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James A. Clements
For V. S. Congress
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James A. Clements of Angleton,
automotive and transportation ex-
ecutive, has announced his can-
didacy for the United States House
of Representatives from the Ninth
Congressional District of Texas.
Clements, a member of one of
the oldest families in the district, is
a veteran of the U. S. Navy, is
married and the father of two chil-
dren, is a member of the I. 0. 0. F.
> and of the Junior Chamber of Com-
merce. With the exception of the
four years spent in the Navy, the
candidate has spent his entire life
in the Ninth District.
(Political Advertisement)
A member of one of the oldest
fumilics in the Gulf Coast area,
James A. Clements of Angleton
has announced his candidacy for
Congress from the Ninth Congres-
sional district of Texas.
With the exception of four years
spent as a gob in the U. S. Navy,
Mr. Clements has spent his entire
life in the Ninth District.
His home is in Angleton where
for several years he has been en-
gaged in the automobile and trans-
portation business.
Mr. Clements has three brothers
and three sisters, all except one
of whom live in this district. They
are Mrs. W. A. Northington of
Egpty, Mrs. W. C. Hodges of Whar-
ton, Mrs. K. M. Hodges of Whar-
ton, L. D. Clements of Wharton, S.
M. Clements of Rosharon, and Jim
Davis Clements of Houston. He is
married and the father of two child-
ren, James A. II, 5, and William
Spencer, 2.
James A. Clements was born in
Lane City on September 18, 1913,
the son of James A. and Lula Clem-
ents. The elder Clements was a
farmer and stock raiser and lived
in Lane City for 30 years.
The candidate attended grade
school in Lane City and high school
in Bay City and Wharton, finishing
in 1930. He joined the U. S. Navy
in February, 1931, and served in
the aerological Department of the
U. S. S. Saratoga, at the U. S.
Naval Preparatory School at Nor-
folk, and as secretary to the com-
manding officer of the U. S. S.
Pensacola until his honorable dis-
charge in August, 1934.
After his service in the Navy,
Mr. Clements returned to the Ninth
District—his home, settling in Bra-
zoria County. There he married
Miss Wenonah Patterson of Angle-
ton, and started in the insurance
business. Later he formed the
Clements Motor Co., and in 1942
organized the Gulf Coast Trans-
portation Co., after making a pro-
longed study of national and local
transportation problems. The line
which Mr. Clements founded now
carries hundreds of workers to de-
fense projects along the Gulf coost
daily.
Mr. Clements is active in civic
affairs of the Ninth District. He is
a member of the I. 0. 0, F. and of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
> at Angleton. He is the sixth J. A.
'■ Clements in direct line from the
original, who settled in the Sandies
in 1812 bb a surveyor for the Mexi-
can government.
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VOLUME III
BAY CITY, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942
NUMBER 31
OCTANE PLANT PLANS UNDER WAY
Sugar Consumers Register Next Week
Teachers Issue
Booklets At
School Houses
• First Stamp Is
Valid May 5-16,
Second May 17-30
Individual consumers of sugar
register and obtain war rationing
booklets Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, and Thursday, it was announc-
ed by Tom Hale, chairman of the
Matagorda County registration
committee.
In independent school districts,
such as Bay City, Palacios, Bless-
ing, Markham, and Van Vleck,
registration takes place at high
schools under supervision of
teachers.
Registration hours, according to
Mr. Hale, are from 8 o’clock each
morning until “4 or 6” each after-
noon.
One adult, over 18 years of age,
from each family may apply for
war ration books for every adult
and child in the family. Consum-
ers will be entitled to purchase one
pound of sugar with each of the
first four stamps in ration book
No. 1.
The first stamp is valid May 5-
16, the second May 17-30, the third
May 31-June 13, and the fourth
June 14-27.
If it is found that the consumer
has six pounds of sugar on hand at
the time of registration, four
stamps will be taken from his book-
let and he will not be permitted to
buy sugar until June 27. The con-
sumer may have two pounds on
hand without penalty.
Mr. Hale defined sugar as that
"in liquid, powdered, brown, or
granulated form.”
People wanting sugar for can-
ning and preserving may make ap-
plications with A.-H. Wadsworth
of the Matagorda County War Ra-
tioning Board after May 7.
Industrial and institutional users
registered Monday and Tuesday,
Mr. Hale said.
Bay City Bond Election Set May 19
Save and Sell for Victory
SAVE on rubber. Check tractor, truck, and auto tires often,
miser-driver. Tires have to last a long time. "
Be a
SELL or give to charity all scrap metals. Clean out your basement
and backyard. Brass, copper, lead. tin. and all other metals are needed.
