The Citizens Journal (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1940 Page: 1 of 12
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Complete News and
Advertising Coverage
for Atlanta and Cass
County Trade Area 1
Citizens Journal
SIXTY-FIRST YEAR
ATLANTA, CASS COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 18, ^940
Be Loyal to Atlanta!
• Trade at Home I
• Sell at Home!
• Buy at Home!
NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT
m
Melon Fest, Tuesday, July 23
i
Candidates Give
O Speaking Dates
The candidates of Cass County
will visit the following communities
during the next next week on their
speaking tour. , the time and date
as per schedule is as follows:
Douglassville, Thursday, July 18,
at 8 p. m.
Dalton, Friday, July 19, 2 p. m.
Marietta, Friday, July 19, 8 p. m.
Cass, Monday, July 22, 2 p. m.
Bloom burg, Monday, July 22, at
8 p. m.
Concord, Tuesday, July 23,2 p. m.
Lanier, Tuesday, July 23, 8 p. m.
Hughes Springs, Wednesday,
July 24, at 8 p. m.
k Dow Heard Was
'Rotary Speaker
Dow Heard, of Kilgore, Texas,
was in charge of the Rotary pro-
gram here last Thursday noon, and
presented a talking moving picture,
entitled "Free Men Build Ameri-
ca." The picture was made by the
United States Chamber of Com-
merce. The leading characters in
the picture were W. Gibson Cary
Jr., President of the U. S. C. C.
and Merle Thorp, Editor and Pub-
lisher of Nations Business, the
magazine published by the Cham-
ber of Commerce.
The showing of the picture here
was made possible by W. C. Trout,
President of Lufkin Foundry &
Machine Co. Mr. Trout is also
president of the Texas Manufac-
turers Association.
Dr. Grumbles
Passes Exam
Errol Holt Visits
Atlanta Thursday
Errol Holt was touring Cass
county last Thursday and visited
Atlanta with his large sound truck
made to resemble a railroad loco-
motive. His set-up which included
a huge St. Bernard dog, a picture
of which is found elsewhere in this
issue, attracted much attention. He
worked the town in the interest of
his campaign for Railroad Commis
sioner of Texas, asking the people
to "Take Hold with Holt."
Ernest W. Grumbles, M.D., D. N. B.
Dr. Grumbles recently completed
the third and final portion of the
examination given by the National
Board of Medical Examiners of
Vanderbilt University,, Nashville,
Tenn. The National Board is the
highest medical examining Board
in the U. S., covering all branches
of medicine, entitling him to use
the letters D. N. B., signifying Di-
plomate of the National Board.
Canning Factory
Running In High
Rodessa Oil Output
Passes 100,000,000
The Rodessa oil field had a birth
day July 7, the fifth anniversary
of completion of United Gas Co's.
No. 1 I. L. Young well which was
the field's first oiler.
Accumulated oil production in
« the five year period (up to Junel)
totaled 109,176,306 barrels from
1,050 wells. This does not include
a large amount of natural gasoline
taken from gas wells.
Accumulated production by
states and number of wells in the
Rodessa area follows: Louisiana,
Caddo Parish, 63,721,879 barrels
from 452 wells; Arkansas, Miller
bounty, 5,162,810 barrels from 90
wells; Texas, Cass county, 31,707,-
256 barrels; Marion county 8,574,-
361 barrels (total Texas wells
5°8.) _
O Melon Growers
Meeting Friday
All watermelon growers who are
interested in selling melons for the
annual Watermelon Festival are
asked to meet with the committee
at the Citizens Journal office at 2
p. m., Friday, July 19.
Cass County District
Court Proceedings
Ex parte Jesse Savage, order re-
moving disabilities as a minor.
Next week will be the last week
of this term of the Cass county
District Court.
,« Two special venires for murder
cases set for Monday, July 22 have
f been summoned.
/ State vs. Burl Simons and T. C.
Allen.
The Grand Jury will meet on Fri-
day, July 26 and court will be ad-
journed Saturday, July 27th, for
the term.
