Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 63, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 10, 1938 Page: 1 of 4
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Workmen are busily engaged
placing a red clay topping on
road between Plantersville and
Mr.
city
in
the
An-
derson. which will result in a splen-
did Improvement. At the present, it
is difficult to travel along the road
In spots where the passage is only
wide enough for one car, and much
delay is encountered in meeting other
vehicles. Another improvement is be-
ing made on a lateral road from Be-
dias to John Conn and then to High-
way No. 46, which leads into Shlro.
These two road projects will benefit
all communities in Grimes County.
News of interest to the highway en-
thusiasts around thia section of the
country comes from the Colorado-to-
Oulf Highway Association in Vernon,
where the publicity committee is get-
ting ready to launch advertising in
behalf of this route. Navasota la a
member of the group, and, since high-
way 6 of the route runs through thia
section, is vitally interested in what-
ever work the association intends to
carry out. The proposal agreed upon
by the committee, of which R. W.
Knight is chairman, calls for the pub-
lishing of 100,000 strip maps showing
tbe routes with all-weather surfacing
from Denver to the Gulf, via Hills-
boro, Waco, Marlin, Brypn, Navasota,
Houston, to Galveston; and Waxa-
hachie, Cbrslcana, Palestine, Wood-
ville to Beaumont and Port Arthur.
The maps will be made into cuts, and
furnished newspapers, and as
Knight writes: "With every
working at tbe job, we can strongly
focus the attention of the tourists on
the Colorado-to-Gulf as against com-
petitive routes. We hope to work in
consideraable information in this
folder, which will appeal to tourists.
The artist's sketch already begun is
very attractive and will give, every
city located along the route an equal
opportunity to profit from the traffic.
The map also shows intersections
with all U. 3. marked highways." Ac-
tion on this proposal will probably be
taken soon by tbe local Chamber of
Commerce. • ~ ,
Motorists who travel north from
Roan's Prairie to the Madison Coun-
ty line will find driving rough go-
ing now, as workmen are engaged in
removing the asphalt topping of the
road prior to resurfacing the high-
way. The gravel has been dragged to
the center of the road, and the loose
stones make travel a slow process.
However, the highway will be
splendid shape when completed.
The first oamporee ever held in
Navasota by the scouts last night
proved to be of groat interest, and
this is initial one in a series schedul-
ed. Commenting on Che work of the
three troops as exhibited by their tests
- last night C W. West, scout field
executive, had .this to say: "I was
well-pleased with the field meet. All
three troops did better than the aver-
age for new troops in this district.”
Organising only recenl^l the scouts
have made a commendable record
And have contributed their services
for many worthwhile causes launch-
ed in the city.
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Plaatersville
F. F. A. Completes
Class Project
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The F. F. A boys of Plantersville
have finished the final staking and
pruning of their project tomatoes.
About two thousand stakes and
•tringn were made by tbe boys.
After they wdre through staking
and pruning the tomatoes, they plow-
ed and hoed them.
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KAVASOTA, T1XAB TUMDAY, MAY 10, 1088
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Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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ALAMO HEROES
in Louisiana will add another large
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COMPROMISE
REACHED ON
NAVY BILL
BEAUMONT PLANT
IS VISITED BY
CITY OFFICIALS
RETAILERS FORM
CREDITBUREAU
WITHIN ASS’N.
H. R. Turner Elected
Chairman Of Organi-
zation
Parents’ Crusade
Against War Is
Begun By Pastor
Dignities Will Gather
For Tribute
Prevention Of
Rattle Snake
Bites Is Urged
r BRYAN. May 10-The Layne Toxas
Company, well drillers of Houston,
plan to spud in the proposed city wa-
ter well test on a location about three
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By ROBERT H. PARHAM
United Press Staff Correspondent
SAN ANTONIO, May 9 (UP) — A
deems such construction necessary,
n eliminated a house-approved suth-
ortastion at 813,000,000 for promoting
invention*.
