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ESTABLISHED IN 1929 AS THE WOOD COUNTY RECORD
thirteenth Year—Number 48
Mineola, Texas, Sunday, February 28, 1948
Four Pages Today
Red Cross War
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rive Opens Monday
Fourth Quitman Oiler
Best Producer In Field
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Joint Test To
tie Tested;
Another Starts
Manziel Wildcat
Drilling Ahead
Below 900 Feet
The new Quitman field had
its fourth and best producer
tessted Friday and oil men are
highly pleased over the results
of the test. A six-hour Railroad
Commission test flowed 210
barrels of oil at the Delta No.
1 J. A. Blalock, making it good
. for an 840-barrel per day oiler.
I^Thls well has 117 feet of good
■pil sand according to the re-
IVaults of a Schlumberger survey.
■ ^Cubing pressure on the well
Rtested 600 pounds, the casing
| Pressure 700 pounds. Gas-oil
^ratio was 277 to 1 and gravity
tested 43.1, very high.
^Ihe Shell Oil Company was
preparing to core in its No. 2
Goldsmith test, which is offset-
ing one of the producers. First
core was slated to be taken in
sandy shale under 6,210 feet and
it may prove out the present
lief that the well is running
t.
-her Test Planned
Se~Belta-Shell No. 1 Gold-
ith-Blalock was preparing to
a Schlumberger Friday. It
drilled from 6338-83 feet
nd then cored from 6383 to
3 feet with a 20-foot recov-
ry. First four feet was oil sand
ext four feet was fine medium
grain sand filled with heavy
espralt and it had a good odor.
Next came three feet of white
sand with an oil stain and the
bottom nine feet was water
nd. This well has been Tun-
ing lower than it was first ex-
ted, it was reported.
One new test in the Quit-
nan field was to be spudded in
tnd preparation was under way
o start another. Delta Drilling
Jo., et al No. 2 J. A. Blalock,
>ffset to the newest producer
.in which the Sun, the Gulf and
the Rudco Oil Company all hold
Jin interest, is due to be spud-
ded.
ierrick Erected
|Shell is erecting the derrick
|(hd digging pits for its No. 3
| B. Goldsmith test.
With 10 314-inch surface cas-
lg set at 803 feet, the Bobby
lanziel et al No. 1. W. F. Bai-
;y in the Cartwright area of
food County, a Paluxy wildcat,
as drilling under 900 feet in
aale.
Mineola Soldier
Dances With Movie
Star Jane Withers
Pvt. W. H. Reagan, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Reagan
of Mineola, was a guest at the
Hollywood Canteen in Holly-
wood, California last Saturday
night and from all reports must
have had a most enjoyable eve-
ning. Pvt. Reagan danced witty
one of Hollywood’s best known
younger movie stars, Jane With- J
ers. Reagan also stepped around j
a bit with another one or two.1
But to prove that he did |
dance with Miss Withers, he:
sent a ticket and program home!
with her autograph on it. His|
little sister. Dorothy, was proud-
ly displaying them this week.
WAA(TWeek Will
Be Observed
Here Next Week
Recruiters Have
Special Desk
In City Hall
An intensive drive to increase
Rationing in Brief jj Norwegian Sc^oo! in Scotland
To Be Rationed—
Canned and bottled fruits
and fruit juices (including
spiced fruits); frozen fruits,
dried and dehydrated fruits,
dried beans and peas, lentils
and dehydrated soups, can-
ned and bottled vegetables
and vegetable juices (includ-
ing all types and varieties of
canned soups), and ..frozen
vegetables.
Not to Be Rationed
Candied fruits, chili con
carne, frozen fruits in con-
tainers over ten pounds, fro-
zen vegetables in containers
over ten pounds, fruit cakes,
fruit juices in containers ov-
er one gallon, fruit puddings,
jams, jellies, meat, stews, ol-
ives, paste products such as
spaghetti, macaroni, noodles,
pickles, potato salad, preser-
ves, relishes and vegetable
juices in containers over one
gallon.
