Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 114, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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GRAHAM. TEXAS. FRIDAY. JANUARY 12. IMS.
Chamber of Commerce
Votes To Raise NY A Fund
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At a meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Graham Chamber of
Commerce Thursday night it was
voted to sponsor completion of the
drive for an NY A youth center
building in Graham.
This action, which is to be car-
ried out immediately, it was said,
is expected to assure the project.
The Chamber of Commerce in this
action will raise $2,000 to match
$1,000 the city has promised, making
tf total of $3,000 the community fur-
nishes in a project estimated to cost
approximately $14,000, approximately
$11,000 being furnished by the Gov-
ernment NY A, most of which will be
in the form of expenditures for
labor.
The Rotary and Lions club have
endorsed the project and recom-
mended that the Chamber of Com-
merce assume responsibility for rais-
ing the funds.
The proposed building, according
to architect’s plans which have been
made for the project, would contain
quarters for boys shop work, for
girls study of home economics and
other work, as well as rooms for
recreation activities.
These National Youth Adminirtra-
tion centers being established by
scores of towns in Texas provide a
combination of study and work for
scores of young men and women
who are paid by the government
monthly and are under paid NYA
supervisors, thus creating a pay
roll of considerable proportions cal-
culated to be of considerable aid to
local business of all kinds, in addi-
tion to providing occupational train-
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Miners Trapped
By Explosion
BARTLEY, W. Va„ Jan. 11.—
Efforts were being made Thursday
night to rescue 87 miners trapped
600 feet underground by an explo-
sion.
Four bodies already have been
taken from the wrecked corridor in • 1 A •
the Bartley No. 1 mine of the Pond H lTinish Aim IPS
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through which the blast roared
Wednesday.
The company reported at the time
of the explosion 138 men had been at
work in the mine—in the heart of
the rich southern West Virginia
coal fields—but forty-aeven were
known to have escaped.
At 6:30 p. m. the crew broke
through a heavy rock fall near the
m | :ion where the blast occurred.
About sixty men had been working
in passageways close to that sec-
tion.
Future Farmers
Of Graham Win .
Contest Awards
The Graham chapter of the FFA
won three first places and one sec-
ond place in four events entered
in competition with two hundred
Future Farmers from Jacksboro,
Woodson, Olney, Graford, Perrin and
Throckmorton in contests held at
the Municipal Auditorium here
Thursday.
Wooden cups were given to the
first and second place winners in
each contest. The Graham chapter
placed first in public speaking, first
year chapter conducting, and ad-
vanced chapter conducting. Jack
McCoy placed second in news writ-
ing.
The following are members of the
first year chapter conducting team
of the Graham chapter: Bobby Ash-
ley, president; Bill Boase, vice-
president; Billy Heighten, secretary;
Clark Smith, reporter; Smitty
Lundy, parliamentarian; Robert But-
ler, treasurer; John Ragg, farm
watch dog; George Strickland and
Arthur Lee Shahan, candidates; and
Jack Bates and J. Pitcock, conduc-
tors. •
Members of the Graham advanced
chapter conducting team included
the following: Kenneth Hoffman,
president; Don Martin, vice-presi-
dent; G- B. Johnson, secretary;
Leonard Blakney, treasurer; Hoyle
Speaks, reporter; Eugene George,
parliamentarian; Robert Long, farm
watch dog; Buck Holder and T. H.
Wheat, conductors, and Robert But-
ler and George Strickland, candi-
dates.
Throckmorton took second place
in public speaking. Jacksboro won
first""plate in news writing, and
Olney, with no competition, won
first place in one-het demonstration.
An OB Belt Leader contest will
be held January 18 at Breckenridge.
In these contests first place winners
will be permitted to enter the State
Leadership contests at Huntsville
in June.
Engage Enemy
On Russian Soil
Raymond Salvati, vice-president
of the company, said, "There seems
to be no excuse for the men (in
that section) not being alive."
He Said, however, it might take
ten hours to reach them.
Passageways ahead of the rocki
fall, the company reported, appeared
to be relatively free of debris.
G. J. Stollings, general manager
•f the company, previously had said,
‘We’re hopeful that possibly fifty or
sixty can be found alive.”
But veteran miners — who have
witnessed many of these dlsarters
—feared all or most of the men had
perished.
