The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURDAY, JANUARY 24
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or Says Highway Right-of-Way Assure
Rotary Club
Unit System
County Roads
Action Follows
Pattern Set by
Winnsboro Club
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The Mineola Rotary Club
Monday put its stamp of ap-
proved on the unit system of
road construction and main-
tenance for Wood County.
The club voted unanimously
ill favor of the plan follow-
ing a talk by Curtis Moris, tax
expert of the East Texas Cham-
ber of Commerce. This action
followed a pattern set by the
Winnsboro Rotary Club last
week.
Indications of increased in-
terest in county government
- were seen in the insistence of
several- members that the club
hike immediate and vigorous
action on the matter. A com-
mittee composed of J. C. Judge,
ry cla^rman> Leland Long and R.
C B‘. Carraway was appointed by
V| President L. L. Crumley to pro-
£ mote the program in Wood
County. •
Rural Roads Vital
Mr. Morris pointed to the
gradual migration from
farms to the cities as a result
poor roads which the rural
Hp'Sident must contend with.
he compared Texas with
IP Wisconsin, a dairy state which
Bridge Delayed
By Shortage of
Steel Piling
Construction May
Begin in April,
Contractor Says
Construction of the Haines-
ville Road bridge over Lake
Fork creek will be delayed un-
til March or April because
steel piling is not available.
This information was received
this week by County Commis-
sioner B. A. Holbrook from the
Austin Bridge Company, con-
tractors for the job.
Construction on this much
needed bridge was due to be-
gin in January, but unless the
steel strike is settled sooner
than expected it is quite prob-
able that work will be delayed
sixty days or more.
The bridge, which is to be
built of reinforced concrete,
will be slightly more than six
tenths of a mile long, including
approaches. The Austin Bridge
Company was awarded the
$75,000 contract early in De-
the cember.
Commissioner Holbrook said
he is planning a special open-
ing program for the new
bridge. It will be a vital link
in Mineola’s farm-to-market
. does not have the natural ■ road system, he said, and de-
■ wealth which Texas has. Wis- serves due recognition. ,
■ consin’s roads are almost 100 , __a
Htel
consin’s roads are almost 100
per cent all-weather roads and
^tliat state is not losing its farm
opulation. If dairying is to be
developed in Texas we must
get a system of road construc-
tion and maintenance that will
give us all-weather roads, he
said. In this state only one in
five miles of county roads are
all-weather roads.
Under the unit system road
work will be done by a county
ergineer with trained help for
the county as a whole, elimi-
nating the more expensive and
less effective precinct system
new in use. Roads will be built
with proper grading and with
a view of permanence, and
money can be saved on ma-
chinery and upkeep.
Texas counties which have
adopted this system have
found it more effective and
less expensive, Mr. Morris
pointed out. And Wood County
can profit by it too.
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American Legion
Dance Features
Cline Orchestra
IDurward Cline and his or-
chestra, well known East Texas
musicians, will play a return
engagement here Thursday
night, January 31.
'Fhe dance is being spon-
soi*ed by the Luckett Cochran
Post of the American Legion
at the Legion hall in West
Mineola, and the public is in-
■ > vited. The admission will be
1 £ $2 per couple and tickets may
at the Service Drug
}ffe or Shiver’s Pharmacy.
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What Can You Spare?
A drive for old clothing for the United National Cloth-
ing Collection will be made in Mineola Friday, according
to an announcement by Mrs. H. O. Rogers, local chairman.
i People who have clothing that can be spared for war-
ravaged Europeans are urged to bundle it up and leave
it on their front porches Friday. Collectors will cover the
town, Mrs. Rogers said. Persons having donations which
may be overlooked are urged to take it to the collection
station, the Southwestern Gas & Electric Company’s former
ice house at Kilpatrick and Stone Streets.
Pickle Factory Asks Farmers
For 500 Acres of Cucumbers
Jacket Cagers
Swamp Canton
Team, 77 to 18
By Billie Adrian
The Mineola High Yellow
Jackets swamped the Canton
Eagles under a deluge of field
goals Tuesday night, winning
a one-sided conference victory,
77-18.
The Jackets ran roughshod
over the inexperienced visitors
from Van Zandt, and the con-
test frequentlv took on the as-
pects of a football game. Nich-
ols alone accounted for enough
points to win the game, with
28 to his credit. Halftime score
was 45-10, with the outcome
never in doubt.
Team scoring follows:
Canton
Burns Ji 1)
Brasher (0)
Anreys (0)
Crabtree (1)
Holland (6)
Neill’s Style
Shop Moving to
New Building
Neill’s Style Shop is moving
to a new location on Friday,
February 1. ■ i -
Workmen have been remodel-
ing the Mallory Building on
South Johnson between the
Carroll Bargain Store and Cole-
man’s Drug Store and the
Style Shop will be open for
business there next Friday.
