The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 22 x 15 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
r*1
\
warn
I -
The Archer County News
.— -——— —--- PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY
VOLUME 32 _ rU --—--
SteefFramswork Hearing Completion
On Rodeo Grandstand; Will Seat 1760
• yr
America Should
Get Rid of I-ewis
Then Lead World
Hoover, as a world.traveling repre-
sentative to survey the world food
situation has set up a howl for great-
er food shipments to Japan which
would automatically require a still
(treater curtailment of food stuffs
for Americans.
Personally we have no objections
to being cut down on non-essentia.s
such as wheaties, corn bread, carrots,
squash, fruit salads, egg plant, rhu-
Krb. e’c.—in fact, we’ll even get
along with a minimum of beer and
any other spirituous nectar which
would assist in the sustenance of the
peoples in the pillaged countries of
Europe or the Far East—but we have
not as yet been able to work up anv
appreciable head of steam in favor of
voluntary or enforced cutting down
on our vittles to stuff the bellies of
those who sought only the utter de-
struction of civilization.
We don’t claim to know what
should be done regarding the worlds
food dilemma. We don’t know, and
sometimes are inclined *o believe that
most of those men in Washington who
•re supposed to repjesent us know
very little, if any more.
It seems to us that our leadership
In Washington is at a dangerously
low ebb. With all due. respects to our
president, we sometimes have a feel-
ing that the man doesn t know what
to do and is st a loss as to how to do
it. President Truman was unfortunate
in being called upon to finish a job
left unfinished by Franklin D. Roose-
velt, this writer's nomination as prob
ably the greatest mortal man tnc
world has ever known. We felt at the
time of President Roosevelt s untime-
ly death that tbe world had suffered
.loss from which it rmght never re
cover. Certainly it has not recovered
yet and if any progress toward re-
covery has been made it has not be-
come noticeable. We would not in-
fer that everything Roosevelt did wa
right. We didn’t agree with him on
many things. We did onmanyother^
But in neither case did it seem_ to
make any difference Vj. h™whr**e"
w* saw eye-to*«ye with him. Ouess
♦hat’s what he thought—at least he
neglected to ask us. But whether he
was right or wrong, he could be de-
eded on to take the boll by the
horns and do something. .
Truman at any other time,
have proven a satisfactory leader at
some other time when a world lead-
was not needed badly. But in
our opinion his leadership has so far
Shown an ineptness to
See. with the entire world looking to
America for leadership*
America should be able to assume
that role but we see little reason to
hope that she can do »o successfully.
So far. our present leaders have shown
no ability to lead our own natl0B °"1
of its present quagmire of labor
•» .er economic
structure, which happens to be one
of the chief pillars of support upon
which our great Democracy wa
founded. _
Attend W. F. Meet
Of VFW Sunday
VTW in Wichita Falls, at the Memor-
ial Auditorium, last Sunday after
noon at which time officers for that
organisation were elected to serve the
coming year. Commander R. W Oak-
vT of Wichita Falls, was re-elected
to that post. The welcome address
Po“SpecUCo7tTurmg\he Up™ are
** ___o_-
Mr and Mrs. W. J. Cooper, of Ger-
by they have become omMnct **
Teaff home in northeast Archer City.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are the
of Vernon Cooper, a former resident
of this city.
MOTHER’S DAY SERVICE
The Methodist church
next Sunday night May 12,
orate Mother’s Day as t^ pand in
nale of National family Week by ^
tertaining the 4JI club, ofArcher
county. A special program in *«ieh
4-H club boy. and girls wfll partki-
pate has been
mg service to Win at 7.Mocl«w.
Rev Fred Adams, pastor, will bring
the message and both mothers and
fathers are cordially invited to attend.
Erection of the steel framework
on the grandstand at the Archer
County Livestock association’s rodeo
arena is rapidly nearing completion
with the chance* good that that part
of the job will be finished within
the next day or two. The grandstand
proper will have a seating capacity
of 1568, which combined with the
192 bex seats, will furnish a totai
seating capacity cf 1760.
The price scale fc.r admissions will
be as follows: Grandstand seats will
go at 11.80 per each with box seat*
at $2.40. General admission charges
will be $1.20 and 60 cents for adults
and children respectively. This gen-
eral admission charge, however, does
not include a place to park your pU-
tol pocket. All grandstand and box
seats are reserved.
The rodeo, to open June 28, will
as usual, get under way with a big
parade and other fanfare Other en-
tertainment plans call for street
dSSSfwd^St foll-in* thef?f-
sras*?a.v»*
street dance.
