The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1943 Page: 1 of 6
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COTULLA, LA SALLE COUNTY TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1913
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
'ALUTINGvJePVIC E I
REPORTS Mllir
DELINQUENTS
CONEY H. (CAP) DOROUGH
This week we are happy to salute
Coney II. (Cap) Dorough, third son
of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Borough to
serve his country in uniform Turin"
the present war.
The following is a list of delinqu-
ents reported by the La Salle County
jE'raft Board as of December 1, 11*43.
i Luis de los Santos, Cotulla
Martin Casias Rodriquez, Cotulla
Antonio Garza. Cotulla
Polito Rodriquez, Cotulla
Gorgonio Nino, Cotulla
Francisco Vela, Cotulla
Ignacio Borrego, Encinal
Otto Webster, Encinal
Felipe Bon ego, Encinal
Albert A. Anderson, San Antonio
Salvador Perez Martinez, Encinal
Mike Garcia, San Antonio
Manuel Cantu Rodriquez, Cotulla
Santiago Rodriguez Garcia, Cotulla j
Thomas R. Ynocencio, Cotulla
Rafael Pena Nino, Cotulla
Each of these boys should iinmcdi- j
A graduate of the Cotulla High lately contact the Draft Board; other-
School last May, he volunteered for ! wise he faces immediate prosecution
the L. S. Navy in luly. by the Federal Government.
He is now studying to be sn Elec- |
trieians Mate, a’.d presently holds the | ^ 1
rating of Seaman Second Class.
We offer our heartiest best wishes
to our good friend. Cap Dorough.
Next week we will salute Alberto
Gonzalez, of Cotulla.
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Communiques About Boys We Know , . . ,,, ,,
Artesia Wells, Dec. 2—Word was
Fort Benning, Ga. Pvt. Ignacio j received here Wednesday morning
A. Sotelo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel stating that Mrs. Ollie Alderman
Sotelo of Cotulla, successfully made ! • Brien, of Artesna Wells, had passed
his fifth and qualifying jump Friday | away in a San Antonio hospital that [
night This tactical night jump com- | morning at G: 15 A. M.
pleted his Parachute Jump training Mrs. O’Brien was born in Aitesia |
which lasted four weeks and which in- 1 Wells, and had been a lifelong resi- i
! dent of this community.
Funeral services were to be held
in the Cotulla Cemetery.
She is survived by her
husband, I
eluded jumping from the towers 250
feet high and learning completely the
technique of safe parachute jumping IT hursday afternoon, with inteiment
and landing. He has earned the
right to wear the coveted Wings and
Boots of the U. S. Army’s modern
soldier, the Paratrooper. The Para-
chute school at Fort Benning is the
-T T7TT*T,T "which all Army parachut-
ists in Tunisia, Sicily. New Guinea
and all over the world, re«eived their
initial jump training. At the present
time a nan jumping from a plane at
the Parachute School has less than
3', change of being injured.
—Public Relations Office
DONATE YOUR BLOOD-AND
HELP SAVE LIVES
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La Salle County Citizens will soon be given an oppu, tunitv to
donate their blood—without the nee - > ity of going to San Antonio
1 to do it.
Arrangements are being made through the local Chapter of the
Red Cross, with Mrs. Bert Mars as Chairman, for tin Blood D nor
Mobile Unit to visit Cotulla, sometime about the middle of January.
Heretofore, very few persons from thi; community have given
their blood—not because they didn’t want to, but because of trans-
portation difficulties. Now with the Unit visiting Co.uiia, everyone
thouid want to give blood.
Mrs. Mars has been advised that it will be necessary for at least
150 persons to sign up in order to secure the Mobile Unit, but we are
sure there will be no trouble in securing this many signors.
The public will be notified when a definite date has been set;
In the meantime don’t fail to sign up and thereby signify your intern
ion of helping.
Here is the way a San Francisco correspondent describes treat
nent of a badly wounded soldier in a first aid station at the front;
“A doctor produces two small flasks. One is filled with dis!
lied water; the other with a substance that looks like sawdust.
