White Deer Review (White Deer, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, July 11, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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Mrs Letha Grainer
White Deer Review
NUMBER 19
VOLUME XVIII.
Harvest Season Starts With Drying of Wet Fields
Cousin of Review
* Editor Is Killed
In Plane Crash
SKELLYTOWN COUPLE
MARRIED IN PAMPA
HOSPITAL ROOM
Alvah. Ray Thomas, 24, inde-
pendent route carrier for the
Wichita Falls Daily Times and
^Record-News, and a cousin of the
'White Deer Review editor, was
fatally injured when the plane he
*vvas flying crashed in a field on
the Rex Beard farm about a quar-
ter of a mile northeast of the in-
tersection of the Henrietta and
Petrolia highways at 3:30 o’clock
A? Saturday. . . .
Thomas died of head injuries
a few minutes after lie reached a
Wichita Falls hospital.
The flier, alone in the plane,
was coming in to make a landing
at the Howard Shaw airport,
north of the Henrietta road, at
£ time of the crash. C. S Royal,
wliom the plane barely (missed,
said Thomas was making a low
turn when the engine quit and the
craft shot almost straight down-
ward. .
Nose of the plane was driven
. into the ground and the motor
f forced back into the cockpit, One
wing snapped off. Efforts of sev-
eral men were required to extri-
cate the unconscious pilot.
A large dead field rat was found
under the plane. Some thought it
was struck by the falling plane,
while others expressed an opinion
it may have been in the ship and
have in some manner caused the
accident.
Royal, a laborer at Sheppard
Field, was working on his farm ad-
joining the Beard place. The plane
struck just across the fence from
(m him and he thought it was going
to hit him. He was the first man
to reach the wreckage.
Thomas was a member of a fly-
ing club, called the Alley Oop
club, which owned the plane.
In addition to Thomas, mem-
„ hers of the Alley Oop club include
% Art Hobbs, S M. Goode, Ewing
Hall, and Dr. H. W. McConnell.
The club had hangar space at the
Shaw airport.
(Native of Bomarton
Mrs. Beard, also a witness to
the crash, said the plane was mak-
ing a low turn when it suddenly
plunged downward. The accident
occured about '300 yards from the
Shaw Flying field.
Thomas was born at Bomarton,
Dec. 7, 1916, and was a graduate
of Wichita Fals High School. The
family home is at 2122 Avenue J.
Thomas had taken a commercial
flying course and obtained a stu-
dent pilot’s license several months
ago.
* Survivors included his wife, Mrs
Elizabeth Fisher Thomas; two
children. Harriet, 2 yeas of age,
and A. R, Thomas, 1; his parents,
. Mr. and Mrs. L .S. (Kirk) Thom-
' as, 2105 Holliday, two brothers,
T. S. Thomas, 2134 Avenue K, and
Herchel Thomas, 2105 Holiday,
two sisters, Misses Mary Frances
and Arlene Thomas, 2105 Holli-
day; five uncles, J. H. Thomas,
Bomarton; C. E. Thomas, Stock-
’f''ton, Calif.; J. N. Thomas, Wich-
ita Falls; Alvah Bowles, Bomar-
ton, and John Bowles, Austin;
and two aunts, Mi’s. Lee Phillips,
Joshua, Texas, and Mrs. Oscar
Warren, Bomarton.
Funeral services were from
First Baptist Church at 4 o’clock
* Sunday afternoon, in Wichita
«(?Falls, with the Rev. Homer B.
Reynolds, pastor of Lamar Ave-
nue Baptist Church, officiating.
The Review editor passed
through Wichita Falls Sunday aft-
ernoon about 4 o’clock and tried
■i) to call the Thomas home as well
as the home of other relatives, but
^failed to get any of them over the
phone, and supposed all were out
visiting or riding around.
When the editor reached Chil-
Idress and went into a cafe for
supper, a Wichita Falls paper was
banded him and a banner line
across the front page with a pic-
^ ture of his cousin and the wrecked
plane brought the first news of the
fatal tragedy.
The familv- were all gone to the
funeral at the very time the edi-
tor was trying to reach some of
them over the telephone when
VI passing through Wichita Fals.
