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MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 3L950
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^ Meredith Heine, a $100,000 building given to the Methodist orphanage at Waco by H. W.
Meredith of Mineola, will get an oil painting of the institution's benefactor sometime in
September. The painting, completed last Fri day by Dmitri Vail, Dallas artist, after three
and a half days’ work, will be presented in a special ceremony in which the building wiil be
dedicated. Construction is being rushed to eo mpletion in order to have the building ready
for use in Steptember, and present plans call for dedicating a second building and break-
ing ground for two more at the same time.— Monitor Staff Photo.
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Nationwide Railroad
Strike Set for Monday
The Railroad Trainmen and
Conductors Unions Wednesday
ordered a nation-wide strike.
The walk-out will begin Mon-
day at 6 a. m. local standard
time, over the country.
In an obvious move to force
President Truman to take over
railroads, heads of the
^Rotherhood of Railroad Train-
men and the Order of Railway
Conductors sent word of
the impending strike to John
Steelman, assistant to the
President, late Wednesday and
asked him to notify the Pres-
ident.
i Some 300,000 yard and train
| workers are involved, but the
effect will be to throw off the
jobs more than 1,000,000 oper-
j ating and non-operating em-
| ployees on all major rail lines.
The railroad unions, during
| two weeks of negotiations, have
: repeatedly urged the President
i to seize the railroads in or-
der to avoid a strike.
A White House spokesman
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Two-Day Grange
Meeting Held
In Greenville
More than a hundred dele-
gates from all parts of the
<* state, including two from Wood
County, assembled in Green-
ville Wednesday and Thursday
for the annual convention of
the State Grange. It was the
sixteenth annual session and
was highlighted by several res-
olutions which will be passed
on to the national convention.
^Delegates from Wood Coun-
lP were -Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe
Penix. Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
Short of the Providence com-
munity, Smith County, also at-
tended the meeting .Mr. Pe-
a:x is a member of the State
^Prange executive council.
There were several distin-
guished speakers, including
John D. Hervey of Washington,
D. C., national Grange deputy,
and Fred Bailey of Washing-
ton, D. C:, legislative consul-
tant for the Grange.
Mineolan’s Father
Buried Thursday
Near Greenville
Funeral services for E. T. Wal-
ker, 67, father pf Mrs. Lynn
Bethell of Mineola, were held
Thursday afternoon at the Tid-
well Baptist Church near j
Greenville. Mr. Walker, justice !
of the peace at Greenville, died ;
late Tuesday in a Greenville :
i hospital.
A lifelong resident of Hunt !
: County, he wras born in the i
| Tidwell community and had j
: made his home there, engag-
j ing in farming. He was an ac-
j tive community leader for fif-
j ty years and hac been elected
i in July to a thirc term as jus-
j tice of the peace. He was a ,
: member of the Tidwell Baptist
: Church.
Surviving are his widow and
cix '’hildren, Carl Walker of I
Greenville, Wayland Walker of
Wolfe City, Capt. Wayne Wal-
ker, now in Germany,, Mrs.
Elaine Robinson of Greenville,
Mrs. Agnes Bethell ol Mineola i
and Mrs. Joyce Burkett of Ft.
Worth. Also surviving is a sis-
ter, Miss Annie Walker of
Greenville.
Grade-A Milk Retailed
asses Tests
Ri County P;
‘The graded milk being a test which even proves whe
brought into Wood County by ther the milk was properly
'\rh3 various milk companies has pasteurized or not at the plant”
^^t the State requirements,” he reports. “Also, a close check
^reports by Dr. Alvin L. Waller, is made on the temperature
director of the Wood County of the milk. It must be kept
Health Unit. below 50 degrees F. at all times.
“For the last two months “Samples will be collected
samples of milk have been col- from time to time from now
lected from route trucks and on.”
analyzed by the Texas State “We do not sample ungrad-
I epertment of Health Region- ed milk, but only milk which |
al Laboratory at Tyler. The an- bears a Grade A label on the
alysis include a butter fat de- bottle cap or container. We
termination, bacteria count, cannot vouch for the condition i
solids, not fat determination, of raw ilk in the county,” Dr. !
Xthat-is the mine! wniinr sain -1
said that the President would
take no action Wednesday
night.
Steelman, acting under Mr.
Truman’s orders, has been
meeting with union and man-
agement representatives for two
weeks in an effort to break
a deadlock in negotiations.
The railroad workers want a
40-hour work week for yard-
men with no reduction in take-
home pay from their present
48-hour week, and wage in-
creases for roadmen.
W. Park Kennedy, president
of the Trainmen Brotherhood,
and Roy Hughes, head of the
Conductors Union, said in a
statement they have been forced
to the conclusion “ that the
railroads have not given and
apparently will not give Dr.
