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ELECTRA, TEXAS, WICHITA COUNTY, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1946
Subscription: $2.00 Per Annwm
Vol. No. 26 — No. 49
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Program for Veterans Home Coming
6:30—7=30 P. M. Chuck Wagon Dinner for Veterans
7:30 P. M. North and South Gates opened to public.
7:40 P. M. U. S. Military Band Concert
8:00 P. M. Arrival of Gen. Wainwright on field
8:05 P. M. Address by Gen. Wainwright
8:30 P. M. Presentations
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In the summer of 1933 he was or-
dered to Washington, D. C., to at-
tend the Army War College, from
which he was graduated the fol ow-
ing year. Upon completion of his
married
daughters.
First Load of
Oats Brought here
Last Monday
The first load of oats for the
season was brought to the Wilson j After a threc-month course at
Grain company Monday by Fred lho Counted Sendee School at
‘Fort Riley, Kaus., ho rejoined the
crop around here is better than the | served
general average.
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side of the field their reserved seat
section is on.
At 7:40 there will be a band con-
cere by the Sheppard Field military
band.
The general will appear on the
field at S o’clock and will be met by
an 18 man guard of honor and be
received by a full military honor.
Gen. Wainwright will - proceed, up
the south side to the speakers
stand. There the Rev. A. G. Ab-
bott, former army chaplain will de-
liver the invocation. Weldon Cum-
mins, former corporal and re-
turned veteran who was with the
general on the Bataan peninsula
on Luzon will introduce Gen. Wain-
wright. The general will then give
at the conclusion of
which he will be made on honorary
member of the Electra Chuck Wa-
gon Gang by Ray B. Dickey, ex-
sergeant, now secretary of the
Chuck Wagon Gang.
The address will be carried over
WBAP and N. B. C. and by KVWC.
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Ora Neal of Grandfield, Okla.,
will be the speaker of the evening
at the memorial service June 13 at
the First Methodist church.
This memorial service will be in
the memory of the deceased Odd
Fellows of the Oklahoma-Texas cir-
cles and also honoring all Odd Fel-
lows who were or still are in the
service."
T. E. Bryant, president, and A.
L. Toby? secretary of the Oklaho-
ma-Texas circle attended the Odd .
Fellows Lodge in Frederick, Okla..,
Monday night and at Grandfield,
Okla., Tuesday night in connection
to the memorial service.
The circle will have its next regu-
lar meeting Tuesday night May 14
in Iowa Park. The Electra lodge
will charter a bus and will leave
the hall at 7 o’clock At this meet-
ing plans for the Memorial Service
for June 13 will be completed.
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Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright
will arrive at Sheppard Field,
Texas at 4 o’clock Saturday after-
noon, May 11 and will be met there
by H. A. Decker, Weldon Cummins,
Robert Kay, Allen Krohn and Leo
Moore. The general will be escorted
to Electra by the highway patrol.
In the meantime Charles McGann
will meet Major General John Mil-
lican, commanding officer at Fort
Sill, Okla.
At G:30 dinner will be served to
the veterans with Gen. Wain-
wright in informal attendance. The
dinner will be at the Electra foot-
ball stadium. Music during the din-
ner will be furnished by the Elec-
tra Red Shirt Band and a 47 piece
military band from Sheppard Field, his address
At 7:30 the northwest and south-
west gates will be thrown open to
the public and it is suggested that
the Gold Star mothers, veterans
and families arraiving at 7:30
should use the southwest Bryan
street entrance, since that is the
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Library Report
A total of 1,941 books were is-
sued at the Electra Public Library
during April, including 1,253 ad-
ult and 688 juvenile books. The
adult books included 884 fiction
and 369 non fiction as compared to
G31 juvenile fiction and 57 non fic-
tion. The library was open 25 days.
The largest daily circulation was
120; the smallest, 42, and the av-
erage, 77.
Non fiction was as follows: gen-
eral works, 233; philosophy, 17;
religion, five; sociology, 20; lan-
guage, two; science, 13; useful arts
17; fine arts, 21; literature, 29;
history, 33; travel five; biography,
31. Twenty-six new borrowers were
registered.
Books were donated by Mrs. S.
