The Hondo Anvil Herald. (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1942 Page: 4 of 6
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The Anvil Herald
fUblishril weekly—Every Friday—by
THE FLETCHER DAVIS
PUBLICATIONS.
ANNE DAVIS. Editor.
MRS. ROBERTA 0. DAVIS.
Assistant Editor.
FLETCHER DAVIS.
Managing Editor.
at the Poatoffice at Hondci
Texas, as second-class matter.
I meat Service set up a system wherc-
| by capable, certified persons on
i WPA rolls will be directed to jobs in
industry and agriculture as needed*
! Approximately 850,000 persons were
j employed or awaiting assignment to
{ WPA projects July 1—20 percent of
(the total active file of the employ-
bv a more modern
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Within Hondo’s trade area (Me-
dina. Atascosa. Frio, Uvalde, Ban-
dcra and Bexar Counties) one
Sf «E5*WS S,rJTri.«on A*
Outside this area, one year .. $2.00 visory Committee in cooperation with
With Farming, both together one the Office of Government Reports.
year............................. *2.25
HONDO, TEXAS, SEPT. 25, 1942
”” i Gen. MacArthur’s Australian
Headquarters reported Septembei
At the request of WPB Chairman
Nelson, the Defense Plant Corpora-
tion authorized Henry J. Kaiser,
; West Coast shipbuilder, to construct
' three giant experimental cargo
[planes at a cost of $18,000,000. The
| first is expected to be completed m
j 15 months, the second in 20 months,
A summary of the past week’s war | and the third in 25 months. Mr.
by The National [ Kaiser also was asked to dra;v up
‘ plans for a factory
cifix.
FOR RELEASE SEPT. 22, 1942.
James Preston
To dash public lay hopes, skele-
tons instead of rabbits came out o£
the big Labor Day stabilization
21 that Australian troops have clean-
ed out the entire Milne Bay area at
the southeastern tip of New Guinea,
thus consolidating the biggest Jap-
anese defeat of the war in the Aus-
tralian zone. Despite heavy fight-
ing in the Owen Stanley Mountains
Pass where the Japanese hare thrust
forward to within 32 air mile* of the
Allied base at Port Moresby, Gen.
MacArthur’s bombers and fighters
have made heavy raids on Japanese
drive. Congress, with a one-way troops and on kev enemy bases in
ticket dated October 1, must reach tb(, , ortheast Australian zone in a
the terminal on time or pull off into continuing offensive.
• rdinf, f,°/.,thK Wa.r P°rr SpedaI A strong Japanese naval force, in-
Capdl Hill bowed and wavenn8 cIudi battleships and cruisers, was
under pressure groups, elections, j rttack*d bv ArmV bomb(,rs north-
nnd executive groups, elections, and of Tujafri> w|th p0SSiUe hits on
executive lash, debates ways and battleships, the Navy reported
means for adequate
ways and
stabilization—
September 19. After the attack, the
Meantime wages and* prices soar and \ ff//‘mui inel' con“?nuf-d ^VSd'thrir
lamb chops reach new highs.
Any Congressional midnight oil
formula, in the opinion of many,
will be acceptable to the Whito
House so long as it conforms to tho
specifications of the President’s
original seven-point urogram.
—WSS—
Drastic civilian product concen-
tration machinery has been set up to
speed the war production program.
All manufacturers, from baby car-
riages to caskets, will be affected*
Plants converted to war production
will be permitted to keep trade
nark* and trade names alive through
advertising on a scale based on pre-
vious advertising investments.
—WSS—
WPB has designated two of the
twelve concerns that have been mak*
ing bicycles to produce all bicycles
to be manufactured in the United
States “for the duration.” These*
may produce a combined total of 10,*
000 bicycles a month which repre-
sents 20 percent of the July-Augurt
production of all firms. While trado
marks may r.ot be used by either
concern under this program, one
may use the letter “W" next to its
serial numbers and the other “H”.
No firm will be “permitted to spread
its name over the land and in for-
eign countries” at the expense of
those temporarily converted to war
production.
—WSS—
While WPB did not attempt to
handle the problem of “profit pool-
ing" in the biiyde industry, officials
are working on a plan to permit
firms which cease manufacture to
share the profits of companies per-
mitted to continue. In the bicycle
industry, however, it was explained
that the ten firms which cease mak-
ing the bicycles will derive profits
from the manufacture of munitions*
in which they are now engaged.
—'WSS—
The following industries are next
in line for concentration: clocks and
watches, sewing machines, ranges,
lamps, vacuum cleaners, farm equip-
ment, pottery, clocks, etc.
Flashlights and batteries, small
electric appliances of all types, ra-
zor blades and razors, domestic me-
chanical refrigeration, fractional
horsepower motors.
