Jim Hogg County Enterprise (Hebbronville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1939 Page: 1 of 16
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IF YOU HAVE—
anything to sell, trade or want
to buy, an ad in the ENTER-
PRISE will get results.
Jim Hogg County
ENTERPRISE
your Dollar’s Worth of
Librarian
PRINTING
At Horae
VOL. XIV.
JIM HOGG COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER HEBBRONVILLE. TEXAS
THURSDAY. JULY 27 1939
NUMBER ELEVEN
i BEHIND THE SCENES 'xiHollvWOod Sends
Scouts Seeking
Texas Talent
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x BY JOHN CRADDOCK
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BUSINESS — Breadwiners who
have been depending upon WPA em-
ployment, and merchants who eater
to their families, are feeling pretty
glum over last week’s announcement
that 650,000 WPA workers will he
dismissed by September 1. There’s
reason to believe, however, that a
good many will find a silver lining in
the “lay-off” cloud. For business is
working up more steam than in many
a month, and opportunities for pri-
vate employment should begin to in-
crease .
Consider these
current business picture: Rate of
steel output is at 56.4 percent of
capacity, highest for 1950. Though
2,000,000 cars and trucks were sold
in the first six months this year, mo-
tor makers now hope to come close
to eoualling this volume in the second
half. The aircraft industry received
Three Texas boys end three Texas
girls *r e going to receive Hollywood
contracts from the hands of Jesse L.
Li sky, famous motion picture pioneer
and creator of the radio program
“The Gateway to Hollywood” and >n
the presence of several well known
motion picture stars before Septem
ber l, according to an announcement
received from R. J. O’Donnell, of
the Interstate Circuit of theatres
today.
Following invitations from the
highlights of the Mayors of Dallas, Ft. Worth, Hous-
ton, and San Antonio, Mr. Lasky
agreed to give up his beloved Holly-
wood foi a personal search for talent
in Texas, agreeing with Mr. O’Don-
nell to appear on the stages of the
Worth Theatre at Fort Worth, Au-
gust 5 to 8 inclusive; the Metropoli-
tan Theatre at Houston, August 11
more new orders in the first half, to 17 inclusive; the Majestic Theatre
than in all 1968.More persons bought San Antonio, August 19 to 25 inclu-
new tires for their cars last month s:ve and the Majestic Theatre, Dallas
than in any June since 1953. Rural August 26 to September 1.
retail rales for June made a ten-year F,0m Texas Mr. Lasky and his
l igh Reviving confidence is a ch:ef |KUt.. stars arc considering accepting
instiga’or of these trade improve- invitations extended from New Or-
ments. i leans, Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland,
-— I Washington, Baltimore and New York
WASHINGTON — A total of ! \ boy and a girl will be selected by
Mr. Lasky on the stage of each
theatre he visits to be given contracts
with the exception of Fort Worth,
where he will only appear 4 days.
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TIME TO BAIT OUR HOOK/
$131,244,960, or just about one dol-
lar per capita, now stands as a first
bulwark of defense against possible
recurrence of bank closings on a
scale similar to the 1933 “holiday”
period. This is the present surplus
of the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor-
poration established by Congress to
protect l ank depositors against losses
During its five years of operation,
the FDIC has disbursed $74,000,000
to 252 insolvent or “hazardous” ban-
ks. of which $28,000,000 has been re-
paid. Despite the fact that $36,000,-
000 was added to its surplus in 1938,
the agency warns that an increase in
the present insurance assessment rate
on bank deposits may be necessary
because cash payments are expected
to run higher this year. The only al-
ternative, the agency advises, is for
Farm Purchase
Loans Increased
To Tex. Tenants
Garcia - Gonzales
A beautiful wedding was solem-
nized at the Catholic Church Sunday
(July 3) when Miss Esparci Go»zal«s
became the bride of Adolfo Garc'a
Jr., formerly of Falfurrias.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father David Gonzales. They
were met at the altar by the groom
and his best man, Adolfo Garcia, Sr.
