The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1939 Page: 5 of 12
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Volume 53, No. 50.
McKinney, texas, Thursday, October 5,1939
SECTION TWO
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French Dig in Against
Expected German Drive
Frank Cook to
Open New Lumber
Yard in Plano
Gov. O’Daniel Has
New Pension
Cash Scheme
Rehousing Program
By McKinney
Garden Club
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First 1939 Parity Cash
Arrives for Collin County
Judge Suggs Appoints
Lawyer in Johnson Case
Old Fashioned Weather
Minus Rain and Mud
Brings Cold and Dust
Miss Nancy Massie
Chosen “Miss McKinney”
State Fair Pageant
Central Presbyterian
Church in Fall Campaign
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TELEPHONE EMPLOYES
ATTEND DENISON MEETING
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Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Martin of Bloom-
dale were trading with our merchants
Saturday.
Jess
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Isbell Smithson, prominent farmer
living three miles northwest of town
was here Saturday.
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Trade with home merchants.
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WALNUT GROVE REVIVAL
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the McKinney examiner
Office of Publication Opposite County Jail
Magner White, Born
In McKinney, Now
Prominent Author
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Country Alarmed
Over Fall Drouth,
DelaysWheat Sowing
beginning'this month.
The Governor said:
“I do not want to cause the old
folks to build up any false hopes but
I do have another plan in mind.
“I admit the possibilities of solv-
ing this critical problem are remote,
Southwestern Bell Telephone Com-
pany held a district social meeting in
Denison last Thursday night with
several hundred persons present.
Those from McKinney were: Mr. and
Mrs. Homer Pritehard, Mr. and Mrs.
S. S. Lennington, Mr. and Mrs. T. G.
McBee, daughter and husband, Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Murray; Miss Ruth
Fry, Mr. and Mrs. Graves Snider, Mr.
and Mrs. Ted Spaugh, Miss Pauline
Carr, Miss Lang and Jerry B. Strick-
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How well does
Mrs. Magner
Frank Cook of McKinney and as-
sociates will soon open a new lumber
yard in Plano.
They have leased for a number of
years a lot on South Main Street—•
the location for the new yard being
the first lot on the right just south of
the Cotton Belt Line.
Mr. Cook was in Plano Wednesday.
He stated that it was his intention
to begin work on construction of his
sheds next Monday. He will erect a
nice office, warehouse and modern
sheds. It will be some two or three
weeks before the yard is open for
business to the general public.
Frank Cook is no stranger to many
of our Plano citizens. He is an ef-
ficient lumber man, having entered
the business in Dallas in 1903. For
20 years he was connected with the
Wilcox Lumber Co. at McKinney. He
went with the J. M. Wilcox yard in
1918 as yard man—later was book-
keeper for the concern for a number
of years and for ten years was man-
ager of the yard.
Mr. Cook’s Plano friends welcome
him to the business circles of Plano.—
Star-Courier.
AUSTIN, Oct. 2—Gov. W. Lee
O’Daniel revealed Sunday that he had
a new plan in mind for bolstering old
age assistance funds and hoped to re-
port favorably on it next Sunday.
The announcement, a feature of his
Sabbath broadcast, came in the wake
of an opinion by Attorney General
Mann stating there was no legal
method to effect the chief executive’s
previous suggestion to raise $2,230,000
by public subscription and avert a
$6 horizontal cut in pension payments
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rhn 1 ot ine 1 ex-o-Kan Mills and Abernathy
rhe service this & Ai1OTnqrhv
Guess you have noticed we have
been having some real old fashioned
fall weather, plus a norther, plenty of
wind, dust and sunshine.
Makes everybody feel better. Plenty
of bed clothing and cool nights
makes sleep refreshing. People come
to town and visit the stores in
search of winter clothing, thus cheer-
ing the merchants. Every pound of
cotton is being saved. A big, soak-
ing rain is now devoutly wished for,
so that farmers can sow crops for
winter pasture.
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Miss Nancy Massie, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Glen Massie, student in Mc-
Kinney High School, has been select-
ed as “Miss McKinney,” to represent
our city in the pageant and coronation
of the “Queen of Queens,” at the State
Fair of Texas next Saturday evening,
Octobr 7.
