The Electra Star (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1945 Page: 1 of 8
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Mrs. Emanuel
Held Wednesday
S. Sgt. Warren R. Six
Awarded Certiicate
of Valor
Mr. and Mrs.
spent the Christmas holidays with
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Chesney and
sister, Mrs. J. T. Kee.
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Sgt. Johnnie C. Odle
Completes Course in
E. M. Camouflage
Johnnie C. Odle has completed
the four weeks E. M. Camouflage
at the Engineer School, Fort Bel-
voir, Virginia on Dec. 22, 1934. He
is a sergeant in the infantry. His
parents are Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Odle. They live at Bowie, Texas.
He was born on July 24, 1919. He
attended Alvord, Texas, high
school. He is married to the former
Miss Obie Choate. Their home is at
408 E. Harrison street, Electra. He
entered the army on Jan. 29, 1942
at Wichita Falls.
The body of Pvt. Prevatt was
sent to Plant City, Fla., for burial.
Pvt. Russell was from Bronx, New
York City.
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Funeral services were held at
the Bible Baptist church Wednes-
day afternoon for Mrs. Gladys Em-
anuel who passed away Monday
night after a long illness. Rev. 0.
J. Simmons conducted the rites and
burial was in the New Electra
cemetery under the direction of
the James B. Totten Funeral Home.
Survivors include the husband L.
S. Emanuel, ine daughter Oro Jo,
the parents, Mr. and Mrs'. Ben
Stephens, two sisters, Mrs. Matt
Smith and Mrs. H. M. Stanfield,
and one brother, Sgt. J. W. Steph-
ens.
PVT. CLYDE BRYANT
MOUNDED LN PHILIPPINES
Mr. and Mrs. T. E Bryant have
recohed word that their son. P\ f.
Clyde Bryant, member of an armj
airborne unit, had been wounded m
the Philippines and is an army hos-
pital in that area. His wife. who
lives in Los Angeles, called his
parents here last week. She said
she had received a telegram from
the war department and also a let-
Chi- ter from her husband written from
the hospital.
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church at Thrift, Texas. Burial was
in the Burkburnett cemetery.
Survivors are the parents, six
brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p. m. Thursday from the Ow-
ens and Brumley Funeral Chapel
at Burkburnett for Frank Knox, 23
Iwho died from a head injury, incur-
| red while working on a pipeline
/near the Waggoner Refinery here.
.'„j were conducted by Rev.
Haskell Beck, pastor of the Baptist
S. Sgt. Warren 11. Six. 32, of 30G
W. Roosevelt Ave.. Electra, ball-
turret gunner on a B-24 Liberator
bomber, has been awarded the Cer-
tificate of Valor, it is announced at
this loth Air Force Base in Italy.
The certificate was awarded by
di lection of Mag. Gen. Nathan !•'.
Twining, commanding general of
the 15th Air Force “in recognition
of courageous service in Aerial
combat."
Sgt. Six entered the army Sept.
12, 1942.
Boyce House to
be Speaker at
C of C Banquet
The annual meeting of ....
Chamber of Commerce will be held
on Jan. 28th at the high school
auditorium with Boys House as the
speaker.
The meeting will be free to the
public and hot chocolate and cook-
A. ies will be served.
A letter from the Salvage Com-
|B mittee of th'e War Production
’ Board was read at the weekly
mee ting of the Chamber of Com-
merce directors which stated the
need for saving tin cans, waste
paper and old rags.
Two Sheppard Field soldiers
were killed in a three-way crash
shortly after midnight Tuesday
about five miles west of Iowa Park
on the Electra highway.
Pvt. Harry E. Prevatt and Pvt.
William Russell were driving a
Morgan Express truck taken from
the 700 block on Scott less than an
hour before the collision. They
were traveling toward Electra
when the truck collided with an
approaching vehicle, and a third
truck, also traveling northward,
crashed into the rear of the truck
occuplied by the soldiers. Involved
in the crash were a grain truck oc-
cupied by E. C. Colwell and Gene
Lovelace of Texica, New Mexico,
and a cattle truck driven by F. W.
Arnold of Silverton, Texas. Colwell
was slightly injured.
A detail of soldiers from Shop-,
pard Field came to Electra Tues-
day and gave blood transfusions in
an. effort to save the life of Rus-
sell.
The body
New Inductees
From Wichita
County Board No. 3
Men recently inducted through
Wichita County Local Board No. 3,
Fllonfvn Tov*ic
Navy: Robert C. Sefcik, Clifford
A. Ross, Clarence E. Huff, Elzie P.
Owen, Robert W. Owen, Kenith D.
Dennis, Luther L. Rodgers, Aubrey
E. Raschke, Earl L. Wilson, all of
Electra; and Wallace L. Forquoran
of Burkburnett.
