The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1947 Page: 8 of 12
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1947
BOWIE, TEXAS
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PLAN NOW TO ATTEND THE FAIR
McCormick Deering Salos and Service
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See our big stock of Tires for Tractors and Implements.
Lei us Paint and Repair that Tractor now—Order parts and
get ready for Fall Plowing.
• Better get ready now to put that phosphate or fertilizer
or lime on the land for that fall planting of vetch, Austrian peas,
clover or other legumes, as well as small grain.
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In the quarter century . .; 1921-1946 ..,
Average length of freight trains has
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wobble OR HSh Tailing TESTS
SHOW that The SLICKER THE ROAD
THE GREATER MARGIN OF SAFETY .
..CURVE GRIPPERS GIVE YOU!
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Plus Tax
A < eiw pkttes f>> the exclusive
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now issued
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Average speed of freight trains has gone up.
The rate of injuries to railroad employes has
gone down
Average wages paid railroad workers have
gone up •. • •
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COME IN TODAY-SEE THIS TIRE I
trii't?; siipport of the current
campaign by all Texas citizens
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TOO FAT? Get SLIMMER
this vitamin candy way
Have a more slender, graceful fig-
ure. No exercising. No laxative*.
Nodrugs. With the simple AYOS
Vitamin Candy Reducing Plan
you don’t cut out any meals,
starches. potatoes, meauor butter,
you simply cut them down. It •
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m! ore meala Abaolutdy harnucaa.^
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cal doctors, more than 100>ara««a
teat 14 to IB Iba. bs a
f.w weaba with A YDS Vitamin
Candy Redyeing Flan. _
For ‘■'safety.'” tlu\v say. But is it?
Government ti> tires show def initely
th it long trains mC'an greater .safety to
r.i'j.oa.l eiuploM g ,ui I pil.bhc
Then.' if safety.is no) the real reason—
wild is the reason Irehijtd this demand?
It is to make more jobs which are not
needed to get more pay! This ‘‘made
• work” would hr sheer waste. Think of big,
modern locomotives using only half their
power.
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KROEHLER
has been kept alive and shining.
Front homespun and buckskin to . .
the khaki Of today: from the days wri! nssFre the continuanceaif this
when their name in arms was the heritage in the reorganized Na-
Texas Militia, to today when they j tionul Guard.” ’ *
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A Washington man won a
steak'-eating contest by. downing
seven. The hero is the person
who paid for them!
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Its VEST ADAMS STREET • CHICAGO 3, QLLINOIS
We are publishing thia and other advertisements to talk with you
at first hand about matters which are important to everybody.
under another of the Fiftieth Sbs-
jrion's new laws.
Suggested by .Highway Depart-'
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Wfc have dependable distributors and attachments. No
obligation to come in and let us talk about this proposition.
% engines;.. long teins^
SLAUGHTER DRUG STORE
K. ?. Dori, Prop.
Bowie, Texas
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. Announcing Texas’ participa-
tion in the national contest, Gen.
Berry explained that,, ‘’the1 new
National Guard will expand ul-
timately to a strength of 682.000
■—three times the pre-war force.’
The Texas National Guard, which
totalled 11,848 officers and men
when it was inducted into Federal
service prior to World War II,
ultimately must attain*a strength
of 30,110, as compared to its cur-
rent strength of 5.112.
“The Texas National Guard has
a proud heritage of service to the
Slate as Well as the Nation, in
both war and peace. The pa-
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CUSHIONIZED CONSTRUCTION
KROEHLER &
This stunning new modern living room suite is exactly the same as
|he nnq, ytm are now reading about in your favorite national^ia^a-
zines. It's new, different and an ekeiting value. Richly, tailored in
“Pine-Tree” boude. .. choice of 10 new colors. You’ll be delighted
with its soft billowy comfort, because it’s Cushtonized ... the newest
development in furniture construction. Come' in for a demonstra-
tion. See it!
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Railroad taxes have gone up. /O.o
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But the average charge by railroads ;
for hauling a ton of freight one mile J ■ J
has gone down' . few 'O ■
Thin is' the weather that make.! Con tant totnplaining about not* One rule of fuce.-: - i- ’’loep New Law Affects . National Guardsmen
—1 uf-nr-hare tin--Ftrnt*-'«j>- goUwg ah»ud may uu.an that .at n t-ij'i can > • v. ■ <■!> . ., Owners of Cars Compete For Trip
m-ri in lift- , j(*ct tn doine a n v- there i ■ a - wi 11boric win la J«> j>b(~'I t o tlpUH h. * t ! , ,o \ < 11.
SHE rn onjM t to domi any ■ Austin.-Uh; nin -.tie ami To Army-Navy Game
anything but oaf. »backbone odg.it to be. 1 ri.cnt bon< . . , , , . , .■ .
