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REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941
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WOODSBORO NEWS
Woodsboro Star
Sets New Records
Woodsboro, Texas.—H. B. Pen-
dleton, local high schpol weight
star, made it seven consecutive
first place wins Saturday at the
regional meet held in Kingsville,
when he slung the discus 141 feet,
six inches, and heaved the shot-
put 53 feet even. The local ath-
letic star set a new regional rec-
ord in both events. He' was ac-
companied to the meet by Coach
Woodroe Petty.
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Battalion Elects
Staff Officers
Woodsboro, Texas—At a busi-
ness meeting of the twenty-first
battalion of the Texas Defense
Guards, held here last week at the
Civic Club, the following men
were elected to serve as battalion
staff officers, with the rank of
first lieutenant: A. A. Cooper,
communication, Refugio; Dr. J. H.
Finn, medical, Refugio; F. T. Bur-
gess, supply, Woodsboro; the Rev.
A. G. Johnson, chaplain, Woo'ds-
boro. Major A. D. Rooke of this
city addressed the group at this
meeting.
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Footballers Start
Spring Training
Woodsboro, Texas.—The spring
training for local Eagle football
squad was started here last week.
According to officials, approxi-
mately 30 local lads reported for
the spring drills. Graduation will
cut deeply into the ranks of Coach
Petty’s football team, but it is
expected that by the time the
next season rolls around, Woods-
boro will have a fast and snappy
eleven.
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Ex-Army Man
Holding Revival
Woodsboro, Texas.—A revival
meeting was begun at the local
Methodist Church Sunday. Chap-
lain A. F. Vaughn of the United
States Army, retired, is conduct-
ing the meeting, with the Rev.
L. S. Dubberly in charge of the
song services. Large crowds have
been attending the services, and
the congregation of the church ex-
tends a cordial invitation to the
public to meet with them in these
services. The meeting will close
Sunday, April 27.
Guard Companies
Have Full Quotas
Woodsboro, Texas.— According
to officials of the twenty-first
battalion, Texas Defense Guards,
the two Woodsboro companies, A
and B, have enlisted their full
quota of men and all “paper
work” in connection with the
companies concerning enlistment
is expected to be . completed by
the end of the week. The maxi-
!mum enlisted strength for a com-
pany in the guard is 75 men, with
two local companies each listed
with that many “enlistees.”
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Courtesy in love in trifles, and
where love is not, though its
counterfeits may abound, cour-
tesy itself is not—George Jack-
son.
Constable Making
War on Stray Dogs
Woodsboro, Texas.—Stray dogs
in Woodsboro were almost “nil”
early this week as Constable D.
C. Harsdorff officially started a
“clean-up” campaign on the ani-
mals, following the recent pass-
ing of a “dog ordinance” by the
city commission. According to
Constable Harsdorff, the law that
has the backing of the city and
co-operation of all local service
clubs, will be strictly enforced.
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Pumper Team
Gets First Place
Bayside Soldier
Awarded Medal for
Act of Heroism
Corporal Paul W. Stone, son of
C. H. Stone of Bayside, was re-
cently awarded a medal for hero-
ism. The notice, with a picture
of Corporal- Stone, appeared in
the U. S. Recruiting News, was
as follows:
“For hei’oism displayed near
Haleiwa, Oahu, Territory of Ha-
waii, on December 26, 1937. When
a civilian swimmer became ex-
hausted 150 yards off shore and
called for help at about 11 a. m.,
December 26, 1937, Corporal
Stone, with utter disregard for
his own safety, immediately swam
to his rescue in squally weather
in a rough and choppy sea,
against the tide, the ocean cur-
rent and the river emptying in
the sea, and reached the drown-
ing man just as he was on the
point of sinking. Corporal Stone
assisted the semi-conscious man to
Bayside News
Mrs. S. J. Stephens, Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Sexton of
Refugio were Bayside business
visitors Friday.
