The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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NEWS OF
MEN IN
SERVICE
Taft Tribune
Devoted to the Best Interests of faft and San Patricio County
TAFT, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUG tsF’C’mT' ~~
PAPER is A
WED SIGHT TO
n OVER THERE
VOLOJK TWENTV-THREE
NUMBER SI
Taft Man Chosen
Chairman County
Draft Board
Costume Jewelry
Collected Here For
South Seas Force®
f'"r *&*• P»” two or three
'•‘."fV', a box has been kept In
‘hf- Itsbjj; of the Texas Theatre
fw the collection of coatume
jewelry to be Bent to the U Jj.
n«cbtin« force* to the South Seue,
who have found that such trink-
‘•t» arc very valuable to them in
obtaining favor* from the
Virile
Members of Farm
Committee to Be
Guests of Kleberg
Five member* of the important j
Committee on Agriculture of the!
C. S. House of Representative* |
wilt be guests of Congressman
Richard v Kleberg in the 14 th
Testae district this week. Kle-
berg is the second ranking ma-
jority party member of the com-
mittee.
The group will spend Thurs-
day and Friday on the King
Ranch end part of Saturday in
Corpus Christ!, according to Rill
Elliott, secretary to Kleberg, and
who arrived in the district last
week from Washington where
the Congress now ig in feces*.
A group of representative farm-
ers, ranchers, and business men
from over the district will meet
with the committee members at
a small barbecue in Kingsville on
Friday night.
Members of the committee In
the party will be John \V. FI an-
na gan of Virginia, ranking ma-
jority member; Anton J. Johnson
of liltm/is. Ross Rizley of Okla-
homa, and Orville Zimmerman of
Missouri.
Kleberg, who was scheduled to
arrive home Monday, was to
speak at a meeting in Kingsville i
Tuesday and at one In Robsiowc
Wednesday. The week of August
9tb will be spent by the Con-
3,502 Bales of
Cotton Ginned
In Taft to Date
T*(t Tribune
; TC-XiS
j Sr Richards.
wmM !k" ,!i‘‘ (T
aaity to expr>'j« my •pjcret-iit-
(M The Tribune ! have rr
j sever*! copit * • f i he
lM since arriving oyer here,
f (yuly say that it line* a
a It world Of socel to come
fter * hard day * work and
town and read the home
# news The one part of
f a ;i which 1 always look
tn I* the arrival of the
uti; .wr. psper N’ewit <>f po--
imcdi events back home is
i f g welcomed sight,
rf’re has bee."; n change in
’.ddres* for some lime *1-
Citizen Here For 18
Years Dies it* San
Antonio at Age of 84
Funeral services for Albert M,
Brooks, 84, who died at the
bottle of bis daughter, Mra. Vera
R. Hunter, in San Antonio Tues-
day evening, were held -at 10
o’clock Thursday momtng in La-
redo with burial in the Laredo
Cemetery.
Mr. Brooks lived in Taft and
Gregory from 1910 until 1928,
during which time he was con-
nected with the Colemen-Fulton
Pasture Company,
For ten years prior to Its sale
in June. 1921, to J. B. Cage, the
C.-F. P. Co.’s commissary in Taft,
known a* the “Taft Store," was
under the management of Mr.
Brooks. He' has made his home
in Laredo for the past ten years
Mr. Brooks’ picture appeared in
the recent 22nd. anniversary ed-
ition of The Taft Tribune, in a
group picture of the heads of de-
partments of the Coleman-Fulton
Pasture Company, the picture
having been taken more than 22
years ago.
Survivors are two sons, Charles
N Brooks. Pearls burg, Va., and
Ed Brooks of Laredo, Texas; five
daughters, Mrs. Lores Pingree,
San Diego, Calif., Mrs. James L.
Beane. Washington, D, C., Mrs.
H. C. Knickerbocker, Dalian, Tex-
A large crowd met in the First
Method 1st Church last Sunday
night, to open the series of six
union services. Preceding the
motion picture* on China, the
Her. John p. SHinter, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church,
read John 10:16 as an introduc-
tory text: “And other sheep I
have which are not of this fold:
them also l must bring, and they
shall hear my voice and they
shall become one fiock, one shep-
herd.’’
