The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1947 Page: 1 of 8
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ames of Mallory, Kuykendall
Filed for School Trusteeship
Others May Enter
Race Set April 1
The names of A. 0.
Mallory, incumbent, and
Owen Kuykendall, Mor-
ton Kleer Mine employee,
were filed last Thursday
night as candidates for
members of the Grand
Saline Independent School District
board of trustees in the forthcom-
ing election Saturday April 5, Supt.
Guy C. Pryor disclosed this week.
The election was ordered by the
school board at the regular meet-
ing at which the petition for Mal-
lory and Kuykenaall was drawn by
board members, exercising their
rights as private citiztens to do so.
The petition subsequently has been
sent to County Judge W. L. Steed
at Canton to fulfill formal require-1 BU1U.L.AKY KING SMASHED—Cperations of a nine-aiember Dal-
ments of such procedure. Pryor) las gang which specialized in safe cracking were said by police to
Jailer Nips
Canton Break
CANTON—An attempted jail-
break of at least four members of
the “West Dalla* gang” held in
Van Zandt County jail for burg-
lary, safe-cracking and robbery was
nipped just in time here early
Wednesday, when a Grand Saline
man reported to Jailor Tommy
Vineyard that the quartet had!
sawed a bar out of their cell. -
Sheriff Clyde Elliett said that
during Tuesday night Maxie Lott
of Texarkana, W. Ic. Wheeler,
Harold Sills and a prisoner named
Smith, all of West Dallas, got a-
hold of a hacksaw “Rmehow” and
had sawed out a bar extending
from the floor to the jail ceiling.
Weighing about 50 pounds, the bar
probably was to be used to knock
Vineyard in the head when he
entered the cell to feed or minister
to the prisoners, Elliott reported.
The Grand Saline man, released
Wednesday morning, reported the
incident to Vineyard.
Inch Rain, 40-Degree
Temperature Hits Area
Accompanied by an inch rainfall,
a norther swept down on this area
early Thursday to irritate folks
itching for spring weather.
Forecast for today and Friday
was for continued cool with pos-
sibly showers. The thermometer
dropped to 40 degrees early Thurs-
day, E. P. Friedline reported.
Elderly Pedestrians Die When
Struck by Truck, Motorcycle
The increasing number of highway traffic ae>
cidents in 1947 took its toll in Van Zandt County
the past four days, when two elderly men met dentil
on Highway 80 within a few miles of Grand Saline
and board members Expressly stat-
ed that the petition was not a
“school board ticket.”
Burrow Presents
Farm Program
An estimated 100 enthusiastic
members of the Van Zandt County
Vegetable Growers Association,
have been ended Saturday with seven of thq gang in jail and two
free on bond. The gang operated in a half dozen North Texas coun- _ .. ,
ties. First lead on the case .was developed by Sheriff Clyde Elliott, Mnc - met at Grand Saline High
F. B. Smith, who ends one term I left, of Van Zandt County. Taking part in arrest of the group were irdStath.I iiTthe
on the board April 5, declined to It. J. F. Daniel, center, and Detectives D. D. Dozier, standing, and st o dera s a.es the
run, despite the urgings of his i H. K. Carr, of Dallas. (Times-Hernld Photo),
friends, declaring that he’d rather J
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someone else be trustee a while.
*" iPrypr revealed Tuesday that no
other petition to place names on
the ballot had been received, but
it was learned late 'Wednesday that
at least one other petition would
be filed for one or more candidates
before the deadline.
The petition was in behalf of
Herman Russell, insurance man.
The law requires petition* signed
by five qualified voters of the dis-
trict must be filed with the coun-
ty judge not later than 10 days
before the April 5 election.
THe school board also disclosed
the probability of submitting the
cafeteria bond issue and the pro-
iposed $1.50 tax rate to voters at
the Aipril 5 election, but no formal
action was taken last Thursday
night by the board, Pryor said.
Estimated cost of a cafeteria has
been placed at $18,000 which would
come from bonds voted by citizens.
The 50-cent increase in the tax
rate could be voted by virtue of a
new law passed at the session of
the state legislature.
Mayor Wants City
Clean By April 1
There is a special significance in
(Dr. V. B. Cozby’s annual appeal to
residence of Grand Saline to clean
up their premises, alleys and vac-
ant lots wjth spring coming on.
“With spring coming on and me
going out of office, I want to see
Ahe town clean and well-kept when
my successor is elected,” the may-
or asserted Wednesday, in calling
the residents of Grand Saline to
rt their individual clean-up
jives.
