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THE ALBANY NEWS
Published Every Thursday
{Established /tf<V.71
[ $8.00 Per Year la Advance
Volume LI--No. 52
Albany, Texas, "The Home of the Hereford" October 1,1086
Whole Number 44SS
Around
Rain, rain. The local Chamber
of Commerce is missing a good bet
in advertising this- city. It should
be billed as a "Garden of Paradise"
with lufficient yearly rainfall to
raise anything from cain to
oranges. Since we've been in this
country, it has rained more than
any one place it has ever been our
pleasure to reside. We had heard
that Albany had nothing much ex
cept cattle and oil wells, but, be
lieve us, there has been a lot of
water lately not to say anything
of the pleasantness of the popula-
tion. Peculiar thing. Another
story we had heard on Albany be-
fore our arrival was that they
didn't take to strangers and that
one had to he here for some time
before he was accepted. We'd like
to tell the world this isn't true. If
citizens of every town would treat
their newcomers as Albany docs.
they'd double their populations.
* * *
Jones and Stasney
Close Large Lease
A. V. Jones and 11 R. Stasney, those two likeable young men who
have lived in Albany for more than two years following the oil game
and leading many operators and companies into Shackelford County,
closed one of the largest lease and production ,-jile in history of tin
county last week-end when they old their joint interest with Reliance I
Oil & Royalty Corp in their 187 acre J. P Morris lea.-, in southwest
Quarter Section l!(0, Kast Texti.- Railway in the southeast extension
to liltiff Creek pool to W. K. Hutler of Italia for $1.10,000.00
producing wells with allowable of 220 barrels, ;i potential
barrels daily were old on the least
, Lookin' Around the Luncheon
*"iub Tuesday we heard Judge
Homer T. Hotildin di cu s two
amnedments thai are to he voted
on in the general election Novem-
ber 3rd. To ay that he poke
convincingly is hut to put it mild.
He pointed out that West lexan
should he particularly inter, ted
in the Moffett Amendment which
would limit the number of reprt
setltatives in the House to
members for one county.
West Texana have ixty-f>v« per
cent of the territory of the state
and pay forty-five per cent of d
taxes, we believe, along with the
Judge, that there should he no <
tralization of power
counties as there
in the
now is.
seven
Since
n
argc
* * *
like to call
attention,
of them
not
hut
all drilled since the first of this
year, and adjoining the producing
property of John II Healey-I K.
(Jroover-D. L Rose-R. L. Crawford
in the southeast quarter of the
same section.
Have Support
Jones & Stasney have the sup
port of independent operators and
of the companies in their efforts
here, and the firm has done great
things for Shackelford county dur
ing the nearly three years they
[have been here, locating a dozen
or more oil pool of considerable
merit and causing the expendituri
of money for lea i s. Chi bring
profit to the landowner , the ex
pendlture of more money for drill-
ing of wells, which i profit to con
tractors, employment to men, bu
iness for <upply houses and wide
plead gain to the county and th
community, and when production
wa obtained further exten on of
pipeline, mote pumper and guag
cr . and lea '■ worker . Mr. and
Mrs. Jones and their family of
three children have recently purch-
ased a re idence here and Mi II
K. Sta .ney has lea ed a re idence,
indicating that they are inlere-led
further in Shackelford county and
its extensive oil po ihilitie from
both shallow and deep >ands and
limes.
The Albany New and .11 of us
an proud of \. V Jon* and II
1(. Sta ney and wi wish tlieni a
greater and continued suci . - .
along with our hope that they wil
continue to hiakc Albany their
home and headquarter
Five
barrels, a potential of 1200
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Amendment Is
Chief Topic At
Luncheon Club
Deadline Is Set
Hy News Staff
We'd
hpcAUPo we're prou<
because we are afraid .bat yo
won't fin.l th.'"1 "tb',| v V
ind a
Both are on
the form of two
column of comment
litoriah
from various
You may take
newspaper editors.
lhe editorials that app >
pages for *""rth tWs
their
and every other week
tuinly will not be
opinions of others
r. -^
son.
