Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1941 Page: 4 of 8
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REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS,
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941
efugio Timely|
Remarks
Entered as second-class matter
November 27, 1920, at the postof-
fice at Refugio, Texas, under act
of March 3, 1879, and
REFUGIO COUNTY NEWS
l Entered as second-class matter
I November 10, 1928, at the postof-
fice at Refugio,, Texas, under act!
of March 3, 1879.
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Suppose a friend in some distant
state wrote you that he contem-
plated moving and asked you
about Refugio as a prospect. You
would have to give such a request
time, thought and investigation,
for you wouldn’t want either your
judgment disparaged or your
friend’s happiness and income af-
fected, should he follow your ad-
vice. Wonder what you would find
to write him.
Well, for one thing, the climate
in this section of the country is
about as good as is to be found
anywhere, with no extremes in
either direction. We have plenty
of moisture, ordinarily, without be-
ing tiro wned, no cyclones or earth-
quakes to date (knock on wood),
and generally “comfortable”
weather.
While the boom days are defi-
nitely past, business prospects
chere are still excellent for the
man with foresight, integrity, en-
thusiasm and all those other nec-
essary ingredients of a good pro-
vider. Large fortunes are seldom
made in small towns, but the
chances of making a comfortable
living are better than in cities.
Our public schools and their
teachers can be unhesitatingly rec-
ommended, for the building is new
and has facilities uncommon for
a town this size. The plan of op-
eration is modern and progressive,
fully abreast of all current educa-
tional tendencies, while the in-
structors are carefully chosen
■ with an eye to character as well
I as fulfillment of standard require-
ments. Your friend’s child may
study any one of a large selection
of band instruments and play with
a good band; he may have piano
or dancing lessons.
There is a choice of four
churches in Refugio, including a
Catholic church, and representa-
tive Protestant denominations—
Presbyterian, Baytist and Method-
ist. All have adequate, if not
showy, Jbuildings and experienced
’ministers who are a popular part
of .the town’s life. In a neighbor-
| ing town are Lutheran and Epis-
copalian churches.
The stores here have most Cont-
is prehensive stocks of merchandise,
a real credit to the town’s popu-
lation, and they receive, as a re-
sult, the majority of the local
trade. For such articles as the
local merchants find it impractical
to carry, there are cities in such
driving distance as may be en-
compassed by a day’s shopping.
The same cities supplement the
amount of entertainment which is
to be encountered in any place of
approximately the same size. An
unusually fine golf course, an ex-
orbitant amount of interest in ball
games, both of the hard and soft
variety, amateur theatricals, two
motion picture theaters, and the
social entertainments sponsored
by churches and the public and
private organizations of the town
provide sufficient amusement to
keep the most ambitious joiner
happy.
There are a quite sufficient
number of doctors per capita, all
of them efficient and progressive,
and a recently constructed hospi-
tal building which is as impres-
sive from the interior and labora-
tory standpoint as it is from the
outside.
The people of Refugio are as
pe a group as may be found any-
where in the world—friendly, pro-
gressive and charitable (Refugio
County takes care of its poor and
I needy probably better than any of
I the counties in the vicinity). In
I other words, if you like the peo-
1 pie where you live now, you’ll like
your neighbors here. And there
is a minimum of crime and dis-
order, due to the efforts of a most
competent and well-organized
sheriff’s department.
Naturally, you’d have to name
seme of the liabilities of Re-
1, which so far has sounded
fa near “Olympus on earth.”
fusing facilities are still a
Bern for those who want to
| a nice five or six-room place,
Irents seem rather high, in
I cases. Some of the utilities,
lare found a trifle steep by
leWfomers from similar towns in
3ther sections of the country.
The general appearance of the
s>wn could stand some more im-
|Ovement, and the lack of side-
dks usually draws comment.
’The addition of a library, a public
playground and an airport would
improve living here considerably.
It would also help if the trains and
buses didn’t all seem to flock in
here at one time from both direc-
tions, but that’s to be expected,
we guess, when a .town is about
midway on most runs.
Anyway, there must be some
drawbacks so that the natives will
have an incentive toward prog-
ress, and a great many of these
mentioned are already under con-
sideration and will soon be elimi-
nated:
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THIS AND THAT—
It’s a moot question which has
the American people groggier, the
flu or the billion-dollar headlines.
