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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 25, 1943
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Why The Urgency
McKinney Examiner
PHONE 233
Rumor Not Facts
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Opposes Subsidies
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FAMILY DINING
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Prewar Dad Put
Bottom of Draft List
Doesn‘t Like
Carrier Pigeons
New World Record
Ship Construction
Chaplain Crawls
Over Dead Japs
Back to Safety
Local Women Win
Red Cross Pins
Live on Same
Farm Fifty Years
Geo. A. Newbill
Passes Away
At Plano
Rural Schools
Did Their Part
In War Chest Drive
47 Cotton Items
Issued To Every
Man in Service
Woman Suddenly
Disrobes In Front of
New York Church
Destroyer Escort “Rey-
nolds” Completed in 25
Days By The Bethlehem
Hingham Yard
SUBSCRIPTION RATE:
One year (in U. S. A.)________
Six Months___________________
Three Months_________________
CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
$1.50
.$1.00
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New Liberty School Buys
Radio For Ashburn
General Hospital
Entered at the Postoffice in McKin-
ney, Texas, as Second-Class Mail
Matter.
Appointed Ass’t.
Supt. Lone
Gas Company
24, 1875, settling near McKinney.
Mrs. Lanier was horn Dev. 17, 1870,
at Boaz, Ky., as Cordelia Brown,
daughter of Tom and Adeline Brown.
She came to Texas in 1884 and set-
tled first in Weston.
Fill Immediate Needs
From Host of Materials
Procured by QMC
By REMBERT JAMES
BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND,
mens, Nov. 3 (Delayed)—The
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THE TEXAS Farm Bureau Federa-
tion in session in Dallas declared for
control of inflation by control of wag-
es and industrial prices as well as of
agricultural products and by taxation
of large incomes and went on record
against subsidies in any form instead
of fair market prices for farm pro-
ducts.
All of which may suit one section of
the country and not suit the other.
Leading one to ask the old question
“And so what?’’ If it doesn’t rain
soon there will be no farm products
to regulate.
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As the Examiner has often said, the
whole thing is working out just as Mr.
Hitler has PLANNED it. And we
seem to be so office hungry and mon-
ey mad that the country is being1 torn
to pieces over these questions that
ought to be left quiet until after we
smash old Hitler and his millions of
Hun helpers over there and right here
at home.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—By a un-
animous voice vote, the House Thurs-
day passed and sent to the Senate
compromise legislation putting pre-
war fathers at the bottom of the list
of draft eligibles.
The action was on a conference rer
port submitted by a joint Senate-
House committee which adjusted dif-
ferences between the two branches on
the father-draft subject.
The compromise, which the Senate
was expected to accept, embodies
principles of the original House-pass-
ed Kilday bill to make prewar fathers
the last to be called for induction. It
provides that such fathers shall not
be called until all non-fathers in the
Nation who have not been deferred
for occupational or other reasons have
been drafted.
gladly assisted in the various
paigns for the War Ghost fund,
Bond drives, Red Cross work. ’
fine community decided on the
supper as a means of raising
money.
Mrs. M. S. Rogers of Princeton
places an ad in our classified column
to sell her gas range, has only been
used a few months. Her husband,
Prof. ML S. Rogers, teaches Agricul-
ture in the Princeton High School.
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IL.
Mrs. H. M. McCollum of near Pla-
no, had been off our list the past
year, but renewed while in town
Wednesday for the coming year. She
was accompanied by her little daugh-
ter, Cecilia and Mrs. Roy Spencer.
They live in the Bethany community.
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Mrs. Claud Loftice living near Wes-
ton is a brand new reader of the Ex-
amined. Mrs; Loftice is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Webster of Ce-
lina. She was accompanied to this of-
fice by her daughter, Miss Ruth Lof-
tice who is with a big department
store in Dallas, but is enjoying a va-
cation with her parents.
IT IS said 68 million bushels
wheat are being set aside to use in
making alcohol by the big distilleries.
With the worst drouth in years threat-
ened, there is a determined opposition
to such waste of real food by the whis-
key interests. But the big liquor dis-
tillery must be served even if people
starve.
