The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1945 Page: 1 of 12
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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
Hockd«l« Eitabllahed 1873
AND MESSENGER
Rockdale Raportar Established 1896
ROCKDALE, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1945
NO. 40
ictory War Loan Off To Big Start In Milam County
,fA Hallowe’en
Parade Winners
Are Announced
By The Judges
(AMBLING
HOUND
Rockdale
—With
W. H. C.
Please.
tey patron of a cafe had
[complained to the waiter:
like all the flies in this
Um." On his toes as
the waiter replied. Tell
lich ones you don t like and
i theni out for you.”
nation’s Victory War Loan is
It is the Eighth bond
_, and the final one. I
jut Rockdale does not make
| a showing in this drive as
1 in the United War Chest
Throngs Jam Gym
Jubilantly as Event
Held as One of
Best Ever Held
A huge crowd thronged to the
•annual Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion Hallowe’en Carnival Wednes-
day night at the high school gym,
the event opening immedia'ely af-
ter a Hallowe’en parade down
town at 5 p. m.
The Carnival was described as
one of the most successful ever
"which is still dragging far j held by the organization here,
I the quota.
lido not think the same
will happen. Where the
jst quota assessed was the
j the last drive, the current
rod quota is almost fifty
it lower than the last one.
lie citizens will do this job
tv, I predict here and now.
i the war over the Victory
Irive is calculated to secure
with which to care for the
the rehabilitation of
bringing men home;
ping armies of occupation;
lellation of war contracts;
| a combat to inflation. De-
fact that the shooting
(over, there is still plenty of
to buy Bonds . . . the
itment any of us can
way.
I Again.
[week I printed a letter I
ived from a woman in
.Kansas, who had put her
lit, so to speak, in telling
neighbors that Texas
(ttfish weighing as much as
mds. I asked anyone hav-
(ormation to give her, to
her story, to write Mrs.
Bier at Wichita. Yesterday
|fed another letter from the
ex-Texan: “I have just
1 a letter from Leon Noack
pbout a mile from the Bra-
both from a standpoint of atten-
dance and interest, and in features
presented for the public.
Under the direction of Mrs. J. O.
Newton and Mrs. J. B. Newton the
parade started promptly at 5 p.
m., with silver-dollar prizes
awarded as follows to the best en-
tries:
Pre-School Age: Little Miss
Doris Strieker, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. M. N. Strieker, who was
dressed as a drum majorette. Prize
$1.00.
Primary: Mrs. J. O. Newton’s
— See CARNIVAL, Page 7
Tigers To Play
Last Home Game
To Meet Coupland
Here Friday Night;
New Coach Resigns
The Rockdale Tigers will meet
the Copeland high school eleven
on the local field here Friday
night in what will be the last
home game of the season. The
game will start at 7:30 p. m
The Tigers are playing an in-
dependent schedule this year with
nearby schools not members of or-
ganized District Football play.
Meanwhile the school board an-
o ifAina u , nounced this week that Ut* locai
C± school system '•hod a coach hut no
got away.” Announcement was
made last week that W. E. Fergu-
son, now in the army at Sheppard
Field, had accepted the position ns
Rockdale High School Coach a id
Athletic Director, but before the
ink on the announcement was drv
Ferguson advised the Rockdale
Board that he had accepted an-
other position at Halletsvil'e.
The board is still on the lookout
for a coach . . . and, it mifihr l e
added, a band director.
caught weighing 120
f*'ith a 20-lb. Buffalo in its
Also one cat 132 pounds.”
- the writer added: “I
’ face my friends.”
everywhere are making
Mor a big Christmas. The
acetime Christmas in sev-
ers gives cause for rejoic-
boys coming home, and
away now out of dan-
Prospects good that ihey
[nome soon.
Karce merchandise is still
Pf still completely off the
l“ui peacetime goods are
9 Beginning to return io
tnir•elveSl And new Sl*
wiristmas items are al-
•jJ'S advertised by alert
I men.
nothing like lighting
™ decorations to bring
;««f Christmas and
sS,°uld start making its
y.JJ Week for a return
pS£i?treet liBht,n* in
fe S busings distrfS
Page 7
Back From lap's
Prison, Willi© Fipps
Will Be Honored
Willie Fipps, recently released
from a Jap Prison Camp, will
come home to San Gabriel to a
big celebration in his honor Fri-
day evening, it was announced
here Wednesday afternoon.
