The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1952 Page: 1 of 14
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Trial Wednesday
Plans Made for
Another Link of
Deceased Farm
Worker’s Family
Receives Benefits
Golden Man Sells
On Ft. Worth Market
Cpmpany will
morning and
Wood II service credits, made him
fully insured at the itme ofI
the concert series here had been
cancelled because of a “very low
budget potential.”
The concerts were staged for
four years through the Munici-
pal Concert Association which
this year merged witih the Com-
munity Concert Service, an or-
ganization that operates on a
higher budget level.
After a meeting with local
concert association officers, rep-
benefits,
employer,
tor of the Central
Church, officiating.
Mr. Ball was born
Frank Ballard of Golden had
nine cattle on the Fort Worth
market Tuesday, according to
the Texas Livestock Marketing
Association, which handled the
shipment.
Beginning June 23 the office
of the State Department of
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JAMESTOWN REUNION
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parents are A. B. and'
Corn and Tomato Seasons
Open at Market Monday
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Mrs. R. N. Payne anct daugh- |
! cational building were given as
reasons for cancelling the school
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Van Zandt Sportsmen
Seeking Change in
Duck Hunting Season'
Grand Saline sportsmen have
. initiated a movement to have
Mr. Monnig is interested in
talking to anyone who saw the
Jan. 31 fireball, and also would
like to talk to anyone who has
found fragments of meteorite
in this section.
( east corner of the S. C. Shirley,
A550, Survey. Production will be
sought to 4,800 feet in the sub-
Clarksville.
The Wood County 4-H dairy
judging team placed fourth in
the state dairy judging contest
at College Station Tuesday. The
Wood County team amassed
1.114 points out of a possible
1,350. McClennan County won
first place with 1,160 points.
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COURT OKEHS BUDGET
As an example, Glenn T. publicity and attracted more t*»vi cl i x
Dunn, manager of the Tvler visitors than any patient the No I>1016 SchOOl 3.1
security office, cites the hospital has ever had He is onej Mothodist Church
Thomas Grant Woody, Jr.,
who has been at Great Lakes,
Mich., taking two weeks Naval
Reserve training is due to re-J
turn home this week-end. Lt J
Wayne Collins left ThursdaR
afternoon by plane for NorfoR
Virginia, from where he xR
embark on a. two weeks reR
cruise in tin
stock and 1*4 per cent on pre-
ferred, payable June 30 to
stockholders on record June 23.
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Many survivors of deceased
farm employees are now getting
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ments.
These are cases where the
farm employee had some social
security credits earned in pre-
vious jobs covered 1 „
security, or World War II serv-
survivors’ benefits. Her late
husband’s employer, however, particularly wants to know if
suggested that she inquire at anybody in the Mineola area
i toe Tyler social security office.
i She did, and it was explained
The Wood County Commis- to her that her husband’s one
years.
Funeral arrangements were
still incomplete Thursday after-
noon. The family had been
unable to locate a son, Charles
O. Blalock, who has been vaca-
tioning in New York and Can-
ada. New York radio stations
have broadcast for him for two
days; however, the Blalocks do
not have a radio in their car.
A post card mailed Tuesday
in Ohio was received Thursday
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/. her husband, the Rev. J. T.
Crawford, in conducting a
revival meeting this week at
the Church of the Nazarene,
Line and Buchanan Streets.
She uses a flannelgraph board
to illustrate her talks. There
is special music at each serv-
ice and the meeting will con-
tinue through Sunday.
69 through this area, and con- L
struction will follow work on
the Mineola-Alba link, on which
i the first contract will be let
next Tuesday. The Mineola-
Lindale road is considered one
of the most dangerous stretches •
of federal highway in the state, i
Completion of the rebuilding
job on Highway 69 will 1
Mineola in a strategic position
at the crossing of two trans-
continental highways.
