The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, February 9, 1945 Page: 1 of 8
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[Tlan, Preserve,
Cat and Conserve
For Victory."
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The Olney Enterprise
THIS IS YOUR TOWN—THIS IS MY TOWN—IF WE ALL SUPPORT IT ONE HUNDRED PER CENT, IT WILL BE A ONE HUNDRED PER CENT TOWN
VOLUME XXXIV
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT FOR OLNEY
OLNEY ENTERPRISE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1945
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN YOUNG CO
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Lubbock Man Gives Hummus Address
Annuai Chamber of Commerce Banquet
W. T. Strange, Jr., of Lubbock^
was guest speaker for the annual
banquet cf the Olney Chamber of
Commerce here Tuesday evening
in the Rotary building when Al-
bert S. Acker, outgoing president,
served as master of creemonies
Introduced by A. D. Cummings,
program chairman, Strange gave
a humorous talk on “Modern
Home.” Interspersing his talk with
jokes and clever illustrations.
Strange said that the Chamber of
Commerce is- the lifeblood of the
community and urged that resi-
dents of the community build to-
gether in unity of companionship
for the good of the community.
Rev. W. H. Townsend, pastor of
the First Baptiet Church, gave
the invocation, and the Ritz Mu-
sic Makers under the direction of
Ben E. Ritzenthaler furnished a
program of incidental dinner mu-
sic. Acker introduced the out-of-
town guests, including, Mayor J.
M. Graham, John Nunnelley, T.
A Wright and Mr. Aikerf of Gra-
ham; Joe Van Vetterman of New
Graves Family Gets
Purple Heart For
R, F. Graves
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Graves, 208
Fast Kidd, have received the Pur-
ple Heart and Presidential Cita-
Rilly /. Tillman
And Miss McDowell
Will Wed Feb. 18
Announcements have been re-
ceived here of the approaching
marriage of Miss Nita Dale Mc-
Dowell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L. S. McDowell of Wichita Falls,
and Billy Joe Tillman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tillman of Ol-
ney. The wedding will take place
at 2:30 p. m. Sunday, February
18, at-the Holland Heights Chris-
tion posthumuosly awarded their tjan church in Wichita Falls,
son, Sgt. Robert F. Graves, Jr., j The bride-elect has been named
who died November 18, 1944, from banoj-ee for several parties in
wounds received on Leyte. Wichita Falls recently. Invitations
Almost a full truckload of old
newspapers, magazines and wrap-
ping paper was sent to Dallas sal-
vage headquarters Monday, accor-
ding to Mrs. Ed Hart, waste paper
collection chairman for the Amity
Club which has conducted the
last two hcuse-to-house collectons
here in cooperation with the Ol-
ney High School Junior Class.
Mrs. Cluster Evans, women’s
salvage group chairman, has an-
nounced that the collection of
waste paper will continue here
at lesat through July. In next
week’s Enterprise, the name af
the organization which will- handle
the. next two collections will be
given.
Special emphasis is being pla-
ced on waste paper salvage du-
ring February and March, accor-
ding to information from Louis
N. Goldberg and Geo. B. Peeler,
co-chairmen of the Waste paper
drive of Texas. A release this
week said: “On the whole waste
paper has been coming in with
reasonable steadiness in Texas but
there have been few weak spots.
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Sgt. Graves, who attended the
Round Timbers school, entered the
service in March, 1942, and had
been overseas approximately
twenty-nine months at the time
of his death.
have been received by several Ol-
ney women.
VFW Auxiliary Plans
Game Night Feb. 22
Plans for a Game Night to be
held the evening of February 22
in the Rotarv Building are being
being made bv the Ladies -Auxil-
iary of the Clayton Duvall Chapter
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Open to the public, the enter-
tainment will feature a large va-
riety of games. Proceeds from the
event will go into the Auxiliary
Relief Fund, according to Mrs. J
G. Duvall, president.
Refreshments will be served at
the close of the evening.
castle: Messrs. Thorp, Hilly and
Roy Huckaby, Throckmorton, Mr.
and. Mrs. Joe Do wen, Luther Bur-
kett and Mr. Belcher, Wichita
Falls; and Geo. Plants and Mrs.
