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BY H. G. VERMILLION
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May 8 Clean-up Day
Is Set For Kermit
the books, and it has been advised
that these persons, if the sugar has
not been opened, return it to stores
and receive their purchase price. .
Legion to Register
In Body Monday
In 45-65 Signup
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Section 35 (A) of the United
States Criminal Code makes it a
criminal offense, punishable by a
maximum of ten years9 imprison*
meat, $10,000 fine, or both, “to
make a false statement or repre-
sentation to any Department or
Agency of the United States 'as
to any matter within the juris-
diction of any Department or
Agency of the United States.
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R. F. Mackin Heads
County USO Drive;
Lam Will Assist
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acre per year, the land to include
the present airport site plus exten-
sions.
Prater said Thursday in answer to
a question on whether Wink had
raised its $5000, “Aren’t you (appar-
ently meanings Kermit) going to
pay half of it?” : <■ > -.
. Asked what he meant, Prater said
he understood the county was going
to pay for the lease. He advised *
check of county officials on the
story.
However, County Judge G. E. Gil-
liam said he had not heard r.uch a
proposal ma.de, and County Com-
missibiner Gene Crutcher said that
although he had heard a mention
of such a proposal, he had not heard
it advanced seriously. Other com-
missioners could not be reached.
It was rumored that if the county
agrees to pay for the lease, the Uni-
versity of Texas will agree to lease
payments of $100 a year instead of
the lump payment cf $5000 cash in
advance.
Dr. Brown To Give
Graduation Address
Mrs. W. B. Crow and Judy Mur-
"ray of Monahans visited Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Sikes and family Sun-
cay. They also had as their guests
over the weekend their son, Lynn,
who is attending school in Grand-
falls.
County To Pay
For Airport Lease
Possibility that Winkler County
may be asked to pay for the lease
on the projected new $364,733 CAA
airport at Wink was projected
Thursday by Mayor Lester Prater
of Wink.
Under terms of a lease agreement
With the University of Texas Board
of Regents, Wink must raise $5000
cash to pay for a 50-year lease on
1000 acres of land at 10 cents per i
Bond, Stamp Sales
In County Slower
Winkler County War Bond- and
Stamp sales for the first 15 days
of April totalled $10,002, a decline
from the average rate since figures
first were kept beginning Jan. 1,
Chairman Lee Johnson of Wink
announced.
Bond sales were $9025 at maturity
value, on which the county’s quota
is based, and stamp sales were $977.
behalf of the person named above, that
The
Jack Mays, new city commission-
er, may have been fooling with dy-
namite when he investigated the
night watching activities at the city
water works, he discovered belated-
ly.
Mays said at a commission meet-
ing Monday afternoon that he had
gone down to the pumping station,
where two guards had been main-
tained at night, twice and tried to
act suspiciously so as to attract at-
tention, but had drawn ho response.
“I backed my car around, pulled
it across the road, started and stop-
ped, raced my engine, and nobody
came to investigate,” he said. “I
went back another time, and did the
same thing. Both times it was late
at night.”
Water Supt. H. P. McIntire com-
mented that both of the guards had
been accustomed to carrying “big”
’ pistols.
“And they were really ready to
shoot, too,” said McIntire.
“Boy, it’s a good thing I didn’t
run into them,’ said Mays. “Maybe
I just didn’t know what I was do-
ing.”
WIFE.
^Legion Auxiliary
Will Serve Banquet
Plans, were made to serve the Bap-
tist Sunday School teachers a ban-
quet on Friday, May 8 Thursday at
the regular meeting of the American
Legion Auxiliary.
At the next meeting of the organ-
ization the members plan to begin
making “writing kits” for the men
in s°rvice. All members are urged
to attend this meeting so that plans
may also be made for the annual
poppy campaign.
Refreshments were served by Mrs.
S. H. Cruncleton and Mrs. Irvin
Cole.
The next meeting will be held at
the Hut Thursday, May 14.
‘Come on and try to make us sing,’ ”
he. said. Johnson said this nation
needs songs—the right kind of
songs—to lead it into battle. He
cited use of the Marseilles in the
French Revolution and Yankee
Doodle at Valley Forge.
Schools’ efforts to trim expenses
during the war may lead to curtail-
ment of musical teaching, which
would be tragic in light of the mor-
ale-building qualities of music,
Johnson said.
The Lions voted to attend the
Odessa session in a body and show
the other Lions how to sing.
Johnson gave much credit for the
local club’s song ability to B. F,
Meek, son leader. Meek, he said,
had missed his calling—he should
be leading songs instead of directing
a school system.
