The Lavaca County Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1949 Page: 1 of 6
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The Livestock
FIRST IN PRESTIGE.
The Community and Whole County Stand or Fall With the Farmers,
Fi ;( AV JAN. 14, 1949
PUBiJSIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
itsvhjj:, TEXAS
No. 3
VOLUME XVIII
MORE PAY FOR LEGISLATORS
drew
may
The unions arc on the spot
I*
li a sign totally unnecessary.
reflects the
the Sunday
at
Ailing Mother
were
3,500 and
4,000 em
a
Four Waelder Men Under Arrest
As Sheriff Moves to Smash Ring
will
A University of Texas edu- II. E. cottage. And at, 7:30 he |
< Still President Truman
of the week
enjoyed a
barbe-
con-
A
“continuing
materials”
the
the
of
state
This
is in
of
S3
at
Capitol of South
Central Texas
one
Little of
sisters,
lantha.
for taking
is listed in the rc-
case as a cattle
other two, Richter
were .described as
Ford and Kaiser - Frazer arc
cutting their production down
10 per cent. They also arc lay-
ing off men accordingly. As
they claim, because of the high
prices, the cars are not selling
as fast as was expected.
Pr«.
Pine-
ailing
is rc-
the high school seniors? Thus
the big Rotary project will get
underway.
Tuesday morning Dr. Embr<?c
will have a conference with the
seniors, at noon he will be a
guest speaker at the Rotary
luncheon and at 3:15 will meet
with representatives of various
clubs and organizations in the
REFUSED HONORS AT HOME
SOLDIER TO REST AT ARLINGTON
first blow at what he
to be a cattle theft
pljiyed a heads-up game, and
went On to an easy victory.
High point man ^or Hallctts*
vAlo was Reinhart with 6
points, Bucek With 2, Kahanck
1 'point, Scarborough 1 point
anti Bozka with 2.
Lollic Rektorik, Robs-
but
re-
ly-
ta-
Brahmas Defeat S. Joe’s 31-18
Shorthorns Down Local Team 29-12
WashinflbM* Jan. 1.2.
sidenl Truman flew to
huf-st, N. C. to visit the
sSrctary Marshall, who
1949 Car License
Colors To Be Black
Letters On Gold
Texas' 1949 car license plates
will have black letters and
numerals on gold background.
The State Highway Depart-
ment announced Tuesday that
the new tags will go on sale
February 1. . '
The tags will be the same
sjlzg and will have the same let-
ter arrangements as the 1948
plates. >
Brother of Mrs
Morley Dies
In Missouri
Pick-Up Wrecked
In Shiner Crash
A 1947 Ford pick-up was
badly damaged and the driver,
ITarr.y Walls of Yoakum, was
slightly hurt, when the vehicle
crashed into a post about two
miles north of Shiner on the
Moulton highway, 'the accident
occured Tuesday night, this
week. Cause of the wreck has
not been determined. The pick-
up. the property of Tom Carl-
isle of Yoakum, was taken td
tpat city by the Blaine wrecker.
Chicago, Jan. 12. Several
Chicago grocery chains cut egg
prices. Also too many hogs in
the stock yard reduced their
prices.
It was not just ordinary
•spying. Not a mere plot *-
gainst the government.' It
was an attempt against the
freedom of all. What the c*
vcntual aims arc of the Keds,
is certainly quite clear. And
that's what it was all about.
Lavaca County can count it-
self very fortunate in_.the few
cases of polio it has had thus
far - - but, we never know what
the next twelve month:
be in a posi-
of our own,
time, contri-
thc National
And his. ring was only
small part of the plot, as Cham-
bers tells. There were several
other rings. How large, no one
knows and they don’t tell. It
was the widest plot ever carried
on. against any country. This
not by foreign agents, but by
Americans and at the very top
of the government.
He tells about-things where
more money will be needed.
Not a word about .how iponey
could be saved iiiThe govern-
ment itself. Nothing about
cutting down those millions
of federal employees and bil-
lions of gigantic waste.
