The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1948 Page: 1 of 4
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Happy
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Happy
New Year
SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR — NUMBER FORTY-ONE
MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1948
FOUR PAGES TODAY
First National
Pays 30 Per Cent
Dividend for ’47
|Early Start Taken
Six Candidates
County Politics
1948 is a political year in Texas and the number one bat-
tle is expected to develop between Former Governor Coke
Stevenson and W. Lee O’Dar.iel’s seat in the U. S. Senate.
Hot campaigns are also believed pending for several county
offices and at least one district office.
Six candidates for county of-
fice started the local pot to
simmering in authorizing the
Monitor to announce their can-
didacy. Others will fellow with-
in the next week or two and
by the end of January camp-
aignlines will be fairly well
drawn in disputed races.
Deputy Tax-Assessor-Collec-
tor John Marshall Cathey, Jr.,
was the first county candidate
to announce. He will seek the
office now held by Bruce Lloyd
who will become a candidate
for State Treasurer.
Peyton McKnight, announc-
ed for state representative. This
post is now held by Miss Eliza-
beth Suiter of Winnsboro who
has not indicated whether she
will seek re-election.
Virgil E. Robbins Jr., an-!
nounced for a second term
and is not expected to have
opposition. District Clerk Kelsie
M. Ross has also announced
for a second term as has Sheriff i
Willie B. Lindsey. According
to rumor, Lindsey may have an
opponent; however, none has
announced. Mrs. Evelyn Horton,
treasurer, will also seek re-
election.
County Judge W. T. Black,
Jr., said he expected to make
an announcement for re-elec-
tion next week.
B. A. Holbrook, commissioner
of Precinct Two, has not yet
announced for re-election but
is expected to do so.
State Senator T. C. Chaddick
has indicated he will not seek
re-election, and it has been
rumored that one or two Tyier
attorneys will enter the race
for state senate.
There have been no an-
nouncements for judge of the
114th District Court; however
this race is expected to be con-
tested.
Congressman Lindley Beek-
wortli, in all probability, will
be unopposed for re-election.
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I^B^^ipckholders in the First Na-
ll ■' Hi Lank in Mineola received
I HjHHBtdend of thirty per cent
I HUB47' S' R' hooper, presi-
I^^T^B^nnounced.. A ten per cent
I' rWdend was paid in June and
twenty per cent was paid in
December.
■g This is the largest dividend
II ever paid First National stock-
■ holders.
■’ Officers and employees of the
bank also received a Christmas
tonus
Mr. Cooper said the bank’s
officers were well pleased with
1947 and were expecting an-
other good year in 1948.
Manziel’s Oil
►perties Sold
Over Million
sal was completed last
lay in which Bobby Man-
yell known East Texas oil
Iterator, sold all of his produc-
ing interests in the Norman
Paul and Merigale Fields of
Wood County to the Bluebird
Investment Company of Dal-
I las.
The deal involved a trans-
fer of* between a million and
naif dollars, according to the
fee cf the federal revenue
Uarn.p placed on the instru-
ment when it was recorded by
Lor.nty Clerk Virgil Robbins, Jr.
jre stamp cost $1,265, which
"css the size of the transac-
nr the one to one and a
^million dollar bracket,
/nziel’s Wood County pro-
3s were previously report-
e^^olu to W. H. Snowden of
Dallas; however, it is belived
this deal did not go through
no deeds were ever filed
ecord.
Second Still
Taken in Raid
Near Pine Mills
A four-barrel whiskey still
was seized and destroyed three
miles south of Pine Mills Mon-
day afternoon by members of
the sheriff’s department, state
liquor control officers, and fed-
eral alcohhol tax unit investi-
gators.
The officers arrested two men
in connection with the raid, one
of them at the still, and ex-
pect to arrest two others short-
ly. They said the operators were
the same group that had been
making illicit whiskey for five
or six months at another still
near Pine Mills which was de-
stroyed Dec. 20.
In the earlier raid, the of-
ficers captured equipment with
a fourteen-barrel capacity and
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Truck Crops
For Buyers in
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LELAND LONG
Long Declares
Scouting Due
For Rig Year
r,nn ,,___ . _ , i Leland F. Long Gf Mineola,
'0° gallons of mash- The stiH recently elected President of
tnk-An Mnnri'nw ov. recently electee, * leoicent oi
Political Calendar For ‘48
Indicates Busy Year Ahead
Annoncement of several can- meet to elect delegates to the
taken Monday had an oil drum
cooker. A 200 gallon stock of
corn and sugar mash and six
gallons of whiskey were also
taken.
