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’county ad valorem tax cut seven cents
THE PADUCAH POST
VOLUME XXXIV—NUMBER 18
PADUCAH, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1940
CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY ON
COLD STORAGE LOCKER PLANT
Construction was started' Mon-
day on a cold storage food locker
system in the H. H. Fish building
on North Main street. The Padu-
cah Food Locker Association, Inc.,
will operate the plant.
Two hundred individual lockers
will be installed immediately and
approximately a hundred will be
added later.
Floor plans call for a large
lobby, processing room, cooling
ktoom, aging room and space for
"a cream/''storage room to be added
later. Three rows of metal lock-
ers will be housed in a large cold
storage vault.
Henry Genty, Paducah con-
tractor, is in charge of construc-
tion. West Texas Utilities com-
pany will install the refrigeration
unit.
The plant will be ready for
operation by Sept. 1, according
to H. H. Fish, a director. Lockers
Three Civil Suits
Are Completed Here
Three civil suits were completed
in Fiftieth District court this
week.
Lorene Hughes was granted a
divorce from Dean Hughes and
given custody of the child. Thelma
Kinser was granted a divorce
from Lois Kinser. In the case of
J. C. Moore vs. D. M. Jones et
al, a suit to foreclose on_ lein,
judgement was given the plaintiff.
will rent for approximately $12
a year. Persons interested in se-
curing lockers may call at the
plant immediately and sign rental
contracts.
Personnel of the plant has not
been announced. There will be a
manager and possibly an assistant.
The co-operative was organized
last February with the assistance
of County Agent G. J. Lane. It
is incorporated with a capital
stock of $3,000. Directors are B.
H. Creamer of Chalk, B. L. Smith
of Ogden, L. C. Hanks of Salt
Creek, M. S. Wells of Coleyville,
V. R. Osborne of Valley View,
B. D. Garrison of Hackberry and
Mr. Fish of Paducah.
The firm purchased the Fish
building several months ago. _
HEAVY RAINS
ARE REPORTED
OVER COUNTY
Farmers Have Best Crop Pros-
pects in Ten Years Follow-
ing1 Wednesday Fall Which
Totaled 1.44 Inches in Pa-
ducah.
NEGRO FOUND
‘NOT GUILTY’
CLARENCE STEPHENS IS
ACQUITTED OF
MURDER
Clarence Stephens, 42-year-old
negro, charged with the fatal
stabbing of K. C. White, negro, in
a Paducah cafe on the night of
May 26, was acquitted by a jury
in Fiftieth District court here
early Wednesday. Stephens plead-
ed self-defense.
The jury retired Tuesday aft-
ernoon at 7 o’clock and remained
out all night, reaching a verdict
Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock.
White was stabbed to death at
the Blue Front cafe in northeast
Paducah following an argument
pver a card game. Stephens testi-
fied that he had acted in self-
defense. His counsel, V. H. Mc-
Clintock of Childress, used no wit-
2U6SS6S.
County Attorney Charlie Blount
and District Attorney Lewis Wil-
liams, representing the state, used
only one witness.
Brewer Attends
State Conference
Leads Singing
Volus Norsworthy of Ver-
non, above, is directing singing
at the revival meeting under
way at the First Baptist church.
Rev. C. Y. Dossey of Dallas is
preaching at the meeting which
will continue through Aug. 25.
Zane G. Brewer, Paducah high
school vocational agriculture tea-
cher, last week attended the an-
nual Texas State Vocational Ag-
riculture Teachers’ conference at
Bryan. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Brewer.
Farmers were principal speak-
ers at the session which was at-
tended by approximately 650 Tex-
as teacher’s. Representatives from
various farm agencies also dis-
cussed vital agricultural problems.
Mr. and Mrs. Brewer jspent
several days in Galveston and
Houston following the conference.
They returned to Paducah Mon-
day night.
KING COTTON
CHECKS ARRIVE
$12,086.44 INCLUDED
IN FIRST BATCH OF
PAYMENTS
G. J. WAGNER
DIES THURSDAY
BODY SENT TO CASPER,
WYO., FOR FINAL
RITES
GUTHRIE, Aug. 16—First
batches of 1940 cotton parity
checks were received here last
b week, approximately 30 days
" earlier than last year, according
" to Dale Carter, AAA administra-
tive assistant.
