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ELECTRA, VyiCHTTA COUNTY, TEXAS! THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1946!
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Sonny Lavender of Holliday', and
&\s| Neil Collier with totals of 522. points,
each shared grand championship
honors in Electra’s two day. rodeo,
Sunday and Monday. Collier is
frofn Wichita Falls. . u% ,7 ‘
q Presented under' the, auspices of
khe Electra Riding andr Roping Club
the rodeos were successful. in every
1 way. Approximately 130 entries
were registered for thfe first day and
220 for the second.
Bud Reid of Iowa Park was an-
^nouncer. Lon Deaton and W. A.
[y Krohn of Electra were judges for
iy the Sunday contests and , John Burn-
*V. ham of Iowa Park and‘Buddy Smith
of Beaver City, Oklahoma, were
k. judges on Armistice . Day. A splen-
7 • did parade, directed by Mr. and Mrs.
k Hoy Sullivan, preceded the rodeo
7; Monday.
ft Winners Monday: Bull riding—
■;'* Sonny Lavender, 1st; ' Neil Collier,
f 2nd; Lewis Blair, Dundee, -3rd.
jV Bronc riding—J. R.' Akridge, Beav-
’f er City, Okla., and Neil Collier, tied
l for 1st and 2nd; Don Sparks, Elec-
y tra, 3rd. , * ,
jV Calf Roping—Elmer Carter, Ante-
f./ lope, time 13.02, 1st; Milton, Loper,
:V;‘ Fairfield, 16 seconds flat, 2nd; Jim-
?• ' my Thomas, Lawton, Okla., 16.01,
> : 3rd.
yU' Ribbon roping—J. D. Craft, Jacks-
7 boro, time 12.01, 1st; Emil Kester,
y-. Odeil, 14.00, 2nd; Elmer Carter, An-
<. telope, 18:00, 3rd.
y The Burkburnett Riding and Rop-
ing Club put on a beautifully exe-
cuted square dance on horseback,
£ Joe and Myra a Brown, children of*
Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Brown of Elec-
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THANKS SERVICE
ME CHURCH NOV. 27
Members of the Ministerial Alli-
'ance announced- Tuesday that the
Annual Thanksgiving service' for
this community will be held Wednes-
day* evening, November 27, at the
First Methodist church. Rev. W. W.
Rivers, pastor of the First Baptist
church, will deliver the sermon.
Combined'choirs of this city will pre-
sent the musical program.
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NEW PASTOR
AT FIRST METHODIST
Rev. and Mrs. T. P. Weaver and
daughters, Carol, 7, and Jo Rene, 2,
have arrived from Dallas and are
occupying the First Methodist par-
sonage on North Waggoner street.
The Rev. Weaver who succeeds the
Rev. W. O. Bucy, began his work
las{ week as pastor of the church.
He comes to this city from the Cen-
tenary church at Dallas. Rev. Bucy
was sent to Dallas as pastor of the
Haskell Avenue church. *
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BORGER-ELECTRA GAME
HERE SATURDAY NIGHT
THREE PACKAGE
STORES OPENED
TUESDAY, NOV. 12
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Reports from the City Hall, Tues-
day afternoon, indicate that three
Liquor Package Stores opened .here
Tuesday. That number had* complet-
ed their final permit papers and re-
ceived^ license from the City of, Elec-
tra. They were Mrs. Myrtle Jones,
West Front Avenue; E. L. Hughes,
West Bryan Avenue and the High-
way Package Store, 213 West Front.
No applications had been received
for retail beer license. The Electra
Ice Company, H. W. McBroom and
Clyde Leitner were said to have ap-
plied for wholesale; beer license at
the City Hall. ‘
The Electra Tigers will play the
Borger Bulldogs on the Electra
field, Sat. night. This will be the
last non-conference game for the
Tigers and next to last game on the
home field. The next District’2AA
game for the home team will be
against the Quanah Indians on the
Electra field November 22.
> tra were presented in Indian dances
^ which brought hearty applause.