They cer-
brilliant, but
will be striven
will not bav
to
We bad suspi
lots of work to edit
Not so. Aft
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tod that it took
a weekly news-
0ur genial
'out" Mix.
pape*
landlord, Preacher ^
proudly displayed M"* ,
week in the form " ' n„
TatttwiBter, we conclm ^ ^ (
one need do is take a i< . ^
yejft jo1*0 book' shU
run the thing out. ^
After two attempts t-;
one of the local squads foo tb.x\\
games, the News is about ready to
steet clear. On two occasion- .hu
far has this paper come out w'th
two column stories concerning tin
game to be played on Friday night.
The first game was postponed un-
til Saturday night while the game
last week was called off altogether.
Of course, local officials had noth
ing to do with the controlling of
the Weather, but the force couldn't
help but wonder if this might be
something of a jinx. l ot' hope
not. The paper this week has
made another stab and it would
disappoint both this sheet and fans
if rtin interfers with the IJons
trimming Moran tonight.
* * *
A movement is on foot among
lli. ll pi'll|l' ill in.,.. —
We Make A Plea
()7 Is The Number
The New- taff i making a
plea. Since ii . practicnlly ini-
po.- ible to get tlie name* of all
visitor- in the city each week,
we'd appreciate your calling <!7
and telling u those who have
visited you and where you have
been. Don't you think you owe
it to your guests to at least -ee
that their names appear in the
home town paper?
We know that you will co-
operate with us on thi matter.
^ oil are interested in the travel
ing of your neighbor and it i
the wish of th. News to carry
n ore of such local item; You
will help us con.siderably and
help the looks of your paper
still more by this -mall favor.
West Texas Measure
Interests Club
Members
Add re i ng a largc group of rep
i e.-entative citizen a semhled at
the regular meeting of the Lunch-
, eon Club last Tue-day. Judge
I Homer 'I Mouldin explained the
merit of the amendment to the
state con: t it ution, known as the
Moffett amendment, which i.- one
of the several amendments which
the voter- of Texa will vote on ill
the November election Judge
Houhlin ernplia i/.ed the fact that
under the . xi ting law. population
alone i con idered in di-trihuting
the I.i tri'-la!i\ i' di trie t The pre
ent repi'i■ eutat ion i ha ed upon
di\ iding tlie total [lopulat ion of the
tate by 1.10 (tin number of repre-
sentative allowed) which under
the 1 ! 21 redistributing act gave
Harris county 6 representatives
and Dallas county 8,
I f the tate were redi-! ricted ac
cording to the present population,
Harri county would be entitled to
1 I out of the total 1.10 Harris
county has an area of 1 • '• > I quare
mile- whereas a group of counties
t nmpo ed of (iaine , I)awson,
Voakum, Terry, I.ynn, < ochran,
Hockley, laibbock and ' ro by
counties having an area of X530
square miles now ha but om rep-
ri ( ntativi . The Moffett amend-
ment ha no idea of decreasing the
present representation of any one
county, nor of discarding the im-
portance of population, but by
limiting the number of representa-
tive from any one county to sev-
en, ' will prevent undue concen-
tration of pOWel' in Cities.
Hard Hit
Judge Hotildin al o pointed out
that \V. -t Texa-- is the harder-t h.t
under the present plan, because
We t Texa.- embraci (!fi per cent
of the state'.- territory and pa>
1.1 per cent of all money go;ng in-
to the state trea-tiry, yet We t
Texa has only M.I per cent of the
I fit) members of the lower hou , at
Austin.
(Continued on page I)
The News is making every ef-
fort to publish the paper on
time and because of this reason,
a deadline of Wednesday noon
i- being set on all contributed
matter. The staff asks, your
cooperation in this matter so
that it may get your issue of
the News to you sooner. They
have -aid omet hi rig about not
liking night work and with your
help, you can relieve them of a
sleepless Thursday night.
Correspondents should make
every effort to mail their copy
so it will reach the office by
Tuesday. The News will appre-
ciate this early arrival of news
and believes that it can give you
a better paper as a result
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Additional Rainfall
Totals 2.30 Inches
Fire Prevention
Week, Oct. 4-10,
To Be Observed
Inspection Blanks will
do To Pupils In
Schools
Fire prevention week from Oc-
tober 4-10 will be observed locally
under the direction of R. C. Har-
ris, fire chief. Outstanding among
the week's activities will be the
passing out of inspection blanks
Monday morning by teachers in
Albany's schools to children. The
blanks have been sent to Mr. Har-
ris by Raymond S. Mauk, state fire
insurance commissioner, with in-
structions to save the completed
slips and report to his office not
later than November 1 giving re-
sults.