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Mineola Quota lor Greal
Organization Is $2,000
Former Resident
Buried Saturday
R. H. Welch, 60 year old re-
tired farmer, who has been liv-
ing in Tyler for the past two
years, died Friday following an
illness of nearly a year. Fun-
eral services were held at Con-
cord Church Saturday morn-
ing by Rev. J. H. Malone. Inter-
ment was in Concord Cemetery
Mr. Welch was a native of
KING HAAKON VII of Norway greet* Norwegian children at a boarding
school near Aberdeen in Scotland. The 6rst Norwegian school of its kind in
Great Britain, and run according to Norwegian educational method*, the school
now ha* 70 pupils, many of whom coma from small villages of their native
country. Soma escaped from Norway at the result of eommsndo raids os
Lofoten and Mealoyt others have come across the North Soa in open boats
t» take up studies interrupted by the German invasion.
Sixty Men From
Wood County In
Enlisted Reserve
Judge Old Issues
Special Statement
On Red Cross
Sixty more Wood County men The Central Committee of the
enrollments in the Women’s Mineola, and was born here on were inducted into military ser- > American Red Cross has re-
»ond and Stamp
Salts Thursday
Night are $6,520
Citizens of Mineola and
Wood County turned out in
large numbers Thursday night
to view the two-man suicide
^sp submarine captured at
|arl Harbor. A total of $6,520
War Bonds and Stamps was
Id, according to Abo Woods.
Itis compares favorably with
Pier towns the size of Mineola,
was said.
At least two sacks of coral
sand taken from the torpedo
tulies were left in Mineola C. I.
,Kiie bought two $1,000 bonds
lani J. C. Judge one of the $1,000
[denomination, entitling them to
souvenir
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Mrs. P. D. Radney and son,
iViigil Radney and family of
I Coke silent Friday with her
utghter, Mrs.
d family
Emmett James
Army Auxiliary Corps from 11
East Texas counties between
February 28 and March 6, was
announced today by Col. Claud
K. Rhinehart, district Army re-
cruiting chief. Wood county is
included in these eleven coun-
ties. The area to be covered,
Col. Rhinehart stated, embraces
the recruiting subdistricts of
Tyler and Longview.
Each of the contingents who
will enlist during this week will
be sworn in together and sent
to the same WAAC training
camp for preliminary work.
Women who plan to apply for
enlistment in the WAAC during
the special week are urged to
have a birth certificate. This is
absolutely necessary.
Sergt. E. S. Hickman of Tyler
was in Mineola Friday and sta-
ted that a member of theWAAC
would be at the registration
booth in the City Hall all day
Tuesday.
Mayor Miles Caudle promptly
indicated his cooperation by
declaring February 28 to March
6 as WAAC Week in Mineola
and urging that this city give
every aid to the drive. He also
gave Mrs. A. P. Buchanan, the is the general
county chairman, permission to three months,
use a desk in the city hall ev-
ery day during the WAAC Week
Mrs. Buchanan or the City
chairman, Mrs. Ned Moody, will
be at the desk all next week
to accept applications or to dis-
cuss the situation with anyone
who is interested in joining the
WAAC’s, it was stated.
Qualifications for a WAAC
are that you must be a woman
past your 21st birthday and
have not reached their 45th.
They must be in good health
and have no financial depen-
dents under 14. There are no
bars of race, creed or educa-
tion.
Anyone interested is urged to
get in touch with Mrs. Buch- j nary,
anan or Mrs. Moody at the
City Hall any day next week.
It is hoped that Mineola will
not fall short of their quota,
far exceed it.
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J. Lester Norris of Plainview j
spent Wednesday and Thursday
with his mother, Mrs. M. J. Nor-
ris and sister, Mrs. Ocie Fair.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lawrence
of New Hope were the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett James
Sunday.
January 15, 1883. His wife pass
ed away a number of years
ago, and he is survived by two
sons, Bruce of Longview, Casey
of California and Miss Louise
Welch of Mineola.
&
Pat M. Neff to
Speak Sunday On
Baptist Hour
Hon. Pat M. Neff of Waco,
President of the Southern Bap-
tist Convention, and a former
Governor of Texas, will be the
speaker Sunday morning, Feb-
ruary 28th on the Baptist Hour
radio series, according to Dr. S.
