The Sunday Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 14, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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WEATHER
Sunday: Partly cloudy.
Slightly rising temper-
atures.
The Sunday Record
DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF MINEOLA AND WOOD COUNTY
WORTHWHILE
Don't forget to go to
church today. You'll
enjoy the fellowship
you will find there.
Eleventh Year—Number 15.
Mineola, Wood County, 'Texas, Sunday, July 14, 1940.
Four Pages Today
Main Line
MUSINGS
By STACK RATTLER
Engineer Whitworth is back
on his passenger run after an
absence of several days, due
to an injury to his hand. Ef-
fective Monday, July 8, the
JGN connection of No. 69 will
be handled by the crews of
the Texarkana-Mineola local
instead of through freight
crews. This will mean a re-
duction in the work being done
by pool crews and it don't
lock so good for the home team
Folks, the funny looking
houses you see on the back of
the tanks of our big freight
eng.'res are not what lots of
people think they are. They
are provided for the exclusive
use of the head brakeman, and
so situated that he can sit in
his cab and be in position to
see the train as it rounds the
curves. Thus he can detect
anything dragging and catch
the first wisp of smoke that
announces the presence of a hot
box. With the speed of our
freight trains raised to 60 miles
per hour and long distance.!
run without a stop it is very
necessary that soneone must
keep a wary eye on the train.
The head biakeman has a ring-
side seat to all that is hap-
pening back on the train. A
little smoke by day or sparks
flying by night will bring him
out of the dog house in a hur-
ry. Many accidents have been
prevented by the alertness of
the head brakeman who gen-
lly sees all that is happen-
back on the train.
ke pipe with the sweetest
[a that I every experienc-
Jongs to Conductor George
s. We can't get a pipe
ttastes as sweet as the
{fellow's smell. Two things
it with an engine, a suit
frails and a pipe. Nick-
Low Gear, Rags, Chuck-
and Blue Ribbon.
finks around Hollywood
J: Long distances between
re you are and where you
St to be. a domino game,
ardmaster twirling his watch
un, and tobacco stains on
white shirt front. Why is
tonsieur's so far away?
Fireman Yearwood is a dyed-
in-the-wool coffee drinker. And
I mean Coffee that will make
your hair curl. He carries a
drip pot and a supply of cof-
fee m his hand bag, and can
make a pot of coffee on an
engine making 60 miles an
hour and not spill a drop. In
the wee small hours of the
night this is a rare treat. One
doesn't notice him making it
and when a steaming cup of
hot coffee is suddenly thrust
under your nose it is nothing
short of magic. One has the
impression that the coffee has
been pulled out of thin air.
You see no signs of it until
suddenly it is there in front
of you, piping hot and deli-
cious.
It looks like we need a magi-
cian to pull some business out
of thin air as we are experienc-
ing a sharp decline in tonnage
to be hauled. This seems odd
in view of the fact that re-
ports from other roads indicate
an increase. Somewhere some-
body is falling down on the
job. All of us hope this is
only a temporary affair.
In the July 8th issue of Life
Magazine it displays a picture
of a monument in memory of
a superb job of cussing per-
formed by George Washington
after he found out that one
of his generals had let him
down. Did you ever hear a
T&P enginman cuss when the
call boy ordered him to Dallas
(See MAIN LINE, Page 4)
Only 13 Days Until
First Primary Election
Absentee Voting
Ends July 24
Candidates Wage
Down-the-Stretch
Drive for Votes
With the first Democratic
primary election but thirteen
days distant, interest in poli-
tics is mounting in Wood
County. War talk was push-
ed to the background last
week when candidates from
governor to constable launch-
ed down-the-stretch drives for
votes.
Counjty Clerk B. A. Holbrook
is daily receiving more requests
for absentee ballots. Absentee
ballots must be received by
the county clerk by July 24
to be counted, and since the
procedure in the case of out-
of-town residents usually takes
several days, applications
should be made prior to the
24th.
Supporters of various candi-
dates in the state races are not
yet showing much activity in
behalf of their favorites, ap-
parently inclined to let the
fortunes of these aspirants take
whatever shape they will. Vir-
tually every candidate in the
district and county is making
a run-up to midnight campaign,
taking in every pie and box
supper, singing, and now that
watermelon festivals are being
announced they may be ex-
pected to be there as well.
