Freeport Facts, The (Newspaper) - May 9, 1940, Freeport, Texas FREE FQ R T B PORT OF BEST NATURAL HARBOR ON THB Foot DEPTH AND 27 1913 MAY 1940 Work To Start On Six Residences For Dow Company 250 to 300 Men Now Employed By Austin Here Locations have been staked and construction is expected to get un der way here shortly on a half dozen residences for Dow Chemical it is learned as The Facts goes to The which will serve as homes for some of the chemical will be located in the same block in which the apartment house now under con struction is which is on Fourth street in the vicinity of the local golf course in West Tlie apartment which will house six is tak ing It will be a stucco and 300 men are now employed by the Austin Construc tion at the plant site on Free port where about a mile of the levee which will sur round the Dow site has been thrown up by several dragline More men will be added from time to time as the work progress and machinery and equipment has been arriving at various inter Rafters are being constructed on the building which will house the machine shop of the Austin and Dow and the office building which will provide quarters for of of the two firms is expected to be completed within two or three Sports Writer Well Known Here Drowns Tuesday Reeves Henley Covered Brazoria Grid Tilts Reeves mainland sports editor of the Galveston well known to many Freeport Bra County football fans and through his coverage of county gridiron contests and the conduction of his Mainland Sports died at 1 Tuesday shortly after he was rescued from the gulf at Galveston by life Efforts to revive the young writer on the beach and in John Sealy hospital were al though witnesses said he was still struggling when the guards reached was swimming with his roommate and two nurses at the time of the tragedy which resulted when the party ventured out in the gulf too Election Returns Are Broadcast For First Time Here Election returns were broadcast in Freeport for the first time Sat Announcements were made from The Facts office at var intervals as the returns were received from the various boxes over the tabulated and to tals The broadcast over the sound of the Gulf Radio Electric was provided through the co operation of the Freeport Phar Gulf Radio and Electric and The Freeport Brazoria Countys Most Complete Unofficial Election Returns of of Taxpayers Union Primary IS LOW BIDDER ON CANAL DREDGING WORK Gulf Pacific ing of New York was lowest of Bix bidders for a government con tract to dredge three reaches of the intracoastal canal between High Island and Port it found when bids were opened at the of Frank Bes district army engineer The bid was per cubic yard for dredging of the ap proximately cubic yards of or a total of The government estimate was per cubic Freeport Dramatic Club Will Present Play Here Friday Them is the sparkling new comedy in three acts which will be presented by the Freeport High School Dra matic Club at the high school au at two performances Fri day tomorrow afternoon and Net proceeds of the affair will be used to stage furniture for the Matinee performance starts at 2 with admission lOc and Admission is for the night per which begins at McLeod And Johnson Are Elected Saturday Brown in RunOff Brazoria County voters turned out in large numbers Saturday for the Tax Payers Union casting over 5300 almost the full strength of the countys power at the to set a Johnson was reelected McLeod was re elected commissioner of Precinct 1 and Homer Mays was return ed to tlie office of commissioner of Precinct 2 West Columbia pre Cleveland Davis and Frank Arrington led the county attorney race and will op pose each other in the runoff on May Alton Arnold was third and Dave Evans Carl Bolln of Alvin ran a great race for county but 40 votes short of securing a clear ma over his two Ethyl present and Gaines of Kerr defeated Gaines for the runoff by only four Probably the most popular can as far as her precinct was concerned was McLeod who received almost twice as many votes as her two opponents combined to easily win a majority in the Pre cinct 1 commissioner Joel Bryan finished second and Moffett Both of the latter candidates are from Always a popular candidate with county this race proved no exception for who only about 600 votes of re twice as many ballots as Lee Murray for In the commissioners race in Precinct 4 precinct present fell only about 16 votes of a majority over his three Brown of Sweeny was second and enters the runoff against Smith of Brazoria fin ished third and Hinkle of Hin kles Ferry was Elected without opposition for county offices were County Judge County Clerk Tax Ray District Clerk Miss Columbia c o B a to 8 Johnson 38 Lee Murray 81 51 56 COUNTY Davis 142 1 31 38 Arrington 109 Evans 61 Arnold 561 0 1 792 Bolln 3 1 Gaines 99 1 34 8 27 36 Kerr 1 McLeod 1 154157 10 41 370 Brigance i 369 Brown i 4 188 Smith j i 117 Hinkle j i 19 94 i Mays Grands taff 315 124 89 439 FIRST FHA LOAN FOR FREEPORT IS APPROVED News reached here Wednesday morning of the approval of Free ports first Federal Housing Ad ministration Fowler of who assisted in securing the receiving word of the np from FHA district head quarters In Houston by The loan will be made to Smith who will erect a rooni residence on West Fourth Plans For