The Lavaca County Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 20, 1948 Page: 1 of 4
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Tuesday Jan. 20, 1948
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Return To Daily Family Prayer
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to God practice His teaching?
Carl Morene Dies
Accepts Position
Area Shivers In
“I will never be involved
six parachute jumps. He is
Orsak of this community.
Ichus- present trend continues the
, to population eventually will go
at
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weekend
COFFEE UP —
CITIZENS BOIL
Mr. and Mrs. G.
of Luling spent th?
here with friends.
I
Completing a very success-
ful year, the Haliettsvjjle
Volunteer Fire Department
elected officers, as follows,
for the coming year, in the
regular meeting last Tues-
FILMS OF SIX ACTORS
BANNED BY HUNGARY
VOLUME XVII
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in politics. I will never be a troops. He already has made
candidate for public office,” six parachute jumps. He is
So declares State Secretary the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lud.
nineteen years sea
Roman E. Hanak
stationed at Victor-
thc Navy recruit-
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Wyatt
spent Sunday in Gonzales
with relatives and friends.
Robert Fabian of Rosen-
berg was a weekend visitor
here with his wife and son.
‘like snails with
According to word receiv
ed by Erwin Bucek, Presi-
dent of the School Board,
all arrangements have been
made preliminary to begin-
ning work rm tlje high school
gymnasium. Actual work on
the $71,000 project will get
underway today, Tuesday,
when the architect and
School Board meet to desig-
nate the location of the
buildings.
Carl H. Stautz, Architect,
AT HOME IN A TENT ... Just as a re
Is not a dead issue, here is a family
Not only Colorado Coun-
ty, but also our other neign-
-bor, Victoria County, voted
OLthe road bonds, in Colorado
it’s $800,000, in Victoria
J i County, one million dollars.
-• In this county, only $350,000
is being proposed. Yet our
needs are not smaller than
in the other two counties.
200-Pound Elephant
At Gonzales
day.
President, F. K. Bucek1;
Vice- President, Paul Fert-
sch; Secretary, Julius, Bu-
cek; Treasurer, Emil Muska;
Chief, Joe T. Fabian; Assis-
tant Chiefs, P. L. Netardus,
and Charlie Spanihel; Drill
Master, Virgil Minear; Com-
pany Foreman: Company
No. 1, G. H. Gerdes; Assis-
tant Foreman, Ludvig Ka-
hanek; Co. No. 2, Chas. Spa-
nihel; Foreman and Frank
Grafe Jr., Assistant; N[o. 3
J. G. Jalufka, foreman, and
Frank Polasek, Assistant
Foreman."
will
with Russia. But first of
these nations will form
customs union. He named
members of the proposed
deration Bulgaria, Albania,.
Romania* Yugoslavia, Hun-
gary FcAand Czechoslovakia,
’and even Greece.
Washington, Jan. 18 Com
munist Dimitrov's talk
shows that Russia is about
ready to strengthen her'
Lavaca County’s Paper
With the Largest County
Circulation!
FIRST IN PRESTIGE,
complete the No. 1 B. John-
son as the sixth'gas ana uis-
tilate producer in the pool.
For some time there have
been rumors that Tide-
water will build a recycling
plant at the field, about 5
grip on the nations behind
the-iron curtain. That shows
also why all the Red states
are so violently against the
Marshall Plan. What Dimi-
trov says, Is really nothing
new. j
Washington, Jan. 17. —-
War is a possibility,, and the
only real safety for this
country i8 to strepghten the
countries not already under
Russia’s domination. That is
quite cteaf from what all
government leaders say whc
are in the best position to
know.
Menking, Ferd Sokol, Leon
Smothers, Tommy Stepchin-
sky, J. Tupa, Edwin Pesek,
LaMont Menkjng, Billy De-
vall, “Killer" Drozd, Billy
Goode, Jim Goode, Edwin
Mirrick, Julius Smolik and
Joe Zumwalt;
Others are expected to
sign up.
