The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, February 6, 1942 Page: 1 of 6
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The Winkler County News
Volume 5; Number 47
Proposed Time Change
Creates Confusion Here
i Large Turnout
Sought For Annual
President’s Ball
Halley was being drilled. Ralph soft living.
For centuries the Eskimos, as an
extreme example, lived on the scant
food they could find around them,
mostly uncooked fish and seal, and
used the bones and fur and skins of
those animals fcr almost every per-
sonal need. Almost without metals,
and with little wood in their bliz-
zard-swept Artic, they nevertheless
lived, ate, slept, loved, had children
and doubtless were as “happy” as
we are.
Somehow, Americans are going to
have to go through some very tough
days in the next year or so, and all
because we have had so much.
To the rest of the world, any com-
plaint on our part probably sounds
like the wails of a spoiled child for
the lollypcps he has been accustom-
ed to. Wo have had so many lux-
uries, even the poorest of us, that
a subsisteifeb level to us is some-
thing that a Chinese of the lower
classes would deem the height of
WILLIAMS IS CALLED
TO UNCLE’S FUNERAL
A. C. Williams, Kermit grocer,
was called Thursday night, Jan. 29,
to Eastland by the death of his
uncle, Wyatt Williams. He Went to
Fort Clark, Texas, and took his
brother, Burl Williams, to Eastland
for the funeral. After transacting
business in Fort Worth, Williams re-
turned to Kermit Tuesday.
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United States this year.
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Crackup Injures
Kermit Mother
Kermit’s bicycle fad claimed
second casualty in two weeks Wed-
nesday afternoon When Mrs. G. R.
Roark, 44, fell from her son’s bicycle
on which she was practicing in the
back yard of her' home and broke
her ankle.
Mrs. Roark, mother of Arky, Bar-
ney and Wayne Roark, at one time
was an expert cyclist, and said she
was practicing to polish up her for-
mer skill, in view of the increased
use of bicycles during war times.
She was confined to a local hos-
pital Thursday, where doctors said
she was resting Well.
Winkler County’s belated Presi-
dent’s Ball, to be htid in the Wink
High School Gym av 9 p. m. Satur-
day, stirred up no great enthusiasm
in the county this week, but spon-
sors were hopeful that a good turn-
out would raise, a substantial sum
for fighting infantile paralysis.
Meanwhile, the March of Dimes
was carried on in Kermit under
chairmanship of Mrs. Ed Birtciel,
who announced that collection box-
es for raising funds will be placed
in local churches Sunday.
Richard Goodner and his Orch-
estra of Jal will play for the Wink
dance, which will be the first in
the Wink gymnasium for a number
of years. Admission charge will be
$1.50 per couple.
Exceptional efforts were made to
carry the President’s Birthday Ball
the
Christmas-time mailing in Dec-
ember sene postal receipts in 41
Texas cities 55.4 per cent above their
1940 mark, according to tabulations ■
of the University of Texas Bureau
of Business Research.
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Wharton To Run
For Re-election
As Commissioner
W. K. (Dirty) Wharton, commis-
sioner of Precinct 1 of Winkler
County, this week announced he
would be a candidate for re-election.
Wharton, serving his first term cn
the Commissioners Court, said he
would campaign on his record as a
member of the court.
"I want to thank those who sup-
ported me so generously in the last
election,’ he said, “and to extend to
all my friends an invitation to sup-
port me in this election.’’
Wharton said he would make an
active campaign, and would see
everyone in his precinct before the
Democratic primary July 25.
Service Stations
Will Close Earlier
Kermit service stations will open
at 7 a. m. and close at 8 p. m. under
an agreement reached Thursday.
Formerly, no set closing time had
been set and at least two stations
stayed open all night.
However, operators said that de-
creased revenues and increased
operating costs had forced the cur-
tailment of service.
Sunday, the stations will remain
open only until 1 p. m.
