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VOLUME 35 SINTON. SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY. MARCH 4. 1943
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—6ne*Week Nearer Victory NUMBER 8
Local Red Cross Drive Nets $1,500.75 to Date
Bad Weather Slowed Work Tuesday and Wednesday; Workers*
Expect to Reach Goal in Next Few Days.
DESPITE unusually bad weather
Tuesday and Wednesday, workers
in the Red Cross Wat Fund drive
to raise Slnton's quota ot $2,000
collected $1,500.75, according.,to a
report released Thursday morning
by Mrs. Bbssie K. Utley, drive
chairman.
School Census
Takers Begin
Work in County
Symbolic of the role the Red Cross, is again playing, the 1943 Red
Cross Wat Fund poster depicts the organization as a mother ministering
1 { to the needs of the men of the United States armed forces and the. victims
of war throughout the world. The poster is an appeal to all men and women
for contributions to the War Fund. Lawrence Wilbur, noted illustrator,
designed the poster. Helen Mueller is the model.
EACHERS OF SINTON SCHOOLS
IE-ELECTED FOR NEXT YEAR
All Except Two Were Applicants.
Band Director and English
Teacher To Finish Term.
All teachers of the Sinton Public
Schools, who were applicants, were
re-elected at a meeting of the
Hoard of Trustees" Wednesday
night, R. H. Brannan, superinten-
dent, announced Thursday.
I Supt. Brannan was .renamed for
the coming term; Minton L. White
was re-elected principal of the
high school; S. S. Seymour, ele-
mentary school principal, and
Marvin C. Stewart, Latin-American
school. Paul Carter, band director,
was not an applicant for re-elec-
r tion, as he is an enlisted man on
1 rdserve, and is subject to call to
’ the Army Air Forces Technical
School for Communications train-
ing at the end of the present
school year. Miss Mavis Krueger
also was not an applicant for re-
election. She is teacher of High
School English.
Teachers re-elected for the com-
ing year are listed by schools:
HIGH SCHOOL; Mrs. E. L. Bar-
row, Miss Agnes Boren, Mrs. Anna
L. Galiga, .Miss Gloria S. Griffin.
Miss Billie Lou Hammond, Miss
Mildred Kelly, Miss Ethel Mal-
®lm, Mr. Benny G. Oeflnger, Miss
Minnie B. Ratliff. ./'■■•
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: Miss
Elizabeth Benson, Miss Erin L.
Edwards, Miss Irma L. Koiyiegay,
Miss Aneta Lewis, Miss Myrtle
Moore, Mrs. Jack Morrow, Miss
Jesyle Stimson, Miss Qulta Stew-
art, Miss Juanita Stewart, Miss
Glenne Thomson, Miss -Oleta C.
Wallace, Miss Jesse Wright.
LATIN-AMERICAN SCHOOL:
Mrs. W.- D. Hopson, Miss Olive
Hoyt, Mrs. Ella F. McKinney, Miss
V India E. Simmons. Miss Ferna M.
Waters. Miss Welta Wright.
COLORED SCHOOL: Miss May>
rine L. Glosson, Miss Martha J.
4 price.
OTHER EMPLOYEES: A. L.
McWhorter, High School Utility;
Evelyn White, Colored Janitor; C.
Fairchild, Elementary Utility;
o Molino, Janitor fat Latin-
irfean School. Ernest Jones, O.
» Torno, O. M. Bomer, Utility.
L and Bus Drivers.
Farm Program
itlined at Laredo
Keeling
•Tom West and J. T. Brittian,
members of San Patricio County
0SDA Wefr Board, and O. R.
Trlple-A executive officer,
a district farm meeting
Laredo last week where they
the 1(43 farm program dis-
by farm service heads.
F. Vance, chairman Texas
iA War Board, and Geo.
liter, chairman Texas AAA,
the general farm outlook
94$, rationing and other phases
ie farm program,
a of the principal topics for
ion which was heard by
leaders and farm service of-
from the twenty-one coun-
in District 12, was the 1943
bgram on Incentive payments, a
m feature this year.