The raid was made by Sheriff
Willie B. Lindsey and Deputies
Paul Bullock and Raymond
English; Hubert Simpson of the
Liquor Control Board, and ATU
Investigators W. E. Guinn and
R. B. Hamilton.
[Coke Stevenson
Thows Hat In
Senatorial Ring;
.AUSTIN—Ex-Gov. Coke Stev-
enson of Junction observed
New Year’s Day by announcing
to the people of Texas that
expects to be a candidate
•hited States Senator in
ii^summer’s Democratic pri-
m aries.
Stevenson followed his usual
ca.j®^ign custom of not pre-
a specific platform.
‘I do not believe the average
political platform is worth
much of anything,” he ex-
plained in his Thursday ad-
dress, delivered in Austin. “My
candidacy is based on certain
fundamental principles of
sound government. It is based
on my record as your public
servant in the past.”
The former Governor declar-
eci iie is sent to Wash-
5-e will continue to fol-
pattern set by him in
^j^overnor. Lieu-
iflHHr r and Speaker
House
shall
W^ ' '*'^^0 be for the
n-ir -amfe said, “bat to
be afc.e to ( ^jRmething con-
structive aoc* getting the
right things uone.”
ADRIAN GETS DEER
Victor Paul Adrian got an
eight-point buck on his first
deer hunt last week in Mason
County. Afiso in the party that
went from Mineola were Tom
Castloo, Beniiy Castloo, L. C.
Castloo, Ch drives Eason, and
Ernest Brooks, .all of Mineola:
R°y Hair of Ginger; and E. B.
Downing and Brotwn Downing
of Greenville. N
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Home Loan Pays
4 Per Cent Dividend
The Mineola Federal Savings
& Loan Association paid stock-
holders a four per cent divi-
dend on 1947 business, D. S.
Armstrong, secretary, announc-
ed this wek. The dividet pay-
ents amounted to $17,450.
Payments were made in the
amount of two per cent at the
end of each six months’ busi-
ness.
MOVE BACK HERE
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Prichard
moved back to Mineola just
before Christmas. They are at
home at 629 West Kilpatrick.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Prichard,
Jr., have recently moved from
Lufkin to Dallas.
Otho Motor Co.
Pays Employes
$1,300 in Bonuses
Employees of the Otho Motor
Company, Chevrolet and Olds-
mobile agency, paid $1,300 in
Christmas bonuses to thirteen
employees, Otho McKaig said
this week. The bonus payments
were figured on the base pay
of each employe for the year.
Otho Motor Company em-
ployees also collect production
bonuses each month, and Mr.
McKaig said that bonuses paid
by the company for the year
amounted to approximately
$4,500.
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GUESTS IN USRY HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Usry active member of the Baptist
the East Texas Area Council,
Boy Scouts of America, will
direct the 24th largest Boy
Scout Council in America, and
the third largest in the Scout
Region Nine, which takes in
Oklahoma, New Mexico and
Texas.
Mr. Long S2id that he re-
garded his election as an hon-
or and a responsibility of great
importance.
Specifically referring to the
program during the next year
in the Council, Mr. Long point-
ed out that scoutmasters, cub-
masters, and senior unit leaders
will get more help than ever
before in carrying the program
to boys; that a greatly simp-
lified, much more effective,
leadership training program
would be carried out; that a
number of units would be al-
most doubled during the year
ahead; and that 1948 promises
to be the greatest year ever
had by the 16-county East
Texas Area Council, which ser-
ved over 13,000 boys in 1947.
Currently a candidate for dis-
trict governor of Rotary, he has
been prominently associated
with his local Chamber of Com-
merce, the East Texas Chamber
of Commerce, the Red Cross,
the various War Funds and
other community activities. An
and son, Milton Jr. had as
their guests during the holidays
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Weaver and
son, John Ralph, of Beau-
mont. Mr. and Mrs. John G.
Weaver, Jo Ann and Mattye
Belle of Texas City; and Mr.
and Mrs. R. O. Shanks and
Billye Carol of Abilene.
Church, he has long been asso-
ciated with Boy Scout work.
His election as president of
the Council came on the same
evening that he was awarded
the highest honor that may be
conferred by the Boy Scouts of
America for service to boyhood
—the Silver Beaver Award.
didates for county offices this
week got politics, sometimes
called the state pastime of Tex-
as, off to a fast start.
The next twelve months will
be a big year in Texas politics,
with voters getting a chance
to make their choices for of-
fices from constable to presi-
dential electors.
These will be the years most
important dates from the
voters standpoint:
Deadline for paying poll taxes
and obtaining exemptions is
Jan. 31. Payment of the poll
tax is requisite for most voters
who want to take and active
part in the year’s big show.
