The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 35, No. 5, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 3, 1944 Page: 1
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Back The Invasion
Buy More War
Bonds and Stamps
Volume 35
Funeral Services
For William Losson
Held At Kress
Funeral rites for William R
Losson 83 were read Wednesday
afternoon Jan 26 at the Kress
Methodist Church by Rev Cecil
Fox pastor of the Kress Methodist
Church assisted by Rev Clarence
Hawoll Kress Baptist minister
and Rev George Montgomery
Kress superannuated Methodist
minister
Mr Lossons six sons were pallbearers
A resident of Kress for
the past nine years Mr Losson
died Tuesday night Jan 25 at
a Plainview hispital following a
months illness
A native of Missouri Losson
moved to Oklahoma with his parents
when he was eight years old
and while that state was Indian
he ranched
THE TULIA HERALD
and county offices as they have
done in the past and rule for a
day receiving for their treasury
all traffic and other fines collect1
cd I
Scout activities for the week will
include presenting the program at
Kiwanis Club meeting Tuesday at
noon and attending the Baptist
Church in a group woaring uniforms
Sunday Feb 13
A bond drive might also bo held
although final plans for such have
not been made
Approximately uu to 25 advancements
will be made at the
Board of Review to bo held Thursday
night at regular Scout meeting
This is the best advancement
wo have had in some time
said Elliott Parents and friends
of the boys who are interested in
their examinations Thursday
night are invited to bo present
Two new Scouts have been added
to the roll They are Joe Hipp
and Paul Griffith A transfei
from Silverton has also been welcomed
into the troop
r
of y ° ur 10 earnings for income Swisher County
Losson had been a member of
Purposes Dewey Keed Manager
the Methodist Church 70 years and
of
had been a Mnson 50 He
tho Amnrillo field office ro
years
joined the Methodist Church tMlay
Wynncwood Okla at tho ago of The Social Security Board can
13 and was among the first mcm ° t help you because your employ
bers of the frontier church His ers tax returns will not have
Masonic membership is at Claren reached the Board in time to pcr
don mit it to make availnble a state
Survivors are his wife and tholment of your annual earnings for
following children Mrs II G income tax returns
Francis Dozicr Mrs E C Manager Reed said today that
Tulia Swisher County Texas Thursday February 3 1944
Poll Tax Receipts
Heaviest In Years
Citizens Asked To
Mail Contributions
For Paralysis Fund
K V Miller Swisher County
chairman for the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis said
the drive for funds had been plowed
somewhat due to the conflicting
Ith War Loan Drive but that contributions
continue to dribble in
The Grand Theatre is showing
a short subject In infantile paralysis
featuring Greer Carson all
this week and is taking up contributions
following each showing
more thnn 100 has been raised
for the drive in this manner
Tulia school childien are expected
to begin a drive for the infantile
paralysis fund this week All
rural schools aie cooperating in
the drive but a report on collections
was not available at this
j writing
The citizens of illnppy sponsor
I ed a community meeting at the
high school Monday night for tho
purpose of raising funds for tho
National Foundation for Infantile
h
ppy
Resignations Bring
About Changes In
Tulia High School
Miss Vada Webster of Memphis
is head of the commercial department
of Tulia High school since
tho recent lesignation of 10 C
Potter A graduate of West Texas
State College at Canyon Miss
Webster has done office work and
thus comes to Tulia High school
backed with jnactlcal experience
of the subjects she teaches
J V Tidwell high school principal
left Tuesday morning t <
take a teaching job at Sominolo
and clods that would ordinarily
offer resistance to wind action
now crumble at the slightest touch
Farmers of the Swisher County
District should take notion of the
condition of their soil ami laud
that i not sufficiently covered
with crop residue should havei
emergency tillage operations applied
at tthe first Indication ol
soil movement if not befoio
Tho regular monthly meeting of
the lloaid of Supervisors wa held
Satutday afternoon January 2U