T. W. Willoughby of Taft vis-
ited in Bayside Wednesday.
Tax Assessor F. F. English of
Refugio was a Bayside business
visitor Friday.
Woodsboro, Texas.—Chief A. F.
Sommer of the local fire depart-
ment announced Monday that the
pumper team representing Woods- j shore and there administered ar-
boro at the district firemen’s con- j tificial respiration, thereby saving
vention held in Orange Grove on i his life.”
Suday captured first place in that
event at the races with the fast
time of 20.1 seconds. The local
Paris Rule team placed third with
the time of 17.3 seconds. Approx-
imately 20 Wobdsboro citizens
attended the meet.
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In and Around
Woodsboro
M. G. Spencer of Victoria was
a business visitor in Woodsboro
late last week.
Mrs. Brett Hargrove and Mrs.
P. R. Coster visited in Victoria
last week.
Rex Thomas attended the re-
gional interscholastic meet held
in Kingsville Saturday.
Miss Marion Johnson was a
] Corpus Christi visitor Saturday.
Approximately 20 local firemen
and their wives and families at-
tended the firemen’s district meet
in Orange Grove Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Scott of
Corpus Christi were visitors in
Woodsboro Friday evening.
J. H. Adams made a business
trip to Sinton Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Webb were
visitors in Waco last week.
Miss Gordon Warren visited in
Houston last week.
Walter Richter of Iago, Texas,
was in town shaking hands with
friends last week.
Hugo Geistmann was a business
Corporal Stone is a member of
the sixth pursuit squadron, now
stationed at Elmdorf Field, An-
chorage, Alaska. He has been
in the service 12 years.
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Your Health
S. B. Russell left Thursday to
spend a few weeks with his
daughter and family at Fort
Worth.
Constable R. A. Little was a
Refugio business .visitor Saturday.
Judge T. G. Jeter of Refugio
was a Bayside visitor Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Steele and
daughter of Woodsboro spent last
Sunday with B. R. Hand and his
family.
Mr. and Mrs. James Watts of
Refugio visited Bayside friends on
Sunday.
Cowboys Are Still
Called ‘Iron Shirts’
Paris News: “The Navajo In-
dians of New Mexico still call the
Texas cowboy the ‘iron shirt’ Cow-
boys inheritel the title because
they were such hardy antagonists
in battle.”
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Social Security
and the New Job
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Jim Butler and family
Woodsboro spent last Sunday
Bayside.
SPEEDING UP.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Oberman
of Lockhart spent Sunday with
Mrs. John Black and family.
A. L. Duncan of Corpus Christi
was a Bayside visitor Sunday.
WOODSBORO
CHURCHES
PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH—
Sunday school at 9:15 a. m
No services, as pastor will at-
tend the Texas district conven-
tion of the American Lutheran
Church at Brenham.
A. J. IHRIG, Pastor.
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Lodge Notices
REFUGIO LODGE NO. 190, A. F.
& A. M., held in Woodsboro first
And third Tuesdays each month
Marshall Barber, Worshipful
Master; Frank M. Woods, sec-
retary.
WOODSBORO CHAPTER No. 678
O. E. S.—Meets first and third
Thursday nights in each month
at Masonic Hall in Woodsboro.
Visitors welcome. Flora Durdin,
W. M.; Cleo Norris, secretary.
C. S. BOONE
AGENT
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REFUGIO, TEXAS
Phone 97
“The term, ‘speed up,’ repeated-
ly is heard these days in connec-
tion woth defense production. Un- j their families,
der the present international pres-
sure, the speed with which de-
fense units can be manufactured
in this country is almost phenom-
inal. However, an acceleration in
mass production of war and allied
material is one thing, and the per-
sistent highspeed living indulged
in by thousands is a different
matter,” states Dr. George W.
Cox, state health officer.
Henry Baugh, Glenn Hubbell
and A. C. Rockett of Corpus
Christi spent the week-end with
Professor and Mrs. K. E. Mun-
son left Friday evening and visit-
ed Corpus Christi relatives over
the week-end.
