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NEWS STORIES - Titles Beginning with 'G'
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Graduates Of 1942 Scatter to Colleges, Army, Defense Work
Source: "Pampa News", Date Unknown
Submitted by Cheryl Blevins
Transcribed by Charlie VinesLast June, 86 students received their diplomas from Pampa High school. This fall finds them scattering to the four winds. Of this number only 16 attending college.
These aer Jean Meikle, Morthwest Texas hospital, Amarillo Texas; Barbara Mathews, Colorado Womens university, Denver, Colorado; Naomi Snyder, Northwest Institute of Medicine Technology, Minneapolis, Minn; John Wayne Browning, Wayland College, Plainview; Roland Phillips, Texas A and M; Dorothy Drescher, T. S. C. W. at Denton; Mary Ella Le Clair, Draughns Business College, Oklahoma City; Tex Oldham, Oklahoma City university, Oklahoma City; Frank Daugherty, Canyon; and Neil Roach, Hugh Monroe, Andy Smith, Bob Brandon, R. L. Edmonson, Alyne Osborn and Ralph Burnett, Texas Tech at Lubbock.
Other students who graduated have gone into defense work, armed forces, or are working at other occupations. Among those who have gone into the armed forces are Mickey Rafferty, Tommy Howell, Bill Bell - air corps and Jimmy Silcott, amphibean corps, stationed in Massachusettes.
La Fose Made County SeatResources of the Country. McLean. Tex.. June 4.(To The News.) We have added one more county to the list of organized counties in this grand State of Texas. On May 27 we had a general election of officers and also located the county scat for Gray County, which has hereto- fore been attached to the county of Roberts for Judicial purposes. There were candidates for the county seatPampa, a town on the Santa Fe, on the north side of the county: Allen Reed, or Rocky Ridge, a place on the Choctaw. Oklahoma and Texas Railroad, on the south side of the county, and a place called La Fose. located In the center of the county, about fourteen miles north of McLean, which la the best town in Gray County. McLean made no campaign for the county seat, believing the center of the county was the proper place. McLean Is located in the southeast portion of Gray County on the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad, now the Rock Island, In a beautiful valley of subirrigated land, which extends for twenty miles north and south of McLean and about fifteen miles east and west. The soil Is black loam and there has never been a drout in this section. There are several streams that afford pure, fresh water the year round from springs. These streams are full of line fish. Alfalfa grows to perfection without Irrigation and gives four to six crops a year. We cut four crops last year and made forty bushels Indian corn per acre and three- quarters of a bale of cotton to the acre. We can make good crops without much rain, although there has been greater rainfall in this Immediate section than anywhere In the 8tato for the post seventeen years. But little was known of this garden spot, except by the cattle king, until the advent of the railroad, which runs from Oklahoma City to Amarillo, now owned by the Rock Island. Gray County is at the foot of the plains and is never troubled with the north western blizzards nor the sultry sun of summer. We have the best all-year climate in the world. The vote for county seat was as follows: La Fose 68. Rocky Ridge 50. Pampa 2. Following are the names of the county officers: Judge. Sanders; Clerk. Faulkner; Sheriff, Crawford; treasurer. That; Assessor. Boney. We have a post office Just established. W. E. McLaughlin is postmaster. (signed) E J Waldron June 13, 1902 Dallas Morning News (Note the newspaper article spells the name of the Town La Fose numerous times, nowhere is it shown Lefors)
Special to the News. Mclean.- Gray Co.. Texas, July 27.Gray County primary election resulted as follows; For County Judge. T. M. Wolfe; Assessor, D. M. Graham: Attorney, John F. Binder; Treasurer. Miss Miriam Wilson; Sheriff, E. F. Graves; Clerk, Charlie Thut July 28, 1924 Dallas Morning News
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