The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1946 Page: 1 of 12
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The Olne y Enterprise
THIS IS YOUR TOWN—THIS IS MY TOWN—IF WE ALL SUPPORT IT ONE HUNDRED PER CENT. IT WILL BE A ONE HUNDRED PER GENT TOWN
VOLUME XXXVI
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT FOR OLNEY
OLNEY ENTERPRISE THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1946
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN YOUNG CO
NUMBER II
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Soil Conservation Tour
Of Olney Area Is Set
A half-day tour of' farms in the
Olney area to study and demon-
strate soil improvement and soil
conservation practices is sched-
uled for the afternoon of May 10.
The program is one of two field
tours planned by J. H. Crawford
of the Young County AAA office,
George Romans of the Soil Con-
servation Service, and County
Agent G. R. Schumann.
The first tour will be held the
afternoon of May 9 in the Graham
■area. Both the Olney and Graham
tours will begin at 1 p. m., the
respective dates. The tour at Gra-
ham will start from the Young
County Courthouse, that here will
start from the Olney City Hall.
Both Schumann and Manager
Worth L. Coffey of the Olney
Chamber of Commerce urged the
tours as interesting not only to
farmers and ranchmen but to
businessmen and civic leaders of
Young County, and urged that
all citizens interested in helping
to improve agricultural conditions
of this area attend one or both
of the tours.
Included in the demonstrations
to be visited will be fields of
vetch, Austrian winter peas and
sweet clover; Terracing and tank-
ing demonstrations; mesquite erad-
ication through the use of kero-
sene oil and by the bulldozer
method; old and new plantings
of lovegrass; and other practices
which are being carried out on
farms and ranches in this county.
y
Rev. J. H. Wright of Henrietta to
Come Here as Baptist Pastor
M. I. Dnnsworth,
68, Dies Here at
Residence of Son
Milton Ivy Dunsworth, 68, who
made his home here at the resi-
dence of his son, Lee Dunsworth.
404 North Avenue C, died Tuesday
night. He had been in failing
health for several years.
Mr. Dunsworth, a resident of
Olney the past 21 years, moved
to his son’s home after the death
of his wife, who passed away
slightly over two months ago.
He was an oil field worker, was
born in Missouri, April 5, 1878, and
came to Olney in 1925.
Funeral services were to be held
Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock
at the Church of Christ. Burial
was to be in the new Olney Cem-
etery.
Surviving besides Lee Duns-\
worth another son Milton J. R.;
four daughters, Mrs. A. W. Dright
of Lawton, Okla., Mrs. Rudyard
Cox of Olney, Mrs. Jessie Roland
of Requblican City, Nebi., and
Mrs. D. L. Culbertson of Houston;
a brother, Charles of Fort Worth;
and three half-brothers, Abe and
Johnny of Brownwood and R$v.
E. M. Dunsworth of Pampa.
Funeral arrangement are under
charge of McCracken Funeral
Home.
♦ Rev. J. H. Wright, who has been
the pastor of the Henrietta Bap-
tist Church, has accepted the call
of the Olney First Baptist Church
and will come here next week to
make his home.
He will preach his first sermon
in the Olney pulpit the first Sun-
day in May, it was announced this
week by Miss Cathryn Smith, eu-
ucational director of the local
church.
Rev. Mr. Wright will fill the
pastorate formerly held by Rev.
W. H. Townsend, who was the
First Baptist pastor here for 17
years.
Rev. and Mrs. Wright have one
child, a small son. The exact date
they plan to arrive in Olney was
not known this week.
Dr. J. P. Lovett7s
Father Is Dead
Frank Lovett, Sr., 63, of East-
land, father of Dr. J. P. Lovett of
Olney, died late Tuesday after-
noon of a heart ailment. Funeral
services were to be held Thurs-
day afternoon at 5 o’clock at the
Baptist Church in Eastland and a
number of Olney people, besides
the Lovett family, were to attend.
