The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1952 Page: 1 of 14
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Casualty Count
FOR WOOD COUNTY
Traffic Death?, in 1952
7
JULY 23, 1952
Traffic Deaths In 1950
17
Traffic Deaths In 1951
9
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SEVENTY - SEVENTH YEAR - NUMBER EIGHTEEN
MINEOLA, TEXAS. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1952
Sanitation
Breedlove Nursery Opens
Survey of
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Contract Let on
Farm to Market
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luncheon at
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Sheets Heads Red Cross
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Watermelon
Festival
Involve Liquor
Law Violations
Heavy Rainfall
Drenches Parched
Robbins to Make
Other board members are J. W.
Weems and J. G. Shamburger
of Route One, Quitman, R. Q.
and J. E. Mapes of Yantis.
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China Missionary
To Tell of Escape
From Reds in China
office.
All other festival attactions
reserve army chaplain and pas-
Central
F. R. Jackson, John C. Rob-
bins and associates still haven’t
given up hope of finding oil
near the Mineola townsite. The
operators expect to move back
*A the general location of their
recent failure, the No. 1 Emma
Ivey Estate, within a few days
for another Woodbine test.
’’’he Ivey well was drilled to
7,491 feet, presumably in the
Woodbine, without any showing
of oil. The well, however, ran
about a hundred feet high to
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Nortfo Anti Sas>t Texas’ ^Foremost Weekly Newspaper
ing two acts from the Gaines-
ville Circus, the Streamliners,
Bewley’s Chuck Wagon Gang
and the Queen’s Court will start
at 8 o’clock at the football field.
The stadium show is free to >
the public.
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Lukenbill’s
in an <
turned home several days ago
cured after having
slight paralysis in one leg. She
is now able to be up and walk-
ing around.
Shipping Plant in Mineola
Industry to Start With
$55,000 Annual Payroll
' and peas along with late toma-
. . , . . , , . , , toes and cucumbers also were
included m twenty-eight road
construction jobs on which the
I gives the public a hearty invita-
tion to hear these missionaries.
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Guest Speaker at
Central Baptist
The Rev. C. B. Stanley, mana-
ger of the Texas J
Jud Padgett Home
Destroyed by Fire
Tuesday Morning
The home of Mr. and Mrs. service, and Bill Goodwin pre-
Jud Padgett at 209 Elliott Street sented special music. The group
- went to Tyler State Park for a
and picnic
volunteer teer workers are still needed in
all four towns, and persons in-
terested are urged to contact
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Plan to be in Mineola next
newsstands Wednesday for the Watermelon
Festival.
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The bottom fell out of the
! watermelon market throughout
East Texas this week. Carlot
I buyers were paying $2 per hun-
! dred last week but the price
| opened Monday at $1. The re-
I suit was a sharp drop in car-
i lot shipments this week.
Watermelons moving through
the Mineola Farmers
parade, with eight bands, 25
floats and added attractions,1
will begin moving west at 11:30
from the Otho Motor Company
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Special music for the corona- 80 to the high school building
where the bands will be served
I Western Union
Moves to Hotel
Rites Friday for
Former Mineolan,
Victim of Polio
H. A. Burford, Jr.. 28. former
resident of Mineola, died Mon-
day in John Sealy Hospital,
Galveston, of bulbar polio.
Funeral services will be held
here Friday afternoon at 3
o’clock in the English Funeral
Chapel with the Rev. M. M. :
Harris, pastor of the First Bap-
' tist Church, officiating. Burial
will be made in the City Ceme-
tery.
He is survived by his mother.
Mrs. Edna Tilly Burford, former
Mineola resident who is
I serving in the WAC.
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| Republicans Set
Precinct Parley
The Republican
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Tills part of the program is
under the direction of Miss Jan
Riddle, graduate student in
Brite College, T.C.U.
Methodist young people were
guests at the Monday night
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The People’s Telephone Co-
operative, Wood County’s re-
cently organized rural telephone
cooperative, is now seeking a
minimum of 890 customers to
make $10 deposits in order that
the association may comply with
the requirements of the provi-
sions of the Rural Electric As-
sociation $400,000 loan. I. M.
Chadick, manager of the coope-
rative, said Thursday that $8,000
must be raised from Ohe sub-
scribers to qualify the associa-
tion for the loan. Actual con-
County Judge Virgil E. Rob-
bins, Jr., disposed of thirteen
cases in county court Monday
and Tuesday, all of which were<
tried without jury on pleas of
guilty. Eight of the thirteen
cases involved liquor violations.
Thirty-five petit jurors who
had been summoned for county
court service were dismissed
Tuesday afternoon as the July
session of court adjourned.
