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VOLUME XXVI
BOWIE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1948
NUMBER 47
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account
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mihistdr’s ,mcs- | “A special lease contract is cal-
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JQHNIE HOGUE
week, account of the weather.
Jackrabbits
In the Winning
In This District
If you have anything to sell,
advertising in the Bowie News
is money profitably invested.
Final Rites Held •
For E. A. Culberhouse
Excels with paid circulation
coverage and reader interest
in four-county trade area.
that steps The two winners-will decide the
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FIREMEN MAKE
QUICK CALL TOLL
NEWS BUILDING
COUNTY SINGING
POSTPONED
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County Commissioner Pct. 1
BAILY JACKSON
(Re-election)
The
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BANQUET POSTPONED
The L1ons-Rotary football Ban-
quet was postponed from Tues;
QaAiitig,
Maui
Assessor-Collector:
BERT SLEDGE
(Second Tetm)-
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Polio Drive
Due to slow response to
Jdtoie I
"Your Home Town and County Newspaper"
Sheriff:
BUCK JAMESON
(Re-election)
culty at the booster station be-
tween the lake and the Pity
reservoir. The firemen threw
their chemical hose into place
for quick work, if needed.
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Theatre Improvements
Frank Benson, owner of Bowie
Majestic Theatre has had a force
of men busy the past several
days in making extensive im-
provements-in that show house.
An attractive stage with cur-
tains and other equipment now■ ested in the growing
rs they may have.
distinctive service, some supply-
ing chains and using heavy mo-
tored graders and other equip-
ment for the more important
traffic to move through and to
break up traffic jams at differ-
ent points.
The State Highway employees
Johnie Hogue
Candidate For
Commissioner
there. New sound equipment has
also recently been installed, new
screen, and also new. painting
and decorating is under way on
the interior.
On account of the, severe
weather and ice covered streets,
reyiv^l services started last Sun- ,
alter. a .three years’ illness.
JVIember of a pioneer Montague 1 31.
Last year the drive in Mon-
tague county raised only $1,264.-
74 and drew from the general
funds $3,000.00.
Due to slow response to the
March of. Dimes drive ■ the past
few days, Thomas Evans,. local
Loyd Benton of Fort Worth of-
ficiating. Interment was in the
Vashti Cemetery under the di-
rection of the Owens-Brumley
Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were:' Tebc Jack-
son, Dave Wiggins, Brice Mc-
Cord, Fred Ball Roy Howard and
Robert Liggett.
Survivors include one daugh-
ter, Mrs. W. L. Mowery of Per-
rin; four sons, Joe Barker of
San Marguerita, Calif.. R. E.,
Vashti x
W. H. and Velton Barker, all of
Fort Worth;‘one brother, F. M.
Barker of Vashti, eveven grand-
children and seven great-grand-
children.
County Commi»»ioner, Pci. 2:
HOWARD WHEELER
(Re-election)
County Attorney:
MARVIN LONDON
(Re-election)
County Clerk:
GLENN PRIBBLE
. • (Rq-election)
County Treasurers*-*’
MRS. WAYNE DAVIS
(Re-election)
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case there were
News plant Mr. <
use <
emergency. We are doubly
grateful, for the fine spirit shown
by him and glad that there was
no damage or .delay caused by
the threatened blaze. Good
neighbors are the finest assets
found in any community. One
never knows when a good neigh-
bor can be of great value.
Fort Worth; one
Givens of Petrolia
grandchildren.
G. H. Golden, pioneer hard-
ware man here, is a/iother Bowie
who feels f
Bailey Taylor returned home
last -Thureday from Abilene
where he underwent surgery. He
was accompanied home by his
sister-in-law Mrs. F. D. Taylor.
Dr. F. D. Taylor came in Satur-
day and they returned home
Sunday.
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Elisa Aldo Culberhouse, 69.
died at his home on 51-8 Roberts.,,,,,
St., here Saturday, January 241 Montague county
Bowie is on top in the Basket-
ball league play with decisive
wins over Nocona 45 to 33 and
St. Jo 54 to 18.. Henrietta has
lost to Nocona and St. Jo. De-,
catur has been ranked the favor-
ite to cop the South Half of 10-A.
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First Polio Victim
In Area This Year
The first case of polio in Bowie
area this year has developed in
a case at Sunset. Milton Hop-
kins, age 14 months, son of Mi.
and Mrs. R. V. Hopkins of Sunset
was suspected of having polio
and when given the tests at the
County-City Hospital in Fort
Worth, a positive report was
turned.
