Winnsboro News (Newspaper) - October 20, 1955, Winnsboro, Texas Microfilm Service & Salj P. 0. Volume 48-Number 48 Serving Northeast Leading Produce Agricultural Section and Oil WOOD OCTOBER 20, 1988 TWO PAGES Tidewater Deep Test Confirmed An unofficial 12-hour test Sunday virtually confirmed I. M. Stocks Unit in the New Hope Field northeast of Winnsboro as the third successful Smackover well in the Flowing through 11. 64-inch the well produced 19G barrels of bS gravity during the 12-hour Daily rate would be 259 the company said Perforations were made between 12,120-206 Total gas volume for 2-1 hours is rated at 1,475,000 cubic feet with a recovery of 175 barrels per million cubic ratio is 5691 cubic feet per Flowing pressure was reported at 2,500 pounds per square inch and shut-in pressure at 3278 The test has been shut-in since Monday awaiting word from the Railroad Commission to begin official Although viewed at this time as a producer equal to the company's other two Smackover wells in the final assurance will come following ahout days the spokesman No other location has yet been staked but is expected Operators were dismantling derrick ami machinery from the Stocks well Dial Telephone System Begins LONG DISTANCE equipment in the new dial for Winnsboro U installed by K. D. This equipment will connect Winnsboro with the nation toll dialing the newest in long distance telephone Mt. Vernon Gin Burns Will Be Rebuilt Meek's Cotton Gin in Mount Vernon caught fire Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 and was completely In a telephone interview with the Wednesday he the fire started from an explosion of hydraulic A welder was working on the hydraulic pump which operates the cotton press and heat from his welding torch ignited the Meek said the gin was a complete but several trailers loaded with cotton near the gin j that caught fire were According to the owner the gin plant will be rebuilt before the next ginning Meek pointed out that since the cotion harvest was between 7o SO cent completed in the Vernon area that no attempt would be made to rebuild for this fall At 10 o'clock Tuesday Oct. the familiar voice of the telephone operator will disappear from the everyday life of for that date is act for changing our telephone system to T. division manager of Southwestern States Telephone Co. He said if everything goes according to after 10 o'clock everyone will have to use their dials for making either local or long distance In making dial Moore | pointed out a subscriber i will have to dial the for there will bo no operator here in Winnsboro to get the number for If one wishes to report n they should dial 1)125811, and if they need a policeman they will have to dial Winnsboro Fire Unci Cain said today that everyone should post these two near their phone so that they can find because in an emergency they might not be able to find their Moore said that people on lines may dial other subscribers on the same line by dialing 21 then the lust five digits of the then hang up ami give the party sufficient time to then raise your receiver and The new Winnsboro system Is on the new nation toll dialing system which cuts down on the time needed to place a long distance Moore He explained that by giving the long distance operator in Mount Pleasant a number you Fall Cover Crop Prospects Indicate Goal Will be Met NUMBER PLEASE will soon disappear from the Winnsboro telephone service as the operators are replaced with the dial The three operators in this picture arc to Mrs. Mrs. Lorene the newest operator on the local and Mrs. Louise the oldest operator in the They'll Have to Hunt - Operators TOWN TALK By G. M. J. SOIL CONSERVATION of the local office are getting to be the most industrious group around or they've decided to take life hard to decide in their latest move to keep up with the Jet they've taken to the air to check the progress ot the cover crop program in these Morris Bullock and have been flying around over Wood and Franklin Counties during the past several days checking up in general and report that signs are Freshly plowed fields are they and prospects are good that the whopping big cover crop goals set for this year will be t t t HARVEST STORY of year is due in next week's A farmer of the Winnsboro area is producing sweet potatoes at the rate of 700 bushels per acre from a 25-acre Watch for pictures and story in The News next Twenty pounds of all of which came from one are on display at The News t t t HARVEST TIME Deputy Tommy Reneau of the Wood County sheriff's department reports that everything has been quiet for several days at the sheriff's is working and when people are busy they don't have time to get into he You always save more at your Western nick up me Mrs. had a have to look up the number they when the dial system goes into said the operators at the local Southwestern States Telephone exchange when what they thought would be the biggest difference in telephone service after The operators said that no longer could people jus the phone and say or Mr. One operator said subscriber to put in a day for a person they but the caller dii who they lived next door The operator found the right party for Louise who first went to work in the Winnsboro telephone exchange in 1917, and has 17 years as an said that disaster was when the operators had the hardest She was working on the when a cyclone hit between Winnsboro and Newsome about 30 years This she rates as tie i k now her most hectic which was then the lype where the plugs dropped down from above when someone instead of