Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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Many May
Seek Local
P. 0. Job
k
Applications Must
Be in Washington
By Tuesday, May 6
The civil service commission
will have plenty of applicants
from which to select a postmaster
for Refugio. That js, if all those
getting application blanks at the
local postoffice fill them out and
apply for the job.
According to information ob-
tained at the postoffice Tuesday
25 persons had secured the appli-
cations, thereby signifying their
intention of applying for the place
made vacant by the resignation or
Mrs. Irl F. Kennerly recently.
Many more were expected to ob-
tain blanks before May 6, the
date when all applications must
be in Washington.
An open competitive examina-
tion to fill the vacancy was an-
nounced last week by the civil
service commission at the request
of the postmaster general.
In order to be eligible for the
examination, an applicant must be
a citizen of the United States,
must have actually resided within
the delivery of this post office, or
within the city or town in which
the office is located, for at least
one year immediately preceding
the date fixed for close of receipt
of applications, must be in good
physical condition, and within the
prescribed age limits. Both men
and women are admitted.
Under the terms of an act of
Congress, approved June 25, 1938,
the civil service commission will
certify the names of the highest
three qualified eligibles to the
postmaster general, who shall
thereupon submit the name of the
one selected to the president for
nomination. Confirmation by the
senate is the final action.
Applicants will be required to
assemble in an examination room
for written tests, and will also be
rated on their education, business
or professional experience, gener-
al qualifications and suitability,
civil service board will make
an impartial inquiry among rep-
resentative patrons of the office,
both men and women, concerning
the experience, ability and char-
acter of each applicant, and the
evidence thus secured will be con-
sidered in determining the ratings
to be assigned to the applicants.
The commission is not interested
in the political, religious or fra
temal affiliations of any appli-
cant. , ..
Full information and applica-
tion forms may be obtained at the
postoffice in this city, or from the
United States «a.vil service com-
mission, Washington, D. C. Ap-
plications must be on file in the
commission’s office at Washing-
ton, D. C., not later than May
6, 1941.
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Leighty’s Storage
Lockers Makes
Attractive Offer
To better familiarize Refugians
with the advantages of cold stor-
age lockers, Leighty’s Food Stor-
age Lockers this week announces
a special trial order, whereby
those taking advantage of the of-
fer will be given two months’ free
locker rent.
“A lot of people don’t know
that a person can buy large quan
tities of meats and produce, have
them processed and pay locker
rent and still effect a considera-
ble saving,” W. A. Leighty, pro-
prietor, says.
In addition to the saving in the
price, those using cold storage
lockers, he said, have for their
own use, goods made superior in
quality by the quick-freezing
method. To give the public the
opportunity to test for themselves
the many conveniences of cold
storage lockers, the trial offer is
being made. Details will be found
on another page of this issue of
The Timely Remarks.
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Refugio Pharmacy
Now Air Cooled
With an eye to customer com-
fort and employe efficiency, Wil-
son Heard Jr., has installed and
put into operation at the Refugio
Pharmacy a Servel All-Year Air
Conditioning Unit, a modern air
cooling system, which will keep
the interior atmosphere of the
drug store at a pleasant temper-
ature at,:all times and insure the
circulation of pure, fresh air con-
tinuously.
The new appliance, operating
on gas, filters air, gives proper
ventilation between seasons, heats
in winter weather and cools dur-
ing the warm months.
Greek Statue in
King Park Now
Almost an Orphan
The bronze statue in King
Park, erected in 1937 as a
memorial to Captain Amon B.
King and his valient little
band, and sharply criticized
by many local people on ac-
count of its somewhat vague,
and rather s far-feached allu-
sion to the actual event it is
intended to portray, is almost
an orphan.
The ■ State of Texas, which
has maintained the park for
the last 25 years, says it has
no deed to the property and
has held up the appointment
of custodians. The Town of,
Refugio says it gave the
state a deed to the property
in 1916, and is willing to give
another in case the state
park board is unable to find
the original and at the pres-
ent time, City Secretary Joe
Heard and the board are try-
ing to settle the matter by
correspondence.
