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FRIDAY, AUG. 30, 1940
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THE TEXAS M EJ_QUJ_T_E_R
Each Barrel Oil
Gives School Taxes
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Thompson Garage
And CCC Win Three
Ah a result of stronger competi-
tion, Watson Ice, team leader in the
City League since its organization
at the Nash & Redden Bowling Al-
leys, dropped back to second place
to let the CCC boys take the lead.
Thompson's Garage, this week's
leading team, took three games
Monday night from Watson Ice,
shooting 1.408 pins. Walker's Ga-
rage won 2 out of 3 from Summers
Garage Tuesday night, and the CCC
boys slipped into first place Wed-
nesday night by taking three
straight from Porter Drug. Duke El-
lington, bowling with this week's
leading team, Thompson's Garage,
won high individual score with 504
pins to win high honors for the sec-
ond consecutive week. His score last
week was 558.
Porter Drug and Sumers Garage
will drop out of the league next
week, leaving four strong evenly
matched teams to play Monday and
Tuesday nights.
Last week the Mesquite bowlers
were victorious in two out of town
games, defeating Irving Thursday
night, and Grand Prairie Friday
night.
INDIVIDUAL SCORES THIS WEEK
Duke Ellington. Thompson ....504
McCallam. CCC 483
Moore, CCC 480
Sanders, Walkers 470
L. Borchardt, Porter 4 66
B. Jones, Thompson 465
G. Miller, Watson 4 46
C. Paschall, Thompson . 439
R. Lewis, Porter 4 28
C. Potter, Watson 418
Wilmeth, CCC 408
L. Crane, Summers 387
H. Dean, Summers 386
R. Watson, Watson 381
Nesbitt. Walkers 381
S. Jones. Summers 376
Tribble, Walkers 327
Brazier. Porter 299
LEAGUE STANDING
Team Won . Lost
C. C. C 12 3*
Watson Ice 9 6
Thompson Garage .... 9 6
Walker's Garage 7 8
Porter Drugs 5 10
Summers Garage 2 13
NEXT WEEK'S SCHEDULE
Monday — CCC vs. Thompson
Garage.
Tuesday—Watson Ice vs. Wal-
ker's Garage.
Mrs. H. T. Viek, who was in a
Terrell hospital last week is visiting
her son, U. D. Vick and family.
Mrs. John Cullom, Mrs. L. E.
Cullom and Mrs. R. S. Kimbrough
visited the Federal Prison at Seago-
ville Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Bodine and
children will leave Saturday for a
three weeks vacation in Colorado,
They will join Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Bodine in Colorado Springs.
' Mrs. L. E. Cullom spent last
Sunday in Dallas with Mr. and Mrs.
John Cullom. Relatives from south
Texas and Tennessee were there.
While in town Mrs. Cullom visited
her daughter, Mrs. Sam Meek and
daughter, Susie.
Advise From State
Health Officer
Discovery in Texas of Mexican
bed bugs (kissing bugs) infected
with trypanasoma cruzi, a parasite
capable of causing Chaga's disease,
was reported this week in the United
States Public Health Service Re-
ports, according to Dr. Geo. W. Cox.
State Health Officer.
While no human cases of Chaga's
disease have been reported to the
State Health Department, the pre-
sence of the organisms in the in-
sects that transmit the disease make
it a potential public health problem.
Dr. Cox pointed out.
About 65 per cent of 150 speci-
ments of the bed bugs collected in
one central Texas town were found
to be infected with the parasite try-
panasoma cruzi. Experience with the
disease than children and that in
some instances persons may harbor
the parasite of Chaga's disease in
their blood stream without the act-
ual condition of the disease being
present.
It has further been shown in areas
where the disease is prevalent that
infants of about one year of age
are .most susceptible to the disease
and in the presence of the disease
show a low grade fever at night.
During the period of infection the
face becomes puffy and the thyroid
gland and superficial lyphatic glands
are enlarged. The puffiness of the
face accompanied by sore eyes is so
characteristic as to be almost diag-
nostic of Chaga's disease. In the
final stages a child develops sym-
ptoms that resemble meningtis or
sleeping sickness and death general-
ly takes place within a month of
the disease. Should the child survive,
the disease passes into the chronic
form.
The State Health Department
through its Division of Bedding is
intensifying its activities to secure
proper sterlization of second-hand
mattresses before resale and to sup-
ervse closely the manufacture and
retailing of bedding products so as
to minimize the potential infection
of mattresses with the Mexican bed
bug and other disease carriers.
