Gainesville Weekly Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1945 Page: 4 of 6
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TURSDAY, JANUARY u, 1942
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New classifications issued Tues-
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Sgt. Ira Case was wounded in
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Pennsylvania lacked Less than $2
VICE—Three sons and a son-in-law of
of equalling the Lone Star state
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services.
with $20.40. New York was third
worn
$2.35;
Kansas $3.88; Kentucky
; 1 last of which was the battle
was in a naval hospital for three
Mexico $1.31; North Dakota $1.39;
ting a watermelon on New Britain
Pvt. Roy A. Baker, husband
gardening as a hobby, invited us
vested from his patch of some 15
Sinclair - Prairie Oil Company
vins covering approximately 400
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Texas
Murrell in same survey.
ward Skelton, stating that he is
ing Sunday or Monday.
Pure Oil Company No. 1 Flow-
world.
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Anderson and associates
Jim
! gardens in the area.
ior college.
Carried Much Water
IV-F:
Leo H. Stiles, Robert B.
Otto, and Everette L. Oliver.
ERA NEWS
be published for each state.
enumerators are urged by Mr.
ERA, Jan. 16.—H. Moody spent
Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Holland of
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Whitesboro.
around 1500 feet.
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north of Whitesboro, cored at
It is announced a second well
miles southwest of Muenster.
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GRAND CHAMPION—Richard tacy, 18, Kansas, HL, 4-H club
owned by major companies and
for fresh fruits or.
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Other figures by states are:
Alabama $4.16; Arkansas S2.99;
Company has set surface casing
on No. 2 Floy Murrell, which is
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action in Belgium December 21,
according to word received by his
wife, Mrs. Lorna Case, route 2,
Gainesville, from the War de-
Texan Examines Melon
An East Texan from Marshall,
Ralph A. Scott of Greenfield,
Indiana, has contracted with J. G.
“Richards and Son of this city, for
Phoenix, Ariz., joined his brot
in Taft for a reunion after th
years of separation. Bryan V
return to the Pacific soon.
lease on more than 600 acres sur-
rounding his production and ex-
pects to do considerable develop-
ing in this area. On an adjoining
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Draft Board Has
Reclassified Men .
In Cooke County
Large Group in IV-A
Several Placed in
ILB This Week
to.
Another large group has been
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been in service 27 months and
overseas almost two years.
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Two Injured in
Traffic Mishap
Reeves, '729 and following the show, a news-
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Attention,
Cotton Farmers!
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Six Scout Troops
Participate in
। Court of Honor
Awards Made at Court- !
Room Session Friday;
Troop 153 Wins Trophy.
$7.69; New Hampshire 97c; Okla-
homa $4.88; Oregon $1.79; Ohio
$6.88; Rhode Island $1.68; South
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Dr H. H. Terry, Cooke county
health unit director, tells of his
escape from a Japanese trap on
Leyte island, where he and 22
square feet.
Several other infantrymen also
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Gainesville high school and E. J. day before he wrote the letter.
Riley attended Gainesville Jun- Each evening, Mhe men are privi-
; leged to attend an open air movie, ’
Anderson to get ini touch with
him by mail or telephone this
week at Census headquarters for
this district which are located at
being drilled north and east of
No. 1 Murrell. , L
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$3.64; Louisiana $3.06; Mississippi
$3.46; Massachusetts $6.59; Min-
nesota $5.71; Maine $1.59; Michi-
gan $10.26; Montana $1.26; Mis-
souri $4.32; Maryland $1.42; Ne-
braska $3.41; Nevada 70c; New
an injury received from a fall
recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Miller
Three Days $244
Pennsylvania Second
To Texas in the First
Milk Bottle Totals
months before coming home.
Carl S. Cook, Jr, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl S. Cook, 1024 East
California street, was a member
Texas Company No. 1 Beasley
in Sivells Bend is reported pro-
ducing oil, from depth of 6817
feet. “ The Sun Oil Company No.
1 Butler in Massingill survey, east
of Beasley, is drilling below 3,000
feet.
Six scout troops took part in .
the Boy Scout court of honor Fri- ,
\day night in the district court-1
room.
Eual Bryan, Lewis Kincannon, as-
sistants, troop 153; cub-pack mas-
ter, troop 153, O. E. Locke, L. H.
McLaughlin, assistant, Mrs. Em-
mett Paclik and Mrs. J. W. Ho-
mer, den mothers.
