Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1944 Page: 1 of 16
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EMPIRE, V©L Bf, No. 86; TRIBUNE, Vol. 88. No. 80.
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1944
SIXTEEN PAGES—Vol. 74, No. 6
USO NAMES MRS.
TOM DONNELL TO
EXECUTIVE POST
* Edgar Keeling Resigns Post
/ Tuesday, and Announces
Plans To Enter Army.
At a meeting held in the com-
mittee room of the Chamber of
Commerce Tuesday of the UBO
Council, Edgar Keeling offered his
resignation after serving more than
twelve months. Mrs. Tom Donnell,
local civic leader, was named to
succeed him.
In annuoncing his resignation
Keeling said that he was doing so
with regret, but that since he
would soon enter service in the Ar-
my it would no longer be possible
for him to serve.
Under the management of Keel
iqg the local council of USO has
worked out a program of enter-
tainment that has been highly
pleasing to men in the armed for-
ces who are stationed here and at
adjacent camps. Week-end enter-
tainment has been arranged at the
City Recreation Hall for the past
twelve months.
Valentine Program Planned
With Mrs. Rufus Higgs and Mrs.
Lawrence Keyser, senior hostess-
es, the council completed plans for
the Valentine dance at the City Re-
creation Hall next Saturday night.
Junior hostesses will be in formal
attire and Valentine decorations
will adorn the hall, and the theme
will thread through the refresh-
ment service. The program of mus-
ic will be another feature of the
plans for this enjoyable affair hon
oring the men in uniform.
Erath Service Man
Homesick for Texas,
Letter to Editor Says
, A letter that is much appreciated
was received late last week from
Pvt Ray P. Crews, A. W. operator,
attached to the Fourth Aik Forces,
Cambria, Calif.
Private Crews says in part, "I
am receiving the Empire-Tribune
and want you to know I am always
glad to get the paper and learn the
news about people in that part of
the world. •' ^ • *-*
“I am an A. W. operator 0r radar
man, and my duties are here on the
coast of California. I haven’t been
out of sight of the ocean in six
months, and believe me, the sea
breezes certainly do blow at times
However, we have a nice climate,
and it is a lot warmer here than in
Erath county, according to news in
the paper lately. California is a
pretty good state. I have been in
ten different states, including Okla-
homa, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mex-
ico California and Texas, and I dis-
tinctly prefer the latter, especially
in bluebonnet time.
“Let me thank Stephenville peo-
ple lor all they have done and are
55 *
do*ng for the boys in the service.
My buddie, Pvt. Carl R. Rasberry
asked me to put in a few words for
him, tell the folks hello, and thank
everybody for all of the nice things
they have done for us. He Is from
the Bluff Dale community, and we
came into the army together, and
have been together a lot and are
the best of friends. We wish every-
body well, and are looking eagerly
forward to the day when we can go
back to the best state in the union
—Texas.
I’ll tell the
World!
By
Rufup F. Higgs
STEPHENVILLE and Erath eoun-
° ty at this time perhaps have the
greatest opportunity fdr public
good that has been before them in
many years. No call ever submitted
to the people of this immediate ter-
ritory has more genuine merit than
the plan to establish a memorial
for the late Colonel Edwin Dyess,
who died in a plane crash in Cali-
fornia in December. It will be re-
membered that Colonel Dyess was
a student in Tarleton College for a
period of two years, graduating
from the local institution in 1986.
Soon afterward he entered the Air
Service and was a Jap prisoner of
war following the fall of Bataan.
Hia report on cruelties and atroci-
ties inflicted by the Japs is now be-
ing carried in newspapers and mag--
asines all over the world, this story
beir.fr told in complete detail a short
time before his untimely dentil.
T*HE proposed pflan is to establish
a memorial at Tarleton College
in honor of Colonel Dyess so that
in the days to come young men and
young women of Texas might have
an opportunity to complete their
(Continued on page four)
| QUALITY BEEF AIM OF MID-TEXAS BREEDERS
~1
The above animal, one of the
finest in Texas, shows the quality
breeders of Hereford cattle in
the Stephenville area are seek- Ifered for sale at the auction to be
ing. Some of the best bulls and held at the City Park here Wed-
cows to be found here will be of- | nesday of next week.
