Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 223, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1940 Page: 4 of 8
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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 18, IMO.
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Head Conde
Anti-Chain
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A.
Miss Becky Piper, who is ill at
L..
ohe of
inese lay ap-
before returning home.
savings in costs of operation.
Mrs. J. N. Ledbetter and son.
Personal
com-
AA
I
as
means planting
an s mpor-
MUENSTER
me-
great ma-
nited
are sole owners, he said.
restrict the already too
HOOD
penalties. He condemned th
toll it would levy on enr
ie to
{
our
and our
here propesed, the aim* is
The bill, however, I would
way last year paid $5,216,373 in
I, state and federal taxes, not
we have had recently.
those who transport raw
and gardens
better and everything is
< ded.
the
few
there is a
sense of independence
ce
doing
many of" the newspapers.
pa r
Every Day Drug Specials
spring c
a t s do
J- J
meet, operating expenses
so
THERE is NO
m-
the
o
MYSTERY to
Inc., told the committee
The
son is good
WANT-AD
to this.
if*-
year in in most instances will be all right.
RESULTS
or
es. Also if the
chain st
SSS
tender garden stuff
course.
now
endangered.
would be
yer a
In Massachusetts alone.
the
998 motor trucks are used
emg lot
ion fl
employes derive their
m
.°6iv
-
be all greatly encouraged and are go-
R. & G. CARNATION
chain stores in Massachusetts
eliminate
cellaneous fees more than
THE GRASS IS GETTING real
ig
49c
orn-
Hinds
Pint
Wildroot
Hand Cream
Hair Tonic
most of
$1 size 59c
39c
ness and' careful buying
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Tooth Brush
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Tek ...
... 23c
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89c
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CHUX ...
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son’s needs. Then they are checked against the long list of illumi-
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..... 98c
TAMPAX ....
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checked for timeliness and wording . . . and is sent
I
to the
pressroom . . . ready to go
to work! Now’s
Now is the time
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West Side Square
veoped by
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CLEANING TISSUE, 500 for...18c
KOTEX, dozen for 20c .. ..2 for 39c
Patman Measure
Would Destroy
Safeway Stores
saved from possibly ruinous losses Mrs. Beryl Shelton of El Paso are
by the success of chain stores in i visiting her mother, Mrs. William
Proposed Tax Nine
Times Total Net
Profit of Chain
was
We
exception-
ally well. IT he
in 1938, he said, he paidout $14,-
005.30 for chain store license and
nating statistics uncovered by local research. Then the ad is
crops
much
growing fine.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Patton and
Clarence Hoehn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Hoehn, and Tommy
Otto, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony
business with one store
rowed capital of a few
1
The grain
are looking
cold weather did
consider-
404,490 payroll abolished.
"Safeway lat year owned or
rented 2,654 retail store buildings
......33c
.....169c
......83c
.....* 89c
epre-
Tex-
i the
: leg-
con- WTeler and other relatives and
friends here. Following their visit
— here they will spend several weeks
with relatives in Tennessee and Il-
linois.
---J Mr. and Mrs. George Mallenkopf
but
t it
Dr. West ad Calox
Powder 55c val. .. 39c
Watts Brothers
Pharmacy
expanded, and which, t
policy of expansion, hav
operate in. more than a
cality. j
i are
men
that
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five witnesses who We
Mun I
family re-union at the home of
Mrs. W. A. Hoskins of Myra, Sun-
day.
Mr. and .Mrs. Tom Bryant and
family spent Sunday with Mrs.
Edd Taylor of Decatur.
Mr. and Mrs. Blake Kilmer of
$1.25 Size
for
99c
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000.000.”
Small Chains Oppose Bill
$2.00 Size
for
$1.69
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... 29c—39c—49c
$6.00
Bridge Cards..........- • •
America’s Finest Playing Card
KEM—Double Deck........
> to
past
kier,
icu-
not
the
coming to a close and the kids will
be ready to fight the Johnson
The Safeway brief summarizes
other effects as follows:
' “Safeway employs some 17,500
The GAINESVILLE
REGISTER
fered as a "compromise” to push
his bill through Congress, it would
grass. I am glad I am not a farmer
boy during the grass growing sea-
son for I well remember when I
10’s—33c
• . and 40s . ..
