San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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PVI1^ Wfll| DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF SINTON AND SAN PATRICIO OTUNTY « '
For Victory.
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STAMPS
VOLUME 34
SINTON, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942
NUMBER 25
H-
Rubber Campaign
Produces Around
340,000 Lbs, Scrap
*
Sinton Will Probably Lead County With
About 88,000 Pounds, While Taft Is
Close With 80,000 Reported
The Scrap Rubber campaign
which was launched June 15th, has
proven highly satisfactory in San
Patricio County, with an approx-
imate total of 340,000 pounds be-
ing rounded up through the efforts
of the major oil companise, Scouts,
F F A organizations and other
groups, it was reported by Garland
R. Beard, county chairman.
Beard was assisted in directing
the drive by the County Salvage
^ommittes and J. L. Tatum, chair-
man of the oil division and a mem-
ber of the salvage committee.
Most of the reports as yet re-
ceived are approximate, and no
actual net figures, have been turned
in. Sinton is leading other com-
munities with an estimated total
of 88,000 pounds; while Taft re-
ports 80,000 pounds and Aransas
, Pass has collected somewhere in.
the neighborhood of 40,000 pounds.
No reports have come in from the
other concentration centers, but
when final figures come in it is
expected reach a total figure of
somewhere around 340,000 pounds.
It was stated, however, that some
of these figures may overlap, or
may be underestimated. In this
case the total may fluctuate or fall
short, but was as close as it could
be estimated at this time, and defi-
nite fugures will not be known un-
til a final accurate check-up is
made.
The major oil companise nad
their service stations supplied their
services free of charge and used
their trucks to transport the ma-
terial to concentration points. All
the money derived from the sale
of the scrap rubber will be turned
over to the Army and Navy Relief
Societies to be used by them for
the benefit of the men who are in
service.
Organization
Completed For
Rat Eradication
Committeemen in Each Com-
munity Will Direct Drive
To Rid Area of Rat Men-
ace, July 8th.
1776
What So Proudly We Hail’d
What so proudly we hail’d at Lexington and Con-
cord ... at Boston Harbor ... at Gettysburg . . .
and San Juan Hill ... is still worth fighting for.
“Civil liberty” and “government for the people”
aren’t just phrases in a history book. We Amer-
icans have made these principles work for over a
century and a half . . . and we intend to keep
them working! These are the ideals we hail’d in
Philadelphia in 1776 ... the rights we hold worth
saving, and worth dying to save. To this end,
like the patriots of ’76, “we mutually pledge to
each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred
honor.”
1942
C. Carroll, school
Services For
Odem Youth
Thursday, 5:30
Funeral services for Joe Nixon,
18, of Odem will be held at the
Odem Baptist Church Thursday
afternoon, today, at 5; 30 o’clock.
Young Nixon, son of Mr. and Mrs.
T. T. Nixon, was the victim of an
automobile accident on the high-
way a few miles from Odem Tues-
day night and was fatally Injured
resulting lri his death. Three other
youths In the car were uninjured. ,
The accident occurred at 10 o’-
clock Tuesday night when the car
driven by B. L. Hightower, also of
Odem, overturned. Nixon was tak-
en to the hospital at ^Sinton, but
he died upon arrival at 10:55 o'clock.
Nixon was graduated from the
Odem High School last year and.
had been employed at the E. H.
Green garage for the past two
years. Survivors, besides his par-
ents, Include two brothers, Thad-
deus, who Is in the border patrpl,
and Harold of Odem.
Interment will be In the Odem
Cemetery under the direction of
David Peel of Sinton.
Sinton to Close
Saturday, July 4th
Practically all of,the stores, busi-
ness institutions, offices and serv-
ices vflll be closed all day Saturday
In observance of our National Inde-
pendence Day, the Fourth of July.
Only a few places of business will
be open for a part of the day, while
some may remain open throughout
the day.
ft\
Complete organization for the
county-wide rat eradication cam-
paign has been perfected with the
naming of community committee-
men to, lead and direct the drive by
County Agent R. R. Gibb, county
director.
» Each of me committeemen . will
assist in making the bait available
to farms and business houses and
will also serve in distributing the
bait when it arrives. Gibb stated.
Names of chairmen arid places
where the bait wlil be'delivered frfP1
lows:
Taft—L. E. Lindeman, Chamber
of Comemrce office.
