The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1953 Page: 1 of 12
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L. A. Baldwin, employe of the
Cummer-Graliam Company, has
been transfered to Beaumont,
bis family moved from Mineola
llhis week.
according to the
Gilmer Mirror.
Mrs. Aj
home Fri
arm. \
Joe Sharp was a business
visitor in Pallas Thursday.
Pay Your Poll Tax
QUALIFY AS A VOTER IN 1953
BEFORE JAN. 31, 1953
(Ehr Mineola Monitor
Sfartf) Anb East ®exasf’ Horemost Weekly Sfetosipaper
Casualty Count
FOR WOOD COUNTY
Traffic Dealhs in 1951 __________
Traffic Deaths in 1952 .............
Traffic Deaths in 1953 ______________
SEVENTY - SEVENTH YEAR - NUMBER FORTY-FIVE
MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY. JANUARY 22, 1953
TWELVE PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
Mineola Victim
Of Polio Returns
To Scottish Rite
Mary Ann Board, three-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Board who was stricken
with polio last summer, return-
ed Wednesday to Scottish Rite
WASHINGTON—Yes, we’re fighting polio down in Texas too, Sen«
ator Price Daniel of Texas tells Pamela' O’Neil, 5, when she pins a
big March of Dimes button bn the senator’s coat. Pam, and her sister;
Patricia (left) are the March of Dimes poster kids in the present
drive for funds. They called at Senator Daniel’s office during their
Visit to the Nation’s Capital. Both were stricken with polio at about
the same time at their home in Raleigh, N.C. and both have fully,
recovered. Senator Daniel told the poster kids he is glad to support
the March of Dimes.
Carthage Delegation
To Attend Market
JVleeting Here Friday
The round-up session of the
Mineola Farm Market’s Aop-
planmng meetings will be held
Friday night, Jan. 23, at 7:30
at tire junior high auditorium.
The meeting was originally
planned for last Friday night,
£ut had to be postponed because
^ f bad weather.
A highlight of the Friday
night meeting will be the ap-
pearance of Charles Scruggs,
Texas editor of the Progressive
Farmer magazine, who will
speak on East Texas Markets.
• All farmers residing in this
area are urged to attend, market
officials said. A delegation from
Carthage, which will arrive dur-
3frg the afternoon to inspect
facilities of the Mineola Farmers
Market, will attend the Friday
night meeting to observe crop-
planning procedure. Carthago
citizens are making an effort
to stir up enough interest for
a similar market there.
Buyers for watermelons, sweet
potatoes, cantaloupes, sweet
corn, Irish potatoes, tomatoes,
cucumbers, and peas have been
secured for the 1953 season.
Martin Hamilton and Mike
Navilio, who bought sweet corn
at the local market, have both
notified market officials they
will be back this spring.
Most buyers expect; a good
year with high prices for nearly
all truck produce, and increased
acreage is being sought. Benham
& Company of Mineola is mak-
ing an effort to obtain large
quantities of peas, particularly
cream peas, in this area. The
firm -now ships in its peas from
the valley and other areas.
County Falling
Behind on Poll
JJax Payments
Poll tax payments in Wood
County are running very light,
Tax Assessor-Collector A r r e 1
.Denton said Thursday. Less than
two thousand poll receipts have
been issued, and the tax collec-
, tor doubted that the total would
run as high as 2,500, which
^ould be less than half the
5,463 total issued last year.
Denton called attention to the
fact that poll taxe~ were not
assessed with property taxes and
that only eight days remain to
qualify as a voter. This is an
off-election year, but the peo-
ple of Wood County may have
special issues to decide.
He also called attention to
j$he fact that property taxes not
paid by Saturday, Jan. 31, be-
come delinquent the next day.
Skeltons Attend
Funeral of Nephew
Malcolm Matheson, Jr., 22, of
Texarkana was killed in an au-
rSomobile accident late Friday
^vhen his car skidded on an ice-
covered bridge ten miles north
of Texarkana. Young Matheson,
a recent college graduate, was en
route to Washington to inquire
about a teaching position. His
car skidded on the ice and was
struck by another vehicle.
He was a nephew of Mrs.