In the meantime, the huge
Grecian figure, kneeling sor-
rowfully with broken sword
held aloft, has other troubles
to worry about—if he is cap-
able of worrying, and he looks
as if he might be. Proud
France, the nation that gave
birth to Raol Josset, designer
of the statue, has succumbed
to the Nazi curse and all but
ceased to exist as a nation,
and an even worse fate has
been meted out to Greece,
from whose ancient style of
sculpture, the art piece is
fashioned.
Nature seems to be about
the only friend the poor fel-
low has at present. In this
hour of sorrow she has put
on her gaudiest garb in the
park and a green carpet of
grass and blooming shrubs
around him seem to be whis-
pering of better days to come.
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“Stunt Nite” Goes
“All-Out” Tonight
The American Way
Refugio High School’s “all-out”
effort, better known as “Stunt
Nite,” was in the last stages of
rehearsal the middle of this week
with public performances sched-
uled for Thursday (today), and
Friday, May 1 and 2, starting at
8 p. m. in the local high school
auditorium.
Eighty-five high school students
will take part in the 10-act per-
formance, which has as its cen-
tral theme, “The American Way.”
Prices of admission are 15 cents
for children and 25 cents for
adults, it was announced.
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Hardware Stores
Will Observe
Spring Open House
From May 1 through May 10,
the Refugio Hardware & Electric
Co. will observe National Hard-
ware Spring Open House, along
with the hundreds of other inde-
pendent hardware dealers throug-
out the nation, according to Man-
ager E. J. Freeman.
The observance of this occasion
was instituted by the independ-
ent hardware industry because of
a desire to improve their position
as one of the leading service in-
stitutions in their respective com-
munities. During the observance
of National Hardware Spring
Open House, outstanding values
in nationally advertised merchan-
dise is offered to the patrons of
the local hardware store.
These values are made possible
through the co-operation of all
manufacturers and distributors
who supply merchandise for dis-
tribution through the independent
hardware merchant.
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Woodsboro Girl to
Ride in University
Of Texas Show
Miss Pattie May Dodson, co-ed
horsewoman from Woodsboro, will
ride in the eleventh annual horse
show sponsored by Bit and Spur,
University of Texas Riding Club,
on May 3.
Miss Dodson, a member of Bit
and Spur, won a cup in the Camp
Waldemar Horse Show in English
and Western riding in 1936
gold medal in English riding in
the Waldemar show in 1938, sec-
ond place in pair class in the 1939
Bit and Spur show. She rode in
the A. & M. College show in 1939,
the Refugio Centennial show in
1936 and the Kerrville rodeo in
1938.
She is the daughter of Mrs.
Mary Jane Dodson of Woodsboro,
and is a member of Phi Mu, so-
cial sorority.
Low-Lying
Sections of
City Flooded
Week of Rainfall
Also Does Much
Damage to Farms
Streets were flooded and many
homes threatened in low lying sec-
tions of Refugio Monday when the
Mission River left its banks and
for a time threatened to repeat
the disastrous .flood of May, 1938,
following almost a week of inter-
mittent rainfall.
After reaching a stage estimated
at about 30 feet Monday evening,
however, the river began to fall,
and the danger of a damaging
overflow is now past unless there
is additional rainfall over its
watershed.
In Refugio proper the rainfall
was not so heavy, being only 3.12
inches over the week-end, while
in other section of the county it
is said to have been much heavier.
Bayside reported 7.12 inches for
the last week, while Woodsboro
4.04 inches over the week-end.
While Refugio escaped with, a
minimum of damage from the ex-
cessive rainfall, farming sections
in the southern and eastern parts
of the county have not fared so
well. Farm work, already delayed
by wet weather, is now many
weeks behind the regular sched-
ule, with no apparent relief in
sight. In the eastern section,
where about 90 per cent of crops
were up, many farms are flooded
and much replanting may be nec-
essary.
