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VOLUME 59 5c PER COPY SHINER, LAVACA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1951
NUMBER 1
F. R. Janca HUGE BOOST IN DRAFT Total Rainfall Gazette Begins STEPPED UP DRAFT SENDS
Entered Rest MAY TAKE YETS, 4-Fs 19.73 For 1950 It’s 59th Year 44 FOR PHYSICALS JAN. 15
January 1,1951
Funeral services were held
from the Roeder Funeral Home,
Wednesday, January 3, 1951, at
8:40 a.m., thence to Shiner
Catholic Church for Requiem
High Mass at 9:00 a.m. for
Frank Rudolph Janca, age 75
years, 7 months and 19 days.
Rosary was recited at the Roe-
der Chapel Tuesday, Jan. 2, at
7:00 p.m. Burial was in Shiner
Catholic Cemetery. The Rev. J.
J. Hanacek officiated at all reli-
gious rites. Pallbearers were
John, Elo E., and Bill Muenich,
H. L. Cross, George Machart
and Emil Meyer.
Mr. Janca passed away Mon-
day, January 1, at 3:10 p. m.,
following a brief illness. He was
born at Sweet Home, Texas,
May 12, 1875, the son of Mary
Simicek and Andrew Janca. His
wife, nee Mary Friedrich, whom
he married Sept. 28, 1896, pre-
ceded him to the grave Jan. 15,
1949.
Survivors include four daugh-
ters, Mrs. Ben (Mary) Mue-
nich, Skidmore; Mrs. H. J. (An-
nie) Cross, Houston; Mrs. Frank
(Victoria) Machart, Halletts-
ville; Mrs. Ed (Angeline) Balu-
sek, Edinburg; four sons, Frank
of Baytown; Robert of Houston;
Rudolf and Leonard Janca of
Shiner; 11 grandchildren, eight
great-grandchildren; also two
brothers, Ignac Janca, San An-
tonio; A. C. Janca, Shiner, and
one half-sister, Mrs. John No-
vak, Shiner.
A native of this country, Mr.
Janca was a representative cit-
izen, he was loyal to his church,
a kind father and helpful neigh-
bor.
We extend sympathy.
NEW MANAGER
OF COMPRESS
TAKES OYER JAN. 1
“Baby Junior Bell” arrived
at 5:46 a.m., New Year morning
at the local hospital. The pre-
cious lad was the first baby
bom at the local hospital for
1951, he tipped the scales at 7
pounds and 14 ounces. The new
arrival is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Basil B. Bell and wee
brother of Mary Elizabeth.
The Compress force has been
greatly augmented with his ap-
• • •
Washington, Dec. 30.—Many
a young man who six months
ago did not reckon on being
drafted is in for a surprise.
Congress this week begins to
overhaul the armed forces’
manpower procurement system.
Bedrich Rab
Passes In
Gonzales, Dec. 28
Following an illness of two
weeks, Bedrich Rab of Praha,
passed away in the Crew’s Hos-
pital, Gonzales, December 28,
at 4:00 a.m., at the age of 58
years, 9 months and 25 days.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, Dec. 30, at 9 a.m.,
from the family residence near
Praha, thence to St. Mary’s
Catholic Church, Praha, for Re-
quiem High Mass at 9:30 a.m.,
with Buffington Service of Shi-
ner in charge of all arrange-
ments.
Rosary was recited at the
family residence Friday, Dec.
29, at 8:00 p.m. Burial was in
Praha Catholic Cemetery, Rt. 2,
Flatonia. Pallbearers were Felix
Hajek, Ben Jares, John and Max
Sembera, Joe Branecky, George
Rab, all of Flatonia.
The Rev. Julius A. Petru con-
ducted all religious rites. Mr.
Rab was a devout member of
St. Mary’s Catholic Church,
Praha, and of St. Isidor’s So-
ciety, who attended the services
in a body as honor guard.
Mr. Rab was born in Praha,
March 3, 1892, and had always
lived in that parish, residing on
a farm in the Praha communi-
ty. He was married to Frances
Sandera, who survives. Other
survivors include a son, Jerome
of Praha; three brothers, John
and Albert of Flatonia; Edmund
Rab of Crystal City; two sisters,
Mn>. Frank (Elizabeth) Hajek,
Mrs. Willie (Mary) Jares, both
of Flatonia.
