The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1940 Page: 3 of 16
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48 Kosse Boys in U. S. Service;
Town Claims Record of Some Kind
• KOSSE, Texas, Oct. 4. (Spl.)—
This community thinks perhaps it
has a national record on the num-
ber of boys who have already-en-
listed in Uncle Sam's army er-
vice, when compared to its popu-
lation with other communities. The
town and adjacent communities of
approximately 1,000 persons, have
already furnished 48 new men with
eight or ten who were already in
t>he service before the European
war. "-** *rv
Those who have recently enlist-
ed, 48 in all, are: Woodrow Whit-
|iw, W.' J. Parrott, Coleman Bir-
intrigham. Kenneth Harper; L. P.
Jones, Jr., Robert Lee Hardy,
George Milstea, Noel Hunter. Jim
Boggs, E. B. Ware, Blake Lowery,
.John Clive Ayers, Cecil Higgihs,
Leonard Crabb, Bradford McDan-
iel, James Parrish, Bobby Crabb,
J. T. Hollinsworth, Bryce Hollina-
worth, Lynwood Jones, Clark
Hensley, Elmo Swinnca, Billy Bird-
well, John Loyd, George Payne,
Howard Tate, Luther Anderson,
Charles Higgins, James Francis,
Fred Bradley, Basil Jordan, Char-
les Robison, E. S. White, Louis
White, George Ray, Lewis Wright",
John Bullock, Weldon Govern, Her-
man Briggs, Raymond Sanders, Ar-
nold Parish, Brooks Lewis, Willie
Frenck, William Garland, Andrew
Wright , Howard Alexander, Jack
Milstead and Claude Mills.
Indians? No, It's Westminster
College Freshmen All Painted Up
Harvest Months
Best Time for
Debt Adjustment
Harvest months when they have.;
•: little money is the time for far-
mers who are struggling along un'-^
der burden of excessive defcts to
get these obligations brought with-
in their ability to pay, Cecil John-
son, FSA supervisor, said Satur-
day in announcing the next meet-
ing of the county farm debt ad-
justment committee.
The meeting will be held on
Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Farm Se*
curity "Administration office on the
tecnn&floor of the court house be-
ginning" at 10 a. m.
.DeBt-distressed farmers of Lime-
stone county may appear before
this meeting for a discussion of
ways to help them.
Johnson said that the debt ad-
justment committee has *' found
many creditors willing to • gi'ant
time extensions, re-amortizations,
and sometimes adjustments in
principal and interest to' farmers
who showed a sincere willingness
to pay as much as they can /in
their indebtedness. "In almost every
case," he said, "it is to the credit-
ors advantage to permit the debtor-
faj-mer to remain on his farm so
that eventually he can pay a large
part of his obligations."
-The farm debt adjustment com-
mittee, composed of Jocal men,
seeks to work out a fair agreement
between debt-burdened farmer and
his creditors, providing for a re-
payment schedule which the farmer
Can meet. The Farm Security Ad-
ministration in many cases will
then extend its loan and guidance
'service to help the farmers make
as large an income as possible.
— Members of the Limestone coun-
ty debt adjustment committee are
Otho G. Reeves, Mexia; J. E.
Sharp, Groesbeck; and Macon A.
Gunter, Kosse.
■Mrs. A. T. Lancaster and Mrs.
Lena Mcllveene visited relatives in
Jasper Sunday.
Long-time Tehuacsna residents
may have thought the Tehuacana
Indians had returned to the pic-
turesque hilltop Friday as West-
minster college students, males and
females alike, were diked out in
comical, colorful regalia, each with
ap oniou around his or her neck
and carrying an egg in a saucer.
The students were smeared with
red lipstick and paint like a fierce
Indian tribe on the warpath.
It was all part of the annual
freshman day at the college and
the sophomore students had "deco-
rated" the fish for the occasion.
Two first year professors, Roy
Smithand Bob Fowler, were also
painted up by the upperclassmen.
Masculine members of the class
were barefooted and the feminine
students wore shoes which didn't
match.
While freshman day was occupy-
ing the spotlight, two sophomores,
Cy Ryburn of Kirven and Frank
Kemble of Dallas, were lining up
political forces for the student
body election Tuesday to name the
president of the student council.
Ryburn and Kemble went into the
run-off earlier in the week as Wil-
ford Pitts, Ben Hur, and Jack Cul-
well, Cranfills Gap, were elimin-
ated.
