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SOCIETY NOTES
PhoM Tour Soelatj Newt To 800
THE DENISON PRESS
WED., OCT. 16th, 1940
Housewarming
For Mrs. Minor In
Her New Home
■ Some of the fremls und neigh-
bors of Mrs. J. S'- Minor met
Tuesday afternoon at her new
home, 627 East Acheson street,
In an old fashioned houseware.-
iiig. The afternoon was enjoy-
rvbly spent in social converse
while the ladies busily employed
their needles embroidering: cup-
towels.
’At five o’clock a refreshment
ph’te consisting of chicken salad
sandwiches, home made bread
and butter pickles, potato chips
add hot tea was served to the
lollowing: Mesdameg Jim West,
M iK. Jones, Edwards, M. C-
Baker, Hodges, Ramsey, Bud
Ramsey, Bud Trnweek, ,1. W.
Lewis, L. F. Ackerman, Bill
Baker, Hale Raker, Rnv Mauer.
Edith Carter, Graham, J. E. Fos-
ter, Julia Curry, J. E. Bozarth,
Miln Cox. Miss Dulee Murray and
little Misses Jean Foster and
Jeanette West.
Mr. and Mrs. Minor recently
purchased and remodeled the,
cozy new home in the Belmont ad-
dition, and this happy" occasion j as
presented an ideal
for their old friends and nev.
friends to get acquainted. Mrs.
Minor was the recipient of many! first
lovely gifts for the home, from
those at the party and several
were sent by friends unable to
attend.
Mr. Minor is in the employ of
the MKT railroad, and their
former home was at .712 W.
Chestnut.
Importance Of
Oil Industry Is
Speakers Topic
t rwmmm g
8illY
CUOD
' Ray L. (Dudley
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct !
16-—The importance of the Tex-
oil industry to the national j
opportunity j defense program will be the key-
note address by Ray L. Dudley j
TTouson publisher, at the twenty-
annual meeting here Oct.
—----
_..a.
Abundant Life
Class Of WapJes
To Have Picnic
Mr. and Mrs. Sumner 11
Brown, members of the Abund
nnt Life Class of Wrtples church
have been named chairman of
a committee to arrange for a
wipner roast at Ley State pa>k
Thursday evening. a« the first ir
the series of activities for On
eln«s for this fall.
On the committee -.v'-h tho
Browns will he Mr. and Mr
Poherf L. Moore. Mr. and M* ■
P G Barbour. Mr. pe l Mrs. C.
W. Odom and Mr. and Mrs. F
T Miller.
'All members are urged to at*
ff»pd p^f|!n wVrn \v:11
«*■ 7 r^ln-dr. Mpr*ibpv~ will morj
a* the Hark. .Tames Woodruff
teacher of the class and Mrv.
Lee ‘West is president.
DENTON, Texas, Oct, 10—
When Coach Jack Sisco of the
North Texas State Teachers Col-
lege wants to write speed on the
gridiron this fall he does it in
31-Nov. 2 of the Texas Mid-Con-
tinent Oil and Gas Association.
Mr. Dudley, publisher of several
nil trade magazines, was an-
nounced today as one of the
urincipal convention speakers bv
President F. L.. Smith of thi
Texas Mid-Continent.
Regarded as one of the best
nsted men in the country on the
oil business, Mr. Dudley will
-nealc on “The Industry
I Ready’’, a discussion of the pc-
| ’roleum industry’s ability to meet]
any increased demands for na-
I *ionai preparedness. The oil pub-|
lisher is widely traveled not onlv
:n *his countrv hut also abrna!
end upcenly from an etxensive
survey of fhe nil industry in
Rnuth America.
Nearly 1,000 Texas oilmen a*el
cxnected to head Mr. Dudley’sArst rotar> powered by a
‘elk and other convenion speech-! muJe- . -^n historical exhibit of
-s. The meeting is the annual early Pleces of and of
business conference of the TexM Ualntin* of *cene» 1,1
net roleum industry, with addres-j Txas 0,1 histor>’ wil> be mother
os on current oil topics by na-, feature.
Monally-knovvn speakers. Business
e-nns will be devoted to a di*- Methodist Leader
Ol\>iS
4 *!**•-
■jMmL
Kn-e.
Clay, former chief army engineer
here on the dam project ... Ed
Wynn takes NYC by storm again
in his stage play, Boys and Girls
Together, although critics agree
he has too much to do and is on
the stage all the time.
