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FRIDAY,
BOWIE, TEXAS
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charted lubrication now. Most cars
do. It’s necessary maintenance every
1000 miles, or once a month. We
know how to take out the squeaks.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1949
Robert Trout, a Baylor . Uni-
versity student, was in Bowie
for the week-end visiting with
his . parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Trout.
MARKETING
with
Horace Ayres returned last
week from San Antonio where
he attended the State Convention
of Frozen Locker plant owners.
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Opportunity io Vote_
If you lived m n.uiny otlur countries of the world to-
MOBIL SERVICE
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Your car will look a
lot better If you’ll
let us wash It, too.
A wash-job doesn’t cost
• much, it will make you
proud of your car’s ap-
pearance.
Jfist a reminder
Differential and trans-
~~ missionlubricantsshould .
be changed every’5000
miles. Takes T5 minutes,
may save you $150.00.
New oil at regular Intervals
will make your engine last
lodger, run bettgr
' We can.drain”your crankcase oil.
nnd replace it with Humble Esso
________Motor Oil whUff you wait. ■ - - --
The Hiwblc dealer in your neigh-
-borhood is a progressive merchant
uho Supplies you with a variety of
products and services to keep your
car running right and looking good.
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Cleaning, Repairing, Recoring
Also New & Used Radiators
ROBERTS AUTO
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503 W. Wise (on Highwajp
Bowie
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Published Each Friday wt No. 8 Smythe Street, Bowie, Fexas [ W).-p.p hardly any motion'at all.
aiTROUT ' -- .Editor arid Publisher " ’*• unWiwMyr^oeU, rem-
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Established February 9,• 1922. Entered at the Postoffice in Bowie
Texas, as second class majl under the Aft of March 3, 18/J.
KOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: Any erron<•ops'n'f.c ction upon the
character, stnmhng or deputation-of‘any person, lirxu..ur.3J2lERU‘UtJB-
whicji may appear in the columns of this piper will be gladly correct- < ;jI
ed upon the notice of sarrS being given to the editor. , j’thc ocec!
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passcngci■<. bur crew gave
much attention. Our
SINKS
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on-Steel
At.this time of year, ypu’re basking iii warm sunlight one day, '>
nnd shivering with cold the next. But it isn’t difficult to serve
meals .that match the weather when you shop at A&P. For
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■ inspire meals for warm and cold days alike.
LOVE THAT LENTEN FISH | FROM FIRST TO LAST-
PERFECTION
I For an excitingly different first
course,’'serve A&V brand canned
F1U.TT$ FOR SALADS —/ire
, frp-»tn—An>l _qd<l nwA-"
schino juice.to the luscious syrup.
'Also enjoy these fruits in salads.'1
.Or..pour_inhi.jnertngufi- shells.
Tliey'i c woiidorful uny' way . „
and thrifty, too!
MEATLESS MAIN DISH
—UOUxK—MlJX, uiol+hitedr—Rake-- tjr|jejTnls.^:rTT^rTT _
* ' Beans;A'w^igimfr
boil 8 large onions 20 minutes,
dupn, place in casserole, Remove
portion from center of each; chop,
saute with ’$ . .
g r e e h p e p-p e r, . W
sliced. Add 1 can h.— >
A N N P A G E
I’ARl AN STYLE,
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k ffTCITOT, ‘ 2 tsps. Worcester- "
shire' Sauce. Place mixture in and
around onions. Bake in hot oven
25 minutes. Serves 4.
below us, and how miraculous
that-w< could cross all that water camf
and fly straight to. those tiny In fact that is the only sight I’ve
islands. We lost altitude gradu- seen that even suggested '‘dark-]
ally, but even so my ears hurt est Africa. ' ■
yrffia.- I w.mtrri tn r tv'like 5- ---Wr rrn-i'd-thr ■ rquntor ii
year-old Ann. The stewardess sleep, for we slept most of the
taught us how to pop our whs way-to Lropdrivillej and waked,
so the descent was nevef so pain- to find thg -Congo beneath us. At
tub again.. AVe spdnt 45 minutes flood stagr, it tnadc-the Mtssis-
on tin' groujuL-^t Santa Maria’. ; sippi look like a ditch. The Very
Whil<‘ it was still only 11 o'clock largo tadio ' Ccwers dominated
watches, it was 2 a.ni. the skyline. The houses looked ;
there. Just the same, the curio, pretty'and comfortable-and the
‘ ; were n for business. ; u port grounds were landscaped. ;
ta il tiieir agold filigree There were nu.ny ngyv American i
■Ira blouses, but bpught cars parked about-as there .had
‘ > we first
, well-
_______ THE BOWIE NEWS,
Thrilling Trip— ( longest stay on th? ground
, ,(there,' nearly. tw<? hours, while
(Continued from Page 1) j QUr c]jppfcr was being loaded.