Charles T Herring Chairman of
the lloaid of Supervisors presented
a rough draft of the Super
visors annual report for the sug
L Uw kilned at thc
earliest oppoi tunity was incur
LeeJ M1J ilir
Gardenin Calif W A Losson < ch year come income tax time IUmbcr on iecord for this county AU in ° r having been received lncu
District Farm
Bureau Meeting To
Be Here Feb 12
Swisher County will bo host to
it district Farm Bureau Meeting
on February IS according to Information
received by It T
Daniel president of Swisher County
Farm Bureau Federation
1 Walter Hamilton president
of the Slate Federation will he
hern for the meeting and will dis
cuss major problems now confrnitt
The Swisher County Junloi
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Buy More War
Bonds and Stamps
Number 5
Bond Auction Saturday To Help Boost 4th War Loan Sales
Rain And Hail Wednesday
Brings 45 Inches Moisture
After a cloudy gray day Tulia
and Swisher County received a
sudden rain and hailstorm Wednesday
afternoon of last week
The hailstones were fine and did
no damage Moisture from the
rain amounted to 45 of an inch
Skies cleared Friday and
pretty warm days prevailed until
Tuesday which remained damp
National Boy
Scout Week To
Be Observed Here
The Tulia Troop of Boy Scouts
will observe National Boy Scout
week Feb 713 according to Mack
Elliott Scoutmaster Next week
and misty all day Yesterday i the boys will take over the city
morning dawned with overcaat
skies and a thick fog covering
everything but by noon the sun
was shining and the temperature
lad risen sharply
HASCOM GILES
X M
Land Commissioner
Makes Business
Trip To Tulia
Bascom Giles Commissioner of
the General Land Office was I AV 1 y V Conway KiiykendaU
rulin luiuy whlc on a l > u
tmlrmnn for tho drive in Happy
trip into the Panhandle Commissioner
Giles took a few minutes
time from business to greet friendsMiller urged Individuals organizations
and business firms to bring
or mail contributions to R V
Miller Swisher County Chairman
He reported that the Land Of J ing
Proclamation
WIIFKKAS the JJSth day of February ltl lus Ihtii drNleuxt
ed by the t nllrd Council of Church Women as WOULD DAY OF
ritAYKK and
WIIKUKAS ttir alius und nrromplMtmriits of this diy are to
Invoke Gods leadership lit all iitiase of life to offer ttrnlie and
thanks as well aM auppllcitlnns to take up a frerwlll offering
for the dissemination of Christian literature and missionary work
In the homeland
NOW TIIKIlKKOUr 1 Itay J Jordan Mayor of the City of
Tulia do hereby join with the United Council of Church Women
and do hereby set aside and proclaim the day of February 25 as
WOULD DAY OF IHAYKU In Tulia Kvery person Is urged
to look forward to this day and make a fitting sacrifice for It
observance
IN TKSTIMONY I have hereunto Msncd my name officially
and caused the Seal of the City of Tulia to be Impressed hereon
this the 3rd day of February A D 10II
KAY O JOKDAN Mayor of Tulia
Swisher County
Farmers Urged To
Protect Soil
Information gained from talks
with various farmers and from
field observations indicate that the
leceiit snows and rains may not
have been a blcviing entirely
Such Information Indicates that
laud without adequate cover is liable
to damage from wind action
The alternate freezing and thaw
of molHturo in the soil lias left
Nntlonnl Foundation for Infantile
i
M1lilon
ffv
W l hht
IUy
fice during the last year rccclv1 > Tulia Texas Con
i imilyls or to
ed more than ten and onehalf way Kuykendall Cochairman
Not only membership but also A M College
attendance seems to be increasing Commissioner Giles said that a
territory He served with the law said the scoutmaster who report grcnter number of applications
department of the U S marshelcd that 25 boys were at last were being receives in the Land
in the territory for several years weeks regular meeting
and was deputy under tho first
sheriff of Garvin County Okla1 r >
J V I T Ul
DOard let Unable
homa Losson encountered some I
of the desperate criminals thatjTo Give Statement
made the Indian territory their r
1Qn
hiding place in the early days and Ut l4o Wages
gang
Li t
million dollars which was an all Happy Texas
timo record for said office The
greater part of this money goes
into the two educational funds being
tho Public Free School Fund
I and the University of Texas and