■; Johnny Miller, /clown of Vernon, and
his trick mule, Shirley, took the
t*\ arena spotlight with their stunts.
Winners in Sundays contests were:
Bull riding, Lavender, 1st;’ Walter
y Kuykendall, - Forrestburg, 2nd; Lew-
y is Blair, Dundee, 3rd; Bronc riding
7 —Lavender, 1st; Eddie Akridge,
7 Dundee, 2nd; Neil Collier, 3rd; calf
groping—Elmer Carter, 14.01, 1st;
S1™1 ^‘cster* Ode1*' 1*00, 2nd; Floyd [ certified for purchase of war surplus
7rCarIt0n’ <“'rowe^> 15-05, 3rd, Ri on g00{jg aj- ^wo army “site sales"
HARDIN GAME AT
WICHITA NOVEMBER 30
Hardin College has anounced a
game to be played at Wichita Falls
Nov. 30 with the Northeastern Louis-
iana Junior College of Monroe, La.
Thurmon “Tugboat” Jones, head
football ocach and director of ath-
letics at Hardin, said the Louisiana
eleven would give the Indians a
schedule of 11 games for the season.
Hardin completed its home sched-
ule Oct. 26 in a game with Kilgore,
and the Nov. 30 date was provided
in order that home fans might be
brought up to date on the Indians'
football prowess.
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GI GETS EHS DIPLOMA
Here’s JElnter” Is
Slogan for Drive *
Launching Tuesday
INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN FOR
MEMBERS AND TICKETS
FOR PROGRAM
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- Chamber %\ of Commerce Week
whiph will j*et underway' in Electra
Nov; 19, will be climaxed on Tues-
day night, Nov. 26, when Elmer
GEAOEWATER WINS
2 TITO OVER TjfiERS
Gladewater Be^rs swamped- the
Electra Tigers with a 12 to 0 vic-
tory, Friday night on the Electra
field in a non-conference game. The
East Texas oil town boys' started
their first touchdown ^ march from
the Tiger 39 yard line during the
latter part'of the first quarter but
took the ..payoff in the second quart-
er when Stewart, back, went over
from the two yard line. Their sec-
ond touchdown was * also registered
in the second quarter when Stewart
intercepted an Electra pass on the J
Bear 24 yards and in two plays put , , situation
the ball over the line. Johnson’s at- situation
C OF I! HEARS
SCHOOL PROGRAM
TUESDAY AT NOON
Elmer Wheeler
VETS URGED TO
QUALIFY BUYING
WAR SURPLUS GOODS
Veterans who have not previously
Superintendent Bob Lindsey Jr., an-
nounces that a high school diploma
was issued on Nevmber 4. to Ken-
neth D. Moore, who presented his
military service records and certif-
icates showing that he had success-
fully passed General Education De-
velopment Tests while in service .
___________0 ......... Legion Groups
” “ “ “ •» w"“ <S“r»-iFor 1946-’47
j-J-tied lor 1st and 2nd; H. C. Lyle
• TSnyder, Okla., 19.00, 3rd.
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master Depot and at Camp Bowie, ‘ tkt j t5 1
Brovvnwocd, are urged to see Doyle :^amed 1 USSday
Smith, field representative of the1 . “7
War Assets Administration, at Room1 a mectinS of Claude C. Me-
414, Radio Building, November i9,lDonaW Post. No- 319> American
20 or 21. . Office hours are from 9 LeSion' Tuesda-V evening, Command-
er Robert Scott announced the ap*
to 12 and 1 to 5 either day.
pointment of standing committees
Bring honorable discharge to make . , ,
_ application to buy such surplus t^or corr^n§ year, as follows.