"Prayer’’ will be the theme of
thf second service this Sunday
night at 8:30 in the Baptist
Church. Mr. A. C. Tutt will pro
side anp the Rev. Virgil Culpep-
per. pastor of the First .Method-
ist Cburch. wil) bring the
sage.
The new Youth Chorus
lead out in ail the music of the
hour. They will sing an arrange-
i ment of the fjord’* Prayer and
"He Still. My Soul.’’ the music
being from jean Sibelius.
There has been much discus-
sion recently about prayer and
some people are praying today
who never did before. You are
Invited to come think about, this
matter of prayer and spend some
time In prayer.
native*,
and especially to pay the natives
for digging fox holes for them,
‘•cabling them io save their lives
Anyone having costume Jewelry
sector, a total of 3,80* bate# fit \
cotton of the 1948 crop lNp«
been turned out by the tour gSM,
the figures of each belwg m Set
lows: Baldwin Gin, 1ST* basis*;
Taft Cotton OH Co., W toaSvtft;
People’s Gin, 741 tala*: JSh*
West Portland Gin, 1,45* Mo*.
.The weather has feces Tasty j
favorable so far for the ternsaWr a
ing of the cotton crop, Use grow* t
ers of till# area feeling that, S* 3j
spite of the difficulty they taa«« i
experienced in getting a suffftt®-
ent number of pickers to work, -j
in the fields, they have bos® ray 5
fortunate with a bad atom Jsriitw-
iug this area and the usual ntim
following a storm fatting to *Mt
(hi* section, a bale of cottas to
the acre 13 being gathered Dram
nies-
;,z?^ ::!united ww che*t
... i,f the eomi-utiy’* opera-; corpus CHHISTI. Aug, 3.—
oi T* .*■-> - Mr. Curb e i* j Lon v Hill, president of Central
" i -sinton risiib-nt who has; power & Light Co., has been
,nd prominently in the btnsl-1named chairman of Region 9-
•iffai• s ,i Sintoi: fo; num-; South In the war appeals pro-
of | gram soon to be carried out by
r h e San P.trieio County !,h'’ ('nt,”<5 Ci!,!8’ of T<’3t;l3’
card .n addition to Mr. Grit- |A Ruti,r of
th. composed of B. R. | president and campaign chairman,
,„,.h sreu, P.-.S, and announced today.
Prepare Preschool Ct^jld
For Added Strain of School
Life, Urges Health Officer
as; Mrs. J. W. Albin. Taft; Mrs.
I am very pleased." Mr. Butler
n, y-e.l gsjteruvood of Taft In
tr. In-ar from us We
II the lin k - Editor
Mats Lose* Arm in
Gin Accident Here
The Tribune appreciate® i&m
new and renewal snbeertiMMn
that have been receives a&teo
present publishers took e!y*fset
last December. We wissfe. t» i;
thank all of the old Tri&waa #n2b* /■
sertber* for their conltoned Se#
alt.v to the paper, as well m
those who have bad thehr MSSMW
added to our list of snbeeHbtMmi- .1
During the past week, Sotos*
N. Motto. Mrs. T. N, BtaetaMBl §
Mrs. R. J, Sanders and J, "W. ffi- \
bin of Taft renewed their sstfc-
scriptions. and Ensign Georg*! jDO- <
VilWss of the V. 8. N. S. maSoil. i
hie subscription, ortterta* TUn
Tribune sent to him at Apt. |
41 Com,monwealth Are,, CM**-,
nut. Mai-sachusetts.
Mra. J. W. B. Farts ea®$# *t »
the office and ordered Tity T*#p
une sent to her aon. John '«*>?-
vin Farts, R- M. */«, Nsvy 1*^,' i
... DI., in, 1 '*
it R. H. BLAKE WRITES
«0M "AWAY OUT THERE"
Avery Gray of Lamesa, Texas,
got his right arm caught in a
saw at the Service Gin in Taft
Wednesday. He wag rushed to
the Simon Hospital in a Cage
ambulance, and after examination,
at the hospital, it was found
necessary to amputate his right
new shove th* elbow.
Homer Pear of the West Port-
land Gin was iujuted when lie
slipped and fell at the gin at
about midnight Wednesday, He
was taken to the Sinton Hospital
in a Cage ambulance for an ex-
.-imitation and x-ray.
child for the added strain of
school life.