Supervisors of WPA lunch room
projects from Texas, Oklahoma,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisana and
Arkansas recently took a five-day
short course in school lunch man-
agement at the University of Texa^
They worked under supervision^^
Miss Anna W. Janzen, directoijft
the University cafeterias.
ALTHOUGH Britain is still hard at work perfecting her defenses
against the oft-postponed German invasion, several divisions of her
armed forces are already busy practicing an invasion technique of
their own. These two drenched soldiers are pulling themselves out
of the water swimming ashore from their transport with all
their equipment. 1’hey will have their machine set up and firing a few
leconds after they reach dry ground. . ________ .......
Friday, February fj, 1942
Tire Theft Arrest
Made Involving
Kermit Casing v
First tire thievery arr'est involv-
ing Winkler 'County since tires be-
came a precious item came this
week when Artesia, N. M. officers
seized a Kermit youth, Jerry Pol-
lard, who was charged with steal-
ing a tire from Claude
New Registration
Here February 16
To Enroll Many
Several hundred men in Winkler
County who did not sign up in the
first two Selective Servict registra-
tions are expected to register in the
third nation-wide draft enrollment
Feb. 16, a week from Monday, local
Draft Board officials said this week.
Registration will be in the Com-
missioners Courtroom in the Court-
house in Kermit, and in the sheriff’s
sub-station in Wink.
Those required to register are
men who have reached their 20th
Oil Field Worker
Hurt When Pipe
Falls From Rig
Ernie Norris, employe of the H. R.
Sindorf Drilling Company, received
serious head injuries last Sunday
when a 20-pound length of three-
inch pipe fell on him rfom the top
of a rig in which he was working.
Norris, a tool dresser, had his
head driven down so violently when
the pipe struck him that six teeth
were fractured, and had to be re-
moved later, and a gash was cut in
his chest by the impact of his chin
striking his collar bone. The pipe
cut through his felt hat and cut
a deep gash in his forehead.
After treatment in a local hos-
pital, Norris was taken to his room
in the Texhoma Hofei.
University of Texas Board of Re-
three-Weeks course between the
gents has paproved addition of a
present summer and fall terms,
making graduation possible iri two
years and eight months.
County Live Stock Show
Group To Enlarge
Board At General
Meeting Tuesday
Winkler County’s first stock show
will be sponsored in the spring by
the Kermit Chamber of Commece,
it was decided Wednesday night by
the board of directors.
Directors voted also to submit to
the general membership in a meet-
ing Tuesday night a plan under
which the board would be enlarged
to 10 members, with the election
to be held Tuesday, and a perma-
nent constitution and by laws would
be adopted.
The board now consists of six
members, and under original plana
when the organization was formed
in December, was to be enlarged to
10 after six months. Protests that
the board was not representative
enough led to the decision to
recommend enlargement.
The stock show, proposed by
County Agent Lee Pool and Pink
Mitchell, rancher, would be prim-
arily for displaying Winkler County
4-H Club calves, eight of Which are
being fed this year, but would in-
clude also displays of range cattle,
dairy cattle, poultry and possibly
hogs.
DATE, SITE NOT KNOWN I
Date and site were not decided
upon. Pool said the prizes, esti-
mated at about $150, would be raised
through sale of advertising in a
program, and possibly from other
sources. It was proposed that a
parade and band concert or' com-
petition precede opening of the
first year. The cc.inly bam was
suggested as an exposition site, if
the Commissioners Court will co-
operate.
Boys raising 4-H Club calves in
the county now are Noe Nichols,
Ray Carter, Junior Cryer, James
and Wilburn Jett, Bill Priebe, Jack
Reeves. All the calves are Herefords.
They are from the herds of Mitchell,
the Waddell Brothers, Dr. C. E. Wil-
son and Ben Jenkins.
Other 4-H members with projects
are Wesley Weatherby and Jimmie
Reeves.