Preceding him to the grave
were his parents, Anna Kora-
nek and Albert Rab, who died
about 35 or 40 years ago; one
son, Jim, who died in infancy;
also two sisters, Anna and Ka-
trina, who passed away in early
childhood.
Sympathy is extended to the
bereaved.
pearance. His dad contiues to
pass out cigars, each ornament- TlflflPA
ed with a blue ribbon bow. The * CIllClI o MJalll^C
event has proved of much local
interest. Congratulations to Shi-
ner’s first new citizen of 1951.
Nets $694.85
Congratulations
Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Polasek
are proud of a baby boy born
at the local hospital Dec. 31,
weight 7 pounds, 2 ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hranit-
zky proudly announce the ar-
rival of J;heir first born, a little
girl, who made her appearance
at the Victoria hospital Dec. 29,
weight 7 pounds, 3 ounces. She
will answer to the name of Kay
Frances. Mrs. Hranitzky was
, the former Embrene Dentler.
jMr. and Mrs. Joe Hranitzky and
Alonzi Dentler are grandpar-
ents for the first time.
igh School
■T.A. Meets
anuary 11,1951
The first meeting of the New
ear of the Shiner High School
.-T. A. will be held Thursday,
anuary 11. Following the busi-
ess session a film will be
hown.
Immediately followirfg the
,-T. A. meeting the Band Club
will meet.
The annual New Year’s Eve
dance of the Shiner Volunteer
Fire Department proved a
boomerang in attendance.
Sale of tickets had been un-
derway during the week and
brought $380.90. The box of-
fice sold 950 tickets at night,
446 for men, 484 for women.
It was impossible to dance
until towards midnight.
Pateks Orchestra furnished
splendid music for the enjoy-
ment of all.
Gross receipts were $791.35,
expenses $96.50, leaving a net
of $694.85. It was the largest
crowd of New Year Eve revel-
ers ever in attendance.
NOTICE!
Due to the two day holiday
the Gazette opened up Tuesday
morning with only one day to
put out this paper. If your items
are not in, it is because of the
impossibility of handling same,
and the finish of holiday news
will be completed in next issue.
Herman Sons
Meet Sunday
The Herman Sons, O.D.H.S.
Lodge, will meet Sunday, Jan.
7, at the City Hall, at 2:30 p.m.
• • •
When it has finished, veter-
ans, farmers, essential workers,
4-Fs, husbands—even fathers—
all may be subject to call.
The 1948 Selective Service
Act, designed to maintain an
armed force of 2,167,000 at the
most, is certain to be changed
to provide the now planned
force of 3.5 million. This an al-
most two-thirds increase. Plain-
ly something will have to give.
Recommendations from many
sources call for one or more of
the following changes in the
1948 law:
• Raise the present top draft
age of 26.
• Draft 18-year-olds.
• Draft veterans with little
service, perhaps for non-com-
bat duty.
• Extend length of service
from 21 months to 24, 27 or 30
months.
• Induct the more than 600,-
000 4-Fs for non-combat serv-
ice.
• Tighten deferment regula-
tions, under which 600,000 now
are deferred for dependency
and more than 200,000 for oc-
cupation.
• Lower physical and mental
requirements.
There is a dim possibility the
draft eventually will be scrap-
ped in favor of universal mili-
tary service.
Watch for a group of presi-
dents of small colleges (which
would be hardest hit by univer-
sal military service) to come
out in favor of the two-year
UMS plan already backed by
Harvard President James B.
Conanf.
Opposed to UMS are a large
bloc of educators who support
a plan to defer the brightest
college students from service.
An advisory committee of
scientists, appointed by Draft
Director Lewis B. Hershey, says
the U. S. will suffer a shortage
of educated manpower unless
the flow of students through
colleges is maintained.
MANY ATTEND
DIVINE SERVICES
DURING HOLIDAYS
It must have been heartening
to the clergy of the local
churches to have witnessed the
great out-pouring of worship-
pers attending divine worship
throughout the holidays.
Sts. Cyril and Methodius’
church experienced a record at-
tendance at Masses, especially
the mid-night Mass on Christ-
mas.
