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SINGS TO ALL
From DeWitt - Lavaca C
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18-YEAR-OLD
DRAFT URGED
Then Bailey snatched a pass ! draft age from 19 to 18 may be
short and the game ended Lions
20, Tigers 6.
important game bird.
and who served less than 90 di
active duty. The young
in
the first
Svab, James Eugene Bishop.
dors and lost the District 24-A 1
Fritz Wolfgang
Yoakum
Taking the opening kickoff
Pawelka, Joe John Loya, L. V.
Williams, Marvin Willie Sauer,
before curtain time.
INSTALMENT CURBS DEMANDED
ball on the Yoakum 17.
Monday with only one
Grove Cemetery, with Rev. E.
television sets
i
president of the National Auto- major household appliances
mobile Dealers Association.
well as automobiles. Down pay-
Joe C. Goode.
The deceased grew' to young
with Holmes and J. Pruetz clear-
“We feel that if this would
toward
a
See INSTALMENT p. 2, c. 5
Mrs. Lucretia Crow
October 20 is the final date for I
day afternoon, October 15,
a.
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Hunters Again Urged Not To
Shoot Birds On Phone Wires
Manning slipped on a bootleg
play, lost five yards and had to
tonia pushed their T-Ds across Last rites were held at the Fun-
in the first and fourth. Bland l eral Home at 2:00 P. M. Sunday.
C. Lambert officiating.
Pall bearers were J. A. John-
group, he will include the fami-
liar selections — "Londenderry
from a Tiger receiver, Coleman 1
ran from the 25 to the 8, Arm-
stronge made one yard and Cole-
Away October 12
Mrs. J. A. (Ettie) Hill, 71,
Robert- August Pesek, Emil Al-
fonce Huser, Louis Flowers, Jr.,
Anton Victor Siegel, Louise Eg-
on i
men
Surviving are three sons, G.
W. Brown of San Antonio, J. M.
Brown of Conroe, and B. B.
Brown Jr. of Laird Hill, Texas;
one brother, B. T. Johnson of
Yoakum; two sisters, Mrs. Joe
good yardage. He made two of j
the four touch downs with Loya I
Donald Nillson intercepted
See FOOTBALL p. 2 c. 4
He made his protest in a tele- of the Secretary of Commerce's
gram to the Federal Reserve Retail Advisory Committee, said
Board. The board Friday night the curbs “might precipitate a
and he called the new ones the ‘by objections from a spokesman
“most drastic economic regula- for retail business in general.
aiding in the ground gained.
In the 1st quarter the fluke
kick-off by Yoakum, rolled short
and was gathered up by Grass-
hoff who romped through the
Yoakum line for a 53-yard run
to a T-D, and in the last quar-
ter a bulls-eye pass from Brun-
ner to Peters accounted for a
25 yard run to a tally for Fla-
tonia.
Will Chambers of Hallettsville.
Ten grandchildren and 7 great-
grandchildren also survive.
12 days.
Funeral services were held at
Vemetery.
, Survivin
715
POSTER CONTEST
ENDS FRIDAY
and
; as
this category will bei
to be inducted Nov.,
in this call.
Special buses will leave from ,
Hallettsville at 8 a.m. and from
Gonzales at 9 to take the regist-
rants to San Antonio for their
examinations.
Ride”, and the beautiful “Hills
of Home.” ,
The Josh Wheeler concert will
start at eight o’clock tonight.
Concert association members of
failed to score.
On the starting lienup for the
Level Climbing
The level of business activity
The defense department said
Saturday it is ready to support
legislation to draft 18-year-olds
if it is presented by the selective
service system.
Draft Director Lewis L. Her-
shey recently said lowering the
the only way to avoid inducting
veterans.
Hershey also said 17-year-olds
Commerce.
Census reports Of gins in the
county showed that 12,477 bales
of cotton were ginned from the
1950 crop prior to October 1.
as compared with 21,142 from
the crop of. 1949.
