The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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The Weather
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FRIDAY: Partly cloudy,
probable siiowers. Tempera-
ture near 85.
SEljc mineola Monitor
Nurtlj Anil East (Texas’ Iffomnoet JHeeklg Nmspaprr
Clean-Up Week
Let’s make every week Clean.
Up Week in Mineola, and
keep out all disease.
{SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR — NO. 15
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Icity Ready for DDT
IfCleaii-Up Campaign
Mechanical
Sprays Needed
MINEOLA, TEXAS, THUR SDAY, JULY 4, 1946
TWELVE PAGES TODAY
City to Put
On Two Extra
Trucks Friday
Preparations are virtually
complete for Mineola’s clean-
up and DDT bath next Tues-
day.. July 9, however, J. Y.
Thomas, who has charge of ar-
raying for spraying equip-
ment, said Wednesday that the
shortage of mechanical sprays
was disturbing
M:. Thomas urged that all
people owning mechanical
sprays lend them to the city
$or nhe day.
A half holiday has been de-
clared by the merchants for
the drive. The fire whistle will
blow at noon as a signal for
closing stores and beginning
^the job of spraying the town
by zones,
A representative of the Cooke
Chemical Company of Fort
Worth will spend most of the
morning mixing and preparing
Need Spray Guns
For ‘DDT Day’
Spray guns of three,
five, and more gallons ca-
pacity are urgently need-
ed for Mineola’s DDT bath
next Tuesday, July 9.
Farmers and orchard
owners who have such
spray guns are urged to
lend them to the city for
the day.
If you have one call J.
Y. Thomas at the South-
western Gas & Electric
Company. He guarantees
that all sprays will be
properly marked and
cared for.
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Murray Harris
Made Assistant
County Attorney
Mrning mixing and preparing! MuraF Harrls’ young Qu‘*'
flko' worth of DDT to be dis- man attorney v.ho was lecently
■kited to fourteen zone cap- 1 released from the Navy and Is
sins.-The zone captains will!the only candidat<; for county
■ attorney, was last week ap-
pointed as assistant county at-
torney.
Mr. Harris began wTork this
week.
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:’orm volunteer teams to cover
overy house in their prescribed
; ureas.
The City Commission has
promised to place two extra
trucks in service beginning Fri-
day i:i an effort to get all the
trash in town hauled away be-
fore the spraying begins. All
grass and weeds should be cut,
the clean-up committee urged,
| because disease-carrying in-
ijcts take refuge there during
lie daytime, and these places
Ifn be more easily sprayed if
cut.
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Army Dead to Be
Printed in Record
_]A complete list of Wood
[ County boys who lost their lives
in the Army during World War
C will be published in the
i> set issue of the Wood County
itecord. The list was released
last week by the War Depart-
ment and additions were made
by Mrs. E. P. Bunn, secretary
preach | Frank Yitasek
H ||; Renamed Legion
Post Commander
Members High
In Praise of
Post Commander
The Luckett Cochran Post of
the American Legion recognized
the services of Post Commander
Frank Vitasek by re-electing
him to office Monday night
without opposition. The post
also voted to hold a banquet in
the near future honoring Mr.
Vitasek for his outstanding
leadership.
Other new officers elected for
the ensuing year were Roger
Speights, vice commander; R.
E. McClendon, second vice com-
mander; Carl Bruner, post ad-
jutant; Lewis Willeford, finance
officer; R. O. Bruce, chaplain;
Lynn Bethel, post service of-
ficer; Bob Carraway, historian;
and Frank Hughes, sgt.-at-
arms. Two others, B. A. Hol-
brook and Ernie Prichard, were
elected to serve with these of-
ficers on the executive com-
mittee.
Legionnaire Jack Beckham
told the post that more em-
phasis should be placed on
Americanism during the coming
year.
