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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
Rockdale Messenger Established 1873
___AND MESSENGER
ROCKDALE. MILAM COUNTY. TEXAsTMARCH 23. 1545
Rockdale Reporter Established 1888
12 Pages Today
5 Crop Production Goals Are Set For Milam County
jrvalion
tices Help
Production
(0rk of District Is
C Contribution
r War Effort And
food Production
Lication of complete soil
EL programs on the land
Vended by the Taylor
Ration District and
Conservation is resulting
IS production from crop,
U range land. This in-
duction resulting from
[[cation of conservation
i is making a very val-
ntribution to the war ef-
farmers who are prac-
mservation farming aie
It easier to meet their
Freedom goals,
application of a complete
irvation program ail the
he farm is used for some
i purpose in accordance
'capability of the land,
which is too eroded for
crop production or crop
needed for cultivation is
pasture. This land is
d seeded with adapted
id legumes whicn pro-
gress for the pvodue-
>f, milk and butter and
ucts so vitally needed
r effort. Old pastures
ed by sodding and seed-
necessary to get a bet-
jf good grasses and le-
ltrolling of brush anci
iwing for weed eontiol.
ses the carrying capa-
se pastures and results
iuction of more food
same area.
nting of winter legume
ving crops and plowing
>r on cropland adds ni-
humus to the soil which
the productivity of the
ucreases the yield of
mple of increased yields
king under legumes was
I last year by John Tim-
l in the Bushdale Soil
ion Group, who planted
1 Austrian winter peas on
flside and fertilized them
pounds of acid phosphate
Both the vetch and the
Winter Peas made an ex-
pwth before being turn-
I Mr. Timmermann stat-
Jwas the 6th day of June
■finished planting cotton
Ved the vetch and Aus-
pr peas. He said that
p grew the fastest and
Bit faster than any piece
116 had seen This piece
porting to Mr. Timmer-
■ SOIL WORK, Page 12
wn Concrete
I Asphalt Dose
[hway Dept.
nd wavy sections in the
aiement on Ackerman
ockdale are being given
Pt of asphalt topping by
p“»dy department this
street north out of
lls maintained by the
apartment as the route
V n through here. The
png put down on large
|lar and gravel picked
L™ trucks and track-
r,rby poncrete streets,
P bringing forth a wide
[comment from Rock-
lbeinJhe results of thc
|being 8lven remain to
WOUNDED — Sgt. Raymond
A. Pratt Jr., was seriously
wounded in Germany Feb. 28,
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Pratt of Milano, were noti-
fied by the War Department
Saturday. Sgt. Pratt, with the
Ninth Army in Germany, has
been in service since April
1942, and overseas since Feb-
ruary 1944. He was slightly
wounded last November, with
shrapnel in thigh, and for-
warded his Purple Heart to
his mother. The last letter
his parents had received was
dated February 22.
22 Rockdale
Lions Attend
Brenham Banquet
Hear President Of
Lions International
Is Gala Affair
Wednesday Night
Twenty-two members of the
Rockdale Lions Club attended the
International President’s Banquet
honoring D. A. Skeen, of Utah,
International Preside.':, p esented
oy Brenham Lions at the Ameri-
can Legion Home at Brenham
Wednesday night. It was the larg-
est delegation sent by any of tne
clubs in this district.
The Lions heard an inspiring
address by International President
Skeen, who was introduced by Ol-
lie Miller, district governor of
Lions District 2-S-3. The welcome
address was by Mayor Reese Loc-
kett of Brenham, while Roy Kea-1 aid, Rockdale, won over Garland
ton, state secretary, presented key Westbrook, and Gene Kornegay,
awards to new key members of the I Rockdale, won over Charles Kor-
Brenham club. Aubrey Shannon, j negay, Milano, by a technical
president of the Brenham Club, knockout. Ralph Leech whipped
was master of ceremonies. Dan Scott of Milano. Wilburn
Man Is Shot By
Local Officer
In Streel Fight
A. L. Barber, In
Hospital; Charged
With Assault;
Cannon Shoots Pistol
A. L. Barber, magazine sales-
man, is in the Cameron hospital
with two bullet wounds in his leg
as the result of a street fight with
Herbert Cannon, city officer, in
downtown Rockdale shortly after
7 p. m. Monday.