Lawn mowers, ice refrigerators
outboard motors, metal signs, all
types of toys, umbrellas, office sup-
plies, marking devices, sporting
goods, hair pins, power cycles, musi-
cal instruments, bells and gongs,
pencils and pens, baby carriages,
caskets, military insignia and but-
tons, all types of emblems, cigarette
lighters, ceramics, electro plating,
flatware and hollowware, cutlery,
manicure cutlery, mirrors and
frames, motion picture film, photo-
graphic supplies, kitchen and house-
hold utensils, jewelry, morticians'
goods, hardware supplies, vending,
amusement, gaming^ and weighing
machines.
CATHOLIC SERVICES
Effective at once, there will be
three Masses offered each Sunday
as follows: St. John’s Church at 6:00
A. M. and 9 A. M.; in Our Lady of
Sorrows Church, 10:30 A. M. (Cen-
tral War Time)
Holy Days of Obligation—6:00
A. M. and 9:00 A. M. (Central War
Time.)
Communion Sunday for the Holy
Name Society—2nd Sunday of every
month.
C. GARCIA,
Pastor.
FOR SALE
The Henry Wemette Farm near
D’Hania, 240 acres in cultivation
160 acres in good pasture; all im
provementa and fences and cross
fences in good condition; good 5
room house. Must be sold to close es-
tate. Prewar pries. Write
E. i. WERNETTB,
M Insurance Bldg.,
6tc. San Antonio, Texas.
positions in the Solomon* despite
constant air attacks fiom the enemy
and succtssful landings of small
numbers 01 enemy troops and sup-
plies. U. S. planes destroyed 41
mote t n my planes in the Solomons
fighting. Army planes in several
rmds on Jn.panese-held Kiska in the
Aleutians destroyed many installa-
tions ard inflicted the following
damage—two minesweepers sunk
six ships damaged, 500 troops killed,
-even large and small planes destroy-
<1 Two U. S. planes were lost in a
collision.
Army Headquarters in Lcndon
announced a force of American para
•i'ute troops f-nve been in Britain
some time undergoing intensive
training. Commander in Chief ol
ilie Pucilic fleet Nimitz said the De-
cember 7 damage to Peail Harbor
has been repaired "far beyond ex-
pectations.” The Navy announced
. h« aircraft carrier Vorktown was
sunk June 7 after it climaxed 104
days of continuous battle cruising by
locating the last of the four Japanese
earners which attacked Midway.
News of the Yorktown’s sinking war.
withheld, the Navy said, because the
enemy possibly was not aware of it*
The Navy also announced three more
United Nations merchant ships were
sunk by enemy subs in August.
Rationing And Rubber Situation
“Three-fourths of the nation
faces the prospect of uncomfortably
cold home this winter,” Price Ad-
ministrator Henderson said in an-
nouncing coupon rationing of fuel
oil which will reduce consumption by
25 percent. Machinery for the pro-
gram will be set up by October 15.
The area affected includes the 17
Eastern states and the District of
Columbia, where gasoline rationiiiB
is already in effect, as well as Minne-
sota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Kan-
sas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South
Dukota and Kentucky.
The Office of Price Administra-
tion said apartment houses and com-
mercial, industrial and institutional
establishments able to convert oil
burning furnaces to coal, but which
refuse to do so, will be denied fuel
oil rations. Only hospitals, where
such a move would present serious
health hazards, will be excepted.
Special provisions will be made in tho
rationing program for sections of
the country with "unusual” climate.
The OPA said consumers in the ra-
tioned area may fill their tanks up
to 275 gallons between now and Sep-
tember 30, but oil purchased during
this time will be deducted from their
allotments for the entire heating
season.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard.
acting on authority from Mr. Hen-
derson, issued a temporary order to
ration new farm machinery and
equipment, appointing Fred S. Wal-
lace, AAA Administrator, to admin-
ister the program at the national
level. OPA placed a printing order
for the first issue of 150 million “all-
purpose” ration books, to be called
War Ration Book Number 2, design-
ed for rationing any article or com-
modity, and to distribute throughout
the nation probably before Christ-
mas. William M. Jeffers, president
of the Union Pacific Railroad, was
appointed Rubber Director by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and WPB Chairman
Nelson with “full responsibility for
and control over the nation’s rubber
program in all of its phases.”
Labor S apply
War Manpower Chairman McNutt
said he considers the adoption of ns
tional service legislation inevitable
in order to place uilents where tli«7
will best serv• rlir war effort. The
mere existence of power to force an
individual to sen e where he is most
useful is probably all that will ha
itrefssry, he said. Laoor shortage*
art becoming more acute and now
» list in 35 centers of wtr produr
tion, he reported. Selective Service
Director Hershey aaid that to keep
production going and at the same
----- ------, in which the
planes could be produced in volume
in the event they are needed. The
Senate passed and sent to the House
legislation authorizing the Govern-
ment to acquire private or public
transportation facilities for the car-
rying of Federal employees and
war workers to and from their jobs
—only, however, when existing facil-
ities are entirely inadequate.
