The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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The Weather
FRIDAY: Partly cloudy, rain
In the late afternoon. Maxi-
mum temperature: 70.
(Ehc iWmcola monitor
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Good Cause
Give your charity donations
to established charities such
as the Red Cross of Wood
County.
YEAR—NUMBER 50
MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCHft 1946
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
tman Test
ged; Area
rked Failure
Important Legion
Meeting Monday Eve
Merigale and
Hawkins Fields
Get Drill Play
Delta Drilling Company Tues-
their No. 1 White
t northeast of Quitman
attracted considerable
in a few weeks ago. The
as halted at 5,506 feet
finding salt water in the
e sand.
tors reported no shows
y of testing; although,
core that caused a flurry
excitement was dead as-
phaltic oil sand taken from
fbe sub-Clarksville. Landowners
had refused to sell royalty in
[iffce area at that time.
Wood County, meanwhile,
coming in for a drilling
with Bobby Manziel
arrangements to bring
rJn flae Merigale Field’s eleventh
No. 2-c Shamburger.
is building derricks for four
e wells.
In the Quitman field Tyler
.tors are seeking to com-
as a pumper from the
ksville the No. 1-A Cox,
eld survey. It is a twin
a Paluxy sand producer on
southwest side of the area.
Humble is carryiny on a
program at Hawkins with
new operations listed this
Mudge Oil Company is
said testing that area.
was no new informa-
on proposed tests east of
>la and north of Crow; al-
both wells are due to
ed within the next
or two.
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Iwcducer,
Ipt is bull
Post Commander Frank Vi-
tasek this week urged all Luck-
ett Cochran Post legionnaires to
attend Monday the regular
meeting Monday night at 7:30
at the Legion Home in West
Mineola. Convention plans will
be discussed, he said, and the
Auxiliary will hold initiation
services.
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40 Petit Jurors
Called for Third
Week of Court
Docket in
th County
ict Court
Judge Nat Brooks’ special
District Court in Wood County
will begin its third week Mon-
day with the trial of jury cases,
and a list of forty petit jurors
have been called to appear. The
first two weeks were taken up
with the trial of non-jury civil
cases.
Petit jurors called, according
to District Clerk H. H. McAl-
lister, follow:
MINEOLA — Grady Rape,
Adolphus Vandiver, J. H. Addy,
H. E. Godwin, M F Usry, C J
Moseley, E P Pritchett, A B
Carrington, Route 1, R L Reed,
Route 1, Ernest Williams, Route
I, F H Willis, Route 2, and O
M. Childress, Route 1.
QUITMAN — Theo Miller, G
T Shaw, O J Walker, L R An-
ders, W T Black, Jr., H H
Noe, T U Shirey, H B Spruell,
Ven Gifford, J M Weems, Rt.
3, H G Willingham, Rt. 4.
ALBA — O L Whitis, Route
1, and H D Ingram.
HAWKINS—J E Green.
CROW"—H D Shoemaker.
BIG SANDY—D. B. Clonts,
Route 1.
WINNSBORO — Carl Gil-
breath, D D Brogden, T A
Wright, H R Cannaday, J G
Wilson, Q A Neill, N B Winkle,
C B Turner, and A L Calhoun.
YANTIS — O L Boyd and
Barney Curtis.
COMO—Boyce Tucker.
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Your Red Cross
watches over the
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General Motors Workers Go
Back to Jobs on Pay Boost
comfort of hos-
pitalized veter-
ans and service
people every-
where. Help put
its 1946 Fund
Campaign over.
Give generously!
Expect Little Trouble
Making Red Cross Goal
Give freely to the Red Cross, j the amount subscribed here
Canvassing of Mineola will last year. Mr. Hartsfield said
begin Saturday, March 16,
Chairman J. L. Hartsfield
Soil District
To Elect Board
Member March 30
Election of a new member to
the District Board of Super-
visors of the Hopkins-Rains-
Wood Soil Conservation District
becomes necessary with the
announcement this week of the
resignation of J. W. Weems of
Quitman.
