The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1939 Page: 7 of 12
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TWE RRARAM LBADKR THU RS DAT, NOVEMBER M 1039
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| Philosophical
Classification
Of 1939 Loan
Cotton Available
All
THREE
WINDOW
Two Giddy Gal
of
Slow
Down Strike
j sity heads
■Jl Invitation
meets
Bessie Moreland, Miss BessieWheat Insurance
Offers To Sell
Policies Triple
Monday
a down
Mr
That Buried Gold
In KentuckyWHERE THEY LIKED QUIETUDE
Bobby:
sent dow
the
the
but a fine boy How
take that water to
and filth inside and
I expect they have
them ten years old.”
I don’t know that it is doing us
the least bit of gocd but Uncle Sam
my
to
me
Miss
friends
Worsham of Corpus
in Graham last week
Bud
visited
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Chandler of
Newcastle visited Miss Jewel Reyn-
olds Friday evening.
plants,
othr
Foley, teacher
School was a
Miss Gladys Norman of Bryson
was the guest of Mrs. Bill Yancy
Monday.
The Chryslt
immediately
J. C. Stevens of Henrietta v sited
in Graham last week end.
have cdntrnc’ed
for paying rent.
soul belongs
my wife—bit*
to do with as 1 rd ase.”
Quincy Corbett of Caddo was
Graham .Monday. .
Mrs. Charles Hamer of Rising Star
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
g**W. A, Thomas. ,
The two
and
rheumatism,
My old 'oman
side to side,.
E.
the
are
an-
the
the depository goes on the air to
assure the nearby Pt. Knox army
post that all is well. Recently, when
a storm disrupted communications,
planes started rooming overhead
within three minutes, and 400 com-
bat ears bearing 1,000 machine gun-
ners converged to protect the gold.
The new worn »
strike” is actually worse, j sit-dow
order* t‘V- clean one window at
York City's first parking ga-
within an office building—the
he said. "Alb I
s r ill of receipts
I figure that
to C d. my heart
my body belongs to
Virginia Frizzell
in Dallas Sunday.
H. S. Thomas of Newcastle was a
business visitor in Graham
three days.
long and two
largest one
country.
i Miss Jewell Reynolds visited
X Newcastle Sunday afternoon.
The window. 200
high, is
kind in
Last year 3,691
pol cies were in force.
“The increased use of wheat crop
insurance thv year certainly proves
its success." Charles Thomas, State
Agricultural Conservation Associa-
tion committeeman from Pampa, de-
clared
watched
surance
try he attacked it
easily defended than
the coast. It is said
67rr of all the gold
The gold itself tak”* up Tittle
room (a billion dollars* worth melt-
ed down would be about the size of
a man). It is two basements under-
ground in a bombproof vault with
walli two feet thick. Every win-
dow in the building itself is bullet-
proof and irongrilled. and the doors.
: "Say, mother, was baby
sent down from heaven?”
Mother: "Yea, Bobby."
Bobby: “They like to have it quiet —Homer Price in Marshall News
Miss Virginia Eichler spent the
week end with her parents at Bry-
son
| pled and dependent children. to the cause of labor in recent years I try need:
| There is ope function of social than anything ever done by any cap- i“,
security iiy, Austin that almost has • italist” to set labor back,
been lost sight of and which has re-1 “slow-down
ceived no publicity, and which has because it
the tendency to reduce social secur- warfare.”
i---------------- * ___ X
Mrs. Boyd Street is visiting in
U ort Worth.
and Mrs. Bert Bunnell went
to Fort Worth Sunday.
i Then, assuming the State
its obligation for other social
ity forms, now only in part met,
there will be another $5.000 000 for .. ,, .
teachers' retirement, the blind, crip- , popular, probably did more injury ! should learn that labor in this coun-
a favorable public opin-
ion, and that it can’t have that
when it essays such things as either
, . an strikes or slow - down
is similar to “undeclared ''trikes.— Fort Wayne (Ind.I News-
The slow down strike Sentinel.
^Mis» Helen Semasn attended the
Newcastle-Decatur game in New
castle Friday afternoon.
