San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1945 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 37
SINTON. SAN PATRICIO COUNTY. TEXAS. THURS
•j.-inortal ip, 1945
Airforce Officer
Winner of Number
Medals. Citation
Three Brothers See
Service With Uncle Sam's
Fighting Forces.
NUMBER 3
Have Your Bundle
Ready for the
Waste Paper Pickup
^ EVERY
Friday Afternoon
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March Against Infantile Paralysis!
Sgt. Jack Allen
Reported Killed
In Action Jan. 6th
Sailor Girl Shows How
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FIRST LIEUT. JOHN J. BEYER,
brother of Helmuth Beyer of the
St. Paul community and son of Mr.
and Mrs. Adolph Beyer of Fentress,
recently returned from England
where he had made up the required
number of missions as pilot of a
B-24 Liberator bomber and visited
his brother and sister-in-law during
the* holidays.
Lieutenant Beyer, for "meritorious
achievement and devotion to duty”
while serving with the Eighth Air
Force, bused in England, was
awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross. Air Medal with five Oak
Leaf Clusters and the Presidential
Citation. On one of the many
missions he made over Germany
and the occupied countries he was
cited for exemplary conduct when
he took over the controls of his
bomber after it had been set afire,
making a drop of 5,000 feet from a
high altitude and putting it out.
On another occasion he was forced
to parachute to safety while over
'England. After his visit home and
In this section he reported for duty
on the West Coast and is now based
at the Air Base at Santa Monica,
Calif.
Sgt. Jack L. Allen, son and only
child of Mrs. Reha Allen of Corpus
Christi, has been reported killed ,in
action somewhere in France on
January 6th, according to a mes-
sage received by his mother Fri-
day.
Sgt. Allen was wounded in action
on November 4th and had only been
released from the hospital for fur-
ther active doty January 1st. His
wife. Mrs. Elton Allen, who re-
sides in Beaumont, received the
Purple Heart awarded her hn&band
for liis wounds on November 20th.
Sgt. Alien is a nephew of Mrs.
W. D. Pilkington of Sinton and Is
a former resident here where he
was an employee o'f the A1 Buchan-
an Drilling Co. for six years under
Mr. Pilkington who was manager of
that company in this area at the
time. He entered service about two
years ago and received his training
at Fort Lewis. Wash. He was in
the Infantry with the 36th Division.
Kiwanis Club,
Theatre Sponsors
‘March of Dimes’
Son of Local
iPeopl® Promoted
S-Sgt. Billy J. Chafin
Awarded Air Medal;
Holds Other Medals
NICKNAMED “INCHES” because she is the shortest in the crew of this
woman-manned British Navy boat, this girl makes a big leap ashore to tie up
is the boat comes alongside. For the past three years, “Wrens” (Women’s
Royal Naval Service) have manned duty boats up to 60 ft. long in British naval
iarbors. In all weathers they take mail and stores to warships and bring
sailors to shore on leave.
Til*- Sl?irvn Kiwinii Club, in co-
bpomtion with the Rex jutrl Tlinlfo
Theatres, are .sponsoring the “Mnrrh
of Dimes" movement in Sinton. and
have placed a “Wishing Well” in
front of the Rialto Theatre for the
convenience of the public in making
their donations to the W inn Springs
Foundation for those who are suf-
fering with Infantile Paralysis.
The Teen (\anteen Flub were the
first donors tovard the fund and
placed five d«dlarshin th“ ’well'' aft,,r
it wax established at <Ire theatre.
The public’s attention is called
to the fact that the drive for funds
for the Foundation will be short
this year as details were late- in
•being worked out. and all who plan
to give to the -March of Dimes",
should do so before next Tuesday!
night. January doth, the birthday I son of Mr. and Mrs. A
of President Roosevelt. Make your j oeter of Sinton. was promoted from
donations now. If you prefer, send j Corporal to the rank of Sergeant
*★ *★
R.S.Cook of Taft
Heads March of
Dimes Campaign
STANLEY G. BRINKOETER,
them to The March of Dimes, I on January 3rd. according to in
White House, Washington, D. C.‘
Sinton Cagers
To Participate
In Tournament
Pirates Defeat
Trojans in Close
Cage Game Here
SECOND LIEUT. PETE BEYER,
another brother, is also in the Army
. Air Corps, completing his instruc-
'W tion at the Ban Marcos Training
School. He left recently for duty
-overseas.
Sgt. Adolph Beyer, Jr., the third
brother, is with the Fifth Army in
Italy and is serving in the Tank
Corps. He has been overseas three
years.
