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4 WIOWKSVTLLE HERALD, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS Ex-GIs, On Local Scene, In Many Peaceful Pastimes i "so In the layout above are shown former Q. I. Joes Vid one I. Jane, with their "Name, Bank and Serial Number" as they were known in military service. Some have started their own businesses, art working under the "on-the-Job training program" as provided for In O.

I. Bill of Rights, and others are smpioyed on private Jobs, Plm group ahowi Adams brothers, contractors. Left to right, D. Z. Adams, Staff Sergeant, 18.104,054, 8t hAlr aerved In E.T.O.: Arel Adams, Mate 1st Class, 8.

Navy, 843- 00-34; Jearel Lee Adams, Seaman -1st Class, 988-81-71, 8. Navy, 1 served In Pacific Theater; T. O. Adams, Staff Sergeant, 38I547.131 Army served In E.T.O. top.

Hollls Staff Sergeant, 6,267,637, Corps 17. 8. Army, served In Southwest, Pacific. Now employed as teller at First National.Bank. 'TOP right.

Jack M. Darden, Captain, 508th Parachute. Infantry, Jumped Into action with 508th Battalion, 82nd Airborne Div. at Salerno; Italy LeMuy," France. Employed with United States Agriculture Department.

Left, John Ross, chief Carpenter's Mate, 623-45-09, Navy. Served In Pacific Theater. Owns and operates Ross Plan furnishes estimates, and ledures priorities for to build.homes. Center, CPat) Bartoni Sergeant, 17,034.996, flth Air Force, served In E.T.O'. Employed as body'mechanic at Tuggle- Ury Motor co.

Right; Welter, Sp 2-c, stationed at NAAS Chase Field, Beeyiile, as Link Trainer Instructor. She'Is now Link TrBiner Instructor at Delta Aircraft Co. Shown in the' Llnk'Trainer, (Tex) Alls, Captain, A. T. who served in Indian-African Theater.

Now employed as Instrument instructor at Delta Aircraft. Rotary Sponsors Noted Speaker Monday Night The first forum of the Institute of International Understanding, aponsored by the Rotary Club of Brownsville, will be held in the' Junior College Auditorium at 8:00 p. this evening. Tickets are available the Junior College Auditorium or at Perl at $1.30 for a season ticket of four lectures or SOc each, Salom Rl7.k will be the principal speaker. His subject will be UN, Vehicle of World Cooperation and will tulle to the of the Junior College-High School this morning This will be the first of a series of four institute programs which ornlng and Advisory Boards of then-ill bring outstanding autfjorities Valley Vegetable Show Association en international affair, to Browns; 7 ville.

These discussion forums are Reports of the various' prellmi- by the Rotary Club as a nary work for the show which will to the community. held the Lynn citrus plant The other three program, are scheduled for Nov. 18 and Dec. 2 i SHOW nr OfflCCtS To PHARR Members of the Gov- 438 Applicants Get Jobs Through USES Here and 9th. "Is Cooperation -Possible?" will be the general theme of each of the four Institute discussions.

To prevent cookbook smudges, a sheet of transparent mal.e- in the book. Place It over the' page are using. The many services of bank are for your convenience and profit, whether you use them personal affairs or business activities. It is the responsibility of every mem- ber of our staff to see that your requirements arc supplied "promptly, courteously-and carefully. We are here to serve you services are for you you will feel at home.

will like, to do your banking business with us, and we'd like to have you. Pan American State Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Member Federal Reserve System By'GENE BAKTOV Less than one year ago many of the nation's, young men were still in the uniform of our serving where they chose to go, or whore the needr ed them, most, In Army, Navy, Coast Guard, -or Marines. Less' than a year ago, embarkation ports In foreign lands were still packed service men and women awaiting return to America of. them still the smell of powder and battle fresh In their And, as they, boarded those -ships for the long looked for'trip back home, families, and their not a one of them failed to think of those "wmte crosses row on row," Strange Work Bo the hot breath of war. had reached out Into all homes, snuffing out the lives of some others Into strange.

works of war-time created a chaos known only when nations fight. Yet America is forging ahead. Disrupted- lives are reorganized, and though perhaps difficult for some, most people have taken up their jobs where they left or have found new employment. In an to get a cross- section of re-adjustment in Brownsville, we sought out places where people and, particularly, we questioned veterans-both men and women. Side by side might be working placed on trie job by the Employment Office and one who sought and got the employment on his own Initiative.

Employment in which veterans have been placed through the local employment, office ranges through many types- of work, from carpenter helpers -to ar- chiteots; from the field of automobiles to that of airplanes; from food processing laborers to bank tellers, and many more too numerous to list, 4S8 "Veterans Placed "There have been a fotal 438 veterans placed through the local'office during the pnstr eight months," said Roy Brockette. World War I veteran and head of the S. Employment office' here, "All. you have to in "do is look about, and see' that most fields 'of there one or more veterans employed." Many firms are staffed aOmost entirely with" ilormer GI's. There is no local record of.

how many women went Into service, as their affiliation was on a voluntary but there ha.ve been approximately fifty registered with the employment office since their discharge from service. Other types of work eS these former, soldiers, both men and and assisted in find their employment' through this office, include rallroadV wholesale and retail sales houses, fffjance and lumber various Jobs and many; departments of City, County, State and Na- tional Governments; were about 3200 men from the'-. Brownsville vicinity entered military service, of which about 2800. have ben discharged Federal Revenue In Texas Shows A Drop AUSTIN--Federal Internal revenue collections In Texas amounted to $112,030,497 In September, or 4 per cent less than -collections of September 1945, according to reports analyzed by the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research. for the first three months ofi trie current fiscal year '171sr ANNIVERSARY" register had their own business, to go Into or'found employment without aid of the local office.

