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FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1942
THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
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Views expressed in this col-,
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and are not to be taken
the views or opinions of The Tribune.
No romance and fun to getting
out a weekly paper?
I remember when I used to write
all the news for the daily paper in
Eastland, then take off most of one
day each week to go over to Ran-
ger and help Rip Galloway get out
a small weekly he was issuing in
competition with the Ranger daily.
Never will I forget the night
when we put out an “extra” on
the second Dempsey-Tunney fight
—(the battle of the long count).
That afternoon, Rip had gone
through the “poster paper” by
hand—the extra was to be printed
on colored paper—and removed
all the yellow sheets as he didn’t
want to be called a “yellow journ-
alist.”
Three pages were set and
“made up” early; all that was
needed was the news of the fight.
We knew our friends over at the
daily also planned an extra and we
hoped against hope—with our lit-
tle press pitted against their big,
high-speed one—that we could
beat them on the street.
When the first few copies of
our paper had been run off, Gal-
loway grabbed them and headed
for the news stand. By that time,
another six or seven copies had
been printed, so I seized them and
started for the news stand, too.
I was hatless, coatless, tieless,
hair disheveled, face streaked with
printer’s ink. Somebody yelled,
“Boy, let me have one of those
papers”—and I sold all of them
before I could get to the stand.
Yes, sir, we beat the daily out.
Limericks were Woodrow Wil-
son’s favorite form of humor.
Here’s one that sounds new:
There was a young man of Fort
Worth,
Who was born on the day of his
birth.
He was married, some say,
On his wife’s wedding day,
And he died when he quitted the
earth.
An idea is all you need for suc-
cess.
This observer has known Victor
Cornelius quite a few years, begin-
ning away back when Cornelius
was painting signs in Eastland—
where he still lives. But now he’s
making around a thousand dollars
a month—and all because he
thought of constructing napkin-
holders with a slot in the side into
which can be slid a card telling
what’s at the picture show. Now
his service has spread to almost
every State in the Union; your col-
umnist saw his napkin-holders and
cards on restaurant and drug-store
counters, even in Hollywood.
Incidentally, I’ve been working
on an idea for years: rubber dish-
es. The advantage is that when
you drop one, it won’t break but
will bounce right back into your
hand. I had the thing just about
worked out—and then came the
rubber shortage.
Meridian School News
Matt Moore of the DeLeon Fress
Press is responsible for this:
My gas tank is gas-less,
My crankcase is oil-less,
I’m getting more drive-less each
day;
My wheels are all tire-less,
My radio’s wire-less-
They all have been taken away.
My driving’s suspended,
My walking’s beginded,
I don’t know just what war is fit
fer,
But they say it takes walking,
And not so much squawking,
To conquer the Hun they call Hit-
ler.
Not a very pleasant outlook but
it’s win the War or die. Your
property and your life would not
be worth anything to you if we
lose. Take a tip and invest in
Victory bonds and stamps. Buy
regularly!
Rain at last with a capitol R.
The green bugs have harvested the
grain crop and the corn crop not
to hot, if it wasn’t for the AAA
we could raise a cotton crop and
there will be a shortage of cotton
before it’s over at that. So plant
what cotton you are allowed and
feed on the balance. But be sure
and work your land in crops, you
can’t win by quiting so let’s fight.
We believe in prayer but not in
the kind that waits ’till the horse
is stole and then starts praying to
get it back, we like the fellow that
fights and prays. In other words
it’s time to fight and then pray.
Meridian State park and lake
opens it’s fishing May the 1st, we
will be seeing you the gang and
myself will be there only a skele-
ton crew will be at the plant open-
ing day. Concession house will
open this week-end for dancing.
Eggs lower and unsettled. Egg
cases scarce, in fact going to be a
large problem to the 'egg trade
during the next several weeks. If
you have any egg cases and not
using them be sure and bring them
in to your grocery store or produce
buyer. Cases needed badly.
