The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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North Auii East (irxas* 3uirrmast HUrpkltr NmisjjajjFr
Sixty-Fifth Year—Number 4.
Mineola, Wood County, Texas, Thursday, April 25, 1940.
Eight Pages Today
Exes Favored
er Regulars
In Spring Game
New Backfield to Have
More Brain Than
Brawn
LOCAL INDUSTRY BUILDS MEN AND FURNITURE
A light but well-proportioned
high school football team, built
around six lettermen and rep-
resenting Mineola High's 1940
grid chances will line up Fri-
day night against a team of
veterans, most of whom held
down first line positions on last
fall's Regional champion team,
in the annual spring training
game between the Exes and
the Regulars.
The regulation game will be-
gin at 7:45 Friday night. Ad-
mission will be 10 and 25 cents
and gate receipts, Coach Paul
Snow announces, will be ap-
plied on new uniforms for the
1940 team.
The starting team for the
Regulars will pack more brain
than brawn, with the heaviest
man pushing the scales only to
135 and the lowest scholastic
grade of any member of the
quartet being B-. Starting at
quarterback will be Ben Copas?
130-pound southpaw letterman
who saw considerable service
the last two seasons He is an
honor student. At the halfback
,|?osts will be Homer Smith and
J. L. Shelburne, both of whom
are regarded as honor students.
Shelburne weighs 135 and Smith
130. At fullback will be the only
regular from last year's back-
field, James Homer Hughes, who
keeps his grades up in the b's.
Hughes has shown considerable
promise. "They're little, but
they're all pretty tightly wound,''
comments Coach Snow on his
prospective backfield. The
weight average will be increas-
ed slightly with the insertion
of Hallmark, 140-pound half-
-back. into the line-up.
Coach Robnett expects to put
^a line on the field Friday night
that will match the Exes in
■practically every department.
At center will be Dudie Felts,
130-pound squadman of last
season. Guards will be J. O.
Phillips, 155; and J. K. Smith.
160. or Armond Smith. 150.
Tackles will be Cudd. 150. or
Sewell. 220. and Vernon Lind
ley. 150, all-district performer
last fall. The veteran Frank
(See FOOTBALL, Page 8)
Farmers Invited
To Gamblin Farm
For Field Day
Farmers in Hopkins, Rains,
and Wood Counties are invited
to a Field Day meeting at the
Roy Gamblin farm two miles
north of* Yantis Friday after-
noon at 2 o'clock.
J. L. Johnson of the soil ex-
periment station at Lindale will
talk on Vetch and Burr Clover
The group will inspect the
hairy vetch grown on the Gamb-
lin farm, along with trench
silos, electric milkers, and an
improved water system.
a
One Killed, Seven
Mrs, W. P. Warren
Dies From Burns _ . . ,
Received Sunday ITlJUTBCl I ft H VCCrC
Explosion of Cleaning- TO PREACH HERE Tir > Rlniv Out
Fluid Ignites lire 10>V-UUl
Clothing
Funeral services were held;
I here Monday for Mrs. W. P
! Warren, 50, who died in a local
I hospital Sunday afternoon from
burns received Sunday morn-
ing when gasoline naphtha,
| with which she was cleaning
clothes, ignited. The Rev. K.
R. Isbell, pastor of the First
Methodist Church, conducted
the services at the church at
3 o'clock.
Mrs. Warren was cleaning
garments with naphtha on the
service porch of her home here.
An industry with which lew
Mineolans are acquainted is
the National Youth Adminis-
tration workshop located in
the Lone Pine school build-
ing just west of the city lim-
its. The shop gives employ-
ment to between thirty and
forty boys who have not had
the advantages of vocational
or college training and teaches
them a trade at which they
might make a living. The
o sponsored "oy liis :oca: * Fussell, James Lloyd, Gor-
schools and Junior Chamber
of Commerce, is maintained
by local businessmen. Salaries
•averaging around $700 month-
ly are paid by the NYA.