THE OIL OPERATIONS in tne
Muenster and nearby fields seems
to be on the increase. While work-
mittee of the House of Represent-
atives Ways and Means commit-
tee. could be reduced 90 per cent
farm life that exists in no other
business and I rather like it and
FOR BIRTHDAYS
GIVE EARLY AMERICAN TOILET GOODS
Baby Powder — Talcum Powder — Talc for Men
Shaving Soap (In Mug) — After Shave Lotion
Toilet Water — Cologne
“GONE WITH THE WIND”
Stationery..................
interest being taken on the part of
the major companies ia that part
of the state.
The rural schools will soon be
nor.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pagel of her home on East Main street, was
Smithville visited briefly with rela- improved Thursday.
50c Sizes—
HINDS — J ERGENS QQ
CHAMBERLAIN .... •VC
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a"ugeemue
No Red Tape
Pace Bros.
Dodge and Plymouth Sales
and Service
Used Cars Bought and Sold
106 N. Chestnut — Phone 7
able damage
as we though
for you to run a Want-Ad!
All this present ___-____
realized by the government would
be ended by H. R. 1.”
a year, while trucking
in our state would lose t‘
rbt, azd:
13 3632
ger12v
Soap
Three 35c Cakes
And Bottle Cologne
of Cisco are the parents of a son
born recently. Mr. and Mrs. Mallen-
kopf formerly lived in Muenster
and expect to return soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Becker were
in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, last
week. Miss Mary Becker returned
home with them after spending two
months in Arkansas.
, St. Ann's Missionary Sewing cir-
cle meet Thursday afternoon in
regular monthly session to sew for
Jhe missions. Twenty-six members
were present.
Mrs. Tony Felderhoff underwent
a major operation last week in a
Sherman hospital. Mr.’ Felderhoff
and children visited her Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruno Fleitman drove
to Sherman Tuesday to visit her.
2.
7
—
j ink. bill would put a limit on opr op-
in portunity. We would be confronted
BEAUTY AND THE BEETS—Spring
time for nation’s sugar beet growers, and even Co-ed Nadine
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J 1 W 1 " Tom TFT
paidto drivers of the: e tru cks killed but can be replanted,
,—-—j ill । have not been working inthe fruit
he s id,- growing district and do not know
NOTES
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Disposable Diapers QQ,
• • Large Size.......... •OC
not so much
00.
Otto, are patients in the Gainesville ing sessions of the Texas Graduate ’ I
sanitarium, having undergone ap- Nurses association. ■ 4
pendectomies this week. Mrs. Parker Fears of Myra, who A
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Fette have underwent an operation Wednesday * I
moved to Oklahoma City to reside, afternoon at the Medical-Surgical a
Miss Cecile O’Connor, who is at- hospital, was reported to be resting
tending business school in Sher- nicely Thursday afternoon. She is .
man, spent the weekend with her a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D 4
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andy O’con- Rowland of Gainesville.
Measure Threatens
Destructive Los ses
still assess Safeway four and a
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Phone 666
A
k
s
company. In achieving that result,
which is Congressman Patman's
avowed purpose, it would at the
same time destroy millions of dol-
lars in tax revenues which Safe-
w&y now pays toward the costs
of government.
“As a specific illustration, Safe-
GAINESVILLE DAILY REGISTER, GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.
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To Printing Trade
rental value, would be vacated.
Discussing the company’s rela-
tions with agriculture, the brief
says:
“Safeway’s marketing policy is
to pay farmers as high a price as
times the total net profit made by
the company in the most pros-
perous year of its histofy. Even
if cut in half, as Patman has of-
Razor Blades
20 Double Edge. < 25c
16 Single Edge .. 25c
16 Thin
Double Edge 25c
- - _-1B FRIENDS—Even his mother
trouble r cognizing the horse wearing a mask de-
peu Our Duml > Friends league in London, to save this
most faithful of man’ dumb friends during gas attacks. —
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h-A
so! How can you do with so little
sleep?”
had to handle the goose-neck hoe
on the weeds and grass and it
would give me such a sick feeling
when I had to go to : the field.
