The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1932 Page: 2 of 6
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THE ELECTRA- NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1932
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THE ELEGTRA NEWS
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
at 108 North Main St.
Ifcetered as second class mail matter
August 2, 1907, at the postoffice at
Plectra, Wichita County, Texas, lin-
ger Act of Congress of March 8,
1171.
4#T. J. and A. H. Sheldon.\ Props.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year ________________ $2.00
Six Months________________ $1.25
ADVERTISING RATES
HIGH SCHOOL GRADS*
MAY WELL BE PROUD
OF OPPORTUNITIES
Classified ads, per line__________10c
Minimum Classified Ad-------30c . ,
Reading Notices, per line______10c th.e ful1 course of high school work
Nearly one hundred students in
Electra high school will enjoy th?
thrill which comes but once in a
lifetime, on Tuesday evening, May
24, when they receive their high
school diplomas. They will have put
behind them from seven to nine
years of school days. Around fifty
per cent of this number may never
have the opportunity of entering a
school room again as a student. The
joy of achievement and freedom from
the restraint of school regime will
for a time overshadow the sorrow
over separation of chums and class-
mates. Vacation plans will occupy
the days for many. Taking up of
new lines of study will speed the
passing days for others.
Whatever the future that lies be-
fore the Electra high school grad-
uates of 1932 and the thousands of
graduates everywhere this month, it
is evident that the training they
have received in the completion of
OIL SCANDAL IN
EAST TEXAS SHOWS
BLACK GOLD KING
That a scandal in oil circles that
will rival the Teapot Dome affair
is imminent in East Texas is shown
by reports from there Tuesday to
the effect that 158 indictments have
been issued in connection with oil
thefts in Gregg county. As to just
what may be the outcome is hard
to guess, but if there has ever been
an oil field which has been a curse
in many ways it is that huge jug-
gernaut, the East Texas pool. The
discovery of the immense reservoir
of oil there came just at a time
when oil operators everywhere were
facing troubles with overproduction.
Chaos and complete demoralization
of the industry was hastened by the
wild drilling orgy which added fuel
to the flames of discontent.
will serve them well in future
years. It may not show in an out-
standing way during the first years
out of school, but the groundwork
has been laid on which the future
rests. College education is often
stressed to the disadvantage of oth-
er important factors in building of
citizenship, but success or failure
in college training lies, nine times
out of ten, in the early school
groundwork in essentials.
Our school systems are not per-
fect but as a whole Texas is gen-
erous to her children of school age.
They are taught to observe health
rules. They are given the rudiments
of reading, writing and arithmetic
and are drilled in music and draw-
ing. How the world is made, and
the manner of people inhabiting it,
is taught along with the achieve-
ments in industry, invention, science
and agriculture. The boy may learn
to build a dog house, pig pen or
smoking stand, while the girl may
learn to cook a batch of biscuits,
make preserves, a tailored dress or
a baby layette. Both boys and girls
Now it seems that a million or
more barrels of the oil have been j are taught first aid. Girls are taught
stolen from those rightfully entitled home nursing and how to set a
to share in the wealth it has pro- table.
duced. State officials have connived Not all students who receive di-
with pipeline owners and railroad J plomas next week are proficient in
employes have figured in the deals; all of the subjects taught. Some
by which the earth has been drained manage to go through grammar
of the liquid treasure to the con- j and high school without getting
fusion of law and order. The oil (more than a smattering idea of
has been sold below market price ( what it is all about, but education
and selfish gain, greed and conm-1 in its highest sense is essentially so-
vance to defraud is charged by the | cial adjustment. Learning to think
grand jury which made the investi-' and given the rudiments of reading,
gation of the situation. writing and arithmetic will form a
Gambling in grain and cotton by background for better development
means of the pit and the board of and a different attitude toward life,
trade is piking business compared ^ As to what they have really learned,
with East Texas oil. When ths j that has depended largely upon the
smoke of battle has cleared away it child and his home environment,
will be found that oil has superced- One thought stands out above ail
ed wheat as a major commodity and j others in seeing so large a class
that cotton is no longer king. Tin j rewarded with diplomas from our
eyes of the financial world will be (high school, and that is that the
turned on Texas, for where else has (time spent in the school room and
a million barrels of oil been stolen on the campus afforded a real op-
after it was produced? Teapot Dome j portunity for building of the high-
holdings were undeveloped resources est class of citizenship, physically,
as compared to Texas oil debacle, mentally and morally. The faculty,
Texas still does things bigger than the school board and the citizens of
any other state and nowhere in his- J Electra have given of their best
tory has a single grand jury turned toward building and maintaining a
in 158 indictments on related cases, school system of which we are
as the one Monday at Longview. justly proud.
Those who went to scoff at East To the graduates, we extend con-
Texas oil will probably remain to gratulations and best wishes and
pray and those of us who have (the very greatest thing we could
looked longingly, from a distance, on ask of them is that they show the
the streams of black gold flowing same aggressive spirit in meeting
in the Tyler area, can now thamc the problems of life that their pa-
providence that our skirts or shirts rents, teachers and the school board
are clean.
