The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1948 Page: 1 of 16
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Pay Your
Pay Your
Poll Tax
Poll Tax
NOW!
NOW!
An Institution Promoting the Interests of Winkler County
Thursday, January 22, 1948
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
The
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March of Dimes
BY NEV H. WILLIAMS
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NEWS WRITER REPORTS ON TRIP
OVER KERMIT-ANDREWS HIGHWAY
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(Contined oa Last Page)
Only 1,310 Poll Tax Receipts
issued Up To Noon Wednesday
Yellow Jackets To Open 1948 Football
Season With El Paso’s Austin High
Oliver Bierschwale, principal
the elementary school there.
State Highway
Official Featured
Exams for Postal
Clerks In Kermit
To Be Given Soon
Do you like real Mexican Food?
You’ll find it at Masters Cafe
Petitions Prepared
Calling for Road
Bond Election
and
this
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$360.36
$327.36
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others
week.
Appetites reduced at Masters
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Dress Shop
Changes Hands
New Laundry
Opens In Kermit
Mrs. E. W. Line
Seriously Injured
In Bus Crash
Remember the place to eat is
Masters Cafe. Open 6 a.m.
Donations
include:
Total last
Uncle of Kermit
Woman Killed
In Car-Train Crash
Neglect of Minor
Child Charges
Jails Man Here
JAN. 31 DEADLINE DRAWING NEAR
AS CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS AND
C. OF C. ITENSIFY POLL TAX DRIVE
Good plate lunches day and night
at Masters Cafe. Open 6 a.m.
grams initiated by the
tion.
With Texas Advisory
chairman of the council, has
nounced.
Primary function of each ,
Dumas Fund Now
Totals $360.36
Water Conservation Conference At Big
Spring Attracts Large West Texas
Delegation; Gov. Jester Is Speaker
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The Winkler County News
(Member Associated Press)
H. G. Parks, resident of Kermit
for the last three years, this week
is announcing the opening of the
Modern Steam Laundry at the
corner of Olive and Bryan Streets.
The new enterprise will give
regular family laundry service.
Deputy
burn.
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paniment was played
Jenny Lynn Rucker.
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W. O. Hunt Jr. left Tuesday
for Abilene where he will enroll
at Hardin-Simmons University.
BY MAUD GREEN,
News Staff Writer.
Construction of the Kermit-An-
drews Highway not only is big
business, it’s also important, ex-
pensive, and fascinating.
Until late last year, this twen-
ty-plus miles of road had been
received this week
F. W. Estill, independent
operator of Kermit, Texas,
J. C. Dunagan, Monahans
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Card-
well ...............................
O. M. Stewart ...................
Anonymous .........................
Grand Total .................
Whether we like or dislike
pay a tax for the privilege
selecting our representatives
Howdy, Folks.
Of course you’ve read and
heard a lot about Pay Your Poll
Tax Now, and the chances are
you agreed it was a good idea,
and then let the matter pass
from your thoughts after telling
yourself that on the morrow you
would go to the Tax Assessor-
Collector’s office and secure your
right to have a voice in your gov-
ernment. Well and good. But did
you do it?
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Sheriff Wayne
in many business places,
Good food — fast service at
Masters Cafe. Open 6 a.m.
to Winkler County by
were plowing through the deep,
red sand, grading and getting
ready for still more caliche. Ap-
proximately two more miles of
the route had been graded shortly
after noon Tuesday.
Most fascinating, and evidently
one of the most expensive, parts
of road building is the huge,
Rube Goldberg contraption known
as the “crusher.” This giant, dou-
ble-jointed piece of equipment has
a never-ending capacity for truck-
loads of caliche.
Operations begin a short way
from the crusher, where powerful
shovels and equipment are con-
stantly gnawing deeper and deep-
er Into the pit from which caliche
is taken. It comes out in big
boulders, is loaded into waiting
dump trucks, which in turn haul
our government is of little con-
sequence. The fact is, we must
—and that’s all there is to it.
Let’s put it like this: You see,
we’re actually the board of direc-
tors of a huge business, and we
get together every two and four
years to decide the policies and
operation of OUR business. Like
all businesses, the success or fail-
ure of our community enterprise
depends on the competence and
honesty of those we hire to run
it. You just can’t get away from
that fact, can you?
