The Talco Times (Talco, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, November 7, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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Talco Trojans Play
Clarksville Tigers
Here Friday Night
Tonight at 8 o’clock the Talco Tro-
jans will meet the Clarksville Tig-
ers on the Talco field for a confer-
ence game. The Trojans are in the
best shape, having skipped a game
with Bogata on Friday night, due
to nun.
Clarksville is reported to have a
last backfield, Centered on Mills and
Graves, who weigh 160 pounds.
This, according to Talco’s record
, of fast men, will not be an obstacle.
Talco will have its full string of
regulars with the exception of Billy
Hunter, who is out for the rest of
the season, due to a broken collar
bone.
Cogch Holden feels that the Tro-
jans will run up a neat score over
the Tigers, and promises a clean
.scrap from kick off to the final
whistle.
Talco band and pep squad have
both been doing some extra drilling.
Talco is proud of these two factors
and realize their importance in the
making of a good game.
Salrn ®imca
COMPLETE NEWS AND ADVERTISING COVERAGE OF THE GREAT TALCO OIL FIELD
TALCO, TITUS COUNTY, T^AS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1941
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New Test East Talco
Texas Co. Gets
Well, Barker 22
Seniors Lead for
Top Placement on
School Honor Roll
NUMBER 39
Turkey is Promised
for Entire Army
Ft. Worth.—The Army is a lot big-
ger than it was last year about this
time tyut everybody in it can have
turkey for Thanksgiving.
A. R. Hackett of Chicago is going
to see to it. He is senior marketing
specialist in charge of poultry, egg,
butter and cheese buying for the
Army. Hackett said the Army was
arranging for 1,500,000 pounds of
dressed turkeys for Thanksgiving.
The 29 branch offices of the quar-
termaster corps market service will
do the buying.
Esir Ablon, secretary of the Texas
Poultry, Egg and Butter Association,
chimed in to say the public needn’t
worry about the Army taking all the
dark as well as white meat. The
turkey crop will be enough for all,
he said. 1 /
Bad Weather Calls *
for Postponement of
Talco-Bogata Game
The football game between Talco
and Bogata was called off Friday
night, due to bad weather.
The date set to play has not been
definitely decided, but school offi-
cials arc trying to get it set after
Thanksgiving.
Everything is set for a good battle
tonight on ,the Talco field when
Clarksville comes over for a chal-
lenge.
Information reached this office on
Thursday morning that the Talco
field was scheduled for a new test,
located in East Talco, just south of
the Magnolia Chapman deep test,
drilled in 1937, and termed a dry
hole. The well will be drilled by De-
Grazier and Harris Company of San
Antonio, and will be located on the
Lilienstern property.
Progress made on the test has
been the clearing of timber to make
room for the rig. Probably by the
next issue we will have complete
details.
A new oil well is almost complete
in the Talco field this week. It is
for the Texas Company, located on
the Barker No. 22. Pipe was being
set Thursday. It is thought the com-
pany would make another location
on the same tract.
Byrd-Frost Company has seven
permits to drill on the west side, lo-
cated on the Evans tract. No work
has started at this time.
Child Dies frony
Injuries Sustained
Automobile Wreck
Frost Lays White
Blanket Over This
Section Saturday
First frost of the season blanket-
ed this section Saturday morning,
Nov. 1, but it soon melted into the
mud under the warming rays of
bright sunshine.
The frost, which was 10 days ear-
lier than its appearance on Nov. 11
last year, followed heavy rains on
| 1 Thursday and Thursday night. Skies
cleared Friday night and frost form-
ed heavy enough for late Hallowe’en
revelers to leave their brands on it.
First frost in 1939 was on Oct. 31
and the first in 1938 was Oct. 24.
While frost means an end to most
fall garden vegetables, the colder
weather is welcomed. Owners of
meat hogs are reluctant to slaugh-
ter them until after frost has killed
most green vegetation, since wea
ther prior to that time usually is
too warm for meat to keep.
