The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1942 Page: 1 of 6
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GEORGE C. FALL
<Ehe Caldwell £feuia
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WATCH YOUR
EXPIRATION DATS
AND THE BURUS80N COUNTY LEDGER
li DAILEY Broa, circus
be and went Tuettday, enter
hundred of Burleson
inty adults and youth, took
irede of dollars of Burleson
inly money with them, and left
(satisfied taste in the mouths
most who attended the show,
was generally stated that the
i>cus was "worth the money"
•any, who had not had the
xtunity to see a circus in
^veral years, took advantage of
ke chance Tuesday.
•
CROWDS WENT to the fair
•tnulH all day and watched the
^phants work and got the "circus
hell" into their system. I talked
Mrs. Earl Porter Tuesday after-
n, in an effort to reach Mr.
^rter, and she informed me that
py were "coming to town to Bee
circus" . . . which they did and
Ijoyed it.
•
JIMMY KING JR., director of
lie high school bund, which spon-
jred bringing the circus to Cald-
well, cleared $30.00 on thi show,
ting stated that the band would
^se the money to repair instru-
nents. •
•
PORTER JONES tried to buy all
ihe jewelry they had at the circus
was told, but, as far as I know,
^hey didn't got him with the shell
fame. In commenting on this to
ie, Sarah Jones said: "PO-tah is
sucker for salesmen.
•
AS USUAL, a bunch of tough-
[looking customers followed the lir-
Icus to Caldwell, but were orderly
I and to our knowledge everything
ran off smoothly.
#
JINX ALEXANDER has been
doing a Krand job these past
months as head of the War Sav-
ings Bonds and Stamps sale in
Burleson County and I want to
take this opportunity to eatress
this column's thanks and appre-
ciation and to tell him that the
News, in say in ! so. is cxpressinK
the sentiments of the entire popu-
lation of the county.
•
AT THE ROTARY club lunch-
eon last Tuesday noon, Alexander
«va in charge of the program and
mgde a talk about War Savings
Bonds and why we should buy
them. We should not have to be
begged to buy these bonds. Rut we
do have to be pushed and prodded
and pushed again, in order to keep
us in the groove. That's his job and
ht is doing it
*
IN THE first three months of
this year we have not yet reached
our quota for any single month.
The Burleson count) quota for
the entire year, is *.">00,100. By
dividitiK this figure into twelve
equal amounts, you can see that
we mil"! raise about $11.666 per
month. The most that has been
sold was in February when 3H.-
000 worth of stamps and bonds
were reported. In January ther¿
were but $3.1.000 and in March
only $25,600. These figures show-
that Burleson county is far from
its quota in the first three
months. WE HAVE TO MEET
4his quota. WE MUST BUY
THESE D.)NI S. So. let us con-
centrate on reaching down into
our jeans and pulling out enough
money to buy a bond this week.
•
JIMMY MARKS was in Houston
lilis week, April 11. which was my
birthday, incidentally, to take scho-
lastic examinations to qualify
Hcholastically to matriculate at
Vale University in New Haven,
Connecticut, this fall.
•
THERE IS an educational
short film titled "Fighting Fire
Bombs" showing currently at the
Matsonian Theatre and it shows
in excellent detail just what the
civilian should do in fighting in-
cendiary bombs. Tonight is the
last showinK of this subject and
1 believe that it is just the kind
•of information people are look-
ing for and recommend it high-
ly.
< '< NSTABLlP<Chance Cummings
of Merle arrested and brought, to
the Sheriff's Department here last
Sunday one Martin Hidrago, es-
caped convict No, 97017. Sheriff
Lewis is holding Hidrago, pending
arrival of a transfer agent from
the State Prison at Huntsvllle,
from where Hidrago escaped.
•
AS A representative of the
Chamber of Commerce and this dis-
trict of the East Texas Chamber
of Commerce I shall leave by train
from Milano Sunday noon for
Longview, where the annual con-
vention of this great regional or-
• gani/ntion will take place. It will
be a simple business conference
program, without the usual con-
vention frills, and it is expected
that a great deal of f.ne work will
VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 40
CALDWELL, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17,1942
PRICE 11.60 A YEAR—A CENTS A COPY
Arrangements Are Completed For
Registration of Oldsters April 27
At Eleven Points In This County
One and a Half Times As Many Are Expected
To Register In Fourth Registration As
Signed On February 16
Announcing the distribution of instructions to Burleson
county registrars concerning the April 27 registration, Clyde
Foote, chairman of the local board said today that plans are
underway to register approximately one and a half times
the number who signed the cards on Third R. day February
26. He also stated that, in the absence of John Toupal who
leaves Monday for duty with the
U. S. Army and who has heretofore
held the registrations in this coun-
ty, L. B. "Babe" Dowell, will act
as Chief Registrar.
