The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1940 Page: 4 of 8
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I RECORD
. L. Baldridge
BHfiD IN THE YEAR 1895
at Poatofflce, Clifton, Tex-
scond Class Mail Matter,
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sections of the state were
ate to receive rain over the
1; though Clifton was again
by the weather man.
Central Texas Fair Committee
1 it impossible or inconvenient
the remaining portion of the
list ready for publication in
e of the Record as was ex-
I, have asked for another week’s
with the assurance it will ap-
next issue following this one.
e state
terracing of farm lands over
at this time is quite notice-
proves that farmers can be
as well as other people in
times of progress. Many good
have been washed away and
; though it is yet time to ter-
and build up many of them that
badly damaged.
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It is the request of the registration
who wiM .be in charge of the
here Wednesday, October 16,
that every person who is subject to
register make it a point to be on hand
as early in the day as possible in or-
der that the work, which is expected
to be of a tedious and slow nature,
may be finished on schedule time.
Possibly no one should feel sorry
for Mr. Wendell Willkie, the GOP
candidate for President. He had one
of the best paying utility jobs known
to man before taking upon himself
the task of trying to win the office he
now so diligently seeks, and it is pos-
sible the same good job will be wait-
ing for him after the election on No-
vember 5.
.
On Columbus Day, October 12,
there will be special programs in the
Knights of Columbus homes through-
out the nation. The big program for
the Central Texas area will be held
at the Waco home of the organiza-
tion. The main address will be deliv-
ered by J. J. Kinane, State Deputy
of Austin, Texas, and will be broads
cast through all stations of the Texas
State Network, from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m.
The year 1940 is being observed as
the 500th anniversary of the inven-
tion of printing from movable type—
perhaps the greatest invention in
history. When Johannes Gutenberg,
skilled metal-worker of Mainz, Ger-
many, came upon the idea of replac-
ing his blocks of wood with type that
could be re-arranged and used over
and over again, his was a triumph of
mechanical ingenuity. It was more
than that—for printing, through these
five centuries, has contributed more
than any other function to the prog-
ress of civilization. It has replaced
ignorance with knowledge, forgetful-
ness with memory, superstition with
intelligence, mental nearsightedness
with cosmic vision.
FUTURE FARMER NEWS
Thirty Greenhands were initiated
into the Clifton Chapter of Future
Farmers of America Tuesday even-
ing. The Greenhand, or first degree,
is awarded to boys enrolled, in voca-
tional agriculture and have or pos-
sess facilities for a suitable super-
vised practice program. All candi-
dates must learn and recite the FFA
creed. Following the initiation exer-
cises, popcorn was served to all.
Milton and B. I. Dahl Jr. placed
their Hereford FFA calves in the
State Fair Junior Livestock Show,
each winning twenty dollars in pre-
miums. Both calves were purchased
from Parks Ranch, Clifton. Milton
placed several of his hog entries in
the money.
Once
During the first 10 days of the 1941
year, Chevrolet dealers sold at retail
a total of 26,262 new passenger and
commercial cars, it was announced in
Detroit Monday by William E. Holler,
Chevrolet general sales manager.
This total, added to the sales made
during the first 20 days of Septem-
ber, gives a net sales total for the
month of 47,363 units, a gain of 65.2
per cent over the same month last
year, Mr. Holler says.
Thanks to the State Highway
Commission for dividing to top the
new section of highway between Clif-
ton and Meridian at an early date,
and at their most recent meeting in
eluded it as one of their projects for
immediate letting. This will mean a
lot to the traveling public, as the dust
at present makes the driving unpleas-
ant and dangerous, and we are told
that the heavy traffic now passing
over it is damaging it in the present
state.
For some weeks the Record has
been without a correspondent at
Cranfills Gap, and the readers no
doubt have missed that feature of the
paper a lot With this issue the news
items will appear again, and the cor-
respondent and representative of the
Record at Cra^tls Gap will be Mrs.
M. C. Terry until further notice. Any
assistance rendered Mrs. Terry in the
way of turning jn news items, etc.,
will be appreciated both by her and
the publisher.
“SAD CYPRESS”
in a Waco cafe, so help us,
we saw a woman eating a piece of
lemon-cream pie and washing it down
with a bottle of beer. Once, so help us
again, we saw a man mix raw gin
with hard likker and drink it without
a chaser.
Bqt up till last night we hadn’t
seen anything yet.
Across the aisle from us at the
circus in Temple—what do you think ?
A lady was reading a book through-
out the whole performance!
Thinking that maybe there was
some trick to it, we watched her for
an hour—for an hour, that is, with
side glances between acts. But, we’re
telling you, there wasn’t any trick to
it. She was just interested in that
book. Thirty minutes and we couldn’t
stand it any longer, and so we leaned
over and asked what was the book?
