The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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The Nolan County News
Goes Into More Nolan County Homes Than Any Other Newspaper
VOLUFE XVIII
SWEETWATER. TEXAS. THURSDAY. NOV. 5. 1942
Burglars Active in
City Wednesday Night
On the Broadway of America
NUMBER
Sweetwater Lad Contributes to This
‘United Nations’ Group in Cairo
B’'
Four Sweetwater business con-
cerns were entered by burglars
some time after midnight Wednes-
day One of the concerns report-
Volunteers Again
uaj \-mic ui me cuuccius report- wy 11. «* *
ed $136 missing, another report- HpQrllinP Npu/C nf
prl Ihn 1 nwc rtf $95 in cfnmne i * lUflvJIlllC * iv Wo Ol
Nolan Draft Board
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Rep. Bullock of Snyder Named
Senator Tuesday; Voting is Light
ed the loss of $25 in war stamps.
No funds were missing at the
other two places, although cash
registers had been broken into.
Hardest hit of the four was
Globe Cleaners, where entry was
made through an east side win-1 ,
dow. The $136 was reported j 'n
missing here. “Chubby" Kirk- [
TV
More Than 30 Awards Are Made at
District Scout Court of Honor
Volunteer enlistments again
headlined selective service news
Nolan county this week.
The following were listed by the
East Broadway reported $25
I leers:
war stamps taken from the cash Robert E wilkerson, John A.
legister. Oden, James Cleon Spiers, J. D.
Also entered were the Western Stewart, Lloyd C. Wyatt, Allred
Windmill company, where a rear I s Liebi WiUialn j. Black, Elmer
k\
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window was broken, and the
J. C. Morris filling station at the
corner of Broadway and Hailey.
No loss was reported at either of
these places, however.
Police had not made any arrests
at noon Thursday, according to
J. A. Bland, chief of police.
ft
Leaves Friday
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! Raymond Nolen, former assistant I
manager of J. C. Penney company j
store; Waymond Jacobs, Clyce
G. Smith, Raymond T. Molder, |
Benny W. McGahee, Albert C.
Polk, Robert R. Dodgion, Eurcy !
Farris McClain, James H. Will-
iams, former principal of Sweet- [
| water high school; Erwin W. ,
1 Brcdemeyer, Ernest W. Cox,
j Ralph R. Johnson, Verlin E. (Lew) j
Jenkins, Charles Matyear, Eustace1
R. McMinn, Virgal W. Posten,
Alvah Kyle Blackerby, Roscoe L.
Breeden, Vernon O. Rannefeld,
Wilmoth M. Dressier, Wesley E.
j McMillan, Dennis R. Butler, Troy
R. Dooley, Marvin L. Blackstock,
Robert Coleman, Johnny H. Hed-
! rick, former Mustang back who
| was accepted as a naval aviation
cadet.
j Only seven registrants had been
[moved into 1-A classification:
Milton L. Holstein, Dalton W.
Bruce, William M. Sewell, Ual S. ; ... . „ .... ,, '
, ..... . 1 Election of Everett Maxwell,
Blackstock, Pete McDade (negro),
George W. Peck, and James W. director of bands in Denver City,
Scott. ! as band director and teacher of
On the straight accepted list; instrumental music in Sweetwater
Pvt. W. R. (Dub) Owens, fourth from right, standing, mem-
ber of the 83d bomb squadron. 12th bombing group, AEF in
Africa, sent this photograph to Sweetwater friends last week.
It was made in Cairo. It indicates the cosmopolitan nature of
the United Nations forces in Egypt which had Field Marshal
Rommell and his Afrika Korps on the run Thursday. Kneeling at
either end are pilots of the RAF, the second from left unidenti-
fied, the other a pal of Dub's. The goaieed soldier in shorts is a
"Free Frenchman," next and one on extreme right, standing, are
Royal Canadian fliers. The negro soldier to Dub's right, wearing
the "boola" hat is a native Australian soldier. Owen said on his
next leave he intended visiting Jerusalem.
