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GRAHAM. TEXAS. TUESDAY, AUGU8T 6, 1985.
NUMBER 2*8.
“i Riim FRS FORCFII
Supt A. M. Tate
1 Eight-Day Racing,
BAPTIST I HlIRf H fill 1 TH Ml 1 ITT IN fill 1
STATEand
NATIONAL
NEWS
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At a Glance
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TO FORFEIT GAME
TO LEGIONNAIRES
LIONS AND GINNERS ARE
SLATED TO MEET
TONIGHT
Coca-Cola Bottlers failed to have
a full team to send against Leg-
ionnaires Monday night and although
j their pickup ten defeated the Legion
ex-1 men. City League regulations pro-
fche veterans from acknow-
Although some Republicans
pressed willingness to cooperate j Mbit
with tax bill proponents in order to , I edging the defeat and allowing the of the school with Mrs. L. E. Cates,
Resigns To Take
Benjamin Post
A. M. Tate, superintendent of the
South Bend school, Monday announc-
ed hts resignation to accept the
same position with the Benjamin
High School in Knox County.
Mr. Tate has been superintendent
of the South Bend school for fou'
yea is and during that time attended
summer school to complete his mas-
ter’s degree.
Succeeding Mr. and Mrs. Tate
will be Mr. and Mrs. Alton Thomp-
son of the Eliasvtille school. Mr
Klingman has been elected principal
Grandstand Roof
To Be Considered
adjourn sooner, a bitter fight is
anticipated in the upper house. Sen-
ate talk of numerous amendments
Bottlers to claim the win.
The 10 to 9 game was won in th*
first of the ninth when the Bottlers
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to broaden the bill and hike the in- put across the deciding run and shut
out the Legion nv\n in their half of <
the last inning.
Included in the men picked up to
fill out the Bottlers’ team was a
shortstop from Breckinridge^ Taibor
by name, who stole the sffifw. The
visiting short knocked out .600 and
in the words of several fans Has
the speed of Epperson and swing of
lOromer and several others in the
league.
Tonight’s game will be between
come is likely to delay completion
of the session work.
Nicholas Politis, Greek statesman.
Max Huber of Switzerland, former
president of the World Court: and
Dr. K. H. L. Hammairskjold. jurist
and former premier of Sweden have
been suggested as three members of
the I talc-Ethiopian conciliation com-
mission. The Ethiopians are also
eooaidering an Italian suggestion
that the commission meet at Venice, I Ginners and the L:ons club. Lions
but prefer a neutral city. I will be fighting tonight to work
- * | back up into the first four posi-
Regret that a cartoon of Japan’s jjionz after having lost rather con-
emperor had been misunderstood j sistently of late. The Ginners go
was expreseed Monday by the State into tonight’s game with eleven wins
Department in formal action on Ja-
pan's protest that a cartoon should
he drawn of Emp-ror Hirchito draw-
ing * rickasha. Secretary of State
reminded Ambassador Hirosi Saito
and four losses against the Lions’
six wins and nine losses.
Following are the teams’ standing
in the league to date: Ginners,
11 wins, 4 losses: Phillips, TO. 5;
that the publisher of Vanity Fair. Good Eats, 9, 6: Newman, 8,7;
had denied that the caricature was T/ons, 6, 9; Shamrock. 6, 9; Coca-
meant to he offensive. Divergent Cola. 6, 10; Legion, 4. 12.
ideas of humor was given by Am- ■-o - ■
bassador Sato as contributing tb Hcild
the unfortunate incident.
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Trank Hitchcock. 67. publisher of
Tuscon Daily Citizen and Post-
,1 master General under President Taft,
died of pneumonia Monday. Mr.
Mrs. Pauline Castles and Mrs. Ruby
Feye Dennis re-elected teachers.
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Graham Boy Gets
To State Finals
In F. F. A. Contest
Paul Deats, Jr., Graham F.F.A.
chapiter’s entry in the state pub-
lic speaking contest at Huntsville,
today entered the finals of the state
meet.
According to word received
from Huntsville, more than 500 boys
in 30 districts in Texas are en-
tered in the public speaking, de-
bating and chapter conducting.
