La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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Opposite Masonic Building. Published Every Thursday Morning and Entered at the Post Office as Second-Class Matter
B. F. Harigel, Proprietor
Democratic in Principle and a Worker For La Grange and Fayette County
$2.00 Per Year
Volume 63
La Grange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, July 16, 1 942
Number 29
[Two Trains Collide
Two Men Are Killed
Information About
Your Sugar Rations
WE CAN USE THEM ALSO IN OUR BUSINESS LIFE
Evelyn Henschel Is
Car Crash Victim
Two freight trains of the Missouri-
Kansas-Texas collided Saturday morn-
ing near Pisek, about five miles south
of Fayetteville; two men were killed
in the collision; James Buck Walker
t of Houston, formerly associated with
the Burroughs Adding Machine Com-
pany office of that city and Tompie
R. Whitworth, freight conductor who
lived at Smithville were the victims.
Walker, it is said, was on furlough
from the army air corps and was rid-
ing in the caboose with Whitworth.
According to what meagre reports
were obtainable, Whitworth's south-
bound train collided with another
freight that had stopped at Pisek to
take on water. The wreck caused a
delay in passenger train service.
Walker, it is said, enlisted in the
air corps last April, he was a former
citizen of Smithville. Whitworth, a
veteran conductor was known to
many in La Grange. Funeral services
were held for Walker at Houston,
Sunday, and interment was made in
that city. Whitworth's body was sent
to Smithville. §
Surviving Walker is his mother,
Mrs. E. L. Richardson of Llano and a
sister, Miss Eloise Walker of Hous-
ton. Whitworth is survived by his
V wife and two s6ns.
Clements Addresses
Small Crowd Saturday
Political addresses seem to draw
slowly at La Grange, if two recent
visits and public addresses is to be
used as reference. Saturday James
A. Clements, candidate for congress
and opponent to Congressman Mans-
field, spoke at the courthouse to a
small crowd. The hour, 1:00 o’clock,
may have been the cause, as many
are wont to remain at home after
the lunch hour.
Candidate Clements criticized Mans-
field’s record, and among other things
said: “My opponent has spent con-
siderable money recently to advertise
that he is running on his record. I
declare that it is weak, indifferent
and dangerous to the welfare of this
country.”
Clements also paid his respects to
the 77th Congress and made the
statement that “Your congressman
faired to vote on the naval appropria-
tions act of 1939. He failed to vc£e
on the ship seizure bill, the arms em-
bargo act and lend-lease. He failed to
vote on the fortifications of the Guam
naval base. It is a record that shows
pitiful lack of courage or a callous
lack of concern.”
Although his coming had been ad-
(From Local Office)
Canning sugar allowable under
present regulations varies in amount
according to the actual canning done
by a family unit, its preesnt supply
and its reasonable needs not set at
a fixed amount, Wm. F. Hofmann,
chairman of Fayette county war price
and Rationing Board, explained re-
cently.
“There has been a lot of confusion
among some householders on this
point,” Mr. Hofmann explained, “be-
cause the Boards in some counties
have been more strict than others.
“The State OPA office recommend-
ed on June 16, that canning sugar be
limited to six pounds per person year-
ly in urban or city areas, and to nine
pounds per person in rural areas
which is the national canning aver-
age."
“However, the State OPA office
made it clear that this was not a
hard and fast limit on the quantity
of canning sugar allowable. It still
is within the discretion of the Local
Board to increase a canning sugar
allowance up to one pound of sugar
for each four quarts of finished fruit.
“Of course, we have to consider
each application on an individual
basis, in the light of the number of
quarts of fruit a family canned last
year, how much it has on hand now,
and the amount of fruit available to
it this year, which it expects to can.
The size of a family is another fac-
tor.
“We realize that the canning sugar
regulation imposes a great responsi-
bility to administer. It is flexible. We
must administer the regulation in a
manner that will conserve the avail-
able fruit supply, and at the same
time, carry out the objectives of the
sugar rationing program.”
“For this reason,” he said, “the Lo-
cal Board will ask for a strict ac-
count of the use of sugar, and its
misuse for preserving or for any
other purpose besides canning consti-
tutes a violation of federal rationing
regulations.”
Mr. Hofmann added that home can-
ning contributes to the war effort,
because it conserves fruit that other-
wise might be wasted.
“It also supplements commercial
supplies,” he said, “and that cuts
down the burden on commercial can-
vertised the attendance was small.
