Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 78, Ed. 1 Monday, April 20, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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Timpson Daily Times
VOLUME 41
TOMPSON, TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1942
NO- 78
HIQI SCHOOL MO
RAO ALABMS
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NeUwyn Cwiwy WMi
An Ara«(t of 97,18 Is
Valedictorian; Bfflr
Hot With An Average
of 96.31 Is Sululstorian.
With graduation festivities
of Timpson public schools in
full swing, and the dag of
commencement exercises just
around the corner for hard-
working seniors in both high
school and grammar school,
announcement has been made
of the following honors:
NeUwyn Gasway, with an
average of 97.15, receives
valedictorian honors in the
class of 1942.
Billy Hunt, with an average
of 96.31, is saiutatorian.
With an average of 95.34,
Carroll Barco is third highest,
and Joe Bussey ranks fourth
with an average of 94.48, for
the four-year span.
Other honor students are:
Annie B. Childs, Marguerite
Eakin, Kathrine Green, Fleta
Legg, Bennie Mae Sapp and
Helen Weir.
High school honors are
based on grades made by
students during their entire
four years in high school.
Valedictorian of the gram-
mar school graduating class,
whose date of graduation has
been set for Saturday, May 9,
is Joy Ann Sherrod, with an
average of 94.75. Very close
behind, with an average of
94.24, is the saiutatorian.
Tommy Herrington. Lorraine
Porteifield, Prances Helen
Morgan, Billie Bailey, Jacob
Gasway and Charles Hughes
are other honor graduates.
RUBBER HOPES
ARE BOLSTERED
Detroit. (UP)—The average
motorist's confidence that
American ingenuity would
produce a magical substitute
for robber tires before many
cars are farced off the road by
the shortage was bolstered
last week.
The ray of hope for motor-
ists whose tires soon will be
worn thin came from the la-
boratories of the Ford Motor
Company at Dearborn, Mich.,
and the Goodyear Tire k Rub-
ber Company and Firestone,
both of Akron, O.
Ford said it had developed
a specially-treated fabric tire
which uses only one-sixteenth
of the rubber which normally
goes into a tire. Although the
experiment still is in its preli-
minary stages, Ford engineers
said first tests showed the tire
to be durable.
Goodyear announced soon
afterward that It had test cars
on the road which were run-
ning on tires “without rub-
ber." Firestone also disclosed
it had several new types of
rubberless tires under test.
Some of them, Firestone said,
appear encouraging but not
yet of practical value.
All three companies declin-
ed to reveal details of the pro-
cesses by which they are able
to manufacture tires with little
or no rubber.
Since the seizure of rich
rubber plantations in the Far
East by the Japanese invaders,
virtually all of the Nations
rubber companies have been
experimenting with rubber
Four-hour air raid alarms
kept the Japs jittery Sunday,
according to press reports.
The Japs were in fear of a
repetition of the widespread
attacks made last Saturday
when Allied warplanes bomb-
ed Tokyo, Yokohama and two
other large cities.
(By United Pres)
The Tokyo government
warned Japan’s 70,000,000
people Saturday night to pre-
pare for "further attacks” by
Allied warplanes which, it
said, have brought the island
empire into the war zone with
a destructive bombing of Tok-
yo, Yokohama and two other
large cities.
Earlier Japanese radio
broadcasts said the attacks
were carried out by highflying
United States planes which
swept in from “severa! direc-
tions” and started fires along
the flimsy wood and paper
homes of the four heavily-pop-
ulated cities.
In addition to Tokyo and
Yokohama, the Japanese ac-
counts said, the industrial
cities of Kobe and Nagoya
where important war indus-
tries are located were said to
have been pelted with bomba
and incendiaries.
Hours after the sensational,
five-hoar attack, however,
there waa no Allied confirma-
tion that the war had been
carried to the Japanese h.sie-
land for the first time,
Neither Washington nor
General Douglas MacArthur’s
headquarters of the United
Nations forces in Anstralia
would say that Japan had
been attacked from the air.
Japan’s radio stations went
off the air Saturday noon—
probably as a precaution
against further attacks—but
the German radio reported
that Japanese authorities were
preparing the people for more
bombings.
The chief of the National
Defense Bureau in Tokyo, ac-
cording to the Nazis, appeal-
ed to the population to pre-
pare itself against more at-
tacks.