'Dr. Cozby suggested that resi-
lents pile rubbish in alleys or a
'place conveniently-located, where
city trucks can pick up trash and
haul it to the city dump to be
destroyed.
Armstrongs Opan New
Grocery on Hlgjmay
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n.
L. and O. C. Armstrong an-
this week Vne opening of
ng Bsfts. Grocery .and
onMligpvay 80 east of
Salin^gif the new and im-
site of their former; fruit
ngs will special-
of staple and fancy
grade “A" meats,
County Crime Clean-Up
Nets 8 Major Gangsters
Three Convicted, Five
Jailed in Biggest Haul
A gang of burglars and knob-
knockers, operating in cars stolen
at Dallas, toted off more than
$50,000 in cash, bonds, narcotics,
and merchandise in Van Zandt
County and $8,000 from four Dal-
las safe-cracking jobs, before they
were apprehended, Sheriff Clyde
Elliott revealed here last week
simultaneously with breaking of a
story in Dallas newspapers in
one of the biggest coups ever
staged by Texas peaoe officers.
Although several have been in
county jail at Canton for weeks,
others of the gang have been at
large, Elliott and District Attorney
Tom H. Prestridge revealed, when
“wanted” lists reached officers in
six north Texas counties, where the
hoodlums had been operating.
Since their arrest, three already
have been convicted and sentenced
to prison terms, Prosecutor Pres-
tidge informed the Sun this week.
Convicted and sentenced were:
Albert W. Bowden, 10 years
from Van Zandt County for burg-
lary, including Queen City Co. at
Wills Point, Earl Foster's Grocery
at Myrtle Springs and the E. B.
Tunnell Grocery at Van. Hold
orders for burglaries are in from
Ellis, Dallas and Rockwall coun-
ties.
William C. Wheeler, seven years,
burglary and felony theft of Eu-
bank Store at Wills PoinC and
Johnson and Slaughter Drug Store
at Edgewood* Also unoer indict-
ment for burglary in several oth-
er counties.
James Paul Smith, four years,
Eubank Store and Johnson and
Slaughter burglaries.
Prestridge said the trial of Jack
Mosley for burglary was delayed
because he is a state witness in
the burglary indictments of Clar-
ence Walters and Harold Sills.
Bowden, Wheeler and J. Herbert
Rushing and a fourty man belWted
to be in the Army have been named
•n chargee filed by Elliott for
Oscar Watts Edgewood nightwatch-
man was tied up by the criminals.
Charlie Lawrtence and W. C.
Holden, wanted in Ellis County for
burglary, will be tried soon.
In another trial, disassociated
with the gangsters, Paschel Taylor
was convicted and sentenced to two
years for assault with intent to
murder J. Cam McNeil last Christ-
mas night.
In addition to clearing up every
criminal job committed in Van
Zandt County in the past year,
arrtfst of the burglars and safe-
crackers cleared up 20 major burg
laries in Dallas alone
said.
j recently-organized corporation and
i hear Px-es. Steve .Burrow make a
convincing talk on the 1947 pro-
gram.
Burrow recountedplans for the
coming season both as to produc-
tion and marketing, pointing out
that shed Manager Jack Mayne will
be principally concerned with the
selling end of the program. Pro-
duction will be up to individual
members.
Other speakers included County
Agent James IW. McCown and M. A.
Shields, high school vocational ag
teacher here.
18 Indian Grid Men *
Receive Sweaters
March of Dimes Here
Reaches $160 Total
The March of Dimes infantile
paralysis campaign in Grand Sa-
line was ended here Monday after-
noon with collection of 28 jars
distributed to local business houses
which yielded $77.68 to boost the
local total to $160.54.
The $160.54 was sent to County
Chairman L. F. Sanders Tuesday
by the Sun editor, cO-chairman with
Marion V. Quinn of the drive,
sponsored locally by the Lions
Club.
The funds raised in Grand Sa-
line were the second highest in Van
Zandt Cqunty, Wills Point raised
$2f8.51. Ono-half of funds raised
within the county is retained for
local use under supervision of a
trio of county physicians. An esti-
mated $1,800 is in the county fund,
Sanders revealed at a Canton meet-
ing last month.
BY JACQUELEEN SMITH
In an assembly for the entire
high school last Friday afternoon,
18 football lettermen for the 1946-
47 season were presented with
otiicers j f00tball jackets by Coach Raymond
Pope.
The jackets are black with gray
cuffs and orange letters. The let-
ters each .have small gold colored
footballs on them and an additional
gold stripe for every year the
football player lettered.
