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Coleman County CliroHfcle
COLEMAN COUNTY’S FAMILY NEWSPAPER
VOL. XIV — NO. 33
Coleman. Coleman County, Texas, Thursday. August 1, 1946
TWO SECTIONS — TWELVE PAGES
FEITON AU SMITH LEM M RUNOFF RACES;
ALLEH. GORIER. HIHTNER. BURNEY MR
South And Haun Win In State And
District Races; Record Vote Polled
Coleman's first post-war election
proved to be the most Interesting
In many years and resulted In a
record vote being cast. At last 5450
votes :were polled. Only unofficial
returns are In. The official canvass
will be completed Saturday.
Due to the large number of votes
cast, the complete returns were not
available on Saturday night arid it
was almost seven o’clock Sunday
evening before all boxes were In.
COUNTY RACES
Highlight of the county race was
the contest for sheriff of Coleman
county. H. F. Fenton, Jr., World
War IX veteran, took an early lead
and for a while It looked as though
he might receive a majority; how-
ever, close of polls showed he lacked
a majority by 417 votes. He received
a total of 2496 votes.
George Robey received 1693, Frank
Mills 1171 and E. L. Spivey 49 | # mm
There will be a runoff between | |jj^g
M
Fenton and Robey.
In the county attorney’s race W.
E. Allen defeated John T. William-
son by the vote of 3129 to 2198.
In the district clerk race, T. H,
border won by the vote of 3205,
against Garvcl T. Hector, veteran,
who tallied 2118.
Incumbent George Smith led in
the county clerk race with 2489
votes. Bob Pearce followed with
1699 and Nolan Barmore, Jr., had
1175. There will be a runoff be-
tween Smith and Pearce.
Incumbent A1 Hintner got 3103
votes to be re-elected as county
tax assessor-collector, defeating
Peter S. Baxter, Jr., who got 2202
votes.
W. E. Burney defeated Hunter
Woodruff for the office of county
treasurer by the vote of 3134 to
2212. Woodruff was the incumbent.
In the race for county commis-
sioner for precinct one, E. C. Jame-
son/defeated Incumbent Cal AVerett
1864 to 914.
John T. Mitchell led In the con-
stable, precinct one race, with 872
votes, John Wilson had 713 and Z.
A. Kirby 679. There will be a run-
off between Mitchell and Wilson.
r Out of the nine candidates In the
’*', race for commissioner of precinct
two. Carl B. Ashmore led with 397
Others were: Calvin Shields, 67; T.
Homer Goodgion, 98; J. W. Fulton,
93; Boss Estes, 106; J. H. Martin.
92; Dillard D. Ellis, 42; I. R. Glenn,
239. There will be a runoff between
Ashmore and Glenn.
In the Justice of peace, precinct
7 race, Earl W. Irlck, Sr., won with
412 votes, aaglnst C. H. Richards,
who tallied 322 votes.
In the county commissioner of
precinct three race, Isaac Pate led
with 238 votes, W. C. Norwood had
187, Byron Hawthorne had ,97 and
Roy Bennett had 75. There will be
a runoff between Pate and Norwood.
In the county commissioner pre-
cinct four race, Pete Sneed led with
362. votes, Earl Davis, Incumbent,
had 354, and Guy Hipsher had 151.
There will be - a runoff between
Sneed and Davis.
County Judge Leman Brown,
county school superintendent D. E.
(Continued on Page 8)
CHARLES L. SOUTH
Former Congressman Charles L.
(00 Attended
Breeder-Feeder
Barbecue Supper
A crowd estimated at between five
and six hundred attended the an-
nual barbecue supper and program
of the Breeder-Feeder Association
and Auxiliary, of Coleman county,
here at the City Park Tuesday
night.
Raymond McElruth, president.
City And Schools Purchase
Eleven Air Field Buildings
------ - - . - * " pity and city school officials yes-
Fires Will Cost Coleman Cilizens $40,000 In
Increased Insurance Premiums; Marshal - —' “ ~
Plans Inspection Of Business Section
Jester Leads
5"?“*; Governor’s Ticket
Ben Cox, Ben Yarbrough, Jack Cok-
As a result of two recent fires in"
the city business section. Coleman
citizens will pay an estimated $40,-
i 000 increase In fire Insurance prem-
, iums between now and 1948
A short time ago the fire losses
Beauford Jester of Navarro eoun- ; were not heavy and the city was on
Elrath mTwMD. ! ‘V '*«» «U candidates in the gover- |
Terry was" chosen as new director nor* race by a substantial margin | a* insurance rates WfrejcOTcemed.
but the reecnt fires of Powell-Cav-
South was elected to the 125th leg-
islature i>ost the past Saturday,
when he polled a total
votes.
