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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940
Romeo Salinas who is now em-
ployed in Corpus Christi spent the
week-end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Ml Salinas.
Clodin Salinas returned home
Friday night following the closing
of summer school in Kingsville
College.
Adelina Salinas of Hebbronville
is spending several days in Bena-
vides' as the guest of relatives and
friends.
Barbara Cadena, Clodin Salinas
and Barbara Hooks were among
those enjoying the fiesta in San
Diego Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Salinas were
Hebbronville visitors Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Tuttle of
Hebbronville were Benavides visi-
tors Sunday.
W. L. Powell of Alice was a
business visitor in the city several
days this week.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Cadena return-
eS Friday after spending eight
days visiting in Monterrey.
D. Thelma E. Frank was a
business visitor in Corpus Christi
Thursday and Friday.
Miss Jewell Conn spent Sun-
day in Corpus Christi.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foster and
family were Friday and Saturday
visitors in Sinton and Corpus
Christi.
Victoria Garza of Hebbronville
is visiting with friends in Benavi-
des this week.
Miss Rita Ramos of Hebbron-
ville is spending her vacation in
Benavides.
Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Hox-
worth visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Blackburn a few days last week
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returning to Breckenridge Wed-
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Coronado
were Alice visitors Tuesday after-
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Merl West were
in Alice Tuesday.
P. A. Presnall and R. 0. Skid-
more of Alice were here on busi-
ness Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Flavio Canales
and children spent last week-end
in Hebbronville.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Tilton re-
turned from Victoria Friday.
Mrs. A. Farias, Edelmira Fa-
rias, Mrs. Zulema Garza and baby
and Miss Raquel Farias returned
home from Monterrey Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Puterbaugh
and children of Alice spent Sat-
urday with Mr. and Mrs. Merl
West.
Miss Rosemary Rhodes, who
was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Daniels at the Humble Camp, re-
turned to her home in Arkdel-
phia, Arkansas, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Harrison
were in Rockport last week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Howard
returned from Waco last week.
F. P. Daniels has his brother
M. R. and sister from East Texas
and Florida as visitors here.
Mrs. Frank Brooks and Mrs.
Ada Sibson were in Hebbronville
Saturday.
Mrs. C. D. Adams, Mrs. Helen
Hodge, Mrs. Ada Sibson and Miss
Emma Lee Adams were Freer vis-
itors Saturday.
Mrs. John McCall spent Monday
in Hebbronville.
Robert Hillman of Alice was in
town Wednesday.
Frank S. Barton of Corpus
Christi spent Monday in Benavi-
des.
Mrs. Amador Caballero and
children, Mrs. Primitive) Garcia
and children and Mrs. Mamie
Whitman and daughter motored
to Alice Tuesday.
Miss Clotilde L. Gonzalez spent
a week’s vacation in Galveston
and reports a very enjoyable trip.
Mr. and Mrs. R* I. Emery and
son, Jack, returned Saturday from
Illinois, where they spent their
vacation.
Mrs. Tom Vandeventer, Miss
Katie B. Adams and Luis Dum-
goole spent Saturday in Victoria
at the rodeo.
Among the San Antonio visitors
Tuesday were R. R. Gonzalez, Mrs.
M. B. Gonzalez, and Miss Amelia
Gonzales.
Mrs. C. D. Adams has a new
Chevrolet sedan purchased from
the Oil Belt Chevrolet Co., San
Diego, Saturday.
Miss Dotty Rutledge of Alice
arrived Friday for a few days’
visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Rut-
ledge.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Gonzalez
and children, Juan Gilberto and
Diana Aminta, Mrs. M. B. Gonza-
lez and Miss Amelia Gonzalez mo-
tored to San Antonio on business
last week.
Mrs. J. J. Parker and children
and Miss Lura Dale Parker ar-
rived Sunday from Simpson, La.,
to make their home here. Mr. Par-
ker is employed by the ontinen-
tal Supply Co.
Mrs. Ham and son of Fort
Worth are the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. T. B. Brooks and Mrs. C. P.