Clements is a vigorous talker and
means to be heard. His candidate
cards, placards of good size, were
liberally distributed and were dis-
played in the show windows on the
same day.
A Story of War and War Bonds
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Will you Qive at least IO%
of your p jy >n War Bonds?
This new color poster, which soon
will be used in all parts of the coun-
try to promote the sale of War Bonds
and Stamps, is one of four recently
created to emphasize new themes in
the War Bond sales campaign.—U.S.
Treasury Dept.
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Old Age Payments
Austin, Tex., July 11.—It was an-
nounced today by the State Depart-
ment of Public Welfare that Federal
funds for making Julyi payments to
old age assistance recipients and aid
for dependent children had not yet
been received. The 176,413 old age
assistance checks and the checks for
dependent children for July payments
have already been prepared and can
be mailed as soon as the Federal
funds are received by the State Treas-
urer. The delay in the receipt of Fed-
eral funds is the result of late Con-
gressional action on the Federal ap-
propriation bill for the Social Securi-
ty Board; the bill providing Federal
funds for old age assistance and de-
pendent children was signed by the
President only a few days ago. The
Federal Social Security Board has al-
ready certified to the U. S. Treasury
the amount of Federal money to be
sent to Texas, and now it is just a
question of how long it will take the
treasury to get the money to Austin.
“The Federal money for old age as-
sistance and dependent children will
be available in the near future and
it is simply a question of how quick-
ly the JU. S. Treasury can complete
all of the necessary accounting and
disbursing details for sending the
money to the State Treasurer at
Austin,” stated J. S. Murchison, Ex-
ecutive Director of the State Depart-
ment of Public Welfare. “From the
ning and transportation facilities
which are already taxed beyond their
capacity.”
• * •
Monday morning the following
telegram was received by Chairman
Hofmann:
Fort Worth, Texas
July 9, 1942
Wm. F. Hofmann
Chm. Fayette Co. War Price
And Rationing Board,
La Grange, Texas:
Amendment Number Four to Sugar
Rationing regulations, effective July
7, 1942, provides that War Rationing
Stamp Number 7 may be used to ob-
tain two pounds of sugar during the
period July 10, 1942 to August 22,
1942. In addition to amounts already
authorized for Stamps Numbered 5
and 6.
MARK McGEE, State Director
Office of Price Administrator.
Adopt A Neighborly
Policy In Marketing
Asking your neighbors if they need
anything in town or want to ride in
with you, is more than just neighbor-
liness these days, it’s good sense and
a good way to save wear and tear on
tires.
Fayette County USD A War Board
is urging farmers in the county to
work out neighborhood plans for mak-
ing the best possible use of transpor-
tation facilities. Agricultural pro-
ducts must get to market if they are
going to sold and if the American
people are going to eat, and tires are
going to be mighty hard—maybe im-
possible—to get when the ones now
on hand are gone.
Arrange with one or more neigh-
bors to exchange trips, do all your
regular hauling, so far as is possible,
on that basis. Form a little group on
your road to do this in a systematic
way. Pool your loads.
As a further tire-saving step, the
USDA War Board advises against
going into town “empty.”
If you have an errand in town, call
up your neighbors and take everybody
on the road who needs to go that day,
then let them do the same by you.
Make similar arrangements for small
part-loads of produce. Don’t make a
trip alone with just a bushel of pota-
toes or a sack of grain, nor to get
one or two small items of supplies.
Double up. Co-operate with your
neighbors.
Farmers in this county pledged
greatly increased production of milk,
eggs, peanuts, pork, beef and other
information we have received, it is
likely that the money will not be re-
ceived in Austin until sometime next
week. Checks cannot be tpailed until
the Federal money is deposited in the
State Treasury. We want all the re-
cipients who are on the old age as-
sistance rolls to know that the money
will be available and that they need
not worry about receiving their July
checks. The delajr in mailing the
checks will cause a hardship in many
instances, and it is hoped that gro-
cerymen, landlords, or other persons
with whom some of the old folks do
business will understand that the old
age recipients cannot pay their cur-
rent bills until they receive their July
checks.”
food products, but producing won’t do
anyi good unless we can get the pro-
duce to market. The best way to
make sure we’ll be able to get them
to market is to keep our cars and
trucks running just as long as they
will go.
* • *
This letter was mailed to each
farm operator:
Dear Producer:
What are you going to do when
your tires are gone and you can’t get
any more? We don’t know either.
But we do know that every possible
step should be taken to save our tires
if we are to produce the food needed
to win this war. We’ve got to stretch
the lives of our tires to the limit and
it’s going to take a lot of co-opera-
tion and care to do it.
