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Sixty-Fifth Year—Number 42.
Mineola, Wood County, Texas, Thursday, January 16,1941.
Eight Pages Today
World Events
This Week
By DeFOREST
HAWKINS TEEMS WITH OIL ACTIVITY
Destructive bombings on both
sides of the British Channel
still continue, with Germany
using a new type of combin-
ed high explosive and incen-
diary bomb in the London area.
But the British have returned
blow for blow, and it is evi-
dent that their air force is
rapidly expanding its power.
By mid-summer they expect to
achieve numerical equality with
the Nazi air fleets.
A peculiar development of
the air warfare has been the
curtailment of German activi-
ties at a time when it would
seem most logical for Hitler
to keep planes constantly over
England. On the contrary it
^s noted that although subject-
British cities to many in-
te raids there are fewer
is involved and the all-
comes much earlier. Wea-
ker conditions may be the
luse, but a shortage of gaso-
line is more probable. Ger-
many and Italy require three
time® the production of the
Polish and Rumanian, oil fields.
Supplies captured in conquer-
ed countries were not inexhaust-
able, and Germany must save
fuel for the projected invasion
of Britain.
There are many signs of a
steady German infiltration in-
to Italy as Mussolini's hold on
the nation weakens. German
planes, based on Southern Italy
Lhave been active over
literranean and on the
front.
present it would seem
Irman aid support could
change the course of
rts in Albania. The victor-
Jus Greeks have surged past
'Klisura, and now control both
the passes which unite South-
ern Albania with the central
area. From positions north-
west of Klisura the Greeks are
in a position to out-flank Tepe-
lini and its fall may be ex-
pected at an early date. This
in turn will render the position
of the Italians on the coastal
road north of Chimara unsafe,
with the port of Valona their
only hope of escape. If the
Greeks have sufficient reserves
to continue the campaign an
utter Italian defeat is possi-
ble.
the Far East fighting along
fontier seperating Thailand
from French Indo-China
dws l in violence. In the
frthern portion of the French
pny Japanese forces based
>n ^"Haiphong and Hanoi are
moving steadily southward and
tightening their grip on econo-
mic control.
Japan is moving slowly and
cautiously in Southern Asia
with British, Dutch and Ameri-
can naval units closely follow-
ing each move. We have al-
ready warned Japan against
further aggression, and it may
be in this area that the first
shots of an undeclared war
will be fired in our direction.
The Free French movement
is constantly growing in strength
and last Saturday Admiral
Muselier announced that thirty
warships and eighty armed
.merchantmen were now in ac-
re service. He appealed to
interned French naval units
lexandria for aid in con-
lce of the struggle.
liral William D. Leahy,
ambassador to the French
fchy government, has delivered
resident Roosevelt's personal
lessage to Chief of State Mar-
shal Petain and engaged in im-
srtant conferences with For-
leign Minister Flandin.
[(See WORLD EVENTS, Page 2)
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Hawkins Gets Its Second
Big Town site Producer
City Debt Is
Reduced During
The Past Year
Since the discovery of oil in Hawkins this once small community boasts a day-time popu-
lation of about 10.000. Pictured above is a typical scene of the crowded streets.
New Auto License
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Plates For Wood
County Received
n *11 * T) 1 9 AAA
IFHA Will Hold
Drilling Below 2,000
Meet Thursday
At last report drilling on the
No. 1 J. L. Beckham well, four
and one-half miles northeast
of Mineola, was proceeding be-
New automobile license plates low 2 qoo feet
for Wood County have been Leasing activity has been
, received by C. C. Bellomy, coun- partlcularly heavy in the area
jty tax assessor and collector. durlng the week Leases with_
,They include: passenger licenses, in three or {Qur mUes of ^
12,850, ranging from number wejj are bringing good prices,
]N05-101 to N07-950; commer- and it is estimated that ac-
|cials, 700, from 525-801 to 526- tivity around the Beckham well
J 500; farm trucks, 650, from 228- ^as been as heavy as in the
] 551 to 229-200; trailers and Hawkins vicinity.