( DeWitt and Goliad countie
have been called upon to f
l nish 15 men for induction i
to the Army on November 11
tween the two colored teams,
। but in the second quarter the
Lions went on the march when I
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COTTON DOWN
9,000 BALES
Cotton bales produced from
the 1950 crop in Lavaca County
were almost nine thousand be-
-3s
Yoakum's 40 plays for top man!
in yards rushing with 144 yds. I
and Chandler sharing one each. [ womanhood in this county, and; at the First Baptist Church in I
The Manning-Mobley to Loya- married Berry Brown Sr. in Hai- j Yoakum at 2:00. Burial
ed for good yardage gained,!...... — ... . . ...
is for duty if they have completed
! high school.
Er
entering the fire prevention pos-
ter contest being sponsored by
the ladies’ auxiliary of the local |
fire department. i in Texas continued to climb dur-
YKM JRS. TO
PLAY TH URS. J
15 A
The Yoakum junior, foot!;
team will play the Gon2a
( juniors here in the Buulonk
dium Thursday evenin266d%
announced this week, 8
Locals are urged toegMa
and keep up the wimnmd
displayed by the jundfsi
far this year.
According to reportMMdon
morning, the local,
is scheduled to meet Ludingdi
cither Friday or Saturdayqid
A definite announcement w
made later this week.G
The Yoakum Bulldogs Wi
have a game this Fridayne
giving them a breather bek
they meet the Lulingrdei
Bulldog “Pups”
Continue Wins
The Bull Pups, playing their
third game of the season, walk-
SOUTHWESTERN
CHOIR TO BE
HERE OCT. 29
On the morning of October 29 , Passes Away Sat.
the A’Capella Choir of South- . -
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YOAKUM HERALD-TIMES
Covering Lavaca and DeWitt Counties
gram at the First Methodist Mrs. Lucretia B. Crow of 304
Church in Yoakum. ; Hubbard St., Yoakum, passed a-
After leaving Yoakum the way at her home on Saturday,
group will travel to Hallettsville [October 14. She had reached the
for an evening performance, a 1 advanced age of 89 years and
Theinterferancesand blocking son, R. N. Linesay, C. M. Brown,
ef he who Ki t • ena ’ e P. M. Brown, James Brown and
"Sicat-back Bland to pick upi
Yoakum children were re- 1 _ _
minded this week that Friday, | City, Oklahoma.
Playing on a damn field Fri- to the Seguin 24 but lost the ball ter Lee Lemons, Matthew Nick
day night, the Yoakum Bulldogs 1 on a fumble recovered by the Konvicka, James Valente, John
were unable to match the roll-1 Matadors, haltinng another Henry Machicek,
ing drives of the Seguin Mata- | touchdown try.
comes the wire contracts and induction
He said people were being ment requirements are boosted
thrown out of work and the na- and payoff times shortened in
tional economy damaged by pre- all such cases.
sociaion of Blood Banks by Dr. a presidential ban on indt
J. Garrett Allen, associate pro- of men with dependents s
lessor of surgery at the Uni- in effect,
versify of Chicage.
Whole blood has commonly
been considered the best known
remedy for victims of deadly
radioactive rays. The lethal rays
lance into the bone marrow -
which manufactures red blood
report said this week.
Approximately 40 students j
were selected from a highly com- | the Buffington Chapel on Sun-
petitive musical field at South- ide -2---- " ■ •
Moulton — Joe Drexler, Eu-
tion ever forced upon a
Air”, Guion’s “Ride, Cowboy,
Six cash prizes have been an- ing August insp te of the fact
nounced for the top posters, ’hat the hysterical consumer
ranging from $4 to $1. | buying in July had begun to
subside, the University of Texas
YOAKUM, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17TH, 1950
School children who wish to
nter the contest are to turn
the posters in to their teach-
era, who will in turn have them
teady for Judging alter the Fri
2,
Bureau of Business Research re-
ported. Every important phase
of business activity rose over
July, and all lines of business
were substantially above ar year
ago sogwcaaurakes
the following Frid
bgn
western for membership in this
popular organzation.
