The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1943 Page: 1 of 6
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WORTHAM JOURNAL
Volume 46
WORTHAM, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1943
Number 19
Avon Theatre
WORTHAM, TEXAS
A Dunlap Operated Theatre
ADMISSION
Children
Adults__
Colored Balcony
10c------Tax lc—_ Total__r 11c
... 25c-----Tax 3c—r— Total--28c
20c-Tax 2c_____Total_____22c
Friday and Saturday Sept. 10-11
Star Dust on the Stage
Gene Autry - Smiley Burnette
September 12-13 Saturday Prev.
Sunday Matinee - Monday
Palm Beach Story -
Clandette Colbert - Joel McCrey
Sept. 14 - 15 - 16
Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday
Reap the Wild Wind
Paulette Goddard - Ray Milland ^
Friday and Saturday Sept. 17 - 18
Sunset Serenade
Roy Rogers-
Beginning of Serial
G-Men’s Black Dragon
Their Eyes Need Good
mm ^Jiqkiinq,
NOW, MORE THAN EVER, thoii
•yes neod good lighting. Tot*i show
that 35 par cant of oH children da-
valop dafactiva eyesight during ^
school and collaga years . .. due *
largely to insufficient light. Don't let
this happen to your child because
you failed to provide good light for
him to study by.
Although there will be no more
I.E.S. lamps manufactured for the
* duration, we give you these five
points for protecting precious eye-
sight.
1. Keep lamp bulbs and fixtures
/' clean.
2. Avoid direct rubric light globes. Use indirect re-
flectors When-ver pos.ib*e.
S. Don't work In y-ur own s1 c.dow, especially on close work.
4. Use the right site globe to supply enough light and the proper
kind of light.
I. Don't waste electricity.
IITTIR L I • H T far IITYIR SISHT
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Southwestern
PUBLIC SERVICE
Company ^
Quota of $434,000
For Freestone County
In Third Victory Loan
With the invasion of Europe al-
ready underway, bond money today
means more than ever in terms of
actual attack and destruction of the
enemy.
Attack ifieans bombers and block-
busters, as well as invasion craft,'
fighter planes, tanks, gliders and
geeps will be needed in increasing
numbers to continue carrying the
fTght to Berlin, Tokio and other
■stellites.
Freestone County’s quota in the
Third Victory Loan, 3434,000, ^will
buy two bombers, eight blockbusters
and one divebomber.
The drive opened September 9th,
and ia to continue through Septem-
ber or until the quota ia raised, ac-
cording to Noel Hollingsworth, chair-
man for the county.
Rev. K. B. Echols
KIRVEN NEWS
Mrs. Charley Paige of Waco was
a Kirven visitor Monday.
Tom Keys of Cotton Gin spent
Sunday with W. F. Whatley and
Ruby Kate.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Spurgeon and
Teddy of Mexia visited Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Richardson.
Mr. and Mrs. Olen Roguemore of
Houston visited Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Whitehead Sunday.
Mrs. Carl Murmon of Orange ia
■pending a few days with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Richardson.
Mrs. Garvis Jackson and Mrs. Har-
ry Hughes of Houston spent the week
end in Kirven.
News of The Boys in Service
School News
Men’s Bible Class
i Reporting News Items _
- Sgt. E. L. Lamb,stationed at Carls-' “°nday Septemb" »*■ b“8 bccn
bad, New Mexico, was here Sunday ^theopeningd.teofthe Wor-
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. th<"" ?tubHc Sch,001' The buse» W,I!
E. Lamb. Sgt. Lamb made the trip mak<: tbelur U8U“' run 80 08
from Carlsbad to Corsicana by Air at 8cb°°' by 3:45' excePl that Wo?h-
piM tm School District is not operating
_v_ I in Tchuacana Valley. Drivers are:
Capt W. R. Sneed, MCAAF, as ar- C’ L Tackitt, McLeod; Marion Math-
rived on his new assignment at Wal-1 Rushing; A. J. Lane, Currie;
ter Reed General Hospital, Washing-! Henry White- Wortham. No changes
ton, D. C„ for temporary duty. Hei hnve been made in the running of tho
wants the Journal sent to his new ad-! ^useB at ^is time. Pupils should go
dress. He says" tell everybody helloJ to their r00ms and c°me to the audi-
and I will be back as soon as it is! torium *t the sound of the bell. A
New Pastor For
The Baptst Church
The First Baptist Church of Wor-
tham which has been pastorless for
some time has called Rev. K. B.
Echols, now enrolled in the Seminary
at Fort Worth from which'institution
he will take his degree the ensuing
year. His w ork with the Wortham
Church began the first Sunday in
September. •
Rev. Echols past has been both col-
orful and varied. He spent a quarter
of a century in the Southwest—the
“Land of magnificent distances and
charming difficulties.”
Previous to his call to the ministry
he followed the call of the open
range, his theme song being, “Get
Along Little Dogie, Get Along.” In
addition to the routine work of the
cowboy he b ought and shipped cat-
tle for some large outfits in Arizona
and California. But his special de-
Mr Mr. Din:. X, u__i.__ was taming the unruly bronc.
of Fort Worth are visiting MrJ^hn* He has ridden the “rOU*h 8trin*” for
nie Marberry and family.
