Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1940 Page: 4 of 4
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940
PERSONAL
Friends of Abel Winser will be
glad to know that he is in the
aviation squadron at Hickam
Field, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Henry Foster motored to Bis-
hop on business Tuesday.
“Mrs. I. H. Boren went to Alice
Saturday to visit her new grand-
son wrho arrived at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Shirley Satur-
day. Mrs. Shirley, nee Viginia
McNeese, is well known in Bena-
vides. Mother and baby are re-
ported to be doing nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ballard and
Mrs. Carl Ballard of Corpus
Christi visited Mr. and Mrs. Ken-
neth Ballard Sunday.
Miss Katie B. Adams, Miss Ma-
vis Barnes, Tom Vandeventer and
Louis Drumgoole spent Sunday on
the Mathis Lake.
Mrs. Tom Inman and son, Ron-
ald, returned Tuesday from Bis-
hop.
Mr. and Mrs. Tegge Ballard
visited Mr. and Mrs. John Mc-
Call on the Miller lease Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cook of
Beeville spent the wek-end with
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Momeny.
Liborio Cadena and Monico
Alaniz left Monday for a visit in
Mexico.
Mr. and Mrs. Merl West made
a business trip to Three Rivers
Tuesday.
Mrs. Servando Caballero and
Mrs. Jesus Oliveira were Laredo
visitors Tuesday.
J. M. Momeny made a business
trip to San Diego and Alice Tues-
day.
Geo. Hookstra left last week
for an extended visit with his
daughters in New Jersey.
Mrs. Manuel Bozada and son
of Alice arrived Sunday to visit
her mother, Mrs. F. Vaello Jr., a
few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Type Ballarcto
and children went to Beeville
Wednesday.
Mrs. Concepcion Romano and
daughter visited Mrs. Lorenzo
Garcia Saturday.
T. J. Benavides motored to
Alice Wednesday on business.
M. Cuellar spent Tuesday in
Corpus Christi for examination
and medical treatment.
F. Vaello, Jr., was the guest of
his mother and sister in New Or-
leans and returned home Wednes-,
day.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Cadena and
daughter Lillie and Clodin Sa-
linas were Laredo visitors Sunday.
Tony Salinas and Arcadio Gar-
cia spent Sunday in Laredo. ,
Candelario Hernandez spent
Sunday visiting with relatives and
friends in Hebbronville.
Fernando Gutierrez was a La-
redo visitor Sunday.
E. L. McCollum, of Corpus
Crhisti, assistant advertising man-
ager of Central Power and Light
Company was a business visitor
here Tuesday, with F. N. Schroe-
der of San Diego.
Reyes Ramos of San Diego
spent Tuesday in Benavides with
relatives.
Mrs. Servando Caballero was a
business visitor in Alice Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rutledge,
Mrs. J. H. Schubert and Miss Cla-
ra Killingsworth were Alice visi-
tors Monday night to attend the
O.E.S.
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Public Kisses Barred
A warning of expulsion for any
co-eds who engage in public “hug-
ging and kissing” has gone out to
students of Murray State Teach-
ers college following an editorial
in the town newspaper criticizing
“kissing exhibitionism.”
Emphasizing that “ the morals
of this school are as good as those
in any institution in the country,
and I propose to keep them that
way,” President James H. Rich-
ards said Sunday he had taken
cognizance of complaints by hold-
ing a special chapel session to
rebuke a “few offenders.”
An editorial in the West Ken-
tuckian, Murray newspaper, as-
sured it did not condemn the “art
of kissing,” but urged co-eds to
withhold “exhibitions of oscula-
tory demonstrations” until “they
have fled far into the shadows
from our downtown restaurants,
soda fountains and public
streets.”
TO CORPUS CHRISTI
9:45 A. M.
5:15 P. M.
2:15 A. M.
TO LAREDO
4:25 A.M.
11:15 A. M.
7:00 P. M.
MOMENY’S CAFE
E. B. MOMENY, Prop.
BENAVIDES, TEXAS
Erma Sylva
New Arrival In
City Friday
Mr. and Mrs. Mauo Sylva are
the proud parents of their first
born, a baby girl, born to their
union Friday, May 3rd.
Dr. H. B. May, attending phy-
sician, reports the new arrival
weighed eights pounds and has
been named Erma.
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Texas Home
Gardens Increase
Report Show
More Texas farms and ranches
have home gardens this year than
during any year in history, re-
ports from county home demons-
tration agents to the Extension
Service of Texas A. and M. Col-
lege indicate.