On Job Training Besides the 438 placed on jobs during the'last eight months, about 135 are taking "on the Job" training and about 150 are continuing their education. Of these placed, there are about.28 handicapped veterans. is Imposslblfe to give an account of all the various types work being done by these ex- G. 'but a few representing a variety- of Jobs.held are shown, in the picture layout: They are of-both those who were placed' the employment, office and others who either had Jobs to return or started their pwn business by 'themselves. If this Is a cross-section of and no doubt It Is, one 1 can safely 'say America Is forging ahead, despite any rumors to the contrary.

to date," -Mr. Brockctte 1 stated, (were 5 per cent smaller than for Many of those who did not the same period of last year. In- oome yielded about oop less In September than a year a 0 wrl the total Included under "other" taxes was 18 per cent above corresponding month a year ago. BRIDGE WORK PLANNUU RAYMONDVILLE Construction of a new bridge south of Sebastian will be made as soon as materials Grading is already present causeway has been regarded as a trai- flc hazzard. Several accidents have been recorded here since the route was opened to traffic from the: north.

Customs Report Shows Traffic Up Sunday, November 10. 1948 No Action Taken On McAllen Contract McALLEN--No action was taken at conference the past week between McAllen city tind Terrell Bartlett, San Antonio engineer, who claims he has contract for all engineering and A total of 35 passengers arrived! supervision work of the city'i from foreign countries by boat at I $500.000 street and sewer program, the Port of Brownsville during Bartlett left the meeting clalm- the first 10 months of the year, i ng that the city's attitude It caus- accordlng to a report in the ing considerable damage to his Customs office at Brownsville. professional reputation. The number of passengers from, Legal procedure In the matter foreign countries to arrive here by. was discussed nt an air during the first 10 months meeting following the conference shows a total of 9,574 for 891'attended by City Attorney R.

D. flights. During October, there cor. Mayor A. P.

Vannoy, City were 248 planes landing at the Manager 'Wm. L. Schupp, and Brownsville airfield bringing 2,282 commissioners J. V. Carpenter passengers.

and E. G. Garza. There were' 36,505 vehicles and 168,528 passengers crossing the two bridges at Brownsville during October, showing a so far during the 10 months of th.s year, of vehicles and 710,965 pas- MISSION pproxlrrtately sengers. There ere 24,170 pe- I has been raised toward trie deatrlans crossing the bridges dur-! Grapefruit Fiesta quota, it was an- ing October, and 117, I'M during nounced here by Buly Bryce Brathe first ,10 months.

den, chairman of nnanca committee. PHARR BCILDIN UP The $6,000 quota to be Pharr Building permits issued will match the estimated M.OOO- for October in Pharr totaled thnt will be earned by records at city hall revealed' income at the fiesta. Drive this week. Eight new residences ers believe they will reach 1 headed the construction list. With: 000 goal during the next two weew.

the October total in, building per-: mlts In Pharr for 1948 now totals: Pike can be kept out of irater $546951 several hours without harm. $2,500 Of Fiesta Fund Is Rawed THE WORLD'S GREATEST MUSIC FROM RCA VICTOR RECORDS FREDDY MAKTIX To Each Els Own Put a Song in My Heart VAUGHN MONROE The Things We Did Last Summer More Now Than Ever GLENN MILLER Passe The Woodchuck Song SAMMY KAYE The Old Lamplighter Toucn-Me-Not FREDDY MARTIN On The Boardwalk I Wanna Know You Better COMO If Ycu Were The Only Girl fay It's Wonderful FEKZvy COMO Prisoner Of Love All Through The Day BETTY RHODES I'd Be Lost Without You What Has She Got, Etc. JOSE TTCRBI Polonaise In A Flat. Op. 58.

No. 6. Part 1 and Part i JOSE ITURBI Clnir De Lune Liebcstraum No. ENRICO CARUSO, Tenar The Lost Chord Ombra Mai Fu (Largo) A "UP SWING" With Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman "RI1UMBAS" Cusat BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. IN MINOR (OPUS 67) DM 840 Arturo Toscanlnl and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

RACHMANINOFF CONCERTO NO. I TX MINOR (DM tt) Rachmaninoff wifh Leopold swkowskl and the Philadelphia Orchestra BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN F. OPUS 99 (DM 1007) Boston Symphony Orchestra BEETHOVEN'S CONCERTO NO. 1 IN OP.

IS (DM Arturo Toscanini nnd the NBC Symphony Orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY CONCERTO IN MAJOR, OPUS 35 (DM Jasha Helfeti, Violinist London Philharmonic BLEDSOE MUSIC Co. On Elizabeth Near PHONE 1137 The Brid BROWNSVILLE. TET. COMPLIMENTS CITY DRUG STORE J. Calderoni, Prop.

1144 S.E.Washington Six Valley Cities Studying YMCA Plan SAN JUAN Representatives from six Upper. Valley cities are considering the of re- a full-time YMCA executive to supervise recreation and other activities in this area. 'Initial meeting oh the proposal was held the past week in McAllen. No declson was reached and a second meeting wns held In Pharr, San 'Juan, McAllen, and Three-fourths of the residences In the United States are 'constructed of wood. The Appointment of Mr.

Elmer Johnson SERVICE SUPERINTENDENT Mr. Johnson cornea with with a background of eighteen yeara in automotive mechanics--the "know-how" to keep your car running.at ita beat. He affection and reapect for a aweet-running car. He haa a flair for diagnosing tricky trouble. He fixea things right, first time out.

We are equipped and properly "staffed" to service any make of car. Stop by and get acquainted. Mr. Johnson is anxious to serve you. Valley Buick Co.

Authorized Buick and Mack Truck Service St. Charles at llth St. 108.