The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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The Paducah post
SI SAYS:
Read a newspaper headline
that said: “South Of Jones
Over The Top.” Wonder what
became of the north of Jones?
Clever—these Joneses!
Thirty-seventh Year, No. 27
8 Pages
Paducah, Texas, Friday, October 15, 1943
In Cottle King Counties
PROMOTED TO STAFF
Merl Holley, U. S. Marine
Corps, has been promoted to the
rank of staff sergeant. Merl is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E.
Holley of Ogden. He has been in
the Marines for a year and a
half and is in the personnel
branch of the Marine Air Corps
stationed at San Diego, Calif.
WAC MAKES SERGEANTCY
Mildred Jordan, WAC, has re-
ceived her sergeant’s stripes at
Camp Marana, Ariz. Out of 85
possibles, eight girls were select-
ed, among them Mildred. She is
the daughter of Mrs. Audie Jor-
dan.
FT. FISHER SOLDIER HOME
Pfc. Delbert Burks of Ft. Fish-
er, North Carolina, arrived Thurs-
day on a 15-day furlough. Burks
is in the Anti-Aircraft Division,
U. S. Army. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Burks of Salt
Creek.
COAST GUARDSMAN HERE
S 1-c Turney Stanley, of the
U. S. Coast Guard, stationed at
Staten Island, New York, arrived
on a 10-day leave Friday. He is
visiting his wife, Mrs. Myrtle
Stanley and little daughter Carol
Ann. He was joined here by his
father, Mr. J. D. Stanley of
Kaufman County.
MARINE BOYKIN HERE
Pfc. Harley Boykin, U. S. Ma-
rine Corps, of Camp Pendleton,
Cal., returned to his station Sun-
day after spending his furlough
visiting his parents at Delwin.
Pfc. Boykin, of the artillery,
has several medals, although in
the Marine Corps only two
months. One medal is a sharp-
shooter “M-one,” and the others
are cai'bine expert, bayonet ex-
pert and one for chemical -war-
fare. Pretty good, eh?
RECEIVES PROMOTION
The Tank Destroyer Replace-
ment Training Center at North
Camp Hood, Texas, announced
today the promotion of Roy J.
Hall to the grade of Technician
5th Grade-. T-5 Hall, like all
Tank Destroyer soldiers, wears
the distinctive Tank Destroyer
shoulder insignia depicting a
black panther* devouring a tank,
the mission of this force being
the destruction of enemy tanks
by accurate gunfire from stealth-
ily occupied positions.
SEABEE LEAVES
“Grub” Campbell, Seabee, who
was home on leave, has reported
back to Endicott, R. I. for re-
assignment.
KATIE MARTIN HOME
Auxiliary Katie Martin of the
Women’s Army Corps, was home
from Wednesday to Saturday of
last week. Miss Martin, daughter
of Mr. George Martin, of this
city, is attending officers’ train-
ing school at Riverside, Calif.,
and expects to do overseas duty
upon the completion of her train-
ing course.
PROMOTED
H. B. Leathers who is in the
navy stationed at Camp Peary,
Williamsburg, Va., has received
the rating of Chief Petty Officer.
Leathers has been at Camp
Peary one year.
TRANSFERRED
After '14 months desert train-
ing in the Indio, Calif., desert,
Sgt. Wm. T. Bradford has been
transferred to the Station Hos-
pital at Camp Carson, Colo. He
reports there is -quite a differ-
ence in the temperature at Camp
Carson and that of the desert.
PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN
Droel H. Looney, son of Dr.
and Mrs. O. E. Looney, of the
U. S. Marine Corps stationed at
San Diego, Calif., has been pro-
moted to the rank of Captain,
effective as of October 11th.
COMPLETES COURSE
Derrell B. Petty, A.M.M. third
class, has finished his aviation
machinist course at Norman,
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ALL-WEATHER
QUANAH ROAD
DISCUSSED
A group of local business men,
headed by Judge Jeff Riley and
C. N. Willingham went to Qua-
nah yesterday afternoon where
they will meet the judge of
Hardeman County and a group
of Quanah citizens regarding an
all-weather road between Padu-
cah and Quanah.