We never heard of it before, but may-
be you have.
“Sad Cypress.”
We’re going to get that book. Any
volume that can take a person’s in-
terest away from a rip-snortin’ circus
performance such as we saw last
night must be the height of some-
thing or other in literature, fiction,
or maybe romance.
Have any of you ever read “Sad
Cypress”?—Commentator in Waco
Times-Herald.
HERE’S LIFE IN THE ARMY,
STEP BY STEP, AFTER
YOU ARE DRAFTED
Axmen started the task of cutting
down the large hackberry trees near
the new Federal Post Office building
here Wednesday morning, and now
with this obstractioM removed the
building shows up attractively and
the public a better view of
entire section feels
s removal of these
the
to be
NORWAY’S FATE
A gloomy indication of Europe’s
about-face on the path of civilization
is found in the announcement of the
formation of a Fascist state in Nor-
way with the native Nazi leader, Vid-
kin Quisling, as its head.
Norway’s new fuehrer is the same
Quisling who as a fifth columnist be-
trayed his country when German
forces were staging their lightning
military occupation of Norway. He is
a sordid symbol of the traitor type
to be found in so many countries. They
favor dictatorship even under Ger-
man domination. Quisling gains the
high but dubious post of chief flunky
for Hitler in Norway, while the price
for that personal advantage to one
man is paid by an entire country. So
long as Hitler stands, Norway, of
course, will be nothing more than a
puppet state of the Reich, and the
Norwegians will be servile to the
“superior race” of Nazis whom Hit-
ler leads in Germany.
Hardly two years ago, the Scandi-
navian group of nations drew the
eyes of the whole world because of
its leadership in liberal enlightened
civilization. Norway and Sweden, in
particular, were models to which the
American people pointed. The Scan-
dinavian nations had evolved such sat-
isfactory industrial labor relations
that the President sent a commission
to study the system employed. The
group of nations had made much more
progress in dealing with the adverse
force of world depression than had the
large democracies. Art, literature and
other culture were flourishing, when
such forms of civilization were being
exterminated in totalitarian despot-
isms. Liberty, individualism and oth-
er element of enlightened progress
were facts rather than theories in
countries like Norway.
The elevation to power of a man
of Quisling’s type means an end to
all such advance of civilization in
Norway. None of the forces of inter-
nal decay, such as prevailed in France, |
existed in Scandinavia. In this in-
stance, a highly civilized country is
by a barbaric
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You’re in the Army now.
You’ve registered on Oct. 16 and
your number was drawn in Washing-
ton. The local draft board has ruled
against deferring you. You’ve passed
the physical examination. You’ve
wound up your business affair* and
doubled your life insurance policies.
Okay, what happens after that? ,
Well, you won’t be sent to a train-
ing camp right off. You go to an in-
duction station.
An induction station is part of the
Army machinery for getting the right
man in the right place, as they didn’t
do during the World War. The 100
induction stations located throughout
the nation will perform for conscripts
what the recruiting stations do for
volunteers. On the same day you ar-
rive, you will be checked through the
induction station and shipped on to
a reception center.
It will take a couple of days to get
through there. You turn in your age,
birthplace, home, parents, etc. An
Army officer will interview you, give
you tests, try to determine your spe-
cial military qualifications. You take
out your government insurance and
get vaccinated and inoculated against
the catalogue of plagues. And you
get your first uniform.
While you are discovering what an
effect it has on the girls, you are
suddenly shipped off to camp.
You will be sent either to regular
Army units, National Guard units or
replacement centers. The National
Guard will live in large cantonments
or tent camps, or occasionally at reg-
ular Army posts. The regular Army
posts will be large cantonments or
the permanent posts. The replace-
ment centers will be camps.
You will live in a sort of tent city.
It will contain screened and floored
tents for sleeping quarters, kitchens
and mess halls, regimental hospitals,
water supply, walks, roads, electric-
ity, fire stations, motor repair shops,
telephones, postoffice, laundries, etc.
You will attend moving pictures in
tents, read magazines in the regi-
mental recreation buildings, belong to
a service club.
You can go on with your sport on
the regimental athletic teams. You
can hear the radio, read, write, play
games or meet your friends in the
recreation rooms on afternoons and
evenings after work. You have Sat-
urday afternoons and Sunday off and
bus lines will take you to neighbor-
ing towns if you want to go. ’
Your military training will be di-
vided into grade school, high school
and college phases.
For thirteen weeks you will march,
learn to use weapons and learn to
take care of yourself. The tactical
exercises of the platoon and company
will be drilled into you. You will be
gradually hardened until you can take
a pretty tough day.
After that you will pass on to bat-
talion training, and then to drill in
regimental exercises and maneuvers.
—Whitewright Sun.
MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER
A miscellaneous shower was given
Saturday afternoon, October 5, at the
home of Mrs. Anna Odegaard and
Mrs. A. C. Rockway honoring Miss
Emma Jo Canuteson of Corpus Chris-
ti who is to become the bride of Dr.
Byron Coward of that city October 13.
Co-hostesses were Mrs. James O’Shea,
Arnold Brandes, Hans Dahl, H. A.
Nelson, G. E. Jackson.
As the guests entered the porch
they were greeted by Mrs. O’Shea
and Mrs. Dahl who asked each to
register in a beautiful hand-painted
guest book at which Mrs. Raymond
Pederson presided.
Mrs. Brandes then invited them to
the punch table where Mrs. R. L.
Lane ana Miss Ruth Townley served
delicious fruit punch.
During the time the guests were
arriving Miss Alice Marie Nelson en-
tertained with several lovely piano
selections. x
Immediateley after the arrival of
the hqnoree, Mrs. O. G. Collins ac-
companied at the piano by Mrs. Ralph
Helm, played on the violin “O Promise
Me” and “Indian Love Call.” Miss
Joyce Maxine Hoff read “Romance.”
Just as Miss Hoff finished this clever
reading, a car horn was heard at the
front. Mrs. Rockway went to the
door and found “Dr.” Paul Dietiker
Jr. and his nurse, Miss Nancy Jo
Pederson. The doctor said he had
been called to examine the pulse and
teeth of Miss Canuteson. After an
examination he reported her pulse
as being 404 and suggested that she
see her dentist every day. He also
gave her a beautifully wrapped pack-
age which contained powders and he
advised the daily use of these, as
well as presenting her with many
other lovely packages from his med-
icine kit.
After the guests had helped Miss
Canuteson admire the many beauti-
ful and useful gifts, they departed
wishing for her much happiness in
her new home.
YOUTH AND HIS JOB
This is the time of year when the
high school graduate of the summer
season is looking askance at the glow-
LOOK
For $3.75 you can have your old
mattress renovated with a good new
covering at the Clifton Mattress Fac-
tory. L. L. Duke. 34-2tp
CLIFTON BAPTIST CHURCH
Many of our people attended the
Meridian Baptist Associational meet-
ing at Iredell Tuesday and Wednes-
day. Much interest was manifested
and the churches were very well rep-
resented. Many outstanding speakers
appeared on the program. We are now
in our new year and with the good
start we had last Sunday we should
go over the top this year. We had
our record attendance in Sunday
School with 194 present. We also had
our largest offering in the history of
the church. We appreciate the fine
send-off you gave our new teachers
and church officers. Let’s do it again
Sunday to let them know we mean it.
Don’t let them down.
Sunday School at 9:45. Training
Union at 6:30. Preaching at 11 and
7:30. Visitors are always welcome to
our services. Many new Baptists have
moved into our town—we give you a
cordial welcome to come and be with
us. “Remember the Sabbath Day and
keep it holy.”
Sponges, believe it
classed as animals.
One of the world’s richest copper
deposits lies under the city of New
York. It was placed there by man, in
the form of cables and wires.
NEW
FALL MERCHANDISE
ARRIVING DAILY
Our shelves are now completely filled and
overflowing with the very latest in patterns
and styles in all Departments.
Winter is apt to sneak in on us at any time.
Better be prepared.
NEW hats in both Ladies and Men’s Depts.
SEE
NEW shoes for the entire family,
NEW clothing for men and boys,
NEW blankets and comforters,
NEW dresses and coats,
NEW school clothing,
NEW piece goods.
FOR YOUR
ment orator spoke. He is having some
trouble finding the open arms of in-
dustry which were to receive him with
a warm welcome. One or two of the
young men have found it necessary
to ask father’s advice in matters per-
taining to going on to college or get-
ting a job.
In a current business man’s maga-
zine appeared an article written by
Oran Stephens, who faces facts in an
outspoken way, and gives a few sly
digs to the Youth Movement’s hue
and cry about the lack of opportuni-
ties for boys and girls in the world of
today.
His applications will not fit all
cases of course, but he stresses the
facts that a great many young people
are jobless today of their own ac
cord, and that some of the reasons
are:
“They are unwilling to begin at the
bottom and work up in traditional
American fashion, but insist upon
jobs which should be their objectives
after four or five years of experi-
ence.
“They seek work in a dilatory man-
ner, and this attitude tends to alien-
ate any prospective employer.
“They are too weak to stand on
their own feet and expect parents or
influential friends to get the job for
them, and believe too much in that
fantastic phrase ‘political pull.’
“They insist upon that unknown
quantity called ‘security.’
“They have a sense of defeatism
before they begin.
“They have not properly prepared
themselves for the jobs they seek
and, for that matter, in many in-
stances have not prepared themselves
for any job at all.
“Some of them have done far worse
than make no preparations at all, for
they do not want work- and have
adopted a strange and stifling theory
that they are the chosen people, and
should be cared for.”
