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While the nation over, traffic ment needs a shot in the arm
fatalities continued to climb, with charter revisions, increased
Cooke county went through the bond issuing limitations, greater
past 12 months with but two traf- tax valuations, all aimed at pro-
tie fatalities, fewer than has ever viding such needs as school build-
been recorded in one year since ings, sewer and water line exten-
The Register began keeping rec- sions, paved streets, swimming
ords 12 years ago. Furthermore, pool, and other requirements of
the total number of violent deaths a growing city.
(Absorbed Gainesville Signal, February, 1939).
Published by The Register Printing Company, 308
East California Street, Gainesville, Texas, Entered
as second-class mail at the Gainesville, Texas Post
Office, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Subscription prices: By city carrier 25 cents week-
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VV The difference between Then Friday, Jan. 7—President
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TS A BRAND NEW Year that were only 35 per cent of the max-
• Gainesville citizens moved into imum for a year during the 12-
at the stroke of 12 this morning. year period. a
words a generation ago and millions of copies
of their books were sold.
Several authors are following in the foot*
steps of Zane Grey, but they are not wide-
ly known. In fact, no writer of fiction today
is as popular as were a dozen or more in the
first two decades of this century. No one
has taken the place of Jack London or Rex
Beach.
This is a new and faster age. Apparently
people no longer have time to read popular
novels and day dream, more’s the pity. Some
of the fiction of bygone days undoubtedly
was trash. Perhaps most of it was. But it
proved, entertaining to people in a simpler
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OFT COAL production has so far out-
• stripped consumption that 10 per cent of
the miners in some regions are idle and oth-
ers are working on a restricted schedule.
Surface diggings producing lower grade coal
have been closed for 30 to 60 days as con-
sumers have become more discriminating in
their purchasing. Because of mild weather
on the Eastern Seaboard anthracite demand
has also been below a year ago.
With, an estimated soft coal stockpile of
70,000,000 tons, it might be expected that
prices would ease, but operators discount the
possibility of any reduction before April. In
consequence, John L. Lewis may call for an
extended holiday in mine operation in ac-
cordance with his warning two months ago.
He then said that if the industry did not take
action to encourage consumption the union
would move to spread the work, adding “if
any of the miners are going to starve, we
will just all starve together.”
Lewis was indulging in a bit of hyperbole.
There is no question of starvation involved,
but the situation does bring a substantial
drop in weekly earnings for many miners
from the August average of $77.87, the high-
est ever attained. In September the average
return had dropped to $74.98, with an aver-
age work week of 37.7 as against 39.3 in Au-
gust.
Under the “willing and able” clause of the
miners’ contract, Lewis could legally order a
shutdown in order that all miners would
bear alike the effect of current over-pro-
duction. Whether or not he resorts to this
means, the situatic highlights a serious fact
—that the question is no longer one of pro-
ducing enough coal, but of stepping up con-
sumption to a level to prevent widespread
idleness among the workers.
It is a problem of technological progress
that though most acute in the mines may
soon extend together industries. So far as
the coal industry is concerned, a ray of hope
is furnished by present development and re-
search and pilot plants for the manufacture
of synthetic gasoline and fuel oil from coal
and for the distribution of electric power
from mine-based plants.
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FEW POPULAR AUTHORS
HERE ARE few, if any, authors of popu-
— lar fiction today whose popularity can be
compared to that of titans in this field of a
few years or decades ago. Whether this can
be attributed to the influence of the radio or
to some other cause is a field for research
that has not been adequately explored.
The output of some of the authors whose
offerings won listing in the best-seller cate-
gory was not. of a high caliber. If read to-
day, it seems amateurish and corny. But
from the appearance of “Uncle-Tom’s Cabin,”
to the last opus by Zane Grey, those who
wrote simple tales, with little pretension to
literary excellence, that caught the public
fancy won widespread if brief fame. But
who today reads stories by Harold Bell
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character, were built like quonset huts of You can pretty well guess what rand of world war two, passing
standing- or reputation of any person, firm or corpo- world war II—35 to 50 feet long commodities are produced in a up a fortune by relinquishing the
EatornuwhicbrrmeeaaupenrleingherTuegiste and half as wide. They found congressman’s state by the type royalties. .
