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Friday, April 10,1942
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Folsom Is Elected
Red Cross Head
In Winkler County
4'H Club Members
Are Sent Appeal
To Help In Victory
Kermit High Track
Team Will Compete
In Midland Meet
Defense Guard Unit
Scrap Metals Drive
Started In Kermit
Waddell Is Elected
To School Board
For Precinct Three
Range Conservation
Checks Are Received
Raines’ Father
Passes In Stamford
MILDRED CALLAWAY
MAKES DALLAS TRIP
Mary Louise and Bill Cooper, both
students at Texas Tech in Lubbock,
visited their parents Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Cooper over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Gulley and
family visited friends and relatives
in Ballinger last week.
Jim Russell, who is attending Col-
lege of Mines in El Paso, visited in
Kermit over the Easter holidays.
Betty Fitzpatrick, who is attend-
ing Texas Tech, visited in Kermit
last week end.
Rev. C. T. Aly is attending the
Baptist State Sunday School Con-
vention at Houston this week. Mr.
Aly left Monday night and will re-
turn sometime before Sunday.
H. H. Lee had charge of the ser-
vices Wednesday night.
REV. ALY ATTENDS
BAPTIST CONVENTION
HUBERT BAYLESS TAKES
AIR CORPS TRAINING
persons sup-
the Waddell
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Reports Say Dozen
Or So Laid Off
By Magnolia Here
Mollie Smith, student at Abilene
Christian College, visited her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Smith
and family, during
She returned to school Monday.
JTheWinkler County News
Volume 6; Number 4 Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
Kermit And Nation
Saddened As Bataan
Peninsula Captured
Reports of the fall of Bataan
Peninsula on the Philippines sad-
dened Kermit residents Thursday,
although as far as was known there
were no Kermit youths With the U.
S. armed forces on the peninsula.
Several Wink youths were there,
however, and a large number of
Texas and New Mexico soldiers were
serving with various units. The
New Mexico National Guard 202nd
Coast Artillery, an anti-aircraft
regiment, was one of the gallant
groups that helped stave off the
Japanese thrusts over four months.
Hearing Held Here
On Gas System
Residents of the northern part of
Kermit Thursday protested in a
Railroad Commission hearing here
argainst the Illinois Oil Company’s
petition to discontinue its gas dis-
tribution system in that area.
Attorneys representing those who
purchased the interests of the bank-
rupt firm said the gas system was
not a paying business, and proposed
that the lines should be taken up
and sold for scrap. Those who axe
served by the system said they could
not obtain gas service if the lines
are taken up.
Report of the hearing will be sent
to the Railroad. Commission in Aus-
tin for action.
Games Tournament
Scheduled In Gym
Junior Class of Kermit High
School will sponsor a game tourna-
ment in the Gymnasium at 8:30 p.
m. Friday.
Contract and auction bridge and
42 will be played. Prizes will be
given for high scores, and free re-
freshments will be served. The pub-
lic has been invited to attend.
‘Farmers’ Of County
Subject Of Story;
Anyone Seen Any?
Winkler County “farmers” can
help the war effort by helping pre-
vent spoilage and damage to fruits
and vegetables raised and shipped
in the county, according to a news
story received this week from an
uniformed Florida source.
(Editor’s note: There is not a
farm in Winkler County. Evident-
ly census figures that grouped
ranchers with farmers inspired the
mistake.)
“Winkler County’s 22 farm family
workers will find their job increas-
ing production made more difficult
because of the shinkage of farm
labor supply, rising farm wages and
limited availability of farm mach-
inery and supplies,” the report said.
“The latest census counted 48 reg-
ular hired hands (Editor: evidently
cowboys) in the county,” the story
went on.
Whoever wrote that
visit Winkler County.
greeted Ften-
chie Gober, former Kermit High
is taking Air
Corps training in Mississippi,
was a guest of W. Winkelman.
Hester, saying fun is fun, pro-
posed that members who throw
water or otherwise misbehave dur-
ing the business period be fined $1,
but the motion was voted down, and
another simply barring such acti-
vities during business was adopted.
the wet snow.
Several inches of snow fell over
most of southeastern New Mexico.
Winkler County ranchers were
jubilant over the ‘ moisture, which
came after over four months of
dry Weather. Weeds and grass had
started growing, but needed moist-
ure badly.
If the rains follow last year’s pat-
tern as they started cut to, West
Texas and Winkler County will have
another wet summer.
Another style show and quiz
battle of the sexes will be held in
Kermit Tuesday, April 28—but this
time the style show will be by
children and the quiz contest will
be between men of the Lions Club
and women of the Women’s Society
for Christion Sevice of the Com-
munity Church.
