Freeport Facts, The (Newspaper) - April 11, 1940, Freeport, Texas v OP DESTINY BEST HARBOR ON THE COAST 32 FOOT DEPTH FREEPORT C UNEXCELLED IS AMD 27 1913 APRIL Brazoria Countys Most Complete The Facts VIEWPOINT FAIRNESS TO ALL PARTIALITY TO Commending when deserv ed Condemning when N COMPLAINTS have come to The Facts from both new and old residents expressing concern over a condition which has arisen here within the last several With vacant rooms and houses very much in demand many owners are taking advantage of the situation and are asking exorbitant prices for apartments and which is causing no little amount of ill feeling among the towns Anyone should have a fair re turn for rent but to ask the prices some are inflicting on new citizens is nothing short of highway And these prices are being charged without the accommodations which should go hand in hand with such inflated At the present time this condition is more prevalent with reference to rooms and apart ments than rent The other concerns and citizens who have the interest of the town at heart and believe in a fair and square deal to are ap pealing to rent property owners to cooperate during this trying time when the community is undergoing a strain in an effort to quickly ad just itself to a changing condition in such a short It is likely that a large number of the new citizens who have come and will come here in the employ of the Austin Company will be ab sorbed by Dow when plant opera tions are started and will become permanent At present the Austin Company has no idea how long it will be several years or three The newcomers have taken a liking to as a like the and have expressed a desire to move their families here but cannot do so under the present existing condition with reference to the mounting cost of Lets give them our wholehearted BRAZORIA COUNTY un employment service with of fices in Angleton in charge of Hammack recently call for registration of all of the coun tys unemployed following a re quest for this count by uie Austin Hammack reports that his office was swamped and that he has had around 500 regis County men will be given preference on all jobs New Ordinance Divides City n Four Districts To Appoint Zoning Body Will Require Building Permit Passed Wednesday by the Town Council and appearing in this issue is an ordinance dividing Freeport into four zoning districts within which the Town Commission may regulate and restrict the alter repair or use of structures or All such regulations shall be uni form for each class or kind of buildings through its but the regulation of some districts may differ from those in other Such regulations will be made in accordance with a ive plan and designed to lessen con gestion in the secure safety from panic and other promote health and general wel to provide adequate light and prevent overcrowding of void undue concentration of facilitate adequate ons of water sew parks and other pub ic These regulations will be made vith reasonable imong other things including the character of the district and its suitability for particular and with a to conserving he value of buildings and aging the most appropriate use of and throughout the A zoning commission composed of five local residents with terms of years will be appointed by the Town the duties of which will be to recommend the boundaries of the districts and ap regulations and tions to be enforced Under ordinance a per mit must be the Town any type Of structure is erected within the city The ordinance is published in full on page four of this Scores of View 93 Percent Eclipse Sunday By Staff Writer O Colored a bit of used and the Sunday folded to the story Ring Visible was the equipment with which the novice Sunday stud ied the strange phenomenon of the moons course across the From the vantage point of our neighbors lawn we shared with the nations most learned stargazers an astron experience that will not re cur Finding the time for eclipse quoted differently by each publica we designated our taking up our watch at When the great luminous known by best mythologists to be or the sun taxiing his flaming chariot across the re fused to act we relaxed our vigil and our which Bullseye In The Sky When the Texas Capital News Service photographer shot the Sun at the moment of the total eclipse Sunday afternoon he apparently hit KITE TIME BEWARE KITE PLYING within the next few weeks will approach the proportions of a national High tension wires and kites are a potential source of Each year there are cases of tions from kites entangling in pow er Local Division Manager Bass of the Houston Lighting Power Company calls attention to the following precautionary meas ures 1 Fly your kites in open fields away from electric 2 Use cotton cord for Never use wire or tinselled They con duct 3 Never run across 4 Never climb School Trustees Take Office Oath Monday Evening All Three Returned To Office By Unanimous Vote Gaffney and reelected to threeyear terms as members of the board of trustees of Freeport Independent School took the oath of office at a meeting of the Board Monday The three members were unani reelected Saturday when 42 voters visited the Reorganization of the board was conducted at the Monday night McLendon was re elected president and secretary of the positions the two officials have held for a num ber of Funderburk was reelected Reed and Mc Lendon are three of the oldest members of the board in point of Other members include Beding First Mackerel Of Season Are Caught Monday Local Angler Gets Nine Trolling At Mouth of Jetties The first mackerel of the 1940 fishing season to be caught in lo cal waters were landed Monday by ardent local who picked up nine while trolling with spoons near the end of the jetties Two weighing 50 pounds also were caught in Gulf wa which has led veteran fisher man to believe that the first king fish will be hooked As a ling do not usually appear un til the kings start The pres ence of ling has caused a number qf anglers to make plans for trips to Freeport boat operator for Bown plans to take the temperature of the water at the snapper banks this Kingfish do not make their appearance until the water warms up to at least 70 mated a takeoff for a jackknife