The United Dr. Martin Luther
church has long since outgrown
its edifice and it was more evi-
dent at Christmas and New
Year this season.
The Baptist church registered
a splendid attendance in ob-
servance of the birthday of the
Christ Child.
The Methodist services had
an equally gratifying attend-
ance. There is no substitute for
religious worship at Christmas-
tide, for the focal center of hea-
ven and earth is the manger and
the Christ Child.
Newspapers and radio agreed
that this year all over America
there was a more reverent
church attendance, and revelry
was more restrained than in
previous years.
Many had members of their
family as well as young Ameri-
can men of their country 7,000
miles away from home, some
being shot, tortured and frozen.
It seemed to many that sermons
should be preached and we
should all stop and bow our
heads and think of them. Many
thousands of Americana did this
very thing.
The shadow of the draft and
the call to arms is on every
threshhold and it is time for
somber contemplation and to
beseech more earnestly the
Prince of Peace.
Elo Wolters, whose helpful-
ness is appreciated in supplying
the Gazette with the rainfall
during the year, gave the paper
the year’s total for 1950 as fol-
lows:
January ................................ 1.60
February .............................. 2.53
March .................... 15
April .................................... 3.60
May ...................................... 2.35
June ...................................... 2.65
July ...................................... 1.60
August ........................'...........90
September ............................ 2.95
October ................................ 0.00
November ............................ 0.00
December ............................ 1.40
TOTAL 19.73
By comparision we repeat the
report for 1949:
January 2.40; February 3.15;
March 1.71; April 10:10; May
.65; June 1.85; July 5.77; Au-
gust 3.79; September 2.80; Oct-
ober 5.35; November none; De-
cember 4.22.
Total for year 41.79. Total for
1948 was 22.77.
Hopes Were High
For Wet New Year
The New Year dawned wet
and high hopes were held that
the drizzle would terminate in
a down-pour.
The high winds of Monday
night sapped all the moisture
and Tuesday was summer heat
until about 4 p.m. when a cold
wave started creeping in.
During the night sleet was
reported but Wednesday dawn-
ed with bright sunshine and on-
ly slightly cooler.
V.F.W. And Aux.
Meets Tonite, 7:30
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
and Auxiliary will meet tonight,
January 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the.
V.F.W. Home.
With today’s issue the Shiner
Gazette is embarking upon an-
other year of service to this
community.
Fifty-eight years of . contin-
ous service is a long, long time
to chronicle events of the grad-
ual growth of this vicinity from
the Post Office of Half Moon
Timber to the present wide-
spread growth.
This paper today is writing
Volume 59, Number 1.
The Gazette is fast becoming
a real old personage, come an-
other year it will have reached
a birthday of three score years.
It is with the keenest of ap-
preciation we recognize our ad-
vertisers. They have enabled
this paper to visit you, and to
them' we render thanks for
splendid patronage and we feel
that the extensive coverage af-
forded has enabled every patron
to sell their merchandise.
To all friends for helpfulness
and good will the owners are
most appreciative.
As the year 1950 closes the
future is far from inviting. The
next few weeks may plunge the
entire world into World War
III. The view is ominous.
In welcoming the New Year
we know of no better prayer
for a happy birthday to the Ga-
zette than to offer a petition for
health, happiness and prosperi-
ty to one and all and may peace
come to all nations of this trou-
bled world.
Cemetery Society
Meets Friday, Jart. 5
A very important meeting of
the Shiner Cemetery Associa-
tion will be held Friday after-
noon in the Chamber of Com-
merce room at 3 o’clock.
Since so many are urging the
changing of the annual Decora-
tion Day, a large attendance is
requested to help decide this
question. Come and vote.
It is also the time for the an-
nual election of officers.
• •
Gonzales and Lavaca County
registrants will feel the impact
of the stepped up draft require-
ments this month.
Originally the Gonzales-La-
vaca board had been called up-
on to furnish 15 men for induc-
tion Jan. 11 and to send 44 for
their physicals on Jan. 15.
