The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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The Paducah post
SI SAYS:
Although there is a shortage
of spirits, one spirit that is
very much in evidence is the
Christmas spirit.
Thirty-seventh Year, No. 36
8 Pages
Paducah, Texas, Friday, December 17, 1943
Price Five Cents Per Copy
U. 1^
WAR
in Cottle & King Counties
WAC AT AUSTIN COLLEGE
Pvt. Wilma Hight of Guthrie,
has entered WAC Branch No. 1,
Army Administration School at
Stephen F. Austin State College,
Nacogdoches, Texas, for an
eight week course of instruction.
SENT TO ARKANSAS
Avn. Student James L. Futch,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Futch
of Lamesa, Texas, has been sent
to Ouachita College, Arkadel-
phia, Ark., for a course of Army
Air Force instruction lasting ap-
proximately five months prior to
his appointment as an Aviation
Cadet in the Army Air Forces.
Prior to his going into the
service, Futch lived in Paducah.
To Hold Bombing Olympic
At Childress Sunday
BROTHERS HOME
ON FURLOUGH
Staff Sergeant A. K. (Billy)
Hutchison, of the U. S. Army Air
Corps, returned to his station at
Rapid City, South Dakota, after
visiting his wife, Mrs. Jeanne
Hutchison and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Hutchison of
Sneedville.
Sgt. Hutchison is a radio op-
erator and gunner.
A brother, Corporal Clifford
Hutchison arrived from Keesler
Field, Miss., Saturday, on a 10-
day furlough, to visit his parents.
RETURNS TO KENTUCKY
Captain and Mrs. Byron Shotts,
accompanied by her mother, Mrs.
W. J. McGowan, returned to
Louisville, Ky,, today, after visit-
ing here the past week. Capt.
Shotts is in the armored division
of the U. S. Army, stationed at
Fort Knox, Ky.
ATTENDS UNIVERSITY
We have received word that
Spencer Lynch is now attending
the University of North Dakota
as a member of the U. S. Army
Air Corps.
Lynch, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Lynch, formerly of Chalk,
graduated from Paducah High
School in the class of 1939.
More recently he has been at-
tached to the infantry of the
U. S. Army and only lately trans-
ferred to the air corps.
JACK HAMRICK HOME
Sgt. Jack Hamrick, son of Mr.
and Mi’s. J. B. Hamrick, will
leave Sunday to return to his
station at Camp Clebourne, where
he is attached to the U. S. Army
Engineers.
CLETUS BURTON HOME
ON LEAVE
Cletus Burton, U. S. Navy,
left Monday to return to his sta-
tion after a brief visit with his
mother, Mrs. Bertha Moore.
TOGETHER OVERSEAS
Two Cottle County boys, Pvts.
Denzil Bill Moon and Tex Cobb,
have been together ever since
they joined the armed forces.
Although Moon was drafted,
and Cobb volunteered, they re-
ceived their basic training at Ft.
Sill, together were sent to Ft.
Knox, and then followed Ft.
Meade, Maryland. Last week, Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Cobb, of Coley-
ville, Tex’s parents, received a
cablegram from Africa saying
they had both arrived safely and
were OK.
Denzil’s parents are Mr. and
Mrs. R. A. Moon of Paducah.
Eight lethal “varsity squads,
teams of highly trained bombar-
diers from schools in Texas, New
Mexico and California, all a part
of the vast Army Air Forces
Training Command, will go to
Childress Army Air Field on
Sunday, Dec. 19, to participate
in the Tenth All-American Bomb-
ing Olympic.
Nine teams in all, including the
CAAF team, will take off at
8:30 a.m. on the morning of the
meet to hurl their 100-pound
practice bombs at the traditional
pickle barrel atop the cone-shap-
ed caliche mound centering the
Olympic target.
Using the famed Norden bomb-
sight, the contestants will make
their runs at an altitude of 8,000
feet over the regulation targets.
The “shack,” bombardier’s ver-
sion of a bull’s-eye, is a cone-
shaped mound 12 feet high and
30 feet wide. At Childress the
mound is made of West Texas
caliche and is painted with white-
wash to make it visible from high
altitudes. Extending from the
target circle are legs in four di-
rections of the compass with
markers 10 feet wide at 100-foot
intervals. A target numeral is
situated off the south leg of the
target and an arrow is placed at
the 200-foot marker on the north
leg.
Each bomb dropped by cadets
is photographed on impact, thus
the bombardier-student’s accur-
acy is recorded on film.