Much of the increased interest
in growing home gardens and
frame gardens has been brought
about by the benefits for gardens
outlined" under the 1940 agricul-
tural conservation program, says
Jennie Camp, specialist in home
production planning for the A.
and M. College Extension Service.
For example, Coleman County
reported 423 frame gardens in
1939, and according to the coun-
ty home demonstration agent “it
seems that number will be in-
creased to approximately 1,000
frame gardens in 1940.” The
secretary of the Agricultural Con-
servation Association in Young
County estimates that practically
100 percent* of farmers in that
county cooperating with the AAA
planned gardens for 1940 in pre-
paring their work sheets.
Another indication of the inter-
est is the demand for leaflets on
“The Garden and the 1940 Agri-
cultural Conservation Program”
which has necessitated publication
of 125,000 copies. It was pub-
lished by the Extension Service.
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Great Power
In Aircraft Is
Demonstrated
Out of the British defeat in
Norway come dramatic answers
! to questions that have occupied
the attention of armies and navies
for years, unanswere 1 until now.
Today, President Roosevelt, Navy
Secretary Edison and Air Corps
Chief Arnold, three authorities
armed with a mass of official in-
formation, are giving, the answers.
The first question: Does the
United States buila the world’s
best airplanes?
The answer given by General
Arnold to Congress is that Ameri-
can planes, after bemg outfitted
abroad with armor and “other
technical devices,” hoM their own
with German planes. American
planes have more durable con-
struction, longer range, greater
maneuverability and longer life
but need heavier a’irhig power,
more armor and non-leakable gas
tanks.
The second question: Is the
battleship vulnerable to air at-
tack?
The answer given by Secretary
Edison is that “aircraft have a
temporary advantage over ships.”
He adds: “This advantage can be
overcome by improved armor and
armaments on the top-side of ves-
sels. Not enough attention has
been paid to the top-sides of our
ships to eliminate as far as possi-
ble this air weapon.”
Captain Morton Deyo, aide to
the Secretary, said further: “A
small naval unit wo lid be verj,
silly to operate close to a large
air concentration. Planes based on
ships are at a great disadvantage
against shore-based planes be-
cause they are operating from a
vulnerable base.”
The third question: Does the
experience in Norway suggest
that the battleship is obsolete?
President Roosevelt answered
this question with the observation
that it is foolish at this stage to
talk of fixed supremacy of any
weapon over another. Airplanes,
torpedoes, submarines, battleships
and anti-submarine nets, and even
army blankets, all are weapons of
war that supplement, one another.
The battleship may have to be re-
designed, just as it was re-de-
signed after the battle between
the Monitor and the Merrimac,
but the ship as such is not out-
moded.
From General Arnold came the
most detailed analysis of what
actual combat has revealed con-
cerning air power in this war. His
essential conclusion js this:
“Iri all of its tests to date, by
devastation wrought by Lire light
of battle fires, aviation has de-
monstrated completely that war-
fare has truly moved into the
third dimension.”
The head of the American Air
Corps is thankful that this coun-
try has been able to learn lessons
from Europe without cost to itself
in life and money. The essential
lessons he lists as those that fol-
low:
1. “The record is fairly clear
that combat planes are now re-
turning from air rail S' with hun-
dreds and in some cases thou-
sands of bullet holes. This indi-
cates 30-caiiber machine-gun fire
is not adequate against modern
aircraft, unless delivered at short
ranges and with tremendous vol-
ume. Some of our modern fight-
ers have as many as eight 30-
caliber machine guns. Fighter air-
craft require at least 50 caliber
and perhaps 20-mm. or 37-mn.
cannon, in order to assure positive
kill.”
2. “It has been demonstrated
that bombers are easy prey to
fighter aircraft unless equipped
for rear hemisphere fire. Bomb-
ers without tail guns and a large
volume of rear hemisphere fire
cannot successfully accomplish
daylight missions in an area pa-
trolled by hostile pursuit. The
recognition of this principle will
influence design of all future
bombing aircraft.”
3. “It is now conceded that a
vital factor in air influence is in
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BENAVIDES, TEXAS
KRIESE’S CLEANERS
Phone 137 for Pick up and Delivery
C. A. KRIESE, Proprietor
BENAVIDES, TEXAS
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and it’s EASY to achieve when you come here
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We give you personalized service at very mod-
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Mrs. Mariam Momeny Ballard, Owner
VILLARREAL BUILDING PHONE 166
OUR INVITATION TO YOU . . .