Norma Ruth Furr, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robt. Furr, of the Foote
community underwent an operation
for appendicitis Monday afternoon at
the McKinney City Hospital, and is
reported to be getting along nicely.
Solo-
story
of an afternoon behind Japanese lines
during which he crawled over their
dead, listened to their frantic chatter
as Marines closed in, and dodged bul-
lets from both sides was related by
Lt. Robert Cronin, Marine raider chap-
lain from Albany, N. Y.
It happened on Puruata Island off
the Bougainville coast.
“I was out giving the last sacra-
ment to a dying man,” the chaplain I
said. “Our lines were shifted sudden-
ly to allow a pair of half-track armor-
ed vehicles Lu cuiue Lhiuuyh. All but
one of the Marines with me took off
with the wounded and before I realiz-
ed it, I and a kid named Howard,
were by ourselves and machine gun
bullets from our own half tracks were
sizzling over our heads.
“e crawled off to one side, but this
turned out to be Jap country. We ■
Editor Ashley Evans having notic-
ed our reference to the move in Con-
gress or in some other “bureau” in
Washington, to regulate carrier pig-
eons, reveals his antipathy for these
beautiful birds. He says in the Bon-
ham Favorite:
The McKinney Examiner is authori-
ty for the statement that a bill has
been introduced in Congress to regu-
late carrier pigeons. That’s right, car-
rier pigeons. They lay too many eggs,
and hatch too many broods. The bill
should provide for a separate bureau
to print instructions to be posted in
every pigeon cote.
Evidently Bro. Evans lived a long
time ago when the family drinking
water was caught from off the roof of
the house and kept in a rain barrel
or a cistern. Pigeons are a real nuis-
ance in such circumstances.
Ashley also shows that he knows
how to hunt rabbits, and we have rec-
ommended him for membbership in
our “rabbit twister club. He quotes
“Don’t shoot a rabbit if he don’t run,”
says Dr. Hall of Chicago. That doctor
is a humanitarian. He says the advice
is given to protect the hunter, as a
rabbit that sits still while you shoot
him may have undulant fever, but it
will operate to save the rabbit, for
the average hunter wti.ll score a miss
if he wants to see if the rablbit will
run.”
Ashley you ought to -watch some of
our “rabbit twisters” stalking a bun-
ny, and note their glee if they acci-'
dentally hit him.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Miller enter-
! tained with a turkey dinner honoring
Pvt. Virgil E. Stogdill of McKinney, (their son-in-law, Cpl. Joe D. Recer of
has been stationed at Camp Barkeley, ■ Dodge City, Ivans., ■*—...
near Abilene, to begin his basic train-! iting his wife and other relatives,
ing in the Medical battailion, accord1- • Those present were Mr. and Mrs.,
ing to word received here by his wife,' Bryce Crump and children; Mrs. Joe
A new World’s record in ship con-
struction was achieved November 3
by the Bethlehem-Hingham shipyard
when it delivered the 1,300-ton de-
stroyer-escort “Reynolds” within 25
days of the time the keel was laid.
The ship, which will carry a com-
plement of 185 officers and men and
cost approximately $3,500,000, was de-
livered to the United States Navy,
which in turn will place it in the ser-
vice of the British Royal Navy for an-
ti-U-boat and convoy duty in the At-
lantic.
This record surpasses1 by more than
20 days the mark set by Bethlehem
in the first world wai’ when it deliv-
ered the destroyer “Reid” to the Am-
erican Navy 45 1-2 days after the lay-
ing of the kee), a new record up to
that time.
The first group of the “Reynolds”
type of ship, built for this war by the
Bethlehem-Hingham yard required 302
days to complete. The next group in
her class required 206 days. The yard
is busy constructing additional des-
troyer-escorts which will join
“Reynolds” in the British Navy.
The “Reynolds” will be turned over
to Admiral H. T. Smith, Supervisor of
Shipbuilding, U. S. N. Quincy, Mass.,
by General Manager W. H. Collins of
the Bethlehem-Hingham yard. ,
Admiral Smith will then deliver the
vessel to the British commanding of-
ficer and she will immediately become
formally designated H. M. S. Rey-
nolds.
