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MESQUITE, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 1945.
UUTiiBER 47.
Local Boys Take Honors Little James Bershere
At Livestock Show Drowned Tuesday
Efforts of the Mesquite F. F. A. James Haskell Bershere, 2%, son
boys during the school term, proved of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bershere,
fruitful when the local boys walked was drowned Tuesday while playing
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away with a number of the prizes at
the Future Farmers Livestock and
Poultry Achievement Day, last Fri-
day in Dallas, including the Grand
Championship honor, awarded Chas.
Ray McCallum for his entry a Here-
ford steer, in the heavyweight divis-
around a water hole near their home.
James is said to have jumped in the
water and a sister, Barbara Ann age
7, tried desperately to reach him so
that she might pull him to safety.
Funeral services were held Wed-
nesday 3: p. m. at the New Hope
ion. The steer sold for the highest j Baptist Church with the Rev. L.
price of the show, 3S cents a pound, ! F. McGaughey of Mesquite officiating
to Charles Ray’s grandparents, Dr.
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.MEN in SERVICE:
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San Francisco Conference Notes
A special board handles distribution of food and shoe ration stamps
to conference delegates—ten women and eight men of the Russian del-
egation, French and Sandi Arabian delegates were, given shoe stamps.
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and Mrs. Chas. McCallum.
Approximately six hundred young
Future Farmers of Dallas county
participated in the event.
Honors won by local exhibitors
and selling prices per pound are as
listed:
Beef Steer Heovyweight
1st. and Grand Champion
Charles McCallum, @38c
3rd. Ted Dewberry, @ 26c
4th. George. Lander, @ 2 6c
6th George. Lander, @ 26c
Bight Steers
1st. Donald Bryan, @ 30c
2nd. Reagan Moon, @ 27c
3rd. George Lander, @ 27c
4th Robert Jones, @ 26c
5th Ted Dewberry, @ 27c
6th Joe Richardson, @ 27c
Fat Heif ers
1st. Reagan Moon, @ 25c
2nd. Ted Dewberry, @ 26c
3rd. George Lander, @ 26c
4th. George Lander, (§) 27c
5th George Lander, @ 26c
6th. Davie Davis, @ 22 %c
Dairy Cows
6th. Glenn Thorley
Bred Gilts
1st. and Champion
George Lander, sold for $100.
Fat Barrows
1st. J. R. Chenault
Rabbits
4th Joe Richardson
Capons
Gus Stoltz, 1st. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.
The four entries selling for a total
of $23.50.
Burial was in the New Hope ceme-
tery. Anderson Clayton Bros, were
in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his parents;
four brothers, Lloyd, Donald, Jerry
and Bobby; three sisters, Barbara
Ann, Billy Ruth and Brenda Marie;
grandparents, Mrs. Bershere, of r. ]\t. wifji a tea Saturday afternoon
Pleasant Grove, and Mr. .and C. O.
Wade.
Tea Honors Nurses
Liberated At Manila
The Recuitment Committee of the
Dallas County Chapter of he Amer-;
John Crain Declared
Officially Dead
The flags of the United Nations, costing a fortune, will be displayed
after the period of mourning for the late President is lifted—May 14.
Negroes through the California National Negro Council are seeking to
raise one million dollars or $1 for each negro member of the armed
forces to carry on a campaign of the councils recommendations in any
International organization formed by the United Nations.
Dr. Preston Bradley of Chicago, life member, D. A. Skeen, Salt Lake
City, president, and Melvin Jones, founder, Lions International, spoke to
j 1200 Lions in a pre-peace banquet, attended by Gen. Luis M. Do La;, le,
'surgeon general of the Nicaragan Army, Colonel Guillermo K. Cuau.a,
! chief of the Air Force of that country, both official delegates of Nic-
1 aragua to the United Nations Conference.
Mrs. J. C. Crain received a letter j
Friday, from the War Department ■,
ican Red Cross honored Lt. Hattie declaring her son, T/Sgt. John A.
Brantley. R. N. and Lt. Earlyn Black
Mesquite Represented
At Music Festival
It takes a Texan, and a Dailasite to make the novel news in the Con-
ference City—We don’t know, but we would risk a bit—that it’s ~ee
. .... . , , . , . , Franklin Myers of Dallas, who has made the “Allied Nations Candy7’, —
rain, o lcia y ea . s le las no a(j sticks of 46 flavors representing the 46 nations— and that means
, ... bMbheard,r0“Sraceh,tWtSrePOrt‘! Russia., vodka, Mexican tequila, British scotch and soda-
at the Arlington Lee Memorial ed missing in action in the European ; ____
Park. The two Texas nurses, recently, theater, more than a year ago it has i Mrs Jos’e Serrato, wife of the minister of Foreign Affairs and chair-
liberated, were prisoners of the Japs been assilmed that was dead. ! man of delegates from Uruguay, died since minister Serrato arrived in
in Manila. John was a radio operator and j gan Francisco, it was reported Saturday.