up, our stewardess gave us flight Meantinje; planes took off for
logs and passed the chewing Geneva, Paris. Amsterdam, Lon-
gum. We fastened cur seat belts don and Barcelona. Fip^liy t<we,
and were off. the moment I had too, took off for Dakar with a
dreaded. How; surprised T? was capacity load of bofjt passengers
not to feel the expected fright, and freight.
lookcrf very* very new. Howj tEe final lap to Johannesburg;
surprising in such an , old city.! first over .green -mountains, cut
The answer seems to be that the , by many rivers, then brewn hills
frequency of earthquakes keeps j and fintdly the veld of Bechuana-
the city constantly rebuilding, land, very like West Texas again
We had breakfast at the- airport, We tightened our seat belts and
at 7:30, though bur stomachs held on; for. the heat waves ris-
kniw it was i nly 2:30! I could ing from the veld had old Hdt-
h; idly 'eat, EUROPE .and Lis- spur bucking like a bronc. We
bon at* that. I remembered all attempted to eat lunch, but cpri-
the wartime stories ef intrigue, tin.ially mista d pur mouths!M< st
both t’ Uc and fiction, la-id g.on everyone else was sick. I'm still
that very spot. We’ had passed proud we were such good travel-
I through the very entrances where lers, for I had noL expected tp
cm niU's bi Cished shoulders dui - Bb. Our little Chinaman was
' ing the war. the one place where unable to eat from the time we
[that was possible. Wp:. Ibjd .quF' left "Nctf York. He was returning
our ■ T
I ’ was i-T'.'cd in individual noon.
.1 containcfiCTlTaT firt,e'l |: •' . _______
■lb. in thi- tray So noth- the fiiitr h Gold ’ Qm: t* at mid- ccrtifiiwtes • of inoculations.
‘ Before wc wme aOovved i *Tc Be Continued Next Week)’
glasit of tomqti ‘ juice, a off, a very important looking, . ------------> -!
< through and CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
■plane. II,—r SUBJECTS ANNOUNCED----h
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Here are the subjects an-1
nbun< ed for the Christian Science
TTic aTfhiiSr tbp-sl-ze sd-- lny kttchcn no*) A4L4he.English JpxLApnlm - —>
; in <dlt phatll' bags. This colony Sdt iYii cl m hrv'iTni' "tn set1, | Sunday;- Apt-tl 3i-su4qeet—--Un—
n ... .... ... . ... V and golden text is
r.m Aiiirni’jiv, Ti.K'y are" •,1<-rc seived at the hotel across 1 Psalms 119:65-404.^ r<
aked, frozen, then heated .to fi->m the airport by native wait-i Sunday, April 10: subject—“Are [
~ ^7i elei trie o.verjs^ on-the crs. 'Hiey. wore White, pjs, belted Disease, and Death R.eaIi/,',, I
1 with bright sashes and were1 harp-, *n'^ golden text, is Psalms 103:2-1
ire foiited. For some time before [ e|-
-- .... h. * reaching Accra, w had been fly-1 Sunday, April 1-7: subject—j
ju:t (..hours and 7 .minutes i>ut ing over the jungle. We could | “Doctrine of Atonement,” and |
cf N« w . York. What a-thrill U»Lsec native campfires far -|>e-, ic 1 •’Q
sec those pin-points, of light far low, sometimes burning in' f
strange patterns, outlining their I 'Probation
ps. It felt like AFRICA then, golden text is Psalmh 138:8. [
Il pays to advertise In the News. ‘
tc Pretoria after finishing an en-
gineering course at Angola, In-
diana. He was a friendly little
fellow with a sense of humor..