The trophy for attendance went
to troop 153 of which Dr. A. A.
Davenport is scoutmaster.
The court was closed with the
scoutmaster’s benediction given
by Mr. Blount.
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E ! ing from 2600 foot sand will pos-
I sibly put down a number of wells
1 on this tract during next few
Washington office of the Census
bureau for inclusion in the nation-
By SGT. J. GARLAND SMITH
Register Correspondent
by the scoutmasters and as-
sistants of troops receiving this
award were presented to Tom
Blount, scoutmaster, Martin Da-
vis, assistant, of troop 151; A. F.
Steiner, scoutmaster, troop 152;
Dr. A. A. Davenport, scoutmaster,
FOUR OF FAMLYIN SE
Mr. anti Mrs. Albe
Nirs. J. B. Sparkman and Mrs.
k Texas Company No. 1 Handy, a Isa Hudspeth attended the fu-
wildcat in Samuel Stewart sur- neral of Capt. D. A. Yeary in Pi-
vey, abstract 1069. twenty miles lot Point Tuesday.
north of Whitesboro, cored at Mrs. Paul Marion has been at
2624 feet and recovered four feet the bedside of Mrs. Ida Thomp-
of broken oil sand. Drilling is j son, who has been bedfast from
progressing below 2700 feet. •
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cently been given up in Ellenber- J
ger lime below 4,000 feet.
Jim Anderson No. 1 H.C. Hay,
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will be drilled on S. B. Hopkins are the parents of a girl born
ranch in BBB & C RR Co. survey, Jan. 1. she has been named Eva
abstract 150, in new field six Frances.
I WANT IMS EQUITIES—
any location
Strict low and better 13/16
staple and longer.
Need Enumerators
For Farm Census
An appeal for additional enu-
merators to assist in taking the
1945 census of agriculture in
Cooke county was issued Friday
by Henry J. Anderson, Jr., Wich-
ita Falls, supervisor for the Bu-
reau of the Census, Department of
Commerce.
A number of vacancies for the
census field force in this county
must be filled at once, Mr. An-
derson said, in order to assure the
completion of the field work be-
fore the end of March, the dead-
. cousin, Mrs. V.
' arid family..
. E. L Townsley I
OVER EXPRESS OFFICE
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pleted a six-weeks recruit train-
ing course for women Marines
at Camp Lejeune, N. C,, and has
been assigned to duty with the
Women's Reserve battalion at the
camp.
Gerald H. Clark, son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Clark. route 1, Gaines
ville, and Billie J. Maddox, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Maddox,
708 South Morris street, are en-
rolled in the U. S. Maritime Sery.
ice at St. Petersburg, Fla.
Sgt. Bert H. Odom, son of J. C.
Odom, of Era. was recently
awarded the good conduct medal
for exemplary behavior, efficien
cv and fidelity at a United State
air service command depot in the
European theatre of operations,
somewhere in England.
Cpi. Troy Morgan of the U. S.
army air engineering service, who
is in the South Pacific, is getting
along fine, according to word re-
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The court opened with the color
: - bearers bringing in the flag, fol- ■
lowed by the members of the
court of honor. After the singing
of ‘ America," Judge Carroll Sul- •
John Gray and associates will
soon start drilling some more
board include the following: II-B,
Ruben G. Watson, Reavy Aycox,
and Charles E. Watson; Il-C,
who had spent his earliest years
in the watermelon country, was
First Sgt. J. Earl Jones, son of
Mrs. Frank Jones, of Bloomfield,
has returned home for a 10-day
furlough after spending almost
three years in the South Pacific..
His last station was on New
Guinea where he was with the
162nd Infantry. He has three
battle stars on his Pacific theater
of war ribbon. Sgt. Jones was
employed by the county tax col-'
lector’s office before being in-i
ducted in February, 1942.
Pvt Eva L. Lyon, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Lyon,
route 1, Gainesville, has com-’
annual President’s Birthday cele- Richard Arend and Robert B. Ot-
bration, announced Tuesday.
The milk bottles were placed
Joe Baldwin has completed his
No. 2 A. L. Orsburn this week as
good producer.
