The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1942 Page: 2 of 4
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The precious eyesight of little
children needs all the protection
that good lighting can offer, to
avoid the dangers of eyestrain.
Although most babies are born
with good eyes, by school age
one in five children has defect-
ive vision and by college age
the number has increased to two
out of five.
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wasn’t young Charlie Jenkins from
Elm Street. Used to be a round-
shoulvered kid—one of those jitter
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The Winkler County
News
Published every Friday in Kermit,
The County Seat of Winkler Coun-
ty, Texas, by
H. G. VERMILLION,
Editor and Publisher
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Friday, October Ki, 1942
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Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Smith of
Richland Springs, Texas, visited
their daughter, Mrs. J. G. Briggs
and family, last week.
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of October, 1942.
HAZEL M. BIRTCIEL
Notary Public Winkler County, Texas.
My Commission expires June, 1943.
those stores which
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lighting today. Don’t risk jye-
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or romp with someone. If this is
so, you need not look for her any
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As for the changing price con-
trol picture, the OPA announced a
new alternative pricing formula
which food stores and wholesalers
may use to determine their ceil-
ing prices if they are being
“squeezed” by their March highest
prices. Housewives will observe
effects of the new formula in two
ways—first, slightly higher prices
—a cent or two for the most part
—for the affected foodstuffs in
IjGive You Texas
By BOYCE HOUSE
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T<) the man who killed my dog:
■ *Cherry, the little bird dog, al-
most without a fault, was killed by
some man Tuesday night of last
week while she was in her own
back yard.
A better dispositioned dog never
lived. She loved everyone and nev-
er thought of man as an enemy.
Children could roll over her, pull
her ears, play with her as they
pleased, and her only desire was to
make them happy and be happy
herself.
It might have been that she was
licking the man’s hand when he
killed her. At least she would have
done so had he offered it, for she
only thought of man as a friend.
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Mrs. T. F. Gher of Wink was a
Kermit visitor Monday.
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Statement of the Ownership, Management,
Circulation, Etc., Required by the Acts of
Congress of August 24,1912, and
March 3,1933
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WINKLER
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
$1.50 Per Year in Winkler County;
$2.00 Per Year Elsewhere.
New equipment for modernizing
your lighting is low in cost, good
looking and scientifically designed
to provide plentiful eye-easy light
without harmful glare. We still
have a good stock of modern
lamps and adaptor units purchased
before priorities halted manufac-
ture. Come in and see them today.
Ask for a free light meter
check-up of your lighting. Let
us measure the amount of light
you now have and show you
how it can be improved at small
cost. There is no charge for this
service. Phone for an appoint-
ment today.
Entered as Second Class Matter at
tine Postoffice in Kermit, Texas, un-
der the Act of March 3, 1879. I
Increasmg flow of Allied aid which reaches the U.S.S.R. in spite of
Convoy losses. These pictures, which have just reached the U.S., show
(above) a 28-ton British Mathilda tank manned by Russians going
toto action in support of automatic riflemen. Below Major Kondratyev
(right), Soviet ace, poses with two comrades in front of a British-
built Hurricane. Flying Hurricanes, these airmen downed six of a
light of ten Messerschmitts in one tight without a single loss.
what to do next,
stops alongside.
“Need some help?” he asks.
“Got her almost fixed,” I says.
“But still she won’t start.”
“Looks like your carburetor’s
flooded,” he sayw “Got a screw
driver handy?”
That young soldier knew what
he was doin’ all right. Went to
work just like a professional.
“She’ll be b.K. now,” he says,
straightenin’ up and smilin’.
Any erroneous reflections upon the
standing, character, or reputation of
any person* firm,, or corporation
which may appear in the columns
of The News will be gladly correct-
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THE INDOMITABLE RED ARMY makes good use of the thin bu>
Cabot Executive
On Sunk Destroyer
Lt. Commander Edmund K. Bill-
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Engine turns over O. K. but she Army’s done a lot for Charlie^
won’t start. ' Made a man out of him—and I
So I look under the hood just as ? guess goes for lots of other
if I know what’s the matter. Tap youn& fellows, too.
a few things with a wrench. While
I’m standin’ there, wondering The other day I read how some
what to do next, a young soldier -folks worry about the soldiers
havin’ a glass of beer now and
then. Well, after seein’ Charlie, I
don’t think there’s much cause for
people to fret
Just like Charlie says—“If yon
can trust us with guns and ship*
and tanks, I guess you can trust
us with a glass of beer once tn *
while, if we happen to want one.”
And I know the beer industry
is co-operating with the Army and
decent places. r
> From where I sit, this country's
never seen a finer, cleaner, better-
behaved lot of men thaik the ones
in uniform today... I’m not worry-
in’ about ’em!
Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the State and county afore-
said, personally appeared H. G. Vermillion, who, having, been duly
sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the owner of the
Winkler County News, and that the following is, to the best of his
knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management,
etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption,
required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended by the Act of March
3, 1933, embodied in section 537, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed
on the reverse of this form, to wit:
1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing
editor, and business managers are:
Publisher—H. G. Vermillion, Kermit, Texas.
Editor—H. G. Vermillion, Kermit Texas.
2. That the owner is: H. G. Vermillion.
3. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and other security hold-
ers owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds,
mortgages, or, other securities are: W. H. Wilson, El Paso Times; Dan
P. English, First State Bank of Monahans, First National Bank of Pecos.
4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving names of owners,
stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of
stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the
company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder ap-
pears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary
relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee
is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain state-
ments embracing affiant’s full knowledge and belief as to the circum-
stances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders
who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold
stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona) fide owner;
and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, associa-
tion, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock,
or other securities than as so stated, by him.
ONE-A-DAY
Vitamin A and D Tablets
THACH tablet contains 25% more
JO than minimum daily require-
ments of these two essential Vi-
tamins. Insufficient Vitamin A may
cause night blindness, may lessen
resistance to infection of the nose,
throat, eyes, ears and sinuses.
Vitamin D is necessary to enable
the body to make use of the calcium
and phosphorus in our food.
Insure your minimum requirements
of these two important Vitamins, by
taking a ONE-A-DAY Vitamin A
and D Tablet every day.
Economical—5W - or less - per
month.
Convenient—you take only one
tablet a day.
Pleasant—children actually like
the taste — and so will you.
IMPORTANT—when buying Vita-
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On the Home Front
(Official Release of Office For
Emergency Management)
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HAVE BETTER LIGHT FOR BETTER SIGHT
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The voluntary “share the meat”
ration will not be entirely simple
if each person is honest with him-
self and his country. The ration
does not apply to light meat eat-
ers, infants, invalids, and old peo-
ple. But those who have been av-
eraging more than the ration must
eat larger quantities of foods with
nourishment values similar to the
“red meats”—fruits, cereals, dry
beans, soybeans, peas, peanuts,
milk and cheese, poultry, fish, eggs
and the like. Meat bones, in-
eluded in the ration quota, will go
more than ever into soup stocks
and there will be servings of such
things as kidneys, brains
hearts, which are not on the
tion list, more often.
Farmers who slaughter their
meats and butchers who handle
them are obligated to keep the
same rations as the rest.
In addition to meat conservation,
housewives are urged to store up
foods for the coming year while
farms and home gardens are still
yielding fruits, tomatoes, cabbag-
es, and a wide assortment of root
crops. Jars, shelves and storage
bins should be filled up with home
grown and home canned products
to supplement the nation’s limited
commercial supply.
Through another form of ration-
ing, controls over coffee were
tightened during the week with the
quota delivery system extended to
all restaurants and retailers, most
of whom were not previously sub-
ject to restriction. Sales and use
will be subject to percentage al-
lotments.
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In transportation, a five-point
program to keep America’s passen-
ger cars rolling for essential mile-
age with a minimum use of rubber
has been outlined by the Govern-
ment. This includes rationing of
used tires and recaps, control of
mileage througn the rationing of
gasoline, compulsory periodic in-
spection of tires to guard against
abuse and to prevent wear beyond
the point where they can be re-
capped, denial of gasoline and tire
replacements to drivers who fail
to abide by the national speed lim-
it, and capacity?use of cars through
car sharing. ? i ' • , .
Under the ODT program calling
for certificates of necessity on all
trucks and commercial vehicles
by November 15, mailing of cer-
tificate application forms have
been started in the Southwest,
with owners in 19 counties in Ok-
lahoma the first on the list. Oth-
er owners will receive theirs as
fast as possible. County and Par-
ish War Boards are setting up
transportation committees through-
out Texas, Oklahoma and Louisi-
ana to assist farmers in filling in
(even on grounds that
- hers) instead of stooping so
as to use strychnine, which would
have caused her hours, and maybe
days, of suffering. For that much,
you have my thanks.
It isn’t probable that there is a
future "happy hunting ground” for
kind, little brown-eyed dogs tike
Cherry. But if there is, she is over
the blanks.
In addition to personal and com-
mercial transportation, schools also
'are affected by recent ODT poli- I
Continuance of school bus ! nouncement
service will depend on strict and
immediate compliance with con-
servation principles. x School dis-
tricts are asked to survey their
service at once to see where cuts
can be made. There must be few-
er stops and no duplication of ser-
vice, and physically able children
may be asked to walk up to two
miles to and from school where
weather permits.
have been
under the
1 March ceiling; and second, the re-
appearance on the shelves of these
same stores of many brands and
products that have been in scant
supply or missing entirely.