Mr. and Mrsfj. M. Morrison havejs™-* P™Perty as the
returned to their home here after | • _ I Harmon, W. O. Wilson, Red Hard-
having been called to Stillwater, j u
Wheeler, president of the Tested
Selling Institute of New York CityK
will be the featured speaker at the
high .school’auditorium. He will de-
liver his ^ddress, “Take An Hour To
Say”, which has been reprinted* over
seven million times. Wheeler was
recently chosen as the most popular
speaker in America. Fifteen hun-
dred tickets will be available for the
occasion, it was announced by Wal-
lace Hoggatt, manager of the local
chamber of commerce.
Chamber of Commerce Week in
Electra which will feature qt mem-
bership campaign will start next
Tuesday morning with a kick-off
breakfast at the White Rose cafe.
The campaign committee includes
Dink.iRobb, C. F. McSpadden, C. 1-1.
tempt at conversion failed.
The Tigers threatened in the last
quarter \y*en they got the ball to
the Bear 4 yard line. On the next
play they were thrown back 5 yards
and lost the ball on the 9 yard line
as the game ended.
The Bears were accompanied by
a fair delegation of enthusiastic fans
and the night was still and clear
but the crowd the. smallest of the
season.
The Tigers were handicapped with-
out the ^services of Bobby' Flippen,
ace backfield man who has been a
spark-plug for most of their games
this season. Flippen was on the
bench because of head injuries. Wal-
ton who had suffered an attack of
appendicitis earlier in the week
played but sustained an injury to his
leg during the third quarter.
The Electra starting lineup: Ja-
cobi, le; Bessent, It; Lalk, lg;
Hines, c; Byrd, rg; Talley, rt; Penn,
re; McCarty, qb; Neilsen, lh; Wal-
ton, rh; Knight, fb.
Gladewater starters: Free, le;
Green, It; Sheppard, lg; Diffie, c;
Emphasizing. National Education
Week, the Electra high school glee
club ^directed by Mrs. Joseph Perk-
ins, and the high school girl’s trio
were presented in a • splendid pro-
gram, Tuesday, at the noon lunch-
eon meeting of the directors of the
Electra Chamber of Commerce at
the White Rose Cafe. Superintend-
ent Bob Lindsey was the featured
speaker and he outlined some of the
problems confronting the leaders in
Texas public :s'chbols.' He stressed
as to teaefibr
shortage and declared that some-
thing must be done to provide better
pay for class-room teachers. He
urged every citizen to keep posted
on the proposed legislation for the
benefit of education.
President L. 'G. McLaughlin pre-
sided. Secretary Wallace Hoggatt
reported on plans for the annual
membership campaign.
1947 CAGE GAME
SCHEDULE MADE
District 2AA will again be divided
into two divisions, east and west,
for the season of 1947, it was an-
nounced following a meeting of bask-
etball executive committees at Vern-
on on October 28, at Vernon, Sup-
erintendent Bob Lindsby Jr., Prin-
cipal A. A. Daniel and Coach W. K.
Weathers Represented Electra in the
session. C. H. Dillehay of Vernon
was elected chairman and O. B. Rose
of Graham was elected secretary.
Tallent, rg; Elam, rt; Mayo, re; , Grah“m’ WichitaFal!s ^
T , 7 04. • 4. tL t . , tra will compose the east division
Johnson, *qb; Stewart lh; Looney, rh; ' , ,r V-... , „ ,
^ ’.and Vernon, Childress and Quanah
-n,, , ....... ^ , , i will make up the west division.
Electra substitutions, Darland, ■ ,IT. , \ J .
, , . T , t-> * «r i Winners of the two will meet m a
back; Leouf, end Price, Waggoner, , . , ..
Billf’ guards | three-game tournament and the Dis-
McCann, H..E. King and Wallace; cikdewator substitutions, Honey-!trict 2AA champion will be the team
Hoggatt. Icutt, Tugwell, Keller, Bradberry, ;™nm”S ,tw° °f °J 7he ‘hrae; T^e
Wheeler, who won America’s first Long Kelly *
See “Chamber Comerce”, Page 8 i Officials: Brown, Wichita Falls;
Coppage and Williamson, Childress.