The Coleman man defeated Carl-
ton Terry of Talpa, who received
5257 votes.
Brown
4675
1 he 'six directors holding over from I He and Homer P Rainey are , m*u«’iVu'cTa^^^Tco ^ 1
„r„ w A p,,„.,.i| w p matched In the runoff. Coleman anugh rruuc ana ir actor tu auv
atobaush Geo Beck Ted Steward- county gave Jester 2194 votes and the Snodgrass building have pushed
Stobaugh, Geo. Beck, tea stewara ■’ the-losses over into the penalty col- j
son, John Will Vance and Carter Harney *772. '
Dlbrell, Sr 'This group of 12 direc- ^ . it Is estimated that a five per
Coleman Has Second
S^—alBig Fire In Past 1SESSS
also held a business session fol- ti _ m ■ t*. removed, aj. the insurance rates
I are based on five year levels.
| Prior to the Snodgrass building'
Fire of unknown origin did heavy fire, leases for the year in Coleman
damage to the second story of the j totaled at least $27,500 It Is l'eport-
Snodgr&ss estate building here last j ed that the fire losses have Increas-
Thursday night, and damaged the i ed in all towns over the nation. It
first ' floor as well as adjoining Ls believed that the principal cause
buildings and offices. The building I for fires has been negligence,
is located on the comer of Concho INSPECTION SOON
and Live Oak streets, Just west of During the first of the week a
the Coleman County State Bank, j petition was circulated around Cole-
Fire broke out at around two man, pledging the support of Cole-
o’clock at night and firemen man citizens In an effort to pre-
fought the blaze to 7:00, Several vent further fires and pledging fur-
people living In the second story ther support and cooperation with
were rescued, one lady belrig taken the city's plan for a complete and
of 7756 lowing the barbecue, and natned j THfAP WtfinS
nominating committees to select of- I 1 m vv ” *ww
fleers for their organization and
attended to routine business The
session was presided over by Mrs.
Votes per counties were as fol- Raymond McElrath.
lows: Joe Glover, county agent, present -
South Terry ed' achievement award medaLs to
Coleman 3081 2176 Kenneth Vance of Santa Anna and
3081 ! J. L. Stewardson of Shield for their
outstanding achievements in pro-
ducing championship livestock.
They are 4-H and FFA boys, and!
both have unusual records in rais-
ing fine livestock.
1 Other special features of the pro-
gram Included instrumental music
by Max Eubanks and Mary Fran-
ces Williams, both of Santa Anna
The annual dues of the association
was raised to $2.50 per year, and
a large number of new members
were secured at the barbecue.
DR. T, O. IIA VIS
Disl. Chiropractors
Meet Here Sunday
j Finance Corporation
The city received two of the
buildings, paying »2,790 for them,
; and the city schools purchased nine
; buildings, paying $10,287 The pur-
i chase price covered t he building*
and all fixtures and equipment
| therein. ’ .
City officials reveal that the two
buildings will be used in connection
with the airport and with the vet-
erans pilot, training urtwram and
to the best us*1 thAt-fafiV provid-
ed for the city of Colemat^
There are five smaller buildings
which have been classified as es-
sential for a municipal airport and
a request has been submitted to
RFC for aii outright grant of these
buildings. The request has been in
for gome time and action Ls pend-
ing.
The city -commission reveals that
a request! has been made by a feed-
er air line to have a stop in Cole-
man ind it 1‘ hoped that in m*r
near future this city will* be ser-
viced by such.
Supt Terrell Graves states that
definite plans for the buildings are
In the process of being completed,
but generally speaking they will be
used for shop rooms, band room,
lunch rooms and extra class rooms
He points out that both of the
elementary schools are crowded now
for classroom space.
According to Supt Graves the
buildings will enable the Coleman
schools to have a much more effi-
cient and modern plant.
Chiropractors of the.West Texas,
off of the awning in front by lad- detailed inspection of the business district of the State Chiropractic AKoonW Rallnfinfi’’
ders. It Ls believed that the top section of Coleman • 1.«— -an v,.,— a,™,. /A UBClltcc uauuvu
Big Grass Fire
On McCord Ranch
RALSTON P. HAUN
Ralston P. Haun, Colebian court
reporter and lawyer, was elected as
district attorney for the 35th Judi-
cial district in the Democratic pri-
mary the past Saturday. Haun .poll-
ed a total of 8193 Votes to 7631
for Aubrey Davee of Brady
Votes per county are as follows:
Haun Davee
Coleman 4170 986
Brown 3030 3892
McCulloch 993 2753
Haun’s big lead In Coleman coun-
A grass fire burned off 200 acres
on the J. P. McCord ranch MoH
day afternoon, reports Fire Chief
E W. Parker, who was called to
the scene to extinguish the blaze
This ls the second grass fire for
the McCord ranch thLs year.