The Reynolds, like her sister ships,
is built for speed and quick-handling
fire power. She has three revolving
cannon, a 40-mm. Bofors gun, each
barrel capable of 120 rounds of 2-
pound projectiles per minute, effec-
tive at 2,500 yards against air or sur-
face targets.
It also possesses numerous 20-mm.
Oerlikon machine guns with a poten-
tial fire-power of nearly 400 shells a
minute. A potent feature of her ar-
mament are various K-guns for thrown
ing down 300-pound ash cans.
The Reynolds type of destroyer-
escort is 308 feet long and 36 feet in
breadth and is known in Naval circles
as the Terrier of the Sea. Her super-
structure has been described as a
cross 'between an overgrown subma-
rine conning tower and a gigantic
tank turret.
The wheelhouse, bridge and chart-
house are completely encased in pro-
tective steel armor. The two stepped-
down gun platforms just forward are
among the features which contribute
to an altogether modern appearance.
Aft of the bridge are the short mast
and the squat stack, flanked and fol-
folew by odd-shaped bulges, platforms
and crannies which provide additional
gun-mounts.
The vessel has been described by
Naval men as being something be-
tween a corvette and a destroyer in
size and Naval men pridefully declare | ed vehicles to come through,
that she can outrun the fastest cor- '
vette or submarine.
The design of the destroyer-escort
was conceived three years ago by Ad-
miral E. L. Cochrant, Chief of the Bu-
reau of Ships, Washington, D. C. He
created it after making a four-months
study in England of all angles of the
Atlantic convoy problem,
eluded that a larger, faster and more
heavily armed ship than the corvette
was needed successfully to combat the
growing U-boat menace along the
Anglo-American convoy lanes. Nav>
ship designers and engineers then
laid the plans for the construction of
the destroyer-escort.
It includes the last word in marine
innovations for both warfare and nav-
igation—and it has been one of the
important contributing factors in the
successful Allied war against the Nazi
undersea craft.
When the Navy first assigned the
construction of the escort-destroyers
to the Bethlehem-Hingman yard, its of-
ficers planned that it would require
four months to build, from keel-lay-
ing to launching.
The Bethlehem-Hingham yard quick-
ly put into operation the latest as-
sembly line methods for quantity pro-
duction, and progressively whittled
the construction time down, as point-
ed out above, until this new world re-
cord was achieved.
A chicken stew supper was sponsor-
ed by the American Junior Red Cross
of New Liberty school and the pro-
ceeds exceeded $49. This money was
used to purchase a radio to be pre-
sented to Ashburn General Hosp'tal.
The New Liberty school located
northeast of Farmersville, has Mrs.
Mary Ruth Simmons for teacher. Mrs. (
Simmons is a splendid worker, and !
cam-
War
This
stew
the
He con-1 could see two Japs in nearby trees.
' They kept signalling to each other
with bird calls.
Mrs. Garland Carter has been
moved to McKinney Hospital, where
she is under treatment.
Mrs. John Wilson of Allen, was hon-
ored with a miscellaneous shower at
the home of Mrs. A. J. Edmonds. She
was formerly Winnie Carnell, who has
many friends here.
Mrs. Charles Hamm and Mrs. A. J.
Caplinger canned a beef this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Chick Carter are the i
parents of a baby girl born Nov. 6, at
City Hospital.
Mr. Jess Farnsworth has sold his
farm (the Caleb Farnsworth place) to
Bridgefarmer & Myrick, who own a
big tract of land adjoining the Farns-
worth place.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Taylor spent the
night recently with his brother, Dib
Taylor. They had returned from
Pennsylvania, where Bill worked sev-
eral months on a pipe line. He vzas
going on from here to Big Springs to
continue the same work.
has been stationed at Camp Barkeley, i Dodge City, Kans., who is here vis-
“ ....... 1 other ’
Mr.
