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The Monitor
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Sixty-Third Year—Number 22. Mineola, Wood County, Texas, Texas, Thursday, August 25, 1938.
Eight Pages Today
Farmers Urged to Vote
On U.S. Crop Control
Straw Vote Scheduled
Friday and Satur-
day at Thompson's
Hardware Store
Are you, Mr. Farmer, still
in favor of government crop
control?
Whether or not he favors
farm, regulation by the Fed-
eral goverrnment, every farm-
er in the Mineola trade terri-
tory is urged to vote his pref-
erence here Friday and Sat-
urday in a straw poll being
taken by W. L. Thompson at
his hardware store on West
Broad Strett.
Mr, Thompson has arranged
for two lists, and on one he
will register the farmers who
favor the government con-
trol program, and on the other
he will list those who oppose
it. When the voting is com-
pleted he will tabulate the re-
sults and send them to Hen-
ry Wallace, secretary of ag-
riculture, in Washington, D. C.
Discussing the poll, Mr.
Thompson said, "A number of
farmers have come to me re-
cently and expressed their dis-
tisfaction with the present
-up, and I felt that if the
•position were strong enough
we should try to do something
about it. Many farmers claim
it is a handicap and hurting
them."
Thompson said he hoped
ry farmer in this vicinity
would express an opinion.
HONOR FOUNDERS
G. A. Humphreys
Dies I n Tyler:
Funeral Friday
O. A. Humphreys, 45, of
Tyler, died in that city Wed-
nesday following an illness of
several years duration.
Mr. Humphreys was a brother
of Will Humphreys, local post-
office employee, and had for
many years been interested in
the Crescent Laundry of Tyler.
Burial services will be con-
ducted Friday afternoon at Ty-
ler.
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Citizens Ask For
S Tax Equalization
Mineola Schools
Ready to Open
Monday, Sept. 12
Faculty Is Complete;
Registrat ion At the
High School Will
Begin Friday
Javeees Plan To
•/
\dvertise Mineola
By Slogan Contest
Rules Will Be Given
In Next Issue Of
Record; Cash Prize
To Be Offered
The State Fair of Texas
will honor its founders and
pay a tribute to the news-
papers of Texas for their
success in building the
"world's largest and most
beautiful fair" during its first
fifty years, with a monument
to be unveiled on opening
day, Saturday, October 8,
which is also Press Day.
Monitor's Page 1
Will Go In Crypt
At Texas State Fair
A number of Mineola resi-
dents have joined in a protest
>f the equalization of school
taxes: And the group, headed
by Chris Molnari, is seeking
to' have the equalization board
appointed by the school board
to function for a period of
seven or eight days in an ef-
fort to attain a fairer equali-
zation of tax values.
Members of the present equal-
ization board, in commenting
on the protest, said that they
were doing their best, and that
they believed tney had been
fair in the past.
School officials said merely
that the business of the school
system was open for public in-
spection, and that the school
budget for the ensuing year
might be seen at the Coleman
Drug Store or at the office of
Supt. Ben A. Copass.
rhese Will Be Opened
Fifty Years Later
Showing Progress
Made In State
The Jaycees will adopt def-
inite rules for the contest and
name the amount of the prize
at their Monday night meet-
ing, and the contest will be-
gin at once.
The club plans to urge local
merchants to use the slogan
on their stationery and to ad-
vertise it in their stores. Out-
door advertising media will
probably be used as well as
a number of novel advertising
schemes, such as the plan to
send jugs of Mineola water
to the mayor of Dallas and
publishers of Dallas' two lead-
ing newspapers because Dallas is
having trouble with its drink-
ing water.
The committee in charge of
the contest will appoint three
disinterested judges next week,
and plans for the contest will j
The Mineola Public Schools a slogan contest, designed to
will open their doors Monday, advertise Mineola through its
morning.September 12. for the; dr, wRter md Qr_
fifty-sixth annuf.l session, Sup-
erintendent Ben a. Copass has; ed by the Juni0r Chamber of
announced. | Commerce, will be held in Min-
There will be six new faces! eola beginning next week,
in the teaching personnel, ac-
cording to information releas-
ed recently by the board of
education. W. H. Prim, in-
structor in mathematics from
Sulphur Springs, is the only ad-
dition to the high school facul-
ty. The five now additions to
the ward school staff are Miss
Madge Yoakum, Miss Marguer-
ite Billingsly, Miss Mary Clay-
ton Clark, Miss Mary Boyd
Herndon, and Mrs. Constance
Robnett.
