The Herald (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1942 Page: 4 of 8
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THE HERALD, BAY CITY, TEXAS
Thursday. July 30, 1942
Funeral Services
Held In Freeport For
Mrs. A. R. Harrison
Mrs. A. R. Harrison of Freeport
nnd Velasco, died at her homo in
Freeport this Morning nt 2 o’clock.
She is survived by her husband,
two sons, John and Gilmer Dick-
son; her mother and four brothers
of Bay City, nlso one granddaugh-
ter.
Funeral services will be held in
Freeport with burial in Houston.
Gas Co. Reports
12 New Customers
During Week
Bay City Gas Company reports
the following new customers during
the week:
J. C. Calvin, M. H. Christensen,
Lewis Ware, Ed Barlow, P. F. Gill,
J. W. Hackley, Mrs. George S. Abel,
Neal V. Fowler, D. S. Hickock, Mel-
vin Bowyer, Mrs. John A. Munch,
and E. J. Thormaehlen.
Rice Farmers Of
Co. Meet Monday;
Set Wages For Year
A number of Matagorda County
rice farmers met at the city hall in
Bay City Monday afternoon at 3:00
fl’clock to agree upon a number of
-prtMems confronting them this
year. It was agreed that the wage
scale for day labor would be $2.50
and board per day or $3.00 per day
and board yourself. Wagon and
team with driver would get $5.00
per day. Sack sewers, it was agreed,
would get 50 cents more than the
day laborer. All farmers would pay
50 cents and 60 cents per sack for
threshing.
It was understood that all who
were present agreed to abide by
£he above scale of prices until an
other similar meeting was called—
if it became necessary to call one.
Letters were mailed to all rice
farmers who were not present so
that no excuse could be offered in
case some one did not abide by the
set scale of prices. Jimmie K. Carr
was acting chairman and A. R. Mat-
thes, secretary.
Avenge Pearl Harborl
■ HERALD
I CLASSIFIED LOS I
Rat A: Two cents per word for
the first lni.'tion; one cent per
word for each ao&iional insertion.
Twenty-five cents minimum for
nil classified ads, which must be
In hy noon each Wednesday.
FOR SALE
Two wheel cattle and cotton trail-
er, practically new tires. A. W.
Hurta, Midfield, Texas.
FOR SALE
1940 Willys Coupe. Good Condi-
tion. J. Thompson, 2509 Fourth
Street Bay City.
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raminii
was"awarded a medal op
HONOR FOR DUTVJN SANTO
------------- VRIltlN,
MACHINE GUN AND RESUMED
FIRING UNTIL THE ENEMY
ABANDONED ITS TRENCHES
★ ★
WkcU you Htuf, With
WAR BONDS
★ ★
The mess kit is one of the most
important items in the Soldier's
equipment It consists generally of
a pan, a plastic canteen and cup, a
fork, knife and spoon, all in a can-
vas pack cover. The total cost runs
up to about $2.00.
Canteens and other items such as
handles on knives and forks, former-
ly made of aluminum, are now plas-
tic. Alloy has replaced stainless
steeL You can buy many of these
mess kits for our boys with your
purchases of War Bonds and Stamps.
Invest at least 10 percent of your
income in War Bonds or Stamps ev-
ery pay day and top the quota in
your county. U.S. Treasury Department
Bay City Volunteer
Fire Department
Needs Help
It is reported that the Bay City
volunteer fire department is getting
very little cooperation and very lit-
tle help. At a time like the present
is when the citizens and merchants
should give them whole hearted
support as well as help.
During war times it really is pos-
sible that a larger trained fire de
partment will be needed. It is urg-
ent that Bay City and all towns
give some immediate thought to in-
creasing the number of trained fire
fighters. Fred Friday has asked for
10 more regulars be added to the
30 members now serving the de-
partment and that at least 35 aux-
iliaries are needed. What is Bay
City going to do about this? You
can never tell. We MIGHT /ieed
these trained men.
★ ★
What 'Uou.fluif. With
WAR BONDS
★ ★
A scout car is a low-slung motor
car armored with heavy steel plate,
used to transport tfoops from one
point to another. It is of low sil-
houette and gives protection against
machine gun and other ground fire.
A scout car costs $5,000.
FOR SALE
12%-foot mahogany speed boat
in A-l condition. Write Henry Mc-
Connell or enquire at the Palacios
Beacon.
FOR SALE
pony for sale.
Child’s pony for sale. Good
health. Reasonable price. Dial 644
FOR RENT
Large bedroom, cool,
bath, private entrance,
Call 2794 after six p. m.
private
garage.
