The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 26, 1942 Page: 1 of 12
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THE BALLINGER LEDGER
TOUMI M
BALLING EB, TEXAS. TIDBIMT, MUCH M. IMS
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1,000 Present at First
Patriotic Mass Meeting
j
A
A crowd estimated at 1.000
assembled at the First Baptist
Church Friday evening for the
first patriotic mass meetlnK to be
held In BalllliKrr since the out-
break of World War No 2 The
meeting wus railed and sponsored
by the American Is'glnn. veterans
of the first World War, In an
effort to stimulate local patriotism
and to bring about u more com-
I plete realization that this nation
> Is at war u k a I n and to notify
congress that the community
expects uninterrupted production
and an all-out effort to win this
war as quickly as possible.
The program was opened with
a concert of patriotic music by
the Ballinger high school band
under the direction of Ourthal
Ollllgan at the close of which R.
X White led the audience In the
singing of ‘ The 81 a r Spangled
Banner.”
O. C. Sykes, commander of the
local American Legion post, called
the meeting to order and explained
Its purpose Troy Simpson, pro-
gram chairman, opened the meet-
ing with a reminder to local
people of the need of unity to
make the all-out effort complete.
E. M. Lynn was the principal
speaker of the evening and
delivered a stirring message, pic-
turing the war and what Indi-
viduals ran do to assist In winning
the conflict He pleaded for sup-
port of the leaders of this nation
but demanded that nothing occur
that would In any way slow down
production or permit racketeering
in the war program
The Legionnaires hope that tilts
meeting will result In others with
the possibility that community
sing-songs, rallies and patriotic
gatherings will be held In all sec-
tions of the county.
At the conclusion of Mr Lynn's
address. Judge Paul Trlmmler was
recognized and presented the fol-
lowing resolution:
‘‘Runnels county has in the
armed forces of our country an
avrnsg* of one for each five men
who are registrants of the county
from the 1940-41 registrations
under the selective service act. We
shall have many more In the ser-
vice. These men are our neigh-
bors and friends, sons and
brothers. Each knows t It a t the
supreme sacrifice may have to be
made by him and they all have a
right to expect of their country
the most and best possible in
supplies and fighting equipment
‘‘This mass meeting us the voice
of Runnels county calls upon the
congress to immediately repeal all
laws which In any manner ham-
per our war Industries from
operating twenty-four hours a
day, seven days a week We urge
that legislation be enacted that
will require every physically fit
man to work or tight and that
will completely abolish profiteer-
ing and racketeering by either
Industry or labor from factory to
field.
‘‘We ask that politics be adjourned
and that all votes In congress for
the duration be made a matter of
record."
Comments following the mass
meeting were varied Some praised
the results, saying It was the first
step towards building local people
to a patriotic feeling that would
result In the forming of public
opinion faster on all war discus-
sions. Some stated It was Indeed
the duty of the veterans of the
first World War to take the lead
in such matters and demand and
expect of every person his full
share of work during the war
Others comments were that the
meeting was not "hot" enough
and thought that speakers and
the resolution should have burned
up those responsible for the slow
progress In the war to date
Argentina’s Bumper Crop—of Bayonets
.
