The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1946 Page: 1 of 10
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VOL. LIV
‘Where the Salt in Your Shaker Cornea From"
Grand Saline, Texas Thursday, March 14, 1946
Ten Rages Thi* Week—Price Five Cent a
SMU Captain In 1940 Signs Contract j4s Indian Coach
Canning Plant Definite, Civic Club Informed Here
/
Construction Is
Started By Lee
Dingee Of Tyler
The first annual meeting of the
Grand Saline Civic Club last Thurs-
day night at Fireman’s Hall revealed
to almost 100 businessmen here that
the organization should become a
permanent fixture in the community.
Progress made since the club was
organized was reviewed by several
speakers, convincing any skeptical in-
dividuals that the sponsors of the
club were not sincere in their efforts
to improve and expand the business
possibilities for all here. The attend-
ance represented at least an average
of one person from every business
and industry in Grand Saline, and
marked the greatest turnout of men
in several years, pioneer merchants
reported.
J. M. Gautier, president of the
growing club, sounded the keynote
of the organization’s purpose, when he
told the group that “we are not go-
ing to ask you to jo'n, but are going
to insist that you join.”
Universal convinction that he was 1
right came when Lee Dingee of Ty-
Radio-Equipped B'alloon
Found by Ford Groves
A weather balloon, containing
radio equipment for recording
weather information, was found
Saturday by Ford Groves, route
2, eight miles north of Grand Sa-
line.
Sent up by the Fort Worth
Weather Bureau, the balloon con-
tained a "radiosonde,” Groves said.
It is a sound track equipped with
a bright red silk parachute, which,
after the balloon reached a height
of 12 miles and burst, floated the
equipment to the ground. While
in the air, the instrument took re-
cordings of temperature, baromet-
ric pressure and moisture content
of the air through which the balloon
floated. Groves complied with in-
structions to send it back to the
Washington. I). C. Bureau.
City, School Elections
Scheduled April 2 and 6
Heavy Rains Bring
Threat to Turnips
Funeral Rites Held
For Richard Chitty
Grand Salir.e will hold two city'
elections in one week next month.
The city election will be held Tues-
day, April 2, and the school election
following Sautrda.v, April 6.
Each election will have at least
three positions to be voted on. ,
City officials, whose present term j
of olfice expire, are J M. Gautier, i » r , .. . , ,
furniture store owner, and Sam Kruli • a r,u/ifa 0 on1‘' alld three-eighths
and John Eovles, employees of Won- ! m4es the 'mst three .lays has seri-
ton Salt Co. Gautier and Knull have l0U8?y threatened \an /nndt County
indicated they will seek re-cle-'tion to ' ve*t'tabl.e18' <“'eording to Frank
the council. .1. C Allen, city 'eerttan ! r USh)m°^ |,rPS'"“Mt/!>' th*' V“" Z»ndt
clerk of the council red tax assessoi-'jJ £° “nt>\ } '/P al'* V.Associa-
eollector, will e balloted on for the * ’ u ' '' l’*llu,tt’ P“,neer truck
| office of city secretary. Will Vick, | far™tM' hert‘
Oty marshal, is running for re-elec- L, 1 hree-fourths inch of rain fell
, tion, and is the only announced can- j Tuesday, which materially helped the
I didate in the city race with opposition. 1 props, but an additional five-eighths
He is faced by Richard Murdock and 'lnch Wednesday saturated lands and
| C. 1). (Charity) Gi son. cv,Jl(o,i ., ti,....... .............
In the school election,
Raymond Pope, 'War Veteran, Due
Monday; To Hold Spring Training
Raymond Earl Pope of Dallas, three-year letterman
and 1940 captam of the co-champion SMU Mustangs of
the Southwest Conference, has been named Grand Sa-
line s lootball coach.
