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THE ALTO HERALD
WEIMAR, EDITOR AND OWNER
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR
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THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO. TEXAS. JANUARY 22, 1942.
NO. 37.
d 000 Texans
! Be Registered
gsibruary 16
^ February H registration for
tive Service will include ap-
mateiy 56.000 Texas men from
]Qpb*nd 21 year old age groups and
.444,000 in the 36 to 44 year
;roups, Adj.-Gen. J. Watt Page
A tited last week.
C^be registered arc alt men not
ausly registered who have at-
1 their 20th birthday on Dec.
ct- '41, and who have not reached
45th birthday on Feb. 16, 1942.
, i In terms of birth dates, it in-
s all men bom between Feb. 17,
and Dec. 31, 1921, who were
^ **' his district for the marines.
) HIGH SCHOOL
B ANOTHER
)TEACHER
),High School officials are
g trouble keeping a bandmaster.
Jim Hayes, who has been here
te past three months, tendered
- ]l^ignati<Mi to the school board
"yeek as bond instructor, and
ready gone to Dallas, where he
ndeavor to get into some gov-
<nt defense project. He is a
D .-lid young mw, and very com-
; in musical work, and it was
ted that he gave up his posi-
M*re. Mo successor had been
ited up to Wednesday night.
L.J.X* '
BABY DIED
era! services were held at Old
ine Church Saturday for
ADE-ne Ruth, month old daughter of
A e nd Mrs. Francis Pryor of Rat-
who died Friday of last week.
E ervice wa* conducted by Rev.
MCKee of Alto and Rev. J. C.
J of Old Palestine. Interment
[i Old Palatine cemetery.
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(Dook> STOCKTON
NG FOR RE ELECTION
0BNTT SUPHRINTENDENT
Herald is authorized to an-
e the candidacy of D. C. (Dock^
: L on for re-election to the office
nty Superintendent. In offering
LET S ALL BE
COMPLETELY SELFISH
if for re-election, Mr Stockton
;sed his appreciation to ail those
ave supported him in the past
ked that they consider n's prcs-
andidacy on tin- basis of hi:
rokce County schools have
er Splendid progress during Mr.
on's tenure. At the beginning
:r. S administration, there were only
accredited rural schools in the
'. Today the school system has
ped and expanded, so that there
schools on the accredited list.
anc
B;
leans these schools are accepted
edit so far as their work goes
^ " jal terms with any schools in
ate.
jj tenure of teachers in the coun-
ood. During the past few years,
has been a very slight turn
in teachers of the county,
means much to school chil-
nd teachers
T, Stockton needs no introduc-
i!) the citizenry of the county.
honest, competent and ef-
^ He is a veteran of World
. He saw clearly the necessity
arshaling the schools in the
e effort, which includes dis-
tor B^n of information sent out
rait H&ts Government departments
ar.:HMying the civilian front to
ici,.- HHMVpis fact has contributed
a sc^H^rganization for defense
'jHHC sates and Red Cross
t.
i c^^Hy'effort is accelerated, the
3 wf^B&r^itchoo! co-operation in-
: is ^^HTha office has been work-
is organization.
Stockton wishes this fact to be
stood by the people of this
mtfiii', ^ name is announced as
y tidate to succeed himself in
It wMl preclude any exten-
aHwm, which he believes in-
^ ^ )riat#'Ait)! so much work of a
_,.e !tatwe constantly pouring
r6he office.
solicits the vote and
very citizen In the
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Texas' greatest peacetime civic
probiem has now become its most
serious home defense problem.
Traffic accidents exacted a toil of
almost 2,000 lives in this state last
year. Some 50,000 persons suffered
injuries. The economic waste amount-
ed to more than fifty million dollars.
A nation at war cannot afford
traffic accidents. Victory cannot be
won when the home front loses 40,000
persons each year.
One might think the ban on new
automobiies and tires wouid solve
the traffic accident problem auto-
matically. Such 'a belief isn't sup-
ported by fact.
