Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1942 Page: 4 of 6
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FALPURR!AS FACTS
FRIDAY. JULY 24, 1942
uritPHSox
Dear Sir:
I see by the April 17th edition of
the Facts that Cadet Larry Ram-
ming finds it very lonesome, even
in the States, when a soldier rece-
ives r.o mail. I’ve been a little more
fortunate that he, as I have rece-
ived mail from parents and friends
It really helps to hear news from
the old home town.
It is hard to write about my new
destination because of the strict
censorship but here goes. The only
population here is natives and
have ?imple and primitive habits
When we put up our barbed wire
entanglements some of them
blocked their trails. Instead of
changing their trail and following
It they still walk Into it and then
throw rocks at the wire.
The vegetation on the land Is
very dense and there are plenty of
cocoanuts. bananas, breadfruit,
papayas, and sugar cane. To see
one of the natives climbing one of
the cocanut trees is really some-
thing. I do believe that he could
run a monkey a good race.
All the wild life here is a few
rodents, such as rats, very large
bats and plenty of centipedes.
There are plenty of saltwater fish
and octapus, which the natives al-
Well, that is about all for the
surroundings. Now for a little about
my outfit. I am In a thirty calibei
machine gun company. We have
been plenty busy working and
having school on different types of
military weapons, as a marine
should know the functioning and
how to handle all types of weap-
This Is about all for now so I
will sisr. off.
As ever,
Pvt. Jack E. Flack
Unit 5S0 U. S. M. C.
p. S. I sure would like to be home
for the fourth of July hut I guess
it just isn’t U> ba.
Jack
Candidate for State
Comptroller Butler
Dear Sir:
I am dropping a few lines to
thank you for sending us boys
from home our hometown paper.
It sure feels good to read what goes
on around home. No news here
worth telling. The weather is very
hot here in the desert. I want to
thank you and Mr. Scott for being
so kind.
Yours truly,
Cpl. Reynaldo Gonzalez
Camp Young
Indio, Calif.
Falfurrias Facts:
Please accept my appologies for
not writing you sooner but r have
been out of God’s Country (Amer-
ica* for a while, and as I got in I
found two or three papers in my
mail, and did I get a kick. It was
really swell to read the home paper
For the thoughtfulness and kind-
ness of The First National Bank,
Mr. Scott and everybody else In
general I wish to thank you for
bringing cheer t*> a lonely Blue
Jacket.
Sincerely yours.
J. L. Nava
U. 3. Navy
Falfurrias Facts
Well, I am a soldier in the Air
C o r p. i had one of your papers
^nt to me. I like it very much. I
used to g^t it before T got in the
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NEW OIL CONTAINER - Joe
Bodin, manager of the Rio Sales
company in Harlingen, distributors
of Pennzoil products in South Tex-
as. is shown holcirg the new oil
container being distributed by the
Pennzoil refinery. The company is
now in actual production with dis-
tribution in this secton expected;
within two weeks, it Is a full quart
combination plastic and glass, very
strong and light weight. The comp-
any has enough i>ottles and cans
on hand to bottle 3.000.000 gallons
of oil (Photo by Moores-Britton’s).
Army. My heme is in Premont.
I saw in the paper where Mr.
Scott is having papers sent to ail
the boys in service that live in
Falfurrias. Being that Premont
does not have a paper, I would like
to get yours if possible.
We are about 120 miles from any
city and home news is always good
news. Hoping to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Pvt. Kenneth Pierce
Wendover, Utah
Falfurrias F’acts:
My appreciation to Mr. J. R.
Scott Jr. for his courtesy to us
men in the service and to U.S.O.
leaders and members for what you
are doing for us service men.
I received my paper July 4 and
I assure you it was enjoyable
teading.
Sincerely yours,
Edward. Escobar
U. S. S. St. Louis
NEED TYPEWRITER r i b 3 () a s’
We have them in siock. Falfurrtaa
Facts.
