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DALLAS, COUNT Y ' S OLDEST NEWSPAPER
VOL. 64
MESQUITE, FRIDAY, JUNE, 22,1945.
NUMBER 2
District Election
For Lions Clubs
Jean Crews Bride Of
E. J. Jones Yeoman 1-c
A district business and election : Miss Jean Crews, daughter of Mr.
meeting of the Lions clubs, spon- j and Mrs. Clyde Crews of Dallas, and
sored by the District 2-x, the Dal- i E. J. Jones, yeoman 1-c, son of Mr.
las and Dallas County clubs, will be! and Mrs. A. E. Jones, were united
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held at the Adolphus Hotel from
1:30 p. m. to 5 p. m. today (Friday).
Each club will be represented by one
delegate for each ten members or
the greater fraction thereof. For ex-
ample if a club has thirty five mem-
bers then they will be allowed four
delegates. Representing the Mesquite
club will be President Lee McKenzie
and Haynes Hanby.
The names of several 'condidates
'have been placed on the ballot for
the election of a district governor.
.MEN in SERVICE:
in marriage May 24. The ceremony
was performed in the parlor of the
Tyler Street Methodist Church in
Dallas with the Rev. Homer Van-
derpool officiating at the double
ring ceremony.
Miss Mary Evelyn Hargrove was
maid of honor and Ernest Ray
Moore of Mesquite was best man.
Yeoman Jones left June 8th., to
report to his base at Rhode Island
where his bride will join him at an
early date. Mrs. Jones attended
Tf/3
California’s Shasta Dam Ranks Second
Largest Structure Built By Man
been streamlined to save time,
money and travel. This type of
meeting has been recommended by
the Lions International.
District 2-x will place a candidate J Sunset High School and the groom
for International Director and must | is a graduate and ex-football, base-
have 400 delegates to top the lead j hall and basketball star of the Mes-
of the candidate from San Antonio, j Quite High School.
In keeping with the present war- j BrolcGIl For
St. Augustine Parish
Last Sunday ground was broken
for a new parish house at St. Au-
gustine’s church. Lake June and St.
Augustine’s Drive.
A program of prayers by the
! clergy, religious hymns and patrio-
( tic songs by the congregation, pre-
i ceded the turning of the consecrated
In a special dispatch today from I ground.
(Bridgeport, Conn.,) (General Elec-/ A large crowd attended,
trie Co.) announced the appoint-
ment here of F. A. McWhorter of
McWhorter Farm Products., as local
dealer of the famed G-E line of
F- A. McWhorter New
Electric Home Dealer
electric appliances.
According to Mrs. McWhorter,
of the McWhorter Farm Products,
the present line of business will con-
tinue and henceforth will concen-
trate on its new appliances dealer-
ship, with plans under way for ex-
tensive activity as soon as peace
comes and General Electric can
swing over into consumer goods pro-
duction.
‘We are in a position to convert
now, and be efficiently equipped to
meet postwar needs of the com-
munity, ” Mr. McWhorter said.
“Every trade and industrial study
shows that a boom in better housing
—with labor—saving home conven-
iences to the fore - is Inevitable.
Housewives Eager to Buy
“In fact, home modernization
needs are no. 1 on most families’
lists of postwar purchases. War-
weary housewives are eager to ac-
quire the new scientific electric
equipment assuring gracious, quick
and easy home - making. By gaining
the technical ‘know-how’ now, Mc-
Whorter stands ready to handle the
postwar market to our clientele’s
long-range satisfaction.”
Under the new dealer set-up Mc-
Whorter will sell all the internation-
ally famous G-E appliances. These
include electric refrigerators, home
freezers, washing machines, ironers,
clothes dryers, and electric ranges.
Also, electric water heaters, dish-
washers, garbage Dispesalls, kitchen
cabinets, and air conditioners.
“In addition, ” Mr. McWhorter
said, “households will be able to
modernize with new G-E electric
toasters, percolators, roasters, waf-
fle irons, clocks, fans, electric blan-
kets, - vacuum cleaners - yes, and
scores of other new long - life equip-
ment that virtually pays for . itself
in actual savings in power, fuel, and
Lois Parnell Bride
Of Ray Morrison
Miss Lois Parnell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Parnell, became the
bride of Ray Morrison, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Morrison, in a cere-
mony performed Thursday evening
at 8:30 at the Pleasant Mound
Methodist Church with Rev. T. E.