MEMPH'S. Tenn., Nev. 22—Forty-
seven cotton items-—ranging from a
web belt Jo a cotton filled comforter
—are issued sh irtjy after induction
to every one of Uncle Sam’s soldiers,
which accounts for part of the heavy
military dem ujd for Anierha’s favor-
ite family fabric
Figures just compiled by the Army
Quartermaster Corps give a word-
picture of “r.hf. composite soldier •’
showing what ne wears, weighs, eats,
and the personal and barracks equip-
ment he uses. The average young
man starting service in the Army,
says the QMC, is five feet eight inch-
es tall, weighs 144 pounds, wears a
9 1-2 D shoe and a size seven hat. Dur-
ing his first year, the Army spends
$226.30 for his food, $190.23 for his
clothing, $57.42 for his individual
equipment and $27.11 for his barracks
equipment—a total of $501.06.
The part cotton plays in clothing
and equipping these soldiers is best
shown by the lists of cotton items he
receives: They include:
One web waist belt, garrison cap,
four pairs of shorts, four handker-
chiefs, field jacket, two pairs of leg-
gings, twTo neckties, liner for his hel-
met, one raincoat, three shirts, three
pairs of socks, three pairs of pants,
four sleeveless undershirts, two bar-
racks bags, one canteen cover, two
mattress covers, one shelter half tent;
one bath and two huck towlels, a cot-
ton-filled comforter, cotton mattress,
two pillowcases and a sheet.
To some soldiers receiving special
training get insect nets and head nets
—both made of cotton—as well as
other items. All in all, the Quarter-
master Corps procures some 11,000
items of military equipment contain-
ing cotton. They’re used on land, on
sea and in the air—everywhere Amer-
ican fighting men go.
Independence .
$34.00; Prairie Grove $2.00; Rowlett ■
$5.00; White Rock, $4.00;
$2.00.
Melvin Belew, chairman for
part of the drive, wishes to thank all
the teachers for their splendid
operation.
Star-Telegram
SENATOR BREWSTER upon his
return from a tour of the "war fronts
made the statement that 30,000 civil-
ian trucks were sent to Australia in
a year by lend-lease while only 15,000
trucks were allocated to American
business men.
Although rumor, the announcement
was made as fact and calculated to
aggravate prejudice of business men
and others against administration of
the war effort and the lend-lease poli-
cy because motor vehicles of all types
are badly needed on the home front.
The ACTUAL FACTS, however,
were revealed by the President: That
75,000 trucks were distributed during
the year for civilian use in THIS
COUNTRY, while 21,135 trucks were
sent to AUSTRALIA in response to a
specific request from General Mac-
Arthur. Moreover, every motor ve-
hicle in Australia that can be spared
is employed in transport of supplies
for the armed forces. The President’s
clarification of the truck controversy
may now invite another brand of crit-
icism—that not enough trucks were
sent to General MacArthur in Aus-
tralia and that our armed forces there
are still bemg neglected.
Undoubtedly, Senator Brewster’s
criticism of lend-lease was well-inten-
tioned, but praiseworthy motive did
not remove the prejudicial element
from the spreading of FALSE RU-
MOR, inviting distrust of our war
leadership and the lend-lease policy
which HAS SAVED and IS YET SAV-
ING American lives. Again, in the
midst of a natiniw>de campaign to
curb “loose talk” about lhe war, an
opposite example is set the people by
RUMOR MONGERING in Washing-
ton.
Mrs. Frances Foster Stogdill. He was . Grump; Charlene Recelr, Geoirgette
in the employ of the big Safeway Guichard, the host and hostess and
store here when he joined the
NEW YORK, Nov. 15—A middle-
aged, modishly-clad woman, strolling
along Park Avenue this afternoon,
stopped suddenly in front of St. Bar-
tholomewi’s Church and, while pedes-
trians stared in amazement, removed
all her clothes.
Someone called the police. The
first officer to reach the scene was
Arthur Fagan. The now nude woman
eluded the officer’s grasp and stepped
onto the lawn of the church.
Two more officers charged up, and
the woman was taken into custody.
The patrolmen quickly covered her
with the Persian lamb coat she had
dropped on the sidewalk preparatory
to disrobing. It bore the initials “R.
V. S.”
An ambulance was summoned md
the woman was taken to Bellevue
Hospital for observation.
You must give a minimum of 100
hours of voluntary service to get . a
Volunteer Service Pin. This service
must be given within one year. Below
we give a. list of McKinney women ,
who have given this much service toz
Red Cross work since Jan. 1st. < J
Mrs. W. P. Abernathy, 154 hours. 1
Mrs. Tom Cloyd, 101 1-2 hours.