Quickly the water is drawn by vacuum into the second flask, forming
u straw colored liquid. The doctor agitates the flask to dissolve
ill the sawdust-like substance. The deft and jabs a needle into
the marine’s limp veins, and slowly the liquid drains through a rub-
ber tube. Perhaps the process has taken ‘eight minutes, perhaps
fiiteen. Visibly the color drains back into the man’s face; per
ceptibly his pulse quickens and his body regains heat. The regen.
nation is complete. One more live soldier will go back to the. base
.ospital, thanks to blood plasma.”
Thousands of cases have been reported, telling of the lives which
have been -aved through the use of blood plasma.
One person was a bit hesitant when he first went in ■> give his
blood—he wondered if it would hurt, or whether he would have to
stay in bed. When he was all through, he wrote this simple poem,
entitled “Blood Donor”:
I scarcely felt the needle in my arm
Nor see the doctor standing at my side;
I only know a tenderness, long lost,
And mingled with it, fierce American pride.
A tenderness,—that this small part of me
May help one of my fellow men to live;
The pride that though I cannot tie with them,
Yet, here, at last, is something I can give.
KfiJ’
rs who have sufficient in-
come
0
require filing u declarator
of c>'t i
mated 1943 income and Victorv
tax ai
equired to file and make u
payment
on or before December 15,
DST FILE Til
STJITEMEM'lb Bl DEC. 15 HEME
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Inollier llcli
Quintana i etroleum Company No.
28 South Texas Syndicate (Wash- j
burn), 990’ E and slightly S of No. ;
27, 1325’ from the South line on the
East line of Survey 68. 9 g-8” cas. |
jing at 798’, 5 1-2” casing at 5533, 2” ,
| tubing at 5527’, total depth 5550’, com-
| plete for 389.67 barrels a day of 4 2
J gravity oil, 1-4” choke. 420 lb. tubing, |
| 200 lbs. casing pressure, gas-oil ratio
450 to 1, open hole, ran electrical log.
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I Charles E. Fraser. Inc., No. 1 D. C. '
j Reed, 467’ from the South and West 1;i. Farmers a„e als0 iven ter
I ‘ eSJ?f fhe Northwest quarter of Sur- leeway in estimating and are
unless they eeioplied with this require-
ment on the September 15 date chat
applied to most other persons, ex-
plains Robert E. Hannegan, Commis-
closer of Internal Revenue. Farm-
ers and others making their first re-
port this time will receive no declara-
tion forms but must ask for them it
they do not still have the forms mail-
ed them in August.
Because of the difficulty farmers
have In estimating their tax, they
have been giver until December 15
to file their declarations, whereas oth-
ei s w re required to file September
|\cy No. 159, rigging up.
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Winsor Oil Co., No. 1 Jess McNeel,
660’ from the South and West line- of
Section 20, Bland and Nelson Subd.
W. B. Shiner Survey No. 4 A-724.
10 3-4” casing a’ 311’, Carrizo sand at
Won’t you be one of the 150?
u life. Sign up today.
Donate your blood to help save
And did you notice the Sunday
newspapers that Four Texans had
bagged 9 of the 31 planes destroyed
in a Thanksgiving Day raid on Jap- i
ar.’s Formosa Island, and included in j
these four was Capt. James Williams
Hubert O'Brien; her father, E. W.
Alderman, and two brothers, E. F. and
W. W. Alderman of rtesia Wells.
Mrs. O’Brien had a host of friends
who admired her sterlin.r Christian
qualities. All extend deepest sym-
pathy to the bereaved ones during this
sad hour.
District Court To PCA Meeting Held
Convene Monday At Crystal City Baby A!1
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Uhl. till. lillllilR
Williams Passes tivav
District Judge II. D. Barrow of
Jourdanton will be in Cotulla Monday,
December 6, to dispose of any busi-
ness which may be presented before
the Court.
There are several civil and criminal
j cases set for the week, but court of-
ficials doubt that any contested cases
• \* ill be tried.
L. E. Schulze, director of the Win-
ter Garden Production Credit Asso-
ciation, attended a meeting of the
board at Crystal City last week. Mr.
Schulze states that directors decided
to hold the annual meeting of stock-
holders of the association at Pearsall
on January 19th. This action is in
iine with the policy of holding stock-
holders’ meetings at different points 'Pearsall hospital, where \ Rays were
i.u the territory each year in order to I taken. Instead of going into the
not sub-
ject to penalty unless they underes-
timate their tax by more than 33 1-3
percent.