We are using one of the largest
crews grading eggs we have ever
used and they are behind at that,
just keep the eggs rolling and we
will catch up some day. Sell your
eggs to our buyers as it gives em-
ployment to Bosque county peo-
ple and all of this money that
these employes make is spent in
Bosque county, remember we have
to put out considerable labor on
your eggs as we grade and pack
them to where where they will
bring the most money. It’s more
than just another case of eggs to
us and is a thing of beauty when
packed and graded properly. It
takes trained skilled labor and the
proper equipment to do this job.
Please do us all a favor by seeing
that we get your egg trade where
our trucks call and help all of us
and be sure that your eggs are
handled properly and enter the
trade in the shape that the most
benefit to all is got out of them.
Poultry Eggs and Cream Want-
ed and we need the Volume.
Our gang must be wonderful, draft
got China Neely or maybe Lenard
as you know him but he’s China to
all of us has been reclassified and
ordered out for his physical ex-
amination he’s our number four
and looks like he will be long gone
this month. This leaves us Dave
Neely and Roy Clark of our gang
left of last year, or course we have
been fortunate in being able to
get Marion Clark, Johnnie Baxter
and Lonnie Sanford, this with
Henry Davidson, Lee Erckison,
Davis and Stapp are getting the
job done but it’s a toughfie as
our skilled employes of years of
employment in our gang and they
can not be replaced this fall and
next turkey season will bring this
to a head. We are lucky in hav-
ing our plant equipped with mech-
anical devises of the latest to help
us in this deal but it still takes 8
trained men to do the job. Well
folks you will have help us all eat
turkey that’s all there is to it as
this can’t be picked up over night,
it takes several years to be able
to do these jobs.
Easter is over. It has rained.
We are in a war and it’s going to
be the hardest one we have ever
had to fight and the longest. So
it’s Smile and keep it up, work
hard and last but not least play
hard this last is very important.
Trade where our trucks call and
remember Meridian, Bosque Coun-
ty’s trading Center.
In Civil Service
The Senior Class regrets very
much to have Johnny Raines leave
our midst for a Civil Service Posi-
tion at San Antonio, but since life
is composed of such happenings
we wish him all the luck in the
world and a bright and happy fu-
ture in the Civil Service. Good
luck, Johnny^ and remember, you
are another representative of M.
H. S. who is taking up life’s re-
sponsibilities and at the same time
doing this country a good deed by
your defense work.
Seniors of M. H. S.
School Spotlight
Coach Westerfield was classed as
1-A for the army after a recent
examination by his draft board.
Too bad, Miss Rushing, don’t look
like you will get to keep your “hus-
band-to-be” long.
Letters from Mr. Ralph Meador
of the U. S. Navy have been re-
ceived by various students.
The Senior Play “Spring Fever”
went over in a big way. The
Seniors would like to express our
appreciation for the splendid co-
operation extended to us in the
effort of staging this play. Es-
pecially would we like to express __ _ ___
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Typhus Fever Serious
Typhus fever is fast developing
into a serious health menace in
Texas according to Dr. Geo. W.
Cox, State Health Officer, who to-
day issued an appeal for every
Texan to cooperate in the preven-
tion of this dread disease.
“Last year, the greatest number
of cases in the history of the state
were reported, when there was a
total of 733 cases of typhus fever
in Texas. While there were only
forty-six cases of typhus fever re-
ported during the first twelve
weeks of last year, during the
same period of this present year,
there have been 131 cases, “Dr.
Cox stated, “With the peak of this
disease occuring in August, if the
present trend is continued, we may
expect serious conditions resulting
from typhus by the end of sum-
mer.”
The type of typhus fever occur-
ring in Texas is known as endemic
or Brill’s disease, and is transmit-
ted to human beings from infected
rats, by means of the rat flea.
The eradication of rats greatly re-
duces this health hazard, and a
consistent program of rat poison-
ing, rat trapping, and rat proofing
will materially aid in the control
of typhus in Texas.