Dyess Memorial Gains
Momentum Each Day
The spontaneous drive to honor
the late Lieut. Col. William Edwin
Dyess of Albany and to reward de-
serving students with aid on college
fees through a Dyess Memorial
Scholarship Fund at John Tarleton
College, was gaining momentum on
two fronts Wednesday.
One was the appointment of a
citizens’ canvassing committee at
Stephenville and the other was a
student-inspired drive at Tarleton
“sparkplugged” by a Fort Worth
^The student is Leland B. Tripp,
17, a first-year student who is en-
listed in the Air Forces Reserve.
Dean J. Thomas Davis said Wed-
nesday that Tripp and other stu-
dents suggested to him Saturday,
during a bond sale rally* that bonds
be bought by students pnd contrib-
uted to the scholarship fund., —
Co-operation Pledged
"These students didn’t know Colo-
L. H. Vaughan Tells
In a Nut Shell of
Life in Kentucky
Writing from Lexington, Ky., to
renew his subscription to the Em-
pire-Tribune, which he calls that
“great moral and metropolitan
weekly,’’ L. H. Vaughan says,
criptly: “We certainly do enjoy
reading the home paper while we
are away up here in the Blue Grass
State, where race horses are plen-
tiful, but ‘corn squeezins’ are very
scarce. Both Mrs. Vaughan and
myself will be very thankful when
this war is over and we can return
to Stephenville, down in God’s
country, and reopen our electric
shop.”
CITY SCHOOLS
RECEIVE LARGE
TAX PAYMENTS
Collector Reports Big Portion
Of 1943 Levies on Property
Have Been Retired.
Added to an
cal schools. Jack Henderson, city
secretary-collector, said Wednes-
day that collections were satisfac-
tory in every way.
The* city has collected 85.1 per
cent of its 1048 levies for a total
of $20,189.86. In the opinion of city
officials the remaining fifteen per
cent will be paid within the next
sixty days. All unpaid levies, how-
ever, became delinquent February
1st and penalties will be added in
the future.
School tax collections were on a
ar with those paid the city, with
lffo^aid *n f°r * t0t*1 °f *28’’
The average of these two depart-
ments for the past several years
has been well above 90 per cent
collections.
Schools tyill receive other cash
during the year to make up its
total budget, much of it being from
the per capita payment of $25.00
on each scholastic. Schools also re-
ceive other amounts from tuition
fees and other allowances by the
State.
Only other funds to be received
by the city during the year will be
revenue from the water depart-
ment, fines and payments by utili-
ties for the use of streets and al-
i«y»-
nel Dyess, who left here in 1986,”
Dean Davis pointed out, “and they
were on midterm vacations when
the scholarship proposal was an-
nounced. This was their first ap-
portunity to do something about
it.”
Tuesday, he said, Tripp and other
students conferred with him and
then at a student body meeting,
Joe Grumbles of Route 2, San Saba,
student president, proposed that
the students pledge their co-opera-
tion. “Every student,” Dean Davis
said, “promised he would contrib-
ute.”
Working with Tripp and Grum-
bles is another student, Jack An-
derson of Stephenville. “It is a sort
of self-appointed committee,” Dean
Davis said, “and funds collected
are being deposited in Tripp’s name
as treasurer. They now have $100
and when all contributions are in
they will buy war bonds to be turn-
ed over to tne Dyess fund.’”
Committee Members
Members of the citizens’ canvass-
ing committee are Rufus Higgs,
chairman; and Judge Ernest Bel-
cher* Dan D’Arcy, Telephus Caw-
yer and L. B. Howard. They were
appointed Tuesday by Mayor J. W.
Clements and Ivan P. Oliver, Lions
Club president and school superin-
tendent. Appointment of the Com-
mittee was recommended by a spec-
ial Lions Club committee headed by
Chairman Fred McCleskey.
Meanwhile, letters of inquiry are
being received in every mail asking
about the proposed fund, Dean Da-
vis said. “They are coming from
all over Texas and as far away as
Washington, D. C., asking how to
make out contributions.”
Checks should be made t& the
Dyess Memorial Scholarship Fund
and Dean Davis has recommended
that the fund, to be invested in
Government securities, and the in-
come used for tuitions, be placed
under a charter to be filed with the
Secretary of State.
WAR LOAN DRIVE
BEGINSLASTLAP
FOR QUOTA GOAL
Short Time Remains For the
County To Make Assigned
Quota Of $506,000.00.
