The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1946 Page: 3 of 10
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March 21, 1946
PACE THREE
Political
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£BT RADIO SERVICE
Anno 'ncements
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PASTOR TO GO TO
[ill Electric Co.
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1946.
If SI
•ELECTION ORDER
ll.
(OSH ARON
[CHINE SHOP
J. W. (Jack) Manhall
IHARON, TEXAS
II. T. Mayne
«5
cent
would you
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ART YOUR COURSE?
Sam Lee
Vincent Rehmet
Keep Your Car In Good Repair
FRONT END ALIGNMENT
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FENDER AND BODY REPAIRS
AGES
$7,103 83
WHEEL BALANCING
I4C
Repairing financed on easy pay inent
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plan.
The new modern cemetery located on Houston Highway.
W R E ( KER SER V1C E
HO
100
Pearson Chevrolet Co.
Alvin
Phone 162
PRICES
PROFITS
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For Congress-
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determined to keep in
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Soon-to«be-available electrical
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-fit
prices
asked
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to
ernational
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ikes—Work Guaranteed
ST IN RECORDINGS
Ki CORD PLAYERS
■ H. Littleton.
. Amt. $10
and when the property is
half a million dollar.
Greater beauty, greater dependability, greater economy will be
youra when you plan ahead for better living . . . electrically I
reducible perpet v... trust fund
sold, will reach approximately
County Judge
Thurman Gupton
For State Senator
Jimmy Phillips
of Angleton
rrf\
County Clerk
Bob Monarch
JL-
SOUTH PARK CEMETERY, Inc
John T. Shea. President.
t Cited as
however,
valuable
V
District Clerk
M iis Jim m ie I ’a t terson
t re-election)
Louise Kropf
J. Paul Rogers
Fut RrEirzliun
Total amount of princpal set aside as a perpetual and
Irreducible trust, the income from which has beer, dedicate!
to the general perpetual care of cemetery property $7 103 83
In addition to the above there is accruing to the
Trust Fund on partial payment -aies as of De- 31
$20,017 84
*tb District
Clark \V. Thompson
Of Gaivr«ton
MATERIALS
1946 increases
not included
Superintendent of the
Brazoria County
Sc bools
I
County Attorney
Alton ('. Arnold
* Re-election)
Tax Assessor-
Collector
Geo. W. Sheffield. Jr.
■ Re-election)
SINCLAIR
P.D.KIU
UIT0E5 MOH
L I AS - AM
ROACh
ub.ket to the A* ti. n . t the
I’axpayn I nion Primary,
May 4. 1946.
For Sheriff
L. R. Johnson
Re-Section
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review will
and also on
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■ ••ov ct l ,ibo< Shsim«a with
< i , ji.no IOC- price* o( lang
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MAX VOG AN. Secret.
March 21-28. April 4
Ma r 21 :
Book value of investment carried in above trust $6 400.00
Cash not yet invested in hands of the South Texas Comm-
ercial National Bank of Houston
March
IRS
Warranty Dead
2002 Alvin; Hills Add.: Lot 8:p cgetables
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County Treasurer
Carl Bolin
^’4 /
| r-
inot safe- I
increase
eminent j
iithoriem
price*
ever the 1
\ State Representative
From the 21st District
Carlton Crawford
Re-Klection
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Today’s homemakers are
COURTHOUSE
South Park Cemetery
Office Kresa Bldg.. Houston, Texas
Perpetual Care Trust Fund.
Dec. 31st. 1945.
Cool Shantung in be-
ige. white and turquo-
ise and the new milk
chocolate.
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that’s why more and more have
■■ »»• wouldb» |‘-J 40.
Houston lighting anti Power
!'«tcu
this to say: "We’re going
electric ... all the way!"
dun Dated Jan. 12. 1946
$12,000 No. Rev.
Pt. Aeleasf
appliances offer everything that’s
,-A’AZA>
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if
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interested in new fields of agri-
culture and industrial
No. • ment.
I “Texas is the leading agricul-
I tural state in the nation, ’ cites
s new
modern and new in housekeeping conveniences.
13; Blk 10; Central Hanox or Bk. & -
Tr. Co. to Gulf States Utilities Co j
I Dated Jan. 7. 1944. *— *’ ’
Rev.
Warranty Deed
1994 Alvin; Free's Add.; Lois j Agriculture. Santa Fe’s
5 & 6: Blk. 1; A. H. Free & wife let.
to Walter E Snider & wife. Dated I and
Amt. $10 $1.10 wheat and grains, cotton and live- ;
stuck ftum the High Plains to the j 10 „vm, Bluch ^^,1
[cotton, neo. Hull -nd peanuts., inf.r,,,a(ion ,.n
■ and livestock P»»-|moUe cnndlti™. dependable two
carter It Wife tv J. rd in the ■•.•••;• Gul: Cc;,.;a rc
Dated Feb. 2. 1946 i *,on- makes the state’s production
53 IRS. I of phenomenal 1
value.
