The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1941 Page: 4 of 8
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former
nt Roose-
Jan. 8—As a result of the
15 of the Rev. E. W'
pastor of the Methodist
at Graham, a number of trans-
made in Central Tex-
Bishop Ivan Lee
et, according to Dr.
superintendent of the
. ». Cole, Highland Park,
v x------1 to Graham.
Rev. E. N.
Street, Cle-
'arren A. Flynn from Bart-
to Anglin Street Church; the Re
R. Vanderpool from Hubbard
Bartlett; the Rev. T. L. Crenshaw
from Glen Rose to Hubbard and the
Rev. Roy F. Johnson from Coolidge
circuit to Glen Rose, Coolidge circuit
not yet having been supplied.
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ST. LOUIS—Microbe hunters, us-
ing a new instrument that ' **“
a half ton, now are able to look into
a whole new world of organisms and
check up on what—sight unseen—
they had only suspected it must be
like.
It is the world of the “ultra-micro-
scopic”—such as the “living parti-
cles” which cause the infections clas-
sified as virus diseases.
To expose this hidden world scien-
tists are using something else they
can’t see—the electron.
Dr. Stuart Mudd, professor of bac-
teriology at the University of Penn-
sylvania, told the convention of
American bacteriologists
that “photographs” taken with the
electron microscope prove scientists
were right in many of their reason-
R. xx. ,
lieves there are many _
ederate veterans in Texas which are
ir. danger of being lost through neg-
Mr. Sparkman, whose hobby is
the graves of the
•, reminds that
provides
helping pi
fighters of the
the Federal go>
markers free of cost.
The monuments are of two types,
the upright of white marble and the
flat one of marble or pink granite.
Either is appropriate, Mr. Sparkman
says.
‘Securing them is contingent upon
meeting furnishing official proof of the ve-
teran’s service connection with the
Army of the Confederacy, such as his
IN BOSQUE 56
Friday, December 20, Mrs.
Sormrude Chase passed away
t four o’clock in the morning at her
home east of Meridian. (She had been
an invalid, confined to her bed for se-
veral years, and for a few weeks her
strength had rapidly failed.
Martha Sormrude was born in Nor-
years ago, and
been selected
2. tSJtti
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HARDIN-SIMMONS BAND READ
Baptist FOR INAUGURATION TRIP
Training
Monday
of
Jack
- Mrs
Dallas.
rank, dates of enlistment and dis-
ings about the formerly invisible cell charge, name of the company and
ABILENE, Jan. 14—Hardin-Sim
mons University’s Cowboy Band,
booted and spurred, with instruments
tuned, was ready Tuesday to begin
its trip to the inauguration of Presi
dent Roosevelt, as official music
makers for the Texas delegation.
Scheduled to depart Thursday on
,y structures.
He predicted the new instrument
would have a place in the advance-
ment of industry as well as science
and medicine.
The machine, which looks some-
thing like a heavy punch press, was
developed in an Eastern radio labora-
tory less than a year ago.
Instead of the light source for the
ordinary microscope, it has a vacuum
special train with Texas Democratic tube Producing a stream of electrons.
orsement leaders, assembling at Abilene, Fort
Britain"
X a heated issue
der, chief
; of Texas,
of office to
when the gov-
ated Jan. 21
of the senators
the British-owned
be imported
• a strategic reserve
i Texas Gulf Coast
Loan Administrator
■“ announced Tuesday
Hereford bull won the]
1 Western Stock Show
ionship Tuesday but a
si not entered in show
8 sold for $8,000, an
bull price at the Na-
5ossibly many Clifton people sel-
n stop to consider the fact they
living in a mighty good town and
community, and neighbors to some
of the best people on earth and en-
joying the privileges of Americans
It might be worth your time to stop
and check up on these facts occa
Si0nally’ ‘_
A lot more rain fell over this sec-
tion last Monday. The weatherman
does not stop to consider if we need
rain or not. This will give the many
seeps more life. Just last week seeps
started branches to running that had
not done so in many months, and
were not started by the rains but
waited for the seeps to start their
activities. ■
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Mrs. Clara Grimland, now living in
Dallas, came in last week for a visit
with home folks here, and to be pres-
ent for the reception given Rev. W.
T. Gigstad and family, and also at-
tended the 45th anniversary meeting
of the Ladies Aid Society of the Trin-
ity Lutheran Church, an organization
she helped to organize in this city
forty-five years ago, and continued
an active member all these years.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Brashears and
E. S. Parks were in Lorena last Sat-
urday night for a visit, Mrs.