Carr P. Kitchen will again
serve as principal of the high
school and D. E. Brooks, who
received his master of arts de-
gree at S. M. U. this week, will
return as principal of the
ward school.
Other faculty members are,
for the high school, Paul W.
Snow, history and athletic
coach; Carroll S. Robnett, busi-
ness and assistant coach;. Mrs.
Ben A. Copass, English; Mrs.
L. C. Moody, Spanish and Eng-
lish; Miss Doris Williams, home
economics; Mrs. Fairie Jennings,
Latin and English; Mrs. L. B.
Willis, civics and history; and
Prim, Copass and Kitchen. Mr.
Kitchen will teach biology and
Mr. Copass will teach chemis-
try and solid geometry.
Mrs. R.eitch Resigned.
Mr. Prim succeeds Mrs. Charm
Reitch, who resigned last year
and who has been described
by the superintendent as one
of the strongest teachers in the
system.
Returning members of the
ward school faculty are Mr.
Brooks, principal; Mrs. C. B.
Cullom, Miss Mary Church, Mrs.
W. E. Lott, Mrs. J. N. Moss, Mrs.
Elmer Fulcher, Miss Grace Ald-
ridge, Mrs. Grace Addy, Mrs.
W. G. Jernigan, Miss Marian
McReynolds, and Mrs. Hubert
Smith.
Paul Cohn, recently elected
band director, will have charge
cf the high school band. Mrs.
'. D. Harris will again teach
(See SCHOOLS, Page 8)
Light Vote Expected In
Run-Off Election Saturday
1,000 Public Works Projects To Be
| Under Way In This Area January 1
Approximately 1,000 Public
Works Administration projects
will be under way in the seven-
state Fifth Region by January
1, George M. Bull, regional di-
rector of the PWA, said re-
cently.
Many of the new projects
financed by the PWA will be in
the constructive stage months
before the January 1 deadline
set by Congress for the start-
ing of construction, Bull said.
Nearly 100 projects will reach
the building stage during Aug-
ust.
The estimated cost of the
1,000 projects in the Fifth Re-
gion will be approximately
$240,000,000 of which $80,000,-
000 will go directly for site,
labor, and $160,000,000 for ma-
terials. The material purchas-
ed, Bull pointed out, will re-
suit in a vast amount of addi-
tional employment since, ac-
cording to the Bureau of Labo,
statistics of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Labor, for every man
hour performed at the site of!
a PWA projects, two and a.
on employment and business
is certain to be marked."
Application for PWA allot-
ments on projects are continu-
ing to pour into the regional
office in Fort Worth. In the
little more than two months
since the 1938 Act became law
900 have been received. Sep-
tember 30 is the last day on
which applications may be filed
but PWA officials are urging
localities to file their appli
cations prior to that time,
pointing out that preference is
being given those projects which
can get into the construction
stage at the earliest time and
that delay in filing an appli-
cation means a corresponding
delay in starting actual con-
struction.
The states included in the
Fifth Region are Arkansas,
Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Texas.
Same Voting
Places Used
be announced in Tuesday's! hours of work have been
Record. 1 Per^°rmed in mills, mines, for-
n/ro. i>« i • „ i ests> and on farms and factor-
May Reclaim Mineral Well. '
There was .some discUssion
Monday night about starting a
drive to reclaim the mineral
well that once was located in
the center of town. It was
pointed out that fifteen years
; ies and on transportation facil-
ities in providing materials.
"The Public Works Adminis-
tration," Bull said, "will reachj
its maximum effectiveness in1
aiding in the reduction of un-
employment and in the stimu-
If, Whe? Jhe nT61?,1 ™terllation of business only if the
was available that all trains
stopped here to allow passen-
gers to get a drink of the water
and that residents of towns all
over this section of the state
came here for the health-giving
water.
The possibility of reclaiming
the well, however, was only
briefly discussed and no offi-
cial action was taken in that
direction.
Trades Day.
The Jaycees decided to go
ahead with the promotion of
the Trades Day, which is ex-
pected to begin next month.
Tickets have been ordered, and,
according to reports, will be
here next week.
