Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 198, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1941 Page: 1 of 6
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Graham Daily Reporter
They All Read It—Therefore A First Class Advertising Medium
VOLUME 7.
GRAHAM. TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18. 1841
NUMBER 198.
Possum Kingdom Lake Is One-Fourth Filled
Kg Increase
In U. S. Taxes
Is Proposed
WASHINGTON. April 18—Th*
administration Thursday proposed r
tremendous new tax program desitrn-
ed to add three and one-half billion
dollars annually through increasing
of nearly all present taxes and as-
sessing new levies as well. Both Re-
publican and Democratic leaders ap
prove the plan.
Althought details of the plan are
not completed. Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau is reported to
have advocated raising all tax rates,
income, excess profits, excise, etc.,
to from 26 to 50 per cent higher than
the present levels. Present individ-
ual income tax rate is 4.4 per cent
and corporation income tax is 24 per
cent.
Plans sre slso said to include ex-
cise taxes on washing machines, radio
and other ao-called luxury items not
now taxed. Increases in liquor and
other excises are
likely.
With the vast contemplated ex-
peditures for defense and assistance
to England, it was expected thatj
the government would spent nine i
teen billion dollars in the fiscal year I
that begins on July 1. It was thought
best that at least two thirds of this
amount be raised by taxes, in other
words, that the levies should be re-
vise-! upward to"*yield 812,687.000.000
(billions) instead of the present $»,-
228.000.000 (billions). To cover the
$8,383,000,000 (billions i remainder,
the government would resort to bor-
rowing.
Morgenthau said the program was
desirable, not only from the point
of view of diminishing the broad gap
between income and outgo but as a
chek on inflationary price tendencies.
Apparently the thought was that a
sizable portion of the money paid out
by the government should be drained
off the money market and out of
consumer pockets to keep competi-
tive buying from foreing prices to
unduly high levels.
The possibility of a general sales
Skating Tourney
Mrs. F. N. Burkett
Dies In El Paso;
To Be Buried Here
Four Men Are
Named For
Nay 5th Call
Names of four men who will re-
port to the local board of selective
service at the court house at 1:30
More than 1,000 men, women and
children will compete In the Nation-
al Boiler Skating championships to
"be held In Cleveland April Z3-M. Miss
Harriet Nielson (above), leading
also considered contender for the Indies’ crown.
GRAHAM
CRACKERS
By "GWEN"
?
Mrs. F. M. Burkett, age 65, a for-
mer resident of Graham and whose
family was prominently connected
with community affairs here for
years, died at a hospital in El Paso,
Thuisday afternoon following an op-j p. m. May o, to be sent to the indue -
eration. tion station at Dallas, were an-
The body will be received at East-1 pounced today by the local board,
land at 11:26 Saturday morning by I Ezkicl Judson Thompson, South
the Morrison Funeral Home coach Bend.
and will be in state in'the Morrison I Fay I.oyd Alberts, Graham,
chapel until 4:00 Saturday afternoon Roy Stowe, Olney.
when funeral services will be con- j Johnie Lee Finley, Eliasville.
ducted at the IFirst Methodist Church. I Because one or more of the men
Rev. Barnes of Fort Worth, a form- named above may not be inducted at
er Methodist pastor here, directing. the induction station by the armed
the service. forces, the following named men may |
Burial will be in -the family plot) be required as replacements:
| in Oak Grove Cemetery. i Birtie Andrew Jobe, Graham
j Mrs. Burkett’s husband, the late James Henr- Sutton, Graham. J
IF M Burkett, who died several years Alonzo Paydon Lowe, Graham. j
ago was one time county treasurer, The four are among the 1,000 merri
! member of the school board and oth- called for the twelfth call for Texas,
I erwis- prominently connected with May 5. 6. 7, ami 8, all white. Quotas !
! affaire here for several years. The have been announced Tor each of
I family moved from Graham to Ama- Texas’ 351 local boards by General
| rillo and from there to El Paso a J. Watt Page, state director.
I number of years ago. TL? family -
moved to Graham in 1804. and lived a __
here about twenty-five years. Interesting Program
A son also preceded Mrs. Burkett
in death but she is survived by two, Tod»V it RotarV
daughters, Mrs. Zada Girrard of San 1 OOay at IXOtary
Antonio and Mrs. Ellen Bullard of , _„
I El Peso. I An interesting program was put!
