The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1953 Page: 1 of 12
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Plan To Attend
LIONS CLUB
Wrestling Matches
Friday, August 28
iKmrola iWowtnr
Casualty Count
FOR WOOD CO JMTY
Traffic Deaths in 1951
Traffic Deaths in 1952 ______________
Traffic Deaths in 1953
SEVENTY - EIGHTH YEAR - NUMBER TWENTY-THREE
MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1953
TWELVE PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
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Mineola’s Phone Service
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Workers Strike
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Nolan Edward
Outpost Dry in
Sub-Clarksville
Railroader Friends Help Emergency
Young Polio Victim Recover Calls Made
First Methodist Church Sanctuary and Educational BuilJinj.
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Methodists to Dedicate
New Building Sunday
Legion to Install
Doyle Starnes as
Post Commander
There’s always been a bond of she was visited i»y the Monitor
admiration between railroad photographer at ihc Jim Hen- Aclephone service in Mineola
The Nolan Edward Field south i men and children. derson home she demonstrated u'US pJaccd 011 an emergency
outpost, Rancho Oil’s No. 11 Nine-year-old Ann Anderson, her ability to riie a bu /ele basis Thursday morning when
Randolph Champion, began {who lives beside the Texas & j Ann lives in a poor home, but J°CaI exchange workf rs remain-
Pacific tracks near Bivins, she’s rich in something many eU 011 _the job with approx-
knows all about the ties that wealthier children ciond ha’-e imately 53’000 other union mem-
bind young people and the men —the love of a lot of kind Deo- 5er* in aix states served by
who run the trains. Her best pie. It’s reflected in her happy bouthwestern BeP-
friends are railroad people, smiling face, and the faith it Tile Tyler union local, which
many of whom live in Mineola has given her makes her con- jurisdicDon over the Tyler-
and Longview. fident that she will soon be MineoIa area, called 239 em-
Ann, whose full name is completely well of the crippling ployees off the job at 6 o’clock
drilling ahead toward the
Woodbine Wednesday after find-
ing the sub-Clarksville dry. Sub-
Clarks viilc cores recovered dry
ash, indicating an end or turn
in the producing faultline.
Another Woodbine sand test
scheduled for the area is the
Wise Drilling Account No. 1
Dean Rodecker Unit, spotted
500 feet from the north and
1,350 from the west lines of the
Hardcastle Survey. Permit calls
for drilling to a depth of 5,600
The new Austin stone educa-
tion building of the First Meth
odist Church will be dedicated
jv Sunday morning, Aug. 23.
Two former pastors of the
church, the Rev. Jester White
of Carthage and the Rev. Nace
Crawford of Pasadena, will
preach at morning and evening
services. ^
The dedication service will
begin Sunday morning at 9:45
on the McDonald Street side of
the building. Sunday School
*7 classes will meet briefly at
10:15, and the morning worship
will begin at 10:50 in the
sanctuary with the Rev. Jester
White preaching.
Open house will be held from
3 until 5 o’clock Sunday after-
noon when an organ program
will be given. M.Y.F. classes
meet at 7:15, and evening serv
ices will begin in the sanctuary
Wat 8 o’clock. The Rev. Nace
Crawford will preach. Bill Good-
win of Jasper, former director
of music at the local church,
will sing at the evening service
All offering received during
the day will be placed in the
building fund.
The First Methodist Church
of Mineola was founded in 1873,
— the year the town was estab-
WELCOME
To Mineola
|| Recent newcomers to Mineola
II include the following families:
Im/f The Ray Stevenson family of
YT four, formerly of Irving. He is
II employed by Lone Star Gas
IK Company and they are members
| of the Baptist Church. They are
residing at 517 West Blair.
Roy Smith and family of four,
formerly of Bowie, are making
their home at 625 West Kilpat-
rick. They are Methodists. He is
employed by Lone Star Gas.
