The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 24, Ed. 1 Monday, September 5, 1949 Page: 1 of 4
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RIDE THE SPECIAL
PLAN TO FOLLOW
THE YELLOW JACKETS
TO ATLANTA
The Wood County Record
TRAIN TO ATLANTA
FRIDAY, SEPT. !)
SERVING IN SMITH, VAN ZANDT AND WOOD COUNTIES
TWENTIETH YEAR — NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR
MINEOLA, TEXAS, MINEOLA, SEPT. 5, 1949
FOUR PAGES TODAY
Sweet Potato
Shipping Season
To Start Tuesday
Tlie sweet potato shipping
season is expected to begin at
the Mineola Farmers Market
Tuesday. Minor Brothers, buy-
ers who ship fresh potatoes to
California, have been getting
the shed in shape for the sea-
son, and tentative plans Sat-
urday were for opening Tues-
day.
Another firm is expected to
begin buying at the Golden
market sometime during the j
coming week. In Mineola W. R. j
Martin, local produce buyer,
wlil buy potatoes for storage.
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Fire Destroys
e
House Saturday
On South Pacific
Fire that started with a burn-
ing trash pile completely des- i
troyed an unoccupied house in
the first block on South Pacif-
ic Street Saturday during the
noon hour.
Workmen had been repairing
the building, believed to be one
of the oldest houses in town.
It belonged to David Kitchens.
A steady breeze from the
south swept flames onto sev-
eral small buildings to the
north, and the residence of
Floyd Estoll about fifty feet
to the south was set afire by
the intense heat. However, fire-
men quickly brought the blaze
under control and little dam-
age was done except in mov-
ing out the Estoil's fe"v5i,-r''
The heat was so great that
it was feared for a while that
windows in the Feaues Furni -
ture Store across the street
might crack. The lumber in the
house was aged and dry and it
mmed like paper. H. G Pegu '>
'called that it had been mover
there forty years ago from the
lot now occupied by the Carl-
ton Hotel.
Workman who had been re-
pairing the house said the
blaze apparently started on tine
inside during their lunch hour.
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The Mineola Public Schools
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Jersey Cattle
Show to Feature
East Texas Fair
TYLER (Spl.)—The East Tex-
as Fair will open in Tyler Sep-
tember 12th and will continue
through Saturday night, Sep-
tember 17th. “We feel confi- ,
dent this will be the biggest arG readY for the opening bell.
East Texas Fair in history,” With one exception, the build-
said C. R. Heaton, manager. in£s are ready for classes which
There will be a free fire wil1 begin Wednesday morning,
works show each night at ' At the junior high school the
10:00, a big carnival on the mid- asphalt tile flooring has not
way consisting of 25 shows and been installed; however, this
rides and a band concert each i will not prevent the building
night at 7:15 on the fair- ! from being used, Supt, D. E.
grounds. ; Brooks announced.
A major attraction at the Regitration will begin Tues-
Fair this year will be five per- day, Sept. 6, at 9 o’clock in
formances of the biggest out- : the morning. School buses will
door show ever staged in East 1 make runs Tuesday morning,
Texas. “A Trip to Wonderland.” returning the students home
This show will be staged at at noon.
Registration to Begin
Here T uesday Morning
A Thought for Labor Day, 1949
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to
work hard at work worth doing,'*
-—Theodore Roosevelt.
8:00 p. m. each night, Sep-
tember 13th and 17th. inclu-
sive, in Tyler Rose Stadium.
The Fourth Annual Texas
Jersey Cattle Club Show and
Sate will bo a feature of the
Fair this year. The Sale is
scheduled for Saturday after-
noon. September 17th. at 1:00
Tlie first five grades will at-
Building Permits
For August Over
$100.000-Mark
i0 iviliiS
New Pin
To Start During
ildca
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eek
J. \I. Deupree r ’ :3 F. F
Jackson announced plans Fri-
day for a new VJoobine ics;
in the Pine Mills area.. The wcV*
will i N D rail, a-i
it will be local. t 33 fe e t <
of the northwest cona ■* of the
35-acre lease, Gi liland Survey.
It is about a half mil. south-
east of the No. 1 Turner, re-
cent failure.
