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THE PADUCAH POST
VOLUME XXXIV--NUMBER 20
PADUCAH, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COTTLE'S FIRST 1940 BALE IS GINNED SATURDAY
REGISTRATION
OF ALIENS IS
IN PROGRESS
All Non-Citizens Must Register
at Postoffice; Few, if Any,
Are Believed To Live In
Cottle County.
Registration of all aliens in the
United States got under way last
Tuesday morning, but Postmaster
B. F. Hobson said that so far as
he had determined, there is none
Cottle county.
^’Congress recently enacted a law
requiring all non-citizens to regis-
ter and be fingerprinted between
Aug. 27 and Dec. 26. Hobson
said that since the period of
registration continues until late
December, a number of Mexican
cotton-pickers, who are not Uni-
ted States citizens, probably will
register here dhnng the cotton-
picking season. .
The purpose of the law is not
to embarrass the aliens, but to
determine how many, who and
where the alien residents are.
The registration records will be
confidential, and stiff penalties are
provided for aliens who do not
register.
Registration blanks will be
available at the postoffice heie
for any aliens who might live m
this county, Hobson said.
Paul Eubank, youthful school teacher from Motley county,
won the 121st district state representative post in Saturday’s
primary election.
Polling 4,932 votes in Cottle, Motley, Childress and Hall
counties, Eubank led his opponent, E. E. Walker of Hall coun-
ty, by 400 votes. Walker, a Memphis insurance man, received
4,532 votes.
Eubank led Motley and Chil-
dress counties, and Walker set the
pace in Hall and Cottle counties.
The vote was closest in Cottle
county, however, where Walker
held only a 13-vote lead.
Eubank and Walker entered
the runoff from an original field
of three candidates. Stansell Cle-
ment, Childress county judge, was
eliminated in the first primary.
The nominee is a graduate
of Texas Tech at Lubbock and h;
taught school in Wilbarger and
Motley counties for the past
several years. He will succeed Al-
len Harp, who resigned to make
an unsuccessful race for congress.
The vote by counties:
County Eubank Walker
Cottle 1,068 1,081
Childless 1,710 1,475
Hall 1,305 1,616
Motley 849 - 360
Red Fork Baptist
Association To Meet
I GIVE YOU
PADUCAH
By Ed Fyke
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4
”a
Texas House of Representa-
tives Will Have Approxi-
mately 90 New Members;
Senate Will have 16 New
Faces.
Local firemen haven’t decided
whether they will attend the next
convention of the Panhandle Fiie-
men’s association which will be
held at Dai hart Sept. 10. A Pa-
ducah delegation usually attends
he semi-annual convention but,
khief W. H. Petty says 200 miles
a long way to drive for a one-
ay session.
* * *
E. T. Evfans Jr., former
|Paducahan who is teaching at
Phillips, Texas, is visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. T.
Evans, in Cottle county. He has
been doing graduate work at
Boulder, Colo., this summer and
is spending a few days at^ home
before returning to Phillips.
* * *
A picture of Cyril Holden, Lyhn
Futch, King county 4-H club
boys, and King County Agent R.
O. Dunkle appeared in Tuesday’s
Semi-Weekly Farm News. The
boys are from the Finney com-
munity of King county and won
first place at A. & M. Short
Course and at the district 4-H
club camp in Hardeman county
Aug. 15-17. Their demonstration
was a review of results obtained
in a feeding experiment conduct-
ed on the Finney school grounds
from Sept. 25, 1939, to Jan. 13,
1940. Nine 4-H club boys built
pens, kept feed records and fed;
and cared for the pigs under the
supervision of A. B. Mosley, adult
leader, and Mr. Dunkle. The ob-
ject was to obtain visual results
of the utilization of farm feeds
in farm pork production.
sic * *
Paul Eubank of Matador,
youthful school teacher who will
represent this district in the
state house of representatives for
the next two years, spent Mon-
day in Paducah thanking vot-
for their support in Satur-
day’s primary. Paul said he’s
been invited along with other
Panhandle representatives in
Congress and the Texas legisla-
ture to pome to a “party”
in Amarillo during the Tri-State
Fair. Guests of the party will
be Congressman-elect Gene
Worley of Shamrock, Senator-
elect Grady Hazelwood of Ama-
rillo and State Representatives
Richard Craig of Miami, Ennis
Favors of Pampa, Tom Deen
of Floydada, Jack Little of Am-
arillo and Eubank. Marvin
Jones, the retiring congress-
man, telegraphed from Wash-
ington recently that he was ac-
cepting an invitation to attend.