Arrival and departure of the
giant Clipper Ships which span the
airways from California across the
Pacific will be among the interest-
ing spectacles which is greeting
visitors to Treasure Island this
summer.
AH colors of Cardboard at the
Citizens Journal office.
County Agent White reports that
many Cass county farmers are pull-
ing their pink tomatoes and ripen-
ing them in the shade so that they
will get that top grade which brings
the $2.00 per ton extra. White re-
ports that it does not take the sun
to ripen a tomato. In fact, the sun
may blister the tomato which will
cause an early rotting of the toma-
to. Tomatoes are being pulled
from the vines as soon as they turn
light, and are spread carefully un-
der trees where the shade is dense.
In about a week they are ready for
the prmium price, which is paid for
a red ripe tomato. The plant mana
ger states that he is getting a nice
volume of a red ripe premium to-
matoes from Cass county, especial-
ly from Bear Creek and Queen
City. Many truck loads are coming
from Red River and other coun-
ties, where the farmers get much
less for the tomatoes than they
do in Cass county, frequently as
low as $7 and $8 a ton. "But at
that," stated one farmer, "we go
out and pick a few crates of toma-
toes, carry them to town and get
say $5 for our morning's work. We
consider that good." Farmers in
Red River county plant for the
green wrap and consider what they
get from the canning factory just
that much velvet.
From over the area farmers are
reported working the middles to
keep the ground from getting hard.
Tomatoes may bear till September,
if the ground is kept stirred. Then,
this crop may prove the most pro-
fitable raised in several years.
Those who side dressed last week
are sure to reap a nice profit.
Tomatoes that are stuck are not
sunburning and show the best con-
dition. Sticking should be done
and '.vi!! pay better than any oilier
practice according to growers who
know.
The canning factory has canned
8 cars of beans and 20 cars of to-
matoes so far this year. Fifty
cars of tomatoes may be canned
and a fall crop of beans will be
canned this year, an increase over
last year.
Notice to the Public!
Pursuant to an order entered by
the Commissioner's Court, all ac-
counts and claims must be filed
with the County Auditor not later
than the first (1st) Monday in each
month, so that same may be pre-
sented to the Court on tne second
(2nd) Monday. Such accounts fil-
ed after the above date will not be
presented for payment until the
next succeeding Court day.
All interested parties please be
governed accordingly.
EUGENE STONE,
County Auditor
Visitors to Treasure Island this
summer will have a wide choice in
foods from a 5-cent ice-cream cone
to a 25-course South Sea dinner,
with cooking of several dozen dif-
ferent nations interspersed here and
there.
The Texas petroleum industry
alone now pays 45 per cent of all
state taxes, exclusive of sales taxes
such as the gasoline tax which are
paid by the consumer.
Red Cross Workers
Make Progress
A cable from John Maloney, Red
Cross worker in France, dated May
26, reads: "A cable is inadequate in
picturing the mass terror and suf-
fering which resulted from the
greatest battle ih history raging
when this was written. I have seen
wars in China, Finland and Nor-
j way, but I have never seen suffer-
I ing such as this. I witnessed the
! misery following the floods in the
I Mississippi valley and hurricanes
l on America's coast. There is no
j comparison between suffering in
; their wakes and the human misery
j which exists as a result of the un-
I limited warfare now blasting to
i bits the homes, towns and villages
of what was one of the most beau-
tiful regions on earth. Americans
should be thankful for the Atlantic
ocean."
Work on our quota of clothing
for these people is going forward
rapidly. Under the direction of
Miss O'Neal and Mrs. Pitts, twen-
ty-one sweaters are being knitted
and six shawls crocheted by wo-
men of Atlanta. Other units are
all working well. Most work for
one afternoon was turned out by
the Friday afternoon units, with
Mrs. Herbert Fouche as chairman
and Mrs. Norman Smith secretary.