REGISTER JAN. 20
FOR EDUCATION 273
Registration for Education
273 by extension to be offetr
ed by Southwest Texas State
College will be held Tuesday
night, i January 20, in the
High School H. E. Cottage,
at 7:0p o'clock. All persons in-,
terested are requested to be
present at that time.
Reichmans Leave
For Clothing Market
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Reich-
man, buyers for the Meyer-
hoff Dry Goods Co., left Sun
day for Ft Worth and Dal-
las, where they will view
the latest dry goods styles
for the spring and summer
months ahead. This buying
trip will bring about the dis-
play in Meyerhoff’s Store of
the latest styles offered by
national wholesale concerns.
Top clothing designers will
be on hand at the style
shows, and Meyerhoff’s will
be displaying these styles ‘
during the months ahead.
ously ill for the past few
days. Funeral services were
held today (Monday) at 2
o’clock from the Schwenke-
See Funeral P. 3 Col. 5
City Cagers Win
Over Yoakum 29-20
The newly-organized Hal-
lettsville City__Basketball
Team was victorious in
their initial game of the
season last Thursday, in
Yoakum, when they defeat-
ed that city’s VFW team,
there by the score of 29 to
20. The team had no prac-
tice whatsoever previous to
the game. Robert Pesek was
high point man. Those in-
cluded in the squad are Bob-
by Quitta, Robert Pesek, Mel
vin Borchert, Charlie Strauss,
Shelton Boothe, W. L. Menk-
ing and Richard Malec. The
squad will also include Chas.
Sommers, Vernon Reaves, E
mil Muska and others. The
.team plays again tonight,
Monday, in Yoakum, against'
the same team.
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SUBLIME SHERIDAN AREA MAY DEVELOP
GREAT OIL CENTER; RECYCLING PLANT POSSIBLE
“Even with the mug. the
darn stuff ain't worth 7
cents”. He then thumbed hjs
nose at the proprietor of
the cafe, walked outside and
broke the cup- against a
parking meter.
State Sen. Perry Porter,
Miami, was asked if federal
action could be brought a-
' gainst cafe owners for rais»
(ing coffee prices. Said he: “I
don’t think so. The grounds
are too weak.”
Bucharest, Jan. .18.—Pre-
mier Dimitrov of Bulgaria
declared that when the time
is ripe, the satellite tuitions
form one federation
all
a
as
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Roman E. Hanak
With Victoria Sta
After
service,
will be
ia with
ers.
Chef motor Machi^st
mate, U. S. Navy, Hanak
served on almost fevery kind
of warship, from battleship
to submarine. During the
war he served in the Pacific.
He is the son pf Mrs. Robert
Hanak of thi$‘city.
Miami, Okla., Jan. 16 Cit-
izens of this city Thursday
with some-
words.
broken cof-
Livestock 1
ol of South
Central Texas
prayer."
The FBI director stres-
sed that a nation cannot ex-
ist void of all religious
thought and action. "Can
wh have internal peace with-
out morality?” he asked.
“Can we build homes with-
out God, or have worthy pa-
rents who do not know and
Tidewater completed the
No. 1 Underwood as an oiler
at 9500.05 feet in the Wil-
cox sand. At that time
flowed 79.2 barrel® of
gravity oil daily plus
000 cubic feet of gas. *
Product® from the
are now being piped to
ridan and shipped by
Non-used portions are r
stored tb the ground.
With this development we
can see that the new high-
way east of Hallettsville
may open up a very impor-
tant oil industrial section.
Mr. Hilmer Galetkii, who has
been nflending the Baldwin Bus-
iness College of Yoakum for the
past term, has nreepted a book-
keeping position with Gi-oee
Weardeii at Bay . City. Hilmer
completed the bookjeeepjpg course
al BaldwiuV and received I he
Certificate id' Proficiency in Ac
counting. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Galetkii of HalleUs-
vilh'.
Work To Begin Today, Tuesday, On
Gymnasium; Old Building Torn Down
er that the housing shortage
------— it has been living in a tent for
more than a month this winter. Evlctedfrom their former home in Bain-
bridge, Md., Mr. and Mr». Herbert Flowers and their children set up
housekeeping in a big army tent. With wintry winds whistling through
the flaps, the Flowers use * ton of cokl a week in their heater and
cook stove to keep warm.
