Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 280, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 26, 1941 Page: 2 of 6
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%eagueContests Set Aprf^l
SMOI MKT HAVE GOT PALTIY SUM FOISTIP
WITH LOWS IS WNMDS; WILL HI EVER BE SANE
School Fine
.)Art* ®MWita, Debate
Contwts Scheduled
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First of the district five spring
IfitirsChotastic events will take
jfbtte In Sweetwater on April 4
and 5, R. S. Covey, superinten-
dent of schools and director-gen-
eral of the meets, has announc
ed.
District five includes Borden,
Fisher, Howard, Jones, Mitchell,
Nolan, Scurry, Stonewall and
Taylor and the cities of Big
Spring, Abilene and Sweetwat-
er.
The events will include the
various fine arts contests, ten-
nis, debate, playground ball and
golf.
Junior girls and junior boys
tennis, junior boys playground
ball and senior girls volleyball
will be held on Saturday, April
19, beginning at 9 a. m. An in-
vitational high school golf tour-
nament is to be held at Lake
Sweetwater course on Saturday,
April 26, at 8:30 a. m.
Gold, silver and bronze med-
als, furnished by the Sweetwat-
er Board of City Development,
are to be awarded for first, sec-
ond and third place winners in
all events, with the exception
of volleyball and playground
ball, in permanent troph-
ies’Will be given to the winners,
rutjnersup and consolation win-
ners, and individual members of
each team will receive blue, red
and white ribbons.
Contests in addition to the
athletics to be held April -1 and
5 include debate, declamation,
ready writers, one-act plays,
typewriting and shorthand, and
the annual Three-R contest.
Laurence Priddy, Sweetwater
high coach, is director of athlet-
ic for the meets, Miss Harkins,
head of the English department,
is director of the one-act play
contest, Miss Ludee Mae Har-
rison, commercial teacher, is di-
rector of the typing and short
hand contest and Ed F. Neinast,
c o u n t y superintendent of
schools, is director of the Three-
R contest.
By HENRY McLRMORB
United PreM Correapondent
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —
(UP)—It would be interesting
to know, to the penny, just how
much Abe Simon made for fight-
ing Joe Louis in Detroit last
week.
I don’t mean the amount of
the check that Promoter Mike
Jacobs handed him, but how
much actually was left for Abe
after his manager, Jimmy John-
ston, had taken what I am sure
was his sizeable cut, handlers
and sparring partners had been
paid off, and the other 101 tabs
picked up.
My guess is that it was a
prettv paltry sum, as heavy-
weight championship payoffs
go, and that considering the
terrible beating he took Abe was
almost as badly underpaid as
those unfortunates who used to
have to play tag with the lions
to make a Roman holiday.
Took Some Punching
Yet it is difficult to feel too
sorry for Simon. He didn’t have
to fight Louis in the first place.
That’s really making money the
hard way. When you get a knot
on your head with every dollar,
even gold loses its appeal. Abe
would have been wiser had he
taken one of 50 alternatives. He
could have borrowed a beard
and a cane and posed as a Span-
ish war pensioner or worked at
fifty cents an hour testing used
parachutes.
The best proof of what a beat-
ing Abe did take in those 13
rounds in Detroit, is the fact
that he has signed to Fight
Louis again. The next evidence
of what Louis’ fists did to him
will cdme in the return bout.
He’ll never go 13 again. For
one thing, he will know he can’t
lick Louis. That will soften him
some and there never was a
chin—not even on one of those
Gutzon Borglum mountain mem-
orial chins—which could take
licks Abe’s did and be the same
afterwards.
Boxing should have a law to
protect men like Simon against
themselves. It could be a law
similar to the one that says a
man’s life can’t be placed in jeo-
pardy twice for the same crime.
Cities Example
A fellow like Simon is in jeo-
pardy when he gets in there
with Louis. I don’t believe you
could find a reputable physi-
cian who wouldn’t tell that a
man can’t take a beating about
the head such as Simon took
from the champion and ever b?
the same again, mentally or phy-
sically. Simon is just the type
who suffers most at the hands
of Louis. He is a giant in sta-
ture, strong as young redwood
and unimaginative enough to be
foolishly brave. The light, glass-
chinned boys go out quickly and
thus miss rounds of pummeling.