25 Licenses
Issued In June
County Clerk B. A. Holbrook
issuta twenty-five marriage li-
censes from his office in June,
bringing the total for the year
to 219. Aside from tho?e ask-
ing to withhold pubiication are:
Irvin Richardson and Clona
Mae Wells, James H. Phillips
and Edna Ruth Atkinson, Don-
ald Dob^s and Geraldine Wil-
liams, J. A. McDade and Lucy
Roberts.
Vick Owen Cain and Jessie
Mire, Earnest Malone and Max-
iene Davis, Bryant Land and
Mrs. Hazel Sweeney, J. T. Shaw
and Lillie Harry, Clydiens Rus-
sell and Hazel Bailey, Samuel
Albert Goodson and Adwell
Lockridge, Billie Joe Davis and
Alleth Giller.
James Hunter and Maxiene
Henry, Jessie Lee Haggard and
Charlie Estelle Taylor, R C.
Stephens and Anita Parker,
Commodore Ingram and Ruth
Greggs.
Albert Coker and Florine Fin-
klea, J. T. Wilder and Eleva
Carter, Jimmie Jo Cowan and
Voreere Padgett, Lonnie James
and Henrietta Stephens, R. L.
Kelley and Tommie C. Mont-
gomery.
Lindale to Hold
Homecoming Aug. 10
Ernest Goens, prominent at-
torney of Tyler and former
citizen of Lindale, has accept-
ed the invitation to be the
principal speaker at the annual
homecoming at Lindale on
August 10.
For many years Lindale citi-
zens have made an annual
event of inviting all former
citizens to return and renew
old friendships at what was
known as an Old Confederate
Soldiers' Reunion. The annual
homecoming celebration is an
outgrowth of this observance.
o
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Mrs. George Blake is con-
valescing following an opera-
tion Fiiday.
District Shows
36 Per Cent
Population Gain
Oil Brings Most of
78,148 New Citizens
To Etex Counties
Eight East Texas counties
making up the Third Congres-
sional District have shown a
population gain of 78.148 in the
past ten years, Jerome Bish-
op, district census supervisor,
announced Friday.
Finally completing the new
census at Kilgore and closing
his district census office there,
Mr. Bishop announced that the
increase amounted to a total
of 36 per cent in the eight
counties.
He quoted population figures
to show that in the eigh; coun-
ties the population now stands
at 292,451 as compared with
214,306.
Biggest gain on a percentage
basis, according to Mi Bish-
op's figures, was Gregg County,
which showed a total gain of
272.7 per cent.
The comparitive census fig-
ures, as announced by the dis-
trict supervisor, are as fol-
lows:
County— 1940 1930
Camp 10,280 10,063
Gregg 57,934 15,778
Rusk 51,008 32,484
Smith 69,020 53,123
Van Zandt 31,143 32,351
Panola 22,539 24,063
Upshur 24,165 22,297
Wood 24,365 24,183
TOTAL 292,454 214,306
The gain represents to a
great extent the influx of peo-
ple moving into East Texas as
a result of the oil play. Gregg
County's gain of 42,156 popu-
lation was the greatest. Next
shown was Rusk County's gain
of 18,524 population. Smith
County's gain was 15,897 popu-
lation, while Upshur County's
gain was 3,86P..
The total gain of the four
East Texas oil counties was
70,445 of the entire gain of
78,148 in all eight counties.
National Defense
Projects Receive
WPA Preference
Workers Required
To Register for
Special Training
The Works Progress Adminis-
tration is being geared for use
as a national defense organiza-
tion. In the future precedence
will be given all projects in the
interest of national defense over
any other kind of work.
Throughout this district, the
employment rolls will be review-
ed to check the qualifications of
the workers for national de-
fense, and a register of these
names will be maintained for
instant use, and it is thought
that a substantial number will
be placed in private defense
industries during the next 12
months.
Procedures have begun for
training selected workers in
existing vocational schools for
defense jobs, and others will
be assigned for training in in-
dustrial plants where it is hop-
ed that jobs will be available
after the training period is
completed.
Even the sewing rooms where
there are power machines will
be put to work manufacturing
needed defense articles, but
not in competition with pri-
vate industry.
