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FRIDAY. APRIL 20, 1945
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THE LACOSTE LEDGER, LACOSTE TEXAS
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Private First Class Roy Groff
supervision, which is local rgula-
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damage-proof as possible. A good
job can usually he done through
“If it’s package goods, put it up
as well as possible. That’s the
port business, must cooperate if
the goal is td be approached. Most
Free
parking
rear of
store
facing
Houston
Street
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Mrs. H. D. Hughes of Beeville
is visiting this week with rela-
tives.
SAFETY ON RAILS
The safety record of the rall-
roads in the present war is much
better than it was in the First
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aim.
The wage earner should remem
4 Piece
Bedroom
Suite
Regular
$149.50.
Special
$99.50
a very few days when in its
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L IS THE CALIBRE
Corporal Jesse Stidham, U. S.
IMarine Corps, was listed as
Wounded inactionin the casualty
list of the S. A. Light this week,
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
C, Stidham of Natalia.
1. ft; Beck and family have
moved from the Gprrisoh apart-
mentj to a farm near the Humble.
Station.
Mr andMr.c K Hughes and
Mrs. Kenneth Hughes and, little
son,' Ken, spent the weekend in
Hindslwith Mr. and Mrs. Bill
PERFECT SHIPPING" NEEDS
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tion: of local business.
’Corporal Roland L Tschirhart
this week. Informed the Ledger,
that he has been transferred from
Altusv Oklahoma, to Sioux Full*,
South Dakota. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sebastion Tschivhart
ber that when government takes
over business, the worker is no
longer free to charge all the
traffic will hear. He takes what
Floyd Tondre of Fort Sill, Okla-
homa, has been promoted to the
than in World War II, the total
for all classes being 10,087in 1917
and 9,286 in 1918, compared with
5,337 in 1942 and in 1943,
in the two decades prior to our
entry into the present war, nut-
Transportation and shipping a-
gencies have moved mountains of
freight in these critical war years.
The public and the iilitary ser-
vices generally feel that a good
job has been done. But those in
the transportation and shipping
business are not satisfied. Just
moving the goods is‘not; enough.
as true as ever that square pegs
don’t fit in pound holes.
properuse of adhesives, gummed “Last November the 84th in-
1 tape, stitching, mietal strap, rope, fantry Division succeeded in mak-
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munal, are high wages less anti-
social or less private? Why con-
demn one and praise the other?
If an investor, in risking his
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Mr*. E. M. Bush, Correspondent
Mra. W. I. Davis and two child-
ren spent the week-end in Austin.
. Jack Gidley was home for the
week-end from Texas University.
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has sent home the Purple Heart
awarded him on March 6 for
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ployes. , In the ten years ended
with 1940, the average annual
CORRECT LUBRICANTS acd.
Corporal and Mrs. Emmett
Wurzbach and daughter, Fannie
ter at 'Castroville over the week-
end.
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casualties to passengers and- em-
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My mother’s mother is my wife
and must be my grandmother, and
being my grandmother’s husband
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LOCAL REGULATION for
LOCAL BUSINESS
According to a chart recently
published in The Index, quarterly
publication of the New York Trust
Company, the average cost of fire
insurance from 1913 to 1944 show-
ed a steady decline from $1.16 to
6G cents per $100 of fire insurance
protection—a drop of 40 per cent.
This took place while living costs
and wages were doubling, and in
many cases treblins.
Fire insurance is a highly local
business. The fire or property in-
surance agent who occupies the
that he is back with his old troop
in Burma. , /
Notice
Received Another Car of Dittlinger’s
Laying Mash and Pellets,
Very Attractive Patterns
Also
Car Mineral an Sulphur Stock Salt
, Special Prices on Quantity Lots
Salsbury's Live Stock and Poultry Vaccines
R. J. Mangold
Grain Dealer
thesomotmrrsm
Castroville: .
I must be my own grandfather.
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Popular Definitions
Ubang: A woman in Africa who
can seal a letter after it is in the
mail-box.
Synonym: A word you know how
to spell, and use in place of a word
you don’t know how to .spell.
An Efficiency Expert: A man
who knows less about your business
than you do and gets paid more for
telling ou how to run it than you
first operation, it reduced the
'It was signed by W. II, Simp
sori, Lieutenant General, U. S.
