The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1946 Page: 1 of 6
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A Constructive Newspaper for a Constructive People
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thirty-eighth yearELECTRA, WICHITA COUNTY,' TEXAS,
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1946J LET’S GO! ;
5 For a Bigger and d
I Better Electra.NUMBER 23
OUR NATIONAL DEFENDERS
order to set addition- ’ who has been with the Army of I Purple Heart Medal for wounds re-
port the arena fences Occupation in Germany, arrived ceived May 13, 1945, arrived at the
o
Are Being Built
re-
the Russian soldiers committing sui-
as
Only a river
In Cage Playoff
form-
in
Teachers Resign
The lowest temperature re- due to ill health.
area.
res-
morning.
who
was
the
the
the
net.
50-50
22, Quanah here.
28, Vernon there.
District 2AA confer-\ Mrs. Stewart Lee Weaver and
little son of Nocona, are guests of
Mr. and Mrs. P. J, Weaver this week.
Mrs. Weaver reports/ that her hus-
band is doubtful of getting to re-
turn from the Pacific before mid-
summer.
her
15,L. E. Brooks, superintendent of the
Experiment Station pt Iowa Park
and G. R. McNiel, Wichita County
Agriculture Agent, will conduct a
pruning demonstration at the Earl
Casey place, near Haynes store, 4
miles north of Electra, Thursday,
February 21, at 2 p. m. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Thoms visit-
ed friends in Vernon, Sunday.
The Electra Roping Club will dis-
cuss tentative ‘plans for puttting on
a .rodeo during the latter part of
May, at their regular meeting to be
held at the Armory on North Main
street, Thursday night, February 14.
Any person interested in joining the
club or in. co-operating in putting;
on the rodeo is invited to attend the J
meeting. i
and art classes in the
school has offered
effective February
AGRICULTURAL BUREAU STARTS
POST-WAR DAIRY
, PROJECT'Both |
Electra I
allowed i
' service
technical studies according to
Combat Infantryman’s
battle star for his Asi-
ribbon and the Philip-
ribbon. He was
the
Hotel
11. He had been in military serv-
is ice four years. His wife and little
Billy'Deverel Jones \\ho has*
ceived an honorable discharge from
the army after three years of serv-
ice and who completed a course of
training as an airplane mechanic
and Tom Miller Jr., who had serv-
The Electra Tiger eagers, winners;
of the West-Half schedule of Dis-
trict 2AA wil meet the Graham
steers, winners of the East-Half, at
Graham on February 19, in the first
of a possible three-game champion-
ship bout. The title will go to the
winner of two out of three ■garrnc*?
The second round will be played on
the Electra court, Thursday night.
February 21. If either team wine
both of the first two games, the
third will not be necessary. -Other-
wise, the time and place of the .fin-
als will be decided on conclusion «jff
the game here.
The Tigers defeated Childress; the
defending champs, by a score of 33-
25 here last Thursday night.
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We’re positive that grandpa re-
membered us when he wrote his will,
'cause he left us out.
sets the date of termination of bis
accounts as of January 20, 1946.
Lt. Lockett was reared,here, grad-
uated from Electra high school and
volunteered fox' service with the
AAF in 1942.
Survivors other than the parents
include a sister, Miss Joan Lockett.
Tech Sgt. Johnny Minton-
spent 10 months overseas and
stationed in Manila, Philippine Is-
to join her husband at their home in
Jacksboro after his return from
military service overseas.
Principal C. M. Harvey reports
that neither of the vacancies has
been filled.
He says it may be Navy has recently been promoted to | cd <hree yoars in tbc army‘and had
-e he gets back the rank of Pharmacist Mate third I successfully completcd
September before he gets
1 home.
Mrs. Jennie Brown announces
[sale of the Commercial
ion North Main street to B. C. Clcm-
I ons. She will give possession at
ionce, she said, and after a visit with
Superintendent Bob Lindsey Jr,
announced the schedule for the Elec-
tra Tiger football team for 19-16,
follows:
September 13, Pampa there.
September 20, Bonham, here.
September 27, Plainview there.
October 4, open.
♦October 11,
♦October 18,
♦October 25,
November 1,
November 8,
November 16, Borger here.
