The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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Court Appoints
Miss Ainsworth
County Librarian
Street Dollies
To Mark School
Court Orders County Election
Dec. 14 On $1,500,000 Road Bond
Issue for 60 Miles ot Paving
Committee To
Investigate Fire
Truck Named
Well Makes 711 Barrel.
41 Gravity Oil Per
Day; Spud No. 2
Voter* Brave Rain
To Roll Up Big
Vote Tuesday
Mr '■
Manvel
Send the Sun to a friend
writing.
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five
it lined
court.
Angleton to
of
lay.
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WESA -
eyed lunch on Joe Short
ft:
Bernard Born
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birth ot a
born Satul
and Mrs Lee Gt
I on the birth of a
ing all bond issue*
January 1. 19-11
o bv designated by
'ay department, to
of by means of the
Stores Close Monday
Alvin stores will be closed Mon-
. * . " ~ . I one
of the holidays agreed upon by the
merchants.
770
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469
“Alvin ana Brazoria t ounty’s i Udest New
ESTABI.ISHEbTsS FRIT>AV~NOVEMBER
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|y BOB BRAY
Charlie Alexander skidded der-
j rick and rig from Alexander Fee
Tell
I ads m
Comparison shows the Brazoria'
•County returns to have followed j
the trend of the Texas vote. As '
••’nd collector, for state ap-
Mateu- {proval.
The total acreage in the county
t Congra tulates ]
FTtOM VICTORIA
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ezel! of Vic-
toria were Monday guests In the
home of bin parent*. Mr. and Mrs
iW. M. Uzreli
I
Ninth' district at the
American Legion convention held
; in Texas City.
and Jeanne Arnold, tw triers, dis-! value of horses and mules render-
play their act of high-stepping | ed was $67,265 with cattle *how-
and baton throwing I ln8 as >478,390.
on her 79th j
while picking
ago. breaking
November
The work
KW J
HOIST THE SAILS
FORGET THE SAIJ>
AM) ( AST 1TH R VOTE
Voting day was a boating day
in Brazoria County Gondolas in
Venice would consider them
selves water logged after a Iook
at streets in Freeport, West
Columbia. Brazoria, and Angle-
ton
Those coming into the gas
office in Freeport drove their
cars completely onto the side-
walks as. below the curb, water
was above shoe tops
Except for a booming business
in raincoats, snops w» re nracti-
cally empty, and business men
calculated the possibility of put-
ting a fishing pole out of the
window and showing a nice
profit for the day
i Mr. and Mrs.
i Mustang on the birth
pound son Wednesday
Unofficial returns from precincts i
Freeport. West ’
show a total j
| of 2,294 for the democratic elect-|
. 11CX ‘1.1 f fW I hi, i HI.„
I night at 8 o'clock the ;
llowjackets will be hosts
Freeport Exporters, who
►•■d the 'Jackets for a
»ui years, although the
mere victorious over the j
I last year by the score of 1
jhppears as if the Export-I
Itempt to settle last year’s I
ph the local boy* this |
vSi .op
.—An election on December 11 was
county commissioners* court Thursday
county-wide road bond issue after a
gned by the required number
•sting the move.
EBRATING
[Century of Service
fin and Brazoria
■ 4 A 1
MRS. ANNIE FORD
D8
ntly missed
icd on Page Four)
oast al Canal bridge, «erv«
Dow Chemical Company
.’. Uwu Beach, is one It
,ed out during the di*cuc-
on that this was an emergency
ensure due to the heavy traffic
id high accident rating
a 14 mile
j —- —— •/Wili b*“ laArn uwr V/
| the State, which will pay off the
capital in It* entirity,
a Peace i The next number scheduled I* ■
of torch , fh<» letter formation “<J S A.” and j
„„ wrmJ plays the "Star
, two American
cannon, flashing of dropp-ng bombs . nags w|j| wave under lights
---u__.. _«-- '1 At the
y. and the in-
I terest after such a time as th •
part of the work which the money
■ covers is completed. The money
! is put into an account of the state
| highway department and Brazoria
county and released in [>art by the
i county to the state a* it Is re-
1 quired
j The bonds are to be retired over
' a ]N>riod not to exceed 20 years
i and at an interest rate not to ex-
ceed four per cent. The court
aajures voters and taxpayers that
After ten years of service m the the bonds will not be issu«d if the
, Presbyterian church of Alvin, R»-» , bill u not pa^d by the state to
assume the cost of the project.