But with recent reserves in
Draft Boards Must Find Farmer’s
Work Essential Before Deferment;
Labors Should Aid Nation Is Law
• • •
Austin, Texas, Dec. 29.—Em-
phasizing that the draft law
provides no blanket deferment
for farm workers, Brigadier
General Paul L. Wakefield,
state Selective Service director,
declared that local boards are
required both by law and regu-
lation to consider each agricul-
tural worker’s case individually,
just as other men’s cases are
considered.
General Wakefield said that
regulations issued by the presi-
dent provide for a deferred
classification for farm workers
only when the following condi-
tions are met to the satisfaction
of the local board:
1. The man must be “employ-
ed in the production of a sub-
stantial quantity of those agri-
cultural commodities which are
necessary to the maintenance of
the national health, safety, or
interest.”
2. “The production for market
of a substantial quantity of
agricultural commodities should
be measured in terms of the
average annual production per
farm worker which is market-
ed from a local average farm of
the type under consideration.
The production of agricultural
commodities for consumption
by the worker and his family,
or traded for subsistance pur-
poses, should not be considered
as production for market. Pro-
duction which is in excess of
that required for the subsistence
of the farm families on the farm
under consideration should be
considered as production for
market.”
• • i
The state draft director, ob-
served that “this still doesn’t
give the complete picture,” and
added that a man, to be eligible
for farm deferment, must also
meet the requirements in the
section of the Selective Service
regulations defining necessary
employment.
He quoted as follows:
“A registrant’s employment
in industry or other occupation,
service in office, or activity in
study, research, or medical,
scientific, or other endeavors
shall be considered to be neces-
sary to the maintenance of the
national health, safety, or inter-
est only when all of the follow-
ing conditions exist:
“1. The registrant is, or but
for a seasonal or temporary in-
terruption would be, engaged in
such activity;
“2. The registrant cannot be
replaced because of a shortage
of persons with his qualifica-
tions or skill in such activity;
and
“3. The*removal of the regis-
trant would cause a material
loss of effectivenss in such ac-
tivity.”
General Wakefield stressed
that deferments based on agri-
cultural and other civilian, oc-
cupations are not permanent.
“They are issued for one year
or less,” he said, “and local
boards have instructions to clas-
sify a registrant as available for
service whenever the Cause for
his deferment ceases to exist.”
He explained that the desig-
nation Class II-C is used to in-
dicate those deferred because of
agricultural occupation.
Capping Ceremony
At Local Hospital
Wednesday, Dec. 20
A program of Auxiliary
Nurses Training directed by
Mrs. L. Osborn, R.N., has been
in progress at the local hospital.
December 20 marked the day
of a Capping Ceremony for the
following at the Wagner Hos-
pital: Misses Emma Bruns, Ann
Siegel, Ann Rainosek, Albina
Patek, Jeanette Wen del, Marion
Wieting, Della Wagner, Jeanette
Schuhmann, Mildred Pospisil,
Evelyn Janda, Edith Michalec,
Mrs. Hattie Berg, Mrs. Frances
Harabis, Mrs. K. Patton.
A bill for licensing Auxiliary
Nurses will be introduced into
the 1951 January session of the
Texas State Legislature. If the
bill passes certain requirements
and qualifications will have to
be met, including the governing
of fees, in order to obtain the
license.
This is a very important step
in standardizing the services of
Auxiliary Nurses to meet the
great emergency of caring for
the sick, and fortunate are those
who avail themselves of the
training program.
The fact that there is a great
need for Auxiliary Nurses who
may adequately perform many
of the tasks of caring for the
sick without being Registered
Nurses and without them hav-
ing to take the lengthy training
incident to becoming a Register-
ed Nurse, and also the fact that
the health and welfare of the
people of the state will be serv-
ed by a uniform licensing sys-
tem regulating such Auxiliary
Nurses, shows a humanitarium
need in this noble calling and
the existing emergency creates
an imperative public necessity.
The “Capping” girls of Shi-
ner can well fo<? nroud of the
fact that they are associated
with an accredited hospital that
can give the Auxiliary Nurse
training.
Good Business
Glorious Holiday
Business was reported good
for the holidays. The stock of
merchandise were mostly de-
pleted.
There were many beautiful
display windows and interior
decorations in the business
houses.
The street lighting and com-
munity Christmas tree contri-
buted to the successful observ-
ance.