Phillips Petroleum Company
; No. 1 Albert Reiter, in J. M. Culp
survey, a iwest offset to Kadane
•I No. 1 Hopkins, six miles south-
merit badge certificates were pre- •
sented by Roland Wilson. The
only boy receiving the life rank
certificate was Bob Deaton. Those
receiving the merit badge certifi-
cates were:; Charles Priddy, HL
—m" - " Welch,
; Hopkins is coming from 2969 feet
!to 2983 feet and Reiter well is
. producing from about ‛samne
depth. These wells will start a
' drilling campaign on additional
acreage in this area. Scott
Brothers, who hold lease on 200
acres of A. D. Walterscheid land,
where they have one well produc-
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Up by American P-T boats.
Relatives here also received a
4 copy of the commendation award-
ed Houston’s troop for action at
Hollandia where his troop “ac-
If Burk Royalty Company No.
1 James Ware in southwest cor-
ner of 40 acres in W. C. Wharton
survey, is producer, it will ex-
tend field to east and several
other wells will be drilled in this
new pool, which is being de-
veloped by Joe Baldwin of Wich-
ita Falls. The oil is high gravity
arid coming from shallow depth
makes wells very profitable to
operators as cost of drilling is
reasonable.
on the street late Thursday and > reclassified IV-A, as follows:
by Saturday night the total was' Morris K. Cunningham, Otis R.
$137.97. Sunday’s receipts in Morgeson, James R. King, Robert
front of the State theatre were Wilson,, Lois W: McCuistion.
$106 59 , Vallis Hinsley, Clyde O. Thomp-
Texas led the parade as might I son, Clarence E. McCollum Chris-
be expected with $46.63, but topherE. Harmon, James T. Hen-
- - - ry, Ed Murrell, Harry Kenyon,
Ector L. Gilmore, Robert M. Ter-
ducer.
Jim Anderson and others No.
1 Hay, east of town, is setting
pipe at depth of 2175 feet to test
sand showing oil. This well was
drilled to depth of 4080 feet and
given up in Ellenberger lime. By
plugging back operators have
hopes of making some kind of a
producer from Bruhlmeyer rand.
Sinclair - Prairie Oil Company
No. 1 Kidd Unit-2, in tot 6, of
Robert Finney survey, abstract
Joe Luke Heads
Muenster Firemen
MUENSTER, Jan. 12 — Joe
Luke was elected chief of the
Muenster volunteer fire depart- ;
ment at the annual meeting this
week.
Other officers chosen are J. A.
Fisher, assistant chief; Leo Hen-
scheid, secretary Len Sicking,
George Gehrig and Bill Derichs- i
weiler, trustees; and Panl Nieball,
member of the firemen’s pension
committee for a three-year term.
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in Bailey survey, one mile east
of Gainesville, has been given up
in Ellenberger lime at reported
the job long after Apollo had dis-! Sambo is only one of several min- depth of 4465 feet. Well may be
appeared below the Bismarck sea. iature plots drifting the peaceful. plugged back to test formation
When the vines began to take landscape at Cape Gloucester. Showing gome signs of oil around
on new life and crawl rapidly । where the black sandy soil is ideal 2300 feet.
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D. Alexander
Melvin Chapman, Billy White,
Fred Wagoner and Paul Meine. .
Cecil Gardner awarded the
silver jubilee ‘streamers to troops
151, 152, 153 and cub-pack 153.
The silver medallion which is
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Mrs. Ruth Boles of Independ-
Muenster field is one of the best ence, Kansas is visiting her par-
in the counts and has hundreds ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ander-
of flowing and pumping wells ; son.
Bobby Rogers, Russel
Bob Deaton, Milton Pace,
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across each other, it was apparent
__ . . the crop had been saved. Then
CAPE GLOUCESTER — Cut- Sambo appeared.
overseas for sometime.
Cpl. T. J. Ballard has arrived
home after receiving his honor-
able discharge from the army a*
partment. Sgt. Case is member1 the Fort Sam Houston, Texas
of a tank battalion and has been separatien center. He has been
overseas six months. I inthe gervice the past:27 months. “
James Porter,Johnson, son of Call, son of^r and Mrs. J.‛M.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Johnson of Cali, London street, is spending
Gainesville, has been promoted his furlough with his uncle and
to the rank of seaman, first class aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Lance
in the U. S. navy, his parents in Taft, Calif. Bryan has just te b
have been advised. He works in turned to the states after 1
a navy. Photographic laboratory. months in the Atlantic and Pacific ;
Melvin Farr, Jr., signalman • theatres. He has been in se
3-C, is spending a 30-day^conva- i major battles in the Pacific,
Izwnonf le-trA trifh hic nerentc Mr • * ... . ?