Brashears visiting friends while the
gentlemen attended the regular meet-
ing of the Masonic Lodge of that
place. Mr. and Mrs. Brashears lived
in Lorena before coming to Clifton
and notwithstanding the fact they
have moved away, the Masonic Lodge
continued to honor Mr. Brashears by
keeping him in office until at this
Worth and Dallas, the delegation will
arrive in Washington Saturday, two
days in advance of the inaugural cere-
monies.
The band, under the direction of M
B. McClure, will head the Texas dele-
gation in the inaugural parade next
Monday.
Burrus C. Jackson of Hillsboro, ar
langements chairman for the Texas
special train trip, announced the band
will take its six white horses with
color guard of the six flags of Texas
history, plus a span of white mules
and chuck wagon, to provide added
color.
The inaugural will be the second
in Cowboy band history. It attended
the inauguration of President Hoover
in 1929.
FLU VICTIMS WARNED
AGAINST COMPLICATIONS
Austin, Jan. 16—While influenza is
prevalent, the citizens of Texas are
warned that they should not be in too
big a hurry to return to their work
following a siege of this disease. In
fluenza of itself is seldom fatal, but
complications, especially pneumonia,
are the cause of death, asserts Dr.
Geo. W. Cox, State Health Officer.
The number of cases of pneumonia
reported last week was four times
the usual incidence at this season of
the year. The increase corresponds al-
most directly with the amount of in-
fluenza reported.
The termination of the acute symp-
toms of influenza does not indicate a
complete recovery. Many persons be-
lieve this to be true and return to
their daily routine, only to suffer a
relapse. Others plod along in a weak-
ened state, harbor a sub-acute cold,
and by continuing to lower their re-
sistance, invite prolonged trouble.
Past experience indicates that the
longer an epidemic persists, the more
severe it becomes. The possibility of
complications increases; therefore
early medical care in any suspected
case of influenza is very important.
Success in handling pneumonia de-
pends on early recognition, and its
onset may be recognized by the pa-
tient. In general a sharp pain in the
chest on breathing and coughing may
mean that pneumonia has developed.
Proper medical care during attacks
of influenza will prevent persons re-
turning to work until it is safe to do
so, and thus lessen the chances of
having pneumonia.
Instead of lenses, it has a series of
magnetic fields, which condense and
focus electronic “waves” on the ob-
ject under study. When the image is
projected on photographic plates the
result is a “micrograph”—a shadow
picture, like an x-ray plate, but its
magnification is 50,000 as compared
to 2,500 in the finest microscope.
Evidence that infantile paralysis
can be compared to dysentery and
typhoid fever, in that it similarly en-
ters and leaves the body through the
alimentary canal, was offered in a
paper by Dr. Albert B. Sabin of the
University of Cincinnati College of
Medicine.
Previous theories that the virus of
the disease enters the body through
the respiratory tract and may be
transmitted by means of excretions
from the nose and mouth were not
borne out by Sabin’s research.
Whether it is a water-borne dis-
ease as typhoid, or is spread by flies
as dysentery will be some of the
b'nes of research in the future, Dr
Sabin said.
“There is every probability,” he
added, “that humans may be carriers
of the virus Without showing any evi-
dence of the disease.”
time he is serving as Master, the
highest office in the local order.
Clifton citizens and highway
boosters were in Austin Monday and
with delegations, from other sections
of Bosque County and a number of
town and communities in McLennan
County appeared before the State
Highway Commission in a body to
make an appeal for the completion
of gaps in highways 67 and 317 be-
tween Hico and Belton. Those repre-
senting Clifton at the meeting were
h Trotter, Ralph
MISS MINGUS BRIDE OF
MR. GUSTAFSON DECEMBER 25
Miss Frances Mingus, daughter of
Mrs. John Mingus, was married to
Mr. Thomas Edison Gustafson of Ire-
dell, Texas, on Wednesday, December
25, at Glen Rose, Texas.
The charming bride is the attrac-
tive daughter of Mrs. John Mingus
of Iredell.
Mr. Gustafson is known to his
many friends to be of a high standing
character in this county, as he was
born and reared in and around Clif-
ton all his entire life and is the
youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charley
Gustafson.