Keen competition is always
exhibited for a coveted place in '
the choir conducted by Mr. John i
D. Richards of the Southwestern
until his 1
4:00, with Rev. Glenn Murray,
Presbyterian minister, officiat-
ing. Serving as pall bearers
were DeLane Schwab, Ed Har-
borth, Claude Jacoba, W. J. Gise,
B. J. Pool and Rony Xotngin
1 o "5.8252'
i have been jinxed, since the game
I was played on Friday the thir-
| teenth — had several bad
a contribution
according to the political calen-
dar.
October 18 is the opening day
for absentee voting, since voters
can apply to the county clerk
not more than twenty nor less
than three days before the
general election to cast their
votes if they will not be able to
do so November 7.
County clerks for all counties
will have ballots on hand from
tomorrow through November 3.
the last day when ahsenteevot-
bout 27-6. on their own 25. the Bulldogs
Yoakum, Hallettsville, Shiner) The Matadors scored twice inmade one first down and had 7 , ... ....
and other nearby towns may I the second quarter and twice in j yards on another when Jimmy Shelly Eugene Henry,
gain admission by presenting the fourth, while the Bulldogs
identification cards at the door'scored only in the third period.
free
Maury L. Nee, Washington
furniture dealer and chairman
■ 5"
be all right,” Nee told news-
mann, and the stirring and dra-
matic “When The King Went
Forth To War”.
To open the second half of the |
program, he has selected one of
Billimek, Daniel Benedict Bo-
lech, Melville Carlton Ehlers,
Yoakum passed 12 times and
completed 4 for a gain of 50
yards — Flatonia passed 11
times and completed 3 for 44
yards gained. Yoakum made 258
yards rushing against 25 for
Flatonia. Yoakum’s two punts
averaged 15 yards and Flato-
nia’s 6 punts averaged 17 yards.
Yoakum drew two penalties for
20 yards and Flatonia was pen-
alized twice for 10.
Emil John
notice, affect ,
sign.
Wheeler has reached that goal
in the program he will sing to-
night. In the first half of the
program are the ever popular
"Two Gernadiers”, by Schu-
Josh Wheeler, baritone concert
star who will open the local con-
cert season tonight, Tuesday, at
the Yoakum High School Audi-
torium, has prepared a program
which will “fill the bill” for
concert goers, musicians and
also Mr. Average Man.
Preparing an evening of music
if) not an easy task, and the ap-
proach to a well-balanced pro-
gram can be compared to that
of the architect, who wishes to
construct a buildingr whose beau-
ty may be enjoyed by everyone
everywhere.
“A little bit of what an audi-
ence . should hear (from the
musician’s point of view) and a
lot of what the audience wants
to hear” is the constant mea-
sure in successful program de-
in the Yoakum backfield, car-
ried the ball 20 times out of
liams, John Clark, Murray
Means and Aubra Stephens.
The locals will meet the Edna
“B” squad here in a return bout
on November 16, it was an-
nounced Monday morning.
r Mrs. Crow is a
sified 1-A and will be available j ----
for induction. As Local Board) The Executive Secretary of the
51 now has some 75 men ready j Game, Fish and Oyster Com-
for induction, it is doubtful of ( mission this week pointed out
.any of the men taking their I that some confusion existed a-
.physicals at this time will bejmong hunters regarding the
called to service before next [ opening date of The dove season
I year. in the South Zone.
