The Celeste Courier (Celeste, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1955 Page: 2 of 4
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Sept. Draft Call
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SUBSCRIPTION PRICES
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FUNERAL HOME
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What the lovely tree and the dashing waterfall and the cloud-flecked sky say to us
depends much on the creative mood and the inner interest of Our minds and hearts. "The
heavens declare the glory of God" only to those who are reverent and believing. What we
bring of inner beauty will determine the ministry of external beauty.
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The house builder in us will look upon a majestic Douglass Fir and see in it lumber feet
for the constrwtMn of homes and bams and business structures and churches. The botanist
will look upon the varied gkry erf the natural world to classify leaf and petal and root
The artist is carried away with symmetry and color and light and shade that ravish a
sensitive soul. The child of God hears the woods and the sky and the falling streams as
they shout, "God made us, and we are serving His creative purpose. Join us in praising and
worshipping our Creator. Come with us to Church.”
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Reflection
TRADEMARK COPR. IB BA
...with JAMES C. INGEBRETSEN
President, Spiritual Mobilization
A known axiom in restaurant
business is surest way to
broke is to leave back door
locked.
NOTICE
Several of our subscribers are
in arrears with their payment.
If this applies to you please pay
now by mailing same to Drawer
6, Celeste, or Drawer 308, Leon-
ard.
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This Advertisement Sponsored by th e Following Business People of Celeste
Evans & Son Grocery G. D. Henslee & Company
In each of us is something of the practical business man and of the lover of nature and of
the artist and of the worshipper. Which of them shall we make dominant as we look upon
this beauty today? Which side of our nature shall we cultivate for rich and abundant
living? We are hand and eye and mind and spirit, and, of them all, we were intended to be
primarily spiritual children of God. Lefi bow today before our God who is truth and
goodness, but also Beauty. Let’s be beautiful la our spirits through this day, that we may
be members of the Family of our God.
Mrs. Johnny Bill Cawthon of
Greenville underwent surgery at
Baylor Hospital in Dallas this
week. She was reported as do-
ing nicely Wednesday. Her
mother-in-law, Mrs. John Caw-
thon of Celeste, is attending her.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: An’
erroneous reflection upon tha char
acter, reputation or standing oi
any individual, will be corrected
of brought to the attention of the
publisher.
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ELK GROVE, CALIF., CITIZEN: “With the completion
of the 10 millionth home in the United States since 1945, it
is safe to say that America has built more homes in a decade
•than, any other country in history ... It illustrates how the
many cogs in the free enterprise machine work in harmony
for building construction is not merely a matter of putting
materials together. Back of the construction industry is the
vast army of producers and suppliers, along with the banks
and other financial institutions, which gather individual
savings and mobilize them for building and other useful
purposes ”
NORWALK, CONN., HOUR: “Automation does not nec-
essarily mean fewer jobs. It means greater production by
more skilled and better trained workers. It also should
mean a higher standard of living for the workers who can
qualify as the new operatives, as well as to the public gen-
erally through greater production.”
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Peace Of Mind It Gives”
By BETTY BARCLAY
The idea that woman’s place
was in the kitchen, if she wanted
to feed her family well, is just a
quaint memory. Nowadays the
woman who knows how to pick
and choose wisely from the ready
to serve foods on the grocer’s
shelves, the fresh fruit and vege-
table stalls, can serve summer
meals that click with a minimum '
number of hours spent brewing
and baking in the kitchen.
Canned ravioli is a specially
helpful ready-to-heat-and-serve
mainstay for summer meals. It is
full of appetite appeal, full of
nourishment, and easy to prepare.
The Chef Boy-ar-dee beef-filled
ravioli, simmered in the flavor-
some Chef sauce until tender,
makes a satisfying main, dish for
many summer meals. With a
crisp green salad, rolls and iced
tea or coffee—milk for the milk
drinker—it is a delicious summer
luncheon. With fresh or frozen
green peas, corn, green beans,
spinach, it is adequate for an easy
summer dinner. Bread sticks add
a welcome note of crispness and a
crisp salad of fresh greens is good
with ravioli at dinner, too. Ice
cream or a fresh fruit dessert of
any sort makes a perfect ending
for this sort of easy-to-prepare
meal.