Hardy officiating.
The bride is a graduate of Mes-
quite High School. Mr. Morrison re-
turned recently from the Southwest
Pacific where he served forty-one
months. He wears twenty decora-
tions. He has been given an honor-
able discharge.
rivate First Class Willard O.
Capps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mallie
Capps, who live on Route 3, Mes-
quite, has been awarded the Medi-
cal Badge for exemplary perform-
ance of his duties under actual com-
bat conditions.
An aid man in the 32nd ‘Red Ar-
row” Infanty Division, Capps has
served through three major cam-
paigns against the Japs. In the ser-
vice since Nov., 1940, he has been
overseas for the past thirteen
months.
In addtion to the Medical Badge,
Capps holds the Asiatic-Pacific Rib-
bon and the Philippine Liberation
Medal.
Pvt. O. R. Withrow, with the “Old
Hickory” division in Germany, sent
his family souvenirs and pictures of
the places he has been.
Mrs. Wood Injured
In Auto Accident
Mrs. H. A. Wood sufferd a brok-
en rib and severe bruises when the
car, in which she was riding, was
struck by another car Sunday. Mrs.
T. C. Ivey and Mrs. Wood were re-
turning home after attending Sun-
day School in Oak Cliff and as Mrs.
Ivey started to turn off Clinton on-
to Jefferson the other car struck
the right front of her car badly
damaging the grill, radiator and
fender.
Mrs. Woods was taken to Meth-
odist Hospital for treatment but was
able to be brought to the home of
Mrs. Bert Peck at Urbandle Tues-
day. Mrs. Ivey and the four occu-
pants of the other car were badly
bruised.
Pfc. and Mrs. Clyde Mathis of
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania spent the
past week with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Mathis. Pfc. Mathis has
been in service three years.
His brother, Sgt. Alton Mathis
entered service four and half years
ago and has been overseas a year,
at present he is in Austria. He wrote
to say that he has a nice place to j
stay at a summer resort. Mathis {
wears three battle stars. j
Pvt. Bobby Hill wrote his wife,
Mrs. Pauline Hill, to say he was at
Berchtesgaden, Germany and was
getting along fine. He said he had
tried to see Captain Carson White-
hurst but had missed him and would
try again.
Siapan and Tinian. He was in sev-
eral battles and wears serv'eral med-
als. While attached to the Marine
division he won two Presidential
Citations. He will report for reas-
signment July 16., it is exactly
three years from the date when he
first entered training. He is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lewis of Dal-
las and brother of Mrs. Troy Mor-
ran of Mesquite.
Ensign Donald Popejoy of the
Merchant Marines-visited his grand-
parents Mr. and Mrs. U. V. Wads-
worth, St. Augustine’s Drive last
week. His ship had been in the Phil-
lipine water for the past eight
months. He Is on his way to New
Orleans for further training after
which his rating will be Lieutenent
jg. He declared that friend chicken
and peach ice cream were foods for
the gods after so much dehydrated
food served on shipboard.
Baptists Hosts To
All Churches Sunday
The Christian, Methodist and
Presbyterian Churches will be guests
of the First Baptist Church Sunday
night at 8:30 p. m. It has been the
tradition of the churches of Mesquite
to co-operate with the church hold-
ing revival and visit at the closing
service but the Ministeral Alliance
has arranged the visitation for this
occassion.
Dr. H. E. Fowler of Dallas is
conducting the services which began
Sunday.
The Daily Vacation Bible school
each morning between me Hours of
9: a. m. and 11 a. m. provides a per-
iod of study and recreation for the
youngsters of from four to sixteen
years of age.
Shasta Dam, not as high, bet twic
Shasta Dam, not as high, but
twice as large and using twice as
much concrete in its construction, as
Boulder Dam, ranks in terms of
mass as the second largest structure
ever built by man. It impounds 4.5
million acre feet of water and con-
tains 6 million cubic yards of con-
crete. Shasta Dam is the most im-
portant part of California’s Central
Valley project. It is located south
of the beautiful snow-capped Mount
Shasta rising 14,500 feet above sea
level, north of Redding, where the
McCloud and Pit rivers flow into
the Sacramento River to serve an
estimated two million acres by pro-
viding water conservation for flood
control, river navigation, irrigation,
salinity control, electric power, rec-
reation, and domestic and industrial
supply.