About another confused age,
that great master, Victor Hugo,
wrote in Les Miserables: “They
confound with the constellations
of profundity the stars which the
ducks’ feet make in the soft mud
of the pond.” Could there be any
more apt description of the state
of mind today?
Run if you see one of these:
They peer and they sneer. After
a little experience with one of
these birds, you’ll leaarn there’s
only one perfect set-up in the eyes
of these personalities, and that’s
the one their wonderful ( ?) hand
and brain brought about. So run,
don’t walk, if you see one coming.
They’ll bore you to tears.
Do you remember when the
stars were going to fall if we re-
pealed or didn’t repeal the arms
embargo ?
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Your Health
INFLUENZA
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 fol-
lowing a siege of this disease. In-
fluenza of itself is seldom fatal,
but complications, principally
pneumonia, are the cause of death,
asserts Dr. George W. Cox, state
health officer.
The number of cases of pneu-
monia reported last week was four
times the usual incidence at this
season of the year. The increase
corresponds directly with the
amount of influenza reported.
The termination of the acute
symptoms of influenza does not
indicate a complete recovery.
Many persons believe this to be
true and return to their daily rou-
tine, only to suffer a relapse.
Others plod along- in a weakened
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 in
creases; therefore, early medical
care in any suspected case of in-
fluenza is very important. Suc-
cess in handling pneumonia de-
pends on early recognition, and its
onset may be unrecognized by the
patient. In general a sharp pain
in the chest on breathing and
coughing may mean that pneumo-
nia has developed.
Proper medical care during at-
tacks of influenza will prevent
persons returning to work until it
is safe to do so, and- thus lessen
the chances of having pneumonia.
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Manager Explains
Coverage of Old
Age Insurance
All employment except for spe-
cifically excluded types of work is
covered under the old-age and sur-
vivors insurance provisions of the
social security act, according to
H. M. Cleveland, manager of the
Corpus Christi social security
board field office. For instance,
he said, cooks, maids, butlers,
chauffeurs and gardeners, who are
employed by private families, are
no’t. covered. If these same work-
ers should obtain jobs in hotels,
restaurants, service stations or in
other commercial or industrial es-
tablishments, they would be cov-
ered by the federal insurance sys-
tem, it was stated.
Covered employment, generally
speaking, is a job in a factory,
shop, mine, mill, store, office,
American ship, national or state
bank, building and loan associa-
tion, or other place of business.
Jobs not covered are, in general,
as follows: Agricultural labor,
domestic service, government em-
ployment, work for an educational
charitable or religious non-profit
organization, work on railroads
(this is covered by the railroad re-
tirement system), work in the
fishing industry, work as a news-
boy, certain kinds of professional
work, work performed for a son,
daughter, spouse, or for a parent,
if the child is under 21.
Mr. Cleveland pointed out that
in order to qualify for monthly
old-age primary insurance bene-
fits, a worker (a) must’be 65 years
old or over; (b) must have worked
on a job or jobs covered by the
social security act, and (c) must
have received a certain minimum
amount of pay from such jobs
during certain periods of time.
The amount of pay he must
have earned to qualify for bene-
fits is $50 or more in each of a
certain number of calendar quar-
ters. The quarters in which a
worker earns $50 or more on cov-
ered jobs are called “quarters of
coverage,” with the quarters be-
ginning January 1, April 1, July 1.
and October 1.
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America relies on airplanes for national defense and soil defense.
Heavily armed planes such as the giant four-motored “flying fortress’*
at top help provide national defense. Planes armed only with cameras
help provide soil defense. The two farmers in lower picture are in.
gpecting a typical aerial photo map, taken from an elevation of nearly
three miles and used in administering the AAA Farm Program’s con-
servation work. Similar aerial pictures are available showing more than
two million square miles of U. S. land area.
Msgr. Sheehan
Dies in Victoria
Right Rev. Msgr. John Sheehan,
79, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic j
Church in Victoria and churchman'
in that city since 1885, died in a
Victoria hospital at 12:30 o’clock
last Friday afternoon, it has been
learned. Cause of death was given
as pneumonia. He had been ill
for only about two weeks.
