The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1943 Page: 4 of 12
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plained that this type of purchase
must be made with the rib in and
points charged accordingly, after
Which the butcher will bone and roll
the roast. The same applies to any
other cut that is bought "bone In.”
In addition to the consumer point
value table, the meat rationing pro-
gram provides a table of “trade"
point values which lists hundreds of
wholesale cuts in many cases, these
Protection Of Child’s
Health By Use Of
Serum Is Important
If every case of suspected com-
municable disease could be promptly
visited either by the family physi-
cian or the local health officer,
thousands of susceptible persons
would be protected from disabling
illnesses, according to the State
Health Officer.
\ To quote Dr. Geo. W. Cox, “The
old fashioned theory that it is a
cuts having different point values | Sbe^oTt^c^^di^as^and *2.200
than the corresponding retail cuts1
Browsing With
Our Neighbors
Swisher county citizens exceeded
their war bond and stamp quota for
the entire month of March during
the first half.
The Swisher county Red Cross
chapter has gone over the top in its
War Fund campaign with the in-
complete total now reaching $3,»
388.76. Quota set for the county was
on the consumer table to allow for
get them over with has long since
been known to be a serious and
West Texas State Teachers col-
shrinkage, trim, ^ and waste. Each sometime fatal error. The longer a -ege at Canyon received 200 soldiers
retail store will have a copy of the j chud can keep from |lavlng lhese i last Sunday, Who will study there
trade point values to guide his j diseases the better it js for hinl. j for a period of five months. A sec-
wholesale buying. A special table | Every chiId should be completely j end group will arrive April 4 There
of point values for Kosher retail
cuts also will be issued.
protected by immunization against
smallpox and diphtheria.”
The definition of “hamburger” on j prompt diagnosis, isolation, good
the po»nt table sets a precedent, in j medical and nursing care give the
that it marks the first time that i patient the best chance for a satis-
Built entirely of non-critical materials, the official Navy Yard
Chapel at Philadelphia, for both Catholic and Protestant faiths, is •
stately colonial structure.
the federal government has under -
I taken to give specifications that re-
| tailers selling to consumers are re-
! quired to follow for this popular
<ype of ground bee;. By reason of
inis definition, no ready ground
meat may be sold for more than
five points a pound.
Ground round steak, ground chuck,
ground rump, or ground sirloin, for
example, cannot be prepared and
point "priced" m advance by a re-
tailer after rationing begins. In oth-
er words, a housewife will buy any
of these meats in whole form, pay-
ing the correct number of points
and then will have them ground to
order. This restriction applies simtl-
arily to ground veal and lamb, which
are defined in the same manner as
is beef hamburger.
There is no point value assigned
factory recovery without the serious
will be 200 in this group
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Citizens of Canyon have been
warned that when they lose Ration
Book No. 2, they must apply in per-
son to the Ration Board before it
complications that sometimes ac-jcan be replaced. Under the provi-
company even the mild forms of
communicable diseases. Dr. Cox em-
phasized that obeying the public
health laws regarding isolation and
quarantine of communicable dis-
eases protects not only the patient,
but helps prevent others from con-
tracting the illness.
“Every health officer knows,” Dr.
sion of OPA it may take as long as
60 days to secure a new book. There-
fore, all citizens arec,warned to care-
fully guard their books.
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The Littlefield 4-H and FFA-spon-
sored Fat Stock Show now set for
and to be held in Littlefield on Sat-
urday, March 27, will show 14 classes
Cox said, "that the danger of spread j this year, instead of the 13 offered
of infection increases when a na- in 1942.
tion is at war. Men, materials, and i • •
a large number of our civilization) Carl Arnold,' county Red Cross
population move from one section 1 chairman of Lamb county stated
of the country to another. The j that county definitely over the top in
State Health Department is doing j its annual Red Cross, drive, and
everything in its power to protect j probably has exceeded the $6,400
the health of the people of Texas, i quota by between $1,000 and $2,000,
It is the patriotic duty of every [ with all the towns in the cornmuni-
mari, woman, and child to do his ties still not through with their cam-
First Presbyterian
Women’s Auxiliary
jHas Two Meetings
flThe Woman’s Auxiliary of the
#trst Presbyterian church has had
ppe meetings during the month of
l Jtvch.
