Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1942 Page: 4 of 4
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1942
IOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Couling and
brother, Mr. and Mrs. Mauro
Vasquez and son, and sister, Ma-
ria Olga, spent this week in Cor-
pus Christi.
Tony Salinas and Lacho Cana-
les were Corpus Christi visitors
Tuesday.
Jane and Idolina Canales, and
Mr. and Mrs. Adolfo Barrera
were Corpus Christi visitors Sun-
day.
Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Schultz and
L. B. Clark spent the week-end
fishing in Corpus Christi.
Mrs. R. R. Gonzales and chil-
dren and mother, Mrs. Lucinda
G. Leal, spent Saturday and
Sunday in Laredo.
Emma Canales employed in
the Benavides Post Office is on
a week’s vacation in Corpus
Christi.
R. R. Gonzales visited in Heb-
bronville with his brother, G. G.
Gonzales, and family Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Tilton and
daughter, Ann, returned home
from a fishing trip from Don
Martin Lake in Mexico.
Mrs. G. L. Adami and daugh-
ter returned home from Corpus
Christi, after spending a few
days visiting her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Curtis and
family who have moved to Alice
from Benavides visited friends
here Friday.
David Roberto, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roberto Cruz, who was in-
jured Wednesday morning when
an automobile tire rim fell on
the toe of his right foot, was
treated by Dr. Schultz.
Geronimo Reras, First Class
Private of the U. S. Army at
Fort Brown, was called here to
the bedside of his sister, Mrs. C.
W. Harvey, last week. He re-
turned to his station Monday.
to the frti ten
Norfolk, Va.
Dear Mr. Beaman:
Just a few words to say how-
dy. There are many training
camps in the grand old State of
Virginia.
I am enjoying Navy life very
much. It is not exactly like my
old job at the filling station on
the highway back home, but it is
lots of satisfaction to know that
I am helping win the war.
Give my address, United States
Naval Cadet Training Center,
N.O.B. 12 Brt. Company “C” Pit.
4., to my friends so I can have
a word from Benavides.
Yours very truly,
Lazaro G. Benavides.
A WHOLE CITY
To feed and clothe the troops
in one Army Corps Area requires
98,000 miles of highway and 131
miles of government-owned rail-
ways connecting 20,000 buildings
of nearly 2,500,000 acres of mili-
tary reservations.
Three employes of a Cincinna-
ti, Ohio, plant lived within three
blocks of each other and drove
36 miles to work each day. Each
saved 8,200 miles of driving a
year by pooling his car through
a Labor-Management committee.
In wartime it isn’t a good idea
to lose sleep at night because it
isn’t a good idea to try to find
it at work the hext day.
On* luck outoF Every Ten
you earn should feeqoinq a
into U.S. Bonds - Stamps /
R. & S. TRUCK CO.
E. (Speedy) MARTINEZ
Manager
BENAVIDES, TEXAS
Community Church
Rev. E. W. Mitchell, D. D.
Pastor
Bible School 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship, 10:45 a. m.
“The Way Up.”
Evening Worship, 8:15 p. m.
“Sonship.”
Monday 4 p. m. The Womans
Council meets with Mrs. Frank
Brooks.
Wednesday, 8:15 p. m. Prayer
meeting and study of Daniel.
Misses Fanny Salinas and Bar-
barita Cadena are visiting in
Corpus Christi this week.
Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Schultz were
Corpus Christi fisherman over
the week-end.
Miss Emma Carrillo returned
home Friday after finishing her
summer school work at A&I Col-
lege.
Among those who attended the
Rotary District Convention in
Alice Sunday and Monday were
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McKee, Mr.
and Mrs. Eddie Klaeger, J. W.
Kunetka and Clarence Stock.
O. P. Carrillo, J. A. Canales
and F. Carrillo were Alice visi-
tors Saturday.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Hess of
Fosteria, Ohio, and Dr. D. E.
Schultz were Monterrey, Mexi-
co, visitors this week.
Dr. R. C. Elliott of San Anto-
nio was a visitor here Monday
enroute from Laredo.
'Auditor Gives
Report On Handling
Of Old Age Fund
State Auditor C. H. Cavness
reported, after his current exa-
mination of the records, that in
his opinion all taxes collected for
the Old Age Assistance Fund
have been properly handled by
the State Comptroller and State
Treasurer and that every in-
dividual old age assistance ap-
plicant who has been duly certi-
fied by the State Department of
Public Welfare has been paid in
full the entire amount to which
he is legally entitled to date.