Dr. Cox stressed the fact that it
is the patriotic duty of every Tex-
an to cooperate in maintaining the
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and folklorist who is secretary and
editor of the Texas Folk Lore So-
ciety.
Announcing the approaching an-
nual meeting of the Society, to be
held in Denton, May 1 and 2, Mr.
Dobie said:
“As no other organization in
the Southwest, this group concerns
itself with tradition. And now
nations and institutions of the
world are reeling, collapsing and
the very ground under them ava-
lanching into the unknown.
“Under such conditions, is it
fatuous to regard tradition? It is
not. No matter how overturned
by revolution, people cannot cut
themselves off from the past or
from the soil of this earth. When
appraisers seek to define Staling
they go back to Peter the Great.
When, after Dec. 7, 1941 stunned
America found a word; it was a
paraphrased echo of the immortal
battle cry of remembering fighters
who charged across the San Jacin-
to Prairie yelling, ‘Remember the
Alamo, Remember Goliad!’ ”
Defense Stamps given away in
Meridian next Saturday afternoon
at Community Good Will Event.
TURNER DRUG CO.
44 Years of Service
town and to the various men in
civic life who so generously con-
tributed to the ads that helped to
make our programs.
The money cleared from this
play will go toward making a sen-
ior trip possible this year.
ELMO DAY
Age-12, Height-4 ft. 9 in., Hob-
by-Swimming, Weight-88 lbs., Am-
bition-Rancher, Favorite Sport-
Football, Favorite Food - Cake
(Chocolate).
GLENN HAROLD LANE
Age-14, Height-5 ft. 3 in.,
Weight-100 lbs., Hobby-Horseback
riding, Ambition—To be a ranch-
er, Favorite Sport-Horseback rid-
ing, Favorite Food-Chicken and
Dressing.
The Eighth Grade is expecting
everyone in their class to graduate
from elementary school to high
school this May.
Mr. Westerfield had to go to
meet Uncle at the draft board
Monday, so he wasn’t able to be at
school. We sure did miss you,
and we just hope that your “Uncle
Sam” doesn’t need you before
school is out.
JOHNNIE ALICE HANNA
Age-13, Heighth 5 ft., 1-inch,
Weight-96 lbs., Hobby—Sports,
Ambition—To be a nurse, Favorite
Sport—Basketball, Favorite Food
—Butterscotch Ice Cream.
EDNA JEAN NEYSTEL
Age-13, Weight-120, Height-5
ft. 1 in., Hobby—Collecting Photo-
graphs, Ambition-Housewife, Fa-
vorite Sport-Bicycle Riding, Fa-
vorite Food-Banna Nut Ice Cream.
School Lunch Menu.
Week ending April 18:
Monday: Deviled Eggs, Cream-
ed Spinach, Mashed Potatoes, W.
Wheat Drop Biscuits, Dried Fruit
Cake.
Tuesday: Meat Loaf, Black-
eye Peas, Fruit Salad, Whole
Wheat Muffins, Mock Banana Pud-
ding.
Wednesday: Salt Pork Dress-
ing, Green Beans, Apple, Carrot
and Raisin Salad, Rolled Oats Muf-
fins, Grape Fruit Juice.
Thursday: Noodles with Cheese
Sauce, English Peas with Carrots,
Wheat Cereal Biscuit, Stewed
Prunes, Sugar Cookies.
Friday: Meat and Vegetable
Filled Buns, Baked Sweet potato-
es with Butter, Raw Apple, Milk
Chocolate.
SHERIFF’S SALE
No. 34386-A
Choice thoughts from old Tom
Carlyle:
Man’s unhappiness comes of his
greatness; it is because there is an
infinite in him.
No man who has once heartily
and wholly laughed can be alto-
gether irreclaimably bad.
Wonder is the basis of worship;
the reign of wonder is perennial,
indestructible in man.
Rightly viewed, no meanest ob-
ject is insignificant; all objects are
as windows through which the phil-
osophic eye looks into Infinitude
itself.