♦November
♦November
(* Denotes
ence games).
With Olney withdrawn to enter
Class A competition the Tigers have
only five conference games. They
will play Wichita Falls and Quanah
on the Electra field and Childress,
Graham and Vernon away
see their lumber dealers and
plete the necessary forms.o---
Realty Deals And
: Business Changes
Claude Albert Porter, 28,Mineral
Wells, formerly a private first class
in the 38th Division Infantry and
who was said to have been wounded
in action at Travieres, France, on
June 4, 1944, was removed from the
Electra Hospital Tuesday to the
Veteran’s Hospital at Waco. The
young man was picked up by Chief
of Police S. E. Middleton, Monday
afternoon, on the highway three
Childress there. 1
Wichita Falls here. I
Graham there,
open.
Gladewater there.
now stationed
New Mexico,
was a recent visit-
or Mr. and Mrs. C.
Mrs. Glen Houser,
was the tail-gunner
Late reports indicate , that al-
though salt water has given consid-
erable trouble in the National As-
sociated Petroleum Company No. 1,
Proud Estate, block 189, Waggoner
Colony, the owners still hope to de-
velope a producer from the Ellen-
berger. The first test was made at
4501 to 4225. The well has been
shot and is now being cleaned out,
it was reported Wednesday.
The same company is drilling a
semi-wildcat deep test on the P. G.
Krohn tract 330 feet from the north
and west lines of block 288, Wag-
[ goner Colony lands, six miles north-
| east of Electra. It was said to have
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Nurse Tells Lions
Of War Experience
Cpl. Laverne Byrd, son
Mrs. O. J. Byrd, writes
ensberg, Germany, that
Marvin Willis, a former
boy, statjnnrd at Dachau, had spent
a week end together, attending a
ETO Veteran
Attempts Suicide
Near Here Monday
He is a son of Mr. and! of his only brother, Sgt. Joe Ben'
R. E. Scheurer announced, Tues- Mrs. Rufus Pannell Sr., of North .Wright, in a plane crash in Georgia'
day, that he will have work begun Electra street and a grandson of Mr. in 1944. He received
discharge and expect
I Electra.
of Mr. and'
from Reg-
he and
Electra
Sgt. Blanton who is
at the Albuquerque,
Army Air Field,
or in the homes
E. Houser and
The young man
on the B-24 Bomber plane in which
Sgt. Glen Houser lost his life in a
crash following a mission over en-
cide at the Dachau Prison Camp. Hc'emy area, in February 1945.
■ arrived there shortly after the incx-j Royce Ray Morrow of the US
ficiency houses in the addition west
to(of the Waggoner school. The plan”
i under which the building program is
| being launched is for them to be
I available to War Veterans. He will
1 build five more units if and when
building materials are available.
Joe Matthews, 1
at refit ioh To’ the legislation passed in jces on Sunday morning.
January and which is now in effect wrote some interesting sidelights on
whereby War Veterans may apply
for priority on such builling mater-
ials aYo available. He advises that,
veterans interested in building homesccurred.
see their lumber dealers and com-1CofCPlans
Bronze Tablet
For Clayco SiteDeep Oil Tests
Hold Spotlight
Electra AreaRoping Club
Plans Rodeo
Here In May
are
lumber dealer, calls show on Saturday and church scrv_
... Cpl. Byrd
And Baby Sailing
On Queen Mary
Ellen-! ed to draw thousands of people 1©
Electra on April 1.
A. L. Robb, chairman of the Ag-
ricultural Bureau, was placed in
charge of a proposed plan of distrib-
uting a limited number of pure-
bred Jersey heifers among boys in
the Electra area who wish to <cn-
: gage in dairying. The project k
at one designed to help to improve
dairy herds of the future and to help
potential dairyman to start herds of
I pure-bred cows.
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Mrs. Evelyn Coley offered her
;ignation, effective Jan 30, in order
It was announced at the noon
luncheon of the board of dtredna;
of the Electra Chamber of Com-
merce, Tuesday that ibds have
been, called for on making a bronze
’tablet to be used on a marker to be
erected on the site of the Clayco No.