This is the year we, the board
of directors of our far-flung and
highly interrelated City, Precinct,
County, State and National Hold-
ing Companies, gather together to
hear reports from our hired hands
—big and little. We will “read
proof” (or should) on the way
our employees handled our mon-
ey, and if we find they have wan-
tonly wasted and squandered our
funds we will (or should) do
some firing and hiring. We would
do just that if we were the SOLE
owners of the business, wouldn’t
Lions Speaker
Fred Wemple, Midland, member
of the Texas State Highway Com-
mission was to be honor guest
and principal speaker at today’s
(Thursday) luncheon meeting of
the Lions Club, according to
Tommy Thompson, program chair-
man. Other guests from Midland
also were expected.
Last week club members en-
joyed a talk by Bill Collyns, for-
mer manager of Midland Cham-
ber of Commerce, and present
editor of Midland Reporter-Tele-
gram.
Almost a capacity crowd heard
Collyns speak on the work of
Lioris Clubs, Chambers of Com-
merce, and the importance of co-
operation between the two groups.
Collyns also stressed the growth
of West Texas, and particularly
the rapid development of Kermit.
Outstanding entertainment was
furnished by a group of elemen-
tary school students who were
presented by Mrs. Lynna Rucker,
music teacher in Kermit schools.
Vocal solos were given by Don
Wright and Charles Reynolds, and
two classical piano numbers were
played by Tommy Johnson, who
is only 8 years old. Piano accom-
For consistency in variety of food
—its Masters Cafe.
it up, your community
has a vital, life-and-
TEXANS POSE AT CAPITAL—Six student veterans from
Texas, in Washington to seek increased subsistence allowances,
pose on the capitol steps, Jan. 13. Left to right: M. R. Barneby
of San Antonio, Louis Bolton of Dallas, Dean Vernon of Clyde,
Robert S. Bushnell of Dallas, Arnold E. Schultz of Vernon and
Sam H. Burris of Alice. Burris is a student at Texas Art and
Industries College, Kingsville. The others are from North Texas
State College, Denton, Texas.
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brisk pace, with plans being made
to climax the drive on the last
day of this month, according to
Bill Cameron, county chairman.
Saturday, Jan. 24, has been
proclaimed by Mayor W. H. Wil-
son as official Boy Scout day. The
boys will take over city offices
for that day, and patrols will be
on the downtown streets. All fines
assessed will be turned to the
March of Dimes funds.
J. C. Sewell, Kermit director,
reported arrangements are being
made for school students to can-
vass the business district next
week in a drive to sell tickets to
the President’s Ball which will
be held Saturday night, Jan. 31,
in the Legion Hut.
Boy Scouts will man the con-
cessions at the dance, and all net
proceeds will go to the fund.
Coin collectors have been placed
| cil member is to disseminate In-
formation locally on objectives of
Southwestern Medical Founda-
tion and to aid in various pro-
Winkler County’s March
Dimes campaign continues at
death influence on your private
enterprise. You just can’t get
away from that, either.
It so happens in Texas that the
destiny of our government is
wrapped up in a small piece of
paper with this caption: POLL
TAX RECEIPT. Really, it’s your
pass into the board of directors
meeting. All too often incom-
petents are hired—by those direc-
tors who fail to attend the meet-
ing. Do you agree with that?
““PAY YOUR POLL TAX NOW”
McMurry Chanters
To Appear Here
Friday Morning
McMurry Chanters, of McMurry
College, Abilene, one of the out-
standing collegiate musical groups
of the Southwest, is to appear in
Kermit High School auditorium
Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock.
Tommy Thompson, assistant
superintendent stated no admis-
sion charge will be made, and the
public is invited, to attend.
Approximately 24 voices make
up the group of singers, which
is now on a tour of certain areas
of West Texas.
"PAY YOUR POLL TAX sow-
Extension Course
Class Organized
In Kermit Schools
accepted appointment as Winkler
County representative of the
Texas Advisory Council of South-
western Medical Foundation of
Dallas, R. R. Gilbert of Dallas,
Petitions requesting the Com-
missioners Court to call a county-
wide $550,000 road bond election
are to be circulated this week, ac-
cording to an announcement from
County Judge J. B. Salmon. Also
to be included is the request for
an election on the same date as
the road bond issue for re-alloca-
tion of the county tax rate.
The proposed issue, county of-
«gcials point out, could be retired
withou any increase in the pres-
ent county tax rate, and would
be used to carry out an exten-
sive road expansion program
throughout the county. Definite
amounts ' in the issue have not
been ear-marked for any one
road, but will be used to expand
the county’s road system as is
now being tentatively outlined.
