Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1945 Page: 2 of 8
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Bayside News
>1RS. 3. S. LANE, Correspondent
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Bayside extends its sympathy to
he Moore family in their bereave-
ment by the passing away of J. W.
Moore last Thursday. Mr. Moore
and family had lived here for a
number of years. He was a good ci-
tizen and neighbor. He had been
confined to the bed for the past four
months.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Emilie
Moore and two sons: Johnnie Moore
of Woodsboro and Clifford of Bay-
side besides three brothers and a
sister.
Funeral services were held at the
Church of Christ Brother Mont-
gomery conducting. The body was
put to rest in the Bayside Cemetery
Sunday evening at four o’clock.
Bayside received a nice rain
Saturday, which was needed so
badly. ; M
Mrs. J. W. Moore returned home
Tuesday from San Antonio where
she has been in the hospital for a
major operation. Mrs. Moore is do-
ing nicely.
Mrs. Marguerite Holder fell last
Wednesday and broke her leg.
The accident was caused by her tip-
ping over in her wheel chair.. Mrs.
Holder is in the Refugio County
Hospital.
Mesdames Bert Kramer, Floyd
Hall and Maud Moore were shop-
ping in Corpus Christi Monday.
Mrs. Ben Earp, Sr., has returned
home from a visit at Rockport.
Mesdames W. A. Montgomery
and J. G. Lane and Montgomery
children were on a business trip to
Corpus Christi Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Lane and R.
H. Montgomery were dinner guests j
in the house of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Montgomery Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Fricks are
having a home built in the St. Mary
addition.
Mrs. Jenny V. Turman of Corpus
Christi spent several days with her
mother, Mrs. Stella Buckner.
LOOKING
AHEAD
GEORGE S. BENSON
President—Marding College
Searcy. Arkansas
Serving Labor
San Francisco was the first big
city I ever saw. Young and inter-
ested in everything, I stopped one
day to look at a big piece of plate
gla~s being installed in a storefront.
It was the lunch hour ai-J the work-
men were not busy. As they ate
they drank from bottles. When the
bottles were empty, they broke
them. The incident gave me a dis-
tinct shock, and I never forgot it.
Back in Oklahoma, 60 miles from
a railroad where I had learned to
walk as well as to plow, every man-
ufactured thing was deemed to have
value. My mother literally hoarded
bottles for many useful purposes. A
milk bottle would have been prized
in her collection. My curiosity won
a battle with bashfulness and I
asked the workmen why they broke
the bottles, and they told me.
Idea to Make Work.
“You see, buddy,” the foreman
explained, “we work in glass. So
do the working men who make the
bottles. The more bottles we break
the more work they will have.”
Later I learned that this was a tra-
dition of the industry, supposedly
based on fellowship and loyalty to
Labor. At first I was very much
confused—loyalty to Labor seemed
entirely right to me, destructiveness
entirely wrong.
Just recently, Edward T. Cheyfitz,
national chairman of an important
labor union, a member of the Na-
tional Reconversion Committee of
the C.I.O., touched on the subject in
as clear and sound an economic
treatise as I ever read. It ap-
peared in the December issue of
Fortune. He called bottle breaking
a waste of labor and raw material,
typical of an old fashioned and
wrong attitude toward jobs and
wages.
For High Production.
This big labor leader said, “I know
Henry Aldrich Cooks Up
More Troubles
Ambitious and energetic as al-
ways, Henry Aldrich devises a new
and seemingly promising plan but
his family and'pals soon learn that
it’s just the old Aldrich brand dur-
ing Columbia’s “The Aldrich Fami-
ly” Friday, Dec. 7 on KTRH from
7:00-7:30 P. M. Ezra Stone stars as
Henry. Jackie Kelk is Homer and
House Jameson and Katharine Raht
are Henry’s long-suffering parents.
Music is by Jack Miller’s orchestra.
Dwight Weist announces.
KTRH NEWS
Wool Dress Saves
For Victory Bond
[WEDNESDAY IN MEXICO CITY
I REFUGIO NATIVE DIES
Funeral services were held at
Corpus Christi Cathedral Sunday
morning for Charles S. Gray, 58,
who was a native of Refugio.
Mr. Gray died Wednesday of last
week in Mexico C'tiy, after a brief
illness. He attended school in Rock-
port and had worked with the U. S.
Customs in Corpus Christi for the
past 16 years. He was a veteran of
World War I.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
S. J. Gray; a daughter, Patty Jean;
a brother, M. J. Gray; and two
sisters Miss Mattie Gray and Mrs.
Mary Kemp.
YOUR HEALTH
Reports coming in from various
esetions of the State indicate that
the number of influenza cases ap-
pears to be increasing with the ad-
vance of the fall season.
Commenting on this situation to-
day, Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health
Officer, said that most of these cas-
es are mild and lend themselves to
treatment readily. He pointed out
tfyat two cooperative factors are es-
sential to victims of this disease:
First to call the family physician
promptly when suspicions symp-
toms manifest themselves; and se-
cond, to take it easy for a reason-
able length of time after the acute
stage has subsided.
“It is essential to realize that in-
fluenza, no matter how mild the at-
tack, calls for a period of conva-
escence,” Dr. Cox said, “since se- }
rious complications can occur if this
important fact is ignored. Influ-
enza is not mass-controllable. How-
ever, those persons who maintain
the highest possible health level at
all times, increasing their resistance
to communicable disease germs, will
have a protective advantage over
those more careless persons who
abuse their health.”
