Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 182, Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Graham Daily Reporter
They All Read It — Therefore A First Class Advertising Medium
VOLUME «.
In Broadcast On Possum Kingdom Dam
$2,548,755.39 Deposits
Meet Here
new
I tic league track and field meet
I Olney Saturday easily, taking
and
Olney’s 24 andGardenhires At
won the ward
about *11,400,000,000.
get of
showed a total of deposits subject
cational Director of the station,, •cl/’’meet1,with1 ? , L°Vi"K *1V'n
which is owned by Amon G. Carter, • “nd Eliasville, with 15 point. each, I clubs
and affiliated with the Star Tele-|tied for. ’eC.°.nd\ . . I
.ream and then were driven to the «'*h scores .n the class. En
In a session of parliament which *° check> *1,086,577.58.
Tri-State Meet
The Graham National Bank state-
decided
to create the new republic
to Murmansk.
a
BIG QUAKE RECORDED
intestinal flu.
HOSPITAL NOTES
rec-
Dr.
Bob Shelton Buys
Brownfield News
Annie L«ee • wiarsnaii, ana 18 a>iifir __ . . _ m 1 w ■** i •
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Marshall ,m*™d * Je“ T‘ G'b80n’ In Explosion
I nt rnkan. October 21, 1888, and came to Young ___
today
and took charge of the News
Holdover aidermen whose terms
i bring smiles.
Members of the Bicycle Club willWEATHER
MARRIAGE LICENSER
WEST TEXAS: Cloody
jungle will escape, Deaton said.
men Grantham and Oonner.
the Gra-
Daily Re-
•>PEN FORUM
WILL BE HELD
the project, and
now three months
Work was start-
All work under
R. Swal-
Orvil H.
Waggon-
Graham track men won the class
A senior Young County Interscholas-
rural penthalon Wilson of
was first with 17 points
of Hunt and Andrew of
for second with 16 points.
overvtln*
by Trout
other er-
commtttav
did hundreds of thousands of dollars
in damage to property and were
still rising toayy.
The city’s gas supply was cut off
still rising today.
Graham voters will go to the polls
tomorrow to vote on a mayor and
two aidermen for two year terma.
Mayor P. M. Nieolett has an-
nounced for re-election for
This
which
Polish Documents
Claimed False
The boy, Jack Burfe,
Clyde Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Zearl Williamson
are the parents of a little son bom
Sunday at the Graham hospital.
Wilma Lou Price underwent an
appendectomy at the Graham hos-
pital this morning.
Morrison and R. J. McCloud.
C. B. Hockaday will nerve as
manager of the election and R. D.
•numerators who divulge informs- be doesn’t count either. at the Liberty Theatre,
tion given in the census are liable | On the night of Monday, April 8,1 The hike will begin at 11 o'clock
A public forum on local taxation
will be held at the Markley School
House
April
ducted
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 1 —
Fore, Position No. One, for two-
year term, and R. L. Schlittler,
Position No. Two, for two-year tana.
Nieolett is completing his first
term as mayor. He had for i»e»<y
served as aiderman. Schlittler ia
finishing his first term and Fere
designated
and all
School axe
with 41 i, west
■ land
points. ! rillo, Austin. San Antonio. Mineral termed “
school. In-1 Wells, Waco, Tyler, Houston and security,”
.—,,--------,----, | Officials in charge said the big
Distance: 18 feet 5* inches. I quake was 8,000 to 11,000 miles
I.. — — U.. n Wilrdm ' a a . .
Mile Relay—Won by Graham
(Parsley, Privitt, G. Wilde, Carter).
Won by default and set class B
ord of 3:48.8.
Mullins, Ofoey, second;
rojatle, thirdf Potts, Ol-
IL Time: 28.4. ”
, Dash—Won by Parsley,
second;
Russia Creates
New Republic
The temperature climbed to the
record point of 96 degrees in Gra-
ham Sunday, according to Miss Leta
Black, record keeper for the U. S.
Weather Bureau in Graham.
It was by far the hottest day of
the year and many residents of Gra-
ham pulled their electric fans out of
storage, threw open windows
left off coats for the day .
