The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 1930 Page: 1 of 8
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A Constructive Newspaper for a Constructive Peo pie
NUMBER 6
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
Fifth Annual Fete Te8t“? ,?an? wOn
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Chest Drive Here
Business Revival
one-half
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not
has been working
ly reached by a chamber of com- poster Campaign conducted by the
merce in a town the size of Electra.
Lewis spoke brief-
ly in behalf of fire prevention and bock. The actual number of boos|..
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immediate surviving
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but
ended only after
across the double
ers that will accompany the West-
erners has not as yet been deter-
introduced
pep squad
and songs
Saturday
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among the
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ELECTRA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1930
Waggoner Refinery
To Almost Double
Daily Crude Capacity
meeting of the
at which time
Sam Braswell,
was present.
R. S. Cox were
Seventy-five posters, all showing
real merit in workmanship, artistic
arrangement and in originality were
entered in the Community Chest
ci de as to the winners. The addi-
tional awards were provided to meet
the difficulty. Miss Eura Wilkin-
son, supervisor of art in the public
schools, directed the work of the
pupils and rendered valuable assist-
ance in securing co-operation of
teachers and pupils in the contest.
Winning posters have been on ex-
hibition since Saturday in various
show windows in the downtown dis-
trict, through courtesy of the local
merchants.
numbers:
(Pete Buys); ‘‘I Want to
‘Dancing With Tears
‘Down South,” “Swing-
in a Hammock,” and a banjo
specialty number by Mr. Mas-
B. M. Dinsmore, superintend-
df Electra schools,
dispelled the
run down.
sowing of
for another
but pastures
the United
being all that have
during the existence
body, a record rare-
Eliminating all the usual prelim-
inaries of speechmaking and with
no social function in the way of
lunchceon or reception, the workers
for the annual Community Chest
drive assembled at the First Chris-
tian church, Wednesday morning to
receive final instructions from G.
J. Price, chairman of the campaign,
committee. One hundred and ninety-
three persons had been asigned
places on the committees and one
hundred and eighty were present at
the roll call on assignment of ter-
ritory.
The work was well under way by
ten o’clock and is being carried on
systematically. The members of the
charity board expressed themselves
as being optimistic over the out-
come despite the financial depres-
sion prevailing in the city and sur-
rounding communities, but all were
agreed that there had never been
more earnestness exhibited by work-
ers than in this one.
$2,500 is the goal set, and this
amounted will be needed in order to
meet the most distressing needs of
the city’s poor. The only outside
expenditure is that of caring for
Electra children under the care of
the Wichita County Children’s Aid
Society. The money for local char-
ity is spent in Electra, the workers
were told, and this should be stress-
ed in seeking help for the chest
from local business men.
Reports from committees at the
end of the day indicated that $1000
had been raised. A number of out-
side of town pledges are expected
which would possibly account for
half of the amount needed. Work-
ers again got under the burden
Thursday morning despite the brisk |
norther which blew up early in the
day.
Her
and
her
she
will be one of the features of the
affair, which is expected to draw a
large crowd from that and surround-
ing neighborhoods. A number of
C. of C. To Provide
Program For Fete
At Elliott School
A largo crowd went from the
Electra Baptist church to Wichita
Falls
meeting
six inches of rain during the pre-
vious week began to overflow by
noon Sunday. Water at the City
Lake began to go over the spillway
at midnight Sunday. Bus schedules
were demoralized, the pavement be-
tween Electra and Wichita Fails
was coated with water in several
places and the underpass under the
railroad was filled with water, cut-
ting off traffic in the Vernon di-
rection. Considerable damage was
done in Wichita Falls and other sec-
tions of the state. No great amount
of loss was sustained, however, from
the high water in this immediate
vicinity. The Red River was out of
banks Monday and Tuesday, but
growing crops were not affected by
the rise, it was said. Lake Kemp
and Diversion Dam were both at
high water stage. Additional show-
ers fell here Tuesday morning
amounting to twenty-three one hun-
dredths of an inch but Tuesday af-
ternoon the sunshine
clouds and waters had
Cotton picking and
grain will be delayed
week, farmers report,
will be greatly benefited by the
rainfall. The rain fell slowly and
with the exception of cotton already
on the ground, the staple was
seriously damaged.
