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SINTON, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1946
VOLUME 38
NUMBER 35
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- EVERY ISSUE A BOOST FOR SINTON AND SAN PATRICIO COUNTY
TEN THOUSAND-MILE BOMBER—Airplanes like this six-motored XB-36 Consolidated-V.ultee
are capable of carrying an atom bomb 5,000 miles and returning to their bases.
SPEED MASTER—The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star well de-
serves the name. Fastest airplane in American skies, it i* now
assigned to occupational units and to the Tactical Air Command.
During recent, months the P-80, piloted by Army Air Forces.’ men,
has won several world's speed records for the United States.
Street Paving Will Lutherans Hold
Rally At Park
Welder Monday
Get Underway
i, Here This Week
One of the things that many. Sin-
ton residents have wanted, to see
happen for many months is about to
become a reality, as the paving of
approximately twenty blocks of
city streets is expected to get under
way this week.
Phillips Pavng Company of San
Angelo, started survey work the
first of the week and moved in
some of their machinery prepara-
tory to getting started with the pav-
ing, which will likely be well under
way by the week end.
The first part of the paving pro-
ject will be started on Vinyard Ave.,
running one block south from the
railroad track to intersect Borden
Street, which will be among the
first streets to be paved.
As soon as the cost per square
foot Is determined by city officials
they will be ready to begin a survey
to determine the number of citizens
along the streets to be paved who
will want to have the paving done
from curb to curb. Anyone Interes-
ted in doing this should leave their
names at the pity office. They will
' 6b Informed later of the cost.
Brotherhood Met
At Taft Monday
N. f: 'Phillips, W. J. Buis, H. Jit.
Jackson and C. A. Russell went to
Taft Monday night where they
attended a quarterly meeting of
the Blanco Baptist Brotherhood
held at the Baptist Church.
An election of officers was held
and 8. R. Davis of Beevllle was
named President of the Brother-
hood; W. J. Buis of Slnton, pro-
gram vice-president;. H. W. Mor-
ey, Ingleslde, attendance vice-
president, and C. F. Hawkins of
Portland, secretary-treasurer.
Rev. Teo. A. Blnford, pastor of
the Calvpry Baptist Church of Cor-
pus Chrlsti, was speaker of the
| evening. About 75 men attended
. the meeting which was followed by
a supper of barbecued chicken.
| Mother of R. H.
f. Brann&n Died Wed.
The iqother of R. H. Brannan
passed away ^at the home of her
S' ffi daughter, Mrs. W. B. Burchard,
| Wednesday night at Pecos.
| Funeral services will be held in
Mineral - Wells, Friday afternoon
at 2:00 o’clock.
Mrs. Brannan had reached the age
of eighty-seven years and Is sur-
j-, vlved by seven children, five sons
: , tad two daughters.
and Mrs. Brannan and
Water Pipe Is
Expected To Be
Shipped Soon
Sunday School teachers of the
Lutheran churches of the Gulf
Coast area held their annual ral-
ly at Welder Park, Monday, Lab-
or Day, which was attended by one
hundred and seven members, with
more than twelve congregations
being represented.
The emphasis for the day’s
program was upon “Stewardship”
with the theme, “Christ Shows
the Way to Stewardship."
Interesting and enlightening
lectures were given by Rev. M.
Shatto, Woodsboro; Rev. A. F.
Knorr, Corpus Chrlsti; Rev., H. C.
Ziehe, Robstown; and Rev. A. E.
Rode, pastor of the Grace Luth-
eran Church, Slnton.
The careful planning of the
host congregation, the Grace Lu-
theran Chur<^i of Slnton, together
with the facilities of Park Welder,
contributed to the splendid suc-
cess of the rally, those atendlng
said.
City official's were notified by
Johns-Mansville Company early
this week that the water pipe for
the construction of water lines to
the new wells would.be shipped on
the 7th and 14th of this month,
which Is considerably earlier than
was first expected.
