The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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MEXIA, TEXAS,~ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1977911
Nazi Rapid Troops Cut Off Crimea
Bi-Stone Fall Fair is Crammed With Exhibits
Gates Open on
Largest Fair
Held at Mexia
Friday Will
Be Biggest
Attendance Day
The third annual Bi-Stone Fall
Fair and Agricultural Display
opened at the fair grounds west, of j
Mexia Thursday morning with
every indication that it would be
the biggest and most successful
fair every held here.
The dp.iry cattle show, in which
only a few head of stock were ex-
hibited last year, is one of the
most impressive departments of
the fair this year. Approximately
100 head of milk cows and heifers
were on display this morning when
the pates were thrown open to the
public.
All departments of the fair this
year have so far exceeded ex-
pectations that the commercial ex-
hibits have been cancelled to make
room for agricultural, dairy, poul-
try and homemaking department^
Probably the most interesting
feature of the three-day fair will
he the Soil Conservation Field Day
which will be held Friday under
the cooperation of the Texas A.
& M. Extension Service, the AAA,
and other agencies.
A parade of implements will be
held at the fair grounds at 9 o'-
clock Friday morning as h prelude
to the soil conservation demonstra-
tions to be staged on the Ed Prattl-
er farm adjoining the fair grounds.
Several manufacturers of farm
machinery will demonstrate their
products in thi;i feature of the fair.
Included in the demonstration will
be terrace building, terrace main-
tenance, planting oat strip crops,
,, bjirr clover for winter
cover 'and g. >yi manure crop,
spreading barn.Ksrd manure on
pasture land, pasture contouring
and seeding, and ^uHy control
work. '
Friday also is School Day at the
fair, and all school children will be
admitted free of charge. Several
schools of the Bi-Stone Empire
have declared holidays or part-
holidays to enable students to at-
tend the fair. A crowd of between
4,000 and 5,000 is expected to be
in attendance Friduy.
Judging of agricultural exhibit*,
women's and girls' exhibits, edu-
cational exhibits and poultry was
completed Thursday. Dairy cat-
tle, sheep and hogs will be judged
Friday and the dairy cattle judg-
ing contest will be held at 10 o'-
clock Friday morning.
Plenty,'of entertainment is avail
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Strike Blackout Stalls Kansas City
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Motorman C. G. Wall, on hot torn step, and passengers Art
White and Mary Sparks sit pati ently waiting for resumption of
car service after strike at Kan sas City Power & Light Co., black-
ed out entire city for four hours lerving at least two patients in
darkened hospital operating rooms. (NEA Telephoto)
Another Special
Session Hinted
AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 18 (U.R)—
A special session of the Texas leg-
islature, possibly in January, was
hinted today after Gov. Coke Stev-
enson said that "several hundred"
potential subjects for mid-winter
term had been presented to him.
The national defense program
in Texas is bringing about several
"meritorious projects" that may
require legislation within a few
months, ho snid, but added that
"we will climb that hill (a subse-
quent session) when we come to
it."
Rodeo Winners
At Teague
Are Announced
Measles Late, at 68
able to visitors at the fair this
,ye<r. The carnival midway will be
playing to large crowds all three
nights, and a free picture show will
be presented in ihe exhibit hall
cach night at 7:45 o'clock. Several
other features will furnish enter-
tainment.
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John A. Masters, who is station-
ed in the U. S. Navy in San
Disgo, California, visited friends
and relatives ni Mexia Saturday
and Sunday.
TAMAQUA, Pa. <U.R> — Frank
Zimmerman, retired railroader,
thought he had escaped the rav-
ages of mease Is when he reached
the age of 68. but he was sadly
mistaken. Yes, he contracted the
disease, despite his age.
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Doyle Beene Goes
to Chanute Field
and
has
Doyle Beene, son of Mr.
Mrs. S. D. Beene of Mexia,
been transferred from Jefferson
Barracks, Mo., where he has been
stationed in the Army Air Corps,
to Chanute Field, at Rantoul, 111.,
He has entered the army mechani-
cal training school there.
ONLY ?S22£§ DRUG STORES OtPEB YOU
25c LeGear's Poultry Powder :.19c
75c Johnson's Wax (liquid or paste) 63c
$2.00 Dorothy Gray Cologne $1.00
60c Lysol *8®
$1.50 Lydia E. Pinkham Compound $t.25
$1.00 Crazy Crystals 89c
2—<<5c Palmolive Shaving Cream 45c
25c Black Draught - - 19c
25c Carter's Liver Pills 19c
We guarantee to exterminate all
ROACHES
on your premises for only
25
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Winners of the various events
in the American Legion Rodeo
held at Teague Friday and Satur-
day were announced today by of-
ficials of the rodeo. The annual
show was well attended both days,
and was highly successful.
