The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 34, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 22, 1955 Page: 1 of 6
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See the List of Treasure Hunt Gifts on Page 4
Casualty Count
FOR WOOD COUNTY
Traffic Deaths in 1953 _________
Traffic Deaths in 1954 _________
Traffic Deaths in 1955 _________
The Wood County Record
Twenty-Five Years of Service in Wood, Smith and Van Zandt Counties
Per Copy
25TH YEAR — NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR
VIINEOLA, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1955
SIX PAGES TODAY
Two Deer Hunters
Fined; Local Men
Have Good Luck
Two deer hunters were fined
here last week $100 each for
killing a doe, and other hunt-
ers from Mineola were having
good luck throughout the state.
Joe McCauley even killed a
large bobcat while deer hunt-
ing near Waco.
Raymond Spann and Jake
Coffman of Lafayette, were
charged by Game Warden Car-
son Seago, after the warden
found a doe deer in their ve-
hicle.
Both men were fined $100
and their hunting licenses were
suspended for a year. Seago
said the men were stopped and
said they had only been squir-
rel hunting. A search of the
car produced the illegal deer
and the men were taken in.
Joe McCauley, m e a n w h ile,
was in Southeast Texas having
ia shooting-good time. McCauley
[Shot a three-point buck the
ood County
Pest Scheduled
krv
first morning out, and also kill-
ed a bobcat.
The bobcat ran across the
road while McCauley was leav-
ing the woods and he jumped
out and shot the animal.
One hunting party didn’t
have such good luck, though.
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Lackland,
hunting with Mr. and Mrs. Tom
F. Castloo, had just got started
good when Mrs. Lackland fell
in a canyon and broke her leg,
reports in Mineola said.
Lee Lechner returned last
Friday from deer hunting at
Kerrville. He was successful.
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Season Opens
For Theatre 55
The Margo Jones Theatre 55,
with Ramsey Burch as man-
aging director, opened their fall
season with the showing of
“Somebody” which will run
through November 26.
The English text of “Some-
body” is by P. G. Wodehouse,
the English author and play-
wright, renowned for his humor
and gift tor farce and for the
Seven Seniors Play
J Final Game at MHS
The Mineola Yellow Jackets had to take it easy for nearly Friday night for a touchdown,
ended their grid season Friday all his high school term. He He may play college footbalL
night in Grand Saline, losing played stalwart football all year J Bright — Last year Jon came
27-14, in a game that marked and is a four-year man. j into his own, playing at end,
the end of high school football Smith — John Smith has and this year has been back in
for seven seniors. ! played quarterback, halfback, j the same spot regularly for
Those playing their last game fullback and end. He is a four- ! Coach Bob Sloan and Charles
for Mineola included Kenneth year man at Mikola winding | Frieme1. Bright is a brother of
Plunk, Joe Sharp, Clarence 1 T~Q -*
YEARBOOK CELEBRITIES—(left to right) Wayne Cosby, Mr. MNS; Joe Sharp, most hand-
some; Tommie Lou Shoemaker, football sweetheart; Eugenia Stroud, Miss MHS; Tressie
Bowden, most beautiful; Barbara Wade and David Matthews, most likely to succeed.
3,796 Texans
Enter Army
During October
A total of 3,796 Texans enter-
ed the armed forces in October,
according to Selective Service
Legion to Sponsor
Home Nursing Course
The American Legion and
Auxiliary will co-sponsor a
home nursing course to be
taught by Miss Doris Williams,
home making teacher of ^lin-
eola High School. The courses
will be held at the Legion hail
and armed services reports, and on the Quitman highway and
3,178 were reported as separated must have at least ten enrolled
at the same time. <
Of the 3,796 Texans entering
or not more than fifteen. There
will be no charge for the course
creation
charming j
tfoot wild-
eight miles southeast
!of Winnsboro in Wood County.
It will be No. 1 John A. Duf-
^fey, 330 feet from the south line
>f the C. C. Bullard survey and
530 feet from the west line of
106.67-acre lease.
Because fo the plentiful sup-
fpy of fish, crustaceans and
plankton in the' waters sur-
rounding Antarctica, these wa-
abound in whales and seals
Rights to produce the play in
Dallas were obtained through
the office of Edmond Pauker,
long time colleague and friend
of Molnar and for some thirty
years his agent in America.