Pool suggested that
stamps be given instead
prizes. He said the quality of cattle
in Winkler County is equal that of
any nearby county, and superior to
many, and that similar shows else-
where, started on a small scale, have
proved outstanding successes.
At the membership meeting Tues-
day, scheduled to be discussed are
the Winkler County airport contro-
versy and other matters of interest
to the community.
In voting on new directors, it was
agreed, only paid-up members of
the Chamber of Commerce will be
eligible to participate.
Lowe’s No. 1 Brown and Altman, a
mile and a quarter north of the
field, was near production depth.
Phil HarVey of Wink.
Sale of Defense stamps and bends
by the Kermit Post Office in Jan-
uary totaled $12,775, Mrs. Ruth
Marion, postmaster', announced, but
the total was far under the local
share cf the county’s annual quota
J. M. Hollowell
Seeks Precinct 4
Commission Post
J. M. Hollowell, Kermit laundry
operator, this week authorized The
Winkler County News to list his
name as a candidate for county
commissioner from Precinct 4.
Hollowell, who came to Winkler
County seven years ago as a team-
ing contractor, said he believed his
'experience in r'oaid construction
work would be an asset if he is
elected commissioner. He has ab-
served the work of the Commis-
sioners Court closely, he said.
Hollowell, who owns his home and
laundry property in the Underwood
Addition, started his laundry busi-
ness in 1936. He is married andwhas
three children. Hollowell said tie
will conduct an active campaign.
“I know my friends will support
me, and I expect to make many
■more friends before the primary/’
tie said.
Schools To Retain
r Present Schedule,
’or While Anyway
Whether Winkler County was to
have daylight saving time when the
national program goes into effect
Monday was a question that had not
been decided Thursday.
The school system in Kermit will
not observe the change at least for
the present,, Supt. B. F. Meek an-
nounced, because of a number' of
complexities that would be involved.
For one thing, busses would have
to begin their rounds far before
dawn if the time was moved ahead
an hour; for another, the schools’
complex clock system would have to
be changed greatly.
As a result, the time will remain
the same for school clocks, and
R students’ school schedules will move
, ahead an hour under the daylight
saving time, but actually, by sun
time, will remain as they are. School
now opens at 8:45 p. m.; lunch hour
begins at 11:45 u. m.; school is dis-
missed at 3:30 p. m. The times un-
der the daylight saving schedule will
be 9:45, 12:45 and 4:30.
CABOT TO CHANGE
Cabot Carbon Company officials
said their employes probably will
observe daylight saving time, and
will go to work an hour earlier by
sun time, but the same time as now
if their clocks are moved to the
daylight saving time schedule.
Magnolia Petroleum Company of-
fices had not received instructions
on what t& do about the time,
change.
Times for church, club, and var-
ious types of organization meetings
had not been decided; definitely un-
der the new schedule, leaders said,
With decision to wait the public re-
action to the time change.
However, Rev. C. C. Elrod, pastor
of the Community Church, and
others believed the community
would follow the schools’ lead in
keeping the foriner time schedule.
Many persons were under the im-
pression the time change is manda-
tory by law, but Congress decreed
only that federal offices set their
times one hour later in a move to
conserve electricity for war indus-
tries.
change sought
In view of the fact that the far
tip of West Texas already is an
horn or more later than sun time,
and thus in effect already has day-
light saving itme, a movement was
started to have it incorporated in
the Mountain Star'dard Time zone,
which would have the effect of
leaving the time in Winkler County
exactly where it was, but calling it
by another time—Mountain Day-
light Saving Time.
Thus far, insofar as Winkler
County is concerned, the movement
had not succeeded in lessening the
confusion.