The ban might reduce accidents if
it does three things:
1. Reduces sharply the number of
cars in use.
2. Infiuence those who do use cars
to drive less.
3. Influences motorists to drive
more slowly and carefuliy to prevent
excessive wear or loss of the car in a
wreck.
But it is more probabie that other
factors may cause an actual in-
crease in the traffic toll. They are:
1. Motorists will be driving older
cars, and may find it difficult to
keep them in safe condition because
of a shortage of spare parts and
skilled mechanics. '
2. Tires in many instances will be
used beyond the safety point.
3. Many cars discarded as unfit for
services wiii go back on the road.
4. The tempo and urgency of war
production and transportation will be
increasing every day, further aggra-
vating the problems that already Rave
sent the traffic toll to record propor-
tions.
'5. Biackouts are bringing new
traffic hazards.
Let's be completely selfish for a
moment.
Lefs .forget that it's patriotic to
drive safely and sanely, and therefore
save rubber, oii and gas. Let's forget
that a little courtesy and common
sense on the highway saves lives . . .
including your own.
Let's forget all that. But, brother,
if you smash this car, where are you
going to get another?
If you ruin even one tire in a minor
accident, where are you going to get
another? '
This is one time when, for purely
selfish reasons, you can't afford to
drive recklessly. You may have plen-
ty of money . . . you may not give a
hoot about your own neck or anyone
eise's . . . but you do want to keep
on driving!
Then drive safely! And one of these
days, when we've won this war and
you're able to get a new car, maybe
you'll have acquired the safety habit
and will drive safely just because you
have found it's smart business.
Here are a few "Smash-Up Savers":
1. Start sooner. Take it easy. Al-
low more time for that extra wartime
traffic.
2. Cut your speed. The safe life
of a tire at 50 miles an hour is only
half of what it is at 30 miles an hour.
At 70 miles an hour it fails to only
30 per cent of normal life.
3. Don't drive if you drink.
4. Keep your car in tip-top shape
. . . motor . . . brakes . . tires—lights
—horn—battery—etc.
5. Try turning on your charm be-
hind the wheet ... be courteous to
other drivers and pedestrians. ]
6. Remember . . . drive it safely,
brother, you can't get another!
WeHs Boy KiHed
When Torpedo
Hit Oi! Carrier
Hamon Brown, 19, son of Henry
Brown of WeHs, was one of the vic-
tims on the 6635-ton Allan Jackson,
which was sunk by a submarine off
the Atantic coast Sunday, according
to advices received by his father
Tuesday morning. The tanker had
left Texas City about a week ago,
and was destined for New York.
Young Brown was a native of
south Cherokee county and was bom
at Alto. He attended school here
and at Grange Hall in the Linwood
community, four miles cast of Aito.
Prior to his seamanship on the
tanker, he served two years in the
United States army, being a member
of Co. H. 23rd Infantry, stationed at
Fort Sam Houston.
Besides his father, he is survived
by one brother, Roy Brown of Texas
City and one sister, Mrs. Lometa
Burt. Corrigan.
Farmers May
Obtain Photos
Of Their Farms
POSTMASTERS ASKED
TO ENL!ST TWO MARINES
The Marines are asking Texas post-
masters for aid. In a letter sent to
1,000 postmasters in North and East
Texas, Major J. O. O'Leary of the
Dallas Recruiting office has asked
each postmaster to eniist two men
from his ditsrict for the Marines.
Law is a rule o! action prescribing
that which is right and prohibiting
that which is wrong.—Wm. E. Biack-
stone.
HELLO NEIGHBOR!
Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Doming, Jr., of
Galiatin, are the parents of a son
born at Jacksonviiie Hospitai Jan-
uary 3. The littie feliow has been
named Gary Don.
t
A bird's-eye view of his farm is
being given every farmer in Chero-
kee county co-operating with the
AAA who signs a farm plan sheet
under the 1942 program.