A total of 101 checks amount-
ing to $12,086.44 were in the
group. Producers were notified
immediately and most checks have
been distributed.
King county farmers usually re-
ceive their checks earlier than
other counties of the district be-
cause the county has a smaller
number of farms to be measured
for compliance with the farm
program.
, Eugene Worley To
Speak at Childress
Eugene Worley of Shamrock
will bring his runoff campaign
for the 18th district congressional
post to this section tonight when
Ire .will speak on the streets of
Childress.
Worley will speak to Donley
county old settlers at their Tate’s
Grove picnic near Hedley Friday
afternoon, then will go to Chil-
dress for his address.
G. J. Wagner, 81, died here
early Thursday morning at the
home of a daughter, Mrs. F. R.
Shaw.
The body was sent Thursday to
Casper, Wyo., for funeral ser-
vices and burial.
Mr. Wagner had lived with his
daughter since she came to Pa-
ducah about five years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaw went to
Casper for final rites.
Drunk Driver Is
Given Five Days
On a plea of guilty to a charge
of driving while intoxicated, F.
A. Tominson was fined1 $50 and
costs and given a five-day jail
sentence by Judge Isaac O. New-
ton in Fiftieth District court Wed-
nesday.
Tominson was arrested here
April 8.
Crosslin Is Head
Of Dumont Schools
TO GET DEGREE
C. W. Crosslin, former Chil-
dress county school superinten-
dent, was chosen last Friday as
superintendent of the Dumont
school in King county.
Mr. Crosslin formerly taught
at Garden Valley and Rivercamp;
schools in Childress county before
serving two terms as county
superintendent* j
CITY BUDGET
HEARING SET
1941 EXPENDITURES ARE
ESTIMATED AT
$39,790
A public hearing of Paducah’s
1941 city budget will be held at
the city hall next Monday, Aug.
19, City Secretary Odell Freeman,
announced today.
The budget, approved by tne-
city council Thursday night of last
week and placed on file in the
secretary’s office, calls for an in-
crease of $2,121.82.
Total expenditures called for in
the budget for next year are
$39,790.33. Estimated revenues
are $48,834.35, which with a
cash balance of $6,809.35, brings
the estimated total resources for
next year to $55,643.70.
Total resources for the 1939
budget were $44,477.86.
Expenditures in the new budget
are listed as follows: salaries,
$10,185; water and sewer depart-
ment, $1,870; fire department
$187; park department, $50; mis-
cellaneous,, $1,674.50; capital ex-
penditures, $3,755; refunds,
$600; interest on bonds, $14,-
808.80; principal on bonds, $3,-
110.06; swim pool, $635.74.
Local Negro Gets
Suspended Sentence
Jess Spencer, n e g r o, pleaded
guilty to a charge of felony theft
in Fiftieth District court Wednes-
day and was given a five-year
suspended sentence by Judge
Isaac O. Newton.
Spencer was charged with theft
of a billfold containing $115.
Former employe of a local garage,
he allegedly stole the billfold
from beneath the floor mat of a
ear belonging to H. E. White of
Coleyville which had been left at
the garage for repaii’S.
Aug. 22 Will Be
Achievement Day
Achievement Day for the sum-
mer project course in homemaking
will be held Thursday, Aug. 22,
in the homemaking department at
the high school, according to
announcement by Miss Lois Wren,
teacher.
All girls who took the sum-
mer course are urged to attend
and to invite their parents and
friends to be present, the instruc-
tor said.
Miss Wren will be in Paducah
Aug. 20 and students who have
problems may consult her at that
time.
CITY BOOKS AUDITED
Crops and ranges received
new life Wednesday morning
when rains, which fell over much
of the Southeastern Panhandle,
drenched most of Cottle county.
Rain began falling in Padu-
cah about 5:30 a. m. and con-
tinued throughout the morning.
Precipitation totaled 1.44 in the
city.
Every section of the county,
with exception of the Cee Vee
territory, reported excellent rains.
Falling slowly over a period
of approximately six hours, a
maximum amount of the rain was
retained by the soil. Many sec-
tions of the county had received
moisture earlier in the month, and
Paducah’s total rainfall for Aug-
ust rose to 3.12 inches.
