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THE SEAL
NEWS
VOLUME 61 — NUMBER 43
SEALY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29th, 1949
$2.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
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Roger W. Babson
FARMERS
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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
PLANS FOR APRIL DRIVE
Cotton Quotas-
In Effect for ‘50
MORE TIME TO
PAY INCOME TAX
INDIANS DROP DEFENSIVE
TILT TO PATTISON 21-20
Babson Sees Little Change
In Business For New Year
W. E. SCHIER STRICKEN
LATE TUESDAY
W. E. Schier, manager of the
Sealy Oil Mill, was stricken sud-
denly ill Tuesday afternoon at
5:30 at the mill.
He is under the doctor’s care
at the Sealy Hospital where he
may have to remain for about
two weeks.
TWO FROM COUNTY
TO ENTER HOUSTON
DAIRY SHOW
Mrs. A. Hoff New
Proprietor of Sealy
Club and Grill
Effective January 1st, the Sea-
ly Club and Grill will be under
new management. Mrs. Ann Hoff,
who has been with the estab-
lishment a year and 7 months,
and who is thoroughly experi-
enced in cafe work, purchased
the stock from Mr. and Mrs. J.
D. Sloane this month.
Mrs. Hoff plans to continue to
operate in the same manner, giv-
ing the same efficient service.
Highway Accident
Claims Life of
Gilbert Kinnebrew
Funeral services were held at
the Preibisch Funeral home for
Gilbert Q. Kinnebrew, 22, at 2:00
p.m. December 25, with Rev. M.
Q. Burns, pastor of the First
Baptist Church officiating. Inter-
ment was made in the Sealy
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were L. B. Bryan,
Roy W. Joyce, Leon Phillips,
Bennie Smith, Scott Martin, and
A. W. Meier.
Funeral services were held at
Edna at 2 p.m. December 24th,
Rev. Carl Schlomach, pastor of
the First Baptist Church at Edna,
officiating.
Young Kinnebrew was injured
in a collision of a truck and his
car on Highway 59 between Edna
and Ganado at 9:00 p.m. Friday
and died in an El Campo hospi-
tal two hours later. At the time
of his death he was employed by
the Magnolia Pipe Line Compa-
ny, and resided at Luling.
Survivors include his father, A.
R. Kinnebrew, of Seven Sisters;
his mother, of Perryton, Texas;
two brothers, David Kinnebrew,
of New York City, and Allen Roy
Kinnebrew, of Seven Sisters;
four sisters, Mrs. George Lee, of
Abilene; Mrs. J. G. Bonine, Jr.,
Toledo, Ohio, Miss Frances Kin-
nebrew, of Perryton, and Pvt.
Geraldine Kinnebrew, of Fort
Jackson, S. C.
The A. R. Kinnebrew family
lived in Sealy several years ago,
when he was an employee of
the Magnolia Company. He did
much work on the present First
Baptist Church building and con-
structed the pulpit.
Two Stolen Cars
Found Near Here
Two autos were abandoned and
picked up on highway 90 by De-
puty Sheriff T. A. Maddox over
the week-end.
A 1941 Mercury was found to
belong to J. A. Turner, of Hous-
ton, who came to check the car
which was located at the over-
pass. Damage had been done to
the auto’s interior. /
The other auto, picked up west
of town, was called for by State
National Bank, of Mineral Wells,
who held a lien on it.
NEW ULM FIELD
CREW MAY LOCATE
IN BRENHAM
CHAMBER POSTPONES
REGULAR MEETING
TO JANUARY 9th
Because of next Monday be-
ing observed as a holiday by local
business places, Frank Krampitz,
Jr., president of the chamber of
commerce, has asked The News
to remind those interested per-
sons to remember that the meet-
ing is being shoved a week ahead,
to Monday, January 9th. The
usual place, the Houston Light-
ing and Power Company offices,
and time, 7:30, will prevail.
Remmert's Insurance
Agency To Open
Here Tuesday
A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO ALL
A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO ALL
service, and research to fight
cancer, a disease which is the
second leading cause of death in
Texas, ranking second only to
heart disease.
Accepting the chairmanship,
Mr. Gilchrist said that the Socie-
ty’s program should be greatly
expanded throughout the state of
Texas.
‘There are still too many Tex-
ans who do not know that can-
cer can be cured if caught in
time,” he said. “More still do not
know or recognize the early dan-
ger signals of the disease. Cancer
control is a tremendous problem.
