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SIXTY-THIRD YEAR
THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE, COLEMAN. TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 11. 1944
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Brownwood Minister Will Be
Main Speaker at Graduation
iServices Here Sunday Night
"Counting the Cost” is
topic cifcsen by the Rev. N. J.
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Salyer, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Brown-
wood, for his sermon at com'
mencement services to be pre
sented at Coleman High School
auditorium at 8:30 o’clock Sun-
day night, May 14.
A list of 61 candidates for
graduation was released today
by City School Supt. J. T.
Runkle as follows:
Burnadette Bairrington,
Grace Baum, Vadine Beal, Jua-
nita Blanton, Jesse Charles
Bradley, Geneva Brown, Billie
Dee Cason, Edrien Clary, Betty
Jane Clements, Louise Dalton,
Vena Bob Dyches, Charles
Gaines, Barbara Goss, Louis
Goss, Nellie Greaves, Glenn
Hagler, Ralston Haun, Layton
Dean Hector, Billy Henning,
David Huckaby.
Fay Hughes, Jeanette Hutch-
inson, Merle Johnson, Bill
Jones, Mary Justice, Willie
Mae Kellogg, Louise Knowles,
Betty June Lane, James Lau-
der, Rosella Layton, Nalda Rae
Lee, Margaret Lindsey, Janie
Love, Ouida McCulloch, Rob-
ert McGregor, Dorothy Med-
calf, Edwina Miller, Kenneth
Newman, Mary Louise Pape,
Doshie Lee Preas.
Rosa Evelyn Ray, Jeanne
Reese, Esther Roberts, Walter
Schick, Wiley Sewell, Betty
Marie Smith, George Smith,
Lena Myrle Smith, Marie Stan-
phill, Frances Ann Tate, Wil-
liamae Tipton, Peggy Thomp-|
son, Mary Beth Tubbs, Mable
Waddell, Urlene Wallis, Paul
Watkins, Veta Watson, Margar-
(Continued on Pg. 7—Sec 1)
City to Receive
Help Maintaining
Some Str<
Luther Raymer
Is Reported to
Be War Prisoner
Two months to the day since
she had heard from her hus-
band, Mrs. Luther A. Raymer of
Silver Valley Saturday received
word from the War Department
that her husband was a prisoner
of the German government.
Previously, she had been in-
formed by the War Department
that her husband was “missing
in action” as of March 6, over
Germany.
S/Sgt. Raymer, 25, son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. A. Raymer of Voss,
was a waist gunner on a bomb-
er. He joined the AAF on Sept.
19, 1942, and received training
at Greenville and Wichita Falls,
Texas, Ft. Myers, Fla., Salt
Lake City, Utah, Ephrata,
Wash., Rapid City, S. D., Wen-
dover Field, Utah, Grand Is-
land, Neb., and other places.
He arrived in England on
Feb. 1, 1944.
Sgt. Raymer was born and
reared in the Voss community.
Silver Valley to
Present Graduation
Program on May 18
The Silver Valley Grammar
School will present its closing
exercises on Thursday, May 18,
at 9:00 o'clock, according to an
announcement made today by
Mrs. Kenneth Croom, pricipal.
Lower grades at the school
will present the operetta, "Cin-
derella in Flowerland,” while
the upper grades will present a
playlet, “The Road to Higher
Education.”
County School Supt. Terrell
Graves will address the gram-
mar school graduates.
Honor students include: Mar-
tha Gipson, valedictorian, and
Leonard King, salutatiorian.
One Coleman County Soldier
Reported Killed, 3 Others
Wounded in Combat Duties
John F. McK
Reported Killed
Over Germany
War Department messages Mrs. Lou Addie _ ^ „
have brought sad news to ‘t*.Goldsboro has been informed
least four Coleman County, that her husband, Pvt. Horace
families in recent days. tj. Bailey, was wounded in the j
Mrs. John F. McKinney of Eurooean area; and Mrs. Ethel
Coleman was informed of the Q]over 0f Santa Anna has beeh
death of her husband, while informed that her son, Pvt.
Relatives of T-Sgt. John F.