President Truman promised
to lighten the tax burden. But
instead of le^s, he asks more
taxes. Forty year,s ago it was
a billion dollar congress. Today
b’s forty-one billion dollars.
the weakened organ.
Beside; his sister here, he is
surged by his widow,
daughter,- Mrs. Merl
Saratoga, Wyo„ two
Mrs. Hannah Rix of
and Mrs. Mathilda CUnnigham
of Romano, Kansas, one grand-
child and two great-grandchil-
dren.
Msgr. John L.
Rome, Father
It or Schulenburg, taras was
high with 13 points. Blaschke
made 11 points, Wagner 2, Cor-
nffl-on 2, and Bohuslav 1.
This was a district game.
Tonight, Friday, the Brah-
rrys play Sheridan in Sheridan.
Nor was this plot limited to
spying. Yalta and Potsdam, Po-
land an^i the rest of them in
Europe could be understood
better after what the spying
shows. The Reds had far bet-
ter friends in the high places
than could have been known.
To say the least, the Russian
Reds had an unfair advantage
over us. . -
Report Shows
Rising Strength
The Peoples State Banks
resources rose more than two
hundred thousand dollars in the
past six months. Tills accord-
ing to the report appearing in
the Tribune. This
rise in the deposits.
The bank’s resources arc now
over $1,800,000, the highest on
record. Of that thq deposits a-
mount to $1,715,250.
Also ip ready cash and other
liquid assets the bank shows a
rising strength.
Lavaca County’s Paper
With tire Largest County
■ Circulation!
O'Connor Estate
Pays Record Tax
Victoria.— The largest in-
heritance tax ever paid to the
state was that of the estate of
the late Thomas O’Connor
this city. The tax was over
million on the estate valued
nearly $24 million.
cases.
In 1948 alone, Texas
70% of its money that
paid by the people of this
during the past 11 years,
shows how great the need
combating the disease.
Contribution can be put In
money containers in the various
business places, or to your
Lions committee mentioned a-
bove, or to Chairman George F.
Kallus.
Lighted Ball Park
For Hallettsville
The Hallettsville VFW, io its
meeting Wednesday night, dis-
cussed the possibility of plac-
ing facilities At the baseball
park here for the coming sea-
son. A committee was appoint-
ed to check just what steps are
necessary and if it would be
possible. If ttie proposal goes
through the VFW would carry
out a plan similar to that car-
ried out successfully in Weimar.
' looks,
semi-
local
plan,
week
said a
of critical
revision of Lincoln-
__output necessary. A
lot al of 1,230 employees will be'
laid off, the company said.
Model changeover shutdowns
left just ten months of produc-
tion in 1948, Benson Ford, vice-
president and general manager,
said. The division will make
the same number or slightly
more cars in 1949 with pro-
duction spread over twelve
months instead of ten.
Veterinary Medical Association Hallettsville ma^have a
reports the removal of 319 por-
cupine quills from a dog dur-
ing an operation that lasted
more than two hours.
Some of the quills were over
three inches long and were
__. ... eaUs
it only a “red herring”. Only
that Europe and this country
paid dearly for this "red her-' arrest.
ring". But didn’t the people dis-1 The sheriff announced this
miss all this lichtlv in the last > _ _ '
Gonzales, Jan. 10. —Four
Waelder men. were charged with
cattle theft Monday following
an investigation of reported
thefts of Cattle in several parts
of Gonzales County.
They were: John Martin, 58,
cattle trader; Marvin Jones,
his employee; Newt Harris, 28
and John Richter, 22. ______
Sheriff T. D. Kridler filed the
charges and put the men under
Tom Dye and Je-
employees of the
firm. THere are
to be constructed
the present
Mrs, Jos, Muraty also of Shiner.-
Rev. ■ Engelbert Bartosch of
Mathis and Rev. George tSceci-
na were celebrants at the Re-
quiem High Mass at St. John’s
Catholic Church in Robstown
Monday at 9 a. m. Burial was
made in the Holy Cross Come1
tery in Corpus Christi.