Reports from the Cameron hos-
pital are that the wounds are not
serious and Barber will recover.
Charges of assault have been
filed in justice court here against
Barber, according to A. A. McVoy,
justice of the peace, who states
that Barber, a magazine salesman
who has been here about two
months, has paid two fines in his
court during the past six weeks—
one for drunkenness and one for
fighting. McVoy said that several
local people had offered to pay his
fine, but no disposition of the case
has yet been made as it may be
handled by his court or may be
turned over to the grand jury.
Charges have also been filed in
justice court against Officer Can-
non. who was immediately releas-
ed on $500 bond.
The fight occurred on the side-
walk at the Duke Drug Store, cor-
ner of Main and Cameron streets
shortly after 7 o’clock Monday
evening. McVoy said that accord-
ing to information given him, Bai--
ber approached the officer and
was wrestling with him, attempt-
ing to take his gun. Cannon said
he told the man several times to
“'Let go or I’ll shoot.” He fired
twice, one bullet entering Barber’s
thigh and the other in the lower
part of his leg.
Barber was given first aid treat-
ment on the sidewalk by Dr. T. S.
Barkley and then was taken to the
hospital by a Phillips & Luckey
ambulance.
They Will Do the Job! "
The Crop Production Goals for 1945 as set for
Milam county are as follows:
Pointing out that the preserva-
tion of food also plays an import-
ant part in the Food for Freedom
program, H. D. Maxwell, voca-
tional agriculture instructor of thc
Rockdale high school announces
this week that the canning unit
will again be open this summer at
the high school gym, beginning
Monday, May 21.
The unit, or canning kitchen,
Boxing Matches
Colorful; Rockdale
Wins Four Out of 7
Rockdale won four matches, got
one draw and lost two in the box-
ing tournament at the Milano high
school gym Friday night.
Red Jackson of Rockdale lost to
Kline Wise, Milano. Gene McDon-
The entertainment program in-
cluded selections by a quartet
from the Georgetown Lions Club,
but it remained for a group of en-
tertainers from Camp Hood to
bring down the house with the
outstanding performances of the
evening.
A baked turkey dinner was
served.
WALLIS PERRY DIES
Wallis Pope Perry, 46, son of
the late Ira Perry Sr., and wife,
former Rockdalians, died at his
office in Dallas Tuesday after a
heart stroke. He was office man-
ager of the Southwest Tablet Mfg.
Co. Born in Belton, Wallis Perry
spent his boyhood and school days
in Rockdale, going to Dallas in
1932. Surviving are his wife, a
son and daughter, his stepmother,
Mrs. Ira Perry Sr., one brother,
and one sister. Funeral services
were held at Dallas at 10 a. m.
today.
pHave Done An Unequalled Job
r Production, Congressman Avers
have done an un-
|5 k0* Production,”
L*',Voage’ said
( week er fl’°m Wash'
since the war be-
L|gi!pd’ “We have set
K farmreC°rds of Pro-
Sf fhp ers have dnne
'-inicuma “5£avat-
y sh,..., U1LS- We can-
« o 1! food to
feau5? os
ing about 3367 calories per day.
The people of Greece are getting
only 700 calories. Our people, both
soldiers and civilians, are going
to continue to be the best fed in
the world. No one in the United
States is going to go hungry but at
the same time we are going to see
to it that the people of our allied
nations do not starve. If we had
no higher motive than selfishness,
we would of necessity see that
these people are supplied with the
food they need to help us win the
war. Without American food, it
would not have been possible for
the Russian armies to make their
magnificent advances or for the
British to march with our boys
See POAGE, Page 12
Alford, Rockdale, went a 4-round
draw with his opponent, Leroy
Williams. Carlton Davis won by
a technical knockout over Alvin
Deen of Milano. Joe Charles Wil-
lingham, Milano, won over Billy
Rogers, Rockdale.