J^Pe whs in Grand Saline Wednesday, following
his formal employment on a year’s contract Tuesday
Speed Limit for Trains
Is Repealed by Council
Because the stream-lined TI* pas-
senger trains and fast freights
ignored the speed limit anyway,
the city council Tuesday night re-
pealed that 20-mile-an-huur speed
limit with respect to trains.
But, mind you, just for the trains!
Vehicles still must observe the 20-
mite speed limit.
created a threat to crops, fhe rnin-
IVesident I Jal,s *cre recorded by John Friedline,
Pete Lawrence, Secretary Fine g I fromer Army weather observer, dur-
j Fowler and Trustee J. T. York are' ing the absence of hi s father in Michi-
Funeral services for Richard Groome ' mcmbSiJs vv*,ose terms expire thisiKa,K
u:*.*,.. tin a* .. i •». i vnn»• Ymi ’
i - ---- | x uia-im services ior Kicnaru uroome —.....Xt » , . mis
ler announced that work already had Chitty, 67, retired railroad account- York has indicated he will not
started on a $133,000 vegetable can-1 ant and Spanish-American War vet-I r,un ^or ^-election. and Lawrence dis-
ninff plant here. It is located on landieran, who died at the home of his 'cI.os‘|d Wednesday that C. A. Mayfield
purchased by the Civic Club south of i sister. Miss Daisy Chitty, here lastf0^ ^alt C!ity Co. will be sought
f“^Texas ancj Pacific Railroad. LThursday, were conducted from the as ^le Uiird man in the race.
Dingee revealed that the canning I Grand Saline Funeral Home last Fri- j ®lect>°ns will be held at the
iflant will be one of the largest in day afternoon. The Rev. B. A. Watson • ,rem.®n « Recreation Hall, and vot-
.#i6XaS ?utsHle the Kio Grande,Vialley. (and the Rev. James W. Dixon officiat- mK . _ c between the hours of 8 a.
•lie reviewed theuphill.climb to bring led. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery,
Ihe project to success, informing the Edgewood, under direction of the
group that he has been working since Grand Saline Funeral Home.
•Inov. 6. 1944. orat — He calne home ill three months ago
from Shawnee, Okla., and in spite of
everything that could be done for
Nov. 6, 1944, to get construction
started Excavation work was start-
week. and the contractor,
<&cott Construction Co. of Dallas,
See CANNING PLANT Page Five
Legion to Observe
28th Anniversary
The 28th anniversary of the A-
merican Legion in Grand Saline will
.e observed here Friday night with a
dinner and brief historical program
would post one notice at the City I by tbe Terry-Clifford-Moore Post No.
him,' he 'continued weakening uuti*l |J?alli’ ano,ther at the First National \UH of the ^K'on. according to Comdr.
the end March 7, the 14th anniversary I an,d a, th,rd a “Prominent I K- E- " heeler,
of the death of his mother. Mrs. Rns„ 1 place el??whele in the city.
m. and 7 p m.
City Secretary Allen was instruc-
ted by Mayor V B. Cozby and aider-
men Tuesday night to post election
notices Wednesday. Allen said he
J night by tin* school hoard
j and Supt. H. G. Shivers,
searching- for a home for
It is wife and two infant
(children, Kaymond, Jr., age
j-~ months, and Constance
Ann, age seven months.
Since his separation from the Navy
last Jan. 11. formal end of a 90-day
j terminal leave, Pope has been em-
ployed by the Dallas Park Board A
| lull lieutenant in the U. S. Naval
] Reserve, Pope saw II months military
| service in the Navy on both the At-
lantic and Pacific Oceans as u gun-
j fiery officer on a tanker in the At-
I Ini,tic and the same post aboard a
liberty ship in the Pacific,
j Pope graduated from Southern
.....-• mi- i ii non, ,v. 1-Methodist University in 1911, with
pioneer resident of Gland Saline and a bachelor of seienee degree in phyai-
native of Harrison County, died at C'al education, minoring in general
6:20 o’clock last Saturday morning at j education.
the home of her daughter, Mrs P. His last football seas. is school
C. Heflin, here. saw him captain of the Mustangs
Funeral services were held at the | w*'° tied the Aggies for the Southwest
Creagleville Church last Sunday af- Conference football championship,
ternoon, with the Rev, James W. j Pope held down tin* center spot
Dixon, pastor of Main Street Bap- three years on the SMU varsity und
Death Takes Mrs.