THE WORLD GRIEVES
WITH LINDBERGHS
WHILE HUNT RENEWED
All the world stood agast with
horror and grief when a message
flashed to the remotest nations last
Thursday evening that Charles A.
Lindbergh, Jr., kidnaped from his
home in New Jersey on March 1,
had been brutally murdered within a
few hours or moments from the time
he had been snatched from his crib.
The broken, decomposed body was
found within five miles of his
home, where it had lain only par-
tially concealed while a nation-wide
search had been made for him and
the frantic father had spent near
$200,000 in vain efforts to recover
the infant and apprehend the crim-
inals.
The search for the arch fiend or
fiends is being continued and in the
meantime a small urn, which con-
tains the ashes of their son, was
said to have been delivered Satur-
day to the grief stricken parents at
their bereft home on Sugarland
mountains.
The search for the baby is over.
The hunt for those responsible for
the crime which has superceded all
others in interest throughout the
world will be continued until they
are hrougt to justice. In the
meantime, our hearts go out _ in
.-jmpathy to Charles and Ann Lind-
bugh in this their supreme ordeal.
has shown in providing a full nine
months school in the year 1931-32.
At The
Change
Critical Time In
Every Woman’s
Life.
"During a critical
time in my life I took
Cardui for several
months. I had hot
flashes. I would sud-
denly get dizzy and
seem blind. I would
get faint and have no
strength.
My nerves were on
edge. I would not
sleep at night.
"Cardui did won-
ders for me. I rec-
ommend it to all
women who are pass-
ing through the criti-
cal period of change.
I have found it a fine
medicine/'— Mr$. nettle
Murphyr Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Cardui is a purely vege-
table medicine and con-
& tains no dangerous drugs.
Take Thedford’s Black-Draught
ton Constipation, Indigestion,
and Biliousness.__
A show featuring only those
goods which are actually made in
Texas will be held in the Main Ex-1
position Building during the 1932
State Fair of Texas, it has been
announced here by Otto Heroic,
president of the fair, who is co-
operating with Col. "Bill” Talbot,
exponent of Texas made goods, in
planning the show.
Judge Williams
Here In Interest
Race For Congress
Judge W. Erskine Williams of
Fort Worth, was in Electra, Wed-
nesday,, in the interest of his can-
didacy for Congressman at Large,
place. No. 1. A. C. Rippy of this
city accompanied Judge Wiliams,
who canvassed the business dis-
trict, Mr. Rippy introducing him to
friends here.
Hon. Ben W. Tipton, or this city,
was named chairman of the “Ers-
kine Williams for Congress” club
which was organized to boost Judge
Williams’ candidacy. ;
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National Music Week will open May 1st with a gala concert by the
world’s greatest singers, including Grace Moore (1), Lily Pons (2),
Carmeta Ponsclle (3), Gladys Swarthout (4). Gerard Swope (5) ar-
ranged the concert and broadcast for the unemployed. Walter Dam-
roseh (6) will conduct.
MUSIC lovers over the country
1TJ. will hear * the year’s most
pretentious program , when
the gala cohcert to be.g^en atop
the New Amsterdam Theatre to
benefit unemployed musicians, is
broadcast over an NBC network.
Inaugurating National Music
Week, this concert will eclipse all
others with an array of the leading
musical celebrities of the world,
many * of them from tne Metro-
politan Opera.
Walter Damrosch, premier Amer-
ican conductor, will lead the Na-
Symphony Orchestra. So-
loists include: Lily Pons, Mme. Er-
nestine Sphumann-Heink, Grace
Moore, Gladys Swarthout, Carmela
Ponselle, Aida Doninelli, Beniamino
Gigli, Martinelll, Werrenrath, John
Charles Thomas, George Cehan-
ovsky, and Theodore Webb.
Gerard Swope, nationally known
for his unemployment relief work,
and president of the General Elec-
tric Company, conceived the idea.
A committee of socially prominent
women including Mrs, # Vincent
Astor, working in cooperation with
the New York Junior League are
selling seats at $10 each.*
NO TICE!
Owing to the fart that in the past years SP many
dogs have a<‘cumulated in town and we have had so many
complaints about vicious and other kinds of dogs, the
City Commission has requested that I enforce the Jaw in
regard to keeping dogs in the city.
The law requires that every person shall have his
dog vaccinated against rabies and pay a tax of Two
Dollars ($2) on male, and Three Dollars ($3) on female,
and the City will furnish on application a tag bearing a
number that the dog is required to wear at all times,
showing the license has been paid.
On the first Monday in June, 1 will sent out offi-
cers to gather up all dogs that are being kept in violation
of the law, and all persons found keeping ajlog in viola-
tion of the law and not complying with the requirements
at once will force me to file complaints against them for
keeping a dog or dogs in violation of the City Ordinance.
SIGNED:
J. T. TAYLOR,
Chief of Police.
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The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1932, newspaper, May 19, 1932; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth893043/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Electra Public Library.