Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 5, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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Timpson Daily Times
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VOLUME 40
TIMPSON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1941
NO46
INTERSGHOLASnC LEAGUE
WILL HOLD SHELBY CMM
MEET IN CENTER
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March 21-22 Dates An-
Geiterai Billingsley;
BasketbaD Tourna-
ment Feb. 14-15.
The annual meet of the
Shelby county Interscholastic
League will he held in Center,
Friday and Saturday. March
21 and 22, D. P. Billingsley, di-
rector general, announced to-
day.
The date and 'plaee of meet-
ing was decided upon at a
meeting of directors, which
was held at Center several
days ago.
The directors recommeided
the 14-inch out-seam play-
ground bail for ime in the
tournament,' it is stated.
The -basketball tournament
is to be played off February
14th and 16th, the place to be
decided this week by R-E. Ma-
lone, athletic director, and his
committee of coaches. >
The directors of the various
events are as follows:,
Director General, D. F. Bil-
lingsley, Timpson, Texas.
Director of Debate, Mis. Ed-
win Leims, Center, Texas.
Director__of Declamation,
Reeves Hailey,' Shelbyville,
Texas
Director of Extempo-Speech,
Dave McNeill, Jr.. Tenaha,
Texas.
Director of Spelling, Mias
Lois Shirley, Center.
- Director of Ready Writing,
Job Gebrge, Shdbyville, Tex-
as.
Director of Athletics, R, B.
Malone, Center, Texas.
Director of Music Memory.
Mrs. Rushing Manning, Timp-
son, Texas.
Director of Choral Singing,
Robert Ramsay, Timpson, Tex-
as.
Director of One-Act Play,
Mias Opal Vernon, Timpson,
Texas.
Director of S R’a, Herbert
Eakin, Center, Texas.
Director of Rural Schools,
Hardy Hairston, Center, Tex-
as.
Director of Number Sense,
Oran Wheeler, Center, Texas.
Director of Typ. and Short
Hand, Miss Annie T. Brown-
ing, Center, Texas.
Director of Girl’s Athletics,
Miss Anniee Brown, Tenaha,
Texas.
Director of Picture Memory,
Miss Rebecca Taylor, Timp-
son, Texas.
Timpson Boy Enlists in
U. S. Army Air Corps
Archie L. Harris, of Timp-
son, was enlisted in the U. 8.
Army Air Corps, February 1,
1941, for West Coast School,
California. There are still a
number of vacancies for Air
Corps at several different sta-
tions in California and in the
State of Nevada, It is reported
from the Center recruiting of-
fice.
OLD AGE PENSION
POLICIES UNDER
PROBE AT AUSTIN
Method* Uberalzied
Just Three Days Be-
fore Law-Makers Met,
No. 2 Singing Convention
At Jam— Sunday
Furman Hayes 'announces
this week that the next regular
meeting of No. 2 Singing Con-' tee, which is
vention will be held' at James,
'6 miles from Center on Center-
Joaquin highway.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 4. (UP)—
Old age pension policies -of
the Texas public welfare board
were liberalized just three
days before the present
don of the state legislature
convened, a senate inquiry re-
vealed here today.
Marvin Leonard of Fort
Wrath, chairman of the wel-
fare board, told of resolu-
tions to speed up consideration
of applications and reinvesti-
gations, and of abandonment
of complicated frame that had
retarded work of Investigators.
He estimated that there are
20,000 to 26,000 worthy old
folks waiting to have applica-
tions considered; denied that
there was any board policy of
keeping the number of pen-
sioners static; and could not
remember if politics of em-
ployes ever had been discussed
at a board meeting.
Telling of the speed-up pro-
gram adopted oh Jan. 11,
1941,‘by board resolution,
Leonard said that he believed
an investigator should handle
60 cases a month properly. He
said the average had been 35
but denied knowledge of any'
instructions to ingestigaton to
make 20-mhvestigationa a
month and 10 investigations of
new applicants.