Bennie Ruth, five-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carroll of
Hitchcock, died last Friday in a
Galveston hospital of injuries re-
ceived in an automobile collision at
Hitchcock. Funeral services were
held Saturday afternoon at the
Church of God, with Mrs. Audrey
Williams officiating, and interment
was in the Old Hagansport cemetery.
The car in which the Carrell fam-
ily and Buddy Lain were riding was
reported hit by another automobile
and turned over three times. Others
injured were Mrs. Carrell who sus-
tained several broken ribs and bruis-
es about the head and body. Mr.
Carrell was taken to a hospital and
was reported resting well. Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Buchanan accompanied
Mr. and Mrs. Carrell to Hagansport
with the body of Bennie- Ruth.
The Carrells formerly resided at
New Hagansport. Bennie Ruth was
born in Talco. Other survivors in-
clude her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. A. Carrell and Mr. and Mrs. S.
Elliott of Hagansport.
1
Fifty-nine high school studei
attained better than average rati
in their studies for the first
weeks of the 1941-42 school tei
The seniors lead this group wt
20 members; the freshmen class,
close second, with 17 members;__
junior class third, with 15 members,
and the sophomore class fourth, with
seven members.
The honor roll is divided into two
groups. First, those students mak*
ing a straight A card; second, those
students making an average of As
and Bs but with no grades lower
than a B.
Students making a straight A av-
erage: Mary Margaret Anderson,
Mary Elwyn Collins, Marjorie How-
ard, Lois Gene Kirkham, Pearl Lil-
ly, Roy Lilly, Faye Lindsey, Leon
Lindsey, Joy Parker and Wayne
Warren.
Students making As and Bs with
nothing lower than a B: Charlene
Allums, Dollie Marie Anderson, Jua-
nita Butler, Elsie Buchannan, Joyce
Boyd, Ernest Clark, Wanda Beth
Carl, Genevia Couch, J. O. Cooper,
Lavonne Davis, Billy Dunagan, Theo
Duke, Odessa Devall, Mary Jo Eas-
terling, Oscar Elliott, J. W. France,
Mildred Farrier, Janie Goodwin,
Robert Harper, Clyde Lee Hahn, Jas.
Hearron, Burton Harris, Anna Lou
Hearn. Lucille Johnson, Hershall
Kelley, Olga Mae Lindsey, Wallace
Lindsey, Jeanne Anne Morris, Paul-
ine Norris, Dorothy Neugent, Alice
Oliver, Martha Joyce Penn, Jane
Poindexter, Inez Richardson. Doro-
thy Reidout, Pauline Roach, Peggy
Lou Slye, Melba Spruell, Lonett
Thompson, Marlon Trimble, Marion
Trimble, Catherine Traweek, Moye
Vansau, Asta Mae Williams, Mary
Woodward, Gloria.Woodward, Beryl
Wellborn, Gayle Whitmire and Ger-
ald Dec Lightsey.
It is interesting to note that in
several cases brothers and sisters
Hopkins Co. Test
is Now Headed for
Lower Paluxy
Indications that the W. B. Hin-
ton and Talco Asphalt & Refining
Co. No. 1 S. M. Long test in Hop-
kins county might mean another
successful Paluxy pajt strike were
shown early this week after two
drillstem tests were taken.
A third drillstem test, however,
revealed mud carrying a salty taste,
last three feet drilled soft and sand
cuttings carried oil staining. Geo-
logists think that it may take more
drilling to spot the trap, but that
another pool similar to Sulphur
Bluff \iay be the result.
The operation jumped into the
prospective pay picture when it
crossed the upthrow side of a fault
to jump its structural position some
500 feet upward. The fault line was
crossed near the top of the Paluxy,
top of which was placed at 4,707
feet.
The cores revealed shale and sand
with a slight odor, and sands with
staining and a salty taste and shale.
