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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1942
Page
2
Lubbock County repeats civilian strength registration today from 1 to 6 PM in the county court room. Slaton and Dunbar High School in Lubbock join the effort with mayoral and staff supervision. Registration targets youths 14 to 18 and adults to bolster wartime manpower and emergency roles.
Registration for trucks buses trailers and semi trailers will be held Monday at the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce from 8 am to 5 pm. War department asks for a complete inventory of vehicles and notes previous October registrations were about 52 percent. There is no plan to confiscate private property. if equipment is needed the War department will negotiate use and compensation with owners.
A Panhandle South Plains fair committee discussed repurposing CCC buildings at the fairgrounds for 4-H and FFA use. Plans call for four 20 by 106 foot barracks, a kitchen and mess hall, and an educational center in the southwest area. Housing would be free to 4-H, FFA and vocational agriculture members for fat stock shows and encampments. Further progress and specifics will be announced later this year.
County tax assessor H. B. Bryan warned of a lean political year after reporting only 2,708 poll taxes and 133 exemption certificates issued to date. He recalled a much busier year around 1939 when over 10,000 poll taxes were issued from his office.
The Harris County Medical Society moved to establish a large blood plasma bank as a war emergency measure. Drug stores were designated as air raid first aid stations.
Lieut Bill Bayless has been appointed an instructor and navigator in the U S Army Air Corps at Mather Field California near Sacramento He is a 1938 graduate of Texas Tech in business administration and previously attended Senior High School His enlistment was Sept 29 and his parents Mr and Mrs R F Bayless of 918 Avenue K were notified by telephone Mrs Bayless visited Mather Field quarters and found them clean and modern His father works for the Santa Fe railroad as depot agent and sits on the local school board
Clyde Pierce in the Pacific writes of Pearl Harbor losses, later letters from Levelland, Ralls, and Lorenzo. Promotions, aviation cadets at training stations, and naval service updates include Roberson in the Marine corps, Flynn promoted at Sheppard Field, Clark's radio class graduation at Scott Field, and Stewart’s rating promotion at Randolph Field. Families from Lubbock and West Texas receive notices, with casualties, transfers, and new assignments. Rupert Triplitt heads to New York naval training aboard Prairie State.
In Pierce county Wisconsin seven members of a Plum City area family are found slain in their farm home. Thomas Seipel 33 admitted shooting his wife Lucille 30 and their five children before killing himself. Separately James Cimisek 21 confessed to stabbing the Petan family of four and setting a kerosene fire. Authorities described the cases as mass slayings with no motive given.
The Texas Railroad Commission requires operators in the Long Lake field to conduct a gas-oil ratio survey of each well by March 15. The commission also granted Phillips Petroleum permission to use a well in the League City field for salt water disposal in Galveston County.
Boy Scouts of Lubbock and 20 counties coordinate with the Office of Civilian Defense. The council, with 1850 boys and 990 leaders, will form emergency service corps in each district and assign troops to areas for potential emergencies. In Lubbock scouts act as medics, fire watchers, messengers and air raid observers. District chairs named include Ralph Stroup Lubbock central district and G E Welch Slaton Llano district.
Texas attorney general Gerald C. Mann will be principal speaker at the sixteenth annual South Plains council Boy Scouts of America meeting and banquet in Lubbock on February 3. John W. Broome Jr. chairs. Durwood Bradley will toastmaster. Hotel Lubbock hosts the event with over 400 expected attendees.
Events for next week list troop 115 installation in Shallowater and troop 8 at Town Hall Lubbock 7 30 p m. Other meetings include Blanco district at Floydada Commercial hotel. Comanche Trail Brownfield site. Northern district at Hilton Plainview presiding. Lubbock roundtable at Lubbock hotel and Hilton Plainview. central district at Lubbock hotel with John Shew make. Plainview merit badge examiner smoker. and Seagraves district to organize Friday.
Federal Housing Administrator Abner Ferguson urged lenders and investors to support the FHA effort to finance privately built defense housing for war workers. He outlined Title VI loan features mirroring Title II, including marketability, federal guarantees, foreclosure cost rules, and a 20 year cap, stressing private capital's role in sustaining the mortgage market during the war.
Austin faces a stalled bicycle license renewal as metal shortages disrupt plate production. Though due on January 1, the city's thousands of bikes rode on 1941 plates due to the war related scarcity.
Public relations officers in the Eighth Corps area urge enlisted reserve corps members and inactive National Guard to notify officials of any address changes at once. Reservists in Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona and Colorado should contact Fort Sam Houston headquarters to ensure active duty eligibility.
Pete Buttecall a 26 year old Houston carpenter and self described ordained Jehovah's Witness minister has until next Thursday to decide whether to perform defense work or accept induction into the Army. Federal Judge James V Allred found him guilty of refusing induction or any war related work and ordered he be held in Wharton county jail until sentencing Thursday.
The Lubbock Junior Chamber of Commerce will honor the city's outstanding young man for 1941 at a noon luncheon in the Hilton. The winner, chosen by a committee led by Wm. M. Peace, will be kept secret until the announcement. The award includes the United States Chamber of Commerce key for distinguished service. Henry Elder won last year.
Houston led Texas with building permits totaling 460,895 for the week. San Antonio ranked second at 264,554, Dallas third at 109,539, and Austin fourth at 76,162. Lubbock came in sixth in the state.
Thrifty rules for cars highlight basic maintenance to prevent future troubles. Emphasizes simple checks and routines advised by the Chevrolet dealer. The fragment notes guidance and cautions readers to act now.
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