The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 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 CENT TOWN
VOLUME XXXVI
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT FOR OLNEY
OLNEY ENTERPRISE THURSDAY, AUG. 22, 1947
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN YOUNG CO
NUMBER 28
Olney Farmers Hail General Rains Ending 51-Day Drouth
3OLNEY MEN BUY BURGESS
INTEREST IN CATTLE AUCTION
For the first time in 11 years*
of existence, the Olney cattle auc-
tion this week was a strictly
a home-owned affair.
Roy Roach, T. Hutchings and
Jack Roach announced the purchase
of the interest formerly owned by
Bill Burgess of Graham. Jack
Roach has previously held a part
interest in the auction.
Bringing the institution into
full Olney ownership was hailed
by Manager Worth L. Coffey of
the Chamber of Commerce, in be-
half of local business men, in a
brief talk to the cattlemen and
buyers assembled for the Tuesday
auction.
'Tarming Basic"
“The business men of Olney al-
’ Ways have been aware of the great
value and importance of the cat-
tleman to this area,” Coffey said.
“They are keenly interested in
the farmer and his welfare—be- >
cause we know that in the long
run and over the years, farming
and ranching are the basic in-
dutries of Young County.
“The effort behind the holding
of this weekly cattle auction is to
bring buyers to Olney and insure
that the Olney area cattleman • can
get the highest prices for his
Stock.”
The Tuesday auction, first sale
under purely local management,
made a good bid to back that ef-
fort, for the price paid for top
quality fat calves was $16.20, or
70 cents per 100 pounds above the
top Fort Worth quotation that day.
Receipts 63
Sixty-three head of cattle were
brought to the sale despite the
iact rains caused the absence of
several loads that had been plann-
ed. All animals sold. Most were
purchased by a buyer for the Bur-
leson Packing Company .of Wichi-
ta Falls.
The prices paid were:
Good and choice fat calves, *$14
to $16.20; common and medium
calves, $11 to $14; culls, $9.50 to
$11; stocker calves, $11 to $14.50;
good slaughter cows, $10 to $12;
common cows $9 to $10; canner
cows, $6 to $8; bulls, $10.50 to
$12.50.
No hogs were brought this week.
VA Officer Will
Be Here Tuesdays
Earl* L. Jolly, Veterans Adminis-
tration officer in charge of the
newly established Young County
office, will visit Olney every Tues-
day and be at the City Hall to
confer with any Olney veterans
who may need help, he said this
week.
If it proves necessary, he will
add . other regular visits to that
schedule to handle Olney needs,
he added.
Jolly’s county office is in Gra-
ham, in the Boaz Building. He
said he “is on 24-hour call” if
veterans need him.
BABY SON BORN TO
CAPT. AND MRS. WRIGHT
Born, to Capt. and Mrs. R. E.
Wright, at the Hamilton Hospital
Saturday, a baby boy, who has
been named William Randall.
Mother and son are reported doing
nicely.
Try Enterprise Want Ads.
HAILS CATTLEMAN—Man-
ager Worth L. Coffey, speaking
at the first sale of the 'Olney
livestock auction under its
“home-owned” status Tuesday,
praised the ranchman and
farmer as the basic support of
this city and trade area.
Run-off
Vote Near
The Precinct 3 county commis-
sioner race, only run-off in Young
County, will be settled at the
polls this Saturday.
Interest in the race between J.
A. (Jim ) Doyle, incumbent, and
Philip Larimore is expected to
bring out a heavier vote in this
precinct than for the other sec-
tions of the county.
However, the bitterly fought
run-off in the governor’s race
between Beauford Jester and Ho-
mer P. Rainey has caused specu-
lation that the county’s total vote
Saturday will be higher than a
run-off election without a general
county race run-off would ordina-
rily produce.