8 a. m.-ll a. m.—Grocery Stores.
11 a. m.-12 p. m.—Drug Stores.
m.-2 p. m.—Bakeries,
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Stanolind to Build
19-Mile Pipeline
From Ward County
Stanolind Pipeline Company, re-
cently formed subsidiary of the
Stanolind Oil and- Gas Company,
will build a quarter of a million
dollar pipeline from near Royalty
in Ward County to the company’s
Wink station, H. H. Colleton, West
Texas superintendent for the Stan-
olind. pipeline firm, said Thursday.
Colleton would not give figures on
the ccst of the project, which will
feed oil from the southern Ward
County field to the Humble pipeline
that runs east from Winkler Coun-
ty. The six-inch pipeline will be
approximately 19 miles in length.
Colleton said Stanolind has an ex-
tensive program for building pipe-
lines in West Texas, but much of
the program probably will have to
be deferred until the war ends.
Oil from the new pipeline will be
taken east through the Humble
line, and later taken into a Stano-
lind line near Mineral Wells.
Now You Can Know
Where You Are
On Kermit Streets
Persons who have never known
the names of the principal streets
of Kermit will know from now on,
because the Chamber of Commerce
project for lettering curbings in the
paved street area was completed
this week.
The Chamber of Commerce plans
to stage a drive to have houses
numbered in the area where the
streets are marked, and hopes later
on to have the lettering and num-
bering project , extended to the un-
paived areas. 'frs. H.. H. Lee ^s ill this week.
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Paving Project
Revealed In Hole
To Total of $2636
Somehow Winkler County didn’t
get into the cotton report, since not
an ounce of cotton was grown in the
county, unless it volunteered some-
where or some family frem the farm
country planted some in a garden
just to watch it grow.:,
The way the cultivated area is
chopped off about 70 miles east of
here is a.-souce cfu.wonderment to
me every time, I drive that way. On
Highway 80 you seem within a few
miles to pass the grass country and
enter the cultivated area. Z?
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We can plant gardens, out here,
even if we can’t grow cotton. My
mustard is ready to eat, and I’ve
got some spinach, carnets and Eng-
lish peas well along.
Vitamins for victory!!!
May 8 will be “clean-up day” in
KJermit, and on that day all resi-
dents will be urged to gather up
and dispose of all trash in their
yards and especially in their alleys,
the new City Commission decreed
this week.
Grading of the alleys is to start
as soon as garbage, tin cans and
other debris has been cleaned off,
the officials said.
“Kermit needs a good spring
clean-up,” said Mayor Frank Law-
lis. “It will do the town good.”
Over 800 Students
In School Census
Kermit went over the 800 mark
in the annual school census this
week when a check of school at-
tendance records against the census
names showea there actually are
802 children of school age within
the Kermit Independent School Dis-
trict.
Since each child of schcol age
means the district will receive an-
other $22.50 apportionment from the
state, it is. important to see that
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Kermit’s paving project as
stands, if all outstanding claims
approved and if the county approves
a questionable claim by the city,
is in the hcle-to the tune of $2636.63
even if all outstanding paving as-
sessments are paid, an audit showed
this week.
Here is the way the audit lined
things up:
Cash on hand $ 840.07
Assessments owed city 8412.60
Accounts receivable 539.40
Due from county 2018.29'
Balance against this in debts:
Outstanding warrants ....$11,000.00
Due Water Fund 2000.00
Unapproved claims 1446.99
Thus the total of the first failed
by $2636.63 from equaling the total
of the second.
■However, there were, some bright
spots. If the city can collect a sub-
stantial part cf the paving assess-
ments, and then collect even half
of the outstanding $9,000 or so in
delinquent taxes, it will be able to
pay its way out of the hole it is in.
Debt Questionable '
Whether the city can collect from
the county is questionable because1
of the nature cf the agreement when
the county agreed to serve as co-
sponsor and pay for half of the pav-
ing project. The city agreed to pay
half of machine time, which county
officials said was not done, and
some of the bills on which the figure
in the audit were based came in
after the county had said it would
not pay half of any more bills pre*
sented.
City Secretary Fred Pearson was
setting up new books on the project
this week, and as soon as he can
work into his new job was to begin
making intensive efforts to collect
the outstanding paving assessments.
