Refugio Timely Remarks and Refugio County News (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1935 Page: 6 of 8
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Beauty of Appearance
Stressed by Chevrolet
Beauty of exterior appearance and
quality of interior appointments have
never been more evident in any car
yet built by Chevrolet than in the
new 1935 Master DeLuxe models.
Credit for the greater part of this
emphasis on appearance and beauty
is ascribed to women’s increasing in-
fluence in making the selection of the
automobile, according to William E.
Holler, general- sales manager of the
Chevrolet Motor Company.
“The mechanical perfection of the
automobile gave women the confi-
dence in their ability to drive and to
drive well,” said Mr. Holler. ’’Me-
chanical features are no longer a
mystery to the majority of feminine
motorists. But whether or not me-
chanical features are a more potent
factor in selling the ladies, remains
in doubt.
“Beauty in appearance and quality
of appointment transcends every oth-
er factor in appealing to the feminine
buyer. That is why the new Master
DeLuxe Chevrolets are offered with
sparkling colors, fine appearance and
attractive convenient interiors. These
cars also have the snap of outstand-
ing performance with consequent ease
of handling because women are much
more motor-wise today than the men
were 10 years ago, and they demand
performance along with beauty.
“Chevrolet’s 17 and one-half to one
steering ratio—making it easy to turn
the car—was incorporated for the
dainty feminine hand. The powerful
cable-controlled brakes which respond
to the slightest touch of the pointed
slipper, were designed for the light
feminine foot. Likewise, it was for
the ladies, with their delicate gowns,
that wide doors and spacious interiors
were designed.
“Chevrolet beauty and ease of op-
eration,” Mr. Holler stated, “are no
chance creations. . Rather they are a
result of painstaking attention to the
expressed desires of both women and
men alike.”
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By Julian Capers, Jr.
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Austin, Texas.—The Texas Centen-
nial appropriation bill, surviving the
most hectic legislative nightmare in
memory, aparently has weathered all
attacks, and was sent safely to har-
bor in a free conference committee
last week-end. It has every prospect
of emerging within a week—possibly
before this column is printed—in a
form satisfactory to everybody except
some members of the Centennial com-
mission. It probably will appropriate
$1,000,000 for buildings at Dallas,
$200,000 to equip them, $500,000 for
advertising, $1,300,000 for local me-
morials, of which $20,000 is earmark-
ed for the Legion memorial museum
project in Austin. Control of state
expenditures is vested in a special
control commission, with Lieutenant
Governor Walter Woodul as chair-
man, two members appointed by him-
self, two by Speaker Coke Stevenson
and two by Governor Allred. The lat-
ter provision injured the feelings of
some Centennial commissioners.
"When the Centennial celebration
has become Texas history, great
grandchildren of certain legislators
will recall with pride the valiant
work their forebears did to save the
Centennial appropriation bill. These
will include descendants of the entire
Dallas delegation; Duval, Fort Worth;
Skipper Hoskins of Gonzales, Bob
Fuchs of Brenham and Elmer Pope
of Corpus Christi. On the senate side
the Centennial heroes included Welly
Hopkins of Gonzales; Tom Holbrook
of Galveston, the best informed sena-
tor on Texas history, and Frank Raw-
lins of Fort Worth, who, beaten down
in his own fight for a livestock ap-
propriation, turned in and fought val-
iantly to help save the bill. Implaca-
ble foes of the Centennial bill who
fought it to the last ditch were Gor-
don Burns, from historic Huntsville;
Westfall of Stonewall, and Roark of
Liberty, another historic county.
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On April 17 before a sub-committee
of he senate committee on mines and
mining, in Washington, there will be
staged a memorable battle on behalf
of every Texan who owns an automo-
bile. On that day Governor Allred,
Chairman E. O. Thompson of the rail-
road commission, and Attorney Gen-
eral Bill McCraw will defend Texas’
position that she alone has the right
to regulate her great oil industry.
They appear in opposition to the
Thomas bill, to establish bureaucratic
Washington control over Texas oil.
“It would mean higher prices to Tex-
as gasoline users,” says Colonel
Thompson, “who now enjoy the low-
est price gasoline in the world.” He
adds it would destroy state jurisdic-
tion over an industry that is contrib-
uting $45,000,000 a year in state taxes
alone, which, if diverted, would have
to be shouldered by other Texas in-
dustries and individuals.
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Texas bids fair to become the
scene of the No. 1 public works proj-
ect under the $4,880,000,000 federal j
work relief program just authorized
by congress, if plans for the 36-inch
gas pipeline from the Panhandle to
Detroit go through. The legislature
has a bill, recommended by the gov-
ernor, authorizing creation of a state
authority to negotiate a self-liquidat-
ing federal loan, and build the line.
