The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1942 Page: 1 of 6
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By GEORGE C. FALL
BACK HOME after a long trip
to Longview with only a few hours
to get out the paper, since the
holiday Tuesday slowed us down.
As usual, however, the task is be-
ing done, and the deadline will be
reached in spite o. that.
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The EAST Texas Chamber of
Commerce convention which was
held at Longview and which wan
the reason for my being there,
started out to be a session of
prayer with a "Prayer for Vic-
tory" service at the First Meth-
* odist Church. It was a session of
prayer in more senses than one
because as Carl L. Estes, presi-
dent and publisher of the "hong-
view pally New " so aptly put it
"The trying times through which
we have gone during the past
nineteen weeks, almost wholly
on the receiving end of total war,
would not have been enough to
dash uh completely and submerge
in Kloom a concourse of ho many
able leaders and wise councellors,
for the East Texas Chamber of
Commerce is no stranger to the
trials of adversity. The sombre
sky was draped with black omens
when the great organization was
born, and nine years of battling
for economic stability failed to
shake the faith of the people in
their leadership."
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ALTHOUGH CALDWELL is on
the very border line of East Texas,
considering itself more of a South
Texas city perhaps than other-
wise, is a member of the East
Texr Chamber of Commerce and
a part of the org nization that for
sixteen long years has maintained
a fine leadership over the counties
it represents. War is only the cli-
max to the epochal history of the
Southwestern empire served by the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce,
which counted its chief wealth in
its people and its opportunities.
Throughout the sixteen year of
operation East Texas has contrib-
uted political guidance and states-
manship to the state as a whole,
just as it did in the formative
years following victory at San Ja-
cinto.
IT WAS. INUKKD, with a
* feeling of fraternity in the sci-
ence of good government that
East Texas welcomed the out-
standing contribution of West
Texas to the political leadership
of the state. Governor Coke R.
Stevenson, whose address Mon-
day morning at eleven o'clock
was the highlight of the meeting.
They greeted him with unre-
served admiration and affection,
inspired b> his rugged, tpyicallv
Texan honesty and forthright-
ness, his unassuming capability,
his calm personal and political
courage.
Kast Texsis is playing an import-
ant part iti the state's war effort,
Governor Stevenson t«>l«l the mem-
bership at the Monday morning
session. Its iron, oil and other re-
sources are vital to the nation's
arms program, and the state as a
whole is proud of the part the East
Texans are playing, he declared.
This section of the state, said the
governor, is the cradle of the popu-
lation and culture of the common-
wealth. pointing out that his own
father had spent many years at
Jefferson and that his wife's people
had come from the Elderville com-
munity of Gregg county. His father
told hini early in life of the years
he had spent between the handles
of a Kelly plow, he related.
The governor compared the pres-
ent struggle of the world against
dictatorship to that of the infant
Texas against Santa Anna, "the
Napoleon of the West," who over-
threw the constitutional govern-
ment of 1H2-1 and drove the Texans
to revolt. We have had defeats
very consistently in this new strug-
gle thus far, but so had the Texas
army prior to San Jacinto, and
his conflict, too, will have its vic-
tory, he said. He pointed out that
fkrior to Sam Houston's triumph on
Buffalo Bayou, one third of the
state's effective fighting men had
been killed as many as participat-
ed in the victorious engagement.
Texans everywhere are respond-
ing to thü country's call, as mem-
bers of the Defense Guard, as air
raid wardens, in necessary indus-
tries and elsewhere, the governor
said, and the Texas spirit flames
as high today as it did in 1836.
J. A. McGILL, Paris manufac-
turer, was elected president of the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Monday, succeeding J. N. Edens, of
Corsicana, who was too ill to at-
tend the convention. McGill is the
president and general manager of
the Cummer-Graham Co., manu-
facturers of baskets and packing
crates and is the 16th prominent
East Texan to head the regional
chamber. R. M. Kelly of Longview
served two terms as first presl-
®he Caldwell £feuts
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EXPIRATION DATO
VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 41
CALDWELL, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 24. 1842
PRICE $1.50 A YEAR—5 CENTS A a
KOCUREK TWINS
JSpillk
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lien and Ed eniisted in the United States Naval Reserve at the
outbreak of war with Japan, received their training at the U. S.
Navy Destroyer Base, in San Diego, California. At present stationed
at U. S. Naval Aviation Facilities, San Clemente Island, California.
