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i The McGregor Mirror
Serving
McGregor
Since 1888
AND HERALD-OBSERVER
VOLUME FIFTY-NINE
McGREGOR MIRROR, McGREGOR, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 19,' 1948
NUMBER 43
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Other
‘‘BY GUM"
The new fire truck which was
delivered tp the city of McGre-
gor last week by the Seagrave
Company, is a “whim doodleum
and the firemen are making good •
use of it, having already answer- j
ed two alarms as its initiation
into the community life. . . On
Monday afternoon, during the
CULTIVATION OF 1,000
ACRES PLANNED FOR
A&M FARM THIS YEAR
II. 0. Hill, superintendent of
"Bluebonnet Farm was presented
to members and guests at the
Rotary luncheon Wednesday, by
program chairman, J. Stanford
Halley.
In brief, Hill told what had
NEW HOME
The building above is an archit. et’s scale model of the proposed McLennan
period in which the official state
acceptance test was being run,I County Electric Cooperative’s new home, construction of which will be begun within the next 30
an alarm ivas sounded, and the
test had to ..be interrupted while
the big truck made the run from
its test location on Harris Creek
cause way, through the business
district, and to the Glen Crain,
Jr. residence. Another truck
crew on duty at the fire station
made the run in such good time
that the new truck was turned
back before it reached the fire
scene. Reports on the fire were
that damage only to a radio
which had short 'circuited. . . .
Earty Wednesday morning the
truck was called to the colored
section of the city, where effi-
cient work by the firemen aided
materially by the new truck, a
blaze was extinguished before
too much damage resulted to the
four-room residence of Ada1 Al-
len Johnson.
days..
$56*000 E E. A. Building
To JB< Constructed Here
Construction will begin within the next 30 days of McLennan
County Electric Cooperative’s $56,000 home which will be located
here on the plot of land between the bus station and the Cotton
Belt Railroad, Raymond Hampel, manager, revealed this week.
7 — The Cooperative is now await-
F1LM SLATED FOR IIN? return of the approved con-
LEGION MONDAY NIGHT
| tract, of Behringer, Behringer
j anil Hines, from Washington, D.
| C. ..Architect for the project and
. i designer of the model pictured
The showing of an Amenean ^ is James p
.Legion film, “All Out For Base-
ball,” will highlight the regular
meeting of the Bryant-Oliver
Post No. 273, jVEonday night at
the Legion Club, Commander Ira
Kerwood annuoncecl this week.
“All Out for Baseball”
Fill KAO TO MEEi
All of this week the fire station
has been a veritable beehive of
activity, with the , various de-i ’ * All uut Dor -baseball" .- ex-
partment 'members- dropping in1 plains the American tegiA^in-j4fbliertT office' j|| BLUEBONNET FARM
1 es' and six other offices with a re- '*
Waco.
e To be constructed of. Oriental >
stucco and tile, the building will j
cover 12,000 square feet and
will contain nine rooms, together
with a laboratory, a warehouse
| and a garage. Blueprints show
TO THE FRIENDS OF
DR. JOHN THOMPSON
For the benefit of all of us,
we need Dr. Thompson to re-
main with us as our friend,
physician and surgeon. . . A
letter--FROM YOU—to Presi-
dent Truman, Washington, D. C.
advising why you, personally
need' for Dr. Thompson to re-
main in McGregor, might have
quite a bearing on whether Dr.
Thompson will be available for
service to all of us for, quite
some time.
If you do want to write such
a letter, please send or take
your letter to The Mirror of-
fice IMMEDIATELY’, from
where it will be mailed at the
proper time to do the most
goad. Write TODAY]
MEETING
TONIGHT AT 7,30
Each and every one interested
in seeing that McGregor renew
its rodeo this year, is urged to
be present at a special meeting
to be held tonight (Friday) in
the offices of Chamber- of Com-
merce. The time is promptly at
7 -.30 o ’clock. Be present and be
on time, requests President
Thomason of the C. of C.
