The Mexia Weekly Herald from Mexia, Texas • Page 8

TWO Wartime Attfllrersary of 167tli Year of Marines' Existence Celebrated On November 10 will celebrated the 167th anniversary of the toughest, deadliest military outfit in the U. S. Marines. The following, day, November 11, a grateful nation will tribute to the gallant Americans who died for their country in the first World War. But there's a big difference in the" two anniversaries, for on Nov.

'10 tribute is to be paid to men who to die for their country, to. Marines who want to make a Jap or a Nazi die for his country, instead. Even the United States was officially born there were Marines who didn't intend to die. Sack in 1775, a year before the Constitution was adopted, Marines seized New Providence in the Bahamas from the British. In the 167 years since Marines have continued to for the United Stiles.

That's the job of the U. S. Marine's. First to fight; last to quit. For HJ7 years Marines have been fighting- all over the Sumatra, the Philippines, Wake Island, Tripoli, Mexico, Guam, China, Central America, Bellcau Wood, Korea, Cul-a, Egypt.

And todJy, bloody Guadalcanal. Since 177G, whenever Uncle Sam wantf! a beach, he called on the Marines. Today, there's defending force of cnmparabk' size anywhere in the world capable of stemming the terrific onslaught of the striking power generated by tough leathernecks. That's why Tuesday of this week, a proud nation will pay tribute to their during by dedicating the day to their fighting members. Efficiency in Dairy Herd Topic of Discussion "Building Efficiency into the Dairy Herd" WM the subject discussed by W.

E. Lasseter, vocational agricultural teacher, at a meeting of milk producers held at the Mexia high school Thursday night. Further meetings will be held each Monday and Thursday nights for the next several weeks. The subject for discussion at the Monday night meeting will be "Planning the Feed Program to niotl the Cow's Needs." The only yardstick by which efficiency can be measured is that of profit, Lusseter pointed out. Dairymen milk cows to make money, he continued.

Factors con- ti inuting to successful dairying I (1) high milk production per acre devoted to a dairy enterprise; (2) high milk production per man unit used in the operation of the business; milk production per dollar invested; and (-1) market price received. It was further brought out if dairy farmers are to increase their production to meet war time needs, it must be done with less labor and fewer acres devoted to feed crops. Careful planning for the future and attention to tin 1 many little things that keep things from happening will be necessary In get the job done. Those in attendance included J. C.

lioyd. J. L. Hinchliffe, L. P.

Wright. A. S. Johnston, Elijah Bluck, W. 0.

Tyler, .1. S. Bailsman, Hardin Smith. Clark. G.

Heeves. M. W. Anderson, Larry Henderson. Dr.

C. P. McKorizic. Rdirnr M. Moore, and Edgar M.

Moore Jr. cat -Businesses Warned Against Price Violations Tracy Beckham, chairman of the Limestone County War Price and I Rationing. Board warned service trade establishment such as laundries, dry cleaners, garages, shoe repair shops and photographers today that the Office of Price Ad- mininislration has called for a report on the names of all such tradesmen who have not filed their statements of prices on services. "These reports on the ceiling prices for services were supposed to have been filed with our Board by last September 10," Beckham pointed out. "The OPA in Washington now is requiring us to report by November 5 tha last of those who have filed their Ceiling pi ices reports and to cumpiV a list of all trade service establishments in this county which do not yet have reports on file with our Board." Abolishment of County Offices scuss THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD 4,000 Retailers Are Threatened with Revocation of their Licenses MINERAL.

WELLi, Nov. the offices of county treasurer, justice of peace, constable, and surveyor, and consolidating the duties of the county clerk and the district clerk were recommended by Mer- rltt Gibson of Longvfew, at the County Judges, Commissioners Association meeting here today. Judge Gibson was chairman of a special committee appointed to Imake this report. He also recommended passing a prohibiting any taxing unit contracting a debt exceeding five per cent of its assessed valuation. The committee suggested that the county court be one of probate and administration only, and that a 'court be established to handle all other cases not in the" jurisdiction of the district court.

Another suggestion made by the committee was county commissioners elected by the county at large, which would make them more conscious of countywide interests. 3500,000 Music Building Opens AUSTIN, Nov. 7 The University of Texas' new music building, said to be acoustically one of the best in the world, will be dedicated Sunday afternoon by University President Homer P. Rainey and Dr. K.

H. Aynesworth of Waco, vice- chairman of the board nf regents. The building will be opened next week with a series of programs, including Rose Bampton, metropolitan opera singer. One program will feature works of Texas composers. Tire Dealers Now Permitted to Buy Grade III Tires Tire dealers may increase their stocks of passenger car tires now, according to new regulations just released, Tracy Beckham, Rationing Board chairman has announced.

