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Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
Rate
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Sept. 20, 1941
MRS. ARREVA D. FRENCH
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the school
the way
Inspector Gives
High Praise To
Local Department
Dow, Vermillion
To Head Annual
Red Cross Drive
Nursery Arranged
During Lectures
In Theatre Here
No Criminal
Cases Are Set
For Kermit Court
Interest, Penalty
Remission On Tax
Payments To End
Carnival Thronged;
Afternoon Show
Set For Saturday
Williams Held
For Desertion
DECKER, POINTER BUY
HAMILTON BOOT SHOP
day’s food, and be up bright and
early to lecture.
She will have an afternoon lec-
ture in Carlsbad Wednesday, drive
to Kermit that night, and lecture
here Thursday morning. Which gives
you an idea.
from Winkler
of deserting
a
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lagrone pla:
to move into their new home nex
week. A
the
an-
“Respectfully,
“Tom Linebery.”
Andrews, Texas
September 26, ,1941
“Sincerely yours,
“Chas. W. Roberts.”
So that seems to be that. There are those who say Andrews County
would be forced to meet a road from Kermit, but Judge Roberts’ letter
has a tone of finality that makes such an outcome doubtful.
“Roads to nowhere,” the proposed Kermit-Andrews County and Ker-
mit-Loving County roads have been called, and so they seem to be in
truth.
“Judge Roberts,
Andrews, Texas.
“Dear Judge Roberts:
“This letter is to inquire whether the Commissioners’ Court of Wink-
ler County, Texas, has ever approached you or the Court of Andrews
County on the building of a road from Andrews to the Winkler County
line, if Winkler County would build a road from Kermit to the Andrews
County line; and if they did .approach you or the County Court what wias
your reply to them? I also want to ask what is the attitude1: of the An-
drews County Court on this proposed road; at this time.
“I will appreciate a reply to this letter. Please address me at Chey-
enne, Texas.
Pete Barnett
Gets 50 Years
In Watson Case
“Dear Mr. Lineberry:
“The Commissioners Court ha' approached the Andrews
C urt o" ti .' Andrews-Kermit roa__ propositi^ i several times, but
the Court has made no commitments (concerning the road.
“The only encouragement ever given 'was a letter (written
Judge Gilliam by myself in which I stated that if a main (highway
beginning at Pecos and running due northeast {through (Kermit,
Andrews, Lamesa, Post, Dicken, Paducah, and on into Oklahoma
City was ever promoted that Andrews would get behind 'such a
proposition, and that if a major (oil field was brought in in the
Southwest part of the County Andrews would of course be in-
terested.
Llcyd Williams of Kermit was 'ar-
rested on a charge of desertion from
the U. S. Army by Pvt. W. L. Con-
nell, Jr., former Magnolia Oil Com-
pany employe in Kermit, and Corp.
W. S. Fountain, both of the Fort
Bliss Military Police Detachment, in
Kermit Wednesday.
Williams, drafted
County, was accused
during mandivers in Louisana
month ago. If he is convicted in
court martial, he faces a federal
penitentiary term.
in
last
week,
VZ/iat Price Road Bonds?
Rather a ludicrous note enters the Winkler County $550,000 road bond
proposal with the argument that despite the highly publicized hearing
the end of last month, in which all but one opposed the road bond pro-
posal, the court should call an election anyway because all the signers
of the petition —74 valid—were silent pleaders for the election.
Seventy-four to forty-two that would be the score under this line
of reasoning. Of course the fact a number of the petitioners have ad-
mitted they did not know what they were asking for, and many others
since have changed their minds, and the fact that none but Hal Hester
pleaded for the election in open hearing, are disregarded under this
theory. »
Granting all that, however—f the petitioners are to outweigh the
pleaders at the hearing, WHY EVER HAVE A HEARING AT ALL?
County Judge G. E. Gilliam and the members of the Commissioners
Court said beforehand that the hearing was to determine sentiment on
the matter, and particularly to find out if the bonds will be for pro-
jects to benefit the entire county. Did the hearing bring this out?
And here enters a very pertinent bit of evidence that throws the
whole matter into highlight and shadow. These letters between Tom Line-
bery of Cheyenne, a rancher of Winkler County, and County Judge
Charles- W. Roberts of Andrews County make it quite evident that at
least one of the preposed roads would not be of benefit to the entire
county under present conditions:
“Chas. W. Roberts.”
The two letters above were on the same sheet of stationery, Judge
Roberts having answered Lineberry on the bottom of the latter’s letter.