ting a watermelon on New Britain Although his beginning had
warrants a celebration somethingj been inauspicious. Sambo’s ma-
Tike an old fashioned holiday feast turity was astounding. Observers,
at home. j who measured his growth by
One of our canvas city neigh-! spanning the fingers, swore they
bors, who has adopted * victory; could see him moving on the
ground.
pounds, this melon, named Sambo
by its owner, was a prize posses- ’
wells on V. D. Randall acreage
........a2V.,z2ce SJze, azzrz a Ja in. J. Lawson survey, several
------Dulock, 1201 Culberson street, are in the armed miles south of Gainesville, where
_________ They are (top row, left to right) : ■ MasUr Sgt. Edward first well was completed a short
Cooke, stationed at Mill viile, N. 3 . army air base, son-in-law; Pfc. Itime ago from sand at 1590 feet
Freddie Duleek, army air base. Dodge City, Kans.; (bottom row): i for 42 barrels a day,
Edward Duiock, S-2C. U. S. Navy, stationed at Oakland, Calif.; and
Cpl. Fony J. Dulock, Army Engineers, New Caledonia. Cpl. Dulock
has been oversees 21 monihs. Sgt. Cooke has been in the'army six
years, and was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attack occurred
December 7, 1941.
Miss Gilda Lee King, student
duced frem grass roots down to at TSCW, Denton, visited her
depth of $600 f det l ' “ -
Britain. also raise fruits and vege-
tables but not for army consump-
tion, as their gardens hardly pro-
duce enough to supply their own _ _
needs. Tanks, therefore, make no individual operators. Oil is pro-
demands on the focal ' “ _
318 Federal building, Wichita
Falls. The telephone number of
the Census office is 2-1408. Or
if they prefer, those interested in
assisting in the success of the 1945
farm census may leave' their;
names with A. S. Brient, county
agricultural agent for Cooke coun-
ty, whose office is located at the
courthouse in Gainesville. .
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Gainesville Man Participates in
Watermelon Feast on New Britain
Mr. and Mrs. Rad Cox, 908
North Morris street, have re-
ceived a telegram from their son.
John Ross Cox, S-2c. U. $. Navy,
announcing that he had arrived
in the States and would be home
within the next few days. He
spent four months in the South
Pacific and took part in the inva-
sion of the Philippines.
Cpl. Raymond Tempel of Fort
Knox, Ky., spent New Year’s day
with his mother, Mrs. Luke Tem-
Pvt. Raymond L------ -- . _
Ritchey street, Gainesville, is a cast is given,
member of a group of U. S. army starts the broadcast by saying,
ordnance troops operating from a 1 Now the.. Island Commander
base depot in England keeping gives you the. latest news the
vital supplies moving to Ameri- newsizour folksback.home, wil
can combat troops in Belgium, < bereading.1in tomo rrw‛sz"ane
_____I - c.IE-. mentions the name of a different
Fiance and Germany. . .. newspaper each evening. On this *
Christmas day, two brothers, particuar night, the name of the •
formerly of Gainesville, met Gainesvilie Register was men .
somewhere in France after being tinned. and J. B. enjoyed hearinr •
separated two and a half years. • someth ing concerning his horr k
The brothers are, Pvt. Albert Me- town. He has been overseas sine ,
Gehee and Pvt. Robert McGehee. June. He is the son of Mr. an F
brothers of Mrs. Mary Purvis of Mrs. Jim Adams, and grandson o f
Whitesboro. Albert is with the Mrs. Laura Broadwell, all of thi E
133rd Engineers and has been citv.
overseas a year, while Robert is Lt. Harry C. Andrews, son of
with the 398th Engineers and has Mrs. Lucy Andrews, 554 S. Dixon
been overseas two years. street. has arrived in West Africa,
Word has been received by Mr. according to word received by
and Mrs. Virgil Maddox, 708 relatives here. _
South Morris, that Pvt. Elmo Goff Pi, tl. ... ------—• —
of St. Louis was killed in action of K. S. Thurman, Whitesboro,
December 14 in France. Pvt. and has reported missing in ac-
Mrs. Goff lived with the Maddox tton oyer Germany since Decem,
family while he was stationed berr1 PytThpmanhas hbg4n
hererwiththeirdd vision Ma- ana Was 1s home on furYough in
.T-Sgt James G-—ee, U. S. Ma October, 1943 He is with a tank
rine corps, who has been sta- group He is also the brother
tioned at Cherry Point, N. C., has of Mrs. Cecil Bullard, 1527 Peter-
been transferred to Eagle Moun- son, of Gainesville.
tain Lake, near Fort Worth. He T-Sgt. Jake G Biffle, Jr, of thi
is the son of Mrs. J. A. Blohm army air force, has returned from
of Gainesville. Mrs. Lee has been 27 months overseas duty in the
for growing many different veg-
etables and fruits.