The first Sturday in May,
which this year happens to be
the first day of May, is the dace
for national precinct conven-
tions to meet and select dele-
gates to the national county
convention. The series of na-
tional conventions comes in
the spring of presidential years,
for the purpose of selecting
delegates to represent the state
in national party conventions.
They are separate from the
state party conventions, held
later in the year, which supply
delegates to a state convention
for framing the party platform,
canvassing the primary returns,
and selecting state party offi-
cials.
On May 4, the delegates el-
county conventions, to be held
on July 31.
Absentee voting in the second
primary will begin Aug. 8 and
continue through Aug. 24. The
run off primary election will
be held Aug. 28.
The state convention will
meet Sept. 14, in the city de-
signated by the state executive
committee and declare the party
nominees and adopt a platform.
The general election will be
on Tuesday, Nov. 2 and the re-
turns will be counted formally
on Nov. 17 by the secretary
of state in the presence of the
governor and attorney general.
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Peyton McKnight
Enters Race for
State Legislature
Peyton McNight, Jr., this
week announced his candidacy
for the office of Representa-
tive from Wood County to the
State Legislature. His open-
ing statement follows:
TO THE PEOPLE
OF WOOD COUNTY
I wish to take this means
of announcing my candidacy
for Representative to the State
Legislature from Wood County.
For the past several months
prior to making my decision
ected at the precinct conven- 1 hfVe given this mattsr
firms will m ^ most serious consideration and
am now more deeply aware
than ever of the great Honor
and esteemed privilege attach-
ed to serving the people of this
district in the Texas House
j of Representatives.
I was born and reared in
this County and have lived here
all my life save and except
for the time I spent in Col-
lege and in the military service.
I attended grammar school in
Alba and graduated from Quit-
man High School, after grad-
uation I attended East Texas
State Teachers College in Com-
merce and later transferred
tions will meet in the national
county conventions and select
delegates to the national state
convention, which meets May
25 and selects delegates to the
national party convention.
June 7 will be an important
political date this year. It is
the deadline for candidates to
file in Texas’s torrid senatorial
race and in other state races.
Candidates for precinct and
county offices must file for a
place on the ballot by June 19.
Absentee voting in the first
primary will begin July 4 and
end July 20.
The primary election day is
Juty 24 and on the same date
the precinct conventions will
Old Association Minutes Reveal History*
Of Baptist Churches in This Section
Brittle and faded minute
books for the old Harmony
Baptist Association, dating
back to 1871 reflect much of the
history of the Baptist churches
idn this area of East Texas,
qNtey are the proceedings of the
annual associational meetings
ana in the possession of
the Re\Vand Mrs. G. T- Taylor
of MineonS^The late Rev- w
R. Phillips, a\former clerk of
one of the as^Jations which
grew out of the%^iginal or"
ganization, kept th?
books and his widow, no
Taylor, has preserved th3,
Mr. Taylor has used them a
document historical sketches
on the Providence church,
which he once pastored, for
the church and for newspapers
Church Split in 1905
A cleavage in the churche
in 1905 caused reorganization
of the association, with the r
suit that the county’s Bapt:1
minute
Mrs.
the Providence Baptist Church
of Christ. Seven persons pre-
sented church letters of mem-
bership and became the charter
Mrs. TIUFV tj t churches this year held th
Mrs Ed Til lev fo fo1 ty~second annual associ
Mrs Ed Tillej,, former resi- tional sessions, whereas in
™ ° Mm3cla is sei’iously ill j organizational history actual
e’ Lome m Kemah, Galves- | goes back seventy-six years'"
Mr. Taylor’s review of th
history of \ Providence Church'
that it was
ton County.
members of the church: J. M.
Darned, Mrs. M. L. Darnell, F.
Rucker, Mary Rucker, G. W.
Crone, Hulda Crone, and Mandy
Dickerson.
Of these, Mrs. Hulda Crone
alone survives. She celebrated
her one-hundredth birthday
anniversary in September and
l ;£. < rnm< the occasion was made a home-
coming for the church,
j. L. Simpson was called as
T * the first pastor of the church
and served until 1880. Under
his ministry the church joined
the Harmony Baptist Associa-
tion at its fourth annual ses-
sion, at Salem Church in Rains
J|k. County in 1873.
