The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1939 Page: 1 of 12
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VOLUME SIXTY-FOUR
NUMBER SEVENTHS*.
CHRISTMAS SEASON TO BE OPENED WITH GAY PROGRAM
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Oidwt Newspaper Published In Northwest Texas. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 16, 1«7«. With Malice Toward None, With Chanty Per AB
GRAHAM. TEXAS. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1939
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Colorful Parade To Be
S Staged By Santa Claus
The First Methodist Church
Here Thursday Afternoon
of Graham
Tues
orth
p to
sited
prizes will be
in
wife end
last
Contract Is Let
For New Rural
office,
Electric Line
Season Thursday
sited
iting
- Vernon has won four games, lost
Teachers Dec 25
proj-
Cham-
Radio Broadcasts
Prove Aid In
Obtaining Jobs
TO ENTER HOSPITAL
Mr. and Mrs Mel Burnett spent
Welle
to
to
ng*
ior-
the
hie
' Margaret Speaks, celebrated sing-
er of concert and radio, who will be
enough men
the drive in
the
and
and
one
will offer an opportunity for many
to see the new and attractive arti-
cles available for gifts and provide
Scenes
Mills,
The
will-be
persons who catch
lucky recipients.
as- is needed,
information con-
may be obtained
at the Young
Raymon Thompson will go to (Fort
Worth tomorrow to enter St. Jos-
eph’s Hospital for an operation.
of the Natural
and Buckeye
the
had
be in three
size of store
hunting and visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Lawton Burnett, at Sonora, Texas.
Willis, president; Ixirraine Knox,
vice president; Mildred Knox, set re
tary; Ruth Jane Knox, treasurer;
and Darlene Frizzell, scribe.
and
she
med
ous change in the window arrange-
ment at 6:30 Thursday evening, this
change to constitute an error of
some kind. The person presenting
the most accurate list of these er-
rors will receive the first prise of
$15 in the treasure hunt, rteeond
$7.50, and third $2.50.
The Graham High School orehee
Bowers,
G. A.
Glenn
were finished.
After her graduation she eame to
New York to continue more serious
study of musie, working in musical
Dr. R. F. Edwards was confined
to his home Monday and Tuesday
betouae of illness.
A Crippled Children’s Clinic will
be held in Wichita Falls on Thurs-
day, December 7, by the Wichita
Falls Area of the State Department
of Public Welfare, according to in-
formation received here by Jack C.
Miller, of the Young County Wel-
fare office. The Clinic, to be held
at the First Methodist Church, Tenth
and Travis streets, will begin at 8
B. L. Colwell of Mineral
was in Graham Tuesday to
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TO ATTEND BAPTIST
CONVENTION AT AUSTIN
NOTICE!
Texas State Employment Service
resig- ,
unable tra has been invited to play Thurs-
, day evening as an added feature of
Day program. It
provide
Any
cerning
from Mr. Miller
County Welfare office.
Amercia stands firm in a world that resounds with
the clamor and conflict of warring nations. We have much
to be thankful for. Let us, on this Day of Thanksgiving,
re-affirm our truly American belief in Peace and the ways
of Peace. Let us determine to steer a straight course
through the rocks of disaster that are marking the path of
much of the rest of the world, Let us count our blessings,
and so counting, cement them into a concrete example to the
world that man can progress and live happily without
strife, and suffering, and war.
ing of gift lists.
Plans are being made to give
away two or more turkeys during
the Hospitality
is probable that
released and the
them will be the
of
drive
of people
help since'
raised that
gall of Washington. D. C., Mrs.
Marvin McCloskey of Graham, Mrs.
Troy Ikard of Archer City, and Miss
'Ruth Stegall of Graham; four grand-
children; one brother, John Stegall
of Farmington, Tenn., and two sis-
ters, Mrs. Sallie Coleman of Dick-
son, Tenn., and Mrs. Nettie Haggard
of Merced, California.
The Morrison Funeral Home will
be in -dharge of funeral arrange-
ments.
