Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 145, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 17, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Graham Daily Reporter
They All Read ll — Therefore A First Claw Advertising Medium
VOLUME «.
GRAHAM. TEXAS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17. IMS.
Senator Connally l10"01 ?.oljs Fror
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*111VI v/Ullcl|luv | Honor roll* for the Junior High
__ ' School and the .East Ward School for
. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—U. S. the fourth six we*k p*r,od were an'
Senator Tom Connally wa. in the, ttU mornin« ** 0. V. Keen,
Walter Reed Hoepital today after, princip*1:
Collapsing at a banquet last night j Junior lfgh School, high honor
HU condition U not considered aer- roU; Blake Alluon, Pearl Faye Cor-
ious. It was said he was believed ley, Glee Clemente, Margaret Ann
to have had an attack of heart | Turner. Harvey Barnhart, Jon Blood-
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Young County Boyl pa
Receives Top
Price For Hogs
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trouble.
wdrth, Dean Taylor, Frances James,
Earline Pickard, Winnie Snodgrass,
Mary Ring, Charlene Burk, Joe Bus-
sey, James Jennings, Mary Bob
Turner, Mary ^Frances Harlan, Mary
Dell Brooks, Oleta Mae Cor, Leslie
McBride, Glyndon Van Horne, Vir-
ginia Barrow, Jerry Butler, Hazel
Byers, Elizabeth Deals, Frieda Fe-
gett, Shirley Guthrie, Lorraine Knox,
Rodger Martin, Kenneth Mobley,
Anna V. Moren, Allen McCleskey,
Harry Cain, Pollyanna Car bum, Jo
Frances Clark, Bobby Ruth Craw-
. . Steles petroleum Industry, tori, June Ford, Allan Guthrie, Sar
■*Xap4fflP^F. Iftcey, Dallas indtpen-1**' Beth Mayes, Eugene Schlittler,
dent oil operator, told the Texas Norman Stovall, Joan Stratton
Bankers’ Association at ita East | J*me*
Texas district meeting here Monday
morning
More Than Million
Texans Live On
Oil Industry
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 17,—Texas
oil reserves are the main collateral
for living of more than one million
Texane who get their livelihood from
etroleum industry,
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Each year the Texas oil and gas
Industry spends more than $150,000,-
•00 in payrolls, lease payments to
Texas farmers, taxes and other op-
erating expenses and plant invest-
ments, Captain Lucey reported. Any
industry which spends three-fourths
of a billion dollars a year in Texas
is bound to bring profound economic
benefits to the entire state and ita
citizens, he declared.
“As a matter ot fact,” the speak-
er said, "the Texas oil industry has
spent altogether about $600,000,000
more in Texas than it has ever got
< back. Official facts show that for
every dollar’s worth of crude oil
produced in Texas in the past fifty
ysar*. the oil .industry has spent
$1.10 here.
“Yet the bankers wno have sup-
plied the Texas industry with the
borrowed capital necessary to carry
on our great industrial development
are not alarmed by this excess. They
know that they have a margin of
safety in the great underground re-
serves of wco«r*"*,-t-kj)i| which con
atitute a valuable form of collateral.
"The men, women and children of
Texas making up more than one-
sixth of our population who depend
upon the petroleum industry for their
Immediate and future livelihood, also
have come to look upon the oil re-
serves as their margin of safety.
Oil is the bulwark of their present
needs and for their future existence.
With oil likely to be found and
produced in Texas for the next 100
years or more, certainly these mil-
lion Texans should be able to view
their future with conofidence.
Browder, Juanita
Clintcn
Dorothy Dean Forehand, Richard
Layfield, Betty Jean Lisle, Eva Lou
MullanaV, fcattie Lee Parrish.
BFSg M-r^TSJamed On ZSrJT&Z
Junior High School, low honor
rollrroll; Lodema Knox, Euell Way-
nick, Blanche Smith, Virginia Elliot,
■Harry McNeeley, Bill McFarlane
Doris Willis, Billy Armstrong, Nets
Fae Aston, Billy Jean Beckham,
Branys Bennett, Malcolm Crick,
Bobby Cox, Jackie Cencebaugh, Gor-
don Forehand, Reeves Moren, W. C.
