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UNDER THE
Dome at Austin
By GORDON K. SHEARER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Austin—(UP) — Visions of a
giant pipe line from Texas to ma-
nufacturing centers of the North
and Ea3t date back more than six
years.
TW Howe Messenger
VOLUME XVIII
HOWE, GRAYSON < 'OUNlYjt, Ti'XAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1941
NUMBER 43
Benefit Payment
Rates Announced
28 OUT OF 37 FAIL
LICENSE TESTS
College Station—Rates of pay
ments to Texas farmers under tht
Strangely enough the proposal , 2942 AAA program are directed
at that time was for construction,^ greater conservation on indi
of a natural gas line. Now a ^eai |Vidual farms, according to Fred
that a proposed oil pipe line may, fennels, assistant administrative
be transformed into a gas pipe officer of the AAA in Texas,
line seems to be a principal ohjec- j other provisions will assist
tion to the project. farmers in attaining record pro-
Former Gov. James V. Allred Auction of commodities needed in
sponsored the proposed gas pipe the Food-For-Freedom campaign
line for the dual purpose of stnnu he gaid
fating a then depressed steel bu-j Payments rate3? l)ased on nol.
siness and furnishing a market ma, yicM of allott;ed ac-ea?eS:
for natural gas from the Texas jnclude cott(m at ,26 cents pel.
Panhandle.
It was in the days of govern-
ment pump-priming when the ex-
perts argued that heavy steel was
the big industry that would drag
ehers along with it back to prospe
rity if it were kept going.
* * *
R. B. Anderson of Vernon, then
state tax commissioner, took the
• proposal to Washington D C., as
Governor Allred's representative.
He outlined the plan for building
the huge pipe line to serve manu-
facturing centers. It was to reach
Chicago and Detroit on the north
and go as far east as Buffalo.
Nowadays other demands on
the steel1 industry form a deterrent
to the pipe line’s construction. All
red’s successor as governor, now
U. Si. Senator W. Lee O’Daniel, op
poses the oilline on the grounn
that it may be changed int oa gas
line and be used to take Texas
ga3 to factories in other states.
He says the movement should be
reversed—that the factoris should
come to Texas to use the gas.
Sen. Karl Lovelady of Meridian
has thought out a preventative
for excessive campaign expendi-
tures in Texas elections. But like
most cure-alls, it overlooks one uu
Important factor. The overlooked
factor this time is the state con-
stitution.
!Lov<dady has an elaborate form
ula for auditing of campaign ex
penditures during the campaign
with a doiible check on the closing
week of the campaign. During
that time the candidate could
spend money only if the campaign
auditor approved the expenditure.
Senator Lovelady said he has
been advised by the attorney gen-
eral’s department that his oill
would be valid, but so is the deSseYStel'he'Midi
forceable present election expense
Thirty sevenapplicants were
examined in one clay last week
for state drivers licenses at Me
Kinney. Of this number, twenty
2ight failed to pass. Most of .the
failure were for lack of knowledge
of traffic laws. They were in
structed to study up on traffic
laws and return for another ex-
amination later.
$82.18 Raised far
Red Cross
pound; wheat, 10‘.5 cents per bush-
el; rice, 4.8C cents per barrel; and
peanuts, 7-25 cents per 100 pounds
The rate on gommercia. potatoes,
included’ in the program for the
first time this year, is 2 cents
per bushel.
In explaining the program fur-
ther, Rennels said farmers may
earn two types of payments, on2
in connection with special allot-
ments and the other for carrying
out soil-building practices. Special
allotment crops in Texas are wheat
cotton, rice> potatoes and peanuts.
Payments for complying with
acreage allotments will be made
in proportion to the degree with
which erosion-resisting, cr soil-
conserving acreage requirements
are met.
Soil-building allowances estab-
lished at 70 cents per acre on
cropland in excess of special allot-
ments may be earned-by carry-
ing out approved pract’ces, the
AAA official explained.
