The Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1952 Page: 2 of 8
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How IRO Aided l9600,000 Displaced Persons
THE ELGIN COURIER, r91DAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1952
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See the new electric ranges now on
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DESTRUXOL—Weevil Control Powder. Just sprinkle it with your grain
while storing. Guaranteed to keep stored grain free of weevils.
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for sharp appetites, good digestion and steady growth.
Arrow Range Cubes supply the necessary elements need-
ed by your stock for rapid growth and firm fleshing. Ask
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SEAL SALE HELP
The Bastrop County Tubercu-
losis Association wishes to thank
The Elgin Courier for its cooper-
ation in their Christmas Seal
Sale.
The publicity given by your
paper helped in a great measure
the success of our undertaking.
MRS. S. Q. LEE
'Seal Sale Chairman
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BOOKLET GIVES FACTS
ON COTTON MARKETING
ADMISSION TO GROUNDS
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The International Refugee Organization, one of the United Nations’
Specialized Agencies, will end its operations on 31 January, after
a 55-month resettlement program whose annual cost exceeded that
of the United Nations and all its other agencies. Above some of the
refugees from IRO camps in Germany, Austria and Italy are shown
! boarding an IRQ-chartered ship at Bremerhaven for the USA.
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previous week at the Methodist
parsonage. She was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hughes.
His parents were Mr. and Mrs.
W. P. Wesson.
Writing a few thousand words on how and why
electric cooking is the easy, modern cooking method
would be simple, indeed. Women the country over are
penning "rave notices” about their new electric
ranges.
To make a long story short: electric cooking is fasti
A turn of the switch and the high-speed conking
units are ready for use. It’s clean! There’s no smoke
or soot to blacken pans, mar curtains, walls and
cabinets. It’s de-pendable! Accurate temperature con-
trols automatically maintain the exact heat required.
It’s economical! Less than one cent per person per
average meal. There’s less food shrinkage, too, with
draftless electric cooking.
No wonder the new electric ranges are such popular
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I wish to submit for the most
worthy citizen of Elgin for 1951
the name of Mrs. Louis Lundgren.
I have chosen her for her un-
tiring work the past years in the
Yamboree, P.T.A. work, Church
work and the many other civic
duties she performs.
(Name Withheld)
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Eddie Brandt
I would like to add the name of
Eddie Brandt to the list of those
being considered as Elgin’s Citi-
zens of the Year. Since returning
to Elgin a year ago to become a
coach and teacher at Elgin High
School, Mr. Brandt has worked
long and tirelessly with the youth
of our community. His contribu-
tion to the Boy Scouts to junior
baseball to girls basketball and
to, athletics in general has been
very outstanding. I think a man
who invests so much in our future
citizens is himself deserving of
honor as one of our leading citi-
zens of today.
(Name Withheld)
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R. N. Jensen
I wish to submit the name of
R. N. Jensen as the most porthy
citizen of Elgin for the year
1951. Mr. Jensen, even though he
is not a resident of Elgin, has
been one of the most progressive
men of the community. He has
worked long and hard for success
of the annual Yamboree. He takes
an active leading part in all func-
tions of the Elgin Chamber of
Commerce and is one of Elgin’s
outstanding religious leaders.
(Name Withheld)
out the merits of my
however, here is my
statement.
THE ELGIN COURIER
AND FOUR COUNTY NEWS
-----Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Elgin?
Texas under Act of March 3, 1879._____________________
PUBLISHED WE RY THURSDAY
~ Owned and published by C. A. & C. B. McMillion
C. A. MeMILLION, General Manager
BONNER MeMILLION, Editor
VIRGINIA MeMILLION, Advertising Manager
Special Correspondents: Mrs. P. A. Helms (Elm Grove),
Mrs. King Falls (Pleasant Grove), Mrs. H. A. Campbell (Coon
Neck) Mrs. Lou Jensen (Pe Lee), Mrs. Frank Creel (Mount
Pleasant), Mrs. Myron Swenson (Kimbro), Mrs. E. J. Goodwin
(Manor), Mrs. Carl L. Johnson (Manda), Mrs. H. O. Teer
(Pflugerville), Miss Lydia Etzel (Coupland), Mrs. Sam Dungan
(McDade), Mrs. Gus Heine (Richland), Mrs. E. L. Crenshaw
(Littig), Mrs. Lindsey Kisamore (Prewitt). ______________
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IMy nominee is not only a most
vorthy citizen of the past yeai,
ut is one who has been worthy
if the title for MANY consecutive
•ears. She is an exemplary wife,
m understanding mother, a fine
Christian character, and an all-
round good citizen.