Farmers were optimistic over
crop prospects today. Several said
they had the best cotton prospects
in ten years and expressed the
opinion that maize would make
good grain and early feed and!
sorghum would make plenty of
fodder.
The rain came as a climax to a
period of several days during
which cool weather had aided
crops.
$230,769,230 Per Ounce!
GUTHRIE, Aug. 16—Rains
ranging from a half inch to more
than an inch fell over most sec-
tions of King county Wednesday.
ENGINEER IS
STAKING
LINES
Actual staking of the Gate City
Electric Cooperative, Inc., lines
that will extend 274 miles into
four counties was unded way this
week, it was announced by J. B.
Morris Jr., superintendent. Most
prospective customers of the line
reside in Cottle and Childress
counties, Morris said.
“Since it will only be about
120 days until we will begin de-
livering power to farm homes in
the area served by the lines, it is
time for those who are to use the
power to begin thinking about
wiring their homes andl about
what electrical appliances they are
going to need and use/’ Morris
said.
“Prospective customers of the
lines should start now to study
the various appliances and learn
something as to their original cost,
and the amount of current they
will consume,” Morris said.
The West Texas Utilities com-
pany and the cooperative are
negotiating a contract that will
enable the cooperative to offer its
customers a minimum monthly
bill of $2.45 for 25 kilowatt hours
of electricity.
Group meetings are to be held
over the area served by the co-
operative to inform members as
to the necessity and advantages
of proper wiring.
FARMERS SIGN
APPLICATIONS
MEASUREMENTS SHEETS
BEING MAILED TO
PRODUCERS /
Ivan D. Allred of the J. B.
Allred company, Wichita Falls,
audited the city’s books Tuesday
and Wednesday, Aug. 13-14. The
auditor’s report will be made next
week.
PADUCAH BUILDING PERMITS
CONTINUE TO LAG BEHIND'39
Hugh C. Gray of Cee Vee will
receive a master’s degree at East
Texas State Teachers college in
Commerce at the summer com-
mencement exercises next Mon-
day night.
Paducah building permits con-
tinued' to lag far behind last
year during the first seven months
of 1940. Permits totaled only
$4,325 compared to approximately
$15,000 during the corresponding
period last year.
Largest permit was issued to
Drummond-Crump Lumber com-
pany for construction of a wash
and grease rack at the Texaco
Service station on Easley street
at a cost of $1,600. The permit
was issued March 20.
Second largest permit was is-
sued to Joe R. Meador for con-
struction of a" rock residence on
Twelfth street at a cost of $1,-
400. It was granted April 8.
Other permits were: S. L.
Flowers, residence, Moody and
Sixth streets, $150, Feb. 14; A.
C. McWilliams,, Laundry, Backus
street, $175, Feb. 15; Oscar Hall,
warehouse, Eleventh and-Brecken-
ridge streets, $150, March 30;
A. G. Flowers, residence, $200,
Birdy street, March 25; J. D.
Green, residence, $300, Sixth
street, June 10; Oscar Hall,
garage, $100, Tenth sti’eet, June
10; C. H. Brazier, garage apart-
ment, Richards street, $250, July
30
SLASHED FROM
$1.38 TO $1.31
FOR EACH $100
Reduction Made Possible by
State Participation in Pay-
ment of Road and Bridge
Bonds.
Between 1935 and 1940 federal expenditures have increased by $3,000,-
000,000, and the budget has gained 13 ounces in weight. This means that
every time the budget becomes an ounce heavier the spending increases,
on an average, by $230,769,230. The picture was prepared by the National
Small Business Men’s association with headquarters in Chicago.
NEGRO AXE-SLAYER
GETS 35-YEAR TERM
After two hours of deliberation, Monday night a jury in
Fiftieth District court found Tom Miller, negro, guilty of
murder and Judge Isaac O. Newton assessed a sentence of 35
years in the state penitentiary.
Miller, alias Willie Battles, alias Howard Bazzie, alias
Marble Eye, was charged with the axe-slaying of Dave Spencer,
60-year-old negro cotton picker, on a farm near Paducah Dec.
Cottle countians Monday
were handed a seven-cent re-
duction in the county ad va-
lorem tax which will total
$1.31 cents for each $100 of
assessed valuation for 1940-41.
