The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1940 Page: 1 of 12
twelve pages : ill. ; page 20 x 15 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
I
The Graham Leader
hibliiM la NartkwMt Tou
ESTABLISHED AUGUST 16. 1676.
With Malic* Toward Nona. With Charity Par AA
GRAHAM. TEXAS* THURSDAY, APRIL *5, 1940.
NUMBER THIRTY-BIGHT.
D.
canary’s heart beats 1,0011
a minute—as against twenty-
heats for an elephant, how fast
does an old maid’s heart beat when
•he receives a propasal ? Fast
enough! *
More Paving
Decided For
Bunger Road
Attendance of 300 Expected Here
Tuesday For Bi-District Meeting
Of Knights of Pythias Lodges
S. J. Roach Is
Candidate For
Representative
Another thing that is helping the
Graham area a great deal now is the
steady advance in the price of cattle.
Oura is a great cattle country and a
cow can he changed into ready cash
as quickly as a twenty dollar bank
note. And now that we have had
rains the gras* is growing rapidly,
to stake more beef.
IK' * * *
■A well liked, local banker and one
•f Graham’s leading citizens, passed
u clothing store window the other
Bay and saw a suit he liked very
much. He went in and bought it.
But when he got home and hung it
np in the doaet he noticed another
suit there, one he had been wearing
for months, exactly the same color
and pattern of the new purchase. He
had not noticed the color he had been
wearing enough to remember it. Now
he has four trousers and two coats
just alike—but he likes ’em, so what i'J
difference does it make, after all ?
If we men who wear one color, one
pattern and one style, are contented
with it, and some of us don’t notice
the difference, whose business is it
anyway? Why take from our ladie*
any of the attention and interest in
their ewer changing styles and colors
of drees?
• • •
—-Tamest Tucker, candidate for
County Clerk, while working
diligently the other day for votea,
drove hia car up to the front gate
of a farm home. iHe got out and
S. J. Roach of Eliasville, has au-
thorised this paper to announce that
he is a candidate for State Repre-
of
the
A big, vicious dog roared out at him.
Tucker debated in his mind whether
to strike the dog and lose the vote
^ ofea unwthe chance of losing his leg
yfjmd save the vote. But while gluing
hia eyes on the dog to keep him at a
distance, another big dog alipped up
from the rear and nailed his teeth
into Tucker's leg and also tore a
goad pair of pants. After candidate
and farmer had shaken hands and
the acquaintance waa made, Tucker
came back to Graham to get the
bleeding wound treated, and for a new
pair of pants, ready to hit the road
again. But to hia chagrin, found that
the poll tax records show the man
who owns the dogs, has no vote this
year anyway.
see
What are baby guineas called? A
lot of folks have been asking that
Chief of the several road improvj-
ment developments of the week for
Young county waa the decision to ex-
tend the paving on the Graham Bun-
ger road over all that sector from
Graham to the Brazos river bridge.
The WPA engineer was here
Wedneeday and began plans for the
paving and studied the right-of-way
for It.
And from the forks of the road a
mile and a half out from Graham,
where the road to Possum Kingdom
dam turns to the left, the new right
of way for the paving to the bridge
will go straight, on the new route,
selected and paid for by the county
several years ago, across the Ander-
son pasture to the top of the hill
and straight into the bridge. This
will save making the crooks and
steep hill that now exist in the old i
route fo the river bridge.
This decision doubles the amount
of road to be topped and work is
expected to be started on it soon,
Judge Remington said.
Six State highway engineers who
have been working for ten day* on
the right-of-way for the new paving
of the Graham-to-Loving road, are sentative for this legislative district.
the paving sometime after July
when funds will be available.
nearing completion of that job and | composed of Young and Jack coun-
all plans and specifications, so work .ties, subject to action of the demo-
may be expected to be started on cratic primaries.
1, | Mr. Roach was reared in Young
county and has lived here most of
| his life. He is well and favorably
known over a large part of the dis-
trict and is considered one of the
best students of governmental af-
fairs, particularly legislative matters,
in this section.
He received a liberal education, in
public schools and in Austin College
and in the University of Texas. For
Fifty Farmers
Hear Discussion
Soil Conservation
soil and water conservation, explain- be*n *ngaged in ranching — —
ed in detail the new Texas/ Soil and C1**1- Fork o{ the Brazos near Elias
law to fifty viH«-
Mr. Roach has reared a family
Water Conservation
farmers of Young and Anjher eoun-
An attendance of 300 is expected
here Tuesday night at a joint meet-
ing of Knights of Pythiaa “Round-
Up Clubs’’ of districts one and two,
to which the Graham chapter will
be host, according to W. D. M(‘Ear-
lane, Chancellor Commander of the
local lodge.
