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IHE GOLPTHWAITE
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10 YEARS AQO-
(Taken From Eagle Files
of July 4, 1941.)
Allen Campbell of Ooldth-
waite is scheduled to graduate
,n July 12 from the Air Corps
Advanced Flying School at
Stockton Field. California, Upon
graduation, he will be commis-
sioned • a second lieutenant in
the Air Corps Reserve, Army of
the United -States and- given | His remains
There was a reunion of the
Kirby family and relatives held
on July 4, near Lorpeta, In thp
old Senterflt community Mem-
bers of the family were there
from many sections and a large
number from Goldthwalte at-
tended. All together more than
400 were In attendance and a
magnificent barbecue dinner
was spread at noon.
County Clerk L B Porter is-
sued marriage license this week
to Barney McCurry and Miss
editorial The Esjle s lei
(Editor’s Note: A most im-
portant speech on the influ-
ence of the Democratic Party
in the South on the destiny
of our countrv was mad*, last
month by Senator Byi
Virginia We. publish
worthwhile continental
Bvrd speech bv Peter
SOIL CONSERVATION COORDINATION
' 5.
We had the privilege the other day of sitting
down at the same table with members of the Brown-
Mills Soil Conservation District* Board of Super-
visors; with Supervisors of the Rising Star Soil* Con-
servation' District, with technicians of the United
States Sod Conservation Service, and with a num-
ber-, of others, including Courfty Judge Lewis B.
Porter. A. A. Downey, Chairman of the Mills County
Production and Marketing Administration Commit-
tee. and L. F Baiir,"P:‘M.A. Administrator in Goldth-
waite.
- The occasion marked the actual physical coordi-
nation here of the activities of thy Soil Conserva-
tion Service and the Production and Marketing Ad-
ministration. There is a news story about it on the
first* page of this week's Eagle. But we believe it to
be in the public interest to underline some of the
words that were spoken after 14 men had pushed .
back their plates, leaned back in their chairs, and
listened to some impromptu speeches that were call-
ed for by Chairman Willis A. Hill of the Board of-
Supervisors of the Brown-Mills Soil Conservation
District.
-------Charles O. Haenisch, Acting-Chief of the Gold-
rhwaite Work Unit of the $oil Conservation Ser-
vice Mt Bain, Mr. Downey, and W. R. Heizer, Dis-
trict Supervisor for the Soil Service with headquar-
ters at Dublin, all expressed a determination to pull
together, in the public interest, in making the coor-
dination plans for SCS and PMA work. That was
good news for everybody on the land.
You can read mote about the speeches that were
made in the news story that starts on the first page
of this weekVEagle. The purpose of this editorial
is to emphasize to any doubting Thomases who may
finger among us that so far as Mills County is con-
cerned, both the volunteer leadership in P.M.A. and
the S C.S. and the technicians or hired hands are
pulling together because, as Judge Porter said at
the meeting of which we write, we have.an obliga-
tion to pass'on to posterity our land in better shape
than it is now. The shameful neglect of the land that daughter-1*and
has resulted in the loss of so much of it during the
past 50 or 75 prodigal years is something that is go-
ing to be stopped by raeo~wha have learned how to
rebuild what remains, even if they cannot replace
what has been lost. (
The significance of the gathering of soil and
water conservationists here last week is that, if they
the Wings, symbolic of the
aeronautical rating of pilot.
Mr. artd Mrs Julian D* Evans
have returned to Goldthwalte
after a wedding trip to points
in Texas following their mar-
riage at 10:15 a. m. on June 22
to Barney McCurry am. -e<lltor of the
Lorain Crockett, both of Mullln.l weekly Please redd
Mr. Jackson L Fisher aged! u so as to know where you
about 80-years, died in the hos- | stand in relationship to the
pltal at Lubbock last Saturday.) fulure of. America,
tflns were brought to,
By PETF.R MOLYNEAUX
By Hie Editor
Mullln on Sunday night’s train,
and Interment was made Mon-j Jn Wg speech at the Jeffer-
day afternoon in Duron Ceme- *0n-Jackson Dav dinner in At-
tery ’ I lanta, C.a., Sen Harry F. Byrd
' outlined a program of action
Mr. C. C. Baxter, owner of | f0r Southern Democrats at the
the Dublin broadcasting sta- , Democratic National Conven-
in the BaDtlst church tn has off°rP" ,hP uae.of hu|tlon next vear slWd6wn wlth
in the First Baptist c r station Sunday afternoon from Harry s Truman and the ele-
Dallas. Dr George W. Trulttj j.jq 2,30 for a program hd-1 ments now in control of the
wingthc double ring ceremony, j vr,rtisinK the Mills Coiinty Fair I national Democratic party.
