Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 124, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Graham Daily Reporter
__They All Read It — Therefore A First Claw Advertising Medium
VOLUME l
GRAB AM TEXAS. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 24, 1*4*
NUMBER 124
Plans Made
For Birthday
Ball Tuesday
Will Play For President’s Birthday Ball Here
Graham and Olney will again join
this year in staging the Young
County President’s Ball at the Gra-
ham Memorial Auditorium Tuesday
evening and a benefit motion picture
at Olney to raise funds for the aid
of infantile paralysis victims.
Music for the dance Tuesday
night will be furnished by Dorothy
Allen’s Rhythmettes, an orchestra
yeR-Icnown in Fort Worth and Dal-
las. Dance will begin at 9 o’clock
tohJ admission will be $1.25. A
'square dance also will be held at the
same time, to which admission will
be 40 cents.
Proceeds from the dances and the
benefit movie will be divided be-
tween the county organisation and
the national organisation. The coun-
ty organisation last year "received
$150 as its half of the profits of
• the ball *and show and the money
has been used here in providing
transportation for crippled children
and treatment.
The local committee, headed by
Glenn Burgess, is composed of Gra-
ham Stewart, Bill Mitchell, George
Parsons, Rev. Shirley Guthrie, Mrs.
G. W. Miller, I. T. Gilmer, Dr. B. ——-
EL Griffin, W. E. Simpson. Mias While in Austin this week Glenn
Fannie Ragland and Judge E. M. Burgees, manager of the Graham
Remington. Representatives fronf Chamber of Commerce called at the
Graham seat at Olney last week office of the State Park Board aad
with representatives of the Otney furnished additional information to.
Chamber of Commerce. Rotary and the department concerning the 3,300
Lions Clubs and the two groups aeres of land near Graham, on Pos-
agreed to work together on the sum Kingdom Lake, which has been
Important Road Work
Program For This Area
Considered By State Body
Work May Start
Next Week
On Jean Road
Dorothy Allen’s Rhythmettes will | President’s Birthday Ball, which will | Auditoripm Tuesday evening, begin-
be featured at the Young County I be held in the Graham Memorial ! ning at 9 o’clock.
Park Officials Already
At Work On Plans For
Big Project Near Graham
pvsject
accepted by the State for a State
ipark.
: “The Park Board officials are en-
thusiastic about this proposition and
tmve already set machinery into
” motion to start improvement work
on this great project,” Burgess de-
, ionJ dared. “They have already asked
• for two CCC camps to he located on
at their weekly luncheon todav in ***** ***”’ ow W -e— °f the
the form of a Professor I. Q.” pro- rl"r’ ******•?
gram presented by Jim Bowron, to *? °" * 1.,nd 8nd
Lions Answer
Quiz Program
Members of the Graham
work about April r. Improvements
on the great project will be under
diirection of a National Parks sup-
ervisor on the ground.
The Park officials consider it one
of the most important State Park
projects yet adopted. It is expected
to attract three or four hundred
program chairman.
Jack Spangler and W. H. Krause
emerged as winners in the question
and answer contest conducted by
6. B. Rose. Contestants were divid-
ed into two teams. Fldon Willis
headed one team composed of R.
Brown, -Krause, Raymon Thompson
and Claude Kennedy. C E. Penix thou“*M,1 ™itor* * *-? 8"d *" "f
captained the opposition team of J. "P***8' *■••*■*• *° Gr"h‘m’ the
Matthews, Otho Tiner, Jack Bettla ** ^
and Jack Spangler
Claude Kennedy stumbled on one ,
of the first questions by answering _
“Campbell's 8oup” to the question: I Ja.|TlCS To Be Heard
“What product bears the slogan *67 r
Varieties’?” The
year follows the year
sled all contestant*.
Otho finer led the singing and
C. E. Penix pronouneed the invoca-
tion.
j lake, which will
i year.
be finished this
Casing Set On
Wells Near Graham
Extreme cold weather has slowed
down oil activity in Young county
this week, but preparations are be-
ing made for operations on several
wells aa soon as weather permits.
