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The McGregor Mirror
AND HERALD-OBSERVER
VOLUME SIXTY-THREE
McGREGOR MIRROR, McGREGOR, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1951
NUMBER 25
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Among the Mirror’s thousands
of readers each week, one in
Anneal Gatesville District
Conference Held Here
One hundred and seventy-eight
pastors and laymen gathered
at McGregor’s First Methodist
Church Monday for the annual
Gatesville District Conference.
New York City, read an account
recently where McGregor was
getting a new and modern jail.
He writes under an assumed
name, "Alias, Louie DeLip,
and suggests that the old jail
remain as a shrine to McGregor,
as does the "Alamo to San An-
tonio. The letter was air mail-
ed, and dated November 20th.
Here it is:
# * *
Dear Editor: Is zat so, what
you printed in the McGregor
Mirror about my old home town
where I used to come from, get-
ting itself a new jail installed?
Sounds good, yeah, sounds a lit-
tle too good, cozy is a better
woid for it. Reminds me of set-
ting a rat trap and sticking a
little piece of cheese in it. Now
it ain’t no harm to set a rat
trap, but to my notion it’s going
a little too far when you stick
that little piece of cheese in it.
It ain’t good sportsmanship, and
I frown On it.
* *> * J-former McGregor pastor
Now mind you, I don’t want
Reports from pastors oh the
23 charges in the district reveal-
ed that the Gatesville district
has had a successful year. Finan-
ces are in good -shape and mem-
bership for the district stands at
3,932. In addition it was an-
nounced that 25,000 new mem-
bers were added to Texas Me-
thodist rolls, during the one-
month Evangelistic Mission.
Hamilton and Gatesville Chur-
ches are almost even for the
largest membership in the dis-
trict. Hamilton has an enroll-
ment of 400, and Gatesville has
399. McGregor is third with 227.
Besides reports from all pas-
tors, the conference heard from
representatives of other inter-
ests: San Antonio Mission Home,
Retired Preachers homes, Re-
tired Preachers Fund, Methodist
Home in Waco, Wesley Foun-
dation and the Methodist Hos-
pital in Fort Worth, which was
brought by Rev. A. K. Marney,
to seem nosey, but pray tell me
what is wrong wid the old jail?
Why in my opinion the very
thought of having to do a hitch
in that old jug has prevented
more crime in McGregor, I dare
say, than has Constable Billie
Wheat himself in poysion. Well,
time changes everything so they
say, but as for the old jail, I
have always had my doubts.
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So de new jail is going to
have two rooms wid de heat, and
a runway so as you can walk
around in it; now ain’t dat temp-
tin? Well, Mr. Editor, if an
editorial of that nature had ap-
peared in a newspaper here,
what with the housing shortage
and all, I dare say that it
would have started a crime
wave unequal to anything in
history, because that’s ad...
Yankee’s dream if I ever heard
of one.
* # #
I suppose McGregor feels that
the old jail is too small and
should grow along wid the rest
of the town, so they will just
seep off a place and build a
new one. I shudder when I
think of all the space that Texas
takes for granted. Why, if we
had that old jail here we would
partition it off and make an
apartment house that would ac-
commodate 999 familes, and dig
out a little basement under it
half way to China that would
ditto, or else, tear it down and
make a ranch or truck farm out
of the four square yards of
ground that it sits on. Of course
if some one in Texas gets hold
of it, no doubt they will use it
as a bird cage. Oh well, what
can you do?
* # *
I was never so bewildered in
my life as I was the first time
that I laid eyes on that old jail.
I was tom between the urge to
run away as fast as I could or
to hide some place and try to
sneak another look. So I slunk
back into the mule barn and
waited. I was shocked to think
that an insect would do a thing
like that, and right in the mid-
dle of town too, but I was
thoroughly convinced by this
time that what I had just seen
had been the work of an insect-
Yeah, constructed by a not too
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C. C. Sessions, district super-
intendent, started the morning
session by calling on Rev. Wayne
Dim sou, of Valley Mills, for the
devotional, after which, K. A.
Allen, chairman of the McGregor
Board of Stewards, gave the
welcome address. H. B. Loyd,
district superintendent o f
Brownwood, preached the ser-
mon.
During the noon hour ladies
of the McGregor church served
lunch to the group.
Rev. J. Fred Patterson, of Hi-
co, former McGregor pastor,
gave the afternoon devotional,
which was followed by reports
of boards and committees. It was
also decided that the conferen-
ce next year will be held in Ham-
ilton.
Besides its pastor, Rev. Henry
Price, representing the McGre-
gor church were Klyce Allen,
Mrs. A. W. Hering, Vernon
Schmidt, Hoyle Hackney, and
W. S. Amsler, ex-officio mem-
bers of the conference, and L.
