The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 5, 1940 Page: 7 of 8
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UDAY, JANUARY 5. 1940
The Alvin Sun, Alvin and Brazoria County's Oldest Newspaper__Established
1890
•onsistentiy
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Minn Helen
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week-end
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1OW N
I’RS INsTRI MENTAL
unfolds.
Studio at harne of
Mrs. R
Rekin««n>
t Mrs
COMPANY
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Coast to Coast Travel Service
"OUR BUSINESS IS GOING PLACES”
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ON A SHAH* EXPENSE MAS is TO Al A POINT* DAIL A
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OPEN DAY & NIGHT
512 Fannin
522 Milam
LEAVING SEVERAL TIMES DAILY
in-str aint
FOR ALL POINTS
Rogers I
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West Columbia at
Pearland at
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Jaauarv >•».
West C
Fifteenth
justice
in
January I A.
i hat
hunchba<
January 20.
JOE 'H < it
.loF. that
>tic native
January 20.
Court
.mon at Angle
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NOTICE
Alvin
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GULF STATES
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PEARSON CHEVROLET CO
UTILITIES COMPANY
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ALVIN
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CHEVROLET TRUCKS
1940
WAY
L J Longuct G.
Peltier as
« nd WC f<*l
L improvtfl*"'
Improvement of
Freeport Levee
To Begin Soon
Officers Named
On Conservation
Program In ’40
See the New 1940 CHEVROLET TRUCKS on spacial display iH
NATIONAL TRUCK WEEK at your Chevrolet dealer's JAN 8 to fS
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FUma W.mmU
f HuntrviU
Wilk i.
our ■
The story is too well known t<
It is cen
Still 1
and RKi
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January 30.
West Columbia at Al-
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CARS FOR
PASSENGERS
• or * cxrviour-
Horn tyity
NAN ANTONk) tl.M
LOH ANGELKH »I5 *O
PASSENGERS
FOR CARS
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Best Haulers...Best Savers
and 'BEST SELLERS” in the
entire truck field!
Administration in carrying out the
provisions of the Soil Conservation
APPROX
CUNT TO
s
-k.
highest degree
tinguished thespians
found in Hollywood
incidentally, was Mr
ci Another iifp
ered.
Coi'JsU4ueeUiku.
Appear In Local
Gym Bout Friday
Lind .igain ■ l‘<a ]
Lai i 'ii n nnni*Z I
Lli You »dlM
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VINiTH 111 RE
B. Minter, formeil*
visiting in the home c
I. Scott nod family.
Charles Laughton, Star of “The
Hunchback of Notre Dame” Makes
Personal Appearance at Majestic
Tf ' -1 BELIEVE ME
8fsr'
| and
Round-Robin to
Decide Aerial
Championship
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Mrs. Florida Is
Home After Death
Of Sister in Arizona
ing the fight
Minna Gombel ns the Queen
the beggars, Harry Davenport
King Lvui» XI and Atari Marshal
Liler
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I neiihei do
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regular
Mrs
bill, DE-I Alvin.
! FINAN- Mrs J
tors on national affairs,
a severe and caustic
'lew Deal policies, says
• ' ’ministration brought
Iding company I
'O ELIMINATE
From Community No 2. num-
bers elected wen Curtis Mowery,
1. M Pittman and Ferdinand Ko<h
as regular members and
Canaan
ease his pain with
ticket Or can he"
BCD.