As in previous years, payments
under the program depend upon
the $500,000,000 annual appropiia
tion authorized in the AAA Act of
1938, Rennels said. Rates are sub-
ject to 10 percent upward or down
ward I’evision depending upon the
degree with which farmers com-
ply with the program.
Instead of total soil-depleting
allotments as established under
past programs, next year's pro-
gram provides a specified percent
age of cropland be devoted to ero
3ion-resisting or soil-conserving
crops or land uses. This provision
of the program is a forward step
in continued soil improvement.
Rennels pointed out.
To meet Food-For-Freedom
goals, Texas farmers should plan
their conservation program in line
The Howe community, with a
quota four times as large as the
one for 1940; was well over the
halfway mark as the first week of
the annual Red Cross membership
drive drew near a close.
Local -chairmen Miss Marne Rob-
erts and Russell W. Bryant, report
$62.18 collected in memberships
and contributions. The quota is
$100 this year.
The town of Howe has been al-
most completely canvassed and the
drive is to be carried to the farms
during the next week. Persons de-
siring to assist the chairmen may
prove a great help by bringing
their contributions to the Howe
Messenger office.
Eva Marie Butler and Margie
Davis assisted in the house to house
canvass.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH TO
OBSERVE HOMECOMING
The Howe Presbyterian church
is to observe homecoming Sunday,
Nov. 16. A program has been pre-
pared and dinner will be served in
the school lunch room at noon.
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EVERY DOG HAS HIS
DAY, THEY SAY
SHOULD BE SOME WAY TO
AVOID WAKING UP
law1.
The trouble with both is that a
man elected to a constitutional
office cannot be prevented from
taking that, office by a. state lav/.
The Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
at San Antonio decided that when
an attest was made to prevent
Former "Gov James V. Allred
from taking office.
The court held that the consti-
tution fixed the qualifications for
a governor and the'state could not
by law add to them. Former State
Sen. John Davis of Dallas, in a
race for U. S. Senator, also at-
tacked the legality of an opponent
taking office despite failure to
file expense accounts in Texas
There the obstacle rose that the
U. S. Senate is sole judge of the
qualifications of its own members.
• * •
The University of Texas is not
th« only “Oil-rich” educational in-
stitution in Texas. Jarvis Chris'
tian College, situated in the Haw-
kin* oil field, is also sitting pret-
ty financially because of oil.
Jarvis Christian College is a
school for Negroes that has been
financed largely by the estate of
the late Major J. J. Jarvis of Fort
Worth, former state senator, weal
thy land owner and philanthropist-.
, . . . ., . , by tents is testimony to the tem-
The school has one of the best1 , , , ±1 „
. . . x, x . | porary discomfort of those gather
choirs m the country. The choir , . .. . , ,
...... , ed around the stoves lighted on-
stopped in Austin en route from I, ,, ,, , , „
. ....... i ly after the bugle call.
a game to which the singers ae
Camp Bowie—-(UP) —• The
shortest (distance between two
points may be a straight line but
even that is too far for Private
Gerald Sorrells these nippy Texas'
mornings.
Private Sorrells, a member of
the 36th Division Headquarters
company, has devised a means of
lighting a stove in the cold ear-
ly hours of the morning without
leaving the protective warmth of
his heavy army blanket.s
He attached a strong cord to
the jet of the tent stove and ran
it across the floor, with the. oth-
er end under the covers of his
bed.
Then the soldier practiced a-
wakening 30 minutes' before re-
veille until it became a habit.
Now, long before the first bugle
blast that stirs the camp, Private
Sorrells wakes, gives the cord a
yank while still in bed. The cord
pulls open the jet, turns on the
ga3 and pilot light in the stove
does the rest. By the time he
and his tent mates arise, the
structure i3 eozily warm while the
sound of scampering feet in near-
Fort Worth—(UP) — I. F, Tur
pin’s four S’cottie pups were back
home today after a 24-hour ad-
venture that cost him $14.62.