We invite you to come here next time you’re hun-
gry. We KNOW the foods we use are the finest on
the market. We BELIEVE our expert cooking,
efficient service and fair prices will please you.
The Liberty Cafe
Where The Benavides Rotary Club Meets
ROBERT BOZADA, Manager
General Motors
Predicts Greater
Tourist Travel
New records for tourist travel
in the Americas in 1940 were
predicted here today by officials
of the Automobile Manufacturers
Association, authoritative statis-
tical body for the industry. Near-
ly 60,000,000 Americans will be
taking to the highways during
the summer months, the organi-
zation believes.
Unsettled conditions abroad,
combined with \ expanded facili-
ties and accommodations in the
great national parks and other
tourist Meccas, werO cited as rea-
sons for the statement.
“This has been rightly termed
‘Travel America Year,”’ the A.
M. A. announced. “It seems a
safe prediction to say that a new
all-time high mark will be set by
vacationists this summer.”
“Next to his own interest in
the trip, the motorist’s chief con-
cern is for his car,” adds Ed
Hedner, national director of ser-
vice for Chevrolet. “Once the tour-
ist leaves his home town, the
service problem presents itself in
a new light. Chevrolet owners,
however, need have no qualms
along this line as they ‘See the
Americas Now,’ for nearly 9,000
dealerships from coast to coast
provide expert, factory-trained
and supervised service.
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When a housewife buys a 40
cent roast she gets 29 cents
worth of meat and pays 11 cents
in hidden taxes.
the range of aircraft. It is axio-
matic that airplanes can exert no
influence in combat or in a thea-
ter of war which they car.not
reach. It is not unlikely that sev-
eral of the present belligerents
have long since regretted that they
did not build more range into their
bombers. We recognized that
principle several years ago and
have the, best bombing planes in
the world.”—United States News.
Idle Men and
Machines Still
Big Problem
As physician to an ailing econ-
omic system, the Temporary Na-
tional Economic Committee is
now diagnosing the effect of ma-
chines on men. Economic doctors
know that in machines men have
a powerful medicine, hut what
the “Monopoly Committee” is try-
ing to determine is whether that
medicine is good or bad.
The ailment was described at
the outset by Senator O’Mahoney
(Dem.) of Wyoming, chairman of
TNEC, when specialists were call-
ed in. Said he: “The ten years
since the crash of 1329 have prob>
ably seen the establishment of
more new industries and greater
technological gain in old indus-
tries than in any decade since
the human race .first began to
measure time. . . yet in the face
of them, unemployment of men,
unemployment of money,' unem-
ployment even of the medicine
remains an unsolved problem.”
As a remedy for that problem.
Senator O’Mahoney already has
a prescription. Before Congress
is his bill to penalize employers
who “make more than average”
use of machinery by txaing them.
The remedy is to continue to use
the medicine, but to stop increas-
ing the dose. To Senator Norris,
(Ind.), of Nebraska, this proposal
is a. “tax on human progress.”
This difference of opinion in
Congress is being reflected by
witnesses called before the Com-
mittee as specialists in machines.
In general they fall into two
groups: Men who manage ma-
chines and men who operate them.
In the opinion of most managers,
machines are good medicine and
should be absorbed by the eco-
nomic system in ever-increasing
doses.
Thus Edsel Ford, representing
the Ford Motor Company, pointed
out that, “because with machin-
ery cars can be produced at the
prices people can pay,” the auto-
mobile industry has provided jobs
for some 3,000,000 men produc-
ing, selling and servicing the in-
dustry’s output. Without machin-
ery, said Mr, Ford, his company
could not produce a car for less
than $17,000, and only about 50
of them could be sold a year. The
conclusion was obvious: most of
Ford’s 125,000 employes depend
upon machines for their jobs.
To Charles F. Kettering, Gen-
eral Motors’ inventive genius,
technology is a tonic. When more
machines are made and used, in
his opinion, more men will be at
work. Mr. Kettering’s diagnosis
differs from those of his collea-
gues in that he believes the first
machines were invented because
there was too much work for
hands, while machines of the
future will be developed because
there are. too many hands with
nothing to do. But, in either case,
he contended, the machine is the
answer.
