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'OL. 34 - No. 32
Seminole, Gaines Co., Texas, Thursday, SEPTEMBER 18, 1941
Eight Pages
RIDAY'S GAME OPENS FOOTBALL SEASON HERE
Sty's $853,813 Assessed
alue Reduced 25 Percent
City Dads gave the go
on the long awaited prob-
of approving the City of
linole budget for the current
year at a special meeting
e Council held Thursday
ing. After weeks of delibera-
and study on all prospects
enue and obligations shown
due during the twelve
s by the annual report of
ity Secretary, the commis-
s elected to reduce the
13.00 assessed value by
;y-five per cent.
ording to Mayor Finley
e, this actually means that
individual tax payer will
realize a 25% reduction of the
rendition as it now stands re-
gardless of the amount. The bud-
get was set by the commission-
ers with strict economy in mind
In every department of the City
yet maintaining a margin for ef-
ficient governmental operation of
both, administrative and indebt-
edness dispositions.
The Mayor states that this ac-
tually figures an assessed value
of $641,109.75 after the twenty
five per cent figure of $213,703.25
lias been pared from the ren-
dition sheets of individual tax
payers. The budget calls for ad-
ministrative costs to be held with-
in,: the figure of the past year,
payment of bonded obligations
interests due, accumulating
cipal for future disposition of
ids and warrants that will aid
retaining a low operating cost
fyears to follow.
e council stated that 84 city
;s were found to be nonrendered
previous years for taxation
the City Secretary and the
aid of Equaliwftion vWbuld
a in meet to deal with the sit-
ation and that value added to
e present assessment. It is ex-
cted that this amount of un-
larthed taxation will total np-
oximately $12,000.00 to $15.-
0. As soon as all ownership of
is property is determined the
ty Secretary will set up the
x Rolls and mail tax bills to
tax payers, with the payment
Off taxes becoming due January
first of 1942. As in previous years
thire will be a savings of penal-
ty end interest to all who remit
on or before June thirtieth of
1942.
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* Scroggie Hospital *
* News
Johnny Henderson, son of L. H.
Henderson, had his appendix re-
moved Saturday night and is
doing nicely.
son, weighing 8 pounds, 8
ounces, was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Jones, Monday morning.
He ha s been named Milton Brian
Jonas.
son born to Mr. and Mrs.
McCain last Friday, Sept.
been named Ronald Cyril.
Weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces,
th. Mrs. McCain and son
ftaken home in a Singleton
ance Tuesday.
„.i|| J. C. Rice Jr. was hos-
pitalized over the weekend for
treatment and observation.
fie Hughes, son of L. H.
s, underwent a tonsilectom.v
esday morning.
Turner who is with the H.
iss Co. was treated for a
Tuesday.
Black who is with the
Zo. was treated Monday for
juned wrist.
Is. Saunders who is with B.
falker was treated Sunday
"tUBSSaP injured foot.
' ,Wfll Craddock, son of Perry
^^^Tlock, was treated for a head
received when hit by a
at school.
Webb, son of Blackie
is ill at his home this
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ig Frank Wolfe
»s First Solo
It To Lubbock
ien year old Frank Wolfe
of Mr. and Mrs. F. H.
lew to Lubbock and back
Frank Jr. made his first
it after only eight hours
at the age of sixteen.
Wolfe has 90 flying
his credit, is a senior
school, and promises to
Sundown football
flying tackles are made
Idiron this Friday after-
Seminole meets Sun-
at 2:30 P M
! Coaches Speak At
i Lions Club Luncheon
Coaches Horace Jones and Mar-
lin Hayhurst were speakers at
the Lions Club last Tuesday.
Coach Jones told the club about
the various men on his team and
something of the prospects for
the season.
Coach Hayhurst talked on the
value of football for the boy,
the school and the community.
Entertainment for the hour was
furnished by L. D. Arend who
pleased the club highly with
several piano numbers.
In addition to those on the
program, W. A. Cox was a guest
of Lion R. L. Jones and Carson
Jordan was the guest of Lion
Alfred Riley.
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County Clerks From
Fourteen Counties
To Meet Here Sat.
Chester Browne, Gaines County
Clerk, announces that the first
meeting of an organization of
county clerks will be held .in
Seminole Saturday at 8 P. M.
The purpose of the organization
is to acquaint new clerks and
deputies with their work and to
' discuss problems so that better
■ service may be rendered the pub-
lic. There are many new clerks
in neighboring counties who
wish to become more familiar
with their duties.
Counties to be represented at
the meeing are: Yoakum, Terry,
Lynn, Gaines, Garza, Dawson,
Borden, Andrews, Martin, Loving,
Winkler, Ector, Midland, and
Glasscock.
