The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 35, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 27, 1951 Page: 1 of 8
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TWENTY ONE YEARS OF SERVICE IN WOOD, SMITH Al^t) VAN ZANDT COUNTIES
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22 YEAR — NO. THIRTY-FIVE
MINEOLA, TEXAS, TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1951
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
Long-Awaited Oil
Test Staked North
Of Golden Townsite
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Ten Bands, Over 20
Floats to Take Part
In Christmas Parade
Golden’s long-awaited oil test
may be spudded in within a few
days. Location was staked last
Friday for the W. L. Pickins
No. 1 W. L. Hulsey 38-acre tract
in the H. Nelson Survey about
a mile north of the Golden
townsite. Unconfirmed reports
are that the test will be drilled
to the Paluxy.
Workmen began clearing off
the site Saturday and slush pits
49 Petit Jurors
Called for Duty
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In District Court
Criminal cases are being heard
this week in Judge T. C. Cha-
dick’s 115th District Court, and
forty-nine petit jurors were
called for service Monday morn-
ing. It is the final week, of the
November term oi court.
The jurors are Cloo Robertson.
Herbert Fair, D. D. Starnes, J.
P. Bell, W. H. McCarroll, Bruce
Wakefield, G. W. English. Julius
DeuPree. E. E. Bennett, O. L.
SJjipp, and George Strange, all
of Mineola.
J. A. McDade, C. W. Pollard. C.
H. Hoover. David Turner,-R. B
Graham. A. T. Tavlor, J T.
Cross and Roy Elliott, all of
Quitman.
Roy Holt, Hiram Williams. C
^ I. Manley, F. W. McLeory. J. C.
T Overstreet. M. H. Allen. R. C.
Martin, Leonard Bullard, C. M.
Clark. C. B. ‘Hamrick. James
Hallman, B. A. Boyd. E. L. Gear-
ner, James T. Foster, G. E.
Faulk, E. C. Brown. R. B. Hood.
Ralph Newman and Sam Martin
of Winnsboro.
H. H. Minsiiew. J. B. Allaire.
J. A. Hclley, George* Stranse.
and H. A. Yates, all of Hawkins.
M. P. Turner and R. S. Ray
of Crow. H. A. Carter of Alba.
R. D. Taylor of Pickton, and V.
T. Alcorn of Yantis.
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Hawkins’ First
Korea Vet at Home
HAWKINS. (Spin—Gene
Ragsdale, the first Hawkins
soldier to go to Korea, has re-
turned home after being over-
seas for a year. He has been in
the front lines with thf Marines
and has seen many months of
combat.
Other Hawkins soldiers who
were at home for the Thanks-
giving holidays were E. F. Klein
)f the Army, anc; Jimmie Out-
mse, T. L. Green. Jr.. Sonny
Oliver and Don Wells of the
ivy.
Me. Billy Wayne was in the
it lines in Korea when his
passed away, but was
too late to get heme for
leral. He is now in Hawk-
30-day leave.
were being dug Monday. The
diillmg contractor has not been
announced; however, a rig is
expected to be moved in within
a few days.
The test is a climax to several
years of leasing and title work
and rumors of tests, and it will
be carefully watched since the
Golden area has been generally
considered one of the best wild-
cat areas in the county,
t A. few miles to the north, in
Rains County, R. J. Caraway’s
Roy Shipp and J. J. Jenkins,
i confirmation well for the Rains
' sulphur-gas-distillate-field re-
cently opened, was drilling close
to 9,000 feet checking with the
Puckett discovery. Contract
dep h is 12,000 feet.
Shell has staked a 13,000-foot
test a mile southeast of the
Puckett well.
Leroy Trapp, 40,
Dies in Wreck
In West Texas
Lei oy Trapp, 40 son of Arch
Trap 3 of Mineola. was killed
Satuiday at about midnight in
an automobile accident near
Cisco in Eastland Ccunty. Cause
of the accident was said to have
been a heavy fog which cover-
ed the highway, leading; to
severe 1 accidents in that area.
Funeral services will be held
here Tuesday afternoon, and
the local Masonic Lodge will be
in charge of graveyard rites.
The English Funeral Home has
charge of services.
Survivors include one son.
MISS MARIE HOPPER
Missionary From
I Africa to Speak
iHere Wednesday
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Miss Ivis Marie Hopper, Naza-
rene missionary who has spent
the last five years in Africa,
will be at the local Church of
the Nazarene Wednesday night,
Nov. 28, at 7:30.
Now on furlough in the
1 United States, Miss Hopper is
spending much of her time in
deputation work for the De-
partment of Foreign Missions
under the direction of Dr.
Remiss Rehfeldt, foreign mis-
sions secretary for the denomi-
nation.
During her five years in
Africa, Miss Hopper was con-
nected with the Raleigh Fitkin
Memorial Hospital in Mremers-
dorp, Swaziland, where sjje was
supervisor of the children’s
ward, a teacher in the nurses’
training school and supervisor
of the orphange.
The public is.invited to hear
her talk here Wednesday night.
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Mrs. J. A. Boykin of Corpus
Christi spent the weekend visit-
ing relatives in Mineola.
Second Parley on Lake
Scheduled for Tuesday
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Charles F. Smith, engineer for
the Sabine River Authority, will
discuss the construction of a
large water reservoir with the
Wood County Commissioners
Court and the court’s advisory
board at a special meeting in
Quitman Tuesday afternoon.
The court and advisory board
last wed: unanimously agreed
on the importance of a reservoir
that wDuld serve the entire
county, and the Tuesday meet-
ing was called to get inform: -
tion whi *h i s made availabe by
the Sab ne River Authority.
