The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1951 Page: 5 of 8
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We want to announce that we have sold
our Grocery and Hardware Store to
Glenn and Becky Adler as of January 1,
1951. We will, however, retain and con-
tinue to operate "Adler's Dry Goods/'
We sincerely thank you all for the won-
derful patronage you have given us and
urge that you continue to shop at "Ad-
ler's" for fine foods, courteous service and
quality merchandise.
DUSTY AND DOROTHY HELM
TAX NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that I will be at the follow-
ing places to collect State and County Taxes and to
take assessments on the following dates:
KENDALIA, Monday, January 8,1951, all day.
LINDENDALE, Tuesday, January 9, 1951, A. M. only.
LUCKENBACH, Tuesday, January 9, 1951, noon only.
GRAPETOWN, Tuesday, January 9, 1951, P. M. only.
SISTERDALE, Wednesday, January 10, 1951, A. M.
only.
WARING, Wednesday, January 10, 1951, P. M. only.
COMFORT, Thursday and Friday, January 11 and 12,
all day.
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KENDALL COUNTY, TEXAS
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Thursday, Jan. 4, 1951
RESERVE QUOTA
ANNOUNCED
The Texas quota for the recall
to active duty of company grade
civilian component officers un-
der the program announced by
the Department of the Army
this week has been received by
tlie Texas Military District, Col.
C. M. Culp announced.
Of the Fourth Army total of
934 lieutenants and captains of
all services, Texas will furnish
43 male captains, 170 male lieu-
tenants, 5 WACs (captains or
lieutenants), 12 chaplains (cap-
tains or lieutenants) and 26
medical service corps officers of
company grade. The quota for
medical and dental officers has
not been allotted at this time.
Reporting dates are scheduled
for March 1951.
Under this new program Na-
tional Guard officers and mem-
bers of the active or inactive re-
serve in company grades may
volunteer. Part of the quota
will be filled from a reservoir of
officers who volunteered under
previous recall programs but
who have not been ordered to
duty.
The Army expects that the
bulk of these company grade of-
ficers in the arms and services
will enter duty voluntarily as a
patriotic duty in a time of na-
tional emergency, Col. Culp said.
Officers will be ordered to ac-
tive duty on the following pri-
ority basis:
Priority 1: Volunteers. <
Priority 2: Members of the
ORC commissioned from the
ROTC deferred from Selective
Service under an ROTC defer-
ment agreement and who have
had less than one year’s active
federal service as officers.
Priority 3: Members of the
ORC commissioned from the
ROTC who did not execute a
-deferment agreement and who
have less than one year’s active
federal service as officers, war-
rant officers or enlisted men.
Priority 4: Members of the
| Volunteer Reserve.
Priority 5: Members of di-
| visional troop program units of
the Organized Reserve.
The Army emphasized, how-
lever, that officers assigned to
divisional unots have been
placed in last priority and will
not be ordered into active duty
until efforts to fill quota from
; other sourrces have failed, and
with the provision that the to-
tal number of officers taken
from such units, including vol-
unteers and ROTC graduates,
will not materially impair the
’mobilization potentiality of the
.nit.
Officers with four or more de-
pendents will not be ordeded to
active service if they request
exemption because of hardship.
WAC officers with dependents
under 18 years of age will not be
ordered to active duty. How-
ever, officers who are drawing
pensions, disability allowances
or disability compensation from
the Government who have been
exempt in previous calls, may
be selected and ordered into ac-
tive service provided they are
otherwise qualified.
Insofar as possible, Army
stated, in selecting reserve of-
ficers to serve without their
consent first consideration will
be given to the selection of those
with the shortest active prior
overseas service and with the
least number of dependents.
-
As in previous calls, all of-
ficers selected will be ordered
to serve for a period of 21 con-
secutive months or such other
period as may be authorized by
law, unless sooner relieved. Un-
der present instructions they
will be given at least 30 days to
close out their personal affairs
unless they desire to report at
an earlier date.
It was pointed out by Army
officials that volunteering for
active duty does not impair re-
employment rights uider the Se-
lective Service Act of 1948.
However those officers who do
not 'object to being ordered to
duty but for reasons of their
own do not wish to volunteer
formally will be considered for
recall by the military district
headquarters.
FREEDOM MUST BE
EARNED
“We will cherish our rights
and they must be protected,”
said Representative James C.
Davis of Georgia recently. “We
all treasure our freedom and it
must be vigilantly guarded. But
these rights will not survive,
nor will this freedom long con-
tinue, unless those who enjoy
them daily perfom the tasks re-
quired for their protection and
preservation. They are not self-
perpetuating. They can be kept
and rightly belong to those who
have the courage, the industry,
and the determination to guard
and defend them.”