CLIFTON COLLEGE WILL
PRESENT PROGRAM
Students from the music and
been clone since Janury 30th, the
clay A. & M. College took over
the project here. At present he
stated the farm has an operating
crew of twenty men plus forman
of labor, chief mechanic and a
building, grounds and utility
fo email. Also there are two
'secretaries, chief clerk, agrono-
mist and field supervisor, and
himself, with offices in the old
cafeteria building. Workmen are
local men.
Among the work now going on
is repairs and general clean up
of grounds, getting farm machin-
ery in shape for operation, prep-
aration of a soil may as an in-
ventory of land resources and
land map of the farm.
Work to be. done now, is pre-
paring crop-share leases on land
to' be planted in spiring crops,
plow and plant approximately
1000 acres to spring crops, and
continue building repairs and
clean up.
Future Plans
Among the future plans, Hill
stated would be to prepare" for
speech .departments of Clifton' livestock research work in sheep
Junior College will present a | and goat -breeding; livestock work
variety program for the local: in grazing and grassland im-
! high school and grammar school! provement, which will include
! in the high, school gymnasium’ the introduction, testing and in-
preibdically to take another look dor Baseball program and inv
at their pride and. joy, the new
750 gallon pumper. Chief Eve.rs
says that its going to be hard to
restrict drill periods to one
'‘evening a week-' with so much
enthusiasm among his men. Af-
ter all, who wouldn’t be. proud
and over ambitious when you’ve
worked with the odds against
you for the past eight years, and
suddenly awake to find a bright
new piece of the finest equipment
made waiting for your command
of service. The boys really de-
served the break, and prediction
is that, given half a chance with
fire, they’ll live up to their am-
bition of “stoppin’ ’em where
they find ’em.”
all eligible boys to participate.
Included hre action shots of such
stars as Bobby Feller of the Clev-
stars as Bob Feller of the Cleve-
land .Indians, Pee Wee Reese of
the Brooklyn Dodgers, and oth-
ers, all of whom once played Am-
erican Legion Junior Baseball
TMs 15-minute,sound film also
contains scenes of thrilling com-
petition taken at the Little World
Series, a goal for every Junior
baseball team and player.
“Every Legionnaire will bene-
fit from seeing this film,” Com-
mander Kerwood said. “I urge
every member to be present and
to bring with him as many inter-
ested boys as he can.”
WE’LL SPEND TIME
WITH YOU
OR SAVE TIME
FOR YOU
“All the time in the world” is
yours when you have important
business to ^transact with one of
our officers. . . But if you are in
a hurry we’re ready to give you
prompt service that will not
waste a moment of your time.
Your satisfaction is our ■ chief
concern—always.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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production room.
Ilample estimates, that it will
take around six months to com-
plete the building. . When the
next Monday, March 22 at 1 p. m.
| according to an announcement
by.Supt. T. II. Jenkins.
The program will consist of
musical selections by a men’s
quartet, a women’s trio, soprano
The McGregor Farm Bureau
will hold its regular meeting
Saturday at 7:30 p. m. in the
crease of desirable new grasses
for this a.re’a.
Also prepare for research work
in related animal industries such
as wool scouring, select areas of
uniform kinds of soil for exper-
soloist and pianist. There will bejimental work in agronomy and
short talks by other ‘students.
They will bring with them an
exhibit from the art department
Cooperative holds its annual Cafeteria building at Bluebonnet. at the college. The Rev. O. O.
meeting),pi members Nov. 8. the
manager and his 29 employees
hope to -be settled and have the
building heady f,or inspection.
SPOONTS DRUG STORE
CHANGES OWNERSHIP
Farm. 6m Quebe; secretary, has Brandt presiclent 0f the College
announced.
Quebe says a special program
lias! been planned and will be of
interest to everyone. An invita-
tion is extended to all farmers,
business men and their wives.
Chris Galceron, representative
of the National Cotton Council
will speak on “The Marshall
Plan and its Effect on Cotton,”
and will also present new uses
for cotton. This, says Quebe
should be of special interest to
the ladies.
