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The Winkler County News
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Kermit's Oldest Newspaper
Friday, April 14,1939
BY: JACK BILLS
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
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CONGRATULATIONS
PLANS FOR RODEO TAKING DEFINITE FORM
total of $14.15 each, by
costs, for a
Judge Salmon.
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Kermit Firemen
Win Attendance
Cup At Midland
Thieves Enter
Wink Drive-In
Fire Damages
Trailer Home
County Officers
Get Clean Slate
From Auditors
County Court
To Consider
Sealey Road
J. P. Court Has
Light Docket
New Commission
Order Restores
Winkler Output
Commissioners
Accept Midland
Firm’s Oil Bid
New Locations
Hold Up Despite
Industry Aches
Kermit Stores
To Close Early
During Summer
Seventy El Paso
Trade-Trippers
Visit In Kermit
Street Fighters
Draw $1.00 Fines
Lions Minstrel
Makes $250 Profit
drunk
charges.
effective April 7, and which super-
seded the April 1, drastic reduction
order, partially restored the allow-
ables in Winkler County fields. The.
changes made, were as follows:
1,426
474
6,668
18,690
2,145
1,255
145
2,445
492
the Sealey
about ten
As a result of a movement begun in
Wink last week, the County Com-
missioners Court has taken under
consideration the building of a new
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COUNTY TREASURER
VISITS RELATIVES
1,422
474
11,549
18,689
2,068
1,934
145
2,443
496
Emperor
Halley
Hendrick
Kermit
Keystone Colby
Keystone Lime
Leek
Scarborough
Sealey
section 28, block B-5, PSL. The last
named test is an eastern outpost in
Stanolind’s T-88-F lease and is on
the extreme east side of the Hen-
drick Pool.
The completions, which upped the
county’s total for the year to thir-
ty-nine, were as follows:
Magnolia No. 223 Walton in sec-
tion 16, block 77; Magnolia No. 220
Walton in section 17, block 77 and
County Treasurer L. R. (Jake) Tar-
ver, with his wife and small son,
Phillips, is visiting relatives in Ark-
adelphia, Arkansas.
Scheduled to return this week,
Mr. and Mrs. Tarver notified friends
in Kermit that their son was ill
with the flu and could not make
the return journey at this time.
the tour.
Full itinerary for the trip: Tues-
day, Roscoe, 9:30 o’clock; Loraine,
11:15; Colorado, 2:15, and Stanton,
8 p. m. Wednesday, Big Spring, 9:15;
Midland, 1 p. m., and Grand, Falls-
Royalty, 8 p. m. Thursday, April 20,
Monahans, 9:15; Pecos, 11:15; Wink,
1:30, and Kermit, 8:30 p. m. Friday,
Odessa, 10:30 a. m., and Forsan, 3
p. m.
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The Cowgirl Band at Hardin-Simmons University; Abilene, colorful in its purple and gold uniforms, is
directed by Herbert M. Preston, head of the H-SU violin department in the university’s fine arts school.
Soloists with the band, a sister organization to, but distinct from, the celebrated H-SU Cowboy Band, in-
clude Marijohn Melson, accordionist; Edwina Walker, whistler; Marjorie Moore, trombonist; Jane Meskimen,
pianist; Jean Vandervoort, roper. Inset shows Director Preston.
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Hotel with music
Texans.
Those attending
Only two cases were tried in Jus-
tice of the Peace Court this week,
both on drunk and disturbing the
peace charges.
A Kermit woman, proprietor of a
local hotel, and a Kermit man, were
arrested Tuesday by Deputy Sher-
iff Clint Sharp, who lodged the
The dull, purple color of things at
Austin last week, which gave the
oil industry a severe attack of the
stomach ache, apparently had no
With the general steering commit-
tee, composed of Mayor Ray Clapp,
chairman, and members G. C. Ol-
sen, Judge G. E. Gilliam and Sher-
iff Ellis Summers, pushing things
along, plans for the second annual
Winkler County Rodeo and Live-
stock Exhibition continued to shape
up satisfactorily this week.
The Winkler County Commission-
ers Court entered an order appro-
priating $400 for the committee to
use in promoting the livestock ex-
hibition feature of the rodeo and
the Kermit Independent School Dis-
To Mr. and Mrs. Hack Alford of
Wink upon the birth of a seven and
one-half pound son, in a Wink hos-
pital, Sunday morning.