The District, divided into five
subdivisions, each represented
on the Board by a director, now
Garden Club
To Gather Old
Papers Friday
The Fannie Marchman Gar-
den Club has announced it will
canvass the town for old papers
every Friday. The Club urges
housewives to bundle their old
papers, magazines, and card
board boxes and set them on
their front porches or front
curb every Friday morning.
Proceeds of the paper sal-
vage campaign will go toward
has a vacancy in Subdivision. the upkeep of the City Cem-
No. 5, which includes all lands etery.
he didn’t expect any difficulty
in obtaining this amount.
announces. However, most1 County Chairman C. S. Lindsey
of the work will probably be
done the first part of next
week, particularly in the busi-
ness section.
Mineola’s goal is only $2,-
likewise predicted no difficulty
in making the county’s goal of
$9,091. However, the chairmen
urged that all committeemen
give their full efforts to the
252.50, and this is about half | job.
Fanners Slow
In Signing for
Cuke Acreage
Farmers in the vicinity of
Mineola have been a little slow
Quitman Co-Op
Hospital Gets
200 Subscribers
The Wood County Memorial
Hospital Association had prob
to sign up for 1946 cucumber ably 200 subscribers Thursday,
\k*wo judges instead of the T & P Road Foreman
lipnal one will take the bench' _ . _ . . . , .
ivhen district court in smith Injured in Accident
oounty opens for the week of
irch 25. The extra judge,
Bart Roberts of Longview, vrtU I retired7w““^0 to an'auto-
«o to Tyler to help relieve the mobUe accident near Fort
over-crowded docket in Judge Worth Wednesd He was ta_
J. N. Harris, T & P road fore-
man of engines who recently
Otis Dunagan’s court.
Judge Roberts will hear or-
I: ctinary felony cases during the
I f -uveek while Judge Dunagan will
& devote his time to civil cases,
j District and county courtrooms
p irill be used.
Rex Bass was given a three-
. year sentence Wednesday for
the theft of an English Motor
ikeight truck on Jan. 19. W.
ID. Thompson was sentenced to
fwo years for forgery.
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^Hifayor Urges Care
Of Street Lights
ken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in
Fort Worth for treatment of
broken knee cap and other in-
juries.
Mr. Harris worked out of
Mineola for many years, and is
well known here.
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acreage, according to infor-
mation from the W & W Pickle
Company, local buyers. The
company hoped to get farmers
in this area to plant at least
500 acres, more than 150 near
Mineola. Thus far, however,
only 65 acres have been signed
up here.
Farmers are also signing up
at Quitman and Golden, but
no information is available on
Drew Ludlam, told the Moni-
tor.
A countywide campaign for
members was made Tuesday by
Quitman businessmen who de-
clared a holiday for the oc-
casion and then celebrated the
signing of 182 subscribers with
a weiner roast.
The proposed
hospital will be
lying within County Commis-
sioners’ Precincts Nos. 3 and
4 of Wood County.
The election, called by order
of V. C. Marshall, Administra-
tor of the State Soil Conserva-
tion Board, will be held in the
REA Directors Room, Quitman,
Saturday afternoon, March 30,
at 2 o’clock.
All persons residing in the
District who hold title to farm
or ranch lands lying within
Subdivision No. 5 of soil dis-
trict and who have attained
the age of 21 are qualified
voters. All eligible voters are
urged to attend the election
and assist in filling this im-
portant position. Notices of the
election have been posted in
conspicuous places in Winns-
boro, Quitman and Mineola.
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Rail Commission
Disputes Call
For More Crude
One Man Killed
As Car Leaves
N.
