The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1945 Page: 1 of 23
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'JVOLAAV “Wher^the^«iMn Your shaker Com* From'-p rand Saline, Texas, Thursday, December 13,1945
At 96, Confederate Vfteran W. H. James Fears
He Is Getting Old, But Doesn't Worry Over It
Page One—Section B
. Housing Demands
Far Greater Than
Current Supply
More requests than can be supplied
are coming in to the Grand Salim
Sun’s Free Rental Bureau for furinak-
ed or unfurnished rooms, apartments
and homes.
Bill iHudson, Humble field employee^
who has just returned to his young
wife and baby, after 16% months
overseas has been seeking an apart-
ment or light housekeeping rooms for
the past three weeks, but has been
met with a “no children” response. He
and his family are now living with
relatives in Mineola.
Similar and other requests for fn*-
nished or unfurnished premises con-
tinue coming in to the Sun office, and
there are several nice, furnished rooms
listed, but most landlords and land-
ladies stipulate only single people*
preferably men.
The free rental bureau of the Sun
is a service ibeing provided by the
newspaper in an effort to house new-
comers to Grand Saline. Owners may
file their listings free at the Sun
office, where prospective tenants may
call for information. No charge is
made either party, and the Sun en-
courages use of the service.
Gl Questions
This is another of a, series of
articles on GI questions. The Son is
publishing them as a public service.
Released through Veterans Ad-
ministration Office, 327-29 Swann
Bldg., Tyler, Texas, Telephone 2382,
N. L. Benson, Jr., Contact Repre-
sentative.
Q. When a soldier changes the name
of the (beneficiary of his National
Service Life Insurance, is the bene-
ficiary notified?
A. Neither beneficiary is notified
unless the soldier has made a specific
request that the Veterans Adminis-
tration do so.
Q. Is a veteran limited to one loan
to be guaranteed by the Government?
A. A veteran is not limited to one
loan. He may execute any number of
loans provided the aggregate of guar-
antees under such loans does not ex-
ceed $2,000 for any one veteran.
Q. Does the remarriage of the wid-
ow of a veteran who is receiving pen-
sion for herself and children stop the
amount payable to the children?
A. Only the pension payable to the
widow will be stopped.
Q. What does the Veterans Admini-
stration hope to accomplish by its
reemployment and retraining pro-
gram for veterans ?
A. The objective of the reemploy-
ment and retaining program is to
place the veteran in the best job for
which he is qualified by training and
experience' or if he is incapable of
employment by reason of a physical
disability to furnish his training that
will overcome his handicap, irrespec-
tive of his employment status at the
time he entered service.
Q. Mav a five year level premium
term policy be converted to another
type of policy while waiver of pre-
miums is in effect?
A Yes, no restriction may operate
to bar the right to convert a National
Service Life Insurance Policv. in case
the provisions of the law have been
otherwise met.
\t the three
irandchildren
. The unusual claim of having lived
in Grand Saline 43 years and never
having worked in the salt industry
here goes to 96-year-old 'William
Henry James.
James, Confederate veteran, ob-
served his 96th birthday anniversary
Dec. 10, with the observation that
“I’m not bothered auout making a
gain here at all.”
Despite his manifested lack of am-
bition, James gets around much bet-
ter than possibly even his own child-
ren, who are grandparents, and enjoys
loafing and chewin’.
James has been cheigin’ tobacco for
91 years, taking up the habit at the
generally accepted tender age of 5.
But age—-hot tobacco—is telling on
James. •
‘‘Tobacco has kept me going,” he
said blunt]y.
“Can you read without glasses?”
the blue-eyed man was asked.
“Yes, except fine print. Now, I
can read that sign across the street
there, all right. But not fine print.”
His favorite feat is bringing two pin
points together at arms’ length. It
isn’t so easy for a much younger man.
Try it.
James went into the grocery busi-
ness when he came to Stump Town
on the outskirts of Grand Saline in
1902.
“I was in that for nine years, and
then I went back to the farm. I’ve
been farming ever since except the
last two weeks. The reason? I wasn’t
able to work them two weeks, and I
been doing what you might call loaf-
ing a spell.”
Still possessing a shock of white
hair, James had to he shaved for his
picture, taking care not to disturb
his walrus mustache.
‘‘I never shave it off. I only done
it once since I been married and it
practically scared every kid off the
place.”
Father of seven children, James
lis still parent of four living—Mrs.
lAnnabelle Thompson, 66; George
■ames, 65; Wesley James, 61; and
piece to themselves,
generations and any
share meals together.
"I still stay there,’
laconically. “Charlie hi
farm and rents other
William Henry Jai
Dec. 10, 1849, near ®i
of Marion Count;
that Jamep took 1
tobacco to begin the
of consistent tobacco-cl
in Texas.
“I went in the Coi
Aug. 18. 1864. They
so we just waited until they got near-'
ly to our bank in gunshot range and
we let ’em have it. We stopped ’em.”
James married Dec. 24, 1872, and
Mrs. James died 10 years ago here.
They hit the trail for Texas in
1902.
“We settled where I am now just
below Carrington tank in Stump Town.
Four salt plants were here when I
come. They were all just up on wooden
posts and the warehouses were under-
neath. They raked salt out of pans in
them times. When Carrington bought
all them plants out he done away
with them.
