The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1949 Page: 1 of 12
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MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949
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Prospects Good for Carr Test
Big Melon Festival
Planned for July 27
What is expected to be the
first annual Mineola Water-
melon Festival is now in the
planning stage. The idea re-
reived the approval of the
Board of directors of the Min-
eola Farmers Market Monday
night, and July 27 was set as
a tentative date.
T. W. Benham and Joe Stall-
ings, who have charge of pub-
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PHOTO BY AARON ASHBROOK
DAIRY SHOW SCENES
The above pictures are scenes at Mineola’s Third Annual
Sabine Dairy Show. The picture at top shows a view of the
judging circle, and three prize-winners are shown in the second
photo. Third from the top is a part of the crowd at the bar-
becue given by Otho McKaig, who was also host for the show.
An estimated 2,200 were served a barbecue lunch. Pictured at
the bottom are Mr. and Mrs. McKaig as they were being served
near the end of the line. A lone cold drink remained in the
case.
Governor Signs
Rural Fire Aid,
Unitization Bills
Gov. Beauford Jester today
signed the controversial oil
unitization bill allowing oper-
ators to enter voluntary pool-
ing agreements.
The bill becomes effective
90 days from the date that the
51st Legislature finally ad-
journs.
The governor also signed a
resolution calling for a consti-
tutional amendment that would
allow the Legislature to estab-
lish rural fire prevention dis-
tricts. The amendment would
so let the Legislature authorize
a property tax for support of
•such districts.
Senator Warren McDonald of
Tvler is author of the resolu-
tions.
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L T. Megason of
Henderson Is New
Brookshire Manager
J. T. Megason of Henderson
became manager of the Book-
shire Bros. Grocery and Mar-
ket here this week. He suc-
ceeds Wayne McDaniel who
went to Palestine.
Mr. Megason was manager
of the Safeway store at Hen-
derson for ten years. His wife
and six children live in Hen-
derson but plan to move to
Mineola as soon as housing is
available.
Next Wednesday
Is Bargain Day
In Mineola Stores
Next Wednesday, June 1, will
be Bargain Day in Mineola
stores, and most participants
will advertise special prices in
Monday’s Record.
After next week Bargain Day
will be replaced by Appreciation
Day, a new type mercandising
event which has been endor-
ed by the Chamber of Com-
merce Retail Committee. The
first Appreciation Day is sched-
uled for late in June.
Cubpack Meeting
To See Cub Movies
A meeting of the Methodist
Cubpack has been announced
for Friday night at 7:30 in the
church basement. A fihn will
be shown and all cub scouts
and their parents are invited.
Roy Dickerson is Cubmaster
and Joe Langham is assistant
Cubmaster of the Methodist
pack.
Dallas Firm (Jets
Contract for Bridges
On Lake Fork Creek
The W. S. Crawford Company
of Dallas Wednesday was
awarded the contact for bridg-
es and approaches over Lake
Fork Creek on State Highway
182 between Quitman and Al-
ba. The Dallas firm’s bid of
$102,300 was the lowest re-
ceived by the State Highway
Commission which let contracts
Wednesday on twenty-nine pro-
jects calling for an expendi-
tures of $4,498,595.
The Commission’s two day to-
tal for highway contracts in
Texas amounted to $8,172,085
for fifty-seven jobs.
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HOME FROM HOSPITAL,
J. G. Gumpert returned home
Tuesday from Mother Frances
Hospital in Tyler where he re-
cently underwent an operation.
The Rev. Lewis, pastor of the
Assembly of God Church,
brought him home. ;3is condi-
tion is improved.
Polio Rate Below
That of Last Year
Only 14 cases of polio were
reported in Texas last week,
compared with some 60 cases
during the same period last
year, Dr. George W. Cox. state
health officer, reported Friday.
The total for the year, to
date, he said, was 192. There
were 195 at this time last
year.
