The Saint Jo Tribune (Saint Jo, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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Bits o' Nothing
By E. E. H.
Said a Saint Jo ranchman of fame,
"I'm buyin' these bonds with my
change,
'Cause each one's a slap
At a Nazi or Jap
Who threatens our home on the
range."
* * *
The following verses were taken
from the Publishers' Auxiliary:
IF WE HAD OUR WAY
I would I were beside the sea,
Or sailing in a boat,
With all the things I've got to
write—
WROTE
I would I were away from town
As far as I could get,
With all the bills I've got to meet—
MET
I would I were out on a farm
A basking in the sun,
With all the things I've got to do—
DONE
I would I were by a babbling brook
In some green and shady spot,
With all the things I would for-
get—
FORGOT
I would that I were far away,
Within some quit plot,
Wit all the lessons I've got to get—
GOT
I would I were on a mountain top,
Away from all this bunk,
With all the thoughts I ought to
think—
THUNK
I would I were along the shore
With all my searchings sought,
And all the teachings I've got to
teach—
TAUGHT
I would I were going on a long
long trip
And had my passage booked,
With all the things I've got to
cook—
COOKED
I would I were on a soft, white
cloud,
Tucked in a fleecy fold,
With all the stuff I've got to sell—
SOLD
I would I were in some far clime,
Beyond hayfever's zone,
With all the blows I've got to
blow—
BLOWN
I wish I never had to cook,
Nor wonder what to get,
With all forced meals I have to
eat—
ET
I wish that I could be sincere
And honest as a child,
All the fake smiles I have to
smile—
SMILED
I wish I did not fear to bring
Wrath down upon my head,
Then I'd get things I'd like to
say—
SAID
I would I were in a rocking chair,
My knitting in my hand,
And all the meals I've got to plan—
PLANNED
I would my house a castle were,
A lovely, grand adobe,
And all the laws I have to mow—
MOWED
I would that I were as free as air,
My^ duties all evaded,
And all the papers I must grade—
GRADED
I'd like to sleep, and sleep, and
sleep,
And sleep till* I awoke.
And all the alarm clocks I've yet
to hear—
BROKE
I wish I were a little bear
Out to have some fun.
And all the stuff I've got to do—
DONE
When spring comes on I'd love' to
loaf
By garden dreams enchanted,
With all the things I ought to plant
PLANTED
I'd like to find some quiet nook
Where naught but zephyrs stirr-
ed
With all the radios I must hear—
HEARD
I would I were a violet,
In a quiet woodland shade,
And all the claims I have to pay—
PAID
I'd like to have a set of books,
Its entries all completed,
And all accounts, both in and out—
RECEIPTED
I wish I could just loll around,
Served by a pretty maid,
With this bedspread I must
crochet—
CROCHETED
The Saint Jo Tribune
Serving Wide Area of Cooke and Montague Counties In Northwest Texas
Established In 1898
VOLUME 44
Saint Jo, Montague County, Tex. Friday, May 8, 1942
NUMBER 47
A dim* out of avcry
dollar wo earn
IS OUR QUOTA
for VICTORY with
U.S.WAK BONDS
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Rugged Men, Mighty Machines Build
U.S.-Alaska Highway .'Across Canada
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Miff!
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1) Across frozen Peacc River
a plank highway was laid to car-
ry truck trains. 2) Typical of the
hard-fisted American engineers
on the job is Felix Murawski of
Oklahoma City. 3) Road machi-
nery reaches the end of the rail-
road line at Dawson Creek and
is loaded on trucks for the 36-
hour run through temperature as
50 degrees bolow zero. 4) Bull-
dozers arc needed to cut the
frozen ground. 5) Truck drivers
relieve each other every 10
hours and the other sleeps in
coilin-like boxes atop the cab.
A MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY
OF THE TREASURY
SENIOR CLASS
PLAY IS TO BE
GIVEN ON MAY 14
"His Name Was Aunt Nellie" a
three-act comedy-drama, will be
presented by the Senior class of
Saint Jo high school on Thursday
night of next week. May 14, in the
gymnasium-auditorium at 8:30. Ad-
mission will be 25c and 11c, in-
cluding tax.
