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The Weather
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FRIDAY: Considerable cloud-
iness, showers. Maximum
temperature upper seventies.
GllfV iWmenla HJouitor
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Go to Church
Make an effort to attend
Church somewhere! every
Sunday this month. YouH
be glad you went.
SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR — No. 7
MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURDAY, MAY 9, 1946
TWELVE PAGES TODAY
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ourt to Discus^ Unit
lan at Public Session
Next Monday Afternoon
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Delegation Unimpressed With System As
It Operates in Harrison, Which Has
Less Roads for More Money Than Wood
“The Unit System is not County’s road and bridge fund
What it’s cracked up to be.” i through the years has had an
This is the opinion of a group J average of six times as much
of commissioners and business- j money as has been available
men who went to Harrison in Wood County.
County last week for a first- j For all this money Harrison
hand study of the program as has only 140 miles of oiled
it operates there. However, the
plan, will be given a public
HONOR GRADS FOR CLASS OF ’46
roads and forty miles of grav-
eled roads as compared with
jfpearing at a meeting of thej Wood County’s approximately
Wood County Commissioners’ 200 miles of oiled roads and
Court in Quitman next Monday j about the same amount of
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Proponents of the system are
invited to present any argu-
ment they may have for its
adoption and to hear reports
brought back from Harrison
County. However, members of
the court have not indicated
,any official action will be ta-
ken at this meeting.
Harrison Record
The Unit System centralizes
all county road construction
and maintenance under a coun-
ty engineer taking everything
out of the commissioners’ hands
except the job of policy-making.
It abolishes precinct boundaries
from the standpoint of road
work, and this point alone
would be a trouble-maker in
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Farm Highway 49 to Get
3 Miles Pavement in 1946
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graveled roads. Neither has any 1
county-built pavement. Further-
more, Harrison has only 1,100
miles of county roads to main-
tain while Wood County’s four
commissioners keep up about
1,600 miles.
Commissioner C. C. Clanton
of Precinct Three, who is prob-
ably most strongly opposed to
the Unit System, said he could
not see the logic in switching
to a system that would cost
us much more money than we
are now spending and which,
if Harrison County is an ex-
ample, would produce less re-
turns.
“Heretofore we have not had
the money and could not get
the equipment and materials,”
Wood County, said one com-! Mr. Clanton pointed out. “But
missioner, because the two pre-! this year we have a $30,000,000
. cincts with the greatest pop- j valuation with a 49-cent allo-
ulation do not have the largest1 cation, and it looks as if we’ll
tax valuation.
According to reports from
the delegation which went to
Marshall last week, the roads
in Harrison County, the only
.East Texas county employing
[the Unit System, are not as
as those in Wool County
r the last twenty-five or
: VMrty years Harrison County
has operated on a road and
bridge fund allocation of thirty
cents from a taxable $18,600,000;
whereas, Wood County has op-
ted on an allocation of only
soon be in shape to do some-
thing on our rural roads if we
don’t throw away our money
Graduating with highest honors in the class of 146 at
Mineola High School will be Miss Imogene Maclin, Valedic-
torian with an average of 93.89, and Miss Helen Neyman,
Salutatonan with an average of 92.67. Commencement ex-
ercises will be held Monday night, May 27.
Brooks Savs Mineola in
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Need ot Junior High
Supt. D. E. Brooks Monday
told the Rotary Club that the
day is fast apporaching when
Mineola will need another
school building. “The ward
school building is already over-
crowded,” he said, “ and next
year we may probably have to
restrict the number of trans-
fers.”
“The situation can t>e tempo-
rarily relieved by moving one
grade to the high school build-
ing, but a junior high school
will be necessary within the
next three or four years,” he
in an elaborate and expensive, stressed.
system.”
Mr. Clanton was of the opin-
ion that what hard-surfaced
roads we want could be con-
tracted for cheaper than we
Mr. Brooks’ statement on the
need for classroom space cli-
maxed a report of the school
district’s financial condition in
which he pointed out that an
business.
One of the commissioners
said that officials in both Har-
rison and Smith Counties who
were acquainted with the Unit
teen cents on about $6,600,-1 System and who also knew
9 up until the war broke j conditions in Wood County ad-
cut. This means that Harrison vised against changing.
could maintain our own paving j 0ld debt of depression days had
been paid off and that ap-
proximately $12,000 would be
saved at the end of the fiscal
year, August 31st, toward re-
tiring the $97,500 bonded in-
debtedness.
Current Budget $73,199
New Hardware
& Furniture Co.
Opens Soon
The Mineola Hardware and
Furniture Co., owned by Jesse
k C. (Red) Radney and A. V.