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kons favorable to the general Wood County Team
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Rites Conducted
Here Wednesday
Thomas Wesley Ball, 92, retir-
ed railway engineer, died Tues-
I day in Sulphur Springs after a
■ brief illness. Funeral services
were held here Wednesday af- bers of the First Baptist Church
ternoon at the English chapel of Mineola,
with the Rev. H. J. Sheets, pas- Surviving
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saw the meteor that flashed
across the sky at about 6:20 ■
p.m. on January 31 of this
year. That was at about late j
twilight.
Several East Texans at vari- I
j ous points reported seeing the
i meteor, and its path is believed
to have been from east to west
either over Mineola or over the
area to the south between Min-
eola and Tyler. It is believed to
Ciave fallen or burned
around Wills Point.
the program. It was proposed
that businessmen underwrite
the concerts, but Community
Concert Service said this was
not recommended. The concerts,
tihey said, should be in sufficient
j demand to carry their own
weight.
Several businessmen last year
bought blocs of student tickets
and distributed them without
charge, and all of the three
programs of the past year were
well attended.
The Rev. Henry Fullerton,
president of the local associ- pi i rrii p*
; ation, said he regretted the i p Q j* ttlC 1 llClt
i loss of the concerts and express-
i ed the hope that enough in-
resentative of the Community terest would be manifest to rein- Daniel Vicars and Frank Vickers.
Meteorologist Seeks Trace
I Of Jan. 31 Fireball Here
Seen any meteors lately?
If you have, Texas Meteor
Observers would like to know
about it.
And Oscar E. Monnig, 1010
Morningside Drive, Fort Worth, Mr. Monnig pointed out that
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Public Welfare at 127 East
Broad, Mineola, w|ll be open on
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sioners Court Thursday approv- , year of work as a regular farm
ed a budget of $17,096.00 for employee, plus his World War
the operation of the
County Health Unit for another
year. The state will furnish
$5,636 of this sum. The budget
is the same as last year’s.
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Higgins India Ink available in
?olgrs of red, blue and black at
Monitor Office.
REVIVAL SPEAKER—Mrs.
Helen Crawford, Nazarene
children’s worker, is assisting
The annual Jamestown
homecoming will be held Sun-
day at the Church of Christ at
Jamestown. Morning services
will begin at 10:30. Lunch will
be spread on the ground at
noon. T»here will also be an
afternoon _nmgram.
FASTER THAN ITS AMMO—Believed to be the first such
night photograph ever taken, this picture shows an F-89 jet fighter
apparently racing ahead of its own ammunition. Tracer streaks
from six 20 mijlimeter cannons registered on the film before the
plane was “frozen” by a powerful stroboscopic light flash which
lasted less than 1/5000 of a second. The unusual picture was taken
at Edwards Air Force base, Hawthorne, Calif. (
and twenty-five
U.S. Highway 69
Another step toward the re-
building of U. S. Highway 69
through Wood County was taken
this week wftien the state and
county reached an agreement
on securing the right-of-way
! for the proposed new highway
from the Sabine River to a
point one and one-half miles
north of the river.
A preliminary survey of the
proposed route will be made!
this summer, and the county
will begin the purchase of the
right-of-way when the State
Highway Department gives the
signal.
The proposed new highway
will cross the Sabine at a point
east of t»he present dump, and
will enter the city on the south-
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T&P Board Elects
Two, Votes Dividend
Estil A. Vance and Will K.
Stripling of Fort Worth were
elected to the board of directors
of t<he Texas & Pacific Railway
Company at a board meeting in
Dallas.
They replace R. E. Harding
of Fort Worth and Arthur Tem-
ple of Texarkana, both de-
ceased.
The board also voted dividends ,
of $1.25 per share on common i
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SHOW OF STRENGTH FOR POW’S-ln full view of rebellious
Communist prisoners in the Koje Island, Korea compound, mem-
bers of the 187th Airborne Regiment Combat Team take their
morning exercise stripped to the waist. Camp Commander Brig.-
Gen. Haydon Boatner ordered the show of muscle to impress the
mutinous Reds that their new guards are quite capable of putting
them in their places in the event of trouble.