Yanks who cultivate these plots
during their spare time find vic-
tory gardening a profitable as
well as an amusing enterprise,
helping greatly to flavor dehy-
drated and concentrated rations
which comprise a large portion of
the daily menu.
Gardens Are Growing
Planted shortly after this area
of tropical undergrowth and ku-
nai grass had been converted into
a modern military city, the gar-
dens have just begun to produce
small but appreciative quantities
of tomatoes, radishes, onions, corn
and beans, as well as melons.
Melanesians, who inhabit New
A +Ag -v;,4;om caa+ class 45.A x vt. Koy A. baKer, nuSDand I
ampiatntiaig C^nUy^ f
atishadEa, bSther of December 6. He is now in a hos-
PT. Bher F°Gasnesvile, has pital on Saipan but is expectedto
trriwodainrtbevatey “reladins lEcludedapoem M one
here. He has been in the South iofhisi injured buddies, thateX;
Pacific for the past 18 months, as presses the feelings of a wounded
a pilot ona marine scout, dive ,°Mr.and Mrs. C. Ed Skelton, 929
bomhe H ’ FooperrS0 2 M North Dixon street, have received
and Mrs. H. V. Booher, of Col- letter from their Lt. Ed. .
linsville, will visit in Gainesville, - — -- - -
early next week, probably arriv-
Applicants for appointment as The burning equatorial sun seem-1 to be able to say again he had
--------- — —j i— »«_ • ingly worked overtime, but this tasted a watermelon.
’ determined infantryman was on The garden which produced
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scheid, Gary R. MacLane, Chester
R. Chapman, Willie H. Mauldin,
Charles C. Howard, Claud D.
Branch. Hiram T. Woods, Roy L.
Blanton, Albert R. Murphy, Pain-
ter S. Bevers, Ray Berry, Thomas
F. Bryant, Leonard M. Liedtke,
William G. McGaugh, Jasper E.
Dougherty, Frank H. Haverkamp,
David E. O’Brien, T. C. Jones,
Charles C. Myers, George E. Friz-
zell, Fred Bezner, George R. Cra-
ven, Joseph Mages, James E. Wil-
liams, George F Simpson, Harry
A. Aughtry, Ora V. Unsted, Hugh
S. Morgan, Roy M. Faulkner,
Thomas S. Myrick, Raymond L.
Strickland. John F. Cunningham,
Matthew J. Hassell, William W.
Otto, Clarence E. Pace, Sam Price,
Carl H. Tucker, Joe W. Fisher,
John Layton, John W. Pruitt, Jas.
T. Compton, Milton V. Wade, Al-
vin E. Pool, Frank P. Bindel,
Thomas C. Delisle, Vernon F.
Turnage, Corda.L. Davis, John A.
Schad, Cecil R. Gardner, Ray-
mond C. Thurman. Know Yar-
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Fighth
$Men
sunday and (ho e, i-.5 1 ry, William L. Bell, Johnnie W.
Sunday and the state is second Brantley, Will D Martin, Anton!
A new sandy conglomerate pool
- has been opened six miles south-
- । west of Muenster by Kadane-
Griffith Oil Company in their No.
1 S. B. Hopkins in BBB & C RR
h ' Co survey, abstract 150, and Phil-
S lips Petroleum Company No. 1
■ Albert Reiter in J. M. Culp sur-
| vey, abstract 1351, a west offset
to Hopkins producers Pay in the
1, Gainesville, are now enrolled letter this week from her hus-
in the U. S. Maritime service band, J. B. Adams, CM 1-c, Sea-
station at St. Petersburg, Fla. bees, stationed on Guam, telling
All are former students of of an experience he had had the
Mr and Mrs James R Garvey Edwin Holland, son of Mr. and
ahthtdzhtreimnerdtansth-kmsenateagdntzrnmk”2
- . . . .. .pital Sunday and is reported to
west of Muenster, is being com- A-389, one and onerhalf miles be improving.
pleted this week as good pro- south of Coesfield, in northeast - - — - _ - _
Burk Royalty Company No. 1
James Ware, in W. C. Wharton
1 survey, abstract 1114, an east off-
set to Burk No. 1 Bruce in Joe
Baldwin pool, five miles east of missed.