Farm Prices
Price Administrator Henderson
said if farm pi ices are allowed to rist
under existing price regulations the
coat of food to the American peo-
ple will be increased by two billion
dollars in the remainder of this year.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard said
cash farm income this year will give
the farmers a per capita income 33
percent greater than they received
on an average in 1904-11—in large
part due to greater per capita pro-
duction.
The Commodity Credit Corpora
tion will finance an Agricultural
Marketing Administration pr< gram
to purchase pork products processed
from approximately 1,000,000 hogs-
designed to relieve the price squeeze
on small packers oi..’ to assure large
applies of pio.-eTscd products frc«i
*•*€ record 1**42 spring pig not..
Small packers are considered those
who killed less than 250,000 hogs in
1941, including slaughtering by af-
filiated companies, and who cannot
continue to process hogs profitably.
The OPA announced it will place its
first ceilings on fruit at the producer
stage on dried prunes and raisins.
Army
War Secretary Stimson told hi*
■ <‘«s conference that the health of
the Army in training in the U. S. is
cotter than ever before during war-
ime and it is expected the general
ospital admission rate will he about
cr. percent lower in 1942 than in
’941. Throughout 1941 and so far
his year, the death rate has been the
i'Avest in the history of the Army.
”brough the Army Administration
Officer Candidate School, enlisted
men who have been accepted for lim-
ited service and enlisted men be-
tween the ages of 45 and 50 may re-
ceive commissions and if they have
equal qualifications, they will he
■'iven preference over men eligible
fer combat duty, the War Depart-
ment aaid.
Selective Service
Selective Service Director Hershey
said the size of the Army this year
has been increased from the 4,500,-
000 total announced as the 1942 ob-
jective by Chief of Staff Marshall
in June. Gen. Hershey said he ex-
pected married men with children
would be called "the last quarter of
1948 at the very earliest, but i
would like to hedge to the extent
that the Aimy’s requirements may go
up"; 18 and 19-year-old must be
drafted next year, or "1,000,000 on
1,504,000 family men” will be tak-
en; and it is expected unmarried men
with dependents will be called this
in 1040 hv a more modern struc- $13.25-13.75. Various lots Medium
| j J (to Choice 140-160 the. ranged from
The pictures mentioned were later I $12.50-lo.25. Most sows command
entered by the artist, Bachofen. in ed $12.50-12.75. Feeder pigs ra-
the Clevland Art Museum Spring mained steady at mostly $12.50.
Show and took first prize in oil land- CATTLE: Estimated salable and
scapes The paintings were next ac- (total receipts 1,800; CALVES 4,144.
cepted for the Contemporary- Amer- Slaughtei steer and yearling trade
can Show as among its very best. j was rather slow to get under way
In a conversation with F. G» j Monday and sales appeared steady tq
Muennink. one of the oldest resi- weak. Limited numbers Common
dents of Castroville, I was informed i and Medium grass fat steers and
that in years gone by the town had a yearlings made $9.50-11.60. Carrier
newspaper bearing the queer title, and Cutter yearling dairy steers se-
“The Castroville Quill," which was 'cured $7.00-7.75. Low Medium heif-
printed and edited by Joe Holzhouse, j er yearlings earned $10.50.
veteran m wspaper man, now resides, Slaughter cows indicated little
! in San Antonio. Next the “Castro- orke change a* Common and Medi-
Uille Anvil” was established by | -m selections turned at $8.00-9.44,
Fletcher Davis in 1886. This paper I few Good $9.25. Camera and OuO
was consolidated with the Hondo
Herald in 1903, and is now called
The Hondo Anvil Herald, and is own-
ed and edited by Mr. Davis. Mr.
Muennink reqeusted me to convey
his kindest regards to his old friend.
ranged from $5.50-7.75. Sausage
bc'Is looked steady at $8.00-9.75
Heavy slaughter calf marketings
cave buyers opportunity to inflict
•ower price-*. As compared with lata
last week, current levels appeard
Chas. Maurer, and family, who were (mostly 25c lower, some 5flc down.
lesidents of Castroville for a number
of years
I may have more to say- about
quaint old Castroville in the near
future.—The Seguin Enterprise.
Just as a matter of keeping the re-
cord straight, we would add to Mr.
Dktz’s article that Castroville has
had two tic \ spa pent by name of The
Quill. The first was started by Hal
Goslin in the late ’70’s, and follow,
ing Mr. Goslin’s tragic death at the
| hands of two desperate convicts
whom he, as a U. S. Deputy Mar-
shal, was assisting in transporting to
the pen, the first Quill demised some
time in the eaily '80’s, and the plant
Good and Choice earned $11.25-
12.00 with Common and Medium at
$9.00-11.00 and Culls $7.50-8.75.
