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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1945
TWELVE PAGES—Vol. 75, No. 86
COUNTY TO LEVY
61c FOR ALL
CURRENT NEEDS
Commissioners Believe
No Need for Higher
Rate; Rendition Up
Erath county taxpayers will bd
called on to pay a levy of 61 cents
on the one hundred dollars valua-
tion for the current year, following
official action of the county com-
missioners in session here Monday.
The rate is the same as it has been
for the past ten years and will
yield a total of more than $64,000
to be allocated to the various funds
operated by the county.
The task of setting the rate was
brief and came after members of
the court had adopted the budget
for the coming year. Incidentally,
the budget which had been submit-
ted for approval had not a single
objection from tax payers. A public
hearing on the amount involved
was advertised for, August Slst in
the office of County Judge Scott,
but none questioned its merits.
Tax Collections High
With the exception of the badly
depleted road and bridge funds, all
departments of the county are in
excellent financial condition. Tax
payments for the year just closing
have been higher than in a decade.
A report last week from Tax Col-
lector Fincher showed that 95 P*r
cent of last year’s levy had been
paid.
County Judge Scott-said Tuesday
that the county was ’Tending the
fiscal year with cash balances in all
funds, excepting the road and
bridge fund mentioned above. How-
ever, he pointed out that the all-
important general fund was feeling
the strain of heavy financial bur-
dens during the year and had only
a nominal amount of cash on hand
at this time.
Singers From Wide
Area Expected Here
For 1945 Convention
FSA Office Hours
Change; Will Be
Closed Saturdays
- ‘
ber 16, the office will be closed all
day on Saturdays.
Regular office day for the Su-
pervisors has not been set, but for
the present Monday will be desi-
gnated ,as the day that FSA Su-
pervisor Harland B. Price and
Associate FSA Supervisor Maude
L. Hooten will be in the office.
The local office is accepting ap-
plications from Veterans of War
II who wish to buy farms under
the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant
Purchase Act; or to those who do
not wish to buy farms, FSA will
make loans to set up diversified
farming enterprises. The same
types of lofens will be available
for Civilians. «.
Applications for these loans may
be obtained at the FSA office in
the City Hall Monday through Fri-
day of each week.
Ernest Rippetoe, president of the
Texas Singers Association, expects
the streets of Stephenville to be
filled with thousands of visitbrs
from a wide area for the annual
convention of the association to be
held here Saturday and Sunday.
Mayor Henry Clark has made
available all facilities of the mu-
nicipal auditorium where comfort-
able seats will be available for at
least three thousand people. Mayor
Clark also pointed out that the
acoustics of the large auditoritm
are now such that speakers and
singers from the platform can be
heard throughout the structure.
President Rippetoe and other of-
ficials of the association are bend-
ing every effort to bring the pio-
neer singers of the State here this
week-end, and Monday morning re-
ported that responses had been re-
ceived from a large number of
them.
“We will give these old timers
every honor,” said President Rip-
petoe, “and in order to make our
invitation all the more cordial we
are arranging to pay all their ex-
penses and provide entertainment.”
Many Thousands Expected
But the honors that will be paid
the pioneers are not the only high-
lights of the convention.
“We are expecting thousands to
be here,” saijd President Rippetoe.
“The war is over, there is no
rationing of gas and we believe
people want to once again come to-
gether in these annual affairs.”
Stephenville has entertained the
convention in the past, but under
present conditions will make an all-
out effort to make this the crown-
ing meeting of the more than fifty
years the organization has been in
existence.
The program will begin Saturday
night and end Sunday afternoon.
Many musicians of national fame
will be present.
A. C. ROBBINS TO
MANAGESTORE
A. C. Robbins, active in local
business circles for the past several
years, closed a deal with J. W.
Shannon the past week whereby he
becomes half owner of the hard-
ware and auto supply store operat-
ed by the latter for the past year.
The new firm name will be Shan-
non & Robbins, with Robbins ac-.
tive in the management of the firm.