The Long-Wolfe No. 4 G. A. Bills,
located northeast of Graham, la re-
ported to have Set casing on top of
the 2700-foot sand and is rigging
up spudder to drill in.
Casing has also been set on the
C. E. Knox test on Worsham on the
2700-foot sand and preparations are
being made to drill in.
Drilling was scheduled to begin
today on the Travis Oil Company
No. 2 D. A. Ford, northeast of
Graham.
R. L Bobbitt
Will Be C. of C
Speaker March 1
R. L. Bobbitt, member of the
More prograss was made before
the State highway commission in
behalf of roads of interest of Young-
county residents, Monday, when a
delegation from Graham and Otney
appeared before the commission.
The commiteion heard Glenn Bur-
-- j*ress in a personal appeal before the
Final approval has been given by ' body representing the entire group,
federal and state WPA offices to particularly in behalf of Highway
the project of $127,141 for improve- j from Graham to Graford and
ment of roads thrbugh Young coun- j Mineral Wells and the route also
ty, according to information receiv- i from Finis to Possum Kingdom
ed by County Judge E. M. Homing- 1 and to connect across the river
ton, and work on the completing of ! with the new road from Possum
the Jean road will begin as soon as Kingdom to Brad and points South
a work order is issued, possibly
sometime next week.
The project was approved two
weeks ago by President Roosevelt
and later by the state WPA office,
Jbut a slight clerical error was dis-
i covered and had to be corrected.
The project is county-wide and
'provides $127,141 for improvement
} of roads in Young county by exca-
I vating, widening, clearing shrubbery.
State Highway Commission, and re- | constructing and reconstructing
garded as one of the most interest- dr81na*e structures. First constnic-
ing speaker■ in Tens, has been se-,t,on undor the will be the
cured by Graham Chamber of Com- ‘’""'Pl't*0" of the Graham to Jean
merce officials as speaker for the road' °* which four and four-tenths
annual Chamber of Commerce ban-,"*'1*8 ,re alrcad>' Paved
quet here March 1.
This information was given out
by Manager Glenn Burgess upon
his return from Austin Tuesday
afternoon where he appeared before
the Highway commission on high-
way matters. Mr. Bobbitt had been
invited when Burgeas and County — —----- -........» ...... . , _
Judge E. M. Remington were in !the Graham Steers to the tune of a *’ lnc u ed 9 *"n ®or****.
Sap Antonio a week previous and 81-22 win in Tuesday night’s contest K*‘minKt°n- »"d E- * Marchman
Bobbitt gave them his answer at Fort Worth. The Steers started ' „,,Gr8h8m’, Womack, C. C-
Wednesday at Austin. ,well in the first half and seemed ifnU8ms 8nd .B,1| T>,0“8* o{ 0h“»
He was formerly Attorney Gen-
eral of TVxas and has otherwise
been prominently identified with
Texas government affairs for a num-
ber of years. r"'
Steers Winning
Streak Broken
The Poly Parrots put an end to
the all-season winning streak of
Deeds were requested for right ef
way for the new road from Graham
to Graford and the points- southeast
of Graham and these are expected
soon, after which definite steps will
be taken for building this important
road, which will cut the distance be-
tween Graham and Ft. Worth by
eleven miles and which is calculated*
to turn at least half of the traffic
by Graham that now goes from
Olney by Jacksboro to Fort Worth.
Eight miles of the road from
Brad to the dam have been built,
leaving only a short sector to ha
completed and plans are being work
ed out, it was said, whereby the
steel bridges acroeo the Brasoo at
Pickwick may be moved to a point
on the river just below the Poaausu
Kingdom dam, a few hundred yards
thus giving a new and important
highway connection to the South.
The delegation from Young coon
ty appearing before the highway
body Monday in behalf of these
i in uic t uni nan ana srovnea ■ , ,
headed for their eighteenth straight Su,wn MhUS
m aaion. ; and ‘Fredericksburg.
In the second half the Parrots did , . ,
. , . . ... Graham joined Haskell county aad
most of the scoring to end with 31 ' ___■ , .
