The Talco Times (Talco, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1944 Page: 1 of 4
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COMPLETE NEWS AND ADVERTISING COVERAGE OF TDK GREAT TALCO OIL HELP
VOLUME IX
TALCO, TITUS COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1944
With the Men
in Uniform
Pvt. Lank Easterling of Camp
Fannin, spent Sunday with his fam-
ily.
L^on Sikes who was recently in-
ducted into the Navy, is stationed
at San Diego, Calif.
Pvt. Kenneth Westbrook of Camp
Maxey, spent Sunday with his wife
and daughter, Wanda.
W. S. Locke left Sunday for in-
duction into the Army. Mrs. Locke
accompanied him to Ashdown, Ark.
Pfc. Gene Jeffus left Monday^for
Camp Cooke, Calif., if ter spending
his furlough with his mother, Mrs.
A. Small and Mr. Small.
Sgt. J. L. Shaw Jr. and Mrs. Shaw
arrived Tuesday to visit Sgt. Shaw’s
father, J. L. Shaw Sr., and Mrs.
Shaw. He is stationed in San Diego,
Calif.
Word has been received here that
Burton N. Work, Pm.2c, has been
transferred from Navy recruiting
station at Little Rock, Ark.^tp Nor-
folk, Va. *
Weldon Braden has been promot-
ed from seaman lc to mechanics
mate 3c, according to his father*
Jack Braden. VHe is stalioncd at
Corpus Christi.
Mrs. Jack Vaughn has received
word from her husband, Pfc. Jack
Vaughn, that he had landed safely
in New Guinea. Pfc. Vaughryailed
two months ago.
J. A. Moore has received word
that his son, Lawrence, who has been
overseas for several months has tro-
pical fever and is being sent to a
hospital in the States. v
Word has been received from Pvt.
Kred I. Sparkman, nephew of Mrs.
Joe Easterling, that he is recovering
nicely in a hospital somewhere in
Italy from slight wounds. V
Lewis Bell, Sic, left Monday for
his post of duty after spending his
furlough with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Bell and relatives in Ok-
lahoma City and Palestine.
Mrs. A. Small and son, Pfc. Gene
Jeffus of Camp Cooke, Calif., have
returned from Ferriday, La., where
they visited Mrs. Small’s daughter,
Mrs. A. E. Randall and family.
Pfc. Robert Skidmore of Camp
Maxey, Mrs. Roy A. Holloway and
Miss Gradwin, all of Paris, accom-
panied Mrs. Gerald Dean Ward
home and spent Sunday with Mr.
ai.d Mrs. Ernest Watson.
T|Sgt. J. R. Vickers, whose home
is in Bogata, visite'd his cousin, Mrs.
Pat O’Keefe and family Wednes-
day. SgJ. Vickers has been in ser-
vice for SQme time and has been in
fifty-twe battles. He has several
medals of honor for bravery, y
Word has been received of the
death of Maj. Tom Templeton, kill-
ed in action in the South Pacific on
March 1. He was the son of the late
Joe Templeton and Mrs. Templeton,
and nephew of B. H. Majors and
Mrs. Gay Dickerson of Mt. ^^hon.
Negro Given Voting
Rights in White
Man’s Primary /
In an 8-to-l decision Monday, the
Supreme Court ruled that negroes
have a right to vote in primary
elections in those states where nom-
ination is equivalent to election.
The decision came on an appeal
by Lonnie Smith, Houston negro,
who claimed colored people are de-
prived of their franchise by not be-
ing allowed to participate in Texas
Democratic primaries.
Democratic leaders believe a way
will be found to get around the Su-
preme Court decision.
HEARD IN A FLORIST SHOP
Talco Has Raised
$1,333 for Red ,,
Cross War Fund \J
Talco has donated $1,333 to the
Red Cross, according to Felix Jones
of the Talco State Bank. Last year
this community was asked to raise
$1,000 and did so with a couple of
hundred to spare.
This year the powers that be at
the county seat asked for $2,000.