Present quarters, (the Taylor build-
ing on the north side of the square,
have been retained.
Robbins had his first business ex-
perience in operating a filling sta-
tion, but later acquired the fran-
chise for street transportation and
for several years was owner of the
City Bus Lines. He is thoroughly
experienced in auto supplies and
will give this department much of
his time. -
Formal announcement of the
The local Farm Security Ad-
ministration office is now opera- . . . , . , ,__,
ting under the nm 40 hour week, « contained in advertising
and beginning Saturday, Septem- tne ,n t"18 e“*tion
of the Empire-Tribune.
CTEPHENVILLE and Erath coun-
ty should be proud of their
schools. Most of them are well ad-
minist red and follow through on
accredited standards that mean
much to students. The beginning of
the new school term in Stephenville
finds two new executives—Dean
E. J. Howell at Tarleton College
and J. B. Merrell of the public
schools. Both are young, energetic
and apparently well equipped for
the tasks that have been placed in
their hands. Tarleton College, as
most people know, is an institu-
tion of higher learning and ia un-
der the guiding hands of the State
of Texas. The public schools are
also controlled by the State De-
partment of Education. Yet the
public schools -have the job of
handling the elementary and high
school grades. These schools are
important Their well being and
good management is something
that all should appraise from every
angle. As far as this department
lain position to know most of,the
public schools of the county are
well equipped for the jobs they are
undertaking. Good schools and ac-
tive churches add much to the
handling of any county or any com-
munity. Fortunately we have many
of them in this domain and all have
a right to be justly proud of them.
Santa Fe to Change
Schedules Sunday,
September 16th
To afford better service and con-
nections between Brownwood, Fort
Worth and intermediate stations,
the Santa Fe will on Sunday, Sep-
tember 16th, discontinue trains 27
and 28 now operating between
these points and inaugurate in lieu
thereof trains 73 and 74, affording
a morning departure from Fort
Worth and an evening departure
from Brownwood, in an announce-
ment made by A. C. Ater, general
passenger agent, today. *
Train No. 73 will leave Fort
Worth at 8:80 a. m., arriving Ste-
phenville at 10:64 a. m. and Brown-
wood at 1:00 p. m.
Northbound trains No. 74 will
leave Brownwood at 6:00 p. m.,
arriving Stephenville at 7:04 p. m.
and Fort Worth at 9:20 p. m.
Southbound train No. 73 will re-
ceive direct connections from the
streamliner “The Kansas Cityan,”
which operates from Chicago, and
northbound train No. 74 will con-
nect with the streamliner “The
Chicagoan.”
Under this schedule passengers
leaving Stephenville at 7:04 p. m.
will arrive Kansas City the next
afternoon at 1:46 o’clock and Chi-
cago at 9:80 p. m. Southbound pas-
sengers leaving Chicago at 9:30 a.
m .and Kansas City at 6:16 p. m.
will arrive Stephenville the follow-
ing day.
This will be a marked improve-
ment over the present service in
that passengers from this territory
will have practically 24-hour ser-
vice to and from Chicago.
Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Bettis and
young daughter, Betty Sue of
Houston were recent guests of
Mrs. Ed Bryant and Miss Belle
Hollingworth. Mrs. Bettis is the
daughter of Mrs. 'Bryant and a
niece of Miss Hollingworth. The
family went on to Cisco to visit
Mrs. A. T. Boland, mother of Dr.
Bettis.
Mr. and Mrs. Rufe Kelley of Frey
street, had as guests in recent
days, Jlr«. W. L. Daniels, wife of
the Rev. Mr. Daniels, arid their
daughter, Miss' Lola Mae of Leu-
ders, Texas, also R. J. Bays of
San Antonio, a grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. Kelley.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Poteet of
Falls City, Neb., were here recently
for a visit with Mrs. W. F. Poteet was
DY reason «f a new statute placed
** on the books of the State of
Texas at the past session of the j J9
(Continued on page 2)
mother and other relatives of Mrs.