Texas Election
Is To Be Proved
A, hospital room bedecked' with
flowers provided the setting for
the unique marriage Friday of
Miss Melba Jo Dawson and Hom-
er L. Gasaway of Skellytown.
Rev. Herman Coe, officiating
minister and pastor of the Bap-
tist church at White Deer, was
admitted June 23 to Worley hos-
pital.
His illness, however, did not in-
terfere with the bride’s plans to
have him officiate at her mar-
riage for he kindly consented to
perform the ceremony from his
hospital bed.
The bride wore a white dress
with all white accessories. Parents
of both the bride and bridegroom
were present when the ceremony
was performed
Mr. and Mrs. Gasaway are
graduates of White Deer High
school.
Methodist Young
People Hold Social
The Methodist young people
held their second social in a se-
ries planned for this surnmdr.
The group met at the parson-
age at 7 o’clock and went to the
park to eat supper. Immediately
after supper they played games
instead of playing ball as was or-
iginally planned.
A social is planned for every
_ two weeks and all Methodist young
people are urged to attend as they
are planned especially for
benefit.
Those present were Helen Pow-
ers, Mildred and lone Haggerty,
Donna Newton, Betty Ann Flem-
ing, Donita and Ronald Davidson,
and the Rev. and Mrs. Don David-
THF FLYING DUTCHMAN
MTHE SHIP -THAT WASN'T BUILT BECAUSE OF STRIKEsVS
"Th
Ihere is an old legend of a spectre ship,
CONDEMNED TORE VSR Tfe SAIL TdE SEAS WITHOUT
MELM OR STEERSMAN."
White Deer Men
Register July 1st
Williams.
McClellan Lake Is
Full of Water
Guests were Martha Jo Free-
man, Bruee Martin, Jr., and Ger-
aldine Weatherall
Men Past 28 Are
To Be Deferred
General J Watt Page, state se-
lective service director, today an-
nounced that all Texas’ local
boards have been instructed to
defer induction of men who, on
July 1, 1941, had reached the age
of 28 years.
General Pa^e said that 'National
Selective Service headquarters
has been assured by congressnonal
leaders that the age provisions of
the bill to defer men who had' at-
tained the age of 28 years on or
before July 1, 1941, will be
passed in substantialy their pres-
ent form since there is no differ-
ence of opinion as to the merits
of these provisions of the bill.
As the bill is now written, Gen-
eral Page pointed out, such men
wil be subject to discharge if in-
ducted on or after July 1, 1941.
Based on the statements of
Lake McClellan is full of water
their for the first time since its con-
struction.
(Water was pouring into the lake
following the heavy rain Satur-
day night and the stream of water
running over the spillway, which
was only a few feet in width at
first, is widening until nearly half
the spillway is under several inch-
es of water.
Depth of the water at the 4am
gate is 50 feet, but deepest spot
in the lake, about 25 to 35 feet
in front of the dam, is about 70
feet deep.
Lake MlcClellan is now opeh for
fishing for the first time this
year Limit this year has been
raised to 23 fish in a single day.
A, fisherman can have in his pos-
session 10 cat, five crappie, five
perch, and three bass. He cannot
have more than the limit of any
one type of fish in his possession.
Fishing will also be allowed each
Saturday night. In the past, fish-
ing was allowed from sunup to
sundown with no night fishing.
The lake now covers 376 acres.
A total of 1,436 acres was secured
for the lake, picnic grounds, park-
ing spaces, and landing field.
Lake McClellan is the third
largest lake in the Panhandle.
Biggest water area is at Buffalo
Lake, near Umbarger, which would
cover, if full, 1,085 acres. Next
is Dalhart Lake, which would cov-
’ pr -524 acres. Wolf Lake,
Texas’ recent senatorial eelction
■will soon be in the spotlight of a
probe by the state legislature.
Drew Pearson. Washington col-
mnist, will be asked to appear be-
fore a state senate committee and
tell what he knows of alleged ir-
regularities.
i 'SUBSCRIBE for the REVIEW!
congressional leaders and the pro-
visions making the hill retroac-
tive to July 1, 1941, for discharge,
Texas’ local boards have today
been informed by state headquar-
ters that the induction of all men
who had attained the age of 28
years on or before July 1, 1941,
shall be nostponed for a period of
30 days pending final action on
the bill.”