Wc reached Jo’burg at 2:30
Wednesday afternoon, two hours
ahead of schedule. If we’d had fto
idea of our-d&stination, vexed have
recognized it just the same, for
. ; it was so like all the descriptions
, Thc*-"At)antic was like glass, [ we'd read. It is a large", modern
; It w;,-. unbcliuvablypmooLhi com- with' hardly a ripple app^ent ]00king city„ with long tree-lined
pared with the train. Almost .at fr6jn our height. t\e .passed over 1 resiJ£.ntial streets marching off
dm-r all sight-ef kmd was gene a ttp- -flre'Canary Islands, just; ovcr -{|le hills *a'nc[ aD or if sur-’
and we were really on out way. Latrem brown mountains, . no: rountied- by the gold mines with
Sunset came very early at oar Vi g- tution at all. Then Wc \kim- their peculiar pyramid-shaped
rate of -peed and was' indeserib- th'€ African ccast, .just a;; dumps, all uniform and sharply
ixhle-.-literacy.'Out .of. this .wo; Id.- Barren and- yellow,- and - so-—ww-*~ypy/get r^g pro'SCtlbeT ‘"I5y —1&W7r
at oui licigiit ol 16,000 f< 11, with the airfield at Dakar.« Wc were ; Ajmin nnr pjana was spruved—ng---
TToucU’df'gcTcI TIcTieanr us”antT'disappointed not to have even- it had been at every landing in
CKcasional glimpse of u pliunps.e' of the town. The air-! Africa, before .wc were allowed ■
the ocean. | port looked'very much like West; off-; At . each previous stop our
... . . i ,-imce there were only nine | Texas, lit its worst. The natives, t passports had been taken up for
, intone composed of p;iSr;(.n(,<.I< hur crew gave usJ wearing long white nighties and ' duration cf our stay, but this
i; Elsewhere $4 00 per year r).U(,h • attention.. Our captain tlo.nged sandals were perched all time we had to gd through cus-
> .. . ’ ! i.iiud. lack iinil 1 nswi red cue °wr a building .-under construe toms, .tofi-. We fedt eftry tiring was
' .jquesGImsTr he" tibm Yuf^fnot a lick of work 1 an r^ht, we’d made our d«L-'
v.a: 'boars!'. He pe rmitte;.! u- t<). the entire 45 minutes wo were [ rations on triplicate forms given.
TT? i l.p’TiVr-r.■TtbrTbTTm.r'Thr~nrrTT^-eai-'H47v-i-grx-nind. >0~<'^^‘^,-’--4h^---m'm’5T'rrttTUT5torrr.;'r)iirwr7t^7rTrn^- ■
pmion was an- c-T,ri'ial language wi.s Frrnrli and.w.e had . told, the. South Africans wore.)
thrill for the mon. We wore ' to, rhinngo for* French money joi fu<Sy pC.Gpje. wrr~7ni ‘ quite
■.erri-1 two meats On this ffiikir. biiv rtamps for ntn—cards. Wrf'srmpTc. They opened only one'
T-""""T""”foimo 'pillow; plaoivl (,n oivr k.j. i corntfirtIde in our wool suits vis a special permit so We could .
BIBLE .THOUGH , ),;i| quy-Ti ays nicely. Thb ’ flare .at -1 o’cl< - k in the after- tike our typewiitc-r out '-f'tlhe
__- pfr. ......that t,,\ I.'.rti;. and tfui! lie fupd ••• •il .’ ‘’>’1 > 'and th: ' ad ti..*
shall stand at the kitte' day upmi.Jlu earth. J'di IJL'Ja. dT’as and container ttTat fittyd ' Dpr tHut ..j-W way Accra on' wa« tojt. except for drawing, our
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' was a glaslf of tomtit<. ’ juice, a off, a very i
nice serving of Swiss steak, fresh negro, official < ;.rn<
e ji i il i'i I h',.....pntnth?1 s, -—^rt+iehi'deo
.ii . hearts ami tomato salad
flay, you would count it sueli-a valuable pi's'll1-1?’ 1,1 v,lte’i yrrnrfr| ,
could you be -give.n that once tn a lifetime, that you would
—-let nothing ■•-hindrir.'>.yQU. were the date_i±f ...an election an-^
nounced. “T- ----------------—
To perpetuate that privilege here in free America i
’ Should hurry to the polls and cast our ballot ei’ery' time
there is an xdectiojir-rr'p.ar.llc^s tif tin number of candidates
or issues.
There’will be two (lections m Bowie within this first
week of April. On Saturday, Apiil 2. then is the\ elec-
tion for school trust! os in Bowie indi pendc'nt Sc|i(»ol Dis-
trict.' "What—is—more, basic, hr more fundami'ntal or un-
portant in ,6ur domocrayy"than" <>ur educational system?
