The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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The Paducah Post
Thirty-sixth Year, No. 2k
8 Pages Today
l
Paducah, Texas, Friday, September 25, 19^2
Price Five Cents Per Copy
merica Stands At Hilter’s Altar For Lack Of Junk
VE CARS
VETRACK
1 SWEARINGEN
Kive loaded box oars were de-
mar the station at Swear-
'! late Monday night on a
Sound trip. Traffic between
e Quunah was blocked
St;, afternoon Tuesday. No
Service was had during the
’ other than that brought in
trucks.
It i, not known why the cars
f the truck other than that the
,, verv wet due to the
§„<ih rain which fell Friday
ieht and Saturday. A wrecker
a full crew was brought out
Quanah to place the cars hack
the rails, but west and east
-alMi traffic on this road was
mpletely stopped during the
A local freight came from
i, west as fai as Paducah, hut
most of the shipments are
m the cast, it was of little
mefit.
Xo one was injured. Reports
ere that the train had slowed'
:wn coining through Swearingen
ich was perhaps one cause for
damage being as light as it
All section crews were put to
-rk and by early Wednesday
erning the road was in passable
ndition. * ~~ ’ “ "
GIL WOOLEY
OUND DEAD
The body of Virgil F. Wooley,
, was f uno Saturday, Sept. 19,
ot 5 p.tn., lying beside the
lane leading from the
ilic road to his home, about
«e miles northwest of Delwin,
;here he had apparently fallen
a heart attack. He was last
Len alive win i he left the store
Delwin about 8:110 Friday
"lit. When he failed to return
his family began searching
r him and f r I bis body lying
the drainage ditch near his
Death was attributed t1
Tt failure.
Funeral services were conduct-
Sunday afternoon at Buck
geek with Rev. John H. Crow
charge. The pallbearers were:
Scot-., Ray Robinson, Wiley
:ses, W H. Sawyer, Emery
dton and T in Lemons,
lirgil Fishier Wooley was born
Graham, Texas, Nov. 28,1885.
umng to Cottle county in 1905.
was married to Miss Bettie
u Lynch w in, with three ehil-
n survive him. The children
Ruby Marie William Arvil,
Bobby Jtan, all of whom
e their In,me with their par-
te.
ut District
eet to Be Held
^ A. Phillips is calling a meet-
of the Boy Scout district com-
Friday evening at 8 o’clock
the bank.
h the meeting there will be
annual election of the dis-
t committee chairman for the
'“g year, and election of a
nee drive chairman for the
. finance drive, which is
,uled to start Sept. 30 and
finished the following after-
Arabs Take to Air
Arab workers at a T. S. army
air force station in the ? Iidc«lc East
a*e given a diseu i rn aero-
nautics by an Ameri officer. The
natives get along very well with the
\merieans, and are last learning
American slang.
COUNTY AGENTS
ATTEND STATE
FARM MEETING
Miss Loretta Morton, county
home demonstration, agent,_and.
Your Junk Pile Is Doomed
Thirty Million Young
Americans to Enter Army
G. J. Lane, county agent, return-
ed Saturday from College Sta-
tion, where they attended a state
meeting held for farm agents
last week.
The theme of the meeting was
“Ways and Means of Aiding the
War Effort.” Special attention
was given to the preservation of
food by dehydration and the im-
portance of the peanut crop.
The dehydration or drying pro-
cess of preserving food is very
important at this time, since this
process enables a very large
amount of food to be stored or
shipped in a small space. This
greatly aids in the conservation
of shipping space. Also since jar
lids and tin cans for home can-
ning’ may be scarce next year,
farmers can utilize this method
for preserving their home grown
products including meat.
In discussing the importance of
the peanut crop great stress was
placed on the necessity of har-
vesting this crop at the right
stage. According to Mr. Lane the
peanuts must be gathered at the
proper stage or a great percent-
age of the crop will be lost. Sev-
eral Cottle County farmers have
planted peanuts for the first time
this year. This crop is especially
vital to the war effort for its
valuable oils.
Young America will go into
action on the fourth of next
month to show the older folks
how they can handle a job that
has utterly failed up to now.