Mittie Hitt Here
Mrs. Mittie Elizabeth Hitt. 70,
tist Church, and the Rev. Silas Dick-
erson, pastor of First Baptist Church,
officiating. Burial was m the Creagle-
ville Cemetery.
Mrs. Hitt was torn Nov. 10. 1885,
in Harrison County, where she join-
ed the Baptist Church in early child
u year as freshman.
A native of Grandview, Texas, Pope
played three years as renter on the
high school team, and his senior year
was switched to full ack He starred
in basketball and track, putting the
12-pound shot a distance of 49 feet,
c i e ■ no It.... ... 1. . I 1 i L .. t ' I . .
1946 Auto Tags
Moving Slowly
j Chitty.'641' °f hb ^ Rosa i1,1 City oS^not Z ff’election | i at th. Hi ,-
j Born in Edgewood Feb 7 1879 !thl8 £ear are Uozby, J. S. Land ! J118" 8 Recreation Hall at . :..J o’clock
(the son of H. S and Rosa’Blackwell I “nd •°rKe •’’Mermen. Trustees j *»>■ the auxiliary. Mrs. Wheeler, auxi-
i Chitty, pioneer reside.its of Van Zandt carrl®d “vt‘lc, 'viI1 Alvin Mallory I liary president, hr.; h. e.i ananging
! Countv thore. hp irrpvv to manhnnj ! ana ** • who have another ^ rn<mm<> of the liran.l Saline Post
— * j during the Spanish-Ame’rican War. |h.,
For the convenience of automobile fIe. was a memter of Company F, 6th j t a\e.r.^°
and truck owners in the Grand Sa- ! iafant,‘y. in which he served for | _Lilli:
line trade territory, York Motor Co. ! La'’ce >’ears> most of this time in the
last week heean serving as a local * ^hilippine Islands,
bureau for the distribution of 1946 j. Among those attending the serv-
license plates. |lces "'ere Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Nelms
The new. 1946 plate is cream on |°? ,Eort Worth. Mr. Nelms and Mrs.
black background. Only one plate is ( bitty enlisted together in the Army,
again issued for each car for attach | servinK throughout the1- service to-
ment on the rear plate holder. gether and being discharg. ^ together.
J. T. Y’ork reported applications ! Alongside them was D. H "Nelms of
are gradually picking up as the April Oiikl^nd, Tenn., brother of the visi-
1 deadline approaches. But he expect- t°r>
years of three-year terms
a resume
The post here was organized in
1919 and except for a few brief |
periods has been active ever since.
—
hood To the marriage with the lute s‘x inches, to hold the Class B state
1 Willie Crosby was born two children, ^hot-put record. He graduated from
I Jim Crosby, now deceased, and .Mrs. Grandview High School in 1936, amt
Heflin, t i the .'eath of Mr. Crosby, entered North Texas Agricultural
| she later .Tarried Jot. S. Hitt. Two '1 "Ilege at Arlington, graduating
[children wet. horn to the Hitts, the * two years later with a degree
late M: Fredda lli'ks and Milton '*) industrial aei dualities. He changed
Group Urges City Council
To Sponsor Airport Here
ed, as usual, applicants would wait
until the last few days.
V/
Uncle Sam's Men From
Grand Saline
Oliver Cofer.