The plan has the approval of
Mayor I!. M. Klich who urges all
citizens to cooperate with the fire
marshal in making the week a sue
c. . Students in the schools will
be given the blanks to fill in and
with help from their parents, much
information can be had.
Auks Cooperation
Fire Chief Harris asks all resi-
j dents to be especially "fire-mind-
ed" during the week and check ov-
er their house- for fire hazards.
Some of the most common causes
of fires he -its out are: faulty
flues, collections of rubbish, stor-
age of clothes and other discarded
material in attics or rooms, defec-
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Owen Brothers To Open Synod
Charges Filed Here
Against Woodward
Little Joyce Nixon was safe at home this morning and charges of
kidnapping had been filed against R. L. Woodward of Bowie as a re-
sult of his taking Joyce yesterday noon as she prepared to go home
for lunch. Woodward was captured in Mineral Wells yesterday after-
noon after his flight from local officers and brought bock hore by
Sheriff John A. Holland, Judge Milburn S. Long and Mrs. Nixon. He
was placed in the local county jail.
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'the child's father, captured the Ht-
Rainv which fell in this area ov
er the week-end brought Septem
her' total moisture to N.5f, inche-
ai cording to A, W. Reynold , Inc
al weather observer. The -bower
started Friday afternoon, grew in
to downpour, and continued Sat I
urday and Saturday night, \mouiit
of rain for the . p"II wa L'.'Ul j
in lie I'lli tail brought the year'
total to 2!i. 11 iiiehe-, I ..IK inches J
hort of the normal of 2 t
inche Majority of the rain ha
fallen in two month- May when I
K, I ! inches was recorded and the 1
pa t month with K.50.
Cattlemen Benefited
Cattlemen were benefited more j
(Continued on page |)
Yarbrough Says
Lions Are Ready
For Tonight's Go
Squad Looks To Skies
In Hopes Of No
More Rain
Pictured below is
for nearly eighteen
Owen, pastor of the
the Rev. J. A. Owen, local Presbyterian pastor
years, who with hi brothers, the Rev. R. L.
Presbyterian church at Longview, and the Rev.
pastor of tin Presbyterian
Synod meeting of the Pre
church at Sulphur Springs,
byterian church next week
• ' P. Owen,
will open th
in Dallas.
Ml three hrothei an gnat grandsons of the Rev. Dr. Hugh Wil-
son, relativi of Wood row Wil.-on, who organized the first Presbyter-
ian church in Texas at San Augustine. Two Synods of the Pres-
byterian church will meet
in Dallas ill tin
Coach Hoone Yarbrough's l!)3fi
edition of Albany High School's
Lions glanced hopefully at the
skies today and uttered a silent
prayer for a clear night for their
second grid game of the season
against the Moran Hulldogs here
on the local field. On two occa-
sions this year a downpour of rain
has interferred with their plans.
The first, a tussle with Throck-
morton, was played on a water
soaked field after the game was
postponed from the regular Friday
night engagement to Saturday.
Last week a steady fall started
tie girl as she left her place In tho
school line to leave with her moth-
er. She was placed In a car con-
taining a woman and a driver. Tho
mother, seeing her small daughter
taken in front of her eyes, jumped
on the running board of the ear as
It gathered speed. Mrs. Nixon was
pushed from the hurtling auto as
it rounded a curve by Woodward.
Although a doctor's examination
revealed that she had no broken
bones, she suffered painful injur-
ies to both knees and one hand.
Complete Adoption
Mr. and Mrs. Nixon completed
legal adoption of the little girl sev-
eral months ago in Taylor County
District Court through the West
Texas Children's Aid and Welfare
Association. She has lived with
them in Albany since that date.