Since transportation of our products
is so important to the success of the
Food for Freedom program, to the
men who are fighting for us, we want
to make a few suggestions on how to
lengthen the life span of tires. Prob-
ably you’re already doing most of
these things, but maybe some of your
neighbors haven’t thought of them.
Arrange with one or more neigh-
bors to exchange trips. Pool your
loads.
If you have an errand in town, call
up ytour neighbors and take every-
body on the road who needs to go—
then let them do the same by you.
Plan your buying in town so as to
save trips.
Pick up all nails, pieces of glass,
etc., around your driveways and on
the highways.
Make sure you carry an inflated
spare tire or the equipment to repair
a flat£—you don’t want to have to
drive in on the rim.
Keep larger supplies on hand to
save unnecessary trips to town.
Arrange storage space so you can
keep your produce at home in case
of unexpected transportation tie-ups.
Cut down on some of the young-
sters’ trips into town just for fun.
Don’t drive in bad weather unless
absolutely necessary.
Keep your car and truck under cov-
er and locked up.
Take the best possible care of cars
and trucks—and especially tires.
Look ahead a year or two or three.
How will you be fixed then for car or
truck ? ?
MAX CITZLER, Chairman,
Fayette Co. U8DA War Board.
Evelyn Henschel, aged 16, met
death in a motor car accident that
occurred Saturday night, while re-
turning, in company) with George
Schneider of La Grange, (employed
at Giddings) from a dance. The acci-
dent was due to a blowout which
caused the car in which the boy and
girl and three others were riding to
swerve to the side and crash into a
truck.
According to the information se-
cured from Mrs. Ed. Schneider, moth-
er of George, the door of the car was
thrown open when the crash came
and Evelyn was thrown out upon the
highway and was struck by a lumber
truck, going in another direction.
George was taken to a Brenham
hospital and given necessary atten-
tion for bruises received and was
later brought to La Grange by his
mother. The three other occupants
of the car were only slightly injured.
The accident is said to have oc-
curred about 10 miles west of Gid-
dings. Funeral services for the un-
fortunate victim were held Monday
morning at the Lutheran church in
Giddings.
She is survived by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Hermann Henschel of Gid-
dings, five sisters, Mrs. Clifford Wil-
liamson of Giddings, Mrs. A. S. Har-
graves and Nanda Henschel of Hous-
ton and Mildred and Lillie Henschel
of Giddings; one brother, Walter
Henschel in the army at San Antonio,
and Mrs. Mary Simank, grandmother,
of Giddings.
CITY COUNCIL REJECTS
BID OF THE JOURNAL
At the regular meeting of the City
Council of La Grange, held Wednes-
day night of last week, the bid of the
La Grange Journal for the designa-
tion of official paper of publication
for all proclamations to be printed,
was rejected. The bids of both the
Record and the Journal were identi-
cal.
Alderman Francke made the mo-
tion to give the contract to the Re-
cord, which motion was seconded by
Alderman Creuzbaur. No other mo-
tion being made, the vote was made
unanimous.
FEW WILL REMEMBER
The Houston Post of Monday con-
tains a notice of the death of Fred C.
Rack, aged 62 years, and states that
he was born in La Grange, Texas,
and had been a citizen of Houston for
42 years. Some few of the older In-
habitants will recall the Rack family,
whose home was north of the city.
Have you bought any Bonds to-day?
Square
TALK
Peaches and sugar (not
cream) maip topic at card so-
cials. . . Ball Players — local
Demons—annexed another game
Sunday. . . Another Contingent
of Fayette county youths called
and “transported” to San An-
tonio. . . District Court held
and little done, two divorces
granted—motion for new trial
denied. . . County Clerk Kubena
gradually improving, still in
hospital. . . Correction, 263 and
a half tons of scrap rubber in-
stead of 23 tons, and three deal-
ers yet to be heard from. . . De-
fense Instructor J.C. Marburger
wants more interest taken by
civilians. . . Enforcement Offi-
cer Worley in La Grange, Mon-
day, neat as a pin, and in new
clothes. . . Gus. Brauner, Jr.,
and Miss I^urine Kainer to
wed, Wednesday, July 22. . .
U. 8. Senate talk becoming
stronger, straddler is abroad.
. . . Courthouse quiet as a re-
cruiting office. . , Camp Swift
being visited by local citizens.
. . . Bonds on sale each day,
quota for county for July re
*87.300.00.
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