They rank Yeomen 3rd cl.
They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Kocurek of Caldwell,
graduates of the Caldwell high school, and Southwestern Business
University of Houston. Prior to enlistment in the United States Navy,
they were employed in Houston, B.nedict with Houston Electric
Company, and Edward with Layne Bowler Mfg. Co. Both like the
Navy very much and say they recommend its training to any young
man.
C. W.Holik Is
Candidate For
Commissioner
Asks Voters To Re-Elect
Him To Second Term In
Precinct No. 1
(See Town Topics, col. 3, last page)
C. W. Holik, prominent farmer
of the Porter's Chapel community,
serving his first term as county
commissioner of Precinct 1, Burle-
son county, authorized the News
this week to unnounce his can-
didacy for re-election to the same
4T+ae for a second tern, subject
to the action of the democratic
primary.
Mr. Holik has lived in the Port-
er's Chapel community 25 years
and in this county all his life with
the exception of two years, during
which time he was overseas and
fighting in the World War. Holik
volunteered his services to Unci*
Sam when this country entered the
war.
In announcing his candidacy for
re-election I!olík made the follow-
ing statement to the voters of bis
precinct "I have tried to live up
to, in every way, my promises to
the people of my precinct when 1
ran for office the first time in 1940.
I made the statement then that L.
would do everything in my power
to give this county a system of
lateral roads that could be travelled
in any kind of weather. Now, I
believe those of you voters who are
familiar with the work that I h: ve
lone here know that 1 have ful-
filled that promise. I have left
nothing undone in my efforts to-
ward obtaining for this county the
roads they so badly needed and I
should like to have the opportunity
to go forward another term in the
continuance of these efforts."
"I should like to state further,
that should the people of Burleson
county see fit to re-elect me to this
office, I shall continue to discharge
my duties as efficiently as I possib-
ly can and will strive at all times
to maintain a high level of work
in their behalf."
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Judge Haddox
Announces For
Re-Election
Official Thanks Voters
For Past Favors And
Seeks Another Term
J. J. Haddox, Justice of the
Peace of Precinct I, this week an-
nounces as a candidate for re-
election.
Judge Haddox's statement to the
voters follows:
"In making my announcement
for re-election to the office of Jus-
tice of the Peace of Precinct 1, I
wish to thank you for your hearty
support and the many favors shown
me in the past and solicit your
further support in the Democratic
Primary. I feel that with the past
experience and informatioriHtained
I will Ih> better able to execute the
duties of this office with more sat-
isfaction to myself and also to the
genernl public.
"I expect to make a clean, fair
race and respectfully solicit your
vote and influence.
"J. J. HADDOX."
Farm Bureau Meets
Here Friday Night
A meeting of the Farm Bureau
will 1m* held Friday night at 8:30
in the district courtroom, with W
J. Alexander as spokesman, it was
announced by Jack Clark Wednes-
day afternoon. According to Clark
the Farm Bureau now has a total
membership of 2(H) and was the
outstanding Farm Bureau county
in district 11 during 1941.
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Drive Is Started
To Raise Money
For Navy Relief
First Appeal To Public
For Money For This
Type of Project
With the wees of April 19
through the 2l> proclaimed by Gov-
•rnor Coke Stevenson as Navy Ap-
preciation Week in Texas, Geo. C.
Fall, chairman of the Burleson
; ..unty Navy Relief Fund Drive,
announced Thursday that the drive
would he conducted during the week
and urges citizens to lend gener-
ous support.
Burleson county's quota has
been set at $300 and Fall expressed
the hope that tin quota could be
exceeded by several hundred dol-
lars.
"The drive will mark the first
appeal ever made the general pub-
lic for money to go into the Navy
Relief Fund. Every Navy man has
for many years contributed a por-
tion of his salary toward this fund,
which is used to protect families
if Navy men from want and suf-
fering while he is away, fighting
our battles. Now that we are en-
gaged in war, the task has become
one which Navy men cannot handle
alone. It will therefore he our privi-
lege to contribute to this worth-
while endeavor Burleson county's
'pinto is $.'{00. It is to be hoped
that the quota will he far exceed-
ed." I'"all concluded.
Volunteer contributions will he
received at the News office.
