Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1944 Page: 1 of 4
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Complete Coverage Of The Faifurrias Trade Territory
Dairying, Cattle, Citrus, Truck, Cotton, Peanuts
FALFURRIAS FACTS
ESTABLISHED IN 1906— BROOKS COUNTY S ONLY NEWSPAPER
VOLUME XXXVII
FALFURRIAS. TEXAS, THURSDAY. FEB. 17, 1943
NUMBER 38
Fifty Two Brooks
Countv Men Get
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Physical Exams
Biff Group Leaves Wednesday
For Checkup Thursday;
February Call Increased
4Crr ; March Call Upped 50T
Fifty-two Brooks county draft reg-
istrants 'eft Faifurrias Wednesday
Jesus F. Guerrero
Killed In Explosion
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The body of Pfc. Jesus F. Guer-
rero. 23. son of Estaban Guerrero of
this city, who was killed Februiry
12 In a pun explosion while on
maneuvers at Fort Dix, N. J , ar-
rived Friday morning, February
18. urder guard of S^t. Ellis M
Avila
Newspaper reports of the accident
stated that Pfc. Guerrero was one
Juggernaut in the Jungles
Aid
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P
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for the San Antonio induct on cen- of 17,0 killed In the explosion
ter w'here they wdll undergo pre-in- ! which also injured eight other so'-
ductlon physical oxamanitions. It I filers. It was stated a 155 mlUimeter
was announced by the local Selec- howitzer shell exploded In the muz-
tlve Service Board, ■ zle of '.Ire gun while being used in
It was pointed out that this is a i field artillery naneuvers.
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pre-induction physical examination
and those who qual fy automat-
ically will have 21 days or more be-
fore Induction.
The Brooks county board is in
receint of telegrapic orders dated
Pfc. Guerrero entered the army j
on January G, 1942, as a Brooks |
county registrant.
Capt, M. C. L ttlefield of Faifur-
rias Company D. Texas State Guard,
turned out an escort guard to meet
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Drilling Reports
In Faifurrias Area
February 14 to drastically increase the early morning train,
the February and March calls. A - Services were to be conducted
cording to these orders the February at the Sacred Heait Church, w ith
call is to be increased by 40 per- interment in the locrl cementer .
cent and the March call is raised I Death of young Guerrero brings
50 percent. 1 the Brooks county Wcr Casulty to-
Pelective Servce officials stated tal to five,
the draft boards are facing the most
critical period in their history with
over increasing calls.
The following men left Wednes-
day for examinations set for Thurs-
day: 'They will be certified for Ar-
my General Service, Army Limited
Service, or Navy — including Coast
Guard and Marines):
Adan Cavazos, Enrique Casanova,
Anastacio Cruz, Eugenio Sanchez
Moreno Jr., Ones mo Cruz, Apolinar
Gonzalez, Casim ro Naranjo, Lupe
Mireles, Maclovio Pena, Elijio Ra-
mos, Gilberto Ponce, Chas. Trad,
Guadalupe Jaime Ramos. Doroteo
Garcia, Tomas Mendez, Jose Maria
Garza, Gilberto Chavera, Zeve eo
Martinez, Claude E. Williams, Am-
brosio G. Garcia, James T. Maupin
Jr„ Gilberto Garcia. Manuel P. Go-
salvez, Jose Soliz, Jose Gonzalez,
Dwa n M. Thornton, Ysidro Garci i.
Noel O. Villarreal. Ricardo Soliz, Ray
Chester Cowey, Clyde O. Arnold,
Antonio Lozano Martinez, Dale O.
Maun Jr., Alfredo Ortiz, Lamar Vil
la, Larkin O. Crosson Jr., Edmundo
Mireles. Pedro Garza Ramirez, Da-
vid Garza. Felipe Rodriguez, Ama-
P. Barrera. Alberto Moya, Leonel
B. Cavazas. Eliseo G. Munoz.
The following Broks county men
were tiansferred to other boards:
Zenon Moya, Luciano D Marro-
quin Jr., Juan De. Ramos, Wm. Le-
muel Will a ms, Lcnnie E. Newburn,
William M. Goff. Maximiliano Ar-
redondo, Forrest E. Whitcher.
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STRIKING at dawn, Australian foot soldiers, screened bv Matilda tanks, raptured SuttelberiJ village on the northeast
coast of New Guinea last November, thus consolidating for United Nations forces the "rategic Yitiaz Strait which
aeparates New Guinea from New Hritain. 1 he tanks, flown into the tuttJ.e uuJ in battle lor the tirst time, surprised
the Japs, speeded the fail of their stronghold.
