Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, November 12, 1943 Page: 1 of 6
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State Observer
Capitol Station
Et
TRY
OUR STEAKS
The
Best in Town
Jack's Shack
Zavala
County Sentinel
WHERE
FOOD
and BEER
MEET
Jack's Shack
VOL. 32
CRYSTAL CITY, ZAVALA COUNTY, TEXAS. NOVSMBER 12, 1943
No. 29
County Agent’s
Column
TED MARTIN
Ceiling prices, which will prevail
lor 13 fresh vegetables at country
shipping points as announced recent-
ly at Washington, include three
grown largely in Texas. They are
cabbage, spinach and tomatoes.
According to information to the A.
and M. College Extension Service
from the Office of Price Adminis-
tration, which made the announce-
ment jointly with the War Food Ad-
ministration, the other vegt tables
are lima beans, snap beans, carrots,
cauliflower, celery, cucumbers, egg-
plant, lettuce, green peas and pep-
pers. The ceilings are f.o.b. shipping
point prices upon which the pricing
pattern for each of the vegetables
will be based.
For the season December to April
the shipping point price for Texas
cabbage, with Brownsville the bas-
ing point, will be $58 a ton. Spinach,
through June, 1944, basing point
Crystal City, will be $1.15 a bushel;
and tomatoes, May through June 15,
and June 15 to July 15, will be $3
and $2.75 per standard lug, respec-
tively. The basing point for the pe-
riod ending June 15 will be Browns-
ville, and Jacksonville for the sec-
ond period. These prices include no
allowance for refrigeration and icing.
The basic point prices are the
starting points from which OPA will
develop its ceiling prices at retail
through the addition of freight and
refrigeration charges, and whole-
salers’ and retailers’ mark-ups.
The announcement said that dur-
ing the summer when most of the
county is consuming locally pro-
duced vegetables, the OPA will base
its prices for certain of the vege-
tables by broad pricing zones. This
will mean that prices at retail for
these commodities will be the same
over large areas, possibley covering
several states.
-WGD---
MUST HAVE EVIDENCE OF
MILK AND BUTTERFAT SALES
TO GET PAYMENTS FROM AAA
Zavala County milk producers
who wish to receive payments under
the Dairy Feed Payment Program
should save evidence of milk and
butterfat sales for presentation in
applying for such payments, accord-
ing to C. F. Jackson, Chairman of the
Zavala County AAA Committee.
The rate of payment for Zavala
County dairy producers will be 40
cents per hundredweight for whole
milk deliveries and 5 cents per
pound of butterfat sold in cream and
butter. The butterfat test of the milk
tvill not affect the payment for whole
milk delivered.
Application for payment on Oc-
tober milk and butterfat deliveries
should be made to the County AAA
Committee between November 1 and
30.
Applications for payment on No-
vember and December deliveries
will be made January 1 to 10. The
current Dairy Feed Payment Pro-
gram of the War Food Administra-
tion, designed to partially offset in-
creased costs of feed, covers the pe-
riod October 1 through December
31, 1943.
To apply for payment, the milk
producer has to present proof of his
sales in the form of the customary
sales slips, receipts, stubs obtained
from the milk purchaser, or in some
other form acceptable to the County
Committee. Evidence of feed pur-
chases will NOT be required.
After receiving the application
with satisfactory evidence of milk
deliveries, the County Committee
jwill write a draft on the Commodity
Credit Corporation in favor of the
prducer. This draft can be cashed at
any bank.
-WGD-
Weather Report
U. S. WEATHER BUREAU
E. M. HOLDSWORTH, Observer
Javelins To Defend Capt. Clyde Vaughn
Den against Wildcats Relates Experiences
Thur. Nov. 4, to Wed. Nov. 1, 1943
Pcpn.
Min.
Max.
Thursday
63 4
73.8
Friday
63.2
82.7
Saturday
633
87.0
Sunday
56.1
67.0
Monday
36.7
70.5
Tuesday
33.2
75.3
Wednesday 36.0
73.9
Average Temperature 62.9
The Carrizo Springs Wildcats will be
in Crystal City this Friday night to
try to win their ninth straight game
of football against the Javelins. This
is one year the Javelins should win,
and probably will try to do so to
save their facee against the loss last
week at Pearsall.