F. Lowe, Atlanta, Georgia,
Chairman of the Radio Com-
mittee sponsoring the network.
These weekly religious pro-
grams, featuring outstanding
speakers from the South and
heard at 7:30 CWT Sunday
mornings through March, are
carried on an independent net-
work of 36 stations. “American
Christians Amid World Crises”
theme for the
The programs
may be heard in this section
on Stations WFAA of Dallas;
KPRC of Houston and KFRO
of Longview.
Mr. Neff, who speaks on the
subject, “The Christian Patriot
in This Chaotic World,” is Pres-
ident of Baylor University and
will speak from the Waco Cam-
pus, of this, the largest Baptist
University.
Speakers who will be heard
in March on the Baptist Hour
are: Dr Robert G. Lee, Mem-
phis, Tennessee, speaking the
first three Sundays; and Dr.
Ellis A. Fuller, Louisville, Ken-
tucky, President of the South-
ern Baptist Theological Semi-
vice at the East Texas induc-
tion center in Tyler this week,
some leaving immediately for
training while others are taking
their seven-day furlough. Sev-
eral were rejected. County Clerk
Adolphus B. White, was in that
group that was accepted.
All are now in the Enlisted
Reserve and awaiting call to
report in the very near future.
Those inducted who will serve
in the Army or Marine Corps
are: Adolphus White, Mack Wel-
don Brown, Barney Syble Bodi-
for, Darwin Edgar Dobbs, Beryl
D. Wilder, Clarence Alexander
Smith, Paul Norman Cole, Hen-
ry Clay Geddie, Armon A. Smith
George Thomas Phillips and
George Geddie, all of Mineola;
William Keith, Oran Whitley,
Marion Thomas Wood, Claud
Prine, Henry Forest Sue, Free-
land Elbert Anderson, Dean
Shirley, Jessie Cypert, jr.,
Wayne Thacker, Alonzo Wright
Lindley, Jerry Sutherland, Ro-
lan Perritt, Paul Dee Ham, all
of Winnsboro; Wilmer Reed,
Warren Brickley, Ben Cifer,
Stanley Clark Lennon, John
Gerald Bailey, Don Ralph Phill-
ips, Gordon Weldon Banks, Her-
quested that each chapter give
publicity to the following state-
ment, according to Judge James
E. Old, County Chairman.
“In its second War Fipid
Campaign the American Red
Cross is asking the American
people for contributions to the
War Fund to enable the organ-
ization to continue to meet its
wartime obligations, particular-
ly those of the armed forces of
the United States as prescribed
in its Congressional Charter
and in Army and Navy regula-
tions. This fund will be raised
by the Chapters throughout the
country and part of the fund
Town Organized;
Ladies To Take
Part In Drive
Luther Hartsfield
Chairman of Drive
For Mineola
That great American mother,
the American Red Cross, is mak-
ing one of the greatest calls in
the history of the nation for
1943. a total of $125,000,000,
and Mineola will have the op-
portunity to respond to the plea
beginning Monday morning, ac-
cording to J. L. Hartsfield, lo-
cal chairman.
Residents of Mineola and the
local school district will be ask-
ed to contribute $2,000, more
than the entire county has been
asked to give many times in the
past.
The people of Wood County
are asked to raise $7600.00 for
the Red Cross. This amount is
expected to meet the needs of
our local work and to cover our
part of the national goal of
$125,000,000.00 “The major por-
tion of both the local and Nat-
ional Fund goes for service to
and care for the men in the
armed forces and their fa:
They are our sons and1
ers and friends and they are
looking to us. Wood County
cannot and will not fail them,”
said Judge Oold.
In speaking of the local drive,
Mr. Hartsfield said: “I have
been drafted to head this drive
in Mineola and I earnestly hope
that Mineola will go over the
top at once. I have drafted a
large number of men and wo-
men to cover the entire area
and the job should be comple-
ted by the end of the first day.
Give all you can and then dig
a little deeper. The Red Cross
goes wherever our boys go, and
Zu3jg£
McSm
will be remitted to the National. they wil! appreciate it, too.”