Mr. Lovett is also survived by
his widow; two other sons, Dr.
R. E. Lovett of New Orleans, and
Dr. Frank Lovett Jr., U. S. Naval
lieutenant, on the staff of a
naval hospital in Maryland, and a
daughter, Mrs. W. B. Collie' of
Breckenridge. Four grandchildren
also survive.
Mr. Lovett, who had lived in
Eastland many years, was en-
gaged in the insurance business at
the time of his death.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Ellis and
son Babe returned this week from
a visit with their daughter and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Marrs, in
Odessa.
Mrs. W. J. Ragle,
Resident Here
Since 1900, Dies
Mrs. W. J. Ragle, resident of
this section for the past 46 years,
died at her home here, 605 West
Main St., early Wednesday morn-
ing after a long illness.
Funeral services were to be held
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock
in the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church here, conducted by the
pastor, Rev. John W. G. Hill.
Burial was to be in Olney Cem-
etery.
Mrs. Ragle is survived by two
sons: G. H. of Olney, and William
H. of Graham; two daughters,
Mrs. Ed Galloway and Mrs. Clovis
E. Galloway, both of Wichita
Falls; a step-son, A. S. of Olney;
and five step-daughters, Mrs. John
Davis, Mrs. O. L. Goodloe, and
Mps. H. L. McCuistion, all of Ol-
ney, Mrs. Exa Lee Smith of Wash-
ington, D. C., and Mrs. R. E.
Dodd of Lubbock; a sister, Mrs.
C. M. Roach of Olney and a
brother, Hugh Robinson, whose
home address is not known here.
Also surviving are 29 grand-
children and 16 great grandchil-
dren, and two nieces, Mrs. Roy
Patrick of Elmer, Okla., and Mrs.
Tommie Pulis of Anadarko, Okla.
Mrs. Ragle was born Nov. 14,
1871, in Tennessee. She and Mr.
Ragle were married in Graham,
moved to Decatur for a short time,
then in 1900 came to Young Coun-
ty and settled on a farm just
north of Olney. Later they moved
into town. Mr. Ragle died June
3, 1945.
She was a member of the Cum-
berland Presbyterian Church.
Funeral arrangements are in
charge of Luhn Funeral Home.
THE ENTERPRISE WANTS
TO SAY WELCOME
We can't meet personally
all you folks who came to Ol-
ney for the Young County Dai-
ry Day Show. So we of the
Enterprise want to take this
way of saying welcome!
We want to thank you for
your part in making the show
a success. You exhibitors, you
friends and neighbors who en-
couraged the exhibitors, you
who came to see the show—
you're entitled to credit just as
much as the Olney Chamber
of Commerce and the business
men who joined efforts to
bring the program.
We're mighty glad to have
you here.
Now and always, the Enter-
prise is keenly interested in
the news about your farm and
your community. We're trying
io keep this paper full of the
activities and names of your
friends over this entire farm-
ing and ranching area.
That's our job ag we see it,
and we are asking your help
in doing it well. If there's
news about your neighborhood,
let us or your correspondent
there know about it. Sign your
name to any information,
please, so we'll know who it
came from. But let us know.
We want this to be a paper
where you'll find all the news
about yourself, your family and
your friends.
1946 Young County Dairy Day
Contests Are Staged In Olney
Long-time Firm in Olney Changes Hands
As Kyle E. Ball Buys Palace Drug Store
Lions Told of
Bulge Battle
Feelings and experiences of a
soldier in the Battle of the Bulge
were described to the Lions Club
Tuesday in a graphic talk by Rob-
ert Richmond, Lone Oak Commu-
nity, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Richmond, and now studying for
the ministry of the Methodist
Church.
He told of how the pounding
German shellfire cut to pieces
American units—“out of this bat-
tallion, for example, some 400 men
were left of 1,000”—and blamed
the blunders of U. S. field com-
manders in that section for the
Nazi breakthrough.