Talco folk feel this is out of line
with other small towns. Bogata’s
quota was $800 and Deport’s $1,000.
Talco has donated more than her
neighboring towns just mentioned.
Total contributions for Titus coun-
ty people to the Red Cross War
Fund is $10,679.06, nearly two thous-
and dollars more than the quota of
$8,900 assigned to the county.
More Than 300 at
Sulphur Bluff and
Talco Road Meet
Citizens from Talco, Bogala,
Needmore and half a dozen other
communities and the county judges
and commissioners of Hopkins and
Franklin counties attended a mass
meeting at Sulphur Bluff on Thurs-
day night of last week.
The meeting was called to promote
interest in the proposed highway
from Sulphur Bluff to Talco.
The road is needed as a farm to
market road, and oil interests be-
tween Talco and Sulphur Bluff
fields are so closely associated that
the road is badly needed.
A delegation will appear before
the Highway Commission soon to ad-
vocate that it be constructed. For-
mer State Senator Tom DeBerry has
volunteered his services in any ca-
pacity before the .Commission to
urge that it be constructed.
Harvey Chandler served as chair-
man of the meeting and more than
300 were in attendance, indicating
the interest in the project.
Cox Warns Against
Malaria Mosquitoes
Declaring that malaria bids fair
to be one of the country’s major
health problems under war condi-
tions, Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health
Officer, has issued an urgent re-
quest for all Texans to cooperate in nomination of Dewey
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Editor’s Letter to Men in Armed Services
Discusses a Little of Nearly Everything
Well, boys, after asking you what kind of a letter you wanted me
to write to you next time in my effusions of two weeks ago, and receiving
replies of “just any kind,” here goes:
When this country editor was leaving an editorial desk job on the
Dallas News in 1912 to come to Deport to operate a newspaper of his own,
the late D. P. Toome$, able managing editor of the Dallas News, gave
me some fatherly advice:
“Just give ’em the news, Sam, without frills. Be yourself; write as
you talk, and above all be terse, be accurate, and as long as your readers
are not raising hell about something and bellyaching, you will know you
are doing a good job.”
This editor has had only one complaint since he started this series
of letters, and he is rather proud of that one. It came from a miner at
Bisbee, Ariz., who thought we were treating striking coal miners too
rough. The only reason we didn’t pour it on ’em more is that the post-
office department might have refused the editon admittance to the mails
because of the “descriptive adjectives.”
Since this is April Fool’s day, probably something in a lighter vein
would fit your fancy.
That three and a half inch rain at Deport within three hours two
weeks ago put old Mustang out of her banks, despite recent channeling.
Reports at Bogata and Talco said the natives were taking boat rides up
and down Main street. Quoting Mark Twain’s comment on a report of
his death—this report was also slightly exaggerated.
In Chicago a crowd gathered in front of a Loop restaurant, cast
suspicious eyes on a package on the sidewalk, grinned knowingly, and
waited for a sucker to come along. Presently a passer-by scooped up the
package and opened it. It contained two large steaks, presumably drop-
ped from a delivery truck which had serviced the restaurant. Nobody
said April fool.
In case some of you didn’t see the last edition of the Marine Corps
Chevron, it tells about a man with eleven kids who went stork mad.
And the Ft. Worth Tarenteer columnist says he can remember the
time when he couldn’t find grandma’s glasses, but now she just leaves
’em where she empties ’em.
We doubt that yarn, because one can’t buy good government tax-
paid whiskey any more, unless he gets it from a bootlegger at a fancy
price. Report of the comptroller shows more whiskey taxes paid than
ever before, toppers stocking up to escape the new six bits a quart fed-
eral tax, effective April 1. That also went for cosmetics, jewelry and
light bulbs.
Cleo L. Sipe, 28-year-old Dallas insurance agent, a negro porter
at the Dallas induction center, and another negro man were arraigned
on charges of conspiring to violate the selective service law in an attempt
to secure unlawful deferment of Sipe. Complains alleged that Sipe ate
candy while in the examination line, then expectorated into a urine speci-
men container. Irionically, instead of being rejected for excessive sugar,
Sipe was turned down because of an eyesight reficiency.