Those persons, including farmers, who
roust fiie on or before December 15
are:
L Persons who did not file on or
'. 2157’ (Base-Carrizo 3301’) total depth b-. fore Septeiniier 15 but who underes-
•mOC , drilling. 1t,mated their tax by more thar 20
* * * percent (more than 33 1-3 percent in
n • , ri i ^ ® the case of farmers) and who should
I Xo. 29 South Texas Syndicate (Wash- , TJT ' <leC,araUons” to a™d
! burn, 990’ due E of No. 28. 4330’^% , ,
| from the East line and 1225’ from the J' f ’10t ? Sep'
,- - c .. ... ,, ... tember because their estimeted in-
,So/.n l.ne of Survey No. 61. Build- come al that time insufficient
: ik«t derrick for 6500 foot test. I • .... , x nl w
j lequu e film#, but now meet witn any
***** | one of the following requirements.
j These requirements also determine
, Quintana Petroleum Corp. No. 1, ] w’d h farmers have to file income
I Mable Low Grimes (McMullen Conn- <: ’ cations.
jty). sand, 5809-15, flight oil odor i a. Anyone who expects to have
| 9 5-8 casing at 896’ total depth 7495’ during 1943 more than $100 gross in-
drilling. j come from a source outside of wages
y_ which are subject to withholding and
t v. ,o ; Iso expect sufficient gross in-
enme to require filing an income tax
, return ($500 for a single person,
f '.’T for a married couple, or $624
for a: individual married person).
b. Ar.y ingle person expecting
■' ',T‘ of more than $2,700 subject
lo withholding during the year.
c. Any married person or any mar-
ried couple expecting individually or
together more than $3,500 from wag-
es subject to withholding duriim this
j year.
d. Any person who was required
After Swallowing Ebpfcaiit
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Little Carolyn Joy Huddleston, 2
year cld daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Travis Huddleston, had a narrow es-
cape this week when she accidentally
swallowed a small elephant watch
charm.
When the little tot was unable to
tough it up. she was rushed to a
Word was received here yesterday j
Cotulla High graduate, who has been j,1!orning from Distr.ct Judge H. D. j
very much in the headlines during the ; Barrow, advising of^ the death of L. 1
COTULLA RECEIV ES .66 INCH
RAIN
past few weeks.
And congratulations to Sgt. Richard
Dobie who was recently promoted to
the rank of Staff Sergeant.
slow rain.
Some .66 inches of rain was recorded
Warning About Stray
Dogs
Lambert Bailey, 8 year old son of j
Mrs. Howard Bailey, was bitten yes- J
tenlny morning while playing on the i
school grounds, by someone’s stray j
<!<.g. >
During the past few weeks, dogs 1
lave been roaming the streets in in- '
creased numbers.
, Cotulla received another mild cold
Morgan Williams. of Jourdanton, for ; spp„ thU week, accompanied bv a fin,
many years District Attorney for the '
81st Judicial District.
Funeral services will be conducted
today (Friday) at 2:30 in Pleasanton.
Deceased had been in bad health
for several months, being confined to
his bed much of the time.
by the members in attending these
meetings. The territory served by
this association extends from Moore
to Encinal and from Calliham to Ea-
gle Pass.
This will be the tenth anniversity of
. be less than >n 194
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here Saturday, all of which fell slow- the organization of the Winter Garden
ly. Reports indicate that the rain PCA and Mr. Schulze states the re-
was general over most of the county ports to be made will be of unusual
and heavier in some sections. , interest to the members.
Pfc. James R. McNabb Gives Fascinating
Description Of The Island Of Sicily
Editor’s Note: We are happy to a few facts about this country as 1 cigarettes dot the darkness as their into the air so their
ragged points
publish l •» following colorful and lam sure a lot of you must be won- carefree laughter disturbs the night J menaced the passerby like pnrraled
I fascinating letter which we have re- | dering just what kind of a country air. Wine is poured and drunk; the bayonets. Water mains were pier-
inevitable guitarist strums at some 1 ced—in some cases a flood meant no
An appeal is made to all peiscnu . i
who own dogs, to keep them penned TT TT 0Ur "‘i’ PfC' R‘ * plaCe Sici,y is likc’
McNabb, from somewhere in Sicily.