Skelton of Mineola and
visited here several times,
and Mrs. Skelton and
attended the funeral
Texarkana.
TO BEAUMONT
Rebekah Lodge
To Present Show,
‘On Stage America’
The Mineola Rebekah Lodge
will present “On Stage Ameri-
ca” Thursday and Friday nights,
Jan. 29 and 30, at the junior
high auditorium. Curtain time
is advertised as 8:02 p.m.
The play will have three main
parts, an amateur contest feat-
uring local talent, a minstrel
show and a chorus of pretty
girls.
In connection with the play
a Tiny Tot Popularity Contest
will be held for pre-school age
children. Pictures of the con-
testants are on display in the
window of the Fine Arts Studio.
Votes for the contestants are
available at one cent each and
voting will continue until cur-
tain time Friday night, Jan. 30.
Anyone wishing to enter a child
in the contest may do so by
calling Mrs. Bacus at 45.
Contest winners will be pre-
sented on stage. They will re-
ceive gifts. Amateur contest
winners will be decided by the
wote of the audience and each
will receive gifts from merch-
ants.
The ladies of the Rebekah
lodge will use the proceeds of
this performance to furnish a
T-com for an aged Mineola resi-
dent at the I.O.O.F. Home for
aged.
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Gilmer Housing
Units Available
The Gilmer Housing Authority
is taking applications now for
prospective tenants for the six-
ty apartment units in the auth-
ority’s two Gilmer projects. Con-
struction is almost completed,
and occupancy can be expected
| Open House at
| City Hall Set
For Feb. 9-14
The week of Feb. 9 through
Feb. 14 has been designated as
“Get Acquainted With Your
Government Week” in Mineola
by Mayor Miles Caudle. .........
During to is week, the Mayor j Hospital for crippled children
said, tne city hall will hold open | in Dallas where she will be
house to all persons interested 1 given special treatment. This is
in the operation of their city her second trip to Scottish Rite,
government, xhe city hall staff Mary Ann was the most sever-
will explain the functions of the ly stricken of Mineola’s six polio
various departments to all who ' victims last summer. She was
take advantage of the invitation left toially paralyzed; however,
to get acquainted with their she has responded to
government. and showing marked improve-
“We believe the more people r.ient.
understand their city govern- ' Skippy Dean, son of Mr. and
ment and the functions of the Mrs. R. C. Dean and another
various departments and become victim of last summer’s epi-
acquaintcd with actual condi- 1 demic, accompanied Mary Ann
tions,” the Mayor said, “the to the hospital but did not re-
more cooperative they will be
and the fewer problems the city-
wili be confronted with. Wo
hope the people of Mineola will
take advantage of this oppor-
tunity to get acquainted with
their city government. We want
them to come in and ask ques-
tions.”
“Get Acquainted With Your
Government Week” is part of a
statewide citizenship program
sponsored by the State Bar of
Texas.'
Texans Make Big Show
I________don Tuesday
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West Point Cadet Oiriy
Mineolan in Parade
main.
Van Zandt Jury
Indicts Wiimsboro
Youth for Theft
Five indictments were return-
ed by the Van Zandt County
grand jury, including two bills
against Fay Cox, Dallas Negro
girl charged with making and
passing forged checks in Wills!
Point.
Jack Plummer of Grand Pra-
irie and James Davis of Five
Point were named jointly in an
indictment charging them with
receiving stolen property.
Two indictments were return-
Rotn the auto inspection law ed against Jimmy Rex Rhodes,
and the driver responsibility law 19’ of winnsboro and William
would go “down the drain” un- Edward Cloninger, 18, of Grand
Prairie charging them with
felony theft. They are charged
with the alleged theft of pro-
perty from Dick Humphrey of
Grand Saline and of property
belonging to J. R. Martin of
Wills Point.
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1953 Auto Tags
Arrive, Go on
Sale February 1
Automobile license tags for
Auto Inspection,
Liability Laws
May Be Repealed
would go “down the drain” un-
der bills-introduced Monday.
Sen. Carlos Ashley of Llano
introduced the car inspection
Tepealer.
It calls that law “discrimina-
tory, expensive and ineffective ”
It also contends it imposes un-
reasonable hardships on citi-
zens.