Pfc. Robert N. Greenberg of Sheppard Field reached into his bar-
racks bag for a package of cigarettes and pulled out $3,451 in cash. Just
back from his father’s funeral in Los Angeles, he had taken the carton
from his father’s room. Three cigarette packages were found stuffed
with bills.
When Sgt. August Wolff checked in at the Bryan Field station has-
pital announcing that he came to take a shot, he couldn’t convince ’em
he was photographer for the camp paper until orderies had grabbed him
and administered the needle.
Gerald C. Mann, who resigned several months ago as Attorney
General of Texas, to practice law in Dallas, this week was accepted for
Army service.
In spite of having 600,000 men in the armed forces, Texas has a
new all-time high voting strength of 1,567,148.
The Democratic state convention was given to Austin on May 23
by the state executive committee.
A Gallop poll found that a majority of Texas Democrats prefer
President Roosevelt for re-election, while Texas Republicans, favor the
Six Inches Rain
Fall in March
Four inches less rain fell in this
section in March than in February
when 10.87 inches were recorded
then, according to the official rain
guage. March readings show/i total
of 6 1-20 inches during the rrftmth.
Readings show on March 3, 1.8
inches: March 19, 3 11-20; March 21
to 23, 13-20; and March 26, 19-20.
April report shows 1 13-20 inches
fell Saturday night. Skies cleared
Sunday and with a few days of fair
weather, farmers will be able to
work in the fields. Farming is late,
due to the continued rains.
Lt. Leonard Holmes
Missing in Action
Italian Theatre v
Flight Officer Leonard E. Holmes
is reported missing in action by the
War Department. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Holmes of Talco
Rl. The family liv s near Hagans-
port. They have supplied this pub-
lication with the fo.lowing informa-
tion: “Our son, Leonard E. Holmes,
was born and reared in Franklin
county, age 22 years. He finished
high school at Mt Vernon at 16, I
volunteered for the air corps in | wi|h ladi^' ~tryi„s t0 raise
Apnl 1941. Ilo trained at Kelley victory 6ardcns and f,owcrs> at
Ft.Towson Man
Bound, Tortured
By Masked Men
Using a sack of white ducking,
apparently made for the purpose,
two masked men Wednesday night
put the bag over the head of Jack
Rudolph, 65-year-old Ft. Towsoq
farmer, and bound him up, alter-
nately torturing him and demand-
ing money. Failing in their efforts,
they left after ransacking the house, •
and half an hour later, Rudolph
freed himself and walked half a mile
to his nearest neighbors to report
the attack.
Denying that he had any money,
Rudolph was seized by the pair, who
tied his wrists, threw him on his
bed and bound his feet together with
baling wire. Between demands for
money, the men mauled Rudolph,
one of them taking the bound man’s
own knife from his pocket and
slashing him behind the left ear, as
well as burning his feet with a heat-
ed piece of metal, and hitting him
over the head with a club of some
sort.
Ladies Urge That
Chickens Re Kept
Under Fence
Field, Muskogee and Enid, Ok., and
got his wings at Ellington in Sept.
1942.
“Ilo had his combat training at
least two of them are concerned over
depredations of chickens. They
came to this newspaper office, pre-
,,, in f, ,. i sentod the following article from an-
Tampa, Fla., flew his plane, a B-26,
,. ... .. . . .. ’ | other newspaper and asked that it
> be published:
“It is illegal for chickens to run
j at large in the city limits. Chick-
i ens do not know this and are al-
1 ready doing much damage to gar-
across the Atlantic in April 1943.
“Took part in the last part of the
j African campaign and the Sicilian
j campaign. Helped to bomb Rome
] the first time it was bombed. Re-
ceived the Air Medal. Had been on j d;;7an7floWcr“tedi
127 combat missions on Dec. 2. (II , , .
, ,, , . | No one wants to report his neigh-
don t know bow many after that • „ , ,, , ... ,
1 bors to the city police or file char-
ges against their chickens.
