Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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NINETIETH YEAR
BASTROP ADVERTISER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1943
NUMBER 32
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CIVILIAN WORKERS
TO RECEIVE
RECOGNITION
CAMP SWIFT, Oct. 20—Soldiers
aren't the only ones receiving official
War Department recognition for
faitihful service "beyond and above
the call of duty" in this war, Lt. Col.
O. P. Houston, Post Commander at
Camp Swift has announced following
receipt of an official communication
from the War Department. Official
Service Awards will be made to elig-
ible civilian employes of the War De-
partment, probably in December in
accordance with the directive.
"Civilians are conti ibuting a tre-
✓ mendous weight to our war efforts,"
Colonel Houston said in announcing
the forthcoming awards, "and it is
gratifying to note that official recog-
nition will be given these faithful civ-
Ian employes. Camp Swift has many
who can qualitfy for such awards and
it will be a pleasure to confer upon
them this official War Department
recognition."
The decorations are being estab-
% lished in furtherance of the "Depait-
ment's policy to encourage the contin-
uance of the highest individual effort
and to recognize those civilians who
served faithfully meritoriously and
exceptonally. An act of the 78th Con-
gress granted non-monetary awards
in recognition of services.
The decorations will be in the form
of lapel ribbons, suitable for wear on
the coat or dress, and will bear tihe
emblem in colors of the unit issuing
the citation. The ribbon is woven in
blue and silver colors. Additional
strands of biaid at each end of the rib
bon will be used to denote the two
higher awards. When a* employe is
presented with more than one only
the highest will be worn.
Three different classes of awards
will be presented to eligible civilians
of tJhe following agencies within the
War Department: Office of the Sec-
retaiy of War; Office of the Chief of
Staff; Army Air Forces; Army
Ground Forces; and Army Service
Forces.
The three classes and the basis of
conferral are:
1. Emblem for Civilian Service,
the basic pattern for all three decor-
ations, t<> be conferred on all employ-
es having a record of six consecutive
months of satisfactory service,
■ ^ or who arc granted one of the
higher awards prior to completion
of six months service.
2. Emblem for Meritorious Civil-
ian Service will be granted automa-
tically to all employes of the War De-
partment. who have completed 10
years of faithful and satisfactory
service, provision having been made
that time absent occasioned by mili-
tary service will not constitute a
break in continuous service.
Other eligibles include employes
who have been responsible for sug-
gesting or developing new methods or
procedures; achieved outstanding re-
cords of satisfactory and faithful
service and devotion to duty; shown
initiative in developing the skills of
employes, or those who have made
important contributions to morale,
building activities. The award does
not automatically provide a meritor-
ious in-grade promotion, but will be
given added weight by the reviewing
committee if the recipient is recom-
mended for promotion.
3. Emblem for Exceptional Civi-
lian Service will be conferred by the
Secretary of War himself or his per-
sonal representative and will be ac-
companied by a letter of commenda-
*?^tion or certificate with a specific cit-
ation signed by the Secretary. This
award will in itself be considered just-
ification for a meritorious in-grade
promotion.
Those eligible include employes who
have developed and impioved meth-
ods and procedure for economy and
efficiency, courage in face of danger,
and outstanding services.
MORE INFORMATION
ON RATION TOKENS
Contract has been awarded by OPA
for 000 million of the new ration to-
kens and under the latest plans they
are expected to be ready for use by
February.
The ration "coins" will be made
of vulcanized fiber with a yellow cen-
ter showing around the edges and
two opposite faces of blue or red. The
blue will be used with blue stamps
for buying processed foods and the
red with red stamps for foods ration-
ed under the meat-fats program. Eacn
token will have a value of 1 point,
and will be used by consumers as
change for ration stamps.
When the tokens are put in use the
red and blue stamps will be valued at
10 points each, receiving four ration
tokens in change. The tokens can bv.
used any time to buy other items.
The ration tokens will be slightly
larger than a nickel and smaller than
a quarter, .88 of an inch in diameter,
and about one-twentieth of itn inch
thick. They will be distributed in
sealed boxes of 250 tokens each to
food retailers through the 15.000
banks participating in the ration
banking plan. Safeguard against
counterfeiting the tokens have been
included in the contract.
With use of the tokens expecta-
tions are that War Ration Book Four
will last at least three times as long
as previous books. This will save
many man-hours of labor and large
amounts of scarce paper required for
books. This also will reduce the calls
made on thousands of volunteer work-
ers who contribute their time in dis-
tributing the books. A substantial
net saving in the cost of printing new
ration books also will come from use
of the tokens. The contract for man-
ufacturing them went to the Osboi io
Register Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. They
will cost, approximately $1.44 per
thousand.
The tokens will make shopping a
lot easier for housewives and also will
be a remendous help to grocers since
they no longer will have to sort a no
total up a large mass of coupons.
SERVICES AT CALVARY
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
SUNDAY
Services will be conducted by Rev.
Insley, Rector, at the Cnlvery Episco-
pal Chuich on Sunday, October*31, as
follows:
Holy Communion, 8 a. m.