Instead of having nine registra-
tion points in the county for the
fourth registration, there will be
eleven, Hix and Birch having been
ndded to former points.
The registration points with
names of chief registrars are as
follow: Caldwell, L. B. Dowell;
Somerville, Charles Barton Jr.,
Deanville, A. H. Ahrens; Clay, J.
F. Fairbanks; Lyons, Robert R.
Woods; Foster's Store, Johnny R.
Lyon; Cook's Point, Wilton W.
Chaloupka; Snook. H. Johnnie El-
sik; Chriesman, W. L. Woods; Hix-
Rita, Mrs. J. H. Thorpe; Frenstat-
Birch. W. B. Heine.
As soon as the President's pro-
(See OLDSTER, col. 1, last page)
Brass Sextet
Places First
Two Other Contestants
In First Division
A brass sextet, composed of
Jimmy Marks, Curtis Homeyer,
Harry Reeves, J. W. Porter, Bern-
ice Schiller and Foster Thomas,
placed in the first division at the
Regional Band and Music Contest
which was held at Marlin last week
and sponsored by the Texas Music
Educators' Association.
Director J. K King Jr. of the
Caldwell high school band stated
that the marking this year was
based on grades made from 100
down, there being five divisions.
The first division included any con-
testants or groups of contestants
totaling 95 or above.
Kstelle Homeyer placed in the
first division with a saxophone solo
and Lanette Wuenscher also placed
in the first division in baton twirl
ing. No other contests were entered
by the Caldwell delegation.
lit T ! ► I * > W* lit .\ I *
Mrs. Bealetka
Dies At Snook
(See Town Topic*, col. 6, last page)
Resident of Community
For Thirty Years
Mrs. Rosie F. Bealetka. 57. died
Friday morning at 11:30 at her re-
sidence in Snook. Mrs. Bealetka was
horn in Czechoslovakia and came
to the United States at the age of
5. The family settled in Snook 30
years ago.
The funeral service was held
from the Catholic Church at 2:30
Saturday afternoon and interment
was made in the Snook Cemeteiy.
Rev. Frank D. Urbanovsky of
Bryan officiated at the service and
Harvey-Schiller was in charge of
a rrangemcnts.
The deceased is survived by her
husband, Steve Bealetka; two
daughters, Mrs. Mary Philp of
Snook and Mrs. Annie Macik of
Noedville; three brothers, Lukosh
Prihoda of lliljer, Joe Prihoda of
(See Mrs. Bealetka. col. <5, last p.)
Scrap Iron To
Be Bought In
This County
Buyer To Be Stationed At
Points To Assist Farmers
In Disposing of Metals
The scrap iron collection cam-
paign in Burleson County, which
has been running slowly until now,
is about to get under way on a
large scale, it was announced by
County Agent L. C. Eakin, Thurs-
day. Committees have been set up
and arrangements made to have u
buyer in various places in the coun-
ty at definite times and metal,
aluminum, old ties, rags, bones and
many other articles will be pur
chased.
The entire community should do
everything possible to get this iron
to the collection center as we need
some of this scrap to shoot back
at the Japs who are now shooting
our own scrap iron, which they
bought several years ago back at
us. The buyer will pay the follow-
ing price for: scrap iron, 45c per
100 lbs.; aluminum, 7c per lb.; old
tires, 3c each; brass, .'5c per lb.;
>ld batteries, 60c each; old car ra-
liators, 50c each and up; rags, 75c
per 100 lbs..; zinc, 2c per lb.; old
(See Scrap Iron, col. 7, last page)
COURT HOUSE HEWS
CRASHES!
Melvin Crystal Is
Made Note Editor
AUSTIN, April 17 — Lawyers
don't spend all their time debating,
University of Texas law students
are learning, as they edit the Texas
Law Review, a University publica-
tion.
A new editorial staff, including
note editor Melvin Crystal, of
Caldwell, is preparing to take over
its new duties with the June issue.
The Law Review composed of
articles written by lending Texas
lawyers and n section of case notes
and comments on current events
in the legal world, written by law
students.
Members of the editorial board
must rank high scholiM|jcnlly to be
eligible for Law Review positions.
Crystal was listed on the first sem-
ester honor roll.