Frilling plans call for a 'test
of both the sub-Clarksville and
the Woobine wrh a possible
test of the Paluxv. Coats &
Harrell will do the drilling, and
machinery is ex})ected to be-
gin moving in soon after the
Labor Day holiday.
nro
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Ihc Nit
rksville inials
danziel
u. m. Fifty topnoth Jersey an- I
imals, including 8 bulls, will go Thc educational building of
on sale. There will also be a I thc First Baptist Church esti-
showing of Abrrndeon-Angus. mated to cost about 800.000.
1 °’r- rnd Brahman beef' pllS}lc<j Mineola’s buildling per-
cattle. In addition, there will j for ^hC month of August,
be a Swum and Poultry Show ,voll ovcr thc 8100.000 mark. Revival Sl)Cakor
the Fair will have its first Tho totnl for all construction
Rabb t Show this year. There work flmounted to 8112,762. ac-
A “! ^ cording to the figures of City
",vt f ‘ A V ‘ anc* ^‘m~ .Secretary Lindley York.
' ' ‘ x 0 ' ‘ ' cav<ral an-| Besides the church a permit
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\
n v
c
preparing to set
nr dry afterneon.
The other three wells in
area are thc Manzicl No.
prvis( 0 Observe
\ * J Ddv on Onu.se
AT SPA DUTTON 122. Sept
2 T. *ig> Robert Wayne Col
•.< Has. UCNR. joined shipmate-
S- hi respectful observance c
V-J Day as this destroyer rii-
;n vision steamed toward Vor
1 Cruz for a two-day liberty.
for 310.600 was takm'i ova on
the brick liome of Mrs. Bessi*
v each at 501 North Pacific and
a pcir.V for $10,000 was taken
out cn the Grady S't on
hem at 1601 N till Pi ;ifi -
The rest of the permits were
for repairs.
Building permits issued in
Vlneolg during 1919 total 8209.-
440.80.
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tend the elementary school f required to present a report
grades six, seven and eight wih card or transcript of credit^
attend the junior high, and thc and beginners will be required,
four high school grades win to present a birth certificate
use the high school building attesting that they were six
In the colored school, grades years of age on o* before 8qpi
one through six will use the 17. A tuition fee of $27 per
new annex and seven through semester will be charged ste-
twelve will attend classes in dents under age.
the main building. School officials expect an te-
Transferring students will be crease in registration over tad
year when 1.010 ytudents reg-
istered the first week of schoaL
There should be an increase
in both high school and fte-
mentary grade. W. H. Prim,
principal, said.
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Tennis Courts
To Be Ready for
Play Next Week
The two new cor ere to temda
courts being built by the City
and the school district just east
of the football field will be
ready for use sometime next
week.
Barnett & Cash, contractors*
will complete the concrete
work by Thursday. and back
slops will be installed the first
of next week. The fence com-
pany which will p;u up the
back stops and thc in do Unee
alon ; the football playing field
is duo to have a crew of work-
men hero Mow;,-*- of r.t xt week.
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The Rev. Mouzon Fletcher
of Wills Point will conduct a
revival meeting at the Gol-
den Methodist Church begin-
ning Monday, .Sept. 5. and
ending Sunday, Sept. 11.
) etlowJacket Club Make
Campaign for ? rack Funds
$12 000 Loss ill
Big Sandy Fire
The plaining mill of the
The Yellow Jacket Club, ai
organization formed about
year ago to build up civic an.
high school recreation faeilitie
in Mineola, this week release*
va ao ui Agii urn y whi
n official statement of its ti- nls court on th(
Reserved Seats
Sale Is Delayed
Until Wednesday
Reserved seat season tickets
to the five home games
on the Mineola High School
football schedule will go on
sale Wednesday instead of Tues-
day according to an announce-
ment by W. H. Prim, high
chool principal.
FThe season ticket section will
in the center of the west
stands. All seats in the stands
will be numbered and sold as
^served seats for each game.
;neral admission tickets will
be sold for the east stands
where seats will not be num-
bered.
Thompson and No. I Cain and i Although these four modern
the Dcvpree & Jackson No. 1 warships were commissioned
Carr. j too late for the Tokyo Bay cor-
According to unconfirmed re - ! emonv that ended the shooting
ports Humble is due to drill war four years ago today, they ; * ' ' ' ~~ ....... snowed a hank balance
out leases in the area this fall.! are seasoned veterans in bat-! GJon bumoer Company at $11122, which, according
---——-- tie maneuvers and hold impor- I Sandy cau^llt fire earlV rinh President r T. Rnrlo'
tant rolls in training the navy’s
bulwark of
ian sailors.