Volkart Lease
N. E. of City
TIGERS SEEK SECOND VICTORY
ON LOCAL ATHLETIC FIELD
limely ridiculous. His interpretation
of “Christ Before Pilate” led the
audience to heights of tragedy, and
his “World War Reminiscences of
the Half-wit” brought forth gales
of laughter, while his histrionic a-
ibility was fully
Brook’s
F. G.
received
Electra Rotarians enjoyed an un-
usually good concert program at
their regular noon luncheon meeting,
Friday, at the Armilda Hotel. Philip
Broadwell and George F. . LeBus
were in charge of the entertainment
features and presented the B-Flat
orchestra, directed by H. W. Mas-
ten, in a program featuring the
following numbers: march, “The
Rotarian1
Be Happy,’
In My Eyes,
ing
solo
ten.
ent
members of the football
who gave the school yells
in behalf of the game
between the Tigers and
ita Falls Coyotes.
President Gordon M. Douglas pre-
sided over an executive session of
the club immediately following the
luncheon meeting.
Enforcing a long-forgotten ordi-
against minors being allowed to
roam the streets at will’ at night, i
it is reported that Mayor E. E.
Wheeler has instructed officers to |
have the siren at the city hall 1
sounded each night at nine-thirty I
o’clock, and all children found on the I
streets after that time without legal!
excuse will be taken to the city
hall. |
A representative of The News
endeavored to secure a statement
from Mayor Wheeler Wednesday but
was unable to get in touch with
him, however, Night Officer Walter
Suttle said he had been instructed
to warn all children against loaf-
ing on the streets after 9:30 p. m.
demonstrated
“Let me live not in
house by the side of the road,
walk with the passing throng.”
record and in securing lower insur-
ance rates. He paid tribute to the
local press for their co-operation in
behalf of the fire department.
Dr. Graham complimented
body for its civic activities and
pecially praised their efforts
providing free milk to undernour-
ished children. He also made a
splendid talk on “The Constitution”
and the tenets of Lionism.
Neal M. Sparks reported having
recently attended a
Pampa Lions Club,
District Governor
head of District T,
C. W. Coffey and
named as committee to provide the
entertainment for the next meeting.
The executive board of the Elec-
tra Chamber of Commerce finally
passed its opinion on Committee
Referendum No. 56, as submitted to
the body by the United States Cham-
ber of Commerce with headquarters
at Washington, D .C., during the
past week, and forwarded a nega-
tive vote to the proper officials. The
referendum referred to related <.o
“Commodity Exchange Trade.” The
resolutions contained therein were
not in accordance with ideas re-
garding the matter as held
members of the local body,
ports from the local Chambei' of
Commerce show that the Electra
chamber fas registered a vote in
each of the last eighteen questions
submitted by referendum vote to lo-
cal units throughout
States. These
been submitted
of the Electra
B.
drilling
to
OIL MEET
AT TULSA, OKLA.
Chamber Opposes
Referendum No. 56
Mrs. Harley Snyder, executive
secretary of the Wichita County
Children’s Aid Society, announced
Friday the names of the newly
elected officers and directors of the
organization for 1930-31. They are
as follows:
President, J. W. Akin; vice presi-
dent, the Rev. W. D. Bratton; treas-
urer, Roscoe Staton; one-year di-
rectors, J. W. Akin, Rev. W. D.
Bratton, J. B. Marlow and Mr®
Robert P. Hall of Electra; two-yeai
directors, J. P. Marrs, W .P. Kill
ingsworth, A. A. Spencer and Jame.
O’Donohoe of Iowa
year directors, Roscoe
ard Renfro, Mrs. T.
and I. E. Harwell.
three
How-'1*10 manutacture
RecftC
LOCAL OIL M\N FLIES
TO EXPOSITION AT Tl LS \
Dr. W. II. Ogden, member of the
Parmley-Ogden clinic staff, went :o
Plainview, Tuesday, to attend the.
annual meeting of the Panhandle
District Medical Association
there Tuesday and Wednesday.
In Poster Contest
Community Chest
dinner
now 3,500 be served at a nominal sum for
» new improvements are
and new stills and equip-
ment installed, 3,000 barrels of ad-
ditional crude oil will be utilized in
of the celebrated Kloctra business men and their fam-
expeet to attend the affair.