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THIS EDITION OF The Regis- most without exception they in- ,
ter records among other things, dicate Gainesville should have a *
a day-to-day review of the news good business year in 1949, but a
happenings in Gainesville and greater competition and a buyers’ ,
Cooke county for 1948. There market. Some business executives 4
were many accomplishments, have confidentially expressed a *
some disappointments, and an ar- desire to return to strong compe-
ray of routine events. tition to make their jobs more
But the most encouraging, and interesting. . . ,
brightening item in the year’s As to Gainesville’s greatest
news is the sharp reduction in need in 1949, the opinions vary
violent deaths, particularly traf- considerably, with the belief gen-
fic fatalities in this area. eral that the municipal govern-
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American people, Gainesvilleites ELSEWHERE IN THE paper •
are looking forward with keen today re predictions of things
anticipation to what the next 12 to come for business in Gaines- ,
months may bring to this com- ville, and expressions as to what
munity and her citizens. Gainesville needs most in 1949. . 4
To be sure, the year may be To this writer it is alway in-
better than last year to some, not teresting to learn what his fellow
so good to many others, and trag- citizens in various lines of en-
ic to a percentage of the popu- deavor think about the future and
lation. But Americans are great what they believe Gainesville
optimists and adventurers, and needs most.
they are always looking forward Only 15 of 35 invited to act as
to coming events with anticipa- prophets took us seriously, but
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Henry Youngman, the orchestra maestro, sent
his Christmas cards to Hong Kong, China, to be
mailed back to friends in the U. S. It cost him a
$2 Chinese stamp to mail each one, but according
to the present rate of exchange for the Chinese
yuan that is actually about ten cents in money
that will buy you a hot dog on Broadway.
Monty “The Beard” Woolley, who was a pro-
fessor at Yale before he became a stage and screen
star, will desert the Harvard university for nine
consecutive evenings begining Feb. 14. He will
join the Harvard boys in playing “The Man Who
Came to Dinner,” a play in which he was seen on
Broadway.
Just as some congressmen warble a scale of
opera notes before they make a speech, Jose Fer-
rer is taking singing lessons to improve his speak-
ing voice. He says the singing lessons have helped
him tremendously for the gabby role he has in his
new Rialto hit, “The Silver Whistle.”
Despite his many mishaps as a motor boat racer,
Guy Lombardo is not giving up the ship to devote
himself exclusively to his orchestra. Henry Kaiser
is building a new boat which Lombardo will pilot
in the Harmsworth Trophy race next summer.
A most intriguing business card has just arrived
.soliciting this column’s business. It is from"Profes-
sor Louis A. Rodriguez S.” and he announces that
he is available for “old and modern languages,
Commerce (shorthand, bookkeeping, mathematics,
typewriting), Science, Psychology, Music (melody
and harmony). Psychological Treatment for Nerve
Sickness, Spiritual Advisor and Graphology.” I’ll
bet the professor could fix that prewar jalopy of
mine which has been flat on its clutches so long it
should be buried.____
Lillian Hellman, the playwright, and Tallulah congress
Bankhead, the bubbling star, still have a mad on Texans in W-sL;n.t tween the Fourth of July and an Then Monday, Jan. 10—Presi-
and haven’t spoken—at least, in a friendly manner ---------------------8—; evening at the old folks home, dent Truman sends up his budget
—in years. Yet one of Tallulah’s greatest starring p-w-n g f , . The new congress, the 81st, message: the amount of money
roles was Regina, the heroine of Miss Hellman’s & Aegp,aaeA SanaAAApApngF aogAIAIATe which the Democrats will run, he says the government will need
play, “The Little Foxes,” which had a long run A NUNL1U LlL(UUMUUU A. C3LUULU63 opens shop Monday. Then for to run another year, and the rea-
in 1939. Why they are mad is still a confidential © months to come this town will sons why.