The fight night program at the
Milano gym drew a nice crowd and
proved a colorful event. A re-
Cotton
Peanuts
Irish Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Feed Crops
74,300 acres
4,000 acres
100 acres
600 acres
125,000 acres
Livestock, Poultry Maximum Production
This represents a total of 204,000 acres. Milam
county has 323,820 acres in cropland.
That Milam county farmers will meet, and exceed,
the production goals as announced, is a foregone con-
clusion. As in 1942, and in 1943, and again in 1944,
our farmers have responded to the call and come
through with the greatest production in history.
This newspaper, speaking for the citizenship of
Milam county, takes off its hat to Milam county
farmers. Congratulations! To you, this issue of The
Reporter is dedicated, and to the supervisors and co-
operators of the Taylor Soil Conservation District,
whose work has meant so much in this very program
of “Food for Freedom.”
Rockdale Canning Unit Again to Play
Important Role in Food Program; Unit
Will Begin 6-Day-Per-Week Job May 21
Bapfisi Revival
Opens April 1st
Rev. Joe Weldon
Bailey of Louisiana
To Conduct Services
Sunday, April 1 marks the be-
ginning of the Spring Revival at
the First Baptist Church, and
plans are being made for record
attendance throughout all depart-
ments of the church.
Rev. Joe Weldon Bailey, pastor,
First Baptist Church, Vivian, La.,
and youth worker, is the visiting
minister. The services will con-
tinue through April 8, at eight
o’clock each evening. In the
morning there will be a breakfast
at the church for the interme-
diates and young people with a
short service following.
Sunday, April 1, also marks the
opening of the newly remodeled
and modernized educational plant.
There will be a place for every one
in Sunday School with separate
departments for each age and sep-
arate class rooms for each class.
Featured for the day will be the | formation of what they have avail
has met with popular approval in
past years, operated as a school
project, through the vocational ag-
riculture division of the State De-
partment, in charge of H. D. Max-
well and Superintendent C. M.
Selman in Rockdale.
Mrs. L. E. Gary and Mrs. Nellie
Neal will again serve as supervi-
sors this year. The unit will begin
operations May 21 and will be
open six days each week, opening
at 9 a. m. each morning.
The kitchen, already well-equip-
ped, will receive some new equip-
ment this year, including an elec-
tric tomato juicer which will han-
dle several bushels of tomatoes an
hour. Other equipment includes
a number of cookers, automatic
and electric sealers, pre-heating
vat and cooling vat, and other
equipment needed in the preserva-
tion of foods in large quantities.
Citizens desiring to use the kit-
chen and equipment are urged to
do so, furnishing their own cans.
It was pointed out that the in-
dividual may bring his own vege-
tables and fruits and can them, or
he may hire someone to do his
canning for him. However, the
supervisors are employed strictly
in the capacity of supervision and
will not be available to do canning
for others. Each individual will
do his own work or make arrange-
ments for the canning, furnishing
his own products and cans, with
free use of the kitchen and equip-
ment under guidance of the two
women supervisors.
Anyone having a surplus of any
commodity for canning available
for sale to others is advised to
phone the school, No. 76, giving in-
new nursery which is open for
turn session will be held in Rock-1 the babies both during the Sun
dale soon, j bay Sciiuol anu worship hour.
The goal for the Sunday School
16,821 BALES GINNED
Census reports show that 16,821
bales of cotton were ginned in Mi-
lam county from the crop of 1944
prior to March 1, 1945, as compar-
ed with 28, 231 bales for the crop
of 1943, according to J. G. Thomp-
son, special agent for the Depart-
ment of Commerce.
attendance is 217 for the day. “All
are cordially invited to attend and
help us reach the goal in atten-
dance; the month of April is de-
signated as Church Loyalty Month
and all the members are called
upon to attend every service of the
church during the month,” the
pastor, Rev. J. B. Hester, said.
