The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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THIRTY-EIGHTH' YEAR ,
ELECTRA, WICHITA COUNTY/ TEXAS, , THURSDAY, AUGUST; 15,1946
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Closed Against
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Mayor Grover C. • Harrison "an-;
nounced Tuesday morning that' the
city commission had decided /to close,
the swimming pool for -the;,Remain-1
v, der of the summer to; prevent ;'.any,
4, >4 possibility of a polio epidemic /in
I Electra. One Electra • youth;,/ has'
succumbed from the dread'-diseased
There was also one suspected case
in Electra earlier , in the summer.^
The mayor also urged the':pub-
r^f 1 *° C00Pera^e ‘ and avoid large-pub-
lic gatherings, especially , involving
children. A thorough 'qheck' is be-
ing made on - health^ conditions in,
Electra. Immediate disposal of . gar-
bage * is urged and premises'should
be kept clean, it was announced.
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Vacational Trailing
To Be Discussed At
Armory Saturday Night
The Gold Star Post of the Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars .and the Clailde
C. McDonald Post of the American
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Legion are jointly sponsoring a
meeting for all veterans Saturday
night of this week at the State
Guard when "Vocational Training
for Veterans” will be thoroughly
discussed.
G. S. Dowell of the Vocational
Department of Hardin college,.
Wichita Falls ,will be the speaker.
Under the terms of the program,
it was announced, a veteran who
has a job, may attend night or day
classes, 12 1-2 hours per week, and
receive up to $90.00/ //ninthly./ for
four years for such" atteridance/if
unemployed, a veteran may attend]
25 hours weekly for the same bene-
fits.
Classes to be taught include
trades and industry (mechanical
trades, shop work, diesel^-engineer-
ing, various oil field trades); dis-
tributive education or business ad-
ministration (bookkeeping ( account-
ing, salesmanship, mathematical
courses) ;> agriculture (farming,
ranching, soil conservation, etc.)
The meeting .will last less 'than an
hour. No solicitation to sign for
the program will* be made. John E.
McKelvey is commander of the Vet-
erans ,and Robert Scott is command-
er of the Legion.
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LADIES’ READY-TO-WEAK
SHOP WILL OPEN SOON.
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• 'L. G. McLaughlin _ presided' ] over
the .business .session \ of /the "'direct-
ors of the - chamber of- commerce .at
the^weekly' luncheon' Tuesday at"-the
White Rose cafe. -* Ed; Schlaffe was
appointed by the board to serve'as
a director] of- the - newly organized
Upper Red River. Basin Flood Con-
trol" Association. ' ‘ ' 1 ' .
_ .4 P;/®atley gave a .detailed re-
port .oL a; meeting - of. the civic com-
mittee held, last Friday afternoon.
I twas’voted to place'welcome signs
at .the highway entrances into Elec-
tra. ‘ 4J- _ -
^Dr. C. W. Monroe. ‘discussed the
National Guard project, and Wallace
Hoggett, - new manager, - discussed
various phases of work which is be-
ing, planned for the fall.
Present ’Were ' L. G. .McLaughlin,
Howard, Doores, Dr. C. W. Monyoe,
Ed iSchlaffke, H. D. Smith, H. E.
King1 ,W. C. Martin, J. B. House,
C. -D. Bailey, C. C. Myers, Edgar
Darter, Max Griffin, and Wallace
Hoggett.
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WILL BE LABOR DAY FEATSJRE AT PARK
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There ;has always been rivalry between the Lions and‘ Rotary
tisirig as a. baseball .game at the . Community Park. The -only
•thing legal about, the game is the fact that-the funds will go to'the
Boy Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls^
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Rebekahs To1 Confer
Initiatory Degree
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Plans:/>yere made at the Rebekah
Lpdge.' meeting Tuesday night in
the K. of P. Hall to confer the initi-
atory degree on Mrs. Una McMeans
Tuesday night. -Mrs. E. W,
Hindman,noble grand, presided
cjverthe."business session.