P. Sheldon, Eleitra oil opera-
attended the International C’d
Friday He
of Rotary Club Is
Held Friday Night
C.
tor,
Exposition at Tulsa, ______v
held made the tr.p by plane from Wich-
j ita Falls and return.
Curfew Law To Be
Invoked Here, Report
Two and eighty-eight one hun-
dredths inches of rain fell here
Saturday night and Sunday, and all
I streams and lakes having already
brought in exactly one year teen filled bank full with nearly
Def 1K find whinh madp more to:..
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a).
Electra Baptists
Hear Noted Speaker
at Wichita Falls
24 Years of Service Has
Built Circulation*
Published Thursday of
Each Week
Mr. and
and Mrs. .. ________ _______
Saturday from Tulsa, where they I Pjant.and in the Waggoner pasture
v ~ -ii.____i i ii i i . nil -finlrlc frnm tvhinh fho nrnrlll**-
L. L. Adkins and Mrs.
Hardcastle of this city
word Tuesday of the death at her i grade,
home early that morning in Wich- J —
ita Falls, of their* sister,
L. Dooley, age 60. T’
?, were able to attend the
Charity Bureau of the Electra Cham-
ber of Commerce, last week. Prizes
were awarded as follows: first prize,
) $3, Margaritte Jones, low seventh
i grade; second, $1, Hughrene Cul-
* ; third,
■ $1, Loma Lee Richardson, low sev-
enth grade; fourth, $1, Eloise Wil-
• liams, high sixth grade; fifth, 50
| cents, Louise Williams, low fourth
Tuesdax. to attend a district
held in the interest of the
campaign Among notea
appearing on the program
George W. Truett, Dalia®;
McKinley Norman, Quanah;
lUrs White and Burnett of the state
C /nu.-sion board
C-7
“Three-D” products, giving Electra d’cs
a refining plant which w*ll use 6.-
500 barrels of oil per day.
The building operations and the
subsequent increase in takings of
crude oil will be of inestimable ben-
Mrs. Ed Forbes and Mr.]eflt to Electra because of the in-
T. P. Nelson returned Icrcase in lhe payroll both at the
’ ‘ ....... ' -e
had attended the annual Oil E*<-'oiI fie!ds from which the produe-
position. Ition be drawn.
B-FIat Orchestra
Gives Program at
Rotary Meeting
5?
$
I DR. V. IL OGDEN ATTENDS
DISTRICT ASSOCIATION
Everts et al, No. 1, A. Volkart, I
’ subdivision No. 309, Waggoner Col-!
ony lands, is reported to be pre-
One of the largest crowds ever Paring to test sand found, below!
assembled for a banquet in Electra ] 1900 feet. This well is east of the >
was present Friday evening at theI Everts-Jamison-Sheldon producers on
Armilda Hotel, when Electra Rotary tbe same tract, the P5eaiier wh^c“ I
Club tendered its fifth annual fete was j” .
•to the faculty of Electra public aS<>, Oct* 15» and which made more
schools, members of the'school board than 300 barrels a day The pool
and guests ’s l°cated nine and one-half miles
Gordon M. Douglas, president of northeast of the city and was the
the club, acted as master of cere-1 scene of considerable activity last
monies. G. F. LeBus offered the (winter.
invocation after the assembly had | R. R. Clark is drilling below 2000
I feet on his semi-wildcat test on the
J. J. Cabe estate, four and
miles northeast of Electra.
George Proctor No. 4,
Honaker, CM&R survey, is
below 600 feet with a spudder ma-
chine.
the
was
?.r.fiente i J- B. Adkins, Hamlin; two sisters,
R. M. Everett, Hebron,
are
rel-
homes was stressed in an address
made Thursday at the Armilda
Hotel by Frank Cripliver, president
of the Wichita Falls Lions Club.
Mr. Cripliver was guest of the lo-
cal Lions Club at its regular noon
luncheon, and he urged his hear-
ers to take immediate steps toward
relieving the unemployment situa-
tion by having needed improvements
made, thus giving impetus to busi-
ness and improving the morale of
the citizenship of the community.
The club voiced its approval of such
a plan, and E. V. Haltom, H. T. S.
Totten and J. M. Hemby were
named as committee on arrangement
for a concerted movement in that
direction.
“Prairie Flower,” was the open-
ing song, and F. M. Baker offered
the invocation. Visitors introduced
included Mr. Cripliver and Dr. R.