In the upper left is a pic-
ture of the building, and at
the top right is one shift. Top
row, left to right: Ernest Ogle,
Ernest Hill, Luther Kennedy,
and Thomas Flournoy. Mid-
dle row: Barney Carroll, Earl
don Bagby, and Dennis Mon-
crief. Front row: Jimniie Jer-
and the fumes caused an ex-
plosion when ignited by the
pilot light on a nearby water
heater. Her mother, Mrs. Eliza-
beth Mittel, and neighbors ex-
tinguished the flames which
covered her body, burning off
her clothing.
| She was taken by ambulance
to a local hospital for treat-
| merit for severe burns, and at
5:30 Sunday afternoon she died.
Mis. Warren was born in
I Big Spring in 1890, and before
her marriage to the late W.
P. Warren she was Miss Helen
; Mittel. Mr. Warren was buried
den, Francis Holland, Roscoe here exactly six months ago
Derr, Kenneth Pope, Ralph Monday.
I Survivors are two stepsons,
.Victor Warren of New Iberia,
La, and H. T. Warren of Cen-
Morgan, Foy Bauknight, and
Bainey Pope. Other picture
shows the boys at work under
the supervision of T. M. Davis,
instructor. Samples of ex-
pert workmanship may be
seen in the lower left photo.
tralia, 111.; three brothers, Joe
C. Mittel, who was here at the
time of Mrs. Warren's tragic
Cause of Mishap
Cars Crash Head-On,
Burn Early
Monday
One man was killed and seven
others were injured, five ser-
iously. when two automobiles
crashed head-on about a mile
east of town on Highway 80
Monday morning at 7 o'clock
Thomas A. Hahn, 25, Dallas
shoe store employe and former
resident of Tulsa, Okla., died
at about 1 o'clock Monday af-
ternoon from injuries received
when the car in which he was
riding crashed into the car
of W. E. Reynolds, local insur-
ance man. The two cars im-
L Vaughan, Van mediately burst into flames, and
the injured were extricated by
passers-by. Both cars were
demolished.
The injured are:
W. E. Reynolds, Mineola, cuts,
bruises, said by physicians to
be painful, hand injury, loss of
teeth.
James Hunt sr., Negro farm
worker, who was riding with
Reynolds, cuts and bruises.
k* 1 Sammy Foster, Dallas, broken
Agriculture hip, chest injuries.
^ ! Mrs. Sammy Foster, Dallas,
both legs broken, lacerations,
MELVIN L. VAUGHAN
• Melvin
Church of Christ minister,
will preach a series of reviv-
al meetings at the Broad
Street Church of Christ from
Mav 5 through Mav 11.
Mineola School
May Get Course
Firemen Make
Retiring Mayor
Honorary Chief
Drive
The Mineola Volunteer Fire
Department bestowed the title
of Honorary Chief upon retir-
ing Mayor G. N. York at a fish
fry Wednesday night.
Presentation of a framed cer-
tificate designating him honor-
ary chief was made to Mr. York
by Fire Chief Wesley Lott. who
pointed out that the club had
unanimously voted him the hon-
or because of the cooperation
and sympathetic counsel given
the fire department during the
six years he has served as com-
missioner and mayor.
Carefully
In 1940
Traffic Casualties in the im-
mediate vicinity of Mineola
since January 1, 1940, list:
Legionnairies
Go To District
Meet At Gilmer
The Luckett Cochran Post of
the American Legion will be
represented by seven delegates
at the Third District Conven-
tion of the American Legion in
Gilmer Saturday and Sunday
April 27 and 28.
KILLED
INJURED
L
11
DRIVE CAREFULLY . . .
OBSERVE TRAFFIC LAWS
and STAY HEALTHY . . .
C. P. Barclay, vocational ag ;and internal injuries.
riculture supervisor for twenty- Calumet Portice, Dallas, lac-
^ .u IT..,i* ^ two East Texas counties, will erations and bruises.
dea^n, William Mittel and Dan- di vocational training at Mrs Calumet Portice Dallas
iel Mittel of Dallas, ;two sisters! t MnnHav ntoht'* ratine , , <-«uumei roruce uajjas-.
,, „ T „ TT \ ' _ „ next Monday nignts meeting iegs broken, internal injuries.
