The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1943 Page: 3 of 8
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lursday, July 15, 1943
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Page Three
18 Billion Dollars Is
Goal For War Bond Sales
Last Half Of This Year
WOMEN EXPERT AT
MANY FARM JOBS;
300,000 NEEDED
AUSTIN—Free-working women of
Texas already are actively engaged
in a campaign to put their state's
q^vta of Wai1 Bond sales to indi-
viduals over the top, Frank Scofield,
Texas War Bond Administrator,
emphasized today. ,
His announcement was made fol-
lowing conferences with Miss Har-
ris Elliott of Washington, the U.
S. Treasury’s War Bond Salesmom-
an-ln-Chlef, who has been In Tex-
as mapping War Bond Drive plans
with women leaders.
A goal of 18 billion dollars has
b"n set by the Treasury for bond
sales to individuals during the re-
mainder of this year, and both the
men’s and women's War Bond Di-
visions of the nation have received
a Afv
Treas
lallenge from Secretary of the
iasury, Henry Mongenthau, Jr.,
to meet it. The Treasury Depart-
ment is laying full stress on the
lmi/ortance of bond purchases by
individuals.
‘^r. Scofield pointed out to Miss
Elliott that Texans led the nation
in sales to individuals in the recent
Second War Loan Drive.
“And they’ll do their share, and
more, in this particular drive,” he
said.
To do It. Mr. Scofield and Miss
Elliott agreed, the home front must
sacrifice in dead earnest.
"The goal can be attained, but
not by wishing,” Miss Elliott said.
“It can be attained only if each of
us buckles down to a very serious
job of doing without a lot of things
to which we grew accustomed in
days of ease and plenty.
“Wearing last year’s clothes,
shrinking household budgets, giv-
ing up pleasure trips, doing with
less spending money—these are the
score of sacrifices we are going to
have to make, and I’m sure every
woman in Texas will be proud to
make them.
Miss Elliott, well known educator,
has served for more than a year
at Washington in her present ca-
pacity. She Is on leave from the
post of Dean of Women and pro-
fessor of History and Political
Science at Women’s College of the
University of North Carolina.
“Every bond purchase by an in-
dividual serves a double purpose,"
Elliott asserted. "It helps our sol-
NEARLY 3,000,000 PERSONS HAVE
LEFT AGRICULTURE IN
LAST THREE YEARS
Any woman who can devote week-
ends, one or two days a week, a va-
cation period, or full-time to help-
j ing on a farm . . . anyone who can
! aid local canners in processing the
harvested crops . . . anyone who is
serious about working hard to help
win the war on the home front . . .
is urgently needed.
About 300,000 women are expect-
i ed to do rush harvest and other
short period farm work " this year
dlers with the equipment they must
have, and turning the money over to
war purposes instead of spending
It on supposed personal needs and
! luxuries helps stem the tide of in-
flation."
“I would like to see every woman
I in Texas draw up a chart of the
things for which she is now plan-
j ning to spend money, and then
see how many items she can blue
pencil in favor of bond purchases.
Call it a “sacriice chart," and pre-
serve it among your souvenirs of
. the war—for it- surely will deserve
I preservation.”
NO-STAMP
SHOE SALE
Starts Monday, July 19 -Ends Saturday, July 31
276 PAIRS OF MEN’S
, SPORT SHOES
OPA has authorized this sale of Odd Lots, broken sizes
and obsolete numbers. These are FRIENDLY, FOR-
TUNE AND MAGNO-ARCH highest quhlity shoes.
White, White and Tans, Brown Ventilated, and
others. Many can be dyed and made into Fall
shoes.
1
4
FRIENDLY
OFF
FORTUNE
Regular $5.85 Values on
m sale, no stamps,
$4.38
Regular $4.85 Values on
sale, no stamps,
$3.63
MAGNO-ARCH
Regular $3.95 Values on
sale, no stamps,
$2.96
aao K*r/o/v
srjAfp
A/EEDED /
as a part of the U. S. Crop Corps.
Another 60,000 women will be en-
rolled In the Women’s Land Army,
helping out on farm for a month
or mors.
jl Million Workers Gone
Since the start of the national ]
defense program In 1940 nearly 3,-!