Members composing the bridal party
were Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Garcia of
Falfurrias, Mr. and Mrs. Humberto
Martinez, Mr. and Mrs. Herculano
Salinas and Mr and Mrs. J. H. Gon-
zales of Hebhronville.
The bride was most becomingly a'.-
tired in a gown of white lace, in prin-
cess design, with a short veil crested
with a wreath of orange blossoms.
She carried a bouquet of white Jas-
mines. The bride’s sister, Miss Zula-
ma Gonzales, was maid of honor. She
wore a gown of peach shade, with a
bouquet of peach-colored roses. The
bridesmaids were Miss Lilia Montalvo,
who wore uqun, and Miss Luz Alnm-
raz, who wore blue. They carried
flowers of matching colors.
After the ceremony delightful re
freshments were served at the bride’s
home, and the happy couple left for
Monterrey and Saltillo. For going-
awa.v the bride wore a black and
white costume with black accessories.
The newly weds will return to make
their home in Hebhronville where Mr.
Garcia is a pharmacist at the City
Friends extend sincerest
good wishes.
Rotarians Hear
Salient Talks
At Luncheon
In Fort Worth he will also select a
couple, but that couple will compete
with the couple chosen at Dallas in
a special performance for the coveted
contracts.
The i ules and regulations govern-
ing this quest are quite simple.
Mr. Lasky is searching for nine
girls and nine boys during the tour
to be sent to Hollywood to appear
first on his radio program “The Gate-
way To Hollywood.” All expenses
will be paid to and from Hollywood,
the boys being put up at the Holly-
wood Athletic Club and the girls at
the Hollywood Footlight Club under
the care of competent chaperones.
First Peanut Crop For
Jim Hogg County Shipped j Phumacy
The first peanut crop ever raised |
in Jim Hogg county for commercial I
purposes left the Texas ^‘*x'ian |\jY
railroad yard yesterday for De Leon VJd&wlIIIv a mA
i Texas. A full carload was shipped by
i Fred Richmond; at least one more
Aid to tenants in buying farms will load will follow later.
borderline banks to eliminate exces-j WhUe there they win be given 25 0Q
sive dividend payments, coup e "'' | weekly spending money as well as
a program to avoid losses through |
forced liquidation.
MUSHROOMING — A clue to why
61.6 cents of every income dollar of
163 United States corporations goes i
having all their expenses taken care
of and they will be carefully schooled
and coached for their appearance on
the national program supported by
the finest stars in Hollywood Of these
Refund Open
To Farmers
The growers in this county were
A. Molina, Rnmon Ramirez and San-
dalio Ramirez. | ■■
The project owes its development Farmers and gasoline dealers—as
to Rarncn Vela and Sixto Gonzalez, >wetl a» a11 othera who under th* law
who Interested local planters in thejare ^titled to a refund in gasoline
crop and furnished the seed. The taxe« — wtre ur»5«-’d b* Comptroller
George Sheppard today to study the
terms of a new state law making sev-
eral material changes effective Sep-
tember 1.
Farmers are among largest users
of gasoline upon which the tax is
paid; and after September 1, Shep-
pard pointed out, the Comptroller can
pay refunds only to those who pur-
chased fuel from licensed dealers.
‘ " " » , i_.f eighteen hoys and girls, two will be
to pay taxes,_ as reported last week | ^sen for title roles in a picture yet
by the American Federation of In-
vestors
"">!« >**" "i,h «"*»»
r increases in salary every year.
The plan is open to any girl from
18 to 26 years of age and any boy
from 20 to 30 years of age. They
must possess natural dramatic ability
normal good looks and that spark of
personality, which is really the es
be extended this year to fifty-one new
counties in Texas and to 37 new Okla
homa counties, it is announced by the
Farm Security Administration.