There will be no guest lists, and
all residents of the Panhandle
have been invited to attend
and meet these representatives.
Residents Asked To
Keep Chickens In
The Red Fork association of
Baptist churches, comprising 29
churches in Hardeman, Childress,
Cottle and King counties, will
meet Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept. 4-5, at the First Baptist
church in Paducah.
Three outstanding speakers
who will discuss denominational
work, are Dr. Bruner of Dallas,
Dr. White, president of Hardin-
Simmons university, an,d Perry
Evans from the .Baptist orphan
home.
Meals will be served at -the
church Wednesday noon and eve-
ning and Thursday noon.
Franklin E. Swanner, associa-
tion moderator, will preside at all
sessions.
THREEHURT
NEAR GUTHRIE
Three persons were injured
Monday afternoon when a Ford
sedan overturned three times about
eight miles north of Guthrie on
U. S. Highway 83.
Injured were Mr. and Mrs. G.
B. Myers of Russelville, Ark., and
R. B. Rutledge of Lubbock, who
had secured a ride in the car
through a Lubbock travel bureau.
They did not know the name of
the youthful driver, who escaped
injury, and accompanied the car
back to Guthrie.
The injured1 persons were rush-
ed to Paducah for medical _ aid.
Myers received a shoulder injury,
Mrs. Myers sustainedi a wrenched
back and facial bruises and Rut-
ledge suffered lacerations on his
right leg, left arm and face.
Mr. and Mrs. Myers had been
visiting a son at Wolford1, near
Lubbock, and were enroute to
their Arkansas home. The son
came to Paducah and returned
them to his home. Rutledge con-
tinued on his way to Eastern
Arkansas where, he said he had
employment.
The accident occurred when, the
car struck a soft shoulder after
passing a grader on the unpaved
highway.
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Christian
are vacationing in Corpus Christi
PAUL EUBANK
SOIL DISTRICT
PLANS MAPPED
WILL EMBRACE 1,500
ACRES IN FINNEY
COMMUNITY
GUTHRIE, Aug. 30^P Ians
\ : establishment of a soil con-
servation district in King county
embracing 1,500 acrep owned
by the Starr Land company in
the Finney community, were re-
vealed here today by County
Agent R. O. Dunkle.
J. C. Hickerson, junior soil
surveyor of the soil conservation
service of Abilene, assisted Dun-
kle in drafting plans for the dis-
trict.
The Land Use Planning com-
mittee and the soil conservation
service will make a study of the
soil, amount of erosion and slope
to determine its best use and
method of treatment. The con-
struction of terraces will be the
first major activity, which will
start after crops are harvested.
Schools To Observe
Three Hoi i d a ys
Three holidays will be observed by
Cottle county schools before Jan. 1,
1941, according to announcement
by Miss Beatrix Cobb, county su-
perintendent, following a meet-
ing of the county school board
Monday afternoon.
One day will be given Nov. 11
and only one day will be allowed
Thanksgiving where teachers do
not attend the state teachers as-
sociation meeting. Three days will
be given in schools where teachers
attend the meeting.
Christmas holidays will begin
Dec. 21 and continue to Dec. 30.
REA MEETING
DALLAS, Aug. 30—Texans
chose Olin E. Culberson of Edna
as a member of the railroad com-
mission and James P. Alexander
of Waco as chief justice of the
supreme court in last Satur-
day’s Democratic runoff. In ad-
dition they finished turning out
of office an unusually large per-
centage of their state legislators.
Final tabulation by the Texas
election bureau gave Culberson,
former gas utilities supervisor for
the commission, 458,061 votes to
410,656 for Pierce Brooks of Dal-
las, second high man in the July
primary.
Alexander had 438,893 votes
against 399,050 for Hal S. Latti-
more of Fort Worth.
The election bureau said it
would make no additional compila-
tions. It estimated less than 20,-
000 votes were missing.
It was Brooks’ third defeat in
as many tries for state office.
Once he was defeated1! for gover-
nor and once for lieutenant-gover-
nor. He told newspapermen he did
not intend to seek office again.
In a telegram to Culberson, he
promised his “full cooperation as
a citizen.”
Culberson was head of the gas
utilties division when Railroad
Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson
and C. V. Terrell constituted a
majority of the commission. He
was discharged from commission
employ by Commissioner Jerry
Sadler and retiring Commissioner
Lon Smith.
Reports indicated the state
house of representatives would
contain approximately 90 new
members of a total of 150, and
the 31-man senate would include
16 new members.
