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A Constructive Newspaper for a Constructive People
ELECTRA, WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS, .THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1946
NUMBER 28
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Route 1,
and
nee Dor-
She was
Office
glad to
after-
tax
held in Phila-
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$
A
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sup-
pro-
was
Vanhoove has accepted
of executive secretary
her ador-
Mrs. Sam
here
high
Com-
H. A. Decker
the entertain-
to sup-
of the
as pos-
the an-
te held
the
priv-
leaving the various states
authority over the schools,
are not taken toward im-
the situation.
new
in*
Front
AAF
about 1400 such ve-
sted in this area.
, yment of the tax
’ license tags is
A penalty will
who drive their
without having
tie for registra-
ited in order to
dates.
ac-
to
the operation was
W. E. Crump the
into the stomach,
April 1 Deadline
1946 Auto Tags
City-Wide Cleanup
Program Under way
mother GI Gets
HS Diploma
• Electra’s two day
held on Sunday after-
31, beginning at 2:30
Monday night, April 1,
8 o'clock.
$800 in prizes will be
“OUR NATIONAL”, Page 5
dis-
the
his
has
to
Lions Club Hears
Plea For Red Cross
Company will
St. Louis for
Baker Tool
latest devices
PROGRAM INCLUDES EQUIPMENT
SHOW AND ENTERTAINMENT '
For a JBigger and
Better Electra.
vood, member
*tit Dalhart was
,ne home of her
Mrs. J. A. Nor-
Iris Brown,
Misses Franc
of the school 1a
a recent visitor
parents, Mr. and
wood. A friend, Miss
teacher in the Claude school, ac-
companied Miss Norwood to Elec-
| tra.
the American war-brides and
children were displaced to
room for no less than the
delegates coming to the USA.
were again obliged to wait
Mayor T. Leo Moore is chairman
of the Parade committe for the cel-
ebration Monday. Wichita Falls,
Iowa Park, Burkburnett and Vernon
have been invited to send bands to
take part in the parade which will
stqrt at the City Hall. Company D.,
See “OIL CELEBRATION’, Page 8
Eur-
as a
was
noon
Electra
Lt. Billy J. Norwood writes his
parents, Mr. and Mrs.-J. A. Norwood
that he is now in Manila, P. I. and
likes there much better than his
previous station at Tokyo, Japan.
He is an adjuster for the 13th Air
Force. When Lt. Norwood first ar-
rived in Manila he met his former
chum, Lt. Tommy Bailey with whom
he took much of his pilot training.
Lt. Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Bailey of this city left shortly
ward for Korea.
gan Monday and will
through the week. Large
of debris arc being hauled
are being given attention
expected to have the downtown pav-
ing washed off under supervision of
the fire department after the litter
of papers, wafted and drifted by
March winds in front \f stores and
shops has been removed.
the Electra
where
being
nfant had two perfectly
i ,ads, two spines and only
of normal arms and legs.
i other than the parents, in-
the paternal grandparents,
St.,
two
and
an
tary service and has returned to his
home here, according to a Public Re-
lations Bulletin from Fort McPher-
son, Ga. The young man is entitled
to wear the Good Conduct Medal
and Victory Ribbon.
A bulletin from the 8th Naval
District office at Dallas announced
the discharge of William C Duncan,
Sic, Box 561, Electra, Texas.
Carolyn, seven month old daught-
er of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kinnard of
Electra, underwent a successful op-
eration Saturday morning at the
Wichita Falls Clinic Hospital, for re-
moval of an open safety pin she had
swallowed Friday morning. She
was brought to the Electra Hospit-
al, Friday, and X-rays made under
direction of Dr. Van Parmley re-
vealed the location of the pin which
was one which had been used in
pinning the child’s < blankets in her
crib. It was lodged at that time in
the throat. When
performed by Dr.
object had passed
it was reported.
Mammoth Parade Monday
At 1:30 P. M. V
Sgt. Henry Lay telephoned
wife, Mrs. Irene Cheaney Lay,
urday, from Dalia:
route
where he expects to receive his dis-
Delmer D. Jones, 416 West
aviation mechanic in the
and one-half years, son of Mr.
Mrs. Dick Jones, has received
honorable discharge from mili-
^Thirty-eighth year
of Samar-Philippines, receiv-
honorable discharge from the
March 4, at Norman, Okla-
and has returned
OUR NATIONAL
DEFENDERS
Mrs. W. R. Skinner, deputy
collector, in the substation operated
in the Chamber of Commerce office,
reported that approximately 850 li-
cense plates for 1946 have been is-
sued, up until Tuesday, at the local
office. There are
hides being op«'
The deadline f< .
and securing '
midnight Mar( r.
be assessed on
cars after A*
paid the tax.