THE SERVICE COLUMN
News About Our Boys and Girls in the Service
Captain Claudie G. Muston, who
recently landed in France, is now
in Italy, according to a letter re-
ceived last week by his mother,
Mrs. Frank Muston. Capt. Mus-
ton is a bombardier with the First
Air Force and said that he had a
reading lots and sleeping lots and
nice trip over. “I am eating lots,
expecting to see plenty of action
right away,” he said.
Captain R. M. Leech and wife
and little daughter, Jams Carroll
of Ardmore, Oklahoma, arri''^d
Tuesday to visit his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Leech. Captain
T oech U. S. Army Air Corps,
leaves’soon for overseas duty Mrs.
Leech and little daughter will re-
main here for a while before go-
ing to Jacksonville to be with her
mother, Mrs.| Hotchkiss.
George Neal Quinlan is now out
on the Atlantic on a merchant ship,
leaving recently along with Clay-
ton Tolbert, according to his mo-
ther. Mrs. Esta Quinlan, who now
lives in Houston. The boys found
Murf Henry Farris going on the
same ship.
Jessie C. Moreman, seaman sec-
ond class, of Rockdale route 2, is
now on duty with his ship in the
Philipines, according to a news re-
lease from the public relations
headquarters of the Severrth Fleet.
Moreman, whose latest action was
the bombardment of Corregidor,
has had a part in the landings at
Leyte, Mindoro and Lingayen Gulf,
as well as the important Surigao
Straights battle. His first contact
with the enemy was made during
the occupation of Morotai. He
has one brother, a Navy Coxwain,
in the service.
S-2c Rufus E. King Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus E. King Sr.,
has just completed at ten-day
leave after finishing Boot Camp
at San Diego, Calif. He is a grad-
uate of Rockdale high school. Be-
fore entering the Navy in Decem-
ber, 1944, he was an employee at
the International Chemical Cor-
poration, Austin. Upon returning
to San Diego, Calif., he will enter
basic engineering school.
HOME FROM OVERSEAS—
Sgt. Willie L. Cotton has been
home for the past few weeks
on furlough, the first since he
was inducted into the army in
June 1941. He has spent three
years overseas, having been
on the Hawaiian Islands, the
Gilberts and the Marianas.
Laddie Bankston
Now Is Reported
Killed In Action
Rockdale Sergeant
Missing Since Dec. 17,
Said Killed Jan. 30
In Belgium
Sgt. Wade H. (Laddie) Bank-
ston, reported missing in action
since Dec. 17, has now been re-
ported killed in action in Belgium
on January 30, according to a tele-
gram received here Wednesday.
Sgt. Bankston’s wife, Mrs.
Louise Bankston, now with Con-
solidated Aircraft in Ft. Worth,
and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.
C. Bankston, in Rockdale, were no-
tified on January 21 that he had
been missing in action since Dec.
17. The telegram received here
Wednesday listed Sgt. Bankston as
having been “killed in action Jan.
30.”
With the U. S. First Army, the
Rockdale man was with a recon-
naissance unit of the mechanized
cavalry, and had been in the army
three years on February 17. He
had been in overseas service since
last September.
A brother, Jesse Lee Bankston,
pharmacist mate first class, is in
the U. S. Navy in the Pad tic.
abl* and the price. Officials will
endeavor, in this way, to find
buyers.
Maxwell also stated that if suf-
ficient numbers of citizens are in-
terested it may be possible to pur-
chase fruits, including pineapple,
by truck-loads, on a co-operative
plan. Those who would like to
participate in a co-operative buy-
ing program of this kind should
contact H. D. Maxwell, at the high
school.
War Fund Total
Climbs to $2475.99
As Drive is Ended
With collections about com-
pleted the Red Cross War
Fund total for Rockdale stood
at $2475.99 this morning, ac-
cording to Louis G. Gest, lo-
cal chairman.
The Rockdale quota was
$2500. Mr. Gest said that the
drive here is all but complet-
ed. with probably a few more
dollars to dribble in.
Reports from the smaller
communities around Rockdale
have not yet been tabulated,
nor have county reports been
announced.
