The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1933 Page: 1 of 12
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VOLUME IX
Goes Into More Nolan County Homes Than Any Other Newspaper
(TWELVE PAGES) SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1933 On the Broadway of America
NUMBER 37
CITY TAX RATE CUT OF 10 CENTS PROPOSED
12 INDICTED IN
JURY’S REPORT
HALF OF CHARGES ARE FOR
DRIVING CAR WHILE
INTOXICATED
Investigations lasting nine days
resulted in return of 12 indict-
ments by the Nolan county grand
jury before it recessed Wednes-
day for a day’s rest, after which
it will resume the grind Friday
morning. Grand jurors and offic-
ers were unanimous in declan,.^
work before the present body the
heaviest in years.
Although 12 bills were com-
pleted, many other cases await
action of the probers, including
murder and liquor charges.
In the dozen bills returned, the
charge of driving a car while in-
toxicated led the list, with six such
indictments made against the
following: Vance Wilson, G. W.
Shafer, T. L. Tyler, S. I. Edwards,
Jr., Drexel Baker and F. L. Elam.
The indictment of Elam grew out
of an automobile wreck on High-
way 70 a few days ago in which
two of Elam’s children and sever-
al children of the G. E. Bradford
family were painfully injured.
Other indictments reported
were: Charlie Pennell, non-sup-
port of child; Hugh Broadwell,
Leo McBride and Rudolph Baty,
chicken theft; Mrs. H. A. Allman,
possession of liquor for sale; W.
P. Brooks, assault with intent to
murder.
SCHOOL SUIT
SET FOR OCT. 2
BARTLETT CASE PLEADINGS
HEARD AND RESET
FOR TRIAL
The Bartlett school case, long
on the dockets of district court
here, was continued once more
when called in court this week.
The case was set for trial Oct. 2.
Judge Milburn Long of Abilene,
who had exchanged benches with
Judge A. S. Mauzey, heard the
pleadings filed by attorneys and
reset the case.
The suit, styled Sweetwater In-
dependent School District vs. W.
H. Bartlett et al, involves a large
sum of money and grew out of a
disagreement between school of-
ficials and Bartlett, former school
tax collector, over school funds
and salary.
EXTRA DOLLARS
It’s just like finding money
. • . when you shop by the ad«!
So many chances to save, so
many short cuts to economy, so
much time and worry eliminat-
ed in making your shopping list.
Read the ads. You can depend
on the merchant who advertises
what he has to offer—if it
wasn’t good and wasn’t worth
the money, he couldn’t afford
to advertise. There is real
NEWS in every message from
every advertiser! It’s sensible,
it’s wise, and it’s modern to let
the ads be your shopping guide.
Swift’s Jewel
Lard, 8 lbs.___62c
Children’s
Shoes ______$1.95
Double
Blankets ____$1.79
6 boxes
Matches_____22c
Knee Pads, pr. _50c
Beans, 3 cans _ 25c
Sugar, 10 lbs. _ 54c
Pork Roast, lb. 13c
These good values, and many
other merchandise items and
services, will be found in The
News today. Read the ads. They
will save you money and guide
you to reliable business con-
cerns in every line of service.
COTTON PLOW-UP
MONEY ARRIVING
IN S’WATER AREA
Uncle Sam’s long over-due
checks for the summer cot-
ton plow-up -ontinued to ar-
rive this week in the Sweet-
water trade area, and first
checks to be received in this
county came Monday to eight
farmers at Blackwell.
More checks are daily ex-
pected, C. H. Clark, county
agent said, but he has receiv-
ed no information when ad-
dition payments will arrive.
The eight checks received
at Blackwell this week total-
ed $2,253, that amount be-
ing paid those farmers for
I government “rent” on aban-
doned cotton acreage.
Farmers receiving checks
were J. N. Walls, V. N.
Walls, John W. Leach, John
H. Coffee, O. A. Johnson,
C. M. Rogers, Dewey Nabors
and G. J. Russell.
Fisher county, in the mean-
time, continued to receive
checks faster than any coun-
ty in Texas. A total of 411
farmers had received pay-
ments up to Thursday. The
total of these checks was not
learned but it was estimated
to exceed $150,000.