a was with calls from p. wanting doctors and re weren't any doctors for they were all already in the disaster area and I just had to tell them 1 couldn't get help for them right Mrs. Jones said that when she first became an operator in 1917, the local exchange was owned by C. V. Later and after she married and moved away from Winnsboro he sold the exchange to Southwestern Hunting doctors and assistance for sick people or injured has always been one of the operators biggest A few years ago a man called central and told the operator he was having a heart attack and would the operator please find Page 8) Although it is too early to make an accurate soil conservation officials are optimistic Wood county reaching its 100,000 acre uoal in cover crops this This optimism is based on number of already being acres being prepared for planting and number of acres that have will be planted Another gauge to the number of acres will he planted is the scale of cover crop and winter Reports show these sales are running ahead of year's although many farmers harvested all or part of their seed from last year's Otho work unit conservationist for the Wood Soil Conservation said his office couldn't as yet say the goal would lie but an aerial survey made last Morris Bullock and Darwin revealed fields on nearly every farm were being or being ready for He that because of the potato of farm land are till these crops and planted until after the he some cover crops have already been planted and some fanners and are now oats | ere planted The weather of the last j Russell E. Hall Killed Tuesday In Truck Wreck j sci vices were held I Vv in the Concord Com- I l Baptist Church for Kussell i i M who was killed j j day when the truck i lie w as driving went out j t and rammed into n for f i on I Rev. R. L. Jack Todd assisted by j A. W. conducted Mhe Burial was in the j * rd j The accident occurred on the j highway about two miles from Mineola's city who lived at I was a. Wood lie two will also ' speed growth of and other crops that have been slow coming up because of hot w j It is t he expl j people to plant singlet a ry j and crimson and should be planted on a i j and moist seed j A check ot two local tii j of cover crop seed and I i Fei d and Seed and Farmers Oil revealed i sale of cover crop and ter pasture seeds are pace at both N distributor had made a between this and year's but they were in some other city Ulat was on the nation toll tho operator in could dial that without going through the lone distance operator in the Ho added that not all telephone systems have this system ns but it is fast and is now in most large telephone When the change over is Moore said that Arthur the City and several other people will be invited to witness the In n few after all tho are worked out of new the company will have open house at the new telephone He pointed out that if they had open house while the change over was being and something should go the workmen would not be able to make repairs as quickly because of the visitors inspecting the now When the dials are put in am the telephone office will employ peas i one woman both and three Mrs. Wilcox will be in charge of the business 11. L. Tipps will he senior exchange repairman and James Ileum will be A. J. is being transferred hero as central office Monro said that even I he operators werr now in Mount Pie the subscriber will still in the business office repairmen here In at a ither com la l su re big am j crops this many j was all h with I Work Beginning On School Plant For S. Franklin Construction will day morning on the Yam Inspection Law Buyers Say Tex new sweet potato inspection law passed by the last Legislature lias been labeled unreasonable and of no benefit to anyone in. the by five buyers at a meeting of the Directors of the Hast Texas in At this listening to the the directors passed a resolution urging Texas Agriculture Commissioner John C. White to drop his enforcement of the inspection and grading The five buyers were J. W. Warren and J. Penn of H. B. S. D. Carpenter and Glen Barrett of who has 51 in the potato business said the liw was most monstrous thing ever put on the yam The law requires that all commercial grades be inspected before they arc- shipped and they must be shipped in crate hs section two and one-half cents per 50 pound crate a id the crate and lid costs another 30 or 40 Current prices for No. l's are around 25, 50 cents for No. 2's and no price quoted for line law makes the unclassified yams It is ale of these that a grower usually depends upon to pay his harvesting Penn He added that the unclassified have its much food value as the higher grades and always provide low cost food for many Fast Texas They can be purchased for as little as 2 cents a pound through the winter In October because ol the shortage of temporarily allowed unclassified sweet potatoes to be shipped in but this bulk shipment will be halted Nov. Competition in the industry and a federal inspection service that can be does aii the regulating of quality that White's law purports to Last Texas buyers On lop of the buyers the buyers and grocers may be required to pay up to for a service that is Warren said a Van Zandt attorney been employed by a group of East Texas yam buyers to file a petition this week asking for a temporary injunction against the state inspection begin M South Franklin School District M. S. contractor for the job said The new building will have five a principal's office and music It will be a brick and tile The combination gym and auditorium Will he added