The following article was published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Sunday, September 29, 1957:
Charles Vines
T&P Veteran
Dead At 73
Charles Vines, who helped bring dignity and civic responsibility to the labor movement in Big Spring, died in a hospital here at 4 a.m. Saturday.
Death came on the 73rd anniversary of his birth.
Mr. Vines had entered the hospital early Wednesday morning. Two years ago he had suffered a severe stroke from which, much by sheer determination, he had recovered his mobility and alertness.
Rosary will be said at the River Funeral Home at 8 p.m. today and the funeral mass will be conducted at the St. Thomas Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Monday by the Rev. Fr. Joseph Moore, OMI. Burial will be in the Catholic section of the City Cemetery.
Mr. Vines leaves his wife; two sons, James W. Vines, Big Spring, and J. Charles Vines, San Bernardino, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. K. R. (JoAnna) Price, West Lake, La.; Mrs. Dick (Katherine) Hatch, Aransas Pass, and Mrs. Barney (Leola) McCoy, Kansas City, Mo. He also leaves 14 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. One sister, Mrs. Evelyn Stout, Siper, La., also survives.
Pallbearers will be Charles Willbanks, John Quigley, Martin Dehlinger, Ed Settles, D. C. Pyle and Bernard Huchton.
Charlis Vines took his first job at the age of 8 in Nachitoches, La. where he was born Sept. 28, 1884. This was delivering bread for a Frenchman at 10 cents a day. By the time he was 11, he worked 12 hours a day in an oil mill for 40 cents.
Then he got a job drawing pay for what he loved to do - watching engines for the T&P which had just purchased the branch from Cypress to Nachitoches. That was in April of 1901 and four years later he went to Marshall as a fireman, but the yellow fever epidemic almost paralyzed railroading and he lost his place on the board. That brought him to Big Spring on Nov. 15, 1905. He took his examination for engineer on April 10, 1910, and flushed by his new success he was wed eight days later to Miss Annie Barry in the original Catholic Church here. (It was later that same year that it was razed to make way for the present St. Thomas building.)
In the forepart of his long and distinguished railroad career, firemen and engineers literally worked until they dropped. Thus he hailed the passage of the 16-hour law (no crewman could work more than 16 consecutive hours) as one of the greatest forward steps in railroad labor. As a fireman in his early career, he had to have a strong back for on one run he shovelled the entire contents of a coal car into the engine furnace. Near Monahans he was blown from an engine once when he went back to check the water level.
Although engineers frequently ran "blind" under skimpy orders which said simply to get through regardless, Mr. Vines never had an injury or collision. He had his share of close shaves, however.
In 1956 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen gave him his 50-year pen. Mr. Vines served three years as legislative representative for the engineers; 18 years as its secretary, 4 1/2 years as chief engineer. At the national convention in Cleveland in 1947 he was a leader in a group which succeeded in getting the union to adopt a non-Communist oath as a membership requirement.
Mr. Vines also had been a member of the Knights of Columbus council No. 1482 practically since its institution here and served as its grand knight and district deputy. He was active in the affairs of the St. Thomas Catholic Church.
He was among the re-organizers of the Salvation Army work here and led the labor division in the early stages of the Community Chest and its successor (the United Fund). For many years he handled the roll calls among the railroad workers for the Red Cross and was active in sale of U. S. War and Savings Bonds and in the Howard County Tuberculosis Association. He also had served as a Chamber of Commerce Labor Committee chairman.
The B. of L. E. presented him in 1950 with a certificate of exceptional loyalty, the only one the international group had ever awarded through the chapter here.
Charles Vines
T&P Veteran
Dead At 73
Charles Vines, who helped bring dignity and civic responsibility to the labor movement in Big Spring, died in a hospital here at 4 a.m. Saturday.
Death came on the 73rd anniversary of his birth.
Mr. Vines had entered the hospital early Wednesday morning. Two years ago he had suffered a severe stroke from which, much by sheer determination, he had recovered his mobility and alertness.
Rosary will be said at the River Funeral Home at 8 p.m. today and the funeral mass will be conducted at the St. Thomas Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Monday by the Rev. Fr. Joseph Moore, OMI. Burial will be in the Catholic section of the City Cemetery.
Mr. Vines leaves his wife; two sons, James W. Vines, Big Spring, and J. Charles Vines, San Bernardino, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. K. R. (JoAnna) Price, West Lake, La.; Mrs. Dick (Katherine) Hatch, Aransas Pass, and Mrs. Barney (Leola) McCoy, Kansas City, Mo. He also leaves 14 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. One sister, Mrs. Evelyn Stout, Siper, La., also survives.
Pallbearers will be Charles Willbanks, John Quigley, Martin Dehlinger, Ed Settles, D. C. Pyle and Bernard Huchton.