Since there is such a vogue now
for Italian-style foods, a few cans
of this beef-filled ravioli on the
supply shelf are a comfort. They
can be brought out, opened, heated
and served in no time for an
emergency meal or an Impromptu
A state draft call for 536 men
for September was announced
Thursday by Brigadier General
Paul L. Wakefield, state Selective
Service director.
The quota, the state’s- share of
a national call for 10,000 men, is
14 less than the August
The July call is identical
the August quota. Calls
ranged between 500 and
month during most of 1955.
Local board quotas for the
September induction into the
Army will be mailed from state
Selective Service headquarters
during the first week in August.
There will be no physical-
mental examinations of men for
military service through the
draft boards in September, ex-
cept in isolated cases. General
Wakefield said.
With the exception of volun-
teers arid possible delinquents,
the August induction call will be
filled only with men who on Sep-
tember 1 are 21 years of age or
older, General Wakefield said.
He said such direction of in-
duction of older age groups was
under authority of the national
director of Selective Service and
such instructions were received
with the state call.
appointed for a term of 14 years,
check all claims made against
the government.
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Yet this office lacks both power
and staff to carry on investiga-
tion work into government finan-
cial affairs in same manner
Federal Bureau of Investigation
works in field of security.
* * *
For example it has been
charged past few months on oc-
casions that Harold Stassen, as
head of foreign aid operations,
diverted funds to projects not
within intent of Congress.
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Neither is it necessary at all
times to throw criminal charges
at someone when government
funds are misused. Ignorance
is as costly as criminal intent.
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For example, when celebrated
hamburger story broke, scores
of ranking brass were called up
before Congress. Yet it is rather
specious to expect professional
men to be businessmen. And it
is questionable with the com-
plexity of modern warfare and
defense whether nation has any
right to expect military men to
acquire business knowledge.
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In short, Hoover Commission
reports already indicate great
lack in American government.
There is the absence of impartial,
non-partisan business-trained of-
ficials, with authority to blow
the whistle on bureaucrats.
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And now that foreign aid pro-
gram, under its new name. Mu-
tual Cooperation Administration
is moving with its billions of dol-
lars into the State Department,
need for such authority becomes
imperative. As shown by many
instances, striped pants career
boys running around wrinkling
brows over global problems are
not inclined to stoop to such
mundane matters as getting a
buck’s worth for a dollar.
“The cost of electric energy in
the average family budget is
about 1 percent,” said W. C. Mul-
lendore, Chairman of the Board
of the Southern California Edi-
son Company, in a talk before
the National Industrial Confer-
ence Board in New York City
recently. “The average family’s
daily electric bill is 18 cents;
their tax bill (concealed and
otherwise) is $5.00.”
Both electricity and govern-
ment are, in their legitimate
roles, our servants. Electricity
might considered as a retinue of
household helpers performing a
great variety of tasks. Govern-
ment is properly the guard that
marches up and down in front
of our homes to protect them
from harm. Granting that the
guard’s duties may be basically
more important than the house-
hold helpers’, does it seem right
that the compensation for these
services should be in the pro-
portion of 18 cents a day to the
household servants against $5.00
a day to the guard?
It seems to me that it is highly
important that we so live that
we can drastically curtail the
ministrations we receive from
the guard. If to such curtail-
ment were added efficiency in
performance of the functions re-
maining, surely the guard’s sal-
ary could, without injustice, be
materially rediiced.
(Stressing the vital need for more water supplies in the
State of Texas is the following statement of Senator Dorsey
B. Hardeman, Texas Water Resources Committee).
Texans need to gird their loins, bow their necks and
keep moving forward until they solve their water problem.
They have no other choice. It is not a question of wait-
ing until tomorrow or next week or next year. At last, the
great state of Texas has run out of time as far as water is
concerned. The hour has already struck. The deadline is
upon us.
Since 1913, when the first serious effort began to try to
martial our water resources, there has always been a tomor-
row. Meetings were held, surveys were made, orginizations
interested in water were formed, legislatures met and aj-
journed, experts orated and the water problem was kicked
around from Brownsville to Texline and and from Texark-
ana to El Paso and intermediate points.
