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THE ALTO HERALD
[^EtMAR. EDITOR AND OWNER
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR
HEXLH
I HE ALTO HERALD, ALTO. TEXAS. AUGUST 27, 1942.
NO. 16,
tp Mcta! of Every
To Be Paid For
'hen Delivered
^ ), to fight the Japs."
. 'st , ..).,gan being used this
H. M. Treadweil, rural
: Ge' 'rgc WiHiams, Alto
^ K drive for scrap in
..-t te ction.
xrp^thering campaign has
H ; tins week and closes
v :un ' Every community is
[. .t! Ute scrap they have
theR.R. Striding
" ti deagnatcd as a scrap
; ncwiii always be
[topay frthe scrap asitts
)ht in. The- following prices are
I[:r.r the scrap:
40c
)[r<)n 30c
ll.:t 75c
$3.00
)B: $3.00 to $3.50
, $3.50 to $4.00
)rass $7.00
[Aiu i irum $6.50 to $7.00
....$6,00 to $6.50
C«jii"!' $5.00
tC'Ppcrwire $6.00
Cpper wire $7.00
i " r I. w mall, or how large
mount r. h uld be brought in
u:: to the local com-
c It hive a large amount
iatitut n't to town with it, phone
T ; < r Mr. Williams and
ig. .t' wiii be made to come
;et it t: :! .s a small .amount, and
ss . ; :r. ,ke a donation of it,
fy t organization you want
nvn y t i go to, and it will be
ver to them.
kond August
Lota Of Men
}!ready inducted
r ot men for the
Au^iist have been calted
aiueted in the arms
H !<: : made pubiic by
\'ice Board at Rusk,
t includes the foliow-
( xt' ii Waggoner
t
i^'rott Coker
- Deianty
f ilalbert
' y Stanley
' iWiurd Tobias
f f'".
=^'-r. D..v.([ Scarbrough
Lee Corley
Sullivan
^"Parker
"^'in Dick Helm
r!cB. Creel
D. Wuodard
^D.Cox
.J tu,
Uutene French
Shi.'ttun
Coleman
'' '' r. [(t Melvin
^ ''- njamine George
! Irwin
^ Of.:y Jones
"^rd
!! tus Vann
- " Simmons
- in Doss
[ m Loden
Witburn
"! - .!'0
h Spruin
L'. ' w Little
! Henderson
' Thomas
t<. Tum Dean returned
^sday, after spending
^ iaysin Houston with
^ 'cr. Mrs. George Bryant
H bbins, \vho has been
o weeks at the home
L,. ' ' Mr. .and Mrs. R. P.
Fx 'hle-to return to her
' tan Sunday.
OVERPLA\T!\G O! ALLOTTED
ACREAGE \\H ! COST (OTTO\
FARMERS PlWt.ms
Cotton farmers who o\ e; pi nt their
altotments by not more- t::an three
teres or three per cent, which evet
is the larger, will not be eon>i;\red as
"knowingiy overplanted" an t m y be
eligible to receive a part n their
conservation payment.-, btitthtyvii!
be subjected to cons, rvati n penai-
ties and marketing quota penalties. B
F. Vance. State AAA Ad:..inistt'iti\e
cfficer, has announced.
Conservation penaity rnt;s. Ytnr!.-
explained, are ten times the pay:n.nt
irate and if the three acre overp'. tit-
ing is ten per cent or more <f the
lotment, the penaity witt wipe out
the payment.
As an exampic. if the tiintment is
30 acres and the farmer piant 33
acres, the penaity on the three acres
will wipe out the payment on the
30 acres.
This provision, Vance expiainea
further, in no way affects marketing
quota regulations md the farmer
will receive a red card if heo\er-
plantshis allotment and will be
subject to a marketing quota penalty
if he sells cotton in excess of his farm
marketing quota.
However, he concluded, farmers
whose ovcrplantings do not excectf
three acres or three per cent, which-
ever is the larger, will be eligible f or
government loans.
Loans Avaitabte
To Buy Farms !n
Cherokee County
Farmers of Cherokee County who
have the necessary qualifications and
want to be considered for loans with
which to buy family type farms of
their own under the U. S. Department
of Agriculture's Tenant f'urchrse pro-
gram should apply immttiLtely t the
Farm Security Administration ofuce
at 203 Post Office Building. Jackson-
ville, it was nnouncedtfC'.yb.iMr.
J. E. Catcs. Chairman i'f FSA's c unty
farm ownership t mmittee.