Attending the tea from Mesquite gunner, highly respected by members
White Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, Resident Commissioner
Representatives of the Mesquite
School Band, under the direction of Lind Brantley.
J. C. Mitchell, who entered the an- j Lt. Brantley is a niece of
nual Music Festival at Lancaster Brantley.
were Mrs. B. F. Galloway, Mrs. R.j of his crew and all who know, him. I 0f the Philipines to the United States and Chairman of the delegation
M. iBrantley and daughter, Miss Saraj His many friends still maintain the | predict you are listening to the next President of the Philipines”. Tlirough-
from the Philipine Commonwealth, spoke,
hope that in the near future he will
M. i be heard from.
Mesquite Loses To
League Leaders
Baseball results of the past week
show Mesquite to have lost to Irv-
ing— 6 to 5; and to Garland, 11
to 1. Other conference scores for the
week were Garland 7, Irving 4; Gar-
land 6, Carrollton, 0; Grand Prairie
2, and Pleasant Grove 1. Garland is
leading with seven victories and no
defeats.
The remaining games for Mesquite
are:
May 4th., at Pleasant Grove
May 7th., Carrollton (here)
May 10th., Grand Prairie (here)
May 11th at Grand Prairie.
1945 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Sept. 14 — Terrell (there)
Sept. 21 — * PI. Grove (there)
Sept. 2& — * Irv'ing (there)
Oct. 5 •— Rockwall (here)
Oct. 12 — * Garland (here)
Oct. 19 — Forney (there)
Oct. 26--Birdville (here)
Nov. 2 — * Carrollton (here)
Nov. 9 — Open
Nove. 16 — * Grand Prairie (there)
* Conference games.
Tuesday returned with seven, first
place and one, third place wins to
their credit. They were entered in
competition with bands from Vic-
kery-Hill Crest, St. Joseph Home for
Girls of Dallas, Lancaster, Pleasant
Grove, Garland, Royce City and Wil-
mer Hutchins.
Soloists of each organization were
entered by the directors, there being
a total of approximately 175; eight
of whom were entered by Mesquite
for the honors mentioned. In this
group was the clarinet quartet com-
posed of Alice Rose Wilkinson, Anita
Louise Hood, Oma Jean Norwood and
Ann Hilliard; a saxaphone solo by
Ysonde Gwinn; trumpet solo by G.
R. Porter; trombone solo, Johnnie
Koonce and bass solo by Wesley
Waldron.
At the end of the day, returning
tired but happy, the band reported
the Lancaster hospitality as “excel-
lent”.
someone whispered, “I
out Romulo’s speech made Saturday afternoon at the plenary session,
, there was a distinct religious note. He began his sincere address — “Let
iCpl. Morris E. Lewis, engineer i us make this floor the last battefield.” He continued, saying there must be
gunner, of Mesquite. Will soon com- a basic pattern of understanding for world security, which must be based
’“7'', i^~| plete an intensive course in combat! on a sniritual structure,
turned Friday to their post o£ duty| . .. .rmv Air! SPmtUal ___,__
Bob C. Jordan S 2/c accompanied j
flying at the Alexandria Army Air ,
Field, Alxeandria, La., and in the j
near future he will go overseas to a
combat area.
„ _ . He is the member of a Flying
of the death of another son, Pvt.
i Fortress crew trained by the Second
at Bremmerton Washington. Jordan
was given an eight-day emergency
leave to be with his mother, Mrs.
Dora Jordan, after she received news
Billy J. Jordon, killed in action on
Iwo Jima.
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Lt. and Mrs. Jack McKenzie, an-
Marshall, weight 7 lb. 1 oz., on April
nounce the arrival of a son, Jack
Senior Class Of #41
Holds Reunion
Members of the senior class of ‘41,
Mesquite High School, met at the
City Hall Sunday afternoon, April
29, at two o’clock for a re-union.