The State Auditor pointed out
that under the present Federal
law, with which the State law
must conform, all monthly pay-
ments to each individual are fix-
ed by the Department of Public
Welfare after investigation of
each case to determine actual j
individual need. He said that the!
amount of the cash balance that
may be on hand cannot legally
be used to increase the size of
the checks—that any excess cash
over the amount necessary to pay ;
the ones on the roll can be used
only to increase the number, and I
that the total cash balance, after
the July 1942 checks had been
written was only $15,813.96.
Cavness als o stated that
176,413 Old Age Assistance
checks were issued for July
1942, or an average of $19.86 per
check. In July 1941 checks were
issued^ to 144,359 old people— B. Newhall, the so-called “rubber
Thrifty Tips for the Homemaker
XX dainty beruffled dressing tables
that decorate the luxury boudoirs
in the movies?
They can be
achieved easily
and thriftily at
home if you
make sewing a
hobby. Two old
packing cases
and a board to
join them are
all you need for
a foundation. Cover the top with fab-
ric or enamel paint. Then with about
three yards of candy-striped cotton,
printed voile <Sr organdy, you can
stitch up a glamorous dressing
table skirt for as little as a dollar.
A vigorous daily brushing is an
ideal beauty treatment for your
hair; but. you can’t expect this
ritual to achieve glossy locks un-
less you use a clean brush. Your
hair brush will thrive on the
Weekly shampoo that hygiene de-
mands, if you use mild Swan soap
to make rich, creamy suds. Always
rinse your hair brush sev-
eral times in cold water.
Wipe all water off the
handle and back; place on
a bath towel with bristles
up to dry in the sun.
treatment for bringing the pile
back to normal is to apply a hot
iron on a damp cloth to the spots;
then brush the pile to its normal
position. The same treatment may
be used on both the face and back
of the carpeting
to prevent curl-
ing at the cor-
ners.
. v Is heavy furniture mak-
ing deep indentations in
your carpet? First aid
When you're
washing booties,
Jackets and caps
for Baby, it’s
smart economy
to stretch them gently as the
chubby youngster grows bigger.
Swan soap is grand for Baby’*
laundry. This new white floating
soap is as mild and pure as the
finest imported castile and so in-
expensive you can afford to use it
for general household duty as well
as Baby’s special needs and your
own beauty treatments. Always
rinse knitted garments in tepid
water. Squeeze the water out
gently and pat out the garment to
the slightly larger measurements
you desire. Dry on a bath
towel.
* * *
Breakfast perfection Will
never be marred by waste-
ful cracks in the soft boil-
ed eggs if you’ll add a
pinch of salt to the boiling
water before you pop ia
the eggs.
Draft Boards
Get Lists Of 24
Vital War Jobs
wm
average $18.54. This is an in-
crease in 12 months of 32,054
checks and $1.32 in their aver-
age monthly amount. Since Jan-
czar” appointed by W.P.B. Di-
rector Donald Nelson. Under
Newhall are two experts, one re-
sponsible for synthetic rubber
uary 1941 the lowest average j production, the other for produc-
check was $11.47 in May 1941 tion of natural rubber resources.
"~'4 t..-.- _____ . Responsible for •the natural
rubber program is A. C. Brett
whose title is deputy co-ordinator
and July 1942 was. the highest.
The average having increased
somewhat every month since
June 1941.
THIS ACT OF MERCY is repeated
many times a day in pharmacies through-
out the land -where trained scientists com
pound and dispense the remedies that bring
relief to the suffering. De Leon takes pride
in their role of easing pain and saving lives.
When loved ones are in danger, don’t take
chances with faulty prescription filling. With
men who know medicine best—it’s always
De Leon’s.
VISIT OUR GIFT DEPARTMENT
BENAVIDES, TEXAS
of the W.P.B. rubber section.
“The rubber content of the
A llv.«J cryptostegia plant is high,” com-
/Alirea VJlVCS mented Brett. “We certainly are
Full 9nrmrki*t Tn i h°Peful that it may turn out to
ru113Upport lo | be an important source of rub-
>Vin The Peace ! ^er’ and * think the chances are
_ j very good that it will be ex-
. ! plointed successfully.”