matter. By TEX EASLEY oath of office for the next four of Christmas gifts that come to be full of firecrackers, and fire- This budget message and the
That 21-year-old banjoist, Joe Hunt, who is WK WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (A) — years. his office. crackers make a lot of noise, itemized budget itself generally
making the string players around Sixth avenue’s W Texans will cut quite a swath These seats are not for sale Texas members usually get gift S tar With Mond ay1.-an. 3-. weigh two or more pounds. Con+
orchestra row look up with wonder, has an Ozarks in the presidential inaugural fes- T 1 h n no.im . boxes of grapefruit and sacks of m,The houseand. senate, meet, gress will be talking and arguing
phrase to describe himself: “I’ll do until a three- tivities. bey have been allocated to pecans. Florida and California The wi angling begins right away, about the budget for the rest
handed banjo-picker comes along.” His home is in The Lone Star -members of various groups for distribution, members get citrus fruits also. -h1s senator.wants to be on that ofthe year;
Hot Springs, Ark. . congress and the Texas State So- Each House member, for instance, Boxes of cheese come into Wis- committee, that house members Meanwhile, the various com-
ciety of Washington jointly are gets seven tickets and each sena- consin and Minnesota members wants to be on this committee, mittees will get down to work,
working on arrangements in co- or ten Bv the time woufisure and apples into Virginians and Then1.0omes Wednesday, Jam ho ding hearings on the bills that
operation with former Mayor + Ythetn V° . 8u1 Pacific northwest members. 5. President Truman delivers his will make new laws or change
John C. Calhoun of Corsicana and tw0 or more tickets out for the--— State of the Union message. That old ones.
others in charge of the group congressmans wife and children, AA 7 A All the while the army of news-,
Rv taw FA- which will come up for the oc- then the very close in-laws, you < Y AAvG Aon owned and operated that sanitary papermen in Washington will be'
¥I7ASHINGTON Jan 1 (TP)—Lone before George casion. don't have many left to friends 1 -o-” --5• • • • utility for the past few years. battling out their blow-by-blow
W -2 ’ f - ong before Geor8e Oone of the most colorful units or friends of close friends. --------------------— Twenty-eight years ago Janu- accounts.
.Washingtonchose this site for our national in the two-hour long parade down The Washington Evening Star (From the files of The Daily ary 1, 1891, free mail delivery was Radios will be calling out the
capital -ndians lived here.The area was crossed Pennsylvania avenue is expected is sponsoring a national track Register, Jan. 1, 1919.) established in the city of Gaines- news day and night. This goes on
and reelossed by many tribes from the north and to be the Cavaliers of San Anto- meet as a part of the inaugural Mayor J. Z. Keel returned home ville and the service has contin- day after day. Sometime next
irom the south, for a long time early settlers in nic. activities, and the Texas &M last night from Nevada, Mo., and ued without a break other than summer, maybe, congress will
gar-an 0C h.W. the .-ndians used to en.0Y An organization of San Antonio four-man relay team and a top other places in that state, where regular holidays since. One of finish up its work for 1949 anc
Iisn 8 at,1 he .1oot or Capitol Hill and of ten gath- businessmen, the Cavaliers are sprinter from the University of he spent the Christmas holidays the first carriers, J. A. Cunning- go home for the rest of the year.
e n the hill itself, where the Capitol building planning to come between 50 and Texas are expected to participate, with relatives and old-time ham, is still or the job. —‘
nowstands,to.hold their councils. . ,, (100 strong, dressed in their red The Star and the Texas State friends. , A letter from Frank Duston of Whitesboro Newyweq,
This, vealed in a booklet. Lost Arrow pub- and light gre- uniforms. society are cooperating to see if Roy Blanton left this morning the Gainesville machine gun ' . . 5 IY ds - ,
lished.Qy the Cleveland Park Community Library The group will bunk in their enough admission tickets can be for Roswell New Mexico where company indicates that the men To Live m Fort Worth
committee of this.city. Material for the booklet pullman cars while, in the sold to Texans in the capital to he is attending school after of that organization will return WHITESBORO, Jan. 1 — Mr.