Then a few days later came this leter from the judge:
October 3rd, 1941
Mrs. T. J. Wade and daughter
are spending a few days in the home
of Mrs. Wades parents, Mr. andi
Mrs. W. E. Logan. Mr. and Mrs.
Wade have been transferred to
Vaughn, N M., where he will man-
age the theatre at that place.
The Winkler County News
Friday, October 24, 1941
Miss Mosley
Critically III.
Life Despaired Of
Kermit residents were saddened
this week by the critical illness of
Miss Eddie Mae Mosley, chief depu-
ty in Sheriff Ellis Sum'mer’ tax as-
sessing-collecting department whose
life was despaired of.
Miss Mosley was taken to a local
hospital with influenza that devel-
oped into pneumonia. Because of
her frail physique, High School
Principal Tommy Thompson gave
her blood in a transfusion, and later
Sheriff Summers attempted to do-
nate blood, but the transfusion was
halted when the effects were not
good.
Deputy Sheriff Clint Sharp made
an 80-mile-an-hour trip to Jal to
get Thompson, who was watching
the loading of some cattle from his
father-in-law’s ranch, and brought
him back for another transfusion.
After that, over 100 persons volun-
teered to give blood.
But as the week wore on, Miss
Mosley did not rally, and her friends
were told she probably could not
live.
Known as one of the most effici-
ent county employes in Texas. Miss
Mosley has held her post eight
years, and is known to almost every
resident of Winkler County.
“Mr. Tom Lineberry,
“Midland, Texas.
“Dear Sir:
“In answer to your letter of a few days (ago in regard to the
Andrews-Kermit road will say that the Commissioners Court of
Andrews County has been approached several (times about the
matter.
“The Court is not (now interested in this road, and have
another road, Andrews to Eunice that (they have spent a lot of
money (on and feel this read is of (much morel importance, and
therefore will not be in a position to consider {this road for many
years.
“Our Court is trying to cut down on expenses during the
National Emergency, and feel that the expense of building a road
from Andrews to meet the Kermit road is not justified. It seems
to me that Counties should try to cut down ion expenses rather
than build them up.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Weaver of
Hugo, Okla., plan to spend a week
visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Strawberry Deaton. The Weavers
plan to arrive Thursday.
Volume 5; Number 32
Kermit Likely To Receive Six Cent Cut In Key Fire
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Kermit’s benefit carnival spon-
sored by the Lions Club, Volunteer
Fire Department, and American
Legion gave promise of being a suc-
cess Thursday after a surprisingly
good opening night Wednesday.
It was announced that the carni-
val will be open Saturday afternoon,
as well as Friday and Saturday
nights.
The surpnse about Wednesday’s
opening was that the crowd was as
large as it was despite rain during
the day and threatening cloudiness
just before dark.
At the meeting of the Lions Club
Thursday it was announced that ex-
penses of the carnival already had
been largely met, and that the
three sponsoring organizations would
benefit from proceeds of the other
performances.
It is a good idea to boil new
clothespins in salt water before us-
ing. This process toughens them
and prevents them from splitting.
A .A. Decker of Kermit and A. B.
Pointer of Pecos this week purchas-
ed the Hamilton Boot Shop from
George Hamilton, who has purchas-
ed a similar business in Big Spring.
Decker will operate the shop here,
he said. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton are
to leave in a few day for Big
Spring.
Melvin Dow, publisher of the
Wink Bulletin, and H. G. Vermil-
lion, publisher of the Winkler Coun-
ty News, Wednesday were announc-
ed as co-chairmen for Winkler
County for the annual Red Cross
Roll Call which will begin Nov. 11
and continue through Nov. 30.
County Judge G. E. Gilliam of
Winkler County, county Red Cross
Chapter chairman, announced
appointments.
The county’s quota during
Campaign will be 825, it was
nounced Wednesday by G. D. Mon-
tag of Lubbock, Red Cross field
representative Who visited Kermit
and Wink. Last year’s county en-
rollment was 421.
Mrs. C. P. Laughlin of Wink will
be Junior Red Cross Roll Call
chairman there as she was a year
ago, and Miss Laura Sunderman of
Kermit will have the post here for
the first time.
Junior Red Cross chapters in the
county now are making lap boards
for service men in the hospitals,
and gift boxes for sick and injured
service men.
Rev. Lancaster
Given Pastorate
In Hope, N. M.
Rev. J. P. Lancaster, pastor of the
Community Church of Kermit, was
assigned to the Hope, N. M., Metho-
dist Church as pastor in the as-
signments announced Wednesday at
the Methodist Conference at Odessa.
