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NO. 4
TELEPHONE 44
FORTY EIGHTH YEAR
ENNIS, TEXAS THURSDAY EVENING JANUARY 4, 1940
FOUR PAGES TODAY
Flying Over Mount Whitney, Highest in U.S
Here Is How
To Talk
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Historical Data on Census Given,
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Like all the feudin’ folks in his-
Jan. 17—Harcld Powell.
Social Security Board Plans
Special Service to Ennisites
Causey Is Aggressive, Sincere
Industrious Farmers’ Leader
To Enter
News* Drive
M. H. Wolfe
Is to Speak
At Tabernacle
E. T. Bentley
Made Foreman
Of Grand Jury
Katie Daffan
Will Resume
Duties Monday
Representative Is
To Be Here 1 Day
Every Other Week
1940 Census •
Will Present
New Farm Idea
M. E. Medford is
Ill at His Home
Explains Set-Up,
How It Works
Although it has been only a few
weeks since the Ennis high school
football team completed the most
successful year in the history of
the local school, already many of
the boys are looking forward to
spring training. Here are the prin-
ciples of success on the gridiron
as outlined by Gerald Mann, at-
According to one little boy, Santa
Claus is a very thoughtful per-
son. Not only did Saint Nicholas
call him before Christmas to find
out what he wanted, but he called
after Christmas to see if he got
his presents all right and if they
were satisfactory.
A full page was devoted to Mr.
Wolfe in the 1939 edition of “Who’s
Who in America,’ ’and his position
in the banking, cotton, Dallas civic
and cotton world have been very
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A millionaire three different times,
Mr. Wolfe, a native Texan, moved
to Dallas in 1905 and established
the Cotton Exporting House of M.
H. Wolfe & Company, which be-
came one of the largest cotton ex-
pert firms in the United States be-
lore the World War.
Sally Haynes is
One of Beauties
At E. T. S. T. C.
ture of life in the United States.
“This is the most complete and
thorough census ever undertaken,”
said Mr. Stringer, in discussing all
that are to be taken in the Ennis
area in 1940, as they will be else-
where.
R. Muirhead Goes
To Houston to Be
In Trucking Firm
have been affected by the new pro-
gram, but points out that there
are more than 2,000 names enrolled
on his books in Dallas for this dis-
trict.
The new, amended program makes
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Feudin’ Time Gomes in Lions Club,
As “Roarers” to Meet “Growlers”
After the World War and during
the depression he lost his fortune,
but he now says, “The banker may
say that Wolfe is broke, he does
not know, but I know the large
amount of time I have invested
in the cause of Jesus Christ is safe
and the gates of hell shall not pre-
vail against it.” These investments
make me one of the richest men
in Texas today, and the moneyless
millionaire that cannot go broke.
Banks may break and great mer-
cantile establishments may break
but God’s promises do not break.
Furthermore, if Jesus Christ fails,
nothing else matters, and wise men
will stake all on Him and follow
where He leads.”
These same ten rules will apply
just as well to the Ennis house-
wife, the Ennis merchant, and the
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Ennis EchoeS
on the
AVENUE
to qualify, if they have an em-
ployment record, as only six quar-
ters of employment since 1936, or
half of the quarters between the
ages of 21 and 65 since the pro-
gram started, aren ecessary to make
the- workwer eligible for the pro-
gram.
He points cut that for this reason
the more intimate contact which
they hope to establish through this
program of an itenerant service is
necessary in the area they cover.
Members of his staff will visit once
every two weeks in all towns over
5,000 population in the area.
As a final caution, however, Mr.
Tutt said that it should be pointed
out that the social security pro-
gram is one for people only with
employment works; those who have
not been workers and want bene-
fits apply to the relief office and
not the social security board.
Accompanying Mr. Tutt to Ennis
was a member of his staff, who
spent Wednesday getting things in
readiness to open up the itenerant
service of the social security board
in Ennis. The first official visit,
when the office is open to the
public, will be Tuesday, Jan. 16.
tory, the “Roarers” and the "Growl-
trs" are no exception, and they
vill seek during the feud to draw
more of the cream of Ennisite’s
manhood into the contest. These
will be in the form of new mem-
bers for the Lions Club.
By W. J. Stringer on Ennis Visit
The latter job, he says, was done
by WPA workers, whereas the pres-
ent , one is being conducted by
trained, paid workers.
As for the agricultural census,
this will be the first of these, says
Mr. Stringer, and the federal gov-
ernment wants to find out all it
can about agricultural conditions.
It wants to be able at the end of
this census, he points out, to be
able to picture the drift of history
in every way.
