The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1940 Page: 1 of 10
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The Olne y Enterprise
THIS IS YOUR TOWN—THIS IS MY TOWN—IF WE ALL SUPPORT IT ONE HUNDRED FER CENT, IT WILL BE A ONE HUNDRED PER CENT TOWN.
VOLUME XXX
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT FOR OLNEY
OLNEY ENTERPRISE
FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN YOUNG CO.
NUMBER 9
Garden C\ub Sets Stage for
Flower Show; Two Divisions
Gate Free, Softball
League Begins Play
SPRING CREEK TO
ATTEND OLNEY
SCHOOLS AGAIN
Spring Creek students will attend
.school in Olney during the 1940-41
term, board members of that school
voted in a meeting Tuesday night,
said A. D. Cummings, superinten-
dent.
This year Spring Creek sent 42
students to Olney which marked
the first year of this transfer. Next
year only 32 students will attend
the local schools from Spring Creek,
Mr. Cummings stated.
QUEST ARTIST for the Olney Music Club’s Twilight
Musicale at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Cumberland Pres-
byterian Church will be Miss Elizabeth Sanders of Fort Worth.
Miss Sanders is well known in Texas as a pianist; she has given
concerts in a number of Texas cities.
Olney Named One
Of County’s Nine
Mattress Centers
Music Club Presents
Pianists at Musicale
Olney Senior Music Club will^
present Miss Elizabeth Sanders of
Fort Worth in piano concert at the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon when
the club also gives its annual twi-
light musicale.
Miss Sanders is a graduate of
Fort Worth Conservatory of Music,
where she teaches piano and directs
the girls chorus. She is first Pja^e Boy Scouts from troops in Olney,
winner in the piano contest oi Tex-, Megargel, Newcastle and Archer
as and Lone Star District which in-jcity which comprise the Olney dis-
cludes Texas and Oklahoma for
District Scouts
To Hold Camporee
Here May 10,11
student division of the Federation.
Miss Sanders has given programs in
Sherman, Dallas, Ennis, Arlington,
Breckenridge and Austin.
The music club will present the
following numbers with Miss San-
ders: “Come to the Gay Feast of
Song” by DeReef and .“Still as the
Night” by Carl Bohm. Miss Sanders
(See Musicale page 4, Col. 3)
103 Listed on
Birney Seventh
Grade Rolls
One hundred and three boys and
girls are listed on the Birney School
seventh grade class roll, according
to the list released by W. L. Cof-
fey, principal.
This year’s class is the second
largest in the history of the school.
When the class that are now jun-
io«rs at high school were seventh
graders they had 122 enrolled, Mr.
Coffey said.
Named on the class rolls are Pat-
sy Ruth Alexander, Joe Bob Allison,
Twila Fern Bell, Elwood Bennett,
Zack Bettis, Harvey Boone, Noble
Botkin, Jr., Anita Boyd, Mary Alice
Bridges, Johnnie Evelyn Brooks,
Nina Jo Bullock, Mattie Ruth Car-
penter, Maudie Sue Carpenter.
Vida Pearl Christie, Herbert Lee
Clayton, Edna Conder, Dessie Lee
Cook, Flodell Cook, Shirley Ann
Cook, Jack Benton Cross, Lena
Laveme Crutcher, Lois Cumbie,
Thomas Deck, Billy Wayne Deets,
Mary Robert Denison, Jimmy W.
Duncan, Dora Mae Dunlap, Joy
(See 7th Graders back page, Col. 2)
trict, will stage their annual camp-
oree here Friday and Saturday,
May 10 and 11.
The two-day event, under the di-
rection of Jack Rhea, field execu-
tive and Gerald Groves, district
chairman of activities committee,
will open with setting up of camp
Friday afternoon. Other events for
Friday’s calendar will be campfire
stunts, pyramid building and chariot
race.
Revielle at 6:30 o’clock will open
Saturday morning’s schedule
lowed by morning clean-up, cook-
ing breakfast and then staging of
(See Camporee back page, Col. 3)
Olney was designated as one of
the nine centers for the supervision
and making of mattresses under the
recently completed county organi-
zation. Mrs. Elgin Colburn is local
chairman, announced D. A. Adam,
county agent.
Organization was completed at a
joint meeting of the Young County
Land Use Planning committee and
Home Demonstration Council
whereby low income farm families,
tenants, owners and farm laborers,
will be eligible to receive a cotton
mattress.
