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P
EOPLE
AND
IT H I N G
S
Political dates to bo remembered
this year:
January 81: Last day to pay poll
tax.
Some time in April (date not
set): White Man’s Union Primary
in Matagorda County.
July 5—Absentee voting begins.
July 25—First primary election.
August 22—Second primary.
November 3—General election.
..._V____
Enjoy a movie and relax.
Everyone needs diversion. This
is particularly true in times of
strain as at present. One form
of diversion that is accessible to
all is the movies. Going to the
movies Is a splendid antidote for
tension. The choice of screen en-
tertainment is so varied as to
provide just the pick-up you need.
When nerves are tense, go to
■see a movie show and relax.
THE
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HERALD
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE GULF COAST OF TEXAS
VOLUME III
BAY CITY, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1942
NUMBER 18
You'll find the current shows list-
ed weekly on Pages 6 and 7 in
The Herald.
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There are only two days left to
pay your poll tax.
____V____
The tire and automobile short
age is causing some to grumble—
but for the merchants of towns like
Bay City, Palacios, West Columbia,
and Boling, it is a god-send.
Doesn't it suggest that the
small town is about to have a re-
birth as a trading center and,
in its renaissance, there’s oppor-
tunity with a capital “O” for
folks in towns like Bay City?
For those people who “thought
nothing of going 50 to 100 miles
(say Houston) to shop” are going
to think more about the wear and
tear on their automobiles and
tires, if they go that far to do
their buying, and they’re going
to begin thinking more about do-
ing their shopping nearer to
home.
Business, of course, won’t flood
in upon the small-town merchant
who just sits back and waits for it.
But for the store which battles to
keep up its stock and then uses
intelligent advertising to tell the
people about its offerings, 1942’s
war restrictions may not be
wholly unmitigated handicap.
City merchants aren’t going to
0 frive up their rural trade without a
> fight, perhaps by attempting to get
us small town folks to do our buy-
ing by mail. The battle between the
retailers of Houston and your
friends around the square here in
Bay City is going to be worth see-
ing.
Who are you root'ng for?
____V____
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Suttle are
really proud of their “Victory
Garden,” which they completed
planting last Saturday.
They’re just one of many fam-
ilies with gardens this year.
----V____
Worried about daylight saving
time?
Forget it.
People will quickly adjust them
selves to it, said Dr. D. B. Klein,
University of Texas psychologist.
Dr. Klein declared for a time peo-
ple may maintain a “you can’t fool
me—I know what time it really is”
attitude, but habit will soon take
hold.
The transition will be practically
painless because habit is a soporific
influence on human affairs, he said.
____V____
■ Scott Richardson, chairman of
tne Matagorda County Boy Scout
Court of Honor, writes:
“The Boy Scout Court of Honor
will be held in Bay City at the City
Hall on Monday night, February 2.
The exact time of the court will be
announced later.”
____V____
Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the
preacher, said our war upon our
enemies is really an expression
of love.
“Although Jesus said ‘Love
your enemies,’ to allow your en-
emies to deprive the rest of the
world of freedom and force their
system of government on it would
not be loving them.
“Therefore the present war to
prevent them from destroying
freedom and seeing that in the
end, they, too, have freedom, is
an expression of love.”
FOOD SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY
JobMustBeDone,HoggSays toFarmers
CONOCO, SKELLY, OHIO ARE ACTIVE
He Urges Them
To Be At City
Hall Tonight
Responsibilities
In Farming
To Be Discussed
A meeting of the Matagorda
County U. S. D. A. war board is
slated at the City Hall in Bay City
tonight beginning at 7:30 o’clock, it
was announced by E. B. Hogg,
chairman of the board.
‘The Matagorda County war
board needs your help and requests
that you make every effort to be
present," Mr. Hogg said.
“This is not just another meet-
ing,” he emphasized, “This is prob-
ably the most important agricultur-
al meeting you have ever been asked
to attend. Certain farmers and oth-
ers interestin in farming have been
selected to attend this meeting and
the board is depending on you.