Telegraphic information was re-
ceived from Secretary Wallace of the
Department of Agriculture approving
new counties recently recommended
by the state advisory committees of
Texas and Oklahoma. The telegram
said that $4,369,398 had been allocat-
ed Texas to buy an estimated 542 -
farms, and Oklahoma $1,675,100 for Th‘‘ First National Bank is under-
an estimated 264 farms. Last fiscal *oi"K renovation this week, in the
year, ending June 30, Texas tenants! form of being painted inside and out.
* H mirph’ loans and'Alamo Lumber Company have the cnast‘u iuei iron. ..censeu uea.ers.
received 359 purchase loans and withJ C Roach as the i Hence it is important from the users*
nir la Lnma Iftl I rwiroiBo fnr thn now ( OnliBC.i WIIM J. L • KO&CIl oS lll6
outcome has been successful, con-
sidering it is the first attempt, 10 or
11 bushels to the acre being gathered
Bank Newly Decorated
In u talk on Rotary activity at the
regular meeting Tuesday, V. R.
Simons outlined the duties of the
various committees newly appointed,
and offered many suggestions condu-
cive *o more efficiency in all Rotary
work. The suggestions, well planned
and practical, should be of great help
to acti.ity in the future.
Rotarian J. W Wilson, organizer
of the Falfurrias club, gave an ins-
piring resume of his Rotary exper-
ience . He stated that in visiting many
clubs over the nation he has found
that size is an unimportant factor.
Many of the smaller organizations
have proven more successful than
some in the larger cities. E. D. Mc-
Intyre, Falfurrias Rotarian and lum-
berman, accompanied Mr. Wilson.
Judge W. A. Dannelley next pre-
sented the facts on the proposed ex-
tension of the Falfurrias highway to
the Randado highway, south of town.
He stated that the county is prepared
to pay most of the right-of-way
costs, hut that it will be necessary to
raise additional funds through some
other source.
President Aaron Hayes promised a
report on the District Meet at New
Braunfels for the next program.
Oklahoma 181. Increase for the new
fiscal year was made possible when
Congress raised the national appro-
priation from last year’s $25,000,000
to $40,000,000.
In addition to new counties named
, is found in the July study |unt,tled r°®*‘V‘n* contra^ts f®[ 20 in today’s telegram, the 56 Texas
of the National Consumers j °n counties in which loans were made
last year were approved for continua-
tion of loans this year, along with the
27 similar counties in Oklahoma.
Anticipating that the old counties
would be approved, applications were
received in them since July 1, to July
20, and it is estimated that more
than 3,000 applications have been
tributed as tax-education material to
the Commission’s groups in 5000
communities, reveals that in the 13
ears from 1915 to 1928 state tax
collections took a leap from 458 mil-
lion dollars to one and one-half bil-
lions — more than trebling. In the
next ten years they mushroomed to
lust under four billion dollars, an in-
crease for the 24 years of more than
sence rf star making. There is noth-1 eived in the8e old countie8 of Tex-
ing to buy or sell with candidates and
no “Ifs”, “ands” or “buts”. Any boy
800 nor cent. Since an average of|a"d **irl in Texas can make aPPlica-
76.9 per cent of all state taxes arejtion to the manager of any Interstate
of the indirect type the ultimate con-j Theatre giving their qualifications _ _____________________
turner actually pavs the bill. the which will be forwarded to one cfiand ,aborprS) but prefcrf>ncc will be
as and more than 4,000 in Oklahoma
Loans will run for forty years,
with three percent interest, no down
payment being required. They are
open '.o all tenants, share croppers
decorator.
Over Half Texas Univ.
Students Earn Own Way
standpoint that they make certain the
dealer is licensed.
Licenses and invoices of exemption
will oe furnished the dealer, free of
cost, by the Comptroller’s Department
when application is made therefor.
The dealer is required to keep ac-
Ennagement Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Escamilla of
San Ygnacio, Texas, announce the
engagement and approaching mar-
riage of their daughter, Miss Bertha
Martinez to Jlaniel Nunez Rochet of
Mexico City, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Nunez Barra.
