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FIFTH AUNNUAL
Watermelon Festival
In Mineola
Wednesday, July 22
iMuteola Monitor
SEVENTY - EIGHTH YEAR - NUMBER SEVENTEEN
Dam Construction
May Begin Soon on
Lindale Mill Project
la^sT £ ^ volunteers are Davis
Company, which has taken over 1 Daniels, Jr., Qberl
the power nlani nart uf_ zone Pruitt and Berf t«„s« ti,„
STortft Anb £aat ®exas? Jtoremost Meekly JCetospaptr
MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUEY 9, 1953 "
Casualty Count
FOR WOOD COUNTY
Traffic Deaths in 1951 ________________ 9
Traffic Deaths in 1952 ________________ 8
Traffic Deaths in 1953 __.............. 3
Volunteers Fill
July Call for
Four Inductees
Four men, all volunteers, will
make up the July 30 call of
Selective Service Board 133, ac-
cording to C. D. Coleman, board
chairman.
thfnex? few weekT^M ^ tatn^vej ' Obet
Dallas invpitmpiit * ’ thc p0WPr plant Part of the big zene Pruitt and Bert Louie Tho-
charge of the promotion^said ™1Ll,milIion doIlar undertak- ™as’a11 Mineola, and J. w.
Monday that the nr .u«, t • 1 ■ ir?"’ bas announced plans to go f°”fS of °re cty- One transfer
get started soon n- h, m wou abead with construction. J. m. to.tbe Iocal board> Daniel Roger
after hit: roil V P i'biy soon Lloyd, engineer for the Citv of Kizer> who was registered at
July 20 1 °m GW York Lindale> this week advised A. c! ®an. Dieg0’ California, also will
Trwiv, n/r , i Gentry, district highway emri- be inducted July 30. No other
York where hfwmaconf0er Tyler’ that construction j ^ist^ants will be called from
ISiciaTs in 1 r Wlth 01 the lake dam would be start- Ithls board d«ring July,
that proposes to buildThw 1 e(‘ f°.0u accordine to prior plans 1 f A” induction call for ten men
mill in the Lindale like nro-i I f”' tbat it; would be necessary ! or Aug- 27 wip be filled by men
From the time uie ^ushS highway department to i ovf twenty years of age.
Plans were first an ounced n,akc p,ans for a new route !. A tfl*ta*of 437 registrants have
early in the spring Irwin 'h!s 1 ai0und the dam for Highway 69.! ecn inducted into the Armed
saidVat Zrfon Vllie wSl TP&L geologica! depart-! ^f^^d a"d Upshur
begin about Sept. 1, and he still, nfent has not completed its sur- !t„„„i A,NovL_30’ 1948, by
expects this date to hold good, j c
although preparation of : oyd
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Melon Shipping
To Begin Monday
At Local Market
The watermelon shipping sea-
son will open Monday morning
Mr. 1
they are
thc I ‘T’7” Wrote’ “but —j ««
pleased with their findings to
date. Dr. Anderson, who is head
of TP&L’s industrial depart-
ment has just completed the
Alcoa plant at Rockdale and has
been assigned to the Lindale
project. The plant’s actual con-
struction has been set for Sept.
1, and work will extend over a
PCi!,°d 0f ,three years” j ‘-u-ume „u bne west is expect-
son will open Monday morning I lbe engineer went on to call ed to be considered by the citv
the Mineola Farmers Market, attention to the proposed loca- j council early next week. *
several buyers are expected to : tl0n °f the Duck Creek dam and j A petition bearing the names
be on hand, although melons 10 advise the highway depart- , of a majority of the voters in
are not expected to move in ment to make plans to relocate ! the area of West Mineola be-
volume until the latter part of Highway 69 somewhere below j tween Francis Street and the
the week or the first of next thc dam. it will be several j National Guard armory road
week- months before the engineer for! has been completed and is
Five representatives of the !thn city of Lindale will be fur- ready for the council’s conside-
local market will be interviewed rushed with complete reports i---
Mnnrlsv nn Mnvrotr p/w'r. from TJr AnHorcnv. _
Petition Ready
On Annexation
Of West Mineola
Extension of the city limits a
half-mile to the west is expect-
QeUE/“ pretty daughter of
Mineola WatermeSn^T' *1“ becn named <lueen of the 1953
Pe„st‘val- Deacon Wilbur Ard of radio sta-
uon WFAA, Dallas, picked Miss Evans from a group of seven
—g Zt?mrre 8irlS WiU be hls ««* onUL0tprtday
Panrne Was bY the
---- ui tuc . -—-------- wm uc iuz- ‘vuu; iui me councils conside-1 ParHw i I
local market will be interviewed rushed with complete reports ration. j ^riung meters may appear j Dr. Joe Z. Tower, Methodist
Monday on Murray Cox’s noon [rom Dr. Anderson concerning H. M. Morgan, chairman of d°wntown streets of j district superintendent at r one
broadcast over radio station the location of the various in! the committee in charge of Hr i ^ « m the next week or' view will bP th. ?
