The Meridian Tribune (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1945 Page: 2 of 4
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THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1945
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SOUTHWEST FOOTBALL
HITS STRIDE SATURDAY
The Southwest Conference foot-
ball teams hit their stride this
week-end with Humble broadcast-
ing five of the game.
T. C. U. and Arkansas will play
the only conference tilt at Fayet-
teville, broadcast to start at 2:15
p.m. Kern Tips will do the play-
by-play while Alex Chesser will
fill in the color spots. Stations
airing the game are KPRC, Hous-
ton—WOAI, San Antonio and
WFAA, Dallas-Ft. Worth.
At 2:15 Texas A. & M. meets
Oklahoma at Norman with Charlie
Jordan describing grid play-by-
play while Fritz Kuler gives the
color highlights. This game can
be heard over stations KGKO,
Dallas-Ft. Worth—KTSA, San
Antonio—KXYZ, Houston—EKIS,
Corpus Christi—KEEW, Browns-
ville and WTAW, CoTlege Station.
Another oxciting tussle takes
place when the University of Mis-
souri meets S.M.U. at Dallas, with
Ves Box on hand for the play-by-
play and Fred Kincaid working
the color assignment. Broadcast
of this game starts at 2:15 p.m.
over stations KTRH, Houston—
KRLD, Dallas and KABC, San An-
tonio.
The third of the afternoon
games bring Texas Tech against
Texas U. at Austin at 2:15 p.m.
Announcers will be Bill Michaels,
who will call the play-by-play and
Dick Bush to add the color. This
game will be heard over stations
WRR, Dallas--KFJK, Ft. Worth—
KNOW, Austin-KTEM, Temple
—KMAC, San Antonio KRBC,
Abilene—KBST, Big Spring —
KGKL, San Angelo—KRLH, mid-
land — KBWD, Brownwood —
KTHT, Houston—KWBU, Corpus
Christi.
Ves Box will describe the South-
western—Rice fray at Houston,
with Fred Kincaid relieving for
color. This game will be played
at night, broadcast will start at
8:00 p.m. over station KTRH,
Houston.
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ever being a beautiful place. I
was told that the northern Ital-
ians disclaim any relation to the
southern Italians, and it is easy to
see why. I have rarely said this
about any place, but I hope never
to return to Naples. Of course
the Bay of Naples was beautiful
from the air, if one could forget
the squalor of the city. The
Mediterranian is truly blue and
the coast line all the way down to
the Strait of Messina was beauti-
ful. We passed by the famous
Isle of Capri. Incidently on our
return we intended to land at
Rome but the weather forced us
into Naples again and we circled
the famous steamship Gripsholm
coming out of the Bay.
“We passed through (or rather
over) the Straits of Messina, be-
tween Italy and Sicily and struck
Africa near Benghazi. We then
turned up the coast and pretty
well followed the coast-line and
the famous-highway to Alexander,
then turned and landed at Cairo
and a little further up the Nile.
The whole African coast (Libian
Desert) is truly desert. I saw not
a living creature for 500 miles,
There is no visible vegetation.
Finally we saw some of the Arabs
with goat herds and camels and
tents. We saw much evidence of
war, burned out lorries, planes,
shell holes, bomb craters, trench-
es, etc. When I saw the Nile
valley I thought it was a body of
water, the deep green contrasted
so sharply with the desert sands.
“We stayed at the famous Shep-
pards Hotel in Cairo. It got hot-
ter all the way and at Caino was
most uncomfortably-hot. In fact
the stores close from noon until
four begi‘se of the heat. I saw
no air conditioning. The nights
ware hot as well. While Cairo
‘has many modern looking build-
ings, and I do mean many, yet 95
per cent of its three and half mil-
lion people seem not to have made
the change. Most of the men
wear long gowns down to then-
ankles and the fez for hats. The
vultures circle overhead all day
long looking for refuse and plenty
is available. We went down to
the bazaar district and into the
ships. I bought a pair of camel
hide boots for twelve dollars.
Here is truly a sight to behold.
The people swarm the streets in
native costumes (for that matter
all of Cairo is about the same from
that standpoint). The men all in
long gowns and many of the wo-
men with veils. Beggars and flies
nag at you continually. Cars go
down the street with horns going
full blast and the natives scatter
much like chickens. That re-
minds me it was common to see
women with a crate of chickens on
their heads. You must haggle
with them on all prices, even in
the large stores.