Pushing his aggressive win-1 j ,
the-war, win-the-peace U. S. Sen- ! - nH7e declared that the only draw-
ate campaign at what observers i tbe flan* now was the
freely predicted was a victory- ! uJ'“^ty m tapping and getting
paced march, James V. Allred I • atex-bearmg milk to process-
drove home to Texans this week + plants> ft was in the hopes
his plea for a “fighting Texas I • at Pr€^ent methods might be
Senator” in Congress. B j improved, not only for processing
Coupling his demand for all- Stf ^ °S j^bb?r
out “1,000 per cent” support of £*5?’ *hat . Philadelphia
President Roosevelt’s war pro- qpiP1f+;<Xa%Callediu r> ■
gram with that of “a Senator I Scientists from the Goodrich
from Texas who has a vision for, paT?’ *ba ^ ™ ubI
peace as well,” Allred said that! e comPany, the United Fruit
now that we are engaged in a
peace as well,” Allred said that i um?e? f™
now that WP arp pncraffori o company, and others interested
m the subject were invited to at-
tend the meeting.
war for the preservation of our
ideals, “we must not forget the
land we defend, the land which
now as in the future must supply
our food.”
Allred declared for full 100
Brett said that the scientists all
had been experimenting for years
with the cryptostegia - plant,
which is a vine-like shrub. The
providTglhe toTlntj
winning this war.” j I®"*?1 Possible aid for stimulat-
“For a long time farmers have I “The in-
been the victims of protective I w p R °-n tbls sec^Ion
tariffs,” he said. “They are en-! 3’ .13 Promote the
trned to equality vrtth ^ tfherl wh£ ‘the
groups. It is especially important
in war time that the farmer’s in-
come should be sufficient to meet
the cost of producing and pro-
cessing farm commodities. Better
wages and better living condi-
Brett. “We want it, regardless of
whether it’s synthetic, from hevea
rubber trees, guayule, cryptoste-
gia or whatnot.
“Our object is to coordinate all
these various efforts toward the
Political
Announcements
Publication Fee:
Congressional
District ___________
$15.00
12.50
10.00
7.50
5.00
Stressing the urgent need in
our war program for skilled man-
power behind as well as on the
battle lines, General J. Watt
Page, State Selective Service
Director, has advised local boards
of twenty-four “critical occupa-
tions” in scientific and specialized
fields to guide them in the class!
fication of registrants in those
professions.
These “critical occupations” are
listed in a bulletin' sent to all
State Directors by National
Headquarters, Selective Service
System, which also specifically
outlines the conditions under
which students in such fields may
be classified or deferred from
military service as “necessary
men.” The list includes:
Accountants; Chemists; Econo-
mists; Engineers - Aeronautical,
Automotive, Chemical, Civil,
Electrical, Heating, Ventilating,
Refrigerating and Air Condition-
ing, Marine, Mechanical, Mining
and Metallurgical( including Min-
eral Technologists), Radio, Safe-
ty, and Transportation—Air,
Highway, Railroad, Water; Geo-
physicists; Industrial Managers;
Mathematicians; Meteorologists;
Naval Architects; Personnel Ad-
ministrators; Physicists (includ-
ing Astronomers); Psychologists,
and Statisticians.
The National Headquarters
Bulletin pointed out that all of
these critical occupations re-
quire highly specialized periods
of training of two years or more;
that all these occupations are
needed in activities, according
to the National Roster of Scien-
tific and Specialized Personnel,
which are necessary to war pro-
duction and essential to support
of the Nation’s war effort, and
that there are serious shortages
of persons “trained, qualified or
skilled” to engage in them.
County ______________________
Commissioner’s Precinct
Justice Precinct ______________
(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE)
The Benavides Facts is author .
ized to announce the following• of Paper work, but to carry on
candidates subject to the will of! the essential services of our vast-
the voters at the July Democratic expanded fighting forces.”
primary election.
For U. S. Congress:
RICHARD M. KLEBERG
(Re-election)
Rosita 4-H Club
Girls Give Reports
At Last Meeting
Interesting victory demonstra-
tor reports from twenty 4-H club
girls from Rosita No. I and No.
II clubs were heard at the meet-
ing last Wednesday.
Clothing reports included a
total of 10 dresses made. Felipa
Rangel Gold star girl modeled a
dress she had made which cost
only forty cents. Six aprons, 3
blouses, 4 pairs of panties, 1 knit-
ted sweater, 8 bonnets, 1 slip and
one dress made over were report-
ed.
Reports on Interior Home Im-
provement included 11 foot-
stools, 1 braided rug, 1 crocheted
rug and 1 hooked rug, 4 crochet-
ed? mats, 1 embroidered cushion,
1 bedspread. 4 scarfs, 4 tea towels
and 3 pieced quilts.