The Grayson county selective
service board is located at Sher-
man, 324 Federal building, phone
272. Board members are J. II.
Waggoner, Will Leslie and C. T.
Freeman . . Football fans may
find more important games on the
Docket, but tile TCU-A. and M.
contest this weekend is the most
intresting. The Froggies have a
terrific way of knocking the
Cadets off ... A comedian toils
this one: He never could play a
piano, but one day lie broke h;s
hand and while the medico was
fixing it up, the comedian asked
if, when the bandage was taken
off, he could play the piano. The
sawbones said, sure he could, and
when the bandage was removed,
he could piay the prettiest music
you ever heard . . . Alicia Hart
says a smart woman doesn’t have
to follow the fashion trends par-
ticularly to be chic . . . Barbs
cracks that statistics showing
women live longer than men only
prove the theory that paint is a
good preserver.
and P. A. Weatherred. The latter
three will report to the army, it
is pointed out, and thus leave
three vacancies in the board, de-
stroying its quorum and making
it impossible to transact business.
How The famous
Managed For Jobs
There arc many ways of get-
ting jobs, and the early experb
cnees of famous men sometimes
give helpful or amusing side
lights on the business of getting
started in the world.
Consklr" Calvin Coolige, fo--
instance- When he graduated
from Amherst, a friend led bin,
into the presence of a prosper
live employer and launched into
an enthusiastic recital of the
future President’s qualifications
Tlie vo nit was that Oollige w, -
hired. As he got up to leave
he addressed to his new employ
or the only two word's he U*--
tered dnrini*- t.ho entire inter-
view: “Good morning.”
Bv way of contrast Your Life
'Magazine noints out. tliero r*
but without a job. H'e thought
of the scrapbook ..nd remember-
ed he had a good speaking voice.
A radio station in Chicago agreed
to let him read from his scrap-
book over the air. The public
iiked the progrum so well that
Wons not only found himself es-
tablished as a radio star, but au
the publisher of his own scrap
hook which, to date, has sold
some 700,000 copies.
Wheat Loans
Are Doubled
COLLKGK STATION, Oct. 15
—More than twice as much gov
eminent loan wheat is storea ir
farm bins this year as was stor-
ed last year.
At the same time, the total
amount of wheat placed under
tlie Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion loan lhis year has passed
ihe 17,000,000 bushel mark.
With some loans still coming
'n, J C, Colgin. state wheat loan
supervisor of the AA'A, has an-
nounced that the corporation
h' approved 581 farm-storage
T-vm S' Poiijb two weeks he loans on 1,203,402 bushels or
visited New York newspaper nr j wheat I .re year only 230 fartn-
fices looking for a job, but nev-l storage loans were made on
o- got beyond Die reception j 313,402 bushels.
County committees, in
WtLUMtfS
undefeated on southern tracks in| where he stepped the 100
the century, clocking 9-6 and
0.7 in numerous brilliant show-
ings. This fall the Eagle athlete
has raced down under long pas-
capital letters ,for if he wishes, | ses to score half of Denton’s
he can start college footbal’s touchdowns in her first three
fastest foursome against his op- games,
iponents. i Running a close second
Shown above are Sisco’- liams in practically every race
flashy little scat backs, all of, of the 1940 Eagle track season,
whom can pace the hundred in! Olvis "Cowboy” Hicks took his
seconds as
freshman,
in 9.7
Bil'y
ARMORY-
(Continued from page one)
will be seriously disrupted if At-
torney General Gerald C. Mann is
upheld that an official loses his
position if lie becomes an army
officer. Allegation is made by
the armory board that it is nego-
tiating to sol! its bonds to build
national guard armories through-
Cloud is another of Sisco’s speel- out tne state and an enforcement
several hairs less than 10 sec-
onds.
Ranking number one rabbit
back of the entire South is Wet
Welby Williams, diminutive triple
threat half who last spring w’ent
place among the big four of the
South's sprint aces. This fall the
Pittsburgh, Texas, senior is one
of the most deceptive broken-
field rjnners on Sisco’s squad
A transfer from S. M . U,
ster's. Roy Kile fourth member of
tlie quartet pictured above, is
smallest of the group ,weighing
115 pounds, but has proven
j rough enough on the gridiron th\s
to Wi’-j A transfer from John Tar-
loton, he was a 9.9 second man
on junior college tracks.