Cancer research projects under-
way this year call for millions
of dollars in funds. I urge every
Texan to join us in our 1950
drive to strike back at cancer.’”
practically nil. During this pro-
cess both clubs missed several
opportunities to grab a lead in | Konescheck let go a long shot
missing many field goals as well, at the basket that rolled the rim
as free throws. Pattison led 11 and out. Cox and Sims led Patti-
to 7 at the half and extended son with 5 and 4 points. W. Nas-
their lead to 17 to 9 with three toupil and L. Zaruba were high
minutes in the game. Successive for Sealy with 8 and 6 respective-
two pointers-by Zaruba, Kone- ly.
The field at New Ulm has been
turned over to Glenn McCarthy
for development by the Gulf Oil
Company which had drilled sev-
eral gas producers. The first
well came in with a potential of
1000 barrels of 45 degree gravity
oil per day and it is planned to
deepen some of the gas wells,
with the hope they will produce
oil, reports state. One test now
being drilled will prove up 4000
acres if it comes in as a produc-
er. Should it prove out, five
rigs, each employing 16 men, will
be put to work, developing this
acreage over a five-year period,
states an article in the Brenham
daily.
Brenham has been given the
chance to become the headquar-.
ters for the McCarthy develop-
ment crews, it was reported last
week. A year’s work is already
in sight at the field, and if a
well now being drilled develops,
it is likely that at least five years
of work will follow. Around
eighty families will move into
Brenham if the .town becomes
the location for the crews.
Gibb Gilchrist, Chancellor of
the Texas A & M College Sys-
tem, and widely-known engineer
and educator, will serve as state
campaign chairman for the 1950
membership and fund-raising
campaign of the American Can-
cer Society, Texas Division:
His selection was announced by
Frank C. Smith of Houston, Pres-
ident of the Texas Division.
As state campaign chairman,
Mr. Gilchrist will head the So-
ciety’s April drive in Texas. By
Act of Congress, each April is
designated as Cancer Control
Month throughout the nation. At
that time county units of the
American Cancer Society solicit
support for the organization’s
year-round program of education,
Texas cotton farmers will have
to take cotton marketing quotas
under consideration in planning
their 1950 farming operations, B.
F. Vance, State Production and
Marketing Administration direc-
tor, pointed out today.
Approval of cotton marketing
quotas by more than two-thirds
of the nation’s cotton farmers in
the December 15 referendum
means that the quotas will be in
effect on the 1950 crop.
A cotton farmer who plants
within his cotton acreage allot-
ment can market all of his cot-
ton without penalty. His mar-
keting quota is the production
from his acreage allotment. He
also can obtain a government
loan on his cotton at 90 percent
of parity, and he will be eligible
to receive conservation assistance
payments from the PMA.
A cotton farmer who plants
more land to cotton than his
acreage allotment must pay a
Hospital Notes
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Vern
Bearden, a baby girl, Brenda
Kaye, weighing 9 lbs. and 13 ozs.,
on December 24.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Nie-
meyer, baby daughter, .Linda
Ann, Christmas Day. She weigh-
ed 6 lbs. and 15 ozs.
Patients:
R. M. Conner
W. E. Schier
Mrs. Charlie Taylor
Mrs. John Schiller
Mrs. Wm. Schaare
Dismissed
Edwin Remmert
Doris Ann Zapalac
Joe Zapalac
Mrs. Joe Kaspar
Dorothy Pacher
scheck, Props and W. Nastoupil
and score was tied. Tom Cox
sank a field goal for Pattison that
was quickly followed by another
from Sims.' Zaruba countered
with two and a gratis toss was
good but the whistle blew as
NEW ARRIVAL
Mr. and Mrs. James Fewell are
parents of a son, Douglas Allan,
born in the Bellville Hospital De-
cember 21st. He weighed 6
pounds and is their first child.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fewell, of
Sealy, and Mr. and Mrs. Hugo
Muery, of Bellville, are grand-
• parents.
Many farmers will have an ad-
ditional 16 days next year in
which to pay their income tax
for 1949.
A recent law permits farmers
who are on a calendar year bas-
is to file their 1949 income tax
returns and pay the total tax they
owe by January 31.
Previously, they had to esti-
mate their tax and pay it all by
January 15.
If a farmer wants to, he
can make a declaration of es-
timated tax, pay that amount
by January 15 and then file a
final return by March 15 for
readjustment purposes.
This information comes from
Michigan State College with the
reminder that income tax col-
lectors will recognize anyone
who receives at least two thirds
of his income from the soil' as a
farmer.