000,000 persons of working age have
left agriculture. A critical shortage
of farm workers threatens crop pro-
duction when farmers have been
asked to grow the biggest food sup-
ply in history. Farmers need every j
part-time or full-time worker they j
can get.
There are many farm jobs which |
city and town women can do and j
do well, with very little training. I
In the home vegetable garden, In-'j
experienced workers can soon learn 1
to prepare soil, plant seed, and do I
necessary weeding and hoelng.When i
vegetables are ripe, there is pick- |
lng, packing, and sometimes grad-
ing to be done.
Poultry Farm Jobs
On poultry farms there are many
routine chores which are easily
learned and performed — feeding
and watering the birds, gathering,
candling, crating, and grading eggs.
Egg records must be kept, the in-
cubator and brooder looked after,
and chickens prepared for market
—all these Jobs can be done by
women and girls.
In the orchard and vineyard wom-
en can drive the spray truck, help
In pruning trees, pick and grade
fruit, pack It in boxes and barrels,
and truck it to market. In the
fields women become expert at
handling such machinery as har-
rows, disks, fertilizer spreaders,
mowing machines, rakes, or hay
loaders.
Need Housekeepers Too
Women who are keeping house
now can be of invaluable service in
the farm home. Volunteers for
work in farm homes can do much
for the war program by releasing
an experienced farm woman for
work in the field. This is familiar
work—taking care of children, cook-
ing meals, cleaning house, canning
and drying surplus fruits and vege-
tables, marketing, doing necessary
sewing, or keeping farm and home
records.
Women have many assets as farm
workers. They arc accurate—a good
trait for recording, weighing, grad-
ing, and candling eggs. They work
with dexterity and speed which
makes them useful for grading,
cleaning, packing, and tying pro-
duce. And women have patience,
the patience necessary in doing rou-
tine farm jobs such as weeding gar-
dens, gathering eggs, milking.
Those women who enter farm
work will find that scientific agri-
culture-plant and animal breeding,
plant and animal disease work—Is
Intriguing; there is a great deal of
satisfaction In results; and, best of
all, by doing farm work, they will
be aiding In feeding the United Na-
tions.
OPA Director
Says There'll
Be'Red Faces’
j in wearing out tires on pleasure OPA director pointed out. Many
trips, Qholson said.
boards In the district have found
Local ration boards are authorized . that motorists who were tempted to
to call In a motorist found to be j speed have slowed down to the legal
violating regulations and take away j limit when they learned they were
his rations or refuse renewal of in danger of losing rations, he add-
coupons when he next applies, the ' ed.
LUBBOCK—There are going to
be some awfully red faces and some
motorists who are going to get used
to the idea of walking, Howard
Gholson, district director of the
Office of Price Administration, ad-
vised today. Throughout the Lub-
bock district covering 71 counties
ranging from the top of the Pan-
handle to Brewster on the Mexi-
can border, legal Investigators have
been busy checking license numbers
and A, B, and C windshield stick-
ers.
There have been some very In-
teresting findings, the OPA chief
revealed. For instance, if a man
from Breckenridge Is seen at a Lub-
bock night club or a Lubbock man
at a fishing resort on the Pecos,
they may have some tall explaining
to do to their local Wan Price and
Rationing Boards on how they are
using their gasoline coupons. The
“B” and “C" coupons are special
allotments for business or emer-
gency purposes and not to be used
Points Out Location Where United Nations
Prisoners Are Held In Italian Prison Camps
sure of action once they are assign-
ed to a submarine due for offen-
sive patrol. Large numbers of re-
cent students now are serving In
submarines which have sunk enemy
naval or merchant vessels.
This pretty little Washington Miss is being shown on a map of
Italy, locations of Italian prison camps where United.Nations prisoners
war are held. The Red Cross volunteer also shows the Washington
Miss the contents of the standard American Red Cross prisoners of war
food parcel, which the International Red Cross forwards In sufficient
numbers to make possible weekly distribution to each American military
prisoner. (American Red Cross for the Office of War Information)
KELTON YOUTH IS
UNDERSEAS FIGHTER
i FIREMAN RALPH H. HARRIS
COMPLETES TRAINING AT
NEW LONDON, CONN.
'REMEMBER-SHOE SALE OPENS MON. JULY 19
J SALE MEN’S WASH PANTS
About 100 pairs Wash Trousers, good quality, style
and colors, in broken sizes. Here’s an outstanding
value if we can fit you.