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Oklahoma, by the death of their
'“‘grandson, Jantks Hugh Rogers, 16
months old son of Mr. and Mrs! John
DOKK TO INSTALL
NEW CHAPTER AT
GRARAM NOV. 18
FESTIVAL FETE
MOVE TO BONHAM
A. Rogers of that city. The baby
LJdied on October 30 as a result of
^poisoning. He drank an insecticide
;-j/tispa in spraying plants, while his
^mother was out of the room for a
|7few. minutes.
Funeral services and interment was
■at Gotebo, Oklahoma.
Members of the firm of Oif City
Motors Company of Electra are es- SPacmen<
tablishing a new business at Bon
[groves, Steve Marchand, Ray B.
Dickey, R. D. Cunningham, Grbver
Harrison, Ferd Keller, C. F. Mc-
Legal Committee: C. P. Engel-
ham, it was announced this week.
The new firm will be the Bonham
Motor Company, Chevrolet Dealers.
Mr. Hcrschell Wilson will move to
Bonham to assume charge of the
business. L. P. Francis will remain
'Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morrison j charge here. Mr. Wilson will move
?ran"d family of this city were among j f^mily to the Fannin county
E the .out of town relatives who at- capital as soon as a house can be
.secured. R. E. Harris who is em-
_ I ployed with the company here will
^■tended the funeral.
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CAMP FIRE-BLUERIRD
EVENING HIGH SCHOOL
also move' to Bonham to assume
;dulies with the new business.
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king, Chairman, C. P. Nichols.
Post Publicity: Perno BryantT
Chairman, George Manley, Mary
Neff.
Visiting Cqmmittee: John Maxey,
Chairman, Ferd Keller.
Americanism Committee: Jerry
Walsh, Chairman, Charles W. Mor-
rison.
Athletics Committee: Artie Se-
crest, Chairman, James Knight. j
Adjt. Steve Marchand gave a fi-
nancial report on the District Con-
vention held here October 22-27 and
ft#
I Mrs. BUI Hardin of Belen, New the proposed sale of the Leg,on H^l
iMexico, was guest of her mother,'0" South Main street was d,scussed.
|Mrs. Sidney Lorenz and family last’11 rcPorted that a satisfactory
lweek deal nas not yet been offered and
i ' ' _ , the committee was instructed to en-
l' > v.Members of the Camp Fire Girls !
Friends here have been informed coura£e further bids.
RliiP BirH trrnunc nf that Mrs G. A. Birchfield, former,
tand;.Blue Bird groups of this city, Electran whQ now resides at Ham. Mrs. L. P. Douglas and daughter,
under direction of Camp Fire Guard-
iti ians/, Mesdames Henry Herweck,' R.
|;d C: ;Faves, Johnny Brown and E. W.
ilton, is somewhat improved after ;Miss Juanita Douglas, were visitors
having been seriously ill at the Scott ^ Dallas during the past week.
iindman and Blue Bird Leaders, |& whilc Sanatorium at Temple,
^Mesdames Leroy Reynolds, H. L. |Toxa5-
K Jones and Paul Rogers will present.
Mr. and Mrs Emory Murphy have
; moved into Mrs. John Brownlee's
program at the Electra high school j A. R. McMurry and Lon Williams j apartment at 501 West Roosevelt
Friday evening, November 15. The and son of Pike stopped over in * Avenue. '
[‘program which will include drills, I Electra, Sunday, for a brief visit* .------o_
£.folk dances, dramatization of Camp:with the S. F. and N. D. Coopers Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Miller and
E:; Fire work and Camp Fire and Blue * and Mrs. M. T. Cooper, as they were' family have moved 'from 1003 North
hbird songs will begin at 7:30 p. m. jenroute to Lubbock and Lockney to Wichita street, to a lease near Sun-
^The public is invited. visit relatives. : shine Hill.
playoff is to be held by February
22 A suitable trophy will be given
the winner with all schools in the
competition to be assessed to pay for
the award.
Admission to the games was set
at 25 and 50 cents, tax included.
