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MR. AND MRS. SHERMAN
BRYANT of Lane City, who recent-
ly celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary with relatives and
friends in attendance. They have
five sons, two daughters, 19 grand-
children and one great-grandchild
They are 71 Years young, they de-
clare. Photo courtesy of Houston
Post.
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“Get back on the right track”:
The Hamman Exploration Com-
pany is urging oil men and the
public to join in a demand on the
Texas Railroad Commission to
abandon its “illegal formula of
fixing o'.l allowables and get back
on the right track.’’
The company writes: “Follow
the laws of Texas requiring it to
fix Texas oil allowables in suffi-
cient amounts tt> meet market de-
mand where and whenever possi-
ble without physical waste.’’
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Renew your driver’s license:
License numbers from one tn
450,000 are good until 12/31/41 and
you have until 10/1/41 to renew
them. License numbers from 450,-
000 to 900,000 are good until 3/31/42
and you have until 1/1/42 to renew
them. License numbers from 900,-
001 to 1,350,000 are good until
6/30/42 and you have until 4/1/42
to renew them.
v I.icausn.numbers from 1,350,000
w$s upward are good until 11/1/42 and
you have until 7/1/42 to renew
them.
This writer doesn’t feel in
hurry. We have until this time next
year to renew ours, according to
the schedule.
• • * •
Recommended reading daily:
Henry McLemore in the Hous-
ton Post, David Lawrence in the
San Antonio Express, Jimmy Ful-
ler in the San Antonio Express,
Westbrook Pegler in the Hous-
ton Press.
* * •
Wanted: Fair Weather For 30
Days. . .
With only approximately ten per
cent of the fall crop harvested, Bra'
- zoria County and Matagorda Coun-
ty rice farmers stand to face a ser-
ious crop failure unless a 30 to 40-
day period of fair weather allows
them to thresh the remainder of
the grain left standing after a seige
of rainstorms and the September
tropical storm, a survey shows.
Damp weather has been slowing
the harvest considerably throughout
both counties.
Another problem of far-reaching
"mportance is the quality of the rice
harvested, which stands to be off-
grade in some instances because of
unfavorable weather.
Slim consolation:
Rice farmers who have suffered
grave losses of their crops may and
should cash in on this hunting sea-
son. They may take out a shooting
preserve permit for $5 and charge
for daily and season hunting privi-
leges. In this way they may recoup
some of tile loss thdy have suffered
ia losing their rice crop.
* * *
See them play:
The Bay City Black Cats play
their next-to-the-last home game
here Friday night. Up to now,
the Cats have had a fairly suc-
cessful season.
They’ve been playing swell foot-
ball and those few they’ve lost
have been by only a slim margin.
THE
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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE GULF COAST OF TEXAS
VOLUME III
BAY CITY, MATAGORDA COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1941
NUMBER 6
FARMERS, STOCKMEN MOT TODAY
C. P. L. Celebrates Silver Anniversary
History Oif
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Enlistments For
U. S. Navy Will
Be Sought Here
A United States Nuval Recruiting
Qfficer will be temporarily located
At the Bay City Post Office Thurs-
day and Friday, November 13-14,
it was announced by A. G. McNair,
officer-in-chai go of the Houston re-
cruiting district.
Applications for enlistment in the
Navy or Naval Reserve will be tak-
en from 9 until 5 o’clock. ;
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Company
Is Related.
Bay City Is
Integral Part
Of Organization
Central Power and Light Com
pany observes this week its silver
anniversary, the concern having
been incorporated 25 years ago No-
vember 2, according to Vance
Porter, district manager here for
P. L. From small beginnings
1916 when the company owned five
utility properties scattered over
Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas
P. L. has grown to the point
where it serves 177 communities,
centered in South and South
west Texas.
R. W. Morrison and W. S. McCall
principal stockholders at the time
the company was incorporated, saw
brightest opportunities in Texas and
by 1921 had acquired electric, wa-
ter, ice, or gas utilities in 10 Texas
communities.