H. Graham, Wichita Falls, District
Governoi* of Texas Lions Clubs for
District E; Rotarian W. D. Cross,
and Joe Cotter Davidson, small son
of Tibn Davidson of Electra.
President G. J. Gilles presided
over the business session, during
which F. M. Baker, chairman of the
free milk committee, reported that
•twelve children were being provid-
ed free milk through the courtesy
of the club and others would pos-
sibly be added to the list later. It
was decided to postpone the annual
Lions
193i.
No formal program was presented condition*
but members of the Electra Volun-i
teer Fire Department made a dem-}
onstration on fire prevention. Fire;
Commissioner W. D. Cross was in-
troduced and he in turn introduced
Jesse Cox, chief, Albert Moore, T.
E. Lewis and W. H. Harris, ex-
ecutives of the volunteer firemen’s
association. Mr.
Arrangements have been made
this week for the Mercantile Bureau
of the Electra Chamber of Com-
merce and Agriculture to provide
entertainment features for a fete to I
be given at the Elliott school build-*
ing, Friday night, Oct. 17, by the
Baptist Missionary Society of that
superintendent. The ca-community. A bounteous
the plant is i
Work is now under way which
will almost double the capacity of
the Waggoner Refining Company,
plant here, according to W. T. Wag- j
goner, Jr.,
pacity of ,------ -----
barrels of crude oil per day, and benefit of^ the parsonage fund,
I when the
j completed
Stidham, members of the
board, and then* wives. Principals,
supervisors and faculty members [
were introduced, the teachers here
for the first time this year were
given special recognition. I
Entertainment features included
dance numbers by little Miss Lucille
Hodge of this city, and vocal solos
by Mrs. Waye Holmes of Wichita
Falls; Mrs. F. R. Collard of Wich-
ita Falls played Mrs. Holmes’ ac-
companiment.
F. C. McClung, director of
Wichita Falls Little Theatre,
the principal speaker,
a program which varied from sa J Mesdames k
cred and extreme pathos to the sub- ■ and F G Hardaistle, Electra'
Another triumph over then* tra-*
ditional rivals, the Wichita Falls
high school Coyotes, added to their
record, the Electra Tigers are turn-
ing their attention to the game with.
I the Lubbock Westerners on the lo-
cal athletic field next Saturday af-
I ternoon at 2:30 o’clock. This game
1 will undoubtedly decide the real
Rejuvenation* of business by means of the Tjgers and will give
of a concerted Xnovement in repair-1 th(?m an opportunity to “shut up”
ing, remodeling and repainting of th(J neighboring dopesters, who have
been rating the local squad com-
parable to nothing. It is admitted
that the Westerners will present a
team more experienced than the
Tigers, but the mentors have been
working the squad hard this week
in preparation to block the versatile
Lubbock attack.
Previous to the game Saturday,
the Electra backfield men had been
clicking off in grand fashion on the
offense and the forward wall could
be depended upon t to open holes for
the charging backs, but after the
initial period of the game Saturday,
against the Coyotes, the squad did
not appear so impressive in this
phase of the game. Coach Harvey
Stanford has been devoting much of
his time this week in ironing out a
presentable offense to put against
the Westerners.
After reading Wichita Falls’ ac-
counts of the Tiger-Coyote game,
one would judge that the strong
gale blowing from the east merely
sailed the Tigers across the goal
for the winning counter. Something
did blow them over, but it was
something more than a wind—it was
a charging spurt that riddled the
Coyote line and
the ball landed
chalk line.
Coach Stanford
the gridsters hard this week in prep-
aration for the Westerners, and if
Relative of Local
Citizens Dies At
pepper high seventh grade;
WlCmta r ailS si Loma Lee Richardson. Io
urged co-operation of the club and
of the citizens of Electra in assist-
ing in giving Electra a good fire mfried.