Through the co-operative efforts
of the extension service, AAA,
(See Mattress back page, Col. 3)
♦ Making no admittance charge for
the public, play in the city softball
league will get underway at 8 o’clock
Thursday night at the high school
athletic field with Jeffery Broth-
ers playing Ragle Bakery, announc-
ed Dr. J. P. Lovett, chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce athletic
committee.
Friday night Olney Oil & Refin-
ery will play Continental Oil. Mon-
day night’s schedule lists Sunny-
view Grocery versus Jeffery Broth-
ers while Tuesday night the Olney
Oil & Refinery crew will face the
Ragle Bakery aggregation.
This four-night schedule was
planned Monday night at a meeting
of sponsors interested in entering
teams in the city league. The dead-
line for entry of several other teams
was extended to allow these pros-
pective groups to sign players.
These teams have until the night
of their first scheduled game, the
group voted.
Clint Hennig will serve as um-
pire and league manager.
Present at Monday night’s meet-
ing were W. W. Price, Coe Ellis,
Clint Hennig, Dr. Ralph Woolsey,
Leon McCracken, Jack Ligon of
Jean, Elmer Strealy, R. D. Cham-
bers, R. B. Baker, Jack Slater, Bill
Ragle, Ray Smith, Ed Deitrich and
J. C. Robertson.
purely
personal
Doors Will Open at 1:30 O’clock Saturday to
Public, Close 7 O’clock; Specimen, Decorative
Groupings Scheduled; Entry Deadline at 11
Doors for the Olney Garden Club’s annual spring flower show will be
opened to the public at 1:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Exhibits may be
viewed until 7 o’clock. The show is to be staged in the clubfoom of the
City Hall.
Two divisions have been made for the show. In the specimen division.
♦there will be eight sections while
in the decorative division there will
be 11 sections.
Chairman for the decorations com-
mittee is Mrs. Joe Benson. While
Mr. and Mrs. Benson, last year’s
sweepstake winners, plan to exhibit
arrangements in some of the divi-
petitive basis in this year’s show.
Entries Limited
Entries for the show will be re-
ceived as early as 7 o’clock Satur-
day morning but not later than 11
o’clock. All flowers entered for ex-
hibit must come from the exhibi-
tor’s own garden, except those in
bubble bowls, line arrangements,
wild flower classes and shadow-
boxes, show officials ruled. Each
person is limited to one entry un-
der each class and tulle, ribbon or
fern will be barred on any entry.
Specimens should be correctly lab-
eled.
Awards will be as follows: Blue
star, first; red star, second: green
star, third; silver star, honorable
mention, and gold star, sweepstakes.
In sweepstakes, if a tie in the num-
ber of blue stars occurs, red stars
will be counted. In case there is
still a tie, green and silver stars
Fashion is
Fashion is
knave,
Fashion
an errant
a pain;
And we are fashion’s abject slaves
In corsets once again.
Fashion doesn’t care a pin
For comfort, heaven knows.
So while we may let’s revel in
The freedom of the toes!
—May Richstone in New
York Herald Tribune.
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Scatterings
Those newspaper-covered patches
in the Coe ELLIS yard are flowers j
set out Saturday morning by Mrs.
Ellis............Nomination for the
MEANEST person: The person who
is responsible for this current wave
of DOG-POISONING. Somebody
and Hitler!......A member of the
METHODIST Church phoned to
Pelay Jthair APPRECIATION for j will be counted. Flowers and vases
the treat of hearing Johnny Thorn-; must be checked out between 7 and
BERNARD LUNN APPOINTED
HEAD IMPORTANT COMMITTEE
Chairman of the important nomi-
nations committee for the Lions
Club May district convention in
Sweetwater will be Bernard Lunn,
president of the local organization.
Mr. Lunn was notified Friday of
his appointment.
County Demos Set
Conventions Sat.
COUNTY’S DAILY
ALLOWABLE CUT
1,335 FOR MAY
News Briefs
During May Young county’s oil
IjUj* production daily basic allowable
1 will be 1,335 barrels under the to-
tal allowed by the Railroad Com-
mission during April, it was an-
nounced Friday in Austin.
The daily total set for May 1 was
Plans for meetings during the
month of May were made Monday
evening at the monthly Council
meeting at the First Baptist Church.
Officers of each B. T. U. meet with
Gerald Hall, educational director,
once each month for this purpose.
Olney's weekly Thursday trades
day program attracted the largest
crowd last week, estimated R. D.