The club also desided to in-
crease its membership, and a
committee was appointed to
contact potential members.
$239,000 In Bonds
Approved by Tyler
Tyler taxpayers Wednesday
approved bond issues totaling
}9,000 as the city's part of a
ii 151,539 public works admin-
istration building program.
The issue included $69,000 for
a cjty hall, $60,000 for 22.3 miles
0f paving, $63,000 for ten miles
of sfewer, and $47,000 for a swim-
ming pool.
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Is Your Subscription Paid Up?
A front page from a copy of
The Mineola Monitor, along with j
the front pages of a number
of other Texas newspapers,:
will be sealed in a metal chest!
and placed in a crypt under a'
tablet at the State Fair of Tex-j
as "acknowledging a debt of
gratitude to the press of Tex-|
as."
The pages will be taken from
a copy published between now
and the time for the opening
of the Fair which will carry a
story of the progress and de-
velopment of the city of Min-
eola.
The papers will be locked in
the chest and the tablet will be
set in place and sealed at cere-
monies to be held as a feature
of Press Day at the Fair, Sat-
urday, Oct. 8. The key will be
turned over to the president of
the Texas Press Association,
the largest press association in
the state and of which The
Monitor is a member.
Fifty years later the chest
will be opened. The progress
made in the various cities
of the state will be seen in the
stories which will be carried
on the front page of every is-
sue going into the tablet.
The monument over the tab-
let will stand eight feet tall on
a base six feet in height. It
will be finished in sand and
ground granite.
Yellow Jacket Coaches Call
For Grid Prospects Sept. 1
Next Thursday morning,
Sept. 1, football practice will
begin at Mineola High School,
Head Coach Paul Snow has an-
nounced.
Uniforms will be issued to
prospective Yeliow Jacket grid-
men at 8 o'clock Thursday
morning, and Coach Snow urges
all boys who plan to try out
for the team to be on hand
then with shoes, socks, and
other personal equipment.
Actual workouts will probab-
ly begin Thursday afternoon.
With the first game with the
strong Class A Gladewater
Bears only sixteen days away,
Coaches Snow and Robnett
hope to get the squad limber-
ed up and organized next
week so they can start giving
plays as soon as possible.
Snow's Third Year.
Coach Snow begins his third
season as the head man of
Yellow Jacket football teams.
He will be assisted for the sec-
' ond year by Carroll S. Rob-
; nett, line coach. Under the
guiding hand of these two
men, Mineola won its first re-
gional championship last fall,
when Pennal & Company con-
quored the Rockwall eleven by
a 20-7 count.
For the last four years the
Yellow Jackets have gone into
the state class B play-off. In
1934, the last year Supt. Ben
A. Copass was head coach, the
Jackets lost the regional title
in a heartbreaking defeat at
Kaufman. Then in 1935 luck
was still against Mineola. A
long, risky pass was gathered
in by a fleet Edgewood back
who raced half the length of
the field for a touchdown and
a 7-6 victory, and the regional
crown. R. L. Moore was head
coach that year. In 1936 the
Jackets lost a bi-district game
to Van. But last year's team
made up for all the hard luck
of former years by sweeping
aside all opposition in easy
fashion to take the regional
crown, and win the distinction
of being ranked as one of the
two best class B teams in the
state.
Graduation Costs.
The toll taken in Yellow
(See FOOTBALL, Page 8)
construction is done as quickly
as possible, and as nearly as
possible all at once. With a
thousand projects under way
in the seven states of this re-
gion at one time the effect
G. W. Fletcher,
Veteran Minister,
Is Buried Today
G. W. Fletcher, 78, veteran
Methodist minister, was buried
Thursday afternoon in the
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. Funer-
al services were held at his
home in the Pleasant Ridge
community at 4 o'clock.
Mr. Fletcher died late Thurs-
day after several months of
poor health. He was well known
in Wood County, and had
preached to community con-
gregations in this section for
many years.
Surviving are his wife and
ten children, three daughters,
and seven sons.
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Merchants Stock
New Fall Goods
School Head
Says Budget Is
Open to Public
Urging that patrons of the
Mineola Independent School
District better acquaint them-
selves with school problems,
Supt. Ben A. Copass said today
that the school's budget for
the coming year, adopted by
the board o*' education at its
last meeting, may be inspected
at his office at the high school
or at the Coleman Drug Store.