T. G. Hawkins and family of
three, formerly of Waco, are re-
siding at 103 DuBose. He is em-
ployed in pipeline construction.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Barnett,
| Doyle Starnes will be installed
i Snisns* a0™1coch- ! -jzrs&fz:
TtarSay Mght 20^suT-’ N°' 1 W' R J°nes and the »«•
lishcd as a tie-cutting center secretary-treasurer, other mem-' ceedinS David ’Kitchens,’ who ■ jLSjf8 aUln, p^L5„Hl
at the crossing of two new rail-| bers were II. W. Meredith, H. F. becomcs tirst vice-commander. e Survey. (Repoits this
roads. The old red brick sane- George and Tom Castloo. jCarl Bruner and Roy Durham
turay, which was used in con- | Special services will be held w*p be installed as second and
structing the new education1 Monday through Wednesday j third vice-commanders,
building, housed the church for j next week with three young I other incoming officers are
more than forty years until the'men who have gone into the Driscoe Bertillion, adjutant;
new air conditioned stone sane- ministry from the local church Caro1 Bridges, finance officer;
tuaiy on Pacific Street was | doing the preaching. They are , Aldridge, sergant-at-arms;
opened in January of 1951. the Rev. Lamar Smith, the Rev. I Roger Speights, chaplain; Lynn
Plans for the education build-i Alvis Coleman and the Rev. 'Bethell, service officer; and
ing were started soon after the j Jack Payne. A fourth, the Rev. i ^arl Little, Grover Smith, Roger
sanctuary was completed.
Construction of the sanctuary
was completed during the min-
istry of the Rev. Nace Crawford
and the education building dur-
ing the ministry of the Rev.
Derwood Blackwell, the present
pastor.
Paul D. Smith served as
chairman of the building com-
mittee, J. C. Judge as vice-
chairman and Joe Sharp as
Dallas Lankford, III, will begin 1 Speights and Hubert Aaron,
his ministry at Big Sandy next j trustees. Retiring officers are
week and will be unable to fill! Jack Langdon and Hubert
one date as originally planned.! Aaron> vice-commanders; J. M.
Mineola’s two service clubs DeuPree’ Jr-> adjutant; Carl
will be served luncheon in theiBruner> finance officer; Ernest
new education building fellow-j Adkins> sergeant-at-arms; and
ship hall next week. The Rotary j James Hartsfield, historian.
Club will eat there Monday and j Also installing new officers
the Rev. Nace Crawford will be ! Thursday night will be the Le-
the speaker. The Lions Club will :gion Auxiliary. Mrs. N. C. Tay-
eat there Thursday.
week in several other papers of
Paluxy production in this area
are erroneous. No Paluxy tests
have been made.)
East of Golden the DeuPree
& Jackson No. l Fred Ramey
was drilling below 6,000 feet.
San Juan Exploration was
making hole Thursday below
6,000 feet on the No. 1 G. W.
Rushing, R. E. Neill Survey
north of Quitman. The ope-
rators expected to reach the
Paluxy early next week.
-o-
DDT Spray Team
Resumes Work
Wednesday Night
50 Petit Jurors
Called for Duty
«/
In District Court
The spraying crew which is
lor will succeed Mrs. Bruce
Chapman as president. Incom-
ing vice-vresidents are Mrs. G.
C. Smith, Mrs. Harvey Wagoner \ giving Mineola its second DDT
and Mrs. Wesley Taylor. Other : bath of the summer was back
new officers are Mrs. Hubert j at work Wednesday night after
Aaron, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. j a Tuesday layoff because of
B. A. Holbrook, chaplain; Mrs. rain. The job is expected to be
Lynn Bethell, historian; Mrs.' completed this week.
Roy Durham, parliamentarian; j While the crew spent the first
Fifty petit jurors have been 1 and Mrs. Katy Withrow and! few days in the residential area
yeai-oiri son of Mr. and Mrs. A. (summoned for duty next week Mrs. J. C. McGlothlin color I the crickets moved into the
D. Terry of the Coke commu- ; in Judge T. C. Chadick’s 115th bearers.
3-Year-Old Is
County’s Second
Victim of Polio
Larry Wayne Terry, three-
nity north of Quitman, was District Court at Quitman,
stricken with polio Sunday and The jury list follows:
was admitted to Parkland Hos- H. L. Brown, D. F. White,
pital in Dallas. Homer Griffin, L. O. Caffey, j!