Miss Jewel May visited her
parents at Blanconia over the re-
cent week-end.
(Many workers are now
changing jobs or taking their
first jobs as a result of the
national defense program.
Most of these jobs are cov-
ered by old age and survivors
insurance under the Social Se-
curity Act. Mr. Cleveland,
manager of the Corpus Chris-
ti Social Security Board, of-
fice at 425 Nixon Building,
has prepared a series of eight
brief articles for The Timely
Remarks, explaining the steps
each worker should now take
in connection with his social
security account to avoid de-
lays of difficulties when he or
his family are ready to col-
lect insurance benefits. Any
worker who does not have a
social security account num-
ber card can obtain one at the
Social Security Board office.)
No. 8.
Since January, 1940, monthly
checks from the federal govern-
ment have been going to retired
workers past age 65, who were
insured under the Social Security
Act. When the retired worker
has a wife also past 65 years of
age, the monthly income is in-
creased by half. When an insured
worker has died since January 1,
1940, and left young children,
monthly payments are made to
his family.
The amount of monthly retire-
ment benefits received by an in-
sured worker under the Social Se-
curity act or the monthly income
which his family gets in case of
his death, depends on his wages
received inemployment covered by
the federal old age and survivors’
insurance system. That is the
reason the worker should make
Yam Diet Called
Way to End Glare
From Headlights
How the nation's appalling in-
crease of automobile collisions at
night, due to oversensitivity of
eyesight to glaring headlights and
to reduction of visual purple, can
be corrected by eating sweet po-
tatoes at least twice a week, was
the feature of the annual conven-
tion of the Association of South-
ern Agricultural Workers in At-
lanta, Ga., recently.
Two outstanding scientists—Dr.
E. J. Lease, and Dr. Julian C.
Miller, had no trouble in convinc-
ing their hearers as to the long-
neglected sweet potato becoming
the premier vitamin crop of the
nation and the south’s greatest
single industrial crop, now that
cotton, as a major enterprise, ap-
parently seems doomed.
The ordinary Porto Rican yam,
which housewives regularly buy at
southern stores, contains more
carotene and vitamin A than al-
falfa or any other American crop,
Dr. Lease’s research showed. The
tests at Clemson and in the sur-
rounding country revealed that
during sweet potato season school
children were reported healthier
and brighter because their blood
showed a higher percentage of vi-
tamins, doubtless largely obtained
from eating sweet potatoes.
Some way must be developed
quickly to make this valuable
sweet potato vitamin generally
available, not only to humans but
to work animals, dairy cows and
other livestock, Dr. Lease hoped.
Much interest was displayed at
the convention in what Texas cap-
ital and researchers are going to
do this season in the sweet po-
tato processing field. The big de-
velopment plant at Laurel, Miss.,
will try for a record starch out-
put this year, it was stated.
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WOODSBORO, TEXAS
Mrs. J. A. Pitzer, Mrs. E. H.
“Hard work in itself is seldom! Baugh and Mary Beth McCarty
harmful. The physical and men- j were dinner guests of A. L. Cole
tal breakdowns, which in an ever j and family Sunday.
increasing number are being j --
brought to the attention of phy- j Mr. and Mrs. Orin Mitchell, Mr.
sicians, usually occur in men and : and Mrs. Jesse Mitchell and Ce- j certain the govemmet has a corn-
women who are far removed from cil Mitchell visited the homefolks plete record of his wages,
the' exactions of an assembly line. ! for the week-end. j This federal insurance system
The recruits for shattered nerves j -- ; is explained in a social security
are generally from those who do j Mr. and Mrs. Frank Skarrett board pamphlet entitled. “Old Age
a physically strenuous : of Brownwood were dinner guests and Survivors’ Insurance for
” ’ - - - ’ - • of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Lyon last workers and Their Families.” A
not lead
life. Habits which tend to devi-
talize, plus misdirected use of
leisure time, represent the back-
ground for the majority of phys-
ical and ' mental crack-ups. In
many cases, where the conse-
quences are less pronounced, su-
preme vitality has surrendered to
false conceptions of the value of
high pressure practices upon
which nature frowns.