He described how the battered
soldiers, cut into isolated units
and all but trapped, made their
individual ways back to safe po-
sitionhs to regroup, then told of the
An Olney business institution
for the past two decades changed
hands this week, as Kyle E. Ball,
Graham and Mineral Wells drug
store owner, purchased the Palace
Drug Store here.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbie Wilborn
had owned and operated the con-
cern here 22 years.
The new firm became the Ball
Drug Company, and Ball, in Olney
supervising the change, announced
his plans to move here and make
his home in Olney in the near fu-
ture.
The new Olney business man has
been a druggist all of his life,
and is the son of a druggist. His
father operated a drug store in
Tulsa, Okla.
Ball has been in the drug bus-
iness in Texas for about 21 years.
He has been living at Mineral
Wells.
Until the expansion of his
business restricted his time
available for other things, he
was . active in civic projects
and is a former director of the
Chamber of Commerce and Re-
tail Merchants Association.
In discussing his plans here,
Ball said that there will be “no
change in the policy of the store”
and “no change in the present
personnel of the store except for
the addition of registered phar-
macists.” He said two registered
pharmacists will make it possible
to have one on duty at all times..
He said charge accounts will be
continued as before, and added
that the new firm wants to solic-
it the continuation of present ac-
counts, and the continued friend-
ship and patronage of its cus-
tomers.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilborn, through
the Enterprise, expressed their
appreciation for the friendship and
patronage shown the firm through-
out their 22 years of operating it.
Local American Legion Post Has Its
Dedication of New Quarters Tonight
Harry M.
chairman.
The music was provided by the
Misses Groves — little Linda Tom
Groves, who sang two popular
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Allied counter-offensive that beat | Groves, who accompanied her.
the enemy back into Germany. The talk on soil conservation
The guest speaker was intro- and improvement was given by
duced by Billy Earl Gilbert, pro- J. H. Crawford of Graham, Young
gram chairman for the luncheon County AAA adimnistrator, who
Rotarians Told
Of Soil Saving
A program of music and a dis-
cussion of saving the nation’s No.
1 agricultural possession, its top-
oil, were presented to the Rotary
Club at the Wednesday luncheon
meeting.
Bettis was program
♦ Gray-Barr Post No. 414, the lo-
cal American Legion unit, dedi-
cates its new hall tonight, Thurs-
day, at 7:30 p. m.
Post Commander Bernard Lunn
said today all arrangements are
complete. A good attendance is
expected by post officials.
A committee composed of O.
C. Leath, Joe Seward and C. O.
Persons has had charge of ar-
ranging the program.
The dedication meeting takes
the post from its former meeting
place in the City Hall to the up-
stairs part of the building' now
occupied by Producers Supply, the
Odd Fellows Hall and now the
post’s permanent meeting home.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Sheets and
Mrs. Red Dees were in Fort Worth.
meeting.
Lions Stevens and Roberts of
Vernon were at the meeting to
speak in behalf of the candidacy
of Marvin C. Culberson of that
club for lieutenant goernorship of
Lions District 2E. Culberson has
been a charter member of the Ver-
non club since it was organized in
1922.
Reports were made on the col-
lection in the club of a fund to
send an Olney representative to
the Lions International convention
and on the sale of tickets to the
Lions Ladies Night program April
30. Good progress .was ieported
for both drives.
Meeting Set for
Car Repair Dealers
Olney area automotive repair
service dealers are called by the
Price Control Board to a meeting
next Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock
at the City Hall, Board Chairman
Harry M. Bettis announced this
week.
The meeting is for the purpose
of helping dealers in their service
pricing, Bettis said, and he urged
that all dealers offering repair ser-
vices be present. F. A. Wilson,
from the District OPA office, will
conduct the meeting.
was introduced by County Attor-
ney E. H. Griffin.