(tractors, 125, from 72-171 to °
72-295; dealers, 20, from 10-643 Space Renters In
5-575"to2:5_rJ7°7torcycles' 3« from. Courthouse to Leave
The colors of the new pas- j _ 7 ! _ . ,
.. ,. , ... I The Commissioners Court of
senger licenses are black with < _ _ , . , ., . .. .
orange letters. The farm truck ™00d County haf. declded that
licenses are yellow with black ? pers°ns re"t'n« spacf,
letters, and the commercial 11- the count3; «>urt house in Quit-
... .. * man must vacate as soon as
censes are orange with black ...
letters. I T ' . ,, . , . .
I In rendering this decision the
Court said, "The County finds
it does not have sufficient room
Senator Clay Cotten
To Head Senate to carry on its work because
of the sudden increase in busi-
Austin, Jan. 16.—Highlight of
the opening day's activities in
the Forty-seventh Legislature
was the election in the Senate
of Sen. Clay Cotten of Palestine
as President Pro-Tempore. He j
was elected by a vote of 18-13 !
over Sen. Weinert of Seguin
after a number of seconding;
speeches had been made on j
both sides.
The first of the Senate's ten j
new members to take the floor j
was Sen. T. C. Chadick of Wood
County who seconded Sen. Cot- 1
ten's nomination, made by
Olan R. Van Zandt, the blind
senator from Grayson County.
Organization of both houses
was completed Tuesday, and
Rep. Joe Leonard of McAllen
was unanimously elected Speak-
er of the House. Sixteen mem-
bers were sworn into the Sen-
ate by Lt. Gov. Coke Steven-
son, and ten of these were
freshmen.
ness created by the oil field at
Hawkins. Therefore, we must
ask all persons now renting
space in the court house to
vacate as soon as possible."
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SERIOUSLY ILL
Ray Neill is seriously ill with
influenza in a Jacksonville hos-
pital. Mr. Neill has been sick
since Sunday.
Night at School
The Federal Housing Ad-
ministration will hold a meet-
ing Thursday night at 7:30
o'clock at the East Ward School
for the purpose of explaining
to the employes of business
firms, and other salaried peo-
ple, the steps by which they
can buy or build their homes
under the Insured Mortgage
Plan of the FHA.
At this meeting there will
also be shown thirty-six slides
in color of houses ranging in
cost from $1,600 to $5,400 which
have been built and financed
under the FHA plan in North-
ast Texas during recent months.
At the conclusion of the meet-
ing an opportunity will be
given Ithose present to ask
questions concerning the FHA
plan of home ownership.
o
Over-Loaded Motor
Causes Fire at A&P
An over-loaded electric motor
at the A&P store, Broad and
Johnson Streets, caused a fire
alarm to be sounded Sunday
morning at 8 o'clock.
However, firemen soon had
the blaze under control, and
there was no damage except
to the motor.
In a letter to The Monitor,
the City Commissioners made
public several phases of the
handling of City affairs which
should be of interest to all citi-
zens of Mineola.
From May 1 to December 1,
1940, the delinquent water ac-
counts were reduced $4,012.61;
delinquent taxes were reduc-
ed $2,001.20; an overdraft in
the bank was reduced $5,651.34;
the Southwestern Gas & Elec-
tric was paid $1,069.86 on war-
rants that were issued in 1934;
the Eureka Fire Hose Co. was
paid $830 for new fire hose;
$2,799 was paid to various busi-
ness places and attorneys for
old debts that have been out-
standing for several years.
In addition to the above ac-
complishments the City has laid
7,221 feet of water lines to serve
various parts of town; has in-
stalled and renewed thirty-
eight water meters of which
thirteen of these represented
new water customers; has paid
for a new truck for the water
department at a cost of $575,
thus elminating a rental charge
of $30 a month for a truck pre-
viously used.
o
Boles Home
Choral Cluh
Here Sunday
About thirty members of the
Boles Orphan Home Choi al Club
of Quinlan, Texas, will render
an hour's program at the Broad
Street Church of Christ Sun-
day evening, Jan. 19, beginning
at 6:45 o'clock. The Club will
be under the direction of Mrs.
J. B. Nelson, superintendent of
the Home.
The Orphans Home bus will
arrive in Mineola at 4:30 in the
afternoon and the singers will
be taken to the homes of the
church membership for the
evening meal before the pro-
gram. The public is invited to
hear the program.