The Rev. Sheehan was the first
priest to be ordained in Victoria.
He was born in New York City
July 4, 1861, and came to Texas
in 1877. March 15, 1865, he was
ordained to the priesthood, going
immediately to Halletsville as an
assistant.
Later, after serving in San An-
gelo, San Antonio and Cuero, he
was appointed pastor of St. Mary’s
parish in Victoria in February of
1904. He resigned after two years
to become chaplain of Nazareth
Academy at Victoria. Again fol-
lowing service in Halletsville and
Yoakum, he was reappointed head
of the Victoria parish.
Funeral services were conducted
in Victoria Wednesday morning,
with services at St. Mary’s Church
and burial in the Victoria Catholic
Cemetery. The Rev. William H.
Oberste, pastor of Our Lady of
Refuge Catholic Church, Refugio,
attended the services.
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Mother: “Jackie, dear, I see
that Betty has the smaller apple.
Did you give her the choice?”
Jackie: “Yes, ma, I told her
she could have the smaller one or
none at all, and she chose the
small one.”
YOUR HOME MERCHANTS
ASK you TO "BUY AT HOME”
Cemetery Society
To Hold Meeting
The annual business and elec-
tion of officers meeting of the
Oakwood Cemetery Society will be
held at 2 o’clock next Monday aft-
ernoon in the Presbyterian Church
annex, according to the Rev. C. S.
Long, who urged that all people
interested in the cemetery to be
present at the meeting.
Ocean Highway
Will Follow a
Trail of History
Charleston, S. C.—The winter
tourist who travels south over the
fast new Ocean Highway will fol-
low a trail of history. The secre-
tary of the Ocean Highway Asso-
ciation has compiled the following
informative data about the points
on the route:
Accomac, Va., originally was an
Indian village. It was visited by
Capt. John Smith in 1698.
Norfolk, Va., was founded in
1682 and named in the honor of
the Duke of Norfolk. Here is lo-
cated the Hampton Roads Naval
Base and the Norfolk Navy Yard.
Near Virginia Beach is Cape
Henry, where in 1697 the colonists
first landed who a few weeks later
at Jamestown made the first per-
manent English settlement in
America.
Not far from Norfolk is the
Colonial National Monument, his-
torical park area, which includes
Jamestown, Williamsburg, laid out
in 1632, recently restored to its
colonial beauty, and Yorktown,
settled in 1621, scene of Corn-
wallis’ surrender in 1781.
Seaward from Eliabeth City,
N. C., points the Virginia Dare
Trail which leaads to Kitty Hawk,
where the Wright brothers made
their first airplane flight, and to
Roanoke Island, where Sir Walter
Raleigh’s followers settled in 1584
and where Virginia Dare was born
in 1587.
In historic Edenton on Albe-
marle Sound is St. Paul’s Church,
built in 1736. Of unusual interest
also is the old Chowan- County
Court House in which is the Ma-
sonic Lodge chartered in 1775 and
proud possessor of the chair used
by George Washington when mas-
ter of the Alexandria, Va., Lodge.
The town of Washington, N. C.,
was named in 1776 in honor of
George Washington and was the
first in America so named.
New Bern, N. CL, was settled in
1710 by Swiss and German colo-
nists and named after Berne
Switzerland.
In November of 1765, eight
years before the famous Boston
Tea Party, the colonists at Wil-
mington, N. C., so resisted imposi-
tion of the stamp tax by the Brit-
ish that they forced the resigna-
tion of the Stamp Master and with
armed militia prevented the land-
ing of stamp paper from the Brit-
ish sloop of war Diligence.
Wilmington was the birthplace
and home of Anna Matilda McNeil
Whistler, subject of the famous
painting “My Mother” by Whis-
tler. Wilmington also was the
home of Henry Bacon, designer of
the Lincoln Memorial at Wash-
ington, D. C.
The present Masonic Temple at
Georgetown, S. C., which was
built in 1735, was the original
home of the only Colonial- Bank-
ing House in America. In Gqorce-
town is the Church of Prince
George Winyah, constructed of
brick brought over from England
in 1734, the same year that the
town was laid out.