* On March 1, Mrs. H. W. Reese
j|$| hostess. Reports of the year’s
were given by the officers and
^UOretaries. Also a number of offf-
BQ were elected to fill vacancies.
Joining the social hour the hostess
refreshments of hot punch
Cakes to seven members. * j
second meeting was held on
Hodges News
to any type of ground pork (other (share to maintain a high level of paign.
jthan sausage), and, here again, the
j customer will pay points for a whole
The Hodges Baptist church wishes [Piece and have it ground to order,
to invite everyone to attend their j ^ addition to the ready-to-
church Saturday night, Sunday eat” meats cooked, boiled^ baked
morning and afternoon, April 3rd ancl barbecued that are listed on
and 4th. Members of the Wayland
Volunteer Band will be present at
this time. There will be a series
the consumer point table, a footnote
explains that the point value of any
other "ready-to-eat” item must be
of singing, Bible study and preach- determined by adding two points per
jng pound to the point value of the
whole uncooked item from which it
Mrs. W. L. Young, who has been
ill in a Lubbock hospital, Is re-
ported improving at this time
Mrs. Harris from Winters is vis-
iting her daughter, Mrs. J. G. Mar-
row.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Warren and
health; a healthy civilian popula-
tion contributes greatly to the health ; Lamb county, and especially the
Amherst section which makes up
Road District 3-A, received some
of our armed forces."
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West Texas Girl
Receives Promotion
»y night in the home of Mrs. j daughter Joan were visitors in the
Birtciel
^lie installation of new officers
fli by Dr. Gray Each officer was
JffTTti to tell her duties. Mrs. Gray
JpMW talks on “The Meaning of
4«*illary,” and “Why All Women
(pturch Members Are Members of
(Mm Auxiliary
Hodges community last week. They
were guests in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Thames. They left Mon-
day morning for Borger where they
will make their new home. -<
Mr. and Mrs. Lu Tipton and chil-
dren of Levelland visited in the
homes of their parents, Mr. and
is prepared, orv three points per
pound if it is cooked and sliced.
In the same manner a footnote
under the values of butter, lard,
land shortening explains that if a
consumer buys in bulk of more than
five pounds, she is entitled to use
the slightly lower "trade” point She began her active duty
welcome news in a telegram from
j Congressman George Mahon Tues-
day morning, stating .that the Fed-
[ eral Roads Administration had ap-
) proved the release of materials for
.Lieut. Sue M. Addington of Mid- i hot-topping the approximately 20
land, who enrolled in Lubbock last | miles of road, which were built last
November 11, became on March 2, i year and were ready for hot-topping
the fifth WAAC officer on the j last fall when the government froze
staff of the San Antonio district
army recruiting headquarters.
Just a few Weeks ago Lieut. Ad-
dington was employed in the trans-
portation office at the Army Air
Force Bombardier School in Mld-
Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Paul Morrison j Mrs. T. H. Tipton and Mr. and Mi’s,
tad Mrs. R. H. Hester were elected j Charley Taylor Sunday.
go to Odessa to Presbyterial. j Mr. and Mrs. Pete Tillery were
1The hostess served ice cream and visitors in the home of. Mr. Till-
yC«ke to six members and three vis- ery’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
Mori The visitors were Dr Gray, Tillery Sunday.
Aft’*. Louise Townsend and Miss j Mr. Fred Sharbutt who has been
'Thora McCorkle.
values, rather than the consumer
point values.
Because meat and cheese cannot
always be cut to the exact pound,
the consumer chart contains a
all materials.
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Wink school’s bond sale nearly
$35,000 for the past six months. Of
this amount $18,203.10 worth were
sold at six Victory programs held,
and the remainder of the $16,000
during the weekly one-hour sales
held at the school each Thursday
morning.
