Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1941 Page: 4 of 8
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n
teal Cowboys Will
Compete In Rodeo
At Slone’s Ranch
* Cowboys, not the drug-store nor
notion picture variety but real
honest-to-goodness cowboys who
have developed their ability to ride
and rope through actual every day
work, will exhibit their skill in open
competition at the annual Inde-
pendence Day rodeo to be held, at
the Tom Slone ranch Friday and
Sunday, July 4 and 6, according to
an announcement made by Tom
Slone, manager of the rodeo and
Bill Elder, commander of the Green-
wood Post, American Legion, under
whose auspices the event will be
held.
In addition to the usual bronc rid-
ing and bull riding events there
will be break-away roping contests,
a ladies’ flag race and a boys’ calf
roping and flag race. One of the
most thrilling and exciting events,
one in which almost anything can,
and usually does, happen is that
of the wild horse saddling and rid-
ing.
The events will be open to all con-
testants, Slone said. No men and
no horses will be barred. Several of
the contestants have already estab-
lished excellent record^ for them-
selves and many of the animals to
be used are noted for their ability
to make their riders extend them-
selves to the utmost to complete
(their rides, with frequent failures
,chalked up to the credit of the ani-
mals.
“It will be a good show,” Slone
said, “and we are sure every one
-will enjoy it .Arrangements have
been made for spectators to get eats
and drinks at the grounds.”
Planes on Deck
To Guard Cargo
Plan New Type of Freight
Vessel That Will Not
Need Convoy.
Fishin’ They Will Go
Mayor J. L. Deutseh will leave
Holiday for a week’s vacation in
‘company with his son, J. L. Deutseh
Jr., 'of Houston.
The two Joes, Senior and Junior,
-will travel to the site of Old In-
‘dianola where the mayor was born
for some fishing. They will live in
a trailer during the week they will
be gone and have made no plans
beyond that point. They will go
where ever fishing is reported good.
After a week of fishing and
camping Jtie Junior will leave for
Dallas where his wife is visiting
her people for another week and
PITTSBURGH.—A fleet of cargo
vessels, equipped ns miniature air-
craft carriers and designed to trails,
port planes across the seas without
convoy protection, has been project-
ed by a now ship-building concern
organized by a group of Pittsburgh
men.
Involving a "revolutionary" de-
parture from customary ship design,
the ships, according to plans, will
be equipped with a flight deck su-
perimposed on the main deck and
will have facilities for storing and
launching 22 dive-bombers or other
aircraft of similar size.
The firm—the Jacksonville Ship-
building corporation—is headed by
Walter A. Jones, who directed con-
struction of the Pennsylvania Tur*
pike. It has selected a site near
Jacksonville, Fla., for a huge ship-
yard, where the vessels will be built.
"These revolutionary cargo ves-
sels should be of immeasurable val-
uj in ocean transport of aircraft,"
Grant B. Shipley, vice chairman of
the corporation, said.
Need No Convoys.
"They will not need convoying
and will offer a solution to the prob-
lem of air and submarine block-
ades."
Plans call for each ship to carry
its own protective escort of three
planes, which will scout for subma-
rines and defend against any at-
tacks. Each vessel also will mount
at least a half dozen guns.
Shipley said the new craft will
not only carry planes, but also can
transport tanks, trucks and other
military equipment. He said they
would be of value in transporting
equipment to new U. S. bases and
stations in the Atlantic and Pacific.
The ships will be of 10,000-tons,
cargo type, and will be 500 feet long,
the vice chairman explained.
Engines are to be controlled from
the bridge to provide quick maneu-
verability.
"It will be possible for military
aircraft to be tlown from the fac-
tory and placed on board the ves-
sel in instant readiness to take off,"
Shipley said. ■
Speed Factor Stressed.
“They needn’t be dismantled and
crated, as they are now, a practice
that consumes much valuable time.
they will then return to Houston. ______________________ _______________
Joe Senior will return to Palacios j since they also have to be reassem-
an. the -end of the first week to re- bled at their destination."
assume :his duties as mayor.