Labor leaders in Detrrtr who have
conceived the r.ew technique known
ase the “slowde'wn 'trike” seem to
be of the kind who never learn. The
sit-down strike, which is no longer
state govern- I busy over the
The figures are |UP jobs and placing
and
of
the
in the
visitor
during
Miss Folgy taught
“Many farmers $at by and
the operations of crop in-
last year, because they
sure it would work. And
mapy of them regret their refusal
to take out insurance. The drought- are built to resist dynamite. Hourly
got .them, but they were among the
first Tn ‘Tine this year."
cent. , buried
indemnity payments for 193!) more money than exists in any oth-
complete, Duke reports 2,353 er place in the world. The idea in
have been paid, totaling 1,-. burying it in the ground in an in-
bushels or the cash equiva- , hind state is that should this coun-
could be more
if located ,n>
this represents
in the world.
in a vault ‘ in Kentucky—W. J. Wilke was ill Monday.
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY DECEMBER 6-7
“BLONDIE TAKES A VACATION”
The Bumsteada take the whole nation on a roaring vacation
In the newest, best and funniest of their sensational string of
comedy hits!
AUSTIN.—Although the r
citizen, and for that matter the av-
erage legislator, is led to- beljev'
that the Texas State Government
is spending around $9,0n0,()0C a y/ar
on social security, due to the promi-
nence given to old age assistance
which receives this amount, actual-
ly the State receives and spends
I nearly $50,060,00<i annually for social
security.
This is eight times as much as was
spent for the entire
merit 30 years ago.
all on record ' here,
able at the lUoffice
Sheppard. Heading
employment Compensation
year the State collected
ployers in the form of
this purpose $22,000,000.TUESDAY. DECEMBER 5
HUMPHREY BOGART GALE PAGE - THE DEAD END KIDS
"CRIME SCfiOOL”
The thrilling inside story of schools of correction—that are
really schools of corruption—where kids are turnad into killers!
The “Dead End” Kids st their best!
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, December 8-9
FRED STONE - ROCHELLE HUDSON - RICHARD FISKE
KONGA, THE WILD STALLION
Thrill to spectacular thrills—heart stirring love!‘Konga, king
of stallions, leads his wild-horse herd in a frenzied stampede
against a ruthless enemy!
< Mr*. Floyd Cope, Mrs. W. G. Bort,
fcAd Mias Bessie Lou Bort visited
• in Caddo Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Weaver Cunning-
jjiam i.nd children of Fort Worth vis-
- ited in the home of Mr. Cunning-
I ham’s mother, Mrs. P. S. Phillips,
last week end. .
Miss Gladys
Throckmorton
in Graham and South Bend
the week end. J";„_ „ ,„UK,,V
d in Young county schools the pist
[| several years. ,
Number For 1939; ^or
I To Purchase Home
ra ge
Rockefeller Center garage—it take*,
a pair of Window cleaners more than
car go down the assembly
without being touched by any
r company,
closed its
had to de-
of employ-
labor had
imitate th»»
Communists
has never equaled (he atnount col-
lected.
While this is a stupendous -um,
only 15.0QO Texas emnl<
contributing to it. for th<
quires only firms having
more workers to pay the
Society Elects
Dr. Sandefer
end. f\e million bushels
Expected To Visit
Stovall Hot Well
<-d Facilities for classing the cotton
have now been completed and aj»-
: roved warehouses may immediate-
ly begin sending in their samples
direct, in accordance with the in-
structions they have received.
M. T. York of Hamlin and Martin ]ent of $5.15,724.
Middlebrook of Breckenridge were
in Graham on business Friday.
With nearly all
.1940 all-risk wheat
Jniulitid, E. R. Dukr
, Miss Hallie Mae Heighten spent
the week end with her parents, Mr.
: and Mrs. Ernest <Heighten, and re-
> turned to Decatur Baptist College
1 Sunday.
Mrs. Bernice Stevens, Mr.
warehoused, and
storage places which may be ap-
proved for the 1939 cotton loan
have been instructed how to forward
samples for classification for loan
purposes and the location of the
U. S. B-ard of Cotton Examiners
Many interesting visitors are
entertained by Mr. and Mrs.
