Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 183, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 25, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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, AUGUST 25,1942
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after its >y^az> ■*•
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FOR SALE- Extra choice pears.
Limited supply. Buy now. Per
bushel, 11.00, L. B. White, Route
S. Formerly Albert Mueller Farm.
—183-4t.
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STRAYED Smail Red Rig. Tele-
phone 2002.—18^-4tp.
~ mcER CRAAER COUGAR
BENB^ Ore. (U.Rl—Somewhere in
the Oregon forestg there’s a cou-
gar who has lost face. Hunters
tell the tale of a doe deer who re-
cently Chased a full-grown cougar
for 10 minutes because the cat had
dared to approach her baby fawns.
Git t”our Sc.rap Into the Scrap!
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CHICKS CHICKS CHtCKS
Beginning Aug. 10 for Custom
Hatching. Setting day* win be
Mondays- and Thursdays.
On SepL 1 we will Jiave chfeks
for sale f r 0 m blood-tested
flocks with high egg productiOQ
rwconas.'
NEIGHBORHOOD
HATCHERY
1*04 North Park Street
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OF ntANSPORWnoN BEGIM^NO
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FOR SALE Six months "old Pb^"
land-China hog Edwin Schmid,
Route 2.—lS3-2tc .
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Yoh e ent
FOR RENT 5 room furnished
apartment, Frigidaire, near school.
Dial 2104.—l«S-3t.
FOR It a N T—Two houses
Schumachers addition.
2787.—17®-tf.
FOR RENT—To couplA furnished
apartment, also an upstairs bed-
room. Mrs. R. V. Hoffmann, dial
7861.—158-tf.
NiPaly Fhrhlshed apartment with y;
sleeping porch, over Geick Service
Station, can 2282 or 2778.-154-
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Modern unfurnished apartment,
one block from town. Dial 2575.—
144-tf.
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Two Michigan men pleaded
not guilty to stealing 30 gal-
lon* of cream. Maybe it was
vanishing cream.
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You’re always glad to get home
trotn vacation*till you get there.
An election in Indiana was
settled by the tossing of a coin.
More coins than one art tossed
to settle some elections.
If you get out and work to pay
the doctor it may cure your aib
tnents.
BABY CHICKS
Bred from world fwoos
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Also all other leading breeds.
Pulleta and cockerels at reason-
able prices. Custom Hatching
carefully done In our new 1»42
Model Buckeye Streamliner.
Tray hdlds approximately 160
eggs. Bring eggs Saturdays,
Sundays or Wednesdays.
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WANTED—White girl for general
house work for family of three.
Write-P. O .Box 331, Brenham.—
177-tf. .
Wanted — American or Mexican-
American men to file application
for year round employment In the
AAM College Dining Hall. Free
meals, steam-heated living quar-
ters. Must be American citizens or
have first papers toward natural-
ization. L. W. Brittain, Personnel
Steward.—179-7t.’
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press but runs up against a wall
of secrecy when- making inquiries
about many matters.
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President Roosevelt's phrase "no
worthwhile comment,” has a coun-
terpart in the frequent expression
U^ed by Texas’ Governor Coke R.
Stevenson.
In'the morning conference with
the Ooveror (resumed after the
leaving of Former Gov. W. Lee
O'Daniel) newspaper correspond-
ents Invite the gove--,.'.. to com-
ment'on aything of curtent inter-
est.
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WANTED
>s, aersp rsbber, **■*%
■■, »rtn, copper, alomiMM aa*
ik cm? Whoa yes aw4 *eM
tabes or sew aad seed asto
’’sAlipR AUTO SUPPLY
PHONK 7M1 BBPMNAM
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RED RYDBB
WANTED Good reliable and ex-
perienced Yard Man with good
references. Write or see Temple
Lumber Co., Freeport; Texas.—Itp
WANTED- Wlsite or colored wo-
man for general house work, goni
pay. See or phone 7221. Mrs.
Sam Chanowsky at Sam’s Auto
Supply.—182-2t.
WANTED- September 1st. Ser-*
vice station man. full time employ,
ment. Grant’s Gulf Station. High-
way No. 6. College Station. Tex.—
182-3tp.
WANTED — Honest, dependable,
middle-aged couple for farm, poul-
try raising, housework and cook-
ing. Three room houA? and elec-
tricity provided. >20.00 per month
and share of farm produce. Coun-
try Club Estate. Phone 56-F-2.—
180-6t.
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/THE fellow who sings his own
praises seldom Is asked for an
tacore.
that’s better than the one I have
so I can run these Japs back to
Tokyo. Next, 1 want you to ask
my wife whether we had a boy
a girl,” he continued. "She
supposed to have a baby
month. Hope it was a girl."
One of the first calls Johnson
made in Austin was at the 31st
BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS, BRENHAM, TEXAS
der instructions issued by the <
State Board of Control last April
the eleemosynary institutions had
gathered 148.(02 pounds and un- ,
der a June order a collection of ,
7,172 pounds of rubber Was made.
The State Highway Department
has furnished 120,078 pounds at (
scrap rubber and 716,000 pounds ,
take IT
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hfSTERY MESA?
NICE PAINT—Saddle horse. 7
years. Mrs. R. Gutowski, Route 1,
Chapel Hill.—18Mtp, -
For Sale- Excellent new- 5-room
bungalow home. Close in. Hard-
wood floors, tile drain, modern
fixtures. Easily financed. Small
monthly payments. Phone 547.—
171-15t.
PLAYING,
CARDS,
WITH THE FACES
SHOWING
SILHOUETTES OF
ALL PRINCIPAL
COMBAT AIRCRAFT,
/klre BEING
PMObUCEO TO AID
SOLDIERS ANO
CIVILIANS In
plane .
identification/
U.S. PLANES ARE
BRiTiSh^Apf
GERMAN AWE’,
zvxt/wo/vjar and
JAPANESE, CZCZiSS’.