The wedding to take place in San
Antonio, Texas, on August lltht.
The bride-elect is very well known in
this city where she attended High
School and has been working for the
Hebbronville Lumber Company for
the last three years.
Her fiance graduated as an Archi-
tect at the University of California
and later studied Art in Europe, being
now art teacher at the University of
Mexico.
Dedication
Part-time NYA employment will be
offered University of Texas students- , .... . , , ,,
again next year, V. I. Moore, dean KuraU‘ ,eco? ° a" mot°r futel "°ld’
, . . . - for a period of two years. Invoices
of men, disclosed today. „ .. ... ....
of exemption must be issued ut the
Earmarked on the $100,000,000 nat-
ional bill approved recently by con-
gress, the University’s exact quota of
available jobs will not be apportioned
Sheriff Alonzo Taylor and Hector
Vela attended the dedication of the
new bridge at Guerrero, Tamps.,
Mexico, Tuesday afternoon.
This newly-completed bridge, a
government project costing 350,000
pesos, leads across the Salado river.
time of delivery of the motor fuel.
Heretofore such invoices have been
issued at the time of sale.
Unless the users of refund motor
until about mid-August, Dean Moore j fue] and tht. dealers who sell refund
added. Last year 713 NYA jobs were | motor fue, an. adviMd of this change
assigned. . jp ^be |aw a xreat dcal of confusion
A recent report by the University wj|[ result, rnd a lot of refund claims
student employment bureau revealed
that “spare time” students earning
last year tripled that of the year be-
will not be payable. It is, therefore,
important that each user of refund
motor fuel who expects to file claim
Texas Ranks Sixth In Pelts
' th I the four cities in which Mr. Lasky
N'CTC says, pointing out that the _______ ______ J .
fore to reach a peak of $121,000. | f0r a refund of the tax acquaint him
Approximately 55 per cent of the \ gelf with the new provisions
manufacturer, shipper, and retailer appear.His advance talent scouts |Uvegtock and uipment
must pass shiftable taxes on if they ! a"d tryout men will advise them when
i given to applicants already owning student body earned all or part of
'their school expenses, he said.
are to operate profitably.
I and where to appear in one of the
' four eities to he visited nearest their
SMALL FARMS — With 4,080.000 ; homes for tryouts. These advance
of the nation’s 6,800,000 farms com- scouts and directors are competent:
prising 100 acres or less, r. big obs-
tacle faced by advocates of diversified
Hebbronville Ten Years Ago
(Taken from the Files of The Enterprise)
and will give all applicants every op-
portunity to display their talents. If J shcr|ff Alonzo Taylor sold a
car-1 The Schoolfield and O’Byrne Oil
farming has been the natural tenden- they ere chosen they will then be as-1 ,oad POnsif(tinK of thirty.one head of Co’s. No. 6, started in Government
cy of the small farmer to concentrate
on a single money crop. In the last
five years however this inclination i tre appearances supported by stars
has been reversed as leading farm Mr. Lasky will bring with him.
machinery makers, borrowing a chap-1 ~
ter from the auto industry’s story of | Fishing Party
progress, have adopted the pneumatic
rubber tire as standard equipment on
farm tractors and thereby doubled
mechanized farm efficiency. Spurring
the multi-crop trend even further
this year is the introduction of new
Allis-Chalmers model B machines
designed specially for work on farms
of 100 acres or less. One of the«e
rubber-shod tractors and its attach-
ments replaces four draft animals and
thereby releases for cultivation the
20 to 25 ceres which the Department
of Agriculture figures is usually re-
quired to raise feed, thus making pas-
sible a boost of 25 per cent in diver-
sified acreage.
signed to Mr. Lasky’s personal talent polo hcrgeg to w j Jones of Nevr
director, who will arran^thdr thea-; york> ,ngt Friday( and the animals
were loaded and shipped to Philadel-
phia ,>nd Long Island, where they will
be placed on the polo fields.