Charlis Vines took his first job at the age of 8 in Nachitoches, La. where he was born Sept. 28, 1884. This was delivering bread for a Frenchman at 10 cents a day. By the time he was 11, he worked 12 hours a day in an oil mill for 40 cents.
Then he got a job drawing pay for what he loved to do - watching engines for the T&P which had just purchased the branch from Cypress to Nachitoches. That was in April of 1901 and four years later he went to Marshall as a fireman, but the yellow fever epidemic almost paralyzed railroading and he lost his place on the board. That brought him to Big Spring on Nov. 15, 1905. He took his examination for engineer on April 10, 1910, and flushed by his new success he was wed eight days later to Miss Annie Barry in the original Catholic Church here. (It was later that same year that it was razed to make way for the present St. Thomas building.)
In the forepart of his long and distinguished railroad career, firemen and engineers literally worked until they dropped. Thus he hailed the passage of the 16-hour law (no crewman could work more than 16 consecutive hours) as one of the greatest forward steps in railroad labor. As a fireman in his early career, he had to have a strong back for on one run he shovelled the entire contents of a coal car into the engine furnace. Near Monahans he was blown from an engine once when he went back to check the water level.
Although engineers frequently ran "blind" under skimpy orders which said simply to get through regardless, Mr. Vines never had an injury or collision. He had his share of close shaves, however.
In 1956 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen gave him his 50-year pen. Mr. Vines served three years as legislative representative for the engineers; 18 years as its secretary, 4 1/2 years as chief engineer. At the national convention in Cleveland in 1947 he was a leader in a group which succeeded in getting the union to adopt a non-Communist oath as a membership requirement.
Mr. Vines also had been a member of the Knights of Columbus council No. 1482 practically since its institution here and served as its grand knight and district deputy. He was active in the affairs of the St. Thomas Catholic Church.
He was among the re-organizers of the Salvation Army work here and led the labor division in the early stages of the Community Chest and its successor (the United Fund). For many years he handled the roll calls among the railroad workers for the Red Cross and was active in sale of U. S. War and Savings Bonds and in the Howard County Tuberculosis Association. He also had served as a Chamber of Commerce Labor Committee chairman.
The B. of L. E. presented him in 1950 with a certificate of exceptional loyalty, the only one the international group had ever awarded through the chapter here.
The following article was published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Sunday, September 29, 1957:
Charles Vines
T&P Veteran
Dead At 73
Charles Vines, who helped bring dignity and civic responsibility to the labor movement in Big Spring, died in a hospital here at 4 a.m. Saturday.
Death came on the 73rd anniversary of his birth.
Mr. Vines had entered the hospital early Wednesday morning. Two years ago he had suffered a severe stroke from which, much by sheer determination, he had recovered his mobility and alertness.
Rosary will be said at the River Funeral Home at 8 p.m. today and the funeral mass will be conducted at the St. Thomas Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Monday by the Rev. Fr. Joseph Moore, OMI. Burial will be in the Catholic section of the City Cemetery.
Mr. Vines leaves his wife; two sons, James W. Vines, Big Spring, and J. Charles Vines, San Bernardino, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. K. R. (JoAnna) Price, West Lake, La.; Mrs. Dick (Katherine) Hatch, Aransas Pass, and Mrs. Barney (Leola) McCoy, Kansas City, Mo. He also leaves 14 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. One sister, Mrs. Evelyn Stout, Siper, La., also survives.
Pallbearers will be Charles Willbanks, John Quigley, Martin Dehlinger, Ed Settles, D. C. Pyle and Bernard Huchton.
Charlis Vines took his first job at the age of 8 in Nachitoches, La. where he was born Sept. 28, 1884. This was delivering bread for a Frenchman at 10 cents a day. By the time he was 11, he worked 12 hours a day in an oil mill for 40 cents.
Then he got a job drawing pay for what he loved to do - watching engines for the T&P which had just purchased the branch from Cypress to Nachitoches. That was in April of 1901 and four years later he went to Marshall as a fireman, but the yellow fever epidemic almost paralyzed railroading and he lost his place on the board. That brought him to Big Spring on Nov. 15, 1905. He took his examination for engineer on April 10, 1910, and flushed by his new success he was wed eight days later to Miss Annie Barry in the original Catholic Church here. (It was later that same year that it was razed to make way for the present St. Thomas building.)
In the forepart of his long and distinguished railroad career, firemen and engineers literally worked until they dropped. Thus he hailed the passage of the 16-hour law (no crewman could work more than 16 consecutive hours) as one of the greatest forward steps in railroad labor. As a fireman in his early career, he had to have a strong back for on one run he shovelled the entire contents of a coal car into the engine furnace. Near Monahans he was blown from an engine once when he went back to check the water level.