Carl Morene, 60, of Schu-
lenburg, passed away at the
fttniilieH -arose in the morn-
ing with a prayer on their
lips, and ended the day by
gathering together to place
themselves in His care.”
ATTENDING diesel
SCHOOL IN
WISCONSIN
Adolph Dusek, City Eng-
ineer, and John Dagenhardt
of Shiner, left- during the
week-end for Beloit, vyiscon
sin, where they are attend-
ing the Fairbanks- Morse
Diesel Engine School. La-
test information oh Diesel
engines is being given in the
school. /On their trip north-
ward they were joined by
George' Cravens and Earl
White of Dallas, Fairbanks-
Morse Engine Erecting en-
gineers. Dusek is, no doubt,
experiencing some sub- * ze-
ro weather in Wiscosin, ac-
cording to radio weather re-
ports.
eantime the Americans
reopening tlie air base’
■ North Africa. From
they bombed the Bal-
targets during the war.
language the Reds will
h perhaps understand better
than an appeasement.
Russia Ready For Final Grip
Satellites To Become Colonies
‘•Opr nation is sadly in
need of a rebirth of the sim
pie life—a return to the
'lays when God was a part
ot . each, „ household, when
Budapest, Hungary , Jan. 16
The films of Hollywood stars,
Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper,
Adolphe Menjou, Allan Jones,
George Murphy and Robert
Montgomery were ordered
banned Friday by the Hunga-
rian Ministry of the Interior
effective Jan. 22.
(All but Jones testified in
Washington last fall at hear-
ings of the House committee
on un-American activities in-
vestigating Communisum in
Hollywood.) •
The ban constitued the first
O|»en Hungarian action a-
gainst American motion piic
turn productions.
Hungarian Communist par-
ty newspapers said the six
stars were “Fascist enemies
of the.people” and asserted
the action by Interior Minis-
ter Laszio Rajks, a Commun-
ist, had fullfilled a demand
"by the working class.”
One Communist publication
-<The Community and Whole County Stand or Fall With the Farmers.
PUBljSHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY, H* * ' .......... .........* " ".....
said Montgomery had been a
“stool pigeon” when he ap-
peared before the House com-
mittee.
sters as Cooper, a favorite
of the cowboy-loving Hungar-
ian youngsters as well as of
the older generation, is the
only one of the six actors who
has a picture now playing a
Budapest theater. This pic-
ture, “Along Came Jones,”
is a reissued western made
several years ago.
During the House commit-
tee hearing, Tayloi, Cooper,
Menjou, Murphy and Montgo-
mery criticized the activities
of the Communists in Holly-
wood. Montgomery charged
the Communist patty was not
a political party but “a sub-
versive group.” Murphy said
Communists should be label-
ed as agents of a foreign go-
vernment and not allowed, tp*
“hide under a party labeled.”
Indications that the Sub-
lime-Sheridan area may de-
develop into one of Texas'
greatest oil centers were cir
culating the past- several
days when it was reported
that another recycling plant
may be constructed in that .miles northwest of Shell’s
area. Further extensive de-
velopment was also seen.
Mayor Condemns
“Cubicle Building
Atlanta, Jan. 16 The may-
or of Atlanta, William B.
Hartsfield, took a long look
at the home building going
on these days and observed:^1™
“Involuntary birth control.”
"I respectfully submit,”
the mayor said at a
ning council meeting Thu:
day, “we may commit
suicide if we don’t do somi
thing to get houses cheat
without getting them
er."
He condemned what he
termed “cubicle building''
for young couples which re-
sults “in the first baby or
the first dog ’"‘overcrowding
them.” He added that if the
Local Firemen
Elect Officers
must pay for it.
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Otherwise you
vote. And this year there is
every reason why^every ci-
tizen should vote, whether
man or Woman. For there is
also a national election. On-
ly when we vote, we do our
part as free people. Other-
wise the right to vote is use
less to us.