Red Cross Meeting
Called for Tuesday;
To Expand Set-up
Chairman Ernest C a s k e v has
called a meeting of Red Cross
officials, committee chairmen and
directors of the county chapter
for the evening of March 31 The
meeting will be held at the court
house and a more complete organ-'
■zatlon will be formed to carry on
the work of the chapter and give
special attention to the increased
activities caused by war
Some of this work is well under-
way but other workers are needed
to look after details which have
not been stressed In the past
Assistants will be named for the
organization of women to take
home nursing Instructions, others
to look after local welfare, and
plans made for a slgn-up of
homes which could provide rooms
for wounded In case of emergency j
It Is also planned to make up a
supply of bandages and other
surgical dressings to be used here '
In rase of emergency
Tile Red Cross program has been
enlarged many times because of
war and new committees must be
organized and nddrd to the unit
If this work Is conducted properly
Mr Caskey has had no helpers
in looking after local welfare this
year and two women are needed
Speakers Announced
For Commencement
ArgeaMaa la keegtog her military
ever the Axis pewers 4eeas U advisable. The
of prectslea aad ggMIag pawae. laeet: A few ei
more tfcaa a taken aavy ta ea•
aewv ska will net ha spared treat allark n hra
Bg order at Ik eat martoee abates a bl(k peteaUal
i*a toadeea warahipw Fartaaalety Argealiaa baa
Dates of Sugar Rationing1 fjriliaD ®eJ"“
i i b | uFOlipS Ii0131"III00j
Registration Announced courses started
Dates have been set for sugar
rationing registration for both
business houses and individuals
Business house managers will
register on April 27 and 28 with
at once for this duty. Others on Dlgh school teachers looking after
committees have been assigned to1 t*us work and Individuals will
other civilian defense work which! r,'P"rt to their nearest elementary
makes it impossible for them to
serve on Red Crass work.
While all officers, committeemen
and directors are expected at this
meeting, any person Interested In
the Rod Crosa la Invited to attend
May 4. 5. 6 and 7 to
i Civilian di f< use work in Ballin-
; ger Is properly organized with
;thr exception of enlisting members
! in some of the groups and those
on special groups receiving tram-
ling Mayor C P Shepherd, chair-
man of the local council, has
; named chairmen lor all branches
of the set-up and sufficient
materials have been received to
jwrmil each chairman to complete
his unit and organize classes for
; instruction.
A number of first-aid classes
Issuing of war ration book Nn i T,_.L . of year, hmvt ajrra<jy been started and the
, OI **• r»tion book No 1; an the children of the county
after cards are filled out The have been invited here on the
local board has received no new Saturday peered mg taster to
attend a hunt *n<! different age
groups have been tnarahed to the
school on
register
Oscar Harber. chairman of the
county rationing board
B.C.D. Committee
Cancels Annual
Easter E«a Hunt
Tile civic commit’ee of the Bal-
linger Board of Comm units
Development announced the first
rationing board, has j thP week that r> Easier egg
received all necessary supplies for hunt would be held in Ballinger
the registration and for the actual Urn year
Instructions since dates were
Announced but according to plans
Already made the school teachers
of the county will have the
Completing of the committees
In an emergency all would be
busy attending to the special work
responsibility for the registration which a large number of prize i:',"TTJo
When cards are filled out bv eggs were included ' co“nr.11l
Individuals, or representatives of Members of the commutes
o^the“niV h e°i7nfl™tUC«r I lh‘l dUn"‘ lhf p"srnt — people for service as it is not
*oi me use or tneir first war emergency it would not be .
ration book will _ I “ * . 1 ^ practical for any person to serve
B wm dp fivni each one patriotic to have such a icatherlna .
Later the ration hook win , Jv li? garnering ^ morp than one place at a time
, ‘ lnr rauon «><>* *1.1 be used this year The nation Is railing1
at stores In securing their sugar1 for all the eggs possible and all
S " e's poultry raisers are being urged to ” '~„7.,
>e registration cards are j increase their production to sup-
smpe and will take only a short j ply the needs of the armed forces
time U) fill out Each person Dyes are also n the short list
*g r ng must know exactly al)d would b. hard to secure for
how much suger he has on hand I a large affair
and make a statement of that m the use of .■ ir and the entire
amount un er oath plan includes a arge amount of
, u ‘ chairman of the waste of valuable materia, -. which
s a « ra toning board, will be at is needed in ’.!•• war production
San Angelo this week-end and work
Red Cross Knitters
To Make 47 Sweaters
For Army and Navy
Red Croas knitting will be
resumed here this week-end with
the Issuance of a limited amount
of yarn. Instructions were received
this week for making 47 sweaters,
two kinds, and Issuance of yarn
will be made at the production
center on the second floor of the
court house beginning Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock
Immediate knitting will Include
fourteen long sleeve, turtle-neck
sweaters for the navy In North
Atlantic patrol duty They arc to
be made of heavy navy yarn
Thirty-three sleeveless, slip-over
sweaters will be made of olive
drab yarn for the army and air
corps.