Across the street a friend ex Suffering sunspots I cant One blinding glance at the sun with the naked con us she probably was suffer ing When next we took up our astron equipment the glasses and piece of borrowed film we found the heavens had stolen a on for the moon had be a bullseye in the The picture On Page Eight Work On Dow Property Here Is Progressing Headway On Machine Shop And Levee Headway Is being made by the Austin Construction Company in its work of erecting a dol lar plant for the Dow Chemical Company on the tract pur chased by the chemical company on Dragline machines nrc busy throwing up the levee that will encircle Dows The which will be 14 feet above sealevel at mean low is expected to afford ample protec tion against high Shell is being used to build tem Fields Making Good Record At Marys Raymond former Freeport city secretary and a graduate of Freeport high has been hon ored for his efficiency In scholastic work at Marys San where he resumed his law studies the first of the Raymond was placed on the high honor roll for his during the semester Just Only three other boys in the university received this Raymonds semes ter grades included five As and two roads in and Several roads out of the have already With the Rambler The Rambler got a lookin and a big kick out of a postcard re by The Facts this week from Mims of Houston which read as follows Please send four copies of your special edition since this is the only way I have of get ting a picture of my Coul it be that Louis is camera shy Maybe just too busy to bother with such Customs Collector Hardman hands the Rambler a copy of the Navy submarine distress sig which are a A submarine in need of assistance releases a red smoke fa A submarine com to surface in the vicinity of surface craft releases a yellow smoke Surface vessels are warned to keep clear of these yel low smoke Any person sight tog red smoke bomb rising from the surface of the water are re quested to the time and lo cation to the nearest naval Gregory and Fun Greer Opens Real Estate Firm On Broad Street former Freeport bus has moved back to Free port from Alvin and this week a real estate office in the building adjoining Modern Clean ers on Broad Available at his accord ing to will be complete information on FHA and said the doubting whether the witness knew the na ture of an do you know what will happen if you lie on the wit ness stand spects youll send me to And what if you tell the truth lose dis trial To Attend School Meeting Classes Will Be Dismissed For A Day Next Week Practically all of the 28 members of school faculty will be among the some teachers who will gather i Galveston April 18 20 for the convention of the South east Division of the Texas State Teachers headquarters for which will be the Buccaneer Classes will be dismissed the to permit the attendance of local faculty A comprehensive program which includes general sessions at the city auditorium and sectional meetings has been worked with a num ber of outstanding educators of the country scheduled to appear on the Counties included in the South east Texas include Cal Fort Har Jas Lib Mont San Washington and The Layman and the will be the general theme of the convention which will open with an educational dinner at the Buc caneer Hotel April at The first general session will be held at 9 Friday at the city Mayor Brantley Harris of Galveston giving the ad dress of State Woods will be among the other Former president of the state association will occupy on the The second general session will be held at Maldred English of be Freeport Have Booth At Houston Show To Be Staged At Coliseum April 17 Through 20 Freeport as a sportsmans para dise will be featured at the first Sports and Recreation Show ever held in the an event that premises appeal to every sportsman of South Texas will be staged at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston for four April The event is being sponsored by the Houston Chron Freeport will have a by booth at the show and has reserved 10 inches of advertising j been completed and a number are under Piling work for the foundation of the machine shop is progressing and should be completed The building will be of steel frame covered with corrugated Foundation work will be started shortly on the by office building near the plant site which will provide temporary office quarters for Austin and Dow during the construction with corrugated The structure will be built in an L officials occupying one wing and Austin officials the Brazoria County Youths On Honor Roll At Texas The highest onetenth of the stu dent body of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas was officially commended in an honor roll announced by Dean which included John Simmons son of one Caldwell of Zu leikn Stanger of West Columbia and Robert Galbraith Burkhart of Both quality and quantity of work were considered in ranking students The roll was for the fall John Investigation For Rural Route Here To Be Made Route Proposed For Jones Creek Peach Point Area A personal Investigation will made by the Post Office DeJ partment to determine the Ity and advisability of establishing a rural route from Freeport to serve the Jones Point The Facts was advised this week by seconi assistant Postmaster General Coles letter to The dated April reads in part as fol lows Reference is made to your letter of March regarding the posed establishment of a rural route from The Chief Inspector has beerT requested to detail representative of the department to conduct a v personal investigation so that feasibility and advisability of estabr School Census Here Is About Same As 193940 To Receive About From State For Coining Year Independent Schoo District will receive a sum of a rural route from from the state school und for the 194041 school t has been revealed following the completion of the scholastic census or the coming in charge of the announced today that a total of 840 children of school age been Although this num ber is 48 less than the total of 888 for the 193940 Stuart ex that by the time transfer students from Jones Creek and Gulf Park are registered the number will be practically the same as for the previous Figuring the state appropriation