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The McGregor Mirror
AND HERALD-OBSERVER
VOLUME SIXTY-TWO
McGREGOR MIRROR, McGREGOR, TEXAS FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1950.
NUMBER 2.
Beer-Happy Soldiers
Break City Jail
^Tuesday Night
Two Fort IIoocl Soldiers broke
out of jail here shortly after 9
p. m, Tuesday night, after being-
arrested for disturbing the
peace, reckless driving and fail-
ure to pay their tavern.bill a
short time before.
City Marshall J. J. Merritt
said he arrested the pair in a
local beer hall, on Highway 84,
about 8:45 p. m. and placed them
in the local jail.
At 9:15 an informant told the
marshal that someone was tam-
pering with the pad lock on the
jailhouse door. By the time Mer-
ritt reached the jail the door
was open and liis two men had
fled. They were the only ones in
the jail.
The 1940 Oldsmobile the two
soldiers had ben driving when
they were arrested had also dis-
appeared. Merritt figured that
one or more of the boys’ bud-
dies had come and gotten them
out of jail and driven off to-
gether.
Although Merritt did not have
the boy’s names, he had their
outfit at Fort Hood, and the li-
cense number of their car.
Constable Billie Wheat immed-
iately notified military, and state
authorities.
Cowtown . . . Here We Come]
C. C: MAXEY
C. C. MAXEY SEEKS
SECOND TERM AS SHERIFF
C. C. Maxey was in McGregor
Wednesday of this week shak-
ing hands with his many friends
and telling them he was asking
for his second term as sheriff of
McLeifnan County.
“I feel,” said Maxey, “that I
have perfromed duties of sher-
iff faithfully and well; there-
fore, I am asking the voters of
the county to re-elect, me for
another term.”
Being sheriff of a county the
size of McLennan is a24-liour-a-
day job, Maxey said.
“Fortunately, I have been
able to employ as deputies an
able and experienced group of
men,” he said. The fourteen
deputies experience added to
Maxey’s own long career in law
enforcement, comes to a total of
174 yeaigr spent as peace officers,
he stated. He pointed to these
figures as evidence of the hard
work and service performed by
department. In- traveling
thef roads and highways of this
county during the past year on
day and night duty, members of
the sheriff’s department cover-
ed a total of 252,264 miles.
There’s always room for improvement in any man’s field
of endeavor—and this business of publishing a newspaper is no ex-
ception.
That’s why, twice each year, Texas newspaper publishers
get tgetlier for a meeting of the Texas Press Association, where they
listen to experts in the field, exchange ideas among themselves and
talk shop. The purpose being to return to the plant and pitch in
to produce a BETTER newspaper for the hometown.
So it’s that time of year again. June 16 and 17 we’ll be in
Fort Worth for the 71st Annual Meeting of the TPA—bending an
ear to pick up a lot of good ideas from the eight out-of-state end
three Texas speakers who will be there to tell us all about it.
Looking over the program, we’d say that we’ll come home
Sunday, well fed in both mind and body.
On the mind side, well hear talks from men who are ex
perts at making newspapers easier to read and better to look at,
experts on how to better serve our advertisers, and expert on column
writing, and authorities on many other phases of newspaper pro-
duction, from salesmanship to being useful to our communities, in
general.
Cowtowners are going to see that we’re literally well fed
too, it seems. We’re invited to two breakfasts, two luncheons, a
barbecue supper and a dinner. Friday morning the Fort Worth
Press will be our hosts for breakfast, and on Saturday morning,
when the prizes in the Texas Newspaper Contests will be awarded,
the Southwest Magazine Company of Fort Worth is going to feed
us.
Friday noon well be guests of Swift and Company for
luncheon and a tour of the packing plant. Then on Saturday, Con-
solidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation will be our hosts for lunch-
eon and will show us the big 6-motorecl, pusher type B-36 Bombers
a close range.
Friday evening we’re going to tour Television Station
WBAB-TV. Then we' go to Shady Oaks, farm home of Publisher
Amon Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, for a barbecue
supper. Saturday night we have our own annual dinner at the
Texas Hotel.
Businessmen who don’t belong to their organization, and
attend its meetings regularly, don’t know what they’re missing.
AYe plan to have a swell time in Fort AYorth visiting with our fellow
newspaper publishers from all over Texas, gaining new ideas, see-
ing a lot of interesting things we haven’t seen before/and enjoying
Cowtown hospitality. AVe also plan to come home with renewed
* 1 inspiration and determination to give you a better-than-ever news-
paper.
Two English Asbestos Experts Here
Visiting Union Asbestos Plant
Lourenco Marques. Steamships
bearing amosite fiber plough
their way through 9,000 miles of
water—around the Cape of Good
Hope, Northwest across the
South Atlantic into the Gulf of
Mexico and on to the gulf ports
for unloading. Plere the amosite
is loaded in freight cars for de-
livery to the plant here.