Washington officials are being
expected more and more by the
people to be able to furnish them
with any and all information on
various communities, and the gov-
To enter the Ennis Daily News
big “Pay As You Go” subscription
drive is simply a matter of clipping
out the- entry blank and filling in
your name and address. Then bring
it or send it to the Campaign Man-
ager, at the News office.
The entry blank starts you off
with 5,000 free votes right away.
On the first subscription you will
receive 100,000 extra votes. A cou-
pon is printed in every issue of
The News good for 100 free votes.
Get your friends to save these
coupons for you if they are already
taking the paper. Votes and votes
alone will win the many awards
offered to willing workers in just
a few short weeks’ time.
The Grand Capital Aard, the
Chevrolet Sedan (or optional prize)
will go to the contestant securing
the greatest number of votes in the
campaign. This prize can be won
by a candidate either in Ennis or
in the country.
After the winner of the Chevrolet
has been decided, the contestant
next highest will receive the $400
credit on the Dodge sedan.
Every- active participant in this
campaign will receive either a val-
uabe prize or'be paid a cash com-
mission exactly according to the
rules. There will be no losers in
this circulation drive.
Katie,” in the Ennis Daily News,,
and her teaching duties at St.
John’s School of Ennis.
“Ask Miss Katie” is regularly an
editorial page feature of The News,
and serves as its inquiry depart-
ment. In her column, Miss Daffan
will answer any questions of its
readers, and they are invited to i
write her either at her home or in |
care of The News.
Crawford A. Mc-
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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
following program
charge of seeing that the figures
are properly compiled on Ennis in
1940, pointed out the past popula-
tion records taken by the govern-
ment, showed Ennis first recorded
in 1880 with 1,351 people.
Its development can be seen in
the following figures of past cen-
suses: 1890, 2,171; 1900, 4,919; 1910,
5,669; 1920, 7,224, and 1930, 7,069.
Surprisingly enough, Mr. Stringer
also pointed cu that manufacturing
census have been taken every time
since 1810, at first being taken
every ten years with the population
census. Then coming more fre-
quently, being every five years, and
since 1920, says the district head,
there has been a manufacturing
census every two years.
It is the business census, which
is being taken only for the third
time, which makes people think
both business and manufacturing
are new, he says. ‘It was taken first
in 1930, for 1929, and in 1936, for
1935 according to Mr. Strainger.
The new census will show a
large increase in beef cattle, they
said, and also an increase in the
number of sheep and in the acreage
in soil building and soil conserving
crops.
nounced the
chairmen:
Jan. 10—Dr.
Murray.
During the last seven years the
farmers of Ellis county have had
no more aggressive, industrious, and
sincere leader than C. W. Causey,
of Ennis, president of the Ellis
County Agricultural Association,
and chairman of the county farm
committee.
Having lived and worked on the
farm most of his life, Mr. Causey
knows the problems of the farmers.
He was born Aug. 23, 1877, on the
Ben Reagor farm, near the present
location of the roundhouse in En-
nis. He was the oldest boy and the
second oldest of eight children
born to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Causey,
both of whom are now dead.
At the age of 3, Mr. Causey
moved with his parents and the
other children to Nebraska, where
the family remained for three years
before returning to Texas and buy-
ing a place about a mile west of
Alma. After about six years there
the family returned to Ennis and
lived in the northwest part of the
city for about a year and then
moved to the Price Cross Rloads
community.
Four years were spent at this
place and then the Causey family
went to the Indian territory, now
the state of Oklahoma. When his
parents returned to Texas three
years later, Mr. Causey decided to
remain in the Territory, where
there were many Indians but few
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Miss Katie Daffan, who has
been confined to her home since
before Christmas with a serious
illness, has been improving stead-
ily, and she announced Wednesday
that she will attempt to resume
her regular duties next Monday.
E. T. Bentley of Bristol and Ennis
was named foreman of the grand
jury which was empaneled Wed-
nesday morning in Waxahachie.
The grand jury is for the Decem-
ber term of the Fortieth District
Court of Ellis county and, im-
mediately began their examination
of witnesses.
These n othe jury include: J. C.
McCrary, Ennis; W. P. Wilemon,
Maypearl; W. W. Winston, Italy;
Clyde Witherspoon, Waxahachie;
C. S. Shankle, Palmer; Bentley,
Ennis; S. A. Whitfield, Alma; E.
J. Kendall, Ennis; B. W. Poff,
Bardwell; R. L. Epps, aimer; O. H.
Windham, Italy, and Berry McGee,
Waxahachie.
