Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1941 Page: 1 of 7
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Navasota Daily Examiner
Located In Heart
Home
Of Brazos Valley
Bluebonnet Festival
VOLUME XLVH
NUMBER 17
R. E. Greenwood
Police Clash With Pickets at Steel Plant
C. of C. Launches
Passes Away Early
Plans to Attend
Regional Convention
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Texas Bluebonnet
Festival Program
Louis Driesback
To Be In Charge
Of Pasadena Show
i Bluebonnet Queen
| To Be Here Friday
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Poultry Shipments
Show Increase
by H. J. Fohn, who was transferred
to Beaumont.
Presaging one of the most elaborate
spectacles to be given in the Southwest
is the Pageant of Liberty to be pre-
sented Saturday at 8 p. tn. in Brule
Stadium as the climax of the swond
day’s program of the three-day Texas
Bluebonnet Festival.
With a patriotic theme as a back-
ground, the Liberty pageant Including
a cast of WO, will unfold as attention
Is focussed on the parade of the Court
Million Invested
In Texas Business
AUSTIN, Texas. March 27. — It took
02 freight cars to haul Texas grown
chickens and turkeys to market in other
states last, month, the University of
Texas Bureau of Business Kesearch re-
ported today.
This movement compared with only
43 cars in February, 1040. "Die Febru-
ary, 1941, shipments were made up of
2 cars of live chickens, 1 of live tur-
keys, 55 cars of dressed chickens, 0 of
dressed turkeys.
Egg shipments more than doubled—
from 41 ty> iOS carloads.
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Draft Boards Asked
Join Organization to
Secure Pay for Group .
ol the ']exas
QIKRTIONNAIRE SENT
A questionnaire baa been sent to the
registrant whose order number la 1482,
thia registrant having filed applica-
tion for voluntary induction into the
United Rtataa Amy, the aeiactlve ear-
vics board aaid today.
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9:00
10:48
Radio Entertainers.
1:00 p. m.—Rodeo.
4:00 p. m —Official Bluebonnet Pa-
rade. (3 Mlles Long).
8 .DO p. m.—Coronation and Page-
ant ' i
10D0 p. m —Queen's Bell. (Carol
Ixjfner’s Orchestra.)
B—by, March N
8 DO a. m.—GoM Tournament.
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Bluebonnet Festival Coronation, Pageant
Saturday Evening Will Be Elaborate Show
Featuring Liberty; Program Set at 8
Radio Program to
Be Broadcast Here
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Practically, alt
Saturday hundreds of ,Grimes <’<>iintinns
coronation i .....
This Morning
Last Rites Will
Be Held on
Friday at 10
Roltert E. Greenwood passed away
at Brazos Valley Sanitarium at 7:10
n. m. today after a long illness.
Mr. Greenwood has been a resident
of Navasota for thirty-three years, and
a lifelong resident of Grimes County.
He was a member of the iManonic
fraternity, Blue Ixxlge No. 299 A.
F. & A. M., Chapter and (>>uncil, and
had been a steward in the First Mk»th-
odist Church for a number of years.
He Is survived by his wife, MYs.
Lula Louise Greenwood; one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mary Ellen Reed of Houston;
and one son, Robert E. Greenwood,
Jr., of Austin; two sisters, Mrs. J. H.
Speed of Houston and (Mrs. H. N.
Sandull, Sr.; one brother, Dr. W. W.
Greenwood; and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral Rites Friday
Funeral services will be held at 10
a. m. Friday at the family residence
under the auspices of the Navasota
Masonic Lodge.
The Rev. Ed J. Harris, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, assisted by
the Rev. R. E. Milam, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, will officiate.
Interment will be in Oakland ceme-
tery under direction of Scott Funeral
Home.
’ Pallbearers will be Hunter Yarbor-
ough, W. E. Farquhar, J. Walter Smith,
Rufus Hardy, Oscar Steele, Sr., and
R. W. Dean.
opened by mass concert of 15 bands -Scnis Tjyiot of the Gulf States Utili-
ties Company was a guest of the or-
ganization today and was introduced
by F. F. Johnson. .
AUSTIN. Texas, March 27< — New
funds invested in Texas business
represented by capitalization of 72
new firms granted charters to operate
in this state—during February totaled
81,818,000, University of Texas busi-
ness statisticians report.
