The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 69, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1942 Page: 7 of 8
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iursday, January 8, 1942
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
,» Navy School Nestles in World9 s Biggest Factory
Page Seve*
’42 Finds Coastal Area
Better Protected Than
Ever Before In History
DEARBOR- , Aik-..—In the heart of
rf'ord Motor Company’s vast Rouge plant is a
Navy Service School now training 1,500 blue-
jacket recruits in mechanical trades they
will perform with Uncle Sam’s fleet. This
the*aerial view shows the school buildings in the
right foreground on the bank of the River
Rouge. The recruits are “learning by doing”
in accordance with educational methods
pioneered by the Henry Ford Trade School.
42,007 VISITORS TO
MUSEUM IN 1941
p^i
OPLE FROM EVERY STATE,
18 COUNTRIES REGISTER
DURING PAST YEAR
CANYON — Visitors from every
B0e and from eighteen other
countries visited the Panhandle-
Plains Museum in 1941, when a total
of 42,007 names were added to the
guest book.
This brought the total registra-
tiPi since the museum opened in
the spring of 1933 to 289,923, ac-
cording to Boone McClure, assistant
curator. The 1941 total showed an
increase of about 20 per cent over
the preceding year.
Countries represented included
India, Central American states, Af-
rica, Puerto Rico, Alaska, France,
England, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico,
Brazil, Columbia, Cuba, Holland,
Sweden, the Philippines, Egypt and
China.
States best represented included
Texas, 37,752; Oklahoma, 1,097; New
Mexico, 716; Kansas, 379; Missouri,
305; California, 299; Illinois, 269;
Colorado, 201; Ohio, 162; Arkansas,
98; Indiana, 97; Louisiana, 97; Iowa,
79; Michigan, 72; Nebraska, 70;
New York, 61; Alabama, 58; Ken-
tucky, 57; Arizona, 53; Tennessee,
50; Georgia, 45; Pennsylvania, 43;
Mississippi, 41; Virginia, 29; Minne-
sota, 28; New Jersey, 28; Oregon,
26; South Dakota, 25; Washington,
D. C., 23; and Washington, 22.
School and convention groups
were the largest, but many dis-
tinguished visitors, including scien-
tists interested in the museum’s
specimens, were registered.
Construction of a two-story an-
nex to the museum in usder way.
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Reserve District No. 11
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
rt\RMERS & MERCHANTS STATE BANK
of Shamrock, Texas, a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the
close of business on December 31, 1941, published in accordance with a
call made by the Federal Reserve bank of this district pursuant to the
provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
ASSETS
1. Loans and discounts --------------------------------------$401,476.55
2. United States Government obligations, direct
and guaranteed _______________________________________ 95,000.00
Obligations of States and political subdivisions ----------- 21,748.58
5. Corporate stocks (including $2,250.00 stock
of Federal Reserve bank) ---------------------------- 2,250.00
6. Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve
balance, and cash items in process of collection------ 244,170.86
41'Bank premises owned $10,000.00, furniture
and fixtures $250.00 __________________________________ 10,250.00
8. Real estate owned other than bank premises ------------- 4,089.60
ill. Other assets ____________________________________________— 151.33
Fluent Talkers
Favor Good
Listeners
1#TOTAL ASSETS .........................................$779,136.92
LIABILITIES
13. Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations _____________________________________$457,029.16
1|^ Time deposits of individuals, partnerships,
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Pk.D.
• From many an adolescent read-
er, and from an occasional par-
ent, letters come describing pain-
ful discomfort and worry over
alleged inability to carry on a con-
versation. “I so often don’t know
what to say in a group and feel so
uncomfortable,” writes one. “My
inability to keep up in a conversa-
tion makes me very unhappy,”
states another.
Back of these statements is a
curious false assumption, namely,
that to talk and talk fluently is es-
sential to being considered at ease
or agreeable. To any one, of
course, who thinks he must talk
continuously when with others, si-
lence forced by speechlessness
must be excruciatingly painful.
But who has ever proved that one
can’t be comfortable while silent
or can’t then be agreeable com-
pany?
Sources of Pleasure
and corporations _____________________________________ 60,471.27
16. Deposits of States and political subdivisions ______________ 175,820.76 j
18. Other deposits (certified and officers’ checks, etc.) ------- 4,533.63
l^TOTAL DEPOSITS
.$697,854.82
24. TOTAL LIABILITIES (not including subordinated
obligations shown below) ____________________
-$697,854.82
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
2)§ Capital* ...................................................$ 50,000.00
26. Surplus ____________________________—........—.......... 25,000.00
27. Undivided profits ___________________-........—........... 6,282.10
As a matter of fact, those who
talk glibly and converse with ease
and fluency, the very persons
whose conversation tends to mag-
nify in the mind of many a suf-
ferer his own relative inability
to converse well, are also the ones
who are most delighted to have
Bilent, animated listeners in their
company.
