The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1942 Page: 1 of 10
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*Plaa, Preserve,
Bat and Conserve
For Victory."
The Olney Enterprise
"Plan, Preserve,
Eat and Conserve
For Victory."
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. 1
VOLUME XXXII.
| ONE HUNDRED PER CENT FOR OLNEY
OLNEY ENTERPRISE FRIDAY. APRIL 17. 1942.
B
EST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN YOUNG CO. | NUMBER 9,
*
Annual Flower Show
Set May 9; Garden
Club Elects Officers
Date of the annual flower show was set for May 9 and new officers
"$ere elected Friday afternoon at the meeting of the Olney Garden Club.
Mrs. W. L. McHugh is to serve as the new president while other officers
include: Mrs. Solon Glover, first vice-president and program chairman;
Mrs. D. H. Rodgers, second vice-president and conservation president;
Mrs. Joe Parsley, third vice-presi-*
dent and historian and librarian;
Mrs. Cecil Larimore, secretary-
treasurer; Miss Dixie Campbell,
corresponding secretary; and Miss
Modette Collins, reporter.
..The report of the nominating
committee was made by Mrs. Ben
Newman.
Mrs. D. H. Rodgers is flower show
chairman with the following to as-
sist her: Publicity, Mrs. Bobbie Lee
Pharries; decorations, Mesdames
L. D. Clark, Joe Parsley and George
A ^tRice; hostesses, Misses Dixie
wj^Campbell, chairman, Carria Rush-
ing and Modette Collins, Mesdames
R. O. Andrews, W. B. Howard, W.
R. Taylor, E. G. Thornton and Rod-
gers; secretaries, Mrs. Cecil Lari-
more; classification, Mesdames C.
G. Nixon, N. D. Goldsmith, E. F.
Robertson, McHugh, T. S. Guimarin
and J. A. Doyle; staging commit-
tee, Mrs. Joe Benson.
Since the flower show will be
' May 9, the final meeting of the
• • club, which is to be in the form of
a luncheon, was moved from May
8 to 15.
Fifteen members attended the
meeting Friday when# Mrs. Nixon
discussed points on staging a
flower show, offering criticism from
last year’s show. She included tex-
ture of flowers, relation of flowers
to containers, suitability and bal-
ance. The flower arrangement was
made by Mrs. Clark.
COUNTY COUNCIL TO
ELECT OFFICERS
New officers of the Young
county PTA County Council
will be elected when the regular
meeting is held at 2 o’clock
Saturday afternoon at Shearer
school. In the event of more
rain, the meeting will be post-
poned, stated the president, Mrs.
Clester Evans.
Installation of the newly
elected officers will be conduct-
ed. Mrs. Hazel Anderson of
Loving is in charge of program
arrangements and special music
is to be given by Shearer stu-
dents.
Delegates form the Olney
PTA are room mothers with the
teachers as alternates. This is
the council’s final meeting of
the school year.
Boy
first
Scouts Still Want
^aste Paper as
Carload Is Sold
Magazines and newspapers
still being sought by the
Scouts who have sold their
carload of waste paper. The scouts
sent 40,000 pounds of paper collect-
ed during recent months in a
shipment Monday and Tuesday, ac-
cording to C. O. Hicks.
Prevailing market price will be
paid the scouts who will use the
funds for buying camping equip-
ment. Name of the firm in Dallas
which purchased the paper was
^ withheld, by request. The purchas-
wers will send the paper to a foctory
in the southeast.
Olneyites are requested not to
sava scrap paper for the scouts
*^See Paper, back page, col. 5
MRS. LAURA LUNN
HONORED ON
91 BIRTHDAY
Calls by some of her many
friends, remembrances in the form
of gifts, telephone messages, let-
ters and cards marked Mrs. Laura
Lunn’s ninety-first birthday which
she celebrated Sunday at the home
of her grandson, Raymond Lunn.
The lovely birthday cake was
served at noon during the family
dinner. During the afternoon visi-
tors called, telegrams and flowers
weer delivered to add to the fes-
tivity of this milestone in Mrs.