The play is a side-splitting farce
and tells what happens when Aunt
Nellie, a gay old "lady," comes to
live with her prim New England
ralatives. the Baldwins. The plot is
full of hilarious complications and
funny twists and turns.
The cast of ten characters in-
clude: David Roberts, as Archie
Baldwin, a prosperous, small-town
banker who likes to play the horses j
and occasionally slips away from
home and goes to the tracks.; Viva
Jo Hammer, is Berta Baldwin, his
wife.
Constance Melton plays Sheila
Baldwin, his nineteen-year-old da-
ughter, who is in love with Jerry.
J. D. Nowell plays Fred Baldwin,
Archie's seventeen-year-old son,
who wants to join the navy. Bob-
bie Jean McGrady is another dau-
ghter who is fifteen-years-old and
has a weakness for shooting craps.
Lois Martin, has the part of the
Baldwin's colored maid.
Billie Wilson is Ed Saunders, a
neighbor who also enjoys horse
racing and ends up in trouble with
his wife, Mable, played by Mildred
Dennis.
Edgar Hoover plays Jerry Park-
am, a young actor in love with
Shelia. He is also "Aunt Nellie,"
who was formerly a burlesque
queen and "Felix," Ed's cousin
from Paris.
Jack Gallaher is Van Dilling, a
dignified elderly man who is Presi-
dent of the bank.
Other seniors associated with the
production are Shirley Phillips,
holder of the book; Frances Dun-
bar, property manager; Gene Evans
sound effects; Margaret and Thel-
ma Moore, publicity committee.
Corregidor Falls
Approximately 11,574 soldiers,
sailors, marines and civilians pre-
sumably were captured when Cor-
regidor tell to «the J apt this week.
Other boy forts also fell'
TMC SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
WAIHINOTON
May 1, 1942
%
TO THE PEOPLE OF TECAS:
This week a new campaign for the sale of Iter Bonds and Saying*
Stamps la under way throughout the Nation. It is the Ifer Bond Quota
Campaign.
It ia urgently necessary that you double the rata at which you
are now buying War Bonds and Stamps. This will mean the sale direct
to individual Americans of War Bonds and Staaps to the amount of not
less than one billion dollars every month.
One-billion dollars a month is the National quota,
to one-tenth the combined incomes of all Americans.
It is equal
IWICTORY
17 T ' v
This money is needed to buy the tools of war for your fighting
forces. It will not pay for all of thea. Our war expenditurea now
are at the rate of about TOUR BILLIONS a month, and they are growing
daily. But a billion dollars a month direct from the people will
make all^ut production possible. Without it we cannot do our bestj
without it we cannot put forth our Aill effort.
It is desperately needed for another roason. We can't fight a
war and at the same time live and spend as usual. There are not enough
goods to go around — the things we buy with money. If we go on spend
lng at the 1941 scale, we'll be robbing the fighting man to add to our
own comfort or pleasure. We'll be dri lng up the cost of living for
all of us. We'll be imposing dire harcjhlps on our neighbors.
What is asked of you is ten per cent of your earnings — a tithe
for Liberty. It in not a tax; it is not even a contribution; it is a
loan at interest, for your use and protection later.
Tour Government asks you to cut down your expenditures, TO SAVE —
your boys on the firing line and In the training camps, through your
Government, auk you to eave so that they may have what they need to
win TOUR FAB for you — America asks you to save; to SAVE TO WIN TKZ WAH;
to buy Wir Purvis and St.a-ips up to not less than ten per cent of your
income. '
Is Liberty worth it? Is Democracy *>rth it? Is America worth it?
I think I know your answer.
(
Sincerely,
Nelson Monroe
Dies of Wound
Nelson Monroe, farmer living inf
the Caps Corner area and well
known throughout this sector, died
in a Wichita hospital at 12:45 last
night as a result of gunshot
wounds accidentaly inflecled about
5:30 p.m. Thursday. The charge
entered the body above and to
the left of the heart. He was rush-
ed to a Wichita Falls hospital in
a Scott Bros, ambulance.
The accident occured about 5:30
while Mr. Monroe was alone
at the house. Mrs. Monroe was at
the home of Mr. Browner, who is
ill. Jack Tucker, employed on the
farm, found Mr. Monroe about 8:00.