S. D. Stegall, 69, passed away
early this morning at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Marvin McCles-
key, on Virginia street. Mr. Stegall,
who had been ill for several months,
was brought here a few days ago
from his home northeast of Graham.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed this morning, pend-
ing word from two sons, Glynn
and Frank Stegall of Washington,
D. C. Glynn Stegall, secretary to
Senator Morris Sheppard, left here
the first of the week to go to Tex-
arkana
at his
pected
Louise
at the
in Austin Thursday, Friday, and
solo. At about this
There will be present workers from
the Crippled Children’s Division who
will interview parents of the crip-
pled children during the day, and
where help is needed in the care of
such children, applications for hos-
pitalisation may be obtained. Staff
memherv of the Crinnled V
“Are We Thankful?’’ will be the
topic for the discourse to be deliv-
ered by Rev. John W. Reaves, pas-
tor of the First Christian Church, at
the union Thanksgiving service to
be held this evening at 7:30 o’clock
at the. First Methodist Church.
Special music for the occasion has
been arranged by the choir, directed
by C. A. Russell. Mrs. H. M. Tebay
will sing a solo, and a special num-
ber will be sung by the choir.
A cordial invitation is dxtended
to everyone to join in this annual
gathering of neighbors for the ob
servance of Thanksgiving. This will
be the first opportunity for many
to hear a sermon by Rev. Reaves,
who came here just a few months
ago as pastor of the First Christian
Church.
Oak Street Baptist Church
represented by Rev. and Mrs.
Stevenson, Johnnie Barrett,
Barrett, and Wesley Taylor
B.T.U. convention to be held
dren’s Division will conduct the
Clinic.
Tha purpose of the Clinic is two-
fold: that of discovering crippled
children and that of checking the
condition of children who may have
already had some hospitalization.
Hospitalization is provided for men-
tally normal children under 31 years
of age whose parents are unable to
such care
additional
the clinic
four and tied one this season, and,
while not one of the top-ranking
teams, has tied the conference lead-
ing Childress team.
The Steers came out of their
game with i Electra last Friday night
considerably' bruised and battered,
but they will probably be able to
give their usual hard fight in the
game with Vernon.
Other district 2-AA games sched-
uled for Thursday afternoon are:
I Childress at Electra for the cham-
pionship of the district; Olney at
The Graham Steers will go to
Vernon Thursday for their last game
of the season with the Vernon team
Thursday afternoon.
dent Roosevelt; “Let My People
Live,” a picture showing how the
colored people are fighting tubercu-
losis; ‘Ohio,
Bridge, Rock
Falls”
TJie rural schools are observing
November 30 and December 1 as
Thanksgiving holidays.
- *■ I- ■ .
they mov-
1906. In
Methodist
members of the Crippled * _ ^painted gou'As, okra _------
Division of the State Department of J burs, devils claws, pine burs/etc.
Education and physicians from Miss Elaine Davis, a teacher in
Wichita Falls and members of the i the Ovalo schools in Taylor county,
medical staff of the Crippled Chil- i discussed in a very interesting man-
ner methods in, teaching Choral
Reading. Mimeographed sheets of
interesting poems to be taught were
passed out to those present.
Mrs. Ruby Faye Dennis, chair-
man of the group, presided over the
meeting. Sixteen rural teachers and
h number from the schools in Gra-
ham were in attendance. The next
meeting will be January 13, 1910.
The place of the meeting and the
program will be announced later.
Steers To Play
Last Ga«e Of
GIRL 8COUT1 MEET TUESDAY
■Troop Three, Girl Scouts, spon-
sored by Miss Maylene Kiger, met
Tuesday afternoon. Plana for Christ-
mas were mad*, after which Christ-
mas carols were practiced under the
F direction of Mies Ruby Range.
in the 1940, Bom in Columbus, Ohio, of a well-
referendum known family of musicians, Margar-
Slaughter,' et. was educated in public school and
_____1 Ohio State
Her singing career be-
Meeting Held
By Classroom
Charities To Be
Held Wednesday
Claimed By Death
Early Today
Drive For United
Graham next
Campfire Girls
To Be Hostesses
. For Week-end Trip
Big plan« ar£ being made by the
Tawanka Campfire groun for enter-
♦nining campfire girls from Wichita
Fills, Ringgold. El"c‘ra, and Iowa
Park at Fort Relknap during
Thanksgiving week end. The girls
snnoune- that visitors are invited
to attend the Friendship Council to
be held Friday evening at 7 o’clock.