Lunn’s life.
Gifts were sent by the Cum-
berland Presbyterian Church, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Kirkpatrick of
Hampshire, Tenn., Miss Mattie Kirk-
patrick of Nashville, Tenn., Ed
Raines of Bowie, Mesdames Joe
Dunagan, S. R. Jeffery, Thirza
Hunt, C. S. Catina of Louisville,
Ky., Joe Blanks and Cordie Smith
of Seymour.
Callers included Rev. and Mrs.
M. F. Allen, Mrs. T. L. Griffin, Mr.
and Mrs. W. N. Lunn, Mr. and
Mrs. Johnnie Dunagan, Mrs. E. C.
Hallman, Mrs. J. P. Alexander, Mr.
and Mrs. John Boley, Mr. and Mrs.
Thurman Rogers of San Diego,
Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Shields
of Monroe, La.
A Proclamation
WHEREAS the minds of our people are concerned with the
gallant fight our men in service are making under the colors of
the flag of their country;
And the need for prayer is felt more than ever by the resi-
dents of Olney who are asking that peace return to this world
and that the sons, brothers and husbands be released from man-
ning implements of death and destruction although they are be-
ing made to fight the cause of justice and right,
I, Mayor Bernard Lunn, do proclaim that every resident of
Olney shall pause at the signal of the fire siren, to be sounded
daily at 10 o’clock each morning, to offer a silent prayer for im-
mediate peace and for the safety and protection of our men in
service.
WITNESS my hand, this fourteenth day of April, A. D.,
nineteen hundred and forty-two.
Bernard Lunn, Mayor of Olney.
Program to Be
Announced Soon
AS BATTERED BATAAN FALLS
T. T. McEntires Await Word of Son
With news of the fall of battered^
Bataan, concern felt by Mr. and
Mrs. T. T. McEntire of Orth mounts
for their son, Pvt. Wilbur T. McEn-
tire who had as his address before
the war. Tripler General Hospital,
Manila.
The McEntires have received no
word from their son since the out-
break of the war and their Christ-
mas packages were returned with
the explanation that no mail was
being delivered to the Philippines.
Wilbur enlisted in the United
States army and visited here and
his former home, Corsicana, in
November, 1940, before leaving in
served his term in foreign service
His parents heard from him reg-
ularly prior to war.
Pvt. Harold T. McEntire, the
couple’s other son, returned in No-
vember, shortly before Pearl Har-
bour, from Hawaii where he had
served his term in foregin service.
Although the younger of the bro- j
thers, he has served almost two j
terms of enlistment in the army.!
Harold’s second enlistment will ex- I
pire in September; he entered
the service in 1936, volunteering
at Lubbock. He has completed four;
courses of study while in the army
and is stationed at the Station
Hospital, Fort McDowell, Calif.
And typical of the fighting spirit
of his buddies, Harold wants to get
into the thick of the fight in the
Pacific.
ORDER NUMBERS APPEAR
IN THIS ISSUE
Order numbers of Young
county men who registered
Feb. 16 appear in this week’s
issue of the Enterprise; this
group includes the first release
made by the Selective Service
board. The list may be found
on page 2.
The remainder of tne names
and numbers will be published
as soon as they are received
from the board at Graham. The
numbers begin with 10,001;
they will not be integrated with
numbers from the previous
registrations.
Mr. and Mrs. Tad Carter were in
DeLeon Tuesday on business.
Faculty Re-elected
On Y ear Contracts
^ Board Chooses
Officers, Canvasses
Recent Election
All members of the Olney public
„ school faculty were re-elected Mon-
^kpy night at the meeting of the
nSbard of education. They are to be
presented one-year contracts, de-
clared the superintendent, A. D.
Cummings.
' Earlier this year, Mr. Cummings;
the principals, W. L. Coffey and
B. F. Harbour; and the coaches,
Cotton Franklin and Truett Cooper,
were re-elected by the laoard.
