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lexia Weekly Herald Offices,
August 1, 1946
Well, everybody is about to
get over the election day of
last Saturday. After passing
through a well rounded cam-
paign all candidates seem to
be very well satisfied, win or
lose. We have seen many of
the candidates, or we should
say has-been candidates, dur-
ing this week, and we can
truthfully say the ones who
lost were in fine spirits, in
fact, they were the best losers
I have seen after any election
' in the past. A good thought
' we would leave with the man
who lost is this, even though
he didn't get enough votes to
be elected, and was eliminated
' from the race, he can rest as-
sured he has more friends now
than when he started running
for the office he sought. Meet-
ing people and making friends
is worth more than a lot of
things we might desire.
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Last Saturday night while
the votes were being counted
over the county, we were in
Groesbeck, a guest of the Dem-
ocratic Chairman, Ben Rawls,
telephoning the returns to the
Sews Publishing Company in
iexia, and as this was our
first time to be in Groesbeck
on election night, we were a-
mazed at the large crowd
gathered in that fine little city
to witness the results of the
votes. I will say here now, Mr.
Rawls and his staff of workers
^were extremely nice to us, of-
fering any help they could to
make our task a success. Now,
if you think these people don't,
earn their money, you should
see them work. Their job is
very nerve-racking, working
very fast and not having time
i to think very much for around
[six hours. We also owe our
tlianks to Judge Kirby for his
fine hospitality in seeing we
were fixed up with a tele-
phone. Also Hardy Browder,
who was ready to help in any
way possible. And last, but not
least, Tom Eubanks, who as-
sisted me in copying returns
and keeping me awake on our
trip back home at 1:U0 Sunday
morning. After we got back
home we remained up to see
the returns from another box,
Mexia 2B, which Mr. George
Turner was election judge. Mr.
Edgar Iley was sitting up at
daylight Sunday morning, as
■fresh as if he was only 21, tell-
ing his favorite jokes. He said
he would go home after day-
light so he wouldn't have to
get up and milk his cow, he
would just milk and go to bed.
Did you ever stop to think of
the early breaking of day-
light? Sunday morning as the
light of day was breaking in
thd East, we were reminded of
something that only happens
in the early morning, a feeling
^of the approach of a new day
with new opportunities. The,
,early morning is different to
the late evening, and of the
setting of the sun, that marks
<a day closed to opportunity.
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Tuesday afternoon, I was in
Dallas, and while there 1 pur-
chased something and brought
it back to Mexia. A few years
ago a merchant would have
thought I was "nuts" to make
such a purchase away from
home. I went into a grocery j
store and didn't know the j
groceryman, had never seen;
him before, and asked for a
pound of bacon. He sold it to
me. The price was exactly
what I found to be in Mexia,
when such an item was avail-
able. It is very seldom I can
find bacon in Mexia, most
times the stores have just sold
out of it.
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A date to keep open ....
'August 21, 22, 23 and 24. These
are the dates set for the big
Rodeo and Centennial Cele-
bration. Actually, the celebra-
tion begins on Sunday night
before the 21st. This week set
aside, marks the 100 years for
our county. Make your plans
now to come to this event.
PHIL EARNER GENERAL. INSURANCE
The Mexia Weekly Herald
A FARM NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE RICH BI-STONE EMPIRE
VOLUME XLVIII.
MEXIA. LIMESTONE COUNTY. TEXAS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1946
NUMBER 31.
ONE COUNTY RACE
TO BE DECIDED IN
AUGUST PRIMARY
One county race remained to
be decidtd in the August, second
primary, after a record vote of
near 7,000 votes was cast Ifst
Saturday by Limestone county
voters.
- At .six o'clock Sunday morning,
after the last county box was in,
having it was found that John
Kidd missed having a majority
by one vote (unofficial). lie had
a total of 3480 to his opponents
3481. If this is declared official
then he will be opposed in the
August election by Waldcn Lit-
tle, who polled 1838 votes.
George Eubanks received 164.':
votes, and it was due to his large
vote in Mexia that the election
was thrown into a run-off.
The race requiring a run-
off is tae Tax Assessor-Collecor
office. The two iiigh men were
Henry Jack Jackson with 2951
votes and Joe A. Grimes, who
polled second place with 15.rj4
voters leaving his narfie un-
scratched on Saturday's ballot.
The last information available
on the 0th District Congressional
race was from only 6 counties,
none of them complete. This in-
formation from the Texas Elec-
tion Bureau gave he following
totals: Cowley, 2430; Griffith,
1807; Kirby, 1054; Teague, 2110
and Tyson, 2428. These totals
gave nothing from which to even
estimate the outcome cf tl is rate,
for Kirby's final total in Lime-
stone County was 3802, which is
not refle ted in the election bu-
reau service report.