C. Stovall and their staff at
.Stovall Hot Well, and they
looking forward with much
tiefipation to the arrival of
writer of the following note:
"My brother-in-law, his wife,
and my wife are needing (to my
mind) their annual bath and a
general cleaning out.
women are having aches
pains similar to
even may be that,
has to turn from
then when both hips give out
rests on her back. She weighs
120 and her sister about 150.”
After an inquiry about prices,
the note continues: "How long
should they stay there to get to
feel like 16 years old again? They
are 66 and 70, just giddy gqls.
Brother in-law lost his left arm
in ’34, is 76.
1 Tong will it
get the rust
outside free?
the Olney-Wichita Falls game in
Wichita Falls Friday evening. >
the
in
the
B.
loaders of that day as members.
It was revived during 1936, on the
occasion of the Texas Centennial,
and it seeks “to honor those who
have achieved for the good of hu-
manity or the state in these later
time*,”
Dr. Sandefer, a Texas educator
for half a century, and the president
of Hardin-STnmons for 31 years,
has been gravely ill for several
months. At his most recent pdbMc’
nppearance. to present diplomas to
She 1939 graduating class at the
June 1 cominenrement. he spoke or
behal' of plans to celebrate the H-
SU Golden Jubilee, or semi-eenten-
nial, in 1941.
Today, after a short automobile
trip around the campus drives, for
which he left his room at Hendrick
Memorial Hospital, he read a shower
o? greeting cards, sent from ah
alumni gathering of -H-SU-—exee wt
Washington. D. C.
Johnnie Mitchell, Leighton Steph
ens and Robert Titus of the Oak
Street Grocery, were in Weather-
ford Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Corbett attend-
ed the Graham- Electra game in
Electra Friday evening. 1
State Spends $50,000,000
Annually On Social Security:Mrs. H. K. Henschel and Miss’
Mattie Faye Cusenbary visited hr
ort Worth Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. E. R. Riggs and son, Johrf
and Mrs. T. J. Howell, Jr., spent th-
week end with Mr. and Mrs. Phil
Huey at their home near Cleburne.
workmen.
'of course.
plants and necessarily
prive innocent workers
ment. Some time, th£
ers around Detroit who
practices of European
ABILENE, Tex., Nov. 24.—Elec-
tion of Dr. J. D. Sandefer, veteran
president of Hardin-Simmcns Uni-
versity, to membership in the Philo- 1
sophical Society of Texas, was
nounced here today. Dr. L—-----•
H-SU’s beloved “prexy“ since 1909. I distributes commodities worth
is dean of senior college and univer- | $1,000,900.
" heads in the Southwest.
t to Dr. Sandefer to ac-
cept membership in th- society came
frrn> G. B. Dealey. president of the
Dallas News, who heads the society,
and Dr. C. S. Potts, dean of the
y? School of Law at Southern Metho-
dist University.
The organization is a revival of
Philosophical Society organized
1837, during the early days of
Texas republic, with Mireabeau
Lamar as president, anc} with
The commission keeps a force of
State1 hunting
in them me
and women, and no fees are charged
Surplus in Washington
At present Texas has on deposit
in Washington $40,000,000. a surplu-
accumulated there’ in^the Texas t-r
for unemployment compensation, and
it accumulated rapidly because the
must bp added at least $5,000,000 demand for- payments to unemployed
collected from a- tax :nh salaries I
-of employes for pensions, this be- 1
ing levied by the Federal Govern-
ment, but which is for Texas <
workers. <
The State’s eleemosynary insti- <
'tutions take an annual appropriation i
of $8,000,000, and the State’s old
| age assistance fund averages $9,000,-
There is still a skeleton re-
$ an-' lief commission, now a function of
Sandefer. | the public we lfare commission, that
about !
average C ity jobs for 376,000 persons in in-
dustrial enterprises and 515,000 in
agricultural pursuits. When 900,000
persons are placed in jobs it is
bound to have the effect of decreas-
| ing social security needs, it was rep
I resented by the commission and
these figures while evidently large,
are confirmed by the Comptroller'.-
Department.