Turkey Meeting
Wednesday Night
The Montague Farmer's Co-op
will sponsor a turkey meeting
1H connection, with the_ Purina
Feed Company Wednesday, Feb-
ruary 4, at 2 p.m.- at the City
Auditorium for everyone’"inter-" cd from
. . ..'.../..J or pro- r‘
makes possible large stage shows I noting the sale of turkeys in this uary 29, at 2 p.m. with the Rev.
section.
The program will consist of
discussions on selecting breeders,
poults, feeds? growing of turkeys,
financing, marketing and every-
thing relative to turkey raising.
Everyone interested is urged 'to
attend aS valuable information
and pointers on the raising of
turkeys will be given.
I Miller well came bu—----------
Aubrey Horn, acting as agent.
I brought the oil men <jnd the City
together in the deals;
The City has good prospects
■ for possible revenues of large
... „ 1 its lands now
First Methodist jn the cj]
zones—either in royal-
ties that may be sold Or in pos-
sible royalty revenues if produc-
tion is found on the lands.
Nocona 'only ■ recently made
similar oil deals on city property
and wells arc now being drilled,
the revenues going to ’ city im-
provements.
Political-
Announcements
- The following political an-
nouncements are made subject to
action of the Democratic Primary
July 24, 1948.
County Judge:
L. D. EAKMAN
The County-wide singing pro-
gram which was to be held in
the county court house at Mon-
tague last Tuesday (night was
postponed to Tuesday, Feb. 3»
because of such bad weather.
Everyone la invited to atten
Due to the blizzard that has
been on all this week, workers
in the Chamber of Commerce
'membership drive have not been
able to proceed as-planned, and
the time for the drive, there-
fore is being extended a few
days, said Fred Lybrand, drive
chairman.
O'Dell announces the regular
directors meeting Monday night,
Feb. 2 and a special invitation
is given all new members to at-
tend and make any suggestions
*ie director:
H. Jl Box, carrier of the mail
on Route 3 out .of Bowie, was
painfully injured Monday morn-
ing while going to his car with
the second load for his route. He
fell on the ice as he walked from
the rear of the postoffice to his
car and struck his head on the
ice. .s ,
Fine Furs Lost
In Car Burglary
Three automobiles parked ot
the Hutchinson’s Hotel Courts
were burglarized Sunday night.
One of them owned by G. W.
Alge of Nash, Okla., had taken
from it a saddle leather bag,
with gold initials F. F. M. on it
and a man’s blue, pen-stripped
suit and other clothing. A car
owned by Con Hendshott of
Stom Lake, Iowa had taken from
it two size 616 cameras and a
pair of pig- gloves. The third,
car, owned by William Ford of
Wichita Kans., had taken from
it a short mink fur coat for
which Mrs. Ford said she paid
S3200, and also a short biege top
coat.
City Marshall Tandy Welch
has made search and passed out
information on the burglaries
and will appreciate any clues
or information anyone may
learn.
He says this is the first burg-
lary reported here in quite a
while.
...
were
next Sunday, Feb. 1.
Dr. C. Wade Freeman of Dal- an acre additional in oil. on the.
las, who came here to do the lease, when and if the-first oil
preaching in. the meeting will' producing well is drilled on the j
preach at the services Sunday | land, plus the usual royalties,
morning at' 11 o’clock and Sun- if oil is. discovered .according to
day. night at 7:30, according to the City Council minutes records
the pastor, Rev. G. B. Bradshaw,; at the City Hall. —
The visiting ----* “* —
sages .were well receive^ and j culated, to provide protection
he is a speaker of unusual abil- [ against drilling in or contamina-
ity. He is superintendent of .the tion of the waters of Lake Bowie,
department of evangelism of the the City’s water supply..
L........&u.L..gLtha .CitY.’^ land in. .thc.| fire.
■ lake area Is within 1 *-x miles of
the ■ new discovery well, Conti-
I nental’s Miller No. 1, a-mile west
I of Stoneburg, declared to be the
j best well that has eVer been drill-
■D‘d in Montagu* county 0*4 open'
_. ne wpocl. Yet part of The
•f a heart; city’s long strip of land is said
r>g Janu- : to be about 3 miles from the new
- _—-n’ i well. * Oil men say it is possible
-------n4tQ drill and produce from lands and a half, due, to pump diffi-
i near
MINOR WELL OPENS P<
with Loyd Tucker as foreman,
worked diligently during the bad
weather, not only in the day
but away into the night, trying
to make the highways in Mon-
tague County safe for the mo-
torists. T-
, Where the blades failed to
scrape the ice off the pavement,
gravel and sand Was spread to
prevent accidents.
