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Sixty-Fifth Year—Number 44.
Mineola, Wood County, Texas, \ hursday, January 30,1941.
CAPITOL
NEWSLETTER
By BOB CARRAWAY
AUSTIN, Jan. 30.—The big-
gest two-ring circus in Texas,
the Forty-seventh Legislature,
has been in progress nearly
three weeks now, and most of
the details of organization and
getting settled are disposed of.
The Seventh District's Sen-
ator, T. C. Chadick, has been
appointed to about a dozen com -
mittees, including the impor-
tant State Affairs, Mining, ir-
rigation and Drainage, and
Senatorial Districts of which he
is chairman. The Senator has
been snowed under with work
these first few weeks and as
legislative business picks lip
Tomato Growers Plan
Second Rally On Feb. 8
Eight Pages Today
Discord in the Lend-Lease Hearing
Chadick Named
To Highway and
Motor Committee
Tomato growers in this vicin-
ity will hold their second rally
of the year Saturday afternoon,
Feb. 8, at 1:30 o'clock. The
meeting will be held in the
English Chapel. It will be spon-
sored by the Jaycees, and will
be presided over by J. R. Hall,
vocational agriculture teacher
Senator T. C. Chadick, of ' Mineola High School. Earl
Quitman, has been named to; Barrios> T&P farm agent and i
membership on the important ^on^ato culture expert, who,
Highways and Motor Traffic sP°^e at the meeting on Jan.
Committee of the Senate for f*' return for this meet-
the regular session of the 47th ^>r- A- Young of the
Legislature. This committee Texas Experimental Station in
is one of major importance Jacksonville, will also -speak on
in the Senate and during this tomato culture. County Agent
session will handle a large i *^ac^ Hudson will conclude
amount of the most important speakers.
bills to be introduced I r^e PurPOse °f the meeting
Among bills to be considered is to orSanize the tomato grow
ieTe'S J!"!! infifaiti0n thf'; I by the" Committee are~al7o7the ers and to list the acreage that
Ibefnrp th00^8 i proposals embodied in the five- j each 1S to Plant-
before the end of the ses- , point legislative pr0gram for ! A11 farmers who plan to grow
safety now being sponsored by i tomatoes for the local green-
twenty-one state organizations. I ^raP market are urgently re-
Visitors,
feral visitors from Wood
lty have been in the capi-
The appeal for effective legis-
lation to curb the rising tide
city since the Legislature 10f traffic fatalities and injur
quested to attend. This year
is likely to be one of the big-
gest tomato-shipping years in
i
3 Injured When
T. P. Freight
Jumps Track
Wreck Near Marshall
Derails 28
Cars
convened Among them put- j ies in TeXas was formulated!the historL°.f the ^st Texa
ing in their appearance around after numerous conferences of
toe Senate Chamber wcie W.| officials and members of the
' OI1jS' a^0r McGloth- i various organizations. Propos-
mi' ann u' ? Revelle of Min- a]s offered are: a standard
eola; Hubert Smith of Haw-
kins; and Judge Ben F. Cathev
of Quitman.
Senator Chadick's office, in-
cidentally, has a reputation of
being the friendliest in the
capital.
Pension Problem.
Beside letters seeking jobs
and personal favors the bulk
the legislator's mail has to
driver's license law, an increas-
ed Highway Patrol, a strength-
ened drunk driving law, a re-
vision of the obsolete speed
law, and a uniform reporting
of serious accidents.
A bill has already been in-
troduced and sent to the High-
ways and Motor Traffic Com-
mittee, which would give Texas
, a standard driver's license law.
ith social security in one | The bill has been drafted to
or another. The solution j add "teeth" to driving regula-
he pension- problem might; tions in order to enable the
said to be, one of the chief control of reckless, irresponsible,
a majority of mem- incompetent and to some ex-
tent curb drunken drivers This
Jacksonian. ; 0ne bill also covers two more
nator Weaver Moore of j of the five points of the legis-
ouston offered a resolution1 lative program, namely, pro-
several days ago to take the
"S.O." off the automobile li-
cense tags of state officials in
view of the fact that state of-
ficials should "enjoy no spe-
cial recognition to the exclu-
sion of the citizenship of the
state . . . and whereas, no
good purpose is served by the
use of such symbols." A mo-
tion to refer the resolution to
the Committee on Internal Im- j
provements passed, 14-12.