This is another way of say-
ing that the man who take free-
dom for granted, much as he
takes the air he breathes, is
ripe for slavery. Few of us
would willingly surrender any
basic liberty. Yet millions of
us, in the hope of personal gain
or advantage of same kind, seem
eager to give government and
those who represent govern-
ment more and more power,
more and more authority over
our lives and actions. And each
time government is given more
power, it must be taken from
the people. There is no other
place from which it can come.
That we have witnessed a
serious decline in the old Amer-
ican qualities of independence
and self-reliance no man can
satisfactorily deny. The ten-
dency to look to the state to
protect us from all manner of
human misfortunes and exigen-
cies has reached ominous pro-
portions. And if the state is
to be our guardian, we are the
wards of the state, subject to
its whims and dictates. After
all, he who pays the piper will
also call the tune.
Only those who work for and
actively defend freedom deserve
to have it.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Routh
and children and Mrs. Rosye
Saxon spent Tuesday in San
Antonio with the Otto Dukes.
Jones suggested to his wife
that they go over to the neigh-
bor’s house and watch the base-
ball game on television. For
three hours they watched the
game, then sat through a wrest-
ling match for another hour.
Finally Mrs. Jones said:
“Harry, don’t you think it’s
about time . . .”
“Say I” interuppted her hus-
band, “did you come over here
to jabber or to watch televi-
sion?”
SEVENTY
The sades of dusk that gather
In the twilight of one’s life
Are but the aftermath, the hush
That follows after strife
Wherein we sit and dream
awhile
In sade and pensive thought
Regretting much that’s life
undone
And more which came unsought.
Thus’ do we dread the coming
years
That end our youthful sway
Yet cannot see that twilight’s
calm
Is best of all the day.
For often then, past dust and
rain
Or blinding Summer’s glare
We dream of yet a fairer world
To lift us from despair.
Margaret S. Burton
Mrs. Burton had published a
book of Poetry when a young
girl and has published poetry
from time to time. She is the
daughter of George Seeley, one
of the old pioneers and one of
the founders of Galveston. Her
ambition was to live in the Hill
country and is now living in
Boerne with two grandsons. She
wrote on and off in the Galves-
ton News and Hubert Brown’s
weekly Saturday Review. It was
while writing these pieces for
the paper that the noted Larry
Cittenton, known as the Texas
ranchman Poet induced Mrs.
Burton, then a young girl to
send her poems to his publisher.
Five years ago she bought a
small farm at the edge of town.
A splendid idea has been
started in the Boeme grammar
school. A book shelfhas been
given to the fifth and eighth
grades as a Christmas present
by two brothers who are in those
grades. A brass plate with each
boy’s name has been placed on
each shelf and 50 books have al-
ready been donated by their
Grandmother. Each book has
an individual book plate which
is a miniature reproduction of a
larger sign that was designed
for their own home. Underneath
thefollowing inscription printed
on each plate donated by Peter
Curry and John Seeley Curry:
This idea is to encourage each
class of the school to try to com-
pete with each other until even-
tually enough books will be col-
lected to form an elementary
library for both Grammar and
High School. This project may
lead to a County Traveling Li-
brary.—The Highlander, Helotes
Texas.
See Henry Schrader for bath
room fixtures, pipes, fittings
and plumbing supploes.
Mrs. Barbetta Stahl
Mrs. Barbetta Stahl, 78 years,
of Wetmore, died at a local hos-
pital Dec. 27, 1950. Survivors:
sons, Elmer Stahl, Charles
Finck; daughters, Mrs. Viola
Reininger, Mrs. Lydia Haufler;
3 grandchildren, 4 great-grand-
children; brother, Carl Renz;
sisters, Mrs. Charles Moehrig,
Mrs. Christian Stahl. Services
Riebe Funeral Home, Saturday
2 p. m., Rev. Carl Schneider of-
ficiating. Interment at Wet-
more, Texas.—San Antonio Ex-
press.
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Toepper-
wein and Mr. and Mrs. Fritz
Toepperwein spent New Year’s
in Del Rio, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McCuth-
eon returned to Devine, Texas,
to resume their teaching after
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gammon
Davis and family over the holi-
days.
Mrs. Suburb had left her
watch with the jeweler for re-
pairs and a few days later went
downtown with her husband to
pick it up. Mr. Suburb waited
in the car while his wife enter-
ed the store. In a few minutes
she came out.
“Get your watch?” he asked.
“No,” she replied.
“Why not? Wasn’t it ready?”