Mr. Neill said he was re-
ceiving a considerable amount
of new merchandise for a big
opening day.
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HERE FROM JACKSON
Mrs. Gault Pegues Jr. of
Jackson, Miss., is here to be
with her mother, Mrs. T. B.
Reed, who is recovering from of his son, Lt. William R. Cau-
Mineola Pos.
Campbell (4) F
S. Hughes (15) F
Nichols (28) C
R. Hughes (2) G
Fouse (10 G
Substitutions:. Mineola, Ad-
rian (2), Sims (2), and Broth-
erton (14). Canton: Bearl (5),
Wade (3), and Munby (3).
The Yellow Jacket B team
also chalkel up a victory over
the Canton B team, winning
20-10 with Sims taking high
point honors.
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Mayor Caudle
Goes to Hospital
Mayor Miles Caudle left
Thursday for Dallas where he
wiil enter Baylor hospital for
a major operation.
The operation is expected to
be performed about the first
of the week after the arrival
W & W Hopes for
Big Production
Price Remains at
100 Per Cent Above
Pre-War Level
The W & W Pickle Company
is making an appeal to the far-
mers in this vicinity to plant
not less than 500 acres of cu-
cumbers this year.
The cucumber price has been
set at a level which represents
more that a 100 per cent in-
crease over pre-war prices, and
company officials have express-
ed the hope that the growers
will make 1946 a banner pro-
duction year. In recent years
the crop has been so low that
maintaining the local plant has
not been profitable.
The price on No. one grade
cucumbers is $5 per hundred
pounds, which is double the
pre-war price of $2.50. Number
two grade will be worth $3 as
compared with the old price
of $1, and number three will
bring $2 as compared with 50c
Delta to Drill
Wildcat Test
North of Quitman
The Delta Drilling Company
of Tyler this week announced
location of a new Wood County
wildcat, a Woodbine test, sche-
duled for 6,000 feet.
iJtoads are now being built
to the site which is 330 feet
out of the southwest comer
of a 40-acre tract in the J.
Stark survey five and a half
miles northeast of Quitman.
Spud-in date has not been
announced, but drillers hope to
begin within a few days.
J. G. Whitehead
Dies Monday at
Redland Home
John G. Harrie Whitehead,
77, passed away Monday night
at 12:30 following an illness of
before the war. A number four several months. He was a re-
grade has been established for
the extra large size which will
be worth 75 cents.
Farmers planning to grow
cucumbers are urged to sign
their agreage at J. H. Sharp
& Son and Thompson’s Hard-
ware store in Mineola and the
Co-Op Gin in Quitman, or no-
tify M. P. Matheson, local rep-
resentative.
an operation at a Dallas hos-
pital. Little Miss Carol Ann
Pegues is staying with her
grand parents, Mr. and Mrs.
H. G. Pegues Sr.
die, who has been given emer-
gency leave from duty in the
Pacific.
The Mayor was accompanied
to Dallas by Mrs. Caudle.
City Election Is Called
For Saturday, Feb. 16th
With the last day for can-
didates to file for city office
less than two weeks away, it
seemed likely that the present
mayor and commissioners would
be returned to their jobs with-
out opposition.
Democratic primary chair-
man C. W. Epps today released
an official election call which
ore Newcomers
hy Living Space
Monitor this week re- ' set the date of the party pri-
another flood of re- mary as Saturday, Feb. 16. The
another flood of re-
late for rooms, apartments
li houses. Inquiries during the
til part of the week alone
came from eleven people.
l Included in the group are
election will be held at the
city hall.
The call also places Wednes-
day, February 6, at noon as the
last minute to announce for
yeral railroad men who are office,
for “sleeping
Persons having
the Monitor.
Caudle and Com-
S. Smith and
ced for re-election, but rumors
of opposition have failed to
materialize.
CALL FOR CITY
PRIMARY ELECTION
By virtue of the authority
vested in me as chairman of
the Democratic Primary, I
hereby call an election to be
held at the city hall, Mineola,
Texas, on Saturday, February
16, 1946, for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for
mayor and two candidates for
commissioner for the City of
Mineola for the ensuing two
years. The final date for can-
didates to file their names for
this election shall be 12 o’cl<
noon, February 6,[ 1946.
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County’s Soil
Conservation
Needs Discussed
The latest information on
soil conservation was discussed
Thursday afternoon at the
January meeting of the Hop-
kins-Rains-Wood Soil Conser-
vation District in Quitman. Re-
sults of a soil conservation sur-
vey of the district were pre-
sented.
M. E. Harris, district chair-
man, said, “Soil conservation is
a number one problem now
that the war is over. Erpsion
cannot be whipped by any
single group, but if we are
properly informed as to the
danger of erosion and the ex-
tent of the conservation prob-
lem confronting us we go fur-
ther in placing a sound pro-
gram on every acre of soil.”