Itemized. Turpin’s expenses for
his pup’s evening out look some-
thing like this:
Pound bail—$3 each, Total $12
Thi*ee fryers, found dead with
two of the Scotties suspiciously
nearby—$2-50.
Dog food—12 cents.
List how the advanture started
for the four Scotties is a mystery
Shortly after midnight Mr. and
Mrs, I. G. Beddoe awoke to Xir.a
a chicken thief leaping over their
back fence in hurried flight. Then
they found three of their fryers
lying dead in their backyard. Two
Scotties were playing by the bo-
dies.
They put the Scotties up for the
night. In the morning they looked
out the back door and there were
two more Scotties. They turned
out to be pets belonging to Turpin
who had been away on a fishing
trip.
Turpin and the police couldn’t
figure out how the pups got m
the Beddoe’s yard unless the chick-
en thief had stolen them also and
abondoned them in his flight over
the fence.
But where did the latter two
come from ?
WELL, FRIED CHICKEN IS
HARD TO BEAT
One Read, Six
Hart in
An automobijie collision be-
tween Richardson and Vickery
Sunday night claimed the life of
one person and seriously wounded
five others.
Mrs. F. U. Rominger of Mc-
Kinney died in an ambulance be-
fore reaching a Dallas hospital.
Her husband and Woodrow Roach,
Mr. and Mrs. Gossett Linclley of
McKinney, all in the same car, and
Ellis Gleason of Vickery, in the
other car, were seriously injured
The McKinney residents were re-
turning home from a visit to
Dallas and Gleason was return-
ing home from a visit to McKin
ney.
East Texas Iron
Coming Into Own
Longview—(UP — Three cor-
porations pressed forward today
to develop East Texas’ -great;
[dormant iron! bo’s that stretch
across 23 counties
One of the corporations already
was in production, ]turn(ng out
30 tons of pig iron daily. The cor-
poration, capitalized by local fi-
nanciers, also has erected a steel
refining plant nearby.
Two others—the Sheffield steel
company of Houston and a -group
of Dallas capitalists—were mak-
ing plans to utilize the ore in the
immediate future-
The great iron beds that chal-
lenge in size the large Minnesota
deposits have been common South
western knowledge since the Civil
War when charcoal furnaces pro-
duced iron for manufacture of
Confederate war material.
It was not, however, until Ju-
lius Madaras developed a radical
method of smelting two years ago
that the East Texas iron beds be-
came of commercial value. The
REy. FARLEY GOING TO
WHITESBORO
Farmers to Vote
December 12
Rev. Nat Farley, pastor of the
Howe Baptist church for the past
year, has accepted a call from the -—
Whitesboro Baptist church and is j College Station—For the fifth
planning to move his family next consecutive year Texas cotton,
Thursday. He will preach his last farmers will vote in a cotton
sermon here at 11 a. m. Shnday,: marketing quota referendum.
Nov. 23, he said. j FredRenn'els, assistant pministra
itive officer of the AAA in Texas,
has announced.
The voting date has - been ■ set
for Saturday, December 13, and'
j quotas will not be in. effect on the,
. ^ „ 19‘42 crop unless approved by two ’
A program on National Defense ., , , . ,, •
x , x ° thirds of the eligible producers
was presented at the Howe Com- „, , . ,, „ . . j- .
. . _ . who vote m the referendum, he
munity club meeting Tuesday ev- ga-d
ening to the largest crowd ever to -
attend one of the clubs sessions.! 11f qUotas are-in effect, farmers
President Maxey Walling presided pan^mS within ^ acreage allot-
over a brief business session and
Defense Theme for
Club Program
appointed Mrs. James Messick, E.
Powell and W. C. Snell as a nom
ments may market all cotton
grown on their allotments. Re'.
gardless of whether quotas are ap
inating committee to report at the f°v'ed’ “"serration Phases of the
AAA program will remain the
same, he explained.
“Cotton is one of the surplus
crops for which no increase is
asked in the Food-Fod-Freedom
j campaign,” Rennels said in . ex-
December meeting at which time
an election of officers will be held
The organization voted to request
the commissioners court to do
something about the Howe school
bus roads.
