The Sunday Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 25, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 22, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Go to Church
The several churches of
Mineola urge your at-
tendance at any or all
their services today.
The Sunday Record
DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS O F MINEOLA AND WOOD COUNTY
Weather Report
SUNDAY: Cloudy with m
possible showers in th^—
part of East Te$|Btr-
Eleventh Year—Number 25.
Mineola, Texas, Sunday, September 22, 1940.
Four Pages Today
TOWN
TALK
BY SPEC TATER
MINEOLANS regret the sudden
turn for the worse in the con-
dition of G. N. York, former
mayor, who became ill Friday
night with an old heart ail-
ment.
POSTMASTER D. S. Landford
"set 'em up" Friday night to a
thirsty bunch of pep squad
girls from the IOOF Orphans
Home.
WE UNDERSTAND five Mineo-
lans have been asked to serve
on Uncle Sam's local draft
board. Their names will not
be available for publication,
however, until three of the num-
ber accept the call.
A RECENT editorial in The
Monitor advocating a county
barn and repair shop for road
machinery to be located at the
county seat received mention
Un all other Wood County papers
except those at Quitman!
SPEAKING OF the press, the
Alba Reporter this week had
a paragraph in its Town Crier
column on page one, which
might be calculated to have a
hidden meaning. The Colyum
\thinks the Alba editor has too
.'ate thought of a way to get
more county job printing.
LISTED IN the starting line-up
jpt the Stephen F. Austin Col-
football team is the name
of Roscoe Lindley, 190-pound
tackle. Lindley is a former
Mineola High star. Larry Covin
is booked as a number one
backfield replacement.
THERE ARE still quite a few
persons about who advocate a
National Guard unit for Min-
eola.
BE ONE OF A 1,000. Go to
Sunday School and Church Sun-
r, Sept. 29, which has been
hgnated as Rally Day and
ie beginning of "Go to Church
Month" in Mineola. Let's go
to church today, too!
Main Line
MUSINGS
By STACK RATTLER
In my travels over the divi-
sion, running off miles in the
yard, I notice that quite a few
^L_the hired hands are display-
^g Roosevelt buttons. I beg-
with tears in my eyes for
5ne, but nary a button could
I get. However, last Sunday
there was a mighty fine gen-
tleman dropped off No. 8 at
Longview and presented me
with one. That is, aftes I put
my pride in my hip pocket and
deliberately begged him for it.
So at last I am the proud pos-
sessor of one. The funny part
of it is that I have had several
Willkie buttons shoved at me.
I just couldn't use those. I
someone would send about
bushel of Roosevelt buttons
Mineola so that we could
Jlossom out in them. Some-
one in the Democratic gang is
laying down on the job. Maybe
they don't think there are
enough Democrats here to fool
with. Something ought to be
done about this, because we
need some buttons very much.
Won't someone come to our
^assistance?
fell, I see they have put the
il back on between Holly-
Yard and Marshall. This
is a turn around affair and as
usual works at night. But in
turn, one side of the Mineola-
[exarkana was abolished which
fs us with one crew less.
Le deal the Fort Worth
men lost one crew,
Cajuns gained one
just ain't no per-
UNE, Page 2)
Church School
Rally Day Goal
Set At 1,000
October Named
'Go to Church
Month' Here
Four protestant churches in
Mineola have designated Octo-
ber as "Go to Church Month"
in Mineola. And Sunday, Sept.
29, has been set as a rally day
to begin the campaign.
Advertising matter will be cir-
culated calling the public's at-
tention to the campaign, and
committees will be appointed
from the Methodist, Baptist.
Christian, and Church of Christ
churches to promote the drive.
A goal of 1,000 persons in
attendance at the Mineola
church schools has been set.
Sunday school committees are
asked to meet at the Central
Christian Church Tuesday eve-
ning at 8 o'clock to complete
preparations for making Rally
Day the biggest day in Min-
eola's Sunday history.
Tags being printed to be
worn on lapels and dresses will
read "I am one of a THOUS-
AND Mineolans."
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Alba Reporter
Scores County's
Office Building
Taking up the battle in the
eastern part of Wood County
to improve the county's finan-
cial standing, reduce spending,
and otherwise have the court
house "run according to law,"
the Alba Reporter this week
published an editorial. "Wood
County's Office Building," which
is worthy or reprint for digest
in other parts of the county.
The article follows:
Wood County's Office Building.