Army, Commanding. • ■ / '
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“We’ve done the same in-our family, too,
judge. We figure the more we buy... the
better we equip, our men .. > the quicker
they’ll finish their big job and come march-
ing home again.” . •
" That’s the spirit. Josh. And let’s be sure of
one more thing. Let’s be sure that they come
back to the same kind of place they left. While -
they arsaway and can’t express their opinions,
let’s not make any decisions on things that
are going to concern them in years to come.”
THE CALIBRE.SD CAN BE MOUNTED on aliacxt
NEHICLE Now IN USE, ARMY ORNAVy.... :
Repairs and Utilities,
The record of fire prevention in
See us first for Home and Office Furni-
ture, Floor Coverings, Hardware, Elec-
t rical Supplies, Paint and Varnishes,
Water and Gas Pipe, Galvanized Iron,
Plumbing Supplies, Wire Fencing.
Interment was at Devine.
Arranevmeuts by .Roy Akers '
Fanerak Hlomes
Clovis J. Schweers, Aviation
Machinist Mate Second Class, re-
turned to his station at Sanford,
Florida, Saturday after spending
a leave with his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. John Schweers of Dunlay.
ordinary guy
rom home.
REAL DIVIDENDS
; ■ “Fire losses have' been serious
220 and more severe than they should
haye been, but no major war ef-
fort in this country has been stop-
ped or " ' hampered by
fire," said W. E. Mallalieu, Gene-
ral Manager of the National
Private Ruben Tschirhart of
Camp Hood, Texas, is visiting his
government gives him. If you
doubt this,gjust look at the condi-
tion of citizens and workmen in
Countries where state socialism
became supreme. Government
does not take over industry and
leave the workman free. It's time
for workers in the United States
to think about this.
A Most Complete Line Of Auto Parts
South Of San Antonio In Stock
FISK TIRES
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HAt the present time, as is true'
in every year since 1888, the ma-
jority of persons killed in railway
accidents are persons other than
passengers and employes."
The possibility of accidental
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gets less per dollar of sales for his
services to his clients or policy-
holders, than most retailers.
\ A survey made in 1940 showed
that the average insurance agent
selling fire, property and casualty
insurance, received a gross margin
of 21.8 cents as commission out of
the customer’s dollar. In return
for this he performed many tasks
for his clients. The average a-
gency spends 13.7 cents for ad-
ministrative. and sales costs, and
net profits range from as high as
11.8 cents for agencies with less
than $5,000 in premium income, to
as low as 3.9 cents for agencies
having more than $600,000 annual
income. ' \. ( . .0
Fire insurance is one of the few
THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...
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"‘Adding another War Bond to your
collection, eh, judge?”
“Yes, Josh, I’ve always looked upon
buying Bonds as one of the best ways older
folks like me here at home can help our
fighting men overseas. For the past couple
of years I’ve put every extra cent I had
into them .. . not only during the War
Bond drives... but on a regular basis, Of
course, when there’s a drive on I always
try to buy an extra one or two.”
wounds received in action. He
also informed his parents, Mr. and
J Mrs. John Groff of .near LaCoste,
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the maximum ‘ value of property
exposed to possible destruction
by fire was less than. half: the
greatest value exposed in World
War II. In other words,, if fire
losses for the five-year period of
the second Warld War had been
running at the same rate as in the
first World War, our destruction
would have keen over three billion
dollars. Therefore, fire preven-
tion has paid big dividends.
Pire protection engiheers from
the Ntional Board of Fire Under-
writers and other Boards ane
Bureaus throughput the fire and
property insurane business, do-
nated their organized cooperation.
This, together with ‘ public co-,
opertion, has aided immeasurably .
in our war effort;
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man. who tries to increase his
wages from $40 to $50 a week?
Each has the same motive and
cord -or ■ twine, end, in woodn ihga
crates or boxes, enough of the of
right nails in the right places.
I Get Our Prices — Compare and Save
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See Us for That “Hard to Get” Item
This advice is not complicated.
It can mean the saving of millions
of dollars worth of freight if all
of us will do our part.
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Last year I asked her to be my
wife. She refused. So to get.
even I married her mother. Then
my father married the girl.