Snodgrass, Dorece Whitaker, Wanda
Curry, Ophelia Armstrong, Joan
Falkinburg, Wilford tfUltz, Elizabeth
Hays, Virginia Helen Lundy, Dolores
Smart, Gwendolyn Anderson, Winono
Ball, Betty Ruth Cherryhomes, Mar-
garet Gibbs, Evelyn Lewis, Betty
Martin, Billy Tom Price, Monroe
(Robertson, Stuart Erikson, Anita
Ford, Jamas Hargrave, Wallace Jap*
lin,
field, June ! Singleton, Fay Settdn,
Lovetta Smith, Irene Townson, Win-
nie Mae Barnhart, Johnnie Mae Dab-
ney, Mary Stella Deeb, James Nor-
red, Billy Pankey, Spencer Street,
Ruth White, Tommy Butler, Fran
ces Chapin, Peggy Conklin, Jessie
Gtaht. Bertha ^earl Harlan, Kyle
Kerbow, Claudia Lennington, Mary
Hal Nance, Charles Walsh, Nan-
nette Winstead, Charles Albright,
Ruby Lois Barnhart, Mattie Lou
Bingham, Vernon Burns, Fbtelle Cu-
senbary, Milton Farmer, Eugene
Griffin, Peggy Grove, Ed Johnson.
Patsy Krause, Robert Moren, Lois
Armstrong, Maxine Aaton, Virginia
Banks. Sam Clark, Glen Cole, Regin-
ald Colley, Faye Edwards, Eileen
Fink, Velma Jo Ford, Alpha Gar-
rett, Betty Ruth Hayes, Winstead
Lamance, Jean Martin, Doris Jean
Miller, Betty Ragland, Ralph Ruben-
Parts Of West Texas Snowbound;
Traffic Is At Standstill Near Lubbock
TO COACH BOBCATS AT NEWCASTLE
Bobby Joe Shepard (left) of Lov-
ing,, is one of 100 “Gold Star” club
boys chosen from among 33,000 Tex-
as farm boys in 1939 for outstanding
work with swine. Last year Bobby
Joe earned $387 with four litters of
pigs from two sows from A. & M.
College and John Tarleton College.
He has been in club work only three
years. Tuesday he sold five pigs
about aix months old that averaged
223 pounds and drew the top price
of $5.30 a hundred pounds. Assistant
County Agent C. J. Huckabde was
in charge of the group of boys from
Young county who Joined the Tues
day sales parade on the Fort Worth
market.
I. T. Gilmer. Is
Traffic was at a standstill in sev-
eral counties in West Texas today,
| following a big snow Friday
Friday night.
The worst jam was caused a round
J Lubbock where hundreds of can
and trucks are stopped on the high
J ways, and many people were im-
ported marooned early this moraine
In one stretch of highway HE
miles west of Lubbock 400 cars were
reported early today to be stopped
by the heavy snow.
Part of the highway for a few
mi'es parallels a railroad where a
train was run out to pick up the
hundreds of stranded car owners
and passengers who left their auto-
mobiles.
Some suffering is feared for some
who are cut off from food and pro-
tection from the lowering tempera-
ture. m.- ' "
rice.
States Committee
“Yet it i. difficult to see howjko*ni*' Gwendolyn Wickens.
they can face the future1 with any j jrast Ward High honor roll: Jean
degree of asaurance wheh those With chestnut, Gerald Ferguson, Jarvij
selfish political interest are con- 1 p^rd, Janis Luker, Mary Catherine
stantly threatening to stjfle the nor- Martin, Betty Fay Sanders, Lafon
mal progress of the oil industry by Ruzbee, Joe Osby Gipson, John Car-
the imposition of excessive tax bur- ter }{arlan, Mary Emma Jennings,
deng upon the production of crude Biny Qene MoKibben, Lavaughn
oil. ______ 'sitton, Jack Walker, Bobby June
"The human element in the pet- jjapieSj Charlsie McGrew, Willene musicians, authors and poets series
roleum industry, of courve, brans- (F|tmm0ns, Mary Margaret Shaw, w*nt on **le at the loc*' Poat oMice
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Feh. 17
—1, T. Gilmer, superintendent ol
school*, Graham, Texas, has been ap
pointed a member .of the AH-West*
ern Administrators Convention and
Exhibit Committee, which is labor-
ing to bring educational conven-
Uons, now held in the Fast, into the
Wrest.
The teat of the strength of the
West is being made in connection
with the American Association of
School Administrators, who are be-
ing Invited to convene in the West
in 1942.
Appointment was made by John F.
Brady, Chief Deputy School Super-
intendent of San Francisco Schools
and President of the California
State Teachers Association.
