Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942
Prevention Of
Fire Is Necessary
During Holidays
While there will probably
be, in many localities, a shortage
or scarcity of trees, the available
supply will still present the us-
ual hazards; therefore the follow-
ing is given to help you prevent
these ha ards:
(a) Do not obstruct the only
available exit with a tree.
(b) Use only safe electrical il-
luminations.
(c) Have a fire extinguisher
handy.
(d) Dispose of trees before it
dries.
The United States Forest Pro-
PUNCHES CLOCK
AGAIN.. FOR BOY
IN J A P PRISON
ducts Laboratory has concluded
that ' keeping the tree standing
in water is about the most practi-
cal method to keep the fire haz-
ard low. Buy trees that have
been cut as recently as possible.
Cut above the orginal cut end,
and stand the tree at once in a
container of water, keeping the
water level above the cut surface
during the entire time the tree is
in the house. If the tree is not
to be set up for a few days, it
should be kept standing in water
meanwhile in a cool place.
Show Windows.
We urge extra precautions in
ax-ranging window displays, with
special attention to safe electrical
installations. Due to priorities
and restrictions in the manu-
facture of electrical goods, there
will probably be widespread use
of old wiring and lights and of
candles and other illumination.
Do not use old wiring and fixtures
until they have been checked.
Take no chances with defective
temporary wiring.
Package Wrapping.
Avoid a naccumulation of
package wrappings. Keep matches
i and smoking material away from
these. Also, be careful to see
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Retired machinist back
in harness puts 20%
in War Bonds
OSCAR used to be a first-class
machinist. Five years ago he
retired to live out the rest of his
life on a pension.
The other morning he showred
up again at his old plant, which
now makes war equipment, and
asked for his old job back.
When pay day came, he signed
up with the Pay-Roll Savings
Plan to put 20 pei-cent of his
pay in War Bonds.
Seems Oscar’s boy was on
Bataan.
Can’t you spare 10 percent?
With people like Oscar mak-
ing real sacrifices to help win
the war, is it too much for you
to put aside as little as 10 per-
cent of your pay for War Bonds?
Certificates
Given Local Units
In District 10
ALICE COTTON
OIL COMPANY
D. C. DANIEL, Manager
ALICE, TEXAS
Four local units of Tenth Dis-
tinct, Banquete, Edcouch-Elsa,
Mercedes and Mission, received
certificates of merit for summer
wartime activities at the thirty-
fourth annual convention of the
Texas Congress of Parents and
Teachers, Houston, November 18-
19, Mrs. K. C. Salley, district pres-
ident reported in her monthly let-
ter to the local units.
Twenty-seven delegates repres-
ented Tenth District at the con-
ventions: Mrs. K. C. Salley, Mrs.
G. A. Parr, Mrs. Frank Lloyd,
Alice; Mrs. George C. Benecutter,
Banquete; Mrs. Eugene Kipp, Mrs.
Luis Vinz, Miss Sheeba Apple-
white, Mrs. L. A. Woods, Mrs. R.
A. Shiver, Mrs. Oscar Koepke,
Mrs. J. P. Hendricks, Mrs. R. R.
Beal, Mrs. J. P. Mitchell, Mrs. R.
B. Fisher, Corpus Christi; Mrs. J.
M. Barber, Jr., Mrs. R. H. Wilkins,
Freer; Mrs. V. E. Jones, Mrs. Alan
Barker, Mrs. R. S. Hodges, Mrs.
I. S. Wilson, Gregory; Mrs. N. B.
Lackland, Harlingen; Mrs. E. C.
Wallace, La Feria; Mrs. E. Bent-
sen, McAllen; Mrs. E. T. Harvey,
Mrs. Paul Rigers, Mrs. H. A.
White, Mirando City.
Mrs. Salley presented a two-
minute report of the work of
Tenth District at the opening ses-
sion of the convention.
Wartime activities are to sup-
plement, not to replace regular
parent-teacher activities, Mrs.
Salley instructed Tenth District
local units in her report of the
xonvention by letter.
Urging the continuance of all lo-
:al organizations throughout the
listrict in spite of transportation
problems. Mrs. Salley suggested
ill day meetings of parent-teach-
er association with all monthly
activities scheduled for one day.
Heretofore most local units
have held three and four meet-
ing of various types each month.
--e-
It is not often that one depriva-
tion helps out in another, but the
rationing of gas is going to help
a lot of us to save tires.
