The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1946 Page: 1 of 16
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WELCOME TO OLNEY, MEMBERS OF FORT BELKNAP REA CO-OP; WE’RE HAPPY TO BE YOUR HOST
The Olney Enterprise
THIS IS YOU* 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, OCT. 3, 1946
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN YOUNG CO
NUMBER 34
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Olney Host To Five-County REA Meeting Saturday
Kunkel Has
Champion
4-H Steer
James Kunkel, Olney club boy,
exhibited the steer that was ad-
judged grand champion Saturday
at the Young County 4-H Stock
Show held at Graham.
His championship calf weighed
820 pounds and was in the heavy
fat steer class in the county show.
It was bred by the League Ranch
in Knox County, and next Satur-
day will go in competition in the
light weight steer class at Dallas,
at the State Fair’s Junior Live-
stock Show.
Another James Kunkel entry, in
the light fat steer class at Graham,
placed eleventh, another was thir-
teenth.
Andrews, Allison Win
Jerry Ben Andrews of Olney
won a fifth place ribbon in light
fat steer competition, with his
steer.
And Paul Allison of Olney placed
second with an entry in the
Sears Roebuck Gilt Show held as
part of the Graham program.
“Young County boys and girls
this year brought some of the
highest quality calves and hags
that have been exhibited in the
county competition^” commented
Assistant County Agent Warren
Liner, who was in charge of the
4-H show sponsored by the Gra-
kam Chamber of Commerce.
Champion fat hog was exhibited
by Walter Gene Shepard of Gra-
ham, who will tafce his animals to
the State Fair, and champion sow
was shown by Perry Shepard of
Loving.
To District Show
Robert Abbott of Jean showed
the first place gilt in the Sears
show, and will take it to the dis-
trict show in Breckenridge Oct.
18 to compete for district honors
in the Sears program. All exhib-
itors there will receive prizes. First
and second place winners will get
registered heifers from Sears
Foundation.
Reserve champion steer was
shown by an outstanding Young
County Club girl, Jacque Donnell
of Eliasville. The calf was from
her father’s commercial herd, and
was champion of the light fat
steer class.
INVITATIONS TO MEMBERS—Manager Thomas Wilkinson
and staff members of the Fort Belknap REA office here send out
notices to about 1,000 farm families in five counties, telling them
of next Saturday’s seventh annual meeting of the REA co-opera-
tive in Olney. With Wilkinson in picture are Miss Oma Kent,
bookkeeper, and Mrs. Kate Reed, Cashier. (Photo by Lasater)).
CONFERENCE ON PROGRAM—Two officials of the Olney
Chamber of Commerce confer on plans to help entertain the 500
to 600 people expected to come here Saturday for the seventh an-
nual meeting of the Fort Belknap REA Co-operative. They are
President E. H. Griffin and Manager Worth L. Coffey, who had
charge of the chamber’s share of responsibilities connected with the
REA meeting. (Photo by Lasater).
Spring Creek Road Work Under Way With
Preparation to Lay Gravel Base, Route
May Be Ready for Travel This Winter
Lions Hear
Entertainers
Troupe performers of the Plunk-
ett Shows, which are here pre-
senting their show under auspices
of the American Legion post, were
entertainers for the Lions Club
program Tuesday.
Bernard Lunn was program
chairman, acting for Leroy Flem-
ing, who had been program head
for the day’s luncheon but was
unable to attend.
Lunn presented Mr. Plunkett,
head of the show, who in turn
presented Jerry Plunkett, singer,
who sang, “Sunny Side of the
Street” and “The Gypsy.” Miss
Carmen Davis of Big Spring played
the guitar and sang “Sioux City
Sue,” “Jail-house Blues” and “All
Alone.” Red Shrader, with the
troupe 12 years and recently dis-
charged from the Army after four
years of serving in the CBI the-
Incidentally Miss Donnell swept ater, played a piano number,
♦ The $77,000 project that will
hard-surface Spring Creek Road
west from Olney 10% miles had
started and was apparently pro-
gressing nicely this week, said
County Commissioner Jim Doyle
of Precinct 3.
Doyle said the roadbed was be-
ing prepared to receive the gravel
base. Gravel had not yet been
hauled, by midweek, he added.