Denver City Director
Takes Over Band Here
Gibbs, First Lady
Dr. Sam A. Loeb, physician
and surgeon here since 1936,
leaves Friday for Barksdale
field. La., for duty as a first
lieutenant in the medical
branch of the U. S. army air
corps. His wife and three
were: Efrain Chapa, Albert J.
Hyde, Edward C. Holbert, Orvel
C. Turnbow, Bush W. Reid, Wiley
McDonnell, Jerome A. Mierzwik,
| Hilbert L. Kennamer, Willie J.
Luckie, Joseph W. Holley, Andres
j E. Ortega, Dan W. Burkard, and
Price V. Allen.
children are
Sweetwater.
to remain in
Week’s Illness
Fatal Wednesday
To Chas. P. Nunn
An illness of a week was fatal
at 8:30 Wednesday morning to
Charles P. Nunn, 67, resident of
Sweetwater for 20 years. He died
at the Sweetwater hospital of
pneumonia complicated by a heart
involvement.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Thursday afternoon from conventlun th,s >’eal- Valious
Highland Heights Methodist committee meetings will also be
church with Rev. J. E. Shewbert, hgM.dunng the two d*ys- The
pastor, officiating. Burial was in
(See NO. 5, Back Page)
Covey to Attend
Dallas Meetings
Ross Covey, superintendent of
! Sweetwater schools and recently
elected president of the Oil Belt
i Teachers association, will be in
Dallas Friday and Saturday for an
executive board meeting of the
Texas State Teachers association.
Covey will take part in an im-
portant financial committee meet-
ing on Friday. Plans for financ-
ing Texas schools during the | wife and two children will move I
coming year will be discussed. to Sweetwater with him.
The executive committee meet- Patterson has been band direc-
ing and the house of delegates' tor here for two years. He came
meeting on Saturday will take the I here from Winters,
place of the annual state teachers' -
Two Teachers Leave
To Join Husbands
high school was announced
Thursday by Supt. Ross Covey.
Maxwell will fill the vacancy
left by the resignation of R. J.
Patterson, who has filled the post
for the last two years. Patterson
began work as ground instructor
at Avenger Field this week. Max-
well will begin his duties here as
soon as he is released at Denver
City. Until then the band work
will be carried on under student
direc ars trains’ by i atterson.
Holding a master’s degree in
band music from Texas Techno-
logical college, Lubbock, Maxwell i
began his teaching and band
directing career 10 years ago at i
Bronte. He directed bands at [
Lovington and Anthony, both in j
New Mexico, before going to Den- |
ver City. At Texas Tech he j
studied under D. O. Wylie, who |
directed the Hardin-Simmons
Cowboy band during its tour of I
Europe several years ago. His
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More than 30 awards were
! made at the monthly court of
honor of the Sweetwater Boy
Scout district Tuesday evening.
| Ross Covey, district court of
honor chairman, presided. The
attendance banner went to Troop
! 44, with Mack Alexander as j
j master.
M. B. Templeton presented sec-
ond class awards to Warren Bon-
ner of Troop 48 and Claude Reed
Shelton of Troop 74. First class
awards were made by Henry
Young to Shelby Barnes, Herman
Hardin, Jr., and Charles Swinney,
all of Troop 44, and to James Har-
ris and Jerry Mayberry of Troop
46.
Each of the following boys re-
ceived one merit badge award:
B. B Barnes, H. C. Bettis, Jr.,
Ellis Deel, Sessum Deei, J. Fred
j Hambright, and Bobby Moore, all j
of Troop 74; John Bolling, Joe
Dale Burk, Jerry Jordan, and
Mack Weathersbee, all of Troop
33; Herman Hardin, Jr., of Troop
j 44; and Tommy Tucker of Troop [
42. Two or more merit badge
! awards went to Ted McBeth of
Troop 47; C. W. Parmenter, H. E
! Parmenter, and Layton Webb of
Troop 74; Lawrence Spruill and
Charles Swinney of Troop 44;
Zeb Williams of Troop 42. All
merit badge awards were present-
: ed by Dr. C. A. Rosebrough.
