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Friday, Sept. 26,1941
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
Volume 5; Number 28
New Pastor
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bond proposal made it appear cer-
Side
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Issues
BY H. G. VERMILLION
P.-T. A. Head
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on his prior con-
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We Do Our Part
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of the
Jal Man Injured
In N. M. Accident
Treated In Kermit
Paving Project
Preparations Move,
But Work Lags
Kermit High Band
Official Outfit
For Defense Guard
All this points to one thing. We
are in that period or on the
of it, when we will sacrifice
needs for national defense.
So chin up, and take it. like
little man!
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Alberts left
Wednesday for Albuquerque. They
plan to return this week end.
The American Way
(AN EDITORIAL)
County Gets More
Money From State
Than It Requests
Winkler County put in its bid for
$3500 in Texas lateral road funds
under the county road bond assump-
tion bill, and received $4659.77, of-
ficials said; Thursday.
“It’s the first time the county got
something it didn’t ask for,” said
County Judge G. E. Gilliam;
The funds were due the county
for lateral road construction because
it has no road bonds to pay off un-
der the bond assumption bill.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Hutchins
shopped in Big Spring last Wed-
nesday.
pre-
the
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“Question Box” b’ibg one
features of the school.
Such timely subjects as new cook-
ery secrets, budgeting, how to plan
meals, new recipes and household
hints, short cuts to economy, how to
market properly, new and attractive
ways to serve foods, proper kitchen
equipment and many other phases
of home-making will discussed.
We Think We’re Pretty Good—
DON’T YOU?
The Winkler County News
YOUR COUNTY SEAT NEWSPAPER
Activity Mounts
As City Prepares
For Fire Session
THIS OFFER POSITIVELY WILL NOT BE EXTENDED AND
NEVER BE RENEWED UNDER THIS OWNERSHIP. OUR SUB-
SCRIPTION RATES FROM OUT. 15 ON WILL BE $1.00 IN
WINKLER COUNTY AND $1.50 ELSEWHERE.
verge
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News Will Sponsor
Kermit Cooking School
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MRS. ARREVA D. FRENCH
Lions Will Give
Yellow Jackets
Banquet Thursday
Kermit, Lions will entertain the
Kermit High School Yellow Jacket
football squad next Thursday night
in the Lions’ meeting room of the
Bluebonnet Caf(e, High School
Principal Tommy Thompson report-
ed at the club meeting Thursday.
Thompson had been instructed to
work out details.
Members of the club each will
have one football player, coach or
manager as his guest at the ban-
quet, which is held annually.
Thompson said that efforts to ob-
tain .out of town speakers, prefer-
ably coaches of some of the col-
leges in the area, had failed, and
that an all-local program will be
put on ,as it has been in the past.
! Thompson told the Lions of the
inauguration of student self-gov-
i eminent in the high school through
a student council, and said the
' council's constitution was modeled
by the studente as closely as possible
after the Constitution of the United
States.
Students throughout are tangirt
the type of citizenship that wlB
give them practical benefits when
they become old enough to rote
themselves, hd said.
Student Body President Rex Hes-
ter was present and spoke briefly
on the self-givernment idea.
food budget—does
to be sure vour
a balanced diet
you no end of
County line and 25 miles of high-
way type of road to the Andrews
County line as one issue.
2. Call the election so the two
road proposals Will be voted on as
the matter, presumably in the separate issues.
3. Decide on the basis of the hear-
ing that the ponds will not be for
. projects that would benefit all the
taxable property in the county, and
not call an election.
i Growing opposition to the road
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Roy E. Gulley, new Church of
(jurist minister who came
to Kermit last Tuesday. Mr.
Gulley had been in Midland
three months, but formerly was
in Fort Stockton. He has work-
ed in this part of the country
for several years. Mr. Gulley
is married and has two sons,
The new minister attended both
Abilene Christian College and
Hardin-Simmons University. He
extended a cordial invitation to
all to attend the church.
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As a contribution toward sol-
dier and saidor morale. The
Winkler County News recently
offered to send its issues free
of charge to any Winkler Coun-
ty man serving in the armed
forces of the United States.