IF IT IS PRINTING You NEED.
tOO — 60e — THE ENTERPRISE
Wells section of Northwest Duval
county, was brought in flowing 300
barrels of oil daily.
Word has been received by The
Enterprise of the marriage of Miss
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Campbell en-
tertained hie father and mother and, _ , . ... .
—■ •»«“ —* «*•»»*! sr estess t
party cn the Rio Grande River last
week-end. Other week-end guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dannelley
and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sanders.
Revival Services
A revival meeting at the Assembly
of God Church, Bruni, is now in1
progress with Rev. Vincent Rocca-
forte of Houston in charge.
and Frod G. Anaya of Asherton.
An or,nouncement was made at the
Rotary luncheon which was held at
the Manhattan Cafe Tuesday, that
the Rotary Anns of Hebbronville
would entertain the Rotarians at a
dinner to he given Thursday evening.
Countv Judge W. A. Dannelley
left Tuesday for Austin where he,
Services begin every night at 8 and a number of other county judges
Everyone is invited to come and ' in this section, went to confer with
enjoy the blessing of the Lord. This the tate highway officials regarding
meeting is under the auspices of Rev. the proposed highway from Tilden to
F. G. Butler.
Rio Grande City, via Hebbronville
The Yitaphone purchased by the
Casino Theater arrived here by ex-
press from New York City this weex,
and will be installed.
B. G. Anderson, local agent for
the Texas Mexican railway, states
tl *;t the freight shipments have more
tnan doubled the past few weeks.
Local gins have been running at a
steady gait. It is now estimated by
growers and ginners that the crop
will more than double that of last
season which was something over
3000 kales.
Reports from the Santn Rosa hos-
pital at San Antonio, states that Mrs.
Clayton Walters, who underwent a
serious surgical operation last week,
is doing as well as could be expected.
CACTUS CENTER
is quite a place
You might be surprised to
know that there are still a f u w
towns like it in remote sec-
tions of the West. S.L. Huntley,
native Texan, got his idea
for the famed comic strip
MESCAL IKE
from just such a town.
And no doubt there are
human counterparts for
Mescal Ike, Sally Price,
Sheriff Lem Stebbins, Dirty
Shirt Mulloney, Pa Piffle
and all tha rest of the bois-
terous characters in this im-
mensely popular comic strip.
While Texas is not generally regar.
ded by Texans ns a leader in trap-
ping, the state ranked sixth in the
Nation, p report for the 1938 fiscal
year !»y the U. S. Bureau of Biologi-
cal Sc/vey reveals. Texas was not
only sixth with a total of 590,400
animals taken for their pelts, but
leads the entire United States in five
I species, badgers, ringtail cats, wolves
f Canada lynx and foxes. Ohio and
Louisiana are tied for the lead in
fur production.
Fifteen species of pelts are taken
in Texas. A report for the 1939 fiscal
year made by J. G. Burr. da*isti-
cion far the State Game, Fish and
Oyster Comm'ssion, shows an inc ea s
the take being 729,241. However,
trapping is declining almost annually
in the ' tate, the present output mark-
ing a decrease of 48 per cent over the
1933 crop, which was 1,407,884 peits
The Biological Survey report re-
port reveals that 397,300 o’possums,
75,900 skunks, 28,900 gray foxes
2,500 badgers, 14,400 ringtail cats.
5,100, wolves, 1,000 Canada lynx and
29,400 foxes were taken during the
1938 fiscal year.
Library Story Hour
Mrs. T S. Perez will have charge
of the children’s story hour at the
Library this week. Children are in-
vited to come Saturday morning ot
the usual time.
Rev. and Mrs. L. N. Myers were
in Odcm Monday where Rev. Myers
was called to assist in a funeral ser-
vice for Mr. E. Whatley, a leading
official in the church of Odem.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
O. A. Thompson, Jr. July 21.
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