Mis. Lena Haggard o! Dallas,: of the Junior Chamber of Com- ; Mrs A1 Hodge, Fort Worth,
Mrs. May Mack, of Houston: ' ov„„ . . . . ' , . . .
and her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth, Mr Bai.clay has indicated Tire Blows'out
^Bir'al&was mad^in "the cit- that the Mineola scho°l large" The DaI1*s party was'enroute
•' ily because of its high scholas- home from a dance at Kilgore
tic standing, is in line to re- ancj their car was traveling at
ceive a vocational agriculture a high rate of £pced when a
course in the near future. The tire blew out, throwing their
Mineola school, it is said, will machine into the Reynolds car
be given preference over a num- which was traveling in the op-
ber of others in tiie district in posite direction. Several mem-
the placing of the next depart- bers of the Dallas party are
ment- musicians.
Local* school officials and After receiving treatment here
board members will be present the injured wcre carried to
for Mr. Barclay's talk, and the nniioq hv amhnianco
Named to represent the local Democratic precinct conven- nublic is invited to attend an- VrY amouiance
tjOst flt-p Cr D Mi nick- T T tions will hp held in Minpnli puDllc 1S mvueci lo a«ena. an Hahn ls survived by a wlfe
.jjst a.e Lt. u. AiimcK, J. L. i b win oe nem in -dmeola nounces j g Smith, Jaycee anri twn phildvpn whn rp
Anderson, G. E. Cowan. Hubert Saturday afternoon, May 4, at nrp„iripnj ana . children who aie re
Thomas, Frank Vitasek, G. C. 2 o'clock. ' siding in Mexico. Near rela-
Cemetery Monday afternoon.
Demo Precinct
conventions to
Re Held May
I
JAYCEES FRY FISH
— Members of the Junior Cham-
IIAS OPERATION ber of Commerce were enter-
Mrs. James Judge underwent tained at a fish fry at Rock
i Smith, and R. E. McClendon
o
Mabank Minister
Guest Speaker at
Church of Christ
Clyde Ecps, precinct 22 chair-I
man. announces the conven- Man
tion for that precinct will be | . . _
held in the Trainmen's Hall by j ISieW C SSllier tor
R. H. Carraway.
The precinct 3 convention will
be held in the E. A. Reeves Ab
tives in Pennsylvania instruct-
ed the English Funeral Home
here to contact Mrs. Hahn for
funeral arrangements. She is
0 n expected here Friday morning.
Southwestern \I-E Mr. Reynolds, local insur-
ance man and candidate for
Frank McCowan, Mabank , , TT .
an operation this week in a Falls Lake Thursday night The minister, has been announced Hearn, chairman.
Dallas hospital. She is report- party was held at the D. S. as \hp on^t cVakpr °
«■ Lankford cottage, | night' aif the Broad Street Quitman Election
Church of Christ. i
stract Office, according to Ger- Mason Reardon, employe of justice of the peace, is reported
'Bacon Loop' Gives New
Farm- to - Market Outlet
Willis G. Jernigan, local min-
ister, has accepted an invita-
tion to speak at Eustace, in
Henderson County, on Sunday
night.
The young peopl
Set for Mav
County Judge C. B.
said Thursday that an election I retary Wednesday
the Southwestern Gas & Elec- iesting well at his home four
; trie Company formerly located m^es east °f town.
at Pittsburg, has moved here 0
|to fill the position of cashier 209 Seventh Grade
i with the company left vacant Pnnile HriHiiiito
4 by the resignation of L. L. 1 UP1IS VrraflUaie
Chadwick. Mr. Chadwick as- j , , , ,r , _
Smith sumed his duties as city sec- A t<Hal 01 209 Wood Count5r
seventh
diolomas
rade pupils received
at the countv-wide
Disastrous Hail
Misses Countv
A hail storm that covered
several parts of East Texas
barely missed Wood and Smith
County crops for a second time
this spring when heavy hail-
laden clouds tailed to break
Monday afternoon.
Two men were seriously hurt
at Paris and damage estimated
at several hundred thousand
dollars was done by hail in
that vicinity.
A flurry of hailstones, some
of them as large as eggs, ac-
companied by a severe wind-
storm, fell in Kaufman and
>i)allas Counties Monday after
noon, stripping fifty per cent
of that section's fruit crop
Window panes were knocked
out, vegetable crops were ruin-
and trees were damaged.