Gregory — Mr. Moore, Niller’s
Store.
Portia fid-
house.
Rincon—E. E. Rosson, Rincon Gin.
Sinton—R. R. Gibb, county agent's
office.
Odem—B. T. Draper,* old bank
building.
Adorns—Clifford Powers, school
house.
Mathis—Gordon Cabaniss, voca-
tional agricultural building.
Edroy — Jack Thornton, Edroy
Mercantile store.
The campiagn is a cooperative
project between the county com-
missioners’ court, Fish and Wild
Life Service, Division of Predatory
and Rodent Control and Extension.
Service • of A&M College. It wa^
launched at thfe request of Dr. A.
H. Voss, county health officer, to
assist in checking the spread of
typhus fever in the county.
Rat bait is being furnished free
by the commissioners' court to all
interested parties in the county,
farm people as well as town resi-
dents, who execute signed orders
to one of the above named chairmen
before July 4th. The bait will be
mixed by the Fish and Wild Life
representatives on tHe morning of
July 8th and will be available to
all at the above named stations all
afternoon on that day.
Improvement of Sinton
Street, Drainage System
Loom As Work Progresses
Shaping Up of Drainage Ditches and
Thoroughfares Puts New Face on the
Town’s Appearance
Mathis Bank Robber
Arrested in Laredo
Sinton Church of
Christ Meeting
Well Attended
Forrest R. Waldrop of Los
Angeles Is Doing the
Preaching, Bringing Some
Very Impressive Messages
The revival meeting now in pro-
gress at the Sinton Church of
Christ is being well attended, and
those who come are enjoying some
of the very best gospel preaching
arid singing. .Bro, • R: Tr Towe'ry,
.minister, who is assisting Bro. For-
rest R. Waldtop of Los Angeles,
stated Wednesday.
’ 1:ro. Waldrop has emphasized
over and over-the importance of
our respecting the word of God,"
Towery said. "Surely this is timely
advice for while the world is at
war and civilization is rocking, we
need something to tie*1 to to keep
our souls from any unforseen hap-
pening,” the. minister delcared:
Apprehension of the Hijacker Monday Cul-
minates a Search of Exactly Seven Weeks
by Local, State and Federal Officers
Large Group
Attend Aircraft
Warning School
The arrest of Roy Everett Wolfa
in Laredo Monday noon solved the
riddle that has baffled local, state
and. federal officers for the past
seven weeks of who robbed the First
State Bank at Mathis on Monday,
May 11th. ^
The arrest of the man by request
of the District Attorney of Webb
County for investigation culminated
an investigation by J. E. Holbrook
of San Patricio County, Captain W.
S. Bbu Id i no f ■State- High WAX, .Patrol
of Corpus Christi, Ranger Ralph'"
Rphatseh, also of Corpus Christi and
Approximately 3011 people from Frank Prdhst, State Highway Pa-
every section of the county attend- l.trOl of Beeville, \vhich started Tues*.
Capt. N. A. Stice and Staff
Put on Demonstration of
Function of System at
Meeting Sunday
ed the aircraft warning school
staged at .the Courthouse by a
group from Fort Sam Houson Sun-
day night.
The school, directed by Capt. N.
A, Slice, and carried out by a corps
of Army personnel, was put on un-
der the sponsorship of the state
headquarters of the Aircraft. Warn-
'aU C™f.WService.-and. was for..the hene.-.
fit of workers in San Patricio
County. They demonstrated the
tinne throuhg Sunday night, July
5th. The congregation of the church
urges everyone who can attend the
last, days of the meeting and study
with them. Bring your' Bibles and
see if the. truth is preached. “We
need open and frank discussion of
all things that pertain to our souls’
welfare, for if we gain the whole
world and lose our souls,, what
does it profit,' Towery pointed out.
Appeal Issued
For More Red
Cross Knitters
A plea is being made by MrS.
Stanley Fry, head of the knitting
department of the Sinton American
Red Cross, urging knitters of the
town and vicinity to begin work of
knitting sweaters for the U. S. Army
and Navy. “A 100-pound assign-
ment of yarn has been received here
and the National Red Cross is urg-
ing that It be made up immediately
into sweaters, as the need for them
Is urgent," Mrs. Fry said. Mrs.