To Mr. and'Mrs. Lloyd G. Prewett
of Wink upon the birth of a six
pound son, in a Wink hospital, Sat-
urday morning at nine o’clock. The
young man was given the name
Richard Graham.
were: Messrs, and Mmes. Ben Coop-
er, Paul Roberts, Fred Dozier, Jim-
mie Tye, Clay Pitchford, Stanley
Garnett, Bob Barham, Raymond
Smith and C. A. Self and Riley
Burdette, Fred Pearson, and Emmet
Merriman.
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Special to The News
ABILENE, Agril 14. — A tour on
which the organization will visit
thirteen West Texas cities and
towns for visits next week, was an-
nounced today for the Hardin-Sim-
mons University Cowgirl Band.
The Cowgirl Band will give a con-
cert in Kermit next Thursday night,
Two Kermit men drew fines of $1.00
and costs in City Court Monday fol-
lowing a brawl on Austin street
near the Texhoma Hotel. The battle
followed a fender nudging accident,
in which the tail light of one car
was broken.
After listening to the evidence in
City Court, during which the braw-
lees came near getting . together
again, Mayor Clapp assessed the
fines and ordered the paid to adjust
their differences peaceably.
by Harrison’s
er, whistler; Marijohn Melson, San-
ger, accordionist; Jane Meskimen,
Lubbock, pianist, and Virginia Car-
ley, Borger, coloratura soprano.
Director Preston has several new
Thieves entered the McNeff Drive-
In sandwich stand in Wink Tues-
day night, making off with about
$7.00 in nickles that had been hid-
den by the proprietors under a
counter.
Mr. and Mrs. McNeff didn’t dis-
cover the loss until Wednesday
night, when they reported the mat-
ter to Chief Deputy Sheriff Bill Ed-
dins. No information has been ob-
tained as to the identity of the
thieves.
Walter Winchell once got in an aw-
■ ful argument with newspaper men
all over the nation by saying in his
column that Dallas, Texas has more
beautiful women and girls than any
other city, in proportion to its pop-
ulation, of course, than any other
place in the United States.
Well, we aren’t afraid of shaking
the nation with the declaration
we’re about to make—The News
circulation being what it is. All
we’ll do, most likely, is evoke an-
other insult to Winkler County and
aspersions on the judgement of the
conductor of this column from such-
people as Miss Betsy Ross of the
Pecos Enterprise, George Baker of
the Fort Stockton Pioneer, Tony
Slaughter of the Odessa Daily Bul-
letin, Johnny Smith of the Mona-
hans News and —perhaps— Uncle
Jim Ross of the Balmorhea Texan.
Let ’em evoke and insult—we’re
declaring to the world that Kermit
has more beautiful women and girls
in proportion to its population, than
any other town in the United
States.
We couldn’t go to all the churches
in Kermit Sunday for Easter Ser-
vices, so we just went to ours. We
had scouts in the others, though,
and the same report came in from
all of them—“Beauty galore in such
quantities that we got a crick in our
neck from trying to see it all.”
There you are — Betsy, Johnny,
George, Tony and Uncle Jim—also
Mr. Winchell. Pick that to pieces
if you can!
An incomplete report of the profits
from the negro minstrel sponsored
by the Wink Lions Club, presented
last Friday night, showed that a net
of over $250 was derived from ticket
sales, advertising, and candy sales.
This entire amount will go into
the fund for the underprivileged
children of Wink for use in buying
glasses, foods and other necessities
for the needy tots.
Kermit’s annual spring clean-up
campaign which came to a close
Tuesday, helped the outward ap-
pearance of the town to some ex-
tent, according to S. E. Burnett,
county sanitarian. In the'* east and
northeast sections, where the resi-
dents offered more cooperation,
much more was accomplished than
in those sections where little inter-
est was shown. The final results
showed sixty-three truckloads of re-
fuse hauled to the dumping grounds
and the road leading to the dump-
ing ground cleaned of accumulated
rubbish which had been dumped by
thoughtless citizens. This beginning
should not be allowed to end until
every lot in Kermit and every street
and alley has been rid of its ac-
cumulation of rubbish, trash and
weeds.
Since no more trucks or men are
available for free service, it will be
necessary for residents to complete
their clean-up at their own expense.
will remain open until 10
appearing in the high
Fat) Sanders, chairman of the stock
committee, will attend the South-
west Rodeo Association convention,
which is to be held,in Colorado City
Sunday and while there will endea-
vor to secure suitable livestock for
the rodeo. Sanders will be; accom-
panied to the convention by Post
Commander Cooper Davis of the
American Legion Post and either
Sheriff Summers or Chief Deputy
Bill Eddins.