MEAT LOAF
There is nothing which restores
vitality to the men on the war
production front like a v/ell cook-
ed meal at the end of a hard day’s
work. Add new tastiness to this
evening’s meal by serving savory
Meat Loaf
y2 cup margarine
2 pounds finely ground steak
1 egg
*4 cup finely chopped onion
IV2 teaspoons salt
14 teaspoon pepper
114 cups (10?2 oz.) canned
vegetable soup
2 cups rice flakes
Mix ingredients thoroughly Pat
into shape and place in v.Ai-mar-
garined baking pan. Easte every
quarter of an hour with mixture
of one-half cup margarine and 1
cup boiling water. Time: bake IY2
hours, or until done. Temperature:
moderately hot oven, 375°F. Yield:
8 to 10 servings.
Other favorite recipes are found
in a full-color, 32-page cookbook,
“Foods for Fighting Trim.” Send
to National Cotton Council, Box
18, Memphis, Tennessee.
Mechanics Are
Needed Immediately
By Armed Forces
Answering the appeal made by
Major General H. R. Harmon
through Texas’ weekly newspap-
ers, hundreds of well-qualified
men from farm communities and
smaller cities have taken advan-
tage of the current opportunity
to enlist directly into the Army
Air Forces for the specific pur-
pose of becoming aircraft mech-
anics. »
Experience in operating and
maintaining farm machinery, trac-
tors, reapers, binders, cream sep-
arators, etc., gave many of these
men the mechanical skills they
will need for their new jobs.
The drive for mechanically-
minded men accustomed to work-
ing with tools is being conducted
throughout the Gulf Coast Army
Forces Training Center, of which
General Harmon is commanding
general.
Under the newly-announced
plan, qualified applicants first go
through the Technician Procure-
ment Officers at Randolph, Kelly
or Brooks Fields.
Victory Twist Suits
Exclusive At Anthony’s
Dress Up for the Holidays
in a new Victory Twist
Suit by Bryan Hall.
There’s Something New
at Anthony’s
Charming Shirts
are now Body Fit!
No longer do you have to pay
$2.00 for a good fitting shirt.
Choose from madras or print
broadcloth in a multitude of
new patterns.
Victory Twist is laboratory
wear-tested! 2 super-tested
yarns made into one. Every
color yarn individually dyed
to prevent fading. An outstand-
ing Anthony value.
Men’s Broadcloth or
Blazer Striped Flannel
PAJAMAS
Feature Price
at Anthony
Leather GLOVES
$190
Rich leathers, tanned to say
soft, full outseam sewn, hand
pattern cut for better fit. Sizes
8 to ioy2.
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ALICE, TEXAS
Navy Opens New
Training Station
$50,000,000 Structure Will
House 30,000 Recruits; .
Move 1,000 a Day.
SAMPSON, N. Y.—The navy for-
mally has taken over administration
of a new sprawling $50,000,000 train-
ing station where 30,000 recruits will
be drilled by officers fresh from
Uncle Sam’s fighting fleets.
The latter is “very satisfactory”
to Capt. H. A. Badt, USN, com-
mandant of the war-born commu-
nity that sprang into existence far
from salt water in less than six
months.
“Fighting officers,” he observed,
“make fighting men.”
Construction of the station, so
vast that immediate comprehension
of its size is difficult, began May
28, but not until July did operations
shift into high gear.
15,500 on Payroll.
Since that time an army of 15,500
laborers, involving a weekly $1,200,-
000 payroll, has worked day and
night in answer to the navy’s de-
mand for speed—and more speed.
The results are well-nigh incredible.
On ground used only for agricul-
tural purposes since the coming of
the first white men, great drill halls,
barracks and more than 350 subsidi-
ary buildings look down on beautiful
Seneca lake—deepest and longest of
New York’s Finger lakes.
The six drill halls—each 608 feet
long and 120 feet wide—emphasize
Sampson’s purpose in training men
in the deadly art of war. Resem-
bling the inverted hulls of ocean-
going liners, each hall contains 62
laminated wooden arches, each with
an over-all length of 15l feet.
More than 41,000,000 board feet of
lumber are contained in the con-
struction; 53 miles of paved roads
wind throughout the 2,500-acre
reservation; a 24-mile water line,
drawing 5,000,000 gallons daily from
the lake, curls underground. Sewer
lines total 30 miles.
Will Move 1,000 a Day.
Badt does not discuss detailed
training the recruits will receive
beyond that “they will learn the
elementary fundamentals of a sail-
or’s life at sea.”
The training period of eight weeks
will stress conditioning and harden-
ing of the men. “And,” warns the
captain, “the course will be so com-
prehensive that few will have the
liberty of leaving the station for
even as little as a few hours.”
When Sampson reaches peak ef-
ficiency—probably around December
1—30,000 men will be in barracks.
Every day 1,000 men will be dis-
charged for new duties, and an
equal number of fresh recruits will
report for their initial taste of naval
life in wartime.
