MONDAY MARCH 16, 2020 Page 7 THE PADUCAH POST PADUCAH, TEXAS TEXAS gAS PRICES HIT LOWEST LEvEL IN MORE Cottle Co. History THAN A YEAR Taken From The Files Of The Paducah Post Coronavirus fears combined with price wars between leading oil June 1940 producers are sending gasoline prices across Texas to lows not The possibility that Paducah will secure a federal building during seen in more than a year. 1940 loomed as the Post Office Department made a survey to de - “Texas gas prices are at their cheapest point in more than a termine need of additional facilities here. year,” said Joshua Zuber, a spokesman for auto club AAA Texas. The survey was conducted by A.S. Page, post office inspector “Gas prices usually increase in the spring due to an increase in from Fort Worth, with assistane of Postmaster B.F. Hobson. Page demand and lower supply, but this year drivers could continue revealed that the building probably would house the post office to see lower prices amid concerns over the coronavirus and im - and other federal agencies such a the Farm Security Administra - pacts to global demand.” tion, U.S. Forest service, County Agriculture Agency and other The statewide gas average in Texas for a gallon of regular un - similar offices. leaded gasoline is is $2.01, according to the AAA Texas Weekend ~~~~~ Gas Watch. Fifty bowlers had qualified in the Paducah Bowling club’s first That’s 9 cents per gallon less than a week ago and 25 cents less annual tournament. than a year ago, according to AAA Texas. Rat Anderson held high score with 608 pins. Luther Mullins was The average price for a gallon of gas in the Austin area is cur - second with 533. Bill Barrett third with 525 and Cotton Anderson rently $1.99, a 10-cent decrease from a week ago and a 23-cent fourth with 524. drop from a year ago, AAA Texas said. Match play will get underway next week. There will be at least Of the major metropolitan areas surveyed in Texas, drivers in three flights. Midland are paying the most on average at $2.22 while drivers ~~~~~~ in Sherman are paying the least at $1.88 per gallon. The Lone Star school will be discontinued and students will at - The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded is tend Paducah schools next year, Miss Beatrix Cobb, county school $2.32, which is nine cents less than a week ago and 17 cents less superintendent, announced. than a year ago. L.D. Criswell was superintendent of the Lone Star school last The Texas statewide gas price average has not been this low year. Lone Star was a seven-grade school. since the middle of February 2019, Texas AAA said. ~~~~ A lack of agreement between Organization of the Petroleum Ex - Witn only one public official opposed for re-election, local poli - porting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC countries to cut pro - tics will hold little interest for King County voters this summer. duction along with concerns about coronavirus have caused J.P. Ratliff filed application to enter the race for county commis - crude oil prices to plunge, sending retail gas prices to new 2020 sioner of Precinct two, R.L. Hight, King county democratic chair - lows, according to oil industry analysts. man announced. Seeking re-election are George Humphreys, sheriff and tax assessor-collector; Ross K. Wide - man, county judge and school superintendent; R.B. Hailey, county and district clerk; R.S. Den - son, county treasurer; V.L. Morris, commissioner of precinct one; T.J. Sweeney, commissioner of precinct two; C.L. Dowding, commissioner of precinct three, and S.L. Graves, commissioner of precinct four. ~~~~~ All Cottle county rural schools have been ap - proved for standardization by the State Dept. of Education, according to announcement made by Beatrix Cobb, county school superintendent. Two schools rated perfect and a third was only one point short of perfect score. Broadmore and Moon were perfect while Chalk lacked one point. Five schools, Pleasant Hill, Hackberry, Chalk, Broadmore and Moon, this year became perma - nently standardized by virtue of having met stan - dardization requirements three successive years. Cee Vee and Ogden were standard this year. Val - ley View and Delwin are affiliated rural high schools and do not take the test. Valley View is a four-year affiliated high school and Delwin a two- year affiliated high school. ~~~~~~ Be comfortable...be cool...and join the fun at the Palace Theatre where your friends wil be attired in slacks! Here’s the plan...Manager R.W. Simpson will admit for only 15¢ everyone attired in slacks to see Tyrone Power and Dorothy Lamour in “Johnny Apollo” which is viewing for the last time at the Palace Theatre. But if you don’t wear slacks you’ll have to pay the customary two bits. If you want to have a swell time and see a great show, put on those slacks and make “Slack Night” a suc - cess.