, . I He stated that some hunters
| As has been the casern pre-|t t that October 15, the
ivious calls, the major ity of those . date of the North Zone,
j listed will come from Lavaca :
county. Gonzales is sending 15 -------------------------------
kinnyrsnsuiphinr S.M^! Qualified voters who will be
half-sisters. Mrs. O. V. Ballard unable to cast a ballot on No-
of Chickosha, Okla, and Mrs. I vember 7 in the general election
(Harvey Ingram of Oklahoma I may cast absentee ballots be-
ginning tomorrow, Wednesday,
I
More Men To Be Drafted
ed away with a 27 to 12 win j Last Rites Held
over the Flatonia Bull Pups last 1
Thursday night at the Yoakum For Mrs. Brown
Staidum. This made 3 wins in '
months, with the cash down pay- I make
ment remaining one third. heading off inflation it would
the added stress may cause it draft board is conyinced. 4
to break.” should be deferred. 9
One solution advanced by the Wichita County’s childlesi
manager was that telephone en- married men who took theM
gineers might try to develop a VOWS after registering in 1948.1
type of wire that would move will be drafted, Wade Starnes,
when shot at, spokesman for the Wichita Falls,
issued new regulations under t recession."
Viously announced restrictions । Haller’s protest was paralleled
which the pay-off limit on auto-
mobiles was cut from 21 to 15 (
gene Edward Lehnert Frankie
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The second priority include
those deferred for training dur
' ing World War II who late
“Please don’t- shoot at birds on a wire, but I guess they served from 90 days to 2
on telephone lines,” is the plea just don't realize that a hasty months.
of W. A. Schorre, manager of shot might cause serious dam- The first and second priorit
Southwestern Bell Telephone age to telephone lines and dis- categories register for the draf
Company, who says that each[ rupt long distance service.1' Monday. Later categories mus
year thousands of telephone! Explaining the yearly dilem- register at a date to be set la
wires are broken by stray shots na, Schorre pointed out that ter, but before Jan. 16,1951.3
•during the hunting season. each hunting season money. The third category include!
"Birdscan fly away," Schorre, man-hours, and telephone calls men who had no armed servia
said, "but telephone’wires just are lost through gunfire dam- hut were not deferred for trail
have to sit there and take it. age to telephone lines. ing: The fourth category i
It's not that the hunters deli- "It would help a lot," he eerans.
bcrately try to hit the wires, said, "if hunters would be very The new doctor-draft law af
and I don't think sportsmen careful when they are in the €ects all medical men less tha
would shoot at a sitting bird vicinity of telephone lines. Even 91 years 0d.. «
--if a bullet or shot only nicks Each registrant will be plae
the wire, when cold weather ed in class 1A — available ■
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BULLDOGS LOSE TO SEGUIN 2"
"Pagliacci” —-T- —° "-T-" (James V. Meyer, Will Franklin
“ ■ “ ......MATADORS 27-6 FRIDAY NIGHT (3—^;==
--------•-------- William Frank Muhlstein, Wal-
““ OCT. 20, NOT 15th
and Armstrong combined with
Coleman to the Tiger 8, Luling
was assessed five yards on a
penalty and Coleman went over
for the tally, with Gentry run-
ning the extra point.
The Tigers failed to score in
the second quarter and the half-
j time score was 7-0. On an ex-
-change of intercepted passes the
1 Tigers got possession on the
' Lion 20, made a first to the 7 I
on a pitch-out and Smith plung-
ed over.
In the final period the Lions
picked up their lead when they
took an intercepted pass to the
Luling 25, drove to the four and
sent Coleman over, with Bailey
running the extra point.
man carried over. Point was ' should be allowed to volunteer
Burial took place at Mossy
LIONS DOWN YKM “B” SQUAD
LULING SAT. LOSES to edna
The Asberry Lions won their | The Yoakum."B" football
second conference game Satur- i 9 . nableto break a
day night when they handed the winningstreak held by the Edna
Luling Tigers a 20-6 defeat at I "B"tea mla st Thursday, night
the Bulldog Stadium; the score I in Ed and lostthe bout 20-0.
was exactly the same as in the The Edna squad has not been
game between the two schools scored orlthisseason, and prov-
last scason I ed too much for the locals, who
Neither team scored in the Played a very go0d game but
first quarter of the match be-
"In the meantime", he said, board, said.
