San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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Burma of PubH* Relation! U. & War Department
OLD GLORY WAVES ON SICILIAN COAST—This U. S, Signal Corps photograph, received
by radio, depicts exciting scenes on the beaches when American troops landed from invasion barges
ota the southern shore of Sicily. Within a few hours the soldiers of Lieut Gen. George Patton’s
American 7th Army and their British and Canadian allies firmly established themselves with adequate
equipment and pushed aggressively toward tho interior of the island.
San Patricio County Short of
Bond Quotas for June and July
Officials to Check
Motorists on
Car Use Tax
Postal Receipts
Increase 24 %
For Month of July
San Patricio County was more than thirty thousand
dollars short of its quota in the purchase of War Savings
Bonds and Stamps during June, and to July 15th was
far short of the goal for that month, according to infor-
mation received here by A. Loy Sims, county chairman,
from Frank Scofield, state administrator.
The June quota was $101,500, ♦ *
and total aalea were $67,481.25.
July quota waa $101,000, and to
the fifteenth of the month only
$41,025 had been purchaaed, the
report ahowed.
Sims, in discussing the bond
sales, stated San Patricio County
citizens had responded in purchas-
ing bonds and stamps in a big way
throughout last year and up until
the 2nd War Loan earlier this year,
nrhen $17 billions in bonds had
been purchased in the nation, but
since that time had failed to make
the quotas. “Our war effort is in
danger of becoming greatly im-
paired if We don.’t continue _to give
our full cooperation in the pur-
chase of War Savings bonds. It is
to be hoped that San Patricio
County people Will make a Special
effort to put our quota over the
top in the coming months,” the
county chairman urged.
Plans are being perfected to
launch the biggest loan drivfe in
the history of the world during
September.
At that time every man, woman
and child will be asked to go the
limit to buv bonds and stamps. A
meeting is being held at the Court-
house tonight to name a county
chairman and map plans for put-
ting the drive over in this county.
V-Club Sponsors
Benefit Dance for
Soldiers’ Cigarettes
The V-Club spbnsored a Victory
Dance at the Farm Labor Supply
Center on the night of July 25th,
to raise funds with which to buy
cigarettes for the service men over-
seas. The dance was attended by
people from Beeville. Corpus
Christ!, Taft, Odem and other
neighboring towns, and the net
proceeds amounted to $51.55.
Manuel Gomez Band of Robs-
town was employed to supply mu-
sic for the dance, and the officers
of the V-Club, Eutimio Delgado,
president; Leonardo Candelarlo,
vice-president; and Amada Reyna,
secretary-treasurer, are planning
to sponsor another dance on the
night of August 22nd. All funds
raised from the affairs above ac-
tual expenses will go toward pur-
chasing cigarettes for the boys
overseas.
Carter Johnston, director of the
Farm Labor Supply Center, Btated
the members1 of the V-Club are
highly enthusiastic over their Ini-
tial success and are planning to
sponsor a benefit each month.
In a report from Ppstmaster
Edgar F. Bonorden this week, it
was revealed that postal receipts
if or July 1943 showed an increase
of 24 percent over July last year.
This gain is possibly proportion-
ate with the general increase in
business in the entire town.
Many local merchants, while
they are experiencing a steady
increase in business, last Satur-
day had one of the biggest Sat-
urday's business ever experienc-
ed during the early days of cot-
ton harvest, it was said.
While the community is still
short of pickers, and stocks in
stores are depleted due to the
shortage of merchandise, sales in
many stores compared with some
of the biggest Saturdays during
the peak of the season, on last
Saturday, it was reported.
The rush and free spending
early in the season has business
men shaking their heads, and
wondering, as they say, if the
goods can be made . available,
getting the deliveries on time, is
another worry. So if Saturday
sales continue as the harvest gets
underway, as usual, Sinton mer-
chants may have empty shelves
at the close of the season.
Chairman for Bond
Drive To Be Named
At Meeting Tonight
Bert Smith, of Corpus CHristi,
assistant Regional Director of
War Bond Sales, will be in Sin-
tonight when a county - wide
meeting of citizen will be held
at the courthouse to elect a
county chairman for the Third
Loan Drive in September.
’ ALL INTERESTED CITI-
ZENS ARE URGED TO AT-
TEND.