Courtney Sheffield was arena
director for the rodeo, with Car-
ter Wills as his assistant. Fred
Ragsdale of Clifton and Doc
Spence of Killeen were judges.
Cam Gunt'.-r and Mano Miles of
Mexia were the pick-up men. Eid-
ers from Mexia and several other
neighboring towns made up the
colorful square dance team.
Cortest winners were as follows:
(listed in the order in which they
finished.)
Friday
Bronc Riding—Ted Harmon of
Corsicana, Mclvin Morris of Waco,
Buster Moore of Killeen.
Ladies Race—Billie Louise Hin-
son of Copperas Cove, Eula Jean
Hinson of Copperas Cove, Mrs.
Curtis Barren of Belton.
Calf Roping—N. E. Barren of
Belton, Doc Spence of Killeen,
Johnny Melton of Belton.
Wild Cow Milking—Johnny Mel-
lon of Belton, Simpson Johnson of
Hico, Mano Miles of Mexia.
Boys' Goat Roping—Jack Saun-
ders of Gatesville, Jack Mathews,
Jr., of Dawson.
Novelty Race—J. C. Lamberth
of Teague.
Steer Riding—Bedell Rogers of
Longview, E. II. Winn of Kemp,
Iko Tackard of Marlin.
Saturday
Bronc Riding—Ted Harmon of
Corsicana, Mclvin Moore of Waco,
Buster Moore of Killeen.
Ladies Race—Eula Jean Hin-
son of Copperas Cove, Billie Lou-
ise Hinson of Copperas Cove, Bar-
bara Rankin of Bynum.
Calf Roping—Johnny Mellon of
| Beltoi, Doc Spence of Killeen, Jim
Saunders of Gatesville.
Wild Cow Milking—Harry Dodd
of WiLto, Carter Willis of Teague,
Jim Saunders of Gatesville.
Boys' Goat Roping—Jack Saun-
ders of Gatesville, Billy Wills of
Tongue, J. Earnest Ham of Tea-
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Novell.V ,Racr—A. Bredshaw of
Teague.
Steer Riding—Bedell Rogers of
Longview, E. H. Winn of Kemp,
Durwnod Ray of Killeen.
Fire Embarrasses Fire House
PHILADELPHIA (U.R)— Engine
Company Number 4 brought the
mountain to Mohammed. It ran
its engine out froiit to put out a
blaze which bariljS damaged the
roof of the firjhon*b.
Aid to Dependent
Children Program
Gets under Way
Applications i
Accepted at
Welfare Offices
Machine Gun Guards Demolition Squad at Work
The State Department of Pub-
lic. Welfare announced today that
it has started accepting applicat-
ions for aid to dependent child-
ren at its local offices throughout
the state. The program, started
Sept. 19, and arrangements will
be made to accept applications on
subsequent intake days, which will
be announced for each locality.
Parents or relatives of depen-
dent children should call at the
State Department's local office
in the county in which they reside
and talk with the worker who will
be prepared to explain the eligibi-
lity requirements and assist in
filing the application. It will not
be necessary that the children be
brought to the office as the local
worker will later make a visit to
the home at which time the child-
ren may be seen.
For a child to be eligible for aid
to dependent children under the
laws of Texas, the child:
(1) Must be a citizen of the
United States.
(2) Must have resided in Texas
at least one year preceding the
date of application; or must have
been born within the state within
one year preceding the date of ap-
plication provided the child's
mother had resided in Texas at
least one year preceding the child's
birth.
(3) Must be under the age of
fourteen.
(4) Must be deprived of paren-
tal support, or care, by reason of
one of the following factors: (a)
death of a parent, (b) continued
absence from home on the part
of a parent, (c) physical or mental
incapacity of a parent.
(5) Must be living with his
father, grandfather, grandmother,
brother, sister, step-father, step-
mother, step-brother, step-sister,
uncle or aunt in a place of resi-
dence maintained by one or more
such relatives as his or her home.
(6) Must be in need. This is de-
fined as not having sufficient in-
come or other resources to provi-
de a reasonable subsistence com-
patible with health and decency.
The department called particu-
lar attention to item 4 in explain-
ing that the program was not
designed to provide for all needy
children but only those whose
need is due to their being deprived
of parental care and support by
virture of one or more of the
specified reasons. The Department
gave the following explanation of
some of these, reasons.
Death of a parent is interpreted
literally, except that it cannot be
said that a child is deprived of
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against supports of bridge in path of Red forces adyanrir''W^inst Blue outposts while machine gun-
ner astride motorcycle guards bridge approaches against aj surprise attack. (NEA Telephoto)
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Road Bond Bill
is Passed
Football Tickets
Now on Sale
Tickets to the Moxia-Temple
football game Friday night arc
one sale at, all Mexia drug stor-
es, J. D. Foster, piincipal, an-
nounced today, and will be a-
vailable there until 6 p. m. Fri-
day. Student tickets _(Mexia and
Westminster College students)
sell fir 25c, and must be pur-
chased before G p. m. Friday,
Foster warned. Elementary
students pay 10c for ticktts,
but must buy them before the
night of the game.