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Death rode the highway early
simple table of point values for j ministrative Specialist School and Monday morning and Dewey Arn-
ounces. The left-hand column of then started at the WAAC Officer cld, 24, of Odessa, lost his life in
this table goes from one to 16
dunces, while across the top are
columns of one to 15 points. If a
purchase of chuck roast, for ex-
with thq Women’s Army Auxiliary
Corps at Fort Des Motnes, Iowa, on
December I. After completing her
four weeks’ -basic "training, Lieut.
Addington spent two weeks in Ad-
Candidate School, Jan. 16. Upon her an autoombile-truck collision about
graduation, she was assigned to j six miles out of Wink on the Wink-
San Antonio as a recruiting officer, Monahans highway
to aid in procuring and interview-) 0
ample, came to three pounds, io j big WAAC enrollees. Taylor Lovelace of Shamrock cele-
ounces, the point price would be! ‘'This is a woman’s world, but it brated his 105th birthday .March 24
computed by multiplying the per- iisn t &oin& to be handed to us on a Lost his last tooth two years ago.
pound point value of 6 by 3, a total Mlver Platter" Lieut. Addington said --•
in ’ ' '
Senators Support
jLegislation Vital
fTo Farmers
of 18. and adding four points as ! ln explaining her reasons for en- VISITED IN AMARILLO
discovered by following the "10- rolling in the Women's Auxiliary; Mrs. Howell Joplin and Mrs. J. R.
~ " ' in Ani-
husbands,
stationed there.
day.
_ Mr. and Mrs. John L. Young were
The two farmer members of the guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Senate. Senator George Mof- James Marrow Saturday night. They
of Chilllcothe. and Marshall also visited Mrs. Young’s parents.
'Jtormby of McAdoo and Plainview. Mr. and Mrs I. H. Marrow.
Jwwe demonstrated considerable i ---------—. 0
.^Bftdcrship at this session in their
^Support of legislation vitkl to the
iM’me'hs of north ;>rid West Texas.
Both have received numerous
,4gin.plalnts that some of the Insect
poison sold to Texas farmers in re
in a defense plant, in California
has been visiting his mother and
£ Li ®?arwbeUek wore ounce" line to* the “6-point, column Corps. "Women can do a great deal Mabe spent the week-end
E«vw far theTorces TTaeV The full “point-price ” thus would'/ “> this war' if theV wiU a place arillo with their husbands, who are
leavLpg ior ine aimeo ion.es. inty ■ .for themsRves.” stationed there.
all visited relatives in Lubbock Sun- Knm,n on(, Kpan rariin lis-
Any fraction cf a point are drop- Known as sue Kean to radio ns- . • —
ped if less than one-half point; bu* teners in th<‘ staLe' Lieut' Adding- VISITING HERE
if the fraction is one-half point br ton had two radio broadcasts and Mrs. C. H. Handley is in Levelland
more the dealer will collect a full lwo newspaper columns each week this week visiting with her sister,
point. Fractions of exactly one-half ln 1940 *** b>adas- Mrs. Jess Boysen. Mr. Boysen and
Point on two or more Hems bought The daughter of Mrs N. A Wheat- family.
in a single purchase are added to- le-v of San Saba Texas' Lleut Ad- •
Southwest Club
Met Tuesday
The Southwest club met Tuesday,
March 15, in the home of Mrs. E.
g ether
dington received her B.S. degree, m BUYING IN DALLAS
announced previously, retailers : journalism and a Master ol Arts
.will begin to collect rod stamps
degree in psychology and adminis-
from customers beginning March tration at- Southern Methodist Un.-
29, but do not surrender points for i versltv she wa-s .a-s'SLStant dean of
W. B. Little,' of the local Cobb’s
Department Store, is in Dallas, buy-
ing new merchandise for the store.
