The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1945 Page: 1 of 8
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to worry over things that have
already happened, and the things
that gre going to happen: There:
fore, you have nothing to worry
about, do. you?
A. L. Langson, 'of Ryan, Ok-
lahoma, i* spending the week in
the J. N. Langson home.
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1JTHE BOWIE NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 12^1945 A NUMBER 46
NEW HIGHWAY IS DESIGNATED
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las, W. Gant
Ringgc:d to
515 Walnut street, in Bo vie.
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an interivew
Cor-
respondent of the Dallas Nc'ws,
whohas been on ..the Alsace-
Loraine front for months.
Work Started To
Make All Weather „______
Roads In Precinct 2
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Bowie Volleyball Girls To Be Hosts
To Teams Of Seven Schools Saturday
Honored *Ai Swiff
given-1
some I
ap- 1
• .telegram Sunday, January
from the War Department, stat-
ing that her son, T|Sgt. Elmer
W Menasco, is a prisoner of war
in Germany. He was recently
reported missing in action after
a mission as earial gunner on a
B-24 Bomber over Germany. ”
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C. L. Washburn, son of Mrs.
L.’ C. Washbum, left recently
for the Merchant Marine. He is
now stationed at Avalon, Calif.
Paul Boedeker, President, pre-
sided.
A piece of abandoned
land, Southeast of Bowie,
planted to native blue grass jn
the Spring of 1941,' and tTiis past
season was mowed for hay, show-
ing what can be done in soil
conservation and pasture reha-
bilitation at the same time.
her parents at Postoak.
uncle, • Pfc Leonard Adams,
now serving his third year
seas. _
Sgt. Adams attended Howard
Payne College in Brownwood,
Lefort) entering the U. S. > Ser-
vice. The family is well ‘and
favorably known in Montague
County.
is also
Bowie
SaturdAy, January 27 in their
annual rage meet. Plax is for
Congratulations to the Bowie
High Basketball Boys, who mai
a marvelous and worthy record
in the recent tournaments Over
a wide section of the country.
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hr The Sinclair, Pipw f.mo has designat'.’tf^ ■ 1 Re’
______, was
made from the Hildreth field*
six miles North of Bowie, dur-
ing December, , running from
tout field a total of 164,000. bar-
1 eJs,itis declared-
The Sinclaii’s newiv enlarged
pumping facilities and increased
pipe line facilities, recently com-
pleted, make possible' handling
of larger quantities of Montague
county oil. The Hildreth pool
oil the past month, being of
EXCELS WITH PAID CIRCULATION
COVERAGE AND READER INTEREST
IN FOUR-COUNTY TRADE AREA.
**a..s*u.u • disp’ayed. initiative,
resourcefulness and unusual abil-
ity, and with disregard for the
elements of time or his own
welfare and with insufficient
staff, completed the initial work
Tf organizing his office in a
ry^fficient manner. He con-.
d4»-hi’ his work in a way that
brought only praise and com-
plete cooperation. His conduct
■was 4an outstanding example of
soldiering and administrative
ability for all the officers of the
Command.",
—By Command of- Major
General DEANE. j
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OPA Officials
Guests of Rotary;
Fultaen Is Speaker
J. H. Fultgen, of.,.Fort Worth,
District Director, and M. J. Kav-
onaugh, District Board Opera-
tions Executive, were in Bowie
County Commissioner How
ard Wheeler started work th’L
week on what’ he claims to lie
an extended .program of lateral
and■ farm to market, road tap-
-ptng~lTnt is~calculated to make
all. x*rather roads out of. in<st
of th routes traversed by
names of
one
and has no bearing on the con-
ference race.
Entries have been received
from Henrietta. Bellevue, Sunset,
Ringgold, Stoneburg, prairie Va^
ley and Rhome is also expected
tb play. The Jackrabbits will
make the eighth team. Bowie is
defending champion and will be
one of the favorites to win the
meet this year.
MAYBRiuF
NEW WILDCAT
NEAR NEWPORT
Much interest- centered this
week. around an announcement
out of Dallas that the Continen-
tal Company will drill a, Wild-
cat well on the Thomas Estate
land, 12 miles Southwest of
Bowie and about two miles
north of Newport. Uh is is said
to have been recommended by
the Geological dapartment, but
Thursday no order had ' come
through from the main office.