Mr. Lancaster has been pastor of
the local church a year and a half.
Ee came from the Fort Boulevard
Methodist Church in El Paso.
Rev. Joe Emanuel, who was pastor
of the local church preceding Mr.
Lancaster, and who has been in
Lordsburg, N. M., as pastor since,
was assigned to the Fort Boulevard
church.
Officials of the Community
Church said no arrangements have
been made to fill the local pastor-
ate. Mr. Lancaster will preach next
Sunday, and said he and Mrs. Lan-
caster will leave Tuesday for Hope,
a small agriculture-ranching com-
munity 21 miles west of Artesia.
For the second time in succession,
there will be no criminal cases to
consider when the Winkler County
District Court is convened and a
grand jury selected under Judge
J. A. Drane of Pecos in Kermit
Monday, Sheriff Ellis Summers said
Thursday.
There will be a number of civil
cases, including one Wage-Hour law
case to be transferred from Mona-
hans, it was said.
The grand jury list of 16, with 12
grand jurors to be selected is:
Bert Burton, Fred Adams, C. R.
Carter, J. V. Moore, L. H. Riley,
J. A. Bohn (Humble), E. H. Thack-
er, (H P L) R. W. Bell, C. H. Al-
worth (HOR), E. E. Brackens,
(Gulf), Lee A. Coleman, C. S. Ham,
(HOR) C. L. Austin, J. B. Fitzger,
aid, H. Walker, and J. B. Walker.
The petit jury list for the second
week, beginning Nov. 3, is:
S. A. Parker, G. L. Armstrong, O.
A. Black, A. H. Brown, Lewe'll But-
ler, Glenn Clayborne, A. L. Fohn,
J. W. Harper, Frank F. Harris, A.
L. Alcorn, J. H. Walker, Howard
Finley, W. B. McCargo, C. B. At-
wood, Clyde Bone, F. J. Boudreaux,
Claybourn Jones, Clifford Casey,
Roy Charlesworth, E. R. Clifton, N.
B. Crawford, W. G. Crowley, W. M.
Culp, I. D. Modisett, C. Y. Douglas,
C B. Barley, B. C. Hammer, D. S.
Hughes, J R. Marshall, G. D. Screws,
D. W. Rutherford, G. I. Brown,
James B. Burt, John Haley, A. D.
Mullinax, D. F. Riddle.
The petite jury list for the third
week, beginning Nov. 10, is:
Kenneth Scott, C. E. Sikes, H. B.
Usry, W. W. Austin, p. O. Beck,
E. C. Cryer, E. M. Dutton, H. D. Ed-
wards, W. D. Fields, W. I. Flynn,
R. B. Fuller, C. E. Godfrey, Wm. L.
Hahn, P. W. Harvey, C. T. Helms,
R. L. Herring, J. P. Hollos, T. B.
Marion, A. R. Lawrence, Fred C.
Keene, H. L. Little, D. O. McAdoo,
E. G. McKandles, Little Dick Madi-
son, Geo. M. Nix, F. T. Phillips, O.
O. Whitten, L. M. Praytor, Jimmie
Rash, L. E. Cope, O. G. Rudy, J.
B. Smith , G. M. Martin, M. B Roye,
and J. L. Scroggin.
Pete Barnett, former pumper for
Sinclair Prairie Oil Company who
was convicted of the murder of
Charlie Watson, gauger for Gulf Oil
Company, in Kermit District Court
last winter, was convicted and given
35 years, was convicted a second
time in Monahans Wednesday and
was given 50 years in prison.
Barnett in his trials said he re-
membered drinking and riding with
Watson, but did not remember
hitting him. He was accused of beat-
ing Watson to death and leaving
his body on a lease northeast of
Kermit.
The Kermit conviction was re-
manded and the second trial held
in Monahans on a change of venue
when alleged errors were found in
the prosecution of the case here.
The case went to the jury in
Monahans a little after noon Wed-
nesday and the verdict was given
at 4:15 p. m. the same day.
Lx________
Kermit’s first cooking school
four years will be held the
three mornings of next
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Oct. 30-31 Nov. 1, in the Kermit
Theatre, and will begin each day
at 9:30 a. m., instead of 10:30 a. m.
as had been announced previously.
Kermit mothers will be provided
with a nursery during the hours of
the school, it was announced Thurs-
day. Mrs. J. E. Shirley will keep
youngsters from cradle age up to
school age in her apartment at the
rear of the theatre.