Office from people purchasing the
excess within their surveys which
law was passed by the Legislature
following his recommendation
This law has done a great deal
to relieve title complications caus
ed by the existence of excess with
had brushes with the Sam Bass i the survey he said
L > 01 s aocml Security
while he was an officer
1 Board field office for n statement
Swisher County will stage a gi
gantic war bond auction to boont
sale of bonds In tho tth War Ioan
Drive Saturday afternoon on the
courthouse lawn The auction will
begin at 2 oclock with a concert
by tho Amnrillo Army Air Field
Hand Tho band will bo here until
100
Articles and money to be auctioned
off have been donated by
merchants business men ami
other Individual C F Sjogren of
Kress will be auctioneer Father
of a son in tho service Sjogren
will truly have his heart In his
business Saturday Ho was auctioneer
for the successful bond
sale held hero during tho last i am
palgn and James T Hale county
war finance chairman expressed
his appreciation Wednesday of
Sjogrens previous work and hu
willingness to again offer his
services
Stmillur similar war bond rnllleii
and auction sales are being huh
throughout the country Thero Is
to be an auction at Kress ami one
at Price Friday night and one
at Union Hill Thursday night
No matter where when or from
whom a person huya a bond ho
will be given credit for such In
his own community therefore
all bonds bought at the auction
sale will increase totals tn the
homo communities of all buyers
Bond Total
Figures in the drive so far show
tho farmers and ranchers
lug
tml < >
thU and tho
H
major problems to lie discussed
are machinery supplies labor
leasnuahlc floor prices under all
farm and livestock products subsidies
ami roll buck prices purity
prices and other necessary logls
ODaniel urgim every farmer
ami rauelior to be present at the
meeting on Fohriiniy IS which
will bo hold in the distiiut courtroom
as the law of supply and
demand is not working with present
regulations and only through
legislation can fanners and run
cbeiii receive fair consideration
gestlous and approval of the other
Board Members It was agreed I Junior LivOtttoclc
that heavy equipment for terrac
ing and other conservation prac SllOW To Be Held
Texas Ulis edel by the District and
leaving required
MCrc Mnrfk 3H
several changes be made in the recommendation that BP
high school classes II
lias assumed the teaching of
s since Jim 1 This plus
M > I < HI allocated by varlom cor
Iterations brings Swisher Conn
tys total to iaofil a littlo over
half of tho net quota of 168000
Bond committeemen believe that
the remaining sum of 1117171 will
bo raised by Iob 15 the close of
the drive
Cnl Farley Here
Cal Farley director of tlie
schools campaign in Amnrillo
spoke to the school children of
Tulia Friday afternoon at 1 o
clock and outlined the plans Unit
Amnrillo and otlwr towns were
using
A tUti war bond him been offered
as a reward to the boy or girl
in each class from the finM
grudu to the twelfth who sell inmost
bonds Citizens of Tulia can
testify to tho fact UuA the ttu
dent huvo been working thta
week as boys and girls have
tho
San Antonio J j Losson and d hundreds of people requested I although I have not checked J 1tUn 1 MrH District
began Of the
l ope
Scott lias I
FrD Losson both of Gardinia Cnlif
T T Losson Upton Calif Riley
Losson Palio Okla and Carl Los
son Kress two half brothers J
A Gardner Shamrock and eBn
A Gardner Ft Supply Okla and
a half sister Mrsl Emma Williams
Chickasha Okla Thirty
seven grandchildren and twenty
three great grandchildren
survive
Continued on back page
Grade School
Piano Pupils
To Give Recital
A group of piano pupils from
the grade school will give a recital
in the high school auditorium
next Monday morning at 11
oclock
Those to play are Juanelva Rose
from the first grade Elizabeth
Ann East Dolores Hutto Donnie
Bauer and Elizabeth Massey from
the second grade Barbara Mc
I Glaun Carolyn Meadows Roy
Allen McCasland and Mary Ann
Hill from the third grade Wayne
Harris Morris from the fifth
grade will play a violin solo and
Frances Brooks who is of preschool
ago will play several piano
numbers
Parents and friends of these
children are cordially invited to
attend the program
VFW Receives Two
New Soldiers
Into Organization
Wheeler C Moore son of Mr