Fire In South End
Damages Home
Of Mike Smith
Another small five room house
caught fire Monday morning down
in South End of Bay City. It was
the residence of Mike Smith, color
ed man. Three rooms were damaged
considerably but the most damage
was done by those who tried to
save the furniture. Windows were
smashed in and household goods
thrown through them. It is a shame
that people get so excited during
these occasions they do more dam
age than good.
You and your neighbors joining
together can buy one of these vehi-
cles for the Ordnance Department
of our army with your purchase of
War Bonds. We need hundreds of
them and need them quickly. Put at
least ten percent of your wages or
income into War Bonds every pay
day and help your fellow Americans
top the War Bond Quota in your
county. £/. S. Treasury Department
What youRpuf, wuu
WAR BONDS
Calling All Baptists!
A fried chicki n basket-picnic at
Le Tulle Park, August 4, at 7:30
P. M. in honor of our beloved pos-
ter and family, Reverend and Mrs.
Paul W. Davis and daughter, Wen-
die Ann.
Bring your sugar for tea—
Fill your baskets with good
things to eat—
Bring cups, dishes, for your fam-
ily. Let’s give our pastor a good
send-off.
Let’s be there!
Billy Penny is now stationed at
Fort Sam Houston.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thorpe of
Blessing were shoppers here Satur-
day.
WASH
' and
GREASE
BOTH <£1 CA
ONLY,
This it a real bargain in i douHi
feature because both are aa good M
money can buy. Drive in today
or let pa call for and dejivir jreg
PALMER’S
SERVICE STATION
DIAL 2052 BAY CITY
Your Friendly
MAGNOLIA DEALER
X HOME TOWN MERCHANT
The 50-caliber Browning machine
gun is one of the most efficient short
range weapons used by U. S. Fight-
ing forces. It is effective at ranges
up to 2,000 yards and fires about
600 forty-five caliber bullets per
minute.
One of these guns costs about
$1,500, while a thirty-caliber ma-
chine gun costs approximately $600.
Our fighting forces need thousands
of these rapid-fire guns. Even a
small town or community can buy
many of them by uniting in the pur-
chase of War Bonds. At least ten
percent of your income in War
Bonds every pay day will do the
trick. u Treasury Department
Mrs. W. J. Phillips and Mrs. A1
Halcorn of Houston visited Mrs.
E. B. Reiman Saturday.
Laddie Lowe is in the ordinance
department and has left for the
northern part of the United States. I Times
J. S. Bracewell of Houston was
a Bay City business visitor Tues-
day.
KEEP YOUR
LETTERS TO THE
BOYS CHEERFUL
WASHINGTON, July 25.—Keep
your letters to American fighting
men cheerful!
That advice came Saturday from
the Red Cross, which said its work-
ers found that “too many times the
folks at home pour forth petty
problems in letters to their boys
who are away in camp or lighting
at the front.”
“The result in many eases," it
added, “is the demoralization of a
brave soldier."
The Red Cross cited cases of sold
iers’ getting wires saying, “Come
home, mother seriously ill," which
actually were sent by girls who
wanted to see them.
And more than one case of sui-
cide among service men, it said,
had been traced to u thoughtless
letter from a “girl friend” who
wrote the man she no longer cared
for him.
But these arc exceptions. Most
unwise letters, the Red Cross said,
are from persons who thoughtlessly
“seek comfort on small personal
problems from a soldier who him-
self needs the united support of his
family at home.”
It added:
“So the next time you write
Johnny Doughboy be cheerful, and
if you cannot be cheerful, be fact-
ual. A demoralizing letter, whether
intentional or not, can be as dam-
aging to Uncle Sam’s armed forces
as an enemy bullet.”
I Submachine Guns Get a Bathj
Marine Corps parachutists clean the barrels of their sub-machine,
guns with hot, soapy water after a day of target firing. Every Ma-
rlne receives training and practice in the firing and care of the
rifle, pistol, sub-machine gun, automatic rifle, machine gun,1
trench mortar, hand grenade and rifle grenade.
Rules On How To
Address Soldiers
Outside U. S. Given
FARM NOTES
City Engineer Russell and R. C.
Gusman were visitors in Houston
Friday.
Miss Lucille Hogg spent the
week-end with her family and
friends in Palacios.
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Barkley have
as their house guest, Mrs. E. J.
Barkley of Austin.
Sunday Mrs. J. R. Gusman was
honored on her 78th birthday with
a party in the home of Mrs. O. H.
Gusman, with all members of the
family present, including Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Ammon of Weimar,
Texas.
“It will do little good to turn out
huge quantities of tanks and guns
and shells unless they can be mov-
ed continuously from factory gates
to the ships that will take them
abroad. Nor will it help to gear as-
sembly lines to high speed unless
the flow of raw materials can be
maintained and the workers who
man the production lines can be
transported between thefr homes
and their work. . . today the rail-
roads are still the backbone of our
transportation system.”—New York
By F. O. MONTAGUE
The National Scrap Harvest is
coming, planned on a Nation-wide
scale, it is intended to produce a
strong and steady flow of scrap
metals from farms to factories.