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a. m.
MISS JONES
SOCIAL HOSTESS
AT CAMP SWIFT
Musical knowledge isn't confined
to the members of Kay Kyser's "Kol-
lege" friends of Miss Ruth Jones,
new social hostess at Service Club
No. I, would have you know. Her ap-
pointment was announced by the Post
iSpecial Service office.
Specializing in directing choruses
and no mean hand at the piano, Miss
Jones could hardly be called a new-'
comer on the Post. For the new hos-
tess has merely traded jobs and re-
cently hailed from the Quartermas-
ter Property Office. Previously she
had taught music in Austin Public
Schools.
Friends of more rugged nhythm
should be interested to know that the
new hostess, assistant to Miss Lee
Early, has been known to "beat the
hides" upon provocation. Singing is
another branch of her musical reper-
toire, and she has displayed consider-
able ability both on church music in
Post Ohapels and "Camp Swift on the
Air", the camp's own radio program
over Austin stations.
Not only the Camp area buf Cen-
tral Texas is familiar to Miss Jones,
for Bastrop, Texas, claims her as it*
own. An early interest in music was
highlighted by the acquisition of a
Bachelor of Music, degree from Bay-
lor University in Waco, Texas.
LOCAL GIRL IN
'WHO'S WHO'
SAN MARCOS, Oct. 27— Gertrude
Smith of Bastrop was one of the
twenty students of Southwest Texas
State Teachers College elected recent-
ly to "Who's Who in American Uni-
versities and 'Colleges," Dean H. E.
Speck announced Tuesday. Choices for
t'his honor are made by the faculty up-
on merit, the students ranking high
in both scholarship and extra-curri-
cular activities.
Miss Smith is a graduate of Bas-
trop High School, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Smith.
Presidential Endorsement
THE WHITe HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Kay 21, 1943
Daar Nr. Aldrtehs
411 Anarlennn ud *11 Aaartenn Inatltutloa# ar# unit*!
U thalr dn taralnatlon to vim thl# Mr. Th y ara ahowln* to our
nnd to our #naala# • r n«rou« davotlon and aaerlflca that
protliii victory.
That ualtjr aad dtvatloa ara ah own In tha Rational War
Tued. la Octobar It pr###nta to our paopl# an appaal for aarrlca
to our fighting fore##, for aarrlea to tha uneonqu#rnbla paopla
of tha Unltad Nation*, and for aarVica to tha hoaa front In tha
Unltad Stataa. Tha 0.3.0., tha othar acanclaa davotad to tha
ooanan Mr ala In foralgn landa, and thoaa «uldin« ttaa faalltaa
of aarTloMon and Mr Mrkara aad thalr faalllaa toward naeaaanrr
h# ith, waif ara, and raeraatlon — all than# ara JoUti la on*
caapalgn.
With tha atrancth of union, tha aoonooy of fadaratlon,
.^i u>« banking of traditionally fanaroua Aaarlcn, tha Vatlooal
War Ftod — Ilka all aaaantlal parta of our war affort -- auat
ba gtvaa afcoadaat aad proapt *ipport toward lta goal.
A* Coaaandar la Chlaf. I aak all our paopla to raaaabar
thla -- that a atera la tha Bntlonal War fund la a ahara la
winning tha war.,
^ Vary alnoaraly your#. .
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Honorabla "Wldtbrop W. Aldrlah.
Pr##ltiant,
Tha Irttonal War Fund,
bqplra Stata Building,
■aw York. V. T.
" . . . a share in the National War Fund is a share in winning the
war," stated President Roosevelt to Winthrop W. Aldrich, president
of the National War Fund, the federation of agencies serving on the
United Nations front and the Military front.
Local Boy Finishes
Pre-flight Training
San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center.
Texas—Among cadets now stationed
at the Army Air Forces Preflight
School for Pilots at the San Antonio
Aviation Cadet Center, the nation's
largest pool for fighting air crews,
are 452 young men from Texas. Whon
they have completed their studies and
training at the preflight school, the
cadets will be sent to a primary fly-
ing field. Still further training in
basic and advanced flying schools will
prepare them to be combat pilots.
This group includes one from Bas-
trop: Conner Eugene Wilkins, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wilkins.
THEATRE EXPRESSING THANKS
TO P.T.A. COMMITTEE
The management of the Tower
Theatre takes this method of ex-
pressing their deep appreciation t(>
the members of the Bastrop Parent-
Teacher Committee, headed by Mrs.
Paul D. Page, who assisted so great-
ly in making the premiere showing of
tihe picture "This Is The Army" a suc-
cess in Bastrop, and in causing thi
contribution to the Army Relief Fund
to be a sizeable one. ,
Members of the committee, see-
ing with Mrs. Page, were Mrs. John
Allen, Mrs. Homer Craft, Mrs. J. B.
Murray, Jr., Mrs. Frank Smith, Mrs.