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WATCH FOR ITl'
l ■
WOMEN
IN THE SERVICE,
A letter from Aux. Eunice M.
Willis, whose address, is Co. 5,
Reg!t 2, lies Moines, Iofaa, to Mrs.
J. Roy Moses^ states that she is
enjoying her wohk as a member of
the WAAC, she finds it a very full
program, but stating it in her own
words, “It isn't a glamorous life—
but I can not complain about a
thing. Our time is completely taken
up for Uncle Sam, but if It's my
duty and I can give my assistance
toward helping my country hold
its freedom, I'm satisfied." Miss
Willis, who was a teacher in the
Mlculastic schools, volunteered for
service in December.
Sinton Girl, Four
Corpus Christi
Girls Join W.A.A.C.
Mr*.. Gertrude M. Taylor of Sin-
ten, and lour Corpus Cihririti wo-
men-— Mrs. Winifred M. Roberts,
Miss Doris K. Kennedy, Miss Shir-
ley Cecil, and Miss Ercilia San-
chez—were among the number' who
became WAAC's yesterday (Feb.
23), as they took the oath of al-
legiance and completed their en-
rollment in the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps, at the S. A. Dis-
trict Army Recruiting Headquar-
ters,. Calcasieu Building, 214 Broad-
way, San Antonio.
To enroll, they received free
transportation frortj and to their
homeB and free meals and lodging
while in the Alamo City. They are
now in the WAAC Reserve, await-
ing call in about two weeks (on
satisfactory completion of charac-
ter investigation) to one of the
nation's three WAAC training cen-
ters, for a fivfe-week orientation
and basis training course, which
will give them, like tall WAAC’s,
a thorough grounding in the funda-
mentals of military discipline, cus-
toms and courtesies, as well as
technical training in specialized
fields—enabling them to aid di-
rectly in the war program, and to
relieve an equal number of neoded
men for vital combat duty.
Mrs. Taylor, Route 1, Sinton, is
the daughter of Mr. Joe Aupton,
Rt. 1, Box 321, Galveston, and Mrs.
Gertrude Stanley, 1318 Avenue L,
Galveston. ^Her brother, Pvt. Rich-
ard Aupton, Is with the Army at
Camp Claiborne, Louisiana.
The Army has scores of jobs in
the W.A.A.C. for patriotic, alert
and ambitious women . - . jobs
vital to the war . . . jobs that
will train women for interesting
new careers in the post-war world.
ng in some advertisement
per Is a lady's namfa who
Vflth hen guest, to bs
of The News and tht
tre.
Is not good after Wed-
Pvt. Hutchins .Completes
Course in Mechanics
KEESLER' FIELD, Miss., Mar. 8.
—Pvt. James H. Hutchins, son of
Mr. and. Mrs. J. T. Hutchins, 4528
Relger A.ve„ Dallas, Tex., was
graduated as an airplane mechanle
today form Keesler Field’s B-24
(Liberator Bomber) School, a unit
of the Army Air Forces Technical
Training Command.
Private Hutchins has just com-
pleted- the 17-week course, which
is divided into 14 phases including
specialised training in B-24 main-
tenance, hydraulic systems, en-
gines, electrical systems, fuel sys-
tems, structures, instruments, pro-
pellers. and inspection. , _
itering the army,
The work of enrolling the ap-
proximately 8.500 scholastics in
San Patricio county got underway
this week, according to an an-
nouncement from Mrs. Jewel
Schley, county superintendent. All
children who will be six years old
by Sept. 1 and who will nbt In-
over 18 by that date should be
recorded in the census novy in
progress, and while school heads
In Several districts over the coun-
ty, are directing the enrollment,
the superintendent said that fam-
ilies who are missed by the enum-
erator should contact the child's
teacher, school superintendent or
county superintendent.