"The Navy Relief Society, to
which this fund will be given, he-
longs to the Navy and is one of its
most cherished possessions," Ad-
miral Harol Stark, president of the
Society, has said. "It was organ-
ized by the Navy and within the
Navy to look after the Navy's own.
For all these years it has lived on
its own income and the generosity
of the officers and men in the serv-
ice."
The challenging purpose of the
Society is that no mother, no
widow, no orphaned children, or
other member of a Navy man's
family, shall suffer hardships if it
can be prevented. Its services are
the giving of immediate financial
nid to the family as necesary when
and after a Navy man dies in the
service of his country—providing
emergency operations — medical
treatment, and for continued serv-
ices to the Navy man's dependents
who need care and help.
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Selcct Vegetable Varieties
Seed dealers in Hunt County,
with the advice of county exten-
sion agents have selected 1H vari-
eties of vegetables suitable for
Victory gardens in the county. Pac
kets are made up for various size
families.
Hare Sets Stage
To Ration Sugar
In This County
Meeting Wednesday Of
Teachers Sees Ration Books
And Supplies Issued
Uncle Sam is going to have to
tighten his belt this week, and b -
gin to stir the sugar in his coffee,
to be sure there will be enough
sugar to go around in case we have
to depend on our home-grown sup-
ply.
That is the reason school teach-
ers in the Southwest—and through-
out the land—are "going to school"
themselves, to study the plan hooks
giving theni official instruction in
the method of registering the trade
on April 28 and 29 for sugar ra-
tioning, and the general public on
May 4, 5, 6, and 7 for War Ration
Book Number One.
J. Malvin Hare and his force with
several additional assistants spent
Wednesday afternoon issuing
equipment to county school teach-
ers for the purpose of their study-
ing thoroughly in order to be well
versed in answering any questions
that may arise in connection with
the rationing and you can bet there
will be many.
Members of the trade are advised
to get in touch with their local ra-
tion board and obtain application
forms for commercial registration
on April 28 and 29 c.t the county
and city schools.
"Registration for the trade will
involve establishments varying in
size from the smallest country store
to the largest super-market," Hare
explained, "and they may vary in
type from a boarding house or a
home candy manufacturer to a
fruit canning factory, soft drink
bottler or a meat packer. Some of
the information required may be
rather technical for some of these,
so it is important that they obtain
application forms beforehand, stu-
dy them and fill them out. Then
they will need only to go before a
registrar on April 28 and 29 and
sign the forms in the presence of
a registrar, to obtain sugar pur-
chase certificates."
Hare emphasized that sugar ra
(See SUGAR, column 1, last page)
Roy Herrmann Chief
Speaker At Banquet
Caldwell Future Farmers have
chosen Roy Herrmann as the main
speaker for their banquet here next
Tuesday night. Herrmann, a local
boy. is the state president of the
Future Farmers of America. He
holds the American Farmer degree,
which is the highest degree award-
ed by the national association. He
is very popular among F.F.A. mem-
bers and advisers over the state,
iind is probably known better over
the State of Texas than any other
Caldwell citizen. He has traveled
widely in the interest of Future
Farmer organizations.
Other highlights of the banquet
include a play written by local
members and presentation of hon-
orary degrees to Caldwell citizens
who have aided the Future Farm
er program. The hoys are giving
this banquet to honor their dads
who will be the guests of their
sons.
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Jeff Davis To
Speak Sunday
Former Caldwel Pastor To
Lecture on l.iquor Problem
Jeff Davi s, secretary of the
United Texas Lhys, and former
pastor of the First Baptist Church
in Caldwell during the World War,
will appear twice Sunday in Cald-
well Churches at which time he
will discuss the liquor question and
how it affects the people of the
country.
Davis is not a stranger to the
people of this city. When the war
broke out for the United States in
1917 Dbvis was given a leave of ab-
sence from his pulpit and became a
chaplain in the U. S. Army. After
the war he returned to Caldwell
and resumed his place in the Bap-
tist Church, where he stayed for
a year.
At 11 o'clock Sunday morning
Davis will speak at the First Meth-
odist Church and on Sunday even-
ing at 8:30 o'clock will speak from
the pulpit of the First Baptist
Church.
All those interested in the vital
message that will be brought be-
fore the people by this renowned
dry are urged to attend the meet-
ings at both churches.
L
CHIT MISE KWS
Marriage Licenses
Walker Scott and Mrs. Lillian
Davis.
