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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1944
TWELVE PAGES— Voi. 74, No. 1
PARADE WILL BE
FEATURE FOR
WAC RECRUITING
ASTP Students of John
Tarleton Will Assist
Recruiters Here Saturday
Arrangements have been com-
pleted for WAC Recruiting Day in
Erath county Saturday, January 8,
when a piaioon of WACs under the
direction of Lt. Norma Kissell,
WAC from Camp Wolters will ar-1
rive in Stephenville and will take j
part in a parade here Saturday af-
ternoon starting at 3 o’clock. The
parade will be headed by the High
School band, and several companies
Along the Road to Rome and Berliq Jack PHce N(Wied
Chairman Fourth
War Loan Drive
- of ASTP students from Tarlettm
College will participate and es-I
sist in any way possible, accord- j
ing to information received from
Capt. J. D. McCullough, command-
ing officer at Tarleton College.
In information received from Lt.
Kissell, WAC, who is director of
recruiting in this area, states that
women are badly needed in the
Woman’s Army Corps, where they
will relieve men for service for
which they are needed, according
released by the Army, and recruit-
ing in this area is to be conducted
with increased vigor. For those who
wish to know more about the WAC
organization personnel from Camp
Wolters will be at the Stephenville
postoffice Saturday afternoon to
take care of inquiries.
In connection with the recruit-
ing campaign to be carried out in
this area the Majestic Theatre has
secured the picture, "women At
War," and this will be shown at the
theatre Saturday in connection with
the regular show. Tbit picture ties
in with the program Saturday.
Other advertising features will
be found in show windows show-
ing the WACs at work in the Ar-
my. Attention is klso celled to tne
page advertisement found else-
In this paper which sets out re-
quirements and lista many jobs
open to women in the WACs.
Major Walters of the Public Re-
lations Office, Camp Wolters, will
make a short address from the
West aide of the square immediate-
ly following the parade and will
stress the need far more recruit*
in the WAC organisation.
I H.E
Erath County’s quota in the
Fourth War Loan Drive, which will
begin Tuesday, January 18th and
will continue for a period of four
weeks, has been set at $606,000 ac-
cording to information received by
Jack Price, from State headquar-
ters in Dallas. Price was named
chairman of the drive by Nathan
Adams, who will direct the efforts
of Texas citizens in this impor-
tant undertaking.
I During the past week Price has |.ers.
been mapping plans for the drive ~
and will name quotas for all school
| districts in the county. These quo-
tas will be out soon, as well as
committeemen that will be selected
in all districts. H. M. Everett will
head the drive in the city of Ste-
phenville, with ten team captains
assisting him.
JOt the quota that has been as-
signed to Erath county the sum of
$296,000 in Series E bond sales
must be completed. This means
larger purchases will be limited,
bringing more individual purchas-
Price said Thursday that he hoped
to be able to announce complete
plane no later than next week.
rganizat
Braeuer, Mrs. J. N. Hopper
'and Miss Dollie Marie Glover form
the local WAC recruiting commit-
tee here and they have had charge
of making arrangements for the
E was stated
of making arrangeme
program Saturday. It
by Lt Kissell, that any ™ni»«
obtained here Saturday would be
credited to the efforts of the local
committee.
Army Collecting
Soldier Clothing Left
At Tailoring Shops
Camp Wolters, Texas, Jan. 8.—
Civilian tailors, laundries. and
cleaning establishments are advis-
ed that the government is prepared
to reimburse them for clothing un-
earned by military personnel, the
clothing to be used by military
units for reissue. ---i---—
Because of the frequent sudden
transfers affecting military per-
sonnel, a considerable amount of
clothing brought to civilian estab-
lishments for cleaning, pressing or
tailoring is lost or sbsndoned. The
government now is authorized to
reclaim this property, paying the
civilian plants the amount dus
them for the work done on the
clothing.