Cooperation of the public is urged
in buying new or used bedding pro-
ducts by demanding that each pro-
duct purchased carry the regula-
tion stamps and labels certifying the
i product as being approved by the
Bedding Division of the State Health
| Department. Compliance in purchas-
ing only approved bedding products
will insure that the bedding obtain-
ed will be as free as possible from
| the carriers of disease which may be
! harbored in mattresses.
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Sermon: "Iu Remembrance of Me,
Sermon, "In Remembrance of Me."
menl of the Lord's Supper at 10:45
a.m.
Epworth League, 7:00 p.m.
The evening preaching service is
being dismissed iu cooperation with
the Christian Church and tbe Assem-
bly of God Church iu their revival
meetiugg.
It's The House
That Jack Built
It's no story. The modest, white
cottage that evolved from many
drawiugs, the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Nesbitt, is the realization of a
dream house, plans for which were
designed by the owner, Jack Nesbitt.
after he and Mrs. Nesbitt had decid-
ed what they wanted.
The master bedroom on the south
is ideal, as are the kitchen and bath
adjoining on west and east.
The entrance hall, decorative in
American Revolution design wall
paper, opens into the two bedrooms,
living room. An inside fire place for
burning real wood is opposite the
big living room window on the
north. White woodwork. Venetian
blinds and hardwood floors, w^iich
are used throughout the house, em-
phasize a note of freshness against
the white walls. A five light chan-
delier hangs from the ceiling. Book
shelves and cabinet ornament one
side of the mantle.
An arch leads to the dining al-
cove with its north and west ex-
posures. The burgondy paper with
{ white Colonial design and light furn-
| iture as quaint.
The kitchen, south of the dining
j room, is the most colorful spot in
j the house, with its blue inlaid lino-
i leum yellow trimmed, its white por-
; celain furnishings, the white wood-
! work with accents of blue, and the
enclosed hot water theater. An out-
| side entrance to the garage, leads
from the kitchen.
The big bed room. 14x18 feet, has
doors into the kitchen, bath and
hall, with a section of windows to
i be dipped as one big window. The
j wall paper Is in green, white and
! beige coloring lovely against the
maple furniture. His and her closets
are convenient.
The bath, with private entrances
from the guest and master rooms,
is decorated In aqua and yellow.
Built in closets and inlaid linoleum
complete the room.
Blue and white and peach are
used in the front bedroom. The en-
tire house is convenient and express-
es the skill of the designer and home
maker. Neshltt's house is a splendid
recommendedation of Mr. Nesbltt's
ability as an architect.
Taxes paid by the Texas petro-
leum industry for school purposes
uow equal 4 1 * cents per barrel for
every barrel of oil produced in the
Slate.
Figures Just compiled by the
Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas As-
sociation from official records of
the State Comptroller and the tax
collectors of several hundred iudep-
endent school districts show that the
i Texas petroleum business last year
I paid $14.14 In school taxes for each
I of the 1,549.443 children attending
Texas public schools. Based on the
per child educational cost o f$55.30,
petroleum taxes were suficieut to
pay all expenses of educating one-
fourth of the entire school popula-
tion of Texas, or about 388,000 Tex-
as school children.
Although the Statewide average
paid by oil is one-fourth of the
total school taxes paid, petroleum
pays an average of four-fifths of all
school levies, including the State
apportionment, in forty larger oil
districts.
In these districts, also, the aver-
age cost of schooling per pupil is
much higher than In non-oil dis-
tricts. In thes forty, the per pupil
cost averages $132.36, or approxi-
mately 2Ms times as much as the
average of $53.93 for all other Texas
school districts. In the oil districts
the average costs ranged from
$100.76 to as high as $257.65. The
average for all independent %chool
districts included in the survey is
$56.86 per pupil.
Last year the Texas oilman paid
in State taxes approximately $32,-
000,000 of which around $13,000,-
000 in local taxes of which more
than $8,000,000 weut to the schools.
Altogether $21,915,000 was paid by
petroleum to Texas public schools
last year. This $21,915,000 divided
by the 478,192,887 barrels of oil
produced in Texas in 1939 gives an
average of 4.56 cents per barrel in
school taxes for each barrel of oil
produced in Texas.