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C. S. Lindsey
Makes Statement
Of Candidacy
TO THE VOTERS
OF WOOD COUNTY
I am asking for your sup-
port in my candidacy for re-
election as County School Sup-
erintendent; and I also want
to assure you of my sincere
appreciation of the honor that
you have conferred on me by
electing me to this office.
In asking the people of Wood
County to elect me their Coun-
ty School Superintendent, I do
so with the full realization of
the duties and responsibilities
of the office.
I consider any public office
of the Wood County draft ! a high public trust, and the
be ard. I person holding that office at
The names are only those of j all times should hold dear the
the Army dead. A similar list; confidence that friends and
for the Navy, Coast Guard, and j neighbors have placed in him.
Marine Corps is expected soon J At all times during my service
from the Navy Department. as County School Superinten-
---o- j dent, I have endeavored to
C initially McKay I se;'ve,the,best ‘n‘elrest
x tt . school girls and boys of Wood
Quitman Rotary Head; County, realizing that, the age
in which we live, demands the
best type of education that
can be obtained.
REV. GEO. CHERRYHOMES
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Former Pastor.
China Missionary
To Preach Here
The Rev. George Cherry-
homes, former pastor of the
Central Christian Church here
who has been appointed Mis-
sionary to China, will return
to Mineola next week to con-
duct a one-week revival at his
former church.
Mr. Cherryhom.es lived in
Jacksboro before entering Texas
Christian University at Fort
Worth. He served the Mineola
church in 1939-41. He has also
studied at Yale University and
the Cornell University School
of Agriculture in preparing
himself for missionary work.
The meeting here will begin
Sunday evening, July 7, at 8
o’clock. ,
Mr. Cherryhomes will leave
for China in August.
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Legion Post Plans
Dutch Supper
Thursday Night
The Luckett Cochran Post of
the American Legion will have
a dutch supper and stag party
Thursday night, July 11, at
7:30, Post Commander Frank
Vitasek announced Wendesday.
All post members are urged
to attend.
■County Attorney Connally
McKay was installed as presi-
dent of the Quitman Rotary
Cli.b at a banquet at the Quit-
man High School gymnasium
las: Friday night. He succeeded
Dr. Robert Lipscomb.
Mrs. La verne Power of
Mineola provided music for the
occasion and several Mineola
The County Superintendent’s
Office is closely connected with
practically every home in the
county; therefore, many prob-
lems arise that cannot always
be solved satisfactorily to all
concerned, but realizing that
Rotariar s and their wives at- jthe child is the most imP°rt-
ten led. Other officers are J. J. | ant factor of the public sch°o1-
Mcijeod, vice-president; Floyd 11 bave at aR times made my
Griffin, secretary; and R G jdecisions in his favor.
Cathey, Joe Moseley, and T. L.\ There.are no issues in this
Absentee Voting
Begins Monday
Absentee voting for the July
27 Democratic primary begins
Monday, July 8, and ends July
22. According to the instruc-
tions of the State Democratic
Executive Committee absentee
| voters shall apply to the
County Clerk for ballots not
more than twenty or less than
three days before the date of
the first primary.
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RETURN FROM VACATION
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Chappell,
accompanied by their niece
and great niece, Mrs. Imogene
Smith and daughter, Carolyn,
of Dallas, vacationed in Ar-
kansas, Mississippi, and Louis-
iana last week. Among the
points visited was Searcy, Ark.,
birthplace of Mrs. Chappell’s
father
Rotary Installs
New Officers at
Monday Banquet
Grady Skelton was installed
as president of the Rotary
Club at a banquet Monday
night at the Mineola Country
Club.
Feature attraction on the
program was a review of the
Broadway stage hit, “The State
of the Union,” by Mrs. Herbert
Emery of Dallas.
Other new officers are Ocie
Fair, vice-president, and Virgil
Peacock, Steve Potts, and Bill
White, directors.
Der ton, directors.
