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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, April 15, 1943
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER - - - MRS. J. W. DISMUKES
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GULF COAST
They Give Their Lives
We on the home front face one of the most personal
challenges of this war to date. That challenge is whether or
not we are willing to sacrifice to a sufficient extent to lend
our government thirteen billion dollars within the next few
weeks.
To do the job, you and I, and everyone we know, are
going to have to dig down in our sock—to dig out some of
those dollars we have salted away for a rainy day—as well
as to take a good hunk out of this month’s pay check.
This is a job that has to be done. Sure, we on the home
front are feeling the pinch of war. We have gasoline ration-
ing, food rationing, higher taxes and a lot of other little dis-
comforts. But they are nothing compared with the agonies
faced daily by our men—men from this community among
them—out there on the fighting fronts of the world.
Yes, we know that this constant demand for more money
out of our pockets and out of our paychecks—an increasing
amount each month—is monotonous. But so is sitting in a
fox-hole or lying in a slit-trench day after day, slogging
through the hell of a humid jungle or that of Sahara sand.
Our sons, friends, brothers, husbands and others we
know are doing that for us. They are facing something more
terrible than cutting down on a few things that we once
thought were essentials to -the American standard of living
in order to do it, too. As Secretary Morgenthau has said:
“Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives
of our sons?”
The Second War Loan is an order to the home front to
go on a new offensive. Your dollars are the weapons in this
attack. They will make possible the passing of the ammuni-
tion to those boys up there in the front lines. To win this
war is going to cost more and more money—and more and
more lives. But the price of freedom is high. We can not;
we dare not let our fighting men down.
You can’t let George do this for you. You must pitch in
with your dollars. Just keep in mind those boys in the front
lines. They give their lives—you lend your money! Don’t
.wait for someone to come around and ask you to do it. Do
J it today—and do it until you feel worthy of them.
The New Army
War has created a new army of fire hazards fighting on
the side of the enemy. This army permeates war plants and
homes. Aside from individual carelessness, its ranks include
haste and confusion and substitution. The war worker rush-
ing to work and neglecting to turn off the stove, the confusion
of hurriedly slapping together a housing project which re-
sults in poor construction and no fire prevention facilities,
the substitution of highly flammable materials where ordi-
narily metal would have been used—these are the kind of
things of which the wartime fire hazard army is made.
For example, glass is now widely used as a substitute for
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metal in containers holding flammable liquids. Kerosene,
cleaning fluid and gasoline are common in every home. Fire
department officials and the fire insurance industry have
sought for years to teach people to store these volatile liquids
in non-shatterable containers. Yet today metal has become
precious and the dangerous glass jar is reappearing in the
garage and laundry room. Special kinds of glass have been
developed which resist breakage. But they do break. There-
fore, highly volatile agents such as naphtha and lighter fluid
should be kept in small bottles—not more than a few ounces,
so that if they should break, the consequent vapors will
not have sufficient explosive force to endanger life. This
should be possible because these and similar materials are
seldom used in quantity. Above all else, never store flammable
liquids in rooms containing stoves or open flame.
The army of fire hazards is beyond the reach of the
mightiest bomber. Just because a bomber can't reach it, we
should not underestimate its power. It can strike as swiftly
and deadly as the most efficient panzer division. And, un-
like the panzer, once it strikes it sometimes cannot be stopped.
The army of fire hazards can be licked only by civilians. And
they can lick it only if they think fire prevention, day and
night, at home and at work.
THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
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20 YEARS AGO
F. L. Crawford died of a heart
attack. Burial was made in the Pu-
lncios cemetery, with K. K. K. ser-
vice».
F. G. Berger, It. C. Huddleston
ami W. H. Clement were elected
members of the school board.
W. C. Robinson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Robinson of Palacios,
was married to Miss Katie Betz,
in Houston.
15 YEARS AGO
Miss Anita Waters and Dr. Ed-
ward Coyle were united in marri-
age, in the Presbyterian Church in
an early Easter Sunday morning
service.
"Ben Hur" was being presented
at the Queen Theutre.
Judge W. O. Huggins was guest
speaker at the annual banquet of
the Chamber of Commerce held in
the B. Y. P. U. cafeteria.
Mrs. J. W. Bolling, Mrs, R. J.
Sisson, C. F. Connor and C. W.
Simpson were elected directors at
the annual school election. Other
members of the board were W. H.
Clement, L. G. Craymer and W. C.
Gray.
10 YEARS AGO
P.-T. A. elected officers for the
ensuing year as follows: President,
Mrs. C. L. de St. Aubin; vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. J. G. Walker; secretary,
Mrs. G. H. Faubion; treasurer, Mrs.