Just east of the Pine Mills
townsite Hollandsworth Oil ;
Company began drilling below
surface pipe Tuesday on the No.
2 Ethel Reed Bogan, a 7,000-
foot wildcat venture between
two dry holes. The well will
seek Woodbine production a
quarter miles northeast of the
townsite. Location is 330 feet
from the north line and 850
from the west line of the 62.5-
acre tract, S. H. Davis, A-164
Survey. Hollandsworth is said to I
have had a showing in the
number one well whicih is be- •
lieved to have been on the edge !
of the fault.
Sohio’s Paluxy venture east
of Pine Mills Field production,
which attracted attention when
it was reported high to the field
discovery on the Woodbine, is !
drilling below 7,500 feet in hard
digging. Production is sought
around 7,800 feet.
A recent failure in t»he Shir- |
ley-Barbara Field in the Pine
Mills area was Bracken’s No. 1
J. V. Anders, John Davis Sur-
vey, which was drilled to 6,946,
cased and tested water with
some oil in the Woodbine be-
tween 6,412 and 6,442 feet. Thertf
were no shows in the sub-
Clarksville. With abandonment
the decision was made not to
drill the No. 2 Anders, same
survey.
W. L. Coats and associates
were scheduled to get under
way on a wildcat test two and
a half miles northeast of Quit-
were scheduled to go to trial I
Thursday morning in Seventh i
District Court in Smith County j
for cattle theft. Each man faces
two counts each for stealing
cattle in the Lindale area.
A motion filed by Vicars Wed-
nesday, asking that his case
come to trial after Vickers is
tried, was not acted on by Judge
Otis Dunagan, who said the
Vickers trial probably will be set
first.
Vickers, a furniture maker,
lived in Mineola when arrested.
He formerly was associated with
at furniture reconditioning shop
I on South Pacific.
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One-Pound Baby
Leaves Hospital
Weighing 2% lbs.
Little James Berry, who creat-
ed a sensation at the Mineola
General Hospital less than two
months ago when he was usher-
ed into the world weighing a
mere one pound and nine
ounces, left the hopsital last
by social i Sunday weighing a robust two
..wxxv. ~~ pounds and twelve ounces and
j ice which could be credited to top physical condition.
his social security account. ! The little colored boy got more
east. This will be another link 1,
Activity for th? 1952 Market
Season will get underway Mon-
day in the Mineola Market with
the first tomatoes and sweet
corn expected to arrive.
Bob Tankersley Produce Com-
pany will open early Monday
and buy tomatoes for the first
time in the history of the
market. Representative for
Tankersley Company will be
Martin Hamilton of Dalias who
will’ also supervise the new
sweet corn crop.
||he hunting season for migra- !
tory fowl changed to open Oct-
ober 15 each year. They claim
the season now opens too late
in the fall for local hunters to
have a chance at migrating
ducks and geese.
Copies of petitions asking the
(JJ6gi|lature to change the law
have been placed in Mineola
and- \ are available at Owens’
Home Appliance, Kitchens’ Store
and Sharp’s. Copies of the peti-
tion will also be placed in other
towns in Wood County.
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Lane Would Close
Door to Hopkins
At Ike Gathering
Two self-avowed Eisenhower i
bgjcker who remained with Taft
Mllowers at the Mineral Wells
Rite Republican convention will
Rt be invited to meet Gen. i
Rvight Eisenhower in Dallas,
Ren. Ike Leader Alvin Lane
Riid Thursday.
R Delegates from rump conven-
Recent surveys of the tomato
crops in the Mineola vicinity
’ndicate a ‘ little over 25 cars
will be shipped this year. “This
year’s market is paving the way
for the future”, stated Hamil-
ton.
Mike Navilio of the Navilio
Produce Cpmpany will arrive
Monday morning and start
purchasing sweet corn at the
shed in the afternoon. Purchase
of sweet corn is expected to be
light the first part of toe week
but will start to increase near
the middle of the week.
Navilio will employ local labor
and will need about ten men
women to
handle the corn at the shed.