Cubs Den Sets Open House and Silver Tea
Date for Next Tuesday; Groups Invited
The Cubs Den’s open house and
silver tea, at which Olney can see
the youth group’s new quarters
upstairs in the City Hall, has been
set for next Tuesday evening, from
8 to 11 o’clock.
Originally it was set for later
in the week, but it was moved up
as final plans for the open house
were completed. Billy Jim Gear-
heart, Lila Whetstone, Joe Brock,
and Jacque Duggan are to do the
mural paintings for the hall, with
the help and advice of Mrs. Dick
Dailey.
The committee in charge of -the
so that the Olney High School ^program, representing the Den and
football candidates, who will leave its adult Council, are:
Wednesday for their Mineral Wells
encampment, can be present.
Committees in Charge
The following cimmittees have
Members of the Cubs Den this charge of the silver tea:
W. JV. (Bill)Reed
Succumbs Here
To Long Illness
W. N. (Bill) Reed, 46, resident
of Young County for the past 40
years and formerly an oil field
worker, died of a long illness at
his home here Tuesday night.
Reed had been ill 10 years.
He was born in Wayne County,
111., on May 15, 1900, and was
brought to Young County by his
family six years later.
He was last employed by the
King Oil Company of Wichita
Falls.
Surviving are his widow, who
was Miss Kate Temple before their
marriage here in 1921; a son,
Billy Temple Reed, at the U. S.
Naval Station at Great Lakes, 111.;
two daughters, Misses Betty Jean
4-H Girl Style
Show to Feature
HD Rally Day
A three-girl style show- and dress
review will be a program feature
for Saturday’s Young County Home
Demanstration Club Rally at Gra-
ham
Appearing in it will be three
Young County 4-H Club girls who
are competing for the right to en-
ter . the state 4-H dress-making
contest at College Station.
The three, Betty Jo Rutherford
of the Indian Mound Club, Char-
lctta Robinson of Jean, member
of the Indian Mound club and
Edna Reed of the Newcastle club,
recently completed their dresses
and gave a review at Graham at
which Mrs. D. M. Knox, Mrs. B.
Andrews and Mrs. G. R. Schu-
mann acted as judges. No ranking
was given the three entries, but
suggestions as to the models were
given by the judges and on the
basis of that advice the girls have
been doing fresh work on their
dress entries.
The winner of the state contest
at College Station will get a five-
day trip to Chicago this year, Miss
Lucille King, county home demon-
stration agent, pointed out.
At Saturday’s Rally Day, to be
held at the Graham Pump Sta-
week were urged by President
Corky Evans to be at the hall the
entire time during the open house,
to welcome parents and other
guests.
Special invitations are issued to
Olney civic groups to visit and in-
spect the Den quarters, it was an-
nounced by Mrs. A. D. Cummings,
chairman of the invitations com-
mittee. The groups urged to be
present include the Lions and Ro-
tary clubs, the City Council, Olney
pastors, public school officials and
the School Board* the women’s
study clubs and the parents of
Cubs Den members and prospective
members.
Funds donated by visitors during
the silver tea will go to purchase
further equipment for the Den.
The Den will not be open for
members Friday evening because
of the revival in progress at the
Crops, Grass
Helped; Heat
Ifate Broken
Invitations—Mrs. A. D. Cum-
mings, chairman; Mrs. Gene Evans,
Mrs. Ralph Holter, Donna Shreeve,
Bobby Jane Atchley, Johnny Lois
Neal, Jacque Duggan and Jamie
Holter.
Refreshments—Mrs. C. V. Mar-
gan, chairman; Mrs. John Turner,
Mrs. J. H. Hollis, Betty Jane Hol-
lis, Nancy Morgan, Mildred Buck
and Mrs. Hugh Duggan.
Decorations—Mrs. Glen Shreeve,
chairman; Bob Myers, Bob Craig,
Doris Sipes, Frances Gordon, Dor-
othy Butts, Mrs. Henry Craig, and
Betty Best.