Proprietors of establishments in
the vicinity of this Infantry Re-
placement Training Center may
contact Lt. Col. John W. Long,
chief, Quartermaster Section, Camp
Wolters, Texas, for information aa
to procedure.
Left: These three soldiers are charged with the Job of keeping up the tires on the fleet of) cars used by
the headquarters ef the Allied Fifth army in Italy. Shown with their repair car somewbe* behind tbe
front are Cerp. Gordon Smith, Hilton, Va. (left), Corp. Morris Sigler, Hagerstown. Md. (oenflp), and Pfc.
Herman Mnchlelsen. Right: According to tbo alga these British engineers are Ut miles final Rome ■<
Hwy smooth out a road for units of tbe Fifth. Tbe work ef engineers gains in Importance so the Germans at-
tempt to retard the advancing Allien by blowing up bridges and destroying transportation facilities.
A.S.T.P. Basketball
Team Undefeated;
Game Saturday Nile
The Tarleton A. S. T. P. basket-
ball team continues on its meiTy
way—still undefeated, but with
what is expected ong^of the hard-
est games of the season, at Brown-
wood Saturday night when two
quinta from Camp Bowie will pool
their strength in an effort to stop
the wining streak of the locals. The
Air Base and 13th Battalion Black
Cato will supply the opposition.
Coach Marshall said Thursday that
H would be a hard tussle but that
ha had every confidence in the abil-
ity of his men to win.
Saturday night of last week the
Tarleton lads defeated Globe Air-
craft of Fort Worth Bya score of
48 to.,84 before a packed house.
Then on January 1st the 13th Bat-
talion Black Cats were downed in
a hard game at Brownwood by a
score of 42 to 30.
Perhaps the real test of the
strength of Tarleton will come next
week when they take on a service
team at Baylor University, the
same group that handed SMU a
stinging upset last week.
Proof of the interest that is being
shown in basketball at Tarleton is
evidenced by the large crowds that
are attending each game.
An interesting game is promised
for next Wednesday night when
Camp Wolters will send a team
here to contest the locals. The game
will be played at the Tarleton Gym.
clothes to be seent to those in need
in the European War Theater has
been extended until Saturday night,
uary 15th. Those who wish to
contribute to this cause are urged
to bring in what they, have and
leave it at the City Hall
phenville.
I’ll tell the
World!
By
Rufus F. Higgs
AS the New Year begins thfs de-
partment, as well as all others
associated with the Empire-Tri-
bune, will strive earnestly to elimi-
nate so many errors. Mistakes, of
course, aie bound to occur in any
newspaper—large or small. They
arc more frequent under the stress
of haate, which is the rule these
days rather than the exception.
In this connection we get a good
deal of amusement from a tale told
on Htm reeently. It was related to
vs that while reading an issue of. visited, with
this paper, a
igh school student
whose specialty nas been English,
remarked to his parents: 'There
certainly is a use of very poor
English in the press; here is a
split infinitive.” ^
POLITICAL
; Announcements t
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Far R«pr*MatadT*:
MACE ALLISON.
Far District Attorn ay
Mth Judicial Matrtct I
SAM CLEVELAND.
Far Ststa Sana tor:
EABL LOVBLADY.
Far Caaatr Clark:
ELMO WHITE.
For Sheriff*
CARL W. TURNBOW.
Far Caaatr Traaoarar:
BEULAH JOHNSON.
(Ra-alactia*. lad Tara)
Far Tu Aaaaaaar-CoUactar:
JIM FINCHER.
Far Caaalaaiaaar. Prac. No.
1. M. SILVER.
POSTAL RECEIPTS WELL
ABOVE $60,000.00 GOAL
Final tabulations of postal re-
ceipts at the Stephenville postof-
fice the year 1943 show a total of
$62,010.86, well above the goal set
by Postmaster Moon at the begin-
ning of the year. This is a figure
almost ten thousand dollars above
CHARLEY PUTTY
SHOT SUNDAY
Charley Pu.tty reported to be
about 70 years of age, died soon
after being shot Sunday. The full
force of a 12-guage shot gun struck
him in midriff from a distance of
about twenty paces. He was buried
at Victor Tuesday afternoon.