Humble Oil and Refining Co. No.
1 Scott and Hopper, Scott and Hoo-
per discovery well, finished at 6,912
feet.
Humbe Oil and Refining Co. No
2 Scott and Hopper, location.
Humble Oil and Refining Co. No
3 Scott and Hopper, coring and dr 1-
ling at 6,416 feet.
Th" Sun Oil No. 1 Mary Lasate-.
WITH BROOKS COUNTY MEN
Aft UnifavAm
Three Biooks county boys, Pvt ! all of us a tit more proud to be A
Godfrey L. Vela, Daniel Telles and meilcans, a bit more Interested in
Reno Salinas, report having taken j our government----Prices (in In-
on the Gvn Hill prospect in Surve--1 their f rst. r'ider flight at Camp dia • have gone sky high. Coffee. In-
349 is drilling at 5,945 feet. Mackall, and b»ing in the air for dian coffer, when avai able, costs
Two tests ready to spud near Alta the first time without a motor to , four and five dollars a pound, d '
Mesa, both of them due f r wildcat f’.’.prort them is a unique expert- pend ng on how good a haggler you
depths, are the Standard Oil Com once They a e in Glider Infantry, are----All American soldiers am
nnnv of Kansas No. 23 Mestena Oil Jack Flack, Marine corps, who i- Rajahs (to the Indians). We are
& Gas Company, in Share 5. I,a , at present assigned to a resf sta- never referred to as«nnything les*
Mestena Grant, and the Standard tion somewhere in the Hawaiian than a Sahib (pronounced Sa-ab>.
of Kansas No. 4 B. G. de Barcia, i ' Islands, has been promoted to the (Editor’s Note: In the Indian so-
T.a Encantada Grant. Both are now rank of coriioral. Congratulations, cial system a Rajah or a Sahib i.s
riezed un. All the smart alecs who have been an important man > ... Aetuallv,
Tim Shell Oil Company No. 1 raz. ing Ph M Mario Bennett, the snake menace is less here than
Guaranty State Bank, in Survey WAVE, about the WAC had better ir Texas----Right now I feel that
take care that they never get as- I could cuddle up with
I Brooks County Goes
r .Over Top In War
Loan Campaign
$119,000.00 Quota Exceeded
By $27,525.75 As Fourth
War Loan Drive Ends; Con-
tinuation Of Buying Urged
Brooks countv. as In the nast
I three drives oversubscribed its $119
ooo eo Fourth War loan quota bv
525.75. it was revealed earlier
, this week as the war bond campaign
j officially ended with a total of $146,
I 525.75.
R L Schultz, county chairman
for the sale of War Bonds and
j S'amps, revealed that individual
| purchasers accounted for $76,343 25
j in Series F itnnd*. A breakdown of
i the total shows the following. Series
| F $12,732.50, Series G $15,200.00,
ISeries G (corporations) $2.000 00:
ISeries C (corporations) $35,250.00,
| 2'.j, individuals $1.000 00. corpor-
ations $1,000.00: 78r;, individuals
$1.000 00, corporations $2,000.00; to-
tal individuals $106,27575, corpor-
ations $40,250.00, grand total $146,-
525 75.
Of this total. Chairman Schultz
credited Faifurrias Boy Scouts with
________________ | $19,150.50 In one-day house-to-house
-----campaign last week. The local Cac-
i , ill tus Theatre cooperated in the drive
tf 1; Animal Report with a special War Band Premiere
I i last Friday night which played to
an overflowing house. Individual
and groups In the county offered
full cooperation to establish a new
record in local War Bond sales.
The official Brooks County War
Shows Biu Program
Home Demonstration work in
Biooks County for 1943 was based Bond sales oraglnizatlon, headed hy
on the VICTORY DEMONSTRA Schultz, has taken this means of
TORS PLEDGE, reports AMha publicity thanking the public for
Barrett, county home demonstra its whole-hearted cooperation In the
tion agent. That pledge says: Fourth War Loon Drive which could
As a VICTORY DEMONSTRA- not otherwise have been sucessful.