“Erath County has a gap of $22,-
000 to fill in witn the sale of Series
E bonds before we can wave out
the V flag in the Fourth War Bond
Drive assigned amount of $506,-
000,” County Chairman Jack Price
said on Thursday morning of this
week. "All of the larger sales nec-
essary to make the quota have been
pretty well taken care of, and al-
most all of the School districts
have reported an over the top on
their assignments, which is highly
commendable, but does not mean a
period to their efforts in this
drive,” Mr. Price continued.
“It. is very necessary that this
‘deficiency’ be made up in War
Bond sales by Friday night of this
week that the report may be made
that Erath county has subscribed
her full quota,” Mr. Price urged.
A lot of get-up-and-get is neces-
sary to raise this amount, but, al
though the Fourth War Loan has
gone over a little slowly, it is fully
expected that there will be a speed,
up in these last days that Erath
may proclaim her patriotism '
meeting the assigned quota before
the time limit set, Tuesday, Feb-
ruary 16. '
Many people do not fully appre-
ciate tne opportunity offered in the
Series E War Bonds, which go
mainly to the smaller purchasers,
but, the larger War Bond investors
must step in now and buy liberally
of these bonds in order to hurry up
the drive to the goal in good time.
“Erath county must not lag—get
in on the last round and turn in
this $22,000 before the time limit
set for sale of our quota,” Price
urged in a statement Thursday
morning.
Hereford Breeders
Ready For Auction
HEREFORD MEN DESERVING
EDITORIAL
The enterprise of the Mid-Texas Hereford Breeders Association with
Frank Jordan as president, and a membership Including breeders of
registered Hereford cattle In Erath, Hamilton, Comanche, Hood, Palo
Pinto, Bosque, Eastland and Somervell, Is to be highly commended for
the movement set In motion that Is resulting In the Hereford Auction
Sale to be held In Stephenville, Wednesday, February 16.
Within Itself the sale la a two-way achievement. First, the event Is
proof of the awakening In this territory of cattle breeders to the fast
tHfct they must move up In a wide-spread scale of activities or be left
•ut of the picture of Industrial progress In the nation today. It is super-
floua, perhaps, to reiterate the statement of the urgency of the national
food production program demands on the home front. Our patriotism
must match that of our boys In uniform, filling Infantry ranks, flying
airships, sailing the seas, or wherever they may be. They must have
food, our people at home must be fed, and our Allies must have food
supplies. Nothing takes the place of good beef on the food program
during the conflict and for the days we are looking forward to in the
time when we have won peace.
There Is no romance more intriguing than the history of the develop-
ment through several centuries of the fine, valuable Hereford of today
from the long-legged, thln-hlpped, narrow-breasted Hereford sire first
pictured In England. The origin of cattle of this breed Is not known.
But, the thought behind all Is that the effort uppermost Is for the great-
est production at minimum cost. Experiments prove that the Hereford
comes nearer answering this problem than any breed of cattle known to
rancher In this section of the country. Healthy, sturdy In build, quick
In development and gentle In disposition, this breed of cattle Is more
easily adapted to stocking farms and ranches than any others of the
shorthorn family. It has been proven that on the same amount of feed
and with the same care, two calves of average age, the one a scrub or
mixed breed, the other a registered animal, their development will tip
the scales at a difference of from two to three hundred pounds. It pays
to Invest In thoroughbreds, even though the initial cost to the raiser In
buying or breeding the animals might allow him only twoor three calves
or breeding animals where on the other hand he might own a dozen or
more of the common breed cattle.
Ranchers and farmers are Just beginning to realise that the poultry
Industry In Erath county hae far outstripped the cattle raising enter-
prise. The production of thoroughbred beef cattle has beeen given only
a comparatively meager place In our Industrial development program.
Exigencies of war have given us a genuine shaking up and have brought
ns smack up against a wall of acknowledged negligence and dilatory
action In bringing cattle breeding up to the extent and standard of
poultry breeding and development in this section. That poultry and by-
products from our flocks are an absolute necessity In meeting our re-
sponsibility In the war food program at home and elsewhere, and mean a
regular sluice Into financial channels of our country, the production of
poultry and the very advanced progress noted in breeds unbalances our
program without the stepping up of production In butter and beef.