“This meeting is in connection
with the responsibilities that have
been placed on agriculture in re-
gard to war effort. Certain definite
things have been alloted to us for
accomplishment. Please consider
this a patriotic and necessary duty
for each of us, and I know that
can depend upon you being present,
“This job must be done, and it is
up to us to do it. You can help.”
59 Men Enlisted In Texas
Defense Guard Up To Now
Enlistments Are Being Taken
At Lewis Building In Bay City
20,000 Men May
Be Hired To Build
Velasco Plant
j Between 15,000 and 20,000 men
^will be employed in construction
work at Velasco by the middle of
February on the government’s
new $52,000,000 magnesium plant,
it is predicted.
The plant will be located one
mile northwest of Velasco. It will
have an annual capacity of 72,-
000,000 pounds of magnesium
metal.
Colonel Selkirk
Named Head
Of Coast Unit
Colonel W. O. Selkirk, command-
ing officer of the Matagorda Coun-
ty Civilian Protective Defense
Council, was elected commander of
the Texas Gulf Coast Civilian Pro-
tective Defense Association at a
coast-wide meeting held here Fri-
day afternoon.
Representatives from fifteen
counties were present, including
Colonel William W. Sterling of the
Eighth Corps Area, U. S. A.
Colonel Sterling explained why it
was necessary to have practice
black-outs. He said they were to
quiet people rather than scaring
them. He praised the work of R. E.
Smith, former Matagorda County
resident, who is chief co-ordinator
of the Eighth Corps Area for the
civilian defense program.
Lieutenant-Colonel H. M. Shoe-
maker of Camp Hulen pointed out
that the civilian defense program
was not under the authority of the
U. S. Army.
Colonel Selkirk was authorized to
appoint four assistants to help de-
cide the date of a’ practice coast
wide black-out. It is tentatively
planned to have one February 5.
Fifty-nine men have enlisted
Matagorda County’s Company E of
the Texas Defense Guard, Lieuten
ant H. T. Mast announced Tuesday
afternoon.
Enlistments are still being taken
at the County Agent’s office in the
Lewis Building, Bay City.
Those who have enlisted are:
James B. Baker, Davis A. Ein-
kauf, Arthur Foster, Elbert U. Gib-
bens, Carl O. Jensen, Axel Jensen,
F. J. Kinard, Sidney W. Lister,
Arthur R. Matthes, Gurlie L. Pat-
terson, Guadalupe Serna, Adolph C.
Spies, John W. Shows.
William J. Carney, James E.
Darby, Harry Lee Hamilton, David
B. Hinton, Walter G. Kincaid, James
I. Laurence, Harry T. Marks, E. B.
Reddoch, Judson L. Reddoch, George
H. Moore, Mariuel S. Rocha, Oscar
L. Rooth, Leslie H. Sanders.
Ralph E. Searcy, Frank M. Bar-
nett, Bernard Aguilar, Joe A. Birk-
ner, Elic T. Catchings, Ira R. Clem-
ents, Charley E. Collamore, Mat-
this J. Denn, Thomas E. Doubek,
Eldin R. Drake, Shelton R. Dykes,
Joseph B. Eastman, Nat R. Espitia,
Alphonse A. Fryou, Royal E.
Hamby.
Ludolph R. Heiligbrodt, William
J. Hickl, John E. Hickl, Jerry P.
Lezak, Charles H. Marquer, Guy
S. Myrick, Martin Nelsen, Florence
R. Norton, Morris Patterson, Ra
mon R. Rooth, Aaron H. Simon
Walter L. Skutca, Rudie C. Stoever,
Frank Taska, Benjamin H. Wheel
er Jr., Denton F. Wiginton, Walter
W. Wilkinson Jr., Burnett E.
Yancey.
Recreation
Center Opens
February 13
Judgment Is
Awarded Rice
Mill Here
E. O. Taulbee
Is Re-elected
C. C. President
E. O. Taulbee was re-elected
president of the Bay City Chamber
of Commerce at a meeting held
Tuesday by the board of directors.
Paris Smith was elected first
vice-president, James Scott second
vice-president, and James Castle-
ton re-elected treasurer.