Entertainment—Mrs. Dudley My-
ers, chairman; Genette Evans and
Lee Irons.
Register and Silver Offering—
Mrs. Frank Butler, chairman, Peg-
gy Butler and Lila Whetstone.
Reception (Den officers and
building committee)—Mrs. Clester
Methodist Church, but will be Evans, chairman; Mrs. Henry Craig,
open Saturday evening. | A. D. Cummings, Den President
Painting of a mural on the wall Corky Evans, Vice President Billy
of the new Den went on this week,1 (Continued on last page)
California Garment Maker Studying
Locating Here; C-C Asks Worker List
and Kathleen Reed of Olney; a
brother, Homer Reed of Temple, I tion, club women will bring lunch
and two sisters, Mrs. Bill La- baskets, and join in a day’s pro-
nette of Troy and Mrs. H. S. S^m in which all home demon-
Hooper of Fort Worth. - jstration clubs will present stunts,
Funeral services are set for 3 j skits and readings.
o’clock Friday afternoon and will I ____
be held in the Church of Christ, (.
conducted by Rev. J. E. Mullins,
Valley Mills minister. The funeral
arrangements and burial are un-
der charge of Lunn Funeral Home.
M. B. KILCREASES ARE
PARENTS OF DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Kilcrease are
the parents of a baby girl, born at
the Hamilton Hospital Saturday.
She has been named Patricia Dar-
lene. Mother and daughter are
doing nicely.
Mrs. J. C. Sharp and sons, Jim-
my and Jerry of Grayville, 111.,
are visiting relatives in Olney,
and her mother, Mrs. Bill Cole of
Graham.
DR. AND MRS. WOODS
ARE GRANDPARENTS
Dr. qjnd Mrs. D. R. Woods re-
cently became “proud grandpar-
ents,” with the arrival in San
Antonio of little David Edward
Ritchey, who was born to Capt.
and Mrs. W. H. Ritchey. Mrs.
Woods had been in San Antonio
with her daughter several weeks,
Dr. Woods flew there and also
came back by plane. Mother and
son are doing nicely, said the
Woods’ on their return here, and
piobably will be Olney visitors
early in September, when Captain
Ritchey, who is stationed at Fort
Sam Houston, expects his Army
discharge.
M. I WEAVER OF OLNEY IS NAMED COORDINATOR
FOR YOUNG COUNTY VETS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
A California garment maker is
studying Olney as a possible loca-
tion for a brassiere factory, the
Chamber of Commerce disclosed
this week.
Thq firm is Hollywood-Maxwell
Garment Company of Hollywood,
Calif., and Stanley Hertz, a field
, man for the concern, last week
I visited both Olney and Graham to
consider possible foctory sites and
the availability of local labor.
The amount of local labor inter-
ested in joining the factory payroll
will very probably decide where
the Texas factory is located, the
Olney chamber officials believe.
Manager Worth L. Coffey report-
ed that a committee was named,
at the chamber’s directors meeting
last Friday evening, to work on
the problem of finding a suitable
building the garment concern could
rent. The structure must be at
least 50x100 feet, Hertz told the
Oiney men.
Heading the committee is C. G.
Nixon, and its members are A. A.
Cooper, Harry Bettis, W. L. Hall-
man and D. R. Criswell.
Public announcement of the ef-
fort to bring the garment factory
to Olney was withheld by the
chamber officials but was made
this week after Graham newspapers
last week carried stories of the
Graham work toward bringing the
plant there.
Coffey stressed that the Cham-
ber of Commerce is anxious to
know the number of local women
who might be interested in work-
ing at the factory. He said they
would be on a 40-hour five-day
week, and while Hertz did not
disclise wage scales he promised
they would be at “prevailing
rates.”
Coffey asked that women want-
ing to be listed as possible em-
ployes telephone the Chamber of
Commerce, No. 336, to give their
names.