“It looks bad,” said Carl J. Dicke-
son, one of the recue workers, on
a trip from the shaft. He added: "I
don’t think there’s much chance."
i The blast centered about a mile
/and a quarter back in a corridor
'that leads from the main shaft,
which is perpendicular. Cause of
the explosion has not been deter-
MOSCOW, Jan. II.—Fighting w
deported near three Russian border
towns Thursday night, one of which
in located near the strategic Mur-
mansk Railway, 75 miles inside the
Soviet frontier.
The broadcast, which quoted a
communique from Leningrad mili-
tary headquarters also told of an
artillery duel on the Karelian Isth-
mus, but made no specific mention
of fighting elsewhere on Finnish
soil.
The three Russian towns mention-
ed by the broadcast, in locating sec-
tors where reconnoitering activity
and infantry engagements occurred
Repola, Ukhta and Petroxa-
were ]
ivodsk.
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Repola to 180 miles north of Lake
Ladoga and twenty miles inside the
Russian frontier. Finnish sources
previously had reported fighting on
the Soviet side of the border in this
region. Ukhta is 100 miles due
north of Repola, also in Russia.
(Petrosavodsk is located on the
Murmansk Railway, east of Lake
Ladoga and seventy-five miles In-
side the Soviet border.)
CONCERT
PLAYED
BY SCHOOL
BAND
The Graham High School Band,
mined, although state and United 1 under the direction of J. G. Smith,
States mine officials rushed here to
make an investigation.
Scores of miners and relatives of
the entombed men gathered near the
shaft opening and stood in a cold
drizzle, watching gloomily as the
eight rescue crew.) changed shifts
every thirty minutes. Each time a
crew came up, mine ofieiali said •
king good t Lyle
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presented a program of band music
at the Memorial Auditorium Thurs-
day night, assisted by the -High
School Choral Club, directed by Miss
Mildred Hodges.
A varied program of marches,
overtures, fox trots and other music
was played.
Members of the Graham Rotary
Club today noon heard an address
by Fred Arnold of Graham and a
music program by Miss iMozelle
Meissner and Miss Mary Frances
Bradford of Bryson.
Mr. Arnold gave an interesting
talk on the subject "What the His-
tory Books Say," and his address
denlt with the manner in which dif-
ferent nations through the ages
have weathered depressions.
He quoted from Roman history
showing that ,m those days similar
governmental problems of unem-
ployment and relief faced the gov-
ernment at times necessitating radi-
cal steps to cope with the situation.
After giving some interesting his-
tory parallels he declared: “In hard
times the people usually rise up
and demand that the government do
something about it, and the govern-
ment usually does.”
He summed up the question by
declaring that "there ia nothing
new about the problem—all we need
is the answer.”
1. T. Gilmer presided today in
absence of F. E. Douglas, who is
kept at home with an attack of the
flu.
Extended Paving Program For
Graham On Long-Time Payments
Is Considered By City Council
Border Patrol
Takes To Skates
On Frozen Lake
Scout Leaders Of
Graham Deliver
So. Bend Charter
Leaders of the Graham Boy 8cout
district made formal delivery of
charter and conducted investiture
services for the newly formed scout
troop number 101 at South Bend
Thursday night. .
Members of the Graham council
making the trip were Charles Atkin-
son, chairman, R. C. Wood, camp-
ing and activities chairman, M. W.
Larmour, district commissioner. They
were accompauined by Frank Kidd
of Worth Ranch, field scout execu-
tive.
Tprclve boys of South Bend partic-
ipated in the charter delivery and
service, in which fathers of the boys
participated. Scoutmaster of the
new troop is Jim Weldon and Hew-
itt Green is assistant. Troop com-
mitteemen are J. W. Weldon, chair-
man, G. Warren, Walter Bullard, G.
Adkins and Alton Thompson. Meet-
ings will be held each Thursday at
the high school.
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Strong Demand
At Auction For
Quality Stock
A strong demand for quality
steers and heifers, with demand
steady for all classes of stock, was
shown at the Thursday sale of the
Graham Livestock Auction here.
Prices were steady and up and vol-
ume showed increase over -last week.
Francis Miller of Graham sold
choice lot of 5 head of high quality
jersey heifers and whiteface steers.
J. C. Hawkins of Graham sold lot
of quality white face heifers. I. E.
Mercer of Olney sold one1 white face
bull calf at $65.50 and other stock.
Largest consignors included r C. L.
Darnell, 15 head of stock, Pete Kin-
derson of Jacksboro, Blackie Shahan
Of Graham, 12 good calves, J. Bur-
gess, 13 head of white face steers.
L. E. McCleskey of South Bend,
good white face steers, H. J. John-
son of Elbert, mixed load, J. H.
NEUCHATEL, Switzerland, Jan.