Bids for the construction: work
are being prepared and contracts
will be let as soon as arrangements
are completed, Mayor Ward Crow
stated. , ,
The ground floor for immediate
construction of the water lines is
being laid now, as a crew of city
employes under J. P. Hall, . city
secretary, are laying pipe across
for this purpose was secured some
Chiltipin Creek. Sufficient pipe
time ago.
Local Baptists
Start Building
Fund Drive
A total of $1,206 was raised Sun-
day when a drive to raise funds for
the "construction of a new educat-
ional building was Inaugurated at
the morning services, W. J. Buis,
member of the committee, said.
He stated also that anyone wish-
ing to make a donation toward the
building fund may do so by con-
tacting; any member of the build-
ing fund committee, which is com-
posed of himself, C. A. Edwards, C.
A. Russell, L. L. Adair, Mrs. Floyd
Joseph, Mrs. J, T. Johnson, Mrs.
G. L. Green and Wm. Cavitt.
San Patricio Electric Coop to
Build More Power Lines
Chafin Boys On
SW Pirates Squad
For 1946 Season
Georgetown-Among the more than
fifty gridiron enthusiasts who show-
ed up for the opening of fall prac-
tice Monday morning at Southwes-
tern was Olin "Fats” Chafin and
James "Speedy” Chafin of Slnton.
Fats Chafin, who lettered for
the Pirates last year,- had two
years of high school football exper-
ience. He has been discharged from
the Navy.
Speedy Chafin, who lettered two
years on the Pirate squad play-
ing tackle position, has been dis-
charged from the Army with the
rank of Tevh. Sgt.
■Coach R. M. Medley has two work
outs dally scheduled for his charges
from now to the opening of the
season, September 21 in Waco ag-
ainst Baylor.
The Pirate schedule Includes three
home games, with the Homecom-
ing gams scheduled against Austin
CoUags November 8.
Sept. 81 Baylor University atWaco
Sept 28 Oklahoma City University
At Oklahoma City
Oct 5 Rice Institute at Houston
Oct 12 AbUene Christian College
at Abilene
Oct 1# Southwest Oklahoba Tea-
chers College at Georgetown
Oct. 25 Howard Payne at George-
. town
Nov, 2 Randolph Field at San An-
tonio . ~
Nov. 8 Austin College _at George-
town (Homecoming)
Nov. 28 McMurry College at Abll-
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Service Buttons
Given Employees
By Plymouth Oil
Twenty-one employees of the Ply-
mouth Oil Company were presented
service buttons at a steak barbecue
party held at the Plymouth Park for
men who have been employed regul-
arly for five years or more Sunday
evening. The affair was attended
by seventy employees.
W. E. Huston of Pittsburg, Pa„
secretary-treasurer of the company,
presented, the service buttons to the
men eligible by years of service to
revelve them this year. Those who
had been with Plymouth Oil Com-
pany for twenty years of continous
service to receive buttons included
the following; J. B. Baker,Jr., W.,
G. Durbin, W. D. Salyer, D. Y.
Campbell, M. BB. Clendenin, Otto
Matlock of Morgan City, La., C. R.
Doak of Bloominyton, Texas, Ran-
dolph S. Kiny; C. M. Thomas, R. H.
Burton, and Herman Greyg of Pla-
ins, Texas.
Buttons presented to the above
men were set with .four diamonds,
each diamond representing five
years of service. '
Jack. Satterwhite was presented
with fifteen years, of service.
The following received 10-year
buttons:; L. D. Adams, Robert,Baz-
zell, O. W.. Alexander, H. M. Livze-
Houston Yoakum. Jack Morrow, D.
8. Hit, Lr- Those receiving 5-year
buttons were: Carroll Weaver and
Charles S. Hilton, Jr.
On Labor Day, September 2, the
Company sponsored its annual bar-
becue for all its employes and theii
families at Plymouth Park, which
was attended by approximately 175
people.