Eari Richard Hambird and Vel-
ma Reed Wainscott.
Santiago Mendoza and Francis-
co Alhares.
Land Matters
Jeff Krenek to Mamie G. Priebe.
Deed to 3.7 acres adjoining and
west of Santa Fe Ry. in West
Caldwell.
Mrs. Rosie Stefka and John E.
Stefka to John, Margaret and Mil-
lie Brown, deed to 2 acres near
Woodrow Lake.
R. S. and Hays Bowers to Mrs.
Sara F. Bowers, Richard and Sara
E. Bowers, deed to 25 acres near
Somerville.
Mrs. Hattie Rankin to J. L.
Pounder and wife, deed to lots 1
and 2, Block 15, West Caldwell.
W. H. Nixon heirs to Harmon
Priebe, 26 acres, more or less, at
Second Creek, south of Caldwell.
John Hornsberry to Lee Roy
Sherman and R. T. Franklin, deed
to 2 acres near Rita.
Alvin Murray and wife to Mag-
nolia Petroleum Co. Oil lease on
213 acres east of Somerville.
C. W. Thomas to Magnolia Petro-
leum Co., oil lease on 459 acres east
of Somerville.
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Morale Plays
Big Part In
Cotton Week
Event To Be Observed
From May 15 to 23 With
War Emphasis
Personal morale, and the part
that the proper use of cotton prod-
ucts can play in maintaining it,
will be the distinguishing features
of National Cotton Week in this
year of war and rearmament. The
event will be observed the week of
May 15 to 23.
Changed economic and social
conditions since the Japs bombed
Pearl Harbor have caused new em-
phasis to be placed on National
Cotton Week, according to Luther
Sharp, vice president of Agricul-
tural Trade Relations and chairman
of the Texas National Cotton Week
C ommittee.
"There is now no surplus of cot-
ton such as we have had in the past
few years," Sharp said, "but there
is a great need of awakening the
public to an acceptance of changed
types of cotton goods.
"Due to a lack of dyes and
bleaching material, it is going to
be essential for the public to adjust
itself to new designs.
"Psychologists agree that per-
sonal morale is highly important in
a nation at war. At the same time,
the public must become accustomed
to new styles and habits—in cloth-
ing and in eating. Some of the
things to which we have become
accustomed are not available any
longer, and National Cotton Week
>f 1942 will he important as a time
when farmers, merchants, manu-
facturers an.1 consumers will be
helped to readjust their thinking
about cotton, the greatest farm
product of Texas and the South."
As in the past few years, Na-
tional Cotton Week is sponsored by
farmers, manufacturers and retail
merchants. At a meeting in Dallas,
(See Cotton Week, col. 3, last page)
MICKIE SAYS—
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TUEYS P/FFRUMT
fóAYS OF WASTm'VER,
MOklEY+W KIUOPEU
A \X/lHPOW 'M THROW
IT OUT OR. THROW
MOUEVAWAY 0)4 BUM
ADS /A/ PHOK/V *B/Z~
NE?S P/RECTDR/ES "
AkJ'SUCH STUFF
Audit Of Burleson County Records
Completed By Waco Firm Shows Very
Favorable Financial Condition Hei
Funded Indebtedness of The County In Past
Three Years Has Been Decreased By
$37,300, Report Shows
USO Campaign
To Begin On
Monday, May 11
Burleson County Quota Set
At $1833, Based On
Population
Preparing for the opening of the
1942 USO campaign in this sec-
tion, James P. Nash of Austin, re-
gional chairman, has been meeting
The firm, Frank L. Wilcox of Waco, Texas, has jut |
completed an audit of the books and records of Buril
County, which examination and report covers the calendar I
year 1941. On this work Wilcox was represented by B. B.
DuBose who has made several annual audits for Burleson County.
A preview of statements to be found in the regular audit report I
discloses a very favfcrable financial position, especially in connection |
with sinking funds.
In the new audit is found a com* I
parative statement of bonds
warrants outstanding as at Janu-
ary 1, 1939, and January 1, 1948.1
A study of this statement reveals ]
that over the past three years the
funded indebtedness of the couatgr
has been decreased by $37,300. Dur-
ing the same three-year pi
cash on hand in the various inter-
est and sinking funds has been In-
creased by $18,186.61, which figUM
when added to the decrease In
funded debt, makes a total im-
provement in the financial position
of the sinking fund accounts of
$55,486.61.