JOE ESTES VISITS HERE
Joe Estes of the National Screen
Service in Dallas was a Long Thea-
tres headquarters visitor in Bay
City Tuesday. Mr. Estes, who re-
ceives The Herald, says, “You’re
putting out a nice little paper.”
Thanks a million, Mr. Estes.
“Bond” Doughboy and Gobi
Help Them Do Their Job!
Ohio-Sun Stake Wildcat
Oil Test Northwest OF Here
Crew* Working: A t Midfield,
West Of Sargent, And Sugar Valley
Tire And Tube Quotas
For May Are Announced
The Matagorda County Rationing Holleman Plumbing Company, Rich-
Board announced a (May quota of
18 passenger tires, 32 passenger
tubes, 91 truck tires, 118 truck
tubes, 42 passenger retreads, and
145 truck retreads.
Permits to buy tires or tubes, or
both, were issued l?y the board dur-
ing April to:
TRUCK TYPE
J. R. Eeds, Matagorda County
Precinct 4, Matagorda County Pre-
cinct 1, F. W. Vaughn and Com-
pany, Seguin Milling Company,
George Jones, W. A. Skorkowsky,
Eugene Zhanel, W. L. Lane, Robert
P. Byrd Jr., J. T. Robertson, Sani-
tary Plumbing Company, J. M.
Armatta, Frank Buffaloe, G. A.
.Bailey, Luther Bunch, William F.
Williams, H. C. Elliott, W. S. King,
Jesse Wiggins, Hunt Tool Com-
pany, Earl Sirmon, Albert F. Hahn,
Southern States Construction Com-
pany, Bay City Creamery, Arnold
R. Manna, Charles Beyer, Union
Truck Line, C. P. and L., Seifert
and Wendel, Matagorda County
Wholesalers, Aaron Oil Company.
PASSENGER SIZES
Taylor Brothers, Dr, H, H. I*oos,
ard Page, C. P. and L., Chester
Socha, F. W. Vaughn and Company,
Hunt Tool Company, 0. D. Fikes,
M. S. Bales, L. E. Dickey.
RECAPS AND RETREADS
L. A. Norris, Matagorda County
Precinct 4, John C. Gilson, Clyde E.
McKinney, George Stubblefield, D.
D. Carter, Frank Bunk, Mrs. Jimmie
Haggard, J. L. McKissick Jr., J.
G. Hull, Lad Mandrich, Stuart L.
Reed, W. G. North, William P. Hol-
mans, Howard P. Linamon, J. H.
Werlla, W. T. Dugger, 0. L. Sif-
ford, I. M. Corporan, Bowen Motor
Coaches.
OBSOLETE SIZES
Galen Savage, W. F. Stanford,
Herbert Hebei, Nick Stellbrinck, F.
W. Vaughn and Company, G. L.
Sewell, M. S. Bates, H. H. Arnold,
Lewis Norris, Matagorda County
Precinct 3.
The board received 146 applica-
tions during the month. Nine were
rejected. The quota was 22 passen-
ger tires, 86 passenger tubes, 88
truck tires, 75 truck tubes,
The Ohio Oil Company and the
Sun Oil Company have spotted lo-
cation for a wildcat test northwest
of Bay City.
It is the No. 1 E. L. McDonald
and is 4800 feet southeast of the
west line and 1300 feet southwest
of the north line of a 1400-acre tract
in the J. Betts Survey. Projected
depth, 8500 feet.
A Collegeport gas .test, Pure Oil
Company’s No. 1 Louis LeTulle, is
drilling below 1043 feet in shale.
This test is found in the J. E. Pierce
Survey.
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company’s
No. 1 Buckner Orphans Home in
the Buckeye area was last report-
ed drilling below conductor pipe set
at 92 feet.
The company has dropped the
No. 2 J. E. Thompson in the Lucky
Field “ ’til active.” The company’s
No. 2 Wolfe in the same field is
rigging up in the H. Harrison Sur-
vey.
The .Atlantic Refining Company
is putting on record assignments
from Roy B. Siler of leases he took
some time ago around Hawkins-
ville dome in the southeastern part
of Matagorda County in the Thomas
Williams and Kingston Surveys.
The first lease was taken a year
ago, the first part of April, 1941.
Harold Link also took some leases
in this area.
The Rogers - Ray Geophysical
Company has a seismograph re-
flection crew working north of Mid-
field in the I. & G. N. Surveys, sec-
tions 14, 16, 20, and G. C. & S. F.
Survey 647.