The bright gleam of hope from
these facts is that all youths do not
claim membership in nor representa-
tion by nor allegiance to the types of
Youth Movement. These are like most
movements; they have the voice of
the minority and soon die of their
own inbreeding. When and if those
few who are so outspoken about the
predicament in which youth has found
itself, actually take the time to study
the situation of young people, they
will find that the points made by Mr.
Stephens do fit in a large number of
instances, and might serve as a plat-
form of constructive criticism on
which to build.—Kerrville Mountain
Sun.
HUB
BROADCASTS SATURD^
Radio followers of Southwest Con-
ing world of which the commence-* iference football will have their choice
The Louisiana government has
drained thousands of acres of marsh-
es, shallow lakes and ponds with a
view toward using the land for farm-
ing.
The Texas petroleum industry
alone now pays 45 per cent of all
state taxes, exclusive of sales taxes
such as the gasoline tax, which are
paid by the consumer.
of six broadcasts to listen to on Sat-
urday, five to be sponsored by the
Humble Oil & Refining Company and
one on a sustaining basis.
First in point of time is the Hum-
ble Company’s- broadcast account of
the invasion by S.M.U.’s Mustangs of
the lair of Pittsburgh’s Panthers. The
Humble Company is sending announ-
cers Dan Riss and Dave Youn^ to
Pittsburgh to broadcast the gabie to
Texas listeners. Tune in on Stations
KRLD, Dallas, and KTRH, Houston.
The broadcast begins at 12:50 p. m. I
Two more Humble broadcasts take
to the air at 2:20 p. m. From the Cot-
ton Bowl in Dallas, the company will
broadcast a description of the annual
State Fair game between the Univer-
sity of Texas’ undefeated Longhorns
and the Sooners of the University of
Oklahoma. Cy Leland will handle
play-by-play on this broadcast, Tee
Casper the color. It can be heard over
radio stations KGKO, Fort Worth;
KXYZ, Houston; KTSA, San Antonio,
KRIS, Corpus Christi; KRGV, Wes-
laco; KFDM, Beaumont, and KNOW,
Austin.
The other 2:20 p!- m. broadcast is
the conference game between Baylor
and Arkansas. Ves Box is making the
trip to Fayetteville to broadcast the
play-by-play description of this game
to Texas listeners, with Tom Jacobs
spelling him at the microphone. Tune
in on stations WRR, Dallas; WACO,
Waco; KTEM, Temple; and KABC,
San Antonio.
At 4:20 p. m., Texas A. & M. par-
tisans can tune'in on WFAA-WBAP,
Dallas-Fort Worth; KPRC, Houston;
or WOAI, San Antnio, for the Hum-
ble Company’s broadcast of the im-
portant intersectional game between
the Aggies and the University of Cal-
ifornia at Los Angeles, which will be
played in Los Angeled huge Memorial
Coliseum.
Kern Tips has been sent to Cali-
fornia by the Humble Company to
relay this game back to Texas lis-
teners.
Saturday night, immediately fol-
lowing the President’s address sched-
uled from 8 to 8:30 p. m., the Hum-
ble Company will broadcast a descrip-
tion of the game between Rice Insti-
tute and the University of Louisiana.
Play-by-play on this game will be
handled by Hal Thompson, assisted by
Pat Flaherty on color. Tune in on
KPRC, Houston; WOAI, San Antort®:
WFAA-WBAP, Dallas-Fort Worth.
The Humble Company expressed re-
gret that a policy of the University of
North Carolina not to permit com-
mercial sponsorship of broadcasts of
its home football games made it im«k
possible for the Company also tS**
bring the T.C.U.-North Carolina game
back to Texas. It did release, however,
certain radio stataiona so that Texas
T.C.U. fans could listen to a sustain-
ing broadcast of the game over one
of the national chains.
Texas produces $1,500,000,000 worth
of raw materials annually but pro-
duces only $2,500,000 worth of man-
ufactured goods.
WEEK-END FOOD VALUES
A nnlpQ York imperial
‘*rr**'“ Fine f°r Cooking or Baking
doz.15c
Grapefruit BSS ss£dless,aeh 5c
Spuds Sjh,° 10 Lea”rh 25c
SyrUP Kina'cotton
ga
I. 53c
Flnur Silver Leaf AO Lb.
r illUI Fully guaranteed *’0 sack
$1.29
Flour 48 £k $1
.49 ,
Crackers a^e&„
i
1 Lb.
* Pkg
15c
Grapejuice q
1
[t. 39c l
Chuck Roast T!SXd
lb.
14r !
WINTER NEEDS
Ham Hocks
Whole
Cheese
Kraft
jVeiveeta or American
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1940, newspaper, October 11, 1940; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth779072/m1/4/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.