The 14 cases reported last
I week, Cox said, included Bex-
| ar County, 5: Cameron, Guad-
| alupe and Hifdalgo counties,
j 2 each and Howard, Tom Green
I and Travis counties, one each.
Fifth Sunday
Singing at Alba
The regular Fifth Sunday
Singing will be held at the
Baptist Church in Alba Sun-
day afternoon at 1:30, accord-
ing to an annnouncement by
B. C. Hamm. The public is
invited.
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IN TYLER HOSPITAL
R. E. McClendon is in the
Bradford Clinic in Tyler for
treatment. He is said to be
somewhat improved this week.
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BACK FROM HOSPITAL
Mr. H. L. Byrd, owner of the
Byrd Motor Company here, has
recently returned from the hos-
pital where he underwent an
operator. He is improving.
licity, said that detailed plans
are now being worked out, and
the full story will be released
probably next week. Other
committeemen named by the
farm board are Harry Miller,
chairman c-f entertainment; J.
Y. Thomas, parade chairman;
and Lester Cole, chairman of
arrangements and grounds.
The watermelon festival
would rank with the Sabine
Dairy Show and the annual
Christmas Parade as public
attractions, according to the
plans of the publicity commit-
tee. And it is expected to com-
pare with the big watermelon
festival staged every summer
at Nacogdoches. It has been
proposed that the Mineola and
Nacogdoches festival exchange
watermelon queens.
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Grady Skelton
E-Tex Chamber’s
Local Chairman
Appointment of Grady Skel-
ton as community chairman
for the East Texas Chamber of
Commerce in Mineola has been
announced by Henrv M. Bell
of Tyler, president of the re-
gional chamber. Selection of
Skelton to serve in 1his capac-
ity was made on the recom-
mendation of Otho McKaig.
county chairman in Wood Co.,
with the approval of J. C.
Judge, a director of the Etex
Chamber.
As a community chairman
Mr. Skelton is a member of the
East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce committee in Wood
County and will serve as offi-
cial contact between his town
and its businessmen and the
Etex Chamber, according to Hu-
bert M. Harrison, general man-
ager of the regional organiza-
tion.
‘■We are constantly striving
to make our w-ork more prac-
tical and helpful at the com-
munity level,” Mr. Harrison
said. “The appointment of Mr.
Skelton will keep the regional
chamber in closer touch with
the views and interests of Min-
eola people.”
Memorial Day Coring Starts Thursday,
Poppy Sale Here pw • • • i
Next Saturday Decision Due By i< riday
The Amercan Legion
Auxiliary will sell poppies
on the streets of Mineola
Saturday for the benefit
of disabled war veterans.
The poppies, made by
disabled veterans, are sold
here twice a year, on
Memorial Day and Ar-
mistice Day, and all pro-
ceeds are to go to dis-
abled veterans and to vet-
eran welfare work.
Saturday is not a holi-
day.
American Legion
Plans Memorial
Service Sunday
Prospects for the second pro-
ducing oil well in the area west
o f Mineola appeared bright
Thursday night as operators
began coring in the upper sec-
tions of the sub-Clarksville at
the Dupree & Jackson No. 1
Joe Carr, James Colson Survey,
four miles wTest of town.
Top of the sub-Clarksville
was called at 4.579 feet which
would make the well high to the
recent Lechner-Padgett failure
720 feet to the north and also
high to Bobby Manziel’s produc-
er, the No. 1 Maude Tdompson.