State engineers are reported
to be in Quanah waiting for a
selection of the route, so that
they can begin the surveying.
Two possible routes have been
suggested. Either the short cut to
the Lee Highway or the road
through Lazare and Swearingen.
While local preference seems to
lean toward the Lazare and
Swearingen route, the whole mat-
ter was discussed at the meeting.
As we go to press we have not
learned what decision was reach-
ed between the two county
groups.
PIONEER
WOMAN
DIES
Funeral services for Mrs. D. A.
Goodwin, pioneer Paducah wo-
man who passed away suddenly
at her home Friday, Oct. 8th,
were held at the First Methodist
Church Sunday, Oct. 10th at 3
p.m. with Rev. John Crow offi-
ciating.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Goodwin
was born near Bonham, Texas,
March 27, 1864. On Feb. 24,
T886, she was married to David
Alfred Goodwin at Ivanhoe, Tex-
as. To this union six daughters
and five sons were born, all of
whom survive with the exception
of one daughter, Beatrice, who
passed awAy at the age of four.
In November 1899, Mr. and
Mrs. D. A. Goodwin with their
family moved to Paducah from
Wellington, Texas. They were
pioneers in the development of
Paducah, widely known for their
kindness and generosity. They
gave the right of way for the
railroad when it was built into
Paducah in addition to paying
their share of the bonus the rail-
way demanded to come in to the
town. When Paducah needed
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Cotton Ginning
Shows Decrease
Department of Commerce fig-
ures show there were 1584 bales
of cotton, counting round as half
bales, ginned in Cottle County,
from the crop of 1943 prior to
Oct. 1, 1943, as compared with
1858 bales ginned to Oct. 1, 1942.
King County tabulations show
222 bales for 1943 compared to
425 bales in 1942.
GREENCTAMPS
IN BOOK 4
GOOD NOV. 1
The OPA announced Tuesday
that beginning Monday, Nov. 1,
housewives will start using green
stamps from the new War Ra-
tion Book 4 to buy rationed can-
ned fruits and vegetables.
The A, B and C series of
green stamps in book four will
be valid to buy rationed process-
ed’’foods from Nov. 1 through
Dec. 20. These green stamps will
be used exactly in the same man-
ner as the familiar blue stamps
in War Ration Book Two. The
last series of blue stamps, X, Y
and Z are good until Nov. 20.
War Ration Book 4 will be
distributed to the public in Pa-
ducah during the period Oct. 22-
23. OPA said the green stamps
will be used for processed foods
until the ration “token” system
goes into effect, probably early
next year. Then, the red and blue
stamps in Book 4 will be used.
Opens Cleaning
Shop*
The Williams Tailor Shop has
been opened by Paul Newsom
and John Stinson, and they re-
port they have a complete or-
ganization to ^handle dry cleaning
and pressing,' and state their
workmanship will be maintained
on a high quality basis.
CAPT. PARKER
HOME ON
VISIT
CAPT. VERNON PARKER
Sunday October 10th, was a mo-
mentous occasion in the life of
M. M. Parker of Paducah, for
on that day his son, Captain
Vernon Parker, arrived home
after spending the past two years
in the European war theatre as
a member of the Eagle Squadron
of the RAF and the U. S. Eighth
Air Force, piloting Spitfires and
Flying Fortresses.
Relatives and friends from Pa-
ducah and other parts of the
state came to welcome the flyer
home, and his wife and four year
old daughter, Sandra Lou, of
San Antonio. Capt. Parker had
not seen his daughter since she
was 18 months old, as he joined
the RAF in Dallas in January,
1941, and was sent to Canada
for pilot training.
Having already had some civil-
ian pilot training, he was soon
sent to England where he became
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CALL ISSUED
FOR MORE
SCRAP
Put your old metal in a vic-
tory scrap bank, the Texas Sal-
vage Committee urged today in
announcing a new campaign to
meet the needs of mounting
United Nations’ war offensives.
The new drive will continue
through Nov. 15, and Texans are
being called upon to contribute
their share of a national quota
of 3,000,000 tons, said E. E.
