Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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UNDER THE DOME AT AUSTIN
(By Gordon K. Shearer, United Frees Staff Correspondent)
Austin, Tex. (UP)—Two
(done state races are expected
in the run-oi. Democratic pri-
mary election this month. The
Democratic candidate for rail-
road commissioner will be
fierce Brooks of Dallas or
04ja Culberson of Edna, for-
mer head of the gas utilities
division of the railroad corn-
justice James P. Alexander
«f the Waco Court of Appeals
and Hal Lattimore of Fart
Worth, son of the late Justice
O. S. Lattimore of the State
Oosut of Criminal Appeals,
oil contest In the other state-
wide race for the chief Justice-
ship of the State Supreme
Cnurt.
No wide margin separated
She leaden in the first Demo-
cratic primary election and the
large field of defeated contest-
ada indicates that both races
will be exciting.
—UP—
Culberson lost no time start-
ing his campaign. He com-
menced speaking last Monday
on his return trip from Dallas
to his campaign headquarters
and has mapped a fall itiner-
ary for the remaining time.
Brooks’ remarkable first-pri-
mary race for lieutenant gover-
nor two years ago demonstrat-
«d his vote-getting ability.
—UP—
Result of the race between
/Culberson and Brooks is being
watched with particular inter-
oat because it may change the
control of the three-member
railroad commission.
Culberson was asked to re-
sign from his post as head of
the gas utilities division of the
commission by Commissioners
Ion.A. Smith and Jerry Sad-
ler. On controversial deci-
sions, Smith and Sadler usually
have over-ridden Commission-
er Ernest O. Thompson.
Cnlberson ran for the com-
mission once before and waa
defeated by Thompeon. This
did not prevent Thompson
Joining In appointing Culber-
son head of the gas utilities di-
vision. They remained person-
al friends and worked together
on important gas rate reduc-
tion cases.
If Culberson becomes com-
missioner he would naturally
be an ally of Thompson. Then
.'Sadler, who recently has domi-
nated the commission affairs,
might be the one "out on a
limb.”
—UP—
Next to the run-off races the
at range campaign of Attorney:
General Gerald C. Mann with-
-tral opponent has been causing
much speculation. Mann ex-
plained that his tour of the
state this month is to give an
account of his stewardship.
Observers believe it may also
. serve to keep the Attorney
General in the limelight as a
- prospective candidate for Gov-
-ernor in 1942.
—UP—
'Result of the primary elec-
’ team on the sales tax issue is
> debatable. Many of the lead-
v«s of the “56” who success-
fully prevented submission of
a sales-ta> constitutional
amendment in the last House
of Representatives were de-
feated for re-election. Some of
3£he ardent anti-sales tax lead-
<en like G. C. Morris of Green-
ville were returned to the
House. Tarrant connty elect-
= ;ed a complete set of represen-
tatives opposed to a sales tax.
Senate races seemed to hinge
on different issues or on per-
sonalities but a clear cut test
of sales tax sentiment may be
had in the run-off between
Sen. Morris Roberts of Pettus
and Former Rep. Fred Mau-
r&z of Ganado. Mauri tz has
-made Us race on aa anti-sales
tax platform. Roberts voted
Cot SJR 12 which included
.submission of a sales tax to
; popular vote.
—UP—
Governor O’DtniePs defeat
of Col. Ernest O. Thompson is
taken by some, including
Thompson, to mean that the
people prefer a sales tax to a
five cent a barrel tax on oil as
a means to finance old age as-
sistance.
Governor O'Daniel’s election
however was not a complete
victory for opponents of addi-
tional natural resources taxes.
In his first statement after the
election, the Governor declar-
ed for additional natural re-
source and business taxes to re-
tire the state general revenue
fund deficit and io finance
state activities other than the
social security program.
Thompson’s vote and that
of the Governor were striking-
ly similar to their votes in the
campaign of two yeans ago.
Votes for Ha Ferguson and
for Jerry Sadler were surpris-
ingly small as gauged by fore-
casts. Sadler had entered the
race with the statement that
he did so because he did not
believe any of the other caadi-
didates could beat O’Daniel.
None did, but some of them
outran Sadler.
—UP—
The “If ’ boys already are
speculating on what the result
would have been had former
Governor Dan Moody answer-
ed “yes" instead of "no” when
friends filed his name and re-
quested him to ran.