Winner of first place in each
event will hie given a free trip to
the southern states convention, lo-
cation of which will be somewhere
in the. Southeast, 0, R. Rose, vo-j
rational agriculture instructor, says |
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Graham Boy Scout
Assistant leader
For Capital Trip;
An eight-day racing program, roof
for the grandstand, premium lists,
and concessions will be considered
at 1 o’clock this afternoon when Rains Cause Drop
Of Five Million
AFTER SURPRISE SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE; SUNDAY
SCHOOL DEPT. GETS $2.70 OF $32 COLLECTED
fair association officials nfeet to
draft plans for the anual exposition.
The eight-day racing and grand-
stand improvement project will make
possible the most successful me«t
ever held in Graham and because
of the date this year will draw
entries from several large tracks,
advocates point out.
The fair will be held October 1 to
■> inclusive, G. O. Oozart, president,
announced recently.
Gallons Last Month
Spring and early summer rains
that made the corn crop, caused
gardens and lawns to become a seed
catalog green and delayed har-
vesting reflected unfavorably on the
Water Department books for July
MONEY SOLICITED HERB
WITHOUT CONSENT
OF CHURCH
Spencer Mayes, Baptist Sunday
School superintendent, and others
in his department uncovered Sunday
that they believe to be a profiteer-
ing scheme to which many Grab am
business men contributed July 26
and 27 with the belief that their
Young: Countians
Plan Attendance |“» 12.6S8.000 ta.iom.
At Sctrool Meeting£ 1
. heat month from point of volume
County school trustees, teachers, of wat<n. ll8ed Graham con sum-
superintendents »nd others interest-, „„ dr.ined ^ Eddlemar. of 26.-
*i in th* Mate’s educational pro- ; 590 000 th>t month
g>am will accompany Mias Fannie . The drouth 1>8t vear #nd p|fnlif|))
Ragland to W.ichita Fall* tomor- . j 19*5 ia thf. main f^or. in
ri’onsuniption of city water dropped * . _
off »v. contribution would go to the Bap-
off more than five million gallon- .. , „ . _ , , 1
j . r i .. . tist Sunday School,
during July. The 193f f gurr foi ' 0 .
last month was the lowest sine T'Xk
H«2. when July total dtopped ' n° ^ ^
■ scnption campaign waged m Graham
last month until $2.70 in, cash and
the names of Graham persons who
subscribed wire received Sunday.
In brief, a couple enlisted Graham
help in soliciting subscription* to
a nationally-known magazine. For
one dollar the “victim” could get
the magazine for four years and
row for an all-day meeting at the j varying coneumption of nteri Mr **? Bkptiat Sunday School.
Tackett, c'lty engineer explained.
Junior Chile ge,
The meeting was called to
cure attendance from throughout j IS-6r>8.noo ' aa.ainrt G.97»W in Juiv
the North Texas district and to nf
discuss problems such as transpor- _____ 0_____
tat ion, tuition and standardization ,
that trustees and their school staffs j ATTEND FUNERAL
must face annually.
A luncheon will he served dur-
ing the noon hour by the Chamber
of Commerce.
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Twenty-six subscriptions were thus
th. • i . . . i ... secured. In addition, a cash col-
The July total for this year wa* ,_.. , ,
„,D „„„ ____ . . lection was made from those who
| did not want the magazine.
Of that amount. $32 in all, the
• Graham church received $2.70, not
even half of the cash donations, Mr.
Mayes pointed out. It remains to
To Discuss Units
In Graham Schools
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^ Hitchcock inaugurated postal savings
Mayor, Engineer
Confer Today With
P. W. A. Officials
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Mayor .1. J. Gallaher and J. P.