Opposes Loan Sharks.
visions for an adequate High-
way Patrol and proposing a
uniform accident report.
o
Rotary Club Has
c-
Visitors, Plans
Charter Ni«rht
market. While nineteen car-
loads of green wrap tomatoes
were shipped from here during
the 1940 season, Mr. Barrios
estimated that this vicinity
should be able to ship at least
fifty cars this season.
o
Week-End Burglary
Nets About $50
i ' Members of the Community j
The residence of R. E. Waters I chest met Tuesday night in j
on East Blair Street was en-
tered Saturday night and about
$50 was taken. It was uncer-
tain as to how the house was
entered. It is suspected, how-
ever, that a pass key* was used
on the front door.
No clues have been discover-
ed, it was said.
o
Treasury Agent
To Assist Local
Income Tax Filers
C. P. Phonephoto
Party lines were drawn more clearly in the House Foreign Affairs Committee as the result of the cancella-
t? ~"a'lrm5n Sol Bloom of New York of invitations issued by Republican Congressman Hamilton
v! to heads of the army, navy and air force to testify at the lend-lease hearing. The Republicans are
®H0Wnt?:V6rJ!-'^S1"g ~ convene in executive session. Left to right: Representatives Karl E. Mundt, Ham-
ilton iish, Edith N. Rogers, Foster Stearns, John M. Vorys, George H. Tinkham, Charles Eaton and
Bartell Jonkman. Later, Chairman Bloom issued the invitations.
Community Chest Local Legion Post Seeks
Group Plans ITo Form Defense Guard
Future Electionflense LrUard
j The Rotary Club met Tues-
j day noon at Al's Place. There
ecording to reports two sep- | was a large attendance of the
loan shark factions will local members, and the follow-
ing legislation to curb i'">g out-of-town visitors: J. P.
ther. Senator T. C. Willeford and Bill Frady of
told newsmen he in- ' Tyler; Ralph Brown of Corsi-
to introduce a bill thatjeana; Jimmy Elliott of Grand
put both sides out of! Saline, and L. A. Folsom of
less.
4^ansaction Tax.
The Forty-seventh is at least
making progress! Rep. Clin-
ton Kersey of Bridgeport signed
and introduced into the House
last Monday the bill for a 1.6
per cent transaction tax which
Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel asked
G.adewater. Wilson Aaron was
in charge of the program. Mrs.
Travis Vance presented three
of her music pupils in a piano
recital.
W. E. Chancellor, deputy col-
lector of the Internal Revenue
Department of Dallas, will be
in Mineola at the Post Office
on Feb. 19 and 20 from 8:30
o'clock in the morning to 4
o'clock in the afternoon to as-
sist in making out income tax
returns for 1940 under the new
income tax law. This service
will be free to any who need
assistance.
The new income tax law pres-
ents many complicated prob-
lems which the layman possi-
bly may not be able to solve.
The
the Revelle office. The original j
purpose of the meeting was to J
elect a new Board of Directors, I
who were in turn to elect new |
officers for the year. However, |
an insufficient number attend- '
Major Companies
Continue Leasing
In Hawkins Area
Frank Vitasek, adjutant of
the Luckett Cochran Post No.
296 of the American Legion,
has been informed by J. Watt
Page, Adjutant General of Tex-
as, of the necessary procedure
which must be followed in the
organization of a Defense
Guard unit. There have been,
Three transients were injured
early Wednesday morning when
twenty-eight cars of a forty-
seven car Texas & Pacific
freight train were derailed six
miles west of Marshall. The
! train was No. 54. and was
i bound for Shreveport. The
I three transients were riding the
J end of a reefer car. The fact
I that they escaped with their
i lives was termed miraculous,
j They were taken to the T&P
j hospital in Marshall, where
their condition was termed sat-
isfactory.
Cause of the wreckNtias not
yet been determined. A ws^ek-
ing crew from Marshall beg
clearing the right-of-way Wed-
nesday morning right after the
wreck, and another crew from
Mineola soon joined them. Pas-
sengers were transported for
the day by bus between Long-
view and Marshall, and through
freight traffic was re-routed
between Texarkana and Long-
view via the Cotton Belt to Big
Sandy.
City's Fire Credit
Increased for Year
Due to the increased effi-
ciency and performance of the
Mineola Fire Department, the
City will receive a twenty-fire
per cent fire credit during 1941,
instead of twenty per cent as
was received in 1940.