At the session Monday night the
board canvassed the recent election
and found that Mark Campbell
aad Si Jeffery were re-elected. Of-
fl^rs of the board were named
with C. V. Morgan chosen presi-
dent, E. G. Thornton vice-presi-
dent and A. D. Myers secretary.
All were re-elected.
Members of the faculty include:
See Faculty, back page, col. 2
Daughter Born to
Gossetts Thursday
Birth of a daughter, Judy Anne,
Congressman and Mrs. Ed Gos-
tt at Washington Thursday night
announced Friday in dispatch-i
om the national capital,
couple now has two children,
Glenn, having been born at
?ton in January, 1941. Mrs.
is the former Miss Mary
seley.
Baptist Training
Course to Offer
Five Classes
Churchwide in its scope, a train-
ing course will begin Monday night
at 8 o’clock at the First Baptist
Church with officers and teachers
of the Sunday School especially
urged to attend. The course will
continue through Friday night.
Five classes will be offered in
nightly two-hour sessions. Students
completing the course will be given
gold seals to be applied toward a
diploma for trained workers.
Plans and details were com-
pleted Monday night at the month-
ly meeting of Sunday School offi-
cers and teachers, stated B. F.
Harbour, general superintendent.
Miss Alice Finch, educational direc-
tor is to spend next week here and
will direct the course. Plans are
to have two 45-minute class per-
iods each evening with a 15-min-
ute inspirational period to afford
relaxation for the students.
Classe sto be taught and their
teachers are as follows: “Building
the Standard Sunday School,” Miss
Finch; “Looking at Learning.” Mr.
Harbour; VPersonal Factors in
Character Building” by Miss Isabel
Hunter; “The Book We Teach” by
Rev. W. H. Townsend; and “Guid-
ing the Primary Child in Sunday
School,” teacher to be named.
Retail Stores to
Aid in Meeting
New $54,000 Quota
Every retail employe a savings
stamp salesman.
This is the goal set for Olney as
announced by D. B. Wood, local
chairman for the Texas Retail Mer-
chants Defense association, at a
meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Object of the drive is to have
savings stamps on sale at every
retail establishment with employes
to ask customers if they desire
their change in stamps in an effort
to emphasize and re-emphasize the
necessity and urgency of buying
more and more stamps.
Olney was given a quota of $54,-
000 for this year in saving stamps
to be bought from retail stores;
stamps bought at the post office
will not apply on this quota. The
county allotment, aside from the
individual town assignments, is
$21,000 for this year; this applies
See Stamps, back page, col. 4
OLNEYITES ATTEND
SEMI-ANNUAL
PRESBYTERY
Delegates from all divisions of
the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church have been in attendance
at the semi-annual meeting of
Presbytery at Chico which closed
Wednesday night.
The program opened Tuesday
with Rev. and Mrs. M. F. Allen,
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Campbell and
Mrs. W. K. Fraysur present. All
participated in the program for
divisions of the church and women’s
missionary work.
Wednesday night the young peo-
ple’s regular meeting was held
with Miss Martha Jean Allen, presi-
dent, presiding. Others present
from here were Paul Allen, Peggy
Campbell, Neva Lou and Corky
Evans.
Honor Roll
About 200 names of Olney area
men in service have been listed
^ith, the Enterprise for the honor
roll. But don’t you still know of
another man or youth who deserves
this recognition along with his
fellow men in arms? Send us his
name and complete address for next
week’s Enterprise.
Pvt. Dalton Allen, Battery A,
53rd Field Artillery, Camp Roberts,
Calif.
Corp. Algers C. Boyle, A. S. N.
20,813,867, Battalion, Battery D
131st F .A., A.P.O. 501, % Post-
master, San Francisco, Calif.
Jim Kelly, App. Seaman, Coast
Guard Training Sta., Co. V-2, 8th
Naval District, Algeers, New Or-
leans, La.