Under the Bankheaa-Joncs Farm
Tenant Act. a limited number of 1
can be made in design ted ^
each year to farm tenants, share-
croppers or farm laborers \sh'..te
American citizens, to enable them to
obtain life-time sreurtty on farms of
sufficient sixe to adequately support
their families. The 1<< ns are rep.<^-
able within 40 years, at three per
cent interest.
Loans also will be considered' tiH-
chairman cxpl/amcd. to en. bl<- b na
fide farm owners with insutftctent
tand to enlarge their acreages nto
economic family-type units. To qual-
ify. the owner must have person,tty
operated his farm at least one year.
must derive all or most of ins mcome
from the farm, and must intend <o
operate his enlarged unit on a M -
time basis. Farmers who ']
ed in this type of loan can "H"'" i
details from Tom Dean, County tbA
^Sllmportance is attached to
the home-ownersh.p tenure
year because the security
it aff-rds selected farmers jdl b ^
great help to them m then ,
contribute to the food production
program under wa) tn Amertca, -
^in^hetour years the
chase program has "
county, nine farmers ha\e ^h'
arm ownership through ""Se 1^'
Most of the Ti- borrowers are cu. rent
with their principal nnriinte' .
ments. Mr. Catcs saie.. ^
loans, the committee chairman!
ed out.
Mr. and "/we^
returned Sunday former's
mother, Mrs.
other relatives.
Larger Vote
Saturday Than !n
First Primary
\ te:-int':'ctwoA!toboxes turned
out better in the second pr:mary last
Saturday than they die! in the first
pnrr ,ry:nJuly. In the July primary
"98 votes we:e cast and the vote
i i-t Saturday recorded 884.
Two races that were of interest in
Ai' were tite highest office, that of
L'ti.t ft St .te-Senator and thelowest,
:unty Coinmissioner. both of which
were guessed to be close." The first
t ) i)c close in tite state and thelatter
to be close in the precinct. In the
U.S.Scn te race O'Daniel defeated
ias opponent here by an almost 3 to
1 vote, O'Daniel gathering 616 votes
to 240 forAHred.
In the precinct race which was re-
garded to be so ciose that either can-
didate might win by less than a
dozen votes, Bailey was a winner by
a dozen votes in Alto, but he picked
up enough in the Wells and Forest
boxes to run his margin up to 123
maj rity.
Following is the vote as it was
tabulated in the two Alto boxes:
U. S. Senate:
O'Daniel 616
Allred 340
Lieutenant Governor:
Beck 477
Smith 362
State Treasurer:
Hatcher 304
James 325
Raiiroad Commissioner:
Jester 420
Brooks 427
Aito Vote on Commissioner
Bailey 436
Cummings 424-
W'eHs Vote on Commissioner
Bailey - *68
Cummings 82
Forest Vote on Commissioner
Bailey 1°-
Cummings 78
THE (OUT! VOTE
Inspiteot'thelivelyintcicstinthe
U.S. Senate race, Cherokee county
c,.st 6i2 less votes last Saturday than
they did in the July primary. The
fitst primary vote was 6.069. while
the county v te last Saturday was
.1.423. Senators*. Lee O'Daniel car-
ried Cherokee county by i.337 votes.
Following is the county vote on ail
run-off races:
t.S. Senate:
O'Daniei 3381
Allred MM
Lieutenant Governor:
Beck 3492
Smith MM
State Treasurer:
Hatcher 1'?^
James 3504
Railroad Commissioner:
Jester 3038
Brooks 2317
Ponta Farmer
Found Shot
Near Home
Sheriff Frank Brunt is continuing
an investigation of the mysterious
Shooting of Rube Ferrell, 37. Ponta
farmer, presumably early Monday
morning.
Ferrell, meantime, is reportec. to
be in a serious condition conditionat
the Nan Travis Hospital, where
he was brought at 9:30 Monday
morning. Ferrell was shot one time
in the head, a bullet entering his
forehead.
Ferrell, who lives on the old Sum-
merfieid-Ponta road, was found lying
near his house about 7 o'clock Mon-
day morning.
Sheriff Brunt stated that according
to indications Fcrreli had gone to bed
and apparently left his house early
md went to the road, about 75 yards
from his house. A .22 rifle was found
„ing beside him. with one empty
hull being on the ground. Shetiff
Brunt said.-Jacksonvilie Progress.
John Warner Allen of College
Stition spent the week-end wtth his
brents, Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Allen.