Mrs. J. C. Erwin, Jr., 109 1-2 hours. I
Mrs. A. L. Giddins, 149 1-2 hours ’
Miss Bess Heard, 195 hours.
Mrs. Bradley Hoover, 187 hours. < I
Mrs. T. H. Hughston, 108 hours. J
Mrs. J. B. James, 116 3-4 hours.^M’ g|
Mrs. George James, 155 1-2 hours^^ V
Mrs. J. Knight, 357 1-2 hours. • J
Mrs. J. H. Merritt, 207 hours. 4R
Mrs. Julius Purnell, 363 1-4 hours.
Mrs. Earl Quesenbury, 120 1-4 hours.
Mrs. Elton Riggs, 156 hours.
Mrs. Jack Ryan, 125 1-4 hours.
| Mrs. Click White, 102 1-2 hours.
Mrs. Add Wilson, 106 hours.
Mrs. P. D. Robason, 115 1-2 flours. j
Mrs. Roger Duke, 223 hours. I
Mrs. George P. Brown, 336 hours.
The following having worked 100 J
or more hours in the,1 Red Cross Sew- 1
ing and Knitting Room have also J
been presented Red Cross Volunteer I
Service Pins.
Mrs. Hammond Moore. J
Mrs. T. D. Neely. 1
Mrs. W. T. Hoard.
Mrs. W. S. Cameron. I
Mrs. S. E. Walker. j
Mrs. Jesse Atkinson. "C I
Mrs. R. L. Cowan. fr -
Mrs. Dwight Whitw<ell. I
Mrs. H. O. Green. , '
Additional names will be added to . 1
this list before December 31st as there
are quite a few workers, who will soon !
complete their 100 hours. |
Each new worker who corner j
Red Cross Production center is n^^ I
ed and is a great help. The quWJI |
must be met, and it is hoped that more i I
and more McKinney women will assist Oh
in this program.—Remember. Red
The pupils and teachers of the rural
schools called to assist in the drive to
raise Collin County’s quota of the War
Chest fund, did a splendid job. The
teachers were asked to present the
needs of the War Chest fund to the
pupils, and. to ask each child to give
25 cents. It is believed that consid-
ering the schools as a whole, the pu-
pils averaged the 25 cents asked for.
Following are schools which have
reported returns of their drive: Par-
ker school, $6.55; New Liberty $2.00;
Snow Hill $2.00; Whites Grove Si.50;
Ala Hubbard $10.20; Arnold $2 00;
Bois d’ Arc $2.00;
j e ran across the following interest-
ing article in Burt Lockhart’s Pitts-
. burg Gazette. Don’t know whether
; Burt wrote it from memory of his per-
; sonal expeditions or whether he did
■ what we are doing—clipped it from
' an exchange w;hose editor is old
i enough to i ecall the days of Buffalo
i Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hicock. Our
: old friend, George H. Gerrish, of Mc-
Kinney, uhed to stop at this desk to
• tell us of his experience with buffalos
i in West Texas, and how he was tram-
■ pled underfoot. His Texas Ranger
> brothers saved him. Read:
OLD MAN BUFFALO
Probably more than a million Amer-
■ icans toiled slowly and painfully over
■ the prairies before the railroads cross-
ed the continent. For half a century
■ America’s greatest host served those
’ million people, and served them roy-
• ally. He fed them with juicy fresh
• meat, covered them with rich robes,
supplied them with fuel where often
> there was not a stick of wood to burn.
He showed them the way to the wiater
holes, and the fords where the cover-
ed wagons could cross. No wonder
this frontier hero is immortalized on
our five-cent pieces.
His name was Old Man Buffalo.
The bison or American buffalo was,
and is, the biggest animal on the Am-
erican continents. A full-grown bull
stands on the average, six feet at the
shoulder and is from 10 to 12 1-2 feet
long, tail included. He weighs a mean
—very mean—1,800 pounds; but 2,400
pounds is recorded. They are not
especialy long but the breadth of the
savage crown between the horns is
superb. With those horns a bull
could rip the rope-tough prairie sod to
make himself a whllow, could toss a.
whole wolf pack, disembowel a horse
or even carry horse and rider aloft for
a hundred yards before hurling them
to the ground. More dangerous than
a grizzly bear, a cow defending her
calf can be one of the world’s most
ferocious animals. As for a herd of
buffalo, no creature that stood its
ground to argue with a stampede
could live 60 seconds.
