The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1947 Page: 2 of 16
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Thursday, April 10, 194'
MODERN SOCIAL LIFE
If existing conditions create dis- i
comfort or trouble for them, it at,
least gives a feeling of relief to
talk over these troubles with their
neighbors. They feel better after
they have made their complaints
at some public meeting, or have ex-
pressed their views through the
press, or have presented them to
piibllc officials and law-making
bodies.
The freedom of worship in the
United States is the soul’s greatest
comfort. The people flock to what-
ever church appeals to them, and
they pour out their hearts in pray-
er. They know all religions stand
alike before American law. The
freedom of people to go where they
will, to work where and at what
they will, is a great promoter of
energy and success. It enables peo-
ple to choose whatever path In life
seems best adapted to their own
powers.
The tremendous energy which the
American people displayed in the
two world wars, the intense devo-
tion‘with which our men fought,
and the sacrifices of life that they
made, are abundant proof of how
dearly they value the blessings of
liberty.
Some people say that there is not
the same social life as there used
to be, that people do not so often
run in for informal calls on their
neighbors, and the habit of social
calling on friend; and townspeople
has largely died out.
If that U so, the reason is prob-
ably that the organisations and
activities of the town provide a
great deal of social life, and they
give many people about all of the
social activity for which they can
They like to see and
HJAVgLO&UVeWHEBE
YOU CHOOSE - YOUR Gr
INSURANCE WILL GIVE YOU
FUUWOTfeCnON .
Reports from the U. & NavyJte-
cruitlng office In Amarillo tndBffti
that many Panhandle youths are
showing Interest in the summer
cruises offered by the Inactive N*t
val Reserve. Two weeks spent an
the latest Men O' War and in for*
eign ports are proving very educa-
tional and exciting for the high and
dry Texas boys. Most-popular cru-
ises with the local “Slnbads" are
those which take In the Central
American ports. A *
The temporary sailors receive full
pay, allowances, and travel expend
sea for his time away from home.
Many of the high school Juniors
will have interesting and “Salty"
tales to tell in school next year after
The number of loans guaranteed
for veterans in the Southwest in-
creased nearly 13 per cent during
February over the preceding month,
the Veterans Administration report-
ed this week.
A total of 48,906 loans represent,
lng a value of approximately $250,-
000.000 has been guaranteed by the
Veterans Administration In Texas,
Louisiana and Missisippl.
Loans guaranteed to date for
Texas veterans number 38,337. Lo-
uisiana veterans have reoeived 7,-
138 guaranteed loans and Missis-
sippi veterans 3A43.
find time,
talk with their neighbors, but they
spend so many hours in arganim-
tion activities that they have little
left for social visiting. Community
life gives people a lot of chance to
get acquainted, and the opportun-
ities for friendship in the home
town are better than ever before.
TOH BATES
'Adjoining conntlf
making a volunteer cruise this sum-
mer. Full particulars may be ob-
tained from the Navy represents^
tlves at the 8hamrock Post Office
Two Wodd Wat II veteran seek ihe
answer to a chemistry question at North
Texas Agricultural College, Arlington.
Gerald B. Smith, Grand Prairie, standing.
Is 44, and ihe young man holding the
test h 19-year-old Robert Cummings of
Dallas.
For correct information contact yow near-
est VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
offic##
from 3:00 to 3:10 on the
day of each month.
'rbt Shamrock Tsxen does not knowing-
ly eocspt Iklse or fraudulent advertising,
ar outer advertising of an oDJactlonai
nature. Bach advertisement In Ita ool-
umne to printed with full confidence In
the presentation made. Readers will ess-
ler a latror II they will prompdr report
any failure on the part of lha adrertlser
'vTvvvvrirrr
total.
At the end of the year, 2.H3 neu-
ropsychiatric cases in these VA
hospitals were classified as psycho,
tics. Another 411 were veterans
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kline and
children, David and Martha Grace,
of Waco, spent the week-end in the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Holmes.