Idea Exchange
System Started
By Aggie Teachers
Sgt. Robert Senf
Gets Discharge
From Marines
Mathis New Air
Conditioned Theatre
Opened Recently
The thriving community of Mat-
liis, Texas boasts an all new, all
modern air conditioned theatre
which calls itself by the unique na-
me of “IT.”
The “IT” opened Thursday, Aug-
ust 15th with a record attendance
at the two evening performances.
The “IT” Theatre, a Quonset
type construction, has Installed
Westinghouse’s Sterllamps in the
air conditioning unit, freeing the
air 95 per cent of air borne bac-
teria and rendering a completely
healthful ^tmosphere. This is the
first theatre in the Southwest to
Install these lamps. Bodl-form seats
400 of them are the latest In seating
comfort, with deep plush backs and
cushions. The balcony seating 62
has been reserved entirely for col-
ored patrons.
Gldney Talley, owner, has spared
no expense in making this ultra-
modern theatre. With the use of
assoustical plaster throughout the
auditorium, sound quality Is 100
per cent«perfect. All new projection
equipment has been Installed with
the use of high intensity arc lamps
to assure flawless projection.
Sgt. Robert" Senf, son of Mrs.
J. R. Daglev, arrived home the latter
part of last week from Treasure Is-
land, California, where he had re-
ceived his discharge from the U. S.
Marines.
Sgt. Senf had been in the service
since June 1943, spending thirteen
months overseas. Most of that time
was spent in occupational duty in
China and was attached to the. Mar-
ine Night Fighters. While there he
was seriously wounded by the ac-
cidental explosion of a small cali-
ber shell which inflicted wounds on
the hands and chest. After he was’
sent back to the states he spent
two months in the Oakland Nav-
al Hospital. His brother, Gwynn
Senf, who was recently discharged
from the Navy, saw action in sev-
eral battles and landings in the Pac-
ific during the war.
An idea exchange system, design-
ed to improve vocational standards
of instruction in schools during the
coming year was decided upon at
a meeting of Vocational Agricul-
ture teachers held here Friday of )
of the 16-C'ounty Coastal Bend
gathered.
Volunter demonstrations to fam-
iliarize other agrlcullture advisors
Beeyille, Julius Rektorik of Robs-
with their classroom and farm shop
work were pledged by Gordon Cab-
iness of. Mathis, Monroe Fairly of
town, and B. G. Oefinger of Slnton.
Teachers attending the meeting
at the Slnton High School Vocat-
ional Agricultlre Building pledged
closer cooperation with each other
for a betterment of the whole dis-
trict.
More meetings will be held this
year than last year so that the in-
structors may exchange ideas and
criticisms arid work out their pro-
blems together, the session decided..
•Henry Bendele, agriculture tea-
cher 'at the Fremont High School,
was elected president of, the Coastal
Bend Agriculture Teachers tosue-
ceed G. A. Ellff of Bahquete, J. 0.
Carlisle of Orange Gfove was nam-
ed secretary. .
C. D. Parker of Kingsville, voc-
ational. advisor and H. W. Gist,
head of the recently organized San
Patricio County Vocational School
for Veterans, were guests at the
meeting.
Another meeting was scheduled
for Mathis at 5 o’clock in the after-
noon on Sept. 11, when additional
plans will be worked out. The group
also decided on a district FFA
meeting in Orange Grove on Sept.
28. This will be an all day session,
and each advisor was asked to br-
ing 10 members of his FFA chap-
ter.
Present at the meting were:
Oefinger, Cabaqiss, Fairly, Rektoi*
ig, Carlisle, Bendele, Cecil Clenden-
in of Alice, F. B. N&rris of Bishop,
Lloyd Curtis Daniel of Odem, J. A.
Aregood. of Riviera, J. M. Baker
of San Diego.
Ellff, C. E. Nichols of Three Riv-
ers, and L. D. Turner of Pawnee
were waterbound by the floods in
their area. Others unable to attend
were: Elton Ford of Taft and A. M.
Edwards of George West.
