The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1941 Page: 2 of 6
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Kermit Fire Department
Winner Will Be ‘’Miss Kermit” At Fort Stockton
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Nearly 40,000 Texas oil wells have had to be abandoned
because of unfavorable producing or economic con-
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With the ringing challenge, “We can do plenty about
the Nazi Gestapo in America,” Friends of Democracy
this week published a spine-chilling document on the
activities, here and abroad, of Hitler’s secret police.
This 32-page document is the first detailed ex-
posure given Americans of the creeping organization
in the United States of the dread Gestapo, L. M.
Birkhead, national director, said to newspapermen this
week. Besides citing chapter and verse of the Nazi
Gestapo’s infiltration into many walks of American
life, the document of Friends of Democracy treats
photographically and textually with the ‘Gestapo
Scourge in Germany” and its terrorists acts in the
“blitzed” countries of Europe.
“Nazism and the Gestapo are interchangeable
terms,” National Director Birkhead told newspaper-
men. “Friends of Democracy is convinced that these
revelations will unite Americans to fight Nazism
wherever its viciousness appears, so that never again
can Gestapo terrorism take root in this land of free-
dom. Wherever Hitler’s gray-green legions goose-step
triumphantly in the conquered countries lof Europe,
the road to treachery has been prepared by the Ges-
tapo. Under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, the
Gestapo has become the most destructive agency in
the world. Herr Himmler’s agents are the tentacles of
the Nazi octapus reaching out and enslaving the
world..”
The document, distributed nation-wide by Friends
of Democracy, contains candid-camera shots of Ges-
tapo executions in Europe, and facsimile’ reproduc-
tions of Gestapo commands to agents abroad, includ-
ing those in “key” positions, “immediately menacing
the security of this land of free people.” The graphic
exposure concludes with the militant warning that
“we Americans must offer all of our strength, all our
resources, to the forces of freedom now fighting Naz-
ism and the paralyzing terrors of Gestapo-ism. This
means all-out aid to Britain now.”
More than 45,000,000 acres of Texas land are now
under lease to Texas petroleum producers for oil and
gas production or exploration.
One of the most notable recent actions of the Texas
Legislature was appropriation of a half million dol-
lars to purchase land to be included in the proposed
Big Bend National Park. This appropriation will
prove an investment if the park is successfully devel-
oped as now indicated.
The site of the proposed park is one of the most
picturesque and naturally attractive localities in
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America, in the rugged way which has such great ap-
peal for American tourists. Properly developed, the
Big Bend Park should become a tourist attraction of
national renown, bringing to Texas thousands of vis-
itors each year and millions of dollars of new money.
Any money within reason spent for developing this
park is an investment, the benefits from which all
Texas will enjoy—Brownfield News.
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Texas petroleum workers are paid $272,000,000 a year
in wages and salaries. This is approximately 40 par
cent of the total business and industrial payroll in
Texas.
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Many elaborate plans have been devised, most of
them complicated and expensive, for creating closer
understanding between the Americas. Few thus far
proposed have been so simple end inexpensive as that
new being tried out in San Francisco.
A San Francisco family and a Santiago, Chile, fam-
ily of Fernando Contreras. Young Contreras i§ com-
thers is on his way to Santiago to live with the fam-
ily of Fernando Contreras. Youn Contreras is com-
ing to the United States to occupy Fred’s room in the
Walthers home. A committee at each end selected
the boys and the families as representative.
Both boys are of the just-finished-high-school age.
Each is going on with his studies; both families (one
Catholic, one Protestant) have agreed not to tamper
with the religious or political beliefs of the boys. At
the end of the year each will return home with ex-
periences highly valuable to themselves, and with a
heightened understanding of each other’s lands.
This experiment will be worth watching. If it works,
it might bewort expanding to almost any extent.—
San Angelo Standard-Times.
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The Big Defense Bottleneck
Fight the Gestapo
Signs multiply! that the great American public is be-
coming impatient with the antics of some of the
local labor unions. So impatient that if the unions
don’t develop more leaders with the sense and vision
that some of them have they all stand to lose all the
gains thrown into their daps by a sympathetic reform
administration.
At a small town in the mid-west the Government
wanted 3,000 to 4,000 carpenters and hundreds of
sheet metal workers. Few were available in the im-
mediate vicinity and no union city at all. So the
contractors sent to the largest nearby city for help.
Passenger carloads of craftsmen came a-running, but
they wouldn’t work with the local men who didn’t
have union cards.
Accordingly, the unions must stop to organize the
country boys and gather in a rich harvest of initia-
tion fees. Since the Secretary of Labor has set a wage
scale in this area at the rates prevailing in the near-
est large city, all the new, inexperienced craftsmen
must be paid the standard journeymen’s wages. The
contractor is expected to take all this jockeying in his
stride and turn out the job on time under pain of a
penalty forfeiture.
For good or bad the people have undertaken this
task of hurry-up armament. To them the first and
only objective is to get the job done. They don’t want
to wait on a lot of labor organizers to recruit union
memberships before they take off their coats and go
to work. And the men who are given real jobs for the
first time in years don’t relish splitting their first
pay checks with a labor organizer.
in the State.
The Texas petroleum industry pays See “The Aquacade of . Comanche
the highest wages of any industry Springs” at the Fort Stockton Wat-
J er Carnival, June 13 and 14. 2tc
L-B Construction
Expected To Start
Early Next Week
Mr. E. S. Cates expresses Appreciation
to his friends and customers for
their patronage of the
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Mallo ware the
proud parents of a baby boy born
at a local hospital Tuesday.
UNITED WINE & LIQUOR STORE
and asks their continued patronage of
the store, which is now being man-
aged by Mr. Leo Hail
Broadcast Series
On Defense Bonds
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Planned for July
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McGuire are
parents of a baby son born Monday
afternoon at a local hospital.