“Get in the scrap,” drives started
months ago. Response was wide-
spread and prompt. Beyond doubt,
scrap metal collected on American
farms since the start of the salvage
campaign already has given the
Nazis and Nips a taste of what
they may expect. Maybe Brigadier-
General Doolittle’s bombers deliv-
ered some of it to Tokyo. Maybe
some of it helped to demonstrate
American strength to HirohitA’s
navy at Midway Island. Never doubt
that it is being put to work with
all possible speed. Despite tem-
porary Allied setbacks, every day
brings new proof that the Axis
powers face certain defeat. Allied
armies are growing in strength
Allied arms factories are rapidly
increasing production. Allied naval,
aerial, and military supremacy is
becoming apparent. Does that mean
that we can relax in our salvage
drive? It means just the opposite.
A single 2000-pound bomb con
tains 5500 pounds of scrap metal;
a 16-inch naval shell takes half a
ton. More supplies are needed to
attack than to defend—and arms
factories can’t boost their output
unless increasing quantities of ma-
terials reach their supply yards,
Is there any scrap metal left on
for the National Harvest of Scrap
Those farmers who would like to
have some of the new D. & P. L.
cottonseed for planting in 1943
would do well to get their orders in
to our D. & P. L. distributor for
this section, the Sugarland Indus-
tries, Sugarland, Texas. This infor-
mation comes to us from Scott,
Mississippi, originators of this cot-
ton. This is an unusual reminder
coming this early in the year but
all of us are doing unusual things
these days.
These showers and rains are dis-
couraging, especially to cotton
farmers and are ideal for leaf worm
to swarm in our cotton fields. Poi-
soning is in order and some poi-
soning is being done, others are
having trouble getting Calcium Ar-
senate for poisoning and many will
not be able to get it. But they will
be able to get Paris Green which
is a fine leaf worm poison if it is
used properly and many of our
farmers know how to use it with-
out injuring the cotton. It is recom-
mended by the Texas Experiment
Station to use it in a mixture of
Paris Green and a cheap grade of
flour, one pound of Paris Green to
five pounds of the flour. Let’s try
to save this cotton in any way we
can for our war effort needs both
the lint and the seed; the seed to
produce oil and cow feed; also the
lint for explosives.
There is still some complaint by
people in various parts of the Coun-
ty of dead animals that have died
from Antrax that have not been
burned by the owners. There is a
very definite law in Texas that
deals with people who have not
burned or refuse to burn all dead
animals on their places. All animal
carcases should be burned complete-
ly as a matter of good health to
man and beast and to very definite,
ly control the spread of the disease.
Let everybody build up in the
minds of our people the good sense
of burning all dead animals.
Miss Laura Louise Ferrell, who
has been attending business school
in Dallas, was home visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ferrell,
and brother, J. W., Jr., this week-
end.
Although the army postal service
has delivered millions of letters to
American soldiers throughout the
world, some mail intended for sol-
diers at overseas stations is being
delayed or returned to the sender
because of erroneous or insufficient
addresses.
The following instructions were
given to enable the families and
friends of soldiers to address their
letters so that they will be deliver-
ed promptly.
Mail addressed to army personnel
serving outside the continental lim-
its of the United States should
clearly show:
1. The grade, first name, middle
initial and last name of the person
addressed, followed by his army
serial number, if known.
Letter of Company
2. The letter or number of the
company or other similar organiza-
tion of which the addressee is a
member.
3. The designation of the regi-
ment or separate battalion, if any,
to which the company belongs.
4. The army post office number
in care of the appropriate post-
master. |
For example:
Private John J. Doe, (army
serial numbers)
Company B
212th Infantry
APO 801, % Postmaster
San Francisco, California.
The name and address of the
sender should be written in the
upper left corner of the envelope,
and sufficient space should be left
to allow for endorsements by for-
warding agencies if it is not pos-
sible to deliver the mail at the ad-
dress given.
It is stressed that the location of
an overseas station should not be
used, and there should be no refer-
ence in correspondence which might
associate the APO number with the
geographical location of the unit.
Within United States
Mail addressed to army personnel
at posts, camps or stations within
the continental limits of the United
States should show the same infor-
mation as prescribed for units out-
side the continental United States,
except that the post office address
of the post camp or station should
be used, preceded in appropriate
cases by the APO number if appli-
cable.
