Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1952 Page: 4 of 8
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BASTROP ADVERTISER FEBRUARY 21. 1952
THE HOUSEWIFE IS
GETTING SHORT
MEASURE
Austin, February 1R—John C
White, Commissioner of Agricul-
Sure for Texas, today yappealed
ture f*r Texas, today appealed
for city an<j county cooperation
consumers against faulty weigh-
ing and measuring devices.
"The charts are roughly 1
out of J that the Texas housewife
is getting her groceries weighed
on a scale that is inaccurate,"
White commented as he released
inspection figures for 19f>l. He said
in about 1 out of -1 2-.1 cases the
Texas motorist is buying gasoline
for his car out of a faulty gaso-
line pump.
"We find some instance.- of deli-
berate fraud,' he said, "most
violations are the result of care-
less mairtenance. Ks.-entially, the
inspection program is not a police
action to ferret out criminals, but
a service of government to see .
♦hat equity prevails in all com- j
mercial transactions.
"Regardless of motive on the j
part of the seller, the consumer -
the housewife, for example,
should see that she's getting full
weight and measure. If she gets
short-changed, she's going to yell, j
She should yell just as loud if
shr gets 'short-weighted'."
White said these are a few
thing- a housewife can be aware
of:
A scale may be "fixed" so that
the pointer i- set 'fast", or ahead
of zero,
A clerk in a busy store may
throw an item on the scale and
snatch it. off before the pointer
comes to rest, falsely charging
for a higher weight than would Under recent orders of OPS.
be registered if the pointer were white potatoes came under
allowed t<> come to rest. dollars - and - cents ceiling price
If a fan is placed overhead. regulations January 19. the Office
a housewife pays for currents of 0f prjC(> Stabilization announced.
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OPS BRIEFS
OPS CEILINGS •
AFFECT POTATOES
GIRL SCOUTS
PREPARE FOR
THINKING DAY
air hiting the scale.
"If any housewife has a reason
to belive a grocery store scale
is not showing correct weight,"
Commissioner White said, "she
can drop a postcard to me in
Austin and we will make a check
at once."
"Prices are high enough these
days, and a housewife has a
right to get all she has coming
to her."
As Feb. 22 arrives all Girl
Scout people prepare to observe
Officials «aid that this is the ™"kin* Day W,hjh e0£M ™
. W ashington s birthday. On that
first of a series of regulators to
day the past year and other years
price increases.
OPS REDUCES
RAW WOOL CEILINGS
A rollback in
pi ices, to take
raw woo! ceiling
effect within 90
White said the State Weighers davgj wjjj average slightly more
envisages city and county than ^ Rt Mqa. Veiling
inspection programs under the j ....... ■ T>„ ... . .
authohrity and supervision of the '«^abhshe^ last May. OPS officials
Weights and Measures Division
Law
of the State Department of Agri-
culture. The State, under the le- lowest levels which can practicably
gislative appropriations, car make
only "spot" check®, in addition
to providing general administra-
be established under the amended
Defense Production Act, which
. , . . sets a "floor" of 90 percent of
tion of the entire inspection pro- a - j w
:L -u JU_;i the Pnce b? received by
growers on May 19, 1951.
gram, which takes in all retail
and wholesale and such other
commercial weighing and mea-
suring devices as scales in gins,
oil mills, warehouses, etc.
He said eight cities - - Dallas,
Austin, Cleburne, El Paso, Ft.
Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and
Tyler - - have local inspectors
working under State supervision.
"These cities," he commented,
"are doing a mighty fine job. The
number of faulty weighing and
measuring devices is substantially
lower than in other cities, and
the consumer has a better chance
of getting all that he is paying
his morey for.
Coft* to little...
olwayi bo welcome
be issued covering fresh vegetables arp ^viewed and appropriate mean
which have recently shown marked taken to express gratitude for all
opportunities and privilege* that
have come to the Scouts during
the v< ar.
The Pine Tree Troop of Girl
Scouts of Bastrop have had a
year full of such privileges and
opportunities to serve. "A Girl
Scouts duty is to be useful and t.*
help all people at all times" is
one of the first laws ■ f Scouting
A list of the past year's aetivitie-
will show that the girls have bec*n
bu y practicing this law of Scoot-
ing. The list follows:
In F'ebruary of last year the
troop held a cookie bake in pre-
paration for their Valentine Party
to which each girl was privileged
said this week.
The new ceiling? represent the
with small vases, which they had
decorated themselves for an art
project, filled with either wild
or tamo flowers.
At Christmas time the patb-nts
■ if the local hospital were remem-
bered with pine Christmas trees
set in pots covered with gold paper.
Each tree had small decorations.
Also at Christmas time they
decorated a small spruce tret-
bought with their ChriMma- fund-
and carried it to the home of
lowest ebb at present - I er
than it ha> been f >r many ymt
There is only one active troop
at this time and it i* not opera-
ting as fully as in the past Th<
other 2 troops are either dormant
or dead, and the Brownie Tr op
is, at ba#t temporarily dormant.
We hope to keep the Scout wor<
alive and hope that its revival
will be strong and soon. This
all rest* upon the shoulder* of the
member* and leader* of the Pine
Current market prices are below
the new established ceilings.