Many issues now are going out
to men in the Phillipines,
Hawaii, the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts and the great inland
concentrations of the United
States. We repeat this offer:
Turn in the name of a relative
from Winkler County serving in
the armed forces of the United
States^ and we will put him on
our subscription list.
Miss Dixie Holies plans to spend
■ the week end in LUbbock.
Now when Clyde Bone of Lock-
hart’s orders a lot of hardware items
for a sale, which he did recently, he
may get half of them, and those
not the ones he wanted badly. Un-
obtainable are laluminumware and
many metal articles not made of
aluminum.
M. H. Alberts of the Comer Ser-
vice Station, who handles automo-
bile accessories, can’t keep his stock
up. Large orders come back with
only a few items filled. And manu-
facturers won’t backlog orders—if
you want things they couldn’t sup-
ply, you have too reorder. And then
probably not get them.
Leon Speer of Speer’s Variety
Store can get dry goods, but says
the wholesale price of §ach new
order is above the retail price he
sold the last one at.
“I’m lading money that way,” he
said.
McAdoo To Have
Formal Showing ’
Of 1942 Models
McAdoo Motor Company of Wink
will present its 1942 models of
Chevrolet, Buick and Oldsmobile in
a gala showing all day Friday and
Saturday in the showrooms of the
company.
As a climax to the affair the
company will present gifts at 6 p.
m. Saturday. The Wink High School
Band will play for the occasion.
ly, with many certain to be for the
bonds, since sponsors of the peti-
tions for an election obtained 116
Signatures.
Of the signatures, County Attor-
ney H. L. Roberson ruled after a
check that 74 yere freeholders under
the terms of the law governing such
matters. Only 50 signatures were re-
quired to have the court consider
an election.
It an election is called, the issue
or issues voted on must carry by a
d
The proposal calls for building
11 miles of road from the Five-
mile Turn on the Kermit-Wink
highway straight on to the Loving
County line to meet an unpaved
road already constructed from Men-
tone to that point by Loving Coun-
ty, and building 25 miles of road
northeast to the Andrews County
line to meet a proposed road from
Andrews.
Kermit’s lineup for the Ralls
game will be Paul IJrice and
cnaries McIver, fends; W. B.
Johnsc* and Douglas Mays,
tackles; Keith Willis and Toby
Crispin, guards; Beck Allen,
center, and Junior McKee, Bob
Neely, Raymond Myers, and
Bobbie Dodson, backs.
Are you always seeking new and
tasty ways of preparing your fav- ■
orite dishes—do you need to econ-
omize on your
planning meals
family is given
sometimes eause
wonqa
These and many other pressing
f ood and home management prob-
lems will be thoroughly discussed
du: mg the Happy Kitchen Cooking
School whieh will be held here Oct.
30-31-Nov. 1. The Winkler County
News contracted with Southern
Ne- 'paper Features of Dallas,
Texas, for the school, with Mrs.
Arrevta D. French, Home Economist
and Food Authority, in charge.
Mrs. French is an outstanding
authority on foods and home man-
agement and has talked before
untold thousands of women during
the past several years. She has
made a thorough study of nutri-
tious and body-building foods—
those of high vitamin content—and
this will be highly valuable and
timely, as much stress is now being
placed on the value of proper foods.
She will give actual demonstra-
tions from the stage of the school
at each session. In addition, she will
answer any questions, the famous
Nothing like tooting your, own horn, and all that. In this issue,
broadspread over Winkler County, The Winkler County News is
showing what it has to the residents of Winkler County.
Week in and week" out, Thp Winkler County News, your County*
seat newspaper, will bring you fresh, interesting, informative
news of the happenings in Winkler County. As a good citizen
you should follow public events; as a neighbor you should know
what your neighbors are doing. , iM H
Things are going to get worse
along this line before they get bet-
ter. A recent Washington dispatch
said defense officials will force
manufacturers to reduce the number
of styles, models and types of goods
for consumers to make additional
materials and manpower available
for defense production. Instead of
having dozens of types of washing
machines, automobile tires, refri-
gerators, and so forth to choose
from, the consumer will be limited
to a few types.
A new bureau has been created
to handle the administration of the
scheme.
And L. Clare Cargile, president
of the National Automobile Dealers
Association, said in Denver that
motorists had better take care of
their automobiles, because the time
may come when cars will be ration-
ed to buyers who can show real
need for them.