When I married the girl’s mother
the girl became my daughter. And
my father married my daughter,
so he became my son. When my
father married my daughter she
became my mother. If my father
is my son and my daughter is my
mother, who am 1?
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necessities in our daily’ life the
cost of which has gone down in-
stead of up.- This is the best
"Be careful tn mark shipments '
accurately and plainly. Use com-
plete address uu me, street, num-
ber ’ city and state. Show youn
name and address alsoprecedd by
'from: Much delay, loss and dis-
appointment iseaused b| illegible
and faulty addressing, V d
“Be sure to remove old labels,
tags and all previous markings.”
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savings, tries to increase his pro:
. fits from four to five per cent,
Mrs. Alfred Gray who teaches
at Gregory spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. L. C, Gray.
Rev, Moody of Yoakum spent
the pas week in the home of his
son Mr. Stephens.
Mra: Deo Crawford of Devine
attended Church . here Sunday
moriing and visited with relatives /
ip the afternoon,
Supt, and Mrs, A. C. Secrest,
Miss Byfield, and Mrs. Gertrude
Ladue, of Charlotte, spent Sunday
VERSATMLE MACHNEGLN53
PRODUCED BY US. ARMY g
3 HQRDNANCE IN THIS WAR..
H Dependable, POWERFUL, E
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\ 90 percent of us. ,
with Judge and Mrs. D. R. Bippert
last Sunday.
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Private First Class Marvin
Salzman. son of Mr."and Mrs.
Louis Salzman of LaCoste, re-
cently sent home a commendation
issued to the 84th Infantry Divi-
sion, of which he is a member. It
read:
World Wat;, according: to the 58th
annual report of the Interstate:
Gommerc Commission. While
there has been an inereaset in the;
last few vears in the number, of
accidents arising from theropera- . . ,, ...... —
, tion of trains, says the Commis- number of employe fatalities in
rh "-sion, “It appears that for each J railway accidents of all kinds was
class of person the fatalities were 601 compared with 4,584 killed in of existing state fire insurance
much greater iWorla War I 1907, / i /2 /. ' A supervision, which is local rgula-
parents, Mr. and Mrs, Thomas
thgusands o1 Tsehirhart and family of Castro-
K E EPI NC U P IN ARMS... gyc% EBNER
stole that cow. ll's-miles away
from here by, now. Bnbmemrmmr n
Little Girl: I wouliih' were , pmluctid byilyth
'bout it, misjer, they can't get'so O.Es. .........-.....- “
far away with it, ‛enuse you arain Arran
ed her crankicase last niuht. "
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FUELS II
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able progress was made in reduc-,
ing railway accidents, and passengev,'s so'slight per million
especially those resulting. in : of persons carried, that it is al-
most; im possible; to figure. The
Commission finds that wartime
rest(trictions upon the use of ma-
terials;; as well as manpower
shortages, are “seriously interfer-
ing with improvement programs
and with the installation of rail-
road safety devices and systems
oil additional mileage. When war
time restrictions, which now pre-
vent extensive installations1 of
railroad safety devices, are re-
moved, such further action can be
taken as may be ' found ap-
propriate to provide greater
safety in railroad operation.”
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PROFITS AND WAGES
A British educator from Oxford,
EFPJcks, asks why the profit
motive- should be treated differ-
atatus .of a Kfril merchant 1B
every community in the country, '
They must be moved’ without.dam-
age in transit. To cut down on
needless destruction, tt, " '
shippers,' 'through their Shippers’ ,
Advisory. Boards, are eonducting-a
month-long campaign during April
in conjunction with the raikroads
and other forms of transport. Lea, of Smithville visited with Mr.
Their goal is perfect shipping, and Mrs. Fred Leiber and daugh-
The public, as well as thoeem-
ployed in the shipping and trans-
A. C. TOUDOUZE CO.
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Member “Servesa" Stores
1211 W. Commeree St.
San Antonio, Tex.
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“Make doubtful boxes better by
vl reinforcing. padding, partitions
Work- and all ’ such im asures that take
up shock. ■ I
“Make the finished package as
p i
could possibly make out of it even
if you ran it right instead of the
way he told you t
A Consultant: 1
who is a long waj
never losing its momentumy
“The fine reqord made /by the ,,
division during the recent opera-iin ktie-
tion Irequires no ‘ombellishmont
However, I wish to make teem'd
of my deep appreciation of the
splendid performaneg of the task
, assigned to the division, and to
commend every officer and man
for his individual b contribution" '
VITAL FARM /s‛“
MACHINERY
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ently from the wage motive, in the
exhortations of social reformers.