Origin of the flame Ls not known,
but the blaze started at the fence
line, next to the road, and lt-Js
might have-started it.
George Smith
Association will convene here Sun-,
two cafes, one operated by Hiram Coleman that can be corrected. The Q - vlg Qf ubprty who ls an out- AUg
Fenton and the other by Mutt Com- j team will start their work in the stan(jlng clvic ^ader and ^as a
ed»and a barber shop operated by j near future, and ask the coopera- p. ,, standlnl£ in'his profession Dr
Ira DtiBols. Equipment and fixtures tion of all citizens. Ravmond Wrav of Abilene will also
are badly damaged, It Is stated. The city of Coleman adopted a . H ‘ , recognized as a>
sute fire ordinance many years ago - m hLs fW(t
E w barker.S are chief, states The meeting, to be held at the
that It ls planned that the fire de- Coleman Hotel, starts at 12 30 with
partment personnel will be enlarged » luncheon and will be concluded
from 30 to 35 firemen sometime that afternoon. Between 50 and
during the fall months It was en- ZOO chiropractors are expected to
larged from 25 to 30 in recent bt‘ present.
The adjoining bank building suf-
fered damage only from smoke and’
water. Bank officials state that,
their only lass ls stationery and
other papers, Other offices above
the bank occupied by John O Har-
ris, lawyer, Coleman County Nation-
al Farm Loan Association, and the
offices of Mrs, Silas Ballard arid
Mrs, J. A. B. Miller were also dam-
aged by smoke and water.
Extent of the damage has not
Demo. Convention
Here Saturday
thought that a match or cigarette, tamFnau C°V*
erage ls not known.
months. More firemen are necessary
as the city grows, says Parker
Work Is being done on the fire
alarm sirens too. The big siren has
been moved from the courthouse to
in front of Banner Ice Co. An 1m-
There will be an election of of-
ficers Dr Fisher's term expires.
The Snodgrass building. Is owned provement ls being made on the
Old Rent Ceilings
Back Into Effect
Glen L- Bruner, area rent direc-
ty enabled him to overcome his op- tor-attorney from the Brownwood
ponent.
May Build Houses For Engineers
Recreation Facilities At Hord Creek Lake
Will Be Open To All, Col. Griffiths
Slates Construction Starts In October
COMPLETE INFORMATION
IS GIVEN <tN PROJECT
-Recreational facilities at Hord
Creek lake will be accessible to the
general public," stated Col. D. W.
Griffiths, head of the Galveston
district of U. S. Army Engineer*
when he spoke before a group of
Coleman businessmen at a luncheon
here the past Friday noon. The
luncheon was sponsored by the
Coleman Chamber of Commerce and
the City of Coleman
Col Griffiths made the trip to
Coleman to Inspect the dam site,
and to confer with Lee R. WiLson,
reddent engineer for the project, as
well as city officials and other
businessmen.
When the Colonel was asked to
elaborate on what might be ex-
pected In the way of recreational
development at the lake, he sag-
noted that one might go down to
r„„„ RWtfdom lake and see
what has been done there. He
staled that the Federal Park Ser-
vlet and other federal and state
agencies are cooperating to form a
plan for recreation development.
The Colonel stated emphatically
that the lake and land surrounding
the water would be open and avail-
Rushed To Fire—
Got Filed On
One Coleman citizen who rush-
ed to the fire Tueoday evening
has had charges filed on him.
and 16 others have received warn-
ing notices through the mall, an-
nounces E. W. Parker, fire chief.
The city had previously warned
Coleman citizens about rushing to
the scene of a fire, driving reck-
lessly and retarding the work of
the fire department.
Citterns are asked to keep their
head and not get excited, and
particularly to keep away from
fires mi that the fire department
can operate at maximum effi-
ciency.
