Jim Hogg County Enterprise (Hebbronville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1939 Page: 1 of 4
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Rotarians And
Many Guests
Hear Laubscher!
John Nance Garner of Texas
Landed in New Campaign Song
BUSINESS — Commodities have
been skyrocketing again. For three
successive days on the Liverpool ex-
change cotton soared the maximum
In a brilliant and highly interest-
ing after luncheon talk, Ernest Laub-
scher, Rotarian of Laredo gave many
allowed in a single trading day. ■ Silk ’ *iew, thought-provoking angles on
advanced the daily limit for five ] European affairs to a large gather-
straight days in Tokio. The price of'inK °f Rotarians and guests includ-
soya beans, despite a record crop of
87,000,000 bushels in the VJ. S.,
climbed 60 per cent, to $1.30 a
bushel.
These harbingers of inflation didn’t
disturb most of us whose thoughts
ing District Governor Joseph C. Net-
zer.
A native of Switzerland, Mr.
Laubsher came to this country many
years ago hut has kept in close con-
tact with Europe through numerous
last week were focused on last-minute! trips to his home and other countries.
shopping for Christmas. Yet several
months from now, or maybe years,
our standard of living may be pinched
by the forces currently unloosed.
Already silk stocking manufac-
turers are talking about a need to
increase prices of women’s hosiery
next year. For a woman who “runs”
through one pair a week, a 15 per
He and Mrs. Laubscher were in Eu-
rope at the out break of the present
war and being master of many lan-
guages, Mr. Laubscher was able to
gather the opinions and tendencies of
all factions.
A keen observer with the ability
to relate his observations with the
finesse of an accomplished speaker,
Natalities Reduced
cent price boost might mean she’d ! Mr. Laubscher held the undivided at-
have $5 or $0 less a year to spend tention of every ear with his vivid,
for shoes or some other necessity
Still, this new artificial fiber called
clean cut description of the situation
over there. He emphasized the im-
njrjon may knock the props from un-' portance of U. S. neutrality and
der soaring silk prices. Production of I denounced several American political!
it began last week in du Font’s new j ligures including ambassador Bullit I
$10,000,00 plant in Delaware. for unwise speeches that might lead J
to dangerous tendencies.
Stalin with his communism is
World enemy No. 1, stated Mr. |
OIL RIDDLE — For every g;allon of
fuel oil refined from a barrel of crude
petroleum three gallons of gasoline j Laubscher, and has a propaganda,
as* emerge. That’s why gasolin'e'system even more efficient than that |
prices at th«i moment are weakening, j«pf Germany’s Geohles.
while fuel oil prices are'risrhg. De-f The war will bring about a Europe
mand for the latter is heavier than {of economically, and maybe, political-1
eer as a result of the installation of ly federated states if not carried on |
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Figures released by the Texas
Highway Department on Grade Cros-
dng Elimination show that 521 grade
I separations have been built from
j 1917, the beginning of the Highway
Department, to August 31, 1039,
with 33 under construction or ap-
proved for eonsruction. making a to-
tal of 554 There were also 814
grade crossing eliminated by reloca-
tion of the highways, with 16 more
under construction or approved for
construction, total 830.
While the majority of tlu* grade
crossings have been eliminated in re-
cent years, this is an average of 63
eliminations for each of the 22 years
the Department has operated, and
over 5 a month. In addition, highway
protection flashing signals have recen
tly been installed at 148 crossings,
and 21 more are being installed or
are being installed or are approved
for installation.
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The result of this important means
of safeguarding the traveling public
is refleeted in a \4r/r reduction in
fatalities in accidents at railroad _
crossings for the first 10 months of j
1939 over the same period in 1938. j
In some states grade crossings on
streets or highways with very little j
traffic are closed as an inexpensive j
and a certain means of averting col- j
lisioris. Present Texas laws will not j
permit the Highway Department to ]
close railroad grade crossings.
Local Boy Loses
Life In Hunting
Accident Tues.
Jose Rogelio Salinas 13, son of
Jc>us Salinas Munoz and Maria Gar-
cia Salinas was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of a gun at 3 P.M.
Tuesday while hunting with two
companions on the Gruy property
about l'a miles north of Hebbron-
ville.
The Salinas boy was walking be-
hind his friend Kliazar Suldana, 13,
who was carrying the rifle on his
shoulder when the gun slipped and
tired accidentally.
The .22 calibre bullet entered the
boy’s heurt killing him instantly.
Young Saldana remained with him
while another companion ran for aid.