The heavy snow is expected ----------- ----„
to be a help for better crops next day, night to Thursday of next
Jessie Precise, who received in- spring. ........ . week> account of the weather.
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Rev. W. W. Baker
Remains Pastor Here
Rev. W. W Baker, pastor
the Fundamental Baptist Church,
revealed at the services last Sun-
day that he will accept the call
of the church for another year.
He said he had only four op-
posing votes, and smiled and said
"That iitft many to be against
a man poaching the gospel.”
•He says the church is in good
fellowship and has a bright fu-
ture.
He announces that next Sun-J
day’s 11 o’clock Subject will be
the text “God Answres"by
Blood and Fire,” and Sunday
night, “The Hardest Man ip Bo-
wie to Get Along With.”
church is located at 216
Smythe street.
ter. Mis. Gordon Irby, from
Philadelphia; Pa. Rev. C. S. Wil-
hite, pastor of the Methodist
Church, will officiate. Interment
will be. in the Elmwood Ceme-
tery.
Survivors include four daugh-
ters, Mrs. «Mark High of Bowie;
Mrs. Gordon Irby of. Philadel-
phia, Pa.; Mrs. Roy Walker of
Iowa Park; and Mrs. Bill Elder,
who is with her husband in Ger-
many; one. son, W. E. Givens, of
brother, Frank
five
test.
The 1948 meet
Vernon, Chil-
dress and- Bowie are the past
winners.
Bowie will journey to Nocona
next_Tuesday night ...a nd _ a.. w.m ■__
for Bowie would eliminate J'Joco- Texas.
fllant who came promptly j na. from title chances and make
News office Wedneday and! Bowie a top heavy favorite over
good ’ Decatur or' the South Half win-
neighbor, when <ii appeared the . ner. 1-
Nwws building was on fin?.- In hi third ganw necessary
» damage io-ihe i lnc two reams, reuruary uiu ami -----------;------y— —rv"
Cline offered the ™! Bowie will be host to St. of Vashti, Texas, died of a
of his plant in such possible Jo and Graham respectively.
_Tho Bowie High School Cot-
tontails won first place Irf an rrt--
vitation meet at Bowie last Sat-
| urday. The juniors, coached by
George Tuttle, ran rough-shod
other opponents for the
title. Sunset. Stoneburg, and De-
catur also competed in the meet.
Council Tuesday 281 acres;
<>f /|he City’s lands in Lake Bo- [
of the building—from the
between the ceiling and roof. *pCntjing the arrival of a daugh-
in February.
Tonight (Friday) the Bowie
boys will open play jn the Jay-
cees tournament at Hardin Col-
lege in Wichita Falls with a first
round game with the Wichita
Falls Coyotes. Bowie is defend-
ing champion in the tournament
having drubbed Olney, Graham
and Petrolia last season for the*
title. The winner of the Bowie
ind Wichita Falls game will play
the wjnner of the Quanah and
Electra game Saturday after-
noon. The other four competing
teams arc* Vernon, Childress, N<>-
Thc -cham-
FILM PICTURE AT . „ .
METHODIST CltURCH
ON SUNDAY NIGHT
Rev. Charles Wilhite, pastor
of the First Methodist Church
announces that the moving pic-
ture to be shown for the Sunday
night service at that church, next
Sunday, will be titled “The Jour-
ney Into^aith,” which weaves
a story around Cleopas.'
- "The picture will help to give
for thirty four minutes 9 , fresh
concept of the meaning of the
resurrection to followers of
Christ,” thyastoy said.
PAUL MYATTS ARE
PARENTS OF A SON .
Mrs. J. C. McNatt has returned
from Odessa where a son u._
juries in falls on the ice.
Scheels dismissed Tuesday for
rejnainedr of week.
Much praise Iras been heard
f’-y ■ state highway employes
Johnie Hogue of the Rock Hill
community, has authorized the
News to announce that he is a
candidate far County Commis-
sioner, Precinct 2, subject to ac-
tion of the democratic primaries.
Mr. Hogue has a family and
lives on his farm four miles south
of Bowie where for four years
he has been engaged in farming
and livestock raising.
He invites the voters to con-
sider his experience and ability
for the place he seeks. He is 52
years old and prior to coming
to Montague county lived at New
London, Rusk county, where he
did construction work in the East
Texas oil fields. He says he was
for years-a machinist and had ex-
tensive experience as contractor
and foreman with large compa-
nies and has had experience in
handling men and doing work,
with headquarters in Bowie, and giving experience he believes fit-
ting for the work of commissfbn-
er, in addition to his knowledge
of conditions and road needs of
this area. . to the
"I will greatly appreciate the /
consideration and support citi-K H. -B.
zens will give my candidacy/
Mr. Hogue said.