their wholesale purchases until April
women at S.M.U. in 1937-38 and lat-
years failed to kill the pests, R. Reeves' with ten members pres- 11 The purpose of this "point holt- | ** t
4M0d Moffett Introduced a bUl which ; ent. day " is to enable storekeepers
jltJX Stop the sale cf worthless in- ) How to darn sox was demonstrat- build up a point "working capital "
j^Mt poisons, particularly cotton- ed by Mrs. J. W Holland. j ——-•--— -
How to patch, by Mrs. W C. El- j_ . ,, . ..
liott j Valley View INews
How tn mend with new material, j
by Mrs. D. B. Carter. i The Home Demonstration club
TO DALLAS
Casey Cabool, of the CC Dry Goods
company., spent several days this!
week in the Dallas market.
worm poisons. After stiff op-
this bill passed through
Senate. The two West Texans
yere Its strongest supporters.
Vrey were also successful in help-
ipg to block legislation which would
yfUMre abolished gasoline tax ex-
BSptions upon gasoline not used
span the highway. The present
tax refund law Is based
the principle that non-highway
BMOllne should be exempt from the
pijmxrnt of a tax to build highways.
Both of the above named mem-
ppn of the Senators are members
pt it* important Committee on Ag-
ricultural Affairs, and Mtoffett is
Carving his second term as chair-
man of this committee.
U. S. Interns
4,163 Aliens
Those, present were Mesdames B.
L. Rust, W. C. Elliott. J. T. Wood,
B. D. Carter, O G. Wood, J. H.
Bearden, F. W. Bridges, R, C. Blair
and J W. Holland.
The next meeting will be with
Mrs. B. D. Carter, Let’s all be pres-
ent.
War Production
Trains 1,516,042
Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt
reports that government money and
the school system had retrained
1,516,043 men and women for war
jobs in a six-months period.
Another half million or more now
are winding up courses that will
equip them for technical jobs onjTech' Lffi>bock. ™d Junior Dyer.
ol Los Angeles, Calif , twin sons of
met at the home of Mrs. L. H Ste-
phen Friday, March 12. The subject
was the shortage of clothing. Miss
Eaton, county home demonstration
agent, gave an interesting talk on
remodeling clothes, with illustra-
tions. She also discussed how to
make a plant bed. Mrs. A. B. Rob-
erts exhibited a lovely traveling bag
the club members gave Mrs. Bill
Eudy, a former resident of the com-
munity, and a former club member.
Popcorn was served to the follow-
ing: Miss Eaton, Mesdamek R R.
Dyer, Thurman Mlllican, N. C. Gil-
ly, A. B. Roberts, Johnnie Miller,
C. W. Davis and a visitor, MFrs.
Turner.
Goldman Dyer, student in Texas
instructor at the 1,400-student Mes-
i quite Consolidated high school of
j Dallas. She spent three summers at [ _ 0_
) Northwestern University, Evanston, j VISITING IN DALLAS
| 111., working toward her doctorate) Mrs. A. M Cookston left Saturday
in the personnel field. There she met for Dallas, where she spent some
her husband, a Virginian, who also time visiting with her daughters,
holds advanced degrees—Conly R. Mrs. Chester Moore and Mrs. John-
Addtngton, now a first lieutenant
in the Army Air Forces.
"I loved my work in civilian life,
but I’m not sorry I left it,” Lieut.
Addington says. “I saw in the WAAC
the work women could do in the
army and I felt It was the opportu-
nity for which I was looking. My
husband and I gave up our home
for the duration of the war so that
we could volunteer for service. We
don’t worry about what we will do
or where we may be sent. We just
want to help win this war.”
nie Barnes.
Shorty Micheal is a patient in the
West Texas Veterans hospital at
Ama rillo.^
temment of 4,163 persons of ene-
my alien nationality arrested by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
elnce Dec. 7, 1941.