Mail addressed to army personnel
on maneuvers within the continen-
tal United States should show the
same information as prescribed as
outside the continental United
States. Prior to beginning of ma-
neuvers, the post office department,
with the concurrence of the army,
will designate the postmaster in
whose care mail for personnel in
volved will be addressed.
Soldiers have been advised to in-
form relatives and friends of the
correct method of addressing their
mail.
Adolph Says
He Didn’t Say
Any Such Thing
Current Hitler story:
Emperor of Japan: “When we
win this war I’m going to rule the
world.”
Mussolini: “No, you’re not—I am,
because the Lord said, ‘The meek
shall inherit the earth’.”
Hitler: “That’s a lie—I never
said any such thing.”
Mrs. Frank Hurley came home
Sunday from Dallas where she has
been attending fall market.
R. D. Williams, Frank Shaw Tay-
lor, and Carl Bachman spent the
first part of the week in Port Ar-
thur attending a Rotary meeting.
WAR BONDS
It's not a pleasant picture to con-
template, but War calls for ‘‘blood
and sweat and tears.” And the Army
Medical Corps, with its efficient
nurses and its volunteer Red Cross
“Angels of Mercy.” needs thousands
of surgical beds for field and base
hospitals on every front.
Local Representatives
Return From Houston
School Of Red Cross
Mrs. Betty McCroskey, county
chairman for Surgical Dressings,
under the Matngordu County Chap-
ter of the American Red Cross, and
Mrs. Charles Hudson have just re-
turned from attendance upon a
two-day course of training for in-
structors in the making of surgical
dressings. Instructors trained at
this class, with Brazoria, Galveston,
Austin, Harris nnd Matagorda
Counties'represented, would go to
their counties and institute classes
where instructors would be trained
to teach workers tho correct meth-
od of cutting, preparing, boxing
for shipment, and shipping their
respoctives quotas. Mrs. August H.
Sehuhmnchcr and Mrs. Edward S.
Boyles were the instructors for this
Houston class, and Mrs. McCroskey
stated that she felt it was a privi-
lege for Matagorda County to be
included in this first group.
Peak of production of surgical
dressings, Mrs. McCroskey stated,
would likely not be until October
or November, and that completed
quotas would be shipped out under
Sealed Orders.
A meeting will be called by Mrs.
McCroskey shortly to which will
come representatives from various
sections of Matagorda County to
be trained as instructors. This will "
be a most important meeting, and
plans carefully laid there for the
functioning of surgical dressing
committees will insure that the
County’s quota will be met. Date
of this meeting to be announced
later.
It is expected that a large number
of women over the county, who can-
not serve the Red Cross in other
capacities, will want to take this
training and so make their contri-
bution to the war program.
These beds cost approximately $22
each. They are the latest thing in
modem hospital beds, with elevating
springs. In some instances surgi-
cal cots are used in temporary field
hospitals and there is a folding bed
which may be used in ambulances.
Your purchase of War Bonds and
Stamps can buy many of these
beds for the Army. You'll sleep
better if you know our boys have
every hospital comfort. Buy War
Bonds every pay day. Invest ten
percent of your income.
U. S. Treasury Department
How Much Is A
Billion Dollars?
If you had started at the begin-
ning of the Christian era to spend
at the rate of $1000 a day, and kept
it up continuously, your total ex-
penditures to August 1, 1942, would
amount to about $709,163,000. To
reach the billion dollar total at this
rate, you would have to go on
spending $1000 per day for another
796 years, or until A. D. 2739.
American war commitments since
June 1940 amount to more than 228
billions ($228,811,233,542)—nearly
half again as much as the United
States spent from the day it was
founded until June 30, 1940, includ-
ing its five major wars: the war of
1812, the Mexican War, the Civil
War, the Spanish-American War
and the first World War.
“Nobody Comes To
Collect My Junk”
. . . she said.
............. .*
This lady is puzzled. Even a little annoyed, per*
haps. Like a good patriot, she has cleared the junk
out of her attic and basement—the scrap metal, the t
old rubber, and old rags. She knows that America
needs it. 1
“Why doesn’t someone come and get it?” she asks.1
Collecting junk is a difficult problem. The method J
differs in almost every community. The junkman 1
is busier than ever and can’t call on everyone.
But a determined woman is never licked. No sir I ,
She’ll inquire among her neighbors. Maybe she
will get in touch with her State salvage committee.
She’ll find out if there is a local salvage committeei
and if there isn’t she’ll help get one started. She
will find out what local charity is able to collect
scrap. If the junkman can’t come around she’ll
find a way to deliver junk to him instead. She’ll
find out what the county agent is doing if she lives
on a farm.
Shucks! She’s licked a lot harder problems tfiais1
this!
This advertising space has been donated to tho y
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
Washington, D, C.
THE HERALD
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