Fry, or Mrs. Frank Curlee, local
chairman of production work, ap-
pointed to assist Mrs. J. M. Land-
rum, or Mrs. Arch Fullick, chairman
bf the County Red Cross production
work, will supply the yarn and be
glad to do so when asked for It
The work will require experienced
knitters because It will have to come
up to regular army standards," Mrs.
Fry said.
An improvement program for
Sinton which was started early in
1941, but actually was inaugurated
back in 1983 or 1939, is beginning
to bear fruit in a very decided aiid
more conspicuous manner right now,
as the city's crew of street workers
under the direction of J. A. Mat-
thews continue with some vary ef-
fective work.
The improvement program, which
entalls an expenditmTe^of lTomething
like $300,000, or more, includes the
laying of a storm sewer system,
paying of several miles of streets,
widening and straightening Chil-
tipin Creek, digging of a drainage
ditch along the south and east sides
of the town to divert certain flood
waters and a number of other
things not the least being a fine
concrete bridge from town to Park
Welder. A lot of this work has
been completed, with* most of it
nearing the final stages.
Since the street work was sus-
pended Indefinitely some weeks ago
due to the war conditions and
shortage of farm labor, what men
that is usually employed by the
city, have been shaping up the
streets that were paved and lev-
eled and shaped up many ditches
under the specifications of the City
engineers, Tamm & Fitzgerald, to
make them more effective In carry-
ing away excess water during heavy
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Vehicle Stamp* Mutt
Be on Car After July 1
Federal Motor Vehicle Tax
Stamps, which become effective
July 1, and are valid for a year
thereafter, are now on sale at the
Sinton post office.
Edgar F. Bonorden, postmaster,
explains that the stamp, which cost
$5.00, must be displayed on all
automobiles after July 1, superced-
ing the $2.09 which have been In
effeet since February.
Mathis Will Be
Host To South
Texas Firemen
Boy Scouts
Distribute Posters
For Red Cross
Boy Scouts of Sinton are placing
at vantage points over town posters
representing National Good Will, un-
der the direction of Tom F. Ivey,
for the local branch American Red
Cross. On receiving the posters
from National Red Cross headquar-
ters, Mrs. Edgar F. Bonorden, chair-
map of the Sinton Branch American
Red Cross, requested Mr. Ivey ahd
his scouts to undertake the project
of placing them about town.
SON BORN TO MR. AND MRS.
ELLEDGE OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Mr. and Mrd. Jerome Elledge of
Corpus Christi announce the arrival
of their son, George Jerome, who
was born Saturday In the Sinton
'Hospital. Mrs. Elledge was the
former Miss Alta Fay Tidwell.
The young man weighed eight
pounds and is the grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. George C. Tidwell of Sin-
ton and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Elledge
of Corpus Christi.
Loeal Fire Department Ex-
pects To Have Teams in
Contests of the Quarterly
Meeting of the Group
The Mathis Volunteer Firemen
will be hosts to the second quar-
terly convention of the. South Cen-
tral Firemen's Association on Sun-
day, July 12, when 300 firemen from
18 South Texas towns are expected
to be in Mathis for the business
meeting, races and chicken dinner.
Sinton will send a delegation to
participate in the various events of
the day. Other towns who expect
to have delegations at the meeting
Include Aransas Pass, Rockport,
Woodsboro, Taft, Refugio, Beeville.
Alice, Falfurrias, Odem, Robstown,
Freer, Orange Grove, Three Rivers,
Corpus Chris'tl, Bishop, Kingsville
and George West. *
The business meeting will be held
in the morning In the Texas Thea-
tre, and visiting firemen will regis-
ter at the firehouse. Lunch will be
served at the Dave Carr vegetable
shed by the Mathis H. D. Club. In
the afternoon pumper races, Paris
rule races and mystery races will
be held.
Mathis firemen in charge 61 the
program are Milton Boatwright,
secretary, In charge of registration;
Tom Nary, fire chief; Jimmie Lee,
J. D. Wilson, BUI Moore, Percy
Hartman and Adolph Bomer, In
charge of the arrangements.
Rev. M’Graw Reviews
Results of Recent
Baptist Revival
proper function of the service by
erecting a , facsimile of* the filter
system which is. set up at San An-
tonio. Some of the workers were
given an opportunity to. use the
phones which gave them a clearer
picture of what actually happened
day evening June 23. when the
sheriff received a tip on the iden-
tity of the pick-up that was us.ed
by the man to get. away after the
hold-up. The officers left imme-
diately for Beeville and secured in-
formation there that took, them to.
the Bureau of Identification at
Austin; thence to Dallas. After ar-
riving in Dallas at nine Wednesday
might, ■ they knew who the robber
was by the next afternoon, and con-
tinued their investigation until in-
formation came through that he was
arrested at Laredo.
