The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1942 Page: 3 of 6
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MERCEDES IS
SECOND LARGEST
VALLEY SHIPPER
Mercedes is in second place in
Valley shipping records of fruit and
vegtables, according to combined
records of the Missouri Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads up to
December 1. Edinburg is way out in
the lead with 1,148 cars and Mer-
cedes follows with 678.
. Weslaco is a close third in the
Valley shipping records to date with
621 cars routed. Pharr is in fourth
place with 602, Alamo fifth with
476 and McAllen sixth with 430.
Other shipping points were credit-
ed with the following number of
cars: San Benito 379, Mission 3 30,
Harlingen 290, Brownsville 275,
Elsa 252, Engelman 237, La Feria
223, Donna 19 9, Hauser 151, San
Juan 99, McCall 84, Edcouch 7l,
Bayview 6 3, SantaRosa 48, Val Ver-
de 38, Sharyland 29, Lozano eight,
Laureles six, Rio Hondo six and
Raymondviile three.
The railroads together have mov-
ed 6,748 cars of fruits and vege-
tables to December 1* this season as
compared to 4,5 9 5 as of even date
last season.
Heaviest shipments were those of
grapefruit with 3,788 cars out.
Mixed citrus accounted for 1,273,
oranges for 878, mixed vegetables
385, tomatoes 204, peppers 119,
mixed fruits and vegetables 50,
lemons, 21, beets 15, radishes 14,
tangerines seven, carrots six, pars-
ley three, mixed beets and carrots
three, beans three, greens two, cab-
bage two.
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Mercedes Tribune, Dec. 15, 1927
Naming City Attorney R. E. Kirk-
patrick as chairman, fifteen mem-
bers of the charter commission au-
thorized by vote of the city some
time ago, were Monday night ap-
pointed by the council. Other mem-
bers of the commission are: James
H. Anderson, Fred E. Bennett, J.
P. Gause, Henry Lauderdal^, R. II.
Kern, J. R. Barry, R. H. Smith, L.
T. Hoyt, E. B. Witmer, J. A. Glover,
Charles Hupp, E. H. Kasey, H. C.
Alston and W. D. Chaddick. An
organization meeting of the com-
mittee will be called by Mr, Kirk-
patrick soon.
James Howze of Mercedes, assis-
tant commander of the local post of
the American Legion, was Wednes-
day night elected head of the Val-
ley Volture of the 40 and 8, Legion
playground society, with headquar-
ters in San Benito.^ Membership is
composed of leading Legionnaires
from practically every Valley post.
Mrs. Fred Wright of Mercedes,
was elected to the presidency at
the May meeting of the Rio Grande
Valley Federation of Women’s
Clubs, presided at the Tuesday
meeting of the organization.
James W. Monk and L. E. Bailey,
secretaries of the Mercedes and
Weslaco Chambers of Commerce,
left the first of the week for Denver,
Colorado, at which point they made
connection with the Valley demon-
stration car being operated over the
Missouri Pacific Lines.
Seven members of the Mercedes
American Legion Boy Scout Troop
were presented with merit awards
Sunday night in Court of Honojp
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THE ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, DEC. 11, 1942
Janey closed the bedroom door
and locked it. Alone at last! She
threw back her head and heaved a
deep sigh. Then she peeked out of
the corner of her eye at the. mirror
to see whether she really did look
like Hedy LaMarr. Quite a lot, she
decided.
And now to business. She drew
forth from the bottom of her top bu-
reau drawer the sheet of pink writ-
ing-paper and the envelope that she
had been saving for this clay. She
sat down at the table by the window
and dipped the pen into the bottle of
green ink that her
sister Rose was
such a pig about.
She wrote, with
beautiful ara-
besques, “Dear
Mr. Morgenthau,”
and held her head
back to admire this
effort of the best
pupil in penmanship class.
“Here are my stamps for a bond.
$18.75. I started last Christmas when
I got $3.09. Not counting 50 cents, I
have earned all the rest, working one
or more days a week at a local gro-
cery store, and I’m quite proud to
say I worked hard to get it.”