1, Woodruff- Putnam wildcat which
broke loose on April 1, 1911 and put
Electra forever in the spotlight as
.an oil center. Permission -to erect
such a marker has been asked ofthe
Magnolia Petroleum Company, lease
holders on the tract of land which
i - - - - ---------------------, --------- adjoins the city of Electra on Hhe
eany Saturday. Falls operators have a prolific shal- northwest. Membei’s of the 35th An-
anspnrA nF twn i_______, __ xi_,_ .____, !
i ------- — ---------- — —• mversary Commemoration commit-*
He had been tjonal Associated Company will test tee were asked to meet Wednesday
'of the same.
Messrs. Hayman and Palmer, have
leased the Panhandle Service Sta-
tion at the corner of West Cleveland'
Avnue and North Dunbar stret,
from Johnnie R. Brown. They have
assumer charge of the business and
in addition to the service station
will operate a garage at the same
location. Mr. Brown will continue1 lands, after its liberation, returned
to operate his "Panhandle station [ to the states early in January and
garage and tire shop at 103 East received his discharge on January
Front Avenue, it was anounced.
Reports indicate that a deal
pending in which H. E. Wilson and ‘daughter, Judith Ann, duration res-
idents of Haskell, her parent’s home,
\White Rose Cafe. Messrs. Pace and!joined him in a visit with his par'
Smith will be active in the manage-1 ^nts’ Mr- and Mrs- J' Minton of
men of the cafe, having assumed
^charge last week.---
A two-inch snow early Saturdaymorning, followed by another snow-[ Miss Eula Whitehouse, teacher of
storm that afternoon, netted a tot- mathematics
al of .15 inch of moisture and great-' senior high
Three young Electra men have re-
Mrs. Clint Warden is the proud dentIy ™listed ln ‘he regular army
lor a three year period. Each was
'sent to Fort Sam Houston for final
I processing and basic assignmeent
I after acceptance at the Wichita Falls
Recruiting Station and completion of
enlistment at Dallas. The group in-
cluded Wayman A. Holt of 704 Bry-
an Avenue who had previous army
service and was discharged .Septem-
ber 29, 1945. He was eligible to
choose the Armored Command as
his branch of service and the Euro-
pean area as an overseas theater.
He pointed out that he re-enlisted
in the Army because of the education-
al benefits available under the Army
fend the GI Bill of Rights. He is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Holt. Al-
so choosing the European Theater
were Richard Charles Goode, age
17, and R. D. White. Goode, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Goode, chose
'the Armored Command and White
the Army Air* Forces.
home of 1
Garnett Wright,
morning after an absence of two iow pool on this tract and the Na-
and one-half years. u"'1 1---- .... . . .
oveiseas two years, having enlisted only for the deeper stuff, their con-1 afternoon to work out some of the
on August 16, 1943 the day after tract calling for drilling to 4000 feet details for the fete which is expecL-
his 17th birthday. He was trained in efforts to develope the F"
at San Diego, Calif., and Camp El- berger sands.
liott and was sent overseas in Janu- A. E. Blair and associates No. 4,
Miss Louise Golden, RN,
erly a first lieutenant in the US
Army Nurse Corps, was guest speak-
er at the noon luncheon meeting of
the Rotary Club, Thursday, at the .associates will sell to Messrs Melvin
White Rose Club Room. Introduced Pace, Charles.Smith and others, the
by Dr. A. F. Homme, she related
some of her experiences in Europe.
She landed in France in January,
1945, during the Belgian Bulge and
followed through in service with
field and base hospitals into Ger-
many, remaining several weeks aft-
er VJ D&y.
Joe Matthews, president, presid-1
I and bitter fighting on that island
during the summer of 1945. He
holds the
Badge, one
atic-Pacific
pines Liberation
reared here and was employed with
the Economy Feed Store prior to
entering military service.