“Of course, in the event the
bill is not passed,” General Page
added, “such men will be subject
to induction in the normal man-
ner upon the expiration of the pe-
riod of postponement.”
In Texas ,it is estimated, ap-
proximately 400,000 of the 825,429
men who registered last October
are affected by this order.
School Fund Is Set
At $22.50 Limit
AUSTIN — The state board of
education last Mtonday fixed the
per capita apportionment for
schoolasties at the $22.50 limit,
set iby law.
The board action, permitting
the apportionment to remain un-
changed from that currently in ef-
fect, will mean that during the
school year 1941-42 the state will
contribute approximately $33,750,-
000 to the public schools.
The state has about 1,500,000
scholastics between the ages of six
and 18. Funds for the apportion-
ment come from various tax
sources.
The board also discussed a text-
book proclamation.
Mrs Wayne Hooper of Okla-
homa is visiting in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Dread Lee.
Collection of
Aluminum Urged
Perrvton would cover 101 acres,
Tulia Lake 80 acres, and Lake
Marvin, near Canadian, 63 acres.
20th Call On Texas
For Men July 17
State Selective Service head-
quarters today announced the ar-
my’s 20th call on Texas for 160
negro selectees, to be inducted on
July 17.
When this call has been com-
pleted, Texas will have 31,964 men
actually in training under the se-
lective training and service act,
acording to General J. Watt Page,
state director.
General Page pointed out that
a quota is not a requirement that
must be filled by any given date,
but rather a ‘‘bank account’ up-
on which the armed forces may
draw from time to time. The lat-
est adjusted gross quota for Texv
as, determined on the basis of da-
ta available May 15, 1941, is 136,-
488 men. Against this number, in
addition to the 31,964 inductees,
Texas is credited with 80,140
members of the armed forces,
which includes those who entered
the service before the first regis-
tration date last October as well
as those who have volunteered un-
der selctive service, General Page
said
An appeal to rural people to
contribute aluminum in a drive
iiiinounced recntly by the Off'.e
of Civilian Defense, has been made
by Director H. H. Williamson of
the Texas Extension Service. Gov-
ernor W. Lee O ’Daniel has called
upon county judges to assume
leadership of the campaign.
County extension agents have
been asked to assist with this
work as it relates to rural areas.
Gaintring of aluminum is to be-
gin during the week of July 21,
and according to the plan, local
committees of 4-H club members
borne demonstration clu(bs, land
use planning committees, and oth-
er groups will call on farm homes
in the community to collect the
aluminum scrap
Anything which is made of
aluminum will do. Among the
articles suggested for donation are
pots and pans, radio parts, toys,
shakers, screening, old washing-ma-
chine parts, picture frames, book
ends, ice trays, measuring cups,
camera equipment, kettles and
double boilers, bottle and jar
caps, refrigerator plates and elec-
trical appliances of al sorts.
Earlier the Office of Produc-
tion Management has asked the
citizens to defer collecting scrap
aluminum until the week of July
14 and warned against “sharp-
sters” posing as legitimate gov-
ernment purchasers buying up
scrap. It is estimated that the
campaign to collect secondary alu-
minum will result in obtaining 20
million pounds throughout the na-
tion. This would; result in the re-
lease of 20 milion pounds of first-
class metal for use in 2,000 fight-
er planes.
. The metal collected will' be sold
to smelters at a special uniform
price fixed by the government.
Entire net proceeds will be avai-
able to the Office of Civilian De-
fense for expenditures required in
the proper defense of the civilian
population.
DEFENSE PRODUCTION
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
Registrations of those becom-
ing 21 since the general registra-
tion last fall resulted in listing the
following men from Carson county:
S-l—Afton Noble Gregory, Pan-
handle.
S-2—James Dedward Kreis, Jr.,
Skellytown.
S-3—J. D. Collingsworth, Bor-
ger.