Bridge Across Canal At Surfside Revised Permit For Canal Bridge On Longs Bayou Road Asked Application has been made to engineer office at by the Highway Department Local Man Will Build Tourist Camp And Wharf Allan Plans Camp On Harbor Front former Freeport may or and a member of the local Bra zos River Pilots Is mak ing plans for the construction oC a tourist camp and the erection of a wharf with adjoining boat stalls on the Freeport side of the local harbor channel between Magnolia nnd Maple streets in West Allans plans call for either a frame with stucco or a frame with tile structure with modern and he intends to start Although the appli cation to the district engineer of fice at requests a permit for a wharf with adjoining boat stalls 854 feet long by 50 feet out from the shoreline at mean low he told The Facts Wednesday First Kingfish Of 1940 Season Is Caught Here Forth Worth Sports man Makes Catch Sunday On Siesta Brought to gaff here Sunday was the first to be caught this year on the Texas Coast and lifted the lid on 1940 deep sea Thrilling at the news of the first sportsmen throughout the state turned attention to details ol putting deepsea fishing equipment in first class shape and getting traveling in condition for trips to Gulf fishing The seasons 1 king was land ed by Carmichael of Fort Worth while fishing from the Sies ta of the Captain Carl fleet of deepsea fishing Carmichael used a feathered jig to catch the which was hauled in about 20 miles off Freeport at The first bonita of the season were caught from the an other Anglers on the Bocage brought in 18 bonita in addition to 100 snapper and two large And to cap off the most successful day of the year at the the Dolphin docked with 50 the first to be brought into Freeport this Anglers who fished from the Sies ta with Carmichael were Whit and Other boats which went to the banks caught red snapper in spite choppy water Speak At A Grady chairman of the State Highway has ac the invitation of Jimmy Phillips of Angleton and will be uest speaker at the Junior Cham jer of Commerce luncheon sched uled for Angleton on May Head of Highway Speakers Are Commission Will Announced For Canal Opening Roy Miller To He Principal Speaker Invitations Sent for War Department approval of I that he had asked for such plans for the bridge to be cations In his application to pro vide for future expansion and that this Included the entire length of ils properly on the Ho plans to build a smaller and ukl to it as time goes The permit will be Issued on May 14 providing there Is no ob from the standpoint of na Brazoria County Well Is Deepest Texas Producer Well At Chocolate Bayou Comes In Mon day At Feet Glenn H No 1 Andrau in the Chocolate Bayou which was brought in Monday and established a record tor deepest producing j oil well in is still Latest r ports say the flow was j about 300 barrels of oil In 24 hours through a choke with about barrels being distillate and the remainder brackish water Producing from perforations at well first came in built over the canal on the Velasco side of Freeport har which will serve or Velaseo Original plans called for the con struction of the crossing at J about n quarter of a mile north of the ferry now serving the bench and the use of the route followed by the old road to years The revised plans locate the bridge at about the site of the of a mile north of the harbor and the present road will remain Uie route to the The highway department is also asking Uie engineer office for a permit to build a bridge across the waterway on the Bayou road west of the Bernard in Matagorda Jimmie Patterson and County Sur veyor Adriance Freeport polled 663 of which Hardman received 636 votes for Justice of the Peace Masterson 649 for president of the Tax Payers Union Ste wart for secretarytreasurer of Tax Payers Union Hays 80 and Schuster 7 for Montgomery was elected Jus tice of the Peace at re 331 votes to 61 for Lee and 9 for Stanger was elected Demo cratic precinct Countys 40 Votes Go To Garner At Convention Tuesday John Garner was the choice of delegates to the county convention held Tuesday at Angleton for the Democratic nom for Considerable discussion followed the presenting of two one of which indorsed Garner and other After a dis cussion of about an hour and a Roy Miller of Corpus ac tive vice president of the Intra Canal will be the principal speaker at tile opening celebration which will be held at Freeport between 2 and 4 oclock on the of Satur May and four other Texans will make brie talks at the cele bration Invitations to attend the event have been sent jut by both the Brazoria County Development As sociation nnd district army engi be a and ceremonies will start at oclock in addition to Mr Mil ler will be John of Craig Cullinan and Lewis Mims ol and K A large number of as well ns persons from out of the slate are being invited to attend the celebration Julian chief of the United Suites corps of army is among those who have been sent Both and the Longs Bayou rOad Will IIP movable type with timber trestle approaches and constructed in such a manner to provide a clear 100 feet wide when the barge is drawn buck out of canal Applications will be granted in these cases May provided im protest made the standpoint of Freeport Opens Softball Season With