Selection of Miss Massie was by a
committee of the McKinney Junior
Chamber of Commerce, composed of
V. C. Hitchcock, Leo Crockett and L.
D. Robinson.
The young “queens” will steal the
spotlight at two of the principal fea-
tures of the exposition’s first day—
the colorful down-town parade at noon
and the pageant and coronation of
one of the group as “queen of queens”
in the Cotton Bowl in the evening.
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the matter rest. We need that road..
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Judge Tom Suggs has appointed At-
torney J. W. McCullough as defense
counsel in the State vs. Melvin John-
son murder case. The trial is set for
November 8.
Johnson is charged with the slay-
ing of a young McKinney negro sever-
al months ago, up in Honey Creek bot-
tom, about three and a half miles
north of McKinney.
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Westminster
but nevertheless I intend to explore
every possibility, regardless of hovz
remote it may be.
Capitol rumors—all unconfirmed—
suggested he contemplated polling
members of the Legislature on the
possibility of speedily enacting a pen-
sion revenue bill at a called session.
The Governor asserted a deplorable
and inhumane situation could have
been averted had it not been for the
“selfish, stubborn, contrary acts of a
few newspaper heroes in the 163-day
Rev. Yell, of Brady, will begin a 10
days revival meeting at Walnut Grove
Friday night, October 6th. The pub-
lic is cordially invited to come. At-
tend these services and help make it
a succes.
Kermit Burns has been brought
home from the McKinney Hospital fol-
lowing an appendix operation. Mrs.
George Eubanks, who suffered a back
injury several weeks ago has been
advised to remain in bed four more
weeks after an X-ray examination.
Friends presented her a gift box with
a package to be opened each day for
30 days. Otis and Audie Johnson
have been at the bedside of their
brother, Horace Johnson, who is re-
ported critically ill after an emergen-
cy operation at the McKinney Hos-
pital.
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of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. Burt Martin,
Farmersville; Mrs. T. D. Rice, Miss
Marguerite Rains and Mr. Billy
English, all of McKinney.
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Rebekahs Entertained
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Mrs. Russell Dowdy entertained
Wednesday at her country home the
Past Noble Grands Club of the Re-
bekah Lodge. Mrs. Virgil Cox being
Junior Past Noble Grand, was initiat-
ed into the club. After a brief busi-
ness meeting of which 15 members
were present, a surprise birthday
party was given Mrs. Cox by Mrs.
Dowdy and members and other
friends showered her with many love-
ly gifts. Prizes for diversions were
won by Mrs. H. W. Barham of Dallas,
Mrs. Melton, Mrs. Jim Hollandsworth,
Mrs. Boone Johnson, Mrs.
Creason, Mrs. W. H. Coffman,
licious ice course was enjoyed by 21
session of the last Legislature.’’ In
its general session, the longest in his-
tory, the Legislature failed to
any revenue raising laws.
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“East Line” R. R.
Will Stay Put;
Business as Usual
Cullum Family
Reunion Sunday
The Cullum family held a. reunion
at Finch Park Sunday, October 1,
first time all were togethei- in 30
years.
Those present were; Mrs. G. R.
Hess, Farmersville; Mr. and Mrs.
Dewey Wally and children, Mary Joe
and George, McKinney; Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Gallimore and son, J. C. Jr.,
Howe; Mr. and Mrs. Alva Cullum and
son, Gene Wayne, Princeton; Mr. and
Mrs. Woody Rains, McKinney; Mr.
and Mrs. Woodrow Cullum and son,
Donald Joe, Ponder; Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Cullum and family, Ft. Worth;
Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Cullum and son,
Denton; Mr. and Mrs. David Cullum,
Ponder; Miss Erna Smith, Alba;
Vivian McGehee, Seminole, Okla;
Anita Cullum, Ft. Worth; Coreta Cul-
lum, Mansfield; Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Hass and family, Mrs. Alf Beene and
family, CopeVille.
Mr. and Mrs.
Farmersville;
The first 1939 cotton parity checks
amounting to $80,622.32 have been re-
ceived and are being distributed by
the county AAA office in McKinney,
J. B. Mooney, administrative assis-
tant, announces.
There had been
ceived last week
800 applications. The
year is the speediest since the AAA
started paying farmers to practice
soil conservation and supplement cot
ton acreages with soil building crops.