Mrs. Arreva D. French, who has
had years of experience in cooking
school lectures, will give the lec-
tures each day. Her demonstration
during each lecture will be the act-
ual preparation of a full meal.
The cooking school is being pres-
ented in Kermit by The Winkler
County News as a public service.
There will be no admission charge
or other charge of any kind, and
generous prizes of food, merchand-
ise, and other articles will be given
away each day.
PRIZES GIVEN
Kermit merchants who have been
generous in giving merchandise for
prizes include H. L. Lockhart Com-
pany, L-B Drug, Williams Food
Market, The Dixie Store, Mrs. W.
G. Crowley, Kermit agent for the
Monahans Flower Shop, Mrs. D. W.
Rutherford, Kermit agent for the
Russell Greenhouse of Menahans,
and the Sally Ann Bakery.
In addition, generous prizes will
be given by the concerns manu-
facturing KC Baking Powder, Mrs.
Tucker’s Shortening, and Admira-
tion Coffee, which will be featured
in the school.
The school will be featured by a
cake baking contest which will be
concluded with the judging of cakes
and giving of prizes the final day
of the school.
One of the features of the school
will be a question and answer period
each day. Questions will be placed
in a large box outside the theatre
before each lecture and will be an-
swered by Mrs. French during the
lecture.
Women who attend
Will want to take notes on cooking
facts and on recipes given by Mrs.
French, and should take pencils and
paper to the lectures.
TO STRESS ECONOMY
Donny Vanishes,
Causes Mother's
Ankle Injury
Mrs. A. E. Kotrola, wife of Kermit
High .School’s football coach, was
suffering a sprained, or possibly
broken, ankle Thursday as a result
of ja night-time city-wide search
Monday night for her four-year-old
son, Donny.
Donny disappeared after dark
Monday, and the Kotrolas, alarmed
when he failed to appear, started
hunting for him. When he was not
to be found near their home in
.the Underwood Addition, neighbors
, and friends joined the search, and
flashlights in the stocks of down-
town permit drug stores were bor-
rowed to light the way of the
searchers.
Mrs.. Kotrola injured her ankle
when she failed to notice a step on
the Courthouse sidewalk in the
darkness.
Donny was found a little later
wandering in front of the Kermit
Theatre, having found his way to
the bright lights without the aid of
flashlights.
Cooking School To Open At 9:30 A.M. Thursday For Three Days
It’s Plenty Hard Work To 'Crippled Kermit
Lecture At Cooking School bXXX
Kermit’s key fire rate, now 46
cents, likely will be reduced to 40
cents following an inspection of new
equipment and other factors Thurs-
day by State Insurance Inspector
J. E. Ross.
Ross inspected the city water
system', tested fire plugs, inspected
Kermit Volunteer Fire Department
records and equipment and tested
both the old pumper bought by the
city in 1938 and the new $9,000
pumper recently purchased for the
department by Winkler County.
He said the fire rate probably
would be lowered one cent because
of an increase in the reserve hose
supply, one cent because of an ad-
ditional pumper, one cent because
of an additional hose truck, and
three cents because of an active
fire marshal (C. A. Self.)
The tentative 40-cent rate is the
lowest the city can have unless more
pumping capacity is obtained for
the city water system, Ross said.
The tentative new rate is 65 cents
under the $1.05 key rate the city
had when the fire department was
organized in 1938, just less than
four years ago, and will give pre-
mium payers a $318.24 a year saving
over the previous 46-cent rate.
Under the 46-cent rate, premiums
ran $5,304 a year for the city.
Ross praised the local fire depart-
ment, and said it is one of the best
equipped in the state for its size.
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County Attorney H. L. Roberson,
who has been sending delinquent
Winkler Cour y taxpayers warning
letters on payment of delinquent
taxes, warned Thursday that next
Friday, Oct. 31, is the last day that
delinquent state and county taxes
may be paid in Winkler County
without payment of penalty and
interest.
Under a legislative act, penalty
and interest are waived on all taxes
prior to 1939 if all taxes owed by
any individual or corporation sue
paid in a lump sum, but the dead-
line for payment was set at Oct. 31.
The same waiver of penalty and
interest was granted on Kermit In-
dependent School District taxes, but
was extended to Dec. 31 by the
School Board.
Kermit High School’s end-less
Yellow Jackets will be hosts to the
Class AA Bowie High School of El
Paso Bears at 8 p. m. Saturday on
Walton Field, and might have a fair
chance of winning if their injured
players could recover in the mean-
time.