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Callaway Named
To Drainage
Commission
C. C Callaway. Alvin real estate
man. was elected to a place on the
a larger' Alvin drainage district at the elec-
■ tion held Tuesday, Re-election to
the rommiaion were E. J. Shef-
I field and H C Morgan
The following vote was cast:
Alvin Manvel Total
E J. Sheffield 6.M
H. C Morgan 565
C C Callaway 510
Fred Much 384
ues
Set New Record
ALVIN HIGH SCHOOL BAND TO STAGE LAST SPECTACLE OF On 1940 Tax Roll
♦*. A.LETOS Getting an ali time
SEASON FRIDAY WHEN JACKETS PLAY FREEPORT HERE
| places a spraj
tomb On the still darkened field, j
thi band will r-l-y "tsps’’ before [
marching to their rooting serflan
The outstanding exhibition of j 343.15, navigation Lax, $54, <>0.34,
imth n>u»kal and marching skill j drainage tax; $137,723.71, road tax;
will be given between halves at J $245.11877. st hool tax; and $9.-
the Alvin-Freeport football team; <>78.00, state poll,
1 when the Exporteni meet thei The tex roll was approved by the
‘ Jackets on the local gridiron; county commissioners court last
I T R. Elder announced Scnda.\ that
■ he has accepted a call to the First
I Presbyterian church at Crystal
I C»y
Rev Elder who has lived tn Al-
vin for the past three years, ex-
' pressed the regret that he and
I Mrs Elder felt in leaving and
j added that he hoped to return of-
! ten on visits.
The pastor plans to leave about
5 for his new' charge
consists
j field and greater responsibilities,’ ■
i Rev. Elder said
|tr«-ngth as Iayuis Gan ia| meeting were Mayor
| Butaud will be nack in. Kimmons, George Cook,
PP The pass snatching , Merchant and E A. Richards
ppihg of both I<ouis and
b have been on the injured
l‘*en missed for a few
bd they will be chugging
P SCvr«a Friday nteiii. ‘
lak'h. Whn ha« been nnt
I injured knee, might be I
|P»a> in the game this j
pier Frobcrg. hard vharg-
B is out for the Freeport
I will probably be out for
bf the M-ason as he suffer-
pnry injury in practice
b ft er noon.
ptapp Maxwell staled that
Coach Dave Eng
'as many their last
If Bond Assumption Act Passes
State Would Repay Loan at Slight
Expense to Local Taxpayers
ANGLETON.—An election on Dec
ordered by the
|T<7r a TE500,boi>
petition was presented
jof taxpaying voters ret]
The entire project including approximately fin miles
i of paving. 2“ miles of which will be on the Angleton-Free-
I * ” ~ port highway, will cost the county
11 amount to cover
interest during the
•nod. and rights-of-
Exter.ding the ne
Nichol* field 934 feet northwest-
ward. Humble this week completed
him their No. 1 Giivie Hubbard in the
_ 1 regular sand The wen f|
period ’ 711 barrels of 41 gravity oil
I 24 hours on
j from 8535-55 feet.
covers for each of the mattresses. '
•" - i a number not to exceed 75 The , ,1,*^ x
’’pointed i county will pay for the materials , cars
, and ,,lbor
Ainsworth's
Bailey * Prairie through Brazoria
to Sweeny, and an eight mile link
i connecting the L>anciger concrete
j highway with high^a} The latter
will intersect highway 35 at
I U-.ar.c a I’, u.iiv near the 1 n terser -
, non of the Sweeny road with htgh-
iway 35, between West Columbia
I anti Bay City
It was said during the court
. meeting that an election at this
: time would allow the county to
take advantage of the state bond
i assumption act. to meet ita nwat
crucial need, roads that are ade-
quate for the amount of use they
crowded streets.
One of their main duties is to i
on offenses committed by i
...-------1 cans with out-of-state licenses.
They will make a report on gen-
Mi«a Ainawoith's appointment eral traffic condition;
twam* effective Tuesday, the date
on Warren’s appointment being i
. left open.