TOR doing my best to help win the Especially thanked are Seoutma*-
war I will produce food, feed and ter Harry Dutton and the Boy Scouts
fiber to assure pood health Tor my- 0f Troop 28. Scoutmaster Francisco
self, my family and others. Trevino Jr. and the Boy 8eouts of
I will take good care of every- 1 Troop 24, Gene Flowler and the Cac-
hing I ire; food, clothes, furnis- tus Theatre, the Faifurrias band
ings, equ'pment, machine, build 0n(j school officials and the fellow-
ings, livestock and the soil as well |ng ladles for their efforts: Mrs. C.
as scarce articles such as rubber p- Hopper, Mrs. E D. McIntyre. Mrs.
and ruetnls. j. pj Scott, Mrs C. F Wrgenschein,
I will buy carefully anything I Mrs. Lewis Sheiness, Mrs. W. B.
must have and I vill buy U. S f><- Gardner, Mrs. Charles long. Mrs.
721. a mile northeast of tbe Kcl.m • take rare that tney never get as- i could ruddle up with a eo i-
F eld in Brooks, is still idle at 25 rigned to the Oakland (Cal) general pie of Texas rattlesnakes and p>1 Ii nsp Limps or bonds with all t.ie Guy Rainey, Mrs. Roy Sandy, Mrs.
feet after spudding in. hospital because “fcuttlebut” hss it chummy with them .... This is Jan- ........
Sun Oil Co No 3 J W Miller that she wields certain influence uarv 23 and I received a whole lot
Section f>5. Seeligson Field of south
over “the old man” — as witness , of Christmas packages____Wc are
ern .Tim Wells County, .well origin -I that, nlce,leave period she is cur- , not enjoying this war. There is
ally completed Feb. 19, 1942 given rol^J enjoying.
ranontial after dual completion in
S Sgt. Bennie Dunn, stationed
with a Quartermaster Truck Com-
I nothing we would like better than
The following Brooks men failed potmiHar^st.’ rTodLced^Te^baV! j J*?!”
rels of oil through 'n-inch choke
We i 3 A. Zone 14. produced 157 39
hirrels of oil through 'n- rch choke.
Fun Oil Co. No. 18 ,T. W. Miller
to report as ordered: Doroteo Gar-
za and Zaragoza Soliz.
The following men were transfer-
red here from other boards and left
Wednesday: Earl R. Saide, James pppligson Field, Zone 19. on 24 hour
H. Reynolds, Bryan W. Fullurigh*.
John A. Cochran, Joe Bailey Ad-
cock, Ponciano Morales.
The following men were trans-
fers but failed to report: Carl Mor-
ris Evans, Franc'sco Dimas.
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Brooks Cattlemen
Report Infestation
of Lice Among Beef
a very interesting long letter an 1
gives us a chance to brush up oui
knowledge of that mysterious jewel
of the Indian Ocean. We'd like to
rrint the letter in its entirety but
.space forbids. Here are a few ex-
cerpts: “This war will end some-
time, and I truly think it will make
*nct. produced 151.32 barrels of oil
°nd 10.82 barrels of water through
•■?-inch choke. Zone 20. on 24-hour
test, through 3-16-inch choke made i r>QriJ
59.43 barrels of oil and 21.65 bar-1 nana v
rels of water.
Sun Oil Co. No. 21 J. W. Miller, j
Seeligson Field, location ready. |
moving In rig.
The Texas Co. No. 1 Tijerina
wildcat about one mile south of
$5,506.25 In Bonds
Supt. H. Lee Clifton revealed
earlier this week that the Victory
Band Concert and patriotic skit
presented Thursday night of last
_ „ J , week in the high school audit-
Seeligson Field, drilling below 6.509 j ortum sold a totaI of $5,506 25 in
to get back homo. Many of us will
have changed and most of us w'l!
be better citizens because of our
experiences.”
Word i.s received from Guadalu-
pe Lozano of Concepcion. Texas,
who is stationed at Chanute Field
Illinois. He Is with a technical
school squadron.
S2 c Tommy Smith is stationed
money I can Ruby Palmer. Mrs. F. J. Rupp, Mrs.
I will work hard with my family F L. Vickrey,
and neighbors and help people to ire ( halrman Si hultz especially re-
cheerful. to have courage and to cognized the following members of
take part in all war activities the official Brooks county War Boni
Two hundred eighteen v ctory, commlttCP. j R Jr w B
oledge cards were signed. Of these Gardner. J. O. Norris. Lazaro Lopez,
64 were club members, 37 were 4-H j w Wilson. H. Lee Clifton. R. L.
members, representing the total of aohultz, T. R. Bennett, F L. Vickrey,
' " !l W. A. flttockton, Mauricio Ooivalez,
Every community of Brooks coun- ; c Thomas. Diego Cnlifa, M P. Gos-
ty was reached with home demon- alvf>Zt Miss Nellie Villarreal, R D.
stratlon work in 1943. This woik Motgan, R T Moore and R O. Cage.
w;as carried out by three methods: [___xxx_
work with organized club ; work
at Corpus Christ! at the Naval Air I with unorganized groups through
Training Station and from news re-
ceived l>y his family pxoects soon
to be sent East for further train-
ing.