They are going to do it, too.
i oung America never looks back,
they never falter, they take a
job and ask no questions as to
the "wherewith and wherefores,”
their sole object will be to get
the "job done” and done right.
This they are going to do.
The school kids — 30 million
strong —are being organized to
collect the scrap iron and other
junk that we older folks have
been playing at for the past sev-
eral weeks. Each school will be
so thoroughly organized that
every child will know what is ex-
pected of it. They are going to
visit we older folks’ premises and
see if there is any old junk of
any kind laying around. They
are going to collect the greater
part of it—and let us suggest
here that you had better not say
“no” to this young fighting force
of America. They are coming
with their “sleeves rolled up.”
They have been told that their
'"couRtry"is" Tfrdarfgerv and that is
all you have to tell a Young
American.
Each school is being organized
into a thorough working unit.
They will have their general, ma-
jors, captains, lieutenants and all
the other officers known in the
fighting forces. Their objective
will be the junk piles laying
around your place. They are go-
ing to take it, too. No bluffing
will stop them—for they will be
Young Americans at war, with
the realization that' until they do
their part (the job we older folks
have failed to do) the boys “over
there” can not carry on.
Everyone knows the import-
ance of a boy and girl when we
need something of this kind done.
Recently our President had this
to say about them:
“The boys and girls of Ame-
rica can perform a great pa-
triotic service for their coun-
try by helping our National
Salvage effort. Millions of
young Americans, turning their
energies to collecting all sorts
of scrap metals, rubber, and
rags, can help the tide in our
ever-increasing war effort.
“They will earn the gratitude
of every one of our fighting
men by helping to get them
the weapons they need—now.
I know they will do their part.”
As older folks (who have just
been playing at thy job for the
past few weeks) sfce these boys
and girls go into aiition let’s give
them a hand. Not only- give them
a round of applaude, but get in
and help them get the job done.
Help them load it, bring it to
market for them, tell them where
they may find one more piece
(even though it is not larger
than a bullet) and in a short
time our factories will have many
months supply on hand instead of
two weeks as it is now.
Hero Cousins
Maj. Henry G. Thorne, last U. S.
army pilot to leave Bataan (left),
and Ensign George H. Gay Jr., sole
survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 in
the battle of Midway, get together
on a radio program and find that
they are cousins. Thorne hails from
San Antonio, Texas, and Gay from
Houston.
SCRAP CAMPAIGN MUST BE
RENEWED ONE HUNDRED FOLD
Boy Scouts Want
To Pull Cotton
If any farmer would be wiil-
ing to haul a bunch of boys to
and from work after school of
an afternoon and on Saturdays
he should get in touch with F. R.
Shaw, commissioner; Alton Farr,
cub-master; Lem Lowry or H. F.
Owens, scoutmasters of Troop 70
or Lee A. Miars, newly elected
scoutmaster of Troop 68.
PERFORM
NG RODEO
'** Marjorie Mayo, whose
■3 in Swearingen, will leave
2t»u'SOn ^uare Garden on
h of this month where she
e »n honored guest. She
**Ve ®ut of Dublin, Texas,
number of other people
j si?te who Will be at big
>n New York.
J°ne has been making most
Lr°deos in Texas for the
years and has won quite
0 Publicity. She recently
■wond place in the Wichita
l ‘*!r* rodeo. She will ex-
S' fa™rite horse at Madi-
dri' harden while on this
leaning Madison Square
,,wlU to Boston for
Rtay where she will
W?’ in a rode° a"d **-
er famous horse.
RESIGNS AS
DRAFT CLERK
'Jasper L. Howell has resigned
ns clerk of the Selective Service
Board of this county and has
been replaced by Mrs. M. Reu-
wine.
Mr. Howell turned in his resig-
nation about four weeks ago to
take effect when the board coulu
secure help. Mrs. Redwine ha>
been working in the office for
about ten days getting acquainted
with the many questionnaires and
forms that have to be handled.
In presenting his resignation.