This is in order-that dealers may be ready November 22 to make sales-when the new mileage rationing program becomes effective. Grada Jll fires, which include those of reclaimed rubber, recapped, and used tires, may be brought by dealers for sale to those motorists receiving rationing certificates permitting them, to buy tires. Forms on which dealers may' apply for their allotments are available at the local War Price and Rationing Board office, Groesbeck. Only those dealers who have filed September 30 inventory reports on OPA Form H-17 will be eligible for tire allotments, with the exception of establishments operated by tire manufacturers or mass distributors who are eligible under special provision. WASHINGTON, Nov.

7 The Office of Price Administration tonight notified more than 4.000 grocery their licenses to sell will be revoked if they commit any further violations of the general maximum price regulation. OPA Chief Leon Henderson, in I the most sweeping price enforce- 'ment action yet taken, simultaneously warned, other retailers that "more drastic action" is being reserved for tho.se who were found suilty of "plain overcharging," selling of inferior quality goods, and reduction of quantity of packaged goods. Tonight's action followed a four- week enforcement drive throughout -the country in which OPA investigators checked more than 10,000 and found half of them to be violating the price control laws; The dealers who face suspension 07. ikeir licenses will receive registered letters Monday morning informing them that un- I less immediate corrective sures are taken to conform with price OPA'attorneys would seek the court orders which would have the effect of putting them out of business. Investigators concentrated on 21 "I cost-of-living commodities including coffee, milk, br'ead, rolled oats, corn corn flakes bran, macaroni, ghetti, cdke mixes, cocoa, corn syrup, cane and maple syrup, slic- canned tomatoes, and soap.

Enforcement drives covering I other commodities are being pre- i pared, OPA said. Henderson said the enforcement action was taken to assure stores complying with price regulations that "willful violators" will not be allowed to obtain an unfair advantage. Names of stores which were served with notices will lie made public by regional offices, he added. About 05 per cent of violations resulting in warnings involved failure to post cost-of-living commodity prices and other record- keeping requirement. The remainder compromised price violations.

College' ay Be Offings County Judge Makes Report on All Expenditures Month of September Js DALLAS, Nov. 7 Navy is offering Texans who already have graduated from colleges, or who are pursuing courses leading to a degree, their finest opportunity to become officers, Lieutenant H. P. McBrids, in charge of the Dallas branch of the Office of Naval Officer Procurement, said today. Thirty days ol Indoctrinal training are necessary after Applicants then are appointed Reserve Midshipmen and sent to school for three months additional duty, leading to their commissioning as ensigns in the U.

S. Naval Reserve. Nitroglycerine Stolen from Local Supply Company The fur trade does not use the American cottontails and jackrab- liils, but imports rabbit fur principally from Australia and New Zealand. TODAY FRIDAY CARY GRANT JEAN ARTHUR "Talk of the Town" News and Shorts TODAY FRIDAY "I Live on Danger" with CHESTER MORRIS JEArf PARKER News Shorts Throng Pays Last Respects to Song and Dance Man NEW YORK, Nov. 7.

(U.R) A throng; that filled St. Patrick's cathedral and overflowed into the streets paid last tribute today to George M. Cohan, sonp and dance man who becime one of the bsst- lovcd figures of the American stage. All of the 5,000 seats in the (jivac cathedral were occupied and at least 3,000 people clustered outside to watch the cortage move toward Woodlawn cemetery after the requiem mass celebrated by the Very Rev. Francis X.

vicar cf the Archdiocese. In the aisles stood the 100 honorary pall-bearers. And on each side of them were governors, politicians, song writers, actors, baseball men, orchestra leaders, and producers and some who had come only because they had seen Cohan in one of his many roles. A daring theft of possible dangerous consequences was revealed today by Chief of Police A. B.

McKenzie, who reported that 125 pounds of nitroglycerine had been stolen from the American Supply Company of Mexia. According to Mrs. B. L. Walkup, owner of the company, some 125 pounds of nitroglycerine sticks were recently taken front the explosives magazine of the company, appzS-ently between October 14 and Wednesday of this week.

The theft was discovered when the magazine was opened to sell some explosives to a customer. 3-15 electric caps were also taken along with the two and a half cases of high explosives, which are used shooting oil wells. The theft mounted to around $50, but is po- ttntially of much graver conse- quences than the mere monetary i loss involved, since that amount of explosive could do considerable damage if in tbt iiands of a saboteur. Nitroglycerine is times as powerful as ihg to experts liahclc'it, if you compare the two by weight, or thirteen times as powerful compared volume to volume. Investigation of all possible clues having any bearing on the was being jointly conducted, by the local police, the sheriff's office, highway patrolmen, and the F.

