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Visit Us While Attending the State air of Texas OCTOBER 5 20 1946 PUBLICATIONS CIRCULARS BROADSIDES One 6f the Largest i9 4 Commercial Publishing Plants in the Southwest Club Headquarters for All Press Members Oak Cliff Publishing Co Texas Press Club Bldg 610 12 East 10th St Dallas Texas TOP MONEY WINNER JAMES CARLE Sad Mistake face that Granville to the Panhandle Plains LUBBOCK TEX A long line of shoppers waited patiently in front of a local de partment store Mrs Hoyt Ag new suspecting much needed nylons quickly joined the line After thirty minutes of waiting she was permitted to round the corner and enter the door But to her amazement the sale was not coveted nylons but large inflated balloons in all colors and characters Too embar rased to admit her mistake she pur chased a balloon Mrs Agnew reports she will gladly make a deal with any child who has made similar mistake and wishes to trade a pair of nylons for a Penguin balloon Prairie Dog Is Doomed Because Of Work SHATTUCK OKLA (WNS) Pete Ross county agent took his life in his hands recently when he mailed out letters to farmers1 of this region calling them dilatory ignorant and be cause they take gare of the prairie dog problem on their land in Territory days such a letter would have brought on bloodshed In this instance it brought on a meeting of the farmers and ranch ers with Ross and reports state it was The group drafted a resolution asking county commissioners of Ellis County to put the statute ap proved by the State Legislature last effect Ross was largely responsible for the law Commis sioners agreed to enact the resolu tion The law makes it a misdemean or for anyone failing to cooperate with county agents or county com missioners in any campaign against predatory animals ines up to $25 may be assessed The group decided land opera tors arid land owners will be held responsible for control work The committee has now asked coopera tion from adjoining counties in Oklahoma and Texas in the fight to rid the land of prairie dogs 3i can never be completely says Ross unless the county organizes to fight the of Hobby CLARENDON TEX One would naturally believe a postmaster would collect stamps as a hobby But Estlack post master of Clarendon collects rare stones native to his region and has not only collected enough to 'cre ate the envy of gemologists over America but has made it a profit able pastime' In fact so rare are some of his stones the world famous has bought many Eastlack gems and is still trying to secure more of his rare collec tion i Where the novice merely kicks a stone aside Estlack places it un der a microscope or examines it with an efficient1 eye for gem ma terial He declares more people have kicked aside rare gems than ever discovered in mining or spe cific search Hunts in Canyon Using the Palo Duro Canyon area ravine near his city and other locations in the Panhandle for a hunting ground Estlack will also journey to Old Mexico New Mexico or other points in search of a rare stone to complete his collection He has many jewel stones sent him by admirers in the seryice during World War II from all parts of the globe Each stone is catalogued bears the donor's name the classification of the stone family and usually shows the rough rock along with a fin ished faceted or polished gem or years Estlack was content to allow jewelers to facet and polish his discoveries But recently he joined forces with Earl A erris of Memphis another ardent stone and jewel collector and today they polish and facet their own stones Many are ready for mounting: many are mounted There are all sizes shapes colors and designs It can be seen1 by the expression on Bill he is proud of Granville ton racer and money winner is just one of the many racehorses owned by DrJ 11 Winchester Cotton Cattle Alain Income for Childress Group CHILDRESS TEX (WNS) Named for George Childress author of Texas Declaration In dependence this town and county truly represents a two center: Cotton and Cattle Over 25000 bales of cotton are produced in good ea and a es ti in a ted 15000 beef and dairy cattle raised a Acres in cultivation are about 200000 on 1300 farms in the coun ty where in addition to cotton grain sorghums wheat and vege tables are raised at an annual value of around $3500000 The Gates City Coop an REA proj ect serves 650 members' over 200 miles of line A recent estimate of the annual value of livestock raised including beef and dairy cattle hogs and poultry) was $1500000 4 The city of Childress City'' boasts 1200 home owners with bank deposits early this year set at $7669674 Three city schools have an attendance of 2034 while an additional 1045 pupils attend the seven county schools The jown is served by eight daily trains 32 daily busses of five bus lines one airline and six motor freight lines Railroad shops gins an oil mill and cotton compress two packing houses and a feed mill and 90 retail merchants make it a trade center for the territory Three hotels four tourist courts are in operation while new homes and business buildings are being constructed rapidly City fathers plan to develop a new source of water supply widen city streets and resurface 27 blocks of paving with asphalt Active clubs include the Rotary with 45 members the Lions with 55 members and the Business and Professional Club with 35 members medical practice In 1919 he owned a pacer named I Togo Prince which won enough to build a hospital which the donated to the Catholic sisters who have since enlarged it The hospital is now one of the best in the region Prize horse of his stable is Granville' who was 'top money winner of the year in 1936 Gran ville was raised by Col Wood ward the only man to raise 12 I horses who have won $100000 or over during a season i sire was Gallant ox and his dam was Gravita Mares in the Winchester stables I include Wee Drop sired by Stun ulus Legora sire Legume dam San Dora and Trebla sire Su premus and dam Malpolcne I In addition to medicine and i horses Dr Winchester is even more proud of his children He has two boys in service one in me army ana me outer in me Navy and his daughter is a nurse olks in West Texas who are plagued with heavy growth of Yucca on their lands will be in 1 terested in new experiments which show possibilities for making rope soap mats containers and alcohol from the wild plant irst Wilbarger Child in 1882 (Condensed from Vernon Times) Vernon Tex (WNS) rom the best information obtainable i the first child born in Wilbarger