Johnnie C. Lowe, No. 38125526,
Co. C, Sig. Corps, 26th Battalion,
See Honor Roll, back page, col. 3
Red Gross to
Get Sewing
For Soldiers
Sewing will be available soon at
the Red Cross production room, Mrs.
Sid Perryman, general chairman,
announced Wednesday following a
meeting in which local aid was pled-
ged in securing equipment for the
Camp Wolters hospital.
Thirty-three sets of light-
weight, washable robes and slip-
pers are to be made here. This
material will be sent in the near
future and its arrival will be an-
nounced in the Enterprise. Olney’s
Red Cross chapter agreed to buy
one or more electric fans for the
hospital at the camp.
See Red Cross, back page, col. 1
A Chuckle for Today
A drunk got into a taxi and
asked to be driven around the park
five times. After the third round,
the drunk shouted to the driver,
“Fashter— I’m inna hurry.”
* * * *
From The Land Down Under
Algers BOYLE, trained at Camp
Bowie, is now stationed in AUS-
TRALIA. His letter written Jan. 10
arrived last week, bearing a Mel-
bourne postmark. When he was
in JAVA he was permitted to dis-
close his station but in this letter
his location was CUT OUT by the
censor.
* * * *
In Swank Surroundings
Ritzy MIAMI, Fla., provides a
backdrop for ELLISTON McKin-
ney these days who is there for
three months to attend an officers
training SCHOOL for the admin-
istrative department of the air
corps. He had been in Arizona.
* * * *
Smooth Sailing
. . . but NOT for Mr. and Mrs.
George RICE who alternately hung
on and bounced when they went
for a ride in a JEEP last week
when they attended ARMY Day
open house at Fort Sill, Okla.
* * * *
Well. It's Time
After 35 YEARS of working for
the railroad, G. W. JESSUP left
See Personal, back page, col. 3
Three Attend Area
Meeting*; Details
To Be Planned
More detailed plans will be re-
leased by A. D. Cummings, sup-
erintendent of schools, concerning
the registration for sugar rationing
after t|e returns from Wichita
Falls where he, W. L. Coffey and
C. V. Morgan are to attend a
meeting for nine counties tonight
(Thursday).
Plans now are to dismiss grade
school pupils for a holiday May 4,
first day for registration, with an
office to be maintained at grade
school through May 7, final day for
registration. Parents of children in
school will be asked to register in
the room their child attends, how-
ever, further details for this set-
up will be released, probably in
next week’s Enterprise.
Dr. L. A. Woods, state superin-
tendent of schools, and Bullock Hy-
der, assistant state rationing ad-
ministrator, will meet in Wichita
Falls with the rationing chairmen
from nine counties, including Mon-
tague, Clay, Jack, Wichita, Wilbar-
ger, Baylor, Throckmorton, Archer
and Young.
Following the meeting, they will
give instructions on rationing reg-
istration in their home counties to
school teachers, who will assist in
the registration.
JEAN WOLVERTON
MAKES STEPHENS
HONOR ROLL
Columbia, Mo., April 13. (Spl.)
—Jean Wolverton was cited by
Dean Weldon P. Shofstall, dean of
administration at Stephens College,
Columbia, Mo., for outstanding
scholastic and extra-class achieve-
ment by her selection to the Dean’s
Honor Roll this week.
Miss Wolverton is the -daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Wol-
verton, Jr., Olney. She is also
participating in the civilian de-
fense activities that have become
an integral part of the college’s
curriculum. She is a senior at the
college.
Annual Father-Son
Banquet Set
Friday by FFA
Their annual Father-Son banquet
will be served at 8:15 o’clock Fri-
day evening at the grade school
building by the Future Farmers of
America chapter. A. L. Baggett,
sponsor, is assisting the members
in general arrangements.
An informal type of program is
planned with Bill Crismon to give
a summary of. projects carried on
by the members. A. D. Cummings,
superintendent, will speak briefly
to the boys and their fathers while
Robert Baker, pianist, will furnish
musical entertainment.