Slippery Road
Jessie Smith, 40-year-old Ne-
gro residing on Route 3, Lin-
dale, was killed Tuesday after-
co-operative noon when the car in which he
located on ■ was riding left the highway on
Two members of the Railroad
Commission Wednesday took
sharp issue with claims of high
federal officials that there is an
imperative need for Texas to
produce more crude oil.
Chairman Olin Culberson
suggested that the plea might
stem from “economic consider-
ation” rather than public ne-
cessity. Ernest O. Thompson in-
sisted that crude oil stocks are
greater now than they were
during war time peak demand.
Thompson said the industry
is having trouble locating ad-
equate storage space, the only
shortage seems to be in heating
181/2 Cents Hour
Increase Agreed
Hope For Cars
In Few Months;
G-E Also Settles
Broadest smiles worn in Min-
eola today were owned by auto
dealers Otho McKaig, Chevro-
let, Ray Watts, Buick, and L.
Bruner, Pontiac. Reason: the
GM strike was over.
The 113-day old General Mo-
tors strike, which cost a billion
dollars in lost wages, sales and
commissions and cut the auto-
motive industry’s production
schedules to one sixth of ad-
vance estimates, was settled in
Detroit late Wednesday.
The GM workers were grant-
ed hourly wage boosts of
cents.
Walter P. Reuther, UAW vice
president and top union man
in the prolonged negotiations,
said the strikers could be back
on the job within a week fol-
lowing ratification. The com-
pany said previously it expect-
ed to be in a position to re-
ceive the strikers back in the
plants within a week or 10 days
after ratification, which is
scheduled for Friday.
The local dealers would not
venture a guess as to when the
regular flow of deliveries would
begin, but unofficial sources
elsewhere predicted a trickle
of automobiles in April.
A few hours after the Gen-
eral Motors steelement the
General Electric Company and
. . , . ,, , , the CIO United Electrical, Ra-
and fuel oils, and that OPA! and Machlne Workers,rep_
price controls have mitigated resenti 100 000 G.E loy_
against producing enough fuel1
and heating oils, “since OPA
ees, settled on an 18 l/2c an hour
was basing prices on gasoline
primarily.”
“If OPA would release crude
wage increase.
Tax Collector
oil and its products from price Asks for Early
controls, the abnormal situa-! Car Registration
property donated by the Cathey a long hill 1.3 miles north of
progress being made at these brothers a few miles west of j Lindale. Highway Patrolman E.
stations. Local growers may
sign their acreage at J. H.
Sharp & Son Hardware and
W. L. Thompson’s.
W & W representatives j s^le.
pointed to the fact that cucum-
tion would quickly clear itself,”
he suggested.
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Quitman. Plans call for the | C. Smith of Mineola said the
beginning of construction on j driver, Emmett Lynch, 20-year p . j nr , j
the first wing as soon after 250 j old Negro ex-serviceman, lost, DliriCtl W 6(fnCSQ3,y
Ben Hill Hardy
hides not far away, Tax Col-
lector Bruce Lloyd this week
urged Wood County motorists
members are signed as is pos- control of the machine, and it I Funeral services for Ben Hill to get tbeir license tags before
TO BUILD NEW HOME
Ray Ballard has part of the
material on his lot at 618 West
Kilpatrick for a new home. He
expects to begin construction
soon.
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Sweet potatoes should be
O. PhilUps & Sons
two weeks of April 10-25 best (Lumber Co. Open
for harvesting in early June.
An average acre properly fer-
tilized should produce between
$200 and $400 in revenue at
W & W’s present high prices.
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A critical shortage of electric
light globes makes it necessary
tliat we take exceeding good
Cire of our street lights, Mayor
KOles Caudle said this week.
“We have been informed by
Southwestern Gas and Electric
Company,” said Mayor Caudle,
“float they cannot begin to get
enough globes to take care of
e*«en rwrmal replacements. Un-
less strikes which have almost
ccanpletely tied up production
of light, globes are settled
the situation will become
,&v®ien worse.