The audit report also shows a net
increase of over $10,000 in th*
County Treasurer's General Fund
uccount. This noteworthy improve-
ment in the condition of the coun-
ty's affairs will no doubt be of spe-
cial interest to the taxpayers of
Burleson County.
lit'Y DKt'K.VHK BONDS —
Farmers Start New Woodlands
Texas farmers and landowners
obtained 933,900 trees in 1940 for
starting new woodlands. The trees
were distributed by the U. S. For*
est Service under provisions of two
congressional acts.
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Etex Chamber
Asks Adoption
Of Sales Tax
Also Approves Ceiling On
Wages and Profits, And
Advocates "Work or Fight**
ith leaders of the area this week.
The campaign, which will open
May 11 and continue through July
4, is headed in the state by Harry
C. Wiess of Houston, with Govern-
or Coke Stevenson as honorary
chairman. It will be carried in
every part of the state, so every
i'exan will have an opportunity to
Jo his share in providing recrea-
tional facilities for the soldiers,
sailors and marines in Uncle Sam's
services. USO recreation centers
are set up at every training center,
and even carry their service to the
battlefronts. One USO center was
destroyed by a Japanese bomb at
Manila.
The USO, in its first year, op-
erated more than 500 such centers,
built by the government and per-
ated by the USO, or United Service
Organizations, which is made up
if the six great national welfare
organizations. This year's campaign
chest must be larger, since more
than 700 posts will be operated as
the growing army of the United
States reaches full size of 3,600,000
by the anniversary of Pearl Har-
bor. •
County chairmen are being ap-
pointed, and will be announced
soon. Meanwhile, Mr. Nash an-
nounced county quotas. That for
Burleson county has been put at
$1,833, based on the population of
the county at the last census.
The chairman expressed his hope
that this county would be among
the first to go over the top after
May 11.
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C. H. Houston
Offers For
Another Term
Constable of Precinct 1
Asks Voters For
Support
C. H. Houston, Constable of Pre-
cinct No. 1, this week authorized
The News to make official an-
nouncement of his candidacy for
re-election.
With three terms of service i"
this office, Constable Houston is
thoroughly conversant with the
procedures and problems of the of-
fice, and feels capable of render-
ing. in the coming term even bet-
ter service to the interest of law
enforcement than in the past, with
the benefit of his experience. He
stands on a policy of fair treat-
ment to all and special favors to
none in the enforcement of the law.
He earnestly solicits the consid
eration of the voters of *: cinct
1 in the coming elections.
The early adoption of a general
sales tax as a wartime measure
for raising a substantial amount of
necessary federal revenue and
spreading the burden over the en-
tire population was recommended
to congress in a resolution adopted
by the East Texas ChamlHsr of
Commerce in convention at Long-
view.
The chamber also approved as a
principle of this war time period
the imposition of ceilings on wages
and on profits in war contracts as
'•orrollaries to the existing system
of commodity price control, "all oí
which we deem necessary to pro-
tect the American economy against
the serious, immediate threat of
violent inflation."
Declaring that the first business
of every patriotic American citizen
and group of citizens should be the
winning of the war and that "work
or fight" should not only be Amer-
ica's first slogan but the solemn
dedication of all. the chamber re-
solved that "no combination of
i-apital, management, labor, or of-
ficials of any government should
be permitted to put profits, pay
or politic above the prime consid-
eration of winning the war first"
and that for the duration of the
war "we approve national legisla-
tion to provide that in all defense
industries no overtime shall be
paid until after 48 hours a week
shall have befen worked and that
no double time shall be paid for
work done on Sundays and holi-
(See ADOPTION, col. 3, last page)
Farmers Market
(Prices subject to change)
Cotton, middling
Cottonseed meal, sack
Cottonseed meal, ton
Cottonseed, ton
Hulls, ton
Hogs, pound
Hides, a pound
Eggs. dozen
Butter, a pound
Hens, pound
Bakers, pound
Fryers, pound
Boosters, pound
Turkeys, N>>. I hens
Toms, No. 1
Turkeys, No. 2
Old Toms
Buttcrfat, No. 1
9c
35c
19c
_ $2.50
$47.00
$48.00
$17.00
to UVfce
lOe
24c
in trade
I5c-16c
14c 15c
16c-18c
8c
15c
12c
10c
10c
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