Certification ■
tion must bo
secure the lice •
Billy B. Tunnell, SK3c, US Navy,
last duty station USNSP Navy 3149,
Island
ed an
Navy
homa,
here after 18 months
duty in the American,
European Theatres of
He is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
mett Tunnell-.
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Drs. Van S. Parmley, C. W. Mon-
roe and P. E. Fish attended the
monthly meeting of the Wichita
County Medical Association at Wich-
ita Falls, Thursday.
'§0 Day Rodeo Here
larch 31-April 1
The city is being given a thorough
going over this week in the City-
Wide Cleanup Campaign which be-
continue
truckloads
off, alleys
and it is
Child Swallows
Safety Pin
o- —
Slew Manager
eteran
A bulletin from the US Navy Per-
~ at Nor-
lists the
have re-
Leffing-
overseas
Electra’s 35th Oil Anniversary celebration will not only be
entertaining but will provide a well rounded education on the oil
industry, according to reports given at a meeting Tuesday even-
ing, at the Chamber of Commerce. W. A. Krohn, chairman, pre-
sided and a large group of members of various committees were
present. The program, with the exception of a few minor de-
tails was outlined.
D. M. Robb, chairman of the dedication of the marker at the
site of the Clayco No. 1, Woodruff-Putnam, the wildcat well which
made oil history for the nation reported that the marker is
built of native stone, stands about four feet high and will hold
the bronze plaque which has been on display in the Chamber of
Commerce window. The Magnolia Petroleum Company, owner of
the lease is co-operating fully with the celebration committee. A
------*-------------------------------rijiroad will be opened to the location
and the portable stage used for out-
door entertainment will be used for
the speaker and the honor guests.
The Electra Red Shirt Band, di-
rected by R. O. Oliver and which
will include high school musicians
as well as the city band will play
for the opening exercise.
Texas State guard, color guard, will
function in the dedication ceremony
and Rev. E. H. Coburn will offer the
invocation. Mayor T. Leo Moore
will introduce the principal speaker,
the Hon. Beafiford Jester, member
of the Texas Railroad Commission
who will unveil the marker.
Transportation ' will be provided
through courtesy of the Chamber of
Commerce and citizens of Electra,
for the honor guests, the old-timers
of the oil industry and pioneers who
participated in Electra’s development
in the early boom days. All who will
provide cars for this purpose are
urged to call at the Chamber of
Commerce and secure “Guest Car”
placards and assemble on Front
street at the rear of the Post Office
not later than 3:30 p. m., Monday.
The dedication fete will begin
promptly at 4:30 p. m. on the loca-
tion, one-half mile northwest of the
cemetery.
Cpl. LcRoy Durham arrived home
this week from India, where he had
been ■ i with the US Army Railway
Unit. He went to Assam,. India, in
November, 1943, having entered mili-
tary service in March, 1943, while
employed in Arizona. He received
training in New Orleans, La., and
Bucyrusr Ohio. He is a son of Mrs.
Nannie.; Durham who is employed as
saleslady at the Perkins-Tmberlake
stdi’e'.”-----v*
Mrs. Bura
he position
the Electra office of the Veterans
Administration in the Armory on
orth Main street. She is taking
ie place held by Mrs. Barbara Dren-
en who resigned to accept the posi-
tion of bookkeeper for the Central
arket owned and operated by her
atherinlaw, J. C. Drennen and her
^brotherinlaw, Ted Price. Mrs. Dren-
nen is the widow of Glen C. Dren-
j.&en who was killed in action in Ger-
^c^nany in 1945. Mrs. Vanhoove is al-
-so the widow of a veteran of World
iWar No. 1, Roy S. Vanhoove.
%»*
Ensign LaMarr Hair is a member
of the US Navy unit engaged in
posal of surplus property in
Pacific Theater of Operations,
mother, Mrs. Bessie Belle Hair,
been informed. He is now said
be enroute from Pearl Harbor to
New Guinea and prior to going to
PH he was stationed on Okinawa.
Mrs. Chadwick Wilson and fifteen
month old daughter, Vivianne, arriv-
ed in Electra on March 13 to join
her husband whom she had not seen
since he left her on the British Isle
during the week of June 12, 1944, to
make the Normandy Invasion of
France Mr. Wilson, formerly a
Sergeant in the 803rd Tank Destroy-
er Division of the US First Army,
had not seen Vivianne who is still a
bit shy of her father and
ing grandparents, Mr. and
Wilson.
Mrs. Chadwick Wilson,
othy Gruner, was born and reared
in London. Her parents are dead
and" she made her home with her
aunt, Mrs. S. C. Downton.
employed as a secretary in Devon-
shire, England, when she met the
Electra man at a Red Cross dance
in September, 1943. They were mar-
ried on February 19, 1944 and es-
tablished their home near the camp
where he was quartered. Shortly
after their marriage her husband be-
gan his efforts to have his wife sent
to America.
