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Volume XIV. Corrigan, (Polk County,) Texas Thursday, January 17, 1940 Number 46
'PEERS TO ME
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By Ezra Hoskins
Deer Editer:
Boy, 1 thot shore you tv us
pone this time. 1 tole Liza
when the fust week in the
new year eoine and tin Press
dident eome, that you wus a
goner.
Are an Liza is boath glad
that you aint dead.
I took my pin in hand to
write you that I’m pomp to
the legislature this year. 1 ben
thinkin a leetle about runnin
ler the job and now Liza sed
go on an run so you kin jest
count me in.
Some of the planks I ben
thinkin of puttiu in my plat
form is that everbodie in this
district join a union. Then we
kin all simpathise with them
pore fellers that has ben mak
mg general moters rich all of
these years and we kin help
them make general moters
pay off. I think them set
down strikes is the best kind
to have. 1 like that idea best
Another thing I may put in
my platform is that we dont
have high enough taxis. We
can double the state nnd eoun
ty taxis and still be ahead.
Just think what fine salaries
could be paid if all taxis is
jest twist aK mutch as it is
now? And the pretty part of
it is my new tax plan costs
nobodie nothin. We pay all we
kin rake an skrape fer ineum
tax and why not pay double
Btate an county tax and then
jest give the ineum man what
is left.
Then, folks, I would he in
favor of paying a penshun to
all the boys that staid at
home durin the war. They is
the onliest ones I no that aint
gettin a penshun so I’ll goin
to Austin and get them on the
list two.
Yourn trulev,
EZRA HOSKINS Esq.
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UNITED OAS PIPELINE
TAKES TO THE AIR
A two-way radiotelephone
network for the operation r of
United Gas Pipe Line Com-
pany’s new 24-inch Carthage-
Sterlington pipe line has been
approved by the Federal Com-
munications Commission.
The system is termed a
great advancement in the dis-
patching of natural gas, and
operated perfectly when test-
ed in conjunction with the
opening of the pipe line last
month, company officials stat-
ed.
First of its kind in the Ark-
La-Tex area, the network con-
sists of three central stations
located in Shreveport and
Sterlington, La., and Carth-
age, Texas, along with forty-
four portable-mobile units in-
stalled in service ears and
trucks of the company.
The equipment is of the lat-
est frequency modulation
(FM) type and is designed to
operate on two separate chan-
nels. One of these channels is
for use in station-to-station
transmission; the other for
station-to-car and car-to-ear
communication. The main
tranmitters at Shreveport and
Sterlington have a power out-
put of 250 watts, and, at
Carthage, 50 watts.
The antenna towers at the
Shreveport and Carthago
transmitters are approximate-
ly 200 feet in height; the
Sterlington tower is 300 feet.
B F. ADAMS RETIRES
FROM BUSINESS
One of the oldest business
houses in Corrigan changed
hands first of January when
B. F. Adams sold his store to
DeWitt C. DuVall. The busi-
ness will he conducted under
the name I). C. DuVall in the
future.
Mr. Adams came, to Corri-
gan from Chester some 2.)
years ago and has been active
in business here longer than
any other business that we
know. His health has not been
so robust in the past few
years arid he promises to take
life easy for a while at least.
He stuck a nail in his foot
several weeks ago and has
been confined to his home
most of the time lately.
DeWitt has been Air.
Adams’ ‘right-hand-man’ since
February 1937 except for a
term when he was Sergeant
DuVall in the medical corps of
the army, and since his return
to civiliann life he has been
back with the store.
His many friends in this
section are predicting a suc-
cessful business career for De-
Witt and The Press extends
him everv good wish.
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THANK YOU KINDLY
The Press wishes to express
its kind thanks to the follow-
ing who have subscribed, or
renewed their subscriptions in
the past few weeks:
Rev. E. L. Ingrum, City
J. R. Jones, City
Wm. E. Thomas, City
Art Purvis, City
L. E. Wratten, City
S. J. Crecelius, City
Buren AtcKnight, City
R. B. Alackey, City
Airs. W. S. Kennedy, City
Airs. C. T. Wallace, Houston
W. Wiliford, Woodville
Dr. A. Al. Nixon, Spiro,
Okla.
Aliss Lizzie Andress, Living-
ston
Judge Jesse Tullos, Living-
ston
Airs. Link Summers, Nacog-
doches
Airs. W. L. Goynes, Beaumont
E. T. James, Austin
C. A. Seaman, Chester
S. F. Adams, Aloseow
Airs. Corine Duncan, Mos-
COIV
Rev. AL F. Thrift, Camden
Preston Lankford, Carmona
Cpl. Delbert Saxon, San
Francisco
Pfc. Robert S. Sawyer, San
Francisco
Airs. B.B. Tarver, Beaumont
Airs. Robbie Lee Bullock,
City
J. S. Philmon, Camden
John Gee, Camden
Harry Huttash, Lufkin
J. P. Herring, Keltvs, Texas
Gulf States Utilities Com-
pany, Corrigan, Huntsville,
Navasota and Beaumont.