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TRYIN' T'FAKE a
BROOKLYN ACCENT
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Dr. A. H. Howell
OPTOMETRIST
EYES EXAMINED
. GUESSES FITTED
Brenham, Texas
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ANSWER: Train, trolley, tricycle, truck, taxi, tractor.
3 SW«AR l'V6
of scrap metal. The Depart-
ment of Public safety turned in
1,110 pounds of scrap rubber,
k The state capitol building and
grounds furnished 1,348 pounds of
rubber and 84,280 pounds of metal.
Sales of the scrap brought the
state 110,378, for the ®7.8 tons of
rubber and 542 tons of metal.
Lu X
BACK IN THFREA
YOU BIG BW-LOP-1
ER,.' YOU CAN’T
k GO ROUND j
Kbustin UPMj/
Texas Tech daA showed that
^rJS?.>faSetS'>Re?' ^oukl ^be^HdaL" hJ^u^'] "1th*
the phrase repeatedly in connec-
tion with University affairs.
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Congressman Lyndon Johnson
’Bf 'A'lK'UfJtertrwwtod-arL Bs’ad /«.
a fellow townsman when he earn* „,,t .
home from Port Moresby, New
Guinea, an island off Northerly
Australia,, ... . ...
the Nayy, Johnson visited the Pa-
cific war zone. One person he met
was a taciturn American pursuit
pilot at Port Moresby. Several
questions brought out that the pl-
.lot’s home was in Austin on 34th
Street. Johnson lives on 31st
Street.
Johnson asked if he could do
anything for the flier when he got
back to Texas.
."Well, there are two filing's,"
was thej'epljr. “First, I want you
to see if you can get me a plane
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Regents'of the University form
cme state body ^hat clings to the
“ idea of closed sessions in dealing
with public affairs. It is recalled
H . that the whole Medical School
mess did not g*t decisive action
, -< unti) •**“-„« . ‘ J 1 J
. file matter try the House of
* resentatives committee which held
hearings, and developed informa-
tion. which if known to the fte-
..— _____KtOta, had tiot become known to
the public.. ------------T”
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No change in the membership
of the Board of Regents is expect-
. • • r" e<1 to bft made next January when
ttrms of three of nine members
expire, because Gov. Cok® R. Stev-
enson has named two of the Re-
gents who hold expiring terms,
“rtie third regent whose term ends
is H. H. Weinert of Seguin, in
whose Judgement Mnd ability the
Governor has complete confidence.
If his appointees follow the gov-
ernor’s example, however, there
Will be much more frankness and
publicity about what goes on at
the University in the future. And
an able public relations depart-
ment has co-operated with the
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Johnson found on his trips that
Texans make this a "very small
world.” Wherever he stopped to
talk with soldiers and sailors, he
found men from Texas.
8n route home, the Congress-
man made an overnight halt at a
small island north of New Zea-
land Three Americans, sleeves
rolled up and minus neckties, came
down to the beach.
One of the was Eugene Worley,
Congressman from Shamrock,
Texas, and a former state legis-
lator, Like Johnson, Worley held
a lieutenant-commander's commis-
sion in the Navy.
President Roosevelt since has
requested all members of Congress
either to give up commissions in
the armed forces or to resign their
civil office.
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Experts of Texas Technological
College and the University Of Tex-
as were called‘upon by Governor
Stevenson when he reosjved word
that there was a proposal before
the War Production Board to cen-
tralize manufacture of clviliaft ap-
parel in New- York for the dura-
tion of the war.
Texas Tech came across prompt-
ly with a survey of raw materials,
labor, transportation facilities,
warehouses, storage; power, man-
agerial ■ ability arid capital, and
credit facilities.
of Texas had the data ready on
comparative number of clothing
plants, 'mariuafeturing reports, a
breakdown ot the. articles made, -
and a report on the economic ef-
fect of transfer of the industry
to one locality. J ?
After the war, Uhiverstty e*«
pert Dr. A. Cox..pointed out, the
mdustry wpnld be given mich lin
advantage.
locations that other sections would
be badly handicapped.
Hia reply usually is: “I do not._ Iexas
tknt ,u<„,, t JU" vmrvv.ni
.
| nation's wool and 85 percent Of
i the nation's mohair and that no
other part of the United States
has as abundant a supply of baste
The report showed too
YMKfcdtwH* ’•pY/.
Houston is the largest-commercial ■
warehouse In America.
• —0-0-0——
lieutenant-commander tn1fc State officials this weekXmade
up a report on the state’s partici-
pation in the Salvage campaign.
The report showed that the state
institutions turned in 135,708
pounds of scrap rubber and up
to August 1, had turned in 948,- ■ I
282 pounds of scrap metal. 1
A brekk-down showed that un-
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FOR MALE
BHrgdfn-—1933 Ford 2-door coach
good rubber. Buddy Jaster, Rt. 4,1
Brenham— 18S-3tp.
Street address where the flier’*
wife lived. The baby had arrived,
and when Johnson saw it was a
husky eight -weeks-old-g 1 r 1, he
told the mother that was what her
husband wanted.
”1 sure wish you could get won!
to my husband," said the mother.
‘Tve sent him five telegrams but
I’m sure he didn’t get them or he
would have replied."
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@3L telephoning, Johnson, took
the matter up with officials in
Washington, He begged those in
charge of communication with
the fighting zone to make an ex-
ception in this one case. The in-
formation got through as an offic-
ial advisory to the pilot.
Next day, his wife got acknow-
ledgment that her husband knew
the baby was a girl.
Now Johnson hopes the fellow
can get a first-class fighter plane.
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