Senators apparently defeated in
runoffs were the veteran Will D.
Pace of Tyler; M,orris Roberts of
Pettus, chairman of the finance
committee; Gordon Burns of
Huntsville and J. Manley Heard
of Stephenville. Among the house
victims was W. E. “Uncle Elmer”
Pope of Corpus Christi, who be-
gan his legislative career about
25 years ago.
Only two of the Texas 21 na-
tional house positions were at
stake in , the runoff, 19 incum-
bents having bedn renominated in
J uly.
Representative Clyde Garrett of
Eastland, who had ousted Thomas
L. Blanton four years ago, was
himself beaten by District Judge
S a m Russell of Stephenville.
Complete unofficial returns to the
Texas bureau gave Russell 27,584
votes to 24,495 for Garrett.
Eugene Worley, young state
representative from Shamrock,
was chosen for the congressional
post to be relinquished by Marvin
Jones of Amarillo, chairman of
the house agriculture committee.
Returns from all 28 of the dis-
trict’s counties, gave Worley 30,-
111 votes against 22,596 for Des-
kins Wells, Wellington news-
paperman.
EUGENE WORLEY
J. B. Morris Jr., engineer for
the Gate City Rural Electrifica-
tion co-operative, will discuss wir-
ing problems at a meeting in the
Chalk school Friday night at 8
o’clock.
City Marshal Bill Stinson this
week asked residents of the city
to keep their chickens in fenced
yards or in coops so they cannot
destroy flower and vegetable gar-
dens.
^ “We have received a number of
■mplaints about chickens and I
^ant to ask the owners to keep
them up in accordance with city
ordinances,” the marshal said.
MRS. M’ARTHUR NOMINATED
COUNTY AND DISTRICT CLERK
__/
Mrs. C. C. McArthur won the
nomination for county and dis-
trict clerk in Saturday’s primary
Mrs. McArthur defeated Gus
Harper by 500 votes, carrying 14
of the county’s 16 voting precincts.
Harper led the ticket at Chalk and
Ogden. Final tabulations gave
Mrs. McArthur 1,339 votes and
Harper 839.
Mrs. McArthur and Harper en-
tered the runoff from an original
field of four. W. A. Bishop and
R. B. Merrill trailed in that or-
der in the first primary.
Harper is the present district
clerk and was an unopposed can-
didate for re-eelction until the
1940 census revealed that Cottle
county’s population had fallen un-
der 8,000 and the officei’s of
courty and district clerk were
automatically combined.
Mrs. McArthur was defeated in
the county’s clerk’s; r a c e two
years ago by O. J. Riley. Riley
was nominated county judge ir.
the first primary this year. MRS. C. C. McARTHUR
ENROLLMENT
OPENS SEPT. 5
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
REGISTER THURSDAY,
FRIDAY
CONGRESSMAN-ELECT
WILL VISIT PADUCAH
Eugent Worley, who piled up a surprising lead of ap-
proximately 7,500 votes over Deskins Wells of Wellington to
win the Democratic nomination for Congress in the 18th dis-
trict, left Monday for an undisclosed destination to recuperate
from an infected foot and get a few days rest before making
a swing over the 28-county district to thank voters for their
support in Saturday’s run-off primary.
The Shamrock attorney, who
has spent six years in the Texas
house of representatives, carried
22 of the district’s 28 countie
polling 30,359 votes to 22,845 for
Wells. Wells carried only Collings-
worth, Briscoe, Castro, Deaf
Smith, Parmer and Sherman
counties. He polled his big vote
in his home county, Collingsworth,
receiving 2,289 there toi Worley’s
571. In Wheeler county, Worley’s
home, the winner received 2,169
and Wells got 1,069.
Cottle county swung its support
to Worley by the surprising ratio
of two-to-one. Worley polled 1,-
418 votes to 731 for Wells.
Worley and Wells entered the
congressional run-off from an
original field of a dozen candi-
dates after Jones, holder of the
office more than a score of years,
resigned to accept an appointment
to the United States Court of
Claims. Youth of the Panhandle
rallied to the support of 31-year-
old Worley, forming “Mr. Worley
Goes to Washington” clubs in
their spirited assistance.
“The credit is due my friends,
not myself,” Worley declared. “It
took the united efforts of hun-
dreds and hundreds of loyal sup-
porters all over the district to put
me over and I want them to know
I shall always remember their
kindness. I wish to compliment
my opponent and his supporters
on the clean, high-type campaign
they conducted and say to them
that I hold! nothing but the kind-
est feeling for them all.”