Burksley of Seymour; Floyd Jones,
Ben. J. Dean, and Joe Body, of
Breckenridge.
C. G. Dixon was introduced as ---■
incoming president. Also recog-j RiteS Held
mzecl were C. V. Morgan, tirst
vice-president; J. F Carter, sec- MrS, MeO.deVS
onde vice-president; R. E Dailey, : FunJ.al services for Mrs. W. L,
treasurer, L C. Boyd, acting m an• . Moaders< resident of Olney since
ageu: Olm Calvin, A. A. P , j lg07> were held Sunday at four
d E- Dailey, J. • j o’clock from the Cumberland
Doyle and C. V. Morgan mcom- j Presbvterian Church under the
NfxoteCWrS; B. SMcAct|' C. I erection of Rev. J. W. G. Hill, pas-
S'trealy, P. F. Sprinkle, and A. D i M Meaders, the former An-
Cunimmgs holdover doctors and born in Hills-
Si C. Jeffery, E. C. Hallman, JE.
G. Thornton, N. D. Goldsmith,
Marine First Lieutenant Billy
J'. Ewing, 23, above, recently re-
. , , ,, .turned from the Pacific Theater
At this time we want to strengthen > of operations The son of Mr.
the weak spots and increase the and Mrs_ s c Ewing of Olney,
Cube ties Drill At
QlneyGraham Game
An unusual drill was presented
by the Cubettes, high school girls
drum corps, here Friday night
when the Cubs lost to 4,he visit-
ing Graham Steer quintet by a
score of 20-12 in the Cub Gymna-
zium.
At the half, the Cubettes enter-
ed the court in a closed rank four-
man line, fading into a two-man
line and coming back up the court
making diamond-shaped forma-
tions. As they reached the nor-
thern end cf theypourt, they tur-
ned' and marched down the court
making rectangular formations on
the floor. From this they went
into a large heart formation for
which the drum major, lieuten-
ants and the majorettes formed
the arrow.
The Cubettes will present their
last drill of the season in the Ol-
ney high school gymnazium Feb-
ruary 16 when the Cubs will be
hosts to the Burkburnett quintet.
volume from all parts of the
state. Waste paper collections in
Texas must be stepped up imme-
diately.
Residents of the Olney area are
requested to save all newspaper,
magazines, corrugated cardboard,
wrapping paper, paper sacks, rags
etc. as they will be called for
within the next few weeks, Com-
plete plans for the collection will
be announced in the Enterprise.
he attended Olney High School
and Texas Wesleyan College be-
* Olney’s Boy Scout Troop wilt
observe Boy Sj^aut week. February
i 8 through I^rwrimry 14, by moving,
( into a neyf -Scout building located,
just south oi John Turner’s Tour-
ist Couft onfSmrth Avenue C. ae-
1 cording to District chairman A.D..
■ Chmmings.
j The building, purchased from
S. Lynch, has been prepared for
moving to the new location and
j will be set up on the Scout lot,
, which has been cleaned off, during:
lEoy Scout week so that the local
troops may begin using it. Thu
building -will be used exclusively.
;.by Olney’s two Scout troops un-
der the supervision of S. Lynch
and. Russell Park , Scoutmasters,
Olney’s troops sponsored by the
Rotary, and Lions Clubs, are com-
posed of approximately thirty-five
bojrs. For the Rotary troop, Rus-
sell Parks in Scoutmaster. He is
assisted in directing the troop’s ac-
tivities by A. A. Odell, assistant
Scoutmaster, and A. S. Acker, Carl
Ramsey, Beverly Rhyne, Roy J*
Graham,and B. E. Reed, troop com-
mittee.
S. Lynch in Scout Master for the
Lions Club Troop. Members of
nita Moore, resides in Fort Worth. L. Baggett.
___ 1 Officials are A. D. Cummings*
district chairman, Ray Horany*
vice-chairman; and L. E. Robin-
and Pr. E. F. Meredith, outgoing
directors
boro on March 15, 1867, and was
married in Breckenridge on De-
cember 20, 1888, to W. L. Meaders.