They speculate whether
Moody would merely have
drawn votes that went to can-
didates other than the Gover-
nor, or if he would have cut
down the vote that was cast
for O’Daniel.
—UP—
A report from the pffice of
the Secretary of State reveals
that there are but 20 perpetual
care cemeteries authorized to
operate m Texas. Such ceme-
tery associations are required
to file annual reports with the
Secretary of State by May 1.
Twenty have done so.
The report records show
also that 13 rural electric co-
operative associations are go-
ing to be forced to abandon
operations unless they pay fees
by Sept 1.
miSTM
CLOSES; 19100IK
TO CHU9HHIP
The revival campaign which
has been in progress at the
Baptist church in this city for
the past two weeks' came to
a close Sunday night with a
record crowd in attendance.
Nineteen additional mem-
bers were received into the
church during the campaign,
and Pastor Derrick states that
baptismal services will be
held Wednesday night
The Rev. Milton Rhodes of
Houston, brought the messages
during the meeting, and the
singing was under direction of
Dexter Riddle of Abilene. The
Rev. Rhodes is a former Timp-
son citizen, and stated at the
close of the meeting that he
appreciated the opportunity of
coming back to his home town
upon this special occasion, and
to meet and mingle with his
numerous friends of boyhood
days. He returned to his home
last night, and Mr. Riddle, the
singer, left Sunday for Haskell
to assist in a revival campaign
in that city.
Jil SCHOOL HSfERS
Tl DISTRICT; Clilt
ABOUT 1
The work of trapsferring
children from other school dis-
tricts to this district has been
completed, G. D. Pruitt, super-
intendent of the Tiropson
pnblic schools announced
Thursday. There is a total of
242 transfers for students of
the white school; colored stu-
dents, 86; total 328. This is a
gain of about 50 as compered
to last year, Mr. Pruitt said.
The scholastic census for the
district has been approved
with a total of 705 names, the
official said.
Students from contract
schools are not included in the
above figures, we understand.
Graduates Thnpson
High School, Class
1930, To Hold
Reunion in Timpson
Graduates of the class of
1930, Timpson high school,
will hold a class reunion in
Timpson, August 11, accord-
ing to announcement made by
Russell Whiteside, member
and president of the class for
that year. It is planned to make
the reunion an ali-day affair,
and a basket lunch will be pro-
vided by the former class-
mates, Mr. Whiteside said.
The meeting will be held in
Timpson Municipal park. The
class had a membership of 30
—15 boys and 15 girls. ,
Stands Aid Red Cross
Winnipeg, Man. (UP)—
Children of Winnipeg have
been turning in an average of
355 a day to the Manitoba Red
Cross since schools closed in
June. Lemonade stands, cir-
cuses and concerts are provid-
ing the funds.
Germans Eliminate
Old Armistice Spot
Berlin. (UP)—German la-
borers have completely elimi-
nated any trace of the spot in
the Compeigne Forest where
the World War armistice was
signed.
Newsreels distributed to
theaters today showed work-
men blowing up slabs marking
the position of the armistice
railroad car as well as the cars
of the French and German ne-
gotiators. The car in which
the terms were agreed upon
was the same in which the
1940 German-French armis-
tice waa signed. It has been
brought to Berlin.
No Sympathy
Suitor: Sir, your daughter
has promised to become my
wife.
Father: Well, don’t come to
me for sympathy; you might
know something would hap-
pen to you, hanging ’round
here five nights a week!—The
Railroad Journal.
We are in such haste to be
doing, to be writing, to be
gathering gear, to make our
voice audible a moment in the
derisive silence of eternity,
that we forget that one thing,
which these are but the
parts—namely, to live.—Stev-
enson.
U. S. Highways on the whole
are adequate for military de-
fense, Col. H. A. Finch, Fort
Sam Houston corps engineer,
recently declared at a Univer-
sity of Texas conference on
traffic engineering.
Great alligators were com-
mon along the Texas coast
during the. days of the Texas
Revolution, University of Tex-
as library records show. The
Trinity Bayou was reported at
one time as “infested” with
them, and they were known to
have eaten at least one man
there.