“No, it wasn’t that,” replied
Mrs. Suburb, “but Mrs. Van
Swagger was in there buying
pearls, so I just inquired how
long it would take to clean a
diamond tiara and left.”
F. F. A. NEWS
Six F. F. A. Chapters in the
San Antonio area are going to
put on a weekly radio program
over KONO starting Saturday,
January 6, at 7:30 a? m. The
schools participating in these
programs are: Seguin, Burbank
(San Antonio) Northside (San
Antonio) East Central (San An-
tonio) Somerset and Boerne.
The first program will include
the teachers of the different
schools, then every week a dif-
ferent school will put on the pro-
gram. Boerne F. F. A. boys will
put their program on Feb. 10,
1951.
The Boerne F. F. A. boys are
looking forward to the livestock
show which wijl be held at the
Fair grounds, Jan. 12 and 13.
The boys have started washing
and trimming the animals for
the event. The following boys
will exhibit at the show: Calves,
J. W. Moore, Melvin Haag, Mar-
vil L. Pfeiffer, Harold Zoeller,
Harvey Haag, Roger Norris,
Tommy Phillips, Arley Sulten-
fuss and Russell Schneider.
Sheep: Charley Taylor, Fritz
Houston, M. J. Lehmann, Don-
ald Gourley, Billy Kirkpatrick,
LeRoy Katzer, Harold Zoeller,
Harvey Haag and Melvin Haag.
Swine: Marvil L. Pfeiffer and
Harold Zoeller. Several of the
boys also have capons on feed.
Try Texas Premium Quality
Beer, which is Pearl in bottles
or cans.
NURSES NEEDED
Austin, Tex., Dec. 20.—In
response to the Army’s urgent
call for nurses last week, Lt. Col.
Augusto L. Short, Fourth Ar-
my’s Chief Nnrse, said today
that the headquarters hoped to
be able to provide more than
200 from this area within the
next two months. An estimated
115 of these women will be Tex-
ans.
The nurse shortage, already
of grave concern to both mili-
tary and civilian medical lead-
ers, was brought into sharp fo-
cus last Friday when'Brig. Gen.
Paul I. Robinson, Army Medical
Service Chief of Personnel, told
a Washington pursing confer-
ence that 3,000 nurses must be
obtained at once for service with
the Army Nurse Corps.
“Army Nurse Corps procure-
ment has average 175 nurses
per month for the last four
months,” General Robinson told
the nursing officials. “This is
unusually high procurement—
but it is not enough. Without
your immediate assistance, I
hesitate to predict how we will
be able to provide nursing care
for the thousands of casualties
returned to the U. S.”
Colonel Short will attend a
conference in Washington Janu-
ary 5 to help outline plans for
long range procurement. The
American Nurses Assn will meet
in New York City to establish
state procurement quotas and
launch a nation-wide drive to fill
immediate Army Nurse Corps
requirements by February 1.
As to the number of nurses
Fourth Army hopes to get into
uniform with the next two
months, Colonel Short’gave the
following approximate figures:
Texas, 115; Louisiana, 50; Ok-
lahoma, 25 ;* Arkansas, 15; New
Mexico, 5.
Qualified women interested in
joining the Army Nurse Corps
may inquire at their local Army
and Air Force recruiting sta-
tions or contact Colonel Short
at Fourth Army Headquarters.
It was one of mother’s most
hectic days. Her small son, who
had been playing outside, came
in with his pants torn. “You go
right in, remove your pants,
and mend them yourself.”
Some time later, she went to
see how he was getting along.
The torn pants were lying on
the chair. The door to the cel-
lar, usually closed was open and
she called down loudly and stern-
ly: “Are you running around
down there without your pants
on?”
“No, Madam, I am reading
the gas meter.”
JUST LIKE A WOMAN
Small Betty was all eyes at
the fashionable church wed-
ding.
“Did the lady change her
mond?” she whispered to her
mother.
“Why no. What makes you
think so ?”
“ ’Cause she went up the aisle
with one man and came back
with another.”
Tell us the news.
OLDER BY FAR
Teacher: “Why daes a man’s
hair turn gray qpicker than his
mustache?”
Jimmy: “ ’Cause it had a 20-
year start.”
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NOTICE
Will be in Boerne Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Jan.
5-7, to assist clients with 1950 Income Tax Returns.
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Bobbie: “I’m just at the awk-
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Visitor: “And what do you
call the awkward age?”
Bobbie: “I’m too old to
and too young to swear.”
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Davis, Jack R. The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1951, newspaper, January 4, 1951; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth852236/m1/5/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.