High five of ton nominees were
announed as P. R. Hamill, Ed Ned-
balek, Bert Steves, R. D. Williams,
and C. W. Smith. The election com-
mittee was L, B. Luder, chairman;
Eddie Willcnberg, and Max Epstein.
The five holdovers were Arthur
Harris Jr., Paris Smith, James
Scott, James Castleton, and E. O.
Taulbee.
A judgment of $1,477 was award-
ed to the Bay City Rice Mills, Inc.,
by District Judge J. Harris Gardner
of Austin. The judgment awarded
represented taxes paid under pro-
test.
A Texas law levying a tax of 2
cents per 100 pounds of milled rice
became inoperative last week on
order of the judge. The jurist did
not pass on validity of the law but
ruled it could not remain operative
because Arkansas did not have such
a law.
The Texas statute, passed at the
last general session of the legisla-
ture to promote the tri-state rice
rice industry, made its operation
contingent upon similar action by
Arkansas and Louisiana.
The Arkansas law was invalidat-
ed by the supreme court of that
state and its legislature has not
passed a new one.
District Court
Ends Winter
Session Saturday
District Court ends its winter ses-
sion Saturday, District Clerk J.
Grady Walker announced.
Divorces granted during the week
were to Helen Rugeley and Wal-
cott Rugeley, and to Gola Jedkins
and Ernest Jedkins.
The Federal Community Center
in Bay City will have its dedication
Tuesday night, February 17, at
o’clock, it was announced by Tom
Hale and Richard Gusman, co-
chairmen of the recreation commit-
tee.
A meeting was held Tuesday
night in the library "oem of the
new building, at which time the
dedication was set and other mat-
ters discussed.
The chairmen announced that var-
ious organizations of Bay City will
participate in the dedicatory, and
detailed program will be sub-
mitted to the public later.
Piano Is Needed
A piano is greatly needed in the
building, it was pointed out, and
since the government constructed
the building and put about $20,000
worth of furnishings into it and
since the Bay City Gas Company
contributed $8,200 to make the
building of brick veneer, it was felt
that the citizens of Bay City should
contribute toward purchasing a
piano.
The government has not purchas-
ed pianos for ^ny of its buildings,
leaving such purchasing up to the
discretion of the local citizenry.
Since the building will be used by
not only soldiers but all individuals
and organizations from time to
time and in the interest of better
types of community programs, the
piano committee decided that either
a Baby Grand or a Grand Piano
should be bought in keeping with
the rest of the furnishings.
The piano committee, however,
did not feel that, during these
times, a piano over $300 or $360
should be purchased. For the past
three weeks a committee has been
searching for a good second hand
Baby Grand piano.
Goggan Agrees
Tuesday, Thomas Goggan and
Sons of Houston located a $1,500
Grand Piano cased in solid mahog-
any. It was explained that since
Bay City citizens have patronized
Goggan for the past number of
years and that soldiers would get
benefit of the program from time
to time, Mr. Goggan has agreed to
refinish the piano completely and
deliver it for $345.
Don Hatch, president of the Bay
City Choral Club; Rollo Rilling, di-
rector of the club, and Mrs. Bryan
Simons, accompanist, appeared be-
fore the recreation council Tuesday
night and offered $45 as a starter
toward purchasing the piano,
“We all feel that this is the best
buy under the circumstances,” one
official said. “In the next few days,
efforts will bo made to raiso the
other $300. Any individuals, groups,
or organizations who wish to par-
ticipate in the purchase of this in-
strument can turn their money into
any member of the recreation coun-
cil.”
Mr. and Mrs. Mart Underwood
have as thoir guest this week her
mother, Mrs. G. H. Robinson of
Belton.
North Markham
Test Completed
January 16
Magnet Well
Is Abandoned
At 6,605 Feet
Here’s the latest oil news of this
section:
Continental Oil Company’s No. 1
Doman, a wildcat test located near
El Maton, is drilling below 9,300
feet. Skelly Oil Company’s No. 10
Moore in the Bay City Field is run-
ning casing and has a total depth of
8,523 feet.