He is survived by his sister,
Daisy Chitty,, r
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ip
It
Jse^lce^in^bwhk^'he^ontit^ui'^^until Mty. c«?a,n.cil, Tuesday night instructed RuffS Russell f/oniC
\30S yeara'"duty* Hh ratirament a11 'nformatiL possible from’ the Damaged $2.) l)lj Fire
due to ill health. He was a member | Lea«ue "f Ttxas ^umcipaht.es on
of the Methodist Church the Masonic prob,ems faced ,n operating a muntci- Damage o-.titrated at $25 was done
Lodge. Veterans of Foreign Wars and P.al, airport, after a delegation of to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
the Order of Railroad Telegraphers !e|S:ht businessmen and servicemen 'Bugs) Russell last Sunday morning
Pal'bearers were Sam Dennington.'iPresented a Proposal for a flying field , while they were away.
Bill Whitehead. Walter Ten!, Jack hei',e' . „ 0nlf. the fortunate return of Mrs.
Teal, J L. Greer, Enoch Fletcher and "l y, ‘>ffl?,als to do “- Russell and her mice and nephew,
thing aoout the absence of a poten- \ Mrs. Caul Shirey and Mr. Shircy,
Miss tially lucrative airport here were J. T. from church prevented probably a
Y’ork, J T. Y’ork Jr„ Neely Wright, total loss. After summoning the fire
Neely Wright, Jr., John R. King, Idepartirttut, Shirey and the two wo-
Dave Calhoun, C. A Mayfield and men began dousing water on the
Byron Buzbee. Buzbee first presented flames in the living room, and had it
figures showing that cost of the Wis-I under control. However, the fire d<
ner Flying Field, operated at Mineola ' n.™* ............i ........... .
| was less than 82,500, excepting cost
of land. A brief submitted to each
| alderman and Mayor Cozby showed
I that a 96-acre tract, owned by Fred
! „ . , 1 Wilderspin, was available. The dele-
i .T*1® l ^ 10 5 ^ gation disclosed to city officials that
[Ctty Post No. 6012, Veterans of Fore- on]v op acrcf, Were needed for an air-
tgn Wars, was installed last Monday j acceptable to the Civil Aeronuu-
night at a fish fry for veterans, ||jC8 Administration, which would
w-tves and families. represent an investment of only a-
- An estimated 209 people consumed , bout 9I>500 in land for the field.
125 pounds of catfish caught by vet- , YorU p()irited out that, for the pres-
jerans themselves and served by Chari- onti no K,.()Uml facilities, such as a
jey Anderson with French fried P°- 1 hangar and waiting room, were nec-
Itiitoes and all the aceessodtes. |essary, and that only the land would
Taking the oath of office as auxilt- serve purpose. Young York and
ary president was Mrs. Barbara Land,........
wife of the post commander, Harold
Land, and the following other Auxili-
ary officers: Mrs. Janet Hayes, senior
vice president; Mrs. Jessie Jones,
his major to physical education ...
SMU.
I’ve "ill take over his duties hero
I-. 111.ill;, next Monday, and plans t<»
start imueiiiateh to form a track
tea.n.
As l*o 1 spiinc training, lie pliu.s to
bold il. ''in has not deenhd on dates,
pending a con10,011.-e with Superinten-
dent .-sinv its and I’n. ici pal James
Nelson. ,v i.o has hcon handling the
coaching duties during the war.
I in .sohl on the f formation.” he
Vi marked Wednexdax n\ way of let-
1 u wiuit they
It i- the best
Auxiliary to VFW
Organized at Fish
Fry Monday Night
i
_T PEARL HARBOR—Pvt. Virgil
^Coffman, celebrated his 19th birth-
nay anniversary in Pearl Harbor, T.
H . with the U. S. Marine Corps Enter-
iunior vice president; Mrs Verlie
Bryant, secretary; Mrs. Vay Nations,
treasurer; Mrs. Anna L. Gray, chap-
lain; Mrs. Odessa Joslin, conductress;
Mrs. Effie Russell, guard; Mrs. Lucille
McCleskey, Mrs Ida Wheeler and
Mrs. Opal Johnson, trusted; Und
Mrs. Hap Proctor, patriotic instruc-
tor.