The first of the new sailors to ar-
rive can see plenty of water in blue
Seneca lake, but some may be dis-
appointed.
Not until spring will the station’s
training fleet of 150 ,navy whaleboats
and at least 10 motor sailers be
placed in service.
Troops and CWACs Save
And Adopt Collie Puppy
LONDON, ONT.—Cries of pain
coming from a collie pup in the
street beside Wolseley barracks
brought out a rescue detachment
from the garrison. They discovered
that the dog had been run over by
a car and that a front leg was
broken.
So the soldiers and the “CWACs”
chipped in nickels, dimes and quar-
ters, took the canine to a veterinary
who charged less than his regular
fee on behalf of the army’s cause,
and put the leg in a cast after care-
fully setting it.
Since then, Private “X” has be-
come a familiar figure around the
barracks. He hobbles around on
three legs, but the vet says he will
soon be running on all four.
Private “X” has won the hearts of
everyone around the camp, from the
CO on down. The soldiers and
“CWACs” want to make him camp
mascot but they are afraid that
surely some one must own a dog
as mannerly and as kind as Private
“X.”
But if the owner doesn’t appear
to claim him soon. Private “X” it
going to be drafted into the army.
Magistrate Takes Wheel
And Cuts Cabbie’s Fine
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — Police
Magistrate William D. Conway had
just fined Morris Richmond, a cab
driver, $43.70 for speeding and run-
ning a stop light.
“But your honor,” said Richmond,
"that cab won’t go over 32.”
“We’ll see," said the skeptical
judge, and took the wheel of the
cab. Its top speed was 35 miles an
hour.
Richmond’s fine was cut to $11.85
—for running the stop light.
This Fish Story Evokes
Not One Single Snicker
LAMAR, ARK.—S. B. Bryant of
Lamar doesn’t have to face scoffers
when he tells this fish story:
While fishing near Perryville,
Ark., Bryant hung a catfish, weigh-
ing three pounds, on a bank hook.
When he returned later he pulled
in a 65-pound catfish that had swal-
lowed the smaller one.
No one scoffs when Bryant tells
his story—he’s pastor of the Lamar
Methodist church.
Closet hooks were invented
years ago, but still some men
don’t get the hang of them.
Thomas Defends
Farmers’ Demands
On Government
Sen. Elmer Thomas (Democrat-
Okla.), Wednesday said the farm-
er was making no “unreasonable”
demands upon the government
and unless the attitude of the ad-
ministration changes members in
high places “are definitely on
their way out.”
Thomas, speaking at the 24th’
Annual meeting of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, said the
farmers’ problems today' are due
to the “failure of the administra-
tive branch of the government to
act under authority of the law
already enacted by the Congress.”
“Under present wartime condi-
tions,” he said, “no one can just-
ly say that farmers are making
unreasonable demands.”
“Unless the administration
changes its attitude toward the
farmers of the country the mem-
bers in high places had just as
well begin packing up now be-
cause they are definitely on their
way out.”
Thomas listed four things he
believed should be demanded of
the government by farmers. They
were:
1. That agriculture be recogr
nized as a war industry.
2. That farm boys and farm
labor be deferred from military
service.
3. That a new and definite par-
ity formula be developed so farm-
ers “may have a square deal with
both labor and industry.”
4. That farm prices be permit-
ted to rise to full parity “and even
higher if necessary to secure suf-
ficient production to supply our
war needs.”
Maybe kids don’t like to go to
bed because it’s the bunk.
WAR CRITICS
Some critics are so anxious to
be impartial in placing the blame
for our poor showing in the early
part of the war that they incul-
pate practically everybody. So
nobody is hit, nobody hurt, no-
body offended—and nobody pays
any attention.
We had better stop “Remem-
bering Pearl Harbor” and Re-
member Bataan instead. One
thing for us at home to remem-
ber is that if they had had the
tools, Bataan might have been a
victory instead of a glorious de-
feat. Don’t let it happen again.
Little girls who spend hours
practicing on the piano should
go far!
Three sets of twins were born
in an Oklahoma town the same
day. Deuces wild!
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All colors.
Remember to Buy a Gift for the Home
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72x84 Inches
BLANKETS
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Big warm dou-
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Thick, heavy chenille yarn tufting in
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Luncheon Sets
52 x 72 inch Cloths with
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Rich, heavy linene and sat-
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garden scenes.
Scranton LACE CLOTH
72 x 90 Inch Size
$4.98
Replicas of lovely old hand-
made lace cloths. Plan now
for your formal Christmas
dinners!
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Beaman, J. L. C. Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1942, newspaper, December 11, 1942; Alice, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884520/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Duval County Library.