The $21,915,000 paid in schoool
taxes by the Texas oilman is evuip-
alent to the entire yearly salaries of
20.655 white Texas school teachers,
or more than half of the 38,620 in-
dustries in all the white public
schools of the State. In addition,
taxes on gasoline paid by the con-
sumer and collected by the oil in-
dustry at its own expense provide
the schools with $10,500,000 more
the equivalent of the yearly salaries
of nearly 10,000 more Texas teach-
ers. Thus Texas petroluem and its
products now bear taxes equal to
annual salaries of more than 3 0.000
Texas teachers, or four-fifth of all
the white school teachers in the
State.
Your Short Vacation Should Be Enjoyable
.Make the moat of your holiday this I<ahor l>ay. \
full week-end to relax, get out in the open, to enjoy
yourself.
Labor's part In building America overshadows most
economic activities. Let us honor it; let us become a
part of it for life!
This lla.uk Will IV' Cloaeii Monday
The First National Bank
of Mesquite
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(from East Texas)
"The little towns of Texas,
What pretty names they bear!
There's Echo, Garland. Crystal
Springs.
Arcadia. Dawn and Prairie Home,
And Bells and Rising Star.
God keep them childlike, restful,
clean,
Pure as the prairies are!"
—CLYDE WALTON HILL
Villlage life in East Texas has
contributed something fine, clean
and strong to the life of the State
and the Nation. Today the high
tempo of modern life has passed by
isome of these quiet little places
| along the highways and on t h e
I peaceful back roads of unpaved
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sand. Stop and let the village
voices call to you. They can tell
some of the most itfteresting chap-
ters in the history of the State and
of some of its great personalities.
Blossom Prairie gave America a '
Vice President. Peachtree Village
sent a great industrialist forth to
• the world of business. Myrtle
Springs has sent strong sons into the
great market places. Elysian Fields
and Jacobia and Rosebud have
made their mark in the halls of
fame. Read the biographies of the
great in Texas annals and you will
find in many of them the well-
springs of character and training
back in some small village where
there was love and truth and faith
and mothers and fathers who taught
honor, self reliance, resourcefulness,
in typical American homes.
Here we find the practicaly school
of economics of the forum on the
I front gallery of the general store.
h(rfnespun philosophers under a
spreading shade tree, the daily news
broadcast of the village barber
shop which covers quite thoroughly
the short and simple happenings of
the neighborhood. In a village a
man must live his life in the open
in plain sight of all his neighbors.
Although the radio and the auto-
mobile have brought village life
closer to the outside world, there
still remains much of the detached
and quiet neighborhood life. Per-
haps in yonder humble, unpalnted
cottage some barefoot boy or girl is
dreaming dreams of conquest and
achievement that will make the
world pay homage to this country
place.
Let us be thankful for the little
communities that help to mould our
State and National character. Let us
hope, as wo build more stately cities,
that the village may not perish from
the earth. For here, far from the
storm and strife, of fierce competi-
tion of busier , marts, there is a
strine of community life to which
we owe a debt of gratitude.
Record Smashed For
Peacetime Recruits
In Marine Corps
Smashing all records for peace-
time recruiting in the U. s. Mamie
Corps since the world war. the Texas
District, with headquarters at Dal-
las, came out on top as the leading
District Recruiting Station for the
nation with a total of 240 men en-
listed during the m*»nth of July. The
Dallas office also has the distinction
of enlisting 40 men iu one day,
which was done on Friday, July
26th.
The response of the American
youth in Texas to the call for volun-
tary enlistments, has been gratify-
ing and It is expected that the Ma-
rine Corps will soon reach Its auth-
orized strength, which will bring the
total number of men to 34,000. This
figure represents an actual doubl-
ing of the personnel of the Marines,
as the total number remained around
17,000 for a number of years since
the world war.
When the new strength Is achieved
It Is proposed to organize several de-
fense battalions, mainly to augment
the Fleet Marine Forces on the East
or West coasts or at locations which
may best serve the military needs
of the nation.
The Fleet Marine Force comprises
virtually all military units. Including
rifle, engineer, chemical, signal,
tank, motor transport and the nec-
essary service companies. Netw de-
fense battalions will be capable of
an all-round defense short of a
major fleet effort, it is said, and
will add considerable strength to the
original force.
For years the Fleet Marine Force,
a special division within the Corps,
has been taking part in maneuvers
with the Navy. Islands in the Car-
ibbean or the Pacific furnished the
practice grounds for the establishing
of advanced bases, and gave the sea
soldiers some excellent training in
landing and other exercises.