Investigation proved that Wood-
ward, who had claimed to be her
father, gave his children to his wife
several months ago in order to ob-
tain a divorce. His wife, unable
to support the children, gave pow-
ers to the Home in Abilene for
adoption. Woodward had told
Mrs. Nixon on previous occasions
early Friday afternoon and con- that, he was going to take the child,
tinned all of Saturday causing the but this was his first attempt.
cancellation of their bout with o
Haird. And so, Lions not being
water animals, they are pulling for
a dry field tonight for their last
non-conference go.
Weights About Even
Little is known of the strength
of the Moran club but starting
weights indicate
Katy Trains Halted
Because Of Floods
rum
open
(Ictobi i
hi nt h
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to a<
Lord
in the first service
mini (ration of the
Supper.
The Rev. Owen ha
been pastor of the Albany
church for nearly eighteen
years nnd ha built up an
exceptionally fine church
during that time. Hi-
church is equipped with a
pipe organ and a fine "du-
catioial building. The
New 1 is indeed proud to
congratulate him on this
i ew honor that In has
achieved.
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Bank Robbery At Baird Averted As
Assistant Cashier Fires On Gunman
Local Citizens
Rradv Cattle Herds
only match up with the local crew
Their starting lineup, both line and
backfield, averages some 148
popnds which is brought down con-
siderably by diminutive F. Doug-
lass who tops the scales at only
115 pounds.
Yarbrough admitted slyly that
the team "look- pretty good, 1
guess." Heavy workouts have been
in store for the locals all week as
they prepare to break into the win
| column for the second time this
season. They have their eye also
on the first conference game in the
new district next Friday with An-
son here. Starting lineup will be
the same as announced last week
in: Wood and Klinger at the end
-lots; Nixon and l>,,'mer on the
tackles; McCormick and Adams,
guards; Hammonds, center; Nixon
and Mitchell, halfs; Reynolds,
quarter; and Taylor, full.
Following is the complete roster
for Moran;
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Albany Pupils Are Without Means
Of Transportation To Centennial
Railway traffic was halted Sun-
that they will ew day over the Missouri-Kansas-Tex-
as lines through Albany and was
some three hours late Monday be-
cause of water over the tracks in
two places. Rains over the week-
end caused creeks to go on a ramp-
age and rails this side of De Leon
and Whitney were covered for
about seven hours. Officials did
not know the extent of the damage
until the water subsided. They
found that none of the dumps had
been washed out and after some
minor repairs, the trains were al-
lowed to go through.
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FENCING FINISHED
Robbery of the First National
Dank of Haird was averted last
Friday when Clifford V. Jones,
assistant cashier, emptied his gun
at II. L. Meyers of San Antonio,
who had told Jones "this is a stick
up." Meyers is on parole from the
state penitentiary. Sheriff John
Holland was called to Haird by
officers there, but Meyers was in
jail by the time he arrived.
Jones, opening the bank, found
the gunman concealed behind fix-
tures. Accosting the banker, the
intruder announced "this i a stick
up job and 1 want to fill thi satch-
el with motley." He wa carrying
iw ' « ■ 11 i i,wUt i ... : 1 ■ ii,' ibimi mmmm
land ran toward a car parked a
\ block down the street.
Gives Chase
•Tone followed. He threw hi
run at. Meyers and truck him,
but the blow only increased the
speed of the robber's flight.
Meyers jumped in the automo-
bile, later identified as stolon in
Abilene Monday and roared away.
W. L. Henry, who happened to
be passing, gave chase. The cat
tleman had a rifle in his cai and
fired at the fleeing robber, but
was unable to halt the automobile.
One bullet st ruck a fender.
He pursued the fugitive into a
blind lane, and, knowing tho quar
r.v wa trapped stopped and wa ted
, Liii Ua.
Several local citizens intere.-t
in the improvi mont of cattle herd-
in the county made an educational
trip to Hrady Wedt" sday led by
John F. Redwick, jir. ideiit of thi
Shackelford County Hieeder's A
ociation, and W. T. Magee. coun
ly agent. Whib there, they in-
speeled the Richard's herd and the
Hrook's herd Other- who made
the trip were Merrick Davis. Dick
New ell, John Diller 1. A. Sanders
and (iuy Caldwell.
Always interested in the up-
building of Shackelford county
cattle, the group wished to see
what other breed, ' were do ng
for th'- improvement of their herd-.