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Mrs. H. S. Titus underwent a major
operaton at a local hospital on Mon-
day.
Mr. and Mrs B. W. Weatherby were
called to San Angelo Tuesday by
the illness of his brother, J. S.
Weatherby. They returned to Ker-
mit Wfednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Wight of Kil-
gore, Texas, are here for a visit with
their son, Dr. B. A. Wight, and
family.
Construction of the new L-B Drug
bulding at the intersection of Aus-
tin and Mulberry streets is expect-
ed to get underway early next
week.
Kenneth Burrows, Kermit partner
in the firm, said yesterday that in-
vitation of bids for the project is
being held up pending completion
of architect’s plans.
The building, which is to be of
brick and tile construction, will be
the first in recent months built in
the “mid-town” section of Kermit.
State Administrator Frank Scho-
field advises that he has been
notified by the Defense Savings
staff in Washington that a series
of 13 coast-to-coast broadcasts in
support of the National Defense
Savings program will be started
Wednesday evening, July 2.
The radio hour from 7 to 8 p. m.
Central Standard Time, on the Col-
umbia Broadcasting System has
been contributed to the program by
the sponsors of Fred Allen’s “Star
Theatre” for the 13 weeks of his
vacation.
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A Fitting Memorial
No Rival Issues
The Medical Issue
Texas retail merchants get $324,000,000 a year of the
money put into circulation by the Texas petroleum
industry.
Approximately two-thirds of all the oil produced in
Texas to date has been produced in the past ten years.
Any erroneous reflections upon the standing, charac-
ter, or reputation of any person, firm or corporation
which may appear in the columns of The News will be
gladly corrected upon being brought to the attention
of the management.
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i®. Kermit, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Published Every Friday in Kermit, The County Seat
of Winkler County, Texas.
By JOHN AND BONNIE MERRIMAN
John N. Merriman, Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—$2.00 Per Year; $1.25 for
Six Months; 75c for Three Months. Payable in Advance
The Winkler County News
Combined With THE KERMIT SUN October 5, 1940
and THE WINK TIMES-HERALD October 22, 1940
Texas oilmen found over 100 new producing horizons
in old Texas oil fields last year.
A memorial to Texas Highway Patrolmen who have
been killed in line of duty was recently placed in the
Headquarters office of the Department of Public
Safety at Austin, following passage of a resolution by
the Public Safety Commission.
The resolution emphasized that all enforcement
officers of the Department of Public Safety are con-
stantly facing hazards involving loss of life and great
bodily injury in protecting the citizens of Texas. In
pointing out that eight Patrolmen have lost their
lives while facing such hazards, the resolution declar-
ed that “due recognition of our great loss and our
desire to honor these brave and splendid citizens of
Texas are recorded in the minutes of the proceedings
of the Public Safety Commission.”
The memorial, which is quite fitting, includes the
photographs, the dates on which they entered the
service, and the dates of the death of these eight men.
Recently a Federal Grand Jury in Washington, D. C.,
found The American Medical Association guilty of “a
criminal conspiracy to restrain trade.” The decicion
has been appealed, and it is iestimated that at least
two years will pass before the final word is said by
the Supreme Court. In the meantime, every citizen
is vitally concerned with the issues at stake.
The principal issue is simply this: The right of
physicians to control and influence the qualifications
of hospital staffs, and to dtermine education and
ethical standards for the rendering of merical care.
That is a matter which has to do with the health and
physical well-being of us all. Here in the United
LStates, the quality of medical care has reached a
■level unequaled anywhere else in the world. Here in
■the United States, the average doctor is far better
■qualified to treat the sick, than his counterpart in
■any other country. Here in the Uniter States, the
[finest type of medical care is available to rich and
Ipoor alike. Here in the United States, astounding
[progress has been made .by the medical fraternity in
[fighting the great scourges of mankind.
' That has been the product of the American medi-
cal system. It is a system whereby the medical fra-
ternity itself has had the basic right to control the
training of internes, to establish standards of quali-
fications, and to see to it that the men who staff
hospitals are able to properly care for the patients
that come to them.
Those rights have been considered essentials to
the safeguarding of the public.
Is the medical profession to be forced to discard
systems of ethics, codes of contact, and standards of
qualifications which have grown through the years
in response to public need? That is the grave ques-
tion which this case raises.
Attorney General Gerald Mann’s speech at Sulphur
Springs in opening his candidacy for the United
States Senate serves' to make clear that the brief
campaign will have to be fought out on personalities
rather than issues. The principal contenders for the
place, those at present in public office, are all agreed
on support of the Democratic administration. They
can find nothing on which to quarrel on the hustings.
The voter will be left to choose merely whom he likes.
It is true, of course, that Attorney General Mann
lacks experience outside the borders of the state and
that there has already been raised by friends of his
opponents the contention that the Senator should be
chosen from the congressional delegation. Because,
however, the delegation supplies two candidates and
a third is flirting with the temptation to run, the
Congressmen themselves cannot afford to capitalize
on this issue for fear of dividing too much of the vote
in an election where plurality can win. Nor have
either Mr. Dies or Mr. Johnson been so long in Con-
gress as to wear the toga of elder statesmen. Mr.
Johnson indeed has served little more than one term
and his political reputation so far has been made as
an astute and able electioneer, not on the floor.
Meanwhile, the Attorney -General has made one
election move as astute as it is honorable in turning
back to the State of Texas his pay for the period that
he remains away from office to campaign. Clearly,
none of the officeholding candidates are going to
resign. Mr. Mann has done the next best thing and
has also furnished an example which his opponents
will be loath to emulate.—Dallas Morning News.
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Merriman, John N. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1941, newspaper, May 30, 1941; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1227226/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.