Construction of Shasta Dam began
in February 1937 and on July 1944
the Dam and power house were
dedicated and placed in operation
Miss Faye Marie Paschall, daughter i under a war-time contract with the
of Mr. and Mrs. Kinley Paschall, of government.
Mesquite is listed .on the Phillips'
Faye Paschall On
University Honor Roll
University honor roll for the sem-
ester which closed June 1, 1945, ca-
cording to J. C. Lappin, university
registrar.
To be eligible for the honor roll,
a student must have been enrolled
In at least twelve hours of regular
Alvis E. Goodwin, 23, machinist’s
mate, second class, whose parents
live on Route 3, Mesquite, has been | college work and must have made
praised by his Commanding Officer j an averaSe grade of “G” which cor-
for his part in action off Okinawa. ! resP°nds to a “B” in most schools.
Goodwin, a member of the skele-j Enrollment at the end of the se-
ton crew which brought his shipj cond week of the regular summer
back to port after she had been hit
by Japanese bombs, fought fires and
Little Phil Young
Sticks Nail In Foot
Little Phil Thomas Young, age 3,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Young,
had the misfortune of sticking a
rusty nail through his foot Satur-
day afternoon.
Phil and his little friend, Mich-
labor. They will change postwar ael Eddy were playing in *he yard
Bill Starks, Cleve Brey and Junior
Sewell have volunteered for the
Navy.
housekeeping from a drudgery into
a delight.”
Gain Scientific Knowledge
McWhorter, it was said, spent sev-
and Phil attempted to move a
heavy plank, which had several
nails in it, and dropped it on his
foot. One of the nails went through
oral mon+vio i right foot. A local physican ren-
eral months investigating leading i -. . ., TT
i , . . _ aered first ciid. H© w&s unabl© to
electrical goods manufacturers before J „
. .. ,,____ walk until Wednesday.
selecting the G-E line “on a basis
of quality plus remarkable consum-
er popularity.” General Electric dur-| Summers Family
ing the war has been turning out MeetS In Reunion
only equipment for our fighting b m AeUIUOIl
forces ~ including great quantities Decendants of the late Mr. and
of highly technical “secret weapons”. Mrs. T. P. (Tom) Summers met at
“They're building up an exciting in-, the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sum-
ventory of scientific and manufac- j mers for a family reunion, Sunday,
turing advances,” Mr. McWhorter!June 17th. The children, who were
The following article clipped from
the Times Herald gives a good ac-
count of the activities of the 99th
Division of which First Lt. Robert
Lee Hanby is a member:
Aschaffenburg, Germany,
The gallant 99th., a Texas train-
ed division, wrote glowing pages in
the battle of the Belgium bulge, but
throughout the war the spectacular
feats of this fighting unit were large-
ly veiled by military security.
But now it can be told—this story
of a division made up of men from
all over the nation and trained at
Paris, Texas, and the part it played
in. holding the line against Ger-
many's last great hid for victory.
It was put into the line in the
Ardennes Forest, Elsenborn, Bel-
gium, and was strung out danger-
ously then on a defensive position
while all available troops and armor
were being concentrated elsewhere
for a big push.
The Germans had a tremendous
concentration opposite the American
lines in an area unsuitable for large-
scale Yank tactics. On Dec. 17, 1944,
the Germans launched their coun-
ter offensive and the 99th was hit
by two panzer and two infantry div-
isions. With almost no armored sup-
port, the checkerboard
held clear a jammed rudder.
He is a veteran of the invasions
of Normandy and southern France
and also wears a star for the sink-
ing of a German submarine in the
Mediterranean.
session had reached 2 64 which is a
20% increase over the summer en-
rollment at the same time a year
ago.
Work is progressing on Clay Hall,
new dormitory for girls, which will
be ready for use with the opening of
the falL term September 10.