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High Standards
Achieved B y Each
Troop Taking Part
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each colony considUfl of three ele-
ments: the mission, or church; the
presidio, or fort; and the civil Two
of those elements, th* Franciscan
Mission Ban Antonio De Valero and
the Presidio de Brntar, representing
the church and the fort, were estab-
lished here in ITU. The mission later
became known to the world at the
All men in the First Presbyterian
Church win be honored with a ban-
quet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the
Educational building. Sponsoring the
event are the ushers of the church,
of which Pat Wilson is chairman.
Chief cook to Al Harrington, and
his amtotants are Charles Harris, Mil-
ton Pickett, and Pat Wilson.
Otto Lohm*y*r will be toastmaster,
and the Rev. H. N. Cunningham will
be in charge of the program.
Water Well Test
To Be Spudded In
At Bryan Soon
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Presbyterian Men
Will Be Honored
At Usher’s Banquet
W.P.A. Department
Is Now In Charge
Of Charles Harris
AUSTIN, May 10—Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
stat* health officer, urges everyone
to be careful to prevent snake bites
when in th* country. In Texas th*
chief offender to th* rattlesnake, and,
contrary to common belief, It does not
always rattle before it strikes.
About seventy-flv* per cent of all
bites occur on the lower extremities
and could be prevented, to a largo
extent, by wearing high top boots or
loggings. About twenty per cent oc-
cur on the hands and arms. Car*
should be exercised in not putting the
hands in Invisible places when climb-
ing rocks, and to look before picking
up anything that may be obscured
by vegetation, brush or rodks.
If one to bitten, prompt
necessary and a physician
obtained a* soon as possible
company has erected on
banks of the Neches River at a
coat of five million dollars, City Man-
j ager Brule said it was one of the moot
I—Chinese Eighth Route army soldiers in Stansi province decked out in captured Japanese coats, part of
captured items such as food, clothing and arms they took from the invaders. Victims of an anti-Nazi riot
in New York city which grew out of the recent celebration of Adolf Hitler’s fOTty-ninth birthday. 3—Henry
Ford, whose visit to President Roosevelt in the White House was regarded as the sign of a closer relationship
between business and the administration.
Mayor, City Manager,
Commissioners, Gulf
Staters Make Trip
In addition to hie county welfare
work. Charles Harris has now taken
over th* work of tbe W. P. A. Intake
and referral. His ofibo* will b* open
in the city hall on Wednesday and
Friday from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m, Mr.
Harris announced.
Miss Mary Barker Brown, formerly
and City Manager R. A WQItaam
went over th* matter of a location
Wiiins*d*y-
Investigation showed that while oas-
i highly efficient and modern plants in
, the South
82JJ00 KW Capacity
The steam generating plant
originally built for a capacity of 57,-
500 kilowatts, but with the new addi-
tion the kilowatt capacity has been
brought up to 82,500. All equipment
| in the plant is automatically control!-
SERVICES HELD
ON WEDNESDAY
dirigible on condition the president M the Spanish Governor's Palace,
wflikname W*s the residence of rep-
reeentxtNte at th* Spanish king.
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i AVHBY UTIIMOOM BXOKPT BUHDAY Df HAYA SOT A IE TH* HAABT OF THS BSAZOS VALUT
FIRST CAMPOREE
HELD BY SCOOTS
MONDAY NIGHT
Tourist Industry
Net* Large Sum
In City Of Temple
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NOW
should be lost in removing the poison
by suction; this can be done by a
suction cup. First, a tourniquet
should be applied above the wound,
so as to increase congestion and as-
sist in washing out the poison. A
cross cut incision with a sharp, clean
knife or raaor blade should be mad*(
over each fang mark, or preferably
to connect th* two fang punctures.
Th*** cuts should ba at least a quar-
ter of an inch deep and at ledkt that
long. Suction should be applied for miles northwest of Bryan Monday or
at least a half hour The tourniquet Tuesday. An enginser of th* company
should bo released **ety ten or Of- ------------- “ *----
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not run or
Itempws
Within the Retail Merchants Asso-
ciation a credit organisation was
formed last night when the group
met in the city hall.
Restricted only to credit managers
of the business concerns over tbe city
and to houses giving credit, the or-
ganisation elected H. R. Turner as
chairman.
Purpose of the Merchants Credit
Bureau to to give those managers who
deal in credit privacy in discussing
credits among themselves, Mrs. H.