After discussion of what each senior
had done since graduation, punch
and cookies were served to: Edna
Pearson Johns, iBetty iCunningham
Davidson, Dorothy Nelle Mathis
Jones, Gaynelle Thorley, Billie Grace
Woodard Hanby, Tressie Lee Crane
Dean, Virginia Lewis Chase, John
McDaniel, Etta Bedford, Florence
Black, and Mr. and Mrs. F. B.
Agnew,.
Miss Zelma Cook and Mr. L. B.
McLaran, now of the Navy, were
sponsors of this class
Members of the class how in ser-
vice are Leonard Buckner, Billy
Causey, Bobbye Faye Davis, Ken-
neth Davis, Dan Ferguson, Edwin
Freeman, Floye Jackson, Raymond
Jones, Bob Lemaster, Margie Lindsey
Army Air Force, which has the task
of readying four-engine bomber
' crews for overseas duty.
With 3 3rd In the Philippines: Forj Listed among the instructors at
warding off enemy bayonet attack the Alxeandria Army Air Field are
with bale hands enabling his platoon - many officers and enlisted men who
to piopeil> meet the attempted en- j have seen action in every theatre of
emy infiltration, Pfc. Sidney Tilli-; war. These veterans direct crews
son, Route, 2, Mesquite, was decorat- j through training conditions that sim-
ed in the fiont lines in Northern , uiate actual combat, stressing team-
Luzon. I formation flying and high al-
For this courageous act, Pfc. Til- j titude missions,
lison was awarded the Bronze Medal j Cpl. Lewis graduated from the
by Major Gen. P. W. Clarkson, com- | Mesquite high school in 1943. He is
manding general of the 3 3rd division the son of Mrs. Rosa Belle Lewis of
who are fighting in Northern Luzon ! Route 2, Mesquite.
near Baguio, summer capital of the j _
Philippines. j pvt. Dan q Reighley, of the U. S.
The citation states: Pfc. Tillison, j Marine Corps stationed at Camp
who is with the Company * K’ of the j Lejune, has been home on an eight-
123rd Infantry was in the first posi-
tion meeting a bayonet attack by an
enemy group attempting to infil-
trate our lines. Pfc. Tillison launched
at the first attacker, grabbing his
rifle with bayonet with his bare
hands he threw him over his should-
er in Judo fashion and knocking him
out. He met the next one a volley
of fire from his rifle and trusting its
butt forward bashed in the head of
the third attacker coming at him.
This courageous and aggressive role
played by Pfc. Tillison was instru-
mental in breaking up and defeating
the enemy attack.
With the 43rd Infantry (Winged
Victory) Division on Luzon—Private
Bobby L. Smith, member of an artil-
lery unit in the 43rd (Winged Vic-
tory) Division, has been promoted to
private first class while in combat
against the Japanese on Luzon. He
is a son of Joesph H. Smith, RFD 2,
Jack McKenzie, Robert Niendorff, Mesquite. His wife, Mrs. Billie Smith
Edwin Owens, Ewing Paris, Edwin' and son Bobby, also reside in Meg_
Pearson, Jack Phelps, Nolan Potter, quite.
L. D. Redden, Dan Royal, Bill Shawj During 14 months in the Pacific
Steve Shaw, Dan Stephens, John L. theater with the Winged Victory
Terry, Lillian Thomas, Henry . Wal-j Division, Private Smith has seen
dron, Joe Whitehurst, Elwood Will-
man, James Windham, Winston Wind
ham Marilyn Shipp; Leslie Stinne, of
29 th. at Florence Nightingale Hosr1 tbe ajr corpS> was kined in an ajr-
pital. Both mother and baby are do- j piane crash,
ing fine. __
Lt. McKenzie is serving with the!
Air Force in England.
Mr. and Mrs. Medford Webb of
Levelland are the parents of a daugh-
ter, born April 29 th in a Lubbock
hospital. The baby, a granddaughter
ILLNESSES
minor operation at Gaston Ave.
Clinic last week.
Charley Kimbell has been ill the
action in two campaigns: New Quinea
and the Philippines.
Prior to entering the army, he was
employed by the Alexander Motor Co.
Dallas.
of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Webb and Mr. Past week.
and Mrs. Lonnie McDaniel weighed Mrs. Charles Henderson was able
8 lbs, 14 oz. “ | to be brought from St. Paul Hospit-
--- ! al, Sunday to the home of her par-
A daughter was born recently to ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Terry;
Marine Private First Class and Mrs.
Denzil Stanfield, at the Naval Hos-
pital at camp Lejune, N. C.
The child, the first born to the
couple, has been named Peggy
Eileen.