The above la a picture of Ser-
geant T. L. White of Gardner
Field, Taft, California, son of
Rev. and Mrs. C. M. White, who
recently came out of an airplane
crash with only a scratch. From
his pulpit in the Baptist Church
last Sunday morning Lvother
White said, "God had his hand
on my boy"! In a letter to the
folks at home T. L. explained
about his accident and that part
of the letter follows: "Dear
mother and dad: Well, I guess
since I have finished my primary
training 1 can tell you about the
crash I had there. About a week
and a half before I finished there
I hit a power line when coming
in to land. It tore all the wires
down and broke the telephone
post. It also tore the plane all to
pieces. Crushed all four wings
and drove the engine back up in-
to the airplane. All it did to me
was cut me over the right eye.
"It is already healed and you
can't see it unless you look for
it. To be truthful, I don't see
how I got out alive. It ail seems
like a dream. I was wide awake
through the whole thing but
there wasn't anything I could do
because it happened so quickly.
I hope this won't make you wor-
ry about me. It should make you
worry less because I am a much
safer pilot than I was before."
Marriage Licenses
Theodore H. Andrews and Mil-
dred Mills.
Owen knight and Dorothy Foley.
Johnie H. Kreuger and Lillian E.
falowy.
J. P. Mc^uire and Aline Marie
Lunsford.
Land Matters
S. H. Muery and wife to Carl O.
Keels, 10-year oil lease on 100
icres W. Isbell survey east of
Lyons.
Judge C. (•. Krueger to Mrs. Mae
Look; «leed to lot in Somerville.
Joe Martin and wife to Jennie
Jackson; deed to lots II and 15,
block B out i f J. B. Chance survey
at Clay.
Annie Ambrister and others to
F. M. Hailey; 10-year oli lease to
251 l-'J acre: of land East of Lyons.
W. M Milliard to Melvin Knox;
deed to lots 2, ¡1 and part of lot 4,
block 58 in West Caldwell.
William Junek and wife to Carl
O. Keels. 10 year oil lease on 100
acres near Snook..
(iicscnschlag and Tutvle to Carl
(>. Keels. 10 year oil lease on íífi.'l
acres near Snook.
Ill I 111 t IN" IK IN I!
Kzador Lacina
Dies of Heart Attack
E/.ador Lacina, of the Second
Creek community, died at his work
Tuesday afternoon about 1:30 from
what apparently was a heart at-
tack. Lacina became violently ill
shortly after beginning his after-
noon's work and would not respond
to treatment.
Mr. Lacina was born on a farm
in Burleson county, in the Provi-
dence neighborhood, on November
U , lOOit. He lived in this county
all of his life with the exception of
two years, which were spent in
Crockett and Ballinger. He was
known to his many friends as a
peaceable, hard-working, friendly
fellow and was a member of the
Roman Catholic Church.
A large group of relatives and
friend- attended the funeral which
was held at Frenstat Wednesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock, with inter-
ment in the Maresh cemetery. Rev
II. E. Beseda officiating.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. An-
nie Lacina. seven daughters, Mrs.
Mayme I^ee Ackley of Houston.
Doris, Delphine, Lillie Mae, Evelyn,
Tracey and Angeline, and two sons,
Alda and Willie, all at home.
Press Meeting
At San Antonio
April 24 and 25
Fifteenth Annual Conven-
tion Held Under Direction
of President G. A. Smith
Because of the multitude of new
problems confronting newspaper
publishers and editors, the 15th an-
nual convention of the South Texas
Press Association, which will be
held in San Antonio Friday and
Saturday, April 24 and 25, will be
the most important business session
the organization has ever held,
President G. A. Smith has an-
nounced.
The entire program will be de-
voted to meeting and solving to-
day's problems in the small daily
and weekly newspaper field, Smith
pointed out.
Sam Fore Jr. of Floresville will
be program chairman for the con-
vention. Headquarters will be in
the Gunter Hotel.
Opening speaker will be Edwin
F. Abels of Lawrence, Kansas. Mr.
Abels, vice-president of the Na-
tional Editorial Association, a pub-
lisher and member of the Kansas
legislature, will keynote the meet-
ing through a talk on "The Home
Town Newspaper Moves Into me
(See PRESS, col. 3, last page)
Cotton Samples
Classed High
94 Percent of 1273 Samples
(¿o Over One Inch
John J. Toupal
Announces For
County Clerk
Culled to Army, Toupai
Leaves His Campaign In
Hands of Friends in County
John J. Toupal. county clerk of
Burleson county for the past three
md a half years, having béen elect-
ed to that office on January 1,
1030. has authorized the News to-
day to announce his candidacy for
a third term anil in so doing, has
requested his friends in this sec-
tion to carry ori his campaign for
him, as he has been called to serve
in the armed forces of the United
States and will not be here to di-
rect his campaign in person.