-The Livestock-
ROUNDUP
Nolan county not only can
look to a bumper year for crops
in view of the fine rainfall, but
it also goes without saying that
the livestock situation is to be
benefited no end by the mois-
ture.?
These rains likely will mean
thousands of dollars to the
county. In view of the large
amount of meat needed to feed
. WAR MOVE$—t
(Continued from, pige 1)
against British shipping has
made it impossible for the Brit-
ish to detach any number of
warships from convoy work in
the Atlantic for service in the
Mediterranean. In consequence,
a partial opening has had to re-
main along the Mediterranean
route connecting Italy with
north Africa.
The Germans apparently have
taken advantage of this fact to
ship troops to Libya. Their ter-
minal port is undoubtedly Trip-
oli, which is 300 miles' from
Sicily, the nearest Italian em-
barking points.
During the action operations
of the British army in Libya, the
British Mediterranean fleet was
able to prevent supplies in any
considerable quantity reaching) are great
the Italians. The fleet at that power of the British fleet to]
time had no other duty other stop supplies crossing the Medi-
than to keep the Italian war- j terranean, if urgent need arises,
ships bottled up in their ports Reports ’.hat German troops I
and to provide moderate con- have reached El Agheila, less
voys for merchantmen passing! than 200 miles southwest of
sonable to assume, therefore,
that the reinforcements reach-
ing Tripoli are conveyed spora-
dically. Although the number
may be considerable, it scarce-
ly can be considered grave, at
this time.
Once the British have com-
pleted their movement of troops
and material to Greece, they can
pay more attention to the Liby-
an situation. Resumption of the
former heavy patroi in Libyan
waters would cut off future sup-
plies in any quantity which the
Germans would require for a se-
rious campaign.
Reports that Marshal Grazi-
ani’s resignation of his com-
mand is due to the Germans tak-
ing over control of future mili-
tary action in Libya seem plaus-
ible. That does not mean, how-
ever, a probable offensive di-
the expanding army, it doesn’t
appear probable that the price of
beef, mutton and pork will drop
any great amount this year. And
they do feed those army boys
plenty of meat.
Hamlin FFA boys like calves'
from the herd of Jack Horne,
Coleman rancher. Recently they
purchased 13 head of calves from
Horne at an average price of
$50 per head. The Hamlin group
purchased a number of calves
from Horne last year and the
animals placed high in several
slock.shows.
* Clay Manrt Smith, Colorado
City FFA youth, showed the
grand champion steer at the Col-
orado City junior livestock show
Tuesday prior to the close of the
event. All calves shown were
sold at auction for prices ranging
from $11.75 to $16.50. Rain ham-
pered the show a great deal.
* * *
Choice fed Midland county
stock will be shown at the first
annual Midland county 4-H club
show at Midland which got un-
derway Wednesday morning.
Stock will be sold Thursday.
-o-
Wa«fe Increase
o
rected against the British.
The difficulties of operation | 1
in spring and summer in Libya! I IrilpfBd U HI*
quite apart from tile j v" - ■ 1,1
through tlie Mediterranean
The necessity for sending re-
inforcements to Greece with ade-
quite material aid had not arisen.
British warships thus were able
to concentrate off the Libyan
coast.
Despite the gravity of Italy’s
position the Germans made no
effort to send relief. In his pub-
lic report on Libyan operations.
Marshal Graziani. who has re-
Bcnghazi, if true, can only re-
fer to mechanized patrols. El
Agheila is -100 miles east of
Tripoli and no large force can
have covered that distance with-
out detection. Rather, if the
Germans now really command
in western Libya, their princi-
pal efforts must he to strengthen
defenses against any renewal of
the British offensive, now in
abeyance because of affairs ir,
signed, complained on the lack southeastern Europe.
of merchanized units. Germany ____,,____
had large quantities in reserve
but the British blockade of AT THE THEATRES
Libya made it impossible to!
transport them.
Now the Libyan blockade lia>
liad to be lessened because of
the necessity for meeting the
new situation in the Balkans.