Ashley’s bill would re-enact
an old law that would permit
the highway patrol to stop and
require inspections of any faul-
ty cars that appeared to be en-
dangering anyone’s life, i
Sen. Gus Strauss, of Halletts-
ville, wrote the bill tlxat would
^ reC6iVed W6^eSday
Involved in an accident to show by the offlce of Wood County
proof of his ability to pay dam- Tax Collector Arrel Denton, who
ages up to $5,000 for injury of sai$ they would go on sale Mon-
one person, $10,000 for injury day morning, Feb. 1.
pprty °damageS ^ $5’°°0 PF°’ I The PassenSer car Plates are
Strauss’ bill'calls the measure ^ ™m,ber^ 135° 46 m 15f
an “unnecessary financial strain ' Denton /ald numbers may be
and burden.” ^t contends‘also "ow but distribution
that the la» has “completely1 of crn0t b'u f
failed tn noL,v,iieu , . , month. Persons desiring tags
intent ” b legislative mail shOUj^ include eighteen
^ ! cents for postage. Car owners
must show original or copy of j
car title in order to get tags.
The 1953 plates are the reverse 1
of the 1952 plates in color, with j
; yellow background and black j
i numerals. i
All of the oil deposits m Wood In Smith County passenger
County apparently haven’t yet car numerals run from JL 10
been discovered. Sixty-five new through JL 4999; JK 10 through
producers were added during1 JK 9999; and JJ 3000 through
1952 and exploration is continu- ; JJ 9999.
ing at a steady pace. j -o-
Oil was first / discovered in ‘ , « -rv.
Wood County at Hawkins in the j MarQIl Of Dimes
fall of 1940, and since that time q|innpr
about thirty producing fields i L>eneiiC oUppCr at
have been opened. Next week’s New Hope Jail. 30
Monitor will carry a story on
the county’s iproduction and the
taxes paid by crude oil.
IKE; TAKES OVER—Smiling, yet deeply seripuS, Dwight D.
Eisenhower took over Tuesday as president of the U. S. In the
photo above he poses with a comic trophy.
Field Extension Well
Staked in Nolan Edward
Oil exploration in this area
centers in the Nolan Edward
Field three miles northwest of
Mineola where another outpost
well. has been staked. Pure Oil
Company has marked its No. 1
Homer Hughes 150 feet from the
north and west lines of a 155-
acre tract in the Swanson Yar-
borough Survey. This places the
venture south of the Nolan Ed- i
ward fault line which produces
from the sub-Clarksville.
An old failure drilled by Hum-
ble Oil Company in the Hawkins
Field is now listed as a producer.
The well is the M. D. Kelley No.
1-A W. H. Prince, Wideman Sur-
vey, which produced 235 barrels
per day through quarter-inch
choke from 4,795-803 feet. Gas-
oil ratio is 200 to one.
Wood County Gets
65 New Producing.’
Wells During 1952
Naval Reserve Now
Open td Recruits .
The New Hope community will
have a March of Dimes supper
Friday night, Jan. 30, at 6J5 at
the New Hope School, and the
public is invited to attend,
j Donations for the March of
i Dimes will be accepted after
The Minfeola unit of the U. S. the suPPer> according to Miss
Nava1 Resi rve is now recruitin" Eva Skelton, chairman of the
new menit its with the prospect I New Hope campaign, who urged
of advanci ig to company status ithe Public to take Part in the
*■^-ni ----- i —and giVe liberally to
and drill pay for members.! pogram
Young mej between the ages of helP those stricken
17 and i y2 are eligible for ; crippling disease,
membershi
The local unit, an electronics
platoon, meets at the National
Guard building on Thursday
nights, arid persons interested
may obtain additional informa-
tion at f that time.
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by the
REAKS ARM
nie English ^ell at her j residir
ay night breaking her j street
ii State
WELCOME
To Mineola
Newcomers to Mineola during
the past week were:
The Floyd Gore family, now
residing at 316 West Buchanan
, He is employed by the
{j State Highway Department.
Bill Proposes
Abolition of
Death Penalty
j
Texas, water wells, capital
punishment, narcotics add em-
balming were among the sub-
jects on which new bills were
introduced Tuesday in the House
of Representatives.