Up to two weeks ago the Wildcats
had not scored this season, then
they won a game from the Dilley
Wolves by a score of 32 to 0. Last
week they won their second game,
12 to 0, from tne Cotulla Cowboys.
So they are out for a third win.
The Crystal City Javelins gotoff
to a bad start in their first game of
the season at Uvalde, but have since
won four games. They seemed to be
getting better with each game, then
came last week with a loss to a team
that had scored only one touchdown
all season up to that time. So statis-
tics mean absolutely nothing. It is
just a question of whether or not the
boys get in there and play together
as a team instead of each one trying
to play the game by himself.
Coach Nesbitt says he is not mak-
ing any prediction about the Javelins
winning this week. It depends en-
irely on how they play the game, he
says. Maybe the fans can help. Let’s
try it.
-WGD--
Three Ways To
Pay Poll-Tax
Approximately 200 poll-taxes were
paid in Zavala County during Oc-
tober. However, next year being
election year and precinct officers
to President to be elected, everyone
will want a poll-tax receipt in order
to vote. From the tax collector’s of-
fice we learn there are three ways
one may pay a poll-tax, to-wit:
You may appear in person, or
appoint some one as agent who may
appear in person with your written
appointment and pay for you, or
you may make application, properly
acknowledged before a Notary Pub-
lic and send it direct to the Tax Col-
lector, by mail.
The Tax Collector has the legal
forms to be used in the above meth-
od and will be glad to furnish you
an application.
Your poll-tax must be paid where
you lived on the day first of January,
1943. Don’t wait until the last min-
ute and then learn you have to
pay in the county you moved from,
if you came to this county since Jan-
uary 1, 1943.
If you appoint an agent don’t ap-
point a candidate, or a county of-
ficer. You can pay your poll-tax
without paying any other tax, but
you cannot pay your Real and Per-
sonal property tax without paying
your Poll-tax at the same time, un-
less there is no other tax except a
homestead.
Man and wife can pay each others
poll tax without an order but can
not pay for any other member of the
family, except by the above method.
-WGD-
67 Percent 1943
Taxes Collected
The tax collector’s office reports
$90,515 of 1943 state and county
taxes collected during the month of
October, which is approximately 67
percent of the total roll.
This is in comparison with 64 per-
cent of the roll collected during last
year, altho a total of $92,933 was col-
lected during October last year. The
smaller roll this year is a -esult of a
reduction in state tax rate.
This indicates that many taxpay-
ers, particularly the larger tax-
payers, take advantage of the 3 per-
cent discount allowed for October
payments. During November a 2 per-
cent discount is allowed and jlor De-
cember 1 percent may be deducted.
-WGD-
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks and appreciation fot, the acts
of kindness, messages of consolation
and beautiful floral offerings re-
ceived from our mapy friends in our
bereavement in the loss of our be-
loved husband and father.
MRS. T. D. CARR
and Chi^ren.
In Fighting Jap
Crystal City Rotarians and guests(
had the honor and pleasure Monday
of hearing Capt. Clyde C. Vaughn,
Jr., of Pearsall relate some of his ex-
periences in fighting the Japs in
China.
Capt. Vaughn is an airplane pilot
in the United States Army Air Forc-
es and is at home to recuperate from
injuries received in line of duty. He
was brought before the Crystal City
Rotary Club at the solicitation of his
friend, O. L. Smith, and was accom-
panied by F. F. Fan, Tom Gilliam,
N. H. Hunt and Mr. Greenwood of
Pearsall.
Captain Vaughn joined the Air
Force early in 1941 and was in train-
ing when the Japs attacked Pearl
Harbor. Soon thereafter he was as-
signed to a fighter plane and given
splendid training for combat service.
He was sent from Miami, Florida, to
South America, thence to India via
North Africa, thence to China. There
were only a few American pilots in
China at that time.
He told of several occasions when
American planes went out to bomb
and strafe Jap bases and installa-
tions and the difficulties encountered
on the long trips, and how some
failed to get back to their base. While
on one of these expeditions in May
of this year they came upon a col-
umn of Japanese soldiers about 10
miles long marching in road about
six abreast. This was a perfect tar-
get, and after strafing them the
American planes were about ready
to leave the scene for their base
when they were attacked by Japa-
nese fighters. A Jap plane was on
the tail of one of his buddies, so
Capt. Vaughn went after him. He
shot the Jap plane down but about
that time two or three Jap planes
were on his tail and had hit his ship.'