The blitz bombs were not only
striking near her home but in the
plaice where she was employed.
When Vivianne was born, she was
mmediately registered as a citizen
of the United States and efforts 'were
■enewed in behalf of getting pass-
ports for her and her mother to join
the husband’s parenVs in' Electra.
The father wont,.through the Aachen
and the Belgian Bulge when
letters from the USA were infreq-
uent arid communication with Eng-
land just as difficult. He appealed
ed to various authorities to be allow-
ed a furlough to go to England but
was never able' to get back. He re-
turned to the states several months
ago and renewed his plea to secure
passage for his wife and baby.
‘Even after they were booked to sail
on the Queen Mary early in Febru-
ary, their luggage packed, all papers
cleared and goodbyes said to relat-
ives,
their
jnake
UNO
They
and took passage on the USS Brazil
‘which docked in New York early in
■March.
Mr. Wilson who was reared
and graduated from Electra
school is employed in the Texas
pany office in Wichita Falls.
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Mrs. Ella Huffman of Blue Ridge
is guest of her son, Lee Huffman
and family.
his
Sat-
as he was en-
from England to El Paso,
Frank Ikard of Wichita Falls, vet-
eran of combat operations in
ope and who spent some time
prisoner of war in Germany,
the featured speaker at the
luncheon meeting of the
Lions Club, Thursday, at the White
Rose Club room. He related some
of his experiences and told of the
ministration of the American Red
Cross overseas. He urged support
of the annual Red Cross campaign
which is now under way.
: Dr. C. C. Hayley, president, pre-
sided over the opening exercises and
the business session during yvhich a
report was given on the meeting of
the board of directors. The board
recommended that the club adopt
some money-making project
port special philanthropies
organization; that as many
sible of the members attend
nual district convention to
at Breckenridge on May 5 and 6 and
that the Electra club be represent-
ed in • the annual Lions Internation-
al Convention to be
delphia, Pa., in July.
C. D. Bailey and
were responsible for
jnent features and Mr. Decker intro-
duced Mr. Ikard.
Y--O-------
.fTwo Headed Infant
I^Buried Tuesday
The urgent need of the states
porting a revised educational
gram fitted for post-war needs
discussed by Dr. Frank B. Boren
of Wichita Falls, president of Hard-
in Junior College, Wednesday even-
ing, March 13, at a meeting of the
Wichita County Schoolmasters As-
sociation at the Electra high school.
Dr. Boren said it might be possible
that the Federal Government will
intervene and set up a standardized
system,
without
if steps
proving
Covers were laid for approximate-
ly fifty persons in the high school
cafeteria where Miss Helen Borth,
home economics teacher, and mem-
bers of her class served a bountiful
supper.
H. D. Fillers of Wichita Falls, pre-
sided over the business session. Bob
Lindsey Jr., program chairman, in-
troduced the speaker and present-
ed the entertainment features which
included a group of songs by the
high school girls trio composed of
Tava Lee Givens, Ellen Totten and
Ramabeth Stanford, with Mrs. Ow-
ens, choral club director, at the pi-
ano. Miss Dorothy Wilkerson of
Harrold gave a clever musical read-
ing set to the tune of “Annie Lau-
I rie’’.
Supqrintendents and principals of
nearly all Wichita county schools
were present. Guests for the occas-
ion included F. W. Richardson, sup-
erintendent and Mr. Selfridge, prin-
cipal of the Henrietta high school;
Superintendent Dillehay, supervisors
and principals of the Vernon
schools; the superintendent of Hol-
liday school, and Judge Shelton of
Archer City, ex-officio superintend-
ent of schools in that county.
font
two
Sur
; elude
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Smith of Iowa
Park and the maternal grandpar-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Read ’of
410 West Michigan Avenue.
sonnel Separation Center
man, Oklahoma, March 14,
following Electra men who
ceived discharges: Joe Don
well, Sic, eleven months
duty in Pacific, son of Mrs. Rose
Leffingwell, 821 North Main St.;
Lester Josh Crawford, MM3c, USS
Omaha, 14/months overseas duty in
the European Theater, son of Mrs.
Mary Crawford, Woodruff Heights,
wife Hazel and son, Sandy, dura-
tion residents -of Dundee; William
Bryan Thompson, AOM2c, last sta-
tion, US Navy, Whidbey, Is, Wash-
ington, 20 months overseas in Pacif-
ic, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. H.
Thompson, Woodruff Heights; John
Walker Ward MOMM2c,
Electra, last station duty USS Mun-
see, 26 months overseas in Pacific;
Kenneth Thelbert Gibson, Sic, Camp
Eliott, Calif., no overseas duty, son
of R. E. Gibson, wife, Lillian Ruth,
and children residents of Electra;
William Lloyd Ervi, EEM (AA), son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Ervi Sr., Elec-
tra, 25 months overseas duty in Pa-
cific, last station of duty USS Avoy-
el.