The auxiliary will meet each sec-
ond and fourth Friday night in the
month. Twenty-two members joined
Monday night. Any eligible lady, who l
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Legion Sponsors Cowboy Pal Loyd
--------r.rr. aiomtay mgnt. ^ny et.g.Dte tatty, wnoiV^aVer find SIlOW SatUfdaV Night
ing service last September, Coffman | („ tj,c wjfPi mother, sister or daugh- Terrv. Clifford . Moore *»■—» . - .
spent Christmas at home here. He was te), af u veteran of foreign serviee, Ll . ' . . ,
19 year* of age ^ 12. become a charter member by cLwhi™ “ ' '
' pnrtment answered the call and gave
. cm ry nssistpi-.ee.
Ressoll, who was enjoying a fishing
Uin, reported thi; week tint he in-
■ dvenently left the Lying room fire
and a flapping curtain caught fire.
. (V km w nothVg of the fire unlil
■If--. Russell reported it to him.
| Phone Company
To Expand Service
The Southwestern States Telephone
:i 11.
Uoming to Grand Saline from I.in-
dale, win re her parents moved when
she was a child. Mrs. Hitt has made
See MRS. MITTIE HITT Page Five
Growers to Meet
Here Tuesday Night
, f • K ft Hit l».l I I t'.’l
The \ an /.I-, dt Comity Vegetable [ may expect ne\t lull
Growers Association will hold a gen thing for .1 light team."
oral meeting Tuesday night, March ! I'ope also believed that
19, at Grand Saline High School to loot.mil cm run s arc men
discuss the spring and summer plant-j had training on tin , in h 1
it g siason and prospects for the announced he i, tends
crops, I'result 1 t Frank Wushnion an- ! *!■• m« -poll a it ,.f tet.t
noanced Aednesda.v. I he meeting will Ins our ,i;m loniract as.
be held at 5 :.‘>0 o’clock in the high | option j-houid he 1 . 1111..i;*•
I schorl study hall on the second floor. I the 1919 I, ,-hoid .cm.
"Wed like to have the gem 1 a 1 i tie • lo- r 01,1 on 1,
| Ptildi" to come out and take part in I landed to I’m hen: I1, ..
this meeting,” W ashmen aid. 1 y 1 oa h Matty Kell ,,f
j Mtist.-itie - t a o u c |,.s ago.
la X Islt here, I *o|
j I ’alia • la -t Sat
tla post on ti" -a ,
111 si coach 1 tig jii'i.
Neely Wright, Jr., also explained that L. . • outhwestern States releplionc
an airport acceptable to the CAA !.K IT l,.aanm*' 88 expansion program
could ’ e located on a field owned , n,ai'Lv..le*s /"'uud Saline soon,
by the city. • ’
Following a discussion of several
Miller, local exchange manager,
revealed here this week.
minutes and n forum on an airport’s I “'We are going to enlarge the out-
possibilities, Dr. Cozby instructed | s'<i° (,uble plant to ttike care of the
Allen to request all information from I tmmy applications for telephones,”
the municipal league on the subject, I Miller suid. There are 52 applications
and the delegation agreed to enlist 0,1 fH* *1- the local office for telephone
the CAA in avoiding difficulties. ! service.
Strong Scout Troop
Cub Pack Organized
By Boys, Fathers
1 hil I v-t w e Craml Saline Imys net
la-1 Thursday nigh: m the htisement
ot the .Main Sticet Baptist ('huri-h I• 1
fel'in Be,. Scout fc- lip No. 67:: utidei I
kniittsui —hip of the Main .Street !
t 'llUivh
’file Re,. Janies \\ . Dixon, pastor,
will Mixe ns Kcniit mast 11, and the!
Rev. John U. t'oehran, paster of the
Church of the Nazarene, will serve
as assistant scoiilmaster. Bill Thomas,
studnit at Kilgore Junior College, will
I be second assistant scout mastv dur-
[ ing the summer months.