The Tawanka group met Saturday
afternoon and elected new officers
The Fort Belknap Electric Co-op-
erative association Tuesday awarded
contract for construction of 174.9
miles of electric lines to Zontelli
Brothers, Ironton, Minn., at $89z
283.79, Roy Copeland, association
supervisor, announced.
The association recently was al-
lotted $131,000 by the REA. The line
will serve 418 customers in Young,
Archer and Throckmorton counties.
Joe E. Ward. Wichita Falls, is
est engineer.
Wichita Falls .
Plans Clinic For
American bom and bred. Her fam-
ily, on both sides of the house, has
been in this country since before the
Revolution. Her voice was trained
in this country and she never has
If you produced cotton in 1939, had any foreign tutelage.
Margaret Speaks
Received Musical
Training In U. S
after spending several days
father’s bedside. He was ex-
to arrive about noon today.
Stegall was well known
throughout the county as a citizen
of sterling character and a good
neighbor. He was bom on August
30, 1870, in Farmington, Tenn., and
came to Texas in 1894, settling in
Navarro county. He was married
to Miss Emma Guinn and
ed to Young county in
early life he joined the
Church.
He is survived by his
Interesting Films
Being Shown In
Rural Schools
you are eligible to vote
cotton marketing quota
December 9, George . c.
chairman of the state Agricultural was graduated from
Conservation Association committee, University.
1 announced at a state committee gan at the age of three when she
meeting this week. Slaughter point- stood up at a church entertainment
ed to the instructions for holding and rang
marketing quota referendums which age she started her piano lessons,
set out that landlords,- tenants and At seven she sat on top of the piano
sharecroppers are all eligible to vote (and sang I
if they produced cotton in 1939.
“They are not only eligible to the soloist in a Michigan summer jt jg now possible for unemployed
vote but are urged to vote,” Slaugh-, colony church. persons with outstanding qualifies
ter declared. ‘The important thing During her University days Mar- , tion to he interviewed on these pro
ia to get as many of the eligible
voters as possible to the polls, so
the results will be really represen-
tative of the cotton farmers' wishes.
“Any cotton farmer who fails to
vote on cotton marketing quotas ia
not as interested in his own business
as he should be. The outcome of
the referendum means a lot to indi-
woman, and child in
is invited to come to
Thursday, December
?, lor the big Christmas party offi
dally opening the holiday season.
Santa Claus will be guest of bon-
for the day, and will bring wits*
him a big parade that will thrr
4>oth- old and young. Planned espe-
cially for the delight of the children,
the 55 units of the parade, will be
gay, colorful; and amusing. The
parade will be staged at 3:30 o’eloek,
according to an announcement made
today.
Preceding the parade the regular
Thursday Hospitality Day program
will be held at 1 o’clock, the hour
being changed because of the Christ-
mas program.
Graham’s streets in the business
district will be decorated, and the
Christmas lights will be turned on
for the first time Thursday eve-
ning.
The feature of Thursday evening’s
program will be the window decora-
tion contest, which will be jwdgwi
by an out-of-town committee. A
total of $30 in prizes has been of-
fered for the best decorated win-
dows, the judging
divisions according
and window.
An additional $25
awarded in the Treasure Hunt. For
the Treasure Hunt each merehnnt
entered in the window contest will
chairman
board, reported that no
been held to take care
in Graham who needed
1937, and that the money
year had all been spent on medicine,
groceries, and clothing. A careful
study had been made, said Mr. John-
‘ son, of the needs for the next two
' years and due to the poor crop
year, there will be many calls on
the people of Graham to help people
who actually need it.
| The board of directors composed
'of A. C. Whittle, Rev. Dale Thorn.