Sheriff Holbrook gave full credit
in solving the case, to Izzie Butler,
manager of the Mathis office of
CP&L, who had noted the pick-up*
in the event of an air raid. The ; was P»rkp<J in fr9"t of the
set-up was explained in, detail as company* office prior to rhe time
the demonstrations were carried jthe bank was held «!»• He noted
out, leaving the county's aircraft somfe peculiarities about the truck
In reviewing some of the high-
lights of the recent Baptist revival,
the pastor. Rev, W. E. McOraw,
said Sunday at his first service af-
ter the, close of the revival, that 34
warning service
equipped to carry no.
The detachment left Monday for
held, before going on to Robst'bwn
and other points in South. Texas
in their- itinerary.
Those serving as chief observers
in the county are Eddie Wright,
of the 36 new converts received, ! lathis; .CharlesBrown, Mathis: C.
during the meeting were members j b. McAnelly, Lonnie Glasscock.
workers rl.ette |ah(! als0 the man as he sat in it..
and passed this information on to
Eddy Wright, chief guard at Cor-
_ _ ■ . t , iius Christi Lake. Wright was pass-
,r through Beeville on the twenty-
third, saw the pickup and passed
the information on to the sheriff. •
When the officers'arrived in Dal-
las they contacted the Hangers’ of-
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of the Sunday school, and also that
the mnjnrlfi- of t[|fm wgr,vAi^a«>me-j-fqw
department of the young people’s
work, and that their leaders had for
.Mathis;
Allen McCown. San Patri-
E. H. Vogel, St. Paul; Jack
Thornton, Edroy; Ted Knox, Sin-
ton; R. .Go Langford. Taft; Percy
<1
Mess Sergeant Curry
Stacks Up Reputation
Silence reigned- in the Battery
some time been sowing the seed for | i^e Johnson. Sinton: ■ K. K. Parker, ; are a.
(luards off pi,st slumbered
such a harvest as the revival j Sinton; O. A. Rayburn, Taft: Bob ; fitfully. . . . The Charge of Quar-
reaped. Whitten. Odem; Lloyd Neumann, tors dreamily turned the pages of
He stated also that approximately : sjntbn; Miller Gabriel. Taft and one of the various "girlie" maga-
zines. ; . Men off duty lay on
their hacks in their blinks thinking
of Eden, Shangri-la and mythical
three-.day passes ... When sud-
denly there was a stir in the air.
. , ..Then the long, drawn out howl
of "Chow!" rent the quiet. . . . Yes,
merry men, it was that Worthy
Mess Sergeant Curry, who has been
establishing new records > in hog-
calling. The reactions to the good
sergeant's endeavors are really
something to see.—Anonymous, In
The Alert, a weekly publication of
the personnel of Fort MacArthur,
San Pedro, Calif. (Sgt. Curry is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Curry;
of Sinton).
Two Wildcats
Drilling Ahead
In San Pat
$350. which included the offering t« Vernon Westlake, West Sinton,
the revival and the incidental col- ;. ;. —. .......
lection of the two-week period, tes-
tified to the high appreciation fo, the
two revival, workers. Rev. Judson
Prince and A. D. Walters, which
Baptists/and others attending the
meeting felt.
At the Close of the Sunday night
Service, Rev. McG.raw baptised twd
other boys into the church. His ser-
mons on Sunday were particularly
appropriate to the newly-converted,
as well as to older members. He
urged that it be the purpose of
every church member to take to his
heart one of the new converts and
be of any help he could In encourag-
ing him for right Christian living.
The pastor’s morning subject was
"The Unity of Christian Living",
and at night he preached pn “A
Good Soldier of Jesus Christ."
Approximately
600 Youth Sign
Up for Service
WATCH FOR IT 1
Appearing in some advertisement
In this _paper la a lady** name who
la invited, with her guest, to- be
the guest of The Newa and the
Rialto Theatre.
Thla offer la not good after Wed-
nesday eaoh week. Watch for a name
«BRAI> A JAP WITH g«pt
EBS 1 • -e {'-I*,....' ■*. \’?
to appear in some advertisement. ____ _______B . .