Fipps is due to arrive Friday.
His relatives and friends of the
San Gabriel community are pan-
ning a big celebration for bins
with the San Gabriel “home tolks
to attend.
Following the program and sup -
per, a free dance, honoring all
servicemen of the county, will be
held at the high school gym. The
dance will be open to the geneinl
public, according to Jamie Clark.
Have Money and Plenty of Time
'(inGet New Car; They’re Ration Free
P Mobiles, which are due
before very long,
|annon!!0t!?d’ government
Monday The
hcetn^ °n y tnonG” and
t0 wait his turn.
and the War Produc-
with' ,,01nt stateruent,
on th near|y 24.000,000
■ Int road’ and
:r- "therc ,s
°f the
°n system.”
iadd«i that as new
‘ cars “newer and
5f*v«llab!!,.“l80 °KOme
‘Mivlduah will
a general
automobile
be inconvenienced by their in-
ability to buy new cars immeuune-
ly,” said OPA Administrator Ches-
ter Bowles. “We ask, however,
that dealers everywhere give spe-
cial consideration to unusual ha.d-
ship cases.”
No automobiles have been '• ' , ______________
tioned since last July when the i-1 • disabled are under
— *--»>— of the stockpile of pre-1 the sick.
Carnival Again Gets Capacity CrowdSronMonday
Over The Top!
With the Victory War Loan
announced October 29, the
Elm Ridge community re-
ported the following day,
that their quota has been
exceeded, the first Milam
county community to "fin-
ish the job."
Elm Ridge reported to
County Chairman Dan Tyson
Tuesday morning, following
the Monday night rally at
Cameron that, with a quota
of $1675, Elm Ridge had sub-
scribed and paid for $2250
worth of bonds, an amount
$575 over the quota.
The little Milam county
commmunity thus gave other
communities something to
shoot at.
Hereford Group
Honors Worley
Rockdale Man Is
Named Vice President
Mid-South Ass'n.
F. W. Worley was elected vice-
president of the Mid-South Texas
Hereford Association at the an-
nual meeting of the organization
held Friday at the Texas A. & M.
College. Mr. Worley also was re-
named on the sifting committee to
pass upon bulls and heifers con-
signed to the annual sale to be
held at College Station Feb. 20.
The Mid-South Texas Hereford
Association is the business organ-
ization for registered Hereford
cattle breeders and other cattle-
men in nine counties of this area,
including Milam county.
Other officers elected for the
coming year were Dr. J. L. Jen-
kins of Normangee, president; B.
J. Baskin of Bryan, secretary, and
Ward Mooring of Bryan, treasurer.
Members of the organizations
voted to again have tours of
ranches in the nine-county area,
and left the planning of a tour to
be held next spring or early sum-
mer to the executive committee.
Among the resolutions passed
—See WORLEY, Page 7
W. H. Caldwell
Given Discharge
From the Seabees
Special to The Reporter.
U. S. Naval Personnel Separa-
tion Center, Camp Wallace, Texas,
Oct. 31.—William H. Caldwell, of
Rockdale, has been honorably dis-
charged at this center under the
Navy's point-release system. He
held the rating of carpenter’s mate
third class, USNR.
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bpcuiux*»• — - ■- *
Caldwell entered the Navy in July
1942, serving three years and four
months. He spent 16 months in
the Aleutians, returning to the
States in May 1944 for a five-
month period He shipped to the
South Pacific in October 1944 and
saw much action in that theater,
returning to the States Oct 17 to
receive his discharge on Oct. 24.
Three Horse Races And Mule Race
On Program of Lions on November 12
Three horse races and a mule
race, with $235 added to entrance
fees, are on the Lions Club pro-
gram of races to be offered as an
Armistice Holiday attraction at
fair park, Rockdale, Monday, No-
vember 12.
The program will start at 2 p.
m.
The following horse races are
listed:
Quarter mile, purse $75, with
entrance fee added. Eighth mile,
Baptist Church
Ml. Zion To Move
Into Minerva
Members Vote For
Move and Will
Build New Brick and
Tile Building Soon
The Mt. Zion Baptist Church
will be moved to Minerva where
construction is to start soon on a
new brick and tile building, it was
announced here following a con-
ference at the church Sunday
night when members voted to
make the move.