In both number and capitalisation,
the new Corp arotioaenrmepntee----
the new corporations represented a de-
cline from February, 1940, when 126
concerns were incorporated at 33,010,-
000, the Unlverstty’s Bureau of Busi-
ness Research report revealed. In Jan-
uary 80 new firms hnd been chartered
with capital stock totaling 395H,00*>
Gage, Okla., Man Is
Here to Be in Charge
Of Airport Station
F. Flood formerly of Gage, Okla.,
has arrived in Navasota to be opera-
tor in charge of the Civil Aeronautics
Communication "Station at the local
airport.
School to Close
Friday at Noon
Rapt. J. T. Ferguson has announced
that the Navasota public schools will
be dosed at mob Friday for the open-
Anything from Wigs
To Windmills Made
By Texas Firms
AUSTIN, Texas. Marcvh 27. —What
do you need? From wigs to windmills,
Texas makes it.
If you have any doubts that Texas
firms aren't in the manufacturing
business, take a look at the fourth and
current directory pf Texas manufac-
turers, published by the University, of
of Texas Bureau of Business Research.
More than 9,000 Texas firms manu-
facture 5,320 types of articles.
Program Will Be
Heard From
4:45 to 5:15 p.
A W'TAW radio broadcast originat-
ing from Navasota in the Camp Hotel
will be heard Friday afternoon, the
opening day of the bluebonbrt festi-
val, beginning at 4:45 o'clock and con-
tinuing to 5ri5 o’clock.
The program will be in charge of
the station manager, John 0. Rosser,
and Director M. H. McNeely’s school
band, rodeo performers, and Interviews
with people on the streets will be fea-
tured in the bluebonnet broadcast.
This morning at 8:13 o'clock ths
bluebonnet festival was publicised over
WTAW, College Station, on the farm
and hoora program
AUSTIN, Texas, March 27. — Tex-
ans are not retrenching—If their pur-
chases at department and apparel stor-
es are any indication. University of
Texas Bureau of Business Research
statisticians said today.
Sales at 89 stores widely scattered
over the state for February were 5.9
per eent above those of February, 1M0,
with women’s specialty abopa showing
the only decMne-^-0.7 per cent. *
Largest gain occurred In dry gooda-
Spperel shops—18 per cent, with men’s
clothing stores following a close sec-
ond—18 per cent Large and small
department stores—over and .under
3500,000 annual volume of sales re-
spectively-gained 6.9 and 7.5 per cent.
Only two cities of the state—Fort
Worth, 3.2 per cent, and Cleburne, 2.8
per cent—reported losses In sales In
comparison with February a year ago.
Gains recorded In other major cities
were: Abilene. 38.8 per cent'; Austin,
6.8 per cent: Beaumont, 14.4 per cent;
Dallas, 5.1 per cent: El Paso, 15.9per
cent; Galveston. 50.1. per cent; Hous-
ton, 5 per cent; San Antonio, 7.2 per
cent; and Waco, 6 per cent.
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"but one ISM in America—a ndt hat’s AMERICANISM*
—T»x»« Prc»» Slogan
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of Nations and the Pan-American na-
tions’ representatives. Highlighting I
this scene will be an array ef flags
augmented by the United States flag
and a barrage of fireworks.
Special patriotic musical score is
being sychrdnlxed with the action of
the program and scores of brilliant
floodlights will illuminate the stage
setting to be 200 feet in width.
The coronation and pageant will be
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era. is president, of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce.
Stock Company Trip
E. M. Perry, chairman of the mer-
cantile committee of the organization,
reported that the Chamber of Com ,
meree Stock Company will go to two ;
of the following three places, Court-
ney, Plantersville, or Bedias, the sec-
ond week in April.
Progress of the clean-up week was
reported by Dr. H. L. Stewart, who
said that much has been accomplish-
ed. Dr. Stewart asked that circulars
placed in cars in the downtown area
not be thrown from the cars out onto
the streets.
Louis Driesback who has been with
the local threatens as assistant man-
ager has gone to Pasadena to be man-
ager of the theatre there.
Mr. Driesback left for Pasadena
Wednesday evening. He came to Nav-
asota to work with the theatres here
the early part of last summer.
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Your house can be Texas-built with
Texas lumber, cement, stone, or of
Texas pre-fabricated materials. From
antique to modern, kitchen to nursery,
mattress to tablecloth, you can furnish
it with Texas-made products.
Rome other samples: Texas-made
toys, school-supplies, foods from spa-
ghetti to wine—dresses, shirts, suits,
gloves, hats, ties, lingerie, oil field
supplies, airplanes, burglar alarms,
tractors, office equipment—yes, even
cosmetics, jewelry, and ships.