A Correction
Before you turn anoHier page
w„ uree that you read this and be
guided accordingly. On *not*|*r
page you will notice a display ad-
vertisement for Heard’s store .n
which there appears an error The
prices as they appear on the w"
men's lingerie ^t^rews
to lingerie at all but to dresses.
We are duly regretful for thla **
ror tut really it wasnt our fault
—and we Probably w'wldnt admit
it if it were. That has been our
lifelong policy. We, pe^nally. set
this ad with our own little fingers
and know we didn’t err. The madam
laid it out so we’re naturally a
trifle reticent about casting any
aspersions in that direction™
guess well just place the Mem*
on our fly-specked bi-focals.
There’s a cerUin place IB J**1"*
through the darn things where we
see nothing but lines. Above and
below that focal point we can see
nothing at gll-ar tf ws do it»
not where « Mpks like it is. Guess
that clears this up.______
Wichitan Arrested
For Drunk Driving
A Wichita Falls man was taken in
tow here in Archer City today bv
minions of the law and is at this
time ensconsed in the county bastile
charged with driving while '"toxicat-
ed. So far as we are able to lea™
there was no accident involved. He
will be given a hearing before County
Judge Joe E. Shelton later in the
week.
How’d We Know?
We Wuzn’t There
Maria H. Alonzo
Succumbs Here
After Long Ilness
Mrs. Maria H. Alonzo, aged 43
years, died last Friday at her home
lere after suffering more than a
year irom cancer. She haJ been critic-
ally ill since last October.
Fungral services were held batur
day at 3:00 o’clock p. m. at the As-
sembly of God church here with Rev.
V W. Mareontell, pastor, officiating,
assisted by Father Fray Jose, T. O.
R„ pastor of the Nestra Senora d«
Guadalupe in Wichita Falls, of which
church the deceased was a member.
iSurvivors include the husband, a.
Alonzo, who has for many years
been employed on the Wichita Falls
& Southern Railway here, and four
daughters, Carolina, Lupe, Ophelia
and Stella, and one son, Tom.
The Alonzo children attend school
here except Carolina who was em-
ployed in Wichita Falls and attended
school there for a year before her
mother’s critical fllMM
came home to attend her mothers
n6The News extends the syinpathy
of the entire community to the Alonzo
family in their bereavement.
—-O-—
Pumpers Fined For
Water Pollution
—wmmmmmmmmmm—mm— XV
tSDAY, MAY 9, 1946_________—--
Benefit Dances for Iron Lung Fund
Scheduled for Saturday Night
___ ______—— ♦ A benefit dance
Plans Being Made
To Pool Orders for
Canning Pineapples
I Local Man Arrested
Charged With Rape
Hearing Set'Sat.
♦ A benefit dance will be held i*
Archer City Saturday—or dances we
should say—square dancing on th*
ureet and round dancing m'wi# Lion'*
club building, the proceeds to go to-
ward the purchasing of an mhaiator
and an iron lung for Archer county-
A large number of tickets have been
sold which assures a nice start ™
raising the necessary funds for the
Two Archer county oil field pump-
ers employed by the Sinclair company
were ocnvicted and assessed
fines plus costs in Justice court here
this week charged with the pollution
of fresh waters in this county, ac-
cording to information furnished us
by County Attorney O. M. Wylie.
Both defendants appealed their
cases to county court and hearings
will come up at a later date.
■No APPLICATIONS, PLEASE
T B Wilson has leased the Mag-
nolia Service Station located on High-
way 79, two blocks north of the public
wuare. to the Gulf Oil company,
which company, we understand™,
operate as both a wholesale and retail
C°MrnWilson asked us to infonn all
interested parties that after signing
the lease he has nothing whatever
to do with it stating that he has al-
ready had around 30 applicants frp*
those wishing to operate the business.
We happened to be in Mayor Roy
Heard’s dry goods emporium one day
this week when a customer asked for
underwear. “I have some under-
shirts.” Mr. Heard answered I have
some undershirts myself, the fellow
replied “What I want is some shorts.
“What size?” asked Heard.
“34” said the customer.
“I should have known, replied
Heard, “that you’d be one of those
in-between odd-size customers, on
who would require a size between Si
and 44.”
The Cooperative Marketing Asso.
cistion of the County Home Demon-
stration Clubs is now making plana
to pool orders for fresh pineapple.