S. F. Malone,
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Nester were
in Fort Worth attending a Rexall
convention.
Walter Snider pitched a winning
game for the Sharks, when they
played the Rockport nine on the
local diamond. The score was 9 to 3.
Tom Parsuitt, an Austrian by
birth, died at his home in this city.
He was survived by his wife, Eva
Parsuitt, and two children, Mrs..
Clarence Buller and Steve Parsuitt.
Miss Betty Stafford, of the West-
ern Union force spent the week-
end in San Antonio, where she was
met by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. M. Stafford, and sister-in-law,
Mrs. John Stafford, all of Clarks-
ville, and after visiting the Alamo
city all returned to Palacios for a
short stay, leaving for home Tues-
day.
HEALTH NOTES
AUSTIN.—In checking the re-
suits achieved by school dental pro-
grams in Texas, Dr. Geo. W. ( ox,
State Health Officer, announced'm-
day that such programs have prov-
I ud to be highly effective in lessen-
ing the permanent teeth mortality
rate, reducing it in some eases more
than 75 per cent in a period of only
five years.
In one city, the permanent teeth
mortality rtUe was reduced from
24.37 per cent to 3.5 per cent in los-
thun five years’ time, with a full-
time dental health program in ef-
fect.
“If the mortality rate of perman-
ent teeth is a dependable unit of
measurement in the evaluation of
dental public hculth programs.-' Dr.
Cox said, “it is obvious that there
is unlimited vulue in tho type of
programs now carried on by the
State Health Department.”
Dr. Cox expressed the opinion
that the increase in the volume of
dentistry for children in local den-
tists offices wns directly attribu-
table to the influence of thv school
dental programs, and added thut
the improvement of children’s at-
titudes as patients wus very notice-
able.
“I believe that as time goes on,”
Dr. Cox stated, “tho results will be
even more noticeable. As the public
becomes aware of the possibilities
in this field, there will be an ever-
growing demund for at least some
type of dental health program in
every community,”
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out.
The Jap-ants were al-
ready crawling toward
him as the paratrooper
landed. He turned to
his talkative friend,
the “Tommy” gun.
“Start talking, Tommy,” lie said,
“and talk FAST!”
Tommy guns ean “talk” as fast
us BOO rounds of ammunition per
minute!
When war began, it was a serious
problem whether America could
muke cartridges faster than the
“Tommies” and the machine guns
and the Garands could blast them
Iniluiitrial ingenuity and electric
power provided the aiuwer! Today,
power-driven machines turn out 60
cartridges every minute—removing
dents, inspecting, rejecting—keep-
ing pace with the rat-a-tats thut arc
shooting our way to Victory! Power
passes the ammunition!
But eleclric power is doing far,
far more! IPs helping to produce
those Tommy guns, loo—and tunks,
ships, planes!
That tnkes a lot of power—and
America’s got it! Five times more
than in the last war—more than all
the Axis countries combined have
now! And about seven-eighths of all
this power is supplied by the eleclric
companies under experienced busi-
ness maiwge.ment, such as Central
Power and Light Company,
VICTORY
GARDEN
HINTS
A fertile, well-drained site is es-
sential.
Prepare a good seedbed as soon
as soil is dry.
Plant standard, adapted varieties.
Order the leading varieties rec-
ommended by your local authori-
ties or seedsmen, but don’t be too
choosey as seed of some varieties is
scarce.
Don’t waste seeds by planting too
thinly. Neither should you buy
more seed than you need. In the
case of such things as onions and
tomatoes, it will pay to buy sets or
plants.
Water in dry seasons if possible.
Kill weeds as soon as they appear.
Thin young plants early and
promptly.
Fertilize well but with care.
Spray or dust promptly to con-
trol insects and diseases.
Harvest and use crops when
young and tender.
Plant in succession for an all-
season garden.
Don’t waste space on freak novel-
ties.
Can and store all surpluses—don’t
waste food.
This year it is either grow it or
do without.
A half hour a day should be suf-
ficient for the average family size
garden, after the garden has been
planted.
You must have at least six hours
of direct sunlight for vegetables.
Plant a border of showy annuals
along the edge of your garden.
'fr/n/ny' /s O'
How come we’re so much more '
power-/i«M than all the Axis slave
states? Because we in America have
liecn free to ilo our jobs and do
them right! It’s a matter of pride!
Americans know that freedom in-
spires a man to invent and invest,
to devise and develop!
So — when “Tommy” talks—he
talks of freedom!
CENTRAL POWER
AND
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1943, newspaper, April 15, 1943; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth746992/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.