The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, June 16, 1944 Page: 3 of 4
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Page Three
Friday, June 16, 1944
THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS
CITY OF KERMIT, TEXAS
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$27,740.22
19,904.10
$ 7,836.12
GENERAL FUND
289.77
$9,122.49
PEARSON
was
REVENUE, INTEREST AND SINKING FUND
$2,594.19
METER DEPOSIT FUND
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TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS
$7,290.23
His patriotism is written in
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TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS
$19,187.57
SPECIAL PAVING FUND
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WAR LOAN
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TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS
------ $2,643.33
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Men’s Group Has
Wiener Roast
Miss Vanda Gober of Wink has
started working in County Agent
Roy Peden’s office.
Corp, and Mrs. Harry L. Had-
lock arrived Wednesday to spend
Had-
Mrs. Poston Sees
Husband In Florida
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Mrs. Bill Brooks and daughter
arrived Monday to visit her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Bucy.
Hadlocks; Visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt
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where
EXPENSES:
Salaries
Fire Department
Utilities
Office Supplies
Auto Expense
Labor -----------------
Legal and Professional
Power for Pumps
Truck Hire
Insurance
Miscellaneous
Interest
♦Depreciation .___
RECEIPTS:
Unaccounted for brow’t from previous audits
Ad Valorem Tax
Current
Delinquent
Garbage
Utility Rental
Street Paving _
Occupation Tax _
Notes Reveivable
Miscellaneous
Total to Account For
Less Disbursements (below)
TOTAL RECEIPTS
Cash balances 8-1-43
On Hand
In Bank
Net Profit on Operations
♦Based on estimated life of thirty years.
$5,764.75
480.00
.150.97
413.06
354.55
1,126.95
714.18
2.702.78
150.40
150.14
134.44
1,260.00
5.838.78
$160.00
$160.00
$27,511.34
200.88
28.00
$2,079.68
62.50
$2,142.18
763.24
415.78
153.75
295.50
$2,702.56
$ 135.97
2,458.22
$2,594.19
$1,716.50
133.25
205.77
279.14
121.84
508.90
$9,884.42
7,290.23
5,200.57
1,383.01
146.85
904.89
1,039.90
32.50
100.00
25.00
531.87
230.06
NOTICE OF BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION MEETING
$
$
$1,350.00
$1,350.00
872.50
$2,222.50
685.15
$1,537.35
$1,537.35
$1,260.00
$1,260.00
$6,768.00
$6,768.00
2,524.01
$9,292.01
1.260.00
$8,032.01
$8,032.01
685.15
685.15
DISBURSEMENTS:
Salaries
Fire Department
Utilities
Office Supplies
Auto Expense
Labor
Repairs and Supplies
Streets
Legal and Professional
Truck Hire
Insurance
Fund Transfers
REVENUE:
Water and Sewer Servces
Bulk Sales Water
Miscellaneous
Cash Balance 3-31-44
Cash Balances 3-31-44
On Hand
In Bank
TOTAL CASH
143.33
_ 2,500.00
Attest:
FRED W.
Secretary
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501.15
$2,643.33
- 2,643.33
None
On Hand—None; Bank—None
RECEIPTS:
Fund Transfers
OTAL RECEIPTS
. .jild: Cash Balances 8-1-43; In Bank
Total To Account For
Less: ’ Disbursements (Below)
Cash Balance 3-3-44
Total Cash Balance 3-31-44; — Bank
DISBURSEMENTS:
Interest
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS
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TOTAL RECEIPTS
Add: Cash Balances on hand 8-1-43
On Hand
In Bank
Total To Account For
Less: Disbursements (below)
Cash Balance 3-31-44 .
Cash Balances 3-31-44:
On Hand
In Bank
TOTAL CASH
DISBURSEMENTS:
Salaries : ;
Fire Department
Utilties
Office Supplies
Auto Expense
Labor '
Repairs and Supplies
Legal and Professional
Power
Truck Hire
Insurance
Meter Deposit Refunds
Returned Checks
Other Assets
Fund Transfers ■_
Miscellaneous
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A Citizen and
a Taxpayer
Mrs. F. J. Phillips of Wink had
major surgery in the local hos-
pital Saturday.
Mrs. Ester Lambert of Mona-
hans moved to Kermit this week
with her family. She is employed
at Lillian’s Beauty Shop.
