Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 2 of 6
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F ALFJRRIAS FACTS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, l»iq
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can be raised, in an orderly manner least dis-
ruptive to the social and economic life of the-
nation, only by compulsory, selective con-
scription. Yet, due largely to political reasons
the conscription bill has floundered about in
.Congress for weeks, and the Army has been
growing only at the rate of 15,000 to 20,000
new recruits a month.
The two-ocean navy, under the best of con-
ditions, cannot be completed for five years.
And the best of conditions are not in sight
now. Some ship contracts have been signed,
but nothing seems to have been done to pro-
vide needed new faciities for making the ne-
cessary armor plate.
All authorities agree that a gigantic air
fleet, whatever the exact number of planes,
is absolutely necessary. But military plane
production has been increased comparatively
little. The Germans are supposed to be able
month.
August plane production in this country will
total about 895 ships, of which a considerable
proportion are non-military, or are built for
export.
Tanks are considered by many to be as vi-
tal as planes—it was German tanks which
F
ACTS FANCIE
IMT THE WISE
MAKE THE DISTINCTION
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PAGING ALL WI NTERS
While the changes In migra-
tory bird hunting regulations
were few, sportsmen are warned
to become familiar with the new
regulations and not t<> get them
confused. The greatest confusion
is likely to come from the shoot-
ing hours on ducks and doves.
Under the new federal regula-
tions. with which Texas laws
conform, duck hunting may now
start at sunrise and must end at
4 P. M. Dove hunters can start
shooting at sunrise, but must quit
at sunset.
Too, there is . nly one duck
season in Texas, it opening at
sunrise Nov. 2 and ending at 4 P.
M. Dec. 31, but there are two
dove seasons and some special
regulations. The dove season will
be from Sept. 1 t<> Oct. 31 in the
counties o f Yoakum, Terry.
Lynn, Garza, Kent, Stonewall,
Haskell, Throckmorton, Young,
Jack Wise, Denton, Collin, Hunt
and all counties north of their.,
and Parker, Tarant, Dallas,
Rockwell Kaufman, J< hnson,
Hopkins, Ellis, Delta and Frank-
lin counties. In the remainder of
the state the season runs from
Sept. 15. to Nov. 15. Below'the Tex-
as-Mexican Railway, however,
only four days of shooting each
week during the open season is
Tuesdays. Thurs-
' the “first grade". . . Get it?. . .
Among the city's new teachers
who have already visited this of-
fice are ROBERT FORT) band-
master, and BOB GIBLIN, ten-
nis coach. . . .
H L. JONES, one time native
of the "Land of Heart’s Delight”
and still a faithful reader of
Facts, has been in town for the
past week with a party of c<>w
buyers. ... He now calls Pine
i Ridge. Ind., home. . .
Looks as if LLOYD N. DYER,
athletic coach and teacher, in
town this week, will make an
inventor after all . . Camera
manufacturers two or three years
ago devised a way to make 16
| pictures out of an 8 exposure
1 roll of film. . . Now CHIEF has
fixed his camera s othat 32 pic-
tures can be taken instead of 8
. . . and that's something. . .
A new way to display canned
goods has been devised by F.
TREVINO. . . . Attractive small
shelves hanging from the ceiling
are sure to catch the eye. . . .
L. L. CHAMBERLAIN and JE-
SUS GONZALEZ looking over
the City Drug Store’s new $2Soo
soda fountain now being install-
ed to keep pace with the Increas-
ing number of soda imbibers. . .
And that’s "30” for this week. . .
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Miss Beulah Dague, former tea-
cher in the Falfurias schools, will
leave Friday for Miami, Arizona.
She will be accompanied by Miss
Sue Farr who will attend college
there.
Third place as best all-around newspaper in South |
Texas Press Convention contests of 1940. won the battles of Belgium and Flanders and
---'France after aircraft had done the prelimin-
THE HIGH COST OF PREPAREDNESS arv work of destroying factories and towns
A S THE United States News recently point- and military depots, and disorganizing and
ed out, this country seems to be copying 'terrorizing the civilian populations, We have
Great Britain in getting ready for possible not >’et Put in orders for big tanks, of the kind | aifowed-^on
war “The United States is getting tough with I the Germans employed so effectively, and we days. Saturdays and Sundays
** fell _AA . . . hnt thia nvoontinn dope not arm
Japan in one ocean,” says the News “It is have less than (00 light tanks on order,
promising to use force to keep Hitler from j' We are even moving slowly in producing
taking title to territory that may be his that basic arm—the rifle. Garrand rifle pro
through right of conquest in another ocean, duction runs around 500 a day, which is con-
It is denying Hitler access to investments in- isidered far under the desirable rate- And ex-
side the United States that are owned by peo- [perts have found serious faults in the Gar-
pies he has conquered. It is talking about
ways to let Britain have warships as well as
airplanes and guns that belong to the Ameri-
can Army and Navy. Any one of these ges-
tures, overnight can lead to trouble. Y'et the
National Government is proceeding in slow
motion to get set for the time when somebody,
somewhere, may call a bluff.”