R. Anderson, secretary, said.
Grimes Mutual Voted In
The Retail Merchants voted the
Grimes County Mutual Life Insurance
Company into the organisation last
night, and J. L. Dickenson, manager,
as one of the new members.
Members also agreed to pay the
state tax of 337.50 to the Texas Re-
tali Merchants Association, thereby
getting benefits to which they are
entitled in cooperating with the state
division.
It was urged that many Navasota
retailer* attend th* Texas convention
being held in Dallas May 22 to May
26.
than 31,000,000,000 for a bigger navy
moved a step nearer enactment when
a senate-house conference committee
Agreed on a compromise draft of the
measure.
Chairman Walsh (D., Mass.) of the
senate naval affairs committee said
the program probably would be taken
yp in the house. Final approval
there would insure senate passage
this week, he said. Then the meas-
ure would go to the White House.
The conference group, appointed to
adjust differences between separate
senate and house bills, approved a
provision giving the president discre-
tion over the size of three new battle-
ships authorised under the bill
Mr. Walsh said the president could
authorise ships of 46,000 tons each
under the provision, which to similar
to one approved by the senate. The
house had voted to limit the vessels
to 36,000 tons.
The conference committee approv-
ed 33JMXMX* authorisation for a new
up. Originally constructed to
nish steam and electricity for the
Standard Oil Company refineries, the
plant was later further adapted to
furnish electricity power for high-
line transmission. The plant gen-
erates steam at about 750 degrees
Fahrenheit, passes it through the ma-
chines, using the power for generat-'
ing electricity, which operation re-
duces the temperature of the steam
to normal. The steam is then placed
in pipelines and delivered at this
temperature to the oil refineries,
where it is used in refining oil.
Luncheon Served
Following the trip through the new
plant, a luncheon was served tbe group*
in the Edson Hotel, and Mayor Coale
of Beaumont, other city officials, and
business men attended.
Several side excursion* were ar-
ranged and one took the Navasotians
to the new bridge, the largest in Tex-
as, being built across the Neches
River, which is 186 feet above low
tide, and will clear the largest ship
afloat without the use of a drawspan
or bascule, Mr. Brule said.
Leaving tbe Camp Hotel at 6:30 a.
m„ the group went to Beaumont via
of Highway 106 to Conroe, Cleveland,
and Dayton, and returned about mid-
night, taking a different route home
that took in Fort Arthur,, Sabine
Pass, High Island, Galveston, and
Houston.
ed, and the entire operation is hand-
led by seven men, Mr. Brule added.
"Modern steam plants of this type
have demonstrated conclusively that
they can compete with even the
most improved hydro-electric plants,
especially since steam plants may be
built at the most advantageous geo-
graphical locations to the customer,
thereby eliminating a loss through
j long transportation," the city man-
I ager remarked.
The Beaumont plant is one of three
large ones owned by the Gulf States,
while a standby plant is maintained
at Port Arthur. The recent merger
group of church, civil and military > of the Gulf States Utilities Company-
Mayor R. E. Thompson, City Man-
ager R. J. Brule, Commissioners L.
N Yeager, and J. H. Powell, and
former Commissioners W W. Lott
and O. R. Mills, and J. P. Terrell
were in Beaumont yesterday on an
inspection tour of the generating
plant of the Gulf States Utilities Com-
pany.
Local Gulf States officials who ac-
companied the group were C. V. Mer-
riam, L. M. Welch, B. E Stagg, and
H. E. Brown.
, Describing the central power plant
I which the •— —
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"Only the emotion generat-
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dignitaries will gather here Wednes- and the Stone and Webster interests
day, say a few words over a hat- in Louisiana will add another large
full of crumbling bones and seal them plant to be located at Baton Rouge,
in a marble crypt, in San Fernando. a plant which has an Interesting set-
Cathedral.
J Then, never more will be disturbed
; the remains of the heroes of the
Alamo.
When they seal the crypt on that
tiny bone pile tbe world will
seen, but not heard, the last of a
group that wrote a part of its most
colorful history—the band of 180 men,
led by CoL William B. Travis, David
Crockett and James Bowie, who fell
ministration’s program to spend more ; wlth the Aiamo.