S-4—James W right Harper,
White Deer.
S-5—Raymond Russell Wag-
oner, Groom.
S-6—Johnnie Allan Denton.
Groom
S-7—John Kenneth Hastings.
White Deer.
S-8—Lloyd - George
White Deer.
■S-9—Vernon Jack Creel. Pan-
handle.
S-10—Ford Omro Riley Dobson,
Skellytown.
S-ll—Boniface Frank Rapstine,
White Deer.
S-12—Otis Leroy Weatherly,
Conway.
S-13—Harry Benjamin McGreg-
or, Panhandle.
S-14—Aaron Clyde Staats, Skel-
lytown.
S-15—Raymond Tison Swaf-
ford', Groom.
S-16—Clyde Carl Morrow, J.,
Groom.
S-17—Everett Leroy Anderson,
Conway.
S-18—Clement Paul Labus. Pan-
handle.
S-19—Homer Leroy Gasaway,
Skellytown.
S-20—George Allen Whisenant,
Panhandle.
S-21—Wilfred Mat Britten,
Groom.
S-22—James Vonard Wilson,
Panhandle.
S-23—Frank Raymond Biggs,
Panhandle.
S-24—Billy Anderson Cunning-
ham, Borger.
S-25—William Virgil Moore,
White Deer.
S-26—Alan Perry Armstrong,
Panhandle
S-27—Raymond Lee Armstrong, |
Skellytown.
S-28—J. P. Phillips, Groom.
S-29—Ray Odessel Lester, Pan-
handle.
S-30—Colin Clifford Smith,
Panhandle.
S-31—J. W. Tipps, Panhandle.
S-32—Douglas Bryan Anderson,
Panhandle.
S-33—Thaddeus B'enton More-
man, Jr., Groom.
'S-34—Oscar Buford Philips, Jr ,
White Deer.
S-35—Horace Allen Williams,
White Deer.
S-36—Andy Calvin Zugar, Skel-
lytown.
" S-37—Carroll Marshall Coulson,
Skellytown.
S-38—Roy Wiley McClunev,
Skellytown.
Wheat harvesting in the White
Deer area, is getting underway
and with a few more hours of sun-
shine, will be in full swing. South
and east of town, following the
heavy .rains, starting the combines
has been delayed and a number
started pulling the combines with
two tractors. With the wheat
down the sunshine has been slow
to dry out the ground to enable
the heavy machines to get a foot-
hold.
Wtth another ten days without
rain, the wheat harvest will be al-
most completed, but with more
rain, many fields will suffer ad-
ditional heavy losses.
Yields of those who have start-
ed vary widely, ranging from ten
to 25 bushels. Several hundred
truck loads have been received at
the four big elevators and by this
afternoon, barring more show;ers,
hundreds of trucks wil be unload-
ing the grain at the elevators.
The elevators and machinery
people here have made every ef-
fort to accomodate the wheat
growers, by making enlargements
and improvements The machinery
men have added large repair
parts as well as stocks of new
machines and their sales have
been unusually heavy.
FEW CHANGES IN
1942 RANGE PROGRAM
TEXAS BUSINESS
ON INCREASE
_ . . sound condition
Payrolls m every classification j T] d
Except for additional grazing
practices and more local adapta-
tion of practices designed to era-
dicate undesirable plants, recom-
mendations drafted by delegates
to the national AAA range con-
ference and tour indicate no ma-
jor changees in the 1942 Range
Conservation program of the AAA.
That’s the word Howard T.
Kingsbery, state AAA committee-
man and ranchman from Santa
Anna, brought back from the con-
ference which was held in Idaho,
June 23-27 The conference last
year was held in West Texas.
Recommendations of the con-
ference included proposals for
many detailed changes, a number
of which are aimed at giving as-
sistance to small ranchmen and
farmers, Kingsbery said. Two im-
portant changes recommended
were the revision of the present
Idlefered grazing practice to in-
clude limited and rotational graz-
ing on the basis of range manage-
ment plans approved by the coun-
ty AAA committee and the broad-
ening of eradication practices for
undesirable plants to make pos-
sible more local adaptation of
such measures.
