The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1944 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CALDWELL NEWS
Friday, January 21, 1944
%%yt Calbtoell Jletos
And The Burleson County Ledger
County Ledger
EVERT FRIDAY
Mali Matter at the Past Office at
Catiweil, Tesaa
Price—)U( per year ia county; $2.M outside county
C. Fall and A. C. Pape —
Publishers
MEMBER:
Association—South Tezaa Preas Aaaociation—
National Editorial Aaaociatioa
SALLAROS SNOW LINIMENT
♦To help relieve Sprains, and Bruises,
•too tired or Sore Muacles caused by
too much exercise or exposure to bad
r, apply Ballard's Snow Lmi*
at and rub gently. The comfort it
will please you.
Af all druggists
MOST OF YOUR
RUENDS AWAY?
JF most of your friend* are
away now — in the service —
doing war jobs—don't you feel
left behind sometimes?
Why not get in the midst of
this war? Join the WAC!
Toa can see new places, make
new friends, learn interesting
tilings—while you are doing vi-
tal work to speed victory.
The Army needs your help
■rgently. This is your chance!
For full details apply at the
■rarest U. S. Army Recruiting
station (yoar local post office
frill give you the address). Or
write: The Adjutant General,
Room 4415, Munitions Building,
Waahington. D. C;
Kdiriotl
1852
TTHERE'S no
place like
home.
John Howard Payne
Ptymt. actor tad playwright, rtc#iv#4
kit impitation lot "Home, Sweet
Hon " Iron an old Sicilian melody
fry i peasant woman while he ni
imrifqi tbtough Italy. He wrote the
, and the eminent Englith corn-
Sir Henry Bow ley Bishop, pro-
vided the harmony
Influenza Should Not
Be Regarded Lightly
AUSTIN, Jan. 21—Commenting
on the /act that there were ap-
proximately 25,000 cases of flu re-
ported in Texas last week. Dr.
Geo. W. Cox. State Health Officer,
said today that there is no way to
estimate the number of additional
jases not attended by a physician,
therefore not reported.
Dr. Cox urged every Texan to
do his utmost to protect himself and
his family from the dangers of
influenza and its possible compli-
cations and stressed the fact that
it is not a disease to be regarded
lightly.
"It is a serious mistake to try
to fight flu, on your feet. Com-
plete bed rest, lost of liquids, a
light diet, and treatment pre-
scribed by a competent physician
are the steps most necessary to
early recovery," Dr. Cox said.
"Pneumonia i a frequent com-
plication of influenza, and with
vitality low from ths effects of
flu, pneumonia can be an unusual-
ly serious menace/' Dr. Cox said.
The State Health Officer said
that avoiding undue exposure to
cold, wet weather, maintaining good
ventilation, obtaining sufficient
sleep and eating a nourishing, well-
balancsd diet will aid in building
up physical resistance and may
help to ward off influenza. If, in
spite of these precautions, fever,
boneache, and other flu symptoms
appear, the patient should go to
bed immediately and consult his
family physician.
m-T WAB BOXDI AStn STAMPS
South Must Produce
More Protein
BUT MORE WAR BONS
Phillips & Luckey
Company
Ambulance Service
Anywhere, Anytime !
PHONE 55
If the South stays in the live-
stock business it will have to pro-
duce more protein along with other
feeds. We cannot depend upon the
importation of soybean meal from
the Corn belt or of carbohydrate
feeds in form of yellow corn. We
must learn to utilize our own re-
sources, and in doing so may get
more economic results, even though
we do not follow the feeding pro-
grams which have been found suc-
cessful in other states.
Our best source of commercial
protein comes from cotton, and
with the lid off for 1944, cotton-
pl*oducing states should increase
their acreage in areas where cot-
ton can be most economically pro-
duced. This can ba done without
unbalancing the farm program. In
fact, it will bring about a better
balance because it will provide the
much-needed protein feed of which
there is now an alarming shortage.
There are other sources of pro-
tein which our farmers have neg-
lected. Green grasses, including
small grains, Sudan grass and even
Johnson grass contain up to 21 per
cent protein if cut before the ma-
turing stage is reached. Instead
of waiting for more growth to se-
cure more tonnage, farmers should
make hay when the protein content
i at >ts highest point. A good sup-
ply of hay with u 20 per cent pro-
tein content will go a long way
towards supplementing the supply
of cottons ed and soybean meal.