This is one of the few Texas coun-
ties in which an effort is being made
to furnish every farmer with an aerial
photograph of his farm, H. W. Wal-
ker. chairman of the county ACA
committee, said. Although the plan
has been used successfuiiy in some
other states, this is the first year an
attempt has been made in Cherokee
county to furnish all farmers in this
county with the pictures.
Most of the state has been photo-
graphed from the air for the purpose
of checking performance under the
program, and the pictures have been
available to the farmers in most
counties at moderate cost, Mr. Walker
said, but no charge will be made for
pictures in this county in 1942.
Most of the aerial photographs are
taken at an altitude of about three
miles and are made to a scale of ap-
proximately one inch to 1,667 feet.
The photographs to be distributed in
the county are enlarged to an ap-
propriate scale, while those used in
checking performance are gauged to
a scale of 660 feet to the inch to per-
mit more detail.
The aerial photographs show all
permanent boundaries of the fields
which are marked with the field num-
bers and the amount of acreage in
each. The photographs to be given
the farmers are taken from the mas-
ter maps in the county office. The
maps are to be attached on one side
of a folder, the other side to be de-
voted to a permanent year-to-year
record of farming operations and the
Farm Sheet Pian for 1942. If the
farm is enlarged or cut down during
the year, the map will be changed to
coincide with the new boundaries.
The pictures make it possible for
the farmer planning his farming
operations for the coming year to
better visualize just what should be
done on his farm. He can then sketch
in improvements he intends to make
on his land and can get a good idea
of what his farm will look like at the
end of the year.
If the plan is successfu! in the few
experimental counties in the state, it
wili be adopted on a larger scale next
year, AAA officiais have announced.
JUNIOR STUDY CLUB
The Junior Study Club met with
Mrs. Buford Maddux Wednesday
afternoon for a study of points of in-
terest in the Old South. i
Mrs. Maurice Holcomb discussed
"Picturesque New Orleans," Mrs.
Weldon Hendrick told about "Atlanta,
the 'New York' of the South," Mrs.
Sam Fox gave an account of "Along
the Old Spanish Trail from Pensa-
coia to Lake Charles, the 'Riviera of
the South.' " and Mrs. W. E. Grady
concluded the program with "Evan-
geline-land."
Refreshments were served by the
hostess,
Farmers Urged To
Gather and Set!
Otd Scrap iron
Collection and sale of scrap iron
and steel is only one of the many
ways Cherokee county farmers can
help lick the Japs, the Nazis and the
Fascists, according to H. W. Watker,
chairman of the Cherokee County
USDA Defense Board.
Growing needs of a nation at war
serve to intensify demand for steel
and scrap iron to feed the hungry
mouths of arms factories, the defense
board chairman said.
Urgent appeal is also made to the
public to gather up steel and scrap
and carry it to the nearest dealers
for use in charging the nation's steel
furnaces. A list of dealers for the
county are on file in the local AAA
office and may be consulted any
time, he said.
"We're not asking that you give
your scrap to your country, we're
asking that you sell it at prevailing
prices for immediate defense use,"
Mr. Walker said in explaining that
financial returns cannot be expected
to be large but results wiil be of un-
told value to farmers in their whole
victory effort.
Mr. Walker explained that prices
for scrap vary in different sections
since dealers deduct costs of trans-
porting scrap from shipping point to
mill, as well as preparation charges.
"It's just another way of saying
that we're at our posts on the farm
front," the chairman said. "We're
In this war to win, and each of us
will have to do his part to get the job
done."
Tomato Festival
At Jacksonville
Not To Be Held
The Jacksonviiie Tomato Festival
has been postponed for 1942, due to
the war emergency conditions, that
act having been taken Monday after-
noon by directors in a called meet-
ing.
Directors voted to leave the official
organization of the show as it now
stands, pending action regarding
1943 activities.
Action of the show directors is in
line with that being taken by officials
of numerous other such shows in view
of the conditions and the need for
diverting money spent for such
shows into defense stamp and bond
purchases.