Poteet before returning to Nebras-
ka. Mr. Pote t was bom and reared
in Stephenville, but left here some
ago to engage in the oil
.19 years
I business.
Chaplain Sprague
At AAF Overseas
Replacement Depot
Greensboro, N. C.—Capt. Frank
W. Sprague, Jr., Army Air Forces
chaplain who returned to the Unit-
ed States in May after 23 months
overseas, has been assigned to duty
at the AAF Overseas Replacement
Depot and Redistribution Station,
Greensboro. N. C., where he will
work largely with returning veter-
ans being processed there for re-
assignment or to go to separation
centers.
Before entering the AAF in May,
1941, Chaplain Sprague was pastor
of the Federated Congregational
and Christian Church, Weatherford,
Okla. His Wife, Mrs. Eula Sprague,
with their three children, Carolyn
Louise, Mary Frances, and Billy,
have been living in Stephenville,
but have joined Chaplain Sprague.
The chaplain is the son of Frank
W. Sprague of Shawnee, Okla.
As chaplain of a 12th Air Force
service group, Chaplain Sprague
served in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy
as spiritual adviser to men who
built and maintaned airfields for
USAAF fighters _ and bombers
throughout the Mediterranean cam-
paign.
While stationed in Rome, -Chap-
lain Sprague took advantage of op-
portunities for- study in the ancient
city, he said, and also recalled with
pleasure a 10-day trip to the Holy
Land he made during a leave.
Chaplain Sprague was graduated
from Phillips University, Enid,
Okla., in 1939 and took his M.A.
degree mere in 1930.
Great Crowds Hear
Baptist Evangelist
In Revival Services
The people of Stephenville First
Baptist Church are in the second
week of the revival, and great
crowds are responding to invita-
tions to the services, and the pas-
tor, Rev. H. Marshall Smith re-
ports a large number of additions
to the congregation through con-
version and baptism, reclamation
and by transfer of the letters from
one Christian organization to the
church here, now their home.
Rev. Smith makes the following
statement and appeal:
“Our meeting closes Sunday
night. We are having splendid at-
tendance and fine response in ad-
ditions. If you have not been in the
service you are missing a spiritual
blessing. Come tonight, and the re-
maining services.
“We hope to have the enrolment
of our Sunday sqjuxd present next
Sunday at 9:46 a. m. That means
we want 778 to be present Many
of you were not present last Sun-
day when we had 460, but make
your plans to be on hand next Sun-
day.
“We also hope to have 160 in the
Training Union at 7:00 p. m. At
this time we are to have our bap-
tizing, then have our Unions to
meet for their program. Surely you
will want to be in this service.
“Our helpers, Dr. Norman and
Bro. Carroll are bringing some
wonderful messages in sermon and
song. If you enjoy good music,
come to these services. If you want
to hear some good gospel preach-
ing come to these services. Bring
your visitors with you, it might do
them good, and will establish your
interest in the Lord’s work. Do
your best.”
TAX ROLLS FOR
COUNTY SHOW
IMPROVEMENT
Magnolia Pipe Line
Brings Extra $100,000
For Heavy Increase
The Erath county tax roll for the
year 1946-’46 shows an increase in
values of $220,000, according to fig-
ures released from the office of
Jim Fincher, Tuesday. John Wool-
verton, in charge of the task of
completing 'the rolls, announced
that most of the increase was
brought about by added values in
the city of Stephenville and the
Magnolia pipe line constructed here
last year. The tax rat*, set at 61
cents on the one hundred dollars
valuation, will yield a sum above
$64,000.0Q for local funds.
Although there was a sizeable
gain in real estate values, cattle
and sheep showed a substantial de-
cline. The two totaled no more than
a figure approximating 20,000.
Notes and cash on the rolls like-
wise were at a lo.w total, being in
round numbers $60,000. Tax asses-
sors accept both as are turned in
by owners.
Within the past four and one-
half years taxable values in the
county have increased almost one
million dollars and there is every
good reason to believe that there
will be another increase next year.