^ (Vernelle) Wisenbaker, will
K open next Wednesday, May 15,
Wt in the building formerly occu-
pied by the Jumbo Grocery on
Pacific, it was announced this
week.
In addition to a full line of
hardware and furniture the
new firm will have electrical
appliances, sporting goods and
fan departments. Picture fram-
ing will also be featured.
Prior to forming their part-
nership, Mr. Radney was em-
ployed by the W. D. Kitchens
Hardware and Furniture Com-
pany. while Mr. Wisenbaker op-
—prated a floor finishing busi-
® ness in and around Mineola.
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Singing Convention
Meet at Winnsboro
Constable Taylor
Announces for
Another Term
Wesley Taylor this week an-
nounced his candidacy for re-
election to the office of con-
stable of Precinct Two.
Mr. Taylor has been a law
enforcement officer in Mineola j ita allowance on the district’s
and Wood County since 1928.11,121 scholastics, with $7,753,27
He has been deputy shei'iff, city coming in on transportation.
“We are in very good con-
dition, and we expect to come
out even this year on our
1945-46 budget of $73,199. Of
this amount $52,725.48 will have
been spent in salaries to thirty-
four teachers, two janitors, and
three bus drivers,” he said.
“The school is operating under
the state aid system because of
the financial advantages, and
this year the district will re-
alize $15,030 in state aid An-
other $32,565.05 will be collected
from the state on the per cap-
marshal, Wood County sheriff,
and constable.
“I will try to serve in the
future as in the past,’ Mr. Tay-
lor said.
“We go in the hole, however,
on transportation,” Mr. Brooks
explained. “It costs considerably
more to operate our buses in
outlying communities than we
Softball League Gets
Big Reception Tuesday
The Wood County Softball
League got away to an aus-
picious beginning with large
crowds watching double-headers
in Winnsboro, Quitman, and
Mineola.
At Quitman—
R E A__________________________
Mineola Fire Dept.
Bob’s Texaco ___________
Shell Oil Co_____________
Winnsboro, C. S. Lindsey, pres-
ident, announces. The opening
session will begin on Saturday
Stlt.
rh«
ession during the war,
>that peace is here we hope
lave our best meeting,” Mr.
idsey said.
5ION IN QUITMAN
Estelle Lacy, Quitman,
a 1942 Chevrolet sedan,
Jarney Butler, Rt. 1, Como,
[escaped injury when their cars
f collided in Quitman Monday.
See us for genuine Chevrolet
replacement parts. Otho Motor
Co. Mineola. (adv.)
Results
follow:
of the first games
At Mineola—
Central Pipeline _________
Service Cleaners _________
Winnsboro Legion_____
Mineola Baptists_____
At Winnsboro—
Continental Pirates ____________________9
United Gas (M)________________________...5
The Wood County Singing
Convention will meet Saturday ... i ~
and Sunday, May 18 and 19, at! ,A bl'ief1 Pr°Swa games Collins Man Sh°P
play at the Mineola game*. | winnsboro Fire Dept.
Judge W. T. Black of Quitman 1
was the principal speaker, and
he talked briefly on what the
^“The Convention did not miss! SOit53a11 league
K anci ■ county. Lewis Willeford was
master of ceremonies. Follow-
ing a presentation of the flag
by the Boy Scouts, W. H. Prim
tossed out the first ball and
play began.
One team, the Southwestern
Gas & Electric Company, drop-
ped out of the league, leaving-
thirteen teams.
In Tuesday night’s games all
teams scored but a no-hitter
was pitched against the Winns-
boro Fire Department. Errors
and bases on balls accounted
for their scores.
Next games will be played
Friday night.
realize in dollars. But we look
on this as good will service to
people who want to send their
children to Mineola schools.”
“Our revenue from local tax-
ation amounts to about $20,000
annually, and half of this must
go toward the the retirement of
our indebtedness.” .At the pres-
ent rate the amount of the
bonded indebtedness wil1 be ac-
cumulated within twelve years,
which by comparison, means
the district is in excellent con-
dition. The current tax rate is
$1 per $100 valuation.
To pay off the old debt in-
curred on salary warrants back
in the early thirties the sup-
erintendent said the current
teacher salaries suffered. The
money would have otherwise
been used to raise salaries which
have long been too low.
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American Legion
To Send Mineolan
To ‘Boys State’
The Luckett Cochran Post of
the American Legion has voted
to send a Mineola boy to the
Lone Star Boys’ State encamp-
ment at Austin June 9 to 16
with ail expenses paid, and
Post Commander Frank Vitasek
said other local civic organiza-
tions would be asked to send
boys.
The Legion picked Jerry B.
Chapman for the trip last year,
but because of wartime condi-
tions was unable to send him
and he will be offered the trip
again this year.