McKinney, 21, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. McKinney of Hous-
Bailey of! ^ruformerlyof Coleman, have
been informed
Streets
City of Coleman, through its
city commission, Wednesday
night entered into an agreement
with the State Highway Depart-
ment for the latter to maintain
streets in the city that are parts
of U. S. Highways 67 and 84.
Several blocks on Neches,
Walnut and Needham streets,
and Fifth and Commercial ave-
nues will be involved.
The agreement is the same
being made by the State High-
way Department with all Texas
towns of population of less than
15,000, through which there are
designated highways.
District Engineer Leo Ehlin-
ger, Brownwood, represented
John JT. Vances
To Direct 5th
War Loan Drive
THE WEATHER
Total of almost a third of one
inch of rain has fallen in Cole-
man during the past few days,
records of the local volunteer
weather observer show. A
tenth of an inch fell on May 4,
ll/100ths fell on May 8, and
9/100ths fell on May 9.
The following maximum and
minimum temperatures were
recorded here during the past
three other families received
word that loved ones had re-
ceived injuries while in combat
against the enemy.
(A news story concerning
T/Sgt. McKinney will be found
elsewhere in today’s paper.)
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cullins of
Coleman were informed their
son, Pvt. R. B. Cullins, was
wounded slightly on April 29
in the Southwest Pacific Area.
George B. Clover, has been
wounded in the European area.
Mr. and Mrs. Cullins have a
son and son-in-law in the
Armed Forces other than R. B.
Raymond Cullins, apprentice
seaman, is in the Navy and is^
stationed at Camp Peary, Va.,
and the son-in-law, S. L. Beard,
seaman second class, is at Shoe-
maker, Calif.
Coleman County Democrats
Favor Fourth Term for FDR;
Name Delegates to State Meet
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McKINNEY
by the War De-
partment that
Sgt. McKinney
was killed in
action over, -
Germany on I
April 22, last.
Mrs. McKin-
ney and son,
Johnnie, almost]
a year and a
half old, are re-
siding with her
great-aunt, Mrs.
Local Women
On Program
At H. D. Meet
the State Highway Department than $80°>000.
Mr. and Mrs. John Will Vance
of the Shields community have
been named chairman and co-
chairman, respectively, for the
Fifth War Loan Drive which is r).,tp h,v
scheduled for the period from Mav 4
June 12 to July 8, inclusive, ac- Mav s nn
cording to an announcement Mav fi ok
made today. May 7 „„
Quota for this county has not Mav 8 no
been announced as yet, but the Mav 9 ni
national quota has been increas- M.,v in “ 7B
ed from 14 billion to 16 billion y -------- 10
dollars and for that reason it is
expected the Coleman County
quota may be over one million
dollars this time. The Fourth
War Loan Drive quota for this
county was for slightly more
at the commission meeting.
The commission voted to do-
nate $33.33 per month to the
Coleman County Welfare Asso-
ciation.
G. W. Marshall filed bond
with the city as a house mover.
An ordinance prohibiting the
keeping of hogs in certain parts
of the city has been passed by
the commission and becomes ef-
fective this week. Most of the
city south of the Santa Fe Rail-
road is included in the ordi-
nance, which provides a top fine
of $50 for violation.
City Commissioner W. L.
Futch’s motion that the Cole-
man County Chronicle be made
the official city paper for one
year passed. The
Any bonds bought after Jnne
1, it was pointed out by a mem-
ber of the steering committee,
will be included in the Fifth
War Loan Drive quota for this
county.
441 Club Rally
Day Scheduled
Here Saturday
Annual 4H Club Rally Day
is to be held at the district
courtroom at the county court-
house here on Saturday after-
noon, May 13, at 1:30 o’clock,
j— «---—, — Chronicle, Miss Jewell Hipp, county home
thus, will print ordinances and demonstration agent, declared
legal notices for the city during: today
that period of time.
Coleman So. Ward
School Program
Is Announced
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I Program for the commence-
ment exercises at Coleman
South Ward School, to be held
at the school auditorium on
Thursday night, May 18, at 8:30
o'clock, was announced today.
The program follows:
Processional; invocation, Mrs.
