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The Bastrop Advertiser
1942/43 Bastrop Advertiser, January 1942 Picture of PFC Fred J. Kadura, son of Mrs. Mary Kadura of Red
Rock, is a member of Service Co. T. C, at Camp Miles Standish, Taunton,
Massachusetts. The Well Baby Clinic will be held on Friday of this week in the
court house annex, the white building in the back of the court house,
beginning at 9 o'clock in the morning. White and Mexican babies
will be taken care of in the morning, and Negro babies are invited to come in
the afternoon, beginning at 1:30, according to Miss Fay Lockhart, County
Nurse. The Clinic, sponsored this week by the Elsie Maynard Bible Class
and the Methodist Missionary Society, will be supervised by Dr. Elizabeth
Gentry, under the direction of Dr. Harold Wood. Mothers are urged to take advantage of the opportunity to have
their babies examined, and to receive instructions for caring for them, free
of charge, to help make every baby in Bastrop County a well baby. W. B. was re elected president of the First National Bank at the
annual stockholders meeting of that institution held Tuesday
afternoon. Other officers named at that time were Earl C. Erhard,
vice president; H. G. Griesenbeck, vice president; John R. Allen, Cashier. The following directors were elected: W. B. Ransome, Earl C.
Erhard, H. G. Griesenbeck, John R. Allen, Sam J. C.
Higgins. (The following is one of the series of articles explaining the
new income tax laws, as sent out by the Treasury Department in Washington D.
C.) Form of Return Persons subject to the Federal Income tax must report their
income to the Government on forms, or blanks, prescribed by
regulations. These forms are obtainable from any Collector of
Internal Revenue, and generally from any bank. Special forms are
designated for corporations, for partnerships, for trusts and fiduciaries,
and for nonresident aliens. Farmers who keep no books of account
on the accrual method must attach a special schedule to their return (Form
1040F). For individuals, two forms are used, depending upon the amount and
source of income to be reported. Form 1040. This form is intended for general use of individuals
who are citizens of the United States, or residents in this country, whether
citizens or not. It contains spaces to show the amount of income
from various sources, deductions, allowable exemptions and credits, and
computation of tax liability. As most of the items require some
explanation in order to be allowable, the form also contains appropriate
schedules to show in more detail how the income or the deductions are
determined. Form 1040A: This is a simplified report, which may, at the
option of the taxpayer who makes his return on the cash basis, be filed
instead of form 1040 by citizens and residents whose gross income was $3,000
or less during 1942, provided all this income consists wholly of one or more
of the following: salary, wages, dividends, interest, or
annuities. In using this form it is necessary only to enter the amount
of gross income as shown, deduct the credit allowable for dependents and
insert the approximate amount of tax in accordance with one's personal
exemption status, as shown on the table on the reverse of the
form. This form has no entries for..... The U.S.O. will furnish sugar and shortening to local women who
are interested enough to make doughnuts to be served with coffee at the U. S.
O. on Sunday mornings. The doughnuts, about 500 of them, are served with cups of hot
coffee to the soldiers every Sunday morning at the U.S.O. Center, a practice
that is greatly enjoyed by the enlisted men. Women who will help out are asked to cal at the U. S. O. Center
for the sugar and shortening. C. B. Maynard took oath making him first lieutenant in the Judge
Advocate General Department of the United States Army at Post Headquarters in
Camp Swift Wednesday morning, according to Capt. B. A. Heidt, Post Public
Relations Officer. Lt. H. M. Page, Post Adjutant, administered the
oath. Lt. Maynard, who has served Bastrop County in the capacity of
County Judge for the past three years, tendered his resignation from that
office to the commissioners' court in Bastrop Monday. He reports for training
at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on February 2. A successor to fill the unexpired term of County Judge will be
named by the commissioner's court next Monday. Starting Thursday, January 14th, sixteen thousand theatres in
the United States will inaugurate a country wide celebration of United
Nations Week. This celebration is being sponsored by the War
Activities Committee, Motion Picture Industry, Theatres
Division. Manager Johnny R. Joseph of the Texas Theatre, acting as a unit
of the War Activities Committee in the Southwest, announced that local
citizens will have the opportunity to contribute towards the cause of United
Nations Week, through collections which will be made in the theatres of
Bastrop during the week. By contributing to the United Nations Week,
you will eliminate individual drives for relief funds for each nation, in the
group. In other words, when you make a contribution to United Nations Week
all nations included benefit from it. The motion picture theaters of..... *** Bastrop Advertiser, April 1943 Picture of Sgt. Sammie Petty, son of James Petty of Red Rock and
sister of Mrs. Ray Lee of near Red Rock, is stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass. Farmers who sell butter, dried beans, or other rationed products
to merchants shall follow the procedure outlined below: The farmer or seller must obtain either a ration banking check
or coupons in the required amount covering the goods he delivered. The farmer or seller must then report to his local War Price and
Rationing Board how much he sold and the date of the sale and surrender
either ration banking checks or coupons in the amount to cover the necessary
points for the goods sold. Pending the completion of the new canning program, the Board
will issue canning sugar in limited quantities to take care of early strawberry
crop and any other small berries in the area which are in danger of being
lost otherwise. The Board will be strict in their interpretations of the limits
placed on this program. Available sugar supplies, which are