Gram for grazing and improved
pastures bath come into the pic-
ture to make the South independ-
ent of aoyl>ean meal. Dehydrated
and dried sweet potatoes can be
made to make up th deficiency
in our corn production.
The South can become a great
livestock area, if w¿ will take ad-
vantage of our opportunities and
utilize our home-grown feedstuff's.
_ BIT WAN < *! ASO Mlthl**
U. S. Servicemen
Serving In Many
Remote Outposts
American servicemen are on du-
ty in isolated outposts in every
continent of the globe. In groups
of from six to several hundred, ac-
cording to the Office of War In-
formation. these men are manning
radio stations, building railroads,
constructing landing fields and gun
emplacements, guarding supply
lines, loading and unloading ships,
watching the sky for planes, and
.-tanding by to operate search-
lights.
Others serve on ground crews
on the hundred of landing fields
along the 90,000 mile routes of the
Air Transport Command. Most of
these airfields the men built
themselves, regardless of terrain
or weather. One landing field in
equatorial Afriea was carved out
of the primitive jungle. The men
who built it were dropped, with
their tools, by parachute. They got
their food and equipmer* th* same
way until they had made a place
where planes could land.
Here Shoes Last Six Days
One of the "toughest" outposts
is Ascension Island, 35 miles
square, in the South Atlantic, 10
degrees from the equator and 700
miles northwest of St. Helena. It
is composed of volcanic rock, cin-
ders, ash and clinkers, a little soil,
and one oasis of vegetation on a
mountainside. The knife-like edges
of the volcanic rock can wear out
a pair of stout G. I. shoes in six
days.
A mountain rises shardply from
the hillocks of ash. Its cliffs drop
sharply hundreds of feet to the
deep sea where the combination of
water, wind, and rocks spells peril
for small boats. Travel across the
narrow ledges of the mountain is
almost equally dangerous.
A large number of wild jack-
asses are found on Ascension. One
of the few forms of recreation is
to catch and ride one of them. Wild
sheep live in the rockly crags and
there are clouds of birds. In the
waters around the island are num
erous sea turtles.
Americans are also manning a
series of outposts along two routes
from the Persian Gulf northward
to the Russion frontier, over which
flow large quantities of war ma
terial. One route is a 700-mile rail-
road, the other a truck route. Both
are operated entirely by Ameri-
cans.
To relieve the monotony for
these men, the Red Cross operates
cabooses on the trains, each at
tended by two American girls and
one man. The caboose is equipped
with iceboxes filled with soft
drinks and it .carries phonographs
and recreation equipment.
PX's Are We'l-Stocked
The Army and Navy are doing
everything possible to supply men
in these outposts with creature
comforts. They try to furnish the
best food—and the best cooks—to
the most isolat.d units. Stocks in
the post exchanges are in greater
variety farther away from civili-
zation. Articles in the PX's in Lon-
don, for example, are strictly ra-
tioned, whereas Greenland has one
ofe the best PX's in the service,
and purchases are unlimited.
Most of all. servicemen in lonely
outposts want mail from home.
Mail call is sounded the minute a
sack of mail ai rives. To answer it
men will pile out of warm bunks
and stand lit the snow or ice at 2
o'clock in the morning.
Providing religious guidance in
isolated outposts is a constant
problem. Chaplains reach outpost
men on foot, by army jeep, on
skis, in boats, and in airplanes in
all kinds of weather. One of the
features óf the chaplain service in
the South Pacific is the "G. I. Sun-
day." The Japs have a habit of
staging Sunday air-raids on some
ofe the isolated spots, hoping to
ca¿ch the men otf guard. Religious
services acc irdingly are held on
other days of the we?k. The day on
which services are held for a given
unit is known as the "G. I. Sun-
day."
— nirr w a it nox ps a.vd stamps —
Deadline for Filing
Social Security Tax
Is January 31st
Austin, Jan, 21—Employers of
ne or more individuals of the
First Texas District are reminded
y Collector Frank Scofield that
the time within which they may
file their Social Security tax re-
turns without payment of penal-
ties for the quarter ended Decem-
ber 31, 1943. will soon expire. Em-
ployers of eight or more employees
must file not only their quarterly
return but also their annual un-
employment tax return for 1943
within the sanie period of time.