With all the ramifications of a
crowded home program with a
busy husband and three children
— she keeps an immaculate home,
lovely grounds, is a gracious
hostess, is active in local Church,
P.T.A., and club affairs. She is
an artist and poet as well as
speaker, in her own right. Her
audiences always delight to hear
her; what she says and does brings
credit to herself her family, and
our town. She is what is termed
a “modern young woman,” but is
such without resorting to smok-
ing, drinking, and the like in an
at»mpt to be sophisticated or
popular.
For several years she assisted
in providing worthwhile program
numbers at the Elgin-Swedish
Reunions. She’s worked up origi-
nal skits for numerous and vari-
ous audiences in Elgin and
vicinity; she sings-in her church
choir is the Sunday (School
Superintendent (has been for
several years); is active in her
Women’s Missionary Society, and
attends its district and state con-
ventions — holding office in same
from time to time. Last summer
she took a group of young people
to the Church Youth Camp in
Colorado.
She is always doing something
to enrich her experiences; and
thus is able to be more dynamic
in her local endeavors. She has
been active in the Elgin P.T.A.
for many years, has served on its
difficult Finance and Year Book
committees; has been its very able
president. In whatever she did, we
found helpful results in commun-
ity interest, school spirit, and
money raising schemes.
She is generous in the use of
her car, taking children to the
county meets, out of town school
student conferences, football
games, band contests. She has
been President of the Band
Boosters, and through her the
Elgin Yamboree was commenced
and directed two years ago in an
effort to raise the several thou-
sand dollars yet needed to pay
off the band uniforms. Under her
chairmanship, it 'again. was pro-
duced in 19«51, with breathtaking
results. She had good assistants —
notably Ralph Jensen, who be-
cause of his good work in that
project as well as several other
Elgin build-ups merits our whole-
hearted 'admiration and lasting
gratitude. But without the en-
thusiasm and continued direction
of the chairman many of the other
workers would have “fallen by
the wayside.”
She’s fine in the ranks as well
vances in cotton processing and
marketing are presented in a new
University of Texas booklet con-
taining proceedings of the
Twelfth 'Cotton Research Con-
gress, held at College Station.
The Texas Cotton Research
Committee publication may be
obtained from Cotton Merchan-
dising Research, University of
Texas.
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Elgin High School students 25
years ago this week had moved
into their new building, according
to The Courier of Feb. 3, 1927.
At New Sweden the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Albin Holmberg had
been totally destroyed by fire.
W. E. McCullough, prominent
Elgin cotton merchant, had died
suddenly the previous Sunday
morning following a heart attack.
In his page 1 column, the editor
of The Courier proposed that the
local Retail Merchants Association
start a project to woo trade back
to Elgin which, he said, was be-
ing drawn away by other towns.
The Merchants Association “must
be revived or disbanded,” he
stated. “When business is good
and everything coming our way,
we get along all right anyway, but
when business Is dull and our
neighboring towns are actively at
work thru their organizations, en-
croaching very materially upon
our trade territory, taking our
trade away from us, there are
just two things to be done —
get busy ourselves or sit still and
let them have it.”
Too Much Rain
Farmers in the Elgin area were
getting impatient for a series of
slow drizzling rains to come to
an end so they could get on with
their spring planting. Too bad
they couldn’t put some of that
moisture in the bank, payable to
Elgin farmers of 19'52.
Includes Admission to Carnival,
Livestock and All Other Exhibits.
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Mrs. Lundgren
Lack of time has prevented me
‘rom writing you the past two
veeks and make nomination of
ny choice of Elgin’s Citizen of
he Year. If I had more time, I
ould assemble many facts and
as in the places of leadership. She
s considerate of others; does not
shirk any responsibility given her;
knows how to work with small as
well as large groups. Her advice
and counsel are highly regarded,
and their results are evident in
the Elgin Memorial Park under-
takings, New Century Club af-
fairs, P.T.A. matters, and the
success of the big banquet given
two years ago for the Swedish
Brotherhood Convention at the
El-Hi Gymnasium. Her many-
other co-workers will be happy to
tell of her numerous other
accomplishments.
In honoring her, Elgin would
likewise be honored.
I wholeheartedly nominate Mrs.
Louis L. Lundgren.