Instructions are not as simple
as for garments made for refugees
and each will be made to an exact
size Only experienced knitters
will be able to work on these
garments which are special ty|>es
asked by commanding officers of
these units
The remaining navy yarn will
be made ‘"to gloves which will 11JmPO mc,uaing plttrps 4nd hou„ A * M CtMrK,
also be complicated, calling for ln whlch mdlvWuals can report to end here v_,.;
wristlets, fingers and thumbs j slg„ rardA
Yarn has been ordered for |
making a large number of wrist-
lets and anklets and since this
work will be simple many women
can take part.
All experienced knitters w li o
are willing to make one of the 47
sweaters and the gloves for the
navy and army are asked to meet
the knitting Instructors Friday
afternoon and secure yarn and
instructions.
first class tn home nursing will
soon complete it* training and
others will begin Each of the
Ieleven groups Is required to pass
__! from 20 to 40 hours study before
grounds and turn* loose to look the> are quaimpd to ^y,. an(J
for the beautiful colored eggs in wplvp thf PulgnUl pro¥ldPd p,
Clean-Up Campaign
Will Start Sunday
With Annual Contest
March 20 to April 4 will be
annual tire prevention and clean
up week but thUi year a new touch
is being given the occasion and
Governor Coke K Stevenson ha-
decreed it Civilian Defense Clean-
up Week Added to the usual
I clean-up and fire prevention fea-
tures is the health angle ant!
! efforts will be made to improve
I health conditions of the entire
j state
In Ballinger the firemen will
! take the lead with the full cooper-
j at ion of city officials and organi-
j zations of the city The firemen
! are offering the usual prizes of $2
tl 50 and $1 for the best work In
; cleaning alleys ln three groups—
whites, negroes and Mexicans
Chief Chester Cherry stated that
I the Ballinger firemen began their
drive In Are prevention and
civilian defense in December of
last year Examinations in fire
fighting will be held tonight at
the fire stations when all taking
the course will be given fifty
questions to answer Twelve men
are completing first aid courses
and average attendance at drills
and schools has been 38 for the
i past three months
Programs will not be presented
through the schools this year due
to the many other additional
duties lmiMised upon the volunteer
! firemen The city will coopera'e
with loral home owners in clean-
ing their property and In remov-
ing the trash
l.ocal people, especially those
! owning vacant lots are urged to
. start their own clean-up cam-
paigns next week and get the
work done by April 4
Next Registration
To Include Manv
Vets of 1917-1918
Three commencement program
have been arranged for the rloafllE
of the Ballinger schools and turn
speakers were announced thin
week All programs will be heM
at 9 o'clock central war time wttR
baccalaureate in the First Baptist
Church and junior and senior
high school graduation tn the
high school auditorium
The first program. Sunday. May
17. will be the baccalaureate ser-
vice in which all student* I*
receive diplomas will take part
and occupy the center section of
the church Dr Thomas W.
Curry of the Presbyterian Thao-
logical Seminary, Austin, will tM
the speaker for this occasion and
music will be furnished by tit*
high school choral club under the
direction of Miss Mary Talbot.
Monday evening. May It,
ation exercises for the Junior
class will be held at the
high auditorium This speaker I*
to be announced later along With
other parts of the program
Graduation for the senior high
class will be held Tuesday May
19. with Attorney General 0«raM
C Mann as the principal speaker.