MUM. IEFBISE
FHOdH EXPECTED
TIM HESS
Austin, Tex,—(National bus-
iness is quietly waiting for the
U. S. defense program to move
from blueprint to construction
stages; by fall, the present
business lull will disappear in
booming activity.
This was the optimistic pre
diction today by Dr. F. A. Bue-
chel, assistant director of the
University of Texas Bureau of
Business Research. An extend-
ed lull in industrial activity,
lagging since early July, was
Dr. Buechel’s outlook for the
weeks immediately ahesd.
He looked for marked acti-
vity to develop this fall, how-
ever, when Britain can con-
tinue buying on a large scale,
or, in any event, when U. S.
national defense moves into
full swing.
Dr. Buechel saw optimistic
evidences of near-future indus-
trial strength in contract back-
logs for heavy engineering,
shipways construction, provi-
sion of ammunition and fuel
storage facilities, barracks,
machine shops extensions,
power plant improvements at
navy yards and naval air base
facilities.
Although privately-financed
construction has declined
throughout July and is “mod-
erately below last year’s corre-
sponding period,” Dr. Buechel
looked for an upturn, spring-
ing from "huge backlogs of or-
ders in the electrical equip-
ment industry, the high rate of
activity in new spring produc-
tion, and domestic- air lines,
and the rate of sales of passen-
ger cars and trucks.”
OEHEnBH)
FOR FREE GOTTON
CUSSIIHJS4H
Extension of the final date
on which applications for free
classification of 1940 cotton
may be filed by organized im-
provement groups was an-
nounced today by the Agricul-
tural Marketing Service. De-
layed planting in many areas
and general lateness of the
season accounts for the ex-
tension.
Applications must be filed
with the Agricultural Market-
ing Service, P. O. Box 1140,
Austin, Texas, not later titan
August IS.
Instructions for malting ap-
plication and forms for apply-
ing can be obtained from the
above office or from young
county agent or local instruc-
tor of vocations] agriculture.
It is expected that if a gov-
ernment loan is announced,
the classification memorandum
furnished to members of
rroops qualifying for the free
classing service will be ac-
cepted for loan purposes and
members will not have to pay
an additional fee for classifica-
tion.
IEMJLIUI
15EM1ET
TO THE VOTERS
Permit me in this humble
way to extend ray heart felt
gratitude for your vote of con-
fidence. You have been so
very kind to me and so gener-
ous in your praise of my serv-
ice that I am impressed with
my inability to ever repay you.
It is my wish that you have all
the best things of life and that
I prove worthy of the honor
you have bestowed upon me.
Most respectfully yours,
Wardlow Lane.
(Political Advertisement)
Tree Parallels His Life
Report Boll Weevils
And Flea Hoppers
Cleburne, Tex., Aug. 2. (UP)
-Boll weevils and fiea hop-
pers an the most injurious in-
sects now infesting Texas cot-
ton, a survey by Texas A. A 11.
College experts shows.
Dr. F. L. Thomas, head of
the division of entomology at
Texas Agricultural Experi-
ment station, said that boll
weevils were damaging 15 of
21 farms examined in Lee,
Milam, Bastrop, PayotUr* and
Washington counties and on
12 of 35 farms in north central
Texas, where the greatest
need of control is in McLen-
nan, Limestone and Fall* coun-
ties.
Flea hoppers were describ-
ed as moat abundant in Kauf-
man and Fannin counties, al-
though they are causing some
damage in Bell, Falls, Ellis and
McLennan counties. Flea hop-
pers were found on almost 50
per eeat of cotton fields ex-
amined in North Texas and on
approximately one-third of the
farms in North Central Texas.
Washington, Aug. X. (UP)
—Edward J. Flynn, Democrat-
ic National Committeemaa
from New York, today was se-
lected at a White Howe con-
ference to become Democratic
National Chairman on Aug. 17
and managed President
Roosevelt’s campaign for a
third term.
Flynn's selection waa an-
nounced by the retiring chair-
man, James A. Farley, who
participated in the conference.
Others in the hour's confer-
ence wfth President Roosevelt
were Agriculture Secretary
Henry A- Wallace, the vice-
presidential candidate; and a
five-member committee that
had been named by Farley im-
mediately after the Demo-
cratic convention at Chkagoo.
A veteran of New York
state polities, Flynn has been
Bronx county Democratic
leader, is a former Secretary
of State of New York and ia
the Federal Commissioner to
the New York World's Fair.