\, 1 * t n..<io d , ‘ " i Dciitn o ronlict nnH n nr
rrJTSJSi F- P-™* !» “T nJ man of politics. Senator
Being a realist and a oractl-
McETrbv and Mr. arid Mrs. Floyd • -maUers desired by Goldth-1 nvrd'd'id' nof carry*the suggest-
Webb of Dallas. valte. A large delegation is ex-' ed procedure beyond the con-
Mrs. Frank R. Broaddus and 1 pected to go to Dublin for the j Yontlon itself, the Inference
daughter. Patricia, of Denver,' program and Prof Doss Rich-] pf P‘rnLd when thJLuther"
Colorado, are’spending several' ardson apd. members of his delegations come to it.
weeks with ' home folks. Mr. band will Join them at Indian! The speech as a whole was a
Broaddus arrived Thursday for Gap . sweeping indictment of the
■ . . “p- I Truman administration and
a visit here. Mr. and Mrs R. M Bratton: what Senator Byrd called "the
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Pile and and their daughter, Mrs Wils- Truman Democratic party.”
son, Emmett Wright, of Me- ford, and granddaughter Mar- And the program of action was
Allen, arrived Sunday fora two.ha Alice Strap l all of Tort ] the* I*mo«T*tic
weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. Worth, spent last* weekend in party Of Jefferson and Jackson.
Sparks Bigham. and husband, this city visiting in.the home Here is the program in Senator
and other Relatives. I of L. R. Conro 'They left for Byrds °wn words:
Mrs. W. E. k Falrman and ] home Sunday afternoon,
daughter. Miss Catherine, re-1 Mrs. Sparks Bigham spent
I turned Sunday from Dallas the Fourth of July in Belton,
where they attended the wed-, visiting relatives
ding of her daughter, Miss I Ruth, the eldest daughter of
Sarah, to Bernard McGrath of, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Roundtree,
Dallas, who were quietly mar- who had the misfortune to fall
I6!™? * h1^ "°°n >n th«!at the family home apd break , ^ln 1936 ^ two^thirdfrSle
"What can we do? The South
is not impotent. It is true the
South is a minorltv in the
Democratic party, but no Dem-
ocratic President can be elected
without the votes of the South-
ern States.
"In 1831 the two-thtrds rule
was established It was repeal-
was a protection to minorities
in the Democratic party just
as the Constitution Is a protec-
tion to minorities among our
citizenship The South should
demand the restoration of the
two-thirds rule in the 1952
national convention before can-
parlors 'of the Highland Park 1 her arm a few days ago, is re-
Methodist Church. | covering nicely and has suffer-
Leon Gray of Los Angeles, 1 pd very little, pain.
Calif., is visiting his parents,1 Mr. and Mrs W M Johnston,
Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Gray, I accompaMed by Mr and Mrs.
this week. ' | Robert Weaver left Saturday
Mr W H. Freeman, Jr., and, the Rio Grande Valley to j
Miss Betty Blair Were united visit Mr and Mrs Sewell and^relation
last Wednesday I the countrjy This is Mr. reaffirming support of States*
niprht*. « • | Johnston’s first. Vacation from rights bv the Democratic party.
Mrs. Wm A Wdrth. Mrs 1 hls duties as secreuiW'of the At the convention of 1948. con-
trolled bv Mr Truman,-such a
En ma Nlllus of Los Angeles, Merchants, Association resolution was defeated by a
Calif, and Mrs. John O. Martin ' *or years He expects to j record vote,
of Indianapolis, Ind., arrived 1 bP In his office earlj) next1 We can in8*81 upon the adop
Tuesday for a 10-days' visit week
tion of a platform that does
A mnior topic for specula-
tion this week among members
of the Eagle staff has been why
so nice a man as Our newest
neighbor. A. W. Lilly, would
thlrk first of the Eagle when
he had five babv skunks on
hls hands and no home for
them. Mr Lilly, being in the
real estate business, ihav be
interested in knowing what
happened to the five little pole
cats that he brought to the
Eagle office on Friday morning
of last week — In a garbage
can As a home-finder, Mr.