Chambers, chairman of the Cham-
ber of Commerce’s merchant com-
mittee. Winners were Miss Juanita
McClure, W. B. Surratt, Mrs. Wheel-
er, Odessa Hamilton of True, J. L.
Jordan of Jean, Mrs. Hunt Barry
and Mrs. Olen Drenon.
When an appreciation dinner was
given Friday noon in Wichita Falls
for Wilbur Page, C. C. Williams,
manager of the Chamber of Com-
merce, was among the guests. Mr.
Page, who recently resigned as
manager of the Wichita chamber,
has accepted a position as secretary
(See News Briefs page 4, Col. 5’)
♦ One phase of the presidential
race which receives little attention,
although the results are very im-
portant and are more significant
than the ballots cast in November,
is the precinct convention.
Olney Democrats and Young
county Democrats will have an op-
portunity to instruct their dele-
gates in precinct conventions Sat-
urday. The county convention will
be held at 2 o’clock the following
Tuesday at Graham.
Both of Olney’s precinct
ton sing Sunday.
. It was fun
talking with Chester Dembeck of
BOSTON, Mass., who accompanied
Dr. Van Allen down on one of the-
latter’s regular trips. Chester
avowed he was going to “slay”
everyone with his SOUTHERN
drawl when he returns home. He
particularly likes “you all” and
“reckon”......This is a FASHION
note that will interest BOTH sexes
since there is an ECONOMY note
too—Olney will have Nylon hose
about the middle of May we are
told, at the same time when sales
start over the United States. These
hose are made from coal, water
and AIR.........High school STU-
DENTS are bemoaning the impend-
ing change of job by MARGARET
3 o’clock Saturday evening. Flow-
(See Flower Show back page. Col. 3)
Bond Election
Carries; Plans
Being Drawn
Readying blueprints and applica-
tion papers, Voelcker and Dixon,
Wichita Falls architects, are hurry-
ing to submit the proposed school
building program to Works Pro-
gress Administration following the
election here Saturday.
Voters marked 259 ballots for and
Lewis who will take over at the, 141 against the $30,500 bond issue
(See Personal page 4, Col. 4) while 285 favored the refunding
proposition with 115 against. The
refunding statement cancelled the
$22,000 bond issue voted in Septem-
ber 1938; these bonds had never
been sold.
10,087 as compared with 11,422 for! ventions will be at 1 o’clock Sat-
April 1. The North Texas district
basic allowable for May 1 was
reported at 125,932 barrels. This
compares with basic daily allow-
ables of 132,317 barrels on April 1
and 134,484 barrels on April 20,
representing about a 6 percent cut.
The commission arrived at the
new schedule by slicing current
allowables 10 percent to non-mar-
ginal wells in most fields, and then
.applying a one-day statewide shut-
down and 14 closing days for the
vast East Texas field. The general
shutin day was observed Wednes-
day. Operators however \^ere given
the choice of producing every day
by withdrawing 30 days basic al-
lowable over a period of 31 days.
East Texas holidays were ordered
for all Saturdays, Sundays and Wed-
nesdays and May 31.
Meet Miss, Mr., Average Senior of
Olney High; Ten Questions Answered
Meet Miss Average Senior and
Mr. Average Senior! Or very nearly
average as based on facts and fig-
ures compiled after B. F. Harbour,
high school principal, distributed
questionaires for the Enterprise to
19 boys and 35 girls who are mem-
bers of this year’s graduating class.
For instance, ignoring the fact
that your senior boy may be 17 and
and have blue eyes and brown hair,
Mr. Average Senior would have at-
tained two ward schools and one
high school. He was bom in Texas
but out of Young county. For five
years or less he has attended school
in Olney. He will go to college af-
ter graduation from high school
May 24.
The average boy graduate did
not fail a course or grade during
ward school and he has not failed
a course in high school. The young
man has had a job while attending
high school. And, he would feel
that when he graduated that the
school had done for him what he
(See Seniors page 4, Col. 1)
Acker Continues
Teaching Duties
With spring football season clos-
ed, Coach Ray Acker will continue
as a member of the high school
faculty due to an eleventh hour
change in plans by the Denison
school board, it has been announced.
Original plans were for Coach
Acker to serve as a faculty member
during the month he directed
spring training while Coach Patti-
son performed similar duties in
Denison. Last week, just before
Coach Pattison closed Denison’s
workouts to return to Olney for the
remainder of the school year, the
board of education voted to retain
the former local mentor as a regu-
lar member of their faculty for the
remainder of the year.
urday afternoon. Precinct 11 will
meet at the City Hall with A. D.