New York producers are cur-
rently interested in adapting it
as a musical and are watching
the Dallas production with keen
interest.
the services, 562 were drafted, j and it Will be optional whether
Colonel Morris £. \ you purchase the
m
York, Wayne Cosby, Eddie
Clements, John Smith and Jon
Bright.
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Mineola’s two scores came on ,
a pass and a 25-yard run play. I
For the opening tally for the
Jackets, Jerry Phillips heaved
an 80-yard pass play to junior j
Jackie Tindel and the Jackets
trailed at halftime, 13-7.
In the third quarter John
Smith ran 25 yards for a touch-
down and added the extra
point, but Grand Saline went
ahead to win, 27-14.
Here is a summary of the
careers of the seven graduating
seniors:
Plunk — Kenneth started for
the first time this year. He has
^.Joe Bright, playing regularly at
up his* career with a 25-yard Sam Houston State College,
scamper against Grand Saline
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Annual Xmas
Seal Drive
Gets Under Way
The Annual Christmas Seal
Sale of the Wood County
,fOC1f;l0n IIs played center and good defen-
rtarted Wedneeday. Mayor Em-, slve {00ttaa plunk was one o{
mett Green of Hawkms an-
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JOHN SMITH
The remaining 3,234 entered by
volunteer means.
A majority of those drafted
actually voluntered, C ol o n e l
Schwartz pointed out. A provi
9PWI
will be announced later.
Anyone interested in taking
this home nursing course may
contact Miss Williams, Mrs. B.
A. Holbrook, Mrs. R. H. Carra-
Refills for all make ball point
pens in colors at Mineola Mon-
itor Office.
THE ADMAN’S
Mineola Melange
Gentry, what it costs the tax-
payers for a congressman to
make a trip to Europe, and he
gave us one of his usual honest
sion of the daft law' permits way or Mrs. L. L. BethelL
volunteering through a draft
board.
All those drafted went into
the Army. Of the 3,234 volun-
teering, 638 went into the Army,
885 into the Navy, 265 into the
Marines, 1,430 into the Air,
Force, and 16 into the Coast!
Guard.
Of the 3,178 returning to civi-
lian life
Gerald Peterson
In AF Training
At Lackland Base
nounced.
Approximately 4,000 letters
.the seals went into the
delivery* to
from the dCTu sale are used
finance the Association’s con-
tinuing program to fight Tuber-
culosis in Wood County. — Mass
X-rays.
The program includes pro-
moting mass chest x-rays, fur-
nishing trained personnel to
help TB patients and their
families, and conducting a year
round program of educational
prevention, cause and cure of
tuberculosis.
The association also assists
. A
and dentists were
replies: “I don’t know. I never i during October, with 14 being
made one of those junkets.” j found acceptable and six unac-
**** I ceptable.
One physician was commis
Mrs. T. A. Collins lost a con-
test in logic with her small
grandson, Craig, at Sharp’s
sporting goods counter on a
recent afternoon. With Grand-
ma in tow, the small boy came
(seeking a big white football —
he already had a small one
“like the little kids play with”.
But almost immediately on ar-
rival, his affection shifted to
si display of football helmets,
and Grandma tried “a quarter-
back sneak” with the sugges-
ts {ion that they not buy both,
but take the football “and let, Joc McCauley said he went
Santa Claus bring the helmet”, j deer hunting down in South- I ]y|*|||£||yA|,g
patients to enter the sanator-
Gerald T. Peterson, 18, son of ium for treatment and in the
1,414 were separated Mr. and Mrs. Jodie Lillie, Rt. 2,: purchase of medicines, addi-
from the Army, 652 from the Box 28> Mineola is completing tional x-rays and incidentials.
Navy, 215 from the Marine his Air Force basic military Although the death rate from
Corps, 885 from the Air Force, training at Lackland Air Force tuberculosis has declined in re-
and 12 from the Coast Gdard. Base- the “Gateway to the Air cent years, the disease is not
Selective Service examined Force” I under control, Green said in
only 17 men during October. Lackland training is pre- asking support for the seal sale,
nine of whom were accented as paling him for entrance into a goal of $2,000 has been set
fit, eight being turned down as Air Force technical training or by the association in order to
unfit. Under provisions of the for an Air Force duty assign- carry on a complete program
several to play nearly the full
time every game.