E. Cramer, the Baptist W. M. U.,
and the Book of Books club. Maga-
zines were donated by Mesdames
Jodie D. Smith, Carl Montgomery,
May Morris Utsey, Garnett Wright,
J. A. O’Pry, J. C. Melton, J. d. Ha-
gan, R. D. Cunningham, C. C. Law-
rence, S. B. Faulkner, J. A. Strad,
er, Miss Olive Carter.
exercise of iniative. he contributed jlis, Friday from New York City.'High School.
Marvin graduated from the Elec-,
tra High school in the spring of I
1943. He has been in the service Mrs. S. Anthony of South Electra
for more than two years. He is street recently
scheduled to receive his discharge charge from the army
at Camp Chaffee, Ark.
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New Officers
Elected for
Norene Temple
The Norene Temple No. 124 met
in regular session Wednesday
night May 8 with Most Excellent
Chief Neomie Blain in the chair.
New officers were elected. . June
Ford, protector! Weinford Edgar-
ton, guard; Pearl Harrison, mana-
ger; Alta McDaniel, junior; Ethel
Brown, press correspondent; Vida
Atkins, trustee No. 3; Collie Byrd,
mother of temple; Videa Adkins,
degree staff captain.
Those present were Hilda Music,
Neomia Blain, Ethel Brown, Collie
Byrd, Alta McDaniel, Vergie Couch,
Pearl Harrison, June Ford, Wein-
ford Edgerton, Vida Atkins, Fred
Music, Fred Adkins, H. A. Harri-
son, W. A. McDaniel, George Couch.
The next regular meeting will be
May 22. The Nomada will meet her
on the 15th of May.
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Upon the entrance of the United
States in the World War, he was
assigned to Plattsburg Barracks,
New York, where he was Adjutant
of the 1st Officers* Training Camp.
On the termination of that camp in
Aug. 1917, he was ordered to Camp
Devens, Mass., for a tour of duty
on the General Staff of the 76th
Division. He sailed to France in
1918. From March to May, 1918, he
was a student officer at the Gen-
eral Staff College at Langres. Up-
on completon of the course at this
school he was assigned to the Gen-
eral Staff of the 82nd Division,
with which division he served in
defensive sectors in the vicinity of
Tool and Pont-a-Mousson, and in
the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne
offensives. .In November 1918 he
was assiged to the General Staff of
the Third Army, which he accom-
panied into the Rhineland. He later
served at the headquarters of the
American Forces in Germany at
Coblenz.. .
He remained on duty in Germany
until Oct. 1920, when he return-
ed to the United States for assign-
ment as an instructor at the Cav-
alry School, Fort Riley, Kans.
Early in 1921 he was ordered to
Camp Pike, Ark., as a General Staff
Officer, 3rd Division, and to Wash-
inton, D. C., on July 1, the same
year, for a tour of duty with the
War Department General Staff,
first with the Operations and
Training Division, and later with
the Supply Division. His next ser-
vice was with the 3rd Cavalry at
Fort Myer, Va., where he remain-
ed from Jan. 1923 to March 1925,
when he returned to duty with the
Operations Division of the War De-
partment General Staff in Wash-
ington, D. C.
In June 1928 he attended, suc-
essively. the Field Officers’ Course
at the Chemical Warfare School,
Edgewood Arsenal, Md.; the Ad-
vanced Course at the Cavalry
School, Fort Riley, Kans.; and the
patrol duty at | Command and General Staff School
at Fort Leavenwith, Kans., from
which he was graduated in June,
Zippcrle of Elliott community. •port niiey, Kans., ho rejoined the
The oats averaged 30 bushels to lpl Cavalry in Jan. 1913., and serv-
the acre and tested 34. The Wilson -with that regiment until Oct.
191”), successively, at Boise Bar-
racks, Idaho; Presidio of Monterey,
Calif.; on border puiim uui(» ,u .
Calexico. Calif.; again at the Prc-
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Woodard Bass, present county
attorney, has announced his can-
didacy for re-election to that of-
fice for a second term. In making
his announcement he said that he
wanted first of all to express his
gratitude to the people of Wichita
County for his election to that of-
fice.
The text of his” announcement
follows:
“I am a long-time resident of
Wichita Falls, 41 years of age,
and have two small
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course at the Army War College,
he returned to Fort Riley for as-
signment for two years as assist-
ant commandant. In July 1936 he
returned to Foil Myer, Va., to as-
sume command of the 3rd Cavalry.