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T. R. (Bud) Lloyd
Is Candidate for
Wood County Sheriff
T. R. (Bud) Lloyd of Winns-
boro, this week authorized the
[onitor to announce 'his can-
for Sheriff of Wood
.He will issue a , formal
later, he sail
L uatem ini rear-
tired farmer of the Redland
community.
Mr. Whitehead was born in
Louisiana, January 24, 1868, and
lacked only three days being
78 years of age.
Funeral services were held at
Mt. Pisgah church with Rev.
Lunceford officiating. English
Funeral Home was in charge of
burial at Mt. Pisgah cemetery.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Callie Whitehead, several
children and grandchildren.
Mrs. Dorothy Smith of Mineola
is one of the grandchildren.
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Mineola Rotarians
To Attend Charter
Banquet at Quitman
A large representation from
the Mineola Rotary Club is ex-
pected to go to Quitman Fri-
day night for that club’s char-
ter night banquet.
The recently organized Quit-
man club was sponsored by the
Mineola organization. The ban-
quet will be held in the high
school gymnasium.
Project May Be
Finished in 19■
Three Property Owners Hold Out Bi
Mayor Optimistic Over Chances For’
Early Settlement Without Condemnati<
The Broad Street right-of-way for Highway 80 throuf
Mineola is virtually assured, said Mayor Miles Caudle before
going to the hospital today, and the new street may be com-
pleted before the end of 1946.
Mayor Caudle said the hold-outs in the right-of-way
tlement had been reduced to
NEW COACH
BCD MOODZ
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Preston Moody
New Grid Coach
At Mineola High
Preston (Bud) Moody, native
son and one time football hero
at Mineola High School, will
return next fall as athletic di-
rector and head football coach.
Coach Moody will succeed
Coach Frank Nichols.
Moody only recently returned
from the Navy where he was
connected with the service ath-
letic program. For nearly two
years he coached a Seabee All
Star team at Pearl Harbor
which competed against big
time competition with better
than average success. Before
entering the Navy he coached
at Union Grove, Jefferson, and
Gladewater.
Coach Moody last week joined
the high school faculty and is
teaching mathematics.
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March of Dimes
Drive in County
Ends January 31
One week remains in the
March of Dimes drive for the
National Foundation for Infan-
tile Paralysis.
The campaign for funds to
combat the spread of infantile
paralysis in Wood County be-j old
gan Jan. 14 and will end Jan. j home
three and none of these wants
to block the project. “These
people are interested in seeing
the town progress,” he com-
mented in predicting the Cit
would soon have a clear right
of-way.
On the eve of a very ser-J
ious major operation the Mas
was unusually optimistic,
ever, he stated that cone
nation proceedings would be
filed against any property on
which settlement had not been
reached by the time he return-
ed from the hospij
condemnation has
to court State Highway Depart-
ment engineers will be able to
go ahead with construction
work, regardless of how
court settlement requires.
The Mayor stressed, however^
that he hoped to settle
icably with the three holdout
one on the north side and
on the south side of the strec
Copper water lines will
laid beneath the new strqet
lessen the necessity 'for
ing the pavement, ^
the Highway DepartriT?
ting the go-ahead sigri^
spring it is not unlikel
work will be completec
the end of the year,
ment will be fifty-six
i and free from all hazal
ing it uniform all
through the city.
Mrs. W. W.
Dies Wedni
Funeral Saj
Mrs. W. W. Rt
Wednesday aftei;
at Parkland hos
following a
became ill abol
with a fatal type,
Mrs. Woody Rucfe^
August 11, 1919 at1
near Marshall. She
former Miss Evdij
daughter of Mr. and!
Moore. Her mother ds
years ago. The fami]
to Mineola in 1930.
uated from the lofl
school in 1935 at the
She was married
Rucker,
this union
Michael
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31. Addressed coin envelopes
have been mailed to a number
of Wood County people, and
others are urged to send their
donations to Drew Ludlam, ex-
ecutive committee chairman, at
Quitman.
Lukenbill to Erect New
Building on West Broad
Ross Lukenbill this week be-
gan dismantling the former R.
D. Adrian home next to his
Magnolia Service Station on
West Broad Street to make
way for a new building. Mr.
Lukenbill said the building
would house his agency for In-
ternational trucks, Farmall
tractors, and McCormick-Deer-
ing ■^jjrlf'Hfry. He expects it
to bt^llHHiaited within two
or __
on South
M
Johnson is this week under-
going repairs, and when work
is completed it will be occu-
pied by the Home Appliance
Store.
Other new buildings bearing
completion are the Hearn
building on East Broad, the
new home of Clifford Merritt’s
grocery on East Broad, and the
Pegues Furniture Store on
South Pacific. /
Ao j. O. Phillips
Company recently moved
new location
Decern
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will be
at ten o’i
Funeral
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Carraway, R. H. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1946, newspaper, January 24, 1946; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth595685/m1/1/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.