The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SUN
1EBRATING
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‘‘Alvin and Brazoria County's Oldest Newspaper”
ESTABLISHED
FRIDAY
ALVIN. TEXAS.
IN OLE 50th YE-
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1940
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VACATION ING IX INDIANA
Mita Louanna Roberts, tv ho has
my Phillips Piles Up 3 To 1
, Sweeping AH Precincts
Danbury; Mansfield Returned
friends of Former Shoe Shine Bov To Give
Barbecue For Phillins At Angleton Aug. 9;
Appreciation To Friends
Have Been Robbing Oil
Field Meters In Thia
Area, Officers Say
Three Registered Bull*
Fo Be Auctioned Off;
Plan* Are Mapped
Gilvie Hubbard 1200 Feet East of Discovery
Well On Chocolate; Doodlebugs Are Busy
Houston Thug Out On
$5,OOC Bond; FBI Aid
In Running Down Clue
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work out detail* of this
<y<1 Oc.*n Operation*
Stanollnd's Old Ocean open
8 B. R. L. D. f
of oil in 24
■ •ma field
Hastings
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Each meter is said to y
six pounds of mercury.
MATAGORDA COUNTY
Jimmy Phillips
Paris Smith
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PARI* RETl RNM
Otto Paris, Dir?*»or of the Al-
in High School band. r-. turned to!
ces from
Th- No.
foi-
rirtil-
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g of mercury
pil (Mid net. I
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,ry field
drilling
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SERRIES
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Is Bowin
n ised
will
field.
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<’<». 1 Kainer
north will he
ret ind
H. Me-
Wm. F. Jackson
Will Continue
Father’s Work
former cour
county, v.
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drilling
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THE SUN
I Congra tulates j
132 ?1 42
Surprise Wildcat To Re Drilled
By Texas Co. Near Algoa; Stanolind
1 - ! Extends New Alta Loma Field
al THE ALVIN SUN
Stanton Robbery
Suspect Nabbed
By Alvin Officer
,WESA»»
By BOB BRAY
I issued by Alvin
al! sale*.
Ift order
(the event
cw'this fall ii
'arranging a free victoi
■ in his honor to be held
{grounds in Angleton. Friday. /
9. The event will begin
m. and every man, woman and .
d in both Brazoria and Mata-
is cordially invit- ;
Attorney General I
i has been invited •
uinds like "Much ! vis.
rise wildcat
ittle east of
will be the
im the west
705.31 acre
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STATE REPRESENT 4TB E. 2Kt IM*t.
Jimmy 2‘hlllips
Paris Smith ..
Alvin's annual Dairy Rally Day,
xmsored by the Alvin Agriculture
lub, will be held here October 6.
ate was set at a meeting held
(onriay night at which plan* were
L.—« — —■■ t>
Lfr Allen. < hairman of the
|y committee of the
L a mappiiiK plans for a *afe-
perfr-ifn before opening of
L. Bru<' is a staunch he-
ir i* a*ft driving and take*
kigiun*-nt riously. Hr has
Ly provided two placard*.
I in Ben Borxkey’* "show-
L" and the other in the win-
|of the Theatre cafe, which
I attracted favorable conj-
L Bru<<- favor* the intro-
La of a course in *afe driv -
Im the high whool rurricu-
L Mirving that an education
Muted if death continue* to
i ili terrifk- highway toll.
Mmpaign deserve* the hear-
bmperafion of th# commun-
i to do his chores.
I about 30 minutes
» was ablaze.
Mr. DuShane saved some person-
. but the furniture and
ct* in the house were
lost.
I on the
Mrs. DuShane
daughters were
; tenng the
at 8479 feet
paring Thur
■ flow in the
Up, 20 Arrested
ANGLETON*—One for Ripley.
—.Mr*. Fry of the star Cafe un-
buttoned an egg this last Mon-
day and much to her surprise It
was without a yolk. Believe It
or Not. *
191 ed
I**1. house
165 J Mr.
150i al property.
11 heavy objec
10 {completely I
5. was carried
-WESA—
I* drop our only «
hay Puah. We I ...
Ihnin. r>ti< precinct chalr-
• that there'd be a run-off in
(•vernor** race—and were
•P enough to give him odd*!
1 »e’d do it •»>!■< .H manager, dropper
a *.. . *. n Hfle bullet betv*-n the should- st-veral
j er» after a guard had shot three |
1 times and missed.
