The La Coste Ledger (La Coste, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1944 Page: 2 of 6
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French fried potatoes stay in
Camp Hood, Texas.
stomach a few hours, and on your
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hia wife and son at Castroville on
a seven-day furlough.
Private and Mrs. Ivan Mangold
and daughter, Kathy, spent the
community. He is
Camp Hood, Texas.
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receives his mail in care of Fleet
Post Office, San Francisco, Cal-
Here comes our shipload of
good wishes for a Happy
and Prosperous New Year
for every man, woman and
child in this community.
Southern Pacific Lines and other railroads serving
the Southwest in Texas and Louisiana have done their
full share in serving the war emergency transporta-
tion needs and also in making tax payments in all
directions. During the past year in these two states the
railroads have contributed more than $119,000,000 in .
taxes to meet federal, state, and local requirements!
.11.00 a year
|1.50 a year
Carp. Claude Tondre and Mrs.
Tondre left Saturday for Norfolk,
Virginia, after he had been visit-
ing with Mrs. Tondre and with
his mother, Mrs. Joe L. Tondre, at
Castroville on a ten-day leave.
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needs of the armed forces. During
all this time, the worker lives at
home with his family. —A
Compare this to the life of a
months since Pearl Harbor have paid for the sup-
port of state, county and city governments another
$750,000,000 and are today paying state and) local
taxes at the rate of $800,000 per day.
In Texas...
Other States.
Marcus Duron of the U. S.
Navy is spending a leave here
with relatives and friends.
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' Lieutenant and Mrs. R. C, Lee
and son of Lake Charles, Louisiana,
are spending some time with her
parents, Mr, and Mrs. Fritz Weib-
len of near Castroville.
Corporal John! R. Fischer, Jr.,
of Camp Polk, Louisiana, is spend-
ing a furlough with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Fischer at Cas-
troville.
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WORKING TO AVOID
TRAGEDY
Adam arrived home last Friday
after spending the past several
months in the South Pacific with
the Army Air Corps. His parents
are Mr., and Mrs. Joe Adam of
LaCoste.
week-end with his father, Albert
Geiger and family of the Idlewilde
in, the army of production," one
becomes almost nauseated. '- With
all due respect to the Workers on
THANK YOU
Welcome to the year of
‘grace, 1943, and may it
bring you much more in the
way of health and happiness
than your most hopeful -
- expectations. ? 1
Thank you a thousand
times for past favors. We
promise to do everything in
our power to merit your con-
tinued friendship.
demand for protection of workers
on a voluntary prepayment basis
against . . . . illness.*’
DITTLINGERS
Pultry and Dairy Feed
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Any erroneous reflection upon
the character, standing or repu-
tation of any person, firm or cor-
poration, which may appear in the
columns of this newspaper will
be gladly corrected upon being
brought to the attention of the
publisher. ‛
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Harvey A. Haby, Seaman Second
Class, writes that he is now sta-
tioned somewhere in New Zealand.
• P. F. CHRISTILLES, Agent
MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO.
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Private Floyd Tondre of Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, spent the Christ-
mas, .holidays with his wife and
his mother, Mrs. Clara Tondre,
both of whom reside in Castroville.
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surprised when all of their child-
ren visited them over the holi-
days. They include Private First
Class Allen Huegele of Tacoma,
Washington, and Mrs. Huegele and
little daughter, Shirley, from San
Antonio, First Lieutenant Vinson
Huegele from Denver, Colorad4,
Sergeant and Mrs. Marlin Krause
and little .daughter, Trudy, from
over the railroads, even though freight rates and
passenger fares were raised, Congress had to appro-
priate over $1,600,000,000 to meet deficits.
In this war, the railroads have been managed by their
owners. A far bigger and better transportation job has
been done. And, since Pearl Harbor, the railroads
have turned into the United States Treasury the tre-
mendous sum of $3,250,000,000 in taxes—and today
are paying federal taxes at the rate of nearly
$4,250,000 every 24 hours.