Applications were sent in two weeks
ago on checks received last week. A
total of 3999 applications have been
submitted up to date to the state of-
fice for payment, approximately four-
fifths of the total for the county.
Immediately on receipt of checks in
this office, producers will be mailed
notices.
The cotton price adjustment pay-
ments are made to these farms hav-
ing a cotton allotment and have not
planted cotton in excess of the allot-
ment. The rate of payment is 1.6
cents per pound on the alloted produc-
tion to the farm.
The 1939 conservation payments
will probably be made about the first
F part of the coming year. Conserva-
tion payments are made on cotton,
wheat, and general crops allotments
at the rate of 1.8 cents per pound on
the allotted cotton production. Seven-
teen cents per bushel on the allotted
wheat production, and approximately
95 cents per acre on the general crop
allotment, provided the allotments
established for the farm have not
been exceeded. There is also an ad-
ditional soil building payment of 50
cents per acre on the neutral acreage
if the producers earn same by carry-
ing out sufficient soil building prac-
tices, Mr. Mooney says.
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Armadillo Hunt Entails
Series of Misfortunes
A park improvement program
which involves rehousing for a num-
ber of Negro families will be re-
sumed here Wednesday when the Mc-
Kinney Garden Club holds its first
meeting of the season.
When the club women gardeners
took over the job of beautifying City
Park some four years ago, it was a
splotchy, unlandscaped, uncared-for
tract of land. The Garden Club has
landscaped the tract, planted iris, rose
and gardens, built pools, and installed
benches and playground equipment.
Mrs. J. H. Ferguson, new president,
said this year the club will concen-
trate on cleaning out and landscaping
’the depression around a naural spring
in the park.
The club also raised money to buy
land around the park on which a num-
ber of Negro houses stood. The houses
were moved to new locations, and on
part of the site the club created the
new redbud trail of Mitchell Drive.
Last year under the leadership of
Mrs. Charles T. Rich the club secured
easements on the right-of-way of
Highway 24 from McKinney to the
Grayson County line and eliminated
signboards. They are to extend this
project along roads east and west of
town.
Walter Wiley went to the fair and
told about it this way:
“I noticed them judging F. F. A. and
4-H boys’ pigs. There was one boy
who took my eye and I watched him
show his pigs. And he certainly kept
them in front of the judge and they
were prize winners. When it came
to open class he was still in there
with his young stuff, showing against
older hogs and men. And again he
got his share of ribbons. I found out
that his name was James Graves of
Melissa.
Next day I was down there and
they were judging Jersey cattle.
Young Graves was still “staying in
the ring,” this time with young Jer-
seys. And again he pulled in his
share both in boys’ classes and in
competition with the more experienc-
ed men. So I say “Hats off” to boys
like that, for they will make good and
improve the stock of Collin County
which stands well up in quality if not
in quantity.
HOUSTON, Sept. 29.—A couple
boys went armadillo hunting.
The results:
Edwin Morris, 15, reached into an
sting on his
ing to quit because of poor patronage
for years past, will not be permitted
to do so. A telegram having been re-
ceived here Monday from Washing-
ton, stating that the Interstate Com-
merce Commission “finds that future
public convenience and necessity do
not permit abandonment of the Louis-
iana and Arkansas Railway Company
lines in Collin County.”
Officials sought abandonment of the
line operating a three-day-a-week
freight service from McKinney to
Farmersville, of 16 miles.
An all-day hearing by the I. C. C.
was held in McKinney several months
ago in which shippers and other in-
terested persons along the line, made
a determined fight to prevent aband-
onment of the road.
John G. Turney of the State Rail-
road Commission, and D. R. Simpson
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& Abernathy represented the ship-
pers.
The “East Line,” as it is known,
operated daily freight service until
a year or so ago, when it dispensed
with a train each day, to three trains
a week. Their last application, re-
sulting in the I. C. C. hearing .held in
this city, was for complete -abandon-
ment of the line.
Exceptions to the order from Wash
ington must be filed before October
20.
The railroads have been hard hit by
truck competition and busses. The
general public realizes the situation
and sympathizes with the company in
its predicament. But the shippers
all along the line who have used the
road for years, also have claims.