Many new homes built in Stephen-
ville and Dublin the past six
months are not on the rolls for
the current season. Estimates on
the number of new homes complet-
ed in Stephenville alone this year
are better than fifty.
The tax paying season opens
October 1st and when cash dis-
counts will be, allowed for those
who pay early. The discounts will
be in effect until January 1st, al-
though the amount of the discounl
decreases each thirty days.
Peanut Harvest Begins
In Erath; Crop Short
Of Heavy Yield In 1944
The 1946 peanut harvest got un-
der way in Erath county the past
week and expressed opinions from
growers and others who have been
watching the crop indicate that
the yield will be short of its pro-
duction last year.
The first producer to harvest, as
reported to the Empire-Tribune
Wednesday, was O. P. Lay of the
Corinth country. On thirty acres
he estimates he will harvest about
18 or no more than 20 bushels per
acre. The test ran a grade of 72,
which is considered high. Mr. Lay
believes that his yield is an aver-
age for his community. He used
100 pounds of fertilizer per acre
and think* that it paid well. The
crop would have undoubtedly been
far bigger had rains come at the
right time. The hay, according to
Mr. Lay, is almost perfect
In other sections of the county
similar reports have been gather-
ed. In Dublin Wednesday afternoon
Ed Harrispbanker, said that he be-
lieved many producers would har-
vest as much as twenty-five bushels
per acre. He is optimistic over the
outcome, even though he realizes
that the totals this year will be
less than last.
Reports from the Oak Dale coun-
try are not encouraging. No indi-
cation has been received from
growers in that section and it is
not believed that many have yet
threshed.
The one redeeming feature of the
crop is the price. Estimates on the
acreage in the county run as high
as 40,000 acres. On the basis of
that acreage and with an average
yield of 20 bushels per acre Erath
county will reap two million dol-
lars from the crop—not counting
the hay.
Threshers will be in full opera-
tion soon. Farmers are solving the
labor problem by sharing the work
attached to threshing. The crop,
being harvested earlier than in or-
dinary years, will be ready for
market within a very short time.
School Buses to
Be Available Again
For All Activities
School buses may be used again
this winter for transporting foot-
ball teams, pep squads, bands, and
school kids to inter-school football
games and meetings, Roy Bedichek,
director of the University of Texas
Interscholastic League, has an-
nounced.
After checking with officials of
the ODT, Mr. Bedichek was as-
sured that the war-time restrict-
ions on school transportation have
now been lifted, -and school buses
may be used in accordance with
policies approved by the state,
county, or local school authorities.
“This lifting of restrl'^ons will
help our small schools tremendous-
ly,” Rodney Kidd, athletic director
for the league, said. “Those schools
who have been dependent upon the
use of school buses to transport
teams will now be able to resume
their football and basketball activi-
ties.”
ERATH MAN SERVING ON USS
“MISSOURI,” PROUD OF SHIP.
W. J. Wisdom, formerly connect-
ed with John Tarleton College, ac-
tively as athletic coach, but who
for the past two years has been
serving as USO director in Texas,
is fqp. the present stationed in
Brownwood. Mrs. Wisdom had re-
mained in Dallas, but joined her
husband here Monday for a visit
with friends and to look after prop-
erty interests. She went with Mr.
Wisdom to Brownwood, and ex-
pects to accompany him to any new
headquarters to which he may be
sent in the coming months. Their
daughter, Marthella and husband,
Robert H. Huey of Dallas, were
also in Stephenville during the past
week-end. Marilu Wisdom and hus-
band, Lieut. W. Earl Drake, are
living In Midland, and he is an in-
structor at the Army Air Field.
The two sons, Billy Jack and
Smitty are still in military service,
the latter with the forces in France.
After serving in the South Pa-
cific for nine months, RoyG. Apple,
gunnersmate third "Class, U. S.
Navy, arrived at his home near
Huckabay recently on leave to visit
his wife and little children, Mary
Frances and Roy Wayne.