It was agreed that $5 and $7.50 is
a reasonable fee for officials.
The schedule for the east division
is as follows:
January 10—Electra at Wichita
Falls.
January 17—Wichita Falls at
A Community program at the
The El Tiger Temple, DOKK,' Harrold high school, Wednesday
of Electra, will sponsor the installa- j eveuuig, marked the closing of the
tion of a new chapter of DOKK at ‘ festival season with the crowning of
Graham on Monday evening, Nov. j^e King and Queen. Janice Holder, * Graham. 1
10. ^Approximately 75 tyros will be i duughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. * January 24—Graham at Electra.
conducted "across the burning sands” Holder was crowned queen and^ January 31—Wichita Falls at
by a team selected by Jack Robb, j Charles Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. j Electra.
Electra, royal vizier of El Tiger' Jack Kelly, was crowned king with February 7—Graham at Wichita
Temple. 'royal pomp and ceremonies j Falls.
The team will include Guy Me-1 befitting such diginataries. Both J February 14—Electra at Graham.
Neely and Ford Albritton of Wichi-! children are from the class taught J The B team games will start at
ta, Falls; A. D. Butcher, Iowa Park; 'by Mrs. G. W. Sprouls of Electra.1A j 7 :so and the Class 2AA team
Fred Music, Cecil Qrant, J. W. Tin- (‘Princess was chosen from each class games will start at 8:30 p. m.
nin, W. M, Evans and A. R. TobyJ^rom ^he second up to the twelfth! -----0--
of Electra. Messrs, Tom Isham and srac*e as niembers of the court. j Among the rodeo fans who came
Fred Music of this city will be in
charge of the street work and will/
confer the 8th Order.
'The program included a full-length
feature film on the school’s new
RCA talking-motion picture machine.
Membership of the new chapter | Proceeds from the affair will go to-
will include Knights of Pythias from, ward replacing equipment for the
Breckenride, Eastland, and Graham. ,rausic department. All such facili-
Jeff Collier, Lubbock, imperial dis- [ ^es including the piano, victrola
trict deputy, will be the installing | an(i records, music, etc., of the mus-
officer. 'ic dePartment, were completely de-
stroyed by, fire when the school
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from a distance to participate in the
rodeo here Sunday and Monday were
Milton Loper, Gene Snyder and Dale
Woodard all of Fairfield. Loper
won second money in calf roping,
Monday. The other two youths were
among the “also rode” in bull rid-
ing events. Loper tied the fastest
calf in the recent Fair Park rodeo
at Dallas, time 13.2 seconds, his
companion, Gene Snyder Reported.
MORE MONEY!!
Mr and Mrs. Homer McDannald j building burned some weeks ago.
and daughter of Houston are guests -0-
of her mother, Mrs. C. P. Sheldon WpW ARRIVAI S
and other relatives here, this week. 1 itlllil 1 ilLu
Mrs. N.* C. Byars, chairman of the
Sgt. Charles Perry Sheldon^who is j Mr. and Mrs. Pete Thomas an- i committee on arrangements for the
annual Hallowe'en Carnival spon-
sored by the Thompson Ward-Par-
ent-Teacher Association, calls atten-
tion to an error in last week’s issue
of the News, in regard to the pro-
ceeds from the carnival. The total
receipts were $500, Mrs. B>ars said,
and the net income from the project
stationed at an Army Air Field in 1 nounce the birth of a son at the
Georgia was guest of his family here Electra Hospital, Thursday, Novem-
during the past week. | ber 7.
-0--^ Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Green are
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ford of Den- proud parents of a son, Ralph Dale,
ison are guests of relatives here born at the Electra Hospital on Sun-
this'week. 'day, November 3.
j-o--- 1 A girl wa sborn to Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. Richard Kng of Lubbock was ‘ Albert Ercckreide of the Barwise
guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. | community, Tuesday November 5, at | was $475 instead of $375, which the
H. D. Miller, during the weekend. |the Electra Hospital. [News is happy to announce.
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