Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1948 Page: 3 of 8
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BASTROP ADVERTISER JANUARY 15. 1948
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All of our fall garments must go to make room
for new spring clothes.
NEW SPRING CLOTHES ARRIVING DAILY.
Be sure and come early to get the best selection.
Sale Now In Full Swing
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The number of veterans in an
interrupted or discontinued train-
ing status increased slightly dur-
ing November, Veterans Adminis-
tration reported.
Of all veterans who had entered
training under the Vocational Re-
habilitation Act (Public Law 16)
for disabled veterans since the
program began, 32 percent, o.
121,700 no longer were in training
on November 30, 11>47. This num-
ber includes 22,400 disabled vet-
erans who had been declared re-
hablitated.
Under the G-I Rill (Public Law
.'M0), about 4.'! percent, or 1,915,-
400, of all veterans who starteu
training since the beginning of
the > *-ogram, no longer were in
training at the end of the month.
Only 9,600 of this number com-
pletely exhausted their entitle-
ment to training.
Veterans Administration during
November entered into 1,076 con-
tracts and 700 contract supple-
ments with education institutions
to provide educational training for
World War II veterans, bringing
the total number of contracts ii\
force at the end of the month to
11,968.
Agreements with job training
establishments signed during th<
month totaled—4,481. On Novem-
ber HO, 1947, there were 206,811
such agreements in force.
At the end of November, 697,1-'6
job training establishments and
40j()97 educational institutions
were on the approved list of trait,
ing facilities.
About .'50,000 pharmacies through
nut the country, taking part, in
the Veterans Administration homi
town pharmacy program, filled
more than three-miartcr; of p
million prescriptions for veterans
during 1947, the Veterans Admin
istration estimated.
The Veterans wi re und'Tg in
out-patient treatment for ser. r
(onnectd a;lments in V \ eli <■
or with private physicians.
CJ. I am
disabled veteran of
World War II and would like to
know if I can be given a state-
ment of my disability?
A. Information from your folder
regarding your disability may be
furnished you when, in the judg-
ment of the Administrator of
Veterans Affairs, it would not be
injurious to your physical or men-
tal health. Your private physician
may obtain from VA, upon writ-
ten request, any information con-
cerning your condition which lit
requires to treat you.
Q. Will Veterans Administration
pay for tools and equipment while
I am taking on-the-job training?
A. VA will pay for those tools
and equipment that are needed
by all trainees for the satisfactory
pursuit of the same training
course.
Q. Will VA pay tuition for a
veteran to attend school while
he is taking on-the-job training
under the G-I Rill?
A. Yes, Veterans Administra-
tion will pay for such schooling
if his course of study is related to
the vocation for which he is in
training, or if the school course
is prescribed and recommended as
a part of his job-training.
Q. What should the veteran do
if he is not satisfied with the
job-training he receives?
A. That is a natter for the
vdt eran to decide himself, but
it might be advisable for him to
seek the counsel of a VA train-
ing officer. He can always discon-
tinue his training, or with VA's
permission, he can switch to an-
other training establishment.
Read The Want Ads
ATOMIC ANGLE TO
FUTURE WARFARE
TO BE GIVEN
The atomic angle to future war-
fare and national defense will be
laid before the people of Texas
the afternoon of January 19th
when Sumner Pike, one of the
four members of the National
Atomic Commission, will make an
address in Austin under auspices
of the Texas Department of The
American Legion.
Pike's address will be the cul-
mination and highlight of Post
Officers' Conference which will
bring several hundred American
Legion Leaders to Austin for a
two day meeting January 18 and
19. George Rerry of Lubbock, De-
partment Commander, will preside
at the Conference which is ex-
pected t<> have representatives
from most of the 650 Texas Amer-
ican Legion Posts.
A state defense conference will
be held Monday afternoon pre-
sided over by Herman G. Nami of
San Antonio, Past Department
Legion Commander and c j
Chairman of the Legion's Nav ri-
al Defense Committee.
Governor Beauford Jester •*. ill
welcome the Legion leaders to the |
Post Officers' Conference.
Commander Rerry has invited i
all Texans interested in hearing!
the latest developments upon
nuclear energy and the atomic
bomb to hear Pike.
Pike is from Maine but has
been prominent in governmental
affairs the past dozen years. He
is a former member of the .''ecuri-
ties' Exchange Commission and
was in charge of the crude oil pro-
duction program during World
War II.