He was still conscious and told
Tucker he had started out to shoot
a crow. The gun, a 12-guage pump,
was still hung in the screen door
and Mr. Monroe was in the yard
a few feet out from the door, it
was reported. Only one shot had
been fired.
Tucker called Dr. M. L. Drabing
of Saint Jo and then Mrs. Monroe.
Monroe, about 57, was the father
of nine children, who were called
late last night. One son, Wayne,
is with the air corps in Puerto
Rico. Harper lives at Gainesville;
A. B. Monroe at Caps Corner but
he was with a drilling crew at
Hueldton, Okla.; Raymond lives at
Nocona.
One daughter, Nita Lou, lives at
home but was not there at the
time of the accident; Mrs. C. D.
Matney lives at Illinois Bend; Mrs.
Bill Holt. Olney; Mrs. Paul Dill,
Bogota; Mrs. Turner O'Neal of
Muenster.
CEILING PRICES
EFFECT MOST
LOCAL STORES
DALLAS—The first effects of the
over-all ceiling will be visible to
the consumer on May 18.
That is the day the retail ceil-
ing goes into effect, and also the
day when every person offering
to sell a cost-of-living commodity
at retail shall have marked the
maximum price of such commodi-
ty in a manner plainly visible to
and understandable by the purchas-
ing public.
The maximum price may be
marked on the commodity itself or
on the shelf, bin, rack or other
holder on container upon which
the commodity is kept. Or the max- t
mum shall be stated as follows: (
place in the business establishment \
where the commodity is offered for
sale. .
Under the regulations, the maxi-^
mum shall be stated as fojlaw^^
—, or
"Ceiling Price $-
Ceiling, $-
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BOND PLEDGE
DRIVE IS UNDER
WAY IN AREA
A drive for systematic bond-
purchases got underway here and
through Montague county this week
as the nation launched a drive to
fiance the war-costs. Locoal com-
mitteemen, including Vanis Red-
man, Sam Roach, and C. D. Meador
will call on local citizens this week.
Many have already pledged to buy
a set amount of bonds, or stamps,
each month.
The drive is planned by the
Treasury and seeks at least 10-per
cent of the total National income
in stamp and bond investments.
The drive will have quotas of $600
million for May, $800 million for
June and $1 billion for July. It
will be conducted through State
and county campaigns, the payroll
savings plan and volunteer minute
men. Bureau of Budget Director
Smith announced increases in pro-
posed war expenditures for fiscal
1943 from $56 billion to $70 billion.
He estimated war expenditures
would reach a rate of $5 billion
a month by September.
Montague's quota for the month
of May has been set at $58,000, as
its part in the state's quota of
$18,59^00.00
Under the systematic purchase
plan, people drawing a salary of
$15 to $20 could pledge 75c each
week in stamps an dby the end
of the year he would have $39.00
in stamps and bonds. Those earn-
ing $30 could pledge $2 weekly, etc.
The above letter was sent to this newspaper by Secretary Mor-
genthau in Washington. We publish it in the interest of the War Bond
Quota Campaign and earnestly recommend that all our readers do
their share in the tremendous job ahead of financing the War effort.
Montague Seniors i Landmark Baptist
Present Class Play Meets at Spencer
MONTAGUE—The senior class of
the Montague high school presented
their annual play "Look Who's
Here," Friday night with a large
attendance.
The cast included Ernest Guil-
liams, Gloria June Gronow, Alice
Magee, Ruth Lemons, Edna Part-
ridge, Lola Bee Strickland, of the
senior class and Nell Cox and
Kenneth Shackelfor, juniors and
Sid Hudson, a freshman.
Fire Destroys Home
Elder E. A. Osborn, minister of
the local Church of Christ return-
ed last weekend from Searcy, Ark.,
where he had gone for a visit with
his wife and eon. While there his
home was completely destroyed by
fire. Nothing was saved from the
home
The fifth Sunday meeting of the
Landmark Missionary Baptist As-
sociation will convene with the
Spencer Baptist Church May 30-
31, it was announced this "Week.
The two day meeting will feat-
ure sermons by W. B. Langford,
Berint Hutson, T. V. Teak el or al-
ternate R. L. Cook. Sunday song
services will be directed by Ernest
O'Neal. Others on the program
are S. F. Middleton, J. A. Wall,
and W. W. Campbell,
Serve on Jury
Among those from Saint Jo in
Montague Monday for petit jury
were C. D. Meador, Maxie Dill,
Jim Embry, Geo. A. Wright, and
Ulis Burns.
