The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1944 Page: 1 of 8
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ROCKDALE REPORTER
Established 1873
AND MESSENGER
TODAY
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Rockdale
With
W. H. U.
- a. the time I have wondered
there are more jokes told
01 h on or the traveling
■tm *“> ' J, any rate this
•-““S “ the one about the
“ up ot'f sunda.v morning
-an »ho got ^ and j^ng Un-
‘‘“Jhfc bathrobe, he slipped
le t0 E Zona. When he open-
S t«r b< ™ *mtcd b>' * b'8
i 'torn the icenian.
toes, he aded ‘hat
iontran's wife must hate nact a
eona ]U5t like the one he was wear-
-,g that morning.
GRID SCHEDULE
IS ANNOUNCED
FOR RHS TIGERS
Only Two Home
Games; Practice
Is Under Way
the
with
Football practice opened at
Rockdale high school Monday
about 25 boys reporting, and around
40 expected out by the opening of
school, as Coach Arthur Winkelman
announced the schedule for the sea-
son.
Only two home games are listed out
of the eight now booked, and the sea-
son will open for the Tigers on Sept,
trike in Rockdale? | 29 with a game at Rosebud. The first
D you know that there had ever, hcme game Will f0u0w on the next
bMn such a thing as a strike in Friday, Oct. 5, with the Bryan B team
:hdale? From the "Filty ^ear^ j ccmng to Rockdale. Oct. 13 the Tgers
w- column of the Galveston News I; will g0 to cameren, Oct. 20 to Killeen,
........- l»ra-' oct. 27 tc Georgetown. Nov. 3 to Tay-
lor, Nov. 10 to Giddings. Nov 17 is
open and the season will close Ncv. 24
with a game in Rockdale with Lex-
ington.
Winkelman has been putting his
boys through limbering up exercises
this week, getting them ready for down
to earth football training to begin next
week. Billy Stallworth has been show-
ing up exceptionally well and looks
capable of developing into a triple
~ ,, .. „„„ threat back, moving to the backfield
There ire probaba mail} o ime s jrom ^ encj position last year. Others
ound who mil remember tnis. wh0 are showing up well are Gene
McDonald, center; Eugene Kornegay,
back; Royce Dean Jackson, back;
I Ralph Leech, back; Billy Stein, tackle;
Olay ton Willard, tackle; and R. C.
Hairstcn, guard.
One star expected to carry a big
load this year Is out for the season.
Coach Winkeiman said, Billy Trotter
j being seriously ill this week with
pneumonia. Winkelman said it was
entirely unlikely that Trotter will be
able to participate in football after he
recovers from his illness.
the following Interesting
U landed to me this wee* oy a
Jr Rockdalian. Mrs. August Justi,
-,r cf Galveston: '
.u, 28 1894: Rockdale—A walkout
-curred today at mine No. 4 owned by
jdeite & Co. The main trouble was
demand on the part of the miners
-r ar. increase of 40 to 50c per ton.
ere is some talk of the men quitting
f Mines No. 1 and No. 2 of the Rock-
ie Mining Company."
tool Bus.
the Milano Consolidated School
District I would doff my hat this
eek for the splendid transportation
stem that has been established,
r brand new, modern, all-steel
ol buses will go into operation this
a: Milano, augmenting the al-
new buses now in operation, to
re that school a splendid set-up in-
'far as rural transportation is con-
fined.
[And while Milano deserves praise for
transportation system, even so does
ikdaie deserve an equal amount of
Hticism for the farce that Ls oper-
under the name of a transpor-
jtlon system. The buses that bring
Jldren from the rural areas into
ikdale are widely recognized as pro-
bly the sorriest in the state, and I
-Uldr/t be surprised if that state-
tot wouldn't hold good for the whole
died States.
The sad feature of the Rockdale
!*ttoi is that it is not only very in-
ttl'Jate, but it is very costly. Where
6 schools have good buses and
uipmer.t, their set-up allows them to
fste at little or no expense to the
and in some instances the
:s transportation systems even
to money. Here at Rockdale, the
Exportation system is still operating
«t up several years ago and the
*unt of state money received is far
«iuate even for this peer system.
*s at fault? Certainly, do not
e die poor bus drivers who make
_ ^ n°f understand how they I
THE OLDEST AND BEST
UOCKDALis, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 14, 1944
Free Dance at Fair
Park Saturday Night;
Music By Joe Buzze
A iree dance, with music supplied by
a Joe Buzze orchestra, will be present-
ed at the fair park, Rockdale, Satur-
day night by the Bredt & Haley firm,
tt is announced this week.