Before the white man came, the
American bison was tile most numer-
ous of all the earth’s big land mam-
mals. Naturalists have estimated the
total number variously, but nobody
suggests that there were less than 50,-
000,000. The early cowboys could not
find words to describe the hordes of
these prairie monarchs. That great
plainsman, Colonel Dodge, describes
a single herd 25 miles across, extend-
ing north and south as far as his eyes
could see. In the steamboat era, traf-
fic on the Missouri River might be
stopped for days by buffalo herds
swimming the stream.
It wias the greatest meat supply the
Creator ever bestowed on a lucky
country, but owing to greedy wastage,
not one third of the buffalo slaughter-
ed were ever utilized. Certain epi-
cures of the prairies slew bison only
for their delicious tongues, leaving
the rest to the wolves. Frequently
buffalo were killed only for the hides.
Pioneers butchered them to fatten
their hogs. Millions were slain simp-
ly to clear them off the land.
By 1810 the bison were pushed over
the Mississippi, and there was no
trace of them in the eastern forests1
except the trails they had made walk-
ing in single file. Dan Boone’s Wil-
derness Road followed in part a buffa-
lo path from Tennessee, through Cum-
berland Gap to the salt licks of Ken-
tucky. Many a city stands w|here it
. .3 today because the bison beat an
ancient roadway there.
I The Kansas Pacific Railroad hired
Colonel William Cody, at the fancy
salary of $500 a month, to clear snort-
ingi brutes from the right of way. With
his gang of exterminators he not on-
ly decimated the herds but supplied
the construction crews with fresh
meat daily. On a bet, Col. Cody killed
69 in one day. In 18 months he chalk-
ed up a score of 4,280 bison. That’s
how he came to be known as “Buffalo
Bill.”
Confronted with systematic attacks
like this, the buffalo faced their trag-
ic destiny. For the great beasts had
to go vThen the white man came. The
pioneer’s farms, his fences, cattle,
sheep and crops, could not share
America with these ferocious mon-
sters. The Santa Fe’s “Buffalo Jones”
declared that in 1865 there remained
but 15,000,000 bison; and in that sin-
gle year 1,000,000 were sdaughtered.
Half of the remainder were gone by
1872, the peak of the kill. In 1883,
Montanas biggest herd—10,000 ani-
mals—wias exterminated in a few
days; sharpshooters guarded every'
water hole during the burning sum-
mer hours by firelight at night, and
when the thirst-maddened brutes brav-
ed the bullets to get at water not one
escaped.
Much of this slaughter was for the
sake of the hides, which had soared
in price as they decreased in quan-
tity. These were heaped beside the
railroad in piles high as Kansas Hay-
stacks, mile after mile. But toward
the end the king of primeval America
was made the butt of sport.
JOHN M. KINDLE
John M. Kindle, who was boro in
McKinney, has been appointed assist-
ant superintendent of gasoline plants
for Lone Star Gas Company and the
Lone Star Producing Company, with
headquarters in Dallas, announces
Julian L. Foster, general superintend-
ent and chief engineer. He is the son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. George B.
Kindle, pioneer residents of this com-
munity. His sisters are Miss Bess?
Kindle, Mrs. Esther Dickerson and '
Mrs. G. E. Kennedy, all of McKinney.
After graduating from high school
in McKinney in 1920, ''Air. Kihdle en-
tered Texas Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College, where he graduated -with
a B. S. degree in chemical engineer-
ing. Mr. Kindle joined Lone Star
January 1, 1926, as chemist at the Pe-
trolia gasoline plant. Two years later
he was appointed superintendent o?
the Ranger district, and in 1935
charge of the new gasoline plai^Ht'
Trinidad, where he remained until
1939 when he returned to Ranger to
become district superintendent, hold-
ing that post until his appointment
assistant superintendent of gasoline
plants.