■ In 1914, TeXtiS iidlseslea 2V
million acres of field crops and
; other fruits. Rice, wheat, sorghum
i grain, cottui, and uats a1
! the chief field crops;
areas produce
of onions, tomatoes, peanuts,
! fruits, and many other crops.
; With its rolling plains. Texas is
Rev A. E. Burns, pastor of the |
raising outstandingly ! F»r,tt Christian Church, announced |
rating Texas as the top t dus week that he will lea<e for]
[ Ft. Worth March 25 to
aosi r-.
I<X> ___________
The Alvin San, Brainria County’s Oldest Newspaper—Established in 1890
resume
bogin turning o.
bines which v"'
I
Hecauur of the i
which both far
era have in t'
mbm. I.rmvinu r .
attention. Thi
rentu of today’*
trying to char*
to our employ
customers, and:
Booklet Deseribeb
Texas Farming
Texas widespread soil and
matic conditions with its diversi- [ f.ther
bed farming .« derorlhed in a new
booklet recently issued by the ag-
; ricultural department of the Santa i
the leading livestock area in the n>tig,
For those Who wish to own a I United States using approxi-
arm or ranch and be their own • mately 90 million acres tor live- i
xmjs, the booklet furnishes in- i stock productom. Sheep and lamb
i formation on the various areas of : raising puts Texas on top in wool;
1 1 exas and other parts of the production, with an annual pro-
Sa.ita Fe Southwest. ' The pub- duction of 75 million pounds. Ap- :
j hcation will be widely distributed i proximately s5 per cent of the carnations and camillia.*-
' The guests included Mesdan-.es j
O. G Wellborn. M M Dodson. '
W E. Steele. Bob Monarch. Wai- j
luce Red, Frank Mathis. L. A. I’e- ;
terman, George Duncan, Herman j
Davis. A L. Martin. R M. John- 1
' son, and G. W. Pierson, and Misses*
materuihM'ontinu'm t*> rise, obvi-
ously our < . inpniiy will begin to
operate at a loss at some point.
The exact point at which oper-
ating at a Iomh would start w a
matter of judgment. Government
agencies and union leaders may
have opinions .n- to where that
point is But if thev turn out tn
be wrong, they < n vrug their
■houldem ai id mx "Weil, it wasn’t
my responriNity / didn’t make
the decision "
The management <
pany cannot and will
It dares not gamble,
aure. Continual
to millions of iu.-tmem,
tun* jobs of thousands of <
ployea, and the safety of the ...
vertment# »>( .‘‘H ooo wtpekbolder*
<>e|M-n<I on our mnmrg M COniM t ■
decWon aa is humanly jowiible
of thia Com- j
I not say that. |
It iiau to he |
it ion if our wrvice
the fu-
- em- j
e.in‘ |
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St, I. <1/1 '
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What about future prices co
farm machinery ?
'I he judgment of Harvewter'«man- I
agemvnt nowiathatwecanr ' r '
ly make the huge wage .
reiommeuded by the Govt
until the Government autiw..
adequate increuw* in the p?
of farm machinery to cover
remitting ir creaard coot*
'That ia not a judgment that
rssltoa us happy The Company
doca not want U> raise priree We I
prefer to lower prices, when poi - ;
sibh-, .tnd wr km-1- -vtw eustorner* -■
prefer to have us do that. We have
produced at 1942 price*, and hoped 1
we could conunn • to do tv- Wc |
have delayed Keeking general price ,
n ihtt m Um- h' tlud it vunifd la*
avoided. Now we are convinced |
that it cannot be avoided any
longer The price question must I
be settled. Until it » Mettled we
do not nee how we can settle the i
wage question Until the wage j
question is eel tied we do not see J
how we can resume production
and begin turning out the farm
machines which we know our
farmer customers wed
7 important stake
jrmen and cit y dwell
this controversy, we
win frees to ym>r
trough t..i c cur- I
•v’s conditions, we are
a course that w fair ‘
•oyes. to our farmer
1 to ou r stockholders, i
Verna Browning
Purcell.
kut wages?
lx.- lfM n steadilv for five
|L n the strike which be-
■unuary 21 in ten of our
which has choked off
■ farm machinery produc-
lings <>f employes of these
►•raged $1.15 1 an hour.