The State Health Officer declared
that living by the laws of nature, se-
curing pleny of sleep, daily exercise
in the open, nourishing foods and
good personal hygiene offers the
best known bulwark against all res-
piratory diseases and added that
avoiding habits of any and all kinds
detrimental to maximum well being
is a wise course to take in the pur-
suit of good health.
of numerous cases in prewar days
where workers deliberately held
down production because they had
been made to feel that this was the
road to wage and employment se-
curity. We must educate union
membership,” he continued, “to . . .
practice high productivity. Certain-
ly labor can not increase its own
share of goods by producing less.”
To sum up the whole article, Mr.
Cheyfitz contends that labor and
management must find a common
ground if our nation, as now con-
stituted, is to survive. He said the
survival of labor unions depends on
the same thing. To find this com-
mon ground, the C.I.O. man suggests
that labor and management travel
the same road of maximum produc-
tion. Let me add, he is right.
A 40-Year Record.
History backs him up. High pro-
duction has always helped labor. In
1899 the average factory employee
toiled 60 hours a week and earned
only $420 a year because what he
produced would sell for no more
than $1,030. In 1939 the average fac-
tory worker put in only 38 hours a
week, turned out $3,140 worth of
merchandise and earned $1,150 a
year. Good tools make the differ-
ence.
With better equipment, the work-
er produces three times as much
and therefore earns three times as
much. The formula is still good.
Greater and more efficient produc-
tion will make many jobs at good
pay in the postwar years. It will
require better equipment but this
can be provided wherever employ-
ers and employees see eye-to-eye.
Mr. Cheyfitz points to the only hope
in sight for labor or capital either.
Helen Hayes Stars In
Angel Street”
Helen Hayes plays the starring
role in Patrick Hamilton’s “Angel
Street,” with Sir Cedric Hardwicke
opposite her, as the police inspec-
tor, on Miss Hayes’ dramatic series
over CBS Saturday, Dec. 8, KTRH
6:00-6:30 P. M. Lester O’Keefe di-
rects and produces, with incidental
music arranged ancj conducted by
Vladimir Selinsky.
“It Pays To Be Ignorant”
Keynote of Columbia’s “It Pays
to be Ignorant” program is psuedo-
dignity, mock formality and hilari-
ous nonsense which starts with the
appearance of emcee Tom Howard
on the stage in an academic gown
advertising “Joe’s Garage.” Under
his arm is a copy of the “Hobo
News.” From that moment, erudi-
tion goes out the window and laugh-
ter comes in. Friday evenings on
KTRH, 8:00-8:30 P. M.
Tom Howard’s “experts” in this
burlesque quiz are Lulu McConnell,
Harry McNaughton and George
Shelton, who formally and politely
shower each other with decidedly
impolite “compliments.”
So convincing is their laugh-rous-
ing abuse of one another that many
fans write Lulu offering to break
up the male members of the cast
for their insults to her. Lulu hastens
to reassure them that its all in fun j
..... and that the kick she gets j
out of it is never physical.
The four are old-time vaudevil- j
lians and they operate on the thory j
that if a thing is worth doing at all
it’s worth doing with a flourish. *So
they set out, not just to be indif-
ferently dumb—but to be as stupid-
ly stupid as possible. To be that
stupid they’ve got to be smart, and
they are. Nat Novick directs the or-
chestra in “cut-ups” of the classics
as well as humurous versions of
current tunes.
Mr. and Mrs. iBob Turner of
Houston are here with Mr. and Mrs.
R. E. Rigby, who also had as guests
Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Rigby
of San Antonio. Sunday Mrs. Rig-
by and Mrs. F. T. Watson motored
Mrs. Allie Rigby and daughter, Mrs.
E. T. Atkins of McAllen, *to visit
her sons and their wives, Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Rigby of Long Mott,
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Rigby of Sea-
drift. Mrs. R. E. Rigby and Mrs.
Watson went to see Mr. and Mrs.
Scott Taylor of Port O’Connor.
A simple, two-piece wool dress in
a basic color—black, brown, dark
green — provides opportunities for
many wardrobe changes. When
you make your own clothes it is
easy to choose styles and colors
that will mix-match well, and save
for Victory Bonds. Patterns at your
local stores, u. S. Treasury Department
Read the want-ads
Dr. W. E. Gillespie
Physio-Therapist
Second Door North of Ice Plant
Phone 4 Woodsboro, Texas
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but a full measure of good old-fashioned hospitality.
We’re never too busy to talk to you about your
problems and will gladly assist you in every way
possible.
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“Since 1912 a Growing Institution”
Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Simone-Simon “Powder Box” Guest
Simone Simon, pert French screen
star, is the guest on the broadcast
of “The Powder Box Theater” over
the Columbia . network Thursday,
Dec. 6, KTRH 9:30-10:00 P. M. Eve-
lyn Knight and Danny O’Neil are
heard in a selection of romantic
songs, with Jim Ameche as master
of ceremonies. Ray Bloch conducts
the orchestra and Fred Bethel pro-
duces.
At the peak of the tropical hur
ricane Port Lavaca, Texas, reported
wind velocity at 155 miles per hour.
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