. Under the new board policy,
Leonard told the' committee,
$30 is set as the normal
amount needed to support a
pensioner, and that when less
is recommended the investiga-
tors’ reports must show why
the reductions were made.
Deduction is made fra oth-
er income, it was explained. No
deduction is made because the
applicant owns a home, on the
belief that repairs, insurance
and taxes will amount to about
what rent costs non-home
owners- The investigators are
no longer permitted to take ac-
count of eggs, vegetables, milk
or butter produced on the ap^
p Heart's premises, Leonard
said.
Leonard said also that the
board’s policy is to consider
any regular contribution to
support of old folks made by
their relatives in determining
need, but if relatives do not
contribute, investigators are
not authorized' to inquire into
their ability to help support
the bid folks. Casual aid or
Christmas gifts are ignored.
Senators died letters from
welfare workers apparently
contradictory of this policy
and also showing rejection of
an applicant because of "lack
of funds.”
Leonard said there was lack
of funds to hire sufficient ad-
ministrators but no desire to
avoid having more' pensioners.
Other board members and
Director J. S. Murchison are
yet to be heard by the commit-
to resume its
hearing' tomorrow. .
Records read at the hearing
showed that rolls remained
' London, Feb. 4. (UP)—New
United States ships and long-
range American planes in con-
voy service will play a vital
part in combatting'the heavy
British shipping losses expect-
ed to result from intensified
German attacks at sea in the
spring, Shipping Minister Ron-
ald Cross said Tuesday in a
speech before the Empire so-
ciety.
"We can he sure . .. that in
the not-too-distani future we
shall be met by some gigantic
effort on the part of the ene-
my,” Cross said: "We must
proceed upon the'conservation
estimate that recurrence of
heavy losses may well occur in
the future."
His warning counteracted
optimism which might have re-
sulted from today's announce-
ment of shipping losses for the
week ended at midnight Jan.
26, which were less than the
previous week sad well below
the figure for the entire war.
The admiralty said that for
the period under review seven
British ships totaling 23,514
tons and two allied ships total-
ing 10,090 tons had been lost,
by enemy action, making the
total for the week 33,064 tons.
During the previous week
losses were 58,212 tons and
the' average weekly loss for the
war up to Jan. 12 was 62,117
tons.
Bkrr AIN COUNTING
ON LONG-RANGE
U. S. PLANES
close to ' 120,660 names
through 1939 and 1940. Addi-
tion ranged from 72 in one
month to 2,785 anothermonth.
Texas Music Educators
Plan Meet at Wees;
Band Director Barren
To Attend
The annual contention of the
Texas Music Educators Asso-
ciation, in which directors and
music pupils from all over the
state will participate, will be
held at Waco, Texas, Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday,
Feb. 13, 14 and 15, according
to announcement received by
J. L Barron, director of the
Timpson high school band.
Guest conductors and ciici-
ticians will be: Bands, Forrest
L. Bnehtel, Chicago, HI., or-
chestra, Ralph E. Rush, Cleve-
land, Ohio; choral. Noble
Cain, Chicago; drum majors
and baton twirling, Maynard
L. Vieler, Franklin, Pa.
Mr. Barron plans to attend
the meet he said this morning.
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Mandate OverEthiopia
May Be EataUuked
By Greet’Britkla ,
London, Feb. 4. (.UP)—Grist
Britain Tuesday recognized
Haile Selassie, bearded ‘’Con-
quering Lion of Judah,”.as the
Billie Witcher
Pounds Tinfoil
Billie Witcher, 9-yeaNold
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Witcher of this city, has'been
rightfulraler of Ethiopia 'accumulating' • supply of tin-
wbere Ethiopian rebels under
his leadership'and British em-
pire forces are smashing at;
Italy’s i»86 coirqneit. ■'r-'
. There was speculation that
Britain, jnder an arrange-
ment wi-Jh the negus,'might es-
tablish a Uritish mandate over
Ethiopia if a knockout blow
can be delivered to ' Benito
Mussolinfs Bast African em-
pire.
