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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1940
Page
11
Analysts estimate a national toy bill around 183 million dollars this year with toys and related cheer costing families about 62 dollars each. Surveys show holiday spending and payroll gains push overall 1940 sales toward last year’s 40 billion dollar level.
Miss Bessie Cimerhanze to wed William J. Baumgarten on December 28 in a solemn ceremony. The upcoming marriage marks a formal union between the two families with local celebration planned.
Texas Good Roads Association leading Highway Week Dec 2 6 to stress the return on highway investments and the user’s role in protecting highway funds. It notes motorists pay about 555 to 60 yearly in taxes through gas, license fees, and fuel purchases, with funds split into the free school fund road bond fund state highway fund and local road accounts. The department has roughly 38 million in state and federal aid, about 29 million for construction after costs, yet total needs reach 570.8 million and would take 19 years at current income.
The speaker reflects on six months of defense buildup and warns of coming mass mobilization. He notes half the national guard trained, selective service small, and a looming million-plus army by next summer. Centralized control may rise to allocate scarce steel and copper, with longer hours and broader labor management cooperation likely. Protection of highway funds is urged through an all-user reform movement.
Texas lacks sufficient manufacturing milk to satisfy domestic demand. Dairy specialist W. V. Maddox of Texas A&M notes reliance on imports of butter, concentrated milk, and cheese as manufacturing output falls short. He forecasts policy shifts and larger farm units with hired labor reducing cream and milk producers, shifting many from producer to consumer status.
Christmas week weather beliefs arise from old prognostications. Predictions link solar visibility, ice strength, wind, snow, and harvest outcomes with yearly farm yields and seasonal shifts.
A camel in Syria distributes Christmas gifts to children each year. The pageant features the youngest camel that accompanied the Wise Men, named the Camel of Jesus, performing the annual gift presentation to youngsters.
wartime Britain sees marriages rise 17 percent while divorces fall by half. Birth rates lift 1 percent as many service members are away. Living costs surge. sugar up 66 percent, citrus up 25 cents per lemon. wages rise 100 to 150 percent. Crime falls. middle class strained, families split earnings across jobs.
The Menger Home and School Circle met on Dec 5 but bad roads limited attendance to ten paid members. The Turkey School fundraiser netted $60. Plans for a Christmas program were set for Dec 20. With no further business, the club adjourned.
Gifts for Christmas include cut flowers and pot plants from Persons Flower Shop in Gonzales Texas with phone 438. Mrs James Buske is the local representative in Shiner with phone 139.
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