The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1946 Page: 4 of 8
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Author of "They Were Expendable1
INSTALLMENT ONE
Soviet' vice •• consul
(an aHilioto of the
Y.
H.THE ELECTRA NEWS, Publisher
impulsive let-
Mayor Newsum’s
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W. L. White
Electra Oil Fields—Past and Future
the
for the presidency; he had a small
all in the sphere
left the consul
R. K. Pettit, president of the
nrrl PT* A nf IFia kirrk
Mrs.
in my
many
give
—10c
—30c
10c
which Amer-
next few dec-Mortuary: Mrs. Walter Mayes, age
31, died at the home of her moth-
er, Mrs. S. Jordan in the County
Line community, Wednesday.
Mayor H. Y. Newsum
a proclamation setting
week Feb. 16 to Feb. 21
up Week”.
has issued
apart the
as "Clean-
B. H HUBBARD
DIES IN. OAKLAND .R. P. Prince has been appointed
as city commissioner to succeed E.
H. Archer who is moving to Pa-
ducah.John Owens, 19, died at the fam-
ily home on the Jennings lease, Wed-
nesday night.
inches in front of your nose. If the
knob of the first door is on your
right, the knob of the second is on
the left. So no one could possibly
Entered as second class mail matter August
2, 1907, at the postoffice at Electra, Wichita
County, Texas, under Act of Congress of March
8, i878.
Report on the Russians
BY W. L. WHITE
cated. The quartet, according to in-
formation secured by city officers,
had been to Oklahoma, had celebrat-
ed with a few beers and were en-
route home when their car turned
over on the highway in North Elec-
tra. They were said to have been
unanimous in believing their mishap
occured in Burkburnett and were at
a loss to know how or why they were
in Electra.
THE ELECTRA NEWS
Published Every Thur-day at 106 N. Main St.
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quite safe to kiss the bride
the ceremony, but not ten
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The
creaky, schoolbook English. He was
an agreeable young man, helping me
fill out my visa application. His of-
fice was pleasant and airy, but I
was uneasy. Maybe because the .of-
fice of the consul, upstairs, had dou-
ble doors. The kind when you open
one door, you are left staring at
still another closed door, about six
Cox. The store was purchas-
J. E. Preston and Mr. Thorn-
member of the firm announc-
National Advertising Representative
SEEtVICE. INC,
National Editorial Association!
curious
written
I hesi-
tated. Had I, they wanted to know,
: ever been associated with the
armed forces of any government in
opposition to the Soviet Union? I
explained—this time clearly—that in
1939 I had been associated as a re-
porter with the armies of the Finn-
ish Republic during its earlier war
with Russia. So perhaps my an-
swer should be yes?
Smiling broadly now, Mr. Vavilov
shook his head.
“The proper answer there, Mr.
White, as you have already written,
is ‘no.* Because in Finland in 1939,
we understand that your opposition
to the Soviet Union was purely verb-
al.**
My visa came a week later.
All this had come about as the
result of an impulsive letter I had
written a few ^eeks before. Read-
ing that Joseph Stalin had issued a
special invitation to visit Russia to
Eric Johnston, president of the
Umted States Chamber of Com-
merce, I had sat down at my type-
writer to tell Johnston I would like
to go along.
Eric Johnston was to me a com-
plete stranger, except that I had
read a good deal of what he had
written and liked most of it very
much. .He believed in’’ this coun-
try; he had been an eloquent voice
preaching optimism and courage for
the postwar period; saying clearly
that never again must we allow
American business and industry to
stagnate into a depression, but must
continue to produce for peacetime
needs and luxuries at almost war-
time velocity: there would be free
markets for everything if there were
free Jobs for all. and vice versa. |
He bad opened his career as pros- 1
ident of the National Chamber by I
calling at the White House—a prci e- 1
dent-breaking step, as American I
business had not hitherto accorded !
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Income Tax
Men To Be Here
Thursday, Feb. 21
IN. A. 8 J
Serving America’s Advertisers and>he Home Town Newspaper*
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Eric Johnston
but definite chance. He watched it
carefully, never overestimated or
underestimated his boom. When it
faltered, he pronounced it dead and
instantly forgot it.