and Mrs W H Moore of Happy
now serving in tho South Pacific
has mailed his application for
membership in McKenzie Post No
1798 Veterans of Foreign Wars
nt Tulia A card of acceptance
is being mailed Comrade Moore
by the post
Another recent member added
to the local VFW roll is Clyde W
Thomas serving in the European
theatre of war
statements of their annual earn j records said J L Clower depu
ings for use in making out However I do know definite
come tax returns because they hy that it is tho largest in the past
know that the Social Security few years The usual number of
Board keeps careful records of j0u taxes paji run3 from 1700 to
wages paid to workers in job 1800 and 1800 is considered
covered by the oldago and survi heavy he explained
vors insurance system It is on
the basis of these records that 1
also benefit are calculated for the in Cal Farley Give8
sured worker or his family
of the Bureau of OldAgo and Survivors
Insurance There the wage
amounts will be recorded in the
Social Security account maintained
for each individual worker
This will not be completed until
the end of June
More than 600000 wage items
nre received each day in the Ac
Continued on back page
Rev Wingert
Speaks To Kiwanis
Club Members
Chas W Wciscnburg firstvice
president of the Tulia Kiwanis
Club presided at the regular meet
Winger
minister
who
Scotland
ed
School
Wages paid during the last Pupils
i three months of 1943 will be re For Bond Drive
tho Collector of Inter
ported to
nal Revenue during January Mr I In the school assembly Friday
Reed said During February and January 28 Cal Farley of Amarillo
March these reports will be for had charge of the program and in
warded to the Baltimore offices
his usually individuatisic manner
motivated tho Fourth War Loan
Drive
He presented the plan for selling
war bonds that tho schools of
Amnrillo aro using In each
grade from tho fourth to the
twelfth the boy or girl who Bells
the most bonds will receive a 25
war bond Every student who
of
taken on an
extra history class
iurney is taking a study hall in
connection with Iter library work
that was formerly conducted by
Mr < r Scott
sells one hundred worth
consumut It ostmutl1
bonds will he button
given a lapel
Jnoro than onBhnlf of our
Lieutenant Jack Pitman aUo ofnrk0t livestov1 enter the Uock
Amarillo was guest speaker Hu j yards with bruises said John Pal
has returned to the States recent1 mor0 fiwi er County Agricultur
ly from the Southwest Pacific a Agent
Battle Zone Lt Pitman has
been on eightytwo missions He
told of some of his narrow escape
experiences while in the Pacific
ing in the absence of President
Walter S Tomlinson j
James I McConnell chairman 1 Local Draft
of the public affairs committee r j M
fc
WieeiS
was in charge of the program andDoara
introduced a fellow member Rev Each Tuesday
Russell A Wingert tho principal
speaker Members of tho Swisher County
strong character of the British week at 1000 a m
Prevent Bruises
On Cattle In
Transit To Market
Beef cattle which carry bruises
to market mean a money loss to
the producer and a loss of meat to
Prevention of bruises is one
way which Swisher County cattlemen
can get all of their production
of beef into actual use In
that way they can get the tonnaie
of meat for consumers without
raising more animals Producing
every pound of meat represented
10 signed agreement il for
weio
taught by Mr Rose K rli
year 1IM
were hist
acres
hu following data showing the
Q 1 i
Sunt I II lurney expressed
kniI f coHorva
rpireciaton to the touchers for
ton ikn U cffll Jr
their assuming of extra work am lh k f
especially to Mr Rose who agreed
to help tho school this year although
he had quit teaching a
year or two ago to look after his
farming interests If It had not
been for him I do not know how
we would manage nt this time
said Turney
Women have designated Friday
purpose of invoking Gods leader
sufficient meat for our nrmaiLship in 1 phases of life
forces nnd for civilian use is one
of the most important and pressing
problems of the moment If
Amnrillo aliow each year Uum and offered idea that could
financii committee coiicInIIiik I curried out HiiccesNfully luring
of Frank Cobb W T Itagley Dick the prusent diive
fODanlol and J II Workman will
WacreT During the J1 f 7 T T J H ONeal Run
ra Aain For Position