SATURDAY NITE PREVUE—SUN.. MON DEC 2-3-4
BETTE DAVIS . GEORGE BRENT . MIRIAM HOPKINS
“THE OLD MAID”
For tho flr»t time, the screen lajv* bare a woman'* heart of
heart*—and find* there a story to thrill the heart of the world!
Th* Pulitzer prize-winning play starring the screen’* prize-winning
DULUTH, Minn—A Duluth man
has offered to sell bis body, upon
death, for $500 to make
payment on a home
"I've been working r.T.
applications for ! for small wages." be - aid
crop insurance
', state crop in-
'!) kurance supervisor reports 11.024
applications accepted, insuring the
N production of 5,423,852 bushels of
in wheat on 853.732 acres. Premium
w : payments -on this insHron^# totaled
11.129,403 bushels .the equwalent of
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sharp attended $712,379 In cash, he aaqL *
Nearly three times as many poli-
cies were taken out this year as
were signed last year,-. Ds't_ .-’’*4
with most policies covering 75 per
cent of production, the maximum of- —- —. .. „
fared, but with a few covering only ■ has sixteen billion dollars in gold
50 per
With
almost
cla ims
020.929
Miss Juanita McDonald, Miss
Ozelle Willis, and Mrs. H. L. Stub-
blefield went to Breckenridge Sunday
afternoon.
! Miss
Hinson. Miss Mary Clark. Miss Iona
Curtis.
and Mrs. Hugh Smith, Mrs. Blanche
Beech, Miss Evelyn Black, H. S.
! Ward, and C. C. Kirby, district
manager, attended the annual ban-
<l®< t of the Eastland District of
th.1 Southwestern Bell Telephone
■'Company Friday evening.
Mr and M r». €. Semaan wvnt to
Fort Worth Sunday.
Operators of more than eleven
'I the usand Texas wheat farms have
no fear of drought, pestilence or
1 other disasters in 1940 because they
>i knew they will harvest more than
of wheat come
are obtain
Comptroller 1
list is
un-1
n, and
last
1 from
em-
a tax
for
I. To
this
We Have All Fruit Cake
Ingredients At Low Prices.
BUY NOW!Lb.
cant
Texas
Pound
Pound
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Annl es. dozen
1 BULK
i DATES
Idaho Rural | /y | QC PLENTY MEAT |
Potatoes lvik.10 |BACK BONES & SPARE RIBS lb
cilery 2 --'‘•ISjNeck Bones Kf I SOUSE, lb. 23°
3 Large « QC
6 Small £ 0
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Qt 49c
45c
14 oz. ,.„1 pc
13
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Oranges 2«29*410‘
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BOK |Q
PORK CHOPS \T2bchs 7°.PORK STEAK — 16c
—SILVER TROUT 2 — 25c
- PIG BRAINS — 10cRAISINS
ANN PAGE 1 Pound 17c
PRESERVES 2 *- 29c
QUEEN ANN
MINCE MEAT^$1.00
2«.15eKirksey Market Specials
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PECANS
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TOMATOES 3w~20c
MAXWELL HOUSE or nf*C
EOLGERS, Per Pound
SUGAR 10 “ 53c
JEWEL ~
COMPOUND -"75c
DELTA
SYRUPKETCHUP 2
BUMBLE BEE
FLOUR 48
SUGAR
MILK
OLIVES s”
2t>. z 23‘
No. 2cans, 2 for.. 15c
(PUMPKIN 2 1^. 19c;
MACKEREL1'"'J5C
[BEANS n ,ONA nc
RED PITTED
CHERRIES
MORTON’S
cv^SALT 10^79c
I SOAP 6 P- 23c
EXCEL
CRACKERS 2 ^17c
; HUSKIES - SHREDDED WHEAT i r*C
KIX, Per Box 1 (J
2 Pound Pkg. 15c
4 Lb. Pkg. 29c
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The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1939, newspaper, November 30, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1506090/m1/7/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.