I was pleased when he toll me
that, because he wanted to feel free
to write and say what he thought
on our return, he was insisting to
the Russians that we pay our ex-
penses wherever possible. He was
taking along money for that pur-
I pose, and suggested that I do like-
wise.
• The other member of our party
was Joyce O’Hara, Johnston’s regu-
lar assistant in the Chamber of
Commerce. He is a blue-eyed Irish-
man of fifty with regular features
which, anywhere-outside the radius
of Johnston’s dazzling profile, would
be considered uncommonly hand-
some. Not too many years ago he
exchanged a successful newspaper
job for a career in the public rela-
tions division of the Chamber of
Commerce in Washington.
Joyce and I were thrown together
constantly from the beginning of
the trip. JThe protocol of our entire
voyage was that if the hotel or
guesthouse boasted an Imperial
Bridal Suite complete with sitting
room, sitz bath, and breakfast nook,
it would always be assigned to
Johnston in solitary grandeur, in his
capacity as President of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, while Joyce and
I would share twin beds in the sec-
ond-best room. For a few days we
watched each other shave and lis-
tened to each other snore with con-
siderable reserve and some suspi-
cion.
Slowly and after days of appraisal
we got down to a solid basis of
friendly jibes at each other’s weak
spots, and he gave as good as he
got. We ended up warm friends.
We departed from Washington
and our plane stopped for a meal
in the Azores where we were met
by staff officers of the American
base and picked up sketchy infor-
mation about these Portuguese
islands.
Johnston fell victim to an infect-
ed sirius at Casablanca. We waited
in considerable luxury in a spacious-
villa, once the property of Jean
Maas who formerly owned a string
of collaborationist newspapers.
The Allied command were using
it as an overnight hotel for high
officers and distinguished guests, as
we seem to be classified.
At Cairo an American nose and
throat man peered into Johnston’s
ear and instantly forbade us *^o fly
over the 16,000 foot pass between
Iran and the Soviet Union, which
meant a few davg’ delay. Anyway
• tHere in Wichita county we don’t get I
— well along in the summer. . . judging! ifs
by a of the Cornanehe Chief which A. R. Toby left' on our after ,ne <
desk they take their politics seriously in Comanche county where years after.
Through error in the January 24
issue of the Electra News it war.
announced that Norman Thornton
of Vernon had purchased the Elec-
tra Grocery and Feed Store from
F M.
ed by
ton, a
cd.
or wages.
[ 'Tn order to give taxpayers of
i this locality first hand assistance inThe three-story brick Masonic
building at the corner of North Wag-
goner street and West Bryan Avenue
has been completed. The building
committee included Mayor H.
Newsum, R. S. Vanhoove, E.
Holderman, E. H. Archer and B.
Loden.
Guy McNeely has leased the corn-
er location of the ground floor for
his “M System” store. The Purity
Bakery, W. B. Vandegrift, manag-
er, will occupy the other Waggoner
street location.
Electra Insurance Company will oc-
cupy the Bryan Avenue office. Four
office suites will be rented on the
;econd floor of the Bryan Avenue
md of the structure while the Ma-1
.onic lodge will occupy the Waggon-
er street second floor and the entire
,fiird floor. A club room, reading
?oom, library and lounge will be in-
stalled for use of Masons and mem-
bers of the Order of Eastern Star.The new producer on the Honaker lease northeast of Electra
wheie the shallow sands have been tapped for a new pool the
extension of the Kelly pool east of Harrold in the Ellenberger
deep pay and the fine showing of oil from the Ellenberger lime
in the new wildcat well on the Proud Estate land immediately west
of the City lake give evidence of the Electra oil fields holding pre-
eminence in the industry in Northwest Texas. The potential
has not been exhausted and the limits of the producing areas
have not been defined despite the fact that for nearly 35 years
crude oil has been our mainstay and its associated industries the
source of prosperity for the nation.