Views of Mr. Ford and Mr. Ket-
tering were echoed in general by
spokesmen for the steel, railroad,
and telephone industries. Charles
R. Hook of American Rolling
Mills admitted that the new strip
mill had displaced many hands in
steel mills, but contended that
the over-all effect was to create
other jobs in the industry.
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A total of 77,630,892 tons of
freight were moved in 1937 over
the 17,393.96 miles of railroad in
Texas.
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Benavides. Texas
“My Skin Was Full of
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says Verna S.: “Since using Ad-
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skin is smooth and glows with
health.” Adlerika helps wash
BOTH bowels, and relieves tem-
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gravates bad complexion.
DE LEON’S DRUG STORE
Cowboy Outfitters
Men’s Half Soles and
Rubber Heels
or
Ladies’ Half Soles and
Heel Taps
Alice Shoe Shop
Next to the Rex Theatre
Alice, Texas
TEXAS LIFE
INSURANCE
COMPANY
“Pioneer Company of
the Southwest”
R. R. GONZALEZ
Special Representative
BENAVIDES, TEXAS
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- MOTHERS - REAL MOTHERS - LIVE FOREVERI -
A person could write a million
words about love, devotion and
service. Then it could be spoken
in one single word—Mother. For
mothers embrace everything which
makes for better living.
Mother is one person who de-
votes a lifetime to lovable service
and lifelong devotion. Mother is
one person, one subject the world
over. Regardless of race or creed,
country or continent, mother love
stands out as a survival and symbol
of righteousness and faith.
Wars may change living condi-
tions and boundary lines, but moth-
ers will continue to be the greatest
reality of our existence.
Mother lives on forever—wheth-
er she is here on earth or beyond—
she is always present to serve.
A person is said to be dead only
when forgotten. That is why moth-
ers are always with us. Forget-me-
nots of love which are always in
bloom.
If your mother is here for you
to enjoy, serve her well by recogn-
izing her greatness and your own
obligations. Make every day of
her life Mother’s Day. If you think
this way, make it a legal holiday
for mother by your acts of kindness
and consideration. When you do
this, you are only increasing your
own share of sunshine to bask in.
Count each day a blessed one
that is shared with your mother.
To those of us who are less for-
tunate, and count on our memories
for comfort, we too are blessed.
Mother continues to remain in our
hearts. Many memories remain in
our hearts to keep our love always
present.
The best part of our character
show us the eternal plant of love
which memories of mother keep
ever green.
Mother love is still our shrine of
worship. It is one of our most pre-
cious possessions, offered to us in
unselfish devotion and service.
Therefore, keep your heritage of
mother love sacred. It is your part
of heaven on earth.
From the day we are born until
the day beyond, memories will al-
ways linger on.
Space Below Made Possible Through the Co-operation of The Following Merchants:
CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT CO.
“Courteous Service Always”
San Diego and Benavides Offices
F. N. SCHROEDER, Manager
Authorized FORD Sales and Service
25% Discount on Parts to Ford Owners
FRANK M. CASSO, Manager
F. G. GARCIA & SON
Building Materials and Building Helps
Estimates for Building or Repairs Cheerfuly Given.
Humble Products _ Washing and Greasing
Clean Rest Rooms — Road Map Service
A. C. CANALES, Manager
CANALES SERVICE STATION
CADENA & SALINAS STORE
Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables
Dry Goods, Work Clothes and Boots
R. CADENA and J. M. SALINAS
DE LEON'S DRUG STORE
You Can Always Find an Appropriate Gift in Our
Modern Store_Priced to Please
__J. R. De LEON, Prop.
THE CORONADO GARAGE
Gulf Products, Washing and Greasing
Wrecker Service, Day and Night
PEDR OCORONADO, Prop.
SAN DIEGO DISTRIBUTING CO.
Distributors of Your Favorite Moderantion Beverage
We Are As Close As Your Telephone
_J. C. PEREZ, President
BENAVIDES MILL & GIN COMPANY
Our Good Wishes to the Mothers of Benavides
CALVIN NORTH,
Part Owner and Manager
CUELLAR BROTHERS
OIL, CATTLE and WHOLESALE GROCERY
C. Cuellar and A. B. Cuellar
_SAN DIEGO, TEXAS
WRIGHT ABSTRACT COMPANY, Inc.
Established in 1900 and Serving
DUVAL and JIM WELL COUNTIES
PHILIP T. WRIGHT, President
F. VAELLO, JR. & COMPANY
Piggly-Wiggly Operators in Benavides
San Diego and Hebbronville
F. VAELLO, JR., Owner
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