Gainesville, is reported drilling
New Pastor for
Woodbine Baptists
WOODBINE. Jin 11 — Rev.,
J. L. Stewart of Fort Worth, has j
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^7. andrS preach the first Western Livestaek show at Denver, Colo. I acy also took top 44
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Leopards Split
With Oklahomans
Gainesville High eagers split
honors at Thackerville, Wednes-!
day night, the “B” team winning
the opener, 11 ‘to 6, while the
Leopards dropped the feature at-
traction, 15 to 17.
The ; locals were handicapped
by the small Thackerville gym,
and were unable to hit the net
consistently. McKenzie, lanky
Gainesville center, showed up
best for the local crew.
This was the last practice tilt‘
for the Leopards before their-
opening conference game ‘ of the
season in Paris Friday night
against the Wildcats.
sJ.S. Bakerandrsl. Van ilast week in Austin as a guest of
eived headAinjurie and-“minor his, son, Charles William. Moody.
cuts and bruises when the auto- M.:11 11 „: A. ____>
mobile in which they were riding Madill Oklavisited.Mr. and
was forced off the road on U. S. MrS. J CpHouse Sunday, g..
highway 77 south of Gainesville cErank Roherson and • Ewing
Sunday. They were treated at Grundy spent Thursday ir Fort
Gainesville sanitarium and dis- orth on business.
Miss Marie Thomas was called
A soldier driving another auto- heme Friday to the bedside of
mobile, said to have crowded the her nephew, who is critically ill
Ardmore car off the road, was in.a McKinney hospital.
placed under arrest by military Mrs Maud Campbell, of Claud,
police. Sheriff Carl Wilson re- is visiting in the home of her
ported.
Oil New t Sgt ItotiHiil. Terry, Jr. Escapes
From Japanese Trap on Leyte Island
Sgt. Houston H. Terry, Jr., son Leyte sector. They were picked
wide totals urgently needed by
the federal government. Separate
reports will also be issued for
each county and state totals will
Mrs. George Canaday, Mrs. E.
►Cooke county, is reported drilling I Clement, Jim Roberson, Claud
below 2700 feet. , Fears, Frank Roberson, Mr. and
other men were surrounded by i counted for more Japanese killed
an estimated 2,000 enemy troops, i and captured per capita than any
in a letter to relatives ' other unit in the landing force.”
.415.1 55 Terry .recently sent a prized tro-
Terry, serving with a recon- phy—a Japanese flag taken at
naissance troop, gave credit for Hollandia
their escape to a Spanish family j Terry, 23. is a graduate of Pas-
who provided the men with a chai High
r‘ekety outrigger sailboat in NTAC and .Texas A&M.
which they put out to sea from
the mountainous northwestern
daughter, Mrs. Lillian Ward and
theudMlexstdt SK son, Mna Ean.and
of Henry Fleitman land, and the Fort Worth, were guests of Mr.
first well was completed some and Mrs. M L. Moore over the
days ago as good pumper from weekend.
800 foot sand and the second well. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Fears vis-
is being completed this week and i ited Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hardin
in Pitot Point last week.
Mrs. W. A. Maddox and chil-
dren spent a few days with her
mother, Mrs. R. A. Grundy, and
Mrs. S. W. Maddox. Lt. CoL
in North Carolina with Sgt. Lee. European and China-Burma-India
Capt. Peyton B. (Pat) Sparks, theaters of operation, and will vis-
stationed at Elgin field, Florida, it his wife. Mrs. Jake G Biffle,
has arrived in Gainesville for a Jr. here. He is a son of Mr and
visit with his younger brother, Mrs. J. G. Biffle, route 6, Myra.
First Lt. Hugh H. Sparks, who1 - -----------——
ents, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. nppas, Bears Take Over
Sparks spent 18 months in H Cellar Position
Pacific area with the U. S. Ma- ( WACO, Jan. 17. (PBaylor's
rine Air The young men’s Bears held undisputed possession
older brother, S-Sgt. Percy C. of the Southwest conference cel-
Sparks, Jr., is stationed in Eng- lar after a 42-30 defeat at toe
land as a radio technician. hands of Texas A. and M. here
First Sgt. Marion G. Pope, last night.
whose wife, Mrs. Corinne T. Pope, t It was the first conference bas-
resides in Gainesville, has been ketball victory in four starts for
promoted from the rank of tech- the Aggies and Baylor’s fourth
nical sergeant with the 102nd In- straight defeat.
fantry division overseas, the pub-'s j i . । ■■ ■ ~ ।
lie relations office has announced. • mumuuuuuam
a • : .. Maughan, Eli Garnett, Carl Gim-
Arizona $167; Connecticut $3.40; ple, Jerrel M. May, Sam B.