The reduction was made pos-
sible by state participation in
payment of road and bridge
bonds.
The tax will be apportioned as
follows: jury fund, 9 cents;
general fund, 25 cents; public
building fundi, 7 cents; road and
bridge general fund, 10 cents;
road and bridge maintenance fund,
15 cents; Cottle county road and.
bridge funding fund, 5 cents;
1925 road and bridge sinking
fund, 5 cents; 1927 road and
bridge sinking fund, 31 cents;
court house sinking fund, 14
cents and public improvement
fund, 4 cents.
The reduction was the sr-
in as many years. The c
sioners couit lowered the
ad valorem valuation fr
to $1.38 last year.
Commissioners low
Hackberry school tax
90 cents to 75 cents,
ant Valley school ta.
mained at 50 cents,
for all other school «
the county remained at
NEW CITY
TRUCK I
HERE
15, 1939
Spencer’s body was found in
a cistern on a farm approximately
15 miles south of Paducah Dec.
16. His forehead had been crushed,
and his pockets turned out. Blood-
stains near the cistern and on an
axe handle led to (discovery of the
body.
The state, using six witnesses,
attempted! to prove that Miller was
near the scene of the crime, that
he had suggested to another negro
that the victim had some money
and that he was seen flourishing
a roll of money after the crime
had been committed. District At-
torney Lewis Williams and Coun-
ty Attorney Charlie Blount rep-
resented the state.
Defense Counsel Roy A. Jones
produced 'll witnesses from Roar-
ing Springs in an effort to prove
that Miller was working in Motley
county at the time of the crime
and could not have been in this
county. Ifa%!
Miller, an ex-convict, drew a
25-year sentence in Dallas last
month on a charge of robbery
with fire arms. He was arrested
in Floydada in early July and'
returned to Dallas.
VOTING BEGINS
Absentee voting in the Aug.
24 Democratic primary election
began Wednesday afternoon in
the office of County Clerk O. J.
Riley. Absentee voting was de-
layed because ballots could' not
be printed until candidates for
state office were certified by the
State Democratic committee.
MEET POSTPONED
DEATH CLAIMS
GEORGE OSBURN
FUNERAL SERVICES ARE
HELD THURSDAY
AFTERNOON
Cottle county farmers are call-
ing at the county agent’s office
in the courthouse and signing ap-
plications for cotton parity pay-
ments as soon as they receive
their measurement sheets, J. H.
Shows, AAA administrative as-
sistant, said today.
Only a few applications have
been completed, Shows said.
When AAA supervisors measure
various farms in the county,
measurement sheets are sent to the
county agent’s office. The meas-
urements are checked and record
sheets filled! out, showing the
number of acres planted to each
crop and the number of soil build-
ing units carried out. The ap-
plications are made out from this
sheet and farmers sign them be-
fore they are sent to Washington.
Farmers who have overplanted
allotments must destroy excess
acreage and have farms rechecked
before applications for payments
can be completed, Show said.
BRIGGS RE-ELECTED
W. C. Briggs of Paducah was
re-elected a member of the Repub-
lican State Executive committee
from the 30 th district at the
state GOP convention at Beaumont
f hie*
The state Democratic conven-
tion, originally scheduled to be
held at Mineral Wells Sept. 3,
has been postponed until Sept. '10.
Cottle county delegates are C. E.
Blount, C. R. Wood, Dawson
Reid, J. V. Payne and Roy A.
Jones/
George Thomas Osburn, 81,
died late Wednesday afternoon at
his home north of Paducah. Funer-
al services were held Thursday
afternoon from the First Baptist
church with Rev. Hal G. Verner
of Throekmorten officiating.
Mr. Osburn had been seriously
ill several weeks.
Survivors include the widow;
five daughters, Mrs. Dennis White
of McKinney, Mrs. Nell Powell of
Jackson, Miss., and Mrs. Roy Wall,
Mrs. Oscar Stanley and Mrs. R.
E. Spurgin, all of Cottle county;
three sons, V. R. Osburn of Cot-
tle county, Ernest Osburn of
Hereford and Slocum Osbum of
Seminole; two brothers and one
sister.