—^ ao, and St. Paul, XI.'
Approximately 600 young men
between the ages of 18 and 20 years
registered In the Nation's fifth
slgn-up In San Patricio County
Tuesday.
According to compilations of six
registering places the total for the
county will not run over 600. It
was estimated by the state draft
headquarters a thousand young men
would register for service with the
Nation’s armed forces, but the
amounts so far turned in this figure
W«1 be lowered considerably when
the final report is filed with the
county selective service board.
, Reports of registrants In each pre-
cinct follows: Sinton, ISO; Taft,
1M; Portland, SO; Sodvllle, 7; West
Sale of Auto Tax
Stamps Net $5,795
The sale of automobile tax stamps
at the local post office amounted
to $5,795.00 up to Wednesday noon,
according to a report by Edgar F,
Bonorden, postmaster. — :*
It is expepted the sale of the tav
stamps will amount to around
$9,000 here when all receipts are in,
the postmaster stated. Regula-
tions are that these stamps must
be on all motor vehicles by July
1st. Anyone failing to display these
stamps on their cars is subject to a
heavy fine.
Installation Services
Held For New
Masonic Officers
Installation ceremonies for new
officers In Sinton Lodge No. 1012,
A. F. & A. M. for the ensuing year
were held last Thursday night at
the regular meeting, with E. H.
Spencer, past master of the Big
Lage Masonic lodge, serving as In-
stalling officer, assisted by J. C.
Russell, marshal. •
The following were invested:
Charles A. Moore, worshipful m-as
ter: F. M. White, senior warden:
Julias Goodman, junior warden; C.
R. Park, senior deacon; W. B.
Brittain, senior steward; J. W. Ed-
wards, Junior Steward, and H. B.
McClurg, tiler.
There were only two wildcat
tests active in San Patricio County
this week as the area, experienced’
a dual slump in "oil activity which
has been brought about by the
materials situation and the usual
summer Inactivity.
Humble Oil A Refining Co. No. 1
Kastner, located 660 feet from the
south and west lines of the north-
west one-quarter of Section 36,
Welder Ranch Subdivision, about
one and a half miles north of
Adams school house, Is drilling be-
low the 5.100-foot level.
George B. Buescher & Paul Clark-
Towery Will Start
Revival At Ingleside
Bro. R. T. Towery, minister of
the Sinton Church of Christ, will
go to Ingleside Monday where he
will start a two weeks revival meet-
lieorge b. xsuesener oc r»ui v*aiiv-
son Mo. i C. <?. Willis, in the cen- ln* at the there,
ter of Lot 7, Section 20, Third Ad- In the mlnUter8 abaenCe'
ditioh to the Taft aFrm Lands, is
drilling ahead below 5.00Q, feet.
SINTON MEN
CALLED TO
ARMY DUTY
Two Sinton men, Tom Gunter,
manager of Central Power & Light
Co„ and Joe C. Ternus, local attor-
ney, have received their calls to
report for Army service.
Ternus left Tuesday aftemon for
Houston to take another physical
examination before proceeding to
Washington, D. C., from which
place he will be assigned to duty
in the Chemical Warfare section,
as a second lieutenant
Gunter will leave for the National
capital on July 13th where he will
report for duty in the Electrical
Engineering Division of the Army,
with a second lieutenant's rating.
From there he will proceed to
Miami, Fla., for a special training
course.
DON'T WEAR RONDS_RUT THKM.
In the minister's absence, Wm.
Edward McDaniel will preach on
Sunday, July 12, and Tom Brown,
minister Of a Church of Christ in
Corpus Christi, will preach on Sun-
day, July 19. '* * f
On U. Of T.
Honor Roll *
Floyd Harold Joseph, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Joseph, was one of
811 students in the College of Arts
and Sciences to make the honor
roll of the University of Texas for
the second semester. The 811 list-
ed on the honor roll is about one-
tenth of the student body.
POSTOFFICE ORDERED TO
MAINTAIN SERVICE
ON FOURTH OF JULY
WASHINGTON, June 27.—
Postmastef General Frank C.
Walker today ordered all post-
ofices and branches to maintain
regular Saturday service on July .
4 because “In view of the present ^
war conditions It Is obvious that j
there should be no interruption
In the service to all business con-
nected with pur war program.'
0nly exception to the
was for rural delivery which
not be maintained.
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