A member of the Cumberland
An excellent musical program ;presbyterjan Church since 1888|
was presented by the Eitz Music ^yjrs Meaders had made Olney her
Makers, composed of Ben Ritzen-
thaler, trombones saxaphone, clar-
inet and bassoon; Loraine David-
son, marimba and piano accor-
dion; and George Roth, piano.
They gave a program of solos and
home since 1907.
She is survived by three sons,
Charles W. Meaders of Eliasville,
James Carroll Meaders of Olney
and Alec L. Meaders of Trinidad,
Colo.; four daughters, Mrs. J. H.
of music from classic to popular.
Flowers for the tables were
furnished by Susie’s Flower Shop.
Bryan Bible Class
Has Monthly Social
Sgt. Giles Boone
Home Frgm^Alaska
Sgt. Giles^fBoonk sc>n of Mr.
and Mrs. W. Bpone of Olney,
has arrived in the /States from Al-
aska and Vexpecta/ to visit here
soon, accoiMia^KTo a letter to his
parents, this week.
Sgt. Boone informed his wife,
Evelyn, who is making her home
in Dallas, of his arrival in the
States by telephone last Thurs-
day.
purely
personal
Build today, then, strong and sure.
With a firm and ample base;
And ascending and secure
Shall tomorrow find its place.
—Longfellow.
Enjoys Enterprise
Gratifying to the Enterprise
staff was the letter received last
• week from Herman Graham, store-
keeper Second Class, U. 3. Navy,
i in which he said “I am receiving
Olney Men's Sister
Believed Interned
In Santo Tomas
The release of civilian prison-
ers of war in the Santo Tomas
prison Camp, in Manilla brought
hope to the Emmet and Bill Hall-
man. fapailies here.
Emmett and Bill Hallman’s sis-
ter, Mrs. Harry Clark, w'as intern-
ed.’ in the Santo Tomas camp
about a year ago, according to
information received through the
Red Cross and through a farmer
internee who; had returned to the
son, district commissioner. Orga-
nization and extension is under the
direction of H. M. Shirey, chair-
man, and Otis Bourns. B. M. Nel-
son and John Turner are respon-
sible for camping and activities.,
■ Beverly Rhyne is health and safe-
ty chairman. Advancement is
headed by John Lasater, and
Ralph HOlter and C. G. Nixon
have been named to the finance
committee.
The maintenance of peace in the
years ahead will depend in largU
measure upon the young people
States on the Grlphsolm, .Although Sic e^Waw'S
formation, said in a message to the
At H. Craig- Home
The home of Mrs. Henry Craig ithe Enterprise regularly and want
was the scene of the monthly so- Jfor the ,o]d hometown paper. The
I? ^hMi2dL^rc^a^-1 meetfng which'^ held to? two
weeks under the drection of Rev.
the names of survivors have not
been released, the Hallmans are
expectng news of Mrs. Clairk
soon.
At the time the Japanese invad-
ed the Philippines, - the Clarks
were living in a town near Ma-
nilla, where Mr. Clark was em-
ployed 'as an accountant foi; a
mining company. When Manilla
was declared an .open city, they
went there for protection but were
interned by the Japs.
Baptist Revival
Closed Sunday
The First Baptist Church revi-
val meeting closed 'Sunday night
with a total of twenty-four con-
versions and ten additions by let-
ter, according to report from Rev-
W. H.-Townsend, pastor.
Of the twenty-four conversions,
duties with Mrs. Craig were Mines.
Babe Green and Gerald Groves.
During the business session,
members discussed new furnish-
ings for their class room and de-
cided that each member will pur-
chase and paint a chair. The chairs
will be painted at the March so-
cial for which Mines. Coe Ellis,
ensembles ^ featuring^ a ^wide^iange > Green, Miss Mary Meaders and
, -jy^ - q Young of Olney and
Mrs. H. A. Welch of Wilcox, Ariz.;
„ two sisters, Mrs. H. C. Casey of,
Or. the speakers table was an ai|; port Woarth and Mrs. D. W. Brun- Clyde Ellis and Harley Henderson
rangement of white stock and j SQn of Anson; twenty-three grand- will be hostesses for a covered | Bears
plumosis, which was presented to, ch jidren and eleven great-grand- dish luncheon. Mrs. Leon Welman Super Salesmanship
Mrs. W. T. Strange, wife of the j childre^ -- ’ • !
speaker, at the close of his talk j interment under the direction.
of personal matters instead of
taking up a letter or two telling
Bradley Allison of Fort Worth.