The Shell Oil Company is shoot-
ing west of Sargent on the Hawkins
Estate lands, while Skelly is work-
ing south of Sugar Valley in t
Johnson, Walker, and Broden, Polly
and Chance, and Battle, Berry and
Williams Surveys.
Over in Brazoria County, Harri-
son and Abercrombie are finishing
board road for their No. 13 B. R. L.
D. at Old Ocean. The No. 2 Muel-
ler et al is a new location in the
Nuckols Survey. The No. 1 Wood-
ing-Mueller Unit in the Nuckols
Survey is at the total depth of 11,-
004 feet, has set oil string and is
waiting on cement.
Over at West Columbia, the Tex-
as Company is drilling below 5270
feet in shale on its No. 46 Abrams.
H. C. Cockburn’s No. 1 W. A.
Moers, north of Lane City, has been
spudded and set conductor pipe. The
hole is to be carried to 6000 feet.
Cockburn assembled a block of ap-
proximately 4000 acres, owning a
large amount of fee land. The
Atlatl Royalty Company is support-
ing the test.
Southwest of Lane City in the
S. Castleman Survey, block 67,
Pierce Wither’s No. 1 Wharton
Bank and Trust Company test
should be near 5000 feet, having
gone out from under the surface
casing last week-end.
A new field has definitely been
opened by John B. Coffee’s No. 1
Mauritz, west of the Mauritz Field,
but on a separate structure. On an
estimate gauge it is making 150
barrels of oil daily on a 9/64-inch
choke with tubing pressure 600,
casing 960, apd the oil gravity 31.5.
Mrs. Victor Mock of Houston left
yesterday after visiting her mother,
Mrs. Alice Freddy, for five days.
Eugene J. Wilson, special assist-
ant to the United States Attorney
General, said a declaration of taking
was filed in the Houston division of
Federal Court Tuesday for 12,517.49
acres of land in Matagorda County.
A deposit of $105,627 will be plac-
ed in the court registry.
Wilson, in charge of the Depart-
ment of Land Office at Corpus
Christi, said the government had
been in possession of the land—
part of a 47,000-acre tract used as
an Army bombing range—since
July 30, 1941, when suits were filed.
The declaration of taking will
give the land owners access to cash
representing the estimated value of
their holdings, he added. The land
is described in civil action 102 now
pending in the Galveston division
of the Federal Court.
Wilson was formerly County At-
torney of Matagorda County and
lived in Bay City.
Water, Sewerage [EUGENE J. WILSON
Bonds Will Be
Voted Upon
City Must Put
Up $60,000
To Get System*
An election to vote for or against
the issuance of $60,000 in bonds
for new water and sewage facilities
in Bay City has been set for May
19, it was announced by Mayor S.
E. Doughtie.
If the people vote in favor of the
bond issue, contracts probably will
bo let June 5, Mayor Doughtie said.
The federal government has giv-
en a grant of $177,000 for the con-
struction of new facilities providing
the city matches it with $60,000,
thus calling for a bond election.
Company Contracted
“The Columbia Securities Bond-
ing Company has the contract to
handle all election proceedings up
to and through the sale of the
bonds,” Mayor Doughtie said, “with
the guarantee that the bonds will
not be sold for less than 3 per cent.”
If the issue is voted, Mayor
Doughtie said he felt that it would
not be necessary to assess addition-
al tax but that it was necessary to
set up a tax structure. The bonds,
he pointed out, could be retired at
any interest paying date.
The mayor said Congressman J.
J. Mansfield thought Bay City
should accept the federal grant and
vote the bond issue. Army engin-
eers and health department officials
also expressed the hope that Bay
City would construct new water and
sewage facilities.
System Is Overloaded
Mayor Doughtie and City Engin-
eer S. A. Russell were recently in-
terviewed by Washington represen
tatives concerning the present sys-
tem and it was concluded that the
sewer system was overloaded 35 per
cent during “normal times” and 50
per cent during “abnormal times.”
In addition to this it was found
that there are 600 potential cus-
tomers who are denied service be-
cause of inadequate facilities. This
does not include a portion of the
people living in the north and east
part of the city who are also denied
service because the systems do not
extend in those parts.
Proponents say voting of the
bonds would go toward protecting
the health of soldiers and civilians
residing in this area. It was point-
ed out that during the last war un
sanitary conditions caused epidem-
ics that killed more men than those
actually shot.
Reasons For Systems
New and modern water and sew-
age systems would go far in pro-
moting sanitation, they say, as
well as invite industries.