Ohio Oil Company’s No. 15 Carl-
son was completed in the North
Markham Field on January 16. The
company has perforated from 7,726-
30 feet on its No. 1 A. W. Pietz
and has staked location for No. 16
Carlson.
Humble must have met with a
little hard luck on its No. 55 Cock-
burn in the Magnet Field—for it
was abandoned at 6,605 feet.
Danciger Stakes
Danciger Oil and Gas Company
has staked a new location for its
No. 2 Hawsett Estate in the Boling
Field.
Over in the Francitas Field,
Skelly Oil was reported drilling be-
low 10,665 feet with its No. 1 Soo-
ville-Broughton, and the Francitas
Gas Company was below 8,000 feet
with its No. 6 Broughton.
Harrison and Abercrombie’s No.
11 Armstrong Fee in the Old Ocean
Field is below 5,933 feet in shale,
and the operators are testing No.
B. R. L. D., which has been
drilling to 10,868 feet. The opera-
tors’ No. 1 Muller-Moline National
Only 19 Auto
Tires In Quota
For February
The February quota for
tires and tubes in Matagorda
County was announced this
week by the board as:
Passenger, 19 tires and 16
tubes; Trucks, 60 tires und
86 tubes.
January 31 Last
Day To Pay
Poll, Car Tax
January 31. is a very important
date to the tax payer.
It is the last day to pay the poll
tax. It is the last day for paying
property taxes for 1941 without
penalty to state, county, school dis-
tricts, road districts, and drainage
districts. It is the last day to file
social security, etc., tax report for
preceding quarter.
And, unless the government de-
crees otherwise between now and
then, it is the last day to purchase
without penalty the new auto use
tax.
Beginning Monday, February 2,
and continuing through March 31
registration of motor vehicles be-
gins, and licenses may be applied
for after March 1.
February 15 is the last day for
filing information returns on em-
ployees. March 15 is the last day
for corporations to file state fran-
chise tax returns. Also on March 15
the return of the federal income
tax for the calendar year of 1941
Bank was below 10,947 feet in sand | [s made and paymeiU is due for the
and shale at last reports.
Daily Production
Following is the daily average
production for coastal fields for the
week ending January 18:
Bay City, 52 wells, 1380 produc-
tion, 3325 allowable; Blessing, 7
wells, 60 production, no reported al
lowable; Boling, 9 wells, 1301 pro-
duction, 1310 allowable; Buckeye, 3
wells, 115 production, 115 allow-
able; Francitas, 8 wells, 297 produc-
tion, 410 allowable.
Hamman, 31 wells, 2078 produc-
tion, 2904 allowable; Lolita, 173
wells, 5308 production, 8132 allow-
able; Lucky, 2 wells, 137 produc-
tion, 187 allowable; Magnet, 79
first quarter installment.
March 31 is the last day for reg-
istering motor vehicles, and May 1
is the last day for corporations to
pay the state franchise tax.
First Aid
Teachers Are
Named By Reed
There has been some inquiry con-
cerning the various First Aid class-
es now being taught or contemplat-
ed in Matagorda County, Stuart
Reed announced. The American Na-
tional Red Cross has certified the
able; Markham, 5 wells, 1105 pro-
duction, 1107 allowable.
North Markham, 20 wells, 1062
production, 1484 allowable; Old
Ocean, 11 wells, 15085 production,
21115 allowable; Palacios, 3 wells,
15 production, 20 allowable; West
Columbia new, 107 wells, 5719 pro-
duction, 5720 allowable; West Co-
lumbia old, 48 wolls, 2234 produc-
tion, 2237 allowable; Wilson Creek,
2 wells, 230 production, 110 allow,
able.
Funeral Services
Are Held Friday
For J. W. Elliott
Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis of Alvin
were Bay City visitors.
Mrs. Esther Board of Blessing
wan a Bay City shopper Saturday, Buker;( one brother, Nat.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon for J. W. Elliott, 70, who
died at his home throe miles west
of Bay City Thursday night.