Despite the fact that this
company just recently drilled a
* '! On \he Welch, 2 miles
southwest, much hope is based
on this new prospective opera*
tion because of what is declared
to be good surface structure in-
dications as well as very favora-
ble, geophysics explorations
there A block of leases was
assembled around this structure
by the old Manhattan Oil Com-
pany years ago. Continental
Sunday School Teacher: “Why,
Robert, I am surprised to hear
you say that you don’t believe
|Z our j>rajkers are answered." L-*
Robert: f “Well, the angels
brought a new baby to our
house last week and all the
tinae I had been praying for a 1
goat.” . * . - --
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Sunset Man Buys
i Building In Bowie;
I To Open Business Here
Boyd Doughty is reported to
sold his service station and gar-
age at Sunset to a man from
Amarillo.
He has purchased from W. W.
Philley the onerstory, stucco
building, second door east
of Golden-Surber Hardware
store, 'on East Wise street, which
is now occupied by a plumbing
establishment and a barber shop.
The consideration was $3,000.
Tb<? lot is*30 by 50 feet and the
building is 30 by 30 feet, and
Mt. Dowdy, who is well and
favorably known in this section,
especially ■ in the Sunset area,
plans, it is reported, to op?rate
an auto supply business There
and move to Bowie withi t rnr
next few’ weeks, perhaps j He
get . possession of the poverty
Fri. ruary 1.*
plan to
kinds of
his pre-
cinct, as soon, as conditions will
permit, he Said this week. His
pk.n - includes—a— b» *fer direct Wrdnrrdny ATid' Fultgen was
route between the Mallard and
Forestburg area and Bowie for
dll-v/cather travel
VZbeeler has juSt completed
building a direct, shorter route
for h«avy traffic demands from
‘he Hildreth oil, field,' directly
into Rock Springs, a distance of
about fouf miles. It is a graded,
oil-toppep road,
route ‘
The Bowie volleyball girls will
be host, to seven schools Satur-
day, January 20, in their annual ‘
yolleyball tournament.
Schools competing are Sunset,
Stoneburg, Ringgold, Forestburg,
Nocona, Byers and St. Jo. The
Bowie’Lassies U’ill jomplete the
1(j(s bight team bracket. The flrsT
game will begin at ten o’clock
Saturday morqing between Bowie
and Sunset. S tone burg and Ring-
gold will ,p'ay at 11:15. Forest-
burg and Nocona will open the
afternoon session at, L.. Byers''will
meet St- Jo for the final game
of the first round of play.
. /Miss Johansen, Bowie Coach,
has three large trophies fof thc r
best three teams ,n the meet,
Three miniature volleyballs will
also be awarded fo three„ girls ‘
for play at the set-up positjafh*
and best sportsmanship.
The finals will be Saturday
night with loset s n the semi-
ftnate -playin-g fur third "plac'd-and
a trophy and the winners in the
semi-finals playing for first
and second place. 'Byers and 1
Stoneburg are expected 1o reach
The finals for first place honors, 1
but any of the entries may go
through to the Championship.
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Seven Basketball
Teams To J?lay In
Bowie January 27
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Fire Destroys
Fire recently destroyed a farm
house occupied by John Burris
and family, three miles east of
Sunset.
Mrs. Burris and daughter-in-
law,. Mrs. Elyin Burris, of Beele-
vue; Mrs. Christine Moore and
Mrs. Effie Howard were in the
„ house at the time they discov-
ered the blaze in the roof, be-
leived- from sparke from • the
fin place chimney. ■
• Th® family saved only part of
their clothing and bed linens.
They sav^d some canned fruit
that wasr m the- ccttnr.—;-----
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Sgt. Elmer Menasco
Prisoner In Germany
there now. The Phillips Com-
pany held a lot of leases around
that vicinity for a number of,
years. ' —
Continental has made new, lo-
cation for Bates No. 4, in the
Hildreth pool, and has, after
failing to find ‘ production in
other strata in the Hamilton, de-
cided to test lhe upper con-
glomerate at 6110, before aban-
doning. Their Nabors No. 1 is
drilling at below 6,050 and the)’
Ai^kketh No. 5 drilling arouna Mrs. Lillie Menasco received
I more local importance
fr will give mu:u paved
farm to market roai bet-
tc transportat’.m rulM tar
communi ties of the Nc wport
area. 1)ic right of.v.tv will be
in Montague an I Jae.c ct.’t,niie<
only, about equal d elm ce in
each.