Baptist Workers
Conference To Be
Held Tuesday
Sinton Teachers To
Meet Monday P. M.
A general teachers meeting that
was scheduled for Saturday at 4:30
P. M. will be held Monday at 4 P. M.
Stamp 51 Good For
Five Pounds Sugar
The Monthly Worker’s Conference
for September, tlie last of the asso-
ciations! year, for Blanco Bapti.it
Association, will he held at the Sin-
ton Baptist .Church In an all-dav
session Tuesday, opening at 10:00
o'clock. Representatives from all
churghes of the association are ex-
pected, with around 150 people to
be present.
Sinton chu.r,ch will be host for
the occasion, and members of the
W.M.S. will he in charge of the
■ Say's proceedings, with committees
from the.Clt.'o Morrison Circle and
the Sallee Circles, appointed by
Mrs. N. F. T’hillirie, W.M.S. pres-
ident, ■ working together to make
the event a success, and pleasura-
le for all those who; ntterid. Lunch
will lie served buffet style at the
noon hour.
Members of the local church are
urged to be present, and their pre-
sence will be appreciated’ whether
they can attend all day for even an
hour or even part time, according
to an announcement by Mrs. Phil-
lips.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.,—Spare
Stamp 51 in Ratiofi Book No. 4
is good for five pounds of sugar
through December 31, if the gro-
cer has the sugar, OPA reminded
housewives today.
The stamp became valid Sun-
day.
On that day also Stamp 49 was
supposed to expire, but because
of sugar shortages In many cities,
OPA extended Its validity through
Sept. 30 so that consumers may
cttsh it. •
Spare Stamps 9 and 10 are each
good through Oct 31 for five
pounds of home canning sugar. .
Loan of $250,000 Secured From Washing-
ton Recently Insures an Added 125 Miles
of Power Lines and Facilities to Be Built.
Fyrther extension of its lines and expansion of its ser-
vices has been insured by a loan of $250,000 recently
to the San Patricio Electric Cooperative, according to
announcement this week by C. W. Pace, manager, who
returned Friday from Washington after conferring with
REA officials relative to the loan and other matters per-
taining to a huge improvement pro-
gram that was begun during the
latter part of last year.
Pace stated that the loan was
secured for the purpose of extend-
ing electric lines another 125 miles
and the’construction of other fac-
ilities necessary to several hun-
dred residents in various sections
of the eight county area in which
the Co-op, will operate when the
program which has already been
planned is completed.
At present, workers are engaged
in constructing lines which will add
more than 350 new members to the
cooperative. These extensions are
being made with the funds obtained
from an earlier loan from REA,
Pace stated.
The local Co-op,, is now serving
approximately 1,500 members. With
the completion of the two' projects
that are under way apd already pla-
nned. tile memberships will bo boos-
ted to well above the 2,iM)0 mark.
The ultimate goal of 3.on,, members
lias been set tor the inval Co-op,,
when materials sufficient to ex-
tend tile lines are available.
Pace said 'that the most serious
handicap how faced by. the co-op
is the, shortage of copper Wire.
Strikes in the• copper or allied- in-:
•lust ries ■ have slowed production
op materials, with , a consequent
slow-up in the construction of lines
There have been shortages riot only
in copper materials necessary to
the electric industry! Pace said.
The pole bottleneck, which faced
the co-ops sometime ago, has been
eliminated, because Texas electric
co-ops bought a creosoting plant
in East Texas and are now turning
out their own poles.
Pace said that the San Patricio
co-op is still considering the in-
stallation of carrier communication
telephone system as soon as it is
established on a practical basis and
as soon as materials and equip-
ment forms- installation are made
available.
With the installation of such a
system, telephone service will be
available to all users, of electric
co-op service.
With the extension* df its lines
irito McMullen County next month,
the .San Patricio Electric Co-op will
be serving members in eight county
areas... Already it has. members in
Live Oak, Bee) Goliad, Refugio,
Aransas. San Patricio, and Jim
Wells counties.