Grasshoppers Destroy
Farm Crops Here
Mrs. Geraldine Jordan Lowe has
received the Purple Heart which
was awarded her husband, Lt. Hen-j
ry Lowe, who was wounded March I Swarms of grasshoppers are re-
Patch’s Jth Army. Lt Lowe has re-j ported to be destroying farm crops
and gardens in the East Fork river
The Central Valley project, includ-
ing Shasta Dam and power house,
and Keswick Dam and plant, ten
miles below Shasta, which has not
been finished because of the war;
and Friant Dam on the San Joaquin
River near Fresno, together with
some 415 miles of canals and four
pumping plants that will require
approximately 15 0,000 K.w, is one of
the largest conservation develop-
ments ever undertaken.
Central
18, while serving with General
covered and rejoined his company.
He will be stationed in Germany.
'Sgt. Frank Harmon Jr., who has
just returned from overseas service,
was visiting friends in Mesquite,
Monday. Sgt. Harmon was wounded
early this year in Germany when a
nearby tank struck a land mine. At
the end of his thirty-day furlough he
will return to Palm Springs, Cali-
fornia for further treatment of his
wounds. He was in training only
four months prior to going over-
seas where he served for a year in
Belgium, France and Germany.
L. E. Gross Jr., S 2-c left Tuesday
for San Diego, California after vis-
iting his wife and son, Michal, and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E.
Gross Sr.
Arthur C'. Pierce Chief Photogra-
phers Mate, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
L. Moore, who has been in the Pac-
ific is now on his way home.
section.
Emory Walker, who rents the F.
A. McWhorter farm, says they have
almost completely destioyed fifteen
acres of his cotton, ten acres of
Sudan grass and a field of Alfalfa.
In some sections they are eating the
bark from the trees.
Mrs. C, C. Bonner said they were
destroying her garden but she did
not know the condition of the farm
crops since they are in the river bot-
tom land and recent rains have pre-
vented them from going into the
fields.
Stay Close To Home
On July Fourth
Planning on having yourself a
time over the Fourth of July, with
more gas, V-E day and all?
Don’t do it, suggests the National
Safety Council. Instead, stay close
to home, take it easy, and help pre-
vent an avalanche of holiday ac-
cidents that would delay the knock-
out blow to the Japs.
With an apeal to “put victory
first on the Fourth,” the Council is
declared. “Consequently, when peace
eomes, G-E’s scientists, engineers,
and plants can swing over to pro-
ducing new appliances that will
really give this old town a thrill.
I’ve seen enough backstage to know
tug ^hat we’re right in entering, this
‘ new field.
“Meanwhile, W’s all be patient,
support the wa)r effort, and buy j
more War Bonds while our forces
smash on to victory. When home
modernization appliances do reach
the market, those bonds will spell
^ ‘better living’ in hundreds of homes
here.”
all together for the first time in
twenty-six years, are Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Summers, Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Summers, Mrs. Birdie Edgar, all
of Mesquite, M. V. Summers, Kirby-
ville and Mrs. Lela Groves, Rich-
ardson. Other relatives present were
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Summers and
son of Urbandale, Larry Little, Mr.
and Mrs. H. G. Doss and son of Dal-
las, Mr. and Mrs. Lon Miller, Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Miller, Lawson, Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Summers and Mr. and
Mrs. V. L. Lumley.
All brought well
and enjoyed a delightful dibber ser-
ved cafeteria style.
Pfc Billy Hayden at Wisenback
wrote the following letter to his
mother, Mrs. E. M. Hayden:
“Today is such a loVely summer j asking every citizen to enlist in a
day. It is rather warm now and the ^ nationwide campaign to avert the
division [ sun is so pretty and bright. We have j usual huge holiday toll that this
fought fiercely for five days and! been taking pictures this morning as year would waste manpower, mater-
' it was such a pretty day for making j ial and time needed to speed final
them. I had some pictures made yes- j victory.
terday, an Austrian fellow has a j One hundred and thirty other na-
photo shop in his home and he made | tional organizations have joined the
some nice pictures of my buddy and j Council in the holiday safety cam
nights. In some cases, companies of
200 men were reduced to 40, but
the 99th., stood fast.
Sgt. Billy E. Smith wrote his mo-
ther, Mrs. Ed Smith, to say that he
flew over Dallas and Fort Worth for
almost an hour Friday night. He
said he left his station, Kirtland
Field, Albuquerque, New Mexico a-
bout six o’clock and was back by
12: o’clock. Sgt. Smith has been in
service two years and four months.