Lilly Is good.
Mr Lilly lives In the former
Ben R. Day home, owned by
Mrs. Carlos Patterson. Earlv
last Friday morning, apparent-
ly at the firm insistence of Mrs.
Lilly, he dug the tiny wood
missies out from under & shed
at hls home and. as has been
indicated above, put them in a
garbage can. thought hard for
a moment, and then promptly
headed for the office of the
Goldthwalte Eagle where, so
far as Is known, nobody ever
has done any harm to Mr
Lilly. _____. • • - .
After having presented Hls
skunks to the Eagle. Mr. Ullv
went on his way rejoicing. It
was noted that he Insisted on
keeping his garbage can. so our
Misses Ruth Ervin and Earlene
Nix let him have It. Following
the departure of Mr. Lilly. Mi««
Ervin observed that without
the garbage can the skunks
were easier to take, anyway.
Tor most of last Friday. Mr
Lilly’s wholly unexpected gifts
to the Eagle remained In the
front office In a cardboard box
A number of good, solid Mills
County citizens came to the
office that dav and when the
dav was over Miss Nix remark-
ed that there had not, been a
single skunk , lover In the
crowd. One man. in fact, was
'lp?pd., ,t0 «av “Pew.” and he
definitely was not speaking of
a seat In a Church.
A number of events tran-
spired 'regarding our wood
pussies First. Roy Ue HU1
I’aJJv refused to print "A W
LILLY. REAL ESTATE." on the
white stripes down their backs
He said he was too busv getting
out Invoices for Hollis BUck-
wp ■ billheads for F. D. Rey-
nolds. baseball throwaways for
pnTelooM for
,Uh uncle. Henry M.run.l <W*W M,m„„ ofB„ W.r,„ | Jl, >• »
Monument Builders of the
whom they had not seen since, sppnt Saturday Hnd Sunday .* “The South can still' be a Southwell1'11'iL'
they were children. | with his parents and other rela- mlRblv ,fopcp ln the Erie D. Robert
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Nix and tl'res flere
M? and Mrs.
James Bagley from Waco spent
Sunday in the J. D. Nix, Sr.,,
(Taken From Eagle Files,
July 6, 1901 >
,ff --ft
have their.way, the progress of the past few years is
to be continued. . .
But there is something else th-at we wish to un-
derline. It was the recognition by Mr. Heizer, him-
self a hired hand, of the tremendous contribution to
soil and water conservation that is being made, by
such volunteers as Willis A. Hill. J. Hobart Prildldy,
and A. A. Downey
After we had broken bread together last week,
the technicians, supervisors and committeemen went
out to the MC illis^A. Hill ranch and sweltered, and
sweated under a broiling sun while Soil Scientist
M. T Turner dug holes, analyzed soil conditions,
and suggested w'ays and means of coping with the
conditions that were found. Mr. Hill, Mr. Priddy and
Mr. Downey were not being paid for either their
time.or their effort. We were bewildered because
busy citizens such as Messrs. Hill, Priddy and
Downey were enduring considerable discomfort as
they h.eard about erosion, permeability, h(9w much
top soil there was on “parent soil,” and slopes, pro-
ductivity and remedies. So we asked Mr. Hill what
if was all about.
“We are studying what the scientists and techni-
clarfs can tell us so that we can do our jobs,” Mr.
Hill replied. “As supervisors and committeemen, we
nerd to know and understand the problems with
which every land owner is trying to cope. That was
what the digging under the hot sun was all about.”
There you have it. As Mr. Heizer had pointed
out previously, the job of soil and water conserva-
tion belongs to the people^-the LOCAL PEOPLE.
“The only way to get the job done is by the demo-
cratic approach,” he had said. t
If the technicians themselves 'recognize and pay
tribute to the work ef the volunteer supervisors and
committeemen, then the least the rest of us can do is
- to be deeply grateful to such men as J. Hobart
Priddy, A. A. Downey and Willis A. Hill for their
constructive efforts in behalf of everybody. They
don’t go around looking for kudos, but there ought
to be 17-gun salutes for them by anybody who gives
a fig whether we continue to lose our land or re-
claim it. Happily, the promise is that soil and water
conservation hereaboutris going full steam ahead.
home.