‘all we can do is to ask hunt-! Starnes said that those wl
James Pattillo hit Stimmel af-l _________
' ter 2 yards, Moore made 5, Fei- A demand that new tighter The tighter rules, going into
sing and Gonzales 2 for a first I curbs on automobile installment effect II 1-,
down on the Yoakum 2. Leroy । purchases be lifted was made (business day's
Rathkamp held Gonzales to one Saturday by Fred L. Haller, furniture,
of Luling, died October 12 at yard on the, first try,, but the
7:20 P. M. in Fort Worth, fol- I Latin bucked over on the next
lowing a lingering illness. down for.the six-pointer. Fel-
Funeral services were held I sing’s kick was good. Seguin 7,
Saturday at Kubena Funeral ' Yoakum 0attthe end of the sec-
Home at 1:00 P. M., continuing I ond play inthe second period..
Later in the same period took
1 was in - Manning's kick on their own 45
eu Iui govu yaruage gained, lettsville. They settled in this ‘Oak Grove Cemetery with Rev.1 and passed and bucked their
Holmes pass combination click- county, and lived together un- [ P 0 Davidson officiating ’I way for another score, when . „
...... 77 ' | til his death on May 2, 1950.! Pall bearers were E C Sam Moore ran 14 yards to the
ing out the Flatonia Pups and ( Some time after they married, Koerth L Hagan E J Rice I Bulldog 1 and Pape crashed o-
.........they moved to Conroe. , John L Mamerw, John Mylius l ver. Using's kick was wide. Se-
guin 13, Yoakum 0.
. In the third quarter Seguin
took over on the Matador 41,
was penalized fifteen yards, and
local “B” team were ends Ju- j will send 60 more men on Thurs- ( AIT’TII nAAII nAvIr OF A 0 AM
lius Handelman and Billy Har- day, Oct. 19, to take their phy ADI I I H IGDNE INDVE AF AMlDN
Coleman returned a punt from Eostackles Daniel Seitz and Bin sical examinations at San An------ -- -
the Lion 15 to the 40. Gentry and Bobby custwick, center Tim
Coward and backs Kenneth Wil-
Sa g
ghh. tm
lb"'
■ Seguin led 13-0 at halftime.
The Bulldogs — who might
Lavaca County low the 1949
crop as of October
Shiner Jene Allen Dreyer, |1,it was announced this week by
Laddie Emil Tomek, Anton Joe | Mrs. Frances Strauss, special
agent for the Department of
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western University of George- i Born in Choctaw County, Mis-
town will give a musical pro-[ sissippi, on October 2, 1861.
। John L. Mamerow, John Mylius
and . Lowell Morris. ‘
Mrs. Hill was born in Ten-
nessee, and came to Texas when
she was 20. She married J. A.
Hill, - and he preceded her in
death on August 17, 1949.
Persons of Yoakum and Mrs. . The, following relatives sur-
...... — - — vive: half-brothers, Wayne Tin-
sley of Sulphur, Oklahoma ' Absentee Voting
Claude and Bill Tinsley of Sun- | ’ -5
ny Mead, California; sisters, , c. « r
Mrs. A. L. Pritchett of Webb , Larts l omorrow
PM
-
15, when the first group of met
dical men will be called up.
cells - and destroy it.
Blood transfusions furnish the
oxygen-starved body with red
cells loaded with oxygen and
with white cells which take up
the battle against secondary in-
fections, such as burns.
If the transfusions can be con-
tinued until the bone marrow
begins to function again chances
of saving the victims are quite
good. .
"n-TLNE2
T"pum
Ae —gVe
-P 0. -5-
ers to be careful when shooting were placed in 3-A in the origin-
al birds near telephone wires." I al registration that isthoss
_________-e- _______ I who were married before the
registered will not be subjed
Whole Blood Mav
J slightly from one made Thud
Be Atom Ray Cure "2 ieammanpot
• in Wichita County would mak
Animals walloped by doses of it necessary to draft all child!
atomic energy rays 50 per cent less husbands in the 19 to24
greater than those which usually age group.
cause death can be saved by a Starnes maintained a tih
combination of whole blood and lipped silence on the statemen
antibotics. by Maj. eGn. Lewis B. Hershey
This research was reported notional selective service dire
Saturday to the third annual tor, that he could not undek
convention of the American As- stand the board's action becaus
it was' announced Saturday,
by Selective Service Board No.