York — Clarence Yerk was
the mainspring in the Jacket
a tri-capram urme c
placed'almost every minute. He
is a four-year man.
Cosby — This fleet halfback
meant the difference in a good
or bad team this year for Min-
eola, and he got hurt in the
second game of the season.
Wayne was all-district last year
and was ure for all state honors '
this season until he got hurt. |
Sharp — Here is a player
that has performed at about i
every position in the line dur-
ing his high school career. This
year Joe has been at tackle
every minute of almost every
game. Last season he played
center and he also was elected
tri-captain of the team this
year. Sharp has a possibility of
playing college football.
Clements — Due to a bad
shoulder, Eddie Clements has
EDDIE CLEMENTS
Conservationist
Talks to Local
Garden Group
JOE SHARP
doctor’s draft law, 20 physicians ment\ The course includes a this year. Tuberculosis is
It’s reliably reported that
there was at least one hunter
behind every tree in the Big
Woods on the opening day of
deer season. We’ve heard that
rje"ks .rT b,ro„ught David Hanson
out of that area the first day. j
still
examined scientific evaluation of his apti- the No. 1 killer among infec-
tude and inclination for follow- tious diseases and funds are
ing a particular career field. urgently needed to carry on the
Lackland, situated near San fight against it. The only source
______ ____ Antonio, is the site of Air Force of income for the association is
the armed forces basic military training for men through the sale of seals and
after receiving an order to re- and women and home of the unsolicited gifts.
USAF Officer Military School, j _p_
of which the USAF Officer
Candidate School, the USAF
Pre-Flight School and Officers
Pre-Flight Group are operating
units.
sioned in
port for induction in October.
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In Camp Polk
Craig immediately proved that east Texas — but he brought,
tag with, "But he won't know I he was leaving the lease before McWhorter str(!et Mlneol; ls
my size.’
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John Risinger’s hobby is
showing ... and the love birds
in his Complete Pharmacy win-
dow are attracting more at-
tention than the pills and
| nostrums.
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I Curtis Owens is considering
a cut-price sale on ice
SfVcubes, unless the sales force re-
^■rmembers to turn off that ice-
making refrigerator he has on
display.
daylight, the cat bounded across
the road and stopped at the
edge of the brush to look at the
car. Joe, thinking it was a wolf,
assigned to the Aggressor Force
in Exercise Sage Brush, the
largest joint Army-Air Force
maneuver since World War II, j Day game between Texas and
Humble to Air
Texas- A&M
Game Thursday
The traditional Thanksgiving
John Crofford
Participating in
Polk Maneuvers
KENNETH PLUNK
Ben Blanton’s back from Red
River County with a buck. He
and Mrs. Blanton hunted with
friends from their former home short walk of his own door.
at Clarksville.
statements “T wasTuckv" ’ Cal and electronic warfare- The be on hand to tell about the
tenent is, ^was lucky . exercise ends Dec. 15. colorful halftime activities.
**** The Aggressor Force furnishes Broadcast time will be 1:20
Irving Hirsch, with his wife opposition to the regular pm. over KTBB. Tyler-600,
and the lady next door ... Mrs. maneuver troops in simulated Humble will also broadcast
Jim Honeywell ... and babies, battles. the weekend games in the
mons, with negligible results.; Private Hanson, a member of Southwest Conference.
drove several miles on country the 4th Armored Division, is -o--.
roads Sunday, hunting persim- regularly stationed at Fort Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Marsh
then returned home and spot- Hood. have returned to their home in
ted two loaded trees within a He entered the Army in Oc- Springfield, Mo. after a visit
Following the Lions
meeting last Thursday, we ask- same brand of
ed our congressman, B r a d y J the old one.
Bill Haley has a new coffee
Club urn ... but it dispenses the
sheep dip!’ as
tober 1954 and was last station- \\,ith Dr. and Mrs. B. W. Jones,
ed at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. The doctors are friends of thirty | Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Killing-
--o- years standing and the Marshes I worth of Longview, Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Kelly of Quitman
and Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Kelly
of Mineola.