‘This speed-up which results in
Sunday.
day^of last^week3 Christi Satur- reqUired amount Gf sleep each
R. J. Henkhaus, Joe Fey and
Fire Chief A. F. Sommer of the
local fire department were the of-
ficial delegates to the firemen’s
district meeting in Orange Grove
Sunday.
The First National Bank was
closed Monday in observance of
San Jacinto Day.
Frank Hoelzel of Fort Bliss,
Texas, was a visitor here last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Watkins and
Vennis were visitors in Sinton on
Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Piehl at-
tended the firemen’s celebration in
Orange Grove Sunday.
Mrs. Bert Gallia was a Corpus
Christi visitor Sunday afternoon.
F. T. Burgess was a business
visitor in Agua Dulce Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Henkhaus
and children attended the firemen
celebration in Orange Grove last
Sunday.
Rudolph Schubert was a busi-
ness visitor in Corpus Christi on
Saturday.
W. C. Regan was a business
visitor in San Antonio late last
week.
Oscar Lau of Kenedy was a
business visitor in Woodsboro
last week.
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Dog Saves Lives
Of Houston Couple
The barking of their two dogs
aroused Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Rich-
ardson of Houston just in time
for the couple to escape from
their burning home recentlly with
only two suits of clothes, a pair
of shoes and a fur coat.
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Tricked ’Em.
“Folks,” said the colored minis-
ter, “the subject of my sermon
disebenin’ is ‘Liars.’ How many
in de congregation has done read
the 69th chapter of Matthew?”
Nearly every hand in the con-
gregation was raised immediately.
“Dat’s right,” said the preach-
er. “You is just de folks I want to
preach to. Dere is no 69th chap-
ter of Matthew.”
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Lyon, Mrs.
J. E. McCutcheon, Lucille Bright-
man and H. W. Korges were
man and H. W. Korges were
Woodsboro business visitors last
Friday.
copy of this pamphlet can be ob-
tained free by writing or visiting
the field office.
Mr. and Mrs. Brownell Cox of
Houston and Mrs. Ida Hood of
Refugio spent last Sunday at Bay-
side.
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tending were Mrs. J. A. Heinlein,
Mrs. J. A. Pitzer, Mrs. L. J. Rose,
Mrs. E. S. Lyon, Mrs. Tom Thomp-
son. Mrs. E. W. Bartholomae, Mrs.
J. E. McCutcheon and Mrs. S. J.
Stephens.
Another One.
A Scotchman stood on a bridge
gazing at the water. A canoeist
coming down the river suddenly
overturned. He went down, came
up gasping. The Scot looked on.
Down he Went the second time.
When he came up again the Scot
shouted to him, “Say, Mon, if ye
don’t come up the next time, may
I have the boat?”
night, which demands the stimu-
lation of excessive use of stimu-
lants of any kind, which involves
whipping up the nerves by con-
stant excitement, and which con-
sequently refuses to recognize the
reconstructive and health-building
advantages of outdoor exercise
and relaxation, can and frequently
does end in serious and sometimes
permanent physical trouble. It is
a scientific fact that over living Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Phelps, their
man’s capacity is a definite predi- guest, Mr. Lyons, and Mr. Ever-
cate for high blood pressure and | hart visited Mr. and Mrs. Minor
other ills of advanced life. That Phelps at Taft Sunday.
these effects of ill-advised living i -
usually take time to assert them- | Sergeant Leroy Korges and
selves definitely, perhaps is one j Harry Stephens of the signal
Miss Neva Heinlein, school
teacher from El Campo, spent the
week-end with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. L. H. Heinlein.