Only adult tickets (50c) will
be *old at the gates Friday
night.
Payment of
Road Bonds
to Be Resumed
FDR Asks for
$5,985,000,000
Lend-Lease Aid
(Continued on Page Two)
Palestine Trade
Trippers Visit
Mexia Thursday
Satin-clad cowboys and cow-
girls, representing the Texns
Fruit Palace, to be held at Pales-
tine October 6-11, inclusive, vis-
ited Mexia Thursday and ex-
tended a hearty invitation to one
and all to attend this year's An-
derson county fair.
The trippers, in high spirits end
bubbling over with enthusiasm
and congeniality spent a half hour
here, calling on townfolk and put-
ting on a brief musical entertain-
ment. Heading the entourage were
C. O. Miller, manager of the FVuil
Palace; Claude Westerman and J.
O. London, head of tour arrange-
ments and H. V. Hamilton, man-
ager of the Chamber of Cc •
merce.
"The Palestine fair will be
ger and better than ever,"
Marvager Miller. "We'll have s.
nifty entertainment features esc!
night on the midway, among them
a free attraction every night, anil
all exhibit departmsnts will be in-
i teresting, especially the livestock
department which has grown by
' leaps and bounds in rece
Funds Would
Be Used in
Next Two Years
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. (U.R)
—President Roosevelt asked Con-
gress today to appropriate $5,-
985,000,0000 to continue lend-
lease aid to nations battling the
Axis through June 30, 1943.
The President's request for
funds to be used over the next two
years indicated preparations for a
long war.
He asked that he be left free
to provide lend-lease aid to any
country whose defense he consid-
ers vital to this country's free-
dom. That was the law governing
the present $7,000,000,000 lend-
lease appropriation, most of which
has been allocated, and it would
permit the U. S. to provide lend-
lease aid to Russia if it desired.
The present system, however, is
to provide advance credits to fin-
ance Russian war purchases here.
Lindbergh Is
Advised to Stay
Out of Texas
AUSTIN, Sept. 18. (U.R)—A re-
lution "advising" Charles A.
Lindbergh to stay away from Tex-
as was passed unanimously today
by th« House of Representatives
although several members spoke
against it.
There was no dissent on a viva
voce vote.
The resolution by Rep. Pat
wyer of San Antonio criticized
e famous flier's outspoken op-
aition to the nation's foreign
iicies and stated that the best
interests of *11 «Anct>med "will
nit be serve,I ^y his coming to
Texa* "
AUSTIN, Sept. 18. (U.R) —The
Texas Legislature today passed a
road bond bill, exactly 10 days
after Gov. Coke Stevenson pon-
vened a special session for the
'purpose.
Final vote was 138 to 1 on a
motion for the House of Repre-
senatives to concur in Senate
amendments.
A resolution to adjourn sine die
at 6 p. m. Friday, 19 days less
than the maximum length of a
special session, already had been
passed by both House and Sen-
ate.
House sponsors explained Sen-
ate changes in the original house
bill. The Senate deleted a House
amendment which would have in-
cluded bonds for construction of
military roads. There were cheers
in the House when Rep. Emmett
Morse of Houston, co-sponsor of
the military roads amendment,
asked that, the House concur in
the Senate changes—even though
the amendment he favored was
stricken out.
Morse asked that the House
give the bill 100 votes so it could
go into effect immediately, with-
out the customary 90-day delay.
Passage of the bill will allow
the board of county and district
road bond indebtedness to resume
payment of bonds issued before
Jan. 2, 1939, for building roads in-
corporated in the State highway
system. Since Sept. 1, the board
has been without authority to
make such payments, although
money was available from state
gasoline tax revenue.
K. C. Strikers
Ordered to
Return to Jobs
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U.R)—
President Edward J. Brown of the
International Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers—AFL—today or-
dered striking union members to
return to their jobs at the Kansas
City Light and Power Co. under
terms of a defense mediation board
agreement.
Pep Rally Slated
Thursday Night
Students of Mexia high
school will stage a huge "Beat
Temple" pep rally Thursday
night at 7:15 at the turner of
Commerce and Sherman streets
it was announced today. The
Black Cat Band, directed by
Robert L. Maddox, will pro-
vide music for the rally, which
will be attended by hundreds of
supporters of the Mexia foot-
ball team.
Rotarians Hear
Conservation
of Soil Talk
Bennett and
Dominy Give
Discussions
Navy Nurse Visits
Father in Mexia
Miss Frances Marie Williams,
United States Navy nurse and a
former student of the Mexia
schools, visited in Mexia this week
with her father, Dr. Joe B. Wil-
liams.