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Countv Has
LWar II Vets
race, as far as I know. A vote
I for County School Superinten-
! dent is a vote for the school
j boys and girls of Wood County,
j aud if my service in this of-
fice has met with your approv-
Labor, Veterans
Agitating for
Continuing OPA
Labor, civic and veterans’ or-
ganizations agitated Wednes-
day for restoration of price
controls as rents and whole-
sale prices climbed throughout
the nation.
Newrsmen in the east report-
evidence of inflation as the
Pennsylvania department of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
announced that its 200,000 vet-
erans would stage a buyers’
strike unless rent and price
controls were restored.
OPA checks throughout the
country showed spotty price
jumps in scarce and perishable
commodities such as steaks,
butter, oranges and beans.
There were scattered reports
of sharp boosts in food prices,
but most retailers were keep-
ing pledges to hold prices with-
in reason.
The Amercian Dairy Assoc-
iation said that a coast-to-coast
check of food prices showed
that “retailers are determined
to keep prices at or near pres-
ent levels.”
Court to Get West Broad
Property Damage Problem
Mineolans ‘Adopt’ Two ci,y Retuses
European Families
At least two Mineolans have
a personal interest in the
plight of hungry Europe.
Mrs. E. L. Bright and Mrs.
Ellen Notestine have “adopted”
European families which have
been certified by World Relief
as being very needy.
Mrs. Bright’s family is in
Anatole, Greece, and last week
she received her first letter
expressing their gratitude for
the package she sent. Mrs.
Notestine’s family, a widow
with five children, lives in Hol-
land. She has not yet heard
from them_
Mrs. Bright’s letter was sign-
ed by Margarita Chizpilidou,
and was written in a very ar-
tistic handwriting, in Greek,
of course.
“It was very pretty,” Mrs.
Bright said, “but it was all
‘Greek’ to me.”
She sent it to the proprietor
of the Ginoechio Hotel in Mar-
shall for translation.
The letter began, “Honorable
Lady, Mrs. Bright. I received
your letter and was pleased for
your humane feelings toward
Last Rites for
George W. Carter
Held at Jamestown
Funeral services for George
W. Carter, 69, who died at his
home near Grand Saline early
Tuesday were held Tuesday af-
ternoon at Jamestown. He had
been ill for several years.
The Rev. Dickerson, pastor of
the Van Baptist Church, con-
ducted the rites, and burial was
made in the Hamman Ceme-
tery at Jamestown.
Surviving are his wife, three
sons, three daughters, two bro-
thers, Joe Carter of Providence,
and Allen Carter of Van, and
five sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hudgins and Mrs. Mary McKen-
zie of Grand Saline, Mrs. Min-
nie Moore of Providence, Mrs.
Stella Bailey of Mineola, and
Mrs. Dola Nations of Wisdom
Temple.
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Memorial Program
At Mt. Pisgah Church
A memorial singing has been
announced for the Mt. Pisgah
Church for Sunday, July 21.
Principal speaker has not yet
been announced
Lunch will be served on the
ground, and the public is in-
vited.
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REOPENS BEAUTY SHOP
Mrs. Eleanor Sponseller, a
graduate of Neilson Beauty
School in Dallas, will reopen
the City Beauty Shop Monday,
July 8, Vincent Blalock, owner,
announced this week_
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Mrs. Imogene Smith and
daughter, Carolyn of Dallas
have been visitors in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Chappell.
us. We knew your feelings
from the great help we have re-
ceived from America. Greeks
will never forget the great and
victorious American nation for
coming to our help and stand-
ing by in our hour of crisis.
We have suffered great damage
during the war. Our six mem-
ber family has suffered com-
plete destruction from the Ger-
mans and Bulgarians. Since
Board Decision
Litigation Not
To Delay Work
On New Street
Mineola’s Broad Street prop-
erty damage problems will be
left up to the decision of the
county court
Mayor Miles Caudle said this
week that the City Commission
had turned thumbs down on
the verdict of the special ap-
praisal committee which pro-
the 7th of April. 1941, we have j posed payment of $1,500 to W.
been left without anything.
