The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 48, Ed. 1 Monday, February 21, 1949 Page: 1 of 4
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The basis ol our aovemmenl being
the opinion ol the people, the very ob-
ject &oukl be to keep that right and
were it left to me to decide whether we
■houki have a government without news-
papers or newspapers without govern-
ment I should not hesitate to prefer be
latter.—Thomas Jetferson.
The Wood County Record
Give them a corrupt House Com
mons: give them a venal House ol
Lords: give them a tyrannical Prince
give them a trucking court, and give
me an unfettered press and I will defv
aU of them to encroach one inch upon
the liberties of England*—Richard B
Sheridan. English Statesman.
SERVING IN SMITH, VAN ZANDT AND WOOD COUNTIES
NINETEENTH YEAR — NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT
MINEOLA, TEXAS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1948
FOUR PAGES TODAY
Air Force's New Speed Demon
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A six-jet B-47 bomber of the U. S. Air Force buzzes Andrews Field, Md., just before landing after
setting a new unofficial transcontinental speed record. The plane flew from Moses Lake. Wash., to
Andrews Field in just three hours and 46 minutes.
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st Rites for
Moses A. Pace, 75,
Held in Longview
Moses A. Pace, 75, father of
M. A. Pace, Jr., of Mineola, died
last Thursday at his home in
Longview. Funeral services were
held Saturday afternoon at 3
o’clock in Longview with Dr.
W. Morris Ford, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, officiat-
ing. He was assisted by the
Rev. Bob Pierce, pastor of the
Northside Baptist Church.
Mr. Pace had lived in Long-
view for fifty-six years. A re-
tired postal employee at the
time of his death, he was the
first postman to have a city
route in Longview after city
mail delivery was instituted.
ire joining the postal ser-
vice he was a school teacher.
Surviving are his widow;
three sons, M. A. Pace, Jr., of
leola, Henry Pace and Ras
ce of Los Angeles, Califor-
nia; one sister, Mrs. Lela Mus-
slewhite of Houston; and two
grandchildren and one great-
grandchild.
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Wills Point
Lawyer to Speak
Here February 27
Box
Score
Traffic Accident Count of
Texas Highway Patrol.
WOOD COUNTY
Injured in 1949 ____________ 7
Killed in 1949 ___________ 1
CITY OF MINEOLA
Injured in 1949 ______________ 0
Killed in 1949 _______________ -0
FATALITY RECORD
Killed in 1946 _______17
Killed in 1947 _____________ 7
Killed in 1948 _______________ 14
Pioneer Resident
Of Wood County
Buried Sunday
Drill Stem Test Produces Oil
At Mount Enterprise Sunday
Further development of the
southwest extension of the
Merigale Field was given new
hope Sunday afternoon when
Sun Oil Company’s No. 1 Mt.
Enterprise Baptist Church, Jon-
athan Swift Survey, recovered
1,200 feet with oil on a 45-min-
ute drill stem test. Two cores | Hopes for the well were dim
had cut twelve feet of satura- Saturday night after the top
tion in the lower section of section was found dry.
the sub-Clarksville after the j After recovering oil on the
top section had been found j drill stem test Sunday after-
dry Saturday night. Top of the noon as a large crowd of spec-
sub-Clarksville was picked up tators looked on operators went
at $f,836 feet. back into the hole to deepen
Highway 80 Meeting
Here Thursday Nite
First in East Texas
The first East Texas mem-
bership campaign in the newly
organized U. S. Highway 80
Association will be held in
Mineola Thursday night, Feb.
24. The Mineola Chapter of
the association, sponsored by
the Mineola Chamber of Com-
merce, will give a buffet sup-
Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Chap- g“..a* “5 A™™ P*??"
pell, 87. mother of B. L. Chap- ' Hal1 m West Mineola at 7-30-
pell of Mineola, died Friday at
her home at 2322 Colony Court,
Dallas, and funeral services
were held Sunday afternoon at
2 o’clock at the Clover Hill
Baptist Church north of Quit-
man. The Rev. R. E. Streetman
of Mineola officiated.
Mrs. Chappell was born in
Wood County where she lived
most of her life. She moved to
Dallas in 1927.
Gordon Wynne, Wills Point,
well known East Texas attor-
ney, will be the Layman’s Day
speaker at the First Methodist
Church here Sunday morning,
Feb. 27, at the 11 o’clock ser-
vice.
leaders will occupy Mrs. Bo Bradshaw has accept-
School Trustee
Election to Be
Held on April 2
Two new members will be
elected to the board of trus-
tees of the Mineola Independ-
ent School District Saturday,
April 2.