Mr. Howell stated that he was
going to enlist in defense work
near Dallas. He is now waiting
for a call. For the next few days
he will remain here, but expects
to make Dallas his home in the
near future.
County-Wide School
Conference Held Tuesday
A county - wide elementary
school conference was held at
the Alamo school Tuesday, Sept.
22. Miss Edgar Ellen Wilson,
state director of elementary edu-
cation, was the principal speaker.
Ail the Cottle county rural schools
were represented at the confer-
ence. as were the Paducah ele-
mentary schools.
The main topic of discussion
was The Evaluation of the Ele-
mentary School, which was intro-
duced by J. C. Jernigan, deputy-
state superintendent. He stressed
the importance of the health pro-
gram to the rural schools. Others
taking part in the discussion
were: Mrs. Culbertson, Delwin;
Mr. Butler, Moon; Mr. Dillard,
Cee Vee; Mrs. Thomas, Broad-
more; Mrs. Smith, Pleasant Hill;
Mr. Webb, Valley View; and Miss
Carnathon, Hackberry.
After this preliminary discus-
sion the principal speaker was
introduced by J. I). Wilson, su-
perintendent of the Paducah pub-
lic schools. Miss Wilson gave an
interesting and inspiring talk on
the work of the elementary
schools and outlined the stand-
ards set by the state committee.
At the close of the program,
Mrs. Boyd Loar sang while little
Miss Kay Ratliff lighted candles
in honor of all Cottle county boys
in Uncle Sam’s fighting forces.
There were about fifty present
including six rural trustees.
TWENTY-SIX
INDUCTEES
LEFT SATURDAY
Ensign Robertson
Is Named Officer
Ensign Carroll L. Robertson,
USNR, of Paducah, has been
named Officer-in-Charge at the
U. S. Naval Training School for
signalmen, University of Illinois.
The new school, recently open-
ed on the university campus, has
accommodations for 800 students
who are chosen as the result of
a series of aptitude tests, given
during their recruit training
period. Following successful com-
pletion of this specialized course
of training they will be sent to
sea for duty with the fleet, or to
a naval shore station.
Man has now conquered almost
everything dangerous in nature
except human nature.
Demand Grows For
Women Workers
“The addition of Texas women
to war industry and non-war in-
dustry payrolls in increasing vol-
ume is a certainty as production
soars and the reserve of quali-
fied male workers dwindles,”
stated J. H. Bond, director of
the U. S. Employment Service
for Texas. “The importance of
women in the wartime labor pic-
ture is now a known fact; their
increasing significance is more
and more obvious.
“Women are being trained
throughout the state for critical
and essential war industry jobs,”
stated Bond, “and the employ-
ment service has requested War
Industry Training and National
Youth Administration officials to
increase the number of women
in many types of classes by an
even greater percentage than the
steady rise of the past r~
months.”
Physical Fitness
For Victory
Physical fitness for victory
will be the motto of more than
150 public school physical fitness
clubs this year, organized and
directed by the University of
Texas Interscholastic League at
the suggestion of the State De-
partment of Education.
“Every type of school in Texas
—elementary, grammar and high
school—is putting this physical
fitness club program into opera-
tion,” R. J. Kidd, athletic direc-
tor for the league, has announced.
GULF PIPELINE
BEING REMOVED
A salvage crew is in Paducah
for the next few weeks digging
up and removing the Gulf pipe-
line, which runs from Panhandle
to Ranger, passing within about
five miles east of this place.
The line has been removed
from Truscott to Ranger and the
work from Panhandle to Truscott
will completely remove the line
on all its right-of-way.
According to local men who
have charge of the work, this
material will be cleaned and put
in good shape and either be taken
to Arkansas or Florida where it
will again be put in use to take
crude to the east.
Removing of the line from
Panhandle to North Pease River
in this county has been com
pleted. The crew is taking it up
at the rate of about five miles
per day. It is thought that the
work will be completed in not
more than 35 or 40 working days.
Twenty-six draftees left Padu-
cah Saturday morning for Lub-
bock to be inducted into Uncle
Sam’s forces. Four of the group
scheduled to leave had already
volunteered.