Produce! Produce! Were it
but the pitifullest infinitesimal
fraction of a product, produce it,
in God’s name! ’Tis the utmost
thou hast in thee: out with it,
then. Whatsoever thy hand find-
eth to do, do it with thy whole
might. Work while it is called
Today; for the night cometh
wherein no man can work.
Jack Counts, Fort Worth, will
tell the story of a newspaper pub-
lished in Grapeville by a 14-year
old boy in the 1870-1880 era.
A Directory of Texas Wholesale
Firms, companion volume to the
Directory of Texas Manufacturers
has just been published by the
University of Texas Bureau of
Business Research, and is now ava-
ilable.
While 44 per cent of today’s
college students have never had a
course in mathematics, 53 per cent
say they generally like the study,
according to University of Texas
publication of a national poll of
student opinion.
Save Old Newspapers, Magazines,
Cartons, Boxes For War Effort
Saving paper probably never has
been more necessary than it is
now, for the country needs large
supplies for packaging war materi-
als—to wrap shells, protect air-
plane parts, wrap army supplies
and food sent abroad.
Louise Bryant, A. & M. College
Extension Service specialist in
home management, explains that
old newspapers, magazines, car-
tons and boxes are all used to
make pasteboard. She suggests
keeping papers in neat piles with
cartons and cardboard? boxes flat-
tened out. This waste paper can
be sold or given to some chari-
table organization to sell.
“You can save paper by using
it economically, too,” the special-
ist says. She suggests having sev-
eral articles wrapped together
when this is practical, using your
own bags or boxes for shopping or
carrying clothing to and from the
cleaners, taking a market basket
or a big cloth shopping bag to
the grocery store. Homemakers
easily can make a big shopping
bag of any clean strong washable
cloth, she says. The material
need not be new.
Small size paper bags should
be used over and over as^long
as they are clean.
Until the war emergency, smart
housewives substituted paper for
cloth wherever they could to save
washing. Now they need to help
the country by using fabrics,
glass or china instead of paper
napkins, paper towels, picnic plat-
es and cups. This means more
washing, of course, but in war
time everyone is willing to do a
little extra work, Miss Bryant says.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that by virtue of a certain Order
of Sale issued out of the District
Court of Tarrant County, Texas,
17th Judicial District, on March
23, A. D. 1942, in cause No. 34386-
A, G. Donald Gibbins, et al. v.
Susie Lightner Barnes, a Widow, I
did on the 27th day of March, A.
D. 1942,, levy upon the following
described land in Bosque County,
Texas, as the property of the above
named defendant, said property
being described as follows:
114 acres, a part of League No.
6, granted to Sarah Hensley by the
Government of Coahuila and Tex-
as on July 5th, 1835, and being
Block No. 14 B. C. Barry’s subdi-
vision of said League and describ
ed by metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at the N.W. corner of
said Block No. 14 and the S.W.
corner of W. W. Vinson’s tract;
Thence S. 30 E. with marked
line 951% vrs. to corner;
Thence N. 60 E. with the South
line of said Block No. 14, 677%
vrs. to its S. E. corner;
Thence N. 30 W. with the East
line of said Block No. 14, 951%
vrs. to its N. E. corner and the S.
E. corner of W. W. Vinson’s tract;
Thence S. 60 W. with Vinson’s
South line 677% vrs. to the place
of beginning. Said property be-
ing fully described in Vol. 6, page
86, of the Deed of Trust Records
of Bosque County, Texas.
And I will, on the 5th day of
May, A. D. 1942, same being the
first Tuesday in said month, be-
tween the hours of ten o’clock in
the forenoon and four o’clock in
the afternoon, offer said land for
sale at public vendue for cash to
the highest bidder, at and in front
of the Court House door of Bos
que County, Texas, in the town of
Meridian, Texas.
DAVE MONTGOMERY,
Sheriff of Bosque County, Texas.
To help relieve suspense—buy
bond and help defense.