The proposed, celebration of the 35th anniversary of the
April, Fool Day wildcat gusher which put on a performance in
1911 is a, worthy undertaking for more reasons than that of com-
memorating an important event. The time is ripe for letting
off steam,because of the lifting of wartime bans and the release
from anxiety and worries over news from the battlefronts.
we aie to resume our normal activities in a civic wav
theie s no, better time to start. If we are to call attention to
the new oil wells and greet with our old-time hospitality the oil
frateinity of both the old and new regimes we can make the
occasion profitable for all concerned as to entertainment and
advertising.
The Electra area has many resources. It has job potentials
other than oil. Its agricultural development is on the eve of a
new era. The possibilities for increasing the herds of cattle
hogs and sheep and the certainty of increasing fertility of the
soil by conservation methods assure prosperity from the land
Right now there is a demand for new building and opportuni-
ties for establishing new businesses. But regardless of all of
part in the Okinawa operation
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the faculty of First \yan and Yokohoma.
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CORRECTION
"In spite of all the changes in the
income tax laws, March 15 is still
the deadline for filing income tax
returns.
Everyone who had a gross in-
come of $500 or more in 1945 must
file a return. This even includes
minor children with $500 or more
gross income. In addition,
wage earners whose salaries were
subject to withholding will not owe
a tax for the year, but must, never-
the less, file a return in order to ob-
tain a refund of amounts withheld by
The Wandering and Wondering Writer assumed a new task aft-
er Peail Haiboi, . . that of chroniciling the comings and goings
of “Our “National Defenders” ... the draftees and volunteers
from Electra and those who are closely connected with Electra
folks . . in that way our hearts have been drawn closer to those
who went away and we have shared more fully the anxiety and
heartaches of those left behind . .It has been a labor of love .. one
that brought its recompense in friendship... In the new’ year
ahead we will possibly drop that department in favor of one
nearly jn keeping with the new spirit of progress, but
in the meantime we hereby extend a special greeting to every
fighting man whose name we have handled during the past four
years and a similar special greeting to their loved one with whom
we, too, shared the watchful waiting for news ... and the iov
pride or sorrow brought by letter or wire . . . Almost to the
end of the wartime regime . . months after the Peace Pacts
were signed and m the midst of demobilization and rehabilitation
comes another of those sad messages. . . . The end of hope, long
sustained by only a slender thread . . for Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Lockett whose, son, Lt. Bobby Lockett is now presumed to be
dead after having been missing in India since November 1943
Shades of Webster and writers of grammars . . . this
language of ours . . . the latest news term is “code cracking”
with “winds message” as the keynote . . in the future the his-
torians will have to leave out so much that seems so important
to these United States at the present time. ... It will not
matter so much whether or not the army or navy “intelligence” !
cracked the Japs “wind” code” before Pearl Harbor as whether
or not US Intelligence prevails in some of the elections which
companiment.
sented a past-president’s pin, gift
of the executive board and the fac-ulty members also presented her a
gift.
Covers were laid for the above
named and Mesdames C. H. Kent.
F. J. Nunley, T. T. Weatherall, Le-
roy Worley, H. W. Fraker, Tim Rol-
lins, J. L. Lancaster, Jake Tinnin,
Ed Brown, Elmer Kelly, Theo You-
ree and Chauncey Weiler, board
members, and Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Lindsey Jr., Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Dan-
[ iels, Mesdames B. M. Phillips, Zu-
lema Stroud, John R. Day, C. W.
Monroe, Candace Neville and A. G.
Abbott; Misses Pat Chapman, Eloise, . v
Williams, Cora Newsum and Lillie • employers from their salaries
Ernst, representing the faculty. I
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Two young war veterans from* ------- ---
Wichita Falls, with their wives, were preparati°n of their returns,
fined in City Court, Wednesday iDeputy Collectors Clois L. Greene
morning, on charges of being intoxi-1 Luther °- Gentry will be at the
| Chamber of Commerce, Electra,
Texas, on February 21, 1946.