Toupal, who has served the peo-
(See TOUPAL, col. 4, last page)
Samples of Stoneville 2-B cotton,
classed by the Agricultural Mar-
keting Service at Austin, which
were sent in from Burleson Coun-
ty, showed 94 percent to be over 1
inch in staple length and in some
instances the length was 1 and one-
eighth inch, the average being one
and 1-1 fith inch, it was learned
from L. C. Eakin, county agent, this
week.
"Out of 1273 samples submitted
S41 went one and one-thirty-second
inch staple length, while the re
maining samples showed one inch,
with four exceptions. The four ex-
ceptions classed 1 and one-eighth
inch," said Eakin.
UK samples of the Mebane vari-
ety were submitted also for class-
ing and only 81 bales classed one
inch or better in staple length, ac-
cording to Eakin 83 percent of this
variety classed less thar. one inch.
In commenting on these figures
Eakin said that he would like to
^ee the farmers in Burleson Coun-
ty adopt a single variety of long
staple cotton and stay with it, and
that it would show much improved
cotton here in years to come.
Ill V ItfcKKN'MR HOVn*
Make Home-Made "Sweetin' "
Homemade "sweet'in'" which
many southern farmers make by
squeezing the juice from sorghum
stalks and boiling it down, is rich-
er in iron content than refined
white sugar, says the USDA.
Congra tula tions
The Caldwell News congratulate*
Mr. and Mrs.—
Lonnie Daniels on the birth of
a boy March 30.
Q. W. Simmang on the birth of
a boy March 31.
Wm. Wright Stanley, a girl,
April 6.
Lawrence J. Matus, a boy, April
7.
SUT ÜRI'KKNR H< IN DM
Entire Faculty
Re-Elected At
Caldwell School
Only Two Vacancies Still
Existing at Local Plant;
Filled by Substitutes
Election of teachers was the
chief item of business taken up by
the Caldwell Board of Education
Monday night in their first meet-
ing after election of trustees. All
permanent teachers who had been
duly elected as regular members
of the teaching staff were unanim-
ously re-elected, announced C. B.
Oliver, president of the board.
Two vacancies are now existent
at the Caldwell schools. In the high
school there is a vacancy in the
English department and it is be-
ing temporarily filled by Miss Sen-
ada Smith, while there is a further
vacancy ip the social science de-
partment, of the ward and gram-
mar school, which is being filled
temporarily by Mrs. C. M. White.
Permanent teachers will be elected
to these positions at a later date.
The scholastic census report fell
off 80 students this year and that
point alone may necessitate furth-
er reduction in teacher personnel.
The teachers were re-elected at
the same salaries they have re-
ceived here-to-fore. A. W. Adams,
superintendent, was re-elected sev-
eral weeks ago.
Following is a list of the present
permanent teaching faculty at both
the high school and grade school,
(See FACULTY, col. 3, last page)
THK KORNEGAY BOYS
Order Numbers
For Third R
Group Given
Names In Alphabetical
Order Through D's Listed
By Board; Others To Follow
Another Group
Of Soldiers To
Leave Monday
Men In Charge Arc
John J. Toupal And
Monroe Berndt
The following men will leave for
Fort Sam Houston on the regular
bus at 9:30 a.m., Monday, April M,
They will be under the leaderahlp
of John J. Toupal and Monroo J.
Berndt. Most of these men have
already been examined and have
been accepted for service, but aome
of the others are going up against
their first government examination
and may be rejected. The list fol*
lows in the sequence of their order
numbers:
Joe Paul Jr., Morris Clyde Tow>
ler, Raymond Milton Sebesta, John
Julius Toupal, Hynek Henry Hajl
Monroe Julius Berndt, Henry Rob-
ert Becvar, J. C. Godby, Charles
Weldon Hoffman, Moody Fred Due-
wall, Ervin Arthur Boettcher, Con-
ley Windell, Wilson Pershing
Deutsch, Antonio Villega Caballero,
Clarence Robert Kramer, Francis-
co C. Sanchez, Gus Herman Wei-
dermann, Frank Robert Simek Jr.