Sponsors of the second rodeo and
livestock exhibition, who are the
All county officers were given clean
slates by C. G. Morgan, Jr., certi-
fied public accountant who audited
the books,, records and accounts of
the officers of Winkler County for
the period beginning January 1,
1937, and ending December 31, 1938.
In his report, dated March 19,
and which was addressed to Hon.
G. E. Gilliam, County Judge and
members of the Commissioners’
Court, Mr. Morgan said:
“All recorded receipts and dis-
bursements were traced from their
source through the records of the
county auditor to the county de-
pository and the fund account bal-
ances were reconciled with the bal-
ance shown by the county depos-
itory.
“All balances to the credit of the
various fund accounts were in agree-
ment at the beginning and at the
end of the period under examina-
tion.
“The records of the county aud-
itor, however, are more comprehen-
sive in that items are recorded in
greater detail. They are exception-
ally well and accurately kept, and
it is our observation that the high
standard of efficiency in this de-
partment is a substantial contribu-
tion to the county’s welfare.
The report shows that during
1937, total receipts were $442,552.23
and disbursements were $463,641.03.
There was a balance on January 1,
1937 of $27,664.52 and a balance on
December 31, 1938 of $6,575.72.
The report details the receipts
and expenditures of each officer’s
account and concludes with the
statement that the county records
are exceptionally well kept. It re-
veals that the county’s bonded debt
was but $3,000 on December 31 and
that only $11,677.25 in time warrants
were outstanding.
Miss Jacke Reese and Mr. Sam F.
Aired, both of Wink, were married
Sunday morning at 9 0 clock by
Raymond Boyd, minister of the
Church of Christ. The ceremony
was performed insthe home wheie
they will reside in the south part
of Wink.
Mr. Aired is an employee of the
Humble Pipe Line office in Wink
and his bride formerly worked in
the office of Stodelall McAdoo.
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The Kermit Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment won the gold cup for the at-
tendance prize at the district con-
vention of the Permian Basin Fire-
men’s Association in Midland Sat-
urday afternoon. Twenty-one mem-
bers of the local department and
their wives were present, giving
them a one tally margin over their
nearest rival.
First place in the pumper con-
tests was taken by the Marfa de-
partment with a time of 23 3-5 sec-
onds. Monahans was second in the
competition with 24 seconds and Ft.
Stockton took third prize with 28
seconds. Kermit’s time was 31 sec-
onds for fourth place. But for the
fact that one of the Kermit team
members was injured by flying hose
when he came off the truck in the
contest, the local lads would have
been in the money, Chief Cooper
predicted,
At the business meeting in the
afternoon, Marfa was awarded the
next convention of the Association,
which will be held in July. The date
will be determined and announced
later.
A barbecue and picnic was served
to all visitors at Cloverdale Park
at 6:30 in the afternoon. At 8:30,
a dance was given in the Scarbauer
The bid of Mitchell Sales Company
of Midland to supply the County
with' diesel fuel oil was accepted by
the Commissioners Court in special
session Monday and an order was
entered awarding the contract to
that firm. The company bid 6 cents
per gallon, delivered in Kermit.
The county will use from one to
two thousand gallons of fuel oil per
month for the diesel engines mount-
ed on the new road maintainers.
The court also voted to donate
$400 to the Winkler County Rodeo
and Livestock Exhibition, which is
scheduled to be held in June and
which is being sponsored by the
Kermit American Legion and Fire
Department. The money will be used
by the Rodeo and Exhibition man-
agers to promote the development
of high grade livestock strains in
Winkler County.
The Court also decided to improve
the road from Wink to the Sealey
Lease in Ward County, providing
the necessary rights of way can be
obtained.
The initial move in a “Close Early”
campaign for Kermit business hous-
es was made this week when the
managements of Speers 5c to $5
Store, Kermit Department Store,
The Fashion Shoppe and N. Wink-
ler & Sons announced a closing
hour during the summer of 7 o’clock
p. m., except on Saturdays, when
and disturbing the peace
Both were fined $1.00 and
Clock
Chief Office Deputy Eddie Mae
Mosely in the Sheriff’s Office is
quite grateful to the following
“friends” (sic) for a shiny, new
k Westclox: Jane Blackburn, Ruth
• Duenkel, Clint Sharp, Judge Halley,
Judge Salmon, Homer Giles and
Alice Thompson.