Bombs to be used in the Olym-
pic will be the regulation prac-
tice bomb which is four feet in
length, eight inches in diameter,
and weighs approximately 100
pounds. The bomb case, painted
blue, is packed with approxi-
mately 80 pounds of sand and
three pounds of black powder.
The black powder burns on im-
pact, making a white smoke
easily photographed from the air.
The trophy to be awarded to
the winning team at the Tenth
Olymipic is a loving cup con-
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MERCHANT MARINE HOME
John W. Best, Jr., who is with
the Merchant Marines, is home
on a 30-day furlough. He has
been on active duty, prior to se-
curing his leave. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Best.
MARINE HOME ON
FURLOUGH
Corporal Jack Haymes, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sam iBiddy, arrived
from San Diego, Calif., this week,
on a 30-day furlough. Cpl. Hay-
mes is in the U. S. Marine Corps
and has been on duty overseas.
IN AUSTRALIA
R. J. Tucker last week received
the following V-Mail letter from
his son, Pvt. Roscoe Tucker:
Dear Daddy:
I guess you think I have cer-
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PHS CAGERS IN
FIRST WIN OF
SEASON
Avenging an earlier defeat
suffered at the hands of the
•Valley View basketball team, the
Paducah High School quintette
emerged victorious by a score of
16 to 14 in a well played game
Monday night on the local court.
The game had originally been
scheduled for last Friday, but
due to the inclement weather was
postponed.
Paced by Thaxton, the Paducah
boys managed to barely garner
enough points to keep the Valley
View lads from repeating their
victory of the previous week,
when Valley View defeated the
PHS cagers on their floor, 36J12.
Hill of Valley View and Thax-
ton' of Paducah, tied for high
scoring honors, each registering
six points for theit teams.
Weather permitting, the two
teams will clash again tonight in
the Valley View gymnasium.
BOX SCORE
Paducah—16
Son Writes From
Prison Camp
.
Mrs. W. J. Bolt this week re-
ceived a card from her son, Pfc.
Charles Ruby Bolt, who is a pris-
oner of war of the Japanese,
stating his health was good and
that he was well. He asked that
his regards be given to everyone.
The last card she had from him
several months ago he stated he
was ill and was receiving treat-
ment in a hospital.
RECEIVE 1944
CROP GOALS
The 1944 crop goals for Cottle
County have been received and
in order to give these goals prop-
er consideration, a meeting of all
agricultural workers and farm-
ers will be held in the Justice of
Peace Court Room on Monday,
Dec. 20, 1943 at 2:00 p.m. All
AAA Committeemen, representa-
tives of other agricultural agen-
c i e s, vocational agricultural
teachers, and farmers are ex-
pected to attend this conference.
All phases of the 1944 pro-
gram will be discussed and. plans
will be adopted for attaining
maximum production in 1944.
Trio in Teheran Guarantees Victory
Pill
, V :
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111
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TO ISSUE T
GAS COUPONS
IN STRIPS
i!
Premier Joseph Stalin of Russia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt of
the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of England as
they met in Iran. A document signed by all three read in part: “The
common understanding which we have reached guarantee^ that victory
will be ours.—We leave here friends in fact, in spirit and purpose.”
Name
?ts.
F.
Miller, f ......................
.... 2
0
Hawkins, f ...................
.... 0
0
Havens, c ....................
.... 4
0
Puckett, g ..................
... 1
1
Haston, g ...................-
... 3
0
Thaxton. f ..................
.... 6
2
Total ......................
.. 16
3
Valley View—14
Lynch, f ......................
.... 5
2
Muriel Goodgame, f ..
.... 0
2
Melvin Goodgame, c ..
.... 0
0
Lemons, g ..................
... 2
i!
Hill, g ..........................
.... 6
4
Latimer, f ....................
.... 1
0
Downing, f ..................
... 0
1
Total ......................
. 14
10
Referee: Dwight Lindsey.
Basketball Game
Here Tonight ,
The Childress Air
Field
and
Paducah Outsiders, a
group
of
local men, will meet in
a basket-
ball game Friday night at
the
high school gymnasium. Game
time is 7:30 p.m.
The game was arranged under
the direction of Leo Thompson.
A small admission will be charg-
ed with the money going tf
high school for athletic
ment.
To aid in enforcement of gaso-
line rationing, “T” coupons issu-
ed for use in 1944 by commer-
cial vehicles and taxis will be in
strips rather than in book form
and each coupon will be serially)
numbered, J. Doyle Settle, dis-
trict rationing executive an-
nounced today.
The action also provides that
car owners themselves rather than
ration boards or automobile regis-
tration officials must note new
license numbers on their ration
books and tire inspection records.
The T strips, similar to strips
of motion picture tickets, are to
be issued for use beginning. Jan.