The Auction Bale next Wednesday Is a foundation building stone In
“standard bred cattle production, let everybody make the most of the
event.
LAST PICTURE OF COL DYESS
Plans Being Mapped
For Garner State Park
What Stephenville and Erath
county citizens can or will do with
the State Park is a question now
being considered. It may not be
loiw before the vexing problem is
settled, however, for a committee
is now contacting local people with
a view of ascertaining the views
ot all.
Title to the property reverted to
people here when the State Park
Board officially executed a deed
last year. The State decided the
property was not adapted to the
requirements of its program.
The land involves a tract of al-
most 300 acres, seven miles north-
east of Stephenville near Morgan
Mill. Besides the lake and club
house there_jre two deep wells and
other improvements.
Built During Depression
The property wa$ deeded to the
State Park department with the
understanding that a CCC camp
would be located here, the lake built
and other improvements made in
line with a recreational center.
During the time of improvement,
probably about 1933, the depression
was in full swing and as a result of
the expenditures in the improve-
ments many local businesses and
individuals received profitable con-
sideration at the hands of the gov-
ernment. The location of the aam
site, one that local people were not
in accord with, reduced the original
size of the lake to about one-fourth.
All locations were made by govern-
ment engineers.
At a meeting held Friday of last
week a group of citizens named
Arch Evans as temporary chair-
man and Oren H. Ellis, secretary,
pending such time as a permanent
organization could be established.
Evans named the following com-
mitteemen to contact local people
end find out what they think is best
to do about the property: C. O.
McMillan. Joseph Chandler, Paul
Higginbotham, Ellis Hill. Oren H.
Ellis and George Shiels.
“This property belongs to the
people who put up the cash to make
the purchase in 1933 and it is for
them to decide what disposition
will be made of it,” said Evans. Be-
fore final action is taken on the
proposition a general meeting will
be called so that all can express
their views’' Evans said:
“If there are those who have any
suggestions to make we would like
for them to contact any of the
above committeemen and make
known their decisions,” Evans said.
“We want everyone who had a part
. - p, • ■ •
to do.”
Evans hopes to be able to call a
general meeting before March 1.
in financing the.project to have a
say as to what is the best thing
Lt. John B. Noles in
Jap Prison Camp Hear a
m. COL. EDWIN DYESS, Hero of Bataan, and J. THOMAS Da VIS./
Dean of John Tarleton Agricultural College. - ^ ~
The above is believed to be the last photograph made of the
late Col. Edwin Dyess. At the time he was in Stephenville visit-
ing friends on the Tarleton College campus, where he was
graduated in 1886. He ia shovin here with Dean J. Thomas
Davis. . \
In the midst of all the excitement
and anger roused by the story of
the inhuman treatment of Ameri-
can service men as told by the late
Lt. Col. William Edwin Dyess,
comes a voice from Tokyo from one
mourned as dead, Lt. John R. Noles,
class mate in John Tarleton College
of the relator of the “March of
Death.”
Last Friday, February 4, Mr.
and Mrs. E. R. Winn, of the Huck-
nbay community received Informa-
tion that their son. Lt. John R.
Noles, captured in the fall of Ba-
taan, April 9, 1942, and not heard
from since, would broadcast from
a Jap prison camp over short wavs.
The family, lingering into the
night close at their radio, heard at
last their beloved one say:
“Hello, Mother, Dad, Louella and
all of the folks. I’ve been here in
Zentsuii for about ten months. Am
in good health and received no fa-
ctoring the war. Hope all of
mg
veil.
you are well. Have written you sev-
eral letters, but have not received
any word from you as yat. Am look-
ing forward to some message from
you. Also any pictures you may be
able to send. Please notify Mrs.
W. A. Kelso, Galveston, Texas, that
Walter was Okay when I left the
Philippines last November; also,
Mrs. L. C. Chenault, Snyder, Texas,
that Jack was Okay then. Mrs. John
L. Lynch, 96 (Stan) street, Bristol
Connecticut, that Joe was Okay
then. Time is passing fairly fast
for me. I spend a gooa part of time
studying and reading. Thinking of
XobB
you constantly. Love," Signed,
Preceding the quote from Lieu-
tenant Noles, ia the information
contained in a telegramfrom Wash-
ington, D. C* to Mrs. Winn, which
says: “Following short wave broad-
cast from Japan has been inter-
cepted, and, at tha end of the
broadcast, there is the information
received from Provost Marshall
General Gullion through tha In-
ternational Red Cross that “this
broadcast supplements pveviqgg of-
ficial report.”