34.
The induction of the 15 men]
NEWSPRINT
PRICE UP
The Powell River Paper Co. of
Vancouver has increased news-
print prices $10 a ton and a
wave of similar boosts may
spread among all Canadian prom
also marked the opening date next month will bring to 36 the
of the South Zone. total number of men inducted]
The South Zone, however, does , into the armed 'forces from
not, open until October 20 and these two counties since the
closes December 3, xcept in start of the Korean war.
Cameron, Hidalgo , Starr, Za- The September quota was 11
pata, Webb, Maverick, Dimmitt, men. 10 men were drafted in
LeSalle, Jim Hogg, Brooks. October and 15 are due to. reg
Kenedy and Willacy counties port ' 0V. . . *
where the dates are’from Octo- . Meantime the first registrad
ber 20 to November 30. tion of members of the medical
The three-day shorter season professions was he d Monday. «
.. .. , Brig. Gen. Paul Wakefield!
in these counties is because . . f . m
.... , state director of selective sera
mourning dove hunting was le- vice, said that no quota J
gal during the three-day white- drafting of doctors has been I
wing hunt in September. Thus ceived yet for Texas.
all cuties get the same num- The medical men will be in
ber of hunting days. ducted in order of their 1
Mourning doves may be hunt- with the youngest in each prior-i
ed hour before sunrise to sun- ity group being called first. i
set. The daily bag and possession In the regular draft, the old-
limit is ten birds. er men in the 19-through-29^
The Executive Secretary urged category are called first. 13
dove hunters to return bands The doctor-draft law set four,
from banded doves they may i priorities. The first includes
kill. Returned dove bands give those deferred during World
game technicians valuable in- War II to take training at gov-
formation on migrations of this ernment expense or thefr own}
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kick. Edmund ubicek.
The Matadors got back to I Others include Johnnie Porter,
their 36, were penalized five | Harold Loyd McAfree, David
yards and kicked, to the Yoa- Lee Pierce, and Rex Hildon Ste-
kum 40. Jimmy Witte got the I wart, San Antonio; David Walk-
i breaks during the game. Seguin tips of his fingers on the pigskin! er Jr., Sweet Home; Ferdinand
I capitalized on a blocked kick but dropped it, and Seguin re-! Frank Wick, Jr., and Ernest
a row for the Pups. | Mrs. Berry Brown Sr., 84, died for the first Matador tally, and [covered on the Yoakum 42. ( North, Houston; and John Hen
Playing “College-brand” foot-(at her home in Conroe on Sa-! a fumble on a long pitch-out in four plays the Matadors! ry Olsovsky, Iowa Colony.
ball on the hand-offs, pitchouts, I turday, October 14, at 4:10 A. stopped the Bulldogs in the (were short 2 yards of a first j----------------------------------
and the screening plays, Yoa-! M. She was a former resident] shadow of the Seguin goalposts (down, and Yoakum took over on] I IFWNIAIN /Yr’ ATNIIT rNINTTIN A I TTP A
kum had the lads from Flatonia] of Lavaca County, and a mem- in the final period, the Bulldog 34. Three plays I IL I I MI I IL N L W I II 14 I Al III
baffled from the start. I ber of the Methodist Church. ! In the third period the Bull-! netted five yards and Manning] Lill IHVU VI IVH'V 11U111 AU IV
Yoakum tallied T-Ds in the Her remains were taken to (dogs worked their way down (attempted to kick, but Felsing-------------- ------ ----------
first quarter, one in the second' Hallettsville for funeral prepar- _________________________________ blocked it and Seguin had the
and two in the third, while Fla-1 ations at Kubena Funeral Home.;
" Mrs. Hill Passes
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