Every person whose gross in-
come is $600 or more for a year
must file a return even though
no tax is due. Gross income in-
cludes income from all sources
before expenses are deducted.
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Want-Ads This Issue
penalty amounting to one-half
parity price on any excess cot-
ton which he sells. Current pari-
ty price is about 30 cents which
would mean a penalty of about
15 cents a pound on excess cot-
ton if marketing quotas were in
effect on this year’s crop. Parity
changes, and so the marketing
penalty will change from month
to month.
Under the law, excess cotton
subject to a penalty is that cot-
ton produced from the acres in
excess of the allotment. The
amount of cotton subject to pen-
alty will be determined by multi-
plying the number of overplanted
acres by the normal cotton yield
of the farm.
In addition, cotton produced on
a farm where the cotton allot-
ment was overplanted will not be
eligible for a government cotton
loan. Nor can the farm receive
PMA conservation assistance pay-
ments.
The junior dairy show of the
1950 Houston Fat Stock Show,
Feb. 1 through 12, promises to be
the most outstanding in the
shows’ 18-year history and Austin
County will be represented
among 188 dairy animals award-
ed winners in the show’s dairy
milking race in 1948 and 1949.
Cash premiums for the junior
dairy show total $2000. Dairy
milking race winners, however,
will, be competing for at least
$4000 more in special prizes.
Heading the list of special
milking race prizes will be a
$2500 scholarship to be award-
ed by L. E. Cowling, president
of Southern States Insurance
Company in Houston. The schol-
arship will provide $500 a semes-
ter at Texas A. & M. College
plus a $500 graduation present.
Other prizes already announc-
ed include a $1000 Holstein heif-
er which is being given by the
Carnation Company. The prize
dairy heifer is from the compa-
ny’s famous Seattle, Washington,
farm. L. O. Sturdevant, vice
chairman of the dairy scramble
committee, will also award a Jer-
sey heifer, valued at $400.
Included among those entering
the junior dairy show are: Ruby
Schmidt, 4-H girl from New Ulm,
Second National Bank of Hous-
ton, sponsor; Allen Walger, 4-H
boy from Wallis, Thornsten-
berg and Tambarelle Co. of Hous-
ton, sponsor.
SHOPPERS NEED TO PLAN
FOR LONG WEEK-END
Local housewives are reminded
that Sealy business places for the
. most part will be closed next
Monday, Jan. 2nd, and are asked
to provide the necessary arrange-
ments.
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Business and Financial Outlook for 1950
By Roger W. Babson
1. The total volume of business for 1950 will be less than
that of 1949, due primarily to the unfortunate labor conflicts.
Considering that the innocent consumer will be the chief suf-
ferer and will be obliged to pay the bills, it seems too bad that
labor troubles should upset the applecart.
LABOR OUTLOOK
2. Even with all the threats, there will be few wage in-
creases during 1950. On the other hand, all labor negotia-
tions take the minds of both the employees and the manage-
ment off their regular business. However these negotia-
tions come out, they result in a loss from the standpoint of
the country as a whole.
3. There will be fewer strikes in 1950 than in 1949, but
there will not be fewer extended negotiations which are very
expensive in themselves.
4. The Taft-Hartley Law will continue to stand through-
out 1950, although many schemes for detouring this law
will be devised.
5. The great drive against the big companies will be for
pensions and/or for sick and other benefits. These will pro-
bably be helpful to the wageworkers and may aid in ironing
out the business cycle, but they will be paid for by consum-
ers.
6. It is hoped that all parties will begin to realize dur-
ing 1950 that the real road to national progress is through
increasing production and greater efficiency. This is the
bright light we see in the labor situation.
COMMODITY PRICES
7. Movements in commodity prices during 1950 will va-
ry with different groups of industries and of products, but
altogether there will be a general lowering during 1950.
8. We, therefore, advise going easy on inventories. 1950
is a time to get out of debt and stay out of debt. Speculation
in commodities should be discouraged in 1950.
9. We believe that the cost of living index has turned
down for the present. The average for 1950 will be less
than for 1949.
10. Practically all retail prices will average less in 1950
than in 1949, notwithstanding the excess of money mention-
ed under 27-28 and 29 below.
FARM OUTLOOK
11. The total farm income for 1950 should be less than
that of 1949, which means lower prices on the average for
wheat, corn, pork, poultry, eggs and certain dairy products.