County was Mrs Dee Lewis in ebruary 1882 John Miller of the argo community was born in July 1882 It has not been learned if there were any children born in the county during 1881 is ESTLACK Some are large enough for brace lets and necklaces and all are suitable for rings inds Persian Opal During one of explora tion trips into Palo Duro Canyon he noticed where years ot e'rosion caused by water and wind had created a slide in an embankment About 10 feet below the surface and: in the slide he noticed a small rock appearing speck In vestigating he picked up one of the rare a Persian opal Experts believe the stone must have been lost by Spaniards dur ing 1 trek" across the Plains in search of the cities of gold They say this stone is found only in Persia and is of rare value I I 1 Gem collectors all over America I have tried to trade for or purchase the stone Estlack refuses to sell or several years he has kept the I opal bottled in glycerine It acts like a barometer often changing in color and lustre Clarendon citizens say they can look at the opal and predict the weather from its color Gems On Display In a gem case in the Clarendon News formerly published by the postmaster and now owned by his sons are many gems on display There is opalized wood from Bris coe County and Grants there are black opalized woods from Grimes County and opals from all Panhandle Counties each classified and polished with the rough state of roclf along side each jewel there is a huge collection of Bornite the and Plasma Opal from New Mexico He has a hunk 1 of HutchinsonCounty gold ore rocks and nug gets Estlack declares this Pan handle gold has stood all acid tests He displays Garnet pyrope in the schrist and alamandite gar net in round pebbles He also i shows golden topaz tektite me teor minerals Arkansas diamonds and a score of other rare and semi rare jewels Regardless of any event in prog ress mention the possibility of finding some jewel rocks or his toric deposits and Postmaster Est lack is ready to vacation with you on another of his now famous searches Odds are he will find some rare specimen and pay for his trip as a result PAGE 14 2J McCamey Publisher orgets His British Speech to Hit Print MpCAMEY TEX When talking to James earn puo lisher of the McCamey News hard to believe a writer of western fiction He talks more like an English man than the fisted gun totin characters he puts down on aaper He calls rance He says instead of But despite his refined speech Car 11 has been very successful in hitting the sold stories to practically every mag printed by Popular Publications and iction House Inc These pub lishing houses put out such pulps as Western Stories Action Stones Lariat Stories 10 Western Stories and Northwest Romances A Million A Year Carll said from 1935 to 1941 he had approximately a riiillion words a year published had as many as four stories in a single issue He wrote under the pen name of Karth He also writes athletic yams for the sport pulps Carll was born at Pendleton Tex on May 21 1904 He attend ed school at Temple Dallas and ort Worth and graduated from high school at ort Worth in 1920 He enlisted in the Navy in 1921 and served aboard the Arizona sunk 20 years later at Pearl Har bor and the USS Hull the first ship sunk off the coast of rance on Day He was a radioman Was At Dutch Harbor While in the Navy he was at tached for awhile to the "Navy radio statidn at Dutch Harbor He said Dutch only arma ment then consisted of five Army rifles with no ammunition It was in Alaska Carll started writing fiction were station ed for quite sometime on the little island of St he said anything to do in your spare time except read I suppose I read every book and magazine on the island Then I decided if those men could write such tripe and sell it why I started composing stories mostly about the north writing them with a pencil in longhand I saved the copy I wrote on St Pad! and later made money out of it using it as reference material for my stories about the Discharged from the Navy in 1925 Carll went to work for Western Uni in as a Morse oper ator and st udent engineer in Cali fornia He attended night school at the University of California in Berkeley while doing this work He continued Working as a West etn Union operator at San ran cisco until 1 935 Then he began writing fiction in earnest graduat ing from a telegraph operator to an author Became Editor He dropped his pulp writing career in 1941 and went to New York City as editor of a Western Union publication He was also assistant advertising manager for Western Union When Western Union created its Industrial Public Relations De partment in 1942 Carll was made assistant to tbe vice president of this department He said goodbye to Western Union in 1943 and became a Holly wood writer accepting writing with Universal Pictures: He turned 'out two series Of west ern thrillers 14 scripts in all while with Universal saw one of them Carll said was the Carll said he like Holly like Hollywood or New he declared em phatically go back to Hollywood for $2000' a Buys Papers Author Carll came to McCamey fin ebruary 1945 land bought the I McCamey and Rankin' News He moved the news plant from Ran kin' to McCamey Operating tinder name News Publishing Co James aha his brother Cuthbert Carll formerly football coach at McCamey publish the McCamey News Rankin News Crane News and Iraan News: previous newspaper ex perience was a brief hitch with the San rancisco Chronicle and Associated Press He wrote sports for both while in California in 1932 35 Besides all this he is also a married man His wife is the former Miss Edith Ison of Wink Carll said he became a country newspaperman I like thecountry and people been away far too long I saw the need as for a good newspaper in Mc Camey so I located He plans to do some books with West Texas backgrounds soon i four papers to get out each i week I have much time for fiction he said Of Clayton Doctor CLAYTON (WNS for the Kentucky Derby in 1947 Dr' Winchester is breeding and running racehorses as a hobby His two year old Lee Wi sired bv Wicklun is going to make the races in July and it he shows enough speed will be entered in the Derby next year Dr Winchester who also owns registered Herefords and milking shorthorns has been around race horses pacers and trotters most of his life and combines this interest in the Sport of Kings with a Rare Gems Are rom West Texas Unusual Rock Hunts i I 'u 1 1 A I AH'dC'S or 1 Ml rffik 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