Members of the troop commit ee
[will lx- James M. Gautier, chairman:
[Harry R. Jacobs, finance man; Cliff
Sansoin, relations man; Marion V.
[Quinn, activities and outdoor man;
1 and Oliver Cofer, advancement man. I
That aftemoon Cub Scouting got
[under way with 18 boys meeting in
two Dens at the homes of Mrs. W.
L. Garland, Jr., and Mrs. Marion V. |
Quinn, Den mothers. The Cub Rack
‘is sponsored also by the Main Street
It'll I I c I (‘lllllM'll Ufll II .1 I ill II II I Jl I InllL IIIU
t hi best
w lio luive
t1 ack, and
g \ the
' 1 <i iring
t xx o. year
hei after
a- r. -iini-
1. 1 .xn nee
the SMU
I-'allowing
met Shixers in
and accepted
- ■ in d. I’his is Ins
Hoard Authorizts \ew
Slml Huilt for Russes
Gnu 1 Saint
Ti .1
I’ll.. -1 IX
Sup .
11. G. Sh ix ei
i-otiMr
u t mn of a
• 1 l It * « »
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Fit - tin 1
Bmldin
IU’U «
he\ t olet 11 s!
\m .4. !
I,,,
•x the ipii
I'lh 1 «•
1 lo-
floor of the s
in the
-outh half
Building, xx ill he krn
late sa
11’e xx 01 k t hen
d
f School
: it iiot ized
•e I With
oil- xvest
"t :!:e Home
I" house four
pu1 chased last
>t til" llenie Ec
the adjacent shed.
Mostly About People
iftoi----—
■my for the past three years is
with a discharge. 'He is the
aon of Mr. and Mrs. George Kidd.
Mr. and Mrs, C. E. Minatrsa rscslv-
•d word from thoir son, Mllfrad, that
Rost of sion includes federal amusement
--- will sponsor Weaver, who visited here Monday
Ral Loyd Weaver and his to complete arrangements with It
u. si*., .h. I'Ss HcFruiij
I- i«-- i*rom service for a close relative to Satun|ay lllKhl th,. Grammar and guarantees it to be one of the
School auditorium. Iwst of its kind. The Rais of the
Sponsoring the six-character show Saddle will furnish music, Weaver
on a percentage basis, the Legion will
eharge 9 cents for young children,
•ee ARMED FORCES
from service for a close relative to
Join the auxiliary.
Amending the meeting and fish
fry Monday night were W, T. Todd,
district 3 commander for Tens,
Mrs. Todd and a friend, ail from
Dallas.
U cents for children over 13 years
of ago, and 66 cents for adults. Admis-
said the chow is good, clean enter-
tainment for the whole family. The
ahow Is a feature of KPK4) radio
■tatlon, Longvlow
1 Baptist Churrli, with Johnnie Hopkins, 1
j Foye S. Fowler, Quinn, Joe Sellers!
am' Diek Humphrey as the Cult Rack j
committee. Scouts Charles Uumhie |
and George White are acting ns Den [
'chiefs for the two Utih liens
------------- I
1 The YF\N Rost w ilt meet m regular
session Monday night, Maix'h2f>, at the
Fireman's Hall All serviee men with
foreign duty are eligible to join, und
urged to attend,
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Calvert were
in Dallas on business Monday and
Tuaaday.
BILL LAND thinks Mark Twain
was all wet about Tom Sawyer und
bis picket fence. Bill was painting
the said picket fence bis dud. J. S.
I.AN'D, built, the other day, but not
enjoying it one bit. He was trying
to git a friend like Tom Sawyer'a
to paint it for hint.
Fish were biting good last Sunday
when "BUGS" RUSSELL had hie
luck blasted by MRS. RUSSELL, who
went out to the rivef and reported
their home was almost destroyed by
fire.
The Sun inadvertedlv reported the
death of Mis. Mettle Howard's death
of Feb. 24 Incorrectly in last Thura-
day's Issue. Mrs Howard died at th«
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