Verification of this was made
in a letter to Mayor J. C Mc-
The major oil companies
ed to hold new elections. An- | have continued their leasing said, 193 companies author ^ ^ ^ ^ v
other meeting was planned for' activities in the Hawkins area ized for Texas, and there are . Qj0thlin from the State Fire-
February 11 at which time the jthis week. The most active at the present time applications | mgn and fire asso-
elections will be held. | ^ave been Humble, Gulf, and from thirty-seven other cities cja^on 0f Texas.
The Mayor said that the City
will also get two cents off the
R. E. McClendon, president Stanolind- In °ne °' the larg- and towns on the priority list.
of the Community Chest, pre-
er transactions Humble took'This is far in excess of the
sided. The group heard a re-l°n assignment from B. F. Phil- number which will ultimately fate for flre lnsurance
4 I i n 1 _ J A i . ^ — Ka r nf n nvir A/S IT Au nirA>> 4- V A
The Mission Times, a week-1 purchases including the south
ly newspaper published last, 500 acres of the 851 acre Wood
Treasury Department is week a sixty-eight page edi- j County Mining Corporation
not required by law to send tion. The occasion for this tract, Clark survey, and 428 When organized, each man will
ceive one.
The application should be in
letter form and should bear
the endorsement of at least
five leading citizens. Members
of the Texas Defense Guard
must be able-bodied male citi-
zens of Texas and the United
States, between the ages of
port from D. E. Brooks, prin- ^ips Gladewater about 170 be authorized. However, the cauSg ^he new fire
cipal of the ward school, on!a?res for ph PS was Adlutant General advised Mr. j purcha5ed by th£ city
the hot lunch program spon- ! als0 g,ven an unknown amount Vitasek that if Mineola wants ; 0
sored by the Community Chest j 0j royalty Several weeks to submit an official request, the
for the school. Mr. Brooks said; a£° he t ™ed $1,000,000 Governor will be glad to re-
that arrangements are made ° hy Humble for his
each day to give hot lunches. °T ings' ,
to eighty-three underprivileged i .arVi^ christian College re-
children | ceived $22,000 from Humble for
„ , „ , ! a lease on their 100-acre tract,
Carl Bruner. secretary, an-1 southea5t of Hawklns
nounced that representatives of j stanolin(J ld $30 „„„ f
other organizations interested in . the c c Mmer
Community Chest work are go-1 acres with the assi re_
ing to be invited to serve as. taining one_sixteenth override
Directors. ^ j -phis tract is one and one-half
0 j miles northeast of Hawkins.
SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES 1 GuIf continues to take acre-
age in the Hawkins area, with
truck
Mineral Leases
In County River
Areas for Sale
Sealed competitive bids for
mineral leases on rive:1 bed
eighteen "and "sixty-four years : areas< submerged areas, and
The members of the Defense unsoW scho°' 'and Jn Woo"
Guard units will not be fur- | County and eight other Texas
nished uniforms and equipment counties will be received in
for the present. No member jAustm b-v Bascom Glles: _com:
will receive pay for his service,
and the drill period is for one
and one-half hours each week.
deputy collectors to different | iarge edition was the eighth j acres in the Rentarez"survey.
, vicinities, and does so only as annual Texas Citrus Fiesta: n
A committee was appointed | a courtesy and without charge, j which was held in Mission.
to decide the location for the
presentation of the local char-
ter on Feb. 18. Plans were al-
for paying social security obli- !so made for representatives of
gations. Kersey added that he
intended to push the measure.
This, no doubt, will be an
interesting session of the legis-
lature before it ends about a
hundred days hence. Stick
around!
o
Outpost Failure
Finally Abandoned
the Mineola Rotary Club to go
to Winnsboro on Tuesday night
for the charter presentation
there.
o
Pastor to Attend
Chicago Conference
The Rev. H. M. Ward, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, await the attention
District Court Term
Will Begin Monday
U. S. Bureau Urges
Texas Oil Increase
will leave for Chicago Sunday
{night to attend the Founder's
first big failure of the
tins oil field was finally
Ipned Tuesday when def-
igging orders were given
northeast outpost, W.
ison and others No. 1
Week Conference, Feb. 3-9. Out-
standing religious 'eaders of
the country wi 1 be the speak-
ers at the Conference.
The Baptist Training Unions
will be held Sunday evening
Green, Moseley survey. I from 6 to 6:50 o'clock The eve-
ell is three miles north- ning service vail begin at 6:50
of the Hawkins townsite.
le well had been ordered
|?gged once after it had been
rfrried to 4,828 feet. Lease-
"holders decided to deepen the
well to 5,100 feet. This was
done, but drillers found no
shows.
and end at 7:30 o'clock The
Rev. Ward will leave immed-
iately after the service.
o
J. G. Fowles of Corpus Chris-
ti spent the week-end visiting
friends and relatives in Min-
eola.
