The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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SATURDAY-
BOWIE, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1942
lLUME XXI
PROGRAM
S4- At*--5«- i*
The First Christmas
th
Leo Carillo
ii
Devine
Knox
so
Bowie High Graduate
said
I
rd Ho!"
th-
Mesquiteers’
Christ the Lord.
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MONDAY
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n Day
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■ Adults 15c
ig Tax)
I
LY-
jrant
rthur
bleman
own" *
made up the program.
y Bogart
'anning
op
Pav Now, Get Goods
After War, OPA Plan
ed Cross Drive
o Be In March
was
tHte
*1
hot
MAKE
EVERY
PAY DAY
BOND DAY
day night, Dec
-
m m m
WITH OUR
SERVICE MEN
ft'ft ft ft ft IS
For Victory...
Pledge
U.S.DEFENSE
BONDS
PR/.-
Wvl.t l‘
Mr. and Mrs. Tandy
1 com-
training.
Iffll
*ve
qHjc Saline ;
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"Your Home Town and County Newspaper"
wilt arrive Wednesday’for an ex-
tended visit with '
Mr. and Mrs. Roy I
She was given four weeks basic ’
training in military routines ; nd |
procedures on reporting for duty ] “
and was chosen for advanced
training in courses in the Spec-
ialist Schools because of excel- ,
fence in basic training work. ~
Miss Faulkner wlll-bfr assigned
to fill a non-combatant Anny job
held by a soldier thus fulfilling
is to release trained fighting man-
the purpose of the Corps which
power for combat duty.
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Rev. and Mrs. A. J.
children will visit th«
Mr. and Mrs. T.
Mr and Mrs. .
Morgan Mill di
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1
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By order L-223, the WPB cut
production of filth for camera
fans 50 per cent below 1941 out-
put. and reduced production of
film for professional snapshoot
and moving picture film uSers to
24 per cent below 1941 output.
Manufacturer of 35 m. motion
picture film also was cut 24 per
cent Output of filrp for the armed
forces arid specified war agencies
is not affected by the otder.
Mr*. W. T. Welch, of. Dallas,
is visiting t* " *
Welch while hit husband
pletgs his pre-flight t“
‘ hji to be here for
And they <~4me with and
found Mary and Joseph, and the babe
lying in the manger. >-»t
And when they hed aeen it. they
made known abroad the saying which
was told them concerning this child.
And all they that heard it wondered
at those things which were told them
by the shepherds.
But Mary kept all these things
and pondered them in her heart.
And the shepherds returned, glori-
fying and praising God for all the
. things that they had heard and seen,
as it was told unto them.
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School Program Dec. 24
A Christma , tiw and program
for the Sunday School of the
First Presbyterian Church will
1 be presented at the church Thurs-
‘ “ :, 24, at 7:15.
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ASTAIRE
Theatre Calendar
BOWIE MAJESTIC .
Wednesday - Thursday: Cary
Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald
Coleman, in “The Talk of the
Town ” . "
Friday - Saturday: “Maisic
Gets Her Man”, with Ann
Sothern, Red Skelton. Also
Gene Autry in “Stardust on
the Sage.”
Sunday - Monday: “Tarzan's
.New York Adventure” with
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen
O’Sullivan - *’
Tuesday Only: Walt Dis-
neys "Dumbo" in Technicolor.
Wednesday - Thursday: Wil-
liam Powell, Hedy Lamarr in-
“Crossroads”.
* Tg-W.
m)
CADET WELDON EPES .
—Waldon T. Edes, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Edes, is now sta
tioned at the U. S. Navy Pre
Flight school at Iowa City. Iowa.
He attended Civilian Pilot Train-
ing ground school at Long Boach.
California, and finished his pri
mary. flight training'at King-
man, Arizona.
Cadet Edes was sworn Into the
Naval Air Corps Reserve August
20, 1942.
He was graduated from Bowie
High School in the class of 1940.
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New Completion
Forestburg Area
The Magnolia Petroleum No. 1
Medley in the G. W. Fannin sur-
vey in the Forestburg field has
been completed as a producer,
having pumped 34 -barrels of oil
in a ewenty four hour test at
7,444 feet to which depth it was
plugged back from 7.476 feet
and acidized.