To be eligible the boys must
have finished their junior or
senior years in high school. He
must be a good citizen and
representative of the average
American boy: however, no
scholastic or athletic achieve-
ment is required.
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Union Chapel Church
To Hold Sacred
ii I Harp Sing ing- Sunday
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I Sacred harp singing will be
15 j held starting at 9 a.m. Sunday
11 i at the Union Chapel Church
between Garden Valley and
rj | Van, James A. Smith, chairman
announced Tuesday.
The all-day singing will be
open to the public. Smith in-
vites all music lovers to come
and bring their songbooks.
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Crow Wildcat
Discontinues
Work Thursday
Electrical Survey
Reveals Water
Sand in Paluxy
Work ceased Thursday on the
Manziel and the Bridewell No. i
1 Coker, Crow wildcat, after
electrical survey showed porous
water sand in the Paluxy. Fu-
ture plans have not been an-
nounced, but it was said to be
unlikely that operators would
decide to carry the test deeper.
Top of the Paluxy is said to
have been 7,590 with elevation
461 feet. Drilling stopped at
7.618.
In the Merigale Field east of
Quitman Bobby Manziel this
week spudded in his No. 6-B
Shamburger. Talco’s pipeline
extension from the Coke to the
Merigale Field is now under
construction, and a Railroad
Commission hearing is set for
June 12 to determine if the
field’s present 100 barrels per
day allowable is to be contin-
ued.
Mt. Sylvan Completion
Final completion for 522 bar-
rels daily of 34.6-gravity oil,
flowing through quarter-inch
choke, was reported Monday for
Humble’s new Paluxy sand
discovery southwest of Mount
Sylvan in West Smith County,
No. 1 Pool, Sanders survey.
Pressures were 400 pounds on
tubing and 460 pounds on cas-
ing with ratio 145 to 1. Humble
is to start immediately on two
offsets, the No. 1 H. R. Dowell
to the east, and the No 1 B. M.
Mosley to the north. The dis-
covery is producing from per-
forations at 5,339-52 feet.
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State’s March Oil
Flow Falls Short
AUSTIN — Texas oil wells
produced 56,136,527 barrels of
crude during March, or 5.44 per !
cent less than full allowables, j
the Railroad Commission re-
ported Tuesday.
The underproduction amount-
ed to 3,231,629 barrels. Under-
production ranged from 2.22
per cent in East Texas to 13.70
in North Texas.
Mark May 16 on
Your Calendar
Time: Thursday, May 16.
Place: Peacock Sales
Event: Flower Show
The Fannie Marchman
Garden Club’s annual
flower show will be the
big event in Mineola next
week.
Contest entries will be
received until 10 o’clock
Thursday morning.
Flower arrangements to
be displayed in. sixteen
different classifications
with other exhibits fea-
turing hobbies, antiques,
and foreign souvenirs.
Athens Ready for
Texas Fiddlers
Entries continue to pour in
in the Annual Texas Fiddlers
Association Reunion, which will
be held at Athens on May 24.
C. H. Stanton, general mana-
ger, estimated that more than
fifty bands have sent in of-
ficial entry blanks. All indica-
tions point to a record crowd
at this year’s event, the first
since beiore the war.
A street carnival will be held
in connection with the reunion
Police Probing
Sixth Death in
Texarkana Area
Texarkana — Whether death
of a man whose body was
found on railroad tracks six-
teen miles north of here, rep-
resented the Texarkana area’s
sixth slaying in recent week'
or an accident was a debated
question here Tuesday.
The dead man was identified
by a social security card as
Earl Cliff McSpadden, Dr.
Frank G. Engler, Little River
County Coroner, announced
The body was found on tracks
of the Kansas City Southern
Railway.
A Coroner’s jury returned a
verdict that the body “was put
on the tracks by someone un-
known” and that the man was
killed before his body was plac-
ed there.
Sheriff Jim Sanderson of
Little River County said, how-
ever, that he believed the man
fell to his death from a train
and placed the time of death
at around 4 a.m
The Coroner said a deep
wound over the man’s left
temple could have been in-
flicted with a knife and cuts
found on the hands indicated
he had grappled with some-
one with a knife.
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Peach Prospects
Good in Smith
Excellent peach yields are in
prospect for Smith County or-
chards that have been properly
managed for the past few years
Walter M. Young, county agri-
cultural agent, stated Wednes-
day.
Young said that farmers who
have used sound orchard prac-
tices and have a good fruit
crop in prospect can probably
produce an even mere desirable
market product if they will
thin the fruit to about six
inches apart this month be-
fore the seed begin to harden.
Pavement May Go
To Pine Mills
Local Delegation
Receives Friendly
Hearing* in Austin
A three-mile extension of
Farm Highway 49 from I^ake
Fork to Hainesville will he pav-
ed this year, the Highway Com-
mission Wednesday morning as-
sured a delegation of two com-
missioners and three Mineo-
lans. And there is a possibility
the road may be paved all the
way to Pine Mills before the
end of the fiscal year.