This is strictly a non-profit enter-
prise. On the contrary it is a means
of saving money for those pooling or-
^It’is the plan of the association to
buy pineapple that average 5 pounds
each or weigh 60 pounds per dozen.
The fruit may be bought at $4.75 per
dozen or approximately 8 cents per
Aound by pooling our orders with
Wichita county and each county or
ders 150 dozen. .
Anyone interested m. ordering the
pineapple may do so. It is not limited
to home demonstration members. Call,
write or see Mrs. Hood Williams in
Archer City; Mrs. Bill Schlabs in
Scotland; Mrs. Frank Scheffe in
Windthorst and Mrs. T. R. Hall in
Lone Oak community. Give your
name and the number of pineapple
you wish to order but no money is
required of you as yet We must know
that we can get 150 dozen ordered.
-ru„ lo.t- /low fm* niacin fir your or-
not
v raising the necessary iunus
- , purchase. The lung, we are informed
An Archer City man was arrested | rarl ^ obtained and set up f<? ™rvK*[
today and has been released under here at_a cost of ^ between ^1600^
$5,000 bond, charged with rape
tnat we can get xw ------
The last day for placing y<W
der is Thursday, May 16. We will
come to your homes. You must con-
tact one of these chairmen.
Further information may be ob.
tained from the home demonstration
office.
Anson Finds World
Very Small Place
__ has jui
That the world is a relatively small ings O'
niace was recently impressed upon J.. before
piace was ic i p;tv who memb<
$5,000 bona, cnargea
the person of a local young woman of
something like 22 years. The offense
was alleged to have occurred on the
old abandoned Olney-Archer C.ty
highway just a short distance south
of this city, at somewhere between
11 and 12 o’clock Wednesday night.
The woman involved filed the com-
plaint. The defendant will be giver,
a preliminary hearing Saturday in
Justice Court before Judge W. fc.
Mercer. _
CANDIDATE RALLY AND
CAKE WALK AT DUNDEE
Clarence Williams, of Dundee, was
in Archer City Monday attending
an associational meeting at the First
Baptist church. Candidate Williams
called by The News office while here
and asked us to announce that there
will be a Cake Walk and Candidate
Rally at the Dundee school building
the night of Thursday, May 30. A1
proceeds from the entertainment
will go to the Dundee Cemetery FunA
The walk and rally will start at 8.00
o’clock and the general public is cor-
dially invited to attend
■o
ran De oowmea sev rr----■
here at a cost of between $1600 and
$1700. The inhalabor will coet m
the neighborhood of $200.
Preceding the dances, and starting
at 9 o’clock, an auction will be held
at which a radio, an automobile to**
a few pairs of nylons and at lew-
a few other difficult to obura itema
will be sold to the highet bvUfC.
Mitchell Horany, who can epun^*r
one ninety-eight or four seventy-
nine with a clarity that anyewa e*»
undersUnd—but who can also cha«
as unknown an unknown tongue m*
any North Carolina specialist in au^
tion gibberish—will have charge n
the sales talk. , . „
Local women named to act »
hostesses for the round dancing fes-
tivities in the Uamn
include Mesdames Carl Childs. B. r.
Berry J. C. Strawn, Jr.. David F«r
due. Horace Slaughter, Luther Wake-
fidd, Chas. Martin and Miss »■*
MFirey Chief John Robinson
S Ikard will look after those whose
testes run toward the four-cornered
^It^hs ^respectfully urged that ev«
if you don’t dance, or don tcaretoat-
tend even if you do dance, tt»*7<»»
least purchase one of the tickets ana
help in raising the funds■ to
this inhalator and iron. lung. It mar
be you who needs it iirsi.
--- in—gf— "■
Co. Farm Bureau be you wao n.eo._,t......
Completes Six Meets ]\jotes 0f Interest
From Agent’s Office
Local Lions Attend
Dist. Convention
Breckenridge Mon.
our office a few days ago and related
. following stopr to us:
It seems that during his duty with
the Coast Guard, in Selglers words:
“Manning a Navy ship for the Army
at which time he happened to be
aboard the General Black, Anson be-
came involved in conversation with
one Tommy Lange, the ships or-
chestra leader In the course of the
conversation, Unge *ske£ .-^‘fiiH
where his horn/was. Upon being told
Archer City. Texas, Lange «c}aH"*d'
“Why I kn»w where that is. in iact,
I*ve been there. Played an engage,
ment with Harley Sadler s tent show
in that city in 1938. I ev«n remember
where the tent was located It was
set up near Jones’ Service Station
Anson stated that Lan^e *urtk®’\.
marked that Jennifer Jones, motion
picture academy award winner, w»>
also a member of Sadler s cast and
played here at the same time.