J¥FAA, Dallas. They are Lester d^tries and power plant units, culating the IS. ft* °f the equipment f t’jZ I * ^ SPeakPr
(Tnlp .Tr»n Ctnllin/Tf, ----1^ Mr T.lnx/r^ coid . ______m . _ fiGCdcd to malfP t.hp Incfallnfmn tile Methodise ITlPIl’s Hinnnr
Murray Cox, farm editor of
r* station WFAA, will place the
crown on her head, officially
opening the Fifth Annual Wa-
termelon Festival. More than
twenty duchesses from East
Texas towns will take part in
the coronation.
The big festival parade will
begin rolling west on Broad
i Stx'eet at 11 o’clock, shortly aft-
er the coronation ends. The
queen and her entire court
will ride in the parade,
j The seven Mineola girls who
were candidates for the festival
crown will be guests of Deacon
Ard on his Early Birds radio
program over WFAA Friday
morning. They are Misses Evans,:
Joanna Starnes, Lou Ann J
Shadow, Barbara Wade, Mary i
Helen Matthews, Shirley Sin-!
clair and Margaret Claire Rus- |
sell. Each of the girls was
chosen by a local civic or serv- '
Dr. Joe Z. Tower, Methodist ^’S^riization to compete in i
Miss Joy Evans Named
Queen of 1953 Festival
A pretty Mineola High School in preparation for the July 22 Otho McKaig president of
senior, Joy Evans, has been program. Decoration of some the 1953 festival association
named queen of the 1953 Min- f?oats already is under way, and predicts a record crowd for the
cola Watermelon Festival. She fmaI arrangements are being one-day event. More than six
was selected from a group of I bif J?^V The Min~ thousand People are expected
seven beauties by “deacon” wil- ! i Gbamber of Commerce dis- to view the parade at 11 o’clock
bur Ard of radio station WFAA, : lL?A .h?Idre,d inldes- The feature of the afternoon
Dallas. ce^ bumper stickers last Sat- will be the free ice cold water-
Miss Evans daughter of Mr * adve/tlslng the festival, melon which will be served at
and Mrs. R. E Evans will be i l ave Z ^ ^ itickers the “"fcet shed in West Min-
crowned in an elaborate cere! I !aid D n" 2 “ * 1 weKekl eo,a’ And tbe climax of the
mony at the Select Theatre on i rnanae°r w Mpltd^’ chambei day s program will come at 8
festival morning at 10 o’clock out ten C°UW hay® put oclock with the free fireworks
Murray cox, farm editor * T M,U,y ^ ^
over radio station or me various in-
■WFAA, Dallas. They are Lester dustries and power plant units,
Cole, Joe Stallings, Doyle Mr. Lloyd said.
----
Missouri-Pacific
Freight Derails
Near Jacksonville
Twenty-one cars of a Mis-
culating the petition, predicted
the council would act favorably.
The petition, he said, carried
twenty-seven names of qualified
Part of Parking
Meter Equipment
Arrives Tuesday
parkmg meters may appear ; Dr. Joe Z. Tower, Methodist ■ice organization to
Mineola wSfiTn^^ °f 1 district superintendent at Long- ,thp ^een’s contest.
-- - xt week or: view, will be the main speaker , Pestlval decorations went up
at thp week and Mineola began
t the Methodist mens dinner, taking on a holiday atmosphere
Wednesday, July 15, in the Fel- '-------- P
lnu/skin tTall rx* 1___«
Dr. Joe Z. Tower
Methodist Dinner
Speaker July 15
M
mm
needed to make the installation
arrived Tuesday.
The city commission recently
-----—in tut: ire 1-
—~ „.„j, ^,x,iiuiiioaiuii recently I°w6hip Hall of the local church
made an agreement with the : The meeting will convene at 7
Park-o-Meter enmnon,, ^ *___ n.m.
This initial meeting of the
men’s group is the result of
voters while only four voters in paTr agreement with the The
the area are known to bc op-1 fh J Yf " ComPanY * try P ”
posed to annexation. Several I trial basis^anH pm sl^‘m”ntlls
residents of the area do not ' and Pe‘e Davidson,
souri Pacific freight train were ■' favors annexation''
turned into a pile of twisted i Mr. Morgan said he was ably
hold poll tax receipts, he ex^, ?n^Pt|ly ., reP™entath'e.^’~toid I work.by Orady^"skeTtoAr’for’me?