‘Sign’ Right Now
For Killing Out
Johnson Grass
The “sign” is right for kill-
ing Johnson grass next Mon-
day.
That is the opinion of Mrs.
Fred Slater of Divide who
said she had watched it over
a period of many years and
found that it usually “work-
ed.”
According to Mrs. Slater,
there has been sufficient
rain to put sap in the grass
which, if cut Monday, will
not come back up. She advis-
ed cutting the grass just be-
low the top of the ground.
Ordinarily, there is never
enough moisture in the fall to
make the grass killing effec-
tive, she said.
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Meeting Called
To Organize For
Fight Against TB
Organization of a Nolan County
Tuberculosis Association, which
has as its aim the fighting of the
disease in this county, will be
launched Friday night at a meet-
ing called for the American Legion
club rooms in the city hall.
Dr. Arthur J. Strawson, field
secretary for the National Tuber-
culosis Association and also repre-
senting the Texas Association, will
be present, as will also Dr. E. W.
Prothro, director of the Nolan
County Health Unit.
FundJ| derived from annual
Christmas sea* sales will be used
in the program of the organiza-
tion, Dr. Strawson said. Over
half of these funds may be retain-
ed for county work, with the re-
mainder going to state and na-
tional offices.
Efforts are being made to form
county units throughout the state.
Programs of each county organi-
zation will include work to mako
early discovery of the disease in
order to provide early treatment,
educational work in schools, and
distribution of literature and other
educational work in homes.
Nolan county’s annual death
rate from tuberculosis is nine, it
was said, indicating an average of
about 80 active cases in the coun-
ty annually.
The Friday night meeting is set
for 7:30 o’clock and the public is
invited to attend.
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CONSTABLE HUDSON HAS
AMPUTATION OF THUMB
Constable W. W. Hudson is re-
covering from a recent amputa-
tion of a thumb, resulting from
an infection on his hand.
CIVIL DOCKET
CASES HEARD
JUDGE LONG SITS FOR
MAUZEY—DIVORCES
ARE GRANTED
A number of civil cases were
disposed of, several divorces were
granted, and the way was cleared
for beginning criminal trials
Monday, as 32nd district court
moved through thy second of a six-
weeks term.
Judge M. S. Long of Abilene ex-
changed benches with Judge A. S.
Mauzey early in the week but has
returned to Abilene. Judge
Mauzey will set the criminal
docket Monday.
Judgement was granted for the
plantiff in the suit, Maryland
Casualty Co vs. Hucony Gas Co.,
and also for plaintiff in the case,
W. B. Shifflett vs. Chas. R. Day
et al.
Divorces have been granted in
the following cases: Dementro
Castro vs. Natavado Castro; Ant-
ley N. Smith vs. Harry C. Smith;
Ramon Palacios vs. Enedena S.
Palacios; Nannie Sanders vs. D.
D. Sanders; Pauline Eubank vs.
Alex Eubanks; J. B. Dillard vs.
Edna Dillard; Lois Hampton vs.
M. D. Hampton; Francis Craw-
ford vs. George M. Crawford;
Vella Buckner vs. J. F. Buckner.
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SCOn LEAVES
FOR SESSION
REPRESENTATIVE SAYS BOND
ISSUE FUNDS WILL BE
BAFFLING PROBLEM
The special session of the legis-
lature, opening Thursday, will be
confronted with a most perplex-
ing problem as it casts about in
quest of means for paying inter-
est and retiring principal of the
recently voted $20,000,000 relief
bond issue, according to Will
Scott of Sweetwater, member of
the lower House from this dis-
trict, who went to Austin Wednes-
day.
He admitted that so far he had
not accepted definitely any of the
plans as tentatively proffered.
The solon also stated that he had
not made up his mind as to what
department of state government
should be given authority to ex-
pend the bond money.
ALABAMA STREET ORDERED
OPENED BY COMMISSION
Opening of Alabama street, on
the southwest side of town run-
ning south of the cemetery, was
ordered by the city commission
Monday night. The street at
present stops at the Santa Fe
tracks.