1, 1944, in a new identification
folder containing on the front all
of the information (such as name
of operator, make of car, etc.)
previously noted on the cover of
the T book. In addition, local
boards will mark on the folder
the range of serial numbers of
the ration coupons enclosed with-
in. This folder must be kept with
the coupons.
Present TT coupons issued to
taxis and commercial vehicles for
use during the last quarter of
this year become invalid for use
by consumers after Dec. 31, 1943,
Settle said.
Under the new plan of issuing
T coupons in strips, only coupons
within the range of serial num-
bers written on the outside of
the folder may be used by oper-
ators of commercial vehicles and
taxis in obtaining gasoline. Thus
it will be a relatively simple mat-
ter to detect and trace the illegal
acquisition and use of such cou-
pons. For example, station at-
tendants may now check any T
coupon given up in exchange for
gasoline to see whether it comes
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TO ADOPT NEW
PLAN FOR WAR
BOND QUOTAS
E. G. Damron, county chairL
man of War Bond Drives, today
announced that a new plan for
raising county war bond quotas
had been adopted at the sugges-
tion of Regional Chairman C. M.
Smith of Plainview.
Mr. Damron said a break-down
of school districts in the county
will be made, and each district
will be responsible for their per-
centage portions on regular
monthly quotas as well as the'
special drives.
“All counties in the nation will
be governed by the plan,” Mr.
Damron said, “and the two guid-
ing factors in the redistribution
of quota obligations will be tax-
able values and population.
“The larger non-resident prop-
erty values will be eliminated
from the totals,” Mr. Damron
continued, “and each school dis-
trict will be organized with a
committee to sell its pro rata
share of future Cottle County
quotas.
“Under this plan,” Chairman
Damron said, “the people of the
county will have an opportunity
to help their individual commun-
ity raise its pro rata share of the
total quota, and their community
will receive the praise due them
when they reach or surpass their
part of the quota, regardless of
what the rest of the county does;”
Mr. Dajnron stated plans were
practically completed for his
county organization, which will
serve as a permanent body to
direct all bond drives beginning
with the Fourth War Loan Drive
which will get underway the mid-
dle of January.
ANNOUNCE 1944
AAA PROGRAM
NEW DEPUTY SHERIFF NOW
ON THE JOB IN WINK
Although law enforcement of-
ficers are scarce as the prover-
bial “hen’s teeth,” Sheriff Ellis
Summers has added a deputy
sheriff to his staff.
J. B. Cabaniss and his wife
arrived here this week from
Monahans, and will make Wink
their home.
Prior to Monahans, Mr. Caba-
niss worked in Paducah. He is an
experienced officer, and a valu-
able addition to Sheriff Sum-
mers’ department.—Wink Bulle-
tin, Dec. 10, 1943.
PADUCAH BOY ON
HONOR ROLL
Billy Ted Payne, son of Dr.
and Mrs. W. T. Payne, student at
John Tarleton College has made
the honor roll at the end of the
first semester.
Billy Ted, a freshman student,
is majoring in aeronautical engi-
neering.
The Agricultural Adjustment
Agency [program for 1944 has
been announced., according to
Dee R. Green, administrative offi-
cer of Cottle County.
In discussing the provisions of
the program Mr. Green said,
“The 1944 program again calls
for an increase in the production
of food and feed crops needed
in the war effort. While asking
for all-out production to meet
tremendous war-time require-
ments the 1944 progi’am also
emphasizes the importance of
balancing production so there
will be enough of the essential
commodities needed to shorten
the war and establish a sound
peace.”
With average weather, the
suggested schedule of production
should yield the largest food crop
in the nation’s history, which
would be the eighth year in a
row that American farmers have
exceeded the previous year’s
record-breaking food production.
As a backbone of the Food Fights
for Freedom campaign, the na-
tion’s farmers this year are sur-
passing their 1942 total food pro-
duction by 5 per cent and the
1918 production which was the
banner year of World War I by
almost 50 (per cent.
The suggested total crop acre-
age for '1944 would be about 16
million acres more than this year.
Several shifts in the general pat-
tern of crops are proposed to
expand the acreage devoted to
urgently needed crops such as
soybeans, peanuts, tame hay, po-
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ISSUE WARNING
ABOUT CASHING
CHECKS
Chief of Police Frank Bullard
announced today that the United
States Secret Service at Dallas
again warns persons in this vi-
cinity who receive or cash checks
to be watchful for mail thieves
and foi-gers, as many allowance
and allotment checks are going
astray and are being cashed on
forged endorsements. Chief Bul-
lard and the Secret Service urge
that the following rules be ob-
served :
To Those Who Receive Checks
1. Have a good, deep mail box.
Have your name clearly printed
on it. KEEP IT LOCKED!