Tommy Thompson will be master
of ceremonies in the quiz contest.
Success of the contest sponsored by
the Book Review Club recently led
to a second showing, but sponsors
believe that kinks which showed up
in the first contest could be ironed
out for this one.
Active campaign for gathering
scrap metals by Company D cf the
Texas Defense Guard, the Kermit
company, has been started, and
those who have any kind of scrap
metals except tin cans were asked
to help the campaign.
Storage for the metal will be at
the Acme Lumber Company. Those
who wish can take the metal to the
storage place, or if this is imprac-
tical, members of the Defense
Guard will pick up the metal if
the owner will call 27, the Acme
Lumber Company.
Proceeds for sale of the junk will
go to Compasy D.
It was stressed that the drive is
a purely patriotic effort to get scrap
metal, need for which has stalled
some parts of the war effort. Waste
paper still is being collected by Boy
Scouts, and no word has been re-
ceived on collecting scrap rubber, it
was said.
Metal of all shapes and sizes,
barring tin cans, will be accepted
for the drive.
Miss Mildred Callaway, local AAA
secretary, and Miss Sybil Simpson,
Monahans AAA secretary, are to
leave for Dallas Friday for a week-
end trip. On the trip home they
will step in San Angelo to visit Miss
Callaway’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. Callaway.
Hubert M. Bayless of Kermit
one of a group of aviation cadets
receiving basic flying training at
Minter Held, Calif., according to
information sent The Winkler
■County News.
Bayless, Wink High School grad-
uate, recently joined the Army Air
Corps.
Lawlis, Moore, Mays Elected;
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It may be that I should have tak-
en a stand in the recent mayor’s
race, after having promised to take
stands when I first came to Ker-
mit.
But, frankly, I had a sort of a
hard time making up my own
mind how to vote, and in such a
frame of mind I’m not one to go
around advising ethers how they
they should vote. In a news story
I tried to boil down the things each
candidate stood for, and let it go
at that.
Salmon Will Speak
On Imperial Program
Justice of the Peace J. B. Sal-
mon will appear on the program of
the Workers Conference at a meet-
ing of the Pecos Valley Baptist As-
sociation which will be held in Im-
perial April 14.
Judge Salmon will speak on “Loy-
alty to the Pastor”, and W. E. Now-
ell, former resident of Kermit, will
give the devotional.
At 3 p. m. ground breaking cere-
the holidays. [ mony for the erection of a new
church at Imperial will be held.
’Wilson Loses, 210-138;
New Officials Pledge
Harmony In Actions
Kermit voters Tuesday insured a brand new crop of faces in city of-
fices by electing Frank Lawlis, drug store operator, mayor and Hugh'
Moore, bakery owner, and O. C. Mays, service station owner, commis-
sioners.
Lawlis defeated Mayor W. H. Wilson 210 to 138. In the commissioners’
race, Moore drew 196 votes, Mays 194, W. A. Clark 167, and Horner “Beck”
----------------------Crowley 93.
The voting split ticket lines. Wil-
son, Mays and Clark ran on a
ticket; the others ran independent-
ly. Votes totaled 350, more than had
been expected.
The new officials will take office
next Thursday night at a meeting
with the former officials. It appear-
ed unlikely, however, that Commis-
sioner T. H. Herrin will be present,
since he has moved to Mathis, 36
miles northWest of Corpus Christi.
Although Commissioner Dick Madi-
son now lives in Lenorah, north of
Big Spring, he said he would be
here for the session.
NEW GROUP MEETS
Lawlis, Moore and
Wednesday morning
Office with Mayor Wilson
■Commissioner Madison, and
Funeral services were held Wed-
nesday afternoon for J. E. Raines,
66, cotton man and merchant at
Stamford 37 years, who dropped
dead Monday.
Mr. Raines is the father of
Johnny Raines of this city, who left
Kermit for Stamford to work short-
ly before a telegram arrived telling
of his father’s death.
Burial was at Albany where Mr.
Raines lived before going to Stam-
ford.
Buck Howell Takes
Navy Physical
Training Position
Elvin (Buck)
education teacher of the
Plabcon School, will leave April 20
for Norfolk, Va., where he will
spend six weeks training to become
a chief specialist in the Physical
Training Division of the United
States Navy.
After his six weeks training is
up, Howell Will be stationed at some
Navy Base. He volunteered some
time ago and has just recently re-
ceived his orders.
Mrs. Howell will remain in Ker-
mit for the present, but will join
her husband when he has been
stationed.