Janey stared out of the window at
Peterson’s house and beyond at the
big yard where the kids were play-
ing football. She held her pen ele-
gantly in air.
“Sitting here looking out the win-
dow, I see a peaceful little town, and
I wonder how the world can be in-
such a turmoil and the people of this
world can have such hate for their
fellow men. So I’m proud to send
these stamps because I know I’m
helping to make the whole world
peaceful again like our little town.”
She signed her name with an im-
portant flourish, not forgetting a con-
spicuous “Miss” in front of the
“Janey.” After she, had sealed the
letter she went on staring out of the
window. It really was awfully peace-
ful. Overhead she heard a plane go
humming by through the sunny aft-
ernoon air.
Then the voice of her best friend,
Be\tty, called from outside—“Jan-
ey!” In an instant Janey was on
her feet and tearing downstairs and
out. She was not Hedy LaMarr nor
a deep philosopher any more, but
exactly twelve years old.
(Letter from an actual communication In
the files of the Treasury Department.)
ceremonies. Boys who were honor-
ed were Glenn Commons, Emil Fos-
sler, Price Fittz, Truett Blanken-
ship, Walter Hoekstra, Ferguson
Wood and Leonard Van Berg. Tom
Murray is Valley Scout Executive
with headquarters in Mercedes.
Rev. W. A. Bartling of Clifton,
Texas, has accepted a call to the
Emanuel Lutheran Church at
Mercedes.
—
Ernest Allen Elected
To College Fraternity
Two groups of slide rule-welding
engineers at the University of Texas
were recognized this week by elec-
tion to honorary fraternities—Eta
Kappa Nu for electrical engineers
and Pi Tau Sigma for mechanical
engineers.
Admission to both groups is based
on scholarship. Aside from recog-
nizing students of outstanding ach-
ievements, the two fraternities par-
ticipate in such activities of the
College of Engineering as the an-
nual Power Show and the publica-
tion of the quarterly Journal of
Architecture, Engineering, and In-
dustry.
Among the seven mechanical en-
gineering students elected to Pi Tau
Sigma is Ernest Allen, of Mercedes.
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TELEPHONE
DIRECTORY
GOES TO PRESS
To change your directory
listing.—to get an additional
listing...please call the tele-
phone business office, NOW.
UREGElS RENT
REGISTRATION
DONE AT O-NCE
Landlords of rental houses, apart-
ments and similar dwelling units
who have not yet registered under
the federal rent control program
are urged by J. L. Head, area rent
director, to fill out the required
forms as soon as possible to avoid
the last-minute rush.
“A speed-up in registration will
be necessary if it is to be completed
within the allotted time—by De-
cember 15,” Director J. L. Head
said. “That, however, does not mean
that landlords can wait until that
date to obtain their blanks. These
blanks must be properly filled out
and approved by this office, and that
takes time.
“The sooner we get the registra-
tion blanks filed, the sooner we can
start work on applications for ad-
justments.”
Failure to register rental pro-
perty, dwellings, apartments, rooms,
rooming houses, and hotels by De-
cember 15 is a violation of federal
law, Head warned. Rent control is
“part of the Office of Price Admin-
istration anti-inflation program and
both landlords and tenants are
boun£ to comply with the order un-
der federal regulations. Similar to
other war-time meausres, evaders,
and violators of this act are subject
to $5000 fine or imprisonment for
one year.
Registration forms are available
at the area rent office in the Em-
bee Building, Harlingen, and at the
local offices at the Mercedes Cham-
ber of Commerce and the R. B.
Carter Insurance office in Elsa.
Rent Director Head reminds land-
lords that housing accomodations
which are being offered for rent
must be registered, as well as dwel-
ling units which are being rented.
“The fact that a housing unit
is now vacant1 does not mean that
it does not have -to be registered,”
he said. “It must be registered if
the owner has any intention of
renting it. If he is planning to move
into it himself, however, registra-
tion will not be required.”
Regulations for the freezing of.
rents, as of March 1, went into ef-
fect in this defense-rental area on
November 1. This area includes all
of Cameron, Willacy, and Hidalgo
counties and all property, rented or
offered for rent, has to be register-
ed.