Farmers should diversify more in 1950, get out of debt and
put their surplus money into savings, in preparation for the
next crop failure.
12. The supply of certain canned vegetables and fruits
(except citrus) should be greater during 1950 than at the
same time during 1949. The prices of these products should
fall off, barring some weather, insect or blight catastrophe.
13. Poultry and dairy products will especialy increase
in volume during 1950 with prices averaging less than in
1949.
14. Farmers will continue to work to hold present sub-
sidies. It is popular to criticise the vast amount of crops
which the Government owns or is making loans on, but this
surplus in storage may be a great blessing when the next
crop failure or war comes.
TAXES
15. The Federal Budget will be increased during 1950
over that for 1949.
16. Over-all Federal Taxes will not be increased during
1950 and there may even be some readjustments to encourage
venture capital. Moreover, some of the nuisance taxes may
be eliminated or reduced.
17. The long-term capital gains tax of 25% will remain
unchanged.
18. There will be many increases in local and state taxes,
and more reaching for relief by “sales” taxes or other forms
of raising needed funds.
RETAIL TRADE
19. Goods on counters will be of better grade in 1950
than they were in 1949.
20. Markdown sales will continue during 1950 as con-
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W. F. REMMERT
The Werner F. Remmerts mov-
ed here last week and are lo-
cated in the Raymond Schroeder
garage apartment, where Mr.
Remmert will open the W. F.
Remmert Insurance Agency on
Tuesday, January 3rd. His offices
will be located in their home.
Mr. Remmert is a graduate of
Concordia Teachers College in
Nebraska, and for the past 12
years has resided in Beaumont,
where he taught school one year.
He has 10 years experience in
the selling of life insurance and
1 year in hospitalization.
Mr. and Mrs. Remmert have
two sons, Gary, 6, and Ronny, 3.
Mr. Remmert is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Adolph Remmert, and
Mrs. Remmert is the former Miss
Evelyn Gerhart, the daughter of
Mrs. Annie Gerhart. They are
affiliated with the Lutheran
Church.
See the announcement else-
where in this issue.*
B&PW To Meet
The Sealy B&PW Club will
meet for a business meeting at
the school cafeteria at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday night, January 3rd.
Prayer Service, Mass
Set for New Year’s
Eve at Frydek
St. Mary’s Catholic Church at
Frydek will have an hour’s
“prayer for peace,” from 11 to 12
o’clock, preceding a Midnight
Mass on Saturday night, Decem-
ber 31st. The New Year’s Eve
mass will begin at 12 p.m.
New Year’s Day Mass is set for
8:30 a.m.
Numerous Accidents
Keep Maddox Busy
During Yule Season
Several accidents occurred in
this area during the Christmas
holidays, and kept Deputy Sher-
iff T. A. Maddox quite busy.
Two autos were damaged at
the Shell Station on Highway 90
Sunday night. A 1949 Ford driv-
en by Leslie Reibenstein and a
1947 Chevrolet occupied by Law-
rence Sodolak were damaged
when Sodolak’s brakes failed and
he smashed into the ’49 Ford
parked at the Station, according
to Deputy Maddox. No one was
injured.
A three-way accident, about
one mile west on Highway 90, on
Christmas morning, involved out-
of-town motorists. As reported
by Deputy Maddox, Oliver Fred
Schoppe, of Sealy, in a trailer-
truck, began to make a left turn
off the highway, when a 1949 De
Soto heading west, stopped
abruptly, and a 1949 Buick hit
him from the rear. A 1949 Ply-
mouth followed third in the
bumps-a-daisy line, all three
taking damage.
The driver of the De Soto was
C. R. German, of Brookshire, and
Dr. M. Dan Dingens, of Louisi-
ana, was in the Buick. The Ply-
mouth was occupied by Charles
Wood. No one was injured.
Bill Hoyt, of Columbus, at-
tempted a left hand turn from
the Sealy Club and Grill in his
1949 Dodge, as Claude E. Chance,
in a 1949 Plymouth, headed east
on Highway 90. Both cars took
heavy damage as they hit, but
no one was injured. Chance was
from Houston.
Another three-way accident
damaged Tom Bushwall’s Dodge
pick-up, a ’29 Ford driven by Ru-
dolph Matuska, and a ’47 Ply-
mouth driven by Raymond Fuchs
in front of Krehnak’s Service
Station on Highway 36 Wednes-
day afternoon of the past week.
No one was injured in the wreck,
which occurred as Bushwall and
Fuchs were meeting and Matus-
ka was coming out on the high-
way.
