The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1944 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Thursday, January 27, 1944
Committees Make
Arrangements For
President’s Ball
Fifty Per Cent of
Proceeds to Go to
Gonzales Institution.
Arrangements have been com-
pleted in Rockport for the cele-
bration of President Roosevelt’s
birthday to be held there on Jan.
29th, with a benefit ball at the
Sacred Heart school, it was an-
nounced last week by Mrs. Mor-
gan C. Wheeler and Mrs. Crock-
ett McManus, co-chairmen of ar-
rangements for the celebration.
Richard Fox is a member of the
committee and others are likely
to be named to help carry out
the program.
The ball at the Sacred Heart
school will be open with a grand
march at 8:30 and dancing will
continue until 12:30. Refresh-
ments will be served and there
will be several entertainment
features.
Tickets to the ball went on
sale in Rockport Monday at $1.00
per couple. Fifty per cent of the
money will go to the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly-
sis and the other half will be sent
to the Gonzales Warm Springs
Foundation to aid in giving chil-
dren infantile paralysis treat-
ments.
Another benefit of interest at
the same time will be a dance at
the Triangle Inn. Misses Myrtle
Lee Bell and Billie Jean Sears
will be in charge of dancing
there and sell tickets to all danc-
ers at 50 cents each.
Seventeen Letter
Men on Pirate Squad
Seventeen first-stringers of the
Rockport Pirate football squad
received letters recentlv. Fifteen
other boys received awards for
their part as a scrimmage team,
Coach Morgan Wheeler stated.
Receiving letters were Co-Cap-
tains Bill McLead and Ottie Mun-
dine; backs, Roy Lassiter, Lester
Cole. Bernie DeForest, Joe John-
son Jr. Claude Roberts Jr.; Al-
va Freeman and Russell Rowe,
ends; James Bracht and John
Barber, tackles; Albert Hunt, El-
mer McLester, Dexter Wright,
Jackie Dietrich, guards; Harris
Pollard and David Herring, cen-
ters; and Norman McLead, man-
ager.
Lettermen who will not be
back because of graduation or
who are entering the armed ser-
vices include Co-captain Bill Mc-
Lead, Alva Freeman, Lester Cole,
Bernie DeForest, John Robert
Barber and Claude Roberts Jr.
Payments of Poll
Tax Reported Slow
A. R. Curry, tax collector for
Aransas county, reports that pay-
ment of poll taxes in that county
has totaled only 444 to date as
compared to 702 paid in 1943.
Mrs. Thelma Barber, deputy tax
collector, points out that only
three days remain to pay poll
taxes before the deadline Janu-
ary 31st. She also states that on
the home front this year politics
bid fair to be rather quiet, but in-
dications are that big things may
develop on a state and national
scale.
We Serve
Lunches
Sea Foods
Fried Chicken
Steaks and Short
Orders
OPEN MORNINGS FOR
BREAKFAST
Open 6:00 A. M.
Close 9:30 P. M.
WE ARE CLOSED
EVERY MONDAY.
Harry’s
Cafe
l
Woman’s Club Makes
Surgical Dressings
Members of the Ingleside Wo-
man’s club held their regular bu-
siness meeting in the Red Cross
room last week and following the
business session members made
surgical dressings.
At the business session, Mrs. A.
G. Florence reviewed the book,
“Sign Posts”, by Margaret Rob-
ertson. Mrs. J. R. Pennington
and Mrs. J. W. Shannon were
hostesses to 17 members and one
guest, Mrs. B. H. Shoopman.
The following are the new of-
ficers of the club: Mrs. R. L.
Hovey, president; Mrs. I. M.
Smith, vice-president; Mrs. H. E.
Fischer, recording secretary; Mrs.
J. H. Edens, corresponding sec-
retary; Mrs. A. A. Ericson, trea-
surer; Mrs. J. W. Shannon, par-
liamentarian; Mrs. Marvin Hun-
ter Jr., press reporter; Mrs. John
Newberry, auditor; Mrs. N. N.
Butler, historian; and Mrs. W. M.
Nelson, Mrs. W. M. Waddell, Miss
Zena Raleigh, Mrs. J. W. Shan-
non, and Mrs. C. W. Bowden are
members of the library board.
Inland Waters
Are Closed
State Game, Fish and Oyster
Commission Officer Wallace Las-
siter announced this week that it
is unlawful to catch or have in
possession any shrimp from the
inland salt waters of this state
during the period of time from
and between the 15th day of De-
cember and the first day of
March.
The inland waters also closed
from July 15to the August 31.
Cage Ambulance Service. Tele-
phone 65.
War Bond Sales
Drive Underway
The bond drive which opened
in Aransas county January 18th
with a parade led by the high
school band of Rockport, is un-
derway with a very good start,
according to reports from the
various committees that were or-
ganized to secure a quota- of
$113,000.
Mrs. Fred Booth, women’s
chairman of the drive, stated that
the organization was completed
and every person in the county
will be contacted and given an
opportunity to contribute. These
contacts will be made thru the
schools, house to house calls, and
through booths maintained in bu-
siness places at regular intervals.
Fred Bracht, general chairman
of the Aransas county drive,
stated that the quota is less for
the Fourth War Bond drive than
it was for the third, but it will be
harder to put across because of a
greater percentage of E bonds
that must be sold. Of the $113,-
000 quota set there must be at
least $45,000 in E bonds.
