The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1942 Page: 1 of 12
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Wm.
The Olney Enterprise
THIS IS YOWR TOWN—THIS IS MY TOWN—IF WE ALL SUPPORT IT ONE HUNDRED PER GENT, IT WILL BE A ONE HUNDRED PER CENT TOWN.
VOLUME XXXII.
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT FOR OLNEY
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN YOUNG CO.
NUMBER I.
Kreth Praises Olney V
Red Cross Activities,
Conducts Course Here
“Olney is noted at headquarters as being one of the most active Red
Cross first aid centers in Texas,” said Karl A. Kreth, field representative
out of St. Louis, Mo., who is this week teaching a class of 29 adults oi
Olney and the surrounding area the first instructor’s course in Red Cross
First Aid to be held in Texas and open to the general public with the
exception of one or two early last year. _______
met every nights
The class has
this week at the City Hall from
7:30 to 10:30 o’clock, and the final
examination will be given Friday.
Successful completion of this course;
wlik'h includes 15 instruction hours,
wm'’certify the members as Red
Cross First Aid instructors to teach
either or all of the Junior, Stand-
ard and Advanced Red Cross First
Aid courses.
Mr. Kreth said that every tune
anyone completes any course, it is
< duly reported and recorded in Wash-
"PTington, D. C., where the Olney area
is on record as one of the most
actively interested in this portion
of the national defense program.
A field representative is sent any
place in the Red Cross division
where there is a sufficient number
of persons who have completed the
standard and advanced courses.
Class Personnel Listed
_ L. E. Robinson, of Olney who
completed an instructor’s course
' early last year, has donated over
180 actual teaching hours for the
first aid courses, and with the
exception of one, all enrolled in
the instructors course ara former
pupils of Robinson. The class per-
sonnel includes Mesdames C. V.
Morgan, Glenn Nixon, Clester Evans,
See First Aid, page 12, col. 2
TRACK WORKOUTS
TO LURE
ATHLETES NEXT
For the first time in quite a few
years, track events will be stressed
again for Olney high school ath-
letes, Coach Cotton Franklin has
announced. The change to the new
sport will be made immediately.
Friday night Coach Truett Copoer
will send his cage quintet to the
hardwood for the last time this
season and Monday afternoon Coach-
es Franklin and Cooper will start
their charges sprinting on the
cinders or sand, whichever they
have at high school.
Right now the coaches plan to
keep the track workouts up until
the latter part of March. As an
added incentive to the fellows in-
terested in track, the mentors plan
to take a team to the track meet
at Fort Worth during the Fat Stock
Show.
And after the latter part of
March, what? We don’t, want the
coaches to get the idea they can
loaf! Then, spring football training.
But more about that as the time
for March grid workouts nears.
employers urged to
attend meeting
All employers in Olney are
urged to attend a special
meeting at 8 o’clock Friday
evening in the City Hall. This
appeal has ben made by Joe
Benson, county co-chairman
of the defense stamps and
bond sales.
This meeting is very impor-
tant, Mr. Benson emphasized,
as he asked all employers to
be present. Mr. Benson and
E. W. Hunt attended a meet-
ing Tuesday in Graham to
discuss sales of stamps and
bonds in Young county.
Second Place Cubs
<T o Play One More
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+ Still resting in second place after
one victory and one defeat the past
week, the Cubs will close out their
most successful, financial and per-
centage standing, season in many
years with a game in Wichita Falls
tonight (Thursday).
The game scheduled for Friday
with Vernon on the local gym
floor was called off Wednesday
afternoon by mutual consent, A.
D. Cummings, superintendent, stated
Playing of the game postponed
the first week of the season, would
have no bearing on the outcome
of the district winner.
Childress is set as 2-AA cham-
pion but the Cubs have turned in
a creditable season under Coach
Truett Cooper. Friday night they
los^ a thriller here 31 to 25 to
Childress and then Tuesday night
they were hosts to Electra and came
out ahead 26 to 11.
Tuesday night the Cubs played
without benifit of the scoring ace
Billy Andrews, who underwent an
emergency appendectomy that af-
ternoon at the local hospital. An-
drews ranks fourth in the district
See Cage, page 12, col. 1
Blancetts Receive
Word Ahmit Son
For the first time in six months,
word has been received concerning
tlie safety and whereabouts of
Jesse Ralph Blancett, U. S, Navy,
who is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Blancett of Orth.