How we survived, we do not
know. We are still destitute.
And we gratefully accept your
noble offer to help us for a-
while and your offer to ‘adopt’
our children has moved us with
emotion, and although thous-
ands of miles separate us we
feel as though you are right
here in our little house and we
can hear your kind words of
encouragement,”
Mrs. Chizpilidou said that the
family needed just about every-
thing, especially clothes, bed
sheets, blankets, shoes, etc.
Mrs. Bright said she wras get-
ting another package ready to
send, although she was having
difficulty figuring out just the
size shoes to send from the de-
scription received.
Mrs. Bright said she wTas get-
N. Jones and $1,600 to the Read
Estate. With the Jones settle-
ment the board also allowed
the cost of moving back the
house on the lot.
The city had previously of-
fered to settle on a standard
scale which provided $350 set-
tlement to Jones and $480 to
the Read Estate. The Jones
deal also called for moving the
house or paying $500 for the
work to be done. Mayor Cau-
dle commented that “in view
of other settlements made on
West Broad we flon’t feel that
we should accept the decision
of the special board.”
The board was composed of
Leland Long, R. B. Smith of
Hawkins, and T. J. Riley of
Alba.
Legal complications, however,
will not hold up work of wid-
ening and repaving the street
expects to begin next month.
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ting a great thrill out of car- , . ,
. , , ,lT ., . , : wmch the highway department
mg for these people. “I think ; „___^
I’m getting more satisfaction
out of this than anything I’ve
done in a long time it i. ust SUnShine Special
be a wonderful family. There r~, -p.. f.
are two mothers-in-law living; -*-0 UlSCOntinUG
with them in their small AftemOOIl Stop
home.’
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Grand Saline
Ready for Big
No. 2, the T & P’s crack Sun-
i shine Special from the west,
| will discontinue stopping in
' Mineola effective Sunday, July
I 7, L. C. Porter, assistant to the
president, announces.
„ i , The discontinuance of the lo-
O-Bav Celebration ca!,s,top is necessitated because
J j of the extension of the Sun-
... , , , . shine Special from St. Louis
A three-day party to honor . ,,, , , , _ T __ ,
T, „ r, , . to Washington and New York
Van Zandt County servicemen! . ...
, , •p ,, inn, land a resulting speeding up of
and to commemorate the 100th i „ . . , o _ v.- „
„ . schedules. The Sunshine Soec-
anmversary of commercial salt . , ... ... “
.rial will now average within a
production in Texas opens m i , .. . _n ..
Grand Saline Friday. i raCt(‘™ f m‘!es “ bou,r
for the Ei Paso to New York
Local committees say it will run
be the biggesu celebiation of Gladewater, which handles
its kind ever staged in Van the bulk of the T & P-s Tyler
Zandt County. passenger business, ■will only be
A baseball game Friday af- a flag stop for the pepped up
ternoon between Grand Saline Sunshine.
and Farmersville, and a polit- : Mr. Porter expressed regret
ical rally Friday night open a that the popular evening train
round of festivities. would be unable to retain Min-
ir ties.
oAlounty has 2,889 World I al, I am again asking you for I
■Tveterans, according to ! your support.
J^jures of the Veterans Ad- I T ,ou iur
veterans, according to | your support.
j\Jures of the Veterans Ad- j I pledge to the people of
Ustration. Smith County has Wood County, if elected, that
Rt Probably ten per cent I will to the best of my skill
ry be added to both by per- | and ability faithfully and un-
registered from other I partially perform all the duties
of the office of County School
Superintendent.
Sincerely,
C. S. Lindsey.
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RECRUITING CHANGE
Wood County is now in the
Tyler district of the Army Re-
cruiting Service. The district of-
fice was formerly in Green-
ville.
Little Change Seen Locally in Cost
01 Living as O.P.A. Control Expires
'la Jwhfc'
A fiddle contest, a luncheon,
an air show, a street parade,
additional political addresses
and another baseball game will
be offered Saturday.