Anxiety and suspense have been
superceded by joy and pride in the
hearts of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Frost
and family, including their daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Helen Frost, and
their home in the Winns Point com-
munity is a place of light and
laughter once again. Their son and
the husband of Helen, Thomas C.
Frost, GM 3/c, was a member of
the USS Missouri’s crew at the
time of the signing of the Jap sur-
render.
Young Frost has been on the
Missouri ever since the great ship
went into commission in June, 1944,
in New York.
A letter written by Seaman Frost
to hip parents, August 21, 1945, on
the Missouri, is given below:
“Dear Mother and Dad:
“Well folks, here is some stuff
about what we have been doing. We
are proud of our ship and the build-
up she has, and we are going to try
to make her do her best. I wrote
you yesterday and I don’t know
much to say now, so be good and
take good care of yourselves.
"It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? A
few days ago we were at war with-
out much prospect of it finishing
very soon. Now it’s over, all except
the occupation.
“On the day the official word was
received, the Missouri, with the
other ships of Task Force 38, was
in position for an air strike on
Tokyo. Since we have been in Task
Force 38 all along, you will realize
that this was nothing new to us.
It was a nice sunny day, which is a
rare thing in the vicinity of Japan,
in the summer time. The date, for
us out here, was the 15th of Au-
gust. When the message came we
already had air strikes on the way.
Word was flashed to them to return
and, after we gathered them all in.
we retired to collect our wits and
await any orders for our next
move.
“At eleven o’clock word wont out
to celebrate the occasion by break-
ing the battle flags. All the ships
flew their largest ensigns and blew
their whistles and sirens in honor
of this great occasion. We tooted
our whistle with much gusto and
the Mighty Missouri added her bit
by getting the whistle stuck and
continuing to toot until the engi-
neers cduld get the steam secured
and make minor repairs.
“That just about constituted our
celebration. We continued in an
alert status because, although the
war was over, we weren’t really
sure that the Japanese knew it.
This is very necessary in the for-
ward areas for It takes time to
notify all the forces and order them
to stop fighting. We have been on
the front lines for a long time now
too.
“All of us, here, are certainly
glad that the war* Is finally over
and are anxiously awaiting to get
the final details cleared up so that
we can be on our way home. Some-
how or other the things we wanted
to tell about a few days ago don’t
seem to be as important now as
they did then.
"Anyway, our last replenishment
period was spent' in Leyte Gulf,
Philippine Islands, where we found 1 !”*’
nil ». 1 ,i fvinn/lo ih a t/inilnro a VS/I * *
Second prade: Mrs. Ruth Hulse,
MOST SCHOOLS
IN Cm SYSTEM
JAMMED MONDAY
Enrollment Expected
To Reach 1250 Soon;
High School Light
Most schools in the Stephenville
system were jammed Monday
morning when the fall term open-
ed, announced Superintendent Mer-
rell, Wednesday. Both Junior high
and Central ward reported sub-
stantial increases: At Senior high
school, however, attendapee is
lighter than in normal years. It is
expected that the enrollment there
will show gradunl increas > during
the next few weeks when ail trans-
fers are in. The normal enrollment
of the senior school normally totals
about 500.
Total enrollment the past week is
approximately 1,200, but Superin-
tendent Merrell looks for many
more than this by the first of
November.
Grade Teachers Assigned
Assignment of teachers in the
grade school was announced as
follows:
Principal, R. W. Hook.
Sixth grade: Miss Grace Ogan,
Mrs. J. Burns Smith, Mrs. J. B.
Merrell.
Fifth grade: Miss Jane Mulloy,
Mrs. Patsy M. George, Mrs. Era
Gibson.
Fourth grade: Miss Atha Me*
Ilroy, Mrs. R. W. Hook.
Third grade: Mrs. Jimmy Muel-
ler, Mrs. Katherine Nutt Sham-
all our old friends, the tenders and
supply ships, from Ulithi Atoll.