Cfpted the position as head football coach at the Newcastle High School.
| Price played with the Bobcat., while attending high school here, and led
I them to a regional championship. He is one of the most popular men on
I the Aggie campus. He has earned three varsity letters in football. He
will open spring training for the Bobcats in the Utter part of March.
Price replaces Pete Acker, who has accepted the position left vacant
at Olney by the resignation of Coach Pattison.
British Step Up
Mobilization For
Extension of Front
| Two Elevens
At T.C.U. Look
Good Dutch Says
TORT WORTH.—One week of
spring grid practice has almost made
LONDON, Feb. 17.—Britain step-
I ped up mobilization to permit quick
enrolling of 250,000 conscripts or- Coach Dutch Meyer forget that hts
dered to register today for service,j H< rned Frogs finished the 1939 sea
and prepared for extension of the
war front.
Stamps Of New
Series Go On Sale
Two new stamps of the artists,
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cends all economic considerations. Hp)en Barron, Ruth Chestnut, Sue
_ The banker can atop lending oilmen Cleveland, Jon Cornish, Nancy Deeb,
money, and the investor can keep janpt Guthrie, Betty Ann McFar-
his funds in his boot when condi- ,ane Fiel<i Roebuck, Gwendolyn
Uont reach that stage where contin- Ronald Stephens, Annie Doris
,'ys4l ued development is made unprofit-, >pbcrni Caroleen Turner, Billy Kurk
able and the margin of safety is JuaneII Choate, Dorothy Marie Hel-
wiped out by burdensome legislation. ypy Edwin Hinson, Leon Johns,
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(Continued on page 4)
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Recruiting „JFor
Army la Resumed
The Army which has recently been
recruited up to 227,000 the authoriz-
ed strength, had temporarily sus-
pendel recruiting. Recruiting again
hat been resumed and recruit* are
being sought for duty hi the Ha-
waiian Islands in the several de-
partments. Also there are vacancies
for the Army Third Division with
station at San Francisco, California.
These ara very deesirable stations
for men entering the
are rapidly filled.
The Army Recruiting Office, at
Wichita Fills, Texas, la ipen every
week day except Sunday from 8:00
«. m. to 4:00 p. m.
Billie Gene Reynold*, Bill Rogers,
Homer Lee Thornton, Jr., Wanda
Burdick, Bobbie Wayne Cox, Nellie
Damron, Bobbie Doolen, Sara Fran
ces Effler, Elsie Faye Fegett, Billie
Lois Grove, Nana Harlan, Lillie
(Continued on page 2)
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WEATHER
WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy Sat-
urday afternoon, Sunday fair. Colder
in Rio Grande valley with frost Sat-
urday night probably. Rising temper-
atures Sunday
OKLAHOMA: Fair in Panhandle,
__ __ mostly cloudy central and east, rain
service and J or snow aast and south central, cold-
N er in aast portion Saturday night.
Sunday fair, somewhat warmer.
EAST TBXAS: Partly cloudy,
much colder with cold wave In eaat
and south portions Saturday night.
Sunday fair with slowly rising
Mayor Proclaims
“Texas Week” To
Be Observed Here
Mayor P. M. Nicolett has issued a
proclamation designating February
25th to March 2 as Texas Week, co-
inciding with a movement through-
out the state. -
It is a movement to add impetus
to all efforts for beautification of
Texas and for increasing industrisd
growth in this: great area. “
The proclamation follows:
Whereas, the State of Texas is
an empire within itself, vast in ite
area, unparalleled in the glory of it*
heroic deeds and romantic history,
unrivaled in the splendid program
and achievements of its brilliant
past and living present, and am-
mstched in the marvelous oppor-
tunities it has in store for its citi-
zens ever in the future; and
Whereas, we are approaching the
date. March the Second, which marks
the birth,, of Texas Liberty and the
beginning of the Republic of Texas,
and its subsequent entry into th*
Sisterhood of States of this‘ Union;
and
Whereas, there is a movement
throughout this State that Tens
Week, beginning February 25th and
closing Msrch 2nd, 1940, be properly
observed in commemoration of the
birth of the Republic of Texas;
Now, Therefore, I, P. M. Nicolett,
Mayor of the City of Graham, in ac-
cordance with Senate COi
The new conacripts included Brit-
ons now 23 years old. They will
probably be placed under arms in
March to increase the army to 2,-
560.000 during 1941.