Mrs. High's Father
{Died Wednesday
Willis Elby Gxven, 06, of Wich-
| ita Falls, a,id the father of Mrs.
I Mark High of Bowie, died sud-
denly Wednesday morning, Jan-
uary 28.
A native of Bowie. Mr. Givens
as a lad moved to Petrolia where
he was engaged in the Grocery
and Cotton ginning .business.
Later he moved to Wichita Falls
where he was presently engaged
as a stock brocket.
The body is at-Owens & Brum-
ley Funeral Home,
rangements were
The- fire department made a
quick 1 un to .the Bowie News
building when it appeared the
building was on fire at noon
I Wednesday.
I Smoke poured from the front
area
Hiller Declared g
Bes! Producer Yet ■
Drilled in County I
Continental’s No. 1 C. P. Miller B
we IL Block 21, L inest one Counfy
School Land Survey, one mile I
west of Stoneburg is now de- IS
dared to be the most promising
producer ever drilled in Mon-
tague county and new impetus to
the excitement around this new B
pool was added when the official g
incomplete test was made Friday. ■
Producing through perfora- I
tions from 6,1(10 to 6,204 feet, I
the well flowed 248 barrels of I
oil in seven hours through 1-inch I
choke, with tubing pressure of I
125 pounds. It kicked off prompt- I
ly after swabbing down 3500 I
feet from surface. I
After a two-hour shutin period, I
during which tubing presure in- I
creased to 650 pounds, the well I
was opened and flowed 344 bar- 1
rels of oil in 10 hours through
25-64-inch choke. It is reported '
to have been shut 'in for potential
Continental has between
1,500 and 2,000 acres around the
discovery, ■
.• This is from the second
glomerate after good production
flowed when encountered in the -
upper conglomerate, the promis-
ing good production possibilities
from two strata. Continental has
already staked on pffset to the
Miller. It is No. 1 S. M. Ayres,
660 ft. -from Sr And -W. liner of
21-Limestone CSL. Much oil,
property is selling in that area,
shut down on account of weather
New excitement was found in
Bowie area Wednesday when an-
other conglomerate pay area had
been indicated for Montague
County Wednesday at a wildcat
two miles northwest of Montague
and two miles northeast of the
Hildreth field at Sinclair & Con-
tinental No. 1-A W. T. Minor,
C. C. Milne survey. On test at
6,184-94 Jhe well showed gas in
three 'minutes and oil in ten. Tool
was closed in twelve minutes,
but the well unloaded for forty-
five minutes before being shut
in. Recovery was 1,290 feet of
oil. *
This looks like
pool opened within ten mile ra-
dius of Bowie within three
weeks.
Continental’s Catter No. 1 was
account of weather shut down
at 6357. It's Shcokley No. 2 was
drilling in sand at 4577.
Five Inches Snow Covers /
Bowie Area; Traffic Jammed
People of Bowie area experi-*. ~ J
enced much severe weather the
past ten days.
Subfreezing temperatures that
got as low as 14 in Bowie were
accompanied with snow that . vvori<e(i hard and tendered
reached a depth of about fiv#
inches and brought traffic to a
near standstill in some sections.
The heaviest snow fell Satur-
day and Saturday night. Follow-
ing rising temperatures the snow
melted for awhile, then began
freezing again accompanied by
mist that made traffic lanes
glassy and dangerous.
Cars without chains found it
hard going and many went ihto
a stall or the ditches.
In the second stage of the
blizzard, the temperature drop-
ped to 10 above zero, early
Wednesday morning.
r» j *- Only a few persons have been
ivus. j. < ; u an(] reported injured result of the un-
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. j usual ick streets and walks,
Paul McNatt are parents of their among them being Burley Box,
first child bom January 8. It is rural mall carrier, and Mrs.
a son. The name is Robert. <------ ---—-
W. A. Barker,
Prominent Vashti
William Alexander Barker, 87. fang a
attack Tuesday morning Janu-
ary 27, at the home of a daugh-
«r- Mrs- W. L. -Mowery, Perrin,
Texas? .. ' , ■ near ^hc. lake, without affecting
Mr. Barker, a native of White the- water supply.