' • ■ 1 ^be Monitoi that installation 1 associate district lay leader E.
Drohflhlv urnillrl En «v.n J. 1__/•____ ! P CtviifL r»___ .
plained, but of these a majority
Another Try for
Oil Production
Begins at Ogburn
probably would be made before 'c- Smith, Roy Dickerson and
J“------- R1C„e opposition , ^ J ““
exist both inside the citv and i . n sslon Wl11 elther perman- 1 adopted by the group. | ih] P°Inting a Pos~ Home is able to furnish two
in the area to L »L~L I f“tly accePt or reject them. If I Dr. Tower, the speaf - ! Slble cl,max for a
Jacksonville.
No one was hurt. Missouri
Pacific spokesmen said the pile-
lYn ura c ana ...___1 • <«
memories.
The 100-car freight was en
route from Palestine to Long-
view. it buckled in the middle
when a flatcar left the track.
The flatcar and the twenty cars
behind it were squeezed into a
zig-zag pile along the roadbed.
Two of the wrecked cars con-
tained cotton. The others were
empty.
The engineer said a broken
r«..vu.uuu emu me pue- exist Doth inside the citv and I .......reuuau-1 uy uie group. wihi„ , : r Home is able to furnish two
up was one of the worst in their! in the area to be annexed the ,h y *ceW. ” reiect them- If I Dr‘ Tower. «* speaker, for- ! hai ,00^.! . * , ambulances In case of an emor-
memones. commission is expected to ae! y ? r'J.!cted theY wln be merly was pastor of the First '“f, been a center of ease gency.
The 100-car freight was en eent tvm _______ removed without cost to the Methodist Church nf Rounmoni d du 1 Pay> Tiio ------- „ „„„
Cole, Joe Stallings, ___
Starnes, Otho McKaig and D. D
Melton.
No opening price has been
established, but one market
spokesman said it should be
$1.50 or $1.75. The demand is
expected to be strong, although
early contacts with other mark-
ets have produced no definite
^ldication of what the local sit-
uation will be.
Melons are generally of good
quality in this area, but growers
have been cautioned against
harvesting too quickly.
---o--
Snake Bites Boy
iUtt Football Field
r \ Revis, 8-year-old son of Mr
nad Mrs. Rex Frederick, was
bitten by a snake on the foot-
ball field at the high school
Monday afternoon. The snake
Struck him twice on the calf
of his right leg.
Walking across the field, the
boy said he “thought a bird
pecked him.” He looked down
Jind saw the snake. Its species
is not known, since he ran
away and the snake was not
killed. .
His wounds were treated by
a physician. Other than the
;nndka S*h°j" went up at the Warren Brown on the 'T to^TS T? ftJSCT'
cm’cY>bere« S£-‘IS5TS?X.'TzZi \'^Expands
The f,ames caused northwest, which was a failure i ** OlOre
Mallory’s, home appliance and
V ■ ' Y S-r- "J
ELITE SERVICE—Latest addition to the English Funeral Home
j is this new air-conditioned Cadillac ambulance.
7 Ambulances at Once
Available if Disaster Hits
Mineola is well prepared in ; to give artifical respiration, am
cas.e of a tornado, flood, any a» iron lung. Both can be usee
emergency that might cause thp ilJ a sPeeding ambulance.
need of ambulance service in a °5 the a:l'bulan«s a«
hun-y. equipped with oxygen and the
-Th0 . t, rp i* , t— , drivers are trained to give first
The J. H. English Funeral aid.
commission is expected to ac- I remnveri 7
opytf fVi/v vxniuia i. i ! ■^'^dovgci without cost
cept the petition take emer-1 city
gency action similar to that! __
used in extending city limits j
last month- 1 No Sales Tax
| Planned by Ike
to the Methodist Church of Beaumont , Tlie community owns a res-
and Wichita Falls and at one drh ed bv AndSUT ^ h pirator, a machine which is able
time was in the Tyler distrirt , drmed by Andrew V. Erwin and j ------
His father was a former riastor assoclates> operating from1-.