B. I. Former Editor Visits in Mexia Jack Dillard, editor of the Mexia Daily in 1938 and 1939, was in Mexii Friday on his way from Oklahoma City to Austin to attend the Baylor-Texas game. Dillard, who left Mexia to become public relations manager for the Waco Chamber of Commerce, joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, "November a year ago. After receiving preliminary training at Washington, D.

he was transferred to Oklahoma City in July and has been working cut of that office in the Arkansas and Oklahoma district since then. The expenditures of the county for the month of September, 1942, are -as follows: General Fund Herman Adams, expense account, Wess Popejcy, parts, gas oil, Prendergast-Smith bank, rent on building, lis Dickinson, labor on mower, Wilmer Burney, plumbing, Charles O'Hara, plumbing, Groesbeck Journel, ads and supplies, City of GroesbecK, water account, Four Justices of the Peace, Texas- Utilities lights Gulf States Tel. National ammonia, J. M. Arendale, telegrams, West Publishing 0.

P. Robison, board for prisoners, W. E. Swinscoe, rent on typewriter, Community Na- Gas gas at jail, I City Drug, supplies at jail, Magnolia Pet. supplies, Browder Henderson, brooms, etc.

Hines Super Service Station, parts, J. 0. Pelham welding, Lionel Slider, supplies, Bruce Campbell, supplies, Mexia Commercial Printing supplies, Bennett Printing H. B. Meyers Son, supplies, Hill Printing the Dorsey supplies, Maverick-Clarke, supplies, Steck supplies, Cannon's Dry Goods, clothing, Abe Schwartz, clothing, Red Front Dry Goods, clothing, Stroud Gas J.

W. Poindexter, expenses for August, Prendergast-Smith bank, rent on building, Telephone company, Newberry Sinclair Service Sta.icn, gas oil, commodity truck, J. C. Penney supplies for sewing room, McKean-Eiless sswing room supplies, Shelly Harper, expenses, Southern Pacific R. R.

Tb patients transporta- 1 tion, H. L. Humble, stamrs, $20.00. Salaries payable out of the eral Fund are not reported for the reason that no salary has been charged since-last reported in this paper. I General Salary Fund Gulf States Tel.

bills, 0. Pelham, repairs, L. L. I Geren, expense account, W. I A.

Browder, expenses, Steve Unfried, county clerk, expense account, Sam Adkins, expense account, Berry-Barnett Grocery groceries, Central Texas Gro. groceries at jail, Thompson's Mkc. groceries at jail, Mag. Pet. sheriff's tear, Gulf Oil sher: iff's ear, gas oil, Humi ble Motor expense for sher- iftfs car, Sinclair Refining sheriff's car, expense, Hims Super Service Station, parts i and sheriff's i Texas expenses sheriff's car, Mexia Motor sheriff's car expense, Westsrn Auto 'Store, tube, Miller Hance, parts and repairs, sheriff's car, H.

L. Humble, stamps, Tom L. Cox, 21 assessments, $3.15. Salaries payable out of the General Salary Fund are not reported for the reason that no salary has been changed since last published in this paper. Lateral Road Fund No.

18 C. S. Ferguson, gas oil, Cage rock, Ben Hur Cash Grocery, gas oil, American Supply supplies, $110.50 W. Johnston, gas oil, parts repairs, J. H.

O'Pry, blacksmithing, $2.50. Lateral Road No. 4 Fund Ingram's Electric Shop, parts repairs, East Texas Supply lumber, Browning Ferris, parts, J. I. Riddle, parts, American Supply parts repairs, Ingram's Electric 1 Shop, repairs, W.

M. Eubanks, hardware, Farrar Lumber hardware, Oil Field Lumber lumber, C. F. Dyson, parts and repairs, A. L.

brick level, Armstrong Lubricant lube, A. W. Sales parts repairs, Frick-Reid supplies, Labor $102.00. Read Bridge General Fund P. F.

Ferguson, auto receipts, F. A. Bratton, Justice of the Peace fees, Tom L. Cox, J. P.

fees, J. E. Timmons, J. P. fees, Ollie Jones, constable fees, Frank Oliver, 35 auto licenses, $8.75.

Road Bridge Fund No. 4 Labor, Jack Driver, parts, Mexia Motor parts repairs, JVlcClure- Harris, Mag. Pet. gas oil, J. V.