to chan up the rotten coi
that made th. hug*. Insull
possible, was merely one e
Water power
Can you i
IHt NATION”
can come
advertently
BEST
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FRANCES ALi.lsON dro;
' The Sun office for a 'Happy
meat ad- i Year” greeting, nnd recalls
nencc II is doubt-1Ihls » f,rsl
rh would have been “ tln> tot lhat ■>"’ h“"’t ,pi
Was Mi Freedom-' v” Home town
the great Kilowa
>t articulate spoke
I T-
poi «Tt7r
hi i iimax tbe »
Lf the telepl**
cphoncsy«e
Ls designed o|»
I telephone huiM-
L uchboud. <«=■
Lnr Outside 1**
L telephone l«
scuss the bea«.ties of free
dom. He is now serving out a
sentence in Sing Sing prison for
plain ordinary stealing to which
he plead guilty. In Mr Wilkie's
various magazine articles he does
Aivin basketball fans will be
treated to a great show- Friday I
January 19. when the world fam
vus Olten* "Drark H'H Bribes. ,
I ft-nsational girls' team, plays an
rxlubitkin game at the Alvin High
School gymnasium.
Fresh from a tour of the east i
where they appeared in Madison
Squire Garden the Olsen lassies
fare on thejr swing through the!
South and W’e«i These Amazons’
(of th* hardwood travel thousands*
i of miles and play 150 games perl
They U« reputedly tnel
jbert g.rls' agg.-cgstlon in baskrt-l
j ball today. So good are they, that!
I* they play men's team* under .
I by any city,
[freedom is a fine thing, but
kv to exercise it where it 1
{anything, or you will be re- j
go as an agitator and a cor-1
n baiter. But regardless of >
heclflc purpose was behind'
Lent introduction of Mr
[to the people of Alvin, he
bn introduced and we can.
I encroaching on anybody’s
a examine the gentleman a
lore closely and see if his
Link magazine philosophy
hter.t with his business and
PIUSBURYS
BEST HOUR
r into the <
i The beggii
ight of Sam ti
the King, si
rious conflh t
•n'r mien and win c
The feature attracts
mu team is Miss Mi.nica Ryan
oot- -inch center, the tallest
I basketballcr in the world. Oth-
place* on the team are very
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, !memb<>rs ami B A Sheffield and |
IT M M< Kissick as alternates. j
| In Community No 4. Jerry Claw j
rd as regular mr-mbt rs and F W
SchovajKa and M Tru&ka wer«
elected as alternates.
These committwmen will tak.
off .« and assume their duties Jan-
uary 1. and shall serve until Dec
'ember M. 1940. and uill cooperate
Ith the Agricultural Adjustment
»'AY JAVarT j
five at
d to impress r
he fact that he wai
d by Mr. Richard
president of the !
k Exchange itself,
by the way. in a
will be in
* really dis-
It was during those hear -!
first began to hear much :
it Mr Wilkie. His arroganc*
>nd screen o
film The
of us remember the stock i
. ..... government.
<erash that cam* m the fall ■ ",
I l h,. unbodied orgy nt. »•<’«
kmpul.t.on, market rig.;’ Whin* more ,
doholeMle Kunbltnc that I "f elec'nf “’"'O ~"^rn» going
L wuntry and ruined mil-1, ou” k,,, P J*™1'11' (rom
‘ • using flood waters of their own
rivers to generate electricity for
their own use ? You can’t, ami
neither could the United States
Supu me Court. Any city in Tex-.....
j as has the right to regulate utility |1V
I rates within its limits. The rules
for doing this sre statutory law
They are fair and so simple any
child in high school can under-
stand them
see a r_“* _ . __ _______
i interfering with the way you gov-
em your own city, undertake to | is
You will be Bi™-..— ___
I dragged through all the courts m ! th,, romantic
! the land at the tail end of th*
most complicated moss it is poasi-,
ble to imagine.
Sir Cedric Hardwlcke as Count 1
Frolic. Thomas Mitchell a« the j
beggar* gink; and Walter Hamp- j
den as the Archdeacon should de- ■
polished performances of the ;
Three more di.--‘
cannot t
The picture, I
_______ Hampden’s!
But if you want tofjjm debut after half-a-century of
real example of Business eminence on the stage
Another discovery of this picture i
young Edmond O'Brien, pleasing
roadway actor imported to play !
.v part of the poet.