Robin Henderson was return-
ed to his scat in the Texas Legis-
lature by a margin of 615 votes
over his only opponent, Lee
Allen.
Sheriff Charlie Shreve won out
over Bill Green for his second
term in that office.
Sadler and Bricc ran third and
fourth in the Tax Assessor-Col-
lector race, one of the two run-
offs in county offices to take
place in August, between Jack-
son and Grimes.
Charles Laurence succeeds O.
T. Curlee in the office of County
Superintendent, lie lead by 852
votes.
Jack Hawkins was the county's
choice for County Democratic
Chairman by a heavy majority.
He received 4501 votes against I
1923 for his opponent, Orion Plum-
mer.
The precinct races for Com-
missioners were as follows. (Two I
top men #will meet in 2nd pri-
mary) Precinct No. 1, Leah 236
and Woods 226; Precinct No. 2,
Gorman 451 and Mudd 174; Pre-
cinct No. 3, Jones 938 and Brown
440; Precinct No. 4 was won by
Ed Prather with a total of 1171,
and a majority oVCr both of his
candidates, Mackey 676 and La-
foy 463.
Unofficial returns show F. A.
Bratton leading W. L. Snowden
for the office of Justice of the
Peace of Precinct No. 5, and also
Guy Herring out in front of E. E.
Wootoon for Constable of Pre-
cinct No. 7.
Kidd Makes History
With County Clerk
Win in Sat. Contest
Here Are Your Limestone County Officers
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ROBIN A. HENDERSON,
Representative
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CLARENCE FERGUSON,
County Judge
(Picture Not Available)
MERCHANTS ASKED
TO PARTICIPATE
IN RODEO PARADE
JOHN KIDD,
County Clerk
CHARLIE SHREVE,
Sheriff
Pictured are the Limestone
county officers that were nomi-
nated in last Saturday's Primary.
The only county office that p
wasn't filled was the Tax As- j
sessor-Collector. That will be de- i| '-
cided in a run-off in the second
primary, August 24th between
Henry Jack Jackson and Joe A.
Grimes. John Kidd's picture was
not available.
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CHARLES LAURENCE,
County School Superintendent
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I believe this is all I should
i write this week and will sec
you again next week.
Yours very truly,
The Editor.
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Drilling Mud Program
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 1 (UP)
—A $6,000 grant to further a
drilling mi.d research program
has 'sen made to :he University
of Texas, the American Associa-
tion of Oil well Drilling Contrac-
tors announced today.
JOHN KIDD, County Clerk
John Kidd, Limestone County
Clerk, with his win without a
tun-off in Saturday's primary,
becomes the first person to ever
win a third-term without a
run-off in the history of Lime-
stone County—and as far as
can be ascertained by the Herald
he is the first to be elected to m
third term in that office since
1894.
Capt. Wiley Brown, who was
the father of Dr. M. M. BroWn of
Mexia was County Clerk of Lime-
stone County for five consecutive
terms. His last term was in 1892.
Prior to that Captain Brown had
served as County Treasurer for
three terms.
Then starting in 1894 Will Bond,
brother of Mrs. David Murphy of
Mexia, served in the County Clerk
post for three terms. He did not
run for a fourth term.
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Most experts agree that the
common water flea is the best
food Jor aquarium fishes.
Veterans' Office
To Open in Mexia
For This Territory
Five thousand veterans of
Limestone and Freestone coun-
ties will receive direct service
from the Veterans Administra-
tion when the new VA Contact
Office, recently approved by
Deputy Administrator T. G.
Lanhicr, Dallas, opens in Mexia
in August.
The lease lias been approved
for office space on the second
floor of the Kondrick Building,
North Sherman and Commerce
Street.
Purpose of the new office is to
assist veterans and their depen-
dents in attaining ally and all of
the benefits to which they are en-
titled under the Serviceman's Re-
adjustment Act.
A fulltime Contact Represen-
tative, not yet named, will be as-
signed to the office. He will be a
veteran himself and will be es-
pecially trained for the purpose.
Mexia has formerly been serv-
ed on an itinerant basis by the
Veterans Administration. This
was found to be inadequate be-
cause of the large number of vet-
erans in this area.
The new office will operate un-
der the jurisdiction of the Waco
VA Center, whose manager, Dr.
It. Itubin, is well-known to citi-
zens of Mexia and Limestone
County.