His selection keeps a New
York Democratic regular ia
the important chairmanship,
which Farley ia vacating to
become prasidemt of the New
York Yankee baseball dub.
Cambria, Wis. (UP)—Dick
Evans O. Jones has an 82-year-
old oak tree as his twin. His fa-
ther proudly planted an acorn
in the yard of the family home-
stead the day Diek was bom.
The son still resides near the
tree.
Colored Men Applications
For Enlistment to Be Re-
ceived, Beginning Aug. 16
August 16, applications for
enlistment for service in the
fidld artillery at Fort Sill,
Okla., will be received from
300 colored men in this area,
Sergeant Robt Understeller of
the recruiting office announc-
ed Friday.
On Sept 1 the signal corps
at Fort Sam Houston will have
vacancies for 80 white re-
cruits it was announced. Ap-
plicants for enlistment in the
air corps, signal corps and
ordnance department must
have a high school education,
its equivalent, or a journey-
man’s rating in a mechanical
trade.
Vacancies' in other branches
of the service are available, it
is stated.
Ribbons tor all makes of
typewriters. The Times.
We believe Winston
Churchill when he says thst
Britain is ready to fight for
years. Our regret is that It
has not been ready to fight fog
years.—Dallas News.
Students Reed Large
Number of Books
Austin, Tex. (UP)—Based
on an average of statistics,
each of the 5,000 University of
Texss summer school students
wss reading a book every 24
hours, library offieiais said to-
day.
Statistics compiled in the
10 circulating units of the 625,-
000 volnme library showed
that a total of 119,412 or al-
most 24 for each of the 5,000
enrolled was checked out dur-
ing June.
According to Lorena Baker,
loan librarian, the education
library boasted the largest cir-
culation, 28,000 volumes.
Main loan desks and the
reserve reading room—where eehool education or Its equiva-
limited copies go out for only
two hours—accounted for the
20,000 each.
WAR COST FRANCK
1,500,000 MEN
Grenoble, France, (UP)—
French newspapers published
today a memorandum issued
by what wss described as the
French-American committee
asserting that 1,500,000
Frenchmen were killed or
wounded during the war and
that such losses justified
France’s separate armistice
with Germany and Italy.
Wide Selection of Vacantia.
Available For U. S. Army
Notice of a large number of
new openings at various sta-
tions hava been received by
the U. S. Army Recruiting Sta-
tion, Post Office Bldg., Center
Texas, for young men who de-
sire to enlist voluntarily and
not wait for the selective law
to be put Into effect. Vacancies
for_ the army -exist at the fol-
lowing stations:
Quartermaster Corps, Kelly
Field, Texas.
Coast Artillery Corps, Fort
Crockett, Texas.
Medical Department, Fort
Crockett, Texas.
Medical Department, Fort
McIntosh, Texas.
Medical Department, Ran-
dolph Field, Texss.
Air Corps, Lowery Field,
Co or ado.
Cavalry, Fort Brown, Taxas.
Medical Department, Fort
Brown, Texas. *
Medical Department, Fart
Ringgold, Texas.
Quartermaster Corps,
Brooks Field, Texas.
Infantry, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas.
Field Artillery, Fort Sam
Houston, Texas.
Cavalry (2nd Reeon. Tr.),
Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Quartermaster Corps, Fort
Sam Houston, Texas.
Medical Department, Fort
Sam Houston, Texas.
Ordnance Department, Fort
Sam Houston, Texas.
Cavalry, Fort Clark, Texas.
Medical Department, Fort
Clark, Texas.
Quartermaster Corps, Nor-
moyle Q. M. Depot, San An-
tonio,_ Texas.
Men aceepted for Air Corps,.
Signal Corps and Ordnance
Department must have a high
lent, or a journeyman’s rating
in a mechanical trade.
Conducting Revival
At KirbyvRIe
Rev. Walter L. Cannan, pas-
tor of the Thnpson Methodist
church, is in KirbyviHe, con-
ducting a revival meeting at
tiie Methodist church in that
city. Communication from
the minister states: “We are
having a good meeting.” The
Rev. Caiman also announce?
that a revival meeting will be-
gin at the Methodlat church in
Timpson Sunday, August 11.
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