The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1948 Page: 2 of 4
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WLK PUCES MAKE
ANOTHEK ADVANCE
■ Manufacturing milk prices
have advanced again to $4.25 per
100 for 4 per cent milk and 10c
for each point over 4 per cent.
Period January 1st to January
15th. This is a higher price than
paid for Grade "A” milk eighteen
months ago.
BASKET BALL EQUIPMENT
This is Basketball season and we have plenty of
equipment in stock, including Uniforms, brightly col-
lored, Basketballs, Score Books, Gym Shoes, Sweat
Socks and Knee Braces.
GOLDEN GLOVERS
Get ready for the Golden Gloves Matches with
good equipment. We have Boxer’s Trunks and Shoes.
Come in tomorrow and choose your colors.
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SPORTING GOODS
135 Lamar—PARIS
Telephone 179
Alcorn Reads About So Much Money
And Wants to Know Where It Is
Ad t erliummt
From where I sit... /y Joe Marsh
Sr
Are You "Hobby Hcppy?'
Funny thing about hobbies...
When Ed Carey started making a
model of the “Flying Cloud," it was
only to rest his eyes from reading,
liut now he spends every spare
moment ship modelling!
Some wives might have resented
a husband suddenly shutting him-
self in the attic every night. But
Trot Eil’s Prudence. When she found
him working late, sbc brought him
up some beer and crackers ...
showed a real interest in his hobby
... until finally Ed had 1. rn Iping
with the rigging.
Wasn’t long before they were
w orking side by side oil i “s bench,
sharing a common interest, ustead
of keeping them apart, Ed s ihhy
brought them more together.
From where I sit, a husban .
hobby can often be a wife's as we]!.
In fact, I’ve got the missus inter-
ested in tying trout flies — and,
along with that mellow glass of
beer, it makes the evenings go by
mighty pleasantly.
Editor’s note: Achin Al-
corn, philosopher, on his
Johnson grass farm on Sul-
phur, doesn't have much
head for figures, his letter
this week reveals.
Dear Editor: I’ve been readin
in your paper and nearly every
copy of every other paper that
turns up out here on Sulphur
about all the money the country
has.
Accordin to the papers, we’ve
got more money than we ever
had before in history, the banks
are so full the clerks have to
watch where they’re walkin to
keep from tramplin on stacks of
currency and some presidents
won’t bend over to pick up a
dropped bill if it’s less than five
dollars, although they don’t live
In this vicinity, maybe up north.
Sizing up this money situation,
some economist in Washington
lias adjusted himself in his swivel
chair and figured out everybody
in the country has $175 in cash
and I want you to know, before
you start billin me for a sub-
scription to your paper, that it
may work out that way on paper
in Washington but not out here
in practice on Sulphur. I’d
apiece and enough debts to make
everybody owe $135 apiece,
which is only $40 in the clear,
how in thunder can we make it
the rest of the year on $40 with
bread selling for twenty-two
cents a loaf, although understand
I aint’ worried enough to get up
from my warm chair by the kit-
chen stove at the moment and do
something about it. Let the eco-
nomist in Washington do some-
thin about it, he’s the one that
figured it up.
Yours faithfully, A. A.
Mt. Vernon Tops
District Cagers
DISTRICT P08TMASTERS
IN QUARTERLY MEET
Postmasters of the First Con-
gressional District held their
quarterly meeting at Mt Pleasant
on Wednesday night of last week.
District Inspector Guy Williams
gave an instructive talk on var-
ious problems facing postal em-
ployees and how they can be
overcome. Afterwards, there was I
MsCRURY CLUB MEETS
WITH MRS. HUTSON
improve our club.” Refreshments
were served.
McCrury WHD Club met Jan.
21 with Mrs. Elmer Hutson. A Burial rites for Dr. F. A. White,
quilt top was worked on. The 78, of Childress, were conducted
council delegate gave a report of Tuesday at Sulphur Bluff, Hop-
the last council meeting. The kins County. Dr. White, a na-
club members made plans to en-1 tive of the county who practiced
tertain their families with a ta- medicine at Sulphur Springs and
male supper.
Mmes. Elmer Pettit,
a general discussion by the group. ' Burns, H. C. Scoggins,
The next meeting of the asso-
ciation will be held in Mt. Pleas-
ant on April 13.
Henry
Susie
Webster, Tient McCrury, Louie
at Sulphur Bluff before moving
to Childress about twenty y<
ago, died in his office Satur
Survivors include his wife am
Evans and Elmer Hutson answer- son, Thayer White, Washington,
ed roll call with “How we can D. C.