The election will be held at
the Revelle-Bruner Insurance
Company office, and J. B. Ste-
gall will preside as election
judge. Joe Park and John
McCoy will serve as election
clerks.
To date, no names have been
filed with Secretary Ray Neill
for either vacancy.
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and John Ben Shepperd of
Gladewater will be the main
speaker.
Other distinguished guests
will include Fred Brown of
Eastland, president of the U.
S. 80 Association, and M. N.
Caddell of Colorado City, vice-
president in charge of the cen-
tral division.
B. A. Holbrook, who has been
vitally interested in the U. S.
Survivors are three sons, J. j 80 Association since its organ-
A. Chappell of Galveston, H. Nation last summer, will aci
JOHN BEN SHEPPERD
Mrs. Bo Bradshaw
Joins Faculty of
Dramatics School
jpreach
>t Church pulpits thru-
country for the morn-
ice on this day. The
B. Crawford, pastor,
at the evening ser-
Even the S. R. O.
Sign Came Down
The Womanless Wedding
sponsored by the High School
P-TA was proof that people
still like comedy, particularly
that comedy which casts nor-
mally dignified citizens in
ridiculous roles.
The high school auditorium,
which seats 500, was filled,
and 100 extra folding chairs
were ipoved in. Still the peo-
ple _ kept coming, and some
fiftj^dr seventy-five stood in
vays, doors, and at the
rear of the auditorium. An
unestimated number turned
away when they found all
iSeats taken.
The net take for the P-TA
was slighly over $300. This
sum will be applied on the
piano purchased last fall for
the high school, leaving a
balance of about $265 from
-*jthe original purchase price
Of $1,200.
ed a place on the staff of the
Osgood School of Dramatics in
Dallas.
Mrs. Bradshaw, a student at
the school, has been given out-
standing merit in the teaching
of small children and in class-
es of Parent and Child Psy-
chology. She will be placed in
charge of a number of classes
by February 21.
Mrs. Bradshaw is also taking
special training in the devel-
opment of mentally and physi-
cally handicapped children. She
graduated from Mineola High
School as valedictorian last
spring and she expects to com-
plete a two-year course at the
Dallas dramatics school by
June of this year. Next Sep-
tember she will open a school
in Mineola which will offer
complete training in all forms
of dramatic culture.
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HERE FROM NEW MEXICO
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Henry
and baby of Albuquerque, New
Mexico, are here visiting his
mother, Mrs. Bernadine Henry,
and family. Mr. Henry has
re-enlisted in the Air Force af-
ter serving three years, and
he is now on a 30-day fur-
lough.
D. Chappell of Portland. Ore-
gan, and B. L. Chappell of
Mineola; two daughters, Mrs.
H. L. Teat of El Paso and Miss
Rowena Chappell of Dallas;
and one brother, S. J. Benton
of DeKalb.
Spanish Class Hard
At Work Raising
Money for Trip
as master of ceremonies. Grady
Skelton, president of the cham-
ber of commerce, will give the
address of welcome.
The Thursday night program
is expected to raise the money
needed for Mineola’s part in
the initial phase of an educa-
tional program designed to in-
crease use of Highway 80 as a
transcontinental route for tour-
ists. The association will launch
its “Travel 80” campaign this
spring, and representatives of
Ayres - Compton advertising
agency of Dallas, which will
handle the publicity, will at-
tend the meeting here Thurs-
day night.
Visitors from more than a
dozen other towns along U. S.
80 will be here, and Mineola
people are urged to turn out j---
for the occasion. This associa- | ]»*■ 1 m • j
tion will probably be the most iVllirCICr X Flcll
effective means of putting!
Mineola on the map, national- I |i|MappL 9 in
ly, Mr. Holbrook said. The or- j iT1<u Ml * HI
ganization will promote better . • - f* _
roads along the U. S. 80 route, 11/lStriCl V.-Olirt
tourist travel and advertise j The trlal of Mrs Gene R
^ r ‘I6 »°Ur!lry ,t0 charged with the murder
the world. “The better the lo- ^ T
. ... , of Mrs. Viola Gilbreath on Jan-
cal organizations such as ours 0 , .