W. C. Gay; “God So Loved the
World” and “The Bells of St.
Mary,” South Ward Choral
Club; waltz medley, Billy Guy
Parker, Dora West, Bill Turn-
bull, Jo Ann Pirtle, Gwendolyn
Watson, Ellena Pettersen, Sara
Justice, Carl Fleming, Teddy
Crum, Marguerite Cain, Billie
June Briggs, and Peggy San-
ders; address, Cecil Gray; pres-
entation of diplomas, Mrs. An-
nie Evetts, and benediction,
Mrs. W. C. Gay.
1st Lf. Edyth S. Cobb, Camp
Bowie WAC, is to be the prin-
cipal speaker at the meeting
for both boys and girls.
Meeting site has been chang-
ed from the American Legion
Hall to the district courtroom
because a large crowd is ex-
pected to be in attendance.
Min.
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46
51
67
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64
Classifications
Of Draft Board
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Note: Where the letter “L”
appears it means a person is
qualified for, limited military
service. Where the letter “F”
appears it means a person is
disqualified for any type of mil-
itary service.
1-A—Available
service:
for Immediate
W. E. STEPP’S BROTHER
IS AWARDED MEDAL
Capt. Ira Stepp, 24, Fort
Worth, half-brother of W. E.
(Bill) Stepp of Coleman, has
been awarded the Distinguish-
ed Flying Cross for completing
51 missions against the enemy
in the New Guinea area, accord-
ing to word received here,
GRAIN MARKET
Following buying prices on
grain were quoted today noon
by the Charles R. Wilson Grain
Company:
No. 1 wheat, $1.45 per bu.
No. 3 oats, 87c per bu.
Sound ear corn, $1,35 per bu.
No. 2 threshed milo, $2.60 per
c wt
No. 2 hegira, $2.60 per cwt.
William J. Whitley.
James M. Monroe.
Marion T. Allsop.
Vincent D. Shields.
Jack R. Laughlin.
James E. Copelman.
Dummas F. Shelton.
Lucian Griffith.
Sam H. Henson.
Ernest W. Tennyson.
Milton L. Terrell.
Fred L. Woodard.
Glover Dobbs.
Adolph D. Campbell.
Claude A. McAnally.
Julies A. Morris.
Ramon S. Espitia.
Wdliam J. Kizer.
Willie F. Jennings.
Jack Spivey.
Willie R.'Ramsey.
Jimmie N. Elliott.
1- A (h)—Available for military
service but over 38 years of
age:
Little B. Chapman, Jr.
James T. Hutchins.
2- A—Man necessary in his es-
sential civilian activity.
Louis A. Welch.
Arthur W. Hill.
Jimmie W. Holland.
Lawrence D. Toten.
Bryan A. Parker.
Robert L. White.
John C. Grammef, Jr.
Weldon B. Smith.
2-A (h)- - Man necessary in his
Coleman County Home Dem
onstration Club women took an
active part in the annual dis-
trict meeting of the Texas Home
Demonstration Association
which was held in Eastland this
week, according to a report
made by Miss Jewell Hipp,
county home demonstration
agent, today.
This county had the largest
delegation present of any coun-
ty in the district other than the
hostess county. There were 36
women, representing 10 Cole-
man County communities, to at-
tend the all-day affair.
Coleman Countians presented
a skit, “The Pressure Cooker
Clinic,” under the direction of
Mrs. Raymond McElratb; Mrs.
Oscar Boenicke, Trickham, talk-
ed on "The Part Youth Plays in
War Through the 4H Organiza-
tion”; Miss Myrtle Younglove,
Echo, took part in a panel dis-
cussion on “Post-War Plan-
ning,” and Mrs. S. T. Lindsey,
Indian Creek, was a member of
the convention’s resolutions
committee.
Delegates were guests of hon-
or at a luncheon while in at-
tendance at the convention.
Coleman County’s voting del-
egates included: Mrs. Frank Gil-
lespie, Coleman, chairman of
the home demonstration coun-
cil, Mrs. Lindsey and Mrs. R. J.
Candler of Brown Ranch.
Ballinger entered a bid to en-
tertain the convention a year
hence.