Ship at Least
50 Cars,' Barrios
Tells Planters
Tomato growers in this vicin-
ity heard Earl Barrios, T & P
[farm agent and tomato expert,
| tell them Saturday afternoon
at a meeting here that "Min-
eola made a better start at
tomato growing last year than
any other beginner." Barrios,
who was here three or four
times last year to instruct
farmers interested in growing
for the green-wrap market,
was liked so well that he was
asked to return for another
meeting. County Agent Jack
Hudson and J. R. Hall, voca-
tional agriculture teacher in
high school, assisted.
Mr. Barrios pointed out to
the farmers that a small tom-
ato acreage, carefully attended
to, gives better results than
big, speculative acreages. "The
booms come and go, but farm-
ing is here to stay, and should
be developed on a sound basis,"
he said.
Mr. Barrios said chat he
would like to see tomato grow-
ers in this area get enough
acreage this year to get
two buyers. The amount need-
ed for this would be from 350
to 40 acres. He gave Van as
an example which las:- year
shipped eighty-e ght e?rs to
three buyers, ana £r:d: There
"s no rra£cn vhy fi'ty cars
should r.j'v be shipped from here
this year- then the following
year, from seventy-five to 100
cars—then you sbculc: be satis-
fied"
Before adjournment of the
meeting, another rally was
planned for Saturday after-
noon, Feb. 8, at 1:30 o'clock.
Mr. Barrios agreed to speak
again. Each person present
agreed to bring someone else
with him.
Northeast Outpost"
Finds Woodbine
Selective Service May Get
'Eleventh Hour Bridegrooms'
To Become Notary
See County Clerk
Persons seeking to become
Notaries Public under the new
law should make application
to their county clerk and not
to the state senator, Senator
T. C. Chadick pointed out this
week.
Applications should be made
to the county clerk who will
collect the fee and administer
the oath of office. These ap-
plications are in turn filed with
the Secretary of State who
makes the appointments.
The filing of such applica-
tions with the state senator
will mean only a loss of time,
Chadick said.
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T. L. Williams spent Tuesday
and Wednesday visiting his
mother in Henrietta.
Austin.—Numerous inquiries
from Selective Service Boards
throughout Texas have been
sent to the State Headquarters
for Selective Service in Austin
concerning the classification of
married men and especially
bridegrooms whose undying love
did not lead them to the mat-
rimonial altar until about the
time they began receiving ques-
tionnaires, and in many in-
stances, after they received for-
mal notice that they had been
placed in Class 1-A. Some
young men even waited until
they had been classified and
received notice to appear for
induction before that pecurial
feeling fully manifested it-
self.
Some board members, from
their inquiries, seem to have
is neither the letter nor the
ried men should automatically
be placed in Class 111-A. This
the impression that all mar-
spirit of the Selective Service
Law and-or the regulations pro-
mulgated pursuant thereto.
On Sept. 16, 1940, at 3:08 p.
m., Easter Standard Time, which
was the moment the Selective
Service Law was approved, and
most certainly on Oct. 16, 1940
(registration day), every male
person between the ages of 21
and 35 who was subject to reg-
istration, had actual notice of
his obligation to render mili-
tary service to his country. The
purpose of the Selective Ser-
vice Law was not to suspend
the institution of marriage
among registrants, but most
certainly the Local Board, cloth-
ed with such broad discretion
and wide latitude in such mat-
ters, have the right to scrutin-
ize marriages since those dates
and especially those hastily ef-
fected about the time the reg-
istrants began receiving their
questionnaires and notices of
classification to determine whe-
ther the marriage relation was
entered into with the primary
view of evading military ser-
vice.
Of course, in deciding whe-
ther a married man, and espec-
ially one of these "11th. hemr"
bridegrooms, should be placed
in Class 1-A or be deferred be-
cause of his marital status, one
should keep in mind all of the
Selective Service regulations.
Naturally no classification is
permanent or pepetual. When
a change in status of a regis-
trant is brought to the atten-
tion of the local board, whe-
ther it be by a marriage, birth,
death, accident or what not,
his classification should be re-
viewed but it does not neces-
sarily follow that it should be
changed.