We hope they do not appeal, but let
CHICAGO, Oct. 1.—A fall drouth
which has overspread the farm belt
threatened today the first American
•“war crop” of wheat since 1918.
Days without rain or with only scat-
tered showers have created the worst
fall drouth in years for some sections.
The drouth has delayed soil pre
paration and wheat planting well be-
yond normal dates. Wheat farmers
in the Southwest, drilled seed into the
dust and hastened to apply for feder-
al crop insurance.
In sections already sown to wheat
the drouth has prevented or retarded
germination.
Little pasturage apparently will be
available for cattle and UNLESS
RAINS COME SOON winter winds
may play havoc with plowed land
bare of top growth.
The farm belt survey showed ex-
cessively dry spots in Texas, Okla-
homa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Da-
kotas as well as in scattered areas oi
Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and
diana.
The L. & A. R. R., known to
timers as the “East Line” which
from McKinney to Shreveport (or the
other way round) which has been try-
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Mrs. Wm. Byrum, residing in West
Collin and getting mail through Ce-
lina remits $1.00 to renew for our pa-
per and adds, “I do not want to miss
a single copy of the Examiner. We
enjoy it so much and look forward
to its coming.”
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Mrs. Wylie Smith is ill at her home
in Wylie.
Johnnie Cullum,
Mr. and Mrs. John
Martin and family, Gilbert R. Hess,
Farmersville; J. W. Spain Jr. and
wife, Farmersville; J. C. Gallimore,
Howe; Malcolm Foster and Monta
Foster, Farmersville; Mr. and Mrs.
Hubert Cullum and family, Farmers-
ville; Mr. and Mrs. Royce Killings-
worth, Dallas; Mrs. Evelyn Paulk and
son, Farmersville; Mr. and Mrs. Fate
Campbell, McKinney; Mr. and Mrs.
Ethridge Campbell and daughters,
Helen and Peggy, McKinney; Mrs. G.
D. Woodall and Grandmother Rains,
Princeton; Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Large
and Delous Ann, Savoy; Mr. and Mrs.
T. A. McGehee, Seminole, Okla.; Mrs.
Pearl Bradley, Wewoka, Okla.; Mrs.
W. B. McGehee, Seminole, Okla.;
Mr. T. A. Burton and daughter, Lc-
rene, Seminole.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Strickland and
Mrs. Roxie Farron and daughter,
Martha Jo, Ector; Mr. and Mrs. Dave
McGehee and daughter, Vivian, Semi-
nole, Okla.; Mrs. Tennie Hess, Myrtle
Poe Hess, B. M. Roberts, all of Dallas;
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hess and children,
Gilbert and Elizabeth Ann, Farmers-
ville; Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cullum
and mother (Susan), Princeton; Mr.
and Mrs. C. B. Cullum, Ft. Worth;
Mrs. John Taylor, Mrs. Liza Guffey.
Bells; Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Johnson,
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Raymond Leach hands us cash for
renewal. We are pleased to know
that Mrs. Leach is improving. She
has been ill for several years. She
is the daughter of our good friends,
Mr. and Mrs. Hulett Jones of near
Allen.
prayers. .
and the doors of the
opened.
was received into the membership of
the church, after which the baby re-
ceived the ordinance of baptism.
Observance of the Lord’s supper fol-
lowed. Rev. Dodge, the pastor, was
assisted at the communion table by
Rev. J. B. Kerr, a retired minister of
the church. A large number of the
membership was present. This was
the world-wide communion Sunday
for the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.,
which extends around the world.
The pastor delivered a splendid
sermon at the evening hour.
The Woman’s Auxiliary began a
mission study class on Monday after-
noon, which will continue through . ...
each Monday afternoon of the month, Faye Davis, Miss May Davis, all
Rev. Dodge is doing a fine work
with the young people in the C. E.
societies and also a boys club. It
was very gratifying to note a num-
ber of young boys present at the Sun-
day evening services.
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Rutledge-Cooley
armadillo hole, felt a
arm, and withdrew it.
His brother, Theodore, 18, did the
same thing, with the same results.
Their father diagnosed the wounds
as snake bites. He dug out the hole,
found a rattlesnake and killed it.
He started to town with the pa-
tients. A tire blew out. They had
to hail a ride on a truck.
An ambulance picked up the party
on the edge of the city.
The ambulance collided with a car.
