Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1953 Page: 2 of 8
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BASTROP ADVERTISER MARCH 5, 195 3
RED CROSS MEANS
MUCH TO BOYS
IN KOREA
The following recently received
bv Mrs. John L. MeGee. execu
time:
Dear Chapter Staff:
1 jui-t want you to know what
we are doing over here. For
some time we here in Korea have
been thinking of writing to you
and telling you how much we
appreciate the fine work which
your Chapter is doing—particu-
larly as it regards servicemen
and their families.
First: Maybe we can give you
a picture of how our people
work over here and something
of the background of this coun-
try so you may understand some
of our problems. As you know,
Korea is a very rugged country,
both in terrain and in tempera-
ture. The mountains which com-
pose the larger part of Korea are
very steep and in some places,
it is next to impossible for a
human being to climb them. This,
of course, makes fighting very
difficult for our men. In addi-
tion to that, the temperature is
extreme and terrific. In sum
mer we find temperature rises
to as high as 11 degrees. In
the winter, particularly in the
mountains, we find it as low as
40 degrees below zero. With
these extremes, you can see that
personnel have somewhat of a
trying situation. General Van
Fleet and the American Army
have taken these things into con-
sideration and the greatest com-
forts and best care that can be
given to your sons are furnish-
ed them, both summer and win-
ter.
Our part, of course, is to as-
sist the members of the Armed
Forces with their welfare and
morale problems. No doubt by
now your Chapter has found that
in order to get a health and wel-
fare report on a man over here,
it will take a minimum of three
weeks and sometimes a month.
This isn't all due to the mail,
but is due to the rugged terrain
arid the difficulty our Field Di-
rectors have in traveling and lo-
cating the servicemen. It may
seem hard for you to understand,
but there arc no paved roads in
Korea. Our Field Directors a-
verage about 1000 miles a month,
it is seldom that this facility can
be used.
To the serviceman, we are civi-
lians which to him represent his
home and family. He looks up
on us as one who does not have
to be here, but who came be-
cause we wanted to help. We
are favored with the same feel-
ing from high ranking officers.
tVW secretary of the Bastrop j The boys who are doing the
County Chapter, American Red fighting here, last year volun
Cross, give.- an interesting pic j tarily raised $262,000.0(1 for the
ture of the activities of the Red American Red Cross. What a
Cross in Korea at the present tfoup! There are non better!
Recently two major companies
—The Magnolia Petroleum Com-
pany of Dallas, Texas, ami the
Wills & Baumer Candle Mfg.
Company of Syracuse, New York
—donated 427,750 candles to be
distributed by our men in orea
to men on the front lines. These
candles were one of the most ap
predated things we have ever
witnessed. You see, in the bunk-
ers—or dugouts as we would call
them in the South—where the
men are watching for the enemy,
there is no electric lights, and
all the men have to do day and
night, is to watch and wait. One
is on shift for a while and then
he sleeps for a while, while his
buddy watches and waits for the
enemy. It is not possible to use
gasoline lanterns because of the
extremely bright light. It might
give away their position and
cause men to be killed unneces-
sarily. Candles are the only
thing which could be used in
the front lines for light. Now
the army issues candles, but it
so happened that due to the ship-
ping strike on the West Coast or
for some such reason, their sup-
ply did not arrive in time. There
were many many men who had
no light at all. Cur American
Red Cross Assistant Field Di-
rectors took these candles to the
front line bunkers and issued
them personally to the men of
the Regiments. Were they hap
p.v! They were most appreciat
ed. The boys got a big kick out
of there being all types such
as bride and groom, birthday, and
all color candles from pink, blue,
green and plain white. They
really served the purpose!
All of us take our hats off to
these American Red Cross girls
who are in the Army Hospitals.
Some of them are very close to
the front, bringing their cheer
and smiles to those who have
suffered most in this war. Their
cheer has brought happiness to
those men who were fighting-
They are grand—never complain-
ing of hardship or inconvenience.
You have a right to be proud
of everyone of them. We know-
that without the help of the Am-
erican people and especially you
at an average speed of from 6 in lhe Chapter, it would not be
to 15 mile.^ an hour. Many times j possible- for us to carry on the
they have time to see only one , worj( here. Tell vour volunteers
man a day, due to roads and die that the donation of their time
tances. \\ hen they return at Hntj talents is the foundation of
night, after having driven some . our organization. Without your
times 70 or 80 miles to service help, it is impossible for us to
one request, most of them have , function. It is indeed becoming
to type their own letters at
night, many times by candle-
light and in sub-zero weather.