Victory Brazoria And West Columbia Also Win Giris Praise At Pasadena West Columbia and got off to flying starts Tuesday night when the Brazoria County Softball season was opened with contests In With both teams playing In mid season by far best gume of was reeled off at port where Manager 13 H Rogers Tarpons staged a ninth nl rally to nose out O Smiths BOX SCORE ON PAGE 8 A i Sweeny ten fell John before Uie 011 flowing an estimated 15 barrels ol oil per Increasing to 20 bur On Page Eight ACTIVE HERE GET LOOT VALUED AT In a and in a marching the High School Bund was In by of Manager George Badges at a by i and thr American at The section o the canal between dina Hal in day to be first division Galveston and month com Houston Drowns In Bast r op Visitors in town Sunday night ap were either planning on entering the carpenter business the easy or else the used which seemed to have just as much it still stands thai someone lifted approximately Saturday worth of carpenters tools from the car of carpenter The body ol H of 1622 lormer employe ol the Texas who re tired January 1 was found in Ras trop near about 3 Saturday by par lies who had bien searching Ueath appar Leave Today On 400 Mile Trip to Boost Fishing at Freeport Al of Gollott operators of a local deepsea fishing and Walter left Freeport this morn ing by car on a tour of around 350 to 400 miles to advertise fishing at the mouth of the The sportsmen will visit a large number of towns in around a doz en counties surrounding Brazoria They took along ing material which will be distrib employed by the Austin Company who has rooms at the V fleld in front oi which the car was parked at the lime Laler the box In which the tools were along with a pair of which were also were found In the cedars near tin Stauffer Chemical plant I ner over Uie President by a vote of 25 to Delegates from Alvin and two or three small precincts opposed the Garner five votes were cast for Garner The five Freeport dele gates included C precinct chairman C Chilcoat and McFarland county presided and Ben Caiman was elected and served as All county delegates were elected arid others appointed to repre sent the county at the stale con vention at Waco 011 May who had a on the bayou went there lor a fishing trip He told nearby that m was to and went to get his friends ol the were That was Ihr last linn he was seen alive Early Saturday morning boa I was seen flouting in and became alarmed have fallen same night The carburetor ol his car parked in front of the S K Perry residence on First was found missing Monday morning Whitney has rooms at the Per ry residence Austin Official inspects Work Here Beginners Classes In Band to Start i In of halt hour concerts i put on at thi stadium by 1 the Lunds In the j critics commended bund highly on ol and ability One truism was the lack of Holh reed anil were iii on then balance Featured dm tin concert by Free port were the famous Kimar which one i said a in salary for Mr unit Anchors A played during the ol Die bands tin anchor A telescope formation A member ol the Chamber of Commerce bund and m them to be of Jalves lon rr four days tins summer In July The week will Ix us The bond will be advertised in all The band will a concert at high school Thurs May at The public LS invited to They will feature a number of novelties as well as concert lips West Columbia entry ing the sensation on the mound proved too much for tlie lutler team Lar son and Joy on the The Html score was 18 to could muster but five hits off the of while Columbia collected M Manager Bob Wrights Continued On Four AMBROISE DAVID TO BE BURIED I TODAY a native of Louisian nnd n resident of Freeport for pas 13 years where he has I followed the died at haw the 3 oclock Tuesday morning ut his home on West First following an illness o several Born in Lafayette on December 1873 David was 67 years old at the time of his He was the father of eight six boys and two He established residence in Freeport Judging In Spring Garden Contest Is say God man who but God save the man who get caught F Austin lor Dow Chemical Company lion work visited Wednesday and made a of JCIT Bryan announced week he will sturt his beginners class in band instruction soon No one j Itl County above a sophomore in school will be accepted Students will be Preliminary judging in the Bra taken as low as the low 4th Tim j zona County spring con undo wetk with 1 and II of Use will be tlie beginners lor Miter of tlu two Ail children When a housewife buys a the progress being made at the Dow roast she gets 29 cents worth of i plant site in company wilh meat and pays 11 cents in hidden construction should yel in touch with MJ Bryan before me will tx hunted in size and Instrumentation One dollar out of every four paid for rent represents taxes ol some Angleton experiment K Boston of and Mor vocational agriculture teacher ot West the winners will be an next week final ing will tollow services were held at the his son ut 1007 West Broad street at Fa ther J J Coffey Burial will be ut today un der the direction of Freeport Fu neral Home Survivors include hts David six and J and two Lewis and A TRANSFERS Recent transfers that have been made in the past week include Guest of who has moved to Morris of moved to Cole has ed to These transfers made by