Mrs W. N. Vanble. supervisor of
the Graham school cafeterias, will
speak before Lions tomorrow noon
hanks, parcel post and air mail. on ^ higtory of th? cafeteria move-
The publisher was also chairman of mPn, and opeTati<>n ^ the ^ unit*
the Republican National Committee (o ^ insU,)ed in the Graham
and directed the campaign that won ^
TMft his election. | yr8 \arble has been working on
plans fitr the fall opening of the
, . _ ., cafeterias and after inspection of
ed or drowned Monday m South j ^ modprn schoo, plant!( jn this
China when the worst typhoon - ill
years struck Ohuanchow. A second
storm was said to have been appro-
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"R. G. Miller. Graham Boy Scout I
to join other boys of this area in a | Tack.ftt. city engineer, are in Fort
trip to Warh’ngton the latter part! TV.jrt.h tixla.v for conference with P
of this month, was .named this week | W. A. officials over possible con-
to be assistant scoutmaster of' the'l stiuction of a new city hall or im-
Tnose from Graham who attended j be seen whether the subscribers
the funeral of IR. L. “Pete" Ran- get the reputable publication,
dolph in Wichita Falls Sunday af-
ternoon were Mrs. J. C. iCkmburn.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Casburn, and
l laughter, Joyce, and son. Johnnie,
j Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sterling, Claud
I Oasburn and Frank Sterling.
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Mrs. Kilpatrick
First To Petition
- Absentee Ballot
Seven hundred were reported kill-
(Centinued on back page!
I cafeterias and
| other modern school plants
sren has combined the better points
j rf "neb to use in Graham.
I Roy Thompson, program chairman
will introduce Mrs. Varble.
Is It Ethiopia Or Abyssinia?
Even Authorities Can’t Agree
v But Former Is Official Choice
WASHINGTON.—Ethiopia or Ab-
ysinia, which,
Interested in the big news break
of the moment—the Italo-Bthiopian
situation—the reader is confused.
His newspaper prefers to call the
Northeast African empire Ethiopia
nnd on his map it Is Abyssinia. Or
his favorite political news writer
prefer* Abyssinia and on hi* map
he finds Ethiopia.
Even readers who mike a formal
research on the empire are confused.
One authority say* the natives of
Haile Selassie’s empire customarily
refer to their country as Abyssinia.
Another authority tells him the na-
tive* dislike to be so called because
Abyssinia is derived from an Aram
“habeshi,” which mean* a
Bthiop'a, according to
authority, is derived from
which the natives
hare he^n known ainoe ancient
times. /
M%n&r British publications, among
them the Statesman's Yearbook, still
call the empire Abyssinia, but the
National Geographic Society points
out that Ethiopia ia the proper name
hacanse It la used with the official
sanction of the Ethiopian Govern-
ment and the name so appear* on
the society’s recently published map
of Africa.
Jnst as confusing to readers are
th* spellings of Ethiopian name* In
the daily news reports when com-
pared with the moat modern maps.
In tome articles names have been
abbreviated, in some they have been
itched by the addition of a let-
or two ^nd otherwise altered.
Waters! and Wardair,
mwed race. Bt
thKlatter autho
Ill^iyavan, by
group of thirty-throe hoys.
In addition to that distinction, th^
badge of Eagle Scout will be award-
ed Hilly Norman of Graham while
he and R. G. are in Washington.
. Tlio North Texas delegation will
join thousands of other Boy Scouts
from thp far corners of the Nation
fot the encampment.
provement-. al the water plant.
Both projects are a part of the
improvement program outbned sev-
eral months ago when suggested ■
proieets were submitted.
No action can be taken today,
Mr. Tackett said before Waving, .al-
though instructions on procedure
can be secured.
In any event, the Graham church
did not benefit from the sale of the
magazines and paid $3.30 collection
charges on $2.70 in contributions.
Mr. Mayes devoted the greater
part of Monday to seeing those who
subscribed and donat’d last month
and explaining the situation
checking with business men he dis-
covered that $6 and not $2.70 had
been secured through donations.
While Graham church officers are
TEXAS, AS BOSTON SEES IT
>n ‘ tKe trouble zone, near the Ital-
ian border, appear as Ualual and
Harder. Aduwa in I'he northern
part of the empire, near tbe bor
der of Eritea, has been amply sup-
plied W'th aliases, for it has b en
called Aude, Adoa and Adowa. Lakyftrians.
Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, ’’''STexas is bounded on the north
is stretched as bake Tsana, while j by 25 or 30 states, on the east by
Harar, the center of the Ethiopian | all the oceans except Pacific, on
The following is the opinion of
a Bo-ton man written in 192’ nnd
give.- the Easterner's conception
of >r4. immense size of our sta*.»:
Texas occupies all of the eon-
rineni of North • America except the
small part set aside for the tinlt-
•u .*:ate« ami Canada. Ti\n« nwi:1
the north of the Rio Grande, th"
only dusty river in the world and
also with the possible exception ot
the Trinity, the only river that *
navigable for mud cats and pedes-
your front door you don’t belong
to society aw constituted in Tex-
as Mrs. King’s gate is 150 miles
from her front door and she is
thinking of moving her house back
so she will not he bothered by
passing automobiles and peddlers.
Other Texas landlords have whole
mountain ranges and rivers on their
ranches.
One Texan has 40 miles of nav-
igable river on his farmi If the
proportion of cultivated land in
Texas were the same as in Illi-
nois, the value of Texas crops would j its semi-annual number, issued thi
equal al! the other 47 states. week..
Application for 'absentee ballot wa-1 ''ontaoting other churches likely to
received Monday by Miss Fear! Mat- ,,e “''ictimized” by the scheme, Mr.
thews, county clerk, from Mrs. Idn Mayes fs also taking action through
M. Kilpatrick of Los Angeles, iCalif J ,tu“ official puhlicairion of the church
Mrs. Kilpatrick’s application wa- It0 fave °*her churches like trouble
the first to he received.
No ballots were issued or return
ed the first day of absentee voting
on tile seven proposed constitution-
al amendments, Those who will b
absent August 24, election day. havt
until August 21 to make application
for and mark their absentee bal-
lot.
i and embarrassment.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
License to wed was issued from
the county clerk's office Monday to
Geo. Howard Gillham and Miss Win-
nie Margaret Burge**, both of South
Bend.
World Petroleum Production
Sets All - Time Record This
Half Year, But Etex Drops
World crude production during | 1934 to th * country’.- total increase
the first s x months of this -year ' of 27,000,0<i« barrel '. The o!h*r
established a new high record «Lith smaller pools had s combined 1 *
the daily average output of 4,320.. j oil product1 m t»i? ,,ar „f •*
576 barrels being the largest for ; 908, *99 bar mis mere than in tbe
eoffoe industry and one of
empire’s chief towns, is given »”
additional r to make it Harrar. Re-
cently news reports mentioned Af-
dtb and Afdubba, but there are
no such places in Ethiopia. The
rsporl* really refer to Afdam.
Awash has not been badly treated,
for it has been arodner only with at
h, making It Hawash, the Gerlo-
gubi has been both lengthened and
altered to make it Guertbgobi. Writ-
ers have generally left an m out
of Jlmma, written Aossa for Aus
sa and changed Bale’s to an i.
A town and a river of Italian So-
maliland also have caused read
confusion. Mogadiscio, the lead'ng
port and gateway to the colony,
has been referred to aa Mogadishu
and the Cmibe River as the Juba.
Massaua and Asmara, in Ertrea,
have erroneously appeared as Mas-
sawa and Asmara.
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1>xas hfts enough land to sup-
the j thp south by the Gulf of Mexico and ply every man, woman ad child in
»»I south Pacific Ocean, the Milky j the whole world a tract 5x20 fert.
Way and the reM of the universe, j ami have enough left over to march
If Texas were chopped loose from) the armies of the world around the
the rest of the United States and' border five abreast. Texas grows
Mr*. Tom Shew of Los Angeles,
California and Mr*. Clay Johnson
and children, Thomas and Josephine,
of Floydsda are risking relatives in that they can’t sleap
Graham this weak. IW a Teaan’s head w
the Panhandle k would float out
in the ocean, as it rests on a set
of subterranean frerfi water. Tex-
as Is so big that people in Browns-
ville calls Dallas people Yankees
and citisens of El Paso sneer at
the people of Texarkana and call
them snohe of the eaat. It is 150
miles farther from El Pano to Tex-
arkana then it is from Chicago to
New York CTty. Fort Worth h
nearer St. Paul, Minn., than it is
to Brownsville. ^
The chief occupation of Texan*
is trying to keep from making all
the money In the world. The chief
pursuit of all the people in Texas
wa* formerly Mexcans and In-
dians, but now it h lend huyers.
eteer* and crop record*. Wit hoik
Texas the United State* would look
like a three legged Roeton terrier.