Ul'Y UKr>g«B RONDO —
School Children
To Help In Drive
Burleson County To Do
Part for Navy Relief
The following is a list of the
names in alphabetical order and
their order numbers for the regis-
trants ir. the third registration
which was held last February 16,
as released Thursday by the Bur-
leson County draft board. The
names this week will be listed
through the D's and will be con-
tinued in next week's issue of the
News:
Name Order Number
Addison, John Teague 10761
Adame, Anastacio 10(580
Adamek, Joe Tom 10234
Adams, Orren Lane 104:12
Addison, Charlie 10557
Ahrens, Arthur Herbert 10788
Ahrens, Milton Mueller 10140
Albrecht, (Jus John 10431
Albright, Oscar 10476
Alcorn, Otto 10459
Alexander, Henry Goodwin 10262
Alexander, William Jenkins 10315
Alford, Admiral 10384
Alford. Philip 10750
Allen Guss 10417
Allen. Will 10629
Andrews. Luther Earl 10466
Arnold. Jasper E. 10901
Baasen, Rudolph Henry 10357
Baer. Walter 10304
Baisy, Willie 10877
DARWIN-
JOHN
DAVID
Here are Darwin, left, John, renter, and David, right; the Kor-
negay boys, a trio of Uncle Sam's scrappers. Darwin and David are
.Hons of Mr. and Mre. L. O. Kornegay of Chriesman. Darwin is sta-
tioned at Camp Blanding, Florida, with Company E. 113rd Infantry,
while llavid is now in radio school with the United States Navy in
San Diego. California. Both are graduates of Caldwell high school
and ex-Hornet football stars.
John II. bornegay, uncle of the boys, enlisted in the United
States Navnl Reserves on January 2, this year, at Lawton, Oklahoma.
He received his preliminary training in Norfolk. Va.. and was as-
signed to the l .S.8. Rainier on Feb. 2, and is now "somewhere in
the Pacific." lie is also a graduate of Caldwell high school and an
ex-Hornet. He waa a student at Oklahoma A. A M. for three year*.
(See NUMBERS, col. 4, last page)
Over one million and a half
school children of Texas will be
asked to contribute to the Navy
Relief Society fund on Navy Day,
a date to be announced by L. A.
Wood, State Superintendent of
Schools. Wood, who has been ap-
pointed chairman of the school
committee of the Navy Relief So-
ciety by Attorney General Gerald
C. Mann, state chairman, asks the
cooperation of the 1500 school su-
perintendents of Texas in observ-
ing Navy Day during Navy Appre-
ciation Week, April 19 to 26. J. M.
Hare will handle the drive in Bur-
leson county schools.
"The fund for the Navy relief
is one which is close to the children
of Texas. Our state has sent more
boys into the service of the Navy,
Marine Corps and Coast Guard
than any other. These are the
lathers, brothers and friends of the
school children," said Wood.
The quota for Texas toward a
$5,000,000 national campaign for
the Society is. $210,000. The money
is to be used to help the families
of men in the services, while they
are on duty and in case of death
or disability. ®
HIT DKI'KKNR NOWDS
City To Close
San Jacinto Day
Tuesday, April 21, Is Listed
As One of Six Holidays
"Tuesday. April 21, will be a
holiday," declared W. T. Thagard,
president of the Caldwell Chamber
of Commerce, Thursday afternoon.
Thagard pointed out that San Ja-
cinto day has been recognized in
Caldwell as a legal holiday for sev-
eral years, being one of six days
<et aside as holidays by the Cham-
ber of Commerce several years ago.
"The schools and stores of the city
all will be closed," declared Thag-
ard.
Advanced First Aid
Course Gets Underway
An advanced first aid course un-
der the direction of Burleson Coun-
ty First Aid Chairman Babe Dow-
ell and Instructor A. L. "Doc"
Evans held its first meeting Thurs-
day night at Phillips and Luckey
Funeral Home.
Dowell stated that 52 completed
the first aid course which was
•omplete with 20 hours credit last
Tuesday night and that the ad-
vanced course is following immedi-
ately after the primary course
without an interruption.
With these added to the 42 who
recently finished the course 'ind i
Dr. T. S. Roach, the total who iiavc
finished the first twenty hour
numbers 95.
Farmers Market
(Prices subject to change)
9c
35c
Cotton, middling
Cottonseed meal, sack
Cottonseed meal, ton
Cottonseed, ton
Hulls, ton
Hogs, pound
Hides, a pound
Eggs, dozen
Butter, a pound
Hens, pound
Bakers, pound
Fryers, pound
Boosters, pound
Turkeys, No. 1 hens
Toms, No. 1
Turkeys. No
Old Toms
Butterfat. No. 1
19c
$2.50
$47.00
$45.00
$17.00
to imc
10c
24c
in trade
16c-16c
14c15c
16c-lHc
He
Iftc
12c
10c
10c
37c
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