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THE NEW ULM ENTERPRIS
Volume 33 No. 8.
NEW ULM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1942
Of Burning Residence At Welcome
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granted is insufficieit for
operation of the vehicle,
holder of the certificate
present his certificate to
local War Price and Ra-
the figures set by the
of Defense Transporta-
Edgar Oppermann
Crowder, Missuori,
will go
do the
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Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mieth
and children visited in Alvin
and Freeport Thanksgiving Day.
They were accompanied as far
as Rosenberg by Miss Dorothy
Cochran.
Little Miss Gwendolyn Kre-
nek of Houston spent the week
end with her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. G. Aurich.
Fritz Kollmann of Frelsburg
was a New Ulm visitor Wed-
nesday.
appli-
state-
under
Mrs. Ed. Pflughaupt, Jr. and
children accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Mary Hoppe of
Pisek were pleasant visitors
here Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Pomi-
kal of Bellville were New Ulm
visitors Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Kuehn
of Post Oak Point were visitors
here Saturday.
Members of the Henkhaus
Gun Club will have their reg-
ular business meeting and target
practice session at their target
range next Sunday, December
6, at 2:00 p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Krueger
and son Cecil spent the week-
end with their son Kermit of
Dallas and with Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Schmalz of Marlin.
Erwin and Bryan Bartay and
Mrs. R. Sanders and daughter
of Houston spent the week end
visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. F. Bartay.
Simon Wilde and Misses Eve-
lyn. Elvira and Arelina Wilde
and Miss Ema Minar motored
to Fayetteville Sunday evening.
H. L. Frnka, Ad. J. Mfeth, Wal-
ter Mieth, C. E. Helwig and L.
A. Reichle were business visit-
ors in Bellville Tuesday.
IMcnday we made a mid-day
business trip to the county seat
with Lona Franke at the wheel
and E. G. Kuehn as ballast.
As usual the trip was much
enjoyed among friends and ac-
quaintances in t’he courthouse
and on frequent short stops
along the sidewalks. Occasional-
ly we peeped into a mercantile
establishment for the sake of
getting a glimpse of the inter-
ior pre-holiday decoration, which
in by-gone years caught the
eye of the prospective shopper.
The twall and shelves of most
business establishments reveal
that the holiday trade is under-
going a tremendous trimming
for want of holiday goods
which are not obtainable from
factories and wholesalers. In-
stead of beholding all kinds of
toys, (trinkets, and novelties
displayed in the bay windows
one can feast his eyes on all
kinds of motley sacks and bags
containing chicken and hog
feed. The huckster, the hard-
ware dealer, the various chain
stores, the general merchant
anti other dealers depend much
on the sales of food for their
livelihood. This holds good re-
gardless in which town, or on
which crass road the stores are
located. Take the chicken and
hog feed and with it the sand-
wich shops, cafes off the map,
and what have we? As like
not a dead town.
Thanksgiving Da.v guests in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Kech ' were Mr. and Mrs. Ar-
thur Venghaus and son of
Frelsburg. Walter Frederickson
and son of Galveston and Louis
Schultz of Sugarland.
Misses Hattie IMieth and
Mathilde Persky spent Monday
evening in Bellville and Bren-
ham.
Since last week Thursday two
more deer fell victims to the
guns of lucky hunters. Last
Thursday morning Norbert Mai
bagged a nice 8-point buck and
late Wednesday evening Mon-
roe C. Koch got his first buck
of the season, also a nice
8-pointer.
H. D. Club Ccurcil
Party Dec. 12 At Bellville
Mrs. A. Daniel and daughter
of Bellville accompanied
Mrs. Frieda Schultz of
Spring visited in New
Thursday.
Some Rubber Footwear
May Now Be Purchased
function of- the OPA or its
agencies to question the mileage
rationing figures set by the
ODT. Our board is obliged to
follow
Office
tion.”
Miss Alice Krueger
panied by her mother, Mrs.