A. A. Morrison, John Gammill, and
t Mr. Johnson, gave a detailed ac-
1 rimnt of how the dispensing of the
funds had been made in the past by
C. B. Hockaday and gave him a
vote of thanks for the careful and
wise disbursement of the United
Charities Fund in Graham. It has
been Mr. Hockaday’s policy to work
closely with the Red Cross, the
county and city, the relief
■ and the churches.
Mr. Hockaday offered his
nation stating he would be
to continue with this work. | “*>y evening as aa aauea reausre er
A partial list of those who will be . the program.
, called upon by Chairman Guthrie to] All business houses plan to stay
help in the drive are: Sam Harbison, open until 9 o’clock, holding open
,I_J, P MeKinley. _H. L. Thurston, B. ,bwM«r their friends duri^- the
’ L Kirtley, G. R Lay, P M. Nicolett.]evening. They wlil have their
Chas. Hmson, Wilburn Cough. Bill jCKristmas stocks on display, and tore
Loving. Carl Willis, Buddy Burlin-
game, Joe Friedel, N. D. Stovall.
Bill Green, Bill Johnson, C. P.
Hutchison, Jack Bettis, Bill Coates.
Bill Simpson, Herbert Crawford, I.
T. Gilmer, O. H. McKibben, Alan
Berry, George Fore, Bob Tylor, Earl
I Taylor, F. E. Douglas, W. D. Mc-
Farlane, J. J. Akin, Bud R»——
Lee Hunter, Ben Johnson,
Eriksen, Willard Mobley,
Haden, and E. C. Schultz.
These men will meet at the
ber of Commerce, Friday morning
at 10:00 o’clock when Rev. Guthrie
will explain the plans for the drive
and the uses that will be made of
the money when raised.
Union Thanksgiving Service
To Be Held This Evening At
Twelve hundred dollars is the goal
set by the board of directors of the
United Charities
day when plans were made for a
drive on Wednesday, December 6
Rev. S. C. Guthrie, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, has been
selected as general chairman of
committee to raise the funds,
he plans to use
women to make
day.
Bill Johnson,
Every Tueaday evening 6:05 p. m
to 6:30 through the co-operation of
Station KWIFT, Wichita Falls. Tex-
as. a program known as "I Want a ________ _______.________
Job” is broadcast for the purpose I for the next term, including: Bobbie
of interviewing un-employed persons,
registered with the Texas State Em-
ployment Service in Wichita Falls,
le sat on top of tha piano . Through efforts of the personnel
...J her Uncle Oley Speaks’ [ of the Texas State Employmen’
| "Sylvia.” Five years later she was servjre offic jn Graham, Texas
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The classroom teachers enjoyed a
very interesting program Saturday,
November 25, at the new high school
auditorium in Graham. Mrs. Kate
Causseaux, supervisor of the Rural
Schools in Taylor county, pointed
out the numerous types of visual
aids that are available to teachers
other than the mechanical types, es-
pecially stressing the advantages of I
field trips. She displayed some very, Qua” h". Mineral Wells at Wichita
artistic work that was done by rur- ■ non<onference g,rae.
al pupils,, in her county, which con-1 ,
sisted of ornaments used for room |
decorations made of clusters of (f 3)f
Urged To Vote
On 1940 Quota
A very interesting visual educa-
tion program is being shown in the
rural schools during the two weeks
period beginning November 27 and
closing December 8. Films being
shown include: "Water Lure,” scenes
around Warm Springs, Ge., showing
the “little White Housa" at Preei- five children, Glynn and Frank Ste-
garet Speaks was director of the 1 grams. Necessary- arrangements of
Women’s Glee Club, sometimes con-1 course would have to be made
ducting in the absence of the maes-1 through the Graham office.
tro. She filled her first radio en- j On several occasions employers havr
gagements before her school days | called in as a result of these pro-
---- “-* grams and asked for the name of
some certain person interviewed on
these programs, and after a personal
interview these applicants in many
vidua 1 farmers as well as farmer i comedy, singing in churches and instance* have been given regular
(Ooatimied oa back page) 4 I (Ceatinnod en last page) or part time employment
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