S. E.
Winkler
PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT — WATER-SEWER FUND
YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1944
------- $ 4,110.20
------ 320.00
------ 98.91
------ 350.40
------- 182.57
------ 838.25
------ 499.21
------ 663.15
------ 1,683.58
------- 159.84
------ 56.66
------ 1,350.00
------ 72.80
------ .1,909.00
------ 6,768.00
------ 125.00
527.62
4,576.19
----- $ 5,103.81
RECEIPTS:
Fund Transfers
TOTAL RECEIPTS
Add: Cash Balances 8-1-43 In Bank
Total To Account For
Less: Disbursements (Below)
Cash Balance 3-31-44
Cash Balances 3-3-44 Total Cash
DISBURSEMENTS:
Meter Deposit Refunds
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS
RECEIPTS:
Fund Transfers
Special Paving Assessments
TOTAL RECEIPTS
Add: Cash Balances 8-1-43:
In Bank
Total To Account For
Less: Disbursements (Below) .
Cash Balance 3-31-44
Cash Balances 3-3-44
DISBURSEMENTS:
Interest
Warrants Payable
$622.88
—-$622.88
------- 80.93
-------$703.81
------- 160.00
- $543.81
- $543.81
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Captain Simmons
(Continued from page One)
Emory Spangler and Elie Lam
prepared the food when the Men’s
Fellowship group of the Comm-
unity Church entertained with a
wiener roast and supper in the
patio back of the church parson-
age Tuesday night.
Rev. Byron Bryant, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, gave
the invocation. Corp. Gene Elston
of the Pyote Air Base sang sev-
eral songs, accompanied by Mrs.
Lyle Gregory.
County Judge J. B. Salmon gave
a talk on the youth problem and
Assistant County Attorney W. T.
Hair spoke on the same subject.
G. C. Olsen, president of the
group, presided, and Rev. Lyle
Gregory, pastor of the Community
Church, gave the closing prayer.
Eighteen men were present.
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“Gene” Burnett, former
County sanitarian, left
Thursday for induction into the
Navy, according to word received
here by friends. Burnett has been
sanitarian in Ector and Midland
Counties for the past three years.
Mrs. Burnett and son will make
their home in Sweetwater with
her parents.
RECEIPTS:
Fund Transfers
TOTAL RECEIPTS
Add: Cash Balances 8-1-43 In Bank
Total To Account For ____
Less Disbursements (Below)
Cash Balance 3-31-44
Cash Balances 3-3-44; In Bank
Total Cash
DISBURSEMENTS:
Interest
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS !
RECEIPTS:
Unaccounted for ) Brow’t Fwd.)
Water Services
Sewer Services
Bulk Sales
Meter Deposits
Returned Checks !
Miscellaneous
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Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Dungan of
Phoenix, Ariz., are visiting Mrs.
Dungan’s brother, T. M. Moore
and family. Dungan and Moore
left Thursday for Temple, where
Moore was to receive medical
treatment.
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$ 256.36
15,876.15
2,453.75
200.88
936.00
171.15
53.00
Mrs. L. L. Deaton and children
left Thursday to spend several
weeks visiting relatives in Durant
Oklahoma.
Mr. and Mrs. Loyis Hutchins
and children left Thursday for
Fort Worth to live. They have
been residents of Kermit for five
years. Hutchins has been employ-
ed by the Magnolia Petroleum
Company. Their home here
bought by W. R. Imler.
Kavieng on New Ireland, and
once-mighty Rabaul on New
Britain. Captain Simmons played
a major role in the- destruction
of Rabaul, leading many format-
ons to bomb its five air bases
and the concentration of shipping
facilities which made this base
the backbone of the now broken
Japanese South Pacific defense
system.
Captain Simmons has flown 45
strikes, five sorties and 19 armed
sea recconaissance missions for a
total of 69 combat missions, and
between B-17’s and B-24’s has
logged 1200 hours of four-engined
flying time since he graduated
from flying school on October
9, 1942, nearly 800 of these hours
in the South Pacific. He holds
the Air Medal with 10 oak leaf
clusters, and wears the American
Theater Ribbon and the Asiatic-
Pacific Teater Ribbon with three
gold battle stars for the Central
Pacific, New Guinea Zone, and
North Solomons and Bismarck
Archipelago campaigns.
He plans to rejoin his wife,
Mrs. Charles L. Simmons, Jr.,
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----- 4,333.80
------ $24,291.38
___ 19,187.57
$ 5,103.81
Mrs. Fred Hard Wright, who
has spent the past three weeks
visiting relatives in South Texas,
has returned to Kermit.
Mr. and Mrs. Gray Smith and
son, Jimtnie Joe, left Wednesday
for Oklahoma City, where Smith
was to receive medical treatment.
If necessary, he was to go on to
the Mayo Clinic at Rochester,
Minn., for treatment.
several days visiting Mrs.
lock’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
O. Hunt. They are en route to
San Antonio, where Corporal
Hadlock will report for re-assign-
ment.