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gardenhire
returned Sunday from Dallas after
attending a Tri-State meeting on
March 28-89-30, held tn the Adolph-
us Hotel for all salesmen and wives
of the Business Men’s Assurance
Co. The Southern Round Table dis-
cussions were given by representa-
tives from Texas, Oklahoma and
Arkansas.
Services Conducted
This Afternoon For
Mrs. Laura E. Gibson
Mayor And Two Aidermen On Ticket In
City Election To Be Held Here Tuesday
Graham Outclasses
Opponents In Track
and Field Meet
won from Finland was
‘a bulwark of peace and
protecting Leningrad,
Dies To Publish
Communists’ Names
Bicycle Club to
Peruns are drad or alive, accord- H Hike Saturday
<r to eonsna as nt March 81 A *
assets, including cash in vault, U.S.
I bonds, stocks, securities and accept-
ance totaling *696.245.46, or total re-
I sources of *1,251,468.53. It showed
a total of *1,020,185.88 in deposits.
The two banks together showed *
total of *7,848,755-19 resources, and
I combined deposit- total *2,106,763.
leitroyed 1 Flood Causes
iere last ,
! Big Damage In
Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON, April I. — Dr.
Uninvited
Methodist
embraces 107 Texas counties, 37 Ok- ' r* m’
dahoma counties and part of Arkan- r*e ' '
yas, with a total population pft 3,-. "*£’
It operates on 570 kilo- . -
Graham; Lane, Graham.
Elkins, Graham, third. Time: 56.2. |
880-Yard Run—Won by J. Wilde, !
Graham; 'Elkins, Graham, second;
(no other places). Time: 2:20.9.
Mile Run—Won by Privitt, Gra-
ham; Ratcliff, Graham, second;
Schmidt, Olney, third. Time: 5:06.5. |
120-Yard High Hurdles—Won byw|1(r .he ran back into the fire
<1. Wilde, Graham; Burton, Olney,a puppy,
second; Creel, Newcastle, third; Rat->
cliff, Graham, fourth. Time: 17.2. J
220-Yard Low Hurdles—Won by i
G. Wilde. Grahpm; Collings, Olney. |
viawaco, ccvwru V4> uraie uit iirw republic ■ — —---------- —,—
__ , from Fortin the northwest bordering Finland, ■men^ hame date showed quick
A senior events was George Wilde ! Worth, Wichita Palls, Dallas. Ama-' the
of Graham, taking 2114
In class B senior high ...
gleside took first with 64 points, other cities in Texas and the South- Murmansk and the Arctic rail line
Eliasville was second
Crockett third with 28, Loving fourth
with 11 and Bunger fifty with 31.
In the
Ingleside
and Lee
T^ue tied
Class A senior summary:
100-Yard Dash—Won by Carter,
Graham; Creel, Newcastle, second;
Mnllins, Ohiey, third; Potts,- Olney,
fourth. Time: 10.8.
Mr. Shelton ha. been national ad- l°un* ‘n_,W7 Her h“gban!,.died
MOSCOW, April 1.—Announce-
ment of the creating of a new re-
puMu,—.iic mmi wiwim me, (soviet
Union—was made here Sunday. eluding Cash in
Russia also prepared to increase de- and warrants, a
Graham got a lot of publicity
again by radio broadcast, Sunday
morning, when, as an invited guest
of Station KGKO on the publishers
hour at 9:45 a. m., H. I. Trout,
publisher of the Graham Daily Re-
porter and Graham Leader, gave
much information about the progress
and latest developments in building
of Possum Kingdom dam, the
state park and the lake and their j
proximity to Graham.
After the broadcast Mr. and Mrs. ^U1 Po'"u
Trout were guests at luncheon <xf e2*c,gt e" ' ’
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Hailing, Edu-1 Birne> of °!ne.y
Plans are now being made by
members of the Graham Gas Model
Club for the annual gas model meet,
which will be held here Sunday, May
26.
Nearly 100 planes were entered in
the first annual meet which was
held here last summer and gas mod-
el fans were present from over the
southwest. Number of entries this
year is expected^ to exceed and pos-
sibly double last year’s.