Most farm leaders expressed an
interest in learning how many
acres in Ellis county are terraced,
but doubted that the census would
give this information.
Census takers also will find
many more permanent pastures in
Ellis county now than their prede-
cessors found in 1930, the farm
leaders said. The number of acres
planted in feed crops also is larger,
it was pointed out.
It’s feudin’ time again, and this
time it’s the “Roarers” and the
"Cowlers", fearless Lions, not the
Martin’s and the Koy’s, those fear-
less mountain boys, that are at it.
They’re a feudin’ under the lead-
ership of their captains, Troy Dun-
gan of the “Roarers” and Buddie
Davis of the “Growlers.” What this
fued is all about, has net been de-
cided as yet.
But the captains of the two teams
and the Rev. Dean Harrison, presi-
dent of the Ennis Lions Club,
whose members constitute the two
sides of the feudin’ team, are to
meet before next Wednesday’s
luncheon meting of the Ennis Lions
Club, when the fued officially
opens, and decide what it is all
about.
Three three will decide how the
feud will be scored, it being pri-
marily an attendance contest, see-
ing which side can get the most
men on the scene of battle each
Wednesday noon for the weekly
luncheon session of the Lions—and
they will also decide the penalty
that is to be assessed against the
M. E. Medford, market manager
o fthe Safeway Store, is confined,
to his home, in Ennis with illness.
During his absence from duty,
Charles Dobbs of Corsicana is
serving in his place at the store.
HIGH FLIER—In sensational tactical training flight, squadron of U. S. Army bombers flies over
Mount Whitney, 14,495 feet above sea level, highest point in United States. Later, planes de-
scended into Death Valley. Temperature of flight varied from 40 degrees below to 100 degrees
above zero. Planes were 19th Bombardment Group, March Field, Riverside, Cal.
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PAYNE stopped to look in a store
window . . . MRS. MINTER Wo-
MACK was seen making a pur-
chase . . . LOUIS ALLEN was
hurrying back to work .
what well known publiiczed gen-
tleman of Ennis, who used to go to
shews, and set a seat away from
his fate, now goes to the theater
alone, or at least was seen at the
Plaza that way last night . . .
TRAVIS YOWELL and DALE PAR
HAM were riding in a car together
MRS. DON ESSELMAN sub-
stituted for MRS. PAUL RIDINGS
as The News’ proof reader today.
BURA BAIRD and HUBERT
ROGERS were News’ office viistors
. . . I. G. MOORE went to South
Texas yesterday . . . Seen: GAR-
NER DUNKERLEY, HESTER VEN
ABLE and GAYLE OLER had a
/cup of coffee together yesterday,
1-shich is not very unusual . . .
VDEAN HARRISON, TROY DUN-
GAN and BUDDIE DAVIS held a
meeting this morning.
ORCHID FOR THE DAY . . .
JAMES GOODWIN, who is cele-
brating his birthday today.
ernment has put all the censuses losing team,
together this year to get a full pic- Lihz th
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Ellis county that will appear in
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Mr. Sims said that while few pe-
can trees had been planted in Ellis
county during the last ten years,
the census probably would show
considerable pecan development as
the farmers have begun taking
care of the native tres on their
places.
When the 1940 farm census is
complete, it will paint a vastly dif-
fernt picture of Ellis county than
did the 1930 census, County Agent
Walter Love, County Committee-
men C. W. Causey, P. T. Price and
Lynn Slayden, Dabney Sims, pecan
specialist of the state department
of agriculture, and others agreed
in a recent discussion.
Closer contact with the citizens
of their district is the purpose
of an itenerant service to be estab-
lished by the Social Security Board
which has its offices in the Allen
Building at Dallas, and this serv-
ice will be carried on in Ennis.
Ernest L. Tutt, manager of the
Dallas office, was in Ennis Wednes-
day to arrange for the carrying out
of the program here and after a
conference with George Barney,
Sr., acting postmaster, he announc-
ed that Ennis would receive a visit
every two weeks from a member
of his staff.
These visits, according to the
Dallasite, will probably be made in
Ennis every other Tuesday, with
the first of them, falling on Tues-
day, Jan. 16. This man will be in
Room Two of the postoffice all day
every other Tuesday reports Mr.
Tutt, and it will be his purpose
to establish contact with as many
Ennisites as is possible and would
care to visit him.
“We invite and even encourage
inquiries and visits from each and
everyone,” says Mr. Tutt. “In fact,
we wouldl ike to answer all ques-
tions regarding the social security
program; clear it up in every one’s
mind, and give each and everyone,
young and old, who desires to know
the status of their social security
account.”