Soil conservation is related to
food conservation—the most press-
ing American problem right now,
with millions of starving looking
to this nation as their only hope
of escaping death—Crawford point-
ed out.
He urged soil saving and soil
building as a responsibibity of
everyone, a national need to see
that “soil is not only conserved
but is improved.”
He declared the spending of
Federal funds to enable and en-
courage soil building practices is
hence fully justified, and pointed
out that this year Young County’s
allotments total $88,000.
“The program should have the
full support not only of farmers
and ranchers here, but of every
business and professional man in
the Olney area,” said Crawford.
Crowds See
Fine Animals
In Competition
With 102 animals entered, the
1946 Young County Dairy Day
Show was under way here Thurs-
day.
The entry list was a record num-
ber for the annual show, Manager
Worth Coffey of the Olney Cham-
ber of Commerce which sponsored
the program, said.
The dairy cattle judging contest
started shortly before 11 a. m.,
and the day’s competition was on.
Among the big crowd on hand
watching were A. L. Darnall of
A. and M. College dairy depart-
ment; Jimmie Diavis, Extension
Service Dairyman, and Dr. L. R.
Noyes of the USDA Bureau of An-
idal Industry, authority on Bany’s
disease control.
Talks by the three were high-
lights of the morning program.
Before the judging contest start-
ed, those entering were given tips
on judging points by County
Agent G. R. Schumann.
Afternoon Program
At noon, the officials and ex-
hibitors, and those of the attend-
ing crowds who cared to remain
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Try Ehterprise Want Ads.
Good Rains Break Drought Over
Large Sections of Olney Area
Johnson Enters
Co. Clerk Race
County Clerk G. B. Johnson in-
formed the Enterprise Wednesday
that he would be a candidate for
re-election and was entering the
race to seek nomination at the
summer primary.
Hih formal announcement appears
elsewhere in this issue of the
Enterprise, in the political col-
umn.
Good rains, that fell heavily
Sunday night and Monday, and
continued with intermittent show-
ers the following day, broke the
more than 30-day drouth over part
of Olney’s area and cheered farm-
ers and ranchers in the sections
where moisture fell.
The rainfall here measured two
and one-half inches at mid-week,
according to the city’s official rain
gunge at Lake Olney, reported by
> Lake Superintendent Luther At-
kins.
In the sections where the rain-
fall was heavy, it came as a boon
to parched pasturelands, and will
benefit wheat, particularly late
planted grain, and feedstuffs.
Wheat will fill out for a better
yield, and growth of the late-
planted grain will be spurred, ac-
cording to farmers’ reports to
Manager Worth L. Coffey of the
Olney Chamber of Commerce.
Grain sorghums, planted and
up, were showing little growth in
dry sections, said County Agent
G-. R. Schumann, and will get much
benefit from the moisture.
Oats, according to the growers
talking to Coffey, were “too far
gone in the dry section to save
muph of the crop by now.”
Aid rain clouds had a dark
side, so to speak, much territory
to the west of Olney was reported
to have received little or none
of the moisture.
From Elbert, Spring Creek and
Padgitt, farmers reported no rain
or, in some places, only light show-
ers.
Subscribe for the Enterprise.
Nov. 11 Also to Be
Holiday for Stores
Armistice Day, Nov. 11, is
among the dates that Olney
business men last week agreed
on as an official list of holi-
days on which firms here will
close.
A list of the agreed official
business holidays, furnished
the Enterprise and published
Iasi week, inadveriedly omit-
ted the Arimstice Day holiday.
Attention was called to the
omission by Ray Horany, chair-
man of the Chamber of Com-
merce retail mercanis commit-
tee, which sponsored the agree-
ment.
Paper Drive for
Park Fund Slated
Saturday will see paper collect-
ed here again, to benefit the
Park Fund by which Olney club
women are seeking to establish
a fine park with recreational facil-
ities for Olney citizens and es-
pecially for Olney young people.