The Germans thus have a
chance to move into Libya and
are taking advantage <u" it
There is. however, a strict
limit to the opportunity for
sending troopships to Tripoli.
The British still have warships
on duty along the crossing and
London reported last week that
several enemy transports and-
supply ships had been sunk in
the Mediterranean.
A sequence of three-cornered
horseplay which can be seen in
approximately two minutes on
the sceen. took an entire day to
film.
The scene, which is one of the
comedy highlights of Repub-
lic's ‘Girl From Havana,” now
showing at tile Ritz Theatre, pre-
sents Dennis O'Keefe, Victor
Jory and Gordon Jones, three
drilling supervisors stationed in
the South American oil fields,
lory has just learned that
| O'Keefe has his girl. He tears
the girl's picture up and throws
Large groups of shipping can]^1e P'tdes under the bed. But
be detected without much dif-’a Bust of breeze comes along
Acuity but individual vessel~ «"*• carries the pieces far afield
have more immunity. It is rea- ■ Another take. This time the
pieces land according to sche-
dule. but .lory muffs his lines
Time out to secure another
picture from the studio still de-
partment This time the action
is perfect and .lory and O’Keefe
. „ - .... . , go into their friendly scuffle
a laxative has you bilious, head rolltj
achy, logy! Yes, it’s one of the]______
best selling laxatives in the
Southwest. It contains a tonic-
laxative. so it may tone lazy
intestinal muscles. It’s spicy, ar-
omatie. easy to take, usually
acts gently, thoroughly by sim
pie directions. 25 to 40 doses
only 25c. So demand genuine
BLACK DRAUGHT.
A Leader among
Laxatives.
BLACK DRAUGHT’ Remem
Iter that next time the need ol
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Highway Workers
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AUSTIN — (UP) — Increas-
ed |>uy for the men who keep
Texas highways in condition will
go into effect on April 1, the
Texas Highway department an-
nounced Wednesday.
Effective at that time an in-
crease averaging five cents an
hour will he paid common lab-
orers. special laborers, mech-
anics. gang foremen, grader op-
erators, maintenance patrolmen,
maintainor operators, special
machine operators, tractors op-
erators and truck drivers.
Wages for these employees
now radge from 35 cents an
hour for common laborers to 65
cents an hour for the higher-
paid grades of skilled workers.
There will also be a graduated
increase for maintenance sec-
tion foremen.
The raise in wages was order-
ed localise of increased cost of
living The new wage policy will
provide leeway for adjustments
based on merit and length of
service in the department as
well as for special cases where
the cost of living is found to be
above the ordinary due to nat-
ional defense preparations, nec-
cssary living in metropolitan
areas or other conditions.
Willis Studio
Being Remodelled
Redecoration of the Willis
Studio will l>e completed within
the next few days, Marshall
Willis, of the studio, said Wed-
nesday.
Alterations Iwing made include
new wall and ceiling lx>anl and
new limiting fixtures. Fluores-
cent lighting is to Ite used
throughout.
The entire front of the build-
ing is being remodeled.
Simon can take it—he .
Is proud of His ability to
punishment—and that leads
slaughter.
Bob Pastor is a good example
of what happens to a man who
takes a 10 or IS round beating
from Louis. Pastor got his from
Louis—11 rounds of it—in the
same Detroit Where Simon got
his. Before that fight Pastor
could really take a punch. But
Louis so softened Pastor that
the feather-punching Billy Conn
was able to knock him out in a
later bout.
Speaking of Simon’j return
match with Louis, what impels
a man to buy a ticket for a
Louis vs. pushover bout?
Does he buy It for the privi-
lege of watching a great cham-
pion in action? Does he buy it
in the hope of being on hand
when the champion is finally
beaten? Or does he buy it for
the same reason that Spaniards
buy bull-fight tickets?
j Blackwell Wins
Nolan County
Track Contests
Reagan Junior Colts
Grab Second Place
Among Teams
✓
Blackwell high school annex-
ed first place in every event to
score more than 100 points and
win the Nolan county track and
field meet at Blackwell.
The Sweetwater Reagan jun-
ior high, also competing in the
meet, took second place and be-
tween them, the Colts and Black-
well dominated the entire show.