, registration laws maue by -tae r K-
tit.th Legislature will, sooner or
later affect all owners ot motor
. vehicles Texas Hi hv. av Depart ‘"s 1 | nrst or tne.it con
nu nt ^..f±nn "v ’ September Ht. for ykgfat themselves
State, recruiting prize which will every form that their fellow cit-
include ,a trip by airplane
BECAUSE Accidents on Curves
and Turns Will Kill or Injure
I /J/183/000 pe°p!e T1l‘s Year • • •
DAVIS Develops The FIRST and ONLY
Cur^
Texas National Guatdsmen will. arc renowned as the Texas Na-
compete in a two-month recruit- fional Guard, they have "been the
ing content starting on National! fjrst of theii; communities to pre-
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T 1 ■ Stfttk r<'I’l’i 1 itin0 nri-zn which will ' . ____ r_____ *u..» r..lln,,, «li
1 A nun.be: o. t!. ■ m u Ma., ^duji, a trip by airplane to
Cbeetime <if.eet.ve Sept, mbe, 5. .Washmgton ..nd the Army-Navy be kept sa{e,"
> Attei that date, fo. example. footbull game at Philadelphia,
< the Texas Highway Department Maj Qen K L. Berryi the Ad.
/ Wdl be requK-ed to charge a fee ^Unt General o£ Texas> toduy
J of $1.00 for assigning motors to announced. ”•
f new or reconditioned motors. A Thv national observance will
■ 1. similar fee was ordered for serial feature a nation-wide radio broad-
l . numbers on house trailers. cast and Regular Army ancj civil-
J The growing practice of install- ian organizations will join with
\ ing new and rebuilt motors, some Gurd-.men in locijl obs,er\ances in
f bearing no identification, .number, cities throughout the State.
I demands a. strict accounting of The Texas recruiting contest, in
< both motor and serial numbers on which it is ho^ed to enlist 3.925
J vehicles to assure valid titles in recruits in National Guard units
\' the name of rightful owners. 1 throughout the State, will be con-
II New laws outline a procedure ducted in conjunction with a ria-
1 I giving maximum jirutection to tion-wide contest designated the
I legal owners of all <notor vehicles.\ “National Guard Assembly,” for
J l When motors are exchanged,.the vv;hieh a goal of 83,888 enlistments
>1 vehicle owner must apply prompt- has been set, Gen. Berry said.
/ ,ly to the Te.'.a, Highway Depart- This national goal represents the
j'tiHtil tor a eo reviiun of his <er- cnlistmentofamanaminuterliir-
* j til K ate of titb . Otherwise the ing each day of the two-monti.
> I ti'tfe to his vehicle is clouded be- campaign.
A. cause it., motor nuRjber does not InVaccordance with Presiclent
r I < orr<" pond, to h:.> title, an awk- Truman's procla'mationof Septem-
1 v.ard situation to handle whe-n he 1(; ;,s National Guard Day.
( .tries to sell 111-, car. Gov. Jester today directed that it
If the new or reconditioned mo-' be observed throughout' Texas,
tor bears a inanuf.u ter i,’s num- Governor Jc-.-tyr said in his proc-
/1 her. it should be Used, if It' is lamati.in: L
1 blank, as many ate nowadays, the “The history of the State of
< purchaser mu t apply direct to the Texas had to be lived -before it
J Texas'-.Highuay Department a't coufil be written.- Among those
A fist in for an assigned number, who have lived it most* nobly are *
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1 be obtained fi">m -any County Tax many generations have served the ■
’ f Collector’s office. It is illegal military traditions by which our i '
1 to stdrnp liny nutriber on a mot ■ .n,,r Statd |
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f tile Hi.ghu y Dcp.il tniept.
1 A new ervice has been ]
L- vidyd for. T j. .ms
1 take’delivery on a ri<:W ehicle '
I ;<t the factory, or from a <ie.,'.er o£ purchasers wishing to drive
mean lower cost to you
But union /cameos want /ia/f~trains’-doub/e crews f
'Bi;; locomotives are built to tin a big job
,jn the big count-i'V which is America a
big job in |x*aeetiiiH* as in wartime. J’hvy
pre Imilt h»imll long trams. . _.....
l,ong freight traihs can handle Fniir,’
go7><ls at less cost -to you than short
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Long trains nwan fewer trains—fewer
clisinces for accidents fewer interrup-
tions, to trajlic.
But a few railroad union leaders op-
po.ie long traihs among their current -It For this waste, yini — the public—would
demands for changes in rules is oire limit- ' have to pay. Higher costs mean a lower
~—tirft tlu-1 UmgLhotdreight (inriis in a7 nver^ ■ st uwIhm! ,nf living. -
age cars. Why,do they’demand this? body iiww6s thaf!
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ment officials for rhe convenience
in another State. Temporary li- Athoir new car back from the i'ac-
tf!^f*torJ'. nfer”ne\v lav< eliminates ”
many thorny legal technicalities
formerly.incident to the practice. „■
j*. Temponry plates, good for
thirty days, can nuw be secured
without delay t>t the County 7\yx
■ Collector’s office, and carriXrto
j the factory nr other. out-of-State „
• [ delivery point. The owner may
secure certificate of title to his
, new car and regular registration
■ i pltHen tifiep returning to Texatk.
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Trout, H. I. The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1947, newspaper, September 12, 1947; Bowie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1367517/m1/8/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bowie Public Library.