Wood County, like all others
of Texas' 254 counties, has a
court house. That court house
in the strictest sense is sup-
posed to be used for housing
the various departments of the
county government and for no
other purposes. When all the
various Federal government
agencies and organizations were
created many counties started
the practice of setting up of-
fice spaces for the ABC and
the XYZ, AAA, etc. Wood Coun-
ty followed that practice and
still clings to it.
A great many counties have
eliminated these agencies from
their court houses because of
lack of space and for reasons
of economy. In this article we
have no intention of defending
or criticizing these agencies.
But we do believe that Wood
County should not operate an
expensive office building, fur-
nishing office space, lights, fans,
and water FREE OF CHARGE
to the Federal government. A
county with nearly a million
dollars indebtedness isn't in
any position to play Santa
Claus to New Deal agencies.
We know this to be true, be-
cause a reliable informant stat-
ed to us that these offices were
furnished rent free and that
they refused to help pay elec-
tric bills. This county is en-
titled to these various agencies,
the same as any county, but
it should not be necessary to
furnish free board and room
at the already over burdened
taxpayers expense. These of-
fices should be in the county
seat and not in Alba, Mineola.
or Winnsboro, and we are not
in favor of that. That isn't
the motive.
As to the lagality of the sit-
uation we are not sure, but
we do know that it is against
the law for individuals or pri-
vate firms, of any nature, to
have offices in the court house.
For our authority we refer to
the case of John Marshall vs.
Commissioners Court of Gray-
son County, tried about four
or five years ago. As a result
This Was a British Destroy er | Aerial Attack Backfires as
Jackets Lose, 13-0, to I.O.O.F.
This photo, just received in the United States, shows what apparently is
a completely wrecked destroyer. According to the Berlin censor-approved
caption, it is a British warship which was surprised at its dock in ti
Belgian harbor by a flight of Stuka dive bombers.
Group Discusses
Chemurgic Plant
Here Thursday
A small group of business-
men, mostly members of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
heard representatives of Texas
Chemurgic Industries Inc., a
new Texas company which ex-
pects to manufacture commer-
cial products from dehydrated
sweet potatoes, discuss their
plans for building several plants
in East Texas cities.
Plans for promoting the plant,
for which local capital was
intended to pay part of the
cost, were discussed briefly, but
no definite action was taken.
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School Board
Elects Two
New Teachers
Two new teachers were elect-
ed this week to fill vacancies
left in the ward school faculty
by recent resignations.
Coy Stewart, formerly a
teacher in the Era, Cook Coun-
ty schools, was elected to teach
physcal education, and Miss
Mary Elizabeth Vance was elect-
ed to teach the fourth grade.
Miss Vance is an honor grad-
uate of Mineola High School
and Texas State College for
Women at Denton.
Teachers who resigned are
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Isdale
and Miss Billie Clyde Warren.
A band teacher has not been
elected to fill Mr. Isdale's place.
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WORK PPRORESSING
Work on the Alba-Quitman
road is progressing rapidly,
highway engineers here re-
port, and the road will be com-
pleted in less than another six-
ty days. Most of the gravel
has been laid and the asphalt
coating will be applied soon.
of the decision an abstract and
real estate company which had
been using the court house for
years was denied office space.
Private firms use the Wood
County court house and our
informant told us when we ask-
ed if they paid office rent:
"Sometimes."
Public faults can be correct-
ed only if the public is interest-
ed. We wonder if the tax payers
enjoy the distinction of helping
operate a big office building.—
Alba Reporter.
New Chevrolet
Shown Here by
Otho McKaig
The Otho McKaig Motor Com-
pany, local dealers for Chevro-
let and Oldsmobile, gave a pre-
view Friday night at their show-
rooms on West Broad for the
1940 Chevrolet, a classy-look-
ing low price automobile with
big car appeal.
Sandwiches and cold drinks
were served until late in the
night to a steady stream of
visitors, many of whom came
in after the football game.
Two models, a sedan and a
coach in deluxe special class,
are being shown here. The
new cars have among their im-
provements for 1940 deluxe knee
action, vacuum power shift, a
longer wheelbase, wider bodies,
improved hydraulic brakes, and
a 90-horsepower valve-in-head
Victory engine.
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Bargain Rates for
Four Papers to End
On October First
The last chance in at least
a year to purchase the Record
and Monitor and the Semi-
Weekly Farm News at the bar-
gain club rate of $1.50 a year
will end Monday, Sept. 30.