The boys finally reached the hos-
pital and were reported recovering
Wednesday.
PARIS, France, Oct. 4.—Official sources reported
that French engineering units were feverishly digging in
on German soil to resist a land and air drive expected to
come with the fading of Adolf Hitler’s “peace offensive.”
The French estimated that they held about 150 square
miles of German territory containing about 65 villages.
The engineers, working against time and under the
constant threat of German artillery, particularly in the
Saar valley sector, were said to be turning to their own
use captured German fortifications on the fringe of the
Siegfried line.
As fast as French patrols obtained strategic points
the engineers moved up and started digging in.
Latest official advices from the front reported no
heavy fighting in the offensive zone between the Rhine
and Moselle rivers. Monday night’s communique said
“local enemy attacks have been repulsed” near Saarlouis
and east of the Saar while German shells fell “on German
localities behind our line.”
In Tuesday morning’s communique, the general
staff reported patrols of both French and German ad-
vance guards were highly active during the night.
French units also were engaged in a “war of mines.”
They were reported to have exploded thousands of them
from safe distances. Artillery aided in this by raking in-
nocent-appearing territory given up by the Germans.
One shell set off a string of mines almost 1,000 yards
long. They exploded like a string of mammoth fire-
crackers.
Few people in McKinney who read
the article “Between Two Flags” by
Magner White, in last week’s Satur-
day Evening Post, are aware that the
author is a Collin County born and
raised man. His maternal grandpar-
ents owned a farm in the Bois d’Arc
neighborhood where his mother was
born and attended her first school,
Afterwards moving to McKinney to at-
tend school. She then taught school
and met his father, who also was a
school teacher. They left McKinney
for San Diego, Calif., many years ago,
where Magner was associated with
some of the largest daily newspapers
on the West Coast.
this writer remember
and her four children, two girls and
two boys. Jerry, who was a printer,
and Paul, who went to New Mexico
and became a construction contractor.
Both are now deceased. One of the
girls is Mrs. Jesse Orenduff, who lives
north of McKinney, on Highway 75,
and taught school at Trinity and Wet-
sel. Mrs. White is still living, is on
the West Coast, around San Diego,
Calif., enjoying the sunny California
climate. This is not the first article
from the pen of Mr. White published
by the Post. In issue of August 19,
1939, “Freight Trains on Our High-
ways” was a timely article dealing
with autos and trucks.
Several years ago the Post publish-
ed a number of his articles.
Mrs. White’s grandmother was the
wife of John Magner, and a sister of
the late Uncle Alf Chandler of the
Bois d’Arc community. Tog Chandler
is Mrs. White’s cousin.
If you have not . read the article,
“Between Two Flags,” be sure to do
so. You will learn something about
Japanese that will prove an eye-open-
er.
The Central Presbyterian Church is
off at a vigorous start in the fall
work.
Rev. c. E. Dodge led an inspiration-
al program at the 11 o’clock service
Sunday of music, scripture reading,
The sermon was omitted
church were
One adult, a young mother,
Sunday morning, September
there was a pretty home wedding,
when Miss Nahoma Cooley and Mr. J.
C. Rutledge, both of this city were
united in the hold bonds of wedlock
at the home of the bride’s mother,
Mrs. J. W. Cooley, on South Parker
Street. Dr. J. H. Cozad, pastor First
Baptist Church, officiated.
The prenuptial music was by the
bride’s sister, Mrs. Cecil Speck of
Dallas, pianist, and Mrs. Tom Moore
of this city, vocalist.
The bride was attended by Miss
Vivian Bedell as maid of honor, while
Clovis Rutledge was best man.
An informal reception was given
for the relatives and friends attend-
ing.
The happy young couple left for a
wedding trip to North Texas and
Oklahoma. Upon their return they
will reside at 208 South College St.
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We are pleased to place on our
mailing list B. W. Williams. He and
his family live on the Leslie Bush
home place at Allen.
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Pictured above are a few suggestions of the vast and entertain-
ing program to be presented by Russel Bros. Big 3-Ring Circus at
McKinney on Tuesday, Oct. 17, afternoon and night, featuring Jack
Hoxie, famous western screen star, in person, with his own company
of cowboys, cowgirls and Indians, in a thrilling panorama of the
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