The first core which came
out Thursday night failed to
j show, but the operators remain-
ed confident and the holi was
drilled a few feet deeper for ad-
ditional cores. A verdict was cx-
i pected sometime Friday.
a • i ____. , . I There was considerable inter-
A special momonal service ! , . .. „ . ,
„ ... . . , , est in the wTell Thursday, and
honoring Mineola s war dead i. , , , , , ,
Hoc i, . ,, T independent observers conceded
has been planned by the Luck- i.. * . . . . , _
_ti. - . / ,. . it to be a probable producer.
iranC T^ n ^ °f ^ Amer’ Estimates placed it 100 to 120
lean Leg on. The service, ac- | ,eel hih to Lechner-Padget well
“LthPii ^n h°T?H and 40 to 60 feet high to the
. ? Bethell, will be held at Manziel producer.
he cemetery Sunday morning Bobby Manziel>s No. x W. D.
o owing the decoration of Cain> Yarborough Survey, was
giaves of veterans of all wars. staked Thursday 1,300 feet
e service has been adopt- north and 660 feet east of the
ed as an annua Memorial Day No 1 Maude Thompson. It is
service by the local post. , , , , . _
H expected to spud in wit.nn a
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few days.
In the Southwest Merigale
Sun’s No. 1. J. A. Ford, the
area’s only drilling well, was
making hole Thursday at
at around 2.500 feet.
Pump is being installed at
the Wise & Windfohr No. 1.
_ J. G. McCoy, and Sun’s No. 1
The Van City Council will w A Smiley was pumping sub-
present a sewer bond issue for ciarskville oil. Railroad Com-
$50,000 before the voters Tues- mission potential tests were
day' i expected within a day or two
Van approved a bond issue of j f0r both wells. Sun’s No. 3 S
$395,000 for the purpose of j h. Binford will probably be the
constructing a city water plant ----
and sewage disposal system.! w— •.
Eighteen thousand dollars of | HoilSP riHIPl
these bonds were never sold
because their maturity date j
was reached before the money ,
was needed and the city coun-
cil canceled them.
The original estimate of the
cost of this project was $411,-
next well drilled in the South-
west Merigale. ; ♦
Oil is being pumped through
perforations at 4.7£5-91, 4,796-
99. 4,811-16 and 4 865-69 feet
in the sub-Clarks-v.lle at the
No. 1 Smiley, which topped the
sub-Clarksville at 4,735 feet
and ran five and three-quar-
ter oil string to 4,384 feet in
the hole, two feet off the bot-
tom.
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V an to Vote
On Sewer Bond
Issue Tuesday
Wood County
Makes 57.75%
Of Bond Quota
Wood County has achieved
57.75 per cent of its quota in
the Opportunity Drive for the
sales of Series E Savings Bonds
S. R. Cooper, couuty chairman,
announced today.
The drive officially opened on
May 16 and sales for this coun-
ty through the first week to-
taled $23,100.00, according to
a sales report received from
state Savings Bonds headquar-
ters in Dallas. The county quo-
ta is $40,000. The report car-
ries sales through last Sat-
uraday May 21.
The report also showed that
sales for Texas were $19,460.-
304. or 52 per cent of the state
quota of $36,950,000.
Several counties reached and
exceeded their quotas during
the first week of :he drive
and numerous others showed
sales of 50 per cent or more
of quotas, causing Nathan
Adams of Dallas, state Savings
Bond chairman, to predict that
Texas will far exceed its quo-
ta "in the most successful
Savings Bonds campaign since
the war.” The drive will con-
tinue through June 30
Seeks Passage
Of Vet’s Bonus
A House committee unan-
Mineolan Begins
Aviation Training
Aviation Cadet M. K. Wil-
banks. son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Wilbanks of Mineola,
has begun basic Air Force
pilot training at W’aco Air
Force Base, Colonel John T.
Sprague, Commanding Officer,
announced today.
Cadet Wilbanks is one of ap-
proximately 130 cadets who ar-
rived at Waco recently to com-
merce training under the new
Air Force Aviation Cadet pro-
gram. He is a graduate of Min-
eola High School.
Texas & Pacific
Declares Dividend
Texas and Pacific Railroad
directors Wednesday re-elected
all corporate officers and de-
clared a preferred stock divi-
dend of 1 1-4 per cent and a
common stock dividend of $1—
the same as those paid for the
last quarter.
Dividends were declared pay-
able June 30 to stockholders
of record June 16.