Those who left Saturday were:
Marvin Standridge, Lee Harrison
Bayne, Robert William Ross, O.
E. Sturdivant. Jim Bob Thomas,
Rayford Freeman, A. L. Oatman,
Woodrow Nash. Bernard Biddy.
Justin Bratton, Walter Harris,
Jasper Arbuckle, Floyd Wells.
George Marvin Griffin, Harvey
Kenneth Matney, Doyle Wells.
John Harvey, Aubrey Hamilton,
Claude Pinkston, Claude Luce,
Homer Cornell, Novel Catlett,
Glendon Burton, Willard Wingo,
Mateo Diaz and Tony Price.
Three of the above group were
transferred in from other coun-
ties. Willard Wingo from Floyd,
Mateo Diaz from Travis and Tony
Price from Gregg.
All the men returned to Padu-
cah Saturday night. We were un-
able to get the number who took
their 14-days furlough before go-
ing to Fort Sill, but the greater
majority did.
This was the only call the lo-
cal board had for September.
POST ARTICLE
ON BROADCAST
Next Sunday, Sept. 27th, Boyce
House, the well-known newspaper
and radio columnist will use the
story recently published in The
Paducah Post. “To the Man Who
Shot My Dog.” Permission was
asked and gladly given for this
well-known commentator to use
the article.
The program will be heard at
12:45 noon over stations KGKO,
Fort Worth and Dallas; KGNC.
Amarillo; KTSA. San Antonio,
and KXYZ, Houston.
We only hope that the man
who did the work will—be—Listen
ing in.
Red Cross In
Rural Schools
Junior Red Cross chapters are
being organized in all the rural
schools, according to Miss Cobb,
county superintendent. By the
first of next week the work will
be organized 100 per cent.
NEW COURSE OFFERED
“Principles of American De-
mocracy” is the title of a new
course to be offered at the Uni-
versity of Texas this fall in ar,
effort to tell the story of what
America is fighting for. Dr. O.
Douglas Weeks, political scientist
and chairman of the department
of government, will teach the
course.
Rationing Board
Has New Ruling
The Cottle County Rationing
Board will not, in the future, re-
ceive applications for sugar or
tires on the last two nor the first
two days of each month. This is
necessary that they may get their
books in good order during these
four days.
They also give the information
that all applications placed dur-
ing the month will be canceled on
the last day. People who have
not received sugar or tires, where
their request has been made, will
have to file new papers.
Schools Close For
Cotton Picking
The harvesting of the cotton
crop will be greatly aided by the
closing of some of the rural
schools this week. Moon, Cee Vee
and Pleasant Hill are closing and
others will no doubt follow suit.
The necessity of closing the
schools is to be regretted but
the harvesting of the cotton crop
is a valuable contribution to the
war effort, and young and old
alike must help.
A fourteen county-wide district
meeting was held at Wichita Falls
Saturday with representatives
composed of chairmen of the junk
drives, newspaper men, county
judges, school superintendents,
county superintendents and busi-
ness men in interest of junk of
all kinds. A luncheon was given
by the Wichita Daily Times at
the noon hour and then a gen-
era! discussion was entered into
which continued until almost 4
o’clock.
In a general way, people real-
ize that u war is going on, but
none, except those who are in
close contact with the situation,
realize how serious it is or the
things that must be accomplished
by the citizenship if we are to
maintain our liberty. As one
speaker put it, "It is time for
American citizens to wake up
and realize there is a war going
on.”
A junk drive has been going
on in Cottle County for the past
three weeks. A small amount of
it has been brought in, but not
one-twentieth part of the amount
that is laying around and of no
use. Our factories have only two
weeks’ supply on hand. Unless
the citizenship can be aroused to
the seriousness of the situation,
manufacturers now producing
shells, bombs, guns and equip-
ment of all kinds will be standing"
idle by the first of December,
with our boys out there and noth-
ing to fight with. No wonder it
is time for “America to wake
up.”