Misa Wanda Allen who is employed
in Houston spent the week-end with
homefolks.
Mrs. Albert Tomme and daughter,
Sandra Jean, of Dallas spent tho
wek-end Vith Mr. and Mra. M. R.
Scarborough in the Shanks commun-
ity.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Teer and children
of Houston spent Saturday in Kirven.
They were enroute to Daingerfield
whefe he will be employed in the
steel mill.
Walter K. Boyd
Died at Home in Mexia
Funeral services for Walter K.
Boyd, age 62 years, who died at his
home in Mexia Sunday, were held
from the First Methodist Church in
Mexia Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Rev. C. O. Shugart conducted the ser-
vices and interment was in the Mexia
cemetery.
Mr. Boyd was publisher of the
Mexia Daily News for 15 yean, hav-
ing told his interest in the paper a
few yean ago. After selling his
newspaper interest he entered the
mercantile business in which he was
engaged at the time of his death.
Surviving are hit wife of Mexia;
a son, Walter K. Boyd, Jr., U. S.
Army Air Corps; a brother, John R.
Boyd of Enterprise, Miss., and other
relatives.
>ne if Car
years bar
b and 1
-H"*
Please see H. C. Meador or myself
at office of phon my residence No. 1.
Thank you. —Mra. K. W. Sneed.
such outfits of Texas and New Mexi-
co as the Mattadores, the Dewitt
Reynolds, Bar-Y, and although it has
been a number of years since he rode
the range as a cowhand he thinks he
could still ride “a ‘purty* good one if
he had to.” Up until three
ago he kept a top roping horse
still retains hie saddle, chaps,
and the rest of his cowboy parapher-
nalia, he says “just in case he gets
to itching to ride again.”
His work in the ministry has been
filled with joy and sorrow, he says.
It has ranged in type from missiona-
ary to the lone cowboy, the benighted
Mexican and Pagan Indian, to pas-
torates in County Seat towns of
Texas, oil field towns, winter resort
towns. He has carried the gospel to
the remote sections of the Rockies
and the Ozarks, and served State
Evangelist in Illinois.
Rev. Echols hopes to carry a colo-
ny into the Plateau Country of In-
terior Brazil when the war is over,
and establish there a Baptist school
and mission headquarters for the
preaching of the Gospel and the
training of native Christians over
that vast, benighted region. He has
a faithful and consecrated wife, who
is as eager and active in the work as
he is. Mrs. Echols is also within a
year of graduation from the Seni-
nary at Fort Worth. '
Funds have been approved to pro-
vide complete tuition, fees, stipends,
maintenance and uniforms for an an-
ticipated 10,175 student members of
the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps. Over
600 state credited schools of nursing
have applied to the U. S. Public
Health Service for participation in
the program. To date, 67 have been
approved.
over.”
A leter from- Joseph Kyle, some-
where in North Africa, to his parents
in part says, “We got our African
Company medals some time back.
Also got one for good conduct. My
conduct has improved quite a bit
since my school days. There were
about 30 of the 160 or 170 in the
company to receive the medal for
good conduct.”
Eng. Henry E. Meador, present ad-
dress, Armed Guard Center, New
Orleans, La., in a letter to his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Meador,
writes, “The skies are blue, the sea
green, is all the news I know.” Says
e can’t sleep much, the reason afraid
something would happen and would
not get to see it. Wortham Journal
only mail he had received, but trains
didn’t run where he was, attributed
the cause of scarcity of mail, but
would be grand when he receives a
big bunch of mail at one time.
FROM S.SGT. JACK STUBBS
Dear Men’s Bible Class:
Just a short letter to say I am still
m California, but have been moved
out of the desert.
I am in Camp Cooke. It is located
between Los Angeles and San Fran-
cisco, and is one of the largest Army
Camps in California. We have nice
barracks to live in and .good food.
I still enjoy, and look forward to
giving the JaBomL each week, it
is like a visitor from home.
I want to thank the lien’s Bible
Class again for myself, and all the
boys in Service, for this kind deed.
Sincerely,
Staff Sgt. Jack Stubbs.
Back to School.
V
We wish to extend our sincere and best wishes to the officials,
teachers, and students of the Wortham Public School at they begin
another school year. Past achievements lead us to predict continued
success in the forward march of our school.
The First National Bank
WORTHAM, TEXAS
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Deposits Guaranteed np to $6,000.00
Buy Bonds
For Victory
Please Do Your Part in tho
Third War Loan Drive
a:
—Strange Insurance Agency.
Freestone County
Farmers Plan Large
Acreage.Hairy Vetch
By James M. TERRELL, Secretary
Freestone County A.C.A.
