The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1944 Page: 4 of 8
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THE GROOM NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1944
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Motor Convoy in France
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Southwestern Motors
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AMARILLO, TEXAS
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THE EDITOR.
Official U. S. Army Photo
one new
McCORMICK-DEERING
CREAM SEPARATOR
Repair Farm Machinery Now
Farmers Grain
Jim Wall
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Groom, Tex.
Want Ads
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Back up the Boys!
BUY ANOTHER BOND
IN THE 6th WAR LOAN!
WHY DIP!
SEE WHAT YOUR EXTRA $100 BOND WILL DO:
C. L. Ledwig Elevators, Inc
Local News Items
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Entered as second class mail at the
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Local Hauling
MOVING, ETC.,
Reasonable Prices
PHONE 66
John Major
Livestock
HAULING
ANYWHERE
Fast Equipment
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GULF PRODUCTS
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also pre-war truck and pickup tubes
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TOWER SERVICE STATION
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They sleep wherever they can is just as true of motor convoy drivers of the
Army’s Service of Supply as it is of the man in the front line. The trucks
pictured here are carrying supplies to our forces on the French-German
front. Are you helping to buy those supplies by buying War Bonds to the
limit—and then buying one more?. From U. S. Treasury
J. “Rex” Ward and Mrs. Max Wade
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Every war loan
has been oversub-
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Americans by the
millions have
Just Received....
To the People
of this Community
Five billion dollars of the 14 bil-
lion dollars our country needs to
press the war against our enemies
must come from individual invest-
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Official U. S. Army Photo
Lieut. Rose M. Smith, U. S. Army flight nurse, who aided in evacuations
from Eastern China, tucks in her charge aboard a transport plane for the
trip back to a base hospital. Purchases of War Bonds make possible such
speedy transportation of wounded, and provide the finest hospital facilities
in the world to aid the recovery of American casualties. From U. S. Treasury
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ation, he uttered the biography of
a political foe in a sentence. The
man had made a fortune through the
discovery of oil and then had seen
it swept away. Ferguson said of him,
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for Cattle Lice, Ticks, Flies and
Lice and Mange on Hogs.
Range-tested, endorsed by leading
ranchers. BICE OIL SPRAY is
shipped prepaid in 55-gal. barrels.
$75. Will spray 300 to 500 head of
cattle effectively. 5-gal. $8.75 F. O.
B. Pressure spray tanks. High-
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Jaems E. Ferguson was a stump
speaker unsurpassed. His oratory
ranged from resounding phrase-
ology: “Fearless as any man who
ever flashed a falchion in the face
of a foe” to “I spit on the chip and
double-dog dare him to knock it off”
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This tribute, the day after his
death, was paid to the former Gov-
ernor by Judge J. W. Strode of Con-
roe, “I do not for one moment think
it was necessary but if I am mis-
taken in this and if it was a part of
the divine plan that he should ask
for mercy at 2:45 p. m. yesterday
when he knocked at the gates of the
far beyond, I know he did so clear-
eyed and with confidence, because he
had extended mercy abundantly.
“Governor Ferguson was very,
very human. Possibly, and without
personal gain, he went too far for
his friends. Possibly, at times, he
was uncompromising toward his ene-
mies—but whatever you may think
of any mistake made in his long,
sad and serviceable career, I feel and
know that ’in the court where his
conscience shall sit as judge, he will
stand acquitted, pure as light, as
Stainless as a star.”
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It will help pay for the things our men must have—guns, planes, tanks, food.
It will help hold down the cost of living.
It will provide a nest egg for the future—the United States Government
guarantees that you will get your money back.
It will show our fighting men that you are willing to do your part!
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denly when our armies hit the
beaches of Normandy, everyone
prayed that nothing had been over-
looked. They prayed that manage-
ment in industry, in government and
in the army had done a good job.
Countless lives depended on good
management.
If a single phase in the manage-
ment of the invasion had failed, the
whole project would have been
thrown out of gear. For instance,
thousands of land, sea and air craft,
from giant tanks, jeeps, airplanes,
and battleships had to be fueled and
ready to go on the instant of H-
hour. Fueling and lubricating the in-
vasion was up to the American oil
industry. That task has become
known as the biggest “filling sta-
tion” operation in history. It was
done without a hitch, thanks to the
good management of the oil men.
After the war is over, good man-
agement will be needed to keep in-
dustry going in the tough days of
reconversion. It will be needed not
only in the oil industry, but in min-
ing, transportation, electric power,
and every other enterprise. It saved
lives in the invasions. In peacetimes
it will save jobs. There is no better
manager than the independent Am-
erican business man. We should re-
member this in the days to come.
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I GIVE YOU TEXAS—
By Boyce House
FOR SALE—One and one half h.
outboard motor for $50.—J. R. Ward
at News office.
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Christmas Tree Supply Ample.