“One evening I met a Greek of-
ficer and he invited me to go along
with him. He picked up two
Egytian civilian friends who had
a car. He then got me a date
with a Turkish girl who had been
educated at a school in Beruit and
spoke English. One of the Egypt-
ians spoke a little English and the
other none at all. Most of the
conversation was carried on in
Arabic, sans me of course. We
drove to a club up the Nile and
had dinner and danced. This was
really an international party: a
Greek, two Egyptians, one Turk
and one American. The Orches-
HIE
....
•EIMI
CACKLES
FROM THE PRODUCE HOUSE
Views expressed in this column are those
of “Cackles” and are not to be taken as
the views or opinions of The Tribune.
QununnuEM
*EIGEBEEUB
We close the plant on week
days at 6 p.m. and on Saturdays
at 10 p.m. and on Sunday at noon,
we ask your cooperation as in the
past. You all have certainly been
swell in helping us all through the
year.
We started picking turkeys
again Wednesday morning and
will get out another car this week,
this cold spell is sure good on tur-
keys and I don’t mean maybe.
Our new automatic picker is sure
swell and sure helps our opera-
tion.
Building slowing up account of
material almost impossible to
get.
Yes, Meridian beat Tolar and it
was a swell game and Tolar had
a swell team, about the only dif-
ference Meridian was in better
condition and that told in the last
quarter of the game and paid off
by winning the game.
Yes, Meridian’s Million Dollar
tra played “Deep in the Heart of
Texas” and “Pistol-Packing Mam- crop is all at school again and the
ma,” among other 1------o
were only about one mile
where. Moses is reputed to have
been pulled out of the bull rushes.
things. We Fish tell me they can’t hardly
from wait ’till they become seniors to
Here the East meets the West and
how.
“Coming back we landed at
Benghazi for lunch andNaples that
night. It was a most interesting
trip and one that I shall never
forget, However, I am glad to be
back in this good climate and in
my nice clean bed. (We deloused
the plane and ourselves on ar-
rival back.”)
ADMINISTRATOR’S
L L E
R.E. Wyatt, Administrator,Offers For Sale
SATURDAY, OCT. 6,1945
Household Goods, Farm Equipment,
Live Stock, Etc.,
---AT THE---
L. O. Lowrie Farm,4 miles below Meridian,
on old Highway 67.
get even with their bunch of fish
that are coming on. Over 300 in-
rolled in Meridian school this year.
The City dads are waking up
and getting a little worried. Yes
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I think they will have to float a
bond issue to catch up before it’s
too late. Well it’s their headache,
they have passed up the whole
summer and are in the same shape
that a lot of boys found out about
a couple of years ago—TOO LIT-
TLE TOO LATE.
More Boys got fired from their
jobs in the armed forces in the
past week around here, China, Va-
den, Hardwick, Gibson, and at
least several others. Are they
glad to be back and every one is
sure glad to see them. And we
hear of several others that are
due. Dove season is good this
year and fishing not bad, we know
it’s a grand and glorious felling to
be out and home again and it’s
also a great glorious feeling to
have you home also.
We for one are sure happy that
the day light saving time is a thing
of the past.
New business firms starting to
show up, real estate shingle up on
Judge Word’s office. Merchan-
dise starting to arrive for New
store in Lomax block and a sup-
per market to go in with new
construction on Warren property
so I have been told.
Picture Show all dolled up with
new front and the picture show
is doing a swell job, in fact sever-
al outstanding pictures showed in
Meridian before hitting the big
time at Waco or Ft. Worth; now
ain’t that something?
Lots of surveying outfits around
Meridian, can’t tell who’s who, one
bunch for Oil another for state
highways another federal checking
state highways for federal and a
couple of gangs for the Whitney
dam.
And Friday night Meridian
Plays Iredell at Meridian, come on
1 out, want a least a couple of hun-
dred more as a rooters gallery to
FULTEX COMBINE OATS
help out our gang.
If you see it in our merchants’ ' at $1.00 bu.
ads it’s so.
Grocery Bill 51% Up
The average family paid a gro-
cery bill last month that was 51.5
per cent higher than it was in
August, 1939, the month before
Germany marched into Poland to
set off World War II.
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I have 3,000 bushels, recleaned,
Will deliver 150
bu. or more in the county. These
oats produce heavily, have a strong
stem and resist freezing very well.
E. A. Moore, Clifton, Texas.
Phone order collect, No. 42 . 20-p
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