Please, then, my suffering
friends, learn to capitalize on your
silence. Get pleasure from it,
knowing that you are giving so
much pleasure to others who are
very eager to do most of the talk-
ing. Once you actually realize
that you are affording others in
your company pleasure by your
reticence, silence will no longer
prove painful to you.
A Good Listener
29. TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS ........-......-...........$ 81,282.10
30. TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS.....-$779,136.92
•This bank’s capital consists of common stock
with total par value of $50,000.00.
MEMORANDA
3WPledged assets (and securities loaned) (book value):
(a) U. S. Government obligations, direct and guaranteed,
I pledged to secure deposits and other liabilities____$ 80,000.00
.$ 80,000.00
(e) TOTAL .....................................
• 3® Secured and preferred liabilities:
(a) Deposits secured by pledged assets pursuant
to requirements of law_________________ _________$ 80,000.00
(d) Deposits preferred under provisions of law but
not secured by pledge of assets __________________ 1,497.64
(e) TOTAL ..........................................$ 81,497.64
STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF WHEELER, ss:
We, O. T. Nicholson, as President and Ben A. Skidmore, as
C&shier of said bank, each of us, do solemnly swear that the above
sWtement Is true to the best of our knowledge and belief,
O. T. NICHOLSON.
BEN A. SKIDMORE.
CORRECT—ATTEST:
A. J. LAYCOCK, J. A. HALL, B. F. RISINGER, Directors.
The more raptly you attend,
and the more interest you show,
the more pleasing will you grow
as a member of the social group.
But if you have it in your head
that you must always be saying
something in order to be agreeable
and likable, and have fears that
you cannot succeed, your attention
will be so much turned upon your
failure and your feelings that you
cannot listen well. As a result you
will not be an attractive auditor.
Once you can get a healthy
point of view about the matter,
and actually can arrive at a level
of self-control, when you can en-
tirely relax and allow yourself to
enjoy the speech of others, you
will, unawares, break into the
conversation occasionally, and say
something when you are inspired
to do so.
A list of books on how to im
prove in personality and mental
health may be had by writiry: r.ii
at 235 E. 45th St., New York t'.ity
enclosing a self-addressed envel-
ope with a three-cent stamp.
NEW ORLEANS, La.—The dawn-
ing new year of 1942 finds the great
coastal aread bordering the Eighth
Naval District from the Florida
Apalachiocola to the Mexican line
better protected from hostile attack
than at any time in its history,
records at Headquarters show today.
“Beginning from scratch” on De-
cember 15, 1940, Captain T. A.
Thomson, Jr. U. N. N., Acting Dis-
trict Commandant, and his staff
of officers, have built up Naval
activities and personnel until the
Eighth District comprising the
states of Louisiana, Alabama, Miss-
issippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Ar-
kansas, Texas, and Western Florida
occupies a foremost place in na-
tional defense.
Five formidable Naval Section
Bases at Burrwood, Louisian, Mo-
bile, Alabama, Corpus Christi, Gal-
veston and Sabine Pass, Texas, vtere
rushed to completion since the dec-
laration of war. Built at a cost
of approximately $3,000,009, these
bases are now fully manned and
armed to supply and service the
fleet of patrol vessels and district
craft constituting the Eighth Naval
District’s Inshore Patrol.
The Naval Air Station at Corpus
Christi, acknowledged to be the
world’s largest, was commissioned
last March, and Is now graduating
hundreds of finished Naval fliers
every month. The sister Naval
Aviation Training Station at Pensa-
cola has been more than doubled
In size during the past twelve
months and also is turning out fin-
ished fliers in large numbers.
As receiving depots for Corpus
Christi and Pensacola, there are
two Naval Reserve Aviation bases—
one on Lake Pontchartrain in New
Orleans and another near Dallas,
Texas. Here young college men en-
listing for commissions in the air
wing of the Navy’s forces are In-
doctrinated and receive preliminary
training up to ten hours of solo
flight.
Of importance to the entire Miss-
issippi Valley area is the rehabili-
tation of the New Orleans Naval
Station at Algiers, which in recent
months has become the training
station for the Coast Guard and
apprentice seamen enlisting in the
Naval service. Upon completion, the
New Orleans Naval Station will
again assume its place among the
foremost shore establishments of
the United States which it occupied
during World War days.
During the twelve months of
1941, several large shipyards along
the Gulf Coast were reopened or
constructed in New Orleans—Pen-
sacola — Nashville, Mobile and
Chickasaw, Ala., Biloxi and Pasca-
goula, Miss., and at Houston, Gal-
veston, Seabrook, Rockport, Beau-
mont, Orange, Port Arthur, and
Brownsville, all in Texas.
In addition to the construction
program, the Eighth Naval District
Recruiting S e r vices consistently
have broken records for recruiting
men in both the regular service
and the Naval Reserve, with a total
of approximately 4,533 in the entire
district. Since the war began Dec.