C. P. L. Reorganized
In 1925 when the present flWner-
ship purchased the stock interests
of Morrison and McCall, C. P. L.
was reorganized as a utility con-
cern to serve South and Southwest
Texas exclusively. Subsidiary com-
panies were abolished and proper-
ties outside the chosen area were
sold or traded for utility plants in
the southern territory.
Immediately, C. P. L. began
policy of shutting down small, in-
efficient, isolated plants and build-
ing mile after mile of inter-connect-
ing transmission lines served by
large, central generating stations.
Thereby, service was greatly im-
proved and electric rates have been
reduced time and time again.
Utility Here In 1903
Bay City’s utility service origi-
nated in 1903 when the Bay City
Ice, Light and Power Company was
organized, with I. Marks, as presi-
dent, Henry Rugeley, as vice-presi-
dent, J. H. Craig, treasurer, W. E.
Jammess, as secretary, and G. M.
Magili, D. P. Moore, J. P. Keller,
and H. A. Payne as stockholders.
Capital stock was $50,000.
The city council granted the com-
pany a franchise to build a 15-ton
ice plant and to build a power and
light plant.
On May 21, 1903, the company
bought a city block of land and put
up a well constructed building, cost-
ing so much that when the machin-
ery arrived, there was not sufficient
money to make the down-payment.
So much railroad demurrage ran
up on the machinery that it took
about a year’s revenue to pay for
it. The equipment was moved from
the railway cars late in 1903.
Three 90 H. P. Boilers
The plant had three 90-horse-
power boilers and two 100-ampere
direct current dynamos, each di-
rectly connected to the shafts of a
100-horsepower Erie City engine.
(See “ANNIVERSARY,” Page 5)
Eagle Lake Comes To Town Friday
No, This Isn't London
Annual Grid
Game Packed
With Color
Eagles Gunning For
Another Upset
Over Bay City
In a game that has as much tra-
ditional color and rivalry locally as
the Texas-Texas A. & M. clash has
in the Southwestern Conference,
Coach W. B. Hinton brings his
scrappy Eagle Lake Eagles here
Friday night to battle the Bay City
Black Cats.
The Eagles have not won a single
district game and are, therefore, out
to garner one in this, their last at-
tempt of the year. Bay City, which
has dropped two league decisions
while winning as many, will be play
ing its next-to-the-last 30-A tilt.
Out Of Title Race
Both teams, of course, are out of
the title race; but, nevertheless, this
annual fray is always one of Gus
P. Phan’s "musts” as it is invariably
packed with thrills and upsets.
In 1938 a heavily-favored Bay
City eleven was stunned by a sup-
posedly weak Eagle Lake outfit.
Again in 1940 the Black Cats went
to Eagle Lake a two-touchdown fav-
orite. They came back on the short
end of a 2-to-0 licking.
This year, the situation is pretty
much the same: Hapless Eagle
Lake, who has not won a single dis-
trict game, meets a favored Bay
City team.
Will it be another upset? Have
the Eagles jinxed the Cats?
These questions will be answered
what promises to be a thrilling I tion are such that the present tele-
game from start to finish. phone numbering system will not
Wesley Causey Stars work with the new service. It is
Coach Hinton has three Causey necessary, therefore, to assign new
boys in his starting lineup, Ed, Wes- di»l telephone numbers to all Bay
ley, and Gerald. In 180-pound Wes- City telephone customers,
ley, who holds down the right tackle Until Saturday night, the com-
position, Eagle Lake has one of the pany requests that subscribers use
best linemen in this section of the the present numbers in the green
country. He’s fast, rough, and directory. After midnight, use the
tough. He’s a stonewall on defense new dial telephone numbers that will
and a blocking demon on offense. | be listed in the new grey directory,
Another better-than-par player
“ 'nl”“k J"k|G" Pre«ure
The Eagle Lake starting lineup | BFC&ks G&UgC
averages 158 pounds to Bay City’s
165 pounds.