The Continental Oil Company’s
No. 1 Heard, two and one-halff
miles east of Sioneburg,
drilled plug and, deepened
i ifaft shepherds said
ua. pow go
see fs’z ” ’ _
which the Lord hath made known unto
us.
The Office of Price Adminis-
I tration has a plan under consid-
I eration to permit advance in-
| stallment payments on refrigera-
I tots, furnaces and pianos, with
the purchases themselves-to be
I delivered after the Uar. Other
r items would be added to. the list
I later.
The scheme has the double pur
I pose of reducing the volume of
I spendable funds, thus relieving
I inflationary pressure, and of
easing the return to a civilian
economy after the war is over
i The plan was developed bv
Rolf Nugent, an advisor on cred-
it policy to Leon Henderson.
One spokesman said Tuesdav it
is in an advanced stage, but .he
doubted OPA would take direct
responsibility for it. Some
I. thought it would require legisla-
'tibft, 1 .
It would work out in this
I fashion:
Consumers would buy Durchase
certificates, 'entitling them to
I priority on postwar deliveries,
without specifying what is to be
bought. Installments would be
collected by. regular finance con-
cerns. After the war the buyer
would receive priority of delivery
in accordance with the
shown on his purchase certlfi
cate.
The price paid for the certifi-
cate may be somewhat ess than
that ultimately paid for the fin-
ished product, with the differ
ence to be paid later.
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Railroads Cooperate to
Discourage Travel
Major Southwestern railroad
lines are cooperating with ODT’s
request to discourage travel dur-
1 “ing the hqliday season, although
restrictions of such travel is still
on the vbluntary basis of patri-
otic' refusal to travel unless the
r trip is "absolutely necessary. ODT
officials reported,
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Bowie Schools Close
For Christmas Holidays
The Bowie schools closed Wed-
I nesday evening for the Christ-
mas holidays. They will reooen
1 " ■ - " Wt Walter ,
ed.
NUMBER 43
Bowie Han Spends Three Days On I
Raft; Ship Sunk In Nediterreanan
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Another Bowie man whd has I
been through the mill of actual I
combat with the enemy arrived 1
here on furlough this week. Ho- I
bert Hustead, Fireman First Class I
in the U. S. Navy, was a member I
of the crew of the ill-fated Leads- I
town which went down off the I
coast of Algiers during the first I
few days of the Allied invasion I
of North Africa last month. ——I
After four days and nights of - I
almost continuous fighting,. dur- |
ing which time Hustead alter- ’ J
nated his time working fodr I
hours in the engine room of the I
ship with eight hours on deck
helping man an anti-aircraft '
a submarine torpedo ttiPee times ~|
and sank within sight of the Al- I
gerian shore. There*, was little I
or no time for rest dunng thii ’ I
time, except for brief lulls when I
no planes were coming over. ■, 1
Hustead and sixteen other men
spent three days and nights on I
a raft, floating in the Mediter-
ranean without food or water.
Fairly close to shore at first, the
tide carried the men out to sea
and with no paddles or other
means of propulsion, there WM ; js
nothing for them to do but wait
for rescue and hope a plane
spotted them before a snajk.
During the three days the rafts |
- i . i .. ice by lilgfi I
waves. On the third day, they
were picked up 6y a small Brit-
ish boat scouting for' survivor*.—-J
Hustead said that while all of
them were suffering from thirst
and exposure, their spirits ™-
high and they all sang and joked ■
during their three days on tKe Tr*]
They were carried back to
1 England on a returning troop
ship and “hitchhiked” their way " |
back to the United- States for St ]
well-earned._thirty day furlough -1
Hustead, 32, is the son of Mr. d
and Mrs. P. F. Hustead. of Bowie. I
His wife also lives in Bowie. He
re-enlisted in the Navy last July
and had previously served, four
■years in the Navy from 1929 to
| 1933. Hr had oeen employed---r
here at Elvin Butler's garage for
,. four years prior to his enlist-
! ment.