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105 New Polio
Cases Reported in
Texas Last Week
AUSTIN. Aug. H—'The incidence
curve of infantile paralysis (polio-
myelitis) turned upward again in
Texas last week, with 105 new
cases tabulated' by the state health
department Tuesday bringing "the
year’s total to 649.
Totals for the three previous
weeks were: 86. 102 and 90 respec-
tively.
Highest Since 1937
Fifty Enrolled in
Vacation Bible School
Fifty children had been enrolled
In the Vacation Church school
that started Monday morning at
the Methodist church. The sessions
that start each morning at nine
o’clock, meet for two hours each
day except Saturday, and will
continue for another week.
Mrs. J. G. Palmer, wife of the
pastor, superintendent of child-
ren’s department in the church
Bchool, is directing the dally vaca-
tion school, assisted by Mrs, C. T.
Kirksey and Mrs. W. A. Gerdes,
teachers for beginners; Mrs. C. A.
Moore and Mrs. H. A. Burnette,
primary; Mrs. Otto Schroeder and
Mrs. Ed Glusing, juniors; and the
Rev. J. G. Palroer, Intermediates.
Refreshments are ' served dally
sponsored by the Woman’s Society
of Christian Service.
Not since 1937, when cases for
the entire year numbered 635, has
incidence of infantile paralysis
been so high in Texas, health offi-
cials said. Last year at this time
41 cases had been reported; and
the seven-year median for last
week was SRen.
Officials continued to stress the
importance of maintaining high
standards of sanitation as a means
of Combatting the disease. In a
number of areas clean-up programs
htave been undertaken.
First Cases
Ten counties this week reported
cases of infantile paralysis for the
first time in 1943. With the num-
ber in each, they were: Briscoe 1,
Brooks 2, Burnet 3, Fisher J, Hen-
derson 1, Jones 1, Kaufman 1, Lynn
1, Rusk 2, Wheeler 1.
Other counties: Bowie 5. Brown
'2, Cass 2, Dallas 10. Dewitt 1, Free-
stone 1. Grayson 1. Gregg 1, Hale
6, Harris 10, Hunt 1, Jackson 1,
Lamar 6, Lubbock 4, Matagorda 1,
Navarro 4. Nupces 1. Potter 4. Run-
nels 1. San Patricio 1, Smith 2,
Tarrant 12, Tom Green 2, Wharton
1, Wichita 6, Wise 5.
A systematic cheek to determine
whether motorists have complied
with the federal car use tax act is
under way by field deputies, Fred
B. Parsons, deputy Collector of in-
ternal revenue, declared today.
He said reports from postmasters
"undoubtedly Indicate" that many
have failed to buy the $5 stamps,
which were.'sunpqsed to be . on dis-
play on automobiles and trucks In
operation July 1.
Cases of willful violation of the
act will be turned over o the U. S.
district attorney for prosecution,
Parsons warned. Penalties for vio-
lation include a $50-civil fine, jail
sentence or even prison sentence.
Parsons emphasized that the use
tax has not been repealed,
Post offices which have had the
$5 stamps 'on sale since June, will
remove them from stale at close of
business Saturday.
Starting Aug. 1, post offices will
handle use tax stamps selling at
eleven-twelfths of the $5. total, or
$4.46, for vehicles whose owners are
just now putting them into opera-
tion.
"Motorists can save themselves a
lot of inconveniencta or possible
penalties by purchasing their $5
car use tax. stamps at once," Mr.
Parsons suggested.
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VOLUME 85 SINTON, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 5. 1943 NUMBER 30
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News
CITY COMMISSION REDUCES TAX
RATE; CHANGES OFFICE HOURS
At a regular meeting of the
Commissioners of the City of
Sinton on Tuesday, August 3, the
budget for the fiscal yaar was
adopted and the tax rate reduced
from $1.48 to $1.38 per hundred
dollars valuation for ths year
1943, was announced.
A change of office hours for
the city was also made and an-
nounced as follows; On Mondays
through Fridays, hours will be
from 8 to 12 o’clock noon and
1 to 5 o’clock p. m. While on
Saturdays hours will be from
8 to 12:30 nooh.
Exploration Crew
Stationed Here
The exploration crew of the Ar-
kansas Fuel Oil Co. of Shreveport,
La., are stationed In Sinton, and
are working in the area for the
next several weeks. The crew,
headed by W. T. Lea, party chief,
is composed of the following fam-
ilies :
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Durrett, Miss
Elva Atherton, Mr. and Mrs. Murlin
Etheridge, E. V. Bump. Victor
Sumner, Bennie Weber. IL K.