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SUGAR CARDS
ISSUED IN FIRST
WAR RATIONING
Saint Jo citizens joined the war-
at-home movement in earnest Mon-
day when the nation got its first
taste of rationing with the sign-up
for sugar rationing cards. Approxi-
matel 1170 persons registered thru
the local school on the first day.
Those who failed to register be-
fore the closing hour Thursday will
not have an opportunity to obtain
rationing cards before May 21.
Some 240 persons were regi-
stered Tuesday and about 90 on
Wednesday. No estimate was ob-
tainable Thursday, at press time.
The first day's figures included
registerations at small schools who
transfer to the local institution.
Persons with more than the al-
lowed "6-pounds each" at the time
the signed-up were not permitted
cards, and scores of stamps were
torn from books for having over
"2 pounds each."
Sugar went back on sale Mon-
day, throughout the nation after
sales had been frozen for a week
prior to the sign-up.
All Children Home
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Smith had
all of their children home last
weekend for the first time in some
time. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Stelzer
came from Henrietta; Miss Golda
Smith from Fort Worth; Pvt. Ray-
mond L. Smith from.Camp Bowie.
It might be noted, Office of Pric*.
Administration officials have ^aid,
that the seller may sell conyrioditi-
es at lower than the ceili.ig price
if he desires.
In posting the ceiling prices, any
person choosing to post by price-
line the maximum prices of com-
modities in classifications specified
in the regulations, shall post the
maximum price by price-line at
the place in the business establi-
shment where the commodities in
such price-line are offered for sale,
and, in addition, shall mark the
selling price (which may be low-
er than the maximum price) of
each such commodity on the com-
modity itself.
Explanations of the Maximum
Price Regulation as it affects re-
tailers have been taken to retailers
in all sections of this area, includ-
ing a meeting at Wichita Falls on
Tuesday night, attended by a num-
ber of Saint Jo merchants.
From the meeting, the principal
problem for retailers is the neces-
sity for meeting the requirement
that on and after May 18 ever.v
person offering to sell a cost-of-
living commodity at retail shall
mark the maximum price of each
commodity plainly visible to and
understandable by the purchasing
public.
Listed as cost-of-living commo-
dities are such items as tobacco,
toiletries and sundries, packaged
drugs, infants' food, ice cream, ap-
parel and yard goods, footwear,
specified cuts of fresh beef, pork
and other meat products, canned
fruits, vegetables and iuices, other
listed types of groceries and house-
old sundries, household furrtkbre,:"
appliances and furnishings, hard-
ware, agricultural supplies, ice
firewood, charcoal, fuel oils, gaso-
line, tires and tubes, and miscel-
laneous specified items.
The ceiling becomes effective first
at the wholesale-manufacture levels
on May 11. Then it applies to re-
tail goods on May 18 when con-
sumers and retailers seal the part-
nership that includes every man.
woman and child in the battle a-
gainst high living costs.
The Tribune has been furnished
a copy of Bulletin No. 1 on the
General Maximum Price Regula-
tion, which is available to local
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DRABING TAKES
MAYOR'S OFFICE
MONDAY NIGHT
Dr. M. L. Drabing took the oath
as Mayor of the City of Sfaint Jo
at the regular monthly%neeting
of the city council Monday
to succeed T. E. Giles. Giles ..
served the city for eight yea.
and was a member of the council
before being elected mayor.
Doyle C. Powell, elected at the
regular city election last month to
succeed retiring councilman C. N.
Turner and Geo. A. Wright re-
elected, were sworn in as alder-
men. Wright was sworn in for the
beginning of his eighth year as a
member of the council. Powell was
a councilman at Howe, before com-
ing to Saint Jo little more than a
year ago.
Mayor Drabing announced that
he would organize the council imd
name his committees "after giving
it a little thought."
Committees to be formed include
streets, finance, water and sewer,
fire marshal, park and fire com-
missioner, equalization board, cem-
etery commissioner or secretary,
and a mayor-protem. ,
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Hayley, Earnest E. The Saint Jo Tribune (Saint Jo, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1942, newspaper, May 8, 1942; Saint Jo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth335265/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .