The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1946 Page: 1 of 10
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MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 11)46
TEN PAGES TODAY
Mineola Vicinity
Misses Big Flood
.4s Sabine Rages
Crest Expected
Here By Friday
Water Already
Eight Feet Over
Local Flood Stage
C What might have been the
most disastrous flood in Mine-
. ola’s history was narrowly
missed when rain clouds dis-
appeared and the sun came out
brightly Wednesday afternoon.
| The change in weather was
^uniform over this part of the i 1--
state, meaning that the streams j --
-which feed the Sabine River ^ T
-WDuld be swollen with no more j UlliiOl'Hi
Water. The Sabine wTas expected |
to reach twenty-two feet south
of 'Mineola Friday. This will be
eight feet over flood stage, tvro
feet higher than, the May
flood, and just about two feet
below the all-time high.
Armistice Day Is
Holiday Here
Armistice Day is being
observed as a holiday in
Mineola, and ali stores
will be closed Monday. No
celebration is planned, but
flags will be flown.
For twenty-three years
Armistice Day vras Mine-
ola’s biggest holiday, but
when World War II came
along the Armistice cele-
bration was discontinued.
Plant
Program to Be
War II Memorial
City and rural schools in
About twelve inches of rain j Texas, in cooperation with the
fell over the week-end and the j Texas Roadside Council, are
first part of the week in the I sponsoring a living memorial to
Greenville area, and the U. S. I the men and women of the
Weather Station at Dallas in- armed forces of World War II
formed the Mineola Chamber j in the planting of uniform
of Commerce Monday that the variety of tree or shrub.
Sabine may reach a record high j Mrs. H. O. Rogers, Wood
the latter part of the week, j County chairman for the pro-
Later reports, however, indi- j gram, said the recommended
cated that the crest had just j plants were Watermelon Red
about.been reached Thursday Crape Mytle, and Abelia. “One
Lj“'L*“®S?nttle more rise expected | tree or shrub of the same vari-
’iday. By Saturday the River ; ety in each yard will, over a
Floyd L Minis
Killed When T-P
Engine Derails
Funeral Services
Here at One o’clock
Friday Afternoon
Floyd L. Mims, 33, was in-
stantly killed Wednesday night
at 11.13 when the T. & P.
engine on which he was fire-
man derailed and turned over
Amendments, GOP Win
Republicans Tate jCilY,„s Day BH Ele„hantsWe in County
Congress
c
Lead
Clowns, Acrobats and Rain
Wednesday was circus day in I hula dance. And there were the
Mineola. And despite the rainy, : usual “extras ’ that always go
All Amendments
Carry: Texas Still
In Solid South coW weather the’town took on i with a cil-eus such as the boxes
or candy at two bits a box with
Tire Republican party took j -n atmosphere of circus gaiety | ..extra special surprisees” in
extras and the fifty cents tax
four miles northeast of Jeffer- conro! of bot^ the House and j about the time school turned | “each and every box.” These
son in a wreck which piled up Senate
thirty-one freight cars. It was Action
nearly two o'clock when other | chan§e in government machin-
members of the train crew were ei^‘
in Tuesday’s
creating a
general, out at 2:20.
major
Publicity men for the Dailey on each ticket put a few unex-
Bros. Circus refused to be | Pected dents in papa’s pocket-
able to extricate Mims’ body
^ , i downhearted about the rain
T1R Republicans elected at i which fell in intermittent driz-
which was found in a sitting j east twenty-thiee senators, sAo J ?,es mos+ 0f the morning. They
position in the cab where he Representatives and twenty gov- j were at the end of their tour,
had been smothered to death emois That gave them three | and after this showing were
the clay aad more than a majority m the,headi homeward. The
when buried in
steam.
C. G. Simpson, engineer, was
Senate and twenty-seven over a \
majority in the House. And the
badly shaken and was taken to j of Republican gove.nois
the T. & p. Hospital in Mar- I nov’ numbers twenty-five,
shall for treatment. His con- ! Wlth their winnings they
dition is said to be not serious. | Promi?ed to cut individual in-
Other members of the crew j come taxes 20 per cent in 1947,
were Lee Loyd, conductor- and lop perhaps ten billion dollars
Charley Rucker and Arclr° Ioff government spending, bal-
weather didn’t matter much,
they said.
The rain stopped just before
noon, however, and the matinee
book! But the circus only comes
once a year.
Spectators at the unloading
Wednesday morning were very
limited because of rain, but
those who came got a thrill out
cft the way the circus men
handled the big Percheron
horses in teams of four and
eight. They saw a column of
performance was played before elephants march tail-in-snout
is expected to be receding.
distance, display the motif and
Water from the flooded j produce an effective memorial,
Sabine had backed over High-j she said.
way 80 between Mineola and ! In urging Wood County rcsi-
Grand Saline Thursday and at j dents to plant one of these
^no point was about eight j plants as a World War II
?hes deep. South of town the i memorial, she said that in-
iter lacked several feet reach- | terested persons might obtain
ing the top of the road, and j more information from her or
at the long bridge north of
town it was about five feet be-
low the bridge level.
No damage was reported here
from Sunday’s high winds, but
at Kilgore several derricks were
toppled, and minor damage wras
reported in other East Texas
towns.
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A. C. Gentry, district highway
engineer at Tyler, who is chair-
man for East Texas.
Chatlick Group
Discussing Texas
Gas Resources
State Senator T. C. Chadiek
of Wood County is in Austin
this week conducting a legisla-
tive committee meeting to de-
. termine what and where Texas’
natural gas resources are and
what should be done about
them.
Senator Chadiek, chairman of
the committee, called the meet-
ing Tuesday.
The committee is discussing
r four broad topics, taking up
B’. A. Holbrook, chairman of i +wo of them in this meeting
Bridge Opening
Set for Late
In November
The opening of the Lake Fori:
Creek Bridge on the Haines-
ville road is now expected the
latter part of this month, and
a big get-together of the people
served by this read is planned
for he occasion.
Chase, brake-men. None of them
were hurt.
The accident, cause of which
has not been determined, is
said to have happened at about
the same point at which an
engine derailed several months
ago. injuring Hoyt Maclin when
he was pinned beneath it.
Mims’ body did not show any
broken bones, cuts, or burns,
and it is believed that he was
smothered to death almost in-
stantly. The other crew mem-
bers began digging into the
wreckage as soon as they
checked up and found him
missing, but several hours were
required to extricate the body.
Funeral services will be held
Friday afternoon at I o'clock at
the First Methodist Church
with the Rev. Jester White,
pastor, officiating. Burial will
be made in the Jacksonville
Cemetery.
He was born June 6, 1903.
and was a member of the Meth-
odist Church and a member of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Vera Mims; one son, Gary
Floyd, 8; one daughter, Bar-
bara Ann, 7; mother, Mrs. Wade
Earle of Jacksonville; a sister,
Mrs. Leon Sanders of Talco;
and a brother, Earle G. Mims
of Jacksonville.
a planning committee, said that
a stew will be held and a
special program is being plan-
ned. Highway Department of-
ficials will be asked to attend,
and leaving two for another
meeting in Austin Nov. 14. Other
hearings will follow on Dec. 2
at Carthage, Dec. 4 at Ama-
rillo, and Dec. 6 at Corpus
and “the neighbors will get to- christi. A1 lof these dates are
getiier and cleebra^e the open- j subject to change, however,
ing of the best farm-to-market j The committee, which was
bridge in this part of the j authorized in the 49th legisla-
country. The Mineola Monitor j ture, is delving into present gas
■will publish a special section i reserves along with recent dis-
for the occasion in which will j coveries and the prospects for
be printed all available his- '
torical Information on the
Hainesville. Concord. Pine Mills
^and Redland communities.
The concrete work on the
riclge is already finished, but
^approaches remain to be paved. TillotSOR Attends
riclge piling also remains to
painted. The wet weather is
force another delay
the opening, but repi-esenta-
vb.s of the Austin Bridge Corn-
fan y, contractors, say it will ae
tuly for use within about
Jree weeks.
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New Music Teacher
Added to Faculty
At High School
Mrs. Hazel Jarrell of Tyler
has accepted a position as vocal
instructor at Mineola High
School.
Mrs Jarrell is a graduate of
a Chicago conservatory and
Lash Institute in Fort Worth.
She also has studied privately
in Dallas and has a teacher’s
certificate for teaching voice
ance the budget and revoke
the presidential war powers.
Democratic strong men were
toppled from Massachusetts to
California and even in the edge
of the “still solid South.’’
Capitol observers were ex-
pecting as a result the widest
possible split between White
House and Congress but little
change in U. S. Foreign policy
which Republicans helped to
mold. *
Congressman Sam Rayburn
of Texas, present speaker of
the House, has already told
newsmen that he will not ac-
cept minority leadership in the
House. And another reverbera-
tion came from Chicago where
New Dealish Chicago Sun sug-
gested that President Truman
set a precedent and resign in
favor of a Republican.
Amendments Win
With the Texas vote solidly
in the Democratic column, at-
tention turned to the four
amendments to the state con-
stitution. three of which were
voted on Tuesday.
Late returns of the Texas
Election Bureau showed all
three amendments likely to
carry. The vote was:
John Tarleton:
For 132,550; Against 40.056.
State Employe Pensions;
For 114,536; Against 64,375.
Road Fund:
For 131.307; Against 35.465.