The invocation will be given by
B. F. Harbour, high school prin-
cipal. Both opening and closing ex-
ercises will be conducted by FFA
members.
Special guests are invited for
the banquet and will be recognized.
ENLISTS IN NAVY
W. C. Leberman, Jr., writes rel-
atives here he is now stationed at
the United States Naval Training
Station at San Diego, Calif. He en-
tered as a petty officer and has been
in San Diego for three weks now.
Kuehn Leaves for
Job in Vernon
A. :
While his successor has not been
chosen, Leo Kuehn left today (Thurs-
day) for Vernon to assume his new'
duties as manager of the Chamber
of Commerce. Mrs. Kuehn and their
son accompanied him to Vernon.
Contacts are still being made by
the appointing committee in an ef-
fort to find Mr. Kuehn’s successor
and applications are being studied
carefully.
Mr. and Mrs. Emitt Davis plan to
move one door south and occupy the-,
house where the Kuehns lived;
both of these houses are owned by
W. H. Strealv. Mrs. Hugh Dugan
and daughter, who have been liv-
ing in an apartment owned by Mrs..
O. T. Anderson, plan to move into
the residence where the Davises are
now living.
Wright,KelIy SeeNew Orleans With Whites
i
Olneyites meet Olneyites andftwo fine boys that you have in thef Denims” and was considerably irk-^trv
me of the lonesomeness nf hpimr i mt________ t* , , . y ' ’>try
some of the lonesomeness of being
separated from families is being
assuaged. That comfort is brought
out again in a letter received by
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wright and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kelly from
Mr. and Mrs. Rookie White.
New Orleans, La., one of the
Coast Guard training stations, was
the scene of the reunion. Red
Wright, son of the Charles Wrights,
and Jim Kelly, son of the Frank
Kellys, are there in training and
the Whites are former Olney resi-
dents. “Rookie” is well known
here as one of the best mechanics
Olney ever had.
Mr. and Mrs. Whites interest-
ing letter follows:
“Dear Friends:
“I know you must be very anx-
ious to hear everything about the
Naval and Coast Guard Training
Stations here. We who are fortu-
nate enough that we have not had
anyone, from our immediate fami-
lies called to the service probably
do not realize just how much it
means to you to hear from the
boys.
"Look Swell"
“As you know, Leon and my dad
were good friends and Dad gave
Leon my address and asked that
he call me as soon as he arrived.
The boys were so busy during the
first few days that it was Sunday,
March 29th, when they called.
Ruby Mae and I rushed out to see
them and spent three or four hours
talking to them outside the gate.
Both of them looked swell, in good
health and taking all things in
stride. Leon had on his “Blue
ed because Jim had already been
allowed to wear his “Dress Blues”
due to his being in the service one
week ahead of Leon.
“Both showed considerable evi-
dence of plenty of sun and both
were beginning to look tanned
even to the extent of blisters. They
told some amusing stories about
the food, the training and the reg-
ulations. We asked them out for
Easter Day and were tickled when
they promised to come. I’ll let you
in on a secret. The boys thought
we were doing them a big favor
in asking them out to dinner, but
confidentially they were doing us
a favor. We enjoyed having them
so much that the day passed all
too soon.
“Both Leon and Jim are missing
you folks a lot. Everything they
to do they are still reminded
of home and their fathers and mo-
thers, but they are taking it swell.
Leon talks a lot about “Sunny”, I
wish she could come down, she
must be a grand person. Both of
them have promised to come back
to see us before they leave.
Tour New Orleans
“Jim has been worried about
Frank trying to drive the family
car and says that he hopes be
don’t try it. Leon is worried about
Charlie digging cellars and his
mother is canning too much fruit.
So, you folks back home can s?e
that your boys worry about wlr.it
is happening to the homefolks as
well as the homefolks wonder what
their boys are doing. It’s mutual,
this worrying business.
“We took them down town Sou-
See Letter, back page, col. 4
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Warren, Len C. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1942, newspaper, April 17, 1942; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1132761/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Olney Community Library.