Services were hold from the
Walker-Matchett Funeral Home
with the Rev. Marvin Vance of-
ficiating.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Henry Ham and Mrs. Lizzie
Notely; three sons, G. D., Alvin,
and Henry; one sister, Mrs. Nettie
County: Thomas P. Hale, Vfaync
Butler, Lillie M. Bridges, Lester C.
Whinery, Mrs. Stuart L. Reed,
Stuart L. Reed.
The above named instructors are
the only ones authorized to teach
in the Matagorda County Chapter
of the American Red Cross. Other
instructors desiring to teach under
Red Cross auspices are requested to
contact the Red Cross office in Bay
City.
Instructors transferred to this
chapter from another chapter are
also asked to place their names on
file in the chapter office prior to
teaching Red Cross First Aid
courses.
American Red Cross First Aid
cards cannot be issued to anyone
who has taken classes from but the
above named instructors in Mata-
gorda County. All those qualified
to teach First Aid are requested to
attend a meeting of all First Aid
instructors Friday night, January
30, at the Matagorda County Court
House in Bay City at 6:15 o’clock.
\
Lieutenant Forest L. Maertz of
Cump Hulen was a visitor in Bay
City Saturday.
f' I
Supplies Long-
Felt Need,
Howard Says
Program Is
Anounced; It
Ends Feb. 18
The school for food handlers
opening February 2, taught by a.
representative of the State Depart-
ment of Health and conducted un-
der the auspices of the Gulf Health
Department in cooperation with the
State Department of Health, sup-
plies a long-felt need in this com-
munity, Dr. George C. Howard, di-
rector of the Gulf Health Depart-
ment, announced.
Comprehensive courses in bacter-
iology, communicable disease, medi-
cal zoology, foods, disinfection and
sterilization, personal hygiene and
sanitation give food handlers col
plete information on how to pre-
pare and handle food to maintain,
the highest standards of cleanliness
and sanitation.
Referring to the necessity far
such training. Dr. Howard said
today, “No one could step into t.
bus loaded with passengers, and
be foolhardy enough to drive that
bus without a proper understand-
ing of its mechanical workings.
The responsibility of a food hand-
ler is just as great as the ban-
driver’s; for every day scores of
patrons depend on him to serve
them with due regard to their
health and safety. Just as an un-
trained driver represents a haz-
ard to the bus passengers, so does
a careless or untrained food hand-
ler represent a hazard to his
patrons.
“It is necessary that food hand-
lers have a knowledge of how:
they can best protect their pa-
trons,’’ Dr. Howard stated, “and
how to prevent the loss of food:
by contamination.”
At the conclusion of the school
food handlers who have success-
fully completed the work will be
awarded certificates by the State
Health Department; cafe owners-
whose entire personnel has received:
these certificates will be given *
placard of approval signed by Dr_
George W. Cox, state health officer,,
as well as by Dr. Howard and bear-
ing the seal of the State of Texas.
"The cafe owner should proudly
display this placard in a prominent
place,” Dr. Howard asserted. “It
will inform the public that this per-
xnnel has been trained by the State
and local health departments, in the
proper method of handling food for
public health safety.”
The food handlers course will
close February 18.
PROGRAM
Food handlers short course to be-
held at the City Hall, Bay City,
Texas, beginning February 2.
Classes will be held in the after-
noon, beginning at 2:30 p. m. and
7:30 p. m. and will last about one
hour and a half.
Monday, 2:30 and 7:30 p. m., Feb-
ruary 2, 1942, “How the Whole
Thing Started,” film: “Man Against
Microbe.”
Wednesday, 2:30 and 7:30 p. m...
February 4, 1942: “Hidden Dan-
gers,” Film: “Let My People Live.*
Monday, 2:30 and 7:30 p. m., Feb-
ruary 9, 1942: “The Customer’s
Competitor and Mineral Wells’ Big-
gest Food Thief,” Film: “The House
Fly” and "No Good on Earth.”
Wednesday, 2:30 and 7:30 p. m.r
February 11, 1942: “Foods?” Film:
“Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow I
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