Beginning Oct. 1, the four
papers will cost probably $2.50
a year, and the Record and
Monitor subscription price will
be $1.50.
The increase in subscription
rates is caused by the unstable
condition in the newsprint
markets caused by the war.
Most of the newsprint used in
this country is imported.
Bill Caudle TCU
Yearbook Photog
Fort Worth, Sept. 21.—William
Reed (Bill) Caudle, Texas
Christian University sophomore,
has been appointed staff photo-
grapher for the 1941 Horned
Frog student year book.
The Horned Frog, which will
be issued some time in May,
will be edited by a staff of 20
students, appointed by the edit-
or and business manager. It
features class pictures, student
snapshots, school activities
beauties and sports section.
Caudle is also president of
the Alpha Phi Omega campus
—boy scout fraternity—which
provided information and school
maps for freshmen during the
opening week of school.
Woodbine Test
Begins Drilling
In Hawkins Area
Drilling was reported pro-
gressing Saturday at the Amer-
ada Petroleum Company's No.
1 J. J. Lloyd at Coke, eight
miles north of Quitman. Depth
was below 1,000 feet.
Bobby Manziel, Tyler inde-
pendent operator, was report-
ed to have spudded in a Wood-
ibine test three miles north of
Hawkins on the 65-acre F. M.
Morrison tract in the Pollock
survey. Manziel owns a thous-
and acres here although most
of the acreage in this area has
been held since 1934 by the
Humble Company.
Manziel has announced his
test will be drilled "tight,"
meaning that no information
will be given out until after
completion of the test.
The Gulf Company is report-
ed still taking protection acre-
age in the Hainesville area
where another wildcat test is
expected to be drilled some
time this fall.
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A. W. Fulcher
Shows '41 Model
Ford Saturday
A. W. Fulcher & Co., local
Ford dealers, received the first
shipment Saturday afternoon of
1941 model Fords.
j Unusual interest was shown
in the new car by a steady
.stream of visitors at the show-
room, Mr. Fulcher said late
j Saturday. The '41 model has
I a number of improvements over
| the old model and is more
streamlined in design.
o
Louie Miller
Attending Army
Prep School
Louie Miller jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Louie Miller of this
city, has received an appoint-
j ment to the West Point Prep
School at Camp Bullis, near
San Antonio, and is now at-
tending classes.
Miller, an honor graduate of
Mineola High School, has been
j stationed at Randolph Field for
j the last ten months, and won
the right to attend the prep
school through competitive ex-
amination given to young men
of the army corps who are cred-
ited with having the qualites
of an officer.
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Dog Believed to
Have Rabies Shot
Several dogs believed to be
infected with rabies were shot
Tuesday in the north residen-
tial section of the city and
their heads were sent to Aus-
tin for examination.
Dr. R. H. Coleman, city health
officer, warned that precau-
tions should be taken and that
persons should warn city offi-
cers of any dogs which may
be acting peculiarly.
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NEW HAWKINS TEACHERS
C. S. Bank* of Gladewater
and Mrs. Sara Mae Mcintosh,
formerly a teacher at Fouke,
have been added to the faculty
at the Hawkins school.
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NEGRO SCHOOL BURNS
The Hawkins Negro school
was destroyed by fire Satur-
day night of last week. Origin
of the blaze is unknown.
Team Shows Vast Improvement
Despite Weak Moments On Defense
Odd Fellows 13, Yellow Jack-
ets 0. But that's not the whole
story.
Mineola High lost its second
football game of the season
and again failed to make a
scratch in the tally column,
something unusual for MHS
teams of recent years, but the
boys played a vastly improv-
ed game against a strong vet-
eran club.
Two veteran first-stringers,
Frank Smith, end, and J. O.
Phillips, tackle, were out of
the game with injuries, leaving
only two men from last year's
starting eleven in the line-up.
The places of Smith and Phil-
lips were ably filled by Paul
Babb and John Sewell, and in
Sewell the Jacket coaches may
have uncovered a real find. He
has three more years of com-
petition ahead of him.
Begin Early Drive.
The visitors lost little time
in beginning their first touch-
down campaign. Arnold tooK
Hughes' opening kickoff and
returned it to the Mineola 40,
but two consecutive penalties,
for clipping and offside, put
the ball back to their own 23.