Sheriff Carl Turnbow and Dis-
trict Attorney Sam Cleveland were
called to the scene and made an in-
vestigation. Later Jack Sharp was
placed under arreat by Constable
Charley Walker,
Reports received here indicate
there were no eye witnesses. J.
Roberts, who lives the scene
heard a shot and went to investi-
gate when he met-Jessie Sparkman,
of Desdemonia, who was passing
that way in a car. Sparkman hur-
riedly arranged to take Putty to
a Gorman hospital. He was report-
ed dead on arrival in Gorman.
The tragedy happened about four
miles east of Desdemona where
Putty and Sharp lived on adjoin-
ing farms.
The grand Jury, now in session,
was making an investigation Mon-
day and Tuesday.
Report from the
Community School
Lunch Program
The community school lunch pro-
gram which is being operated thru
the State Department of Education
and by the Food Distribution Ad-
ministration is going over in
most satisfactory manner.
Never before have the schools
been provided with a set-up in,
which an adequate nutrition pro-
gram is furnished school children
as is now in operation throughout
the country. Our government is
spending more money on these hot
lunches, which are fundamental to
the total fitness of the growing
youth. These facts have become
increasingly apparent as the coun-
tryp fights for freedom.
If every school does not have a
hqt lunch program, then the chil-
dren are missing something.
Erath county has fourteen
schools sponsoring the hot lunch
program out of thirty-three schools
in the county. The checks have
been ^liberal. In all, total checks
amount to approximately $1,200.00
per month for the county, including
the three independent school dis-
tricts of Stephenville, Dublin, and
Alexander. The largest percentage
receipts for the old year and re-
flect in a general way, the business
trend in the city. Within a period
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g
A committee from the Lions Club
appeared before the city council
at the regular monthly meeting
Tuesday night and urged street
marking and steps for free city
mail delivery. With a view of ar-
riving at some definite conclusion
Mayor Clements named a commit-
tee from the council to investigate
the proposition so that a report
can be made later.
Bowen Sells Bus Lines
R. C. Bowen, founder and chief
owner of the Bowen Motor Coaches,
announced the sale of all lines and
equipment last week to M. E.
Moore, of Texarkana and Little
Rock, Ark., for a reported price of
three million dollars. Mr. Bowen
retires from active management
but will remain With the company
in an advisory capacity. Vance
Maloney, reared at Granbury and
well known here, will be treasurer
of the new organization.
Miss Moore To Odessa
Miss Winnie Moore left Sunday
for Odessa where she will begin her
duties as a teacher in the public
schools in that city. During the past
several months she has been teach-
ing at Rankin, but a better aivi
bigger opportunity was offered at
Odessa which she accepted, with
the content of Rankin school of-
ficials, While here Miss Moore
of two years postal receipts in
Stephenville have showed gains of
approximately $20,000.00. The local
office automatically went to first
class the past July by reason of
Former Stephenville
Boy Is Wounded in
Tarawa Invasion
hesitated to
set a goal fbr 1944, when asked to
make an estimate Wednesday. He
did shy, however, that he believed
the 1943 record would be surpassed.
“If the war will end by July we’ll
go well above what we did last
year," said Moon.
Among the second wave of Ma-
MM
was in the Empire-Tribune office
Tuesday to send the paper to his
son, Marlin Pittman at Denver,
Colo. Mr. and Mrs. Pittman are
the parents of three children and
incidentally it is interesting to note
that each child’s birthday falls on
the 14th of the month, however,
they do not have the same birth-
day. Then, too, Mrs. A. M. Pitt-
man’s mother, has a large group of
grandchildren and fully two-thirds
of their birthdays fall on the 14th
of the month.