Pallbearers will be H. Bruce Street, on a( Kotary Club today noon
1 Q. Street, E. S. Graham^Leslie Scott, ^ F g. Schultz, his daughter, Mis-"!
Residents Leaving Lowlands;
Livestock Being Noved Out; Lake
Water Over Gordon Mountain Bridge
Proud Skipper
April, true to the rhyme, is really
the month of showers this year,
J. B. Norris and R. V..Tidwell.
Frieda Helen, and Miss Mary Leslie I
A proud commander is Capt. Olaf
N. Hostvedt. shown standing beneath
one of his 16-inch gun turrets during
the commissioning ceremonies ol the
new battleship, "North Carolina." at
New York Navy yard. The ship car-
ries nine 16-inch rifles.
Honorary pallbearers will be John gc,)t^ wj10 were introduced by pro-
C. Kay and D. S. Doty, both of Wich- KVUJB .chairman W E. Simpson,
ita Falls, R. E- Lynch of Dallas, and A serious- reading was given by
! W„11 mnnv,S- Boyd street- M- K- Graham, A- Miss Scott, allegedly taken from the . _____
w flowers will be needed Eddleman, A. W. Kay. Harry Wads- biography of a boy who became' si _
| worth and Norman Stovall. 1 great violinist and Miss Schultz play- Olltpilt Cut As
ed 'softly from Humoresque in 1 r
companiment on her violin.
As an encore Miss- Scott gave
which
of those May
for at least two approaching wed-| __
dings. . , . Ruel Guinn, student at A. • - j ra
and M. who'spent the Easter holi- (jrOUp Attends State
days here, announced the recent mar-
I
| humorous reading
Married Life.”
Defense Measure
“Three Stages of I
riago of his brother Kenneth * fornv- Q^cll Convention
er Graham man, to a South lexas
belle and his subsequent induction _ .
. » j , . i and interesting paper on the subject;
into the Um^ SU^s Army . j A group of Graham residents at- ..what My Job Means ^ ^ Com.
Best wishes to Patsy Wood, one of Layman’s Banquet held
The administration has opposed it
in the past because it believpd the
Ur, by cutting into available pur-
chasing money, might seriously re-
tery recovery from the depression.
Dr. Pepper Inventor
Dies In Dallas
Graham’s youngest and most popular .n g^fcenridge ns the concluding murityy______
songbirds and daughter of Mr. ana ‘session of the State convention of! ...-
Wood,. who-ia-in- Dalbui ^ nilrc*** ot the Disciples of T • fJ’.l
today to audition tor a place on the chrUt Wednesday night. Principal JUTllOr lllgll OeeS
speakers for the Convention included _ . ,
Miss Catherine Schutze, returned Pan-AmeriCan Play
Early Bird Program,
lations to: the Girl Reserves of Gra
WASHINGTON. April 18. Th- j
Mr. Schultz read a well prepared automobile indt-stry- has agreed to a
20 per cent reduction in the output ,
of cars for the modi I year begin-1
ning August 1. William Knudsen said
Thursday. This will mean a reduc-
tion of one million cars yearly, he
said.
The OPM director said
The waters of Possum Kingdom
lake rose another two and a half
feet perpendicularly last night, fill-
ing the big lake basin to one-fourth
its capacity, according to engineer*
at the dam this morning.
And the waters have been rising
so rapidly that they have now cov-
ered both the approaches of the big
rteel bridge across the Brazos at
Pickwick and the remaining residents
j of that village were moving to high-
er ground last night and this morn-
ing. A big tractor was being used
in an effort to move soip^ buildings
to higher levels-. Farmers and ranch-
ers with land bordering the lake
I were hurriedly getting livestock out
I of the low levels, today.
| The water this morning also was
! up to the bridge at the foot of Gor-
j don Mountain, fifteen miles south-
east of Graham on the Graham and
dam road, and at 10 o'clock this
morning the water was nearly two
I feet over the oast end of that bridge
and was floating some of the lumber
jout of it. Records at the dam this
morning at 8 o'clock showed the i(
i water up to 954 feet and engineers
said the lake is now one-fourth full
i and contains 212,995 acre feet of wa-
ter and is expected to reach the 960
I foot level from the present rise that
' is on the river, even if no more rain
falls on the watershed. Scattered
showers however fell today, over tbe
> area. When the lake is full it will
] be up to' th. 1,000 foot level and
I contain 730.00 acre feet and have a
| shoreline of 310 miles.
| The water was red at Pickwick,
I some -j}0"miles by the river water-'hed
I route above'tfie dam, but only about ?