- .__° „ . .. , .... uary 8 at Rock Hill, has been
function, he added, the more i ^ for Wednesday March 2
effective the national associa- • t„°T
tion will be.” “ fJu(^« °tls Du?agans 7th
District Court or Wood Coun-
Tickets are available at $1 ty. District Clerk K. M. Ross
slightly, and Monday prepara-
tions were being made to set
casing. Four loads of casing
had been hauled in by noon
Monday.
The other well in the urea,
Sun’s No. 1 S. H. Binford, was
proceedng with caution Mon-
day afternoon just above the
sub-Clarksville. Depth at rioon
was 4,450. Operators expected
to begin coring the upper sec-
tion of the sub-Clarksville
sometime Tuesday.
Discovery of oil in the Mt.
Enterprise well is expectec. to
renew drilling in the area, cull-
ed somewhat by the failure irr
December of two White-Webt
wells, the No. 1 J. S. Newman
and the No. 1 B. A. Shirey. Sun
holds the bulk of acreage ;sur-
rounding both the Mt. Enter-
prise and Binford wells; how--
ever, R. W. Fair of Tyler. Rud-
co, Danciger and several inde-
pendents hold leases in the
area.
The Mt. Enterprise wrell, now
the southernmost producer of
the long fault-line Merigale-
Norman Paul field, is five
miles north of the city of
Mineola.
The Morris Coats No. 1 Gil-
breath, wildcat test four mHeir
north of Quitman, Stark sur-
vey, was scheduled to test the
sub-Clarksville on pump over
the week-end. On last swat*
it recovered oil and water from
perforations at 4.508-20 fee:: iit
the sub-Clarksville.
Another wildcat test, Bert
Fields’ No. 1 Carlock. Yarberry
survey, nine miles north of
Hawkins was around 4,900 feet
with top of the Austin chalk
picked up at 4.630 feet.
memeaoffice. °hamber °f C°m' t0ld.Jhe.Re.“rd that a s.pe=iaI i kin\arl a ^Humble’s No.
The Mineola High School
Spanish Class is hard at work
raising money for a proposed j Speaks to Local Club
Terrell Rotarian
trip to Mexico at the end of
the present school semester. A
game tournament will be held
Friday night in the high school
annex, and Saturday night the
Imperial Quartet of Station
WFAA, Dallas, will present a
program at the high school
auditorium. Also on the enter-
tainment agenda is a dance
Earl Reeves, Terrell’s candi-
date for district Rotary gov-
ernor, was guest speaker at the
Mineola Rotary Club Monday.
Mr. Reeves spoke generally on
Rotary work and influences.
He was the guest of J. E.
Brown who had charge of the
program for the day.
Curb and Gutter
Work Begins on
North Pacific
AGENT GIVES POINTERS WITH
SWEET CORN PLANTING NEAR
m.
It’ll soon be sweet corn sweet corn growing areas have 5. Sweet corn in the Jack-
planting time in East Texas! , learned through experience, sonville area is planted on the
Many farmers in this area j Unfortunately there has been bed around 300 to 400 pounds
have already been busy get- , no research work done in Tex- of 5-10-5 is placed under the
ting their ground in shape,! as on sweet corn, hende the corn and planting is made just
and a check-up with the rec- ! following instructions represent above the fertilizer,
ords of the Mineola Farmers j the best information at hand. [ 6. Don’t plant sweet corn too
Market indicates that more j 1. Prepare the land well be- deep. Merely cover well. Use
than 600 acres of sweet corn j fore planting as a good seed planting plates with small holes ,
will be planted in the area j bed is essential. so that only one seed drop at TtiXRS University
served by the market. This I 2. Plant the “Ioana” variety. I a place and this makes it dif- P)3,n Cltlb Hd*C
amount of acreage will insure j This is a yellow corn, somewhat j ficult to thin the corn proper- I
the success of the market which j resistant to corn ear worm, 1 ly. It may be possible to ob- March 2nd. Texas Independ-
had a fairly successful begin- | and highly acceptable by com- j tain a blank plate and have it ence Day. the day on which
venire of 100 men would be
summoned for jury service.
Mrs. Rogers was arrested fol-
lowing her indictment last
Wednesday. She was released
on $10,000 bond Saturday.
The indictment against Mrs.
Rogers charged her with forc-
ing Mrs. Gilbreath at gunpoint
to drink strychnine poison on
Curb and gutter work was 'the afternoon of January 8 at
begun this week on North Pa- Gilbreath home in the
cific Street. Forms were be- i Rock H,u community north of
ing laid Monday, and Mayor J.! Quitman- The act was com-
C. McGlothlin said the con- m'“ed “voluntarily and with
Crete would be poured early. malice aforethought, the in-
this week. dictment stated.