7, nearly 800 men joined the Navy
for regulair duties At one time
during the summer, four of the
five cities in the country which
topped all others for the largest
number of recruits were within the
Eighth District. A survey by the
Bureau of Navigation in Washing-
ton in the late Fall showed that
Birmingham, Alabama, was first of
all the cities in the country In re-
cruiting during the first nine
months of 1941.
The Eighth Naval District also
topped all other districts in tlje
United States in enlistments of col-
lege graduates in Class V-7 of the
United States Naval Reserve which
leads to a commission as Ensign
with duties as deck or engineering
officers in the fleet. Since last May,
1051 college graduates within the
District have enlisted in Class V-7
of which 772 were for deck duties
and 229 for commissions as engi-
neers.
Procurement of young college
men as Naval aviation cadets has
Increased more than 100% during
the last six months of the year
with New Orleans consistently sup-
plying a large number of candidates
for flying wings of gold.
The Gulf Coastal area has also
produced large numbers of recruits
among fishermen, tug boat and
small craft operators enlisting in
the various Merchant Marine class-
es for duties with the Inshore Pa-
trol. Age limitations in these class-’
es M-l and M-2 were extended to
reach from seventeen to fifty, with
the result that approximately six
hundred enlistments were effected
since June.
With the dawn of the new year,
recruiting activities in the District
are primarily aimed towards the
procuremnt of thousands of men
for the fleet and air. As well as
hundreds of college men and college
graduates for enlistment in V-5
and V-7 classes which lead to com-
missions. In an effort to obtain
youths for these all-important deck
and engineering duties, the limita-
tions recently were lowered to per-
mit the enlistment of men still in
their sophomore, junior or senior
years _ of college. All men enlisted
while yet in college will not be call-
ed to active duty until the comple-
tion of thetr regular courses of
study.
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| LITTLE MAQV MlXUP- av ■g.M-BemK'eRrtoFF-j
LOAN ASSOCIATION
TO HOLD MEETING
STOCKHOLDERS OF CANADIAN
VALLEY PRODUCTION FIRM
TO MEET JANUARY 19
The Canadian Valley Production
Credit Association annual stock'
holders’ meeting will be held Jan
uary 19, 1942, at 9:30 a. m. at the
Palace Theatre, in Canadian.
“Attendance of members and
their participation in the discussion,
in the election of directors and
study of association business reports
and plans are of primary impor-
tance in this cooperative credit
organization,” said J. A. Bryant, Di-
rectors. “All members of the family
who have a part in the farm or
ranch planning and management
are also being invited.
"This year, with fundamental
changes In the farming and live-
stock business taking place, the
presence of all members at this an-
nual session devoted to considera-
tion of association affairs is vital”,
he said. “Each stockholder-member
has one vote and must be present
in person to vote. These provisions
keep affairs directly in the hands
of the users of the service.
"Production Credit Associations,
controlled by farmers and ranchers
who use credit service, have the
advantage of being a dependable
source of credit for any kind of
times and of being a credit supplier
that stays In step with continually
changing agriculture because of the
cooperative nature of the associa-
tion.”
The Canadian Valley Production
Credit Association serves Ochiltree,
Lipscomb, Roberts, Hemphill, Gray
and Wheeler Counties, and has 295
stockholders. Of its $192,500.00 in
capital, $62,500.00 is owned by the
members and It has a reserve of
$53,000.00 to protect the members’
Investment.
’.YAAVVWAAW.VWAVWAV.'JAV.WJ.WAVAV.V.*
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of January, 1942.
W. H. WALKER, Notary Public.
Wheeler County, Texas.
Solving Parent Problems
Q. Some experts advise, “Spank
the child only as a last resort.”
Do you agree ?
A. No; the parent then is hardly
fit to spank the child nor the child
fit to profit from it. Wise parents
inflict pain on the young child, or
punish otherwise, only after they
havo planned together beforehand
the specific acts for which they
would punish and exactly how.
They know no "last resort.”
Callan’s Home Laundry
•—Phone 29—
Due to conditions over which we have no control,
our prices will be as follows:
RUFF DRYS with flat work finished, lb .............7c
FINISHED BUNDLES:
Shirts, each .................................... 10c
Trousers, each ................................ 20c
Flat Work finished at, lb ................ 7c
Or Finished Bundles at: first 10 lbs. $1.20—second
10 lbs. $1.00—All over 20 lbs. at, lb ........ 9c
In bundles with less than 10 lbs. of flat work,
Shirts will be 12 >/2c each and Trousers 25c each
No bundles picked up or delivered for less than 25c!
Cash and Carry Service will receive
10 Per Cent Discount!
All bills must be paid promptly or credit will be
discontinued.
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 69, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1942, newspaper, January 8, 1942; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528947/m1/7/?q=+date%3A1941-1945&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.