Miss Joyce Johnson of Midr
land arrived Friday for a two
weeks’ vacation with home-
folks.
Mr. and, Mrs. Clinton Harris
50 YEARS AGO
Democratic party if It has the
will to do it. The South has
been treated as a stepchild bv
the Truman Democratic party
too Iona.
“We can Insist upon a return
to the
. checks for
Roberson, and form
Following marriage license and Jackson The answer of the
have been issued by Countv KDealfrs Wwll> ** that this
Clerk smith r w r iL ! wil‘ he going back to the horse
Smlth c w Lindsey and and buggy days, but J sav that
Miss McKIndre Cook; W T.1 true principles1 or
letters,, f°r Malor and Mr*, m!
Allan Campbell..
thr suKKMtlon of
the .editor went down
to Hudson Drug to buy vanilla
........ -m^.4 a iciuiu; „p f!T?m_for the babv skunks
principles of Jefferson told Ray Campbell Hudson
— whv he wanted the Ice cream
our con-
expect to leave Saturday f0r 1 Smith and Miss Lula Bryant-" stltutk)nal dernocracv < are lm-
vm >:Kei!L,Cam: "herp hp'^"P"lerr_and M‘“ BpHlp dimmedUn|namaegetaor
* he employed in an aero- Wfems- ° B Reynolds and Miss distorted bv demagogues.^
plane factory. He returned lastl'Lpla Np Smith; Walter M. Jones ' Lpt me sav I am the kind of
week from Dallas where he had I and Miss Florence Davis- J 'A ! 3 De,IP?cra* who wants, above
completed a course in the | Collin, and Miss Donle Penry ' 1 KSc ^arty^or^r'ved Lnd
Aeronautical Instl- Thursday night' about li 1 strengthened, r am the kind of
o'clock, Dr - Powell’s residence ! 3 ,?„PTJxirlat w:ho lntpnds to op-
Sohthern
tute.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilkins
were called to the bedside of
his mother, Mrs. C. C. Wilkins,
who passed away Monday!
Those from here who attended
the funeral at Austin Tuesday
at 3:00 p. m. were: Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Wilkins and children,
Mr and Mrs. Marsh Johnson,
Misses Mjira Nell and Joyce
Johnson.
Mr and Mrs. Hardy McClary
.*°n, are spending their
vacation In Carlsbad, N. M.
-Mrs. V. C. Bradford Is visiting
o^X"' Mr* «
June is a good month for
rain in Mills County — or has
been the past two years. This
year, in June. 5.21 inches of
rainfall were recorded,
Pa^ed to 5.20 Inches In
1940
com-
June,
20 YEARS AGO-
(Taken From Eagle Files,
■July 10, ,19S1.>
In the Independence Duy
Track Meet at Barton Springs,
Austin last Saturday, Harold
Yarborough, son of Mr. and
Mrs. O. H. Yarborough of this
city, won first place In the Boy's
shoe race. Harold U a popular
member of the younger set In
Ooldthwalte, Is a member of
the Boy Scouts and takes In-
terest In all athletic events.
Billie Armstrong, little son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Armstrong
was accidentally shot Just above
the right eye with an air gun In
the hands of a playmate about
hls own aga.
xrsz.«t:
blaze was soon extinguished I 8lructlve of the principles of
_ government established bv 'our
.The roping contest last Sat-, forefathers I am an old-fash-
urday afternoon attracted an ioned Democrat wn0 believes In
were 2500 people on the grounds !
when the first steer was turned] Tor^he ch^i^g^J^mo1*
loose. There were sixteen con-. cratic Dartv in each‘ 8outh-
testants and they all did good en?. of delegates to the
work. The first prize was nf-X"!!1 convention who are
awarded to Dan Murrah; sec-1 restoration of tSTOthS!
ond prize to Ed Crawford of rule, the adoption of a rewlu-
San Saba and third prize to' aJflpmlnk the party’s sup-
George Roberta of San Angelo I rosltion m^u rl,'hts’ and °P-
that Dr. Vaughan had died at. P|atform, Including, of course
Cherokee that morning from’ <c°ntlnued on Page li.)