Drew Ludlam, chairman of J- Smith, R. o. Blackmon, J.’w.
the Wood County chapter of, Long, Lee Johnson, R. A. Bla-
the National Foundation for In- j lock, W. A. Williams and F. W.
fantile Paralysis, told the Moni- j Perdue, all of Mineola.
tor Wednesday that the child' J. E. West, Herman Horton, Mrs. Faye Rittenhouse of
had a light case and that there Steven Rogers, H. H. Derr, Jack Kemah said "I just can’t be-
probably would be no paralysis.! Hartsfield, W. H. Colley, M. M. lieve it—I don’t know what to
The Terry child was Wood Gilbreath, J. W. Parker and W. say, but just to thank the good
County’s second polio case of F- Poe, all of Quitman. I Lord.”
the year. The first, an Alba j Floyd McLeroy, H. L. Stevens, j This was the mother of the
youth, has been declared cured. | M- L- London, Henry Wilcoxson, first Galveston County man to
business section in volume.
Local Board
To Induct Ten
Next Thursday
Son of Former Mineolan,
Thought Dead, Returned
Between sobs and laughter \ First Cavalry Division and was
captured at Heartbreak Ridge
Oct. 21, 1951.
In March of 1952 the mother
was advised by the Defense De-
partment that her son was list-
ed officially as killed in action
and that his personal belong-
ings would be shipped to her.
He was not listed a prisoner by
the Communists.
Then she received a letter
from him from a prison camp
Louduska Ann Anderson, was affects of polio,
stricken with polio June 21,
1952, her eighth birthday. She
was temporarily crippled, but
she never lost her friendly smile
for the T&P men who waved to
her daily and talked to her
whenever their trains stopped
nearby. As soon as she was able
to walk on crutches she would
go down the tracks to meet
them.
The admiration was mutual.
The railroad men tossed coins
and gifts to Ann as their trains
sped by, and whenever they
stopped on siding or for water
they gave her more than gifts-
words of encouragement and
an understanding love.
Ann and her 11-year-old
brother, Jann, live with their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Perkins, in a modest tenant
home beside the tracks. Mr.
Perkins, a World War I veteran,
works in Atlanta when he’s able,
but a great deal of his time is
spent in the Veterans Hospital.
He couldn’t afford to give Ann
a fancy birthday party, but she
decided she would have one,
anyway, and would invite all
her railroad friends.
The word spread up and down
the T&P, and when the day
came the gifts poured in. It was
an all-day party that got new
life every time a train passed,
and the climax came when a
passenger train came to an un-
scheduled stop and Conductor
Ford of Longview stepped off
jand presented Ann with a big
birthday cake and clothes from
her Longview friends.
Ann got another wish fulfilled
last week. She came to Mineola
to visit in the homes of her
Hi
ANN ANDEKSON
4,104 in Wood
County Receive
Free Chest X-Ravs
The State Department of
Thursday morning. A group of
telephone girls were gathered
around the entrance to the
Mineola exchange most of the
day Thursday awaiting union
instructions to go back to work.
At about mid-morning Thurs-
day the telephone girls placed a
poster on the winshield of a car
parked in iront of the telephone
building. The sign read: “CWA-
CIO on strike against S.W.T.C.”
Meanwhile, negotiators re-
ported last-minute progress to-
ward a settlement aimed at
avoiding a prolonged strike.
Charles Fleet, manager of
the local exchange, issued this
statement early Thursday morn-
ing: “We’re sorry if any of our
people see fit to walk off their
jobs. We have been bargaining
with the union in good faith in
St. Louis and have offered wage
increases totaling nearly $52
million which the union has re-
jected. We are confident that
telephone people who realize
their responsibilities to the pub-
lic to furnish service will re-
main on the job, and we shall
continue to maintain good serv-
ice as nearly normal as possi-
ble.”
The Mineola switchboard was
being operated by supervisory
personnel.
The union staged its last full-
; scale strike over wages against
Southwestern Bell in 1947. In
! the last five years there have
; been three strike threats at
| contract time that ended with
! last-minute settlements.