It would employ thousands of work-
ers, keep steel mills that make pipe
running for a solid year at capacity.
And it would largely solve the gas
wastage problem in West Texas by
providing a profitable market for gas
now being blown into the air. The
scheme originated in the fertile brain
of B. R. Anderson of Godley, brilliant
young tax commissioner. It already
has the coal producing areas which
supply industrial St. Louis, Indianap-
olis and Detroit, in a hysterical con-
dition, and may encounter tremendous
opposition before it bears fruit.
J. Turner Vance
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Refugio, Texas
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J. L. JONES
NOTARY PUBLIC
{Timely Remarks Office Phone 172
v Refugio, Texas
Sulphuric acid is the vehicle which
takes most of Texas’ sulphur to mar-
ket. Once it was made exclusively
from Texas sulphur deposits. Testi-
mony before the house revenue com-
mittee showed that now more than
half of the sulphuric acid used by the
world is being made by a new chemi-
cal process from iron pyrites, a com-
mon mineral found in most states.
The shrinking market thus revealed
cooled the ardor of some legislators
for a $2 tax on Texas sulphur.
Boys of County 4-H Club
Visit Corpus Industries
By Mrs. J. V. Lyon.
The trip planned to make a tour of
Corpus Christi and her industries by
the county agricultural agent, L. A.
Weiss, for the 4-H Club boys of Bon-
nie View and Bayside was a decided
success.
Superintendent Kerr and wife, U. A.
' Randolph, assistant cotton adjuster,
■ Reverend W. A. Meyers and Edgar
I Thomas, oil agent, accompanied the
17 Woodsboro boys. Melvin Naylor,
farmer and stockman, accompanied
the four Bonnie View boys. Profes-
sor and Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Ed Gersten-
burger, Mrs. Jessie V. Lyon of Kan-
sas City, Mo., Glenn Hubble, of the
Central Power and Light Company
and postmaster A. L. Cole accompa-
nied the 21 Bayside boys.
The day was ideal for the trip. All
cars met at the parking station on
Water Street near the pleasure pier.
Twenty-one F. F. A. boys from
Frederickburg, accompanied by Pro-
fessor Rawlings and Mr. Smith, their
band leader, arrived by truck and
joined our party for part of the tour.
We were cordially greeted by B. S.
Burgess, secretary and treasurer of
the South Texas Live Stock Produc-
ers Association, and J. E. Bell, secre-
tary of the Chamber of Commerce,
who then took charge of the party.
At 9:30 they escorted us to the cotton
exchange, where the New York mar-
ket reports were being received, and
were explained by Mr. Parker. Ticker
ribbons and telegrams were passed
around for souvenirs. We then re-
turned to our cars for a trip to the
wharves. As we approached the
turning basin the siren was giving the
warning that the Bascule bridge was
being raised for the freighter, Point
Palmas, from San Francisco, to enter
the basin. It was a thrill to see the
big vessel nose into dock. At this
juncture of the trip the boys from
Frederickburg entertained us with
music and song that was greatly en-
joyed by all.
We drove into the great warehous-
es that are blocks long, filled with
lead and zinc ore'and bales of cotton
waiting to be freighted away. We
parked our cars in the warehouses
and went out on the dock, where we
watched the loading of, the Kano Mu-
ru, a Japanese freighter. Its cargo
was lead ore. Each bar of ore
weighed 100 pounds, and when the
great crane picked up it^ load of lead
the weight was 2,000 pounds. The
ship carried about 19,000 tons of ore.
This lead and zinc ore is all mined in
Mexico.
We pause to think—here goes this
cargo of lead from an American port
to Japan to be made into bullets no
doubt—will they again return to
America to be used via the western
coast.
We went back to our cars for a
trip to the chemical plant. With the
number we had in our party and the
danger connected with a trip through
such an institution for mass inpection,
and with limited time to make trips
of small units, we gave up the interior
trip and viewed the chemical plant
from the exterior only.
Our next stop was the South Texas
Agricultural Co-operative Association,
where we listened to an exceedingly
interesting and instructive lecture by
Mr. Hathaway, the manager. We
learned that cottor is classed by gov-
ernment standards. Mr. Hathaway
used many boxes of samples of cotton
come from present taxes substantially
by fall.