THE SUN |
more horn •> m Bra j
unty tnan any other t
r. For half a century I
to thei
Miss Ora Sloan was
make the mattresses
jail, Miss Virginia Ainsworth
I tr» c„nf„„.nCT, fori will inooa » «len earttM h, • bMdlnr, wortr, e»ndl«.
h >*<■ .Urting lineup ui 'Dear Ol Alvin Hr «r.- Audrey "wmber readme ‘Keep It Over ns rockeu and bombs halo the
Baca thu i. the leaf time Key, Hei-~i Norrie. Dtek Ales- There' as-..-
I get a "whack” at the lander. Dexter Froberg, Ernest! Among the many intricate drills
I England. Louts Forre-t. Joh n! Mr. Parts has outlined for the per-
►y» who will bo playing I Strickland r od D. J. Crainer. ’formance will be the formation of
j FREEPORT The Texas .State
I Pearland was employed as county I Highway Patrol has sent two of
librarian, and J. Wendell Warren . men to Frex-port to aid in
i waa employed as engineer for the I unraveling the traffic complira-
I newr courthouse and jail. | tion* which have arisen with the
Mis*‘Hoan is to instruct the sew-! growth of the town and over-
ling room at Alvin to make three
I covers for each of the mattresses. '
L. G Merchant. S. C. Jones and a number not to exceed 75
, E. A. Richard* were apr -*-■*
htors will be led by &uch MOrHjay night at council n
Chester Powell, fleet- j bv Mavor Klmmon* to investigate!
rk: Alvin Walker, another I tbe need of buying a new fire]
has dished | truck and to find out the approx-
imate cost to the city for the new
equipment.
During the meeting Jack Harri-
as awarded a contract to col-
man) long gains and i(X-t delinquent taxes f..r the citj HLVIH IIIUII JVIIUUL UH HU IV JIHUL LHJ I JI LVIMVLl. VI ’ U/a IL
Current bill* were approvxd and , „ „ * * •« • • » • • • * • *1^ A’(.LETOS cetting an all time iValk Over IVlU8t&flR
WAR SCENES TO TUNE OF 'OVER THERE” WILL STRESS PEACE IN AMERICA Under Construction
Leslie 1 • «•»•*•••••••••*••♦♦• *(751.356, and Increase of $3,105,525 Construction of a walk across
'over the 1939 evaluation Total Mustang bayou was begun this
taxes amounted to $1,214,338.92. week by employes of the Ttexa*
with the average value of an acre highway department to afford
ly of flower* on the I of Ian showing at $-’1.88 pedestrians protection in walking
4* ««iii di*rir0n«wi fiairi The first subdivision of the total to and from the north part of Al-
iv i« aac-M* •• aotx ot, Vs— o**npuFtZ pV£Fv wvau
I tax $337.60868. county tax; $38 - rnched t A the w<-st side nf the high-
way bridge Thursday and it is ex-
pected the walk will lie <-<>mple|e«1
In a few days.
Staging their last performance of fa large 'A' with lights and flares.
, the sense . Otto Par's has inaugu- This figure will break into five
> rated one or the rnu»i spe^ iavulai 1 miwiu *mu« with waie «i«i» Star
• half exhibitions for his Alvin high formed of firework* In *h* center
school band that this section has of the field.
j ever witnessed. Featuring a Peace! Th,» next
and Americanism’ display r*
' figures and fireworks, an outstand-! wmi*. the band
ing number will be the roar of;Spangled Banner.'
£o | cannon, flashing of dropp-ng bombs . fJags wijj wave unr|er ap<
K i »nd Axploatve, wMl<- the band play, ' at either end o( ,he ne)d
of •Over Tharr.- At th- cotwhwlon coneioflon of thr num
Brazoria County stood by a third
! term for President Franklin D.
j Roosevelt by a vote of alm<
] to one as citizens turned
ou .mi ! large numbers despite
over I storm,
quarter-inch choke I
Tubing pres- i in Angleton. Alvin, . .
Beck 1 sur<* was 165" pounds and casing' Columbia, and Manvel
Services For
Mrs. Annie Ford
Crossings Here Held Thursday
Funeral aervicew for Mrs. Annie j
Ford. 79, wife of the late C H !
Ford and resident here for 21 ■
years, who died at 4 30 o'clock i
Tuesday morning at her home, one
mile west of Alvin, were held at
3.‘39 o'clock Thursday afternoon at
the Alvin Christian church.