► .. . uiy overtime. 1 he
f i i rnta per
!• • end a Government
|s now rerominended a
g”<•' |H cents an
► h would make average
R • a an hour Weekly
frould be- $53 40.
lout materials?
k to k..ow how high
l<O'-f«I Wl.LI |»o 'fbn Qov
l> s increased steel prices
p $12 00 a ton, with an
► crease for all grades of
► • i» the most important
buy, hut prices on
■mate nre also increasing,
kur prices?
| ■-m no nt neral increase’
fr. . -mv they wcr, frwn
►cement in early 1942.
► a few small increases
i allowed where particu-
r1'' w**«v substantially
P' design.
put profits?
s’ "ft he American profit
F ;utn so wv do not. of
F either our customers
F - rnmcnt to guarantee
■in be certain of profits
F > he chart folh the
f n.hta during the war.
* 1-rvestcr produced
F than ever before, it
pr< to get rich out of war.
C has sicadtly
F1 yMiat our 1946 profit
Ixtrenaely uncertain.
me next step?
F «ii, otir present aitu-
F:i! with frozen
F’g profits, we are
►' f nmteriah costs and
F' *‘»ggest wage increase
r' rV ol the Comnanv
► ttns-’ * ’
k>'d materials consume
rents of every dollar
I cur puves continue
M cost of wages and
| Correction Deed
. 1833 .Alvin; Pecan Park Add ;
!-ot 19; J. M. Hayes, Ind & Atty
Ft, to Salu Valadc Maldonado; ;
dated March 1, 194C Amt
' $10 00 Uo Rev.
| Afechanic’s Lien & Assn
Phone m! AU - r
* Lot 19; Francisco Maldonado &
——■ - —- '*fe to .’hi .i Valadez i> Ab.in
~77 -----Jr tate Bank Dated M J94f]
/No. Rev.
i IVu mi nty Deed
' 1935 Alvin. Bates Live Oak
S D; Lots 1, 2 & 3. Blk 2; A. E
i Bates to Andrew S Kovich 4
i wife. Dated March 6, 1946
An-it. $10 No. Re i.
J Warranty Deed
E i i> 11 i ’io'H Alvin: I. ' ;2 <Jk
|l‘ Blades Koliea l l; Blk 10. Maude .. M , A
husband to Mrs Minnie M. Bran-!
,19.’9 MV!": L"U..1<)- J2 *| "mong wi- veterans and others! angora goats of the United States! M., „i Benwn
’are in Texas, producing 170,000,- Genotie c
dev elop • 000 pounds of mohair a year. The j
favorable climate of Texas makes'
' the ’ Opportunities in chicken and (
book- j turkey raising outstandingly
It is widespread in its farm i good.
livestock production.” Its ■ turkey state. I Ft. Worth March 25 to a Bend
The booklet divide, Texas into oonvenhon and will retu.
10 areas, giving much valuable P,an?b 28 Regular
.— soil and eli- *• Re'
POO- I matic enndltlOih dependable emos ' .S.U'’'i"3'. M‘r'’h 24
' “ i ui each area and hgures on ctvpj““""’ ■I-7-- /-!
mt.on production. O', .er states covered ;
importance and in ,he nooklet. which was pre-1
, . pared by II. M Rainer, General • i*. It ordered by the beard ol i
Agneultur I Agent for the Santa I trustees ot the Alvin Indepuident I
, fe, are Arizona, California, Colo-I School District that an election be|
, rado, Illinois. Kansas. Missouri, held in the City Hall, in the town!
: New Mexico and Oklahoma. of Ah in in said Alvin Independ- .
—o——— ent School District, on the 6th day 1
MISS WINN HONORED I*^9 iqsh *.«• pnrpnw. '
electing three school trustees fur |
- 1 Alvin Independent School j
Distrkt.
In
«*•
Mrs T. C Edwards, Jr . enter- .
tained at her h<”ne Thursday eve-1
March 14. honoring M.ss | D“”
Eliza Jane Winn Dinner was In testimony whereof witness
served to the assembled guests, j th*- - ^natures < f the president and
seated at small tables in the living' -c* ’ary of said Alvin Indepcud-
rooni, and hdlowiag the dinner Ien’ School District and the seal
there were card games The • the reef hereunto affixed th; llth
rooms were decorated w ith pink | day ■ f March 1946
president, Alvin Inoepcnd-
J E HARRIMAN.
President. Alvin Inde-
!undent School District i
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I Pictured hero are the records of four "life lines’’ of our busi-
Lur things which largely control the destiny of any business,
hr it be a farm, a factory or a store. TTwy are Wages, Mate-
Lwt- Prices, and Profits. Suppose these were pk tun-s of
k going on in your own affairs. How would you chart your
II. R. Stvvens, Jr.
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Coffer, Oliver, Jr. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1946, newspaper, March 21, 1946; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1251436/m1/3/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.