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THE SEALY NEWS
VOLUME 54—NUMBER 45
SEALY, AUSTIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1942
NAVY PERFORMED MIRACLE AS SHE SANK
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Texas Theatre Is
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Observing United
Nations Week
$160,000 GRAVEL PLANT MAY BE
LOCATED IN SAN FELIPE ACREAGE
THOROUGH CHECK IS
IMPORTANT PART OF
RATIONING PROGRAM
MANY GIRLS ARE DONAT-
ING LAST NYLON LEG-
WEAR TO PARACHUTES
INSPECTION OF
TIRES IS URGED
BY WAR BOARD
NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS
REACHED HIGH POINT
DURING DECEMBER
SEALY NEWS HAS
CIRCULATION GAIN
DURING 1942
JULIUS BRUNE
RE-ELECTED HEAD
PRODUCTION ASS’N.
PARTIES HERE WEDNESDAY INTERESTED
IN DEVELOPING LARGE GRAVEL PIT
DISCARDED HOSE ARE
RAPIDLY FINDING
WAY TO NEWS OFFICE
SOY BEANS YIELD
OIL NOW SO IMPORTANT
IN WAR PROGRAM
RESOURCES RISE TO
$101,215.46 OVER
THIS DATE LAST YEAR
To-Night, Friday:
“CAIRO”
with Jeanette MacDonald,
Robert Young
Thur.-Fri., Jan. 21-22:
“SEVEN SWEETHEARTS”
with Kathryn Grayson,
Van Heflin
ROUND BOUT TOWN
By The ROVING REPORTER
Sun.-Mon., Jan. 17-18:
“HOLIDAY INN”
with Bing Crosby,
Fred Astaire
Saturday, Jan. 16:
“TONTO BASIN OUTLAWS”
with The Range Busters
Tue.-Wed., Jan. 19-20:
“SWEETHEART
OF THE FLEET”
with Joan Davis,
Jinx Falkenburg
SPECIAL
PATRIOTIC PROGRAM
with Local Talent
SELECTED SHORTS
WITH ALL SHOWS
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“WHITE CARGO”
with Hedy LaMarr,
Walter Pidgeon
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• Postmaster R. A. Engelking,
Jr., has been advised that a
deputy collector has been as-
signed to Sealy to assist tax-
payers in filling out income tax
returns.
The deputy will be at the *
local postoffice Tuesday, Feb.
23 to render this service to
those needing it.
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Ideals become instruments by
which we attain the various
summits in life. Without them
we only flounder and grow dis-
couraged. Here let me close
with an inspiring quotation
from Lowell’s “The Vision of
Sir Launfal”.—Adams
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Send the soldier boy the
Sealy News—he’ll enjoy it im-
mensely.
The financial statement of
the Wallis State Bank given
elsewhere in this issue makes
a splendid showing and reflects
healthy growth.
The total resources show
$458,622.76 in this statement,
an increase of $101,215.46 over
the statement carried in the
News January of last year.
The resource total is climb-
ing up towards the half mil-
lion mark and this is usually a
very accurate barometer of
business generally in a bank’s
community.
J. F. Esterak is president of
this Wallis institution, E. V. Es-
terak is cashier and Theo. Via-
clovsky is assistant cashier.
A collection will be taken
each evening for the relief of
destitute in occupied areas of
the United Nations.
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Red Cross Surgical
Dressings Room
Opened Again
The Red Cross surgical dres-
sings room is in operation
again after having been closed
for some weeks because of lack
of materials.
Three days a week will be
spent in the room and more
workers are needed.
The Southern Union Gas
Company is furnishing gas for
heating purposes free of charge
and Mrs. Lillian Ward is giv-
ing the use of a heater and
the room is now very comfort-
able.
The Sealy News has given a
large amount of large sheets
of cardboard needed, and all in
all, much public interest is be-
ing manifested. Thanks to all
of you.
We are wondering if some
one would volunteer to seeing
that the room is tidy- and in
order and heated before work-
ing hours. Anyone who will do
this is asked to report to Hack-
barth’s Grocery Store.
Mrs. Rodie O’Conner
Local Red Cross Chairman
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• It was with considerable sat-
isfacation at the end of 1942
that the Sealy News editor
checked the subscription growth
of this paper and found that
the circulation expansion has
exceeded any year of the seven
years the News has been under
the present management.
patriotic programs and num-
bers.
• Motorists are urged to have
their tires inspected without
delay by Chairman D. L. Prou-
ty, of the Austin County War
Price and Rationing Board, who
announces* the names of ap-
proximately 19 official tire in-
spectors appointed by the board.
Mr. Prouty pointed out that
periodical tire inspection is re-
quired by law, and no passeng-
er car can be legally operated
after January 31 unless the
first inspection has been made.
January 15 is the deadline for
truck and other commercial
motor vehicle tire inspections.