Survivors include her hus-
band, Louis Ermis; three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Lillie Hajek, Shiner';
Mrs. Carrie Schmidt, Mathis;
Mrs.
town; six sons, Louis Jr., San
^ntonio; J. C.
Woodsboro;
George and Ernest,
brother, Anton Palitzft, Moul-
ton; four sisters, Mrs. Martha
Kremling, Gonzales;,Mrs. Cyril
(Victoria) Luc^S, Rosenberg;
Mrs. Betty Vinklarefc and Mrs.
Jos. (Minnie) Muras, Shlnor; 23
grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
miss all this lightly in the last •
elect ion ?
told him in a telegram the fu-
neral home refused Service be-
cause “other white people might
object to use of the funeral
homo by people of Mexican
origlA".
Johnson' wired Garcia he has?
arranged for Longora’s reinter-
ment without cost, either in Ar-
lington or in Ft. Sarp Houston
national cerftetery at San An-
tonio.
Mrs. Beatrice Longoria, the
soldier’s widow, notified the se-
nator she prefers Arlington.
REMAINS DUE .
The soldier’s remains are
scheduled to arrive via army
transport at San Francisco to-
morrow. - -
Johnson told Garcia:
”1 deeply regtet te learn
that the prejudice Of some in-
dividuals extends feVen beyond
this Hfe. — This Injustice and
prejudice Is deplorable. 1 am
happy to have < part in see-
ing this Texas hei
rest wi|h the honor
nit* his service
Bridge Work
Gels Underway
Crewmen of an Austin bridge
construction firm are now
working on tho bridges on the
new Victoria highway. Their
families are living injhls city.
Work on the bridges is ex-
pected to IdMl about one year,
according to ~
rome Lepik,
construction
four bridges
according to
tract.
It’s a hollow triumph—and
the’dog win-
Mother of Shiner
Women Dies
Mrs. Agnes Ermis, 63, a for-
mer Resident of Shiner died Sat -
urday in a Robstown-Hospital.
She is the mother of Mrs. Etnil
Hajek of Shiner and a sister of j assisting.
More Money For
Farm Electrification
L. A. Giese of the Fayette E-
lectric Cooperative, Inc., receiv-
ed notice from Washington D. C.
Joe Jones, 74 .brother of Mrs.
J. P. Morley, of Hallettsville,
died at his home in Lamar,
I Missouri, Thursday, December
j.iOlb- Funeral services were
■ held Monday, January 3rd at
(2:00 p. m. and interment fol-
lowed in .the lantha Cemetery
there.
The dcceq^cd suffered an at-
TAX'f0R ™Ll TAX
By The Editor
Washington. Jah. 12. — The
draft was stopped for two
months since there is enough
volunteers.
Billions could actually be
saved in taxes,( as the Hoover
Commission shows. So much is
there of duplication and over-,
lapping of various J government
agencies. Already there arc
three million federal employees.
And their legions are growing.
And Truman promises ,to add
more.
Watch for
merits.
The VFW
cue Wednesday night.
In Lavaca County George F.
Kallus, wfio had headed the
March of Dime; Paralysis Drive
, for eight years, has taken up
these duties again this year,
. Plans for staging a football
Tribune To Award Gold Football
Trophies To Regional Brahma Team
Wastyngton, Jaw*-. 12. —■ A
GI of Mexican ancestry who
has been denied reburial facili-
ties in his home town of Three
Rivers, Texas, will be buried
with full military honors in Ar-
lington national cemetery.
Sen. Lynnon B. Johnson said
today he arranged for the re-
burial after he was advised by
the American GI Forum in Cor-
pus Christi that a Three Rivers
funeral home had refused to
handle the soldier’s remains.
The GI, Felix Longoria, died
in action on Luzon.
FREE BURIAL .
The senator said Dr. Hector
Garcia, president of the forum.