Sinton Soldier With
Army in Pacific
Award of the Air Medal for mer-
itorious conduct while serving in
Europe as a gunner was recently
made to Staff Sgt. Billy J. Chafin.
20. son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar E.
Chafin of Sinton. Tex. The decora-
tion was presented to him at Lowry
Field, Colo., where, he was recently
stationed.
Sergeant Chafin, who attended
Southwestern University following
graduation from Sinton high school
in 1942, previously had been sta-
tioned at Lowry Field as an arma-
ment student. He li^t previously
awarded the Purple Heart and
the Distinguished Flying Cross.
He served with the American Air
Forces in the Mediterranean Area,
where his plane was shot down over
Rumania, and taken prisoner, but;
later was freed when that country
w™ invaded by the Russian Army.
Due to their participation in a
tournament In Ingleside Friday the
Sinton Pirates basketball game with
the Robstown Cotton Pickers has
been canceled and a game with the
Corpus Christi YMCA Spartans has
been substituted, to be played here
in Sinton at the High School Gym
Thursday night, tonight.
All holders of season tickets are to
be admitted as the game will take
the place of the one with Robstown.
The Pirates are in good shape for
the match and should have more
than a 50-50 chance of winning. All
fans are urged to attend. The "B"
string game will start promptly at
7:30 followed by the “A" string
clash at around 8:30.
Coach Murray Stephenson's Pi-
rates are entered In a double elim-
ination tournament at Ingleside
Friday and Saturday and will piav | early
the Kingsville Utahma$ in their j a,Her
opening game at 4:15 at the Ingit
In a game that literally kept the)
spectators on the edge of their i
seats, tlte Sinton Pirates defeated
the Beeville Trojans 23-22 before
200 cheering fans Tuesday night
at the High School Gym.
Dave Odem and Charles 'Buster"
Saner, collaborated to win the game
for Sinton when, with less than 2J
minutes of playing time remaining,
Sauer heaved the ball down the
court to Odem under the Trojan
basket, who, then made a perfect
crip shot to provide the one point
margin that won the ball game.
The game was extremely exciting
as the Trojans overcame a 4 point !
lead to tie the Pirates late in the |
third quarter, as Carpenter lobbed
Pfc. Herbert French,
Wounded in France,
Back in the States
Pfc. Herbert I. French, brother of
Clyde and C. H. French of Sinton.
is back in the United States after
a year with the Fourth Armored
Division in the European battle-
front.
Pvt. French was wounded in
France August 1st. last year, and
remained in the hospital in Eng-
land until he was sent to the United
States, arriving on January 4th. He
was taken to the Hammond Gen-
eral Hospital at Modesto. Calif.,
where he is now receiving medical
treatment.
Prior to entering the service in
May 1942, Pvt. French made his
home here with Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
Melton and is known to many Sin-
ton people.
: formation reaching here.
I Sgt. Brinkoeter who' is a crew
' chief on the C-4?" plane with the
Army Air Force, is stationed some-
where in France, and has been on
the. continent about three months.
He spent approximately 3 months
in England after he went overseas
K. S. Cook" of Taft has been ap-
pointed director for San Patricio
County of the President’s birthday*
celebrations and M ireh Dimes
to fight the spread of infantile
paralysis. The .appointment was
announced this week by George
Maverley Briggs of Dallas, vice-
chairman of the Texas- State Com-
mittee for the fund-raising celebra-
tions January 14 to 31.
In addition to being campaign
director for the county; Mr. Cook
also has been made county chair-
man for the celebration of the
1 'resident's birthday.
Mr. Cook states that, due to wap
conditions and the lateness in get-
ting started- in this country on
plans, no special event has been
Brink- l’li,n»,ed. although the local cam-
1 paign will tie in with activities in
Texas counties. Mr. Cook, Taft
theater mm. has contacted all
theatre managers and owners in
the county, and states that they
have agreed to give full coopera-
tion. just as theaters all over tho
nation did last year, when the
theaters collected contributions for
the March of Dimes. ‘In San Pa-
tricio County." Mr. Cook said, “we
before being transferred to the , are to make a strons effort t0
base in France. He went into the b(at the record aet b>' thpatl!rs last
service in April 1943 and soon will >'e:lr' whieh' however was a good
have rounded out two years in the i ^ UlP toUI colleetlorw swaging
Air Corps.