The meeting will be held in the
First Methodist Church. Repairs
and improvements now being made
on the lodge hall will not be com-
pleted in time for the meeting.
Supper will be served and the busi-
ness meeting held, after which the
meeting will be thrown open to the
pdblic and each delegation will pre-
sent some form of entertainment.
Representatives are expected from
Henrietta, Wichita Falls, Electra, 1
Vernon, Throckmorton, Archer City,
and Seymour in district one and from
Breckenridge, Eliasville, Cisco, Min-
eral Wells, Comanche, Brownwood,
Gordon. Graford, and Rising Star in
district two. In addition invitations
have been sent to Gainesville, Fort
Worth and other cities.
National and state officers of the
organization
guests have promised attendance at
Prominent Legion
Leader To Be Speaker At
Meeting Here Next Week
Members of the Ligon-Daniel post
of the American Legion are making
final preparations to entertain Le-
gionnaires from surrounding cities
on Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and
6, when the local post will be host
at a convention of the 13th district.
Representatives from Wichita
Falls, Vernon, Jacksboro, Decatur,
Bowie, Quanah, Denton, Henrietta,
Crowell. Seymour, and other cities
are expected to be present for the
meeting Saturday night and Sunday.
Lou J. Robert, Texas Department
Commander of the American Legion
will he guest speaker. Other Legion
officials and prominent visitors will
also attend.
Registration of guests will begin
Sautrday afternoon at the office of
the Graham Chamber of Commerce
in the Memorial Auditorium. The
I to be held in Graham Saturday and ' event will
the meeting, among them Frank Sunday, May 4 and B. He is at pres- * anc*> atartmg at 9 ocock Sat-
Kmith, state Grand Chancellor, Ed ent assistant general manager of the
Clark and John Lee Smith, national Panhandle Power and Light Corn-
officers, and others.
AAA Mattress Plan
Is Organized For
Young County
At a joint meeting of the Young
County Land Use Planning Commit-
tee, Home Demonstration Council,!
Commissioners’ Court and represents-1
ChSftfbJTs ST Crmfnferce,
the first steps were taken in a move-
ment to organize and establish com-
munity mattress making centers hi Hearings were started
Young county as an aid to low in- court at Graham Wednesday
pany of Borger. He was elected
commander at the annual Depart-
ment convention at Waco, August 28,
1939.
Hearing Held
In Graham On
LandFor Lake-
gi<
sd in county
;sday on con-
ties at Olney in the city hall laat there and ia considered a man of high com' rur*1 fami,i**- atateB D A dem nation proceedings filed in the
Friday. Mr. Taylor of the Soil Oon- 'deala and has been active in support Adam* secretary, Young County court by the Brazos River Authority
. - - ’ - ^ ‘ .11 a.___a.: _ is. ■
serration Service from Decatur as- ot a11 conatructive affairs of the
sisted.
community at large.
On May 26, land owners of Young I" addition to giving definite and
county living in the upper Trinity . particular study to legislative affairs
watershed, lyinR north of highway and governmental problems in this
199 and east of highway 79 will have *tate for more than five years, he
an opportunity to vote as to whether, "1*® studied in California the work
or not they approve or disapprove the 'nff* °f the social security laws of
creation of a soil and water conser that state gaining knowledge with
ration district on this watershed, reference to that particular issue
states D. A. Adam, county agent. , which ia a major issue now in Texas
Other meetings to be held in eon- politics,
nection with the election will be held I" hi* announcement Mr. Roach
at the following places: m«de the following statement rela-
Markley, Friday, April 26, at 7:80 tive to tome of the major proposi-
p. m. in school house; Loving, Wed- tiona that will be issues in Texas
”1,7U nesday, May 1, at 7:80 p. m. in achool politic, thi. year:
! Should IhOTa*: Jaa". Thursday, May 2, at' “If I am eleetod to the Legislature
^ . 7:80 p. m. In school house. I will make it my primary Purprm.
such
arouse the interest of so many people i
we do not know. And a lot of an- I
have been given—besides the Fklf Official*
w. know what *j Di»cu*» Feeder
r cans me grown guineas, - . . __ .
be tries to call from the barn S*le In Meeting
the house and can’t,
urday evening, with an orchestra se-
enred by Tom Edwards, chairman of
the dance committee. Visiting le-
gionnaires will he admitted on regis-
tration and guests will also be in-
vited.