Under the law, only mandatory
time change here would be the Post
Office. Courthouse officials had not
definitely decided on the time they
would open, observe lunch hour, and
close, and business houses were on
the spot. However, the lead of the
schools apparently was to be follow-
ed more of less generally, at least
for a time.
i Defense Bond Sales Poll Tax Total
In Kermit High,
But Under Quota
Winkler County Defense Bond
presentatives who attended a Pecos
meeting 'Thursday were told that
unless counties of the nation sell
one-fourth of their year’s quota of
bonds and stamps by March 1, a
payroll tax is sure to be imposed.
Those attending included Mrs. Ruth
Marion, Dan English and Don
Tracy of Kermit, and Lee Johnson,
county chairman, Paul Jett, and
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the pool, took a dip in the icy water.
Both expressed satisfaction, but
Lawson was somewhat dismayed
when he was pushed into the pool
after he had climbed out and was
drying himself, shivering.
'School Supt. B. F. Meek said the
pool will not be warmed and opened
for use until the bath house is com-
pleted, which will be around March
1, according to Ray Seals, local re-
presentative of the Paddock Engin-
eering Company, builders of the
pool.
The external portions of the pool
are complete, and all that remains
to be done is to complete the
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Survey of the halfway site for the
proposed Winkler County CAA air-
port was being made this week by
L. L. Wurst and J. R. Thomason,
surveyors employed by the CAA, and
no decision on result of the survey
was expected for some while.
The survey was made at the re-
quest residents at a hearing last
week by the Commissioners Court
and CAA engineers, when the CAA
engineers expressed dissatisfaction
with the halfway site because of
topographical features and the near-
ness of oil derricks.
Officials of the Kermit Chamber
of Commerce this week made sur-
veys of ownership of the objec-
tionable oil derricks, and were to
try to establish contact with the
owners to see whether their remov-
al would be feasible.
Meanwhile, it was reported that
Wink interests trying to keep the
airport at its present location were
seeking to work out a plan whereby
the City of Wink would serve as
sponsor instead of the county. Wink
had been discounted as a sponsor
because of the amount of money
that would be required for acquir-
ing land and maintaining the field.
Today the Eskimos are somewhat
more “civilized.” They have metal
tips for their spears, and even some
guns; they obtain white man’s food
and clothing from traders, when
they have anything to trade.
But we, the white men, members
of the mightiest civilization of all
time, worry and fret when we think
of the day, not so distant, when
metals for civilian use will be vir- ,
birthday on Dec. 21, 1941, or earlier, tually cut off, when we will not be
and those who will not have reach-
ed their 45th birthday by Feb. 16,
the registration day.
With lists of available selectees
growing slim in the county, the new
registration is expected to furnish
a fresh pool of Army material.
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Climbs To 1560
As period At End
Payment of poll taxes in Winkler
County, at the lowet ebb in many
year, ended late Saturday with 1560
persons eligible to vote in the coun-
ty, plus 59 who obtained exemption
certificates and a number who did
not.
No computations had been made
Thursday as to where the voting
strength lies in the county, although
estimates had been made that over
70 per cent of the poll taxes were
paid by residents in 'Precincts 1, 3
and 4. Precinct 2 includes Wink.
Two more candidates announced
for office in The Winkler
News during the week—Commis-
sioner W. K. “Dirty” Wharton of
Precinct 1, seeking re-election, and
J. M. Hollowell, Kermit laundry
operator, seeking the commissioner’s
post in Precinct 4. He opposes
Rancher Pink Mitchell, only other
candidate to announce so far for
the post nbw held by Commissioner
J. A. Slaughter.
However, it was believed certain
.Slaughter would announce later,
Whether Wharton would have op-
position was doubtful to those who
observe the political scene.
Kermit.
Sheriff Ellis Sumniers went to
Lovington, where Pollard had been
taken, Thursday and returned the
youth here to stand trial in Winkler
County Court.
Lane missed the tire from his
pickup truck two weeks ago, but
first thought he might have lost it.
The' tire was discovered in Artesia
when young Pollard was arrested.
Pollard probably will be tried in
the current term of County Court.