BUYERS' STRIKE WORKS
DENISON, Tex., Aug. 1 (UPl-
An unofficial buyers' strike a-
gainst high butter prices was
having its effect today in Deni-
son. At least two stores planned
week end sales on butter. Early
in July butter went to 88 cents
a priund, but the average price
now is 69 cents-. For the sale,
one store plans to quote it at 60
cents Saturday.
Mrs. J. L. Roberson
Dies Al Daughter's
Home Monday at Noon
Mrs. J. L. Roberson died Mon-
ay at noon after several months'
illness in the home of her daugh-
ter at 712 East Hopkins Street.
Mrs. Roberson was 83 years
pld and lived most of her life
in Limestone County. She was
born in Union, South Carolina
on Feb. 25, 1863. On June 29,
1882 she married J. L. Roberson
She was the mother of ten chil-
dren, the following survive her.
They are: Jeff, California; Ollie,
Houston; Mrs. Vclva Lipsey of
California; John of Corpus
C.'hristi: Mrs. Alma Wadle and
Sidney of Mexia, and Roy of
Houston.
Also two brotners and one sis-
ter survive They are: Cal Ward
of Mexia, Oscar Ward of West
Columbia and Mrs. Alice Boyken
of Sweetwater.
A number of grandchildren and
great-grandchildren also survive
Mrs. Roberson.
Funeral Services will be held
Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 p. m.
at Pt. Enterprise. Rev. E. E. Rog-
ers will conduct the services.
Pallbearers will be Grady
j Wright, II. L. Gardner. Gene
Wadle, J. E. Barnes, Jay Shcrrill
j and Johnnie Wadle.
JOE RANDALL
OPENS SHOP
IN MEXIA
C. R. Noles has announced
that plans are underway for a
big Jayeee parade for August
21st at 4 p. m. He said that the
organization is attempting to get
every merchant in Mexia to have
a float in the parade, a part of
the Limestone Centennial Cele-
bration to be held in Mexia, Au-
gust 18-25.
It was pointed out that it is
especially desired to have an im-
pressive float depicting some
phase of the Cynthia Ann Park-
er incident.
Also all civic organizations are
being requested to participate in
the parade, preceding the first
night of the four night rodeo
that will be one of the featured
attractions of the celebration.
Merchants and civic organiza-
tions will bo contacted during the
next week by S. E. McKinnon
and Billy Jack Steele to make
arrangements for the parade
preparations. All business men
and organizations arc asked to
j be planning the type of partici-
pation they can provide for the
I parade, so that advance plans can
be made by the Jaycees.
PRIZE APPLE
PRODUCED BY
TEHUACANA MAN
An interesting sight for the
Herald force last week was
a one pound delicious apple thai
W. M. Jones of Tehuacana was
showing as a sample of the
quality fruits that can be pro-
duced in this area.
The apple measured fifteen
inches in circumference. Mr.
Jones pointed out that many
iarmcrs of this territory had been
| hunting a good profit crop while
! they owned some of the best ap-
[ pie producing soil in the coitn-
| try.
The Tehuacana man asked that
il the Herald mentioned the prize
apple that they point out to the
people hat he did not have any
apples for sale as he had only
I grown a few.
Case of Jim Sanders,
Blind Texas Veteran,
To Be On Air Friday
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. I (UP)—
Texas pride rushed to the aid to-
day of Jim Sanders, blinded World
War II veteran threatened with
eviction.
A fund was started to raise
money for a $7,000 home to be I
| built by a contractor at cost. An j
I electrician and plumber telephon-
| ed United Press offering to do e-
i lectrical wiring and plumbing
work free.
HOUSTON. Tex., Aug. 1—
(UP) — Radio Station KTHT
announced today the Mutual
Broadcasting System will
dramatize the story of Jim
Sanders, the blind veteran,
on the "Spotlight of America"
program at 8:30 P. M. (CST)
Friday.
Markets
COTTON
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 1 (UP)—
Approximate prices of cotton in
the Dallas market as reported to-
day to the Agricultural Market-
ing Service for basic middling
lots on brokers tables and F. O. B.
Dallas trade territory, flat; basis
calculated on the closing of 33.75
on October contracts, New York.
Middling
Staple Basis Price
7-8
13-16 345 off 30.30
7-8 185 off 31.90
29-32 105 off 32.70
15-16 20 off 33.55
31-32 10 off 33.65
1 inch 5 on 33.80
1 1-32 30 on 34.05
1 1-16 85 on 34.60
Strict middling 25-65 higher.
Strict low middling 170-205
lower.