The automobile inspection law,
tuberculosis patients and the
Board of Control also received
attention.
The House wds in ibssion only
for the inauguration Tuesday
but members can introduce bills
merely by filing them with the
chief clerk.
Rep. Marshall O. Bell of San
Antonio offered a constitutional
amendment which would pre-
vent the state and all of its
political subdivisions from levy-
ing income taxes on individuals
or corporations. It would ban
payroll taxes as well.
Bell also introduced a bill
which would give cities the
exclusive control over the drill-
ing, operation and production of
all water wells within the city
and within one mile of the city
limits. He said such a measure
would prevent waste, protect
the public health and conserve
the state’s dwindling under-
ground water supply.
Rev. Doug Crouch of Denton
offered a bill to abolish capital
punishment. He called the death
penalty “inhuman, cruel and
without justification under mod-
ern concepts of criminal punish-
ment.”
Crouch’s bill would commute
to life imprisonment all death
sentences pending at the time
it took effect.
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. Mr. and Mrs. Slim Ca
Rhodessa, Louisiana, v i s
friends in Mineola Tuesda.
Wednesday. Mr. Cain was
marly employed by United
Officeholders
Get Needed Pay
Hike This Week
of
ted
nd
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Elected officials and salaried
employees in Wood County got
a needed pay increase this week
| when the commissioners court
! approved increases ranging from
about five to more than ten
i percent. All elected officials,
i with the exception of justices
of the peace who are on a fee
; basis, received a cross-the-board
j ten per cent raise. Deputies,
; clerks and other employees re-
! ceived raises varying up to
: slightly more than ten per cent.
: The complete pay scale will be
i released next week, said Judge
| Virgil E. Robbins, Jr.
! Wood County’s pay scale has
lagged behind other counties of
equal status for several years,
and several county officials had
i expressed fear of Josing compet-
ent help because of the low
salaries.
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| Poll Tax Receipts
i Low in Smith County
I Poll tax payments in Smith
! County are falling far short of
last year, according to a report
from the tax assessor-collector’s
office in Tyler. Less than 3,000
i receipts have been issued to
date.
I The fact thkt this is an “off”
1 year for elections has been
blamed for the decline; however,
the demand for poll taxes is
expected to increase the last few
| days of the month, and Tax
: Collector Aquilla Pierce predicts
as many as 10,000 will be paid.
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NAVY MAN VISITS
Ensign and Mrs. Bobby Hughes
were guests here the first of
the week of Mr. and Mrs. Nor-
val Rappe. Ensign Hughes, a
former resident of Mineola, is oh
leave from the Navy.
j Texans from all over the Lone
! Star State were on hand at the
i inauguration of President
j Dwight D. Eisenhower, accord-
! ing to news reports from Wash-
, ington, but as far as the Mon-
J iter could learn their was only
one Mineolan in the parade.
* $ * * *
M. C. Jones, Jr., cadet at
the U.S. Military Academy,
West Point, N.Y., marched
with the West Point contin-
gent in the inaugural parade
in Washington Tuesday. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. •
M. C. Jones of Mineola.
* * * * *
In Mineola business was slow
Tuesday afternoon and many
people watched the parade and
inauguration on television. Re-
ception was fair.
From Denison in the north
the new President’s birthplace,
came the idea for the Texas
float—a replica of the two-story
frame house in which Ike was
born on Oct. 4, 1890.
Midway in the four-hour pa-
rade, the Texas float came by
the presidential reviewing stand
and drew a broad grin from the
new chief executive and a de-
lighted little clap from Mamie.
Behind Ike’s home rode Mrs.
Christine Unger, of Denton,
widow of the President’s per-
sonal navigator during the war,
and her little daughter, Phillipa.
Also from Denison came the
Denison High School band oi
| seventy-five players. Preceded by
j a Texas flag and their school
; banner, the band marched
: snappily in their bright yellow
! jackets, white pom-poned hats,
and black tousers striped with
yellow to match their coats.