Abd, by way of completing the list,
•ven caskets, undertakers’ supplies, and
Dogwood Trails Are
Postponed to April 5 ^a'es ^ftW ®a*n
PALESTINE, March 27,/— Texas
Dogwood Trails at Paleetthe^have post-
poned opening from Saturday, March
29, until Saturday, April 3, it was an-
nounced by officials of the Trails
organization, who said heavy rains
have made woodland routes of the
Trails unsafe.
“Wit* do Mt want to ran the risk of
sending people through -wood roads
that, nltbongh safe and good in dry
weather, would become mires after the
rains that this are* has had in the
past few days," Earl Pierce, president
of the .Trails organization, said.
Postponement of the opening date
of the Trails wll not prevent Interest-
ed Texans from seeing dogwood in all
its glory this spring, for the dogwood
will be in full biOom on April 6,
for the week following that date. Pal-
estine has prepared for an expected
crowd of close to 100,000.
Dates now are set for the Trails
from April 5, through April 13.
Al; liiemlivrs of the cast are rtspicst •
; <sl to attend. Mrs. Dorothy Havens,
i director, said
Miss Audrey Louise Jones, who Will
be crowned queen of the third annual
Texas bljiebonnet festival
evening in" an elaborate
ceremony, will arrive in Navasota l-'ri
day afternoon.- Ehe will be a guest
in the. home of I>r. and Mrs. R. I>.
Coleman.. A 11 Beta Phi at the Uni
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It has come to the attention of State
Selective Service Headquarters, ac-
cording to General J. Watt Page, State
Director, that Selective Service boards
throughout the nation are being eo-
llcited to join an organisation whose
professed purpose la to secw* cqm*
penna tton for the members of such
boards.
Director Page said that he had just
received a letter from Local Board nV
7. Dallas County, signed by the entire
membership of that board, which
states in part:
’’The members of Local Board No.
7, Dallas County, Texas, all, definite-
ly, s;*eeiflcd that they would accept
the duties of Board members only If
done on a purely patriotic basis and
with no pay, and we would, therefore,
not be interested in the forming of an
organization to secure compensation
for our seryices.".
"Tbia letter fairly bristles with topi-
cal Texas patriotism, and I believe
expresses the view of every board and
field agency of the Relective Servica
System In this State with regard to
such obviously conceived schemes." the
Director said.
heard with iMatty Mulneck’s orchestra
over tlic radio Sunday evening at ti .-’Ml
o’clock. '
The orchestra will appear on
Walton McIntyre
Will Be Heard on _______
Radio Program Sunday .
Friends here will be Interested in rlD^* fvtntivrsftl
knowing that Walton McIntyre will be For Fiesta Pageant
Scheduled Friday
Final rehearsal for the blutrtsmnet
111(,! festival coroiintioi) and |>;fke:tnt will
Fitch Kiuid Wagon program, and will : FYiikiy evening at 7 o’clrrk
be heurd over m uttHonai network. M’r a! the foofbttll field
McIntyre has been in St. Louis, and
leaves this wts*k fur ITiicago.
Friday, March 28
2:00 p. m -Rodeo.
9:30 p. m.—Cowboy Dance.
Crust Dough Boys.)
Saturday, March 23
m.—Street Stunts.
m.—Prison Bwingsteni and
More Drivers for
Courtesy Cars Needed
More drivers for courtesy cars are
needed, H. L. Lewis, chairman of the
courtesy car committee, announced to-
day.
Those who will volunteer to drive
cars Saturday during the bluebonnet
festival are asked to telephone Mr.
Lewis or the bluebonnet festival of-
fice.
Those contributing courtesy cars are
asked to bring them to the Camp
Hotel at 8 a. m. Saturday.
To Enter Float ...
In Corsicana
Parade, to Send Band
< 'humber <>f Commerce m.'nibers
launcht'd preparations today to scad a
large delegation to the East Texas,
('humber of I’bmm’erts* convt'nlion
scheduled in Corsicana April 20-'o 22.
Many iiietniMTs have indieattsl they
Will attend the convention. Hr. S. D.
Coleman, president, said, and" u float
will Ire entered by the organization in
the parade April 22.
The organization voted last week to
send the Navasota school baud to the
convention, and ways of sending the
band will be investigated.
J. IN. Baylor proposed that a motor
aide of fifteen ears carry the band
members on the trip and it also was
suggested that a special on the
train might <be chartered. One of Nav- < „ ,, , UI HV
asota’s leading citizens, John D. Rog-1 versify of'Texas. Miss Junes has
tended Mount Vernon jn Washington, I promi
D C. Rhe is the daughter of 'Mr and pinan 1
'Mrs. Tilford Jones of Houston and the
granddaughter of Jesse H Jones.
playing Footlifter March of Fllmore.