Steve and Edward Escobar were
at home recently on a ten-day fur-
lough. Edward i.s in the Navy and
help of community committee
chairmen, and through ind vidual
help. The gasoline shortage hin-
dered laige group meetings. As
j many combinations of work as pos-
sib'e were done to save driving.
Enrollment at the close of 1943
for the five clubs totaled 64
Sermons On Doctrines
Of Christendom At
Presbyterian Church
feet.
In the past two months Brooks
county cattlemen have noted a, .. _• u j
severe infestation of cattle lice | nal^.SeeJlgscn Field, drilling l.e-
with some deaths of animals l*e-
War Bonds and Stamps as a part
ing reported. The cattle louse is
detrimental in that they suck blood
from their hosts, leaving the ani-
mal weak and unthrifty.
The control recommended is to
dip or spray a solution c<*r»posed
of 1 pound of cube or derris <5^
Sun Oil Co. No^ ~7 Praxedls Ca-|0j Forth War Loan Drive.
A special box of candy was auc-
tioned off to the highest bidder
through the courtesy of the Curtis
Candy Company and went to J. R.
Scott Jr. for a $500.00 War Bond.
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low 4.954 feet.
Sun Oil Co. No. 29 Praxedis Ca-
a'es, Seeligson Field, total depth.
6.057 feet, making drill stem test in
Zone 16.
Sam E. Wilson. Jr. No. 1 J. P Min -
ten, Block 12. Wilson Field, drilllnt
below 7,116 feet.
Standard of Texas No. 1. The Al-
Basketball Team
Suffers First Defeat
is stationed at Pensacola, Florida. J
and Seteve Is with an Army unit at j represented 64 families. 4-H eluh
Camp Chaffee. Arkansas O ganlzed In the communlt'es
News is received by Mrs. L J but renresent four eommunities is
Hise that her son. Farl. who i.s sta- ! eirls of Raehal go to school in En-
tioned at Camp Mackall, North Car-, ainn and belong to the rlul. there
olina. has been promoted to Pri ,7he three clubs’ membership total
rotenone), 10 pounds of wettabie uance Trust company, Sejfta Field
vate First Class.
H. H. Hampton, currently station-
ed at Camp Fannin, Texas, arrived
in town Wednesday to spend a few
days of a seven-day furlough here.
He expects to reaswgned to a
new camp when he returns.
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37. representing 34 families. . ,
Victory demonstrations carried ”1
out In the county during 1943 were;
Oarden 80 poultry-83; farm fruit
p:ot-15; elothing-30; yard-24; bed
A series of sermons based upon
some of the outstanding teachings
of the scriptures, with titles taken
rpj.-,. from the Apostle's Creed. Is an-
nounced for the next few Sunday
mornings at the Presbyterian
Church.
Thv minister will preneh upon
these great historic doctrines of
Christendom, using the subjects:
“I Belclvp in God the Father Al-
in the Deify
of Jesus Christ His Son,” “I Be-
lelve in the Holy Ghost.” “I Be-
lelve in the Church." “I Beleive In
room-20: living room-21; kitchen Antonement,
Sinn.”
and
and
“The Pov-
"The Life
sulfur and 100 gallons of water
The spraying or dipping should be
repeated every 10 to 14 days until
all lice have been killed
( Continued on Page 4>
Annual Compaign
Additional information may be To Rid County Of
Easley" fr°m C0Unty A*cnt Coyotes Underway
The Faifurrias High School bas-
ketball team suffered its first de-| Red CrOSS War V Und
feat in s x games when the Alice |\r:v« 1
Coyotes treumed the locals 32 to | 1,1 1
18 in that city last Tuesday.