;It.was .decided to invite the-state
president, Mrs. Margaret Salsgiver,
McAllen, to make her- official * visit
here early in October with nearby
lodges joining in. A -gift was pre-
sented to Mrs. Velma Holt by the
degree staff in appreciation of'some
special work done for the staff. Ap-
proximately 25 members were pres-
ent.
. It has been reported that a new*
f Ladies’ Ready-To-Wear Shop will
be opened in Electra in the near fut-
^ ure by Childress residents. The
3J>$°P will be located in the Kolp
- 4/uilding on West Cleveland, form-
<aw”crly occupied by the .West Texas
g^offee Shop.
aA/fi The building is being renovated
1*1 ohis week* No data has been an"
14*^°uuced for the opening of the new
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/SOFTBALL SCHEDULE
FOR NEXT WEEK
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The softball schedule for the week
4 beginning August 19 has been an-
/ -. nounced as foHows:
; Aug- 19—Magnolia vs. Continent-
al; Kamay vs. Texas Co.
Aug. 20—Oil City Motor vs. 'Tex-^
as State Guard; Waggoner vs. Con-
; tinental.
- Aug. 21—All-Star game.
: Aug. 22—Open date for girls.
rr Aug. 23—Open date for girls;
Magnolia vs. Kamay.
- It was annoanced that the Texas
Hardware team had dropped out of
the loop and games will probably
4 be arranged to fill that vacancy.
New Shop Slated
To Open Soon
The American Cleaners will be
the name of a* tailor shop which
will be located next door to the
Saddle Shop on West Cleveland.
The opening date has not been an-
nounced. The new shop will be op-
erated by R. P Toe!.
HOSPITAL NEWS
.Births reported at the Electra
Hospital this week are as follows:
A son, born, Aug. 11 to Mr. and
Mrs. M. E. Floyd.
A son, born Aug. 12, to Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Wooten.
A son, bprn Aug. 12 to Mr. and
Mrs .B. L. Lindelyo-
Patients admitted to the hospital
were J. H. Fridge, Ben Lane and
R. D. Kee. Dismissals included Mrs.
G. C. Harrison and Ben Lane.
The list of emergencies included
Jake Newton, who received a cut
on his head in an automobile mis-
hap; W. P. Drink, injured in a mot-
orcycle accident; S. B. Cable, who
sustained an injury to" his left knee,
and J. K. Cox, who cut.his foot on
a broken fruit jar.
to s assist In building a clubhouse on
a/tract of'land’donated by Doc Pres-
ton fop that, purpose. .
It is rumored that" the fire depart
m'ent has 'been asked to get all
equipment in shape as the affray
will be hotly contested. There may
be no fires . but the competition will
be so keen that it may'be necessary
t6> turn the hose, on sorrle of the hot-
headed players to calm them down.
Plans had been to dump them in the
swimming pool but since it has been
closed, the water to\yer will be kept
iull for ducking purposes. s
Bob (Conoco) Gibbs says that 'the
Rotary Club is ready but goes on
to say, “If we don’t win it will be
because of sabotage by Heinie (Gas)
Smith, the only pessimist in the club
who claims he can take a pitcher
and firs£ baseman and beat both
clubs.” A careful survey made by
Charlie (Insurance) McGann indi-
cates that every member of the Rob-
ary club has played semi-pro base-
ball and suggests that what they
will do to "the worn-out Lions will
be pitiful. Inside dope is that the
Lions are practicing every night.
The Rotarians hope they continue
for at the rate the Lions are adding
daily to their casualty list frdm
broken fingers to just sore backs
leaves the impression that only a
wuter bo'y will remain.
Revival'Scheduled
Church of Christ. „
;% According to Austin Varner, min-
ister. of the Electra Church .of
Christ, a series of gospel meetings
will be held at Electra beginning
August. 18 and continuing through
August 25. Lloyd L, Smith of Law!'
ton, Oklahoma, will be the evangel-
ist. Brother Smith has a daity Bible
lesson over K.S.W.O. (115(K'K.C.)
at? 8:45 a. m. -v4
... Services will be held each day at
lo/oo a. m: and at 8:00 p. m:- The
evjening sei^ices will be held‘ on the
outside of the church building, .which
is located a,t Main and Summit.