The Electra high school pep squad
under the direction of Miss Ethel
Varnell, will be present and if pep
can win the game, the Tigers should
be the victors. The high school
band, with E. L. Nichols as leader,
will also be on hand to lend their
aid of peppy music to boost the
Electrans.
i The exact line-up for the Tigers
I is uncertain, but following is the
probable starting line-up: Captain
Aubrey Smith, quarterback; . Coye
Sandefer and Pete Delashaw, half-
backs; Cloyd Smith, fullback; Monty
' McDannald, center; Brooks Adams
and Leonard Curfman, guards; Jo-s
Smith and Horace Birdsong, tackles,
and Cecil Eaton and Millard Welcn,
ends. Roger Golden is sure to be
used at halfback during some part
of the game, and Paul Groves is
almost a sure substitute if one of
the'linemen fall down on their job.
i Lee Parnell, the utility man of the
squad, is apt to be substituted at
almost any position, being likely
first choice substitute for either
end or fullback, and serves also
either tackle or halfback.
I The Lubbock Westerners have
strong a team as there can be found
in the district, boasting two excep-
tionally good ball carriers in the
personages of Moody Smith, half-
back, and Dub Lawson, captain and
quarterback. They had a letter-
man for every position to return
this year, having a slight edge on
the local squad in this respect, hut
as to whether they are bettei* than
(the Tigers can be seen next Satur-
( day afternoon.
--
Members of the committee an-
Mrs. L. nounced that it had originally been
Neither of them j planned to offer only three prizes
jiuios xxuuKc u xx xxaxxi^ funeral but that the excellent showing made
E. V. Haltom, J. E.’ Houser, O. m! I s,ervices *’hi'h ™re J’.e!d Wednes- by others made it difficult to de-
Club Minstrel until April, no mjshap befalls the team by Sat-
urday, they should be in the best of
------------ A hard scrimmage Tues-
day started the week’s training ses-
sions off very strenuously for the
Tigers and the remainder of th©
week was devoted to signal prac-
tice and drilling on the fundamen-
tals of the game.
A large crowd is expected to wit-
i ness the game, which should in-
| elude a large delegation from Lub-
13 Inch Raih Delays
/ v
Harvest of Cotton
sung “America.” The Electra Boys’
Band, led by E. L. Nichols, sere-
naded the banqueteers, giving sever-
al selections before their departure
for Wichita Falls where they were
scheduled to broadcast with the high
school pep squad over radio station
, KGKO, in behalf of the Electra-
Wichita Falls football game Satur-
•day.
W. P. Slaton led the audience in
a singsong, leaflets containing the
•words of the songs being distribut-
red along with the programs. The
B-Flat Orchestra, led by Harry
Masten, played the dinner music and
also accompanied the congregational
singsong, the program of which in-
cluded “When It’s Springtime in the
Rockies,” “Tiptoe Through the Tu-
lips,” and “The Pagan Love Song.”
Mrs. Philip Broadwell, club musician,
played the piano accompaniment for
the closing song, “End of a Rotary
i)ay,” paraphrased version of “A
Perfect Day.”
C. P. Engelking gave the welcome
address aftei* the serving of the
bountiful meal by the hotel staff,
and after Dr. C. W. Monroe and
other Rotary hosts had distributed
confetti, streamers and noise-mak-
ers which added a carnival appear-
ance to the scene. The guests, upon
registering in the hotel lobby, had
been provided vari-colored hats to
wear in the banquet hall. Mr. Engel-
king’s humorous remarks .were
punctuated frequently by applause
and outbursts of noise. E. E. Rog-
ers, principal of the high school, re-
sponded to the welcome address in
behalf of the faculty. John Houser
responded for the school board. J.
<j. B. Totten, past president of .the
club, introduced the visitors and
guests of honor, which included Dr.
J. W. Cantwell, superintendent of
Wichita Falls schools, and Mrs. Cant-
well; Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Holmes,
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. McClung, and
Mrs. F. R. Collard, Wichita Falls;
G. J. Gilles, president of Electra
Lions Club, and Mrs. Gilles; R. P.
Hall, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, and Mrs. Hall; Kenneth
Brush, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hodge,
Miss Lucille Hodge; J. H. Harris,
school near -^a^as» to which place the
i remains were forwarded Tuesday.
| The deceased was a native of Dal-
' las county but had lived at Wichita
Falls for some time. She had been
I in ill health for some time but
death was quite unexpected,
nieces, Mesdames H. L. Keyes
C. P. Howe of this city, visited
last Saturday and reported that
, seemed to be feeling unusually well.
A son, Mitchell Dooley; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. John Marcy and Miss
Blanche Dooley of Wichita Fall?,
1 three brothers, L. L. Adkins, Elec-
tra; W. G. Adkins, Seymour, and
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