The February term of the
District Court in Wood County
will convene in Quitman Mon-
day. At least 100 civil cases
of the
Court, according to A. L. Cal-
houn, district clerk. About
ninety of these cases have been
filed since the Hawkins oil
field discovery. This would in-
dicate that a great many of
the cases will deal with con-
troversies over land titles.
Following is a list of the
Grand Jurors and the Petit
Jurors for the first week of
court.
Grand Jurors.
W. S. Knight. E. M. Slaugh-
ter, J. J. Puckett, Ray Fortune,
R. L. Reed, Clyde Jordan, H.
Z. Murray, L. B. Cathey, C. S.
Shamburger, J. T. Harrison, A.
L. Miller, Ralph Newman, Cus-
ter Lemmond, J. W. Thompson,
Hugh M. Lyle, A. L. Amason.
Petit Jurors, First Week, Feb.
4, 1:30 o'Clock.
John Paul Jones, J. J. Cos-
ton, J. H. Cage, G. R. Cathey,
H. E. Speights, A A. Stokes,
A. T. Greer, R. W. Ham, L.
H. Farris, B. C. Beard, F. F.
Grimes, Q. A. Neill, Miles Cau-
dle, W. A. Turner, G. L. Lind-
sey, B. C. Ham, W. A. Box,
J. H. Addy, R. L. Dacus, V. C.
Armour, W. J. (Red) Parr jr.,
C. O. Aaron, Bruce Bomar, E.
A. McCreight, T. T. Sadler, O.
O. Goolsby, D. B. Dokey, W. I.
Mathews. W. W. Perkins, J.
S. Sharp, G. B English, W. M.
Whittle, V. B. McDougal. G. T.
Ross, T. S. Steed jr., L. H. Crow.
The Texas Railroad Commis-
sion has received a recom-
mendation from the United
States Bureau of Mines that
a daily increase of 15,400 bar-
rels be added to the estimate
of Texas oil for consumer de-
mand during February.
Texas' share in the nation-
al consumer market was placed
at 1.312,900 barrels daily dur-
ing February.
o
Mineola Student
Honored at Kemper
Paul D. Smith, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul D. Smiih of
Mineola. was initiated as a
member of the general honor
society of Kemper Miltary
School, Boonville, Mo., at the
md-year dinner ceremonies
held there Monday night.
have to furnish his own arms
for drill purposes and training
in the manual of arms The
missioner of the General Land
1 Office, and the School Land
Board on Tuesday, March 4,
in the General Land Office it
was announced by Commissioner
Giles.
I One of the tracts is in the
Misses La veil Patrick and
Josephine Summers of Gilmer
spent Wednesday with Mrs.
Urma Aaron.
commissioned officer person- Sabine River bed south of Haw-
nel should be chosen from men ^ins *n the newly-discovered
with previous military service field. Two additional tracts
as commissioned officers or non- ; are between Henderson and
commissioned officers. Each Navarro Counties in the Trin-
unit will have three officers, a ity River bed, and in Jackson
Captain, First Lieutenant, and j County in the Lavaca River
a Second Lieutenant. The en- bed. Other counties are Live
listment period will be for a Oak, Gregg, Henderson, Navar-
term of three years, but will ro> Cherokee, Starr, and Refugio
not exempt any member from Counties.
selective service.
Legion Meeting
Called for Monday
There will be a meeting of
the local American legion-
naires Monday night at the
Trainmen's Hall. The meeting
is called for the purpose of dis-
cussing organization of 3 unit
of National Defense for Min-
eola.
Other East Texas cities, in-
cluding Tyler, Athens, Over-
ton, Palestne, Kilgore, and
Longview, have already organ-
ized.
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Rev. George Cherryhomes is
attending a conference in Fort
Worth this week.
Descriptive lists, rules, and
forms for bidding may be ob-
tained from Commissioner Giles
in Austin.
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More Cotton Ginned
In 1940 Than In '39
There were 15.213 bales of
cotton ginned in Wood County
from the crop of 1940 prior to
Jan. 16, 1941, as compared with
13,692 bales ginned to Jan. 16,
1940, from the crop of 1939.
This report is made by W.
D. Riddle in his county gin-
ning report to the U. S. De-
partment of Commerce.
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Mrs. Robert McReynolds was
a visitor in Dallas Tuesday.
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