Steelman and the President the
cooperation which they must
have to effect a satisfactory
settlement of the controver-
sy.”
Action of the railroad union
officials caught Steelman and
the White House by surprise,
since Kennedy and Hughes had
assured P lee man Tuesday that
no further strike action would
be taken “for the time being.”
An 18 cent an hour increase
for yardmen and no increases
for other railroad workers was
recently recommended by a
presidential fact-finding board.
The railroads accepted the re-
commendations, but the unions
rejected it.
Tyler Man Stakes
Wood County Well
Sam Gross, Tyler operator,
has staked a new test in the
Quitman Field west of the coun-
ty scat. It will be Known as
the No. 2 G. L. Butler and is
located in the A. C. Waters
Survey 606 feet from the south
and 150 feet from the east
lines of a 45-acre tract. It is
scheduled to drill 6,000 feet.
According to reports Thurs-
day, B. F. Phillips’ No. 1 O. M.
Childress, Pine Mills Field, is
expected to make a producer
in the Woodbine.
Opera!cis still have not mov-
ed in for the scheduled 10.500-
foot C. S. Gainer No. 1 J. C.
Judge five miles northeast of
Mineola in the James Brewer
Survey.
GOING TO HOSPITAL
John Marshall Cathey will
leave Monday for the Veterans
Hospital in McKinney where
he will undergo a tonsilecto-
Wartimc need for five Texas
highway construction projects
— including the proposed Dain-
eerfie’d-to-Dnllas highway, was
stressed before the State Kigh-
wa” Commission Tuesday.
A delegation headed by Joel
W. Lennon of Emory, chairman
of the Dningerfield-to-Dallas
Highway Association, told a
commission a 125-mile Winns-
boro-Daingcrfield-Dallas high-
way is important to the war
effort and to farm product mar-
keting.
New and expanding plans
have been undertaken for the
participation of the steel plant
at Daingerfield in the war ef-
fort. a spokesman said.
A’so stressed as a military
necessity was a cut-off con-
nection between U. S. Highways
82 and 87 in Texarkana. The
cut-off is, needed to serve in-
creased traffic from arsenals
in that area, according to a
Texarkana delegation.
The only other project re-
quested for East Texas was the
straightening of 27 curves in
12 miles of U. S. 271 between
Gilmer and Gladewater. The
proposal was made by a dele-
gation from Gladewater, head-
ed by Jack C. Hearrell.
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Revival Begins at
Jamestown Sept. 4
A one-week revival meeting
will begin Monday, Sept. 4, at
the Jamestown Church of
Christ with Eugene Martin,
Quitman minister doing the
r.reaching. Services will be held
each evening at 8 o’clock, and
the public is invited to attend.
The meeting will continue thru
Sunday, Sept. 10.
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DUSTY DREADNAUGHT—The foot soldier at right finds him-
self about to be enveloped by the swirling cloud of dust kicked
up by an American medium tank racing for the South Korean
front. To the two G.I.’s clinging to the Sherman tank’s turret
dust and battle smoke are old stories.
New Safeway Store
To Open on Monday
Heavy Vote Expected
Despite Short Ballot
An unusually i. ige vote is cx- mary. Precinct Two voters will
pected Saturday in the Demo- use the office of the Reeves
cratic run-off primary, despite Abstract Company, according
the fact that cniy 1 hree conn- to H. O. Rogers, chairman, and *
ty end five state races remain Precinct Twenty-two ‘Vill use
iO be decided. The final count the Beckham Hotel Building,
on absentee vetes showed 295 Chairmen T. A. Collins an-
had been cast for the run-off nounced.
as compared to 262 in tire July Election totals will be posted
primary when the total vote on the windows of the Monitor
exceeded 5,100. and Record office Saturday
All three county races are night as they are received;
being closely contested, with however, figures on individual
the sheriff’s r: e claiming top boxes will not be posted. Wood
interest in Mineola. home of County is expected to report
one of the candidates. His op- complete by 10 or 11 o’clock
ponent is I. E. Robinson of ■ on election night. Monday’s
! Coke. The battle between Joe Record will carry complete re-
j Moseley and Vir;ii Robbins for ! turns by precincts. No special
: :ountv judge is expected to be j edition is planned.
! close, and consicerable interest ! ---o----
is being shown, paticularly in | D »J. flirnrc
the vicinity of Quitman, home ! Jv F “III J III l‘I
: of both candida tes. The third n v n
Called for Duty
In Hath Court
i Mineola’s remodeled Safeway
i food store will open its doors
for business Monday morning
at 7 o’clock with everything
new but the location The
building has been completely
remodeled inside and cut and
all fixtures have been installed
new.