The dance is offered iby Bredt &
Haley as a good will gesture to the
people of this section, and the firm
management states that the affair will
be entirely free, with everyone wel-
come. Arrangements were made this
week with Joe Buzze of Waco to send
down an orchestra, and first class
music with a featured girl singer is
premised.
Sponsored by Bredt & Haley, the
dance is being given under the super-
vision of Carlyle Post, No. 358, Amer-
ican Legion. The Legion Post has
inaugurated a series of dances at the
lair park and during the past several
Saturday nights large crowds have
been attending. Members of the Post
say the Legion dances are being pre-
sented not as a money-making pro-
gram but as a program designed to
clfer good fun and entertainment for
the people of Rockdale and surround-
ing territory.
Rockdale Reporter Established 1896
NO. 33
4-H SPONSORS
MEET SATURDAY
AT COURT HOUSE
Delegates Make
Report On Trip To
Encampment
POAGE TO VISIT
GREAT BRITAIN
SAYS TRIP IS “ON HIS
OWN"; TO STUDY WAR
AND COMING PEACE
W. R. Poage, congressman from the
11th Texas district, which includes Mi-
lam county, left last week end on a
trip to Great Britain where he hopes
-to get first hand information cn "the
problems of war and the possibility
of peace.”
The Milam Ccunty 4-H Sponsor's
meeting was held at 2:30 p. m. Sat-
urday, September 9 in the county
court rcom in Cameron.
The meeting was called to order by
Mrs. Marvin Charles, Sponsor’s Com-
mittee chairman.
Mrs. C. H. Massey and Correne Mas-
sey, delegates from Milam county to
the Robertson County 4-H encamp-
ment, gave interesting reports cf their
trip to Hearne. Correne showed the
group a napkin that she tie-dyed and
explained how it was dene.
The H. u. Agent discussed Fire Pre-
vention week, which is to be October
8-14, with the girls and sponsors. Each
club is to make plans for activities
during that week.
Plans were made for a picnic sup-
per September 22, honoring the 100%
girls this year. All 4-H club girls and
their parents are invited.
Mrs’. Chartes apppointed Mrs. C. H.
Massey and Mrs. R. B. McDavid as a
committee to arrange a place for the
picnic. Mrs. Clarence Colburn and
Mrs. Elmo Obermiller will have charge
! cf the recreation.
Officers of the sponsor’s committee
were elected to serve during the 1944-
45 school term. Mrs. C. H. Massey was
elected chairman, and Mrs. Clarence
Colburn, secretary.
The next regular meeting of
committee will be in November.
the
New Buckeye Hatcher
And Incubator To Be
Installed Here
A new Buckeye streamline hatcher
and incubator will arrive next week
and will be installed in time to take
care of fall business, Frank Haley an-
nounces here this week
The hatcher is a new model, with
a capacity of 66.000 and was originally
purchased for the Haley Cold Storage
and Produce Company at Palestine but
due to delay in construction of the
Palestine plant, Haley will operate it
here this season in connection with
"Some time ago " poage said. “I dis-
covered that I could make arrange-
ments to go to Great Britain unoffi-
cially. paying for my own tickets and
expenses. As very few Americans are
able to make this trip except those
sent by our government. I felt this was
a great opportunity. I shall be gone
for several weeks, and while in Eng-
land I hope to see the actual extent of
destruction occasioned by the war; to
see first hand the living conditions
and hospital facilities of our troops;
to get an idea as to the speed of Euro-
pean recovery after the war, etc."
Poage said he also wanted to see
British agriculture at first hand and to
visit the English cotton spinning cen-
ters.
the Haley Ice & Cold Storage Com- ,
pany. The Palestine plant will await j Williams, and Mrs Bank-ton, ot Mi-
delivery of another hatcher. 1«0. “ «™here' 11 15 amMun“<1 t0‘
Haley has been in the produce busi-
ness for the past fifteen years and in
Rockdale the past seven years. Thor-
oughly familiar with the produce busi-
ness he assures the public the best ser-
vice to be had.
Registration at RHS
Begins Today; Classes
Start Next Monday
Registration at Rockdale public
schools got under way today, and a
full classroom schedule will begin
Monday cf next week, according to
Supt. C. M. Seine an.
Students from the sixth through the
twelfth grades registered today, and
grades from the first through the fifth
will register on opening day Monday
at 9:15 a. m„ Selman reminded.
Grade level and department assign-
ments for the teachers have been made
and the first general faculty meeting
was held Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock, with a full faculty ready for
work.
SCHOOL OPENED
The 1944-45 term of school in the
Black Jack community opened Mon-
da}. Mrs. Williams, the former Miss j day cf this week, with Mrs. Helen Doss
Pearl Pinkerton, will be principal. as teacher.
PLEASANT HILL SCHOOL
The Pleasant Hill School will open
next Monday, Sept. 18.
with Mrs.