Mr. Tutt points out that it is
impossible to estimate how many
Special to The News.
COMMERCE, Jan. 4 — Miss Sally
Haynes of Ennis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. C. Haynes, has been
selected as one of the thirty-six
most beautiful girls in East Texas
State Teachers College in a stu-
dent body poll.
From this number the six most
beautiful will be picked for the
beauty page in the school yearbook,
The Locust, by a nationally known
artist or movie star. Six of the
thirty-six named this year were
Locust beauties last year.
Miss Haynes was the only Ellis
county girl listed in the thirty-six
picked by the student body.
“The Moneyless Millionaire,” M.
H. Woile of Dallas, is to fill the
pulpit of the Tabernacle Baptist
Church at its morning service Sun-
day, the Rev. Hugh R. Bumpas, I
paster, has announced. Mr. Wolfe is
a noted cotton man, who has made
Falling all together for the first
time in history in this census year,
according to William J. Stringer,
supervisor of the Sixth District,
in which Ennis located, are the
following: the first agricultural
census, the third business census,
the sixteenth population enumera-
tion and the twenty-third manu-
facturing census.
The years being multiples of ten,
became known as census years,
points out Mr. Stringer, because
of provisions made in the United
States Constitution when it was
passed in 1787. It required that a
complete enumeration of the people
of the thirteen colonial states be
made within three years for pur-
poses of representation and taxa-
tion.
Since that time, the population
has been taken officially every ten
years, and on the figures derived
therefrom are based all the of-
fiical actions of the government.
Mr. Stringer, who will have
pw,
Christmas of 1939 is still a mem-
ory, even though many are already
looking forward to the 1940 Yule-
tide. One of the best stories of
the 1939 Christmas season con-
cerns Carolyn Randle, young
daughter of Judge and Mrs. C. C.
Randle. Well pleased with the way
Santa Claus treated her on his
visit the night before Christmas,
little Miss Randle hung up her
stocking again on Christmas night.
Jan. 24—Fred Clark.
Jan. 31—Hubert Rogers.
Feb. 7—Tom Spence.
And the feudin’ will end then,
so that the losing side may pay
their penalty, whatever it may be,
at the Ennis Lions’ annual birth-
day dinner, Monday, Feb. 12, and
this affair will celebrate their nine-
teenth birthday, the club having
been established on that date in
1921.
The Rev. Harrison has divided
the two teams by going down the
roll giving every other man to the
same side. The result of these
means that the two sides doing the
feudin’ will be:
Roarers.
Troy Dungan, captain; James Al-
len, Bura Baird, George Barney,
L. D. Black, Oscar Colvin, Chaddy
Davidson, Hugh Fitzgerald, W. F.
Howard, Russell Kelly, J. D. King,
Ike Mocre, Charles Mosshart, Craw-
ford McMurray, Harold Powell, Paul
Ridings, Hubert Rogers, Tom
Spence, Nell Sewell, Dee Wills.
Growlers.
the Avenue
torey general of Texas, who for- ; This will incluc both her regu-
merly of S. M. U. I lar daily column feature, “Ask Miss
1. Prepare yourself.
2. Never be satisfied with your-
self.
3. Be enthusiastic.
4. Be loyal.
5. Be unselfish.
6. Co-opearte.
7. Forget your past record.
8. Think under pressure.
9. Fight when you are losing.
10. Play the game square.
The trio in charge of the con-
test, Capt. Dungan, Capt. Davis,
and President Harrison, the latter
serving as sort of a referee being
cn neither team, will decide just
what bonus will be scored for all
the folks “dragged” into the “fray.”
During the feudin’, too, the new
folks each week will help their side
additionally by being present at
the scone of battle, so there is go-
ing to be some real effort made to
extend this feudin’ throughout En-
nis’ well known males.
Newest man in the fued will be
Earl Driskill, who was only this
Wednesday introduced as a new
member of the Ennis Lions Club.
His will be the role of going at
once into battle, and he will be
supportin’ Capt. Davis’ “Growlers”
in the feuding’.
Ennis’ newest battle will begin
next Wednesday, Jan. 10, at noon,
and will rage until the close of the
Liens’ luncheon meeting on Wed-
nesday, Feb. 7. It will be feudin’
galore all during this period, and
the rival captains are already mak-
ing their campaign plans.
For the programs to be held at
the meetings during the feudin’,
the Rev. Harrison, has had no re-
gard for affiliations, and has an-
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Robert Muirhead, formerly of
Ennis, has recently moved there
from Ennis to become associated
with his brother; Charles, in their
trucking company, the Houston
Inland Forwarding Company.