Appearing on the program were j Paining that with restricted
the grade school rhythm band,01 ^ markets the United States
composed of pupds from the first j ^as on ^and a supply of about
three grades; Bettie Sue Johnson s*ze recent crops,
and Hubert iLf ng in a novelty song | Approval of marketing quotas
and dance number; a defense play i to help adjust the surplus will
in which a group of grammar stu-, make possible continued use of
dents were presented in a radio; loans, the AAA official said. Un-
skit, and a group of selections by j der provisions of the AAA Act
the high school choral club. Jas. i °f 1938, as amended, loans are
D. Buster of Sherman was to have prohibited when quotas are re-
delivered an address, it had been jected by producers,
announced, but failed to be pres- j Collapse of foreign markets
ent. Mr, Buster said Wednesday, and the consequent drop in Ame-
that he had not been invited to ad- rican exports from 6.2 . million
dress the club. j bales, together with the fact that
The annual Red Cross member- , there is already enough cotton’ on
ship drive was started at the meet- hand to fill an extra year’s needs,
ing, a number of those pi-esent highlight the cotton situation,
making contributions after adjourn Since the slump is due primarily
Invent.. • fTjgj-; M war and naval blockades, cocton
' exports probably will rSpt in-
METHODIST SERVICES
ANNOUNCED
Detroit engineer perfected a pro . _ .
, , ,. , . . morning and evenir/?, ,/ev. Duke
cess for reduction of iron ore thaii-r,
crease any great extent during'
the present season, he. pointed
out.
Services wall be held
Howe Metltodist church
at the
Sunday
Miss Minnie Brooks was a'Van;
Alstyne visitor Sunday.
. . , ,. , . , , j R- Barron, pastor announces. Sub f —•
nsed CTacktd yatori }ect ol the morning sermon will he I Mrs. Robert Green of Sherman
“Response to God” and on Sunday visited here last Friday,
night the pastor will preach on
“Prayer”.
Rev. and Mrs. Barron; express
ant throughout the state. His me-
1hod featured a refining process
by chemical reaction.
Previous to this iron ore had
been smelted by coal and lime-
stone. Lack of these two minerals
in the Southwest and high freight
rates which prohibited their ship-
ment made it too expensive to
mine the East Texas ore.
Much of the East Texas ore.
mineralogists report, is of high
grade, containing up to 50 pe?
cent iron. This compares favor-
ably with the Mesabi range ore.
Industrialists believe that com-
pletion of the proposed Trinity
River barge canal in addition to
the development of the East Tex-
as ore would constitute a strong
boost to the national defense pro-
gram and could logically help
bring about the long-awaited in-
dustrialization of the state.
the poor guy just
WANTED TO HELP
Lurbine England and Marie Ed-
wards of Van Alstyne visited the
appreciation for the warm wel- j Mfcssenlger office Tuesday.
come they have received in Howe I _
and request co-operation1 in their
efforts to build up attendance in
all the services of the church.
SECOND GRADE NAMES
BEST CITIZENS
Miss Waldene Crow of Pottsboro
spent the week end with Mr. and.
Mrs. Ernest McBee.
Mrs C E. Davis was brought
home from a 'Sherman1 hospital
The Second gradebest citizens for . Saturday,
■this (week (ar^ Raymond) iShriith,
Charles Snell, Billie Janet Jordan
and Merilyn McDonald.
LAW STOPS USE OF
RED NICKLES
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
ana Mrs. W. V/. Collins were Re- .
A mx Mooty and fam McCollum of
Dallas.
Abilene—(UP) — Those juke
box nickels, the ones with the dab
of red paint, are on their way out
almost as suddenly as they appear-
ed, at least in this West Texas Tom Bean ^ Mr. and Mrs Cur-
Celtic News
(By Mis# Birdie Sollis)
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Shiith of
companied the school football
team and serenaded Gov, Coke R.
Stevenson and other state offi-
cials from the capitol dome.