This division includes the
2.200-toners USS Bristol. USS
Beatty, USS Hyman and USS
Purdy.
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The biggeM remainin': <)b eut-
sidr of the cinder v.oik is the
dirt work need on he outside
of the track. Asphalt which
was originally bought for a ten-
high school
racial condition. The report c, us wl„ bl, usrd to ,ay a„.
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GO TO TYLER COLLEGE
Two T&P Employees
At Marshall Retire
Two Marshall employees with
more than 50 years’ Texas &
Pacific Railway service retired
Thursday.
F. E. Heidelberg, car shop
foreman, retired with fifty-
seven years and seven months’
service, second longest among
all T. & P. employees at this
ime.
G. E. McLendon, ticket agent,
retired with fifty-two years’
service.
They are among fewer than
enty T&P employees hav-
served for more than fifty
ears. Irvin Stanley Wither-
spoon, conductor on the Fort
Worth-Big spring run, tops the
list with fifty-eight years’ ser-
vice. He had not retired
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J. H. English left Saturday
to spend the holiday week-end
with relatives at Crockett.
Mr. and Mrs. Weitz Pioneer Resident
Moving1 to Denison ^ Visits in Mineola
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Weitz will : Mrs. M. J. Milam. 93, a res-
move Wednesday to Denison * ... ,
i n-harc i ; ^ent of Mmcola seventy years
where they have purchased a ' ~
j home. They will be at home at ! a"0, "as a visitor here Satur-
! 1021 West Chestnut Street in ^ay‘
Denison. j She wa\s married here in
Mr. Weitz came to Mineola ; 1879 t0 Jimmy Pogue. They liv- Jimmy Malone and Roy Dick-
in the spring of 1914 from ed here about a year and then erson, Jr., 1949 graduates of
Rychwal, Poland, and went to j moved to Arkansas. Accompan- j Mineola High School, will entm-
u’ork for his uncle. He later en- | by her son, H. C. Milam, j Tyler Junior College Tuesday,
tered business for himself, and slie was en route to Tyler to ! Malone will play on the col-
for a number of years operat- j visit relatives. i lege football team.
ed the Leader Dry Goods Store j “ -----------
in the building now operated
by Jarvis-Skelton.
When Germany invaded Pol-
and ten years ago last w*eek ■ ,
Mr. Weitz’s father, two broth-
ers and tw’o sisters still lived
there. He had a letter from ,
them dated Nov. 4. 1939. That The Atlanta Chamber of
was the last time he has been Commerce is planning a brief
able to hear. Since the w*ar has welcome ior Mineola football
been over he has tried to com- i fans who follow the Yellow
Friday morning and firemen
Club President C. L. Barlow, is
nav.v j . ..... far from cnov. vh to finish put-
ready-made civil-j rom oll;dGwatcy and Hawkins j ting the cinders on the track
i were called to help the Big ■ around the football field.
Sandy fire department bring,
it under control. The damage1 For this i,!b ':r' Parlow has
weather walks to the football
stands.
Barnett & Cash, contractor*,
began pouring concrete Thurs-
day on the two new concrete,
tennis courts just east of the
football field. The courts*! wlB
For this job '
v,uuuui. mt uunutge j louiuaii iifiu. int* auhia-h
estimated at about $12,000. ! a'n’0Un?d “ Nlls' be completed and ready for
ed by giving away a $100 gov- , wllhln a (ew dxvs.
eminent bond at each home
was
Discovered at about 4:30 in
the morning, the fire is believed
to have started in a pile of
shavings. It wras brought under
control by 7 o’clock.
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Ab Folmer Passes
Saturday Morning
game.
The financial statement re
Mayor J. C. McGlothlin said
this week that he hoi>ed to i»-
nrove the ground at the south-
Atlanta Chamber Planning
Reception for Mineola Fans
\ veals that the organization has cas( corner of the footbaM
| taken in 8i.778.85. The largest and install playground
1 single expenditure w^as 81.000 equipment for small childrem
for the dirt work on the It wip makr an ideal plaj-
football field. Another 8290.40 ground, he stated,
was spent for seventeen side-; Mr. Barlow said that, after
line coats for the football team j tplP track is completed Vtm
and 8276.52 went for thirty jer- j Yellow Jacket Club would adopt
municate with them, but has |Jackets to the Cass County
1 been informed that no trace CaPital next Friday afternoon,
can be found A committee composed of Tom-
Mr. Weitz said Saturday that m-v Levine, chairman, Joe Gra-
; Mineola had been his home for ham. Dr. Johnny Tyson, Joe
thirty-five years and that he McClung and Oval Harden have
regretted to leave. Mrs. Weitz’s j been named to plan the recep-
mother, w*ho has been in fail- tion.
j Arrangements have already
j been made for the crack Atlan-
ta High School Band to be on
hand when the special pulls in-
to the station at about 5:30.