Work began last week, said the
commissioner when a small crew
of workmen and some equipment
arrived. The contract to asphalt
first, second, and third places in
that class and a brother, George
Donnell, won fourth with his en-
try.
Four Steers Sold
Judge for the hog classes was
Gordon Rhodes of the Hog Buy-
ing Department of Swift & Com-
pany of Fort Worth. Mr. Riffle
of the Swift Company cattle buy-
ing department in Fort Worth
judged the fat steer classes.
Three members of the Young
County 4-H Club Council assisted
in arranging the exhibitors at the
shdw. These boys were Payne
Roye of Bunger, Jerrry Souther of
Graham and Wayne Nall of Liv-
ing.
Four of the heavy fat steers
were sold after the judging. These
steers were fed to exhibit at Dal-
las in the State Fair of Texas, but
girls are not eligible to show there
this year, so they sold their calves.
The Graham Mill bought the
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“Stardust.1
B. B. Bridges reported on the
purchase, by Lions, Rotarians and
the City of Olney, of a new piano
for the Rotary Building, at a cost
of $250.
Bill Hallman announced two ne-
gro football teams from Waxaha-
chie and Gainesville would be
brought here for a game Nov. 1.
Reagan Smothers
Grade School 45-0
Reagan Junior High School of
Wichita Falls, far heavier and
more experienved, had no trouble
with the Olney Grade School
eleven at Wichita Falls Wednes-
day afternoon.
They chalked up a 45-0 victory,
their second in as many games.
In their season opener Reagan
trounced Vernon.
Choat, Jerry Ed, Robertson Show
Grand Champion Sheep At Wichita
(For complete list of sheep
awards, turn to page 14.)
Three Olney sheep exhibtors,
one of them an 11-year-old 4-H
Club boy, walked away with the
top honrs of the Wichita County
Fair sheep show.
“Thick Set,” Shropshir§ ram en-
try of J. C. Robertson and Hamil-
ton Choat, was named grand
champion ram of the show.
Choat’s “Blue Gal” was named
grand champion ewe. Another
Choat ram was reserve champion,
and an entry by Robertson was
reserve champion female.
Robertson also brought home
five other first places and Choat
three other first places.
The Olney men’s animals com-
peted among 78 sheep, against
other entries • including Hamp-
shires, Shropshires, Suffolks, De-
laines and Rambouillets.
And 11-year-old Jerry Edd
Choat, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ham-
ilton Choat, really set the 4-H
Club sheep show afire. The boy,
who is , one of Assistant County
Agent Warren Liner’s outstanding
club boys, had the grand champion
ram and the grand champion ewe.
He also held honors in medium
and fine wool sheep, placing three
firsts and six second ribbons.
He came home, literally loaded
dov/n with ribbons, to groom his
sheep for entry, in the Fort Worth
Fat Stock Show next spring.
Incidentally, he will also take
to Fort Worth two beef calves.
Jerry Edd had intended to show
the calves at Graham last week-
end in the Young County 4-H
Club stock show, but had to can-
cel those plans because of his
trip to Iowa Park.
Veteran School
Class Launched
At Newcastle
A third vocational agricultural
class of the Young County Veter-
ans Vocational School got under
way Tuesday night, at Newcastle,
with 12 students.
A class in Olney now has 42
students and another at Graham
22 students.
To instruct the Newcastle vet-
erans who will receive the training
and benefit pay under the GI Bill,
top the stretch is held by Ernest Co-Ordinator M. J. Weaver of the
Lloyd of Fort .Worth.
Doyle expressed the belief there
is a good chance the route will be
completed and in use this winter.
Contract as let by the State High-
way Department allowed 100 work-
ing days.
For approximately five miles
from Olney west the drainage
structures are in, having been
put there when the project was
launched before the war under a
WPA program. From there west,
said Doyle, culverts and drainage
structures will have to be put in
as part of the present completion
job.
The completion of the road is
a project long sought by Doyle
and by the Olney Chamber of
Commerce.
school announced the employment
of a third teacher: Norman Jones.
Jones, a Loving resident, has
been teaching in Bryson, Jack
County. He is a 1943 graduate of
Texas Tech and served in the Navy.