The game starts at 8 o’clock.
But Camp Hulen
Over 300
Due At Parle
For Speaking
Big Barbecue
Will Be Held
At Noon
Dial System Goes
Into Service Here
{Saturday Night
Bay City’s new dial system goes
| into service Saturday night.
The requirements of dial opera-
Holiday Tuesday
Will Be Observed
In Bay City
Tuesday, November 11, will be
a holiday in Bay City in observ-
ance of Armistice, the Chamber
of Commerce announced.
All business establishments will
be closed.
Here’s How Eagles And
Cats May Line Up Friday
BAY CITY
Wt.
No.
Pos.
No.
Wt.
E. Johnson
158
43
LE
52
146
Swinford
170
42
LT
. 50
168
O’Rear
162
47
LG
49
156
"tker
170
36
C
48
140
J. Birkner
156
39
RG
47
138
Middleton
170
17
RT
51
179
Ehlert
178
45
RE
44
150
Shearer
150
41
QB
45
141
Carroll
158
40
! H
43
150
Cox
150
44
RH
46
153
M. Johnson
200
46
FB
54
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Head Coach: Vic Driscoll Head Coach:
EAGLE LAKE
Sherrill
Handley
Estlinbaum
Risien
E. Causey
W. Causey
G. Causey
Sunderman
Barnett
Ingram
Ham
B. Hinton
(On Lucky Test
One of the most interesting oil
strikes in Matagorda County in sev-
eral years proved to be Stanolind
Oil and Gas Company’s Thompson
No. 1 in the Lucky Field.
After this company had tested
its 9300-foot show, which flowed
crude oil and salt water with very
little gas pressure for three days,
the company then cemented the
9300-foot sand and squeezed and
shot the 8900-foot sand. While
swabbing this well in, to the sur-
prise of the production men of
Stanolind as well as the crew, the
gas pressure started ' rising and
within a few minutes had reached
3,000 pounds, breaking the gauge.
Not knowing how much higher
the pressure would haVe gone, the
company ordered the well killed, got
a new 6,000-pound pressure gauge,
made some adjustments in the
Christmas tree, and on a re-test the
pressure went to 3,400 pounds, com-
ing in and making no salt water
and pure, clear distillate.
■The Christmas tree and pipe
through which the liquid flowed,
froze with snow and Ice, and it was
n-feessary to flow a steam bath to
relieve the situation,
Over night, however, it bpgan to
make a light, crude jo'il and as soon
engine: is from, the Railroad
Commission arrive, (m official pro-
Searchlights shooting skyward
during practice of anti-aircraft
units at Camp Hulen are pictured
above. This remarkable photo-
graph, taken at night, was fur-
nished to The Herald by the
Houston Chronicle.
Palacios Center
Contract Let To
Thomas Bates
Thomas Bates and Sons,
Houston contractors, were
awarded a $72,383 contract
for construction of U. S. O.
buildings with utilities and
appurtenances at Palacios, the
War Department announced
Saturday,
Construction is already un-
der way on the $80,000 center
in Bay City by the same com-
pany.
4,713 Bales Of
Cotton Ginned
By October 18
The census report shows that 4,-
713 bales of cotton were ginned in
Matagorda County from the crop of
1941 prior to October 18 as compar-
ed with 14,372 bales for the crop of
1940, Special Agent A. H. Wads-
worth announced.
Group To Help
Farmers Avoid
Year-End Move
Farmers expecting year-end dif
ficulties with excessive debts and
their land-tenure agreements have
been invited to a conference of the
Matagorda County farm debt ad-
justment committee to be held Fri
day morning at 9:30 o’clock in the
F. S. A. office in Lewis Building,
Bay City.
