Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1941 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday, July 3,1941
PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
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He Died Young
The horse and mule live SO years
And nothing know of wine and
beers.
The goat and sheep at 20 -die
And never taste of Scotch or Rye
The cow drinks water by the ton
And at 18 is mostly done.
The dog at 15 cashes in
Without the aid of rum or gin.
The cat in milk and water soaks
And then in 12 short years it
croaks.
The modest, sober, bone-dry Sien
Lays eggs for nogs, then dies at 10
All animals are strictly dry,
They sinless live and swiftly die.
But sinful, ginful, runi-soakcd men
Survive for three-score years and
ten.
And some of us
Keep drinkin
o, the mighty few,
till we’re 92.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Strainer plan
to spend the week-end in Kernville.
MONUMENTS
FOR MEMORIAL
NEEDS CONSULT
ICHAS. W.
ST0LZ&C0.
VICTORIA
1302 N. Main Phone 23S
PER CENT OF
THE TOTAL POPULA-
TION OF THE UNITED
STATES LIVES IN THE
71,961 COMMUNITIES
SERVED DIRECTLY
6V ONE OR MORE
RAILROADS.
U DOLLAR WILL TAKE THE AVERAOC
AMERICAN RAILROAD FASSENOER E7 MILES
TODAY, AS COMPARED WITH S2 MILES IN IWI.
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ASSOCIATION OT aiEUCM EANEOAOS M* II
Mrs. T. J. McFarland will leave
Saturday for Dallas, and after a
visit there with her daughter, Mrs.
Russell D. Hagin, she will go to
Marshall to visit her elder daugh-
ter, Mrs. Klennert and family. She
will also visit relatives in Terrell
and other places in that section of
the state.
CAMP HULEN
Highlights
By"BUCK”
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
Institute Of Gas
Technology To Be J
Established This Fall**
Troops of the 203rd C. A. (AA)
and 197th C. A. (AA) were com-
mended highly this week by Colonel
Ray E. Watson, 203rd commander,
for their work in the recent Louisi-
ana field maneuvers.
The two regiments returned Sun-
day from Louisiana where they took
part in maneuvers with Fifth Army
Corps troops, under the command
of Lieutenant General Walter
Krueger, commundant of the Third
Army, and. Major General Edmund
L, Daley, commander of the Fifth
Corps troops.
Colonel Watson commented on
the “excellency” of the work of the
officers and men in the two na-
tional guard regiments during the
maneuver period.
“The men and officers of both
regiments did their work well,” he
said. “They got into the spirit of
the maneuver and I think learned a
lot of valuable information, a)
though it was pretty rough at
times.”
On returning to camp the two
regiments learned that additional
CPX problems were on the schedule
for the remainder of July, begin-
Mr. W. V. Pittman and little njng next Tuesday.
daughter, Peggy Lou, of Chicago,
spent Sunday here visiting his fath-
er, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pittman. Mr.
W. V. is agent for Lykes Bros.
Steamship Company with his head-
quarters in Chicago and was in
route from here to New Orleans
and into Canada on business
How
electricity
now gives you -{
twice as much for your money
Twice at much snferlalnment. You and
your family can now enjoy your radio to
your heart’s content. ... Today it costs
you only half as much for electricity as it
did in the days ’way back when radio was
a static-screeching wonder,
Twice at much light. You can enjoy twice
as much light today as you did 10 or 15
years ago for the same money. Your bill
probably has not come down because you
are no doubt using many more electric
appliances than you used to.
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Twice as much help. Today there are
electric appliances that make short work
of the hardest household jobs. And this
story has a happy ending; with electric
rates cut about 50% you can take advan-
tage of these helpers at half what it would
have cost you 10 or 15 years ago.