I (Continued on page four)
The Hereford auction aaie, which
will be conducted at the City Park
next Wednesday, Feb. 16, spon-
sored by the Mid-Texas Hereford
Breeders Association, ia coming in-
to wider and more serious consid-
eration than any like industrial
event has ever before attracted.
The group of sixty-three head of
thoroughbreds will be on exhibit
at 9:30 o’clock, and County Agent
G. D. Everett invites visitors at
that hour to see the fine Herefords,
the most excellent animals bred in
Usis section and in Erath County*,
and each is a guaranteed producer.
The sale begins at one o’clock on
Wednesday afternoon, when these
fine stock will be put on the block
1 go to the ni
Judging and Placing
p®
and will go to the highest bidder.
Of especial interest to prospec-
tive breeders, breeders and farmers
is that Tom C. Patterson, of Dallas,
secretary of the Texas Hereford
Association, a man of long and not-
able national and international
work in judging livestock for snoi
and sales, will be here, and will be-
gin judging and placing the forty
bulls and twenty rthree females at
9:30 o’clock next Wednesday morn-
ing. Be there and learn first hand
of thdir outstanding points of ex-
cellence. Men, women and children
of this territory, and especially of
Stephenville are urged to make
their program of the day inch
trip to the City Park for a look-
over of these animals. Business
men of Stephenville and other
towns in this area will be neglect-
ing a very important opportunity if
they should miss seeing the group
of Herefords here for the auction
sale next Wednesday.
BOY SCOUTS GET
MERIT AWARDS
At the regular meeting of the
Boy Scout Troops on Tuesday night
the boys passed tests from 6:00 to
7:80 o’clock. Tenderfoot awards
were given Airis Harrison, Billy
Jones, David Newman, Billy Ross,
Hedson V„ Edgar Keeling. Awards
were made by the leaders of their
respective patrols.
The Wolfe patrol presented the
program, which was well rendered
and very interesting, composed of
three short plavs, titled, “The
Mind Reader,” “The Missing Um-
brella,” and “The Secret,”’ (John-
nie, have you learned all about San-
ta Claus?) Scoutmaster Arch Ev-
ans. Jr., sang a Hawaiian song,
while the tune was hummed by
Johnnie, Homer and Billv. Some of
the boys put on a Hula-Hula dance
that was a very good imitation of
the , real thing „.................
Junior Red Cross Meeting
H. S. Creswell, chairman of the
Erath County Red Cross, is calling
a meeting in the Stephenville Jun-
ior High building at 9:30 a. m., Sat-
urday, Feb. 19, of all faculty spon-
sors of the Junior Red Cross in the
various member schools of the
county. This is a very important
meeting, and all schools that have
enrolled in the Junior Red Cross
should have a faculty representa-
tive present. Assignment of work
to the various schools will be made.
Robert L. Moser, prominent Ste-
phenville groceryman, was moved
to his residence on East Washing-
ton Street Mondav after receiving
treatment at the Stephenville Hos-
pital for a period of several weeks.
His condition was said to he greatly
improved, although it will be some
time before he will be well enough
to return to his duties at the Moser
Grocery and Market.
W. J. Wisdom, USO director of
the center at Corpus Christi, spent
Saturday and Sunday with his
family in Stephenville. Mr. Wis-
dom had been in Amarillo and was
enroute on his return to Corpus
Christi.
MISSING
Second Lieut. D. B. McMUlian,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. D. B.
McMUlian of the Rocky Point
community, «hd Daniel Thomp-
son, son of Mr. and Mra. Robert
Thompson, both members of a
Naval Aircraft plane, were re-
ported missing In telegrams re-
ceived here Thursday morning.
The message gave little details
of the crash except to say that a
detailed search wae being made
and that if and when other infor-
mation was available It would be
sent here.
It is assumed the men crashed
while making aa over-water air-
craft flight
Lieutenant McMUlian waa the
pilot of the plane while Thomp-
*4* was a turn* gunner. Mrs.
Thompson makes her home here
with her mother. Mra. V. C. Cadr-
well
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