The congressional nominee
thanked persons who have called
and written saying he would
answer all correspondence im-
mediately on his return from a
short rest. The long strenuous
days of, the run-off campaign
left him in need of rest and
on the advice of physicians he
decided to take a few days off,
before making his “thank you”
tour of the large district. Worley
plans to make a speaking itinerary
which will carry him into each,
county early in September.
He has issued' the following
statement to the voters of the
18th district:
‘To say that I am grateful to
the people of Cottle county for
their loyal support would be put-
ting it mildly. I shall devote my
full time from now until Congress
convenes in thoroghly familiariz-
ing myself with all pending legis-
lation. I also plan a trip over
the entire district before January
and will appreciate the people
calling my attention to any local
problems which they might have.
In short, I hope to be of any
possible service to the people of
this district and want, more than
anything, their full and complete
cooperation because the hardest
part of being a good Congress-
man is yet to come.
“Our mutual friend, Marvin
Jones, has offered his complete
cooperation and my other friends
in Congress with whom I served
in the Legislature have pledged
their assistance in any way pos-
sible.
“With the help of all the peo-
ple, together with the Divine
Guidance all of us constantly re-
quire, I will do my utmost for
all the people and all the people
alike.”
COTTON WILL
BE PLACED IN
FEDERAL LOAN
W. J. Cobb Picks First Bale
on Farm Six Miles Southeast
of Paducah; Cotton Classes
as Middling %.
COTTLE BACKS
GENE WORLEY
WALKER, BROOKS AND
ALEXANDER LEAD
IN COUNTY
Cottle county voters joined
their fellows over the '18th con-
gressional district in heavily sup-
porting Eugene Worley for con-
gress.
The Sham.ro ck'attorney polled 1„-
418 votes in the county, winning all
but two boxes, Chalk and Valley
View. Deskins Wells, Wellington
newspaper publisher, received 731
votes.
Neither E. E. Walker of Mem-
phis or Paul Eubank of Matador
could gain a substantial lead in
this county. Walker nosed out
Eubank by 13 votes, polling 1,081
votes to 1,068.
The county swung its support
to Pierce Brooks for railroad
commissioner. Brooks received 1,-
152 votes and Olin Culberson
trailed with 964 votes.
James P. Alexander led the
ticket for chief justice of the su-
preme court polling 1,017 votes
to 915 for H. S. Lattimore.
Complete results in district and
state races follow:
Congress, 18th District
Worley ................................ 1,418
Wells ....................-..... 731
Railroad Commissioner
Culberson ................................ 964
Brooks ................................ 1,152
Chief Justice, Supreme Court
Alexander ^........................... 1,017
Lattimore *.......................-....... 915
State Representative
Eubank ................................ 1,068
Walker ..............................- 1,081
Teachers’ Parley
Set for - Sept. 14
Cottle county’s first bale of
1940 cotton, grown by W.
Cobb about six miles southeast of
Paducah, was ginned by the
Majors Gin company here last
Saturday, Aug. 24.
The bale was two days later
than the first 1939 bale, which
was grown by A. O. Bennett
eight miles southeast of Paducah
and1 ginned by the Majors Gin
company Aug. 22.
Cobb picked over about 20
acres of cotton to get the first
bale, which weighed 422 pounds
and was classed as middling 7|8.
The cotton was planted April 24
and was badly burned during the
summer, but was saved by August
rains and is expected to make
a heavy yield.
The bale had not been sold
Thursday" and probably will be
placed in government loan.
Cottle county’s first 1938 bale
was grown by R. Nixon and gin-
ned Aug. 29, arid the first 1937
bale wais grown by Louis Detwiler
and ginned Aug. 18.
Bridge Condemned
By County Board
The North Pease river bridge
on the Cee Vee road was* con-
demned for school bus travel by
the school board at a meeting
Monday afternoon.
Until the bridge is repaired,
children must leave the bus and
walk to the other side of the
river. The bus will cross with only
the driver in it and pick up the
children again, according to Miss
Beatrix Cobb, county superinten-
dent.
FUTURE TEXAS
GOVERNOR HERE
SELLING MAGAZINES
WORK WAY INTO
OFFICE
TO
Supt. J. D. Wilson today re-
minded high school students that
they would register for the 1940-
41 term Thursday and Friday,
Sept. 5 and 6, and said classes
would begin Monday morning,
Sept. 9.