Twice the convenience. Twice? Much
more than twice! You’ll agree there is no
convenience that gives you so much for so
little as electricity. Much of the credit for
this goes to the employees of your electric
company... the people whose constant aim
is to give you better service at lower cost
The Sign offjfe Good Service
ELECTRICITY j’ «s chfapi
IS CHEAP1
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With the exception of about three
days, the regiment will be with the
33rd Coast Artillery Brigade (anti-
aircraft) in the vicinity of Bastrop
and Brcnham, returning to Camp
Hulen about the twenty-fifth of the
month.
It will be a far wiser group of
men in the Missouri regiment, when
troops go to the field for the com-
ing exercises. A large percentage
of the men who went to Louisiana
during June were “green as grass,”
with approximately 500 of them se-
lective service trainees who joined
the organizations in January.
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“A sight for sore eyes” was the
way Houn’ Dawg troops described
Camp Hulen last Sunday afternoon,
Prairie Center Home
Demonstration Club
Two important questions stress-
ed by Miss Stewart at the Prairie
Center Home Demonstration Club,
June 19. were, “Is your water sup-
ply safe?” and “Do you have a
sanitary disposal of waste water?”
Having water piped in the house
saves the health as well as many
steps for the house wife,” said Miss
Stewart. We do not have to wait
until we can buy an expensive sink
u • 1 A Z r and cabinet to have water piped in
when the yerlow and black checked the house ag there are verPy^ex.
water tower of Camp Hulen broke
the horizon for soldiers returning
from the western Louisiana ma-
neuver area.
“It’s almost like getting back
home,” the men spoke, between digs
at chigger bites (red bugs in the
south), tick bites, mosquito bites,
poison ivy and oak, etc., etc.
Since June 10, when the first
contingent of the 203rd C. A. left
Camp Hulen, the men battled chig-
gers, mosquitoes, snakes and sleep'
less nights.
The regiments returned with only
a few casualties. Six men were left
in army hospitals with minor ill-
nesses. One man, Pvt. John Shep-
herd of G battery, 203rd C. A. was
bitten on the hand by a poisonous
snake. His condition was reported
not serious.
Pvt. Tony Jones of Headquarters
Battery was the first man in the
203rd to fall victim to the surgeon’s
knife. On June 14 just as the bat-
tery prepared to move into the
field from the Camp Claiborne
bivouac area, he was stricken with
appendicitis and underwent an op-
eration. However, he recovered
rapidly and accompanied the bat-
tery back to camp this week.
Subsequently two others under-
went similar operations.
Prior to the departure of troops
from Louisiana on the march back
to Hulen, men of the 203rd were
offered facilities of the Battery H,
204th C. A. (AA), home station
at Nachitoches, La.
At the end of the maneuver per-
iod, the regimental headquarters
and headquarters battery moved in-
to Natchitoches and, bivouaced in
the armory for the night and break-
fasted there the next morning.
It was a “break” for the soldiers.
They were not long in making
friends with the hospitable Nachi-
toches folk, many of whom were
out on their front porches early the
next morning to see the Houn'
pensive models on the market, or
they may even be made at home.
Miss Prshing, our Public Health
Nurse, gave a review of the work
she will be doing in and around Pa-
lacios.
Delicious refreshments were serv-
ed by the hostess, Mrs. C. P. Bat-
tersby, to nine club members and
four visitors. —Reporter.
Dawgs leave for Camp Hulen.
Camp Hulen is better known than
Camp Claiborne in Natchitoches, al-
though the latter is nearer and
many times the larger. The ma-
neuver area in that section for the
anti-aircraft units centered around
the historic Confederate fort on
bluff overlooking Red river.
Legend has it that a Yankee gun-
boat came up the river and shelled
the fort, but without success. Na-
tives there point to an ancient oak,
the top of which, they say, was shot
away by a shell from the boat.
The country is rich in history,
Nachitoches being the oldest city
in the Louisiana Purchase—founded
in 1714. and, therefore, afforded
many interesting sights for the Hu-
len troops.
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More than 100 new selective ser-
vice trainees were received this
last week by the 203rd C. A. The
new men are from scattered points
across the nation—from Texas,
Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa,
and Virginia.