General Manager O. J. S. Eiling- .
ton conducted a h-aring Friday
Davis, prison officials said, hud at-1
tempted
DuShane Family
Suffer Loss As
Fire Razes Home
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. DuShane!to h“
property loss'
written in. Friday morning when a fire which I
for drainage evidently o.
C. C. completely J
south'
If
charge of the drug dep
stanten-s. b this we
at the home of h
Shelbyville. Indiana,
turn Sunday.
opened the
dswood that
hole on No. 1 Hulen
Operators were prv-
rsday to shoot to kill
No 1 Hulen
tw bO- :r„ £ Dairy Rally Day
B b Dm »n. John pnvnor Mr* J. VI/*!! TV I I 11 i|
I Beck. Dr J W Vogan. B VV ill DC 11610 At
DeWitt. J F Law and Mrs J F.
Alvin October 6
■"■ ii hits inn wr.mts
Delegates Named
To County Demo
Conventions
At a meeting called by L. A
Pugh, chairman of precinct No. 3.
Saturday the following delegates
were selected to attend the county
Democratic convention to be held
in Angleton Saturday-
C. C. Callaway and Mrs.
Callaway, L. A Pugh and
L. A.
ce
lasses
YIPP-e-e YIPP-e-e-e,
(X)WBOYK TO VIEW RIG
SADDLE DISPLAY HERE
Cowboys of Brazoria county
and surrounding area will be ir
seventh heaven here Saturday
wu«a Star.tr.r.*; stajc their an-
nual factory display of saddles,
harness and leather goods, ul
•heir Alvlh store. Automobiles
will take a back seat as cow-
hands and ranchmen gather to
*ee the newest trappings for
< • • ■-.
>hich will be
Tchants with
a
rtursl
„ the
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Dr. Hin<J» To Speak
At Lions Luncheon
| Dr. Walton Hinds, Superinten-1
[dent of Schools at Galena Park'
’will be guest speaker at the I ton*
Club luncheon Tuesday. Dr Minns.
'who is widely known as an after
Struck- Driver Jailed
FREEPORT— When the car drlv-; An Impromptu program ha* been
en by R. L. Wood of Houston.! ptannt-d and a cordial invltatiem
inow employed in Fr—H’ii. »a-;'o all Liens and their friend* ♦<»
’ into three other cars, park- attend the lun< heon is extended
a row iwfore the Lone Star! ' —
<g house on Broad street I
lay mornh*?. ,h;i three park-!
a were damaged and Wood’s-
. „ ..as simott demolished. ,
! Wood •■••• charged with drunken j Alvin this wee* alter compietu-g
(driving and placed in jail. a eununcr coutm.- In Chkagc.
! picked up in Freeport
(week and charged with vagranr”
- .; one was fined 1 and the <41
•r w of Calverton la plnoh-! .'22. the finm, are being work'd out
this week St the «w»rket in tail
R» Foods Stores for Johnni*'' The sheriffs office renon*
• whn k v-neatinn!i*g Mr 1 »ncr»»«s«* in the number of aer
r is in charge nf . nf the'during July over past month* by | plant u
an Evans Food Store *>me twenty or th.rty tn number ■
won. T (The total for July was fifty-two.|set for b
[lot. The p
I p«-d last y«
' love and in 192'
■ canning plant in Friend
'has meant «o much to fig growers
I in this entire area.
An Important ■■rg&nirrr in the
Fig Growers AMMsefatfen, Mr.
Brown served on Its board of
<Mroeton until this year, when
hr resigned. It wa* ■ singular
tribute to hi* integrity and wor-
thinrw whrtt lh< association vnt
Partial insurance rd to supply thrir entire crop of
property,
and her ’
in Galveston
the time of the conflagration.
were
race
commissioner of Precinct 3.
polled the heaviest vote ■ miles
red Fred Much while E.
•d with Inter. <t
Danbury Test *puds
I PAVELK K BRIM.* I IR*T
i HALE Oh < UTTON TO
1.<M Al. GIN FOR I RFF JOB
' ANGLETON — X l,avlir.k.
' who live* •outh of Angleton,
i raised the rotton which made up
Hra><>ria county’* first bale tor
this year. The cotton was gin-
ned free of charge by the An-
gleton Gin Saturday, one day
later than the first bale of last
year. The cotton w a- graded
w middling one-Inch. The hale,
which weighed M»5, w bought
by (iu« Voigt of Angleton who
gave I'avlh-ek a 10v premium.