Funeral services were held at 2
M. Wednesday.
’39 Movement Of
Cotton Products
Sets New Record
1,860,000 new oil burners in Ameri-
can homes this year. Yet, because
highway travel is below summer le-
vels, petrqleum men don’t know what
to do with all the gasoline they vrod-
uce while meeting the cold weather
demand for fuel oil. They figured
maybe this year the war might give
an outlet for surplus gas, but it hasn’t
strangely enough. So they have to
store it at considerable expense and
await next spring’s revival of motor-
ing demand.
STAR-GAZING — Chances are that
when you read in the papers that the
alpminum industry enjoyed its lar-
ge* volume in history in 1939, you
visualize flocks of airplanes and fleets
of air-splitting, streamlined trains.
True enough, these, along with with
electric cable, are major volume out- J
lets. But the astronomers have found
a use for the “metal of the air” that
might qualify it as the metal of the
stratosphere — and beyond — too.
Not much of an item where volume
is concerned, but an important scien-
tific contribution of 1939, is its use—
although only a few cents’ worth is
so far as to draw in the rest of the
world before its close. And so, for
the good of the belligerents, as well
as our own, this nation should hold
Vo unwavering neutrality; said Mr.
Laubscher.
Oscar Thompson was in charge of
the program on which Mr. Laubscher
was heard. An excellent musical
number wras added to the program
by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dauchy Jr.
guests of Rotarian Norman Myers.
DALLAS—-A swinging melody and catchy words—in a new song about John
Nance Garner, Vice President, lias just been published under the title: "Cactus
Jack,” by the sougwriting combination of Rex Lampman and Jack Foy.
Amateur song writers have deluged the Dallas headquarters of the Garner-
for-President campaign with new verses, of their own writing The song has
eight verses, but only four are printed herewith, as follows:
League Outlaws
After-Season
In Texas down by the Rio Grande
There’s plenty of work for a good cowhand.
There's milk and honey and hot tamales
by solUss."
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And the sweetest bunch of "O
The sky ts wide and high and blue,
And you say to strangers "how de do."
There’s room to breathe or to bet a stack.
There’s the blue bonnet girls and there’s
Cactus Jack:
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he's a-rtdti
straight.
House gate.
Gala Midnite
Show At Texas
New Years Eve
cactus Jack, he's a-rldtng sti
Hiding straight for the White
Don’t look away, don’t look away,
You can't look away from Texas.
It
We'll tell you this about Cactus Jack:
He> quick on the trigger or a wisecrack,
Just as wise as an old horned toad—
There ain't very much he’s never knowedt
He can hogtle a yearling quick as you wish,
Texas Banks Make 850,000
New Loans, Renew 575,000
II the river am t dry he’ll catch you a Ush;
Cactus Jack with Ins old sepaar.
He’ll look right nice m that White House carl
We ll tell you this about Cactus Jack:
Hc*s got no time for a fraud nor a quack!
and hat.
And when you see hit
lere goes a l3emocrat!
speech
You know
LIB »U
freedom ring,
ng!
House yet!
We ll tell yo
He's hit the t
He's riding I
ou this about Cactus Jack:
trail and he won't turn hack:
He’s riding high and he's riding straight
And he's headed for the White liot
to San A
Jack ha
le s
From Amarillo to San Antone
They’li tell you Jack has never been thrown;
KC yi. yippee! Cactus Jack!
He’ll hang his hat on th>
ouse
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gate!
hltc House rack.
The Texas Theatre has booked for
this New Year’s Eve Midnight show
the biggest of the best selling novels,
“Drums Along the Mohawk”. Filmed
out doors in beautiful Technicolor.
The picture stars Henry Fonda who
everyone remembers as Frank James
, „ .of “Jesse James” fame. Claudette
required - to coat the 12 mirrors ^ hpr grwtwt ^ in this
including the 100-inch astronomical
giant, of Mt Wilson Observatory in
California. Before aluminum reflect-
ing surfaces were employed it had
been necessary to recoat such mirrors
twice a year. The aluminum coating
is only 1/250,OflOths of an inch thick.
When the stil larger Mt. Palomar
telescope is placed in service in 1940,
thousands of tons of steel and con-
crete will be used to hold in place a
single ounce of aluminum!
CIVIC BUDGETING — How’s your
city’s financial rating'.’ Is it living
with in its budget? I)o its actual tax
revenues match budget estimates?
Does each city department receive an
equitable share of appropriations? If
you can answer these questions you
are exceptionally civic-minded. Yet,
on the theory that more taxpayers
should know such answers, in the in-
terest of achieving lower city-oper-
ating costs without sacrificing needed
public services, the National Con-
sumers Tax Commission, Chicago,
has up a 12-point plan to guide citi-
zens in appraising accurately their
local government's financial set-up.