Ireland Allbright,
Mrs. Raynes, Mrs
J. P. Sharp, Mrs.'
Mrs. Tignal Jones,
A. J. Graves, Mrs.
P. J. Dodson, Mrs.
J. H. Powell, Mrs. Fred G. Haynit,
Mrs T. P. Haynie, Jr., Mrs. Sam Hig-
gins, Mrs, Baca, Mrs. Gem Simmons.
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
Effective November 1st, whole milk
7
lor quart.
LONGS DAIRY
JP3NK1NS DAIRY
RETURNED FROM
WAR ZONE TO
RECUPERATE
M-Sgt. Thomas T. Murchison, son
of Mrs. R. H. Brieger, who has been
stationed at Schofield Barracks m
Honolulu for the past year, was re-
turned to the states recently to re-
cuperate, following an arm injury re-
ceived in maneuvers.
M-Sgt. Murchison has served on
transport duty, an assignment which
took him over most of the Pacific wa.
zone. He was in the battle of Mid-
way on June 3, 1942. At the time of
his injury in Honilulu, he was in
charge of the dispensary there. He
has been in the service six years.
M-Sgt. Murchison is in the Har-
mon General Hospital in Longview
at the present.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
John Allen, Pastor
i Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. Jack
Graves, Superintendent.
I Morning Worship 11a. m. Sermon
: by the pastor.
j Training Union 7 p. m. Bill Hardin,
I Director.
I Evening Worship, 8 p, m. Sermon
j by the pastor.
j Monday p. m. W. M. S. Mrs. Grimes
president.
Wednesday 7 p. m. Teachers meet-
ing.
Wednesday 8 p m. to 9 p. m. pray-
er service.
T hursday S p. m. choir practice.
"I wasf glad when tfhey said unto
me let us go into the house of the
Lord."
PUBLIC INVITED TO ARMY SERVICE
FORCES SHOW NOVEMBER 8 TO 15
CAMP SWIFT. Oct. 28-The gen-
eral public will have an opportunity
to view the largest display of military
equipment ever assembled in the
Southwest for exposition purposes
when the Army Service Forces rfhow
opens November 8 in Austin for a
week's time.
The display, occupying two floors
of the former Swann-Schulle Furni-
ture Company building at Congress
Ave. and Fouith 'Streets, will be pre-
sented by Camp Swift, announcement
was made recently by T.t. Col. O. P.
Houston, Post Commander.
Many of the functions of the Army
Service Forces will be shown to the
public. A number of special feature
attractions will lie scheduled during
the period, including demonstrations,
motion pictures and other attractions
which will visualize the life of the
soldier.
The display will be free to the pub-
lic and will be open afternoons and
nights during the entiie week. All
patriotic grosps, luncheon clubs and
other organizations of the area will
be invited to visit the show and spes-
ial arrangements will be made for
their entertainment.
Special visiting periods will be ar-
ranged for pupils of all Austin schools
an(j army officers and enlisted per-
sonnel will be on duty at all times as
guides to explain operation of the
multitude of equipment displayed and
the services represented.
The Army Service Force supplies,
equips and transports the fighting
forces. Soldiers are h°used. fed, cloth-
ed, entertained, cared for medically,
and spiritually by tfhe ASF, and this
exposition will be thoroughly inf r-
mative of these varied set vices.
Equipment covering a wide ranire,
from guns and jeeps to soldiers' un-
derwear, will be displayed. Many of
the exhibits will be of unusual inter-
est.
Among those in which the public is
expected to find much of striking in-
terest will be that of the signal corps,
displaying all forms of communica-
tion in use by the army, from carrier
pigeons to walkie-talkies. Another in-
teiesting display will be that of
soldiers' uniforms and clothing. Uni-
forms issued for wear in various cli-
mates, from the jungles to the far
north, will be shown.
How soldiers are fed will comprise
another interesting display, and there
will be a section in which an entire
month's supply of food for oiij sold-
ier will be displayed. Various types
of rations, including battle rations,
emergency rations and the new con
ccntrated an(| deyhdrated foods will
be on display.
A field bakery will be shown, de-
monstrating how quartermaster corps
bakers in the field carry on their
work, and there will be samples of
the products of this bakery on dis-
play.
In all there will be more than .'50
separate exhibits, each of interest to
everyone with relatives in service.
Besides, many of the services to sot.
diers and their dependents also will
be represented, including legal aid,
army emergency relief and others.
The show is being arranged end
will be presented by the Camp Swift
Post Public Relations Office, by dir-
ection of the Post Commander and
Headquarters, Eighth Service Com-
mand, Army Service Forces, .it Dal-
las. Material and equipment is be-
ing assembled, and the exposition i-
taking shape rapidly, Capt. A.
Heidt, Post Public Relations Officer,
has announced.
Full cooperation is being given the
project by the Austin Chamber or
Commerce, aMd the Defense Coordi-
nation Council. Use of the building
has been donated by the Karotkin
Furniture company, and various Aus
tin business houses are assisting with
the loan of equipment to enhance the
displays.
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1943, newspaper, October 28, 1943; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth236930/m1/1/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.