Rev. Ray Riley, pastor, said that
the present building will be wreck-
ed and ail lumber used in con-
struction of the new building. The
church voted to call the church the
Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Miner-
va.
“Only those who were present
can appreciate the wholesome
Christian spirit which was mani-
fest at the conff"'r‘nco,” Rev. Ri-
—See CHURCH, Page 7
purse $50, with entrance feed add-
ed. Three-eighths mile, purse $100,
with entrance fee added. In addi-
tion there will be a one-eighth
mile mule race, with a purse of $10
added to entrance fee.
Cliff Blackburn, chairman of
the Lions committee in charge of
the races, states that entries may
be made with either S. E. Fester
or Cliff Blackburn at any time
prior to 10 a. m. Monday, Nov. 12.
Judges will be Deputy Sheriff
Barron, Jim Bartlett and John
House. Starter will be Ab Ing-
ram of Cameron.
The Club has set admission pric-
es at 60c for adults and 30c for
children, including tax.
The Rockdale races are receiv-
ing wide publicity throughout
Central Texas and a large nunjjf-
ber of fast entries are expected in
all races. The Lions Club is mak-
ing arrangements to handle a huge
holiday crowd.
Cpl. F. L. Sutton
Is Now in Japan
Special to The Reporter.
Fifth Air Force, Tokyo.—Cor-
poral Francis L. Sutton, husband
of Mrs F. L. Sutton, Rockdale, re-
cently entered Japan with a unit of
the Fifth Air Force Service Com-
mand. He is now serving with the
occupational Fifth Air Force.
Overseas 26 months, Cpl. Sutton
is truck driver for the command,
which supplies and maintains
fighters and bombers of the oc-
cupational air force.
Gay Hill Rond
Meet Friday Nighi
Group Plans Good
Program to Start
Work on $825 Quota
To get their victory Pond drive
off to a fast start the citizens of
the Gay Hill community will join
in a Victory Bond Rally at the Gay
Hill school Friday night, Nov. 2,
according to C. P. Beard, chair-
man for that community.
The Gay Hill E-Bond quota for
this last bond drive is $825, and
Beard says he and his committee
are anxious to have a good crowd
at the rally Friday night and com-
plete the quota as quickly as pos-
sible.
A good speaker will address the
crowd at the program, which will
also include music and entertain-
iment features. All Gay Hill res-
idents and any others interested,
are urged to attend.
Quintus Joiner
Sells Tailor Shop
To F. W. Holley
Jack’s Tailor Shop in Rockdale
changes hands this week, effective
today—November 1.
Quintus Joiner, who bought the
shop four months ago from S. D.
(Jack) Moore announces that he
has sold his business to F. W. Hol-
ley, former Rockdalian, and Hous-
ton, and more recently in the U. S.
Navy.
Night as Kickoff
County E Bond
Quota la $210,000;
Rockdale $34,000.
Based on Cost Price
The Victory Loan got off to a
big start in Milam county Monday
night in a rally at Cameron when
a free barbecue dinner was served
to 214 bond salesmen and bond
workers of the 51 districts of Mi-
Arch Hoiiey of Rockdale, was born
and reared in this section, but
prior to the war had been living
in Houston. He has just recently
been discharged from the Navy af-
ter three years and ten months of
service. He states he has plans
for enlarging the service of the
tailor shop here.
Joiner advises his customers
that all clothes in the shop at the
time of the change of business, will
be ready by Saturday of this
week.
HolJcy,, a brother of Bill and j lam county. The rally was held
at the Yoe High school gym.
The Victory Loan, the Eighth
and final war bond drive, is set up
with a quota of $210,000 for Mi-
lam county. Rockdale’s quota Is
$34,000. These figures are for E-
Bond sales and represent the cost
price of bonds purchased.
Figuring at maturity value, the
quotas are as follows: Milam comi-
ty $280,000 and Rockdale $45,331.
The quotas represent a figure
approximately 42 per cent less
than the quotas in the last bond
drive, according to Dan Tyson,
county chairman.
N. E. Alford, who served as
Rockdale chairman of the Seventh
War Loan, was again named to
head the drive locally.