FORMERLY PRICED AT
$1.50, $1.69 and $1.95 —
ALL TO GO AT..................
$1.00
Whitehurst’s
Ralph H. Harris, 21. Fireman 2-c,
son of Mrs. M. D. Harris, Kelton, has
completed basic training at the
Submarine School, Submarine Base,
New London, Conn., for duty with
our growing fleet of underseas fight-
ers.
Fireman Harris will be entitled
to wear the twin dolphin Insignia
of the submarine service after fur-
ther experience aboard a submarine
during which he must demonstrate
to his commanding officer that he
is fully qualified to carry out the
duties of his rate. The Insignia Is
regarded as a mark of distinction
| throughout the Navy.
Harris attended Shamrock High,
| joined the Navy last September and
; had Initial training in San Diego,
! Calif. “Varied technical training, In-
i' teressting, Important duties
and alert, efficient shipmates who
cooperate better and assume equal
responsibilities,” he said, “are the
reasons I prefer submarines.
The submarine school, the only
| one of Its kind in the Navy Is at-
| tended by a picked group of men
j who must pass special physical,
j mental, and psychological tests.
The school work takes place not
i only In classrooms and laboratories,
| but also in numerous training sub-
! marines in which students master
| the actual teehniques of operating
j the powerful fighting craft.
Many students of Submarine:
j School already have seen battle as j
members of the surface ship crews
“The Store for Men and Boys”
I before volunteering for submarine i
j duty. Others are fresh from train- j
ing stations, but all graduates are ;
Daily & Week-End Prices
You Will Find At Bill Porter’s
YES, we will have a big truckload of tomatoes, peaches,
watermelons and other fruits and vegetables this week-end, pro-
viding they are in East and South Texas. Our truck will be back
in Shamrock Thursday morning and the prices will be worth
your consideration.
VINEGAR, gal. jug......29c
Qt. Fruit Jarful..........
HONEY, pure clover, Olyar*
Western slope, ft....
MACARONI, or \ Zp
Spaghetti, 2 ft box..
PRINCE ALBERT,
Tobacco, ft
CHLOROX,
Zl gal, jug
25c
CREAM & EGGS. We buy them both at highest market prices.
Your cream carefully tested. Give us a trial.
CORN FLAKES, Jersey Gn
MATCHES, Red Bird,
18c
1 1 oz. pkg...................
6-Box Carton...........
TOILET TISSUE, p
STARCH, Faultless,
8c
Fortress brand, roll ....
1 0c pkg....................
CAREYS SALT, 24
oz. table salt ...............
ROLL TOWELS,
Kitchenmaid, a real
buy, no limit ...........
16c
ROLLED OATS, 94 p
White Swan, 3 ft pkg.
LIFEBUOY SOAP,
bar............................
7c
...................30C
LAUNDRY SOAP,
P & G, bar ...........
4 c
FLY SPRAY, your money
RICE, fancy Blue Rose, white
back if it fails, a Cl
real buy, gal......
and clean, a real
buy, 5 lbs................
50c
JUST ARRIVED—CARLOAD OF CHICKEN & HOG FEED
FLOUR
LUCKY DAY, 48 ft sack $2.15
LUCKY DAY, 24 ft sack 1.10
LUCKY DAY, 12 ft sack . .60
LUCKY DAY FLOUR for better baking, cake making, and all
kinds of pastry. Guaranteed to please or your money refunded.
Hot weather, OPA orders and a slight touch of laziness are responsible for
us not having run ads sometimes but we incite you to come and see what we
can save you. We are not advertising anything this week that requires points
but we will guarantee your points will go as far at our store as anywhere, and
that your money will go further.
REMEMBER WE CLOSE AT 10 P. M. ON SATURDAYS
Bill Porter's Grocery
Telephone, 540
NOTICE TO TIRE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS
e Have Plenty of Almost all size
Tires4 It Will Pay You to See Us If
Eligible
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P &
TOWER SERVICE STATION
Shamrock, Texas
We Have Pre-War Tires for All Pas-
senger Cars and in Several Commer-
cial Sizes. Rush Your Certificates to Us
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1943, newspaper, July 15, 1943; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528872/m1/3/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.