Rev. A. E. Bums officiated and
interment was in the Confederate
Cemetery under direction of a local
funeral home.
Mrs. Ford died
birthday She fell
pears several days
several rib*.
She was Irirn Nov. 5, 1861 in I
Watertown. Ohio and was married |
to Mr Ford in 1882 She moved j
herr in 1919
Surviving are ■ Three daughters. |
1 Miss Mamie E. Ford, with whom;
sh • resided. Mrs. Louisa Van Conet •
of Ewing. Neb. and Mrs. Thomas
A Carraher of Spalding. Neb.; one
son, Martin M. Ford of Chadron.
Neb.; 17 grandchildren and one
great-grandchild
the trend of the Texas vote.
hoi* and 1S toiual. the democratic party car-
■ - company . j^| state and county offices by a
I have not been so successful on
their tests. Aci oss Chocolate 1
Bayou. Texas Gulf’s No. 1 Hiram
Moore Is reported to have re-1
j covered six stands of salt water on ;
| a drill stem tost of sand logged ■
I at 8559-63 feet and 8566 71 fret. I
Operators have resumed drilling |
however, in an attempt no doubt i
to recover sands at 8800-foot level. :
‘ ~Sto« an & Nichols, after killing;
the distillate and salt water flow '
on their No 1 Bradbury, have
j made another squeeze job and were i
waiting Thursday night on cement ;
The well flowed five and one-half,
barrels of distillate an hour
through a one-eighth inch choke
tested 40-
tion west for his Alexander Fee!
2 this week and Thursday!
I set surface casing at 1250 feet.
I Chocolate Bavou Field
1 Phillips Petroleum company's!
I N<». 1 Houston F< rm* Developmrn .
j company was col ng Thursday be-1
low 9300 feet in shale No. 1 Tri-
angle Development company han
I “Pt 9 5 d* Inch CMing at 9602 feel !
I and will drill deeper.
Pledgtr Wildcat At 6200
Skelly Oil company’s No. 1 Me- i
Dannald in the Pledger area is
j drilling below 8200 feet in shale I
, Preparations are being made to
i spud Coastal Drilling company's •
No. 1 Ransome m the Sandy Point
1 j area. The test is located in the
irters Invade and ” proi"',ed]
I . WJ Alta Loma Held
iCt INCSt Standind received a
[ , ; their new Alta Loma
! Tonight
’■ -■■'4 4
’.•-47?
performance of the band this rea-)S. Jproles. Jr., deputy tax acres-1 day, Armistice Day. as it is
1 M>n | «or ■'nd collector, 'or state ap-w.
Drum Majtrfelio, M&T> Mateu-1
shit a win 1-w! the Band through!
Kemp, born Monday
Purchase nf 'street dollws to
! mark school crossing on the state
] highway at both intersections ot
the Van Tassel school was voted
i by the Alvin Lions club when they
met Tuesday noon The motion for
I placing the dollies at the school
i was made by Bruce Allen chair-
] man of the safety committee
1 Mel Miller, district governor,
was introduced by President L. W
Charlston as guest speaker Mr
Miller outlined aims and objects
of Lionism and congratulated the
Alvin club on their splendid or-
ganization
Members present at the meeting
were Dr L. W. Charlston. G. W
I Pearson, B. R. Allen. R I Bra\
I C. A. Ormsby. E C Kimmons. T R. .
I Elder. B A Borskey, A. L. Mar-
[tin. Jr. Carlton Ely. E M. Ren-
> frnw W S Ihxnn. John b Poy-
[nor. E. H. Lyon. G. H Cook, Clyde.
Herring, Jr Bob McClain. John I
I Osborne J. W Vegan Hiram I
Major E. H. Rackley, prominent Moore .Tim Ward Ruth Pierre Dr 1
member of the Alvin Post 129. > G. J Hayes and F. A. Duke
Legion, was recently
State Patrol Send Two Dow Men
Humble Producer Brazoria County
Ly BOB BRAY | Extends Rowan Votes 5 to 1
bnult and th' shouting
kuud-vlincing ha.-, erased
Lriiao1' cveiywhere are
L hind a leader who ha*
Lur most-time honored
| In the retaining o:
I 1). Roosevelt as presi-
I nited States, our 1
klu- people of this couu-
|been reaffirmed. May
L him and give
| in K i’ding US safely
I t h e fierilous
|ri Imerlea today.