These ladies made four wool dres-
ses in three hours. Mesdames
Cameron, Grumbles, Newkirk, Jor-
dan, Allday and Hudson all report
good work from their groups on
children's dresses, boy's suits and
layettes. We have now bought all
material allowed from the funds
we have collected and will finish the
work by August 15th. More funds
will be necessary if more work is
done in the fall.
Have you given to the relief of
the innocent?
MRS. JOE McCLUNG,
Local Chairman, War Relief Pro
duction.
Cong. Patman
Spoke in Atlanta
Wednesday
Lions Club Met
Wednesday Noon
The Atlanta Lions Club held
their regular weekly luncheon Wed
nesday noon at the Atlanta Hotel.
Oval Harden delivered a splendid
talk on the United States Consti-
tution, its framers, amendments,
etc., and what it means to us as
citizens. During these perilous
times all citizens should honor the
American flag and stand by the con
stitution.
Atlanta Soft Ball
League Results
Last Thursday Atlanta Motor
company defeated the Bankers 9 to
4 and Gunter Lumber company de-
feated Red Star Furniture com-
pany 17 to 16.
Friday Cooks "Cookies" won over
the Highway department 16 to 14.
East Texas Motor company won
over Southwestern Gas & Electric
company 26 to 15.
Monday the Bankers defeated
Red Star 16 to 1. Cook's defeated
Atlanta Motor Company 11 to 2.
Honest John pitched for the Cookies
and had the Motors on his hip with
his spit ball.
Tuesday East Texas Motors de-
feated the Highway boys 13 to 10.
Gantci" wou over Southwestern 20
to 9.
Standing of the teams:
Bankers
15
11
4
.733
Atlanta Mo.
15
10
5
.666
Cook's
15
9
6
.600
East Texas
.15
8
7
.533
Red Star ..
.15
7
8
.466
Highway ....
15
5
10
.333
Sw. G. & E.
15
5
10
.333
15
5
10
.333
First Methodist
Church News
Next Sunday, July 21, we hope
to have another large summer
crowd like we had last Sunday. At
11 a. m. the guest speaker will be
Dr. William G. Phelps, professor
of German in Centenary College,
Congressman Wright Patman
spoke on the streets of Atlanta at
1:45 p. m. Wednesday afternoon,
He was introduced by Judge Hugh
Carney. The crowd was about
2,000.
Mr. Patman spoke in the interest
of his campaign for reelection to
Congress from the first district of
Texas. He is making a weeks cam
paign over the district during the
recess of Congress for the National
Democratic Convention, being held
in Chicago, 111., and stated that he
would be back in Washington, D. C.
Monday morning, July 22.
He stated that it was good to
hear the president say that he was
not in favor if sending American
boys across the ocean to participate
in the European war. But was in
favor of preparedness in this coun-
try for its defense. Our democrat
tic form of government was the
only kind worthwhile in the the
world.
The people of Russia do not favor
totalitarian rule by Stalin, but he
has the army, and they rule by iron
hand-killing to keep their people in
servitude,
I want to restate some of the
things I have always stood for; a
belter cotton market and since 1933
the government has took a hand.
Also been working for a lower in-
terest rate in favor of the farmers
and home owners.
Been working with the govern-
ment in increasing jobs for the un-
employed, N. Y. A., etc. Favor the
erection and distribution of arma-
ment plants over the nation for
better distribution of labor and of
safety; and the building of plenty
of airplanes, tanks, ammunition,
thereby giving us the best protec-
tion of any nation in the world.
But it will take at least a year to
build these and equip the necessary
standing army. We must prepare
to defend ourselves from the en'
croachments of totalitarian nations
and their dictators.
I was in favor of the aid age as-
sistance when I went into office 12
years-ago, but that idea was then
new and had slow sledding. I was
soon placed on the Veterans Com-
mittee and have been sponsoring
their interest all these years. 1 am
iu favor of all the old people, above
65 not paying an income tax, to be
paid $30 monthly, direct from the
Federal Government.
There are two groups of people
who know whether I have made a|
good congressman; you, the people
and the members of congress who
I have worked with in your con-
gress.