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E-Texas Women
Golfers to Play
Marshall Tourney
The next tournament of the
East Texas Women’s Golf Asso-
ciation will be held in Marshall
on Thursday, Nov. 14,
Invitations have been mailed
a crowd of about three-fourths
capacity. And a reasonably full
house came back for the night
show.
The rain was gone but the
ground was still muddy, and
most circus visitors probably
have a more vivid recollection
of the ankle-deep mud than the
liens and tigers.
Trapeze and dog acts were
the best in the two-hour one-
ring show. There was the usual
side show, too, a minstrel with
up Johnson Street, and they
heard the constant yapping of
neighborhood dogs which had
picked up the scent of the
animals.
A veteran circus man sat
down in a restaurant for a cup
of coffee, asked the man next
to him if the town were dry,
and commented. “I don't know
what this world is coming to.”
The circus has come and
gone—it left during the night
via T. & P.—and local police re-
an act reputed to have been a i port no ill effects.
Freight Damage Control
Topic oi Rail Meeting
Means of improving service to
shippers through reduction of
freight loss and damage claims
was the subject of an open
meeting attended by merchants
and shippers in conjunction
with Texas & Pacific officials
and employes at the Train-
men’s Hall here Friday night.
The meeting, presided over
by J. B. Stegall, retired Texas
& Pacific conductor, was ad-
dressed by J. B. Shores, direc-
tor of public relations and by
W. T. Long. Jr., superintendent
of transportation and by K. B.
Newton, superintendent Freight
loss and damage claims, all of
Dallas. They were accompanied
by W. N. Weaver, traveling
freight claim agent and David
Peed, traveling inspector, also
of Dallas, and were joined in
Mineola by O. E. Bellomy,
agent Dallas. Mr. Stegall im-
pressed the audience with the
fact that the Dallas visitors
were not there for the purpose
of giving lectures on claim-
■prevention but rather to hear
suggestions from merchants
and working railroad men as to
the best means of freight loss
and damage reduction.
Fundamental point brought
Running Light
Pensions for State
Employes Defeated
In Wood County
Wood County, with ten of
twenty-one boxes reported com-
plete, gave overwhelming ap-
proval of the Democratic nomi-
nees and okehed two of the
three amendments in Tuesday’s
general election.
Given a 132 to 43 vote lead
at Winnsboro. amendment num-
ber one which provides for the
payment of buildings on John
Tarleton College campus, was
holding a 495 to 308 lead in
the ten boxes. The amendment
calling for state employe pen-
sions was getting a cold
shoulder, however, the incom-
plete vote being -119 for and
545 against. The most popular
of the amendments, the road
fund amendment which reallo-
cates fuel tax income to road
construction, held a comfortable
915 to 106 lead. All of the
county’s four large boxes, Mine-
ola east and west, Quitman
and Winnsboro, were reported
complete.
Senator Tom Connally had
1.031 votes to Murray Sells’ 79,
and Beauford Jester received
1.052 for governor to Nolte’s 59.
Thursday Vote Light
Despite the fair weather the
Thursday vote in the special
election for the fourth amend-
ment, which provides for a
state appropriation for a vet-
erans’ land fund was running
very light at noon Thursday.
A combined total of less than
150 votes was expected for the
! two Mineola boxes.
crease of one-third in sales and
business and that the net prof-
its of railroads would be ten
per cent higher were it not for
damaged shipments. Skelton
called attention to the fact that j just before press time Thursday
the war is over and that in the ! just before pres stime Thursday
indicated probable defeat of
in Wood
future shippers will turn to
their prewar demands of high- j this amendment
est quality transportation ser- j County.
vice- | The vote in the two Mineola
He was followed by A1 Davis, } boxes totalled 355, which was
yardmaster, Mineola, who ex- , about one-third of the first
plained handling of trains in j primary vote,
yards, and suggested that such j There was one write-in in the
meetings would be of benefit j congressional race in the West
throughout the whole system, i Box W. Speights got one vote
A word was added by M. R. ! to 174 for Lindley Beckworth.
McClure, general foreman, J At Quitman one voter wrote
Mineola, who complimented the ; on his ballot that he favored
cooperative spirit of the newly- j the return of beer to Wood
hired carmen who, despite in- ' County,
experience, had cooperated in j
doing the very best possible job j **ester Leads Connally
in the face of shortages of i Of the two uiain candidates,
critical materials. j rao;e voters disapprovel of Sen-
J. B. Shores, director of pub- a*or Tom Connally. In all of
lie relations, assured the audi- ; the larS'e boxes in the county
encs that good public relations, :-cster was given a few more
though a high-sounding name. I votes than Connally. The vote
was nothing more than the iwas the same in most of the
total effect of the railroad’s small boxes,
employes on the people and j The trend in the small boxes
customers with whom they ;was against the first two a-
came in contact from day to , mendments, but the third a-
day. He announced the plan of mendment carried in all of the
and piano. She is planning to , to ail member clubs and the j out by discussion was that un- < issuing service buttons which ' county’s twenty-one boxes,
go to school next summer in j Mineola Country Club is ex-I der present conditions, v.uth | will sllortiy be put into effect, i Quitman defeated the first and
'lev/ York.