The Bowie Chamber- af CttB-
merce in recent mon* is ?’ns been
working on the prop v-jt
had representatives meet
Jack county official »nd
rials and citizens, and r. letter
was received this wce«r ly Olin |
Watson, from Lewis Jebnaon,
of the Jacksbo-o emmittet, .-^*5
after State Serntui R C. Lah-
H1 n(t nF rlict >
Starts I
Your Home Town and County Newspaper" '
Carry your paper bags bacl^
io your grocer — qr you’ll soori
have to take a basket or bring
baqk your groceries in your
' pockets. Tl>e paper situation,-fs be host to neighboring schools
really that serious. Bags are Saturday, January 27 in their
- alM®t unobtainable now. ( [annuaT rage meet. Plat is for
practice and first place honors
fartn
was
Springs road, to connect yp
with the paved 2*
lague highway. .
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Theatre Calendar
—Friday • Saturday: Double
Feature — “Youth Runs Wild”,
with Bonita Granville; also
Bob Livingston in “Laramie
Trail”. . ,
—Sunday - Monday: "Going
My Way” with Bing Crosby.
—Tuesday: Edward
Horton in "San Diego, I Love
You”.
—Wednesday - Thursday: Gary
Cooper and'Teresa Wright ip
"Casanova Brown”. -
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Mr. and Mrs. Chi
have moved from 1
returned- to Bowie Friday
th routes traversed . hy I^av?n^vortb’ Kansas,
scho buses and milk trucks in_,
Tfiw p'crincf,: .<■
one’ of the biggest road,...
Ijettrnn’c nt/plans- ever launch 'd
1n 'JJs area.
The work is being stahted this
week by graveling some- bacj,
sections of the black land North-
west of Bowie in the Bowie
Lake and Stoneburg area.
Wheelerris on a deal'for more
trucks’ and is also trying to se-
cure a gravel loading machine,
owing to shortage of help, so
’rucks can be loaded quickly j
md economically for this road • _
‘epping work. - Forces jn Europe, from May 11,
Part of this road improvement
Jacksboro Road
The largest joii run yet made —e State Highway Depart-
" ' ‘ new"
State Highway between Bowie
and State High\vay’Nc 24 pev-
ing, northeast of Jacksbr ro, and
State Highway Engineers have
been ordered to proceed - with
working out detailed p ane !
it, to be, ready to be started as
soon as the war is over '[•. t
The length of the n -w paved ,
road, a vital Farm-i’>-Market
highway, for this area, will be
around 20 miles for It will be
shorter than the present crook-
---------------i <’. Newport
and thence to the Marietta
«tore, where*" the dirt con-
nects with the Ja -kso o-Chico
paved road, northeast of Jacka-
boro. It is not known be we ver,
just at what point it 'rill con-
nect with Highway 24. Tf e rqore
direct road.-end payed/-then, is
expected to be'ariu. d 30 miles,
between Bowie in i J.'ik borO,
thus competing a i.n’c ihut will
make another ■ pax )d route
through Bowie tor m trane-
continentpl trnff’c - f em North-
east by Bowie, Jacicabehj'
<Aal Wells, Ste.hcnv'Re San
Antonio, Mexico an t South
America. ■ - T
I It will also afford a short route
to Graham, Brec’i >nri-L;*/ and
I Scbihwest
INTEREST GROWS IN
REVIVAL MEETING
Much interest b being shown
in ire reviv/J meeting being
held this week at the Old Time
Gnsoel Mission'just east of thr
Trades Day grounds, half a block.
oil. n.oved by Ringgold, Okla-
homa. through big pipe—lines,
thense, probably to the
hard, presst d Eastern
where a coal shortage j
garded serious.
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|C of C Hears
Charge The!
Rents Excessive
At a well attended meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce Direc-
tors Monday night, the housing
situation in Bowie was
serious consideration and
citizens were heard in an ap- -----
peal against what they "declared J’,”'n s to West, and
“Excessive high rents- that are exa9>
driving families^^waM^^to—live
pltewhere.”' ..., '
The need of a modern
wa« also discussed and a com - i
rriittee named to push .this mat- ,
u r and do something about the -
’.Oitribg pioblem. i
Th" fc'm-to-market road
j--j'.< n-.r nt was also urged.'
.Ju: her Support was a'so an
rang d for the frozen In-v r
plant, for which more ^signed
contracts oi food producers are
needed to secure building pri-
orftyC
We've just been reading a new
issue of “The Lyons’ Tale” issued
by thff Bowie Lions Club and are
impressed with the long list of
. things worth while done by that
live-wire organization during
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Congratulations to Mr. and
Mrs. Joe H. Garlington. After
their second fire they have the
Bowie Grocery Co., going strong
~ again -- and work is also under
way on rebuilding at the’ old
site.