Production Credit
Group To Hold
Meeting Jan. 29
the ball in the basket. Beeville went j Monday. January 29, has be^n
on to a 20-17 load as the quarter1 set by the Board of Directors 'f•»r■
ruled, but the score was tied again , the eleventh annual mooting of
in the fourth quarter when Coastal Bend Product mu Ci -djt
t field goal by Montgomery. | Association ’stockholder.'. Cha-. I.
j Odem made good a free throw male- Hankins. So< retary-T! easure**. in-
side High School Gym Friday af- ing the score 20-20. Then Mont-1 nouneed todav. The nmetltm a ill bo
ternoon. The Brahmas are heavy j ginnery made his only free throw of! held in the Ixiimr .Damp Auditorium
favorite*- to win the tournament the evening to put the Dilates ahead in Robstown
repeating their performance of last
Activities of
the Boy Scouts
of Troop ? 36
By RAY FRANKLIN,
Scribe
The Scout meeting. Friday, night
was opened by the pledge to the
flag, led by Scoutmaster Bill Young,
| followed by a demonstration on the
use of signs in map-making by
Sigsby Rusk.
j Members of the troop were intro-
duced to Mr. Thomas, district Scout '\\J
. . - attack wherever
j Field Executive, who led them in
two songs, and told stories in In-
dian sign language. This was fol-
i lowed by sparring matches between
54 cents for every theater seat
the United States."
In asking the public to contribute
liberally to th»> fund this year, Mr.
Cook points out that the 1944 epi-
demic of infantile paralysis was
the second worst outbreak of the
disease in the history of the U. S.,
[adding. Fortun itely, through funds
j from, last year's contributions, we
j were' prepared to meet the attack
; in all parts of the nation. More than
: a million dollars-—or ten million
dimes—contribute J by the* American
! people wvre spent by the National
i Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
to provide''the Imst modern treat-
ment for ill victims of the epidemic.
. Since no one knows where, or how
I hard, polio may strike in 1945, we
must again be ready to meet the
it may come, a**
well as continue the prolonged
treatm mt still imeessary for 1944’s
victims Participation in tin* annual
M ir« h of D
year. Other teams entered in
beginning it 10. a. m.
21-20. Beeville bounced back and j . Members imw' have a st<»*’k in-
the : with minutes to play Moore scor- vestment of $139,735 in -the Coo.-oaU
t ha t [in vietir
vtU tv. urn i
issurance
paralysis
irJiess of
the Tift
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MISS NEUMANN TO TSCW
Miss Delta Neumann, who taught
the home economics department in
Sinton High school last semester,
left the work here to resume her
former position in TSCW at Denton.
Her place at Sinton has been taken
by Mrs. riarrell Curlee, the former
Miss Lola Tidwell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Georgo Tidwell.
tournament are Alice Coyotes who ] oil to put, the Trojans ahead 22-21.1 Bond Production -Credit Assoei i- •
play the Taft Greyhounds in the , The ball changed hands several lion which, during the past eleven!
first of the tournament at 12:45 • times and with time rapidly running i years, lias loaned approximately '
Friday, the Robstown Cotton Pick- | out Sailer threw the hall from under $ 10,000,900 to farmers and «toek-i
ers who play the Aransas Pass the Pirate's goal to Odem under | men in its 11 South Texas counties, !
Beeville's goal who scored as. thej according to Mr. Hankins,
spectators roared their approval. A majority of the membership is
The Pirates were aide to tie up expected to attend this eleventh an
the ball for the few remaining sec-
onds and the game ended.
Reynolds of Beeville was the
high point man of the game with
ten points, while four men tied for
the high point position on the Sin-
lon team with'five points apiece—
Odem. “Hap" Edwards. Montgom-
ery, and George Edwards.
In a "B" game played the same
Panthers, and the Ingleside Mus-
tangs, who play the Oorpqs Christi
Buccaneers, -all playing Friday ev-
ening starting at 12:45,
MRS. TOWERY
TO SINTON
RETURNS
Mrs. R. T. Towery arrived in
Corpus Christi today from Nash-
ville, Tenn., and will come on to
Hinton, to make her home, and will
be secretary to W. B. Reek.
Legislature Passes Bill
To Aid Teachers
■v
PVT. VERNON E. ALEXANDER,
son, of Mrs. J. A. Alexander of
Sinton, is serving with the Armed
Forces in the Central Pacific, and
according to last information from
him he was doing fine.%
|»vt. Alexander, who entered the
service November 23. 1942,' trained
at Cftgip Coxcombe, 'Calif., '.spent
•lx months in Hawaii and has been
in the Central Pacific since early
1 *
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AUSTIN. Jan. 23. — The Texas
House threw -the rule book out
the window last week to pass and
send to the Senate an emergency
appropriation to aid some 45,000
rural school teachers and 400,000
Texas pupils.
The $1,575,082 appropriation would
give teachers $75 more per month
for the last four months of the
current school year. It would allow
rural school districts $60 more per
teacher a year for purposes other
would increase
transportation allowances for pu-
pils $1 per capita a month.