It is true that in the begin-
ning of the enforcement of this
Act, the induction stations re-
fused to accept married men,
and that fact is perhaps large-
ly responsible for the impres-
sion gained by so many board
members. It may not be amiss
to reiterate just here that all
induction stations have now
been instructed to accept for
induction, providing they are
physically fit, all inductees,
married or single, sent to them
by local boards without rais-
ing any question as to their
marital or dependency status
as determined by the local
boards, because after all with
but few exceptions, they are
both the "judge and jury" as
to whether a registrant should
be answerable to the call of
his country.
C-C Interviews
Applicants for
Secretaryship
The Chamber of Commerce
met Monday night to complete
plans of organization. At that
time the Board of Directors
interviewed several applicants
for the position of Secretary.
At least two more applicants
will be interviewed Thursday
night at a meeting, said Ocie
Fair, vice-president.
The central housing bureau,
set up by the Chamber of Com-
merce, under the direction of
to secure , monthly pledges
ing smoothly. Mr. Fair said.
Mrs. Cowan keeps a complete
list of all housing facilities and
furnishes this information to
prospective patrons as a free
service of the Chamber of
Commerce.
The financial drive for sup-
port of the Chamber is be-
ing completed this week. A
thorough canvass is being made
Mrs. Ethel Cowan, is function-
among the local business men.
Manziel Ordered Ta
Spud In Relief
Well
The biggest producer for the
Hawkins area was brought in
! Wednesday when the Hollands-
worth No. 1 Robbins, Reese ad-
dition, came in with an esti-
mated open-flow capacity of
from 3.000 to 6,000 barrels. The
well was br^j^it in through
two-inch tubfl|r under 150
pounds casing prk^ure. It was
then shut off to be gauged by
the Commission Thursaa y.
Tests show that the well will „
be an even better producer
than the Rotandi and Jackson
No. 1 Cobb, the other townsite
producer which is 300 yards
to the southwest.
Completion was made through
perforations in an 117-feet sand
section topped at 4,550 feet.
Casing had been set at 4,795
feet, four feet off bottom.
Thousands of spectators crowd-
ed Hawkins to watch the new
well come in at 9:30 o'clock
Wednesday morning.
Preparations are under way
to drill a relief well to relieve
the pressure on the Manziel
No. 1 Lee Bell, Wideman sur-
vey, a gasser which had . been
plugged with cement last week,
but which began to crater bad-
ly Tuesday morning. Manziel
was ordered by the Railroad
Commission to spud a relief
well by Thursday to relieve
the pressure of gas. So far, a
derrick and a drillpipe have
been stacked in to stop a slow
settling which began on Mon-
day. The job of controlling
the well, Manziel said, has ce>st
him about $50,000 so far.
The Hawkins northeast out-
post, the W. B. Johnson No. 1
J. M. Green, Moseley survey,
has found the Woodbine sand.
The well topped the sand at
4,740 feet. This is lower than
the Hollandsworth well topped
the sand, but higher than the
Manziel No. 1 Morrison. Oil
men believe that the well has
a good chance to find oil pro-
duction, but a lot depends on
the condition of the sand
found.
New Store to Open
Friday Morning
Opening of Mineola's newest
store, the Nichols Department
Store, is scheduled for Friday
morning at 9 o'clock. The store
is located next door to the
Coleman Drug Store on South
Johnson Street.
The proprietors, Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Nichols, are moving
here from Mount Vernon where
they have been in business.
Smith County
Wildcat To Be
Drilled Soon
Preparations were begun on
Monday for a Woodbine test
to be drilled in the Red Springs
prospect in North Smith Coun-
ty.
The well will be drilled by
Tracy Flanagan and W. R. Nich-
olson, Longview operators, and
will be known as the No. 1 H.
P. Hale. The location is 467
feet out of the southeast cor-
ner of the Isaac Brooks tract
and survey, and northwest of
the Red Springs community.
It is about five miles south-
east of the Hawkins discovery
area, and is on a prospect work-
ed out by Humble Oil, which.]
holds the majority acreage in.1
that area. Flanagan and Nich-
olson took the drilling deal or
a trade with Guy Mann ol
Dallas and associates who holf
around 600 acres of Hale If
extending into the Huml
block. The trade provided f<]
a test and payment of $12,C
for half of the 600 acres.
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Joe Estes of Fort Worth
a Visitor in Mineola Wedne
day.
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