Emily Post has not been invited ^umuuon> m sena me
to be a spectator for the two clubsT C01^ Worth. They- made the
are promising a treat in the way
Polio Victim’s
Rites Held Saturday
David Tom Farrier, 18, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Morris, succumb-
ed Friday afternoon^-in a Wichita
Falls hospital from poliomyelitis.
The ^outh was stricken Saturday
and was rushed to Wichita Falls
where he was given the Kinney
treatment. He was thought to be
responding to the treatment but his
‘condition became critical Thursday.
Private funeral rites were held
at 'the James B. Totten funeral
chapel Saturday afternoon at 2
o’clock with the Rev. W. O. Bucy
officiating. Pill bearers were Doug-
las Brown, Artie Martin, Morris
Tvvomey, Jimmie D. Fowler, Steph-
en Marchand Jr. and Elmer Kelly
Jr. Interment was in the family
plot at St. Jo.
Farrier graduated from the Elec-
tra high school last May where he
was prominent in schol activities.
He was a member of the high school
band and was in the senior play.
He is survived by his parents and
two sisters, Mrs Noli Ruth Wallace
of Tatum, Mrs. Mary Gatlin, Pratt,
Kan
of baseball as it should not be play-
ed.
A. J. (frozen food) Eggerton is
chairman of the Lions committee to
the sorrow of some of his fellow
members. He is taking advantage
of his status by insisting on batting
in the clean-up position (if any of
the Rotariang last long enough to be
cleaned up:) Eggerton will also
serve as catcher.' Cecil (Electricity)
Blum has won the argument to be
the pitcher and as he pitches for the
Magnolia he predicts he will now
'em ddwn. Carl Hickey has been
drafted at the lb. position and Boyce
(Burr) House will attempt to hold
down third, president L. P. (Oil
City) Francis is doomed to serve as
shortstop. Howard (Finance) Doo-
res is listed as a fair hitter with Dr.
C. C. (Optometrist) Hayley running
a close second.
Bob (Super Service) Brownlee has
given impetus to the Lion defense
attack for he caught a ball the other
night. It was a new experience for
him and he has been placed on the
"Hero-of-the-week list.
An acute shortage of linament
and rubbing alcohol along with tape
and bandages may develop in Elec-
tra if the clubs continue work-outs.
Seriously, the game will be for a
good cause. Remember the date:
Labor Day. Tickets will go on sale
next week. Admission price will be
30c* for the kids and 60c for adults.
£Ms’ Team
Defeated In
Softball Tournament
The Electra Girls' Softball team
participated in a softball tourna-
ment in Fort Worth during the
weekend. Friday afternoon they
lost to Sid’s cafe team from George-
town, 17-2. That night the Bex,-
tan Radio nine from San Antonio
swamped them, 12-4.
Local firms and individuals made
Contributions to send the team to
trip
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Softball League
The Kamay Nine 'is continuing to
pace the Electra softball. - league.
After finishing in the lead irt the
first half, they have lost1 only one
game' in the second., half. .The
double round-robin schedule- will be*
completed ^Sept. 6 /with the winner of
the first, half playing the "winner, of
the second half for the title.
Standing of, the teams according
to the records/of Miss Catherine
Me^gwasser, secretary of the league,
is as follows:
Team W L Pet.
Kamay ..........6 1 .857
State Guard ..........5 2 .714
Continental . .......... 5 2 .714
Texas . Company ......'. 5 2 . .7i4
Waggoner Refinery 3 ' 4 .571
Magnolia........./ ... 3 4 .571
Oil City Motor ______ 1 6 .143
Bandits Who Robbed
Walters Bank
Still at Large
TEACHER SHORTAGE
REMAINS CRITICAL
by .truck.
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THREE TONS OF TEXT
BOOKS RECEIVED
BY LOCAL SCHOOLS
Mrs. Bessie Belle Hair left Thurs-
day of this week to spend a week
with relatives in Frederick, Okla.