At Fort Moultrie, near Charles-
ton, S. C., the. first decisive vic-
tory of the American Revolution
was gained when in 1776 strong
British naval and land forces
under Sir Peter Parker were re-
pulsed.
The first attempt at fireproof
construction in America was the
“Fireproof Building” overlooking
Washington Square in Charles-
ton. It was designed by Robert
Mills, designer of the nited States
Treasury Building and the Wash-
ington Monument.
Savannah, founded in 1733 by
James Oglethorpe, was the first
settlement in Georgia.
Local Men Attend
Conservation Meet
Three Refugio Countians were
among a group of South Texas
sportsmen who attended a meet-
ing of the South Texas Conserva-
tion League, held in Corpus Chris-
ti Tuesday night of last week.
They were Dr. J. E. Bauer, presi-
dent of the Refugio unit of the
league, L. A. Weiss Jr., Refugio
County agricultural agent, and
Walter Coster of Woodsboro.
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British Relief
Aided in Cuba
Havana, Cuba.—War relief for
the benefit of Britain commands
Cuban interest and activity with
increasing force, led by the Cuban
American Allied Relief Fund un-
der the presidency of Dr. Ccsme
de la Torriente, a diplomat of
wide experience.
Frank Godwin, American illus-
trator who spends his winters in
Havana, and Conrado Massaguer,
almost as well known in the
States for his clever cartoons as
he is in his native Cuba, both did
posters for the Allied Relief to
further its campaign of 10,000
subscribers who each pay $2 a
year and whose names are printed
in long lists in the daily papers,
from time to time.
The British ladies committee is
composed, as the name implies, of
British residents of Havana. It is
headed by Mrs. Frederick Louis
Stagg, whose husband is attached
to the British legation here.
The American volunteer unit
which embraces the large Ameri-
can colony continues to work four
days every week from 9 a. m.
until 5 p. m. at the spacious work-
rooms allotted to its use in the
home of the American consul gen-
eral, Couert du Bois. Mrs. George
S. Messersmith, wife of the Amer
ican ambassador to Cuba, and the
wives of the secretaries, military
and naval and air attaches, put in
a regular amount of time each
week and the resident American
colony is well represented. Visi-
tors to Havana are cordially wel-
comed and while the members of
the unit pay a monthly sum, it is
not necessary to be a member in
order to work there.
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Pool Man Power,
Tools for Defense
Washington, D. C.—An esti-
mate that 50 per cent of the
nation's manufacturing facilities
were idle came from the defense
commission in an announcement
of an initial move to pool man
power and scattered, unusued ma-
chine tools for defense work.
Morris L. Cooke, aide of Labor
Commissioner Sidney Hillman, re-
ported that three Virginia rural
counties had pooled their idle fa-
cilities on a co-operative basis in
response to the commission’s ef-
forts to revitalize “ghost town”
areas and put unused machines to
use.
Advancing the estimate that
half of all American manufactur-
ing facilities were idle, Mr. Cooke
said he believed they could be
“brought into the production of
goods for the defense program.”
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NOTICE OF SELECTION OF
COUNTY DEPOSITORY
On February 10, 1941, at 10
o’clock A. M., in the Commission-
ers’ Courtroom in the courthouse
at Refugio, Texas, applications
will be received by the Commis-
sioners’ Court from any banking
corporation, association, or indi-
vidual banker in Refugio County
that may desire to be selected as
the depository of the funds of Re-
fugio County, which shall include
all common school funds, and trust
funds in the hands of the County
Clerk and District Clerk. Said
| applications are to be submitted
to the County Judge at said time
1 and place, stating the rate of in-
i' terest, if any, offered on time de-
1 posits of the county for the term
between the date of such applica-
tion and the next regular time for
selecting of a depository. Said ap-
plication shall state the amount of
paid up capital stock and perma-
nent surplus of said bank and
there shall be-furnished with same
a statement showing the condition
of said bank at the date of the
application. Each application shall
be accompanied by a certified
check for not less than one-haif
of one per cent of the county rev-
enue of the preceding year as a
guarantee of good faith 'on the
part of the applicant and that, if
the bid is accepted, he will enter
into bond as provided by the laws
of this State.
T. G. JETER,,
County Judge,
Refugio County, Texas.
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