The first legislative wedding of the
session united handsome Traylor Rus-
sell, Mt. Pleasant legislator, and the
charming Miss Arline Wilson, assist-
ant chief clerk of the house. Engage-
ment of the senate’s most eligible
bachelor, Welly Hopkins, to Mrs. Alice
Wyatt, secretary to State Treasurer
Charley Lockhart, has been an-
nounced.
in illustrating his talk. We learned
that there could be 1,300 different
kinds of cotton. The classification of
the cotton was shown by these sam-
ples—as to the amount of foreign
matter—the coloring—and the length
of staple. We learned that the soil
and freezing gives much to the color-
ing; that yellow cotton comes from
Cenral Texas and that black land. The
staple means the strength and length
of cotton, that the length of the staple
depends on the season. The past year
it ran 15-16, and good years the sta-
ple is close to an inch in length. The
growers bring their samples of cotton
to the co-operative association, where
the buyers look them over, make their
bids in writing, and deposit them in a
sealed box. When the box of bids is
opened the highest bidder makes the
purchase.
We then went through the Port
Compress Company’s department,
where all the cotton is weighed in,
stored and labeled with the buyer’s
own label. A Welsh and Weidners
boiler, using 150 to 200 pounds of
steam pressure, is used in making 175
of pressure to the square inch to the
great presses, and these presses han-
dle 150 bales of cotton pep hour. This
was indeed very interesting and edu-
cational and especially so to one from
the north.
We then enjoyed a drive over the
city, which took us miles down the
bay, returning over the beautiful bou-
levards with their magnificent views.
The bay was full of pleasure boats,
sail boats and skiffs, and there was
the historic old Japonica at the end of
the pier, which under the guidance of
Captain Anderson hs„s plied the water
some 30 years. TheJ “Four Friends,”
a sail boat that won the cup in 1933
in a race from Galveston to Corpus
Christi, "was anchored near the pier.
We were taken to the “White Hat,”
where J. E. Bell treated the crowd to
orangeade and ice cream. Here the
tour of the city, officially ended, and
our appreciation was unlimited for
the courtesies shown the 4-H gropus
by Mr. Burgess and Mr. Bell, and we
again thank them for making the trip
so enjoyable to all.
The party then drove to the beau-
tiful north beach for lunch. Some en-
joyed a picnic dinner and others
dined at the Palm Grove coffee shop,
after which the amusement features
were enjoyed by many.
At 1 o’clock L. A. Weiss again mar-
shalled the group and took the party
to the famous Chapman ranch, which
is about 12 miles south of Corpus
Christi. The trip is made over a con-
crete highway constructed by Mr.
Chapman and connects the village of
Chapman with Corpus Christi. The
ranch comprises 44,000 acres. The
village has comfortable cottages, all
painted white, with well-cared for
lawns; a church, school, bank and a
post office, where some 200 families
receive mail, and during the busy
seasons, five and six hundred families
are on the mailing list. They also
have a drygoods store, a grocery
store, drug store and hardware store,
with shelves and counters well
stocked. There is a restaurant in the
village that serves from 75 to 100 at
each meal daily. They also serve cold
drinks and ice cream. They have a
packing plant in operation that han-
dles 100 ;head of cattle a week.
The ranch is divided into sections,
and each section is provided with a
comfortable home, for a bona fide
farmer, and with the usual number of
out buildings and houses for Mexican
help. This arrangement gives the ap-
pearance of a thriving settlement.
In building these ranch houses Mr.
Chapman said he wanted them close
enough for the tenants to be neigh-
bors, but not close enough for the tur-
keys to fight.
Mr. Chapman specializes in Here-
ford cattle, and at times has 300 in
the feeding pens. He was feeding
1,200 when we were there. He uses
trench silos. They are about 30 feet
deep and 200 feet long. The ensilage
runs about 25 pounds to the cubic
foot. At present they are feeding six
FRIDAY, APRIL 26,193ff * ^
wagon loads of ensilage, each con-
taining about 1,000 pounds.
The farming land is planted in cot-
ton and feeding crops.
The trip was made very instructive
by the talks of Mr. Weiss, the county
agricultural agent, to the 4-H boys,
our coming ranch men.
Each and every one returned to his
home happy in the remembrance of
the day so well spent, and full of
praise for Mr. Weiss, who had so
ably carried out the plan, with the
assistance of those who had so kindly
given the use of their cars and Hma
to the 4-H boys.
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ion here declares. Most of the ambi-
tious new taxation program promul-
gated when the 44th legislature con-
vened has failed, or will die by ad-
journment. When the state learns
the exact amount of the tremendous
sum of delinquent taxes it has col-
lected, next August, under the Pope
tax remission bill, the deficit likely
will be substantially reduced. The
liquor question will have been decided
at that time, and if legalized control
is approved by the voters, probably
another $5,000,000 a year in state
taxes from liquor will be made avail-
able. Then the legislature will know
approximately how much, if any, ad-
ditional revenue is needed, and can
meet the levy taxes to raise it. Mean-
while, business and individuals of
Texas who still own anything tax-
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Jones, J. L. Refugio Timely Remarks and Refugio County News (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1935, newspaper, April 26, 1935; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1098577/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.