Cooperation
Being Asked By
Postmaster
Due to the increased work in the
Post Office caused by the National
Emergency, and because of the fact
that we are not allowed additional
heip to carry on this extra work, we
are going to ask that you observe the
foltowing rules, which will help us
very much to continue to give you
the best of service: '
1. Patrons who receive their mail
in the general delivery, have one
member of the famiiy call for the
mai! after each mail is reecived.
2. Patrons that have parcels to
maii see that it is well wrapped,
packed and plainiy addressed before
bringing it to the office to mail.
3. Patrons that wish to send
mt ney orders please have their ap-
plications made out before asking
for money orders.
4. Rural patrons who receive their
mail on the routes, please do not
caii at the office for your mail unless
is it very urgent. Also instruct their
children who go to school in Alto to
not call for their maii untess it is very
important.
If you will adhere to the above
rules it will save us much time and
work, which will enabie us to carry
on the added work that has been put
on us, and at the same time give
you prompt mail service.
J. C. Et win, Postmaster.
"The way to biiss lies not on beds of
dow n, aNd he that had no cross de-
serves no crown."—F. Quarles.
AUTO AND TRUCK
TAX STICKERS
AVA!LABLE AT POSTOFUCE
Postmaster J. C. Erwin, advises
that he has the automobile tax stamps
ready for the motor owners. The
stamps are $2.09 and good until
June 30th. At that time another
stamp will be required.
These stamps must be on all cars
and trucks not later than February 1.
Judge Brown
Outiines Defense
Program To Lions
County Judge H. T. Brown, was
the principal speaker at the Lions
Club luncheon Tuesday, and gave
the members and visitors a great
deal of information on the various
phases of national defense.
Particular stress was laid on pro-
tecting the water supply against
sabotage, which is a practice now
being followed by warring nations.
If the water supply should be con-
taminated throughout the country, it
would cause much sickness and
lower the morale of the home forces,
Mr. Brown stated.
He also urged that the first aid
courses be taken up by as many as
possible, giving the reason that in
time to come, the army will call
many doctors, and this will leave the
civilian population to take care of
themselves to a very iarge extent.
First aid courses are now being
taught at Alto, Jacksonville, Bar-
sola and Ironton, and more will be
opened as fast as volunteer teach-
ers can be assigned.
Tire rationing and its program
was also explained by Judge Brown.
The lunch was made more enjoy-
able by the acquisition of Misses
Dorothy Fae Black and Audrty Mc-
Gaughey, from the Aito High School
heme economics class, as they served
the Lions preceding the talk made
by Judge Brown.
TO THE PEOPLE
OF THIS VICINITY
New Motor Tax
Supp!ements
Highway Funds
—
After June 30, the Federal High-
way Use Tax of $5 per year will ex-
ceed $1,675,000 annually in Texas on
trucks alone, Lynn B. Shaw, General
Manager of the Texas Motor Trans-
portation Association, said today.
Shaw estimated that the tax wit!
bring in more than $775,000 for the
remainder of the fiscal year. He said
that, of the 335,000 trucks in Texas,
one-fourth are owned by farmers,
12,000 by carriers for hire, and the
remainder by individuais or corpora-
tions hauling their own merchandise.
"If America is to become the
'breadbasket' as well as the 'arsenal
of democracy,' as called for in present
federal planning, horsepower on the
farm must stiil be measured in cylin-
ders and not in draft animals," Shaw
warned. He said that an increase in
the number of light trucks manufac-
tured for farm use must follow the
increased production schedules for
farm products, pointing out that 90
per cent of all livestock in the State
is hauled to market by truck. More
than half of the citrus crop from the
Lower Rio Grande Valley was moved
by truck last year.
He said that with 3,265 Texas
communities depending upon trucks
aione for transportation of vital com-
modities, any drastic curtailment of
truck production wiil bring about a
serious probiem.
Deed* and Instrument*
Filed
We, the grocery merchants operat-
ing in the City of Alto and serving
the city and vicinity, wish to co-
operate with our defense program by
saving tires, gas and automobiies. To
accompiish this purpose, we have
decided to reduce our detivery ser-
vice.