The rest of the program will be
announced within a short, time. A
class of about 88 will likely receive
diplomas this year, one of the
smallest classes ui several yearn
to graduate here
Poultry Exhibition
For Entire County
Slated at Winters
has been Invited to make a stop The local
In Ballinger to meet with the together th. :
board and others to explain more consider the I
in detail the genera! rationing event and tl
pan on ail articles included to unanimou in \
date If he docs not have time f„r this war
for a stop m Ballinger, he has
been asked for a conference at
San Angelo to settle a number of Supt Nat W
important questions confusing to Hou*to,‘ Su,,rta'
local officials ness in that v
Later the complete plan for
sugar registration will be pub Alexander M <
Halted, including places and hours A
friends
Announcement will be made
The comment of one woman was |at*r by the local production ren-
merely "'Well, I guess the future ^ on the wristlets and anklets,
affairs of the world have now been . M soon as the yarn Is received
There has been a big curtail-
iwouncement has been made, m,.nt In the Issuance of wool yarn
ard to any other meetings1 and onjy requested garments for
members of the American
Lesion stated they would hold
meetings of their members to
determine what was their next
step In any work that seemed
try
BUNN ELM COI'NTY BOY
A KM IVES IN AUSTRALIA
Arthur Oottschalk received a
cablegram Saturday from his son.
Arthur Oottschalk. Jr. saying hr
had landed safely in Australia
and was feeling fine
Young Oottschalk was formerly
a mechanic with a military organ-
isation at Fort Bliss.
some branch of the armed services
will be called for In the work this
year
Class 42-G Graduating;
To Leave Here Saturday
Chairmen are urged to complete
their committees as fast as pos-
sible and turn names tn to Ous
Barr, council secretary at the
1 andy eggs t.ikr Halllngcr Hoard f Community
Development office
Appointments made for the
general set-up are as follows
Stuff Corps C P Shepherd
chairman Gus Barr secretary,
Troy Simpson editor
Messengers R P Canady
chairman
Rescue Squads Kate P e r k e r
chairman
Air Raid Wardens J D Me -
Nutt chairman
Auxiliary F1 r e men Chester
Cherry, chairman
Fire Watchers J A Schnuble.
chairman
Demolition and Clearance Crews
George McMillan chairman
Road Repair Crews Roy Mc-
Clure. chairman
Decontamination Squads C K
Maedgcn. chairman
Emergency Food and Housing
Corps John A Weeks chairman
Medical Aid Corps Dr J W
Ma> unr chairman
Nurses Aid Corps Miss Lucille
Hotter, chairman
ittee a as called
11 week-end to
i ot the annual
members were
ng to call it off
anus irn! to
o attend to bus!-
. >n.
•gor. student of
■pent the week
his parents and
NORTON DONATESU
ROOKS FOR SOLDIERS
Oeorge Clements reported Tues-
day that a total of sixty-three
books were turned ln here In the
Wallace Scruggs, student of A
* M College, apent the past week-
end here, visiting rdalitw and
SHERIFF MARKS CHECK !T
ON ENEMY ALIENS HERE
Tile Runnels county sheriff's
department has been cheeking up
on aliens of enemy countries in
this section to make reports to
the government. In most cases
the check-ups are In regard to
addresses, apparent occupations,
and general attitudes In regard to
the war.
All these aliens have registered
at the post office and the govern-
ment la continuing to k * e p a
close watch on them during the
war with Oermany, Italy and
After two weeks of confinement brr of changes bring made after
at Bruce Field on account of an uisprction last week An addi-
mraslcx, cadets will have open lion to the ground school building
post tomorrow (Friday* night and will be converted into a canteen
the graduation dance for class as soon as completed and the
42-0 will be held at the Army and canteen moved from the recrea- Victory H<»>k campaign and would
Navy Club The dance was tional building This change will be included in a shipment t h e
scheduled for the past week-end make it possible to enlarge the | last of the week Iaist week more
and u large number of parents lounge in the ns reational build- than 80 books were shipped from
and girl friends from out of town ing to provide room for th* here, and Tuesday the 83 were
and some from out of the state increase in tin cumber of radrla received from Norton and 33 from
were here to attend the event being trained here j the Ballinger Rotary Club
Instead of seeing their cadet sons All barrark have been completed Mr Clements expected the ship- 1
and boy friends, there was dlsap- and are ready G be oecupled A merit this week to amount to more
pnintment as all the soldiers were new hangar is about two thirds than 100 books and the campaign
kept Inside the post except for a finished and will be ready for use will be continued Any person!