Ryburn is one of the Wildcat
basketball stars and Kemble was
an ace back on the Westminster
football team last year. Kemble has
turned to boxing now that the hill-
top institution has discontinued
football.
U. S. Navy Wants
German Alien's
Gunboat Design
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 8 (U.R)
—Federal Judge John Caskie Col-
let. today delayed sentencing an
unnaturalized German to prison
until the alien submits to the navy
department his plan for a gun-
boat which he said would travel
60 miles an hour.
The German, 49-year-old Henry
Resch of Columbia, Mo., pleaded
guilty to a charge of transporting
a stolen automobile from Salt
Lake City to Columbia.
Reach's attorney told the court
that the navy had requested the
design of the boat that the inven-
tor also said would right itself
after capsizing. Collet then de-
ferred sentence to November 1 af-
ter Kesch said the plans would be
sent to Washington in a few days.
The attorney said Resch developed
the plans while working in a Cali-
fornia shipyard. He also said the
German had furnished the Federal
Bureau of Investigation with in-
formation on west coast subversive
activities.
Slave Hideout Uncovered
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (U.R)—A
large underground cavern which
was used for hiding fugitive slaves
as a part of the pre-Civil War
"underground railway" has been
rediscovered by workmen here.
Samuel W. Taylor, near whose
property the vault was situated,
said it had been blocked up for a
half century.
Baby Named For Raid Shelter
LONDON, Eng. (U.R)—John An-
derson Plume is the name of the
first baby in Britain to be born in
an Anriei'son shelter during an air
raid. He was 'born on a blanket-
strewn wood bench in light provid-
ed by a mototrcycle battery.
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Copyright, Duncan Co««• Co, 1940
Fair Better Than Last Year Is
Concensus of Bi-Stone Citizens
By E. H. HUDSON
"It's better than last year" wag
heard on every side. The show is
far from being what it ought to
be and can be. Room for many im-
provement* can be (seen. There are
mistakes to be corrected. But when
we can say of any institution, or
person, or flock, or herd, or pro-
duct of homo or farm, "it' bet-
ter than last year," it means pro-
gress and high success in time. All
great things have small beginnings.
"Make next Fair better than this
one" will be the resolution of the
Chamber of ComVnerce and Fair
directors.
The exhibits of the various de-
partments are larger in number
and of finer quality than last year's
with the exceptioin of one depart-
ment, which shows need of vast im-
provement and larger interest.
It is encouraging to note that
our people are turning to the breed-
ing good lines of sheep; some good
specimens are shown. The people
will turn more and more to that
source of income.
Swine and dairy cattle are good,
but more registered stock should
be introduced into the herds.
The canning industry and home
exhibits give evidence of the good
work done by our county and
home demonstration agents. Espe-
cially noteworthy are the commun-
ity exhibits, revealing community
pride and cooperation.
Clubs Outstanding
Again, as in former years, the
boys and girls' clubs took a pro-
minent place in the fair. In them
lies the future of our homes, and
of our agricultural and stock in-
dustries. Thoy will take over and
carry on the work we are inaugu-
rating.
The entertainment provided by
the directors this year seems to
be of a high order. The carnival,
a southwestern institution organiz-
ed three years ago, is clean and
furnishes varied amusements at a
small cost. The carnival carries
189 employees, all fed and housed
in comfortable trailers on the
grounds.
People Interesting
The most amusing and interest-
ing exhibits at the fair were the
people.
The people were more worth
watching than pigs, calves, sheep
arid chickens.
They were as interesting and
showed as great improvement and
need of improvement as jams, jel-
lies, corn and cotton, peas and pea-
nuts. The spectators this year were
alert and prosperous and happy.
Greetings, smiles, handshakes with
neighbors and friends were the or-
der of the day. There was heard
little or no talk of hard times or
war or elections.
Tightwads were not in evidence;
everybody seemed to have a little
loose change and were not afraid to
turn it loose for hot dogs, popcorn
and side shows.
Walter Anderson, president; Don
S. Caldwell, manager and Prof. W.
E. Lasseter, head of the agricul-
tural department, were on their
jobs constantly, ever ready with
answers to any questions and
prompt decisions oti any problem.
These three men made all the
wheels go round.
A little bright-faced, smiling
woman came into the poultry room
and found a comfortable seat on a
nail keg and sat relaxed and amus-
ed for hours, watching the bustle
and fuss and seriousness of offi-
cials and spectators. She seemed to
be having the time of her life, just
watching the antics of, the folks.