The way we get it, the .“presenta-
tion” started out as a gag, but
wound up by gigging the gagees—
and thereby hangs a tale that ex-
plains the smug and satisfied grin
Miss Moseley might be seen wearing.
For the first time since she has
worked in the Sheriff’s Office,
Moseley overslept Thursday morn-
ing and didn’t get to work until 9
o’clock. The group of “friends” bor-
rowed the shiny new clock from Du-
ard McKenzie over at Barnes Phar-
macy and left it on Moseley’s desk
with a card reading “From the Peo-
ple Who Think You Need a Clock.”
Moseley read the card, looked at
the clock and forthwith appropriat-
ed it. There was nothing left for
the originators of the gag to do but
chip in and go pay for the clock.
------------------- , Marjorie Moore, Sweetwater, trom-
Standard of Texas No. 2 Baird in bonist; Edwina Walker, Sweetwat-
effect upon the optimistic attitude
of operators in the Permian Basin, 1 April 20,
workers in the Sealey lease are eith-
er living on the lease and working
in Monahans or living in Monahans
due to the poor condition of the
road from the lease to Wink. A
great many have expressed a pref-
erence for living and trading in
Wink if a good road was supplied
between the two points.
American Legion Post and the Ker-
mit Volunteer Fire Department,
predict that the show this year will
surpass the one last year. Through
the combined efforts of the two or-
ganizations, a more comprehensive
program can be followed and a bet-
ter, all-around exhibition staged.
Unless the weather gods are un-
kind, as they were last year when
three performances were rained out,
the rodeo should prove an out-
standing success.
each store manager urged their pa-
trons to keep in mind the new hours
and do their shopping before 7
o’clock.
“The managers of the stores join-
ing this movement feel that their
employees are entitled to get off
from their work early enough each
day to do their own shopping,”
James Snyder, manager of Speers
and the Kermit Department Store
said. “We’d like to see every store
in Kermit close at 6 o’clock, but if
they will cooperate with us to the
extent of closing at 7, it will be a
great boon to the workers who earn
their livings in the stores.”
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Hardin-Simmons
Cowgirl Band To
Play In Kermit
and improved road to
lease in Ward County,
miles south of Wink.
According to the
■ Vol. 4, No. 4
Noted Authority
Startles Lions
With Crime Data
Fire, which was caused by a bucket
of paint boiling over on a stove,
damaged the trailer house of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Spradlin in Under-
wood Addition at about 6:30 p. m.
Tuesday. Only the quick work of
the Kermit Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment prevented the flames from
completely destroying the house and
its contents.
Mr. Spradlin, a Magnolia employ-
ee, estimated his loss at about
$400.00. He said he was painting the
trailer house and had placed a
bucket of the paint on the stove to
thin out. While he stepped outside
for a moment, it boiled over. He
was painfully burned about the face
and hands while attempting to pt
the flames out.
who made locations for 57 new tests,
two more than for the previous
week. Four new locations were an-
nounced for Winkler County and
three wells were reported as com-
pleted.
The four new tests, which raised
the total for Winkler County since
January 1, 1939 to forty-three, were:
Magnolia No. 226 Walton in sec-
tion 16, block 77, PSL; Magnolia No.
227 in section 17, block 77; Skelly
No. 29 S. M. Halley in section 6,
block B-11 and Stanolind Oil & Gas
Company No. 1, Ida Hendrick in
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' trict board of trustees granted use
’ of the athletic field for the cele-
bration.
; . Mayor Clapp and Judge Olsen al-
so revealed that arrangements have
been made to advertise the rodeo
i over a Pecos radio station during
the two weeks proceeding the show.
Owners of the station also agreed
to permit a thirty-minute board-
i cast, providing a suitable program
was arranged, when the booster
trip is made to advertise the affair.
Chairman Malcolm Everett (Mack
Fire Crackers!
Certain members of the Kermit Vol-
unteer Fire Department are getting
to be regular Will Rogers’ in the
matter of wise-cracking—which we
have dubbed “Fire Cracking.”
For instance, after the Contin-
ental oil well fire Sunday night, one
of the brave laddies popped off,
“Well, we saved the sucker rods,
anyway!”
(Note to the uninitiated: The
sucker rods in an oil well are the
rods that travel up and down inside
the hole, working the pump that
sucks the oil up.)