R. Muirhead was associated in a
business way with the firm, prior
to moving to Houston to take an
active part in the business. The
Muirheads have a fleet of thirty-
two, new, modern trucks, included
in their company.
Earl Muirhead, who is still living
in Ennis, will lock after Robert’s
business interests here in Ennis.
Thes include several enterprises of
various forms, mostly connected
with agriculture.
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Operation in Dallas.
Miss Daisy Williams, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Seth Williams, had
an operation in the Baylor Hospital
in Dallas this morning.
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Buddy Davis, captain; Arthur
Bailey, Bob Banner, Thad Barring-
ton, Pat Cosgrove, Fred Clark, Earl
Driskill, Jimmy Gardner, Clyde
Hawkins, Joe Jolesch, Ed Keever,
George Ledbetter, Ellis Moore,
Homer McElroy, Jim McMurray, Sid
Roper, Selma Rains, Frank Sikes,
Tom Sanders, Jim Tolleson.
M. H. WOLFE—This famed
Dallasite will speak at the
morning services Sunday at the
Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Walter Love, Ellis county farm
agent, says that one of the best
ways for a farmer to improve his
lot is for him to study the meth-
ods used by more successful agri-
cultural leaders. In Ellis county
today there are amny men who are
making a success of farming in
spite of the comparatively low price
of farm products. Agreeing with
Mr. Love, The Ennis News during
1940 plans to print the life histories
of several of the agricultural lead-
ers of the county. Stories already
have appeared about Mr. Love, |
Mr. Lawson, Mr. Alexander, Mr.
Farris, Mr. Cerf and several others
who are applying business principles
to farm problems. Other articles
wil lappear in the future.
One of the incidents of Christ-
. mas that gave the writer a chuckle
was watching a 50-year-old man
who was displeased with what
Santa Claus brought him.
Glad tidings for the new year
from the social security board’s
office in Dallas were brought to
Ennis Wednesday, when Ernest L.
Tutt, manager of the social security
board viisted here. The program
is starting payment of monthly
benefits for old age and survivor’s
insurance this year.
He said that his office, which is
located 1530 Allen Building, Dallas,
is now, receiving applications for
payments beginning with the new
year. He also took time to explain
the program as simply as possible.
Tutt described an imaginary
worker, “Bill Jones,” illustrating
the number of ways benefits may
be paid to him, to his dependents
and to his survivorse under the
new program.
“In the first place,” he said, “let
us assume that Jones is 67 years
old. He has been working in a
store for $100 a month since Jan-
uary 1939. In May 1940 he is en-
titled to a monthly benefit and he
decides to retire. He files a claim
with the social security board and
thereupon receives $25.50 a month
for the rest of his life.
“Jones” wife is 65 years old.
Because her husband is drawing
benefits, she, too, may file a claim
with the social security board. She
then receives a monthly benefit of
$12.75, or half her husband’s bene-
fit as long as her husbandl ives.
“If Jones should die with his
wife surviving him, she may file
another application for monthly
benefits, this time for $19.14, or
three-fourths of her husband’s
original benefit.
“Suppose Jones is only 30 years
old in 1940, that hie dies leaving
a wife and two small children. His
-witlow- their ‘ files a claim - for • her-
self for each of her dependent
children. Benefits may begin with
the month of Jones’ death. In this
case $19.40 a month would be paid
to his widow and $12.75 to each
child; a total monthly income to
the family of $44.64. This benefit
payment will ordinarily continue
until the children are 18 years old,
when all benefits stop.
“However, when Jones' widow be-
comes 65 she again files a claim
for benefits which entitles her to a
monthly income of $19.14 as long
as she remains unmarried.
“Let us assume,” Tutt continued,
“that when Jones died he left
neither a widow nor children but
had been the sole support of his
aged mother and father. In this
case the parents file claims, and
each receives $12.75 every month
for the rest of their lives.
“In other instances where there
are no survivors entitled to month-
’Twas a dreary day on the Ave-
nue today ... It just could not
seem to make up its mind, as to
whether it wanted to rain or not
. However, a cold mist did hang
over the city all day . . . And
this department did not hear a
soul that did not make seme com-
ment about the weather.
DR. C. P. COOK was seen in a
new raincoat . . . BETTY BUM-
PAS, despite the weather, managed
to dress in the usual clever manner
' that is her’s . . . The weather
probably was no help to LACY
SHAW, who seemed to have a
cold.
JACK HINTON was walking down
the Avenue with his apron on . . .
E. K. ATWOOD was riding down
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