If pigs and guineas could think
and laugh, they would perhaps find
as much fun and amusement in
watching us as we find in watch-
ing them.
The most handsome man of the
city, perfectly groomed, attired in
latest style, conscious of his per-
sonal pulchritude, with a smile of
a movie star, a handshake of a pol-
itician and a word of congratula-
tion and praise for all comers made
his leisurely way through the many
departments, leaving sunshine in
his wake. He was pne of the out-
standing human exhibits.
Boy Is Brightest
The biggest person in the poultry
show was a small boy, Tommy
Miles. And he was one of the most
useful, bright, ready to turn a hand
to help in any task- He was also
one of the large exhibitors, showing
a fine display of bantams which he
bred and raised. The most hurried
spectators paused to admire them.
Mayor Smith was an interested
visitor. After making his way
through the exhibits, pausing brief-
ly now and then, he came to the
bantam display and came to a full
stop. He stood alone and looked at
them for a long time. A show offi-
cial approached him to give him
any desired information. The may-
or said, "I wish 1 had some ban-
tams" and went his way. Many of
us busied with life's affairs, have
some such conscious or unconscious
desire that led the mayor to express
such a wish. A flock of bantams
would be good for many people.
Celebrity Is Here
The carnival manager was observ
.•d walking watchfully through the
fair, keeping close to the pigs and
pumpkins, probably thinking they
were too wise or too dumb to try
to wangle a pass out of him. Both
managers of the carnival, by the
way, are very pleasant gentlemen
to meet and very obliging.
Among interested visitors from
out of the city were Mr. and Mrs.
Radley. Mr. Radley wil be remem-
bered as a nationally known white
leghorn breeder who lived here be-
fore moving to Houston. He was
a moving figure in our large and
good poultry shows held here some
ten years ago.
HEIR LUCKILY FINDS WILL
GLEN CANYON, Cal. <U.PJ —
Charles F. MoEuen was kicking
around some old papers that had
been left with him by the late
Henry V. Piatt, when among them
his foot brought to light a sealed
envelope. He opened it and found
a will with which Piatt had made
him heir to $1,000 in cash and 80
acers of forest and pasture land.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Corbett of
Graham spent Thursday here with
their nieces, Mrs. J. E. Urschel and
Miss Alma Norton.
FSA Improves
24 Farms in
Limestone Free
New wells and cisterns, sanitary
toilets and screens for doors and
windows have been completed on 24
farms of low-income tenants and
owners in Limestone county, with-
out cost to the farmers, Cecil John-
son, county supervisor of the Farm
Security Administration said Sat-
urday.
In return for the improvements,
owners of*tenant farms have in
most cases given the tenant a long-
term lease. The "entire attitude of
the owners toward long-term leases
has been changed," Johnson said.
"This change has in many cases
extended to owners generally, not
only those on whose farms the im-
provements were made." The re-
sult, he said, is to stabilize the ten-
ant population and to prevent their
moving each year, which he called
the most demoralizing influence in
farming.
The tenant, in return for the im-
provements, has carried out a con-
tract of work on his farm and
home, including building of trench
silos, repairs to buildings and fen-
ces, and construction of frame gar-
dens. "The tenant has thus been
start** am • pr gr j
and impro ei «nt wi
often previously rec<
vain," Johnson pointed out.
The "environmental
program of Farm Security
mniiatration has been pe:
at an expense, to date, of $1848
the county, or an average cost
$77 per farm. Ninety per cent
this was spent for materials. Works
Project Administration performed
the labor of constructing toilets,;
and National Youth Admjnistra-'
tion built the screen doors arrfc
windows. Farmers themselves as-'
sisted in these jobs and did most
of the labor in digging wellt.
HEDGE IS STOLEN'
SANTA ROSA, Oal., Cal. (U.PJ -
The police have an unsolved prober
lem in the theft of 200 feet of'
newly planted cypress hedge at
Juilliard Park. It is whether the■
theft was committed by some one-
who liked cypress hedge enough'
to steal it or whether someone disj i
liked it enough to destroy it.
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PRISONER FIRES JAIL
DECATUR, Ind., (U.R) —An at,
tempted prison-bueak at the Adri
ams county jail fi ere by setting fira
to the building failed when the
smoke aroused the sheriff and mem
bers of his family. The entire pop-
ulation of the prison was in on
the plan. He was Hiram McCollum,
only inmate.
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Prunes "un—" lb. pkg. 13c
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