McMillan as chairman.- Precinct 23
will have its convention in the Gui-
marin Motor company building. E.
G. Thornton is chairman.
Voters of these precincts are urg-
ed to attend these conventions since
important resolutions will be pre-
sented for consideration and adop-
tion and delegates will be chosen
to the county convention.
Roosevelt, Garner, McNutt, Far-
ley or Hull—or perhaps some dark
horse—will receive Young county’s
votes in the state convention, ac-
cording to instructions by the voters
themselves. The precinct conven-
tions herald the beginning of the
long campaign which will climax
in the national Democratic con-
vention when this party’s standard
bearer will be acclaimed.
Precinct chairmen for Young
county, together with addresses and
(See Conventions page 4, Col. 4)
Twenty-ton Scales
\lnstalled by Elevator
Longest scales in town are the
20-ton Howe weighing scales which
were installed last week at Graham
Mill and Elevator, according to
Harry Coleman, manager. The huge
scales measure 34 feet in length.
These scales replaces weighing
equipment which was a mere 10-
ton affair and were only 20 feet in
length.
Installation was completed Thurs-
day, Mr. Coleman said.
Smith Accepts
Gainesville/Pjpsf
Wilford Smith plans to leave in
a few weeks for Gainesville where
he has accepted tJq'e position of dis-
tributing agent for Standard Oil
company.
Mr. Smith, whose agency embrac-
es the Gainesville district, has be-
gun his new duties but will not
move to Gainesville immediately.
Mrs. Smith and their son will join
him there when arrangements for
a residence have been completed.
For the past five years Mr. Smith
has been employed as bookkeeper
for Southland Refinery.
Linouise Lutz
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Plays to Finals
in Piano Contest
Her nimble fingers played their
way into the finals for piano scho-
larship competition at Mary Har-
din-Baylor College, Belton, Satur-
day morning when Miss Linouise
Lutz entered this annual contest.
Miss Lutz, who is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lutz, entered
in a field of 26 girls and was one'
of six selected for playing in the
finals. Three scholarships were
awarded in the piano division as
well as three each in voice and
violin.
Although Miss Lutz was net one
of the three final winners. Dean
Henry Meyer of Southwestern Uni-
versity, who served as judge, prais-
ed her ability and poise. Mis. Carl
Ramsey, who has been Miss Lutz’s
piano teacher for years, was very
pleased with the showing of her'
pupil. Linouise played Rachman-
ioff’s “Prelude in C Sharp Minor’
(See Pianist page 4, Col. 2)
“... .WITH SILVER BELLS AND COCKLE SHELLS” RECALLED
By Visit to Quaint Gooch Garden
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Neff were in
Dallas Monday on business.
“.. . . with silver bells and cockle
shells and pretty maids all in row.”
Those nursery rhyme words
came to our mind Friday when we
paid a before-eight-o’clock visit to
the lovely old-fashioned garden of
Mrs. Jodie Gooch.
To be sure, there are some of
the newest plants to be found ?n
Mrs. Gooch’s garden, which she
takes care of herself, but from the
four white arches forming the en-
trances, down to four walks wind-
ing among the fragnant blooming
plants, the true essence of an old-
fashioned garden, is preserved.
When she be^gn planting the
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garden in 1931 Mrs. Gooch planned
a typical Southern plot but these
plants were not hardy enough for
this climate and so Mrs. Gooch wise-
ly submitted to more hardy plants
with the result that she has one of
the loveliest garden spots in Olney.
She estimates she has approximately
500 different plants in the garden
which is bordered with dusty miller
for hedging, salt cedar and other
kinds of trees.
Winding Walks
Mrs. Gooch directed our early
morning visit, which is by far the
best time to inspect a garden,
down the winding walks from her
j house where a bleeding heart
j blooms by an Ozark bluebell and
j back again to a petuna bed and a
i created marshy home for her car
i tails. Bleeding hearts are rare in
j Olney since our summer sun’s
I merciless rays are devasting on this
1 plant which likes the shade: Mrs.
I Gooch plans to make a shade to
shield this plant.
With a background of old- fash-
ioned blue iris, Mrs. Gooch has a
bed of finer iris whose blossoms
are dark red and pink. Next we
saw a young red peach tree, gladi-
oli shoots whose stalks will begin
(See Garden page 4, Col. 3)
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Warren, Len C. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1940, newspaper, May 3, 1940; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1128690/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Olney Community Library.