Reception committee for the con-
vention is composed of C. B. Greene,
chairman, Gus Spivey, W. B. iFults,
Charles Atkinson. Sam Ligon, Charles
Hinson, W. L. Scott, W. B. Bellomy,
John Blunt.
All Legionnaires will assemble at
the Legion Hall Sunday morning at
10:30 and will go in formation to
services at the First! Methodist
Church at 11 o’clock, when Rev. E. W.
idgee oHasstscbthe.-wprices.-■»—
Following the church services Le-
gionnaires and Auxiliary members
will attend a banquet in the basement
the Memorial Auditorium. W. D.
McFarlane will act as toastmaster.
Mayor P. M. Nicolett will deliver the
welcome address and a response will
Land Use Planning committee, Each on some land needed for the lake .
farm family, including owners, op-'.re. I* m*d' by John Rhea oi WicWt*
era tors, tenants and laborers having i
i Falls.
. income of *400 00 or less for Thi* phMe " W* nearin* "»* ! Miss Betti Jo Friedel will give •
a gross income of *400.00 or leas tor 4,fl Mrej belonging to H. T. Glide- 1
1939 i. eligible to participate in the „ prominent ranch
man in the
1.U H..CK.P 2 SnJT’JS
man, district agents of the Extension |COInmitte€ to mgne on teniM of
Service were in charge of the meet- ,on V.,UM are mU ^ inv0,Ted
Ing. Con.mun.ty center., .. well as L the setUement ,nd ,nd
committees who will be in charge of otW witneM„ were heard ,t the
these centers are to be named and
_ ___awer.
4)rmer calls the
‘f
►
'and practice to carry out as near as
j possible the expressed wishes of the
[majority of my constituents of the
district I serve. I think that is*the
1 first fundamental principle that
should govern a representative of
■ratood. But that i of »• *** C*"1™' pWgTtob a'." ^ncST^shal!
ineas are called | Wednesday afternoon at the Cham- ( f effort to our debtll
nary say. a ;W of Commerce office^ discussed ^ sUt,. in , re,gon.ble p.riod,
- » » young | Plan* for promoting a feeder sale of too eudden and undue bur-
No, that's a baby here.,i" 9ePte"’b*r den of taxes to accomplish that fact.
* No. that’, a baby Invitation* wil, be ma. ed soon to a ^ ^ ^ , ]ed gine^
act answer i. th.t 'oorn^r ot representative rancher, eff<jrU ^ ^ duplic>Uonfc of
•re guinea poults, also > *• territory to ettend a meeting fOT#ninwIltal ofnce8 ,^ncle, and
turkey poults, grouse,with fair officials. |functions and effecting economise to
poults, pheasant poults. In fact to --
call a baby chicken a chicken poult I Nr*. Thomas L. Shields of Bryson
would be correct. The guinea fowl ▼ipltod here Wednesday.
announced next week. This program
has been made poaeible through a
cooperative effort of the Federal Sur-
plus Commodities Corporation, Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration,
Extension Service and other Federal
agencies.
Applications must be made to and
approved by the County Agricultural
Adjustment Administration commit-
tee. Each application approved by
the county committee will receive
fifty pounds of cotton and enough ___________ ___
ticking to make one mattress. All the matter will be settled within
mattresses will be made under the , other cases of land con-
supervision of the iHome Demonstra- jdemnation are also to be heard soon,
tion Council and Extension Service, > these proceedings being brought so
hearing. The board named under
the law by the court to bring in a
recommendation in the matter, is
composed of W. H. Baker of Loving,
Frank Beard of Newcastle and Gentry
Williamson of Jean.
After being in session all day the
hearing wag recessed until a report
from the Bra so* board can be heard
as to whether it will be agreeable to
decide on the value of the land that
will be covered at regular lake level
or at flood-tide level. It ia expected
known beat in this country origin-
ated in Africa, the L*tin name being
Gutora pucherani. and belongs to the
sub-family Numidinae. But if you
want to call "*m, don’t do it; they
probably wouldn’t come anyway.
Home say they raise ’em for their
egge, declared by some to be bettor
than chicken eggs; others keep them
hecaose o' their much noise to scare
hatkjft away—-other* don't keep
ause of the noise, which a
uit makes when he grows
raise a few guinea poults
■ turkeys because the guinea
visit
'hold down our itate operating ex-
(Continued on back page)
Joe Smith of Jean was a Graham
visitor Tuesday.