short time Sunday afternoon within a short time Other Improve- having a book or books they wish
when some were permitted to ments are being continued ! to donate may take same to the
attend the Rubtnoff concert Ham is badly needed at the library or leave at the Clements
The class has completed primary Held to stop dust blowing l»ust store
Announcement has been
of the fourth registration of the
manpower of the nation The date
j -ct is April 27. at which time all
men between the ages of 45 and
65 will register for service as
needed in the present emergency
A large group of these men will
And nothing new tn registering
fur service Practically all the
veterans of the first World War
will sign up for the second Hint
in their lives under the draft
system A lew were \< ung enough
to register in the last dratt being
44 years old or under but prac
ttealh all men who fought in
1917 and 1918 will range around
50 and up
One thing irks the old veteran
and that is the statement that
tew if any will be exj>ertrd to
rendet military service Until now
they have not felt *i old but
being placed in a separate class
from those recognized as phy-M
rally fit does not set well with
some especially the younger of
the group
No definite plans for the regis
tration have been received but it
Lx thought the same kind of regis
tration card and about the same
plan as heretofore will be followed
on April 27 The 45 through 84
age group will include a large
number of men m this county In
previous registrations many men
ol those age groups were already
In the armed service or in indus-
trial plant* elsewhere Most of
those above 45 are still around
and the registration will probably
be heavy
A Runnels county educational
poultry show will be held at Win-
ters all day Monday April 2»i. The
show is for the entire county.
Program features were urranged
by the poultry sub-committee of
the land use planning committee
and members of the county war
board
George P McCarthy, poultry
specialist of the A & M Oollwt
extension service will be U.e mak
speaker
In addition to the various edto-
ratUinal feature* which relate te
national defense a large number
of birds will be showm and there
will be displays by the eounty'*
made j feed dealers There also will be
an egg show Home demonstra-
tion club women of the county
will demonstrate methods, and
practices of handling and pro-
ducing quality eggs
Those in charge of nrranft"-
ments ftir the program are H E.
While county chairman of th*
poultry division. John A Barton,
county agent Wallace Martin. V.
A teacher at Winters, and J D.
Motley, secretary of the Winter*
Chamber of Commerce
Tin jmuHry group of the land
use- planning committe-e and the
county war board charged with
the responsibility of reaching the
county's quota of 2.272.000 dozen
egg' in 1942 are bucking this
show This committee is rnm-
pos»‘d of Mr W’hite- Winter*,
chairman A A Hoelscher,
Rowena W c Kmithwlck. Mil«vx.
Mrs Gu.> Redman and Mrr Wal-
lace Pnsteir representatives of
area No 2 Mrs W C Robinaon
and C M Gibson area Ne> 3: Mrs
L M Hambrighl and J W Woevt,
areu No 4 W 8 Caudle and t.
M Turner area No 5
The general public l* invited
and urge>d to attend this poultry
demonstration
James Connor son of Mr and
Mrs Joe Connor ot Ballinger h*n
been promoted to the rank of
staff sergeant at Hheppard Field
WirhIU Falls
Robert Lowry Student of A M
M College, spent the week-end
here with his parents Mr and
Mrs R M Lowry
$250.00 Reward
Paid far ton vie Hon of
Livestock Thieve*.
Runnel* County Ltvestoek
Association
Mrs. Gertrude Woods
INSURANCE
111 S. Eighth Street
Railing er Tax**
training here and will leave Hatur- storms have httl'ed training on
day for Randolph Field to get day* when other -ertlon* were not
iMazito affected much and moisture would
The new data of cadets for the start vegetation which would
Harman Training Center I* greatly help in keeping down the
expected to begin arriving here blowing dirt
Monday of next week The nunt-j Lieut Roy P Phillips arrived
her to be tent here ha* not
at th*
her* this week and wUI
nected with the Harmai
Me recently received hto
S rmr- *lrn a* s flying
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.Sergeant (bland Middleton, of
Victoria spent the week-end here
with his parents returning to duty
Monday morning
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Mis* LaVonnc Zimmer, of
Bteubenvllle Ohio, spent the past
weak-end here. *1*1 ting Cadet
Taylor at Bra* Field
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