Oil Show Here
To Rival Tulsa
Exposition
to his home
of overseas
Pacific and
Operations.
Em-
£ A- a Varner, pastor of
Christ, officiated in
.'al services held at the J.
n Funeral Home, Tuesday
m„ for the stillborn son of
I Mrs. H. L. Smith, born
night at the Electra Hospit-
••’al was in the Electra Cem-
C. T. Murphy, chairman of t the
Industrial Section of the 35th Anni-
versary Oil Celebration, reports that
a magnificent display of oil field
equipment including some of the lat-
est facilities for drilling and servic-
ing wells will be exhibited in Elec-
tra on April 1. The downtown
streets have been made available as
an oil supply midway. The equip-
ment will be set up for show and de-
monstration and will be education-
al and informative.
A complete rotary rig will be fur-
nished by the Mid-Continent Oil
Well Supply Company and hauled
here for display by the John Bar-
bour Trucking Company of Iowa
Park. An eight-wheel wagon such
as was used to haul boilers here, 30
years ago, will be shown alongside
the US Bureau of Mines Safety
Truck .and Equipment.
■ The Lane-Wells Gun Perforator
and Haliburton Company Well Ce-
menting Equipment and Jeep will be
on display.
The Larkin Packing
send equipment from
a special exhibition.
Company will show its
as will the McAllister Well Serv-
icing Company.
The Great Northern Pipe and Sup-
ply Company will . exhibit its Hy-
draulic Casing Pulling equipment
which has salvaged thousands of
feet of casing which in pioneer days
would have been abandoned in old
wells
The McCullough Tool Company
will show its gun perforating equip-
ment and the Oil Exploration Com-
pany of Tulsa will demonstrate its
Seismic facilities. The Superior En-
gine Department of the National
Supply Company will send a repre-
sentative to Electra to hold open
house for engineers at
Municipal Light Plant
diesel power units are
stalled.
Mr. Murphy will be
comodate other firms with space
show their equipment.
Wichita County
Schoolmasters
Hold Meet Here
^Superintendent Bob Lindsey Jr.,
i^biiounces that a diploma from
ectra high school was issued on
Aarch 15, to Andiew Clyde Dillard
o left school with 151-2 credits
nd served on, and one-half years of
jnilitary duty.
He presented evidence of having
ccessfully completed courses in
ire control. This brings the total
6 thirteen youths who have been
warded diplomas under the GI pro-
ram in co-operation with the local
hool board and the Texas Depart-
ent of Education.
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:|ate
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-at
■'Mr
.';;Mor.
<al.
vfeter
l> Captain Stephen Marchand, mem-
Krs of the Electra Roping Club and
Bombers of Company D., T?xas
B>te‘ Guard announced Wednesday
Bat- ; the grandstands, fences and
Brutes are ready, the tickets printed
fid ready for sale and the program
Kinpie te for Electra’s two day
KScleo to be
fcon, March
■I'm. and on
Beginning at
|fA. total of .
i^arded contestants in the events
■meh will include . Calf Roping,
Brahma Bull Riding, Brone Riding,
Keer Roping. Special entertainment
■rill be presented.
ftBill Lyons of Byers, Texas, will
broyide rodeo stock and equipment.
Kir. and Mrs. Roy Sullivan, Mr.
End Mrs. Tom McCarty, Mr. and
K. Floyd Neff, and Mr. and Mrs.
Bibby are among the represent-
atives of* the Roping Club who are
(active in working out details for the
g&eo which will be sponsored by
Company D, Texas State Guard un-
^A big parade which will start at
e City Hall at 1:30 p. m. Sunday
Jill officially set the pace for Elec-
fg&s two day fete as well as being
d’ opening number of the rodeo.
|[’The Rodeo group including the
ntestants and the Guard unit will
;ticipate in the parade at 1:30 p.
^Monday.
The Texas, Gulf and Magnolia Pipe
Line Companies will enter teams in
competition for first, second and
third place prizes offered in the pipe-
laying contest to be held at 2:45 p.
m., Monday, April 1, in connection
with Electra’s 35th Anniversary Oil
celebration. H. A. Decker is chair-
man of the committee in charge of
this event in which the contestant^
will be fighting against time and
penalties. Each crew will start at
the same time, lay 20 joints of 2 inch
pipe which must be laid in approv-
ed maner; then broke out and collar
protectors put on. The pipe line
will begin at the Intersection of
West Cleveland Avenue and North
Wichita Street and proceed toward
the Electra State Bank corner at
the intersection of Cleveland
Main street.
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MRS. CHAD WILSON
OF LONDON, ENGLAND
JOINS HUSBAND HERE
Lets go!
For a Bigger and
Better Electra.
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