The Bacon Loop is the title way 80 at Lake Fork. It serves e!lt a P^°.?ram at 6.45 p. m.
unofficially given Wood Coun- the Redland community, a at -wl!:ieola church, and Mr.
ty's newest road, a nine-mile thickly populated farming sec- ^Cowan will speak at <:45.
stretch of gravel road being tion of Wood County. ^ 0
buiit in the Redland commun- The project embraces 49,000 Garden Ciub
ity at a cost of $58,080. This feet of road-building with a 60- Protests S^JlkinS'
name was suggested by a resi- foot right-of-way, and a 26 ' ™
dent of the community as an . foot crown with iron ore gravel
honor to County Commissioner base nine inches thick. All
W. B. Bacon, who was largely | fills and banks are sodded with
r. seeking incorporation of the! Mr Reardon said his wife ...
v v r-h i /-•! • ° li6 * a C^V Quitman has been set and two children will move -la uat.°.. eAe.ci.ses m e
bank Church of Christ will pies- for Saturdayi May 4 |t0 Mineola wlthln a f„ days.
Of Cows On Park
Fanners to Get Tomato
Pointers Here Saturday
J
Wood and Smith County!this particular ttage of plant-
Quitman High School auditor-
ium Wednesday night.
Arthur Maberry, deputy stata
supervisor, delivered the com-
mencement. address.
The New Hope school, with
twenty graduates, led the list.
Hainesville was second with
fourteen, and Yantis was third
with thirteen.
o
The Fannie Marchman Gar-
instrumental in obtaining the Bermuda grass, and all culverts Club has protested to city farmers in fhis vicinity will ing.
project. And it seems to have are concrete with concrete and officials the staking of cows hear timely points on tomato | Hudson said that very few
stuck rock side walls. on the city park, improved last culture discussed here Satur- plants were lost in the recent
Classed as a lateral road pro- Another road will be built year by the garden club. day afternoon, April 27, by Earl j freeze; however, there was lit-
ject, the road is being built in Precinct four to connect A city ordinance, it was point- Barrios, T&P farm agent and j tie loss in the Red River County
with WPA aid, and the total with the Bacon Loop, making i ed out, prohibits the staking of tomato expert. Mr Barrios will area. All plants set out in hot- Chest has spent an average of
expense to Wood County amounts! a new farm-to-market outlet; animals on the park and the talk on "Spraying of Tomato beds by local' farmers have S48 monthly on local charity
to only S7 085. Phillip R. Gor-I for a big agricultural section of club threatens to press charges Plants for Diseases and Insect been sold, and a plant shortage .since its oiganization in Jan-
rell, WPA project superintend-! the county. Commissioner a. against offenders who continue Control." is reported at Jacksonville. ThisjUary, the secretary's report re-
en t. and Mr. Gambell, engineer B. Caffey of Precinct 4 says to ignore the law. Approximately sixty or sev- condition is expected to cause
in charge, estimated the job the right of way is now being The cows are said to be de- enty tomato growers are ex- a slight rise in price in the
will be completed around June cleared for the project in hisjstroying shrubs and plants and pected to gather at the English j green-wrap market.
1. It is approximately 70 per precinct. The two roads will preventing children from play- Chapel at 2 o'clock to hear him. Contract Buyers.
cent complete now. meet at the Barnes place four ing on the park grounds. "Most farmers are going to [ Buyers for the new market
The road begins at Crow and! miles north of Crow. The Pre-
' extends four miles north and cinct 4 road will be eighteen
then turns west and then south-j miles long and of the same
west, forming a loop and end-1 structure, and will terminate at
ing at the intersection of High- Hawkins.
Community Chest
Spends £r48 Monthly
The Mineola Community
vealed at a meeting of Chest
officials Tuesday night. More
than S200 remains in the Chest
treasury
The group voted Tuesday
the fields this week with their here have been contacted by night to discontinue monthly
IN HOSPITAL tomatoes," said County Agent1 the Junior Chamber of Com- meetings during the summer
Dr. W. T. Black, well known Jack Hudson, "and Mr. Barrios; merce, and agreements are ex- months because of the relative-
Quitman physician, is in a Dal- will be able to give them some pected to be completed possibly ly small demand for chari
las hospital for treatment. i very worthwhile pointers on j this week. j work during warm weather.
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The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1940, newspaper, April 25, 1940; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth298969/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.