On his recent trip to Washing-
ton, Pace said he had an opportun-
ity to visit some of the REA in-
stallations in the Tennessee Valley,
where the TVA pioneered the rural
electrification movement. He said
that with the coming of electric
service to the rural areas in that
region, the outlook of the country
and Its people had been altered
radically for the better, changed
what had once been a backward
rural community into one that
shows signs of progress and pros-
perity.
Group WorkingTo
Complete Work
Conservation Unit
Sinton Baptist* To
Have Guest Speaker
The Sinton Baptist Church will
have aa Its guest speaker Sunday,
Rev. W. W. Rovell of Corpus 'Chr-
lsti; formerly of Wise county. Rev.
I* M. Huff, pastor. Is attending a
revival In Edmund, Oklahoma, and
will return after two weeks. Miss-
ionary M. 8. teach will be guest
speaker on the fallowing Sunday,
September 16,
Reverend and MrsfTheo Cox en-
tertained the Reverend’s brothr and
family, Reverend Homer S. Cox from
Florence, Texas. They arrived here
7 ” - 7“ r7 • V *t1 '.j'-r * p ^.
Typical Texas hospital scene
showing student nurses at labora-
tory test work. The Texas Lbague
of "Nursing Eduoation, in cooper-
tion with other state agencies, has
i ..IUJ tlu anmilmAnt of 2-bOh
mmw--''
help avert a shortage that threat-
ens hospital bsd space, which al-
ready is 23 par cant below capa-
city in the nation because of a
dearth of nurses. (FYI—Above piC'
turrf made at Haris Memorial Matlv
If the present schedule is con-
tinued, San Patricio County’s soil
conservation district will have
completed its organization and
will be functioning by the first of
next year, it was stated this week
by R. R. Gibb, agricultural agent,
who has worked closely with
county committees in conducting
and organizing^ preliminary sur-
veys.
Gibb and C. F, Powers, chair-
man of the board of supervisors
for the district, are now editing
and coordinating the data gather-
ed by committees. Information
contained in the committee reports
covers both the economic and soc-
ial conditions within the county.
On the board of supervisors in
addition to Chairman Powers, are
J. C. Carroll, Secretary, C. C. Par-
ker, Dan L. Messer, and A. F. Ab-
ney.
Although the district organiza-
tion has not yet been carried far
enough to establishment of a Soil
Conservation Service office in Sin-
ton, San Patricio County land own-
ers have already launched a pro-
gram that correspond closely to
those being undertaken in organ-
ized districts. Gibb said that his
office had more applications for
assistance in running terrace and
control lines than could possibly
be met this year. Farmers through-
out the county have been putting
their land on contour.
In addition to terracing and con-
touring. many farmers are carry-
ing on soil-building programs in
the county. More than 25,000 acres
of land will bs planted to legume
crops this fall, Gibb said, and the
demand for super-phosphate Is for
In excess of the available supply.
Plans for organising a soil con-
servation district in San Patricio
County were launched early In the
year, and various committees have
been engaged In compiling data
to be presented to the State .Soil
Conservation Board.
Condolences are extended to Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Sipos on the death of
her father. Mrs. Sipos and daugh-
ter. Patricia, have Just returned
from Lorain, Ohio, where they
attended the funeral services. The
family are newcomers to Sii
... '“H
Depositions From
Former Prisoners
Of Japs Sought
A nation-wide campaign is under
way by the U. S. Army and Navy
in concerted effort to secure de-
positions concerning war Crimea
and atrocities for use as evidence
in war crimes trials In Tokyo, from
discharged Army and Navy per-
sonnel and clcillans, the War Crim-
es Branch of Civil Affairs Division
announced.
A list of ex-servicemen In San
Patricio County was Issued by the
War Department as follows: Mathis
Lloyd F. Christman: Slnton-Will-
iam H. Patterson; Taft-CaJlxto A.
Garcia; Virgil L. Cachings; Austin
Gonzales.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Owen and
, of West Slnton are vacat!
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