When it leaves McGregor, the
insulation can withstand temper-
tures as high as 1200 degrees,
around the pipe while its surface
will be only comfortably warm
to the touch.
CraAvford is carrying his share
of the load in the exchange of
ideas. He presented the visitors
with 10-gallon hats Avhen he met
their plane Tuesday night.
Chamber Talks New Park Site;
Decides to Ask Bond Vote
At the regular monthly meet-
ing of the Chamber of Commerce
held at the Delite Cafe Wednes-
day night, with twenty members
present, many subjects were
discussed concerning the w elf are
of McGregor.
A park for the city has been
talked over the years, but noth-
ing of a definite nature has been
A Big Day
All-Day Reunion Set
For Church Dedication
Visiting Union Asbestos and
Rubber Company’s Plant No.6
here this week are two asbestos
, experts from London, England,
and an American grown authori-
ty-
Host Jack Crawford, manager
of the plant, says the English-
men represent the very life-
blood of this new plant. From
their mines in South Africa
come the raw materials for as-
bestos. Although asbestos de-
posits are located throughout
the world, only those South
African asbestos mines hold tne
fibrous rock, amosite, best suit-
ed for Unibestos Pipe Covering.
Col. K. C. Gray is a director
of the Cape Asbestos Co., Limi-
ted, and T. C. Hale is the com-
pany’s chief technical advisor,
and is in charge of the manufac-
turing operations at the Bark-
ing plant, near London. AYith
them is Robert Cryor of Chicago,
vice president of the Union As-
bestos and Rubber Co.
“AATe make rather periodical
trips to America and Canada to
exchange ideas,” Colonel Gray
said. This is the first trip to Mc-
Gregor for both men. They say
they are expecting big things.
The Englishmen have already
covered a lot of territory on this
exchange-of-ideas tour. Land-
ing in America May 16, the men
have visited plants.in New York,
Toronto and Montreal, Canada;
Chicago, San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
The visit also means a lot to
The sheriff and his deputies I the big Southwestern oil indus-
handlcd 2,561 cases, ranging from
misdomeanors to murders in the
past year; served 3,804 legal
papers and made 1,404 arrests.
A total of 1,295 of the latter have
been disposed of through the
courts, Maxey said.
“I have, as sheriff, built an
organization of courteous. well'
trained and experienced officers
in order to give all citizens of
McLennan county the kind of
service they are entitled to,” he
said, and upon the record made,
Maxey is asking to be re-elected.
tries, one of the chief users of
the Unibestos high temperature
pipe*, insulation. '
“The company was located in
Central Texas so we could bring
the facilities to the customer,”
Cryor said.
That’s no simple task. Amosite
is mined 500 miles inland, in the
Transgaal province of the Union
of South Africa. The mineral is
partially fiberized or “opened,”
the crude fibers are then put in
bags and delivered to the Port-.
guese East African seaport of 1 i
Committees of the First Meth-
odist Church this week are
planning and making arrange-
ments for the big reunion and
dedication of the new church on
July 2.
According to tentative plans
it’s going to be a big day for
McGregor Methodists and their
friends. Bishop W. C. Martin
will preach at the morning ser-
vice and then preside at the
dedication. All church members
will spread their dinner at the
church and in the afternoon the
church history will be reviewed
former pastors will make brief
talks, and there will be group
singing.
One of the former pastors will
probably preach at the evening
service, Rev. Henry Price said.
AAUiile at conference in Fort
AYorth last week, Rev. Price
and Hoyle Hackney talked with
a number of the church’s for-
mer pastors, and most of them
indicated that they will be pre-
sent for the dedication.
First service in the new
$50,000 light brick, Austin-stone
trimmed church was held March
19. At this time the church was
paid for, but dedication service
was postponed until Bishop
Martin could be present.
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DR. THOMPSON ATTENDING
CLASS REUNION AT YALE
Dr. and Mrs. John Thompson
left AYednesday for New York,
and New Haven, . Conn., where
Dr, Thompson will attend a re-
union of his graduating class
at Yale University. They made
the trip by plane.
Christian Church
Revival Begins
The First Christian church re-
vival services, which' began on
AYednesday night of this week,
will continue until Friday night
of the coming week. The Rev.
Mohn AYaddell, evangelist, of
Anna, Texas, is conducting the
services each nigTTb, which be-
gins with booster band for the
children at 7*15, song service at
7:45 and preaching at 8 o ’clock.
Everyone has a most cordial
invitation to attend any or all of
the services.
Blue Jays Looking
For Winning Streak
„ , , Unfortunately, McGregor does
Seeking to break a jf | not i,ave a natural park site.
m ref n A n I4 n A l\/l AI AY*_
clone abuot it. The park site in.