HYBRID CORN GROWERS LIST
MANY ENTRIES IN ERATH SHOW
Mra. Mattie Aycock it in receipt
of a letter from her son, LeRoy
Aycock, written after his safe Bind-
ing at Camp Beale, Calif. LeRoy
stationed at Seattle, Wash.
mother of Mr. Poteet. They are for several month*, but was trank-
visiting in Deslemona with thgfferred from there and was station-
ed at four different damps in one
month's time. He was last based at
El PaSo, from which city he came
to Stephenville to visit hi* mother
and other relatives before going to
his present location.
The Hybrid Com Show that is to
be held in the District Courtroom,
Saturday afternoon, September 16,
at 2:00 o’clock, has been assured a
large number of entries. The prem-
ium list printed in the paper last
week is one of the largest ever of-
fered for the Hybrid Com Show.
During the afternoon of the show
discussion of the different hybrids
will be given with C. H. McDowell
of the experiment station at Col-
lege Station, leading the discus-
sion. Farmers were advised several
years ago that better yielding hy-
brids would be put out to take the
place of some of the hybrids that
they were growing then. The num-
ber 10 hybrid 7W, and 3W have
been replaced by better hybrids.
Many of the growers of Erath
county have grown the hybrid No.
18 for the first time this year.
The West Cross Timbers Experi-
ment Station, B. C. Langley, super-
intendent, advised that there are
approximately four more hybrids
that have not been named and that
he is hoping that they will prove
even better than the ones we now
have. Dr. E. P. Humber of College
Station will discuss some of the
latest information on the breeding
of com, while B. C. Langley will
give us the latest Information on
com and grain sorghums. He will
also give the latest information on
sweet sudan.
Everyone interested in the grow-
ing of better com is invited to this
meeting.
Ulithi is tfie atoll in which the is-
land of Mog Mog is, that I told
about in my last letter. Othfer than
that the replenishment period was
much the same. There was a recre-
ation beach on the island of Samar
which was like Mog Mog except
hotter.
“After our replenishment we
went to sea and proceeded directly
Miss Veda Marr, Mrs. Beth Bryan.|
First--grSiie: Miss Velma Stid-
ham, Miss Mary Winn, Miss Lucille
Kay. s
Music: Miss Virginia Bond.
Superintendent Merrell released
no other assignments but said all
would be completed soon.
Highlight of enthusiasm the first
week revolved around th" football
game to be played tonight with
to strike at Tokyo. From there we Sweetwater which is the first game
went to the north and struck Hok- 0f sea?on. The game is to bo
kaido and made the Muroran bom- p]aye(j jn Sweetwater.
bardment that I wrote about he- I _]_
fore. From then till the end of the | , . , _ . .
war we have make strikes all along IJllOlin IjlttlSOn
the Japanese coast, so many that. p;/_/ A ,rnrr1e>rt A ir
they are hard to remember. Att'Orttcil ft.li
“Our bombardment group made a Medal, Silver Star
night bombardment on the Hitachi
Arms Factory, Engineering Works
and Copper Refinery near Minato Fort Sill, Okla., Sept. 12.—A field
on the east coast of Ilanshu. This artillery liaison pilot, Lieut. Hens-
was interesting1 because it was done , l*y D- Clayton, Dublin, Texas, who
on a night so black and in weather | his “grasshopper” plane over
so bad that plnnes could not be used I St. Lo, France, in spite of serious
to observe the fall of shot. We J Auk wounds, was awarded the Air
didn’t have any idea of the damage ' Medal at a review on the Old Post
done until it was photographed by | parade ground this week by Major
planes the next day and they sent j Gen. Louis E. Hibbs, commandant
ur the pictures. To our surprise of the Field Artillery School at
and gratification we found that the I Fort Sill.