WaS adapted by Elizabeth Judd, curator of arch- crowded capital, where Kotei res- raise the needed traveling money spending the holidays here with home within the next few weeks, and Mrs. V. M. Hale announce the
6008Y, - b. National museum ervations had to be reserved some for the athletes. his parents Mr and Mrs L O W. L. Greenhill, proprietor of marriage of their daughter, Miss
Early in the summer of 160s an open barge time ago at $18-a-day for a three- ---- Blanton ’ ’ the Majestic, is arranging for Dorothy Hale, to Elzie Ragsdale,
with two square sails came up the Potomac river day minimum. They will main- Congressman Gene Worley of n- 1 w,j1,, - g,,gp c,, some big shows next week. son of Mr. and Mrs. Pratt Rags-
from Chesapeake bay carrying a group of white tain headquarters, - however, in Shamrock warns against over op- m-iE wau5-S a e.o, 4P According to a report from the dale. The ceremony was per-,
men led by Capt. John Smith. They came from the Carroll Arms hotel across the timism at results of the foot-and- s lSrSPn n8 a.u SqA r office of County Tax Collector P. formed Dec. 25 at 3 p. m. in the,
Jamestown, the new settlement they had made in street from the Senate office mouth eradication drive in Mex- Ijen ’ ’ ’ m* o- Hays, the tax collections for home of the officiating minister,
Virginia They were exploring the waterways, building. ico. pci R;,r L, icL-g, L, the month of December were very the Rev. W. H. Vail, of the Meth-
Along the right bank of the Potomac, Smith and The Texas State society, headed , His comments were prompted ,5 -oce diiPuns D, light, amounting to only $17,- odist church. The couple left for
his party began to see scattered Indian dwellings, by Rep. Tom Pickett of Palestine by a recent official Agriculture T -1 °SS5 len.Pialso. So 687.84, as compared with $59,- Ft. Worth following the ceremony.
On the east shore of a river leading into the Poto- is sponsoring a $10-a-plate dinner department report which stated: ^auonax p nK, wmen nas 425,71 during December, 1917. where they will make their home. ■
mac they came upon an Indian village. They at which the visitors can get to- "As the year 1948 draws to an —■ 11
learned this village was Nacotchtank. gether with all the members of end, officials regard the net
In time the word became misspelled and mis- the congressional delegation and Progress as encouraging. Besides
pronounced—Acotchtank, Ancoctchtank, Acostia— U. S. Attorney General Tom the reduction of over-10 per cent
until it was finally known as Anacostia, where the Clark. Unable to work on that in the size, of the quarantined
Naval Air station is now located. As Captain Smith particular project, Pickett turned area, significant advances have
journeyed among the Indians he noted many all the planning over to attorney been made in the production and
things and jotted them down. He records that Ralph Pittman, formerly of De- Hse of vaccine for conferring re-
there was always a palisade of poles surrounding Leon and Wichita Falls. sistance to the disease on hun-
the house of the Indian chief. Palisades were built Attending the inaugural cele- dreds of thousands of susceptible
around the religious structures also. There were bration, which will extend over animals.”
places where the bones of many Indians were several days, is an expensive After studying this report,
buried together. Two of these were destroyed proposition. which included details as to the
when Eolling field was enlarged in 1936. Besides the transportation from number of animals slaughtered
From Captain Smith’s notes archeologists judge Texas to Washington and return and the shifting of quarantine mesas----
that possibly 300 Indians lived in Nacotchtank and hotel accommodations- and lines in various parts of Mexico, , ee ■ ss in boynood,
when he visited it. He thought about 80 of these meals that average $6 to $10 a Worley said: dmsgdu, his f a m 1 1 y
were warriors. It is believed that the Indians liv- day, the visitors have to pay for . AS a member of the House Ag- 888
ing in this area belonged to the Algonquin family, participation in other activities, rieu-ture subcommittee which has 880
ruled over by Powhatan, for whom the Potomac The inaugural ball costs $10 a kept a close watch on this serious 888
river was named. person, as does the state society Problem, I agree that excellent 8989
Long after the Indians disappeared from this dinner. Seats on the bleachers results have heen obtained. g
to many of the spots in the District of Columbia nue for the parade will run from that we must not let our guard ■
where the Indians used to live. Archeologists of 2 to $10 each °Wna n lit tip mtgA , g‛9
the Smithsonian institution found traces of the Approximately 15,000 seats giptstonqli tt, e 7 SsteP,one Ah
have been built on the Capitol S-8n1 retaxng or our vigilance,
plaza in front of the ornate but might let the hoof and mouth dis- |
temporary inaugural stand where ease get across the border and 5
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