Players who received jackets and
the congratulations of the entire
school were Capt. Joe Cofer, Billy
Fail, Billy Dean 'Edwards, IWiley
Guinn, Warren Cumutt, Homer
LaPrade, Gilbert Desha, Billy Roy
Canfield, Kenneth Long, Jessie
Cunniff, George White, Robert
Hearn, Wayne Sullivan, Phil Lind-
sey, Dewey Pierce, R. iE. Flowers,
Kenneth Nichols, ana Rudolph
.Kirby. Coach Pope was also pres-
ented with a jacket by Supt. Guy.
C. Pryor. .>
Other boys, who played foot-
ball this year but who did not let-
ter, will receive small silver foot-
balls which will arrive soon.
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Retiring Salt Workers
To Gather for Picture
All men and women employees
of Morton Salt Co. evaporation
plant .retiring March 31 or who
have already retired under the
company’s retirement plan, are
requested to moot a,t 3:80 o’clock
Saturday afternoon at the main
office for a group picture, Life
King disclosed this week, An
14 pattons come In
Odie
turn '
Mrs. Kirby's Hand Cut
In Washing Machine
Twenty-one stitches were taken
in Mrs. J. G. Kirby’s right arm
at Cozby-Germany Hospital Mon-
day morning, following an accident
at her home while washing clothes.
Mrs. Kirby reported that her hand
became entangled in the wringer of
the washing machine, causing the
injury. She was reported recover-
ing Thursday.
Carter Appointed
School Collector
Daniel Boone Carter, justice of
the peace here and retired post of-
fice clerk, was appointed tax as-
sessor-collector for the Grand Sa-
line Independent School District by
the district board of trustees last
Census Proposed
For Grand Saline
The aead:
Frank Thomas Christie, ahasd
65, of Indiana; and
Henry Murphy, 83, of Fruitful*
Christie, whose identity was umh
established until the Statu De-
partment of Public Safety at Asm-
tin could examine finger
sent in by Patrolmen G. B. Gz
and E. C. Smith, was killed instant-
ly last Saturday near Roadrisfe
Park, when a passing cattle truch\
rear end struck him a skull-cruslb-
ing blow, unknown to the drivar,
J. B. Rose, 231 Harrison, Long1-
view.
Murphy died at 4:30 o’clock
Wednesday morning in Cozby Ger-
many Hospital here from injuries
funny t mf °I Tv^
funny to little Ernest Veach, 4-year-old son of Mr. ana Mrs. Ben aen by C. A. Oney, 8101 Elaine
Veach of Grand Saline, when his granddady, Roy Veach, 61, was Drive. Dallas,
crushed to death a few days ago when his coupe was hit by a passenger Two eye-witnesses, Emmett En-
train near here, killing him instantly, and resulting in the death j ^ene Barton, route 1, Grand S*
a few nays later of his companion, Lucian Ballard. The tragic col-1 line, and James Harold Roberta**
lision of the coupe with the train occured at the Jamestown Crossing ! of Edgewood, were passing Rose’s
near Silver Lake. Mrs. Ben Veach took the picture above of her son I truck and looked back as they
pushing at the wreckage of bis grandfather’s car. vvent down the hill. They told
j patrolmen the elderly Christie ap-
parently stepped into the cattle
truck, ioaaed with stock. )Fhey
stopped and flagged Rose to tell
him of the accident. Rose drove
on to Silver Lake to fix a tire and
A census of the Grand Saline i^0 testify to officers that he thought
population was proposed here this I ]le p^ssecj the pedestrian without
week by W. H. Roberson of Rober-i mishap.
son Motor Co. to provide current j Murphy, a resident of rout* 2,
information on the individual resi-1 Grand Saline, was also wal
dents and bring up to date facts (along the highway, when he
on the habitable boundaries of the j hit by the motorcycle capai
Thursday night. Carter succeeded cjtv n ' . * ,*V.
H P. Beaird - 0ney anti sending them both
In a written statement, issued
after the meeting by Supt. Guy C.
Pryor, it was pointed out that “a
committee of the hoard had been
discussing the matter with Carter
for some time and he had previous-
ly indicated his willingness to ac-
cept the job and to follow the di-
rections of the board in instituting
a new, thorough and businesslike
method of collecting and assessing
the taxes 1 sr the Grpfui Saline
Independent School Jnstriet.”