Waters.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rodriguez
and children of Falfurrias are
visiting Mr and Mrs. W. C. Bar-
ton and Mr. and Mrs. Eugenio Ro-
driguez at the Barton home.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sable and
children, Mattie Olivia and Fred
Jr., of Corpus Christi spent the
week-end with their mother, Mrs.
M. B. Gonzales, and other rela-
tives in Benavides.
Mrs. Reva Smith returned to
her home in Enid, Oklahoma, af-
ter a few weeks’ visit with her
sister, Mrs. George Anderson, and
family.
THEY SAY...
By E. F. Martindale
I Freezing Plant
Planned To Help
Local Citizens
We have not yet driven along
Rapid expansion of an Alice cold
storage and locker plants which
the Will Rogers Memorial high- j px-ovide refrigerated storage for
F. D. R. Jr. Enlists
Roosevelt Jr. third son of the
president, today was enlisted as a
volunteer worker for his father’s
re-election at Democratic national
headquarters. National Chairman
Edwin J. Flynn said young Roose-
velt was working “as might any
son who wants to help his father.
Many people in the cotton trade
expect domestic consumption in
the current season to set an all-
time high, perhaps over 8,000,000
'bales.
way that spans New Mexico west-
ward along the trail of Coronado
toward Albuquerque, "but I am
looking forward to it with much
pleasure. For Will Rogers was my
ideal. I saw him for the last time
the year before his tragic death,
when he was in Detroit for the
World Series. I cherish the base-
ball which he autographed for me
the evening before the deciding
game. We were with the popular
Tiger pitcher the Schoolboy Rowe,
and other members of his family
and mine, when Will dropped in
to wish the Scholboy luck. The
following year he met death while
flying with my husband’s cousin,
Wiley Post. . . There are 12,000
murders in the United States each
year. A murder every 45 minutes
. . . The Henry Ford Hospital in
Detroit, Michigan, founded in
1915 by the automobile magnate,
occupies a plot of twenty, acres in
the geographical center of the city
. . . Have you ever given thought
to the fact that neither nature nor
science has yet produced a black
flower? The “black rose” you
have heard so much about is real-
ly a dark red. . . One State in the
U. S. which has ninety cities and
towns has only one paid fire de-
partment. Over 13,000 fire com-
panies are made up of 300,000
volunteer firemen. . . Colors can
be broadcast by radio. . . Since
the year 1900 and through 1938,
75,500,000 motor vehicles were
produced in the United States and
Canada. The wholesale value of
this production was more than
§50,000,000. . . In the little town
of Nashville, Indiana, there is an
old wooden bench which stands in
the grounds of the county court
house facing the main street, on
which the local philosophers dis-
cuss the problems of the world.
perishable farm poducts such as
meat, poultry, fruits, and vegeta-
bles, i^ one of the most outstand-
ing recent developemnts in the
field of food distribution and stor-
age Seldom has any new develop-
ment created so much interest in
its use, influence, and future pos-
sibilities as has the refrigerated
locker—commonly called the cold
storage-locker, It may be further
described as a safety-deposit box
kept in a room with a tempera-
ture near zero, where families
may store frozen food supplie
that have been grown at home
purchased at wholesale.
Plans are rapidly being formu-
lated for such a storage plant in
Alice on a co-operative basis by
"FIFTH COLUMN," SAY EXPERTS
HITLER'S GREATEST WEAPON?
When all allowance has been
made for Hitler’s superior armies,
his resourcefulness, his daring and
the vital assistance by Germans
living within the victim countries,
his success can only be explained
by another fator. This is nothing
less than the presence among his
enemies of what, since the Span-
ish Civil War, has been known
as the “Fifth Column.”
Since no country has ever been
unanimous, a “Fifth Column” has
existed potentially in every land
in every war. But despotic or to-
talitarian countries ruthlessly sup-
pi ess it at home while exploting
it elsewhere. It is in a democracy
that the “Fifth Column” can func-
tion most freely and effectively.