While the work is hard, there is a
COD LIVER OIL .
Observations
By GREGG HOWARD
tives in Muenster Friday en route — —
home from Detroit with a new au- No Sleep
tomobile. " Muriel: “I always think of all
Edward Havercamp of Ft Worth the unkind things that I’ve said
has returned home after a several during the day before I go to sleep
days’ visit here. at night.”
________ j Her Best Friend: “You don’t say
moving over-supplies into
sumption.”
tion at Houston' for several days,
returned home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ezell of Dal-
las, and Mrs. W. M. Dozier and
son, Howard of Irving, and Miss
Wanda Lee Gregory of Gainesville,
spent Saturday night with Mr.
and Mrs. John Gregory and fam-
Union Printers
‘inns
Bill
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“If through such taxation -- — -ype. vul sres air snan anu uul
ach ieved, volume small compared to the large
hundreds if not thousands of me- chains, the jili, icweve, wvodlu
chanics will lose emplymnent." he make us pay the same rate of tax
number as that paid by the large store. The
will be the makers of pper 1
bill” the
said, "and added to thei
because of the operation f these wet to work much and at this time
" 1 i little is being done as far las farm-
he ing is concerned. The farmers are
Lotion
50c Size 90,
WOODBURY...........
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chains.
This was shown in a brief field; in which the sales
Wednesday in opposition to the i
are wearing a smile.
This is early Wednesday m
ing and another good roin
ha”
$
H‘-,TTv
, YOU DON’T NEED a magnifying
glass or a flashlight to see the results Register Want-Ads bring.
rain has
fallen during the night and we ex-
2-
tant part of the work inthe
chanical department* of a g-ct____
jority of newspapers and printing
trucks.
"Should the trucks uses I by
_______if my life could be lived over more
about the | of it would be spent with nature.
» few work
opportunities in the industry.
“It is my opinion," ti e witness
men and w9men. These would be
thrown out of jobs, and a $35,-
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28385288 032
in the United States; those stores, ily. They all attended a Gregory
representing over $5,000,000 in " - - - ' -
the season for buying and selling.
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A-as6 atfg 5a
. lot look like they
gre going to
"1 amount ito much
out we cannot
tell yet j because
and the finished product; those who
originate and prepare the adver-
| that
actment nto law of H. R
endanger'the jobs of thousand of
trucking employes throug hout the
United States. In addition to this,1
1 . , -d-kn —u---8 Lilt? -lbn- dll Cl W6 T
0 in •I pect to have some bad roads today
puucL vAF 59, FPaintd ; as we work toward Sivells Bend,
how he started in the varie ty sto: e The main roads in that section are
on bo » in fairly good shape but moist of
hy ndred । the folks live a long waysfrom the
dollars. By close adherence to bus - public road and many times one
ness and' careful buying he had has difficulties in reaching them
opened other stores in near by Flor- | when it is muddy.
ida towns, until he now ha $ fifteen 1 There is renewed interest in na-
t lis ing at their work with renewed en-
” ergy and are entertaining! the hope
that it will be a good crop year.
* • *
tional politics recently and it is
the general opinion of those with
whom I have talked that the presi
____ dent will be nominated for a third half times all bet income made by
Flor- term. There does not seem to be i the company in its best year.
much sentiment in favor of Garner I “Obviously, the enactment of
for president. The governor come>,H.R. 1, either in its present form
in for a lot of comment and theior in greatly modified form," Safe-
general trend is in his favor. Lit way’s brief declares, “would pro-
tie is said as yet about county poll- duce no revenue from Safeway at
tics as the boys have not warmed all, because it would destroy the
। up very much.
BOON FOR DUM
Miht have +pehle rci
Truckers Also Endangered
“But we do feel sure th at if
“H. R. 1 is grossly unfair to small
le lo- chains, such as ours, and grossly
discriminatory to chains I cf
as is type. Our stores are small
Re # MRN,"ss '
AIR
siseaaneLapa •
A-rm Re and
teuixn
be many newspapers, be th < aily L.
and weekly, that would
publish/’ Baker said. “Fr >m c
to coast and-from border to bn
and still completely destroy Safe- . ,
way Stores, along with many other S'- surplus farm products.