Defense Stamps given away .
Meridian next Saturday afternoon | (Seal)
at Community Good Will Event.
the eradication of rats will pro-
mote the control of typhus among
our civilian population as well as
our armed forces.
Good Neighbors.
Texas high school youth may be
given a major role in the mainten-
ance of good neighbor relations
between the United States and
Mexico, according to plans being
worked out by the University of
Texas Interscholastic League and
the high schools of Mexico City.
A represeintative of Mexico
City schools, Senor M. Nuncio who
is manager of the Polytechnical
Institute, has been in Austin con-
ferring with Athletic Director
Rodney Kidd and other League of-
ficials in regard to possibility of
working out a home-and-home
schedule arrangement between
teams in Mexico City and Texas.
“We believe this will be one of
the greatest steps in setting up
a sound inter-American policy,”
Senor Nincio declared. “If the
youth of our two great countries
are brought into friendly contact,
then our whole national policy of
the future will look to a similarly
friendly trend.”
While in Texas, Senor Nincio
planned to confer with San Anto-
nio, Austin, Dallas and Houston
school officials.
University of Texas Summer
Session, opening June 4, will offer
450 courses the first term, and 335
the second and 25 in a special in-
tersession.
A One-day program outlining
Texas’ part in the war effort will
occupy the Texas Statistical Coun-
cil at a special meeting to be held
at the University of Texas, May 1.
Plans for the Texas Centennial
of Statehood will be discussed at
the annual meeting of the Texas
State Historical Association at the
University of Texas by Lieut. Col.
Paul Wakefield, executive secre-
tary for the Statehood Centennial
commission, April 10.
Seventy-one University of Texas
co-eds who have completed their
required period of physical train-
ing have recently signed up to con-
tinue their work in the interest of
fitness for war assignments.
Citation In Partition and
Distribution
THE STATE OF TEXAS
To the Sheriff or Any Constable
of Bosque County—Greeting:
WHEREAS, on the 21st day of
March, A. D. 1942 A. D. 1942
Frank D. Bergman, Oscar L.
Graham, Archie R. Graham, Mrs.
Gertha Chafen and husband,
Chafen, Mrs. Hilma Nickols, Mrs.
Willie Wilson and husband, Wil-
son, Mrs. Grace Plummer and hus-
band, Plummer, W. B. Helton, Joe
Helton, Lee Helton, Mrs. Effie
Goodrum and husband, Goodrum,
Jessie May Kelley, Mrs. Nell Jack-
son and husband, Jackson, heirs
of the estate of Chas. Tate, de-
ceased, filed a petition in the
Cause No. 2515, Estate of Chas.
Tate, deceased, in the County
Court of Bosque County, Texas,
for the partition and distribution
of said estate, and alleging that
Frank D. Bergman, Oscar L.
Graham, Archie R. Graham, Mrs.
Gertha Chafen, Mrs. Hilma Nick-
ols, Mrs. Willie Wilson, Mrs. Grace
Plummer, W. B. Helton, Joe
Helton, Lee Helton, Mrs. Effie
Goodrum, Jessie May Kelley and
Mrs. Nell Jackson are entitled to
a share or shares in said estate.
THEREFORE, You are hereby
commanded to summon and re-
quire the said unknown heirs of
Henry Tate, deceased, E. A.
Tweedy, Administrator, and all
persons interested in said estate,
to be and appear before said
County Court on the 4th day of
May, A. D. 1942, at a term of
said court to be held at the court
house of Bosque County in Meridi-
an, Texas, then and there to show
cause why said partition and dis-
tribution should be made.
HEREIN FAIL NOT, but have
you then and there before said
court on the said date aforemen-
tioned this writ, with your return
thereon, showing how you have
executed the same.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND
and the seal of said Court, at my
office in Meridian, Texas, this the
21st day of March, A. D. 1942.
O. A. HARDWICK, Clerk,
County Court,
Bosque County, Texas.