i four miles from it directly across.
| A lake of considerable proportions
-has formed at the dam.
ham High School on their unusually miagionai.y from edina. Dr. j. M.
splendid program planned for next
week as a part of the Fiftieth Birth-
day Celebration of the national or-
ganization.’ The Girl Reserves is a
Bader, secretary of Evangelism for |
the Council of 'Federated Churches! Miss Edith Fuller's home room
of America, Paul A. Preston of In- j presented an entertaining program
OJney to Vote Bonds
For Air Center
*
X8>-
OLNEY. April 18.—Thp city coun-
-lianapolls and Mrs. R. A. Doan of|at the Junior High School assembly
__ , , * ui«uiu|/oiia out* viis- **• ,m* |
high school girls democratic social Indianap<)liSi former Japanese mis- today
organization which does much out-
standing work each year. ... Ray-
Graham
sionary.
Every session of
The variety program which pre-
the convention, ceded a play in the form of a Pan-
and closed American Friendship .Party included
Mrs. G. a reading, “War In the Nursery,”
fiftl\ grade
- j mend Lawrence former Graham which opened Monday an
DALLAS, April 18—Inventor of | High School student and football Thureday wag attended by _ -------„, —
the formula for the soft drink Dr. | player, who has been made corporal N prjce Tho,e attcndin(c the ban-j Janet Hinson; dance,
Pepper, Robert Sherman Ljazcnby,1 in the United States Air Corps. ... quet inciuded Mr and Mrs. W. F. girls; violin duet, "Bsbbling Brook,”
74, died st his home here Thursday. Frankie Bryant, Bill Artis and Ed- Johnson Mr and Mrg Jno A Hays. 1 Betty Butler and Mary Catherine
Lazenby was for 40 years president ward Garrett who are beginning their Rfy and Mrg Jno w Reaveg> Dr Martin; duet, ‘‘Too Many Green Ap-
of the Dr. Pepper company. He final ten weeks’ training as Flying ^ Mp( w A Morrig Mi,g Gwen- pie*.” Tommy Wright and Gerald
had moved from Waco to Dallas Cadets. . . . Betti Jo tndel whose do)yn Barrow N F Farren< Judge Ftrguson; and readings, “Aunt Min
two years ago. Although retired picture has been published in one of g A p€n,x> Dr c B McElroyi Wal-1 At the Circus,” and “Having Com- A.-Jja.* _ Xor
from active business since 1926 the the newer speech texts. . . The Scott ^ BnJre and Rehders and Mmes. P»ny Changes Everything,” by Betty
eminent chemist had recently com- girls. Mary Leslie and Mary Lou Gyo w M1„er_ c A Rusie|i, W. W. Marie Mahan.
“I have just concluded ,a_.meeting wa(< today to call a special elec-
with the leaders of the entire afito- tjon to vote on a bond issue to be
mobile and truck producing industry. ua,‘d to Pl'rrhas<’ 8 ,ite for th*’ Pr<>'
which I called to consider the grow ™ training center at Olney.
|ing defense production job that faces,A Petition signed by 6o qualified
| voters was presented to the council
“The entire industry willingly ac-i Wednesday night,
cepted an initial 20 per cent reduc-1 Action WB!1 up after a telo-
tion in the production of motor ve-l*18"' was received by Mayor Bernard
hides for the model year beginning | Lunn saying thit Olney would be
Aug. 1 this year, in order to make | designated as a site for training
available more man power, materials, I f',nte« if sit*’ is aPProved by the
facilities and managenunt for thc'War Department,
defense load now being ready.”
Patsy Wood to
Auto Registration
Up 25 Per Cent
pieted an experiment for thA govern
ment in the Rio Grande Valley
whereby certain vitamins were de-
veloped in grapefruit.