The cotton seed sold at SIM a
ton.
Moving in six loads of equipment S it
is Company caught Alvin oil scouts and
flatfooted as it prepared to spud in a surpi
on the Brown tract six miles south and a li
Alvin, just in Brazoria County. The test ’
No. 1 E. J. Kainer and is located 156 feet fr<
line and 3370 feet from the south line of a
Callaway ]
and replac
J Sheffield and H C.
were returned to office,
follow*:
Q C. CALLAWAY
E. J. SHEFFIELD
[H. C. MORGAN
‘FRED MUCH
L. A PUGH
, B. C. DeWITT
I J. W VOGAN
Electra Man Slain
Trying to Escape
From Prison Farm
ANGLETON-Olliclal, »l th.- R.-- _______________
offers i trleve prison farm near Angleton (incurred by the late
> . . . nnnntmrpd SAturdav that Cecil Du-
... ____ «tat-
Hi« beautiful home at Friend*-1 that the men are charged in
is the prldr of the comsnus- . ,-utuuN tk»n with the alleged theft {
of i
- WESA—
!tr,a County’* new half mll-
1c-ii.ir courthouse at Angle--
1 fapidiv taking shape. Offl- i
onsidering construction
power plant to air I
,r ' Maybe «o to give tax-!
I a . h.n..„ roo| Qff pcr. I
J. u<M r.k.. in wm. «Linnn:
"b tapping AngUton str»*t»»:
oonstruetton of an all-wea-i
h,'«c to connect up with that |
>!«n to Brazoria.
-WESA—
r.'iirations Alvin’* an-
Rally Day scheduled
by October 6. will top i
ri'-ord* in Interest and
You're going to hear
I bull money " Spon-j
th* Alvin Agriculture j
hxh Carl William* i»
h's annual event ha* f
to promote and en-;
'■ development of the'
'ry m this area "Pro-1
i. McNIel, together with j
n» *s Ed Winaion. C. i
ind other* who think :
milk cow than an oil {
c some good Idea* up
Fred Much bm-iai — •- -- •— — - — | •••.»• —z —
e a bull (part at least* ;announced Saturday that Cecil D“-j*on would be fulfilled by him and iwood
* '»■>. of Electra. Reiving a two- nMUrea hu clients (hat the law lity
•year sentence for theft from W'il-'offi^ Wjjj continue to maintain | Unaffected by the wealth heaped
burger county, was ahot to death ;tpr high morale and ethical atan- upon him by hi* extenMve Hast-
election bet ; Thursday while attempting to es- (jard> of Judge Jackson. ng* oil holdings and a successful
bet the AL caPr- During his interview. Mr. Ja«-fc. I business career Mr. Brown is al-
clnct chair- ! t°Pt- w r «•'Parted to; son gfuted that he had studied way
state prison officials here that Da- nluch of hi* law in his father's ,
via ran from a squad and that ; office and that after paning his | feel
Capt. J S. Brown, assistant farm j par examination in 1924. he work-
Two Men Jailed
At Angleton In
Theft of Cattle
W. N. Greager of Angleton and .
.as much time for the sport a* he Gus Veit of Chenango arc in the I
.’would like. Brazoria County jail in Angleton
A member of FiLnds church, charged with cattle theft
. Mr. Brown ha* done much to live
<
CONGRESS NINTH Di*TK1< T
J. J. Mansfield 471 345 595
C. O. Foerster Jr.
L. J. Sulak
ame Warden Frank Me-
iem and sportsmen, and
seawr. prairie chickens
y m ultiplying. Old-tim- j
■ott Benson and Shadow;
i remember when these
slaughtered by the hun-1
sb.; i>ed to market. With;
nd fishing one of Bra-,
’y'» greatest "industries’’ i
ration of our game resources'
ital ccri'-crn to us all.
WESA—
Mnt Mrs. G. E. Webb tolls
hat Brazoria county will llke-
m the rest of the country
rnattn-sa program now
forward tinder the capa-
UrectK.n of Home Demon-
*c»h Agent Mis* Ora Slone,
till if the rest of the ladies
t the counts are turning out
Ifrmes like those Manvel
r p«-d last year will be
Dairy Rally Day.