Around Tivoli and Austwell the
situation is said to be much more
serious. Only about 10 per cent
of the farmers in this section had
been able to plant their crops, and
many farms are flooded to such
an extent that will be weeks be-
fore farmers can g'et into them
to plant or replant, it is said.
Principal damage in this city
from the excessive rains consisted
of flooded lowlands and damage to
streets . In a few cases were
threatened, but the river receded
just in time to save them. Mrs.
E. W. Coward moved out of her
home in the southern part of town
Monday when backwater from the
river threatened to inundate it,
and several families near the river
east of the railroad prepared to
evacuate when the flood at its
peak began to enter that section.
The Jack Thurm‘an-Town of Re-
fugio oil well drilling in the river
bed south of town was also threat-
ened. The water was 28 feet on
the derrick constructed in bed of
the river, and all boilers and
pumps were under water Tuesday
morning. It was believed the der-
rick would ride out the flood.
While the danger of a damaging
flood was believed past Tuesday
afternoon, lowering skies forecast
further rainfall that may cause
another rise in the river and re-
verse the situation. In the main-
time farm work is at a standstill,
with much damage being done to
crops already up.
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Mourned
JUDGE L. J. WYATT
After a full life of 79 years,
the most of which was spent
in Refugio County, Judge
Wyatt passed away in this
city April 18. He was a for-
mer county official, having
served for six years as justice
of the peace of precinct No. 1.
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High School Squad
Ends Training
Period in Rain
Bond Sale
For Defense
StartsToday
First National Bank
To Push Campaign
In National Crisis
Woodsboro’s Two
Guard Companies
Have Surplus Men
Special to the Timely Remarks
Woodsboro, Texas.—The twen-
ty-first battalion of the Texas De-
fense Guard held a business meet-
ing at the local Civic Club Au-
ditorium here last Tuesday eve-
ning. The Rev. A. F. Vaughn,
chaplain of the U. S. Army, re-
tired, was the principal speaker
of the evening. The Rev. Mr.
Vaughn conducted a revival meet-
ing at the local Methodist church
last week.
Major A. D. Rooke announced
that both Woodsboro companies,
A and B, had enlisted their maxi-
mum quota of men, which calls
for 75 men on each roster. A
large number of local men have
also applied for membership, but
since enlistment was made com-
plete, these applicants will serve
as a reserve to fill vacancies in
the unit as they are needed.
At the close of the business ses-
sion, a drill session was held un-
der the lights at Dodson Park.
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Mrs. Fannie Heard
Is Critically 111
Mrs. Fannie V. W. Heard was
still critically ill late Tuesday,
when hospital attendants said
that her condition remained un-
changed. Mrs. Heard underwent
a serious operation on Monday of
last week at the Refugio County
Hospital, when it was found ne-
cessary to amputate one of her
lower lumbs to relieve an infec-
tion.
The football game between the
Refugio High School seniors and
Coach W. F. Germer’s 1941 squad
was staged Tuesday afternoon on
the school’s' rain-soaked gridiron,
after having once been postponed.
The game ended the 30-day spring
training period.
The score of the game, which
was 6 to 0 in favor of the seniors,
was incidental to the antics of the
players, who tried but failed to
kick, pass and in general to con-
trol the slippery, muddy pigskin.
Most of the game took place in
the center of the field, with the
ball changing hands frequently.
The seniors’ spore came in the
late; stages of ihe game, when
Coach Germer’s crew attempted a
punt, which was blocked deep in
their own territory. The ball was
scooped up by Melvin Sugarek on
the 10-yard line and carried over
for the touchdown. Neither team
was able to stage an effective? of-
fense, due to the condition of the
field.
As an afterpiece, Coach Jess
Harbin’s Bobkittens absorbed a
13 to 0 defeat at the hands of a
team composed of high school
eighth and ninth graders.
The Bobcats will how await
September 1, when they plan to
begin training anew for their 1941
nine-game schedule in District
No. 38-A.
