of Floydada six sons Lee of Defiance
Ohio Johnny of Strathtnorc
Calif J D of Sllvcrton and Oscar
French and Leonard all of Tulia
21 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren
and one halfbrother Dave
Evans of Sacramento California
Pallbearers all grandsons were
Dennis Warren McGavock Billy
Wayne Chisum Coy Chisum Cline
McClendon and Jimmy Ray Mc
Clendon and True Kirk
Honorary pallbearers were R E
Brookshire Bood Myers A A Howard
Lishc Stephens Frank Fish
and Orhn Starks
Mr McGavock was the oldest
pioneer In attendance at Swisher
countys Oldtimers Dinner last
July 17
DIES AT FINNEY
Charlie II Castleberry 73 farmer
in the I inney community died
Monday morning at his home Funeral
services and burial were at Ver
Best Dog in Show award went to
a White Toy Poodle named Ch
Ulnkeen Ding Ding The dog is
owned by Mrs Marguerite S Tyson
of Reno Nevada and was handled
by Maxine Bean of Fort Worth
Best Local Dog in Show went to
Slivers Von Lugo a Weimaraner
owned and shown by Jack Hood The
Best Local Toy was BoBo of Ba
Nan n Pekingese shown by Nancy
Ruth Hood Nancy also handled Bo
Uo to win Division A of the Junior
Showmanship competition
Joie Dale Brown of Tulia handled
her West Highland White Terrier
Missi Muffet to Best of Breed and
to Best Local Terrier She also added
another point to her ChampionshipTommie White handled his Pomeranian
Nanette Hamby to third place
in Open Class and to second place
in Local Toys
The Plainview Kennel club meets
the thlr Monday of each month
and any local dog lover is invited to
attend
Plane Crash Fatal
To Husband Of
Former Tulian
A former Tulia woman was injured
Saturday In the crash of n
plane which claimed the life of
her husband
J G Wilkerson 61 longtime Lubbock
resident and a widely known
Lubbock businessman was killed in
the crash of his private plane late
Saivrday near Benavidcs in Duval
county
The plane was unable to find a
suitable landing strip when it ran
out of gas according to investigatorsHis wife the only passenger in the
plane which was flown by Wilker
son was injured Attendants at a
hospital in Alice said that she is in
fairly good condition Mrs Wil
kerson the former Cleo Hankins of
Tulia and a sister of Mrs Jim Ford
was being treated for several broken
ribs a broken collarbone and
lacerations
Mr and Mrs Wilkerson left Lub
bock about 1 p m Saturday en
route to Laredo on a business trip
Survivors in addition to his wife
are two sons John attending Bay
lor university and Howard of the
home a daughter Mary also of the
home two brothers and five sisters
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon
Attending from luha were Mr
and Mrs Jim Ford and James Ford
Mr and Mrs Cliff Hankins of
McCali Idaho also were here for the
rites
non Among his survivors is a sister
Mrs J J Thomas of Tulia
IULIA HIGH SCHOOL band and chorus directed
by Bill Hendncks returned Wednesday night from Dallas
wlieie they attended the State Fair of Texas The
musical groups were invited to attend for having won
Sweepstakes honois in this region In Dallas they joined
witli othei regional winners fiom over the state for amassed
concert in the Cotton Bowl in addition to individual
performances See story on page 1 section II
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Baggarly, H. M. The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 47, No. 41, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 11, 1956, newspaper, October 11, 1956; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth42990/m1/1/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.