The Texas Mohair Weekly (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1952 Page: 2 of 4
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THE TEXAS MOHAIR WEEKLY
fad The Rocksprince Record
HUTT & SON. Publisher*
Entered as second class matter. Not*
ember 18. 1927. at the post office at
Rockspring s. Texas, under the Act of
Congress, March 3, 1879.
Adv. rate, foreign, per col. in________50c
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Reader Advertismcnt and Legal
Notices. 2c per word, first insertion, lc
per word thereafter.
Subscription rate, in advance $2 per yr.
Political Announcements
The Texas Mohair Weekly is au-
thorized to announce the following
candidates for public office in lid-
wards County, subject to the action
of the Democratic Primaries:
For County Judge and Ex-Officio
County Superintendent:
H. W. BIERSCHWALE
For Sheriff, Tax Assessor and Tax
Collector:
DOR W. BROWN
For District and County Clerk:
E. I. (Ed) MILLER
For County Treasurer:
MRS. HATTIE GOODWIN
For County Commissioner, Precinct
No. 1:
W. E. THURMAN, SR.
For County Commissioner Precinct
No. 2:
JOE W. (SMOKY) WOOD.
For County Commissioner, Precinct
No. 3:
N. E. (Son) VARGA
For County Commissioner Precinct
No. 4:
JOE CARL HYDE
Classified Ads
—EXPERIENCED Dressmaking and
alterations, light weight upholstering,
drapes and slip covers.
MRS. V. \V. STEVENS,
at Dismukcs Ranch.
—FOR RENT: Two furnished hous-
es with gas and hot water.
48-tf. Mrs. R. G. Moody.
—FOR RENT: Furnished House—3
rooms ami hath, see Mrs. Cris Haines
at Model Cleaners. 51-tfc.
— FOR SALE: Three heedroont stu-
cco house with hath. Located on
Uvalde highway. Reasonably priced.
If interested telephone, Ted Barrows,
Phone No. 9594, Snyder, Texas. 52-8p
—FOR SALE: 33 acres, 8 acre field,
city water, also good well. New wa-
ter trough, 4 room house with bu-
tane.
Also House, 4 rooms and hath, 5 lots,
butane, Venetian blinds, everything for
$9,000.00 cash. HILTON BEAN.
—FOR RENT: Furnished stucco
house with gas and electric refrig-
erator, nicely furnished.
Mrs. R. T. Deel.
-—FOR SALE: House. 7 rooms and
hath. Modern, well located, priced
right.
Edwards County Real Estate Co.
2-7tp. ' E, 1. Miller.
—GLADIOLUS BULBS, No. 1. 1 -1-2
in. up from Fertile Kankakee Valley,
all colors. Mixed three dozen for $2.50,
$1.00 dozen for colors. Watch this
space for my Dahlia (Oregon Grown)
bulbs—available about March 1st. Mrs.
Frank House, 502 Guadalupe Street,
(Old Junction Road), Telephone
599-W, Kerrville, Texas 3-ti
HUNTING LEASE WANTED
—Good deer and turkey hunting for
8. Please give location, size of place,
camp facilities and rental for first week
of 1952 season. J. S. Gratehouse, Box
93, Hempstead, Texas. 4-2tc
—FOR SALE: Baby chick metal
•brooder, 100 chick size, used only two
weeks. Bargain.
4-2tc. Mrs. C. C. Higginbotham.
•—WANTED
cotton rags.
TO BUY—Clean, soft
Alamo Lumber Company.
— FOR SALE: 2-door dark green
Mercury, 1951 model, radio, heater
and overdrive; 13.485 miles, $1,850.00
cash. Ruth Agnes Kurtz, Tel. No.
76. 1 tp
Barksdale Items
By BURNEY POPE
Mrs, Joe Trees attended the funeral
of her unde in Houston this week.
Miss Eileen Charpiot of Houston is
visitin glier grandmother, Mrs. F. E.
Burger.
Mr. and Mrs. James Henry Lewis
and children of Corpus Christi spent
the past week-end with Mrs. Lewis’
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Rowden.