Trophies and cash awards will be
given this year, as last year, for
) and individuals making the
| best records in different classes.
Entries are expected from B
Census Enumerators To Start Counting
Noses In Graham Tuesday Morning
PARIS, April 1.—Charges that
Germans were issuing alleged Pol-
ish documents attributing war ma-
chinations to the United States be-
cause President Roosevelt refused to
be an “accomplice” in a Hitler peace
offensive were made here Sunday by
semi-official French sources.
A Polish spokesman states that
a communique was being prepared
which would show that documents
Germans claim to have discovered
recently were ‘‘fakes.’’
Z WASHINGTON, April 1.—Fours
persons died in a fire that
a big apartment house
night and several others
jured.
The fire was so near the White
House that it awakened President
Roosevelt who could witness the con-
flagration from his window .
Three persons died in the fire Flood waters of Susquehana river
and another died of injuries after
being removed to a hotel. Seven
others were critically burned. *
One woman was burned to death
to
gram, and then were driven to the
new, high powered transmitter sta-
tion, Southeast of Arlington, for In-,
spection of the station and its mod-1
em equipment. This station cost
close to *150,000 has two antena
towers at the transmitting unit that
are 340 feet high. About sixty per-
sons are in the employ of KGKO
which now has a potential listening
audience each day of more than
The principal speakers included I3400,000. KGKO is a member of
W. I. Grant, president, from Kan->® National Broadcasting Compe-
tes City and J. C Higdon, vice “y’s B1“« Network and reaches 498,-
president, also from Kansas City, |«5 radio homes ip Texas, 186,970
A. W. Hogue, Texas manager of,' h> Oklahoma, 740 in Arkansas, a
the Dallas office, presided at the total of 681,485 radio families m the, Dash_Won by Carter,
meeting, assisted by managers from KGK0 d,y-^ primary_
Oklahoma and Arkansas. Preceed- ;r
ing the convention a school was hMEft
for all salesmen from the
states ^■7881.290.
Entertainment furnished for The, eydes, with power of 5,000 watts
ladies included a luncheon in the ' d»ytime and 1,000 watts night time.
Mural room of the Baker Hotel fol-! The »t»tion has given punlicity
lowed by a bridge tournament in to Graham practically every week
the afternoon. recently in quoting from
A tour of the city was arranged ham Leader and Graham
for those ladies not familiar with Porte11-
Dallas and surroundings. j The information given
- - _ - - ’ _A—W----
iGraham Is Given Wide Publicity
98 Here Sun.
at 7:30 on the evening of
12. The forum will be con-
by Commissioner Tom Rice,
is one of a series of forums
have been held on various
questions recently. Several county
G. Wilde. Graham; Collings, Olney. I PHILADlEU’HIA. April L—The
second; Cook, Graham, thlfd; Elkins, University Of Pennsylvania seismo-
Graham, fourth. . Time: 27,5. .graph today recorded a terrific
Broad Jump—Won by Creel, New- earthquake that lasted two and a half
castle; Thrasher, Olney, second; Col- hours and of 80 per cent intensity,
lings, ‘Olney, third; Lane, Graham,]
fourth. 1
High Jump—Won by G. Wilde, away, probably in the Pacific ocean.Graham; Creel, Newcastle, second; •
Privitt, Newcastle, third; Thrasher, ROOSEVELT’S TRIP CANf ELLEIX
Olney, fourth. Height: 6 feet.
Pole Vault—Won by Parsley, Gra-
in Graham, as in cities all over^ Nat Gay Price, Evelyn
the nation, the 16th decennial cen-
sus will begin Tuesday tnorning
when enumerator* start counting
and questioning the 132 million or
more people in th® nation.
Enumerators from Young county
attended school held in Wichita Falls
last week and received instructions
for taking the census.