Sgt. Rufus Pannell Jr., arrived
, home from the Philippines Monday
.and has an honorable discharge
from the army. He was trained
i with an anti-aircraft unit at Camp
j Haan, Calif., but was transferred to j ary 1944 without ever having had a W. B. Honaker is a 65 barrel pump-
, # t . a bakers and cooks unit with which»furlough home. He was * overseas [ er from sand found at 1736-39 feet
Vol'S (I riOVlTv ^ie South Pacific two'when he received news of the death I in an area which has been productive
ICL0 kJCL 1 IlVllLy years ago. He is a son of Mr. and! of his only brother, Sgt. Joe Ben' over a period of 20 years or more.
The Fortex Oil Company No. 1,
an honorable H. C. Obenhaus is abandoned after
to remain in testing traces of productive sand
(2113-20 feet.
Editor and Mrs. E. R. Brown off
the Electra News received a letter
this week from Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Lockett of Eden, Texas, formerly
of this city, in which they enclescd
He is a son of Mr and Mrs’Ivu“7‘e“'d a. <;oursc, of a copy of the official bulletin they
•......and Mre-! trains as a shoe metal worker I rcceivpd on Jan 20 announ“^
were each gwen h.gh school d.plom.'thp dcath of )h(?ir s0 second Ueat.
as Tuesday morning. Superintendent, Robert L lBobb > LocketL
young man, pilot and sole occupant
of a P-51 aircraft on an escort mis-
sion to Rangoon, Burma, on 26 Nov.,
. 1943, was last seen engaged in ac-
* J}0 ■ tion with enemy fighters Five miles
1 e south of Rangoon. He was report-
ed missing as of that date and no
further information has been un-
covered. An unofficial report was
given by a liberated prisoner to the
effect that he had been told by a
Japanese officer and a Burmese in-
terpreter. that Lt. Lockett’s body
had been found in the cockpit of his
plane which had crash landed.
Since no actual’ information which
would support presumption of his
ed over the opening exercises. Three ly benefitted the grain crops of this resignation,
new members, Clyde Buckalew, Bob
Priddy and Charles Smith, were wel- corded was 26 above zero Saturday
corned.
131 19-45, arrived at the reached a depth of around 2600 feet,
F"2 h’8 parents, Mr. and Mrs. I Tuesday. Akin and Dimock, Wichita
Wnprhi early Saturday! TTaiio I
Chadwick Wilson received a cable-
gram, Tuesday, from his wife, Mrs.
Dorothy Gruner Wilson of London,
England, saying that she and their,
daughter, 14 month old Vivianne, survival, the War Department gives
will sail on the Queen Mary next! a presumptive finding of death and
week. It is expected that they may
arrive in Electra by March 1. Mr.
Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Wilson, and Miss Gruner were mar-
ried in Devonshire, England, in Feb-
ruary 1944 and he left England for
'France in June the same year. They
have not seen each other since then
and the father has not seen his
daughter who was bom on Novem-
ber 28, 1944 while he was serving as
sergeant with a tank destroyer unit
pf the US First Army in Germany.
He made futile efforts to have his
wife and daughter sent to the Unit-
ed States during the blitz-bomb
raids before the war was over and
has continued since VE-Day his ef-
forts to secure passage for them.
He returned to Electra with an hon-
orable discharge from military serv-
ice in July, 1945 and is now employ-
ed in the Texas Company office
Wichita Falls.
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Pruning To Be
Demonstrated Feb. 21
Mrs. Ralph Delashaw and Mrs. J.
, B. Minton are next-door neighbors
' on West Garrison Avenue. When
they learned that Mrs. Delashaw’s
brother, Pfc. James Gibson and Mrs.
Mintons son, Sgt. Earl Minton were
both in Korea, they sent each of the
box’s the addresses of the other hop-
her daughter, Mrs. John B. Hutchin-‘inS thei' niiSht arrange a meeting,
son and family of Vernon, expects They could and did.
to spend the balance of the winter and one niile of space separated
with her sister, Mrs. Mollie Saweiga their stations. They spend all their
in Miami, Florida. Mrs. Brown came'spare time together now.
to Electra 26 years ago from Ana-1
darko, Oklahoma, and has operated1
the Commercial since then. She is possessor of a 5-yard piece of gen- [
active in religious and civic affairs1 uine White Japanese silk of cob-web in
from1 and reported that she will possibly fineness in texture, gift of her son, [
home. This will be their first time return to Electra to make her home., Pfc. Wylie G. Lynn, who is with the
” * team but the Mr .Clemons’ sonirilaw and daughter,! 77th Infantry Division in Northern
are return en- Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Kiker of Dal- Japan. The youth who is a rifle-
' las, will assume charge of the hotel: man with the 306th Infantry regi-
for the games as soon as Mr. Kiker who has been ment of the 77th, saw his first ac-!