L. F. Greer of Mission was a
week-end visitor with his family
and Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Stephens.
A young preacher, Buford
Adams of Woodsboro, preached at
the Hall Sunday morning and eve-
ning. He was accompanied in the
morning services by his mother,
his wife and niece, while Mr.
Adams Sr. attended at night. He
is a very young man and brought
a good message at both meetings.
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OF WOODSBORO, TEXAS
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
of the real reasons for many per-
sons to continue half-blissfully on
their merry way.
“Quite aside from the personal
responsibility to one’s self in the
development and maintenance of
maximum health, is the added ob-
ligation in these uncertain days
to conserve physical resources for
whatever may be ahead.
“It' follows that, however proud
the United States and Texas may
be of its high speer productive
capacity, there is a patriotic duty
for everyone to review his or her
customary daily life, discover if
any of the habitual speedy prac-
tices are affecting one’s maximum
health possibilities, and eliminate
those which violate nature’s basic
laws.”
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Carelessness Not
Only Traffic Worry
“Our traffic problem,” declared
State Police Director Homer Gar-
rison Jr., “is not so much one of
eliminating the wilfully reckless
driver, as creating an apprecia-
tion of everyday courtesy on the
streets and highways on the part
of our citizens.”
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Mother, Daughter
Ae Schoolmates
Mrs. L. C. Ott and her daugh-
ter, Dorothy, of San Antonio, are
enrolled at San Antonio’s Voca-
tional and Technical School. Mrs.
Ott is studying garment manu-
facturing, while Dorothy is taking
a course in secretarial work.
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Cotton is grown on a commer-
cial basis in more than 200 of
Texas’ 254 counties and to take
care of this crop, there are 4,000
gins, 150 cotton seed oil mills,
more than 100 cotton compresses
and hundreds of storage ware-
houses.
Plans are made to enlarge the
school contests and exhibits for
the state fair of Texas. More
than 250 schools participated in
the 1940 state fair and both ex-
hibits and contests are becoming
more popular. More than 215,000
school children attended the fair
on Children’s Day last year.
corps, Fort Sam Houston, con-
cluded a five-day furlough, return-
ing to San Antonio Wednesday.
They were accompanied by Mrs.
R. O. Downs and son, Alvin, who
returned, home Friday.
Mrs. Merle McCarty, Lillie Mae
Stone and John and Henry Baugh
attended the anniversary services
at the Baptist Church at Blan-
conia last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Brookes,
who visited in the Valley and
Mexico City, arrived Thursday and
are located at the Shive home on
the bay front. Mrs. Brookes is
a niece of Mrs. Tom Thompson.
They left Mexico City the day be-
fore theearthquake came.
William Brown of Lawton,
Okla., arrived last week and is
visiting his father, the venerable
J. W. Brown, who is reported as
unchanged.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thompson
entertained at a three-table bridge
party at their home Friday night,
honoring their old friends, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Skarrett of
Brownwood. After a pleasant
evening of games, it was found
that Mrs. Brookes and Mrs. Dun-
lap tied for high score. Delicious
refreshments were enjoyed by Mr.
and Mrs. Skarrett, Mr. and Mrs.
E. S. Lyon, Mr. and Mrs. C. T.
Matin, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Dunlap.
The Rev. and Mrs. Dubberly of
Woodsboro and Chaplain Vaughan
of the United States Army, re-
tired, were in the services at the
Hall on Saturday evening, when
Chaplain Vaughan preached to an
interested group. He is to begin
a revival service in Woodsboro
M. E. Church Sunday.
The Woman’s Missionary So-
ciety met at the Hall Mi
ciety met at the Hall Monday aft-
ernoon with the president, Mrs.
Lyon, in charge. After devotion-
al exercices, including singing and
prayer by Mrs. Heinlein, and the
Bible study lesson from the first
chapter of James, the president
read a very interesting article for
the missionary lesson. Those at-
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