Last Monday morning, the Blan-
cetts, received a letter from Wash-
ington, D. C., informing them that
Jesse Ralph, who is their “baby”
son, is working in the Naval Hos-
pital at Canacao, Phillipine Islands.
The letter stated that “as far as
the writer knew,” the young Blan-
chet is safe and well. He has ben
in the navy about one year.
386 Register
Here Monday
In Third Draft
Young men were in a decided
minority Monday when a third Se-
lective Service registration day
was held in Olney. Registered here
for possible military service were
386 men from the ages of 20 to 44,
inclusive, who had not previously
signed up, according to A. D.
McMillan, member of the registra-
tion board. ^
Men came steadily from 7 o’-
clock in the morning until the 9
o’clock deadline in the evening as
volunteer registrars worked in the
clubroom of the City Hall.
Cards for the latest group of
registrants have been delivered in
Graham to the county board where
they will be kept on file and will
be checked later when the national
lottery is held.
Assisting Mr. McMillan, W. W.
Price and W. H. Strealy, board
members, were the following vol-
unteers: C. V. Morgan, Tom Wat-
son, Leo Kuehn, W. C. Reynolds,
A. S. Acker, Olin Calvin, D. R.
Criswell, Harry Bettis, J. P. Huey,
See Registration, page 12, col. 3
Cardinals Slate Eight
Games in Tournament
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LIBRARY GETS
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NEW BOOKS
Still being received at the Olney
public library are new books to
increase the offerings of the shelves
to the organization’s members. Dur-
ing the past week six new volumes,
purchased by the library board,
have arrive^ and Mrs. Jack Kerbow
has donated five books including
one volume of fiction and four
juvenile books.
The recently purchased books in-
clude “Enchanted Ground” by Tam-
ple Bailey, “Station Wagon Set” by
Faith Baldwin, “The Dim Lan-
tern” and “Tomorrow’s Promise”
by Temple Bailey, “Stranger With-
in the Gates” by Grace Livingston
See Library, page 12, col. 2
NE'W assistant home dem-
onstration agent is
Miss Laura Oehler who will
assume her duties Friday. Miss
Oehler formerly was an out-
standing 4-H club girl in Kerr
county and was graduated in
February exercises from the
University of Texas. She suc-
ceeds Miss Fae Bass who has
been promoted to home demon-
stration agent of Dickens
county after 17 months of ser-
vice here.
NAMES WANTED FOR
SERVICE HONOR ROLL
While a number of names
have been submitted to the
Enterprise, in response to last
week’s request, we will need
names and more names of men
in Olney and this area who
are serving in the various di-
visions of the country’s armed
forces.
If you have a relative or
friend in the service, please
give his name AND complete
address to the Enterprise or
Chamber of Commerce. These
names will be placed on the
service honor roll to be dis-
played down town.
H
Red Cross
Room Will
Reopen Tues.
Open for the first time since war
was declared will be the Red Cross
production room which will resume
regular weekly hours on Tuesday
afternoon, announced Mrs.* Sid
Perryman, general chairman.
Knitting materials only are to
be received in the shipment from
Red Cross due to arrive this week-
end. Fifty pounds of yarn, pur-
chased recently by the government,
as well as 40 pounds of yarn for
^army arid navy sweaters, bought by
: the local chapter, will be included
in the shipment. These garments
have been requested of the govern-
ment and are being made in an-
swer to that demand.
The room is to be open each
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
afternoon from 3 to 5 o’clock with
Mrs. Ray Perkins, knitting chair-
man, in charge. Members of the
new knitting committee are Mes-
dames Roy Graham, J. P. Lovett,
, A. S. Ragle, Jack Kerbow and
John Neal.
Since all sewing materials have
:en exhausted, Mrs. Perryman
ed the suggestion that would-
amstresses take First Aid
study home nursing and
. These phase of defense
prime importance.
Juniors Select Play,
Await Arrival Books
Awaiting arrival of copies of the
play, “The Case of the Missing
Heirs,” selected for the annual
iunior class play, is Miss Isabel
Hunter, speech teacher, who an-
ticipates receiving the books the
latter part of this week.
March 20 has been set as the
tentative date for the play pro-
duction. Practice will begin as
soon as the play books arrive and
Hast assignments are made. The
mystery, written by William D.
Fisher, will be staged through spec-
ial arrangements with the Art
Craft Play company.