Mrs. Dorothy Willingham was were highly pleased with the
released Friday after ten days hospitality of the many people
j in Mineola General Hospital. ini Mineola.
Frank Valek
Services Held
Here Friday
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Funeral services for Frank
Valek, county resident since
1925, were held at the J. H.
English Funeral Chapel Friday
at 2:30 p.m.
Mr. Valek died enroute to a
hospital from his home on
Route 2 near Golden Monday.
Services were conducted by
Monsignor Edward V. McCol-
Army Pvt. John P. Crofford,! lough. Immaculate Conception
20, son of John B. Crofford,j Church of Tyler. Burial was in
Quitman is participating in the ; Sand Springs Cemetery,
largest Army-Air Force maneu-! Mr. Valek was born near
ver since World War II, Exer- Ennis and moved here in 1925.
cise Sage Brush, in Louisiana. ; He served in World War I.
Some 110,000 Army troops are Survivors include his wife,
testing the latest concepts of Mrs. Zdenka Marie Valek of the
atomic, bacteriological, chemi- home; three sons, Frank M.
cal and electronic warfare. The Valek and Victor Lewis Valek
exercise will end Dec. 15. J of Mineola and Bennie Valek
Private Crofford, a wireman of the USS Boxer aircraft car-
with Battery A of the 3d In- rier, somewhere in the Far East,
fantry Division’s 9th Field Two daughters, Mrs. B. F.
Artillery Battalion, is regularly Szakaly, Lincoln Park, Mich-
stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. and Mrs. Adolph Ovaert, Ham-
He entered the Army last Jan-j mond, Ind., also a brother, Joe
uary and received basic train-. E. Valek of Ennis and three
ing at Camp Chaffee, Ark ! sisters. Mrs. Frances Zapletal of
Crofford is a 1953 graduate of ; Ennis, Mrs. Frank Hannak of
Ennis and Mrs. John Zaidle of
Dallas and five grandchildren.
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Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Rogers of
Fort Worth visited Mr. and M.s.
Leslie Thorn last week.
CLARENCE YORK
WAYNE COSBY
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Quitman High School.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McGloth-
lin had as their guests Sunday,
Phone or bring your personal
news items to the Monitor.
JON BRIGHT
Mrs. Ross Cowan
afternoon to hear a tat on
conservation by J. K. Cheek,
head of the Soil Conservation
Service in Mineola.
The club was interested In
knowing what It could do to
help the Wood Soil Conserva-
tion District Program. Cheek
suggested several projects to
them but the one that appeal-
ed to the group was to “spon-
sor a soil conservation tour
next spring when the fields
were blooming with elevers and
vetch.”
The conservationist told the
group that, “it takes two ac*es
of land to furnish the food and
fiber to maintain one American
at our present living standard.
With the present 160 million
population we have about that
amount. In 1975, at our present
rate of growth, we will have
200 million people in America
and of course less than two
acres of agricultural land to
sustain each individual.”
“One of the two things must
happen,” he added, “we must
keep our topsoil from washing
away and raise it’s fertility
level or lower our standard of
living.” “But”, he warned, “im-
poverished soil impoverishes the
people that it attempts to sup-
port.”
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Bennie Cathey
To Visit From
Okmulgee A&M
Bennie F. Cathey, a student
in diesel mechanics at Okla-
homa A&M Tech, Okmulgee,
will visit his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. w. Cathey at Golden
during Tech’s Thanksgiving va-
cation period.
A&M Tech classes will be dis-
i missed at 5 p.m„ Nov. 23, and
resumed Nov. 28 acordlng to
Director L. K. Covelle. Although
most of the 1,300 students plan
to visit in towns in Oklahoma,
almost 200 will spend vacations
in 22 different states.
Special emphasis is being
placed by the student safety
council on driving rules and
| regulations. Safety movies will
be shown all students before
the vacation trips. The goal of
) the council is to have a no
accident record for the 1.000
or more student cars on the
I highways during vacation.
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Honeywell, Jim. The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 34, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 22, 1955, newspaper, November 22, 1955; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1140220/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.