The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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AUSTIN COUNTY’S WAR BOND QUOTA FOR MAY IS $25,300
THE SEALY NEWS
SEALY, AUSTIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1942
VOLUME 54—NUMBER 9
A NEW ELECTRIC POWER PLANT
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CUT OFF ROAD
• Sugar rationing registration
here Monday and Tuesday re-
sulted in registering 1636 at
NEW POWER PLANT
FOR HL&P STARTED
ON RICHMOND ROAD
COLLECT ALL OLD
METAL FOR WAR
COUNTY CHAIRMAN
HOPES TO ATTAIN
$50,000 FOR MAY
SHOW MOST BEAUTIFUL
YET SHOWN IN SEALY,
MANY VISITORS SAY
IT WILL BE A PART
TIME JOB DURING
THE EMERGENCY
BONDS SOLD IN
APRIL IN COUNTY
TOTAL $65,773
17 BOYS TO LEAVE
BELLVILLE FOR ARMY
ON THURS. MAY 14
THIS GROUP WILL BE
WHITE BOYS; NEGROES
WILL LEAVE LATER
South '
Lighting
started
By Mrs. Elmore Lepp
• The Sealy Garden Club had
STREET CARRIES MORE
TRAFFIC THAN ANY
STREET IN WALLIS
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COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM TO BEGIN
HERE SUNDAY 17TH
TEACHERS AND PUPILS
ACTS AS REGISTRARS AT
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
STILL MORE HOUSING
ROOM NEEDED IN
SEALY FOR WORKERS
RUDY HIKEL
APPOINTED PARK
SUPERINTENDENT
DR. HARRY KNOWLES
WILL DELIVER
CLASS ADDRESS
PETERS LINE CON-
VERGES WITH OTHERS
AT THE POINT
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ENG. FITZPATRICK
SURVEYED THE ROAD
THIS WEEK
Felipe, has been postponed from
May 11 to May 18.
its spring flower show on Tues- Miss Ila Mae Shelburne,
day, May 5th. The setting for
the show was a garden scene, Jesse Cecll Hood
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the registration.
The total for those registered
at both the white and colored
schools was 2092.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
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the white schools and 456 at
the colored schools.
The registrars at the white
school building were the school
teachers, assisted by high
school pupils. At the colored
school the teachers looked after
• The Sealy Garden Club’s an-
nual picnic which is scheduled
to take place at Stephen F.
Austin State Park at San
• According to Commissioner
Mike Keer, construction will
begin next week on the cut off
road from Highway 90 to Main
Street in Sealy.
Brandon Fitzpatrick, engin-
eer from Columbus, surveyed
the road for levels this week,
and the first work next week
will be the movement of dirt
from high places to low places,
leveling up the grade for the
iron ore later. A drag line with
dump trucks will be the first
equipment to be put to work on
the road.
The road will connect High-
way 90 with Main Street near
the Sealy Grist Mill, and will
be almost a straight route from
the highway to Main Street.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
LARGEST NUMBER OF
SECTION MEN EVER
WORKING ON KATY
• The following white men
have been notified that they
will be inducted into the armed
services from Austin County on
May 14: Leander Wilson Sims,
Willie Joe Blazek, Arnold Emil
Doleshal, Cyril Method Stast-
ny, Stanley Sunderhouse, Sam
Kossuth Zapp, Randolph Cher-
nosky, John W. Sims, Morris
Reinhold Frank, Emil Joe Jan,
Jan Vencil Plasek, Charles
Alois Pechanec, Wilson George
Neumann, Gebhardt Max Wit-
te, Steve Alvin Matejak, Alvin
Neely Muery, and Walter
Herman Martens.
The above group will leave
Bellville at 8:52 a.m. on May
14.
A group of negroes will be
inducted the latter part of May.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
SURFACING GUYLER
STREET IN WALLIS
FINISHED THIS WEEK
• To meet the war-time de-
mands for electric power in
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE SA OUTNO
Sam Tolbirt is chairman for
Sealy for the drive, and says
he will be ready Monday to
put it over. Other chairmen for
this area are:
Wallis—Chas. Kaechele.
San Felipe—Mrs. Mike Keer.
Cat Spring—J. J. Futch.
Peters—Max Schubert.
Millheim—Walter Vomkahl.
Frydek—Mike Belunek.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
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© The outbreak of war with
the Axis nations found few
lines of industry with so high
a degree of preparedness for
expansion of the industrial ef-
fort, in war production, as the
nation’s electric power indus-
try. This was due primarily to
the fact that it takes approxi-
mately twenty to twenty four
months to plan, design, manu-
facture and erect a steam elec-
tric generating power plant ad-
dition, or to build an entire
• The Sealy schools are get-
ting ready for the commence-
ment program for this year
when a large number of pupils
will be graduated from high
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• Matters of vital importance
to the community and the na-
tion were given due considera-
tion at a short and snappy
meeting of the Sealy Chamber
of Commerce on Wednesday
night of this week. Vice Presi-
dent Rudy Hikel presided.