W1U D. Pace, Tyler attorney,
point* to hi* service a* chairman
of two important committees
while serving eight year* In the
Texas Senate aa major plank* In
hi* platform aa a candidate for
the Texaa Railroad Commlaaion
to succeed Jerry Sadler. Pace
served four years a* chairman of
the highly responsible state af-
fair* committee which handles
oil conservation and general
transportation, and he served
two years as chairman of the
senate oil, gas and mineral com-
mittee. Pace, a native East Tex-
an, served as county Judge of
Smith County for six years prior
to his election as state senator,
during which time he set a rec-
ord for efficiency in the equaliza-
tion of taxes and the reduction
of the tax rate to the citizens.
He was president of th* Texas
County Judges and Commission-
ers Association in 1927. Pace
graduated from Southwest State
Teacher’s College and the Uni-
versity of Texas where ha played
on the Longhorn baseball team.
He taught school two years and
served as athletic director ef Pea-
cock Military Academy al San
Antonio before enlisting in WMM
War I In which he served aa an
officer of the field artillery.
RUBBER STAMPS, stamp pads and
ink. Three day service. Falfurrtaa
Facts
( lift-id M. Kitllt-r
„ Candia-.o for .Stale Comptroller
Clifford E B.ilVr, of Houston,
call, d C- wc|: in interest ol his
race fer thnl nfiice. Wearing a
J't-inc: wide tx'lt, cowboy IrooU
with th ;i of Texas, and pants
minus ' ; - 'iickct Candidate Butler
stated ! . opponent—the Incumbent
—could not now accuse him of
making a hip-pocket move in this
campaign.
Candi lute Butler hat, the utttisuaJ
hobby of giving away lucky birth-
date silver dollars lo candidates for
public office, and others You will
■e 1 : : carrying around a sack ol
iron men ... It lie ask: you your
age, tel! him, and lie'll give you a
cartwheel with your INrlh date on
it . . he’s got to do Uie asking,
however!
Candidate Butler claims to have
elected U. 8. Senator W Lee
O’Daniel, who succeeded the late
Senator Morris Sheiipard, and who
won hi? post by the narrow margin
of k*K? than 1,500 votes in fhe
state-wide balloting At the close
of his first campaign for Senator
in 194!, our Junior Senator was
the recipient of a silver dollar of
vintage ! J90, for a luck piece, along
with the statement and prediction
that he was now certain of winning.
At the 1942 democratic executive
committee meeting, held June 8,
Candidate Butler gave both of
O’Daniel's opponents — Dan Moody,
who wo. born in 1893, and James V.
Allred, who was born in 1899. each
one of his silver dollars, with the
comment that he wanted to be fair
and put the candidates for Senator
on an equal basis.
Candidate Butler received 252,080
votes In the 19M primary, and
stated he is confident of retiring
"the oldest, chronic, term - after -
term professional politician in
Austin." this election.
The democratic primary wilt be
held Saturday, July 25.
Fight! Work! and SAVE!?
A War Message on WAR BONDS from the President of the United Staffs*
, Tbe American people know that
if we would raise I be billions which we
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now ueetl lo pav for the war and al ihe s-atne
i* V
time prevent a disastrouH rise in tbe cost of liv-
ing. we shall have to double and more* rli.in
double the scale of our savings.
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"Every dime and dollar not vitally needed for
absolute necessities should go into WAR BONDS
and .STAMPS to add to ’.be Irtli’u *. no-.vor of
our armed forces.
"If these purchase* are to have a material effect
in restraining price increases they must ri * made
out of current income.
"In almost every individual case they should be
big enough to mean rigid self-denial, a substan-
tial reduction for nn»st of us in the scale of eitf
[»enditure that is comfortable and easy for us.
"We cannot fight this war, we cannot exert, our.
maxamum effort, on a spend-«s-usuai frnAq.
We cannot have all we want if our soldiers aittf
sailors are to have all they need.*
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—‘Frtusldits D. Roosevelt.
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%u// War Savings Bonds
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