Friends of T. E. Carter of Tolar
are glad that he is able to leave the
Stephenville Hospital where he has
been a patient for several days.
at Tarawa, Nov. 20th, was Billy
Jack Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Roberts of Colton, Calif., for-
mer residents of Stephenville. Rob-
erts enlisted in the Marines Dec.
1, 1942, and landed in New Zeal.
and in August, 1943. DIES, LEAVING 300
He returned to the StatetodDic.----
23, 1943, after being onfe p$cKe 18
of meals served is in the rural
schools.
In addition to the cash received
with which to make purchases, the
government is furnishing seasonal
surplus commodities such as irish
potatoes, fresh green vegetables,
fruits and some meats.
The county superintendent is
keeping up with all foods available
and is seeing that the Erath county
schools come in for their apportion-
ment. When certain orders are
placed by car loads other schools
in adjacent counties are included
ASTP Students Get
Heavy Program of
Military Training
More than 460 boys are attending
college—Army style—at John Tar-
leton Agricultural College in a pro-
gram which is safeguarding the
education of youths of college abil-
| lty anil maintaining for the -Army
a reserve of men with at least a
partial background of college train-
ing from which officers and tech-
nical specialists will be selected.
Going to college “Army-style” is
a serious business in which studies
are as important as battles and dis-
cipline is as strict as it is in any
Army camp.
"Soldiers are being trained at
John Tarleton College because of
the establishment of the Army
Specialized Training Program,”
said Col. Beverly H. Coiner, chief
of the Army Specialized Training
Branch, Headquarters, Eighth Ser-
vice Command, Dallas, “after the
Army found among its young sol-
diers many men who would make
good officers and technical special-
ists if their education in the fields
of medicine, engineering, langu-
ages, science, mathematics and psy-
chology were allowed to continue.
The Army has needed more person-
nel with at least partial college
training for its specialized tasks.
“Courses taught at Tarleton are
concentrated versions , of regular
college courses, adapted to Army
needs,” according to Colonel Coin-
er. "Military training is not for-
gotten, because classes are carried
on in military fashion and the sol-
diers have plenty of military drill.”
A week of study for an ASTP
student in engineering, for ex-
ample, indicates that he spends 34
hours in the classroom and labora-
tory and on the drill field. At night
LANDOWNERS TO
SEEK SOIL AND
TANK PROJECTS
Government Allowance Is
Extremely Liberal; 1,000
May Request Aid
Erath County landowners will
lose little time in making.applica-
tion for government aid jn build-
ing tanks and in all other ways
seeking the full benefits of the soil
conservation program that is now
available.
Sam Hanover, head of the Erath
County Agricultural Conservation
Association, which is a Federal
agency, estimated Tuesday that at
least one thousand land owners
would apply for these benefits.
Even though there is definite in-
terest in all forms of the program
it seems that more landowners will
seek the building of tanks first.
An allowance as high as $300 is set
up for this purpose.
Commissioners To Aid
Erath County Commissioners
have expressed a desire to aid in
the program, and with that in view
they will accept bids on machinery
and equipment Monday of next
week. From information th« com-
missioners have gained they be-
lieve there will be several bids sub-
mitted and that they will have the
choice of equipment that will prove
new
in adjacent counties are included tory and on the drill field. At nighty
too, making Stephenville the ship- Tie has plenty of studying to do. He*
ping center. is allowed Saturday night and Sun-
day off for. a date, movie or dance,
providing his studies are up to par
and hia discipline during the week
has been satisfactory.