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden ann'biiiiced to the house
of commons that Britain not
only recognizes the negus*
claim to his throne but will aid
in re-establishing an indepen-
dent Ethiopia. Britain, he said,
has no territorial desire in
Ethiopia.
Iw Charge Mid-Week
Baptist Service
The Sunday'school depart-
ment of the North Bide Baptist
church will be in charge of
the mid-week service there to-
night, 7 o’clock, James Cozort,
superintendent, announced. A
good attendance of the church
membership is raged; a cor-
dial invitation is extended to
visitors.
Ribbons for
typewriters.
an makes of
The Times.
tiMi«amreimmd8i ti
Office Supplies
In your-plans for the New Year you
will have need of new or additional
office supplies . . .
LEDGERS, DAYBOOKS,
GASH BOOKS,^ETC.
We will be glad to supplyybur
needs in this line.
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“Thel^ading Do.-**1**”
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foil for sometime, and Tues-
day presented the local Lions
Club with;three pounds,.which
the club Will plkce With its col-
lection to be given the Shrin-
er’s hospital'for the benefit of
crippled children. A large por-
tion of the three pounds was
accumulated from cigarettes'
sold at the lake; of the young
man’s grandfather, E. W.
Witchdr, located near'town.
Singer*'Unite. Conrektion
The Singers Union Conven-
tion will meet Sunday after-
noon, Feb.9, at Ramah (be-
tween Tenaha and Joaquin.)
Another meeting will be
held Saturday night, and all
day Sunday, Feb. 16, at Jack-
son church (on Center-Joaquin
highway.)
Landscaping to
Enhance Beatify of
The beauty of the campus
of the Timpson high school is
being greatly enhanced by an
attractive job of landscaping
in progress. The work will in-
clude about 160 pieces' of
shrubbery, eight varieties
making up the whole. This
worthy civic project was made
passible under the sponsor-
ship of the Timpson Parent-
Teacher Association and the
following cooperating clubs:
Twentieth -Century Club,
Wednesday Bridge Chib, Zend
Averts Club; also a number of
local individuals, we nadra-
*tand:
The worit i* under the su-
pervision pf J. B. Ming, owner
of the Kfeg Nursery of tena-
ha. The boys' o/fhe vocation-
al agriculture department of
the school are assisting hi
placing the plants.
Plamiby observing the im-
provementalso note with
pride the beautiful new Unit-
ed States flag which waves ma-
jestically in all Rs greatness
and grandeur from the 100-
steel flag staff.
The women’s division of the
Christian Service ef the Meth—-
odist church held their annual
pledge service in the annex
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. B. N. Moesly of Mar-
shall, the district secretary,
met tiie large group end talk-
ed briefly on the new organ-
ization, after which a social
hour was enjoyed. Lovely re-
cake and coffee were provid-
ed through a committee com-
posed of Mrs. E. -W. Crawford,
Mn. L. D. McWilliams, and
Mri. W. D. Whiteside
Reporter. i
The Frank Stamps quartet
will give a concert at Min dan,
(Rusk county) Thursday
night, it is announced.
Our Him for 1941
First, to so operate this bank as to main-
tain in it a safe and sound depository for
the funds of all our people
Second, to render service to every legiti-
mate interest in Timpson and her trade
area, and to make every possible sound
contribution to the success of our
customers, for in your success lies our
success.
Third, to seek to earn a fair return on the
investments of our stockholders.
Fourth, in all these efforts to render a
complete, efficient, courteous banking
service.
We Appreciate Your Business
The Cotton Belt State Bank
TIMPSON, TEXAS
Member Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 5, 1941, newspaper, February 5, 1941; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth812925/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.