Mrs. JaireT is soloist for the
Episcopal Church in Ty’er. S ie
said she preferred teaching
voice, and her music preieren :e
is for classical works.
pected to send several players. | goods shortages still acute, the describing the various types to 1 second amendments and Winns-
need for customer good will is be awarded for varying lengths : boro voted 130 to 83 against-
Henderson County
Will Remain Dry
9., R Corbett Wins
future discoveries. It will also - A,v„rJ
take up the adequacy and ef- j Hvrdiil
fectiveness of present regula-
tions and consevation methods.
such that lost or damaged mer-
chandise cannot be replaced
and profits normally derived
from these goods are lost.
Calling on George A. Rule,
T. & P. engineer, Mr.
(See FREIGHT, Page Ten)
Chang-e of Tenancy
stegaii i Notice Must Be
Henderson County defeated
the beer issue Tuesday by a
majority of more than two to j asked him to discuss means by 1 Rijpyl R Rfo ORA
one. ! which enginemen might re
i "With only four small boxes ■ duce claim loss. Mr. Rule de j With thousands of veterans
| The American Railway Ex- I unfeported< all of which are j dared that careful switching returning and former
j :'ll_ Company to .. .n < k “ expected to increase the drv i practice and maintaining
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the second amendment which,
called for pensions for state
employes. This amendment was
beaten 153 to 154 in both Mine-
ola’s boxes, although the West
Eox approved it 80 to 72.
Vote In Mineola Coxes
The vote in the races for
war I senator and governor and for
31st RR Reunion
Courthouse to Be
Closed Monday
Courthouse offices will be
closed Monday, November 11, in
observance of Armistice Day,
according to an announcement
by County Judge C. C. Bellomy. the four-day Denver reunion.
Ranks of World War I’s 31st
Railroad Engineers (Regiment)
are thinning fast, J. H. Tillot-
f.on reported last week on his
return from Denver where he
attended the first reunion of
his old outfit since 1941. Mrs.
Tillotson accompanied him.
This year’s roll call ended
with 35 names being Xed by
death, all victims of the Grim
Reaper during the war years,
Mr. Tillotson said.
Approximately 200 attended
warded S. B. Corbett, local
agent, a $100 bonus for a sug-
gestion which improved effi-
ciency in the company’s world-
wide chain.
The suggestion proposed the
rimplification in the Daily Form
3307, a heretofore complicated
report form. And within thirty
days after the suggestion was
received it was adopted for
all stations. Besides the $100
award Mr. Corbett received a
letter of commendation from
the president of the company.
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IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Elmer Fulcher entered
a Dallas hospital last week-end.
lead, the vote was 2.865 against , the locomotive at peak ef-
the sale of beer and 1,230 in j ficiency would save
favor.
Tyler Makes Charge
For Garbage Service
Tire seventy-five cent charge I of each trip.”
proposed here by Mayor Miles The shipper’s viewpoint was
Coudle for weekly garbage col- expressed by Grady Skelton, of
by engineer at the beginning
lection service has been in
effect in several East Texas
towns for some time.
Tyler has been adding , the
charge to water bills, but a new
system is being installed where-
by separate garbage bills will
be sent eaeh family served.
workers moving to new jobs in
the Mineola Defense-Rental
much | Area, a close check will be made
money paid for freight loss and i to assure that landlords file
damage. This, he said, could ; notices of each change of ten-
be accomplished by caution in ! ancy with our office,” Cecil C.
“kicking cars into switches and i Sims, OPA area rent director,
by close inspection of engine j said. “It is particularly im-
portant now for landlords to j
file at the Area Rent Office a
notice of change of tenancy
that has been signed by the
tenant within five days after
each new tenant occupies the
housing unit,” Mr. Sims said.
“Landlords can obtain copies of
the required change of tenancy
forms at the Area Rent Of-
fice, Lankford Biulding, Mine-
ola.” ’Against
the firm of Jarvis-Skelton. He
stated that he had received GO
per cent of his freight via rail
over a period of many years
and thought his experience
with damaged freight had been
slight, but he knew that dam-
aged shipments caused a de-
the three amendments in the
two Mineola boxes follows:
Senator
Connally ______________
Sells ____________________
Governor
Jester ________________
Nolte -_________________
1st Amendment
For ____________________
Against ______________
2nd Amendment
For ___________
Against
3rd Amendmemt
For_____
E
Tot.
I 148
310
L 20
41
i 150
324
) 21
31
3 104
214
4 48
82
0 74
154
2 83
155
5 153
288
3 11
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