of the First Methodist Church Wlnnsbor°' and the test is be- Former MlllCoIailS
of Mineola and many members "harch'^t^o^i ‘tMethodlst Hurt in Accident
of the local church lnnk , urc . Locatlon is two and a
Broad Street
Paving to Be
Finished Friday
The finishing touches to th<
paving of Broad Street will bi
completed Friday, I. V. Hutchin
MOVE TO MINEOLA I ' I of the local church look upon u'7^ LUUauon ls two and a completed Friday, ]
Mr. and Mrs. J T Biim^rH- JaCk. Porter- Texas National Dr. Tower as a hometown bov * m/ eS northeast of Ogburn Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Gayle son of the Uvalde ____________
>ur reservations P.m-iu m Dijllsitc contains forty acres. between. Garland and Dallas of Mineola since 1923 will fc
moved to Mineola this week He ,y charged Democratic Na- can be made bv telephoning 629 Z » m rv S°U h Un
iiiu engineer said a broken will be associated with ' 1 t!onal chairman Stephen Mit- the church office. “Please make G--ai.,Se survey’ A‘24v- Jmea in an automobile accident cnaracterized the main stree
drawbar probably caused the j brother in the pwi,, wwi* Cheb with <a gross distortion of your reservations earlv so wp V,, „ c°n^a ns forty acres. ; between. Garland and Dallas of Mineola since 1923 will t
piIeuP- store. 6ey WlggIy i tn th” in saying the Eisenhower may know how many to prepare W‘ I1Inton’ Dallas. cut- ; Wcdhcsdsiy morning. They were replaced with smooth blac
-—----------administration plans a national tor,” urged the pastor Derwood the bole: Operators hold taken to Baylor Hospital in Dal- asphalt top like that just lai
Ofl/V O • _ salei tax. Blackwell. ’ z.ooo acies of leases. Those sup- las v^here he was treated for a on Highway 80
SIIO Sign Goes Up as Legion
Melodrama Packs ’em in
unn in saying the Eisenhower may know how many to pren ire f 7 ’ 1Jaua5’ 1S cut“ weanesday morning. Thf-y were replaced with
administration plans a national for,” urged the pastor Derwood o the h°Ie' °Perators hold taken to Baylor HospitaJ in Dal- asphalt top like
sale;, tax. Blackwell. ' 2,000 acies of leases. Those sup- las where he was treated for a on Highway 80.
“The Mitchell .cnpmiinu — - porting the venture include broken leg. Mrs. Gayle, the for- Paving of the street bega'
Humble Oil, Rancho Oil, West- mer Miss Billie Marie Hoffman at 4 a.rn. Tuesday when speed
3K>ok Oil, Rowan Oil, General of Mineola, and the baby. Cloi.;e hig trucks scattered the ho
American Oil, Crawford Drilling Wayne, suffered bruises and re- tack. Parking has been limitei
and P. G. Lake, Inc. j quired hospital attention. to one side of the street as th
graders and rollers got the roai
The Mitchell speeches are
just another chapter in the
same old gospel of discord and
disruption that the
GRASS FIRE THURSDAY
Democratic Party ^as^n Textl"! ' Nea^f^r test is shown ! ^ !^o
jjilmer Phone Rate
(Jp, Dials Promised
.........’““iKS-JSSisa-wrtt
'!nvd!.VS-’ °f two'score years 'g0 A barber shop quartet com-
!w^^0^^nal‘1^Q^’!POBed 0f Jimmy DOdSOn’ John °
slhne ” ,G °UdS ai?d Sun- Roberts, J. O. Phillips and Bo Fire Threaten*
Telephone rates will go up 15 fiT' a" oIdtlrae melodrama Bradshaw, was a big intermis- A«reaiens
per cent in Gilmer Aug. l, but L‘fd Wlth tears and laughs, j sion hit between the first and ^effUeS BrOS. Store
tiae city council drew a promise holdPr^L & haIJdl’ed ticket- second acts. Lester Cooper also
of dial phones before Aug. l the theatrl6 t0 g6t mto drew heavy applause with pan-
1955. before approving the com- and the American tomines of Ted Lewis and Jim-
pany’s request for an increase. ’. Sponsors of the pro-' my Durante.
One-party business phones second planning for a In the play everything looked
will now cost $5 one-party resi- sensin,. ^ c n’ * *. dark for the serious-minded vil-
^nce Phones $3.50 and two- cam ‘ Jl,a ^°U.t’ tbe0 crowd lage Preacher, the Rev. Joe
party residence $2.25. til„„ n J’ d by 7:30’ the Tucker, played by the Rev
---O------- !rnn bb d0°fe wife scheduled Franz Alford, until the proach-'
HOARD SEEKS KEGISTIiANT Tl^ rrm.vl' Lra”'!!0, “ fl"C.d' 'L1'’51 ne’er-do-well brother,
Mitchell is on a week-long road trVk th V, survey- one and a half miles
tour o, xexaa. ^ ™ ^
A small fire that endangered
a garage behind the Pegues
Bros. Furniture Co. at 3:40 Wed-
nesday morning was extinguish-
Prl hnfn»*A iv, r, ... . •
Into shape.