He remained on duty at Fort My-
er until Dec. 1938, when he was
transferred to Fort Clark, Texas,
to command the 1st Cavalry. He
went to the Philippine Islands in
Sept. 1940, and in October was
promoted to major general (Tem-
porary) to command the Philippine
Division. He asumed command of
the Philippine theatre upon Gen.
MacArthur’s transfer to Australia.
He was reported as a prisoner of
war of the Japanese Government,
since May 1942. In Aug, 1945 he
was 'liberated from a Japanese
prison camp.
Decorations
For action in the Philippines fol-
lowing the Japanese aggression
Gen. Wainwright was awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross in
Fob. 1942 with the following cita-
tion:
“For extraordinary heroism in
action in Northern Luzon, Philip-
pins Islands, during the period
from Dec. 21, 1941, to Jan. 5, 1942.
As commander of the Northern Lu-
zon force, Gen. Wainwright re-
peatedly visited the points of most
severe conflict throughout his com-
mand, displayed outstanding cour-
age and indifference to danger. By
his presence and soldierly bearing
during the severe enemy aerial
bombardment and strafing attacks,
and during attacks by infantry and
tanks, he stimulated and inspired
the troops of his command.”
He was awarded the Distinguish-
ed Service Medal for World War I
service in May 1920 with the fol-
ic wing citation:
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ROBERT E. KAY
Jonathan M. Wainwright was
born in Walla Walla, Wash., Aug.
23, 1883. Appointed to the United
States Military Academy, West
Point, New York, in 1902, he grad-
uated in 1906, and was commission-
ed a second lieutenant of cavalry
on June 12, 1906.
Promotions
He was promoted to first lieu-
tenant on July 30, 1912; to captain
on July 16, 1916; to major (tem-
porary) on Aug. 5, 1917; and to
lieutenant colonel (temporary) on
Oct. 16, 1918. He reverted back to
his permanent rank of captain on
June 30, 1920, and was promoted
to major on July 1, 1920; to lieu-
tenant colonel on Dec. 2, 1929; to
colonel Aug. 1, 1935; to brigadier
general on Nov. 1, 1938; to major
general (temporary) on Oct. 1,
1940; to -lieutenant general (tem-
porary) on March 19, 1942; to ma-
jor general (permanent) on Aug.
31, 1943; to general (temporary)
on Sept. 5, 1945.
Service
From Sept. 1906 until Feb. 1908,
he served with the 1st Cavalry at
Fort Clark, Camp Eagle Pass, and
Camp St. Felippee, in Texas. He
then sailed with his regiment for
the Philippine Islands, where in
June 1909, he participated in the
expedition against hostile Moros on
the Island of Jolo. Returning to the
United States in Feb. 1910, he serv-
ed with the 1st Cavalry until Sept.
1912, at Boise Barracks, Idaho;
Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont; and
Fort Yellowstone, Wyoming. Dur-
ing this tour with the 1st Cavalry,
he was a member of the cavalry
rifle team in the summer of 1910,
participating in the matches
j Camp Perry, Ohio.
| After a threc-month
i Mounted Service
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Red Cross Meeting
Scheduled
for May 16th
Every Wichita County resident
who contributed his dollar for the
1946 membership in the Red Cross
is asked to attend the meeting
which is being held at the First
Methodist church in Wichita Falls
May 16th at 8 p. m.
New officers and board of direc-
tors will be elected at this meet-
ing. The main speaker of the even-
ing will be Robert C. Edson, disas-
ter relief director, from the mid|-
western area of the Red Cross and
who lives in St. Louis, Mo. Also
special music will be given.
All volunteer workers of the Red
Valedictorian
and Salutatorian
High School Named
Miss Dorothy Southard is to o-*
of the Elect r i
•--------------- I High School it was a”iviin'<d tl i-
I’fe. Marvin Willis has arrived wool:. Miss Agnc* Hai t’ii it,Erub»,r
sistant Chief of Staff. G-3. Amori- back in the states, after being in is to be the Salutatm rvi it xa-
Forcos in Germany. Ry his un-1 Europe Since Jan. 1945. He wired also announced and \\ (’ tiarnci :
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<>f law hero
buriii'f the past
pr;uti<c<l law in
Tib' For the four years before I (Tuesday,
was <1(‘(P(1 county attorney I ”
worked in that office as assistant
• ounty attorney. During that period
assistant <
during the past one year as your
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Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day of this week the Knights of
Pythias Grand Lodge met in Fort
Worth, with Monday being official
DOKK Day. Those attending were
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ford, Mr. and
Mrs. George Couch, Mr. and Mrs.
