The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. [26], No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 3, 1956 Page: 1 of 15
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The Wood County Record
Twenty-Six Years of Service in Wood, Smith and Van Zandt Counties
— NUMBER ONE
MINEOLA, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1956
SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY
e-Modeling Starts on Two New
rocery Stores for Mineola Area
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Bullet Shot Kills
Irdel Thomas
Sam Irdell Thomas. 53 year 1 floor. He told her to go get help
old employee of the Breedlove and died shortly thereafter.
Nursery died of a .38 calibre
bullet wound through his heart
at 3:30 pm. Sunday afternoon.
B, Mrs. Thomas, who was in the
; kitchen, said she heard a shot
in the bed room, rushed in and
( found Thomas
Bruce Brown Named
Chamber Manager
Investigation of the shooting
was still underway this morn-
ing. Monday. The bullet was
fired from a .38 calibre Win-
chester rifle and passed com-
pletely through Thomas’ body
dying on the and lodged in the ceiling.
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80 Vote Absentee
Bruce Brown, native of Gol- Tn Tuesday’s Election
den, has been appointed new
Mineola Chamber of Commerce
■- manager. Brown started work
last Friday. He succeeds Joe
lley who has moved to
where he will be cham-
ber manager there.
Brown attended school at
lolden. For the past five years
Fhe has been in Ft. Worth where
he was office manager of Na- [
tional Photographers Album Co. |
and Mrs. Brown have two |
ct^^en, ages 7 and 3. They are
residing at 706 N. Line St.
Brown’s parents are Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Brown of Golden, i
Former A&P Tom Thumb
Man Buys
Local Store
To Replace
Brookshires
YARBOROUGH - Pledges
to build a structure of mo-
rality in state government.
Absentee voting in the
Mineola city election total-
ed 80 as the final date closed
Friday afternoon.
This Tuesday, a mayor
and two city commissioners
are to be elected. Seeking
the mayor’s job are incum-
Yarborough Makes
Seeking positions as city platform Pledges
commissioners are incum-
bents Donald Starnes and Jn Q0yern0r’S Race
Haywood Watts, and J. R.
Andrew- Creech, former man- April 19 has been set as open-
ager of the A&P Grocery Store ing date for Mineola’s new Tom
here and well known in the Thumb Grocery and Market bo
Mineola trade area, has pur- be operated in the building for-
chased the Ward School Grocery merly occupied by Brookshire’s
from Harold Holcomb and took Grocery.
over management of the busi- Ira C. Stribling, experienced
ness today, Monday. groceryman from Dallas. will
Creech since leaving Mineola manage the new business. Mon-
two years ago has been A&P day morning, re-modeling of the
store manager in Commerce. He building started. Stribling said
plans to move to Mineola im- that the new grocery will add
mediately with his family to new fixtures including a com-
follow when the present school plete refrigerated vegetable case
term expires. The Tom Thumb store will
Holcomb will be associated in carry a complete line of grocerys
business with his father-in-law, and vegetables and a meat de-
IM. M. .Vickery. They will open partment handling only top
a super market in the old Dr.
Pepper building here on John-
son and Kilpatrick Streets. Re-
grades of meat.
Stribling formerly was in the
grocery business for 15 years in
modeling of the building start- • Dallas where he was one of the
very first Tom Thumb store
ed today and Holcomb and
Vickery plan to open the new
grocery by April 27.
Vickery formerly owned the
Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store
here and Holcomb was in charge
of the market department.
managers. Twro years ago he
moved to a ranch he bought
near Fruitvale. He has w-orked
part time the past two years as
a butcher at the Tom Thumb
store in Wills Point.
Wilhite, Lonnie Mize and J.
R. Francis.
LargeCircus Plans
Visit to Mineola
Ralph W. Yarborough of Aus-
tin, pledging to “build a struc-
ture of morality’’ in state gov-
ernment, has announced his
candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for governor of Tex-
as.