If private profits are anti-social,
because private and not com-
first ’ounce of prevention.' 6 from Camp Normoyle and Mrs.
“Use the .most suitable contain- Bippert and daughter, Elizabeth
er available, Your phoice maybe
narrowed 'Way down, but it’S just
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INSURANCE
HAIL - FIRE - TORNADO - AUTO
BONDS, ETC.
Representing the Hartford Pire insurance Go.. The
$. Seal of Certainty on a Policy. '•
Hondo, Medina County,, Texas, Since 1907
O. H. MILLER
HONDO, TEXAS
Phono—Lytle 73-F12 mh
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, the United States in this war is
far better than in 'World War I.
The cost of damage by, fire during
the five years of World War I
totaled more than $1,293,000,000,
while fjre damage costs for World
War II, 1939-1943, inclusive, to
-z taled $1,555,000,000, ah increase
of 20 per cent.
However, during World War I
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damage results from improper nomu, nas peen promovea to ne
packing and labeling of shipments, rank of Corporal this week. He is
Phe- ollowing-p-tha-adxise-of-
shipping experts;
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wounded fighting men back to the
safety and comfort of rear area
base hospitals.
Pfc. Rangel now wears a battle
star. for his participation in the
campaign of Germany.
Before entering the service in
May 1942, he attended the La
Coste High School, and was later
employed as a' truck driver in
Hondo.
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Rpngel is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Santiago Rangel now living
in LaCoste,
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watched the farmer milki thesonl.
cow he had. The nxt orning the ;
farmer was much seiteed,asthe
Cow had been stolen uvlyv the
night. ghce-sumam m-my --2
Farmer:/ Drat thy thief, that-eudenarthe Lytle Baptist Chureh
Moilday ufterioon. Rev. Hall of-
ciejating, • Services at the gravve
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llmd .
. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sorrells,,
The little city girl ?stood ’ and Tom Sm ietls. Mr. and Mrs. Roy
■ - " ... - . Sun,II- of Corpus Christi, Mr.
int Mrs Anon Carroll of San
An ton hi, and Mr. and Mrs. Zenas
Uhde Jof. Kingsville attended the
funeral ae+vies, of M Irs, Pennie
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ville onra twelve-day furlough,
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nem, strongpoint of Geilenkir-
chen, thereby facilitating the ad-
vance of the Army to the Roer
River. Again your division dis-
tinguished itself when it was
thrown into the ‘Battle of the
Bulge.’
“It affords me extreme pleasure
to make note of another fine per-
formane turned in by the 84th
Infantry Division during the ex-
ecution of operation “GRENADE
just concluded. Your speedy in-
stallationi of bridges and expedi-
tious seizure of key towns east of
the Roer River contributed great-
ly toward getting the operation
off to a successful start. There-
after your rapid advances, accom-
plished despite an extraordinarily
exposed left flank, were among
the outstanding features of the
entire operation. " Your division
was one of the few engaged which
fought its way all the way from
the Roer River to the Rhite River,
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and other farm machinery, with Magnolia Products.
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SEE YOUR
MAGNOLIA
AGENT OR CONSIGNEE
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Correct Fuels and Lubricants for farm machinery
are just as important as the right seed for your crops.
Inferior seed produce small crop yield, and improp-
erly lubricated machinery... or use of inferior fuels,
oils and greases, result in costly breakdowns, ineffi-
cient service, and less farm income. For years South-
western farmers and ranchers have used Magnolia
Fuels and Lubricants, finding that they Are economi-
cal and help cut down costly repair bills. Get added
protection for your tractors, trucks, automobiles,
Che Tadoste Ledger
. Established August 1, 1915
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Ledger ^Building, LaCoste, Texas
* JOHN C. BIEDIGER
Editor and Publisher 1
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
Congreaa of March 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Other States . ________• $1.50 a year
in Texas . .$1.50 a year
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 bging
brought to the attention of the
publisher. A /
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