Joe A. Birkner, committee mem-
ber, stated that the group would
help hard-pressed farmers and
stockmen to work out agreements
with their landlords and creditors
to avoid any year-end move from
one farm to another.
The farm debt adjustment com-
mittee is sponsored by the Farm
Security Administration. F. S. A.
loans are available to small farm
ers and stockmen who cannot get
credit on reasonable terms from
other sources after taking advant
age of the services of the farm debt
adjustment committee.
Pluck Those Eagles 1
M. J. Early spent Sunday even-
ing in Houston visiting his sister,
Mrs. Thomas Wilson.
Dr. S. R. Sholars returned last
week-end from Houston where he
attended the American Dental As-
sociation Convention.
No Letters In Your
Mail Box? Here’s Reason
ommission arrive, an official p
'uction test will be piade,
Those mail boxes, all 1,400 of ’em, have been up for a
ong time but thus far not a single letter, not even a mail
order catalogue, has arrived.
Why? residents wonder. Well, so did we, whereupon a
telephone call was put through to Sam Selkirk, Bay City post-
master.
And here’s the situation: The Postoffice Department
at Washington requires a certain number of street lights
throughout the d^irery routes. Bay City does pot have.the
required number W street lights.
What’s being done about it? Mr. Selkirk and city
officials are now working on plans to add more lights. It
may take a little time, Mr. Selkirk explained, but we’ll get
,the lights—and delivery—yet.
More than 300 Matagorda Coun-
ty farmers and stockmen and about
forty-eight Future Farmers are ex-
pected at their annual meeting to-
day at LeTulle Park.
The program gets under way at
10 o’clock this morning and a big
barbecue will be held at noon. The
Bay City Chamber of Commerce
sponsors the meeting.
On the prorvam will be discus-
sions of breeding and feeding of
livestock, and the improvement and
promotion of the dairy-industry.
Lined up for speaking are Dr. R.
E. Lee of Edna, who will talk on
Hereford breeding; C. N. Sheperd-
son, head of the Dairy Division of
Texas A. & M. College, who will
talk on the possibilities of dairy im-
provement on the Texas Gulf Coast;
Claude McCann of Victoria who talk f
on the proposed, drainage,
R. H. Stanseil, director of activi-
ties at the Experiment Station at
Angleton, who will speak on pasture
improvement.
Other capable speakers will be on
hand, it has been announced.
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Brazoria Co.
Tax Valuation
Up 7 Million
Tax rolls for 1941 show a $7,000,-
000 increase in the value of Brazoria
County property.
The grand total valuations on the
rolls was $59,502,326 when approved
this week by the Commissioners
court and taken to Austin for state
approval.
There were assessed 907,425.34
acres of land at a value of $442,-
798,936. Lots transformed from use
for pasturage and crops to town-
ships were set up at $1,681,175. The
average value of land per acre is
$47,165.
Only 5422 horses and mules are
shown on the books with a value
of $71,850; there are 45,254 cattle
listed with a value of $455,160.
This compares to the 1940 records
■showing 733,0557.17 acres of land
valued at $35,096,000; $1,163,410
worth of town lots; 4580 horses and
mules at $59,980; 40,894 cattle at
! >411,555.—Galveston News.
Important Meeting
Of Council Is
Set Wednesday
A very inmportant meeting
the Coordinating Couneil -wi,
held Wednesday morning, Novem-
ber 12, R. C. Gusman, chairman, an-
nounced.
The secretary, Mrs. E. M, Carle-
ton, will get in touch with the mem-
bers Monday for reservations as
Tuesday is a holiday. Mr.' Gasman
said he would like for all mem-
bers to make a “double-effort” to
be present and not forget the time
the meeting.
The meeting is at 7:30 a. m. at
the Bay-Tex Hotel.
jNOPPINt
DAY!
TILL,
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Wilkinson, Bob. The Herald (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1941, newspaper, November 6, 1941; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth719610/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.