In the past 42 years, after all the talking, all the legisla-
ing, all the meetings, all the “viewings with alarm,” we come
to the close of 1955, with the Texas water situation still un-
solved.
Ironically, the stark, arid fact that Texas is soon to be a
state with a very limited water supply, comes at a time when
it is due to have the greatest industrial and population boom
in history.
Great industries with blueprints already made, some
with factory sites already purchased, ready and raring to
come to Texas and add to our payrolls and tax-rolls are of
necessity forced to look elsewhere. Smokestacks that would
have graced the Texas industrial horizon will go to states
that have water.
Oh yes, we still have the climate, the natural gas for
fuel, the abundance of labor and the low tax structure but
the prime essential—water—is lacking.
Texas cities, some of them growing by the tens of thou-
sands monthly, before too long will have to put out not the
“Standing Room Only” sign but will have to tell all and sun-
dry that because of lack of water they can welcome no more
new citizens. Many officials face each summer with a dread,
inner feeling of consternation and alarm for fear they will
run out of water before fall.
The picture is just as bleak not only from the industrial
and municipal standpoint but our great agriculture and live-
stock industries, are fast approaching the point to where
liquidation will be forced upon them.
Water tables in rich agricultural and industrial areas are
falling at an alarming rate. Records of the State Board of
Water Engineers bear mute testimony to this fact. Water
is actually being mined in some sections of the state, as own-
ers frantically go deeper and deeper to bring water to the
top. Common sense tells us that unless the water is conserv-
ed and the water tables allowed to rise, the ultimate result
can be but chasos.
The time has come when Texans of all ranks and in all
walks must sit down together and decide what they are go-
ing to do about this water problem. No longer can the legis-
lature, the governor, a handful of people keenly interested
in water, carry the load alone.
Ultimately there is going to have to be some giving and
some taking. Some are going to get hurt and their cries of
anguish will reverberate all over the state. But, if Texas as
a whole is going to be saved, the chips are going to have to
fall where they may.
The newspapers of Texas are now alerted and alarmed. ;
They are beginning to cry out in strong editorial voice, for
Texas to put on its fighting clothes and lick this threat of a
water shortage that will surely spell disaster for all all of us.
I call upon the people of Texas to organize and enter i
this battle for survival just as grimly and just as bravely as -
they have met other foes and defeated them. j
I call upon the farmers, the ranchers, the bankers, labor, ]
industry, our utility companies, our city and county officials, j
chambers of commerce, civic clubs, newspapers, radio and ;
TV stations, women’s clubs—in short, all thinking adult men i
and women in whatever walk of Texas life they happen to
be, to band together for a single purpose . . . solve our wat-
er problem. Organize, have a central clearing house and the
fan out and make Texas so water conscious that our public
officials will know exactly what the people of Texas want,
waterwise, and will give it to them.
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This is basically lesson in re-
ports released so far by Com-
mission of Organization of the
Executive Branch of the Govern-
ly. deep, sin- f,
of this commit-
tee is not. " J
ting publicity
deserves. Rath-' -'fy
er, highlights c^wlnardfr^
such as revelation Armed Forces
have 80 year supply of canned
hamburgers, get press notices,
hence real significance is lost.
♦ * *
But again and again through
reports, commission calls atten-
tion to fact bureaucracy has
managed to evade intent of Con-
gress with resulting waste. -It
also calls on Congress to ask
Comptroller General of the U. S.
to study various situations and
make recommendations to cor-
rect bureaucratic abuses.
* * *
, At present time, reports show,
there is actually no way to pull
up reins on bureaucrats running
amuck. Congress as a body is
too busy to mate checks needed
on executive branch of govern-
ment. Seldom does a committee
get into this type of work, as re-
cently when Sen. Harry Byrd,
Va., exposed FHA operations.
* * *
So it is reasoned Congress
should have a constant watchdog
reporting to it. The Comptroller
General’s office is regarded in
some quarters as logical place
to place this responsibility. This
office, established in 1921, pro-
vides that Comptroller General,
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