Gringoire, opposite Miss O'Hara
The Irish combination was most i
——•..... ; successful and film goers will wel-
rite of all that is said and I come more of both of these talent -
......... / Wendell L. Wilke and <d thespians
tevdotr. is V"thing that"is! o,h*r prattlers about our msh- Although comparisons ar»- rnevit-
J to help people get a httle; have a retty ably inconclusive, it would appear,^
cut of life. They oppose j £°°d government In this cmntry. impossible to writ* a review c-; . . .
»►,... l. Anvone who thinks otherwe..- ran ' The Hunchback of Notre Dam** uhed
9, and the class
1 almost endless hearings
ha that were held to find i
I was the matter and to
cun- it, practically all the ,
>’ figures of Wall Street }
i- and had thetr say '
IHl ledit of most nf them
Rua here that they ren-
igr.-Ks valuable and petrlo-
r» in its worthy under-
Without their hot
nnits a pack of financial
B to do as they please
tcrtralnt The result was
p government »et out to
Ithlngs around so that at ,
Is particular form of cal- I ClhCU/Al
rould not befall us again ’ JiULWALr
I? it sought to put the I
n ; lain unadulterated gam- | \A||VFK1IR^
hd to v arrange things ini | jW YLiiinj
In al marts that when a -fr m m -w — w n-
mt there mid bought a
!!.. thw■»«« wmrlh.ng 4<>F < I.AKK of St.nolind C : ibi.-ush
I tangible behind it. This beaming like the gentleman | mrnt of
I Can you imagine that j
notic freedom loving Am-,
kould actually oppose this;
| merit of technique and the gre;
. spectacular scope of this RKO pre-
i sentatron. much has been added
------ ------------ the psychological treat-
beaming like the gentleman | ment of the themi Chaney’s
I passing see-gar* yrp. th. MISS! m "Hun hba< k was a superb • xam-
came home from a several weeks j pie of the grotesque and shock-;
visit in Beaumont j ing laiughton’s role is a more
• • jM-netrating analysis of the charae- '
Our hat's off • A I.KF HF.NN’l tpf portrayed And h>« Qu«*'mn-l<’
I Anyone that will stop in the mid-1 IS, of course, every bit .
I die of cleaning gseae to give a I physically as Chaney s
weary reporter "Society" deserves The story’ 1* too "*•
;a medall ‘In fart we think any ‘ pear lengthy repetition
To that would clean a goes.- do- tered about the events
J serves a medal • • Count
All Patrons Having Meat In Cold Storage
Are requested to remove lame from the vault by
February First, 1940. Due to vault
repairs being made, there will be
no meat taker, into storage
during February.
people and several thous-
bks. had as its '"cal point
b> YU.'k Stock Exchange .
here it spread fanwise into
took and cranny of Amen
l The country has not re-
Ifrom it yet. and probably i ,
.A •{or doing this are statut<
■me cannot hope to do so. —
■ us the world war caused '
■his it not true unless it
I *ar that invented the ig- j
and greed that caused .
Land also wrote the treaty j
r«ulU mourn'd in ' M"rt“ th'’ r,'h'
I human suffering, and the }
| disclosures of dishonesty i
rotion that followed the j
Kiki have had but one re-
srtunately there Is a school I ,n
Jit in this country that be-1 <*one_ by
ICIAL ” RACKETEERING and!
| ABUSES which reached their peak
I in the Insull affair. IT WAS MR.
; WILKIE’S O W N INDUSTRY |
I WHICH RESISTED WITH EVERY
: WEAPON IT COULD LAY HJ> NDS
1 UPON."
carried I jn
L. Wil-|ah
Chevrolet —world's largest huildei of (rucks—now offers its I
new line for l*4S — M> models on nine wheelbase lengths, ail I
selling in the lowest price range!