In addition, Galcerion will
Gtow a color film on “Conserva-
When the Spoonts Drug Store
opened its doors Thursday
morning it was under new
ownership.
Messrs. Aubrey Legg of this
city, and Raymond Yeargan of
Oklahoma City, nephew of Legg,
were owners. The deal was c'los-l tion with Farm Equipment,” to-
ed Wednesday afternoon. j ^ther with two comedies. ’
Legg is,no stranger to McGre-j---------
gor people. He* was born and
reared here, however, for the
past several years he has been!
connected with the T. P. & L.J
and spent quite a bit of his time
in foreign countries in construe
tion and research work.
Yeargan, since his discharge
needed with a large drug con-
eeri^ in Oklahoma City. He is a
registered pharmacist and will
have charge of that department
in the business here. He is mar-
ried and has two children. They
expect to move to McGregor
just soon as living quarters can
be obtained.
Legg told a Mirror representa-
tive Thursday morning that the
new firm would completely over-
haul and modernize the interior
of the business and expected to
have one of the classiest and most
modern drug stores in General
Texas. An announcement, ad
will appear in next week’s issue
of this newspaper.
and Prof. A. H. Grender, director
of music, will accompany the
group of more than a dozen young
men and women.
The general public is especially
invited to hear this program.
There is no admission charge.
NOW 83 YEARS OLD
Mrs. C. C. MeGaughy wishes
to thank all her friends and
neighbors for the many .cards,
flowers,, candy and visits made
her on Monday, March 15th, in
celebration of her 83rd birthday.
The day was most pleasantly
spent and Is looking forward to
many more birthdays.
Nothing heard from committee
to decide slogan contest winner,,
when we hear we’ll tell you.
Valley Mills Grid Star Will
Lead I hree-Day Youth Revival
JAMES SHULER
Football is just a sideline
Football is just, a sideline for
James Shuler, who had a big-
part in leading the Valley Mills
Eagles to the Regional Champion-
ship this year.
His life work is the Methodist
Ministry. James will do the
preaching in a District Wide
Youth Revival at the Methodist
Church in McGregor, Friday
through Sunday^—March 19-21.
Curtis Morgan, of Gatesville,
will lead the singing, and Elaine
Johnson, of Gatesville, will be
the pianist. All three of them are
high school students. Services
will be each evening at 7:30.
All young people are invited
and urged to attend. There will
be a special fellowship hour af-
ter the Saturday evening ser-
vice. “Christ Above All,” Will
Renew your sub crip tion today be the theme of the meeting.
crop production, start activities
and research work on soil conser-
vation, soil improvement and
fertilizer work, refrigerator stor-
age arid other facilities for the
handling- foundation hybrid corn
.seed, prepare for production
of foundation seed with other
kinds of crops.
Another feature to start is the
operation economic farm units
in general farming, covering all
phases of the farm.
Short Courses
Hill further stated that short
courses will be held for farmers
and other groups at Bluebonnet
Farm, and possibly some special
training courses will be given.
Hill told the Rotarians that
the big room in the» cafeteria
building is available for, use of
recognized non-political organi-
zations of the community and^
such meetings are welcome.
In closing, Hill said the staff
of Bluebonnet Farm and their
families have very much enjoyed
the welcome that has been ex-
tended by the citizens of McGre-
gor, and find it quite a pleasure
to become a part of such a de-
lightful community. ,
IMPROVEMENT OF .
PARR SITE HAS BEGUN
The Civic Improvement Com-
mittee has started work improv-
ing Bewley Bark in Park Addi-
tion. Twenty-three holes have
been dug and the trees will be
planted within the next few
days if weather permits.
If it is possible to obtain
them, at least thirty crepe myr-
tles will also be planted. If you
have any good shrubs you can
donate to the park, the commit-
tee will get them planted. You
can phone Mrs. Gladys Davis.
No. 18, at Naler Insurance.
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