Mrs. Stanfield, the former Miss
Valentine Minchew Jr. is attend-
ing Officers’ Training School at the
U. S. Coast Guard Academy in New
Mrs. Phil Hudson underwent a London, Connecticut. Before enter-
ing the Academy on April 20th he
was stationed in Boston, Mass, and
he wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
V. Minchew Sr., that he likes his
new location much better. Still in-
terested in sports, he was very hap-
py when the Academy played base-
ball with the Philadelphia Athletics
and won 3 to 2.
Mrs. John Kozlovsky is ill at her
home with pneumonia.
Mrs. Josie Cunningham was ill
several days last week.
Mrs. James Earl Prock was taken
to Sparks Clinic Tuesday for the re-
Dorothy Mae Thomas, is the daugh-] moval of her tonsils and adenoids,
ter of Mrs. O. A. Barbour of 611! Mrs. Oma Jean Weatherford be-
! came quite ill Saturday night. At
are 1 last reports she was improving.
Delores Jenkins, who has been
quite ill with pneumonia, was able
Pfc. Standfield is with the Range to be brought home from St. Paul
Battalion at this camp. [ Hospital, Friday, to her home.
South Tyler Street, Dallas.
The paternal grandparents
Mr. and Mrs. Arty Stanfield of Rt.
1 Mesquite, Texas.
day furlough to visit his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Dasch, prior to
reassignment. Pvt. Reighley attend-
ed Pleasant Grove High and was call-
ed the “Spark Plug” of the football
team, he later attend Mesquite High
School. Dan missed seeing his broth-
er, J. J. Reighly A B S who returned
from France three days after Dan
left, J. J. was in the Navy seventeen
months and after being given an hon-
orable discharge joined the merchant
marines. He left Sunday to report to
Galveston.
VOLUNTEERS SERVE INTERESTING DISHES
Featuring Armenian dishes that will tickle the palates of the Arabian,
Russian, Balkan, Asia Minor, Central and Southern European guests attend-
ing the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, the American Womens
Volunteer Services, under the direction of the internationally known chef,
George M. Mardikian, recently written about in the Saturday Evening-
Post, will serve luncheon and tea daily for the duration of the Conference.
The large dining room, set-up in the basement of the Opera House, where
all plenary sessions are being held, is equipped to serve 3500 delegates and
members of the press. Fifteen hundred pounds of turkey, roasted a golden
brown, was prepared for the first luncheon menu. Peloff dressing, a choice
of two salads, one green vegeable, brown roasted potatoes, pie, cake or ice
cream, coffee, tea or milk; or a choice of cold cuts of meat, stuffed eggs,
salads, desserts and beverages completed the list of dishes available to the
guests.
Luncheon and tea, together cost only one dollar. Each Wednesday
for the duration of the Conference, Mr. Mardikian has planned to serve
Harpoot Kufte (stuffed meat balls); Derevapotat (stuffed and rolled
grape leaves); Kouzon Kzartna (baked shanks of lamb); Pilaff
(Armenian rice); and Paklava (56 layer pastry).
The American Womens Volunteer Services, under the leadership of
the canteen chairman Mrs. Lottie Huenergardt, offered to operate and
man the conference cafeteria. «
Food is being cooked in the two kitchens of the Veterans Building,
across the court from the Opera House, where it is served. Women volun-
teers were eager to be in on the activities of th Confrence; all members
of the AWVS were screend by the FBI and Secreat Service and are working
in rotating shifts as groups with a captain. One problem facing the women
was paper napkins, banned by the State Department after a telephone call
to Washington informed the women that paper napkins were not according
to protovol.
San Francisco—Host To The World
San Francisco’s reputation as the outstanding eating place of the
world dates back to the days of the gold rush, when foreign diplomats
hearing of the Gold Coast, came to California, bringing their cooks, Mr.
Mardikian said. The diplomats finding gold hard to get, went home, but
their cooke, remained, handing down their culinary arts from generation
to generation. Today people from all countries have an opportunity to eat
foods of all types in the most charming surroundings.
San Francisco, official hostess to the peoples of the world, is furnish-
ing 150 official shoppers, who speak foreign languages of the various
countries. The shoppers will escort the visitors on private shopping tours
E. J. Jones, Petty Officer 2/c, who
has been in the South Pacific two
years, has arrived in San Diego and
is expected to be here in a few days
for a visit with his parents, Mr. and at their request. Foreignes are to be given an insight into the life of the
average American. Schools, hospitals, and other public institutions, other
than the homes, will be open to delegates.