He dived but they followed him
down. The blade of the propeller was
shot from his plane, then a prop
from under the engine, causing it to
fall out. The plane crashed.
He awoke six hours later and had
been pulled out of his plane, which
had landed in a rice field, by Chi-
nese. He had lost a great amount of
blood through his nose and was very
weak. His jaw was broken, several
teeth knocked loose and his eyes
swollen so that he could hardly sec.
And the broken ankle made him
helpless. w
After dark additional men arrived,
but as he could talk very little Chi-
nese and could hardly open his
mouth he had trouble finding out
who they were, and they did not
look the same as the ones who first
found him. They left and came back
the next morning with a Chinese em-
blem. He was then carried on a
stretcher for fifty miles to safety
through mountain trails, as the bet-
ter trails and roads were too danger-
ous to travel. The trip was made in
four days.
Here he was cleaned up for the
first time since the accident, and was
taken on a river boat to a hospital,
another four days trip. It was ten
days from time of the accident be-
fore he received treatment lor the
wounds. From China he made the
trip by plane over the mountains to
India to a hospital. He flew in a
transport plane via Dakar mid South
America to Miami, Florida thence
Pearsall, his home.
This was the second time Captain
Vaughn had been down in Japanese
controlled territory. The first time
he had to bail out of his plane while
flying between two mountains. He
landed in the parachute on the side
of one mountain and he could see a
house on the other mountain. He was
not injured in the jump and soon he
approached the house. Only aged
Chinese and small children were at
the house and were a very ignorant
class bf Chinese. They finally direct-
ed him to a village and there he re-
ceived help.
In his experience here he was
forced to eat fried grasshoppers as
no other food wks obtainable.
Gas is worth $12 per gallon and
only the very rich have cars, mostly
Fords. Money is worth 20 to 1 at the
Chinese bank in New York but on
the black market in China the ex-
change is 60 to 1. There are no
middle classes. The Chinese are eith-
er very poor or very rich.
American Legion to Nueces Valley Pro].
Sponsor take Raffle Very Much Alive
As a means of raising money to
complete our quota for the War
Chest Fund, the American Legion
will sponsor a Chinese Cake Raffle
in Crystal City Saturday evening at
eight o’clock. The raffle will be con-
ducted on the street between the
bank and C.P.L. office. To meet our
quota, County Chairman J. H. Beas-
ley says Crystal City needs between
$200 and $300, and this is the amount
the American Legion hopes to raise.
Mr. Beasley called our attention to
an error in last weeks paper in
which it was reported La Pryor had
raised $900.75. This should have been
$975.00. Since then Chairman George
Tondre has reported an additional
$35.00, making a total reported for
La Pryor $1010.00, or $210.00 above
their quota.
In other words, the amount over-
subscribed at La Pryor just about
equals the shortage needed at Crystal
City to make our quota. Let’s get it.
-WGD-
County Bond Quota
For November $9,700
County Chairman S. H. Fly an-
nounces the November bend quota
for Zavala County is $9,700. He says
we must not forget that bond buy-
ing is a continuous duty we have to
perform and we should try to at
least meet our quota each month.
-WGD---
MRS. McCORMICK RECEIVES
CITATION OF HONOR FOR SON
Mrs. W. A. McCormick recently re-
ceived Citation of Honor for her son,
William R. McCormick, who g„ve his
life in performance of his duty, Dec.
10, 1942. The citation was signed by
H. II. Arnold, General U S. Army,
Commanding General Army Air
Force.
"He lived to bear his country’s
arms. He died to save its honor. He
was a soldier .... and he
knew a soldier’s duty. His sacrifice
will help to keep aglow the flaming
torch that lights our lives . . ..
that millions yet unborn may know
the priceless joy of liberty. And we
who pay him homage, and revere
his memory, in solemn pride re-
dedicate ourselves to a complete ful-
fillment of the task for which he so
gallantly has placed his life upon the
altar of Man’s freedom.”