Occasion for the gathering is the
200th anniversary of the laying of
the cornerstone of Cathedral San
Fernado. said by some historians to
be the oldest cathedral In good repair
in the United States. The church was
begun in 1738 with money donated
by King Philip V of Spain. It was com-
pleted 11 yean later.
Several hundred persons from all
walks of life were expected to join
in the celebration, which will begin
when Most Rev. A. J. Droasaert, arch-
bishop of San Antonio, blesses a pla-
que whioh will be attached . to the
church to commemorate the occasion.
A high pontiflclal mass will follow.
Later in the day, the re-interment
of the remains of the Alamo garrison,
which were unearthed by workmen a
year and a half ago near the old mis-
sion, will be held. In the evening mem-
bers of the Canary lalanders, descend-
ants of the families who built the
cathedral, will hold a reception ter
church, olvfl and military officials
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Holding the first oamporee in Nj*v>.
asota Monday night at th* Scout but,
the three local troops scored high
standards in all the events participat-
ed in.
Scout field executive, C. W. West
of Bryan was her* ter the field meet,
and Harry Reed was district commis-
sioner in charge.
Judges for the many events were
Ewing Norwood, J. N. Baylor, J. N,
Ratcliff, Roy Smitheal, and Super-
intendent J. T. Ferguson.
Each scout troop took part, and
was not competing to see which was
the beat but to endeavor to reach an
A, B or C standard. Scoutmaster Pat
Wilson's troop 139 scored B, Scout-
master Frank Crawford’s troop 108
made a similar grade, while Scout-
master Leroy Crawford's troop 149
scored C. The record made by these
troops was particularly good, since
this is the first meeting of this type
held, Mr. West said.
Event* Witnessed
Witnessing the events were J. T.
Simmons, H. N. SandaU, Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Camp, Nixon Ricks, Mrs. C. C.
Stone, Rev.-H. N. Cunningham, Mrs.
Ewing Norwood, Rev. and Mrs. W. A.
Bowen, W. M. Stanford, Mr. and Mrs.
Bryant Garrett, and lhe asstotant
scoutmasters, C. A. Harrington, and
Bill Hansen.
Individual score sheets for each
troop read: 103, number enrolled, 18;
Number in meet 13; nature, 79; Bird
study, 78; knot tying 76; splicing, 70;
mystery event, 72; signaling, 98; in-
spection, etc., 90; pace, 92; flrebulld-
ing 70; cooking 90; total 814 points;
standard, B.
Troop 139; number enrolled 15;
number in meet, 10; nature, 81; bird
study, 84; knot tying, 70; splic-
ing, 70; mystery event, 88; signaling,
90; inspection, etc., 80; pace, 86; flre-
building, 82; cooking, 90; total 820;
standard B.
Troop 149; number enrolled 9; num-
ber in meet, 6; nature, 80; bird study,
87; knot tying, 70; splicing, 70; my-
stery event, 73; signaling, 70; inspec-
tion, etc., 78; pace, 78; flrebullding-
ing, 84; total, 700; standard, C.
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TEMPLE, May 10 (UP)-^A. C. Han-
sen of Banta Barbara, Calif., presi-
dent of the International Motor Court
Association, announced here that th*
tourist camp, tourist court and motor
court industry gr nee ill mor* than
3303,000,000 last year
Hanson, stopping her* en rout* to
the association** annual convention
opening at Hot Spring*. Ark, May
The King of Spain, in 1733, sent 16
famfltee end four unmarried men to
form the third element, the civil
The civil population for a time ne-
ed an army barrack* a* a church.
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MADISON, Wls, May 10— Rev. j
William Rupert Holloway, pastor of'
the First Unitarian Church here, said 1
he would suggest to the Western. Church, Civil, Military
Unitarian conference in Indianapolis
May 15 "a parents' crusade against'
war.”
"I today dedicate my energies to j.
start an organisation of the mothers
and father of the world in a holy cru- i
sade for world peace,” the pastor an-'
nounced.
ed In the breasts of parent* can suc-
cessfully withstand the emotion of
patriotism.”
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Nemir, Lucile. Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 63, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 10, 1938, newspaper, May 10, 1938; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1381837/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Navasota Public Library.