The Wizard!
1 $800,000 DROP
IN VALUATION
BOTHWELL WILL RECOM-
MEND REDUCTION TO
CITY COMMISSION
GAS RATE CUT
IS DEMANDED
RAILROAD COMMISSION ORD-
ER LONE STAR TO SLASH
—APPEAL IS TAKEN
A decision by the Texas Rail-
road Commission in the state gas
rate controversy was announced
Wednesday, ordering the Lone
Star Gas Co. to reduce its 40-
cent gate rate to 32 cents per 1,-
000 cubic feet in the 250 cities
and towns served by the concern.
The gas company gave notice of
appeal immediately. L. B. Den-
ning, president of Lone Star, was
quoted as saying the reduction
would amount to confiscation of
the property.
The decision came at the end
of a long controversy, a hearing
which lasted eight months and a
year’s work of making valuation
of properties.
The commission’s engineers
placed a rate valuation on the
properties of $46,246,617 in con-
trast to the approximately $72,-
000,000 valuation set by the com-
pany’s appraisers, according to
press reports.
A minimum return of six per
cent was allowed the company, the
commission said.
The commission used 1931 as a!
test year and said the revenues I
for that year were $9,301,862 and
expenses $4,174,807. Deprecia-
tion of $968,066 on a six per
cent sinking fund basis was allow-
ed.
Management fees of $95,062
paid to the Lone Star Gas cor-
poration were disallowed, the
commission stating this was a
division of the profits and “a
charge of this nature would simp-
ly disguise an operating profit and
cause it to appear as an operating
expense.”
Appeal of the gas company,
which will keep the matter in con-
troversy until threshed out in
court, gave prospects of con-
tinued delay on a show-down of
the "balanced thrift rate” which
wras asked by the company in
Sweetwater and elsewhere, local
officials believed. The Com-
munity Gas Co. made application
a year ago to adopt the sliding
scale rate here. The application
was denied by the city commis-
sion which later appropriated $2,-
250 for an audit of the company’s
books and survey of valuations
here. The audit has not been
More Rains Fall
Over West Texas
Widely scattered showers fell
over est Texas during the week.
Nolan county received a share of
moisture, with 1.46 inch being
recorded here Tuesday, followed
by .33 of an inch Wednesday, ac-
cording to the Manroe & Morris
rain gauge.
The plains region got showers
during the week, with good falls
reported at Floydada, Tahoka,
Spur, Crosbyton, Plainview, Ralls,
Abernathy and other points.
The September rainfall here is
now 1.79, bringing the year’s total
to 12.85 inches.
SIMMONS ON TRIP
Mr and Mrs. C. R. Simmons
left this week for a trip to A Cen-
tury of Progress, Chicago, and to
a meeting of the National In-
stitute of Laundries in Joliet, 111.
PACE RETURNS
B. C. Pace returned late Thurs-
day from a business trip to
Arkansas.
CUNNINGHAM HERE
Oliver Cunningham, Abilene
attorney and formerly state sena-
tor from this district, was in
Sweetwater on business Thursday.
Red Cross Quota
Not Reached For
Valley Victims
Sweetwater was still slightly
short Thursday of meeting the
$200 quota set for the city as its
contribution to Red Cross relief
for Valley storm sufferers.
Red Cross officials urged that
contributions be speedily made,
else “Sweetwater will have an
eternal guilty feeling that it did
not help those in need.”
Leaders pointed out that this
county had received thousands of
dollars Red Cross aid during de-
pression years. Much flour and
clothes were distributed to hun-
dreds of needy persons over the
county for three successive years,
gifts from the Red Cross, and
garden seeds and other supplies
have been furnished from time to
time.
Necessity for quick action was
urged, it being pointed out that
the money was badly needed now
and that if help was not sent to
Valley sufferers at once the need
for it would quickly cause greater
loss and suffering.
A 10-eent reduction in the city
tax rate, despite a loss of over
$800,000 in valuation, will be
recommended to the city commis-
sion by City Manager BothweU
when that body meets to fix the
levy for this year, it was learned
j Thursday.