. . M , ... Brownfield officials alr-o on aa ap-
point* to the Steer’s 22 for their I.
SUPERVISOR HEME
,TTS.?’ pu.- On Broadcast
New Extension
Test Being Made
Jack Jamas, son of Chas. D.
James of Graham, will be heard in
a broadcast over the WBAP radio
station. Saturday, February 8, at
9 o’clock a. m. He is a member of
the Tarleton Chorus which will sing
on the Tarleton College hour at that
time.
Professor R. Berton Coffin of the
Tarleton College Music Conserva-
tory has charge of these broadcasts.
'The programs,” he stated, “are a
escapable, in a study of the fact*, . ... ,
'rays J. J. Akin, of Morrison Smith
Lumber Co. I According to Rev. Louis P.
In the six years following the be- Thein, S. M., director of the ground
ginning of hostilities ip Europe in school, the field work is being token
Interest of Young county oil men
is now centered on a cable tool test
well being drilled by Knox and Clay
on the J. H. Robertson tract of 96.4
acre* in the R. J. Robertson survey,
abstract 2176, approximately five
miles northeast of Graham. , .. I
This test is about one-half mile *8*1"* in 8th,*t,c*"
south of the pool op4^ied in August,
1987, by Knox and Clay and Ben- I )ippmveingnf|i
nett Petroleum Corporation, and in 1
War Makes Home
Building Boom
The man who takes a clue from
what happened to real estate values
during the first World War will
know that one of the best invest-
ment# he can make today io in im-
proved property, particularly in a
home. This conclusion becomes in-
tenth consecutive victory.
West for Poly led in
J. B. Owen of Wichita Falls while Brown .‘ded .n defensive play ^Stote"High-
..... 18 TU t;n* S* f"Uh' Perots. Parsley and Wilde En(tinw JuIUn Montgomery
i ntt —= k*»- ppt on the Graham team. 1 ’
I peal for federalizing of
120 west of Graham,
scoring. J whil(, >t AulUn ^ Graha
Highway
area supervisor,
1 Young County Welfare office here stood
today.
the road between Graham and Lov-
Students Make
♦
Solo Flights
w ^jParaley scored 6. Wilde 6 and Rat-j, ,nd ,uurmnee the ^
cl,ff 2 points for the Steers. ' wj„ * ,Urted re„ ^ ^
the promise that work will start
on this soon after July 1, when the
new budget becomes effective under
| which this road is to be built, and
| for which $50,000 has already beea
l appropriated for this fsrm-to-market
Federal-State road.
Services Held
For Walker Child
SAN ANTONIO, Texas.—Aero- -
nautic students at St. Mary’s Uni- Funeral services were held this
versity have token to the air and afternoon at 2:30 at the Morrison
have begun manipulating the flying Funeral Home for Peggy Camelle
controls themselves in a series of Walker, 4, who died Tuesday. Rev.
S. C. Guthrie officiated.
She was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. R. Walker, 206 Gleece
street.
Surviving her besides her mother
1914 the cost of home building rose »t Stinson "Field, local municipal1 . „„ ..... .
, ... , . " . .1--- Ji_D...1 tofher are one sister, a matem
al grandmother, Mrs. Huntoberger
of Oregon; paternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Walker of Gra-
218%. Actual records show that a airport, under the direction of Paul
house built in St. Louis, Mo, in the Dailey, former student of St. Mary’s
rammer of 1914 cost $4254.00. Six University, and Lloyd Brown. All
years later the same house would three instructors report fine prog- h>m >nd >n unc,e
have cost, $8006.00 to build. To build rasa on the part of the students. Grah,m.
the exact house today would coat The prime purpose of the training, | _________
$6420.00, and if the present war officials say, is to safely and ade I
WEATHER
WEST TEXAS—Thursday cloudy
with rain in southwest portion Wed-
nesday night and Thursday.
OKLAHOMA—Fair and eoldar
Wednesday night.