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New Physical Educ.
Course Class Offered
At High School
Seminole High School is of-
fering a new physical education
course this year to boys and girls
not engaged in band or football
functions.
Miss Campbell has charge of
the girls and is directing them in
health studies, volley ball, bas-
ketball and gymnastics.
For the boys, a first aid course
is given every Wednesday after-
noon, which includes boys of the
band. Tuesdays and Thursdays
are devoted to military drill and
games occupy eighth periods on
Monday and Friday.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. S. McCarty
spent the weekend in Monahans
where they were the guests of
his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy McCarty and baby.
Service Stations
Close At 9 P. M.
Not because Mr. Ickes says so,
nor because of an oil shartage,
but simply because Mr. A. C.
Giddings and some of the other
local station operators decided it
would be better for all concerned,
filling stations will be closed at
9 P. M.
Mr. Giddings reports that this
movement was started monday,
Sept. 15, and that all stations ex-
cept the Marathon Station which
is operated by Tommy Burrows
and remains open twenty-four
hours daily to accomodate tour-
ist and emergency cases, were
closed with good results.
Most of the people of Seminole
buy, or can buy their gas before
9 P. M. with no inconvenience
to themselves.
The station operators of Semi-
nole believe they can render the
same service, enjoy shorter hours
and work a hardship on no one
by their voluntary action and
earlier closing.
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Enjoyable 7000 Mile
Trip Made By Dosses
Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Doss recent-
ly returned from a 7,000 mile
trip which took them to Pacific
Coast states and into Canada.
Among the first stops on the trip
which began June 21, were Colo-
rado Springs and Denver. In
Cheyenne, Wyo., they attended
the world famous rodeo.
Leaving Wyo., the Texans drove
through part of Yellowstone Nat-
ional Park and northward to Cal-
gary, Canada, where they spent
three days. They also visited
Lake Louise, Canada, and Gla-
cier National Park. One of the
loveliest portions of the trip was
a drive they made from Lake
Louise to Jasper National Park
which is 175 miles north of Lake
Louise. The highway to Jasper
National Park has been open only
a year.
Other places visited in Canada
were Victoria and Vancouver.
This was the Dosses first trip to
Vancouver and they especially
enjoyed he Canadian city. Thev
found it and Seattle two of the
most enjoyable cities on their
vacation card, The locks visited
in Seattle are the second largest
in the world. The flowers were
especially lovely in Washington
and Oregon.
They chose the Columbus High-
way which goes through the Red-
woods for their route south to
California. In Ukiah, Calif., they
visited the home of the famous
race horse, Seabiscuit. They made
a trip to Tijuana, Mexica before
starting homeward by the way of
Tuscon and Lorsburg.
First Bale In 12 Years
The picture above shows the
arrival of the first bale of cotton
finned in Seminole in the past
12 years. In the picture, left to
right are: J. L. Borland. W. B.
Reynolds, farmers; C. V. Single-
ton, J. P. Mahan, W. L. Stell, vice
president of the Seminole Cham-
ber of Commerce; F. E. Belt,
manager of the new $30,000 Jac-
nbs-Rocquemore Gin; H. C. Rich-
ardson, producer of the first bale;
Ed Aryain and Mayor Finley
Moore, standing on the truck with
with the bale.
McAdoo To Formally Show General Motors
Line On Friday And Saturday Of Next Week
Response Of Exhibitors
To County Fair Is Good
The Eighth Annual Gaines
County Fair to be held in Semi-
nole Saturday, October 4. is grow-
ing in completion of arrange-
ments every day, according to the
Seminole Chamber of Commerce.
This week a number of the sup-
erintendents appointed last week
have reported that their work of
securing lexihibits has already
started and from all indications
this will be a banner showing.
The premium list which has
been worked up amounts to $300
in prizes for Gaines County peo-
ple in every class of Fair show-
ing. A complete Fair book of
rules, regulations, officials and
premiums will come off the Sen-
tinel Press this week and will
be in the hands of every Gaines
County Farmer by the latter part
of nexxt week. Five hundred and
seventy beautiful prize ribbons
were ordered for additional rec-
ognition of winning exhibitors,
with badges for officials which
will be mailed as soon as ar-
rival.
Band Instructor Riley has heard
from seven bands of neighboring
cities and states a gala band
festival will be held in the af-
ternoon with all the primp and
ceremony of an official tourna-
ment from marching to novelty
band music.