Miss Williams enlisted in the
U. S. Navy four years ago and has
crossed both the Pacific and At-
lantic oceans several times,
stationed on the S. S. Relict
is undergoing repairs at t
Yard -it N" • , wl
ill report * 1
J. Sandford Smith was in charge
of the program today at the noon
luncheon of the Mexia Rotary
Club. He presented L. L. Bennett,
Limestone County Superintendent
of Schools and W. W. Dominy
supervisor of the Limestone-Falls
Soil Conservation District. Mr.
Bennett gave a short talk concern-
ing the relation of education and
the study of soil conservation in
this and other Texas counties. He
pointed out that the county board
had voted to compile a text book
from the statistical findings of
the soil conservation group in
Limestone county, and have the
study of this information required
in the county schools.
Mr. Dominy gave the club much
information on the Soil Conserva-
tion Field day that is to be held
at the Bi-Stone Fall Fair starting
Friday morning. He stated that
the school officials of both Lime-
stone and Falls county should be
highly complimented on their pro-
gressive attitude and work to-
ward helping solve the soil con-
servation problem in this terri-
tory.
Visitors at the noon-day meet-
ing were: Dr. W. L. Carrington,
J. T. Bounds and C. E. Childcrs.
Visiting Rotarians were: Paul
Boyd and Beal Forke of Teague
and J. D. Piper of Dallas.
Five Million
Men Estimated
Lost in War
LONDON, Sent. 18 -U.R)— An
authoritative British source esti-
mated tonight that jp to Sept.
1 Germany had lost about
1)00 men, killed, woiindrd an-! mis*-
Kiev Believed
Caught in
German Pinchers
Bulgaria May
Be Base for
Operations
By UNITED PRESS
German rapid troops led by mo-
torcyclists rocketing acioss the
Ukraine were r porte'f<oday to
have cut off the Crimea in what
appeared to be a lightning drive
by land, sea and air against stub-
born Russian drfenses all around
the Black Sea.
Ihe Germans, as reported from
Berlin and London, directed one
thrust against the Red army lines
east of Kiev, and another inte
south Ukraine to cut off the nat*
row isthmus leading to th«/'rimeii
while a third phase indicapd pre-
parations for Black Sea opd<,C« \
from a western coast base if;
Bulgaria.
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According to the Berli:
the land campaign alrea
made important progress, M
rapidly through Russian <
lines in the flat country lea
to the Soviet's greatest war u.
dustrial centers and apparently
encircling some 300,000 enem/^
troops. • jft
The greatest emphasis in Berlin
was placed on the encircling op-_
erations east of Kiev, which
sumably now is caught or air
caught within the German
Three Russian armies east /
also were said by Berlin'
caught in the giant pincerl
At the same time, the G
reported the Luftwaffe ha<**3(u P«-
ed Moscow, Odessa and are,u *°
grad, where meagre reports 7erIy'
eated that a tivmcndqua battle our
the second city of Russia continued
unabated.
In the Black Sea, the Luftwaffe
was reported striking at Russian
transports, supply ships and nav-
al units and Russian relations with
Bulgaria appeared to be at the
breaking point as a result of Ger-
man use of Bulgarian bases.
A break may come over the Bul-
garian request to Turkey for per-
mission for so-called Bulgarian
warships to pass through the Dar-
danelles into the Black Sea—a
method being used by the Axis
in an effort to get Italian warships
through the straits despite the
Montreaux treaty ban on use of the
Dardanelles by belligerent war-
ships.
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Fifty Officers
Hot on Trail of
Army Deserters
Stolen Car
Found Near
Cross Plains
CROSS PLAINS. Texas, <U.R)—
Fifty officers aided by airplanes
and bloodhounds today pressed a
search for three army deserters
whose stolen car was found last
night in a pasture five miles north
of Cross Plains.
One of the deserters, who flfld
the Camp Wolters guardhouse las®
Monday armed with riot guns, was
believed seen at midnight a quar-
ter-mile from the city limits.
Capt. Lloyd Wyatt, Abilene
highway patrolman, said his men,
Texas Rangeio and peace officers
were deploying around Cross
Plains in ever-widening circles.
"We hope to get some results
soon," Wyatt said.
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Mann's Secretary
Tries His Wings
at Local Airport
Lonnie Nusom, of Austni, secre-
tary to tAtorney General Garald
C. Mann, tried his first airplane
instructions with Wayne Baugh,
instructor for the Csrdwell Fly-
tr.g Service, Sunday afternoon.
One hour in the air m n • con-
firmed avaitioi; «nthu<nait «ut of
Mr. N'utom. He *• Sijjhly com
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