Organization for the conduct of| Members of the Ward and
national and international Red Hi?h School PTA, the Eastern
Cross activities, and part will,star and the American Legion
be retained and expended by|Auxiliary and other local wo-
the Chapters for the conduct.men wil1 take part in covering
the residentian districts of the
city. This group is headed by
their officers, Mrs. R. C. Dean
of the High School, Mrs. Mil-
man V. Puckett, Jr., Mouson! international activities and
McRae, R. J. King, Jr.; Dwain $2400.00 will be retained by this
McGinnis, Charles Peyton Me-1 Chapter for authorized and es-
Knight, .Jr., Arthur Junior Bow- j sential Red Cross activities in
den, Spencer Horton, Alvis Me- 1 its jurisdiction, which during
of authorized Red Cross activi-
ties in their several jurisdic-
tions.
“The total sum to be raised
by the Wood County Chapter'ton Usry of the Ward School,
in this campaign is $7500.00, of Mrs- E- Dyer of the Eastern
which $5100.00 will go to thej——-
National Organization as this
Chapter’s share of the sum re-
quired for the national and
J. Harvey Wagoner Sea. l!c
has been transferred to Station
Force, A.B.D. at Gulfport, Miss.,
and is now a Yeoman, accord-
ing to word received here by
friends.
Little Miss Jackie Morgan,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Morgan, formerly of Mineola,
is convalescing at the home of
her aunt, Mrs. R. S. Florence,
following an operation in a
Tyler hospital.
Kenzie and Virgil Cathey Bla-
lock, all of Quitman; Adam F.
Craig, Roy Sanders, Lincoln
Young, Harold Skinner, all of
Alba; Jessie Reed, Rush Daniels
Duelon G. Waller, Macado Hol-
mes, Harmon Dan Farrow.
George Edward Hannon, Jack-
son A. McQuad, all of Haw-
kins.
Those accepted for duty in
the Navy: Emil Lee Williams,
Murl Vandergriff, Robert Moore
Talley, Arthur Bailey, all of
Mineola; James Alvin McDade
of Quitman; Ulas Ladell Hur-
ley of Crow; Charles Dan Eng-
lish and George Edison Cope-
land of Winnsboro and James
Martin McKay of Alba.
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Freeman R Oglesby, who is
stationed at Kearney, Nebraska,
has been promoted from Cor-
poral to Sergeant, according to
word received here by his wife,
who is residing with her sister,
Mrs. Emmett James, He is ex-
pected to be here for a visit
soon^^
Last Rites Held
Friday for
D. G. O’Connor
Funeral services were held at
the First Methodist Church Fri-
day afternoon for Daniel G.
O’Connor, 53, who died in the
U. S. Veterans hospital at Dal-
las Wednesday night, following
an illness of about a month.
The family, formerly resided in
Mineola for a number of years
but moved to Dallas about a
year ago. Rev. H. M. Ward of
Huntsville and Rev. J. H. Ma-
lone conducted the last rites.
A military service was con-
ducted at the grave in the City
Cemetery by members of Luck-
ett Cochrane Post of the Amer-
ican Legion. O’Connor was a
veteran of World War I.
He was a native of Scotland,
Tennessee arid had been living
in Texas for a number of years.
Survivors include his wife, a
son, Buddy O’Connor, U. S. Navy
and a daughter, Mrs. Bill Dugan
of Tyler.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. O. English
and Mary Jo left Thursday for
Ralph Bowdoin is in a Tyler Austin on a business trip. They
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viwnnol odw nwoiS .3 jaes; L_
1943 will all be a part of the
war effort as supplies and ser-
vices to soldiers and their fam-
ilies.
“All funds contributed to the
Wood County Chapter in this
campaign will be collected and
handled subject only to the au-
thority of The American Nat-
ional Red Cross and this Chap-
ter, and all such funds will be
divided between the National
Organization and this Chapter
in accordance with the ratio
which this Chapter’s quota of
the national fund and the sum
required for its local activities,
as stated above, bear to each
other.”
Lieut. W J. Parr Jr. has re-
turned to Camp Bowie at
Brownwood after a visit here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Parr. Mrs. Parr, who has
been ill is able to be out again
now.