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Boxoffice opens at 7:20 and show starts at 7:30.
NEW ALDRICH PICTURE
IS CREDIT TO SERIES
With freckle-faced Jimmy Ly-
don in the title role, the third of
Paramount’s immensely popular
Aldrich Family pictures, “Henry
Aldrich for President,” will arrive
on Friday at the Capitol Theatre.
According to all reports the film
is a delightful bit of entertain-
ment, better even than its prede-
cessors, “What a Life” and “Life
With Henry,” which were univer-
sally acclaimed because of their
homely but uproarious comedy,
deft characterizations and rollick-
ing stories.
JUDY CANOVA
TAKES TO CAKE
IN MOVIE ROLE
Republic’s spritely comedienne,
Judy Canova, has found herself
in numerous incongruous settings
throughout her film career. In
“Scatterbrain” she was a movie
queen; in “Sis Hopkins” she went
to college, and in “Puddin’ Head”
she was a hillbilly rose trans-plant-
ed to the big city.
In “Sleepytime Gal,” which
opens Sunday at the Capitol Thea-
tre, she portrays an humble cake
decorator in a Miami hotel who
is transformed into a radio song-
bird by the chief of the bellhops.
Playing an important part in the
transformation are three chefs of
the screwball school, “Popado-
polis,” “Petrovitch” and “Bar-
zumium,” played respectively by
Billy Gilbert, Fritz Feld and Jay
Novello. This trio, according to
advance reports, collaborate with
Miss Canova in creating numer-
ous scenes that are masterpieces
in high comedy.
Tom Brown has the leading
male role, with Mildred Coles play-
ing opposite him in the ingenue
lead. Harold Huber plays a big
shot gambler, and Jimmy Ames
and Elisha Cook, Jr. join him on
the “heavy” side.
Ruth Terry portrays a gang-
ster’s moll, and Skinnay Ennis and
Jerry Lester, both of radio fame,
portray a pair of swing-bandsters.
The film was directed by Al Rog-
ell under Associate Producer Al-
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NEW COMEDY GIVES
BETTE DAVIS A CHANCE
TO GET HER MAN
Unlike the Canadian Mounties,
Bette Davis hardly ever gets her
man.
She makes a new start, though,
in her latest picture, “The Man
Who Comes To Dinner” which
opens Wednesday at the Capitol.
In her latest picture Bette, who
shares starring honors with Ann
Sheridan and Monty Woolley, at
last wins the man she has had her
heart set on all the time, marries
him and lives in story-book eternal
happiness.
That is a considerable depar-
ture for the screen’s first lady.
“Part of the price of being a
dramatic actress, I guess,” the
two-time Academy-award winner
declared the other day, “is that
you always seem to wind up with-
out the man you want.”
The first picture that brought
Bette critical plaudits was “Of
Human Bondage.” She was turn-
ed down hard by Leslie Howard
at the end of that picture. But
the audience had learned to hate
her so much that they cheered Les-
lie’s decision. Since that time
movie-goers have learned to sym-
pathize with her, but Bette still
was fated to go through last reels
without ever getting her man.
Even in her more recent com-
edy, “The Bride Came C.O.D.”
Bette does not win the man she
had intended to marry. “But the
real change comes in ‘The Man
Who Came To Dinner.’ I play a
pretty alert, up-to-the-minute
secretary and once I make up my
mind to get my man, I somehow
succeed. It certainly is refresh-
ing for a change. Wait till you
see me at the end, happy in Rich-
ard Travis’ embrace. At last
you’ll see a happy Bette Davis.”
MOTION PICTURES
ARE YOUR BEST
ENTERTAINMENT
bert J. Cohen. Art Arthur wrote
the screenplay from an original
story by Mauri Grashin and Robert
T. Shannon.
This Week’s Capitolgram:
BETTE DAVIS, ANN SHERIDAN, MONTY WOOLLEY STAR IN FILM VERSION OF BROADWAY
HIT “THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER.”
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