Mineola Church Joins
Providence was the host
church at the next session,
1874, when the Mineola Baptist
church became a member of
the association. The minutes
show that the Mineola church
PIONEER PREACHER—Eider I Lad nine members then. That
J. L. Simpson, first pastor jwas the year the International
of the Providence Baptist j and Great Northern opened a
Ipl
Farm Meetings
To Set Acreage
Produce Firms
Interested in
Mineola Site
A survey of acreage to be
planted to truck crops in 1948
will be undertaken by directors
of the Mineola Farmers Market
Inc. in a series of community
farm meetings to be held in
this area beginning Jan. 5.
Fanners Market officials set
the schedule of meetings Mon-
day night. Dates and places
for the first week were an-
nounced as follows:
HAINESVTLLE—Jan. 5.
PINE MILLS—Jan. 6.
NEW HOPE—Jan. 7.
HAWKINS—Jan. 8.
CROW—Jan. 9.
All meetings will begin at
7 p. m. and will be open to
anyone interested in agricul-
ture and in securing markets
for their produce. Information
obtained by the Farmers Mar-
ket directors will be used in
attracting buyers of farm pro-
ducts to the Mineola marketing
site.
Buyers of sweet corn toma-
toes, cabbage, sweet potatoes,
and watermelons have indicated
that they will maintain repre-
sentatives in Mineola if suffi-
cient acreage in this area is
planted to these crops.
Nat Lerner and Jimmy Morri-
son of the Chicago produce
firm Lerner and Co., were in
Mineola Tuesday and informed
the Chamber of Commerce that
they will have buyers for water-
melons at both Mineola and
Golden in 1948. They said they
were also interested in buying
cabbage and large-sized fall
cucumbers.
W. C. Anderson, produce buy-
er of Harlingen, in correspon-
dence with the local chamber
said that he was interested in
buying several varieties of truck
crops in Mineoa if sufficient
acreage is planted.
The goal of the Mineola Far-
mers Market is to provide an
outlet for all produce grown in
this area. Weighing, packing,
and railroad shipping facili-
ties have already been provided
Mrs. J. B. Judge and son have | states
returned from St. Paul’s Hos-
pital in Dallas.
i . , ......- organized
| m a school house in Van Zandt
'County on March 29, 1873, as
Church, clerk of the original
Harmony Baptist Association,
and widely-known preacher
in this area in the late 1800’s.
He later moved to Scurry
^County and the whereabouts
of his descendants is not
lown.
branch line here to make Min-
eola a junction town, and it
had just begun to grow. Its de-
velopment is reflected in the
Harmony minutes, which slio\y.
105 members in the Mined a
church in 1877. £
(See HISTORY on pasfi^.)
to the A&M College of Texas - ------___
at College Station, in February, i at the marketing site and the
1943 I entered the United States! diL'ectors are considering build-
Army and was honorably dis- j in§' mother shed for motor
charged in September 19451 transportation early next
after serving ten months over- 1 sPrin&-
seas. Upon separation from the! Meetings will be h,eld in
service I resumed my studies [ eighteen communities during
at Texas A&M and will be the acreage survey. Dates for
graduated from that institution j the othei- thirteen meetings will
’ be announced by placards to
be posted in the communities
and will be published in the
Monitor and Record.
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in May 1948.
It is my conscientious belief
that my educational back-
ground and prior training will
adequately qualify me for the
position which I seek.
I want you to know that if
you good people of Wood
County me to this office, 1
pledge that I shall serve you
humbly, loyally, efficiently, and
to the best of the talents and
ability with which I have been
endowed.
Peyton McKnight, Jr.
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License Patrolman
To Be Here Weekly
The State Highway Patrol
will send a patrolman to Mine-
ola every Wednesday beginning
next week for the purpose of
issuing driver’s licenses. He will
be at the city hall from 9 o’-
clock in the morning until 5 in
the afternoon.
The same patrolman will be!
at the court house in Quitman!
e^ery Thrusday from 8:30 o’-j
clock in the morning until 41 and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Smith
in the afternoon. and son Steve of Dallas spent
The patrolman has been com- Friday night with Mr and Mrs,
ing here only twice a month in Cyrus Scott and Mr. and Mrs
the past. 1 Gilbert Few.
Legion Meeting
To Be Jan. 7
The American Legion Post
will hold its first meeting of
1948 Wednesday night, Jan. 7,
at 7:30 o’clock instead of the
regular date of Jan. 1, which
falls on a holiday. (
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INNDIANAPOLIS VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. C C. George
have returned from Indiana-
polis, Ind.. where they spent
the holidays with their son
and daughter-in- law, Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon George. They ’re-
ported that Indianapolis had
a real “White Christmas” this
year, with a six inch blanket
of snow.
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Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Good
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Carraway, R. H., Jr. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1948, newspaper, January 1, 1948; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth595563/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.