Mr. and Mrs. I key Crane of Sonora
were business visitors in Barksdale
Wednesday.
The Barksdale hoys basketball team
defeated the Asherton team Friday
night before a large crowd of fans.
The Billygoats have played twelve
games this season and lost only one
to Rocksprings by three points. Ear-
lier in the season the Barksdale lads
won over Rocksprings by a one point
lead.
Warren Collins of Albequerquc,
visited his sons, Floyd and Glenn, the
past week.
Friday night, a guess-what walk
will be held at the Barksdale School.
A set of dishes and a rod and reel
will also be given away. Proceeds go
to the March of Dimes.
Ifr. and Mrs. Henry Reavis receiv-
ed word this week ol the arrival of
* granddaughter, San da Lee DeVries,
in Burbank, California, on January
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The Texas Mohair Weekly and The Rocksprings Record
Friday January 8th, 1952
24th. Her mother is the former Mfts
Esther Reavis.
Miss Dorothy Martin underwent an
appendectomy at the Memorial Hos-
pital in Uvalde Friday morning.
Thomas Guthrie, senior student of
SWTTC. San Marcos, will do his
practice teaching in Vocational Agri-
culture in the Bark>dale School for
the next eight weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Beasley and
children of Llano spent the week-
end here visiting Mr and Mrs. W. Y.
Levensailor. On Sunday they were ac-
companied by Mr. and Mrs. Levensail-
or and Mrs. Lizzie Reagan to Sab-
ina! to visit Mr>. J. S. Kendrick.
C. A. Roberts is visiting his son
Roy Roberts and family of El Campo.
Mrs. C. F. Carson of Eagle l’ass is
visiting in the Charles Carson home.
Mr>. Fannie Stieher and -on. Mike,
of Rocksprings were visiting friends in
Barksdale Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Easley, Jr. and
children of Uvalde spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Easlev.
Theo Whittle)1 who is stationed at
Kingsville i« home for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Vol Casey of Mayer.
\rizona. and Mrs. Harry Fields and
Mrs. Johnny Winter- of Yictorsville,
California, visited in the home of Mrs.
Eillie Perkins Sunday. They were en-
route home from Kaymondville, where
they had been to visit with Math
Casey, who's condition remains serious.
Ira Lee Reavis suffered a broken
arm Friday while playing at school.
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CPL Increasing
Power Output
Central Power and Light Company,
which has been building at top speed
since World War II to meet the rap-
id-growing electric service needs of
South Texas, increased its power sup-
ply more than 24 per cent in 1951 as
the heavy requirements of defense mo-
bilization were added to the normal
use- of electricity.
The amount of electric power avail-
able to customers front CPL was in-
creased by 49.000 kilowatts in 1951,
and at the end of the year the com-
pany had 165,000 kilowatts more on
the way, either under construction or
on order.
CPL President Lon C. Hill, review-
ing the developments of the past year,
reported that all requirements for el-
ectric service in South Texas were
fully met. CPL's total power supply
in 1951, from its own plants and firm
purchase contracts with neighboring
systems was 247,000 kilowatts. This
more than double the 109,500 kilowatts
available at the end of World War II.
Customer use of electricity increased
about 16 per cent during the year 1951.
Anticipating still greater increases
in both normal and defense require-
ments for electricity, the company
completed one new power plant in
1951, continued construction of a large
addition to another, and ordered equip-
ment for two more large additions.
Equipment for still another generating
unit, which will he the largest in the
CPL system when installed, was or-
dered in 1950.
The new power plant completed in
1951 is located at Laredo and has a net
capacity of 33,000 kilowatts. Firm
purchase contracts provided 16,000
kilowatts additional for the CPL sys-
tem. The plant under construction
during the year, a 33,000 kilowatt ad-
dition at Victoria, is scheduled for
service late in 1952. A 66,000 kilowatt
unit ordered in 1950 will be installed in
the Corpus Christi area and will be-
gin operating early in 1954. Available
as of January I, 1952, is still more
power in the amount of 20,000 kilo-
watts procured through contract with
a neighboring system.