First Swim Taken In Kermit
Swim Pool, But Bathers Gast
First swim in the new Kermit
school system’s $31,890 swimming
pool was taken this week by Blos-
som Watson, carrot-topped Kermit
High School Senior, who dived from
the high board to retrieve a large
nail dropped into the bottom of the
pcol.
The bright white finishing cement
was laid in the pool during the four
days that ended last Sunday, and
water was pumped into the pool
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Wednesday, D. A. Lawson, man-
ager, and Bob Fletcher, clerk for
FcxWorth-Galbraith Lumber Com-
pany, which furnished supplies for
Find May Affect
Oil Development
In Winkler County
Future of oil production in Wink-
ler County may be affected by the
oil strike by the Fullerton Oil Com-
pany’s No. 1 Wilson in western An-
drews County, according to conclu-
sions by latest issue of Lockwood’s
Oil Report based on opinions of ex-
pert oil men.
The opinion is that the production
at 7215-75 feet in Lower Permian
lime, believed in the Clear Fort^
zone, has found a uniform deeper '
pay zbne for an area stretching
nearly 200 miles from north to
south, across northern Pecos Coun-
ty, through Ward, Winkler, An-
drews, Gaines, Terry and Lubbock
Counties.
The report cites the recent Mag-
nolia deep test north of Kermit as
one proof of its contention. The
test, it said, “logged sufficient shows
in the lower Permian to indicate
commercial production, but was un-
able to complete as a producer, but
nevertheless revealed import0 t pos-
sibilities for the immedate area.”
If this is true, much of the pres-
ent production area in V> inkier
County may be regarded as favor-
able for development or at least ex-
ploration from the Lower Permian,
oil men said.
find significant
As Lockwood’s pointed out: “The
significance of these developments
is x x x that this deeper pay offer's
production possibilities under all
the producing and dry structures in
the regular Permian zones, and in- I
sures the presence in the West
Texas area of large, unnatpatp m
serves, without considering pre-
Permian beds.”
The Andrews County wildcat
flowed 21 barrels in one hour, and
is considered certainly the discov-
ery well in a m^iot pool.
In Winkler County, th? Union Oil
Company of California’s No. 1 W.
C. Driver, a wildcat test eight
miles southeast of Kermit, was
abandoned at total depth of 4256
feet, and with it, apparently, leases
Were abandoned in wholesale lots
in the area. The leases depended on
development or production in the
area. The wildcat logged no shows
of gas or oil.
J. R. Sharp staked three new loca-
tions in the new Weiner field south
of Kermit and east of Wink, where
Sam Weiner’s No. 1 Sun Oil - S. M.
of $548,350.
Broken down, the annual total
would require a weekly buying total
of $10,504, While the weekly total
here in January was but $2,838.88,
or a little over a fourth of the re-
quired total. The annual quota
would require daily buying of $1502
in stamps and bonds in the county,
while Kermit’s buying in January
averaged only $473.13. Of course the
Wink total of about $1500 a week
was to be added to the Kermit
total, but still would leave the
county far under the quota.
The quota would require each re-
sident of the county to buy ap-
proximately $91 worth of bonds and
stamps each during 1942, including
all persons from babies through
adulthood.
On the basis of national popula-
tion, this individual quota would
mean a United States annual quota
of almost 13,000,000,000 (thirteen
billion dollars) in bond and stamp
sales—a quota which may be reach-
ed nationally i£ present volume
holds up.
Mrs. Marion said many persons
already had reached or neared their
maximum purchases in the smaller
series of bonds.
December building permits in
above December, 1940, levels, ac-
Texas were kicked 176 pef cent
cording to the University of Texas
Business of Research. Largest con-
tract wa for construction of a new
$14,136,000 bomber plant at Fort
Warth.
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Vermillion, Henry G. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, February 6, 1942, newspaper, February 6, 1942; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1227152/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.