Wayne Smith Hurt
In Auto Crash
On Commercial
High Praise
For County
Officials
Don’t blame members of the
Coleman County commissioners
court today if they seem to be
a little “chesty.”
For, they this week received
high praise from F. W. Turner,
Waco auditor, on the record
they made during 1943.
Mr. Turner pointed out that
the court had a total of
road and bridge, general of-
ficers’ salary, and permanent
improvement fund when its
members took office on Jan. 1,
1943. (All members of the
court were new at that time).
One year later, and after a total
of $25,000 in warrants had been
paid off, the total balance in
those same funds amounted to
$52,769.54, an increase of three
and one-half times the balance
of Jan. 1, 1943.
It is pointed out that the war-
rants which were paid off were
“inherited” from previous ad-
ministrations.
Mr. Turner declared the
county’s books are in “tip top”
condition and that the record
made by the court is the best
he has ever seen in Texas. He
told members of the court they
had bought all the things .that
were needed by the county but
had been conservative in their
purchases.
Members of the court include:
County Judge Leman Brown,
Cal Averett of Coleman, Carl
Ashmore of Santa Anna, Isaac
Pate of Voss, and Earl Davis of
Novice.
G. Pillow of Coleman. Mrs.
McKinney is the former Miss
Betty Jo Cross of Coleman and
both she and Sgt. McKinn.|/
were reared here.
Sgt. McKinney joined the
AAF in September of 1942 and
received training at Ellington
Field, Harlingen, Salt Lake
City, Boise, Pocatello and
March Field, Calif. He was a
waist gunner on a Flying For-
tress.
He had been injured in a
flight over Europe on Feb. 24,
but his plane had managed to
limp back to England and Sgt.
McKinney had since recovered
from that injury.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McKinney
of Houston and Sgt. Everett
McKinney and Mrs. Fred Bur-
gin of Dickinson, Texas, are
visiting here this week. Other
members of the young ser-
geant’s family include: Pfc. Max
Allen McKinney, brother, now
stationed in New Guinea; and
two sisters, Mrs. C. R. Carlson
of Dickinson, and Mrs. C. H.
Murray of Houston.
Wayne Smith, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rowe Smith of near Cole-
man, lies injured in Overall
Memorial Hospital today fol-
lowing an automobile accident
on Commercial avenue, near the
'Bowen Bus Station, last Thurs-
day night.
Both of the young man’s legs
were broken, with three breaks
received in the right leg and one
break in the left.
In company with Winfred
Stevens, he was riding north
along Commercial at the time.
The car driven by Winfred and
one driven by Marvin Baucom-
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bau-
com of Santa Anna Route One,
collided. Young Baucom, alone,
had driven from the west and
onto Commercial.
Neither Stevens .nor Baucom
was badly hurt. Both automo-
biles were badly damaged.
Funeral Will Be
At Gouldbusk for
Mrs. Ethel Brown
OIL AND GAS LEASES
Pearl Sackett et al to Mudge
Oil Co., 151 acres out of the
Bradshaw Sur. 432. $604.
Mrs. Sallie McQueen et al to
E. C. Marrs, 60.2 acres out of
W. T. Laughlin Ranch. $1 and
other considerations.
J. P. McCord et ux to E. R.
Wolters, 80 acres out of Beaty,
Seale & Ford wood Sur. 25. $1
and other considerations.
JUDGE BAKER IS
CONVALESCING
Judge J. K. Baker, local at-
essential civilian activity and torney, is getting along nicely
over 38 years old:
Walker A. Pepper.
John A. Davis,
Vance Dawson.
Tentative funeral arrange-
ments have been made for Mrs.
Ethel Florence Brown, 52, wife
of Putnam Brown of Coleman.
The services will be held Satur-
day • afternoon at Gouldbusk if
two children, both now in Cali-
fornia, arrive in time. Other-
wise, the services will be held
on Sunday.
Mrs. Brown died at the fam-
ily residence here on May 10,
1944. She was born on Dec. 1,
1891, in Ellis County, Texas,
but had resided in Coleman
since 1906.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by five sons, C. A.