Sor the first week of the meeting,
? Earl Oogers of,Burger had charge
I certainly hope that every ser ,
vice man who receives the En- i sonS
services. During
terprise enjoys it as much as I. ^ecstbdon<jhe '"choil8'
^^rellsc^^IlMyers served as piamst and
of the newcomers to Olney High
School, “The Land of the Little
will be program chairman. ; Unusual was the complete sell-
Mmes. H. M. Shirey, F. S. Baker, | out of tickets to the annual
Adrian Coleman, as violinist.
Luncheon was served each day
of the meeting by the women of
the church.
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Pot plants decorated the other j Lunn’s Funeral Home was inland Steve Ray directed several ] Chamber of Commerce banquet i ~ .•
tables. i the New Cemetery beside her hus- games after which games of “42” | here this week. In fact, C. G. , Postpones Meeting
WRefreshments were served to S"efw^lo ^ The sixty-year ^d Texas P^s
Rolls for the dinner were con- hand who preceded her in death
tributed by Mead’s Bakery of j 1937
Witchita Falls.
Dinner was served to approxi-
mately 250 guests by the ladies
of the Assembly of God Church.
Arrangements for the dinner
were made by Raymond Lunn,
chairman, Ralph Holter, Elmer
Senior League Meets
Sundaji Afternoon
Rose Ann Cummings, Johnnie
Lois Neal and Bettie Jane. Hollis
Strealy, ^ W| W. Price and R. E. gave talks on “Worship” at the
meeting of the' Senior League of
the First Methodist church Sun-
day afternoon at the church.
During the business session,
members discussed the possibility
of game tournaments with other
churches and recreational facil-
ities.
Present for this meeting were
Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Rhyne, spon-
sors, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ramsey,
Joe Roberts,on, Don Brock, Betty
Dunagan,
Marjorie Robertson, Lillian Ho-
ran y, Ann Bettis, Johnnie Lois
Neal, Nancy Morgan, Beverly Ann
Daily. A. D. CuArmings served as
program chairman, assisted by
Roy J. Graham and Harry Bettis.
Ticket sales were under the dirce-
tion of C. G. Nixon, charman, Ray
Horany and J F. Carter.
Staff Sgt. Westbrook
Visit Relatives Here
Staff Sgt. and Mrs. John L.
Westbrook, Jr., of Greenville re-
cently visited hevo in ilie homo xlays, #Bn011^3. ^ Joyce
of Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Neal and
other friends.
S'gt Westbrook, whose parents -
are Mr. and Mrs J. L. West- j Gadberry, Roy Lee J3aker,^ Der
brook of
Mmes. Harry Bettis, C. V. Mor- that they had sold all the tickets
gan, Coe Ellis, R. A. Drum, H. M. before they realized that many
Shirey, Edna Bush, Ed Hart, Geo.
Hall Roach, Jr., Billy Ju.stce, Har-
ley Henderson, Steve R.ay, W. C.
Wilson F. R. Baker, Leon Welman,
M. C. Wainscott, Hubert Gadber-
ry and Ernest Brown and the hos-
tess.
Location Staked for
A-h J. Jo Perkins
Drilling at 4012 feet in dry hard
lime is the James W. Stewart
Company No. 1 Mary S. Reger, a
who have been seen regularly for
years at the banquet would be ab-
sent this year as only 225 could be
accomodated. Smacks of good
salesmanship and a healthy in-
terest in Chamber of Commerce
affairs.
MAIL CALL
This week’s mail brought Public
Relations pictures of Coast
Guardsmen Robert A. Scott, Cox-
swain, son of R. S. S?cott of Ol-
ney. and Pvt. Horace D. Sharp,
son of Mrs. A. Sharp of Olney.
Coxswain Cox is now serving as
Association has postponed its an-
nual meeting for the first time in
it history, George D. Peeler, pub-
lisher of the Taylor Press and pres-
ident of the Association, announ-
ces.
The meeting was postponed in
compliance with a recent request
of War Mobilization Director Jas.
F. Byrnes that all group meetings
of 50 or more persons be cancelled
or postponed to lighten the bur-
den on transportation and service.