It marked the first time “foreign
blood” has come into the regiment
since it was inducted into federal
service last September. Approxi-
mately 300 selectees from Missouri
OLIVIA
The regular meeting of the Com
munity was held at the school house
Friday night in the presence of a
very small crowd.
Mr. Walter Hodges and son,
Wayne, of Victoria, spent a few
days last week with her sister Mrs
C. J. Damstrom.
Ralph Swenson and a friend from
Bay City also Mrs. Bud Lawson of
Palacios visited their parents Sun-
day.
Katie Gene Sells returned Satur-
day from a vacation in Seguin with
her grandparents. Se was accom-
panied home by her older sister
Olive and her husband who spent
a few days here.
Texas, the state that is now re-
sponsible for the production of
forty-two percent of the natural gas
in our country, is in a strategic
position to profit from the new In-
stitute of Gas Technology which
will be established this fall in Chi-
cago under the direction of the Il-
linois Institute of Technology.
The urgent need of pure research
for the gas industry has been gen-
erally recognized and unquestioned
for some time. An expenditure of
one million dollars, in addition to
that necessary for buildings and
equipment for research on behalf
of the gas industry, will be involv-
ed in establishing the institute to
meet this need.
The administration of the new in-
stitute will be vested in a board
of trustees made up of representa-
tives of the Illinois Institute of
Technology and leading personages
in the gas industry. It is significant
that Frank C, Smith, president of
the Houston Natural Gas Corpora-
tion, has been named first chair-
man of the board. Mr. Smith orig-
inally was chairman of a research
group composed of gas industry and
gas equipment manufacturer execu-
tives who initiated the preliminary
surveys and work that later led to
the establishment of the institute.
Mr. Smith is also a director of
the Texas College of Arts and In-
dustries at Kingsville, Texas, where
through his efforts students have
had the privilege of obtaining a
basic knowledge of the natural gas
industry by means of an undergrad-
uate course offered during the past
several years.
The fundamental purpose of the
new Institute of Gas Technology
will be to train men for employment
in the gas industry. It will be a
graduate school with fellowships
open to college graduates only. Five
other purposes include: conducting
fundamental research; conducting
applied research; collecting and dis-
tributing scientific information per-
taining to gas research, develop-
ment, investigation and processes;
acting as a central organization to
stimulate gas research and coordi-
nating research in the industry.
WAYSIDE CLUB
Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Swenson, Mrs.
C. J. Damstrom and son, Emory,! Fiorjp 0n east bay.
and Mrs. Walter Hodges were even-j sumptuous supper was
The Wayside Club members en-
joyed their anual picnic last week
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
A most
spread to
ing callers at the C. E. Peterson’s which members and their families
home Wednesday evening. land a number of invited guests did
Mrs. Otto Peterson had the reg-' ample justice. Games and a short
ular meeting of Home Demonstra-
tion Club last Wednesday after-
noon.
Joyce Cavallin entertained nine
little girls last Tuesday in honor
of her cousins, Blanch and Sue Cav-
allin of Palacios who spent last
week here with their aunt, Mrs.
Mabel Peterson.
We are sorry to hear that Katie
Gene Sells is in the Victoria Hos-
pital. We hope they will find some-
thing to help her. She was having
severe spells with her sides.
Mrs. S. T. Swenson and Gertrude
program provided entertainment
and all were made happy that so
many were able to again participate
in this annual event.
nurse plans to start her Hygiene
class in Olivia July 2 at the W. M.
Sells home.
The Turtle Bay Home Demon-
stration Club will meet Wednesday,
July 9, at the home of Mrs. L. I.
Newsom, at the usual hour.
J. P. Ellis, of San Marcos, was
Damstrom spent Tuesday morning here the first of the week visiting
in Port Lavaca. | relatives and friends and looking
Miss St. Remain our county health! after business interests.
were received by the regiment, a
Missouri National Guard organiza-
tion—last January. The men arriv-
ed here from Camp Wallace, Texas,
replacement center.
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Niven, B. C. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1941, newspaper, July 3, 1941; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth726618/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.