The next day this is repeated.
This together with the possibi-
lity of being shelled by enemy
artillery is not plea.-ant. With
all these handicaps, we still feel
it is our duty to drive to the
lines or wherever a soldier may
be when they have a birth or
death message for him. These
messages are delivered in per
son, with very few exceptions.
These exceptions are only when
it would endanger lives of oth
ers for us to make a trip to the
front. We are proud of our re-
cord and want you to know that
we have tried to represent our
organization in a most commen-
dable way. There are a few
things which we here feel would
be most helpful. Birth announce-
ments which come by wire thru
National are one of the greatest
morale factors which we have.
You See. there- is no commercial
facility in Korea for sending or
receiving such messages and con-
sequently a man is quite worried
when he knows he is to become
a father. He instinctively turns
to American Red Cross to get
through a message to find out
IT'S THE LAW
★ ★
A public ttutw*
•< IK* Slot* la> •• T«u*
more and more known a.- Your
Red Cross because these boys are
beginning to feel, a.-, everyone
in the States should feel, that
it belongs to the people of the
United States. Since it belongs
to each of us, there is a responsi-
bility for each of us to carry.
Thanks again for your won-
derful cooperation.
Sincerely,
WILLIAM C. SHELTON
Assistant Field Director
Internal Revenue
Agent Informs
Tax Payers
Tax payers wanting to claim
$000 exemption for each depen
dent on their income tax return
must first make certain the de-
pendents meet certain qualifica
tions, Thomas E. Purl, local re-
presentative of the Internal Re-
venue Director's Office said to-
day.
First, the dependent mu?t be
closely related to the tax payer
and must receive from him over
one half of his support. The
dependent's gross income must
be less than $<>00, and if mar-
how his wife is getting along. I ried, he must not make a joint
Overseas telephones are none* return with his or her spouse,
isterit in Korea, with the oxcep In addition, the dependent -nust
tion of one place which, for the not be a citizen or subject of a
most part, is not accessible to foreign country, unless he is a
the soldiers under two days tra I resident of the United States,
vel by train and jeep. Therefore, Mexico or Canada.
START SIM PI. K TAX RECORDS
NOW, SAVE Fi ll ItE
HEADACHES
There is no time like the present,
while the great battle « f Form Into
is still upon us, to start a procedure
tlmt will aid you with next year.s
income tux calculations. That is to
maintain a record of your income
and outgo. Such a record can lie
simple and brief hut it may save
you tax dollars.
The average man who works for
a wage or salary doesn't have to
concern himself about keeping
hooks and rccords--at least >o he
thinks. His employer keeps a re-
I in hie record of his earnings and
l'ncle Sam looks primarily to the
employer for information on his
earnings ami for the withholding of
verious taxe> out of his wages.
But whether or not you run h bu-
siness of your own, you have a
partner who each year is claiming
a substantial interest in your per-
sonal income. And the law requires
that you keep books for turn in case
he ever asks for an accounting.
Perhaps you own your home or
are paying it out in installments.
It's likely that some day you may
si ll that house. When you do you'll
want to be able to prove u hether
you realised a gain or a loss on that
sale. If a pain in capital resulted,
it probably will add to your income
tax. If a loss was suffered, it pro
bahly will reduce your income tax.
You may have made certain cap-
ital improvements on the house
while you lived in it, but unless you
can show what out-of-pocket ex-
pense you incurred while making
them, you may not get credit for
them in your cost basis so as to
prove that you had no capital gain
or that you had a loss.
Or perhaps you received that
little summer cottage on the lake
as a nift from your father. If you
ever sell it, you should he able to
show l'ncle Sam not only the cost
of improvements you made on it
while you owned it, but also what
its fair market value was at the
time Dud gave it to you.
It may la- that you are receiving
an annuity on an insurance policy.
If so, do you know how much that
policy costs you a nil how much of
that cost you have recovered tax-
free to date?