The test is three miles west of
Birthright, about 15 miles west of
Sulphur Bluff.
Apparently in shale at 4,777 feet
at last report, drilling was
for the lower Paluxy.
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School Doors to
Closed Nov. 27-28
_______
Talco school students will have a
two-day holiday this Thanksgiving.
School will close for the traditional
Thanksgiving on Nov. 27 and will
remain closed the following day,
according to Sup’t B. E. Dunagan.
One week will be allowed for
Christmas holidays this year. School
will close at 4 p. m. on December
19 and will open at the usual hour
on Monday, Dec. 29.
12,500 Carloads of
Talco Asphalt are
Shipped This Year
Weather Features
Spring, Summer and
Winter Wednesday
Rain, hail and sunshine, followed
by a cold northerly wind, is a brief
synopsis of the weather experienced
Wednesday in this area. Nobody
expressed disappointment at the
failure of the weather to go all the
way and produce sleet and snow.
The hail came in two light show-1
ers, partially covering the ground'
with small stones. Farmers said it
might have been beneficial if it had
fallen while the army worms were
demonstrating their power several
Mother of B. E.
and D. 0. Dunagan
Buried on Friday
headed i weuks a§°-
Rains ovcT the week end have...,__________............. imiiv
kept most farm work at a standstill, j emergency with little lost effort.
Shipments of asphalt from the
Talco Asphalt & Refining Com-
pany's plant at Mt. Pleasant will
aggregate 12,500 carloads this year
it was revealed at a luncheon last
Thursday of executives of the as-
j phalt company and the Cotton Belt
i Railroad.
The Talco company, which went
into production about five years ago,
is the largest single industry on the
Cotton Belt line.
When Captain J. F. Lucey opened
the plant some of his associates pre-
dicted the venture could not suc-
ceed. Today the plant represent*
an investment of about $2,000,000
and is doing a capacity business.
The company was described as a
monument to a man who had the
nerve, vision and determination to-
go into a new field.
Speakers described the asphalt in-
dustry as being in the throes of too
much business but said no bottle-
neck was in prospect. Between 60
and 75 per cent of the asphalt now
1 being produced is for national de-
I fense. American railroads, too, were
reported to be meeting the national
Funeral services were held Fri-
day afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
West Mountain Church of Christ
near Gilmer for Mrs. W. M. Duna-
gan, mother of Sup’t B. E. Dunagan
and D O. Dunagan of Talco.
Mrs. Dunagan passed away in a
Gilmer hospital on Thursday morn-
ing after a lengthy illness. She
made the honor roll: Mary and I was 69 years of age.
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lace Lindsey and Pearl and Roy Lil-; of Christ in Gladewater.
iy.
Titus Co. to Send l;
Selectees Nov. 17
The following Titus county men
will report to the Local Board at Mt.
Pleasant on Nov. 17 from where
they will be sent to the induction
station at Dallas and the U. S. Army:
James William Johnson, Clifton J.
Denny, Claude James Cawthon, Wil-
liam Hugh Lee, Herbert Harvy
Landrum, Johnie Elton Browning,
Steven Woodrow Haley, Marvin Rob-
ertson, Robert Wade Roach, Albert
G. Rushing, Howard Lcftwich, Wil-
liam Arthur Burton Jr., Delbert Al-
exandra.
Sikes-Potts Wedding
Solemnized Nov. 1
i > t
Mr. Carl Sikes and Miss Nadine
Potts were united in marriage Sat-
urday^ Nov. 1, by Rev. S. D. Lind-
say, pastor of the' Calvary Baptist
Church at his home.
Mrs. Sikes has been a resident of
Talco only a short wfoile. She came
here from Oklahoma.
Mr. Sikes has lived in Talco prac-
tically all of his life. He attended
Talco High School.
The Talco Timas, along with their
host of friends, wish for them many
years of happy married life.
