The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1948 Page: 1 of 8
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World That Cares
"ESTABLISHED
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On The
EVEL
By BOB CHOW; -------
| folks, here it is. Tour's
first Chronicle column,
endure another line,,
lit my duty to warn you
Vs sure no literary mas
But that’s to be expect-
f-course since my family
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Brick Plant
Road Proji
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Anything About
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JRSDAY, AUGUST 36. 1948
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VOL. 43, NO. 6»
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me, though,
to be
it means I
| the opportunity to
: hand with the
ity of pcftplu f»i IW [Boyd. Jr.;
toward building a big-
better Teague.
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we investigated news
| in a number of towns be-
our decision, but so
were we over Teagu*
it’s fine qualities, we
ven flinch when we sud-
| realized we’d closed the
Friday the Thirteenth.
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t those who may still be
the Chronicle is re-
[ a home-town , institu-
devoted to home-town
printed by home-town
• Forty-five merchants and btlsl-
oeasmen have, donaled
for hard surfacing the mad to
Teague Brick and Tile Plant u
of here, and the city administra-
tion has agreed to do the re
malnder of the financing. Cost
at $2300.
The proposal was approved
----y night at a meeting of
the city council after the names
of the contributors were submit
ted by L. B. Boyd, father of L. R.
owner u4 the plan . _
major Teague industry.
One thousand dollars of the
money was put up by the plant
The road extends 5000 feet
from the railroad crossing on
Washington to the city limits,
and an additional 770. feet to the
plant site. Completion of the
project will give Teague another
mile of hard surfaced streets.
The plant has been in opera-
tion for about two years.
speaking of news, it’s a
to report that Jim
ir. well-known^ printer and
ent Teague resident, is re-
hls affiliations with the
We’re expecting Jim
vithin the next 10 days or
t of weeks. Sooner, we hope.
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let s talk about TOU
Sines it's the chief
| of the Chronicle staff to
out a really good paper
hj of OUB TOWN. I'm gp-
| to take this opportunity
: you to lot us hear
90 Day Deadline
Placed on Pavment
Of Utility Bills Here
cation’s Aim os
School Be
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Mr. and Mrs.
are all smiles
hey prepare to
cake at a surprise party given for thorn on their 35th i
cut the
wedding
anniversary. Story ton Pago 5.
d Enrollment
To Start Monday
Enrollment of the Teague High
School band will begin Monday
Bjf-Jg a. m. in the band room,
Band Director, W. J. Better an-
nounced-today:-—- —
Practice will start immediate-
ly, tor the Fair and Rodeo here
Sept. 10-11, and In Fairfield.
Practice will start Immediately
for the fair at Fairfield Sept. 3
and tor the Fair and Rodeo here
Sept 10-11. Better has urged all
band sm^igjs to be present' for
the first practice session so new
instruments can be ordered.
New band students are asked
to report during the practice
week. Botter said.
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Hiave any kind of crltl-
H suggestions as to how
►ight be able to serve you
please let us know, Prop
[line, call us up. Or just
A resolution to. discontinue
light water and sewer services
after-acoounts become 90 , days
past due was passed Tuesday
night by the city council at its
second regular meeting of the
month.
The action was necessary,
councilmen said, in order for the
city to make prompt payment of
bills, and to keept he city’s rec-
ords in order.
The new ruling was not in-
tended to work a hardship on
anyone.” City Secretary J. E.
om Lambert said. “It was approved
" only after long and careful can
girtpraHow "----
Draft Reaisterina Method* to End
“ — v ' ^ & Summer Prooram
To Start Monday
For Men 18 - 25
Seen
Registration Starts 9 a, m.
School bells will ring out Sept.
9, tor hundreds of Teague hov«
SON'S BODY
..Word has just been recei
by Mrs. Gussie Colbert, Houstoi
[in ami chat a while. We're that the body of her son,
■glad to see you and hear Qvis E Colbert is being returned
I you- I to the United States for burial.
Funeral arrangements are pend-
ing. Mrs. Colbert is a former
resident of this area. •_--*
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the Chronicle is
paper. That's why we
> to boost, not teat down;
i progressive, and mot ag-
Anyonc who reads
the pages of the
hoping to find sen-
degratory news cor-
I or editorials will be dis-
c'd, because the paper Is
I to be dedicated to print-
[the news squarely, stright-
Uy and entertainingly.