“The game season is open on il-
legal chickens, and when one is
date). He was reported missing in j
action over Italy on Jan. 16, 1944. j
We received the message from the '
War Department on March 3.”
the destruction of possible mosquito
breeding places.
“It is inevitable that malaria will
continue to come into this country
with the return of our veterans from
the tropics,” Dr. Cox said. “Since
malaria is spread from person to per-
son by the Anopholes mosquito, it is
a matter of grave importance that
these mosquitoes be exterminated.
The quickest way to do that is to
provide them no place to breed and
multiply.”
Dr. Cox pointed out that while the
State Health Department is carrying
on an extensive malaria control pro-
gram which is designed to fill in or
drain swamps, ponds, and ditches,
nevertheless every citizen is respon-
sible for seeing that his own prem-
ises are free from stagnant water.
“Every bottle, can, or possible
water container in every backyard
should be either destroyed or punc-
tured so that they will not hold wat-
er,” Dr. Cox said. “Otherwise,
spring rains will fill them up, and
the deadly Anopholes mosquito will
find an excellent breeding ground.”
Dr. Cox said that the suppression
of the disease is of unusual impor-
tance since quinine, the specific
treatment for malaria, is extremely
scarce for civilian use.
Mrs. C. E. Martin is y
Buried at Blossom »’
Secretary of State Sidney Latham has been accepted for the armed
forces and will be succeeded by Claud Isbell, former State Senator from
Rockwall, his present first assistant.
A wildcat oil well being drilled in Pecos county has passed 15,009
I feet for a new world record.
Helene Wilke of Austin became the first woman editor of the Daily
| Texan, student newspaper at the University of Texas.
Locally, there is not much news of interest.' The draft is scraping
the bottom of the barrel. All men below 27 will have to put on fighting
| clothes. Families are doubling up and making new arrangements, and
we have changed addresses of subscribers until we are dizzy. Don’t
! think we are complaining about changing addresses of service men —
I that’s the least we can do for you, and do it gladly.
Dallas has acquired the reputation of America’s greatest divorce
I center. Based upon population there is a suit filed for every 71 persons
i in the county. War has brought an emotional instability into the lives
i of many persons. About 15 per cent of the divorce total involves men
j in service.
Six inches of rain fell in March and farmers are praying for fair
weather. Another big rain Saturday night. Very little corn and no
cotton has been planted. Crops will be late this year.
Let’s not make this correspondence all one-sided. Suppose, for a
change, you write to me. Veil me what you want to know and I’ll write
Bogata’s Tomato
Acreage Larger
Than Last Year
Bogata’s tomato acreage will be
considerably larger this year than
last is the opinion of Lenox Hudson,
cashier of the First National Bank,
Increased sale of fertilizer and
sheeting to cover the young, tender
plants and the fact that more plants
are available than last year are the
things upon which Mr. Hudson bas-
ed his statement of increased acre-
age.
found in your yard or garden, just
put it in the pot and enjoy a chick-
en dinner.
“A few dozen chickens disposed
of in this manner will have the pro-
per effect on the owners.
“Kill and eat all chickens found
trespassing on your premises, and
do it now, before the damages to
flowers and gardens are too great.”
REPORT OF DEATH IS
GREATLY EXAGGERATED
Lt. Frank S. Harris, son of F. S.
Harris of Big Spring, was reported
killed in action in North Africa
where he piloted a B-26 bomber.
A church had conducted memorial
services in his honor.
Thursday Lieutenant Harris, un-
A considerable acreage of beans I aware that he had been reported
for commercial canning will be lost, walked into his father’s shop.
Funeral service was held Monday
afternoon at the Methodist church
in Blossom for Mrs. C. E. Martin,
the former Miss Willie Black, who
died Sunday in Wichita Falls. She
was the mother of the Rev. Paul
Martin, Methodist pastor of Wichita
Falls, and sister of E. P. Black of
Clarksville and of Eugene Black of
Washington, D. C., former Congress-
man from this district.
"Why do you suppose this small
white berry is celled mtotlevoe?"