Out of this meeting may come
a definite? decision on the con-
struction of the lake: however,
it was thi* general opinion of the
last session that the project
should b? started as soon as
possible. The group alco agreed
that it should be between five
j and six thousand acres in size.
which would make it approxi-
mately a thousand acres larger
than Lake Cherokee in Greeg
County. No decision has been
made on the- location, but both
the court and the advisory board
agreed that it shouid be placed
where the most water can be
impounded for the least money
and still serve all sections of
The county. Two sites on Lake
Fork, surveyed in 1938 by army
engineers, have been mentioned,
but the definite location will
more than likely be delayed un-
til all possible surveys have been
studied.
The pioject is expected to be
paid for by bond issue and bv
allotting part of the former 30-
cent state ad valorem tax 13
retire the bonds. The state has
prescribed that this tax may be
applied only on the construction
of lateral roads or for county
i water reservoirs.
11 iwntown Mineola donned its
Christmas rigging over the
week-end in preparation for the
annual Christmas program
Wednesday.
Tlie program is complete, an-
nounced Wade Terrell, mana-
ger of the Mineola Chamber of
Commerce, and the city is ready
to welcome between five and
ten thousand visitors.
The day’s activity will begin
at 10 o’clock in the morning
with a free cartoon movie at
the Select Theatre. Santa Claus
will arrive by airplane at 11:30
at the Wisener Air Field, and
several hundred youngsters are
expected to be on hand to greet
him.
The big event of the day, the
Christmas parade, wTill begin
moving west on East Broad at
1:45 in the afternoon. The par-
Korean Veteran
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Buried Sunday
After Rites Here
Sgt. William Edgar Peacock,
Jr.. 34. who was killed in a gas-
oline explosion at Kimpo Air
Base ir Korea where he was cn
duty with the Air Force, was
buried Sunday afternoon at
Hawkins. Funeral services were
held at 1:30 at the English
Funeral Chapel with the Rev.
H. J. Sheets and the Rev. M.
M. Harris officiating. Mineola
Nation:.1 Guardsmen acted as
pall bearers.
Sgt. Peacock died Oct. 24 of
injuries received in the explos-
ion. He. was born Feb. 25. 1917,
at Hawkins, but he moved early
in life to Mansfield. La.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Dorothy Peacock, his father W.
E. Peacock of Nacogdoches, his
step-mother. Mrs. Marie Peacock
of Nacogdoches, a half brother,
Charles, who is in the Army
and stationed at San Antonio,
and a half sister. Mrs. Gloria
Watson of Nacogdoches, and
one niece. Sgt. Peaccck was a
nephew of C. A. Peacock of
Mineola.
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YOUTH MEETING
A meeting of the Mineola
Youth Council will be held
Thursday night at 7:30 at the
Junior High School to plan
youth recreation for the coming
year. Sen ral films, including
one on Little League Baseball,
will be shown and coaches and
Quarterba k Club officials from
Palestine will be present.
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NEW DIETICIAN
Mrs. Grace Omar, formerly of
Spirit Lake, Iowa, moved to
Mineola last week to become
dietician at the Mineola Gen-
| eal Hospital.
ade will have ten bands and at
least twenty-one floats, most
of which will have a religious
theme.
A free stadium show will fo-
low the parade, and the featur-
ed entertainment will be pro-
vided by the Boles Home
Chorus.
Santa Claris will then inter-
view the youngsters on a down-
town street at 3:30. Santa will
distribute free candy among
the children.
The Christmas lights down
I town will be turned on at 6:30.
Bands taking part will in-
clude Tyler Junior College and
its Apache Be lles, Grand Saline,
Hawkins, Quitman, Winnsboro,
Sulphur Springs, Van, Wills
Point, Lindale and Mineola.
Churches having floats in the
; parade will be First Methodist,
; Central Chrisl ian, St. Dunstan’s
Episcopal, Church of Christ,
Smith Chape] Methodist, New*
Hope Baptist, First Baptist, St.
Paul Baptist and East Chapel.
Other parade entries will be~
made by the Cub Scouts, Ele-
mentary School P-TA. Girl
Scouts. Brownie Scouts, Ameri-
can Legion, New Hope School,
Civic Garden Club, Rotary Club.
Pleasant Gro’ e School, High
School Choral club, High School
P-TA and the Chamber of Com-
merce.
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2,787 Van Zandt
Residents X-Rayed
Van Zandt Ccunty had a total
of 2,787 persons X-rayed for tu-
berculosis by ti e mobile X-ray
unit this month.
Grand Saline and Van had
the largest number to be X-ray-
ed in the county writh 1,405.
Van residents 3vent to Grand
Saline for theii X-rays. Wills
Point and Edeewood had a
total of 837 wrhile Canton had
545. A total of 500 had to be
X-rayed at each of these places
before the unit would return
next year.
The project was sponsored
by the Van Zandt County Medi-
cal Association.
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Mineola Hunters
Get Four Buck
Lee Lechner ai d Virgil Pad-
gett returned last week from a
deer hunt near K irrville with a
bag of four buck and two wild
gobblers.
Turkeys are scarce this year,
they reported, and that section
of the country is jadly in need
of rain. Stockmen are having
to buy hay and feed for their
cattle, and this shortage of feed
will have an efect on the game
in that area.
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| Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Davis of
i Marshall are visiting his sister,
‘ Mrs. R. C. Dean.
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Carraway, R. H., Jr. The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 35, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 27, 1951, newspaper, November 27, 1951; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth757728/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.