GAVE LIFE—'Pictured above is
Pfc. Homer D. Bland, 21, whose
wife was notified Aug. 28 that he
had been killed in Action Aug. 13
in Hollandia, New Guinea. Pfc.
Bland had been overseas only
since last May and he and Miss
Virginia Bartlett were married
about a month prior to his leaving
the States. He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Les Bland, who have
three other sons in service.
MILANO SCHOOT
GETS NEW BUSES
STRIKE IN PLANT HOLDS
UP DELIVERY OF ONE
BUS READY TO |GO
H. H. Pruett, superintendent of Mi-
lano schools, was in Rockdale Satur-
day, showing a new and modern all-
steel school bus just purchased for the
Milano school, one of four new buses
to go into operation at that school this
year.
"The bus is the finest we could buy
and there are three more coming just
like it," Pruett said. The addition of
the four new buses, which replace four
cider ones, give the Milano school a
fleet composed of all-new vehicles, and
one of the best transportation systems
of any school of similar size in the
state.
Pruett said he started work on mak-
ing the bus purchases last February
and Ls just now getting delivery. Two
of the remaining three are due to be
received right away, while the third,
he said, is tied up in a strike. He hop-
ed that it would be received shortly.
"This bus was compleed and ready to
be driven off at the factory, but strik-
ing workers threatened to wreck it if
it was driven out," Pruett who wrent
to Ohio after it, declared. "I could
tell you a lot about strikes after this
trip,” he added.
ROCKDALE WAR
CHEST QUOTA IS
SET AT $1600
J. B. Earle Named
To Head Drive In
This Area
J. B. Earle has been named chair-
man of the United War Chest drive
for the Rockdale territory, it was an-
nounced this week, when community
quotas for this district were set.
Quotas are as follows for the drive
which will start early in October:
Rockdale $1600, New Salem $90,
Hamilton Chapel $37, Bethlehem $94,
Gay Hill $115, Sandy Creek $94, Oak
Hill and Eagle $60 .Sandow $48 ,Bush-
dale $103, Tracy $81, Sharp $174.
R, W. Hester, of Cameron, is county
chairman. As Rockdale district chair-
man, Earie wiii have charge of the
drive in Rockdale and the above-nam-
ed communities, and will name com-
mittees to work in each of the com-
munities, according to E. A. Camp,
mayor.
Mrs. Helen Perry will serve as sec-
retary for the campaign.
# * *
Cameron, Sept. 14.—R. W. Hester,
War Chest director for 1944 in the
county has named the following of-
ficers:
Albert Collins, Special Gifts Chair-
man; August Gurecky, Treasurer; Joe
Moore, Chairman Gause District; E.
B. Hyer, Chairman Buckholts district;
Eric Kaspar and W. A.‘Urban, co-
chairmen Thorndale district; E. A.
Camp, Chairman Rockdale district; J.
R. Hays, Chairman Cameron district
No. 1; A. W. McCullin, Chairman
Cameron district No. 2; P. R. Humber,
County Chairman for the colored peo-
ple.
GAY HILL SCHOOL
The Gay Hill school will oper\, Mon-
day, September 18, it is announced this
week by Mrs. Mattie Preston, teacher.
Homer Towns to Talk
to keep operating The rchooi I On Fish Production at
they are to blame for I
is L'*mt **« «"»• “i-1
; ™ worked hard at
•u without accomplishing
, 1due t0 the financial handl-
ed' JV am a mem,°er of the
taTi! B18“»«»**
re’ ai-d accept my share
'le difference
me. Tile fne
School Monday Night
Homer Towns, Regional Biologist,
Soil Conservation Service has been in-
vited by the Y. M .B. L. to make a talk
on fish production and management
of farm ponds at the Rockdale High
School Gymnasium Monday night,
September 18. 1944. at 8:30 p. m •
This subject should be of interest to
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WITH OUR BOYS
IN THE SERVICE
Bring or Mail All the News About “Our Boys
In The Service” to The Rockdale Reporter
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one which has only ru
h consideration in
icntly
this
Darrell Leech, S-lc, is here this week, lough. He’was stationed in the Aleu-
tians six months and was in on the
invasion cf Ki.vka, where they found
the Japs had fled. He returned to the
Sta&es last Dec. 26 and since that-time
has been at Camp Carson, Colorado
and Camp Hale, Colorado, and is now
at Ft. Riley, Kansas.
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Leech, while on leave from the U. S.
Navy. He is a member of the armed
uard, attached to the Merchant Mar-
ine, and during the past few months
has been practically around the world.
butes to the great aerial offensive
against Germany. T-Sgt. Graham at-
tended Asbury College in Wilmore,
Ky., and the Yce High School in Cam-
eron. He has been in the army since
October 1943, and overseas for a year.