P. Fletcher, Mrs. Wi P. Rogers
Parke D. Evers, Mrs. G W. Sear-
cy and J. B. - Westerfield, dele-
gates.
SGT. ABEL R. BECERRA
DRAWS BIG “R” IN KOREA
With the 1st Cavalry Div. in
Korea—Sgt. Abel R. Becerra, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Becerra of
Route 5, McGregor, who has
been in Korea since Nov. 2, 1950,
is returning to the United States
under the Army’s rotation pro-
gram.
Becerra served in Korea as a
medical aidman in the 1st Ca-
valry Division’s 7th Cavalry
Regiment.
He attended Bruceville-Eddy
High School before entering
the Army on April 27, 1949.
For his service in Korea he
was awarded the Purple Heart
with one Oak Leaf Cluster for
wounds received in action, the
Combat Medical Badge and the
Korean Service Ribbon with
three campaign stars.
An Invitation
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. B. Hall
will have Open House
at their home, 415 Adams St.
Sunday, December 2, 1951
Friends are cordially invited
to call between hours
3 and 6 p. m.
1.04 Inches for Month
Light Showers
Yield .95 Inch
WHAT ABOUT BILLS?
LOCAL BANK REVEALS
SMALL CHANGE SHORT
Bill Zacharias, assistant cash-
ier of the First National Bank
here, stated that according to the
American Bankers Association,
banks in various parts of the
country are feeling the effect of
a coin shortage. To relieve the
situation, local banks are urged
to put on a campaign to induce
their customers to clean out
children’s banks and household
savings receptacles and bring
the coins to the bank. He told of
one banking community which
recently put on a drive which
brought in more than 500,000
pennies and some 26,000 nickels.
It is the small change coins
which Zacharias says the banks
are interested in getting back
into circulation, and at the same
time relieve the change situa-
tion which is becoming alarming.
So, of there are families in this
section and children with penny
banks full of coins, take it down
to the bank and have one of the
tellers to count it out and start
a bank account. The bank will
cooperate in every way possi-
ble.
CHRISTMAS WORK SHOP
IS NEXT GARDEN MEETING
The McGregor Garden Club
will have its regular meeting on
Dec. 4th at 4 p. m. at the Blue-
bonnet Farm Cafeteria.
The program will be in the
form of Christipas workshops
with the following leaders: Mrs.
Charlie Hering, table a'rrangie-
ments; Mrs: Tom Johnson, door
decorations; Mrs. Roy Bryson,
Card display; Mrs. Bob Dowis,
mantle decoration; Mrs. Harold
Weiss, tree decoration.
All members are urged to at-
tend as they should receive help-
ful suggestions for decorating
their own homes for the Christ-
mas holidays.
Dr. E. Stanley Jones, well known
author,, American evangeflist, and
missionary to India, has accepted an
invitation to speak to the Church
people- of Central Texas on Friday
evening, December 7th at 8:15 p. m.
at Waco Hall in Waco. Everyone is
cordially invited to attend.
School Cafeteria
MENU
Monday, Dec. 3—
Spanish meat dish, green
beans, peaches, lettuce salad,
bread and milk.
Tuesday, Dec. 4—
Baked ham, sweet potatoes,
fresh blackeyed peas, banana
pudding, bread and milk.
Wednesday, Dec. 5—
Roast beef, creamed potatoes,
cabbage salad, cake squares,
bread and milk.
Thursday, Dec. 6—
Hot dogs, potato salad, brown
beans, jello with fruit, bread
and milk.
Friday, Dec. 7—
Ground chicken and dressing,
English peas, lettuce, ice cream,
bread and milk.
REA LINEMEN STRING
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Announcement from the
Chamber of Commerce says that
Christmas decoration in the
down-town section is under
way, and should be completed
by the first of December. Large
triangle Christmas designs with
the usual Christmas light stream-
ers will shine again. In fact,
adorn each of the light poles
along Main Street.
On each of the side streets,
they were installed Wednesday
of this week.
Raymond Mattiza, line fore-
man of the McLennan County
Electric Cooperative, and his
crew of workmen, are to be
credited with seeing that the
lights were properly placed in
plenty of time, and are now
ready for the current when it is
turned on. This group of work-
men are to be commended by
the Chamber of Commerce, and
city, for aiding the Christmas
program without added cost
for the work they have done.
Save for a^Purpose!
in life
own.
.Certaily a fine home is one of your objectives
a more secure future . . .perhaps a business of your
Any such dreams you may have will be immed-
iately closer to you the moment you open a savings account
We invite you to open a savings account at our bank —now.