Mr. Kindle is a member of the Meth-
odist church, a Mason and an Elk, a
Rotarian, district chairman for the
Comanche Trail Council, Boy Scouts
of America, and vice-chairman of the
Eastland County War Fund. Mrs.
Kindle is the former Helen Callowa^j
M. Kindle, Jr., 6. x.
George Albert Newbill, aged 65
years and 27 days, died Friday even-
ing, Nov. 12th, at 7:15 o’clock. He
had accompanied his wife to McKin-
ney and wias stricken ill while there,
passing away in this city at the above
stated time.
Mr. Newbill had been in declining
health for the past four years.
Funeral services were held in the
Presbyterian Church in Plano Wed-
nesday afternoon at 2:30, conducted
by the pastor, Rev. Ernest Ulmer,
assisted by Revs. T. T. Newton and
D. W. Nicholas.
Interment in
Park.
Pallbearers were: Lee Elliott, Bob
Lewis, William Haggard, Harold Gar-
rett, Fred Maultsby and C. L. Harring-
ton.
Deceased was born in Tennessee
October 18, 1878. He had been a resi-
dent of Texas and Plano for the past
twenty-five years.
His survivors are his widow and
one son. George A. (Lex) Newbill, Jr.,
now in the South Pacific with the
Seabees; three brothers, C- R. New-
bill, of Celina; Penn, T. U. and M. J.
Newbill of Trezevant, Tennessee.
He was a member of the Presbyter-
ian church.
For many years Mr. Newbill was
employed at the local ice company’s
plant.
After living more than 50 years in
the same community and more than
40 years on the same farm, Mr. and
Mrs. John Lanier of Roland, have sold
their home and moved to McKinney to
reside.
Mr. and Mrs. Lanier were married
July 5, 1888, at Sherman and are the
parents of six children: Mrs. J. B.
Hunter, of Roland; Orin J. Lanier
Prosper; Jack and Houston Lanbj|^k‘
McKinney, and Ben and Ellis
of the army. They have seven gi^w-
children and three great grandchil-
dren.
Mr. Lanier was born Dec. 29,186
at Lawson, Mo., a son of Audrey ajflp
“Leaves were falling all over and ant^ came to Texas Dec.
around us from traced bullets and’ ’
some low shots knocked dirt on our
heads.
“e could see American transports
out a mile or two in the water unload-
ing supplies and our landing boats
were passing by closer than that. The
kid with me wanted to swim for it,
but I thought we would be too good a
target in the water.
“So I kept on crawling through the
brush and found ourselves on top of
six Jap bodies, newly dead, that look-
ed like they had been laid out by
hand, all in a row. hat evidently hap-
pened was that a Marine machine gun
caught them all standing up. They
had been sprayed with bullets through
their hearts and fell backward, all in
a row.”
Old Man Buffalo
Regarding the poll tax question, the
Paris News says:
‘The assertion by some uninformed
persons, that the poll tax requirement
adopted by the eight states that have
it was for the purpose of disfran-
chising the Negroes, is lacking in any
sort of proof, for the fact is that in
some of these states the white voters
who refuse or neglect to pay the tax
equal or outnumber the Negroes.
The plea that it prevents voting be-
cause of lack of money to pay comes
at a time when every able bodied per-
son IS or COULD BE, EMPLOYED
and earning or receiving more money
than was ever before paid for pro-
ducts or service. Many of the men
who disfranchise themselves are buy-
ing thirty packages of cigarettes a
month, and paying the Federal Gov-
ernment a dollar and eighty cents for
the privilege of smoking, while un-
willing to pay the State of Texas a
dollar and seventy-five cents, once a
year, to HELP SUPPORT THE
SCHOOLS and -the State and county
governments, to which many of them
send their children FREE, with text
books furnished without cost. Some
are buying whisky and paying a high-
er tax, to say nothing of soft drinks,
theatre admissions and’ the countless
other unessential things that carry
Federal taxes.
There is a lawful way provided to
prevent levy of poll taxes for Feder-
al elections. The reason the Admin-
istration does not advocate following
that way is that it could not become
operative before the next election for
President and members of the Con-
gress,” the News says.
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