The commission, nationwide and non-
partisan. is advocating thorough tax
education as a means of combating
heavy tax inroads into family buying
power. The above are among the
more penetrating of the dosen ques-
tions listed in one of the monthly
study programs used by NCTC groups
in nearly 5,000 communities.
splendid production.
P\#RS$i
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Egg-Nog Party
Mr. and Mrs. Don Marsh enter-
tained Christmas morning for a num-j Richard Corkill, Decembe 22
her of fr onds with an egg-nog party.) Charles Baylor, December 22.
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The New Year’s Eve Midnight
show starts promptly at 11 o’clock.
The picture will also show on New-
Year’s Day and Tuesday. A special
added short subject has been booked
for this picture, Walt Disney’s all
color “Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Reuben Holbein Jr., December 22.
Robert Holbein, December 22.
Webster Thompson, December 22.
That banks in Texas are actively
meeting the credit needs of their
communities is indicated by figures
announced by the American Bankers
Association showing that the commer-
cial banks of the Lone Star State
made more than 850,000 new loans
totaling $580,000,000 to business
firms and individuals during the first
six months of 1939 and renewed
575,000 outstanding loans totaling
$725,000,000 during the same period
The survey also reveals that busi-
ness firms in the state are using less
than half of the “open lines of credit”
maintained for their use on the book
of the banks.
These figures are based on reports
received from 182 of the Texas banks
holding membership in the A.B.A.,
or 21 per cent of the 873 commercial
banks in the state, and make allow-
ance for the concentration of lend-
ing actively in the metropolitan areas
of Dallas and Houston.
The 182 banks reported they made
232,237 new loans totaling $193,-
841,088 between January 1 and June
30, 1939, and renewed 165,947 out-
standing loans totaling $256,332,552.
I til addition, they reported 2,469
new mortgage loans to home owners
and other real estate owners totaling
$6,728,148.
The average number of new loans
reported per hank was 1,276, and
the average loan was for $835.
The average number of renewals
per bank was 857, and the average
renewal was for $1,644.
The average number of new mort-
gages reported per bank was 14, and
the average mortgage was for $2,726
In addition to making loans on in-
dividual applications, the banks of the
larger cities maintain what are known
as “open lines of credit” on their
hooks, available to regular buainess
borrowers at a times. Nineteen hanks
reported such open ines of credit
totaling $26,223,971. However, only
$10,253,120 or 40 per cent of this
credit was being used by business
firms on June 30.
Rotary Meet By Television
Rotary history was mado on 8
December, when a Rotary club meet-
ing was telecast for the flist time.
The Rotary Clubs of Troy, Albany,
and Schenectady, New York, held
simultaneous evening meetings at
which were placed television recei-
vers. A special program entitled
"Rotary’s First Meeting by Televi-
sion” began simultaneously at each
of the clubs, at 6:00 p. m., E.S.T.
The televised portion of the program
emanated from the General Electric
Company’s new studios in Schenec-
tady and consisted of group singing
by a special songleader and talks by
Paul P. Harris, founder and president
emeritus; Walter D. Head, president
and Chesley R. Perry, secretary, of
Rotary International. The telecast
began at 7:00 P. M., E. S. T., and
presented a program that finds its
counterpart in the meetings of almost
every Rotary club — the portion of
the club program which generally
emanates from the speakers’ table.
This is believed to have been the
first meeting of its kind — where
speakers from a single platform have
addressed, and have been seen at,
Rotary meetings in more than one
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Holbein have
as their guests her sister Miss Mil-
dred Chitwood of Krum.
Marriages
Three marriage ceremonies were
held at the Methodist parsonage re-
cently, with Rev. L. N. Myers of-
ficiating.
Miss Helen Baldschwiler, a grad-
uate of Hehbronville High School,
became the wife of Coulter C Munds
on December 15.
John Claborn Grason and Miss
Betty Jo Small, both of Freer, were
united on Christmas Day at about
11:00 a. m.
Mr. L. P. Horton of Freer and
Miss Mary Elizabeth Small of Muens-
ter, Texas, were married at 7:30
p. m. Tuesday.
The Misses Angelita, Ada Adcla
and Hortensia Cruz had as their
Xmas guests their sister and family
Mr. and Mrs. Juan Rivera and two
children of San Diego and Mr. and
Mrs. A M. Garza from Randado.
The movement of U. S. cotton
products from mills to customers dur-
ing the past year has established an
all time record, Cluudius T. Mur-
chison, president of the Cotton Tex-
tile Institute, reveuied last week.