Whenever a light is broken
treated with either corrosive
sublimate or commercial fung-
icide before they are bedded.
BACK AFTER 33 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Park
were in Wood County last week
visiting his brothers J. C. and
T. G. Park. It was his first
visit here in thirty-three years.
Schools Name Fourth
Term Honor Students
The driver and another pas
senger escaped injury.
The J. O. Phillips & Sons j The patrolman said the car
lumber Co. is now open with 1 going up hill failed to make a
Smith was dashed against aMethodist church. The Rev.,
post and killed instantaneously, jes^er White pastor, officiated,! certificate of title in proper
and burial was made in the
Turner cemetery near Redland.
Mr. Hardy, a resident ofMin-
Superintendent D. E. Brooks
it is almost certain that
‘ tr^mt light company will not
; gWp to replace it under
it conditions. “Of course,
for any person to mis-
sly break out a street
it any time, but now it
worse, because these
cannot be replaced,
Ige it is simply impossible to
|t them. Any citizen noticing
j tempts being made to break
pt Street Lights should notify
jy Officials,” the Mayor stat-
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attend funeral
Aii. and Mrs. E. EL Taylor
Jnended the funeral of Gerald
I^Kredith Taylor in Terrell
ijBesdaj.
this week announced the hon-
or roll for the fourth six weeks
of study at the Ward School
and High School.
The roll follows:
HIGH SCHOOL
SENIORS: Mary Baldwin, Bob-
by Inman, Sally Dell Bruner,
Charles Bradshaw, Jeanetta
Grimes, Imogene Macin, Hel-
en Neyman.
JUNIORS: Sue Beth Byrum,
Mary Ruth Tapp, Jeane Woo-
ten, June Duke, Mary Sue
Moody, Dorothy Williams,
Adrienne Long.
SOPHOMORES: Mary Virginia
White, Patsy Jane Aldrich,
Alaine Aaron, Dons Gipson.
FRESHMEN: Don Gipson, Le-
Grand Sims.
WARD SCHOOL
Fifth Grade: 5A
Joan Brock, Betty Browning,
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Betty May Farmer, Dorothy
Sue Freeman, Loy Brown Hill,
Myrna Beth Horton, Mary Helen
Matthews, Martha McDonald,
Joanna Starnes.
Fifth Grade, 5B
Betty Lou Brotherton, Yvonne
Clayboum, Sue Lukenbill, Patsy
Ruth Maxfield, Patsy Jean Mc-
Dade, Patricia Prim, Eloise
Scott, Patricia Skinner.
Sixth Grade, 6B
Gibson Tapp, Barbara Bass,
Joy Ruth Cockerham.
Seventh Grade, 7A
Jane Willis.
Seventh Grade, 7B
a full line of lumber and build-
ers’ hardware, the owners an-
nounced this week.
Mineola’s new lumber yard,
owned by Mr. Phillips and his
two sons, James H. and J. O.
Jr., is located on West Broad.
Both James H. and J. O. Jr.
are ex-servicemen. James H.
was in the 9th Air Force, in
the ETO, and J. O. Jr. was in
the 5th Airforce, in the Pacific
theater of operations.
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turn because of slippery pave-
ment, and it traveled 165 feet
after leaving the road.
Smith was the county’s eighth
traffi ccasualty of 1946.
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Heinie & Steve’s
To Open Monday
day.
Surviving are his wife and
two daughters.
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PROMOTED TO CORPORAL
4-H Girls Make
Good 1945 Record
The year 1945 shows record
achievements of the 45,939 4-H
Club girls in Texas, according
to Lorene Stevens. 4-H Club
specialist of the A&M College
Extension Service. Food produc-
tion, food preparation and pres-
ervation, home improvement,
community recreation, home
nursing and first-aid, and wild-
life and nature study are just
a few of the activities they
carried on “to make the best
better.”