2. Whenever possible, have
your mail carrier deliver checks
in person rather than to your
box.
3. Never endorse a check until
you ai-e actually in the presence
of the person who will cash it.
4. Cash your check at the same
place each month. CASH IT
YOURSELF! — DON’T SEND
CHILDREN TO CASH CHECKS!
This encourages juvenile delin-
quency.
5. If you change your address,
notify the post office immedi-
ately.
6. DO NOT FOLD, PIN OR
MUTILATE ALLOTMENT OR
ALLOWANCE CHECKS!
To Those Who Cash Checks
1. KNOW YOUR ENDORSER!
2. Ask for positive identifica-
tion. Before you cash a check,
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Ration Board Price Panel
Now Beginning To Function
COTTLE COUNTY
BOY KILLED
Funeral services for Lt. John
E. McCrary was held at Com-
merce, Texas, on Friday, Dec. 3.
He was killed in an airplane acci-
dent at El Centro, Calif., on
Nov. 27.
Lt. McCrary was the son of
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. McCrary.
Mrs. McCrary was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Easton Camp-
bell, who were early settlers in
this county and lived here for
many years. This son was born
at Delwin March 16, 1919, when
Rev. McCrary was serving as pas-
tor of the Methodist Church at
that place.
After having graduated from
East Texas Teachers College at
Commerce in 1939, Lt. McCrary
attended A&M College, receiving
his Master Degree in 1941. He
entered the service in 1942 and
was commissioned a second lieu-
tenent in the Marine Air Corps
in March of 1943. No accurate
account of the airplane crash
that caused his death can be se-
cured at this time.
RELEASE DIST.
BASKETBALL
SCHEDULE
Advance notice to basketball
fans of District 4-A of the Texas
Interscholastic league is contain-
ed in the news issued this wee'k
by the district committee that
round I’obin play for district
honors will begin on Jan. 4 and
continue through Feb. 18, with
three games each Tuesday and
Friday nights, home and away
'from home basis.
All seven teams of the district
will enter teams in the round
robin, each team playing each
other twice, once on the home
court and once away from home.
Supt. H. P. Clemons, of Lock-
ney schools, and Homer A. Pool,
of Floydada High, announced the
schedule this week. They are
('president and secretary respec-
tively of the league this year.
The schedule agreed upon with
Three County Boys
In Same JPrison Camp
Word was received Wednesday
about three Cottle County boys
who are prisoners of the Japa-
nese.
Another post card was received
by Mrs. W. J. Bolt, from her
son, Pfc. Charles R. Bolt, saying
J. W. Bohner and Floyd Biddy
were in the same prison camp
with him and that they were all
well and getting along fine. They
said to tell all their friends hello
for them.
The boys are in Philippine
Military Prison Camp No. 3. The
message on the card had been
typewritten and signed by Pfc.
Bolt.
Red Cross Sewing
Room Has Yarn -
Mrs. ’ C. N. Willingham today
announced that the Red Cross
sewing room in the basement of
the court house is now open on
Saturday afternoons from 2 un-
til 5 p.m.
She said there was plenty of
yarn available to knit army and
navy sweaters.
1 The work of the price panel of
the Cottle County War Price and
Rationing Board is now getting
under way and according to W.
O. Jones, Sr., chairman of the
local price panel, if you have not
already had some contact with,
your local price panel you’ll be
surprised to learn what is being
done each day to protect the
value of your earnings and your
savings by fighting to keep prices
down.
The Cottle County Price Panel
consists of the following volun-
teer members who serve entirely
without pay: W. O. Jones, Sr.,
chairman; Joe Bell and Mrs. R. I.
Stalling. Dorothy R. Elder is
price panel clerk.
“What we need,” Mr. Jones
said, “is more people who are
willing to volunteer their time to
help price control work effec-
tively for the protection of their
neighbors and themselves. We
feel that since our panel is made
up of people who know local con-
ditions and local people who can
settle most complaints about
price control violations in a
neighborly way without a lot of
red tape and unpleasant legal
action.
“Please don’t get the idea/1'
Mr. Jones added, “that the price
panel is working just to protect
consumers against over-charges.
We think that is only half our
job. We’re just as much con-
cerned about helping the retailer
here in town to stay in business
and earn a decent living.”
Mr. Jones also stated that he
wanted the people of Cottle
County to use the price panel.