'Students will be enrolled as
follows: seniors, Thursday morn-
ing • from 9 until 12; juniors,
Thursday afternoon from 1 until
4; sophomores, Friday morning
from 9 until 12; freshmen, Fri-
day afternoon from 1 until 4.
Text books will be issued as
students register.
Approximately 375 students are
expected! to *be enrolled in the
senior high school. Total city
school enrollment will probably
pass the 1,000 mark.
Revival Underway
At Valley View
A Baptist revival meeting was
started last Friday night at the
Valley View church, according to
announcement by Rev. R. L.
Shannon, pastor.
Rev. J. W. Bradshaw of Good-
let is preaching and J. K. Sullivan
of Paducah is leading song ser-
vices.
Loan Association
Meeting Slated
Members of the Paducah Na-
tional Farm Loan association will
hold their annual meeting Sept.
7 at the American Legion hut, it
was announced today by W. O.
Jones, secretary-treasurer.
The meeting will provide mem-
bers with an opportunity to elect
directors for the cooperative or-
ganization through which farmers
obtain long-term lanid mortgage
loans from Thie Federal Land
bank of Houston.
A program is being arranged
for the meeting, which opens at
9 a. m.
Presidihg will be C.' M. Grayum,
president of the association. Other
members of the board are W. P.
Garrison, D. C. Brewster, Lennis
Smith and W. H. Brooks.
Lunch will be served.
LIONS TO MEET
The first conference of Cottle
county teachers will Jbe held Sept.
14 at the Paducah high school, it
was decided by the county school
board in session Monday after-
noon in the office of County Su-
perintendent Beatrix Cobb.
The conference will be divided
into three parts, reading, music
and art and a general assembly.
Anthony Hunt, deputy state su-
perintendent, will address the
group.
Miss Lois Wren, who taught in
the Paducah high school last year,
was here last week to conclude
a summer project course in ht>me-
making. Miss Wren will teach in
Floydada in 1940-41.
A San Antonio youth had his
own choice in picking a theme
subject for one of his high school
assignments in 1933, so he select-
ed for his title, “My Ambition, To
Be Governor of Texas in 1952,”
and proceeded to air his views on
the idea.
Now 1952 is still a long way
off but not nearly so far away
as it was when this San Antonio
youth expressed his desire in a.
theme, and he’s been campaigning
row for seven years with only
12 more to go.
The campaign is not an oc-
casional outburst just to secure
publicity, but it is a 365 days a
year, card passing, hand shaking
routine. Some people only smile
when this now 28-year-old Uni-
versity of Texas law student
brings his candidacy to them, but
it’s far from a laughing matter
with soft-spoken George “Make
My Last Name Rhyme With
Cherrio” Theriot.
Theriot arrived in Paducah
Thursday, his fifth, visit here in
recent years, to distribute a few
more cards, pump a few more
hands and on the side sell maga-
zine subscriptions.
The magazine hawking business
has a combined purpose. It gives
Theriot a chance to meet the pub-
lic right at the front door, and it
provides him with enough money
to attend law school.
And if this San Antonion can
sell his political wares to the
people of Texas as well as he
does his magazines, the other
future hopefuls had better ar-
range their candidacy for the
governorship to flail in another
(Continued on Last Page)
The Paducah Lions club, after
dismissing for August, will resume
nts regular weekly luncheons next
Thursday. Luncheons are held at
the Cottle hotel.
Post Want Ads Get Results.
MORRIS, TOWNLEY NOMINATED
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Cottle county voters selected
two commissioners in Saturday’s
primary. Nath S. Morris won the
nomination in precinct 1 and R.
M. (Marvin) • Townley in precinct
2. ,
Morns received 385 votes com-
pared to 360 for his opponent,
Ned S. Galloway; and Townley
polled 409 votes compared to 387
for his opponent, Oscar L. Stokes.
Morris and Galloway entered
the second primary from an
original field of three. C. C.
(Cliff) Hill was eliminated in the
first primary.
Townley and S t o k e s battled
their way into the runoff out of
a field of six. Defeated in the
first primary were G. I. Lee, L.
A. Detwiler, J. E. Rodgers and
G. H. Brownlow.
Morris will replace John H.
Davis Jr., who retired from office
to make an unsuccessful race for
county judge. Townley will fill
the vacancy left by retirement of
O. C. Biddy.
Dallas Love, unopposed as com-
missioner of precinct 4, and C. N.
Willingham, with, two opponents
for commissioner of precinct 3,
were re-elected in the first pri-
mary.
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