Duane Bartee, Blackwell, won
high Individual honors of the
meet, taking four individual
first places and tying for anoth-
er first place.
The results:
120-yard high hurdleg — Earl
Rebel Squad
WilJ Be Trimmed
DALLAS — (UP3 — The axe
was out Wednesday at the Dal-
las Rebels training camp.
Manager Wally Dashlell said
he would trim the squad by ‘‘at
least eight” players following
Wednesday’s workout, provided
a heavy rain that was falling
during the morning lightens
enough for the team to take the
field.
He did tfot indicate what play-
era he would drop.
Bryant, Blackwell; Coy Raney,
Blackwell; Nelson, Sweetwater
Juniors; Bonner, Sweetwater
juniors. Time 19.2.
Pole vault — Ralph Raney,
Blackwell; Reed, Sweetwate; Joe
Jones, Sweetwater; Coy Raney,
Blackwell. Height 7 feet.
100-yard dash — Duane Bar-
tee, Blackwell; Daniels, Sweet-
water; Huddleston, Sweetwater;
James Cates, Blackwell. Time
See BLACKWELL Page 5
BASEBALL
BREVITIES
MIAMI, Fla. — (UP) — The
New York Giants open a two-
game exhibition series with the
Cincinnati Reds Wednesday. A
four-run blast in the sixth in-
ning gave the Philadelphia Phil-
lies a 6-5 win over the Giants
Tuesday to end the exhibition
series tied at one-all.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -
(UP) — An inter-club practice
game will feature drills at the
New York Yankees’ training
grounds Wednesday. The
Brooklyn Dodgers cracked the
Yankees’ spring winning streak
at seven in a row Tuesday with
an 11-inning, 2-1, victory yester-
day. The Dodgers play the St.
Louis Cardinals here Wednes-
day.
to pitch against the
liana
FORT MYERS, Fla. - (UP)
—The Detroit Tigers send Hal
Newhouser and Floyd Giebell
Cleveland
Indiana^ ^J^rin^tratotaf ^
defeated the Buffalo Biaone, of
the International league 4-2 at
Lakeland Tuesday.
ANAHEIM, Cal. — (UP) —
The Philadelphia Athletics play#
Seattle here Wednesday in their
last game at Anaheim quarters
before starting on a road trip
which will carry them to New
York for the season opened April
15. The A’s still boast an en-#
viable record of 13 wins and five
defeats, despite a poor pitching
exhibition yesterday which left
them on the short end of a M
decision in their game with the
Chicago White Sox. •
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. —(UP)
—The Philadelphia Phillies were
ready to slug it out with the
Boston Red Sox Wednesday with
renewed confidence following w
their G-5 win over the New York
Giants. Trailing 54) Tuesday, the
Phils suddenly came to life.
Manager Doc Prothro shifted
See BASEBALL Page 5 .
.....91* or
EVERY CUSTOMER’S MONTHLY
GAS BILL GOES FOR TAXES
ll requires an average of 91c of ev»ry
customer's monthly gas bill to pay the
35 different kinds of taxes assessed
against lone Star Gas System. To meet
this responsibility, 1( cents of every
dollor collected for service rendered
our customers goes to the payment of
your gas company's taxes.
PER DAY
FOR TAXES...
During 1940 the tax bill of Lone Star Gas System amounted
to $378.00 for every hour the clock struck, day and night
... or $8,956.13 for each of the three hundred and sixty-
five days of the year. This means that an amount equal to
our entire net revenue for 183 days of the year went right
back to the public in the form of taxes for School, City,
County, State and Federal purposes. This does not include
such additional taxes as state and federal gasoline taxes and
other "hidden” taxes in the cost of supplies we must buy to
keep your gas service dependable. Nor does it include the
thousands of additional dollars that go to tax funds from
the wages of more than 3,600 Lone Star Gas System em-
ployees who pay individual taxes in the communities where
they reside..
Pioneers in the development of natural gas for more
than three decades, Lone Star Gas System brings to homes
and industries a dependable gas service recognized as one
of the world's finest and at a low cost to its customers.
Year after year it has been a large taxpayer helping to
provide civic advantages for the public it serves as well as
to lighten the tax burden of every citizen and business.
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