All taxpayers who need assist-
ance or information in filing their
income tax returns for the year 1945
are urged to go to the town nearest
them on the date of the deputy col-
lector’s visit. Between March 1
and March 15 most of the Deputies
will be stationel at their various
Zone Offices. If you miss seeing
them on their visit to your town,
you will then have to go to the
nearest Zone Office for help.
"The Collector urges every tax-
payer to make an effort to bring
his tax problems before the Deputy
Collectors named above, on the dates
shown. The point is stressed that
you must bring with you all of your
Withholding Receipts, together with
complete information as to all 1945
income, expenses and deductions.
The Deputy Collectors will need this
information before they can
you advice as to how to file your
return ”
B. H. Hubbard, age 64, a resident
of Electra for a period of 33 years
and who was engaged in the oil
industry here, died on January 28,
at a hospital in Oakland, California.
Private Funeral services were held
Friday afternoon, February 1, at
the Fruitvale Chapel in Oakland.
Interment was in the Evergreen
Cemetery in that city.
Survivors include his widow;
two sons, Ray of Oakland and Hat-
ton Hubbard of Vernon; four daugh-
ters, Mrs. C. H. Christopher, Oak-
land; Mrs. A. L. Whitley, Jal, New
Mexico; Mrs. H. B. Cobb, Fort Worth
and Miss Peggy Hubbard, Oakland;
four brothers, two sisters and five
grandchildren,
The family is well known here.
Mr. Hubbard was a drilling contract-
or and was active in the Electra
field since early boom days. Mr.
and Mrs. Hubbard left Electra for
Oakland one and one-half years ago.
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WICAKA CAMP FIRE GROUPThe Wicaka Camp Fire Group and
Tuesday afternoon, January 29, at
the Presbyterian church with Mrs.
E. W. Hindman, guardian, in charge.
Following the business session which
was conducted by the president, the
girls designed valentines for
party they are planning.
Attending the meeting were
gy Watson, Rexine Hindman,
othy Golden, ShirleneIncome ax time, is just around the , e,a er that Amenct has a lot of un-
corner and Uncle Sam will soon dis- told wealth.
the New Deal official recognition.
He had even sat down across a con-
spoke fercnce table from John L. Lewis.
He has a theory, that before you
denounce an opponent, you should
first go over with him the points on
which you agree; you will both be
surprised, Johnston points out, at
how many of these there are and
often the fight can be fairly com-
promised.
In somewhat this frame of mind
he was approaching the Soviet
Union; I wanted to go there for the
very obvious reason that Russia is
clearly the biggest and most unpre-
dictable factor with
ica must deal in the
ades.
A week after my
ter I met Eric Johnston across his
desk in Washington. Eric Johnston
is handsome. At forty-seven he has
all of his white even teeth, all of
his wavy brown hair, and a clear,
ruddy skin, and blue eyes. He has
a longish, sensitive face and a Hol-
lywood profile. Together, these
make him unusually and conspicu-
ously handsome. He might have
made a successful career as an ac-
tor, were it not for his brain, which,
considered as an organ, is uncom-
monly good. It starts with a ,phe-
nomenal memory. He never forgets
anything he thinks he will ever
need. He is healthily competitive;
he wants something like almost any-
thing you have, or if possible, one
just a little better. But he takes
v disappointments well. When I first
listen through both keyholes at once. J1 he was being mentioned
I was uneasy because I had been ”
with the Finnish army in the win-
ter war of 1939-1940, which was bad,
news in connection with a Soviet
visa. Of course, they knew I had'
been in Finland, but11 wanted them
to know I knew they knew it.
The consul was an urbane, stocky
little diplomat. It soon became
clear that he was on a fishing trip
for information. There is nothing
sinister about this, for it is the
avowed business of all diplomats,
including our own, .to report to their
home governments on the state of
the nation to which they are ac-
credited.
There was no need to withhold
anything from this consul, as his
questions did not concern military
matters but were
of politics.
Just before I
switched the conversation from pol-
itics to literature. I wished to go to
the Soviet Union as assistant to Mr.