New Educational Program To Be
Introduced by U. of T. Educator
Ing but sweetness and light all the
tainly not sweet and tar from, light,
gustine alligator farm is a gooil one
might leave them here inside of a ' ^tof.” One glance at the unbeautiful specimens slithering ground in
the pool should be enough to make su
and Edwin*
W. ,J„ Mathis;
Odem; a
Austin, Jan. 12. — A "citi- thcr things.
zen’s tax” in place of poll tax! Lt. Governor Allar Shivers
is Governor Jester s suggestion told the senate that more mo-
in his message "which lie read ncy should .be paid the legisla-
Wcdncsday to the present legis- I tors. As it is, some senate cm-
loturc. He said that such tax J ployces make more than the
would replace the revenue' lost' senators, whose pay is ten dol-
ii poll tax was abolished, it lars a day.
would be a different name for “
the same tax. Some thought demanding repeal of all re-
Jcstcr means sales tax but he' straining labor laws. For that
did not explain it further. i purpose the unions and teach-
Thfs was just an opening ers lobby have united to help
message. How much money wifi I each other to get, what they
be needed to run the state, will waht. Representative M. Or Bell
be told later. But Jester said ! of San Antonio said thill.be will.,
that mors money should Be paid | fight any attempt tojepcal Jhc
for the old age pension and o-
I Enscribcd. on each trophy is
“1948 Region 9 Champs”. They
were purchased at cost through
the Kahanek & Rcnger Drug
Store and engraved at a nomi-
nal cost by Mrs. H. B. .Lyon.
The trophies also bear the name
of the Tribune.
Program for the banquet
be given later.
The Hallettsville Tribune will .the Brahma team the past sea-
award engraved'gok| "footballs son, winning District, Bi-Dis-
to Coach Melvin Borchert and,trie! and Regional champion-
his 1948 Regional Champion (ships. The team finished the
football team. Awarding will ' season undefeated,
take plape at the coming pep
squad, band and football ban-
quet. There will be fifteen foot"
balls on chains given,
Tho trophies arc given by
Tribune in recognition of
outstanding achievements
HEALTH HINT ON A 'GATOR FAR! . . Some people think the highly eulogized state of Florida is noth-
tlme. Dbn’t believe it. Florida also has alligators, which are ,cer-
Also, some people don’t believe in signs. tnlt this sigu at tH^ St. Au-
> heed. It says: “Keep your hands and arms outside of railing. You
Monday night in the new cd the Brahma A team 29-12 in
gymnasiurq Coach Melvin Bor- a one-sided game. The Brahmas
chert’s . Hallettsville H i g h 1 did not have the right spirit for
School Brahmas defeated a | I he game, while the Shorthorns
fast-stepping St. Joe team from
Yoakum by the score of 31-18,
The game was close until the
last <|uarfer, with the first per-
iod ending 8-8, the second 14-
thc
national guidance program for Istmn, All parents and others
the high school seniors? Thus interested arc invited.
zAs Whittiker Chambers tells,
his own spying with Hiss and
olliers went on for years. The
iHifppkin papers were a pro-
0*'lion of only one week. Ma-
^ thousands of secrets
stolen for Red Russia.
present labor laws. There was
.more peace on labor fronts than
would have been without those
laws, he pointed out. *.
benator Lins Strauss was
.. appointed as head of the gas
and utilities committen.-i
He was also appointed on the
following committees: ‘Agricul-
ture, banking, contingent ex?
penses, education, game and
fish, public health, state affairs,
rules—vice-chairman, and nomi-
nations of the governor—chair-
man.
that REA has approved an addi-
tional loan -of $383,000.00 to the
Cooperative for the purpose of
constructing approximately 327
miles of distribution line and for
system improvements.
As a result of this loan the
Co-op will be able to extend e-
lectric service to about 950 ru-
ral families that reside in Aus-
tin, Colorado, Fayette, and La-
ivaca count|es.