Kermit High School’s Band was
designated the official band of the
First Battalion, Texas Defense
Guard, wb<': officers of the batta-
lion met in Wink Tuesday night,
Capt. B. F. Meek of Kerimt an-
nounced.
Officers set a battalion review for
Sunday, Oct 19 in Monahans.
Company D of Kermit, which
Mr. Meek commands, will receive 26
more rifles, or enough to supply all
of the company, he (said. Twenty-
six rifles already have been received,
and a number of men in the com-
pany have made dummy wooden
“rifles” for practice purposes.
The company also has received,
bayonets, belts, first-aid packets,
two gas masks for instructional
purposes, and ia small quantity of
live ammunition which will be held
for use in case of an emergency.
The company needs’ mess equip-
ment, blankets, pup tents and packs
to equip it for full field duty, Capt.
Meek said.
It also needs, small arms—.22
calibre target rifles—for indoor
practice, he said. It is planned to
equip the Kermit High School
Gymnasium for target practice dur-
ing the winter months.
This newspaper has opposed the issuance of $550,000 in Winkler
County bonds for the construction of approximately 36 miles miles of
highwiay type roads in the county leading to the Andrews County
line on the northeast and the Loving County line on the southwest.
This newspaper still opposes the issuance. With others, it feels that
the road construction is ill-advised at this time; that the project has
not been planned through sufficiently; that both roads may be “high-
ways to nowhere,” since neither Loving nor Andrews County has
made a binding promise to meet the roads with a road of anywhere
near similar excellence.
However, we in America have lived in liberty and decency and self-
respect because we grant the other side a right to be heard, and to
change our minds if they can. The hearing, on the road bond issue
in the Courthouse at 10 a. m. Tuesday is a part of the essence of
American democracy—the right to be heard, the right to take part
publicly in the government.
Regardless of which side you belijeve is right, attended that meet -
ing, and if you have something to say, get up on your two feet and
say it.
It couldn’t happen under Hitler, but it can happen hei^I
Mrs. Clyde Bone, recently
elected president of the Ker-
mit Parent-Teachers Associa-
tion. She has two children, a
son and a daughter, in the
schools here. She succeeds Mrs.
John Merrimun, wiio resigned
when sh(e moved to Amarillo.
With Kermit’s land Wink’s new
pumper fire trucks, purchased by
Winkler County at a cost of about
$15,000, due in Saturday, activity be-
gan to pick up in Kermit this week
in preparation for the Permian
Basin District Firemen’s Association
convention to be held here Saturn
day, Oct. 11.
The Kermit Volunteer Fire De-
partment announced a fire
vention poster contest for
schools, with deadline fc|r entries
set for 5 p. m. Oct. 10, the night be-
fore the convention.
High school students will com-
pete for a $5 prize, and elementary
school students for another $5 '
prize. Posters must bo turned in to
the office of the Winkler County
News by 5 p. m. Friday, Oct. 10.
Preparations were made to dec-
orate the town for the firemen.
Members of the local department
i will sell “Welcome Firemen” flags
to Kermit merchants to help defray
cost of the convention and to dress
up Kermit for the convention.
FEE TO HELP
Merchants will not be asked for
donations for the convention, since
most costs will be paid through the
$1 fireman regsitration fee that will
be collected this year for the first
time in the history of the associa-
tion. Costs of the dance to be held
in the High School Gymnasium the
night of the convention will be de-
frayed through the sale of admis-
sion tickets at $1.50 per couple to
all except firemen delegates and
their wives, who will be admitted
free.
Preparations were made to print
a special firemen’s convention edi-
tion of The Winkler County News
that will be handed to firemen as
souvenirs of the convention. The
edition also will serve too emphasize
Fire Prevention Week, during which
the convention will occur.
The local fire department will
give $65 in prizes for winners in
; the pumper races which will follow
the business session in the after-
noon of Oct. 11' After the pumper
; races, which always are entertaining
• and exciting, delegates and their
, families will haye> barbecue at the
[ County Barn, and the dance, at
. which Lucille Hedrick and her all-
girl orchestra cf A'fr.arillo will play,
will follow. ■
|Bond Hearing Set For Tuesday
Winkler County’s controversial highway type road to the Loving tain that the hearing would be live- two-thirds majority or be lost.