INGLESIDE CUBS TO
COLLECT WASTE PAPER
A waste paper drive was star-
ted in Ingleside Monday, Jan. 24,
and is to continue five weeks and
is being sponsored by the Ingle-
side Cub Scouts.
Citizens of that city are urged
to save their waste paper and
help in the drive. Please take
your paper to the Scout room
near the White Kitchen cafe, or
call a cub in your neighborhood
for it to be picked up. All paper
should be tied in bundles.
Columnar Sheets, 11x17, 22 or
24 columns, for sale Progress
office, phone 39.
INCREASE IN MARRIAGE
LICENSES FOR COUNTY
Marriage licenses issued to cou-
ples of San Patricio county at
the county clerks office in Sin-
ton were on the increase during
the week of January 10 to 15 in-
clusive, when nine couples appli-
ed for licenses.
License were issued to the fol-
lowing:
Gilberto Rendon and Trinidad
Pena.
Howard Evans Featherling and
Iona Ward.
Alonzo Walker and Erma Lee
Franklin.
Billy Joe Carver and Clarice
Sue Lair.
Palermo Vincent Anthony and
Jean White.
Jimmie Tom Jordan and Cira
Lavano.
ta G. Heatherly.
Domingo Dias and Philipa Per-
rez.
Francisco G. Zapata and Lillie
L. Castillo.
WITH A
WIZARD
BATTERY
Longer Life! - More Power!
Guaranteed from 18 to 30
Months.
$4-70 to $8.80
EXCHANGE PRICE
Western Auto
Associate Store
M. F. WILSON, Owner
LOCAL RECEIVES WORD
FROM SON IN HOSPITAL
E. A. Waiding of this city re-
ceived a letter, this week from his
son, Pvt. Curtiss Walding, who
has been in the Naval Hospital at
San Diego, Calif., since Nov. 24th,
stating that he expected to be re-
leased from the hospital soon.
■Pvt. Walding was injured in a
Masonic Notice
Stated Meeting Aransas
Lodge No. 1018, 1st and
3rd Fridays, 7:30 o'clock
At Lodge Hall, S. Commercial.
Visiting Brothers are cordially
invited to attend.
J. R. JUSTICE, W. M.
P. A. MARSH, Sec’y.
plane crash sometime in Novem-
ber, bat extent of his injuries are
not known to his parents.
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unnecessary detail.
CAGE FUNERAL HOME
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GENTRY REYNOLDS
Aransas Pass Phone 65 Taft Phone 72
STATEMENT OF
Cash Balances, Receipts and Disbursements
For the City of Aransas Pass, Texas, For December 1943
Fund
November Balance Receipts Disburs. Balance Fund Total
Building Permits
$ 7.00
Occupation Tax......
15.00
Rents................
135.00
' ' ) ;
Tax Collections ..
405.64
$ 585,68
$ 1,882.01
$
1,882.01
Water and Sewer....
...$12,632.66
$2,435.58
$ 952.41
$14,115.83
$
14,115.83
Street Maintenance........
-$ 1,823.54
$ 233.16
$ 760.23
$ 1,296.47
$
1,296.47
Seawall an&Bkwtr., cash....
...$31,334.48
$1,370.00
$ 17.45
$32,687.03
Government Bonds
...188,596.15
188,596.15
221,283.18
Sinking Funds:
1939 Refunding, cash......
...$ 3,022.06
$ 335.16
$ 969.92
$ 2,387.30
Government Bonds ...
... 2,000.00
2,000.00
4,387.30
1928 Sewer, cash..................
...$ 1,906.31
$ 338.13
$ 2,244.44
Government Bonds
... 2,500.00
2,500.00
$
4,744.44
1928 Street, cash...................
...$ 2,018.60
$ 179.09
$ 2,197.69
Government Bonds.........
... 2,000.00
2,000.00
$
4,197.69
Water Works Refd., cash_________
...$ 1,521.59
$ 161.16
$ 1,682.75
Government Bonds.........
... 1,000.00
1,000.00
$
2,682.75
Seawall and Bkwtr., cash.........
...$61,712.73
$1,622.93
$63,335.66
Government Bonds.........
.... 35,012.00
35,012.00
$
98,347.66
Water and Sewer Rev., cash...
....$ 1,823.10
$ 140.35
$ 1,682.75
?
1,682.75
Totals:
Sinking Funds, cash.................
...$72,004.39
$2,636.47
$1,110.27
$73,530.59
Government Bonds.........
... 42,512.00
42,512.00
116,042.59
Total Cash on Hand, December 31,1943............$123,511.93
Total Bonds on Hand, December 31,1943...... $231,108.15
Total Cash and Bonds on Hand Dec. 31,1943..$354,620.08
Certified as being correct, this 14th day of January, 1944.
(Seal) F. C. Bigelow, City Clerk.
The city tax rate is set at the maximum of $1.50 on the One Hundred Dollars valuation.
This tax of $1.50 is apportioned as follows: 35c for the General Operating expenses; 25c for
the General Upkeep, Repairs and Materials for Streets, Culverts and Drains; the remaining
90c of the tax rate is apportioned to retire the following outstanding bonded indebtedness:
1928 Sewer Bonds, 30c; 1928 Street Bonds, 15c; 1930 Water Works Refunding Bonds, 15c;
1939 Refunding Bonds, 30c.
With an assessed valuation of $1,053,451, and based on an estimated 75 per cent collec-
tion of taxes, this will place approximately $1,975.00 at the disposal of the Street Department
for all of its necessary services covering a period of one year.
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