. . • r o wy or_c An ci i v xx p colnc ~om
adversely affected by passge of
H. R. 1, since it woulo serve to
he said the various state s w9uld would. The corn is coming out and
lose more than $1,000,000 i year in in most instances will be all right,
revenue represented by registration The potato crop was damaged
fees, license fees and taxes paid on quite a bit but it is the opinion of
trucks now in use because of the the folks I have talked to J that
____ Ptman they will make potatoes if the sea-
bill becomes law, he said ia i annual son is normal from here out. Qf
pay roll of more than $50,090,000
1
p..
1.
-
the laws of supply and demand Kingsville, who have been visiting
permit—and in no case less than' her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
the ‘going’ market price -— and to! Purcell, and Larry’ Dale Kilmer for
sell consumers at the lowest prices several days, returned to their
commensurate with sound business home Sunday.
requirements. Obviously, the more | Mr. and Mrs. Loran Fenley and
in pe-
reprsent
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; with a ‘so far and no farther’ no-
tice, and America never meant that
to be.’’
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Twelve 10c Cakes
Wembdon’s QQ,
LAVENDER...........
m--
arly in the smaller cities, :ou d
" - - | were,
-ealled market advertisi ig elmi-
ited" ' wmer
. ■
material
and publishing plants in he Ul
States. These thousands of] work-
ers. he said, would be v ital y and
ats car fool a
’ellow if the sea-
efficient the work of distribution, • son of Borger, who are on their
wACEICAN a n ie tv, the less will be the slice of each i vacation, went to Durant, Okla.,
0 WASHNG.ON ’ AP - 7. .-ne' consumer dollar absorbed by dis- Friday to visit relatives. They will
Patm an. death.sentense" chain tributive expense. Safeway be- spend next weekend here with his
e tax,bi ’ on.which hearings lieves in low prices, achieved by parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Fenley;
are now being held by a subcom- ■ - • - ...
en-
Auld
“Safeway stores have worked I Mrs. J. M. Ledbetter and son.
hard in concert with other food Gene, Mrs..W. T Ponder and Miss
chain companies to increase sales I Faye Petillo of Ardmore, Okla-
-___:________ The home, were dinner guests of Mr.
farmer-consumer sales campaigns, and Mrs. J. W. Bentley and son,
‘ * energy of 37,000: Sunday. .
retail food stores is concentratedi .Mr. and Mrs: Frances Felty and
bill which provides for a federal jupon a single over-abundant agri-Mrs Ora Felty,of Burkburnett,
DL. * Povidei or.a.tedera cultural product for a neriod nf i visited Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Chans-
chain store tax up to $1,000 a yearicuura. proauet tor a period ot dauohter Sundav
per store, multiplied by the num-days or weeks, is everywhere rec--o and daughter Sunday,
ber of states in which the company iognized as being of real help to
does business. . I agriculture and an important land-1
Thus the tax on Safeway would mark in the whole field of volun-
be $59,000,000 a year, or nine! tary cooperation between the busi- ■ ____
...... — ide hy nessman and the farmer. ■ Farmers !
themselves testify to having been* MUENSTER, April 17.—Mr. and
sa
There are no mysterious clues or puzzling circumstances. Every-
who operates a small chain
pendent variety stores, e kp
tising and the news material-----
must accompany all print id i dver-
tisements when appearing il
Van H. Priest of Madispn, Fl; L.,
Hartshorn lends a hand during vacation from Colorado Agricul-
tural college, to help her father disc the field. They live near
Longmont, Colo., in heart of a section that shared heavily ina
$70,000,000 sugar beet income last- year.
-
declared, “that the propisedlegis- ida chain store license law as un-
iation would not benefit 1 workers in ' fair.
any measure commensur ate to the I “We are paying accordi ng to the
ployment., number of units we operate regard-
First, the bill seeks to tax put of : less of their size,’* he said. "Our li-
existente only such busi nesses as cense fee amounts to $300 for each
have, througn good ma agment, store, and some of our stores are
igh a very small. - .