Cotton Ed
GOOD NEIGHBORS
HOME TOWN THOUGHTS
In the old time country towns,
people were extremely neighborly.
If a person was sick or In trouble,
many people would offer to help.
Some would sit up nights and take
care of the sick person. Groups
of men would often give volunteer
labor, cutting up a person’s wood-
pile or doing work in his farm or
garden. That sort of spirit was ex-
tremely fine, and in some cases
now more helpfulness could be
shown.
Today one of the best signs that
a person la a good neighbor, is
shown when he keeps hla home
place and grounds looking well.
Such a dwelling la a credit to the
neighborhood, and the street looks
better because of the care he gives
to that dwelling. The things he
does make near-by places more
valuable.
A total of 38.548 war veterans
were admitted to Veterans Admin-
istration hospitals In Texas. Louis-
iana and Mississippi during the
VA reported
The people who attend meetings
called to discuss and promote home
town Interests, render an Impor-
tant service. Their presence at
such meetings encourages ail who
are working for Improvement and
progress.
One thing that hinders ^he pro-
gress of many towns, is a spirit of
indifference on home town ques-
tions. People who are not interest-
ed in progressive causes, throw a wet
blanket over efrorsu for improve-
ment.
One sure way to attract notice
from the buying public, is to quote
prices in newspaper advertising.
People aw keenly Interested in the
prices of things, and a great many
will respond to such advertising by
coming to see the goods thus de-
scribed.
Rom where I sit... iy Joe Marsh
The American people nought two
world wars to preserve the bless-
ings of freedom. Our people can
hardly realize what it la to live in
a country where that freedom is
denied. Those who have come from
lands where liberty does not exist,
feel a mighty sense of relief, as
they are delivered from tyrannical
repressions.
It is deplorable that American
freedom leads some people into acts
of lawlessness. In their distorted
view of liberty, they say this la a
free country, and they claim the
right to do things that create dis-
comfort or often peril and suffer-
ing for their fellow citizens.
Most people live happily In this
atmosphere of liberty, and do not
abuse it It is a satisfaction to be
tree to express their own thoughts.
calendar year 1946,
this weak.
Although comparable statistics for
the preceding year are not available
for the Southwest, the area’s in-
crease in veteran hospitalization
probably parallels the national fig-
ure of 61.3 per cent.
During the same period, beds
available for treatment of veterans
in VA hospitals In the tri-state area
Increased 44 per cent to 7,745 beds
at the end of 1946.
The number of VA hospitals in-
creased 38 per cent from eight to
eleven. Dallas Branch Area hospi-
tals are at Dallas. McKinney, Ama-
rillo, Temple, Legion and Waco,
Tegas; New Orleans and Alexan-
dria, Louisiana: and Jackson, Oulf-
port and Biloxi, Mississippi.
The greatest number of veteran
patients—about 83 per cent—were
general medical and surgical cases.
Next wew neuropsychiatric patients,
amounting to 13 per cent. The
smallest group was tuberculosis pa-
tients, comprising 6 per cent of the
And That Ain't Hay
-Or Is It?
and come home by way of Pound
Ridge ... nine miles in all
Not very exciting, you might
say. But from where I sit it’s not
excitement that we need these
days—but those simple country
pleasures that aw part and parcel
of America—the old-fashioned
hayride, with ita song and jollity;
the horseshoe gsmea; the friendly
glass of beer; and the good com*
panlonship that they engender.
I guess all of ns secretly hanker,
from time to time, for the good
old days and the good old-
fashioned pleasures. Leastways,
Buddy Richards done a thriving
basinesa reviving the old-time
hayride.
With a team of howes, and a
stout straw-bedded rack. Buddy
can take as many as thirty adults
—at fifty cents a head I
Two or three times a week they
start from Town Hall, and go ant
along the river; atop for a friendly
giasa ot boar at 8boreside Tavern;
Texan want-Ada get results.