Curtis Foreman mdae star scout
awards to Bobby Moore of Troop
74 and Lawrence Spruill of Troop
44.
Ted McBeth of Troop 47 and
New Senator
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Rep. Pat bullock of Snyder
was elected senator from the
24th district to fill the unex-
pired term of John Lee Smith,
now lieutenant governor, in
Tuesday's special election.
Mrs. Mays Resigns
Her USO Duties
Rep. Pat Bullock of Snyder was
elected state senator from the
24th senatorial district in Tues-
day’s special election to name a
successor to John Lee Smith of
Throckmorton, who was named
lieutenant governor.
Rep. Bullock held a safe lead
over Attorney Howard C. Davison
of Rotan, himself a former repre-
sentative. These two led a field
of six men seeking the unexpired
term of former Senator Smith.
In the regular election Tues-
day, ail democratic primary nomi-
nees in the county and those in
the state were elected in light
: voting, which failed to attract 50
per cent of the state’s voting
; strength.
In the nation the democrats
elected 218, a majority, to the
house. The republicans elected
208, with five contests still un-
decided. The republicans gained
43 seats in the national house.
Republicans elected 16 governors
to 13 for the democrats. Thomas
E. Dewey, republican, defeated
John J. Bennett, democrat, for
governor of New York.
In Nolan county voters favored
three of the five proposed amend-
ments. They were for the proposi-
tion, 517 to 188, requiring the
legislature to make sure there
; was cash on hand to pay any new
appropriations, or pass enabling
! acts to take care of such ap-
propriations. They favored, 414
to 333, the amendment authoriz-
| ing the legislature to pay for
building constructed at John
Tar.eton college. They polled
393 votes for to 337 against the
proposal author; ing the construc-
m
: tion of a state oifice building in
Resignation of Mrs. Ed Mays, Austin.
Jr., as commanding general of the The vote was 420 against to
7„l, woiii , — ,, Sweetwater USO Sweethearts was 302 for the proposition to create
i S f ’ S Wednesday night for payment of lederal officers on
Listed for carry-over merit Mrs. A. A Eberle was elected I duty in state schools
badge awards were H. D Bettis, j to succeed Mrs. Mays, who will [
over his oliice in January
(See NO. 2, Back Page)
Jr
Harless,
Neil Tefteller, and Buckie ! continue to assist in the Sweet- ! take 3 Elect Bullock
all of Troop 74.
heart activities.
City Will Observe Armistice Day
Highland Now
Awaiting Burner
AAA Leaders to
Be Named Nov. 13
Nolan county’s farmers
elect next year's AAA commit-
teemen Friday, November 13.
According to Demp Kearney,
secretary Nolan county ACA,
community commit'ee elections
will be held at the following
places:
Sweetwater county courtroom
at 2.
Roscoe grammar school at 7:30.
Blackwell school at 7:30.
Divide school at 7:30.
Highland school at 7:30
annual convention is usually held
during the Thanksgiving holidays,
but is being cancelled this year
because of gasoline rationing and
other war-time conditions.
Ira Hutchingson, superintend-
ent of Roscoe schools, and Juanita
Mings of the Sweetwater high j
school faculty are Nolan county ;
members of the house of dele- j
will gates in addition to Supt. Covey.
j
Archie Gibbs. Roscoe
mariner who spent four days
captive aboard an axis sub-
marine in the Caribbean sea
after two freighters were
torpedoed from under him.
meets Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
the first lady, after he related
his experiences to members
of Navy Wives' club at An-
napolis a couple of weeks ago.
Wednes-
the
teachers,
tendent Rufus Walker, resigned
Walker is now on the Sweetwater
faculty. With C. S. Harris,
principal, promoted to superin-
. , ,, tendent, a hunt for teachers has
(day by Chairman Marshall Pior been underway.