Harwood, gas oil, Gulf Oil gas oil, Humble Oil gas oil, R. E. Bozeman, gas oil, Mag. Pet. Co.j gas oil, The Texas.Co., Mexia, The Texas oil, City of Mexia, water, Texas Utilities lights, Sinclair Refining kerosene, Ryan's Gai'age, parts repairs, Robih'son Gregory, blacksmithing, Humphfus Service Station, repairs, $1.35.

Consolidated Road No. 4 Fund East Texas Supply parts repairs, Labor, $6.00. Lateral Road No. 2 Labor, $480.00. Rtfad Bridge No.

2 Peeples- Telephone telephone $9.90. Above I have given you a list of the expenditures of the county for the month of September, 1942. Commissioners Court the seeond Monday of each month and aU taxpayers are invited to be present. Respectfully submitted, CARL CANNON, County Judge Limestone County, Texas. Large Niiinhcar df Draftees Leaves Friday Morning The local Selective Service announces the following men left this m.jrning for Camp Wblters to enter the army after spending a fourteen-day furlough at home: 'Robert Ellsworth -Van; Clovis Hodge, Thornton; Carpenter, Prairie Hill; Reuben Thomas Andrew Wright, Lovelady; Richard Fay Smith, Mexia; Otha Paris, Waco; Frank Kohl, Mexia; Troy Bennett Hodges, Mexia; John Elmo Bennett, Mexia; James Leroy Campoell, Coolidgc; Aubrey Clarence- Franklin, Mexia; Ray Spillers, Mexia; Floyd Lee Rogers, Mexia; Knox Polk Truett, Mexia; Barney Adair Sterling, Mexia; Wilmer Elliott Skillern, Coolidge; Kildare Bilderback, Tehuacana; Ben Frank Wilson, Mt.

Ca'lm; James Houston Jackson, Prairie Hill; Walker Lee Gifford, Bellmead; Freddie AH'in Nelson Black, Mexia; Dox Arnett Sanders, Mart; L. M. Harrison, Coolidge; Emmitt Edward Castleberry, Mexia; Walter L. Ryno, Coolidge; Loyd Byron Mathis, Mart; Claude Edwin How'ell, Mexia; Thomas Robert Odel! Hall, Coolidge; Cecil Coleman Ashe'r, Terrbil: Richard E'u- Igene Biirriey Gordon, Frank Ro-: befts, prairie' Hill; James Albert Alsobrook Mexia; Woodrow Wilson Cotton, Delia; William Ches- tei- Dulaney, Andrew Wadle, Mexia; William Erby Thomas, Groesbeek; Oscar Alvis Renfro, Delia; Marion Edward Howze, Coolidge; Raymond Franklin Pardons, Mexia; Conrad Maurice Speights, Mexia. Aubrey Clarence Franklin was acting corporal in charge the group.

Quotas After Ibtorrcct Selective Reports 6. bcr Selective Service quotas in several Texas counties have been readjusted after "correction- of rej ports submitted by local boards," Brig. Gen. J. Watt.

Page, Texas director, said today. Paj.t« said. tHat complaints, of alleged discrimination iii have been "cleared up 'fully." Kepr'ssen- tatives of seven East Texas counties recently told Gov. Coke Ste- virtson that their, local quotas were propcrf ioriately higher than quotas for neighboring counties. Calls are bassd ucon available manpower rather than total number of registrants, Page said.

The adjustments necessary, Page emphasized, because local boards made incorrect reports originally. Reports from all local boards were asked before the November call was issued, in an ef- fort -to determine how many class I single nien remained on the list. It was found that the Class I and II single men were insufficient, it was 1 said, and a few thousand class III' married men without children had to be called. Page said 1 'that the counties whsre readjtfstments were made originally had A more available class I and II men than actually were 'on Tiand. Many physically ineligible; persons were found to- be included in thsir compilation of available single men.

After the com'tjaints were made, P.ge said, the'counties were asked to submit lists of a- ivailable "the original and 'revised lists'were checked by'a Selective Service' Officer from the Austin headquarters, after which reductions were'made where justified. Doyle Terry Falls Dead Suddenly Thursday Night Terry, 28, son of Elmorfr Terry of Teague, dropped dead unexpectedly in Shreveport, Louisiana, Thursday night, friends here i have learned. Funeral 'services will probably be held Saturday at Tsague, though they-have not yet been completed. He is a graduate of Wortham high school, and is survived by his father, his grandmother, Mrs. Fannie McCraw of Mexia; two uncles, K.