1 A committee compo
Harness. N. A McN
•ton and
! pointed t
progtam. >thn
! Those attending -ho meeting'
(Monday night were: Carl Williams.
(Jaaper Harness. Ed Winston. C .
' L. Strait. Fred Much, N. A. Me- |
(Niel. Lee Green. John Poynor. W
B. Cooper. A. L. Surface, Albert j
ne county mr« i u-s- j Montgomery, W. L. Willrford and {
and canvassed the I Bob Bray.
The com-
nine-
chairmen of the
Future Farmers to Go
To New York Aug. 10
N. A. McNlel, vocational agri-
culture instructor of Alvin high
school, will leave August 10 for
New York with state officers of
the Future Farmers on a fwo-
weeks honorary trip. Included in
the four boy* making th" trip will
[be Carl War-’, recently elected
; parliamentarian or the acute or-
ganization
I Mrs. McNiel will accompany the
( E< IL BROWN
While not a resident of Alvin,
v»r feel that Cecil Brown I* defi-
nitely an Alvin Booster, and Cecil
hi new If feela that he |* entitle*!
to call Alvin hi* hon town since
itw >>(»t I4s(hda,« was celebrated
in Alvin** boom day* «f I MH.
The Brown family moved
Friendswood in 1895. and it was,
there that young Ceci! received hi* !
education. He graduated from the !
! Friendswood Academy and then at-
■ tended Friends University in Kan-
sas for one year before returning!
native county to try his |
hand at farming
For three years Mr. Brown ;
originated in "the kitchen /armed rice, but figs were his first
razed their home a few 11°ve and in 1923 he *
iwest of Alvin.
Mr. DuShane lit a gasoline stove
Morgan jn the kitchen of the residence
The vote [about 5 a.m. and left the house
When he return-
later the
These displays have attracted reen
nuch attention every year and ,?d h
■lardware Manager Gus Gustaf- roon
w Miy* tm- r.*LlUt tMi year
vill b«’ the moit elaborate of
t of . sny leather joods dlspiays ■ r
dale i told it> U>ia i-uiSity.
“k
from Angleton the
p we saw a rare sight
irhway just south of
ding peacefully along
re about a dozer fat
•nt These birds, once
in this area are al-: furnjghing calves fnr the event'
but through the ef- and then» wjn probab«y be bands'
n “"'from Freeport, Angleton and Al-
I vin present.
Pugh Re-Elected
L. A. Pugh, precinct Democratic:
chairman, was returned to office1
in a landslide. He received 2041
. vote* against 97 for five others I suffered complete
' whose names
i In a close
Mr*
Vogan, B.
Mrs. J.
Law, I. B Arnold. Leslie Merchant
and Mrs- L. Merchant. J S Roberts
nnd Mrs. J. S. Roberts. John D.
Owen. E M Renfro- and Mr* F
M. Renfrow. Bill Jackson and Mis.
Bill Jackson. E. C. Kimmons and
Mr*. E. C. Kimmon*. Jack Harri-
son. R 1. Bray and
j during
by Hou
. U*pi. v *** *IW II. ... in, j .'XnillllllllK'II III 1 II" ’’ *11 I* HIM
I manager, dropped the convict with; Wjth his father as a partner for er.
m 8. Cou„t>.
Attorney of Waller County for six
years and a* District Attorney by!
appointment for one year. During
irison officials said, hud at-1 hi* term* of office in Hempstead.
| to escape before. ' Mi. Jackson had occasion to handle
He was burled at the prison {many spectacular and notorious i
** well a* the handling of
-------c--- more routine practice.
Two Women Arrested A
On Vagrancy Charge ! here. '
ANGLETC'N-Two women wer ~ °"T
this past 2,500 Men Employed
nhCer At Dow Location
••■•( FREEPORT—Cv«r 2500 men arc •
employed at the Dow Company j
an i construction site this week na wm- !
*»«ts ! plot inn of the initial production I
‘ • hiultiied. The fast cf
' September is the appruaimats- u-.. .
fifty-two. I set for beginning plant operations. '
Jl
I several major oil com
Chief of Police Armoui
. Alvin.