11.—Soldiers on skates petroled a
section of the F'rench and Swiss
boundary line on a frozen lake
Thursday.
Lsa Brenota Lake in the Jure
Mountains froze during the night
and tn the morning was filled with
several hundred French and Swiss
skaters who ..merrily ignored the
midlake froptier.
Border officers sent foot soldiers
to separate the skaters but they
slipped and slid so much and the
skaters made such a joke of it all
that the troops were recalled.
FYench and Swiss officers con
ferred and then marked the bound
Crum of Jacksboro, load of mixed
In addition to the South Bend j stock, Elizabeth Deats of Graham,
troop the Graham district also in-
cludes troop 92, sponsored by the
Methodist Church; troop 93, spon-
sored by the Baptist Church; troop
94, sponsored by the Presbyterian
Church; troop 96, sponsored by the
American Legion; and troop 98,
sponsored by the First Christian
Church. Plans are under way for
formation of troops at Loving, Bry-
son, Joan and Jermyn. The First
Methodist Church also sponsors the
Cub Pack for boys under scout age.
ary line with barrels.
Skating patrols of twenty armed
soldiers were created on each side
with instructions to. keep all skater:
|on their own side of the barrel fron-
I tier and to break up all attempts at
I conversation.
* j The patrols will be on duty day
and night.
Golden Eggs
the goose that laid the
Mercer and
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Jamei Atchley
Graham Thure-
, (An Editorial)
We have heard all our lives about
golden eggs.
Texas has it. It is the oil industry. And just how many
golden eggs this industry has laid in Texas and is still furnish-
ing day by day make an interesting story, especially at this time
when everybody is trying to load off everybody’s tax burden
onto the oil industry.
The Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association of Texas,
in a series of ads now appearing in Texas newspapers is fur-
nishing information intensely interesting to every citizen of this
Lone Star State.
One of the ads appearing this month has a map of Texas
showing that oil and gas are produced in 147 counties and that
98 additional counties are receiving the benefits of leasing and
exploration activities.
Thus in 245 of Texas’ 254 counties, business government,
tax collector, wage earner, farmer and rancher receive their
part of the oil man’s expenditures every month of the year.
In fact oil is actually being produced or men of the oil in-
dustry are spending money in exploration efforts in all except
ten of the counties in this big State. Attention is called to the
fact that even the dry holes, (52,000 drilled to date at a cost of
a billion dollars), contributed their share of employment and
wide distribution of money. Last year land owners received
fifty billion dollars in lease rentals and bonuses alone. And
that’s a whale of a lot of money furnished to the land owners
by one industry.
Shall we kill such an industry with over-taxation? Will
we run such investors out of the State by indiscreet taxation
treatment?
In many of the counties of this State where oil is a major
factor, local government receives as much as 90 per cent of its
total tax revenue from the oil business.
The State collects 45*^ of its tax money (exclusive of the
gasoline tax) from the oil man. In 1988, it is shown this was
thirty-two million dollars* i
Twenty years ago, this association points out, there were
only 80 counties out of the 254 producing oil.
And “Oil is a year-round cash crop for every section of
Taxas.”.
The oil industry has kept thousands of men. women and
little children fed and clothed in Texas during recent years de-
spite the unfair treatment from tax sources. It has provided
modern schools, better salaries for teachers, better equipment,
adequate roads and other facilities in scores of Texas communi-
It has kept millions of dollars circulating and provided
additional income for mitlions of our citizens.
hat would this community, and hundreds of other com-
mqRlUas be without oil?
w'e kill the goose that lays the goMtt egg?
white face cattle.
H. N. Orr of Jean, A. Epps of
Jacksboro, horses, Etrnest Heighten
of Graham, Bill Simms, B. Parrott
of Woodson, O. K. Burgess of
Throckmorton, J. Brashears of Gra-
ham, Clifford Ashley of Graham, J.
O. Reed of Pickwick, C. Ballard of
Olney, F. E. Foster of Throckmor-
ton, W. Kunkel of Olney, A. M. Mar-
tin' of EliaeviUe, J. R. Wright of
Ivan, Carl Smith of Bryson, W. J.
Lawrence of Boonville, Don Parrott
of Woodson and other consignors of
tnttk and' trailer loads.
John Young, Jr., purchased one
lot of quality white face calves, J.
T. Martin bought a load of white
face cattle, and Texas Packing Com-
pany of Graham took loads of hogs
and cattle. O. H. Parrott of Wood-
son took two white face heifers at
$35.00 each.