“I am here and intend to
stay here as long as deci-
sions-are in bay hands,” de-
clares General Clay at Ber-
lin. This in answer tir the
Russian threats that the A-
mericans and others will be
thrown out.
fought inflation
thing more than
Fragments u. of
fee mugs in the streets was
one sign of resident’s wrath
against cafe owner’s boost
in coffee prices from a nick-
el to 7 cents.
Restaurant owners said i-
rate customers also had car-
ried away silverware, nap-
kins and salt and pepper
shakers in protest to the
price boost. Others deli-
berately poured cream they
didn’t use, and sugar on the
counter.
Mfcny _ qitizeps predicted
they wouitl be able to buy
nickle-a-cup coffee here a
gain before Saturday.
One furious man,1 carry-
ing away a coffee mug, told
his waitress:
the game. Smolik ,was high-
• point man with 8 points, «T.
Bozka was second with 5,
and Ray, Scarborough and
B. Bucek each accounted for
2 points. Final score: 19-17,
1 Hallettsville.
has written President Bucek
to this effect and he Will be
on hand today for the meet-1
ing, which is to take place at |
the gymnasium site across I
the street from the school
at 2:00 p. m.
Matrials have been ? ar-
riving the past few days and
more are expected to arrive I
daily. Actual construction
will begin,as soon as the lo-
cation is designated. Mean-
while wreckers are complet-
ing the removal of the old ag
riculture and band building
where the gymnasium will
stand. If serious 'complica-
tions do not set in the gym-
nasium may be 'Completed
before the school year ends.
22 Degrees Sun.
Hallettsville shivered in
22 degrees here Sunday
morning as the seasons
coldest wave took hold oi
this area. Like the rest of
Texas, the coldest wave in
several years kept the peo-
ple indoors much of the time
since the Norther blew in
Friday evening. Another
came in this morning, Mon-
day. Both cold waves were
accompanied by rain. Accord-
ing to Weatherman W. B.
Mcinardus the temperature
Saturday morning was 25 de
grees and Sunday morning
the thermometer showed 22
degrees. Up to early Monday
morning .35 of an inch of
rain fell, and more rain was
falling this morning, Mon-
day. Cattle arc reported suf-
fering from the .cold .. and
wet. Plenty of ice covered
water everywhere over
turday and Sunday.
iGonzaks, Jan. 15 Mr. and
Mrs. Ben C. Davenport have
a 200-pound baby in their
back porch play pen. And to
keep him company they
have Aarumai Singh, an In-
dian mahout, who feeds him
milk by hand. “Butch,” the
3-foot-high elephant, is re-
puted to-be the smallest ele-
phant ever to cross the o-
cean to this country. He will
augment the animal collec-
tion of Dailey Brothers Cir-
cus, along with eight other
baby pachyderms, 30 mon-
keys, three zebras and three
pythons.
Singh, the only one of 3
mahouts accompanying the
elephants who speaks Eng
lish , cannot leave “Butch”
long, because the ‘baby’ gets
lonesome.
• The a n i m al shipment
reached Boston from My-
sore, India after 51 days
sea?
Says a Louisiana politi-
cian: “It costs a million dol-
lars to elect a governor of
Louisiana.” It also costs a
million or more in this state
and many others.
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And who is paying that
million dollars to elect a go-
vernor? Not the people.
, They don’t even control,
much less finance our poli-
. tics. Which only shows
what kind of a democracy
the political party system
is.
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It also shows that to be
merely against communism
is not enough. Nor is it e-
nough to. label as a fascist
anyone seeing in our politi-
cal parties as well as in our
labor unions, the fundamen-
tal evil. It will take much
more than that to stop com-
munism and also correct
our own evils.'
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Brahmas Defeat
Weimar Fri,, 19-17
The Hallettsville ,High
School Brahmas nosed out
the Weimar Wildcats to an-
nex their seebhd district
game of the eason last Fri-
day night, there. They are
now in a tie with Schulen-
burg in the cast half of the
district. The first win was
over Sheridan recently by a
one-point margin,
The Wildcats led the Brah
mas 12 to 4 at half-time,
but the local team found
their range in the second
half and went ahead late in
• p- The Shiner Business Men’s
Club is the first one in this
county coming out for the
proposed road- bonds. It
took that stand in its recent
meeting — a fine example
for other civic boshes.