Mileage Rationing
Sign Up Nov. 12-14
Motorists were reminded Thurs-
Departure of two Sweetwater
teachers to join their service hus-
bands has made necessary re-
placements and shifts in the
faculty of Sweetwater shcools.
Mrs. Wayne Thomas, teacher of of the war price and rationing There is still one vacancy that
English in John H. Reagan junior board to register Nov. 12, 13, or of vocational agriculture instruc-
high school, left last week to 14 for mileage rationing books tor All the others have
join her husband in Camp Brad
county in the post of principal.
been
_ „ , Car owners will register at the | filled, with Cloy Lyle of Taylor „.uar„
(See NO. 4, Back Page) school nearest their home. county in the ‘ '
Railroads Need
Track Laborers
Poppy Day Saturday to Give Citizens an Opportunity to Keep
Faith With American Boys Who Have Died in Our Behalf
The United States employment
service in Sweetwater has receiv-
ed an urgent call for track labor-
________ _____ ers in California, Nevada. Utah,
In the county convention Sat- Ore8on. Arizona and New Mexico,
urday morning the five dele- ”° previous experience is neees-
gates will select the county com- sa|y- Transportation will be
mittees who will head next year’s furnished to the job site by the
AAA program. employer and free housing faeili-
“Wc have a tough battle to ties will also be furnished,
fight on our farms next year and The age limit is from 18 to 54
we need our best leaders on AAA years. The rate of pay is 46c to
committees to help out,” the sec- 52c an hour. No physical exami-
retary explained. nation is required, but must be.
Although county USDA war able to do full day’s work. Any
boards have done an excellent race or nationality, except enemy
job of charting the county's war- aliens, will be accepted,
time agricultural course, they This request for railroad track
need assistance from other coun- laborers is urgent and must be
ty leaders, he explained and ad- filled immediately. For full de-
ded that in all probability some tails on this job come to the
of the increasing responsibility United States employment service
would be shifted to community office located in the Blue Bonnet
AAA committeemen. hotel building in Sweetwater.
BY MRS. L. N. GELDERT
President of Auxiliary Unit,
Oscar McDonald Legion Post
Wearing a poppy is a
pledge that we will not
break faith with those who
have died defending Ameri-
ca.
The Oscar McDonald unit
of the American Legion auxi-
liary is to hold its annual
observance of Poppy Day
Saturday. Nov. 7.
The poppy comes to us from
the fields of France where
Americans first gave their
lives against the dictator
powers.
We wear this little red
flower in honor of the men
who fell at Belleaux Wood.
Chateau-Thierry. St. Mihiel,
Meuse-Argonne and other bat-
tle fields of the first World
War. We wear it also m hon-
or of the brave boys at Pearl
Harbor. Wake Island, the
Philippines, the East Indies
and all those who have sacri-
ficed their lives elsewhere in
this renewal of the conflict.
The poppy, as you know,
was inspired by the poem:
“In Flanders Field,” with its
immortal lines. "In Flanders
field the poppies blow: Be-
tween the crosses, row on
row."
The poppies were the only
touch of beauty that survived
amid the desolation of the
battle front in France. They
formed the only floral tribute
on the grat es of the dead
and became for the men
fighting there a symbol of
heroic sacrifice.
This they remain today.
The poem ends with the
words: “If ye break faith
with us who died; We shall
not sleep, though poppies
Sweetwater is to observe Armis-
tice Day ii. ibout the usual way
Wednesday.
Most business establishments
will be closed throughout the
day. A large per cent of the popu-
The delayed arrival of a burner J**!™’ de;spi,e the Spending
, .. , .. . , tt' , miledSe rationing program which
i f°r ,ts heating system kept High- gues into effect this month, is
land rural high school closed this planning to attend the big football
week. The school had planned to £ame in Odessa between the
reopen Monday after being closed -Mustj*n£s and Broncs. Game time
I, ,, ,, , . , is 2:30, so a large number of the
Ifor the cotton harvest during the tans wilI leave earl
past few weeks. day morning.