M. J. Weaver field staff super-
visor for the Fort Belknap REA
Co-operative here and a former
manager of the co-op, has been
named co-ordinator for the pro-
jected Young County Veterans
Vocational School. «,
The county committee appointed
by the Young County School Board
to conduct preliminary surveys
and set up the school, met Tues-
day at Graham and picked Weaver
from among four applicants.
He will immediately start part-
time work, helping with organi-
zation of the GI Bill program ex-
pected to be in operation by Oc-
tober, said Manager Worth L.
Coffey of the Olney Chamber of
Commerce, a member of the coun-
ty committee.
The co-ordinator’s post is ten-
tatively set up as a $3,600-per-
year job in the basis of present
information from the Veterans
Administration.
Teacher* Sought
A call for application from per-
sons qualified to be teachers in
the vocational school which will
instruct former servicemen in ag-
riculture trades and distributive
jobs such as salesmanship and of-
fice work, was issued by the
committee. The applications are
to be filed with Weaver or with
the committee, of which County
Judge Raymon Thompson is the
chairman.
Weaver, before going into the
rural elctrification work, was for
21 years school teacher, principal
and superintendent. He was su-
perintendent at Seymour before
coming to Olney. Schools under
him, during that period, put in
operation two vocational agricul-
tural courses and the Young Coun-
ty committee Tuesday stressed
that experience as a qualification
for the local co-ordinatorship.
To date Coffey and Ccxunty
Agent G. R. Schumann told the
committee at its session, 148 re-
plies have been received in a mail
poll taken of Young County vet-
erans to determine the number of
prospective trainees.
Veterans' Choices
O£ that number, 82 are interes-
ted in training in distributive ed-
ucation, 50 in farming, 16 in other
training for trades.
“The school will be set up as
quickly as veterans can be certi-
fied, through the Veterans Admin-
istration,, as eligible for the GI
Bill benefit payments while re-
ceiving training,” Coffey said.
He urged that veterans contact
their Young County VA officials,
or Weaver or the committee, to
begin the process of certification
as quickly as possible.
When the County Committee will
meet to consider instrustor appli-
cations is not yet known. One
teacher will be employed for ev-
ery 20 students, Agriculture teach-
es will probably be paid from
$3,100 to $3,400 annually, distrib-
utive education and trades in-
structors from $3,200 to $4,000 an-
nually, in the Young County pro-
ject.
Funeral Held for
Challis Bloodworth
Challis Bloodworth, brother of
Mrs. W. B. Howard and a nephew
of J. M. Bloodworth, died at
John Seely Hospital, Galveston,
where he underwent a major op-
eration last week. Funeral ser-
vices were held at Jacksboro last
Saturday, and J. M. Bloodworth
and several other from Olney at-
tended.
Challis Bloodworth was a resi-
dent of Glen Rose. Burial was at
the old family home cemetery,
Lynn Creek Cemetery, northeast
of Jermyn.
Mrs. A. D. Cummings had as
guests her sister, Mrs. A. B. Hill-
iard of Tulia, and both of them
went to Denton to visit an uncle,
Henry Stewart. Mrs. Hilliard has
now returned home to Tulia.
Olney area farmers were jubilant
this week, after rains, general over
this section, ended what had been
ttrmed “the longest Young County
drouth since 1918.”
A period of 51 days without
mositure was ended by the rain
Tuesday.
The fall totalled 1.22 inches at
Lake Olney, reported Lake Super-
intendent Luther Adkins, and
brought an approximately two-'
foot rise to the lake.
Water in Tanks
In Olney the rainfall was about
the same. It broke the protracted
heat wave and residents the mid-
dle of the week were cheered by
cool nights and partly cloudy days.
West of here the rainfall ap-
parently was heaviest.
Mosture up to three inches was
reported on farm and ranches in
western Young County and stock-
men said many tanks were filled.
It was a boon to the cattlemen,
who had begun hauling water for
livestock.