The Yellow Jackets won their
second conference victory, over Mc-
Camey 8-0, in McCamey last week,
and had little trouble doing it.
Bowie is a different dish, but not
so tough a chew as in years past.
The lads of Mexican descent from
El Paso have done little this year
in their own class, but Bowie Coach
Guy Davidson has numerous play-
ers and should be able to wear down
the almost reserve - less Kermit
team.
Injures have eliminated Charlie
McIver, one of the best ends in
West Texas, Norris and Parker, the
entire end roster of the Kermit
club. That leaves Willis and Wil-
coxson running the end positions,
with Funderburk and Warnick do-
ing some of the flank work.
Coaches Bull Kotrola and Cotton
Kimbriel have worked hard trying
to make ends out of tackles and
guards, but feared the result.
WINK PLAYS MONAHANS
An outstanding game Friday will
be the Wink-Monahans clash in
Monahans. The Wildcats will be
heavily favored to mantain their
undefeated .untied record.
Peccs should beat Crane in Crane
handily, Fjbrt (|tockton and
McCamey ni'eet in Fort Stockton in
a game that should be easy for the
Panthers if they can recover from
the loss of their star backs, Furga-
son and Patterson, from injuries.
Kermit’s victory over McCamey
came in the third quarter, when a
wild pass from center by the Mc-
Camey club gave Kermit a safety
and a 2-0 lead, and Bob Neely
scampered across for a touchdown.
That just about tells the story of
the game. The Yellow Jackets, sore
after their beating from Pecos the
week before, took it fairly easy dur-
ing the game—in fact some of their
critics said they loafed.
But they won, and came through
to make a strong bid for the first
division in the district standings.
Mrs. Arreva French, who willy-
lecture in the Winkler County News
'Cooking School in the Kermit
Kermit Theatre next Thursday, Fri-
day and Saturday, says that con-
ducting cooking schools is no snap.
“I get up fairly early during cook-
ing school season, work feverishly
to prepare for that day’s lecture,
conduct the lecture, which drains
the vitality from me, then supervise
cleaning up, go to the hotel and
often study until midnight or more
to keep up to date on cooking
trends.’' she said) in Monahans,
where she conducted a cooking
school this week.
Mrs. French is employed by
Southern Newspaper Features of
Dallas to conduct schools over
Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
She went to Pecos from Monahans,
and from there will go to Carlsbad
before conducting the Kermit
school.
A charming, dark-haired woman
of medium height, Mrs. French has
a tremendous amount of vitality,
and must have to maintain the pace
she does.
What makes her work doubly
hard, she says, is that often she
must finish a school one day, drive
most of the night, prepare her next
Mrs. French will stress economy,
nutrition, and above all tasteful-
ness in her lectures on food. She will
cook food bought in Kermit grocery
stores, and will use kitchen ap-
pliances furnished by the Com-
munity Public Company.
H. L. Lockhart Company will
supply tables and other furnishings
for the stage, and the electric mixer
Mrs. French will use in preparation
of her food. Glass oven and flame-
ware used by Mrs. French also will
be furnished by the Lockhart store.
Mrs. Crowley will decorate the
stage the first and third days of the
school and Mrs. Rutherford the
second day.
Property Owners
Warned To Pay
Notes On Paving
City Commissioners T. M. Herrin .
and Dick Madison warned Thursday
that property owners in Kermit who
signed papers to pay for part of the ,
paving must’ make their payments
promptly.
The credit of the city is at stake,
because obligations on the paving '
are outstanding and must be met,
Herrin said.
The commissioners estimated that
$5000 in signed obligations are out-
standing, not counting the assess-
ment warrants issued against lots
wher^, owpers did not sign up for the
paving.
Seme who signed up for the pav-
ing have a mistaken idea that the
payments pray be made up to a year
after the ' completion of the pro-
ject, Madison said, but the signed
papers were worded to make the ob-
ligations payable immediately on
completion.
STRAIN WANTS. CASH
Madison said Contractor C. Hunt-
er Strain is pressing the city for
payment of the money owed him
for the paving job.
“I’ll admit we didn’t get a very
good job, but we got the best we
could under the circumstances,”
Madison. said. “However, Strain
made! \qs wait for the paving, and
he can wait a while for his money.”
Madison said if Strain had been
able to complete the topping when
the base was first ready, the pavng
job wdiild have been much better.
As the paving has grown progres-
sively bumpier with settling of the
base, much criticism has been raised
in Kermit about the quality of the
job.
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