More students are expected to
be added to the Newcastle group,
Weaver said. The class meets on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Holland Tunnel, connecting
New York and Jersey City, and
built under the Hudson River, is
the most expensive automobile)
road ever built in this country.
It is only 1.6 miles long, but cost
$48,000,000.
Subscribe for the Enterprise.
FFA, Homemaking Groups at High School
Here Plan Trip to State Fair at Dallas;
Outstanding Students to Receive Awards
Olney High School groups thisjWRR preceeding the awards and a
week planned trips to the State j Variety Show.
Fair at Dallas soon. J
His Future Farmers of America Judging of Junior steers, hogs
and poultry, educational exhibits
in the Poultry Building, a meat
identification contest by the Na-
tional Live Stock and Meat Board
in the Agricultural Building, and
the many entertainment facilities
of the State Fair will furnish ed-
ucation and fun for the groups.
boys will be taken by Andy Bag-
gett, vocational agriculture in-
structor and in charge of the local
FFA program, to Dallas Saturday,
when Youth Day is slated at the
Fair.
Exact number of boys who will
be able to make the trip is not
yet known, Superintendent J. D.
Fulton said Wednesday.
Girls Oct. 12
And on the following Saturday,
Oct. 12, Miss Inez Kiblinger’s Fu-
ture Homemakers students will go
in a group to the big Dallas show.
Plans for that trip were laid by
the students themselves at an ex-
ecutive meeting held Tuesday
night at the high school.
The Youth Day program this
weekend is expected by Fair offi-
cials to draw over 20,000 boys and
girls, according to report from
Dallas, from Ray Wilson, chairman
of the Junior Livestock and Agri-
culture committee.
Scrolls for 32
Highlight of the program is the
awarding Scrolls of Honor of the
State Fair to the 32 outstanding
4-H Club boys and girls and FFA
boys. The scrolls will be awarded
to the honored youth by R. L.
Thornton, president of the State
Fair. The program will be broad-
cast over KGKO at 1:00 p.m.
Other features of the day are
a free lunch to the young farmers
and farmerettes by the Dallas
Chamber of Commerce, an enter-
tainment program at noon by ra-
dio stations WFAA, KGKO and
Sixty-five per cent of the world’s
population live on farms.
In spiie of rising paper pri-
ces and operation costs that
have forced most newspapers
to make some advance in sub-
scription rates, the Enterprise
so far has been able to hold
its subscription price io the
former level. Also we have
been fortunate enough to se- .
cure a sufficient quantity of
newsprint to accept all new
subscriptions. But since our
wholesaler tells us we are io
receive another cut in paper
for 1947 we are not sure
whether this will be possible
many months more. A sub-
scriber planning io take the
Enterprise can, by subscribing
immediately, insure getting the
paper for the coming year.
Rates for the Enterprise are:..
In Young, Archer and Throck-
ion counties, $2 for one year;
$1.25 for six (months.
Outside the above counties,
$2.75 for one year, $1.50 for
six months.
REA SPEAKER — Congress-
man Ed Gossett, who is sched-
uled to make the chief address
Saturday before the Ft. Belk-
nap District REA meeting at
the Rotary Building here. The
congressman accepted an in-
vitation to come to Olney for
the meeting when it was tel-
ephoned to him by REA Mana-
ger Thomas Wilkinson.
Havran Cleaners
New Olney Firm
Olney’s newest firm opened this
week—the Havran Cleaners.
Located in a new building just
completed on West M&in Street
just west of Do-Drop Inn, the
firm’s opening now was made
possible by the arrival and in-
sallation of the new equipment
that will enable it to live up to
the firm’s motto—“better cleaning,
no extra cost,” said Mr. Havran.
He invited Olney people to vis-
it him at the new firm and
pledged prompt, courteous atten-
tion to orders.
$230,000 New
Loan Comes on
Sessions Eve
Olney this week prepared to be
host Saturday to 500 to 600 farm-
ers and ranchmen and their fami-
lies, from five counties of this
Northwest Texas area, members
of the Fort Belknap REA Co-op-
erative.
Saturday at the Rotary Building,
they will hold their seventh annu-
al meeting.