J. M. Waddell last Saturday was
elected to the Winkler County
School Board from Precinct 3 in an
election that pitted him against C.
L. Austin. The vote was 29 to 22.
The contest was featured by ar-
guments from some
porting Austin that
School District No. 4 should be in-
corporated into the Kermit Inde-
pendent School District.
In Precinct 4, Don Tracy, run-
ning without opposition, was elect-
ed with 50 votes to o»e for Hal Hes-
ter—<a write-in vote.
In the Kermit Independent
School District election, Walter
Fiensy, with 65 votes, and Russell
Lilly, with 63, were re-elected to
the board of trustees in an unop-
posed election. There were no write-
in votes.
Howell, physical
Kermit
All eight of the Winkler County
4-H Club calves shown in the Wink-
ler County Livestock Show last week
will be shown and auctioned off
at the Pecos Valley Livestock Show
in Monahans this week-end, County
Agent Lee Pool, in charge of
show’s 4-H Club division, said.
Judging of the club calves
be at 10 a. m. Friday, and sale will
be at 2 p. m Saturday.
Jack Reeves’ Winkler County
champion calf, Wimpy, which took
eighth place in the large Odessa
show last week, stands a good
chance of winning first in the
Monahans contest, experts agree, al-
though it will be up against cider,
larger, fatter calves.
Pool urged local merchants to go
to Monahans and bid for the Wink-
ler County calves to make a good
showing for the county. In the past,
Kermit merchants consistently have
paid well over the market for home-
grown calves in the show auctions.
Pink Mitchell of Kermit is in
charge of the Monahans show’s
registered Hereford division. Here-
ford judging will be at 1 p. m. Fri-
day, and sale of registered Here-
ford bulls will be at 4 p. m. Sat-
urday.
Range conservation checks for
work done by Winkler County
ranchers under the. AAA program
were received recently by the local
AAA office, said Miss Mildred Cal-
laway, secretary.
The seven checks totalled $3221.31
said Miss Callaway. They were for
Winkler County only—no checks
were received for Loving County,
which also is under the Kermit of-
fice. Miss Callaway said more
checks are expected shortly.
Maybe it’s sort of silly, but fre-
quently in various places I see out-
lines that remind me of the map of
Texas.
Now, Texas has a shape that can-
not be mistaken. The Panhandle
sticks up; the far southern tip
curves down and toward the Equa-
tor; the far western tip heads for
the Pacific. So in a way it is strange
to me that in scraps of paper ly-
ing around on the floor; in water
discolorations on ceilings; in blot-
ches and spots and marks of vari-
ous kinds I see a rough relation to
that awkward, queerly balanced yet
almost symetrical shape that is
Texas.
Bom in Texas, raised in Texas
having spent all my life except for
a few years in Arkansas, New Mex-
ico and Arizona, in Texas, maybe I
have a phobia.
G. I. Brown Improves
Following Operation
G. I. Brown, Kermit Magnolia
gasoline plant foreman who was
critically injured last week when
his motorcycle overturned near
Wink, was improving slowly Thurs-
day, and seemed to be on the way
to recovery.
Brown was not conscious, but ap-
peared to be on the verge of re-
gaining consciousness. He could
swallow, and answer to his name.
Dr. c. C. Nash of Dallas, brain
specialist, operated on Brown Sun-
day and removed a blood clot from
his brain.
rain and lots of it. Those who have
lived here many -years tell of the
long periods when there was prac-
tically no rain, and we may be
starting one.
But it’s unlikely. A cycle such as
the wet one of the last two or three
years usually “tapers off slowly.
Caused by sunspots, or whatever
causes wet cycles, it swell up to a
crescendo—and that was reached
last year—and then recedes slowly.
Winkler County home gardeners
and landscape architects have been
busy these hot days, and showers
are what they need. April showers
bring May flowers, and also June
com and July tomatoes.
This is written Monday, so by the
time it comes out Friday it prob-
ably will have cloudbursted, just to
make me look silly. But I don’t
care.
Monahans Show
To Draw 8 Winkler
4-H Club Calves
Lions To Sponsor
Dramatic Program
In Kermit Soon
Kermit Lions Thursday decided to
put on a dramatic presentation of
some kind, and Hal Hester, A. A.
Hoover and Maury Alberts
named to work out details.
The organization
Kermit people should have • a
daily newspaper. I have heard this
from all sides since I came here,
and I agree fully. There is m(ore
news happening here than in any
town twice its size I’ve ever been
arcund. A daily paper would have
no trouble getting itself filled with
news.