Negotiations on the contract
1 between union and Southwest-
ern Bell officials have been un-
1 der way since June 3. Reports
were that the company’s wage
Local Board No. 122, which
formerly of Bowie, are residing serves Wood and Upshur Coun-
I
E. S. Lenon, John W. Canady,
and Byron Davis of Yantis.
_.,. . B. C. Hamn, Grady Usserv
at 108 Newsome. He is an em- 1 tles> will send ten men to the and E W Jensen of Alba Cal
ploye of Lone Star Gas and they 1 ai™ed forces next Thursday j houn Bryan and H L Cates of
are members of the Baptist and all of them will be residents Hawkins. R. D. Tavlor Pirktnn
Church. i of Wood County. j R0Ute One. * ’
The Travis Williams family, j The ten inductees include!__n_
three
former Bowie residents, now re- three volunteers, Billy Ray
side at 603 North University. He Clemons of Mineoia, R. A. Perk- ! ScOIlt ADDreciation
is employed by Lone Star Gas. j *ns °f Alba and John A. Jones nJnnm* A/Ta. j xt* i j
They attend the Baptist Church. I of Quitman. The other seven !inner Monday JNlgllt
The Clifford E. Dodson family are Roy M. Dickerson, Jr., and !
!' T; apHHJrSri
„.er’N' H' C* C‘ Mc"iwar exchange at Panmunjom.
JnrSA wWh^eVR i “Its to° wonderful to be true , -......... ^
Garrison, A. W. Stokes, Don _jUSt today I knew that my | camp near Manchuria.
ThnnJtt1’ ii tCrey and °' E' boy was dead—and when I read ! She couldn’t believe it was
a p ’Map. • “°r0l that all the men from Prison 1 fr°m her son who was dead, so
s '""tiinnn^Tnhn I CamP No. 1 had been returned forwarded the letter along with
—that’s where my boy was,”, another he had written earlier
she went on. j for Washington experts to com-
But Cpl. Lester E. Williams, I pare the handwriting.
26, who was declared officially i They said it was the same,
dead by the Defense depart-! But the mother had only a
ment and who was finally given dim hope,
up for dead by his own mother,
Is very much alive.
He was returned to the United dead
railroad friends. Mr. and Mrs |R lth mobilo a t boost offer ranged from $1 to
Jann, had a pleasant week here.' recent visit to lour Wood Coun- onc-half cents an heur and
There were lots of kids to play ty towns. This was 747 less than ! colled it an “insult.”
with and lots of things to do, ! the 4,851 x-rays given on the j Southwestern Bell employees
and Ann showed that, despite unit’s visit to the county last i earn salaries ranging from a
her braces, she could keep up I year. ! beginning of $35 weekly for
with the rest of them. When j The biggest turn-out was at i operators in smaller towns to a
---jWlnnsboro where 1,281 took ad- top of $95 a week for skilled
j vantage of the service. Mineola : plant craftsmen. The company
| had 1,075; Quitman, 1,066; and operates in Texas, Missouri,
I Hawkins 682. Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas
j Persons who took the x-rays j and Illinois, and in Texas it
| will receive post cards giving has 122 dial systems and 137
the results within a few weeks, manually operated exchanges.
| Where indications of heart dis- Cities which have dial phones
ease, tuberculosis or other dc- felt the strike mainly in long
William H. Ritch, 35, former fects are found the family phy- j distance service.
resident of Mineola, died Sun- sieian of the individual will be j--o--
day night at 7:35 in the Me- notified.
Kinney Veterans Hospital where ‘ The x-ray shows conditions, I Hrt OI County (jrtts
he had been critically ill with but does not make a diagnosis,” lTp«vv !>„• m i
pulmonary tuberculosis for more explained Dr. W. T. Black, di- ALdVj Jvdin 1 UCStlay
than a year. A veteran of World , rector of the Wood County parts of Wood County got
Then Monday came She said j War II he contracted tuberculo- ! Health Unit in ursimj those who heavy rainfall Tuesday atter-
| "I knew lor sure my boy wa^ I sls whlle on duty ln Gcrmanj'- !'e';e've cards lnd‘cat|ns delects noon. At Lake Fork bridge eight
1 , * TThiriArQl corvlnoc ram Violrl t.n SPPlr lmnipriinfo lnnHi.-ol of o V
H. Ritch Dies
In McKinney
V.A. Hospital
the paper said all boys
Nations side along with the pri- from the prison camp in which f “en
snnprs wlm wpt-p inhpipH Qc hp was snnnncoH tn ha i Baptist Church in Quitman with
Funeral services were held to seek immediate medical at-
Tuesday afternoon at the First tention.