Mexician labor for gathering
the sweet corn in the field will
arrive the first part of the
week, and gathering will begin
about the middle of toe week.
Farmers who have corn ready
to gather are advised to keep
in touch with their vocational
agricultural teachers or the
s Mineola Farm Market. Approxi-
I mately 50 men will be in the
! first crews to arrive for gather-
| ing corn and 100 more are ex-
I pected near the peak season.
In gathering tomatoes Hamil-
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After four years of municipal there was not sufficient interest
concerts, Mineola has lost its Mineola to justify continuing
most important cultural activity.
toould not pull too early since The chamber of commerce re-
j a good portion of the weight is ceived a telegram Tuesday from
added in, the last three days Daniel Poole of Chicago, field
and farmers will have more | man for the Community Con-
return. Hamilton stated that; cert Service, which stated that
the price looks good for the
entire season.
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Two Buyers to Take Big
Sweet Corn Crop Here
[ Increased wildcat oil play in
southern Wood County was in-
dicated this week with tests in
prospect for both the Mineola
and Golden areas.
Operations are expected to
begin probably within the next
two weeks on a second wildcat
test just northeast of Mineola;
i however, no official announce-
• ment on location or starting
; date has been released and toe
Monitor was unable to contact
the operators Thursday.
Another wildcat is scheduled
for the area southwest of Min-
eola for later in the summer.
Drilling continued active in
the Nolan Edward Field three
miles nortowest of Mineola
where the third well since ope-
rations were resumed recently
was due for completion. Casing
was set Tuesday for completion
try from the sub-Clarksville on
the First National Bank tract.
Two wells drilled last Decem-
ber and January at Golden by
A. V. Erwin and associates are
due for deepening to the Pal-
uxy. Drilling contract has been
let, but operations are being
held up pending completion of
a final 100-acre lease.
^Bpth the No. 1 ,W. L. Husley
Estate and the No. f ” Lankford
were abandoned as dry in going
below 6,000 feet.
death. Both she and the chil-
dren are now getting monthly
social security benefit payment
checks.
“After a farm worker has
has been employed for a year
and half after 1950 he is covered. 1
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I The two Eisenhower backers j
Kvho remained with the Taft
[dominated state convention in-
stead of walking out with other
Gen. Ike backers are Dick Wall
of Dallas and George Hopkins
|of Winnsboro.
I The two, in a telegram to
bGen. Eisenhower, said that the
Mineral Wells convention was i
conducted according to law and
■ they asked for a meeting with
[the general “in the interest of
Kair play and better understand-
ing.”
■ Gen. Eisenhower will be in
Ballas June 21 to meet with
Ro-Eisenhower delegates from
Rxas and Louisiana, but Mr.
Rll and Mr. Hopkins definitely
R not be invited to join the
R>r deleagtes in the meeting,
R Lane said.
case of a farm employee’s young °f the smallest babies to survive,
widow and three small children ! His
now getting monthly benefit Eugenic Berry of Quitman.
payments. The father was in :
active military service during
the last year of the war. When ter Linda of Abilene are spend-
. , i he received his honorable dis- ing the summer with Mrs. Mc-
i charge, he took a job on a Cain and Mrs Mary Pyke. Mr.
l ]lng ' farm. As he was a regular farm > Payne is with an oil company in
employee for one employer, his the Marshall Islands.
work came under social security !---------—---
. at the beginning of 1951. He
I had one year of farm work
' credited to his social security
account when he suddenly died
. in January of this year.
His yoyng widow had read
that at least six quarters of
coverage a year and a half of
work — were required to become :
insured under social security, j
She did not think that she and
the children were entitled to
are three
Lindale men,
Concert Service decided that state them at some future date.
, low prices in observance of the
fourth anniversary are listed in
the Piggly Wiggly advertisement
in this issue of The Monitor. .