He suggested that any one who
felt that prices were out of line
on any article should first talk
about it to the merchant. Then
if a satisfactory answer on the
prices could not be had, the pur-
chaser should again check the
price list in the stoi’e just to
make sure he is right. Then go
home and write a note to the
price panel of the local board,
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RATION TOKENS
TO BE USED
SOON
According to Howard R. Ghol-
son, District OPA Director, gen-
0 .. eral public approval is expected
Spur, 1 aducah, Matador, Ralls, 1.esu}(; from the use of the new
Crosbyton, Lockney and Floydada
schools entered is as follows:
Jan. 4: Floydada at Ralls;
Lockney open; Crosbyton at
Matador ; Spur at Paducah.
Jan. 7: Paducah at Floydada;
Crosbyton at Lockney; Ralls at
Matador; Spur open.
Jan. 11: Floydada at Spur;
Lockney at Ralls; Matador at Pa-
ducah; CrosByton open.
Jan. 14: Floydada open; Pa-
ducah at Lockney; Spur at Mata-
dor; Ralls at Crosbyton.
Jan. 18: Matador at Floydada;
Crosbyton at Paducah; Ralls
open; Lockney at Spur.
Jan. 21: Floydada at Lockney;
Paducah at Ralls; Spur at Croby-
ton; Matador open.
Jan. 25: Ralls at Spur; Crosby-
ton at Floydada; Lockney at Mat-
ador; Paducah open.
Jan. 28: Paducah at Spur;
Ralls at Floydada; Matador at
Crosbyton; Lockney open.
Feb. 1: Spur open; Floydada
plastic tokens to be put into use
by OPA early in 1944.
The tokens are being ,put inta
use to make the purchasing and
selling of rationed foods more
convenient for the consumer and
merchant alike, Mr. Gholson said.
The tokens will be blue and red,
slightly larger than a nickel, and
will be inscribed to designate the
foocjs for which they are good.
Each token will have a value of
1 point, and will be used by con-
sumers as change for ration
stamps, he said.
When the tokens are put into
use, the red and blue stamps will
be valued at 10 points each, un-
der the present plans. A consum-
er buying rationed canned or pro-
cessed foods, or foods under the
meat-fats program will tear from
the ration book one or more
stamps, according to the amount
purchased, receiving tokens in
change. As an example of how
this will work, if a housewife
MULKEY JOINS NAVY
In reporting the list of induc-
tees that were accepted at Lub-
bock on the 6th of December in
last week’s Post the name of
William H. Mulkey was uninten-
tionally overlooked.
Mr. Mulkey was a volunteer
for the navy, but was sent with
this call for induction.
Lt. and Mrs. Wm. C. Butler
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
Womack Monday. Lt. Butler is a
•bombardier and was in England
until last July. He is now an in-
structor at Dalhart, Texas. Mrs.
Butler is the former Trixie Hen-
drix.
Lockney at Crosbyton.
Feb. 4: Spur at Floydada; Ralls
at Lockney; Paducah at Matador;
Crosbyton open.
Feb. 8: Lockney at Spur; Floy
dada at Matador; Ralls open;
Paducah at Crosbyton.
Feb. 15: Crosbyton at Spur;
Lockney at Floydada; Matador
open; Ralls at Paducah.
Feb. '18: Matador at Lockney;
Paducah open; Spur at Ralls;
Floydada at Crosbyton.
at Paducah; Matador at Ralls; buys a pound can of peas valued
at 16 points, she will give the
retailer two blue stamps worth 10
points each, receiving four ra-
tion tokens in change. The tokens
can be used any time to buy
more items.
* With the use of the tokens, ex-
pectations are that War Ration-
Book 4 will last at least three
times as long as previous books.
This will save labor, paper and
printing costs, Gholson said.
All retail food dealers have
been requested to submit to the
banks an estimate of their total
point transactions, separately for
blue and red stamps, covering a
period of one week’s sales. These
figures, and in addition a record
of their allowable inventory, will
be computed and recorded on a
simple form furnished by the
wholesale trade. This form had to
be submitted to the banks not
later than Dec. 15, 1943. Re-
tailers who maintain a ration
bank account will submit their
figures to the bank in which they
carry their ration point account.
Retailers who do not maintain
ration bank accounts may present
their separate figures to any con-
venient bank.
Cotton Ginning
Passes 15,000 Mark
Latest cotton ginning figures
released by the Department of
Commerce show 15,469 bales of
cotton have been ginned in Cottle
County up to Dec. 1st, as com-
pared to 27,493 bales for the
same period last year.
King County tabulations give
2,443 bales this year against
4,811 last year.
Mr. and Mrs. Elgar Robertson
of Fort Worth are visiting their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Rob-
ertson.
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