Col. 'Tiger' Teague
Gets Endorsement
Of Former Opponents
Deep In the Heart
of Texas
By Sassfrass Sam
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LIVESTOCK
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FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug
(UP) (USDA)—Livestock.
Cattle 4,000, calves 2200. Cat-
tle and calves slow. Cows about
steady with Wednesday's decline.
Fat Calves weak to 25 lower. Low
grade steers and yearlings weak
to 25 lower. Good grade beeves
very scarce. Bulls and stackers
unchanged. Common to medium
10:00-15.00 cutter yearlings
slaughter steers and yearlings
and heifers down to 8. Medium
and good beef cows 10-13.50, one
load at 14. Common 8.75-9.75.
Cutters 8-8.75, canners 5.50-7.75. I
Bulls 8.-13. Good and choice fat
calves 14-16, occasional choice
heavies to 16.50. Mediums 13-
13.75, common 10-12.75, cull 7.50- |
10. Stocker calves, yearlings and
steers mostly 11-14.50. Replace-
ment cows 7.50-9.
Hogs 400. Butcher hogs mostly
1.00 higher With few sales up
more, sows .50 to mostly 1.00
higher, stocker pigs steady. Top
24.25 pcid sparingly by shippers
or new all-time high on this
market. Good and choice 180 lbs.
up to packers mostly 24, good
and choice 140-175 lb. 22-23.75, |
sows 21.50 to mostly 22. Stocker
pigs averaging 110 lbs down 15-
18.
Sheep 6,500. Spring lambs l
steady to weak, some good lambs j
.25 or more lower, aged sheep I
steady. Good spring lambs 16.50,
medium and good springers 14-
16, common and medium spring-
ers 12.13.50, culls 9-11. Good ewes
mostly 7, few sales of ewes and
wethers to shippers 7.25-7.75.
Common and medium ewes 5.25-
6.50, culls 4.50-5. Good feeder
lambs 13.50.
OPA officials told Sanders'
landlady she couldn't evict them
because the notice was written
July 18, during the OPA holiday,
| and had not been OPA-approved.
Houstonians were hurt because
easterners, northern easterners at
I that, were the first to offer to
j help Sanders who was refused
j homes by prospective landlords
J because of his blindness.
Southern pride boiled, especial-
ly when Houstonians heard of an
out-of-city headline reading "Vet-
eran Gets Shoddy Deal in Hous-
ton."
The local chapter of Disabled
Veterans started the collection to
raise money to buy Sanders a
home.
Joe Randall, formerly in busi-
ness in Mexia, has announced the
opening of a shoe repair shop,
308 East Commerce street.
Mr. Randall recently purchas-
ed the T. E. Day Shoe Shop, and
after adding more equipment,
has reopened for business. In
connection with the shoe repair,
a shine stand will be maintained.
The life of vegetables, such as
carrots, can be lengthened by
cutting off the leafy tops as soon
as they are removed from the
garden. Leaves draw moisture
and food value from the roots.
Wyoming cattle biands often
are used as decorations in linen,
chinaware and stationery.
GRAINS
FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 1.
(UP)—Estimated grain receipts
at Fort Worth Thursday included
17 cars of wheat, 2 ears of corn,
2 cars of oats and 54 cars of sor-
ghums.
Prices reported to USDA's Pro-
ductfon and Marketing Adminis-
tration were stronger for sorgh-
um grain and fully steady for
wheat and oats.
No. 1 hard wheat, with ordi-
nary protein content, was quoted '
at $2.04 to $2.05 per bushel, bulk, )
in carlots, with all charges paid '
to Fort Worth or Galveston. The }
No. 2 grade, weighing 59 pounds
to the bushel, was quoted at
$2.03 to $2.04 while the 58 pound
weight brought $2.02 to $2.03.
Sorghums realized $3.25 to
$3.35 per hundredweight, for
milo and kafir, including all per-
missible markups.
No. 3 white oats brought 86 to i
87 cents a bushel in Fort Worth I
and 88 to 89 ccnts in Galveston, j
CIVIL CASES
Filed in the office of the Dis-
trict Clerk of Limestone County, I
Texas, week ending July 20th, I
1946, as compiled from records of J
LONE STAR ABSTRACT COM- '
PANY, INC., Groesbeck, Texas. !
Irene Hughes vs R. H. Hughes. [
H. E. Giles, Jr. vs. American j
National Insurance Company.
Farmers State Bank, Mexia vs.
C. J. Lucas.
Virgie Lec Gibson vs. James
Richard Gibson.
By 1980 we probably shall
have reached our peak popula-
tion—150,000,000.
Marriages in the first three
months this year were nearly
50 per cent above the 1945
period.