August Term
District Court
Opens Monday
Facing an unusually heavy civil
docket, and a light criminal docket,
district court will open at Rusk
Monday for the August term.
Twenty-nine cases are on the civil
docket to face this term according to
District Clerk Alex Black. Fourteen
of these were carried over from the
last term in April and fifteen have
been filed since the adjournment of
court in Aprii.
The first two weeks of court will
be busy with civil cases, and thp third
week will be centered on the criminal
docket.
Following are the grand jurors
who will be called by Judge Chandler
to be empaneled for the term:
Colonel Acker, Jacksonville
L. A. Gipson, Ponta
Jack Rodgers, Alto
H .C. Polk, Jr., Wellls
J. E. Patton, Jacksonville
Carl Dement, Dialvilie
H. A. Pope, Troup
E. L. Penland, Jacksonville
George Smith, Alto
Grady Dial, Forest
John Joplin, Rusk
W. A. Bobbitt, Maydelle
R. R. McDaniel, Alto
W. L. Cunningham, Jacksonville
A. N. Long, Rusk
Dan Childs, Troup.
Promoted
<R- **--
Private William C. George of Aito,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. George,
who is in the air corps stationed at
Fort Meyers, Fla., has been "stepped
up" to Staff Sergeant in h!s company,
according to advices received here
by his parents. Prior to going to Fort
Meyers, he was a student of the air
corps technical school at Chanute,
Illinois. Sergeant George is a former
student of the Alto High School.
McDonald Tells
Farmer To
Hold Cotton
Dallas, Aug. 25.—A move to place
and hold the 1942 cotton crop in the
government loan until the ceiling
price of 21.47c a pound is reached was
begun Tuesday by United States
senators and commisstoners of ag-
riculture from three states.
Producers can receive the ceiling
price without increasing the cost of
cotton goods to the consumer or the
government, said a resolution adopted
unanimously by 250 persons attend-
ing the meeting.
Senator John H. Bankhead, key-
noting the meeting, said the dis-
tribution of $200,000,000 additional
through the cotton belt is involved
in carrying out the program.
Texas Commissioner of Agricul-
ture J. E. McDonald, said cotton
farmers of this state would receive
$60,000,000 to $75,000,000 more for
their crop above current prices under
the plan.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wallace and
family and Mr. antj^Mrs. Jim Wallace
and family of Pueblo, Colo., are visit-
ing relatives and frieneis in Alto and
vicinity for a two weeks visit.
MEN WITH DEPENDENTS
TO BE CALLED
BEFORE CmMSTMAS
Selective Service Director Hershey
said draft boards will begin calling
men with dependents before Christ-
mas. He said single men with
"secondary" dependents, such as
aged or crippled relatives, will be
called first; married men whose
wives work, next; then men with de-
pendent wives; and finally men who
have wives and children. He said the*
reservoir of 1-A men throughout the
country is "practically exhausted.'
Selective service headquarters said
Class 1-B (men fit for limited mili-
tary service only) will be eliminated,
and beginning September 1, all regis-
trants who are not totally disquali-
fied wiil be re-classified in 1-A,
while those not suited for any mili-
tary service wiil be placed in 4-F.
In the case of men reclassified in 1-A,
the Army will determine after induc-
tion whether they wiil be assigned to
full or limited service.
A!to Boy Para-
chutes To Safety;
instructor Kitted
Tom Ed Cosper, second son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Cosper of this city,
narrowly averted death Tuesday
afternoon near Cumby, Texas, when
the government airplane in which he
was riding with an instructor, got out
of control and plummeted to earth,
carrying the instructor with it. Upon
orders from the instructor Cosper
jumped from the plane, but the form-
er, who attempted to jump also, got
his parachute hung on the wing of
the falling plane and went down
with it.
Young Cosper joined the air corps
seme time ago, and had been stationed
at Grand Prairie for the past seven
weeks. He hac'. had nine days flying
up to the time of the accident.
Regarding the accident, the asso-
ciated press carried the following
account in the daily papers Wednes-
day morning:
Ensign W. D. Riley Jr. of Cumby,
Hopkins County, flight instructor at
the Naval Reserve Air Base at Hen-
sley Field, lost his life Tuesday
afternoon, partly or wholly due to
remaining with a disabled airplane
until his student had parachuted to
safety.
Riley and Thomas E. Cosper of
Alto, Cherokee County, were mak-
ing one of the customary training
flights at the base when the plane
became disabled, naval attaches said
in a brief statement.