The directors approved Pres-
ident W. G. Vollmer’s plans to
scrap 41 steam locomotives in
view of availability of more
diesels.
o . , , i * ’ imously recommended Wednes-
000 as funshed by the city en- j night ^ouse appoval of a s400 _
inee.s. The amount of the last 000 0i)q veterans bonus meas-
bond issue was cut to $395,- ure
000 because the city council Additional taxes on cigarettes,
fe t that some other items con- beer, liquor and a levy on cig-
sidered by the engineers could ^ ars now taxed) would
be omitted. . ^ finance the plan. It was intro-
0 ------ troduced by Rep. Jimmy Hor-
Leg’ion Auxiliary any of Archer city.
AnroirKn/v. rAij c<4-~ The favorable vote on Hor-
ing jOIq Stai S ' any’s proposed constitutional
The American Legion Auxil- ! amendment came in the House
iary is awarding Gold Stars to I revenues and taxation com-
Mineola women who lost sans 1 mittee’ There had been prev"
in World War II • i°us negative action on bonus
Seven awards ‘ have already 1 Ieglslatlon' The committee
been made, and one more will on constitutional amendments
Mineola Float in
Terrell Festival
Brings Laughs
The Mineola Chamber of
Commerce float in th? Terrell
Vetch Festival parade May 19
brought laughs from the crowd
and at the same time got over
the idea that Mineola is East
Texas’ biggest watermelon cen-
ter.
Riding on the float was a
large mechanical duck bear-
ing the name “ Mineoli” chas-
ing a small colored boy hold-
ing a choice slice of water-
melon.
Grady Skelton president of
the Mineola Chamber of Com-
merce. officially represented the
town at the festival.
be made in the near future.
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Earle B. Mayfield
Quits Court Post
had rejected a similar prep-
osition by Rep. J. A. Benton
of Wylie.
Horany secured House ap-
proval for the transfer of his
bill from the constitutional to
Earle B. Mayfield, Jr. Tyler the one on revenue and taxa-
attorney who has served since j tion.
June 1, 1941, as law clerk to ! He proposes to pay Texas
Federal District Judge Randolph j veterans of "World Wars I and
Bryant, has resigned from that « II $250 if they served within
position. j the continental limits of the
Mayfield, who has practiced United states and another $250
law with his father, former j if they were overseas at least
U. S. Senator Earle B. May- i three months,
field, in Tyler since 1934, is a The measure calls for extra
native Texan and during j taxes of 2c a pack on cigar-
World War II served three and ; ettes. lc per can or bottle of
one-half years in the U. S, beer. 64c per gallon on liquor
Navy, attainging the rank of
Lieutenant Commander, U. S.
N. R.
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GOES TO HOSPITAL
Mrs. J. M. Puckett, mother
of J. J. Puckett of Haines-
ville, was taken to a Dallas
hospital Thursday afternoon
for treatment.
and 25 cents per gallon on
wine. Cigars would be taxed
10 per cent of retail value.
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Mrs. E .J. Parsons of Long
Beach, Calif., arrived Thursday
for a visit with friends here.
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Help build Mineola—trade at
home.
Father of Local
Men Dies Sunday
The father of two Mineola
men. E. J. and W. A Doyle,
died Sunday in Gilmer of a
heart ailment. He had suffered
an attack about three weeks
ago and was taken to Ihe Gil-
mer hospital for treatment.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon near Winns-
boro.
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CONCORD HOMECOMING
The annual Homecoming sing-
ing will be held at the Concord
Qhurch June 5, the first Sun-
day in the month. Everybody
is invited to come and spend
the day, Edd Cherry, cwnmit-
teeman, announced.
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Norman Ferguson of iLindale
began work Monday at Milton
Usry’s Service Cleaners. Be-
fore coming to Mineola Mr.
Ferguson was employde by a
Cleaners plant in Tyler.
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Carraway, R. H., Jr. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1949, newspaper, May 26, 1949; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth757649/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.