As opening feature the store
will give away a new 8-foot
Kelvinator refrigerator. Visitors
need only to register at tiie
i store between opening day and
1 Sept. 13. The winner will be
| announced at 3 o’clock on the
; afternoon of the thirteenth, two
; hours after registration closes.
The new store, said John
i Vandiver, manager, has con-
siderably more shopping space
than the old store, and will car-
ry much more merchandise.
Among new features are an
open-style refrigerated cabinet
for dairy foods, a new refrig-
erated produce case, open dis-
play for frozen foods, a new
and larger market department
and three “speed-up” check
stands.
At the rear of the building
a large concrete parking lot
has been built to accommodate
forty-two cars. Floodlights have
1 been erected for the conven-
ience of Saturday night pat-
rons.
Reese Chrietzberg, a veteran
market man, will continue as
! manager of the meat depart-
ment, and other employes are
Hearl Harris, Travis Capps and
Wallace Johnson.
Store hours will be 7 a. m.
to 6 p. m. on weekdays and 8
a. m. to 8:30 p. m. on Satur-
days.
race is for district clerk with
Kelsie M. Ross and Mrs. Eve-
lyn Horton as candidates.
The warmest state race is
for lieutenant governor with j Fifty petit jurors have been
Senator Ben Ramsey, an East j called for duty in the fourth
Texan, facing Pierce Brooks, week of Judge T. C. Chadick’8
Dallas insurance man. The race j 115th District Court in Wood
has been markec in the last j County. The panel, scheduled .,
few days by charges and coun- to appear Monday morning,
Aug. 28. at. the courthouse in
Three East Texas Counties
Quarantined for Anthrax
A livestock quarantine order
was issued today for parts of
three northeast Texas counties
because of an outbreak of an-
thrax.
The counties are Titus,, Frank-
lin, and Hopkins. The order
was issued by the state live-
stock sanitary commissioner
during a day which saw these
developments:
A posting of guards by the
state of Oklahoma at all brid-
ges over the Red Phver—guards
which President Harold Hut-
ton of the Oklahoma state board
of agriculture said were in-
structed not to let in any cat-
tle from the Texas counties of
Titus, Hopkins, Franklin, La-
mar, Delta, Bowie, Morris, Hunt,
Camp and Red River.
Word from a spokesman in
Austin that the governor’s of-
fice is keeping a close watcl
on the East Texas anthrax
threat.
Receipt of a wire from the
East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce by Governor Allan Shiv-
ers, urging a livestock quar-
antine be clamped on parts of
five counties.
B. A. Davidson, director of
the livestock sanitary commis-
sion, said at Fort Worth that
the areas affected in Titus.
Franklin and Hopkins counties
lie north of State Highway 11
and U. S. Highway 67.
The quarantine order issued
today will remain in effect
until rescinded.
Hopkins county officials told
the governor’s office livestock
losses in their county were es-
timated at $35,000 to $40,000
since the outbreak of the an-
They asked the governor for
assignment of four or five ad-
ditional patrolmen to their
county for the next five days
—to help prevent movement of
cattie in and out of the quar-
antined area.
The East Texas Chamber of
Commerce said a quarantine
of affected areas of Titus, Hop-
kins. Red River, Franklin and
Wood counties would be enough
to stem the outbreak and that
it would not be necessary to
quarantine all parts of these
counties.
Legion Calls Universal
Military Training Vital
ter-charges between the two
candidates.
John C. White of Wichita
Falls is attempting to unseat
J. E. MtDonaid aj commission-
er of agriculture, and the oth-
er three races are for the court
of criminal appeals and two
places on the supreme court.
The polls will open at eight
o’clock and close at sevc-n, and
will be located in the same
buildings used in the first pri-
Magazine Article
Praises Mineolan
For Longview Job
A former Mineolan, Henry C
Neyman. received a complimen-
tary write-up in ti e August 2
issue of ihe National Petrole-
um News regarding the part
he plays as manager of the
Bennett TBA department m
Longview.
Neyman, it was pointed out.
got the job on the strength
of his ability and experience
at budget tire selling. He now
approves all credit transactions
for tires. All of the adminis-
tration details of the TBA pro-
gram are Mr. Neyma Vs respon-
sibility, the article painted out.
He keeps the books personally
enters all of the collections and
oversees the TBA nventory.”
In addition ho gives person al
! Immediate universal mili ary
training is the key to survival
| for America in an “inevitable”
| war with Russia, an American
! Legion spokesman told Con-
i gross Wednesday.
| “How soon we begin mobil-
| izing to meet this conflict that
is sure to come will measure
our chances of survival.” said
Earl p. Cocke, Jr., of Dawson,
Ga., chairman of the Legion s
national security committee
On the other hand Elizabeth
Smart of Evanston. 111., rep-
resenting the Women’s Chris-
tian Temperance Union, warn-
ed against legislating "ha fran-
tic haste and in an atmosphere
of war hysteria.” She said the
WCTU is opposed to peacetime
conscription.