Rep. Bob Proffer of Denton, spon
sor of the House legislation, de
dared "hundreds of rural teachers”
have been leaving their jobs because
of low salaries. Sen. G, C. Morris of
Greenville will pressfor early action
in, the Senate, since the bill as it
is now written must be passed by
Feb. 1 for teachers to receive the
maximum benefits of $300 this year.
Gov. Coke Stevenson submitted
as emergency matter the proposal
to amend the state equalization law
so as to increase rural teachers’
salaries.
A movement to increase state em-
ployees’ pay wo’uld also benefit
University of Texas and other
teachers ‘in State-
James
college-level
supported (ptttlttt
A. Stanford and Rep. H. D. Pruett,
both of Aiistln, are sponsoring leg-
islation to increase state workers’
pay to meet.increased living costs.
, A women’s lobby organized to
promote 'the cause of educational
freedom, appeared at the capital
to ask changes in the method of
appointing University of Texas re-
gents and to urge the reinstatement
of Dr. Homer Price Rainey as
University president. The commit-
tee will be expanded in all senator-
ial districts, Mrs. Jane Y. McCallum,
chairman, announced.
Meanwhile an organization char-
tered ak Fight for Free Enterprise,
Inc., announced opening of Austin
headquarters and a legislative pro-
gram which includes opposition to
Dr. Rainey’s reinstatement- The
organization, which worked as an
anti-Roosevelt unit in the last elec-
tion, also wants to disfranchise
federal employees in Texas elec-
tions.
night the Sinton ’B" striitg
the Beeville “B" strin
Fromme of Sinton was high point
man with .3 points.
< d
iff
cfeated
20-18.
BOX SCORE
Sinton—
Pos.
FG
FT
PF
Odem _______
F.
l
3
3
H. Edwaf^is -
_F.
O
1
3
Sauer _______
C.
1
1
2
Montgomery -
-G.
2
1
0
G. Edwards __
G.
2
1
o
Totals.
--8
7
10
Beeville—
Pos.
FT
PF
Reynolds ____
F.
4
2
5
Carpenter___
F.
4
1
3
Adair 1_______
C.
0
0
4
Moore _____
O.
1
0
1
Potter_______
G.
0
0
2
Sanders______
F.
0
1
2
—
—
—
Totals
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4
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hual meeting, said President Grover
C. Impson, to learn what has been
accomplished in 1944 and to discuss
how their association can assist in
solving the credit problems
Unbert Joseph .and M iv.,r I'haf'n
and Buck Coley and ilersehel Gos-
sett Tile meeting u.is -I a mi
tbe Scout ben'o.liaien an! uvtto
Tile lewt meeting wbi be held
Friday night, January 2>i;!i. at 7 00
o'clock at tile . Scout 11 at All mem-
bers ate urged t.o attend
WATCH FOR IT!
Appearing in some advertisement
>f post- j in this isiper is a lady’s name who
war agricultural financing, Two di- [is invited, with her guest, to be i
rectors will be elected- for -Dyear
terms and proposed amemimetu.s t »
the by-laws will be voted on.
SAVE WASTE PAPER!
! fhe guest of Tbe
! Rialto Theatre.
This offer is not good after Wed-
nesday each week. Watch for a name j he w *s well lilted U.
to appear in some advertisement. it was plenty hot.
Delinar Featherling
Now in New Guinea
■Pvt I'-dm-ir F' itehrling, son of
Mr md Mrs., F F. Featherling, is
now sf-aViohod m New Guinea, ac-
cording. i•• a letter received by his
ren's 'first of the um-k, .the first
time they', had heard from- him
since the middle of .November. In
his letter Pvt Feu*hurling stated
in try. but
T/4 Homer L. Gold who has serv-
ed twenty-two months overseas, is
here on a 21-day furlough and is
visiting Mrs. Gold and other relai
tives. He has been serving with the
Engineers in the Persian Gulf Ser-
vice Command in Iran. After his'
visit here he will be given re-
assignment at some base in this
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Two Sisters Become
Mothers on Same Day
Two sisters, admitted to Sinton
Hospital ort the same day, last
week, became mothers of sons
Thursday.
Mrs. H. H. Williams of Taft is
the mother of an 8-puond, 6-ounce
boy, Stacey Clark. He was born
at 5:30 a. m.
Mrs. H, R. Hunt of Gregory is
the mother of a 7-pound, 7-ounce
son. Richard Patirck, who was
born at 11:30 a. m.
Hospital attaches have moved
room
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gium stops for rest in a beautiful snow-covered valley. The men are reinforcements for units in ths
front lines holding back the Carman counter thrust
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