In the same period 3,257 were pa-
roled, and 1151 were released out-
right, About 500 cases remain to be
decided. Biddle said
Aliens arrested are given a hear-
ing before a* board ’ of prominent
citizens, which makes a recommen-
dation to the attorney general, who
Cadet Wm. R. Mathis
Among 272 Advanced
U. 8. Attorney General Biddle an- ; the assembly lines turning out
Bounces that he has ordered the in- planps tanks ships and other tools Mr. and Mrs. R R pyer. are visit-
cf war fing in the Dyer home this week.
McNutt, in a report to Congress,) There will beanother scrap drive > Axis „ a lar^ class of future air
revealed that the retraining plan, jin the community soon Please have ; fighters has |5een advanced from
started last July, required an out- a11 your scrap available and ready preflight traininf? at the San An-
lay of $79,918,037 by the end of) N. C. Gilly gave a surprise : (()nia Aviation Cadet Center to Army
the year. Another $50,000,000 still [birthday party for her husband Sat- j Air Forces primary flying fields.
Is available for the work until June, urclay. night. Games of 42 and rook ), hero from civilian life pr
The total allocation oi $139,000,000) were played and refreshments Were ) from the ranks of ground forces,
i served.
Part of the might their com-
mander-in-chief will use to force
the “unconditional surrender of the
was for the fiscal year 1943
McNutt reported that at the end
of 19-42 the program had trained
or had in training a total of 1-
bMUie case reviewed for hiadeci- 939,40, p,.rs0as
For that period, numbers either
RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL
JUttfc Gene Wright, 2-year-old son
Of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wright, re-
" turned from a Lubbock hospital
Bunday. Gene had a peanut removed
foam hisjright lung. He la reported
- *wn« riErtjr.
trained or Ur training and amounts
allocated for states included: Ok-
lahoma, 39,958 persons and $1,637,-
151; Texas, 92,163 and $3,019,039.
The 8tate Constitution of Texas
is about five times as long as the
Federal Constitution.
j the thousands of young men have
| passed successfully through the
I Army Air Forces Preflight School
a position With the local J for PiloUs bol li units of the mas-
sive Cadet Center
Primary school Is the next step
of the class in the rigorous army
career that will be climaxed wlv-n
its members rfeceive the coveted ; li-
ver wings of a pilot and commis-
sions 0s officers.
Those advanced Include 272 from
Texas, including Aviation Cadet
William R. Mathis from Levelland.
Mrs Tommie Thompson iuus ac
cepled
Cicero Smith Lumber company
Mrs. Thompson replaced Glenn Can-
non, who left for California, where
he will do defense work.
Relda Jo Powell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Powell of Levelland
is now employed at the Lubbock
Army Flying School ln the account-
ing department.
YOUR
REFRIGERATOR
NOW!
Have it cleaned and oiled.
Don’t wait until the last
minute!
LEVELLAND
RADIO SHOP
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“More to come.” This was the warning to Hitler and Hirohito that,
employees of the Dallas Division of North American Aviation,. Inc,
painted on the first B-24 Liberator bomber which rolled this week from
the assembly lines of the company’s second plant at Dallas. The term
was borrowed from the jargon of newspaper men who use it at the bott
of a page of ,copy when a story is unfinished.’Lucille Kelly is hold1
the paint jar in the picture and C. H. Williams is putting the finish
touches on the sign. North American has been manufacturing TEXA?
combat trainers in its initial plant at Dallas for nearly two years. It is
also in the preliminary stages of turning out the famous P-51 Mustang
fighter. Hie company is includeq in the B-24 program along with Con-
solidated. designer of the ship f ord and Douglas.
SPECIAL!
The Best Buy on the Market Today Is
U. S. WAR BONDS. Buy Several Today
or Any Day at These Low Prices!
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$ 25.00 Bond______________$18.75
$ 50.00 Bond_______________$37.50
$100.00 Bond______________$75.00
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Palace Drug
Company
Day Phone 61 Night Phone 356
We PAY Cash
for used -
ELECTROLUX
Electric Refrigerators, Butane Plants, Bu-
tane or Natural Gas Ranges, Washing
Machines, Electric Irons, or Any
Household Appliances.
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