Kirkpatrick, chairman of the
state committee. He urged the
700 local committees to lend
every effort to making the new
campaign a success.
“Present scrap inventories avail-
able to the mills represent only
about two months’ supply which
is not considered a safe mar-
gin,” Kirkpatrick asserted.
With the Allied armies carry-
ing the fight to the enemy on
every front, extra effort on the
home front is necessary to meet
production needs, he added.
Wylie Boyle, local chairman of
the salvage committee, today an-
nounced plans were being com-
pleted to stage a county-wide
drive for scrap metal within the
next few days. He urged every-
one to search their premises for
old scrap and to turn it in so
that it can be used by the mills
in the manufacture of needed
munitions.
SON MISSING
IN ACTION
Mrs. Norma Johnston received
word Monday from the War De-
partment that her son, Pvt. Jesse
N. Spence^ had been missing in
action in the North African cam-
paign since Sept. 16th.
Pvt. Spence, who is 23, is in
the Medical Detachment of the
army. He volunteered in Novem-
ber 1940, and has been overseas
since April of this year. He was
born and raised in Paducah, and
after entering the service re-
ceived his training at Camp
Bowie, Camp Blanding, Fla., and
Camp Edwards, Mass.
Grocers Can Deliver
Only Twice Weekly
Due to a recent ODT ruling,
local grocers will start making
deliveries only twice a week, on
Tuesdays and Fridays, beginning
the week of Oct. 18th.
The packages to be delivered
must be of a certain weight and
size, before they can be delivered.
For complete details read the ad-
vertisement elsewhere in today’s
Paducah Post.
Bargain Subscription Rate
Abolished This Year
COL BAILEY
BACK FROM
OVERSEAS
TURN IN TIN' CANS
Wylie Boyle, chairman of
the salvage committee for the
county, today urged all house-
wives to savfe and turn in
their used tin cans. He said
there had been practically
none turned in the past 30
days, and that the government
still needed them.
The tin cans can be left at
the Coca-Cola plant, or they
will send a truck to your
house to pick them up on Fri-
day of each week if you will
phone 54.
Discount On Taxes
During October
County Tax Collector George
Moore1 today announced a three
per cent discount would be given
on all county, state and school
taxes paid during October.
He urged taxpayers to take ad-
vantage of this saving by paying
their taxes before November
rolls around.
Fire Destroys
Quanah Stadium
Fire early Saturday morning
destroyed the wejst stand at the
Quanah football | stadium. The
old wooden stand was virtually
burned to the ground, according
to reports.
The blaze started several hours
after the crowd had left the sta-
dium after the Quanah-Olney
game. A discarded cigaret was
believed to have started the
blaze.
OIL FOUND"
INKING
COUNTY
What may mean the first com-
mercial producer to be brought
in from King County is looked
for in the Humble Oil and Re-
fining Company’s No. 1 Bateman
trust estate in Section 101, Block
“A,” in J. B. Rector survey. This
test, a wildcat five miles east of
Guthrie, topped lime -at 3688 and
drilled the formation to 3703
feet. A drill-stem test was then
taken at 3688-3703 feet. Opened
30 minutes the recovery revealed
670 feet of oil with 130 feet oil
cut mud and some brackish water.
Operators set and cemented
5 V2-inch at 3688 feet with 125
sacks and is waiting on cement.
Flow pressure 150 pounds with
bottom hole pressure not regis-
tering. Gravity 32.02. Location
4202 from south and 660 feet
from east lines of the survey.
P.-T.A. TO MEET TUESDAY
The P.-T.A. will meet at 4:30
Tuesday afternoon at the Alamo
School. All members are urged
to be present.
KP OFFICIAL
T. C. NORTH
Two state officials of the
Knights of Pythias will visit the
local lodge Thursday evening,
Oct. 21st.
Grand Chancellor T. C. North
of Waxahachie and Past Grand
Chancellor Dr. G. H. Ater of
Lubbock will attend the meeting.
A. N. Cribbs urged all mem-
bers to be out.