at per the district will receive a sum of from this source for use during the 194041 Meek Erecting Frame Building On Park Avenue in the Chronicle to boost its Chamber of Commerce pamphlets will be given all visitors to the Frce participation in the show eing sponsored by the chamber of Sports and recreation shows such as this have for years enjoyed great popularity in the North and in some cases drawing as many as persons in a day in it is Several outstanding sports per formers have been engaged for the As part of the entertainment a large tank is being built in the Coliseum where some of the best known of the con will There will al so be A bait casting contest expect ed to draw fishermen from all parts of the Table tennis contests are expected to be an attraction us also will log cutting trick golf shooting and football discussions by the nations outstanding pigskin ex One of the major attractions is expected to be the booth displays which will contain in formative and interesting exhibits of outdoor sports which play a larye part in the lives of Game and Fish Exhibits Game and fish conservation measures will come in for needed publicity at the Scv i versny Radio Telephone Service For This Area Inaugurated Service To Protect Pleasure And Commercial Boats Telephone communications twen hours a day between boats and as well as between was made the opening Structure Will House Furni ture Business s recently may be deter When the investigation is com peted and a decision reached In the the postmaster at Freeport vill be properly The route would go out about eight miles north over Highway 33 and serve around ninety Concrete pavement is available for i rural carrier over this rorH and he service would not be materially affected by the weather Establishment of the route would give people In that a much adding another modern facility to those which include and public utility April 1st of a station located at Galveston and operated by marine ac cording to G dis manager of Southwestern Bell Telephone Receiving sta tions located near La Port and Corpus Christi make the service available over a large portion of the Const The new telephone to that has proved quite pop ular both lor commercial and pleasure boats in areas served by the eight oilier radio telephone land opiated in the Unit Buffs Open League Season Friday Nite A very snappy and novel fire works display has been arranged to eral exhibits will portray these states by the Bell usher in the 1940 Texas League Freeport Band Concert Friday Will Attend Band Festival At Pasa dena On May 6th Organized less than a year Freeport high schools band will hold Its first concert Friday tomorrow April between 8 and 9 oclock at the high school Park which is being built auditorium under the supervision of director and Jerry An attractive program has been arranged for the which Is entirely free with the public Construction work was started Monday on a by frame business building on East for pioneer local busi ness and will house the Free port Furniture of which The located next to the Masonic which luus housed the furniture company since will Join a by building located to the rear of the jiving the owner a by building Although the which will have a concrete is lo in present lire Mr Unit he lias had his per mit for the structure for over two months and bet ore the present rul ing took He plans to convert It Into a brick venter later he Completion is expected in about three Nathan Green contractor for the Is the One of the largest displays of outboard mo tors and accessories ever assem bled will be tennis and hockey equipment will be on The event is expected to draw at least towners from Houstons trade terri said This service has season at Buff in Hoits been adapted to meet the Friday tomorrow night when ing the guest A meeting of the house of dele gates be held Sec tional meetings will be held on Fri day and needs of pilot lire fishing and other craft which operate in coastal and harbor New stations call letters are It will transmit on a frequency of 2530 kilocycles and will receive on a frequency of 2134 All that is necessary to talk from u local telephone boats equip ped for the service is to call long distance and give the name and approximate location of the vessel The voices are sent by land lines to the Galveston transmitting where the telephone on the boat is Culls fiom boats made in much the same way Erecting Garage Apartment A by garage apartment is be ing built by Daigle on Second The which they wave the engage the Usual opening ceremonies will be missing and speeches will be President Fred Ankeman of the an Mayor Oscar Holcombe ed the mayors of the towns in thy Houston trade area to be hia guests for dinner at 6 following which Mayor Holcombe and his will have a garage below and an apartment is to the rear of the residence now occupied by Daigle and Is being built to As part of the the Telephone Company Is transmitting weather information twice at and These Continued On Eight will attend the game Game tune is eel to includes the following selections 2 2 marches 3 nine Trombone Toboggan trom bone smear Neptune Overture tii Military featur ing bell lyre solo 7 Ambition Overture 8 Freeport highs musical organiza tion has accepted an invitation and will attend a band festival to be staged at Pasadena May compet ing for honors with bands from throughout the Practically all of the 55 members will attend and take part In the which will be an allday Director Bryan and Drum Major Burney attended a band at last They report an Interesting one from which they obtained many useful A new member has been added to tile organisation in the personage of Arnold Bach who moved to recently from El Campo where he was a member of the municipal band and played in an for several Bach and his gic tenor sax will be an asset to the local band and Holding regular sions each afternoon and regular practice each Tuesday and Thurs day Bryan building a real musical lion at the high Woman on I want more electricity over Do you understand Voice More power to Do you love darling you know I My Of course I keep to day is Monday Carlton Is Elected R Curl ton wag a of the school trustees l at the election on calved every