The proposed new rate is $3.40
on the $100 valuation compared
with $1.50 last year, and it repre-
sents a 40 per cent reduction
from the peak tax year of 1930.
The proposed new rate was de-
cided this week following com-
pletion of the equalization board’s
work and determination of the
year’s total valuation.
Valuation 8 Million
City valuation will be approxi-
mately $8,000,000 this year, about
$800,000 less than a year ago.
Total reduction in taxes due to
be collected, including allowances
for the 10-cent rate cut and the
lost valuation, will approximate
$20,000.
Budget Is Less
The rate is based t the recent-
ly completed city budget which
totaled $214,655, a reduction of
$16,000 from the previous fiscal
year. The cut in rate was said to
be possible as results of reduced
operating expenses and in antifci-
pation of delinquent tax collec-
tions.
FALK SCHOOLS
AT CLUB MEET
Beer Becomes Legal in Few West
Texas Wet Spots Friday; Sheriff
Says Ruling Permits Home Import
(See GAS Beck Page)
Beer—such as it is—will make
its legal appearance in Texas Fri-
day morning when the recently
voted modification of the state
dry law goes Into effect, but
Nolan county, dry under local
option, will have to go elsewhere
to appease its thirst or resort to
mail order drinking.
Counties in this area, which
was largely dry, where the new
3.2 beer will appear Friday in-
clude Howard, Midland, Ector and i
Tom Green on the west and south,
and Shackelford on the east. So |
it will be seen that wet spots in
West Texas are to be few and
somewhat far between.
To Enforce Dry Law
As the hour for sale of legal
beer drew near, Sheriff Jess Lam-
bert announced Thursday that
sellers of 3.2 in this county would
be treated “like any other boot-
leggers.”
“The county voted dry,” he
said, “and we’ll do our best to
keep down sale of beer like any-
thing else.”
The sheriff said, however,
that there would be no inter-
ference of persons who
brought beer in from wet
counties to their homes here
for their own use. He based
the statement on the opinion
handed down by the attorney
general’s department Thurs-
day morning, holding that this
was permissable under the
taw.
The opinion, written by Elbert
Hooper, first assistant attorney
general, said it would be lawful
for a person to purchase beer in
wet territory and transport it to
his home for personal consump-
tion. He also held that it wrnuld be
legal to have it delivered in dry
territory by transportation agen-
NEINAST IS SPEAKER AT
LUNCHEON — COACH
HENN1G HEARD
Sweetwater schools have pros-
pects of a successful year, despite
conditions, and “every boy and
girl in Nolan county has the op-
portunity of getting a good educa-
tion at home.” E. F. Neinast, high
school principal, said in an ad-
dress before the Sweetwater Club
at its luncheon meeting Thurs-
day.
Mr. Neinast pointed out thafc
the local school had lost none of
its units of affiliation during the
depression years, still maintain-
ing its 34 units. At various times,
however, due to lack of funds foe
employment of teachers some of.
the subjects usually offered have
not been taught, he said.
Present enrollment, he said, was
approximately 1,700, compared
with the district scholastic census
of 2,200.
Coach Ed Hennig of the high
school Mustangs talked briefly on
the season’s outlook.
“We don’t have a lot to boast
about,” Hennig said, “due to
heavy losses last year and lack of
experienced material, but you can
be assured that this year’s team
will be a fighting, determined
bunch that will give a good ac-
count of themselves in any
game.”
Joe H. Boothe was toastmaster.
Music was furnished by the high
school quartet composed of
Johnye Watson, Tootsie Pollard.
Mary Blancett and Captola Car-
penter, accompanied by Mrs. E. B.
Buck, pianist.
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High School Band
In New Uniforms
Present Concert
(See BEER Beck Page)
The Sweetwater high school
band, in new uniforms, gave their
first concert of the season at high
| school Thursday morning. The
| band, organized last year by Jack
| Armstrong, was uniformed
through efforts of the Lions Club,
athletic board and municipal
band. i
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Boyles, C. S., Jr. The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1933, newspaper, September 14, 1933; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth559116/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Nolan+County%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.