The Sunday Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 31, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 3, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Go to Church
The several churches of
Mineola urge your at-
tendance at any or all
their services today.
The Sunday Record
DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF MINEOLA AND WOOD COUNTY
WEATHER
TODAY: Fair and
slightly warmer thru-
out East Texas.
Eleventh Year—Number 31.
☆ ☆
Mineola, Wood County, November 3, 1940.
ft ft Four Pages Today
Main Line
MUSINGS
By STACK RATTLER
Due to the thick fog which
cut visibility down to about six
car lengths of distance, the
brave engineers have been hav-
ing some difficulties the last
few mornings. It is quite a
job to keep the motive power
between the fences and not
hit a tree these mornings. It
really does give me a queer
sensation to operate an engine
at high speed in fog as thick
as pea soup when the view
ahead is blotted out. Block
signals loom up suddenly out
of nowhere and flash by be-
Two Hard-Luck
Pilots Barely
Miss Death Here
Break R, E. A.
Power Line
On Take-off
Two youthful fliers from Dur-
ant, Okla., barely missed a fatal
crack-up near here late Thurs-
day afternoon when they made
a forced landing south of town.
Friday tney were able to take
off, and in searching for the
Mineola airport landed on fair-
way three at the Mineola Coun-
try Club golf course. The fair-
way wasn't long enough to af-
fore you know it. Those sig- ^orc* a take-off with both men
nals are life savers under these
conditions and they make it
possible for trains to operate
at normal speed during bad
weather conditions. So long
as they are showing green we
can keep on showering down
on the jack, knowing that all
'is well ahead and that there
rill be a yellow signal between
us and the red one up ahead
which gives us time enough to
bring the box cars down t oa
speed whereby won't hit
anything. But if we do not
heed the warning of these sig-
nals and do hit something,
it's just too bad. All we have
to do then is tell the man
where we want our money
sent because we are done rail-
roading—that is if we are alive
fcand able to navigate after the
'rash. Good old block signals.
bought a slicker about five
weeks ago immediately after
working all day in the rain,
and have carried it with me
every day since and no rain
came. The last trip I left it
home and all the way down j ^ear; despite
from Cow Town Wednesday ! £mnin&s are
night it just poured. And all
the time my slicker was high
and dry at home In the closet.
Smart guy, me.
I notice the brakemen stay
pretty close to the foot of the
vaross around Browder Yajrd
ohese nights. I don't blame
them, because that is the place
where the bad boys hang out. j
HAWKINS WILDCAT SWABS COUNTY'S FIRST OIL
aboard and another jump to
the airport was necessary. In
taking off from the airport
early Saturday morning the
ship's landing gear snapped a
power line, putting out of ser-
vice 125 miles of REA line. The
plane, however, was able to
maintain its speed.
When forced to land here
the fliers were enroute to Kil-
gore where they were taking
the president of Southeastern
State Teachers College of Dur-
ant, whose son had been in-
jured there.
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Government
Takes 2,100
Bales In Loan
Voters to Decide
On President and
Four Amendments
Red Cross Roll
Call to Be Made
Late In Month
The annual Red Cross Roll
Call in Wood County will be
made the latter part of the
month, Joe J. Smith, county
roll call chairman^ announced
Saturday.
Advance preparations are now
said.
The above picture was made
at the Manziel No. 1 F. M.
Morrison wildcat three anl
a half miles northwest of
Hawkins as the first oil pro-
duced in Wood County was
swabbed from the hole on
the sixth swab. The seventh
swab sent oil half way up
the derrick.
Subsequent swabs showed
salt water, and last week
bottom of the hole was ce-
mented in an effort to shut
off the water. The plug was
drilled Thursday night and
swabbing was resumed. Salt
water continued to show,
and, according to late un-
official reports received here
Saturday, Manziel ordered the
hole cemented a third time.
The amount of water appear-
ing in the oil is reported at
various percentages from 15
to 95.
Oil is said to be 23 gravity
with asphalt base and gaso-
line content; however, later
readings have unofficially
placed the gravity at 19.
Trading was at a virtual
standstill outside of one or
two big deals. Humble paid
$750 an acre for the J. H.
Kirkpatrick ten acres out of
an eighty-five acre tract in
the Watson survey. The Tex-
as Company is reported on a
deal with Jarvis College for
acreage in the William Burch
and Stephen Castleberry sur-
veys.