One road project, which already
has been started, is included in
issue. This is the Dollar Hide
Road, but the sum to be used in
its construction has not yet been
apportioned.
—PAY YOUR POLL TAX now-
RED PEARSON NAMED
SCOUT PUBLICITY CHAIRMAN
Fred Pearson has been ap-
pointed district publicity chairman
for the Buffalo Trail Boy Scout
Ranch campaign which is soon to
be staged, according to announce-
ments received here. Pearson,
with other district publicity chair-
men, met in Monahans recently
at a banquet session when plans
for the campaign were discussed.
V
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Gus Lee Ford, 63, of Dallas,
uncle of Mrs. Jimmie Lyles of
Kermit, was fatally injured Tues-
day morning when his automobile
and a train collided at University
Boulevard and the Cotton Belt
track near Eastern Avenue, Dal-
las.
Ford, a vocational adviser with
the Veterans Administration at
at Love Field, was going to work
when the accident occured.
Mrs. E. W. Line, mother of
Mary Line, employed with L-B
Drug, and J. Y. Line, also of Ker-
mit, was seriously injured shortly
before noon Tuesday when the
bus on which she was en route
to San Angelo left the highway,
went through a fence and crashed
into a gully. The accident oc-
cured about seven miles north-
west of San Angelo.
Reports from San Angelo late
Wednesday were Mrs. Line had
undergone surgery for a broken
hip, and that she had suffered
severe shock, and bruises. Miss
Line and her brother left here
immediately after learning of the
accident, and were rushed to their
mother’s bedside by Oscar Maples.
Mrs. Line received a telephone
call early Tuesday morning from
her son, Bill, who lives in San
Angelo. His wife was ill, and the
elder Mrs. Line left Kermit on
a 6:40 Baygent bus to be with
them.
The accident was reported from
San Angelo to have been caused
when the bus apparently skidded
on a turn and paralleled the
highway across a field, stopping
in the ditch alongside a culvert.
Two other persons riding the bus
also were injured. They were
identified as A. A. McIntyre of
Odessa, and W. H. Wesson of Mid-
land. Their conditions were re-
ported as fair.
The accident in which Mrs.
Mrs. Line was injured was one
of a series of road mishaps that
morning near* San Angelo, in-
volving four automobiles and the
bus. Bad weather and icy spots on
the highway were blamed chiefly
for the accidents.
—PAY YOUR POLL TAX NOW—
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. McIver and
daughters, Nina Maurine and
Charlene; Mrs. Woody Arnold
and son, Tommy of Levelland ar-
rived in Kermit Wednesday night
to be with Mrs. E. O. McIver,
mother of McIver and Mrs. Ar-
nold, who is critically ill in the
hospital.
YOUR POLL TAX NOW
membership almost complete, the
council will later cover the five-
state area of the Southwest with
a representative in each county
of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana,
Arkansas and New Mexico.
E. C. Phillips, charged
neglect of a minor child,
returned here this week
Paris, Texas, and is being held
in county jail, according to
Sheriff L. B. Eddins.
Sheriff Eddins reported Phillips
was arrested by the Sheriff’s de-
partment in Paris, and returned
V.F.W. Sponsors
Dance Jan. 28
Members of the local Veterans
of Foreign Wars Post are spon-
soring a dance to be held Wed-
nesday night, Jan. 28, beginning
at 9 o’clock in the American
Legion Hut.
Cecil Brower’s Western Band
has been engaged to furnish dance
music. The band is heard daily
over Radio Station KECK, Mona-
hans, at 11:05 to 11:30 a.m., and
6:05 to 6:15 p.m.
Sheriff L. B. Eddins is to leave
the early part of next week for
Springfield, Mo., where he is to
pick up A. F. (Bob) Crowdis who
is being held by officers there.
Crowdis, who is charged in Wink-
ler County with forgery, was ar-
rested in Springfield, Jan. 13, on
a warrant from Sheriff Eddins
and is being held for local of-
ficers on a charge of fugitive from
justice.
Sheriff Eddins stated Crowdis
refused to waiver extradition and
these papers are now in process
in Austin.