He added that when a vessel
comes within 500 miles of land, the
planes can be brought up from the
main deck to the flight deck by ele-
vator, and can take off for a direct
Miss Gladys Benham, of Wash-
ington, D. C., is the guest of her
friend Miss Madeline Pershing., ^‘ghi'J’^eir destination.'
Miss Benham made the trip from Following the end of the emer-
tJie Nation s capitol to Texas via genCy the super-structure may be
the air route and is very enthus- ,emnved and the ships used for or-
iastic over this mode of travel. She dinary cargo purposes, he said,
is also enjoying Texas very much,] The boats, designed by the naval
especially the Gulf breeze and wide ‘ architect, Capt. V. Yourketvich, will
open spaces of the Lone Star State.
NOTICE!
1 would like to correspond
with someone in or near Pa-
lacios who needs a piano and
could pay as much as per
week. To such a person I have
a beautiful Wurlitzer Spinet
piano, latest model, that I
will sell at a great sacriifcc
in price rather than haul it
back to Houston. For full in-
formation as to where this
piano may be seen, write or
wire today M. Wolfe, Credit
Department, Brook Mays
Piano Co., 1522 Main Street,
Houston, Texas.
be Diesel-powered.
They will be constructed in the
company’s shipyards on a 1,300-acre
tract of land at Eastport, Fla., lo-
cated on an arm of the St. John's
river between Jacksonville and the
Atlantic ocean. The yard will cost
between $25,000,000 and $40,000,000.
Shanghai Bed Hides a
Secret Radio Station
SHANGHAI. — Japanese gen-
darmes, co-operating with French
police, raided a Chinese home in the
French concession and seized a ra-
dio transmitter believed to be the
Chungking government’s secret sta-
tion in Shanghai. The transmitter
was camouflaged as a bed/
The Japanese gendarmes arrest-
ed a Chinese couple.
C. Rose
CLOTHING — SHOES — HATS
LADIES KEEP COOL
PLAYSUITS 98c $1.95
BEACH JACKETS
PLAY OVERALLS
SHEER DRESSES
GOOD ASSORTMENT
98c
CIRLS AND WOMEN'S CRASH
SLACK SUITS
79c
98c
$1.98
SPECIAL
BETTER SLACK SUIT
$1.95 ro $4.95
—COME IN AND BROUSE AROUND—
C. Rose
98c
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PALACIfS BEACON. PALACIOS. TEXAS
Thursday. July 3. 1941
“THAT LITTLE GAME*
-Bright Prospects' 1
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viOAMT TO
LISTEN To
This all
night.-
SEttle \t
IN COURT.
NovN GET THIS,—
WOU AMO l EACH
HAME A FLUSH
TOO HAVE AH ACE
Fon. high cAm> and
So HAVE Ipoa
SEcoko HIGH CARD
Vou HAVE A KING
But i 'BEAT it hath
NVf VNILD'DEUCE WHICH
1 CALL AH ACE.
Therefore the-
Pot’S Mine.
No1- NoL Vou CANT
Call That "DEuce
Ah ace because
There coul.t>nt B>e
Two ACES IN A FloSH%-
VOU CAM CALL IT A King
But that Ties my
KihG, SO \ BEAT Too
with cay Queen for.
Third HIGH CARD.
The loudest
Talker wins.
ohe,Tu)o,
Three, - Go.
listen To This
Fronn a Roue
Booh under,
''deuces wild”.
Any straight or
Flush made
Without a deuce
or Joker beats
one made with
any of these
artificial fillers
Girls, Women
Will Attend
Short Courses
Plans arc being made for several
home demonstration club women
aand 4-H club girls to attend short
courses which will bo held at Texas
A & M. College from July 13 to
J0 Miss Alma Stewart, home dem-
onstration agent in Matagorda
County, announced.
The 4-H Club girls planning to go
are Doris Dodd, the Gold Star ghl
for Matagorda County from Van
Vieek; Oree Clements of Cedar
Lane, Lorraine Bunk of Wadsworth,
and Maxine Powers of Prairie Cen-
ter. They will be accompanied by
Miss Helen Sanders, sponsor of the
Prairie Center Club.