Mrs. Lee Johnson who handled
the recent party for raising funds
to sponsor the visiting and lo-
cal band reported that financial-
ly, the evening and night en-
tertainment was successful, al-
though the crowds were not as
large as was expected. Mrs. John-
son especially remarked that she
greatly appreciated the coopera-
tion extended by the public gen-
erally, and the parents of band
students who helped to make
the Bridge and Forty-Two Party
a success for the benefit of the
Band Festival.
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Watermelon Feast
A watermelon feast was given
Sunday afternoon by Rev. and
Mrs. Preston Florrence, former
pastor of the Methodist Church of
Seminole, for the following guests.
Mrs. Grace Woods, Miss Kent,
Miss Price, Seminole teachers
and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Munnerlyn,
Mr. and Mrs. Smallin, and Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Pittman were al-
so guests.
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Visit Carlsbad
Mr and Mrs C. W Karfage of
Dallas are vacationing with Mrs.
W D Austin of Seminole.
Mrs. Austin accompanied Mr
and Mrs Karfage on their first
trio to Carlsbad Thursday where
they visited the Caverns.
Promising Seminole the greatest
showing of new model Automo-
biles ever to be staged in Gaines
County the McAdoo Motor Com-
pany will have on display in
Seagraves, Friday and Saturday
of next week, September 26 and
27, three of America's greatest
autobobiles, the Chevrolet, Buick
and Oldsmobile.
"I am proud to show this line,"
said L. M. McAdoo, head of the
company, "Building automobiles
lor America is still the main
business of General Motors. They
have assured their dealers that
so long as they produce automo-
biles they will never sacrifice
quality, but will continue to build
better and better cars.
"General Motors is making a
tremendous war effort at this
time but it is only that America
may remain free and the greatest
Democracy on the face of the
earth."
"I want to invite the public
to see our new cars in the show-
rooms here next Friday and Sat-
urday. The advance and improve-
ments that have been made are
marvelous."
McAdoo is planning a big day
on Saturday at which time he
plans a lot of^free gifts for the
public, a program that will be
pleasing and many inovations that
will be announced later.
Large Crowd Expected At
Kick-off; Stores To Close
Mrs. A. W. McNutt Is
Re-elected Head Of
Seminole Music Club
Mrs. A. W. McNutt was re-el-
ected president of the Music Club
when the members held a busi-
ness meeting in the band build-
ing at the high school Wednes-
day afternoon. Other officers elec-
ted were; Mrs. Fay Alger, vice-
president; Mrs. Lee Parker, sec-
retary; Mrs. Lillian Gilmer, re-
porter; Mrs. Grace Wood, pro-
gram director; Mrs. Marlin Hay-
hurst, choral director, and Mrs.
W. A. Carsey and Mrs. I. F.
Winn, accompanists.
The years work was reviewed
at the meeting and plans were
made to have the yearbook print-
ed.
Next Wednesday, members will
meet for their first study on
American Music. The meeting
will be in Mrs. Wood's room iri
the band Hall at the High School
at 4 p. m.
Thursday afternoon, a group
of the members went to TPlains
where they were the guests of
he Plains Music Club at a tea.
Those present at the meeting
Wednesday werej Mmes. Dan
Whitaker, Fay Alger, Preston
Florence, W. A. Cox, Lee Parker,
Marlin Hayhurst, Ina Heath, A.
W. McNutt, L. P. Smallin, F. D.
Stark, Coy Patton, S. C. Doss,
Chester Roberson, Sam Malone,
D. H. Starling, Dan Gaines, O.
V. Beebe, Merle Dempsey, T. F.
Lindley, Grace Wood, and Lillian
Gilmer, and Misses Cleo Price,
Frances Goodall, Sue Stewart,
Mary Louise Tinkler, Oma Kent
and Beulah Averitt.
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Conference Sec'y
To Preach Sunday
At Methodist Church
Rev. W. E. Hamilton of Lub-
bock, Conference Executive Sec-
retary of the Northwest Texas
Conference, will preach at The
Methodist Church next Sunday
morning. At 2:30 in the afternoon
he will meet with officers and
teachers of the Church School
and officials of the Church.
He will preach again at the
evening hour. Brother Hamilton
will lead the workers of the
church in discussions of their
work on Monday and Tuesday
evenings. All people interested
in the progress of the church are
invited to attend these meetings
A welcome awaits the public
at all services of The Methodist
Church.
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LOCAL PASTOR TALKS
TO HISTORY STUDENTS
J. H. Crawford, pastor of thf
1 Methodist Church, made a talk
j before the sophomore World Hist-
lory class of Seminole High School
; Monday of this week. Rev. Craw-
, ford's subject was the history of
i the Hebrew race and stones of
i the Old Testament.