$550,000 bond election proposal will
come to a head at 10 a. m. Tuesday
when the County Commissioners
Court will conduct an open hearing
on i w
District Courtroom in the Court-
house.
County Judge G. E. Gilliam said
the court could dispose of the mat-
ter in three ways:
1. Call the election so the voters
can vote on building 11 miles of
M. I. Humphries of Jal, injured in
an accident last Friday north of
Jal in which a Midland oil opera-
tor was killed and another Midland
oil ma ninjured, was reported rest-
ing comfortably in a Kermit hos-
pital where he was brought for
treatment.
Humphries, reported riding in the
back seat of the automobile which
overturned on a curve during rain,
suffered a fractured neck vertabra. .
However, his spinal cord was not
injured and no doubt was expressed
as to his eventual complete recovery.
Treatment, however, will be
lengthly, requiring an initial long
stay in bed.
Killed in the crash was H. C.
(Cub) Wheeler of Midland, oil
operator, who was buried Saturday
in Midland. Wallace W. Irwin, vice
president of Culbertson and Irwin,
Inc., Midland oil firm, was injured
slightly.
The three men were reported en
route from Hobbs to Jal when the
accideht’^occurred during a misty
rain.
Mr. y^heeler had been an oil
'operator in the Permian Basin 15
years.ij He had married Eleanor
Thonias, daughter of the late Max
Thomas, Colorado City banker. His
widow survives him.
Mr. Wheeler drilled wildcat wells
all over the West Texas and south-
eastern New Mexico oil country, and
helped discover the Langlie Field
east of Jal. At the time of 'his death
he was in charge of laying a water
line from Crane County sandhills
to the Abell Oil Field near Im-
perial. .
He wasf a collector of legends
about old time oil drillers.
.
Lonnte Sibley
Of Wink Passes;
Was Wildcat Fan
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Lonnie Chester Sibley, 42, super-
intendent of the Westbrook Thomp-
son Holding Corporation and resi-
dent of Wink since 1927, died of a
heart attock at his home in the
Stanoliii^^amp near Wink shortly
before?,Wink-Hobbs football
game ^s^aturday night.
Mr. 'jSibley, one of Wink’s out-
standing/bbosters, was a strong sup-
porterWildcat team, and
his death tempered the enthusiasm
of many a Wink fan at the game.
Lee Johnson, Wink superintend-
ent, said Mr. Sibley had not missed
a Wirik'tgame in many years.
Mr. Sibley was a member of the
Masonic Lodge and of the Wink
Baptist Church. Survivors include
his widow, a son, Lonnie, Jr., and
two brothers, including Vance Sib-
.ey, former resident of Wink who
was in Wink for the funeral Mon-
day.
Services were held in the Baptist
Church there lender direction of
Rev. R. G. Brinkley, pastor. Mason’s
Funeral Home had charge of ar-
rangernehts. The body was seat
Monday’ night to Marshall, Texas
for burial.
Prominent residents of Wink and
Kermit almost all attended the ser-
vices.
Kermit merchants all are sing-
ing the same blues song these days,
and it runs something like this:
“We can’t get goods, we can’t get
stuff,
“And if we get ’em, the prices are
tough.”
National def ense, which a month
or two ago meant something far
off) and vaguely seen, has made it-
self felt in Kermit.
We were warned, but warnings
never have the impact of the real
thing.
SPECIAL OFFER
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Winkler County, and acquaint them with its policies, newsworth-
iness, and general merits, we will sell one-year subscriptions until
Oct. 15 at 50 Cents per year.
team that appeared capable of hav-
ing run up a seven or eight touch-
down score if it had wished.
Kotrola sent in a steady stream
of substitutes, and in the second
half, when Crane looked its best,
practically every player on the Ker-
mit bench saw action.
Bob Neely had little trouble gain-
ing when he really wanted to and
Bobby Dodson land Junior McKee
to run interference for him. McKee
and Raymond Myers did some slick
scooting during the game, also, and
the Kermit line stopped the Crane
(ground game cold.