The following women plan to go:
Mrs. Joe Whiddon of Markham,
Mrs, Stella Pierce of Prairie Cen-
ter, Mrs. Fred R.vmnn of Wads-
worth. Mrs. G L. Holloway of Col-
legeport, Mrs. A. W. Estes of Bay
City, and Mrs. M. R. Powers of El
Mnton.
Mrs. B. F. Curry, chairman of
the county land use planning com-
mittee, plans to attend.
Naval Reserves
To Be Sent To
Trade Schools
Men between the ages of 17 and
:i(> may enlist in the Naval Reserve
and after receiving six weeks mili-
tary training be sent to a trade
school of their choice, according to
Chief Electrician’s Mate Ray H.
George, Recruiting Officer of Vic-
toria. Men who are prificient in
some useful trade thut the Navy
can use may enlist in the Naval
Reserve in the rate for which they
are qualified. These men are accept-
ed up to the age of 50.
Nuval Reserve men are placed on
active duty immediately after en-
listing hut they will be returned to
civil life after the present emer-
gency is past, says Ruy H. George.
Chief George, the Navy Recruit-
ing Officer from Victoria, is desir-
ous of meeting any men who are
interested in the Navy or the Naval
Reserve.
Forming characters! Whose? —
our own, or others?—Both. And in
that momentous fact lies the peril
and responsibility of our existence.
204th C. A. (AA)
Softball Team Wins
Bay City League
Climaxing a brilliant season’s
record, the 204th C. A. (AA) soft-
ball team defeated the 211th C. A.
(AA) club. 7 to 1, the past week to
capture the Bay City-Camp Hulen
Softball league championship.
The victory coupled with the de-
feat of the Alamo Lumber Co. team
gave the Louisiana Regiment sole
possession of first place with a won,
lost percentage of .875.
With Pvts. Joe Valenti and Larry
Labry showing the way the Bayou
State boys suffered only one loss
during the schedule. They wound up
the season with seven victories.
Labrj’s hurling was a feature of
the smooth functioning club all
year, and the title clinching game
found the soldier-pitcher at his best.
He scattered five hits while one
unearned ran was chalked up.
The Texaco club of Bay City trip-
ped the heretofore once-beaten
Alamo team, 11 to 3, Thursday
night. The loss left the lumbermen
in a three-way tie for second place
in the final standings with Texaco
and the 203rd Regiment teams
showing the same records.
The 106th Sep Bn finished in un-
disputed fifth place with a less than
500 percentage.
Former Editor Of
Bay City Herald Dies
Funeral services were held Fri-
day afternoon in Beeville for Ed C.
Ferris, 29, former editor of The
Herald in Bay City.
Mr. Ferris died Thursday morn-
ing. according to advices, following
a brief illness. He had contracted
pneumonia.
At the time of his death, Mr. Fer-
ris was a postal clerk in Beeville.
He was a former news editor and
reporter on Beeville, Alice, and Vic-
toria papers, as well as Herald edi-
tor here briefly in June and July
of 1930.
A native oi Woodstock, 111., Mr.
Ferris was a graduate of The
University of Texas Department
of Journalism. He was employed
by the Echo Publications at Alice
and worked for two years as news
editor of the Beeville Bee-Pica-
yune. He left Beeville in Aug-
ust, 1938, and worked on a news-
paper in Victoria before coming to
The Herald.
He returned to Beeville in 1939
when ho secured a civil service ap-
pointment as postal clerk.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Vera Margaret Ferris of Beeville;
his father, Fred T. Ferris of Wood-
stock, 111., and a brother.
Burial was in Glenwood Ceme-
tery in Beeville following services
at the First Methodist Church.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, the approach of In-
dependence Day this year will kin-
dle in all American hearts an ap
predation of the dark days that
preceded and followed July 4, 1776,
and
WHEREAS, those were the times
that tried the souls of men, even as
these times in another crisis in
American life, and
WHEREAS, these days are also
days of hope as the birthday of
American Independence draws near
at which time we should rededicate
ourselves to defend and perpetuate
those inalienable rights which found
true expression in the immortal
Declaration of Independence and
the subsequent history of our Na-
tion, and
WHEREAS, the President of the
United States of America in co-op-
eration with the Office of Civilian
Defense is to lead the Nation this
year in a grand rededication of
these great American principles on
a nation-wide radio broadcast on
July 4th at 3:00 p. m. Central
Standard Time at which time all
citizens will join him in repeating
the oath of allegiance to the Unit-
ed States,
NOW, THEREFOR, I, J. L.