Margaret Krueger, spent the
Thanksgiving Holidays in Mar-
lin visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Schmalz and children.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Jecmenek
of Needville and Miss Esther
Muenzler of Houston were week
end visitors in the Louis 0.
Muenzler home.
Cpl.
Camp
rived Wednesday to spend
furlough with his parents, 1
and Mrs. Willie Oppermann
Frelsburg.
Polling Places Announced
For Cotton Referendum
Emil Pfejffer of Shelby
seen
Bellville—Courtroom.
New Wehdem—School House.
Kenney—Theo. Luhn’s Store.
Cochran—School House.
Ives Creek—School House.
Welcome—Reichle’s Store.
Bleiblerville—Bleiblerville
Hall.
New Ulm—Zeiner’s Cafe.
Millheim—Millheim Hall.
Cat Spring—Agricukure Hall.
Nelsonville—Nelsonville Hall.
Industry—School House.
Shelby—Voelkel’s Hall.
All cotton farmers are also
urged to attend the meetings
to be held at ithe following
places, for the purpose of dis-
cussing the 1943 Cotton Mar-
keting Quotas:
Kenney—Thursday, Dec. 3,
at 8 p. m. at Theo. Luhn’s
Store.
Wallis—Friday, Dec. 4 at
p. m. at Wallis High School.
Sealy—Monday, Dec. 7, at
p. m. at Liedertafel Hall.
Cat Spring—Tuesday, Dec.
4t 8 p. m. at Agr. Hall.
Welcome—Wednesday, Dec. 9
at 8 p. m. at Bleiblerville Hall.
New Ulm—Wednesday, Dec.
9 at 8 p. m. at Zeiner’s Cafe.
Frydek—Thursday, Dec. 10
at 8 p. m. at Public School.
Shelby—Thursday, Dec.
at 8 p. m. at Voelkel’s Hall.
Bellville—Friday, Dec. 11
p. m. at Courtroom.
Industry—Friday, Dec. 11
p. m. at School House.
Ives Creek—Friday. Dec.
at 8 p. m. at School House.
Brenham, Nov. 30.—Pro-
fessor F. J. Navratil, director
of the Brenham concert band
and' also a composer, was sig-
nally honored when his most
recent composition, “Lidice,”
was played by the First Infan-
try R. T. C. band of Camp Wol-
ters, Mineral Wells, as the open-
ing selection of their radio pro-
gram recently. The band was
conducted bv Master Sgt. H.
M. Busley.
C. E. Helwig Resigns
As Distributor For
Magnolia Oil Products
Farm Trucks Which
Received Insufficient
Gas To Receive Aid
Misses Evelyn Wilde and
Dorace Henkhaus, accompani-
ed by Wilbert Woltmann and
Andrew Schramm, visited in
the home of Mr. and Mrs, Her-
bert Schramm at Bastrop on
Thanksgiving Day. They also
visited places of interest while
in Bastrop.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Baumgart
and son Ernest Jr., accompani-
ed by Fred Ruland Jr. and Mr.
and Mrs. L. A. Reichle were
visitors in Wharton Friday
night.
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his
Mr.
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Cpl. Charles Zettel of Camp
Edwards, Mass., is at present
spending his furlough with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John G.
Zettel of near Nelsonville. Wed-
nesday Cpl. Zettel. accompanied
by his father and his brother,
J. C. Zettel were visitors in
New Ulm.
• Star Route News
(By C. W. Schmidt)
The Council’s Christmas par-
ty will be held in Bellville at
the R. E. A. Office, Sa urday,
December 12, at 7:30 p. m.
All club members and fam-
ilies, Victory Community and
Neighbor Leaders and families
are cordially invited to attend. •
4-H club girls have a special
invitation.
Everybody coming is request-
ed to bring fcod for each per-
son she brings. Also bring cup,
fork, knife and spoon. The meal
will be served banquet style.
Coffee, plates acid napkins will
be furnished.
There will be a Christmas
tree, so bring a small gift (not
to exceed 25 cents; may be
home-made) for each person
you bring.
George W. Hill, county super-
intendent, will give a picture
show.