We have read it over several times
up; and not permit them to stray a-
Uw enforcement officials have giv- |*1d feel sure our readers will do like-
eo assurance of their complete co- Tse’ ,We t,h'nk lt ,s truly’ another
operation in the matter; and unless cu|sta,1< '"K v ,,
the owners themselves can keep the ! ‘"'‘dentally, Pfc. McNabb, we are
dogs at home, they will take what- mi*hty ^ know that
to file- an income tax return for 1942
even up the distances to be travelled ;, tomach, as was first thought it was 'an<* vv‘1°iexl,e't^ ll|s wages in L*4': tc
found to be lodged in her e'ophagus. j
She was then rushed to a San An- j
tonio Hospital and a specialist was Dip o
called. He was able to extract the j L TOSS ia6W!Iir,
object, and after one night at -he j Knitting Makes Progress
hospital. Carolyn Joy was able to re- J &
turn home. However, the doctor I , , ~ . ,
stated that if there had been anv great I j ougi an icappe >> the an
delay, the accident very likely- would .“"V *“* ,nUmber of Iadies ^ the
, , . ‘ county have been cooperating. the
nave proven fatal. i j ,
, Red cross knitting and sewing p:o-
gram in the county has been making
teady progress.
Mrs. M. V. Davis, Sewing Chairman
of the county, stated that during the
j past few weeks, increased numbers of
j ladies have been assi.-ting with the
jAork, with the r> -ult that much ,nore
| has been accomplished.
J Mrs. Davis was hign in prai?e for
jihe loyalty and cooperation of a
!small group of Fowlerton la lies. Dur-
ing the past year, with only three
)r four ladies working regularly, that
group has turned out a total of 546
as you
This is Sicily, an Island of rugged haunting tune, and soon he is joined water for thirsty Sicilians. Signal
mountains and beautiful women. The by a vocalist. Corps linemen strung wires on tott-
tain outside has not quieted the tu- I WTier we GI’s entered this Sicilian ering balconies where once signori- garments
mult of noisy bambinos nor has it ,eity we found a strange combination ] nas posed behind black fans. Convoy Cha rman of that " ,
removed the rumble of the mule- : of filth and starvation. The Ger- after convoy of motorized equipment ' submitting a recent renm t ' -o ' 1
drawn carts in the cobbled streets, mans did not play a philanthropist’s j rumbled over streets that hitherto !jn tbjs vv N . ,.^-e AV,|j . Mn
. An hour ago, as the sun set beyond part when they occupied the territory. ; had known few such monsters; half j an(j ,j0 ,illr beit , b tb( u . ,
ever steps are necessary | journey down the road to Berlin, we , the purple escarpment, huge storm- Although some of the civilians had j tracks and tanks sped by—unseeing over and there i no further nee . for
So hereafter, please watch your a,e SoinK to heal‘ *om some , clouds poised menacingly like glisten- manage.) to save most of their pos- j creatures of steel. The U. S. Army t!iis wo,k. an(1 our bovs are home."
dogs, and do not permit them to stray more’ as*ure you ,ha‘ ^ To ' C? 4 at°P. c *** " ! ^“r8’ ^ Tu V'* ^ e o ’ ?T C’'ty quick,y-<>n the The American Red Cro'ss or no ether
about the streets. , come all the letters you and the oth- was the approach of a storm. ■ People who had lost someth,n* be- second day reconstruction and an at- aRency couM ask for a fine, jri, ,,
j lt fellows are sending home. In fact , All Sicily is a storm. There is ause of the war. j tempt at friendly occupation began, jcooperat'on * j- m tj, ^ j . s
------— i we think that among other things, j vivid emotion in eves scene, from) In the harbor, and near it, the | Before long Sicily’s daily life was 'ounty• •» J it iviutn r t-ervuVe-c
lonivtari m A----------- ------— \
I are proud of this small group of lad-
Raffle To Help
Buy Football Sweaters
scene, from
La Salle County boys have proven .haunting melodies g by the or- buildings and homes were wrecked by i resumed in earnest. Americans were
to be the finest “foreign correspon- fgan-grinders nino to \ le flirtatious 1U. S. Air Forces precision bombing, j treated to a real dose of war’s after- . 1 , , , i . *
l.nle” thfl. anv u-patlv nnivcnunai- o lan tv, in a aimanna’a ,lonL- ,1,-at Pi-ntriulintr fi-nni the Water Were thf effects.