The action of the officials of
the Texas Press Association fol-
Boy Scouts of America on their
35 th Anniversary, being observed
during Boy' Scout Week.,
Mr, Davis sent the following
tribute to Dr. Elbert K. Fre
Chief Scout Executive, who
it public:
“It is v gratifying to know tjP
in February the Boy Scouts
America will celebrate their thir-
ty-five years of good ■ work for
American youth, I note that iiru
1945 you are to stress the im-
portance of world - brotherhoods,
this is indeed a timely theme* for
the maintenance of peace in years
ahead will depend in large meas-
ure "upon the young people hoW
coming of age. For the patriotiei
and devoted service which the?
members of your organization .have
performed on the home froiiL
extend my sincere apjpreciatie
Livestock Prices Are
At Top Peak -
With Good Demand
Each year for the past three or
four, livestock raisers have thought
that the price had hit the top and
that a slump would surely come.
But each year, as spring has ap-
proached, the prices have climbed
back up in the higher brackets.
Ho\V long this will continue;
no one knows, of course.
Right now, prices are at what
might be described as the danger
point. For instance, good, young
Hereford cows reedy to drop
calves are in demand at pri-
ces ranging from $100 up to
$150, according to local dealers,.
This kind, of course, have to bes
young, good bone, flat barker! and
all-round good quality. But that
looks high to the man who used
to buy such cattle at from $40 to
$50.
Methodists Hold
Fellowship Dinner
Men of the Harrell Bible Class
of the First Methodist Church en-
lowed a poll taken of editors and j tertained with their monthly Fel-
publishers who are members. At ’ lowship Dinner last Thursday
deck petty oUicer and captain of; a meeting of the Executive Com- j evennig in the church basement,
550.0-foot Wildcat in the most ____ ^____ ______ _ ____ ___^_____ w.ic .... . .. ________0 _______ _________ ____________
northerly north line of the: James ian antiaircraft gun crew aboard J mittee in'Dallas January 28 Des- I Hosts for the occasion were A.
Bradley survel, abstract, 1371, a.a Coast Guard manned freight U-in Wells secretary of the Asso- I Cummings. Dr. W. J. Gearheart,
wildcat about seven miles west SUPpiy vessel operating in the Pa- i Nation, Said more than half of J H- M. Shirey, Carl Ramsey and
of Eliasville. i-cific. Relatives may have the pic- t:up ha’llnts had bemi returned and A. A. Odell.
George E. Kadane and Sons have - tv re by calling at the Enterprise ^ edjtors were voting ap- i Approximately fiftey men - en-
staked location for No. A-l J. J. j office.
Perkins, a 4000-foot rotary test 330 j Note to Commissioner
Almeda,' Calif., former- I mqnt Lynch, Wayr.-- Webb Scotty ■ feet from fte north and west line. I By specW -emesl from two int; i^d LncnJ permission
married ao Marie Car ley of Rhode Billie Jean _ BiazeLon and^tj.
A ci"* Sont Q 1944 A -hose Ann Cummings. ;
Israra o., bept J, a \eievan--I Mp_ and Mrs< p_ j_ Hulse and
clean streets..
GK.
Mrs. W. L. Stinson and children
proximately 10 to 1 in favor of a s^ea^ dinner and an in-
voluntarily postponing the meet- : f°mal program.
GARDFN CLUE WILL
MEET FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Members of the Olney Garden?
Mrs. Sidney Huffman and chil- Club will meet Friday afternoon
clren visited her sister. Mrs. Fran- ; at 3;00 o’clock in the Red Cross
of Grand Prairie were weekend. cis Brown, and Mi-. Brown and Room for a business meeting, Mrs..
«LrtK<y-f B AT*-t °Maty? ^FieH ! Kenneth GRmore left last week j son visited friends in Elbert Sun- : guests of her parents, Mr. and; family in Wichita Falls Sunday , W. L. McHugh announced third
at G^nviUe, Texas. ' ^ !for induction into the Navy. ! day. Mrs. G. R. Medlen. 'afternoon. : week.
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Warren, Len C. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, February 9, 1945, newspaper, February 9, 1945; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1132597/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Olney Community Library.