Then, after the Jack Spradlin
trailer house fire Tuesday evening,
during which Fireman W. L. Cham-
pion did as much good with a buck-
et of water and a wet mop as any-
body else, one wiseheimer piped up,
“The City Dads spent $3636.00 for
a mess of fire equipment and Old
Man Champion puts the fires out
with a wet mop! Some fun!"
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school auditorium, at 8:30 o’clock,
in a program under the sponsorship
of the high school annual staff,
Mike Barrett, faculty sponsor.
On tour, the band will present a
program of ensemble and solo spec-
ialty numbers under the direction
of Herbert M. Preston, conductor.
Accompanying the band, as fea-
tured guest artist, will be Miss Vir-
ginia Sheridan, of Houston, talent-
ed harpist. Miss Sheridan, who is
entering H-SU in the fall, is a win-
ner in the harp division in several
national contests, has studied in
Miss Milligan’s school of music in
Houston, while attending high
school there, and was a guest on
Rudy Vallee’s program when Rudy’s
nationally known band made a re-
cent Texas tour.
Other soloists to be featured by
the colorful H-SU Cowgirl Band,
appearing in the school’s purple and
gold colors in their costumes, will be
Ross Gal Again
Miss Betsy Ross’ weekly insult to
Winkler County — and Kermit in
particular—took the following form
in The Pecos Enterprise last week:
Speaking of Kermit, just as
though things weren’t bad
enough all over the country, the
school and Lions club are spon-
soring a “crime clinic” over
there.
Now at a health clinic you
try to get healthier, and at a
band clinic you try to learn
more music. A crime clinic
couldn’t mean but one thing.
Right, Betsy. We’re studying crime
in a big way over here. We figure
we’ll need it to combat the dirty
work of Pecos when we get ready
to push that road on through to
El Paso.
You know the old saying, “Set a
thief to catch a thief,” and “It takes
fire to fight fire,” and all that rot.
Seventy El Paso business and pro-
fessional men arrived in Kermit
early this morning in two chartered
Greyhound busses for a short visit
during the Gate City’s annual good-
will and booster trip.
The trippers were met at the city
limits by a Lions Club reception
committee riding on the fire truck.
They were brought in to town via
the schools and part of the business
section, then welcomed on the court
house lawn by City Clerk Jack Bills,
acting for Mayor Ray Clapp who is
absent from the city.
The Kermit high , school K band,
directed by H. H. Copeland, assisted
the welcoming committee by ren-
dering a number of lively tunes.
The travel-weary El Pasoans wel-
comed the band’s renditions with
hearty applause and cries of “more,
more!”
Reversing the usual procedure,
the trade-trippers furnished enter-
tainment for their host city. The
famous Blue Bonnet square dance
team, composed of four couples,
who are touted as National square
dance champions by the El Paso
Chamber of Commerce, knocked off
a couple of dances for the enter-
tainment of those present.
After spending about thirty min-
utes visiting among the local assem-
blage, the goodwillers journeyed on
to Wink where a short stop was
scheduled.
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Loosing a barrage of figures and
statistics on crime in general and
juvenile delinquency in particular,
Judge Allen R. Frasier of Alpine,
district attorney of the 82nd Judi-
cial District and a noted authority
on the subject of crime prevention,
Thursday brought home forcibly to
the Kermit Lions Club and a num-
ber of guests especially invited for
the occasion the pressing need for
immediate action to educate the
youth of the nation away from
criminal tendencies.
“Crime in the United States costs
each year seven times as much as
we spend on education,” Judge Fra-
zier declared. “According to figures
released by J. Edgar Hoover, head
of the' Department of Justice, crime
costs $14,000,000,000 per year, yet we
spend but $2,000,000,000 per year on
education.”
“But the saddest part of that sto-
ry is that a majority of the crim-
inals’ at work in the nation today
are mere boys—and some girls.
Judge Frazier pointed out that
there are more criminals at work
in the United States today than
there were volunteers for service
when the nation entered the World
War. He estimated the criminal
population of the United States at
3,000,000 men, women and boys, and
termed them “The Horde of Hood-
lums.”
4,176 Crimes Every Day
“Every 24 hours,” Judge Frasier
said, “there are 4,176' major crimes
committed; every 20 seconds a theft
is committed and in every 24 hours
there are 37 murders. And when I
say major crimes, I mean robbery,
arson, burglary and murder.”
Getting down to the theme of his
address—juvenile crime and anti-
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