INJURED IN FALL
Mrs. A. E. Ryan visited her
aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf Wilson
in Ft. Worth last week. Mrs. Wil-
son, a former Rockdalian, is a pa-
tient in a hospital after receiving
a broken leg from a fall.
Milam Farmers
Play Big Pari In
Food For Freedom
Goals Call For
204,000 Acres In
Crops In Milam
County This Year
With world conditions at the
present time demanding more and
more of the American farmer, the
rapidly changing tempo currently
calls for even greater production
of foodstuffs in 1945 than called
for in the original goals set for
1945 production.
Production goals for the entire
county have been announced with
the following set for Milam coun-
ty, according to J. W. Stufflebeme
Jr., county agent:
Cotton, 74,301) acres.
Peanuts, 4,000 acres.
Irish potatoes, 100 acres.
Sweet potatoes, 600 acres.
Feed crops, including corn, small
grains, and grain sorghums, 125,-
000 acres.
Stufflebeme said that there are
no definite goals for livestock and
poultry, but “maximum produc-
tion is badly needed.”
The county agent pointed out
that the goals as set represent
204,000 acres. There are 323,820
acres of cropland in the county.
The goals, in most cases, are
slightly less than those set for
1944. Since the goals were set,
however, conditions seem to have
changed greatly throughout the
world, and as occupation of more
and more countries is completed,
the demand for foodstuffs at this
point increases almost alarmingly.
Now American farmers are being
called on to boost production to
the limit.
The national farm goals were
based on the estimated need of the
military forces, the allies, and U.
S. civilians, and this estimated
need is on the increase. Goals
were subdivided from national
—See CROP GOALS, Page 12
Foster Will Open
New Builders Store
Monday, April 2nd
S. E. Foster announces today
that his new store Foster’s Build-
er’s Supply Store, will open for
business here next Monday, April
2.
The store is being completed
this week, with the building being
remodeled and new fixtures in-
stalled in the location formerly
known as the Raymon building on
North Main street.
Foster said he would feature
new and complete lines of all
kinds of builders supplies, with
many hard to get items to be add-
ed to the stock as soon as they
become available.
Tax Collector's
Open to Midnight
Saturday Night
Bill Alex Bonds. Milam countv
tax collector, announces that his
office will be open until midnight
Saturday for the benefit of late
automobile registrants.
Mr. Bonds explained that March
31 is the last day for securing the
new 1945 license tag, and that the
numbers must be on cars after
April 1. “Rather than stay open
all day Sunday, our office will re-
main open until midnight Satur-
day night,” he said.
Motorists are advised to bring
their certificates with them when
applying for their 1945 registra-
tion.
NO. 9
Parents Get Word of Son in Prison Camp
In Letter from Repatriated Texas Buddy
Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Smith
have received news of their son,
T-Sgt. Roger C. Smith, a German
prisoner, in thc following letter
from S-Sgt. John R. Chapman, of
“Because of my having to write
so many letters, I am using the
mimeograph—and I hope you will
understand—I would like very
Richardson, Texas, who was with much for this to be a personal let-
Pfc. Lloyd N. Reveile has been
home on a 28-day furlough from
New Foundland, visiting his sis-
ter, Mrs. Ethel Davis and niece,
Lucille Matthews of Rockdale, and
also a brother in Cameron and one
—See WITH BOYS, Page 12
Sgt. Smith in the prison camp and
recently was repatria’ed:
“Dear Mrs. Smith: 1 left Roger
on January 5. He is well and is
as content as possible under the
circumstances. He is active in
camp activities and is well-liked
by all who know him. .
“At this camp there are three
good orchestras, a theater, a
church, a good library, and a good
school, so you may rest assured
that Roger is making the most of
what is offered.
“If you wonder why I am back
in the states, I will tell you that
it is because I am one of the re-
turned repatriates. Roger will be
back home soon too—very soon.
There is just no way for the war
to last very much longer.
“I just wanted you to know that
Roger is well. He sends all his
love to all of you.
“Respectfully yours. S-Sgt. John
R. Chapman, Box 225, Richardson,
Texas.
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