County, Arkansas, came to Gray-' ' The City leased 80 aqps (an-
Son County, Texas, as a’ small I other tract) which is below the
ooVi Aftre his marriage to Mar- (lake dam, recently at ,$20 per
garet Perkins at Whiteboro, Tex., acre, to a Mr. Christie of Wichita
in 1897, he moved to Vashti, Falls, a prominent oil operator,
where he has made his home on; This was a short time before the
the same place for the past 50 ) Miller well came m.------
years. He was extensive land! Aubrey Horn, acting as agent,
owner and cattleman and was j
active in the affairs of the com-1
qiunity nd was held in highestJ
eStCeih. —— . - ,,
Funeral services were conduct-1 Droportions from
L '-—1 the T
Church at Vashti Thursday, Jan-
CITY GETS OIL MONEY
FROM LEASES ON LANDS
o—■■ .............— I ' I
The City of Bowie is now com-
ing into direct financial benefits
from the new oil diseovery^md'
may soon be able to'meet some
of its Water and sewer emer-
gency improvement needs with-
out added'burden to City prop
erty owners. - .
At the regular- meeting of the
Citv “ " “ ’ ■
7ti
wic area were leased to the Con-1
day at the First Baptist Church ] tinental Company at $75 an acre,'
discontinued Tuesday until/immediate cash payment totaling Aftcr diligent sear,,h fnf the fir„
i $2?'O2LOO:.i^4..?..itVGraVL^ by different openings into the
ceiling and root nrcaTit was dis-
covered the smoke was coming
from a coal stove in the adjacent
building, occupied by Bowden
Furniture, and was pouring from
a flu between the building^
I through a hole opening into the
space between the roof and ceil-
ing of the News • building. An
old battery box had been burn-
ing in the Bowden stove and the
odors smelled like, roofing on
Only slight damage was
caused.
The News publisher is. deeply
appreciative for the prompt ar-
rival and diligent work of the en-
tire fire force, despite the ice,
■inew—nnd—inewnveriieneen for
rncfi a calL*".
'It looks like prospects for a
bad situation, as the city water
had been cut- off about an hour
many civic improvements.
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We have, received this as an
inside information tip: The Gov-
ernment will hold the price of
eggs up by a stabilizing whole-
sale price of 41’i cents, to begin
with, soon. ^So don’t give up
your poultry plans. . The "Price
may be held up sufficiently to
make poultry pay.
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Nothing as modern’in a long
time has been erected in this
section as Frank Edwards new
building. He’ll soon be ready
to- formally open it. Weather | cona and Graham,
has delayed finishing touches. ' pionship finals will be played
He .is Riding to his lines of mer- Saturday night. "
Chand;se, announcing this week, is the 5th.annual,
elsewhere in this paper the U. S.
Tire line.
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We are deeply grateful to Mr.
Abe Cline, owner of the Bowie
Blade WHO-came prompny ;“«">**"
to the News office Wedneday and Bowie
offered the assistance of a ’ • Dorati:
A Nocona win will’make
;—fa I a third game nccessar.v . Iu:t wiaai
damage to-ihe the two teams. February 6th and
chairman and other offices have
found it necc^tMB to / ^^Dect
contacts’in
— In order MfV Bowie‘S quota
may be reached promptly every-
one is Urged to- make his con-
tribution promptly and liberally.
The drive was given now in,
terest this week when the first
Polio case of the year was dis-
covered at Sunset, and has been
sent to Fort Worth for treatment.
The March of Dimes which is
the 10th annual drive to fight
infantile paralysis, started in
j Montague couniy on January 18,
will continue through January
County family,-Culberhbuse had
lived here since he was six years
old, except for brief residences in
Vernon, Burkburnett and Ama-
rillo. He was born in Cleburne,
Johnson County, Dec. 31, 1878.
Funeral services were held at
the Owens • & Brumley Chapel
Tuesday, January 27, at 2 p.m.
with Rev. W. W. Baker, pastor
of the Fundamentalist Baptist
Church, officiating. Interment
was in Brushy Cemetery under
the direction of Owens-Brumley
Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were Kenneth Ar-
nold, Joe Woody, Arnold Burch,
Sr., Earl Burch, Jr., James Co-
burn and B. .Griffin.
Survivors include the wife,
three daughters, Mrs. B. Griffin
of El Paso, Mrs. Earl A, Burch
of Wichita, Falls, Mrs. James E.
Coburn of Roseville, California;
one brother, Walter L. Culbcr-
housc, of Amarillo, Texas; one
sister, Mrs. Blaine Robinson of
San Antonio, Texas, and ten
grandchildren.
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