Milam County Cotton
Crop 9,391 Bales Short
Of Last Year’s Figure
Milam county’s cotton crop is run-
ning 9,391 bales behind that of last
year, according to the report released
this week by Jess Thompson, special
agent for the Bureau of the Census.
Only 1,065 bales have been ginned in
the county prior to Sept. 1, this year.
Up to the same date last year gin-
nings totaled 10,456.
The Milam county crop is not only
late this year, but also will be far
short of the last year crop at the end
of the season.
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; mteta RleCu °n to rnhe the
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i) Demonstrate
Held Monday, Sept lb .
Two demonstrations on fish popu-
lation end rer emmendatiens for farm
ptyid management for fish production
will be held1 Monday. September 18,
1944. One demonstration will be Held
cn the Br.ckh.uu Brothers’ farm in the
Bmhdale community, beginning at H
a. m. The other d< monstruticn will
be held on the Ed Heibel farm in the
Sandoval community, beginning a)
2:30 p. nr. Anyone interested in fish
production is invited to attend cither j
cf these demonstrations.
With the construction of many new
farm ponds and increased interest in
fish production in this area the super-
visors of the Taylor Soil Conservation
District invited Mr. Homer Towns, Re-
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v,rs reported musing m action
lay over Yugo 1: via, and after
a distante cf over five hun-
iles he matte hi , wiy back to
» in Italy on Aug. 10th. He re-
cevied the Purple Heart, the D. F. C.,
the Coed Conduct European Medal,
with four stars for major battles in
i Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia and Italy, and
! the Presidential Citation with cak leaf
after several j ciuster citation- ) Air Medal with
d Cross." His sig-
s typewritten mes-
ntly was written
of last year, the
id had from him
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Pvt. Mack Davlln Jr.,
months in Burma and India, lias been tjuee clusters.
cCnt back to the United States and is
now in Brocks General Hospital In San
Antonio, according to his parents, Mr. j England
and Mrs. Mack Davlin Sr,
All Eighth AAF Fighter Station,
Technical Sergeant Wilder
K. Graham, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
Graham of Cameron, is a crew chief in
Pfc C’arence A Markert, son of Mr. I the Eighth Fighter Command’s well
An Air Force Command Depot.
(Somewhere ill England)—Cpl. Morris
W. Green of Austin, formerly of Reek-
dale L- a charter member cf the
Texan -in-Britain Club formed at this:
large Air Service Command aircraft
repair and assembly depot. The
Tcxms-in-Britain Club meets period-
ically to exchange news from home,
sing the songs of the range, and plan
for reunions after the war. Cpl. Green
is the son of Mrs. Ntalie F. Green,
and the husband of Opalce H, Green.
Ernest Cast, Machinist Mate, second
class, son cf Mrs. Lizize Cast of Rock-
dale, is spending a 12-day leave here.
Cast, who entered the Coast Guard in
September 1942, is new stationed in
Fureral Services For
Mrs. Phillip Towery
Are Held Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Phillip
Towery, who pasised away Tuesday
morning were held at 3:30 Wednesday
afternoon, in the Salty Methodist
Church. Burial was made in the Salty
cemetery with Rev. L. R. Stephens of
Thorndale conducting the services.
Phillips & Luckey, funeral directors,
were in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Ruth Paris Towery was born
Nov. 8, 1922 in Dallas, and came to
Milam county in 1923. where she spent
the remainder of her life. She was
united in marriage to Phillip Towery,
June 20, 1940.
She is survived by her husband, her
mother, Mrs. G. D. Paris, four step-
brothers, Alvin, Purl, Gene and Carl
Paris; one step-sister, Mrs. Ola War-
ren: two half-brothers, Roy and Abb
Paris, one half-sister, Ruby Dean
Paris. Her step-father, G. D. Paris,
prt 'ed: d her in death six week: ago.
Ca:ke. bearers were step brothers
and brother;.-in-law, and were Alvin
nd Cu’l Paris of Au tin, Purl Paris
. C. Towery of San
‘Wery cf Orange.
p Swift, /
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Y. M. B. L. MEETING TONIGHT
The regular September meeting
cf the Young Men’s Business Lea-
gue v ill be held tonight ivt the city
p. m. All members are urged to
be present.
Boy Scouts to Pick Up
Waste Paper Saturday
The Buy Scouts will 1 pick up
waste paper in Rockdale Saturday,
II. I). Maxwell, Scoutmaster, an-
nounced this morning. Citizens
are asked to get their okl news-
papers and magazines ready and
place in bundles at their curb so
the Scouts can pick them up. The
Scouts will work the town all day
Saturday.
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