•The Shiner club undoubt-
y expressed the senti-
ment of most of the Lavaca
Co. businessmen. But farm-
ers, too, must be reached,
for upon them the bonds
largely depend. Now, in the
"-rainy season, is the time to
- > act.
To Mexico City
A new short cut between
Houston and Mexico City,
the highway between
Brownsville and Cuidad Vic-
toria, is completed except
for two bridges, and is pass-
able for motor cars, the
Mexican Consulate in Hous-
ton announced Thursday.
A recent visitor to Hous-
ton from Mexico City travel
ed the road, and found the
topping completed except
for two bridges, which are
expected to be finished with
in a, few weeks. One of -the
officers from the Houston
consulate also made the trip
recently by way of the
Brownsville - Victoria cut-
off and also found the road
in fine shape, it was report-
ed.
"Boors and'wings”
Pvt. Frank V. Orsak, now
at Fort Benning, Ga., has
earned ‘the Boots and
Wings” of the airborne
Football Players
Signing To Play
It looks like we’ll see a
bruising game here on Janu-
ary 30, when the All-Star
Lions Club football team
clashes with the All-Stars
sponsored by the Rotary
Club. The game, to beriefit
the Infantile Paralysis
Drive, is stirring up a lot of
interest, with many former
high school players getting
ready to play. All those in-
terested should see Coach
Borchert or C. D. Snyder
now.
Among those already sign
ed up are Matt Bozka, Carl
Chapman, Charles Raymond
Chapman, Bobby Quitta
Robert JLpeseK. Aletaft
chert, Charles IrVin Bucek,
Lindsey Wyatt, Grady Whit-
ley, Ralph Whitley, “Rab- . -___
bit” Netardus, “Duck” Ja- Renger Hospital here Satur-
nak, H. Wyatt, Warren Lee I ^aY noon, after being seri-
Church Considers
Expelling Reds
Rome, Jan. 18 — The Ca-
tholic church’s most severe
sanction , turned against the
Communist party in Italy.
Sources close to the Vati
can secretariat of state say
this possibility “Is not to be
excluded,” and asserted
there is no doubt excommu-
nication will be used if
“Communism becomes . a
threat to the church here.”
These sources say church
circles consider the refusal
of Alfredo Cardinal Scl
ter, archbisop of Milan,
give the sacraments to Com- around
munists an “application of houses on their backs.”
a principle that is evident.”
Strongly Urged By Chief G-Man
Washington. — J. Edgar
Hoover, FBI director, in a
radio broadcast urged a re-
turn to God and to the prac-
tice of daily family prayer.
“If there is hope for the
future of America, if there
is to be peace and happiness
in our homes,” Mr. Hoover
declared," then we, as a na-
tion, must return f
and to the practice of daily
plant at Sheridan.
___■- ... , - - _. Tidewater’s repressuring
According to a report tunit in the Sublime pool is
last week appearing in the1 already being operated by
Columbus Citizen, Tidewat- f Fred L. Miller and Joe L.
cr Associated Oil Co. will McKenzie on a 24-hour ba-
undertakc extensive develop- sis. It was installed in mid-
ments at Sublime where an 1947. The Sublime pool was
attempt is being made to discovered in late 1944 when
candidate for public office,”
George C. Marshall. Yet
without question he is the
ablest man in .the field.
The Republicans in con-
are playing parti-
; politics more than any-
| else. The people shoiild
careful that the"1 Repu-
blicans don’t do to the Mar-
shall Plan what Lodge and
others that time did to Wil-
son’s League of Nations.
(Republicans cost us one
war already.-'"* a-
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To vote in our free elec-
tions is a mighty precious
right. Many people lost it.
We too, no doubt, would ap-1
feciate this right better if
ve should lose it. By the
_ did you pay ^our
noli tex?
M -T • -K
* *
S ' It must be paid by the
st day of this month. It
y be one of the worst
les, to tax people’s right
Vote. But io long as we
people stand for it, we
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