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We also invite your children to bring in their
savings from their piggy bank and open a small account of
his own. This will help the Treasury Department to releive
the coin shortage problem.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
NEW JAIL TO BE READY
FOR OCCUPANCY SOON
Work on McGrgeor’s new
jail is progressing rapidly and
should be ready for occupancy
by Dec. 15, Constable Billie
Wheat reports. The old jail will
be kept in tact, not as a y shrine
as recmomended by a letter to
the Editor (see This-That col-
umn) but to absorb any overflow
from the new structure.
During the past two weeks
three cars and one pickup
truck have been reported stolen
in McGregor. Two of the cars
and the pickup have been recov-
ered.
John S. Bailey, of 523 Mad-
ison, reported his ’38 Plymouth
sedan stolen on Nov. 22, and it
has not been recovered as yet.
Rex Murphy of Clifton, re-
ported his ’37 Chevrolet pickup
stolen Nov. 18 on Highway 84.
The truck was recovered Nov. 21
J. A. French, of Moody, reported
the loss of his ’40 Ford coach
from Highway 84, and the car
was later recovered near Belton.
A ’35 Chevrolet coupe, belong-
ing to Ollie C. Farrar, of 721
West 3rd, was recovered west
of Oglesby where it had been
wrecked. The five soldiers who
had taken it were' all injured,
two seriously. v
Someone broke into the Mc-
Gregor school gymnasium re-
cently by prying open the back
door. Nothing was stolen, how-
ever.
Wheat also investigated the
theft of articles of W. J. Rich-
ardson’s car on Highway 84.
Two suspects were apprehend-
ed and the tires, batteries and
Light showers falling over
this section over the week end
have amounted to .95 inch as
measured in McGregor. For the
month, the rainfall has been
1.04 inches.
Grain is badly in need -of mois-
ture, and must have additional
rains, and soon, or the grain
crop will be a failure sure the
coming season.
Farmers have done except-
ionally well the past few years
with the small amount of rain
they have had, but the time has
come when nothing will help ex-
cept moisture, and plenty of it.
Several farmers around Mc-
Gregor have been heard to say
that right now is the dryest
time of farming and some of
them can date back twenty
and more years.
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ADVENTURE TRAIL
PLANNED FOR SCOUTS
A week end camp and Ad-
venture Trail for West o’ Brazos
District Boy Scout Troops will
be held Friday and Saturday,
Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, on the Paul
Ellis farm, west of South Bos-
que Church, Bill Martin, Camp-
ing Activities Chairman, has
announced.
Friday afternoon and evening
will be devoted to camping ac-
tivities and the Adventure Trail
will begin at 10:30 a. m. Sat-
urday.
The Adventure Trail, Martin
said, will be composed of eight
different stations: rope work,
knife and axe, compass, signal-
ing, first aid, emergency service,
types of fires and handicraft.
Three optional events will also
be offered to boost scoring—fire
by flint and steel, rope climb-
ing, and ability to chin.
Participation will be by pa-
trols with a minimum of four
and a maximum of eight boys.
Scoring will be based on the
BSA system, with awards going
to all patrols. Fifty points is
the maximum that can be made
at any station. Patrols scoring
over 300 points will qualify as a
proficient patrol and will receive
that award. Patrols scoring be-
tween 150-299 will be standard
patrols and those scoring below
149 will be classified as partici-
pating patrols.
Explorer scouts from Post 131
of McGregor and Troob 48 of
adding machine were recovered j Cawford will act as judges at
' the various stations. Judges
from the McGregor post will be
Albert Hampel, Marvin Krum-
now, Bobbie Hueske and Doyle
Dossman.
Martin is hoping that all
troops in this district partici-
pate in this program.
during an investigation of the
burglary of a service station in
Moody, Texas.
Several drunks have been ar-
rested and filed on in City Court.
Two Coryell citizens arrest-
ed for fighting and being drunk.
They were filed on in Justice
B. J. Allen’s court.
One local citizen was arrested
for being drunk, fighting, dis-
turbing the peace. He was fined
in Judge Allen’s court.
MRS. SAM AMSLER JR.
TO SPEAK AT GUILD
The Wesleyan Service Guild
is happy to have Mrs. Margaret
Amsler as guest speaker next
Thursday evening, Dec. 6.
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Mr. and Mrs. James R. How-
ard and Mrs. Ruby Howard re-
turned to their homes Sunday
after attending the Cogger-How-
ard wedding in Dallas Satur-
day night.
FIVE TRAINING COURSES
SET UP IN THIS DISTRICT
The first of five training cour-
ses and handicraft work shops
for West o’ Brazos Cub Scout
Leaders and den mothers will be
held in Crawford Thursday,
Nov. 29, Lloyd Taylor, district
Training Chairman, of Lorena,
has announced.
The second session will he
held in Moody and the third in
McGregor on consecutive Thurs-
day nights. The next two sessions
will be held in the communities
which have the largest per cent
present at the first three ses-
sions.
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