West, J. T. West, D. M. West and
C. L. Brown, all of Coleman,
and Putnam Brown, member of
the Armed Forces, now station-
ed in California; one daughter,
Mrs. Fred Fryar of California;
two brothers; four sisters, and
11 grandchildren.
Burial will be in the Gould-
busk cemetery.
Funeral arrangements are un-
der the direction of the Pioneer
Funeral Home.
FORMER JAPANESE
PRISONER VISITING
FRIENDS HERE
Miss Hazel Mathis of Dallas
is visiting this week with Miss
Margaret Mizzell.
Miss Mathis recently return-
ed to the United States on the
Gripsholmf from China, where
she has been held prisoner of
the Japanese for the past two
years.
Sgt. Bohannon
Transferred to
Temple Hospital
Sgt. Travis Bohannon, 24,
a member of the old Coleman
National Guard Company who
was wounded in action in Italy
on last Dec. .7, arrived at Mc-
Closkey General Hospital at
Temple Wednesday for treat-
ment, according to an announce-
ment received here.
He lost his right leg and his
left leg was broken and he was
struck in the neck by a piece of
shrapnel all at the same time.
It is thought he was fighting
before Cassino at the time he
received the multiple wounds.
Sgt. Bohonnon has been in a
government hospital in Cleve-
land, Ohio, for the past several
weeks. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Bohannon of i
Coleman.
His wife and baby and the
former’s mother, Mrs. Vera
Jackson, left here Wednesday
morning to be on hand at
Temple when the hospital train
pulled in with its load of
wounded service men.
CAPT. JOHNSON
DOWNS NAZI NO. 27—Capt.
Robert S. Johnson of Lawton,
Oklahoma, grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Johnson of Coleman,
this week shot down two
enemy planes over Germany to
boost his total to 27,'all bagged
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That Coleman County Dcmo-
Icrats favor a fourth term for
President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt was determined at a
meeting of the Coleman Coun-
ty Democratic convention at
the county courthouse here
Tuesday afternoon
The convention passed, with
only the Leaday precinct dis-
senting, the following resolu-
tion which was introduced by
Judge Joe B. Dibrell of Cole-
man:
“Resolved, That the delegates
of Coleman County to the State
convention of the Democratic
Party at Austin be, and they are
hereby, instructed to vote for
resolution instructing the dele-
gates of the Democratic Party
of the State of Texas to the Na-
tional convention at Chicago to
vote as a unit for the re-nomina-
tion of Franklin Delano Roose-
velt for President of the United
States as long as his name is be-
fore the National convention.”
By a vote of 78 to 26, the con-
vention voted to table a set of
four resolutions that had been
recommended by members of
the State Democratic Executive
Committee. Those resolutions
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at his home, 615 West College
avenue, following surgical treat-
ment at the Sealy Hospital at
Santa Anna.
Mrs. George Fleming of
Wichita Falls visited last week-
end in Coleman with Mr. and
& L.
Mrs- K. L. Pinkerton.
Funeral Will Be
Held on Friday
For J. I. Griffin
Funeral for James Ira (Jiggs)
Griffin, 32, oil field driller, will
be held from the J. E. Stevens
Funeral Home at 4:00 o’clock
Friday afternoon with the Rev.
Floyd Johnson, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, offici-
ating. Mr. Griffin died at the
family residence on Rost street,
North Coleman, of a heart ail-
ment at 11:25 o’clock Wednes-
day night.
Interment is to be made in
the local cemetery.
James Ira Griffin was born in
Salado, Bell County, T$xas, on
January 6, 1912, but had spent
most of his life in Coleman
County and had attended the
Coleman schools. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Nelson
Griffin of Coleman.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Miss Lola Boatman
of Oklahoma; four brothers, R.
L. Griffin and E. N. Griffin,
both of Santa Anna, J. E. Grif-
fin of Ackerly, and Paul Griffin
of Camp Campbell; and five sis-
ters, Mrs. W. P. Dobbs of Ar-
lington, Mrs. Joe Thompson,
Mrs. Irvin Short, Mrs. Newt
Staggs and Mies Edith Griffin,
all of Coleman.
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