At the direction of the War
Production Board the chair ap-
pointed R. H. Haynes, V. F.
Vicenik, F. F. Fisher, Ralph
which was done in green and
white. In the foreground an old
fashioned white picket fence,
entwined with green foliage,
formed the front boundary.
On the left of the entrance
gate was a standard from
which the garden motto was
suspended. Cedar trees formed
the background—in the center
of the background was a sun
dial—to the left of the dial was
an antique wrought iron white
bench of fern design—to the
right was an antique white
tiered plant stand. The top tier
held a milk white pitcher ar-
rangement of all white flowers,
the second tier held a pair of
white doves which contained
daisy arrangements, and the
third tier held an arrangement
of Easter lillies and two other
all white floral arrangements.
Violet plants formed the gard-
en border—along the border at
points, which were pleasing to
the -eye, were placed pedestal
arrangements done in white,
floor basket arrangements of
See FLOWER SHOW, Page 8.
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pacity of 35,000 kilowatts, is on
the Houston-Richmond road in
Harris County. The plant is
scheduled for completion early
in 1943.
BALLASTING TRACK
FROM CAT SPRING
TO BRAZOS RIVER
• According to I. H. Wright,
section foreman on the Katy
railroad here, he has the larg-
est number of men at work
under him in the history of
this locality.
There are about 25 men em-
ployed now at work on that
section of the road from Cat
Spring south to the Brazos
River, and this force will be in-
creased to probably 70 men in
the near future, it is said.
The gang is employed in re-
vamping the track from Cat
Spring to the river. The road
bed is being ballasted with
gravel from the Fayetteville
area. All old ties needing re-
placement are being replaced
and the track is being given a
new gravel bed and relined and
leveled for heavy and fast ser-
vice.
Railroads are being called on
for increased service and they
are getting prepared for it.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
$2,000,000 power plant, ac-
cording to an announcement
made by the company this
pointed park superintendent of
Stephen F. Austin State Park
to succeed A. W. Stewart, who
recently resigned to go to
Brownwood, where he has a
position as radio engineer in
charge of station KBWD and
transmitter equipment in that
area.
At present the park super-
intendent job is only a part
time job and may be attended
to along with other lines of en-
deavor.
Because of the war and re-
strictions on tires the number
of visitors to the park may be
cut down this year, but follow-
ing this emergency, much de-
velopment is expected and a
great many visitors are expect-
ed to frequent the park and
make it a popular recreation
spot.
• According to a report of
county chairman Arthur T.
Clarke, of Bellville, the total
war bond sales for the month
of April was $65,773.00. The
Savings Stamps for the month
total $2,324.55.
Mr. Clarke says in his re-
port: “It is my hope that our
good record can be maintained
and that at least $50,000.00 in
War Bonds will be bought dur-
ing May.”
— BUY WAR BONDS —
F. M. Harvey’s Mother
Dies in Arkansas
• F. M. Harvey received a
message early Thursday morn-
ing that his mother had died
at her home in Arkansas.
Mrs. Harvey had been in de-
clining health since a paralytic
stroke some time back. Her son
had planned to go to see her
and was asking to be relieved
at the time the news of her
death came.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
VISITING IN CALIFORNIA
• Mrs. Herman Shulke, who
accompanied her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Emil Meloneck, on a
two weeks vacation trip to
California, remained there to
spend some time with her hus-
band, who is in the service at
Hamilton Field.
Sloan and A. H. Moebes as a iron ore.
committee to ascertain the It will be a great service to
amount of industrial scrap iron many people in Wallis.
available in Sealy for use in — buy war bonds —
the war program. The whole „ c .
war program depends on steel Ked UrOSS UPPueS
and the production of steel de- A . ,
pends on scrap iron, hence it is have Arred
very urgent that every piece_ of e Red Cross sewing materials
heavy scrap be listed w th t have been received and also
above committee and placed at yarn for knitting, Mrs. Rodie
the disposal of the War Pro- O’Connor requests that cutters
duction Board. report at the Red Cross work
Alvin Muery reported the col- room Monday morning at 9:30
lection of $167.50 on the fire to cut materials for‘sewing.
-------- marshall’s fund. With the fire
successful school year, and the marshall’s salary $190 in ar-
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new power plant, and therefore,
by necessity, the industry must
be forward looking in its plan-
ning. It would be fatal if the
utility awaited the request for
service before providing the
capacity in its generating
plants. It is necessary that the
capacity be ever ready to serve
the prospective additional loads
wherever located in the ap-
proximately eleven counties
served by the Houston Light-
ing & Power Company.