Stocker calf demand continued ex-
tremely dull. As compared with late
last week, current levels indicated
25 to o« much as 5ft<- loss. Good and
’ hoice steer calves ranged from
$11.50-12.25. Heifers reached
! $11.25. A few lots Common and
Medium yearlings changed hands al
! $9.00-10.00. Common stocker cow*
a: hi d at $8.00.
SHEEP: Estimated salable and to-
tal receipts 1,500. Scattered sales
in the shi*p ami goat division ap-
peared steady with late last week.
Scattered lots Cull grade ewes rash-
Sliir*
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Offka t. New Offi*.
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VOU TO KNOW ThT^J
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The Anvil Her.M Off*,
) "Wane 127
Hoode, Ti
was moved away. Castroville was j ed at $3.00 ar.d a load Medium and
-vithout a paper for some years and |Good wire held around $5.CO. Fresh
year.
in 1886, feeling the need of a me-
dium to oppose the removal of the
county scat from their city, a cor-
poration of citizens of the town fi*
nanced and started The Castroville
\nvil—“to make a noise for Castrn-
ille”. Fletcher I/avis, who was then
a 12 year old farmer boy on a Mis-
sippi farm, did not found it. After
its founders lost out in the effort to
h'dd the county scat they lost inter-
est in the paper and it changed hands
several limes, finally Davis coming
into possession of it in the spring of
D.lOO by purchase from the late Val-
entine Haass. The paper was then
in the making of its 13th volume
The consolidation with The Herald
was made, as stated, in 1903; to be
exact, on October 17th of that year.
In th« meantime, Jos, 0. Holzhaus.
vho had learned the trade by several
vears work in The Anvil office,
started n paper of his own in the
spring of 1901. This paper he nam-
ed The Quill. He operated it under
this name for some 16 years or more,
until he secured a position with the
Army at Fort Sam Houston in 1917
or 1918. when he sold out to the late
I.ouis Biediger who had recently
bought the LaCoste Ledger, and ho
soon after discontinued the publica-
tion. The town has since been with-
out a newspaper.
Managing Editor.
LIVFSTOCK MARKET REPORT
goat receipts were increased by
aiound 1800 to 2000 holdovers from
las* week. Loadlots shorn Anroraa
moved for slaughter at *3 OO-? 60
GLEN L. ELLISON.
* oca! hYnresentat’ve.
LOSS OF LIVESTOCK IN TRAN-
SIT TO MARKET MEANS
LESS MEAT AND MONEY
FOR SALE
A hotel building at Moore, Texas
For price see L. P. MANN, Hondo
Texas. 4^4
LOOK OGAZII
AGMI!
REVEAL
Monday, September 21, 1942.
San Antonio, Sept. 21:—HOGS
Estimated salable and total receipts
1.000. The weeks initial session in
the San Antonio hog division found
trading on an active basis and price*
25*40c higher than last week Friday
WE RECOMMEND
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QUAINT OLD CASTROVILLE
WINDROW DRUG CO.
Tel! your real elate
HONDO LAND CO
wants to
time furnish men for the Armed
Forces, industry should establish now
an orderly replacement program.
The WI’A and the II 8 Employ
By E. F. Dicta
While on a recent visit to the
unique old village of Castroville in
company with my son, we were im-
pressed most of all by the fact that
it has remained practically unchang*
ed throughout its existence of near a
century. The business houses of
tlie place are not in row formation,
but widely scattered, and sidewalks
are conspicuous by their absence.
The main reason for this is probably
due to the fact that the town is still
unincorporated, since an election
held a number of years ago resulted
in the selection of Hondo as the
county-seat of Medina County.
Max Bachofen, an itinerant
sketching artists of considerable re-
nown, came to Texas in the fall of
1931, and was so fascinated with the
beauty of historic old Castroville,
that he bought one of its typical old
stone houses and placed it in repair
for a permanent winter residence
Born in Switzerland and reared in
Ohio, he spent a greater part of the
year tramping the open road, leading
the care-free life of a vagabond. Hq
also spent a short time in Seguin
while wandering over the United
States, seeking inspiration for his
works of art; and, among others,
found it in the crossroads town of
Castroville, as stated. Fascinated by
the people and atmosphere of the
place, he placed on canvas two paint-
ings, one of which he titled "The
Church” and the other "Springtime
Oa the Road to the Village. The
firat of his paintings depicts the
woather-beaten old Catholic stone
Church, St. Louis (the patron saint
of the parish), surrounded by the old
•rehed bridge over the Medina river
with Ita baautiful scenery and the,
-ti—s *tene houses; and, as s back*
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