Q. and J. K. McCraw of Mexia; and two brothers and one sister. PERSONALS Mr.

and Mrs. Edwin Petty and son, Pat, of Jasper, are visiting in the home of Mr. Petty's. mother and sister, Mifs. George Petty and Miss.Mel'ba They were accompanied to Mexia by Mrs.

George Petty, who has been visiting in Jasper. Mr. and Mrs. C. C.

Lee, of San visiting Mr- and Mrs. 0. Ji Lee and other relatives in -Mexia this week end. Mrs. who is employed with 'a-defense Dllaas, is' spending the week 'end at her home here.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Barry have returned to their home in Arden, Arkansas, after a few days visit in Mexia With Mr.

Barry's sister, Mrs. J. Paul Button and T. E. Button, of Dallas were business visitors in Mexia Thursday.

Hugh Pendleton is spending several days in Farmersville on bus- ness. Miss Virginia Byers, a teacher in Goose Creek schools, is spending the week end with her mother, Mrs. J. H. Byers.

Miss Walldeen Donnell, of Hous- trict attorney to enter the Navy, ton is a guest of her parents, Mr. and Roe had been elected to take and Mrs. G. P. Donnell, this week office in January.

end. Duck Hunters Are Asked to Help AUSTIN, Nov. 6. (U.R) Texas sportsmen were urged today to send small feathers from waterfowl, particularly duck, and geese, to the State Game Department for use in making cold-climate garments for men in the armed forces. "Down and feathers, less than two and a half inches long, picked dry, are needed," said Will J.

Tucker, executive secretary of the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission. Jerry Roe Appointed to Succeed Banister AUSTIN, Nov. 7 (U.R)— Gov. Coke R. Stevenson today announced appointment of J.

C. (Jerry) Roe to succeed Chprles Banister as district attorney of the 13th. judicial district. Both men are from Navarro county. Banister resigned as dis- PERSONALS Glenn of Houston, is spending a few days in Mexia with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. C. J. Best. Mr.

and Mrs: A. L. Griffin, of Bruni, are spending several days with Mrs. Griffin's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. 'Billy Hight and little daughter," of Houston, are guests in theThtimc of Mr. Mr.

and 'Mrs. W. D. Hight this week end. Mr.

and Mrs. Tom Bozoman and sens, of Hawkins, are spending the week end with Mr. Bozeman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.

E. Bozeman. tl Mr. and Mrs, Wayne Collins, worth, of Dallas, arc visiting Mrs. Collinsworth's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. V. Cox, and other relatives in Mexia for several days. I Mrs.

Hugh Pendleton and little I UaugKter, Bbbby Ann, have re- I turned after days visit with Mrs. Pendleton's mother, Mrs. R. W. Scott, i'n Atoka, Okla.

Mrs. Lois spending a few i days in Dallas- where she is a guest in the home of her son-in- law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. T. N.

Stanford. She was accompanied by her little granddaughter, Su- Zanne Stanford, who has been visiting in for the past two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Rogers and daughter, Glendolynn, of Arlington, are their parents, Mr.

and Mrs. R. W. Rogers, and Mr. and Mrs.

N. T. Southwell, this week end. Mrs. E.

E. Ridenhour, of Pasadena, is visiting in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J.

Taylor. Miss Mary Jean Kincheloe, Miss Mary Katheryn Forrest, Edwin Katten, and Bobby Forrest. Were in Dallas Saturday to attend the S. M. A.

M. football game. Mr. and Mrs. Don Quillen are spending the week end in Temple where they are.guests in the home of Mrs.

Quillen's mother, Mrs. Re- ibecca Cox. PAINT and WALL PAPER SEE US FOR YOUR NEEDS WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OP OIL FIELD LUMBER CO. 318 East Main St. Phone 425 Poppy Sales $110 Poppy sales in Mexia Saturday amounted to $110.10, a total exceeding Ust year's sales by Sales were in charge of Mrs.

0. F. Watkins, who wished to thank all members of the American Legion Auxiliary who assisted her. THE OLD JUDGE "Judge, would you mind tellin' Chaflfe here what you told me the other night walkin' home from lodge. I can't it just the you did." "Sure thing, Tim.

what I told him, There's no such thing as a nation, a state, a county, or even a community dry. We had proof enough of that during, our 13 years of prohibition. What you really vote for is whether liquor is going to be sold legally or whether the community is going to get necded'taxes for schools, hospitals, and the like, or, whether this money is going to go to gangsters and bootleggers. That's the answer, simple as A-B-C." U4Z. Conjnina Alcoholic Bnnoil Industries, N.

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