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son in the next-to-cellar position, | Resolution No. g of the Forty-Ssc-
lowest spot since 1924. ond Legislature, proclaim Texsua
“the boys look so good I’m afraid'week and invite our citisens to oh-
to believe it!” Meyer observed j serve Texas Week, not as a season
t “We’re going to have two full elev-1 holidays but as a week of better
ens with almost equal ability, which ] work and better living;
means that our reserve strength! first. I urge every home, office,
will be much better than last year, j place cf business and industry, every
At aea. the day’s reports listed lf we don’t climb a few notches up I public and private school to fly a.
the bombing and possibly sinking the conference ladder I’ll be a very Texas Flag each day during Texas
Weeek, raising and lowering it with
proper ceremony and:
Second. 1 urge all
schools and
Longfellow, both American
worth
poets.'
Three other stamps featuring
American poets will be placed J »j-
aale soon, the purple three-cent
Jamer Ruaaell Lowell stamp and th<
blue five-cent Walt Whitman stamp
on February 21, and the brown ten-
cent James Whitcomb Riley stamp
on February 25.
Poat office officials state that
collectors desiring these stampr
should secure them on the first day
of sale, as only a limited supply
has been received her*.
Gladys Foley of South Bend,
teacher in I he Throckmorton schools
wap a visitor in Graham Friday^
of a German submarine by a British much surprised coach.”
plane, announced four neutral ships i Particularly pleased is the Dutch-
sunk or missing, one small British man with a sophomore backfield of
merchantman sunk, and two Finnish speedsters—Dean Bagley, quarter ; com,JrPW to observe Texas Week with
boat* bound for Britain captured.J Gur Bierman. lefthalf; Leslie Curb,: appropnlltr assembly programs:
Twenty-two lives were loot aboard right half; and Bill Ramsey, full. make Texas Wee education week
More than satisfactory, too, ha* |
home, school, and office; plant
trees and flowers and dedicate them;
and make patriotic pilgrimages to
today.
One sale today are the two-cent
red stamp of John Oreenleaf Whit-
£.rrlngd.‘^Vh^ ^ the ^ujfcek'Odlejo ,MK>k W~k: Te“*
A pilot who caught the submarine on t|,e ,<A« te!am
on the North Sea bombed it just as
the U-boat, fleeing the plane, sub-
merged. One bomb fell directly
ahead1 of the periscope and another
burst just in front of the ism
spot. Patches of oij appeared and
no further -trace of the submarine
was seen.
It was aaid unofficially that nearly
50 German submarines had been
sunk thus far in the war.
8l> PFH VISORS MEET I
Mis* Lucy Ann Cowan of Wieh
ita Falls and Mia* OUn Chrisms'
of Eastland attended a conference
of library supervisor* With Miss
Pauline Petitt here Friday.
temperature hi northwest portion.
Fresh to strong northerly winds on
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Leon W. Teague of Jacksboro and
Mias Margie Rath Ward of Jacks
boro.
Melvin Wheeler of Orth and Mias
Rut hie Doll Lowack of Archer City.
i, B. Allen of Brnham and Mrs.
Etna Delany of Graham.
And Meyer doesn’t complain about , . ,_i
. ,,, srs,*rsr 3
and one sophomore that average* | mornb„r!.Mp jn th„ Junkv
around 210 backed up by seven re-, of ^ Tex>> Sute Ha|tor.
l,ef men who will average almost., Aaa<)ciation and;
.... . , .. Third. I urge the people ia the
Most of the first week s practice
session, was devoted to work on a. (CoDtlnuwi on back p^l
running attack. The 66 candidate*) ____
have been divided into two squad*— *
the Purples and the Whites—and A GOOD S10N
two games will be played each week
on Wednesday and Saturday.
Rain Totals .75;
Colder Tongiht
Half of R<
salt is
Ukraine.
duaoa half of R
of its
There was a sudden drop in tem-
perature here today following rain
that continued from early Friday
>'• coal and half her morning Into Friday night, the pre-
by the Soviet rotation totaling .75.
t district ate* pro- Colder weather ia ferocast tonight
*• steel aad but dear with rtetag temperature
for
Legionnaire Bare J. Lefferts, of
Terre Haute, Ind., writes that ha
saw this sign in a crossroads gen-
eral store: *
“If you have nothing to da deal
do it here!”
A new electric lamp,
aa a 1,000 watt balk, but only half
the atee of a short load paneM, bee
been perfected In U. 8. experimental
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