—PAY YOUR POLL TAX NOW—
An extension course class was
organized in Kermit Wednesday
night with a number of teachers
from Kermit and Wink schools in-
dicating they will complete the
course, according to Tommy
Thompson, assistant superinten-
dent. The class was organized by
Dr. J. B. Speer, of Sul Ross State
Teachers College, the institution
which will conduct the course of
“Teaching Education.”
First class is to be held here
Monday night, Feb. 2, and will
be from 7 until 10 p.m. Classes
will meet each Monday night for
eleven weeks, cost of the course
is $21, and the work will count
for three semester hours credit
on either a Bachelors or Masters
Degree.
Kermit teachers interested in
enrolling may either contact
Mitchell Stewart, Kermit elemen-
tary school principal, or Thomp-
son. Wink teachers may contact
Mrs. Winifred Small has assumed
active management of Winifred’s
Style Shop, successor to Scrim-
shire’s Dress Shop on West Austin
Street. Mrs. Small comes to Ker-
mit from Bartlesville, Okla., and
will make her home here.
The store will feature nationally
advertised apparel, catering es-
pecially to women and teen-agers.
Mrs. Small is this week announ-
cing a special introductory sale
beginning Friday, Jan. 23.
— PAY YOUR POLL TAX now--
Fritz Estill Accepts
Place On Medical
Cash contributions to
Dumas Fund” totaling $33
First Baptists Plan
Building Program
The Rev. Strauss Atkinson,
pastor of First Baptist Church,
and J. M. Waddell, chairman of
the church’s building committee,
returned this week from a trip
to Nashville, Tenn. They conferred
there with W. A. Harold, secre-
tary of the Sunday School’s De-
partmdnt of Architecture, relative
to the building plans of the local
church.
The two reported heavy snows
were encountered, with most of
the distance being covered by the
biggest snows in many years.
Snow in Nashville was the
heaviest recorded there in eighteen
years.
—PAY YOUR POLL TAX NOW"
^VOL. 11—NO. 46
—PAY YOUR POLL TAX NOW-
GIRL VOLLEYBALLERS
TO PLAY GRAND FALLS
Kermit High School girls’ vol-
leyball teams are to play two
games in Grand Falls Friday
night. The High School B team
will lead, with the first game
beginning at 7:30 p.m., to be fol-
lowed immediately by the varsity
team game.
date would be filled and the game
would be played here.
Austin High has five returning
lettermen, two of whom were
starters, from last year’s team
that won their AA district only
to bow out in the state play-offs
in their bi-district tussle with
mighty Odessa.
The scheduling of Austin on a
home-and-home basis assures a
Class AA opponent for the Jackets
on their home field in 1949. The
El Pasoans have done well in
their district during the last few
years- winning more than their
share of title honors.
This completes the schedule for
1948 with the exception of the
open date, which is expected to be
filled shortly.
received the past week in The
Winkler County News office,
bringing the total to $360.36. The
money is being used by members
of the American Legion Auxiliary
to purchase needed items for Mrs.
O. M. Dumas and her four chil-
dren. Her youngest child, two-
year-old Winnie Jean, recently
suffered second and third degree
burns.
Donations this week also in-
cluded clothing from Mrs. Johnny
Wood, and food from Kermit ele-
mentary school.
gathered up until Monday, Feb.
2, Cameron stated, and the
amounts received from them will
then be counted.
Judge S. M. Halley, chairman of
the special gifts committee, is
working on his part of the drive,
but is not due to report his pro-
gress until later.
“PAY YOUR POLL TAX Now-
only a dream which Winkler
County residents wanted. Bring- j
ing this dream into reality takes
a lot of work, massive equipment
and a technical knowledge which
is astounding to one whose ability
in mechanics ends with being able
to change a typewriter ribbon.
I learned this Tuesday after-
noon when County Engineer Al-
ton M. East, in response to an
inquiry on progress of the road,
extended an invitation for a tour
over what’s been done on the
highway to date.
So, through the courtesy of En-
gineer East, who supplied most of
the technical explanations, plus a
Winkler County pick-up, it can
now be reported, firsthand, that
work on the road is progressing
according to schedule. More than
three and one-half miles of the
first course of caliche, the part
which is about five inches thick,
has been run, or poured, or
packed down (East failed to say
what is done to caliche), and the
remaining four inches was being
"windrowed" in the center to be
spread out, wet down, rolled, re-
rolled and packed into a solid
mass. The base extends the forty
feet width of the roadbed.