Mrs. Hair is a member of the Eng-
lish department in the Electra high
school. Her children ,La^Iarr and
Leah Jean, are students at the Uni-
versity of Texas. LaMarr served in
the Navy Seabees in the Pacific
and recently received his discharge.
He was a student at the University
of Texas when l>e entered military
service.
The Electra school system has re-
ceived jthree tons (6,000 pounds)
of new text-books to be used during
the 1946-47 school term. Included
in the group are new arithmetics, al-
gebra .geometry and general ‘mathe-
matics for the high school; supple-
mentary .readers,’ handwriting books,
spellers for grades three through
eight, and arithmetics for th'e same
grades.
The covers of the books will be
stamped for the proper 'grades as the
text-books were printed for 12-
grade schools. Heretofore, there
has been a slight confusion for the
old text-books were for 11-grade
schools. Fifty sacks of - old books
were returned to the Statp Depart-
ment of Education. *
Supt .Bob Lindsey Jr., attended a
personnel meeting of the area Camp
Fire Council Tuesday ab Wichita
Falls. A new director is to be se-
cured for the area including Vernon,
Electra, Iowa Park, and Burkbur-
nett.
Electra is faced with a teacher
shortage similar to many other
communities. The situation is na-
tional as well as state-wide, Supt.
Bob .Lindsey Jr. stated. There are
three vacancies remaining in the
high school here as well as three in
the elementary grades. The list
changes almost daily. When a. new
teacher is secured, another one sends
in a resignation. The superintend-
ent has contacted all the ,colleges in
the state and efforts are being push-
ed in order to s'ecure a sufficient
number.
Lindsey pointed out that people
having two years of college work
and a Texas certificate may be eli-
gible to join the faculty. If they
cannot qualify for a regular teach-
ing position, th^y may be used as a
substitute. Anyone interested is
asked to contact him. He has a list
of the requirements for a state cer-
tificate.
The shortage is due to the fact
that colleges are not training as
many teachers; veterans are/ not
studying for the teaching profession,
and the increase in living conditions
makes it necessary for many to
seek other employment. Salaries
for this area average from $1,600 to
$2,000. Base pay in Electra starts
at $1,350 for the 1946-47 school
year and includes the recent increase
in the salary schedule.
Electrans who have houses, apart-
ments or j’ooms which they wish to.
rent to teachers, are asked to leave
that information at the high school
or call 680. This information is
compiled and given to the teaG^ers.
New Cafe
Being Installed
Mrs. J. M. Ashley is opening a
cafe at 107 West Bryan in the Ash-
ley and Son Furniture Store. New
equipment is being installed and
Mi’s. Ashley hopes to be ready for
business by the opening of school.
Good food will be featured, and
short orders will bo a specially.
FOOTBALL EQUIPMENT
ISSUED SEPTEMBER 2 , ^
Coach W. E. Weathers and his
new assistant, Frank Reeves of
Jacksboro and Wichita Falls, will
issue football equipment, Monday,
September 2, and7a work-out will be
held.
Reeves was recently chosen as as-
sistant. He is a World War II vet-
eran ahd is a graduate vof the Wich-
ita Falls high school. He lettered
four year? in football at North Tex-
as State Teachers college. „ He will
have charge of the junior high
school team as well as assist Mr.
Weathers, His wife will teach Bi-
ology and physical education in high
school.
SEASON FOOTBALL"
TICKETS ON SALE SOON
Season football tickets are being
printed and will be on sale in the
near future. Admission will be the
same as last season: children, 30c;
adults, 60c. There will be five home
games this year, with the season
opening Sept. 13.
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Lions Club Discussed
Baseball Game
Break in Water Main
A break in the main line in the
500 block on North Electra street
at 3:30 a. m. caused the water to
be turned off until 11:30 a. m. Sun-
day. The water tower was kept
full of water case of fire.