In Sinton Mrs. T. K. Ferrell, who
has enrolled the scholastics for
several years, will again be in
charge of the enrollment; other
districts in the county are as fol-
lows: Aransas Pass, H. T. Faulk,
Ingleside, Mrs. Sue T. Bryan, Greg-
ory, N. A. East; Taft, John Stamp-
er; McCampbell, Vance Hoskinson;
Mathis, F. L. Brown; Adams. Cliff
Powers; St. Paul, Miss Abbie Ly-
nam; San Patricio. Miss Marie
Cowan; Sodville, Mrs. U. E. Ray;,
and Portland, J. D. Glassori.
Peanut Growers
Guaranteed Good
Price for Crop
In an effort to encourage the
planting of peanuts in South Tex-
as, the Southwest Peanut Growers
association are establishing cen-
ters where farmers can secure seed
for planting, G. R. Beard, Triple-A
executive officer, announced Tues-
day.
The association has opened of-
fice at Beeville, Robstown and
George West to take care of the
demands in the South Texas area,
where seed can be secured. In order
to secure peanut seed the grower
must obtain a ertifieato. showing,
that they will be used for planting
only and will not be used for no
other purpose.
Markets for the sale of the pea-
nuts will be established at the
various points, guaranteeing to the
farmer an outlet for their product,
it has been announced. Also the
government has given a price
guarantee of $128.60 per ton, be-
sides incentive payments.
APPRECIATES SWEATER
Mrs. H. L. Sisco received the
following letter recently from a
service man expressing apprecia-
tion for a sweater that she knitted
for the local Red Cross chapter.
The letter:
Mrs. H. L. Sisco,
Sinton, Texas.
I received your blue Navy
sweater as a gift from a branch
chapter of the American Red
Cross. Your personal gift, as in-
dicated by the label that was at-
tached to the sweater, should
prove to be a very useful article
during some of the cold, wintry
days that we might experience.
I want to thank you most kindly.
Very truly yours,"
C. H. MILLER,
LieiA. (Jg) USNR |
New York, N..Y.
VISIT- SON
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jackson re-
turned Thursday of last woek from
St. Louis where they had been on
a visit to their son, Milton, who is
stationed at a point in Illlinois
near there. They made the trip as
far as Kansas City by plane and
made the rest of the trip by train,
returning to Corpus by plane.
Hallanan at Norfolk
Friends of Tom Hallanan of Cor-
pus Christi will be Interested to
know that he has completed his
training at the Physical Instruc-
tor’s school at Norfolk, Va., and
with the rating of Chief Petty Of-
ficer has been made a member of
the* staff at Norfolk. Mrs. Halla-
nan left Friday to join her hus-
band there.
Workers had hoped to complete
the drive the first part of this week
but had weather set in Tuesday,
making it difficult to carry on the
work, and Volks were , not stirring
sufficiently so that they could be
contacted. The local committee is
•continuing their canvass of the
•town and immediate community
during the remaining part of the
week, and Mrs. Utley stated that
if the goal was not reached work
Would- continue until the $2,000 was
subscribed. This figure., is more
than three times the amount Sin-
ton has been asked to subscribe
before, being made necessary due
to the war condition and the rap-
idly increasing responsibilities of
the American Red Cross both at
honje dm! on our far flung war
fronts. Sixty-five percent of the
• funds are used, at home on behalf
of the farifilles. of the- men in ser-
vice and the rest Will help to make
the boys more comfortable at the
front. d
Everyone who has (’hot as yet
made a donation toward the fund
are urged to do so flow. Get in
touch with One .of the following,
who make up the local Committee:
Mrs. Besstt K. Utley, chairman;
Fred Johnson, J. F. Odem, Mrs. R.
Kunitz,. Mrs, James Cook. R. ’ E.
Parker, J. B. Baker, Mrs. J. B.
Baker. Mrs, F. F. Kelly, Mrs. W. P.
Denny, Jim Spencer. *Mrs. II. M.
Lindsey, Mrs. D. *G. Campbell. Mrs.
Roy Gaines, Mrs. W. I),: Pilkington,
Edgar F. Bonorden, Mrs. Tom Fer-
rell, J.1 W. Starbuck, Mrs. Casper
Gerdes, Jr., Juvencin Leases, Mrs.