to the building next according to present South Franklin is it combination of the Spring Place and New Hope school and the voters in the new district had earlier voted dollars in bonds to pay for tin's new centrally located said tlie Spring Place school building was being torn down and as much of the materials as could be salvaged from the building would be placed in the new The in the eight grades taught in the South Franklin school are now attending daises in the old New Hope After the new building is the New Hope building will be razea and the materials in it will be used in constructing the gym for the new Hewett a resident of the said all the work on the building would be done by local labor and he expected to have the building completed six months or With winter coming he we will no doubt be slowed by bad MISSIONARY CHURCHES SEND PRODUCE TO ORPHANS 7'he Wood County of will a truck of produce to the Or Home at Waxahachie on Nov. 1. The association is asking each church to bring their produce to the Coop building in later than Oct. 30. i n n hoi o and spent s life in Pine Mineola and A veteran of World War lie in and Hall was a member of Church and was a truck driver and include two Arthur Billy Kay and a Lanell 1 two Paul and of and three Audine Mrs. Nadine and Mrs. Stella Hawkins sales now were equalling or exceeding of last said the clovers and hairy vetch were the biggest but he was selling a lot of singlelary rye and rye He felt Dial cover crops would continue 1,0 be planted until Dec. even though many people started j though the sale of seeds j is equal or above last Gipe said that many farmers havo I saved some of their own ' and are not having to buy more than usual to larger lie said that a lot of and clovers were ha eve find the farmers stored | them for fall plant he are ing to buy their during liar vest season when they are cheap er and store them through the Coach Makes Changes In Red Raider Starters Some new faces will be neen in new positions when the Winnsboro Hod take on the Mount pleasant Tigers in Kuider stadium Friday Head coach John Trantham said night that be was going to alternate Gary Taylor at k with Boy Carter ami Meh in may moved to the admg is with the Trantham and may not be in action h relay Trantham Melvin as make a better the of the Willi the exception of Carter and sophomores and juniors are carrying the brunt of the load for the anil tho experience should return dividends during the coming sea Trantham said the bu tie and of the boys has been good The overall program is but We si ill have a way to he the three coaches and tho appreciate Die backing Die one of hardest hitting j and thinks he will be able to handle the fullback chorea if Turner is another newcomer to the starting is slated to bo a starting according to tho for Jim a senior Trantham will be sending an all sophomore line against the visiting Before last Friday night the Winnsboro and Mount Pleasant contest was being rated a toss-up neither team had tasted j team been receiving from the H v. i n f during the last Friday down Sulphur ID in n o on the strength of ibis r ted a a favorite i the Commerce in felt that the a the looked during f he and nis two and the high student and the band and pep have showed exceptional The probable starting for the tomorrow night will be Hose and Calvert at Bethune and Wilson at Bob Hamrick and McDowell at Presley at Carter or Taylor at Melvin Dowse or Taylor at and Turner or Hamrick as Another Winnsboro football team will action Tae junior high team entertains Pittsburg in Haider stadium and will be seeking their first win of the They lost to Gilmer last 34 7. Tuesday night the sixth and seventh grades of Memorial beat 34-7, for the win scored by a local team this a Charles McGinty ami Nolan ran those good he the will Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Wofford left Tuesday for a week's vacation trip through the dial operator here for information and long Ha added that will all of the old services and then some new ones with the dial Scout Fund Drive To Start in Town Tuesday Morning The Hoy Scout fund campaign will be opened with a on Oct. 2b, L. F. district finance campaign chairman The fund raising campaign here m Winnsboro will be coordinated with drives over Scout the and the said the quota for the Fast Texas Council which Mi Counties JIM All this money will bo used for scouting activities and expenses in t Governor Allan Shivers will bo on radio anil television asking to contribute to tho j Here in Winnsboro tho drive has been advertised on tho I and posters will bo j placed in the reminding people of the aro being to all local business houses in Lacy asking them to assist with the A meeting will be held before the breakfast to tho local workers into teams and | at the breakfast each team will ba a of lilJ the people in a j of Alter the break fad the team I will to work and contact everyone in providing them with a chance to contribute to this worthy Lacy hope to complete the drive in one but if funds are slow coming we will have to lake two or three Lacy Joann Honored By Journalism School Joanne of Mm. W. Copeland or was one of tho journalism recognized by the University of Texas School of Journalism at an honors Members uf Theta Sigma Pht women's journalism society were at a reception in the patio following the j Miss Copeland is the holder of ' the H. Scholarship in aUo wan recipient of I the Texas Daily Newspaper elation news internship on i & j an honor Summa Cum and Ampla Cum If you don't get our fore you we both Western