Sister of Mrs. W. A.
Cox Begins Teaching
In Local System
Mrs. E. W. Nance of Dallas, sis-
ter of Mrs. W. A. Cox of Semi-
nole, arrived here Tuesday even-
ing of last week to become a
teacher in the eighth grade. Mrs.
Nance taught in the same school
iit Dallas for ten years.
We wish to welcome Mrs. Nance
lo the school system and to our
community. Mrs. Nance will be at
home in the residence of Mis
Cox.
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Child Labor Law
Warning Is Given
Under terms of the child labor
law it will be unlawful after
October 1 to employ any child
under the age of 15 without a
work permit issued by a county
judge, State Labor Commissioner
John D. Reed has announced.
Exceptions are children work-
ing on farms, ranches, dairies or
in other agricultural or stock-
raising pursuits.
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Miss Pauline Ancoll, employee
in the County Clerk's office, was
in Lubbock shopping Tuesday.
The local Seminole Indians en-
ter the gridiron season on Davis
field at 2:30 Friday to compete
in the first "Class A" game in
the history of the Seminole High
School. Seminole football teams
have won glory and recognition
as champions of districts and bi-
districts for seasons past in
"Class B", and played their fare-
well "B" game last fall in a fast
heads up game that made them
king of the class as far as they
could go; "Class B' Champions
for 1940.
Every man on the team of this
year is reminded of the fact that
this will be the year to start
building that type of reputation
for the Class A competition that
they must meet in future seasons.
As a tune-up game that will not
be chalked for nor against them
in conference play, will be the
first test when they line up again-
st the Sundown Roughnecks Fri-
day evening. According to all
reports the Roughnecks are not
highly touted and only managed
to eake out a scoreless tic with
Cooper's Pirates in their initial
game last week.
The sideline coaches claim that
local youngsters have all the
spirit to make a championship
team, but need seasoning, stam-
ina and experience that comes
with playing the tougher compe-
tition ahead. The first game will
without doubt bring about :i
Lions Club Sponsors
Sale Of Tickets For
Indians Opening Tilt
The local Lions Club expressed
their desire to cooperate with the
school this week by electing to
sponsor a ticket sales campaign
for the first game of the season
scheduled locally for this Fri-
day afternoon. Most Lions were
seen hustling around town Wed-
nesday and Thursday with a hand
full of tickets just to insure a
good attendance that will bolster
team spirit when the Indians
meet Sundown in the initial tilt.
Club members stated that he
Lions are accepting no means of
honor or compensation, for it i-i
their wholehearted desire to see
that Seminole starts the season
off right with many boosers
present. At the last tally, Lion
Kyle was leading the field in
ticket sales with 38 ducats sold
Thursday, and seemingly over-
joyed with the prospects of the
Indians chances, since Sundown
only managed to tie-up Cooper
in their first game of the season
last week.
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Dr. C. Y. Murff, local dentist
will leave Wednesday for Dallas
to attend the Annual Rush Week
banquet of Delta Sigma Delta,
dental fraternity. Dr. Murff plans
to visit his parents in Fort Worth
for a few days before returning
to Seminole.
Defense Course For
Out-of School Youths To
Start September 22
In cooperation with the U. S.
Government, Dewey Davis, Supt.
of Schools, announces that a new
Defense course, taught by Mr.
R. L. Jones Jr., of the Jones Re-
pair Shop, will begin September
22.
Out of school boys between the
ages of 18 and 25 are the only
ones eligible to register for this
free course that will be held in
the new shop building of the
high school for three hours each
week day. The government is to
furnish all necessary equipment
for the laboratory work and the
school will furnish the shop, says
Mr. Davis.
Classes will be offered in Me-
chanics, in which actual repair
of motors will be studied; Metal
Work, in which welding will be
done, Wood Work, which will
take up cabinet making etc., and
Electrical Engineering, in which
trie wiring of houses and elec-
trical motors will be studied.
Laboratory work will be done
three hours daily. Monday
through Friday for ten consecu-
tive week1- starting Sept. 22 Six-
Ken local boys have already en
rolled
Thi- rour-e will («• an especial-
ly fine study for all boys who
are interested in securing po-
sitions in government defence
projects and will be of great
benefit to all who ore interested
in this type of work.
A special meeting has been
called for Friday night, Sept. 19
at 7:30 in the new High School
Shop building. All who plan In
take the course or those that
may be interested are urged to
be at this meeting. Enrollment
will be made and the meeting
time set.
number of shakeups in the line-
up for following games after the
gridders have worked under fire
and earned their places through
fair tactics, hard football, team-
work and general football busi-
ness ability. Coach Jones has
inaugurated a difficult, new for-
mation for the season and many
local followers are anxious to
know whether his boys can do
with it, what the Big-Ten and
Professional teams did in their
class. The "T" formation being
used by Coach Jones is a take off
from the form that brought about
champions in nearly all big time
football last year.