Two violations for the sale of
liquor in dry areas brought fines
of $100 each and costs; a fine
of $100 and costs was assessed
on a charge of possession of
beer for sale in a dry area; five
charges of driving while intoxi-
cated resulted in fines of $50
and costs in each. One case of
aggravated assault drew a fine
of $25 and cost and another
drew a. fine of $50 and costs.
Sentences of six months in jail
were assessed in cases of swind-
ling with check and misdemean-
or theft. A charge of driving
while license is suspended drew
a seiftence of thirty days in jail.
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and Bill Breedlove, manager,
said that local labor will be
employed. No roses will be
grown here during the first year
of operation; however, future
plans call for obtaining con-
siderable acreage. The firm
anticipates a sharp growth of
its Mineola branch, and as ope-
rations are expanded the payroll
will be increased.
Breedlove Nurseries, owned by
Jessie Breedlove and his five
brought welcomed relief sans of Tyler, will continue to
heat and maintain headquarters in Tyler;
crops. A
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Walter McPherson
Spivey of Route Two, Winnsboro To Conduct Revival
At Liberty Church
The Rev. Walter McPherson.
Breedlove Nurseries of Tyler
will locate a processing and
a.m.,
the house was completely en-
gulfed in flames. Mr. and Mrs.
Padgett had left home a few
Baptist minutes earlier and there was
Orphans Home, will speak Sun- nobody there
day morning at the Central broke out.
Baptist Church in the absence
of the pastor, the Rev. W. Clyde
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however, practically all of their
shipment of rose bushes will be
done through the Mineola plant.
They picked Mineola as one of
' several prospective sites for the
, packing plant because of its
transportation facilities.
The Breedloves called Grady
Skelton, a relative, at 3:30 one
afternoon about a month ago
< seeking information. Mr. Skel-
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' plans call for bringing the
: Bloodmobile to Mineola, Hawk-
ins, Quitman and Winnsboro if
enough pledges can be secured
in each town.
Eleven Wood County home'
demonstration clubs have voted i
to work in the program, and in
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’ Class of 1930
I ton relayed the querry to the
I chamber of commerce and by
4:30 a representative of the
Ulman Bruner
! Named Mineola
i High Principal
Ulman H. Bruner, principal
and football coach at Quitman
High School for the last six
years, has been elected principal
of Mineola High School, accord-
ing to an announcement by
Virgil Peacock, president of the
board of trustees. He was elect-
ed at a meeting of the board
: we mean. The girls wit\ the “now, how’d that happen” expression are (left to right...or is it Monday night to succeed W. H.
I right to left) Marilyn and Carolyn Wisener, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wisener | prim who has been elected
i of Mineola. They posed with the twin Black Diamond for the benefit of Mineola Watermelon
I Festival publicity, and the picture is being given nationwide circulation by the Associated Press.
Ray Boutwell, county Rpd ---------- y-. ——
Cross chairman, said present Mr. Sheets or Mr. Boutwell.
DOUBLE SWEET—That’s the way they grow’em at Mineola, both watermelons and the ladies,
' The festival, incidentally, is July 23.
struction of telephone lines, he !
said, will, begin within a few nm w* *■ "gr -a •
SS^SS'JVlelon Festival to Begin
payment of only $10 is being
asked now, Mr. Chadick said.1
The $37 entitles the subscriber
to have his house wired and
equipped with a modern dial
system instrument.
The original plans of the co-
operative call for constructing
about 200 miles of lines in five
units around Quitman, Winns-
boro, south of Mt. Vernon and
Yantis and for buying and im-
proving the Golden telephone
exchange now owned by L. A.
Mason. In these areas there are
potentially 1,355 customers, Mr.
Chadick said.
Persons who haven’t made ap-
Wednesday and Thursday would c. S'heftall, precinct chairman,
be a big help to young melons, j Mr. Sheftall said the
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will be served
Herm’s Cafe.
From 2 until 3 o’clock enter-
tainment will be provided in
three air conditioned churches.
The watermelon (east will not
start until 3:30. There will be
no melon served before this
time and visitors are requested
not to come to the sheds while
committees arc setting up tables,
i Bewley’s Chuck Wagon Gang
' will play at the watermelon
; shed at 4 o’clock.
I. E. Dreschel of Fort Worth,
a sanitary engineer with the
State Department of Public
Health, and Dr. W. T. Black,
director of the Wood County
Health Unit, made a survey of
the sanitary conditions of Min-
eola this week, and their find-
ings will be reported at a public
meeting called for Friday morn-
ing.
The meeting will be held at
10 o’clock Friday morning in the
Select Theatre, and after Mr.
Dreschel makes his report it
will be turned into a question
and answer session in which the
problem of further improving
the sanitary conditions of Min-
eola will be discussed.
In making the survey the
health officers took samples
from Smith Creek, and a re-
port on the analysis is expected
to be given Friday morning.