“First and foremost is the need
for vaccination against smallpox.
Parents and physicians should
see that children are vacciuated
before they are one year of age;
tile matter is entirely in (he
hands of parents ami their doc-
tors during the earliest years of
life. At school age, however,
vaccination become* absolutely
necessary. If your child has not
been vaccinated, have it done im-
mediately »,> that, the scar will
be completely healej before
school opens.’’
Immunization against diptherla
is also highly desirable. Dr. Cox
believes. This disease, which
causes serious illness and deaths
among young children, can be
prevented with toxoid. The child
who has never been protected
should be given (his safeguard
pa per
| If my i 1
'&>a life's
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uxu:i« t>- •
it i good on-
; There |4 r • •:
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ii'C’it but it
wi va nr- -, •
try and i In
Wt are nnt \ < - y
tip t*<( ~ ind !
w** vn*tm
«* Of the! y
WBitHt I am •
job of Comniiiiwiin
Submarine chaser
1: rain* here at
5»t of every _■ l at
t( ntUria and tl
■ Kit. but . w. fc
fOt lot* bette- i
Iso,- Army .-
work and si.
ilthonuMe ntud
2 like a rn.. n- ■
te. almost never
Will try to d-or,
-tfs mote a* *00
haves this area !
W m much of
An,
and expre.-m-d ttigl) a.l-
• , M Cu !.- foi th*i drives conduCtfM
h;)t! ittentii’lt ui.d - ar.-fui at-, *«**•»• rn“ f,M
i,. in,- e.instantly sh-.wn j the building of
ffi. .. well as '-.and the second
'before th.- -I War Loan Drlv
.. !y. polMlug nut that hi* !»>*«* •> c
:n Sinton so' v-rsr.bacribcl.
, .. . l?. hue m!ehairman of
... major burden j Chest of Texas
u, ......’ matters ! ™«ie» nn« of ’
, , , otml rfitetitlon iitui; “f the orgar.iza
. . .. TV remaining eld S mg to raise n«
. , ......... Stall that | Texas tor war
,,able should the re tore tie Charle* A. •'
I,, ,,tr. i at lee fur the field represent*
. . ,1 faith fit! ai.ii conscien- j ed War Chest <:
. ...rvice he h«» rendered for j assigned to wir
,i.„ - year* of membership! the organtzarion
a* . hairmon of the board, j Mr Muswlmau
, Smith and Mr Kasterwood : in contacting
..am,, time expressed ] each of the coi
Vidtioti on selection and ap I "County chair
Of Mr Griffith to mem-1 the counties In
>,,p with them, km-wing that j announced as fc
j,,,.>,]u will repose confidence Uatlon plans
(be recommendation of Mr. j Hill stated. M
(Hi, j,y tjovernor ritevenaoti | j®e (hi* section
„,*b which Mr Griffith '• , t0 complete th<
presidential appointment county chairmen
.... ,..-k , ! The sixteen ^
!,,, new tiourd held its Ilr: ’ i patin* in the N
,1 meeting Saturday l“orn'; approved by
vu-i, former Chairman Furiee , v„lt s w#r Kell
r,.iU„|uirtitiiK hi* duti-s ;rSO <'
■ xp—s-lne regret that he h*d ■ eaBt*anons». >
iu resfen.|Servh.P war P<
wi-rk througn ■ war ReWe
The Rotary Ann* were host
esses at the regular weekly
luncheon Tuesday of the Taft
Rotary Club, held, as usual, at
the Methodist Church.
Visiting Rotarians w-ere A, C.
Lloyd of Alice and Lawrence
Hughes of Belle Glade. Florida.
A program of sieging was en-
joyed by the Rotarians, there be-
ing a 10" per cent, attendance of
the membership. The president.
C. J (Moyer, presided.
Scabet* Rating Officer anti
j Navy Doctor to Return to
Corpus Christ! Saturday
The Seabee rating officer and
Navy doctor for giving physical
| examinations for prospective Sea-
bees wili return to Corpus Christi
on Saturday, August 7, 1943.