Blann, Mr. and Mrs. E. ,C. Koester.
L. E. Adkins, Henry Sheppard and
and Mr. and Mrs. Don Brown.
San Patricio County Farmers
Protest Cot in AM Foods at
Meeting Held Here Friday Night
More than 100 members of the San Patricio- County
Agricultural Association, in a resolution passed at a meet-
ing held in the county courthouse in Sinton Friday night,
protested legislation reducing the scope of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration by Congress and asked
restoration of necessary funds. . »
Copies of the resolution will be1
sent to Cong. Richard M. Kleberg,
Sen. Tom Connally, Sen. W. Lee
O’Daniel, Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard, E. A. O'Neal,
president of .the American Farm
Bureau Federation and the Presi-
dent of the United States.
The resolution recalled that
Members of Farm
Committee To Be
Kleberg Guests
Five members of the important
Committee on Agriculture of the U.
S. House of Representatives will
be guests of Congressman Richard
M. Kleberg In the 14th Texas dis-
trict this week. Kleberg is the sec-
ond ranking majority party mem-
ber on the" committee.
The group will spend Thursday
and Friday on the King Ranch and
part of Saturday in Corpus Christi,
according to Bill Elliot, secretary
to Kleberg and who arrived in tile
district last week from Washing-
ton where the Congress now is in
’.recess.. A group of representative
farmers, ranchers, and business
men from over the district will
meet with the committee members
at a small barbecue at Kingsville
on Friday night.
Members of the committee in the
party will be John W. Flannagan
of Virginia, ranking majority mem-
ber: Clifford Hope of Kansas,
ranking minority member; Anton
J. Johnson of Illinois. Ross Kizley
of Oklahoma, anil OrviUt^Zininier-
man of Missouri. .
Kleberg, who was scheduled to
arrive home Monday, was to speak
at a meeting in Kingsville Tuesday
•and at one In Robstown Wednes-
day. The week of August 9th will
be spent by the Congressman In
visiting in the northern counties
in the Fourteenth District.
Ss« KLEBERG vs. RED TAPE, p.2
farmers of San Patricio and Nueces
counties were among the first
groups in the nation t6 "conceive
the basic principles as they are
now embodied in the Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1938."
The group resolved that tho act
is thta only agency wherein farmers
have a “direct voice' in, formulating
governmental policies in regard to
agriculture and in administering
the policies” and that the nation’s
producers have supported the act
by annual elections since 1938 in
percentages of from 83 to 95 per
cent.
The resolution requested that
Congress at its next session restore
funds to the AAA and that it defeat
any legislation that may be pro-
posed which would in any manner
impair the present functions of the
agency.
Last Rites for
Mrs. Waugh Held
At Somerset
WATCH FOR IT
Appearing in some advertisement
in this paper is a lady's name who
is invited, with her guest, to be
the guest of The News and the
Rialto Theatre.
This offer is not good after Wed-
nesday each week. Watch for a name
to appear in some advertisement.
Workers Needed
To Knit Sweaters
Hondo Man Will
Coach Pirates
Next School Term
M. F. Stephenson, assistant ath-
letic director of the Hondo High
School the past year, will be
coach of the Sinton High School
and teach science during the 1943-
44 term, it was announced Wednes-
day by R. H. Brannan, superin-
tendent. He will arrive August 15th
to take up his work.
Stephenson, who has a BS de-
gree from Southwest Texas State
Teachers College, San Marcos, and
has practically completed his mas-
ter’s, was coach at Cotulla for
thirteen years, during which time
he was highly successful. Records
of his achievements show he coach-
ed more winning teams than were
chalked up on the debit side, and
last year the Hondo boys won the
Region football championship
which speaks well for his ability
as an athletic director.
As soon as suitable arrangements
are made for a house. Mr. Stephen-
son will move his wife and three
children here to make their home.
Lon C. Hill Heads
Region 9 United
War Chest of Tex.
Mrs. A. 7. Fullick and Mrs, F. B.
Curlee are requesting that women,
in Sinton. who cirri and will knit
for the Red Cross, to get in touch
with them immediately for thread
anil instructions for making sweat-
ers and gloves for our men in the
service. • - . /f
Tire leaders stajed. that Red
Cross branches in other towns in
San Patricio county have already
given out the yarn for these arti-
cles. that are expected to be ready
for shipment on September first.