Tommy Lange, according to Anson
\% now conducting his own orchestra
m The^world is a small place, at that,
isn’t it?
-o-
The Archer County Farm Bureau
has just completed six separate meet-
ings over the county in order to put
• - its members and prospective
Messrs. L. N. Peyton, B. D. Rob-
SUS? g^UinTr^poTiticalTn-
It has been called to our attention
that we «rr*d
i H.
DardenT Holliday candidate for the
state legislature.
What we seemed to be mostly
wrong about-was in stating that Dar-
wtfJKsaa
information straightened «u.twe here-
by refer you to the following expla
nation from Mr. Darden’s typewriter:
“Rusk is a private organization of
students interested in F°rcn*'c act‘‘
vities. As a club it is pnmar ly inter,
ested in the training o^peakers. Its
chief claims to fame are that it was
tron. It was that organization that X
led as its president for two year*.
“The university debating squad i»
composed of twenty-four men chosen
each year by competitive try-outs to
officially represent the university
during various oratorical and debating
meets held all over this country. 1
was chosen as a member of that body
for 1939-40 and won my Texas Letter
Si «KSSg“-
which was carried over the radio net-
works of thia state.”
We're sorry for the error, and are
only too glad to offer the above eor-
rectiou^-SIo our apologies. We must
profess that what knowledge we have
of what goes on in the student body
or the University of Texas—or any
other university for that _ matter—
was gleaned from well without the
confines of the campus.
Mr. and Mrs. Hub Moore, of Lub-
bock* spent the past week-end here
visiting his sjter. Mm. J. &
and family. Hub reported the^ Lub-
bock area in a dreadful state of dry-
nets.
COe, lexas,
ernor for District 2.E.
The convention drew something
over 300 Lions and featured an all-
day program which closed with a
banquet Monday night. Accord!B*
Lion L. N. Peyton an exceptionally
entertaining program was furnished
visiting Lions by the Breckenridge
organization.
Baptists Set 225
As Sunday’s Goal
The Baptist church has set a goal
of 225 for Sunday school attendance
on Mother’s Day, May 12. The morn-
ing service will be in charge of the
pastor. Rev. Earl Allen, and the of
fering at that service is to go to the
charity fund of the Baptisthospitals.
The evening service will be con
ducted by a group of .soldie” f ^
Sheppard Field in the absence of Rev.
AUen who will leave Sunday after-
noon for the Southern Baptist con-
vention at Miami. Fla. •
Today, Thursday, marks the ctoae
of the Baptist Training school this
week. An exceedingly good en™11.
ment of 111 members indicates that
the school was highly successful.
Mrs. Norma Jean Smith and M's*
JOE CRADDOCK SHELTON
KESS&
Judge and Mrs. Joe E. Sehlton went
to Dallas Sunday to ogle admire and
otherwise get acquainted with the
newest branch of their family tr .
a little sprout born Friday night
the Florence Nightmgalehospitel to
Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Shelton. Jr The
youngster, a bouncing boy of 5 pounds
and 5 ounces heft at birth was chris-
tened Joe Craddock Shdtam. *nd 1
the last viewing by Judge and M .
Shelton Sunday was doing nwely M
was also the mother. Young Joe
Craddock is just about as well booked
up for spoilage as any baby we know
of what with both grandmothers
ami all four great-grandmothers Uv-
^ Judge and Mrs. Shelton werei ac-
companied as far as Dallas by their
daughter, Mr*. C. E. Florence. Jr.,
and infa^t daughter. Mary Gene who
proceeded on to their home at Gilmer
after a visit here with her parents
and friends.
members a plan to orgaruze th
Southern Farm Bureau Life Insw
ance Company. This was done by
“Mn"!. L. Prideaux. the past preri
dent of the organization, was chosen
by the present president. Dan JVl.
Powell, and the board of directora te
put the insurance plan bn ore the
county. And a grand piece of work
he did as you can see from the above
mentioned results.
In the series of meetings thirtj-
nine members were added to the
eighty,two, making a total of “i
Every farmer and rancher ln *
cher county should become a member
of the Farm Bureau. This organiza-
tion is backing you and taMmgfor
your rights, even though each farmer
perhaps has not learned of this fact.
The Farm Bureau is responsible for
the R. E A„ the 20* refund on
tractor and farm gasoliae, also reduc-
ing the interest on Federal Land
Bank farm and ranch loans and manj
other things.