The wedding was solemnized in |
Glen Rose, Texas. The bride and
groom were attended only by the
groom’s brother and sister-in-law,
. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Gustafson, of
Like most I Dallas. Shortly after the wedding
bride and groom left for Dallas
their honeymoon. On their return
hey will be located in the beautiful
r. and Mrs. Charly Gustaf-
and the entirej
g the
ALCOHOL’S EFFECT ON BRAIN
MERGES SLEEP, SUFFOCATION
PHILADELPHIA—Alcohol’s effect
on the human brain, from a new point
of view as recorded by electrical in-
struments, is a cross between normal
sleep and suffocation.
This was reported to the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science by a group of Harvard scien-
tists, who said it was the first time
an electro-encephalograph, an instru-
ment which records the electrical pul-
sation from the brain, has been tried
on a tipsy person.
Six men took the tests, drinking
enough to slur their speech and make
their movements uncertain.
For a normal brain during waking
hours the electrical instruments show
series of electrical potentials or
waves” coming at 10 to 13 a second.
With the men tested, the first brain
change was a weakening of the nor-
mal electrical waves.
Next appeared a slow wave, four
to eight per second. It was also irre-
gular. This is the pattern somewhat
resembling that from the brain of a
sleeping person. But, the investigators
said, it is more like the pattern in the
brain of a person suffering from lack
of oxygen.
Dr. Houston Merritt of Boston re-
ported on a business man who inter-
mittently went on alcoholic sprees.
Two years ago, during such a spree,
blod clot was found in his brain,
removed, and since then he has stay-
ed sober all the time.
The mystery which this points out
why some people can drink without
becoming addicts, while others are
drunkards, was suggested by Dr. A.
Carlson of the University of Chi-
cago, as the most important problem
on which scientists ought to concen-
trate.
regiment to which he was attached,
etc,” Sparkman continues. “So few
people are able to furnish this infor-
mation that one must have access to
the archives of the various states in
order to establish the eligibility and
identity of the soldier’s record.”
Thus far he has been successful in
his efforts to establish the markers
requested, Mr. Sparkman says.
Mr. Sparkman began his hobby in
his home county, Ellis, more than two
years ago after he had established a
great number of Confederate graves
in all communities were “all but lost
from neglect.” The work spread into
other counties and to all parts of the,
state.
The government provides the
grave markers without cost, paying
the freight to the depot nearest the
cemetery. The applicant is expected
to take the marker and place it.
“I have just recently completed an
application for a marker for Emette
Westbrook of your city,” Mr. Spark-
man wrote. “It is to be placed at his
father’s grave at Sterling City. Ap-
plication for Mrs. W. H. Harris, San
Angelo, Sterling City route, was
mailed to Washington December 18.
“In the case of Mr. Westbrook,”
1
Slllh her parents
'hen a child. The family lived in Wis-
onsin for several years . and came
from that state to Texas.
She was married in 1874 to W. R.
Chase in Waco where he was promi-
nent in Hie civic, cultural and busi-
ness life of that city .He was founder
and publisher of Waco’s first daily
newspaper, The Waco Register. He
was also Postmaster. From Waco Mr.
and Mrs. Chase moved to Bosque
County and established Chase Ranch.
The community was named Chase in
their’ horfor.
Life’s journey brought Martha
Sormrude Chase from the Land of
the midnight Sun to the sunlit prairies
of her Texas home fifty-six years ago,
and here she spent the remainder of
her life. Her husband passed on many
years ago, and the companions of her
declining years have been her only
child, Josie Chase Primm, and he*
one> grandson, Chase Primm. She is
survived also by a little great-grand-
son, Thomas Chase Primm, Junior.
She was a member of the Lutheran
Church—one whose religion was re-
flected in her daily life by the con-
stant practice of the Golden Rule and
the love of her fellowman. She had
known the trials of early pioneer
days in the West, but these had fail-
ed to leave their mark. With the poet,
she might have said, “---The
road is long. But none to steep for
the t heart that carries a song”—for
she was endowed with a sunny dispo-
sition, always cheerful and dispensing
cheer to others.
There was a sweet kindliness in
her nature that endeared her through
the years to all those whose lives
touched hers. Her life was marked
with the majestic simplicity, the in-
The
house ways
must be
TJi
iip on the
it' was $■
i was made by the
committee and
ed by house dem^|
fill ajLmindttee va-
cancy created by the resignation from
congress of Federal Judge Marvjjn
Jones, former Texes representative
and chairman of the farm body.
REV. W. T. GIGSTAD INSTALLS)
AT TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
On Sunday afternoon, January 12,
Rev. Walter T. Gigstad was installed
as the regular pastor of Trinity Luth-
eran Church in Clifton. In a very im-
pressive service, Dr. Bergsaker read
the words of installation, after which
Rev. Gigstad spoke briefly concerni£’’
the duties and responsibilities of pas-
tor and lay members. The services
were impressive and instructive, fill-
ed with earnest appeals for Christian
activities.