More than 2,100 bales of
cotton from the 1940 crop have
been accepted in Government
loan here. This exceeds the
number placed in loan last
the fact that
running short
of the 1939 figure
Local buyers have purchas- Program Here
ed more than an additional !
100 bales. , The Sulphur Springs Rotary
Cotton men estimate that 95 ' club will present the program
Annual Armistice Celebration
To Draw Thousands Nov. 11
Sulphur Springs
Rotarians to Give
per cent of the picking is com-
pleted, although some cotton
is still in the hands of produc-
ers.
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at the second luncheon of the
Mineola Rotary Club Monday
at Al's Place.
The Gladewater Rotarians j but little property damage was
put on the program at the first1 reported.
I sure wouldn't want to con- j CARBON paper, adding ma-' luncheon last week of the lo- j Mayor J. C. McGlothlin said
tact a box car robber there in chine paper, typewriting and cal organization. President Joe that several street markers, re
Little Vandalism
On Halloween Night
Very little vandalism was
reported here from Halloween
night. Downtown windows were
thoroughly soaped, some of
which were in need also of a
little water and elbow grease,
If I ever do I will , adding macnine riDDons, rubber
stamps, and other office sup-
ulies at The Monitor Office.
the dark.
guarantee you that guy will
(See MAIN LINE, Page 2)
J. Smith announces that the j cently set in concrete, were pull-
Wills Point Club will present ed up in the residential see-
the third program. 1 tion. All have been replaced.
MINEOLA STUDENTS TO TAKE PART IN DRAMATIC REVIEW
m
•im
Arrange Day-
Long Program
Expect Parade
To Be Feature
Of Entertainment
All Wood County and East
Texas is invited to Mineola
Saturday, Nov. 9, and Mon-
day, Nov. 11, to participate in
the annual Armistice Day cele-
bration. A crowd of several
thousand is expected.
A day of continuous enter-
tainment has been arranged in
observance of the twenty-sec-
ond anniversary of the signing
of the armistice at the end of
the first World War. High-
lights of the day's more ser-
ious events will be the Armis-
tice address by Dr. Henry F.
Selcer, Marshall minister, and
the Tribute to the Unknown
Soldier. Special drills will be
given by the 112th Cavalry,
Company F, of the Texas Na-
tional Guard.
Big Parade.
A long list of cash prizes has
already attracted a number of
entries in the parade which will
begin moving at 2:30 Monday
afternoon. Several float decor-
ators employ significant themes
based on present worldwide
conditions in the arrangement
parade entries.
A free street dance, with a
string orchestra furnishing the
(See ARMISTICE, Page 2)
Dave West, 81,
Native of Wood
County, Succumbs
Rev. W. E. Stagner, Baptist
minister, officiated.
Mr. West, a life-long mem-
ber of the Baptist Church, was
born in 1859 in the eastern
part of the county near the
j Upshur County line. He spent
his entire life as a resident of
the southern part of the coun-
ty.
Surviving are two sins, Vernon
West of Cleburne and J. D.
West of Mineola, and two dau-
ghters, Mrs. Verdie Hall and
Mrs. C. J. Stroud of Mineola.
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Funeral For
Alton Aston
Held Saturday
Texas Casts 23
Electoral Votes
Pres. Roosevelt
Believed Most
Popular Locally
Tuesday, Nov. 5, is election
T yiVfttiUHUllO die 11UW j _. , , __
being made, and dates of the ln United States,
membership campaign will be Facing each other on the
released within a few days, he general election ticket will be
Democratic nominee seeking the
Democratic nominee seeking hte
first third term in the history
of the country, and Wendell I*
Willkie, Republican nominee
from Indiana.
Texas, with 254 counties, casts
23 votes in the electoral col-
lege. The candidate getting
the most popular votes gets all
Funeral services for Dave ! of the electoral vote of each.
West, 81, native of Wood Coun- j state, and the candidate get-
ty, were held Saturday after- i ting the majority of electoral
noon at Sand Springs. The j votes is elected.
In 1936 Roosevelt received
734,485 popular votes and Lan-
don, Republican candidate, re-
ceived 103,874. The present
trend in Mineola is believed
overwhelmingly for Roosevelt.