Briefly, th * stateyfrent added that
“Carter indicator he would leave
no stone unturned to see that every
item of taxable property was plac-
ed on the tax roll in a fair and
equitable manner. The committee
indicated that they regarded al-
lowing some property to escape
taxation was very unfair to those
who render all their property for
taxation at a reasonable figure,
and certainly was not helping the
school in meeting its pressing fi-
nancial obligations. The board
further stressed,” the statement
continued, “that they wanted tax
assessments complete by August,
and wanted the school tax equal-
ization board supplied with suf-
ficient information that they can
properly equalize the assessments.
The board reaffirmed its determi-
nation to have an equalization board
that will really equalize taxes and
they expressed confidence that this
can be done,” the statement con-
cluded.
In an interview later, a board
member asserted that Carter will
be employed on the same basis
as Beaird had been at the rate
of four per cent of total tax col-
lections. On this basis, the salary
will approximate $600 a year on
previous collections of an estimat-
ed $15,000.
No accurate census information: hospitals here ^,nd at Mine
has been collected or assembled ( Oney was not hurt bad.
since the federal decennial census' Officers revealed that they
in 1940, except possibly in routine I continuing their investigation# of
scholastic checks of the school | both tragedies, before theyjjan-
distriet and estimates based on j nounce any action.
utility users and poll taxpayers. Christie’s body was take® to
That Grand Saline has outgrown Grand Saline Funeral Home, pend-
present city limits and several ( ing identification, and several reai-
hundred new residents have moved dents vieweu the body in an effort
into the coimmunity and environs to establish hiS identity. Finger-
was a point emphasized by Rober-
son in seeking cooperation of other
merchants and businessmen in a
new census. The Grand Saline Sun,
which has favored expansion of
city limits for the past two years,
when it made an estimate of 2,300
people, based on utility users, will
gvie full cooperation to a new
census and joins Roberson in of-
fering to contribute to the expense
of one.
,2? A,
Attending the annual conveh-
tion of the Lumberman’s Associa-
tion of Texas at Galveston earlier
this week were Earl B. Persons,
m
Matty Bell to Speak
Before Van Banquet
VAN—Matty Bell, coach of the
SMU Mustangs of Dallas, will be
on the speaking program of the
banquet here Saturday night of
the Vandal pep squad for Van High
School athletics, it was disclosed
here Wednesday.
Another speaker from the South-
west Conference will also be on
the program, according to spon-
sors. The banquet will be for host-
esses, athletes and invited goeete.
Ten Per Cent Fire
Credit Granted City
A 10 per cent fire credit for
Grand Saline was granted this
week by the state fire insurance
commissioner, according to Fire
Marshal Lukar Burks.
The credit was granted from a
neutral basis over 1946, without
any penalty, according to Howard
Hill and H. P. Beaird, insurance
men here.
The saving to Grand Saline will
approximate “at least $1,500,” the
insurance men said, and adaed the
credit was predicated on the ex-
cellent fire record of the communi-
ty.
Penalties of 15 per cent were
suffered by Mineola and Edgewood
and Canton and Alba received 25
per cent credits.
Union Springs to Havt
Pie Supper March 17
There will be a pie supper at the
Union Springs School house next
Monday night, for the purpose of
raising funds to use in the lunch
room, Mrs. Hallye Watson, prin-
cipal, announced this week.
Miss Barbara Hagu* of Cor-
inth s p a n a the week end in
inth g p e n t the w*«k end in
Fisher,, and Mrs. R. A.
prints taken Saturday by patrol-
men identified him positively as
Christie. Further information on
the traffic victim was coming by
mail, officers said.
Funeral for Murphy was held
Wednesday afternoon. Arrange-
ments for Christie were incomplete,
pending more information on hh
relatives.
Death of Murphy and Christie
boosts to four the 1947 Van Zanot
traffic toll, Roy Veach and Ladas
Ballard dying from injuries Feb
25, when Veach’s car was strode
by a passenger train near Silver
Lake.
Its All Over
But the Voting
All Grand Saline voters can
now is talk politics and wait tor
the city election April 1.
Candidates for office have drawn
for places on the ballot, ballots
have been printed and deltaatai
and election notices have baa*
posted.
City Secretary J. C. Allen and
six candidates of the nine in tto
field for mayor and alcermen wad
at City Hall Monday morning ta
draw for places on the ballad-
The lineup on the official bad-
lot is as follows and in that at^mt
For Mayor, J. E. Persons, JL R
Land and Jno. R. (Sug) King,
For Aldemren (Two to
ed): E. E. Weaver, Od«U Ds
G. L. Bell, D. C.
Pugh and Claudia Sr
Ironically, Parsons,
Canfield were
two head the Hat
respective
fourth on the
candidate
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Buzbee, Byron B. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1947, newspaper, March 13, 1947; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003123/m1/1/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.