W; M. Waddell, county chairman,
appointed the following to conduct
the drive in the various communi-
ties:
H. F. Deviney is Gregory chair-
mam H. C. Thaxton, Ingleside
chairman, Mrs. W. A. Key-burger,
Aransas Pass chairman, Mrs. Bes-
sie Utley, Sinton chairrhan, W. W.
Gann, Portland chairman, S. K.
London, Mathis chairman, J. C.
Carroll, Taft chairman, and .Mon-
roe Elliott, Odem chairman.
Waddell reported the drive will
continue until the $.8,000 goal has
been reached. :•••••
- No. report, has been turned in as
to how the drive for the county
quota of $8,000 is progressing, but
the Odem committee- reported their
drive complete on opening day. the
quota being $600, and they con-
tinued to take donations. Total
amount raised Was not reported.
Joe Franklin, Mrs. Graham. Mrs.
Taft Morrow, Mrs. Roy Jackson.
Miss Lucy Rigby
To Be Called Into
WAAC Service Soon
Miss Lucy Rigby, and Miss Lola,
G. Skinner, of Corpus Christi, to-
gether with Miss Gladys II. Suther-
land of nearby Ingleside. have just
completed their enrollment in the
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, at'
the San Antonio District Army Re-
cruiting Headquarters, Calcasieu
Army Wants Your
12-gauge Shotgun;
Bring It in Now!
A call was recently issued by the
War Department for 12-gauge shot-
guns —- double -barrel, pump and
automatics — and will pay a good
price for them, if they are in good
repair, County Judge A. D. Aikin
announced this week.
Aikin was requested to' desig-
nate dealers at various points in
the county to receive, anV guns'
that may be turned in where they
will be appraised for the govern-
ment. These dealers. Ewing & Sims
Hardware. Co., Sinton; Cage: Hard-
ware Co. stores at other points,
will handle. the runs ntnn" cost,
-t.urn them in to the War.; Depart-
ment * and you - will receive your
money in due time. *
Anyone jjaying a 12-Kauife Vhot-
Ruilding. 214 lh'iiadwav. Colonel «"> in S"od repair „that they can
Sparte should turn /them in a s. soon
as'possible, as they are badly need-
ed to relieve the. shortage of com-
bat arms, arid “your gun may be
the one needed to turn the tide of
the war,” the judge pointed out.
Kinzie B. Edmunds, District Re-
cruiting Officer, announced today.
They are now in the WAAC Re-
serve, awaiting call in about two
•weeks to one of the nation’s three
WAAC training centers, for a five-
week orientation and basic train-
ing course which will equip them
to aid directly in the war effort;
and to replace soldiers, releasing
them for combat duty.
Miss Rigby, of 515 N. Tancahua,
Corpus Christi, is the daughter oFj,
Mrs. Fannie Rigby of Sinton, and
a graduate of Sinton High School,
She has attended Corpus Christi
Junior College, Corpus Christi Bus-
iness Cfallege, Baylor, University,;
and the University of Texas; also,
during the past year she has re-
ceived training in Civilian Defense
and the Red Cross Motor Corps,
including First Aid, motor mechan-
ics, and blackout driving. An ama-
teur poet and a’ musician, Miss,
Rigby has been a member of I he
Sinton Music 'Club, arid sings so-
prano with the Corpus Christi:First
Baptist Church choir. Since 10,37
she has been employed as secre-
tary to the president of the Kaffir
Lumber and Building Co. of Cor-
pus Christi.
The Army has scores of jobs in
the W.A.A.C. for patriotic; •alert
and ambitious women . . jobs
vital to the War . . . jobs that Will
tram women for interesting new
careers in the post-war world,
WAAC's receive all clothing -"from
the skin out,” lodging, good food,
medical and deptal care, travel,
valuable training and practical ex-'
perience with good pay . . , full-
scale Army pay rartging between
$50 and $138 monthly, all clear, for
non-commissioned officers , . . ac-
cording to Colonel Kinzie B. Ed-
munds, San Antonio District Re-
cruiting Officer, who asserts:
“The Women’s Army Auxiliary
Corps offers women today the
greatest opportunity, the greatest
adventure and the greatest chal-
lenge that ANY generation of wo-
men have ever received."