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Sprayberry-Alsbrooks
Miss Audry Alsbrooks,
daughter of Air. and Mrs.
Clarence Alsbrooks, became
the bride of Mr. Leo Spray-
berry early yesterday morn-
ing at the home of Rev. E.
Woodard, who performed the
ceremony.
Witnesses to the wedding
were Air. and Airs. Homer
Crain and Air. and Mrs. J. F.
Liljequist.
Air. Sprayberry recently re-
turned from several years ser-
vice in the Engineers Corps of
the army where he had served
in the European theatre.
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JACK FOSTER
IS DISCHARGED
Jack Foster, 26, machinist
mate third class, Corrigan,
Texas, has received his honor-
able discharge.
Foster has served 14 months
in the Pacific Theater. He is
the father of one child.
THE BREEZE WAS COLD BUT THE WELCOME WARM . . . Arriving in New York in time to be discharged
for Christmas, these overseas veterans receive a mighty welcome at the dock. Left to right: Ffc. Steve
Sainga, Morgantown, W. Va.; Cpl. Gerald Thee, Dover, Minn.: Pfc. Joe J. Krupar, Cleveland; Pfc. Forrest
Broad, Reading, Pa.; Sgt. William McAulifTc, Scranton, Pa.; Pvt. Frank Dei Brocco, Baltimore, Md.; S/Sgt-
Steve Wilbanks, Corinth, Miss., and Sgt. M. D. Spradlind, Miami, Okla.
SEVERAL NEW FIRMS
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Several new firms have
opened for business in Corri-
gan the past few weeks.
J. W. Bunn, who has been
Southern Pacific agent at
Aloseow for a number of
years, bought the old picture
show building from Dudley
Veal and has remodeled it
and opened under the firm
name of J. W. Bunn & Com-
pany. Frank Dudley is his
store manager.
Preston Lankford of Car-
mona has opened a Taxi Ser-
vice here and has his head-
quarters at the City Cafe.
C. B. Bullock is changing
the name of his business from
the East Texas Wrecking
Yard to Bullock Motor Com-
pany and will handle the Wil-
lis ears, trucks and jeeps.
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SERVICE RECORD OF SSgt.
STUART ARNOLD MAXEY
Arnold, as his “Buddies” of
Corrigan and vicinity knew
him, entered Selective Service
Training as Private in the HQ
Det. 2nd Bn. J44th Inf. 36 Div.
Feb. 16th, 1941, at Camp
Bowie, Texas, and trained
there until December Kith,
1941, three days after Pearl
Harbor, when he was transfer-
red to Ft. Lewis, Wash., for
guard duty on the Pacific
Coast. Shortly after being sta-
tioned there, he was made
Corporal and transferred to
Portland, Ore., then to Peta-
luma, Calif. From Petaluma to
Santa Rosa, Calif., from Santa
Rosa to Charleston, S.C. There
he was advanced to Sgt. and
was there about a year before
being sent oversea?. He land-
ed in North Africa and wus
transferred to Co. A 157th Inf.
of the 45th. Div. and advanc-
ed to S. Sgt. Was in the in-
vasion of Sicily and Italy.
From there lie advanced
through France to Southern
Germany, where he became ill
and was sent to a hospital in
France. From there to a hos-
pital in England where he was
under treatment for several
months before returning to
the States on the S. S. Queen
Mary.
He was discharged from
Hot Springs, Ark., where he
was still under treatment in
the Army nnd Navy General
Hospital. Shortly after return-
ing home, he entered the Ma-
rine Hospital at Galveston and
from there he went to the
Turner Clinic in Houston for
an operation which only pro-
longed his life about two and
one half months. He died at
the home of his father and
mother December 1, 1945.
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Don’t Borrow — Subscribe I
SLAYER OF 26 REFORMS . . .
Looking as benevolent as Kris Krln-
gle is Harry Orchard, 80, lifer In
Idaho state penitentiary, as he
reads his Bible. Forty years ago
he was convicted of murdering
Idaho’s governor and 25 others.
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SUPERVISED PRACTICE
PROGRAM OF F. F. A.
The Corrigan F. F. A. boys
list the projects carried on
their supervised practice pro-
gram for year ’45-’46 as fol-
lows :
Brood sows—17; pigs for
pork—31; hens for eggs— 265;
bees—15 stands; broiler pro-
duction—750; gardens—7 a.;
grain sorghum—11 a.; range
beef—27 head; corn for grain
—38 a.; cotton for lint—9 a.;
Irish and sweet potatoes—11
u.; peanuts for oil and hay—
22 a; cows for milk—1 head;
cows for calf—17 head; sugar
cane—7a.; watermelons—3 a.;
rabbits for fryers—12 head;
tomatoes—2 a.; milch goats—\
2 head; pasture improvement
—173 a.