Most of the missives drop-
ped on Tokyo were said to
have been incendiaries.
The German radio quoted
the Tokyo newspaper Asahi as
saying that the raiders over
Tokyo flew so high that
“neither the nationality nor
the types of the planes could
be recognized.”
Three enemy planes came
over Tokyo from a northerly
direction at noon Saturday,
while thousands filled the
streets, and five others came
in from the east, it waa said.
'Em! Texas Chamber
j of Commerce in
Annual Session Today
The East Texas Chamber of
Commerce is in session at
Longview today, the aftnual
convention having commenced
Sunday. War-time problems
of business snd agriculture is
the theme of the convention.
Among the number of distin-
guished visitors and leaders
attending the meeting is Gov-
ernor Coke Stevenson. He ad-
dressed the general assembly
of the convention this morn-
ing.
substitutes which would per-
mit continued operation of
America’s 30,000,000 cars anc
tracks—two-thirds of the
world’s total.
Everett Spruce, University
of Texas art teacher, is one of
two Texans represented in
“Americans, 1942,” an exhibi.
at the New York Museum of
Modert Art. The other is Oc-
tavio Medellin, North Texas
State Teachers College sculp-
tor.
New York’s uniformed po-
lice force was organized in
1844.
Mr*. J. J. Shepherd
Dies Tahoka
Mrs. J. J. Shepherd, died at
the home of her daughter,
Mrs. B!an Ramsey, m Tahoka,
last Friday midnight, informa-
tion being received shortly af-
ter her passing by Grover
Brookshire and other relatives
in this community.
Funeral services were con-
ducted at Tahoka Sunday af-
ternoon and interment was
made in the cemetery at that
place. Mrs. Shepherd was
well known here, having re-
sided in the New Prospect
community a long number of
years.
She is survived by two sons.
Lovis Shepherd of Post and
Bernard Shepherd of Olney;
two daughters. Mrs. Blar.
Ramsey. Tahoka; Mrs. Truitt
McCarver, Corpus Chrfcti; one
sisters, Mrs. Sue Evans, Timp-
son; 15 grandchildren and 2
great-grandchildren.
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Commencement exercises
for the Timpson school has
been announced by Superin-
tendent G. D. Pruitt.
The baccalaureate sermon
will be delivered by Rev. A- B.
Moses Sunday morning, May
10, at 11 a. m., high school au-
ditorium. Music will be fur-
nished by the choir of the Bap-
tist church, under direction of
Mrs, F. R Bussey.
The commencement pro-
gram will be on Monday even-
ing, May 11th, at the high
school auditorium. The tCa-
dent-speaker type program
will be rendered.
Grammar school graduation
has been set for Saturday,
May 9th.
’ F*
to Receive
Center to Tiaquoe
S. R. Permenter, vocational
teacher and president of the
Timpson Chamber of Com-
merce, has invited representa-
tives of business firms in Cen-
ter to meeting Monday night,
at S o’clock in the chamber of
commerce office in Timpson in
which invitation is to be ex-
tended to all of Shelby county
by a committee of Rusk coun-
ty business men tc participate
in the District Dairy Bay
Show to be held in Henderson,
on Wednesday, Mty 20th.
Henderson business men
making the trip to Tim peon to-
night will be John R. Alford,
chairman, Frank H. Markey,
Henderson; Marie Wilson,
Overton; A. H. Gardener,
Henderson News. Henderson, and S. L. Neal,
First of a series of Dairy county agent, Henderson.
Day tours will be made Mon- The spring dairy day shows
day night, with a local delega-, which are held t!"-- ugheut the
tion going to Timpson to meet j state during tbe : onth of May
Shelby county committeemen, j are one day dairy shows that
The group will be headed \ have for their purpose the in-
by John R. Alford, and in- j creasing of interest in the
dudes Maxie Wilson of Over- dairy industry in the state.
ton, $. L. Neal, Frank H. Mar-
key and A. H. Gardner. They
leave Henderson at 7:15 and
will meet the Timpson group
at the Senate cafe.
For Victory: Buy Bonds.
stated Mr. Permenter. During
the past three years the East
Texas Show has been held one
time at Nacogdoches, and two
times at Henderson, and Timp-
son expects to make a bid for
the show in the spring of 1943.
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
f
On Her Own Motive Power
By IRVIN S. COB*
AUNT CILLY n> sitting is the Idtehta door.