Been thlnkln* that mr COTTON C
ain't k'foln' lo Du no butur than
SEED 1 PLANT. Cindy . .. iMr Won
, , declares that a Cotton farmer
knowin’ly plants a poor mad oufV
bare to Uva on A CRACKER A DA
Baal akiddln' a'couraa ... but I
aomethln* to pause on ... . plantin' Pi
SESD . . . and . . . aattn' them creel
It makaa aanaa . . . don’t 111
ZENITH and MOTOROLA
RADIOS and COMBINATIONSj
Details of the recently announced International
Harvester policy of making price reductions
to save users of our products approximately
930,000,000 a year have now been worked out.
We have reduced prices on 163 models. These
cover 12 basic models of farm tractors, 123
bask models of farm machines, 16 basic models
of industrial tractors and engines, and 12 mod-
da of motor trucks, as well as certain motor
truck attachments. The now lower prices are
effective as of March 10,1947.
These reductions were made not because of
any decline in demand, but because we believe
nothing is more important to this country than
to lower the prices of the goods people buy.
While prices have not been changed on all
products, we have made reductions wherever
possible, in the amounts oossible. Prices of
many of our most popular products have been
substantially lowered.
Altogether, more than half of the company 's
customers will be benefited by the reductions,
which range from 1 % to 23.8 % and from $2.50
. to $300 per item, baaed on list prices, F.O.B.
NORGE APPLIANCES
REFRIgERATORS-STOVES-WASHERS
BERTEN DRUG CO.
ELK COTIDNOIL
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Refresh
with Coke
Iralir* Cottars— 3 models reduced 822.75 in each
case (4.8% to 7.1%).
Eatlags Harvest*—1 model reduced $33.76 (3.9%).
Kramer MBs—2 modal* reduced $5.00 in each case
UM^nMkr—l^tiasic model reduced $2.50 (4.9%).
Power Leader—1 model reduced $25.60 (8.9%).
Mraare Spreader-1 model reduced $13.00 (3.5%).
■tar (MU-2 models reduced $12.00 and T17.00
(14.4% and 18.4%).
■Aw Vararai hsta«—2 models red need $17.00 in each
case (11.6% and 19.6%).
PwtaW Mtaw Vectmai Frags—2 models reduced $17.00
tat each cos* (11.3% and 11.7%1.
Straders Steel Milker PMe—2 jnoddK reduced $6.00 and
$10.00 (18,6% and 28&%).
Curat Sspwstwr—4 models reduced $13.26 & each
earn (8% to 10.4%).
Tractor Tnfiw—1 book modal reduced 812.76 (6.6%).
■k C**tn-5 models reduefd $8.00 to $18.00 (1.9%
to 4.3%).
MuttrM Trectw* (Wheel)—4 basic models reduced
$19.00 to $68.00 (1% to 3.4%).
ladsttrM Power Unite—8 models reduced from $10.00
to $160.00 (2.3% to 11.4%).
Motor Track Attachment*—7 items reduced from $8.26
to $268.00. including a change in specifications on
two items.
the people have demanded that the
ent withdraw from price control in
te, the responsibility to keep prices in
back where it should be—in the hands
ms and industry. The bushtase outlook
t possible for us to move toward tbs
iower prices, and we hpve felt a duty
of Products
Vic Vet fay*
FARM TRACTORS
00T*# 12 Models
1 Reduced $10 to $134 (up to 10.6*) |
£B^ MOTOR TRUCKS
12 Models
Reduced $50 to $300(1.9* to 3.6*)
1 <S
Mtfcfak FARM MACHINES
123 Modela
Reduced $2.50 to $122.50
(1.9* to 23.8*)
INDUSTRIAL TRACERS
(Crawltrl—4 Models
Reduced $35 to $50 (1.0% to 1.6*) -
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1947, newspaper, April 10, 1947; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528911/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.