To be eligible for Army special-
ized training, Colonel Coiner point-
ed out, a soldier must have a score
WINDSTORM INSURANCE
RATES ARE INCREASED
AUSTIN, Jan. 3—Increases in
windstorm insurance rates ranging
from 10 to 25 per cent, effective
at once in Texas, were announced
Monday by State Fire Commission-
Hall said the order increasing
rates was issued after a hearing
here DacasUft,. and resulted largely
ffOrn^yq^^'damage in the G*\-
Summer
TONS OF WASTE PAPER
company.___________________ ____._
ed by an amphibious tank and he tration, down now to 46 employes
lay in naud and water a day and 300 tons of old records, died
night before he was picked up. He Saturday night after eight years
is a patient in the naval hospital »*_»!> integral part of the new deal.
at San Diego, Calif., and with an
operation expects to be as good as
new. Although only eighteen when
in battle he said he lived to be an
old man in those few hours. He has
been awarded the Purple Heart
Roberts was born and lived in
Stephenville until he went with his
NY A was abolished by Congress
last July 1, effective at the end of
this New Year’s Day.
It will leave to the Treasury
$700,000, the unused portion of
$4,500,000 Congress provided for
the job of liquidation.
It also has given the Treasury
parents to California a few years it" 800 tons of old records, to be
ago. He has many friends who will 80ld as waste paper,
be glad to know he survived this
horrible battle and are happy that
he will soon be as good as new due
leal i
Mr. and Mrs. O. Henry Davis of
__ _ _ _ _ La Pryor spent the Christmas holi-
to the skillful medical attention'he days with their parents, Mr. and
is receiving.
RAMAGE FAMILY IN ARMY
father, Alfred
Moore In the Poky Creek country
and with numerous friends in Ste-
phenville.
Wolfe Sneaks At Cleburne
Roes R. Wolfe was in Cleburne
Thursdav of last week where he
*a* guest speaker of the Rotary
•NEWSPAPER writing la so in ______________JP__________
* stinctive to those who follow Club, taking on the subject of 8m-
this profession that even those who J ployee and employer. He was In-
operate much larger papers seldom Itroduced bv J. Lambert Lain, prom-
(Continued on page two) inant Cleburna business man.
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Mrs. Carter Davis at Hucka-
bay and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Har-
ris at Sap Oak. They also visited
friends and relatives awhile at
Morgan Mill where Mr. Davis was
principal of the school last year.
He is employed now in the La
Pryor public schools where he tea-
ches history and junior physical
education.
Internal collapse of Germany is
imminent, but the war with Japan
will not be over before 1946, Rev.
C. L. Sharp, pastor of Fort Worth
Spiritualist Church, said Sunday
night in his twenty-third annual
prophecy.
He coupled hi* prediction that an
invasion force will cross the Eng-
. ... . „ _ .. _ ..... . lish Channel within 60 days with
Sons and dangtyer of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Kamage, Iredell, now serving BrOBhecv that President Roose
in the armed forces srs left to right: Top—First. Lieut. J. O. ftomags. * .^,l uy , . *T K°°“
Oamp Gordon, FIs.; Pfc. Jimmy L. Rentage, A.B.T.U. Texas A. * m., and velt be 1 re el#ct®d by an aval-
bottom row. Lieut. Virginia H. Batoage, Air Corps Nurse, B.A-A.O.O., Ban ancho of votes because of the ces-
Antonto, Texas. sation of hostilities, but he did not
adequate in every way. Since
machinery of this type is not avail-
able, all barred by Federal restric-
tions, it will be necessary for the
county to purchase second hand
units. However, it is believed these
can be located.
Also there are a number of in-
dividual operators in the county
who will go in for this type of
work, contracting directly with the
landowners.
In speaking of the program Han-
over outlined in detail the fol-
lowing statement which explains
how the program will operate:
The Agricultural Agency Pro-
gram for 1944 has been announced
according to Sam Hanover, admin-
istrative officer of Erath county.
In discussing the provisions of the
program Hanover said, “The 1944
Program again calls for an in-
crease in the production of food
and feed crops needed in the war
effort-. While asking for ail-out
production fo meet tremendous
wartime requirements the 1944
program also emphasizes the im-
(Continued on page two)
Rains Replenish
Stock Water In All
Part8 Brath County .