In addition to this foursome.
Sisco can fall back on Bobby
Dodd of Fort Worth and Venio j
Ashton of Gladewater, fast re-
serve backs, both of whom have
been clocked in 9.9-
of the Mann opinion would ser-
iously interfere with its project.
The brief points out that the
board is composed of five mem-
bers, all guard officers under the
law, and that all vacancies must
be filled from the guard. Two
members are brevet lieutenant
generals, John A. Hulen,
man and George P. Rains, with
three active members, Brig. Gen.
George F. Pyron, C. F. Whittaker
rooms. Funds were running low
when Cobb wrote letters to the
editors who had kept him coolin';
his heels. Weariness made him
more impertinent than tactful,
for he stated that he had “grown
tired of studying the wallpaper
design in the anteroom” and that
“a modest appreciation of mj
own worth forbids my doing
less with your office boy
any longer.” The editor of th;
Evening Sun, in hiring him, re
marked: “If you have half as
much ability as you’ve nerve,
you’re hired.”
Still another pattern is seen inj pocted,
committees in wheat
producing counties in Texas have
nno roved 17.596 warehouse-
■-forage loans nil 16.473,873 bu-
shels, as compared with 10,54,’
1-tnns on i1fi.246.B84 bushel*,
his* year the supervisor said.
Loan have been made in 80
counties this year, whereas last
year farmers- in only K counties
participated. To date the loan-
have totaled $12,985,699.
Since tin closing date to'
placing wheat under the loan is
j not until December 31, a good
I many more applications are ex
although the peak is
the case of Tony Wons. After; passed,
the Armistice, the young soldie J The average farm-storage loan
found himself in a. veterans’ he - to date is 2,220 bushels, 78 bu-
pital in Arizona, facing a long ill- [ Diels larger than the average last
ness. To keep busy, he made a -ear. while the average ware
chair-1 scrapbook of things he re: d and
liked' well enough to clip. After j
nine months in the hospital hc|
was discharged, physically sound-
house-storage loan is 930 bush-
11 as compared with 1,443 bush-
els lift year, the supervisor
pointed out.
To Be Buried In
Wichita Falls
A prominent Methodist
Buddy Wagner
- Passes Tests
For CAA
Pilot
•s’B'on of the problems of th^
industry.
Fepturiwi tbo 1040 meeting i-: |
‘ho relehration of thp 45th nn
niversarv of the birth of th*1
Tpyn.v n:l industry, at Corsican*;
n Ocobor. 190". A wildcat O i
‘pet \v*ll be drilled in downtown;
”o'*t Worth adioininjr convention,
1 radouR**te**s nsine* the world • I Tuesday ut l a. m* -tt
i hi.' home in Wichita Falls. Dr.
lot membership in the dif- and Mrs. Spragins moved from
vith 250 members of the faculty, ing” public opinion to make his
student body and fans of the own known these days. Like
Cliilllcothe Business college from Wendell Wilikie, every time he
Moberly, to Boonville, Mo., where i opens his mouth he puts part of
the football squad of Chillicothe, his future into it . . . Latest Gal-‘
will play the Kemper college ca-|lup poll shows Wilikie is gaining]
' i strength in a couple or more
_______ states . . . And who was the smart
The football team of Baylor ; democrat who designed a U.S. flag
University will be aboard an extra with 46 stars, one for every state
chaircar of the Katy Limited out ; hut Maine and Vermont?
of Waco Friday, enroute to San j -------
j ,\„tonio. ! Fh-st Denison men to register
minis- _ i today managed to get through in ]
Here's Another
PAYNE
Floor Furnace Installation
T-1
ter and a superintendent of the j Three tourist cars on the Katy i
Sherman Methodist district for: Bluebonnet Finlay out of Me-1
two years. Dr. C. A. Spragins,
Alester and Wilbur,
contain CCC youths
points in Colorado.
Okla.,
bound
Ervin fBuild,
dent at Sou
Teachers Colleg
son of Mrs. K
Wj Woodard, i
torn boys at tl:
success fully pa
ami physical
CAA student
cording to i
“Southeastern
Flight ii;
Southeastern
sinn is given
pert, The Has
Chief 65 H. P. planes,
other plane has been
Wagner, atu-1
leastern State]
at Durant, and
te Wagner, 322 j
one of the fD-
coliege who has]
ed his entrance]
examinations for]
pilot training, ae
formation in thjj
, college paper,
truction for the]
aeronautical divi-
at the Durant air ]
uses two Aeronica
and an-j
ordered.!