.
"Perhaps because a miss’ll toe the
Jmark wherever she sees a bit of it
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it or break a gallus trying.
Romines Close Out
Their Pharmacy and
ve to Paris
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Romine have
sold their drug store and residence
in Talco and on last Friday moved
to Paris, where he has a position
with the Palace Drug Store. J O.
Blakley was the purchaser of their
Talco property, and the stock of
merchandise was sold to the Camp-
bell brothers, owners of several
Paris drug stores.
The Romines came to Talco with
the field back in 1936. They later
went to Mt. Pleasant, where they
operated a drug store for 19 months,
and then returned to Talco, where
they have owned and operated Ro-
mine’s Pharmacy since that time.
Talco folk will regret very much
to lose the Romines from the busi-
ness and social life of the communi-
ty, and they carry with them to
Paria the very beat wishes of a host
*
Regards and Good Luck!
SAM HOLLOWAY.
Trustees Named for
Talco District in
Saturday Election
There was little interest in the
election on Saturday to name school
trustees for Talco Independent
School District. There were four
names on the ticket, three to he
elected, and the results of the bal-
loting were:
C. T. Little, 129.
C. E. Roberts, 127.
N. W Neugcnt, 98.
J. A. Shriver, 60.
I grown in the Cuthand area, but Mr.
! Hudson does not know of extensive
plans for growing them in the Bo-
gata area.
State Health Officer
Urg-es Fly Control
Fly control tops the list of neces-
sary public health projects, says Dr
George W. Cox, State Health Offi-
cer. “Thousands of children and
adults die each year from ly-borne
diseases, including typhoid fever, tu-
berculosis, summer complaint, cho-
lera and intestinal diseases,” he said.
“The most effective measure for con-
trol of flics is to prevent breeding.”
Looking at the gold star on the
service flag, he smiled and said: “I
don't think I deserve that.”
Mrs. Edgar Bonham has returned
to her home in Texarkana, after
spending a week with her daughter,
Mrs. L. L. Morris and family.
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NOT A HIGH REWARD
A friend tells of a man who as-
tonished the want ad clerk of his
newspaper by placing an ad offering
$50 reward for. the return of his
wife’s cat.
“Irn’t that a high reward for a
cat?” asked the ad taker.
"Not in this case,” said the man. “I
drowned the cat."
Paris Citizens
Name Officials
Only one change was made in
Tuesday’s balloting for city officials
at Paris: George Lacy replaces R.
G. Cook in one of the closest races.
Mayor John W. Barnes was re-elect-
ed by 1912 votes to J. A. Binnion’s
1133.
Aldermen are David Robinson,
Buddy Franklin, George Lacy,
George Steeley and Joe Hillhouse.
SINGING CONVENTION AT
BLOSSOM SET SUNDAY
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J. F. Walton, president, urges
everyone to bring his lunch and join
in the all-day Northeast Texas Dis-
trict Singing Convention which will
be held Sunday in the high school
auditorium at Blossom.
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Ration Dates
Meats and Fats. — Book 4
Red Stamps A-8, B-8, C-3, D-8
E-S, F-8, G-8, H-8 and J-8 good
indefinitely. Red tokens may
be used as change.
Processed Foods. — Book 4
Blue Stamps A-8. B-8. C-8. D-8
and E-8 good indefinitely. Blue
tokens may be used as change.
Sugar. — Book 4, Stamp 30,
good for five pounds indefi-
nitely. Stamp 40 (for can-
ning), good for five pounds,
expires Feb. 28, 1945.
Shoes. — Book 1, Stamp 18.
valid until April 30 Book 3,
Stamp on airplane sheet good
indefinitely.
Gasoline. — Coupon 11-A
good for three gallons in
Southwest through June 21.
B 2, B 3, C 2 and C ^coupons
good for five gallons. E and
E 1 coupons good for one gal-
lon. R and R 1 coupons good
for five gallons. E and R cou-
pons expire March 31. T cou-
pons (second quarter) good for
five gallons thru June 30.
-fr CP
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