4 —
'Mrs. C. L. Purdue of Olney visited
here this week.
trious Scandinavian! have contribut-
ed much to the world’s progress and
have set the pace in much enterprise.
For instance, in Sweden 46 per cent
of all the farmWvtre equipped with
electricity, and the nation has a
population of 6,260,000, similar t«
Work Started
On Presbyterian
Manse Building
Adam announced. |
Much Interest In
First Skeet Shoot
At Stovall s Well
the way will be deer to close the
dem, to be finished May 14 and per-
mit the lake to fill.
that in Texas, and exports $406,000.-
start pecking at every little 1000 In steel. Iron ore, and wood. Den
more enthusiastically and teach > mark has a population of 8,700,000
pouRe to aat grain mash and exports $880,000,000 annually,
quicker. ' Norway has a population of 2300,00u
* * * and axport
I Many may think that Norway, of the me
the earth.
The first skeet shoot of the season
was held at Stovall’s Hot Water Weil
Wednesday aftemon with several
Graham marksmen participating with
much interest.
This is one of the sport spots of
thi* section of Texas and the skeet
range is one of the best in the South-
Construction began Wednesday on west, built and maintained by Mr.
I the new pastor's residence for the I **re. E. C. Stovall, who are ard-
Firet Presbyterian Church, which | «nt skeet fans and who invite any
will be located at 911 Third street. (other, interested to participate there
Guy Wignell has the contract f«r for the pleasure of it.
the Presbyterian manse, which wil! Those taking part Wedneeday afl-
ba a two-atorv modem brick veneer, i amoon and the score made were as
The building will have a number follows:
of rooms and be modern throughout, Mre. E. C. Stovall— 21-16 Total 87
and It is located on a plot 96$ feat J. Q« Staples ------22-M-64 Total 99
by MO feet deep. Bill Loving........11-11-19 Total 68
* R S. Cox ..........It* Total 44
Deep Test By
Zweifel Near
Graham Watched
ninety days R.
20-20 Total 40
What may prove to be one of the
set profitable and interesting deep
teats yet made in Young county l*j
the Martin No. 8 being drilled by
Henry Zweifel, et al, in the J. Gates
survey, abstract 111, four miles east
of Graham.
The hole has reached a depth of
about 4900 feet and the drill was in
the EUenberger lime over 200 fact.
Oil saturation had bam found In
Gib deep strata of the Ellenberger
hut operators wave drilling ahead to
make a real deep teat of it. The
Caddo production, found in the other
1$ producing wells of the Zweifel
interests in that area, waa
through In this test with the
special reading on “Preservation of
Americanism.” The Sons of the Le-
gion Drum and Bugle Corps from
Electra will present special music.
State Commander L*u Roberts will
be the guest speaker.
Following the banquet members of
the Legion will retire to the main
auditorium for a regular business
session, which will be conducted by
District Commander Howard ^ud-
gins. A meeting of the Ladies’ Aux-
iliary will be held in the Legion Hall.
Graham FFA Boys
Place First In
State Contest
Representatives of the Graham
Future Farmer chapter were awarded
first place in the Entomology con-
test in state judging contests held
at A. and M. College, Principal O. B.
Rose announced Tuesday morning
after receiving a telegram from A.
and M.
The three boy* on the team, Billy
Herman, Frank Rickies and Lauriea
Boyle, will receive a trip to Kansas
City, Missouri, in November to com-
pete in the national judging contests.
Also representing the Graham
chapter were Robert Butler, Donald
Butler and H. L. Parsons, who en-
tered the Farm Shop contest.
The Graham delegation made a to-
tal of 2013 points in the entomology
division. Frank Rickies eras high
individual in the state in the contest.
Approximately 8600 Future Farm
era competed in the 10 contests of
the annual Smith-Hughes day state
T
**.
In the poultry judging contest Me-
gargel tied with Lock art ia 3. C.
White Leghorns.
The Farm Shop contest was won
by Throckmorton with 2934 points.
Tad Armstrong Throckmorton be
r high individual
Mra. 8. V.
land Mrs. Ott
31-24 Trial 44 This is the deepest test made thus \ Grmha"
?r: * s
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Trout, H. I. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1940, newspaper, April 25, 1940; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1116176/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Library of Graham.