Each plane is valued at *2000.
An outline of the ti-Miing pro-
gram consists of 24 hours of
navigation. 24 hour of meteorol-
ogy and 24 hours of theory
and civil air regulations. Plans
are being made to ..-tart the avia- •
tion class in flying instruction
within the next week or two.
Fred Cain is CAA flight instruc-
tor at Durant.
Kraft Employees
Plan Barn Dance
All Kraft employees and the-r
families are invited to the old
fashioned barn dance to be give i
Saturday night in the Kraft
club rooms, and guests will at-]
gingham gowns and ov-i
churches of the county.' Sherman to Wichita Falls la-i
given
ferent
Sunday school is held each Sun-
day morning at the mission, and
prayer service held each Wed-
nesuay night.
Tuesday to reside. He ha<i been
! in ill health for several months.
Funeral services will be held
i Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. at the
Floral Heights Methodist church
j hi Wichita Falls, Burial will b;
] 'here- All Methodist ministers ot
1 the Sherman district will be hon-] aboard
j orary pallbearers.
Survivors include his wife; two
j sons, Ed S- and C- A. Spragins-,
Jr. of Wichita Falls; two daugh-
this organization ] ters, Mrs. Neil Ferrell of Tulsa,
a soecial message tc Okla-. and Mrs. Paul Hcnsarkng
of Port Arthur; and a brother
Twenty east Texas prisoners
were loaded into the Katy prison
car on the Bluebonnet at Green-
ville with four guards bound for
I about forty-five minutes. By this1
afternoon the wheels will be
functioning with such smoothness;
that registration will take only
about 20 minutes . . . Too bad
Raymond Self happened to that
injury while working yesterday
lie's an electrician’s helper on
dam work and was only recently ]
married . . . The Great McGinty
test
Ij§iSM§?
nsMi
Training Union
At Calvary Baptist
the federal prison at Leaven-J gives Brian Donlevy the film
worth Kas chance he’s long deserved. Began
__ ] as a small budget flicker, the pic- j
Fifty-five CCC members will be] ture is one of those hits . . . Bob
The revival meeting in prog
less at Calvary Baptist church
will feature tlie Training Union
tonight whan
will bring
the Training Union group
Thursday night "ill be Family
nig'ht, and families will be recog-
nized, and special honor paid the
largest entire family present.
Services will continue through
Friday night with day service at
in a. in. and evening service at
7:36. The meetings will close
Sunday night.
Cantrell of the Bonham Favor-
ite predicts the Denison-Sherman ;
game will be one of the wildest
affairs unreeled in this area in,
A ten car special CCC train will | years. Amen, Butch ... The t
be operated by the Katy Friday
the Katy Limited Thurs-
day from Fort Worth enroute to
New Mexico points.
ill
•If | $
SE
wz
from Wagner and Pryor, Okla,
with 225 men bound for Colorado
Daily Ardmoreite pays high trib-]
ute editorially to Major Lucius Dl
BRIEFS-
Mrs. I.co Rideout, 1130 W.
Bullock, has returned to her
home after a three months visit
in Dallas with her sister, Mrs. LI.
('• Slade. The little two year old
on of Mr. und Mrs. Slade is
recovering from a serious illness,
following an accident in which he
suffered a broken leg.
II. S. Spragins of Memphis.] points.
Tenn.
Dr. Spragins was received into!
the North Texas conference in
1H97, and served his tint pas
torate at the Haskell Avenue
Meliodist church in Dallas- He
was pastor of the Travis Streel
church in Sherman from 1920-
23. He was presiding elder of the
Gainesville district three year3,
the Greenville district four years
and the Wichita district foui
years.
He came to Sherman in Oc-
tober, 1938, as presiding elder
from Wichita F’alls where he had]
served as pastor of the Floral!
Heights church four years.
Dr. Spragins was a member of
of the I
r'Ef’PfclKb
DEFEAT
LIGHTERS 3 TO o
CCC men will utilize four ■
coaches of the Texas Special Fri-
day, from WACO to Arizona.
SSf!
EVERYDAY
(Continued from page one)
Dr. Pepper defeated Texas
Power and Light company 3 to!