W’e eat at 7:30 o’clock—Be
sure to be on time.—By Mrs.
Chas. Nelius, Council Chairman.
Census report shows that
8,833 bales of cottoh were gin-
ned in Austin county from the
crop of 1942 prior to Nov. 14
as compared with 4,641 bales
for the crop of 1941.
Owners of farm trucks are
unanimous in their convictions
that the gas rationing board in
Detroit, Michigan, made a ran-
dom guess when figuring on
the allotments of gas needed
for each farm truck for its suc-
cessful operation on the faun.
In south and central Texas,
where farmers truck their own
livestock to market, where fre-
quent trips must be made to
the nearest market to sell and
deliver fresh and in a sanitary
condition, their production of
cream, milk, ppultry and eggs
more gas is needed than in sec-
tions entirely dependent on cot-
ton, corn and cereals. Some
farm truck owners who made
a good hit above the waterline
received so large an allotment
of gas, that they are at a loss
as what to do with it, while
those who fell below the water-
line received so little allot-
ments that they, too, don’t know
what to do with it, they say.
This sam* unfair distribution
of the amounts on the farmer's
AAA checks belongs to the
same category, farmers claim.
Of course every intelligent
reader will readily admit that
the as* given the short stick
is the one that thinks he is
entitled to protest against the
putting of short staves in a bar-
rel. The small farmer is little
better off than the barrel with
the short stave. Strangle the
earning power of the fr.mers
anti there will be tears, but no
flowers.
Messrs. W. C. Franke, Alfred
Schroeder and Jay C. Buenger
of Houston spent the week end
with home folks. Mr. Schrader,
who held a lucrative position
in East Texas, has been trans-
ferred back to Houston by his
employers much to his satisfac-
tion. In a social way nothing
is “gooder” than to meet the
children of ones friends of by
gone years with a “C” card
in their possession.
na Mahlmanm, 82, and that of
her daughter, Sophie M«hl-
mann, 59, afflicted with a
chronic ailment, at Welcome,
Tuesday evening of last week,
caused consternation and pro-
found sorrow among the peo-
ple over a wide area in this
section of Austin and adjacent
counties. The exact origin of
the disastrous fire that claim-
ed the lives of the two women
is only a mattter of conjecture
and no reliable account can be
given. The fact that the rem-
nants of the burnt skeletons
of the two women were found
in the ashes where the front
porch was located lead neigh-
bors to believe that the mo-
ther, of frail constitution and
the daughter afflicated’ with a
chronic ailment, tried to assist
each other in an effort to free
themselves from the burning
cinders reached the porch too
late for escape. Henry Mahl-
mann, it is said, had gone to
the nearby store to get some
replacement for a defective
stovepipe and was waiting for
the work he -had ordered when
the sad tidings were brought
to him. The kitchen was the
last of the two buildings to
which the fire spread which
leads to the supposition that
the origin of the fire was in
the main part of the residence.
Henry Mahlmann, his mother
and sister, were the only occu-
pants of the farmhouse and had
lived there all their lives, in-
mother who
the house in
a family of
whom throe
Willie Mahl-
Henry Mahl-
The follawiyw information
concerning farn^ truck opera-
tors, who were granted insuf-
ficient amounts of fuel, was
phoned to the Enterprise by
the AAA office of Bellville
early this morning:
With reference to “Certifi-
cates of War Necessity” upon
which an error has been made,
or where the amount of motor
fuel
the
the
will
the
tioning Board.
The local board will iseiffe a
motor fuel ration in the amount
requested and such amount will
be deducted! at a later date from
the total gallons of motor fuel
allowance on the corrected
“Certificate of War Necessity.”
The local War Price and Ra-
tioning Board will direct such
applicants, who are operating
farm vehicles, to the chairman
of the County Farm Transpor-
tation Committee, whose office
is fa> the AAA office, for the
purpose of making an appeal
for a corrected “Certificate of
War Necessity.”