COL. "TIGER" TEAGUE
MEXIA, Tex., Aug 1.—Three
defeated candidates in the race
for the post vacated by Luther
Johnson, Congressman of the 6th
District, had today thrown their
support to Colonel Olin E. (Tiger)
Teague of Bryan.
Teague now is in the runoff
with Attorney Tom Tyson of
Corsicana.
The candidates spoke to a
crowd, which included represen-
tatives from 7 of the 8 counties in
the district, at a camp site on the
Navasota River between Groes-
beck and Mexia at Fort Parker.
They were Lynn Griffith of
Waxahachic, Joe Cowley of Hills-
boro, and Judge Fountain Kirby
of Groesbeck.
Part of their statements were
as follows:
Griffith—"I'm for Tiger Teague
because he represents more near-
ly the things that I advocated."
Judge Fountain Kirby—"I
wish to thank the people for their
vote in Saturday's primary. I
will vote for Col. Teague August
24 for Congressman from the 6th
Congresisonal District."
Joe Cowley—"I thank the vot-
ers Of the 6th district for their
support. I believe that the elec-
tion of Tiger Teague will bo to
the best interest of the average
citizen of this district.
Texan Elevated to
Undersecretary of
State by President
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (UP) ;
—The appointment of Keen I
Johnson, former Kentucky gov- j
ernor, as Undersecretary of La- j
bor, was announced today by J
President Truman at his news j
conference.
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At the same time, Mr. Truman |
announced the elevation of As- j
sistant Secretary of State Wil-
liam L .Clayton to the newly I
created post of Undersecretary |
of State for Economic Affairs.
Shortly before announcing j
Clayton's nomination, the Presi-
dent signed a bill creating the
new post.
More than 4,8b8 trackless trol-
ley coaches are now m operation
in the United States.
July 30, 1946
Defending Texans
While walking to and fro in the
land, I noticed some time ago that
Texans were held in low esteem
in Sunny California. This worried
me very much for I like them and
think they can't be beat, so I
wrote several letters to Southern
California paper for publication.
Here's one . . . Quote:
Realizing that Texans have a
pretty hard name out in your
state, I want to put in a few words
in their defense and try to modify
this attitude that Californians
hold toward them for I sincerely
believe a true Texan has many
commendable virtues and is by
no means an altogether bad egg.
You know here in Texas when
we have a citizen who becomes
| too sorry and onery for anything
else, we get up a 'pot', buy the
rascal a ticket to California, or
I either grab him up, throw him on
j a freight train and deport him to
that far distant land just to get
| rid of him and we've never heard
\ of one of this kind ever returning
; for the simple reason they are too
i onery to ever earn enough to buy
a return rai]roa$ ticket and so
they continue to eke out their
existence in your fair land, much
to the detriment of our general
repitation, wc regret to say.
| Now occasionally a good and
! true Texan lands out there in
| your state and when he does, ho
invariably makes good, you Cali-
j fornia people accept him and he
! makes a fine, prosperous and up-
j r'fht citizen. The same thing can
i be said regarding emigrants from
j our neighboring state of Arkan-
| sas. There's some good people
| from that state too. Look at old
| Bob Burns—he left Arkansas on
! a freight train, went to California
! to pick grapes, and look what
j California's done for him, why
! they've adopted him, hired him to
help make moving pictures, put
him on the radio and paid him
good wages to the extent that he
has now bought himself a black-
land farm and stocked it with
goats . . . Now that boy has real-
ly advanced and I claim a Texan
can do the same thing if given the
same chance. Of course old Bob
Burns had the advantage of most
Texans, he had so many kinfol's
to pull for him, most Texans fall
out with their kinfolks early in
life, often at the age of seven or
eight and then have to paddle
their own canoe, or rather plow
their own cotton row from then
on out.
So please don't condemn us all
for the acts and manners of our
minority that fate has domiciled
in your fair land and remember,
we have some cracker-jack good
people back here in this big old
wild state and just plenty of them
that are all wool and a yard wide
and we would like very much for
you to nice some of them, so try
to pay us a visit some time. We'll
be mighty glad to have you do so.
And with best regards and many
thanks for publishing this, I re-
main,
Yours very truly.
Sasfrass Sam of Texas
March 18, 1946.
Slightly Overconfident
TOKYO, July 31. (UP)—The
Japanese Army was so confident
of its success in Manchuria that
in 1933 it issued a memorandum
specifying that the puppet state
of Manchukuo was to be an
Army-Controlled Vassal of Ja-
pan, evidence introduced in the
War Crimes Trial showed today.
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