I not to the settlement of
[personal differences.
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yes, it’s about time we
sing an armload of or-
to my co-workers, Lee
and Jerry Hill, two crack
erwomen whom I’d be
to match against Any
0Perman in.....the county
^ihe same amount of
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are cornin'
t should come
1 8 Sander at
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. B the few
}[ve at
[acquainted"
foe to ge
.. y°ne in
f ®“t I am
to kj
Personal
my
Truck Kills
Ex-Citizen i«v
Rites Today \SS
Funeral services were tf
held here at 2:30 p. m. tod
for Howard Glanton, 34, A
drews, former Teague resident
who was fatally Injured Monday
~~ af his Welding *
slit
SO
Draft registration will get un
det way at 8 a. m. Monday at
the city hall. All men between
the ages of 18 and 25 will be re-
quired to regia/er during the
registration period, proclaimed
.through Sept 18.
Registration will be ‘^supervis-
ed by Chief Registrar^." E. Lam-
bert, who will be assisted by
women volunteers. —;—
rpose of the registration,
led in the recently-enacted
ve Service act, is to got a
census of men from 18
of age from whom
will be selected
training. /
W. R. Cashion of Wortham is
chairman of the Freestone and
Leon counties draft board, and
ii. L. Williford, Fairfield, is sec-
retary. Cashion was here Wed-
nesday assisting ’in preparations
for registration in Teague.
Here are the specific days for
men in the different age groups
register:
Persons born in 1922 after
ugust 30, 1922, will register
onday, August 30.—- -
2. Persons bom in 1923 will
Tuesday, August 31,
sday, September 1.
rsons bom in 1924 will
iter Thursday; September
ciday, September 3, _______
4. Persons bom in 1925
t -Saturday, Sei
ii Tuesday, Septemer
. Persons bom in
Wednesday,
rsday, Sept.
Persons born i
Friday, i
8 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily.
Only a few specific groups in
the 18-25 age class are exempt-
ed form the registration. These
are members of the armed forces
•on*' active duty; cade to at the
U. S. Mllltory sad Coast, Guard
Academies and midshipmen at
the U. S. Naval Academy, and
foreign, diplomatic'!- representa-
tives and their families. —t*
All other male residents in the
age group must show up at
some registration station on the
day fixed for that age group.
The Selective Servic act pro
vides for imprisonment up to
five years and fine up to $10,000
or both, for conviction of viola-
tion of its provision, • including
the registration requirement.
Provision also is made, for
penalizing late registrants, un-
less they can produce evidence
for thir draft board sufficient to
Justify the delay.
If a njan Is out of town on his
registration day, he can register
at the nearest station.. His reg-
istration cards will then be for-
warded to his local draft board.
In case of illness a man should
Summer Prooram
The special summer program
being held at the First Metho-
dist Church will conclude with
its fifth meeting Sunday even-
ing, at 7:30 p.m.
The motion picture “His
Name Was Han” will be pres-
ented. Telling thfe story of mis-
sions in China.
There will be special music
and refreshments will be served
by the board of stewards at the
close of the service.
An Invitation has-been extend-
ed to the public.
Humble Will
Drill Ahead
On Wildcat
ahead on
or register with his local board as
soon as he is safely able to do
his illness wil be con-
sufficient justification
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Offs To
cid
rd
ague voters
Saturday in
Democratic primary
Plans for drilling
Humble Oil Company’s 16.255-
foot well, the deepest in Texas,
six miles south of here weie
disclosed today by T. E. Purcell,
supervisor of the project.
~ Furcrll said he did not know
how much deeper the company
intended to drill. A depth of 20,-
000 feet has been rumored but
the rumors have not been sub-
stantuated by official informa-
tion from the company.
Drilling has reached shale and
lime formations. Although there
Borne gas showed at a shallower
level, there have been no defi-
nite signs of oil, Purcell said.
The well, begun in July of last
year is located in Freestone on
land owned by R. P. McWaters.