Refreshments will be served
at the store throughout Satur- I
day, and a drawing will be held ’
at 6:00 P.M. that day for a
number of prizes to be awarded
to those who register there prior
• to that time, Topping the list
of awards ■ are an electric ice
cream freezer and a child’s
doll house.
| “It is not necessary to be pre- J
sent at the drawing to win,” 1
Mr. Vickery said. “Nor is it nec- ■
essary to purchase anything to B
be eligible. The only require- 1
ment is that those who wish to ’
participate register at the store
prior to the hour of the draw-
ing.”
Cabell’s dairy is participating
in Vickery’s anniversary cele-
bration, and advertise^ a 1c sale
of its products at Piggly Wiggly.
The advertisement, also in this
issue, offers a second item for
| 1c with purchase of one at the
regular price.
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Son Proves Adept
As A Fisherman,
i But Cheats Papa
Seven-year-old Robert Arm-
our out-fished his Dad on a
trip to a lake up near Alba last
Wednesday—and the latter is
telling the story on himself,
much to the amusement of his
friends.
The elder Armour had agreed
to bait the son’s hook until the
latter got the swing of the
thing, when the family started
on their outing. The bream were
biting so freely that the son
had caught 14 before his dad
ever got his own hook baited
and joined the fun.
Altogether the Armour family
brought back 58 bream.
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TAKE NAVAL TRMNING
j stating that they were en route
I to Niagara Falls.
Mr. Blalock was born Jan. 21,
; 1881, in the MJyrtle Springs
community north of Quitman.
For many years he was a sales-
man for the Allis Chalmers Ma-
chinery Company. Mrs. Blalock
services died in 1936. Both were mem-
Piggly Wiggly
Observes Fourth
Services Pending Anniversary Here
Completion of four years of
affiliation with the Piggly
with the Rev. H. J. Sheets, pas-
Christian Vincent of Mineola, Charles O.
j of Austin and Richard of Alba:
Jan. 2,! two daughters. Miss Pauline
1860, in Chlicothe, Mo„ and he . Blalock and Mrs. P. B. Moody,
The First Methodist Church began his railroading career in both of Mineola; two stepsons,
will not hold its usual vacation Mena, Ark. He lived in Longview T. C. Walker of Mt. Pleasant
; for many years and worked on and Owen Walker of Abilene;
The lack of physical equip- the Texas & Pacific, retiring in four grandchildren; four great
ment and the fact that work 1925. He moved to Mineola about grandchildren: three brothers,
will begin soon on the new edu- twenty years ago. J- A. and George Blalock of
Surviving are two sons, Harry Myrtle Springs and Lee Blalock
A. Ball of Oklahoma City and of Quanah: and two sisters. Mrs.
B A. Ball of New York City; Will Perritt of Winnsboro and
four daughters, Mrs. Leia Mrs. Claude Bateman of Odessa.
Christy of Cushion, Okla., Mrs.
Jessie Parmalee of Dallas, and
Mrs. Bob McCreary and Mrs. H.
L. Malone of Mineola; twenty
j grandchildren; nineteen great
i grandchildren; and two sisters
who live in Tuscon, Arizona.
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most meteors or falling stars
burn out five miles above the
earth’s surface; however, many
times fragments hit the earth.;
These fragments, usually black '
with traces of iron, have no
intrinsic value, but Texas Ob-
servers will pay liberal prices
for any submitted. The real
value of the meteorite is in its
scientific importance. Photo-
graphs should be submitted if
possible. Meteorite fragments
can be identified at The Moni-
tor Qifice an$ the editor will in
turn notif^^^as Observers.
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V. C. Blalock, 71, native of
Wood County and resident of
Mineola for more than thirty Wiggly food store organization
years, died Tuesday morning at is to be observed this week-end
7:15 at his home on Sycamore by Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Vickery
Street after an illness of seven at their store in Mineola. Special
man, the No. 1 M. L. Jennings.
| Location is 300 feet out of the
i northeast corner of the 52.6-acre
tract, 600 feet out of the north-
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JULY 23, 1952
SEVENTY - SEVENTH YEAR - NUMBER THIRTEEN
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