Coach Milburn(Catfish)Smith’s
Mt. Vernon High School cagers
waltzed through seven District
16-A tests without a setback to j
win top honors in the first round .
of play in the loop double round I
robin playoff Currently, the |
Vernonite hoopsters are biding |
their time waiting for other dis- |
trict teams to complete their first j
be,I half schedule.
perfectly willin to have the mon- Trailing the undefeated Frank-
i v parceled out, but without goin j lin county quintet arc the Clarks-
into too many details I will ! ville Tigers and *Winnsboro Red
frankly admit the Washington I Raiders, both, with two defeats
economist’s mathematims don't | against them in six tests. The Gil-
fit me. or, in other words, I ain't i mer High School Buckeyes perch-
got $175. jed in fourth place standing with
However, this same economist .a record of three victories as com-
has figured up the debt of the 1 pared to two defeats,
country and discovered it
amounts to $135 apiece for every- !
body, and he ain’t no nearer the Mt. Vernon
truth on this one, as I could pay i Clarksville
off $135 in debts and still not be 1 Winnsboro
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welcome in half the stores doin
a credit business in Talco, Bo
gata or Deport, although I ain’t
apologizin as I ain't by musell,
in fact am in the same boat with
i ’gland, France. Italy, Poland.
F, . sia and practically all the
■ ilher countries which you and
me neither can’t name off-hand
uni couldn’t spell if we could,
md I think there’s a few coun-
ties in this country which would
know what I’m talkin about.
But tlic thing 'that has me wor-
ried is that if there’s enough
money to give evcrvbody $175
Gilmer
Mt. Pleasant
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BUY ON F. II. A. TERMS
NO DOWN PAYMENT
UP TO 36 MONTHS TO PAY
Keep emotions in their proper
place. Sensationalism, social, ro-1
mantic and financial excesses ’
don’t wqrk out in the long run. j
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3 Unions Block Labor Peace—Refuse Wage Boost
Already Accepted by 1_9 Other Railroad Unions!
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire-
men and Enginemen and the Switchmen’s
North America, representing
125,000 railroad employes, have refused
to accept the offer of the Railroads of a
wage increase of 15>£ cents an hour.
This
is the same increase awarded
1,000,000 non-operating employes by an
arbitration board in September, 1947.
This is the same increase accepted by
175.000 conductors, trainmen and switch-
men by agreement on November 14, 1947.
Agreements have been made with
1.175.000 employes, represented by nine-
teen unions. But these three unions, rep-
resenting only 125,000 men, are trying to
get more. They are demanding also many
new working rules not embraced in the
s ttlement with the conductors and train-
What NowT
The Unions having refused to arbitrate,
the Railway Labor Act provides for the
appointment of a fact-finding board by
the President.
The railroads feel it is due shippers,
passengers, employes, stockholders, and
the general public to know that through-
out these negotiations and in mediation,
they have not only exerted every effort to
reach a fair and reasonable settlement.
but they have also met every requirement
of the Railway Labor Act respecting the
rbitratior
negotiation, mediation, and arbitration of
labor disputes.
I( seems unthinkable that these three unions,
representing less than 10 per cent of railroad
employes, and those among the highest paid,
can successfully maintain the threat of a par-
alyzing strike against the interest of the en-
tire country—and against 90 per cent of their
fellow employes.
The threat of a strike cannot justify grant-
ing more favorable conditions to 125.000 em-
ployes than have already been put in effect
for 1,175,000, nor will it alter the opposition
of the railroads to unwarranted wage in-
creases or to changes in working rules which
are not justified.
A glance at the box shows what employes
represented by the Engineers and Firemen
make. They arc among the highest paid in
the ranks of labor in the United Stales, if not
the highest.
incidentally, the Switchmen’s Union of
North America represents only about 7%
of all railroad switchmen, the other 93%
being represented by the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen and covered by the
settlement with that union.
Strike Threat
The leaders of these three unions spibad a
strike ballot while negotiations were still
in progress. This ic not a secret vote but is
taken by union leaders and votes are
signed by the employes in the presence
of union representatives.
When direct negotiations failed, the
leaders of these three unions refused to
join the railroads in asking the National
Mediation Board to attempt to settle the
dispute, but the Board took jurisdiction
at the request of the carriers and has been
emnestly attempting since November 24,
1947, to bring about a settlement. The
BocukI on January 15, 1948; announced
its inability to reach a mediation settle-
ncnt. The leaders of the unions rejected
the request of the Mediation Board to
arbitrate. The railroads accepted.
Compare these wages with what you make!
, till «nnn Am* I
Here is a comparison of llSlffift SXZs
average annual earn- ENGINEERS
.....,3’966 *6’126 ’ $8,767
war) and 1947. Also <Lo«l and Way) .
shown is what 1947 ; 8,632 5,399 6,025
earnings would have Road Freight (Through). 3,147 4)684 5,169
been if the 15H cents Yard.................. 2,749 4,081 4,539
per hour increase, of- FIREMEN
fered by the railroads. Road Freight.......... 2,738 4 683 5 268
and rejected tfy the (Local and Way)
union leaders, had been Road Paaaenger........ 2,732 4,544 6 165
in effect throughout the Road Freight (Thftmgh). 2,069 3^460 3 891
entire yeaz 1947. Yard. ................. 1,962 3^136 3[563
Railroad wages computed from Interstate Commerce Commission Statement M-300.
Full year 1947 estimated on basis of actual figures for first eight months.
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November 1, 1911, at th
office at Bogata, Texas.
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The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1948, newspaper, January 30, 1948; Bogata, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth912001/m1/2/?q=central+place+railroads: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.