Texas voters will also pass
on four amendments to the
state consitution, two of which
are given a good chance of
adoption.
Two Voting Boxes.
Precinct Two voting box, of
which E. A. Reeves is chair-
man, will be located in the
Reeves Abstract Office on West
Broad. Precinct Twenty-two
voters will cast their ballots
in the Flynt Building on East
Broad. J. C. Park is chairman
of this box. Both locations
are those used for the recent
registration under the Selective
Service System.
Absentee voting in Wood
County is reported to have
passed 150.
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Wood County REA
To Extend Lines.
Funeral services for Alton
D. Aston, 32, were held here
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock
at the Broad Street Church of
Christ with Willis G. Jernigan,
minister, officiating.
Mr. Aston died Wednesday
in a San Angelo hospital where
he was taken two weeks ago.
He had been in poor health. ,
He is a graduate of Mineola niictrn^t iriTi/ A
High School, and at the time,UHMl ULl 1/IIItC
, of his death was a resident of
i Mineola. He formerly resided The Rural Electrification Ad-
in Longview. Burial was made 'ministration this week an"
j in the City Cemetery. | nounced approval of an allot-
n j ment of $98,000 to extend Wood
County REA lines another 124
miles, principally through
Wood. Smith, and Van Zandt
Chicken and Egg
Shipments Increase
Austin, Oct. 31.—Five more Counties.
j carloads of Texas chickens i This will give
were shipped to interstate points
from Texas farms in Septem-
ber than during the same per-
iod last year, University of
Texas statisticians estimate.
Working in conjunction with
the Agricultural Marketing
Service, the University's Bureau
of Business Research reported
the Wood
County REA a total of 674 miles
of lines and better than 1,500
patrons.
V. B. Shaw, superintendent,
also announced this week the
proposed construction of a $12,-
000 brick office building in
Quitman district headquarters.
The building will be located on
fourteen cars of dressed chick- j the south side of town next
ens were shipped out in com- to the property of the Frozen
parison to nine during Septem- i Food locker. It will house REA
ber, 1939. No turkeys were for- j offices and will provide storage
warded. t ! I space for supplies.
Community Chest to Make Big
Drive lor $1,500 Nov. 18,19, and 20
The dramatic pupils of Miss Juanita Morrow will be pres-
ented in an East Texas dramatic review at the Katheryne
James Playhouse in Longview Tuesday and Wednesday,
Nov. 5 and 6. Dramatic pupils from branches of the Kath-
eryne James Play House in esveral other East Texas towns
will take parts in the review.
lown in the picture above, left to right, are: STANDING—
ce Jo Lindley, Betty Jean Crim, and Mary Jo English;
SEATED—Jane Willis, Patsy Jane Aldrich, Bobby Cassels, Ann
Lukenbill, Peggy Bray, and Benegene Taylor; ON THE
LAWN—Ann Minick, David Welch, and Sue Lukenbill. The
photo was taken at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Kine on
North Pacific Street. Pupils not shown in the picture who
will be in the review at Longview are Ray Cooper jr., Tom-
mie Burden, and Ann Faust.
Officers of the Mineola Com-
munity Chest and other per-
sons interested in welfare work
will meet Thursday night, Nov.
14 at English Chapel to dis-
cuss plans for the second an-
nual drive for funds to carry
on the Chest's charity work.
Teams will be organized and
final plans will be made for
canvassing the town Nov. 18,
19, and 20. A goal of $1,500
has been set.
Members of the Chest board
of directors pointed out that
more funds would be needed
this year because of the fact
that maintenance of the ward
school lunch counter for needy
children has been assumed by
the Chest. The operation of
this lunch counter alone will
necessitate an expenditure of
$300. It was also pointed out
that the WPA sewing room has
been closed and that the Com-
munity Chest will operate thru-
out the winter this year instead
of only a few months as was
the case last year when the
goal was set at $500.
No Overhead.
The Community Chest, a
hundred per cent charity or-
ganization, is operating with-
out any overhead expense. All
chest money is solicited local-
ly and spent locally. Volun-
teer solicitors are needed for the
forthcoming drive.
The Chest directors will meet
Nov. 26 and elect a new set
of officers for the ensuing year.
A financial statement is expect-
ed to be released at that time.
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The Sunday Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 31, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 3, 1940, newspaper, November 3, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299024/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.