Mayor Abe Mays will give a
ing health, lives in Denison.
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BACK FROM TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Gresham
and daughter returned Friday
from a two w’eeks vacation ,
through Eastern states. They i brief address of welome and
visited points of interest in I Leslie Kelley w’ill speak for the
Washington. D. C., New York
City, Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cook of
Pontotoc, Miss., were visitors
in Mineola Friday. Mr. Cook
was employed by the Monitor
and Record earlier this year.
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
The organization is encourag-
ing Atlanta people to turn out
in big numbers to meet the
train and to furnish courtesy
cars to transport the Mineolans
to the football field. The cour-
tesy cars will also be available
for taking the visitors back to
the train after the game.
The committee is also mak-
ing other reception plans, the
Atlanta Journal reported Fri-
day.
In Mineola, enthusiasm is be-
ginning to build up for thc
special. C. L. Barlow, Yellow-
Jacket Club president and the
man who promoted the special
train idea, said that more than
five hundred Mineolans will
ride the train. Only a fewr in-
dividuals will drive their cars
to the game.
Present plans call for deco-
rating the train and for provid-
ing some kind of music as en-
tertainment during the trip
The P-TA will operate twro
snack bars on the train. It will
’cave Mineola at about 3:45
and arrive in Atlanta approx-
imately two hours later and a
full twro hours before game
time.
Next year Atlanta expects to
run a special train to Mineola.
Ab Folmer, 79, resident of
Wood County for many years, | - - . -------- ---------------------
died early Saturday morning at ^eys. No other expenditure was as next project the con-
r'"~—*•------ for more than $50. ' struction of a baseball diamond.
The football stands have1 There Is also considerable
been completed and the pin yin ° clamor for a new gymnasium,
field has a good sod which wih ! City, school and chib o!TV~
be in top shape by the time < cials have all been high in their
of tho first home game here j praise of Highway Engineer Bcfc
Sept. 16 against Judson. Addl- j Fuller who contributed hie
tional lights have been in- ! time to save large engineering
stalled, and part of the cinders j fees.
have been placed on the track. * The financial report follow*.
Greggtowm.
Arrangements w-ere incom-
plete when the Record went to
press Saturday, but funeral ser-
vices ere expected to be held
Sunday afternoon, probably at
Concord.
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Robert Thorn Gets
Masters Degree
Robert Peyton Thorn, young-
est son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
Thorn and grandson of Mrs.
R. W. McRcynolds of Mineola,
at the University of Texas in
August. He was one of a re-
cord number of 292 students
receiving master’s degrees dur-
ing the summer, session.
Mr. Thorn, w-ho calls Mineola
home, is now working in Has-
kell. but will be permanently
located in Houston.
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YELLOW JACKET CLUB
Receipts and Disbursements as of August 30, 194?
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Evans.
Mr. and Mrs. John McCoy and
Mrs. J. C. Park are Labor Day
week-end visitors in Walters,
Oklahoma.
RECEIPTS:
Membership Dues
$1,075*00
Tom Cast loo—Jacket Fund
580.66
Mineola Youth Center
5081
Junior Chamber of Commerce
35 38
Overage on Special Train
27.00
DISBURSEMENTE:
Lipscomb & Mnssev Sporting Goods Co.
Cheek 1 «2 Jackets)
29 44
Returned Check
5.00
Stephens Sporting Good Co
Check 2 <17 Sideline Coats)
290.40
H. M. Davidson Check 3
(Dirt Work on Football Field)
1.000 00
Lipscomb & Massey Sporting Good Co.
Check 4 <30 Jerseys)
....... .. 276.52
J. H. Cage Check 5
(Unloading Cinders for Track) ..........
______25.00
C. L. Barlow (Freight on Cinders) ______________
______ 41.27
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