“Today the cotton manufacturing
industry is continuing to run at full,
double-shift capacity to meet delivery
RaaIKo II j *peci*cations for orders on hand,”
r UUIIM1I VjdlllcS| Murchison pointed out. “An insistent
call for goods has resulted in a tre-
mendous decline in cotton mill inven-
tories during the past three months,
as effects of the ‘use more cotton’
movement become evident.”
As an outstanding example of the
cooperation of business in this move-
ment, Murchison cited recent cotton
usage statistics furnished the Cotton
Textile Institute by u large chain
store organization. Approximately
4,000,000 cotton feed hags purchased
during the past year by this organiza-
tion, the (ireat Atantic and Pacific
Tea Company, were estimated to have
required the output of 4,000 acres of
cotton.
The A & P report, Murchison
said, pointed out that growing and
processing this cotton provided a
week’s work for approximatey 14,.00
people. The organization reported
To prevent over-emphasis of foot-
| ball and to encourage the develop-
ment of baseball and other spring
sports, football teams in the Univer-
sity of Texas Interscholastic League
have "orders from headquarters”
prohibiting post-season games.
District contests were closer! out
December 2 and only the champions,
advancing in the League play-offs,
are permitted to continue. When a
team is defeated in the play-offs its
season is over.
In addiion, any team continuing to
practice after the regular season is
over must count the days spent in
such practice as a part of the 30-day
spring practice limit set by the Lea-
gue, R. J. Kidd, director, said in
interpreting the ruling that was pas-
sed last spring.
“Schools not in the play-off that j
desire to delay
period until the spring term
require that all football equipment be j
turned in on December 2 and not
permit any organized practice after
that date,” Kidd said.
jalso that cotton bags used for feed
the 30-day practice , ar* ®»aier to handle, cleaner and have
should a higher resale value than bags made
■of foreign materials, he said.
Earlier in 1939, the A & P shifted
from jute to cotton hags for the
1, 500,000 barrels of flour consumed
annually in its bakeries, Murchison
added. For this flour, the organiza-
tion uses more than 2,600,000 large
bags each year. The labor required
for producing these bags, including
All Conference Team
Alamo Conference coaches and
players voting among themselves last
week selected an all conference foot-j t hat of raising the cotton, making it
hall team, naming on it six men from (into cloth and making the cloth into
Texas A & M Javelinas, four from ; bags, was found to provide a week’s
the St. Mary’s Rattlers, and one • work for approximately 18,000 per-
from the West Texas Buffaloes. Sul |sons, while the yield from about 5,000
Ross, the fourth member of the
Conference, was represented on the
second string selection, upon which
appeared four Rattlers, four Buf-
faloes and two Javelinas.
"Sacks” Mattingly and Stewurt
Clarkson, A & M fullback and centei
respectively, were almost unanimous
choices, as were halfbacks Curtis
Sanding, St. Mary's and Foster Wat-
kins, West Texas. Mattingly’s score
totaled 209 in a posible 225 points
in the balloting; Sanding’s, 202;
Watkins’ 170; and Clarkson’s 169.
St. Mary’s University and Texas
A & I monopolized all line positions.
The Javelinas had two representatives
in the backfied, whie St. Mary and
West Texas had one each.
Listed on the All-Alamo Confer
ence, 1939, are Hunter Rabelais, St.
Mary’s and Warren Arnold, A & I,
ends; Everett Stephens, A & I, and
Merrlt Wentz, St. Mary’s, tackles;
Morris Reece, A A I, and Fuller
Rogers, St. Mary’s, guards, Stewart
Clarkson A & I, center; Kenneth
Grimes, A & I, quarter; Curtis San
dig, St. Mary’s and Foster Watkins,
West Texas, halves; and Francis
“Sacks” Mattingly, full.
‘acres of cotton is required.
The "use more cotton" movement
J Murchison pointed out, has been
I backed by numerous concerns. Early
this year, intensive sales aid was
given cotton producers by food chains
and other retailers during National
Cotton Week. More recently, he said
increased use of cotton hags has been
reported by large bean shippers in
Colorado and Michigan.
American mills, the Cotton Textile
Institute head declared, have taken a
million bales more during the first
eleven months of 1939 than during
the similar 1938 period.
“Private industry’s expanding de-
mand for cotton has done much to
supplement the efforts of the govern-
ment in aiding surplus-hordened cot-
ton producers,” he said.
Mrs. Roy Yaeger and daughter
Joaephine and Louise Armstrong
were in Laredo Wednesday.
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Knox an-
nounce the birth of a daughter on
December the 23. Mrs. Knox and
baby are in Mercy Hospital, Laredo.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Dodson
announce the birth of a daughter on
December the 22nd.
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