Pastures would make fresh graz-
ing from the rains. Late-planted
maize would benefit . and cotton
production was expected to be
increased materially.
Season for Fields
The mosture was sufficient in
many sections to put some sea&m
in the ground for the fall grain
planting that many grower will
start in September, farmers said.
Only item on the debit side jof
the ledger from the rainfall was;
the outlook for an increased in.
cotton insect infestation, already
severe in south and eastern Young
County.
From Proffitt the Enterprise cor-
respondent reported Tuesday that
“tanks are full and creeks run-
ning.”
HEADS COMMITTEE—C. G.
Nixon, Olney banker, heads a
Chamber of Commerce com-
mittee seeking a building suit-
able for a garment factory in
an effort to bring to this city
a branch of a Califoriia firm.
Mrs. S. J. Marcell and her grand-
son Phillip left Wednesday for
Radner, Pa., where they will
visit a daughter of Mrs. Marcell,
Mrs. Kenneth Miller. Accompany-
ing them on the trip are Mrs.
Gene Johnson and Mrs. Lucy Ran-
some of Dallas.
Subscribe for the Enterprise.
Youth Fellowship
Has Meeting and
Elects Officers
Incoming officers of the Youth
Fellowship, Olney group repre-
senting young people of the
churches, have been elected, head-
ed by Genette Evans as president.
The fellowship had its meeting
at the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, and Clifton Key gave tbe
devotional. A sing-sing was held
before the election of officers.
Jerry Hill was chosen vice
president, Rose Ann Cummings
secretary-treasurer and Billy Bur-
ris reporter. Mrs. Clester Evans
was re-elected sponsor by the-
fellowship.
Games were played after the-
business meeting, and a social hour
held.
The next meeting will be the
third Thursday in September, at
the Methodist Church.
BABY BOY BORN TO
MR. AND MRS. ANDREWS
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Andrews
are the parents of a baby boy,
born Friday at the Hamilton Hos-
pital. He has been named Charles
Garry Andrews. Mother and son
are reported doing nirely.
Try Enterprise Want Ads.
Pioneer Couple of Area Celebrate
Their 99th Birthday at Megarg el
By CHARLIENE SNODGRASS
Enterprise Correspondent
A pioneer couple of this area,
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Parsons of
Megargel, recently observed their
SOth birthdays with an open house
for family and friends that jointly
celebrated both events.
Parsons, who was an early day
West Texas cowboy and has been
in various phases of the ranching
business all his life, reached the
age of 90 on July 28.
Mrs. Parsons’ 90th birthday was
on Aug. 15.
To their friends in Megargel
they are “Uncle George” and
“Aunt Hannah,” and they are still
active, for their ages. She still does
her own housework, at their Me-
gargel home. Uncle George still
rode his horse, an old favorite
mount, until about a year ago when
the animal suffered a broken leg
and had to be killed.
Parsons was born in Missouri,
but in 1869, when he was a boy
13 years old. he came to Texas and
to Waxahachie. He lived in Ellis-
and Johnson counties until he
was 21 years old, then came west.
In 1877 he moved to Stephens
County, in 1905 came to Young
County, first making his home in
Graham. He came to Megargel in
1910.
A first wife, who was Miss Su-
sie Lawrence, died in 1921.
In 1929 he married Mrs. Hannah
Creigh of Breckenridge and they
lived about two years in that town,
before coming to their present
home in Megargel..
Uncle George is a charter mem-
ber of the Cowboy Reunion at
Stamford.
Aunt Hannah is a native of
Tarrant County. She was 15 years
old when her family moved to
Stephens County, and she lived
there until she came with Un
George to Megargel.
He has two living children,
' Parsons of Megargel and Mrs.
|j. Sharp of Wichita Falls, and
'number of grandchildren.
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Evans, Alfred. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1946, newspaper, August 22, 1946; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1132749/m1/1/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.