And, on top of all this, the railroads in the same
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Biediger Service Station
LaCoste, Texas
His base pay is $50 a
hit hours are anything
spending the hglidays with his
wife and son, Rodney, here.
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NO PARALLEL
After reading of strikes
various line of industry over
A leading medical organization
has examined the effectiveness of
voluntary group insurance pro-
grams in operation in 1,327 busi-
ness and industrial firms, employ-
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N THE LAST WAR, when the Government took
the Army Post Office, New York,
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IT IS INDEED A PLLURE
Right now, on the eve of
New Year's, when 1945 is
ready to make its bow, it
is indeed a pleasure to ex-
• tend hearty greetings and
good wishes to the people
of this community.
We are at your service
—always.
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Coxswain Gerald McKinney, who
recently returned from the Philip-
pines, visited with relatives at La
Coste last week. He is a nephew
of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Santleben.
Gerald has been overseas twice and
is expecting too be sent out again.
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trifle
gone for the duration; and those
whose lives depended upon its pro-
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Corporal and Mrs. Edgar Kempf
and daughtaxMarx.Loyise, are
spending a furlough wnh their
respective parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Keller of here and Ed.
Kempf of Atascosa. Cpl. Kempf
is stationed at Dalhart, Texas. ‛
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Private First Class Henry
Schott arrived home one day last
week on a fifteen-day emergency
furlough to visit with his father,
Henry Schott, Sr., of Castroville
who has been very ill.
most trivial causes, while millions
of our boys who depend upon pro-
duction at home are battling for
heir lives, one lacks words to ex-
press , condemnation of such
some 3,000,000 employes are
covered by various phases of these
plans. Types of coverage were
found to include life insurance,
disability benefits, hospitalization
and surgical care benefits, and
medical care.
Commenting on the practicality
: of the voluntary prepaid health
insurance idea, Dr. Edward H.
Cary," Chairman of the Board of
the . National Physicians Commit-
tee, says: “The operation of these
programs has made manifest an
almost universal need and . . . .
The Ledger Staff sincerely hopes
that you had a very Merry Christ-
mas, boys And girls, and may the
New Year bring peace onee more
to the world-and bring von nil
home safe and sound. /.l
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- Douglas Krause from San Fran-
. L g cisco, California, Mr. and Mrs. El-
many has peen reached when a
faltering in the flow of supplies
from this country, even for so „
Private Emil Tschirhart arrived
home to visit with his wife and
son in San Antonio on a fifteen-
day furlough. Pvt Tschirhart
has been stationed at Fort Lewis,
Washington.
practices. And then when one
hears the leaders of men who
• strike, describe them as "soldiers
the home front, there is not'the
slightest basis for comparing
ing more than 4,000,000 workers, them with the soldiers.
The big job now is to show
poople that total government con- soldier..
mer Huegele, Mr. and Mrs. Cla-
rence Huegele and little son, Col-
vern,* from San Antonio, and Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Mechler and little
son, Quincy, also of San Antonio.1
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Private Wesley R. Mann left
Monday evening for his station
after spending the Christmas holi-
days with his wife and baby son
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Halty. Pvt. Mann is stationed at
Camp Hood, Texas.
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Private and Mrs. Nick Mariana
spent the Christmas holidays here
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Gross. They are now sta-
tioned at Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma.
cond Class, was mailed a subscrip-
tie tion to the LaCoste Ledger this
stationed at week. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. Otto of Castroville and
structing burned out plants.
When a war estavnsmment goes
up in smoke now, it is very likely
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momentary a period as a few days
or, weeks, could indefinitely delay
victory. ■ In • other words, it is
hoped that the crisis has arrived.
All through the war, fire pre-
vention authorities have stressed
the necessity of guarding against
fires in war plants. In the be
ginning, when the long pull. to-
ward victory Was just starting,
they reminded us that equipment
and facilities destroyed by fire
jeopardized the lbes of our fight-
ing men. Weeks and months were
required to replace factories.