Beyond the caliche portion of
the road, and working toward the
barely visible sand dunes which
, C. B. Parker Seeks
Mayoralty Post
, C. B. Parker, operator of the
Parker Tourist Court and apart-
ments on the Wink cut-off, this
week is announcing his candidacy
for Mayor of the City of Ker-
mit, subject to election Tuesday,
April 6. Parker has resided in
Kermit the past seven years.
Parker states his campaign for
Mayor will be on the slogan, "A
Square Deal In City Government".
“In offering myself as a can-
didate for Mayor of the City of
Kermit,” he stated, “I do so with
a single purpose: to see that Ker-
mit and its taxpaying citizens get
a square deal for the money they
must dig so deeply into their
1 pockets to produce.
“I believe the business of a
municipality should be conducted
on sound principles just as private
enterprise.”
"PAY YOUR POLL TAX NOW--
Scheduling, early this week the
opening game of the ’48 grid sea-
son, for Saturday, Sept. 18, in
El Paso with Austin High of
El Paso on a two-year home-and-
home basis left only one date on
the Kermit High schedule still
4• be filled.
According to announcement just
made, Head Football Coach Dar-
rell Mayer and Tommy Thomp-
son, assistant suprintendent of
Kermit Schools, are negotiating
with Hobbs officials for a game
to be played in Kermit Nov. 21.
They stated that they hoped to
get Hobbs for a game here that
date, but if unable to do so would
schedule another team. Assurances
were given that the now open
Roughnecks say: “Go to Masters
Cafe for packed lunches. '
The Civil Service Commission
has announced examinations for
filling vacancies as clerk in the
Kermit post office. To be eligible
to take the examination, appli-
cants must actually reside within
the delivery of the Kermit post
office or be bona fide patrons
thereof. The entrance salary rate
is $1.04 per hour. Application
forms may be obtained from the
post office or from the director,
Fourteenth U. S. Civil Service
Region, 210 South Harwood St.,
Dallas, Texas.
Applications must be on file in
Dallas not later than Feb. 2,
1948.
Approximately 230 representa-
tives of 92 counties of West Texas
gathered in Big Bpring Tuesday
to study the water potentialities
and needs of the area as the first
of Gov. Beauford Jester’s water
conferences was held.
Reports were given from civic
leaders throughout the section as
to the amount of water available,
the use to which it is being put,
and prospective future sources.
Frank Kelly, Colorado City,
was renamed as permanent chair-
man of the nine-man committee
which worked to bring about the
Big Spring meet.
Charlie Green, manager of Ker-
mit Chamber of Commerce, com-
piled the statistics for Winkler
County, and was present for the
all-day meeting, which began at
10 a.m., included a luncheon and
adjourned late in the afternoon.
Many West Texas Chamber of
Commerce managers were
present.
^Governor Jester spoke at the
morning session and again at the
luncheon.
Officials of the City of Kermit
attending were Mayor W. H. Wil-
son, Glenn Rhea, Commissioner,
and J. E. Sharp.
—PAY YOUR POLL TAX Now—
Voters of Kermit and Winkler
County are being reminded this
week by the Chamber of Com-
merce and other civic organiza-
tions that deadline for payment
of poll taxes is rapidly drawing
near, and urgent appeals are be-
ing made to all who will be
eligible to vote to make these
payments in plenty of time.
After tonight, (Thursday) only
eight, and one-half days remain
for poll tax payments, deadline
being Saturday, Jan. 31, Offices of
Tax Assessor-Collector Sheriff L.
B. Eddins are closed at noon on
Saturdays, but will remain open
late the last Saturday of the
month, which is the last day for
poll tax paying.
A total of 1,310 poll taxes had
been issued here shortly after
noon Wednesday, only a very
slight percentage ahead of the
same time last year. Miss Jane
Blackburn, of the Assessor-Col-
lector’s office, was in Wink Wed- -
nesday, and was to remain there
through Saturday, but no report
had been received on the number
of poll taxes she had issued
through the office there.
Leaders in the movement ask-
ing for all qualified voters to
avail themselves of their ppil
taxes are stressing the many im-
portant elections which are ahead
this year.
Not only is 1948 a presidential
election year, all state and county
officials are to be named, and
Kermit and Winkler County are
facing the most important elec-
tions in their history.
Appeals also are being made to
employers to urge their employees
to pay poll taxes.
—PAY YOUR POLL TAX NOW"
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1948, newspaper, January 22, 1948; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1466701/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.