Major Langford
Awarded Citation;
Called To Washington
Major ahd Mrs. Karl Langford
~ - from |
where '
Major -Langford has been doing
some Special, work. He left
Monday for Washington, D. C ,
‘Where he will be re-assigned.
Mrs.' - Langford will remain in
Bowie at present. - ‘
. Major Langford has just re-
ceived? a Citation, sent through
the American Embassy, United
States Military Mission, Moscow,
Russia, “fOr meritorious achieve-
ment in connection with military
operat ons against the enemy.”
T,he 'citation is quoted further:
I “As Adjutant General For East-
' ern Command, U. S. Strategic
| 1944, to October 11, 1944, Major
work to n :ke a‘ lot of the roads, I b,anKfor<I '
• rocAiirnnfiil
includes careful grading and
then oiling and packing, es-
pecially in the sandy area, which
process has proven -a good top-
ping method, where it has been
put iqto practice over a period*,
of several months in the Hil-
dreth pool area, Wheeler said.
After one or two oilings, and
traffic packs and works the
oil into the surface, it becomes
very hard and water runs off
readily without permitting the
roads to sbften up. It also pre-
vents cutting of ruts and dust.
The plan is to thus Improve'the
roads from Bowie to Newport
and Vashti, right away, serving
a trade and milk supply area of
lavge proportions.
He includes in l.is
make passable, in all
weather, all roads in
ad-
or-
the t
State Highway body. Alro H. I.
Trout, of the Bowie News, last ‘ :
Saturday received a Tetter from . {»
Representative E. L. Covey, of
Bowie, in Austin, that he had
been called to the State
way Commission offices wh«ra ■
he had been advjsed that "hfj fl
highway between Bowie and fl
Jacksboro had beer^ offteWHjf S
designated 'and engineers in- |
strutted to make survey. J I
Mr. Johnson, of Jacksboro, 1
is giving Senator Lanning, of
the Montague and Jack County I
district, much credit for the f I
designation order. Jt is said he ■1
worked diligently before that ■
body for the proposal. ■
Senator Lanning”s letter quoted H
from the Highwhy Commission’s ■
order as follows: I
“In Jack and Montague coun- I
ties, a highway is hereby des- I
ignated between point of inter- ■
section with Highway No. 24, I
Northeast of Jacksboro in Jack 1
County, and the State Highway 1
Engineer is direected^ to pro-
and location ,
studies in order that this infer-
mati6n may be availably as
such time as the available rev- '
enues of the Department may
inaugurate construction on any. “* j
portion of the route.”
Plans are already announced
in Washington to release millions
to match State funds, for new
Farm-To-Market road paving, to ,
be released ag a first back-to-
work provision, soon as the war
ends—and the Texas body is
planning accordingly. .
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Mrs- Roy Wesson is visvlng
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' IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SELL,
ADVERTISING IN BQWIE NEWS^
I I—* IS MONE^ PROFITABLY INVESTED
Our hearty thanks to our State
Senator R. C. Lanning, of Jacks-
boro, for persistent and elec-
tive work in helping secure the
designation of the badly needed
paved highway between Bowie
and Jacksboro—serving some
• worthy communities in between,
needing better farm-to-market
■ outlets,
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The Camp Swift newspaper
carried a lengthy article of ap-
preciation’ of Miss Fay' Barr,
and her picture, naming her the
Honor Civilian of the Week at
Camp Swift, in connection with
her work as Administrative As-
sistant in the GM-Commissary.
She is one of the well known
Ban twins, reared and schooled
’in Buwie. Her sister Gay, mar-
ned_ ar:d- moved^to—Washington,
J. C. Jim Barr, of Bowie,, is
e: Ldher.
• J’.'ie article'concluded with this
c.ompliment to -Miss Fay:
'Ip the energetic and enthu-
.^inut.e Fay Barr, for a genuine
cchlributioa. fb thcMvar effort in
k- epiqg a koy office running
snK.oir.ly and efficiently and
meirvr relax'ng for a moment, jo
th:<t week's honors as’.CIVILIAN
I’OR THE WEEK.”
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Arthur Adams Is
Killed In Action
t
Mr.- and Mrs. J. R. Adams, of
Postoak, received. _^a /elegrafri
from the War Department Mon-
day, advising them their son, Sgt
Arthur J. Adams, had been
killed in action, January 1st, in
England.