It remained for Adolf Hitler’s
genius to raise the establishment,
strengthening organization and
Many Now Favor
Giving British
Old Destroyers
storage and locker plant large
enough to accommodate a city
with a population of 25,000 peo-
Tliis modern “complete-service”
refrigerate cl-1 tcker plant consists
of four or five main rooms in each
of which a separate service is ren-
dered.
In 'the chill room, meat is
thoroughly chilled to remove all
body heat and properly -aged be-
fore being cut and frozen. Tem-
perature in this room U usually
kevt from 32 to 86 degrees fahr-
enheit. This plant is to have a par-
tition in the" chill room to keep
incoming warm meat from being
placed near meat which is being
aged. Pork is aged from 2 to 3
days, lean beef 3 days to a week,
and well covered beef as long as
3 to 4 weeks before cutting. Poul-
try is chilled from 12 to 24
hours.
When carcasses have been chill-
ed and aged they are transferred
to the cutting or processing room
where they are cut into roasts,
chops, steaks, hams, bacon sides,
etc., by a trained meat cutter oi
butcher, as directed by the local
locker patron. All cuts except
those to be cured are wrapped in
moistproof paper and stamped
with date, locker number, and de-
of cut, as “beef roast,
As the Nazi air attacks widens
over Britain as the planes and i scrjpti0n
troops are massed, as the sea war j e^c
deepens in intensity, there still i cutting and wrapping, the
seem to be people in the United separate cuts are placed in the
States incapable of understanding j sharp-freezing room in wire bas-
how much there is which hangs ! kets on nietal grills over half re-
upon the defense of this last bul- j frjo-erator coils, which are placed
wark of the free and democratic j ai0^g 0ne or both walls. Here the
world. ... j cuts are frozen solid at a temper-
They refuse to see that so long ' arture about 10 degrees below
as Britain stands the Hitler re- ! zero fahrenneit.
volution has failed of its purpose, Meats are usually left in this
the Hitler triumphs are still only j room from 8 to_ 12 hours, depend-
temporary, there is still hope of ing upon the size and weight of
putting together a. tolerable
world; but that once Britain falls,
nearly everything in the world we
have known must fall with her. . .
From every aspect of the actual
situation, the one greatest re-
quisite to the defense of the Un-
ited States—the one thing which
could make that defense most
certain, the one thing which
would do more than all the guns
and ships and men we can ever
amass for ourselves—would be
the successful defense of Great
Britain. And the successful de-
fense of Great Britain is of such
overwhelming practical import-
ance to the security and welfare
of the United States that it seems
to us that no aid to that end
which this country can offer
should be withheld.
The British are in urgent need
of airplanes, of which they are
getting some from the United
States. They are also in urgent
need of destroyers. The United
States possesses a great fleet of
World War destroyers-— ships
which are by no means valueless
but which actually are today do-
ing very little* -
Airport For
A & M College
Now Planned
packages. Fruits and vegetables
are held several hours until frozen
solidly.
In the locker room are the in-
dividual lockers in which frozen
food products are stored. Each
patron has a key to his locker and
the plant manager has a master
key to all lockers, so as to be
able to place the packaged food in
the lockers after freezing.
The primary use of a locker
plant for a farm family is in rais-
ing the standard of living by
furnishing a storage place for
fresh foods the entire year rather
than in offering any large saving.
From the town or city patrons’
standpoint the main appeal has
been that of economy.
The above promoters are fast
getting plans and specifications in
shape for the erection of such a
plant, centerally located in Alice
where complete storage facilities
may be had at all times during
the year. Alice already has one of
the largest stock yards in this
section of Texas. This cold stor-
age plant has facilities for any
one wishing this kind of set-vice
such as the meat market, grocery
store, etc.
SCHOOL WILL OPEN SEPT. 9th...
When school bells ring, every boy and girl will
need more clothing for every day attendance
in school.
Why not make your selections for your boys
and girls in our store? Prices and quality will make
it easy for you.
Every need of every member of your family
can be satisfied in our stope.