BEER PRICE
HIKES OKAYED
Increases in the price of beer
sold for "of-premise" consumption
have been authorized by the
government to cover corresponding
increases in costs to brewers and
wholesalers, the Office of Price
Stabilization said today
San Antonio district OPS of-
ficials said a recent regulation
(Ceiling Price> Regulation 117)
permits brewers and wholesalers
to raise their prices only to res-
pective levels that would offset
their increased costs, including
higher transportation costs to
wholesalers.
OPS officials said the increase;?
would range from about 1 cent
to 2 cents per bottle for "off-
premise" sales only.
Most retailers selling beer for
"on - premise" consumption are
covered by the OPS restaurant
regulation (CPR 11) and can ad-
just their prices periodically to
maintain their dollar cost per-
centages.
, Tree Troop So. 2. of Girl Scouts
a friend who had been a hut-ir.
for some time. They alao sang a
couple of Christmas carols for
her as they lighted the beautiful
little tree
Another Christmas celebration
was the arranging of the nativity I
scene which has com« te b+ a; j
annual ev-nt with the Scout* They]
represent the crib, the babe, and i
Man,- in the <Jimly lighted table j
of their leader. Reverences evinced '
in the preparation of this <.cene j
are hearthe- injr when we remember j
the old psychological law that
"reverence i* the core of charac- j
ter." Our children must 1m- taught ]
reverence or then- wiii be no }
character upon which to build. j
On Jan. !">, the Sci ut« themselves
of America in ltaatrop The mem-
lers of the Troop committee are
Supt. P •' Dodson, Dr. R W.
Loveless, Rev. Wayland Woodall,
Mrs. L. R Hull.
The registered scouts in the
troop are Ba hara Hull, Loretta
Witherspoon. Janet Garrt ra, Bar-
bara Layton. K.-thei Dominguex,
Amelia Torre/., Lilly Dominguex.
Del-ire- Campbell. Girls who have
not completed their memership
re«]uir<liiieuts, but who have worked
hard 'and contributed much to
the work done by tbi troop are
Shirley Harrera, Martha Parka.
Hetty Marie Meyers. Claudine
Stephen and Laura Vanlanging-
ham Tb« leaders are Mrs. L R.
Hull, a-sistant leadei and Miss
K.-ther V Anderson who has head-
ed the troop since l'.*4.r> when a
little girl ir Scut uniform
received a Scout salute from
her and then opened-eyed and de-
lighted said in one breath, "Do
you know about ScoutsWill you
be our Scout leader! Ours has
moved aw«y." Since then Miss
Anders • ha- never taken a va-
cation. winter or summer from
scouting Even during her recent
month of illness the scouts would
gather around her bed on Sat-
urday mornings for i nut ruction*
and then *et bout carrying them
out
The little sirl who tarted all
this in i iow a charming young
lady who till "does her duty ami
helps other people" and Miss An-
derson s s determined to iret a
perm am nt home for the Girl
Scout of Bastrop before she re
tire>- from active Scouting, to as
to insure life for Scouting in Bas-
trop. She plans to remain In
Scout in it p. long a* -he live* but
feel that younger hands and
quicker feet «h ttld perhaps now
take over the active leadership
She hopes to see the day when
i* roe of her former acout* will step
forward and volunteer to take
ovfr. That wilt be a proud and
happy day for her and we lv>pe
4he may live to experience it
Read The Want Ada
ORDER NOW!
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RUBBER STUMPS
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to invite her beet friend. "Thinking j with their scene to add t« it the ;
Day" was observed by preparing characters that mark Epiphany ami '
special spatter print cards to send I the end of Christmas AH the,
to friends of the Scouts who had . hoarded pieces of bright sjlk,
been especially thoughtful of them jewelry, pretty boxes, etc which ]
Lily Dominguez set a record by childr«*i rather at all time*, come '
preparing enough cards so that i into play now, as the three wise j
there are enough to use for our men are added to the scene and
friends this year. As the year' e strong reflected light add to
wore on the Scout* accepted in-j the jfloryy and splendor of the
vitations to help with various i rich gifts placed before the Chrisl
activities. child who is so toon to be whisked
They served as receptionists for away to Egypt to escape Herod's
the X-ray day that the Tuberculoa- j murderous soldiers and thereby
is Association held. They not only end the Christmas *ea*on There
accepted one period but offered to is much work and much learning
serve an extra period which had and understanding that come to
been difficult to fill. j 'he Scouts as they prepare the
They participated in the Home- Epiphany scene Thi« is the third
coming by preparing a float for' year that they have present*"' it
the parade and taking part in the One of the highlights of this
parade
On invitation of the Ix>st Pines
Garden Club, they took part in
the children's division of the local
year for the Scouts is that their
eontinous pap<*r sales have at
last liquidated the debt their
leader assumed when the large
flower show and won second prize tin paper-house was ouilt. It is
on one of the native plants, potted fully paid for and now stands a
In one of the pots decorated by you just "keep on keeping on"
one of the scouts. They also ex- j a monument to the belief that if
hibited their collection of local most anything can be done
flowers which were pressed and j In order to make a contribution
labeled as to correct name and to the MOD the scouts sold home
the location where found
Through the year, when small |
flowers were available, the Scouts I
arranged and presented them to j
the patients of the local hospital i
made cookie# and supplemented
the amount with scrap paper
money so that a $."> contribution
could be made.
Girl Scouting is perbar
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1952, newspaper, February 21, 1952; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth237363/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.