The Citizens Journal (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1942 Page: 5 of 8
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1942
THE CITIZENS JOURNAL. ATLANTA CASS COUNTY, TEXAS
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W.L. Swint, Pioneer
of Cass County, Dies
At Linden Friday
W. L. Swint, one of Cass Coun-
ty's oldest citizens passed away
in the Davis Clinic, Linden, Friday
afternoon, November 6, after a
long illness.
Mr. Swint was one of Cass
County's oldest citizens. He was
born near Dadeville, Tallapoosa
County, Alabama, June 9, 1856. He
came to Texas with his parents in
1881 and lived near Douglassville
since that time. He was married
to Miss Mattie Sue Davenport,
March 20, 1893. Mrs. Swint pass-
ed on to her reward on April 19,
1926. There was born to this union
'our children. Two sons and two
'daughters. Two daughters survive.
Mrs. John Jackson of Douglass-
ville and Miss lone Swint of Doug-
lassville, also a host of friends
and relatives.
Mr. Swint united with the Meth-
odist Church in his early married
life. He served in an official ca-
pacity of his church as long as his
health permitted. He was always
vitally concerned about the welfare
of his church, community, county,
state and his country. Needless
to write, Cass County has suffered
a great loss. There are not any
words more fitting than "He was
a> good man."
Funeral services were held at
..Cedar Grove Methodist Church
!unday morning, November 8th
■ith Rev. J. F. Everett of Avinger,
„ former pastor, officiating and as-
sisted by Rev. L. W. Nichols of
Texarkana, and Harold Fagan, pas-
tor of Douglassville Charge.
Pallbearers were his nephews,
G. C. Brabham, W. A. Brabham,
Luna Swint, Marvin Swint, Ever?
ett Swint, B. W. Swint, Vasco
Brabham, C. C. Brabham, H. E.
Brabham, Ennis Swint, and a great
nephew, Carter Swint.
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Pamphlets Give Rules
Meeting New Price
Regulation No. 22
A. J. Nelson, chairman of the
Cass County War Price and Ra-
tioning Board, announced recently
that the Board has available for
wholesale and retail fooil mer-
chants copies of a pamphlet ex-
plaining how they must comply
with Temporary Maximum Price
Regulation No. 22 which covers ad-
ditional foods brought under price
control effective October 5.
This regulation was issued by
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son to spread the emergency price
ceilings over virtually all food
items that previously had been
exempt from control and was de-
signed to put into immediate ef-
fect President Roosevelt's direc-
tives.
By this move Mr. Henderson in-
creased from about 60 per cent to
a full 90 per cent, OPA's control
over the average family's food
budget.
The 60-day emergency food ceil-
ings made effective on October 5
puts into effect a "freeze" on the
price of these foods at the levels
of the 5-day period from Septem-
ber 28 through October 2.
The only important foodstuffs
exempt for the time being are.
fresh fruits and vegetables (except
potatoes, dry onions and citrus
fruits), and exempt, too, are fresh
fish and peanuts.
"We hope that merchants con-
cerned will call at our office and
get a copy of this pamphlet," Mr.
Nelson said, "because it explains
how every wholesale and retail
food merchant must preserve his
records relating to prices, prepare
a statement of prices that may be
examined by customers, specify
ceiling prices; and this digest will
guide the merchant in the proper
procedure for complying with the
Regulation."
Products listed in the Regulation
also are included in this pamphlet
which was designed as a quick
guide for the merchants' conveni-
jnce.
Copies are available at the office
of^the Cass County War Price and
Rationing Board, Linden, Texas.
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Harmony Carnival
Purchases Seats
For School
Due to our all-out efforts to help
win this war, we are centering all
our interests around our school,
thereby enabling our students, pa-
trons, and friends of both races to
have some place to go for a bit of
entertainment without the use of
rubber.
During the month of October, we
ran a school carnival which netted j
he school a profit of $ 107.00, with j
vhich to purchase seats and other J
Necessities. Plenty of fun was af-
forded all who attended.
The entire community is being
thrilled by the boxing matches and
programs staged twice monthly by
the school. The students are doing
nicely with their Defense Stamp
albums.
School motto: "Scrap everything
that does not make a real demo-
cracy."
Amount collected prior to offi-
cial scrap drive, 16,000 pounds of
iron, 526 pounds rubber. Amount
collected during official drive 5500
pounds of scrap iron.
BELLE GROVE
By WILL C. HORNSEY
I wish to dedicate this editorial
in honor of my young friend—
Daverne (Bubba) Davis of our
city, and who is now a Freshman
in Baylor University, Waco, Tex-
as.
Daverne visited home folks this
past week end and kindly and
thoughtfully invited me to attend
a banquet' given by him out upon
his father's pretty farm located
on the Douglassville-Atlanta high-
way.
At this banquet, his guttsts were:
his father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. David V. Davis, Mrs. Lerina
Derryberry, Daverne's wonderful
girl-friend, Miss White of Bivins,
Richard Johnson, a student of Bay-
lor and a member of the football
squad there, and Mr. Roy Parillo
of Amarillo, and who is also a
student of Baylor University and
a member of its football team, and
Frank Bivins Trice and .his won-
derful girl-friend, Miss Kennedy of
Atlanta, Pedro Howe and Will C.
Hornsey.
It is truly a happy occosion that
we shall never forget in life. We
had a great time and enjoyed im-
mensely the delicious pot-stew and
other refreshments. Under the
cool shades of God's beautiful trees
and overlooking a bluff from which
flows the crystal water of an en-
during a spring walled in with rock
and whose waters flow over a rock
built there by Mr. Davis. This re-
sort .is truly one of the beautiful
spots of Cass County, and it is to
become the culmination of a dream
of David V. Davis.
Here upon the rock floor of his
resort, he let me see a slab of
granite that came from the front
steps of one of the most noted
homes of the Southland. It is the
theme of this editorial — Belle
Grove.
Belle Grove is located on the
west side of the Mississippi River
about thirty miles south of Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, in the great Su-
gar Bowl between White Castle and
Donaldsville in Iberville Parish.
This marvelous plantation home
was built by a wealthy slave-own-
er, John Andrews of Virginia. He
sold his vast estate in Virginia
in the year 1853 and came to Louis-
iana and purchased 4,000 acres of
rich alluvial land in the Mississippi
bottom and later 8,000 more acres
I were bought and added to this
vast estate making it a plantation
of 7,000 acres to be converted into
a great sugar plantation.
It was here that John Andrews
said: "I will now build the finest
home in the South where my chil-
dren can be supported and shel-
tered forever. To have the finest
home in the South, I must have
the finest architect regardless of
cost."
John Andrews had heard of the
fame of James Gallier who had
come from Ireland to New York,
and whose fame as an architect
had spread to New Orleans where
he had been called to design the
old City Hall facing Lafayette
Square and other pretentious
buildings in the Vieux Carre, and
many other noted homes along the
fashionable Esplanade Avenue in
New Orleans.
John Andrews embarked on a
palatial river boat and went to New
Orleans to contact this world-fa-
mous architect, James Gallier, and
summonsed him to design and su-
pervise the construction of his
dream-home—"Belle Grove."
James Gallier then became infat-
uated by this architectural dream
and visioned its structure with all
the flights of his artistic faculties.
He carefully drew the plans of this
fabulous mansion in its entirety
that would make it "The finest
home in the South."
Upon this great plantation, more
than a hundred slaves were put to
work cutting the cypress timbers
and making and baking the brick
for its construction, and doing the
common labor. Slate, copper and
marble were shipped in and skill-
ed artisans imported.
Excavations were made for foun-
dations approximately twelve feet
high and within these fortresses,
were numerous store rooms and
wine-cellars.
The construtclon of The Belle
Grove Mansion was begun about
the year 1854 and completed in
the year 1857. It was constructed
at a cost of .$500,000, and its fur-
niture, carpets, glittering chande-
liers, and other fixtures cost ap-
proximately $356,000. It contained
75 rooms, and its east room is
40 feet square. Its hallways,
stately pilasters, winding stairway
find themselves in a veritable maze
of chambers in this Southern man-
sion of the ante-bellum days. Here
is where visitors would come not]
to "call" but to "visit" and the <
gaiety of the balls and house-1
parties would extend into the
weeks. Belle Grove and gaiety}
were synonymous in Louisiana in
those "good old days."
Belle Grove was environed by
low-limbed oaks whose boughs were
festooned by the long streamers
of Spanish gray moss and many
thousands of acres of the rich
Mississippi bottom land upon which
toiled more than a hundred slaves
cultivating the sugar cane which;
supplied the great sugar refinery j
there. The languid waters of the;
Mississippi curl leisurely past this I
palatial mansion which have here
weathered the storms of time for
eighty-five years.
The down fall of this famous
Peanut Hay More
Valuable If Cut At
Right Time
Texas will have a lot of peanut
hay this fall if there is good
weather when it is harvested.
Good peanut hay, without nuts,
is worth fen per cent less than
average quality alfalfa, soybean
and cowpea hay, says E. R. Eudaly,
dairyman for the Texas A&M Col-
lege Extension Service. It is worth
one-fourth more than sorghum
cane hay, and Johnson and sudan
grass hay, provided the two latter
were cut at or before seeding time.
If these were cut after formation
of seed, peanut hay would be
worth one-third more. Peanut hay
is worth nearly twice as much as
grain sorghum bundles without
heads, and one-fourth more than
average quality prairie hay.
Eudaly says that peanut meal,
of which there will be a large
amount on the market this fall
and winter, is worth as much as
cottonseed meal provided it con-
tains 43 per cent protein. He sug-
gests that farmers should read the
tag on the sack because the pro-
tein content of peanut meal has
varied in the past from 43 to 38
per cent, and some as low as 36.
Peanut meal of 36 per cent pro-
tein content is worth one-fourth
Jess than 43 per cent cottonseed
meal, and 38 per cent protein pea-
nut meal is worth one-fifth less.
There probably will be some 41
per cent cottonseed meal on the
market, Eudaly adds, but it isn't
worth as much as that of 43 per
cent protein content.
Linden Church Puts
All Into War Effort
The Methodist Church of Lin-
den, in full assembly passed the
following resolutions:
First: We realize fully that we
are engaged in total war and that
as a Church we pledge our lives,
our property, our all to the winning
of the war.
Second: To accomplish this we
are giving our sons and daughters
and suiting our lives to every
change demanded and every re-
quest made of us by our great com-
mander.
Third: We realize we are send-
ing our young manhood by the mil-
lions into training camps and into
actual combat. They go almost
perfect specimens of manhood and
if they return, at all we want them
to return strong stalwart and man-
ly, not wrecks of their former self.
Fourth: As a Church we are a
part of eight million Methodists
and a part of sixty million Chris-
tians whom we believe think as we
do and we urge every Church to
take the step we are today taking
That we request our Commander-
in-chief and our Congress to at
once take steps to remove every
influence of evil of every nature
and especially beer and alcohol,
out of reach of our boys in the
camps and in the Army.
Fifth: We view with alarm the
attitude of our Congress and our
Army Officers in regard to alco-
hol. No wonder the brewers said
this attitude was the finest in
the world, for if we can take ten
million of our sons and daughters
and develop within them the habit
of drink they know that at the
end of the war we will have a
drunken wrecked world.
Sixth: We know a man under the
influence of alcohol to any extent
is not normal and can not be at
his best. This has already been
proven at the cost of many lives
in this war. We give our sons to
fight and if needs be die, but we
want them to have a chance to
live.
Seventh: To this end we ask
Congress to see that alcohol is
removed far from our boys in the
Army and from our work centers.
It is further resolved that a
copy of this action be furnished to
Hon. Wright Patman, congress-
man, to Senators W. Lee O'Daniel
and Tom Connally with the request
that the same be presented to
Congress and to our Commander-
in-Chief. Also a copy to be given to
the press.
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Christian Is Asset
To Any Nation
In troublesome times as the
present, while we stagger down
the darkened aisles of time," as
well well as in times of peace,
there is no better asset to a com-
munity, state or nation than just
simply a Christian—a follower of
Jesus Christ in all His teachings.
A Christian does not teach men
how to "beat the law" and to live
lives of ungodliness. The jails,
and correctional institutions were
not made for Christians. Think
of the money spent by our great
government to punish the evildoer!
Think of what it costs to bring
to trial and prosecute one murder-
er! Nations cannot stand without
righteous people. "Righteousness
exalteth a nation: but sin is a
reproach to any people." (Prov. |
14:34). When God told Abraham
that he was going to destroy Sodom
because of its wickedness, Abraham
asked him if he would spare the
city if he could find just ten right-
eous persons. God promised he
would not destroy that city if as
many as ten righteous persons
could be found. Think of thous-
ands of people in that city! Ten
—two less than a dozen—could
save it. You know the story—they
could not be found. Wonder what
our averages would be as compared
with Sodom. How close to Sodom's
average are we approaching ? Some
Ergot Poisoning
Threatens Stock
A threat to the livestock indus-
try this fall is ergot poisoning
which already has brought losses
to Panhandle ranchers.
Ergot is a fungus disease which
often affects the heads of many
native grasses, rye, and other
small grains during wet seasons.
Dr. H. Schmidt of the Experiment
Station Division of Veterinary
Science explains that the fungus
not only causes abortion but also
may cause sloughing of the hoofs,
horns, ears, and tail.
Dr. Schmidt, together with oth-
er veterinary authorities and path-
ologists from Texas and Oklahoma,
recently made a range inspection
trip in the Panhandle. They
found that Canada wild rye,
Virginia wild rye, and Western
wheat grass in the vicinity of Ca-
New Bulletin On
Food Price Ceilings
Grocers and all merchants han-
dling food at retail may now ob-
tain a printed bulletin explaining
how to apply the new Office of
Price Administration formula for
determining the new legal ceiling
prices, A. J. Nelson, chairman of
nations have reached Sodom's av-
erage and have fallen and are still
falling. Christians are referred to
as being "Salt;" Salt has a saving
or preserving power; What Amer-
ica needs is more Salt. Light
drives darkness away; Christians
are referred to as Light; What
America needs is more Light. Yes,
what we need is more followers of
that "meek and lowly Nazarene."
Thank God for what we have.
Earl Dale, Minister.
nadian are heavily infested with i
the fungus disease (ergot). The
fungus was also found as far south
as Gray County.
Upon the invitation of County
Agricultural Agent John O. Sto-
vall of Hemphill County, approx-
imately 50 ranchers who had suf-
fered livestock losses met with the
state and Federal authorities.
Since there is no effective anti-
dote for ergot poisoning, the
disease must be prevented by stop-
ping consumption of infected j
grasses. George W. Barnes, ani-j
mal husbandman for the A&M
College Extension Service, recom-
mends these general precautions:
Cut for hay before the plants
head out meadows likely to become
infected. Or cut the infected heads
and remove from pastures and
meadows. Avoid feeding hay which
contains infected heads. Provide
livestock with an abundance of
clean forage during the fall and
winter when the heads are soften-
ed by moisture and other forage is
covered with snow. If ne
remove stock from infested ranges,
the Cass County War Price and
Rationing Board, reported today.
"Beginning October 15," Mr.
Nelson explained, "all food retail-
ers were allowed to apply this
formula in pricing 11 groups of
foods where present mark-ups may
be abnormally low."
He added that the period for
making adjustments under this new
formula expires at midnight, De-
cember 31, 1942, so it is important
that all food merchants obtain
copies of this Food Retailers' Bul-
letin No. 2 as quickly as possible
and familiarize themselves with its
provisions.
It is optional to apply the new
formula to breakfast cereals, rice,
coffee, sugar, canned vegetables,
canned fish, cooking and salad
oils, hydrogenated shortening and
other shortenings. However, it is
mandatory to figure the new ceil-
ings on lard and dried fruits.
Mr. Nelson said retail food mer-
chants may obtain copies of this
Food Retailers' Bulletin No. 2 by
calling at the Cass County War
Price and Rationing Board, Linden.
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Keep alive the Warmth of treas-
ured Friendships with Personal
Christmas Greeting Cards. We have
a complete line, from 50 for $1.00
up. Order them in assortments or
25 of a kind. Printed, blank or en
graved. Citizens Journal.
A dime out of every
dollar wc earn
IS OUR QUOTA
for VICTORY with
U.S. WAR BONDS
home came when the Civil War
freed the slaves and left the weal-
thy slave owner, John Andrews,
helpless without slave labor.
He eventually died of smallpox
and none of his children ovpr made
this fabulous mansion a home for
themselves. The great plantation
in after years was divided into
small farms and sold. Today after
the passing of 85 years, this fa-
famous home crumbling in decay,
the waters of the great Mississippi
are gradually eating away the
banks and coming nearer and near-
er to this great home, and will
some day undermine its founda-
tion, and beautiful, palatial Belle
Grove will slump into the great
Father of Waters to become just a
memory of the "good old days" of
the Southland.
junkm*:;.
ptan Why Safeway Ceiling Prices Are low
FIRST, WHAT IS A CEILING PRICE?
A store's ceiling price is the highest
price that may be charged by that par-
ticular store for those items governed
by the ceiling price law.
SECOND, WHY AREN'T CEILING
PRICES THE SAME IN ALL STORES?
Under the regulations each store estab-
lishes its own price ceilings within the
limitations of the law. The ceiling price
law fixes an amount above which prices
may not go, but without restrictions as
to how low prices may go.
WHY SAFEWAY CEILING PRICES
ARE LOW! Because every Safeway price
has been a very low price month after
month, Safeway ceiling prices are natu-
rally very low. For years Safeway has
waged war on needless waste in distri[>
uting foods... cut out unnecessary ex-
pense ... eliminated frills. And the sav-
ings thus made have been shared with
our customers by giving them low prices.
The ceiling price regulations will not, in
any way, alter Safeway's policy of bring-
ing you the finest foods the markets offer
at the lowest possible prices.
Safeway is cooperating with the Government's effort
to prevent inflation by rigidly adhering to the spirit
as well as the letter of the ceiling price regulations.
AffO there is no ceil
Ing as to the number
of War Bonds ond
Stamps you should
buy, regularly. ,
Shop tarty in the week..-avoid crowds.,.and save money, test.
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tm Prices
G( ..Glenn q No. 2 O0«i (
raperruit Aire JL Cans J J T
| . Town House q No. 2 QC/
J U ICC Grapefruit Z. Cans jLJ t
X < Standard No. 2 A f\J.
I omatoes Quality Can 1 U*T
Cherub Milk 3caa"i 23C
ki'll Carnation ^ Tall
IK Evaporated O Cans
Baby Food Strained 3 Cans
23C
O Sleepy Hollow 12-Oi. a
byrup Rich In Maple Bot. I JT
J Orange Slices, 1-Lb. A
Landy Chocolate Drops Cello I JT
Pintos .... 7 lbs. 49c
KraWi 2-Lb. f.-l£
American Bo* O/T
Like These £very Pay at SAFSWAY!
Flour BeitbUry *. 12 "a, 65*r
19C
194
Peanut Butter
MealAeorn
Cream
Hi-Ho Crackers
C Lb.
D Bag
1-Lb.
Pkg.
\ Tornato Juice Dawn
CJ _ Kitchen Craft
Hour ENRICHED
23-Oz.
Can
11«
OA'"- QQ*e
■fc-f bag 77'
Salt Jefferson Island
! Square Box
224-Of.
Pkgs.
54
, Frontier or
Real Rost
3-Minute Oats
O I Julia Lee Wright
□ read Enriched White
Chief
5 lbs.
Pk°"* 214
loaf1"' 1 04
k A • Sunny Bank
Margarine Good
32-Oz,
Jar
Lb.
43c
17*
Paper Tissues
440 Count
OATS
Kleenex
Sr> I Granulated
u-rurb Soap
/> I I Granulated
(Jxydol soap
194
234
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SAUERKRAUT
20 lbs. cabbage
V lb. ('/• cup) salt
Select firm, sound, mature
heads of cabbofl#. Ramova outer
leavesi we h well. Quarter, re
move core, end slice very fin*
Pot 5 lb*, (about 7'/i e -) shr«4<
ded cabbage In e pan, add 2 %i,
(3V) tbsps.) telt end mix with
hands. Place In deep crack or
tight waadan hag and tame down
firmly with wooden atoiher ta ax-
tract julco end farca aut air. Ra-
peaf vntil all cobbaga Is ased.
Prats down, cavar with a clean
whlta cloth, than with a plate ar
round waadan board small
anough to fit dawn insida crock,
and weight dawn with a clean
rack or brick, to ha«p cobbaga
covtrad with brina that forms at
solt draws |uica from cabbaga.
Kaap in a worm placa, 75* ta
85* F. Impact aach day, ramova
scum with tpoon, and rinta cloth
in door watar.
Tha kraut will ba farmantad ar
"curad" In 10 to 20 dayt, da
ponding upon tha amount of cab<
bago and tha temperature at
which It It kapt. Iti appaaranca
end taita will tall you whan it Is
sufficiently cured.
Kraut may ba loft In tha crock
or kag ell wtntor. In a cold cellor
or basamant, if cara Is taktn ta
ramova ony scum that formti er
it may ba canned any timo from
1 to 3 months after fermentation
is completed. Simply drain ofl
Juice, pock cold kraut Into hot
sterilised glatt (art to Vj inch
from topi hoat juice to boiling,
pour over kraut, teal end store In
cool dark place. Do not process.
TO MAKE KRAUT IN JARS
Ml* ihredded cabbage with
salt, using '/* tablespoon solt ta
each qucrt cabbage. Peek firmly
into cloan glatt iart, fill with
cold water, adlust covers foi'rly
tight, and ttore where If will
keep comfortably worm ond wheie
possible overflow at liquid will
do no harm. If scum farms ra-
mova It. The kraut will ferment
foe a faw doys, and will be ready
to use In a month. At that time,
drain of? (elca, heat ta boiling,
pour avar kraut again, and seal
fight. Do not pracass.
HOW TO MAKE KRAUT
• Cibb.jc I, Low in Ptic. Why nol can for your own uit?
• W.P.B. lay. "No C.nnin| of Kraut by Canning Compani'.." /
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Colorado Fresh
Kraut Cabbage
Lb.
2
Potatoes McClura
10 Lbi.
334
East Texas Yams 5 Lb..
194
Yellow Onions
3 Lbs.
104
Turnips K...
lun.
54
Rutabagas w3
Lb.
34
^ Fancy Red
Vjrapes EmF ror
2 Lbs.
234
Apples &s.r"....
Lb.
74
Oranges swa« juiey
Lb.
6Vs4
Grapefruit
SAF£tVAY
GUARANTEED MEATS
You save money on meat ony day at Safeway
because Safeway meats are priced low every
day of the week.
Beef Short Ribs u,. 194
SEVEN ROAST 29c|
Rib Roast£.Te'hBRib u>. 314
Beef Brains ib. 204
PORK LIVER Vou"Ki',h!!2 5c]
Sausage Pork u. 314
Veal Roast rX1"* u. 294
Fresh Red Fish u. 334
Catfish Slfcad Lb. 43c
Fresh Buffalo Lb. 294
Fresh Gulf Shrimp u. 374
Drum FiA u>. 2 54
Oysters m s"ect 49cj
Texas Marsh Sodltts
5*
m
Limit Quantltlei
Fruit Cake
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Orange Peel
Lemon Peel
Citron Peel
Glace Cherries
R. • Sun Maid
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