Fifty workmen are' employed
on the project, which has led
during recent months to wide
speculation on th possibility of
an oil boom in this area.
re are no other wells loca-
nearby.
ugh the well Is _-------
to be by some to be the second
deepest in the United States, no
figures are immediately avall-
ibstantuate the claim. "
anif girls who, their summer va-
cation over, will begin their an
nual autumn classroom trek.
Enrollment will begin at 9 a.
m. for both high school and
grade school students.
A total enrollment of 630—400
«t the grade school and 230 at
high school—is expected this
year. There have been no new
additions to either faculty.
Only minor repairs have been
made during the summer to the
tvyo school buildings. The ele-
mentary school lunch room has
received a- new coat of paint,
and the root of the homemaking
building at the high school has
been repaired.’ ——------
Grade school pupils will at-
tend school for half a day Sept.
9 10, and classes will begin full
tjme the following Monday.
At the high'’school freshmen
will register in room 34, sopho-
moores, room 21, and juniors,
room 35. - ~
Seniors will report in groups
to the principal’s office Sept.'S
for conferences on the year's ac-
tivities. Cards giving infoWnation
on what time to report Ire being
mailed to the seniors.
New high school students have
been asked to Check Sept. 4 at
the principal’s office on their
transcript of credits so that
transcripts for those who do not I and Chile,
have them can be obtained be-t jgr
fore classes begin.
Smallpox vaccinations are re-
quired of ail first grade pupils
and other newcomers to the
school system.
Serving on the grade school
faculty are Principal E. V. Col-
lins; Miss Clara Headlee and
Miss Maggie Black, first grade;
Miss Alta.....Headlee and Miss
Myrtle Glazener, second
Mrs. Jackie Reynolds, third
grade; Miss Patty Johnson and
Mrs. Mary Etta Williams, fourth
grade;' Mrs. Anlin Price, fifth
grade; Miss Autrey Smith, sixth
‘grade; Mrs. Carl Cox, seventh
grade-
High school faculty members
are Principal ~G. Q. Gregory,
principal; W. J. Botter, Jr., band;
Miss Clara Gregory, - English;
Athletic Coach C. W. Hancock,
biology; Mrs. J. E. Lambert,
eighth grade; Miss Alice Ruth
Lee> homenuklftg, MWL XByrT
Webb, mathematics; Rue] Wil-
son, vocational agriculture; Mrs.
F. R. Smith, library and study
hall, and Miss Dorothy McVey,
registrar. Miss Fredonla Paul
Commercial and Assistani ath-
letic coach, Byron Grisham,
tial science.
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r ru,'
Gonsalvas
Purchases
Park’s Cafe
Cafe oh* of
eating estab-
Sale of Park’s
Teague’s leading
llshmento, to Frank Gohaaivea, |
formerly of Santa Clara, Calif.,
was disclosed today by E. R.
Park former owner. r
• The cafe will be managed by
Gonsalves and his wife, thl for-
mer Miss Myrtle Jones of Teagtyp
The establishment will be,
closed Monday and Tuesday for
repairing and addition of a new
linoleum. A gala reopening Is
scheduled for Sept. 1 at 6 p. m.
Parks said today that he will
devote lull. time to tho. manu-
facture of MMeed's Enchiladas
and Mrs. Gonsalvas. who
are now living with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Jones, have
established permanent residence
here.
There will • be noj change in
personnel at the cafe.
“We will continue to offer the
best of food, and prompt, cour-
teous service.” Gonsalves said,
grade; Gonsalves Is a navy Veteran of
th* last Wari-
Sweltering Teague
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RETURN FROM MARKETS
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stringer re-
turned Tuesday ol this week
from several days in the mar-
kets where Mrs. Stringer |
and- modem equl
the Stringer Flora
Cooled by Slight
Rainfall Wednes
Teague received its
rainfall Wednesday
June, but the brief showers
little to help crops
by this area's severest drouth
in 10 years.
\ Although rainfall was re-
Varied in mast, parts of Free-
stone County, the predplt
was estimated at less t
half an inch.
In Teague, however,
as a welcome relief
lng residents who
*- - ... | bother to dig out their
To reshape an old felt hat use 1 las or
Mil
ii;
i
all Freestone
A prize of
to the
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Crow, Bob. The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1948, newspaper, August 26, 1948; Teague, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1140688/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.