With the harvest season well under
way farmers are making their plans
for an early planting of some 2,000
acres hairy vetch. With much of the
land being in need of additional
humas matter as*well as additional
nitrogen this crop has been found to
be well adapted where it is properly
planted immediately following the
harvest of cotton, peanuts, or other
crops. While it is better adapted to
be planted followed by peanuts since
they may be planted later, good re-
sults have also been secured where
vetch has been followed by cotton.
W. D. Suttle, chairman AAA com-
mittee, this week stated that the use
of vetch had increased his cotton
yield by 500 pounds seed cotton per
acre. On a reent visit to the ranch
Robrt F. Rily, prominent Teague
hanker, a six acre plot which has been
planted to vetch followed by cotton
for the past two years will yield ap-
proximately 3 1-2 bales, whereas he
stated that the past years an aver-
age on the entire plot of 17 acres
was 2 1-2 bales.
Larger yields per acre is a partial
solution to the acute labor shortage
facing Freestone County farmers and
will increase the fertility of their soil
so that it might meet the demands
made upon i by a nation at war.
Plans have been completed for the
distribution of vetch seed through
the Farmers Gin Company at Fair-
field, and R. H. Waldrop at Teague.
Phosphate to use in connection with
vetch will be distributed from Comp-
ton’s Warehouse in Teague on Wed-
nesday of each week, beginning soon,
or purchased from the local dealer.
Applications fqr vetch and phos-
phate must be made through the lo-
cal AAA office and secured in the
manner stated above, or purchaaeed
from local dealers. Request* for this
material are being made by Freestone
County fanners ranging from 5 to 50
acres per farm.
Since many farms have enough un-
earned soil building allowance to cov-
er the cost of this material, it is felt
short program will be given to which
the public is invited. After the pro-
gram, grade pupils will report to their
teachers in charge as announced last
week. Announcement will be repeated
in the auditorium. High school pu-
pils will report to their respective
rooms and here each one will fill out
an enrollment blank and two program
cards, one for himself and one for
the office. He will carry these pro-
gram cards with him to the library
where his books will be issued to
him. Pupils with irregular credit*
may find it a little bit difficult to get
a satisfactory program, becausy of
the limited number of subjects to bo
offered. Copies of the schedule will
be in each ro6m for the use of pupils.
All pupils will be required to take
four subjects regardless of the cred-
its he may have, because pupils ara
in school for benefit of school rather
than simply to earn credits. The
further reason for this that allowing
pupils to take less than four subjects
lowers the standard of the school. A
final reason is that a large majority
who graduate each year nevr go to
school any more. All should get all
possible out of this last year’s work.
Yes, we are going to have exemp-
tions this year. It U going to be
more difficult to be exempt than it
was last year. Qne mu^ make 90 in
a subject and not have more than
ten points off during the six weeks.
For example, you cannot have five
off one six-weeks and fifteen another,
it must be ten each six-weeks and no
more.
We want the usual clubs to func-
tion this year. The F. F. A. Chapter,
the Homemaking Club, the Press
Club, and the Hobby Club. The
Club will with the help of the pupils
get up the school news under the
faculty supervision.
At the present writing the plan
is for Mrs. Williams to teach English,
Mr. C. G. Masterson to have commer-
cial work, Mr. Culwell math, Miss
Margaret Davis and Mr. Mitchell vo-
cational work.
In closing I would like to say that
registrations should be completed
Monday and regular work started
Tuesday m orning.
C. G. MASTERSON,
Superintendent.
Robert Hankins, pastor; Sund
School at 9:46 a. m.; Worship
mon, 11:00 a. m.; Evangelistic
mon by pastor, 8:80 p. m.; Tbs
that a heavy demand will be wads for' evening Worship and Prayer at
this material. • • / You are invited.
James M. Jenkins Died
At Home in Streetm&n
Last Saturday Night
Funeral sendees for J. M. Jenkins,
age 88 years, longtime resident of
the Streetman community, who died
at his home Saturday night, was held
from the First Baptist Church in
Streetman Tuesday afternoon at 3
o’clock, Rev. W. M. White and Rev.
O. B. Barton conducted the service!,
and interment was in the Birdston
cemetery.
Mr. Jenkins, a native of Hill Coun-
ty, moved to the Streetman and Bird-
ston community 68 years ago. He
was a prominent landowner and cat-
tleman and was well known in this
section and other parts of Freestone
and Navarro Counties. He had been
a deacon in the Baptist Church the
past 40 years. He was also an active
worker in civic affairs.
Surviving are three sons, O. L.
Jenkins of Hamilton; F. B. Jenkins
of Streetman; M. J. Jenkins, Street-
man; six daughters, Mrs. C. P. Wa-
ters, Brisco; Mrs. M. S. Smith, Street-
man; Mrs. N. L. Mclver, Streetman;
Mrs. Floy Callan, Dallas; Mrs. W. A.
Dixon, Houston; Mrs. W. P. Pillans,
Charlotte, N. C.; a brother, J. J. Jen-
kins, Lorenzo; several grandchildren
and other relatives. He was father-
in-law of Mrs. Thelma Jenkins of
Wortham.
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Satterwhite, Ed. The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1943, newspaper, September 10, 1943; Wortham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1111641/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.