Colorado $1.67; Florida $2.75; Springs, Jim T. Smith, Reuben D.
Georgia $3.64; Illinois $10.09; Wilson, Herman D. Cowling,
Iowa $3.67; Indiana $4.47; Idaho [Louis M. Wolf, Burret A. Harry,
..... .... -----------James c Swindle, Floyd Lyle,rgnigyw-“nivrntNSr
William E. Lemons, Anthony F. * d re Melvin pPaute 4 vas UI wen was me vatn
Hesse, wilie-L. od om,cecils aainesviileMHehs ha*8 nonth, LeyteHewearsthePurpieHe
Osburn, Frank J. Walterscheid, n c- d,,+1 find Igare +L, Asiatic I or woundS received 1X1 the
George P. Allred, Ulan B. Woody, ionseAmduryantietrsstisrbs ond battle of the Philippir
Earnest O. Yoakum, Carroll F. andsamerranith battle etars He1 Bryan’s brother, Col. Lance C
Suilivant, Melvin Harris Wane who is in charge of Luke Fie
a€AI. I, 0111 vanuta 1.00, Trew, £ James C. Blankenship,
North Carolina $4.14; New Jersey Alois J. Bayer, Ben D. Gilbert,
---- — - . — Allen Wagner, Harold A. Walter-
eral miles in every direction of
Hopkins and Reiter wells and
drilling is to be started on some
of these blocks which have been
assembled for that purpose. The
major companies are said to be
interested in developing western
Cooke county. The well on the
Hopkins land is estimated good
for Several hundred barrels of
high gravity oil a day and flows
under own gas pressure to stor-
age. It is one of the best produc-
ers ever completed in this county
and others should be found in
vicinity of Hopkins lease. The
Phillips Petroleum Company has
several good wells on the J. R.
| Dangelmayr land, just north of
I Walterscheid 200 acres.
(months. Other tests are being m A a e . T• .
drilled a few miles west. Most Inta I ay Hrgf
all land has been leased for sev- -V-EI 1. 11OV
Mrs. W. G. Colwell is visiting
her sons and daughter in Ama-
rillo.
Mr. and Mrs. Powers and
honor, welcome d the scouts, par- ‘
• ents and friends.
L- The several members of the;
court of honor presented awards. I
H. H. Sherer presented the fol-
lowing boys with second class
rank certificates and badges: Ev- .
erett, Sanford, Jerry Paul Hay-
. den, Don Parker, James Hackler,
Joe Donald Davis, Gene Bell, Bob
Jones, Jimmy Flowers, Paul
• Meine.
Austin Jones awarded the first
class certificates and badges to
Charles Gilmer, Tom Blount, Jr.,
Ben Cox; Rom Reed.
The star rank certificates were
given by Charles Priddy, Jr., to :
• Billy White, Russell Welch, Chas.
Priddy, III, Melvin Chapman,
Fred Wagoner, Bobby Rogers. ;
The life rank certificates and
The March of Dimes received New classifications issued Tues-
contributions totaling $244.56 dur- ■ day, by the Cooke county draft
ing the first three days the milk hi-- —-13- .. " " • ---
bottles were on California street, *
Chairman Ted Herrmann of the
with 16.38, and California was
fourth with $10.30.
sion, probably given more per-
sonal attention during its growth
than any other watermelon in the
recovering nicely in a hospital in
, England, following wounds re-
„E. J.Riley, son of Mrs “ J. ceived Dec. 16, in Germany. He
Riley, Route 1, Dexter; Roy Wei- has been awarded the Purple
don Riley, son of E. F. Riley, of Heart, and hopes to rejoin his
Gruver, and James D. Plumlee, [company at the front soon.
son of Mrs. W. J. Plumlee, route j Mrs. J. B. Adams received a
to partake of the first melon har- Sambo, meanwhile, became the
leading topic of conversation in: pnciar-rrare UlI company
the neighborhood. has derrick up for drilling their
The pessimists said Sambo No. 2 S. H. Ptunam in T. W. Ward
-- - ■-— J-— -- would blister and spoil under New j survey, which will be an east off-
had been asked to attend. Most Britain’s terrific heat. They hu- set to Texas Company No 1 Floy
of the guests, like me, had not morously suggested sunburn lo-..... ”
tasted a watermelon for two tion as a remedy, an impractical
years. In fact, they had almost idea because Cape Gloucester has
forgotten what a watermelon no corner drug stores,
looked like.