In a few days you will receive a j
circular letter from the leaders in
congress as to whether I have been
working for your interest while in
Washington. I have done my best
to secure money for every worthy
project in my district.
I have been accused of quitting
congress and going out to work for
myself, speaking for a speakers bu-
reau. Thats no more than many of
Shreveport, La. Dr. Phelps is one the greatest men have done, Will
of the leading laymen in that city I Rogers, William J. Bryan and hun-
in the Methodist church. He teaches
a large Bible class at the Noel
Memorial Methodist church. The
brotherhood class of this church
has invited him to lecture to them
at 10 a. m. You will miss a real
blessing if you fail to hear Dr.
Phelps.
The evening service will begin at
8 p. m. You are always welcome
at the Methodist church.
Fatal injuries to workers in the
oil industry are now at the rate of
only one in 2,078 work yean.
Typewriter Ribbons for sale ar
the Citizens Journal. Phone 178.
dreds of others. But I only had
that honor preferred upon me a
few times, never while congress
was in pession.
He stated that Waters made ap-
plication for the postmastership of
Atlanta in 1921 as a Republican. "In
all the literature gotten out by Wa-
ters the word "Democrat" does not
appear. Is he still a Republican,
running in a Democratic Primary 7"
Highes taxes and other increased
costs for Texas oilmen caused a
decline of 4,365 in the number of
oil wells drilled in the State in the
past two years, compared with the
previous year.
Health Unit
Holds Meeting
The Cass County Health Unit
under the direction of nurse J. M.
Clark, held an all day meeting in
Linden July 12, for Midwives. From
the 66 midwives in Cass county, 61
were present. Demonstrations were
conducted for the purpose of teach-
ing these midwives how to better
care for those persons whom they
attend.
Registration began at 10 o'clock
under the direction of Ruth Wood-
ward and Semmie Pruitt. A blood
test was also taken on each mid-
wife.
The demonstration, a complete de
livery service, after care of the
mother and baby's bath, were giv-
en by Bertha Storey of the Brazos
County Health Unit, and Misses
Jessie Judd and Kate Fullbright of
Cass County. All materials used
in the demonstrations were made
by various midwife group meetings
of Atlanta, Bethlehem and Gum
Springs.
Visiting speakers included County
Judge Kermit Wommack, Mrs. Mon
roe Allen and Dr. H. H. Prickett,
director of Bowie County Health
Unit.
An appetizing lunch of barbe-
cue, potato salad and fresh toma-
toes from the N. Y. A. farm was
served by Annabel le Rand, assisted
by the local colored P. T. A. and
Hugh Rutherford, who did the bar
becuing.
Following lunch came Dr. Puck-
ett's address and Nurse Clark's
explanation of birth registerings.
Each midwife received a box of sil-
ver nitrate and a list of supplies for
her bag.
Visitors were as follows: Dr. H.
H. Puckett and Nurse Nolbert, Tex-
arkana; Nurse Bertha Storey, Bra
zos County Health Unit, Bryan;
Judge Kermit Wommack, Mrs. Mon
roe Allen, Mrs. F. K. Laurentz and
son Bobby and Mrs. S. B[ Scott, of
Linden and Mrs. Harry Manson,
Smyrna.
It is regretted deeply that Dr.
Laurentz was unable to be here,
yet we are sure that he joins with
us in extending our appreciation
and gratitude for the cooperation
shown by the civic groups in mak-
ing this program a success.
Do You Know Texas
Citizenship Thought.—"Crime is
a lifetime guaranteed article; no
wonder the buyer has to pay such
a high price for it."—By Joachim
Besen.
Sons of the Alamo: William T.
Malone, an 18 year old youth, died
in the Alamo. He came from Ala-
bama and enlisted as a private.
Factual: The muster rolls, pre-
pared by the Quartermaster Gener-
al of the Republic of Texas, were
filed in the General Land Office in
May 1839. Commissioner Bascom
Giles invites interested persons to
inspect this Archive.
Q—Were camels once sent to
Texas for use by the United States
Army?
A—Yes to West Texas, but they
were not a success.