He had been in service since
March 1943, buh*^ver:eas about
two months. He is the only son
of Mr. and Mrs. Adams, had he
lived until the 21st of this
month he would have been
twenty-one years old. He
survived by his parents, and
sister, who makes her home with
An
is
over-
Mrs. W. W. Williams . ,
Hears Voice of Son * — < IAI'mL
Who Is In Germany ReCOrd Oil Rllll^"Oil
Mrs. W. W. William's- and _ < -*■■■■ [■■g----1
daughter, Miss Estelle, heard T
Stall Sgt. Aldon Williams, who — 7 '——--
is on the German front, Thurs-
day night by transcribed record
broadcast in Texas over WFAAl jlny. in. bne month
Radio Station, as rn :r.t— ■i—■
with Wick Fowler, Staff
A newspaper man’s eyes and
nose for news observe a good
many things he wishes some-
times he hadn’t discovered, and
much that cannct be printed, dry ,hole
"S'^Tor instance the other day we
were bowled over cMd, when a
well known nicely dressed resi-
LX dent of Bowie, who has a good
WL income, slipped into her bin purse
1 W a box of fine toilet soap and
LtmLyalked out of the store. Wr
^haven’t told her name to anyone
'__and you couldn’t guess in 20
trys 1
We’re not defending members brids approximately? 2,000 aeres-
of the bobby sox age who some
mSfSKahtS over the country are
complaining against^ s& much for
shop-lifting — but we can bet
there would be a lot less of bob-
•. • by-sox crowd’taking on the theft
habit/- if more uprightness were
shown by older ones of their sex.
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Bowie City Dads propose tr
spend $30,000 for tfre-“Citys
in piving ten. miles of
as an intial post-war
is propdsed to have
coriertfle curb- .and gutters and
asphalt topping on a ctushed
rock base, on certain important,
connected thoroughfare*, where
* property owners agree. .A good
type of long-life paving. There
should be a prompt and enthu-
«*astk cooperation and applica-
tion from property ou*n«s _ to
gl are their nart, which will en-
hance the property value more
than its cos's «Timina’s dust and
(Continued on Page Eight)
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Eugene Worley, on furlough
after 14 months in the Pacific
area, is visiting his mother,
Mrs. T. G. Worley, and aunt,
Mm T. Y. Jameson.
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ofJ the Naval Public Relations fceed with route
Office, thirty-seven transports
and cargo vessels of the U. S.
Navy now bear the__
Texas I counties, including
named after Montague county.
One of them is also named
Bowie, after Bowie .county,
Texas.
Most of the ^hlps have been
launched, And many of them are
already in the service with the
fleet
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Buys Farm and
Moves Back To
Montague County
A. L. Cleveland and' wife'are
moving to Montague county
ficm Quail, Texas, on the Plains,
w^ere they have lived for 29
years. - <
They have bought the John
Daggs 230-acre farm, two miles
south of Montague, for a cas'i
consideration < of $4,000. The
dca^ was made by Undepwood
and Biggerstaff, of Bowie.
speaker at- the Bowie Rotary
Club. o • -4.-
.Members of the local board,
also- guests of the club, included:
D M.' Major. Chairman Board.
Tames McCall, Chairman Tire
Panel; W. E7 Benson, Chairman
Gas Panel; Hapve Ratliff, Tire
Panel; M. Posey, Tire Panel;
road. An improVFcT -Herman Moore, Chairman Price
has been made , frtgn the. P;.ncL-JLnd»-Clark, Price Panel;
oil fieM-iand uf-tBe~new Rock Pete Barry, Price Pane’ Lola
Lee, Chief Clerk; E. L. Ander-
sen, Price Clerk.
Fultgen made an i ntgrgsting
__talk on the _whx-„Qf -xruronlng, Recording to the Dallas branch
and complimented the local or- ■ KT—1 —
nanization for the work they
are doing. He appeal id for
nrCparations also ^>r return of
the fighting men and post-war
problems. •
The guests were introduced
hy Mr. Anderson, a Rotarian.
^““1 Mr Medal Awarded
Lie Ray D. Sanders, Jr.
Second Lt. Roy D. Sanders,
Jr., now In England, has-been
awarded the Air Medal for mer-
itorious achievement in aerial
message received in Bowie by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Sanders.
baqk your
’ that serious. Bags
it unobtainable now.
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