While providing new power at an
unprecedented rate and planning for
more in the years ahead. Central Pow-
er and Light Company has also ex
panded its facilities for delivering thi-
electricity to the users. One of the
highlights of the year was the building
of the first 138,000 volt transmission
line in South Texas from a point north
of Pleasanton to Victoria. Additional
lines of this voltage will he built to
form a new hack-hone transmission
system throughout South Texas, with
voltage twice as high as existing trans-
mission lines. Altogether in 1951. Hill
as.-crted, the company spent more than
12 million dollars for new electric
and ice service facilities, mostly for
power plant equipment, transmission
lines and substations, and electric dis-
tribution equipment. The 1952 plans
call for an expenditure of more than
13 million dollars, Hill said, contingent
upon the availability of materials. Dur-
ing the first five post-war years
(1946-1950), the CPL exansion pro-
gram cost an average of well over
nine million dollars a year. The com-
pany's total utility plant investment
has approximately doubled since the
end of World War II.
Hill emphasized that this great ex-
pansion program must continue—not
only to supply the growing needs of
homes, farms, commerce and existing
industry, but also to meet the stepp-
ed-up requirements of defense. More
electricity must he made available in
South Texas, for petroleum, chemicals,
agriculture and many other activities
vital to national defense, and it must
he ready on time. In carrying out its
building program, . however, Central
Power and Light Company—like the
rot of the electric industry—is faced
by a bottleneck in the flow of steel,
copper, aluminum and other vital ma-
terials. Hill warned that the industry’s
expansion program cannot be carried
out on schedule unless these materials
arc made available in the necessary
quantities to both equipment manufac-
turers and power suppliers.
The electric industry, Hill said, has
proved that it is equal to all normal
ind emergency demands unless ham-
strung by government controls and
government competition. After suc-
cessfully fulfilling the gigantic elec-
tricity requirements of World War
II, the industry met the post-war chal-
lenge of rapid industrial expansion and
sharp increases in the use of electricity
in homes, farms, and business estab-
lishments. During the six post-war
years of 1946-1961, the industry invest-
ed about 10 billion dollars in new fa-
cilities—accomplishing the largest ex-
pansion program ever undertaken by
any industry. This was one without a
penny of government tax money. Hill
explained; instead, the electric industry
was and is a large taxpayer. The ex-
pansion program is scheduled to go
forward even faster in the three years
1952-1954, when the industry expects
to spend seven billion dollars more
for new facilities.
Mr. and Mrs. Dub Nix and child-
ren, Kathy and Gene, of Monohans
and Mrs. Bobby Fred of Big Lake
visited in Rocksprings with their par-
ents last week-end.
get him!
With Our Tackle
ROCKSPRINGS
RADIO & APPLIANCE
Notice To Our Clients
During February our office in the Carson
Building will be open each MONDAY and
TUESDAY.
During March—every day 1st to 15th.
Wm. R. Meredith
Certified Public Accountant
How “big” should
government be?
Lincoln was President at a time when the federal govern-
ment had to take away from its citizens more rights and
responsibilities than ever before.
But he didn’t like it. He believed, with the writers of the
Constitution and the Declaration, that our government should
protect people’s independence, not push people around.
‘‘In all that the people can individually do as well for
themselves, government ought not to interfere,” Lincoln
once said.
Lincoln never let Americans forget that. He kept remind-
ing the nation that the government’s vast wartime powers
must be only temporary.
He made powerful enemies. For there are always those
who want to see government run things — and run people —
permanently.
We have them today. They think up all kinds of reasons
why the federal government should take over this or that
business, industry or service. They never say they want
socialism. Maybe they don’t even realize it. But that's
actually what they propose.
Most Americans don’t want socialism any more than you
do. The job is to recognize it — and halt it — no matter what
disguise it wears.
The people who plan and work for a socialistic U.S.A. know
that permanent control of a few key industries und services
will give government the power to takeover just about every-
thing. One of the key industries that they’re trying to take
over is electric light and power. That’s why we bring this
warning to you.
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