“Tire inspection is an impor-
tant part of the mileage ration-
ing program,” Mr. Prouty as-
serted. “It is designed to keep
the tires of all vehicles in good
running order, make them last
as long as possible, and pre-
vent abuse. We cannot afford
to have precious rubber wast-
ed through mechanical faults,
neglect or misuse and periodi-
cal inspections provide a meas-
ure of prevention. They also
serve as a guide to the neces-
sity for recaps or replace-
ments.”
After the first tire inspec-
tions, all cars with “A” stick-
ers must have their tires in-
, spected every four months.
Owners of commercial vehicles
See TIRE INSPECTION, Page 8
VOLUME OF LOANS DUR-
ING YEAR 1942 TOTALS
SUM OF $706,418.00
• Julius Brune of Sealy was
reelected president of the Bren-
ham Production Credit Associa-
tion at an organization meeting
of the board of directors held in
Brenham Tuesday. Other offi-
cers elected were as follows: R.
L. Felder of Chapel Hill, vice-
president; T. H. Dickey, secre-
tary-treasurer; L. A. Seidel, his
assistant. At a meeting of some
200 stockholders and visitors
held at the City Hall auditor-
ium in Brenham, Monday, Jan-
uary 11, Julius Brune of Sealy
and Arthur Robichaux of Brook-
shire were reelected to the
board of directors. Other mem-
bers of the board whose terms
did not expire are R. L. Felder
of Chapel Hill, E. P. Menke of
Hempstead and Chas. Rightmer
of Muldoon.
R. L. Felder was chairman of
the meeting and President
Brune, reporting for the board
of directors, said, “Our associa-
tion has had another successful
year.” He said, “In 1934 farm-
ers visualized having a sound
credit system, with funds avail-
able for production, when and
however they need it, under
normal and abnormal condi-
See CREDIT ASS’N. on Page 8.
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Having closed the cottonseed!
production season, the Sealy
Oil Mill & Manufacturing Com-
pany is now engaged in crush-
ing soy beans. The oil from
this product is in great de-
mand now by the government
and is included in the current
government program.
The soy beans being crushed
here are shipped from Kansas,
Indiana and Nebraska. Very
little, if any, has been grown
in this coast section.
There are 350 varieties of soy
beans, according to W. E.
Schier, president of the Sealy
Oil Mill & Manufacturing Co.,
and to cultivate this product
extensively in this section it
is necessary to determine which
variety is adaptable to this soil
and climate, principally the cli-
mate.
In 1941 this plant here
crushed 18,000 tons of soy
beans and in 1942 37,000 tons
were crushed here.
— BUT WAR BOMBS —
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Loehr
visited in Houston Saturday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. An-
ton Loehr. Anton Loehr cele-
brated his birthday Sunday.
• Some parties were here Wed-
nesday of this week investigat-
ing the gravel possibility of
opening a gravel pit at San
Felipe on the Brazos River.
If the deal is consumated a
$160,000 plant will be moved to
the site and will create quite an
industry in that locality.
The gravel pit comprises an
area of from 400 to 600 acres
and is owned by the San Felipe
township and Mrs. Jake Feik
and F. B. Meyer.
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SEALY OIL MILL
NOW BUSY CRUSHING
SOY BEANS
ODE TO A NAG
• O horse, you are a wondrous
thing,
No horns to honk, no bells to
ring,
No license buying every year,
With plates to stick on front
and rear.
No sparks to miss, no gears to
strip,
You start yourself; no clutch to
slip,
No gas bills mounting every
day
Beginning Thursday of this
week, the Texas Theatre is co-
operating with 16,000 theatres
over the nation in celebration
of the United Nations Week
in an all-out effort so that ev-
ery man, woman and child will
realize with pride that an ar-
ray of nations have pooled their
resources, manpower and arm-
ies for a unified effort against
the Axis and are a formidable
power for ultimate victory.
The aims of this planned e-
vent are two-fold. First, to ac-
quaint Americans with the peo-
ple who are fighting shoulder
to shoulder with us, and sec-
ond, to contribute something
material to the aid of the war-
stricken people.
Every night from January
14 to 20 inclusive,' the Texas
Theatre will show a free trailer
starring James Cagney, Ann
Southern and Margaret O’Brien
and local talent will appear in
To steal the joy of life away.
Your inner tubes are all O. K.
And pray they stay that way.
Your spark plugs never muss or
miss,
Your motor never makes a hiss.
Your frame is good for many
a mile,
Your body never changes
style,
Your wants are few, and easy
met,
See ’BOUT TOWN on Page 8.
December was the high
month for the past year with
the number of new subscrip-
tions taken that month being
36 or twelve a week.
The total number added dur-
ing 1942 amounted to 226,
which is about ten more than
added in 1941.
This increase means much
more than the additional rev-
enue from the growth in circu-
lation. In reflects satisfaction
given in the job undertaken and
makes this paper one of the
best advertising mediums to be
found in this area. An ad now
appearing in the columns of this
paper is not speaking to one
person or several hundred per-
sons, but to more than 1500.