The following report on the
Monday night meeting was mado
from Cameron headquarters of the
Victory Loan:
Cameron, Oct. 30.—The crowd
began gathering before the 7:30
starting hour and it was soon es-
timated that full attendance would
start the Victory Bond drive with
a bang. The floor was filled with
tables and chairs with the speak-
er’s stand at the end of the gymna-4
sium and the Yoe High School*
Band, under the direction of
Frances Cox, filled the stage to the
west and furnished music for this,
the last of the bond drives. Milam
county has done itself proud in all
Followers of District 31-A foot- ,’*be .dldv2f, and, ^ar exceed®d its
HELP! HELP!
J. N. Gray, of San Angelo,
a Texas University graduate,
has accepted the position as
band director at the Rockdale
schools. He is seeking, and
with no luck, an apartment
for himself, his wife and child.
If you know of an apartment
phone Supt. C. M. Selman at
the high school.
Killeen-Taylor
District Favorites
Two Contenders For
Flag To Meet At
Killeen November 16
Sgt. R. C. Peterson
Receives Discharge
Sgt. R. C. Peterson Jr., received
his discharge from the army Oc-
tober 24 and is visiting friends and
relatives here and in Austin. He
had been in the army 2 years and
11 months, spending 21 months in
the European theater.
Sgt. Peterson saw service in se-
ven countries, England, Scotland,
Wales, France, Germany, Belgium
and Austria. His awards include
five campaign stars and a bronze
star for meritorious service in Ger-
many. He had 83 points at the
time of his discharge.
Between 500 and
800 Visitors View
New 1946 Ford
Between 500 and 800 visitors
flocked into the Gaither Motor
Company showrooms Friday and
Saturday to inspect the first 1946
automobile to be displayed in
Rockdale—the 1946 Ford V-8.
The first new car was received
several days earlier here and kept
under wraps until Friday for a
simultaneous showing along with
other Ford dealers. Local citi-
zens, who had not had opportun-
ity to inspect a new model car in
four years, were eager to take
advantage of the opportunity to
give this first new model the once-
over.
The car on display here is n
grey tudor in the DeLuxe line.
New radiator grills and broader
front lines marked the biggest
change in appearance, v/ilii Ford
also emphasizing a large number
of mechanical improvements
ball saw Killeen and Taylor
emerge last week as the sole con-
tenders for the pennant, the1 two
teams will meet in Killeen on
November 16.
On this week’s schedule only
one conference game is on tap for
Friday night, with Killeen play-
j ing the lowly Rosebud eleven in
Rosebud.
I At Cameron Friday night the
Yoemen will entertain the Hearne
Eagles in a non-conference game.
Belton and Taylor both have an
open date Friday night. George-
town will entertain Lampasas in a
non-district game.
Killeen’s stunning 33-0 victory
over the Cameron Yoemen, who
dropped one previously to Taylor
20-7, sets the Nov. 16 Taylor-Kil-
leen game up as a natural.
quota.
The large turnout <
-See BONDS, Page 7
Gift For Yanks Who Gave:
American Legion and Auxiliary Sponsor Campaign to Send Gift
Packages to Every Vet in Armed Forces and Those in Hospitals
Rockdale Short
Of Its War Chest
Quota By $625
Rockdale was still $625 shy of
its quota in the United War Chest,
October drive this morning, with
total collections to date listed at
$975.00 on a quota of $1600.,
Last week collections of $846
were reported in Rockdale, and
since that time the following
amounts, totaling $129, have come
in to Frank Haley, Rockdale
chairman:
J. B. Newton $20, Mrs. Laurence
Warren $15, George Perry $25,
Mrs. E. B. Phillips $25, B. Regen-
brecht $5, Otto Stein $10, South-
western Bell Telephone Co. $20,
Mrs. Betty English $1, George
Yoakum $5, and Miss Vaughnie
Dudley $3.
Edward Bartlett Jr.
Gets Discharge
From Coast Guard
Edward Bartlett Jr., received
his discharge Oct. 26 at New Or-
leans, Louisiana, after serving 3
years and 4 months with the U.
S. Coast Guard.
He served first in the Atlantic,
Gulf of Mexico and Carribbean
and later in the North Pacific
around Alaska and spent nineteen
months in the Southwest Pacific.