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Rural Telephone
Co-Op Seeking
800 Customers
Road in County
R. N. Adams of Kaufman was
Members of the queen’s court awarded the contract for hard
surfacing Farm Road 778 from
i Hainesville to Crow tn Wood
County. The contract calls for
an expenditure of $115,271 for
' grading, structures, base and
surfacing on 8.1 miles of road.
The Wood County project was
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construction jobs on which the p
State Highway Department let
Tuesday. totaimB $3-,33-757iprjce of Melons
Work is expected to begin the
‘ latter part of this month. . QI)S SliarDl V
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W. M. POOL RITES | Fact ToVflC
W. M. Pool, who recently L.u5l LVAflo
opened a furniture upholstery
shop near Mineola on the
Hainesville road, died Monday
at his home. Funeral services
were held in Jacksonville.
of Garrison, former associate 1
pastor of the First Methodist
Church of Mineola, will begin
. a one-week revival Sunday, July
Rev. Glenn Dunn, missionary 20. at the Liberty Methodist
from China and the Philippine Church five miles east of Quit-
Islands, will be the speaker man. The meeting will continue
Sunday morning, July 20, at the through Sunday, July 27.
11 o’clock hour in the Assembly Services will be held twice
of God Church, 440 S. Johnson, daily, at 10:30 in the morning
Rev. and Mrs. Dunn sailed and at 8 o’clock in trie evening,
for China seventeen years ago ---0---
and the most of their ministry
has been in China. He will tell
•’low Mrs. Dunn and daughter
escaped from the Communists.
The past few years of their
ministry has been in the Philip-
pine Islands. ; I
Rev. L. H. Hubbard, pastoi, wag c;estrOyCd by fire of unde- ...
termined origin early Tuesday swim and picnic Wednesday Wood County to accept blood:
morning. evening, and young people from donations, but before the unit
The alarm sounded at 4:20 the First Christian Church of can be brought ‘here enough
but when firemen arrived Tyler joined them. Both groups pledges must be secured to in- Mineola the American Legion
returned here for services. sure obtaining 150
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IN TYLER HOSPITAL
Mineola Polio
Patient Improved
Lewis (Skippy) .Dean, 10-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Dean, 817 University Street,
Mineola’s fourth polio victim of
the summer, was considerably
improved Wednesday, and doc-
tors said he would be able to
be moved out of the polio iso-
lation ward within a few days.
His fever had disappeared
completely Wednesday and he
was in good spirits; however,
his right leg still had slight
paralysis.
The only other polio patient
from Mineola in the hospital is
Betty Jane Boyd, 8, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Boyd, who
was moved last week from
Mother Frances Hospital to
Mr. Sheftall said the con- Medical Center. Her condition
, vention was open to the public also is improved.
and newcomers to the party
1 Mill be welcomed.
Breen,
chamber- of commerce was in
Tyler talking to Breedlove offi-
cials. The chamber contacted
the Northeast Texas Ice Com-
pany, and the two firms worked
$100,000 out arrangements for building
space. The ice company also
will furnish ice for the cold
storage vaults.
Construction on a brick an-
nex to the ice plant has already
started.
Mr. Breedlove complimented
the chamber of commerce for
1 the cooperation received here
and said he was looking forward
to getting the Mineola plant
into operation. It will be used
to process, pack and ship rose
bushes, which will be moved in
carload lots over the Texas &
Pacific and by motor freight.
Activities at the plant will be
laigely seasonal with the ship-
ping season lasting from Sep-
tember to April; however, some
of the employees will be hired
on a year-round basis. No appli-
cations for jobs are being ac-
cepted y*t. A notice will be
placed in the paper when the
firm is ready to begin hiring.
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The coronation of Queen Sue Joanna Starnes, and duchesses 1
Lukenbill will open Mineola’s from fifteen neighboring towns.'
Fourth Annual Watermelon Linda English, daughter of Mr. [
Festival next Wednesday. The and Mrs. J. O. English, will be ,
coronation ceremony will be crown bearer,
held Wednesday morning at 10
o’clock at the Select Theatre, tion will be provided by the
and Tom Baker, president of Texas & Pacific Streamliners, a lunch in the school cafeteria.
Chamber of trio composed of two women
and a man, and Mr. and Mrs.1
> pretty Ed Nelson. Admission of fifty
elaborate cents will be charged to help
defay the expense of the festi-
val. Tickets are now available
commerce
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Another Wood County polio
victim, Patricia Ann Frost, 9-
Raymond Breen, precinct year-old daughter of Mr. and
chaiman for the Mineola east Mrs. Jack Frost of Quitman, re-
The Mineola Western Union ward, has announced that the
office moved back to its original convention for that precinct will virtually
location in the Beckham Hotel i be held in the firemen’s room
building Thursday afternoon. . at 9:30 Saturday, July 26.