0 in Denison Bowling league]
play Tuesuuy nig'ut, wnile Lind
say was downing 7-Up 2 and l'
IfilllifttCat
I
DENY-
fContlnued From Page One)
tend in gingham gowns and ov- Because of a death in the fam-
era^,,!- | dyr of Mrs, H. Hale, vice pre-J-
There will be dancing to th<- ] dent of the Raynnl Parent Teach-
mtisic of Boh and Joe ShH , ers Association, the regular meet-
and the Sunshine Boys of KGKi ing of that organization sche-l-
O, Dancing will begin a* 8 o'-j nb d for Thursday afternon, has
clock. Prizes are to be given for' been postponed until next Thuru-
the best costumes. ] day, Oct. 26 at 3 o’clock in the
, T' _ ” f school auditorium.
Revival Meeting ---
a. n * l •, Miss Cassie Duffv will be hos-
At Kayburn City t(,x f0r t|1(, ,fternoon, Thursday,
I when the Aid Society of S't.
Rev. G. IT. Hodges, pastor of Luke's Catholic church assemMe-
the Rayburn City Mission, Ions'.- j„ t|,n K. r. hail for their rege-
ed in the heart of Rayburn City,| lav weekly game tournament
near the Denison dam, will con | Mrs. Eeston Sacra is chairman of
duct n revival meeting at tie -tip project for the month of Or- ment of justice said it sought
mission beginning tonight. Pa- j -tnfier. and invites all those who
tors of churches from over i are interested’ to attend. The
county will preach from nig'ht to] small admission price is used for
right. Rev. Hodges will arrange] benevolent nurposes of the snet-
thp schedule, and will conduct, cty and prizes are given high
the meetings Opporunity will be] layers.
learned his plays and waited for
the healing process. Finally it
healed and the youngster played
in the Bonham game, his first this i
year, and came thru unscathed.
Monday afternoon he went
through a hard workout, unhurt,
and while just doing nothing, the
shoulder dropped down again.
He’s out for the season, but that
the board of managers of thi |essgn thfi fact he-g ?,.itty
Texas Pastor’s league; president C).ck maffaz-ne thig issuc
Uniilhiifoctoi'n atf«rotvi nil , , .
points out how Eleanor is spokes-
of the Southwestern system of
schools and colleges; a membrr
of the joint board of publication
nf the Southwestern Advocate:
■member of the board of manag-
ers of the Methodist hospital i 1
Dallas and was a delegate to th--*
unified 'Methodist conference at
Kansas City, April 6, 1939-
man for the Roosevelt family, and
news stories yesterday quote Mr-.
FDR as saying her son. Elliott,
attempted to get into the army as
a sergeant, not a captain, which
brought al! this and hell too on
his head.
in the women's
division.
The
scores:
Dr. Pepper
Name
1
2
3
Tot
Yarbrough ...
166
121
145
432
Hughes
167
211
170
548
Moss .
190
188
176
554
Clark
164
195
153
512
Nash ...........
180
163
161
504
Totals
867
878
805
2550
T.
P. and L.
Name
i
2
3
Tot.
Terry .......
144
142 104
390
Me Bee
156
166) 137
460
Manning .
151
154
165
467
Hill ..............
104
178
150
501
Duvis
168
-186
168
516
Handicap
19
19
19
57
Totals
802
836
752
2393
1 a
*
Best Laugh: The Mississippi U.
drum majorette, rated the best in
the nation, who dropped a baton
/ she had flung into the air and it
and unreasonably high prices” and, struck her on the head. Result:
furnish “obsolete” wornout
equipment.
Tc filing the suit, the depart*
Name
Frederick
Morrison
Dowdy
VVayman
Lindsay
4 2 8
... 13(2* 130 116
120 100 118
.. 91 139 108
108 133 107
hospitalization . . . Richard Arndt, Totals
the Jacket end injured in the
Bonham c ash, is in bed with a! Name
to bad knee, but will be up and back
457 515 449
7-Up
1 2 3
1421
divorce control of
manufacture from
the equipment.
sleeping
operation
A seven-car special train is to
be operated by the Katy Friday
in uniform this w’eekend . .
Coaches in this area are wonder-
ing what’s going on behind thos?
locked gates and canvassed wa'ls
at Munson field these days . ,
Charles Lindbergh is sure "brav-
Powers ........ 112 103
S-hilder 100 100
Farry ........... 93 144
Cappyuns 84 91
Handicap 6 6
Totals
395 452 497 1344
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