There' is left approximately twenty
pounds of yarn, that will be enough
for about 20 sweaters and ten pairs
of gloves, it was said.
Since phe making of these, gar
CORPUS CHRISTI, Aug. 4, —
Lon C. Hill, president of Central
Power and Light Co., has been
named chairman of Region S-South
in the war appeals program soon
to be carried out by the United
War Chest of Texas. George A.
Butler of Houston, president and
campaign chairman, announced to-
day.
' I am very pleased," Mr, Butler
said, ■’that South Texans have
chosen a man like Mr. Hill to direct
their campaign, and**I know that
(ill counties in; the area will lend
their, full support.'.’
The region which' Mr. Hill will
serve includes the following qoun-
Tles:: Bee. Jinv_WeIls. Kleberg, Itavo
Otajc. Nueces ami S,ui Patricio.
. M,r. Hill, a native Texan, is well-
known throughout this section and
the Rio Grande Valley where his
father was a pioneer. Since coming
to Corpus Christi, lie h;is headed
two of the largest drives conducted
in the city's history. The first was
to finance the building of a $200.-
000 YMCA and the second was the
Second War Loan Drive held last
spring when- a goal of $9,000,000
was oversubscribed. As a regional
chairman of the United War Chest
of Texas, .Mr. Hill also becomes
one of the vice-presidents Oof the
organization which is seeking to
raise nearly $5,000,000 ih. Texas for
Fu.peral services fur Mrs, Sarah
Abraham Waugh, mother of Mrs.
E. T. Eljwood. former resident of
this city, were held from the
.Methodist church in .Somerset, |.county quota on time.
ments is very necessary, it is ex- WAr relief agencies,
peep'd thaf.isinton wonjen will re- Charles A. Mussulman
spend us in the past, in complet
special
field representative for the United
Thursday afternoon. Aug. 5th, at
5:30 o'clock, according to. a ivies
sage received here Wednesday, The
deceased, 73; passed a way M onday
in a San Antonio .hospital..
Other survivors besides Mrs. Ell-
wood, are the husband, two other
daughters. Mrs. Ann (flazner, of
Klmdorf. Mrs. Gertrude Flynn of
Whittier, California; three sons,
John A. Waugh and Howard
Waugh, both of Detroit, Mich ('gad;
and Charles A. Wangle of Elm-
hurst. Illinois. Her stepmother,
Mrs. Lottie Abraham, who lives in
the state of Iowa: two sisters, 15
grandchildren and 3 great grand-
children.' also survive.
Interment will be made in the
Baptist Cemetery in Somerset.
HEAVY INFESTATION QF PINK
BOLLWORMS IN VALLEY AREA
MERCEDES.—The discovery of
as many as 200 pink bollworms in
a single bale of cotton in the Mer-
cedes f area led federal pink boll
Worm. control project officials
Tuesday to announce that the Rio
Grande Valley’s bollworm infesta-
tion. already the worst in history
In one section of bameron County,
appears to be Bpreading west to
Hidalgo.
The worms in local cotton were
found by gift tfoeh inspection ma-
chines. It is the heaviest infesta-
tion ih Hidalgo County to date,
said officials of the federal project.
Although specimens of. the worm
have been found as far west In the
Valley as Mission, the Hidalgo in-
festation seems to be centered in
a corner of the xsotataty southeast
of Mercedes. The number of worms
found in the Mercedes-Weslaco-
Donna district has been Increasing
as the cotton harvest has pro-
Eberhard of the McAllen
>ntrol c
west of Its previous limits in the
Brownsville zone. ,
Thus far no bollworms have
shown up In Starr County. ’ i
Already stringent measures to
control the pest are being taken.
Many farmers are clearing their
fields of stalks as soon as the crop
has been picked.'Some are burning
the crop residue to be sure no
bollworms are left over.
Mta and Mrs. P. L. Netterville
of McAllen arrived early this week
and have rooms In the A. Z. Fullick
home. Mr. Netterville Is with the
U. S. Department of- Agriculture,.
Bureau of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine, and Is here making a
survey In San Patricio County rel-
ative to the possibility of the pink
Boll Worm Infestation.
Mr. and Mr*. James Wilson ar-
rived in Sinton this week and Mr.
Wilson, who 1b with the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, Bureau
trig our part of tho Sin Patricio | "*ar rhest of Texn has been as-
signed to .work with. Mr. Hill in
the’ organization Of this region. Mr.