The average number of questions Jean.
to be naked each individual is 15.7, c E D^ton, district superinten-' of Graham,
according to information from dent to complete the count
Waahington. The total number of within two weeks. ’. ..... B
84, many of whieh. such ia the de,pite th{, lon<er
ten- F¥lls Times ten years. Inr. ana
house number atEiwt, road, city, gug jigt an(J greater scope of ques-1 Mrs. Shelton moved to Brownfield
etc., may be filled in by the enum- Uoni In addition th<1 ^i.r1 today --- -• — „--
orator. population count with its attendant there.
y Many of the quesiione will ^be lnformation there will he a supple- Brownfield w a growing plains
*yakod only of heads of familiM, mentary housing census. town, a county teat and in the edge
iieh as rent and valne of nomas. | There are quirks in the census, of large and growing oil field.
n a special teat census made last nPceilBary because of governmental! —
fall in Indiana, each person spent procedure atld tape, that will
from eight to fifteen minutes with
the enumerator.
m Although enumerators in past cen-
*iauses have experienced little trouble ing to the census, as of March 31. A
In getting answers and have reeeiv- man alive at 12:01 a. m. Sunday will
•d cooperation readily, there is a be counted In the census, even though ___________________ ____ _ _____ _____
penalty for refusal to answer ques- he to dead by Tuesday when Ute make a “bicycle hike” next Saturday ' ito and Jeeaie Faye Tankersley of
tions. Refusal to answer may b« enumerator eomos. Just so with a morning, It was decided at a meet- Dallas, Texas; Hasel and Opal
punished by a fine of *500 Census child bom at 12:02 a. m. Sunday— ing of the Chrtt Saturday morning Smith, Bryan, Texas; Baby Harriett!
Adair, Gunter, Texas.
!dent Roosevelt, today told the presi-
dent he had better not attempt the
proposed trip to Warm Springs, Ga.,
until he further recuperates from, officials will be present, and the
what was declared to be a case of public is cordially invited to attend.
IN KANSAS CITY
Paul Greer left Saturday
Mrs. J. W. Corbett underwent an night for Kansas City where he will
appendectomy at the hospital this spend two weeks in study of new
morning. i developments in dentistry.
The convention closed with a high Nation Sunday morning
note of enthusiasm brought out by ”»» gathered in a special study of
President W. I. Grant in his address th® Possum Kingdom project and
on ‘’Forging Ahead in 1940.” Fol- the new park and their possibilities
lowing this -address a dinner dance ®nd rvcent interviews directly with
was held on the roof garden of the einKjnj‘e" “ „the, Pr°j®ct and iB‘
Adolphus Hotel Saturday gening.
to a *200 fine and or two years every transient In the nation will be Saturday morning from the Fair were also here attending the foner-,
iafbrtoonment. | listed.. Not a hotel, tourist camp, Park. Members will be aceompa- al: Roes. Jhn and Clyde Gibson,1
Mrs. Shelton was formerly Miss, » i■ ? ' Breckenridge Bov
' least of Killeen, Bell county, Texas. OFCCKenriagC DOy
In response to a call from the
Federal Comptroller of the Currency
both banks in Graham have issued
statements reflecting stable business
conditions both in the banks as well
as for the community as a whole.
The (First National Bank state-
- ment shows (as of close\of business
public—the 22th within the^ Soviet! March ag, totaI quick aBM(U>
vault, U. S. bond»
> ---- --------- „ total of *86.1,606X8
fense appropriations with UNO bud-|,nd totaj a„et(1 of ,1,297486.86. It
WASHINGTON. April 1.—Rep.
I Dies, chairman of the house com-
Imittiw on un-American activities,
in an address prepared for radio,
■ stated last night that he intended to
go to every length to obtain and
I publish names of members of the
, Communist party
1 He said he would also take simi-
lar action against the
American Bund and all
ganizations which our
finds to be subservise.”
ing the Communist party as a&>
I agency for “perpetration of misde-
i meanors and high crimes.” Dies
A great storage tank of gasoline stated that the party should be ree-
was toppled over and spilled out to ognixed not as another political
cover the flooded river, making a party but as a “foreign conspir-
criticaty dangerous situation. acy.”
Police wept on guard immediately | --------------------
to prevent any'smoking or lighting Simday School Night
(if matches anywhere m the area. I .