WESA-
•nd of John P- ——,
office to pay h re- | Pr«»ure was 1525 pounds.
I 10 leave his annual bag Humble * second test m the new >rs, 471 for the republican elector-
I for Mrs. Beck. He is field i’ already well under way 3 for the prohibitionist party, and
Lek Worrell, rancher of with thp No- 2 Hubbard drilling;! for the socialists.
|a kindly old gentleman ! •*>”* 2.000 feet Thursday night,
hi like to have visit u* I Th‘8 tfSt »» a west offset of the
1 No. 1 Hubbard.
Meanwhile Rov.an & N,
Texas Gulf Producing
L.; mtrtrrt. Ihi. —k j ,h"v" b......
L.rton, tor I ,he'r "«• Ac,0“
L hint lines and is a rabid
h. He picks the Cadets
n .Saturday and thinks
Le tops football agarega-
Mu nation—*0 do we! We
|h<-ar Fred latw and Jud
WESA—
football prognostications
L hot last week and John
|Dk us for two. We got
the week before, though,!
ig boy grins just as wide
loxes as he does when he
Lt more so. He’s a good
fcybod/l lra«w. I fron) -JJ75 „
I WESA I per cent salt water
Broussard of Houston ] in the same field. Stannhnd’s
ho kwp his Sun coming , Burgess No. 1 is still a location. 1
her year. Mr Broussard. Producer For Hastings
i nil leases in this area Stanollnd’s Curkeet A-.39 a 1
k pecan grove says he is I Hastings appeared to he a pro-
I several other weekly ducer Thursday and was cleaning
kut find The Sun’s nil | >inelf into burning pifr through
1 quarter-inch choke from 608f> feet.
< Tubing pressure was 620 pounds or. f
I -WESA-- the casing
Ld ’Be Careful.* pictures. Alexander Drilling
keck which claimed the'
larcus E. Brown and Miss
k* when the car in which ,
r riding plunged off the:
ANGLETON
R W Archer
Dow Company
a collision at
Neither was seriously injured but ;
they were taken to Dr W. C. I
Holt tn Angleton for first aid and I
then to Freeport in an Angleton j
Funeral Home ambulance
McGinty lives in Velasco, while •
Archer is a resident of Houston
Th*' a- . ident <"•< ured about 6 m l*OPCrty V 31
your merchant you read the ' ~
this newspaper.
provKt-.sj that project*
taken over by
I of this type
tick nn<i rig rrom ntexannrr r<v.
No. I in his front yard one loca-1
|o Oyster Creek, are dis- j no
1 th** w indow of The Sun ;
Fere is also a picture of,
k which claimed the life
Usie Hickle of Freeport
A—
Allen has proven him-
aluahle member of the
uh since coming to Alvin,
man of the safety com-
le has done a grand job.
•t achievement is the
of two street “dollies"
bred in the middle of the
1 either side of the Van
dndergarden to protect
Rev. T. R. Elder
Transferred To
Crystal City
t man who t
to opposing teams, and ,
kdm, a hustling end who |
ipenencod at taking hand- i
i the backs and skirting j ^)n w
I tallies.
-, member of the Alvin Post
, Aianoimo receivea « set-back in >
Gh-ir new Alia Ixima fi.ld tht. *»««’ L'«i<,n- w«
I week when their No. 1 Lobit out-1 elected District Commander of the I
■* the dts-,'Fighting ■— —
Two Traffic Men Hurt In Wreck
-D. t>. McGinty and i
both employees of
in Freeport had
Anchor Tuesday
.... —. ..........- ——
Friday night and will be the last I week and taken to Austin by W.
ANGLETON. At a meeting
the commissioners court Mondi
requested to
for the new I . .
of:,(>ver There.' At the conclusion»conclusion of the number an 1
—! of the musical number a spotlight 1 American flag will be formed with I
for I*1" nood “ "iKn <w,«l >*y « band 1 nr. w(!0. Roman candlM. j„, ,„„„ ____________________________..._________
— - “ "’‘us pace* while Iva Mae Tatum, j listed as 911.892.87, and town lot
display. Aiexamtei DoG* SUnton! value showed as $1,438,785. 'Die
Concluding flags will float over
a facsimile of the Unknown
soldier's grave while M-*s America
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