'Southwest part of the city has
undergone quite a bit of im-
provement. Trees and grass have
been planted this year, and a
ball ground and tennis courts
have also been" given attention.
But a park site should have
shade surrounding a stream of
water.
Every meeting held by the
Chamber for the past year, or
more, the park question always
arises. The same question was
brought up again on AYednesday
night, so the organization de-
cided really to do something
about it, and get at the move-
ment immediately.
It was the concensus of opin-
ion that everyone living in Mcr
Gregor would be interested in a
park. 'To obtain a site, it would
naturally take some money, and
the only way to get a sufficient
amount of money for a project
of this kind, was to vote bonds.
So it was decided at the meet-
ing to go before the city auth-
orities at the earliest date possi-
ble and ask that a bond election
be called and leave it up to the
citizenship whether or not they
would be interested, enough in a
park to vote such bonds. The
estimated amount of bonds for
which they will ask will be $75,-
000 to extend over a period of
ten to fifteen years.
THE WORD "DOLLAR’
The famous coin George AYashington threw • across
the Rappahannock was a big Spanish. Silver Dollar.
Originally these coins were called “ Joachimsthalers”
as they were issued in the village of Joachimsthal
in Bohemia. Eventually, the name was shortened
to “Thaler”, later to “Dalers” and finally to
“Dollars'” .... and if you need those extra dollars
see us for any type of loan.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
loosing streak, the McGregor
Blue Jays will meet Oak Lawn
of AYaco, Sunday on the AYeiss
Hill diamond at 2:45.
Like McGregor, Oak Lawn
has only one win to its credit,
so Managers Rip Collins and
Lester Horstmann believe it
will be a close contest, and invite
McGregor fans to attend.
Last Sunday the locals were
blanked 0-13 by Universal Atlas.
A. L. AYallaee, who pitched sev-
en innings for the cement plant
team, allowed only one hit. And
Dugger, who hurled the rernain-
two innings, allowed only one
hit.
McGregor Boy Wins
Nurse Essav Contest
m/
Lee Mendoza Jr., entered the
essay contest sponsored by the
nursing staff of Providence
Hospital, AAraco, and won first
place for the boy’s division. The
subject was “AYhy Be a Nurse?”
Mendoza won a check for $10
and accepted an invitation to
visit at the hospital with the
men nurses. A day and a night
was given o this project of in-
vestigating and experiencing
what a nursing,, career might of-
fer. He says that nursing can be
a man’s job and that it is not a
job for a sissy. The McGregor
boy of Route 5 Says he got ”a
real look into a hospital and
iiked what, he saw, because die
says he is “pretty sure” lie
wants to be a nurse.
He would perfer general hos-
pital duty, he thinks, for in this
way he could handle a wide var-
iety of cases. He could also enter
psychiatric nursing, veteran's
nursing or overseas work with a
shipping company or oil com-
pany. All of these are fields
with a steady demand for men
nurses.
Mrs. Chas P. Hoffman, who is
attending North Texas State
College in Denton, spent the
week end at home.
park
However, the city owns land ly-
ing along Harris Creek at the
north- of the city, and it is possi-
ble to acquire some twenty other
acres of land in the same vicinity
all of which is located along Har-
ris Creek. There are plenty of
shade tree!s and with wojrk a
beautiful park site may be de-
veloped.
AYith a $75,000 bond issue, en-
ough money would be available
to purchase the land owned by
individuals, build a recreation
building, playgrounds and per-
haps dam up the creek whereby
sufficient water could be held
that a small swiming pool would
be made possible. Of course, all
of this is in the future, however,
those members present at- the
meeting AYednesday night were
in accord that something along
this line should be started, and
started at once.
President Sam Amsler Jr.,
stated he thought the park move-
ment was a good one, and cer-
tainly McGregor needed a park;
some place where families may go
for outings, instead of having to
leave the city and drive many
miles to an adjoining city in
order to enjoy a short while out
and eat a few sandwiches.
Raymond Qeye was appointed
chairman of a committee, other
members to be named within the
next few- days, who will
thoroughly investigate the park
situation and ask for a date to
appear before the civ authorities
and discuss the question with
them regarding the bond issue.
If the people of AIcGregor are
interested enough in a park, the
Chamber of Commerce believes
now is the time for action, but
also believe that anything done
must be acted upon immediate-
ly.
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SEE STEPHENVILLE SHOW
Alex -Zaeharias, Guy Snelson
and J. AY. Jennings, manager of
the McGregor Chamber of Com-
merce, attended the Stephenville
dairy show Monday. They say
they saw a lot of good cattle.
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The McGregor Mirror and Herald-Observer (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, June 16, 1950, newspaper, June 16, 1950; McGregor, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth890063/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McGinley Memorial Public Library.