10,000 Selectees to
Get Officer Training
WASHINGTON, April 18.—The
army will give officer training to ap-
proximately 10,000 selective service
soldiers annually, Gen. Georgy llar-
fno relation), literaly took over the M>rtin and j.’T. Whw.ler.-
Future Homemakers Style Show at _
the high achool Thursday. Modeling
their ensembles simultaneously,
Mary Leslie wsa awarded first place
and Mary Lou, second,
there: Joan Kimmell in an Easter
ensemble which plainly said Harper’s
Basaar____Mrs. D. M. Knox, Mrs. WASHINGTON. April 18.-Pr.sl-
Earl Morris, Jr„ and Mrs. C. Derr dent Roosevelt told
Roosevelt Assures
*"d. Freedom of Press
AUSTIN. Texas.—With 11,098 new
| cars on the road, automobile regis
I tration* in 47 representative Texas
counties during March went booming
Characters in the play were Janis Program In Dallas
i Luker, Gerald Ferguson, Nita Jean
(Taylor, Tommy Cave, Tommy Wright,I _-
iJune Hammett, Mavis Perry, Mary Miss Pstsy Wood, daughter of Mr. to a 28.6 per cent increase over Feb-
Catherin: Martin. Billy Rex Samford. aud Mrs. Pat Wood of Graham, left ruary totals, the University of Tecas.
J Noei Williams, Gene Singleton, Dan this morning for Dallas, where she Bureau of Business Research report-
‘ Wilde, Betty Funches and Gillie Ann *>•* •*«> »’>ked to appear for an audi- ed here today.
’ tion for a place on the Early Bird
and Sonny Thornton j tion for a place on the Early Bint j Bureau reports disclosed that pas-
4. . , Guests included Mr. and Mrs. H. program. If the audition is success- ^nger car sales were up 25 per cent
________, ....__________ the Am«™*n l Thornton and Mr. and Mrs. W. F.lful, she is scheduled to sing on the from March, 1940
attending the National Iris Show in Society of Newspaper Editors Th“rs- F’erguson, and Mmes. Chat. McGee, | Saturday morning program. I With 1,796 registrations, com men
Dallas today. . . . Never let it be day that there would be “no govern F)oy y Hinson, Boyd Bennett. Joe, Pstsy, one of the youngest and cial car sales also increased in March,
Wright, Tom Norris, T. A. Wright,
J. M. Perry, L. M. Jones, R. L. Mor-
HOSPITAL NOTBB
ssid that the youngsters don’t iml- control of news unless it can
. tate their elders. Little Billy and »» of miliUry information,” in .........^ _ _ ___________■
>hall said today. ^ Peggy Watkins sad Dennis Newton asserting that free speech was ’an rJ#0B> Geo T. Spears, Sam 8. Bates.
Marshall said that instead of the j have found that they can sell any- undisputed possession ’ of the press, To|n Butit.ri sidwell of Detroit,
four training schools originally plan | thing from pencils to coat hangers »>«• radio and the moving pictures. Michigan, and C- T. Cave.
‘ if they say they are doing it for “Those who disagree with what is, -
Bundles for Britain. be'"* <«ons, and with the manner in
- which it is being done, sre free to I
Hens lay about as many eggs dur- uae their freedom of speech," the
to!ylSrtil A£lJL7 right Months °P*ni"* -***»»« ^ •odety’s •»-
ares.; -
tams pradnssd rtjm.900 peunda peseh was an “undisputed posses
•f pnbllshsn, editors, repsrtsrs. My. and Mrs. lay Huff <f Olney
i fr— -"V -viwWfwi «ne Tens Vnsgeulnns, motion plsturee and re- vWted here Thursday eight
bum “hdlre nmreday. '
mo«t popular vocalists- of Graham. ciimhing IS per cent ahead of Pebru
tied, ten will open three-month
!■ 4*
courses in July. Candidates will be
-elected primarily on the basis of
ks' • fe?;-.
leadership actually demonstrated In
£
the ranks, n
Thu Bnr. Jno. W. Ksoras want U
WiehHa Falls. Hie mother, Mrs.
NsMe Breves, ratarasd hem* after
week's visit hers.
has been much in demand for pro-
grams for several years and is con-
sideied unusually talented. A high
school Freshman, she was recently
selected to represent the local Future
Homemakers Club at the State Rally
in San Antonio April 39-May 4.
ary, 1941, and
March, 1940.
16.6 per cent above
J
LeRoy Woods Is
Promoted to Sergeant
Others ^ho attended the Baptist Corporal LeRoy Woods,
Sundav School convention in Dellas with the 10th School Squadron U. 8.
till- week were Mrs. Iillie Calvin, Army at Lowry Field, Denver, hat
Waldtn Howard and Mieses Nell keen proeaoted to Sergeant, assert ,
Pridesux and Juan Clements. Ing 8a notice received here hy his
Dr. and Mia. J. L Woods.
JHSlSia tha Wuuds was nomad strprenl only
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Trout, H. I. Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 198, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1941, newspaper, April 18, 1941; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1064936/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Library of Graham.