Representatives of the Pan-American
countries and the Court of Nations
will be accompanied by military escort
of A. and IM. Cadets and will wear the
costumes of the country they are from.
Featured too, will be Mias Liberty,
Miss Columbia. Uncle Sam, and a Con-
gress of Flags, composed of 175 school
children, a cellophane and bluebon-
net court. • ■
Several dapce specialties and songs
will 1>e given with the theme of the
entertainment stressing the friendli-
ness of the Americas.
The program will mark the eoroaa-
tion of the Third Tessa ♦’Bluebonnet
Queen,. Mias Audrey Louise Jones of
Houston, granddaughter of Jesse H.
Jones. Fifty-three visiting duchesses
escorted by the Roes Volunteers of A.
and M. will be presented to the queen.
Miss Edna Hwanson is Navasota duch-
ess and lady in waiting to the queen.
Miss Molly O'Daniel, first Texas Blue-
bonnet queen is the honor guest of the
1941 festival, Miss Virginia Cotten of
Houston will be duchess of Texas,
and Miss Hildegard Fuchs duchess of
Hquso of Representutives.
Various Events
Arranged for "
Third Celebration
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. jiii.a yl'.ltwr1- j-vpi.tiMt hiTv fur tin'
lliitii niijluiH Ti v.i- l«lu»-bi>uni't festival
' whirti-opens Fritijy , . ' .
i I'bii- and huntii.ig are flying op !)>•• .
■istrvets of Hie < uy gaily dwo
.'..■J rated JV.'r tin- tilths-d;iy i eje-.f.i,rat)uli,
i l.asf tmnute .prepnf-itioti- are
speeditl by the junior bai|it*‘f' of
Colntneree. sponsor organization, and
the bluebonnet festival cotnmlttce an
(tie program nears the Opening day
Nayusotians and
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preparing to entertain guests ip their
homes. ■ Hotel and tourist courts have
all the reservations they can urs-om
m.odate, and robih* av;ylut>ie for rent
also have been .reserves,i.
Opening day .of the celebration
ises to is* fair, wirlt the weathpr
I tnun forti-asting fair for tonight and
Fnday. . ■ . '
Because of the fact that the bios
spming of. the Gluettonnets has been
delayed to some extent by-recent Wea-
ther conditions, the bluebonnet trails
leading to the most prolific fields in •
the county have been scheduled for
every Sunday in April, when visitors
I will be guided on the pilgrimagee by
/k b°y
Opening Festival Day
scouts.
Opens Bluebonnet Season
The bluebbnnet festival serve* to
open the bluebonnet season, and the
three-day celebration begins Friday
with a rodeo and-cowboy dance that
evening, while Saturday’s program in-
cludes th*' api»eiiran<-e of the Nava-
sota Band at 9:!»0 a. in., the Texas
Prison Swingsters on the street* at
10:45 a m . u rodeo at I p. m.. the
official bludbonnet parade at 4 p. m. in
which Will be entered thirty decorated
floats and fifteen bands, and the coro-
■ nation and pageant at 8 p. m. A rodeo
and golf tournament are arranged
for Sunday, •
Fanthorp Hotel, famous hostelry
in Anderson that was visited often
by General Sam Houston and other
distinguished Southerners la the
early daya of the Republic of Texas,
will be opened through out toe f*atl
val beginning at # a. m. Visitors will
be greeted by boateaeee who will be
dreeaed ia the costumes worn in that
period. This historic place recently
has been restored to itn original ap-
pea rance. ,
EAVAEOTA, TEXAE, THURSDAY, ffARCH 27, 1941
Thousands Are Expected Here for Bluebonnet Festival
Three-Day Program
'a
, Opeiks Here Friday
I Afternoon at 2
Police try to force hole through pickets to allow car' io pass
through Number 1 gate of the big Lackawanna plant of the Bethlehem
Steel compaay, near Buffalo, N. Y., during the C. I. O. strike, which
periled defense production. The Bethlehem company has m billion
dollars’ worth of military orders.
Hast Texas — Fair
; Friday. Little change in temperature.
Gentle to moderate northerly winds
on the coast.
IVeet Texas — Fair tonight and
Friday, except cloudiness
over the north portion Friday. Little
temperature change.
Barometer 8:30 g. m.—30.06
Temperature Wedneaday: maximum I- Mr. Hood toek the place left vacant
68.3, minimum 42A
Wednetoaf—.57 inch.
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Nemir, Lucile. Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1941, newspaper, March 27, 1941; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1382726/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Navasota Public Library.