miles north of Mineola the rain
measured 1.89 inches, but in
soners who were labeled as “be- i he was supposed to be had been * w“n dcath Mineola the average was about
ing in good shape.” Cpl. Wil- returned
but he isn’t
the Rev. Clark of Dallas offi- from heart disease, arterio sclc
ol lour, former Garland real'- L. Tatum of’ MineolaC b/m C‘T iS~the *>“ °f ^ W ha’s kept saying’to to ^; c^ TEST'S ZTS
^V^WareeMea^TstsNOaS T WinSsboTjohn ^““d* ^rS! ~ o^ppy,.............. B t, „ h c t , by „ n B1 k
U» au“m^T uphol- Hay Dowel, of GoMen and T°oy ' “Tbe r0 ^he b0th * Min-’, what to say "what can I say. j waning • ^ *> a"°‘her Part,
stery business. ! H. Bright and Timothy c. whit- I e0,a- ***« «“•* the good Lord?” L i S n *nv.’ ........7, The temperature droP1«d fol-
Billy J. Acker and family of lock of Quitman.
^three, formerly of Winnsboro,__They will leave Mineola j
2 of an inch.
In a brief cloudburst, rain
“ieuia cemetery. ! « euangc in cue size or poured in torrents in nne Dart
Line. They are Methodists', and’ Anderson of Winnsboro77ohn Ss^LrKTLX' heW Mra- Edna D' Burt0">-1 7m “ haPPy- I d<mt : bf x X of Z"k""afd ‘‘ The ■'V? »arely
he is in the automobile uuhol- ! Pay Dowell of Golden, and Troy 1 will be 7 30,The Tg^ finan b°th f°rmer residents of M^- i what to say .. . what can I say,! ® ^ L ; ^ , ^ Tne Spunkllng
ilefnfi;!1!Zim0thy C‘ Whit' ; dl’ive and other Scout business
will be discussed. mu" t i U J school. He was the son of Mr. ! the results of the x-ray survey ole boe-in iIia,‘y 1*^-
reside at 203 forth Line. He is ~y morning by bus for!--°- ££ Sfi! T^^^the ^ ^ ^ ^ ~
employed by Sugar c r e e k the induction center in Dallas. NEW SERVICE MAN ^ lerf; a‘most hysteri- Rose Hill Community will Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. chairmen and individual work °W:
Creamery, and they are Bap- » - Tom C. Glanton ol Kerens, i cemlng her' ion ‘edaWay con' Preacl1 at the Sunday morning Laura Helen Smith of Fort era who gave their time to it.
Pinkerton and1 - has joined Peeues »«*• ... slmce _« t he Providence Worth and Mrs. Mary Jane
tists.
Mrs.
family
Joleta
of four,
Kenneth Rhodes, former resi-! staff as refrigerau'oV""sereice fim couTvTecruto draVed for ^.u'ncrth‘ T1'v Pohlic is invited to Cane of St. Louis and one
....... --------- the Korean conflict, leaving ____0___ | brother Charles Raymond Ritch
home at 1001 North pacific.; sa lit weS7 S'wi"empTwd ! I °"V*S*0n SePt i7‘ 1950‘ ' ! Mr
_ . _ formerly of dent of Mineola, broke a toe man. He has had 18 vears px-
Grand Salme, are making their in an oil field accident at Odes- perience in both
«y attend the Baptist Church, by Hughes Tool Company. 1 cording to Robert Pegues.
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Mtey attend the Bi
Iku.
ac- , He was a member of Com
and Mrs. George Green j
and children have returned
NEW QUITMAN MINISTER
Albert G. Brown, fbrmerlv of
Dallas, is the new minister of
Sunday
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Carraway, R. H., Jr. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1953, newspaper, August 20, 1953; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1123256/m1/1/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.