A crew frtnn the watc” depart-
ment worked all night repairing the
break. Similar breaks I ase (.coin-
ed this summer, all 01 hem on
3i nday.
» Jchnrle R. Brown, vice president,
presided at the Lions club luncheon
Thursday at the White Rose Cafe.
Announcement was made of the
Lions-Rotarian baseball game which
will be played Sept. 2 as a benefit
for local Boy Scouts. The. member-
ship was asked to be 100 per cent
in - attendance at the practice ces-
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1 Visitors included F. L. Luthars,'
Dallas, guest of J. B. House and H.,
E. Wilson, guest of Rex Kee. G. J,
Gilles and A. J. Eggerton were in
charge of the program. They pre-
sented Douglas Fowler and Doug-
las Brown in a piano and comet
duet.
Bob Lindsey Jr. presented the
new members, Cecil Blum and Carl
Hickey with lapel buttons and the
Lions code of ethics. Twenty-six
i.vrr.oers rnd two visitors were pres-
ent.
-Press reports late Wednesday
stated that the two armed bank
bandits who held up the Walters,
Oklahoma bank Thursday of- last
week are’ still at large. They are
either in hiding in the Kiamichi
mountains -near Antlers, Oklahoma,
or have broken through the block-
ade which had been maintained by
the FBI, highway- patrol, /arid veter-
an'peace officers.
Bloodhounds were used in an ef-
fort to trail the two, and at pres-
ent a systematic ^shakedown of all
residences in a 140-square mile rad-
ius is under way. f
Interest has been high in Electra
since photographs of two local men
have been positively identified as
the bandits, according to informa-
tion received from the Walters Dep-
uty Sheriff’s office by Chief of
Police Ted Miller and Deputy Sher-
iff S. T. Low.
The local officers said that the
two suspects left Electra on July
29 in a 1936 blue Ford sedan. One
of the brothers told Miller that they
were going to Dallas.for three, days.
On Aug. 2, the police department
received a request from the Houston
department asking that one be pick-
ed up, if he returned, as a suspect
in an armed Jobbery in Houston.
The other" suspect is / under a $5t00Q
bond in conection "with an anned
robbery in Odessa last October. .Two
prominent Electrans as well as rel-
atives are on his bond, it was stat-
ed.
Tiie FBI has had a number of
agents in Electra who have been on
the alert mi the event that the
brothers return to Electra and at-
tempt to contact •• relatives. The
agents were interviewed and declar-
ed that they had "no comment” to
make as any statement would have
to be secured from the FBI office
at Dallas.
Following the bank robbery
Thursday, Miller called the police at
Houston to ascertain if the Elec-
tran had been arrested. Houston in
turn contacted Walters officials.
The Electra officers secured pictures
of the two and sent to Oklahoma.
The picture of one was identified by
four out of five witnesses, the local
police was notified, and later the
picture of his brother was also ident-
ified.
The brothers \vere reared in
Electra. One is married and is the
father of three children. The Elec-
tra Police Department's shortwave
radio system has been of much help.
The FBI cars are all equipped with
a shortwave system.
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SCHOOLS ORDER
NEW BOOKS
Approximately $1,000 has been
expended on new books for the 'li-
braries of the Electra public schools.
The books will be apportioned to'the
various schools and will be received
in the near future. The order also
includes a group of magazines for
the 1946-47 session.
Steve Marchand and his son, Steve
Jr., accompanied by John McLaugh-
lin ,left Sunday for Tilbury Canada,
where they will visit Mr. Marchand’s
father, Godfrey Marchand. They
are making the trip in a Jeep% Mr.
Marchand has not visited his fath-
er since before the 'war.
New Tailor Shop
To Open, Monday
The Courtesy Cleaners will open
Monday at 120 North Waggoner
Street, according to Glenn Minton,
owner of the new' business. Minton
formerly operated a shop in Electra
and has had a number of years of
experience in that line of work
Minton was reared in Electra and
is a graduate of the local -rhi >1
He is a son of Mr. and Mi J V.
Minton. His wife is the f'vrv 1 :;<•!-
\ a Magee.
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