What the fire prevention
authorities said dien goes double
today. There is no longer time to
spend. weeks and months recon-
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who Is stationed in Missouri, is AltnMabyhBeoumay" "
Private Frank Bush of Camp
Josit, Robinson, Arkansas, spent
the week-end with his father, Lee
Bush and family here.
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Private First Class Francis
Echtle spent the week-end with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.. George
Echtle, of LaCoste, He is sta-
tioned at Fort Sam Houston.
To begin with, the worker on
the home front enjoys short hours,
high pay and is his own boss. If
he works a minute overtime, he
gets time and a half or double
pay. If he wants to quit and go
fishing, he stays away from work.
If any little thing bothers him, he
quits', if one of his labor bosses
can’t get what he wants soon
enough from duly constituted
authorities for settling
grievances, a hundred workers, a
thousand workers, ten thousand
workers or fifty thousand workers
walk off the job, regardless of the
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Christmas holidays with his.PA: • Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Huegele of
rents, Mr. unit MH& it. -S. Mangold 25: I* “122K01 1
, Private Harvey Groff of Camp "A
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trol over medicine is not an easy
shortcut to the goal of providing
the last word in medical care for
al|. It would be a tragedy if
political controversy over what
kind of a medical system the
Ifoqntry is to have were permitted
to interrupt sound medical pro-
gross.
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Joe H. Steinle o) Dunlay this |
week subscribed to the LaCoste I
Ledger for Sergeant Howard Haby.
Barkley, Texas, arrived home
Wednesday morning to visit with your mouth a few minutes, in your
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that occasion demands. His work
week is as many days as it takes
to do the job. He doesn’t lay off
to go fishing. He doesn’t quit’his
company if hi officers happen' to
ruffle him. He doesn’t' strike. He
doesn’t live at home with his
family. But month after month,
and year after year, he lives in
surroundings which no home front
Worker would voluntarily accept
for a moment: On top of this, his
, life is constantly at stake.
If a soldier disobeys' orders, he
. is subject to court martial, /with
. imprisonment or execution—the
verdict depending upon the of-
t fense. The hom front worker,
, when he, disobeys orders, suffers
, no penalty, and when he strikes,
। is in most cases actually rewarded
, by higher wages or some other
, device to induce him to return to
work.
i The least one can say is that the
: term "soldiers in the army of pro-
duction” is a misnomer that any
( honest workman should shy away
from, because his activity bears
I not the slightest resemblante to
the activity of. a soldier.
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FOR THE DURATION AND
FOREVER
A point in the war against Ger-
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Gervase J. Tondre, Radar Mate
Third Claas, this week Wrote to the
Ledger as follows:.
“I have been receiving your pa-
per regularly for the past few
months and wish to thank you for
your excellent service. The Ied-
ger is one of the few contacts that
I have left to my endeared home
and as such is treasured very high-
ly.
“Recently I was transferred to
a Radar Maintenance School, and
after I complete my course, I will
return to my ship.” Gervase is the
son of Mrs. Clara Tondre of Cas-
troville.
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Leonhardt D. Otto, Firman Be-
. Mangold
Grain Dealer '
Che Latoste Ledger
Established August 1,51915
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Ledger Building, LaCoste, Texe
JOHN C. BIEDIGER
, Editor and Publisher
Catherine A. Christilles, Ass’t.-Ed.
Co-Editors
Mrs. Q. H Ahr and Janie Salzman
Entered as second-class mail
matter at the postoffice in La-
Coste, Texas, under the act of
Congress of March 1879.
' SUBSCRIPTION RATE
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Private Eugene Suehs of
Amarillo Air Field is visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Suehs, Sr., at Castroville on a
ten-day furlough.
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Aaron Bendale, Fireman Second
Class arrived home Tuesday on a
twenty-one-day leave to visit with
Mrs. Bendele at Castroville.
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Staff Sergeant Clinton A.
Boehme was placed on the sub-
scription list this week by Mrs.
Adela Boehme of Mico.
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Biediger, John C. The La Coste Ledger (La Coste, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1944, newspaper, December 29, 1944; La Coste, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1593218/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Castroville Public Library.