critical at the moment make it imperative that none
held be wasted. Bastrop Advertiser, Thursday, June 3, 1943 PICKED UP AT RANDOM SOMEWHERE A BOY HAS A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH Somewhere a boy has a rendezvous with death tonight. Whether on a carrier's deck in the Pacific, amid the burning
sands of North Africa, or in the tropical forests of New Guinea... whether
swift and perilous, or terrible and slow his going... he is giving to his
fellow men the greatest gift a man can give. The years unlived... the warmth and the laughter and the tears, and .. most precious gift of
all.. his sons that might have been. Al
these he is giving. No effort of ours, now, can stay the speeding bullet that has
his number on it. What to him, how, are the bonds we buy or the
guns we build. With nothing that is bought or sold, with nothing that is made
of human hands, can we share his sacrifice. What gift can we give to match his - what sacrifice can we
make? The answer will come from that still small voice within our
own hearts. For no one can tell us how many bonds to buy, how hard to work
on the guns and planes and tanks we build, to keep his gallant effort from
having been in vain. Yes, we must each decide the measure of our
own obligation - the gasoline we do not use, the pints of blood we donate,
the food we do without, and all the other appeals we answer - to make the
precious gift he made worthwhile. Not for the boy who is dying tonight, but because he is dying,
we can make our sacrifice to the cause of freedom. - Reprinted
from General Electric Monogram, internal company publication Day after day, night after night, boys are keeping their
rendezvous with death. And 500,000 men are helping them to keep
it!" As far as we're concerned - and as far as the majority of the
straight thinking American people are concerned - these strikes have gone far
enough. American people are tolerant, and take things with
comparative case for just so long, but when they get enough, they get enough
and they've just about got enough of this sort of thing! As much as miners are privileged to lay down their picks and
walk off their jobs, our sons and brothers and husband are privileged to lay
down their guns and walk off the battle field! But they won't do it, even
though they know that every man who misses an hour of productive work,
willfully, is willfully sentencing a man to die. And the men who are dying, are giving their lives for the very
miners who are striking strange gratitude that is. Even a... Local needs will determine Bastrop County's participation in a
new farm labor program aimed at reducing the manpower shortage which
threatens success of the 1943 food production program, County Agricultural
Agent L. M. Gandy said following his return from a conference held May 17 at
Houston, Texas. Katherine Kelly, the county home demonstration
agent also attended the meeting. County plans for registration and placement of farm labor will
be worked out by local farm men and women who are members of the County
Agricultural Victory Council, Mr. Gandy said. Members of the
council's executive and labor subcommittees were called I to discuss the new
program May 29th. At the Houston conference, county workers of the Texas A and M College Extension Service learned that the college
recently had agreed to accept supervision of the program upon the request of
Chester C. Davis, War Food Administrator. Funds for conducting the
program in Texas will be apportioned to the college under legislation
recently enacted by the 78th Congress. The agreement between the
Texas A and M College Extension Service and the office of the National Food
Administration relates only to the recruiting and placement of farm labor
within the State and the various counties and does not apply to the movement
of farm labor across international boundaries or state lines. "We realize that farmers and ranchers in Texas will not be
able to maintain the quantity of labor to which they are accustomed, but we
hope to be able to help them get enough workers to prevent the wasting of
crops in the field and the dispersal of livestock," the county
agricultural agent said. In some counties where the need justifies and it is desired by
farmers, town and city boys and girls known as Victory Farm Volunteers will
be recruited and trained for emergency work on the farms. Many
rural schools already have adjusted their schedules to free school children
for work in the critical periods. In a few counties in Texas where the farm
labor situation is very serious there may be organized local battalions of
the Women's Land Army, the agents learned. In the nation as a
whole, recruiting of a U. S. Crops Corps of 3,500,000 workers for full time,
seasonal or temporary farm work is contemplated. Mr. Gandy quoted Lt. Col. Jay L. Taylor, Texas rancher and
deputy War Food Administrator, as saying that "Ninety-nine percent of
this program will be carried on in the country and one per cent in
Washington." "The long hours and hard work of families new on Texas
farms and... In order to cut down the number of errors in applications for
War Ration Book Three, OPA officials today urged consumers to check the
following points carefully before returning application forms: 1. Print or type your name and return address on application
form so it is easy to read. 2. List names and birth dates of all members of family unit on
the same application. 3. Sign the application in your own handwriting. 4. Tear off the identification stub and keep it
carefully. It is your receipt. 5. Add 3 cents postage. 6. Check form carefully to avoid mistakes. 7. Mail application before June 10th. *** June 1943, Bastrop Advertiser Movies showing at the Tower theatre: The Young Mr. Pitts, Robert Donat Arizona Stage Coach, 2nd Hit: The Range Busters, Virginia
Gilmore, That other Woman Chetniks, The Fighting Guerrillas, Philip Dorn, Anna Sten Hello, Frisco, Hello, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Lynn
Bari How's About it, Andrew Sister's Fort Sill, Okla.: June 8, William Albert Darling, has been
commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States at the
Field Artillery Of Candidate School here: Lt. Darling is assigned to duty at Fort Sill. |
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