• « *
Nothing else can be expect-
ed from the licaiyiJusGrance
and more social security Pre-
sident Truman advocates. The
world has never seen so inueh
waste. No other country could
have ever afforded it.
was the
believed
ring which had been operating
off and on in this area over a
period of years.
More men are under suspi-
cion and other arrests are ex-
pected to follow as the investi-
gation' progresses, he said. Re-
covcry of four head of cattle, ( cator, Dr. R. Embree. Jr,, will speaks at the public gathering
stolen Friday night frdm the be here Tuesday to start a vp- held al the high school gymna-
feed pen lot of Sam Kelley, . .
Waelder Negro, also was an-
nounced.
The meh unejer arrest are
said to have been employed by
Martin who
cord of the
trader. The
and Harris,
“unemployed”. ’
Sheriff Vernon “Scrapiron”
Reaves and Deputy Theo Long
are checking the possibility of
whether the rustlers ever pul-
led any “jobs” in Lavaca Co.
Ford Reduces
Car Production
Detroit, Mich., Jan, 10. The
[second - announcement in two
days x>f slowing down 'tn auto
production was made Monday
when Ford Motor Company
said it would curtail daily pro-
duction in its Lincoln-Mercury
division.
Meanwhile, most auto com-
panies said they had not beep
affected by credit- controls
which prompted Kaiser-Frai-
scr’s announcement of a cut-
back from, its current 675-car
daily output to about 400 cars
a day;; with' a possible layoff of
between
ployces.
Ford
shortage
made a
Mercury
also preach
Masses.
A classmate of
Morkovsky in
Kolar spent 14 years in India.
Beside several native dialects
thaA he learned in India, Fa-
ther Kolar speaks several mod-
qrn tanguagCsrrncKrdlffg Eng-flhese men <lcscrvc your C0°P"
lish. His lecture should be a ‘ erat,t)n<
treat. [In 1948 the United States
spent $17^000,000 in combating
— * ! Infantile Paralysis. There were
Houston. A sport stadium [27,500 cases in the U. S., and
to seat 100,000 is to be built (Texas, alone, had 1743 cases.
TOTE."-----------------* Texas t-mrd in the nation in
Kills Baby
New .York, Jan 12. —“I pick-
ed up the baby by the feet and
hit its" heacT against* tfic table.
I saw them do that in the has
pital.”
Police said this is what
Rosalind Reinc, 21, told a m
bqr as her: seven-w
daughter lay on a coucl
a head injury. Tile baby ’
later at a hospital of a i
tured skull*
Mrs. Reine was booked on a
homicide charge and taken to
Bellevue hospital for psycho-
pathic. observation^. Police said
she had been ill *rd acting
strangely for some time.
Her husband, Ross, 26, had
remained home from work to
care for her, police said,
went out to shop. When he
turned, he found the baby
ing injured on the kitchen
ble.
■bring. We want Io
tion to lake care
and, at the same
i bute our share to
i Foundation for research and ter
hc’p build up the Emergency
Relief Fund so that no one vic-
timized by this terrible disease
in the state or in the nation will
suffer needlessly because of a
lack of, funds to provide_____the
necessary medical aid. .
The amount of money
county will have
care of its polio victims in 1949
; depends upon the results of our
~ . Ma rap of Dime ; campaign.
Local Students* ..............- . —
J . 112, the third 18-16 and
In Honor Society fourii; 31-18.
----**■---------—.....—---*-------+ ■ High point' man for Ha Betts-
Reinhart with 14
points. Kahanck came through
with ’ll) points, Scarborough
made 3, and H. Bucek and T.
Bozka made 2 points each.
For Yoakum _Rphan and
HdPWi6s“rnS(Te KjJ’fTKY s ’each and
Nagles came through with 2
points.....
Schulenburg Games
Tuesday night the Schulen-
wi-i.v jujuv, .burg Shorthorns and the Brah-
required for | mas split a double header, with
” " • Shorthorns wjnriing the
The Brahma
”B” team defeated the Short-
horn B team 17-13 in the first
game. Ray was high point man
with 9 points, while Nance and
Moqtc made 3, and Skelton*
made 2.