Rhoads to Direct
Oil Industry’s
Scrap Collection
L. S. Rhoads was today appoint-
ed chairman of the Young county
committee for the collection of the
scrap metal and rubber of the Tex-
as petroleum industry.
The appointment was made by
Charles F. Roeser of Fort Worth,
general chairman of the oil and
gas industry’s collection and also
general chairman of district 3 for
the Office of Petroleum Co-ordina-
tion for national defense. The drive
to recover for re-use all old metal
and rubber at oil leases, yards,
plants and the like, is being or-
ganized by the Texas Mid-Conti-
nent Oil and Gas association at
the request of the federal govern-
ment.
The collection center for this
'See Collection, page 12, col. 5
Our No. 1 Citizen
Who am I?
Why, I’m the guy:
Who came from what are rather
smugly known as “poor but honest
parents;”
Who ran barefooted as a kid,
and took baths on Saturday night
—in a wash tub in the kitchen;
Whose folks never reached the
stage of affluency in which they
cou’d afford a horse and buggy,
but who still remembers the thrill
of Sunday afternoon rides behind
the spanking team of the better-off
neighbors around the corner;
Who walked to school in all
sorts of weather, from the first
day through high school and never
was considered too fragile to be
allowed to do it;
Who had trouble with English
and algebra and Latin;
See Personal, page 8, col. 3
Six Teams Enter
Invitation Meet,
One-day Event
An eight-game schedule has
been bracketed Friday for the one-
day invitation tournament spon-
sored by the Cardinals, high school
volley ball team, which will see six
teams competing for three trophies
to be awarded through co-opera-
tion of three local business firms.
Play in the meet will,get under-
way at 10 o’clock Friday morning
when Olney B and Newcastle clash.
Other games slated during the
day are as follows:
Olney A versus Loving at 11 o’-
clock.
Jean versus Throckmorton at
12 o’clock noon.
Loser of Olney A-Loving game
versus loser of Jean-Throckmorton
at 2:30 o’clock.
Winner of Olney A-Loving ver-
sus winner of Jean-Throckmorton
at 3:30 o’clock.
Consolation finals at 4:30 o’-
clock.
Winners’ bracket finals at 5:30
o’clock.
Trophies will be presented the
winning team, runner-up and con-
solation division winner. First place
is a figure of victory while second
and consolation are smaller figures
of volley ball players in action. All
are sungold figures mounted on
ivory bakelite bases. Co-operating
firms were Dr. Pepper Bottling
Works, Horany and Olney Enter-
prise.
By Leah Wright
Cardinals won second place in
the invitation tournament at Jean
Saturday by defeating Jean and
Loving and then bowing to Perrin
in the finals. Scores of the games
were as follows: Cardinals 15-6,
15-4 and 15-3 over Jean; Olney
See Tournament, page 12, col. 1
Pollard Sends Letter
Of Life in Marines
Waterworks Attains
Statewide Recognition
James KunkeFs
Tamey Wins Grand
Champion Honors
Tribute Paid to
Use of Sewage
Effluent by Cox
Dear editor and citizens of Olney :
I enlisted in the United States
Marine oorps and am stationed in
San Diego, Calif. The folks here
are from every part of the U. S. A.
and Alaska. We have all come to-
gether for the same purpose, and
that is to give our life if necessary
to keep democracy safe in these
United States of America.
I enlisted Jan. 7, 1942, and like
it very much. We are all waiting
for our chance to serve our country
overseas. We are proud to be Ma-
rines. We are a long ways from
home and do not know when we
See Pollard, page 8, col. 2
Another Year in
Enterprise History
Is Quietly Marked
Another year, another mile-
stone in the history of the En-
terprise quietly rolled around
this week. When the presses
finished printing the last En-
terprise last week the final issue
in the thirty-first year of pub-
lication was checked off.
And so, this week begins the
thirty-second year of service
to Olney and the Olney area
with Volume XXXII, Issue 1.
Second Letter From Warren Partain
Describes Iceland’s “Foul Weather”,Terrain
Just three weeks after it had fnot notify you as to my change of*
been written, a letter from Warren address.
Partain, stationed with the First
Marine Brigade in Iceland, to the
editor of the Enterprise arrived in
Olney, passed by the censor. Since
this letter contains even more in-
formation than the one published
the following is
two weeks ago,
being printed:
Dear Mr. Warren:
Perhaps you remember me and
again you may 'not. Nevertheless,
I do remember you and the paper
you print. I have thoroughly enjoy-
ed all the copies I have received
since I have been in the Marines.