This appeal cannot be made
until 30 days from the date
that the “Certificate of War
Necessity” was issued, and must
.contain the information set out
below for a period of seven
consecutive days within the
foregoing 30 day neriod.
1— The origin and destination
of each trip.
2— The miles operated on
each trip. ____
3— The total unit of freight
carried on each trip.
4— The commodity transnort-
ed and the use to be made of
the commodity.
5— Maximum capacity of the
vehicle for the commodity
transported on each trip.
The foregoing materials must
be submitted in legible form
and the n: .He and address and
certificate number of the
cant given. The entire
ment must be submitted
oath.
Our neighbor. K,*.»eh Schu-
bert, a progressive ,.oung man
a .d all around b ptler, is re-
cuperating from prolonged in-
ternal disorda’-} which kept him
indoors fq» the past month.
With co pa <ete rest and good
care hir Uved ones hope to
nurse *flm back to health ere
Two More Bucks
Are Reported Killed
Brenham Composer’s
‘Lidice’ Is Honored
New Ulm School
2nd 6 week Period
Gene Mieth
Georgia Lee Mieth
eluding the aged
also was born in
which she raised
four children of
survive, namely:
mann of Shelby;
mann of Welcome; and Mrs.
Johnnie (Dorethea Herr of
Bleiblerville. Surviving also are
two brothers John Eben and
Willie Eben of Welcome; two
sisters, Mrs. Jtrttus BlezHger
of New Bremen and Mrs.
Speckmann, a reiident of west
Texas.
Fu -era! took place on Thanks-
giving Day at Industry with
Rev. I. M. Mansur officiating
at the double funeral in the
presence of a large concourse
of relatives and friends.
HENKHAUS GUN CLUB
WILL MEET SUNDAY
Colbert E. Helwig for the
past 15 years distributor for
the Magnolia Petroleum Com-
pany severed his connections
with the company by tertdering
his resignation, which became
effective on December 1st.
Leander A. Reichle was ap-
pointed to succeed Mr. Helwig.
Mr. Reichle took over the du-
ties on December 1st and will
serve as distributor for Mag-
nolia products.
Mr. Helwig states that a de-
sire to make a change prompt-
ed him to resign from the posi-
tion. As to what Mr. Helwig
will do has cot been made
known.
—--,
Mother And Daughter Perish In Flames
Certain ,:ypes of rubber foot-
wear not suitable for use in
mines may now be purchased
with rationing certificates by
farmers and others entitled to
use such lighter-weight rubber
footwear. Mr. D. L. Prouty,
Chairman of the Austin County
War Price and Rationing Board,
ajounced today.
In order to assure that the
particular type of rubber foot-
wear best suitei to the needs
cf miners will be rationed only j
to persons in that occupation
rubber footwear used ir. the
mines, classified as Type-5, may
be purchased only by miners
under a new amendment to the
rubber footwear rationing order.
In other cases, however, the
War Price and Rationing Board
still may issue certificates au-
thorizing the purchase of the
shortest height and lightest-
weight rubber footwear that
will meet an applicant’s need.
The new amendment specifies
that Type-5 includes only rub-
ber mine pacs and bootees tern
inches or more in height but
below the knee in height and
any otl—-r footw’ear of this
class that is laced over the in-
step.
Mr. Prouty pointed out that
contrary to the misunderstand-
ing prevalent among some mer-
chants four-buckle all-rubber1
Artics are not rationed
there is no restriction on
sale of such “galoshes.”
Mr. Prouty also pointed
that there is nothing in the ra-
tioning regulation whichjspeci-
fies the number of cows a far-
m;r mus.t be milking or any-
thing else of the sort that de-
termines that farmer’s eligibili-
ty to purchase rubber footwear.
“It is the Board’s duty to
determine,” he said, “that an
individual's work is essential
to the promotion of the war
effort or to the maintenance of
public health or safety and the
conditions of work of the appli-
cant’s job must require the use
of the requested footwear.”
“We face a severe rubber
shortage. That is why iwe can-
not make enough men's rubber
boots and rubber work shoes
for everyone who wants to buy
them. This is the only way
that we can be sure that the
men’s rubber boots and rubber
work shoes we have
only w’here they will
most good.”