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T. J. Owens Funeral
Sunday Afternoon
Thomas Jefferson Owens, 81r a
resident of Bellevue for 36 yeara,
passed away at his home here
Saturday evening at 5:30 o'clock,
'following several weeks of ill- -
ness.
A native of Georgia^ Mr. Owens -
married there in 1883 and came
to Clay County in 1901. moving
to Bellevue five, years later where *
he had . been a prominent citizen
•since. Mr. Owens had been an
active member in the Baptist
Church since a small child, hav-
ing been baptized by his father,
a pioneer minister in Rome,
Georgia. Mrs. Owens died in
September this year.
Funeral rites were held from
the First Baptist Church here
at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon
with Rev. H. T. Tinney, the pas-
tor, and Rev. W. H. Neely, a
retired Baptist minister, offi-
ciating.
An impressive feature of the
service was a quartette rendered
by Messrs. Henry Franks, George
(Smith, of Henrietta, and J. H.
I Hodges and A. G. Taylor, of
ILK OF
iday
r-
eant”
Game Preserve License
Musi Be Paid Before
Leasing For Hunting
Land owners are warned I by
State Game Warden A. A.
Stein that before leasing land
for hunting privileges a Shooting
Preserve License of $5.00 must
be paid.
This license is required of ev-
ery person who acts as manager
for any club, or the owner of
any club or shooting resort, or
lessor of premises leased for
hunting purposes, who accomo-
dates hunters for pay, Stein
stated
Application for this license
may be made to the State Game
Department at Austin or to
Game Warden Stein at Decatur.
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Film Production For
Camera Fans Cut
t\\
And this shall be a sigK unto you:
Ye shall find the babe wrapped in J
swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. I
And suddenly there was with the , I
angel a multitude of ihe heavenly I
host, praising Crod and raying: _ . I
Glory io -God in the highest, and * ,<
on earth peace, good will toward men.
. , And it came to pass, as the angels
into _ J
, andthhr, Let ' 1
zz— z~> uftto-Bethlehem, and
this thing which has come to pass.
has
to
5.935 “feet, total depthl in shale. | Ml
Swabbed dry, it filled 125 feet r
of oil in twelve hours. Operators L,ei
are preparing to acidize. ---
Rigging is up for the Sinclair
Prairie No. 1-A Jack Hildreth,
new deep test locatel seven miles
northwest of Bowie.
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Large Audience Enjoys .
Xmas Musical Program
At Baptist Church
A beautiful and impressive
musical service was presented at
the First Baptist Church Sundav
1 evening. The choir sang many
of the traditional Christmas
hvrnhs and carols ‘ and special
numbers were given bv Mrs.
, David Warren. Miss Marian Hen-
rying. Miss Inez Rudy, a male
chorus, and horn ensemble du,
rented -by George Rucker. Mrs.
vdd Jones read the timely ooem,
“Christntas This Year", as a
climax to the fine music that
C- r . A fine
attendance was present for the
service.
Special Christmas musif
also presented as part of
morning worship service.
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Presbyterian Sunday
William D. Oliver Promoted
To Technician Sergeant
Thecnician Sergeant William
D. Oliver, .son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Oliver, of Bowie, has been
promoted from" Corporal to Tech-
- melan Sergeant. F.ululing Sept. ■
- 3, 1940, Sgt. Oliver is stationed
at Fort D. A. Russell, Marfa, Tex-
1 ■ - ■
Bowie Men in Honolulu "«•-
A cablegram received here
last week advised that the group
of five local men who Jeff here
November 22 for Naval construc-
tion work at Pearl Harbor, had
| arrived safely in Honolulu. They
I are Greer Dickey, Marvin Wil
Tiett,7 "Spec'' Dodson, Wayne Gol-
den and Jake Dorsey.