Defense; Renal Area Office of the
Office of Price Administration, re-
| ports that when the rent regulations
were re-established in July 25, 1946
’ the maximum rent on all housing
j units and the services furnished the
tenants were automatically re-estab-
lished at the same maximum rent
for the same services furnished on
June 30, 1946 . f
Bruper states that he has been
advised from different sources that
in a number of cases the' maxi-
mum rent charged the tenarit ls a
substantial Increase over the maxi-
mum rent for that housing unit on
June 30. 1946
He Invites all tenants who feel
that they are being overcharged on
their rent to check with hLs office,
and says that he will be glad to
lcok Into each situation. Bruner
points out that If the overcharged
rent ls not corrected at once, and
they discover it later, then the
landlord becomes subject to certain
penalties under the lgw.
Jointly by Mrs. Prankie Sedwlck of
Coleman, Scott Snodgrass of San
(Continued on Page 5)
Edward Edens Is
Investment Analyst
In Houston Bank
Edward Edens, son of Mr and
Mrs. Clyde Edens is now in Hous-
ton, where he has accepted a posi-
tion with the Second National Bank
as Investment analyst in the trust
department
iri the south part i
H. E. Stewardson
Buys Champion Ram
siren located
of the city.
Parker hopes to have another, _
small siren soon so that a better dLs- | AI If AlfflirlfV \3 A
tributioti of the alarms can be ; HI ilwIHUVltj JQIv
made over the city.
Precinct delegates will meet at.
the county courthouse Saturday af-
ternoon at two o'clock for the
County Democratic convention, an-
nounces F. B. Simmons, chairman
i of the county Democratic rommtt-
! tee. All delegates are urged to at-
| tend
Delegates to the state Democratic
convention will be elected at tire
meeting.
i Following the convention, the
| county committee will convene and
J canvass returns from the election
; the past Saturday.
Mrs. C aroline Mizell
Dies Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Caro-
line C. Mizell. 89, mother of Mrs
J. C. Young of this city, were held j yearling was described as an out-
thls morning at Wright's Funeral standing Individual with a -wonder-
H E. Stewardson of Santa Anna : [)of|’t Bum Trash
were among buyers of Southdown L~ . .
sheep at the Blue Grass sale at SliyS C ity Official
Lexington, Kentucky, last week. Sam Dlbrell. city commissioner.
He purchased the grand champion j urges all citizens of Coleman not
ram of the show for $275 The; to burn their own trash. He adds
Chapel, with the Rev. John Mueller
Mr Edens, former naval officer, | officiating. Interment was at Wax-
returned several months ago from
the Pacific area where he served
two years.
Nephew Of Coleman
Woman Elected State
Representative
In Saturday's primary election
Lamar Zivley of Temple received
,the nomination for representative to
the state legislature from Bell
county, defeating the present In-
cumbent. W. C Roark by 1000 yotes.
Lamar ls a son of the late Mr ]
and Mrs George D. Zivley, well |
known In Coleman, and he Ls a j
nephew of Mrs E. M Jones of Cole-
man.
ahachie.
ful head and front end.
Stewardson also bought four top
ewes He was stricken with mumps
Mrs Mizell died at 5 p.m. July 31. while at. Lexington, and had to re-
at her residence at 205 W Elm St main there to recover, while the
She was a member of the Presby-
terian church and came to Cole-
man county nine year* ago. She
was born February 30. 1857.
Survivors are four daughters, Mrs
Young of Coleman. Miss Margaret
Mizell of China. Mrs. Viola M. Klm-
mel of Boston, Mass. and Mrs. Bea
M. Burke of San Antonio, Texas.
group he. made the trip with re-
turned to Texas.
that a city truck picks up trash
twice weekly.
Tlie commissioner explains that
with everything so dry, burning o!
trash presents a fire hazard and
also causes much undesirable odor.
He cited several occasions when re-
cent trash fires almost caused maj-
or fires
District Scout Swim Heel At Malian Pool
Monday Evening; Feature Entertainment
Boy*' Scouts from the Coleman
Stop Watering1 Lawns and CaUalmn district, representing
And Gardens Asks
City Commission
In order to prevent water ration-
ale towns of Cross Plains, Baird,
Clyde, Coleman. Santa Anna, Glen
Cove and Novice will convene here
Monday, August 5, for a swim meet
Oiro Eilbanks Heads
Stale FSA Committee
Local Firm To Manufacture Cotton
Harvester; Will Employ 75-150 People
■'A company U being Incorporated! results the cotton plants ihoujd be
i Coleman to manufacture tlie defoliated before using the-machine.
tng the city commission is asking j Malian pool, located two miles
that every water user discontinue 'west of Coleman
, watering lawns and gardens until
i the present supply ls replenished.
If the request ls followed, it is
believed that water rationing will
not become necessary, otherwise
drastic rationing may become nec-
essary, which means high water
rates’and the use of well water In
connection with the lake supply.