The final date is January 31st.
"The deadline for filing Social
Security Tax returns reporting
wage payments to one or more
employees for the quarter ended
December 31. 1943, is close at
hand," Mr. Scofield stated. "The
final date is January 31st."
"Employers of eight or more
employees are likewise reminded
that their annual excise tax re-
turns required under the Federal
Unemployment Tax Act for the
calendar year 19-13 are due in
January."
Mr. Scofield explained that an
employer who had eight or more
employees in his service for twen-
ty or more days during the year,
each such day biing in a different
calendar week, must not only file
quarterly returns within the month
following the close of each quarter
year period; but also must file the
Federal Unemployment excis tax
return after the close of the year
and within the month of January.
An employer of less than eight in-
dividuals is required to file the
quarterly tax returns only.
_ KIT Sf AM StlliM ASO SI4 ites —
Marines Find Isle
Like Movie Set
Elders and chieftains of the Gil-
bertese on A be ma ma have formally
ratified the Marines' occupation of
their island.
Abcmam—"Land of Moonlight"
—lies only 80 miles from Tarawa,
hut it is difficult to imagine that
they are in the same world. Tara-
wa today lies a blasted shell with
hardly an inch of its coral soil un-
marked by the surge of battle.
Abemama is the Hollywood direct-
oi-'k dream, the perfect South Sea
island. Ont- expects to find a movie
star back of each waving coconut
frond and to hear the tinkle of
soft guitars from the beach oí
tach blue lagoon.
Twenty-fiv. Japanese defenders
—a handful isolated by the annihi-
lation of their main garrison on
Tarawa—chose hara-kiri before the
Marines arrived, so that not a
shot was fired as the men waded
ashore. They were met by grinning
native families, • ager to become
friends.
Major (J. L. Holland, British di-
rector of education for the Gil-
berts, who returned to his p si
with United States troops, told as-
sembled native chiefs: "The Jap-
anese told their men the Marin:s
could not drive them out in 100
years. They were right. They are
still there." The Natives, whose
sense of humor is highly developed,
laughted and applauded for fully
five minutes.
The natives quickly set up the
Gil bertese equina! ant of a soft-
drink stand. A 13-year-old brown-
skinned boy rapidly climbed a co-
conut tree and b.gan throwing
fruit to the ground. One of the
women set up a sharp stake in the
ground and quickly stripped the
coconuts of their husks. Another
cracked them open with a single
deft bloni of a native hatchet and
passed out th- open cups for the
Marines to drink their fill. The
Marines gave the natives chewing
gum. cigarettes, malt drops
whatever they could find in thei;
rations.
It was the good-neighbor policj
at its best.
WAV DAY
WAS
f ^BOND DAY
STOP SMHDIM6—SAVI MHlAtS
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IT BRINGS IN $2,332,253.00 TO
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No. 1579
Statement of the Condition of
The First State Bank in O^aldwell
CALDWELL, TEXAS
Statement at the Close of Business December 31, 1943
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RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $151,309.91
Overdrafts 2,361.62
Bonds and Stocks 6,9:17.50
Leasehold Improvement 640.03
Other Real Estate 1,664.50
Furniture and Fixtures 1,327.88
Quick Aaseta:
Securities of U. S.,
State or political
Subdivision $183,467.75
Bills of Exchange 38,000.00
Cash on Hand 609,190.86 830,658.61
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock ...
R. F. C. Debentures
Surplus and Und. Pits.
Reserved for Taxes
Dividends Unpaid
RFC Retirement Fund
DEPOSITS
I 60,000.00
3,400.00
29,790.94
3,306.68
5,000.00
44.88
903,257.55
TOTA L
$994,800.05
T O T A L
$994,808.05
1 certify that the abate ia correct
H. D. CHERRY, Caahier.
DIRECTORS
H. H. Worn ble J. A. Gray * H. G. Wonbla
J. Earl Portar H. D. Cherry
Meaibar Federal Depoait I nan ranee Corporation
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