A. couple of fellows took slight
injuries in a head-on collision
east on highway 90 Thursday of
the past week. Gus Schuerman,
of Brookshire, and Charlie Orsak
hit, according to Maddox, as Or-
sak was blinded by the oncom-
ing car’s lights and crossed over
the black line. Schuerman’s ’37
Ford was turned over, and Or-
sak’s ’37 Ford likewise took con-
siderable damage.
Two Wrecks Occur
Wednesday Evening
Alfred Grebe, of Bellville,
driving a ’38 Ford, and Henry
Esar, in a ’41 Dodge pick-up,
came in sharp contact Wednes-
day afternoon. Mr. Esar was mak-
ing a left turn to the Sealy Auc-
tion Barn on highway 36, head-
ing north, when Mr. Grebe’s au-
to hit him from the back, Deputy
Maddox reported. Minor injuries
were sustained by Mr. and Mrs.
Grebe.
Later that afternoon Herman
Brast was hit by Paul Hoff as
the former was passing the Schier
Feed and Supply Store, where
Mr. Hoff was driving away in his
’41 Ford pick-up. Both cars were
going south. Mr. Brast was in a
1949 Chevrolet sedan.
NATIONAL SCOUT
JAMBOREE OFFERS
$200 OPTION TRIP
The National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America has re-
cently announced the dates of
their second National Jamboree,
to be held at Valley Forge, Penn-
sylvania on June 30 to July 6.
Over 40,000 Scouts from all parts
of the United States and several
thousand foreign Scouts will at-
tend, making it the largest youth
gathering ever held. Its theme—
“Strengthen the Arm of Liberty.”
The Sam Houston Area Coun-
cil will be represented by 456
Scouts and Leaders organized in-
to fourteen Jamboree Troops.
Already, fifty-two leaders have
made application and soon ap-
plications of Scouts will be ac-
cepted. Each institution which
sponsors a Troop or Explorer
Unit will have an opportunity to
select its Scout representative. If,
after February 1, 1950, all insti-
tutions have not taken up their
options other Scouts will be ac-
cepted. Individual applications
received before February 1 will
receive priority according to the
date it is received in the Scout
Office at 405, West Building.
The Jamboree committee is
headed up by Dunbar Chambers
of Houston and there is a Jam-
boree Committee in each of the
seventeen districts of the Sam
Houston Area Council. Members
of the steering committee are:
Dunbar Chambers, Kendall Bak-
er, Dr. W. Cruse Fuqua, Lawton
Deats, Earl McClure, Eddie Wal-
ker, Ernest Cockrell, Jr., and S.
P. Gaskin, Staff Member.
The cost of the trip, including
educational side tours at New
Orleans, Washington, Philadel-
phia, New York, Niagara Falls,
Chicago, and St. Louis, plus the
six full days at Valley Forge will
not exceed two hundred dollars.
Railroad transportation is includ-
ed in this cost.
By W. N.
With both fives attempting to
slow down the game, play as far
as action was concerned was
1950 IN A NUTSHELL
General Business: Off 5% Building and Construction:
National Income: Off 5% Off 7%
Farm Income: Off 15% Natural Gas: Up 5%
Bituminous Coal: Up 5% Foreign Trade- No change
Anthracite: Off 5% Foreign Trade: No change
Crude Oil Products: Up 5% Airline Passenger Miles:
Steel Output: Off 5% Up 5%
Automobile Manufactures: Military Activities
Off 15% Including Aircraft Up 20%
Retail Trade ($ Volume): Off 3% to 10%
TEXAS THEATRE
RCA PHOTOPHONE
AIR-CONDITIONED
NEW STARTING TIME
Saturday ----------2:30 p.m.
Sunday -----------3:00 p.m.
1st Night Show______6:45
2nd show approximately----8:45
Thursday-Friday, Dec. 29-30
“The Gal Who
Took the West”
(In Technicolor) with
Yvonne DeCarlo, Chas. Coburn
---------*---------
Saturday, December 31
“Down Dakota Way”
(In Color) with
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans
Sunday-Monday, January 1-2
“MY FRIEND IRMA”
with John Lund, Diana Lynn
Tuesday-Wednesday, January 3-4
“Jungle Jim”
With Johnny Weismueller,
Virginia Grey
----------*---------
Thursday-Friday, January 5-6
“Red Stallion of
The Rockies”
(In Cinecolor)
With James Kirkwood
Jean Heather
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