Marines: Joel M. Green, Burk-
burnett; John L. Smith, Electra.
Army: Dono E. Dowell, David E.
Cowden, Dan Spruiell, Edgar D.
Johnson, William R. Overby,
James N. Beavers, Eugene C.
Schroeder, John F. Phillips, all of
Iowa Park; James H. Hardy, Elec-
tra; Omer J. Baumhardt, Riley
Burleson, Jr., Edwin W. Hilliers,
Harlan C. Mullins, all of Burkbur-
nett; Clinton L. Swinford, Wichita
Falls.
An Air Son ice Command Station
in England — Cpl. Elzylee Gibson,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. ]). Gib-
son of 803 Sandell, Fort Worth.
Texas, recently completed an orien-
tation course designed to bridge
the gap between training in the
states and combat soldiei ing
against the enemy in Germany.
At this Air Service Command
Station, Cpl. Gibson attended a
series of lectures given by \ (derails
of this command which included in-
structions on chemical warfare de-
fense and pertinent tips on staging
healthy m a combat zone.
His next station will be one
from uhnh America’s fighting
plane- cover our advance into Ger-
many
Before entering the Army Air
graduated from the
si hool.
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■$. . The Electra Star received a
interesting Christmas card from
t: Fvt. Roy L. Reid, son of Mr. and
f and Mrs. J. W. Reid of Harrold.
f' PvL Reid is a member of the
£ 82nd Ahborne Division and landed
Lin HoUubuLJn that airborne invas-
ite|32nd has been in Africa,
vt —aly, Ireland, England,
toe. oTland and Germany.
£vd also sent a copy of the
All American Paraglide which i.s
printed by De Gelderlander Press,
and made available to the 82nd
Division and their families through
the genersoity of the citizens in
Nijmegen, Netherlands. This paper
has been forbidden by the enemy,
and the Hollanders rejoice to be
free again by the landings of the
Allied liberators near Nijmegen.
Subscription: ?2.00 Per Annum
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Presbyterians to
Have Five Day
School of Missions
Thirteen New
Students Enroll
in Electra Schools
New Teachers
Added to Electra
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USN and wife spent the holidays in
Electra. He reported to his base at
San Francisco after a 30-day leave.
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Front row: Roddy Hughes; Pfc
W. Pickett, Chatanooga, Tenn.;
Ruth Sendler; Pvt. J. Gisten, Wav-
esly, Ky. Second row: Richard
Cuthbert; Pfc. J. C. Cota, India,
Calif.; S. Sgt. Wesley R. Bates,
Electra; Sgt. C. Blair, Jeremiah,
Ky.; and Pvt. F. J. Wardega, Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Convalescents from a U. S. Sta-
tion Hospital in England had a
great welcome when they visited
the New Theatre, Northampton,
Eng., to see a new musical romance
entitled, “I Call it Love.”
After the performance the sol-
diers, who were the guests of the
Northampton Friendship Commit-
tee, went back-stage to meet the
members of the cast, headed by
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County P. T. A. to
Meet Here in
All Day Session
The Wichita County Council of
the Parent Teachers association
will meet in an all day session be-
ginning at 10 o’clock Jan. 10. The
meeting will be held in the Thomp-
son Ward school auditorium with
the Thompson Ward . T. A. acting
as hostesses. Delegates from all
Wichita County P. T. A. will at-
tend.
Mrs. A. E. Bailey of Rocky Point
is the council president, and Mrs.
Gordon Clark of Iowa Park will be
the principal speaker. She will
speak on the “Teen Age‘ Canteen.”
All local members of the Parent
Teacers Association are invited to
attend.
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Public
work with the resumption of class-
es on Jan. 2, following the holi-
days, are Mrs. E. R. Crues for the
fifth grade at Thompson and Mrs.
Nell Manly in history and civics at
the high school. Mrs. Crues re-
places Mrs. Ruby Reaves, who re-
signed. Mrs. Crues holds a B. S.
degree from West Texas State
Teachers College at Canyon and
has a permanent elementary teach-
ing certificate. Mrs. Manly is tak-
ing the place made by the resigna-
tion H. W. Veazey. She holds a B.
S. degree from North Texas State
Teachers College and has a per-
manent high school certificate.
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Schools Set Goal at 100 per cent
in Junior Red Cross Drive
From Jan. 3 to an. 15, each
classroom in the Electra schools
will try to make 10Q per cent en-
rollment in the Junior Red' Cross.
In the elementary schools, the en-
rollment fee is 50 cents for each
classroom; and in the high school
the enrollment fee is $1.00 for
each group of 100 pupils or less.
The payment of these enrollment
fees entitles tlje schools to the of-
ficial publication of the Junior Red
Cross during 1945. Those who con-
tribute will be furnished member-
ship buttons. Rooms will have
membership certificates. Contribu-
tions toward, the payment of the
membership fee for each classroom
will be on a voluntary basis.