H. R. Ishcm, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Grant, Lee Huffman and Fred Mu-
sic, Rev. and M.rs. Jtfsse Iwig with
Rev. Iwig being the Electra repre-
sentative. Mrs. Grace Thomas was
representative for the Pythian Sis-
ters. Bryan Thomas, grand inner
guard, was promoted to grand mas-
ter at arms Wednesday at the
Grand Lodge.
The El Tigris Temple of Elec-
tra will have its regular monthly
business meeting in their hall Fri-
day night, May 10.
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Meeting to be Called Asking for
Election on School Tax Raise
According to Supt. Bob Lindsey,
Jr., at a called meeting of the
school board at 2 p. m., May 4, a
petition of over one hundred names
was received and an election was
ordered to be held at the City Hall
of the City of Electra on the 18th
day of May, 1946, for the purpose
of authorizing the school board to
set annually the ^necessary main-
tenance tax rate-hot in excess of
$1.50. The state legislature has
given schools the authority to set
$1.50 as the maximum tax rate in-
stead of the old $1.00 -limit, and
many schools have already chang-
ed to higher rates than $1.00. Elec-
tra has a $1.00 rate now, and, for
some time, has been operating on a
deficit budget in order to meet all
expenses.
When the present election carries
the Board of Trustees will deter- Cross are especially asW to at-
mine the total evaluation of the
district after property has been
assessed and after the equalization
board has been met and will be able
to set the tax rate at whatever is
necessary, up to $1.50 maximum, to
adopt a balanced budget and thus
meet all expenses for the next year.
This tax rate may vary from
year to year, according to thei
needs of the school, and it will be wzx » m • 1
the duty of the school board to set
the tax rate at the lowest figure1
possible to balance the budget, and
at the same time, maintain a fully
accredited school on a par with the
schools in this area.
Bass to Seek
Second Term
t as County Atty
Grain company paid £0 cents
the first load as a ])rcmiuni.
regular price being 77 cents.
According tn Rex Kce of
company, they expect the first load of Monieroy; and at the Pro-
of xxheat about next Monday or of pall Francisco, Calif., dur-
— * . The grain harvest this in£r j]lc Panama-Pacific Exposition,
year will be from ton days to two From Oct. 1915 io March 1916, he
weeks ahead of regular because of [Ook the advanced course at the
the prolonged dry weather. Cool (Mounted Service School at Fort
county attorney and weather has helped growth and the Riley, Kans., and upon completion
on border patrol duty for a
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11'31 He then served for two years; tiring energy, devotion to duty and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wil-1the high honor boy of th<> I.’o« '
in a large measure to the success
attained by the commands with
which he served.”
Tn Nov. 1942 he was awarded the
Oak Leaf Cluster for the Distin-
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208 Dogs Have
Been Vaccinated
Against Rabies
A .total of 20S dogs have been
vaccinated against rabies in Elec-
tra during the last three weeks
and license tags have been issued
for them. W. R. Wooten who has
“For exceptionally meritorious' been appointed pound keeper and
services as Assistant Chief of dog catcher has been instructed to
Staff. S2nd Division. First Assis- pick upp dogs without license tags.’the valedictorian
tint to Assistant Cliief of Ctaff,
C-”, Third Army, and later ns As-
Seniors on Parade
to Feature Iowa
ParkjClass Sat
Senior "cTass'of ' the”Iowa
Park High school will broadcast a
r. 30-minute program at 1 o’clock
Saturday from Electra through
? KVWC. .
l The program known as High
Schools on Parade will be made up
of news concerning each member of
the Senior class of Iowa Park,
Last week at the same time
Burkburnett High school was pre-
sented and others to follows include
Chillicothe and Quanah.
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Stewart, W. C. The Electra Star (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1946, newspaper, May 9, 1946; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1219469/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Electra Public Library.