Sunday will be featured by
a memorial service conducted
by the Rev. James W. Dixon,
retired Army chaplain.
Grand Saline took its name
from the heavy saline deposits
first utilized by Indians cen-
turies ago. Now it is the busy
salt center of an important
East Texas industry.
eola on the schedule, but point-
ed out that the Texan, running
from the west at 7:45 p.m,
would be almost as convenient
for the Mineola patrons.
No. 1, the Sunshine Special
from the east at 8:03 a.m.,
will continue Mineola as a reg-
ular stop.
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Two Killed, Six
Hurt at Wills Point
jfiND SCHOOL MEETING
|ftn Bethel, county service
ier, County Superintendent
*C. S Lindsey and Roy McClung
attended a vocational educa-
tion meeting in Tyler Tuesday.
All sizes of truck tires and
tube;;. Gtho Motor Co., Min-
*eola. Lad*)
gressional action on price con- j acute shortage of housing,
trols stalled by Senators O’Dan- ! Governor Coke Stevenson said
iel (D-Texasi and Wherry t.R- j this week that he would urge
Neb) but administration leaders j Texas landlords not to let rents
busy behind the scenes seeking j rise unduly if rent control is
to clear the way for a compro- abolished. The Governor said,
Stabilization director Chester J end_nf.a_d ay _whicb found cim-Jiu
Stabilization director Chester end of a day which found con-J in Mineola^where tihe_re:^is an
Bowles forecast Tuesday night
that the cost of living will
double within 20 days if com-
modity prices continue their
present rise.
Senator Moore tR-Okla.), foe
of a continued OPA in any
form, urged the nation at the
same time to “wait and see”
whether “the prices we are
called upon to pay are as bad,
or at least any worse, than the
black markets under which we
have suffered so long,” and
whether inflation will develop.
These varying views were
prepared for the radio at the
mise bill.
In Mineola the rent control
office is still open, and Cecil
Sims, director, says he has in-
structions to stand by.
Meanwhile, local rents were
thought to have changed very
little, but thera were rumors
of probable changes, and pre-
dictions were that rents would
rise from ten to forty per cent
however, that he did not think
he had any authority in law to
issue a proclamation freezing
rents as urged by Chester
Bowles, retiring economic sta-
bilizer.
There was little or no change
seen locally in retail prices and
most local merchants adver-
tised that they would do their
best to keep inflation down.
Mrs. J. D. Taft, 38, of Villa
Rica, Ga., and Reggie Roy
The production of salt in this j Harris of Hawthorne, Calif.,
area dates back to the early , were killed in an automobile
days of the Texas republic. , collision near Wills Point Tues-
However, it was not until 1845 day. Six others were injured,
that John Jordan and Alney ; three of them seriously.
T. McGee entered o -t. U£t<y. oix otners were injured,
that John Jordan and Alney ; three of them seriously.
T. McGee entered a partner- |__0_~
ship “to go into the manufac- :
turing business on the Sabine j V cHluHlS Dclinag'e
Riyer-” 1 I Cemetery Stones
Jordan and McGee lost con- ;
trol of the salt deposits a few
years later and they were ta-
ken over by Fred Ham Until
about fifteen years ago only
the evaporation method of pro-
ducing salt was used. Then
the Morton Salt Company sunk
the first mining shaft.
Extent of the deposits are
not known.
We have one row binder.
Otho Motor Co., Mineola, The
John Deere Dealer. (adv.)
The most contemptible van-
dalism — the destruction of
grave markers—was discovered
last week in the City Cemetery.
Several stones and vaults were
damaged, and the Mineola
Cemetery Association is offer-
ing $25 reward for information
leading to the arrest and con-
viction of the guilty persons.
Come in today. Come in reg-
ularly for service and satisfac-
tion. Otho Motor Co., Mineola.
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