The San Antonio Recruiting Dis-
trict, of which, Corpus Christi is a
sub-headquarters, must obtain 'a
thousand additional WAAC auxil-
iaries by .March 31st. Further in-
formation, “interesting facts about
the WAAC's," and the list of
openings, pay and promotions, are
available to all women inquiring
at the District Recruiting Head-
quarters, Calcasieu Building, 214
Broadway, San Antonio; or at the
recruiting sub-stations, in the
post office buildings of San An-
gelo, Temple, Austin, Victoria,
Brownsville and Corpus Christi; or
of the civilian recruiting committee
chairman in every city.
FFA To Exhibit
Shop Made Calf,
Poultry Feeders
TEACHER TAUGHT—H. Moss, right, of Sinton, Tex., used to
be a teacher but now he’s being taught—and he gives his instruc-
tions all his concentration because some day his life may depend
on them. He's Second Lieut. Moss now and he’s undergoing final
phases of training which is to prepare him to lead leathernecks in
battle. Before enlisting in the Marine Corps he taught vocational
agriculture at Devine, Tex. He attended Texas College of Arts and
Industries, and is the son of Mrs. Drew Moss, of Sinton. This picture
of Lieut. Moss by the mortar, still one of war’s deadliest instru-
ments, was taken at the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia.
SAN PATRICIO COUNTY GOES
OVER TOP IN WAR BOND SALES
Quota for Year 1942 Was Exceeded by
$14,600.00. Total Sales Were
$1,107,100; Quota, $1,092,500.00.
San Patricio County topped its quota in war bond buy-
ing by a commendable figure of $14,600.00, it was reveal-
ed in a. '.letter received at the week end by/County Cb air-
niidi' A. Loy Sims from Frank Scofield, state director.
The quota set at the heginr.lr.t.^ , ----——
of i'.;1 yKir was $ 1,092,500.00, apt) J
sales/of $1.107.U/O.'OO topped that
figure by slightly over fourteen
thousand. Bod'ield stated the show- j
ing in this coiir’y was very com-j
mehd.tble, emphasizing the results
of splendid leadership in carrying
on the. work. "The citizens of San
Patricio County have responded
wonderfully-, to the 1942 program
and I know that during the year
of 1943 they will kqgp up the pace
with the rest of the nation in doing
more during this year,” he said:
“I trust that you will have equal-
ly good success in meeting and
Products of Non-vital Ma- exceeding your monthly quotas for
■ • j xi/.ii r\i • * ! 1943. the letter concluded,
terials Will Be Placed at;___■
Sinton Feed Store and Ex- a* p T TOWerv’s
plained by Future Farmers iVlrs* 1 • ■ OWery S
Father Died in
SINTON’S FIRST
WAAC
As,a pa,rt, of their project to aid
in the Food for Freedom program
and to demonstrate new •and eco-
nomical methods, the Sinton Fu-
ture, Farmers will place on Exhibit
next Saturday a number of calf,
poultry and hog . feeders at the,
Sinton,.Feed:and Seed Store.
/Besides the regular . self feeders
the Future Farmers will demon-
strate brooders, chicken fattening
coops, three types of hog feeders—
Tegular, self conditioning and brood
sow — chicken water and feeding
troughs, made from old oil cans;
also measuring cups and butcher
knives. * ■»
These products Will be on dis-
play'from About 8:30 a- m. to 5
p. m. and some of, the boys will be
on hand to explain how they were
constructed and the proper uses
wherein the best results can be ob-
tained from 'their use. The work
Tennessee Home
Friends ,of Mrs. R. T. Towery
wife of U. T. Towery, minister of
the local Church of Christ, Will
learn with regret of the death of
her father, T. H. Wiggins, 84, of
Shelby vllle, Tennessee. He had
been in failirig health for several
months when Mr. and Mrs. Towery
visited him during the early win-
ter, but his condition became crit->
ical only a short time before his
death last Thursday.