Employment will not be given
to any member of the Com-
j munist party or of Nazi bunds,
and affidavits will be required
of employes feat they do not
belong to any subversive organ-
ization. Those failing to make
such affidavits will be remov-
ed from the rolls.
War veterans, wives of un-
employable veterans, and un-
married widows of veterans are
exempt from the provisions re-
quiring dismissal from the rolls
after 18 months of consecutive
employments.
Democrats Meet Monday
In National Convention
Loud Voice for U.S. Defense
Ground Broken
For Legion Hut
At Kilgore
Kilgore Legionnaires broke
ground Wednesday night on
the site of their future $10,000
home and then went ahead
and dug the foundation.
The ground-breaking marked
the end of eight years of plan-
r.'ng for a legion home. The
land, a rectangular strip at the
ccrner of Henderson highway
and Lantrip street, was pur-
chased several years ago.
Ralph Connally, commander,
said the building would be old
English style, resembling some-
what the new Kilgore public
library.
N. L. Peters of Longview is
architect, and L. B. Jones is
supervisor of construction.
The legionnaires working on
Wednesday were served lemon-
ade by members of the auxil-
iary.
Three-Year-Old
Child Dies At
Friendship
Funeral services were held
yesterday at the Woodside
Cemetery, Grand Saline, for
Wilson Van Everie, three-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W.
Tipps of the Friendship com-
munity in Van ^ Zandt Coun-
ty.
Former Mineola
Musician Dies
At Henderson
Funeral services were held
Thursday at Henderson for
Lake Cannon, 50, former Min-
eola band director, who died
at his home in Henderson Wed-
nesday.
Mr. Cannon was born in
Lindale May 16, 1890. For two
years, 1925-1927, he resided in
Mineola and coducted the band
here.
Surviving are his widow, two
daughters, Mrs. Paul Martin,
of Shreveport, and Miss Mary
Lou Cannon, of Henderson; and
a son, Don Cannon, who is con-
ducting an orchestra at Medi-
cine Park, Okla., this summer.
Mrs. Cannon is a teacher of
private music lessons at Hen-
derson.
A ten-inch coastal defense gun speaks its piece during practice at Fort
Hancock, N. J., one of the strongholds that defend New York harbor.
Practice firing was at a target seven miles at sea, although the actual
range of the guns is much greater. Shells weigh 600 pounds, cost
approximately $200.
35 Wood County Boys
Enlist in CCC Camps
Thirty-five Wood County
youths, twenty-seven white
boys and eight Negro boys,
left this week to report to the
CCC camp in Winnsboro for
examination and enlistment,
Gaston Wright, County case
worker, said their probable des-
tination would be Tularosa, New
Mexico.
White boys leaving from the
Quitman area were Jonah Den-
ham, Simon Smithwick, Vinson
Thompson, and Norman Tay-
lor.
Leaving from the Winnsboro
territory were Wilda Browning,
Maurice Gofer, Elbert Highnote,
Robert Pritchett, Tom Stevens,
and Vesna Stone.
From Mineola and surround-
ing communities were James
Burns, William Connell, John
Curl, Matthew Hayes, William
McManus, Aubrey Phillips, Har-
vey Ritchey, Elzie Whatley,
Beryl Wilder, and Frances
Wren.
From Yantis were Joe Narvy
Gilbreath, Honree Hurley and
Curtis Wilson.
From Hawkins were Ulas
Hurley and Herbert Stokes.
Fiom Como was Rayford
Knight, and from Alba, Aru-
man Brickley.
Funeral Held For
Silver Lake Farmer
Funeral services for Lewis
H. Marshall, 65, prominent
farmer of the Silver Lake com-
munity, were held recently at
the Providence Church, with
the Rev. Gilbert T. Taylor con-
ducting the last rites. Inter-
ment was in the Providence
Cemetery. Mr. Marshall died
suddenly Thursday afternoon
from a heart attack.
Mr. Marshall was born April
8, 1875, in Franklin County,
Arkansas. He had lived in or
near Grand Saline for the past
fifty-five years, the past thirty
on a farm in the Silver Lake
community. He was an, active
member of the Baptist Church.
Surviving are the wilow, one
daughter, Margaret, of Silver
Lake, and six sons, Ulie, Hen-
ry, Lee and Durard of Grand
Saline; Abraham of Dallas, and
Alvin of Big Spring.