{ The arrest* were mac
ton. Galveston and Wi<
j officers «ay. The men >
I with stealing mercury fi
! in Hastings. Dtckenon,
l Wharton, Eureka and Fr
{fields and ale said to b
of a ring operating 01
Jersey where shipments
'traced.
fig* in IIHU tn the (cell Brown
two Fig C ompany for packing,
i at I Making his hobby hi* buimew
Mr. Brown says Wat his favorite is
i packing figs, be they in glass or
1 in cans, and for our information
i say* he weilds a mighty fast iadh-
‘when he get* started on a No. 10
' can.
. His favorite *port is basebail but
j because of tne heavy duties Im-
■ jiosed by his orchards, fig plant nnd
' various oil Interests he doesn't have
I W’m. F. Jacknon. former county i i
'attorney of Waller county, will j>
{continue with the law prartieo ___ ___
{hi* father, the late J S Jackson Mr. Brown ha* done much to live j Bond foi -aih was set
land will maintain the office and ihit religion nnd make the Magnolia | by Justice of the Peace F.
j force as organized by him. I fig a symbol of accomplishment non.
Mr. Jackson said that all bu»i-!both from an agricultural stand-1 Arrests were made by
I nets and professional obligations point and retail standpoint. Officer W. C. Mumford, w
' Judge Jack-i
r him and ■
his clients (hat the law I
by Chief of Police Armour Saveli .
of Alvin has resulted In the first !
arrest in connection with the burg- '
lary of u safe containing approxi- {
mately $4,000 from Stanton’s store
by thugs here on March 10. The!
suspect, Oi v ille Ratcliffe, of Hous- I
ton. said by Saveli to have a peni- j
tentiary re<x»rd. is out on $5,000
bor.d charged with burglary and {
lEsp-e*'**'
[Carrying the home town of Representative Paris
L, Bay City, by 10 votes, Jimmy Phillips, the Angle-
Ly who pulled himself up by his boot-straps, Saturday
[ejected to represent Brazoria and Matagorda coun-j
In the Texas Legislature in a landslide of votes that,
[him pile up a 3 to 1 majority in carrying every elec-;
[precinct in both counties except Danbury which h»*
-------post by a vote of 71 to 78. Final
<, official returns give Phillips a total
j j of 4.8.31 votes to 1.825 for Paris
| Smith. Biggest majority given
• Phillips was at Iowa Colony where
the vote stood: Phillips 42, Smith 1. ;
! Voters of Matagorda and Bra- 1
izoria counties gave Congressman
- . .. I J. J. Mansfield a great vote of
Ijon* j confidence polling n combined to- ■
,!tal of 4897 votes for him against '
'1.027 for Sulak and Foerster.
! Results of the governor’s
is already in the history I
I with O'Daniel sweeping ibis
! as he did other sections of '
to win without a run-off.
i Friend* of Jimmy Phillips are
ory barbecue
Id at the fair
Aug- grand larceny.
• ust 9. The event will begin at Entrance to Stanton's store vvasi
" by boring » hole through .1
CUM tn both Brazoria, .ml Mata- M(k. door R „ hunch
gordr county !, rordtnlly moll- g,^ |B w)th
,ed to . end Attorney General sher|„ o i(. MouMon w„ched
Gerald C. Mann ha, been .netted Ra„.|1(te.s holm, !n Ht,u„on |
found a bit and an automatic pis- '
j Arrangements aie being made for j tol. The bit. together with a piece I
the barbecue by the following: of wood from Stanton's door was I
Richard Higgins, Angleton; Bob(forwarded to the Federal Bureau
jOwen. Alvin; Dooley Galloway, (of Investigation at Washington I
(West Columbia; G. C Hardeman. * where It was determined that ’he I
j Freeport: Frank Orr, Su eeny, and -------------------------f
11. B. Gardner, Brazoria. Cattle- P*g*>
men from all over the cour
' furnishing calve* fnr the
(he pride of the commun with the aRegt
' of cattle from Mrs. Barbee
{Anchor last Christmas eve
......... . o .. ——
Demo Convention
Meets Saturday
ANGLETON — The executive
committee oi the county met Tues-
.day at noon e.....
returns of the election.
1 mittee i* composed of the
teen precinct
I county.
The county Democratic conven-
tion will be held In the court house
. Saturday night
Three Parked Cars
if the new Al
overshadow fa:
With this in i
[ways warmly greeted by friends on
hi* frequent visit* to Alvin W<>
■f-"l that tn Mr Brown this com-
munity hns a rare friend and boost-'
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