- j At Methodist Church
A large crowd heard
M. Neal speak on “The
Guest” at the First
Church this morning at
Many complimentary remarks about
the humorous and interesting fash-
ion in which Rev. Neal presents his
message have been made. At serv-
ices Sunday evening he took his
audience on a fox chase, thus bring-
ing out the points which he wished
to emphasize.
This evening has been
as Sunday School night
members of the Sunday
especially urged to be present.
Services will continue throughout
I the week at ten o’clock in the morn-
ing and at 7:^0 in the evening. The
public is» cordially invited to attend.Services were conducted this sft-
emon at 3 o’clock at the First Bap-
tist Church for Mrs. Laura E. Gib- i
son, 75, who died Sunday afternoon I
fat her home, 506 Virginia. Rev.
Robert G. (Bob) Shelton of Wich-*J. D. Thom conducted the services,
ita Falls has purchased the Brown-1 .. „„ j . ,
ri.l,i 1- G,b"on w*’ born ln Lauder-
dale county, Mississippi, October 16,
1864, and came to Texas in 1869
1 and settled on Noton Crek, 3 miles
*nt VII
"eluded the following: —
A remarkable record has been
made in building
the contractors are
ahead of schedule,
ed June L 1938.
the general contract is expected to
be completed by July 1940. There
will remain the installation of the
hydraulic and electrical equipment
by District forces or under separ- ham; Ratcliff, Graham, second; (no|Eoga McIntyre, physician to Presi-
ate contract, to be determined by other places). Height: 9 feet,
action of the Brazos River District' Discus—Won by Parsley, Graham;
Board of Directors. I Burton, Olney, second; J. Wilde, Gra-
The Possum Kingdom Dam will ham, third; Ratcliff, Graham,
cost 86,500,000. The main section fourth. Distance: 87 feet, 1 inch,
of the dam to 1,740 feet, or more j Shot Put—Won by G. Wilde, Gra-
than a quarter of a mile long. It is I ham; J. Wilde, Graham, second;
150 feet high above the bed of the] Lane, Graham, third. Distance: 40
stream, or equal in height to about t feet 7 inches.
> (Continued on page three)
GRAHAM. TEXAS. MONDAY. APRIL 1, 1948. ...
--— —— ______ WIJMtfKK 1B2.
KZm* i??nk Statements Show
v—.... a... ucnn i»i.,v>w>i Highway patrolmen here reported
This record time I vertising manager for the Wichita 1’10’-Afttr.uthe Jnveetigation of a freak accident
Mr end de,th her husband Mrs. Gibson jn Breckenridge Sunday in which
moved to Graham where she has , geven-yrar-old boy was seriously
since lived. She had been a faith- burried in the explosion of an un-
ful member of the Baptist chureh uged ,torage tank,
aince early life. I underground tank had form-
She is survived by three sons and been used in a service station
four daughters: E. L. Gibson, Big 1b Breckenridge which is not oper-
ating, Texas; A. C. Gibson. Roa- atad now 7^ boy, Jack Burfe.
well. New Mexico; Mrs. Bates Tank- wlth , companion, Clyde Smith,
ereley, Dallas, Texas; Mrs. Ruth nMiead a,, lld
on a pipe pro
Smith. Bryan, Trxre; Georg. W.. feting from th. tank He strack a
Gibson, Seattle, Washington; Mrs. I match »- 1—l lnto k
Cecil Adair, Gunter. Texas; and The boy suffered third degree
Miss Eunice Gibson, Graham, Texas, bums, doctors reported and the
Grandchildren: Gerald, Marner -I sktew.)!, cracked tar th. evtJo-
low, Carlton Rhodes and
McKibben, Graham; Odelle
er^ Elven R. Stowe, and Joseph A.
Dunagan, Olney; Ethel M. Ingram
and Jesse W. Oatman, Loving! Mo- flrid Newa Brownfield, county
dena Davis and Allye Newell, Ellas- gpat of Terry county, southwest of
ville; Odessa M. Robertson and Ruf- Lubboek, it was announced Sunday,
us H.’ Helm, Newcastle; Georgia C. Mrg Hbe 1 ton was formerly Miss
j Robinson, Murray; Nannie D. Box. ! Anni, Marshall, snd to daugh-
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Apartment House Fire
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