Methodists
At Lindale
Plan Revival
The annual summer revival
meeting of the Lindale Meth-
odist Church will begin Sun-
day morning, August 7, accord-
irg to an announcement by the
Rev. F. A. Fischer, pastor.
A series of revival services
will be conducted by the Rev.
A. W. Munk, pastor at Walder,
Texas, and song services will
be under direction of the Rev.
Gordon Gautreaux of Alba.
Mt. Enterprise
Singing Today
The Precinct No. 2 singing
convention will meet at Mt.
Enterprise today, according to
an announcement from W. D.
Williams, who requests that
everyone interested be present
as election of officers for the
coming year are to be held.
o
Mrs. C. E. Revelle, Mrs. R.
W. Bailey, Mrs. R. H. Carra-
way and daughter, Margar-
etta, were visitors in Tyler
Friday afternoon.
o
Miss Killie Marie Stroud of
Dixie, La., is the guest this
week of her aunt/ Mrs. J. C.
McGlothlin.
"Home Canning
Week" Starts
Here Monday
The mayor of Mineola has
proclaimed the week of July
15 to 20 inclusive as "Home
Canning Week" during which
period housewives are urged
to take advantage of the pre-
vailing surplus of food com-
modities. This is the season
of the year when many fruits
and vegetables are at their
best. They can be economi-
cally and easily canned at home
and used throughout the winter
months to please appetites.
Local merchants have signi-
fied their intentions of coop-
erating in this campaign of
"Can Them Now, Eat Them
Next Winter," and special em-
phasis will be placed on their
displays and special features
next week relative to Home Can-
ning Week.
Grand Saline
Pastor Resigns
Rev. C. R. McDonald, for
the past eighteen months pas-
tor of the Main Street Baptist
Church at Grand Saline, has
resigned to accept the pas-
torate of the First Baptist
Church at Trinity.
Chief Executive '
Will Not Attend
Roosevelt Likely
To Be Drafted
For Third Term
The Democratic National
Convention which opens to-
morrow in Chicago, appears
likely to renominate President
Roosevelt, approve his choice
of a running mate, and pres-
ent a 1940 platform embracing
a complete endorsement of
New Deal foreign and domes-
tic policies.
To all the queries propot
ed the chief executive relative
to his plans, the only definite
answer that he has so far
given is that he has no in-
tentions of attending the Chi-
cago convention or making
speech there.
The picture of the apj
ease with which the chief exe-^
cutive can walk away with the
nomination does not mean that
he will not have first ballot
opposition; that he will be th€
unanimous choice of the con-
vention, or that the job wtfl
be done by acclamation. ,
Vice-President John N. Gar-
ner's name will go before the
delegates unless there is an;
eleventh hour change in plans.
Postmaster General James
Farley reiterated Friday t
he would be on the ballot. SeaH
ator Burton K. Wheeler
Montana, threatened to
the party unless it adopted
strong anti-war plank, will havtgjj
his name presented.
N Y A Officials to
Take Applicatioi
For Work Prograi
In view of the large number
of requests for NYA employ-
ment, J. C. Kellam, state youth
administrator for the National
Youth Administration, has an-
nounced that provisions hare
been made for NYA personnel
to spend one day a week in
•hose counties were NYA offi-
cials are not located to • coun-
sel with unemployed young
people, as well as to receive
their applications for NYA em-
ployment.
Recent developments have
caused the National Youth Ad-
ministration to greatly in-
crease in number boys assign-
to the resident centers and
shop projects.
T. M Davis, NYA counselor-
supervisor, will be in Mineola
at the Lone Pine School daily j
to advise with young men and
women between the ages of
18 and 24 who are unemployed,
out of school, and in need of
the work experience and train-
ing being offered on NYA pro-
mts. Those young people de-
siring NYA employment who
are unable to meet with Mr.
Davis may mail their applica-
tions to the State NYA Office,
Box 36, Austin, Texas, or to
the NYA representative nearest
their heme.
Good Hope Church
To Start Baptist
Revival Tuesday
Rev. E. M. Marshall, district
missionary for the Baptist
Church, will begin a Baptist
revival at Good Hope Tuesday,
July 16, continuing through
Friday, July 26, according to
the local pastor, Rev. M. T.
Tucker.
Services will begin at 8 o'clock"
each night.
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