Supt. II. Lee Clifton stated ear-
lier this week that high school boys
(Continued from Page 2>
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Boy Scout Service
Held Last Sunday
The Boy Scout union worship
service, held last Sunday night at
the First Presbyterian Church, was
well attended and brought to a
close the observance of Boy Scout
week. Both Scouts and Cubs, in un-
iform, attended the service which
was presided over by the Rev Paul
D. Hanna.
Scouts wer# in charge of the ser-
vice. B F. Clifton supervised a can-
dle-lighting ceremony and the en-
t re group participated in repeating
the pledge of allegiance. Darrell
Richardson addressed the gather-
ing and Robert Todd and Paul Dean
Hanna served as ushers durin* thf
service.
Plans arc nearing completion to
b^gin 'he Red Cross War Fund Drive I -
...in tvoAL-M bare on March 1. it was stated by ,
mentary school is set for a soft -1 <?uo a r>f ***[*
J 1 quota, and every individual is called
30: and repairing the house-35 ! Klv®ness of^
In interior home improving re- Everlasting,
cords show that club women reseat 1 us ls a SCI s*’rmons upon
ed 15 chairs, rcflnlshed 20 nieces of "Convictions to Live Bv “Forever ”
furniture, renovated 5 pieces of Thr flrst °r ,he «prmons was given
furnture, reupholstered 17 chairs 'ast R,iru'ay upon T Beleive in Ood
the Father Almighty.....
I campa>n was started Monday of
lest wook, with the Fish 8* WUd-
j life Service cooperating with
County Agent Tom Easley in the
drive.
The annual drive to rid the
county of this pest has been igr-
rid on for several years, and re-
sults in additional wildlife has been
noted not. to mention thousands of
poultry that has been saved. W. \
StocHcn. lo^al Jhlmer, has V>s*
-ver 30 turkeys dur'ng last year tr
coyotes, and the number of wild
turkeys caught will run Into thf
hundreds.
Warning signs will be posted a'
ranch gates and dog owners are ad-
vised to confine their dogs if thej
are near the area where polsor.
baits have been d stributed.
bail program.
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and the sec-
ond will be given this Sunday. “T
Beleive in the Deity of Christ" Th
fhoir will be present to tnke pait
in these services. A cordial invita-
tion i.s extended the public to at-
tend and worship through the ser-
Texas livestock ranches sh piled vices of the Church.
104.33S cars of livestock to out-of- xxv
Faifurrias Girl Hurt
In Auto Accident
Juanita Crostwalte, local school
student, v as ser'ously injured Fri-
day night of la * week when a car,
driven by Ra” Dea.’On and occupied
by a group ol young p**od1c. over-
’uincd near Premont. Miss Crost-
waite suffered facial injuries and
wa* hospJta'ized at the time.
i upon to do his part in the drhrt*
which ls designed to raise funds in . , . . ... ... .
I anticipation of the great war of- I 2 Notary C lub Host To
fensives soon to come.
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Faifurrias Faculty
stockyards during 1943, a gain of . XT _
more than 4.000 ears over 1942 ship- .Army, INavy tiUCStS
ments, the University of Texas Bu- |
reau of Bu iness Research has | Capt. K. B Nelson, head of the
Outing Wednesday
The Faifurrias H gh School fac-
found. Army engineering program at A
Only class of livestock to show Si I. College, Lt. Hart. Army student
a decline from 1942 to 1943 wa:- company commander at A. & I
ulty enjoyed a hamburger supper j calves, shipments falling Trom 13
and outstanding on the sandhills 985 rars to 11,715.
rrutbeast of the Gardner Ranch 1 Shipment* included 62.903 cars ol
Wedensday evening At this out- cattle. 16,402 cars of hogs and 13
Ing it was revealed that. 23 member., j 316 cars of sheep,
of the faculty have signed pledges December ihlpments, tota'lng -1.
_ ______ _ _______________ to participate in the forthcoming 026 cais. were made up of 3,406 cars rled on at the college and Miss Ben-
Mrs Howard Behrent spent Wed-j B'ood Bank collection campaign on | of cattle, 964 cars of calves, 1.168 net spoke briefly of her work at th 1
nesc’ay In Corpus Chrlstl l March 6 and 8 | cars of hogs and 488wars of sheep. Oakland, Cal., naval hospital.
Mrs. W. B Oardnar. Mrs. W. A.
Gardner, Mrs. J. R. Scott. Mrs. Paul
Hanna, Mrs. C. F Wagensehein and
College, and Marie Bennett. Ph.M
3 c, were guests of the Rotary Club
of Faifurrias at the regular Wed-
nesday luncheon meeting
Capt. Nelson exp'ained the Army
student training program as car-
o
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