That attendance forecast was
made by Manager Thomas Wilkin-
son at the Fort Belknap headquar-
ters office here, after notices of
the meeting went out to the ap-
proximately 1,000 famililes served
in Young, Throckmorton, Archer,
Jack and Stephens counties.
To Hear Gossett
It would be the biggest attend-
ance yet recorded by an annual
Fort Belknap REA session here.
At least three things besides
the annual election of directors
and officers fanned interest in
the 1946 meeting.
One was the fact that Congress-
man Ed Gossett has accepted an
invitation to come here as chief
speaker for the program.
Another was the announcement
from Washington, on the eve of
the sessions, that a new $230,000
loan has been allocated the Fort
Belknap co-operative, which will
enable ah approximately 178-
mile extension program, bringing
rural electrific power to 454 more
farms and ranches.
40 Per Cent Finished
A third was the present 200-
mile extension project under way,
and which Wilkinson this week
estimated is now 40 per cent com-
pleted. It is extending the REA
lines to more rural homes in the
Bryson, Megargel, Woodson, Lusk,
Bunger, Eliasville, Loving, Jean,.
Red Top, Fort. Belknap, Padgitt
and Bitter Creek communities.
Entertainment plans for the 194$
program are being handled here
by the Olney Chamber of Com-
merce, with President E. H. Grif-
fin and Manager Worth L. Cof-
fey in charge.
Present officials of Fort Belknap
REA are: W. F. Bailey of Orth,,
piesident; C. C. Rogers of Elbert,
vice president; J. L. Castleman of
Olney, secretary-treasurer; direc-
tors, W. J. Kunkel and W. B.
Howard of Olney; H. W. Creel and
G. F. Furr of Newcastle; J. M.
Barnett of Loving; T. EL Ruther-
ford of Graham.
Other staff of the group includes
E. G. Thornton of Olney, attorney;
Wilkinson, manager.. Miss Oma
Kent, bookkeeper.. Mrs. Kate
Reed, cashier; E. C. Wainscott,
head linesman; Harrell Riggins,
assistant lineman; Rop Copeland,
co-ordinator; Joe E. Ward, con-
sulting engineer.
Scout Official to
Speak at Megargel
Thursday, Weekly
Carlos E. Baker of Wichita Falls,
Boy Scout executive, will speak
at Megargel High School next
Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m.
discussing “Youth Conservation.”
His appearance will be under aus-
pices of the 1933 Study Club of
Megargel and the club this week
invited the public to attend.
Try an Enterprise Want Ad.
P-TA Hallowe’en Carn
First Meeting Hears Eighth Graders
The annual Hallowe’en carnival three numbers), accompanied by
sponsored by the Olney Grade
School P.-T. A. was planned for
October 31 at a meeting of the
executive committee of the group,
held Monday.
And Tuesday the first general
meeting of the P-TA for the school
year was held at the school, with
students of the eighth grade on the
program.
Mrs. C. G. Butts, president,
called the organization to order
and presented Superintendent J.
D. Fulton, who offered prayer.
Mrs. Butts then presented Prin-
cipal F. R. Baker of the Grade
School, who had charge of the
program.
Eighth grader Walter (Bossy)
Bryan introduced Neil Cummings
and Anita Groves, who played a
piano duet. Richard Lunsford
played an accordion solo and the
Miss Frances Roberts on the piano.
Mrs. P. R. Gandy led the audi-
ence in singing, accompanied by
Mrs. Dudley Myers, and the group
sang “God Bless America” and
“The Eyes of Texas.”
Principal talk was given by Rev.
J. H. Wright, pastor of the Baptist
Church, who took as his topic
“Laying the Conerstone” and urged
that home and school work togeth-
er to lay a firm character foun-
dation for the young people of
today. He also pointed out that
the Christian character must bes
laid on the great spiritual cor-
nerstone, Jesus.
At a social hour held faterward,
cake and punch were served and
the cake was a “Texas birthday”
affair.
The next general PTA meeting
will be Nov. 6, with the executiye
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eighth gi;ade charol group sang'board meeting the preceding day.
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Evans, Alfred. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1946, newspaper, October 3, 1946; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1132855/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.