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ramlwr would hold
tokened until the soBettw mby. Thm
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yen lodge of yours fnwUxe de dsMT”
"To toll yos de truth, Biots’, we aat quite got ’nrad tedst to
yit,” confessed (he «st«. "Dev's bem so mack elec to do. fat ii, due
tine we minis to Ysage Twut do dek benefits on’ do toyin' ford sr.
ajj d*t.”
“Eider Sawyer, brush by,” coramaadod the ugadouo Asst C:By.
“Yf new Iodic dose lose its taste for mt shwady. “1 'members wto
topes’ to d»t shiftless Sight-balded Fanny karaweth-r wkut bvtd
jest a Uttfc piece up dis same street. Yere two yeah* aspo she took
an' up tn’ fined cue of dew yere new-fangled lodges which a strange
sieger got up in die town, sir it wbul yea's aimin' to do '.or. An
dat lodge dide’t specify hout no be lyin’ rival V. raithcr. Wed, Jem
Fanny Memwether hashed off one day as' died widoat ary css- d
money laid by fur to funeliae her. An’ whut -lit da useaow :
Wy she laid 'toaml de booac laid fur <s three day- «•' de-
dot pore g-j bad to git to do eosrrtcry Jr test my she wti”
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Agricultural Later
On Thursday, April 23rd,
County Agent J. O. Moosberg.
in cooperation with the Unit-
ed States Employment Service,
will mail a questionnaire to
each fanner in this county.
The purpose of the question-
naire is to make information
available to tbe Employment
Service as to the additional
agricultural labor which will
he needed in toe eo.inty for
planting and harvesting crops
during 1942.
All farmers receiving these
questionnaires are i -fed to
complete the questionnaires
and mail them to their coun-
ty agent as soon as possible.
The questionnaires are ad-
dressed to the coui ‘.j agent
and will require no postage.
AH the farmer has tc do is to
answer all question* asked
and drop it in the mail.
RUSSIANS SLAY
1800 GERMANS
Kuibyshev, April 19. (UP)
—A new Banian offensive,
breaking through Finnish-
German lines on the Karelian
Isthmus north of Leningrad,
has annihilated 1,800 enemy
troops and seized a number of
fortified positions and settle-
ments, Soviet dispatches re-
ported last night.
The battle was said to be
continuing with undiminished
Russian successes, in the face
of strong but futile counter-
attacks by the enemy.
(The Moscow radio, heard
in London, broadcast a Pravda
dispatch which said that os
the northern front, Soviet
figtter planes of the northern
Russian fleet, shot down seven
German bombers and eight
fighters and damaged 12 oth-
ers from fleets attempting to
raid Murmansk. The dispatch
said that 35 German bombers
were in a first raid and 25 in a
second.)
HIM FSB t*B
TfiMITI UO 8EM CROP
is new
The outlook for a
tomato and bean crop In tola
vicinity is very encouraging, it
was reported last Saturday by
Arthur Thornton, president of
the Timpson Track Growers
Association.
A meeting of the track
growers was held in this dty
Saturday afternoon, and it
was stated that 90 per emit of
the tomato plants had already
been pat in the fields, and that
tbe plants were m excellent
condition. Mr. Thornton esti-
mates that the tomato acre-
age is 25 per cent greater than
last year.
Some growers planted bean
seed last week, Mr. Thornton
states and others will com-
plete planting this week. The
bean acreage in this section is
expected to reach a total of
approximately three
Dr. F. S. Grosser
Dr. F. & Groacr.
of the College of Marshall far
the pest 14 years, has submit-
ted his resignation to the
hoard ef trustees, to
effective August 1, :
ports from Marshall teste. HI
health of several yean stand-
ing was given as his reason lot
Bonds or bondage? Buy U.
S Savings Bonds.
Dr. Groner is well known in
this city, haring delivered
messages at toe local Baptist
church upon several occasions.
Dr. J. Wesley Smith, for 21
years dean of the college, has
been named executive rice
president, effective Jane I, to
serve until Dr. Groaer’s suc-
cessor has been appointed.
Holiday
Notice
Tomorrow, (Tuesday) Son
Jacinto Day, being a legal
holiday we will not be open
for business. Kindly make
your banking arrangements
accordingly.
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 78, Ed. 1 Monday, April 20, 1942, newspaper, April 20, 1942; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth814634/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.