The regulation, effective Oct. 15,
applies only to the following
groups of foods—breakfast cereals,
canned fish, cooking and salad oils,
sugar, canned vegetables, coffee,
rice, hydrogenated shortening, oth-
er shortening, dried fruits, and
lard. Wholesalers must complete
their adjustments by Nov. 30.
At first, on the basis of OPA
studies, the housewife will find
that only one store out of five in
Jier neighborhood will have higher
price tags. As the adjustment per-
iod progresses and additional
stores restock at higher net whole-
sale prices, retail price advances
will be in greater evidence.
However, it is expected that the
majority of distributors—both
wholesale and retail—will continue
to find their March prices on the
food groups other than lanti and
dried fruits more attractive on
most items and will retain them.
The new ceilings are optional on
. I all the food groups listed except
lard and dried fruits. The new
formula must be used for the lat-
ter two. -
An investigation made by
Bureau of Economic Geology at the
University of Texas several years
ago revealed a hundred kinds of
commercially valuable stones in
the area west of Austin in the
counties of Travis, Burnet, Llano,
Mason, Lampasas, Gillespie and
San Saba.
Food, shelter, clothing and
transportation represent the Home
Front essentials while most of ev-
erything else goes to war. And of
the four essentials certain maxi-
mums will have to suffice for civil-
ians.
During the last week while points
concerning some of the maximums
were being worked out, interest in
all of the essentials except cloth-
ing was high.
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FOOD—All civilians are asked to
“share the meat” by going on a
volunteer 2 1-2 pounds per person
per week ration pending enforced
■i rationing about next February. Al-
; though price control now has been
extended to all but about 10 per-
cent of the average food basket,
certain adjustments in prices are
being made to eliminate inequities.
SHE L T E R—Nationwide rent
control Was order. Areas al-
ready designated will have enforced
control as soon as the Office of
i Price Control can take necessary
steps. Control in all other areas
will be possible on and after De-
cember 5.
TRANSPORTATION—T he O f-
fice of Defense Transportation and
the OPA announced that the na-
tional policy for mileage-gasoline
rationing will be to keep cars roll-
ing by saving all tire miles possi-
ble for essential use to help the
war effort.
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dent and sales manager of the
Cabot Carbon Company, of Boston,
Mass., was one of the officers on
the Qunicy, destroyer lost in the
for the Solomon Islands,
Neely, K e r in i t gasoline
superintendent for Cabot,
said this week.
Fate of Billings was not known,
one of the
lost in an
the Navy
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birds all day for this man if he
had invited her. He could have
taken his own good time going to
her when she found them, for re-
gardless of the delay, she would
have kept them until he arrived.
She would even have found his
dead birds, brougfit them to him
and placed them in his hand.
All she wanted .in return was a
little kindness—and that much she
had learned to expect front all men,
regardless of race, creed or color.
Never once did she suspect that,
when you called her to the fence
(whoever you are), you were go-
ing to poke a gun in her face and
her mouth and head full of
She only thought of a gun
as something of joy, and the man
behind it as the greatest friend in
the world.
This little brown-eyed dog would
have taken care of your babies if
you have babies) all day long,
watching over them, romping with
them, giving them pure joy. Had
you invited her, she would have
asked nothing in return but the
few scraps left from your table
and the kindness of a human be-
ing.
Yes, that is the kind of a little
dog you called to the fence in her
own back yard and shot while she
was unsuspecting—a little dog that
I had refused ?300 for.
Man, the next time you pick up
a gun and look down its sights, 1
hope you will see a pair of soft
brown eyes looking up into your
face for kindness and expecting a
pat on the head instead of a load
of shot. The next time you go
hunting and the birds get up in
front of you, I only hope you will
see a little white-and-brown dog
standing out there, rigid on point,
her tail curled over her back, hold-
ing them for you, as much as to
say, “Here they are. boss, come
on and get them when you are
ready.” And when your birds fall
out in front, stand in your tracks
and imagine a little dog making a
dash for them, as much as to say,
“Boss, you don’t have to move; I’ll
bring them to you and place them
in your hand of your game bag.”
Yes, the next time you look down
a gun barrel, see a pair of soft I
brown eyes that were as innocent
and friendly as would be a baby’s I
if it were holding out its chubby
arms and asking to come to you—
and then go ahead and pull the
trigger.
Cherry (the little dog you called
to the fence in her own back yard
—the yard in which she had been
raised from puppyhood) was get-
ting old. She didn’t have many
years ahead of her, but those years
would have been filled with deeds
of kindness to anyone who had been
looking for such from a dumb ani-
mal, and yet could understand
your wants and make hers known.
Whoever you are, you still have
one spark of kindness that
should cultivate and let grow,
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Vermillion, Henry G. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1942, newspaper, October 16, 1942; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1227193/m1/2/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.