The Junior Red Cross is the
American Red Cross of the schools
— public, private and parochial;
elementary and secondary. As dis-
tinctive parts of local Red Cross
chapters, Junior Red Cross groups
comprise a total membership of
18,000,000 boys and girls. They
participate in an active in-school
program which is an effective
bridge betw een the schools and
the community. One of the biggest
activities at present is producing
comfort and recreation articles for
the armed forces. Junior Red Cross
members everywhere are support-
ing war effort by means of victory
garden,s war on waste, home can-
ning, bicycle corps, and accident
prevention programs.
Through their National Chil-
dren’s Fund, maintained since 1919
by voluntary contributions, they
provide emergency assistance to
boys and girls throughout the
world. Typical recent projects a»e
shipments of school supplies to
Pugoslav evacuees in the Middle
East, $10,000 worth of .
Russia, and the establishment
England of a nursery f:
school age yougsters in need,
special care,
dered homeless by the war.__
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Stage Setting in England Shows Local Boy
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Braziliana, a fan-dancer in the
show, was the “life of the party,”
at the get-together in the snack
bar of the theatre, where moun-
tains of sandwiches and cakes soon
disappeared before a combined at-
tack.
With an interlude for photo-
graphs, the group above is pictur-
ed on the stage of the New Thea-
tre. The party went so well it broke
up only when the clock said it was
time for the evening show. The sol-
diers were reluctant to go, which is
just what the hosts wanted them to
be, and the hosts enjoyed the party
just as much as their guests.
S. Sgt.’ Wesley Bates is the son
exotice person- of, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Bates of this
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Help Needed
at Red Cross
Sewing Room
Mrs. A. C. Rippy announces that
the sewing room of the Red Cross
is^open with a large quota of sew-
ing on hand and ladies are urgent-
ly needed to operate the machines.
The surgical dressing room will
open at a later date when the quota
of surgical dressings are received.
STEAK DINNER FOR
FOOTBALL BOYS
A steak dinner will be given the
football squad Thursday night in
the basement of the First Method-
ist Church.
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A sermon by the Rev. Deane C.
Walter of Tsining, China, at the
morning worship hour will open a
five day School of Missions at the
First Presbyterian church. Both
Rev. and Mrs. Walter will speak at
the Vesper Service at 4:30 p. m.
Mrs. Walter will be the guest
speaker at the monthly meeting of
the Woman’s Auxiliary on Monday
at 2:30 p. m. This meeting will be
held in the church parlors. Refresh-
ments will be served.
The school will be conducted with
sessions each night, beginning
Monday and continuing through
Thursday. The hour of these meet-
ings will be 7:30 p. m. with the ex-
ception of Wednesday night when
the school will begin at 8:30.
A Church Family Night supper,
with Rev. and Mrs. Walter as hon-
or guests, will be given Wednesday
at 7 p. m. All of the members and
friends anil their families are in-
vited. They will be guests of the
Lions club Thursday noon.
The First Presbyterian church is
very anxious to share the rich ex-
periences of these people with the
entire community and extends a
most cordial invitation to all to at-
tend these meetings.
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schools, who began their
When classes began Tuesday,
Jan. 2, present for enrollment were
13 new pupils. All of these except
one were from out of town. Three
states other than Texas were rep-
resented among these new pupils.
The list is as follows:
Waggoner Junior High school:
Theron Garrison, sixth, Fort
Worth; Ola Mae Stegall, sixth, Los
Alamos, New Mex.; Jackie Phipps,
seventh, Goodwell, Okla.; James
Johnson, seventh, Crowell; Joe El-
ton Gault, seventh, Henderson,
Nev.; Stanley > Bushong, seventh,
Corpus Christi; Jane Garrison,
eighth, Fort Worth, Texas.
High school: Jewell Johnson,
sophomore, Crowell, Texas.
First Ward: Kay Phipps, second,
Oklahoma; Van Fraker, third,
Eleccra; Harold Wright, fourth,
Oklahoma; Gwendolyn Holden,
fifth, Houston.
Thompson:
third, Odessa.
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Davlin Head of
Waste Paper
Salvage Drive
Capt. S. E. Marchand of
Electra State Guard Uunit,
has been head of the waste
salvage says:
“Due to the fact that other du-
ties take up so much of my .time 1
needed help on the paper salvage
drive. I have appointed Curtis Dav-
Im, phone 489, chairman of the
Electra State Guards paper sal-
vage. This paper is a vital war
necessity and I hope you will co-
operate wjlh him on this as you
have me.”