He also was to drive for payment
cf delinquent taxes, with tax suits
threatened by members of the City
Commission if those who owe long
delinquent taxes do not come across
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Wiriklif County News
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City Commission
Dr. John Brown of, John Brown
University, Arkansas, has accepted
an invitation to gve the commence-
ment address at Kermit High
School. School Supt. B. F. Meek
said Thursday.
Dr. Brown is known as an inspir-
ational speaker of force and power;
He was featured on the recent
teachers’ convention program in El
Paso. The local exercises will be
held the evening of May 26.
R. F. Mackin of Wink is chairman
cf the United States Service Organ-
izations 1942 fund-raising drive in
Winkler County, and Ely Lam of
Kermit is vice-chairman, County
Judge G. E. Gilliam announced
Thursday.
The county’s quota is $750. Money
raised is devoted to caring for re-
creational needs of men in the arm-
ed services.
Lt. Gen. B. B. Somervell, chief of
^supply services, U. S. Army, termed
the U. S. O. “A people's service to
their fighting men” in reporting on
the opening of 530 O. S. O. centers
under the program last year.
The 1942 campaign will open of-
ficially in Texas May 11, when Gov.
Coke Stevenson, Harry C. Wiess of
Houston, state O’. S. O. chairman,
and others will speak in ceremonies.
President Roosevelt wall speak by
radio to opening meetings of the
drive all over the nation.
Those in the U. S. O. group are
the Salvation Army, Y. M. C. A., Y.
W.-i C.-A., National Catholic Com-
munity Service, Jewish Welfare
Board and National Travelers’ Aid
Association,
New Men Needed
By Defense Guard
Kermt Company D of the Texas
Defense Guard needs six or seven
new members because of men who
have left town or dropped out, and
anyone wishing to join should be
on hand at 7:30 p. m. Monday at the
High Schcol, First Lt. Gene Angus
said Thursday.
Angus said prospective members
could contact him or Capt. Joe
Boudreaux on requirements for ser-
vice.
The Defense Guard calls for m;n
in Kermit have grown since the
First Battalion Headquarters was
moved from Monahans to Kermit.
A number of men shifted from Com-
pany D to the Headquarters Com-
pany.
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K hereby certify that I have witnessed the
Applicant’s signature and that War Ration Book
One, bearing the above number, has been deliv-
ered to the Applicant with the above-stated
number of stamps removed.
(1) Number of persons in Family Unit, including the person named above _____
(2) The person named above is my—
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8BW; FATHER; MOTHER. HUSBAND. WIFE. SON. DAUGHTER. EXCEPTION
(3) Total amount of white and brown sugar in any form which
is owned by the Family Unit or its members:'’— ________
If the person named above IS NOT a member of a Family Unit^
-■ state the total amount of white and brown sugar in>ny form
which is owned by the person named above: _________________
Number at "Wat Ration Stamps to be removed from War Ration
Book One (upon the basis of information stated above): ____
a NONE. WRITE NONE
ABA. Worm. No. R-301 ☆ a. s. eevamEDrr muntimc office
Here is a facsimile of the application for War Ration Bock No. 1 which
will be filled out for every person in Kermit and Winkler County during
the National Registration Period, May 4, 5, 6, and 7. Registration of in-
dividuals and members of
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Si (■) If the person named above IS a member of a Family Unit, state the following:
Both Coaches Here
Apply For Posts
In Navy Program
Kermit High School will lose
its athletic coaches if the Naval ,j 30 or so known commercial and in-
Reserve commission applications of
A. E. “Bull” Kctrola and J. R.
1‘Ootto^” Kimbrifsl are accepted.
The two, along with Moon Mar-
tin of Kermit, applied Monday in
Dallas for ensigns’ commissions in
the Naval Reserve. If the commis-
sions are granted, the three would
be in charge of physical training
for naval aviation cadets.
Hundreds of coaches in various
United States schools have gone uno
,-evice in the Navy’s physical train-
ing program.
Kotrola, Kimbrel and Martin
all passed the physical examinations
and had the ether necessary re-
quirements, but whether they would
be accepted for service was proble-
matical, since the branch of the
service was almost filled, and there
were many applications on file.
The three men were accompanied
on the trip by Hub Bryan cf Ker-
mit, who visited relatives near Dal-
las.
Another Kermit 'coach, Elviu
“Buck” Howell, already has joined
the Naval Reserve Howell has
coached junior high schcol teams
here with marked success.
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helpers m the elementary schools. All members of family units may be
registered by any one member .ever 18 years old. One of the applications
mu~t be filled out for each member -f the family and each individual,
families will .be by school teachers and their and each will be issued a Whr Ration Book.