the effect of a terrlable aecl-1
dent the night before. He was K‘es which are sold by Weaklev
lying on hls bed reading Wed- and Watson. *
fl8ht had placed a VerB“p Randolph Pearl
Hghtad lamp by the side of hls, Vlck and Oeorgla Oden left
bed. The lamp either exploded Thursday for Temple to visit
or was turned over and set fire ,rlends and relatives
to the bed and Dr. Vaughan 1 “ Marshall Is employed in
was burned so badly he died a W. A Evans’ grocery store
' n hi>Ur® 1*t*r ta ■reat agony 1 Miss Cora Hearne has retum-
R. F. William* and hls eldest ed (ro» a protracted stay in
daughter were In from Trigger Muenster. ***
Mountain yesterday and made1 Mi« Irene Cann .
the Eagle a pleasant call. I turned from Denton where
°- w Oartman will be or- “‘tended the summer ^
dalned the third Sunday in »nd she has contrarteM™**
July at about 1« o'clock lh the tpach the Jones ValW
morning at Chaobel Hill on th. next »>uinn v B hw)l
Dolitelv asked Lewis Hudson
for a gadget for feeding skunks
Come again?” Mr. Hudson said
so abruptly that there-now Is a
blot on the record of Hudson
Drug’s customer relations. On
ihe wav back to the offlde with
the ice cream, the editor met
Warren P Duren and their
conversation lasted so long un-
der a- hot sun as to cause the
confection to turn soupy. Mr.
Duren looked very skeptical
when the Ice cream was ex-
plained to him.
Third, the little pole cats
gave the editor an uneasy day
last Friday because Arnold K.
Kelly kept coming up front
from the backshop. The editor
got to worrying over the dang-
er that Kelly might be deploy-
ing for a position from which
\.
bvmh.,UD 'r°mhrj
Yen^i"* Sh0*t> hJl
Yeager was tottoJT
a cement n»l
LHJv real estate
yh-h Bert Weath,-
Yeager and jMr^j
skunks for hij J'J
got one, and teJi
Tooter last 8aturd»,
rumors in the fu,,
standing, U
true the. Tooter,-
Ka,KX“as3
as
that Tndter,
Pop. named his
Det Rov Lee.
As Ipls column,
the editor still wu,
four baby BkuaS1}
“bout because Him
s.vi?dsa
weakened to the cm
ing him to imTi.
a'lsapl
eggs for them
Harvey’s tom-e». I
the - Screwball - f
accented the on
licked clean the i
of the Eklns h<
Harvey’s black .
stUl U IrTX-
Charlle Evans’ Tians
to do about the r ^
tunately, the
skunks on Fisher i
p'ded with ,Ira o. |
to hls son, Wg
Worth Ira) caii 1
upon to take a 1
view of the whole I
Harvev EklnTi i
new pets Aroma L
Fleur. Little Stlnkwl
ne Lanvin de la ,
latter from his
lte perfume.
Is afoot * deep i
homes for all but i
Miss 8a rah Jane 0
Hoover and BlUr
only obstacles to *1
culmination of the j
are Mr and Mrs. ■
rum. Mr and Mn I|
and Mr. and Mn.’T
Clements Be It
Mrs. C. r Stub—
refused fo even i(t|
a courtesy call on j
que Fleur. Little
Jeanne Lanvin del
Readers who__
been worn out by 1
their noses at
deathleas Dram l
ested In Icnowlns I
treduction of Tou.
skunk Into the Kelk|
not as tranquil at i
been supposed ffani
above paragraoha l|
on what hsooe
Kelly's disclosed
Pretty little pole I
ed as missing ..
night,. It was not I
Monday morning, i
Kellv himself nesrl?^
It as it snooted
pile of hls wlfe’i i
clothes closet
’’What did Value I
face of,that un
velopment?” her
asked. It must hate I
because of the I
chuckle with which I
replied When he i
for more thin s 1
he said: "It. Just |
able!”
: Eternal Symbol of Love
morning at Chappel H1U on the n«*t seaalon.
mountain ten mllea north of Mr. and Mrs W o n.„
Bm Smollnsky went to Misses Ida Trent WU*ford’
Brown wood Tuesday night , to
be present at the marriage of
hla cousin, Miss JuUa Brin, to
Mr. Iks Lears of at. Louis.
§S§5Sl
Prof. Oliver now rides In one . left T^esdly*1
of those beauttful Racine bug- ] Mill to spend a few days.
Marble or gran-
ite? Both are de-
signed as a fond
tribute to yo\
loved ones.
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