In tlfe interest of national wel-
fare, the conference pledged 'itself
1 “ to marshal the range agricultur-
al resources of the country to best
meet the needs of national de-
fense,” the Texas ranchman re-
ported. The conference also went
on record as advising ranchmen
against speculative expansion
favorable price and urged that .a
during the present period of more
balance be kept between livestock
prices and industrial prices to
| keep the livestock industry in a
Mrs. W L. Covington and chil-
dren of Eunice, New Mexico, have
been on a visiit here to her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wells.
The Rev. and Mrs. Vernie Pipes
were here from Shamrock Tues-
day. Mrs. Creek, mother of Mrs.
Pipes, and Mrs. Eunice Noel, re-
turned with them to Shamrock
Defense production is “on sche-
dule or ahead” throughout the
country, acording to a survey by
the National Association of Man-
ufacturers.
The machine-tool bottleneck of
last January has been largely elim-
inated, but skilled labor and ma-
terials still are needed, the asso-
ciation reported on the basis of
telegraphic reports from 16 major
industrial areas.
While 63 per cent of the man-
ufacturers queried last January
disclosed shortages of machine
tools, only 29 per cent named this
an obstacle as of last May.
The report put the “extent of
the United States commitment to
date for defense” at $51,575,000,-
000, of which $40,869,000,000 is to
come from general federal funds,
$7,000,000,00 from the lease-lend
act, and $3,706,000,000 from Brit-
ish orders
Here is the spending schedule:
1940— $1,884,00,000.
1941— $17,000,000,000.
1942— $23,000,000,000.
1943 and later—$$9,691,000,000.
of business and industry in Tex
as showed substantial gains in
May, 1941, over the correspond-
ing month in 1940.
Statistics compiled by the Uni-
versity Bureau of Business Re-
search show the payrolls in man-
ufacturing industries to be up 17.8
per cent.
Payrolls in all types of business
and industry showed an increase
of 17.9 per cent.
The largest increase was in the
furniture manufacturing industry
in Texas which was up 64.4 per
cent over the same period a year
ago.
The men’s work clothing indus-
ty folloAved closely with an in-
crease of 64 per cent, and payrolls
in structural and ornamental iron
industries of the state were 50 9
per cent more than in May of last
year.
The industrialization movement
continued to grow, and it was es-
timated that 143,458 persons were
employed in manufacturing indus-
tries in the state and received $3,-
054,574 during the month.
Wl .H. Brady spent the Fourth
with his brother, Charles Brady,
at Clovis.
The group advocated that meas-
ures be taken to avoid inflation,
and that the defense program be
supported by higher taxes on ex-
cess profits, incomeb, and luxury
items, ,along with increased pro-
motion of defense bonds and stamp
sales. Greater emphasis on bet-
ter nutrition also was recommen-
ded.
THINK YOU ARE
A GOOD SHOT?
Maybe you are better than the
average when it comes to hunting
ducks and geese, but if you are
just an average hunter, your ducks
are costing you considerable in
ammunition alone.
A survey made by a game de-
partment biologist of 308 hunters
during last season, showed that
they fired 10,705 shells in bagging
2,205 ducks. That is an average of
4.4 shots per duck. A total of 196
goose hunters fired 1,19 times to
bring down 124 geese for an av-
erage of 9.6 shots per goose.
Maybe you’re not so chesty
now. We’re not!
SANTA FE CARLOADINGS
Mrs. Fuller Burnett of Parnpa,
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Dread Lee, here yesterday.
Dean Haggerty, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W F. Haggerty, underwent
an operation in St. Anthony hos-
pital this week. It will be remem-
bered that Dean suffered a frac-
tured hip in a fall at school last
year and the second operation be-
came necessary. _ . ■ je
The Santa Fe Railway systejn
carloadings for the week ending
July 5, i941, were 26,054, com-
pared with 24,423 fo rthe same
week in 1940. Received from con-
nections were 7,851, compared
with 5,597 for the same week in
1940. The total cars moved were
33,905, compared with 30,020 for
the same week in 1940. The Santa
Fe handled a total of 35,238 cars
during the preceding week of this
year. .....
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