Wink May Request Sugar Registration Is Set For
Commercial Users Tuesday
Sugar registration for commercial users) in the area covered by and
adjacent to the Kermit Independent School District will be next Tuesday
in the High School auditorium.
School Supt. B. F. Meek, in charge of the rationing registration pro-
gram, announced the folkwing schedule for commercial registration:
(This space reserved for later entries by Local Board or Applicant)
The undersigned hereby certifies to the Office of Price Administration that he
received the following War Ration Books on the dates indicated below or on the back
hereof, and that with each receipt he reaffirms the truth of the statements in the
foregoing application.
Date Book No.
iSSr NAME
[ oa'p.'orSoi'Nol* ftSBrr'oR'iLra' cffYORTOWN "
stitutional users of sugar in the area
covered. Registration will be done
by Miss Emma Kosarek, C. A. Bar-
ham and J. C. Wilson under direc-
tion cf G. E. Thompson. Those who
have not received forms should get
them from Thompson.
Private consumers of sugar will
not register until Monday, May 4,
when registration will be in the
schcol gymnasium. School will be
out that day. Schedule for private
registration was given in last week’s
issue of the News, and will be re-
peated next week.
Sugar sales will end Monday until
May 4, when those who are given
rationing books may begin to use
them. Those who have six pounds
or more of sugar for 'each member
of the family May 4 will not receive *
Men who register will be required
later to fill out an occupational
questionnaire concerning their civ-
ilian qualifications and skills.
Veterans of World War No.
bearing banners, will highlight the
April 27 Selective Service registra-
tion in Kermit Monday when Amer-
ican Legion Post members will
march in a body from the Legicn
Hall to the Courthouse to register.
The march will begin at 6 p. m.
Registration will begin at 7 a.m.in
the County Rationing Board office
qn the first floor of the Coux’thouse
and continue to 9 p. m. Those to be
registered include every male citizen
and alien in the county other than
those excepted by the Selective
Training and service Act of 1940 as
amended, who had attained their
45th birthdays on or before Feb. 16,
and who will not have attaned their
65th birthdays before April 27.
TWO TO ESCAPE
Only two members of the local
Legion post, Maury Alberts and Joe
Boudreaux, will escape the registra-
tion, because of age. Both regis*
tered in the 35-45 group.
Because the registraton Monday
is not designed to select men for
military service, there will be no
national lottery and sending of
questionnaires as after the other re-
gistrations. It has been said that
I the Monday registration is only to
learn the extent of the labor pool
from which the government may
draw if the labor shortage grows
.yrs. Sex (Male
U [Female
Makes Sweeping Moves
White Is Installed I
As Water Head; I
Guards Discharged I
Clyde, White, chief of the Kermit I
Volunteer Fire Department, was ap-
pointed Kermit city water super-
intendent this week by the new
City Commission, which apparently
was trying to play the part of a new I
broom and sweep clean.
White takes the place of H. P.
McIntire, who resign?.! on request.
Other moves by Mayor Frank
Lawlis and Commissioners Hugh
Moore and O. C. Mays included:
1. Discharging the. two night I
watchmen at the city- water
works as soon as protective meas-
ures can be taken there to insure I
against deliberate Contamination I
of the water. The watchmen, W.
S. Underwood and W. H. Holland, I
have been serving at $2.50 a night
each since after Pearl Harbor was I
bombed. The approximately $150
a month has been paid from the
Water and Sewer fund. |
2. Ordering a complete audit of
the city tax rolls, and paving pro*
ject accounts to determine exactly
how much is owed the city. H. Wes- I
ton. auditor with Sproles-Woodard I
of Midland, completed the audit |
Wednesday.
TO FIX HALL
3. Arranging for refurnishing of
the City Hall, which has a sagging |
foundation and other defects. The I
job is estimated to cost over $100. I
The building, owned by Elliott and I
Waldron Abstract Co., has been used
by the city for four years, since in- I
corporation.
4. Discontinuing city payment of |
mayor’s and commissioners’ private
telephone charges. The city sec-
retary, Fred Pearson, will have a
telephone installed and operated at
city expense so as to be on call at
all times. White aready has a tele-
phone at city expense in his capacity
as fire chief.
The Commission took no action
on oft-repeated proposals that the I
mayor and commissioners cut their ...
salaries of $50 a month each to a .’;
certain amount, probably $3 or $5, .. . I
per meeting. -
McIntire resigned effectively May'
1, and White was hired effective
Tuesday at half pay until May 1.