Eric Johnston, but I was also con-
nected with the Reader’s Digest?
Yes, I said, I was one of its editors.
I bowed myself out the whisper-
proof double doorb and back to
where Mr. Vavilov was waiting with
the questionnaire. It began with a
large blank space for a brief auto-
biography, into which I inserted the
fact that I had been with the Finn-
ish army in 1939, a fact that Mr.
Vavilov, reading at my shoulder,
seemed again not to notice.
It continued with other questions,
obviously designed for White Rus-
sians, about political affiliations. I
showed some dismay at all this, and
Mr. Vavilov, smiling reassuringly,
said there was no need,
case, for detailed answers.
But at the end was a most
question: I had hastily
“no” in its blank, but then
* ’' THE- ELECTRA NEWS, THURSDAY^ FEBRUARY, ,7, 1946
II » *
21 persons have already announced for county''or' pfecihet' of•
fiices. . . Goodness-rgracious . . . The Fort Worth Oil Workers
Union is going to pxpel all of their members who are Commun-
ists or Facists. . .Now who will be the judge of what"when the
black bean is dropped into the bowl ? . . .
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•11 i I 11 ‘ ---------- — — ^w.vx.0 niuui John Brown Jr., Sic, US Navy
win be held this year . . . which reminds us for no particular son of Mrs- Ethel Brown of 411
reason that we have some local elections coming up . . . first is North Electra street, is among the
the Bond Election set for February 16 . . . the beginning, we Navy veterans enroute home
hope, of Electra’s post-war expansion which can make or mar abo.ard lhe USS Montour which left
our future . . . The community could do with some changes jniOklnawa on January 17 and was
the matter of law enforcement but no doubt would rate well1 s^heduled to arriv<? in San Francis
above llie average ... no great “hue and cry” has been heard 1 Fcb* 3‘ He wil1 reCQlv* his
in regard to county offices but we predict that war veterans ^e‘iarge after his relum “> the
will be the favorites. . . . t-J— wr.-_u.-x_ ------. , .. k
hot about elections until well alon
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U. S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
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xuhuh oiuiners unaer- tS<?1’^d On the USS Dauphin. an as-
taking Company were in charge of SaU 1 troop 1ransport ship during
all three of the funerals.
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MRS PETTIT HONORS
PTA CO-WORKERS
Members of the executive
of the Northsidc
Association, 1*
Ward School and special guests were
honored at a farewell supper given I
by Mrs. 1
First Ward PTA, at the high school
cafeteria, Thursday evening.
Pettit who has resigned because she
,, ... . - --------- ---- va <xu ui ; is moving to Turnertown, was as-
these things we look to oil for the weekly payroll which has not sislcd Mrs. C. T. Hines, first vice
tailed us through the 35 years that have intervened since the President, who will succeed her in
Clayco gusher rumbled and belched and erupted liquid gold in the office.
early morning of April 1, 1911. ; The table was beautifully deco-
The Electra oil fields have behind them 35 years of huge ratpd under dil^ction of Mesdames
production, a magnificent contribution toward the wealth of the T. Murphy, Johnny R. Brown and
biggest state in the mightiest nation on earth. That is not all. IC* G* Downtain- Mrs- J- C. Yates
The sands are not exhausted nor the pools restricted. The fut-'sang a group of son&s for which Mrs
ure is bright and under modern facilities for orderly production” IPaul Rogers played thc piano a<>
manufacturing and marketing of oil products it is quite possible icompaniment Mrs- was pre-
that pil will be the principal income for many years to come.--o---
WANDERING and WONDERING
By A. W. C.
Robert Jed Houtchens died, Wed-1
nesday afternoon at his home at I
Harrold. Totten Brothers Under- [
part of her war cruise in the Pacif-
ic. He is now aboard the Dauphin
which is engaged in "Magic Carpet"
duty, bringing veterans home from
overseas bases. Prior to the surren-
|dcr of the Japanese the Dauphin
board; took ] ’ * ‘ "
Pai ent- Teacher and visited Japan at Sasebo.
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