He was stationed in Italy and
Sicily with the Fifth Army for
10 months, and was returned to
the United States April 1 for hos-
pitilazion for yellow jaundice and
stomach ulcers, caused, he said,
by too prolonged a diet of “K”
rations.
He has been stationed at Brig-
ham, Utah, in an Army hospital.
■Mrs. Hadlock, the former Mary
Olive Hunt, will accompany her
husband to his new assignment.
11 ^HE stepping stones to vic-
JL tory are red with blood Of
American heroes. Tarawa ...
Salerno . . . Cassino. Their
patriotism is written in blood.
Your patriotism is written
on eyery Bond you buy in this
vital 5th War Loan. Your
name on a War Bond means
you’re behind our invasion
troops.
Help hasten the day of Vic-
tory by investing in extra War
soldier open
..Hi, Niom, if* meV
H over the telephone-
EVENING thousands o
in u-!,n'm W’
in the 5
Bonds now. Invest in more
than you’ve ever purchased
before. Invest $100, $200,
$300, $400. Those who can,
must invest thousands of
dollars.
For this is the biggest job
we’ve ever had to do. We
can’t fail our fighting men as
they plunge into the biggest
and bloodiest struggle of all.
WELCOME THE VICTORY VOLUNTEERS
when they call to tell you about War Bonds
Mrs. G. C. Poston returned
Monday from Key West, Fla.,
I where she met her husband, LL
Poston, of the Naval Air Corps.
His squadron had been on over-
seas duty for five month and was
in Key West two weeks for ship
repairs. Then it returned to duty
overseas.
Mrs. Poston is secretary to Dan
P. English.
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In obedience to the order of
the Board of Equalization, reg-
ularly convened and sitting, not-
ice is hereby given that said
Board of Equalization will be in
session at its regular meeting
place in the City Hall in the City
of Kermit, Winkler County, Tex-
as, at 9 A. M. on Wednesday,
the 28th day of June, 1944, for
the purpose of determining, fix-
and equalizing the value of
any and all taxable property sit-
uated in the City of Kermit, for
taxable purposes for the year
1944, and any and all persons
interested or having business with
said Board are hereby notified to
be present.
organization. Probably the most
crown
an
brilliant jewel in the crown of
his achievements was an imm-
ensely successful night formation
trike against Truk, one of the
most difficult missions to fly be-
cause of the towering and dan-
gerous thunderheads that build up
over the Pacific at night. But
Captain Simmons led his squad-
ron there intact and in close for-
mation, and dropped tons of in-
cendiaries on Dublon Island, the
heart of the mighty Jap base at
Truk. Several hours later the
flames were still blazing high.
The list of targets the 22-year
old, pink-cheeked veteran has
bombed reads like a roster of the
important Jap Pacific bases. Tar-
awa, Nauru, Truk, Satawan in
the lesser Carolines; Vila in the
Central Solomons; Kahili, Kara
Ballale and Poporang and Faisi
seaplane and naval bases in the
Shortlnd Harbor area; Buka and
Bonis airdromes in the most nor-
thern reaches of the Solomons;
New Ireland,
Rabaul
ORDINANCE NO. 59
AN ORDINANCE CHANGING
THE TIME OF THE MEETNGS
OF THE BOARD OF COMMISS-i
IONERS OF THE CITY OF KER-
MIT, TEXAS. FROM THE FIRST
AND THIRD MONDAYS OF
EACH CALENDAR MONTH, TO
EACH AND EVERY .MONDAY
OF EACH MONTH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF KERMIT,
TEXAS: THAT, from and after
the passage of this ordinance:
Section 1. The meetings of the
Board of Commissioners of the
City of Kermit, Texas, shall be
on each and every Monday of
each calendar month, and at such
hours as the majority of the
members of said board may de-
termine from time to time and
spread upon the minutes of said
City.
Section 2. All ordinances or
parts of ordinances now in effect
which conflict with this ordinance
are hereby expressly repealed,
and this ordinance shall be in
full force and effect from and
after the passage and a public-
ation thereof.
Read, passed and approved at
a regular meeting, on this the
5th day of June, 1944.
K. E. BURROWS
Mayor
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America.
to save the
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son, Charles, III. and his parents.
Mr. ond Mrs. C. L. Simmons, all
of whom live in Kermit.
When Captain Simmons, before
he left for home, averred, grinn-
ing, “I guess the war is over for
me,” his friends laughed.
“You’ll be back,” they said.
“We’ll see you in the Philipp-
ines.”
And they probably will.
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Vermillion, Henry G. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, June 16, 1944, newspaper, June 16, 1944; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1227130/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.