Yarborough announced a
platform “of progress including
water conservation, drouth re-
See YARBOROUGH page 16
Lions Club Learns
About Boys' City
“There are no naturally-bad ’ been restored. They also can re -
boys; so-called bad boys are just main after the age of 18, if they
good boys made bad,’’ declared desire, and attend colleges near-
Kenneth Bull, in a talk before See LIONS page 16
the Lions Club at Herm’s Cafe i----------------
The Second Largest Circus in’ pearance of a big circus here in Pri7P FontP^t
the U.S.A. is scheduled for a six years, and one of the first
one day only engagement, at to bring such outstanding and of OwPIlN
the Martin Bridge Road grounds unusual animals such as Griaf- ^
afternoon only on Sunday. April fes. Hippopotamus, and Rhino-
29th. ceros. balloon
^^ir W. “Art” Miller. Gen- In addition a herd oL 21 ele- q hat’s the proposition Curtis Organized by the Optimists Funeral services for James
erfl^Plepresentative for Al G. Phants, besides more than 200 Owens makes in a double-page Club of Corpus Christi, the in- Hugh Reynolds. 73, resident of
Kelly and Miller Bros. Circus, animals including Lions, Tigers, advertisement in this issue of stitution since has become a Rt. i, Mineola. were held at the
James Hugh Reynolds
Solve a puzzle ... break a toy of Boys’ city at Corpus Christi, T QofnivlQV
alloon ... and win a prize. ’ as basis for his talk. . DdM odUliUd)
called at the Monitor and Rec- See CIRCUS page 14
ord office today, stating that
he had completed the preiimi- Mother of Mineolan
nary arrangements for the visit
of famous wild Animal Expires Here Friday
Shc^^Pvhich is making is 36th _
Funeral services for Mrs. Ma
| The Record.
The first step
annual tour.
The advertising cars, compris- e^Mr" J.TB^ham'VSiS- eral hundred toy rubber bal"
ing six motorized units, with eola were held Saturdav in Tv- loons’ filled with hellum gas’
a crew of 28 advertising and ler with burial in Rose Hill which cover the ceiling of
Owens Home Appliance Store on
East Broad Street.
Red Feather organization, with j h. English Funeral Chapel
is to insert the Community Chest providing Sunday afternoon,
numerals in blank squares which two-thirds of its support, and r6V g r Thomas officiated
appear in the advertisement. If various civic clubs the remain- at the rites assisted by Rev.
{ they add up to a total of 21 der. it housed 32 boys during rpy Bailey. Burial was in Con-
I in each direction, you are en- 1952, 1953 and 1954, when Bull COrd Cemetery.
Mr. Reynolds died in Tyler
ble Lovett Lambright. 83moth- “led to break any one of sev- headed Its ^ operation.
Bull said, and come from broken child. He had lived in Wood and
homes. Upshur Counties. Mr. Reynolds
While entrance is through was a painter.
publicity men will arrive soon cemetery
notorizing the coming event, by Mrs Lam5right died Friday
placing bright, colorful posters in Mineola where she had been Each balloon contains a piece
within the city and surround- the past three weeks punerai of paper listing a prize. What-
ing communities. rjtes were conducted by Rev. W. ever is in the balloon each con-
^ In addition, newspaper space, L. Shutleworth. pastor of the testant bursts belongs to him.
T-V, radio time, boxholder mail- Tyler Calvary Baptist Church. Prizes range from merchan- procedure is only to give the nolds, both of Dallas; three
ing lists and aeroplane broad- Survivors in addition to Mrs. dise certificates valued at $1.00 institution legal authority over daughters, Mrs. J. T. Stanky
It now is completing larger iast Saturday at 3 a.m. He had
and more modern facilities, with resided in the Mineola area the
capacity for 80 boys. Its guests
range from 7 to 17 years old,
past 20 years. A native of Ala-
bama, he came to Texas as a
court order, there is no time set
on the length of their stay. That
Survivors include two sons,
Auvel Reynolds and R. J. Rey-
its inmates.
They can remain until they
and Mrs. Grover Smith of Min-
eola and Mrs. Thelma Reynolds
ts will have coverage for over Becham include another cfcugh- to $150.00 each, to major home
an area of thirty-five miles, ter, Mrs. Lovie Cain of Tyler: appliances, such as refrigera-
ich should result in bringing one son, R. D. Lambright of tors and television sets. The Ai-
a huge crowd to Mineola on Tulsa; ana two brothers, Aul tire list of prizes appears in the away before, upon ppeof to the i Charlie Reynolds of Winnsbora
Sunday, April 29th. Lovett and Jesse Lovett, both advertisement. The c o n t e s t^courts by their relatives that i and Rhode Reynolds of Quit-
This will mark the first ap- v of Shepperd. ! opens at 9 a.m. Wednesday. f normal home conditions have man;
are 18, or they can be taken of Oklahoma; two^ brothers,
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Harle, S. Neil. The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. [26], No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 3, 1956, newspaper, April 3, 1956; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1140272/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.