From the south, came thi
cream of San Antonio’s histori-
cal, business and professional
life in the form of the Texas
Cavaliers. They escorted the
Governor’s representative, Maj
Gen. K. L. Berry, in a golder
replica of the British royal car-
riage, drawn and surrounded by
six riders on palomino horses
light brown with cream colored
manes and tails.
| From the west, Texas sent the
noisiest and probably most at-
Wave of Influenza
Begins to Decline
In Mineola Homes
The wave of influenza that
has slowed down the community
; for the past two weeks appeared
to be subsiding this week. Many
flu patients were returning to
! their‘jobs and enrollment in the
schools was increasing gradually.
Attendance at all schools ex-
cept the elementary school is
back to normal, and the number
of absentees at the elementary
school were declining. Supt. H.
W. Goodglon said the worst of
the influenza appeared to be
passed, and grade school atten-
dance is -expected to climb back
toward normal next week. In
addition to the flu, chicken pox
and mumps were taking a toll
among the smaller children.
There are still several cases,
however, where entire families
are down with flu.
tention-getting contingent in
the p a r a cl e—the Hardin-Sim-
mons Cowboy band from Abi-
lene, just returned from a USO
tour of Europe.
As the West Texans approach-
ed the crucial spot on Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, they struck up
the “Eyes of Texas” with enough
gusto to drown out the music
floating over the city from
scores of other bands.
Also from the west came the
Hockley County Sheriff’s Posse,
who respectfully doffed their
western hats in salute to the
President. The Hockley County
boys brought along their mule-
drawn chuck wagon and drew
from the crowd affectionate
chuckles with a little ranch
buggy pulled by Shetland ponies.
From the east, Texas was rep-
resented by the flashy Range-
rettes of Kilgore College whose
precision prancing carried them
by the reviewing stands in grand
style. In their white cowgirl
hats, red blouses and switching
blue skirts of the briefest style,
the Texas gals drew appreciative
“oh’s” and “ah’s” from the by-
this-time dazzled spectators.
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J. G. Gumpert
Dies Wednesday,
Rites Saturday
J. G. Gumpert, 86, a native
of Germany and resident of
Wood County for more than
forty years, died Wednesday at
Sulphur Springs where he had
been making his home for sev-
eral months. Funeral services
will be held here Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock at the
English Funeral Chapel with the
Rev. W. Clyde Smith, pastor of
the Central Baptist Church,
ifficiating. Burial will tie made
.n the Golden Cemetery.
When Mr. Gumpert came to
this country from Germany he
settled -.near Golden where he
lived until about five years ago
when he moved to Mineola. In
recent months he had lived near
Tyler and at Sulphur Springs.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs.
Iva Gumpert of Mineola; one
daughter, Mrs. Leona McCook
of El Paso; six sons. Bill Gum-
pert of El Paso. Technical Ser-
geant Alton G. Gumpert of Fort
Worth, Fred Gumpert of Fort
Worth, John G. Gumpert, Jr.,
of Grand Prairie, Ed Gumpert
of Dallas and Lawrence Gum-
pert; and twenty grandchildren.
T&P Freight Derails
South of Shreveport
A Texas & Pacific freight
train careened from the track
near Shreveport Tuesday tele-
scoping between twesity and
twenty-five freight cans, two of
which burst into flames.
No one was reported injured
in the accident, but one uniden-
tified man was said to have
been hurt fighting the fire. The
112-car train derailed near
j Casp iana, twenty miles j south of
1 Shreveport.
Senator McDonald
Named Chairman of
Commerce Committee
State Senator Warren Mc-
Donald of Tyler has been ap-
pointed chairman of the com-
merce and manufacturing com-
mittee of the state’s upper bodyj
McDonald, who recently drei!
a four-year term in the senatej
allocation of two and four-yeal
terms, was re-elected to the sen-
ate without opposition.
Sen. Wardlow Lane, of Center,'
was named chairman of the
civil jurisprudence committee,
the United Press reported. Ottis
E. Lock of Lufkin landed a posi-
tion as finance committee chair-
man.
Tlie committees were an-
nounced Monday by Lt. Gov.
Ben Ramsey.
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Are you guilty of endangering
other, peoples lives? SPEED is
still the greatest menace io life
and property on your streets
and highways. Observe and obey
the posted speed limits;
never drive faster than
under eidsiting road condil
Texas Highway Patrol.
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