The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1948 Page: 8 of 14
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THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS
Thursday, August 19, 1948
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BY NEV WILLIAMS.
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Saturday, Nov. 20.—Hobbs. here.
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LOCAL MEN ATTEND
WATERWORKS MEETING
Tuesday Bridgers Meet
With Mrs. W. O. Hunt
Equalization Board
To Meet Aug. 20-21
A meeting will be held by the
City Equalization Board Friday and
Saturday, Aug. 20 and 21, between
the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at
the City Hall with taxpayers whose
here.
Friday,
there.
Friday,
there.
Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge Turner
plan to leave soon for Fort Stock-
ton to make their home.
Kermit Oilers
Take Comedy
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KENNETH TURNER
FLOWN TO DALLAS
FOR MEDICAL AID
Kenneth Turner, 14, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Homer Turner of Kermit,
was removed from Memorial Hos-
pital Wednesday and flown to Dal-
las for treatment at St. Paul’s Hos-
pital of a painful kidney ailment.
He was moved from a Richey
Flying Service aerial ambulance at
Love Field at Dallas into an ambu-
PVT. DEWEY .RAMBO
STATIONED IN JAPAN
- With the Eighth Army in Osaka,
7 Japan, Aug. 19.—Private First Class
f Dewey C. Rambo, son of Otis H.
f- Rambo, Kermit, Texas, has recently
been assigned to the 27th Infantry
Regiment of the famous 25th In-
fantry (Tropic Lightning) Division,
commanded by Brigadier General
Everett E. Brown.
Private First Class Rambo en-
tered the United States Army on
March 31, 1948, and received basic
training at Fort Ord, Calif., before
being sent overseas to Japan on
June 25, 1948.
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mechanics have that knowledge and experience
in their fingertips. You can always depend upon
us to do every repair job—big or small ex-
pertly, efficiently and at modest cost.
W. T. Varnell of Kermit will
be in charge of refreshments.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Walton and
son, Johnnie, returned home Mon-
day from Ruidoso, where they
had spent two months at their
summer lodge.
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Grandfalls, and Kermit are
pected to be represented.
Coaches, Officials
To Hold Meet
Here Aug. 22
First meeting of the 1948 fall
football season of the Trans-Pecos
Coaches-Officials Assn, has been
called for Sunday afternoon, Aug.
22, at 2:30 o’clock at the Kermit
High School Library by Elmo Glass
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YELLOW JACKET CO-CAPTAINS—Charles Teasley (right).,
230-pound tackle, and Wilbur Jett, 160-pound guard, will lead the
1948 Jackets in the District 5A race. Teasley, an exceptionally
fast man for his size, was All-District in 1946 as a sophomore and
spent much of the time last season on the injured list. Jett, a
spark plug in the ’47 line, and Teasley are the only starters from
last year’s team.
Park—complete with a
creased population was young
people and returning veterans.
The speaker was introduced by
County Attorney-Elect Wm. E.
Pool, program chairman.
WINK MEN CHARGED , CITY COMMISSION
WITH ARMED ROBBERY POSTPONES MEETINGS
Richardson - Bass
Wins Softball
Championship
Richardson & Bass edged out
Gulf 2 to 1 in the eighth inning
Wednesday night at Lipham Field
to win the 1948 City Softball
League title.
Trophies were presented the
winner and the runner-up by the
Kermit Chamber of Commerce,
sponsors of the League.
Richardson & Bass took the first
and third games in the play-off
to win the pennant. They reached,
the finals by downing the Hot
Shots in the first and third games
of the Shaughnessy play-off.
Gulf earned the right to enter the
finals when they defeated Cabot
in two straight games.
Friday, Oct.
here.
Saturday, Oct.
Mrs. W. O. Hunt entertained
the Tuesday Bridge Club at her
home this week. Mrs. E. T. Barnes
received high score.
Those present were: Mrs. R. L.
Nicholas, Mrs. Ed Birtciel, Mrs.
Lawrence Mills, Mrs. H. B. Usry,
Mrs. A. C. Williams, Mrs. C. H.
Pearson and Mrs. Barnes.
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During the business portion of'1 J” R. McMurray of Big Spring
the meeting President Noble De- started this morning (Thursday)
vaney presented the idea of spon-
soring a plaque or monument to
mark the discovery of the first oil
well in Winkler County and hav-
ing an annual celebration in ob-
servance. He appointed Freemon
Underwood, Pool and Jimmie
Lyles to a committee to investi-
gate the possibilities of such a
project.
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McClesky of Monahans, who is
attending summer school.
Business of the meeting will in-
clude probable assignment of of-
ficials for the first and second
football games. Rule books will
also be distributed.
Coaches and officials of Denver !
City, Fort Stockton, Andrews,
Seminole, Monahans, Wink, Mc-
Camey, Pecos, Alpine, Crane,
Mrs. E. D. Dement, Teacher
213 S. PINE
was announced by Supt. G. E.