War was declared with Jap-
on December 8, 1941, and with
Germany and Italy on Decem-
ber 11, 1941, and on those
dates the Houston Lighting &
Power Company had in its gen-
erating power stations 207,000
kilowatts of actual net generat- school. This has been a very
ing capacity, being the entire
installed capacity; it had con- commencement program prom-
tract to purchase 15,000 kilo- ises to be an interesting one.
watts of service from the Lower Rev. L. Saddler, a splendid
Colorado River Authority, and speaker, will deliver the com-
it had on order equipment mencement sermon. . The ser-
necessary for a 35,000 kilowatt vices this year will be held in
^-r — o the Texas Theatre as it has
See POWER PLANT, Page 8. for the past several years.
1 - buy WAR BONDS Rev. G. Z. Saddler, a splendid
USO Drive in County
Begins Monday,
Quota for County $1738
• The drive in Austin County
for funds for USO begins Mon-
day with a quota of $1738.40,
compared with last year’s quota
of $1260, which shows an in-
crease of about one third for
the county, compared with an
increase for the nation as a
whole of 250 per cent.
rears, Mr. Muery agreed to
continue his drive for the fund
until all back salary had been
paid, and if possible, enough to
pay the fire marshall the bal-
ance of this year. Secretary
Engelking read a letter from
the Fire Insurance Commission
which pointed out that fire
insurance policy holders in Sea-
ly saved approximately $1200
annually by virtue of having a
fire marshall. The fire mar-
shall’s salary is $120 per year.
This means that if each policy
holder will pay 10% of his an-
nual saving into the fire mar-
shall fund he will save 15% on
his fire insurance premiums. In
other words, if the 15% credit
on your policy amounts to $50,
you pay 10% or $5.00 into the
fire marshall’s fund and pocket
the $45 as a saving. Since Sea-
ly is not incorporated, this sav-
ing is possible only so long as
the town continues to employ a
fire marshall. It is extremely
good business, therefore, for
each fire policyholder to pay
his share of the fire marshall’s
salary when Mr. Muery calls.
The shortage of apartments
in Sealy was again discussed.
A number of families in recent
weeks have been turned away
because no apartments were
available. If any new apart-
ments are installed, or any va-
cancies exist, the Chamber of
Commerce should be notified
promptly so that apartment
seekers may be put in touch
with the apartment owners.
• Commissioner Mike Keer
finished grading and surfacing
Guyler street in Wallis this
week. This street passes by the
public school building, between
the Wallis Lumber Company
and the Knesek Funeral Home,
by the Mayer and Company ice
and packing plant and through
the residence section to the
south part of town.
This street is the most trav-
eled street in town with the
exception of the street identical
with Highway 36, which tra-
verses the main business sec-
tion of this gateway city.
The street was surfaced with
First Christian Church in
Houston, will deliver the class
address. He is one of the out-
standing speakers of the south.
The class address or com-
mencement address will be de-
livered on May 22.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
OYER 2000 REGISTER
HERE IN SUGAR
RATIONING
Wed In Houston
• Miss Ila Mae Shelburne be-
came the bride of Jesse C.
Hood at 9 p.m. Thursday, April
23rd in a ceremony performed
by Rev. Goodrich at the Meth-
odist Church in Houston.
Those attending the wedding
were Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Vier-
eck, Mrs. Clara Hood, Mr. and
Mrs. Olin Danclif.
The bride is a native of Sealy
and has many friends here who
wish her every happiness.
Mr. and Mrs. Hood will make
their home in Houston at 4520
Clay.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
Sealy Garden Club
Annual Picnic Is
Postponed to May 18
Sugar For Canning
May Be Applied For
In Letter Form
• The final form for the print-
ing of Special Purpose Appli-
cation OP A Form R-315 is not
yet ready and it may be some
time before it will be in the
hands of all Local Rationing
Boards. In the meantime appli-
cations which were to be re-
ceived on this form may be
filed in the form of a letter
addressed to the Local Board
setting forth the information
required by the regulations to
be included upon said Form
R-315.
Each consumer holding War
Ration Book One shall be en-
titled to additional amounts of
sugar not to exceed 5 pounds
per annum (a year) for use in
connection with the canning or
preserving of fresh fruits or
vegetables for consumption in
his own home.
The application therefore
shall be made to the Board in
letter form, giving all informa-
tion covering need for sugar,
by the consumer personally or
by an adult member of his
family unit or by an authoriz-
ed agent. The Board will give
all applications proper atten-
tion.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
350 GUESTS WERE
REGISTERED AT
FLOWER SHOW
66 MAKE EVERY
PAY DAY
WAR
(q _ BOND DAY
STOP SPENDING — SA VC DOLLARS
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Kendall, C. P. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1942, newspaper, May 8, 1942; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1597450/m1/1/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.