Members of the Cowboy Football
Team are this week selling tickets
for a raffle, by which it is hoped suf-
ficient money will be raised to pur-
tl.iiso sweaters for this year’s team.
Because of the small crowds at the
games this year, insufficient funds
re taken in to permit the school to
; dents”, that any weekly newspaper,
anywhere, could have.
I Good luck to you, and write us a-
1 gain.
gleam in a signorina’s dark eyes, j Protruding from
When Sicilians speak, they e-:;'— hulls of sunken ships.
Here and | There were many beggars at first.
Somewhere in Sicily
The Cotulla Record
Dear Friends:
I thought I would write you a few
lines in receipt of the Cotulla Record
jo this; George Light, father of one j jf which I have been receiving, for the
,f the players, stepped in and donated past few weeks. I really have been
enjoying it a lot, as I have been
loing.
themselves with sharp gestures and 1 there were ACK ACK gun emplace- j It seemed that every civilian was a y,..J*’Th-i'i 1,'- ~ p u,..."t -t.': * ' |
intent facial grimaces. The actual ments, both ours and those abandon- J beggar. The small children yelled fkg’tted her resi "nation 'i -'T T "
dialogue means nothing—it is the ed by the enemy. Italian prisoners at us for “earamellas” (meaning can- i.-i • , ' 1 7.
1 * t nairman, and with it. a report of
acrobatic demonstration that puts of war worked under the direction of
the idea across. | GI guards to clear away whatever
When a Sicilian is happy, he prov- wreckage blocked the streets. Now
es it to the world. Give any such and then parts of the shells of gut-
person a soap 1k)\ and enough room ted apartment houses fell to the
his liquid streets with a crash. There were
tiy) chewing gum, cigarettes. The
women wanted food of any kind, and
the men usually wanted tobacco.
some of the work
Icne.
Du rina
which has been
Ihev thought each GI was a walking 'pi^e's' habJnTn;Iteli ’f<!r
general store. * ”
to swing his arms, and
x calf to be raffled off. | enjoying i a o . as *.>v£“ ; Sicily’s largest cities are nail tion would have to be finished
Tickets are being sold for 50c, am j "ews ungny, am a so was ga ° towns—everyboly knows his neigh- wrecking parties. Some bombs
ihe drawing will be held on Front St., | r, a< a out a my r,0"< s aroum o j |)or>s |>usiness. Often two or three ped gaping craters in the streets
, ,, Saturday evening, December 11, tulla. I am sorry I haven’t written j...... , . . ,
lt 7 p. m. You may purchase your j sconer, but due to circumstances I
ickets from any member of the foot- was unable to do so. Now that 1
,1 team. . khVe a t'me try t0 te“ y°u est gossip.
of 961
. . Pr.0feSSiona! b0»r,B 'iiefandlhe armed forces, "including
many such buildings whose destruc- were some genuinely sad case*. One ;mum?rtrfm1°tLhTrmt.v',
-peech can lie heard for miles. *»uvn uuuumgs «nusc ursuut- — v .umc uniumt'iv san case-, one ->o -c
............by old crone with half her face missing I j -......tur ™ nrmy'
• ,lL , , ‘ , missing a|uj varioUs numbers of socks, wrist-
rip- i held out a withered hand for alms, j ,efs beanteS( mittenSi ete.
I | j A large part of this work was done
1 families sit around in
These Sicilian beggars are more of a
the street be- these would have to be filled by road ^ptoblem than were the Arabs of Al-
j i fore their houses, discussing the lat- gangs. In one place the trolley geria and Tunisia.
The pin-points of their tracks were sheared off and thrust 1
In Africa
(Concluded on page 2)
h.v fewer than ten women in the en-
tire county who have been working
(Continued on back page)
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