(Tommy) Thompson.
The approximate 1,000 ducats
will be available at the following
places: Kermit Pharmacy, L-B
Drug, Best Drug and Elmo Glass
Men’s Store.
Only reserve seats to be sold,
the books of five tickets will sell
for $5 each. All of the season tic-
ket seats will be between the 30
yard lines on the west side of the
field.
W. T. Varnell, Junior High
School principal, will be in charge
of the sale.
Brown, Bennett Wight, Paul Ste-
phens and Harold Slaughter,
tackles.
Workouts are being held twice
daily at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. and
this schedule will be maintained
until school starts.
Ten games comprise the Yellow
Jackets schedule this year. All are
night games with astericks denot-
ing District 5-A games:
Friday, Sept. 10.—Denver City*,
here.
Saturday, Sept. 18.—Austin-El
Paso, there.
Saturday, Sept. 25.—Ft. Stock-
ton*. here.
Friday, Oct. 1.—Pecos*, there.
Friday, Oct. 8.—Off.
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Season tickets for all of the
Kermit Yellow Jackets home
games will go on sale Friday
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Four persons from Winkler
County attended a regular meeting
of the Permian Basin Waterworks
Association meeting at Lamesa
Tuesday night.
Attending were: Mayor Fred
Pearson, Harley Davis, James
Sharp, all of Kermit; and Clyde
White, Wink.
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Nov. 5.—McCamey*,
as new assistant manager of Wac-
ker No. 2, replacing Preston Dun-
bar who volunteered for the U. S.
Army Air Corps, it was announced
by J. P. Bewley, manager. Me-1
Murray was formerly an assistant I
manager of Wackers at Big >
Spring. He is married and a vet-
eran of World War II.
Jerry Clark and Jerry Pollard,
both of Wink, were charged with
robbery with firearms at Tulsa,
Okla., last week, according to a
report received by Wink officers.
The young men allegedly high-
jacked a man in a Tulsa hotel
room Sunday night, Aug. 8, tak-
ing about $104 from him. Tulsa
officers arrected the pair shortly
afterward and recovered the
money.
BY BOB MOORE
Forty-three husky, tanned
youths, muscles hardened from
work during the summer months
in the oil fields and other activi-
ties, reported for the opening of
fall football practice Monday af-
ternoon at Walton Field.
Coach D. M. Mayer Assistant
Coach Charles Floyd and B Team
Coach Bob Shelton put the boys
to doing exercises to limber them
up before starting scrimmage
practice-
The coaches are starting almost
from scratch .this year to line up
a varsity Yellow Jacket team.
Only one starter from the 1947
team, Charles Teasley, a guard,
returns. Seven lettermen and one
reserve are back this year. They
are: Johnny Stout and James Lip-
ham, ends; Paul Stephens, tackle;
Babe Jett, guard; Dan Sandel,
center; and Gene Madison, back:
The reserve is Jimmy Marks.
Teasley and Jett are the co-
captains for the 1948 Yellow Jac-
kets. Ramsey Brown, head mana-
ger; Don Richardson, assistant
manager; and Joe Morris, mana-
ger of the B squad.
From the remaining thirty-five
hopefuls, the coaches have the
difficult job of picking the varsity
starters and reserves. Those who
fail to make the varsity will play
on the B team.
Coach Mayer said Wednesday
afternoon "we have a green, in-
of Kermit, secretary of the or-
ganization. i panied the youth.
Glass called the meeting in the,
absence of the president, Melton
swimming pool, rodeo grounds,
shade trees and other attractions
—as a means of providing ade-
quate recreation for the young
folks as well as the old in the
county.
The Chamber of Commerce
manager said that during the two
years and nine months that he
had been here, he had seen Ker-
mit almost triple its population.
He estimated that from eighty to
ninety-five per cent of the in-
200 Block N. Poplar
Patients admitted to Memorial
Hospital during the past week
were:
Jin Obeba Salazar, Jeannette
Hanes, Willie Read, Mrs. J. B.
Waldrop, all of Wink; Mrs. Troy
Meade, Notrees; Roy Len Brooks,
W. E. Gilliam, Frank Overton,
Mrs. F. E. Jones, Mrs. E. E. Nor-
ris, John Belcher, J. B. Salmon,
Harlan Olson, Don Lindsey, M. A.
Hendricks, Tommy Hollis, Ramsel
Ralston, Danny Carl Baird, H. T.
Liles, O. H. Nicks, Mrs. Gladys
Potts, Mrs. J. L. Thomas, Mrs. L.
H. Terrell, Phyliss Ann Shockley,
Sarolyn Cameron, Ronnie Dean
Stanley, Mrs. Dorothy Stockton,
and Mrs. Eugene Blount.