The line-ups:
Bobcats— Position —Seniors
Hood ................L.E........... Stewart
Bounds ..........L.T......... McDohald
Haynes ..........L. G........... Sugarek
Melvin Null C....... Marvin Null
Loftis ..............R.G............. Turman
Evans ..............R.T............... Pitzer
Arthur ............R. E............... Heard
Crutchfield ...-Q.B............._ Burris
Larsh.............-L. H..........1.. Rhodes
Landrum ........R.H................. Scott
Morlan .........—F.B............... Nelson
Substitutes (Seniors): Archie
Barber and Kenneth Euton. Bob-
cats: John Borglund, Francis Lee
Smith, J. W. Linney and Alfred
Sugarek.
Officials: Referee, Larry (Chub-
by) Martin; head linesman, A. L.
Hall.
National defense savings bonds
and stamps will go on sale today
(Thursday, May 1) at the First
National Bank in this city, ac-
cording to a statement made this
week by B. A. Johnson, active
vice president of the institution.
The bonds, ranging in price as
low as $25, with special stamps
as low as 10 cents, will also go
on sale at the same time a t the
local postofifice.
In the near future the First
National, which will wage a cam-
paign for sale of the bonds and
stamps, expects to offer a plan
whereby every boy and girl of
school age in Refugio County will
be given a savings stamp with
their first purchase.
“Our government,” Mr. John-
son says, “desires the support of
every man, woman and child in
this great national emergency,
and the gift of a stamp to each
school child is only one of the
many ways we are going to
help.”
The defense savings program
offers everyone an opportunity to
have a part in national defense.
Of course, everyone can’t take
part in the actual construction of
a piece of defense material. How-
ever, there are mighty few who
can’t make an investment that
can be used for this purpose, it
is pointed out.
Support of the defense savings
program is a voluntary proposi-
tion. No individual need purchase
a security if he does not wish to
do so. However, for those who
wish to enter the plan, there is a
security to fit the pOcketbook of
every individual. The lowest de-
nomination of the defense savings
stamp is 10 cents, whereas the
largest amount that a person may
Timely Remarks
Offers 5,000 Votes
For Subscriptions
The race for Queen of the
May started last Saturday,
April 26, and The Timely Re-
marks’ annual subscription
offer of 5,000 votes for each
one-year subschiption is in
effect, as in previous years.
Help your favorite candi-
date win the honor of playing
the May Queen role in the
Woman’s Club coronation
ceremony by taking advan-
tage of this special offer to
subscribe and to renew your
subscription to the paper.
This offer applies only to
subscriptions. On other pur-
chases, the customary 100
votes for each $1 purchase
will be given.
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Delayed Baseball
Opener Again Set
For Sunday P. M.
The season’s opening baseball
game, carded for last Sunday and
postponed because of rain, will be
played at Ryals Park Sunday,
May 4, starting at 3 o’clock. As
announced last week, the local
team will play the Corpus Christi
Ex-Service Men in the season’s
opening game.
To complete the playing sched-
ule, a meeting of league officials
and managers will be held here
Friday night, after which Mana-
ger W. C. Reeser will announce
league plans for the season.
The league in which Refugio is
to play is composed of teams at
Odem, Ingleside, Corpus Christi
(two teams), Kingsville, Robs-
town and Victoria.
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Taliaferro Trial to
Start in District
Court Monday
District court was convened in
purchase in one year of the com- j Refugio Mor.da-afternoon at 2
bined securities, exclusive of the o’clock for a speeidl term that wdi
Piano Pupils May
Receive Credits
The State Department .of Edu-
cation has recently certified Miss
Evelyn Tidwell in music, and her
pupils in both the Refugio and
Woodsboro schools are now en-
titled to receive credit in piano.
This is a signal honor for both
teacher and schools, as there are
only about five piano teachers in
South Texas thus certified.
Miss Tidwell attended the mas-
ter class in piano and musician-
ship conducted by Stanley Chap-
pie, eminent musicologist, teach-
er and lecturer of Boston, Mass.,
in Kingsville Saturday. Mr. Chap-
pie held examinations in musi-
cianship for students registered
for high school credits in applied
music, and Miss Mary Dunn,
state chairman of applied music,
conducted the piano examinations.
stamps, is $53,750.