Cooperative chapter pro-
gram consists of: Four regis-
tered duroc sows, two acres of
fall sown oats, one registered
duroc male, 200 white rock
chickens for banquet, two
acres loblolly pine trees, one
beef calf.
Activities for raising funds:
chapter dues, sweetheart con-
test, sale of duroc pigs, keep-
ing school campus, community
service rendered, male service,
broilers, Sears food for vic-
tory contest, waste paper
drive and spraying fruit trees.
Community service render-
ed farmers to aid them and
give us experience is as fol-
lows: Vaccination, castration,
pruning trees, spraying trees,
controlling cattle grubs, vac-
cinating poultry for pox, vac-
cinating cows for blackleg,
septicemia and treating them
for bloat and milk fever, test-
ing milk, running terrace and
contour lines, culling poultry,
mixing feeds and preparing
mineral supplement, for swine
and cattle, rodent control pro-
grams, treat poultry for mites
and scaley leg, worm hogs and
bud pecans.
Donald Barringer,
Reporter.
JAN. 31 LAST DAY FOR
ERC's TO REENLIST
The Lufkin Recruiting Sta-
tion has received information
that is of importance to mem-
bers of the Enlisted Reserve
Corps now on an inactive sta-
tus:
Alembers of the Enlisted
Reserve Corps, on an inactive
I status, who request enlistment
I in the Regular Army on or bo-
|fore January 31, 1946, will be
administratively discharged
from the ERC and enlisted in
the Regular Army in their
present grade.
Members of the Enlisted
Reserve Corps on an inactive
status, who request enlistment
in the Regular Army after
February 1, 1946, will be ad-
ministratively discharged and
enlisted in the Regular Army
in Grade Seven, Private.
You are urged to contact
your nearest Recruiting Sta-
tion for further details.
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CRAIN-COOK
RODENT CAMPAIGN
STARTS MONDAY
The Pocket Gopher does
serious damage to meadows,
pastures, terraces, contour
ridges, feed, food and
crops grown on the sandy
soils of Polk County and we
should all combine our efforts
in the next few days to con-
trol this rodent and decrease
his damage so that we may in-
crease the yield of our farm
acreage. To do this is an in-
dividual problem, but to pre-
vent reinfestation from ad-
joining farms it should be
done as a community project.
The farmers should group
into a block and treat their
farms together, thus increas-
ing the control value of his
farm and protecting the work
done by his neighbor.
The following men will act
as a community chairman for
the farmers in his neighbor-
hood, to organize them, select
farm for the demonstration
and be ready to distribute poi-
son to farmers desiring to poi-
son their farms. The date,
farm, and hour as follows:
January 21, Roy Crecelius,
10 a. m., Skinnertown; Will
Rhinehart, 2 p. m., Pluck.
January 22, A. O Lilley, 10
a. m., Wakefield; Dick Skin-
ner, 2 p. m., Damascus com-
munity.
January 23, K. Platt, 10 a.
m. Moscow (east); John
Hatcher, 2 p. m., Moscow
(west).
January 24, Frank Fann, 10
a.m., Carmona; Garner Brooks
2 p. m., West of Asia.
January 25, R. T. Shaddens,
10 a. m., Oscar Mulligan, 2 p.
m.. Rock Island.
If you are interested in the
gopher control program meet
at the farm of the above nam-
ed committee member at the
designated hour and date for
demonstration on how to poi
SENIORS REPORT
SUCCESSFUL PROJECT
Members of the senior class
report that an enjoyable time
was had at the dance they
truck'sponsored lust Friday night
for tile benefit of their class
gift to the school.
The Centennial of Texas
Statehood was the theme of
the dance, and the patriotic
motif was used in decorations.
A large Texas flag was dis-
played on the stage. This flag
was given by Mrs. Madge W.
Ilearne, granddaughter o f
Sam Houston, to the local
high school newspaper staff
for a San Jacinto Day pro-
gram they sponsored at the
high school in 1941.
A highlight of the evening’s
entertainment at the dance
last Friday night were the
coronation of the “Centennial
King and Queen” in a pop-
ularity contest sponsored by
the senior class. This contest
was won by the sopohomore
class, their nominees being
Louise Gross and Charlie Fred
Waller.
The grand finale of the ev-
ening was the awarding of the
attractive centennial cake.
The cake, iced in white with a
red star outlined in blue and
with the figures ‘,1846-1946”
in blue, was baked by Mrs. W.