The majority of the girls re-
ported having helped collect
paper, iron, aluminum and rub-
ber. Most of the girls reported
plenty of vegetables from their
victory gardens.
Several 4-H club girls and one
Sponsor, Mrs. Susana Cantu, are
serving as volunteer workers in
the Air Craft Warning Service
in the Rosita Communtiy.
Some members reported having
helped neighbors prepare food
dishes they had learned in 4-H
club work with Nellie Cundiff,
County Extension Agent, having
given a demonstration.
Following the reports, Nellie
Cundiff, County Extension agent,
called for ideas or suggestions
from the group, for next years
plan of work. Such topics as:
“Poultry Work” which will in-
clude demonstration on “Poul-
try Yard Equipment,” “Home
made Brooder,” “Killing and
Dressing Poultry,” “Canning
Poultry” and “Culling Poultry”.
Other topics included “Vegetable
Canning”, “Making Plackets,”
“Preparation of Milk Dishes and
Milk Drinks,” and “Bedroom im-
provement.”
Jester Former
Army Captain Asks
For Re-election
tions in the cities cause deser- j deduction hf r Z Vi *
tinn in thp | Production of rubber, to lend aid
ot any kind where necessary.
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tion of food and farm commodi-
ties necessary to war materials, win b all we can”get from
government purchasing agency)
that will
enable farm tenants and laborers
to maintain a decent standard of
living. If the farm or ranch in-
come is so low that the landown-
er cannot pay a fair price for
farm labor, the standard of liv-
ing of farm labor groups will fall
to lower levels.
“Maintenance and increase of
the purchasing power of far-
mers, ranchers and farm laborers
will improve business conditions
in every city. A sound economic
status with prosperous agricul-
ture is essential to the prosperity
of us all.
“To improve the standards of
farm living, we must look for-
ward to a broad program of ru-
ral electrification and make sim-
ilar benefits available to every
farm family in the state.”
MIRACLE WHIP!
Ifs "different” flavor
always makes a hit.
MILLIONS AGREE—Miracle Whip does work wonders
with salads! A unique combination of old-fashioned
boiled dressing and fine mayonnaise, Miracle Whip is
by far America's favorite salad dressing. r
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Cadena & Salinas Store
Lower Valley
May Add Rubber
To Its Crops
From down in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley, on both sides of
the border, may come great quan-
tities of natural rubber to make
up partially for supplies cut off
with the Japanese capture of the
Dutch East Indies.
The prospective source is the
cryptostegia plant.
A small group of scientists
have been called together in Phi-
ladelphia, summoned by the gov-
ernment in the hope that they
1 may be able to devise improved
! methods of capturing the prec-
i ious latex-bearing milk that
; comes from the numerous rub-
I ber-bearing plants that grow in
! the Western Hemisphere.
Cryptostegia, which thrives in
the lower Rio Grande Valley, is
expected to get special consider-
ation at the meeting.
Less publicized than the gua-
yule plant, cryptostegia none the
less is getting the serious atten-
tion here of the War Production
Baord. The W.P.B. official di-
rectly in charge of promoting
of natural rubber declares the
chances are good indeed of its
being developed successfully on
a large scale.
Head of the entire rubber pro-
gram for the W.P.S. is Arthur
sources.
Speaking of foreign supplies,
Brett observed that negotiations
were going on now between the
state department and the Mexi-
can government, with the board
of economic warfare patricipating
in discussions, relative to co-
operation between the United
States and Mexico in developing
rubber production below the Rio
Grande.
He said that some agreement
should be reached within the
next week or 10 days that would
permit a rubber production pro-
gram to get under way in Mexi-
co in cooperation with officials
of this governmnt.
Development of cryptostegia
would be one of these sources, he
added. It grows wild in both des-
ert soils and in well watered
areas. Those backing its develop-
ment declared that hundreds of
thousand of acres on both sides
of the Rio Grande Valley are
ideally suited for its production.
One of its principal advantages
over guayule is that it is simply
tapped for its rubber content,
while in the case of guayaule the
entire plant is torn up, roots and
all, and crushed to a pulp. Be-
cause, the cryptostegia plant is
so small, it is not very practical
to tap it with a small milk buck-
et as is done with heavea trees,
said Brett. Consequently, the best
known method is to clip off a
top of the plant periodically, and
preoess the shorn tops to obtain
the milk.
Pledging efficient operations of
the Texas Railroad Commission
in gearing Texas oil and trans-
portation systems to the war ef-
fort, Beauford H. Jester of Cor-
sicana is entering the final phase
of his first primary campaign for
the unexpired term on the com-
mission.