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Mercedes Girls
In College Flay
Austin-.-A drama in which the
central character is never seen on
the stage will be the Christmas
presentation of the Curtain Club,
University of Texas student drama-
tic organization.
‘‘Family portrait,” to be produced
the second week in December, tells
the story of Christ although Christ
himself is not enacted on the stage.
Characters in the play are the mem-
bers of His family, and scenes are
laid in Joseph’s carpenter shop, on
the streets of Jerusalem and in the
upper room where the Last Supper
was held.
This period play is to be the only
serious drama to be produced by
the student actors this year, as they
plan to emphasize comedy as a re-
ief from wartime strain.
The actors include two Mercedes
students, Lane Smith, a sophomore
drama student, and ' Anne Squires,
a senior majoring in drama educa-
tion.
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Promotion Desired
Accompanied by a driver, an
American major in a motor vehicle
was stopped byj the sentry on guard
at a cross-roads.
“Who goes there?”
“One American major, a one-ton
truck of fertilizer, and one buck
private.”
They were allowed to proceed,
but at every cross-roads they went
through the same formula.
After a time the driver asked if
they were likely to be stopped
again.
“I guess so,” replied the major.
‘‘Well, major,” said the private,
“the next time we are stopped
would you mind giving me priority
over the fertilizer?”—Exchange
Patriotism?
In a western city, a woman called
and asked that a truck be sent out
to pick up for scrap an automobile
that had not been operated in five
years. She gave the residence num-
ber, and was asked, “Is that yonr
home?”
“No,’’ was the reply. “The car is
at the heme of my neighbor next
door.”
“Has she authorized you to call
and order the car junked?”
“No,” the caller answered calm-
ly, ‘‘but I think you should come'
and get it anyway.”—Quote.
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Discovery
“Who made these doughnuts?”
asked Brown.
“I did,” replied his wife, proud-
ly.
“Keep the recipe—you have . the
answer to the rubber shortage.”—■
Tit-Bits.
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Husband: “What is the proper
thing to say if the duck should slip
off the platter into a guest’s lop?”
Wife: “You must be very courte-
ous. Say, ‘Pardon me, but may I
trouble you for that duck?’ ”—At-
lanta Two- Bells.
Aileen Wade was one of the two
Valley girls to be initiated into the
Kappa Omicron Phi, national home
economics society, at A. and I. Col-
lege, with Bessye Haley, president
of the Kingsville chapter presiding
at the ceremony. Miss Wade who
was one of the ten new members
initiated, is the eldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wade and a soph-
omore at college. She was president
of the Edcouch-Elsa Future Home-
makers during her senior year, 4-H
Club president for two years, and
Valley-wide 4-H Club president for
one year. She finished her fifth year
in 4-H Club work before going to
A. and I.
Membership in this society is a
high honor since only a limited
number of students qualify for
membership each year. Selection is
by grades and personal character.
Mercedes Bicycle
AND
Lawnmower Shop
GENUINE PARTS
341 Vermont Ave. Mercedes, Texas
IMPORTANT TRAIN
SERVICE CHANGES
Made Necessary by
War-Time Travel Conditions
New Schedules Effective Sunday, December 6th
New schedules of several important Missouri Pacific Lines trains
will become effective next Sunday, December 6.
These changes are compelled by the increasingly heavy move-
ment of war-time traffic. More and more travelers now go by train.
Mail and express loads are heavier, too, and longer stops are needed
at almost every station;
The schedule changes were planned to meet these conditions and
are made with confidence that our patrons will understand and appre-
ciate the need for them.
Trains affected are The Sunshine Special, The Texan and The Southerner
between St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas; The Hot Springs Special between
St. Louis and Arkansas; The Pioneer between Brownsville and Houston.
Please visit or phone the Missouri Pacific ticket office for complete
schedule information, before starting your next trip;
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WHEN YOU TRAVEL NOW
★ Travel on mid-week days when possible. ★ Bay
round-trip tickets and make reservations early. ★
Cancel reservations promptly if travel plans change.
★ Travel with minimum luggage.
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