They presented their views
to the Senate Armed Service
Committee shortly before that
group closed out public hear-
ings on UMT and arranged to
start work behind closed doors
Monday on finishing touches
for a bill to be laid before the
Senate. Chairman Tydings
(D-Md) said he hopes to get
the measure out next week.
mittee has come out publicly !
for the plan, with a demand
that Congress stay in session
until it is enacted.
The actual proposal originat-
ed with Secretary of Defense
Johnson. But President Tru-
man, while repeating his oft-
made statement that he fav- 1
ors UMT. has said he did not
plan to rush it at this season
of Congress. The President said
he did not want to start a con-
troversy that might get in the i
way of legislation he consid-
ers more immediately vital for
the war in Korea. He suggested
that the armed services do not
have time right now to handle :
UMT.
The Democratic leadership
has not yet given the training
proposal a place on the Senate
calendar, and no plans for ac-
tion have appeared in the ;
House. i
The proposal calls for six |
months of intensive training, !
and another six months in an 1
active reserve or national
guard unit, for youth between
the ages of 18 and 20.
Perry/ Brown of
d tout ion
to s!
ow accounts.
Losses have
been
negligible.
and much
of the credit for the
success of
the
TBA
system at
Longview
was
given
by the
magazine
article to
Mr. Nay-
man.
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Quitman include the following *
men:
E. D. Clanton, J. J. WesW
moreiand. Bruce Burton, H. V.
Puckett, Conrad. Dyke, J,
Roberts, J. M. Low' D. N^New-
some, A. N Stevens, Bnrtt
Richey, James R. Frost, E. E.
Ronkendorf, R. V. Shambur-
ter and C. L.- Shamburger of
Quitman.
Leon Havens, W. N. Roten.
Icie Monday A. J. Harris, M.*
V Meadows and Claude B. Wil-
M'd of Winnsboro.
W. O Robinson, J. O. Ham-
nond, Victor Russell, Roy Rus- ±
°!1 of Hawkins. f
Jack Bowden, George Pad-
ett, Preston English, J. B. Cow-
irt. Preston Pritchett, Adol-
:hus Vandiver, A. N, Vickery,
Tom Scott. Harve Skinner, l!
'. Dean, Joe Stallings, Ea£_l
English, Lon Chrietzberg, B. P.
Terce of Mineola.
G. G. Blake, D. Z. Priri^
C. E. Dunahoe, O. M. Tarfclr*
of Crow. *
George Strange, F. F. Bill,
C. L. Whitis of Alba.- '
J. G. Rogers, W. M. Lindley, ’
E. J. Elledge of Yantis.
Quitman Schools
To Open Sept. 11
The Quitman schools will be-
gin the 1950-51 semester Mon-
day morning. Sept. 11, with an
estimated enrollment of 800,
500 white and 300 colored stu-
dents. according to W. C. Irons,
superintendent.
Ulman Bruner, former Min-
eolan. is high school principal
and football coach, and J. D.
Goolsby is principal of the
ward school.
The Quilmar. school system
now has a new elementary
school cafeteria, new auditor-
ium and shop for vocational
agriculture classes as well as
stands at the football field.
Beaumont
Three Mineolans
Get Teaching Jobs
COMMERCE < Spl. > — Three
Mineola students at East Texas
State College, Mrs. Kathleen
Brown, Frank Rholes, and Su;
Culwell Moody, have accepted _______
teaching positions according to j four new classrooms are
an announcement made this under construction which are
week by J. T. Adams, head of j expected to be ready by the
the teacher placemen: bureau -ime school opens.
at the college. ---o_____
Mrs. Brown will teach in the ! ENTERS ARMY TRAINING
elementary grades at Kemp; ! Lt. Joe Stallings, executive
Rholes will teach the seventh officer of Company B, 149th
grade at Coppell, and Mrs. Armored Infantry, local Nation-
Moody will teach public school al Guard unit, left Thursday
music. All these students are morning for Fort Knox Ken-
graduates of East Texas State, i lucky, to enter tactical trat
---o--; ing school.
CALLED TO SERVICE j __0_
Virgil Padgett, Jr., w.ll leave ROSE HILL REVIV
Monday for active du;y with The revival mee
the armed services. | progress at the
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BUILDING HOUSE j Sunday. The
Kelly' Bruce has started | Dan, gpftor,
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Carraway, R. H., Jr. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1950, newspaper, August 24, 1950; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth757704/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.