Stoek water supplies- were re* *
plenished and ranges and small’
grains immensely benefited by
rains that fell in all sections of this
area Saturday and Sunday.: Rain
guages at the FarmeiS-First Na-
tional Bank showed 2!U1 inches.
Erath County ended the old year
™ <>ui, <> soiuier imisi nave u store , t,ratfi County ended the old year
of at least 1H> in the Army general | with a rainfall defiency, but hsa
classification test—which t* htgh— * started The new year with one of
must show evidence that the best the best seasons in, yeats.
interest of the Army'would be ser- ..........~~.......... . .
vfd by further training. He must|BANK I)K,.0SITS MEASURE
.also have a high school education
if under 22, or at least a year of
college with one year of mathe-
matics at college level if over 22.
Nearly 150,000 soldier students
are taking ASTP training, the
maximum number set by the War
Department for this activity of the
Army Service Forces. Some of
these students have already been
inducted into the Army. Others are
civilians a year under the minimum
induction age who are training
now to be better soldiers when their
turn comes at the induction station.
Mrs. Girlie Britton, Lillian Ave.,
has returned home after spending
the Christmas holidays with her
daughter, Mrs. John Oliver and
grandson, John, Jr., at San Antonio.
Major John Oliver is serving with
the United States armed forces
‘somewhere’ in England.
Mr. and Mrs. Connor Blakcney
spent Christmas with Mrs. Blake-
ney’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Hunt at Teague, Texas, where the
entire family, except one son Sgt.
Jim Ed Hunt who is stationed in
England, and two grandsons, Capt.
Mack Blakeney and Major Tommy
Blakeney both serving in the Euro-
pean war theater, assembled for
Christmas dinner.
REV. C. L SHARP PREDICTS
GERMAN INTERNAL COLLAPSE
specify the hostilities to which he
referred.
A postwar period of unprece-
dented prosperity in the United
States, lasting at least until 1948;
startling news will come from
France within a few weeks; Ru-
mania will cooperate with Russie
UP TO FULL EXPECTATIONS
Confirming estimates made last
week by local bankers, inuividual
deposits in the two Stephenville
banks reached the all-time high
of four million dollars. This was
made known in official statements
made to State and National Bank-
ing departments as of December
31st
Added to deposits here will be
another two million dollars from
the Dublin bank, swelling the coun-
ty total to the charmed six million
dollar figure. These totals are high-
er than at any time in the history
of Erath County banking circles,
even though there are only three
banks operating in the county now
whereas there were as many as
fourteen twenty-five years ago.
Building Cleared of Rubbish
Ray Griswold, owner of the pro-
perty known as the Ford builcing
located op East College street, has
a crew of workmen engaged in
clearing away all rubbish caused
from a fire two years ago. Griswold
announces that he will completely
rebuild the structure provided ma-
terials can be had.
Stockton Wholesale Moves
The Stockton Supply Company,
jobbers for a long list of items, an-
nounced this weckjits removal to
the building known as the Brick
Kitchen. Under 'the-—management
of J. A. Stockton thit concern has
developed into one of the most
successful of its kind in this area,
handling a large volume of busi-
ness annually.
Big Fire At Gorman
Fire destroyed a large building
in Gorman two weeks ago with an
estimated loss of $10,000. The
structure was under lease to the
against Germany; Mussolini will Gorrtian Peanut Company and w/ts
fail in an attempted political come-
\
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back; bombing of Japanese cities
will start in the Spring, and Texas
will enjoy an unusually prosperous
yea^r, with the price of crude oil In-
creasing and new industries locat-
ing in the State
" ' : ' ' ’ {/'
. . md was
being used for storage. At the
time of the fire the building con-
tained 1,200 bales of hay and 6,060
bushels of peanuts. Cause of tha
Marriage is a lottery in which
too many want another chanse.
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