Deutseh, Mayor of the City of Pa-
lacios, do hereby proclaim for this
city a period, of observance of this,
our Independence Day, and do call
40 Percent Of New
Roads Lie In South
Texa* C. of C. Area
SAN ANTONIO.—Out of 6,300
miles of the Texas highway system
designated by the War Department
as being of prime importance to
military movement, 40 per cent lies
in the 55-county region of the South
Texas Chamber of Commerce. This
is because military- centers, men and
equipment are concentrated in
Sooth Texas. Although funds avail-
able to the State Highway Depart-
ment are inadequate to complete
the system as prescribed by the
army, approximately $3,000,000 of
$4,500,000 allotted during a year’s
time for construction in South Tex-
as has been used in improving roads
carrying military designations.
These facts highlight a report
compiled, with aid of the depart-
ment by Sam Fore Jr. of Flores-
ville, chairman of the South Texas
Chamber’s highway bureau, for sub-
mission to the chamber’s annual
meeting June 25.
Noting that the highway depart-
ment has established a policy of
giving priority in allocation of
available funds to roads of military
importance, Fore pointed out that
these roads are equally important
to the traveling public. He added:
“In every case the army has se-
upon all citizens of the said city of >?cted jweU traveled arteries for
Palacios to join with the President
of the United States in a solemn
their designations. In improving
this system to meet with the needs
The Aircraft Industry
NEEDS TRAINED MEN
Complete Courses In—
• Aircraft Mechanics
0 Aircraft Welding
* Aircraft Construction
Under Supervision of Government
Licensed Mechanics
Call or write giving age and courses
in which you are interested. New
day and night classes start each
Monday. Plant open for inspection
Sundays. Terms on Tuition.
HOUSTON AERONAUTICAL
TRADE SCHOOL
1310-16 Clay Houston, Texas
commemoration of this most'sacred "f the War Department, the pub-
event in rededicating ourselves to;1,c ,s be,n<? benefited in every-day
the principles of Liberty, Justice
and Equality upon which our Na-
tion was founded, that we may find
a renewed faith in the blessings
which are ours because of the
struggle and sacrifice, the courage
and fortitude and the vision of those
who have made this Nation a i
nlity, and,
I FURTHER URGE AND RE-
QUEST, all loyal citizens of the
City of Palacios to cease their la-
bors at this time and to attend these
ceremonies at their nearest radio,
TO WHICH END, I have, there-
fore, set my hand this first day of
July, 1941, Anno Domino, and of
the Independence of the United
Statesvof America 165th, that all
citizens may redcdicate their loyalty
and reaffirm their support of the
principles of Democracy upon which
this Nation is founded,
J. L. DEUTSCH,
Mayor of the City of Palacios, Tex.
The spirit of a person’s life is
ever shedding Home power, just as
a flower is steadily bestowing fra-
grance upon the air.—T. S. King.
travel.1
A high percentage of the $6,500,-
000 of construction now in progress
is likewise being spent on roads of
military priority, said the report
sent to Executive Vice President
Ray Lceman of the regional cham-
ber.
Among many other roads
tioned Fore said:
“. . . On State Highway 44, con-
struction totaling $130,000 in a year
is being supplemented with $306,-
000 under way. Much traffic be-
tween Camp Hulen at Palacios and
the Valley, and between Laredo and
Corpus Christi, moves over this
road.”
Mr. and Mrs. Jim C. Green and
daughter who have been enjoying
a vacation and visiting relatives at
different places, came in Monday
to spend a few days with his moth-
er. Mrs. W. E. Green and family
before returning to their home at
Brownsville.
A word or a nod from the good,
has more weight than the eloquent
speeches of others.—Plutarch.
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Bell Calf Roping
Break-Away Tie-Down
Special Ladies’ and Boys’ Events
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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/m1/4/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.