“We are rolling along at a fine
pace,” Jester says in surveying
the work which has been done in
his less-than-a-month of political
life.
It is the first campaign for
public office for the Corsicana
lawyer who was an infantry cap-
tain in the first world war and
who has announced he seeks the
railroad commission post to ren-
der a war time service to his
State and nation.
“In these days when petroleum
means so much to our fighting
machine and when transporta-
tion is the real key to keeping
our men at the front supplied i
with their necessary materials,
the railroad commission’s job is
one of the greatest war services
available,” Jester declares.
Denied readmission to the arm-
ed forces with which he served
overseas in 1917-1918, due to a
physical disqualiifeation, Jester
has pledged that Texas oil and
transportation shall not prove
bottlenecks for men in the arm-
ed forces.
He pointed out that “every
communication, order, report and
purchase requisitions must be
typed for accuracy, readability,
and permanent record. A type-
writer is an essential piece of
equipment on every bomber. In
the Navy every battleship nor-
mally carries 59 typewriters, ev-
ery aircraft carrier 55, every
cruiser 30, every destroyer 7.
These complements have now
been cut in half.”
American typewriter manufac-
turers are now producing guns
and instruments. “Certainly,”
Mr. Pool said, “we need those
guns and instruments more than
we need typewriters. Therefore,
the Army and Navy must obtain
and recondition used typewriters
to fill current needs from com-
panies such as yours.”
The used typewriters will be
bought by new typewriter dealers
and manufacturers’ representa-
tives, who will act as buying
agents for the Procurement Div-
ision of the U. S. Treasury. Stand-
ard typewriters, not portables,
made on and after January 1,
1935 are wanted.
Older makes are not desired
because they might require more
rconditioning than time and
available spare parts would per-
mit.
PRIVATE
DINING ROOM
AMERICAN and
MEXICAN DISHES
THE TEXAS CAFE
Joe Trujillo, Prop.
BENAVIDES, TEXAS
E FFICI ENT
Use only one level tea-
spoonful to a cup of sifted
flour for most recipes.
BAKING
1 POWDER i
Same price today
as 48 years ago
25°unces 25$
Manufactured by baking powder
specialists who make nothing but
baking powder—under supervision
of expert chemists of national j
reputation.
MILLIONS OF POUNDS HAVE BEEN
USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT
Typewriters
Are Needed By
U. S. Offices
RECIPE FOR A GOOD
PREACHER
He should get religion like a
Methodist; experience it like a
Baptist; be sure of it like a Dis-
ciple; stick to. it like a Lutheran;
pay for it like a Presbyterian;
conciliate it like a Congregation-
alist; glorify it like a Jew; be
proud of it like an Episcopalian;
practice it like a Christian Scien-
tist; propagate it like a Roman
Catholic; work for it like a Sal-
vation Army lassie; and enjoy it
like a Negro.—Contributed.
A TOOTING HORN
You can always tell a person
who brags too much—but it does
not do any good!
Carl Pool, District Manager of
the San Antonio War Production
Board, today appealed to Ameri-
can Business to sell to the Gov-
ernment as many tyepwriters as
can be spared.
In a letter to 25,000 of the
largest users of typewriters, Don-
ald Nelson, WPB Chairman, said
the Army and Navy need at least
500,000 machines, of which less
than a third can be obtained from
typewriter manufacturers.
The remainder, he said, must
come from American business.
“These typewriters,” said Pool,
will be used by the Army and
Navy, not to increase the volume
To CORPUS CHRISTI:
8:45 A. M.
6:00 P. M.
To LAREDO:
10:30 A. M.
9:15 P. M.
MOMENY’S CAFE
E. B. MOMENY, Owner
Benavides, Texas
Comfortable Shoes For Summer ...
Cool comfortable shoes need not be expensive
for the individual to get real foot-comfort during
the several warm weather months ahead. Shoes
can be had in your choice of color or color-combin-
ations for old and young alike in our store. Come in
and let us fit you . . . and the price will be mod-
erate, too!
El Nuevo Mundo
Next to Theatre
Benavides, Texas
ANNUAL COLORFUL SAN DIEGO
FIESTA
Will Open on the Plaza
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6th
Games, Riding Devices, Eating and Refreshment
Stands for Old and Young.
Fiesta Concert Music
Furnished Each Night by
FRED GARCIA and HIS ORCHESTRA
Special Invitation Extended to the Public To
Visit San Diego’s Fiesta
V. F. LUNA, Director
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