For Schulenburg Kainer was
high with 6 points, Palmer
made 4, and Strickland made 3.
The Shorthorn A tern defeat-
Doctors Buy
Shiner Pharmacy
. The Kuhn Pharmacy of Shi-
ner has been sold to Doctors1
Frank M. Wagner, A. A. pari- ,ack of flu just a week prior to
lek, and M, M. Wagner of Moul- W® dca,h and il was not bc’
ton. The deal was closed Satur- lievwl lhat hls condition was
day and the name of Quality serious. However, he had suf-
Pharmacy will be given the fcrad for some time with a
firm. ' (heart ailment, qpd the flu prov-
A pharmacist is expected to cd t0 be too great a strain on
arrive joon but for the present
Miss Audrey Kuhn will remain
in charge with the same effi-
San Marcos. —- Marilyn Ko-1 ville was
cian and Reinhold Lueke,. stu-
dents at Southwest Texas State
Teachers College from Hallett-
sville, were elected again this
year to the Tews Iota.,ChapJpr
of Alpha Chi' national scholas-
tic honor society, at a ipeeting
this week. .
Scholastic ranking in the
upper ten per cent <nrth6 junior |
or senior class is required forp
entrance to Alpha Chi. Mr. | the
Lucke and Mis§ Kocian recciv-1 principle game,
ed this honor both as juniors “n”
and as seniors.
Report at Once
To Association
Members of. the Hallettsville
Vegetable Growers Assn, who
intend to plant watermelons;
cantaloupes and corn to bc
shipped, should -report at once
to the Association for various
reasons. The Association will
arrange for seed for those who
wish to do so.
The Association will take new
members but anyone who wants
to join, should do so at once.
There will bc no new members
accepted after the shipping sea-
son starts. TtfMdi rectors have
the right to stop taking mem-
bers at »any time. ' ,
You may report your a-
creMge or join the Association
at our regular Directors meet-
ing held the first Saturday of
each month, or at KHmichek’s
Store. Your coo[>eralion will bc
appreciated. -^Directors of Hal-
lettsville Vegetable Growers
As the picture now
Hallettsville mau.have a
[ pro team, and also a
! team. Games, under this
I would be played twice a
[ by the “pro" team and the rest
of the week and Sunday would
to the local team,
further announce-
deeply imbedded in the flesh. be^ avaHable
Several were lodged in the tpn-
gue and gums, making it im-
possible for the Jdog to take
food until they were removed.
Missionary From
India Here Sunday
A well known missionary
from India, Rev, Francis “ Ko-
lar, S.V.D., will deliver a film . - - . .
lecture at the Parish Hall Sun- «a,mP ?r a-(lan“ bclng
day night on the missionary takc Plac^ ,n, IIab
work and life in India. He wifi ’ lettsvlllc ®verybnc who Is ap-
proachcd*'in this drive, should
help this worthy cause to a suc-
cessful conclusion.
The local Lions Club’, with a
committee including Charlie
[Slrau s, G. H. Gerdes and Bob-
bie Quitta ,is working hand-in-
| hand with Chairman Kallus.
i These men deserve your coop-
George F. Kallus Heads March
Of Dimes Paralysis Drive In Co
So of what good »re those
high wages the unions dic-
tated ? They meaii only less
aales, production and employ-
ment, as is inevitable. In a
word, the unioris are just kill-
ing the goose that lays the
. “ golden eggs. w
■ ’ Senator Pepper believes that
tjie “cold war" wilj end and the
^nations will find the way to a
lasting peace. Particularly, he
hopes that Truman will manage
to get along with Rpssia.
. • • •
It’s the same Senator Pep-
per who was so enthusiastic a-
boul Stalin after his visit with
■jm. just as “the man with the
dmbrella' was cohfidjMjj about
Hitler after Munich Pepper al-
so has the same kind of hopes
Chamberlain
out peace
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