C. Fancher for the seniors.
The cake was awarded to John
Charleston Allsbrooks, a for-
mer student now in the army.
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SOUTHERN PACIFIC
BUYS NEW CARS
Houston, Texas, Jan. 17.—
Purchase of 2,000 new rail-
road refrigerator cars at a
cost of about $12,000,000 has
been authorized by its joint
owners, Southern Pacific and
Union Pacific, it was announc-
_______________ ^ ^ ^ ed here Thursday by E. A.
son and to get your poison for j executive vice ^president
your farm
Let’s clean out the gophers ^exas an^ Louisiana,
i North Polk County—This I The new cars will have lat-
rneans white and colored.
Wm. E. Thomas,
Vo. Ag. Teacher
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WASHINGTON SNAPSHOTS
Miss Glenola Cook became
the bride of Mr. Homer Crain
last Saturday at the Baptist
parsonage here. Rev. Leroy
Pattillo read the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cook of
the Knoxville community. Mr.
Crain is a son of Mrs. J. B.
Chandler of Corrigan.
Homer recently returned
from overseas where he had
served for several years. He
was a Sergeant.
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NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that
the Board of Trustees of Cor-
rigan Independent School Dis-
trict will receive bids on the
Benton Springs School Build-
ing for the purpose of selling
said building to the highest
bidder. No part of the laud on
which the school building is
located will be sold, and all
bids should cover the building
only.
All bids should be mailed or
handed to Mr. E. L. Knox, Se-
cretary, Corrigan School
Board, prior to 12 A. M. Feb-
ruary 7, 1946.
The Corrigan School Board
reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Signed: E. L. Knox,
Corrigan Independent
School Dist.,
Board of Trustees.
Dated: January 15, 1946.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all our
many friends and relatives for
the heartfelt sympathy and
kindness sliOvVii us during the
illness and loss of our dear
Arnold.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Maxey
And Family.
(By James Preston)
Presenting a case in the Sen-
ate—whether for taxes, fi-
nances or a bigger Navy—is
nothing new to David Walsli
of Massachusetts. He’s been
doing that now for more than
a guarter of a century.
Better known perhaps for
his ten years’ service as chair-
man of the Senate Naval Af-
fairs Committee, Senator
Walsh nevertheless plays an
important role in the atfairs
of the Senate Finance and ot-
her committies. Recently, he
plunged in favor of a law
compelling the State Depart-
ment to keep the Army and
Navy informed of its foreign
policies. If we’d had it, he
said, we would not have had
the Pearl Harbor disaster.
Young Lawyer
A Democrat, Senator Walsh
first entered politics as a
young Boston lawyer at the
turn of tho century. Prior to
that he’d won diplomas at
Holy Cross College and Bos-
ton University Law School.
Walsh now 73, was born in
Leominister, Worchester Coun-
ty, but nearby Clinton has
been his stamping ground for
most of his life. After serving
in the Legislature he decided
to run for something bigger.
Ho became Lieutenant Gover-
nor, twice governor of Massa-
chusetts, in 1918 was elected
to the U. S. Senate, and he has
served therein since except
for two years out of office
when he was defeated by a
Republican in 1924.
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“We have some more panzer
divisions to roll out and can
turn them loose.” — Walter
Reuther, auto strike leader.
est devices to make them the
most modern of their type in
the world, according to K. V.
Plummer, vice president and
general manager of Pacific
Fruit Express.
Last year, despite ear build-
er’s difficulties, the company
obtained delivery of 1,000 new
cars, costing $5,296,000, to
help haul an all-time record
volume of perishables. This all
time volume is expected to be
approximated again in 1946.
Hope is that most of the 2,000
additional cars will be deliver-
ed in time to help speed the
1946 fall and winter crops to
market.
Refrigerator cars of the na-
tion have been pooled in an
endeavor to bring about equit-
able distribution among all
shippers. The total number of
these cars available in the pool
has declined 2,756 since Pearl
Harbor, because many old
cars wore out in wartime traf-
fic, but the Pacific Fruit Ex-
press Company, operating the
world’s largest refrigerator
fleet, has more than maintain-
ed its contribution to the pool,
it was stated. As of recent
count, the P. F. E. had 36,528
serviceable cars in the pool
compared with 36,202 shortly
after Pearl ITabor.
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NOTICE
There will be a fellowship
meeting at the Church by
Christ Jesus, i-2 mile north of
Corrigan on old highway.
Everyone is invited to come.
Bring your lunch and spread
dinner with us, and enjoy the
blessings of the Lord. Services
will be Saturday and Sunday,
January 19-20.
Foot washing Saturday.
Preaching Saturday night,
Sunday and Sunday night.
For further information get
in contact with A. F. Single-
tary.
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