Christmas trees could be seen
through the picture windows of
nearly every home.
Family re-unions and gather-
ings played their part in the
joyous season. College students
brought cheer to the home fire-
side.
The. mails were heavy and at
times the local Post Office was
swamped with incoming and
out-going mail. Schools resum-
ed Tuesday after a glorious
Christmas holiday season.
The weather proved ideal and
all entertainment plans went
through on schedule and record
attendance was reported at all
events. /
• •
Korea causing the war depart-
ment to approximately double
requests for men, here is what
now will happen: On Dec. 28,
the local board sent 44 to San
Antonio for their pre-induction
physicals. On the Jan. 11 date
the board has been asked to fur-
nish 30 men (instead of 15) for
induction, and on Jan. 15 the
board has' been asked for 88
men to take physicals.
Mrs. Parr noted that the state
selective department requested
that local boards are now to
make allowances for those who
obviously will be deferred—at
least temporarily—such as stu-
dents and national guardsmen,
and to send enough more to take
physicals to make up for those
who would be deferred. Under
this setup Mrs. Parr indicated
that more than 100 would be
sent from this County to take
physicals Jan. 15.
Many Seek Deferments—
This setup in the draft is be-
ginning to be felt over both
counties, and many boys wh
have been in 1-A, but had rea
sons for deferment, are sudden-
ly aware that they are a lot
nearer to service than they had
thought and the result had been
a flood of inquiries at the local
selective service office concern-
ing deferments. It is expected
that the present rush will be-
come even worse when the no-
tices for physicals for Jan. 15
are mailed out.
No Blanket Deferments—
In an attempt to clarify pres-
ent deferment policies, Briga-
dier General Paul L, Wakefield,
state selective service director,
pointed out this week that the
draft law provides no blanket
deferment for farm workers.
Most From Gonzales County—
In the Dec. 28 call for phy-
sicals, the Gonzales County con-
tingent, for the first time, ex-
ceeds the Lavaca county group.
Though Lavaca county has some
more men than Gonzales coun-
ty, they have been furnishing
a much higher proportion of in-
ductees and registrants for ex-
amination. While no explana-
tion for this turn of events has
been advanced, it is believed
that the difference is accounted
for by the local national guard
units, plus loss to industry of a
bigger proportion of draft age
men from Gonzales County.
However, the Dec. 28 physical
call was for 17 frrvn-. j_.avaca
County and Z7 from Gonzales
County, and perhaps this dif-
ference will disappear in time.
Those taking physicals Thursr
day, the bulk of whom were
born in 1929, include:
David Jerome Michelson, Carl
Siebeneicher Jr., Buster Junior
Irle, Billy Don Parker, Eugene
Gerhardt Hoyer, Will Franklin
Johnson, Fred Jefferson, Henry
Kenneth DuBose, Isadore N.
Tudzin, Anton Drabek, John
Henry Hammon and Max R.
Fredrich, all of Gonzales; Cal-
vin Ray Pullin, Rosendo Pena
Mejia, Horace Lee Houston,
Chalmers Moore, Perry Odell
Rayes and Milas Ferdinand Hol-
liday, all of Nixon; Collis Nealy,
Edward Huse Clark, Billy Char-
les Griffin, all of Waelder. Oth-
ers from Gonzales county in-
clude Raymond Lopez, East
Bernard; Rex Hildon Stewart,
San Antonio; Charles Daniel
Beran, College Station; Ger
Thomas Brauer, Falls Cify,
Nebr.; and Freddie Samual
Menking, Yakima, Wash.
From Lavaca County are
Theodore Roosevelt Davis II,
Joe John Loya, Oscar Charles
Hair ell, John Eugene Sitka,
Leslie Hale Kark, all of Yoa-
kum; Calvin John, Hohensee^
Louis Felix Sassin, Tommy
Walker, Walter Edgar Nichol-
son, all of Hallettsville; Alton
Eugene Bengsch, Adolph Ko-
lacny,' Lonnie Hemphill and
Lawrence N. Christ, all of Shi-
ner; Harold Loyd McAfee, San .
Antonio; Thomas Henry Hoyer, V
and Alex Edward Haas, Moul-
ton; and Julius Jacob Sandelo-
vic, Sinton.
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