IN APPRECIATION
The Ladies Altar Society of the
Catholic Church wish to publicly
acknowledge its indebtness to the
merchants and citizens of Kermit
for their co-operation in making
the rummage sale the success it
was. We especially thank Jack
Shirley who so generously do-
nated the use of his building for
this sale. The proceeds will be
used in building a local Catholic
Church building.
Ladies Altar Society,
Catholic Church.
the locals managed to stumble creased.
[ across the pay-off pan two times
more than did their equally weary
and confused opponents. How it
all happened will forever remain
the $64 question. The scorekeeper
doesn’t know, the fans don’t know,
this scribe is utterly in the dark,
and certainly the players have no
idea whatsoever. Suffice to say that
in all 34 tallies were marked up
somewhere, and six flingers threw
enough baseballs for an average
full season’s play. Papa Fan went
home about midnight and tried
vainly to convince the Madam he
was at the ball game all that time.
(One thing we are certain about,
perhaps because of its uniqueness.
That is, Puny Linne hit a curve
ball. Sure nuff, he did!)
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In a long, drawn-out battle of
bungles and bingles Tuesday night,
Kermit Oilers outlasted the Jal
Gassers in a Permian Basin Base-
ball League play-off and trekked
home in near-morning hours with a
18-16 Gasser scalp dangling from
sagging belts.
The win gave the locals a one-up
lead over Jal in a three-game se-
ries to determine who will meet
the winner of a series between Oil
Center and Carlsbad. The final se-
ries will determine the champion of
the 1948 league season. Kermit’s
Oilers will go to Jal Sunday for
the second game in the curent sea-
son, and if they lose, a flip of the
coin will decide the site for the
final game.
Mr. and Mrs. Elie Lam left
Thursday for a vacation trip to
various points in Colorado.
Need for County
Park Stressed
By 20-30 Speaker
The desparate need of a County
Park in Kermit was cited by
Charlie Green, manager of the
Kermit Chamber of Commerce, in
an address before the 20-30 Club
Welnesday night in a regular
meeting at the City Hall.
Green said that Kermit could
have no annual celebration such
as the Monahans V-J Day affair,
experienced team and since we are
using a new- formation this year,
we will probably develop slow.”
Last year the Yellow Jackets
played from: the single wing, this
year the T formation is to be
employed.
Kermit will be playing an es-
pecially strong district this year.
Monahans, Andrews, Denver City
and Seminole are expected to
have powerhouses.
From the list of hopefuls Coach
Mayer gave the nod to the fol-
lowing as looking promising: Jim-
my Carr, Richard Almond, Henry
Spinks, Paul Hopkins, Robert Lee
Garner, Garland Peacock, and
Howard Coulters, backs; Robert
Stewart, and Donald Moore, cen-
ters; Hermand Almond, Grant
Brumlow, Don Fraser, guards;
Billy Spinks, and Billy Amburgey,
ends; and Bill Terry, tackle.
Others reporting are: Frank
Kruse, Wayne Culvahouse, Gerald
Marshall, Tommy Hixson, Bryan
Dee Moore, Lonnie Speed and
Billy Davee, backs; Marshall Jeff-
coat, Fred McKelvy, and Henry
Henderson, guards; Orville Steele,
Johnny Garrett, Jack Smith, Oli-
ver Bachelor, Raymond Laird,
and Jack Robinson, ends; Don K.
turned Wednesday evening from a
his discharge from the Navy and two-weeks' visit with their son,
good-natured kidding about or-
dering a "heavy” breakfast of
cinammon toast. . . . Noble De-
vaney’s young daughter plucking
. a gray hair out of his head and
him a-wishing that she could
yank all the gray ones out ....
Mrs. Fred Hard. Wright, county li-
brarian, on ine -warpath” Tues-
day because Winkler County does-
n’t have any rail passenger service
. . . Everyone trying to keep cool
and not succeeding too well.
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R. A. Lipscomb, superintendent
of Wink Schools, who writes a
column "Yours Truly” in the Wink
Bulletin, true to an announcement
he had made earlier, proceeded
last week to give the "low-down”
on the citizens of Kermit. Lips-
comb said it might surprise some
people as he had only praise for J
Kermit. He went on to endorse
co-operative efforts between the
two communities such as the
Country Club. "We need to co-
operate on more e; .terprises. A
very good one would be the Wink
Airport which could be developed
to the mutual advantage of both
cities.”
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and our repair shop is equipped to give them
the best service with the newest and finest mod-
em machinery . . . experienced, alert machanics.
Whether you operate one truck or a fleet of
trucks—we’ll keep them in No. 1 condition.
A special called meeting of the
Kermit City Commission, scheduled
to be held Thursday night, Aug..
12, with some of the merchants of
the city was postponed after only ,
four merchants appeared and one
of the Commissioners was pres-
ent.
The regular City Commission
meeting Monday night, Aug. 16,
was also postponed as Commission-
er H. A. Coulter was ill and Com-
missioner Cecil Atwood was out of
town.
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1948, newspaper, August 19, 1948; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1466742/m1/8/?rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.