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EBiNCHMANCER.
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WASHINGTON, April 18J- C. M.
Raker, president of International
Typographical union was
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peared before the subce mm t fee of
the House ways and; mean 3
mittee to oppose H. R,, th* chain
store tax bill proposed by I
sentative Wright Patman <f
as. All the witnesses terme
bill highly discriminatory ta
islation, designed to be destructive
and punitive rather that construc-
tive and revenue
Mr. Baker said he appeared
the representative of 8 0,000 men j
and women who perform anmpor-
riodicals. Those whom I
have no property interest in] any
newspaper or printing -plant, nor
are they connected with any ner- I
chandising institution.” I e
nated.”
Allan J. Wilson of Boston,
of the A. Towle Trucking Col
pany, and vice-president
American Trucking As; sociation.
ing out there last week we noticed
several rigs running. The excite-
ment seems to be growing in Mon-
tague and west Cooke county and Mm-,
leasing goes on. Of curse people . C .. , , .
do not get so excited about an oil including real.estatetaxe,rerre-
play as they once did but some sented.in totalr entals.q f $26,882-
folks are rather excited about the 519. All this present revenue
Ware Purcell and James Mie-
Laughlin, who are attending
Weatherford Junior College, spent
the day with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Carl Holland and little
daughter, Carla Ann, and Mrs. J.
E. Squyres have gone to Shawnee.
Okla., to spend the weekend.
County Judge Ray Winder and :
Manager Clifford McMahon of the
Chamber of Commerce, will attend
the homecoming luncheon at North
Texas State Teachers college in
Denton Friday at noon.
Miss Malva Scott has moved to
Gainesville from Waco and is em-
ployed at the Tempa Beauty salon.
Judge and Mrs. Marion Northcutt
and daughter, Wauhilla, of Okla-
homa City, who were guests Wed-
nesday in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Demory, went to Dallas Wed-
nesday night to attend the opera
“La Traviata.’’ Judge Northcutt is
supreme court judge of Oklahoma.
Mrs. Robert C. Livingston under-
went a major operation Wednesday
afternoon in the Medical-Surgical
hospital. She was reported Thurs-
day to have spent a restful night.
Miss Pauline Hughes, Mrs. Mae
Morris and Miss Mary Davis were
in Fort Worth Wednesday attend-
wheat is
____ _______ _ xe lu- anything about the extent o
sively by chain stores, and3, 162 damage done to that crop.
'..... — ent ! The most of the land is still too
mmTT
Money
To Loan
On Your Auto
(ROPS ARE LOOKING BETTER
__________ U than they have at any time
so-called chain store syste a of 1 ner- ! this year. The grain ciop is
chandising is abolished, there wpuld coming to the front the las
be many newspapers, both daily days and the
d through passag C
____ ___witness said. *oursttei
would lose in registration and mis-
$84,000.
in our suaue wou.a ^fhXket ts hgoodin the pastures, the lanks
. il , ,, i .4 * , । full of water ana the cattle 1
of an annual pay roll of alout $ ,- are wearino a smile
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thing is “quite elementary.” Each ad run is adapted to the per-
SYRUP PEPSIN X
INSULIN...........
NERVINE.......
BABY OIL ... . S'S:....
BENEDICT’S TESTrron .......... Pint. 49c
1392 2
Ed
K81833 We 7
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Grape Juice
19c
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HOOD. April 16. — Rev. Wood-
row Phelps and Miss Bonnie
Young of Fort Worth, visited Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Chanslor and fam-
ily Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Koy White of
Gainesville, spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Henry White and J. D.
White.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Gordon spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. F. Beall of Downard.
-—-— I
HOOD, April 16,- This commu-
nity is rejoicing over the good rains
daughters visited Mr. and Mrs.
Willis Aldridge of Nocona Sunday.
E. A. Felker, who has been at-
tending a commissioner’s cofven-
‘ stores, of which he and < his wife
gaa
* Spund “
6 aargmaE,
r_______1
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