El Nuevo Mundo
Next to Rita Theater
Benavides, Texas
Leaving no stone unturned in
an effort to gear itself complete-
ly to the educational needs of its
students and the national defense
needs of the nation, the school
of Engineering of-the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas
will offer a complete aviation set-
up to students interested * in all
phases of flying and aeronautical
engineering when the 64th ses-
sion begins next month, it was
announced today by Dean Gibb
Gilchrist, who has worked tire-
lessly toward establishment of
the new division of the college
throughout the summer. Dean
Gilchrist left for Washington,
there to remain until final govern-
mental sanction is given plans for
establishment of one of the finest
airports in the state which oc-
cupies a 500-acre site on the A.
& M. College campus.
The master plan tor establish-
ment of the Class 3 ah*port, sec-
ond largest in all Civil Aeronau-
tics Authority classification, has
received the approval at Wash-
ington before some $360,000 will
be spent on runways, hangars,
shops and instruction quarters.
U. S. Is Slipping
Martin Dies, Democrat, Tex-
as, Friday night pictured the Un-
ited States as a democracy “as
tainted by the cancerous infiltra-
tion of Nazi, Fascist and Commu-
nist ideologies” as the European
democracies which have succumb-
ed to war.
Speaking at a mass meeting, the
chairman of a house committee in-
vestigating un-Americanism de-
clared America faces no danger
of invasion so long as its people
are united.
But, he said, a tendency toward
toleration of the “system the core
of which is the destruction of our
democracy may be a disease that
will bring on death.”
a decisive iveapon.
He said more or less openly that
he would do so.
“We need armies. But we shall
not use them as in 1914. The
place of artillery will in the fut-
lure be taken by revolutionary
propaganda, to break down the
enemy psychologically before the
armies begin to function at all.
The enemy people must be demor-
alized and ready to capitulate be-
fore military action can even be
thought of. . . .mental confusion,
indecisiveness, panic, these are
our weapons. The history of re-
volutions. . . .is always the same
The ruling classes capitulate.
Why? Defeatism: they no longer
have the will to conquer.”
Technique Has Two Sides
The propaganda machine for
creating and sustaining a “Fifth
Column,”—again according to
Hitler’s admitted theory—is of a
double nature. On one side it aims
at influencing the masses. For this
purpose Hitler in the present war
utilizes his radio traitors, “Lord
Haw Haw” for the English, Fer-
donnet for the French, and to
some extent, particularly in the
last two years, Communist agita-
tors whom he tricked or corrupt-
ed into serving him. But for the
classes he had a much more subtle
bait. As he himself put it:
“The results at which I aim are
only to be obtained by the system-
atic corruption of the possessing
and governing classes. Business
advantages, erotic satisfactions
and ambition, are the three main
stops in our propaganda organ.”
Who did this work in the vari-
ous countries?
In the bloodless conquest of
Austria, “Fifth Column” Austrian
leaders like Seyyss-Inquart, dupes
like Guipo Schmidt, played a de-
cisive part. While the discontent
of the masses was whipped up to
enthusiasm in favor of Nazi Ger-
many, agents like Franz von Pa-
pen skillfully convinced leadnig
Austrians that only through Hitler
could their secret aspirations be
fulfilled.
The Slovaks, who had suffered
their bondage under Hungary,
could be duped. But Czechs and
Poles could not. Both peoples had
lived far too long cheek to jowl
with Prussians to have the slight-
est doubt as to Hitler’s real inten-
tions. The Czechs were finally
conquered by French betrayal and
British selfishness, the Poles by
the anned might of a nation three
or four times as strong.
To see the “Fifth Column” in
full swing one had to wait for the
attack on democratic countries.
Norway Vivid Illustration
In Norwayl there is little doubt
but that “Fifth Column” activi-
ties contributed to the success of
the German blitz attack and were
responsible for the quick collapse
of all organized resistance. Major
and former National Defense Min-
ister Quisling, had been, if not
actually in the pay of German
Nazis, at least in close contact
with them for many years. There
is some reason to believe that the
electrically controlled mines
guarding the inner harbor of Oslo
were put out of action by another
highly placed Norwegian traitor.