The supply of Christmas trees in
1944 will probably be ample to satis-
fy holiday needs of Americans, ac-
cording to data given the Office of
War Information by the War Pro-
duction Board, Department of Agri-
ulure and/ Office of Defense Trans-
portation. At the same time, how-
ever, buyers are warned against
"Overzealous buying” as that- might
create an artificial shortage follow-
ed by a waste of trees. In 1943 con-
sumer enxiety about the family tree,
which began with slow deliveries to
retailers, led to high prices followed
by a glut of trees near Christmas
time. Many surplus trees sold for
practically nothing on Christmas
time and a sizeable leftover had to
be destroyed. The 1944 supply
should be about that of last year.
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It’s not over, over there—not by a long shot!
Uncle Sam can count on the fighting men to keep on fighting—and he must be able to count
on you to keed on backing them, by buying extra War Bonds in the Sixth War Loan
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“Rich by accident, poor by ignor-
ance.”
Jim Ferguson could reach dra-
matic heights—as when, in Houston
during one campaign, a large part
of the crowd tried to howl him down.
He walked to the edge of the plat-
form, in measured tones, declared:
“Let the historian write it down
that on this night came James E.
Ferguson to the city of Houston,
named for the liberator of Texas,
and almost within sight of the bat-
tlefield where freedom was won—
and was denied the right of free
speech.” Quiet descended.
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Mrs. J. C. Kilgore reports that
she has a dozen grandsons and grand
son-in-laws in Uncle Sam’s service.
All serving overseas except one.
The Community Club has purchas-
ed six new card tables to be used at
the club house for the convenience
of the public.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom . Watson, Mr.
and Mrs. O. H. Blair and L. C. Pon-
der are making their home at the
hotel for a few weeks. The men are
repairing the telephone line for the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Mrs. John Ray returned home last
Saturday afternoon from a weeks
visit in Hereford and Amarillo.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ray, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill McDonald and boys eat
turkey dinner in Amarillo last Thurs
day with Mr. Ray’s sister, Mrs. C.
W. Barker and family.
Mrs. Lillian Slay of Lubbock visit-
ed in the home of Mrs. John Ray
last Monday afternoon.
WHERE THANKS ARE DUE
A cuntry grocer recently said to
a somewhat irate customer: “If you
had to keep track of all the rules
and regulations that I get from
those pencil pushers in Washington,
you would be more lenient in your
attitude toward the merchant. Men
who apparently know nothing about
meat cutting, tell us how to cut
meat, what cuts we can keep in our
show case, and how we can prepare
it. We are all glad to help ration
supplies and control prices but the
rationers and price fixers ought to
be required to have some practical
experience before they are allowed
to make their fancy rules and regu-
lations.”
We can all allow for many mis-
takes under the price control act,
but we never want to accept the idea
that after the war it will be neces-
sary to continue indefinitely the re-
strictions which the buying public
and the producers and merchants
have had to endure.
Rationing and price control have
been a success because of an effici-
ent retail merchandising system
which was able to carry out a ration-
ing and price control program which,
without the cooperation of the mer-
chants, would have been impossible
of accomplishing. The nation has its
merchants to thank for the unpre-
cedented distribution of necessities
and luxuries which it has enjoyed
during the war emefgency.
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MEANING OF GOOD JUDGMENT
The most amazingly successful
management job in history was the
preparation for epening of the sec-
ond front. For sheer efficiency, it
resembled the working methods of
industry here at home. Men and ma-
terials were assembled at the right
place at the right time to do a spe-
cific job. In the humdrum existance
of peacetime, this organizing genius
traditional to the United States,
never seemed very important. Mana-
gement was often derided. But sud
shared its responsi-
bility. Americans such as you have
recognized the need of extra War
Bond purchases over and above
their normal payroll savings.
There is no such thing as a little
fellow in a War Bond drive. Your
War Bond purchases, multiplied by
the War Bond purchases of your
friends and neighbors, become
fighting power which saves lives of
Americans on the battlefronts and
brings us nearer our common
objective.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Fredericksen
returned home Thursday from a visit
in the home of their son Marvin and
family at Pueblo, Colorado.
If you are now a subscriber to the
Amarillo News or the Star-Telegram
we will be glad for you to call at the
News office and let us renew them
for you. No new subscriptions will
be accepted by either paper.
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declared, “He has only two methods:
blubber or bluster.”’
Crowds shrieked with joy as he
described a scene wherein (accord-
ing to Ferguson) an adversary made
a frantic plea for a loan to avert
disaster and “they tell me he actual-
ly got down and wallered on the
floor like a cow with the cramp
colic.”
Frenzied supporters yelled, “Pour
it on!” and farmer Jim obliged by
relating that the episode took place
in a skycraper and a conferee, not-
ing the absence of a certain rich
man, hurried to the phone and urged,
“Get over here quick! So-and-so is
on the seventeenth floor of this
building, threatening to jump out the
window if he doesn’t get the money.”
Back over the phone (Ferguson nar-
rated) same the reply. “Open the
window and let the darn fool jump.”
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Ward, J. & Wade, Mrs. Max. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1944, newspaper, November 30, 1944; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1416203/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.