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Claude Woman's club iReception to honor i
holds Christmas Supper00Cates set in Pampa
Members of the Claude Business Women's Club held their
annual Christmas supper Thursday, December 6, 1973, at 7:00
p.m. in the Warner Community Center in Claude.
Mrs• Charles Eisenhaur was elected president of the club for
1974. During the brief business meeting, out-going president
Mrs. D. B. Matthews Ill conducted the election. Other officers
for the coming year are Mrs. George R. Crowell, vice-president;
Mrs. Joe Stephenson, secretary and Mrs. Maeallena Worley,
reporter• Re-elected to serve as treasurer was Mrs• Harold Nave.
The community center was attractively decorated in Christmas
symbols for the meal of turkey and all the trimmings. The 32
members attending expressed their approval of the 25 new
folding chairs which the club had purchased for the community
center.
Program for the evening was a gift exchange following the
business meeting. A token of appreciation was presented to the
two ladies who prepared and served the meals to the club during
the year.
Regular meetings of the Claude Business Women's Club are
held the first Thursday of the month at noon at the Warner
Community Center, Fourth and Vine Streets, Claude.
Prospective members are always welcome.
Group to present play
The C0olerative Youth of the Episcopal, Methodist and
Presbyterian Churches will present a Christmas play at the
Presbyterian Church Sunday, December 16. There will also be a
program by the Sunday School departments. There will be no
cooperative worship service that evening. The public is invited.
An Appreciation Birthday Reception honoring State
Representative Phil Cates is scheduled to be held in the Heritage
Room of Pampa's M.K. Brown Civic Auditorium December 13
from 6 to 8 p.m.
Public officials from all over the state are expected to attend
the event honoring Rep. Cates, who is currently serving his
second term in the Legislature.
Rep. Cates has served as Vice Chairman of the Human
Resources committee this past term, as well as Vice Chairman of
the sub-committee on water within the Natural Resources
Committee. Cates also serves on the House Agriculture
Committee.
Currently, he also serves on the special interim commie on
state economy, appointed by the Speaker of the House.
Included in the legislation Rep. Cates has sponsored has been
the revision of the trailer brake law. He has spons9red legislation
against persons involved in child abuse, the bill to allow spraying
instead of dipping for scabies protection, and supports the
right-to-work law in the state constitution.
Rep. Cates is a graduate of West Texas State University and
served as Assistant Dean of Student Life prior to his election to
the House of Representatives.
A native of Lefors, Cates is married to the former Nancy Kay
Holt of Pampa. His district is number 66 and comprises ten
Texas counties.
Co-chairmen of the Appreciation Birthday Reception are Jerry
Sims of Pampa, Clay Henry of Floydada, and Mrs. Billy Mack
Sims of Wellington.
Cotton harvest, ginning
reach high proportions
Cotton harvest and ginning reached maximum proportions
lpl IW llil][ ,w-1 9 7 3. over the Greenbelt area, this week, according to W. E. Cain, In
Charge of the USDA, Agriculture Marketing Service, Cotton
Classing Office at Memphis, Texas.
The Memphis Texas Office graded 28,300 samples this week
to bring the season total of 47,500. This compares to 35,100 on
the same date a year ago.
The predominant grade classed this week was grade 31 with 32
per cent followed by grade 32 with 31 per cent, and grade 41 with
23 per cent.
The predominant length classed this week was staple 31 with
43 per cent followed by staple 30 with 34 per cent.
Micronaire readings showed 83 per cent miked in the desirable
range • of 3.5 to 4.9.
Pressley tests showed 96 per cent tested 75,000 psi or higher.
The average for the week was 84,000 psi.
The cotton market continued active in the Memphis, Texas
area. Demand for 31 and longer staples remained strong. Prices
were steady to slightly higher on 32 and longer staples. Prices for
31 and longer staples, all grades, 3.5 to 4.9 mike, ranged from
3900 to 4300 points over loan rates. The market for 30 and
shorter staples, all grades, 3.5 to 4.9 mike, was steady to 50
points higher with prices ranging from 3300 to 3500 points over
loan rates.
The average price paid farmers for cottonseed at the gin was
$100.00 per ton..