All telephone and power line m p r> A °
poles have been moved to make T & a AnnOUnC6S
way for the new street work Passenger Train
The mayor said the paving j 0
would be laid as soon as the Schedule Change
curb and gutter work is com- i
pleted. The Texas & Pacific altered
---two passenger train schedules,
effective last Sunday. The pres-
ent passenger schedule for
Mineola follows:
Westbound Trains
No. 15—Departs 5 a. m.
No. 1—Departs 5:55 a. m.
No. 21—Departs 7:40 a. m.
No. 7—Departs 6:10 p. m.
Eastbound Trains
No. 8—Departs 8:54 a.
(flag).
No. 4—Departs 11:38 p. m.
No. 22—Departs 8:32 p. m.
No. 2—Departs 7:48 p. m.
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Ex-Students of
ning last spring on consider- I mercial buyers,
ably less acreage. j 3. Plant as soon as the
Sweet com growers learned j ground is warm around March
last year that their crop should I 1st. Growers of sweet corn
be in the ground as early in j should make every effort to
March as possible to prevent i plant this crop at the
conflict with markets in Okla- | time, so that all will
specially made to do the job Texas Exes usually meet, has
properly. been set as the date for an or-
7. Around 100 pounds of am- ganization meeting of a Wood
monium nitrate, or 200 pounds County Club for former stud-
of nitrate of soda should be ents of the University of Texas,
same | applied per acre as a side The meeting will be held in
have dressing. This should be done Mineola at the Chamber of
homa at harvest time. And j sweet corn ready for market around 45 days after planting Commerce conference room at
with planting time almost at j at the same time. j —or roughly at “knee high” j 7:30 Wednesday evening, March
hand County Agent E. A. Spa- | 4. A bushel of sweet corn will stage. ; 2nd.
cek has offered pointers that plant 9 acres—this of course j 8. Cultivation should be shal- All former students of the
may be of benefit to many depends on field spacing. On low and very few—the less the , University are urged to at-
growers getting in the .sweet rich land having plenty of better. Only enough to control tend. An incomplete roster
corn business for the first moisture throughout the grow- ■weeds. If heavy rains come it shows that nearly 200 former
time. j ing season, closer spacing is might be wise to loosen the Texas students live in Wood
The following points which possible, however, the average I ground. Don’t lay by with County. Post cards will be
concern the growing of sweet j is usually 18 inches in the drill i turning plow and don’t culti- mailed to those whose names
corn are based on what other in 3 1-2 to 4 ffeot rows. ! vate with a kelly. are on file,
I tie Sandy Club, Wideman Sur-
! vey, 462 feet north of the Nc
1.
' In the Yantis area T. N. Ber
ry’s No. 4 Riner, Groce survey
has been finished on pump fa
134 barrels daily from 4.193-203
feet. Humble’s deep well in this
field, the No. 1 McDowell. Wal-
ker survey, was testing through
perforations at 8.046-62 feel:.
Two wells have been com-
pleted in the Coke field, both
for Amerada. They are *:he
No. 12 Kenemer, Knight survey,,
and the No. 6 McCreight.
’Barbo survey. The McCreight
well pumped 104 barrels.
Two new locations have been
made in the Quitman field.
One is B. F. Phillips, Jr., No. 1
White, Blalock survey, and the
other is the Rogers Lacy 15s- .
tate No. 2-A Rappe-Turrer;
Anderson survey.
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Tyler Square Dance
Party to Present
Program at Club
A square from a Tyler Square
Dance Club will come to Mn-
eola Friday night to put on an
exhibition at the Mineola
Country Club and teach the
popular pastime to club mem-
bers.
L. L. James, well known East
Texas attorney who is chair-
man of the Tyler Square Dar.ce
Festival, told Mineola Country
Club directors Monday that he
would bring a Tyler square to
help get the club members
started.
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Chamber Manager
Has New Secretary
Miss Jeanne Patrick has be»n
employed as secretary to
Chamber of Commerce Manag-
er, J. E. Brown. She begun
work last week following the
resignation of Miss Dorot'iy
Smith, who is now working lor
United Gas Pipeline in Shreve-
port.
Miss Patrick is the niece of
Mrs. V. H. Chappie.
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R. E. McClendon is able to
be up this week.
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