Referring only casually to
recent discussion of school tax
problems, the superintendent
pointed to a $12,000 reduction
since Jan. 1, 1935, in the $15,-
000 school debt. This debt,
now reduced to a little more
than $3,000, was accumulated
during depression years because
of poor tax collections and cur-
tailed state fund payment. This
$3,000 balance, school officials
believe, will be absorbed within
the next fiscal year.
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Spends Few Hours
In Sweat-House Jail,
Suffers from Heat
Mineola merchants have
been spending time in whole-
sale markets the last few days
in making preparations for
stocking their stores with new
fall merchandise.
Mr. and Mrs. Ocie Fair re-
turned recently from a trip to
St. Louis and Dallas,, and in
their advertisement in this is-
sue of The Monitor announce
the arrival of much of their
new fall merchandise. "Our
stock is more complete than it
has ever been," Mr. Fair said,
"and everything is being shown
at popular prices."
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that
Mineola Drug Company has
made application for retail
Medicinal liquor permit for
Mineola, Wood County, Texas.
(Signed):
MINEOLA DRUG COMPANY.
Local officers took a young
woman about 30 years old off
an east-bound T. & P. pas-
senger train Tuesday night and
placed her in the city jail for
drunkenness and disorderly
conduct. She gave the name
of Ferguson, and said that her
home was in Fort Worth. She
had a ticket to St. Louis but
no money.
At midnight when she was
removed from the jail and
placed on another east-bound
train, the young woman voci-
ferously denounced Mineola's
jail accommodations. Although
she had removed part of her
clothing, she was soaked with
perspiration and pleading for
water.
o
Wood County 4-H
Boys Go to Camp
County Agent Jack d. Hudson
and four Wood County 4-H Club
members are attending the
three-day encampment for 4-H
Club boys at Longview which
began Wednesday. Attending
the encampment from North-
east Texas counties are 125
boys and 25 county agents.
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If you drink, don't drive.
Polls Open at 8 and
Close at 7; Early
Returns Expected
A somewhat lighter vote -than
the 5,740 cast in the July 23
primary is expected in Wood
County Saturday. Aug. 27, in
the second Democratic primary.
The total count in Mineola
is also expected to fall short
of the 1,531-vote record estab-
lished in July since the gov-
ernor's race has been decided
and only a few local races
remain to be voted on.
Several local candidates, how-
ever, say that they have talk-
ed with people who did not
vote in the first election but
plan to vote this time. Too,
the endorsement of six state
candidates by W. Lee O'Daniel
is expected to encourage the
voting, making it difficult to
estimate how much less, if any,
the vote this time may be.
Polls Open at 8.
The polls will open at 8:00
o'clock Saturday morning and
close at 7:00 in the evening,
as usual, election judges Carl
Bruner and Clyde Epps said
here today. And voting will
be done at the places used July
23, Mineola Machine Shop of-
fice for the east box, and the
Reeves abstract office for the
west box.
Due to the shorter ballot,
final returns for the county
are expected before midnight,
Don Roberts, county chairman,
said. In most precincts the
counting will be completed a
few hours after the polls
close.
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Absentee Vote
Short of First
Primary Total
J
Absentee voting in Wood
County fell fifty-six votes short
of the absentte record for the
July 23 election. County Clerk
Chas. Smith said today.
The county total was 271,
fifty-six less than the 327 cast
for the first primary. Mineola
again led all other voting pre-
cincts with a total of 136. The
East Mineola box had 60, to 76
for the west box. Quitman
was second with 47, and Winns-
boro was third with 266. Golden
voted 15.
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Maclins Return
From Fishing Trip
Mr. and Mrs. Garland Maclin,
who have just returned from
a vacation trip to the coast,
had real fisherman's luck in
the Gulf. As Mr. Maclin ex-
plained it, they caught all the
fish they wanted, most of
which were Spanish mackerel
and trout.
They were accompanied by
Mr. Maclin's brother and his
wife from Fort Worth.
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Holiness Convention
Being Held Here
An East Texas convention of
the Holiness Church is being
held here. The meeting got
under way Thursday morning
at the First Baptist Church,
the local Assembly of God
Church not being large enough
to accommodate the large -
crowd that attended.
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The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 1938, newspaper, August 25, 1938; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth298919/m1/1/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.