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John Connally...guest speaker for Price
Fund-raising dinner
set to honor Price
AMARILLO--James B. Franklin, an independent petroleum
landman, and Mrs. Tom Herrick, wife of the president of Mesa
Agro, Inc., and both of Amarillo, will serve as chairmen and
co-chairman respectively of the December 18 fund-raising dinner
• honoring U. S. Rep. Bob Price.
"I am honored to have two such prominent Amarillo citizens
willing to volunteer a considerable portion of their time in my
behalf," Price said.
Franklin is an Amarillo native. He graduated in 1950 from the
University of Texas where he combined a business and
engineering degree after spending three years in the Air Force.
He was employed with the First National Bank in Amarillo before
becoming an independent petroleum landman. He is a board
member and former chairman of the Amarillo College Board of
Regents, a trustee of High Plains Baptist Hospital, a past
president of Amarillo Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center and a
former board member of Amarillo Community Center.
Mrs. Herrick serves on the Amarillo Symphony Board and the
Amarillo Humane Society Board.
This will probably be one of the most unusual political events
ever held in the Panhandle. Former Democratic State Senator
Grady Hazlewood will serve as honorary dinner chairman and
former Democratic Speaker of the House Rayford Price will be at
the head table along with Republicans Malouf Abraham and Tom
Christian who served with Speaker Price in the Texas
Legislature.
Republican Senator John Tower will introduce former
Democratic Governor John Connally who will be here to speak at
the dinner honoring Republican Bo b Price.
RELIGIOUS
THOUGHTS
The Moral Weakness of the Church
The moral weakness of the church has contributed to
moral crisis. The church has catered to sin, sold herself out,
failed to lift up God's standard in the land. You cala belon
today's church and not be any different than you were when
joined. Those outside the church can't tell any difference in
way they live and act and the way the church members live
act.
New Testament Christianity, when Jesus Christ was here
the flesh, was characterized by a marked change in
individual's life. The tax collector, Zacchaeus, who climbed
tree to see Jesus, who became the Lord's host for that c
indicated the change that came into his life when he met
"Behold, Lord, the half my goods ! give to the poor; and If i
taken anything from any man by false accusation, !
fourfold. And Jesus said unto him, This day
this house..." [Luke 19:1-9]. His religion changed his life.
affected his business dealings; it affected his life at home; and
affected his relationships with those whom he had wron
Today's religion has failed in three areas that have taken
starch out of Christian commitment:
First, form in religion has been substituted for
Down through the ages, the church has been plagued with
problem• The Reformation broke it apart, but it is with us
Jesus Christ put it this way: "This people honor me with
lips, but their heart is far from me" [Mark 7:61. The
God in the Old Testament faced the problem and
to obey God is better than religious observances, and to
to God Is better than all your religloes offerings" [I Sam.
There are many who are formally good Christians but who
not vitally involved with Jesus Christ and their church.
Second, Biblical teaching has been divorced from life.
Christ said, "Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the thing0]
say" [Luke 6:46]. Morality and the Bible belong together. If
divorce right from the moral foundation of the Bible, then
have no basis for doing right. Nobody does right simply
it is the thing to do. People do right because of the hig
of the love of God as found in the Bible. Somewhere, they
been motivated to do right because of a high standard lifted
for them. It is possible to be good, but good for nothing.
calls us to be good'for something, for someone. If we
God, then we believe He said, "Love your neighboras yourself
then we try harder to appreciate one another. There is no t
for this kind of morality outside of the Bible and a faith
Almighty God.
Third, the church has separated the commission of Christ
"make disciples" from morality and ethics (actions in every
life)• Jesus Christ and the Apostles spoke of a changed life w
they called conversion, regeneration, or a birth of the spirit of j
man that caused a difference in his life (John 3).
Christianity has placed a superficial emphasis on salvation
this type of getting right with God. Modern Christianity
too little of this inward change brought about by
response to the love of God. The church fails to call for
on the basis of a personal commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord
life. We are failing to demand of men repentance toward
and personal confession of sin.
This moral weakness of the modern church has resulted in
lack of vitality in the Christian religion. The church must
her members to be different on the basis of a changed life.
was the charisma of Jesus Christ. He hasn't changed his ,. tra
for this ,generation.
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