Arnold then reeled off tackle
for 17 yards. Three more plays
failed to make a first down
and Dodson took a kick on the
30 and came back to the 40.
Shelburne hit the line for 4,
but a fumble put the Jackets
in a hole, and Copass kicked
40 yards to Arnold who return-
ed 12 to the 32. Arnold could
go only six yards in three tries*
and he kicked to Dodson on
the Jacket 39. Dodson fumbled
and the Lynx recovered.
Arnold Dynamite.
Arnold ripped off tackle to
the 27, and after Russell picked
up two at the line Arnold tore
off 12 more. On another try
he was stopped for no gain,
but he came back with 10 on
two plays and a first down on
the two-yard line. On the
next play he cut over right
tackle for the score and Gad-
dis dropkicked the extra point.
Definitely in a hole on their
own 14 after the Odd Fellows
had kicked out of bounds, the
Jackets went to work. Copass
circled wide around right end
for 15 yards as his interfer-
ence neatly took out the Home
end and first secondary man.
Dodson then found a hole and
took advantage of it for 12
yards, putting the ball on the
IOOF 44. Dodson tore through,
the line for 6, and Shelburne
missed a first down by two
inches. The next play was
fumbled, however, and cost the
Jackets seven yards and what
seemed atouchdown drive. Ar-
nold and Gaddis went to work
on the Jacket forward wall but
found it stiffened, with Lind-
ley and Sewell turning in stel-
lar work at tackles and Babb
and McCreary doing outstand-
ing work at ends. Mccreary's
defensive end play was particu-
(See FOOTBALL, Page 3)
Youth Forum to
Discuss Ambition
And Necessity
The meeting of the Youth
Forum will be held at the
Methodist Church at 2 o'clock
and the topic for discussion
will be, "Which is the Stronger
Incentive for Success, Ambition
or Necessity?" Miss Edna Mae
Kingston, vice-president, now
acting as president until a new
president is elected to replace
F. M. Ray jr., is the leader.
Last Sunday the Forum was
held at the Christian Church
and the discussion was on "So-
cialized Medicine." Dr. Robert
Coleman made a very interest-
ing talk on this subject, and
all members present received
new information from his talk.
The Forum is held for all
Young People of Mineola, or
any other individual that is
interested. If you have ques-
tions or problems that you
would like discussed, come to
the Forum and put your name
in the Question Box.
Come to the Forum Sunday
for an hour of fellowship, en-
tertainment, and inspiration.
Douglas Swann
Home Burns Down
The home of Douglas Swann
in the English addition in West
Mineola was destroyed Thurs-
day night by fire. Origin of
the blaze is not known.
Firemen were handicapped
by a water shortage, and the
building was a complete loss.
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A Brown County man recent-
ly visited Mayesie E. Malone,
county home demonstration
agent, to secure help and ma-
terial on making a frame gar-
den, since he was going to make
a frame garden instead of play-
ing golf. He added that it
would "furnish just as good ex-
ercise for me and would cer-
tainly be cheaper and more
profitable."
Official Grid
Schedule For
District 20-A
Following is the official Dis-
trict 20-A schedule for the 1940
season:
September 27— ,
Mineola at #Tiite Oak
Van at Farmersville
Grand Saline at Kaufman '
Wills Point at Edgewood
Union Grove at Canton
Rockwall at Terrell
October 4—
Grand Saline at Mineola
Edgewood at Van \
Canton at Wills Point
Rockwall at Kaufman
Terrell at Forney
October 11—
Edgewood at Mineola
Van at Terrell
Canton at Grand Saline
Kaufman at Wills Point
Ovtober 18—
Mineola at Kaufman
Van at Wills Point
Terrell at Grand Saline
Canton at Edgewood
October 25— ;
Wills Point at Mineola
Canton at Van.
Edgewood at Grand Saline
Kauiman at Terrell
November 1—
Terrell at Mineola
Van at Kaufman
Winfield at Grand Saline
Mesquite at Wills Point
November 11—
Canton at Mineola
Van at Grand Saline (dayX
Wills Point at Terrell
November 15—
Kaufman at Edgewood
November 21—
Mineola at Van (day)
Grand Saline at Wills Point
Terrell at Canton
November 2—
Kaufman at Canton
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A new variety of lima bean
which can be quick-frozen more
successfully than varieties most
generally grown has been de-
veloped at agricultural experi-
ment stations in Maryland and
Illinois. #.
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