The contract; overseas with the US Navy, gets lion on Okinawa during the bloody
said he
store
He told the officer that j al posts to support the arena fences Occupation
„ — -------- -----------! and the chutes. , home this weqk. He is a son of Mrs.
At a recent meeting of the club, ■ C. H. Hall. His brother, Pfc. Eu-
had Art Ashline of Lawton was a visit-' gene Walker is in the Pacific.
reported seeing the victim, his cloth* or and he suggested the latter part
ing bloody, walking on the highway | of May as a good time foo the rodeo.
and had called the police station.1
Mr. Middleton found the knife stuck ’T’ XT TT
in the ground by a pool of blood. ( 1 WO IN GW llOUSeS
The victim was attended by Dr. I
Van S. Parmley and attendants at1
the hospital reported that although •
the wound was serious the victim |
has chances of recovery. Blood'
plasma was administered and the!
man’s relatives at Mineral Wells
were notified and came to Electra. ■ jmxncditely on two new 5-room ef-!and Mrs. B. A. Lane.
Dr. C. W. Monroe assisted in mak- fininnr»\f hnucnc mirUitrn-i «rr»c.i .
ing arrangements for his transfer
the "hospital at Waco.
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1946 Schedule
Electra Tiger
Football Team
Two GIs Gets EHS
Diplomas Monday ! Lt. R. L. Lockett
Cpl. Roy Bailey who received a’this city. His brother, Sgt. Earl
citation for valor with an army sig-[Minton is now in Korea. Mrs. Earl
nal corps unit in the relief of Bas-[ Minton, former Marjorie Bray of
togne in January, 1945, is among the-this city is residing in Kilgore where
I recent arrivals in Electra from the",she is employed.-- —o-----v -----Outstanding activities of the club• European Theater of Operations.! ------
miles west of Electra, approximately j include a successful benefit box sup- is a son of Mrs. Hattie Bailey. I Sgt. Billy Ray (Cobby) Wright,
one-fourth mile from a place on the per and auction sale at the Bingo1 ----- 'member of the famous Sixth Ma-
.ailroad right-of-way where he had Hall, a picnic dinner and “work Master Sgt. William Walker who.rines who took part in some of
slashed his*own throat with a butch-'day’’ at. the rodeo grounds when served with an army quartermaster toughest combat assignments in
er knife which he said he had they rented a motor-powered post- group in France and Belgium and'Pscific warfare and who wears
bought in an Electra store that [ hole digger in
morning. I’
he inflicted the wounds on himself
with suicidal intent “because he had
troubles’’. Passing motorists
class, j
M. L. Morrow and is stationed on the i
Manicani Island in the Philippines, j.
n . it, . Z 1 Bob Lindsey Jr., reported.
vt. \7alter R. Thompson, son of j were former students in
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Thompson of 'high SChool. They were
Route 1, Electra, was inducted into credits for milifnrv
the army on October 29. 1945 and re-'^Xal stupes acc„.„...& ..
cently completcd basic training at recent program adopted . by
Fort Bliss. He has been assigned1 state Board of Education,
duty with the occupation troops in, o
an anti-aircraft unit. He qualified1 /-m j
as an expert rifleman and was giv- L/had WllSOn
cn anti-aircraft training.
to play the Bonham
other practice games
gagements.
Terms of contracts
were also announced,
for the season opener at Pampa calls, his discharge,
for $750 for the Electra aggrega-1 A C. Collins has bought the Oscar
tion while 4:he home team is to get Tarlton Domino Parlor on West Bry-
$300 for tl?e game with plainview; ar* Avenue and has assumed charge
and $200 plus one-half the net pro-
ceeds for the game with Gladewat-
er. The practice bouts with Bon-
ham and Borger are for 50-50
All conference games are
net.
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