* A *
Puttering around in the basement
of the state capitol. state employ-
es have discovered a supply of
more than 150,000 pounds of metal
that may go into national defense
The metal is in plates of books
Ralston Brodhead of Dallas vis-
ited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
R. Brodhead Sunday
Mr and Mrs Malcolm Rose of
McKinney spent Sunday with Howe
relatives
Miss Wylene Wheeler of Deni-
son spent the week end with her
parents, Supt. and Mrs.
Wheeler
B.
Henderson—(UP) — Mrs. Tom
Yandler’s fried chicken proved it-
self a stronger lure than other
more substantial loot to an un-
apprehended house breaker.
After a day in the city, Mr. ami
Mr3. Yandle drove home. As they
entered the yard, a light snapped
off in the kitchen. They rushed
.nto the house in time to see the
prowler diving out the window.
He had taken plenty of time to
eat a plate of fried chicken and
vegetables before he changed his
ragged trousers for a pair belong-
ing. to Yandle.
The trousers had been flung a-
cross a kitchen chair. Chicken
bones covered the table.
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dean1 of
Sherman visited in Howe Saturday
afternoon. Mr. Dean is suffering
from politicitis and is expected to
break out shortly after the first
of the year with all the symptons
of a candidate for county tax as-
sessor-collector.
Brownwood—(UP) r — Fire
Chief Charles Alford and his as-
sistant Jimmie Pike were using
hand extinguishers to put out a
trash-box fire in a downtown
alley.
“Aw, go take a flying jump at
the moon.” said a voice from no-
where.
The two men looked around,
saw nothing and continued to
pump chemicals on the blaze.
“Aw, go take a flying jump at
the moon.” the voice echoed.
The firemen looked around a-
gain. Suddenly a drunken soldier
popped out from behind the box.
He was quite jolly and co-opera-
tive.
“Gotta fire, eh?” he asked. “I
wanna help. I got a personal in-
terest in this fii’e. My $1.38 is
in that box.”
As the flames licked up the last
remnants of the thrash—soldier
cap and all — military policemen
came along and escorted the hap-
less, hatless doughboy back to
Camp Bowie.
- -o--——
J. C. McBee was a Van Alstyne
visitor Monday.
college town.
Chief of police T A Hackney
and Theo Ash, county attorney,
have ruled that the red nickels
tis Smith of Dorchester spent
Sunday with Mrs. Mary Smith.
Mr and Mrs V. O. Teddlie and
are implements of gambling and Mr and Mrs Wayne Shearer of
must be purged from the local, Sherman visited in the home of
scene. ] Mr and Mrs W. B. Francis, Sun-
The gambling works like this, day.
said Hackney:
Mrs. B. L. Sollis and Birdie
spent Saturday in Sherman' with
“The owner of the music ma-
chines supplies waitresses in cafes
with nickels pajntied rfd. When j Mr. and Mrs Walter Sollis.
customers come in. she proposes j —
that they match for the music. | Mrs. Richard Stout visited Mrs.
Clayton Flannery at Farmington
this week.
Mr. and Mrs J. E. Thomas of
Dallas visited Mrs. G. W John-
son, Sunday.
Mrs. Mattie Francis
ill at her home.
continues
If the customer loses, he puts his
own nickel in the machine.
“If the waitress loses, she puts
in a red nickel in the slot. When
the machine owner collects the
coins, he returns the red nickels
to the waitress.”
“It’s an ingenious way of mak-
ing more money for the machine
OAvners,” said Ash.
Mrs. Mary Hughett of Dallas
visited relatives here the first of
tlie week
Mrs. Sam Strong is visiting re-
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McBee had latives in Gunter this week.
a.; guests Sunday Miss Waldene : ---o-
Crow of Pottsboro, Mr. and Mrs. The annual cost of state govern
Top Mackey and Mr and Mrs. ment in Texas has jumped ovev
Russell W. Bryant and Hel^n. $53,000,000 in the past four years.
Mrs. John Giles was a Sherman
visitor, Saturday.
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