The meet will be held from 6:00
pm. until 7:30 p.m and the public
Is urged to attend and watch the
Scouts perform. There will not be a
Supt, Graves I>ooking
The harvester gathers the, cotton , f Of AptS. Alld Rooms
Ozro Eubanks, well known Santa
Anna farmer and rancher, was el-
ected chairman of the state Farm
________ Security Administration committee
23.'^ general 'pnbUc and that He attended the
Honeyed Interests would not oe al-
lowed to come In and secure all the
beet camping and recreation rites.
It is a possibility that the Federal
Park Service may buy up the land
"air and maintain it as
* Griffith* stated that the lake
Dellas meeting from July 23 to July
has served as count v
committeeman with PSA since 1935.
He served as committeeman for the
Ukk for several yean and was
chairman of the county war board.
Serving in his capacity aa a pub-
lic servant, Eubanks has hel|>ed
many farmers and ranchers
At the Dallas meeting the future
and the problems of F*m Security
Mercer Cotton Harvester," announ- j Dusting will cause the leaves to
ces W M. Shoemaker, of Shoemak- drop from the plants and will not
er Tool and Iron Works, who Is one harm the cotton, according to the
of four partners At peak prodric- local man.
tion 38 harvesters will be put out
dally, and between 75 and 150 people on the front reel, the back reel de- rt... Tn,lnl,flr«
will be employed. livers It to the elevator which car- : r',r *
W K Mercer of Stamford, In- rles It to a trailer attached to the: Supt Terrell Graves I* looking
venter of the harvester, and a tractor, The back elevator has a for rooms and apartments for the
prominent Coleman man are two of drag belt that carries It over the r*ty school teachers who have al-
the other three partners adds Shoe- cleaning screen, taking out small
maker, trash.
Shoemaker haa one machine on According to Shoemaker, samples
display at his plant, which ts lo- reveal that cotton the harvester
rated Just across the road east from picks are cleanqf than hand ptek-
the city light plant. It will be on ed cotton
display Jdst this week only!. The company expects to sell the
The machine, which Is said to be machines for $»0fl A salesman has
ao simple, that a 13 year old child been employed Who already haa
can operate It, haa two row equip- many orders He will work moat of
ment. It will pick from 30 to $0 the state of Texas
acres per day Lari year a similar! Shoemaker la tooting up nowend
machine pulled a bale In 43 minutes plan/* to cut the machine parts 25
at s cori of 17 cent*. at « time. Due to the ecarcity of
that for best
charge.
Judges for the meet will be B, B
Nunley, Delma Johnson and" Sam
Braswell Frederick Clarke will be
starter; Jim Gardner, timer; Milton
Autry, storekeeper and Charles
ready started to arrive In Coleman
He asks that all prisons who have
either rooms or apartments that
they will rent to teachers to please
vontact him
LT. COL. KNOX VISITS HERE
LI Col William M Knox and
family of San Antonio visited Mon-
day with his father, George D
Knox and aunt, Mrs. Maggie Owen
Lt. Col Knox has recently returned
from India and Ceylon where he
served for two yean under MaJ.
Owen, announcer B K. Malian and
Dale Hewgley will supervise the
meet.
For non-swimmers there wlU be a
tug-of-war. a sailboat race and a
breath holding contest.
For beginners there will be a rope
and throw rescue, a 50 feet back
stroke race and a 50 feet free style
race.
For swimmers, these events: 90
foot backstroke .ace, 90 foot, ride
stroke race, 90 foot breast stroke
race, 180 foot tree style race, candle
race and medley relay
Awards will be made to patroLs
winning places Winning patrols
will go to the meet at Camp Ton-
ka wa on August 24th.
Echoes From A Defeated Candidate
"I lost four months and 20 days canvassing. Lost
1,360 hours of sleep thinking about the election. Failed
to pi^rTt a crop of peanuts and Irish potatoes
ef, four shoats and five sheet
a one b$ei, rour shoats and five sheep to oar-
gave away two pairs of suspenders, five calico
, five dolls and 13 baby f rattles. Kissed 12S
to bar-
es, five dolls and 13 babyfr
babies (all over 18) and kindled r4 kitchen fires. Put
up 11 stoves, cut 10 cords of wood, carried 24 buckets
of i m
water, walked 4,000 miles, shook hands -R,080 times,
told 10,001 lies and talked enough to make twice
1,000 volumes If printed.
“I attended 25 revivals, was baptised twice
sprinkling, four
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