Q—By whom was the late C. M.
Cureton appointed to the chief
justice-ship of the Texas Supreme
Court?
A—By Governor Pat M. Neff.
He was then attorney general and
since his appointment he has held
the post continuously, having been
elected to the office three times by
the voters of the state, the last
time without opposition.
Q—What are some of the plants
and plant foods which the American
Indian contributed to civilization?
A—Corn, cotton, peanuts, pota-
toes, beans, pumpkins, squash, wa-
termelons and canteloupes. Carl
Chelf, Curator of Anthropology of
the Texas Memorial Museum, states
that in addition to the above, to-
bacco and chocolate were American
plants. Tomatoes grew wild in
America, but the Indians did not
eat them.
Historical—Nacogdoches, one of
the earlier Texas settlements was a
deserted village when Stephen F.
Austin rode through it in 1821. The
city is now the site of a state col-
lege which bears the name of the
Father of Texas.
Q—Who was the first merchant
to tra<ie at Houston?
A—Colonel William T. Austin, in
1833.
Q—When and where was LaSalle
killed?
A—By one of his followers he
was murdered near the Neches
River, March 30, 1681.
Q—When did the Sixth Congress
of the Republic of Texas meet?
A—On the first of November,
1841, in Austin.
Q—Name some vessel of the Tex
as navy that was afloat in 1838?
A—The Potomac which was the
only one afloat at that time.
Atlanta Making Plans To Care For
10,000 People July 23; Entertainment Galore
Festival Speaker
Pierce Brooks, candidate for rail
road commissioner, will speak at
the city park at 1:80 in the interest
of his candidacy. His safety patrol
string band and sound truck will be
in Atlanta all day Tuesday, July 23
for the melon fest.
Waters Speaks
at Hughes Springs
R. G. "Dick" Waters, former At-
lanta boy and now State Casualty
Insurance Commissioner, challenged
Wright Patman in a speech at
Hughes Springs Wednesday after-
noon to a joint debate "to be held
anywhere, any time, under any con-
ditions and giving Mr. Patman
any advantage he may desire."
"I personally do not believe that
Mr. Patman will accept the chal-
lenge," said Waters, "because it is
impossible for him to deny facts
against him taken directly from the
Congressional Record. I intend
here and now to see that he no long
er violates the will of the East
Texas people. He must answer in
joint debate, and I have been chal-
lenging him for six days now, each
and every charge made against his
record, or try to answer them.
Waters spoke before a large
crowd in Hughes Springs, who
cheered intermittently through this
speech.
"If Mr. Patman denies my chal-
lenge or ignores it—and I wish
that all of the people would watch
for an answer," asserted Waters,
"he has admitted that every charge
against his official record is all too
true. Mr. Patman evidently, how-
ever, wants to debate only one side
of the question, in order to give the
people of East Texas only his side
of the charges, and in order to tell
the people only things favorable to
Wright Patman. He does not want
to take any chance of having the
truth creep out by letting his op-
ponent debate on even terms with
him. Mr. Patman has denied me—
a voting taxpayer—the democratic
right of free and open debate, and
by that action has signed his poli-
tical death warrant!"
"I hope that everyone possible
will hear Mr. Patman," said Wa-
ters. "That may sound unusual, but
I sincerely want everyone listening
when ne speaks. And I want them
at the same time to realize every
time Mr. Patman utters a word and
denies a charge that they are hear-
ing only one side of the issue—not
two sides—because their present
Congressman is afraid to give his
opponents the democratic right of
debate with him."
Harry Hines
Speaker Here
L. A. (Just Van) Valkenburg, of
Madisonville, Texas, was in Atlan-
ta, Tuesday afternoon. He spoke to
a nice crowd of voters in the inter-
est of Harry Hines for Governor
of Texas. Mr. Valkenburg present-
ed Hines' platform and solicited the
votes and influence of those pres-
ent at the speaking.
More than one-half of the total
expenditures each year of the Texas
petroleum industry goes to Texas
workers in wages and salaries and
to Texas farmers and land-owners
in lease and royalty payments.