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Star and Mrs. Frank Vitasek
the Legion Auxiliary.
A committee composed of
A. Peacock, J. C. Judge, H. WJ
Meredith and Joe Sharp
accept special gifts.
The business district will
canvassed by Ocie Fafr'.JI
Cage, J. O. English, Lewis
leford, T. A. Collins, E. A.
ves, Joe Smith, J. Y.
Milton Usry, H. G. Puc
Miles Caudle, J. S. Smith, G.
Smith, Otho McKaig, Frank
tasek and H. G. Pegues. j
Mrs. C. L. Barlow is the *
of a group which will see
all railroad engineers, ft
conductors and .brakemen
contacted.
The rest of the city has
divided as follows: Katy
ing west to highway jui
Mrs. John Sewell, Mrs. J«
Shoemaker; English Street
Mrs. Q. E. Clements, Mrs. Jt Li
Schaffer; Country Club to Eng-
lish, Mrs. Rufus Browning,
Ned Kinney; West Broad,
W. B. Dickson, Miss Hazel Reed;]
East Broad, Mrs. C. E.
Mrs. Gerald Hearn; West .1
Patrick, Mrs. W. C. Beasley.,
Mrs. Fred Ponder, Mrs.
Tharp, Mrs. H. H. Russell; East’
Kilpatrick, Mrs. O. E. Dyer, Mre
A. P. Buchanan; West Blatat
Mrs. Sam Chapman, Mrs. RyJK "
Rogers; East Blair, Mre. Robert.]
Mrs. Walter Reese; Wesfe i
nald, Mrs. Homer Hughey.]
Mrs. Dug Landers; East
aid, Mrs. Ray Cooper, Mrs. P.~
E. Adams; West Buchanan, Mr*.
Taylor Greer, Mrs. J. W. Roth-
well; East Buchanan, Mrs. &
H. Carraway, Mrs. J. C. Dunn;
DuBose Street, Mrs. C. B. Tem-
pleton, Mrs. R. H. Coleman;
West Patton,Mrs. R. C. Dean*
Mrs. E. G. Laminaek; East Pat-
ton, Mrs. Irvin Kine, Mrs. Bett-
lah Phillips; Good Street, Mre.
Lee Lechner, Mrs. Sam Jonee;
Johnson, from Good, north,.
G. C. Smith, Mrs. Tom earroR;
Pacific, Good, north, Mrs. Min-
nie Jones, Mrs. Max Aldridge;
Newsome, Good, north, Mrs. Bw
A. Parrish, Mrs. Frank Rholes;
Wigley, Good, north, Mrs. Don-
ald Bryant, Mrs. J. L. Ander-
son; Hainesville Road, Mrs.
E. Kearley, Mrs. E. Barbee; Uni--1
versity, Patton north, Mrs. Gra-.
dy Rape, Mrs. J. D. McNeill;
Sycamore, Patton north, MrflL.
George Rule Mrs. Willie Whiter
South Pacific Mrs. J. S. Smith,
Mrs. Charley Mayse; South
Johnson,Mrs. J. L. Ccbbs, Mre.
J. F. Bell; Walnut Street, Mrs..
Lester Benton, Mrs. Homer God-
win; Elliott Street, Mrs. Logan
Kine, Mrs. J. T. White; Gat
plant, Mrs. Roy King and Mrs..
C. H. Elliott.
The colored people will havet
their own organization and havo
been asked to contribute at
least $100.
All workers are asked to meet
at the City Hall and receive'
their working supplies as soon
as possible Monday morning.
I
American Legion
Will Meet Next
Monday Evening
The American Legion and,
Auxiliary will meet next Mon-
day night, March 1, it was an-
nounced this week. The meet-
ing will open at 8 o’clock. All
ex-service men and their fam-
ilies are urged to be present at
Trainmen Hall.
Mrs. Taylor Greer, Mrs.
Lechner, Mrs. C. B. Templeton]
Mrs. M. A. Lynch, Mrs. C. D/
Coleman and Mrs. R. H. Carra-
way attended the book review
given by Evelyn Ophenheimer
of Dallas at Tyler Tuesday at
the TylerForum.
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