MEDICINE SHOULD
BE TAKEN WITH
CAUTION SAYS COX
AUSTIN—The careless or un-
informed use of medicines cause
much serious illness and even
many deaths in Texas every
year, Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State
Health Officer, said today in a
statement urgnig the public to
, use caution in self medication.
"It i.s never safe to take medi-
cine in the dark," Dr. Cox warn-
ed. "Always read the label care
fully to make sure the aspirin
you expect to take is not a bi-
chloride of mercury tablet or
some other poison. As a mat
ter of fact, poisons and medicines
containing poisons should be
kept together, well out of reach
of children ami marked in some
distinctive manner. Another
thinn to remember is that medi
cines should always be taken ex
actly as directed by a doctor be
cause many beneficial medicines
can do untold harm if taken too
frequently or in too large qaun-
tities. It is well to stop and
think that you may be taking
your own life in your hands when
you take medicine casually."
The State Health Officer also
warned of the danger in the in-
clination of many persons un-
trained to diagnose and treat
their own ills. Such persons are
apt to guess wrong he asserted,
and while they may not take
medicine that is actually harm
ful, they are nevertheless post
poing an accurate diagonsis
and the resulting proper treat
ment that could help their ill-
ness.
The safest rule in the world is
never to use medicine, internal
ly or externally, that ha.- not
been prescribed by your doctor
and for that particular illness
with which you are suffering.
There are man) kinds of transac-
tions you enter into that maj some
day affect the computation of your
IxTsonal income tax. The liest proof
of the cost of an>thin ( you've pur-
chased is a receipted hill or can-
celed cheek. If one of these pieces
of evidence relates to any trans
action that may affect your in-
come in later years, it's a good
idea to keep it. Vour "pardner"
may some day ask to see it.
(This column, based on Federal
law, is written to inform—not ad-
vise. Vo person should ever apply
or interpret any law without the
1 aid of an attorney who knows the
farts Iterative tlie facts may change
the application of the law.)
New Highway
Commissioner
From Panhandle
On February 10 the Senate
confirmed Governor Shivers' ap-
pointment of Marshall Formby,
former state senator and Dick
ens County Judge, to the State
Highway Commission. The new
commissioner lives in Hereford,
is an attorney and radio station
owner. He becomes the first man
from the Panhandle ever to serve
on the Commission. Ceremonies
on February It! included admin
istering of the oath of office by
Hon. Mead Griffin, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court.
F. H. Thornton, Jr.. of Gal
veston, was reappointed chair
man of the Commission and R.
J. Potts of Hariingen remains
its senior member.
Texas' thanks go to Fred
Wemple, retiring commissioner,
for six years of devoted and dis
tinguished service to the hi«h
way program. These years have
seen great strides in road pro-
gress along with the appearance
of new problems and circum-
stances. The Highway Depart
ment's performance during hit-
term as commissioner is a tri-
bute to the wisdom and judg
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
At Bastrop, Texas
R. E. STANDIFFER, Publisher AMY S. STAND1FER, Editor
Entered As Second Class Matter At The Post Office At Bastrop,
Texas, Under Act of March .1, 187f
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Watterson HD Club
To Meet March 6
The Watterson Home Demon
stration Club met Friday, Feb-
ruary 20, at the home of Mrs.
Dee Alexander.
Mrs. Roy Cockrill, president,
called the meeting to order with
a prayer. Mrs. Dee Alexander
reported on the February Coun
cil meeting. After the business
meeting, the program chairman
Mrs. I.<0well Culpepper, explained
the duties of the THDA chairman
and Mrs. Ralph Cox gave a dem
ment of Commissioner Wemple
and hi.- colleagues.
onstration on making rick rack
ear screws.
Plans were made to nmt at
the Watterson school on March
ti for an all day meeting to make
bandages for cancer patients.
Mrs, Alexander served open
faced sandwiches, salted nuts,
cake squares and punch to Mr-
Lillie Rucker, Mrs. A N. Willis,
Mrs. Lowell Culpepper, Mr?.
Ralph Cox, Mrs. Roy Cockrill,
Mrs. Ernest Jenkins, Mrs. Lor,
nie Osborn, Mrs. Billie Osb,irr,
and Mrs. Claude Watterson.
Friday March 13. is liojf Vac-
cination Da> from 1 I*. M. to 5:30
P. M.
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1953, newspaper, March 5, 1953; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth237417/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.