I have not received all of the pa-
pers since I have been in Iceland
partly due to the fact that I did
However, if I notified you every
time my address was changed I
would be carrying on a regular
correspondence. As you probably
know, the first U. S. troops to land
in Iceland were the U. S. Marine*.
I was among that first group July
8. We have been here going on
seven months and during that time
I have seen some of the worst wea-
ther of my life. When we first
came here we had daylight prac-
tically 24 hours a day. Now we
have darkness practically 24 hours.
It is beginning to be daylight long-
er now. It is not as cold here
though as the name Iceland would
make one believe. The fact that it
is hot cold however, is due tc the
Gulf Stream thai hows around the f will see home again if we
island. ! * *
District recognition has been paid
the city of Olney waterworks and
its engineer, I. N. Ronhovde, with
the announcement by Dr. George
950-pound Hereford W. Cox, state health officer, that
of all towns and cities in Texas the
local system has the honor of mak-
ing “the most advantageous use of
sewage effluent—•- irrigation.”
The letter from Dr. Cox to Mayor
Bernard Lunn, a copy of which was
received by Mr. Ronhovde, fol-
lows:
“From the nominations of our
regional engineers located at var-
ious points in the state our an-
nual Texas honor roll for sew-
age work systems has been com-
piled for the purpose of commend-
ing certain municipalities
for their outstanding accomplish-
ments in the sewage field. Out of
all the municipalities in the state
one city was chosen to be given
honor for making “the most adv-
antageous use of sewage effluent-
irrigation.”
“This decision was most diffi-
cult to make and involved con-
siderable study and review of the
records submitted to this office
and the selection was then made
on the basis of actual accomplish-
ments at the close of the year.
“We want you to know that this
distinct compliment has been
paid your sewage system as a re-
sults of a definite achievement in
competition with all of the other
are1 systems and plants in the state.”
“Tamey”,
steer fed by Japwes Kunkel of the
Sunny view 4JiCluli>, won the grand
champion/h'mors.^rit the Throckmor-
ton distriqt_jf-H and FFA Fat Calf
Show, H. Dale Martin, assistant
county agent has announced.
Five counties were represented and
24 calves shown, added Martin.
This steer was bred by Hugo Kun-
kel of Olney and comes from one
of the finest herds of pure bred
cattle of Young county.
Young Kunkel will show this
steer at the Wichita Falls 4-H and
FFA Fat Calf Show March 5-6,
Martin said. James is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Kunkel and the
brother of Harriott, who was active
in the club.
W. T. McGee, judge of the show,
announced this steer as one of the
best steers he had seen in a long
time. All Young county ranchmen
are urged to attend the Wichita
Falls show.
Teriffic Winds Blow
The worst part of our weather
is the terrific wind and also the
sudden changes from snow to rain
and then snow, rain and wind. It
is not unknown to have all three
the same day. And they are direct
changes. We have had two severe
wind storms in the past month.
The wind was said to have reach-
ed 120 miles per hour at its high-
est velocity and blew at an average
of 90 miles per hour for several
hours.
In some of the camps huts were
blown away and other serious
dmaage was done. Our camp, how-
ever, is sheltered by surrounding
lucky enough to see home at all. We
Z Sir 1
have to go through a camp called j BUlplOyed at \y llUlC
"bo°t camlp” and U is reaUy lough ! ploye at Lovett Clime
but it will make good Marines out j,/Miss Betty Jo wimams who
egkri her duties
and! se
Mr
of us. The people here are swell,
protection it gives from aircraft,
attacks. Incidentally, we have had
none so far. The only action we
have seen so far is in unloading
ships for the army and working
in their dumps. Believe me, we
have seen plenty of that.
Whoever made the statement
that the army does the work, the
navy gets the pay and the marines
get the credit were not thinking of
See Partain, page 8, col. 1
as receptionist
etary Monday.
Williams succeeds Mrs.
Roy Sonnamaker who had been
employed at the clinic for about
a year. Mrs. Sonnamaker resigned
to devote more time to homemak-
ing. The new secretary is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walt
Williams. eShe attended business
college in Wichita Fails and has
been employed there the past sev-
eral months.
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Warren, Len C. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1942, newspaper, February 20, 1942; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1132630/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.