Due to increased production
and labor costs^ as well as the
tremendous increase in the price
of newsprint and the fact that
the government is requiring all
newspapers to cut down on their
use of newsprint, the publisher of
The Paducah Post finds it im-
practical to offer a bargain sub-
scription rate of $1.00 per year
during the month of November,
as he has been doing for many
years.
Conditions force us to charge
the regular rate of $1.50 per
year. While most newspapers
over the state and nation have
raised their subscription rates, we
are not contemplating doing so at
the present, although we carinot
say how long it will be before
such a move will become neces-
sary. We will continue to ask
only $1.50 per year until forced
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SURVIVES
SIX PLANE
CRASHES
S-SGT. WM. FLOYD NORRIS
Staff Sergeant William Floyd
Norris of the U. S. Air Corps is
being transferred from Langley
Field, Va., to Billy Mitchell
Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and
according to a letter he writes
his mother, Mrs. J. W. Norris, he
is glad of the change.
Sgt. Norris is 25 years old and
graduated from Dumont High
School in 1936. He enlisted in the
air corps at Wichita Falls on Jan.
6, 1941 and was stationed at
Barinquen Field, Puerto Rico, for
14 months. While there he at-
tended school most of the time,
taking training for pilot, machine
gunner, navigator, radio operator
and bombardier.
Before Pearl Harbor, he was
a radio operator and during the
course of his duties visited all
the South Sea Islands as well as
flying over all of South America.
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14 ACCEPTED
FOR SERVICE
Fourteen selectees and volun-
teers from Cottle County were
"accepted for military service at
Lubbock last week-end and given
their preliminary examinations
and inducted into the services.
Those leaving and the branch
of service they were accepted
for: Michael C. Dickens, Claudie
Elmo Parks, J. Vern Dumont,
Homer Richard Harrison, Walter
N. Smith and Marion Byrd Jones,
in the army; John R/’Fischer and
James D. Ballard, in the navy.
Volunteers were: Robert M-
Higgins, aviation cadet training;
Kelly W. Bailey, navy; Henry R.
Sublett, army; James W. Whit-
aker, marines; J. T. Hodges,
army; and High Hollins, colored,
army.
All-Day Program At
Christian Church
Members of the First Christian
Church are holding an all-day
program Sunday, at the church in
Paducah, and serving a dinner at
noon, to church members and in-
vited guests.
Thirty soldiers from the CAAF
have been invited to be guests
of church members who have
sons in the service.
LT. COL. J. C. BAILEY
Lt. Col. J. C. Bailey, 27-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Bailey of Dumont, who visited his
folks the latter part of last
month after being on overseas
duty the past six months.
’ Lt. Col. Bailey is a bomber
pilot in the army air corps, as-
signed to an Anti-submarine
Wing. He has been ip the Atlan-
tic on active duty since March,
and has been brought back to
the United States and stationed
at Tucson, Ariz.
Col. Bailey graduated from
Paducah High School, and at-
tended Texas Tech at Lubbock
two years, before enlisting in the
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LARGE CROWD
AT METHODIST
HOME-COMING
A large crowH attended the
home-coming festivities at the
Methodist Church Wednesday
night, which was held to cele-
brate the paying off of the debt
of the educational building.
The Women’s Missionary So-
ciety served dinner to the crowd,
and Rev. John Crow acted as
master of ceremonies for the
program.
Rev. L. C. Hanks of Brown-
field, a former pastor of the lo-.
cal church, gave a talk and E. A.
Carlock gave the history of the
erection of the building and the
ensuing struggle to pay for it.
The program ended with the
burning of the old original notes
which had 50 to 60 names on
them.
RITES HELD
FOR FORMER
PADUCAH BOY
Funeral services for Second Lt.
Selwyn D. Johnson, 25, son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. “Doug” John-
son of Wichita Falls, were held
Wednesday afternoon from the
First Methodist Church in Wichi-
ta Falls with Dr. Paul E. Martin
and Rev. Earl Hoggard officiat-
ing. Burial was at Riverside in
Wichita Falls.
Pallbearers were Lt. Wallace
Clopton, Lt. A. E. Woodley, Lt.
Bob Gant, Lt. Jimmie Dougles,
Lt. Arthur Gartenberg and Lt.