His campaign ribbons include
the American Theater, Pacific-
Asiatic with three battle stars, and
Philippine Liberation with 2 bat-
tle stars. His ship is credited with
having destroyed one enemy plane
and one submarine.
Sgt. J. L. Fleming
Gets Army Release
Sgt. J. L. Fleming, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Fleming of Tangle-
wood, arrived in the States Oct. 2<)
after two and a half years in Eng-
land, and is now at home after re-
ceiving his discharge.
Sgt. Fleming was with the 333id
Air Force, 94th Bomb Group, a
entered the army Nov. 5 at Ft
Sam Houston, training at S •>'
Lake City, Utah. He was a Li I
gunner on a bomber.
His awards include the Pre
dential Citation, the Air Med .!
with two oak leaf clusters, -
battle stars, ETO Ribbon, and thv
good conduct medal.
Every man and woman in the
armed forces, and every war vet-
eran forced to spend Christmas in
a hospital will receive a gift pack-
age this year. That is the goal of
ihe ‘‘Gift For Yanks Who Gave”
crn.pau.n, being sponsored by the
American Legion and Auxiliary.
rj'lu; public will be askeu agon*
to contribute packages for Christ-
mas gifts to hespitgplized service-
men and veterans. The gifts will
be distributed in all Army and
Navy hospitals, Veterans hospitals
! and other institutions wherever
mainder u. -------- ---,
war cars was released for gene
88Whether to ration the new cars
due soon had been under consid-
eration several months.
OPA said that all records and
certificates used in the car ration-
ing program and now held by
trade or the public are “valueless
and may be disposed of.
tr<The program is expected to be
Wag e^"S
launched in Rockdale on Novem-
ber 1 under direction of Mes-
ses A. S. Allen, E. A. Ryan and
W. I. Skinner. Collection of pack-
ages will continue until December
10.
Co-operation of local merchants
is being enlisted again this year
so that persons desiring to pur-
chase gifts may leave them with
the stores to be delivered to the
nearest collection post.
Officials said: “Most good
housekeepers have two annual
house cleaning sprees, one in fall
and one in spring. The fall orgy
we nicely talk ourselves out of—
what with the coming winter rains
on the outside and ashes and dust
which accompany fires on the in-
side, the washing of windows and
woodwork seem a waste of labor.
We do, however, believe in a thor-
ough housecleaning in the spring.
Some of us are like that in our
habits; we wash our windows on
one side and let the other side go.
Thinking about the boys that
are coming home, and they are
coming home fast. Boys wearing
battle stars and battle scars, mul-
ticolored ribbons and decorations
galore..
“This is our beacon moment
when we must roll back our hori-
son and apply the principals of
justice, freedom and democracy,
that we talk about so much to the
rest of humanity; cleaning our
windows on both sides so that the
splendor of a reopening future
will be undimmed. |
“In the appeal for gifts all
America will be asked to remem-
ber that for wounded sick and dis-
abled the war did not end with
the surrender of Germany and
Japan. Through the “Gifts For
Yanks Who Gave” program, the
Legion and Auxiliary will extend
to every one an opportunity to
show his gratitude to these men
and women who still are suffer-
ing because they gave so much to
keep America a county where a
Merry Christmas can be enjoyed.
Are You On Your Feel? Shoe Rationing
End Brings Relief to Walking Public
Shoe rationing is now a thing of
the past.
The order ending the rationing
of shoes became effective at 12:01
Wednesday.
Terminating a program which
began on Feb. 8, 1943, OPA Ad-
ministrator Chester Bowles said
rationing can be lifted because
shoe production has increased sub-
stantially since V-J Day.
Some trouble spots can be ex-
pected for a while, Bowles said,
adding that customers “may not
always be able to buy the styles
they want.
“But both the War Production
board and the OPA have agreed
... that no general hardship should
result from the discontinuance of
shoe rationing . . .”
Bowles said the outlook for No-
vember and December is for 29 to
30 million pairs of shoes each
month. This, he added, would
equal to demand before the war.
OPA called on some merchants
to give preferential treatment to
returning servicemen and wo-
men.
New York, Oct. 30.—Recent ex-
pansion of shoe production will
make it possible in a short tim< o
provide a wide array of sm.....
footwear in full size ranges s>
as the consumer has not had f -
several years, the National S’ o?
Manufacturer Association said to-
day on announcement of the end
of shoe rationing.
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