With the plane rapidly nearing
the earth, Riley instructee* Cosper to
jump. He flew the plane until he
saw that Cosper was clear of it, that
his parachute had opened and he
would land successfully. Riley then
jumped, but his parachute fouled on
the plane's wing and only opened
partly as he plummeted the short
distance remaining to earth.
Cosper received only minor in-
juries.
Riiey had been an instructor at
the primary flight school since June
15. He had received his primary
flight training at Kansas City and
was graduated from the Corpus
Christi Naval Air Base last spring.
Cosper is a graduate ofKilgore
Junior College.
Immediately after the accident a
Navy plane was dispatched to Cum-
by to notify Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Riiey,
parents of the flier, of the accident.
SAYS ALTO !S TO
PLAY AT JACKSONYTLLE
A)to Lions Meet With
Grange Hat! P. T. A.
Discuss Scrap Drive
Bringing out the thought that the
second front of this war is at home,
not on the foreign battlefields,
County Judge H. T. Brown, ad-
dressed about two hundred people
composed of Alto Lions, guests, and
Linwood home people Tuesday night
at Grange Hall schcoi in the Linwood
community.
The Grange Hall P. T. A., Was
host to the Alto Lions Club and
served the organization and their
guests a fried chicken supper that
was greatly enjoyed by all who
attended.
Buying war bonds was stressed
by Gordon Tilley of Jacksonville,
who presented a motion picture film
sponsored by the Cocoa Cola com-
pany showing war torn communities
in foreign countries and compared
that with the pleasant home life that
is being enjoyed by the American
people, who are at thts time the
only free nation in the world who
are self-dominated.
Judge Brown emphasfzed the im-
portance of gathering scrap iron and
rags, pointing out tHat many steel
mills are idle in this country today
because of the lack of tron and steel
to make war equipment. "That war
material needed," said Judge Brown,
"is in our back yards, on oun farm:?,
and around our homes, and this is
your opportunity to do your bit by
gathering it up and bringing it to
town and selling it, not giving it to
your government. The difference
here and in Hitler controlled coun-
tries over there," he said, "is they
don't buy it from their subjects, they
demand and take it without paying
for it."
"For ten years," stated Judge
Brown, "we MM scrap iron and
other metals to Japan, now we
should be anxious to give them aH
we've got. and let some of our men
like Doolittie, deliver it direct t3
Tokyo and other points in Japan."
President George Williams of the
Alto Lions Club opened the evening's
program with the introduction of O.
T. Allen, chairman of the program
committee. Mr. Allen gave a brief
outline of Lions Club work, and ac-
tivities sponsored by the Alto ciub
since its organization in 1935, chief
of those being the erection of a cluo
house for the Alto organization and
the sponsorship of the Aito School
Lunch Room. "Many individuals
have also been aided by the club
during those years," explained Mr.
Allen.
Mr. Gus Rounsaville, chairman of
the local war bond drive, stated that
Aito has an annual war bond quota
of $80,540, which is approximately
$6,700 per month, and that so fa:-,
each month's quota had been sold, but
he also pointed out that in the past
months, many heavy buyers in Alto
territory, had purchased about all
they could for this year, and now it
would have to be the small investor
who must bear the responsibility for
the three months left of 1942.
The P. T. A. of Grange Hall, were
highly complimented for the splen-
did meal prepared, and the pleasant
evening spent brought forth the
thought that others woMid follow
from time to time.
The following paragraph was
taken from the Jacksonville Progress
of Tuesday, August 25, 1942. If this is
correct it is assumed that Alto wilt
have football this year:
Game No. 9 was added to the
Jacksonville High School footbafl
slate for the coming season with an
announcement by Principal B. R.
Mathews this morning that arrange-
ments have been completed for a con-
test with Alto High here on Septem-
ber 25.
O DANIEL S MARGIN
!S 17,592 VOTES
Final tabulations by the Texas
Election Bureau Tuesday night gave
W. Lee O'Daniel a lead of 17,592
votes in the runoff election witn
James V. Allred for a six-year term
to the United States Senate.
The bureau estimated that less than
4500 votes remained uncounted. Of
the state's 254 counties, 227 hact
turned in complete reports giving
O'Daniel a total of 449.220 and Alf-
red 431,628. The coqabined vote was
880,848.
The bureau's figures, while un-
official. are considered accurate and
have been borne out in the past by
the official count of the state Demo-
cratic committee. ,
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1942, newspaper, August 27, 1942; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth215046/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.