Wilbur Gough, bookkeeper
Morrison's has been out sere
Brit Mayea of days this week on account of
attack of the flu.
to interest every brings about the some proportion of quately train a large group of young! Jnv^chfTQfinnc Manp ( TnlintnK
Tarleton studqnt ig some extra-cur- increase in building costs, by 1945, men* who give promise of interest' 111 VCI>li5<1UUI 15 lfl«UC *sAJUCllUID
ricular detivity, whether it be sing- the house will coat $12,100.00 to in and ability to continue
ing. playing in an orchestra, or en- build. activities as private pilots.
| To make home building and home training is decidedly differentiated 1
"The I Of Funds For Finnish Relief Fund
On Newton Store
which there is production from the
3200 and 3600-foot Strawn sands.
Operator's proposed depth for the
test is 3600 feet but new produc-
tion rosy be opened in either the
2400 or 2760-foot sands as other •
wells drilled in this area b«ye had j
good shews in these upper sands.
Knox and Clay have a block con-
alsting of aprrox mstely 400 acre* otker chu>re, on thp in-lope ef
and are acquiring additional sera- | WUi_ F |4W____
age in vicinity of test.
Graham and Breckenridge Cham-
Extensive improvements are being
made this week on the Newtoh
Jewel > y Company store, on the north
side of the square.
The remodeling includes a new,
more attractive show window dit-
5.In Graham And Breckenridgi
much' home building and remodeling in nature.
materials now as $1.00 bought in Every phase of aircraft is being
1928. And 1926 ws, not the high tn th» program, the pre- of Commerce this morning in
point in the eoet of homo building Mribed curriculum of the training ve'tigsted the activities of two men
in the era before the depression! calling for 36 to 50 hours of actual who wer* repo*^1 i"°'k*‘in'
Aa authority for these facto, Mr. flight instruction and 72 hours of ">on«y for the Finnish Relief Fund
Akin quoted Roy Wenalick, real as- ground school work at the institu- tb* two c,Ue*
tote analyst of St. Louis, Mo, and
one of the nation’s foremost authori- .
Mss on this subject, who states that /-i , i j n
the next six months will represent uOUflty 4-11 UOyS
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The two men had left milk bot-
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last week asking contributions to
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I were reported to have claimed to be
repceeantotive* of the Fort Worth
Stor-Telegram and the Wtehito
falls Women's Forum.
Business men last week
THREE ON MCK LIST
AT GRAHAM NATIONAL
Three of the
Rank personnel have been out
* this week on account of ill
They are D. F. Ford, Mr.
| situation. But Mr. Akin indicate* gahv Beef Calves have been enter ]Glenn Burgess, manager of
toe Boors Livestock show st chamber 4g Ow—W 4* Mto he*It*
notifml
______ _______________ ______ , _ _ the
■ that building material prices am ed in
„ Round to rise soon. This upturn the Southwestern Exposition and being placed in the stores and Bur
1 will come as soon at present dealer Fat Stock, March $-17, by the Young gras communicated with the Fort
part stocks have been exhausted and im- Ovntv 4-H Club. (Worth Star-Telegram, finding that
after the receipt ef new Marriott Kunkei. O’Dean Heard, the newspaper had no solicitors of
of material, from manufac Claranc. Klenk^ nnd^O.jC. Hens. the fund^Gra^ ban
Jr, are the
\
bottles on their counters until Mon-
day, when the men were expected
to return.
The men returned this morning,
picking up the bottles at the A.
and P. Grocery, Miller Drug Storm
Two and Three, Gladies' Cafe and
Young Drug. The Chamber of Com-
merce here was netified, bet the
men left, failing to eollart the mon-
ey at the Safeway Store. Burgeas
phoned the Breckenridge Chamber
of Commerce and men wore peaked
in Breckenridge .tore*
According to information received
here by Burges*, the men war*
questioned by officers in Breckan-
ridge Mils morning at 11 o'clock.
Bottles had also boon pieced in
Cisco, Eastland, Ranger and Mineral
Wells.
Lam than $2 was collected to Cra-
snd Breckenridge, the
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Trout, H. I. Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 124, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 1940, newspaper, January 24, 1940; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1116142/m1/1/: accessed May 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.