Failure of the burner to arrive Reserved seat tickets to
on time is the latest in a series of Parnp tn ,, ,
school has been having since it 0l the courthouse.
closed for the cotton harvest The 0scar McDonald post.
re^eS*‘ .U , , , , American Legion, and the Texas
Soon after the school closed. Defense guard unit plan a joint
five teachers, including Superin- parade downtown at 9 a. m. The
Legionnaires had planned their
usual breaktast at 7 at Curley’s
cafe, but it closed at midnight
Thursday for the duration.
The parade was to disband at
Legion park on Oak street follow-
ing the raising of colors on the
staff at the park, with the Legion-
naires returning to the courthouse
gun salute was
to be given and
were to participate in the induc-
tion of Naval Aviation Cadet
DeWitte Conley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. Conley., who was one
of three youths selected by Coun-
ty Judge Delas Reeves to be in-
ducted into the U. S. navy at 11
a. m. Armistice, along with hun-
dreds of others throughout the
nation who go into the service
at that hour.
In the football game at Odessa
in the afternoon, the Mustangs
will be battling the Broncs in a
contest that will particularly cinch
the district 3-AA flag for the win-
ner.
Two Big Spring
Soldiers Hurt m
Crash Near City
Corp. Charles M. Gibson and
Corp. Edward Kent Saturday
midnight were enroute back to
the bombardier school at Big
Spring from a few days leave. It
was getting pretty close to the
"deadline" for their return to
grow in Flanders Field.” That
is their message for us to-
day. •
We will wear poppies Sat-
urday to show that we are
keeping faith.
Paper poppies arc made
by disabled veterans of the
first World War. They are
to be distributed through-
out the city Saturday by the
women of the auxiliary In
exchange for them, the auxi-
liary is to receive contribu-
tions for the unit’s welfare
work among the disabled vet-
erans. their families and
among the families of the
dead of both wars.
We want Sweetwater and
Nolan county citizens to keep
faith with those brave sons
who died on Flanders Fields
World War I and with those
who have died on the battle
fronts of the present conflict.
As their car rounded the curve
this side of the Santa Fe over-
pass it collided with one going
east, occupied by a couple of
lieutenants from the same base,
who were enroute to Abilene.
Corp. Kent was the most ser-
iously injured of the quartet. He
suftered a fractured skull at the
base of his nose and his left cheek
bone, under the eye was crushed.
Physicians who attended him at
the hospital leared he might lose
the sight of his left eye.
An army ambulance from the
Legionnaires u‘S SfTm8 army flying seho°l
I, the hosP,tal was dispatched to Sweet-
water Sunday to return him there
for treatment. An eye specialist
of the army medical corps was
sent there to examine Corp Kent’s
eye injury.
The other three soldiers were
treated for minor injuries.
To Join Identical
1 win in Service
Mustang coaches believe then
charges will be in good shape for
the gruelling battle, although twe
of thev have been slightly ailing
this week. Tackle \\ in lord Kemp
222-pounder, and Ed Mays, 185-
pound fullback, both suffered
juries in the Lam
was sick Wedne
expected tc
11.
M H. Iglehar
t, assistant
man-
ager of a large
Sweetwater
de-
partment store.
is to leave
next
Wednesday to b
e inducted
into
the U. S. armv
masters’ corps.
in fKo n, i
in me qu.
arter-
Iglehart came
to Sweet
water
from Beaumont
a year ago.
Fel-
him
employes
surpris
the store gave
arty Thursday
ift.
I
ready
,n* night and
me. Mays Iglehart
Both are an identic..! Im oromer in serv-
) go Nov. lce-_j th,nk he u on Guadalcanal.
,, have always been almost m-
Oaessa came out of the rough .separable. 1 just don't feel right
game with San Angelo Friday staying here while he is probab-
with some injuries but the Broncs ly engaged at this moment n
<See NO. 3, Back Page) deadly combat with the Jape».”
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