The office has been located at i —-----o L
the Mineola Seed Store on Line j The Monitor and Record are
Street for the past several available Monday and Thurs-
months. Mrs. Martha Milner will day afternoons on 1 —
continue Ms operator. i downtown.
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Wednesday’s rain, which was :
general over this East Texas
area,
from mid-summer
needed moisture for
total of 1.4 inches fell in Min-
l eola with .6 of an inch falling
' within a few minutes between .
: 8 and 9 o’clock Wednesday
i morning.
A little less than an inch fell
' at Quitman, and surrounding !
counties had around an inch of
i moisture. Gilmer, however, had
! close to three inches.
I Too much rain makes water-
melons ready for market
watery; however, the ground
was so dry that the watermelon
and cantaloupe crops are said
to have benefitted. The rain
came too late to be of much
I help to field corn, but it saved
; other feed crops. Sweet potatoes
■ On the theatre stage with the
directors. Horace Cathey of Watermelon Queen will be five at the chamber of
Quitman is president of the co- princesses from Mineola, Pat-
operative and Ray Benton of ricia Prim, Molly Keeran, Sara
Route One, Como, is secretary. Alexander, Patricia Cowan and 1 are free to the public. The big
Christian Church
Youth Round-Up
Ends Friday Nite
The Central Christian Church
Youth Round-Up which began
Sunday will be concluded with
the Friday night service.
The services have been start-
ing at 7:30 each night with a
. “sing-spiration” which is follow-
, ed by worship service conducted
by Bill Harrison, student at
T.C.U. At 8:30 there is a half
hour of recreation and refresh-
ments in the fellowship hall..
Bloodmobile Campaign; tr!KU!ers who w?re paying from
The Red Cross Bloodmobile, |
a mobile blood bank which sup-
plies plasma to the armed forces
in Korea, is ready to come into
pints of Auxiliary will sign up prospec-
blood in each town. H. J. Sheets, five donors. When arrangements
for the campaign have been
3 Mrs. Erlyne Hinckley was ad- tor of the Central Christian completed in the other three
fire mitted to the Medical Center Church, has charge of the pro- towns a county-wide drive for
Hospital in Tyler Wednesday gram in Mineola and is now pledges will be launched. Volun-
0--to undergo a major operation, looking for more
Sam Weitz of Denison was a She will be away from her. desk workers to sign up pledges.
Smith. The pastor will preach visitor in Mineola Wednesday at the Ludlam-Pegues Insurance, Ray Boutwell, county
Market
Thursday were being bought by The Republican convention
for Precinct No. 1 will be held
j $1.10 to $1.40 for number one Saturday morning, July 26, at
grade. Movement was steady but 10 o’clock at the fireman’s room
not heavy. 1 in the city hall, according to an
Melon growers said the rain announcement this week by T.
Third Try for Oil
their first test, the NO. 1 Wisen- packing plant in Mineola, and
baker, and still another attempt construction has already been
will be made to find pay in the started by t‘he Northeast Texas
faultline wihich lies across the Ice Company on a t---,--- .
area. No starting date for the i building to house the firm. The
third well has been announced, plant will be in operation by
but reliable reports are that a Sept. 1.
rig will be moved in within a The announcement that
few days. j Breedlove is moving to Mineola
Colson Drilling Company, was made this week by H. V.
which owns an interest in the Puckett, chairman of the in-
venture, has the contract. , dustrial committee of the Min-
General American Oil’s wild- eola Chamber of Commerce.
cat test three miles northwest “The landing of this important
of Quitman on the L. L. Delaney Industry means the opening of
Estate ended in failure last a new source of agricultural
week. The ‘hole was plugged at income as well as a significant
6,754 feet. Two completions have step in the industrial develop-
been added in the Quitman ment of the community,” Mr.
Field. They are the Shell No. 2 Puckett commented.
Cox-Smith, good for 276 barrels Breedlove’s original invest-
in the Paluxy, and Amerada's ment here will amount to about
No. 2 C. A. Green, which pump- $110,000 and the firm’s annual J
ed 85.45 barrels from the sub- payroll will be in excess of $50,-
Clarksville. 000 to begin with. The size of
A new test under way in the the operation is expected to be
Hawkins Field is the H. D. Me- substantially increased later.
Donald No. 1-B W. R. Parrish, The plant will process, pack
George Brewer Survey, in Block and ship East Texas rose bushes,
13 of the townsite.
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Prim who has been (
i principal of the Texas
! High School.
I Mr. Bruner graduated from
High School in the
and attended
Ouchita College at Arkadelphia,!
Arkansas. i
He is not expected to be a
member of the coaching staff
here; however, the assistant
football coach’s job, formerly
held by Raymon Bynum, is still
open.
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Carraway, R. H., Jr. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1952, newspaper, July 17, 1952; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493071/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.