Paducahans Enlist^^
In Regular Army
Cleo R. Canon, Jack Grayum,
Lawrence N. Culpepper, Troy A.
Wilson, and David E. Haston, of
Paducah enlisted1 in the regular
army of the United States and
received their assignnments from
the Lubbock recruiting office.
They were assigned to stations as
follows: Canon, Grayum, Culpep-
per and Wilson, field artillery
Fort D. A. Russell, Texas. Haston,
medical department, Fort Bliss,
Texas.
Their enlistment helps make
183 to go through the Lubbock
Station the first 10 days of
August.
Paducah has one of the best
equipped fire departments in this
section following arrival Monday
of a new International fire truck.
The truck is a pumper with a
capacity of 500 gallons a minute.
It carries a 200-gallon, booster
tank and a hundred feet of ineh-
and-a-half hose. The truck was
bought through Pack Parnell for
$3,750.
Fireman tested and approved
the truck Tuesday afternoon.
The Fadueah Voluntary Fire
Department now has two 500-gal-
lon pumpers and a chemical
truck.
Roaring Springs
Man Is Killed
MATADOR, Aug. 16—Fred C.
King, 51, pioneer of Motley coun-
ty and Roaring Springs, agent for
the Sinclair Refining company,
was found in a dying condition at
12:45 o’clock Wednesday after-
noon by C. H. Lodal, Sinclair
agent at Crosbyton, who stopped
by the Roaring Springs warehouse
and' found the wounded man. Dr.
J. F. Hughes was summoned but
King died within 20 minutes after
his arrival without gaining con-
sciousness.
At an inquest before Justice
of the Peace J. D. Mitchell a
verdict was rendered of death by
self-inflicted gunshot. A sealed
letter was found in the pocket of
his gasoline (delivery track.
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INSURANCE
DEADLINE SET
COTTLE COUNTY WHEAT
PRODUCERS URGED
TO APPLY
ELECTRIFICATION COOPERATIVE
GIVEN USE OF COTTLE ROADS
The Cottle county commission-
ers court, in regular session Mon-
day, granted the Gate City Rural
Electrification co-operative of
Childress the right to construct
rural electrification lines along
roads in Cottle county.
The Childress co-operative last
week awarded) a contract to
Richard's and Mullinix of Okla-
homa City for construction, of
a 274-mile rural, electric line
in Cottle, Childress, Hardeman
and Hall counties.
Commissioners also voted to use
money received from the State
Board of County and District
Road Indebtedness at Austin in
improving and maintaining lateral
roads. Cottle received $20,608.26
as its portion of a $9,000,000
surplus accumulated from the
state gasoline tax.
M. L. Allison’s bond1 for $2,-
500 as public weigher was ap-
proved.
Current bills were approved and
ordered paid, including Mrs. Wylie
Ellis $133 for feeding prisoners,
Drs. J. J. and C. C. Pate $242.25
for services and hospitalization,
Wood Brothers grocery $117.33
for groceries given needy families,
Piggly Wiggly $15 for groceries
given needy families.
Attending the session were
Judge L. D. Gibson and' Commis-
sioners Dallas Love, O. C. Biddy,
C. N. Willingham and John H.
Davis Jr. , i
Cottle county wheat farmers
intending to take out all-risk in-
surance on their 1941 crops must
d'o so either before they seed
their wheat or by Aug. 31, which-
ever is earlier, J. H. Shows, AAA
administrative assistant, announc-
ed today.
Eighty-one county producers
took out wheat insurance last
year, but only nine have made ap-
plications thus far this year,
Shows said.
Anticipating a last-minute rush
to sign up for the crop insurance,
jE. R. Duke, state crop insurance
supervisor with headquarters at
Amarillo, warned that absolutely
no extension could be made of
the Aug. 31 deadline, a month
earlier than the deadline for the
1940 program.
Farmers may take out the in-
surance without a cash payment.
They will be allowed to borrow
money on next year’s check for
this purpose.
School Board To *
Fix Bus Schedules
The Cottle county school board
will meet Monday afternoon, Aug.
26, in the office of County
Superintendent Beatrix Cobb.
Routes for school buses ddring
the 1940-41 term will be schedul-
ed' at the session which will begin
at 1:30 p. m.
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