Although engineers frequently ran "blind" under skimpy orders which said simply to get through regardless, Mr. Vines never had an injury or collision. He had his share of close shaves, however.
In 1956 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen gave him his 50-year pen. Mr. Vines served three years as legislative representative for the engineers; 18 years as its secretary, 4 1/2 years as chief engineer. At the national convention in Cleveland in 1947 he was a leader in a group which succeeded in getting the union to adopt a non-Communist oath as a membership requirement.
Mr. Vines also had been a member of the Knights of Columbus council No. 1482 practically since its institution here and served as its grand knight and district deputy. He was active in the affairs of the St. Thomas Catholic Church.
He was among the re-organizers of the Salvation Army work here and led the labor division in the early stages of the Community Chest and its successor (the United Fund). For many years he handled the roll calls among the railroad workers for the Red Cross and was active in sale of U. S. War and Savings Bonds and in the Howard County Tuberculosis Association. He also had served as a Chamber of Commerce Labor Committee chairman.
The B. of L. E. presented him in 1950 with a certificate of exceptional loyalty, the only one the international group had ever awarded through the chapter here.
Charles Vines
T&P Veteran
Dead At 73
Charles Vines, who helped bring dignity and civic responsibility to the labor movement in Big Spring, died in a hospital here at 4 a.m. Saturday.
Death came on the 73rd anniversary of his birth.
Mr. Vines had entered the hospital early Wednesday morning. Two years ago he had suffered a severe stroke from which, much by sheer determination, he had recovered his mobility and alertness.
Rosary will be said at the River Funeral Home at 8 p.m. today and the funeral mass will be conducted at the St. Thomas Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Monday by the Rev. Fr. Joseph Moore, OMI. Burial will be in the Catholic section of the City Cemetery.
Mr. Vines leaves his wife; two sons, James W. Vines, Big Spring, and J. Charles Vines, San Bernardino, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. K. R. (JoAnna) Price, West Lake, La.; Mrs. Dick (Katherine) Hatch, Aransas Pass, and Mrs. Barney (Leola) McCoy, Kansas City, Mo. He also leaves 14 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. One sister, Mrs. Evelyn Stout, Siper, La., also survives.
Pallbearers will be Charles Willbanks, John Quigley, Martin Dehlinger, Ed Settles, D. C. Pyle and Bernard Huchton.
Charlis Vines took his first job at the age of 8 in Nachitoches, La. where he was born Sept. 28, 1884. This was delivering bread for a Frenchman at 10 cents a day. By the time he was 11, he worked 12 hours a day in an oil mill for 40 cents.
Then he got a job drawing pay for what he loved to do - watching engines for the T&P which had just purchased the branch from Cypress to Nachitoches. That was in April of 1901 and four years later he went to Marshall as a fireman, but the yellow fever epidemic almost paralyzed railroading and he lost his place on the board. That brought him to Big Spring on Nov. 15, 1905. He took his examination for engineer on April 10, 1910, and flushed by his new success he was wed eight days later to Miss Annie Barry in the original Catholic Church here. (It was later that same year that it was razed to make way for the present St. Thomas building.)
In the forepart of his long and distinguished railroad career, firemen and engineers literally worked until they dropped. Thus he hailed the passage of the 16-hour law (no crewman could work more than 16 consecutive hours) as one of the greatest forward steps in railroad labor. As a fireman in his early career, he had to have a strong back for on one run he shovelled the entire contents of a coal car into the engine furnace. Near Monahans he was blown from an engine once when he went back to check the water level.
Although engineers frequently ran "blind" under skimpy orders which said simply to get through regardless, Mr. Vines never had an injury or collision. He had his share of close shaves, however.
In 1956 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen gave him his 50-year pen. Mr. Vines served three years as legislative representative for the engineers; 18 years as its secretary, 4 1/2 years as chief engineer. At the national convention in Cleveland in 1947 he was a leader in a group which succeeded in getting the union to adopt a non-Communist oath as a membership requirement.
Mr. Vines also had been a member of the Knights of Columbus council No. 1482 practically since its institution here and served as its grand knight and district deputy. He was active in the affairs of the St. Thomas Catholic Church.
He was among the re-organizers of the Salvation Army work here and led the labor division in the early stages of the Community Chest and its successor (the United Fund). For many years he handled the roll calls among the railroad workers for the Red Cross and was active in sale of U. S. War and Savings Bonds and in the Howard County Tuberculosis Association. He also had served as a Chamber of Commerce Labor Committee chairman.
The B. of L. E. presented him in 1950 with a certificate of exceptional loyalty, the only one the international group had ever awarded through the chapter here.
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