“I never done a day’s work for them
in my life. It just wasn’t my occupa-
tion.”
His tobacco-chewing to the contrary,
James is a temperate man.
“I cnly had hard liquor once and
then too much. I just had enough
to be a fool, and I have never wanted
any since seeing what it does to
you. I just use it now for medical
purposes. No, sir. I don’t drink at
all.”
James walks about a mile to town
almost every day he doesn’t work
around the place. He doesn’t worry
about traffic, being fatalistic about
his long life.
“My hearing’s getting bad, and o-
bout half the time I have to ask
a fellow to repeat over,” James re-
marked as naively as a person one-
third his age.
“I don’t know anything about how
long I have to live. If the Lord wants
me to be a hundred. He will, and
if He don’t, He won’t.”
Mr. and Mrs. Porter Adkins and
daughters, Sherrie and Mary Lou
and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Humphrey
and son, Lonnie wese visitors with
Mr. and Mrs. Col Sparks and daugh-
ter Wednesday night. Sparks recent-
ly returned home from service in the
Pacific, where he participated in the
invasion of Siapan, remaining for
two years. He was discharged from
the army at Fort Sam Houston, San
Antonio Dec. 2.
Mrs. Asbury Glover was a business
visitor in Dallas last Wednesday.
Kitchen Fats Still At War
True the war and meat rationing
is over. But it must be remembered
that fats and-oils imports from the
Pacific Islands, cannot be resumed
for some time. Industry must have
household fat to replace these sup-
plies of fats and oils.
Used fats help make thousands of
industrial items. It goes into medicin-
es, synthetic rubber, airplane lubri-
cants, nylon, high-resistant paints,
marine rope, soap, textiles insecti-
cides, fungicides, paper, paints and
leather processing agents.
Housewives help themselves by sav-
ing every drop of used fat. There are
soups and stews to skim, roasters
and frying pans to scrape, cold cuts
and raw meat to be trimmed and
melted down, and table scraps of
meat and bone to be rendered.
If housewives remember to do these
things, their salvage containers will
fill in no time. Each pound of used
fat saved and turned over to the meat
dealer is now worth 4 cents per
pound.
Used household fat must be sal-
vaged in sufficient quantities to help
offset the existing fats and oils short-
age. Housewives are asked to save
and turn in 250,000,000 pounds of
used fats this year. Only by reach-
ing this goal can industry continue
turning out civilian needs.
|ie remarked
vorks on the
lid to farm.”
s was bom
.er, Ga., seat
Itfwas in 1846
1st "chaw” of
Ingest record
wing probably
derate Army
ire conscript-
But I wasn’t
Richard Anders
Joins Darby's
Richard Anders, son of Mrs. Docia
Anders, and an honorably discharged
veteran of World War II, has joined
the staff of Darby’s Dry Goods Co.,
Clyde Darby, owner, announced this
week.
Anders was honorably discharged
from the U. S. Army Nov. 5 after
more than three years service in the
United States and in the Mediter-
ranean Theatre of Operations in North
Africa and Italy.
Darby said he will be assigned to
the men’s department and general
merchandising.
Record Attendance Seen
For TSCW Yule Pageant
DENTON—Inquiries by residents
of nearly a hundred North Texas
communities, including some from
Grand Saline, indicate that the Texas
State College for Women Nativity
Pageant in Denton this month will
attract the largest crowds in its 10-
year histroy. The original dramatiza-
tion of the Bibical story of the Na-
tivity, writtn by President, L. H. Hub-
bard of the College, wil be given in
the TSCW Main Auditorium Satur-
day, Dec. 15, at 3:30 p. m. and 8:15
p. m. and Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 8:15
p. m.
Chewin’ Since !5
16 until the next Aug 18, but I just
went and volunteered. Men at 60 in
them days were old men.
“I was never in a battle, but I
guarded our food at Corinth, Miss.
You see, if the Yankees couldn’t get
your food for their use they’d try to
get to it and burn it. The river was
a mile wide at Corirth, and the Yan-
kees were on the other side. So they
built a pontoon across. But they
didn’t get across. We had those old
muskets that wouldn’t shoot 60 yards,
Sgt. Jack Eulenfeld of Houston and
the grandson of Mrs. Lulu Bashaw,
is visiting with his grandmothsr and
Mrs. J. W. Germany this week. Eulen-
feld recently returned to the states
from 18 months in the ETO and was
discharged from the army Oct. 16
at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio,
Texas. He will return to his home the
latter part of this week.
Niagara Falls recedes about two
and a half feet a year.
We’ve been glad to serve
Grand Saline and participate
surrounding the Salt Industry
the community life
We have been more than glad to be pble to ser#e the com-
munity of Grand Saline for many years. ; Throughout our long
record of service t'o the salt industry and^o its ^nplp/ees, we
have always endeavored to bring them the besiqugWty wearing
apparel and merchandise.
We wish to heartily congratulate the salt industry and its
employees for the brilliant record that, all through (the years,
they have made in the production <of salt, and the record they
have made in helping to build Grand'Saline into one of the
enviable towns of the nation.
Darby Dry Goods Co
Grand Saline
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Buzbee, Byron B. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1945, newspaper, December 13, 1945; Grand Saline, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003985/m1/1/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.