He has been stationed in New Mex-
ico since April.
I. We only had to give him four
packs of cigarettes for them. Over
here the people had rather have
paign, designed to help public of-
ficials, traffic officers and safety
leaders hold the Forth of July ac-
something they can use as their jcident toll down to a minimum,
money is worthless to then because I “There are indications,” said Ned
they can’t buy anything.
The radio is playing now and
there is some real good American
jazz music on. We heard the Henry
Aldrich program last Tuesday night,
- j I guess it was the Thursday broad-
Harvey Miller of Rylie left June cast from the States and it was
3rd., for San Diego to report to the broadcast overhere on Tuesday night
Naval training center. so you see we keep up with the
- latest pretty good now that we have
Ollin S. Lewis MOMM 2-c arrived a radio. In this room in which I
Saturday morning from the Mar-1 am typing there are big chairs a
ianas after spending thirty-three j big divan, a nice desk and it seems
months overseas. He has been in ins though I am working in some tftg
Cuba, Panama, New Caledonia,
filled baskette Guadalcanal, New Herbrides, Tulogi,
office, sitting here typing, with the
radio ptejHng*. Some of the fellows
New 2fe&land, Hawaiian Islands,get me to type letters to their mo-
Marshall Island, Gilberts, Tarawa,I (Continued on page two.)
H. Dearborn, president of the Coun-
cil “that a lot of people are going
to find it hard to resist the combin-
ation of a littlfe more gas in the
tank and the feeling that ‘it won’t
be long now.*
“We ask these people to remem-
ber that the Japs couldn’t ask for
anything better than this. A Fourth
of July holiday that would pile up
a big acident toll and thus slow
down our war effort would be a
better holiday for them than for us.
"Our boys out there in the Pac-
ific will be fighting on Independence
Day this year to preserve that inde-
pendence. The least we can do on
the home front is not to use the
Valley lands are very
valuable with irrigation and acreage
sells from $250. to $1000. an acre.
Wonderful orchards of grapes, al-
monds, plums, peaches and olives as
well as acres of tomatoes, asparagus,
rice and other vegetables, farms of
guayule (rubber plants) and fields
of grain flourish in the valley be-
tween Sacramento and Mount Shasta
In the area north and south of San
Francisco cherries, figs and other
fruits and vegetables produce abund-
antly. Dairy cattle are seen in the
northern area of the valley.
This great California valley is
noted for other big things, beside*
Shasta Dam. At Rosedale is claimed
to be the biggest ice-packing plant
in the world- where asparagus, cher-
ries, apricots and other fruits and
vegetables are packed in ice and
shipped in refrigeration to all parts
of the country.
Marysville is known as the Peach
Bowl of the nation. The peaches rip-
en here in the late summer.
Chico has the huge Hooker oak
tree. The tree 96 feet high, has a
circumference of 28 1-4 feet meas-
ured 8 feet from the ground, and its
branches spread 153 feet north and
south.
Near Mount Shasta ia another
snow covered mountain, Mount Las-
sen, the only active volcano in the
United States.
And .unbelievable, as it may seem,
California orange juice sold for
twice the price of imported Hawai-
ian pineapple juice—this was at Red-
ding, California.
The trip to Shasta Dam, arranged
by the San Francisco chairman of
hospitality for the United Nations
Conference, was made by your edi-
tor, in company with a Russian
photographer, a new Yorker acting
as consultant to the American del-
egation, and a Washington member
of the press. The party took the 7:30
ferry from San Francisco to Oak-
land Saturday morning. From Oak-
land the group went by train to
Sacramento, where we were met by
an engineer from the Bureau of
Reclamation, who accompanied us
to Reddy, where we were to spend
the night. After an early supper we
inspected the reservoir nestled a-
mong the mountains. Sunday the
time was spent at Shasta Dam and
power house. At Keswick Dam we
saw the fish trap, where salmon are
caught to be transferred to other
waters.
The group, the second party of
Conference people to see Shasta
Dam, returned Sunday night. The
first group from the Conference
were members of the Chinese del-
egation.
holiday to hurt their efforts.
“Let’s take it easy, put victory
first on the Fourth and be back on
the job on the Fifth.”
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