The Seminole Indians outweigh
the Sundown Roughnecks per man
on the team and will make a
good showing without doubt and
the knowledge and experience
picked up in this opening game
should temper the local boys for
a real initiation into Class A
competition next week.
All Civic organizations in Semi-
nole have made particular ef-
forts to back the local team this
season and have issued requests
that every fan available turn out
to give the boys courage from
the kick-off as the first game
has much bearing on the entire
season.
A request for business houses
was circulated by the Seminole
Chamber of Commerce early this
week and the following suppor-
ters of the Indians have signed
and pledged to remain closed
from 2:30 to 4:30 during the game,
so that they, their employees and
other shoppers will find time to
enjoy a holiday spirit that only
the opening kick-off of the the
season can In-ing to the home
town footballers.
Jackson-Horne Grocery. Piggly
Wi"p|v Grocery Pitv Grocery, /
Kidd's Grocery, Singleton's Dry^*
Goods Co., Stell's Variety Store,
Aryain's Dry Goods Store, Stark
& Son Hardware, Hall's News-
stand, Eaves' Barber Shop, Nel-
son Barber Shop, Haywood's West
Side Barber Shop, Seminole State
Bank, Wm. Cameron & Co., Acme
Lumber Co., Seminole Sentinel,
Forrest Lumber Co., Cisco Lum-
ber Co., Bennett Motor Co:, City
Cleaners, Dr. J. C. Shipman,
Seminole Cleaners
From available information, it
is expected that the following
lineup for the Indians and Rough-
necks when the gun is fired for
the kick-off:
Indians; Bryant, 105 lb., R. E,
Click, 140 lb., L. E„ Fenn, 165
, R. T., Wolfe, 100, L. T„ Kelly,
150, R. G„ Smith, 145, L. G..
Johnson, 140, C, Pippen, 145,
Back, Dealing. 144, Quarter,
Roark, 105, Back, Hargrove, 165,
F. B.
Roughnecks: Nuget, 165, L. E.
Davis, 155, L. T. Ashburn, 144. L.
G„ Alexander, 148, C„ Graff, 140,
It. G., Fuller, 107. R. T., Alexan-
der, 148, R. E., Allison, 136, Quar-
ter, Barrow, 125, B,, Roberson,
132, B., Land, 165, B., and re-
serves Jackson, 118, B., Dean,
160. B„ Mason, 115, RT.
Game officials will be Coach
O. Tipps, referee and Johnny
Hill, Seminole, Linesman.
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Stewart Transferred
To Lubbock Store
Roy Stewart who has been with
the local Piggly Wiggly store has
been transferred to Lubbock
where he is assistant mannuer ol
Piggly Wiggly no. 2. Mr. Stewart
held the position of assistant
manager here, but the transfer is
considered an advancement since
the Lubbork -tore i- larger
Harvey Johnson has become
assistant manager to Allison G«m-
nev in the local store B K H'*»»-
<»n began work Monday at the
store as stockkeeper
OIL FIELD NEWS
DEEP WILDCAT
Osage Drilling Co. is moving a
rig to Section 13, Blk. A-7, in
the northwest part of the county
on the Jones Ranch where t
deep wildcat is to be drilled.
AMARADA —
Austin No. 7, drilling at 4283
| feet in lime,.
Matthews A-7, Potential test
Mi by 6 inch positive choke, first
3 hours flowed 108.60 barrels,
second 3 hours flowed 97 53 bar-
rels for total of 206,13 barrels.
Figures 780.24 barrels for 24 hrs.
Gas oil ratio 708.
Matthews A-8, drilling at 1600
feet in red bed. location is 1980
feet from east line and 660 fee:
from north line of Section 231.
Blk. G, WTRR Survey.
Turlin No. 12. drilling at 3163
feet in anhydrite.
Blakemore No. 4. drilling at
3860 feet in anhydrite.
MAGNOLIA —
H&J, Section 193, No. 1, loca-
ted 660 feet from north line and
1980 feet from east line, flowed
33.75 barrels first hour and 21 62
barrels second hour for total of
55 37 barrels during two hour
test
Hi J Section 193. No. 2. new
location, 1320 feet from east of
No 1 Derrick was skidded from
Well No. 1 Thursday
H&J, Section 253. No. 1, new
location, 660 feet from north line
and 6fi(i feet from east line
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