Funeral services were held last
Friday in Shelbyville. Besides Mrs.
Towery, five other children. 14
grandchildren, and nine great great
grandchildren survive.
ATTENDS CONVENTION
Judge and Mrs. A. I). Aikin were
in Schulenberg Thursday night atid
of making the articles was under*! Friday where they attended a
the supervision Of B. G. Oeflnger,
vocational agriculture teacher of
the High School, the program be-
ing started some weeks ago. The
boys are offering their services in
constructing feeders. brooders,
chicken fattening coops and other
Items to those who are Interested
In having them made! securing the
materials at the Turner Lumber,
Company, Grant Lumber Company
and other sources of supply, charg-
ing only the cost of the material.
meeting of the South Texas dis-
trict County Judges and Commis-
sioners association.
Pictured above Miss Andrea
Chapa, daughter of Mrs. Amada
Chapa of Sinton who is the first
woman in Sinton to become a
member of the W.A.A.C., Wo-
man's Army Auxiliary Corps.
She enlisted about four months
ago and is now stationed at Day-
tona Beach, FlaJ Miss Chapa
was nurse and office girl f°r
Dr. L. H. Cockerham for several
years until he moved to the Sin-
ton Hospital last summer.
A. Loy Sima ia reported to be
confined to hla bed suffering from
a throat ailment.
T, A. Buckner, former editor of
the Taft Tribune, and now back on
his first love, The San Marcos
Record, was in for a visit with the
News editor Thursday afternoon.
He and Mrs. Buckner were visit-
ing with friends in Woodsboro and
he dropped over here on business.
Mrs. D. A.- Lawrence, Western
Union operator, is taking a two-
week vacation and while she is
away from the office, Billy Rob-
inson of Dallas, vacation relief
manager, will have charge of the
office. Mrs. Lawrence is spending
‘her leave at home.
PATRIOTIC RALLY MARCH 5,1943
PARADE—BAND, DEFENSE GUARD,
BOY SCOUTS, GIRL SCOUTS—7:30
PROGRAM: 8:00 P. M.—FOOTBALL FIELD
(WILL BE HELD IN SCHOOL AUDITORIUM IN CASE
OF BAD WEATHER)
F. B. CURLEE, Master of Ceremonies
I. AMERICA____________Miss Elizabeth Brooks to
“ccc
Methodist Congregation Observe Week of Dedication
QPECIAL services are being held
each night this week at the
Methodist church . in observance ot
the Week of'Dedication, when the
local congregation is joining with
,b/ LndJ
be over by eight o'clock.
Following the week’s series of
services, the Rev. J. G. Palmer,
pastor, has announced that the
Services on Sunday will bd held at
; -'hours, with the district
These candle light services of I superintendent the Rev. L, U.
—--»— ----*v prayer I Spellman, of Corpus Christi, occu-
lt on Sunday even-
all Methodist churches in America
In a1 simultaneous .Worship.
scripture reading.
m
Week of Dedication, members will
he given an opportunity of making
a free-will, sacrificial offering. The
money from the offering will be
used in ministry to our boys in the
service, both at home and abroad;
to overseas relief, and in aiding
in evacuation and relocation of
missionaries from occupied coun-
tries, the pastor said.
All Methodists and their friends
lead audience in singing, accompanied by band
II. INVOCATION______________Dr. Geo. F. Williams
III. CLOSE ORDER DRILL---------Company B, 21st
Batellion, Texas Defense Guard
IV. WASHINGTON POST MARCH.John Phillip Sousa
HIGH SCHOOL BAND
V. ADDRESS^__________Alex Cox, District Attorney
VI. GUEST SPEAKERS-----------Lt Uv"m Eel'll
VII. GOD BLESS AMERICA—Solo__-Elizabeth Brooks
(Audience to sing on second chorus)
NATIONAL ANTHEM
Everyone Urged To Attend
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