Musselmon is, now engaged in con-
tacting the leadership of each of
the counties of the .area
‘/County chairmen for each of tho
counties in the region will be an-
nounced as~Tast ’as arur “organiza- -
tion plans materialize. Mr. Hill
stated. “We are anxious to see this
section among the first to Com-
plete the selection of its county
chairmen.”
Funeral Services for
Rozsypal Child Field
Monday Morning
Funeral services for Frank Loiiis
Rozsypal, five years old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis James Rozsypal. of
St., Paul, were held Monday morn-
ing at ten o'clock from the Barred
Heart Catholic church, with the The sixteen agencies participat-
Rev. Charles Ordnor officiating. The j ing in the National War Fund as
deceased, who had been slightly ill (approved by President Roosevelt's
during the week end. remained in
the car while the other members
of the family attended services
Sunday morning, and Was found
dead at the close of the services.
He was rushed to the local hos-
pital but failed to respond to emer-
gency treatment.
Beside^ the parents he is sur-
vived by a younger brother. Burial
was made in the Sirtton cemetery,
with David Peel, directors In
charge.
Four uncles of the deceased
served as pallbearers. I
War Relief Control Board are:
BSD (United Service Organiza-
tions), United Seamen’s Service,
War Prisoners Aid, Belgian War
Relief Society. British War Relief
Society, French Relief Fund. Greek
VVar Relief Association, Norwegian
Relief. Polish War Relief, Queen
Wilhelmina Fund, Russian War
Relief, United China Relief, United
Czechoslovak Relief Fund, United
Yugoslav Relief. Fund. Refugee
Relief Trustees and the United
States Committee for the Care of
European Children.
AIR FIGHTERS BIVOUAC IN GREENLAND—The rigors and hasards of air patvoi along the bleak
Greenland coast are demonstrated in this picture of a U. S. Army Air Forces Mission patrol mission
forced down on the inhospitable Arctic fjord by bat weather and zero-zero visibility.
Unhurt, except {or bruises and scratches, ra ambers of the crew cut their way out of |he plane
and improvised a know shelter, using one wing as a roof. Then they rationed thelf emergency food
Bupply, melted snow for water, and kept eending out qgak radio signals in hope of dirtacting rescue.
air, and rescued b* . Coast Guard
ANNUAL BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE'S
CAMP HELD AT BAYSIDE JULY 27-30
The Baptist Woman’s Mission-
ary Union of the Blanco Associa-
tion' held their annual young peo-
ple’s camp in Bayside last week,
July 27-30. A number of Sinton
yourtg people and several adult
leaders attended the entire ses-
sions of the meeting, while others
arranged to attend a part of the
meetings.
With the theme. "Jesus Our Pi-
lot," naval terms were used in the
titles and terms, and the camp
song was “Jesus Savior, Pilot Me."
Officers in charge were “Rear
Admiral," Mrs. L. L. Kinghorn, of
Aransas Pass; Vice Admiral, the
Rev. L. M. Huff; Paymaster, Mrs.
A. R. Kell, Aransas Pass; Yeo-
man. Mrs. L. M. Huff; Chaplains,
the Rev. Joe Miller, Ingieside;
the Rev. A. A. Sanders. Beeville;
and the Rev. Robert Rlckertson,
returned missionary from China;
Chief Boatswain, the Rev. A. G.
Johnson, Humble; Musicians, Miss
Margie East, Gregory, and Miss
Dorothy Palmer, Aransas Pass;
Yoeman. Mr*. M. J. Tidwell, Stn-
ton; Nurse, Mrs. Donna Hatter,{<
natawain,
thb Rev. J. K. Ridgeway, Aransas
Pass; and Buglers, Martin Lee
Tidwell, and Miss Betty Jane
Brown, Sinton.
Approximately 200 were regis-
tered and, it was reported, that
during the time many professions
of faith were made by the young
people.
The daily programs included
early morning and evening swims,
singing choruses while In line for
breakfast, mission study classes,
recreation, preaching services, din-
ner quiet hour, evening services,
and closing with camp fire service.
Special recognition was given to
young people having achieved cer-
tain ranks of work. Seven Sinton
boys participated In the citation
services on Wednesday night, and
on Thursday night five local girls
were honored.
It Was said that the success of
the camp was attributed to the
planning and supervision <ef lead-
ers, as well as to those who
as sponsors, and those who pros
ed transportation and donated 1
the entire
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