The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1935 Page: 2 of 8
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THE MINEOLA MONITOR
THE MINEOLA MONITOR
Published Every Thursday, In Mineola, Wood County, Texas
By R. H. CARRAWAY
Member—Texas Press Association
Membei —North East Texas Press Association
at the Postoffice, Mineola, Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter
Under the Act of Congress. March 3, 1879.
May erroneous reflection upon the cnaracter, standing or reputa
i 0t any person or firm or corporation which may appear in the
of this paper will be gladly corrected upon being brought to
attention of the publisher.
¥ear (In Wood County) 510t,
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WE WANT OUR SHARE
Why can't Mineola have a new federal build-
That's what a few public spirited persons
iKtrand here have been wondering for the past
fen years, and that's what The Monitor is won-
Jfering now.
As a matter of fact, the reasons may be term-
ed unequivocal. They are so lilliputian that they
*%ht easily be removed . . . with a little effort,
at feast that's what Congressman Morgan G. San-
ders promises us.
So, the question, "why can't Mineola have a
federal building?" is mild delusion. We C AN have
Mr. Sanders advises that a petition be circu-
lated here, and as many names attached thereto
fcs is possible. This, outside of the congressman's
«wn weildy influence, is the most probable route
Mineola could take to secure the building which
&e Federal Government will build in this con-
gressional district out of a proposed $65,000,000
allotment. Mineola and Kilgore are the two towns
which will be up for consideration.
Our cynics and futilists will contend in all of
their skepticism, "A petition can do 110 good, Kil-
irore will get the building." But who ever got any-
thing by waiting for it to come to them? If we do
not try, how will the federal authorities ever
know that we want a building? They won't, and
consequently there will always be another town
ahead of us ... that is, unless we run out of towns
some day. -
We do not wish to invalidate Kilgore's
chances to secure the building, but still we can-
not but remember that Mineola, a substantial and
steadily growing little city of nearly 4,500 people.
whs trying to get one of these federal buildings
when Kilgore was nothing but a mere church
house and blacksmith shop. Kilgore is an out of
the way boom town whose oil activities have en-
fianced postal receipts above the Mineola total.
Bat in years to come will that office continue to
show the small but steadily increasing receipts
that will be recorded ^ the Mineola office?
Now, we do not deny the fact that Kilgore
tfeeds such a building, but we think Mineola
needs and deserves it too. And we think Mineola
could get this building, and if we do not get it we
certainly think its citizens should know the rea-
son why..
: ANTIQUATED MINEOLA
I
Antiquated Mineola—that's us. At least
Chat's what out of town visitors think when they
have to use our telephones.
Perhaps the telephone company hadn't real-
ised it, but every once in a while Mineola has
some very distinguished or some very important
visitor whose impressions of the town are certain-
ly not boosted any after a wrestle with our tele-
phones.
So far as we yet know most of our out of
town friends have taken our "pump-handle" tele-
phones as a joke and passed it off with a laugh
... .and that's just it, we object to being made the
joker to be laughed at and wise-cracked about.
Complaints have been heard from several
prominent business men whose telephones are
used many times daily by the public. "When a
stranger comes in to use my phone", one man
said, "I have to stop my work-and teach him how
to use the contraption, and then grin and beai
the insult of a pitying smile."
The most antiquated thing in town is our
telephone system, and i!: is owned by one of the
country's largest profit-bearing utilities. The
telephones here are not a great many, we know,
hut the number would probably be increased if a
more up-to-date system were installed.
Mineola is growing, progressing daily, and
we believe we are due this modernizing change.
Take away the old "cranks" and give us "self-
starters", and let us hope that some day we wii
be large enough to ask for "dials".
CONGRESSMAN EXPLAINS WHY NO
FEDERAL BUILDING IS PUT HERE
Continued from page 1)
Before Democratic administration in recent
years, the Treasury Department refused to con-
sider any place for a Federal building where the
postal receipts did not amount to at least $20,000
per annum. I introduced my first bill for a build-
ing at Mineola in 1925 but the Department regu-
lation always prohibited favorable consideration.
In February of 1931 I wrote the following letter
co the Chamber of Commerce at Mineola:
"I have again had up with the Post Office
Department the matter of a Federal building for
Mineola and here is what they say:
'The Department appreciates the willingness
of Mineola to donate a Federal building site to
the government and we should like to be able to
construct a building there, but the contemplated
$100,000,000 will only permit us to take care of
towns over the $20,000 class, and it will be neces-
sary to secure additional authorization before the
above-mentioned place can be considered, even
though a site were donated.'
"I am sorry of this adverse action and hope
that we may be able to get something later on."
I have borne Mineola in mind all along as well as
other towns similarly desiring Federal buildings.
Recently the Second Defciency Appropriation
Bill for 1935 passed the House, carrying with it
an appropriation of- $58,000,000 for the construc-
tion of fDublic buildings outside of the District of
Columbia. The bill has not yet passed the Senate
but will probably be enacted at this session. The
Emergency Appropriation Act of June 19, 1934
made available $65,000,000 for emergency con-
struction of public buildings outside of the Dis-
trict of Columbia. The act provides that the pro-
jects be selected by the Secretary of Treasury,
and the Postmaster General, acting jointly, from
lists of buildings in statements 2 and 3 appearing
in House Report 1879, Seventy-Third Congress,
second session,
Statements 2 and 3 referred to in the original
House Report 1879 contain 793 projects with
limits of cost aggregating $152,638,000. The $65,-
000,000 appropriated by the act of June 19, 1934,
represented approximately 42 per cent of the to-
tal amount required for all projects listed in the
report. Those places selected in our district were
Henderson and Longview and as you probably
know Henderson secured a building which is now
in progress of construction. Longview is conse-
quently on the preferred list as it was impossible
to secure buildings for both places under the
limited appropriation and the number of pro-
jects.
Projects outside of the district of Columbia not
listed in Document 1879 and which have been sub-
mitted to the Treasury Department and Post Of-
fice Department for consideration under any new
public building program include Kilgore and
Mineola for the Third Congressional District.
These projects are now being investigated and
studied to determine the necessity of the same
and comparative urgency therefor. The totai
of this list is 635 projects, amounting to an esti-
mated cost of $47,625,000. The two lists, the one
just mentioned and the former list of selected
projects not reached under the 1934 appropriat-
ion, aggregate 1,153 projects, at a total cost of
$136,293,500. The authorized $58,000,000 is not
quite one-half of this amount.
I wish to assure everyone interested in this mat-
ter that it is my desire and purpose to do every-
thing I possibly can for Mineola. Heretofore
Mineola could not be considered under existing
regulations. I would suggest in this connection
that citizens at Mineola get up a petition showing
the necessity for a building as this would be of
help in properly presenting Mineola's claim after
the inspection at Mineola has been made and the
Treasury and Post Office Departments prepare
to make their decision.
I believe this letter will clarify the public build-
ing situation. With kindest regards and best-
wishes, I am
Yours sincerely,
MORGAN G. SANDERS
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about a lot of coolness.
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Carraway, R. H. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1935, newspaper, July 18, 1935; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth286205/m1/2/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.