Other active buyers included C. L.
Hill, Don Parrott of Woodson, E. E.
Harrell, T. McWhorter, Oscar Col-
let. G. Smith, Grover Hayes of Gra-
ham, R. Shepard of Graham, Frank
Mason, H. O. Minkley, T. E. Favei
of Olney, buying quality steers,
Copeland Brothers of Antelope, load
of mixed cattle, C. Ashley of Gra-
ham, J. Casey, J. Richardson, qual-
ity steers and other stock, Z. Wil-
liamson of Graham,) D. M. Timmons,
H. Denman of Breckenridge, load
of mixed cattle, and other purchas-
ers of small lots.
Army Recruiting
Officer To Be In
Grakam Saturday
The army recruiting officer from
Breckenridge will be in Graham
Saturday, according tjp information
received from Leonard E. Holder,
Breckenridge.
His letter reads: The army re
cruiting officer from Breckenridge
Texas, will be in Graham Saturday.
January 13, from 10 to 12 o’clock.
He will be in an army truck in
front of the post office. Many va
cancies now exist in the regulai
army, including air corps for high
school graduates.”
Possibilities of an extended pro-
gram to provide practically the en-
tire city with paved streets at low
cost and longtime payments to prop-
erty owners were discussed by City
Council in session Thursday night.
Mayor P. M. Nicolett today an-
nounced that city officials are
Studying details of an extended pav-
ing program by which property own-
ers of Graham may pay for paving
in yearly payments of from six to
ten years. The proposal has been
approved by the council, provided
that financing can be secured loaal-
ty and that .enough property own-
ers show a desire to participate in
the program. ' •
Heretofore, property owners se-
curing pavement under the city*e
WPA project have had to pay in
full, either at time of application
or at the completion of the work.
Under the proposed method of pav-
ing, payment could be made in small
yearly installments, with from six
to ten years allowed to complete
payment.
financing of the method has not
been fully decided upon and details
remain to be worked out before the
plan can be presented in any definite
form.
The method suggested would pro-
vide that property owners within
any block desiring to pave that
block could present a signed petition
to the council. Petition would ho
in the form of a mechanics lien
note for street improvement
ment, to be paid over a period
years. Number of years would
pend upon the amount of pa;
yearly.
“If the plan can be financed lo-
cally, as we feel it can, we me »
reason why the entire city cans
be paved in its entirety at km
cost and on more liberal termmite
owners than at any time in its^Ntfk
tory,” Mayor Nicalatt Stated.
Paving of the same type as' that
now being laid has in the pa it coot
two or three timet as much as that
laid under the city’s WPA project.
The mayor and council hoot as-
pressed a desire to hear opinion
from property owners ronceraiog
the proposal before taking fiaal
action on it.
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Breckenridge And
Grakam Basketeers
Will Play Tonigkt
Graham High “A” and “B" bos
ketball teams will meet teams from
Breckenridge tonight at the High
School Gymnasium in two gasaas,
the first of which will begin at 6:90,
Coach Pat Clifford has announced.
The first game will be played be-
tween the Graham “B” team, coach-
ed by Nelson Rosa, and the Brack-
en ridge “B” team. The Graham
"A” team will engage the Brackea
ridge “A” team in the second gaase
of the evening.
GIRLS TEAMS HAVE
PRACTICE GAMES
The girls of the Senior class and
the members of the Homemaking
Club had a practice game of volley
ball during the noon hour Thursday.
Although the Senior girls won, the
Homrmaking Club girls made a good
showing and hope to have a winning
team in the tournament between the
club girls which ia to be held dur-
ing February.
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Coal Skortage
Brings Suffering
To Berlin People
BERLIN, Jan. 'll.—Widespread
suffering eras reported in Berlin
Thursday as the result of a coal
shortage during a severe cold wave.
One death was reported.
The official ration of coal hr fifty
small bricks a week fdr each House-
hold, but many perrons had been an-
able to get their allotment before
the supply was exhausted.
Supplies of coal have been falling
approximately with the temperature.
Canal boats which deliver a large
proportion of the capital’s fuel are
frosen in ports of origin or icebound
along the way
A man about 66 was found froaen
to death on the street Thursday, the
first reported victim of a cold wave
In eleven year*. The mercury drop-
per to four degrees below aero In
the capital.
Undaunted by the cold, some peo-
ple stood in liner before the frooty
windows of candy shops which sp-
aced new supplies of
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Trout, H. I. Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 114, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1940, newspaper, January 12, 1940; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1116214/m1/1/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.