MILK PRICES ARE HIGHEST
EVER POSTED IN SOITTH
Hallowe’en Passes
Quietly in Talco
Friday Night
Ghosts and goblins in Hallowe'en
attire descended lightly on Talco Fri-
day night to mark the coming and
passing of another Hallowe’en.
The only observance of mischief I
was soap marks on merchants’ win-
dows. Past experience has taught j
most of them to use glycerine and
greasy substance on their windows
to prevent this.
In the younger group various par-
ties were held in homes. The wea-
ther being rainy evidently played a
part in keeping the goblins indoors
most of the night.
Reports from local officers say
this was the quietest Hallowe’en ever
spent in Talco.
Deceased was born and reared in
the Gilmer community and was the
mother of nine children, all of whom
survive. She was laid to rest in
white with a white carnation cor-
sage.
A beautiful floral offering was
made by Talco people and a large
number attended the funeral.
with the result that the small amount
of cotton remaining in fields last
week is little smaller this week,
Farmers who have hogs in the
pens and only a small amount of
corn in the cribs are hoping for cold-
er weather so that they can supple-
ment their diet with spare libs,
backbone and sausage..
Standings of Dist.
19-A Conference
Gridiron Teams
Now .that football in the 19-A dis-
trict is creating higher interest, we
have compiled the following figures:
Last week’s scores were:
Gilmer 50, Mt. Pleasant.0; Pitts-
burg 13, Mt. Vernon 0; Winnsboro
Crude from the Talco oil field is
converted into asphalt at the refin-
ery and has become a nation-wide
industry.
Community Stock
Show to Be Held in
Deport Saturday
—
Postponed because of heavy mid-
j week rains, the Deport Community
! Stock Show, scheduled to have been
| held last Saturday, will be held next
I Saturday, Nov. 8, with no changes
made in the program, according to
I stock show officials.
, As previously announced, the
j show will start with a parade down
Main street, in which the Deport
High School band will play a prom-
postponed’ unti.0'a(™Thr„ksBetvmg:! Spo/ctop^ld a.arS
I will be made in ribbons. No entry
fee will be charged and all entries
will be competently judged.
Here is the district standing:
November Bog Scout
Registration Month
November is Boy Scout registra-
tion month, according to the Rev.
Carter McKemy, scoutmaster, who
invites all boys who wish to be-
come scouts to attend scout meet-
ings each Tuesday night at the De-
port school.
There are approximately 21 scouts
enrolled in the Deport chapter at
the present time. Frank Hall is
associate scoutmaster.
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Gilmer
Pittsburg
Talco
Mt. Pleasant
Winnsboro
Mt. Vernon
Clarksville
Season standing
Gilmer
Pittsburg
Talco
Mt. Pleasant
Mt. Vernon
Winnsboro
Clarksville
'Pet. |
1000
667 I
600 j
600;
500 [
334 j
000 j
Pet.
1000
667
571
500
500
500
Stock show officials and commit-
teemen regret that rain and mud
made it necessary to postpone the
show, but promise that the delay
in the date, will not affect the sched-
uled program
Deer Bulldogged by
Former Red River C. A.
Construction Begun
on Cut-Off Road
Ol'R WEEKLY LETTER FROM
Lonesome Bill
on
Dear Editor: It seems that my
wife read that piece I had in the
paper a while back saying that on
account of the national de-fence
they was building over here shi
getting my part them when 1 do.
Instead of picturing them as Hitler
1 reckon I’ll go a step further and
think of them as John L. Lewis and
I figure I won’t even have to take
could not buy any more hairpins and aim to bring them down. I am sav-
would have to bob-tail her hair. She ing Lindbergh and' Wheeler for the
told me last night that I hadn't ought quail season
Sulphur Springs—A new high
price for milk of 53%c per pound
butterfat, the highest ever posted in
the South, has made dairy farmers
'Of this area jubilant. Still higher
prices are being forecast for this
winter.