Lewis C. Huff, assistant secre-
tary to the Texas General Sal-
vage Committee, was the princi-
pal speaker at the luncheon, it
made one's blood almost “freeze”
to learn of the seriousness of the
situation. A few y<ars ago Japan
bought up enoir: h junk iron from
the United States, Australia and
Hawaii to keep their factories
busy for the next five years. We
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Farmers Receive
Parity Checks
Approximately fifty Cottle
County farmers have received
their wheat parity checks, accord-
ing to Dee R. Green. AAA direc-
tor. The cheeks are being mailed
direct to the farmers this year.
Nature sure pulled a boner
when she made prunes more
healthful than strawberries.
Graduates Get
Many Offers
AUSTIN, Sept. 25—Every gra-
duate of a recent short course in
aircraft drafting for women, of-
fered by the University of Texas
during the summer, received one
or more offers of jobs in Texas
nlants at starting wages of about
$>150 a month, Worth Cotting-
ham, assistant professor of draw-
ing, has revealed.
Two classes in drafting were
completed this month, with 34
women graduating. The no-tuition
course is sponsored by the federal
office of education, and is being
offered again at the university
this fall. Classes meet at night,
12 hours per week for 15 weeks.
The next classes will begin about
Sept. 28, it has been announced.
This engineering course is open
to high school graduates with at
least two years of mathematics,
and preference will be given to
applicants who have had high
school drawing, physics, or col-
lege work in mathematics.
Lions Have New
Meeting Place
Due to the fact that the Cottle
Hotel has closed its dining room
the Lions Club is meeting for
luncheon each Thursday in the
Educational Building of the
Methodist Church. The Missionary
Society has agreed to furnish the
luncheon for the time being at
least.
All members of the club are
asked to take notice of the
change. No variation has been
made in the time to meet.
SKYROCKETS
WHIP DRAGONS
The Paducah Dragons were de-
feated last Friday evening on the
local field by the Wellington
Skyrockets with a final score of
32 to 0. This game was played
in the mud and rain. The field
was soaking wet and in many
places water was standing.
It began raining about thirty
minutes before the game was to
begin. It was thought for a time
that it would have to be called
off, but about 9 o'clock it slowed
down to where the boys carried
through ;ust the same. No one
could guess at any time what was
going to happen, due to the mud
and rain and the ball being wet
all the time.
This was not a conference game
as Wellington is in a different
class to Paducah and most of
their team are letter men. It was
no surprise to the Dragons when
they took their defeat.
Huge War Program
For College Students
AUSTIN, Sept. 25—More tech-
nical specialists for the war pro-
gram—military and industrial
will be trained at the University
of Texas this fall in seven new
short courses offered under au-
thority of the federal office of
education, according to C. Read
Granberry, co-ordinator of the
courses.
The new engineering, science,
and management war training
courses are all at the college
level, and will be given in Austin
beginning Oct. 1. Particular stress
is being laid upon courses open
to women, since industries are
calling for increasing numbers of
women employees.
The short courses to be given
this fall are in aeronautical en-
gineering, elementary aircraft
drafting (for women), elements
of architectural engineering draw-
ing, advanced architectural engi
neering drawing, materials in-
spection and testing, advanced
personnel management, and per
sonnel management.
SIX PAY FINES
Six men were arrested and
fined for drunkeness in Judge
Barron’s court last week.
NEW TEACHERS
FOR PADUCAH
Three new teachers have been
elected by the Paducah school
board: Dwight Lindsey, Miss Flo-
rine P. Carroll and Mrs. Horace
Stallings.
Mr. Lindsey, a graduate of
Texas Tech, has- been elected to
replace Zane G. Brewer as teach-
er of vocational agriculture, Mr.
Brewer having been recently in-
ducted into the air corps of the
army. Mr. Lindsey holds a B. S.
degree, a Smith Hughes voca-
tional agriculture certificate and
has had one year teaching ex-
perience.
Miss Carroll is from DeKalb,
Texas, and holds a degree from
East Texas State Teachers Col-
lege at Commerce. She will be
head of the English department.
Mrs. Stallings has been elected
to teach sophomore English and
Spanish in the high school. She
holds a B. A. degree from North
Texas State Teachers College.
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