Commissioners C. C. Clanton
and B. A. Holbrook and J. Y.
Thomas, John H. Smith, and
Geo. D. Minick went to Austin
to ask for a hard-surfaced road
all the way from Mineola to
Pine Mills this year, but were
told that the rising cost of ma-
terials may cause the Haines-
ville to Pine Mills extension to
be left until next year. A sur-
vey of the project has already
been made. State Engineer D.
C Greer said, and it will be
included in the department’s
current three-year program.
The group offered at lesjst
$15,000 in county aid if the
road could be built complete
this year. The five-mile exten-
sion is estimated at a cost of
$50,000 to $60,000.
“We had a friendly hearing,”
reported G. D. Minick, “and we
believe the commission will do-
all possible to squeeze in the
Hainesvilie-Pine Mills strip with
the other projects.”
Preliminary work on the Lake
Fork Bridge was due to begin
this week. And contract for
extending the pavement to
Hainesville will be let soon.
For better all-round car ser-
vicing, it’s Otho Motor Co.
Mineola. (adv.)
WRECK AT G. S.
A collision between a 1937
Ford sedan, driven by Robert
Galyean of Caddo Mills, and
a 1934 Ford Coupe, driven by
Genevive Steel, Rt. 4, Grand
Saline, resulted in the injury
of Willie Joe Riley, 11 months
old, Sunday afternoon at Grand
Saline. The infant was one of
11 riding in the Galyean car.
Highway patrolmen E. C. Smith
and G. B Graves investigated.
May 19th Reunion of Early
Settlers on Wash Bogan Day
Last Rites for Mrs.
Jack Smiley Sr. to
Be Held Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Ja
Smiley, Sr., 58, who died su
denly from a heart atta
Tuesday night, will be h«
Saturday afternoon at t
Sand Springs Church. She di
at her home in the Mt. Ente
prise community.
Last rites will be conduct
by Rev. W. Clyde Smith, pa
tor of Mineola’s Central Bapti
Church.
Interment will be at tl
Sand Springs cemetery.
Mrs. Smiley, daughter of tl
late Calvin Bishop, was bo:
in the Sand Springs commui
ity. She and Mr. Smiley we
married in 1908.
She was an active member
Mt. Enterprise Baptist Churc
Survivors include her hu
band, one daughter, Mrs. Jol
Draughon, Long Island, Ne
York; five sons, Maldon J
Star Route, Mineola; O. B., L
Angeles; Jack Jr., Orang
Drayton E. and Bill, residii
at the family home; and fi
grandchildren.
Sunday, May 19, will be “Wash
Bogan Day” in Mineola. And a
party honoring early residents,
80 years of age and past, will
be held in the afternoon from
3 to 5 o’clock at the Mineola
Country Club.
May 9 th was Mr. Bogan’s
eighty-eighth birthday, but
some of those planning to at-
tend the party couldn’t be here
on that day and it was post-
poned until May 19.
Among these expected to be
present are the living members
of the Mineola High School
graduating class of 1896 which
was made up of Dr. Ed Mc-
Camish (deceased), Mrs. Sara
Sodekson McCamish of San An-
tonio, Mrs. Orville Marcliman
of Wichita Falls, Mrs. Iona Mc-
Whorter Cooke of Mart, Justin
Henry of Palestine, and Virgil
Vincent Hart (deceased). The
class was graduated under
Prof. B. A. Stafford whose wid-
ow resides here with her
daughter, Mrs. C. D. Coleman.
Also expected to attend the
reunion are Col. William H.
Smith and his sister, Mrs. W.
H. Gillum of Wichita Falls, and
Mrs. W. D. Williams of Mineola,
who is probably the oldest liv-
nig native of the city.
Other early residents are in-
vited, and special invitations
will be mailed to some of those
who live elsewhere.
Out-of-Town Visitors
At Legion Meeting1
A number of out-of-town vis-
itors attended the Monday
night meeting of the American
Leigon post here. Legion aux-
iliary visitors came from Van
with Legionnaires coming from
Tyler, Quitman, and Winnsboro.
The Winnsboro post comman-
der spoke briefly and com-
mended the Luckett Cochran
Post.
The economical way to farm
is the John Deere way. Otho
Motor Co., John Deere dealer,
Mineola. (adv.)
Lindale Men Urge
Mt. Sylvan Road
A request that Smith Coun:
straighten and improve the M
Sylvan-Lindale oil surfac<
road in the northwest part i
the county was submitted
the Smith County commissioi
ers last Monday by Lindale bu
inessmen.
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