Texas oil producers lost over 68
million barrels of their market to
other oil states with cheaper pro-
ducing costs in the past two years,
according to Railroad Commission
figures.
Texas farmers and other land
owners receive more than $132,000,-
The Fifth Annual Watermelon
Festival will be staged Tuesday,
July 23 by the Atlanta Junior Cham
ber of Commerce. The Arizona
Ranch Girls, popular radio starp
heard over station KWKH, Shreve-
port, will entertain the crowds from
10:00 to 12:00 a.m. These enter-
tainers have appeared here in per-
son and have many fans in this sec-
tion.
At 12:00 o'clock plenty of ice cold
Cass county watermelons will be
served to everyone at the City Park
north of town. Plenty of shade, ta-
bles and seats at the park will make
it comfortable for everyone.
Pierce Brooks, candidate for rail-
road commissioner will speak at the
city park immediately following the
watermelon cutting. Mr. Brooks is
sending his sound truck and Safety
Patrol string band to Atlanta to en-
tertain the crowds throughout the
day. He has been head of the Tex-
as Safety Commission and has ren-
dered a fine service to the people
of Texas in this field. Hear him pre
sent his claims for railroad com-
missioner from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
For the base ball fans of this sec-
tion Jake Atz's Longview team will
cross bats with the Marshall nine at
the city ball park at 3:00 p.m.
These are two teams from the East
Texas League and will enable all
fans attending the festival to see a
good game.
The annual bathing beauty re-
vue will be staged at the city nati-
torium at 5:30 p.m. About thirty
beautiful girls from Atlanta and
surrounding towns will com^ ete in
this beautiful show.
The closing feature of the eve-
ning will be the big, annual street
dance beginning at 8:30 and con-
tinuing until the wee, small hours
of the morning. A good eight piece
band has been secured for this
dancfe.
The Gulf sound truclc will be here
all day to announce the events and
amplify the music. The Park Amuse
ment company, a high class carni-
val, is in Atlanta for two weeks,
offering rides, shows and other en-
tertainment for the public.
Saturday of this week, the At-
lanta high school band, under the
direction of Wm. Burnett, will head
a caravan of cars making a tour of
this trade territory advertising the
festival.
Everybody has a cordial invita-
tion to attend this annual event in
Atlanta. Come and spend the day
with your friends. Visit the Atlanta
canning plant which is working
two shifts canning red ripe toma-
toes. The merchants and business
men of Atlanta invite you to visit
their places of business and the in-
dustries of Atlanta invite the pub-
lic to inspect their plants.
Howard Smith
Spoke Here
Howard Smith, candidate for
Congress, this district made a short
address here Wednesday afternoon,
following Congressman Patmans
address.
He stated that he was a country
boy from Hopkins county, and was
educated in the local schools, E. T.
S. T. College and served two years
in the State Legislature from Hop-
kins cuui'ity, and is now practicing
law in Sulphur Springs.
Hopes that the present Congress
will watch their step in dealing
with the European situation and
keep us out of the war. Am in fa-
vor of a strong aviation force in
this country; favor social security,
better farm and labor laws.
Am a young man fighting for a
future, and feel that it is time to
make a change in the district.
Myron Wewerka
Resigns
Myron Wewerka, the Secretary-
Manager of the Atlanta Junior
Chamber of Commerce, announced
Wednesday afternoon that he ha<?
handed his resignation to Dr. Joe
Nichols, President of the Jaycees.
Mr. Wewerka turned the Wednes-
day Appreciation Day activities
over to Mr. Abe Mays.
"Shorty" Maness
Opens Garage
T. T. (Shorty) Maness has open-
ed a garage in building to rear of
Credit Tire Store. Mr. Maness was
formerly with Allday-Old Motor
Co. He will do generai garage work
and will appreciate a portion of
your business.
I
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Memorable Passage: "It does
000 a year from the Texas petro-not appear to me possible that
leum industry in lease and royalty there can be a land more lovely
payments. than Texas."—W. B. Dewees.
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