And it would fill a public need,
too. The recent layoffs, for in-
stance, have caused the utmost con-
fusion, and rumors of various kinds
start and spread after any kind of
happening in such a news-con-
scious town as this.
The only trouble, of course, is that
a daily newspaper has to have lots
of revenue to keep going—has to
have a large subscription list, and
plenty of advertising. There just
isn’t enough of Kermit.
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Rain, Hail, Snow Break Drouth
For the second year in a row,
Easter week brought to Winkler
County torrential rains,: with a
freak April snowstorm Wednesday
and three hailstorms Tuesday added
this week for good measure.
The snow late Wednesday fell for
over three hours. Most of it, how-
ever, melted as it Hit the ground.
Trees, roofs and automobiles were
blanketed with snow as darkness
fell, but by midnight a slow rain
had begun falling, and* the snow
was vanishing.
The snow was part of a storm
that blanketed eastern New Mex-
ico: Hre Chief Clyde White, Fire
Marshall C. A. Self and Hre Sec-
retary Fred Pearson of Kermit
started for Hobbs Wednesday at
5:30 p. m. to study results of the
disastrous blaze Monday that des-
troyed the $87,000 Hobbs High
School building, and had to turn
back north of Jal when windshield
wipers proved ineffective against
Mays met
in the City
and
were
rather shocked, they said later, by
the condition of the city’s finances
as shown by the hasty survey.
“The first thing we’re going to
have to do is try to straighten out
finances,” said I.'wlis. “We will
just have to let problems go
for a time anjway."
The survey shower’ a city debt,
including paving ind . t .dness in-
curred against the city’s credit, of
around $13,000, said A core.
The three newly tlcted officials
agreed that althorxh '•hey had been
elected indpendently, -they would
work together and r .t let any dif-
ferences of opinion in their meet-
ings become personal.
LEAVE AS FRIENDS
“When we’re in the City Office
we’re going to be a mayoi and two
commissioners,” said Lawlis. “When
we go out the door, we’re friends.”
The trio discussed action toward
lowering the city water rate, hiring
of a night watchman, and other
matters, but said definite conclu-
sions on these matters would not
be made until they take office.
The first thing they must do, all
agreed is to seek a method for col-
lecting back taxes and paving as-
sessments.
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Work Will Begin
On Wink Airport
During Next Week
Work on the $364,733 CAA air-
port at Wink is scheduled to begin
next week, probably Tuesday, Mayor
• Lester Prater of Wink said this
week after talking with CAA Air-
port Engineer J. D. Church.
Prater said Wink officials
’ authorized the CAA to work out
! with the University of Texas details
for leasing the additional land nec-
essary to enlarge the present air-
port. Wink will have to pay for the
lease, under terms of its sponsor-
ship of the CAA project.
Some Wink residents were hope-
ful that when the project is under-
way or after it is finished, the gov-
ernment will step in and establish
an Army flying school there such
as have been located at Midland,
Pecos, Hobbs, Roswell, Carlsbad,
and two at Lubbock. It was recalled
that the Midland project started out
as a CAA airport and was changed
over to a flying school when work
had started.
Twelve Kermit High School ath-
letes will take part is the district
track and field meet in Midland
Saturday, Coach Cotten Kimbriel
said this week.
The Yellow Jackets took part in
a triangular meet with Wink and
Monahans in Monahans last Sat-
urday, and came up third by a scan-
ty margin. Wink won with 55
points, Monahans Was second with
43, and Kermit third with 38. Ker-
mit did well in the track events,
but faltered in the field competi-
tion.
Bob Neely won the broad jump
with 19 feet 2 3-4 inches against
a stiff wind, and Blossom Watson
took the high hurdles event in 16d.
DOZEN TOWNS ENTERED
In the Midland event will be en-
tered over a dozen West Texas
towns, including Kermit, Wink,
Monahans, Courtney, Stanton, Mid-
land, Odessa, Andrews, Seagraves,
Seminole, Big Lake, Rankin, and
Crane.
Kermit entries will include Wat-
son in the high and low hurdles
and mile relay; Neely is the 100,
220, 440 and broad jump; Paul
Price in the 880, shot put, sprint
relay and mile relay; Rex Hester
in the 440, sprint and mile
relays; Weldon Funderburk in the
low hurdles and sprint relay; Jun-
ior McKee in the low and high
hurdles and sprint relay; S. E.
Warnick in the pole vault and high
jump; Buddy Johnson in the mile;
run; Jack Price in the 100 and
sprint relay; Elmer Six in the 880;
Rufus Schofield in the discus and
Bobby Kennedy in the 220,
and sprint relays.