Beginning with Monday. January
26, we wiii make on)y one detivery
a day, excepting Saturday. This de-
iivery wiii be made at 9:30 every
morning. To heip us conserve this
saving, we are asking that ait of our^
customers phone their orders in as
eariy as possibie in the morning be-
fore 9:30, in order that our delivery
trucks can teave promptiy on the
time. I'ositiveiy no deiivery orders
can be made after that hour. AH
phone orders coming in after 9:30
wiii have to be heid over unti) the
foiiowtng day.
We are further ashing the co-
operation in serving you, the
peopie, by aiiowing us to open and
ciose our stores on dayiight saving
time, which wiii permit us to open
at 7:00 a. m. and ciose at 6:30 p. m.,
excepting Saturdays when you wiii
find us in our piaces of business untii
9:00 p. m. Our stores wiii be closed
ALL DAY on Sundays.
We find that most aii other towns
have aiready faiien in iine and are
co-operating fuiiy with the Defense
Program. So iet us. the true Amer-
ican citizens of this part of East
Texas, not be the ieast nor the last
to show our true American spirit, but
iet's co-operate in these ways such as
buying bonds and stamps and ren-
dering any other service possibie.
We thank you in advance for this
co-operation and promise you the
best of service and co-operation our-
selves.
Cosper's Red & White Store
H. D. Rogers Grocery
Brum Brunt Grocery
John Ramey
George Keiiy Grocery.
Deed—Henry Matthews to Lorenza
Richardson. Lot No. 4 in Henry
Mathews Addition 3-4 mile North of
Alto.
Deed—Horace Montgomery et ux
to R. R. McDaniel. 50 acres of the
Nimrod Ragsdale and Sara Ann Dun-
can Grants.
Deed—S. W. Littlejohn to A. C.
Day. 50 acres of the K. S. Jones Sur-
vey. (1-2 minerais excepted.)
Deed—I. E. (Ed) Martin to O. W.
Martin. 17 acres interest in 38 acres
of the J. M. Mora League and 50 1-16
acres out of the E. D. Cook Survey.
Deed—Lorenza Richardson to S. P.
Fox. Lot No. 4 in Henry Mathews
Addition about 3-4 mile North of
Aito.
ALTO MASONIC LODGE
TO WITHHOLD
RE MODELING PROGRAM
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and
howl for your miseries that shall come
upon you. Your riches are corrupted
and your garments are moth eaten.—
James.
Terreli Lodge No. 83, A. F. & A. M.
of Alto, are deferring a re-modeiing
program on their buiiding for the
duration of war, and the money thus
assigned for that purpose will go to
buy defense bonds, according to
Chester Gipson. Secretary. There is
no discussion of the Tightness or
wrongness of war. The freedom of
America is attacked, and fraternal
organizations are now oppressed in
Germany and all countries, save that
of England, her possessions together
with this of ours.
We are now facing the most far-
reaching and most trying times in the
history of free masonry. We are
practicaiiy the oniy people who are
offered the opportunity to meet in
ledge communications or assemblies
and enjoy the peaceable communica-
tion of one brother to another, and
if ever in the history of our beloved
order there was a time that we
needed to be up and about, it is now.
May we gird our loins, put on the
breastplate of righteousness and in-
ject into our spirits the indomitable
wiii and desire to go forth and do
battie for the right.
C. A. Gipson.
TOMATO GROWERS ATTENTION!
We have 194i certified and diubie
treated Rutger's seed, approved by
the State Department of Agriculture
of New Jersey. These seed were se-
ieeted and careluily inspected for
seed purposes. They are superior to
many other brands that cost as much
and more. Over one thousand acres
of this kind of seed were pianted in
the Frankston territory in 1941. No
better seed can be bought at any
price. Distributed by O. P. Coats,
tomato buyer, and soid in Alto by
Brookshire Bros.
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