Fitted in to the program was a
choir song and a song by the men’s
chorus. Also, greetings were brought
from Waco, Cranfills Gap, Norse and
Womack by the pastors of these re-
spective churches.
The entire Clifton community, but
especially Trinity Lutheran, wel-
comes Rev. Gigstad and his family to
our city. We sincerely hope and trust
that your stay shall be pleasant, pro-
fitable, and happy. May your work
bear rich fruits for you and this sec-
tion of the state.
the hobbyist said, “I obtained proof inate courtesy and refinement that
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NOTICE
Interest earned to December
31st, 1940, will be paid on con-
sumers’ deposits. Customers
desiring payment at this time
may receive same if they wi
bring or mail deposit receipts
to our district office at
Cleburne, Texas
COMMUNITY
from the records in Alabama. After
the record is established by certified
copies, I furnish an official applica-
tion which is signed in duplicate by
the applicant and transmitted to the
Washington office where they are ap-
proved and contract let to the manu-
facturer.
Texas Plant Underbid
“The markers are made in Georgia..
Alabam and Mississippi, and probably
in another state. I complained to
Senator Connally about having them
manufactured in other states when
we have so much material in Texas.
Of course they are made on compe-
titive bids and I presume Texas has
been underbid.”
Expressing the hope that others
would learn of the availability of the
markers, so the graves might be pre-
served, Mr. Sparkman reminded that
the graves in the future might be
sought just as the Texas heroej were
prior to the Texas Centennial. Prior
to the Centennial, he directed the re-
search in Ellis and Hill Counties
which resulted in location of “lost”
graves and placing of 14 monuments
In another letter, Mr. Sparkman
said that he had just received an in-
teresting letter from James Patter-
son of Cooper, Texas, requesting that
he invesigate the condition of the
grave of an uncle, the late James
Patterson, who assisted in organizing
Concho County and la ted died at Hay-
rick where he was buried. He asked
that further information be supplied
from here or from the Hayrick com-
munity in regard to the grave.
characterize the truly great of this
earth.
A simple funeral service at the
home was attended by a large num-
ber of friends—the neighbors and
those who came from a distance and
from surrounding towns. The Rev
Mr. W. N. Greer officiated at the ser-
vice which was followed by burial in
Meridian cemetery.—Tribune. »
GOP APATHY SHOCKS
MRS. ROOSEVELT
New York—Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
velt said today in her syndicated
newspaper column that she was “not
only astonished but saddened” to no-
tice that the applause to the presi-
dent’s message to congress Monday
“came almost, entirely from the de-
mocrats.”
She said that “only a few notice-
able exceptions on the republican
side raised a hand in approval at any
point. It looked to me as though
these members of congress were say-
ing to the country as a whole: ‘We
are republicans first. We represent
you here in congress, not as citizens
of the United States in a period of
great crisis, but as members of a
political party which seeks primarily
to promote its own partisan inter-
ests’.”
This is to me shocking and terrify-
ing,” Mrs. Roosevelt wrote.
VALLEY MILLS SCHOOLS
OFFER DEFENSE SKILLS
Through the efforts and coopera-
tion of the instructor of vocational
agriculture, and citizens of Valley
Mills, funds have been received from
the federal government to establish
a school to aid in national defense.
Purpose of this new school is to
train “out-of-school” boys between
the ages of 17 and 24, for better MF
sitions in the army. Instruction is
now being offered in woodwork and
motors.
SHEPPARD RENEWS FIGHT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-^Senator
Morris Sheppard, democrat of Texas,
followed his custom today by intro-
ducing in the senate a proposed con-
stitutional amendment to restore pno-
hibition on liquor. Sheppard ^r-
nounced that he would speak in the
senate Thursday on the question as
he has each year for many years.
I
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India produces more opium than
any other land and exports almost
all of it to China.
It has been estimated that fences
on New York/ State farms alone re
quire 100,000^000 fence posts.
WEEK-END VALUES
Ivory Snow KS 2 26c
Super Suds
Blue
Box
3 2Se
1869
Drip or Regular
Silver
Leaf
Diamond
Special
lb. 25c
JAN. 16TH TO 25TH
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AND
PAJAMAS
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$2.00. Val. $1.65
$2.50 Val. $1.85
$2.95 Val. $2.25
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1941, newspaper, January 17, 1941; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth778025/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.