damage was extensive and the tar- Lieut. Clayton, son of Mr. and
gets were well covered. It is nmaz- Mrs. E. C. Clayton, Dublin, later
ing what can be done with modern was awarded the Silver Star for
war equipment. We could hardly 1 gallantry in action over St. Lo. Of-
even see the next ship in column j ficial presentation of the Silver
much less the target which was Star hns not been made yet,
fifteen miles away. | A former United States Depart-
“We are all proud that we have 1 ment of Agriculture employee with
been able to help win this war. Let ! the Soil Conservation service in
us all hope that this will be the last i Coleman, Colorado City and Big
time that a war has to be won. Spring, Texas, Lieut. Clayton en-
nlany ot our friends have died with tered the service early in 1942 and
.that hope. That, hope has carried j in September 1942 was commiss-
us through many a grinding, gruel-1 mned a second lieutenant of field
ing day. Let us prav that it carries artillery upon completion of the Of-
those charged with formulating ficer Candidate course at the Field
and preserving the pence to a suc-
cessful accomplishment of their
task.
“Goodbye, now, and I hope to
see you soon.”
“Love. Your son, Thomas C.
Frost, GM 3/c,'6th Division.”
Veteran of Allied
Drive Into Germany
Rests in France
Artillery School.
Lieut. Clayton went overseas in
February 1944 and landed in Nor-
mandy 13 days after D-Day. Ho
was assigned to Third Armored
(Spearhead) division artillery when
he went into action and later served
with the 228th Field Artillery
group attached to the XIX Corps.
Lieutenant Clayton was with the
228th group when it later was at-
tached to the 30th Infantry (Old
Hickory) division.
Hospitalized for several months
after being (wounded in action,
With the XV Corps of the Third Lieutenant Clayton returned to the
Army. — Technician Fifth Grade ' United States in October, 1944. He
Howard S. Stephenson, member of j has been assigned to the Depart-
the 1st U. S. Infantry Division ment 0f Air Training of the Field
which participated in the victorious | Artillery School at Fort Sill since
Allied drive into Germany, was a January, 1946, and is in charge of
recent visitor at the XV Corps Rest the Link Trainer instruction in the
Center in Nancy, France. department.
His 'father, L. V. Brooks, resides Lieutenant Clayton is a graduate
at 904 West Frey street, Stephen- 0f Texas Agricultural and Mechan-
ville. jcal College at College Station,
The Rest Center at Nancy, Texas, class of 1940. Lieutenant
France, is operated by Maj. Gen. I and Mrs. Clayton now reside at
Walter M. Robertson’s veteran XV 11212 Sycamore, Lawton, Okla. Mrs.
Corps which engaged in spectacu-1 Clayton is the daughter of Dr. and
lar military operations from Nor- j Mrs. C. B. Williams, Dublin,
mandy across France, Germany, In addition to the Air Medal and
and into Austria. the Silver Star, Lieutenant Clayton
During their sojourn here, troops | wears the Purple Heart and the
are treated as guests and are given European-African-Middle Eastern
unusual liberties to make their , theatre ribbon with one star,
carefree stay a holiday devoted to Lieutenant Clayton has one bro-
comfort and pleasure. Among the ther in the service, Pfc. Kirby W.
conveniences which are free for the Clayton, who is serving in Ger-
asking are movies, gymnasium, many with the 830th Engineer Avi-
swimming pool, library, barber ation battalion.
shop, parcel wrapping service, .....
watch repair, minor clothing alter- Burnett Moss of Seminole, Okla.,
ations, Red Cross Club, and tasty spent the week-end with his sister,
meals prepared by French chefs Mr*. Mattie Aycock, and his moth-
iinrl Kn nentlir Vennnli ntnii W___ rig___ T i__I _ rig __ . • >1 • a
and served by pretty French wait-
resses. There is no bugle call; any-
one can sleep as late or as often as
he wishes. Rules are extremely few
er, Mrs. Lizzie Moss at their home
in this city. _i_____
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. George
and a large community is nearby Shiels and family last week were
where the Vnen are able to enjoy Dr. and Mr*. M. C. Carlisle and
civilian activities amid surround- son, Donald of Waco. Dr. Carl Mo
ings of welcoming cordiality. I is a cousin of Mrs. Shiels.
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