Continuous and systematic in-
vestment in defense saving se-
curities will promote thrift at a
time when national safety calls
for saving and not spending.
When an individual takes advan-
tage of the increase in income oc-
casioned by this national defense
program and buys as many com-
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Refugio Rotarians
Will Attend 130th
District Meeting
Several members of the Refugio
Rotary Club will attend the 130th
district conference of Rotary In-
ternational, to be held in Galves-
ton May 4, 5 and 6. Those an-
nouncing their intentions of at-
tending the annual conclave in-
clude Clarence Boone, president;
R. L. Moore, vice president; F. F.
English, secretary; V. V. Bailey,
program chairman; M. B. Null,
John Steele, Bill Reeser and I. H.
Dunbar.
“Natural Gas in National De-
fense” was the topic of the prin-
cipal address given by Ray Met-
zke of New Braunfels, an official
of United Gas Corporation, at the
weekly luncheon of the club on
Monday. The entertainment fea-
ture of the program, which was
under the direction of Rotarian
James E. Bauer, was a group of
dance numbers put on by three
young pupils of Mrs. Ray Cash’s
dance school. They were Misses
Martha Ann Bauer, Ann Bailey
and Shirley Jordan, accompanied
at the piano by Mrs. F. F.
English.
Guests of the club, besides those
already mentioned, were Rotary
129th district governor, George
Gilliam of Corpus Christi, Rota-
rian Bill Pearson of Houston, Joe
Mistretta of Victoria, Clyde Stal-
cup of Sinton and Jimmy
Bauer Jr.
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continue for four months unless
closed or extended before that
expires. Judge Howard P. Green
presided.
Monday’s session was a short
one, the only business handled be-
ing selection of a special venire
of 75 men from which to select a
special venire of 75 men from
which to get a jury to try Carl
Taliaferro for the murder of John
Ryals, which occurred here last
November. Following selection of
the venire court adjurned until
Monday morning, May 5, at 9
o’clock, when the Taliaferro trial
is scheduled to start. The case of
the State of Texas vs. Mrs. Daisy
Chapman has also been set for
Monday.
Other important cases to come
up during the special term include
the civil suit of Abraham Krause
et al. vs. Thomas O’Connor et ah,
set for Monday, July 14.
Fifteen Girls
Enter May
Queen Race
Contest Promises to
Become Heated;
Coronation May 30
Fifteen young ladies, all mem-
bers of the senior class of the lo-
cal high school, have entered the
contest to determine which of
them will be voted queen of the
Refugio Woman’s Club annual
May Queen coronation. The af-
fair wil be held this year May 30
in the high school auditorium.,
with the queen, one princess, six
duchesses and their escorts form-
ing the court, to which dukes and
duchesses from neighboring towns
will be invited.
In order that the candidates
may be more easily identified, a.
few of the salient facts about
them and their affiliations are
listed. They are mentionel in. al-
phabetical order.
Lorene Balusek, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Balusek, is
well-known to many Refugians as
she is an employe, after, school
hours, at the Cardinal Drive-Inn.
Mr. Balusek is the proprietor of
Henry’s Garage, and the family
attends Our Lady of Refuge
Catholic Church.
Stella Mae Buckner came here
from Mountain Home, Ark., and
stays with the Rev. and Mrs. J.
M. McCormack. She works with,
the Methodist Young People’s or-
ganizations and placed second in
senior girls’ declamations during
the recent county meet.
Jolill Cash is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Cash, the for-
mer an oil field employe. She was
drum corps cheer leader this fall,
had a part in the senior play,
and attends the local Presbyterian,
church.
Bessie Mae Collins’ parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Collins, are
also one of the families brought
here by the oil business. She was
secretai ? of her class in freshman,
year am. ..' .tends, the Church of
Christ at Bayside.