In the Netherlands the “Fifth
Column” was more numerous than
effective. This was doubtless due
to its open character. The five odd
per cent of all Dtchmen organized
in Mussert’s Dutch National So-
cialist Party for years provided
the Nazis with military and econo-
mic information.
In Belgium, without the shadow
of a doubt, Flemings loyal to Hit-
ler betrayed the main defenses of
the Albert Canal and opened not
only their country, but Holland as
well, to German invasion. An’eye-
witness, the wife of a patriotic
Belgian customs authortiy sta-
tioned on the Dutch frontier near-
by, reported how Flemish soldiers
deliberately neglected to blow up
the bridges over the canal which
had been constructed primarily as
a barrier to invasion. Others took
to their heels at the sight of the
German.
Story of Little
Brown Church
In The Vale
The Little Brown Church in the
vale still stands. The wildwood of
long ago has given away to a
grove of younger trees and the
surroundings village of Bradford
has become a ghost town. But the
prim little meeting house of pion-
eer days lives on, more famous
than ever, basking now in a lime-
light of romantic interest. En-
deared to the hearts of men by a
sentimental song, it attracts about
a thousand marrying couples ev-
ery year.
Dr. William S. Pitts, who wrote
“The Little Brown Church,” said
this about the song shortly before
his death, in 1918: “One after-
noon in June 1857, I came by
stagecoach from McGregor, Iowa,
to the village of Bradford, eighty
miles away. My home then was
in Wisconsin. The spot where the
Little Brown Church stands was
then, as now, a place of beauty.
There was no church there then,
but the spot was there waiting for
it. When I went back home, I
wrote that song and composed the
music for it.”
Most of Bradford’s 800 inhabit-
ants were from New England.
Among these was the Rev. J. K.
Nutting, and it was he who urged
the building of the church, early
in the 1860’s. The village already
had academy, hotel, wagon shop,
two sawmills, a brewery, and a
log courthouse. The panic of 1857
had wiped away the savings of
many of the people, and to years
later Mr. Nutting reported his sal-
ary as four dollars, plus a supply
of vegetables and other farm pro-
ducts. But still he thought that a
meetinghouse was the principal
need of the village, and the build-
ing of it was begun in 1860.
Then, just about the time the
stone foundation was ready for
the superstructure, the Civil War
called away most of the young
men of the community. Work had
to be put off until 1862, when
conditions were very little better.
The expense of the war was prov-
ing a real burden in many ways.
No money could be raised, but
every man was willing to help in
any way he could. Bees were
formed to haul lumber from Mc-
Gregor—lumber that had been
bought with funds supplied by Mr.
Nutting’s friends back east. Oth-
ers of village drove to Dubuque,
much farther down the Mississip-
pi River, to bring back the new
bell, also the gift of the friends
back home.
In 1863, Dr. Pitts came back to
Iowa to make his home. He began
his practice at Fredericksburg,
twenty miles from Bradford. Sing-
ing schools were popular.in those
days, and they became the doc-
tor’s hobby. He organized several,
and one was at Bradford, where
it was held in the uncompleted
church. One evening, the school
was delighted to hear their teach-
er sing an original composition,
“The Little Brown Church,” then
in manuscript form. The dedica-
tion of the church, in December
1864, preceded the publication of_
the song in Chicago by only a f<jj
months.
Of the rain that falls on the
soil, only about 50 percent is
available for plant growth under
the average conditions. The other
half is lost through run-off and
evaporation.
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BENAVIDES, TEXAS
About the most dangerous ani-
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during the mating season.
The airport will be so equipped as
to qualify for both primary and
secondary flight training, Dean
Gilchrist announced.
Establishment of the Depart-
ment of Aeronautical Engineering
was authorized by the A. & M
Board of Directors and an initial
appropriation of $25,000 was
made to cover costs of instituting
the new educational program.
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Men’s Half Soles and
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Ladies’ Half Soles and
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Alice Shoe Shop
Next to the Rex Theatre
Alice, Texas
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