Accredited Press and Radio Representatives attending the San
Francisco Conference were honored at a reception in th Palace Hotel,
headquarters for all the press and radio, including big writes, radio
Mrs. Orvile Jones and other relatives.
Pvt. Betty Jo Dickey, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Dickey, has re-
turned to her camp at Great Falls,
Montana after making a trip, with! commentators and entertainers—In fact, one could almost call any famous
seven other Wacs, to Edmonton, | name and immediately someone would say, thre he is—because everybody
Canada. They accompanied six Red ( is covering the IConfernce James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney, who are to
appear in person at the world premiere of their picture “Blood on The
Sun”, May 2, were the center of admiring friends
At the tea honoring women representatives of press and radio, Sylvia
Porter, striking finincial writer of the New York Post, Eleanor Wilson
McAdoo, Elsa Maxwell and Gracie Allen mingled among the guests.
Gracie Allen was seen in the line for press credentials at the Vet-
perature was twenty-five degrees be-| erans Building on Tuesday wearing a black suit, white blouse, pearl choker,
low zero and the Arctic clothes really wbdte sailor with black veil, and a bright red box coat. Wednesday Miss
felt good. Betty Jo, her sisters, Pvt. Allen was radiant in a brown suit, brown straw hat with white flowers,
Nina Dickey, Pvt. Julia Dickey and| white gloves, and brown accessories.
Cross Workers and the G. I. band on
an entertainment tour of some of
the Canadian camps. Their trip in-
cluded stops at Paw, Churchill, then
across Hudson Bay to South Hamp-
ton Island. Pvt. Dickey said the tem-
their friend Pvt. Margie Lindsey ex-
pect to come home on furlough in
June.
George Paschall, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Paschall Sr., has been
promoted from Seaman 2/c to mail
clerk 3/c. George wrote his parents
to say that he spent Easter Sunday
in a motor boat waiting for the
mail and was thoroughly blistered
by the blazing sun. He is stationed
somewhere in the Pacific.
Pvt. W. F. Crumpley, 19, grand-
son of Mrs. C. L. (Crumpley, has been
reported as wounded in action on
Iwo Jima. Pvt. Crumpley was with
the first troops to land and was
wounded two hours later. He is said
to have a hole torn in one side of his
face, a broken jaw bone and his
right hand badly mangled. His fath-
er, Cpl. Chas. C. Crumpley, is a
rifle instructor at Indiantown Gap,
Pennsylvania, and his mother is
making her home in Dallas.
Shiva Rao, newspaper correspondent for the Hindu of Madras, re-
presenting the Baltimore Sun and the Manchester Guardian (English
paper), was dressed in his native costume. He wore a deck grey colored
loose coat with legging-like trousers in the same color grey and black
shoes.
Piano Pupils To Be
Presented In Recital
Mrs. R. M. Brantley will present
Birthday Dinner For
Ed D. Paschall
The 79th birthday of Ed. D. Pas-
Pfc. Don Davis has been in a
Shreveport hospital six weeks suf-j to Chicago, Illinois,
fering from an infected tooth. ] (Continued on bank page.)
Newton Range Pm 2/c and Captain
and Mrs. Byron Range have been
visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
E. B. Range. Newton left Wednesday,
to report for duty at Oakland, C'ali- thony, ^ue Hopkins, Jo Ann Miller,
fornia and Byron returned Thursday Maurine Hanby, Mildred Wilson,
Sara Lind Brantley and Billy Frank
Hurt.
her piano pupils m a recital, in . . _ ,
, , . XT *• 1 wooir 1 chal was observed Sunday April 29th
observance of National Music Week,j _ j;____
Sunday, May 6th at 3:30 p. m. at
the Mesquite High School Auditor-
ium.
On the program will be Billy Faye
Orell, Reitha Lois Ballard, Jo Ann
Myrick, Patsy Taylor, Shirley, Car-
der, Patsy Garbitt, Sandra Smith,
Margaret Ann Sanford, Jo Ann Spra-
gue, Martha Green, June Hullett,
Ramona Speck, Dorothy Mae An-
with a dinner.
Those present at the surprise
gathering were Mesdames Lora
Rockhold Edna Perryman, Cecil
Lumley Ollie Paschall, Gertrude
Wyatt, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Lawrence
and daughter’s Ann and Gay, Miss
Mattie Lou Smith, Mary Ann and
Paula Richardson and R. A. Vine-
yard all of Dallas.
He received several nice gifts and
thoroughly enjoyed a bountiful din-
ner.
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