In taking over the job of collect-
ing the paper Mr. Davlin says:
“Waste paper has a vital part in
the winning of this war. Blood
plasma, food, ammunition, etc., is
all packed or wrapper in paper or
cardboard. Mrs. Housewife, please
save all your waste paper, t hat
torn paper bag you might have
when you get home from the gro-
cery, those card board boxes, etc. i
Save them. We will pick them up
each Saturday if we do not get to
you Saturday we will Sunday, un-
less it is raining. We do not w’ant
this paper to get wet. Put it Out on
the curb so we will know you have
some paper to be picked up. We do
not wrant to get that box you are
going to use for a hen nest* but we
are going to get all we see handy.
We will be around, please put
your waste paper.”
J EWELR Y COMPANY
CHANGES NAME
The Justrite Jewelry company,
!0:> North Waggoner has changed
their name to the owners and will
be known as the Collins JewTlry
company.
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Lorely Dyer, operative star ana
wife of the well-known B. B. C.
Theatre Orchestra conductor, Stan-
ford Robinson, and Derek Oldham,
one of the best known of English
light operatic stars.
Others who met the soldiers were
Stanley Vilven, an actor whose
work is specially well known in
London because of his seven years’
association with Sir Seymour Hicks.
Louis Darnley, a versatile actor
who has done quite a lot of filming
in British studios; and Roddy
Hughes who has just finished play-
ing the lead in “The Druid’s Nest”
after a long and successful run in
London. | ■
Ruth Sekdler, an
ality, whoj played the part of^
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(U. S. Morine Corpi Photo)
Two Xavy corpsmen and Iwo Marines teamed up to furnish annror-”1
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For ofAIarmC An so,neufl<‘rP >« Hie Marshalls,
lor want of a better name, the species is cancel “rizmo” fish The
unit s medical ofliccr certified their edibility before the fish were
ehVnie^nhet far n T?° wl,osc ^teh provided a welcome
anRc °* <,,ct fnr Hie Leathernecks, are, left to rieht: Pharmacist’s
if 'i eV<P<i*ntl 5 lass Tonnny C. Goodwin of Los Angeles. Cal and
Kobert b. Dcrsham of Sterling, Colo.; Technical Sgt. Thomas R. OI-
■>en of Sioux hails, S. I)„ and Sgt. Jethro K. Jones, of Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Joan Farrell
To Be Listed in
College Who’s Who
Miss Joan Farrell, daughter of
Arthur G. Farrell, of Electra, is a
Junior at TSCW and is among
those studentc who will be listed in
the 1944-45 issue of Wo’s Who
Among Students in the American
Colleges and Universities. The
book will he released in April.
Miss Farrell is a member of the
MED club at TSCW, finance chair-
man of the dormitory during her
freshman year, sened as councilor
in a freshmans dormitory when a
sophomore, treasurer of the sopho-
more class, and now the student
body finance chairman f<>r 1944-45,
and sits on the Student Council.
Miss Farrell graduated from the
Gladewatir High school in the
class of 1912 and was a member of
the National Honor Society.
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Mr. and Mrs. W, F. Robbins
have received a letter from their
son, Billie, who enlisted in the navy
recently. He has been sent to San
Diego for his boot training.
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WHEREAS, Our nation as a whole is making an effort to conserve
paper and packing materials for use by our armed forces; and,
WHEREAS, This can be accomplished to a large degree by conser-
vation on the part of merchants and shoppers alike by
Accepting unwrapped packages that do not necessarily require
wrapping;
Making full use of shopping bags or baskets;
Returning any papers or paper sacks that can be. reused to your
dealer — and other methods that will lessen the uses of paper; and,
WHEREAS, If this p*» n is consistently carried out, sufficient pa-
per may be diverted to ship thousands of items required by our service
men in the armed forces; and
WHEREAS, Each citizen inElectra and its trade territory will want
to participate in this program:
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That, I, T. Leo Moore, Mayor
ot the City of Electra, do hereby declare this emergency program for
the duration.
Harold W. George
Promoted to
Tech. Sergeant
Army Service Forces Training
Center. Camp Barkeley, Texas —
Headquarters of the Army Service
Forces Training Center announced
the promotion of Harold W. George
Co. A, 55th Med. Tng. Bn., to
Technical Sergeant. He resides at
G03 N. Mam, Electra.
Houston, Texas — Walter
Jones, apprentice seaman, USNR.
son of Mrs. Donnie Bertha Jones,
210 W. Bryant. Electra, is a stu-
dent. m the Navy V-12 College
Training program at Rice Insti-
tute. Houston.
Seaman Jones, a 1913 graduate
of Electra High school, enlisted in
the Na\y May 25, 1943. He entered
V-12 training nt 1 Louisiana Poly-
technic Institute.
ELECTRA, WICHITA COUNTY JANUARY 4, 1945
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Stewart, W. C. The Electra Star (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1945, newspaper, January 4, 1945; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1220161/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Electra Public Library.