A. T. Folsom of Wink was elect-
ed Winkler County Red Cross
Chapter chairman at a meeting
last Friday, O. O. Whitten of Wink
nras named vice-chairman, and
Eddie Mae Mosley was re-elected
secretary-treasurer.
Folsom succeeded County Judge
G. E. Gilliam, who resigned. Com-
mittee chairman and others ap-
pointed:
Home Service M. H. Alberts of
Kermit and Deane A. Blakeney of
Wink.
Home and Farm Accident Pre-
vention Lea R. Pcol of Kermit.
First Aid on Highway (State
Highway Patrol).
First Aid E. M. Crutcher of Ker-
mit.
Life Saving Wilson Lott of Wink
and Frank Harlan of Kermit.
Volunteer Service, Mrs. Jack Nel-
son of Kermit and Mrs. E.
Vaughn of Wink.
Civilian Relief S. M. Halley
Kermit.
Junior Red Cross, Mrs. C.
Laughlin of Wink and Miss Luana
Sunderman of Kermit.
Public Information, Fred Pearson
of Kermit and Mrs. P. W. Harvey
of Wink.
Home Hygiene Miss Frances Pat-
ton of Kermit.
Nursing Activities
Kennedy of Wink.
Nutrition Miss Thelma Abbey of
Wink and Miss Mildred Shafer of
Kermit.
Disaster F. E. Summers of Kermit
and G. C. Olsen of Kermit.
Case Committee Mrs. Elizabeth
Best of Wink.
Production Chairman Mrs. J. M.
Hahn of Kermit and Mrs. Gehr of
Wink.
Roll Call Chairmen Melvin Dow
of- Wink and H. G. Vermillion of
Kermit.
Executive Committex: Lane New-
bert, B. F. Meek, Mfs. Seth Camp-
bell, J. B. Walton, G. C. Olsen, Dr.
E. G. Roberts, Paul Jette, Sr.
Quiz Contest, Kid Style Show
Scheduled In Kermit, April 28
The public was asked to leave
quiz questions at any of the three
drug stores.
The style contest, styled “The
Tiny Tots Fashion Parade” will be
open to all pre-school children,
boys and girls. Clothing may be
made or bought. Those who wish
information may see Mrs. W. H.
McClure or Mrs. F. M. Neely.
The show and contest will be held
in the high school auditorium.
Adults and children’s tickets will be
sold. Proceeds will benefit the two
sponsoring organizations, Lions and
W. S. C. S.
Despite wide-spread rumors to the
contrary, only ten or a dozen Mag-
solia Petroleum Company employes
in Kermit were laid off last week
in a move that caused gloomy talk
among many Kermit residents, it
was authoritatively reported this
week.
Whether more layoffs were com-
ing was speculative. Ray Kilchen-
stein, Magnolia superintendent here,
was in Dallas Thursday.
Equally misleading rumors were
spread that Cabot Carbon Company
was to build another plant of some
kind near its present Kermit gaso-
line plant. Supt. F. M. Neely said
the only possible basis for such a
rumor that he knew of was the
present work on a natural gas car-
rier line to the plant from the
southwest.
Rumors had 30 Magnolia
ployes being laid off. It was
lieved, however, that this number
were laid off in this district, in-
eluding several counties. Magnolia
officials described the layoff situa-
tion as “tight”, meaning they could
not discuss it freely.
The following message to Texas
4-H Club boys was sent by L. L.
Johnsen, state club agent of the
Texas Extension Service and state
leader of 4-H Club boys:
“During 4-H Club Week, April 5
to 11, attention is being called to
the work you as 4-H Club members
are putting forth in our country’s
cause. New as never before you
should strive to live up to your
motto, “To Make the Best Better.”
Your pledge that has to do with
the head, hand, heart and health
should have a deeper meaning than
ever before.
“On every hand we hear of our
soldiers on the far flung front—in
Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, the
Philippines and on the seven seas—
many of them former 4-H Club
members. Many men have lost their
lives. Many more thousands before
this world-wide struggle is over.
May Gcd in His wisdom give us
strength and courage to carry on
until Victoiy is ours.
“As 4-H Club members on the
home front you should produce
more and better crops and livestock
in order to do your part to supply
ourselves and our allies with
necessities of life. May it be our
purpose to make each
meeting a n inspiring, patriotic
event.”
Lee R. Pool, Winkler county
agent, said more local interest is
being taken in 4-H Club work than
ever before. The younger boys re-
alize that they can help win this
war by producing more and better
beef, he concluded.
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