Irene Doble’s mother is Mrs.,
M. M. Chastine, and Mr. Chastrae
is an oil engineer at Quintana,
where Irene teaches the primary
class in the Quintana Sunday
school. She was placed on the all-
star cast in Victoria as the result
Woodsboro Stages
Flower Show
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Local Youths to
Work on Football
Stadium Project
Gas Corporation
Changes Hours
The United Gas Corporation has
announced a change in the office
hours, effective last Saturday.
Henceforth, the offices will be
open between the hours of 1 p. m.
and 4:40 p. m. on week days and
from 8:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. on
Saturdays.
620 Commercial
Tags Sold Here
Exclusive of passenger car li-
censes, about 620 commercial li-
cense plates had been sold by the
county tax collector’s office Mon-
day, April 28, the last day com-
mercial licenses could be bought
without penalty to purchases, ex-
cept for those used on new ve-
hicles.
Of the plates sold, 188 were for
farming trucks, 306 were com-
mercial plates and about 125 were
trailer licenses. The number of
passenger car plates sold up to
April 1 totaled 1,719 and addi-
tional plates are being sold daily.
The La Rosa Garden Club
Woodsboro staged a successful
flower show at the Civic "dug au-
ditorium in that city last Satur-
day.
Featured in the impressive dis-
play of flowers were calla lilies,
roses, forget-me-nots, glads, rat-
tail statics, lobelias, carnations,
summer flowering chrysanthe-
mums, frilly petunias, double and
single hollyhocks, among them
pink Indian Summer, and colum-
bines.
The show was in charge of Mrs,
F. W. Jones and Mrs. Bob Hintz
of Woodsboro, and Mrs. Edward
Ettel and Mrs. O. B. Futz of Cor-
pus Christi were judges.
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School Cast to
Present Comedy
“Jewels of the Desert,” a musi-
cal comedy in two acts, under the
direction of Miss Betty Chrisco
and Tom Lucas, will be presented
Thursday night and Friday night,
May 8 and 9, at the high school
auditorium at 8 o’clock.
Elaborate costumes and scenery
are some of the highlights of the
program. A different cast of
players will give the program on
each night. Next week a list of
the names of each cast and which
night they will play will be pub-
lished. The dances are through
the courtesy of the Dorothy Stolz
Dancing Studio.
The program will be highly en-
tertaining. Everyone is cordially
invited to attend. There will not
be any admission charge, as this
is one of the closing programs of
the school year.
Thirty-five young men between,
the ages of 16 and 24 enrolled last
Saturday for National Youth Ad-
ministration work experience and
signed the necessary papers for
employment on the local public
school’s football stadium project,
which is expected tio get under
way before May 15.
Local officials expressed the
opinion that the, number to ap-
ply for jobs on the project would
of have been much greater except
for the extremely damp weather
at the hour appointed for regis-
tration. It was announced that
registration is still open and ail
others desiring employment will \
be signed up any time at the of-
fice of Superintendent John Ll
Cooke at the school.
The selection of supervisors by
NY A officials was said to be the
temporary delay in getting actual
work under way. Regulations
specify that there must be one
supervisor for each 35 boys on
the job. Applications for these
places were still being accepted
by NYA officials, it was said.
A carload of lumber to be used
on the stadium project was un-
loaded at the school this week.
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Four Have Same
Draft Numbers
U:
Experts say that it happens
only once in a million times, but
it happened four times in 1,400 in
Refugio County.
Four persons who registered ira
this county for the draft have
identical serial and order num-
bers. The serial numbers were
given by the local draft board and
sent to" Washington, where they
were placed in the hopper with
those from the entire nation for
the big drawing, and numbered in
the order drawn.
Those holding identical num-
bers are Elvin Finley Atkinson
of Refugio, No. 79; David Hillary
Wallace of Woodsboro, No. 807;
Gilbert L. Carabajal of Woods-
boro, No. 1067, and Lonnie Bess,
colored, of Refugio, No. 1106. ^
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Jones, J. L. Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1941, newspaper, May 1, 1941; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874879/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.