Yet we have grown in the h thargic habit of considering it
a “small affair” and usually then* is a mere handful of
citizens who vote in the school board elections. There is
tjo more inip<>rm‘nt'7vtecTT(m held ever.’ than this. There
are two'trustees to be elected Saturday. Names of four
--------good men havi' lurh announced as candidates. Lot’s, all
-go to fh(* tkdlti mwl 'show ‘titoe betfl intownt nhri .pilr- up m ~
real substantial vote. There are two county trustees to
be elected-*-very important office*--and good men have been
placed on the ballot for this post, too. Give, them a. big
vote of confidenlje and supixHt. ——. —
Then, next Tuesday the City of Bowie election, and [
while none of the seyerai. candidate's <>n that ballot has
»ny announced opponent, we should go out and vote—
rhould give’* these men a huge vote to show our interest and
let them feel we an expecting jmich and liaye faith in them.
ENJOYBEST-NOW!
shops
.’Axj.^aihim,
i.ird Madeira blouses, but lipugnt ears i
nothing. - t eon ill Aerri. 'There
Wu look- <m niv I'nttrnt.v nrw t'nxv a now familiar
1 crew, fhnv thiough ttie stars and <hapyd native women moving
.into the suniise and there was r H:ut with enormous bundl-rj -
I.isliori lielow. like a'movre set-.' b' lanced on their heads. All had —
„ ting, too beautiful tq be • real., grange cut marks imtherrjaces,
Low given the grass and tries indicating their individual tribes,
were after the snow in New We lost' most of cur passengers
York. The houses seenicd to be* *n Leopoldville.
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CABINET
STYLED t
.25 Inch** d**P"'' <0
porcelal0”0
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now! MoP
• wore 'jltowed [ *Tc. Be (
through and [ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
tf (he j. .. . ...
with first black man I'd ever seen with
t»utter, ■ n -British nrrrnt. (Little did
coffee, cream, sugar and ice dream then that I’d bave one
~‘x'( i' was in eellepniino bags. Tins colony fiVVtYi! cl m frrr'"tTtTt' "t7! Wf | nunua;
y.£. meal’ .was .typical ml-all itf VCd the yl.-me in. Tea ar.rlppngc ibiee I reality’’,
by i-nii-nmvinjub,......*„*."_* •*!.>. >vi'rc* served ai me noiei across ,
^•|^|1zj./1 . Ifnvrn tlii'H llOIiff'Cl t< ) lkz\ limit- I
serve in
plane. .
Riding’!r 60 rpph tailwind, \ve
tore into tlie Azores at 340 niph." reaching Accra, wo had been fly-1 sunaay, April r-v: subject—j
"ju;t f..hours ami 7 minutes out ing over the jungle. We could, ‘ Doctrine of Atonement,” and j
cf Ni w -York. What’a-thrill i« ! see the native campfires far-be- S°lde:i text is John 1:29.
• ' ■ Sunday, April, 24: subject—
After Death," and
and shivering with cold the next. But if isn’t difficult to
luvuiltjlini ilinuil VIIV nvuuivi nmu JVM oiiM|f civ (« vi
there you’ll find ft variety of fine food®—al prices that
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[ . LOVE THAT LENTEN FISH
You'll see smiles ’found the table j
whim vou serve vout family Fillets i
linked with WHITE HOUSE
MILK. That’s a Lenten dish that’s-
luscious and easy to fix, top. For
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• -r1 . z baking ban. Sea*
80,1 "ini 1 t-sjC
salt- ajiil' ’* tsp.
L. ^p+upp^r, A-d-ti -h |
cu.fi of WHITE |
uUiut -20 min. in .mixlezaie bvcii,
37V F. It's superb!
, SPRING FLAVOR-AND
-DELICIOUS!
J,onging for tender peas right out
of tiie garden?*It’s a little early
yet . . . but tender, sweet IONA
best bet. They're packed 'with
ini'iden flnvnr. Jpy A (’l)ItV .U.l,
rlnus. to 7 r.-rrh l-cmef -rnftky im,T
summer-sweet. Look for the IONA
brand for " just-picked” flavor and
thrifty price!
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Trout, H. I. The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1949, newspaper, April 1, 1949; Bowie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1367592/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bowie Public Library.