\ccording lo Mr. Seihvick, one
of cattle in this county. Shackel
ford, already noted for he nc " I lie
Heine of the Hereford," could not
undertake a more noble effort.
Cattle can most, always be impro\
ed and if the present home of the
Hereford can be turned into a
finer home for the same cattle, o
much the better. We heartily en
dorse the movement and wish the
group sponsoring the project suc-
cess.
While (he assistant cashier fum-
bled with (he vault comb na ' ion.
, his brother R. F. Join , bookkc' p
er, entered the door. V. .Tom
motioned to his brother not to
come farther, and the huglar o] ■ ;
ed fire The bookkeeper dropped
to the floor. C. V Jon. > navhed
a pistol from a rack nearby and
emptied it at Meyers, who cont n-
I ued to fire his own gun as he ran.
! He jumped through the opening
■
npnin.
Surrender* To Officer*
He w . i' • ed t ■ >• liv .v i ri ff
R L. FMw a I'd and Dep r • i "a r
euro N'ordyke. Meji in
realizing h flight was hopele ,
came lowly back along the lane.
He surrendered without n 'stance
under the threat of three rifles.
Untranee to the bank was gained
by removing a screen from a rear
window.
if
1 \ ■ . l,v< ding
ie ll an is still r
continually -ee1
■toek, Allium
oim herds that
any to be fount
seeking to place j
in this vicinity. Kven j
though it ■ a low proce , it ha* i World
1 | I'lans are progressing rapidly to
. .carry one million school children to
the Central Fxposition in Dallas
during this month and November.
School holidays for each of the
tWent\ four districts of Texas will
In declared a announced by Gov-
ernor James V. Allred. While no
definite plans have been made to-
ward- carrying Albany children to
Dallas in a body, Superintendent
C. H. Downing is heartily in favor
of the movement. He stated that
the local problem is one of trans-
portation since the school does not
own its busses and the railroads-
would be ii ii a: i. factory. However,
he -till has hopes of making suit-
able arrangement o that this
i i,.mi will be .mot.;', tie hUildii ds
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OI of hp
ford-,
isl'ied
impro'.
county
fine a.'
but t1
Hid
•e his
ha
mosi
\ •ociation
better bulls
bci
d. th'
e eVellt.
an their vis-
it to the exposition yesterday
when pupils from district one,
made up of I 'a • handle eountie ,
arrii ed in 1 bill,a.. Tl ■ children
will continue pouring into the city
by offering special rates to the
school groups. Arrangements are
being made by Centennial officials
for special meals for the children's
lunch and dinner on the grounds.
They have also made plans to
house the pupils at camps near the
Exposition grounds. Consideration
is being given a plan calling for |
special showings of the Cavalcade
of Texas for the benefit of these
young Texans.
The trip offers many advantages
to the children which could not be
gained in weeks of class room
study. Present plans call for sup-
ervised educational tours, special
programs in the State of Texas
building, exhibits from each dis-
trict and general entertainment
•' i ,
Work is going forward toward
buying additional right-of-way on
highway 1! 1 between Albany and
Haird. Land has previously been
purchased up to the ten-mile point
and right-of-way past there is be-
ing secured rapidly. Meanwhile,
fencing of the newly purchased
land is almost complete with scat-
tering places on the highway to be
finished this week.
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already paid dividends and will
continue to pay even more, Mr.
Sedwick explained.
1 in Te\a, Weekly in Dallas
which has acted somewhat as a
-pon>or for the affair litis gather-
ed comment from leading officials
] over the state.
Dr. L. 11. Hubbard, president of
j Texas State College for Women in
Denton, ays; "I am very much
in favor of bringing the public
school students to the Exposition,
\ ar ous transportation agencies , and hope very much that the plan
until Nov,
' air
m her
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"5th when the
Agenrien Cooperating
•ious transportation ag
are cooperating in (he undertaking J
(Continued on page 4)
The man who can remember
the hitching post in front of the
kaii s
'. o.inger with his hat on.
We doubt if you'll find any
hitching posts- even if you do
remember tliemi—but we guar-
antee you'll find plenty of ev-
erything else if you'll just look
in the News Classified Ads.
And, should you care to use
this popular medium to sell
something, all that need be done
is call f>7. Prices arc reason-
able, too.
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