The laying down of the to
coat began Thursday and wi
be completed Friday!
L. C. Carter, resident eng]
1952 Polio Victim Looking
Forward to Day She ’ll Walk
used for implement storage, ha
been completely redecorated.
—inuiumg was extinguish-! Little M-u-xr a,,« j , - x ! Tbe budding wiP houfee Mai
ed before damage was incurred, was stricken mm" , Wb0 C/asts hlde her Iegs and a steel lory’s furniture and used apnli
The blaze is believed to have of last vear ulin 1° Jun^20 padded corset keeps her spine ! ar»ce departments formerly lo
started from a basket of trash weekend wiiPth ° now this straight. She is able to move her cated in the Fulcher building
................ _ao., r«r is —o
that ThT^h"L"agem^ SmT ^' P" the a"'garden wm fZ\i- 7h U”,W^ »»» her daughter Chamber Office
harmed lt advisable to ZTXSSSSJZTl 1L 'ZLT I ^ baughtor' to ra,. very well. To Air Condition
ivxauuijt a, uuiiie appnunce ana ^ ^aruer. resiaent eng
furniture dealers, now occupy neei’ for the Texas Highway D
the building on Line Street partment, has assured citizei
north of the Mineola Seed Store, of Mineola that they will 1
The building, which formerly proud of the finished street
housed a garage and later was —-------------
-o---
alioufeTof ^ Ke'
sstc£ IN MIMS Hom
dress Coulter, whose home ad- orchestra n»!M J’ When the sunshine, and everything was Rav Bnnfu/pn *J,*v"*jr ,u «»ye tne casts re- rag doll, Andy w
dress wax Ron to v w» «n ... appeared at 7:30 to love-dovey as the curtain fell, odfs / HospiTal in Yah **^?* mb'ed-» her legs have mended exercises siirdiar
Two ................... °d,st Hos,,,|al in Dallas this sufficiently, doctors says she she has to take
i and treat- will get, criiidiot. ..nei ■,* tn._
wess was 132 Spraston, Cl
j *......-
-Jt; ixrrir —» r~,—
ready seated inside. ! »7Zl**L?"SCOe .Bertl«*on and | ---------f) ______________ opemtlon y mean an yes’. ?ven “Mexican Joe”-from Thursday mm-ning autlxorizing ^ °f the Baptist Church.
lung hours listening to her rec- the manager to take bids on the * Mr and Mrs- Tej’ry L. Coi
oi d player. ^ work. formerly of Jefferson, are ma
Local Board No. '13^ MinoohiU'^CThe Orchestra^led h Patsy Bradshaw,~ k^pt*the*p"o- 1 Mr and Mrs G R F' n ’ o-
at once. R , H , f’ lod by w. H. duction rolllna with home-snun r,,,,,,, ■ ■ o. R. Eason and Since her atluek, tbe little oi-d nlaver
------- o_____ H V 'i ■ Wh0 played ‘he trom- humor that was as natural os San this B"1 has been plagued with ex- Mara A„
Bob Gassets returned home 1 cS pIpperTCm °' ^rs. if they were living t^^<'nd ^ h«‘ his re-
sr’.Cis,ototh- ; s2
MU.i0yon°n tLee £{ i bedr^^'flituT STSK f'
m I ’ See CL°UDS page 3 i heirlooms available at Merit's, i her desire to S. i ^ wa,k' “
?Z‘?Utof0rhaver"’S!ed ,<'aCbbf7"nd The Mineola chamber ol
S'She^nSl.^ ‘Ive. former residents of Lew
the ni-ar future. The board of !lmd’ nrc now reslding at i
Ficeman Street. They are nwi
WELCOME
To Mineola
Recent newcomers to Mined
include:
A R McCarty and family c
four, former residents of Hawk
ins. He is employed by Humb]
Oil Company.
Marshall Lane and family c
five, former residents of Level
mg their home at 123>/2 Nor
ATTENDING RAILWAY 3IF-KT and they are membc^sTf^tt
Mr. and Mrs. l M. Alexander ^ Ohurch.
are attending a convention nf 1 ^ld MlS' J’ T Burhgan
railroad workers in Cleveland of'HnnV*0 daught('rs’ former
Ohio. They expect to^be gone iLTlZ T 2?** >«
about two months , th Johnson. They are m«vj
Lois of the Methodist Church
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Carraway, R. H., Jr. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 9, 1953, newspaper, July 9, 1953; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1123216/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.