The City Cbuncil of Bay City
adopted this resolution accepting
the offer “of the United States”:
Whereas, there has been filed
with the federal works agency for
and in behalf of the city of Bay
City, Texas (herein called the “own-
er”), an application for federal as-
sistance under the defense publk
works program and the United
States of America, accruing by and
through the federal works admin-
istrator, has transmitted to the
owner an offer of federal assist-
ance in connection with the public
works referred to in said applica-
tion and described in said offer,
and
Whereas, said offer has been duly
read in open meeting and has been
fully considered in every respect in
of procedure and legal require-
ments, and
Wheieas, said offer has been
made a part of the public records
of the owner, and
Wlhereas, it is deemed advisable
Survey For
Rat-Killing
Set Friday
A survey of Bay City business
houses will be made Friday by Mr.
Marshall of the Texas State Game
Commission, fish and wildlife de-
partment, in the interest of exterm-
inating rats, Matagorda County
Sanitarian Lillburn May of the Gulf
Coast Health Department announc-
ed.
The survey will be made to de-
termine the number of stores want-
ing “a rat-killing.”
Mr. May said that the city gov-
ernment has raised enough money
to pay the expense of exterminat-
ing rats in the business district.
To Be Located
On Turn-Off
To Sweeny
$14,000,000 Plant
Will Employ
1,200 People
Plans got under way last week
for the erection of an octane gas
plant near Sweeny, according to
the Freeport Facts. The $14,000,000
project will be owned by the gov-
ernment and operated by J. S.
Abercrombie and company, inform-
ants said.
The Facts goes on to say that
1,200 nun will be employed on the
project and it is expected that com-
pletion will take “at least a year.”
The Facts said that the plant
will be located eight miles from
West Columbia on the second turn-
off of the highway to Bay City.
This would bo at what is popularly
called “Reeves Corner,” or the first
turn-off to the right to Sweeny
from Bay City.
The Facts stated: “It is said that
construction will be under the su-
pervision of both the Abercrombie'^
Company and the government. It
has been rumored that the contract
has already been let, but no official
confirmation could be obtained.
“Work on the great project is ex-
pected to get under way within the
next 90 days.”
and in the public interest that said
offer be accepted;
Now, therefore, be it resolved by
the city council of the city of Bay
City, Texas, that the said offer of
the United States of America, a
true and correct copy of which is
hereto attached, be and the same
hereby is accepted without reserva-
tion or qualification.
Another acceptance resolution
signed by members of the council
is as follows:
“The City Council of Bay City,
Texas, convened in special session
at the regular meeting place this
22nd day of April, 1942, with the
following members present, to wit:
(The members named constitute all
the members of said City Council)
“S. E. Doughtie, mayor; J. C.
Lewis, member; Myrtle Smith, city
secretary; Fred T. Friday, member;
Raymond Cookenboo, member;
George E. Serrili, member, with the
following absent, Luther Bunch,
constituting a quorum at which
time the following, among other
Matagorda Bay
Area Must
Reduce Rents
The Matagorda Bay area, includ
ing Matagorda, Calhoun, and Jack,
son Counties, was put on notice
Tuesday to reduce inflated rents or
have the government do it for them.
This war-swollen section was
designated defense rental area, as
an “essential part” of the overall
freeze of prices announced by Price
Administrator Leon Henderson, and
maximum rents were recommended.
Under the emergency price con-
trol act, local authorities are given
60 days to stabilize rents as order-
ed by Henderson. If this is not done,
O. P. A. may enforce the maxi-
mums. Violators of the ceilings then
would be subject to a maximum
penalty of $5,000 fine and a year
in prison.
The 1942 population of the three
specified counties in this bay area
was set at 37,697 by the O. P. A.
Brazoria County was also specified
as a defense rental area and must
abide by the new ruling.
“In some sections of the country
rents have gone beyond reasonable
bounds, doubling, tripling in many
individual cases,” Henderson was
quoted as saying. “Thousands of
tenants who could not pay these
increases have been forced out of
homes without knowing where to
find shelter. These conditions have
closed the recruitment of war
labor.”
business, was transacted, to wit:
“Fred T. Friday introduced a pro-
posed resolution and moved its
adoption. The resolution was read
in full.
“J. C. Lewis seconded the motion.
The motion was carried by the fol-
lowing vote: Ayes: Lewis, Cooken-
boo, Friday, Sen-ill. Noes: None.
“The mayor introduced that the
resolution had been finally passed
and thereupon signed said resolution
in approval thereof, and said reso-
lution was attested by the city
secretary.”
MANSFIELD RETURNS
Sergeant Bob Mansfield of Camp
Hulen will return Sunday from his
homo in Galveston where he is
spending his seven-day furlough.
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