GILMER MAN BUYS REGISTERED
GUERNSEY FROM G. P. GROUT
C. S. Jones of Gilmer, recently
purchased a registered Guernsey
cow from George P. Grout of Talco
to add to his herd. Jean Du Luth
Deino 678942 is the name under
which this animal is registered with
The American Guernsey Cattle Club.
■m
to feel too biggety. for if she couldn't
get hairpins to hold her hair up
neither could I get a $13 silk shirt
to show off in like I did during the
last war.
She was right two ways, if a
woman can be right so many times
I notice in the papers that a duck
hunter am t allowed to use bait and
live decoys, but I don't reckon that
the law can touch me and my neigh-
bor for just imagining the ducks |
are what they ain't in order to im-
prove on our aims. I know it is
Pecos county's new agent, W. T.
j Posey, former Red River county
167 | agent, proved that a county agent’s
I duties are varied on the West-Pyle
1 Ranch in the mountainous southern
; tip of Pecos county last week.
Posey found a 10-point Blacktail
j buck wandering around a bush. Close
i j scrutiny revealed that the buck was
blinded by screw worms following
a head injury.
Posey bulldogged the buck. • tied
it to the bumper of his car, and led
it to where he found a ranch hand
to aid in administering treatmer^ to
Work has been started
right-of-way for the cut-off on High
way 67 from Tankersley creek west
of Mt. Pleasant to the intersection
with Highway 271 south of the fair
grounds.
, Grading equipment lias been
brought m for preparing the road- j the"'wo*und.
bed on this project, which is about! ___________
,jwo miles in length, and afterwards j .
a concrete road will bo built to con- j October rr OS Wettest
nect this east and west route, which /*>
is part of the military highway sys-1 W 1 aSt Li Y 8
tern of the United States, and has \
the highest ratio of traffic in this i k,as*' October was the wettest this
section of Texas. Included in the I fcction has sren in 13 years, accord-
contract will be the construction of in8 ,w weather observers who report
asphalt shoulders on each side 0f | approximately seven inches of ra'in-
tho concrete.
•t once, for m the first place I ain't; pretty hard on the ducks to name
seen no $13 silk shirts advertised J them that way, but dead ducks can't
J?othe SeC°nd Pl“ce 1 ain’1 *ot talk and I figure that if they knew
the $13 to pay for one if they did : we was thinking about them like we
have them. I are that they would rather be dead
My neighbor went out Monday and anyway,
come back with nine ducks, which j There are lots of sins being com-
he says he killed with four shots!
When I asked him how he done it
he said that every time he saw a
bunch of ducks go over he just pic-
tured thetn in his mind as Hitler
and when he pulled the trigger down
they, would come.
I ain’t had time to try my luck
on the ducks yet, but I figure onj
mitted in the name of national de-l
fense, but I don’t reckon what we
are doing is much of a sin. Least-
wise, I ain’t had to wrestle with
my conscience like I did when I call-
ed Pappy a biscuit cutter and he
turned around and raised my pen-
sion. Yours truly,
LONESOME BILL.
Titus CCC Camp Now
Has Negro Enrol lees
;\
fall during the month. This was the
heaviest since October, 1928, when
j 7.80 inches were recorded.
The October downpours brought
total rainfall for the year to slight-
ly over 44 inches.
Change-over of the Mt. Pleasant
CCC camp from white quarters to
those i f negroes has been completed,
at cord mj to an announcement made
by officials of the Conservation
Corps.
Tiie white boys were given their
Choice of a transfer to other camps
or honorable discharges from the
service.
The negroes will do the same type
of work in the Sulphur Cypress Soil
Conservation District as the white
boys did.
Drilling Resumed
Biardstown Test
Operations have been reported re-
sumed at the Doyle Bros. & Barr
test well two miles southeast of
Biardstown. The old hole, said to
have been crooked, is being reopen-
ed to 1800 feet. The test is located
in a 12,000 acre tract and consider-
able interest is centered about iU
outcome.
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