Weighing an estimated 5 0
y •)
J Felderhoff, Joseph F. Left-
wich, Virgil W. Martin, William
E. Aston, Jr., Peter N. Neu, Blu-
ford W. Richardson, Willie C.
ers in Myers survey, south of
summoned to investigate Sambo’s, Gordonville, Grayson county, is
physical condition. | reported drilling ahead after
....... The Texan pronounced Sambo making test of lime with oil show
A few days after the tiny plant as'healthy, asserted he had seen [at 9040 feet. Contract calls for
had appeared above the ground, wagonloads of melons with lighter 11,000 feet.
line for reporting results to the the dry season hit Cape Glouces- complexions which turned out to
— ‘ office of the Census ter, parching most of the victory be good eating. Ji ___’
-—--—ssa---— — dordeme in the -nee One month after he changed may test oil showing around 2200
, , from a bloom to a fruit Sambo feet in No. 1 Hay, which has re-
To save his crop, the soldier- was slioed in the center. The meat
. farmer carried hundreds of gal-! was ripe, red and juicy.
Ions of fresh water in discarded While each guest was not served
ration cans from a nearby stream, as much as he wanted, it was nice
tary-treasurer. The next meeting brough, Edward N. Goodin, Claud
will be held in Gainesville on Cravens.
February 14. IV-F: Leo H. Stiles, Robert B.
Dakota $1.17; South Carolina
$2.42; Tennessee*1 $3.22; Utah
$2.53; Vermont 50c; Virginia 1
$6.13; West Virginia $2.89; Wis-
consin $3.51; Washington $4.53;
Wyoming 69c; District of Colum-
bia 72c and Delaware $1.65.
J. M. Weinzapfel -
Heads Association
Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Booher, 923
Wine street, Mr. and Mrs. M. O.
Wilson, 715 East Scott street, and
Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Keen,
1104 Wine street, were in Denton
Wednesday evening, where they
attended a meeting of the North
Texas Water Works association.
J. M. Weinzapfel of Muenster,
was elected president for the new
year; Mr. Booher, vice president;
and H. C. Giles of Denton, secre-
_ Maddox is being transferred from
lease the Texas Company has Fort Riley, Kansas.
more than 40 pumping wells. The “ - -
a third well will be spudded in
early next week. Mr. Scott holds
pel and other relatives at Muen-
ster. He has a 16-day furlough.
Pvt. Meinrad Stoffels of Fort
Riley, Kansas, is spending his‘ceived by his mother, Mrs. E. E.
leave with his father, Nick Stof-[ Harrell. Another son, S-Sgt. Wil-
feis and family at Muenster. He1 lis Morgan, also in the South Pa-
entered the service last August/cific with an infantry unit, has
16. I not been heard from since De-’
S-Sgt. Bernard Schmitz of,cember 1.
Camp Chaffee. Ark., spent Newi Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Henry, 402
Year’s day with his parents, Mr. । Cunningham street, have received
and Mrs. H. M. Schmitz at Muen- a letter from their son, Pfc. Joe
ster ■ 1W. Henry, stating he is improving
Eugene Klement, S-1C. U. S. ifrom woundsi received on Leyte •
Coast Guard, is spending his leave .island November 7, and he would
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. isoon join hisiold company in the
Frank Klement and family at Philippines He has been awarded
Muenster, He will return to Sanithe Purple Heart. A cousin, S-Sgt
Augustine, Florida, next Monday. Cal.N.Henry is serving with the
Charles Richardson. Phm. 3-, 104th division under the command
U. S. navy, who has been onisealiof Gen. Terry Allen, somewhere
duty in the Pacific, is back in the insermany: , .
states, and will arrive in Gaines- ’ . Sgt. Wil ham C. Turner has ar- f
ville Sunday for a few days’ leave J rived in the states, and telephoned
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. his parents, Ato. and Mrs. Luther
L. Richardson. 702 Ritchey street. Turner, Saturday night that he
se+ was wndea in would be home soon. He has been
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