Texans are to proud of Texas
at night
opened a
* | map of Texas would be found
Mr. and Mrs. Newt Hamrick and j photographed on hie hraln TVs
little eon of Kilgore are gueete this j j* also true of his heart Unices
week <4 his mother, Mrs. Tsta. your front gate la 18 raHes from
so much alfalfa that if it were
baled and built in to a stairway it
would reach the pearly gates. If
all the Texas steer* were one steer
he could stand with hia front feet
in the Gulf of Mexico and one hind
foot in the Hudson Bay, tbe other
in the Arctic Ocean and h» horns
would punch holes in the moon and
with his tail brush the snow off
the north pole.
If all the cotton reiaed in Texas
annually were made into one mat-
tress, all tbe people In ibe world
eould take a nap at the same time.
Texas is rightly named "TT>« Gar-
den of the Lord.’*
From the Center Champion, Char-
lea T. Hndtey, Mby 11, 19S2.
C. I. 8Windier, tenter Texas.
Mrs. Leo Irish, Brady, Texas.
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Mrs. , R. Sheppard and daughter,
Alleyne, have returosd to their home
!l» Sulphur Springs, after spending
a week her# in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Wh ittle. Mr. and
Mrs. Whittle accompanied them aa
far as Port Worth.
any half year on record, according first half of 193t. Tie outpu* «f
to a compilation made by the O'l j East Texas wa? a little more -\,r.
and Gas Journal and published in j 4,000,000 ban-?;* Is,*' during the
first half of this year than it was
j during the first sU months of 1-81.
The United States led in tc ' j Not sine.1 the fir-1 half of I »tC
production during the first half bas there He?n «uch drilling ac
this year, the Journal’s tabulation tivity in t*»j ’’m*e i 5 . tes as wn»
shows, the output of this country ! *ho-v;i during the f r-t s!x moot a
being 473,551,312 barrels, or 27,-i of this year. In th.1 f:r*t half of
636.960 barrels more than was I this year 10,329 wvll* were coin-
produced during the first half of1 pleted in the United States, an in-
1931. To Iraq, in Asia Minor, goes crease of 2,037 over tire same p-ri-
the honor for the most sensational i od of 1934 and 5,157 more tlisri
increase in production. Tbe dou- during the first nstf of 1933. An
hie -.pipe line system of the traq excei'mnally h'gb pi-iMAag* ->7
Petroleum Cbmpany, I Ad., connect- oil wel’s compVeJ rbanaoterizcA
ing tbe Kirkuk Field to the Tri- ' operations this year, there being
poli and Haifa terminals on the
Mediterranean Sea was completed
last Summer and during the second
quarter of this year deliveries
through tbe line were between 80,-
000 and 84,000 barrels daily, per-
mitting Iraq to show a daily aver-
age production during tbe first six
months of this year of 68.000 Sxr-
rel*. The production of that coun-
try during th? first half of 1934
was 800,000 barrels, while the same
period this year it totaled 12,372,-
800 barrels.
71 per cent of all completions
com>ng in a* producer*. The ten-year
average for oil wells completed ia
81,6 per cent of total completion*.
A decided upturn in refinery
construction took place during the
first half of 1085. The total eX-
pediturvs for equipment, con and
labor war? estimated in excess of
$20,000,000 This is is sddfNoa to
the normal maintenance of ori-
ginal equipment. The trend in re»
fining appen-i to be ‘oward the
replacement’ of individual distilla-
tion units with co'nbmatxm skim-
Prrxiiictio-i in the Un'ted States
from Ian 1 to June SO, inelurivc, | ming and cracking unit* of «
was higher than any otter half tionally large eise. Solvent re8
year period since trit# k is an (end solvent dewaxing is bring
interesting fart that (ho sixty ’a- *■ j erally adopted for the mam
est oil flcl.lt of lh»x country j of li
tributed on»y VTJTVri lamia nr'
r.. u. rwm* hair of)
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