Eltra-powcrful \ alve-in-llead l-nginee eifra-eirong I
Hypoid Rear Aslee . . . estra-eturdy (ruck units throughout |
make aB-theee -new t tieviuteta gfm bVior? S' /
i hooee a Sedan Delivery or a lleavi Duty Cab-Over-Engine model. I
And (Chevrolet's famous sis-cylinder economy . . . plus the
exceptional dependability and long life of Chevrolet trucks .
tr-ans that all of them are misers with yotir inrmry when it
cornea to gas. oil and upkeep.
Chooee C-bevToiet trucks for l*4t and you choose the nation's
greatest truck values . . . the beef haulers, best savers and "beef
— tiers’’ tu tow rniiir iiuxk weio
Giving credit to the still-remem- ‘ C.
! be red characterization of the iate i • ----
|-M> ot > TtwoMUX F.o-» • .1 I»*?.* F"
t must b«- admitted that the sound
1 edition la definitely superior to the ■
' old silent film.
Aside from the obvious improve- i
»ater1
vin.
I Freeport vs.
! ton.
Danbury vs Sweeny
Damon vs. Pearland .
January It.
Alvin vs. Angleton nt Angleton.
_ Freeport vs.
Ao i Angleton
. i Danbury vs.
i land.
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In a meeting of representativesjas ff’Kular in.-mbk-rx
of the schools of Brazoria County an4 Elmer C
• who intend to participate i
, kef ball this year, it was d
to determine th* county chai
ship by dividing the school.
A and R classes and playing
i double round-robm in each cln
' Winner of the a c lai
Of i two-out-of-three-game
’thaVf^dMn UMn^thiS1 Anyorn- who thinks otherwue can 'The Hunchback ot Notre Dame Jh^?e°!!Jl^rin on Jan
l---- V- —-.UK a Jtenynship without some mention of the Lon n will begin on Jan-
CUney version of the same book !u«rY J' l,w rl*“ * •>* B
r-u..-- ♦« th.. «tiu.r*m*tn. •‘•hamplonxhips mint t>e decided by
February f The play-off will hr|“
“ bruary 11-17. r*
Schedule as announced by Coun-|_
ty Athletic Director J. U. Rogersi
is a* follows; ]
West Columba at Al-1 I
vs Angleton hi Angle-! I
at Sweeny 1 I
at Pearland | I
ally! [open forum |
FUKEDOM
B) Bait ( DeWitt
^^■dcr! paper recently
^^Kicle by one Wendell
n the subject of freedom in
lea Mr. WiikK- is president 1
utility com bi i - known as j
A ‘•outhern Cor .
pn. and presents a pleasing •
h arrangement ot time-worn j
pt regarding his subject for)
i have appeared in Readers
L I believe, however, it is I
Ld locally more for the ef-
1 might have on public opin- j,
I Ah in on the subject of
L than for its literary value ';
this for the reason that the .,
fcurrr locally has from tlm- ’,
L in the past regaled us with i,
L kinds of publicity seeking |ia a touching thing to no- . how ’
L,,, pooh.- ownvr.h'P of |su..,.Ilv hl, tH.n.,.bl'|„g
k In addition to this it has blends with theirs But as ClapiH" !
busted to cast aspersions on ' Ko..< on
fcer<*st of those who believe ’
b owned utilities is a ques- their maga
bat desen’es careful consid-i v
In other j then, H(. n,
j w here.
We hear mu<h wading a
(government interfen nee with
new; and certainly there is r
reason to believe this
harmful to industry in
Stancils. But it M*rms
all right for business t<
Government whenever
The Utilities fight aga
I
by i pn
Houston spent the holiday
W H Fir
R. J
xeteran of Dublin's f
cater and she disj
talents that brou
in 0.U-
decided’ Community
impion-SHex'trd were
»ls into'w'‘bl' R s
H nwnuocrs ami t»
T M Me Kissick
i and wrinner I --------------
play a best
series for
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Bray, Robert I. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 5, 1940, newspaper, January 5, 1940; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1251857/m1/7/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.