CITATION—11V PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS
To the Sheriff or Any Constable of
Dallas County—GREETING:
YOU ARE HEREBY COMMAND-
ED, That by making publication of
this Citation in some newspaper
published in the County of Dallas,
once each week for four consecutive
weeks, previous to the return day
hereof you summon D. Rowen, Sam
Eakins, T. Watson, A. R. Griggs, S.
Pitt man, Frank Read. A. Wllhite, A.
Boyd and George English, all indiv-
idually and as trustees, and the un-
known heirs of the said D. Rowen,
Sam Eakins, T. Watson. A. R.
Griggs. S. Pitt man. Frank Read, A.
Wilhite, A. Boyd and George Eng-
lish aforsesaid, and the unknown
heirs of the unknown heirs of the
said i>. Rowen, Sam Eakins, T.
Watson. A. It. Griggs, S. Pitman,
Frank Read. A. Wilhite. A. Boyd
and George English, each of whose
residence is unknown, to be and
appear before the District Court of
the 101st Judicial District of Texas,
to be holden in and for the County
of Dallas at the Courthouse thereof,
in the City of Dallas, at or before
ten o'clock a. m., of the Monday next
following the expiration of Forty-
two clays front the date of this cita-
tion, being Monday, at 10 o'clock
a.m., on the 7th day of October A.
D. 19 4 0. then and there to answer to
the First Amended Origiinl petition
of Currie MeCtitcheon.* filed In
said Court on »h. J I st day of Aug.
A.D. 19 40, against the said R. Row-
en. Sam Eakins, T. Watson. A. R.
(iiiBgs, S Piftnuui. Frank Read, A.
Wilhite, A IJoyd. and G'eorge Ens-
list, all individually and as trust-
ees, the residences of all of said de-
fendants being unknown to plain-
tiff; and also against the unknown
heirs of the said D Rowen, Sam
Eakins. T. Watson. A. R. Griggs. S.
Pitt man. Frank Read. A. Wilhite. A.
Boyd. George English, aforesaid and
the unknown heirs of the unknown
heirs of the said I). Rowen, Sam
Eakins. T. Watson. A. It Griggs, S.
Pittman, Frank Read. A. Wilhite, A.
Boyd and George English, for suit,
said suit being Numbered 51,504-E
the nature of which demand is as
follows, to-wit:
This action is brought as well to
try the title as for damages, where-
in plaintiff seeks judgment for the
title and possession of two tracts or
parcels of land lying and being sit-
uated In the County of Dallas. Tex-
as. Tract No. 1—being one acre out
of the north corner of a 60 a c r e
tract deeded to J. W. Smith and
J. M. Pntterson out of the original
John Grigsby league survey, and be-
ing the same property conveyed by
Wm. H. Boales to Sam Eakins.
trustee for the colored people of the
town of Dallas, by deed dated April
29th, 1869, and recorded In volume
L. page 240 of the Deed Records of
Dallas County, Texas. Tract No. 2—
being a part of the John Grigab
League survey and a part of
above mentioned to acre tract
land heretofore belonging to Wa
Boales and being a part of g
acres deed by said Boales to V
Mrs. C.
Boales on October 26, 1875, a
being the same land conveyed by
S. Bowles and wife Elizabeth Boi
les to T. Watson, et al, trustees, foHl Pleaean
Freedman's Graveyard, by deed dai ith her p
ed April 12th, 1879, and recorde tnT
iu Vol. 66, page 475 of the Deei
Records of Dallas County, Teiai
which property plaintiff says
owned in fee simple on July 1 (
1940, when defendants entered m
lawfully entered upon said premiss
and dispossessed plaintiff to
damage in sum of $450,000. Plata
tiff claims title under the three
five, ten and 25 years statute i
limitation, and that defendants cam
of action, if any they ever had. ac
crued more than two years befofl
the commencement of this suit,
the filing of this first amended orij
inal petition, and same Is harried I?
the statute of limitation.
HEREIN FAIL NOT. hut ha?
you then and there before sal
Court this writ, with your retui
thereon showing how you have en
cuted the same.
WITNESS: Pearl Smith, Clerk
the District Court o! Dallas fount?
Texas.
Given under my hand and the sea
of said Court, at office In the Clt]
of Dallas, this 22nd day of Aug®
A. I). 1940.
Attest: Pearl Smith. Clerk Distfll
Courts, Dallas County.
By E W. THWEATT. Deputy.
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