CRANE SCORES FIRST
Crane scored first on a fluke that
was made possible when Hutchinson
intercepted Neely’s rush pass land
ran the ball to the Crane 46. crane
had to punt, but Neely fumbled the
ball on his own 11-yard line and
Crane recovered. Shortly, Pettit
passed to Earp for a touchdown,
but the point was missed.
McKee took Neely’s lateral on
a punt return midway of the first
quarter and apparently raced 40
yards for a touchdown, but the
play was called back when the
lateral was ruled forward. The Yel-
low Jackets soon took control of
things, and with Myers, Dodson,
McKee and Neely all figuring, the
Jackets drove 37 yards for. 'a score
that came when Ray Myers sneaked
over to begin the second quarter.
The point was missed.
The second Kermit touchdown
came in the same quarter when
Neely, in one of the finest exhibi-
tions of spot kicking ever seen on
the local field, booted a punt from
the Crane 35-yard line that rolled
dead on the two-yard line. Crane
kicked out to Neely on the Crane
40, and he returned it to the 24.
(Continued On Page Five)
The Winkler County News
Th^ fJackrabbits will outweigh the
Yellow Jackets somewhat, and
Coach Bull Kotrola h'as been
specializing during the past week
on his air attack.
“We probably can’t go through
them, so I’m hoping we can go over
them,”’ he said. “I don’t want a lot
of men banged up if I can help
it.”
PECOS IS NEXT
After the Ralls game the Yellow
Jackets will have their first open
date of a season that began Sept.
6 with Texas’ first football game of
1941, but Get. 10 will meet Pecos
in Kermit. Pecos currently is fav-
ored to take the District 7-A title.
Crane, with Tom Brightman,
tackle, ando Troy Langford, end,
who regularly play positions next to
each other, both on the injured
list, was no match for a Kermit
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Kermit To Play
Ralls Tonight
Kermit’s Yellow Jackets, after stinging a weakened Crane team
into a 25-13 defeat last Friday night, will next meet the Balls Jack-
rabbits at 8:30 p. m. Friday on W>lton Field in a game that will have
no bearing on the district race but will match two well-balanced clubs
in what should be a close contest.
i ’ Ralls last week defeated Post by a touchdown. Post previously had
___1----—-----------------3>been co-favored with Brownfield
_ in the Class A district. Previously,
Ralls lost a close hard game to Den-
ver City.
Kermit’s paving project was a
scene of much activity but no pav-
ing during the last week as the
County and City prepared for black-
topping equipment that never ar-
rived.
F. E. Horten, superintendent for
Contractor C. Hunter Strain, said
Thursday that five paving outfits
suitable for use on the project here
had been delayed from leaving other
projects in the state by frequent
rains that halted work.
However, an outfit was scheduled
to wind up work near Wichita Falls
the last of this week, and it or an-
other shoiuld be here to begin this
week end or a little later, Horton
said.
Horton and city and county of-
ficials said jokingly they were
about ready to leave town if some
sort of actual paving work does not
start.
“That’s all I hear around here,”
said Horton—“When does the pav-
ing begin?”
Horton said, however, that 18
carloads of crushed stone have ar-
rived for the paving work, and that
the project can. be sped when the
equipment arrives. The equipment
consists of 'an 8500-gaIlon asphalt
storage t<.*.k, a heating plant, 1000-
gallon asphalt distributor, drag
brooms and rollers.
Although Strain under his con-
tract with the city to pave the 37
blocks in the project agreed to for-
feit $25 a day if he did not coinplete
the project in 25 working days from
Sept 1, officials said they were
inclined to waive the penalty if he
shows he has made every possible
effort to get his equipment here but
has been prevented by circumstances
beyond his control.
“I don’t feel like taking a man’s
money for nothing,” said City Com-
missioner Dick Madison. “Strain was
delayed first by national defense
needs using up all the 'asphalt, and
then by rains
tracts.”
Paving work can be done only
in fairly warm, dry weather.
County road equipment worked
throughout the week putting caliche
on downtown streets to be paved
and blading and rolling it in pre-
paration for the paving equipment.
County Surveyor Fritz Estill, in
charge of the work, said the streets
would be in excellent shape for
paving.
First plans to pave streets straight
across intersections where cross
streets were not to be paved were,
altered Saturday when objections
arose, and “headers” will be paved a
few feet into the cross streets.
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