(Name Withheld)
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O. F. Kruger, and Henry J. a
Dagerath, son of (Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Dagerath of Giddings, had
been married on Bunday after-
noon. a
Dinner for $1
“A Dollar Dinner for four”
was the title of a picture and e
dinner plan in The Courier that
week. The menu proposed con-
sisted of ‘‘Soup Julienne, E Scal
lopped Salmon, Baked Green $
It isn’t a fact to make headlines or stop traffic
at downtown intersections, but the decision of Elgin s
young Kiwanis Club to sponsor a minstrel show and
use the funds to provide a youth center for local ’teen-
agers is one of the healthiest things, civically speaking,
to happen here in a long time.
When the Kiwanis charter was projected here last
November, it was received with understandable skepti-
cism. A similar club had withered in Elgin several
years ago. The composite opinion ran something like
this: “Sure, I’m for a Kiwanis Club. I’ll join and attend
I the luncheons. But I know already how it’ll end. Every-
! thing the club attempts to do will somehow hang fire,
and pretty soon all the members will lose interest.”
The Elgin Kiwanis Club is now three months old.
i During that time its luncheons have had something like
1 80 per cent membership attendance. Significantly, it
I has as many attending now as it had last November.
Last Tuesday, when the minstrel show was pro-
| posed and brought to a vote, there was a unanimous
I show of hands. The same was true when approval was
sought for sponsoring the youth center.
I That, of course, is only the initial step. The min-
l strel show hasn’t been presented yet, and the youth
' center is only a project. But the very fact that these
1 things are planned is a sign of new and hearty civic
! interest.
Critics can probably give many reasons why the
1 whole idea will fall flat on its face.
Here are a few reasons why we think it won’t: (1)
The business and professional men of Elgin have proved
I the need for a civic club by responding so enthusiastic-
I ally to Kiwanis; (2) A minstrel show is a lot of fun
i to plan, stage and perform in, and just as much fun
I to watch; (3) A youth center is something vitally need-
l ed in Elgin, something any father wants for his child,
I and most of the Kiwanians are fathers; (4) A club
| such as Kiwanis has no purpose, is a pure waste of
‛ time, if those attending simply meet, eat, jest and ad-
' journ, and the members of the local organization
I know it.
1 Judging by its record of the first three months,
' we think the Elgin Kimanis is fast becoming a per-
manent organization.
I submit the name of Ralph
Jensen as Elgin’s Citizen of the
Year. He is very civic-minded and
will give untiringly of his time
and efforts for the goo of Elgin.
He is interested in the Elgin
schools although he helps support
the parochial school in his com-
munity. He worked diligently to
make 'the Elgin Yamboree a
success. He gives the people of
Elgin and surrounding communi-
ties much enjoyment through his
annual fireworks display.
At heart he is a truly Christian
man and applies the Golden Rule
in his daily living.
(Name Withheld)
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Paul Lundgren
I wish to submit the name of
Paul Lundgren as Elgin’s Most
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New Law Scholarships
AUSTIN —- Two new funds
will further legal education at the
University of Texas. The late
Judge Hicks Harvey of Linden
is honored through a grant cre-
ated by the 1921 and 1922 Law
Classes, and Jerome K. Crossman,
Dallas businessman, has estab-
lished a $300 annual scholarship.
Worthy Citizen.
Paul takes the place of both
a mother and a father to his boys
and open the door of his home
to boys of all ages. He is interest-
ed in all civic activities and gives
generously of his time to the
Elgin Chamber of Commerce, the
Boy Scouts and the American
Legion Band. He is sensible, de-
pendable and thorough, and. is
never too busy to lend a helping
hand.
(Name Withheld)
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BILL WELCH
I would like to submit the name
of Bill Welch as a candidate for
Citizen of the Year for 1951 in
Elgin. Mr. Welch has given much
time and effort on behalf of the
farmers7 and poultry raisers in the
Elgin area. He is always willing
to help work for a better com-
munity. I think he deserves con-
sideration as Citizen of the Year.
(Name Withheld)
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MRS. C. W. WEBB
May I second Mrs. Noel
Branton’s nomination of Mrs.
C. W. Webb as the most Worthy
Citizen of Elgin?
Even though I am not living in
Elgin now, I have live there, and
I do visit in Elgin as often as I
can.
Mrs. Webb is always a friend
to Elgin and Elgin people. She is
a tireless worker and an able ad-
visor and has helped promote
Elgin through the years.
She has made many friends for
Elgin through her pleasing per-
sonality and sincerity.
I think all of Elgin should be
proud to know Mrs. Webb as its
most worthy citizen.
MISS KATE HAYS
Austin
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McMillion, Bonner. The Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1952, newspaper, January 31, 1952; Elgin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1548996/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Elgin Public Library.