UNRRANames
Officers In Archer
man of the county. Sponsors are Mrs.
Chester Prideaux, Judge Joe E shf‘"
ten. Rev. Fred Adams and Mrs^John
Robinson and the drive for food- **
well as money with which to buy food
for foreign nations, is to .be^n im-
mediately. Money which i» donated
will be sent directly to theNew York
office for that purpose and not kept
for the county or national fund, ac-
cording to Mrs. Goodier. Food or
monetary contributions may be madt
to any of the above mentioned spon-
sors or to the chairman.
in Archer
who ordered buds have gotten
however there are a few wn-
"°A11 the cold storage bada
hand should be .
10 days and the buds will be at
county agent's office. _ .
Those who can put la
buds are urged to do"*** oo»« J
agent might not
of them.
Hereford breeding Rattle
becued ’ -1-
and bar-
‘reford Dreeomg
Jd steaks with trimming£#S*
the high Point, of a ^ oyit thm
StfSJtf XSffJBSJSi
Mrs. Leona Mendenhall.
Mrs. Johnnie Griffin, Wichita Falla,
was in the local tax office today,
rendering taxes on her Archer county
holding*-
Delinquent Taxes
Still Pouring In
Citv and school tax collector C. S.
Morris informed us today
quet tax collections are still coming
in in nice proportions, but thst a
huge sum in tax dollars are yet de-
linquent, Atty. E. G. Adcock-
Port Worth, was m this city Wednes-
day conferring with local
regarding the filmg of tax suits
against nor. taxpaj-ing ‘1wn:
ere. Latest figures on the delinquent
payment* are not available as com-
pilation is not complete.
BUT HE HASN’T “TREED" YET
Postmaster Zachary T. Burkett U
really wearing the pants in the fami >
household this week. Said the W»dam
arose early Monday morning, put the
coffee pot on. dressed and walked ouu
the door with the statement. Im
going to Fort Worth. You can get
yourlelf a package of dog biscuits and
get along as best you can.
.. .....—Q ■ —
Mitchell Horany. buyer for tee
Horany store in Archer City, attend
ed a shoe convention in Dallas the
first of the week.
RICHARD RIDES
___ i>/ua ■
BridweTl ranch south oi Wimu—et
Friday afternoon.
Mr. J. S. Bndwell and 3. K. MJL
chell showed and explained to the
arjfjsetasag
S?
mine, now 13 years old.
4-H club boys from Mississippi
along with 2 county agents and «*e
assistant were honor Pjeste. IBW
trip was sponsored by that state’s
Cotton Seed Crushers Association
the association’s reUrT;Jtr'
Wilson, was in the big middle.
Several of Mr. BridwelPi
t ons were there and Mr
was barbecue chief. Otn®g
pie who attended were -
Adams and his daughter,
and son, Dan. of Archer t
Farmer, of Megargel. also
Agent C. W. Wilhoit.
The control of born flies <m «
is now becoming the_ paramount
of the cattleman and dairyman or
C°Mrty’ Ernest Hoff, of Wi,
spraved his dairy cattle with
and reported the results ah
believeable. V rgil Sftf
spraying demonstration L-
84 head of steerfi. Viaihom ^crrrai
an estimated 99% kill w.thm
hou.rs of horn flies. Mr. W.
sprayed all of bis stock
dav and reports very fi
'suits al?o l*an Powell ^—
sto.k east of town Tuesday.
J. L. Prideaux will spray r
head Saturday and the
likely be in the afterno
are invited to be on band |p
I the work.
-O-—’
Mr. and Mrs. Rich Burnett visited gVp JNJU
NBcras"-
AH.m’* apple and looking pale «*
ghost, permitted himself to be per
fuaded to take his ftrrt plane nd.
with his son st the controls. And
said, also, that any resemblance be-
tween the “pan” that left and the
rapt face that returned was purely
a trick of nature, because he w**
utterly gleeful upon his descent to
Mother Earth.
Richard Junior Taylor.
Seaman 1-c in the Navy,
Richard Junior Taylor ■
his discharge May 1 --™ -
Okla. Naval Separation
Richard served 20 month. ~
in the Pacific theatre, last (
at U. S. N. B. 3252^ at ”
Jacob Scheffe, of OS-
way. was a county seat
Clarence
jured eye —
steel was stuck
he was
ing —
extract
an e
It is
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1946, newspaper, May 9, 1946; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708434/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Archer Public Library.