Pvt. Weldon Hutkoy in
1 Nebraeka
, Pvt. Weldon Huskey, who left
■t ‘for service N TTVCTT bei1 is* TfUW"
F stationed at the Air Base in Lin
coin, Nebraska,, where he will
Fft take a course in aviation me-
La chanics. Pvt Ruskey is the son
Iff of Mr, and Mrs. H. M. Huskey,
Wi ,gf Bowie.
nM Pvt. Lawrence Long in
M : Radio School
M "’■' Pvt. Lawrence C.' Long, son of
Ml Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Long, of
Bowie, is attending a radio oo-
IA era tor:: and mechanics school in-
p. Sioux Falls, So. Dakota
Bell Brothen Write
. Mother Here. ’
k Mrs.. Ruby Bell, of Bowie, has
received word from her sons,
■B Melvin .and Doyle, saying they
gB were both well and getting along
KH Melvin B« 11 is on a dar ship
gl somewhere in the Pacific area.
He is serving his sixth year with
IB the U S. Navy, most of that time
■I being spent in foreign duty.
Doyle Bell, A. O. M.. 2nd Class,
. is serving with the U. S. Naval i
■ Air Corps in. the Pacific. He (
kH has been in iservice two years. !
Ml on foreign duty the past • 18
months. •
He Both arc graduates of the Bowie
^H i High School.
Kenneth Wilson in So. Carolina
9H Kenneth Wilson wrote the Bow
■H ii. News this week that he had
QB been transferred from Harlingen.
( Texas, to a new station in Green-
I ville, S. C., and to “please start
sending my Bowie News here
w as I have missed several copies
already.” ;
And there were in the same coun-
try shepherds abiding in ihe fields,
keeping watch over they- flocks by
night.
And lo. ihe angel of the Lord came
upon them, and ihe glory of the Lord
shone around about them, and they
were sore afraid. L \ J
And the Angel said Unto them.
Fear not; for behold I bring you good
tidings of great joy. Which shall be to
all people.
For unto you is born this day, in
the City of David, a Saviour, which is
'Dora Faulkner Finishes
WAAC Advance Course
Miss Dora Faulkner, member of
the WAAC from Bowie, recently
I-A Red Cross Wai- Fund Drive i computed advanced training in
to early March will take the place 1 the Specialist Schools for mem-
|f annual Roll Call usually held I bers of the Women's Army Aux-
iti November of the preceding I ihary Corps at Des Moines, loWa. I
tear, Red . Cross officials an- 1
jounced this Week. Real liberal-
ly ig expected from all members
■> meet -the war need, they said.
I The local‘chairman, Mrs. L. H.
Ingove, has been otified by the
Bounty chairman, Ray Beal, that
donations made before the end bf
■942 may be credited to this fund,
Kllowing the donor to claim cred-
it on his income tax report.
I Considering the heavy surtax
this wear, this arrangement could
result in a saving to the giver,
Red Cross-officials said.—Those
Svishing to take advantage of ]----w-----------
■his should make ttoir deposit in {n Naval Air Corps
■he bank and hold the deposit *
HTp for Mrs. L*: H. Angbve. ‘ *
I The county quota has not been
bet but will be far larger than
pny preceding' year.
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"Montague County
Pioneer Dies
I William Edward Kilcrease, 59,
|a native of Alabama, and- a Mon
Etague-County resident.since 1893,,
[died Monday at his home in Lin-
Idale community near this city
(aftel a 10-<lay illness. "
Kilcrease was born in'TSSS, and :
was harried in 1924 "to Mi»s Bes-
sie McCartney, of Bowie, She and
three children Franklin Edward.
Mary Louise and Glena Mae, all
of Lindale, are survivors.
Also surviving are‘five sisters,
Mrs. E. B. Morris, Mrs. Wes Wig-
gins. Mrs. D. F. Tinsley, Mrs. E.
B. Long, all of Bowie, and Mrs.
L. A. Wiggins, of Healdton, Ok-
lahoma;' and one brother,- A T.
Kilcrease. of Casa Grand, Ariz.
Funeral services, conducted bv
Rev. Kirk Beard and assisted
by Rev. A. J. Quinn, were held
at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon at
the Lindale community ebure.h.
Interment was in , dhe' Lindale
cemetery tinder direction of Bur
gess Funeral Mome. Pallbearers
were Tom Lindsey, L. W.‘Lind-
sey, B. F. Tinsley. Horace Tins- ’
lejjj Lee Wiggins ahd Ray Long.
of Henrietta, at the piano.