How else could a business get
so much for as little?
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WALLIS STATE BANK
STATEMENT SHOWS
MUCH GROWTH
• Sealy girls and women are
responding generally to the ap-
peal made through the Sealy
News for discarded hose.
Two boxes are running over
and a third has been placed for
more. The girl left behind can
not march in the line of battle
with her man, perhaps, but she
can contribute her discarded
legwear to keep the boys march-
ing.
The story goes that a sweet
old lady who turned in her last
pair of nylon stockings wanted
to know:
“And who unravels them to
make parachutes for the
army?”
A Du Pont chemist assured
her that “he was a sour fellow,
he’d eat you alive.” “He” would,
too, for what takes milady’s
nylons apart is a strange new
“boil ’em up” process developed ,
by Du Pont chemists, and
through which nylon actually
is reduced to chemicals from
which it was made.
Silk stockings which are
made into powder bags actual-
ly are unraveled, but nylon
stockings, used for chutes, are
instead given a sulphuric bath
which turn them into adipic
acid and hexamethylene-dia-
mene. From these chemicals
fresh nylon is made.
Chemists say that nylon is
stronger, lighter and more dur-
able than any other fiber and
and that it not only makes
parachute canopy cloth which
is as good as Japanese silk, but
but is also being used for other
secret war products.
The silk that would normally
make 100 pairs of silk stockings
is required for one parachute.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
DEPUTY COLLECTOR
WILL BE HERE ON
TUESDAY, FEB. 23
WILL ASSIST TAXPAYERS
IN FILLING OUT
INCOME TAX RETURNS
Funeral Services For
Mrs. Ernestine
Krause Held Monday
• Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock,
January 11, for Mrs. Ernestine
Krause, who died at her home
Sunday, January 10, 1943. Rev.
W. C. Hughes conducted the
services from the Preibisch
Funeral home, with interment
in Sealy Cemetery.
Mrs. Krause was born in Ger-
many August 30, 1864, and at-
tained the age of 78 years, 4
months and 10 days. Before her
marriage to John Krause in
1890, she was Miss Ernestine
Schultz, of Welcome. For the
past twenty-two years she made
her home in Sealy, and she had
been in ill health for the past
three years. ~
Surviving her are her hus-
band, a son, Johnnie, of Colum-
bus, a daughter, Mrs. Herman
Brast, of Sealy, and 10 grand-
children ; a brother, Henry
Schultz and a sister, Mrs. Emily
Huebner, of Welcome.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
Austin County
Falls 6.19 Tons Behind
In Tin Can Quota
• Local Chairman Alvin Muery
has received a letter from E. J.
Drodz, of Houston, plant man-
ager for the Shredded Steel
Company, stating that Austin
County’s quota of used tin cans
is set at 9 tons and that the
county fell short 6.19 tons. Dur-
ing December, Mr. Drozd
states, only 2,81 tons were gath-
ered.
Sealy’s quota is 2 tons and
arrangements have been made
to collect these each month if
the housewives will put their
used cans to themselves in a
receptacle and placed accessible
to the trash man.
A Federal law prohibits cans
from being lost in 100 miles
radius of Houston and a report
on this county and town is sent
to the executive secretary of
war production at Austin and
also to the War Production
board at Washington.
These discarded cans are go-
ing into the war to help make
flying fortresses, guns, com-
munication lines and other es-
sential war material made from
copper.
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Lorenzo Watson
Dies Tuesday at
Veterans’ Hospital
Lorenzo Watson, colored cook
who was seriously burned in
a fire at Jack’s Cafe about
three weeks ago, died at a Vet-
eran’s Hospital at Alexandria,
Louisana, Tuesday night. He
was removed to Louisana from
Prairie View, where he had
been in the hospital following
the accident.
Watson was 52 years of age
and a veteran of World War I.
He had been employed as a
cook for Jack’s Cafe for the
past twelve years. He was an
excellent cook and a faithful
employee.
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Wallis Chamber
To Elect Officers
Monday Night
• There will be a regular
meeting of the Wallis Chamber
of Commerce Monday night,
January 18th at the Eagle Cafe.
Officers for the ensuing year
will be elected at this meeting.
The Wallis Chamber of Com-
merce is a live organization. It
has a large membership and
many things of a civic and pub-
lic nature are handled its chan-
nels.
Sealy Future Farmers
Guests Monday of
Production Credit Asso.
• A group of the Sealy Future
Farmers attended the annual
stockholders meeting of the
Production Credit Association
at Brenham Monday.
The boys learned much about
this organization by their at-
tendance of the meeting. The
F. F. A. expressed their appre-
ciation of the P. C. A. through
their president, L. D. Kurtz,
who made a very nice speech.
The boys also came out on
top financially, for they re-
ceived a free dinner and a dol-
lar in war stamps won by Hor-
ace Weaver for answering a
question.
Reporter, Eugene Hintz.
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Kendall, C. P. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1943, newspaper, January 15, 1943; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1601730/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.