This drive, sponsored by the
Forum Club, will put the collec-
tion truck to work early Saturday
morning, and householders are
urged to have paper tied in bun-
dles and out at street curbs by
then.
Mrs. J. G. Duvall, president of
the Forum Club, is in general
charge.
No Services Sunday
At St. Luke Church
There will be no services next
Sunday at the St. Luke Lutheran
Church, Rev. P. J. Klenk, pastor,
has announced. The pastor and a
lay delegate, A. E. Klenk, will be
in Houston attending sessions of
the Texas District of the Missouri
Synod. Speakers there will in-
clude the synod president, Dr. J.
W. Behnken of River Forest, 111.
New Heads of
VFW Auxiliary
Are Installed
Incoming officers of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars Post Ni. 3905
here assumed their duties last
Thursday evening at an installa-
tion banquet program held in the
Rotary Building.
W. T. Todd of Dallas, district
VFW commander, installed the
post officers, and spoke on the
necessity of securing cooperation,
of all former servicemen and en-
listing them as active members.
Mrs. W. C. Taylor of Wichita
Falls, district auxiliary president*
installed officers of the local aux-
iliary.
Other high VFW officials here
for the program were A1 Flack,
Wichita Sails post commander; R.
W. Oakey, Wichita Falls district
commander; W. C. Taylor, imme-
diate past post commander at
Wichita Falls, and Mrs. Porter R„
Hancock of Dallas, a district aux-
iliary officer.
In the absence of Mayor Charles
T. Wolverton, who was out of
the city, Olney’s official welcome
was given by former Mayor Roy
Graham, and Hugh Duggan ex-
tended welcome for the local post.
A large crowd attended banquet
and program.
Installed Were: Leon McCracken,
post commander; Will MorrissHan-
nis, senior^ vice commander; Jack
Q. Neal, junior vice commander;
Hermleigh Presnall, quartermaster;
John C. Woods, post advocate; Dr.
J. P. Lovett, post surgeon.
Installed for the local auxiliary
were: Mrs. Sam B. A vara, presi-
dent; Miss Olga Moore, senior vice
president; Mrs. Alta Baker, junior
vice president; Mrs. J. A. Doyle,
secretary-treasurer; Mrs. J. G. Du-
vall, chaplain; Mrs. E. M. Die,
conductress; Mrs. Ben Norman,
guard.
Entry Classes, Setting, Judges
For Flower Show Are Announced
m^sjes -in whicl\ entries that morning from 7 a. m. to 11
compete for awards were an-
nounced this week for the Olney
Flower Show next Thursday,
May 2.
Also it was announced, by Mrs.
T. S. Guimarin, general chairman
of the show sponsored by the
Olney Garden Club, that Mrs.
Charles Morris of Wichita Falls
will be chairman of judges. Mrs.
Morris will bring a Wichita Falls
group, probably five members in
all, to act as her judges.
Plans for an outdoor setting
that will set the stage for the ex-
hibits and utilize porch furniture
were announced by the club’s
staging committee headed by Mrs.
George Rice.
The show will be opened for the
public at 1:30 p. m. that day, and
no admission will be charged,
though free-will donations will be'
taken. Entries will be received
a. m.
The classifications list was re-
ported by Mrs. Ben Newman,
publicity committee chairman for
the show. And during the week
other committees of the Garden
Club, named by the club president
Mrs. Ralph Holter, were busy
with arrangements for what is
outlined to be by far the most
ambitions and complete such pro-
gram yet attempted here.
Entries are open to the public
and are not restricted to Garden
Club members, Olney lovers were
reminded this week.
The entries in the show, to be
staged in the Rotary Building, will
be in two main divisions: specimen
and decorative.
The classes in the two divisions
will be as follows:
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Evans, Alfred. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1946, newspaper, April 25, 1946; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1132710/m1/1/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.