protein shortage Swisher < 0olOf County AunKnA
statistical portion of Herring report
Border strip 1725 rods
Contour cultivation WM acres
Controlled grazing on pastureland
C7H0 acres Crop jesldues
275M acres Diversion tcrracea
8500 linear feet Fencing 620
rods Irrigation system treatment
8742 acres Woody plantings 5600
put on 128 acres Strip cropping
500 acre Terracing 270 ucres
Weed control on 187 acres Anbual
irrigation ditches run on f162
acres Cropping system estabHHni
ed on llfl 3 ncre ImprovedlW
tures on cultivated land 178 acres
and Trial tests for legumes on
cultivated land 11 acres
February 25 Set As
World Prayer Day
The United Council of Church
arid
ski riding arid skating Indoor re
creation is similur to that available
pictures arid bowling The hos
Hie day will bo observed bylplta thu fuarUra are
services in iulia Announcement nr doublewall specially insulated
concerning the program will be
people through observations he
made while there
Dr E P Stewart officially welcomed
C W McFarling and Tom
Bagley as new members of the club
and presented them with their
Kiwanis Insignia Lapel buttons
These numerous inquiries consume
a lot of the board members
time and they ask all interested
persons to please make a note of
the time and avoid calling the
members of the board unnecessarilyBruised meat cannot be sold
That means wasted feed wasted
labor find most important of all
heavy loss of one of our most Important
foods Hut the waste can
be prevented
Farmers and cattlemen can pre
Continueo on back page
to take part in tho services
Mrs Foster Klous arm Mrs
Mont Porter of Lubbock were
visiting in Tulia last weekend
Their father J W Frye accompanied
them homo for an indefinite
stay
Attorney
win have tho best finished
calves pigs and sheep of any year rsvmi tiimoiniced hu
yet as thu Ml club and FFA hoys ciindldiic for reelection this week
have been doing an unusually good j tl Hrke of County Attorney
Job despite all handicaps
Lt Castleberry
With Nurses Corps
In Labrador
of Swisher County subject to the
I action of the Democratic Primary
I in July
ONcnlls announcement will be
found on an Inside page of this
weeks Herald
Swisher County
Despite deep snows tern p
p rature as low us v degrees be Uairymen Again
low zero nurse at a nubArctic i LeaJ Stalte
Army air base In liabrador lack j
few comforts of home says I hi Swisher County Dairy Hord
Li Lillian M Castleberry Army I Improvement Association lead the
ua dr month of Wem
Nurse Corps Lieutenant Castle
berry whose home it in Happy
Texas accompanied a patient
trousers
fleeccllriud
> Army male personnel shesays
February 25 as World Day of
Prayer On this day people ofJ 0 0 a l 0JLe
all races all i os and all creeds
will assemble themselves for tho
ber anil December according U m
formation received from John Pal
Chester Elliff owner < > f the
V
boots similar to th7elothin7i umi lc Ur y Prm l ° k1 tlu
individual
state in tost by prulu
ing an average of 818 lb of milk
and 109 Um of butter fat per
cow
During the month of December
ag
at military porta In th continental
United States and Includes motion Srho bounty Uwrynon uvera
° < l producing WO lbs o milk and
construction
Supplies sufficient to last thr
ough the long winter are brought su Tbi of butter 7at per cov
371 lb of butter fat per head
Again during tho month of De
cumber Chester Elliff led the
state in individual test with ar
average of 1015 lb of mill and
to the air base by water during the j
summer months In winter the q L r
only cornmuncatlon with tho our > WlSner bounty
sido world is by air although dog Singing Convention
sledges are used for nearby trips r A
Before being assigned as chief O Meet At rrice
nurHo at tho Labrador air base The Swisher County Singing
hospital last August Lieutenant Convention will meet at Price Sun
Castloborry served at Army hoa day Fob 0 at 2 oclock
pitals at Fort Jackson S C and AH who enjoy singing nre cor
Denvcr Colo dially invited to attend
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Miller, R. V.; Sprowls, Ed W. & Reynolds, Willis. The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 35, No. 5, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 3, 1944, newspaper, February 3, 1944; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth42828/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.