Percy Coker.
Johnson was killed Monday in
the crash of a single-engine army
training plane near Love Field,
Dallas.
He attended grade school and
high school in Wichita Falls, and
graduated from Paducah High
School in 1935. Later he attend-
ed North Texas State Teachers
College in Denton and studied
law for a year at the University
of Texas. He began his flying
career under the civilian pilot
training program at Wichita
Falls.
Give 4-H Boy Award
At Lions Luncheon
Joe Don Brooks, son of Calvin
Brooks of Hackberry, and a mem-
ber of the 4-H Club, was award-
ed a certificate of merit for his
work as a War Emergency Cot-
ton Insect Pest Reporter, at the
Lions Club weekly luncheon
Thursday noon. The award was
presented by County Agent Grady
J. Lane. Reporters who made at
least seven of the nine reports
asked for were awarded the cer-
tificate by the state.
A visitor at the luncheon was
Capt. Vernon Parker, who an-
swered questions concerning con-
ditions in England and regarding
the bombing raids over the Euro-
pean continent.
Price Five Cents Per Copy
RATION BOOK
REGISTRATION
OCT. 22-23
Ration Book No. 4, a book of
living for all home front Ameri-
cans, will be issued alphabetically,
to some 4500 residents of Padu-
cah School District, and the eight
contract schools that send all
their children to Paducah schools
on Oct. 22 and 23rd.
Every effort will be made to
speed the registration process,
and there will be no tailoring
(removing a certain number of
coupons) as was done for some
holders of Book 2 to account for
excess food stocks.
Thirty-five teachers and ten
students will take the stream of
applicants that come for Book 4,
and the Paducah schools will be
dismissed for Friday, Oct. 22nd.
Every applicant must present
Book No. 3 before a new book
can be issued. The applicant must
sign a certification before the
registrar, and applicants may ap-
ply only for the family, related
by blood or marriage, living un-
der the same roof with them. Of
course, some exceptions will be
made to that ruling, in the case
of illness or physical incapacity.
In that event, the confined per-
son must write a letter identify-
ing the applicant applying for
his book.
Where And When to Register:
For Paducah and all the eight
contract schools (Dunlap, Brooks-
ville,. Coleyville, Ogden, -Swear-
ingen, Lone Star, Salt Creek and
Chalk) the applicants will regis-
ter at the Paducah High School
Building, and. the Goodwin Ele-
mentary Building on Oct. 22-23.
On Oct. 22nd, all persons with
surnames of A through K, will
register, while L through Z will
apply on Saturday, Oct. 23rd. If
the people will observe this sche-
dule, the school teachers and 10
students can efficiently register
the people during the two days.
CHAIRMENFOR
LOCAL DRIVE
NAMED
F. R. Shaw*, campaign chair-
man for Cottle County for the
forthcoming United War Chest of
Texas drive, at a meeting Mon-
day night appointed the following
officers: Pete Godfrey, treas-
urer; J. F. Powell, city chairman;
and G. J. Lane, rural chairman.
Plans were made to get the
campaign, which is a part of the
National War Fund drive, under-
way beginning Oct. 29th and' end-
ing on Nov. 6th. It was announc-
ed the county had been given a
quota of $3420, as its share of
the $4,885,781 assigned the whole
state. The National War Fund
goal is $125,000,000.
The United War Chest of Tex-
as is the sole fund-raising repre-
sentative of the National War
Fund, Inc., within the state. It
will serve the purpose of co-
ordinating in a single state-wide
program of the fund-raising ac-
tivities of the national war-re-
lated agencies. It will receive all
funds collected within the state
for transmittal to the national
agency, but will disburse only
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Receives German
Helmet From Sicily ✓
J. E. Norris last Saturday re-
ceived a German helmet from
Pfc. Aldo Self, who is in the
Field Artillery and now at a rest
camp in Sicily.
Pvt. Self has been in the army
two years, and has been in the
fighting in North Africa and
Sicily.
The helmet has a hole in the
side of it, just above the ear,
where a piece of shrapnel had
gone through it. The German’s
name in the helmet was Wag-
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