On June 30, 1943, Army Air Force
Modal was awarded posthumously
to William F. McCormick for meri-
orious service in line of duty. The
letter accompanying the awar1 read
in part as follows:
“The knowledge that William R.
McCormick’s military service and
loyal perpetration of duty has been
recognized and awarded by the high-
est military authorities may be of
some small comfort to you.
“Any attempt by me to justify your
son’s death would be futile, but to
say that the officers and men of this
squadron and of this command are
carrying on in the same tradition and
effort of which William was a vital
factor in establishing is both true
and timely.
“You may rest assured that your
son shall not have died in vain, but
rather that men of the Army Air
Force will carry the memory of and
respect for him into battle through-
out that world until ultimate victory
has been won.”
-WGD-
P. T. A. MEETS
THURSDAY NOV. 18
F. W. Pulliam talked to members
of the Chamber of Commerce Wed-
nesday about the Nueces River Val-
ley Reclamation and Conservation
Project.
He attended a meeting of the
board of directors in San Antonio
Monday and he said the board of di-
rectors has been holding regular
quarterly meetings with an average
First Spinach Being
Shipped This Week
The fust spinach of the season for
Crystal City is being loaded out this
week. It was grown by Capt. E. An-
glin and was handled by Templer &
Bookout. The quaity is said to be
.very good.
The rains of ast week helped crops
and cattle ranges and left farmers
an dstockmcn greatly encouraged.
On the other hand, some were
attendance of twice required quo I alarmed this week when the temper-
rum. The board is confronted with a j ;,ture dropped to 33 degrees on Tues-
serious problem now, Mr. Pulliam j day There was some fr. • t in spots
said, because Mr. Stevens of Corpus : [)ut Very ilU|,. damago reported
Christi, who has been president of I ____WGD
the organization for the past five j,
years, is tendering his resignation
because of war work activities.
Mr. Pulliam said the organization j
is very much alive and there is good |
reason to believe that the project asj
originally planned may even
be carried out. However, one.
possibly two dams, may be author-
Serious Cases at
Hospital This Week
tuallyl Lamar Askew, 17 year-old son of
and ■ unt^ W. A Askew of Beau-
; mont, was brought to the Crystal
IzedTto* start whh7fo7flood control i Ho*P>tal Saturday, following an
as well as conservation of water ful0 ^“lent nea, Carr,zo Springs,
supply. He said complete end ac- j 1 lf reported the young man has a
curate information has been made I broken neck, but all things consider-
ed is doing very well His parents
for seven dam sites. Army engineers
are compiling information from the
standpoint of flood control and recla-
mation department engineers are
getting information about irrigation
and conservation of the water sup-
ply. These two groups probably will
coordinate their reports before pre-
senting to proper authorities for fi-
lial consideration.
Mr. Pulliam thinks the completion
of the Nueces River Valley project
would be the greatest thing that
could happen to all Southwest Tex-
as, and urged the Chamber of Com-
merce to keep in touch with what
goes on and lend a hand when neces-
sary.
-WGD-
Card of Thanks By P. T. A.
are here with him.
Askew was working for an oil com-
pany with a seismograph crew. It is
understood the auomobile turned
over.
On Sunday Juan Villastrigo of
Asherton was brought to the hospital
severely burned. He died about 10
hours later It is said there wac hard-
ly a spot on the body that was not
burned.
The repsirt is he went to bed Sat-
urday night in a small room locking
the door behind him. It is believed
he may have kicked the lighted lan-
tern over, sitting the bedding on
fire.
-----WGD----
SCHEDULE FOR SURGICAL
DRESSING ROOM
The regular monthly meeting of
the Parent-Teacher Association will
be held on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 4
p. m. in the Grammar School Audito-
rium.
-WGD-
TO MY FRIENDS
You will never know just how
much you meant to me during my
visit the past two weeks with you
and my loved ones. Every one was
so kind and thoughtful and seemed
anxious to make my visit one of the
most pleasant and happiest of my
life and I can truly say it was. For
all the kindness shown me I sincere-
ly thank you from the depths of my
heart and while enroute to my un-
known destination after leaving Salt
Lake City, I will be thinking kindly
of every one of you. Until we meet
again, I am
Your friend,
DEL HARP.