Miss Stevens reports that
24,804 girls planned and served
563,443 meals and canned 1,-
889,007 quarts of fruit, vege-
Cpl. Bruce T. Smith, son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Smith, Min-
eola, has been promoted to
The Heinie & Steve Wash that rank from Private First
House, owned by H. D. Speights Class. This promotion is an-
and A. M. Stevens, announced nounced by Major General H.
today that their “help your- F. Kremer’s 97th Infantry Di
■vj
With the March 31 deadline
; for registration of motor ve—
i went off the road and struck j Hardy 79 were held here Wed- ;the last minute and avoid com-
‘ a P°st- i nesday afternoon at 2:30 at the Plications. •--.-w
Under the laws of Texas, iST
order and the current year's
registration receipt must both,
be presented at the tax coi-
eola for forty years, died Mon- 1 lector’s office before new license
; plates can be issued. The cer-
self” laundry would be open
for business Monday morning.
The new enterprise is located
one block north of the ball
park, at 607 Pegues.
Messrs. Speights and Stevens
state that they have first class
equipment throughout.
vision, only division redeployed
from Europe to Japan. In the
liberation of Luzon in the Phil-
ippines, Cpl. Smith earned the
Combat Infantryman Badge and
one battle star. He was then
tificate of title is the same to
the motor vehicle as an ab-
stract is to real estate, Mr.
Lloyd pointed out. Buyers of
used cars should insist on an.
assigned certificate of title and
the current registration receipt,
i he added.
Miss Florence Bruner at the
Revelle-Bruner Insurance Ag-
ency is an authorized represen-
tative of the tax office in Min-
eola.
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Shreveport Plans
Azalea Garden Tour
The first post-war Garden
assigned to the 97th Infantry j Tour of the Shreveport Beau-
Division in Japan.
Golf Comes Back With
Country Club Opening
Sue English, Marshall Wayne
Horton, Jane Killingsworth,
Jean Rape. %
Eighth Grade, 8A
Randel Aaron, Janis Lee
Cooper, Carline Little, Ann Lu-
kenbill.
Eighth Grade, 8B
Larry Barlow, George
Knox, Regina
Ed
tables and meats..
In the sewing line, 30,922
club members made or renova-
ted 115,201 garments, including
underwear, dresses, suits, coats
and accessories.
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A grass fire last Saturday
destroyed the small clubhouse
to Henry
Golf—out for the duration—
is coming back. H. B. Moore,
Mineola Country, Club pro, an-
nounced this week the local
course would be ready for play
the first week in April.
The course will be open to
the public on a green fee basis
of 50 cents for weekdays and
75 cents for Saturdays, Sun-
days and holidays. And some-
time this Spring The Monitor
will sponsor a cup tournament
for all comers.
tification Foundation will be
held in Shreveport, Saturday
and Sunday, March 23 and 24
according to an announcement
by Mrs. H. B. Barret, Chair-
man of the Garden Tour Com-
mittee.
The tour is planned princi-
pally for azalea gardens, and
Bogey for club members on j the azaleas in the six gardens
Saturday and Sunday, April 6 will be at their peak on the
and 7.
The golf course will be in
first class condition by the time
weekend selected.
In addition to the azaleas,
flowering beach, dogwood, and
of the tournament, Mr. Moore j other flowers will be in bloom
said. In fact, it’s in good play- and will add to the effective-
ing condition now except for ness of the gardens.
The first port-war touma-
[ment, however, will he a Blind
fairways one and two which
have been damaged by water
from a creek which was dam-
ned up below the club.
Besides golf course improve-
ments, tHp club is making plans
for the IRIhiei'iih'iiI of the
swimming
and increasing
RECOVER STOLEN CAR
Highway Patrolman E. . CL
Smith and Constable Wesley
Taylor picked up a 1840 Ford
Sedan Wednesday morning *
near Crow which had been
stolen March 3 in Gladewater.
die water
The car had been
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