There can be no doubt that the American
people, by an overwhelming majority, ap-
prove this government’s aggressive pro-Brit-
ish, anti-Axis policy. The government thus
simply reflects the thoughts and emotions of
its citizens, which is w’hat it is citizens, which
is what it is supposed to do. On the other hand,
rand’s design and operation—a problem which
is still being acrimoniously debated.
During June and July, Military contracts
signed totaled $1,250,000,000. That’s a big
sum—but the bulk of it was for Naval purpos-
es, under a program which has been under-
way for a considerable time. Only about $200,-
000,00*0 represents orders for the Army. So,
unless the unexpected happens, it will be a
long time before our defense amounts to much
except on paper.
All this does not mean that we are unable
to prepare against war—no nation on earth
but this exception does not apply
to the counties of Webb and Za-
pata.
The bag limit on doves, the ex-
ecutive secretary points out, has
been cut from fifteen to twelve,
| but remains at ten on ducks.
However, the limit on geese is
! now three istead of four, as it
was last year. The possession li-
mit is twenty on ducks and six
on geese.
We respectively suggest that
! maybe Mr. and Mrs. F. C.
SMITH’S prize bulldog is a vic-
tim of misdirected talent. . .
maybe his zeal could be turned
to more constructive activity. . .
At any rate, we’ll gamble that
the man of the house will agree
with us (privately of course) es-
pecially after rising early one
morning to find the “bosom” of
his pants completely chewed out
and said pup languishing nearby
waiting for someone to scratch
his ears ....
Here’s an item on FREDER-
it Is probably true that the American people I possesses our potential production. It simply I ICK HARVEY MILLER, age one
at large have no conception of 'the lethargy
with which the rearmament program is pro-
ceeding. They have read in their newspapers
that Congress has approved or is about to ap-
prove defense measures involving appropria-
illustrates the tremendous obstacles that arise
when it is necessary’ to change from a peace
economy to a war economy. The tax factor has
been a major difficulty—present laws make
it difficult and in some cases impossible for a
tions of close to $15,000,000,000. This money jeompany to expand sufficiently to meet pro
is to be turned into clouds of fighting planes, «ram needs. The legal factor is another, as
swarms of tanks, and a two-ocean fleet which William Knudsen of the Defense Commission,
will dwarf the naval might of any other pow- has pointed out. Red tape slows matters down,
er- All that makes an encouraging picture. and officials are in fear of doing things that
What is not encouraging is the hard fact that m*Kht later be construed a violation of the
government officials, and the distinguished i precise letter of the law. No one can be blam-
industrialists in charge of defense prepara- for this—that’s the way government norm-
tions, are experiencing a very difficult time a,IV works. The problem is to readjust the
in turning the dollars into arms. functioning of our government to emergency
According to the War Department, an army \ P* opfiredness needs in such a manner that
of 2,000,000 men is necessary to defend this when the crisis is over we win not find our-
nation’s interests in the Western Hemisphere. 'se,ves addled with dictatorship, and the lib-
The Department is certain that such an army erty we sought to preserve, destroyed.
Mrs. B. C. McMahan and son. Brooks, and Mrs. George Spark are
Craig, are visiting her parents, Mr. spending several days in Temple.
and Mrs. D. D. McAda in McAllen. 1 -
. • . • Mrs. Al Burdett left for Kerrville
Mrs. M. R. Herring of Raymond- Wednesday and expects to return
ville is the gTiest of her parents, Sunday. Bobby Burdett and Bobby
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wells. j Hassell will return with her.
County Judge J. M. Brooks, Mrs. | Miss Lena Mae Wells and Mrs. J.
D. Wells visited relatives in Robs-
town and Corpus Christ! last week-
end.
* • • •
Miss Marjorie Reagan was a
guest of Miss Marie Bennett Wed-
lesday and Thursday.
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year, and it sounds almost like
poetry. . . .Born in Kansas City,
Kansas, July 30 — first "dined
out” at Pensacola, Florida —
first thanks at New Orleans —
first salt water bath at Galves-
ton — first Christmas at Mexico
City — first went to Church in
Falfurias — first crawled at Ok-
lahoma City — first clapped
his hands at St. Louis — first
birthday at Kansas City, Miss-
ouri .....and there goes WALT
BARNES title as ambassador-at-
large.....
Everytime J. L. C. BEAMAN,
one-time editor of this publica-
tion comes to town, the boys na-
turally gather round to see tricks
or maybe get a loaded cigar or 2
—and the gentleman didn’t dis-
appoint his fans, when he stop-
ped here briefly one day this
week with the missus ... He and
TOM J^nes got together by com-
paring personal landmarks etc. .
Capt. J. A. BROOKS Is com-
piling a very complete picture li-
brary of his friends and at pre-
sent boasts four scrap books of
pictures. . . .
PAUL MINTER needs no in-
troduction here but when he left
Hebbronville Wednesday to pu’
on a program before the Folfur-
rias Rotary clui>, based on the
“professsional politician”, h e
certainly left plenty of food for
thought. . . .
And another Falfurias teach-
er has forsaken rugged indivi-
dualism tn start housekeeping . .
VERA NILSON of the sixth grade
is now Mrs. JOHN KAINER of
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