Truck Owners Who Have
not Received Certificates
Get Temporary Rations
Cotton Ginning Report
For Austin County
Wherever you live in Austin
county, there will be a polling
place nearby in the cotton’mar-
keting quota referendum Sat-
urday, December 12.
Wartime restrictions and the
importance of all farmers vot-
ing make it necessary to in-
crease the number of polling
places for the referendum, Geo.
A. Vasicek, chairman of the
county AAA committee, has an-
nounced.
“Since every cotton grower
in the county should participate
in the referendum, we are do-
ing what we can to make it as
[easy as possible for them to
vote by increasing the number
of ballot boxes,” the AAA
chairman said.
This year there will be 17
ballot boxes in the county com-
pared with 12 boxes in previous
referenda.
“Gasoline rationing, tire
shortages and other wartime
. problems required that the num-
ber of boxes be increased,” Mr.
Vasicek said'.
Polling places in Austin coun-
ty will be open from 8 a. m.
until 7 p. m. at the following
places;
Frydek—School House.
San Felipe—Barbel's Store.
Sealy—Courtroom.
Wallis—Hranicky Meat Mar-
1 Mr. D. L. Prouty, Chairman
of the Austin .County (War
Price and Rationing Board, an-
nounced today that the board
may issue temporary gasoline
rations to truck operators
pending the issuance to them
of ODT Certificates of War
Necessity, or until December
3J, while such certificates are
being corrected.
Otherwise, he said, the Coun-
ty War Price and Rationing
Board must follow gasoline ra-
tion figures set by the office
of Defense Transportation, in
•^tailoring” transport mileage
ration books.
“The County War Price anti
Rationing Board administering
tte OPA program has no alter-
native but to accept the gaso-
line quota set on a Certificate
of War Necessity issued by the
ODT,” Mr. Prouty emphasized.
“We would like to make it
very plain that farmers and
other operators of commercial
vehicles who are now engaged
in transporting farm commodi-
ties and supplies should make
appeals through the County
Agricultural Agent or directly
to the County U. S. Department
of Agriculture War Board. Un-
der the procedure set up the
USDA board will review the in-
dividual cases and sertd its re-
commendation to the ODT dis-
trict office for correction.”
“Any such inequities cannot
be remedied under the regula-
tion by the Office of Price Ad-
ministration or the OPA’s
County War Price and Ration-
ing Board, but must be handl-
ed through the proper chan-
nels to the ODT, w’hich set the
gasoline rations for truck op-
erators in issuing Certificates
of War Necessity.”
However, he pointed out that
temporary gasoline rations can
be granted by the OPA’s Coun-
ty War Price and Rationing
Board to operators of commer-
cial motor vehicles whose Cer-
tificates of War Necessity, be-
cause of clerical or other errors
obvious on the face of the Cer-
tificates provide for less fuel
than the operators should be
granted to conduct their opera-
tions under ODT regulations.
“Such truck operators will be
■ given sufficient gasoline rations
the for one month’s operations up- >
on presentation of such erron-
eous Certificates to th* OPA
War Price and Rationing
Board,” he said. “In the same *
manner operators of commer-
cial vehicles whose applications
for Certificates of War Neces-
sity are on file but who have
not yet received their Certifi-
cates, also may obtain tempor-
ary rations to enable them to
operate through December 31.”
Mr. Prouty pointed out that
any holder of such a temporary
ration who is dissatisfied with
the amount of gasoline that has
been allowed him by the ODT
on his Certificate of War Nec-
essity should appeal to the
nearest ODT District Office
which can issue a corrected
Certificate if proper considera-
tion for making the correction
I is shown.
“In any case corrections for
increases in the amount of gaso-
line allowed a truck operator by
th* Certificate of War necessi-
ty must be made by the proper
ODT officials anti cannot be
made by the OPA’s County War j
Price and Rationing Board,”
Mr. Prouty said. “It is not the
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