The Parent-Teacher Association
wishes to thank Mr. Roland Lan-
caster and Mr. George T. Speer who
donated their services to run the
sound truck which contributed so
much to the spirit of merriment at
the Halloween Carnival on October
30. The Association also wishes to
thank Mr. Leonard Feris of the Crys-
tal City Grocery who donated the
sound truck for the evening, and Mr.
Bob Nash who donated the use of the
building.
-WGD-
Circus Comin" To
Crystal City, Nov. 24
The first circus of the season, and ■
probably the last one until after the!
duration, will exhibit in Crystal J
City Wednesday, Nov. 24, on the old !
city golf course grounds north of;
town, Dailey Bros. Three Ring Cir-
cus is the attraction.
Of the sixteen circuses now on the
road, only two travel by railroad, the
rest use motor trucks. Account of I
the modern conveniences and im-
provements in motor transportation j
much of the best circus talent now
prefer to travel with a “truck circus”
since the salary is the same as with
a railroad show ar^l the comforts are
much greater.
Not boasting of its magnitude, the
Dailey Circus does insist it is offer-
ing an exceptionally good two-hour
circus entertainment, much of it en-
tirely new. Lake most circuses this
season the Dailey Circus is showing
stands closer together account of the
gas rationing and during the year j
many towns that have not had a cir 1
cus for many years, will be enter-
tained by one.
The Dailey Circus is the heaviest
and largest and most complete three-
ring circus moving by truck Every
day hundreds of people come to the
show grounds early to see how the
big elephants arc handled in trucks,
horses, camels, zebras, and the bal-
ance of the equipment.
That the public approves the gov-
ernment’s policy of giving the green
signal to circuses was proved last
year when all shows had the biggest
year in their history and the 1943
season has started out in the same
way.
The Dailey Circus is absolutely 100
percent circus, not a carnival in any
sense. Its two-hours performance is
given in three rings, on the hippo-
drome track and in mid-air, intro-
ducing several absolutely new fea-
tures.
The following is the winter sched-
ule for the Red Cross Surgical Dress-
ing Room. Why not start a good hab-
it this winter by pledging a few
hours every week?
Monday nights—7 to 9 p m
(Eighth Grade and High School
Girls.)
Tuesday afternoons—2 *o 5 p. m.
Wednesday afternoon—2 to 5 p m.
(Latin-Ameriean Women)
Thursday nights — 7 to 9 p. m.
Friday afternoon — 2 to 5 p. m.
-WGD-
BLOOD DONORS
The following Crystal City people
went to San Antonio Tuesday to con-
tribute to the blood bank: O E.
Bookout, Bob Miller, L R Haw-
thorn,, Roger Morris, Mrs. S S.
Peters. Mrs A Fehlis, Mrs. Jim
Greer, Mrs M. J Franklin, Jack
Chinn, Alfredo Hernandez. Ramon
Mnntemayor and Aderian Palomo
Tile American Legion wi. hes to
thank these people for their contri-
bution.
-----won —
CAN OPENERS STILL
HAVE PLENTY TO DO
IN COUNTY KITCHENS
Rationing has not emptied the
shelves of Zavala county residents
of canned foods it was revealed to-
day, a total of 78.320 cans being used
monthly, according to A H Nugent,
general sales manager of the Ameri-
can Can Company.
Mr. Nugent based his figure on the
govern me it's compilation of 11,603
ration book holders in the county
and the statement by the U. S. Bi»-
reau of Agricultural Economics that
the per capita consumption of
canned goods so far this year is 225
cans a day. On the basis of the av-
erage size pre-war can, approximate-
ly 189 pounds of pure metallic tin is
reclaimable for the war effort from
these cans, he explained.
Men in service eat 8,000.000 cans
of food a day and millions of pounds
of canned items are being shipped
abroad for lend lease, he said.
Many foods strange to American
palates are being packed in cans for
shipment overseas. One of these is
“Tushonka” for Russian consump-
tion, this product being highly sea-
soned pork packed in lard Squid, a
variety of octupus, is being canned
for Italian consumption. Canned
foods for England are usually sea-
soned quite differently to those in-
tended for American use, Mr. Nugent
said.
—Typewriter Ribbons, Sentinel office
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