Aii men who .are Interested in
applying for ratings lu the Sea-
bees should come to Corpus
Christi and apply at the recruit-
ing station on this date and bring
with them three letter* of recom-
mendations covering their work.
Ratings for practlcsily ail of
the trades including mechanical
work and cooks, have been re-
opened.
wmtr-i
< ftDi'uU.)
in bfftlmr
The Tribune as a btatMar — "
and we think that watt a
idea, too, as She pap-sr from iMMk
will be & weekly ittatEidar «£ HMt •.
thonghtfulnesv of the lov*S sss®
hack home.
Mr. and Mr*. Allen Daria, (Wfe
merly of Taft, stated in a vmmA
letter to a friend here that rSwjr
would like to have The Trlfevta*
sent to them at BalSiugw, triton**
Mr. D*vis is employed by l%ei
King-Holt Funeral Home. TO»1
formerly was the dtrwetor li*. |
charge of the Cage Funwral MmsM’'
Mrs. W. E. Brooks was a visit-
or to Sinton Tuesday.
'Continued on Page 8)
in Taft.
BOB BLAKE
The boys away from home S» .
the service are the ones who 'op-
prr-ciatc receiving the hotss sd-
per nr.-Hi. judging from fetoos. '
from them to us and to t&s#
friends and relatives back iuMMk'
We take special pains in &ddr««f-. :
ing and mailing the paper® to ftati..,,':
service men, although it is nu-
siderable extra work, with Hwtr: ’
usual long addresses and tropmA- .
change of iMnh. W* ««'sl««l v
that there is somwthing we «nk.
do for these men who are aw&jt ,
from home to fight iu ordsr
oar homes may be atHbiMt ^
those oi free p«c>pte. , , ,S
*W)IT0R’S NOTE
telvs. to «!!
people (,f
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editor
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mi the Frited $•>•*»
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Mrs. t ». Machwett aa| *&*>■:'£{.
ter, Mrs. George PorlMKU,
turned Friday from St.
Missouri where they were titoi
six weeks Ago by the ttJstass. "ss^-F.5,
thei - agtai artMbet, Mr& f<-
Xratt*. Tt'jxm Arrival
to! lift ..t&etr
llrad v, T« \:i8
Xetl N«?Sr<> woman*
her home in "Little
Taft early Monday
i, j* survived by her
McNeil of Taft:
Thrnnas L. Todd of
,,r Georgia. H brottt-
.._Lt Fort Smith,
cr Oily Pennington-
leaving the b*»™
that tb*> citfsens
r,unity »ii> cmv
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„■ bus with ideas
during hi*
sway 'W<
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recently
GOVT;RN OR STEVENSON’S PROCLAMATION URGES Kfc l 'JMW Ui- OLFOati
BOTTLES. I» da pvorUmntion, just imwd by (iunmot Sfcvcasoo, Tesaa* a« uvvmIi dbrnig
tit* month of August, to twuetw dm musting supply of temmahte deposit bottk* hf morning
tiwm promptly to the detka Governor Stevenson's pewchumedcm po«Us out that At geaant
puUte« hj iwtimumg hile miik, cathmwrted beverugv, and beet bottles, which out be stmilhasdt tor
rtvik&n R4M, will (wait the giaw iwSustty to it«« two mote of its fswaUtsc# foe die mn»e£ic>
kov of tiff "eontaijerii foe food, *»d otfctr rmpiieed by the enweti forces at htxne end
Mr*, ihutgetee McDuffie, the Governor's penoael semtegp, was photographed Mm
•r jhe time the protfawadoo was signed,,
TVyisosa and J» Urttob
ilegte r*f Um Hoivws'Sty
AaetiB, gpent the mat ^
in T*«, vteteiug- their g»>«oMc|- |f.
Btid Mrs. A. C Qrleo.
WJfdvtcd
, drove
taking
i.lfeli w
had bK-en here
Mr«. YAht m*m* -of
tvoio is eJahteg ***• |
tngUir, Mm Psmtoih WSsffe.' >■?$,
Falls Smith finkou,
t »> is UF'?ulinjr • eh fto i.
° 4'h a ritrhi rirUMfi#
to t>«' t o *i y pr*‘-
atri'Uvi
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Richards, Henry C. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1943, newspaper, August 5, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth712172/m1/1/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taft Public Library.