He will learn the setup from Mc-
Intire before that date.
TRIO DETERMINED
The new Commission members
appeared determined to- straighten
out the city’s affairs, regardless of
politics.
The new audit of the paving pro-
ject will enable the Commission for
the first time to get an accurate
picture of what the city can expect
to collect as against what it owes.
Pearson was setting up a set of
books to keep a complete check in
the : future on tax collections and
expectancies, paving payments and
delinquencies, and other important
factors in city government.
When the Commissioners get a
picture, of the situation, they plan
to go to the banks where- the city
has $6000 due May 1 and talk over
refunding or extension of - the. notes,
i The City Hall improvement pro-
ject is to include laying new inlaid
linoleum, painting inside and out,
and putting a new -foundation of
some sort on one side of the build-
ing. rit. . W
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Men vs. Women-^M
Program Is Set
For Tuesday Night
Men again will be lined up against
women next Tuesday night in the
high school auditorium in Kermit
when the W. S. S. C. of the Com-
munity Church will pit- its wittiest
members against five Lions Club
members who presumably will be
full of knowledge and wisdom.
The occasion will be a second
“Battle of Wits” program which will
be in the nature of a quiz contest.
Members of the clubs are to meet
at 3 p. m. Friday to work out final
details.
Men selected include G. C. Olsen,
Steve Neely, B. F. Meek, Rev. C. C.
Elrod and H. G. Vermillion. Women
contestants have not been chosen
yet.
Also on the program will be a
“Tiny Tots Style Show” v ..ch will
feature fashions by youngsters not
yet in school.
Flowers that bloom in the spring
are . blooming all over West Texas
and if the weather just manages to
stay reasonable, the area should
have another good year.
With ranch and farm prices away
up there, the agriculturists of all
kinds should make a killing this
year, barring unexpected events
such as drouths and floods.
West Texas did all right last year.
Twelve of the first 15 counties in the
state in volume cf cotton ginned
were in West Texas, with Lubbock
County first with 85,104; Lynn se-
cond with 665,901; Jones third with
61,148; Nueces (down Corpus Christi
way) fourth with 57,922; Dawson
fifth with 55,6656; El Paso sixth with
52,933; Crosby seventh with 50,251;
Lamb eighth with 49,181; Ellis (Cen-
tral Texas) ninth with 47,791; Has-
kell tenth with 47,733; Hall eleventh
with 47,441; Runnels twelfth with
46,495; Howard thirteenth with 46,-
223; Hockley fourteenth with 41,749,
and Collins (northeast Texas) fif-
teenth with 41,041.
For those who didn’t know, the
county seats of the counties above
are: Lubbock, Lubbock; Lynn, Ta-
hoka; Jones, Anson; Nueces, Corpus
Christi; Dawson, Lamesa; El Paso,
El Paso; Crosby, Crosbyton, Lamb,
Olton; Ellis, Waxahachie; Haskell,
Haskell; Hall, Memphis; Runnels,
Balhnger; Howard, Big Spring;
Hockley, Levelland, and Collin, Mc-
Kinney.
12:30 p.
drive-ins, taverns.
2 p. m -4:15 p. m.—Cafes, coffee
shops, boarding houses.,., 7
4:15 p. m.-6 p. m'.—Hospitals,
school cafetelTas,. county jail, all
others net included above.
Mimeographed sheets and forms
were mailed out this week to the
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Who Says Lions Can’t Sing?
Kermiteers To Give Example
Glen Johnson, College of Mines at
El Paso band director who is holding
a band clinic at Kermit High School
went to the Kermit Lions Club
Thursday apparently poised to give
a speech on why service clubs should
sing better, but had to revise his
talk a bit in the light of events. -
The Lions sang lustily as usual,
and after the program a letter was
read from H. C. Pender, Lions’ dis-
trict governor, asking the local club
to go in a body to the district con-
vention in Odessa May 17-18-19 and
give a demonstration of club ring-
ing.
Johnson, who directs singing for
the Rotary Club in El Paso, said he
wished his club showed the song en-
thusiasm of the Kermit Lions. “The
attitude of my club seems to be,
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United Statea Goremment, for the iaauanee to the person wboee name, addrem, and
deecription are eet forth above, of .War Ration Book One and all TWar®ktion Booke
hereafter iMued for which the peraon named above becomes eligible under Rationing
Regulations. I hereby certify that I have authority to make this application on
behalf of the person named above, that no other application for a War Ration Book
has been made by or on behalf of each person, and that the statements made above are
true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
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