Among other speakers at the
Conference will be Lieut. Gen.
Walton H. Walker, Commander
of the Fifth Army. Chicago; S.
Perry Rrown, Iteaumont, National
Chairman of The American Leg-
ion Security Commission and Lynn
W. Rrandon, Washington, D. C.,
National Veterans' Employment;
representative.
NEW TIRE DESIGN
AIMED AT GREATER
SAFETY ON CURVES
A new kind of tire, designed
for safety on curves, swerves, and
turn.;, has been developed as a
result of survey of the National
Sefety Council i hI other safety j
groups which have pointed out the j
high ratio of automobile accidents >
on curves.
This sensational new type of j
tire, known as the Davis Curve
Safety, has been developed by!
Davis Tire engineers, and will bel
available to the public in Western
Auto Stores and Associate Stores
beginning the week of January 25.
Information from the National
Safety Council and other groups
emphasize these three important
facts concerning curve safety:
(1) Each year 183,000 persons
are killed or injured in accidents
on curves and turns.
curves kill six times more people
than blowouts.
(3) Each year dangerous skla*
are involved in 24 per cent of all
highway accidents.
This new "Curve Safety Tire"
has nine engineered features for
greater safety, all designed u.
aid in the national campaign for
safety on curves, turns and skids.
Recognizing the fact that the
outside tire ribs become the im-
portant gripping ribs on curves
and swerves, Davis Tire engineers
concentrated their research on
this all-important rib. From this
research and development emerge
ed a system of "curve grippers."
Thest patented curve g ripper.-,
are neaiiy divisible perforations
in a chevron arrangement on the
outside rib. Each Tire contains
lO.'IO of these "invisible" curve
grippers.
The curve-grippers are closed
tight on straight roads to insure
long normal-tire mileage. On a
curve or turn the grippers auto-
matically open to scrape off mols
ture and .lick road film, thus
leaving a dryer path for tread
grip.
Laboratory tests showed that
on a 250-foot radius curve at
40 miles-per-hour the outside rib
alone suffers a grueling sideway
force of approximately one-ton.
The patented curve grippers are
designed to retard skidding caused
by this sideways pressure even on
wet or icy road surfaces.
Mass production economies al-
low the sale of the Davis Curve
Safety Tire without a premium
price and each tire is sold on a
written two-year guarantee.
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Telepho
ne preview
for 1948
As we enter 1948, the 50,000 tele-
phone people in the Southwest are
continuing to work hard to make
telephone service better than ever
and to get service to people wait-
ing. Here is what we think 1948 will
bring:
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INSTALLATIONS
Shortages of switch boards,
cable, and wire continue,
bu*. we were able to install
460,000 new telephones
last year for a net gain of
295,000. This year we ex-
pect to equal or better
that total.
CONSTRUCTION
Dollars spent on construc-
tion last year came to 115
million, close to three times
as much as in any prewar
year. In 1948, the job will
take even more money—
150 million dollars! That
will buy new buildings,
switchboards, cable, wire,
and other things needed to
supply more and better
telephone service.
DEMAND
Demand for telephones con
tinues at 50,000 a month.
New orders keep the wait-
ing list long, but it is
smaller now than a year
ago. About 200,000 per-
sons in the 700 exchanges
we serve are now waiting
for service, but 3 out of 4
of them applied in 1947.
fou Can't Afford Cheap Sted Corn!
LONG DISTANCE
Improvements in long dis-
tance service are coming
in 1948 as we add more
miles of wire needed to
handle calls. Some 50,000
miles of circuits were add-
ed in 1917. We expect to
double that total in 1918.
SERVICE
Telephone service will grow
better as more switchboard
equipment brings relief
from the extra-heavy loads
now being carried. More
than 18 million calls a day
were made in the South-
west during 1947. This is
well over a million more
than the previous year,
and a new record. The
trend is upward for 1948.
RURAL SERVICE
We connected 50,000 more
rural telephones last year.
Our large-scale program to
bring telephone service to
more farms will continue
in 1948. We hope to be
serving 260,000 telephones
in rural areas by the end
of this year, nearly tu icr
as many as at the start of
1946.
W'TH 3T.:?H5 'TY
We worked hard to do what we did in 1947. We've still got
an uphill job. We'll be doing the best we can to put in more
telephones and further improve telephone service during 1918.
SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO.
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1948, newspaper, January 15, 1948; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth237149/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.