Survivors include two SOOS, “4
L. H. Owens, Electra; and R. L.
Owens, Vernon; two daughters, y
Mrs. Joe Coleman, Fort Worth, d
and Mrs. William Dawson, Belle-
vue; six grandchildren and seven
great grandchildren.
. Jiri .parents, kitorment was at the-BeUSMji^SM
Sanders cemetery with Wetsel Brothers, ->i
local funeral directors, in charge '
of arrangements.
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WPB Permits Additional
Cordage Uses
5
Amending its order
permitted users of agave fiber
and cordage, the WPB added to
the list spinning lines for oper-
ation of oil and gas wells, drill-
i ing cables for water wells and
j scaling rope used in mines. The
amendment also permits unre-
stricted sale of lariat rope used
on cattle ranches which was hflj
process or on hand on SeptemoS
Holiness Revival To
Begin December 27
Rev.cW. M. Lightford and
daughter, of Hico, Texas- will
begin a revival at the Holiness
Church, two blocks «.— — .1—
Denver depot Sunday night, De
cember 27.
and
overturned.. The accident oc-
curred between Alvord and De-
catur.
luiiy decorated 2Lmas :ree. t was Drought to Bowie in a i
The refreshments of salad, Ritz ‘ oassing truck and carried to his
' ’ ‘ home here by Charley Smith,
night policeman. '
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Home Makers Class
Christmas Party At
Fulcher Home
The Homemakers Class of the cai'lv Monday morning when the
'home of Mrs. J. E. Fulcher for tlided with another truck
(.cmm-i t,teir annual Xmas party with
Services will begin each night president, Mrs. Muriel Willett
promptly at- 7:30. Rev. J?- -----*-----
Webb will be in charge and ex-
tends everyone a cordial invita-
tion to attend: --------;--
Beautiful Christmas
Program Presented
At Methodist Church
The choir of the First Method-
ist Church, presented a beautiful
Christmas Vesper service at Twi-
light Sunday evening. .
A good attendance enpoyed the
Christmas anthems and hymns by
the fine choir*. Special numbers
were presented by Mrs. Harry
Karlsberg, Mrs. Homer B. La
tham, Miss Martha Ann Gibson,
Mrs Henry T. Ayres, the Junior
and Intermediate choirs and the
High School orchestra directed
by' George Rucker.
5 Mrs. PauL. Boedeker gave the
Christmas message. Readers
Vrere Mrs. Wilbur Morgan and
Mrs. R. C. Cady. Mrs. Will S
Yound directed the choir and the
program. »
Mrs. Jim Colter, of Gainesville,
who has been seriously ill, 'is-
reported to be much improved
Mrs. Colter is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hahn, of
Bowie. ,,
Bowie Man Injured In
Truck Accident Monday
Jim Gresham, truck driver
for the Dallas News, was injured
east"bf "the' First Baptist Church met at the - truck which he was driving ool-
their annual Xmas party
u - ______Kf.,„;^l v
John I assistingas hostess.
Games were played and gifts
were distributed from the beau
tifully decorated Xmas tree.
crackers, individual cherry, ptes,
topped with whipped cream,
Xmas candy and coffer were
served buffet style from a lace Roy d. Sanders, Jr, of Austin,
covered table centered with .mis-( -------- w->----•— •*------
tietoe. and a. large poinsetta.
Those present were Mmes. A. I
D. Wheat, Fairy Hawkins, C. 1
Cozart, Louise Southerland,
Kaherine Shellenberger, N. B.
Hamilton,, Fred Kiser, Joe Han-
kins, Margaret Gray, Muriel
.Willett and the hostess, Mrs. J.
E. Fulcher.
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The Gah Wouldn't Like
"’’inois Militia
CHICAGO, Ill—Brig. Gen.
Leo M. Boyle, Adjutant General
of Illinois ana chief of staff, of
the Illinois reserve mlitla.^Ws
asked if there would be women’s
at" !,iarv of the militia.
“No, t''»re won’t,” the General
respem’' -1 firmly. "In the first
place, the State Constitution says
only male citizerts can belong to
the reserve rtiilitia, in the second
place a woman’s auxiliary would
nave to be called WIRMS, and
no woman could tolerate that. ’ ,
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